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Zurich Herald, 1952-08-21, Page 2How's Your Smeller Using cabbage water and fing rr Iti1 varnish, wood -smoke and fry - bacon, a scientist at Reading 'University has just embarked on aA surprising quest. With the aid Of a -class of sniffing students, he Is trying to discover just why a lose smells sa sweet and a clogged (drain so bad—and he's hoping to Cstabtish a standard measurement for srllells akin to the measure- ment of light or sound, 'With a simple instrument, the olfactometer, Dr. G. H. Cheesinan dilutes such chemicals as ether and acetone,, alcohol or chloroform, with water and air, and then dis- covers the precise strength at which students notice the smell. The results are remarkably consis- tent and Dr. Cheesinan is begin - ging to chart the upper and lower limits of smell just as some ex- perts have clone isith sound deci- bels. In fact, it's an international smel- ling race. In Boston, Dr. Ernest Crocker has worked out a "spec- trum" of smelling with thirty-two standard odours. All smells, he of lour primary sensations: frag- rant, sour, burnt and "goaty." An- other expert has launched a smell s3ociety to encourage enthusiasts in the appreciation of smells, A sea- side borough council consulted it recently when they wished to iden- tify a stench on their promenade which drove away visitors. High in the recesses of the nose the olfactory bulb is lapped in soft liquid like a submarine detecting radar signals and communicating them by nerve impulses to the ad- miralty headquarters in the brain, Yet scientists still know nothing of the speed or energy of the smell - waves, the radiations probably akin to light or sound by which we en- joy the scent of the new -mown hay or the umph of eau -de -Cologne. In a museum in Munich visitors can sniff the twenty-four herbal scents of the world, recognizing and savouring them with delight. (But an .Australian aborigine can smell water a mile sway and by contrast the civilized nose is un- trained and atrophied. An interest- ing discovery at Reading is that the nose tires easily, and is quickly maturated by too much of one smell. Not Skidding Around—Joseph LaRocca demonstrates his special skid -eliminating tire dip which may soon outsell ordinary tire chains. After eight years of no sale LaRocca has succeeder) in getting a manhfacturer to produce the clips which are designed to snap on when a tire passes over it. He says 'they'll provide almost certaintraction in ice, snow or mud. Somepeople remember smells well and can quickly summon up in the imagination the smell of, say, the seaside or a country grocer's shop. Research into shell psychology may soon push British exports. In a recent test a London store placed on sale two sets of identical rayon stockings, One slnelled slightly of the finishing oil used in manufac- ture. The other had been reodor- ized with a soft, silky smell special- ly blended by perfumers. The lat- ter sold out immediately to cut- Miners who considered them of far superior grade. Three or four times every year millions of dollars leave the fair Province of Ontario, only a tiny fraction of which ever returns. Some of that money is ours, and, the chances are, some of it is yours. We are referring—in case you haven't already guessed—to the slough which travels in huge gobs either to Quebec or Ireland in ex- change for Sweepstake tickets. * * * Now, it is a well known fact that the folks who carry on good works, such as that of the Red Cross, the St. John Ambulance Corps, and many others, are year by year find- ing it more and more difficult to raise the necessary funds. Yet when somebody suggests that we should :support such causes by holding Sweepstakes and Lotteries of our own, in other words, keeping money Oat is going to be. spent anyway here at home where it will do some good, the forest of uplifted hands and cries of holy horror are some- thing 'tremendous. Even folks who have been buying Irish Sweep tickets all their lives will piously say, "Oh, it would never do to have such things here." * * * Well, maybe such folks are right. Maybe what's okay tc patronize when it's in Dublin would be sin- ful if held in Toronto or Hamilton; but to us, personally, and to a whole lot like us, it just doesn't add up to common sense, * * * The opposition to lotteries and sweepstalces is largely based on the argument that they have been tried in different places and failed. Anti -lottery men—who probably go out and sell tickets on a late model car whenever their Lodge is put- ting on a charity drive—will refer you to the notorious Louisiana Lot- teries which were filled with graft, pay-offs and crooked management. What they don't tell you is that these Louisiana Lotteries were pri- vately owned and operated by in- dividuals tied in with politicians who were secret partners in the racket. It was NOT a public lot-• tery operated by the Government. * * * A Government-owned and oper- ated lottery can be run honestly, efficiently and can help to relieve citizens of a great deal of their tax burden—writes Marjorie Scilken in the Police Gazette—and for conclu- sive proof tells of Puerto Rico, a possession of the United States, Dogitialte Strong—Amazing Frankfurt, Germany night club goers with his strength, a Hungarian shepherd dog balances his 12- yecrr-old master. Hansi, on his head. The dress worn by the small. but mighty pooch seems to accentuate his strength. whose experiment in a state lottery debunks the reformers' arguments against them. k * * in Puerto Rico, if you walk down any street, you can't help seeing and hearing the street vendors. The sidewalks are alive with . ticket pushers. One quarter, 25 cents, will get you part of a ticket and for part of a ticket you can win part of $60,000 (first prize). Of course, for $12.50, a whole ticket, you -could win the whole first prize or a, •sec and prize of $15,000 or even a',third prize of $10,000. All you need is a lucky number. * * * The winners, and you might jest be a winner, get their small ' for- tunes tax free. About 67 per cent of the money taken in is paid but in prizes. The government gets about 18 per cent of the takeand the remaining 14 per cent or so goes for administration and commission to agents and street vendors. Not a bad breakdown for the "gambler. The net proceeds for the , aP ar Rican government in 1950-51 after deducting prizes, commissions and administrative expenses was $4,- 791,213.85. This represents about four per cent of the Puerto Rican budget—enough to pay for the is- land's health service and hospital bills. * * * What is you lose your quarter? You get it back in better 'hospital service and improved conditions on the island. No local gambler lives off the fat -of -the -land from your • accumulated quarters. No cops on the beat get paid off; there are no investigators, no scandals, no professional moralists. It's all on the up and up. In a way, every- body wins! * * * Everybody has been winning in Puerto Rico for a long time. The islanders have been watching their lucky nuiiibers flash in lights since a Spanish Royal decree in 1814 es- tablished La Loteria Provincial in Puerto Rico. * * * This provincial lottery ran suc- cessfully until 1899 when the United States occupation authorities who took over the island, let a Puritani- cal reform -bloc pack away the gambling equipment, lock, stock and hlcky numbers. * * * The only people the least bit overjoyed at this piece of legisla- tion were the professional gamblers and thugs. They went back into business, With the local lottery pad- locked, foreign lottery tickets start- ed pouring into Puerto. Rico, Some were counterfeit, some good; all meant that money was leaving the island. Puerto Rico becanie a haven for all kinds of gambling, every game of chance; every shady op- erator tried to fill the void left on the island by the closing down of the century -old lottery. * * * In 1934, the depression flattened Puerto Rico. The local legislature, casting about for restorative mea- sures, decided to legalize the lot- tery again. They had three ob- jectives: (1) to raise money to fight tuberculosis (2) as a means of support for the poorer smunicipali- ties (3) to curb the traffic of foreign lotteries in Puerto Rico. The bill was passed. The United States, though she bad the legal means to veto the measure, closed her eyes; the lottery became one of the factors that put Puerto Rico back on its feet. * *• * Reformers and blue stockings in the 'United States scream that there will be corruption and dishonesty, gangsterism and hoodltimism if there is 0 Federal lottery .in the States, * * * In Puerto Rico, under the Ameri- can flag, there has been an honest, business -like and successful lottery since 1934. Safeguards—dozens of checks—have been made by the government to insure that there will be no wayward tinkering with the machinery. * * * In June, 1950, a brand new ma- chine was installed to draw the lucky numbers. This Rube ,Gold- berg concoction of wire -mesh cages, spigots, turrets, baskets and sieves is completely automatic. No attend- ant touches the balls. until they are spun and dropped out into a mesh -sieve, one by one. They are then strung up in the combination in which they fall and each number is read over the loudspeaker. These operations are always in view of the public. * * * ' Each drawing—and there are 51 drawings through the year—is or- ganized, directed and inspected by a Board of Drawings which is composed of three citizens of good standing, qualified and appointed by the Chief of the Bureau of the Lottery. Mr, Jesus Benitez Rezach, one of the outstanding men in Puerto Rico, has been the Chief of the Bureau since 1947. * * * If you win there is no tax on the money at all (unless the roll leaves Puerto Rico and enters the U.S. in which case the prize money has to be written -in on income tax forms). * * * " What do you think? What makes a lottery such a thing of horror here, and O.K. in Puerto Rico under the American flag? Why should the Puerto Ricans get 51 chances a year to win money—with huge jack- pots of almost $300,000 for July and Christmas—and Americans have to win piddling and illegal bets on numbers, football pools and the foreign lotteries? Why is a gov- ernment run lottery so certain to be crooked in the United States, when it's straight and l%onest in Puerto Rico? * * * Or, to draw a bit nearer to home, if the Puerto Ricans and the Irish can do it, why couldn't the folks in Ontario? 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