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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-07-24, Page 2Prussia Orders Use of Movies to Lessen the Need for Vivisection By E. E. FREE, Ph,D. A possible compromise between the demand of surgeons and scientists that they be permitted to experiment on living animals for the sake 'of cur- ing human disease and the view of many animal -lovers that such vivi- section must be prohibited at all costs is attempted In a new set of official regulations promulgated in Prussia, Germany, for the control of such ani- mal experiments. The suggestion is that necessary animal experiments or demonstrations be conducted only once and recorded at that tine in mo- tion pictures, so that if similar de- monstrations- are necessary later to new classes of medical tudents or others the film can be used instead of using another living animal hi an actual test, The Prussian Tierschutz- verein, equivalent to the Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelly to Animals admits that the saving of human life and the prevention of hu- man suffering may demand animal ex-' perimentation. But .this device of filming such animal operatipns will provide they insist, tot every possible instructional need. Under the new re- gulations olilcial permits trust be ob- tained for any experiment on animals, much as is now n..aessary ha many other countries and In many states in the United States. Such permits will be issued, It is pru posed, only to trained persons and to recognize ex- perimental in3ttutions. As an. addi- tional restriction, Lo permit will bo is- sued for any demonstration or 'ex- periment already performed unless it San be shown that the motion picture method now suggested is not applic- able., Man Chips Statue ' Airline Planned And Becomes Hero Though Arctic Baltimore, Md,—Edmond Fontaine chipped a letter from a public monu- ment in Wyman Park Baltimore, the other day and not c'.ly wentunpunish- ed, but also became something of a popular hero. The letter—au "s"— long has been a source of vexatien •to local literary folk. It occurred In the inscription on the Edgar Allan Poe. Memorial in Wyman Park. •The monument, a life-size bronze, shows the poet .in a pensive mood, described by the allowing line mom "The Raven": "Dreaming dreamy no mortals ever dared to dream before." Shortly alter the unveiling of the monument, several years ago, C. H. Pouder, a business man who knew his Poe, discovered the superfluous "a" in the word "mor.als: An outcry was raised at the time by partisans of the poet '.,base life was e finked so closely with Baltimore, Those io' authority said that nothing could be done about it. The offend- ing letter could not be removed with, out defacing the .surface, and would have to remain until the bronze turn- ed into dust, Mr. Fontaine, however, recently at- tacked the letter and with mallet and chisel chippe it away. He also scrubbed off a smudge of black paint which the Park Board had allowed to remain on the pedestal for same lime. Mr. Sontaine was promptly arrested and for want of bail spent a nigbt in jail. Next day he foundl himself something of a martyr. Poe lovers from all ranks of society sprang to his defense._ Edgar Allan Poe, Balti-, more lawyer and collateral descend-' ant of the poet, wrote letter defend- ing the obisier. Societies passed re solutions of sympathy and approval.'. The newspapers were all on his side, and even the park officials appeared to be relieved at the eimination of the, The Park Board, in official session, decided not to prossrvte and the e.oNen magistrate dismissed the case,. warning Mr. Fon'aine not to centimie his private editing of public monn- anemia. Paris Still Picturesque Those who lament the passing of • certain picturesque figures who used to frequent the streets of Paris, such as the goatherd and his flock, now banned from the busier sectiens of the metropolis, are taking great delight in the arrival of a newcomer, or rather, o; : everal newcomers. They are the vendors of clay waterpots, and each of them is accompanied in hie pere- grinations through Paris by a diminu- tive donkey rendered almost invisible by what appears to be a mountain of straw heaped on its back. The pots are of an attractive deign, in many The metal disc was a special receiv- er for the deaf, transmitting its in- audible vibrations to the wood. By biting the other end of the stick light- ly the listeners could hear, and to two of the auditor's, at least, the music sounded as perfect as when audible to the ear. Professor Hebei] said he perfected the device in hope tbat it will be use- ful for the deaf in listening to talkies and radio. The receiver would be placed on tbe backs of seats and tbe straw -like sticks would cost but a trifle. They are ordinary wood. The sound vibrations pass directly to the auditory nerves through the hones. No ear drums are needed, Pro- fessor Bedell said that only destruc- tion of the auditory nerves prevents hearing by the teeth method. He adopted it after consultation with members of the medical faculty at Johns Hopkins, who said that about two-thirds of the deaf could hear through tbe teeth vibration, a larger percentage than could hear by any other single method, While there is so much ado about "canned" music, it seems only fair to Bonsider the brand before condemn- ing the goods.. Some forms of me- chanical music may be obnoxioye at times, but other forms spread ap- preeiation of, and love for, good music far beyond the farthest rattail of "na- tural" amusia The piano, it is announced, is now fighting for its life in the American home, And ono we heard the nher night was taking a terrible beating, ' to begin with, it is as systematically isolated as Tibet or Nepal. "Denmark controls it as a crown monopoly through an organization called Gronlands Styrelse. No busi- ness men and no tourists are tolerated nor are abips allowed to call at the ports, except in case of emergency, or for brief and severely restricted visits, with a particular object, satis- factory to the Government. "Scientist§ and genuine :explorers are welcomed, and are supported with an astonishing generosity at every point, "The administration represent a conception of trusteeship so advanced that a League of Nations mandate is merely exploitation by comparison. "Absolutely no profit is allowed. The interests of the Eskimo take clear pre- cedence of economic development, and any surplus on the monopoly is ap- plied for the benefit of the popula- tion." The bold idea of a direct, route from London to Winnipeg :across Iceland and over the Greenland ice -cap near the Arctic Circle, is being pursued by II, G, Watkins, who holds first place among the younger British explorers. IIis plan is to examine the pessibili- ties for an airway crossing the inland ice, which must clearly be the critical stage in any projected service. Meanwhile a special correspondent of the London Observer calls atten- tion to the fact that a German expedi- tion under Explorer Wegener is al- ready in Greenland, so that one Ger- man and one British party will be spending next winter on the ice -cap. This informant continues: "In order to follow the progress of these attractively original u.rdertak Ings, it is desiiable to, have a much clearer conception than most people possess of Greenland, where Wege- ner's troop of 'pack horses will be just as amusing a novelty for the natives as Watkins' future air live. "It is in all probability the most pe- culiar country on earth. Politically, "Why dill Dobbs buy a motor -boat?" "Whenever he left the house his wife insisted on knowing exactly when he would be back. Now be can't pos- sibly tell her." Inventor Used Wireless As Breakfast Announcer Chicago—Credit for establishing wireless communication 50 years be- fore Marconi was given to an Amer- icon physicist by Dr. Karl T. Comp- ton, president of Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology, in an address here. The radio pioneer was Prof, Joseph Henry of Princeton University. His achievement received scant attention at the time, 1845, and his priority has had no popular recognition since. Dr. Compton said. Professor Henry used his device in a practical way, related Dr. Compton, He had his wife callhim to break- fast with it. When the porridge was hot, blrs. Henry cranked a statis ma- chine and the professor, ,although several hundred yards from home, re- sponded to the sound he beard from a magnetized compass at bis elbow. The Father Hearing bis son and daughter Laugh, and talk of dances, theatres, of -their school; and friends, And books Takingit all for granted- He sighs a bit, Remembering wistfully A certain mill -town And his boyhood there, And puts his arm Across his son's broad shoulder, Dumbly, as fathers do. —John Holmes, High School, Somer- ville, Mass, Submarine Says "Casal -bye" Not Ears But Teeth Hear Music I As Science Through Professor's Invention Progresses, Will Live Longer an Ithaca, N.Y.—Thr ;teeth were sub- stituted in hearing for the ears in an invention exhibited at the home of D'r, Frederick _Hebei', professor of physics at Cornell University. The professor's guests, appeared to sip their music through straws, as they listened to a phonograph, the sound -'of which was inaudible to the ears. The seeming straws were long pieces of wood with sharp points on a tiny metal disc on a round cloth -cover- ed ball, the size of a big fist, tbat con- cealed the mechanism of the inven- tion, sizes, and are very useful for ]seeping. water cool in warm weather, but the meet interesting thing about them Is their color, which .10 an earthy red, Skillfully packed in the donkey's great straw pack, they are transported from place to place with a minimum of breakages and a meximum,of display. From, time to time the ;vendor halts at a busy erasing and taking several of the pots from their nest of straw, places them on the curb to attract, and to be examined by, prospective buyers. The Apple Tree One morning, the morning she died, I looked up from •my plowing in the hot fields And 'across to the old orchard,, bloom= ing early; And there `I saw her standing, be- neath a tree, With her brown hands gnarled like the branches above her, And her hard .eyes death -like in her face. She held-te flat pan in her hands, (The kind we use for apple-picldng for our'selvea), And she waited there, watching, I couldn't think of anything to say except 'What is it, Ellen? And when she didn't answer, I started across the field to her. Wondering why she held an apple pan when 11 was only blossom time. But half way across, I stumbled and fell, And when I got up she was gone. I went back to the plow, At noon when I went in for dinner, On its last journey, the ill-fated United States submarine S-51, which There she was—dead as a stone. The car ied 33 of its crew to death floe years ago when it sank off Block Island. doctor said she had died London Session Is Closed By Press London.—The Imperial Press Coh- erence which has been in session here since June 2 concluded its visit on June 30, The final social gathering was a dinner on June 20, at which the delegates of previous similar assem- blies were the hosts, The conference has brought to- gether representatives from the chief newspapers in Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, the Irish Free State and India, and the long and 'varied program has been carried through without a hitch, under tbe auspices of the British Empire Press Union, of which John J. Astor, pro- prietor of the Times, is chairman. T. W. MacKenzie, chairman of the SoutB African delegation, on June 28 said the great aim of all who had at- tended the conference had been for closer union between the countries within the British Empire. Freedom in unity was what the conference had set out to attain, While there :must be closer trade understandings and re- lations, they must seek a more lasting cement than even the most favorable trade agreement, Their aim should be toward a political union—not party political union but a political anion of the various countries, He wished to see a council of empire established, not a legislative or an executive body but an advisory body which would deal with all the big questions fairly and squarely and advise the various governments upon them, Some fathers still seem wonderful to their small sons, and, some have tried to belp them with their home- work. Recent Bride: "I can't stand it any longer, Judge. My husband actually swore at me (tearfully). And I was learning to drive just to please him, too." Judge: "What did he say?" Recent Bride: "He sat there in the ditch and said 'Holy Cats, woman, didn't you see that truck?' " • Eaely that morning, but I knew she • Revolt Lives there a man with soul so dead Who never to himself has said: "1 .simply won't get out of bed., I will not do a good day's work Nor will I shun the sins that lurk In overeating overdrinleing. I loathe plain living and high thinking. A fig for duty toward one's neighbor And for the dignity of labor! I will not venerate my betters Nor pay my bilis nor answer letters. To Hell with love, to Hell with tact, Confusion take the Kellogg Pact! And I will tolerate no more That most unmiltigated bore Sir James; but when he comes mY way And starts his yarns, rll simply say: 'Well, that one is, upon my word, The silliest tale I ever heard; In short, ycu'll gather from my tone, I'm going to call my soul my own." —Martin Armstrong, from the 'Lon- don Mercury. • _— France and Morocco Linked by Wireless Paris Wireless telephone com• munications between France and North Africa have been inaugurated by a conversation. between Andre Mallarme, Minister of Posts and Tele graphs, and Lucien Saint, Resident! General of Morocco, at Rabat. The service opened to all subscribers' July 1. M. Malla•me, in his inaugural con - hadn't. I've wonderedwhy she came out into the orchard; She hadn't left the house for twenty years: I'm sure I couldn't help it if she took ! her life so hard, "Lonely, terrible, grubbing in thesoil," she called it. Ellen had book -learning, she bad That was what was wrong with her. I've been worrying lately. But I must be crazy. She was probably happy in her own. way. Harriet Mindwell Voris. A Royal Inspection Trip Little Ring Michael has gone for a trek To look at his kingdom from Jassy to Szek. He seen a boy with a spinning top And wonderful things in a bicycle shop, While strap -hanging in a crowded tramcar a lady accidentally trod on the to'es of a man sitting dawn. "Du You know that yon are standing on my feet?" he said. "If you were polite, you would be standing on them yourself!" remarked the lady. "America is the only country left where languages are taught so that no pupil can speak them."—john Erskine, Big Liner Stops To Rescue Hound London:'--Tbe humanity 'of Captain A. W. Turton, commander of the 0,000 -ton liner, Clan MacNab, in tint- ing his ship round in mid -ocean to save the life of a foxhound bitch which had fallen overboard, was re- ported by a friend of the captain. The liner was carrying a number of valuable foxhounds from Liverpool to Bombay. "When the vessel was crossing the Bay of. Biscay, staee Captain Tur ton's :friend, "this particular hound was exercised as usual round the deck and then tied up on the after -deck. "About,8.a.m. she was missed. "A search was made, but the hound could not be found, and It was con- cluded that she must have slipped her, collar and been lost overboard. "When the loss was reported to the captain half an hour later•, he turned his ship round and steamed back the estimated distance travelled since the mishap, plus an extra mile. -'The hound was not sighted, and the vessel resumed her course. The hound was then sighted a short dis- tance away right' ahead. A beat was lowered, and she was hauled aboard, exhausted. She recovered after a few hours' attention. Playing Fair Play the game hard, but play it fair, Play the game, yes, to win. Play the game hard, but play it fair, If you are beaten, grin! Go and shake hands with the winner, Tell him the best man won. Remember a game's not a death -grip, But something you're doing for fun. Play the genre hard, but play it fair, If you're tempted to ci._et a bit, Play the game bard, ,:et pray it fair! Foul play never rneees a hit, • Wo each must be h^.ten ecmetimes, Aod nothing unit the sun • Is ever worth clieatin t to win at, It's just playing fair that's fun. —By Margaret 17. 'Sangster. Penguin Tricks Commander Worsley, in bis lecture at the Imperial Institute on the last Shackleton Expedition, described the way penguins find out if it 10 safe to enter the water. The birds, standing on the ice, sur- reptitiously push one 01 their number in and watch the result. If the vic- t tim remains under they know he is eaten by a eea-leopard; if he comes ap they infer tine coast is elect• and all dive in. - versation, expressed the hope that wireless telephone communications "Flying" Spanish Prince Predicts with Morocco will shortly be followed . by connections with Algeria and Tunis. Receiving stations are being constructed In Algeria. - Peace We need not believe in peace blind- ly, but we must believe in it profound- ly,—Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, John D. Rockefeller, senior, the American millionaire, has enrolled himself as a Boy Scout. He is ninety years of age. Three -Hour Rocket Atlantic Hop Madrid.—Prince Alfonso of Simla, cousin of the King and veteran aviator —he has flown longer and more than any other member of a royal family— predicted to the Associated Press' in an exclusive interview that before very many years passengers and mail may be rocketed across the Atlantic in three hours, Prince Alfonso, whose Spanish title is Infante of Orleans and Bourbon, was a passenger on the Graf Zeppe- Modern Architecture Progress is in its essence identical . _ • with order and maybe looked upon, • VA order made manifest.—Auguste; Here is the beautiful Canada building which will house exhibits from all 'parts of the Dominion at the Inter- :n:o,natioial Colonial, Maritime and Flemish Art. Exhibition at Antwerp, Belgium, until October of this year. din's recent flight to South and North America—the first of his rank to cross the Atlantic by air. "The dh'igible has added much to man's conquest of the skies," he said, "and for the next few years it would seem that lighter -than -air craft have an advantage over planes for long hops, "But I believe that the time will come, and perhaps not so -fa' distant, when rocket flights will be made be- tween Europe and America In three hours;" The Infante was the first European prince to fly, ide began learning 20 years ago in France, and since 1010 has almost daily been in the air, He was one of the organizers of the Span- ish Army Aerial Service, in which he carries the grade of Directs' of Train- ing. Dr. Hugo Eckener's shill in assem- bling weather reports while flying, and charting his course accordingly, was to him the most impressive aspect of the Zeppelin's flight to the Americas. "Dr. Eckener can smell wind!" he exclaimed admiringly: "Flis weather' intuition es uncanny, but the flig!nt could not have been made without the remarkably efficient system of weath- er reports, received on the airship by wireless, the constant plotting of Weather maps by Dr, Eckener from those reports, and the shifting .and changing of his course to dodge this or that unfavorable weather situation, 'St Was a tremendous piece of work, and it was to observe this more than anything else. that I made this Zeppe- lin trip," —su -- The Dutch and Belgian diamond trade has resumed full-time opera- tions. Does this mean that better times are here, or that they see indi- cations of brighter times just ahead? It certainly takes surplus money to, buy diamonds. Death and disease have always been regarded as a necessary end'unavoid. able part of line on earth, ,but will this continue to be th& ease forever? It is hardly likely, for a survey of the progress accomplishes] in medical science during the past hundred years seems to indicate that at no distant. date practically all the mosLch'eaded mid mortal diseases will be wiped off' the; slate of illdneaith. • Smallpox sed plague are hardly known to any serious extent by the peoples of a civilized cornmunity, and; when an outbreak does.occnr, as was• the case recently with smallpox, the disease is quickly mastered. With the elimination of disease• man's span of life will naturally ex- tend; already the average age of death is ten years later than it was a cen- tury ago. A century hence man may be only middle-aged when he reaches his hundredth year, and later the same age will probabiy see him only a young. man. .Already Voronoff has proved that an old sheep can be made young again by havingthe sex glands of a young and vigorous, animal grafted into its body. Science is. also investigating the possibilities of controlling the pitui- tary gland, whiclidecides the size of oar bones and keeps them alive and also the pineal gland, which may, if diseased, cause a child of six to grow a beard and develop the characteris- tics of a man of sixty. In addition to disease and gland failure the other important factor which -limits our years on earth is death by accident or war, It does not seem, necessary, for instance, that a men should die because he has been submerged for a few hours in water, suffocated in a coal mine, or shot by a tiny bullet.' What a loss to their respective.na- tions was tbe assassination of Caesar Abraham Lincoln, or Michael Collins, yet their wounds were only the small wounds of a knife or bullet. Why, asks the scientist, cannot life be restarted in such cases if Ole wounds are properly attended to? Af- ter all, there is nothing much wrong with the body ae a mechanism, ap- parently it has only stopped like a motor car which •is slightly damaged or has run out of petrol. We can restart the motor oar: Why not the human body? It is feasible that our descendants may be vaccinated or inoehlated against death in the same fashion that we are vaccinated -against smallpox. Soldiers going to war woade be so vaccinated, so that unless they were literally blown to pieces they would not die. The progress In surgery is quite as startling as in the other branches of medical science, Two Russian profes- sors, Koblablkox and Andrelev, have managed to restore life to a man who had been dead for twenty-nine hours and a child which had been dead for two hold's was restored and kept alive for ten days, Queen's Cousin Golfer at 83 London.—Colonel Sir Augustus Fitz - George, third son of the late Duke of Cambridge and a cousin of tbe Queen, was looking remarkably alert and ac- tive.on his 83rd birthday, when a re- porter saw him at his home in Queen Street, Mayfair, W. The death of the "last surviving member of the suite which accom- panied Ring Edward (as Prince of Wales) to India in 1875, has been re- corded more than once," said S]r Au- gustns. "In the Prince's Suite was a Capt. Fitzz-George, and I am he. I think I really am the last survivor of the suite. - 4,1 am still able to play golf—e gave up hunting during the war—std I also enjoy bridge and spend a• rood bit -of time at my clubs." - Sir Augustus looked back reminis- cently over 30 years in the Army. "Throughout my life I foinid. my parentage rather a hindrance than a help," be observed, "My father was so afraid of being accused of favorit- ism that if it was a question of myself or someone else getting an appoint- ment it always went to the other man," First Communion One by one they come for I-Ioly Coln - reunion, One by one to the freighted altar Like people in a pageant fearful And forgetful of their parts , .. this is His blood' . , ch•init; ye of it , this is His flesh . eat yo of it.—� I kneel and pray at my first Com 1011131011 "Father! I am afraid, I am young anti gay And they have taken my joy away I am sad with the weight of a erose. ;'• this is His blood .. drink ye of it . this is His flesh , , eat ye of it.- -Margaret Phyllis MacSweeney. Flapper—"Don't you speak to him any more?" Ditto—"Nol Whenever I pass him I give him the geological survey" Flapper — "Geological sur- vey?' ' Ditto—"yes, that's what is commonly known as the stony stare: