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po) RY eS S SERN i feres ¢. t ey Infantile Paralysis Study Reveals Heredity Factor "Runs in Families", Says Harvard University Scientist - After Extensive Research Into Family Histories ¥ Of Cases -- Constitutional "Fault" Seen * Cambridge, Mass,--Infantile paraly- 8ls runs in families, the Harvard Uni- versity Infantile Paralysis Commis- sion disclosed in announcing discov- ery of "a piece of truth" about one of humanity's most baffling scourges, Dr. W, Lloyd Aycock of the Com- mission said that years of research, much of it in Massachusetts and Ver- mont, had indicated that suceptibility to the malady is due to a mysterious inherited constitutional fault -- a hitherto unsuspected possibility. It may be, the Harvard scientist sald, that in susceptible family strains some organ is unable to do the work, or produce some essential element, necessary to combat the virus, NO "CURE" YET FOUND, He emphasized that no "cure" had been discovered, Nature of the sus- pected constitutional defect must be determined first, he said, "and it may be that if it can be identified the trouble can be remedied," The research showed that 20 per cent, of the cases in the Boston in- fantile clinic had a family history of the disease. The percentage would be higher, it was sald, but for the difficulty of tracing family connec- tions in this area. When the inquiry was transferred to Vermont the fig- ure was raised to 51 per cent, with indications that it will go higher, One family, studied through its various branches, showed a record of 19 cases of poliomyelitis In a per- fod of 40 vears--which was taken as presumptive evidence of family sus. ceptibility, Hranches of the [amily were scattered over a wide area elim. Inating the possibility of a common cource of infection, ['o Teacup Is Clean Despite Washing) - Professor Reveals LONDON --A possible rew excuse for maids to. use when cause for complaint appears after dishwash- ing was revealed by Prof. E. N. da C. Andrade in a lecture on friction given recently (o the British Science Guild. ' "To wash one cup really free from grea-e would require a specially trained chemist with a special tech- nique," Professcr Anarade declared, "and then it would take him Lhe best part of an hour." Even the cleanest teacup, the pro- fessor disclosed, is always lubricated with a film of grease a millionth ot an inch thick. This is the reason why when a little tea is spilt in Lhe saucer the cup sticks and does not slide about, he said. The tea inter with the better = lubricant grease. - "The easiest way to make a really clean surface is to make a new sur- face from molten glass," the pro- fessor stated. "Fresh glass surfaces prepared in this way 'bite' on one another so firmly that 'a glass rod may rest on another that is nearly vertical without being pulled down by the force of gravity. The fraction between scientifically clean surfaces is enormous." Professor Andrade also revealed that it was by experimenting with really clean surfaces that chemists obtained many of their most out- standing results bearing upon lubri- cation. For they could, he said, try the effect of invisibly thin films of various liquids on the "sticky" sur faces. These films were so thin, he dec'area, that it would take 25,000 of them to make up the thickness of "tissue paper. A Globe-Trotter At Seventy-Two Mrs. Ella G. Munson Has Covered 692,000 Miles and Hopes to Reach a Million Having travelled some 692,000 miles of this globe's surface, Mrs. Ella (, Munson, 72.year-old lady from East " Rockaway, Loug Island, started down the River in the S$.S. Quebec last aight for the Saguenay, to add an. other half thousand or more miles to her cclossal total. "I want you to be sure of the figure 692,000," she said, "I don't want any exaggeration." | hope to travel a million miles before I die, "All my folks are stay-at-home bod. les except myself," sald the pleasant old lady, "but [I think I must have got my wanderlust from Captain John Munson, for away back In 1642 the captain, who was an ancester of mine, led a pilgrimage of Munsons to Mas. pachusetts," ; Mrs. Munson recalled that It" was the gréat Dr, Talmage, eminent div. Ine of the last century, .who started her on her globe-trotting way, The trip was fn an old Cunarder, and its pur. pose religlous as well as educational, "Since those days, I think I have Jravelled on every form of convey. Mica but- one. I hava certainly been on hoats and trains, and [ have rid. den horse back, camel back and mule back; when I was the guest of a mah- arajah, I went on an elephant to his estate. HASN"I' FLOWN YET. '" But they've never got me up in a plane yet, and there's only one way they'll get me there. If Col. Charles Lindburgh himself will ask me to go up in sn airplane, I'll go." Mrs. Munson said she had not been to Manchukno, nor had she ever vis- ited South Africa, but she did hope to go there soon. There were a few new countries in Europe she had yet to visit, "Of all the countries in the world, which did you like the best?" she wag asked. "I liked india best, it was so un- usual, so interesting, there was so much to see," she said. "Were you ever in an accident or wreck?" "Never, but nearly once," she re. plied. as she told how she had can- celled passage at the last moment on the Northwestern, which was going to Alaska, and taken a berth on the Santa Lucia instead. The Northwest. ern ran on the rocks-on her return trip. "It 1 had ever had to get a lifebelt, and then be put out in a lifeboat, I would never have gone on shipboard again." she declared emphatically, NEVER WRITES LETTERS Mrs. Munson said she lived at East Rockaway, Long Island. but her ad. dress was Linhrook. She has been married three time. Her mother liv. ed to be 96. "I keep a house Lhere to retain my citizenship," she admilted, "Ifow long does it take vou to get ready for a trip?" inquired The Star. "I cant get ready to eo ronnd lhe world in 24 houre." che answered. © "One thing von haven't asked me, but Tl tell vou' said the old "lady. "Aud that is this: [.never write any letters. When I get back home, the local paper intetviews me, Then I get a copy of the article and send it to all my friends. That's all the lelter they gel. The newspaper wriles my letter for me." Girl Watches Her Own Operation Memphis, Tenn.--Her eyes fixed on a huge mirror, Evelyn McPher- son, 15, who wants to be a doctor, lay on an operating table and watch- ed surgeons remove her appendix. She told of asking for a local anesthetic and of having surgeons arrange the mirrors in the operating voom so she, could see them work. - Evelyn plans to enter medical school when she finishes high school. Readside Weed ) : Problem Solved For 19 years cows have been al. lowed to pasture on the 120 miles of Wilmot Township roads in Waterloo County, The Township Council char. ges a rental of $2 each for the first and second cows of a herd: $2.50 for the third; fourth. $3: fifth, $2.50; sixth, $4: seventh, $4.50: eighth and above $5 each. The sliding scale of charges is arranged to assist the small owner with from' one to four or five cows, ) The average yearly revenue deriv. ed from this source is $1,162, The an- nual cost of weed cutting on Wilmot Township roads is $550, which leaves a tidy annual eredit balance in the treasury, Roadsides in this township are among the cleanest in the prov- ince, Few, If any, accldents have ever been reported, probably due to the fact that cows are not allowed to pasture on roadsides at night. "There are approximately 4,600 miles ot township roads In Ontario, Using Wilmot Township as a basis of calcu- lation, a total of $400,000 could be collected in rentals. Roadsides are cleaner where pastured and the cost of weed culting is greatly reduced, With the shortage of pasture, fall. ing municipal revenue and as a source i § ig sh «armenia aes a #5 for first time eorge of Great Inspecting troo 25 years ago, King Looking Them Over since ne was the Prince of Wales Britain reviews the Corps of Com- missionaires on the grounds of Buckingham Palace in London, RURAL WOMEN BEING TRAINED 'BY RADIO, WORLD GROUP TOLD Delegates From 27 Nations Describe Steps to Enrich Domestic Careers at Meeting of Associated Countrywomen - London, -- Representatives of 27 countries answered the voll call dur- ing the meeting of the Assoclated Countrywomen of the World, held here recently, " They came from various parts of the United States, Africa, Australia, Canada, Cerlon and Palestine, and from many of the Kuropean coun. tries> They came 1g compare notes upot the work they had accompligh. ed on behalf of rural women scatter- ed over halt the world, and to learn how to accomplish more. According {o Fru Michelet of Nor: way, no countrywomen in the world are adequately organized except those of America. Fru Michelet has lately completed a tour in the United States where she has been captivated by what she describes as the "wonder- ful organization" of the Home Dem- onstYation Service, which she would like to see adopted all. over Lurope, GOVERNMENT SUPPORT. "Only Kuropean women would hardly know themselves she said "because, in America, federal and state funds pav for the privilege of teaching women the mysteries of home management, while here in Europe women Invariably have to pay for that privilege themselves." In spite «f financial drawbacks, however, the women of countries whern state funds are not avallable have done much to their credit. In Ceylon, as described by Mrs, de Mel, 14 Women's Institutes have been started during the past two years -- in the face of severe opposition from the men of the Island whose suspi- cions that anything in the nature of a women's gathering savored of in- surraction have been dispelled only by inviting ali "husbands" to attend the first meeting of each institute in order to satisfy themselves {hat noth. ing nefarious was in progress. ) Ouce organized, the women have done good werk in reviving rural in. dustries, In helping the over-crowded clerical classas back to the land, in encouraging women to grow thelr own foodstutfs, and in [mplanting in the shyest among them a sense of soci obligation and friendliness. 'ACTIVE IN KENYA, Speaking ot ccnditions in Kenya Colony, Lady Eleanor Cole told of the formation, after a whole moun. tain of difficulty had been overcome, of an infant welfare centre where 30 natlve mothers and their children have already been cared for, Hus. bands in Kenyo do no' oppose the education of their women, said Lady Eleanor, but not halt enough of it is done--a remark with which Mrs. Al. fred Watt, founder of the Women's Institute movement, was {in hearty of veduced weed control costs, this plan appears to have many features which would warrant its trial in other municipalities." -- Toronto Mail and Empire, \ A agreément. "I feel we must accept wider re- sponsibility for the native women of most countries," she sald, 'Mission. ary uffort and the sporadic efforts of governments are .not. adequate, The Assnclated Countrywomen are al. Men Dead 300 Years Named In Lawsuit Mount Vernon, N.Y, -- Three men who have been dead almost 300 years were named as defendants in a fore.' closure suit brought by the city on a vacant lot. i No taxes have been paid on the pro. perty, valued at $12,000, for years and no owner can be found to the land, The last owner 'of record was a negro, Ben Turner, who dled in the éarly 19th century. The city decided to sue the original owners--=Philipr Pinckney, William Haymen and James Eustis, who re. ceived the parcel by royal grant of King Charles 11 tn 1204 ready doing something, but they conld do much, very much, more." 'Among the most useful assets now available to rural women for educa- tional purposes, it was generally ag- reed, 13 the wireless. In France, Lady Tiphaine Lucas explained, wireless talks to the women of the country are a daily occurrence, Each talk, carefully edited heforehand, lasts for 12 minutes, y "WOMEN DO LISTEN. "And," sald Lady Tiphaine, "the women do listen. We know this because sometimes we lay traps for them, we talk about the cultivation of blue roses or some such nonsense, and are immediately inundated with Vattane af nratest 1 ta hplleved that * some 260,000 rural women listen In every day in France, is making good use of wireless, too, as are alsp Germany--where retai prices of commodities are broadcast dailv for the protection of the house. wife--and Holland. . Only in Great Britain does there appear to be a difficulty about broad- casting, Miss Elsie Zimmern, secre- .tary tn the association, explained that expostulations had so far pro- duced no effect upon the British Broadcasting Corporation, = but that efforts are still being made. to move its organizers to adopt a more gen- erous attitude, ' Holland, which was represented by Mrs. de Jong, has managed its broad- casting officials, but is being some- what baffled. by the attitude of its young women. Young women of Hol. land attend schools ~of domestic science but, on leaving, prefer to co- 'operate in rural matters "With thelr own contemporaries rather than with the older women. THINGS MAY CHANGE But perhaps things will change, sald Mrs, de Jong, and in the mean- time, the older women have been heartened by a request from the Gov- ernment that (hey will make a thor- ough investigation into. the -family budgets of the country, [reland anil Czechoslovakia, unlike Holland, have no difficulty in attract- ing the'interest of their young people. Bul, then, Czechoslovakia has recruit- ed its countrywomen and girls for work in the local fire brigades and fs training them not only as flame- fighters, but in caring for those who have suffered through the destguc- tion of thelr homes, and Ireland, with characteristic light-heartedness, has mer «:mps, where, according to Miss Hughes, they "get Intouch with mu- slc and dancing, and--no matter how badlv--produce plays for the benefit of all and sundry who care to come and applaud." Women Demand Rights At Paris Conference Paris--A demand that women work on an equality with, and receive the same pay, as men was made in a re- solution adopted at the closing ses- sion of the International "Council of Women. : ' A charter bn mothers' rights, call- ing upon Governments to oblige state aid, was alsp passed. Belgium and Yugoslavia were selected as meeting places for the council in 1935 and 1936 respectively. World's Highways Over nine million miles- of high- ways is the world aggregate accord- ing 'to a U. 8S. survey, nearly.a third of this being to the United States. . Improved roads of earth, sand and gravel, total about a quarter of the world mileage, Over one hundred and fifty miles of the roadways are how- ever hard surfaced with stone block, brick, concrete or bitumen mixtures, Kingston Whig-Standard has fig- ured out that a man wanting to travel all the highways on the earth would drive 104 years, eight miles a day at the rate of thirty miles an hour but this speed would be im- possible. over most of them. And yet the building jof roads for motoring goes forward with leaps and bounds for it is said that motor transport ation iz at its heeinning. ; Latvia, according to Mug. Tolman nndertaken the organization of sum-|- h Hollywood.--~George Raft, sleek- haired film actor whose specialty on the screen is the portrayal of gang- ster and bull fighter roles, turned pu- gilist in: real life recently, planting a nose flattening punch during 10 minutes of furious battle on Sam Satz, Hollywood man-about-town and ne- phew of a chain drug store owner, More than 100 screen celebrities, tourists and autograph seekers wit- nessed the melee, which took place on a parking lot adjoining an exclu- sive Hollywood cafe, The fight ended when a trafic of- ticer, racing from his latin at Vine Street and Hollywood Boulevard, se- parated the combatants, both of whom were bleeding profusely, Raft, how- ever, was declared by witnesses to have been the vigtor, having scored four knockdowns, No arrests were made and neither man, as far as we know, required medical attention, A feminine spectator, who describ- ed herself as "a lady from Des Moines" was knocked down when Raft's elbow connected with her jaw. The spectacular fight started after a verbal tilt between Raft and Satz when the star entered the restaurant with his bodyguard, Muck "Killer" Grey. Satz, seated at a lable with two women, was reported to have remark- ed: "There go a couple of boys who just had to be beautiful, Raft had his ear de-caulifiowered, and Grey his nose remodeled." Grey, a professional strong man, and Raft, a former pugilist, fmmedi- '| ately told Staz to "shut up." Satz, a bespectacled individual, however, continued talking, witnesses George Raft, Screen "Bad Man" : Does Battle Over Slur on Beauty sald, whereupon the actor and his bodyguards simultaneously him to battle. followed by most of the diners in the restaurant, They included Carole | Lombard, Judith Allen, June Collyer, Mona Harris, Jack Haley and Willlam Frawley. . Raft, after removing Satz' spec- tacles, smashed them on the ground, and led with a viclous left. It was this blow, on the recoil, that connect. ed with the chin of "the lady from Des Moines," Satz, not to be outdone, countered with a blow to the actor's. ear, on whioh a plastic surgery was perform. ed, " Blood followed, The spectators cheered as they saw the star and the man-about-town slug it out. Some declared that Raft brought his former one-two punch in- to use--a maneouver that has won him oft-the-screen Hollywood battles fn the past--and that Satz made no less than four trips to the ground, One of the blows was declared by witnesses to have broken the nose of Satz. The policeman was not attracted to the scene until both participants were nearly exhausted and. bleeding pro- fusely. They left the scene in their own automobiles and neither. would comment on the fight, "I've got a bump on my head and some of George Raft's blood on my handkerchjef for a souvenir," the lady trom the Middle West announced tri- umphantly, She was one of several women who hurriedly produced hand-, kerchiefs and dipped them in the blood spilled on the ground of the parking lot. Lioness Carries Baby Off--Saved Just In Time Two Northern Rhodesian settlers, Mr, and Mrs. Dechampel, had a ter- rifylng experience when camping io the jungle, says a despatch from Cape Town, S. Africa, They had pitched 'their tent for the night and were peacefully sleeping when a lioness en- tered -and - carried .off their baby daughter, ion = Mr. Deschampel awoke just as the lioness was disappearing through the tent flap. He raised the alarm and natives set up a terrific din to startle the beast, which, however, disappear- ed into the jungle with the baby be: tween its teeth, ; "The child's father, armed with a rifle, and natives armed with spears, immediately set up a pursuit and at last found the lioness lying in a small clearing with the crying baby beside it, Mr, Deschampel raised his rifie tor the fateful shot and took careful aim. The shot rang out and the lion- ess fell dead, The father ran forward and anx- jously picked up his baby daughter, who, although terrified, was little the worse for hier adventure, "Pardon Us" Nachrichten of Munich announces the "accidental death" of its music cri- tic, Willi Schmidt, Herr Schmidt's "accident" lay in his being named Willi Schmidt. Dur- ing the bloody purge of "traitors" in Germany, members of Hitler's special guard hunted him out and summar- ily shot him to death, ~ Then they discovered they were really after another. Will_Schmidt. The guard apologized to the music critic's family,--New York Post. - 4 . Chinese Servants Are Badly Paid fen Shanghai, China--An investigation of social usages in Shanghai reveals the fact that even wealthy Chinese families pay their servants only one- third or even ond-fourth of the wages paid by the average foreign family. A Chinese family, for instance, will pay $12 a month for a good cook, but a foreign family will pay from $30 to $46. The Chinese habit of tipping lav- ishly accounts for the difference in the wage scale. No guest in a Chinese home ever thinks of leaving without handing out-a "cumshaw' or tip -- the money usually being wrapped in red paper Yor good luck. At most mah jongh parties, a spe- cial ash tray is prominently display- ed into which the winner of each game is suphosed to put 10 per cen of his winnings. The host or hostess will first take enough money from the ash tray to pay for the cigarets and sweetmeats consumed, and will then hand the rest to' the 'No, 1 boy" for distribution among the servants. : It is a gala day when the master of the house sends out a wedding gift. The recipient must pay the bearer 10 per cent. of the value of what he receives. If the tip is small, the servant reports to his master, and the master will be deeply offend- ed at the implication that he sent a cheap present, 3 The turning point in a girl's life Is when' she decides to turn blond. The Nazi newspaper Muenchenor] Kitchener Girl Has Doll More Than Century Old How Canada amongst all domestic | Prized possession of a little Kit- chener, Ontario, girl, whose family is a wooden doll said, to be 134 years old, handéd-dowu-by her great-grand- grandmother in Germany from gener- ation to geneiation, ol : Brought to Canada in a wooden chest whose date of manufacture was indicated at 1800, the doll is believed to have been made the same year, The body is wood, with hinges fase tened with screw nails for joints. The head, made of a substance resembling plaster of paris, is solid and fasten- ed to the body with Bcrews, p Mute witness to the triumphs of Napoleonic hosts, to the rise and fall by no means preserves the fashions of the dying. years of the 18th cen- tury. Until the present owner ob- tained the doll from her mother, who in turn received it from her brother, "Fraulein Gretchen" wore a cretonne gown made with a bustle and an old- fashioned bonnet to match. Now, how- ever, she flaunts the acme of Twen- tieth Century modishness, Education a la Carte Fhen there is the bluff, hearty par- ent--the man who knows exactly what he wants, and does not hesitate to say so; "l don't want my son taught any of your new-fangled nonsense," he ex- plains breezily, "Just a good sound education, without frills! The boy will have to earn his own living after- 'wards, and I want you to teach him gomething which will enable him 'to do so, Don't go filliing him up with Latin and Greek; give him something which will be useful in an office. I know you pedagogues stick obstinate ly to what you call a good general ought to specialize a bit more, You're too shy of specialization you know. But [ say: Find out what each boy in your school requires for his -fu- ture career, and teach him that!" A Headmaster once replied to a parent of this description: "Unfortunately, sir, the fees of this school and the numbers of its staft aro calculated upon a table d'hote basis, If you want to have your son educated a la carte, you must get a private tutor for him,/'--From "The Lighter Side of School Lite," by Ian Hay, (Boston: Houghton Miffin,) Animal Shelters Set Up in Belgium Brussels,--Stray dogs and cats and even runawdy monkeys, are assured shelter In Belglim, for apimal refu. gees have now been established in most Belgian towns by the Belgian Society for the Protection of Ani. mals. é Most of the animals foand are goon restored to their owners, But if they are not claimed in seven days the officers of the society seek a new home for them, No animal whose home is known may be left at the refuges unless there has been lack of sympathy or unkindness on the part of the owner, 3 These strict rules, and the case of 3 of monarchs and empires, the doll{ grounding; but if 1 may say 80, you by a monkey which was given shelter at the town of Gand, exemplify the goclety's claim of convincing all by not merely a virtue, but a duty, Now Leads in Mining Believers in the material future of invited Canada will find plenty of good read- ing in the annual number of the Nor. - The challenge was accepted and |thern Mines, just off the press, The the trio adjourned to a parking lot fssue which runs into a good volume of reading matter points out that the mining industry is taking the lead industries. It, has gone far to help carry the Domin- fon through four years of world-wide depression. The rise in the price of gold has lent a tremendous.impetus to gold mining. The country now has the precious metal, the number of 3 Ena no fewer than eighty producers i mills having doubled in the last two years, with the hope that the number will again be doubled within the next two if promising prospects continue as in recent years to develop into real mines. It {8 anticipated that the gold production for the current year will run into three million ounces, valued at $105,000,000, and that the record for 1935 will exceed three million five hundred thousand ounces, worth up- wards of $122,000,000. i Nor do the gold mines account for anything like all ot Canada's mineral wealth, Silver and the base metals show signs of coming into their own and of enhancing Canada's claim to be on the way to become the richest and most productive mining country in the world. The mining industry has made the new amalgamated To. ronto Stock Exchange the second. lar- gest security market on this contin. ent. The demands made by the min. ing population upon the manufactur. fng industries and other sources of supply are exceptionally heavy. The mines "consume tremendous amounts of foodstuffs, rough clothing, boots and shoes and verious kinds of ma. chinery, The industry is, therefore, a powerful stabilizing influence, The mines are, moreover, users of elec: tric power on an ever-expanding scale. The electric energy produced at the Abitibi Canyon is proving a de- finite stimulus to several camps in the north country. In the words of Hon, W..A. Cordon, Federal Minis-, will not allow publication of her name, | ter of Mines, the mining industry, and especially th® gold mining industry, - fs the most constructive factor in the general economic recovery which fs now underway Nor should we over. look the important role played by gov- ernment geologists and airmen in the discovery and development of what is coming to be regarded our greatest natural resource. : Canada has now entered "a new mining cycle" of far-reaching signi. ficance. In emphasizing this assertion Tour contemporary presents detailed statements regarding practically every one of the active mining camps in Ontario and the other provinces. No publication regarding the mining in- dustry would be complete without a comprehensive essay from Hon, Chas.: McCrea, who as Minister of Mines, did more for the Industry in this province than any other public man. Here are some interesting statemenfs in capsule form taken from the Min- er's present number. Canada is first amongst all the nations of the world lin the preduction of nickel and as.' bestos; second in its yield of gold, platinum, cobalt, radium and zine; third in its production of copper, and fourth in its output of lead and silver. --Toronto Mail and Empire, Britain Improving School Facilities i As Planned in 1931 = Manchester, Eng.--An apt commen. tary upon improved economic condi. tion in Britain is provided by the fact that a number of schemes for new schools, which were under con. sideration in 1931 but were dropped owing to the Government's economy campaign, are now being submitted the Lancashire Education Commit. tee to the Board of Education, They include a new Whitefield girls' grammar school, a tender for which was accepted in August, 1931, amoun- ting to £38,710, and extensions to the Eccles Secondary School and the Kirkham Grammar Tonoar. Local education authorities in Lan. cashire are also contemplating erect. ing more schools, Wigan Fducation Committee has decided to build a new grammar school at a cost of £43,000. Involving the demolition of the: present school, this scheme has beh under consideration for seven years, and half the cost will be borne by the Board of Education. Boston's Bathing, Suits "For Rent" Belong "In a Museum" Boston -- Carson Beach bathing beautles grouped about Louis Lam bert, in charge of swimming suit rentals, and protested the antiquated outfits provided by the city. : The suits, resembling Hawaiian holokus more than the streamline models of today, are of a material. like burlap and bear in white letters across their fronts the words: "City of Boston, Park Dept." Miss Louise Hickey, 18, spokes woman for. the bathing beauties, told Lambert the suits belonged museum." "They rent for five cents," replied example that kindness to animals 18° Lambert, "You can't expect to look "like Jean Harlow for a nickel." "in a A or Tt E fp