The Clinton News Record, 1929-08-01, Page 6Eat What You Like
But Don't Be Greedy
By A. Marshall
People have always paid a .lot of at-
tention to eating and drinking„ chief-
ly
hiefly becatisethey liked doing it, and, of
course, there Is go hai'm in that as
Song as itdoesn't make them greedy.
Even being rather greedy -didn't
inuch matter when there weren't any
. shops and they had to go out acid hill
tlio nearest 'annual With arrows, So
they ate as niueh'ae they could and
after they had,slept it off they had to
take, a lot of exercise chasing; another.
animal, and they kept fairly well on it �I
and only suffered when they got older Fogs and ln&luenza.
through not having proper dentists:' Manchester txuardian (Lib.),: (The
Well, that wentou for some time; director -General' of Health in lustre;
and goes on nowamongsavages, but lia`,'.has' established'the fact that the
whenpeople began to got' more civil- influenza epedimie of last Winter
/zed they thought of keeping tame ani- started in the Friendly Isles in the
mals which they could kill whenever South Seas from which salubrious',
they wanted to, and growing corn and archipelago it made its way all over
tapioca and.. broccoli and all thosethe world). Those who imagine that
things. So then they didn't have to influenza is a specific product 'of a
take so much exercise unless they foggy winter and that the English cli-
wanted to, and indigestion began to nate can once more take all the kicks
C1'0011 10, and getting fat, and doctors must revise their views. Tile beach-
were kept busy finding out ways by comber who basks all day in the un -1
which people could "go on, eating morelimited sunshine of a coral island in
than was good, for, thein and not suf- I in even greater danger than the "un
fer from it More than could be helped. ban. Englishman going to the crowd
So that, is what you have to think bd office in the soaking rain. We are
about now because` there pis so little but the residuary legatees o- the pes-
time between f meals that hardly any.. tilences bred in the islands of the.
body'ever feels really hungry, and yet blest. Sciencemay hunt the•' -bacillus
they want to, go • on eating because thus far, but what can it do when it
`they like d ing it. has finally discovered the lair and. can
And so many ways have .been in read /earned vapors on where the
vented of making food taste. nice that germs go in the summer -time? are
some people enjoy it more even than we to draw a sanitary cordon round
leading` books or listening. to lectures the Pacific and keep our togs uncon-
on the wireless. .And as long as. they taminated; by South Sea bttctilli? It
'don't have too many pains Inside or would be nice to try, for. the part of
get so' that tiny' turn against food a1 the "globe" whose exports are the
together, they will. go on doing that, tikuele, the influenza, and innumerable
It Is the same with driailt3ng wine short stories about- beachcombers and
and beet' and whisky. As long as pee• dancing girls is net deserving well of
ple don't thing iitere of those things humanity. These islands wele called
than is ;good 'for- them they are all the Friendlies by hopeful pioneers, but
right, Wit if they drink enough to they may have to be reehristened in
make them drunk it does them harm tele light et a feverish experience.
and makes them a nuisance. to other
people who have to humor them.
That is why in America they have Montmartre and Mont' Royal
passed a law that -nobody is to drink Nei,/ York World.: (Prance laments.
anything with 0,100101.in it at alt, but that "at a season when Paris ought
most of them do because people don't tb have at least ten Americans to-
like
olike to be told what they are to eat every three seats in a dining car,"
and drink and'what they are not to; there are in fact comparatively few
they only niceto have advice about Americans to be seen). For this the
it. which I am ready t ogive, them. tourist agency blames the taxes now
Lately people have been Paying a imposed in France on foreign travel
lot of attention to what is called diet." ors and the well-managed bally-hoo
Ing; which is only eating and drinking which it believes tial lured tourists
under another name that- maker it into ,other countries, particularly into
sound more respectable. Germany and' England. Two other
They, are quite ready to' drop eating hypotheses seenf reasonable. First,
some things they. like if it will Mello that the volume of tourist travel has
thele less bulbous, or if they want to beau so enormous ip recent, years,
look like thirty-five when they are that Paris;. for all its charm, has lost
sixty, and have people soy, "Well, I
shouldn't -have thought IL" And viten
they Have •done. it for' a little ,while
they reply fie feel better all rotted, as
well' as,thiuner, . • ' '
Ttte only trouble about that is that'
when they have worked oft what are
called poisons in. the system, which,
really. conte -from stuffing themselves
with. more than they can digest at
titei rage,, and keeping 11 up for years
theifeel so hutch better that they•be-
gin to say, "Oh, I can eat and drink'
anything I like now." And then they
go back' to it, and it works at first be-
cause their insides have been used
to doigg more than they ought to have
to, and after a refit they are quite
ready to take it up again tend do their
best.
But they can't do more than that,
so presently they get clogged up
again, and then they begin to hicougb,
get busy making poisons, and it , all
has to begin over again.
One of the ways of getting tad of
poisons that is popular now is to drink
a great deal of orange juice, and some
people can go on doing that fol' weeks
together and not want to eat anything
at all. And they.feol quite well on it,
besides being as proud of themselves
as it they had - won the Derby Sweep;
and they say it clears their brains, so
that they like reading Bernard Shaw
better than Edgar Wallace, and don't
getso muddled up when they have to
argue with clever people. '
Well, it is all very well doing that
for a tithe if it suits you, and 3f` you
have beenso greedy that the poisons
absolutely fizzle ihside you and want
a lot -of getting .rid of. 13tit you can't
go ou living ou orange jutee for ever.
For one thingyou make yourself
such a nuieance if people ask you out
to have luncheon or dinner with them,
because besides having to buy oranges
and squeeze them out for you they
feel rather ashamed of eating salmon
and, lamb cutlets and asparagus with
you looking on all the time and being
SO superior about it. .And you have
got so that yott only want to talk about
Yourinside while they are merere iu-
terested in thele own Melees, and per-
haps in some other things like the
election. •
What Diet Fiends. Miss'
an occaslonat dose, and don't see why ADAMVMS()N'S ' ADVENTURES By O. ,lacobssonm,
they should give it up. .
There doesn't really seem to be
Much between "going ou as, usual and
giving up oating altogether. What It
contes to is that it y00 ,are greedy
and want to goon being so you had
better; look out or you ;will get into
trouble, and then only orange juice
or going to Vichy is going to save
you, But if youjust want to enjoy
having your meals but want to keepwell and; enjoy other things too, thee�
best way. is to go on eating the thing
you like eating„ but not too much of
then. and let them fight it out among
themselves.
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its novelty: Second, thatmuch near-
er -home than Europe we have Ontario
and Quebec, both' of which, now being
Wet, are able to satisfy at least in part
the :interests which formerly took
thousdnds of Americans to the capital
of the French Republic. It is at least
interesting to note that travel from
America to Canada is increasing even
more rapidly than travel ,to Europe,
and that no less than'3,645,450 Ameri-
can automobiles (10,000 Oars a day)
crossed tate Canadian frontier In 1928,
in the words of the Government, "for
touring purposes."
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The American Tariff and Em-
pire Trade
Ln Presse Mule: Whatever they do
the United -States will still need Can -
ado for.their supplum of raw products
and IC no notice is taken of When the Dominion representatives
principal industries. Their purchases
that the heeded to a. great number of their
y attended the War Cabinet In June,
of raw and semi -manufactured Cana-
dian products annually reach a figure
of ilve hundred million dollars a year.
Although they may increase their
tariff, they cannot, according to the
Hon. James Malcolm, sensibly reduce
the amount of their imports, whilst
we, ou the other baud, can easily cut
off many of our imports frons the
United States, either by increasing
domestic production, or making more
of om• purchases in Gre tt Britai
Best War Brains • A committee of Prime Ministers
y Aside held an investigation into tit edisaster
Thr hr : £1. Aside of March 21, 1918, and other gloomy
matters.
William, Hughes in His Book
"The Splendid Adven-
ture" Reviews Empire
Relative
Always known as a hard hitter, Mr.
William Hughes, who was Premier of
Australia during the war, has many.
cutting things to say in his book, "The
Splendid Adventure," which is a re-
view of Empire relations.
Mr. Hughes when he came over to
England In his official capacity, found
a great deal to criticize. He was not
very impressed with Mr. Asquith as a
war leader:
No' wonder the people of Britain
were, inexpressibly relieved when this
eloquent Courteous, honorable 'man
whom an unkind destiny had project
ed into a world which passionately,
savagely, demanded a leader who
could and would, if needs be, drive it
with whips through -the horrors of the
dark valley . , surrendered the
reins. Of power to Mr. Lloyd George.
00 the other hand; of Mr. Lloyd
George he says:` "No 0110 Inas did so.
mush to prevent .tee defeat of the
Allies.' He -makes a striking eomparl-
son between "L. G." and Asquith:
Mr. Asquith had read a very great
deal; Mr. Lloyd George had real very
little; some: held that against hiin, but
perhaps it was one oC his greatest
strengths.
Tho tines were ,without precedent,
and I have never that tree of
preconceived notions and' prejudices,
He made up his own mien. If he had
read more he would have been per-
haps less freo.
Careers Before Nation.
When people, have become civilised'
they like to talk to each other, while
they are eating and drinking instead
of :lust gorging as much as they, can
and sleeping -it off aftertvatds,, and
they even have tea parties because of
that, which savages don't do. So.you
nits a' lot of civilization When you
bring it all down to orange juice or
eats or vitamins, and clearing your
Main isn't worth; it, espeoialiy if it
Isn't much of a ibran even when it is
cleared:
Of course vitamins aro very im-
portant, and they have been finding
out a lot about them lately, and which
sorts of food contain the right ones
and which don't
They are interesting to write about,
but Choy don't seem to havemade
mach' difference .in what people do
eat and drink. Bacon and eggs Min
go ori, the same for breakfast, and
while :white bread has ' ero00ed lip
again, though everybody has been told
so often that if we go on eating it our
grandchildren woo t have any teeth.
It seams as if people will go on eat-
ing and drinking what they havebeen.
used to' and nothing Wil stop them.
Perhaps they don't believe it about
their grandchildren's teeth, or per.
haps they don't care, And most of
them seem to gel" on aII right, with
the Domiuiotes. Thus the balance of
Canadian trade wit become in favor
of the Empire, instead of the United
States, as at present. -
1st Freak: Tho India rubber man
says lie sees no harm In stealing if
you can get away with it.
2nd Freak: He has an elastic con-
scienes of course.
Two kinds of, girls—Pretty ones,
and those who, stand up in 'trains,
ther was some very plata sit
ing by them regarding the failure of
the military operations ou the West
era Front in 1317 and tate collapse of
the 515 Army in March, 1918:
They (the Dominion Prime Minis-
ters) drove their criticisms Home by
most striking enemies of inefficiency,
which showed that officers holding
high command, although the bravest
of the brave, and at al times ready to
expose theinselves to death itt en -
It knew that the Passehendale
offensive, the most useless, bloody and
deplorable battle of the whole war,
which swept away the flower' of ,the
British army, left the troops utterly
worn out, their morale seriously im-
paired and won nothing; it knew that
this desperate, this deplorable .adven-
ture was undertaken on the unani-
mous advice of the Government's mili-
tary advisers,
Military Etiquette
The Dominion Prime Ministers, ac-
cording to Mr. Hughes. were very
concerned not merely about blunder-
ing generalship in the field, but about
the system which did not permit the
best men to get to the top.
Prom what they were told,- it ap-
peared that up man, no matter how
able he might' be, could rise to a high-
er position than the rank of Brigadier-
General unless a proftssional soldier.
I know all that can be urged for
the professional soldier. We must not'
forget that the Army is his career,
andthat it is hard for such a man to
see elmself passed over for some civ-
ilian. .
13ut' as Sir . Robert Borden, Prime
Minister of Canada, aptly put it:
!"After all, issue before us shakes the
career of any man insignificant. What
{is the eareer of any man to use? What
'are the careers of all men put togeth-
er compared with the present issue?
/They are absolutely less than dust,
If we fall to use the brains of the na-
tion foqr :tete best purposes for which.
they ale available, it does not seam
that we eau have much prospect of
winning the war."
Misjudging the .End.
In July, 1918, though tic moral of
the Allied Armies was strong, "the
High Conneaut' had no idea that mili-
tary victory lay near at hand. The
Cabinet, for example, learned that
General Pltmter, who had boon doing
splendid work, proposed to continue
his successful tactics of nibbing con-
tinually and tapping at the enemy's
front throughout the winter. And
the work of preparing plans for the
1919 and 1920 campaigns was puched
rapidly forward."
Towards the end of August, after
Beavers to extricate their .nen from the very successful Birtish offeusive,
positions created by' their incontpet• Mr. Hughes visited Prance, and from
ency, had demonstrated that they what he saw and Beard he was con -
were quite Incapable of adjusting viueed that the end was near.
It is only fair. to Haig to add that
about this time he was endeavoring
to convince the Jenne authorities that
the war would be over before the
close of 1919, but Mr. Hughes does
not mention Haig at all. •
Everybody should read Mr. Hughes'
frank and otitspo.ken book. There may
be two views as to some of the startl-
ing criticisms he brings forward, but
the sincerity of the man. makes it dif-
ficult even to think there could be
another: side to his conclusions.
their concepts of war to tate conditions
of the Western Front. . , ,
Speakers quoted the example of
British officers who, holdign high com-
mand, had neglected to protect their
entrenchments With herbs dwire, de-
claring that they, ha dwon battles be-
fore without barbed wire and would
do so again. ,
The professional soldiers were more
concerned with- their careers than
with the welfare of the nation,
Most Useless Battle.
The Dominoes felt, remarks Mr.
Hughes, that the retention of indif-
ferent Commanders in the higher ap-
1 pointments and the failure to use men
of .ability who had entered the Army
during the war was 'responsible for
the disastrous consequences whigh
now, at expense of life and money,.
they must try to rectify.
Making a Living
Merely to make a living is a very
low ambition, We are here for some-
thing moll higher than that. We are
here to make a life that is immortal,
to gain treasures to carry with us in-
to the world eternal,
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Work
Let me but do my work -from day t0
day,
In. field or forest, at the desk or
loom,
In roarlug market place or tranquil
room;
Let me but find it in my heart to say,
When
vagrant wishes beckon me
eastray,
"This is my work; my blessing, not
my doom;
Of al. who live, I am the ode by
whom
This work best. be dons in the
right can way."
Then shalt I see it not too great, nor
small,
To suit my spirit and to prove my
powers;
Then shall I cheerful greet the la-
boring hours,
And cheerful turn, when the long
shadows fall
At eventide, to love and play and rest,
Because I know for me my work is
best.
—Van Dyke, in •"Forbes."
Just As Good
There was no gainsaying the fact
that P.C, Roberts was an outsize. His
feet covered quite a large area when
placed together, and they left deep
impressions where he stood.
So perhaps the little girl who was
spreading sandy gravel aver thegar-
den
arden path may be forgiven, for, as the
worthy officer passed the, gate for the
second time to five minutes, she ran
across to him.
"May I ask you something?" she in-
quired.
"Arlt away, missls," beamed the
constable, and tucked his thumbs into
itis belt.
"Then would you mind walking up
and down my path a bit; it's so Un-
evens and I haven't got a garden roll-
er."
Proof Positive
The man before the magistrate was
a stranger in the village, and lie was
most indignant that he slt0atd suffer
the humiliation of his present condi-
Com
"The constable seems very certain
about all the facts connected with my
case," he sneered. "But, if I may
make so bold to point out a certain
weakness, why doesn`t he call his fel-
low officer to corroborate his evi-
dence?"
"There is only one constable sta-
tioned in the village," said the magis-
trate sharply,
"]excuse rue, but I saw two last
night," protested the offender,
"Exactly," grinned the policeman.
"That's the Menge against yet:"
Sunspots Blamed
For Earthquakes
French Savapt Insists on - In-
fluence of These Solar
Phenomena
Parts.—in h recent' issue of "Le,
Petit Journal" the Abbe Th. 'Moroitr,
directory of the Observatory of.Bour-
gos, discussed the always interesting
question of earthquakes poriodisity on
which: he is a recognized authority.
He said: "
"It' eeemg to be still the style 'in
certain officialquarters to deny
periodicity in earthquakes. In fact,
we register, one year and another
about 3,000 eheeesr:but as far as in,
tensity goes the years do not resemble
one another.
"As our technique improves we suc-
ceedin rooting the slightest seismic
manlCestations an des long as a ea-
vant studies . the - phenomena with a
magnifying .glass the broad laws
which regulate them will very erob-
ably escape him,
"Here "is -a fact analagous to what
the astronomers observe. At present
our inetruments have attained such
precision that we can detect the
slightest perturbation, in the march of
the, planets: These -are far Prom . fol-
lowing orbits absolutely eliptical, so
that the general taws of celestial me-.
chanes would be more difficult to out-
line now than when Kepler`laid them
down for: the first time with the aid of
rudimentary 'observations.
"All the same one would have an
incredible lack of good sense not to
notice;in certain yeara seismicphen-
omena of extraordinary amplitude.
'That. we .passed through such a
crisis in 1923 cannot be. doubted by
those` who, road the newspaper regu-
larly. I announced that crisis, after
November 23, 1922, also in the follow-
ing January,. It was, moreover, not
my first venture ofthis sort, since my
first previsions Batey Prom 1902.
"If -I insist on this point it is not
at all to -grant myself the title of
prophet. There' ale enough Nostra-
demuses. My idea goes further. In
the thirty years in which I have stud-
ied' the. sun I have asserted in all
quarters of the world that alt oar clim-
atology depends on the sun. My cam-
paign caused smiles at first, and at
the beginning they called me, malici-
ously, the 'almoner of the un.' But
now tate matter is se far advanced
that it Is a question as to who is en-
titled to the honor of having discov-
ered that the dun's -spots engender all
calamities,
"In fact, those who have followed
my work knew very well that the sun
spots are only -one single manifesta-
tion of the general activity of the
great star,
!'And I claim that this activity not
only exercises au influence on our ox -
tenor meteorology -- rains, seasons,
temperatures—but also on what I call
endogenous meterology — that •wlilch
goes on under our' feet."-
- Limbs of the Mind
One is curiosity; that is a gift, a
capacity of pleasure in knowing,
which if you destroy you make your-
selves cold and dull, Another I tsym-
patty; the power of sharing in the
feelings of living creatures, which if
you destroy you make yourselves
hard and cruel. Another of your
Hines of mind is admiration, the pow -
et of enjoying beauty Or 'lztgenuitY,
"Walking Shadows"
In the Congo
A new understanding of the amaze -
meet and eagerness of an audience
eeelog the movies for the fret time
is depicted- i na letter from the heart
of Africa.' 'Mr. StegalI is connected
with the American Presbyterian Con-
go Commiogion.
Iu this -letter Mr. Stegall tells an
unusual story of a motion -picture
theatre in .the Valley of tlto Kasai.
A night in the dark of the moon is
selected for the performance because
in the tropics' the moonlight is•so bril-
liant as to seriously interfere with
the showing of the pictures;' -Tho
stage is outlined by two palm trees,
between which 18 stretched a sheet
sufficiently thin toallow the pictures
.to be seen from the back side as well
as the front, In Pact, Mr, Stegall says
that far more people se them from
the backthan from the front. From
'the back the titles will, of course, ap.
pear reversed and socannot be read,
but none of the audience can read
English, and so the titins are as in
telligible from one side as from the
other. _
Thn audience of natives sits on the
grass, I1 reaches far back' into the
jungle. Five years ago thea simple
had never seen a motion picture.
When the first one was thrown on
the screen it meant nothing to them;
it seemed to them to bo simply a
maze 'of shadowswalking on the sheet.
They called them "walking shadows."
and the name :has. clung . to them
ever since, However, .when Mr. Ste-
gall was able to show them a film de-
picting animalswhich wee °familiar.
to them:. a baboon, an elephant, a
tion, a dog and a crocodile, they quick-
ly
uickty recognized these familiar objects,
and, with this as a basis, th4 iearned
to "see" the pictures, ,
Another, unique feature of Mer Ste
gall's notion -picture shows is that he
ie' very careful not to advertise them.
This is to prevent the whole country-
side from turning out on a given
night. and causing a stampede ,as has
occurred occasionally. lair, Stegall
feels that his audiences are now
ready to understand pictures of real
educational value, such as will tell
the mstories of the great world be-
yond their jungles.
Australia I Wilds
To xL e Explored
Public Support to, Be Asked
for Exploring of Great Ter-
ritory in Northwest
Perth, W. Aust.—Although Atm-
traria has -been a British settlement
for close upon 1>ers centuries there is
still a big section of it—equal In size
t0 Great Britain—stili practleally un-
explored.
nexplored.
That section is in the far north-
west, about 2000 miles from Perth,,
with. Wyndham on the southeast eon
ner and Derbyon the southwest cor-
ner .as its nearest points of civilizes -
tion. A project to explore this area
and the islands lying near it has been
submitted by C. Is I(; Foot to Lord
Apsley, who visited Australia some
years ago, and to the British Royal
Geographical Sodiety,
While Lord Apsley is prepared to
assist tlte. British Royal Geographi-
cal Society, considers the undortak
which if you destroy you snake your- ing too big for it to handle, and
solves base and irreverent. Anther that the Commonwealth Government
is wit, or the power of playing with should take the matter up, Mr, Foot
the tights on the many sides oC truth, is now engaged in an endeavor to
which if you destroy you make your- source moral support for the venture
selves gloomy and less usefull and in Australia in the hope that if he
cheering to others than you might be. arouses local enthusiasm he will be
So that, is choosing your way oC work, able. to raise the necessary funds in
it should be your aim, as far as pos London to send .out a scientific ex
sib°, to bring out all those faculties, Dedition.
as far as they exist in you, not one Three expeditions have been throub.
merely, nor another, but all of them. portions of the area and peariers
And the way to bring them out is from Browne have landed tri some
simply to concern yourselves attest' of the harbors and bays ,but- up to
the present no properly equipped ex-
pedition
spedition has been sent out. So far as
is letown the country to be investi-
gated consists of apen plates, high,
ranges of sandstone, deep gorges
and ravines, savannahs, lagoons and
rivers. The lagoons are believed to
be, covered with ducat, geese, egrets,
jabaroos, cranes; and a large number
of mammals, while the rivers and
swamps abound in crocodiles and al-
ligators. The area Is inhabited for
the most part by aborigines who are
said to 'be the finest physical speci-
mens of tate Australian natives, lfut
are in many cases not well disposed
toward rho white men. Three'
churches --Anglican, Roman Catholic
and Prosbyterian—have established
mission stations in coastal portions
of this almost unimown territory.
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Perfectiozi
Nothing makes the soul so pure, so
religious, as the endeavor to create
something perfect; tor God is perfec-
tion, and whoever strives for it strives
for something that is Godlike. --Mich-
ael Angelo.
tivety' with the' subjects of each fa-
culty, To cultivate sympathy you
must be among living creatures, and
thinking about 111001; end to cultivate
admiration you Inst be among beauti-
ful things, and looking at them,—Rus-
ltiin, '
Responsiveness
There is one quality which, if we
could be •.veil liked by those about us,
is the most winsome of an that can
be named, and that is responsiveness.
Itis not what eve sa
y, but what others.
desire to say to us, that interests
the mmost. It takea quick perception
and real kindness of heart to be re-
sponsive. Sem° of tile most gifted
andcultivated men and women that
we' meet have not this quality, they
are too mach absorbed in their own
thoughts, or else in self -reflected acts
of, adnih'ation, but nothing' will atone
"Your school goes in for psychical for a plain face, or an ill -furnished
research, 1 suppose?"' mind like the Power to pay to those
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