POOR JOHNNY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12870, 25 May 1936, Page 3

POOR JOHNNY

teat painter wash in the MORN IN a ONLY SOAP AND WATER WILL DO ! A recent meeting of ciiomists in Kansas City apparently solved the mystery heboid, that “pahiful” washing experience to which. Johnny submits each morning, even though they couldn’t' reach a decision -on the value or non-value of alcohol diluted gasoline.

The simple procedure of washing a schoolboy’s oars lm-s always involved consider a bio mystery ivgardong what there is in soap that makes it, clean, “ft’s 'a. process; ol elect riiicntion,” says the Associated Press, reporting W. M. Hu bn'll and L. B. Jensen, of Swift, and Co.’s research laboratory.

The researchers found that soaps a■ o capable of electrilying such- materials as carbon (soot) grease and dust, making 1-hciv removal with water a sun pie process. But (he sad ■part- of the report, iroai Johnny’s point, of view, reads; “No other substance lias lawn found, which is as good a general oi.ennsi.ng agent as .soap.”

Manchester Corporation Parks Department spends £ISOO :*■ ywi-r in replacing plants destroyed by the city's smoko pall. If there were no smoke, the cost of replacement would bo only £BO. Emphasising this annual ravage of smoke ui Manchester, Mr Arnold Marsh, general secretary of the National Smoke Abatement Society, writes in the National Citizen: “A firm of chartered accountants estimated, on facts revealed by an incjiiirv undertaken for c. special committee of the Manchester City Council, that- if Manchester were as clean as Harrogate the cost of* the household washing per family would ho 7-Jd a week less. Tn other words, the city spent £242.000 a year pn this single item of the smoke bill.

Summed up (says a Manawa-tu expert) the. situation appears to be that dairy cattle'a,re in somewhat short supply nn t-biO markets. Incrdascd offerings; are not expected for several weeks, but Chase in- the trade anticipate a healthy demand in this section.'