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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1931-08-07, Page 2r: rfq Sf jA IP OW. ri ;YoUIR WESTERAI saki,, in the Lake of the Woods trict, is one of the most charm• blgbeautY and the Prairies. Surrounded by cool . forests, and clear lakes, it offers tie finest of outdoor sports and recreations, coupled with the luxurious comforts of a modern metropolitan hotel. Stop off at Minaki on your way West—or stay for the whole Sum- mer. Great fishing—sporty golf— tennis—swimming—motor boat- ing—picnic cruises—and a very enjoyable social life in and about the Bungalow Lodge. Full information from the nearest Agent of Canadian National Railways. s4. 4 ,s',•«asf�s� Ak I. ,R % ® 111__ A Vie: Willing to shake a geld pan'. Ilan gold s'ar p� . car is ueaally f and iu the beds of, tan Tri mos; of: the. western states, The big mining syndicates are not interested in this kind of goad unless it is fopnd in what they consider commercialAmu-titles, A location where..a single miner work- ing with a gold pan would be able to. pan out good wages for an indefinite period wouldn't be of the slightest interest to the big dredging outfits, who would have to have millions of tons of such gold -bearing sands to be aura of paying for their costly ma- chinery, and paying dividends to their stockholders over a period of years. The prospector who goes along such streams examining the sands will us- ually have his attention attracted to what he thinks is gold by seeing it sparkle. The yellow sparkle may be gold, or it may be mica, iron or cop- per pyrites, or numerous other sub- stances having much the appearance of gold. Having found what looks like gold in a stream, the prospector usually makes what is known as "the toothpick test." With the point of a toothpick• he reaches under the water and endeavors to pick up one of the yellow flakes. If it is mica or iron it will float right away. If it is gold it will come right up on the toothpick or work down into the sand. Another 7 test by which dust may be instantly distinguished from iron is to use a magnet. Iron will stick to the mag- net. Gold will not The next test for the metal thought to be gold is malleability; bite it, and if it is gold it is exactly like biting lead. It can almost be chewed like chewing gum without going to pieces, Mica, py- rites, or other substances are gritty when bitten. Under the microscope the tiniest flake of gold will look ex- actly like a nugget. The final test, however, is reaction to acids and mer- cury. Gold is immune from the cor- rosion of nitric and sulphuric acids. Gold will not float in mercury. Any- thing else will. Having located gold -bearing sand, the isolation of it in the gold pan is a fairly simple process. The amount of gold in the sand and the willing- ness of the gold panner to work de- termine the financial returns. A quart or more of sand is placed in the pan and covered with water. The pan is then rocked gently to and fro. The particles of gold are heavier than anything else in the pan, and will gradually work down out of sight in the sand. When all the yellow par- ticles have disappeared the water and sand on top are carefully brushed out of the pan with the hand. More wa- ter is added and the panning process is continued. When all the sand is eliminated, there will be a strecek of color in the bottom of the pan. When the fp ld dust is dried it goes to the treasure bottle, and is wor4h $20.67 per' ounce. It may take half an hour or more to work the gold out of a single pan of geld -:bearing sand, but if the pan- ning yields only a' small pinch of pay dust, the effort is well worth while. With gold worth $20.67 an ounce, it takes only one -eightieth of an ounce to be 25 cents worth, and one -eighti- eth of an ounce of gold dust wouldn't begin to fill the eraser pocket of an ordinary lead pencil. By rroving about a bit and finding the highest grade of gold -bearing sand the returns are good. A lot of gold 'panners in California streams are earning as high as $8 and $9 for a single eights -hour day—and they're out in the sunshine and living a life that *zany would regard as a vacation. Moreover, nuggets of gold are by no means a thing of the past in the gold - bearing streams. Nuggets have been found worth all the way from 10 cents to hundreds of dollars, and it may be any gold panner's fortune to shake out a nugget. In Central California near where the original gold strike was made in 1849, a lot of jobless geld panners are working the moss in the bottom of. streams, and are making the equival- ent of good wages. Someone discov- ered that the moss had virtually con- verted the streams into placer sluice boxes. In various other parts of the west where gold -bearing sands occur in running water amateur prospectors have set up home-made sluices, hop- pers and small scale placer operations. Quite a lot of amateur placer mining is being profitably done by men who have been able to procure some lengths of old pipe. Mountain strea lengths of old pipe. Mountain streams are usually short and swift, and by placing a pipe in the stream at a higher level they develop a head of water for placering gold -bearing sands into their sluice boxes. Others have rigged up old automobile engines and centrifugal pumps with which they are operating what are virtual- ly expensive, small-scale, gold -dredg- ing operations. Several years ago the Saint Fran- cis Dam, in San Francisquito Canyon, a part of the 286 -mile Los Angeles aqueduct system, collapsed. A flood Of water tore through the Santa Clara Valley to the sea, scattering death and destruction before it, It was one of the major tragedies of the past de- cade, but a tragedy that has since been a blessing to many jobless men. Many of these men were destitute, Now they h yhavesource a of income that will last as long as they need it, or until such times as returning pros- perity gives them work with wages. There are literally thousands of other locations where men who are willing to work can earn from 50 25 tocents an hour for every hour spent shaking the gold pan. As a result, much of the western states, and particularly California, Arizona, Utah, Oplorado, and Nevada, are experiencing some- thing of a gold rush. SUNDAY AFTERNOON 1prison, and not make some inquiry as and women whom he had haled to (Ey Isabel Hamilton, Goderich, Ont.) Ito the faith which had accomplished so much in them. And then the great Christ is made the sure foundation, teacher at whose feet he sat had Christ the head and corner sone, spoken about this new religion in a Chosen of the Lord, and precious, manner that seemed to imply that he Binding all the Church in one, had in his own mind a half -conviction • Holy Zion's help for ever, of its truth. These things formed the And her confidence alone. goads which stung Paul against which From the Latin. he struggled. PRAYER "And he trembling and astonished said, 'Lord what wilt Thou have vie 0, Thou who dost prepare and come to do?" Action is the necessary re- mission Thy workers in the mission suet of Divine illumination. Being fields of the church, give we pray Thee given directions he immediately arose an ever-present certainty of Thy near- and followed. We sometimes assume Hess to uphold and strengthen them. that there was no resistance of the In Jesus Name we pray. Amen. old man in him and that there could S. S. LESSON FOR AUGUST 9, 1931have been none—so mighty were the Lesson Topic—Saul Converted and spiritual forces brought/to' bear, to Commissioned. cast down the strongholds of sin and .Lesson Passage—Acts 9:1-9, 17-10, satan in him. But every -thing indi- 1 Timothy 1:12-14. cates the contrary. We are not per - Golden Text—Acts 26:19. mated to see what passed within him Christ's soldiers are His captured during those three mysterious days enemies. Perhaps the most notable when, having been brought to Dam - instance of this in history is the con- ascus, trembling and astonished, he version of Saul. Jesus Christ never saw no man, and did neither eat nor encountered a bitterer or any abler drink. But of one thing we may be foe; Jesus Christ never won a might- sure—that they were days of a ier captain for His army. ;nighty internal conflict. The important fact that such a man "Timothy 1:12-14. suddenly abandoned the Pharasaic - Paul in writing to his young friend theology and became the church's Timothy refers to a humiliating and foremost preacher amply justifies the painful past in his life. But his bad detail with which the story of his record—blasphemer, persecutor and conversion is related. The immediate injurious was relieved by the fact, "I occasion of Saul's change of life was obtained mercy." And it was all of quite as exceptional as the change grace for he realized how utterly un - itself was eventful. Christ directly able he was to'1 change his own sinful called this misguided persecutor to self. He summed it all up in, the fol - Himself; Ile called him personally. lowing verse: The general nature of the change "This is a faithful saying, and which passed over Saul (1 Tim: 1:12- worthy of all acceptation, that Christ 14) is, I think, to be pretty well made Jesus came into the world to save out from what we know of the man sinners; of whom I am chief." before and after. Had the Christians then in Jerusalem been asked to name the man who was least likely to be- come a convert to the faith, they might possibly have specified Saul of Abed's Gift. /Tarsus. You see how thoroughly he Dr. Gushue-Taylor had been telling is changed. Nothing is more remark- the brethren at the Purulia Leper Col - /able in the whole narrative than the ony about his tour and his scheme tenderness of the remonstrance which for a leper home in Formosa, and they bur Lord addressed to the persecutor. had generously responded with a col- -,He came in love, He spoke in gentle- lectiond of joist Rs30i-. A little while / ness, and ,Fie heart which might have after the service the Inspector -Gen - been hardened by condemnation was feral of Civil. Hospitals was due to melted by mercy. visit the home—a visit fixed at a Jesus said to Saul, "It is hard for time over which we had no control. ttliee to kis against the pricks" The I had been down to the hospital wards :Divine crit had been at work within and was hurrying back to the main shim efore that daythe road to on entrance to be ready for the Inspec- Tamascus. There had been influences tor -General's arrival. Abed, one of 'and arguments at work on St. Paul's our elders, called to me as I passed anind, and these had been the goads by, "I can't stopepow, brother," I said against which he had rebelled. It still walking on, and looking over my was impossible that he with his edu- shoulder as I spoke, I saw he looked cation, experience and candid nature disappointed, and so I turned round. should have witnessed the pure, lov- "You see, the Inspector -General Sah- ing, self-sacrificing lives of the mean ib will be here in a minute, but what is it?" He held out, balanced on his mere stump of a hand four silver four-anna pieces—a rupee in all. Just add that to the collection for the Doc- tor Sahib's work, -will you, please?" he said quietly. Now this is a man who, I should say, with pretty definite certainty, will be found to be worth not more than about three rupees when he dies.Yet he wase r ad to yr give a third ofthat at total as an addi- tional gift to the collection in the church for Jar. 'Gushue-Taylor's work in Formosa: And I almost hadn't time to reed -ire his offering!—A. Donald Miller. WORLD MISSIONS a� Jr rs. T-11 ,r r 11 .1\ time shall II ;1 meet u7 A day's work finished. But they are stillfresh and bright. bteyeteill tell you that the way pro 1fe Eels la to keep your 4 rettrgiilied,, 'rho ore, cool it c i2 df ; tilltldl.0"S itefresiteti :, iliiutle, a it tri.• .746 ."elseu'tia�:. ' �.1 GOOD WAGES IN A NEW GOLD RUSH There's a new gold rush on—one in which the amateur can participate as well as the seasoned prospector. The assurance of panning out a fair day's wages is good, and there is the ever-present possibility of strildng a nugget: worth anywliexe; item $50 to $5,000 its iralee, ilundrede sof men, t'hro'wn Out of work by lharness de- pression, ate to -days panning gold in the t'houeands of, places where it is i fro i exist 4t1 great/ lttdaiatitles. ey; re :'inelrving fart 'Wages in a liCalt tel tiattdotxk oreupation, and tli 're. a. re t a:.job as' 1o4'ig„ as they 1 e1. ifs 4 Cachos.. Says Dr. anis,IPk Pills (tonic) d1I:•the trick. "During the war," writes Albert E. Fletcher, now of R. R. No. 1, Burford, Ontario, "I was in the navy doing heavy duty and sleeping in a hammock. Sometimes my back troubled me very much. , A good friend of mine advised me to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills which I did.... I became completely well, and I have not had a pain or ache since" '+ Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain iron and other elements which increase tie amount of haemoglobin, or ,,oxygen - carrying oxygen - carrying agent in the blood. That is the secret of the benefits which result from this famous remedy. If you suffer from indigestion, anae- mia, nervousness, backache or rheuma- tism, get a supply of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. 50 cents a package at any drug- gist's. Be sure to say "Dr. Williams"", 133 "Nota Pain or. Ache Since." ies of minerals incapable of profitable development. • 1 However, conditions have changed since 1929. We have since had idle factories, business depression and jobless men. Gold still remains the monetary standard. Mines operating with low grade ore have recently found it possible to resume operations and during the past few months there has been a definite revival in miner- al prospecting, for there is little dan- ger of over -production of gold. Any man who is not physically incapacit- ated and who is willing to work can make a living prospecting if lie can get the financial backing for a grub- stake and outfit. The prospector or gold panner who goes out on his own needs so little capital. A camping •outfit, a few simple tools, and groc- eries sufficient for the length of time one expects to spend in the mineral- ized regions, are about all one needs. Travelling for serious prospecting is best accomplished with burros, and a pair can be picked up almost any- where in the west .for five or ten dollars. They can go two or three days without water, and can usually find enough to eat where a horse or a camel would starve to death. keRESERVED FOR,10,000 YEARS TO COME Following the great Japanese earth- quake of 1923, there was a popular demand that the names of those who lost their lives should be listed and saved for all time in some imperish- able form. Newspapers in recent years gave renewed expression to this desire and fixed 10,000 years as the time through which such a memprial should be capable of preservation. Ten thousand years! The chal- lenge of that demand impressed itself deeply upon the imagination of a citizen of Tokyo, Mr. M. Yamaki, an engineer of the Tokyo Electric Com- pany, and he began to discuss the possibility with other people Opin- ion was general that it could not be done. It was pointed out that in the Iong history of Japan the Jimmii Era dating from the accession of Em- peror Jimmu was only about a quar- ter as long and that, practically speak- ing 10,000; years is another expression of eternity. But the mayor of Tokyo at the time of the catastrophe, Mr. II. Nagata, was an ardent promoter of the plan and lent his enthusiastic support. In due course it fell to the Tokyo Elec- tric Company to undertake the pro- ject and to Mr. Yamaki was assigned the task of producing such a preser- vative container as would keep the record intact against the ravages of time. He was advised that for per- manence a certain quality of dark blue Japanese paper with the inscriptions in gold paint, such as used in ancient Buddhist pictures, would be best. But neither of these materials is available now, equal in quality to the old, and Mr, Masaki, President of the Tokyo Art School, recommended white Jap- We have always thought that the anese paper with the names written in picture of a high class trotter or Chinese ink. This recommendation pacer at full speed is a more thrill - was adopted and the paper was spec- ing spectacle than a similar picture Tally made of the vary best quality by of a thoroughbred. A /visit to Thorn - the Government Printing Burea.0 A cliffe track, where the Grand Circuit total of 548 shpets, measuring 10.5 meeting is being held, confirms this inches in width and 27 inches long earlier impression. There is absent (were required and their total weight from the trotter coming down the was 22 pounds. Upon these the names stretch that impress -ion of fury or of the victims of the earthquake were desperation which one notes in a hard carefully inscribed. Other sheets pressed thoroughbred, but there is bore an explanatory statement by Mr. communicated to the observer the idea Nagata, mayor of Tokyo, a chapter of controlled and disciplined action. from Buddhist scriptures copied by It is the controlled movement of a Mr. Masaki, of the Art School, and dance by Pavlowa, and in comparison the names of those who were associ- the movement of the thoroughbred is ated in producing the memorial. the frenzied prancing of a dervish. In The problem of protection was two- the past we have heard the complaint fold: First to prevent deterioration that the scoring for the start spoils of the scrolls, and, second, to safe- the day for the average spectator. guard them from mechanical injury. He saw a dozen false starts before The Society of Resources studied the the flag fell. This objection hag been /subject an7 recommended, as a gen- removed by modern improvements, eral plan, that the list be put in a and trotting races do not suffer by glass bottle, the air exhausted and comparison in this respect with thor- Mtro em gas introduced, after which oughbred d satin . the bottle would be hermetically seal- We can remember when the trot - ed and covered by a lead sheath with ting record was held by Maude S a view to burying it in the ground. and 'stood at 2.08%. Maud S. was This general plan was, -adopted, with a contemporary of John L. Sullivan, a few changes.' and her name was perhaps as widely Mr. Yamaki substituted for glass a known and honored. The Pecord has container made of fused quartz ore's- been reduced more than ten seconds Why is it that prospecting, and tal which, although far more difficult since her day, about' half the im- practically every phase of mining for to make, had the advantage of less prorvement being due to the bicycle precious metal, has been at a low fragility and the ability to withstand sulky and better tracks and training ebb for more than a decade? Gold, sudden and extreme changes, of tem- methods, and the other half un - being the monetary standard of the perature, The choicest of Brazilian doubtedly because of improved breed - nation, retains a fixed value. During crystals were chosen and melted in ing. Compared with the thorough the World war, and for some years an electric furnace into the form of bred, the Iigh't harness horse is an after the yar, Atneriea was prosper- thin crystal -rods like pencils. PIae- upstart. We doubt if it has been ons, Jobs were plentiful and wages ed side by side, these rods were fused scientifically trained and bred for a were high. The value of gold remain- together one by one it an oxy-hydro- century. Its gait is artificial. Or ed the same, price while the price of gen flame and a bottle was thus con- at least it was artificial.. Now it is Iabor, machinery, transportation and strueted 5 inihes',in diameter and 12 as, natural for a trotter to trot as everything entering into the cost of inches long t the top, the bottle for' a thoroughbred to canter. One bringing gold our' of the ground rose was drawn Ingo a necle so that the can enter a field of yearling trot - to unprecedelited' levels. Only the heat of the eFfchl sealing process would tern, and if they are alarmed they richest gold iitiztes could be bperated' be far eiougb 'from the contents ' to vv;ill take ffight at the trot and not at 'et .profit. • Mbst, mines shut down, prevent injury:. Owing t the dif- in a helter-skelter gallop. It is a able there watt little ar no incentive Seulty of making one eckfitainer of sight to delight the heart of a for prospectors' to seek 116Wdisco ver iitfflteient s`i a Arid - strength 'td Carry/ breeder, and we have no doubt that all the scrolls, four crystal battles before another hundred years iii ,s, were produced. Reseed nobody will ewer 'see, a ,ratter The method, .of xnseeting the ebnetIls under pressure suddenly begin, , toe. was to roll them as tightly as Horrible' gallop. and push them in through the two-, It seems curious to us, in view of inlet; opening of the neak, Once reside the fact that the trot and pace are the.. unrolling tendency made thane op' . to, a certain "extent artificial gaits, en up to the inside diameter of the thattrainers leave been able to get bottle, leaving space at the center for their ''heves in such condition that additional rolls. The inner surface of they willtrot four or five mile heats the bottle made in thisway lacked in a siugie race and on a single after - uniformity' of diameter and it was noon. Who would think of asking a desirable that the scrolls in their re- modern, thoroughbred to be in such leased position should be uniformly condition? Yet the footing for the cylindrical in order to get in the max- thoroughbred is softer, for it has imum number of sheets. Provision about three inches of loam, called was made for this by placing in the a cushion, to break the jar of its bottle elifee circular bands of thin flying hooves, while the trotter and menet metal at top, bottom and center pacer are driven on the hardt•founda- against wlacli; the scrolls unrolled tion of the track. We think the great themselves to a uniform size. Monel success that hasattended some thor metal, an alloy of nickel, copper, and oughbred trainers who formerly han- iron, was chosen in part because of dled trotters is partly due to what its resistance to corrosion. Both the they Yearned about conditioning their top and bottom bands were covered horses so as to be able to start two with braided asbestos as a cushion or three times in a week and perhaps against the bottle, and the middle trot a dozen miles at top speed. Marc- hand was decorated with a black and over, a thoroughbred on this contin- white silk braid in token of mourn- ent is practically through with hav- ing. Both the silk and the braid were dicap racing when he is four years very carefully' made by the Kuno old. The trotter and pacer last twice Shoten in Ginza, using silk sterilized .as long, and indeed are not expected and dyed by Mr. Sampei, engineer, of to be at their best until they are five - the Silk Examination Station. year-olds. After each bottle had been filled, a Another feature which marks a crystal cover was fusedi over the top sharp difference between the two of the neck, the space immediately kinds of racing is that the light har- below being first filled with asbestos. pees horses are driven by horsemen. It was then exhausted of air and filled Their mounts are not chosen because with argon gas, the temperature of they are dwarfs, but because they the bottle being kept at 80 degrees have had long practise and have de - Centigrade by immersion in hot wa- veloped unusual skill ih the handling ter. When this process was con- of horses, It does not matter to a pleted, the gas pressure inside the trotter the weight of his driver. It bottle was approximately equal to at- does matter o a thoroughbred. If mospheric pressure. the :est jockey in the wbrld happened The next process was to cover the to weigh 140 pounds he never would bottle by braiding over its entire sur- get a mount. Therefore the skill face strips of asbestos over which in that one sees on the trotting tracks turn was a wrapping of asbestos tape. must be a. considerably higher grade For external protection, the bottle was of skill than one sees in the riding sealed into a lead container, and this of thoroughbreds. Successful drivers again was put into a fireproof cylin- of trotting horses are as a,rule mid - der of Carborundum made especially dle-aged. Some of them are elderly. for the purpose by the' Nippon High The years have given them increased Grade Furnace Material Manufactory. understanding of their art and the Because of the extreme hardness of rules of the game permit them to ex- Carborundum, it was difficult to give ercise it. The average thoroughbred the outside jacket a polished surface; rider is probably young enough to be nevertheless this was undertaken for the son of the Grand Circuit reins - the sake of appearance and the many man. points of the crystalline structure We think the spectators at a light were made to shine like mirrors. harness meeting have a much better The repository chosen for the . idea of what is going on than the cords towards which the preserva- average race track attendant. The tion of so much skill, ingenuity, and latter knows nothing about pedigrees labor were expended, is an ancient or breeding, or the conformation of Buddhist temple at the summit of a horse. Nothing is more improbable Mount koya. At this temple, which than that he ever was on the back of has a history of a thousand years, a thoroughbred. But the people down the navies of the earthquake victims at Thorncliffe, most of them presun- are to remain in a specially construct- ably visitors to Toronto, knew plenty ed hall. The locality is 400 miles about blood lines, the action of the distant from Tokyo, and transporta- horse, and the skill of the drivers. tion for a considerable distance is by Thousands of then at one time or primitive methods. To meet all em- another had driven trotting and pac- ergencies of rough handling each con- ing horses, carrying the same blood tainer was supported by steel springs of some of the animals they saw within a wooden packing case stuffed racing. They thus had a kind of also with excelsior. personal interest in the contests that It would seem that human ingenuity one can never derive from form could scarce go further toward in- charts. It is true that the automo- suring the preservation of documents bile, has almost destroyed the light for 10,000 years plus or minus, Con- harness horse industry, but the auto- sidering the single item of silk for the mobile, so far as the average man is mourning bands, Mr. Yamaki reflects concerned, is only about 25 years old. that there are silk wares to -day in Middle-aged people admired and drove Shosoin, at Nara, that were made 1,- horses before they owned motor ears, 200 years ago in the Temple Era and and the light -harness horses entered which have retained their original into the lives of millions of Ameri- forms in spite of all unfavorable con- cans and Canadians to an extent that ditions. He thinks that eight times the thoroughbred never approached, their life may be reasonably expect- and which the automobile has not yet ed of the silken mourning bands equalled. which with the other contents have been so sedulously protected. "In my opinion, however," he says, "the possi- bility of 10,000 years' preservation de- pends less on the technical features described than on the behavior' of future peoples." And he points to the avidity with which archeologists have delved into the intimate person- al surroundings of £he Pharaohs of 3,000 years ago. Perhaps the pathetic victims of Ja- pan's catastrophe will rest as quietly whether their record egmes to light a thousand years hence or four thousand or ten thousand, for humanity in- stinctively associates its future exist- ence with Him to whom the psalmist wrote "A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday, when it is past, and as a watch in, the night." THRILLS OF TROTTERS AND THOROUGHBREDS HOW MEDICAL FRATERNITY VIEWS DR. KOCH'S CLAIMS OPENS FRIDAY, AUGUST 23 Keen enjoyment and inspi- ration follow avisit to the largest annual exposition. Take a day or two—or the :entire fourteen days—seeing things new and strange from other lands, listen- ing to music of famous bands, or the Exhibition 2000 -Voice Chorus; watching some sport spectacle of international re- nown; or the Grandstand Pageant unfolded on the world's largest outdoor stage. The Canadian National Exhibi- tion is different, bigger, more wonderful, more diversified Chart any other exposition. Send now for illustrated literature describ- ing -'in detail the forthcoming Canadian National Exhibition.. Mail reservations now for "ORIENTIA," glamorous spectacle of the Eastern World—nightly grand- stand pageant; also for the 4 concerts by internationally famous EXHIBITION 2000-VOIiCE CHORUS in the Coliseum. GRANDSTAND, PAGEANT "ORIENTIA"—Reiervedseats $1.00, Box seats $1..50 each (.5 or 6 chairs ire each box). EXHIBITION 2000 -VOICE CHORUS Sat., Aug. 29; Thurs., Sept. 3; Tires., Sept. 8 and Sat., Sept_ 12. Ground floor ,reserved, 75c. Box chairs $1.00. AUC.28.to S PT. .I93i, WORLDS GREUTE$T PERMANENT EXPOSITION 53R2CONIS CUITIVEYEAM eL000.000 INVESTED as ILDINGS, PARK, EQUIPMENT SAM HARRIS H. W. WATERS/ Through the kindness of Dr. Roy President General Manager A. Bond, we have received the infor- motion collected by the American Medical Association upon Dr. Wil- while 21 were dead. Three others p a liam F. Koch, of Detroit, who claims treated both by Koch and by opera - to have discovered a cure for cancer. tion showed improvement. The con - Dr. Koch was born in 1885 and is e. dition of 18 was stationary or unim- graduate of the Detroit College of proved, and of 11 cases no results Medicine and Surgery. Less than a were at hand. The conclusion was year after his graduation he announe- that the thing was "entirely experi- ed that he had "developed a real spec- mental and improperly supervised:'' ific cure for cancer," and since then In October, 1923, Dr. Koch wrote to has specialized in the treatment of the president of the Wayne County N this disease and others, which, he be- Medical Society for another investi- lieves, to be akin td it and responsive gation, and the cancer committee was to the same serum. We are inform- summoned to consider the matter. ed that he is a millionaire, and we It decided to see some of Koch's pa- " mention this because at the moment bents and decide whether it was doctors who are millionaires are not worth while going further into the particularly in public favor. His us- treatment, and the members went do nal fee for a treatment is $300. If the doctor's office to see nine cases more than one injection is required which were represented as having the su'bseq`uent price is $'200. Since been cured by the Koch serum. Af- Dr. Koch is busy it can be understood' ter a thorough examination the corn - how in a few years he became a very .mittee t reported that: "Out of the wealthy man, though without political hundreds of cases Koch has probably influence or Beauharnois affiliations. treated these were represented to us He sells his serum at $110 a dose to as his best results. In no instance doctors who belong to the Koch Can- have we found a case where the ding. car Foundation, and this is another nosis of cancer was absolutelee estab- profitable source of revenue. lished, and where no other form of In the Detroit Medical Journal for treatment has been used in which a July, 1919, Dr. Koch set forth his cure or any decided benefit had ever claims but did not then or at any been obtained.' This may be ac= other time confide to the profession cepted as the judgment of orthodlox, the nature of the substance he uses. medieine to -day. We have previously This is universally considered un- quoted the opinion of Hon. Dr. ethical, and we believe that doctors Forbes Godfrey that there is merit take what virtually amounts to an in the Koch treatment and that her t, oath that any discoveries they make has proved it, and we do not sug- gest be placed at the service of man,- gest that the verdict on the matter kind. That Koch should have com- should be, recorded by a show of Q' mexcialized his discovery does not hands. The few may be right anti prove that he is not a genius; it the multitude wrong. merely suggests that he is not a There is to be borne in mind the , �i gentleman. In any event, his claims natural hostility of the medical pro-- ,�� attracted the attention of the medi- fession to a member who violates its- cal fraternity of Detroit which ap- code of ethics. There is the inevit- able distrustofa doctor who a committee to investigate. • Twelve .beds -in a local hospital were to tell other doctors how he secures• f` placed at his disposal by the Board his results. On the other handl e of Health, with the necessary special there' was the natural desire of Dr. nurses and all equipment at no cost Koch to make a fortune out of his -e „ whatever bo Dr. Koch. The patients discotnery. He may have his owl i '' were chosen by the committee. Of Particular grievance against his con- the nine patients, fere were un- treses in Wayne County. No doubtdoubtedly suffering from cancer. Dr, has said, in answer has' a, defence of some kind. fl Koch protested that the committee wer to the charge seemed hostile to him and said that that his fees are outrageously high,. he should have certain represents- tbat only 30 per cent. of his patients tires on it. pay anything. Further to prejudice+ The committee thereupon offered to him in the eyes of the orthodoyt is appoint anybody he might name. $e the fact that the praetitiehers who did not name anybody. Filially Dr. are associated with hien in his bos- Koch gave the patients his treat- Pital are regarded as outsiders who rent. He returned in three days but the eeolt did not go near them again and after againsthavein recognizedpast metbhonds ofinrevtreat some tini:e the patients got disgusted meat and medieal ethics. In short, ;y and went home. But reports con- Dr. w, !blly/ tinned to reach Detroit of remark- momentKoch heis findsan hisoutlapositiutifonat aun- able cures and another committee comfortable he has only to tell the las appointed, to investigate. 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