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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-03-03, Page 6Cancer Is A Preventable Disease In People Correctly Wormed The hopeful side of cancer was as caucer, but aawaye as a local never known fifty years ago, because eltange or spot which to not cancer.. Hien the people and the medical pro -1 When the individual seeps an, ex- fession were ignorant; the people, amination at this time, he is alwayo Uninformed of the importance of be Protected frown. cancer, In the ex ing examined the torment they were ' ternel Dancer the warning is definite, warned, and the medical profession,and when the spot ie in the skin or still ignorant of the proper treat- in the lining of the ,mouth, the per- ment, even iu eases of operable and son will know it before it is cancer. curable cancer. el When it is a small lump beneath The first uniformly successful , the skin, the lump may be so deep - cures of cancer were duo to the rapid ly buried that it is not felt until development of modern surgery, and its cells have become cancer cells. practically all in the cure of cancer Therefore, if any one notices a spot today were conceived and executed on the skin or, the lining of the mouth successfully before 1900 and should and seeks examination and treat - be associated with the names of meat at once, no one should die of Billroth of Vienna, Halsted of Johns cancer of the skin or mouth. When Hopkins, and Kraske and Wertheim any oue feels a lump anywhere, the of Germany, Then came the discov- ! first thing to do is to have it exam- ery of the X-rays and radium, which! fined by a competent doctor who will have been successfully employed decide between no treatment, irradi- chiefly in the past fifteen years. 1 ation, or removal. By 1900 many members of the 1 « When the Dancer is internal, the medoial profession throughout the warnings are different. It may be world knew, from their records, that an unusual discharge from one of the majority of cases of cancer the inlets or outlets of the body, ir- cured by surgery were in the very respective of the character of the' early stage. To increase the num- discharge. The warning may be ber of individuals who seek the aid j pain or an unnatural feeling of any of the medical profession in the very i kind, or a change in the normal func- tions of the body. The difficulty is not that the indi- vidual does not know of the very first symptoms. but that he does not know that these first and iusignifi- early stages depended upon getting a message to them containing the correct information about the earliest signs and symptoms of local condi- tions which could be easily seen or felt, which might be the local con• cant symptoms may be the first dition preceding cancer or the early warning of a dangerous condition, stage of cancer itself. By 1913 we and for that reason au examination had found out that the only way to should be sought at once. get the essential facts for the protec- The two most important state - tion from caucer to the people was merits which should reach every in- through the press. dividual in this country today are, Our studies from 1913 to 1930 de- Select a family physician for your- monstrate that individuals correctly self and your family before illness Informed in regard to cancer run a conies, not after. See the family risk of cancer in seventeen per cent. physician once a year, no matter how instead of eighty per cent. which is well you feel. Second, every woman the risk of the ignoraut and unln- who has borne children should go to formed. The chances of a cure of the physician who took care of her Khartum, English -Egyptian Sudan. cancer in the enlightened group is at that time, for a pelvic examine- -The barren deserts of Egypt will be more than sixty, in the ignorant tion, or, if this physician is not. avail transformed into fertile crop -bearing group it is less than ten per cent. able, select an equally good, or a plains when two great engineering Briefly, what is it that every one better one, for this periodic exam - should know for protection against ination which is the greatest protec- cancer? First, cancer never begins tion against cancer of the cervix. 6 Nations Enter Planes Punishment of For "Round -Europe" Race Young Offenders Argentina's Bope Well,; girls, this good-looking young man, Alberto Zorrilla, co nes from Argentina, is 28, won the 400 -metre race at the 1923 Olympics and hopes to do better this year. $20,000,000 Project Planned To Irrigate Eyptian Deserts' Berlin.—Six nations will be repre- sented at the Round -Europe Flight of 1932, according to the Aero Club of Germany. The event is tentatively scheduled for August. France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia entered the competi- tion ompetition for a distance of 4;500 kilometers, to be covered in three laps of 2,500 kilometers each. Prizes totaling 300,000 French francs, to be contribt.ted by the par- ticipating countries will be offered. First prize is 100,000 francs. The tentative itinerary is Berlin to Rome, via Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary and Yugoslavia; Rome to Paris, via southern France, Switzerland, Germany; Paris to Ber- lin, via Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden. The final lap, over which maximum speed is to be judged, will be flown over a triangular course of projects now being drawn up by Egyptian and British experts are car- ried out. For seventeen years political le- trigues in Cairo have prevented col -1 laboration between the British and Leeds Yorkshire Post (Cons.): Ste- Egyptians in bringing the scheme tistics show that a high proportion of near to realization. Now however, ouh prison poulation consists of habit- ual offenders—of men who have spent most of their lives in and out of jail, often as a sequel to a first sentence in- flicted nfiicted on them in quite early youth. Hence, it seems clear that a prime ob- ject of penal reform should be to keep At present the waters coming down' a young man or woman out of prison from Lake Albert flow into the swamp, for as long as is reasonably possible, where they are absorbed or evaporat-. and judges and magistrates do usually ed. An aerial survey, however, has act nowadays on this principle by tak- shown that many old river beds and ing every opportunity of binding over waterways can be connected to pars first offenders or placing them on pro-., through the swamp and allow the , water to dram northward, irrigating there is definite hope not only for the long-delayed dam en the upper Nile, but also for a 350 -utile canal which will drain the vast swamps of the northern Sudan and divert the water to desert lands. ,' batten. A term in jail, again, near y thousands of square miles of waste always handicaps a man in after life, 110 Variegated Food Plants Used Throughout U.S. Washington.—For every two acres of crops it takes to produce food for an American, it takes only one acre for a German, one-half for a Chinese and only one-fourth an acre to feed a Jap- anese, according to Dr. 0. E. Baker, economist of the Department of Agri- culture. These differences in the acreage of crops needed to feed one person are due principally to differences in diet, Dr. Baker points out. While most Orientals during all their days con- sume scarcely anything but rice and a handful of other products of the soil, there are approximately 110 kinds of vegetables now listed in the tables of American food materials pre- pared by the Dept. of Agriculture. The producing power of the soil in the various countries is also an im- portant factor in the land area re- quired. The reason twice .as much land is necessary to produce food for a Chinese as for a Japanese is because crop yields are much higher in Japan. however sincere may be his intention ° land. to take up honest employment and it As early as 1914 a great dam was follows that the most effective way oe planned to collect the waters of the combating crime is at the very start— White Nile at Gebel. Aulia, twenty - that is, by sparing no effort to prevent four mile sabove Khartum. After the young offenders from drifting into the World War, however, constant antag- 250 kilometers between the Staaken , criminal rut onism between the Wafdist govern - and Tenipelhof airports here. ments and the British halted the work. The announcement of the Aero Club Birth Rate in Britain Drops Now, however, a £4,000,000 project is of Germany, as organizer of the flight,expected to receive the Egyptian gov- voices regret at the failure of Eng- To Half of 1870 Figure ernment's approval. land and Spain to participate this London.—The birth rate in. England -,. 7,000, the lowest on record and less Cotton Yield Increased One Filling Station a Mile than half what it was in 1870. By Delinting Seed With Acid The ever -spreading knowledge of Houston, Texas j—The process of de - Statistics Show in States birth control methods is regarded as liming cotton seed by the use of sus There is an average of one gasoline the primary cause and statisticians phurie acid is being employed on some station to nearly every mile of State say that from now on the population Texas plantations. employed con - cording throughout the country, ac- will remain stationary or steadily de- ducted on the Sartartia tract near cording to the New York Automobile cline. Club. Mr. Hentges bases his state- ment on an estimated total of some 210,826 outlets for fuels and lubricants and a total of approximately 225,000 miles of State highways. doubtless would have suffered losses, The total number of outlets selling statisticians say, but for the decline automobile fuels and lubricants in- in the infant mortality rate. year. and Wales stands today at 15.8 per England has one of the lowest birth Houston, convinced the manager, D. C. P>t,ei anon, that the method was prac- rates in Europe now. In Italy the ticabia rate is 26 per 1,000, in France it is 18, yuchanan said he found that the and in Germany, 17.5. The population ` elude 123,979 filling stations, 53,081 garages, 743 parking stations, 1,146 oonibination garages and parking sta- tions and an estimated total of 31,877 dealers in automotive products selling Abandoned Coal Mine To Be Worked By Employees La Follette, Tenn.—Miners at the fuels and lubricants. Of the total of Itex-Jellico Coal Comany mine, one of 210,826, 178,949 are listed ,as strictly the largest and oldest in Tennessee, outlets for gasoline and oil and their have received a chance to operate it total net sales for 1929 are placed at $2,506,015,489. "Coffee -Milk" in Cartons Proves Popular in England themselves. Declaring he was through with it, Mr. Paul Francis, president of the company, said: "If any of the men want to run, I'll turn it , over to them." London,—A dairy farrier in Read- Mr. George Bennett, mine foreman,. ing is delivering his customers' break- took up the offer. "I'll run it for a fast coffee on their doorsteps in car- few days to give some of the men tons and the innovation is proving work," he said. "If it does not pay, popular for the product's own sake as it tivill be closed," well as a tune -saver. All the customers have to do is to ldlodern Motors Travel shake the carton to mix the cream, then warm the contents, adding more Over Roman Roads in Britain milk if they desire a weaker beverage. I London—The increase in road mile - The farmer calls his liquid "coffee- age in Britain since the dawn of the milk," which he prepares from a dried motor ora has been less than 3 per extract—not essence—of the coffee cent. This remarkable fact is re - bean, from which all woody waste and vealed by some recently published ground's have been eliminated. ' l statistics which allow that in 1900 «------ •z«------ 1 there were about 175.000 miles of Palace Elms ! roadway, while the number has in- A41lIce creased by only about 5000 miles Strangely y , since theta. Automobiles have grown Versailles, France ---• The stately in the period from a negligible quant - elms which line the avenues of ap- sty to over 1,500,000, proach to the Palace of Louis XVI 1 The .quality of the highways has. sere dying from a• mysterious disease improved and thousands of utiles. acid killed diseases and spores while removing the lint and eliminated seed of low vitality. S. p', -i •r;;—"Milton wrote about the fall of man didn't he?" Professor—"That was the theme of Paradise Lost." Sophomore—"Well, I wanted to know if it is anythink like Darwin's Descent of Mau." Ancestry Traced . Percival Christopher Wren, author of 'Beau Geste and other novels, is a collateral descendant of Sir Christo- pher Wren, famous English architect, who died in 1673. The novelist is descended from Matthew Wren, the architect's brother. Canadian Notes . Waterloo Bridge Over half a million radio' licenses Doomed j+To Gb re now registered. During 1931 over three hundredmillioNew One to be Erected o k.ns were spent' on construction Site Near by at Cost of wor Ar reeent •survey reveals that Cana- I 1,295,000 dams have a motor car for every 8 London— Old Waterloo Bridge, still i. people and a telephone for every 7. ono of the finest 'structures of its The Prairie Provinces show an in kind in Europe, is doomed to demon - crease of 20 per cent, in population tion, between 1921 and 1931. The London County council last Canada led the world in 1931 in the use of the aeroplane for police, weep voted to demolish the bridge e.- I and erect a new one neat+by. The ploration, fire ranging, postal and decision marked the end of seen other national services. 25 aeroplane years of controversy, complicated by clubs have 5,000 members. I the fact that expert opinion was Canada continues to be the Empire's timber storehouse, with over 40 her divided on the feasibility of its pro servation. cent, of the total forest area. Nearly I For more than a century, Water. 3 million tons of newsprint are made loo Bridge has gracefully spanded annually. Its gross value exceeds 200 the Thames. But it is apparent millions, and invested capital over 700 even to casual observers that it is millions, very slowly sinking. It • Foreign investments in Canada est bridge now standing wisithinthe Lonold' stood, at the start of,41931, at $6,375,-1 don, and is the work of John Ren - 533,000, an increase to a year of 229 , nie, A massive stone structure of millions. 61 per cent. of the total in-' nine archon, carrying a level road vestments were United States, 35 Brit- I way, Waterloo Bridge was opened in ish, 4 others. j 1867, atcapital £522,• Nearly 50 per cent. of Canada's 000, morend ititans that oPcost ai�vwas ocher irn agricultural wealth comes from the 1 portant London bridge. prairie provinces. Sir Gilbert Scott, architect of the Thee Prairie Provinces are produc- I igreat Anglican cathedral at Lf ing manufactured goods to a value of " pool, has been asked to design a new $300,000,000 a year. I bridge to carry six lines of vehi• Three thousand reindeer, driven f ruler traffic, and to Dost 1,295.000. from Alaska, will reach their new i The ministry of transport will assist quarters in Northwestern Canada in the country council to the extent of 1932. I contributing 60 per cent, of the cost. The Prairie Provinces contain 25 i .•. per cent of the Dominion national wealth, or nearly 8 billions. ;Swiss Migrations Fifty millions were spent in 1931 onti. Traced By Historian workmen's compensation, mothers' al -1 Berne, Switzerland.—Historic trails lowances, old age pensions, soldiers' of Swiss emigrants the world over aid, etc. I have been minutely followed by Dr. Western Canadian farmers have , Charles Benzinger of Berrie. 200,000 autos, 22,000 motor trucks, - He points out that Swiss place 200,000 stationary engines, 65,000names are found in the four quarters threshers and 9,000 combines. of the globe. There are several in Canada ranks first in the production the United States, one in New Zealand.. of nickel', asbestos, cobalt and news- I and others in the Argentine and Para - print; second in gold, total trade rer guay. For the United States, Geneva capita, auto production; third in sil- : recurs most frequently. There is even ver, wood pulp, aluminum. ! a New Geneva, as there is a Newbern in North Carolina, a New Glaris and Mining Industry Finds a Ve;et along the banks of the Ohio. New Use for Soap Suds! Foremost among the Swiss pereen- alfties who identified themselves with New York.—Soap suds have a new' American history stands Albert Gal- use in mining, found by the United • latin, member of the House of Repre- States Bureau of Mines. ( sentatives, Secretary of the Treasury, Various ores stick to suds so tightly , and United States Ambassador at that they float to the surface of water,Paris from 1814 to 1823. General in a soap froth. The process is called; Karrer of Soleure sought in the flotation and successful employment of French armies in Louisiana. Haid: soap was reported last week to the mend of Yerdon Was military gover- American Institute of Mining and nor of Montreal, eventually becoming Metallurgical Engineers. ( Sir Frederick Haldimand, Governor - Flotation was discovered originally ; General of Canada. by a woman washing a miner's metal -1 General Suter of Basel was the most dusted overalls with soap. -Only 100adventurous and romantic of the Am - to 150 parts of soap are needed tot erican Swiss. In the California days 1,000,000 of water. of '49 he made hi tory which is still perpetuated by many souvenirs at the New Industries Golden Gate. Sought in Britain Liverpool.—To help to ring new in- dustries to Britain, an organization under the name of Civic Publicity Ser- viees has been formed at Liverpool. The new organization will seek in- quiries from abroad and allocate them to the industrial areas comprised in the scheme, which will give services most suitable to the need of the in- quirers. The head office will be in ILiverpool and arran„ ements have al- ready been made for the opening of an office in London and for the ap- , pointment of representatives in New York and Berlin. Ship Carries Canadian Butter To Be Sold in London Ottawa.—The butter market in London has strengthened consider- ably, according to a statement •ssued Saturday by the Dept. of Agriculture. The feeling in Montreal is firmer. The advance at London is sufficient to permit of export from Canada, and l it was atated in Montreal that two ' cars of butter are already sold for export via Halifax. Exports and Imports Decline South African Report Shows Cape Town, S. Africa.—The official customs returns of the Union for Oc- tober show declines in both exports and imports. Britain left the gold standard at the end of September, and the figures have, therefore, a spe- cial interest for South Africa. Exports declined 12,029,346 from £7,588,429 in ,October, 1930, to £5,- 559,083 in October this year. Imports fell from £5,818,616 to £4,667,095. Wool registered one of the biggest drops, the exports falling from £703,- 1 689 in October, 1930, to £261,611 ;n October, 1931. • A "Baby" Cyclone Hits Cincinnati which appeared in Fran,ee after have been broadened. But many re- the war, coining it Is bdlievecl, frons pt m; roadmakers In Cincinnati they call this a baby cyclone. A g.a.pluc illustration of what linpponed the ether day main .as t e Rio zn $4~lgili ` to cars parked on one of the city's business streets, built titer. Chicago Air .Lines Report Shows Increased Business Chicago—Three times as mane passengers were carried by the United Air Lines in 1931 as in 1930, officials announced recently. The number carried was 43,000, as compared with 13.000 the year be- fore. The volume of air mail was 4,840,000 pounds, representing an in- crease of 50,000 or 1 per cent Permit ` for - Transocean Air Line Lima, Peru.—Permission has been granted the Compagnie Generale Aeropostale, : a French airline, to transport printed matter and com- mercial samples between this country and Europe. The Aeropostale oper- ates an air mail and express service between Paris and the east coast of South America. Rates for printed matter and samples have been set at $10 a gross kilogram between Peru and Europe. THE GIFT OF GOD True love's the gift which God lute given To man alone beneath the Heaven; It is not fantasy's host fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly, It liveth not in fierce desire; With dead desire it doth nut die, —Sir Walter Scott. SENSIBILITY Sensibility is like the stars, that can lead only when the sky is eloar;, Reason is the magnetic needle, whicih guides the ship when the stars are wrapt In darkness.•- l3p, Heber. TWO SELVEu In every man there are two settee; seek for the higheir in your neighbor and help him to overcome the lower, Ian Maclaren.