HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-08-15, Page 2Tourist Caintes Science Reveals
And Public Health Age Old Facts
U.S. Health Service Issue Bul- Rare Relics of ice Age
letins Which is of Inter-
est to All Ontario
Towns
In limning long or short trips by life of man a.td aulnrnl in the fee Abe
eton Bbile fire ardent touring fan are more'. or less abundant, In western
often seeks the 0ut-of•the way roads
Europe, especially In; Franco, but in
in ardor to discover for himself the'central and eoutheru:Europe they are
more boatttienl spots of nature„ and,
extremely rare. The important re.
more practically, to avoid the beaten sulfa of excavations(witch have been
highways, which uozaBlc, uswnllle carried on in the Teufeleluelce Caves,
carry a very heavy traffic. This is near Eggenburg, in lower Austria,
Particularly taus if the Pens= is therefore, are all the more valuable.
planning anto camp blit. In prepare- IMahul through a local resident,
tion for automobile trip, the U.S. y
Public health statea that careful Josef IKrahuletz, who was an archae-
forethought is usually given to the ologist by hobby rather than by train -
necessary spare parts for the ma- tag, for more than half a century
excavatioue were carried on which
led to thodiscovery of the relics 01
Ice Age known to present-day natural
Is given to one's health and the safe- science—great elks, mammoths; wild
guarding of It on the trip. horses, cave bears, cave hyenas, rhi-
Tliia latter point cannot be too,noceroses with woolly hair, reindeer,
strpngly emphasized, because, on eta'
such. a trip, living conditions are of-
ten changed so much by evposure to
Inclement weather, lack of sleep, Ir-
regular hours, and other factors,
that the bodily meanie° may, per-
haps, become more susceptible to at-
tack from disease than It would un -
Austria Corin to Light
Through: Man's
Hobby
Vienua-1Oviden00s of pt•ehlstorle
in
abide, the kind of clothing to take
along, or the camping equipment
needed but often too little thought
Further, small flint tools and knives
were unearthed, not bigger than
safety -razor blades but of such stone
as has indicated to geologists that
either the primitive man who used
them came himself from some far dis-
tant place where such flints are to
der the normal home conditions. be found or had connections with
The safeguarding of the health of .that district. Small heaps of char -
automobile tourists, both on the coal excavated were recently ex -
roads and In the camps, has become amined microscopically by an .expert,
an Important public health problem. who has declared them to be the re -
As early as 1925 it was estimated mains of coal which had been form -
that in thirty-five States there were ed from the conifers, now found in
more than 3,000 camps attended by only the highest alpine regions. Thus
over 2,000,000 campers, In 1928, It clear •proof was supplied of the ex -
was estimated that, in California tremity of the climate 16,000 to 18, -
alone, there were 1,400 automobile 000 years ago.
camps. In other States, particul- Excavations are being carried on
arty those with well advertised by Prof. Josef Byer, a leading Aus-
scenic areas, there were probably
several thousand others. Invest-
ment in camps of all kinds in the
State of Maine bas been estimated
to exceed $5,000,000. Much has been
done within recent years to improve
tourist camps, but there Is yet much
more to do. For example, In one
State in 1926 ,there were 233 camps
iaspoeted and only 104 of these could
be approved.
The problem Is not a simple one
but involves three importaut factors;
First, an intelligent understanding of
the situation by the people; second,
the co-operation of State and local
authorities, and the support of °M-
elal and voluntary organizations;
and, third, and •most important, the
fixing of the responsibility for the
maintenance of sanitary couditios,
In many States the resposibility for
the sanitation of tourist camps bas
been delegated to State health of-
ficers by law, and in others, those
agencies have undertaken it without
express authority. In a few States
where the State agency is doing the
work, part or all of the authority
has been ,transferred to district or
local agencies or groups. Uneort-
nnately, there are a few sections in
which the responsibility for the work
has not been positively assumed by
any particular department or group.
However, these sections are in the
minority, because within the last few
years much careful thought and dilli-
gent effort has been given by health
' authorities as a whole to making liv-
ing conditions for campers as nearly
suitable for them as possible.
trian authority on prehistoric man,
who hopes to discover the remains
of human beings from the Soiutre
period—contemporaries of those
whose bones were excavated at
Soiutre In France—In addition to
other evidence of first importance to
a scientific knowledge of the ice
period. The excavations hitherto
made in this cave, which seems un-
doubtedly to have served as a hunt-
ing station for prehistoric man,
are all carefully preserved in the
Irrahuletz Museum at iilggenburg.
Nordic Exhibition
Is Held at Kiel
Such State agencies as have start-
ed tourist camp sanitation work have
usully set up regultions governing
the proper construction and mainten-
ance of this kind of camp. The three
principal items in any set of regula-
tions might he given as follows: (1)
Proper camp location; J2) Safe and
adequate water supply; and (3) Sate
anti efficient waste disposal.
What is the effect of loetion on a
tourist campground? This question
might be sub -divided as follows: (1)
Is the site of ample size? (2) Is it
provided with a reasonable amount
of shade and natural shelter? (3)
Will the soil readily absorb and re-
• move water? (4) Is the site acces-
sible to the tourist? (5) Are utilities
avai.lahle from the city, and, if not,
are conditions such as to permit
installation of the necessary facil-
ities? (6) Is the site susceptible of
sm division into units? It these
questions can all be answered in the
affirmative in the selection of a parti-
cular site, that site should he au ac-
ceptable ono.
ARE SWUNG OPEN FOR FIRST TIME IN 50 YEARS
Swiss Guards swinging wide the huge bronzed doors of the Vatican the
first time in over half a century they have been opened.
Cloudless Weather
London—The 13th cloudless day
throughout all England sees the
drought threat intensified, and the
newspapers are publishing photo-
graphs of empty reservoirs in North-
ern England where the threat is
worst.
Manchester has only 28 days' sue -
ply of water left, while Batley, Centre
of the woollen trade, bas only 17. In
many northern towns the water is be-
ing cut off for 12 hours at night,
which has reultod already in a
thousand men being thrown out of
Hamburg—A most unusual exhibi-
tion and athletic meet of the Nordic
countries has just taken place at Kiei,
Ger„ well expressing the present
friendliness and community of inter-
ests of these northern countries.
Artists, museums and collectors vied
with one another in sending. tht,ir.
choicest treasures, and leading men
of letters and of sport arrived to re-
present their countries.
There were textiles, wood carvings
and wrought iron work from Sweden
and Lapland, fascinating old cup-
boards, chairs and carpets from Nor-
way, fifteenth century and modern
ceramics, textile and carvings from
FInland, costumes, house utensils and
pottery from Denmark. The Ice-
land exhibit• was small, but showed
interesting wood carvings and Intric-
ate silver filigree work.
Northern architeoturat tendencies
of yesterday and today were illustrat-
ed in photographs, plans and models
and modern painting, sculpture and
arts and crafts in well-rounded dis-
plays.
Lectures were given by leading ex-
ports in art and general science, the
Premiers of "Paul and Virginia,” by
Sophus Michaelis, was staged at the
opera and such operas and plays as
"St. Matthew's Passion," Hebbel's
"Herod and Marianne" and Strand-
herg's "To Damascus" were given be-
fore enthusiastic audiences.
Ways and Means
Edinburgh Weekly Scotsman solved by comma effort and a gen-
(Cons.): If the Government manages oral recognition of the necessity of
to manoeuvre its Way with safety a- understanding the new condltions and
Meng the rocks of controversial acting appropriately. Even the an-
imals are leat'ning the lesson, The
"road sense" of dogs has undoubtedly
improved; even birds and the wilder
creatures of the country -side are -less
Commonly killed than they used to be,
despite the vast increase in traffic.
It is not credible that man alone
should be unable, or unwilling, to
learn by the use of his reason what
Briand Pan -Europa.
Plan Held Result
Of Years of Work
Coins of Herod
Come to Light
Coins
Vienna—Count ltlobar•d Couden-
h°ve-Kalergl, founder of the Pan.
European movement, and advocate of
a United States of IOnrope, dlsoussing
in the press M. Briand's proposal to
summon the first Pan -Europeen gov-
ernmentconference this year, says le grown are planned by the Peasant citeznen an
that many reports to the aontrarY women's Association of Norway. The very voting'
notwithstanding, M. Briand's decision The sun bent down upon the still
de -
cosh 02 each rkrrer would be no
is not improviehed, but is the outcome more than 5000 or 0000 crowns and it and the Warmth be glowed with eh.
of his deliberate Policy, upon which is proposed to adapt them to all sorts llcious warmth Ilteapa the touch.
he has been working consistently Aud the resin, or the paint, or what1
et fruits and berries. These propos-
through the meetings at Cannes and cls follow the success of the great ever it maY be. that gives out ouch.
Loear•no and through the Kellogg oauuery which has already beon built beneath
the compelling waves of heat,
pact. at Tpten and which, however, only caught' at something that had long
Canneries For All Sunbonnet Holidays
Fruit Areas, , i xn of i'here eazne a spent had the r000e
No
from the 0Ne11 window, 0110 02
rwegi tlt <i inert those renduiseent whiffs that have
more subtlety than a11.. the fiowor
at
Large Number of Small Plants scents put together, *Unnoticed
Proposed byFarm ; Are.,. it persisted, and grew. in
' strength with the power of the ' 81111,
Association And an the while it talked 01 sonic•
Oslow, Norway. -Small canneries, to thing that had once happened, a Moab
be built ht all districts; where fruit definite haPpouiug, miac0d
with ex.
t d seaside doings and being
Only nocesettlepaent of outstanding
problems Prom the war paused M.
Briand to, postpone the summoning of
the eauferenee atter the Pan-Ameri-
can conference last fall 1M. Briand
dismissed the Pan -Europe proposal
with the statesmen of the last League,
of. Nations Council meeting in Mad-
rid and found no opposition:
Count Coudenhove-Kalergt oonsld-
ers the present time favorable for
M. Briand's action. Now, he says,
a decision must be made between the
old policy of balance of power, which
led to the war, and a new Policy of
economic and political oo-operation
within the framework of the Euro-
pean cultural unity, "The fifteenth
anniversary of the outbreak of the
last war will soon come," says the
Count, "when the question of war
guilt will again arise; but a more
important question is the responsi-
bility 1n any future war. All opp0'
rents of the United States of Eur-
opa
de-
Three Tombs Found in Pale-
stine Shed Light on
Biblical History
Jerusalem—Discovery of three
tombs belonging to three distinct
periods of Palestine's history has been
announced by Dr, William F. Bade,
director of the Pacific School of Re-
ligion, Berkeley, Ca1l2„ excavating at
Tell en-Naebeh, which Dr. Bade be-
Illeves is the sate of the ancient .Miz-
work. effect drought is the Pah.
The discovery was made just as
enhancement of food , prices which,
with reports of the Canadian, crop
shortage and an Increase in wheat
prices, makes alarming reading for
householders.
Canned Foods
London Times (Ind.) : The British
people insist on' having a large supply
of tinned foods. It 11 extremely fool-
ish, therefore, to continue to buy
manufacturers are capable of pro-
ducing them themselves and have an
overwhelming abundance of the
necessary raw material ready to, their
hands. The sane economic policy is
in fact so obvious that there must bp
some reason, good or bad, •why it has
not long ago been extensively adopt-
ed. The only. real reason—and it is
not a good one—is that in the minds
of many people there is an old -es-
tablished prejudice, to some extent
fostered in the past by the medical
profession, against the consumption of
tinned foods, on the ground that they
may be productive of some form
of ptomaine of microbic poisoning........
As a matter of fact, there is really no
risk at all. More recent medical opin-
io; has emphatically and authorita-
tively declared, after exhaustive ,re-
search,
re•search, tbat, whatever may once have
been the case, modern methods of
canning are so perfect that tinned
foods produced by reputable firms are
now absolutely above suspicion, and,
moreover, that they contain at least
as large a proportion of the neces-
sary vitamins as.the same food when
fresh and unpreserved. The case for
tinned foods as wholesome and nut-
ritive articles of diet is, in fact, de-
finitely established.
the excavators were preparing to end
their work of the season The :first
tomb contained an assortment of pot-
tery, beads and jewelry from the se-
cond phase of'the Iron Age in Pales-
tine, and may be dated from about
600 B. C.
There was evidence that earlier
occupants had been removed during
the Hellenistic period, because prac-
cically all the furniture was left In-
tact.
Of special interest to Biblical stu-
dents is the second tomb, because
of a coin found in it dated in the reign
of Archelaus, cruel son of Herod the
Great who ruled from 4 B. C. to 6 A.D.
During his reign, according to Mat-
thew, the parents of Jesus, upon their
return from Egypt to Nazareth, avoid-
ed Judea in order to escape persecu-
tion. Other objects in the' tomb were
equally interesting, belonging in point
o; time to the boyhood of Jesus.
An unusual assortment of pottery
from the early Iron Age (1200 to
800 B. C.) was found in the third'
tomb. There were more than 50 ba -
tact saucer lamps and an equal num-
ber of broken ones. Scores of small
black jars with loop handles, '.pre-
sumably for oil, and about 30 beauti-
fully burnished bowls, including a
unique jug in the form of a beehive
were discovered.
Dr• Bade belleves this 'is the larg-
est tomb group ever unearthed in
Tell en-Naebeh, and hopes a more
definite date of its construction may
be discovered after careful study of
two fine Egyptian scarabs found
there,—Christian Science Monitor.
Speed and Safety
London Daily News and Westmin-
ster (Lib.) : It is not the motorist only
who is concerened in this matter;
the pedestrian has his responsibilit-
ies, which he has no right to ignore,
for the promotion of the general safe-
ty; school teachers and mothers have
theirs; the police and road authorit-
tee theirs also. Despite the continu-
ed rise in the percentage of accidents,
there is no reason to doubt that the
problems of the new speed age can be
measures it can hardly escape the
;quicksands of finance, which, form all
appearances, it is disposed to ignore.
Schemes rfor the redaction of unem-
ployment and the encouragement of
industry will have general support
it foupded on a sound financial basis,
but it enure rather badly for the sue -
Cass of such schemes that the Prime
Minister has already committed him- instinct has so rapidly taught tliee's.
Melt to tl'ie declaration that safe- .,
guarding must be, regarded as a dead Outward Bound
letter, What other method can be de-
yised for the encouragement of the As one cel distant travel bent
.depressed industries, to which less ob- Looks seaward from the shore
jectiou can be taken, remains to be Of thie familiar Continent,
seen, The revenue of the country de- Soon to bo known no more,
vends mit flourishing industry, and al -
through the Goveruruent proposes to So o'er' tate boundless sleep I gaze,
Inquire into the means or restoring Fearless, and yet alone,
tile reining;:iron and steel, and cotton Powerless to pierce the shining haze
industries, this prejudice against a, That veils the Vast unknown,
tried '1i11a effective Method. is not' —George Douglas lu the Glasgow
hapefn -. Herald, .
handles surplus apples,: flair s
The aim of the farm women of Noi•- nese, and found you, a small' sun
way is to stand side by side with the bonneted Figure in a blue eerier
farmers' associations in -their effort tol fi•°cic, standing .on the deck of a
raisethepeasantry economict'lly and pleasure steamer on a very hot day.
culturally. And the polished woodwork that
' One of the great purposes of the topped the railing, between you and
association under the. leadership of the marvelous water gave forth a
Mrs, Olga Bjoner, is' to, secure a bet- 'scout -from its 'Welty surface that for
ter school system and to get better
some unaccountable reason stood for 1
representation of ' woman on the summer and the seaside.
Blissful were those sunbonnet holt.
days. They began•each year with the
buying of a piece of strong ltessiaw
and a large packing needle, All the''
boots' and shoes of the family were
packed• Into the round nursery bath.
evping, shook it into wakeful
school boards. It also seeks to make
education more suited to' present-day
requirements and to st strengthen the
religious teaching in schools.
Their aim is also to elevate family
life, to enlighten the people as to the
evils of alcohol and to work. for a and the hessian was. sewn over lir
better understanding between neigh- with he he enormous etitolzes se string. The
black trunks were brought down from
boring districts and between classes.
As far as possible, libraries will be or• the box -room, smelling a thele musty
when their trays `vete lifted out. The
gaThe daasociation has talion up the last year's labels, dusty and crumpled;
development of all kinds of home in- were cut off and new ones, written
must share that guilt. In
and in order to support these with great care, tied on. A .knot et
e
industries it tries to make people use scarlet tape was also affixed to the
forth o statea people have hones- home products. Spinning, dyeing, handles so that the trunks, glad -
forth no right to blame the ,govern- d It 1almsatone-bags, .told -alts, and bath could
Ment alone for the decisions taken•
weaving are encouraged. also
at exporting different products or the easily to Identified at each place
where the family was obliged to
Naval Parity home industry. • ,
In order to promote the sale of diY-
London Abserver (Ind.): Two ferent home products the association
things must follow from the dant- has formed sales offices In different
tion of equality. The first will be a districts.
swift and drastic reduction of arma-
t inevitable when cautious ad•
men s n Florence It I
miraitjes need no longer provide for
9 a Y9 •
certainties. The second, equally in•. the. cat in from the garden; the cap•
evltable, but even more aiguificaut, Florence; Italy, - Florence was tering et him with.ahntites and rushes
will be a disarmament of men's minds.
shaken by an earthquake. The shock over, under and around the luggage,
With equality, established in mea -
considerable
u eighto anddidand the final banging of the front
surably terms, there must needs van- lasted about seconds a door as he was taken, in consoling
all elm• considerable damage to wall and roofs
eh al suggestions of rivalry, in' neighboring villages • arms, to the house of a kindly neigh -
menta of covert competition, between,
Britain and America on–the oceans.
This Is the very substance of the
peace which we have all dreamed of
since 1914. •
change trains.,On the very last night
before departure all the luggage was
assembled in the hall, a barrier to
entrance or exit, but a glorious con-.
firmatiou of the actuality of things.
And then, as if to add the last
drop to a cup of exquisite happiness.
Met as you were Palling asleep,, the
J. R. a margin
Rocked 9Q Quake a large margin of safety to cover un' "'tSy � sonic of Cook's patient voice sailing
George: "Why don't you adver-
tise?" Town Storekeeper: "No,
scree, I did once and it pretty near
First Proud Mother—"My Leslie
has done awfully well again at run•
uing and jumping. He's just won his
seventh cup." Second Proud Mother
—How strange you should mention
sport, Mrs. Dubbin. I've just heard
from an unofficial source that my boy
Roofs fell and crevices appeared in
hos to board.
walls in Bongo, San. Lorenzo, Vicchio,
Barberino, and Firenzuola, but no per- A wooden, yellow bus conveyed the
family and lt:ggage to the stationY
renal injuries have been reported., but not until the train Was,actuall
The quake which was of'undulatory moving from the platform did you
Permit from the platform did yon
permit yourself to feel perfectly sure
that some final decision would mot
be made to' turn back and go . home
again. •
Seaside holidays! The first glimpse
of, a strip of blue at. the 'end of a
clean, neat little road. The rushing
into a neat littleshop to buy spades
and buckets; the being sent off with.
the father of the family to the sands
while the mother and nurse saw to
the unpacking and everything else.
The finding of a newly tide -swept,
beach; al fresh and firm, with don-
keys standing in a semicircle, each.
with a different colored baud across
its head and each with a mime
painted clearly thereon so that you
could choose your own doniceY and
have it for yourself all the holidays
through. And then the final crawling
into high beds at nightfall, with won-
derful sheets beneath your chin, and
.stiff pillow -cases beneath your head
and the drowsy tumbling through a
newly found space of freedom into a
sleep of exquisite happiness.
"What do you say to a motor holi-
day this year?" said a voice from the
room. "Just a suit case in the back,
you know, and no bother with trains."
the standpoint of Europe, Che greatest The sun had left the window sill,'
of republics is a stupendous un1. and the wooden frame was no longer
form mass. Its people are believed warm. Silently, without saying good -
to" have been welded into a mighty IV, the sunbonnet • had slipped back
sameness; to have become a siagle into the shadows.
standardized community, feeling, say-
ing anal doing the same things under
the pressure of a common continental
system. To the American himself;
especially if be belongs to the older
Anglo-Saxon stock;' this European no-
tion of the United States"is an absur-
dity. So far from the American 000 -
character caused many to desert their
houses and spend the night outdoors.
Its epicentre was believed to be about
25 miles distant.
The Piazza Michelancelino and Le
Casein were full of fearful people,
while the population of the hamlet
Mugelo went out into the fields to
sleep.
At Bologna the shock was lighter
than at Florence. At'Defenza the in-
habitants were greatly alarmed.
BELGRADE SHAKEN.
She (Maytag show) : That play
was absolutely all talk.
He: Well, it's entitled "The Wo-
man," you know. •
Imperial Preference
Victoria Times (Lib•): When Mr.
Bennett preaches Empire trade as if
It was something new that only he
had thought about-lustead of a flx-
ed Liberal policy which was based on
the British Preference as far back
as 1897-11 should be remembered
that the party of which he is the lead-
er fought the Imperial Preference,
the Canadian -Australian treaty and
Canadian-Britislt West Indies Treaty
—11 designed to foster trade between
these parts of the Empire.
"When'll ye be getting marrit, Don -
ruined me." George: "Bow's that aid?" "Oeh, I clans leen. Sarah has
Town Storekeeper: "Why, people Launcelot, who is a bit of an athlete, some printed stationery she must use
came iu and bought darn near all the has won a cup and saucer, too, at ftp first, and she disna write much on
stock I had." 'Hoopla; whatever that may be." account of the postage."
Figure It Out For Yourself!
THINGS START MOVING BUT WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?
Cambt'a'man records a fast moment In a recent Now York hall game between 1320011170 and 01, Louis.
Belgrade.—A severe earthquake was
felt here. The epicentre was estimat-
ed to be about 60 miles away in the
Rudnik district.
POPULACE IN PANIC.
Buenos Aires.—The populace of
four towns are recovering from panic
caused by two earthquakes which rock-
ed their homes. The 'owns were those
of San Rafael, "Twetiy-Fifth of May"
(a town named for Argentina's inde-
pendence day), Monte Coman and Col-
onia Alvear. There was little damage
and no casualties.
American Nationality
New Statesman (London) : From
Publicity and Trade
Victoria Times (Lib.): It will be
necessary either to reduce our import
ditties almost to the vanishing point,
or remove them altogether, if our
commercial exchange with Great
pie being unified, they are to hint a Britain—and with the other Domin-
congerlee of alien and dangerous cpm ions—is to be allowed to grow asst is
muuitles. They continue to speak desirable 1t should grow. With these
the languages of Europe. They aro artificial berries out of the way, how-
not within sight of thegoal of as- ever, there still would retrain the im-
similation. portant task of educating the consum
er to themerit of British goods and
the many benefits the Empire might
derive from a more liberal patronage
of its products, Intensive publicity
would have to be combined with a
determination on the part of Pro -
Labor and the League
H. Wilson Harris in the Nation
and Athenaeum (London): There
would seem to be grounds for the be-
lief that the League will find a new arrears in all British countries to
stimulus given to its various organs meet the demands of tho markets
which at present are supplied with
of international activity as the result
of the decision the electors of Great
Britain Have taken. Conservative
Minsters have often been eloquent
on the danger of going too fag at
Geneva. We are unquestionably In
now for whatever danger sem0 slight
acceleration of pace may involve, mothers die. The lossesof twenty
and the 0ollntly will face the peril years mean that "we aro without the
with equanimity As Cor Mr, Han' services of some 150,000 mother's,
cie2son, he leas been oonsplduous who, at a normal expectation of life,
hitherto for soundness of judgment would be alive to -day if they had not
and solid 00mm0n Sallee, and 11 is a beon allowed to die with their first
little hard to visualize him in the baby.`" But the dangers and In-
vert of impetuous revolutionary at juries 02 maternity are not summed
Geneva or anywhere also. up in the death -toll, To these 150,-
hs mt be added many
I5 a Than
who wears last year's hat, cas000esdeatof indrmiusty and invalidism.
drives this year's ear, and lives on: Who will 'compete the suffering and
next yearn Inoome, Progressive, Con -1 the• distress which-a/mit etatisiics
servativo or Liberal? ihiply?
the foreign article.
Material Mortality
London Daily Telegraph (Cons.)
For every thousand babies four