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Bastedo, Superintendent Dominion Government Annuities, Ottawa: When waiting, kindly state sex, and age or ages last birthday. w e--..Ot...- • �_ a emslim tee.- SAI Everybody letttiivathat tl let, glided "aail-plane," as the Germans any, is the latest rage in. aerenautics, but Just what keeps these motorleaa *era planes aloft ..for long periods, is th subject of much popular conjecture Now ,the recant world's record far gliders, made by the German Henze in his Vampire, a flight of three hours and ten minutes, brings th aubject up with sharper interest the ever. Vincent J. Burunelli, designer an constructor of aeroplanes, who, hi self, has taken part in many glider experiments, makes the following ex planation for our readers. "The most general fact," Mr Buranelli says, ' is the character o the wind currents in the valley wher the German flights are made. The winds sweep up the hillsides. They are revel with the hillside, but they blow upward with reference to hor- izontal ground. Thus, the glider goes off the hillside in an uphlowing wind. Now, in a perfect calm, if the hill were steep enough, the glider might glide for a long distance and remain off ground fur some time. 'this upward hillside wind gives a large added element of sustensiun. Then, when the upsweeping wind comes to the hilltop it -tends, by rea- son of contrary currents, to eddy up- ward and over. A glider moving in- to this eddy will naturally soar aloft and by skilful manoeuvring may keep in the eddy almost indefinitely. "But, even on a level, a glider might sail in a hori'tontal wind. I have seen an aeroplane, heavily loaded, lifted off the ground by a horizontal strong wind and carried up vertically many yards. It might have hovered in the air a- while had a pilot been in the cockpit and in control. The action of wind on a plane in this circumstance is, however, very complex, and the theory has not been satisfactorily worked out. If you will take a pair of mounted dried wings of a soaring bird, a buzzard or albatross, say, and place them flat on a table and then direct the current of an electric fan horizontally against their front, they will creep forward and rise. This in- volves the curious and interesting theory of vortex action. "The diagram shows the cross sec- tion of a thick -wing type of aeroplane surface, whose lines are , generally those of soaring bird wings: When a wing with a blunt front, as shown, is in a horizontal wind, the air "stocks up" in front of the blunt edge—a mass of comparatively still air ander pressure, which forms a tapering en- tering wedge. The current striking this wedge of air is deflected in such a manner that it does not exactly follow the contour of the wing. It sweeps over the upper curve of the wing and shoots back, leaving nn area of rarefaction between itself and the surface of the wing. The entire upper surface is therefore sub- jected to a suction, while the under surface, through the design of the wing, is under a pressure thrust up- ward. it is estimated that two-thirds of the lift of a wing is due to the suction on the upper surface. pretty evidence of this area of rarefaction over the wing top is observed when flying in rain. The machine may be rushing through the air at aa terrific speed, but the water on the top of the wing forms little globules, which remain undisturbed, when with any sweep of wind at alt they would be blown away. • "This thick wing principle is utiliz- ed more and more in the gliders. The bird -like sail -plane is a striking ex- ample. The record making Vampire, too, is a thick -wing type. In my opinion the best results will be. ob- tained with this design. "Incidentally, the great value of the gliding experiments does not lie in the direction of neotorless flight. Speed and weight -carrying demand power. The sail -plane, though, is bringing a great increase of refine- ment of aeroplane design and adding to our knowledge of the laws of aero- dynamics, laws which it is difficult to sense delicately in the high-speed aeroplane of to -day. Considerable progress, nevertheless is being made in this direction." l 4 THE KUM'T1M [ Since Taking "Fruit-a-tivesl1 The Famous Fruit Medicine P.Q. Boa 128, P.tarisnoao, N.B. m'� "I suffered with Rheumatism for g five years, having it so badly at times I was unable to get up. I tried medielnes I saw advertised, f and was treated by doctors but the e Rheumatism always cause back. In 1916, I saw in sr! advertisement that "Fruit -a -Lives" could ,*top Rheuma- tism and took a bis, and got relief; the took "Fruit ., :ices" right along for about six inethe and I have never felt my RI.....• ei.enl since". JOHN lel GILIEItSON. 50c a box,. 6 for +" .0, trial sine 25e. At dealers or at postpaid by Truitea-tivea Liuule 1, Ottawa. A machine has been invented which prints and forms cardboard or fibre shipping boxes from sheets as they pass through it. A GREAT PUBLIC HEALTH DOCTOR ON SUGAR Janes Crichton-Browne, D.C.L., M- D., F.R.S., one of the leading lights' in hygiene in Great Britain, at a re- cent dinner of the Institute of Cer- tificated Grocers, said food questions were now in the ascendant in a way they had never been before. it was at length perceived that the question of the food needs of a country was fundamental. When reporting for the year 1921 the lowest death -rate ever recorded hi England and Wales, and noting the betterment of public health in various directions, the Ministry of 1 Health connected this with the enorm- ous improvement in the quantity, qual- ity and variety of the food consumed by the English people. Food was the happy hunting ground of the fad-' dist, and he supposed there was not any kind of food that had not been idiotically accused of causing at least half a dozen different diseases. Can- cer, according to the wiseacres, had been traced to tomatoes, margarine, tobacco, tartaric acid, and potted shrimps—and only the other day an eminent man of science—a great phy- sicist—wrote to the Times to suggest tea that it was d6e to the use of and coffee. He evidently forgot that can- cer existed in this country long before the introduction of tea and coffee, and occurred amongst cats, dogs and mice,' who did not usually partake of those beverages. Cancer was rare in Ja- pan, where excessive tea drinking had gone on for generations and among the Bedouin Arabs, who were speci- ally addicted to coffee, but it was found in African tribes who had nev- er tasted Bohea or Mocha. Such statements were very mis- chevious when proceeding from a scientific 'source, and'should not be YK� .'d...ke analcohol tis ... lfl o hes • en a smatterlug ofteteties Wopld enable grocerg."to renirkee a fool .ac- cording to his folly when he cantle in- , to their shops .and propounded such rubbish. NOP NOW WE KNOW "SHELL �>OCK" DOESN'T MEAN "YELLOW," To Canadians, the phrase "shel shock" is an uppleasant one. During the war the idea that "Ale shock" was a term covering a variet of genuine nerveus disorders no les concrete than bodily wounds was nev er seriously entertained by the troop To refer to a man as a "shell -shock was to use contemptuous languag It was another word for 'i 'ellow." For the war exposed the woefu ignorance of the medical profcseio in regard to the nervous constitutlo of man. The medical corps had no the faintest idea how to deal with th strange cases of nervous brcakdow which began to occur as soon as th war got -into the trench stage. No previous war had set any pr cedent in the matter, for no previou 'war had set such a strain upon hunia 'nerves and the human brain. So quite early in the war, the tel "shell -shock" came into use to de scribe all cuses of a nervous kind, an though pretty well discredited as medical term bet the end of 1917, i stuck in the cortynon parlance of th soldiers right to the end of -the wa and to this day its old meaning re mains amongst the great majority o ex -army men. The association of the term "shell shock" with the idea of cowardice and the sense of contempt carried b the phrase, have done very grave in justice to thousands of good men wh were subjected to the stigma of th term through ignprance of the medi cal profession on the whole subject neuroses during the war. Naturally, the men sent out of th trenches suffering from "shell -shock' were not usually the robust and man eating type so popular with th troops. They were as a rule men o nervous temperament, generally ex citable and irritable. Their depart ure from .the trenches Yeas regarde with a cynical humor by their com rades. It was to them simply a cas of a fellow "losing his nerve" an getting sent out of danger. The mor generous construction thet it was a case of a man with a limited suppl of nervous energy falling ill from th exhaustion of that supply was rarely if ever, employed. This situation -was not improved by the fact that many a malingerer, a shirker with a straight yellow streak, got himself classed as a case of "shell - shock" by medical officers who were at sea in the whole matter of nervous disorders. Not only was this contempt for "shell shocks" frankly expressed by the troops, but in some units and in certain hospitals during the experi- mental stageseof the study of- war neuroses, the poor victim of a ner- vous breakdown in the army was sub= jetted to the most fiendish cruelty on the ground that there was nothing the matter with him except cowardice. Is a sick man a coward? In short` what under the sun is a hero? The medical profession is beginning to un- derstand. But in the middle period of the war, the poor devil whose Nerves broke down in a perfectly na- tural manner was paraded as a cow- ard, bullied by officers who were sin- cerely trying to "pull him together;' subjected to all kinds of tests, forced to go hack and face the tumult and riot in the front line trenches which had caused the breakdown, and in general given every treatment de- signed to make his trouble worse. For example, there is a form of war neurosis or "shell shock" in which form the victim imagines a limb is paralyzed. The medical pro- fession now realize that in such eas- es the limb the victim believes is paralyzed, to ail intents and purposes is paralyzed. But in the war days, a very popu- lar form oftreating such cases was this. If a roan thought he had a paralyzed leg and was using a crutch, the doctor would suddenly and unex- pectedly 'kick the crutch from under the man, and try to detect in the actions of the startled lad some sign of life in the afflicted leg. If the leg instinctively moved to suppoet the body, the man was treated) as a malingerer, and after being properly shamed was sent back to his regi- ment. Often, of course, it served to cure the nervous disease, in that it showed the man his leg really was not paralyzed, but it was violent treatment. And often it didn't work. It only proved that, to all intents and purposes, the leg was genuinely par- alyzed. In the medical branch of the depart- ment of soldiers' civil re -establish- -tient, the term "shell shock" has no place. Canada officially tabooed the erm years ago. A committee of the British House of Commons has re- ently completed a two-year enquiry nto "shell shock" and as a result the erm is also tabooed in Britain. In its place in Canada, there are a ozen terms describing the several ypes of nervous and mental disorder which came under the broad and meaningless term "shell shock" dur- ng'the war. Only one of these is in ny sense connected with shells. And hat is concussion. There were a umber of men whose whole systems were permanently deranged by close 1- 11 y a s. e. n 0 e n s n m a r, f o - e o emitted haphazard and without the clearest proof. They frightened the week -kneed and led them to change their food habits, erten to their detri- ment and discomfort. The latest scare of the kind was started at Newcastle -on -Tyr. hast month at the annual conference ..l' • British Den- tal Association, 'toht•n prominent member of that oda• jlenoun ed sugar, root and bran mill went far as to say that s eels,. chocttla s, and pastry, by prom ting the decay of the teeth, were aeriuusly injurious to the health of the people and were doing more harm )Ilan drink. With the profoundest respect for theirJien- tal brethren, to whose good advice and mechanical skill they were so Hauch beholden, he suggestedthat they should leave sugar alone. Dental decay wile a vary complex question, and -recent researches in- dicated that it was perhaps attribut- able to the want of a certain vitamin in the. food in early life, and would be best prevented not by giving up sugar, but by taking cod liver oil. A special and highly competent commit- tee had been appointed by the Medic- al Research Council to investigate the subject, and in the meantime he would remind their dental friends that sugar pe haps more than any other article of food tended to promote the flow .tf saliva and it would not be denied that free washing by the calivary fluid conduced mire than anything else to the cleansing and preservation of the teeth. Sugar in moderation also promoted the flow of gastric juice, and has aided digestion. When he was in Jamaica he examined the teeth of the school children there and found in them riot a trace of de- cay. More perfect and regular teeth it was impossible 1„ imagine, and yet the modThs of thine children were never free from. sugar„They were sucking sugar cane all day. Physical development had many factors, but among those, food was the most im- portant, and of food sugar was not the least important. It was a very significant, fast when we found that in the different races of mankind there was a correlation between phy- sical development and the amount of sugar consumed. The best developed races ate the most sugar, the worst developed ate the least. Of all the fumes engaged in the Great War, the Anzacs were physic- ally' the finest and had the best teeth, and the Australians consumed more sugar than any other race on the face of the earth.sefore the war Australia consumed 1091b of sugar per head per annum. Next to Australia came Denmark (and the Danes were a fine ]'ace(, with 981b per head per annum. Next to Denmark came the United Kingdom with 851b, and the. United States with 81, while at the other end of the scale stood Spain with131b and Italy with only 101b, and the Span- iards and Italians, admirable as they were in many ways, were not just as well grown as the big sugar -eating peoples. In face of such facts, it was simply fatuous to condemn sugar and and to affirm that sugar, sweets and chocolates were more destructive ' PAiNS* IN BACK Relieved by Lydia E. Pink - ham's Vegetable Compound e e f d a y e Lindsay, Ontario.—"I used to have very bad pains In my back and sides c and often was not I fit to do my work. 1 I tried many medi- cines before I be- d gan to take yours. t I saw Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound ad- r vertised in the a Toronto Globe' and t now that it has n helped me I recom- mend It to all of my neighbors. I c keep It in 110 house all the time t and take it once in a while no mat- s ter how well T er ,l, f w or one ounce o t Prevention is sarin a pound of care." a Etrznnr•Ttr C. `rases„ 13 St. Paul w St., Lindsay, Gntnrlo. n To do any kind of work—sad yon know there Is much to be done—Is s next to impossible If you are suffer, o tag from some form of female trou- w bk. It may cense your back to ache ee a pain In your side; it may make in you nervoos and irritable. You meq t be able to keep up and around, but you do not feel good. Lydia 31. Pinkham'e Vegetable n Oemponne is a medicine for women. c It is especially adapted to relieve the m mese of these troubles, and rester i them to. normal boaltfb. th ontact with an exploding shell. But he great majority of so-called "shell) hock” cases are straight examples of hat are now well-known nervous ilments, common in 'peace time as ell as' to war, such as certain am n eur- sea, hysteria, neurasthenia and so forth, contracted not by contadt with hells, but through the general.atrain f active service. Then, too, there ere a percentage of malingerers. When a mysterious condition was be- g studied, lead -swingers were bound o sneak in. A man who was going to have a ervous breakdown in the ordinary ourse of events would naturally be uch more subject to it under the mmense strain of war service. And , ere are thousands of nervous break e'. INCORPORAT .;$8Ii '• , I . a Capital Paid Up $4,000,000 Reserve Wand $5,000,000 Over 125 Branches' I OPPORTUNITIES TO BUY CATTLE horses, farm implements, etc., oheaply are constantly turningn' up. The farmer with money saved lo, the one who gets these snaps. ,Place your crap earnings in a Savings Account with the nearest branch of The Molsons Bank where, while earn- ing interest and being absolutely safe, your mosey is available at any minute.' Deposits can be wade by snail. BRANCHES IN THIS DISTRICT:• Brucefietd Bt. :Marys Kirkton iNI Exeter Clinton Hernial' Zurich t1i111t11mniiillt1 nununontali]i1nil until oniumit1111unmi1lllitlllnlllfmu m E KO FEN . AIR RESTORER i For Sale at all Drug Stores 5fmlli1111IJIImllmnUfllfnllltsflff 11I1111itttjniitul lllllllllnulIIUUlIl IhIlllbitlllllt downs in civil life in Toronto every year. In industry there is a form of 'shell shock' but it isn't called by that name. In big factories, where there is a great deal of noise and tumult and action, there are regular,nervous col- lapses amongst the workers. But there is no suggestion of cowardice there. When these same men go to war and collapse under a strain far greater than industrial strain, they are suspected of saving their skins by deceit. All soldiers in the late war, unless they were mentally deficient, felt fear. Those who had a strong phys- ique and an abundant supply of nerv- ous energy, here their fears well. Those with weaker supplies of nerv- ous- energy suffered greatly, if se- cretly; and some cracked under the strain. Thus, very little credit or discredit of a personal nature can be attached to conduct. Mpst of the valiant men of the late war were men well -gifted with nervdus stamina, nothing to their credit beyond that they had probably conserved it, and -had had healthy forebearerg. But it is a well known fact that many of the war's heroes were not stodgy men, but men of the most nervous disposi- tion, whose nervousness and fear took the form, not of breakdown, but of great excitement and exhilaration, under the influence of which they per- formed deeds of the utmost reckless- ness and heroism. Medical men say there is very little between these men and their frailest brother heaped with contumely as a "shell -shock," . Some men would go dithering mad with "shell -shock," would jibber like' monkeys, weep and scream—a com- plete nervous collapse. Others would become sullen and secretive, forcing their collapse under. Many steadied themselves with drink, as is well known. It tookmany forms. But there were few soldiers in the fight- ing arms of the service who did not 'have to resort to some means of con- serving their nervous energy. One well-known nerve specialist remarks that so far he has not encountered one Roman Catholic amongst "shell- shdtked" soldiers, and he believes that the Catholic soldier was relieved of the pressure of fear upon his nervous system by his faith in the "scapular" and the medals of a sacred nature which he wore about his neck. It was the in -growing man, the man with no outlet for his feelings, such as humor or lightheartedness, who was the greatest victim of "shell shock." The writer, by nature a timid and nervous temperament, has always known fear ever since child- hood; fear of the dark as a child, fear of bigger boys, fear of one kind or another always a part of his daily life. The war produced new and great- er fears, but coping with fear was nothing new to him. He was put to severe nervous strain; he trembled with fright on countless occasions. But, though a hearty Protestant, he had in his possession certain charms to ward off dangers. Those charms carefully treasured through three years of infantry ups and downs, were the key to the front door of his home Toronto, a pair of pebbles with holes in them, picked up on the beach of. Brighton, and a blue Toronto street car ticket.No matter how obsessed with fear he became, the sight of these absurd tokens, fetched forth from his pocket on the battlefield, restored im- measurably his self-control, balance and sanity. They provided an escape, only for a mement and only in' the mindebut an escape nevertheless, from the fears that were possessing him. Doctors are now prepared to ex- plain many of the diegraces of war, many of, the excess entered into by soldiers, drinking and dissipation on of every sort, to the instinct common to the sanest of men to escape form fear by, living only for the moment. If imagination was let free, if they tried to think of to -morrow, they would .have fallen victims to their fears and would have suffered breakdowns. But they live feverishly for to -day. By blinding their minds to the morrow. they let in many things .that normally would never hate entered their lives. We are only beginning to under- stand such virtues as va?or and such • sins as cowardice. We are only, beginning to discover the impersonality of good and evil. WHAT MADE ME. NAPPY "I was congratulating myself' that I had passed the winter; without catching a cold, `then I got one at the beginning of last May,. It was. because 1 was run' - down. Being run down I had some trouble in getting rid of this cold. I was a nervous. wreck. I would wake up regularly mtirn_ ings feeling that some terrible • calamity - would take '`place.. Although we were comfortably- off, omfortablyoff, I Felt sure my husband 'was - going to lose everything. - The children worried me. If they made= the ]east noise, I would get into a terrible temper. I would scold. them so that I am sure they hated me. I would be mad with myself after it was over and make up my mind never to let it happen again. I would go to bed at night and begin to think and picture dread- ful things which might happen to me and my family. 1 would lay awake for hours, sometimes until daylight, until I was so weak that I could scarcely raise my head. . I would waken next day just as tired as when I laid down. After a while I got so that I didn't care what happened. The children: annoyed me and I wouldn't have cared if they had left me for good. I felt that it was only ,a. matter of time before 1 would loss my mind. I knew that my symp- toms were due to a run down condition and that if' I could only get something to build ate up, I might be all right. I knew that there must be some good tonics but most of them made such foolish claims that I was afraid of them. Happening one day to run across a leaflet about Carnot,. I was- impressed with the mode- rate way this-preparatioi was de- scribed, so I made up my mind I would try it. I did and today I am tile happiest aid healthiest woman living. I haven't a care in the world. Instead of running - away from me, my children aro now with me all the time. My husband tells me that my disposi- tion is as near an angel's as any human being's can be, but of course he is prejudiced. I don't believe I have a nerve in my body rioW." �'- Carnal is sold by your druggist, and if you can conscientiously say, after you have tried it, that it. hasn't done you any good, return. the empty bottle to him and he will refund your money. 6-622 Sold by E. Umbach, Phm. B. WHY I#ABIES CRY It's often hard to find the trouble —It may be teeth — it may be stomach—but oh ! so often it is. just a chafed irritated skin on which poor Soap has been used. The remedy for this is so simple 1 Hours of suffering—night after night of disturbance—have been avoided by mothers, who have insisted on—Baby's Own Soap. Of course it costs a little more. a very little more, however— than o e er— than what is pften bought and. used—but four generations off. Canadian Mothers are there to' vouch for its purity, for the soothing healing effect on Baby's delicate skin, for the lovely pure flower fragrance it leaves when Baby fresh and clean is taken 'froth his bath. Don't you think, Madam, lee worth Raying the 15c, a cake, a little less 1F you bay a box 3 Fakes) which your dealer asks for Baby's Own Soap. 'Adv.. E`