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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-09-03, Page 6am. "Inferi rity Complex" Is Often , Outcome of Irregular Te 4I..1 Irregular teeth ae both a result and * danger of civilization were describ- ilbd at the recent International Ortiz°. dontic Congress in London. The dan- ger comes in, it was urged by Dr. J. IL Babcock, president of the Con- gress, because a set of badly irregular teeth is likely to create in a school child or a younger person a feeling of difference and inferiority, what the psychologists call an "inferiority :.3111- plex." This is likely, in. turn, to make these youngsters grow up in tiznid, self-conscious, 'morose or otherwise abnormal individuels. Irregular teeth are found in all rac %s and all coun- tries, Dr. Badcock continued, but ap- parently are commoner among more highly civilized people. Some kinds of irregular teeth, he stated, seem to be growing commoner, especially the narrowed jaw and protruding front , teeth which European caricaturists already draw as a typical English characteristic, Why civilized condi- tions tend to make the teeth of a race more irregular Dr, Babcock admitted to be still unknown. It may be due to changes in food or in eating habits, like the use of soft foods instead of hard ones, or it may be a result of less severe elimination of unfit indi- viduals in civilized people than in savage tribes. Until this cause can be discovered by the biologists and per- haps corrected the only way to avo;d the annual crop of inferiority com- plexes due to irregular teeth is lie- , Belied to be attention to the teeth of all babies and young people at an early enough age :so that the irregu- larities can be corrected. Which Is the King Of the Jungle? the gas till the machine was goiug forty miles au hour and raced a large herd of antelope. He was left far in the rear, which meant, he says, that the fleet creatures must have been Lion's Reign Questioned B averaging between -fifty-five and sixty Noted American Scientists Many and varied have the opinions been as to which animal. is actually the supreme leader of beasts. Here we have some interesting arguments from an article by James Nevin Mill- er, who quotes several authorities. We read: Now, for the first time, the authori- tative judgments of three Govern- ment animal experts are offered: Dr. William M. Mann, director of the Na- tional Zoological Park, Washington; Dr. Remington Kellogg, assistant curator of mammals, National Mus- eum, and .Austin H. Clark, of the Smithsonian Institution of Washing- ton. Certainly the African lion, with his head up while charging his prey, looks more like the traditional jungle mon- arch than perhaps any other beast, Dr. /damn says. But for sheer strength and ability itt single combat, the fa- mous animal expert picks the African i scales at forty tons, it yielded eight Y miles an hour. On the other hand, Dr. Remington Kellogg, of the National Museum, be- lieves that the whale could outspeed all other creatures if he were allowed to swim through the water while alongside on land the fastest apes - lopes were urged to do their best. The whale, of course, leads the pack in one important sense—it is the larg- est animal known. The African ele- phant, the world's largest land ani- mal, is in comparison a child's idea of a sizable creature, even though it sometimes reaches a height of twelve feet and weighs up to nine tons. It is hard even for an adult who has never seen one to comprehend the enormous size of a whale. Mr. Andrews made exact measurements of one specimen. It was seventy-eight feet long and weighed sixty-three tons, the equiva- lent of a hundred steers or threescore limousines of fairly heavy type. Its bones alone equal the weight of the eight -ton winter's coal supply for a small house. Its flesh tipped the bull elephant. True, he ordinarily fights with no animal save his own kind, but he can hold his own with the most ferocious lion. It is when wounded that the ele- phant is most formidable, Dr. Mann explains. Charging with terrific speed at his foe, he crashes through the heaviest forest. Proof of the awe -which the African elephant inspires lies in the fact that at his merest ap- proach the giraffe sways his long neck itt terrified fashion, the zebra utters plaintive cries of fear and sometimes even the quarrelsome black rhino makes his characteristic snort and dashes away. Then, too, there is considerable doubt, Dr. Mann and the other Gov- ernment experts agree, that the lion would win in single combat with the fast African water buffalo. Here in- deed is a terrible animal. Black in color and a trifie larger than an ox, he fights itt furious rage with sturdy horns strong enough to resist the or- dinary bullet. Which is stronger on the'tharge, the lion or tiger? Opiaions differ, but information that dates long before the Christian Era states that in the great animal fights staged in mammoth - sized stadiums for popular approval the tiger usually won, However, Dr. Mann believes that the leopard is faster on the charge than either tiger or lion. But can the lat- ter beast, with this greater strength, defeat the leopard? Probably he could in. close quarters like a cage, believes Dr. Mann; but the chances are that in an open field, where the leopard could Utilize his superior speed to greater advantage, he would give a far better valuable palt? Demand and supply account of himself. I play an ever-changing, role in deter - He pointed out that courage, as mining this, but, according to Dr. generally applied to the lion, or in- Mann, probably the Russian sable deed to any ferocious wild beast, is leads. This is one of the smaller usually exaggerated. The truth is pelts, found in Japan. Siberia and that the same lion may be a coward Asiatic Russia, but it affords one of at one time and extremely brave at the most -sought-after furs of modern another. When hungry or wounded, times. One reason is its almost per - he'll fight furiously, but he's rather fect texture, color and appearance, An - lazy, which explains why he ordinarily other reason is that to catch the Rus - tends to attack unarmed human be- ings such as women. and children rath- er than take greater time and risk with the swifter antelope and power- ful buffalo. Few animals, Dr, Mann believes, can lay claim to more courage thau the little-known dhole, or Wild dog, of India. Probably he the only crea- ture of far inferior size and strength that dares to chase and kill the ter- rible tiger or outfight the sharp -tusk- ed boar. Never does he give up the fight to his larger adversary, but en- dures until death comes to either pat- ticipant. Yet the dhole is a seeming- ly shy and quiet animal, only about Straits of Magellan, from Spitzbergen as large, as a small greyhound. to the Bay of Whales, last airplane Another opaline, fortunately little ports of call for the North and South known to most of us, is the vicious Poles. Mongoliail dog, which rates among Unfortunately, points out Dr, 'Kea the Most dangerous anima's to man. logg, this great flow of money can't Ray Chapman. Andrews, noted explore keep ttp indefinitely, for the mighty tons of bluber, and the blood, viscera and whalebone, or baleen, made up the othe seven tons. However, there are far larger whales than. this par- ticular one. The blue whale in the Antarctic areas reaches a length up to 106 feet, says Dr. Kellogg. If you choose to judge the present- day leaders ot the animal kingdom by their value to man, then don't forget the fur -bearing creatures, urges Dr. champiolv airs. Dorothy .Cummings of NeWton Centre, Iliass., winner of women's United States championship for seventh time, in action during anal round of archery meet aOilenandaigua, N.Y. She made world. mark and two American 'records when she scored. 421. which exists in countless millions British Listeners -In See Broadcasters throughout the world. It is as wild as any animal which inhabits the junz I me gles, Dr. Kellogg believes, and not London—For the first time, pro - only is it notorious for ruthless cies- grams in the British Broadcasting truction. but also as a carrier of the Corporation studios were broadcast dread bubonic plague. , recently by Baird' television for re - One of the queerest of the rare ception by all owning television re - mammals is the Australian platypus. I ceivers. Two women singers and It has a bill like a duck, has fur in -1 one dancer were televised in sus - stead of feathers, lays eggs and. yet cession and telephone messages re - nurses its young. The chief difficultyi ceived shortly after stated the re- in trying to keep the platypus in con- ception was thoroughly successful. finement lies in providing the crea- I Transmission was Made by the ture with its usual diet, This is out same portable apparatus with which of the question for it eats special ' the television of the Derby race was Clark. Truly the romance of furs is One kinds of vrorms, water insects and achieved last June, This, heralds ef the most thrilling chapters in all the tiny mollusks found in abundance onlyeeretealeze when. , listeners win' also annals of trade. Furthermore; furs in its native habitat. - see their gavorite performers broad - have played an important role in ex- Then there is the Okapi, really a casting from the' studio. ploration's history. St. Louis, within kind of antelope and supposed to be only a 600 -mile radius of the world's the only living relitiVe of the giraffe, its founding to the early French trad- elongated legs and neck. Dr. Mann 'oronto Star (Ind.): Roadbuilders ers, who established a station on the says he knows of only one .okapi probably know that the deeper the site in 1764. Trappers and traders lodged in any zoo, and that is at Ant- ditch the better for the roadway, as e., th best oedrainage is given. But, at - Deep the St. Louis station opened up werp. Deep Ditches although it lacks the characteristic once greatest fur -producing area, owes ter I', the ezreservation of the road is a large part of Northern and Western udt 'e Superior consideration to the United States. Long before' the "For- pres rvation of the lives of those who tyniners" crossed the plains, the travel upon it. One may find little French reached what is now the State i fab with the eoadmaker who in the of Utah, . where they learned that in est sof the i'ad makes his ditches Canadian traders had already been ac- tive in that region. Russian trappers crossed the bleak expanse of Siberia to Kamchatka in; Quest of furs and then pushed on tol Alaska. Furs and gold have vied in opening up what is now Alaska. But gold booms have come and gone. Fur trading and trapping have continued, and to -day two little islands of the Pribilof group, in the Bering sea, send 1 $800,000 worth of seal and blue fox furs to the St. Louis fur market an- nually. What single animal has the most sian sable involves tremendous hard- ship, time and trouble. Aside from the fur -bearing beasts, which wild animal is most, useful to man in the sense that it puts most money in the world's pocketbook? Surely the whale, replies Dr. Kellogg. For whaling has emerged from man's most glamorous and adventurous form of hunting to the status of an exceed- ingly big business. And this big booming business involves corralling the biggest animal the world has ever known, roving over the vastest "pas- , tures' 'the world affords, pastures that range from the Bering Sea to the er, says it Is the most -feared animal in Mongolia. Since natives leave most of their dead exposed, MS beast has acquired a blood -thirsty appetite for whale is being exterminated far more rapidly than. it can breed. No longer is it commercially profitable to hunt the sea icing in haunts which not so human flesh, long ago were feetorites for the world's Whieh is the fastest -running fishermen: along the New England mai on the long stretch? Andrews coast, Sulu Sea, Solantler grounds and elaims that the antelope of the Gobi off Spitsbergen - Desert can run at almost incredible What is the Most destructive wild speed. One tinie Andrews deckled to animal? Dr, Kellogg gives what SOOMS prove this belief for once and all; so at first to be a curious answer to this - he got into his motorcar, stepped on question—the Norway or house rat, "Colonel Knintuck nearly fainted away when Bangs slipped on the mountain climb to -day." "But I thought the Colonel hated .''the interview would end. Ban g'" no 1 Very well," .ssid the teacher, "w ,q.ees does, but Bangs was carrY•a'aeaa 'show 'you that I'm an artist ing the only flask in the party," '1) ' ..e. . • To Teach Eskimosz40 'Herd Reindeer to wide and deep, but the authorities interested in the safety of the travel- ling; public should check up the road ong•eneers as to whether they are not ing these artificial gulches un - Barfly dangerous hazerds to traf- . Colorful ittle Bertie had drawn a carica - e of his teacher. The teacher, how - r, had caught the boy in the act had eenfitcated the sketch. You seem to bc an artist in black- -White," be said, gazing triticellv the paper. ' 'Yes, sir," said Bertie, wondering or three faniille(, ...aPlanders, cniute to ino Mackenzie Itiver where they, will,„40truet Eskimos in herding. —,:ndeer, Note unusual cradle of reindeer hide. French Explorer Plans To Sail to Island Retreat Sartrouville, France.—Son of the Sure clean-lisied, tell -masted cutter in which Alain Gerbault will sail to a lonely island retreat in the South Seas, is completed here and ready for her voyage, In a-.:ew weeks Gerbault, who gave up tends to girdle the glibe in his yacht Firecrest, will set out in his new craft to explore new worlds. He will come to rest finally on an island he has bought in the 'anguorous South Seas, where he hopes to found a tropi- cal Ut 'pia. Friends says he means to stay there permanently, turning his back forever on civilization. Gerbault was heartbroken over the loss of the Firmest, which sank a few week ago. On her way to )3rest to be handed over to the government naval school, the craft which had car- ried him through the seven seas broke adrift in a gale and sank off the French coast. The government had bought the Firecrest from Gerbault, paying him 10,000 francs, or $400. The vessel was to be used for instructing naval cadet e in sailing craft. The tug Re- ville, which was towing the famous cutter when she foundered on the trip from Cherbourg to Brest, had trouble in reaching port in the storm. Ger- bault had traveled 40,000 miles in the Firecrest, Population Ratios Show Big Change Washington. --That the preponder- ance of males over females in the United States is diminishing is indi- cated in census figures made public re- cently showing that in 1930 there were 102.5 males to 100 females, compared with 104 males to 100 females 10 years ago. The number of males in 1930 exceed- ed the number of females by 1,499,114 and in 1920 by 2,090,242. "These fig- ures," says the director of the cen- sus, "would indicate that the female population has increased somewhat faster than the male population," The number of males to 100 females, in the North in 1930 was 102.2, pracal tically the same as for the country as a whole. In the South, however, the number of females was relatively higher, with, 100.9 males to each 100 females, while in the West there were 109.5 males to each 100 females. Music Music has a meaning for everybody, but the noblest meaning is for the noblest man.—Lillian B. Hughes. Music, with its subtle suggestions and perfect harmony, is a part of that unseen world where every detail is real.—Rev. John Watson, M.A. (Ian Maclaren). Britain and the Empire London Daily Express: Great Bri- tain is not a European State. She is a great overseas Power. Her trading position is unequalled by any other nation. So strong is that position that a resolute, courageous Government, working closely with the heads of finance, commerce, and trade unionism, could create a, vast, self-contained trading unit that would ensure prosperity for years to come. The undeveloped lands of our col onies that can give us raw materials and do not compete with us Indus- trially are an endless reservoir of wealth. The growing markets of our Dominions hold the future in their grasp. Trustworthiness • People would try harder for trust- worthiness if they know how loveable a quality it is. When you know you can rely upon any one, that whatever they undertake to do will be done, that you can really pass over a share of your load to them, you cannot help liking them. On the other hand, it if they are forgetful, if they are un- does not matter how amiable men be, punctual, if they habitually neglect, they become sources of such annoy- ance 'that one's liking is apt to die out.—W. R. Nicoll. A Tribut .to "Jock" He was a curious looking dog, said mounted, evidently off for a ride to be an Aberdeen terrier. His body over the Downs. and legs were certainly Aberdonian, "Want to go for a ride with the Colonel, eh?" The tail wagged furiously. • "Be off with you, then!" I said, and he was off like a' streak' ol lightning. breed, and 'called. him an Aberdublin I met them on their return. The terrier. Colonel said Metthey had • a line Before going further I must state ride and Jock had been at his oIiit that he was, without exception, the trick of nipping the horses' heels. cleverest dog I have ever met and "Well," I said, "it was nice of you to take him. Come along in now, the most delightful companion a man ever had. All the stories I am about to relate of him are absolutely true and unexaggerated. He originally beldnged to a friend, who had to go and live in Egypt. I was then in the army, stationed in the South of England, and gladly accepted the of- fer to became Jock's master. Jock very soon took in the situation and sharedme with his old master, who stayed with me a few days before leaving for Egypt. At first, 'how- ever, Jock seemed not to approve of ' the joint arrangement and showed his "I can't quite believe it," I said, 'it is a habit of his. to say thank you." displeasure by getting on his old master's bed while we were at This habit of gratitude was one of breakfast in the mess, refusing to Jock's happiest and most enduring let anyone approacb it or him.baits. He never forgot to express The soldier -servant came to ask his thanks. ia his own way to a what was to be done about it. I benefactor. 1 It was my custom on Friday morn went and explained the state of af- ings to ride to the bank and get fairs to Jock, who let me lift him money to pay my men. Jock used off the bed without any more fuss. generally to accompany me. One From then till his old master went away the position was quite clear: Friday I had another job to do first and at. a distance. So I gave Jock* Jock had two masters and recogniz- ed the fact; but from no one else the slip and went by motorcycle, in- tending to call at the bank on the would he take orders, nor indeed of anyone else would be take the slight- way back. When I arrived there the bank manager met me and told me with a smile that my dog was waiting for me; and, sure enough, there was Jock sitting by the bank ceuuter, his face wearing a broad grin. This smile was another of his but his head was that of an Irish terrier, and his brindled coat was streaked here and there with the rich red brown of the same species. So I decided that he was a, new Jock," and I re-entered my hut. But Jock did not come; ha followed the Colonel. However, he reappeared and was soon asleep in his basket. In the evening I saw the Colonel and he asked me: "Do you know what that dog of yours did to me?" I professed my ignorance. "He deliberately thanked me for taking him for that ride. He fol- lowed me to my house, and, when I dismounted, jumped up and thanked me for taking him," est notice. But when his old mas- ter left and he became my sole prop- erty, he also became more sociable and seemed to realize that he was now a recognized member of the Camp. He made friends of the men attractions. It was just like that of my Company, would submit to an of a human being, except that he occasional pat and. have a chat with - showed more teeth, making it a them at times; but of no other men grin. He used always to adopt it except my brother officers, whom he to disarm me when he was not sure regarded as personal friends, would of his reception and had doubts as ] he take the slightest notice; and al- to whether his conduct would meet ways was careful to draw a distinc- with approval. Sometimes, when tion between his master and his Mita. I had to leave him behind, I would ter's friends, return and find him lying among my 1 I was a transport officer and had paprs. Then the grin would be to do much riding, and it was Jock's much. in evidence. He knew this delight to accompany me. Many a was forbidden, but the smile dis- 1 gallop we had on the famous South armed me. 1 Downs. Jock was Mdefatigable, At other times, when I left him, i and sometimes, when we were walk- he would go to the houses of my 1 ing and I as quietly enjoying the various friends, wait till someone 1 scenery, My mare would start forward Opened a, the door, enter nd sniff all and break into a gallop. '1' Jock, over the house to see if his master -1 bored by our slow pace, had come were anywhere about. Finding he 1 behind her and nipped at her heels. was not, he would go and try . els'- She always kicked at him when he where. .. 1 did this, but he would promptly 1 But the sad day of parting came i squat in the grass mid let her heels at last. I was ordered overseas, and Ifly harmlessly over his head. Row1 could not take Jock with me; so I jock loved a ridel One day I was left him in England in the keeping sitting in imy ofilee, when I sudden -1 at my typist, with whom he had al- , IY became aware of the fact that 1 ways been great friends, being ac - Jock was looking at .me intently and customed to a daily walk with her wagging his tail violently, with oc- across the ,Downs when she went to casional side glances toward the her innch. But the next day he windoVe. i disappeared. They eventually found ' "What is it,. jock? What do yceI him under .the seat in a railway want?" I asked. carriage, at a station a short way More violent tail -wagging, and down the line, Poor Jock! Ile was another glance toward the WilldOIC / going in search of his Master.—A looked out and saw the Colonel writer in . Christian Selence Ay/miter.