Zurich Herald, 1929-10-17, Page 3the Conquest
Of Diphtheria
•centuries ago great Greek .and
RQrnan doctor's described iia their "I shall:: never think of negotiating
whitings the ravages of a hose and with any State any alliance from
;throat disease. They did not call it I •which France could be excluded, or
diphtheria in their records, but that which would be hostile to heir,"—Mr.
is what it was.. Ramsay MacDonald.
A lot of things have happened. since The Labour Party and the Labour
then. Medical men through the ages, Government, to the surprise of maay •`
have given the disease their best:People, are paying very pleasant cone
thoughts, until 'now more is known plinents to M. Briand, It was thought
about diphtheria than any other of that the latter's friendship for Sir
the communicable maladies on the -lists Austen Chamberlain might mean the
of human experience., new Labour Government would have
Buf, even though knewledge is 4ertain difficulties to overcome, but the
power, it does not mean; in this case, "Daily Herald's" Geneva correspond-
that the battle ie completely won, ent, Mr. George Slocombe, dispels this
Having acquired their information, idea. He writes:—
the
rites:—the doctors must take further stops'in "About M. Briand there can be no
order that it may, do some good. They two Hinds. He is the .foremost Euro -
must tell the public, and . convince it, peen of our time. If any man can 'be,
.and move it to action.instinctively as well as intellectually,
if theyIthe citizen of a cont1nont as diversi-
In the case of diphtheria, fiecl and as ancient upon the rules of
succeed in doing these things, you may+ -its successive ruined, Empires as Eur -
be reading in the : newspapers some
day, "So-and-so died today of dish "With no duller Frenchmen Dire, it is the French Premier. have I
theirs. A coroner's jury will nvesti- felt that he represented the essence
gate." And the jury will want to
know "who caused So-and-so's death" and the wit of modern France, the
—not "what caused it?'" mark you, Pianos of the Revolution and of the
but "who caused it?" In other words, • Three Republics, of the peasant and
we are reaching the point where it istheh artisan, the stubborn and cynical
considered unnecessary for a single I individualism combined with an in -
death from diphtheria to happen, and 'st' t've and natural democracy, -as is
'when one does happen it will be con- thewith M.Briaud
sidered the resu_t of somebody's care-
lessness, and that somebody will have
to be punished.
Diphtheria results from a germ set -
SUiII Friends
With France
i A Tribute to M. Briand
1
The City Drivers' Nightmare
Is Spy Alive?
Story Goes That Mata Hari
Famous Dancer -Spy
Reprieved
i ancer-s t• stillalive?
\ Tell -informal persons declare that
on • r seas ho'r ,
eau who ge aa-
had fallen from "Lhe r s t steamer
Paris. --Ts Moxa Hari, the fiascinat-
ug d 1 a', '1've°
this mysterious woman found uncon-
scious 0 1 eat MotrtalivaC
Hoar Void v her name as
Gloria MacAllster, and said that she
British
Eagle," is in reality the Dutch.. woman:
. spy condemned to death in the last
year of the war and shot in the moat
of Vincennes fortress.
At least six eye witnesses have de- lock for ocean-going vessels entering
Canal Finished
In Amsterdam
Dwarfs Panama
Ymuiden Sea Lock. Is Built to
Anticipate Shipping for
Great Many Years
Designed Before the War
Undertaking Started 10 Years.
Ago blow Ready for Use
In the course of a few months there
will be opened to traffic a Iarge new
scribed: tile., execution of Mata Hari, and leaving the ship canal which
Tltey told how she was comforted.dur• forms the .principal approach to 'the
ing the last minutes of her life by a port of Amsterdam from Ymuiden. on
nun and by Maitre Clunet, th e veteran the North Sea, writes a correspondent
barrister wife defended her; how she of "The London Observer." The lock
removed her white kid gloves and is of outstanding size, and far exceeds
gave them as a souvenir to the officer any other structure of the kind in
commanding the firing party, and how existence at the present time. Corn -
ILLUSTRATING INCREASED TRAFFIC PROBLEMS she fell, apparently riddled with bul-
The photograph here shows what Yonge St,, Toronto, looks like during lets.
lunch Hour when Vehicular. congestion concentrates in impenetrable ,mass Reprieve Myth.
There has grown up the strange
bet*een Queen and Albert Sts. •�^____,-_
supposition, however, that'as a con
i Ultra' -Violet Rays i information i and
��°� ng Driers � at the request of highly n P
• id
S
pared with the Panama Canal locks,
the chamber for the reception of ship-
ping represents an increase in cubic
apacity of over 100 per cent.
The dimensions of the new lock in
English units are 1,312 feet long by
sideration for in arms ton g vee, 164 feet wide, with a depth of water
H placed Dor_ over sill of 50 feet below main sea
cored b urors Proved Beneficial p
sonages, Mata 'ari was res Y r • level. The Panama Canal locks have
r]eved. The shooting at Vincennes,
J
i it is declared, was stage-managed like feet,and a depth of 42 feet. The locks
the i '
Hamilton GrandJury Demand i irradiation Increases Germ- a cinema' scene and there were no bul- on the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal from the
I-Ia lets in the rifles of the firing party.
Here More Adequate Penalties 1 Killing Blood Properties, North Sea to the Baltic, specially en -
And
"He is a great, almost an inspired, Says Noted Doctor And now it is stated that the wo larged just before the war, are 1,083
orator, in whose speech the subtle in -1 „yman who gave the two false names,
Hamilton.—"Rum might be advis- ( feet long by 118 feet wide by 45 feet
tellingence, • the lively aucl mocking able on.the battlefield to give soldiers1 London.—Dr. Iiclino)v, writing in first that of Gloria MacAllister with deep.
wit struggle for tee mastery over a I reckless courage, but it is certainly the Lancet on the curative powers of the. false story that she had fallen off The Ymuiden sea lock is not only
d roEouud emotion. And I highways," read a ultra -violet rays says: "iu 1S2 cases the non-existent steamer Eagte, 'an far in excess in size of any ship canal
a length of 1000 feet, a width of 110
ort pre- 1 tested the germ -killing blood proper- secondly that of Benita Adamson, oflock in the world; it is also much to
:gentathesee Justice fres wet a met eased int S4.5 1 e g Meta H advance of any ship
first treatment for diphtheria found No other speaker sentment, the jurors urged,
called anti- Assembly in my recollection, with the l motor laws and more severe punish- ing iliuess, the treatment has hasten- ail different, and that her apparent tic, which has a length of 956 feet
by medical science was single exception of Mr, Ramsay Mac ed the return of vigor enol health. On age, her knowledge of languages and
tonin meet for careless drivers. over all;`, beam of 100 feet and a load"
ishow it was made: A vigor- Donald, has had and held so long the ; "More cases of reckless driving general body irradiation the short ray her personal appearance identify her ed draught of 38 feet. There is a ves-
IIOr e undivided attention of the leaders of I
ons. young horse, carefully tested to should reach the court before Millings 1 therapy has improved the general closely with the tragic figure of the sel building for the White Star Line
i is i the nations. M. Briand is singularly 1 result." The statement continued:. health, lessening susceptibility to. Dutch woman dancer. t of somewhat greater tonnage, but the
tling in the victim's throat. The grave au p !not ai anted on our
gives off a poison called toxin, is rare is an orator, he can not clause
in the grand jury rep
s • he can move week to Mr.
c i
only move masees;per cent. of Ria is in reality a a Hari. hi at present navi-
the
and it to toxin that spreads through rented lastgating the high seas. The largest ver•
System and causes illness. So the thou leachers. Wright in supreme court, In the pre- cases, two hours after irradiation, by It is pointed out that the photo -
Y �• * ) at the League stricter 6.5 Per cent. In severe debility, follow- graphs circulated of the castaway are sel at the present time is the Majes-
make sure that it had no ci sense,
used. It is Carefully injected with at home in the Assembly. It art • "We recommend that the more seri- colds and acute bronchitis. Intensive
int"rens#ng dc yes of diphtheria taint orchestra in which he plays the first 'ons the offence the more adequate radiation on hands and feet has com-
-that is, the poison of the diphtherial violin. Under the subtle inspiration . should be the penalty provided for the pietely cured chilblains by improving
germ. The horse's system iminedi• of his sure touch the vast harmony rigid control of our highways. the circulation."
ately begins developing anti -toxin in surges forth in waves. "We believe that convictions for
order to fight the effects of the toxin. I "He knows his power, and ho would reckless driving should result in can -
After six weeks or so, if the horse, not be human if he olid not, in his sly, eliation of drivers' permits for a
thr uoh tests is shown to be react- humorous fashion, enjoy it to the full. period commensurate with the seri-
The woman found at Montalivet, it
dimensions of the Majestic will not be
prison admitted, the came from the , neary greatly exceeded in the new liner.
of fortress of Ha, near Guilt For Future
Borteaux. The police declared that
she had been sentenced to a short Obviously, it indicates great confl-
term of imprisonment as a vagabond. dence on the part of the port authori-
But since when, it is asked, have wo- ties at Amsterdam in future develop -
men prisoners been sent to the Fort- meets at the port to construct a lock
ress of Ha, and how is it that the of- of such a size and to incur an outlay
flcial police description given of her thereon which is represented in round
has been discovered to be false? figures by £500,000. The undertak-
ing, indeed, was embarked upon fully
Is she not rather one of those mys- lten years ago, when the building of
terious State prisoners whose reallarge ships was more definitely in'
identity is kept a close secret? - abeyane than at present, and the en -
It is pointed out that a mysterious terprise and forethought so displayed,
showing lif justified by the future, will redound
boatanchornon r lights was etding iet ! greatly to the credit of the Dutch peo-
ytwoman from wasYIfoundvon the ple an dtheir technical advisers.
day the found lying sur-- The magnitude and duration of the
massed a theesands, and it is work warrant some notice of its in-
miaed that. her escape had been plan.-- -~
Ped by powerful friends, but that ceptron and execution. which
lug satisfactorily, the horse is bled. But at heart the French Premier is
He Is ,,,,Corso, by but �.
separated and refilled by
special methods which mak it ready g passion—the
of the offence. It is recog-
nized that a high percentage of .offend-
single
prevention of war. ors are drivers who imbibe intoxi-
for humans. !Something of the French peasants cants and we think some means
Now, this anti -toxin is an almost •horror of the devastation which war ought to be sought to ,reduce this
certain cure for people who have brings upon his smiling, ordered class." "
contracted diphtheria. It is great fields, and wreaks upon his industri- The grand jury's report was favor -
est in its work when it is used im- � ous heatr has entered like a searing ably commented upon by Mr. Justice
mediately the patientcatches c i - I iron into the Briand.
. -
1 phth t soul of Aristide Brrand Wright, who added that it is not often
aria, and every hour cf delay means He is still a politician, but he is, a that grand jurors display such prompt-,
additional danger, 'man without a party. He has only an Hess. (Ed.—We wonder what the Le -
But there has been developed. idea. To seek peace and to pursue gion members will think of the "rim
through further research work with .it." and Courage" part.)
anti -toxin, another and more .power-! :
ful weapon with -which to defeat{ Naval Agreements
diphtheria It has ,been developed,
Drily in the last few years, and it cal
Leo Maxse in the National Review
fers complete immunization. The (London) : We regret these efforts of
Person -who takes this treatment will the Englishspeaking nations to ari
not be subject to diphtheria at all.
will;
each other's navies. They are
Toxoid gives what is called active; neither sensible nor satisfactory from
Immunization, as compared with the J any stanpc: int, and are likely to leave
passive immunization offered by anti-! things worse than they found them.
toxin. Toxoid contains no serunil The gc od intentions of the albite
but is the product of diphtheria 1 House and Downing Street are not in
bacilli, rendered completely non-toxic' question but something beyond good
by suitable treatment.
Toxoid goes= intentions is needed in international
further then•; anti -toxin, because once ! affairs, especially Anglo-American af-
fairs, in- which it is infinitely easier
in the human system it duce ittes to to err than in any other sphere, and
stimulate our blood to effects
o its own i Anglo-American mistakes seem to pro-
anti -toxin. So the effects of toxoid duce more bad blood than most
are permanent, as far as, can be dis-'
covered in the length of time it bas I As, moreover, British statesmen are
been in use, as compared with anti -1 never tired of declaring that war with
toxin, the powers of which disappear the United States is "unthinkable,"
_ after a short time. 1 we cannot conceive why the size of
Then there is me more discovery the American Navy possesses any in-
terest for them or why Mr. Ramsay
which has great bearing on the im- MacDonald should deem it. necessary
' pending "Decline and Fall of like r� t go to Washington to discuss so
aria", about which I would like tai
academic an issue. "Build what ships
tell you. It is 'called the very 1
you please ,leaving us to do likewise,"
test and it was invented by a very' should be our attitude on this Ties -
Modest man of that name who lives in, tion, uuless both parties wish to bor-
Foston, and is little known to the
cutside world because he does very
little but work and eat and sleep.
The. work he has done bas been of
great benefit to mankind, because the
• Schick test enables doctors to find
out whether or not a person is apt a man's education ought to be com-
to get diphtheria. The Schick test{ Mete when lie is about twenty. As
is_inacie by injecting into the skin; a matter of fact, in all the more clif-
of t1 -forearm about three drops of i fieult callings, those in which sheer
a test toxin. If the' subject is seiscept-' hick incl low canning are "Of least int-
ible to diphtheria a red spot will al)- portanee, and knowledge, power and
pear on the arm within 2 or 3 days. • experience of the greatest, man is
It will be about the size of a ten I just out of school at sixty, This is
ant piece and,when it comes it as true in the rarefied upper realms
of business as everywhere else. The'
younger man who manages to attain
to some showy second or third rank
among fnaneters and business men
is so remarkable that the cheer lead-
ers of low literature write him tip in
the gc-and-get-'em weeklies and the
sob sisters move down upon his abode
in echelon formation. The money
and business power of the land is in
the hauls of old men,
I vow trouble.
Thirty—and Sixty
George Leeks in the Red Book (New
York) : Most of us have the idea that
Prince to r reside - FOG BEATEN
� i�.. t tothe rescue ship found her At Banquet to V.C. s
something went wrong at the last The Port of Amsterdam, up
to tyle beginning of the nineteenth sen
minute, and tat ^ vvomatr, �,c,„
tura* sourer only be 'reached from the
Guided by visual radio Ream, Lt. J. swim ou ! open sea through the shallow chan-
t
H. Doolittle, recently made blind strength failing her, eels of the Zuider Zee, is now in direct •
Oh the other hand, the whole story"
flight, test proving science had cononimuuication with the North Sea by
London,—Tire Prince of Wales will is scouted ill -French oiiicfal circles as'
preside at an unique dinner to be held • quered greatest flying danger, fog, means of a canal fifteen and a half
two days before Armistice Day. He
is desirous of meeting all holders 011 Germany May Get
the Victoria Cross, There are about
500 men who received this decoration Berlin. — Several German news -
for bravery still living in Great Bri I Rapers printed reports that the Bri-
tain
rirain and the British Legion is arrang • tish government contemplated restor-
ing for the attendance of as many as • .
possible at the diener. ing to Germany the southern section line are being 'followed at the rarest ,vas 394 feet long by 60 feet with
of former German. East Africa, Ofii- Products Laboratories of Canada, De a depth of 2Gt over sills. wide,It was not
a�
oral circles said that they knew noth- partment of the Interior, Ottawa. however, before au entrance of
Imperial Preference ing to Confirm the report. German since the use of wood gas as a motor long,
Otago (N.Z.) Times: the policy of East Africa, now known as Tanganyi- fuel may offer one valuable method these modestdimensions moved fn -
the Labor Party at Hone, like that ea territory, is administered by Bri- of utilizing wood waste, particularly adequate for requirements.
of the Liberal Party, is opposed toio outlying districts. A new and larger lock had to be
fain under mandates approved by the
both the McKenna duties and the so- League of Nations.e.
The north magneto pole is located provided, and such a lock with a
called safeguarding duties introduced in Boothia peninsula on the Arctic length of 737 feet, a width of S1 feet
by the late Government, and is op Beware of doing that which you are coast of Canada and the south magne- and a depth of 33 feet was construct -
posed to protective duties of any kind. likely, sooner or later, to repent of tic pole in South Victoria Land south eel to the north of the old locks and
Preferential duties as applied to having done.
goods from overseas are not protec-
tive in the ordinary sense, but they
conflict with the view which the Labor
Portion of Africa
a wild dream.
UTILIZING WOOD WASTE
There are in the Bordeaux district
cf France, some three hundred motor
trucks being operated on wood gas as
a motor fuel. Developments in this
miles in length, which was opened in
18766, and which affords a passage for
ships with drafts up to about thirty-
two feet.
New Locks Provided
A pair of entrance locks were orig-
inally provided, the larger of which
means the subject is apt to get diph-
theria and that the toxoid is needed.l
If not, be is iminurie. Tho Schick
test is just a skin test—the toxin used
for the test flees not enter the blood,
so that no damage can result.
"The. Art of Thinking" •
Ylilaire Beiloc in the New States-
man (London): Thinking has often :•
been canfieiuned cluing the lust ecu-�l Corrlpwfitian
tury, and even 'lately in the Itnglish
loofas as a solvent of judgment and Hamiltons Spectator (Ind, Cons.):
instinctive power. . . 1 fancy that There was a time when Britain could
thse who decry the ancient and bon. and did maintain the largest navy in
orablo practice of thinking aro mix- the world, but that time Is passing.
ins ii up with two thiags -vary ail- How is Britain ,heavily in debt as she
ferent, which are called reductions is, faced with problems which would
from insufficient premises, ani dec- have reduced any other nations in the
Cons from false premises; or perhaps world ttotttcdespair,
ty appropriations?finage
they are mixing it up with argufying
—which of -all' the destestable habits How is she to rise superior to the
of ratan is perimast sle 'val it
Dat-
able
there
,bio --unless, indeed, it beet to ted States? Tothese questions
work uprtl matters wholly undiscov- is no practical answer. And even
enabler, wherein it is a very tolerable if Britain could enter
intens naval i e, indeed, you niay note that petitionsuch a rivalry be observed SOME BRITISH, RHINELAND
men in their culls generally t.a,1c mete sou d apprehension by every man Ring mist General Sir William Thwaltes,
is notts: And this, tleree
me feel you, without apl ' furtheratnooiss loft Rhine area for "Blighty"«
is particularly true of the over- whose jttciginettt tvas Hat warlteti by
educated, but .of alt Men whatsoever, ,prejudice or blinded by jingeistu 1
Perhaps the way to state a great
truth is that man wear too many fool -
and Liberal parties hold concerning ish clothes and women not enough sen -
the desirability of keeping trade es sible
garments.—Boston Shoe and
free as possible from Customs duties Leather Reporter.
of any description.
Rhineland Troops Parade
from New Zealand.
The French have reluctantly ratifi-
ed the dept agreement. This does not
mean however, that they will ever for-
give us for lending theta the money.—
New Yorker.
efore Sailing For Horne
ri . a
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TROOPS MARCH PAST
Officer commanding British
brought into use in 1896. Not many
years afterwards it was realized that
the developments in ship construction
had again overtaken the available ac-
commodation.
Another lock of larger size became
imperative and a commission appoint-
ed by the Dutch Government in 1909
to examine the question decided on a
lock with dimensions 1,143 feet by 141
• feet by 441a feet. Before effect could
be give tit° the commission's recom-
mendation, the war intervened and
when onstructional operations were
actually begun in 1919 the dimensions
adopted weer those already stated at
the beginning of this article. In view
of the earlier miscalculations it was
felt that this time a sufficiently large
margin should be available to cover
any possible developments for a num-
! ber of year; to come.
The Farmer's Help
Violet Stubbins in the Spectator
(London) : (The writer has spent six-
teen years in the 'West of Canada.)
Perhaps fare of the greatest draw-
back all foreign settlers to Canada
experience is the difficulty of land-
ing wives! For a bachelor on a ranch
to rather handicapped, It has a
large crop he must hire help. '1'b.e
belt) :equ're food and pleety of it. It
is hard to cook for your crew and
direct Sour own harvest operations,
A wile is really a form of domestic
economy almost essential to the well.
doing of the farmer, Time was
when a girl was willing to work for
her husband year in and year out,
with but few new frocks and fewer
holidays. But times have change I,
Even our new emigrants feel that.
It'11 only be a matter of time until
refueling -flight contestants will have
to male a seasonal change of clothes
roofs at Wiesbaden, before a part of their preparation, --Wash
lington Post«