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4 BOY'S BAD COLD TURNED TO BRONCHITIS The frequency with whick bronchi- | NINE BILLIONS IN GOLD WORLD'S TOTAL GOLD STOCK FOR FINANCIAL USE. tis develops into pneumonia is appre- | "elated by very few mothers. thers take into consideration that __& meglected attack of bronchitis fre- quently leads to this dangerous di- sease. "We would advise all mothers to | give their children Dr. Wood's Nor- . Way Pine Syrup the first moment they | any symptoms of a cold or oough, as by doing this they may save them from an attack of bronchi- tis or pneumonia. Mrs. Lawrence Quick, Sandwich, Ont., writes:-- 'My little boy, six years old, had a bad cold which turned to bronchitis. I tried every thing I thought would be best for 48, but did not see him getting any better. I was told to try Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup,and after giving Rim 'two bottles he got wonderful relief. 1 cannot praise it enough." Price 36c. a bottle; large family size 60c.; put up by the T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. 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UME BENGUE The | United States Has More Than 4 Third | Wan BREE da EE aetiatithe Gold Goln, Pyyition-- | --T108 | Fos Grade ually Flowing Back to Europe. | How much money is there in the world? The printing presses in | Europe have. been turning it out at to say, But a survey of the situation | brings out some interésting facts and | some extraordinary figures. |' An Englishman in Egypt sold some extensive holdings to natives and in | the final negotiations, having a mind | for Auctuations of exchange, named | gold as the basis of payment. When | the day of payment came neither | cheque nor draft wag tendered him, | but in the narrow street beneath his | I { window there drew up a little file of donkeys, laden with bags of literal gold. The payment was spot cash-- in bright new gold pieces mined in California, in florins such as have not been made for centuries, in pieces of eight and guineas of the seven- teenth and eighteenth centuries. It was gold drawn from hiding places such as one reads of in the Arabian Nights. In times of stress the invisible and hidden gold counts; during the war | efforts were made to draw it out and the melting down of old jewelry added $100,000,000 to the aggregate | supply available for monetary pur- ) poses. That, however, is only a { drop in the bucket. | The world's total gold stock for financial use was $8,245,92%,000 on | January 1, 1921 -- the most recent tabulation--according to the United States Statistical Abstract. The total in banks and public treasuries was $8,060,493,000, to which is added $299,980,000 under the heading "metallic stock unclassified,'"- while in addition there is the amount of gold in circulation ih coined pieces. This last item comes to no more than $185,338,000. Considering the world's" money supply as a whole, there is also the silver stock, $2,275,138,000. These figures are for countries covering virtually the whole world, having a total population of 1,6965,- 544,000. This reduces the world per capita circulation to the following figures: Gold, $56.16; unclassified, 19 cents; silver, $1.43; paper, $39.79. The world's supply of gold, whether bullion or coined, in banks and public treasuries, to-day is close to $9,000,- 000,000, of which more than a third is in the United States. Since the dis- covery of America the world's pro- duction of gold has aggregated more than twice that, almost §19,000,000,- 000. The difference represents the metal lost or absorbed for use in the arts and sciences. The United States is about to start getting rid of the gold which came when the war caused gold to Slow in- to new channels. In 1922 the United States held 40 per cent. of theeworld's monetary gold, against 30 per vent. in 1913. During that period cover ing the war, Great Britain's gold in- creased from 6 per cent. of the world's supply to 9.5 per cent. France declined from 20 .per cent. to 8.9; Japan rose from 1.9 to 7.7. To-day Africa is the big gold- Producing region. In 1922 Africa produced 63.3 per cent. of the mew gold. North America turned out 29.3 per cent., the ¢ nent's grand total of $90,043,000 including $49,096,000 from: the United States, $25,447,000 from Canada and $15,500,000 from Mexico. Of the rest, South America gave 3.6 per cent, Australia 6.5 per cent.,, Asia 6.4 per cemt., Central America 0.7 per cent., and Burope 0.2 per cent. Russia has been eliminated as a producer. A heavy movement of gdld, mostly bullion, to the United Btates, started in October, 1920, with the repayment oy the $500,000,000 Anglo-French oan. The United States had been mak- ing loans or shipping goods. The gold flowed there. The fundamental cause of payment in gold instead of fia goods was the ezhaustion of Europe. Its credit was weakened fn America; it had no commodities to send, so it sent gold when it had to close. ° The United States' net gold im- ports in 1931 were $667,000,000, but in 1932 oply $238,000,000. Less ia coming in and the United States ig exporting gold. The balance of trade is already against the JFnited States. Last year the country's excess of exports over imports was $700,000,000, but the truth is on the other side of the led- &er IL consideration is given to the 80 breathless a rate that it is hard' i °F - 3 THE DAILY BRITISH. WHIG wmvisible {tems suca as shipp.ag charges, travellers' expenses and re- mittances by immigrants. During the first four months of 1933 the bal- ance of trade was against the United States. In March alome that coun- try'd imports were $80,000,000 greater than exports. The difference will be paid in money of one form or another, and that difference will come out of the country's purse, where the gold is now. S--_-- HAY FEVER. Name Has Been Popularized, and we. Will Probably Remain. It was an Englishman, Dr. John Bostock, who, after suffering from "heat in the eyes, with itching and smarting, followed by violent sneez~ ing, tightness of the chest, difficulty in breathing, ladgor, and loss of appetite every summer' for thirty eight years, wrote a paper describing his annual torment, and because of its seasonal occurrence he called the "affection hay fever. This was in 1819, but since that time we have learned that a similar anaual visitation may come to different people at different periods of the summer, to some early, to some late, but not in all cases does it coincide with hayipg. But the name has been popularized, and will prob- ably remain. Dr. Bostock had an idea that his sufferings, recurring at about the same time each year, and always in the haying season, were engendered by the smell of new-mown hay. This opinion he held until, on the occa- sion of a visit to Ramsgate, he had an attack of the fever--without the help of any hay. This drove him to the new belie! that his sufferings were due to excessive summer heat. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of unhappy mortals went on sneezing regularly during a long period every summer for fifty-four years without knowing why they did it. Those who survived in 1873, however, might have enlightened themselves had they read Dr. Charles H. Blackley's paper on "Experimental Regearches on the Causes and Nature of Ca- tarrhus ABtivus," which attributed their annual complaint to the inhal- ation'of the pollen of certain plants. But "certain plants" was too wide a term to satisfy the medical profes- sion, and there starved a controversy between different schools of belief, one holding the view that all plants gave off the poisonous pollen; whilst other schools were more particular in their accusations. In the course of regearches relat- ing to this controversy, Blackley de- monstrated the remarkable fact (that will surely be comforting to all hay fever sufferers who are not airplane frequenters) that there is nineteen times as much pollen in the upper strata of the air as near the ground. At that time the hay fever season was usually regarded as commencing in the early days of June and last- ing until'the end of July, this period covering the appearance of the pollen in the air to its disappearance. Why certain individuals should be the annual victims of hay fever and their brothers remain immune has never been definitely established, says &_ writer in "Nature," neither has a permanent and wholly satisfactory cyre for the complaint been discover- ed. But wealthy sufferers may be- take themselves to certain spots in the world which are alleged to give relief. Ludy Island, and some of tie islands In the Hebrides, Heligoland, and Fire Island, on the Atlantic side of Long Island, U.S., are some of 'the places where noses are treated with the respect they deserve by the local flora.--Family Herald. Decrease In Liquor Consumption. Leds drunkenness was the natural result of a decreage in the quantity of liquor consumed in England and Wales during 1933. Statistics of the sale of intoxioa liquor in England and Wales, in a bluebook just pub- lished, show that during 1922 the consumption of beer per head was 16.86 gallong, 57.1 pe~ cent. less than that in 1913, a record year' while proof gallons of spirits retained for consumption amounted to 30.13 per hundred of population, 53.6 per cent. of that retained in 1913. Convictions for drunkenness numbered 76,347, mst 77,789 for 19231, a decrease of 1.86 per cent, but while a de- crease of 4,178 (11.16 per cent.) oc- curred in the convictions for North- orn England, an increase of 3,545 (18.7¢ cent.) wae noted in Great- or on. It is suggested that this is due to the greater pressure of un- employment in the north. total convicted, $3 per cent. were men and 17 per cent. women. The figures for men show a decrease of nearly 3 por cent, as compared with 1931, while those for women show an in- crease of nearly 2 per cent. . -------------- Movies Invade Cathedral. England's conservatism, which is sometimes easily shocked, has receiv- ed a real jolt. 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Hagedorn | led the attack dpon the petition of the Local Council of women, taking the view that the proposed clause to again don't you getone of those fearful head- 'aohes that drive you to do require all women to be accom- panied by male escorts would put many girls in the position of solicit- ing men to take them out to dance halls. He thought this would give rise to a condition even more dan- gerous than that which the Local Council of Women are striving to correct. The .petition of the women was backed up by a pointing can pass away, letter of Arthur Pullnfan, Children's Aid to the necessity amendment of the existing by-law, Dictionary is what you use when you can't think of what to use in place of a word you can't spell. No truth can perish---no CANADA'S NEW UNIFORMED CORPS.