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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-04-11, Page 2rin g of desert IIn a roam wish a: group of plUeera he Public Health always seemed to draw hitneelt 'into a o o (Mel q corner, as though anxlaue to keep out in Sister Province$. (Mel Cha�ra.etea f th ver�atian Lowvell'Thomas Throws More. Light on C91. Lawrence TOF SY'TUB.VY LIFE Mother Never Had 'Any Idea What He Would Do Next "Probably I shall never .marrY; am sureno woman would be -willing to pltt up with me," The speaker was Colonel T, A, "Lawrence of Arabia," the uncrowned Kling of : the Desert, who Is now its Britain hiding hie indeutitY tinder the 'disguise ot "Airolaftsmau Shaw." His present movements are as much ehg0uded in mystery as were his ac - teas during the days when, wider the burning sun of Arabia, he frustrated the Torics arid came unscathed through a thousand perils. . a e oou 'There he • was, a Parc/peen, and a, fair-haired, pink -4901W one et that; in Arab costume, tae only European In Palestine• in shalt ceneP1WUpns re galla. Of course, he knew this, But 11 didn't. bottler hien in the bast, There were plenty of army officers. la Cairo who used to scoff at. Law• renoe because Ile was seen irequentlY on the streets qt the Egyptian capital in his resplendent. Arab robes, They charged him with strutting. I knew different. He was playilig a game, He knew there were Arabe in Egypt who were watching him. Every move he made was relayed back to Arabia, He wanted the Arabs to know that he was. heart and seal with their movement and not afraid' to dress as they dressed, even when among his open people. He was an actor, and he played hie part magniflcentlY, even in the fage of ridicule. Annoyed G.H,Q, The. World War pulled him out of During theyears icnmediately tot - obscurity against his :ivlll. He was le lowing the war he led a curious 'ale to Cairo. in 1014, and given the in London, going .without sleep far job of handling spies. Ile •sent out two or three nights at a time, eating natives whose duty it was to bring hie moats with as much irregularity back information regarding the where- as any Bedouin in the desert, and abouts of all the units in the Turkish never knowing for certain where he Army, He was highly successful would turn no neat Nevertheless, he seamed to Irritate Honors Refused his superiors. He showed no enthu- Many people seem to have the hue slum for military formalities, and pression that Lawrence leas behaved thought nothing of disregarding raise in a strange manner since the war; such as wearing a Sam Browne belt,. that he changed his name to T. E. polishing his boots and saluting. Shaw and went into the Royal Air The Arab revolt broke out in Mecca, Force as a private simply beeauee ho The Arab defeated the Turks; then is disgroutttled over the way the ran out of both ammunition and an - Allies treated his Arabs. Many think thusiasm. Lawrence obtained leave that he has been pouting like a child, to go down the Arabian coast on a doubt if there is anything in this, little trip. His superiors were not I sorryto let film go. They thought writes Lowell Thomas in the London Daily Newa, During the time I was. with him in Arabia he told me what he thought would happen to the Arabs after the war. He said that French Colonial ambitions in Syria would probably prevent theArabs from which ting coutrol of that country, wt- they coveted. He also believed the British Government would be unable to keep its .promise 'to the Arabs. H•o;predicted"that Mingo would hap- pen exactly as they •have occurred; Furthermore, he said he did not be- lieve 'the Arabs -would ever be able to -prate as one nation, .because they are much too fond of fighting among themselves. I have seen him many times after the .war, and he does not seem in- curably. bitter over what had happen- ed. He 'tells me frankly that his own reason for declining decorations that wore offered to him was that he did not wish to accept honors in return for having put through a militay cam- paign based ou false promises. His refusal of knighth'od and other re- wards teas not merely an erratic move, His Mother No woman, I am siire, could ever understand Lawrence. Even to his mother lte is an enigma. I remember her when she came to tea at our flat in London one after- noon just before she left for the Oltinene-Tibetan frontier, 'where she intended to spend the rest of her days living with another son who is a medi- cal missionary. She was a typical English lady, a little softer and a little more cultured than many. rather thin, slightly taller than her son. Her hair was grey. She had twinkling, merry, blue eyes, with a touch of sadness in them, "She had lost her husband many years before, and afterwards during the war her two eldest sons had been killed, Col. Lawrence once remarked to me that those two were by far the ablest men in the family. Her face was strong .with some of the iron le• termination that yen see in Colonel Lawrence's face. She was just what you would want the mother of such a man to be. She said that she herself had never been quite able to fathom her son "T. E." or "Ned," as his family awl childhood associates called him. He had always led a topsy-turvy life, was something of a Bedouin at heart, and she never had the slightest idea what he was going to do next, "As a boy he was always climbing to dangerous heights where he should not go, He would go off on long, lonely walking tours without any companion, and without permission. Quebec and askatchewan Find Public Health, Unite Plan of Great Value to Public. Well Being WILL ONTARIO . FOLLOW Leading public health' authorities of four Canadian provinoes unite, la the following remarkable symposium pulled trout the current issue of the Canadian Public Health Journal, iu telling what is the natter with public health work in rural Canada, and how it can be improved, J. W. S. McCullough, MD„ C.M., D.P,H., Chief Inspector, Department Of Health, Ontario, writes that'll 99 per cent, of all Canadian municipalities, tate medical health officer is a part- time practising pltyeieian, appointed, by the local council "The part-time medioal officer of health, has been, to a large extent a failure," he adds—thereby condemn- ing the present system. "He is un- trained for hie work, is paid very little and that grudgingly for his services. His official position brings him into conflict (1) With his fellow -practition- ers, who will not report (contagious disease, etc.) to a rival in practice, (2) with possible clientele who fear quarantine if communicable disease is found in the family. This fact and the dissatisfaction Of persons who are isolatedfor the public good, interfere' with the doctor's practice and since the praotias of his profession is his chief interest it is readily seen that in the endeavor to serve two masters the, less remunerative and less attractive one Of public health is neglected." As a rule, this veteran autharity him rather trying on the nerves. states, it is oaly in large cities with 1(rheu he got to Arabia it was clear efficient medical health organizations, to him that it woad be fairly easy that any great progress is being made for the Arabs to win a complete via - in public health, and to remedy rural tory over the Turlcs. He passed his conditions he strongly recommends suggestion on to Cairo and they told the 'County Health Unit.' him to stay in the desert, He did, "The county health, or 'combined with the result that all the world now are' health unit is bound to come; the knows, only question is, how soon?'-he.writes, Medals In a Tin Box Asthe financing of these full-time Among the British officers who were associated with the Arab revolt'Law- rence came in contact most frequently with Major William E. Marshall, the chief -medical officer. They were tent mates, and came as •near being . pals as Lawrence ever becomes with any man. After the campaign Maier Marshall gathered together his own kit as well as the things In the tent that be- longed to Lawrence, and in rummaging through a pile of debris he fogad sev- eral of Lawrence's medals in alt emptychocolate tin. That was what the "uncrowned king"of the desert thought of his decorations. Marshall could never mention his friend without chuckling. Obviously he looked upon Lawrence as a strange freak, a sort of enigmatic wizard, a man equally brilliant as a scholar, military strategist, and leader of men. Several times Marshall remarked to me that Lawrence's one desire now was to get away completely—escape from the eyes of the curious world. He seemed to regard his friend as a combination of philosophy and iter - mit. I believe that Marshall understood Lawrence better than any other man, but unfortunately it is now impossible to get more iuforamtiou from him be- cause not long ago he went to the Sudan for further study of tropical disease and died in Ithartum: Mont- real Star. • MERRILL,. DENISON • Leading Canadian playwright, whose latest play, "The Contract", was .re - madly given premier showing at Hat House Theatre, Toronto. charge to lege .than, 3100: • Thie was an argumeut,.'tl at appealed directly ti the municipal commit. TOttehing union the matter of ilnanee, Dr, Younll writes: "I"would urge the eerie/11g consideration of the resoht, Non passed by the Dominion Counall of Health, which le mentioned atethe opening of title. article,, "Resolved that the Dominion Government be A•espect• dilly requested to 'further the estab- lishment of Full-time Health Unite -by the . voting oe an annual grant of money tortilla purpose." • The illusion that the eountt'y' le a much •healthier place to Itve In than the city is shattered by aa. 0, Middle- ton, M.D., D,PB , Acting Deputy Minister, Department of Public Health, Regina, Saskatchewan,: in a complete and. '•able summary of the County Health Unit Plan,, as functioning in Saskatchewan, "The vital 'statistics history in the registration area of the United States would appear to indicate that 'the, rural districts have at present a higher death rate than the cities," he writes.- "This, however, did not ob- tain' until the past 10 or 15''yeare. Previous to 1900 the mortality rate in rural districts was only about three- fourths that of the cities; recently it has been 8 or 10 per cent. higher" The most probable explanation, he suggests, is that "there is more effec- tive, continuous and . organized pro- tection of health in pities than in rural districts." Characterizing the County Health Unit as "the greatest single medium for the advancement of public health to -day," he writes as follows: "We are hoping to have at least four of these full-time health distrlcte in operation this year, and our objec- tive will not be reached until there are at least 26 such districts estab- lished. 'The Canadian Public Health Journal is the official organ of the Canadian Public Health Association—the Domin- ion -wide organizatioli of public health workers, All Departments of Health in Canada are represented. of the health regulations and with tl e th education of e municipal officers, to- gether with a secretary to handle tl e clerical work of the office which a, generally looated in the princlpal town of the'couuty, Tho whole population. of the county .is thus submitted o constant supervision on the part of this staff." There are eight of these units now functioning in the Province of Quebec, and four more will. soon be in opera- tion shortly. "In the counties where health units have been in operation fora period of two or three years," the director and his assistant write, "the general death rate has been reduced, and especially the infant mortality rate and the death rate from contagious and infec- tious diseases, with also a marked re- duction iu the number of cases, this being• largely due to better education of the .public, immediate control al epidemics, free distribution of serums county health 'departments, .the asci- and vaccines, and free ambnlaut elfu- ter's expressed personal opinion is its for tuberculosis; and child welfare: that the costshouid.be -borne •by "a How one community saved a''96,000 joint contribution of •the 'three elo- hospital 'fee, in a single, through meats -of government, the federal, the the functioning of a :County Y provincial and the. municipal." Dr. Alphonse Lessard; director, and Dr. Emile Nadeau, assistant .director of the Quebec Provincial Bureau of Health, write as follows: "What is .the 'County Health Unit" system which we are operating. in our Province of Quebec? It consists' in the establishment, in a county or in two small neighboring counties, of what might be designated as a'Bureau- of Health in miniature,' composed of a full-time medical officer, two or more public health nurses a sanitary in- spector charged Rioting in Spain Goes On Unabated Unit, isvouched, for by H. F. Young, M.D.; LL,D„ Provincial Health Officer,. British Columbia. "In the year •pl'evious 'to :the open- ing of our''first medicalunit, the dis- trict in which it was situated had paid 96,20 to• the Isolation Hospital for cases that had been seat into it," he writes. ' I • "The following year, 1928, under exactly the sante local conditions, but with a full-time medical health officer in charge with a staif of four nurses and a sanitary . inspector, we were with the enforcement able tp'reduce the Isolation Hospital Tablets to Rivera Are Destroy- ed at Universities—Gen- eral Strike of Work- ers is Now Feared Madrid—Though more than a thou- sand participants in the recent stu- dent manifestations have been arrest- ed, disorders are continuing daily in Madrid and in other university towns of Spain, and there is serious fear that the workers may take occasion to declare a general strike. As the jails are filled to overflow - He read ravenously, but usually did ing, many of the rioters have been his studying at night when others temporarily held at police stations slept. I always looked upon him as and barracks. Among the prisoners something of a genius." are many sons of well-known families, And when she spoke of her son as a genius there was no noticeable trace of pride in her: voice- Yet she un- doubtedly is proud of him, Genius though he may be, Lawrence Is one of those persona whom you would pass in the street without noticing, At a glance he looks utterly insignificant, whether he be in mufti or in army uniform. Rarely have I seen a man in khaki who looked less like a.soldier. But in the desert he was trans- formed, In his pure white Arab robes, with a curved gold dagger at his waist, 'he seemed to be an Oriental prince of Oiroasslan blood, or one of the minor Several journalists and professors also have been detained. At the University of Salamanca the students have destroyed a tablet com- memorative of General . Primo de Rivera's being made a doctor hon - oris cause and a similar tablet to the Minister of the Interior has been ef- faced at the University of Santiago, In Madrid show windows in some shops which had displayed Primo de Rivera's picture have been smashed. Nearly' all of the members of the faculty of Madrid University sighed a petition of protest in which the goy. ernment was declared responsible for the outbreak of the disorders, prophets come to life, a— —.Z. But ce matter what he wears he Steam Trawling Off Canada's Is most impressive in personal contact, Atter you have tallied with him for Coasts a few minutes you are struck with Steam trawling, as it is carried on 'the unusualness of the man, He has in the North Sea, was introduced on that sort of eye which ie often re. ' the Atlantic coast of Canada several :erred to 50 penetrating, year's ago. There are now 14 steam I first came to contact with him trawlers operating from Nova Scotia When we were both in the Holy City , ports. They operate practically the shortly atter Allenby had captured whole year and their catches are utile Jerusalem from the Talcs, As he gat ized entirely for the fresh fish trade, Unusual English View A POT OP COLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW The recent European cold strap put a temporary end the Ratnitow ens, "being a .slow burglar." If he Falls well-known beauty spot in Clydaelt Valley, Breckonshiree which was takes too touch tine he generally gets completely frozen, more time than he wants." Robot Traffic Cop Goes Berserk rin Toots Answering' g Philadelphia Motorists Find "Kidding theCop"Great Fun Philadelphia—Th'e "mechanical traf- fic cop" : stationed at Thirty-fourth Street and Powell Avenue has gone "berserk.", That may apt ,be exactly the right word but it has a sound that describes 'the way the "mechanical traffic cop hat gone. • .. To .the uninitiated, let it be said that a mechanical, • cop is -an electrical contrivance that •autotnati- belly changes the stop and 'go lights upon hearing the sound of the -mo- torist's horn. When the announcemeut came out in the Philadelphia papers that a me, ohanical cop was to be stationed at Thirty-fourth Street and Powell Ave- nue a lot of people, having little else to do and wishing to keep up with the world ,motored out to see how It worked. Tliey found the mechanical cop was an oblong box with an honest open face fastened to a pole by the roadside.' Certainly net much to look at •1.n' the .way of a cep. Along dame a motorist an dblew a clarion blast. The mechanical cop seemed toshiver ad the light went from red,to green.. Right behind came another motorist and he blew in a different key, longer and louder. At the other side of; the crossroads more motorists arrived and began to blow. The light went from green to 'red, paused on the amber then baok to' gt•.eea, More blowing and more changes, until the pour mechanical "cop" began to show signs of getting berserker ,and berserker. ' It was "duck soup" for the motor- ists. Never before had they seen such a sensitive cop, Why, you can drive 'down to Broad and Chestnut. Streets and blow your horn until your battery gasps for air and it has no. more effect on the traffic cop than if you were a couple of love birds twittering away in the spring sun. shine. That's how it is with a traffic cop who is regular at his trade, But the mechanical officer -that's something else again. And so the ., motorists were having a swell time "kidding it along," well realizing that they sel- dom got the opportunity to `acid' a traffic cop. And so the rapid changes from red' to amber tp green to amber to green to amber to red continued with the chorus of, many horns until a 'fellow came along with one of those sporty. little roadsters and a horn that goes ta, ta, tate, That "berserked" the mechanical cop, Hie lights went out altogether and stayed out, —Christian Science Monitor. Ear ni Notes THP SEED POTATO INDUSTRY Certified seed potateas Aad a ready market outside of Canada. Aboltt 000 Million bushels 'of this geed were itur' chased by Unite$ States potato grow• ters in 1927., Bermuda took mitre them 20,000 ,bushels the same year. Cuba is also a heavy purchaser ot Canadian. certified potato geed, The Cabaa. Government requires a special perti iicate which, is issued by the potato inspection staff of the Division o1 Botany of the Department ot Agrieul= turf) at Ottawa. The Dominion botao- ist, Mr. H. T, Gussow, •1 Ida repert for 1927, publithed by the Department of a: ger Agriculture at Ottawa, expresses the - expectation that Cuba will be in the market for Increased quantities of cer- tified'eeed this spring. According to this report approximately $1,500,000 was received by the cortified sped potato growers from the 1927 crop. This seed was all exported under the Official Extra No. 1 seed tag, In •ad- , dition, inore than two and a half mil- lion busb;els. of certified ` seed were made .available to the growers of the Dominion for the improvement of their Depart - table stock. All this seed is produced , ' the. De tart' ion of inspection l under, the sl condi- ment of Agreiultere at Ottawa. HOG GRADES BEING CHANGED The changing of marketing 'iQD tions in the flog trade has made it necessary to modify the higli gradiug regulations. The new regulations, 05 announced by the Hon. W. R, Mother- well, Minister of Agriculture,' provide for two main classes, bacon hogs and non -bacon hogs, The former are to ho known as ''selects and' the latter as "butchers." Tho maximum weights for the selectsremain as before, but the minimum weights have been raised to 180 pounds when taken all the cars :and 190 pounds after .being fee and 'waterel in the stook yards. The weights of the second class of "bacons" are to be the same as the old select grade, which was 170 to 220 weight off cars, and 180 to 230 fed and 'watered iu the yards, The difference between selects and 'bacons is merely a matter of length. as both have to be of such.tyee as'te matte, good ba- con. The 'butchers" grade will in- clude bogs :running from 160 pounds up to 240 pounds, and of smooth fleshing and good finish, although not up to the -standard 'of the bacon' grades. Compulsory ,grading at ship- ping points is required by the new regulations. Tais will enable tate farmer to receive the price: benefit' of such hogs'sbf the better grades as he may produce. ARTIFICIAL INCUBATION r Whether one is usiag the broody ,° YOUTHFULLY LOVELY. An interesting.exantple of what can be accomplished by the home seam- stress is illustrated in . a charming; simple dress that is utterly smart and feminine. It rathe" leans toward the new Princess silhouete with.,tr, swath- ed hips and timing side that dips the hem. Shirring in bodice' at end of V of collarless neckline is a new style detail. This attractive dress chooses black dull silk crepe with trimming pieces of sleeves . and looped bow at left hip of black shervelvet, For the 36 -inch bust, 2% yards of 40 -inch ma- terial is sufficient with % yard of 40 inch, contrasting Style No. 400 is de- signed in sies 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38,. 40 and 42 inches bust. It is very smart in printed. silk crepe, -self trim{, mel for immediate and all Spring, wear. ;Patterroprice20c111 stamps or coin (coin is prc'er.red), Wrap coin carefully. HOW TO ORDER PAI'TEI1NS. Write your.nutne-and address plain ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20e in stamps or pain (coinpreferred tem' it carefully) for each number, an address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toro.'l" Patterns sent by an early :.tail. >t itain, Great� and America Are Compared Spender Says Relations of Two Nations ,Cornplet m'entary, Not Com- petitive ul London—J. Alfred Spender, well- known English, journalist, was. the guest of honor at a luncheon of the American Chamber of Commerce .r0- acidly, speaking on "Britain dud America—Contrasts and Shailarities,'' lee said that', there was one 'fact of essential importancefor people on. both sides of the Atlantic to remem- ber if, they were to understand each. other, namely, that while the Uni- ted States had a population of only 34 to the 'square mile, Great Britain bad 6.00. Referring .to. differences be- tween the old and new countries, he said Great Britain was in duty bound to support the,League of Nations in the maintenance of European peace, Despite her war losses ,enormous tax burdens and vasttinemployment, she had stabilized the pound sterling. saved hundreds of. thousands of her people from starvation, and was meet- ing her 'just obligations, all of which, the epeaker declared, was an achieve- ment not without merit. hen or the incubator, it is of first im- portance that the eggd be -produced by good healthy breeding stock. The care the egg's receive has. also much to do with the success of 'the hatch. Mr. F. 0. Elford, Dominion Poultry Husbandman, in Circular 71, entitled "Artificial incubation," points out that the fresiter the egg the better -the chances of a good hatch. Allowing broody hens to sit on the eggs before they aro gathered is a matter of great importance, nor should the eggs be allowed to become chilled.. If the eggs are to be kept several days be- fore incubation, it is recommended that they be kept in a covered con- tainer and not in au open basket, which allows too much evaporation. For best results the eggs -should be kept in a fairly even temperature of from fifty to sixty degrees; It is im- portant to select only normal'. eggs for setting. Eggs that are extra long, unusually short, or rough or thin in the shell, as well as those that , are double -yoked, should be use dior other Purposes than hatching. hough hand ling is also a cause of disappointment, particularly at the beginning of the incubation period, when jarring may kill many germs in the eggs. The • circular, issued by the Department of Agriculture at Ottawa, recommends a well -ventilated 'cellar with a fairly even temperature for the location of the incubator. Fresh air is necessary, it is pointed out, but in admitting it draughts should be carefully avoided. For home ^hatching with au ordinary size farm flock a 125 -egg capacity machine is recommended because it 18' more convenient than a larger ma- chine to handle. The Congress has shown an inclina- tion to treat a President with the same kind of consderation it extends' to our birds and other wild life.-- Calvin ife.-Calvin {Coolidge. This place (Washington) is like a big summer hotel; you make intimate friends and then never see them again.—J antes A. Reed, ex -Senator from Missouri, "It is 110 use," says Sir H. F. Dick - to America, on the other hand, was a world wafting to be explored and de_. veloped, where there was no limit to the demand if the simply could be provided, Business, he said, was pre- eminent in lite United States, where if one were asked to name the six greatest men would not ,as in Europe, mention statesmen and' Politicians; but men like Ford and Edison, great engineers, inventors and merchants. America's vast natural resources and abundance of money had been bless- ing the whole world; not only had 1t helpee to put ` the disabled :nations upon its feet but had given the Ameri- can people a great spending .capacity, most useful in absorbing the products of other countries able to leap over the United States tariff wall, Great Britain manufactured goods which in some cases American genius did not supply, thus indicating the relation. ship of the two nations to be compia montary rather than competitive, The, American people, gaid Mr. Spender, were invariably courteous and hospitable to Rttgiislimen. Tile importance of a good understanding between the two cations lay in the fact that the United States was about to become the universal creditor 01 the world, Russia Tightens Its Liquor Laws Moscow.—The total amount of vodka sold in Moscow this year is to be re- duced by 20 per cant. compared with last year, and stricter measures are contemplated • against bootlegging, should this become prevalent with the application ofnew restrictions: To promote measures against alcoholism there is a permanent clause and lists of instructions which are given to the new deputi : now beirg elected to the Soviet, The Moscow Soviet in the mean- while has issued a decree forbidding the sale of liquor on holidays and .days before holidays when drunkenness is always most prevalent. For the fac- tory regions this prohibition extends to Saturdays, Sundays and paydays. The Soviet has also decided to cease. opening any neW liquor stores and to forbid the sale of liquor in parks, the- atres and other public places end to close the liquor stores in the vicinity( of soldiers' barracks, factories and schools, Kissing can be abolished without any violent self -denial, --Ralph Pickett. If the Police Departmettt fails, it Will be only because I haven't meas- ured up to the task before me, be - 0151150 my hands are absolutely free,, -Grover A, Whalen,