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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., JANUARY H, 1945 WHAT SC1E1CE IS DOING Vitamin Pills Vitamin pills had a severe joke played on them at Duke University's School <of Medicine recently, says the Christian Science Monitor. So tlid those who indiscriminately dose themselves with vitamins. At the request of the Quartermaster General of the United States Army 200 volunteer medical students and technicians offered themselves as guinea pigs for 30 days. They were divided into five groups, four groups being given varying quantities of vitamins, and the fifth group being given nothing but inert pills with no medicinal or vitamin value. Two doctors who conducted the experiment said, at the end of the time, that they found the same beneficial effect on the "pep" and health of the group given the dummy pills as on those who took vitamins! They added: It has been implied that, even when no demonstrable deficiency exists, one's sense of well-being and ability to perform work can be improved greatly by the addition of vitamins to the diet... There is at present no conclusive evidence to substantiate this point of view. Wc venture to assume that their findings will not be widely quoted ta vitamin advertisements. EARLY BIRD-WOMAN Madame, Helene Mortier, 67, France's first woman flyer, is pictured on recent arrival in New York en route to visit her husband, Col. Pierre Mortier of the French Air Mission, convalescing in Washington. Madame Mortier started flying with Louis BleYiot in 1908. Sign Aid Treaty Signing of a mutual aid agreement between Canada and India has been announced. The supplies to be provided by Canada, it was disclosed, consist chiefly of automotive equipment for the Indian Army. THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA General Statement, 30th November, 1944 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid up............................. $ Reserve fund.................................____ $ 20,000,000.00 Balance of profits carried forward as per Profit and Loss Account................................. 4,247,671.56 35,000,000.0 Dividends unclaimed......................... Dividend No. 229 (at 6% per annum), payable 1st December, 1944............................... $ 24,247,671.56 50,575.46 525,000.00 Deposits by and balances due to Dominion Government.......................................... $232,148,156.00 Deposits by and balances due to Provincial Governments........................................ 21,453,136.10 Deposits by the public not bearing interest......... 807,245,414.46 Deposits by the public beaVing interest, including interest accrued to date of statement.......... 592,851,469.10 Deposits by and balances due to other chartered banks in Canada............................ 3,161.92 Deposits by and balances due to banks and banking correspondents elsewhere than in Canada...... 23,183,358.61 Notes of the bank in circulation.......... ........ Acceptances and letters of credit outstanding...... Liabilities to the public not included under the foregoing heads............................... 24,823,247.02 I 59,823,247.02 ASSETS 1,676,884,696.19 9,580,371.66 42,347,097.19 1,616,390.59 $1,790,251,802.65 Gold and subsidiary coin held in Canada........... $ 1,775,041.40 Gold &nd subsidiary coin held elsewhere........*.. 1,402,082.55 Notes of Bank of Canada.......................... 36,421,787.75 Deposits with Bank of Canada..................... 105,209,611.49 Government and bank notes other than Canadian.. 79,047,151.39 Notes of and cheques on other banks.............. $ 75,260,199.08 Deposits with and balances due by other chartered banks in Canada.............................. 6,674.81 Due by banks and banking correspondents elsewhere than in Canada............................... 78,630,240.06 Dominion Government direct and guaranteed securities maturing within two years, not exceeding market value........................ Other Dominion Government direct and guaranteed securities, not exceeding market value......... Provincial Government direct and guaranteed securities maturing within two years, not exceeding market value........................ Other Provincial Government direct and guaranteed securities, not exceeding market value......... Canadian municipal securities, riot exceeding market value.................................. Public securities other than Canadian, not exceeding market value.................................. Other bonds, debentures and stocks, not exceeding market value.................................. Call and short (not exceeding 30 days) loans in Canada on stocks, debentures, bonds and other securities of a sufficient marketable value to cover................................... Call and short (not exceeding 30 days) loans elsewhere than in Canada on stocks, debentures, bonds and other securities of a sufficient marketable value to cover......................... Current loans and discounts in Canada, not other- wise included, estimated loss provided for...... $26i,024,287.72 Current loans and discounts elsewhere than in Canada not otherwise included, estimated loss provided for................................... 79,117,470.17 Loans to provincial governments.................. 2,109,729.68 Loans to cities, towns, municipalities and school districts...................................... 8,815,745.35 Non-current loans, estimated loss provided for..... 585,143.08 Liabilities of customers under acceptances and letters of credit as per contra................................................. Real Estate other than bank premises............................ Mortgages on real estate sold by the bank........................ Bank premises at not more than cost, less amounts, if any, written off.................................................i........•• Deposit with the Minister of Finance for the security of note circulation ............................;........................ Shares of and loans to controlled companies...................... Other assets not included under the foregoing heads.............. $ 223,855,674.58 153,897,113.95 438,082,169.89 299,945,251.15 43,459,453.93 28,545,560.60 16,754,325.72 81,310,288.45 27,493,292.52 25,885,985.74 38,620,089.00 $1,377,849,205.53 351,652,376.00 42,347,097.19 976,301.49 510,250.57 12,276,453.77 625,000.00 2,987,786.72 1,027,331.38 $1,790,251,802.65 S. G. DOBSON, General Manager. M. W. WILSON, President. ._____ AUDITORS' REPORT To the Shareholders, The Royal Bank of Canada: We have examined the above Statement of Liabilities and Assets as at 30th November, 1944 with the books and accounts of The Royal Bank of Canada at Head Office and with the certified returns from the branches. We have checked the cash and the securities representing the Bank's investments held at the Head Office at the close of the fiscal year, and at various dates during the year have also checked the cash and investment securities at several of the important branches. m"' . .'" . . . . . ,-- We have obtained all the information and explanations that we have required, and in our ©pinion the transactions of the Bank, which have come under our notice, have been within the powers of the Bank. The above statement is in our opinion properly drawn up so as to disclose the true condition of the Bank as at 30th November, 1944, and is as shown by the books of the Bank. M. OGDEN HASKELL, C.A., \ of Haskell, Elderkin & Co. I GUY E. HOULT, C.A., (Auditors, of P. S. Ross & Sons J Montreal, Can<*da, December 22, 1944. PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT Balance of Profit and Loss Account, 30th November, 1943....................................... $ 3,815,487.77 Profits for the year ended 30th November, 1944, after providing $2,127,214.86 for Dqminion Government taxes and after making appropriations to Contingency Reserves, out of which Reserves provision for all bad and doubtful debts has been made.................................... 3,812,183.79 ---■ $ APPROPRIATED AS FOLLOWS: ' T Dividend No. 226 at 6% per annum................ $ 525,000.00 Dividend No. 227 at 6% per annum................ , 525,000.00 Dividend No. 228 at 6 % per annum.......... 525,000.00 Dividend No. 229 at 6% per annum................ 525,000.00 $ 2,100,000.00 Contribution to the Pension Fund Society......... 880,000.00 Appropriation for Bank Premises.................. 400,000.00 Balance of Profit and Loss carried forward......... 4,247,671.56 7,627,671.56 $ 7,627,671.56 M. W. WILSON, President. Montreal, December 22, 15-14. S. G. DOBSON, General Manager. BEEF AT $4.50 A POUND Teddy, grand champion steer of the Chicago Market Fat Stock Show, raised by Ben Greve has been purchased by the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. Teddy tipped the scales at 1,170 pounds and auctioned at $4.50 a pound. Russell A. Firestone (left) is seen taking delivery of the champion. New Year's Toast Now, then, let's couple the Future of England with the past of England. The glories and victories and triumphs that are over, and the sorrows that 1 afe over, too. Let's drink to our sons who made part of the pattern and to our hearts that died with them. Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again. --New Year's Toast from Cavalcade by Noel Coward. THE IJ^DY DUNKS Urbanitis Urbanitis is a dimly recognized* disease, which appears to be throttling, the world little by little by the metamorphosis of natural human values into mechanical and artificial ones, comments the Victoria Colonist. Thus, jazz becomes music, blurbs become art, bosh becomes 'poetry, and walking two blocks is called exercise. In some lands, the disease has spread far. Night has become day, noise has replaced silence, and billboards exhort humanity to do everything under the sun, except think. VOICE OF THE HESS HE LOVED HER! In Nev\ York a man rushed into a restaurant and shouting, "I love her, I love her,^ stabbed to'death a waitress. She may be lucky at that. Supposing he had just taken a violent dislike to her? -- Ottawa Citizen. MODERN WITCHES Folks who used to make strange predictions about the future were burned as witches. Nov; they become columnists for newspapers. -- Brandon Sun. TOO MUCH An optimist is a man who expects a home atmosphere in a hotel and hotel service at home. -- -- Wall Street Journal. LAWS FOR OTHERS The reason- why there are so many laws is that most of them were made for "the other fellow." -- Kitchener Record. "COOTIES" "Strange Little Things Stick to Memory at the Front." Last war, they stuck to shirts. -- Windsor Star. $14,000 Nail The hazards on the farm were again demonstrated by the death recently at Chicago of the famous Canadian Holstein bull, Montvic Renown, which sold for the Canadian record price of $14,000 two years ago at Brantford, Ont. A nail killed him. He had swallowed it, and died following an opeation for its removal from his stomach. Special notice ABOUT COLDS Now when colds strike, relieve miseries with home-proved Vicks VapoRub that • It PENETRATES to upper bronchial tubes with soothing medicinal vapors. It STIMULATES chest and back surfaces like a warming poultice. And what's more, it keeps right on working for hours-even while you sleep! . Just rub throat, chest and back with good old Vicks VapoRub at bedtime. VapoRub goes to work instantly to relieve coughing spasms, ease muscular soreness or tightness. It invites restful, comforting sleep. And often by morning most of the misery is gone. Try VapoRub's special 2-way action tonight! When a cold strikes, be sure you use time-tested Vicks VapoRub, ^_✓ British Columbia's Japanese Problem The Pacific states, which formerly housed 110,000 Japanese, have a population 50 percent, says the Vancouver Sun, greater than the whole of Canada. In California, the Japanese represented less than half of one present, of the population* In British Columbia they represented nearly three percent, of the whole. Jap-town in Vancouver was relatively far more prominent than any single Japanese community \w the Pacific States of America, BABY CHICKS V3 r The Lady from Connecticut, Rep. Clare Boothe Luce, dunks a doughnut at an informal party given by 5th Army G. I.'s for Congressional delegation visiting Italian front. 'Sargent' Complicates 'Major' Situation It seems that a U. S.-Maj. Sargent has a sergeant major named Sgt. Major working for him at a training camp. Maj. George E. Sargent recently was appointed special services officer of the AAF training command station. In the athletic department is T/Sgt. Steven Major, who is the sergeant major, noncommissioned officer in charge of the office. In an appearance at a boxing show there, Maj. Sargent complicated the major situation. He called Sgt. Major, the sergeant major, (are you following?) into the ring to stand at his side. "During your travels around this training camp," said the Major over the mike, 'you'll probably see a lot of us. I am Maj. Sargent. This soldier at my side is Sgt. Major. If you call either of us 'Major' -- you'll be right. If you call either of us 'sergeant' -- you'll be right." 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