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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1927-03-18, Page 3ll vixrt d a " 4 aiii l r" ' Sragmstl . r'�t 9 1 Out ADVERTISING TEPT CERTIFICATE, Submit this certificate on Thursday, Mar.24 and get an extra pair of pants free of charge with your new suit. Semi -Annual Made -to -Measure SUZT SALE EXTRA PANTS FREE, Meet the representative of Canada's Largest Tailoring Organization, Alex. Garfield, on Thursday, March 24. During his stay here we are offering an extra pair of pants absolutely free of charge with every suit sold. Simply bring advertising test certificate illustrated above. Choose a suit from 400 different patterns and weaves. All British goods—most of them import- ed direct from the British Isles. All that is new for the coming season, made to your individual measure in the style you wish by our skilled tailors and sold with a guarantee of perfect fit. This unusual 'Free Pants" offer means still greater value for your money. You can't afford to stay away. Remember for one day only—Thursday, March 24th. Prices range from $24.00 to $45.00. Order now for Easter or take delivery when convenient STEWART BROS., Seaforth The Foundation EVERY fortune has had a foundation_ Every foundation, in the first instance, is land with the first few dollars saved. Start to save now and lay your foundation. Save seriously—save consistently. For money in the Bank is the buffer against misfortune and the barometer of future prosperity. THE SORT$ BRANCH, 21 • R. M. JONES, Manager. SAFiETY DEPOSCl 30XE.e. F'Ot< Rt_ -NL. , SHAKE HANDS WITH YOURSELF AND DODGE THOSE GERMS Shaking hands with oneself, as the Chinese do when they meet, is vastly more hygienic and sensible than our own hearty exchange of clasps, az- -cording to the Ohio Health News (Columbus). The writer commends heartily a recent editorial in the Can- ton News on "Hand -shake Germs" which seems to him to express what the terms an "uncommon -sense view of this questionable habit." He goes en: "The question has often occurred to us: Why is a hand -shake? Isn't it only a relic of the past with which we might ptofitably dispense? Much has been written about the custom, its origin atel. its meanings; yet noth- ing to justify it from a sanitary standpoint. "That it can convey infection can be proved by laboratory tests. The warm, moist . surface of the band forms a very favorable resting -place for bacteria while waiting for fur- ,ther transfers to our friends. Germs are no respecters of persons or re- lationship. The most devoted of par- ents are physically just as capable of transferring infection to their child- ren as anyone else, "It is a strange thing, but nearly 'universal, that people cough and sneeze into or upon their right hands —the ones with which they 'shake hands. Germs cling very readily to the skin of the hands, and it requires muoh mechanical and chemical scrub- bing and disinfection to remove them; Tot, sociable little 'thin that they are, they are ever'ready-to transfer their affections from one hind /to an- other, or, teem hand to ilp or food. Under ordinary eondittonsthe : human hand is a culture bed of gots• and liable at any time to haire its millions 'of germs align entecVof1ilfarted as the occasion pretlefr e: eff e tC het' ; to realize the . podilight Y bf the itraneftre of tifseakes by thea dist' atop .tis rne.foi a 1ay;,an I s e5 .Pltte fhb hands, whnt its touch and soil them and how demo- cratic he is in passing his germs along to his friends and family. "That the custom of hand -shaking will ever go out of use may he doubted, hut that it is a means of conveying disease is susceptible of scientific demonstration. Our only hope is • that people realizing the danger wil I take every precaution against putting their hands where they may either acquire or transmit infection. The Chinese have a very commendable custom of shaking their own hands when meeting friends, n custom we might well adopt. We make a lot of fun of China, but often may profit by her ancient wisdom if we but would. At least, your own germs will stay at home if you shake your own hand. OIL COMPANIES GET $70,000 OF GASOLINE TAX CONTRIBUTED BY MOTORISTS OF ONTARIO In an article dealing with the gaso- line tax as applied in Ontario, Hard- ware and Metal, Toron;tor Canada„ "Canada's National Hardware Week- ly," points out that on best authority it learns thatg asohdistributors rt ne di t 'btors operating in Ontario have retained during the past year approximately $70,000 as an allowance agreed by the Ontario Government for alleged expense incurred in collecting and making returns of the 3 cent per gal- lon tax. It is stated by Hardware and Metal that the oil companies are put to very little, if any, additional expense in connection with recording and returning the tax and yet the largest company operating in the province shared in the aforementioned amount to the extent of approximate- ly $25,000 last year. Itis stated that not only do the oil companies get a 2 per cent. allow- ance of all tax revenue collected, hut they also get. in most cases, a 1 per cent. gallonage allowance to compen-I sate for alleged loss clue to evapora- tion and other causes. Not content, with this -allowance they have recent -I ly been making complaint and the Ontario Government has just/ now agreed to an increase in the 2 per rent. allowance to 21 p,'r cent. in view of the fact that the nil companies benefit. very directly from the expenditure of the tax revenue on hatter roads, bridges and other facili- ties which encourage more motoring and a consequently larger consump- tion of gasoline, Hardware and Metal is of the opinion that they should be quite willing to assist the Ontario Government in collection of this tax without. taking $70,000 of it for do- ing practically nothing. It is shown that the recording and returning of the fax of three rents per gallon on all gasoline sold in Ontario is a very simple matter compared with the ac- counting necessary in the offices of thousands of Canadian companies in connection with the much more com- plicated Sales Tax, and yet no al- lewance is made to firms for the col- lection of the Sales Tax. In thirty- eight states of the American Union, where gasoline tax is collected, there is said to he no direct allowance made to oil companies for collecting this tax, there being only a nominal al- lowance on gasoline for loss. In fact the law in those states compel the oil. companies to eollect this tax without remuneration. "In Ontario," says Hardware and. Metal, "a very generous allowance has been made these companies since the tax was introduced in 1924 and now they want an increase. The pre- cedent established in Ontario is being pointed to by distributors in Alberta who are now seeking similar treat- ment and there is no telling where the matter will end. "There are in Ontario approximate- ly 100 distributors who account to the government for tax on gasoline sold by them," states Hardware and Metal. "Six of these, namely Imperial Oil Co., British American Oil Co-, The Shell Co., Cities S'erviee Co., Canadian Oil and McColl Bros., represent from 85 to 90 per cent. of the gasoline gal- lonage eold in Ontario and it is esti- mated that the first two mentioned concerns retain from 45 to 50 per cent. of the $70,000 retained by all distil-, baton in The past year. It is e'ident that'the oil companies hate beet aucoesaful lit iaointvinoittg the Oiotiaro Government that t'hty are entitled toco nsideration which is not meted out to any firms accounting for the Sales Tax to the Federal Govern- ment. Furthermore they have indi- cated that they insist upon being paid for helping themselves, and they seem to have had little difficulty convincing the government that increases in this allowance must he ma -de from time to time. A halt should be called in this matter before the oil companies gobble up too large a proportion of the money which motorists of the province aro contributing through th•• medium of the gasoline thx, for bet- ter roads and other improvements de- srgt ed to assist m,toring." ALMOST IfF,I.i'I.ESS W1'1.11 RHEUMATISM A, Nova Scotia I.ady Tells !low She Found Relief. Among t"he well known residents of Nineveh, N.S., is Mrs. William Silver, who tells for the I :•nefit of other see. fers hew she fe ind relief from a severe attack of rheumatism. Mr,. Silver say.; --"Ir. the early fall oi 11)'26, i Coritra,•ied a cold which 1 - veloped into a -e re attack of muse,r- lar rheumatism In fact, it eine,: totally disabled me, and I stitT,e, d great. agony nt.,, of the time. After trying in vain t„ get, something 11) re- • lieve mo. i ,1,••..1 •I to take Ttr. Wil- liams' fink . which I had heater highly reconnneed••d. I may sat- that the quick re•li,•1 !ney afforded ren surprised nee :u.•I after taking sem, six boxes of the p,:ls every tweeze of the rheumatikn, 'r,:id gone, and 1 am now fi'eling be r than I have hoer) for some year lust. The pills not only banished h,• rheumatism, hue helped me in n : ' y other ways." Try 1)r. \Viiiiruns' Pink fills for anaemia, rheums,:• -m, neuralgia, nor- vousness and -iemach trouble. Take them as a tunic if you are not. in the best of' physical condition and Multi- sate the resistance that will keep you well and strong, geld by all druggists or sent, by nail nt. 50 cents a box by The Dr. \Vitliatms' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.. EATING BANANAS TO CURE 1!.LNESSA Bananas seen to be on the point of getting into the list of remedies for disease in ndrdit.ion to their service as foods. Every little while some medical journal has an article on han- aruaa in the trrat.ment of celiac dis- ease. Stedman's dictionary defines celiac disease as a subacute diarrhoea masked by large, whitish, frothy stoolslater greenish, occulting chiefly in children under five years of age; the general symptoms: Pallor, arrest of development, higrh pitched, weak voice, and muscular weakness. thigh tells us that in the tratment of celiac disease bananas are very helpful, if not almost: necessary. Eddy and Kellogg chole that in the prevention and in the cure of scurvy banana's rank near the top. It is no longer necessary for ships to carry lime juice as a pretentrfe of scurvy if they happen en to have bananas on board. The easeful research by Eddy and Kellogg shows well ripened hananas to he very good food, palatable, nu- tritious and easily digested. The starches and sugars are valuable. We do not have all the information we should have as to the .proteins and fat... The minerals in hananas sucply some of the body needs. The vitamins which promote growth ---A and I3 -are present in good a- mounts. The one which combats scurvy -1' -- abounds. The one which is supposed to promote fertility is there in unknown but probable small quantities. The vitamin which pro- tects against and cures rickets--1)--- is deficient. Children fed 011 bananas need to get sunlight and foods rich in vitamin 11. Ripe bananas are easily digested when eaten slowly and chewed. A ripe banana is one that is turning from yellnsv to brown and is beginning to show sparks. 'Bananas that are golden, or yellow- with a tinge u: green. shuitlri ho cookt•d hrlorr being eaten. Bananas should be conked in the peeling. In that say the anti- ,ecirl,utie• principle is preserved. white the cooking changes the indigest.ih'. s11h.s!:otic• tote, 1;ge.t.11 c mi,lunel' .fust what the indigestible substance in greenish bananas is has riot been settled. One theory is that it is a enrmin similar io that, in green per - min -ions, and that in the process of ripening both of these halts the tan- nin jells and becomes digest dile, or at !ast no longer interferes with diges- nn. The ripening of bananas shonid not 1: done in a refrigerator. A! a love te'mper'ature the ;scolio wit not jell properly. The Italian fruit dealer who ripens his bananas in his bed- room, or in the cellar of his hues',, somehow seemed to stumble un the right plan. The advice to cook bananas unpeel- ewl suggests another point.. One rea- son health men advise the use of bananas is because they do not carry infection. Even in the tropics that heavy peeling suffices to protect the fruit against typhoid and dysentery bacteria, amoeba coli and other dis- ease producing organisms. SANDRINGHAM TiME IS ALWAYS AHEAD Few people are aware that. all the clocks at Sandringham, England, are kept half an hour ahead of Greenwich time throughout the year, so that the Royal family enjoy 50 per cent. of summer time even during the winter. "Sandringham Time" was begun half in joke, by King Edward, who loved to make the most of the day- light hours when the quiet life of an English country gentleman was his to he enjoyed. So it happened that on one occasion some of his guests who had sat up late were not ready betimes for the guns. King Edward played a joke on the laggards by giving an order • that all the clocks should be advanced half an hour on Greenwich time. The measure taken was So coin - pletely interpreted that "Sandring- ham time" became estoblished in the royal household long before summer time." Queen Alexandra could not bear the idea of altering the arrangement in the years after the King's death. It is not known that King George in- tends to continue his father's semi - joke. The life of the Sandringham house - bold therefore starts half an hour be- fore that of the outside world.—Lon- don Tit -Bits. If Stomach Hurts Drink Hot Water Neutralize Stomach Acidity, Pre- vent Fermentation. Stop indigestion. "If those who suffer from indiges- tion, gas, wind, or flatulence, stomach aridity or sourness, gastric. catarrh, heartburn. etc., would take a ten- spnonful of pure I3isurateel Magnesia in half a glass of hot water immedi- ately after eating they would soon for- get they were ever afflicted with stomach trouble, and doctors would have to look elsewhere for patients." Tn explanation of these words a well known Now York physician stated that most farms of stomach troubles are clue to stomach acidity and fer- mentation of the fond contents of the stomach combined with an insufficient blond supply to the stomach. flat. water increases the blond supply and T3icnrated Magnesia, which ran he readily obtained at any reliable drug stere, in either tablet or powder, in- stant.ly neutralizes the rxrrscive stom- arh acid and stops food fermentation, the combination of the two, therefore„ heing marvelously successful and de- cidedly preferable to the nee of arti- I ficial digestants, stimulants or medi- eines for indigestion. ('AR STEALING IN TORONTO GROWING There was a very disappointing in- crease in the number of motor car thefts in Toronto last year. The po- lice statisties of the city reveal that there were 1,825 cars stolen last year and 1,399 were stolen in 1925. The 1926 increase in the number of cars stolen is a very serious one that seems to indicate that the leniency shown many youthful car thieves, however admirable in itself, is having an unsalutary effect in so far as the interests of society is concerned. The cars stolen. in Toronto last year represented a value of $1,323,741. It is true that ail but 43 of these stolen cars were recovered but experletnee indicates that it is a fair deduction that the cars stolen while in the hands of the thieves suffered a depreciation: that was ahherritai'ly high. If the stollen ears that were not reeoverta were of the tame average *One l3 iI. that of the total 9ttrnmber stolen these • car thieves "got away". with nearly thirty-two thousand dollars worth of citizens' motor cars last year. If bank robbers got clear with that - amount of money it goes without say- ing that there would be considerably less public and official apathy over it than apparently attends the success of the car thieves. Yet the car thieves are a worse menace in that they are almost invariably as reckless drivers as they are irresponsible and, more- over, the theft of a car is not infre- quently the first step in perpetrating other crimes. How often in the re- ports of robberies and abductions that the criminals drove away in a "high powered car which they had stolen.' Some years ago the Ontario Motor i,cigne succeeded in having the pen- alty for car stealing under the crim- inal code increased to one year os more imprisonment.. With the stiffen- ing of sentences car stealing fell abruptly riff. The transgressors ab- stained from transgressing when their nay was mane hard. Softening of s •t bores, naturally, has an antithetic effect.. SPRING COMING EARLY IN St)t•i-11ERN STATES if a farmer in Canada declares ;against the easily arrival of Spring weather ;t is usually because he dread. a recc•rsion to Winter form after work on the land has been well ea]ted. False starts in this connec- tion are what he abhors, and he is Ale to scare with his ear cocked for the• hell. Therefore, there is littie clanger of creating a rush to start the plow or harrow at. the first sign of warm weather in discussing reports f se+a.onal conditions in sections fur- ther south, which, according to the United States Department of Agri- culture are well advanced for the time of year. Spring work and crop growth be the Southern States, according to March 1st. report, are progressing rapidly. Many trees were in fall hloom by the middle of February in the Gulf States, and even further north. Shipments of early truck; crops have been heavy. Early -sown oats were up a week ago in the south- ern portiion of the wheat belt, Wlheat looks good in the eastern part of the belt, but not so good in the West. Late snows helped grain in Western. Kansas. The Spring wheat territory's is none too optimistic, following lean year, says the report. Liver stock in the United States has 'w%; tered well. Hog raisers are opi'il tic, and there is, talk of increased breeding this year, depending, hi ever, on corn prospects. The report says that "the probably will grow mote ems;! other feed crops this . yeh'r acreages are sustained else(rh, good growing season might tart other year of cheap fettufw ertheless the titin tittbkt Mitch 'better ptia� ► to " lhty prltt �tf _. from blew• -pr cetl