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Zurich Herald, 1935-01-17, Page 7RHEUMAT!SM CREPT OVER Began in Knee, .Spread to Arm AMAZED AT EFFECT OF KRUSCHEN The insidious thing about rheuma- tism is that—like age—it creeps on unnoticed until. one day you find yourself in ,the cruel .grip of the uric acid fiend. That is what happened to this woman :-- "I —"I first suffered with rheumatism about 10 years ago," she writes. "It began in my left she and ankle, Which swelled, and sudden pain often caused tee to stumble and call out. Then it appeared in my right arm, causing sleepless nights. It increased in severity, coming on suddenly in neck, shoulders, and back, the at. tacks usually lasting 3 or 4 days. The rheumatism became more gen- eral, and I could not raise my arms, or put them up behind me without groaning. I bought a bottle of ICrus- chen .glts, took it, and was amazed at the 'effect Pains ` went, energy carne, -u and now I walk and work with g+rea vigor. I foresaw myself becoming crippled with rheumatism and old before my time; but I have not, for I am now very brisk and Iirely, and equal to the strain.of at - Neck and HER Inflicting Loss Of 10 Millions Back. Insects to Blame Parasites Introduced To Offset Damage tending to Ivy home, husband, and three sons, and other activities, due undoubtedly to the wonderful effect of` Kruschen Salts:"—(Mrs.) E. M. G. If you could see the knife -edged crystals of uric acid under the micro- scope you would readily understand why they cause those cutting pains. And if you could see how Kruschen dulls the sharp edges of those cry- stals, then dissolves them away alto- gether, you would agree that this scientific treatment must bring relief from rheumatic agony. Kruschen Salts is obtainable at all Drug Stores at 45c and 750 per bottle, Radio Listeners Get Taste Test (Douglas McGregor, in Harvard Alumni Bulletin.) It is said that 655,000,000 people, half the population of the United States, "listen in" on the radio more or less habitually. The psy- chologists, who study the human mind and its activities, have begun to investigate the field of radio. The Harvard psychological laboratory is one of the pioneers in this survey. The laboratory set out, in its ex- periments, to bring together an "av- erage group" of radio listeners and observe their reactions to messages transmitted over the air. For one of these experiments eighty people were engaged to go to the laboratory an hour a day for seven days. They were equally divided as to sex and represented various age, occupation- al and educational levels. They sat in a hall and listened to the broadcasting of material from another part of the building. Ten trained speakers from the Emerson College of Oratory, Boston, five men and five women, talked over the dio, reading material which rang- 7eral)dall the way from advertising mat- ter, political speeches and news re- ports, to poetry and philosophy. Ever, `hearer had a little book con - tai :ing several printed questions, and at the end of each experiment he wrote his answer. * * * In the book were such questions as these: "Do you like female an- nouncers?" "Was the voice persua- sive?" "How well do you think you know the aersonality of the speaker from his' (or her) voice?" "How attractive or pleaei.ng was the voice?" "Do female voices carry over the radio as well asmale voices?" The replies revealed many, amus- ing and interesting facts. One was that ninety-five per cent. of the listeners preferred men broadcasters. Another was that people are much more sensitive to affection in the voices of members of their own sex than of the other sex. A third was that women, much more than men, consider themselves adept in judging personality on the basis of the spoken voice. Although, as has been said, nine- ty-five per cent. of the listeners in this series of tests preferred men announcers rather than women, in more than half of the experiments women's voices were rated as more attractive than men's. That choice was based on other considerations, namely, women an- nouncers speak in a more agected manner than the men, the male voice is pitched lower, is more per- suasive and carries better over the air. * * * 'yam belief that a speaker's voice dig. ei a his 'personality is more or less widespread, and the Harvard investigators decided to Iook into that 1Thase of the question, So, the group of people described above was asked to listen to speakers and then identify their height, age, com- pexion, handwriting, vocation, po- li 'i:': al allegiance and degree of ex- troversion or introversion. It was Growing Deaf With Head Noises ? Try This ! If you are growing hard of hear- ing, and fear catarrhal deafness, or If you have roaring, rumbling, hiss- ing noises in your ears, go to your druggist aril get 1 oz. of Parmint (double strength) and add to it 14 pint of hot water and a little sugar. Take 1 tablespoonful four times a day. This will often, bring quick relief from the distressing head noises.' Clogged nostrils should open, breath- ing become easy, and the mucous stop dropping into the throat, It is easy to take. Anyone who is threat- ened 'with catarrhal deafness or who has head noises should give this Ines. crile tiO1t * trial. found • that, although the auditors agreed to some extent in their esti- mates of personality, they were not so accurate as they imagined them- selves to be. For example, in one experiment the subjects were told they would hear a professor of English, a psy- chologist and a journalist, and were asked to determine which voice be- longed to which profession. It happened that the psychologist was a native of South Africa and had an English accent; as a result he was consistently put down as the professor of English. The "poetic voice" of another speaker led a large number of listeners to tate him as a Socialist. lois ion Weather Turfing Milder In Past 50 Years Gradual Rise in Average Tem- perature Shown in Most Sections, F. Napier Denis- on Says. Victoria.—Although the Pacific coast is experiencing some of tb:e coldest weather it has' had for some` time, P. Napier Denison, director of the Dominion Metreorological obser- vatory here, said last week the cli- mate of British Columbia and the whole Dominion has been gradually turning milder for the past 50 years or more. Winnipeg. can boast of the great- est change in average temperature, said Mr. Denison, with an itnprove- ment of six dt a ees, 1853 being the coldest year on record during the last 53 years and 1931 the warmest. Records for Toronto and Montreal show these cities have experienced a gradual rise of about four degrees. Montral's record cold year was 1875 and 1931 was the warmest. Alberta and the Maritime Prov- inces are tied in third place, both be- ing about three degrees warmer. Records at Calgary show the lowest temperatures there in 1887 and the highest in 1931 while 1875 was the coldest year recorded at Charlotte- town, P.E.I., and 1901 the mildest with 1930 nand 1931 coming next. The Pacific coast shows the smal- lest change of all, about one and one-half degrees. Records here show 1830 and 1384 were the coldest years with 1893 and 1916 coming near the low mark, and 1926 being the warm- est. These figures seem to indicate the warm and cold years come in cycles with the cold years around 1875 to 1890 and the warm years between 1926 and 1931. Trade of Wrld A Third of 1929 Industrial Activity is Steadily I,ncreasing. in Some Countries Geneva.—The gold value of world trade during the third quarter 'of 1934 represented oily 32.6 per cent, of the average for the same period In 1929, the economic section of the League of Nations repol;ted to -day, Compared to the second quarter of 1934 it showed a decrease of 2.6 per cent. Compared to the third quarter of 1933 there was a de- crease of 6.1 per cent. Industrial activity has been stead- ily increasing in a number of coun- tries during 1934, the report stated. Particular progress was recorded in Chile, Denmark, Italy, Norway and Sweden. Decreases were recorded in France and Belgium. Compared to October, 1933, in- dustrial activity in October, 1934, marked an increase of 20 per cent. in Germany, 19 per cent. in Sweden, 15 per cent. in Italy. nina in Can- ada, eight in Poland and four in Norway.' .Against this there "was re- corded a decrease of four per cent. in the . United States, five per cent. in the Netherlands and 18 per cent. in France, 1 Ottawa, — "The average annual' damage to the forests of Canada, caused by insects, may approximate in value that caused by fire, or near- ly $10,000,000 annually," said R, D. Craig, at the recent conference of the Dominion Entomological Branch, Dominion Department of Agricul- ture. The extent to which insects carry on their destructive work is not read- ily realized by the forest authorities, he said, nor by those engaged in the forest industries. The introduction of parasites for biological control, is one of the most effective means of direct attack. Great credit, he claim- ed, is due.. to the branch in this field. Fungi is also another cause of great loss in the forests. The forests of Canada cover 1,1501 00 square miles, or about ':one-third of the total land area of the, country. The stand of merchantab!t"timber is estimated at 165,880,000 Cubic feet, valued at $1,689,000,000. The young growth is placed at 400,000,000 eubic feet. About 82 per .cent. of the ac- is timber of comntethial size is coniferous trees, 11 per cent is in- tolerant hardwoods, white birch, and t. poplar, and seven per cent. tolerant hardwoods, yellows bireh maple and, elm, Charles . Ii Pensions cailue up in the House of Commons, ale nista Succeed ad it was stated that the pensions 1.7 consisted of a number of fee farm 'routs formerly payable to the Crown, Securing�� {)rut granted by letters patent in 1676 '''to three trustees in trust" for mem- 1 ers of the Penderell family. The Crown's reversionary interest was isold in 1923, and the pensions were ;then administered by a private trust, The original pensions were six in ;number, two of 2100 a year, one of 1£50 a year, and three of "100 larks" (266 13s 4d.) a year. One of the present annuitants was a laundryman in the United States, and he is drawing £100. Another ponsioner was a London cabdriver. "Unparalleled Penderell," who owned The Whiteladies, in Worces- tershire, where Charles took refuge, Is buried in the churchyard of St. Giles -in -the -fields. His tombstone is now tidied up but before the war it was in a neglected condition, quite unworthy of one whose deeds brought pensions; to the living two hundred and fifty years afterwards." Says the Manchester Guardian -- "Mr. Penderel-Broadhurst„ an aged journalist, consulting editor of the well-known Church journal the. "Guardian," who elied this week at Brentford, had a curious connection with Charles the Second. He was a descendant of one of the five brothers Penderell who saved King Charles by hiding him in they Bescobel oak when the Cromwellians. were searching for him, and he drew a pension for that service. Manitoba Farm Settler Finds 1934 Se .• son Best Hodgson, Man.—Settling on an 'abandoned farm mostly .of scrub 'land 14 years ago, Louis Conan, a ' war veteran looks over neighbor- ing vacant farms and smiles as he ,nears the achievement of his ambi_ 'tions to enter pure-bred stock . and rain in 1935 exhibitions. At the age of 25, Conan migrated to Canada from France in 1920. He acquired a 140 -acre farm from the Soldiers' Segment Board, midway between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba. Then came breaking of new land, experimenting with crop .rotations, hay growing and Iivestock "production, The best year was during 1934. "I 'was too busy sending cream into town to keep accurate records of re.. 'turns," said Conan iu a report early in the year. Later he sold alfalfa 'seed and harvested 3,000 bushels of ,grain from 160 acres, besides stack_ Charles, who was ungrateful to! Jug 65 tons of hay for sale. so many of his helpers, actually gave;;;: The word "depression" has no Writes Bruce Kennedy in The Spirit from. Rubber Compression of Rubber and Hydrogen at High Pressure in Salve Way as 'Coal and Tar Utilized to Produce Oil Brings Results London -- British Government re- search workers have succeeded In obtaining motor spirit from rubber. The report of the Fuel Research Board of the Department of Scien- tific and Industrial Research reveals that by 'compressing rubber and hydrogen at high pressure and high temperature—in the same way as coal and tar are hydrogenated to produce oil—it is possible to pro- duce either motor spirit or lubri- cating oil. At a temperature of 450 degrees centigrade there was a yield of motor spirit equal to half the amount of rubber used. At 350 degrees centigrade a pale yellow lubricating oil was obtained equal to about an eighth of the Mills of rubber. This lubricating oil had certain disadvantages—which, it is thought, could be corrected—but the motor spirit, water -white and free from impurities, would be suitable for use in cars with only ordinary dis- tilling. "It is realized," says the report, "that the manufacture of these pro- ducts would not be economic un- less rubber were available at a very low price." The changing fashion in coal, it is pointed out elsewhere, is creating new problems. 'Whereas large lumps were in de- mand, both by the housewife and by gas -works, now, with modern cleaning and grading—which has re- duced the amount of ash in small coal—the fashion has altered. Dog Feedi g each of the five brothers a pensionst peening to him as he toils on the for himself and his heirs forever. "',farm, enlarged from 160 to 560 acres A few years ago the question::;through his own efforts. 4 May Be New V ceroy Of India 40, Pictured above are the Marquis and Marchioness of Linlithgow. I'he Marquis, it is rumored, will be the next Viceroy of India, Paper Using Only 900 Words Helps Aliens Learn English Chicago,—A tabloid weekly news- paper, printed with a vocabulary oft only 900 of the most common Dng Ilsh words is being introducan in Inc. tories, prisons, night schools, CCC camps and other places throughout the United States, where people are learning the English Ianguage, It is called The American World and is sponsored by the Language. Research Institute at New York, University, The eight -page newspaper has; proved its worth in this field, having. been used for throe years in New York City night schools, according- to Miss Margaret Mitchell, a mem- ber of the institute staff wllo intro. deiced the paper to adult education teachers here recently. The committee which worked out the list of words was trying to make every possible Short-cut for the for- eigner who wants to get a practical spealdng knowledge of the language as soon as possible, Miss Mitchell Wit. Some 14 foreignwbern atedents 'Who learned their English en the streets et New 'York co-operated with the cornlnittee, The original list worked out by the . committee, known as the "traveler s vocabulary," has 300 words which is considered the..lrreducrible minimum with which a''•persou can get ar- ound. This was lengthened to 600 and then to 900 as the number necee- sary for printing a simple newspaper. The institute learned that this num- ber represents 76 per cent of the words used in an average newspaper and that most adults have a vocabu- lary of about 25,000. A few of the '900 words are still in the doubtful list but as soon as they are finally decided upon, they will be published as a possible means of help to those teaching the for- eign born, Miss Mitchell said, SAVE $10.00 ON FERTILIZERS May the Ingredients—Mix Your Own Use local material for the filler and save freight. Full particulars, formulas, etc. The 'United x'anners Co -Operative Co., Tdmited Toronto, Ontario Issue No. 2—'35 . Ottawa Journal: Sir:—A large percentage of the dogs brought to veterinarians for treatment are, unknown to their owners, suffering primarily from nutritional ailments. The domestic dog is restricted greatly in his selection of food. The chance that he will receive a balanced diet when fed table scraps and occasional pur- chases of meat or meat scrap from the market is- indeed smell: Unfore tunately the commercial dog food in- dustry is of such recent development that unless discrimination is employ- ed, unless the dog owner is willing to confine his purchases of com- mercial food to a few of the well- Intown and thoroughly reliable firms, he should seek the advice of his veterinarian as to what to feed his dog. An improper diet is a direct cause of many ailments of dogs, not only of the digestive system but of the bones, the eyes, the skin and other organs. Further, it lowers their resistance to disease and to parasites, thus increasing the likeli- hood of illness and lessening the chance of recovery. The desirability of a dog for a pet depends very much upon how it is fed. Contrary to popular belief, glass, powered or broken to particles vary- ing in size from very fine to fairly course, do not cause death when in- gested by dogs. The whole or by far the greater portion of the glass given passes through the alimentary tract in the course of 96 hours with- out causing ill effects. I thought this would be of interest to owners and breeders of dogs, and would appreciate it very much if you would publish it in your palter. Two -Year -Olds Suffer Tooth Decay Pittsburg:- Dental decay is be- ginning its attack at an earlier and earlier age. About half the two- year-old children in large cities halve at least, one cavity in their teeth. These perhaps surprising and cer- tainly unpleasant facts about tooth decay were told by Dr. John Oppie McCall, director of the Guggenheim Dental Clinic, New York City, at the recent meeting here of the American Association for the advancement of Science. The importance of diet in prevent- ing and controlling dental caries Is known. Dr. McColl said, but scien- tists do not yet know how the foods and food factors like vitamins which have been found helpful do their part, TO STOP ITCHING AND CLEAR UP AND SKIN RASHES USE Dr. I). II Dennis' Livid Prescrip- tion, made and guaranteed by the nuakere of Canapaua'eIta"[i Baltil. Trial bottle 85e at yeti. drnggiet. 13 I Enjoy a realer fine hand -made -cigarette bsr rolling your own With GOLDEN VIRGINIA ALSO MADE UP IN PIPE TOBACCO .' Coal Produced 1n NS. .cols Biggest Firm in Province Mines Million More. Tons in Year Glace Bay, Nova Scotia—A heart- ening uptrend in Nova Scotia's great coal industry was evident recently in the indication that 1934 produc- tion roducttion of the Dominion Coal Company, the province's largest mining con. cern, would outstrip last year's by a full 1,000,000 tons. The output Prom the company's collieries at the end of November was 3,460,882 tons. Production for the whole 12 months of last year was only 2,597,945 tons, The large increase bringing with it fatter pay envelopes for the min- ers of nine large collieries, has been brought on chiefly, In the belief of officials, through improved business conditions and lessened competition in markets reached through ship- ment of coal to St. Lawrence River ports, Time Clocks "Undignified" So German Laboring Men Officially Informed By Government Berlin.—German laboring men were Informed officially last week that time clock punching was. undignified. Robert Ley, trade union commis- stoner, issued a publio manifesto ad.. dressd to "the soldiers of la set""say'ttn Mg that the system of dial punching' must be replaced by a military must. ter in factory courtyards. "Whoever heard of a regimental commander installing a time clock. at the entrance to his barracla,? ' asked Ley. He also urged that every factory manager give his staff a brief address each morning and evening on Nazi ideals, ending his little speech with the question, "any complaints?" The manifesto continued: "To the soulless employers asking who will pay for the time so spent, I reply: 'You are men not machines."' Ley claimed that many factory managers had reported to him that their staffs were so inspired with the joy of work by the adoption of this scheme that their output had been raised tremendously. Classified Advertising PATENTS A N OFFER TO EVERY INVENTOR. of wanted inventions and full u,,,,rn,ation sent free. 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