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oo, T | Snarks from the Press ® L] CANADA Wize Ruling Schioo! 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 vea~ we read about a dozen or more boys going to the hospital for 'heir participation 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, roferees will eompel all players to wear their head- guards. To snatch off one's headguard and hurl if toward the sidelines is a fine, fomantic 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 one simple rule, it is prob- able that at least a few names could Pe kept off the casualty lists.--Guelph Mercury. Means Much to Canada Utilization of Canadian iron ore in the Caradian 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 fncrease 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 fron 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. 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 manufacturing 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 jts feet will be sure of support in this part of the country.--Sauit Daily Star, Wireless on Lake Boats 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. --Kingston Whig-Stand- ard. A Big Revenue Prcducer The entertainment of delegates to eonventions in the larger cities of Canada has become one of the biggest revenue producers in the country, ac- eording to C. K. Howard, manager of the tourist and convention bureau of the Canadian National Railways. He cites the record of 689 conventions, in nine of Canada's principal cities during the last year, where the reve- nue wes estimated at $21,000,000.-- Sarnia Canadian-Observer. Monoxide Poisoning If the invention which two local fen are nreparing to put on the m ket is as successful as they hope, a minor revolution in automotive sci ence 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- ber of deaths from the insidious car- bon monoxide gas. It attacks its vic- 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- toring 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 milk: 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 C--4 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 right kind of "fuel" to keep the child mind bright and intelligent. -- Stratford Beacon-Herald. Newpapers Kept Going It is no secret among newspaper- men that the" depression has hit the newspapers hard. Services were maintained at the same 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 ne other business were wages interfered with as little. In many instances, toor 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. 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 man him- self, but can he tell others just what has made his marriage a success? In some cases, the true answer 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. 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. THE EMPIRE 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. Eat Correctly For Health and Beauty Modern Science Shows That Many of Our '"Combina- tions" Are Erroneous Many of our pet superstitions about foods, cooking methods and digestibility are being shattered by scientific: investigations and research There are, of course, some persons with whom certain foods do not agree. When this is discovered one should by all means avoid those foods. But sometimes the idiosyn- crasy is not real but fancied . Persons who are in normal health and do not over-indulge. may enjoy almost any palatable combination with no misgivings. All authorities now agree that fish and milk "are in perfegt harmony, like all simple, wholesome foods." I quote from an article on this sub- ject by a famous physician and die- titian. Taste Is Poor Guide The taste of food is no guide to its final reaction in the body for it is only after the system has made use of its fuel that the nature of A $36,000 Harvest Reaping Reward (8), two-year-old from Milky Way Farm, pictured nearest the camera as the field got away in first running of the rich New England Futurity at Narragansett, R.I, track. Reward, a 12-1 shot ridden by Charlie Stevenson, came from behind to beat the favorite, Pompoon. the ash can be determined. Some foods after being digested and util- ized by the body have an acid re- action in the blood and others are alkaline. But you can't tell by the taste. Thus although lemons are sour because of the organic acids they contain, their effect is alkaline. Apples, muskmelons, oranges and potatoes have been found experi- mentally to be very efficient in re- ducing body acidity. The practice of eating acid foods in the same meal with milk or of sing milk or cream on fruits 'has been eondemned. However, the acid is actually a help rather than a hindrance to milk in digestion. It is a common practice to beat orange or lemon juice or tomato juice into milk or to sour mylk artificially for persons with weak digestion. Pancakes, waflles, muffins and hot breads of all varieties are not in themselves unwholesome focd, but they have a bad reputation with many people. In the first place they usually are eaten without proper mastication on account of their soft- ness. Then they often are served with much butter and syrup and the tendency is to eat largely to be ex clusion of more essentia' roods Finally, they are so inviting that they cause most of us to overeat. Eaten in no larger amounts than sir cold bread, with no greater amcunrts of fat and sweet, and chewed thoroughly. they should be as easy to digest as cold bread. Veal Fed To Invalids Veal is no more iandige:s'ble than fish, chicken or beef. In France 1t is given to invalids as we give chick- en in this country, yet for years it Las had the reputation of being a very difficuit meat to digest. Of cours: the art of cooking enters into this question of digesti- bility. fapiorer cooking methods can ruin the d'gestibility as well as the palatableness of foons Under cocked starches and overheuted fa's certainly ara not easy for the di-. gestice apparatus to take care of a. d in many (sses it has been the cooking of the food rather than fis food ils:if that has caused trou le. Germs Killed During Operation Death Ray Successfully Com- bats Bacteria In Surgical Wounds : DURHAM, N.C. -- A death ray which shoots down floating germs went 'into action for the 200th time recently at Duke University Hospit- al operating room. Shooting out from a. cluster of in- tricate electrical tubes, the death rays bombarded and killed bacteria as surgeons performed. an air-con- ditioned operation knowing there would be no complications from in- fections. Developed by Dr. John Doryl Hart, a Duke surgeon and former instruct- or at Johns Hopkins Medical school, the death ray, scientists believe, is a long advance in increasing safety of surgical operations. ince the air is full of floating bacteria, one of the greatest dan- gers of operations in past was from infections of surgical wounds from this source. The new death ray for germs kills them instantly in the vicinity of wounds and is from 80 to 90 per cent effective within 13 feet of the elee- trical tubes from which it shoots. Discover Spoons 1,000 Years Old WASHINGTON. -- Digging into the history of cating, scientists came up with the assertion civilization's first fork users were called sissies. "Italians," explained the National Geographic Society, "were the first to 'use forks for eating and were ridi- culed as ultra-fastidious or even ef- feminate." The table manners research was launched after a joint expedition of National Geographic and Smithsonian Institution scientists uncovered some 1,000-year-old spoons in Alaska. "These ancient utensils," the sci- entists reported, "give a vivid picture of the life 10 centuries ago but they are also reminders that although table manners have changed, eating imple- ments of today are essentially the same as in pre-historic times." They hastened to adu that the Us- kimo still clings to the age-old use of his knife. This consists of stuffing his mouth with meat ard then whack- ing off the remainder with a swift stroke that barely misses his nose. Weilders of the fork, introduced in the late 16th century, didn't batter down the barriers of convention un- til the 17th century. Up until then the best table etiquette called for ithe time-honored method of picking up food with the thumb and the first two fingers. "Use of more fingers," explained the scientists, "was considered bad table nmianners." SPORT >). ) KN 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 hills. 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, nammerlock and leg hold, arm scissors, stand- ing head lock, hips lock, half nelson and hammerlock, headlock, the crab hold, the back drop, wrist lock, etc. etc. They say there are over 1,000 holds, -- So long. More Swine Being Raised ~ OTTAWA. -- Recently small re- ductions were reported in the number of horses, cattle and sheep on Can- adian farms, by the Dominion Bur- eau of Statistics as of June 1 last compared with the same date a year ago. The number of hogs, however, increased by 23 per cent. This increase in the number of hogs was sufficient to more - than offset the reduction in other classes and the total number of animals on Canadian farms rose from 18,700,- 000 to 19,267.000. The number of horses at June 1st was 2,918,900 as compared with 2.- 931,300; cattle, 8,819,100 as against 8,820,600; hogs, 4,159,700 compared with 8,379,700 and sheep 3,370,000 as against 3,668,600. In comparing the 1935 and the 1936 totals for the Dominion, allow- ance must be made for the fact that the estimates for the Prairie Prov- inces for 1936 are based upon the census returns, while the 1935 fig- ures were estimated from the card survey. . The census return for the three Prairie Provinces showed a compari- son with the last census five years ago. In all three provinces the num- ber of cattle increased in the five years while the number of horses, hogs and poultry decreased. The number of sheep increased In Sas- atchewan but decreased in Manitoba and Alberta. Adam Was the First Henpecked Husband Litchfield, Ill. -- "Henpecked hus- bands" of the Rev. L. A. Crown's con- gregation squirmed in reserve seats recently while he traced their un- happy history back to Adam. "Adam was the first henpecled husband," said Mr. Crown, pastor of the Union Avenue Christian Church here, "and Eve was the original fool- ish wife." He pointed to Samson as a classic victim of family browbeating and not- ed Samson "made the mistake of choosing a heathen wife." Last week the Litchfield preacher acted pledges from a score of his followers to kiss their wives twice a day. Two weeks ago his "what is the world's most horrible sin?" con- test brought a flood of answers. Next week's sermon will be: "How to be happy though married." Mr. Crown is married and has two sons in college. Raps Publicity in Movie Romance June Lang Labels Film Capi- tal a Handicap. HOLLYWOOD-- A new slant on Hollywood as a "land of romance" was offered players recently by one of the film city's latest stars. The views, labeling Hollywood as the "bunk" insofar as romance and glamor are concerned, came rather unexpectedly from pretty June Lang. Miss Lang, far from being a wall- flower, is easily one of the screen colony's most eligible young Ilalies. Nevertheless, she thinks the gloss has been taken off Hollywood ro- mances by publicity and the 'engage- ment' fans who persistently hound young screen couples. "How can an honest love affair grow in a place that robs a genvine courtship of privacy and the right to develop normally?' asks the act- ress. "If a feminine player goes out with a young man she can ex- pect the worst for herself and escort, at least under the present setup. Embarrassing Moments "As they go into a cafe, how- ever remote, they are pressed for autographs. Inside, they are snap- ped by photographers who wait until your fork is halfway up to your open mouth before making aa ex- posure. This is called candid pho- tography. "The next day the two diners are reported engaged." Miss Lang explains she is not complaining against this system, which she says must be carried along to perpetuate Hollywood's reputation for romance. "What I am trying to convey 1s that this practice kills all romance for the individuals concerned. "And Hollywood really is such a fine setting for romances. The clear moonlit nights, the hills, the seaside and a balmy climate all pro- vide an excellent setting for court- ships. : 'I believe all of us who might have serious intentions along such a line would like to enjoy the set- ing. But as Hollywood stands now, this is impossible. Two young per- sons of the opposite sex can't even walk ten feet together without being coupled in a romance that may prove highly embarrassing for both." Scientist Has Plan To Grow Vegetables In Chemical Vals -- Tests Show Yield Much Greater Than When Soil Used LOS ANGELES, -- A world of to- morrow in which families will raise their own vegetables from 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 une instance shallow-tank- grown potatoes produced between two and three thousand bushels to the acre as compared with a United States average of 104 bushels. "The sizes of flowers 'grown under this process were oubled tnd further- {1 more produced at any (ime of the year, as were the vegetables. i ¥inter Tomatoes "In an effort to raise winter toma- toes, we planted them in the tanks in! December and harvested them im! March. "Nasturtiums grew in the tanks 80, fast that they fell down, unable to bear their own weight, while almost all other flowers and vegetables had to be artificially supported. Tomato' plants grew 25 feet high and 40 feet wide," he said. | Pillsbury is noted for his pictures of growing plants taken with a "lap- 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 screen, he said. Women of Oxford Group Do Dishes Allow Hotel Staff to Attend Meeting After Dinner BRANTFORD, -- Women, who in their own homes are accustomed to 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 oup meeting in the dining- room, following luncheon at noon. The volunteer staff, including a professor's wife, an educationist, & teacher, a pianist and a mother whg has two maids in her own home, wiels ded a neat dish mop and tea towel ia 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 fof meals during the campaign started here this week. Meantime, while the kitchen was resounding with the sound of dishes being stacked, sudded, polished and put away, the staff heard from a Tor-' onto sociéty leader how she and her, maids now have a new understanding and fellowship and there is mutual advice on both sides. Dirty Dishes Called "Disease Chain" U.S. Scientists Declare Many "Washed" Ones Carry Germs; Method Important NEW. ORLEANS. -- A cleanly washed drinking glass, when mverted 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. 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 te 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 100,000 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 disk chain is unknown, but Dr. Cumming said their presence en masse is known "since there appears to bs adequate proof that the disinfectiom of eating utensils affords about 88 per cent. protection against influen- za distribution." 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 watery or water containing a sorution hypochlorite. After that it is safl to rinse them, even in cold water. | The result, he noted, is a 99 per cent. reduction in the bacteria. "That." he concluded, "is equal that obtained by the sanitation of o public water and milk supplies." 3 "Good thoughts are blessed gu and should be heartily welco well fed, and much sought after." --Spurgeoh. "Spiritual force is stronger than material; thoughts rule the vo'! --Emer::