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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1930-06-27, Page 6• fl° WONDERFUL ECLARES VVASSON , years ago I started on a $}i I decline. An inactive liver Seattetut on ehaanic constipation that rg'4t ray whole system tootle and run - o res,.. Five bottles of Sargon built J. H. WASSON me up all over, my digestion is fine and with the new strength and energy I've gained I keep on the go all day without tiring. "Sargon Pills got me regulated per- fectly and restored my whole system to a healthy, normal condition. The improvement the Sargon treatment has made in my health at the age of 67 is remarkable." -.I. H. Wasson, 2S Mecklenburg St., St, John. N. B. Sargon niay be obtained in Se.forth from Charles Aberhart. WHERE AMERICA GETS ITS BOOZE Bootleggers are the only pen;;le in America who have adjusted them- selves completely to prohibition. Pre Tiding America with alcoholic 'Link is now a well organized business with an income estimated at over three'oil- lion dollars a year. It has its execu- tives, its salesmen, its technical ex- perts and traffic specialists, its 'aw- yers, its financiers. It is illicit, but its existence is an economic fact to be reckoned with. When prohibition went into effect, Dr, Doran told me, there was much liquor in storage in bonded ware- houses. Owners were allowed to re- tain this liquor, for medicinal sale or for any other legal sale. At that time, the illicit manufacture of alco- hol was not yet an organized business. The first illicit liquor, then, came from rifled warehouses; guards were brib- ed; individuals even went so far as to buy whole warehouses full of other •people's whisky, and then steal the property fo rwhich they were respons- ible, cheerfully paying damages when they fell due, as the profit on 'Illicit sale was greater than any possible legitimate damages. By 1922 or 19.23 most of this stor- ed liquor was gone, and the budding illicit industry turned to denatured alcohol as the new source of supply. Alcohol is one; of the the world's most important industrial chemicals quite aside from its use in beverages. Even before prohibition, the produc- tion of alcohol for industrial uses far exceeded its use in whisky. It was not difficult for the bootleg industry to remove the added materials from the denaturing formulas then in use, leav- ing reasonably pure alcohol. This al- cohol began to replac,e in the b loupe; market, the materials stolen from, the: warehouses. It is not necessary, the uninitiated should he informed, for a bootlegger to have whisky, gin, brar- dy, and all the rest in order to supply his customers with what they want. Any liquor and many wines car. corrne out of the same alcohol barred. There is a great outcry at present about "synthetic 'gin," yet seldomiai America seen anything else. Real' gin is generally supposed to beemade by fermenting juniper berries and distil• ling the product. But before pro iibi- tion, as now, virtually all the gin drunk in America, no matter how foreign and pretentious the label, wa.; made synthetically out of juniper oil, other flavoring matters, and alcohol. To -day not only the gin, brit the whisky, brandy, liquers, and other drinks are made from raw alcohol "cut" with water, which merely nu.ans diluted, and then flavored with spe • cial materials to make the final liquid taste like Scotch, rye, absinthe. or whatever the trade demands. There is nothing new about this. Liquors slava been made that way for years. Great store used to he set on 'ag- ing," and it is true that to keep a raw distilled liquor in a wooden barrel charred to charcoal on its inside dose -destroy, in the course of time, cer- tain chemicals, like fused oil, wnich may exist in natural whiskies distilled from fermented grain. But if the maker starts with pure alcohol and • adds nothing harmful, aging will not make the resulting whisky, gin, o: brandy a better or a less harmful drink. Anyway, the present bootlegging industry makes and distributes a very fair quality of booze, virtually all made synthetically out of raw alco- hol. One thing that the industry has learned is that it is not good business to poison one's customers. Probably there were about as many instances of ppooisoning from bad liquor in pre. prohibition days as now. At present, at any rate, it is chiefly not poisons but alcohol, just the same as it al- ways was, that sends heavy drinkers to the hospitals and the casualty lists. It has always been ,possible to take the denaturing materials out of alco- hol and leave the latter reasonarhiv pure, It is still possible to do so. Bit as the denaturing formulas have beer, tightened tip by prohibition authorie thee,, the process- has become toe ex- pen-wile x-pen-wi a forthe bootlegger. Dr. Der - an s'howw it 'lite figures to prove that the sic tttllegger turned to the cheaper flldtil$t1.'roffeementrng sugar of Miran- litre '1i star e'es•, &Stilling the product to :4�fit t " the needed i• arw aloha. r�1y1y��r�y'y 60nryy'et_,, ��3t die jstollibitiotir •l i'v Au' lupe %tlEl ree—, that the present chief source of alco- hol for the bootlegger is sugar which is fermented with yeast and them dis- tilled in modern rectifying stills. The product is concentrated, reasonably pure alcohol, from which the local "distributor" can make rye, gin, Scotch, wine, or the "finest imported liqueurs." Statistics of present-day use of al- cohol are admittedly very inaccurate. Dr. Doran's office estimates the pres- ent production of illicit alcohol at a- bout 30,000,000 gallons a year, Dr. Doran convincingly proves that at least 25,000,000 gallons of this booze is coming from distillation in large, hidden stills. Possibly two or three million gallons of denatured alcohol is still being reconditioned for bev- erages. The only other prominent source is illicit importation and "run, running." This is spectacular but from the standpoint of the bootleg barons it is almost useless. Dr. Doran does not believe that more than two mul- lion gallons enter America in this way. I have been given larger esti- mates, but I agree with Dr. Doran. This fact niay have interest for in- tending purchasers who hear that "this just came off a trans -atlantic ship," or in Detroit that "this was just run over the river last night." Of course such rune -running does hap- pen. But were runt -running or Euro- pean ships to bring into the United States each year all the alcohol that Americans drink, there would be lit- tle loom in the ships for cargo, and tourists would be crowded from the roads across the international leebn- daries. ROBBING THE BEE HIVE OF HONIED SECRETS In an age of iconoclasm and muck- raking, the bee retains all the virtues which were ever attributed to it and even gains some new fame. The opin- ion of Maeterlinck, the poet. is con- firmed by the investigations of Prof. von Frisch, director of the Zoological Institute of the University of Leipsic. He not only finds that the bee is as industrious and intelligent as he was given credit for being, but he has tried to explain some of the secrets of the bee and learn how its inind works. To understand the. bee one must re- gard it not as an individual with a soul to express, but as a unit in a hive. As an individual its intelligence might be low. and deprived of the co- operation of the hive he ought sin]: into disreputable habits. But as part of the machine its work is well-nigh perfect and human intelligence could add little to it. In other worde, if• a bee had the mentaiy of a reader of this column it would not be greatly improved as a member of the hive. I. has all the brains it needs. When we speak of a bee. we mean even if we are unaware of it. a female bee, or rather a kind of imperfect female which in normal circumstances cannot lay an egg and has no other aim in life but to work. The hire numbers usually about 7,000 bees. It has one queen which is the center and inspiration of the whole hive activity, and a number of male bees called drones because they are drones. They are slightly larger and plumper than the regular working bee and a good deal less intelligent. They do no work and their one useful func• tion is to nate with the queen bee which then lays the eggs that will in time turn into other queens, drone and workers. The drones, like the queen herself, live on the avails of the industry of the working bees. Prof, von Frisch conducted a number of experiments to determine whether bees were able to distinguish color. He arranged a number of glass dish- es each with a different colored card attached to it. The dish designed by the blue card contained food. The other dishes were empty. After the ,sees had Iearned to gather at the sign of the blue card for a little time, the position of the dish and card was changed. It made no difference to the bees. They flocked to the h]ue card. They continued to do sa when the food was put in a dish with another colored card. Plainly, the bees could tell one color from another. The bees were tested with other colors and it was found that they were able to distinguish them all, but that was redlikely to e 1 „confuse them. They could not clearly distinguish between red and other dark colors. This, he said, was particularly interesting in view of the fact that red flowers are so rare, For our own part we had not observed this rarity in gardens, though it may prevail in uncultivated areas. Botanically speaking, red is common enough on this continent, but the red flowers are generally found in bird blossoms and it is known that the eye of a bird is peculiarly sensi- tive to red. In Europe, we learn, the red -flowered plants are fertilized al - mast exclusively by butterflies, which are the only insects known not to be red -blind. The professor learned that he could train the bees to distinguish scents just as readily as colors. His method for this experiment was to arrange boxes only one of which con- tained food. This box was then dis- tinguished by a drop of essential oi!. The bees soon learned where the food was to he found, and after the posi- tion of the boxes was shifted they con- tinued to go to the box with the pe- culiar scent. Prof. von Frisch says that bees are particular about the sweetness of their food. If food containing 20 per cent. of sugar is given them they will drink it, but if it contains only 10 per cent. some take it and others refuse it. The nectar of bee hi -omens has generally a sugar content of about 40 per cent. By continuing his experiments he learned that bees can distinguish the 9 ame qualities in food that we can, namely, whether it is sweet, hitter, sour or salty. He was interested to discover that saccharine, which is the sweetest of all things to the human palate, is not sweet to the bee. It is merely tasteless. Perhaps his most interesting experiment was designed to determine how bees communicate with each other, and he concluded that it was mainly by the sense of smell added to something which we can only call reasoning. He began by put- ting out some sheets of paper covered with honey. Perhaps some days would elapse before a bee found them but he noted that ess soon as -ane made the discdvery *there from the same hive, hutxd Weds pf ellen, wouid appear in a • Was Constipated, Bilious, Tired. Now Well, New Woman "Was always con- stipated, bilious tired, out of sorts. Since taking 'Fruit-a- tives' feel like new woman, perfect health. Constipation all gone."—Muriel McHendry-, Montreal. Hosts of men and women write years -old constipation a nd liver trouble ended overnight with "Fruit- a-tives," Biliousness, indigestion, heaiitburn, gas vanish) like magic. Kidney and bladder ills, pain in back fade away quick. Nerves quiet, sound sleep at once. Rheumatism, neuralgia, neuritis, sick headaches decamp in hurry. Complexion clears. Ten of nature's greatest remedies combined in handy tablet. Marvelous discovery by famous Canadian doc- tor, Speedy results amaze all. Quit being sick, tired, weak. Get "Fruit -a -tires" from druggist to -day. very short time. Before proceeding with this investi- gation the professor devised a scheme whereby he could distinguish one ;bee from another, and he worked out a scheme which involved five colors plac- ed on different parts of the bees' bod- ies which enabled him to distinguish as many as 599 of then. Th first bee to discover honey was marked and after drinking it returned to the hive. After delivering the provender it threw itselfsinto a curious kind of dance, moving from one spot to an- other to repeat the performance. The other bees' attention was attracted and they crowded round, extending their antennae and seeming to be making a minute examination of the discoverer of the new supply. After the dance was over the other bees re- turned to the hive, cleaned their wings and antennae and then left the hive, evidently in search of the honey. He found that if the new food was a mile away from the hive the bees would discover it in about an hour, and he said that unrtoubtedly they had searched every inch of ground in their whole field of flight. The puzzle was intensified when glass dishes were abandoned, since it was not natural for bees to feed from them, and the food put out in the fields on selected flowers which were artificially loaded with food. The bees discovered these flowers much more quickly, and it made no difference to them if the food was placed on the phlox family, from Iivhirh bees never feed. The theory is that when a bee •feeds some of the perfume of the flowers adheres to the hairs of its body and when it returns hone the other bees, sniffing the fa- miliar scent, know just what flowers to look for if they are to find the new good feeding ground discovered by the pioneer bee. The dance is evi- dently the bee's best method of draw- ing the attention of others to it., CANADA'S CABINET MINISTERS THE RT. HON. W. L. MACKE'NZIte, KING Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs. What, in their apt and forthright speech, the Scottish call "the lad o' pairts", is faithfully portrayed in the Prime Minister, .Mackenzie King. His is the story of the earnest youth of moderate means who, having hitched his wagon to a star, travels onward to his destiny-. accepting the buffetings of fate as a discipline from which sal- utary lessons are to be derived, and viewing success as the starting point enly of further effort. The young Uni- versity of Toronto student burning :he midnight oil, drinking deep draughts of learning, imbibing that far-seeing philosophy of life which negatives obstacles and inspires the courage to face failure as, equally, it snakes for modesty in high accom- plishment—the future Prime Minister of Canada in his "green and salad years" scorned delights and lived la- borious days. The seeds of good government germinate best in the soil of sound economics, enriched by genuine sym- pathy with the life and aspirations of one's fellows. The former can be found only after intensive and protracted study: the latter is a quality of heart and mind. W. L. Mackenzie King pos- sesses hoth in abundance. And just as the sureness of the economic princi- ples which he has applied to the ad- ministration of Canada is unassail • able, so also are the depth of his sin- cerity and the warmth of his devo- tion to Canada and the Canadian peo ple. There has been nothing of the meteoric in his career, no mere dist- ant streak in the night sky, with only a trail of sparks to mark the swift- ness of the passage. Rather has his life been one of strenuous endeavor, the steady ascent of the industrious youth fired with the ideal of public service. Political enemies he has a- plenty; and they have not hesitated in the past to demean themselves with abuse and defamation directed against him. But this recoiled, as such meth- ods invariably do, upon the heads of the slanderers themselves. Public men', have to sacrifice much for the prom- inence they enjoy, and that is one of the penalties. Its effect is best meas- ured by the excellence of the reputa- tion achieved by those whom it is de- sired to injure. Neither revilings nee calumnies turned Mackenzie King from the course he had charted; and their effect upon the people of Canada was simply to entrench him the more deeply in their regard. And what of his aceom+plishntents? There are many facets to the diamond of his administration, each one mote brilliant than its neighbor. But, apart altogether from his solid achieve- ments in domestic affairs, one likes to reflect upon the genius with which he guided Canada through the heaving iters of the post -soar period. It constitutes a romance which, =foetus mately, would take voletnes to relate. The rtlnvblings from the four corners of the lrnipire sounded o i11'oils in those years; the development of the self-governing dominions, into definite national entities created difficulties that menaced the unity of the whole. British history is replete with in- stances where the advent of similar difficulties has brought about painful and distressing consequences. Less than a century ago Canada's "growing pains" resulted in an armed rebellion, in which the grandfather of Macken- zie King was the leader. It is a strange eaprice of fate that, a• situa- tion not greatly different in principle should find the grandson striving with all his energy for a solution so diam- etrically opposed to that which was sought two generations ago. It required indomitable eourage ev- en to formulate the problems which enmeshed the British Commonwealth in the post-war years, let alone to eeek a solution of them. Yet, Macken- zie King foresaw that as the years passed those intra -imperial difficul- ties must inevitably grow and became acute, with what consequences no man dared hazard a guess. In the grand- son •ef the rebel of '37, Canada and the British Empire found a statesman with the boldness to voice the prob- lems, andwith the genius- to point the way to their unravelling. The Imperial Conference of 1925 stands as a monument to the wisdom of British statecraft: it was at once an authority and a warrant. It was a sanction of the political independence of each self-governing state of the British Commonwealth of Nations and it was also a permanent safeguard of the 'Imperial unity which is the ideal of all loyal Britons. The role played by Mackenzie King as mediator be•- tween other dominions and the ;mper- ial Government was the role of a diplomat and statesman, for it requir- ed the patience and tact of one, coup- led with the sympathy and ability of the other, to produce the happiest compromise out of apparently irre- concilable views. What the British Commonwealth of Nations owes to Mackenzie King has been indicated in the public utterances of the Prime Ministers of Great Britain—but the whale story has yet to be told. To the present Prime Minister this country owes the Machinery that has been set up for the enhancement of Canadian prestige abroad. Canada's activities in the international sphere, so much apprehended by those "Little Canada-ites" who are forever consum- ed by "craven fears of being great" have been hailed throughout the Brit- ish Commonwealth as a powerful link in the Imperial chain. In domestic affairs the influence of the youth who pondered deeply over his country's future, whose penetrat- ing mind encompassed all phases of Canada's development, is readily dis- tinguished. Legislation of a character hitherto never anticipated, bold and at times breath• taking, has been plac- ed on the Statute Books of the coun- try. It is legislation that, in every aspect, has hut one aim—the lighten- ing of the burden of our people, ex- pressive of the simple desire to ensure to Canadians that they may live in comfort and contentment, legislation, in short, for the peace, order and good government of the Dominion. It has made life easier for the farm- er, for the industrial ivorker, for the fisherman: it has provided for the con tentment of the aged; it has sought to deal justly and generously with those upon whom the ravages of the Great War continue to weigh heavily; it has restored to Canadians their pioneering spirit in the opening up of the Great North; it has unified Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific, weld- ing into one whole, picturesque in its diversity, the culture of two great Old World peoples. i The third decade of the Twentieth Century—that Century which, as Sir 'Wilfrid Laurier said, "belonged to Canada"—finds the stamp of William Lyon Mackenzie King on all things Canadian—a hall -mark of real worth and achievement. HON. CHARLES STEWART Minister of the interior. The present cabinet is unique in that three of its members at one time leaders of provincial governments. Mr. Dunning was premier of Saskat- chewan; Mr. Veniot occupied a like position in New Brunswick, while the Hon. Charles Stewart, Minister of the Interior, served the province of Al- berta in that role. In prairie politics his specialty was acclamations, for in the four general elections he ran be- tween 1009 and 1921—the period of his association with the Alberta legis- lature—ho had no fewer than three. With a wisdom that was entirely to their credit, the Conservatives of that progressive province appreciated that to oppose "Charlie" Stewart was sim- ply a waste of tine—and money. An index of how Mr Mackenzie King's ministry- is one of young men, Mr. Stewart is the second oldest in point of years, and he is only 62. His age is exceeded by that of Mr. Mother- well, the minister of agriculture, who, at 70, is still a youth, with all the comdiatative qualities that are the at- tributes of youth. Something of the properties of a Mussolini enter at times into the make up of Mr. Stewart, for he is Minister of the Interior, Superintendent Gen- eral of Indian Affairs, and Minister of Mines, At present he is also acting Minister of Immigration. One • more portfolio and he would be able to form a Privy Council quorum all by himself! Although Ontario -born, he is in es- sence the real Western farmer, with 'the same calm, philosophic outlook on life that the great open spaces develop in one. His early experience made hint a .philosopher, for few "breaks" came his way. It was the virtual annihrila- tion of the family homestead in Sim- coe county by a cyclone that turned his thoughts to the West twentysix years ago. At Ki•llam, Alberta, he made a neve start. But misfortune a- gain dogged him; a hailstorm wiped out all his season's work, leaving him almost penniless. That was bad en- ough, but, another blow was to befall him as soon as he had secured em- ployment in which he had hoped to recoup his fortune's by a winter's work, He had obtained a job ns• brick- layer and had been working only a few weeks K rhern a strike .was tallied, and once more the future premier of Alberta was On his beam ends. That, howetter, was the last big •,r JUNE , 27, i9 O. ;71' CONSULT OUR LOCAL MANAGER 1 HE local manager of the Bank t,of Montreal is familiar with local conditions and will be glad to dis- cuss in a helpful way the financial business of any customer. g, �r el° ,� ra • Every Branch has behind it the full resources of the entire organization; and all customers have the satisfaction of dealing with an institution which has a record of well over a century of continuous service and success. BANK OF MONTREAL 'Established -1817 TOTAL ASSETS IN EXCESS OF 0960,000,000 Clinton Branch• H. R. SHARP, Manager ilensall Branch: L. R. COLES, Manager Brucefield (Sub -Agency) : Open Tuesday and Friday. crash. Thenceforth, Mr. Stewart mov- ed ahead. Steadying things up by selling agricultural implements, he continued to work his farm; and, as the gods admire the man who can bear their buffets and smile through, his life began to prosper. His career in Alberta politics was one of worthy achievement and was a useful step- ping stone to the wider federal field. It was in the triumph of 1921 that he came to Ottawa and accepted the portfolio of the Interior, a post for which his prairie experiences aptly fitted him. His record in that depart- ment is one of lofty accomplishment; to the Western farmer, "Charlie" Stewart is a real friend "at court." He night adroit that he regards as his best achievement the legislation which returned the natural resources to the Prairie Provinces. An intricate and vexed prohlem, he negotiated it with eminent success and to the avow- ed satisfaction of all concerned. While always mindful of his responsioilities as a Dominion minister, he neverthe- less saw to it that the basis for this transfer was a fair and equitable one to all. It required the delicate tact of a diplomat to smooth over the rough places that revealed themselves in the course of the negotiations, But Mr. Stewart had tact, and what was, per- haps, of greater importance, he had a human sympathy founded upon an understanding of prairie problems which was begotten of personal con- tact with them. An able, sincere and thoroughly dependable minister, he is a diligent worker and a competent executive. HON. P. J. A. CARDIN Minister of Marine. Quiet, unobtrusive, rarely speaking, but always working the Hon. Pierre Joseph Arthur Cardin, Minister of Marine and Fisheries, is one of those French-Canadians who, by profound devotion to the sterling traditions of old Quebec, by the application of in- dustry and by his faithful interpre- tation of the two great races in Can- ada—the one to the other—has won for himself a place high in the esteem of the Canadian people. Cai•din''s voice is rarely heard in the House of Com- mons, not because he is not an eloqu- ent speaker, but because he, is much more of a worker. 'It is a tribute to him that, entering the Council House ,•of the nation, with ability to speak only a few words in the English language, and certainly unable to de- i liver an address in that tongue, he •can now express himself fluently and incisively in English. It was not long before he appreciated that in the House of Commons the grace . and beauty of French were understood by only a limited few; and that if his in- fluence was to expand he must equip himself with the power to address the majority of the Commoners in Eng. lisle This he did. The task and the success which he attained illustrate the great characteristics of the Que- becker. , There is a well-known jingle of "A wise old owl, that sat on an oak; The more he heard, the less he spoke; The less he spoke, the more he heard; All men should copy that wise old bird. The moral would appear to be that sagacity and silence are inseparable elements. Assuming that to be the case—and there is a great deal to be said for it—the value of P. J. A. Card - i in has one yardstick only, and that is the yardstick of work. His Depart- ment is one of the most efficient in the Government. He controls all legisla- tion dealing with marine matters— and these are extensive and mystify- ing; it is 'he who for years has di- rected the fisheries of the country; he is the controller of radio activi- ties. One might well believe that an individual whose duty is to adminis- ter the thousand and one things as- sociated with these features—from ascertaining the state of the weather in Hudson Straits to determining the size of the net -meshes for use among the fishermen of Lake Winnipeg— would have little time for words, that his motto must of necessity be "facta non verba." A graduate in law of Laval Uni- versity, Mr. Cardin was first elected to the House of Commons in 1911; but being unseated through a technicality, was restored in 1912. For eighteen years he has represented Richelieu, and for six of that eighteen years he has been Minister of Marine and Fisheries. A valued deputy and a far- seeing political figure, his place in the Cabinet of the country has been won by that merit which the worker en- joys over the less diligent. (Continued next week.) With rive our Mind as well as your hands If you will keep your mind on your driving, you will always be alert to meet and anticipate danger. Be ready always for fault or error on the part of other drivers. You cannot do this unless you have both hands on the wheel, both eyes on the road, and your mind on your driving. Be CAREFUL. Keep a margin of safety between yourself and danger. Be COURTEOUS ... give the other driver more than his rights. Use your COMMON SENSE in deciding where, how, and at what speed you ' will drive your car. The Keystone of Safety on the King's Highway and all other roads and streets ° Ataardeinwerernitutmeeeessessessel The , HON. GEO. S. HENRY, Chairman r' 1184