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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-04-29, Page 3load si,yf.YF�r'.4.5;rJ a,14 ' @r rOrt i 1/4%11' lk� ds � i`J i t' W.h War Loan" Chequesmaylecashedords� at any of our bratty:hes. Deposit your Victory Band interest in our Savings Department and earn interest thereon. THE -DOMINION . BANK SEAFORTH. BRANCH„` R. M. JONES, Metnage r. SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT. tun HURON EXPOSI'I1OR DISTRICT MATTERS CHILDHOOD INDIGESTION Nothing is more common in child- hood than iadigestion. Nothing is more dangerous to proper growth, more weakeaing to the constitution or more likely to pave the way to dangerous disease. Fully nine -tenths. of all the minor ills of childhood have their root in indigestion. There is no medicine for the little ones to equal Baby's Own Tablets in reliev- ing this trouble. They .have proved of benefit in thousands of hones Concerning them Mrs. Jos. Lunette, Immraeulete Conception, Que., writes: "My baby was a5great sufferer from indigestion, but the Tablets soon set Ther right and now I would not be without them;' Baby's Own Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. William's' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. THE AIR WE BREATHE If the entire population of the world be considered, the total quant- ity of air breathed is one year by hu- man lungs in about two hendred and sixty trillion cubic feet. Atmospher- ic air is about four-fifths nitrogen and onedifth oxygen. Itis reckoned that the nitrogen represented in the above- mentioned quantity would fill a cubic- & tank eleven rules en an edge; and the oxygen would fill another tank seven miles on an edge. A cubic foot of air weighs about one and three tenth ounces. Thus it is reckoned that a single human individual breaths in a twelvemonth six and one -9th tons of air. To keep alive for three scores and ten years will require 430 tons of air. Charles Nevers Holmes, who put these figures together for the Scien- tific American, says that the popu- lation of the United Skates breathes annually 658.000,000 tons of air. 'Phe requirement for the entire population of the world is in the neighborhood of ten and a half billion tons. In order to survive, the population of the world must inhale yearly at least two and .0ne-tiftl} billion tons of oxygen. The world's anneal con- sumption of this gas alone would fill a tank one mile square at the base and 370 mile§ high. Its total con- sumption of ail' in a year would fill a sin4Flar tank 1,765 miles in height. FOCH'S OPINION OF GERMAN GENERALSHIP. Marshal Foch has no high epinion of German generalship, and one would suppose that nobody living knew more about it. If the great soldier were a vain man he might represent the Ger- man leaders as geniuses who could be overthrown only by super- geniuses, and naturally his name would appear as themoat super of the super -gen- iuses. But it is well known that he is modest. Foch has read the mem- oirs of the German generals which have been published since the war, and nearly every German general of any note has offered his alibi. Par- ticularly. has he dwelt upon the opologia of Ludendorff, and a short time ago he gave an interview to a French military writer on this sub- ject. The writer is Captain Raymond Itacouly, who achieved fame as a writer on the war under the name of Captain X, and the interview has been published in La Revue de France, a new magazine. The chief trouble with Loudendorff, according to Foch, that he made his plans without taking account, of the next day. We gather that this meaps that Ludendorff lacked imagination. Loudendorff was an excellent staff official". There was none better. He was unexcelled in everything that had to do with the organization and management of armies. He failed as a great leader because he failed to understand a really national war in which every Frenchman and every German, to say nothing of the other nations, was engaged — a war in which women and children- helped. In the old fashioned crinoline war which was fought by an insignificant minority of the population called pro- fessional soldiers, Ludendorff wduld belie been a star performer. He took no account of moral force. Says Foch: Ludendorff continually turns to his government. He overwhelms it with protests and incriminations. He constantly demands more soldiers, more discipline; failing to realize that THMI RAAH Z -M SIM --No Spraying -110 Sold at Swallow a Capsule RAZ MAH Is Guaranteed normal breathing stop miens bronchial in the onchial sleep; tubes, give ofquiet al ; contaia no orugll00satlur 149rW..,Toronto. . Local Agent, E. UMBACs. } the Goveenment, because of; the in- ternal crisis, the apathy of the people and the growing discouragement,. is powerless to give these things to barn. The country is tired of war; the coun- try has had enough of it." The Marshal points oUt that condi- vtlnq .sregt' ouea 'Wlient eallteer lar t , atW n rq p fur. received; aro artiagialsnA laotat,atinatilUei Dee generatiop aqUlaily"ap>ee da 'front de- genel?luting-Meetea to I ealtlty ones!_*!: control with t'hezn, ea decoy apTeade frogs rotten fruit to freak. The disease le most masted in eountriee where the material condi- trona are at their highest stage of developfhent. In savage regions it ib rare. It is a curious feat that on the West Coast of Africa, where black are to be fund laving both uno dor barbarous and civilized conditions the Europeanized negroee often fall victims to the ewurge, waffle their near -to -nature. brothers de not. " With the disease spreading year by year science is still searehmg for its true cause, Until that is discov- ered there can be no 'certain cure, "The number of deaths from can- cer," an offoial of the imperial cancer research fund tells me, "has shown a regular increase for the past eighty years.' Our resdhrch work is going on steadily, but it is still far too tech- nical and too much in the experiment - tions were exactly reversed in 1814, al stage for explanation in a news - when the Prnssiana were fightingpaper. Radium treatment has proved against Napoleon. In those days the effective in some insipient cases and German Generale, Blucher, York, in cases near the surface, but cancer Zieten, Hliest, burned with a sacred when deep rooted still presents aseri- fire. Some among them, he says, not- our problem, as the increased mortal. s ably Blucher, were far from being tty rhereeturn's hardly, anlythingve.to which men or military genius. They had cancer has not been attributed. That small intelligence, "but the internal flame animating them was a substi- 'nasus that we do 'ooh really know tute for .' everything. It triumphed the cause. There are certain regions over the genius of Napoleon, over the of the body where the association be - slowness, hesitation and opposition of ttiveen cause and effect is intimate. the Austrian and Russian allies." In We know that before proper preeau- the Great War this ardor and confi- tions were devised workers witil deuce in victory were on the side of X -Rays contracted cancer of the the allies. The allies knew they would hands. Ie the majority of caeca, win because they had to win, like the however, we do not know the cause." Mark Twain rabbit that had to climb I do not believe in the cancer house theory. There are records of houses in which several cases of cancer have occurred, of course, but there may be other reasons for the seeming coincidence. If the longevity of the inhabitants of these houses is great, for example, the chances of them dying of cancer are proportion- ately increased. "Heredity isnot now generally recognized as a cancer cause. Insur- ance companies as a rule do not in- crease the premium when one parent of the insured person has died of can- cer and in some cases they make no difference even if it is admitted that both parents died of the disease." In their search for a cure doctors have tried neany remedies—dieting, the infusion of young blood, radium and the knife. But even the surgeon has been baffled. He can remove a growth, but he cannot guarantee that he has taken away all the recite. Again at times the growths have disappeared apparently of their own volition." There are •two kinds of growbhs— innocent and malignant, and it is dif- ficult at times to distinguish between them. It is quite likely that in both cited instances the growths were inno- cent. But the doctor is not prepared to dogmatize. The power of the mind over the body is not yet fully known. It is one of the myeteries that science has failed to fathom." The main—and most disturbing— factor of the situation remains. Can- cer is steadily increasing in its inci- dence and science has as yet found neither the cause nor the cure." a tree to escape the pursuing hound. The Marshal pays tribute to the cour- age of the Allied soldiers. Even to- ward the end when they had no idea how close they were to, victory, they followed with blind trust the orders of their generals. They had fought as long as the Germans, but their morale was as high as ever it had been. In 1918, this holy ardor was ab- sent from the German army as it was absent from the German nation. Foch says: "What the Emperor -cult amounted to was shown the day the Emperor collapsed and took shame- fully to flight,"•abandoning his head- quarters and his routed troops." In short the Germans could not stand the gaff. So long as they were winning they looked like champions. To vary the simile culled from the cockpit to one garnered from the light harness horse, the Gel*nans could not stand grief. Loudendorff apparently did not understand his countrymen. are ap peals to the Government when what he appeals for is impossible. He does rot grasp the state of mind of the German people, His brain is too ma- thematical. His ignorance is contrast- ed with the understanding of Napoleon in 1814, when lie realized that the levee en masse was impossible, though it was possible in 1792, and that its injposibility spelt his doom. So far as planning his attacks even in the last year of the war is con- cerned, I.udendorc d}tl superlatively well. They could not have been planned better if one were looking merely to the day of the attack. Loudendorff, unlike the chess master, did not take account of what the situation would be after his attacks had been made, even if they were successful. He attacked on Monday, and did not understand what the situation on Wednesday 'would be until noon on Wednesday, Marshal Foch is of the opinion that while ultimate victory for the Germans was impossible, the war might have been prolonged had Ludendorff displayed more courage. If toward the middle of August, 1918, he had fallen back to the Meuse he night have made the Allies fight through that year and through a part of 1919. He stood because he did not wish to risk the loss of war material. Instead he sacrificed the best of his remaining troops. He made another blunder in the great offensive of 1918, in which one British army was destroy- ed. He had a chance there to cap- ture Amiens and divide the British and French armies. He chose to pour 'his troops into the gap after the Fifth British army, and his success remained local, , whereas it might well have been general. CANCER iIS ON N ENGLAND INCREASE Cancer kills more then 42,000 peo- ple every year in. England and Wales. This mortality is increasing. So can- cer is as bad as war—worse, for it never has a peace conference. It is continuous. And it involves all civil- ized. countries. The last complete annual statistics are for 1919. In that year, the re- corded British and Wlelsh deaths num- bered some 42,000, but for the first half of 1920 the casualties were 21,356-786 more than in the corres- ponding period for the previous year. If the normal rate for the rest of the yoaT had been maintained—and ac- cording to Dr. Addison, British min- ister of health,it has been, though the figures are not yet available—the total for the year will be at least 1,000 more than foe 1919, or well over 42,000—enough to make a little city, all dead. All dead of 'a disease which surely can be controlled, though we don't know how as yet. Forty years ago the cancer deaths numbered only 15,000. The most dis- quieting fact about the situation is that ever since there has been a steady increase. The disease seems to take a greater toll of women than nsen. While 9,090 men died in six months in 1919, 11,480 women died. The proposition was about the same in ,the first half of the following year, but the increase in the figures for men was only 277` as compared with an increase of 509 for .women. The problem of cancer is unknown. In the Middle Ages the disease was Ara 'rep HISTORY OF POTATO Newt December, the tercentenary of the planting of the first potato, in North America, will be celebrated. "The potato entered this country," Dr. Laufer said, in an address before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, "not as sur- mised by De Oandolle, through an alleged band of Spanish adventurers, but in a perfectly respectable man- ner from Bermuda, where it had been introduced some years previous- ly from England. It is a prank of fortune that the potato, originally a denizen of Chile and Peru, appears as a naturalized Englishman in the United States. The potato had ar- rived in England about 1586, or a lit- tle later." THE FATEFUL YEARS FOR EVERY WOMAN How to Overcome Troubles That Afflict Women Only. So far as a woman's health is con- cerned, probably the most fateful years in her life are those between 45 and 50. Many women enter this period under depressing conditions:, through overstrain in household cares, or a neglected condition of the blood, and so they suffer heavily. Among the commonest symptoms at this time are headaches, pains in the back and sides, fovea flushes, pal- pitation, dizziness and depression. It' is well to know that these variations of health can be relieved by home treatment. What women stand in need of all their life, but never more so than in middle age, is rich, red blood. As a tonic for the blood and nerves, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are always useful, but especially will they help women at this time. Among threw who have found bene- fit through the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills is Mrs. .1. A. McDougall, Rhodena, N. S., who says: "I was greatly troubled with nervousness, palpitation of the heart, dizziness, and a generally run down condition. 11 was only with difficulty that I could do my work, and although I had been taking medicine for some time I did not improve. Finally a friend advised Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and I got a supply and began taking them. The result more than met my expectations, and I am feel- ing better than I have done for years, sleep well, eat well, and do my house- work .much more easily. In my case the pills certainly did what you claim tot' them." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all dealers in medicine, or you Call get them by mail at 50c a box or six' boxes for $2.50 from The Dr, Wil- liams' Medicine Co., Brookville, Ont, ..�� 5. t"•lIvl This tt or Itself in its 1 Spring Attire . Everydepartment has undergone an operation and nearly all winter stocks have been removed. Large shipments have given us new stocks and enhanced, the store's general attractiveness until it is now resplendent with New Goods at the New Reduced Prices. Come and see all the Beautiful New Spring Goods Buy Your Spring Wash Goods Now Our stock of Wash Goods this season is a revela- tion in cotton goods manufacture. Nothing more beautiful than these dainty wash fabrics. The many entirely new ideas, .the variety of designs and the exquisite color schemes offer untold possibilities for spring and summer clothes for women and children. You will not only be delighted with the new ideas but you will be pleasantly surprised at the wonder- ful variety and attractive pricing of these Dainty Wash Fabrics. Dress Goods, Silks and Trimmings you would be correctly gowned this season, we invite you to inspect our new spring stocks in our dress goods department. You many choose with absolute certainty from this matchless array of new weaves and colorings. This store's supremacy in this department is generally acknowledged by wo- men who know. This year more than ever we are enthusiastic over and proud of these new materials. We take a special pride in showing the sew goods. The prices will please you too. Look These Over Men's DEPARTMENT Blue Chambray Work Shirts. .$1.29 Fine Dress Shirts, soft cuffs...$1.59 Overalls, black or stripe $1.69 Boys' Bloomers, lined $1.59 Men's Fine Cotton Sox (colors) .25 Boys' Cotton Stockings.. .... .50 Boys' Tweed Suits $7.50 Look These Over • Women's DEPARTMENT Georgette Crepe, Colors $1.79 Ginghams, good quality .29 Underskirts, fancy colors $1.69 Turkish Towels .25 Cotton Hose .39 Women's Cotton Vests .29 Women's Print Dresses$1.59 Have You Selected Your Spring Suit In these days of falling prices when you are contemplating buying your Spring Suit Here is Something to Think Over. We always emphasize quality in Suits, the price is invariably regu- lated by the quality in all things. Quality is one of the distinguishing characteristics of this store; good clothes and nothing else. It's the NOTHING ELSE that makes our store different. Our prices represent the value in the goods, linins and workmanship. We charge a fair price for the qual- ity; the style advantages are free. PRICES $10 to $40 Men's Hats New Felts in the Latest Models. They are smaller in the rim and slightly rolled. They are in all the new color combinations, from pearl grey to black. They are a great improvement in color and general quality. They are reduced in price. They are here for your inspection. MEN'S Underwear Medium and light weight for spring or summer in two-piece or combination; long or short sleeves. All sizes. All colors. All prices. Men's, piece $1.00 to $2.00 Men's, combination $2.00 STEWART BROS., - Sea forth 11ir1 hti �.5 �lro7 xU"'�3•. A`a.! Nnm F. >�14 9 , A af r,1' a Y. }` a iFa'