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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1936-01-09, Page 3r.• y Adam Broome r SYNOI'ses SIGNOR AltJLL1 of Milan, a ram• ons composer, :t$ about to make his first aePearance in. London, lie is to content the rivet perforatance of a sy nt- phony of his own composttlon et the Queen's Ball, The event has arouseU very great interest. The hall is crowd- ed, and millions of listeners are waitiug for the performance to come over the radio. larch. makes his entrance, and rais- ing Lis baton suddenly collapses. M.eUieal ail is immediately forthcom- ing, but it is obvious that the man is dead. In the. audience are two young peo.ple, Lettice Manton and Stephen Garton. "But it's one of those things that .a budding doctor's got to know some- thing about, and the University always keens a small supply of it, The safe's scarcely ever opened—not more than once of twice a term—if as often. It wasn't till the day after the opening of the Pareli1 inquest that I ever saw the inside of It, I was talking to old :Pratt in the theatre just before one of his lecture'e. Il'e's a bit of a pharma- eo)o:r4st on the quiet, though that's not his special line, "Ile was interested in the Parelli affair tor several reasone. He's a bit of a musician himself, end takes a hand with tt second violin when the Beth choir i3 in full blast, I'm told he's pretty putrid, but thnks no end of himself. And lie had a sort of pro- f(eeional interest, too. IIe asked me if I'd ever .:C(:n curare. I. tolls him I hadn't. lle looked at This watch, aattl as he still had a few minutes to spare, and ns his pupils didn't seam to be au t any pte.thirg down the early duos.+, we. went ciewnet:+ire to the lab. where the safe wag kept. "on the wary we met ltowlandson, the senior demonstrator. Ile said he wee just coming up to see Pratt. lie too wanted to op' n the poison sure, 00-1 'le nc,r (lr (1 the Professor's key as -wen as bis own. So We 1111 w('iht (10\V11 to',ether, Tile sof, 3s liCt a large one, anal :;tends on n solid wooden frame in th corner of the ('eons, Pratt put in hie key iir;t, and it turned all right in tile lock. and then 0 fanny thing air! ymuti. 'Itowlalld con 11.1 1 a whole bunch of keykeye on his ring, and looked through tIi:on, whJat Pratt chatted to m0 abioit the: action of curare, and its u:, •s. Stenienly Ilow]andson turned to no. That's funny,' lie said. 'It's a hale'. time since I had to use it last, ant I'll swear I've never taken it off 111y ring.' 'Bat a further run through the bench was 3(0 use. Platt reminded line that the last time he could re - lo. ether ghat: they'd had to use their legs was during the shimmer term, when the pharmacologist needed some sp:•: ial drug in connection with a lec- ture he was giving to au advanced nl-'meal class. "At last Itowlandeon gave up the see 'cls. 'Anyway,' lie said, it's agoad this^.es that it takes two keys to open it. liven if somebody has found mine, it went be much use to hint. It's in- fe:'nally care'es:s of ole, but I suppose I must have lost it somewhere.' "I told Pratt that as far as I was Ctl;t',ernctl it didn't platter, and Row- 350.11on said that he, too, could get on for the time being without the s:o.l: he wanted. But they were both a. bit nervous at the idea of anything b,(1 ig wrong' with hl sate W111ch colh- ie:a:_;1 sncli 11 drug as curare, esplc- ial'y with all this Pnreili talk in the ale. They had a long pow -wow, and do `.1011 1.o s:rod at 01100 101' a 1oe1c- s1u'; ll and have tihe thing opened. 1 eves there when he came and slid it. Yen ought to nave 10111 old Pratt's ant 1 11W1and 0n'S fac0:: a thOy ell : t.n i the drliga 10:;1(10 with a list p, t„tl nn the inside, of the door. Tle•ro was 13111y oile thing ini:;siiag"–• t1; ' h; ttiee of curare. • '1i.'s 0 queer coincidence -- if it item. son i t'1i11g more; jli4t the very dyne' ul' niicllu•d at. the Pa. elli in - 1(1• ;i." I, twos nearly throe o'clock, but St -,+hen (:u (on mill lingered. Ile loin a gond (emus() for bilenc:::s in the f01, which had grut\•n denser and den- ser as the afternoon \wtr: e• on. But fog 1t' no fog, he 11 old have.fr't. compelled to :gay to hear the crud of his friend's stitneo story. All Ilowlateleon could say was that Ilse di l r;'CiO ionlly lend his bund or k(';.•1 le':+,1n10 student of other to go 110.1 faith 11110 some thing Ile wanted from acme (Indented 017 ]easter in the leime''nry. lie wee quite positive Peet the boys never left, his own pos- s al.in. Ito W1181 alwthys very careful alee t them fir very obvious reasons; tied his own front door Roy was 11a r:lu::oll in the butch. A thcu'oneh search of the building dh114l at last, revealed the 1113:;: iilg key, stowed away in 0 (lusty test tube in a rack 011(10i 141 others, where 1'e- eene5 and epa1'e material were kept on a slt::;f in one of the Iahoratories. So covered with duet were the test tube and 13'y, that, there wage no 114001ls of telling how long they had 10'11 there 111114)110110(1. net thi 4 di eovery (11;1 not help very 0111011 toaar,ts the clearing up of the Mystery of the disappearance of the poison, for two keys were necessary Iso open the .safe doors, and Professor Pratt's own was still on his ring. If. Rowlandson's key had been used, as it undoubtedly had, since -thele were no signs that the Iock had been tamp- ered with, 11he11 Pratt's key, or a re- plica of it, must have been employed too. Pratt was absolutely certain that his own key had never been out of his possession for long. It was true that other keys on the ring belonged to various cupboards. and lockers in the laboratories, and that he would some- times leave one of the keys in a lock he had opened for a short time whilst he did something else. But he was certain that he had never missed them on his return home at night, when it had always ben his custom to check tlhen over carefully, Rudd could quite believe this, for Pratt was all extremely methodical man; so much so that his general passion for orderliness and neatness had. become quite a stock joke amongst his pupils. TO BE CONTIN.I'EI) Seek 2,400 Planes Fr U.S. Air Force Washington, -- Decision to seek ft111(18 to give the United States an air force "second to non;;" emerged recently from a conference between General Malin Craig, army chief of staff, and Chairman McSwain, South Carolina Democrat, of the House military committee. McSwain arranged to go before a IIotlse appropriations sub -committee to press for inclusion of money for S00 up-to-the-minute fighting planes in the war department's appropria- tion for the next fiscal year. At a cost of around $70,000,000 annually, including accessories and ground equipment, he said.:• 800 plan- es would have to be pro\ tied year- ly for three years to meet evhat the war department considers lininimuur needs, dations are like men. If they let the po181011 of bate run through their systems, they pick up 0 gun and kill, but if they restrain this motion, the bleed cools." — Sir Gerald Campbell. "It isn't fashionable any more to keep the same husband too long."— Annette Kellerman. Rural Schools I11 an address recently delivered at Queen's University Dr, Duncan MacArthur, deputy minister of edu- cation for Ontario, openly deplored the fact that the boys and girls of the country bad not the opportuni- ties of receiving as good an educa- tion as those in urban centres. In speaking as 11e did he undoubtedly pointed- out. the great weakness in the educational system of this prov- ince. It is, of course, impossible to impart the same quality of instruc- tion in isolated rural schools with poor equipment as is ,given in the towns and cities. Perhaps in some instances the people of those dis- tricts are themselves to blame be- cause of their desire to procure cheap teachers. This is unquestion- ably a very short-sighted policy, in- asmuch as the boys and girls in the country, because of their meagre op- portunities, deserve to have the very best teachers that can be had. The remedy for this state of af- fairs is the establishment of consol- idated schools. It is not reasonable that these individual schools, with only a small number of pupils, should be maintained to the detri- ment of the instruction offered. In these days of good roads and motor buses it would be a simple matter to collect the children and convey them to larger schools supplied with the best teachers and all the neces- sary equipment. It is not a suffic- ient answer to say that many of the brightest students in the universities started in these isolated schools. If the advantages were greater, the number would be vastly increased. Some years ago the Hon. G. How- ard Ferguson, when he was Prem- ier of Ont::irio and Minister of Edu- cation, recommended a scheme of township schools, but owing to the opposition, raised against it nothing was done. Dr. MacArthur will prove himself to be a real benefactor if he can successfully carry out a scheme that will provide better facilities for the education of the children in the rural communities at a reasonable cost.—Brantford Expositor. Air Hostess Picked Like Actresses She Must Be Young, Slender and Attractive, Says Plane Line's Chief Stewardess "Streamline Gil" Title is Awarded Chicago—Now it's 'the "streamline girl of 1920" and the "streamline Matron." The holders of the titles are Miss Helen Bell, daughter of the Laird Bells, of suburban Winnetka, and Mrs. James Getz, daughter-in-law of George Getz, treasurer of the Re- publican National Committee, They were chosen from scores of smartly dressed women attending, the annual Emmerson House benefit ball last night by Mrs. Helen Hugh- es Dulaney, creator of new effects in modern art, and Walter Frazier architect. The judges' definition of "stream- line" was "simplification of every- thing, absence of non -essentials in dress, and good carriage." the oyal Bank of Canada Presents rang Statement Total Assets Have Crossed the Eight Hundred Million Mark During Year Deposits Increased Over $50,000,000 -- Liquid Assets at $423,673,881 Are Up From $382,172,- 287 and Are Equal to 58 Per Cent. of Total Liabilities to the Public. Reflecting the definite improve- ment in financial conditions through - mit the large field , it serves, The Royal Bank of Canada is issuing to its shareholders a stat1ilent that shows very substantial growth dur- ing the year. As a -'exult, total assets have crossed the eight hundred million mark. Deposits have again duplicai• ed the remarkable gain of the pre- vious year by increasing' mere than $510,000,000. At the same time, hold- ings of • high grade Government bonds have increased to $209,453,208, up (1'001 $150,708,3315. Of special im- portance is the tendency of current loans to glove upward, as a result. of the gahls that have been evident in malty lines of business. Shareholders will note with sa- tisfaction the thigh esteem in which the Bank is held as reflected by an increase of more than a hundred million, in deposits over the last two years. Strom; Liquid Position The general statement, which is for the year to November 30, shows total assets of $'800,919,700, up from $7:18.4113,904 in the previous year. Of this •large total, liquid assets have reached .$423,07",881, as com- pared with $382,172,287 and are equal to 5ro of total liabilities to year. Of this large total, liquid as- sets are cash on hand and deposits til other banks of $157,030,042. The outstanding change in liquid assets is nn increase' in the holdings of Government securities of $58,744,823. Commercial Loans Up Current loans of $$28,821,4.1(;, 7 a;, against $;$•t t1,1b..,'5311 at the end of 070 previous year, show a moderate increase which is encouraging when it is taken into consideration that as against increased demands from industry on account of improved business. Liquidation of slow loans carried. during the depression has continued and the generalexperience o11 this Continent is that Eomnlercial T She must he attractive, she must be young, she must be slender. She must he able to turn down propos- als without offending --• and she Must think only of her career. Movie actress? Wrong. Air transport hostess, "I often think it would be much easier to qualify for the movies," Miss Lena Kraft, chief stewardess for one air line said with a sigh re- cently. "We have to watch our pounds just as much as Joan Crawford ever did. We can't weight over 118, you know." That is a requirement met by thirty-two pretty young women who were trained in Kansas City for positions as hostesses on one of the big commercial air lines. None is over 5 feet 4 inches tall. None is more than 20 years old. All are registered nurses. A rigid three weeks' course jwas given the first group of hostesses— selevted from hundreds of appligants the nation over—who will be placed on TWA transport planes. "Met of them," said L. A. halite;-, a pilot and "professor" of the class, "will be based in Kansas City. "Those going on eastbound liners will work two days and then have two days' rest. Those going west will make the round trip in two days and th:11 rest three days." "The schedule is for 110 hours of flying monthly. In that way, the „ g .t.. have yowomen can hat time between! young .,n loads of banks are still decreasing. Call loans in Canada also show a movement in an upward direction and are reported at $20,328,670, up from .$2:3,430,615, a gain of close to $3,000,000. Call Loans outside of Canada at $19,216,857 are down $10,090,190. This is likely due to the very low rates of interest obtainable in the leading financial centres of the world, mainly London and New York. Large Gain In Ueposits Of interest to the general public, as well as to the shareholders, is the showing made in deposits. The: e now stand at $088,3611,51e2 and are up $51,000,000 during the year. This follow on an increase in the previous , year of over fifty millions, whish' makes the gain for the two years over 17 per cent. As was to be ex- pected, Saving deposits in Canada have continued to gain and the de crease in interest-bearing deposits is understood to be due to a policy of cutting out of the payment of in- terest on a large proporti:0 of the hank's deposits outside of Cenada, Profit and Loss Account 'With lower - interest rate pre- vailing, profits show a slight de- crease, but tvcl'e suffheicnt to provide for dividends and the usual charges' a11(1 make a contribution to Profit and Loss Account, Total profits amounted to $4,1.10,- 552, as against 1;;.!,395,317 last year.I $2,800,000 \vas epplied to divi(l:n'?s, $200,000 transferred to Bank Premis- (s account, $900,000 to the Oitl Ors 1 Pension Fund and $1,037,772 for Dom- inion and Provincial Governmclt; tares, leaving a surplus of $10.3,700 101 be added to Profit and Loss Aco'01111, which now stands at .$1,009,555.1. The statements issued this year 1.',('t leading Canadian institutions httv:: shown that Canadian banks never been in lrs strong a position -i they are 81 pi tent to meet •':1 • nrc1, ;t1 d.000(0ds as they (livelop. .veer trips in enjoy a n;a'lnal social life," f,'ar(l to the impnitanae of such well - advertised word as standard, prime, :rim -:is erten roreaf(ee on a plane, first grade a0(1 so on. "How many too, t;:ke it from Mies Kraft. people know that e`r°'s bearing the "Pseposalse You bet we get pro- word "standard" are the lowest p050(10,' she said. "Still, havieg bee:i grade on the market?" he asked, "Or nurses, we are used to it. About the I that `fahney California first grade! first (100,;ti01 we are asked is `Are aepara •us' is the lowest povslble you liveried?' and the answer ten grade, and that extra fancy, select that arm 1:; easy. If we were married andextra select go ahead of it?" we couldn't hold our jobs" ! PUBLIC'S GULLIBILITY As an illustration of the gullibility of the public the speaker ins101100d salmon, declaring that the psycholo- gical effect of advertising was that people thought salmon to be good had to be pink. "White salmon is yo1;.y, i'aPriy To ju:rt as good as pink salmon, but the 301 DOCTOR PEOP TELLS HOW ARE F OOLED Dr. Rabinowitch Debunks Some "Pure Olive Oil" As Cotton Seed Oil MONTREAL — "So-called pure olive oil, packed in Italy and in Spain are in many cases made of cotton seed oil," declared Dr. I. M. Rabinowitch, M. D. C. M., D.Sc., F R.C.P., director of the department of metabolism at the Montreal Gen- eral Hospital, and assitant profess- or medicine and lecturer in Pathol- ogical chemistry at McGill 'Univer- sity, in a recent address here. "If there are any public health repre- sentatives in this city I may say without fear of libel, that I could name them 22 products of allegedly olive oil that are sold on the market that contain no olive oil or a vel small percentage, but alt contain cotton seed oil." I)r. Rabinowitch dispelled a lot of ideas which housewives have in re- Miss 1i1111ft's staff dropped avia- tion Le matrimony. Another is thinid g it over now. 11 You Want difficulty • as to got 't leo rle to thing Vegetables � 11 - bl'e s of salmon in any other terms than !pink salmon until all advertising a- ta:sta; e the Ways in Which They . gent thought up elle phrase "This Are Served and Add Variety • salmon is guaranteed not to turn pink.' Dr. Rabinowitch gave some Upon the sales ability of the cook examples of tests made in his labor - and her ingenuity' hangs the prob- I atory at the General Hospital of leas of whether or not her family soaps that contained from 2S to 51 gets the proper amount and variety- per cent. of soap, of butter suppose - of vegetables. There are tricks in dly 1 1-8 cents cheaper that cull - all trades and the cook must resort tained sufficient salt and water to to many. When the doctor pre -;make the actual butter east 4 1-2 scribes disagreeable medicine, ho cents a pound more, of cl .ning a •- sugar-coats it. That is what tho1 ents for floors that contained 11 per cook must do, figuratively speaking.! cent water, `2 per cont. sand and SO Here are a few hints for making ing , per cent..awdu:;t with a little color - vegetables popular. If they are that ing. kind, cut then invitingly and serve Then he came on to file question like radishes. In this list conte of nutrition and (lietine, and warned carrots, turnips, cauliflower hearts, i his aur1ic111'o about follovV111,: ori plan koblrabi and beets.dietingdietingvwtwithoutl'011- ADD CELERY AND NUTS (:gutting; general pllisicians, dec•lcwiih 1111(1 no Shredded and mixed with celery , two 11(01110 were alike in the effect and nuts or even with fruits for that c(1tain foods Lad on them, antiselect, you 111av use many vegeta , Mat these women who went in for bl tl t • ld b • f d 'f es la woo erIe use sere ed straight. i 1tll(Ii10l'1lt'1t1.`lte dieting and perhaps? 'lost 20 t1' 30 pounds f"1,unt them - son cooking is often the lea-�:-eh es within aye:t (r so in the cion for the unpopularity of vegeta-! tuliitarttnn suffering f'livll tu11er- bles. Boiled just light, according to (.(tit,i the hind of vegetable and servted hot . with plenty •of butter, almost all ve- HARMFUL EFFECTS getables are palatable. 1 "Notwithstanding' the advice wlhit'll A good sauce helps. !is iwen by stall u(nily 0t111081 1110 !- An unpopular \ egetablc el'vetl in ' i,al 1111 n and which we read alnlo„t combination with one that every- .daily in tiic newspaper-, I aro going r .r a.. body1' .,1 Uta •, . likesi good 1111 c 1 s a to (1 p . to point out the 1:a11.lt.t(1 effects of „ ' anddeclared eas for instance,r• •, zn1. system,” m, Appetizingly browned 10 butter or twitcm,. nips could go to the top of the cl want fried in deep fat, even pars-; I ung to ;pea, a '1311>t till die- -and baking is another aid.; =rtuinati1of medical knowledge a_ Also .you play disgnis( tlthemdu lllpn',.st t 1( 0"0 who have not the pro meat stews, pot roasts, and 144 (11,81. per Inhibit.; to tulle i it1•eclate that Souffles, scallops and casse ole laulwl.d; 1 The. Imedieal profession • offer unlimited possibilities. has not au,T We hope never will 1ic i- • SD d0 geI. till d ei •aril 1e- ' ,e tate to . }tread that knowledge whit,t USED IN DESSERTS, 1t1TS, TO() by preventin (11 1' 1sal will lessen iu- Then, of course, there are marhll- diviclual suffering and tend to the alade and butters where you u6:.l'r01110t1011 tit national welftll•e, but I carrots and tomatoes, and vegetable If this leas not led to pi a, with 1)0111101 butter o,' flees nut only of no benefit to the ulay0nneise. Garnishes and cool:taila public but nrtual ih1ll,:lifm `nt in you have. already thought of, no • health. Anuli •it 181,18e who are eiv- doubt. But how about puddings, 111{; such nd\'i('c • here nee 1114111 iduai cookies, cakes a1111 breads made with men \rhoee ability to deal with this vegetable juice or finely chopped plea,ee of the health problem cannot vegetables? __ i be questioned nor can there be any doubt of their sincerity, but there is no doubt in my mind that this high and laudable practice has led to dis•• aster.." SCIENCE OF NUTRITION After pointing out that the human system was continually breaking down and building up tissues through the demands made on it, Dr. Rabinowitch said that in order to keep healthy this breaking dowai and building up of constituents must be kept balanced — if the breaking down exceeded the building up a per son lost weight and if, the building up exceeded the breaking down a person gained weight, and the science that dealt with that was known as nutrition. There were other factors besides energy, and even if two people of the same age, weight and sex were given the same food and the same number of sailor- les they would differ, for callories were not the only consideration In construction of diet. There were other constituents in food essential to life and promotion of growth, and' there he sited as vitamins, and their efficient abs',rption through the gastro-intestinal tract, "Some people are naturally fat and rome naturally thin," declared the speaker, "and it is a tragedy to ee people \Vito are naturally over-' weight, according to standard, at- emptin' to diet, when they are healthy in every other respect. They may lose \weteht but they end up in six months or a year in a :-anatar- ium. These are rot a"(•ident, or rare occasions but quite the ce111m0n ending. It is important to recog- nize that the standard which we use in determining; whether a person is normal, over -weight or underweight for 'height are stathitical, they are a er ,ges 1m :.'(1 on large g1'r ups sf people. The mere foot that you are not average may not and need not necessarily imply- yeti are over-. :weight — in other welsh; the phy-, sielan does wt (teal with average,; but the individual, and deet alone points out the harmful effects of indiscriminate diet. "The problems of food and nutri- tion are not simple. There is no one diet which is suitable or all people nor is the sante diet suitable for the sn:;le pet' c'n at all tide,. Proper ad- vice about diet demands knowledge of many things, and the physician :Slane is in the position to properly gui(l' the individual in matters of nutrition and indiscriminate dieting; inevitably loads to serious impair. hnent of health.' "Ailvaneing years can lave no ters age for 11(4x:;(, 1V1141 ) minds are 00. ctlpied." — Fr•ank Ii, Vizi-deny. i9 ✓c alis . t. kEtul.aTlc atNs"� .� 11pp p ..r I1h It PAPI TORTURES Don't dope yourself inter- nally to stop pain. A.ut]lori- ties say, "Use Omega Oil to break up the congestion that causes it." Omega Oil works quickly and safely to bring is alldrug real tor e3At t, Rus IT IN IT WON'T 11L(STOR1 How To 13e hJ- rApp Tho1.1v'h Mr ITId:I Denver, Colo, -- Fur a long /gnat happy marriage, F. I:. Bosh, S:i, and Mgrs. Bush, 70,-celebratieg their Guth wedding anniversary advise: "Pay your bills. "Don't arguo with your hl1141110(l» of wife;. "i)on't 1114(4 11(11101' Or 101)1(00. "Stay out of dom., v% nitit 1, 1114 pea Bible. "Lead a 5111100 1Uo "Do some p1ayeleal t:IV ry (10.y." 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