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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-07-31, Page 6-r. Delirium Tremens Treated With Insulin in Lond n London The London Society for "D.T.'s" declining owing largely to the Study of. Inebriety recently heard teem Dr. W. K. Wills,: its medical superintendent, of a new nes for In- Sulin, the substance developed for diabetes treatments by Dr. F. G. Banting of Toronto, and his collabora- tors the high cost of spirits and the con Sequent power consumption by the public, Iraulin has not been used in treat -1 Ing delirium 'tremens in Canada, To- ronto doctors stated, It was diffi- cult to imagine any scientific basis Insulin, said Dr, Wills, was highly for such treatment, they said. valuable in the treatment of deliri- As a means of restoring appetite nm tremens and was used in the same and getting the patient to resume, eat way as in the case of diabetes. lug, it might be of some use, they The medical superintendent found declared. Belgium Now Joins The "Great Powers in Less Than 12 Years ,Bel- gium Has Made a Com plete Comeback Belgium is celebrating her one hun- dred years of independence by exhibi- tions of •industry, art and science, What Ring Albert at the Antwerp Exposition described as "the deter- mined and intelligent labor of the Belgian people" has wrought a re- covery from war, which is manifested in the rebuilding of towns, improved highways, better standard of diving. The fiscal system had to be recast. There were crises in Belgian finance in 1919, 1920 and 1926. Bat such were the energy and tenacity of the people that all obstructions were neared away. A visitor to Belgitim to -day is impressed by the scale of "the great national festivities which, in less than twelve years, the Bel- gians have been able to organize." Thirty nations are represented at the Antwerp Colonial and Maritime Exposition, mainly industrial and com- mercial. But it finds space for a reconstruction of old Flemish and Walloon houses, shops and cafes of one hundred years ago, "with their occupants and keepers in the costume of the tine." It is to Liege that one meet go to see the largest exhibits of arts and crafts, in the Palace of Fine Arts and the Palace of Glass and Ceramics. There also is an electricity pavilion in which the uses of lighting and power on tile farms and in rural districts as well as in cities are shown. Many of the bend - inns architecturally impressive. s'antt alone, the Blease River and elose to the military parade ground In Brussels and also at Mons. the city that figured so tragically in the invasion of 1914, there are exhibitions of pictures, that at Brussels being the finest collection of Belgian paintings ever assembled. At lions are chiefly seen examples of th Walloon painters. Other cities and towns have their at- tractions, illustrating one hundred years of Belgian industry and nit. The pageants are of notable distinc- tion. The festival goes on two the' Autumn. Tourists may se whether King Albert was right when he said that Belgium had raised herself "in the economic sphere to a place with the great Powers." Peer Gets No Bids For Scottish Acres Glasgow. Scotland—Some of the bonny banks of Loeh Lomond are go- ing a -begging. The Gove'nment does not want them, preferring to have the cash, and the private offers of prospective. customers have seemed to the owner; the Duke of Montrose, mach too low. He did not receive a single bid at a recent Dubh:: auction for 35,000 ae1'ee of some of the moot famous land in Scotland, includ!eg the his- toric isles in Loch Lemon,l, It was his idea first to give the Government acreage of value twelve - lent to the prospective duties, but the Government refired the offer. =:=ushmen Rush Johnson Plane British Airwoman._ Describes Strange Adventure of Famous Flight Brisbane, Queensland—Australians do ,not ceease to marvel at the memor- able feat of Miss Amy Johnson, the young English airwoman, in forging her way alone from Croydon, Eng., to Australia. Details of the heroic, flight still form the leading topic of conversation. 1 Among the thrilling adventres en- countered by Miss Johnson is one that has received less attention than it deserves. It was at Timor, al •large volcanic island of the Malayan' archipelago, where she decided to make a night landing. No sooner had she coma to earth, as she told the people of Brisbane, than she saw a company of black men coma running out from little buts near be, brandishing knives,1 swords and spears. .As soon as they came up to the plane and oberved its only occupant, they stopped undecided. At last she heard them say one word—Pastor.1 Their attitude suddenly changed. She guessed it was a mission. "One of them," she said, "tookmy hand and led me Jver miles of coun- try to the church, The Pastor was there. You may imagine my relief to see him.' Biles Johnson atrtbutes her success mainly to her reliance on divine pro -i tection, I began with the prayers of my people," said Miss Johnson, "and each flay: as I bopped off, I asked a bless- ing on my trip. "Wbea I was crossing the Java Sea. 1 was in the midst of rainstorms and could find no opening, I could not see which way to go. I was flying close to the water and did not know at what moment 1 might strike it.I When I felt it impossible to go in any, direction, I uttered a prayer. I was flying round and round, when a break' in the clouds occurred, and I saw a double rainbow around ole. It was a happy manifestation." Sunngr er Precautions Begin the day right by eating a sub- atant.ial breakfast. At noon It will be too warm to eat heartily and at night you may be too tired to eat. I Eat, drink, work anti sleep in mod- eration if you world keep well alnr- ingthe heated term. Avoid burdensome clothing, heavy i hats and tight shoes. These retard the circulation and add considerably to the general discomfort of hot weather. Protect the baby's eyes from the direct sunlight and guard the child horn flies --two very necessary health and comfort precautions. Do not eat large meals and get YourI necessary proteins largely in the milk awl cheese, especially voltage cheese. Villagers' Secret Of Long Life Told Yorkshire has a village where the old folk proudly boast that if their ages were totalled together they would stretch back to the clays when Adam was a lad! Carlton is the place where people live happy and long. Ithasonly 600 inhabitants, but they include sixty oid- age pensioners, whose ages reach well ever 3,500 years! A reporter foram out why the vil- lagers live so long. They all believe in "addling their own brass" as long as they can,•and plenty of Yorkshire pudding and home-made oven cakes keep them healthy n Ise if not e thy a d w too wont y I:Me.y to bad, early to rise," is th is r)s)'t0:' , Youth Conquers And Age Serves? A twenty-six-year-old girl flies alone to Australia; Lon Bradman, slightly younger, hits up record crickel: scores; Lindbergh flew the Atlantic at the age of twenty-five. Thie is the age of youth, people tell us. To which the proper answer is: "It ahvays has heen," Here is proof: Nelson was in command at twenty- three; Napoleon won famous battles at twenty-four; Stanley and Living- stone were exploring Africa at twenty- five and twenty-seven respectively. When he was only twenty-three, ,lames Watt was experimenting on steam as a motive force. and another scientist, Edison, was perfecting com- munication systems at a year older. In music, Wagner had composed his first symphony at nineteen: As a counterblast to the latest bloom in youth, a company who run a chain of petrol stations in America employ only men over forty! Most of the men who opera'- the stations are over sixty, They are more careful, have more pride in their work, and are more reliable than younger men. say their employers.—Answers, Britain Extends Widows' Pensions London.—The demand, "Widow's pension, please," was heard recently in nearly every post office in Britain where grants of 10 shillings ($2.50) weekly were paid out for the first time to 120,000 women whose husbands passed on prior to Jan. 4, 1926. Widows now for the first time re- ceiving this pension are all between 60 and 70 years. Their husbands must have either subscribed to the state insurance scheme or belonged to one of the classes of workers eligible to subscribe if they passed on before the system was instituted. Widows be- tween 55 and 60 will begin to draw pensions next January. Frenchman Undefeated Starts New Mile -long Tube Havana.—Prof, Georges Claude, French natural scientist whose mile long steel tube for experimenting with Gulf Stream ater for electrical pro- duction was destroyed recently, said that a syndicate of 1,000 Americans, French and Cubans will underwrite another tube for $1,000,000, Professor Claude resumedshis ex- periments periments at once. although twice die- appointed when he seemed at the door of success. New French liner S.S. VAtiantique as it was launched at St. Nazaire, France, recently. 1t is of 40,000 tons and destined for service between France and South America. Panama i-1,:is ;, ade :Ryussia Criticizes Of Pine' Leaves Am Weaving is Done Entirely. Under Water and Often Takes Six Morltli's Time Contrary to a popular belief "Pan- ama" has are not made in Panama, says "The Pathfinder." Genuine Pan- ama hats are made of the young, un- expended leaves of the stemless screw pine, sometimes called the jipijepa, a plant common in the tropics. After special treatmene to remove the soft part of the jipijapa leaf the fibre is soaked to make it pliable. The weav- ing of genuine Panamas is done en- tirely under water, sometimes requir- ing six months to complete a hat. Fine quality Panamae cost any- where from $100 up. But when you wish to bi.y a Panama today ycu don't have to pay that much for IL This is because there are so many imitations now. In fact, there are so many imi- tations, and such good ones, that it is truly hare to distinguish a real Pan- ama from an imitation. Genuine Panama hats come from the hands of native weavers in South. and Central America, chiefly Ecuador. Peru and Colombia. They are called Panamas because when they were first exported some 300 years ago they passed over the'sthmus of Panama. The first Panama hat is said to have been made in 1620 by an Ecua- dorian, Francisco Delgado. Broad Shoulders Back in Style Baltimore, Md.—Broad shoulders and narrow hips are to be the fall contribution to American men, the International Association of Clothing Designers, in convention here recent- ly decided, Pads and clever tailoring, the delegates said, would be used to. assist nature to produce the figure desired by men. Announcing the forecast of styles, the designers said, "Breadth of chest and blade and slenderness of the waist and lower part of the coat will be the silhouette desired." High lights of the forecast include the information the modish trouser ibis fall will be 20 inches around the cuff and will rise higher at the waist, because vests are to be shorter, with lower openings, medium to rather long points and five buttons. Sack coat sleeves will be slender and Salesman rigin of Township Covers 90,600 Miles O Names in Ontario By Hattiesburg, Miss --Joseph John- ston, a sky -riding commercial travel- ler, who is home when he drops down frory the clouds at Hattiesburg, has travelled more than 90,000 miles by air on business for a Cincinnati house and is completely "sold" on the idea. Like a majority of travelling pales - men, "Sky --man" Johnston pays his own expenses and with the price of airplanes being reduced he declares it a paying proposition to travel by air. A much larger territory can be cov- ered. he says—and the more territory a salesman covers the more clients he meets and the more "John Han - cocks" he gets signed on the dotted line on his order blanks, Mr. Johnston travels the entire South, excepting Virginia, and finds the' airplane peculiarly adapted to his field. He says: "In the South, where one can't rush customers and where they will keep you past train time to entertain:' you, the airplane pays." The Hattiesburg "sky -drummer" was attracted to flight during his war service; becoming aviation instructor at the .Pensacola .naval training sta- tion. He market how gevernment officials, particularly army men al- most never go by rail and two years ..go procured a plane of his own, and started to use it regularly over his circuit. Canada's' Airways Sir Thomas: Lipton National Asset? Is Lauded by Prince Due to Geographical Position Airways Are of Special Importance Canada's geographical position will make her one of the most.important units in Empire and world transporta- tion, This fortunate position is a result of the curvature` of the world's surface. Long air routes, as long l�� sea routes ;are laid out along "Great erican Nattyods mew"Great Circle" is the.navi-I Moscow—The Commissar of Agri- culture, Y. A. Yakovleff, addressing the Communist Party Congress paint- ed. an optimistic picture of the suc- n ra prospects of colics es and futn •' tive farming. He declared that col cess lective farms which now occupy 90, 000,000 acres will provide half the sur.' plus grain of the country this year.' He„ asserted that the mere co -Opera - Gm of the former petty holdings yielded an increase of labor produc- tivity of 33 per cent. apart from ad vantages which come from the in-, creased use of tractor ., He stated I that 70,000 tractors now functioning in Russia are used, more than the' same number would be in America bel cause they are communally, not in- dividua:'y owned, Mr. Yalcovleff gave a gloomy de- scription of the state of agriculture' in America, saying: "America is liv- ing "through a severe, crisis not only in industry but also in agrculture,I The situation of the American farmer is very difficult. Taxes on farm prop -I arty have grown two and a half times, the indebtedness of farmers' has fabulously increased, two-fifths of all farm have insufficient land and must rent more from big owners.1 America is famous for the Abundance' of its machines, but in whose hands are those machines? Four•ffths of American farms are without trac- tors" Woman Flier Soars To Record Height San Diego, Cal.—Ruth Alexander, flying a 90 -horse -power Darling mono- plane, recently soared. to a height of 20,000 feet. The former record, made by Miss Alexander about six months ago, was 15,000 feet. Two hookers, .wo lookers, two down - hangers, four stanser and one switch tail?—A cow, There are baser 1l fans who won't be satisfied that Babe Ruth is earning that $80,000 salary until he hits one to the new planet. Furs are being dyed practically any color, so that fashionable women may now have a special fur to wear with ever; gown. Women who fall victims to the cigarette habit are stated to be heavier smokers than men; many of them rather tapering. consume up to 200 cigarettes a wee t, orator's name for the shortest distance between two points on the earth's surface. An examination of a world globe, will show that the shortest route from: (a) Western Europe. to Japan,I China and the Far last is across Canada. (b) United States to Northern and. Western Europe is over the Eastern part of Canada. (c) united States to Asia and the Far East is over the Western part of Canada. On account of Canada's fortunate geographical position and splendid flying climate, our airways are of very special importance and can be made one of our greatest national assets. Pennies Regulate Famous OW Clock Do you know bow Big Ben keeps time? Apparently, this famous clock, like the ones in our own hones, may sometimes vary a little from the cor- root time, but is Is never more than about a second out—a truly remark- able record for a tower clock which. is going all the time. The Astronomer Royal revealed the oiler clay how this find record is maintained. There is a tray about half -way down the pendulum, and if the clock is losing slightly a half- penny or penny is placed on this tray. The effect Is that the pendulum vi- brates a little more quickly, and so the clock is brought gradually back to the correct time. On the other hand if Big Ben is gaining, a halfpenny or penny is re- moved from the tray, and in this way the pendulum is slightly slowed down.—Answers. Prince Loses Hat and Tie? West Hartlepool, Eng.—The Prince of Wales lost a Panama }rat and a necktie playing golf with Lord Lon- donderry, Lord Castlereagh and Capt. Aird ]mere recently, While the Prince said, "It doesn't matter really," he hopes it will be found. The Prince took off his hat and tie and handed then to his caddie, .An- drews, but .near the end of the round Andrews could not find them. Scores of persons joined in an un- sueeessful search before the Prince Daring Feat Successful Making Bret successful jump at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, slime the death -fall of B Bomar la seen here with pis chute ,partly. open, ' • -- T'he luncheon tendered ,Sir Thomas Lipton by the Master Mariners' Com- pany in Fishmonger Hall, London,be- fore he sailed his uew challenger, Shamrock V, to Gosport to be fitted for for her trip across the Atlantic, was a unique' event in -British sport- ing annals, The Prince of Wales is president of the Master Mariners, and his tribute to Sir Thomas wilt be endorsed by snortsrneu the world over, "It is his pluck we most ad- mire;" said the Prince, and the great audience cheered him to the echo. He had previously said that, "in the presence of the American Ambassa- dor," he believed it would be as pop- ular a victory in the United States as In England if, at the age of eighty years, Sir .Thomas should bring back to England the cup won by America when he was one year old. Anebas• sailor Dawes, not to be outdone. In sporting generosity immediately arose, asked permission to make a speech, and, gracefully endorsed what the Prince had said. A chorus of ap- proval has come from the American press. It Is the spirit of persistence, the ''never -say -die" spirit, the dogged come age that knows no such word as "de- feat," that sport -loving people every- where admire so much in Sir Thomas. Whether he wins the famous cup or not on his fifth attempt, he will have done something of infinitely greater Importance, -1)e will have made one more move towards strengthening the mutual faith or Sri': in and America in a sport -praised 'by rho=, best quali- fied to judge on 5,••11) s'des of the Atlantic, and 111 1, ens been main- tained unstained bre- ,,lee it has never been commerchele d Red for Danger Murphy -bad obtained a job as por- ter to a little country railway station. "Come with me and 1'11 show you round," said the stationmaster. Murphy followed, and after he had been shown where everything was kept the ,stationmaster told him to 011 the lamps in the signals. - Five minutes later the stationmas- ter again visited the oii-shed to see bow his new assistant was getting on, and was surprised to find the new hand emptying little drops of oil out of a can on the floor. "Good racious, man," he cried, "what ever are you doing?" Murphy shook his head sheeptsbly. "I'm looking for the red. oil for the danger signals," he replied.—Answers. HEROISM "Herolam," said a great preacher, "is nothing but a spark kindled in the household, carried outside, and blown into flame. A tiring that a mother does every day of her life nobody celebrates, but, let her do it before an admiring crowd, and she is heroic." The virtue is in the spark. If it be necessary to-do a noble deed before the world so that its publicity blows it into flame, all honor to the spark that is living ready for the public deed. But, if it be necessary to do the noble deed in, the secret corner of the home, all honor to the spark that is living ready for the private deed in which the world sees no heroism, ~ TOO SLOW The kind old gentleman was passing the gates of a prison when a party of men who had obviously just been re- leased appeared through a small door, Approaching one of the men the old gentleman said kindly: "And why ware you in prison, ,my Inn "For driving a car too slowly." "Too slowly," echoed the questioner in amazement; "surely yon mean too fast?" "No, I don't," was the reply. "I mean too. slowly, The ownercaught upwithme." Some men believe in luck because they never have any. "Great books are not written by rule, they; are written by men of geniue,"—James Branch Cabeil. "There is one thing better than a gift for ,figures and that is womanly common sense." -Lady Astor, ' "The truth is imperishable and im- mortal and neede no human agency to support it;"—Dudley Field Malone. Tax refunds may be on the square, r pig but why are the big fellows the only d Bushme o 1 d y y y • -. ones dumb enough t o make such mix - F Lakes In their tax roturns? Many Names Commemorate - Leaders in Political and Social Life of Great. Britain ) The first townships of Ontario were named prior to the. organization of the province in 1791. The townships were laid out fol the accommodation of loy- alists who came from the United States to Canada after the Treaty of Versailles in 1783. The first land sure veyed fronted the St. Lawrence river, where there are to -day such townships as . Kingston. .Elizabethtown, Pitts- burgh, Corewah and Charlottenburgh. Available information would indicate that many of these names were given first• as town names and afterwards extended to the surrounding town- ships. : In documents, Kingston is called'Cataraqui as late as 1788. The first mention of the modern name is in a letter signed by John Collins, De- puty Surveyor General and dated Que- bec,,July 7, 1788. The occurrence of 1 Kingston as a tov''nship designation I is later. Collins mentiohs Elizabeth- town and Pittsburgh as town names under is+a ,inly'7 1788, The earliest referonee to n township by name is to lake township, Glengarry county,, in n letter dated June 18, 1785. A letter of data_ Jul 26, 1787, records the change of this nome to Lancaster. The fame leder mentions Charlottenburgh es a township name. 'Ihe first list of ',ownstnp 'names known to the. Geon Kumla.. Board of Canada is' detect Kingston, September 23. 1789, and contains the following names: 'Pitts- burgh, Ernesttown, ` Sydney, Rich- mond, Thurlow, Camden Fredericks- . burgh, As to the meaning of the names above mentioned, Kingston commence, orates George III; Lancaster is a title of the King (Duke ohLancaster); Charlottenburgh commemorates Queen Charlotte, the Royal Consort;. Freder icksburgh, Prince Frederick, the King's second son; Ernestown (as the name is now spelled), Prince Ernest, the King's fifth son; Cornwall, Prince George, DukeofCornwall, afterwards George IV. Pittsburgh .commemor- ates the younger William Pitt; Cam- den, the Earl of Camden; Thurlow, Baron Thurlow; Richmond, the Duke of Richmond; and Sydney (now spell- ed Sidney), Viscount Sydney; leaders in the political anti social life of Great —4t Britain. Escape Possible From Tornadoes Path of Storni Often Seen for Several Miles—Car Makes Escape Possible In level, open country, says a bul- letin of the Weather Bureau of the Unite States Department of Agricul- ture, an automobile often affords the best means of protection from torna- does, except where a well -constructed tornado cellar is available. Tornadoes occur chiefly during the clay, and thus in open country they can often be seen for several miles. Though by far the most violent of all storms, the toenadc covers at any one moment, a relatively small area; gen- eral'!" not greater than that of a few city blocks. While the winds blow at enormous speed around Rs centre, the progressive movement of the storm as a whole is quite moderate, averaging about forty miles an hour, and in vary few cases reaching sixty miles an hour. Most tornadoes remove toward the northeast, a Sew toward the south- east and the rest, with almost negli- gible exceptions, in some other easter- ly direction. Moreover, the path gen- erally varies but little iron) a straight line, so that the direction in which a storm is seen to be moving is likely to be the one that it will follow until it dies out. From these facts it follows that when a tornado is sighted several miles away a person generally has time to escape by taking a course at right angles to its path, and the auto- mobile is obviously a valuable adjunct for escape, provided 'there is a road leading in the right direction, One positive proof that a storm is a tornado is the elongated, funnel- shaped of eylin•tirieal cloud dangling from the sky toward the earth, This cloud is not always seen, but the gen- eral appearance of the sky 'in the direction of a' tornado is usually very •-'M"• striking„ The clouds are thrown into a turmoil and are strangely colored; jet black, greenish or purple' where A - dark, but often mingled with stream. like grays and whites, A terrifying roar, which has been compared to thousands of railroad cars crossing a bridge, may be heard at a consider- able distance, Statistics Show Air Travel: Safe London,—A report on the progrees of civil aviation, just issued, shows that from 1925 to 1029 only 12 pas- sengers were killed and four injured in British commercial aircraft, repre- senting a ratio of 8,767 flights per y - passenger killed and 26,300 flights per passenger injured, the approximate aircraft miles per accident being 1.279,00b, • A quarter of the value of British ehipbuiiding before the Was was . re- presented by warship work,