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Zonite Flayed. Makers of Zonite, chlorine disinfectant popular with women, recommend it for dandruff, wounds, ulcerations, pimples, boils, eruptions, sinus troubles, sore throat, noxious body odors, halitosis, and various other conditions. The Government decided that this was saying too much for a solution of sodium hypochlorite yielding approximately 1 % of available chlorine. Zonite was declared misbranded. Its merits as an antiseptic for some conditions are tacitly admitted...
...Freedom from these suspicions would have been enjoyed by almost any Labor leader. But Mr. MacDonald has personal qualities of his own which attract Americans more, perhaps, than they do Englishmen. His capacity for expressing religious and idealistic sentiment in public speeches is more popular and more accepted in America than in England...
...engrossing. But Biologist John Scott Haldane, of Oxford University, is not content to breathe his last in the special atmosphere of his laboratory. He has attained a comprehensive view of life, reached "matured conclusions." The University of Glasgow invited him to lecture. He did, and this book, ambitious, anti-popular, significant, is the result. In it Biologist Haldane attempts to "bring consistency into the inheritance which has come to me individually in science, philosophy, and religion...
Science is always a lap ahead of popular belief. Newton and Darwin are today high priests of truth to the man in the street. Materialism, once a scientific theory, is now the fatalistic creed of thousands. But materialism, says atom-wise, germ-conscious Haldane,"is nothing better than a superstition, on the same level as a belief in witches and devils...
...Ginger Cat" is an outstanding example of a certain type of mystery and melodrama writing that is very popular at the present time. It ignores one of the principles of good melodrama--that the reader's attention should never be distracted from the main story and the main characters, unless for some point essential to the development of the story. Of the actual writing, the reader should be always unconscious. The English language should not be slaughtered to such a degree that it becomes irritating, nor should the style be toned up to such a degree that it becomes noticeable...