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Wise Ruling
School means football. And foot-
ball, unfortunately, always seems to
bring with It a tragic little list of in-
juries. It is a hard, bruising game,
and every yea: we read .about a dozen
or more boys going to the hospital
for their paltiaii)ation in it,
Luckily, ther era ecertain things
which can ,be done to reduce risks
—and a good many of them can be
done on the high school fields. School
officials of one large city, for instance,
recently agreed that, in their high
school, games hereafter, referees will
compel all players to wear their head -
guards.
To snatch off one's headguard and
hurl it toward the sidelines is a fine,'
romantic gesture—but it can be a
costly one, especially for the player
who Isn't as well schooled in the busi-
ness of avoiding injury as are older
players.
If high schools everywhere would
adopt . this ono simple rule, it is prob-
able that at least a few names could
be kept•off the casualty lists.—Guelph
Mercury. .
Means Much to Canada
Utilization of Canadian iron ore in
the Car.adiau iron and steel industry
was one of the interesting topics at
the meeting addressed by Hon. Earl
Rowe., Ontario Conservative leader,
and Mr. Rowe promised to interest
himself in endeavoring to secure an
increase in the bounty in order to de-
velop iron mining in Canada.
This is a subject in which Algoma
Is very much interested, for in this
district there are billions of tons of
iron ore waiting to be mined. The
Helen Mine with its 100,000,000 tons
of ore proved up is only one of many
deposits in this district and in other
parts of Northern Ontario.
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ber of deaths from the insidious, car-
bon monoxide gas, It attacks its vie.
tims with its invisible ,almost odor-
less fumes and suffocates them. To
render such a sly form of danger in-
nocuous would be a boon to the mo.
tering world.
' Fuel is Needed
Mothers who are puzzled to know.
how to make up lunches for their
children to take to school will be
interested in some instructions along
this line issued by the Health Lea-
gue of Canada. They are reminded
that the materials that make child-
ren grow and keep up their resist-
ance against disease come chiefly
from fresh mill. butter, eggs, meat
and fish, vegetables and fresh fruit
Cereals that are lightly milled also
help. Bread. potatoes and sugar are
not as useful for• growth. but they
are great sources of energy. They
are fuel for the body.
The contents of a child's lunch -
box. we are told, should depend upon
what has been eaten for breakfast
and what will be eaten for supper.
If the breakfast is hurried and small,
with no fruit and perhaps highly mil-
led cereals and tea or coffee instead
of cocoa and .milk. the other meals
must provide the "fuel" growth and
protective foods. Milk and fresh
fruits should be the chief ingredi-
ents.
The secret of all dieting is in vari-
ety, and this particularly essential
in the feeding of children. Back-
wardness at school is often due to
malnutrition — lack of the slight
kind of "fuel" to keep. the child mind
bright and intelligent. — Stratford
Beacon -Herald.
Should this industry be set in mo-
tion it would mean work for- thou-
sands of Canadians, a new market
for the produce of the farmer and
the output of our manufacturiug
plants, new business for Canadian
railways. It would mean the reten-
tion in this country of large sums of
money now sent elsewhere.
The mining of iron presents a big
opportunity for industrial develop-
ment and any movement from any
source to assist in setting it on its
feat will be sure of support in this
part of the country.—Sault Daily Star.
Wireless on Lalse Bonts
Possibly this tragedy (the loss of
the Sand Merchant) will open up again
the question of wireless equipment on
lake boats as a safety safeguard. If
it is too costly, as will be readily ad-
mitted, for many lake boats to have a
wireless operator, surely in these days
of radio advances some sort of sub-
stitute for emergency purposes could
be provided.—ICingston Whig -Stand-
ard.
A Big Revenue Producer
The entertainment of delegates to
conventions in the larger cities of
Canada has become one of the biggest
revenue producers in the country. ac-
cording to C. K. Howard, manager of
the tourist and convention bureau of
the Canadian National Railways. He
cites the record of 6S9 conventions,
in nine of Canada's principal citios
during the last year, where the reve-
nue wrs estimated a+ $21,000,000.—
'Sarnia Canadian -Observer.
Celebrate l4avy. Day
A. section cf the First Battalion, Fleet Marine Vere°, €;oing into action with a field piece at the Washing-
ton, D.C., Navy .Yard during demonstration which was one of the features of Navy Day.
would be that the wife was the chief
author of such success as had been
attained. She had learned how to
make the best of what was. perhaps
most .,unpromising material—and the
husband may never have discovered
the fact. — New Outlook.
THE EMPIRE
Newpapers Kept Going
It is no secret among newspaper-
men that the depression has bit the
newspapers hard. Services were
maintained at the salve standard
while revenues were falling and, too'
often reserves built up during pres-
perous years had to be seriously de-
pleted to meet expenditures. Prob-
ably in no other business ware wages
interfered with as little. In many
instances, too. it has been invest-
ments outside the newspaper busi-
ness which have helped to keep
newspapers going.
There is today among newspaper-
men. however, as there is among
other business men, a feeling of op-
timism. Canada is once again on the
upgrade, and during the next twelve
months there undoubtedly will be a
decided improvement in business.
This will be reflected in many direct-
ions, and the.hope'will be that it will
result in a decided increase in em-
ployment. — Kingston Whig Stand-
ard.
Monoxide Poisoning
If the invention which two local
men are nreparing to put on the in -
ket is as successful as they hope, a
minor revolution in automotive sci-
enee will be accomplished. The in-
vention is a device to eliminate the
deadly carbon monoxide from car ex-
haust fumes, by so changing the che•
mical content of the exhaust that its
chief constituents is harmless carbon
dioxide.
Every Winter, when closed garages
Are extensively used, there are a num-
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What Use Is Gold?
The Bank of England has bought'.
£40,000,000 of gold this year, and
there it lies, filling a hole in the
vaults. Gold has some use in filling
holes in teeth. Otherwise it is useful
for us in the Empire to dig it out
of the earth and sell it to foreigners
who are foolish enough to pay for it.
But it is useless for us to dig it out
of one hole, sell it to ourselves. and
then bury it in another hole: TO" re-
fuse to sell it is a piece of stupidity.
Gold brought us near disaster in
1931. It will hurt us- again if the
gold policy is persisted in. — Lon-
don Daily Express.
New Names Appear
Once upon a time great golfers
bore distinctively Scottish names
and outstanding boxers were of Irish
extraction. Now that is changed
Strange foeign names appear when
golf champions meet, and in the
squared circle are fellows named Ce-
ferino Garcia, Izzy Jannazzo and Fil-
lo Echeverrie. — Toronto Globe,
Britain have reached great speeds
for short distances.
When it comes to long pulls it ars
pears that no other people can watch
the telegraph poles go by so fast as
Americans can.
Streamlined cars and lodomotives,
electyie engines and diesel motors
have enabled railroads to cut their
running time both in the United
States and abroad.
acme Excuses A
Jaywalker Makes
A jaywalker recently defended his
preference for .crossing the street
in the middle of the block. He ar-
gued that it was safer, comments
the Chicago Daily News. It may be
doubted if his contention would find
any support from statistics. Never-
theless, because of inconsiderate and
unmannerly practices on the part of
some car drivers, use of the inter-
section crossing is often agitating to
the nervous pedestrian.
Ken. Edwards
Going back to the "grunt and
groaners", we see little Jack Forbes
still in the ring as third man, and
doing a good job at ;hat. in his hey-
day Forbes was lightweight champ.
country in the world.
In 1933 Jim Londos ,the Golden
Greek, wrestled in Athens before a
paid crowd of 65,000 people and
100,000 on the surrounding bills.-
Jeem, as he is called, holds the at-
tendance record for Canada.
It is said that this Greek idol
who is an ardent lover of good
books is worth from $1,500,000 to
$2,000,000.
Here are just a few of the holds
a wrestler should know: Double -leg.
nelson. front arm counter, flying'
mare, inside grapevine, nammerIor'l;
and leg hold, arm scissors, stand-
ing head lock, hips lock, half nelson.
and harnmeriock, headlock, the crab'
hold, the back drop, wrist lock, etc.
etc. They say there are ever 1,000
holds. — So long.
A Course in Marriage
Should a modern university give
a course on marriage? This ques-
tion was raised in Syracuse some
time ago; and when 613 students
signed a petition asking for it the
university decided to provide the
course, and last year it met with
reasonable success. Five different
departments of the university were
concerned in it: psychology, biology,
sociology, home economics and re-
ligion, and they all contributed their
quotas.
But the question is, can this sub-
ject be taught in such a way as to be
of real benefit? The professor may
be a successful married plan him-
self, but can he tell others just what
has made his marriage a success?
In some cases, the true answer
Fastest Train
The light -beating driver, for ex-
ample, charges down upon the cross-
ing as if he meant to continue his
headlong career in spite of all warn-
ing or obstructions. He arouses in-
evitable alarm lest his brakes fail
to check him in time to save those
who venture athwart his path. The
road -hog driver pushes the nose of
his car so far over the narrow
crosswalk that persons ,,foot must ei-
ther crawl under the car or detour
into the lane of transverse traffic.
These are rude and ruthless types of
drivers, who suffer from automobile
arrogance and regard pedestrians as
being, entitled to no more than suf-
ferance.
There is another type more subtle
in method and almost sadistic in its
gleeful annoyance of the walking pub-
lic. The driver halts on the edge
of a crossing. When some limping
plan, some aged woman, or Som" mo-
ther, clutching with either hand a
tcdcllieg child, essays to pass, he
starts the engine and creeps forward
a foot or two, as if to say, "Hurry,
terra,: I'll run you down!" The lame
Man limps faster, the aged woman
hobbles breathlessly, the mother scur-
ries for the curb, dragging her squal-
ling progeny. The driver grins and
waits for 'the change in light.
Some .lay one of these smartaleck
teasers may encounter a tough-mind-
ed pedestrian who will yank, him out
of his car and give him a needed
lesson in manners,
American railroads are now run-
ning the fastest trains in the world
for distances of 800 miles or more,
a statement issued by the Associa-
tion of American Railroads shows,
observes the Detroit Free Press.
At the beginning of the year they
were operating more than 400 trains
covering more than 19,000 miles on
schedule vans tared at 60 miles an
hour or better.
Six years ago only 30 trains cov-
ering a total distance of 1,100 miles
maintained that speed. .
Wlsile this speeding up of trains
has been going on there has been
a steady reduction in the number of
accidents involving the loss of lives
among passengers.
The fastest time ever made by a
railroad train appears to have been
120 miles an hour, or two miles a
minute which a Union Pacific train
maintained in October, 1984. for a
distance of two miles. Other trains
in this country, Canada and Great
bear their own weight, while almost
all .other flowers and vegetables ha4
to be artificially supported, 'roseate,
plants grew 25 feet high and 40 feet
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wide," he said.
Pillsbury Is noted tor his .pictures]
of growing plants taken with a " lal
sed time" camera 'which operates .like
a motion picture camera but takes the
pictures at set intervals.
Pictures that required more than
three months to take can be show
in about three seconds on the scree"
he said.
The germ -picking glasses were
found by scientific tests in Washing-
ton ,D.C., and reported today by
James G. Cumming, M.D., and N.
E Young of the District of Colum-
bia department of health
Want of knowledge of how to
wash dishes in public eating places,
they said, by overlooking little bets
like inverting a glass properly, is
putting back into circulation many
of the 99 per cent. of disease germs
which medical men thought they had
banned by, purifying water supplies
and milk.
The water purification, they said,
saved 100,00.0 lives annually from
typhoid alone. Milk purification saved
200,000 babies annually.
Many Carriers Healthy
Contributors of bacteria to the
still unbroken "link-', the eating
utensils. they enumerated as 30 per
cent. of the people who are healthy
pneumonia carriers, and one per
cent. who distribute tuberculosis.
How the flu germs hop the dish
chain is unknown, but Dr. Cumming
said their presence en masse is
known "since there appears to be
adequate proof that the disinfection
of eating utensils affords about 80
per cent, protection against influen-
za distribution."
Dirty Dishes Called
"Disease Chain"
Safe dishwashing, declared both
cheap and feasible, has been worked
out in the Washington laboratories.
Take the dishes from the wash water,
Dr. Cummings said, and put them in
a rinsing dish, which may contain
either 170 degree fahrenheit water;
or water containing a solution of
hypochlorite. After that it is safe
to rinse them, even in cold water.
The result, he noted, is a 99 per
cent. reduction in the bacteria.
"That." lie concluded, "is equal to
that obtained by the sanitation of our
public water and milk supplies."
U.S. Scientists Declare Many
• "Washed" Ones Carry
Germs; Method
imp0rtant
NEW ORLEANS. — A cleanly
washed drinking glass, when inverted
on an unwashed tray, picks up on its
rim 40,000 to 50,000 bacteria. Most
likely in its new dwellers are pneu-
monia, tuberculosis and influenza
organisms.
Link In Disease Chain
This glass is a link in the "disease
chain of dirty dishes" which the
American Public Health Association
was informed today never has been
broken. It is a chain perpetuating
personal infections.
Women of Oxford
Group o Dishes`
Allow Hotel Staff to Attend)
Meeting After Dinner
BRANTFORD, — Women, who ini
their own homes are accustomed t6
giving their maids directions, rolled
up their sleeves and got right into the
routine of dishwashing and clearly
tables at the Kerby House recently,
leaving the staff free to attend an Ox
ford Group meeting in the dining-
room, following luncheon at noon.
The volunteer staff, including a
professor's wife, an educationist, a
teacher, a pianist and a mother whl
has two maids in her own home, wiel
ded a neat dish mop and tea towel i>
the large hotel kitchen and had the
job done by the time the meeting was'
over. This was no small undertaking
as there are close to 100 Oxford Group;
visitors coming into the hotel daily for
meals during the campaign started
here this week.
Meantime, while the kitchen was
resounding with the sound of dishes"
being stacked, sudded, polished ann
put away, the staff heard from a Toth
onto society leader how she and he;
maids now have a new understandin
and fellowship and there is mutual
advice on both sides.
Scientist Has Plan
To Grow Vegetables
In Chemical Vats — Tests
Show Yield. Much Greater
Than When Soil Used
LOS ANGELES, — A world of to-
morrow in which families will raise
their own vegetable, frezt chemical
tanks instead of gardens, getting a
year's supply at the present monthly
cost, was visualized recently by Ar-
thur C. Pillsbury, scientist.
Pillsbury, also a naturalist, inventor
explorer, author and lecturer, said the
soil -less tank experiments had indic-
ated a tenfold increase in vegetable
production.
"Although the idea is not new, re-
cent experiments have led scientists
to believe that vegetables can be now
grown commercially in shallow tanks,
partly filled with water, in which all
the necessa y soil elements have been
mixed," Pillsbury added.
"In .,ne instance shallow -tank -
grown potatoes produced between two
and three thousand bushels to the
acre as compared with a United Statxs
average of 104 bushels.
"Tire sizes of flowers grown under
this process wore -cabled rnd further-
more produced at any .1100 of the
year, as were the vegetables.
Winter Tomatoes
"In an effort to raise winter toma-
toes, we planted then in the tanks in
December and harvested them in
March,
"Nasturtiums grew in the tanks so
fast that they fell down, unable to
Poor Woman In
India Gives firth
To Six Childress
Allahahad, India.—Hundreds flock
ed today to the village of Niani t'o
see India's quintuplets—who would
have been unique as sextuplets but
for the death of one shortly after
the birth.
The glare of publicity in India's
newspaper already promises to give
the hitherto little-known village ofi
Niani the fame of Callander, Ontario,4
birth place of the original "quints."
Details as yet are lacking but so'
far it has been learned that a poor'
woman of the depressed Harijan class
gave birth to six children, of which
one died the day it was born. But
the other five are all alive and re-
ported to be healthy cad strong]
Youngsters.
Modern Young
People °11i erent
MONTREAL — young people are
just different. The traditional college
girl is a blue -stocking who
1. Wears horn -rimmed glasses.
2. Studies morning, noon and night,
3. Reads Shakespeare in preferen-
ce to eating.
Hates mien like poison,
But a recent survey of g:rl,x
Alpha Xi Delta. winner of the 1936
sorority scholarship at Washington
University, St. Louis, revealed they:
1. Wear the latest styles and have
never heard of horn -rims.
2. Study less than two hours a
day.
3. Never read Shakespeare, pre-
ferring "No Nice Girl Swears" and
"Twenty Thousand Years in Sing
Sing."
4, Think mien are grand.
Most of them think a little "neck-
ing" is all right.
Their tastes range from ice cream
and pickles to hamburgers and filet
of sole on bun.
"Spirittial "force is stronger than
material; thoughts rule the world."
—Emerson.
"Well, as the detective got the window open," con-
tinued Inspector Weymouth, "and was just climbing into
the room, he saw something else, so he says." Weymouth
paused.
"What did he see?" demanded Smith.
FU MANCHU
By Sax Rohmer
"Drawing back the curtain through which
the green mist had disappeared, and opening
a glass door behind it, Croxted started back
in horror. He had turned on The study lamps
so they lit up the three steps which led down
into a conservatory, full of cases and bales.
On the steps ..."
lY
' A sort of green mist, sir," Weymouth answered slowly.
"He says it seemed to be alive. If moved over iho floor,
bud a little above if, going away from him and towards a
curtain at filo other end of the room ..
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"Croxted told me ho
thought the green mist came
from the mummy case," In-
spector Weymouth added.
"It is to his credit that he
climbed into the room after
seeing a thing like that ...
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