Zurich Herald, 1930-07-24, Page 6Delirium Tremens Treated
With insulin in London
London -- The London Sacle heard ther �lhigh rostiting of spiritsowing
and largely
the Study of Inebriety recently
on -
free), Lr. W. K. Wills, its medleal Sequent powefi consumption by the
superintendent, of a new use for in-
public,
ir), has not been used in treat -
diabetes
the substance developed
diabetes treatments by'Dr. F. G. 'ing delirium tremens in Canalia, To,
Banking of Toronto, and his collabora- rcultoto does imagine ted scientific basis
tors.
Insulin, said Dr. Wills, was highly for such treatment, they said,
valuable in the treatment of de ii As a means of restoring appetite
uni tremens and was used in the seine and getting th ebppatie eentoto resme umeeat-
wayway as in the ease of diabetes. tug,
it The medical superintendent found declared.
Belgium Now Joins
The "Great Powers"
In Less Than I2 Years Bel-
gium Has Made a Com-
plete Comeback
Bushmen Rush
Johnson Plane
British Airwoman Describes
Strange Adventure of
Famous Flight
Belgium is celebrating her one hen- Brisbane, Queensland—Australians
deed years of independence bye aim do not ceease to marvel at the memor-
tious of industry, art and science. able feat of Miss Amy Johnson, the
What King Albert at the Antwerp her young
alone from airwoman,
in forging
Exposition described . as "the
to
mined and intelligent labor of the Australia. Details of the heroic mitts in Lmp
Belgian people" has wrought a re -flight still form the leading topic of. tion. This fortunate position is a
is president of the Master Mariners,
covert' from war, which is manifested conversation. ° ° • result of the curvature of the world's I and his tribute to Sir Thomas will be
roved Among the thrilling adventres en -I irna Hats Made Russia Criticizes surface. Long air routes, as long
endorsed by P
Bator's name for the shortest distance audience cheered him to the echo.
Weaving is one Moscow—The Commissar of Agra
energy and tenacity of the i archipelago, culture, Y. A. Yakovleff, addressing
people that all obstructions were mak a nig had she coma to earth, Under Water and Often the Communist Party Congress paint
seared away. A visitor a Belgium
Takes Six Month's cede an optimistic picture of the sec from:
to day is impressed by the scale of i fileshe sheolsaw1ea ltcompany ofisbiack Time suc-
cesses and future prospects of collet- (a) Western Europe to Japan, SW Thomas should bring bac
in less than twelve
"the great national festivities tvhich, tive farming. He declare that col- years,
ears, the Bel-. men come running out from little Contraryto a popular belief "Pan- China and the Far East is across to liingiand the cup won by America
to organize;' I huts near by, brandishing knives, lective farms which now occupy 90, Canada. when he was one old. Amltas-
000,000 acres will provide half the sur- sport Dawes, not year be outdone ill
plus grain of the country this year.1 (b) United States to Northern and
He asserted that the mere eo opera -I Western Europe is over the Eastern sporting generosity immediately arose,
tion of the former Petty holdings `Part of Canada. asked permission to ),'alta a speech,'
United States to Asia and the and. gracefully endorsed what the
1
I Salesman Covers Territory
By Plane - Flow.ln. 90,0 Miles
i Y ,
Hattiesburg, bliss.—Joseph <Mita-
ston, a sky -riding commercial travel-
ler, who is home when he drops down
from the clouds at Hattiesburg, has
travelled more than 90,000 miles by
air on business for a Cincinnati house
and is completely "sold" on the idea.
Like a majority of travelling sales-
men, "Sky-inan" Johnston pays his
own expenses end with the price of
airplanes being reduced he declares it
a paying proposition. to travel by air.
A much larger territory can be cov-
ered. he says—and the more territory
a salesman covers the more clients
he meets and the more "John Han -
cocks" he gets signed on the dotted
line. on his order blanks.
Canada's Airways
National Asset?
Due to Geographical Position
Airways Are of Special .
�,.. , Importance
New French liner S.S. L'Atlantique as it was launched at St. Nai ire, j Canada's geographical position will
France, recently. It is of 40,000 torts and destined for service between; make her one of the 'lost important
ire and world transporta-
Franae and South America.
Mr. Johnston travels the entire
South, excepting Virginia, and fiend
the airplane peculiarly adapted to his
field. He says: "In the South, where,
one can't rush customers and where
they will keep you past train time to
entertain you, the airplane pays,"
The. Hattiesburg "sky -drummer"
was attracted to flight during his war
service, becoming aviation instructor
et the Pensacola naval' training sta-
tion. He market how government
officials, particularly army mere al-,
most never go by rail and two years
„go procured a plane of his own, and
started to use it regularly over his
circuit-
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Due
ircuit•
Sir Thomas Lipton
Is Lauded by Prince
The luncheon tendered Sir Thomas.
Lipton by the Master Mariners' Com•
Pally in Fishmonger Hall, London, be
fore he sailed his new challenger,
Shamrock V, to Gosport to be out-
fitted for her trip across the. Atlantic,
was a unique event in British sport-
ing annals. The Prince of Wales
in the rebuilding of towns, Imp � � sorts ck the world
highways, better standard of living. countered by Miss Johnson is one sea routes ,are laid out along "Great) over. "It is his Pluck we most ad -
The fiscal system had to be recast. that has received less attention than I mire, said the Prince, and the great
There were crises in Belgian finance i it deserves. It was at Timor, a �� Pile Leaves American �® s Circles." "Great Circle", is the naval
1919, 1920 and 1926. But such. large volcanic island of a tre ice decidedan
to D Entirely
`),ere the surface
i ht landing.
between two points on the earth's
An examination of a world globe
will show that the shortest route
I -Ie had previously said that, "in the
presence of the American Ambassa-
dor," he believed it would be as pop-
ular a victory in the United States as
in England if, at the age of eighty
grit's have been able ama" hats are not made in Panama,
Thirty nations are represented at swords soon as they came up to the sa s "The Pathfinder." Genuine Pan -
the Antwerp Colonial and Maritime
Exposition, plainly industrial and tom-! plane and oberved its only occupant, y
mercial. But it finds space for a# they heardstth ems sayleoneclword—Pastor. . At expaast she ama nded leaves aof the the
screw
reconstruction , old Flemish andthe
Walloon houses, shops and cafes of, TheGsedtituvasstatcidmeg Yo changed. She
Plant common sin the
tropics. 1JeAfter
one hundred years ago, "with their' guessed
of them," she said, "took mY special treatment to remove the soft
p
occupants and keepers in the that
one, and lett me over miles of Colin-
must
oup- part of the jipijapa leaf the fibre is
of the time." It is to Liege that one, tryto the church. The Pastor was soaked to make it pliable. The.weav-
of arts gotod crafts,ra the largest lace of there. You may imagine my relief ing of genuine Panamas is done en-
Fineol and in the Palace Glass to see him." tirely under water, sometimes regtiir-
Arts and the Palace of . Miss Johnson atributes her success ing six months to complete a hat,
end Ceramics. There also is esanmainly to her reliance on divine pro- Fine quality Panamas cost any-
ofolighting
pavilion in which the es, teetion. 'where from $100 up. But when' you
lighting and power on the farms i "I began with the Prayers of my. wish to bay a Panama today ycu don't
and in a l districts Many well as ins people," said Miss Johnson, "and each have to pay that much for it. This is
cities are shown.cur s the build.' days as I hopped off, I asked a bless- because there are so many imitations
Tugs architecturally impressive, stand. Ing on my trip• now. In fact, there are so many iani-
along the Meuse River and close to,`�rhen I was crossing the Java Sea, tations, and such good ones, that it is
the military parade gerund. I R -as in the midst of rainstorms and truly hard to distinguish a real Pan -
In Brussels and also at Mons, the, could find no I could not
city that figured so tragically in the, see way opening.c go. I was flying'
invasion of 1914, there are exhibitions, see whichto the ay to and did not know
of pictures, that at Brussels being the
finest collection of Belgian paintings' at wbat moment I might strike it.
ever assembled. At 'Tons are chieflYi When
und f elt it l uttered aible to
orgo iI acs
ny
seen examples of til Walloon painters.direction,oand round, alien a break
Other cities and towns have their at -,flying in the clouds occurred, and I saw a
tractions, illustrating one hundred{ double rainbow around me. It was
years of Belgian industry anti art.l a happy manifestation."
The pageants are of notable distinc-I
tion. The festival goes on into the 3
Autumn. Tourists may se whether, YOutli Conquers
King Albert was right when he said' AndAge Serves?
that Belgium had raised herself "in
the economic sphere to a place with; Atwenty-six-year old girl flies alone
the great Powers." � to Australia; Lon Bradman, slightly
younger, hits up record cricket scores;
Peer Gets No Bids Lindbergh flew the Atlantic at the age
For Scottish Acres 1 Of
twenty-five. Thi is the age of
youth, people tell us. To which the
Glasgow, Scotland Some of the proper answer is: "It always has
bonny banks of Loch Lomond are go been." Here is proof:
ing a -begging. , Nelson was in command at twenty -
three; Napoleon won famous battles
them, preferring to have the cash, ; at twenty-four; Stanley and Living -
The Government does not want
and the private offers of prospective stone were exploring Africa at twenty -
customers have seemed to the owner, five and twenty-seven respectively.
the Duke of Montrose, mach too low.; When he was only twenty-three,
He did not receive a single bid all James Watt was experimenting on
a recent public auction for 25,000 steam as a motive force, and another
acres of some of the most famous II Edison, was perfecting com-
land in Scotland, including the his -i lnunication systems at a year older.
toric isles in Loch Lomond. I In music, Wagner had composed his
It was his idea first to give the i first symphony at nineteen.
Government acreage of value eruiva- As a counterblast to the latest bloom
ansa from an imitation.
Genuine Panama hats come from
the hands of native weavers in South
and Central America, chiefly Ecuador.
Peru and Colombia. They are called
Panamas because when they were first
exported some 300 years ago they
passed over the 'sthmus of Panama.
The first Panama hat is said to
have been made in 1629 by an Ecua-
dorian, Francisco Delgado.
lent to the prospective duties, but the
Government refused the offer.
Summer Precautions
Begin the day right by eating a sub-
stantial breakfast. At noon it willI more reliable than younger men• say
be too warm to eat heartily and at their employers.—Answers,
night you may be too tired to eat. _r_ —.;.-
Eat, drink, work and sleep in mod-
eration If you would peep well due-1.Dritain Extends
Mg
yielded an increase of labor produc-
tivity of 33 per cent. apart from ad Canada.
vantages which conte from the in-
-creased
n- On account of Canada's fortunate
creased use of tractors. He stated -M a 1 • 1 position and splendid
Broad Shoulders
Back in Style.
Baltimore, Md.—Broad shoulders
and narrow hips are to be the fall by Miss Alexander about six months
contribution to Ameriesn men, the ago, was 15,000 feet.
—'i'-------
Two hookers, '-wo lookers, two clown -
hangers, four standee- and one switch
in youth, a company who run a chain
of petrol stations in America employ
only men over forty! Most of the
men who opera the stations are over
sixty. They are more careful, have
more pride in their work, and are
Prince had said, A chorus of ap-
proval has come from the American
press.
It is the spirit of persistence, the
that 70,000 tractors now functioning
flying climate, our airways are of "never -say -die" spirit, the dogged cour-
in Bassin, are used, more than the age that knows no such word as "de
same number Would be in America be- very special importance and can be 1
•
not 111-� made one of our greatest national! fact" that sport loving People every
cause they are communally assets.
dividua.'y owned. I
'Ir. Yakovleff gave a gloomy de -I v
scription of the state of agriculture
in America, saying: "America is liv- Pennies Regulate Old Clock
ing through. a severe crisis not only Famous
in industry but also in agroultura;� Do you know how Big Ben keeps
the American farmer III
The situation of time? •
is very difficult. Taxes on farm prop- Apparently, this famous clock, like
tine have grown two and a half I the ones in our own homes, may
times, the indebtedness of farmers sometimes vary a little from the cor-
als t,r+Iuloincreased, 'ttvu fiLihs of
1
all farm have insufficient land midi'reel time, but is is never more than
about a second out a truly remark -
must rent more from big o�vlters, able record for a tower clock which
America is famous for the abundance is going all the time.
of its machines, but in whose hands The Astronomer Royal revealed the
are those machines? Four•fifthI of other day how this fine record is
American farms are witlumt teat maintained There is a tray about
tors "
where admire so much in Sir Thomas.
Whether he wins the famous cup or
not on his fifth attempt, he will have
done something of infinitely greater
importance,—he will have made one
more move towards strengthening the
mutual faith of Britain and America
in a sport -praised by•those best quali-
fied to judge on both sides of the
Atlantic, and that has been main•
tained unstained because it has never
been commercialized.
Red for Danger
Murphy had obtained a job as por-
ter to a little country railway station.
"Come with inc and I'll show you
round, said the stationmaster.
Murphy followed, and after he had
been shown where everything was
kept the stationmaster told him to
half -way down the Pendulum, and if
--� the clock is losing slightly a half-
penny or penny is placed on this tray.
•
Flier Soars
To Record Height The effect is that the pendulum vi -
more quickly, and so
brates a littlefill the lamps in the signals.
San Diego, Cal. --Ruth Alexander, I the clock is brought gradually back Five minutes later the stationmas-
fiying a 90 -horse -power Barling mono- to the correct time. ter again visited the oil -shed to see
plane, recently soared to a height of On the other hand, if Big Ben is ' how his new assistant was getting
20,000 feet. The former record, made gaining, a halfpenny or penny is re- on, and was surprised to find the new
moved from the tray, and In this waY hand emptying little drops of oil ot�tt
the pendulum is slightly slowed of a can on the floor.
down.—Answers. "Good racious, man," he cried,
"what ever are you doing?" _
Murphy shook his bead sheepishly.
International Association of Clothing
Designers, in convention here recent-
ly decided, Pads and clever `tailoring,
the delegates said, would be used to tail?—A cow.
assist nature to produce the figure --aa______.
clesired by men. There are baseall fans who won't
Announcing the forecast of styles, be satisfied that Babe Ruth is earning
the designers said, "Breadth of chest that $50,000 salary until he hits one
and blade and slenderness of the , to the new platlet.
waist and lower part of the coat will
g the heated term. ;
Avoid burdensome clothing, heavy Widows' Pensions
bats and tight shoes. These retard! London.—The demand, "Widow's
the circulation and add considerably l pension, please," -was heard recently
to the general discomfort of hot in nearly every post office in Britain
weather. 1 where grants of 10 shillings ($2.50)
Protect the baby's eyes from the,weekly were paid out for the first time
direct sunlight and guard the childto 120,000 women whose husbands
from flies—two very necessary health' passed on prior to Jan. 4. 1926.
and comfort Precautions. Widows now for the first time re -
Do not eat large meals and get your , ceiving this pension are all between
neeessary proteins largely in the milk' 60 and 70 years. Their husbands must
and cheese, especially cottage cheese.' have either subscribed to the state
_ ,;..._. insurance scheme or belonged to' one
a 1 of the classes of .workers eligible to
�iil �;ers . e" ' '4ubscribe if they passed -on before the
Of Long Life Fold system was instituted. Widows be-
Yorkshire livi a 'village where the tween 55 and 60 will begin to draw
old folk pvotully boast that le their pensions next January.
ages were totalled together they would
stretch bark to the days when Adam
wee a lad• 1 Frenchman Undefeated
Carlton it' the place relieve people'
live happy and long. It has only 600 Starts New lie -long Tube
inhabitants, but they include sixty old- -Hav:.na,—Prof. Georges Claude,
ago pensioners, whose ages reach well : French natural scientist whose mile
over 3,500 yearsi long steel tube for experimenting with
A reporter found out why the vile; Gulf Stream rater for electrical pro -
lagers hive so long, They all believe; duction was destroyed recently, said
heir owe brass" as long l that a syndicate of 1,000 Americans,
as they
t , French will underwrite
as t]Iey can, and plenty of i�ot•ltsllire� I�i..neh and Cubans
pudding and hone -mads ;oven cakes . another tube for $1,000,000.
healthy and wise if trot too Professor Claude resumed his ex -
weals them ii ca y teriments tit ante. although twice dis-
lva daily i' cintcd when he seemed tit, the door
"Early to bed, early to .rise," is lite' ...1;1' .
Mottos: of success.
be the silhouette desired." furs are being dyepractically ally
High lights of the forecast include color, so that fashionable women may
the information the modish trouser- now have a special fur to wear with
this fall will be 20 inches around the every gown,
cuff and will rise higher at the waist, -
because vests are to be shorter, with Women who fall victims to the Andrews could not find them.
lower openings, medium to rather cigarette habit are stated to be heavier Sctccores fsear hrtbefore joined
th e Prince
long points and five buttons. Sack t Smelters than men; many of them successful coat sleeves will be slander and consume up to 200 cigarettes a week, was aware of his loss.
rather tapering.
Prince Loses Hat and Tie? danger looking for signals," hethe red replied.—Answers.
forthe
s.
West Hartlepool, Eng: The Prince
of Wales lost a panama hat and a HEROISM
necktie playing golf with Lord Lon-
donderry, Lord Castlereagh and Capt. "Heroism" said a great preacher,
Aird here recently. While the Prince "is nothing but a spark kindled in the
said• "It doesn't matter really," he household, carried outside, and blown
hopes it will be found. into flame. A thing that a mother
The Prince took off his hat and tie does every day of her life nobody
and handed them to his caddie, An- celebrates, but, let her clo it before
crews, but near the end of the count an admiring crowd, and -she is heroic."
The virtue is in the spark. if it be
necessary to do a noble deed before
the world so that its Publicity blows
it into flame, all honor to the spark
Daring Feat Successful
that is living ready for the public
deed. But, if it be necessary to do
the noble deed in the secret corner of
the home, all honor to the spark that
is living ready for the private deed
in Which the world sees no heroism.
TOO SLOW
The kind'olcl gentleman was passing
the gates of a.prison when a party of
men who had obviously just been re-
leased appeared through a small cloor,i
Approaching one of the men the old'
gentleman said kindly:
"And why were you in prison, my
man?"
"For driving a car too slowly."
"Too slowly," echoed the questioner
in amazement; "surely you mean too
fast?"
"No, I don't," was the reply. "I
mean too slowly. The owner caught
up with me."
Some men believe ill luck because
they never have any.
"Great books are not written by.
rule, they are written by men of,
genius." -James Branch Cabell.
"There is ono tiling better than a•
gift for .figures and that is wolnanlyl
common sense."—Lady Astor,
"The truth is imperishable and im-,
mortal and needs no human agency to,
support iL"—Dttdley Field Malone.
�.'•Y a$`''`. l9Ay to ,�'*3"'y S�St.,._�X� a .{ rh` ... �--..—y..
., Tax refunds may be on the sgttare,
>.,n0:•Sri';4:`v"�`',u.''•.,'"�,:,;r :6.. ; �. ., . t�, ... ..
:. .. s �f w��•:�: :..,. .. _ _ .., _ 11tt1; why are the big fellows the only
,• since the deatl> fall of 13uclY Bas'hb?10I'ai, ]3t ly ones dumb enough to make such mss-
fus at Roosevelt Field, Lorlt, Island, , i their' tax returns?
Making first successful lump ..... ,, , to ed tl
k ,.
Bomar is seen he with his elttite partly opep. •
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