Zurich Herald, 1932-07-21, Page 3Reminiscences
Early in the 1929. Paris discus
pions of the Committee of Experts—
which resulted in the Young Plan--
tOwen D. Young wanted J, Pierpont
Morgan, his Ameriean colleague, and
mite. Franequi, the Belgian repro-
isentative, to know eaeh other. So a.
conference was arranged between'
them, Meeting Mr. Francqui the
ltzext day, he asked him what sort of
to conference they had.
"Fine, Owen Young," Mr. Francqui
said, "X say wow -wow to Mr. Mor-
gan, and we, go home;"
4; 4; 4;
Something else had to be devised, so
Mr, Yousg invited thein both to tea
i(says Ida M. Tarbell, in "Owen D.
;Young: A New Type of Industrial
Leader"), and before either had had
,ian opportunity to say "wow -wow," he
bad them both talking about their
blooded stock. Mr. Morgan of the
bogs he raises, in England, Francqui
of the cattle on his Belgium estate,
;with the result that Franequi went
off jubilant: Mr. Morgan had protn-
ised to send him two prized hogs.
x_ * *
Francqui always addressed Mr.
Young as "Owenyoung," evidently
thinking it was his name.
"Owenyoung," he said on one oc-
casion when they were at tea together
-after tiffany weary sessions dis-
cussing German reparations---"Owen-
,Young, we neglest our business; we
sit here one week, two weeks, three
weeks. What do we talk? We talk
about fifty million narks a year. We
talk about two hundred million
marks a year. Your great-grandmother
Marks a year. our great-grandmother
still alive?"
* * *
And when Mr. Young told him
"No," at which he seemed surprised,
he said:
"She come to life; she say, Owen -
Young, how 'much you pay at the
Ritz today? You tell her; she drop
dead."
After this (adds Miss Tarbell)
IVIr. Young's great-grandmother leav-
ened the awe of big figures.
• *
Mr, Young loves beautiful things --
his collection of rare books and prints
as famous—and thereby hangs a
story told by a Boston friend and law
associate. On one occasion, after
scurrying around the antique shops
of Boston for a wedding gift, Owen
Young found something that realty
pleased him—an unusual old snuff-
box. Six months later (says his
friend) Young came into the office
One Monday morning positively
snorting. He had spent the week -end
with the friends to whom. the snuff-
box had been sent and he had found
that they were using it as a soap -box
in the bathroom. He Wanted to steal
it back, he said.
x * *
the pleasant -customs 9,
at the titne: of Owen ` If.
'Voting's birth (Says Bias Tarbell)
*as to. let a friend name the baby.
V'he friend to whom Mrs. Young paid
the compliment, having read a book
in which the hero was called Owen,
masted the newcomer Owen; thinking
there should be at least a middle ini-
tial, she put in a D—noonane, simply
D now as then!
* * *
Conan Doyle—creator of Sher-
lock Holmes—whose famous story,
"Rodney Stone," contains one of the
best and most exciting accounts in
fiction of a prize fight, was always
keen on the noble sport of boxing, and
in his younger days was no mean
performer with the gloves.
"They say that every form of
knowledge conies useful sooner or
later,"—he wrote in his Memories
and Adventures" — "and certainly my
own experience in boxing and my
large acquaintance with the history
of the prize-fight found their scope
When I wrote Rodney Stone.' "
Conan Doyle never concealed his
-opinion that boxing is an excellent
thing from a national point of view.
"Better that our sports should be
a little too rough than that we should
run a risk of effeminacy," he be-
lieved.
* * *
Another well-known novelist with
a. passion for the prize -ring, and for
writing about it, is Jeffery Parnol.
Many readers of Mr. Farnol's novels,
"The Broad Highway" and "The
Amateur Gentleman" have marvelled
at the skill displayed by the .author its;
his descriptions of Istie encounters.
But the secret is that Jeffrey Farnol
is an expert boxer himself, .Ile jour-
neyed all the way from England in
1021 to attend the championship fight
between Jack Dempsey and Georges
Carpeutier, at Boyle's Thirty Acres
in Jersey City, and, that, if you
please, is enthusiasm indeed.
*
That dear old Thackeray was .a
prize fight "fan" is shown by a
unique poem he contributed in Lon-
don "Punch" venting his indignation
over police interference at the crucial
point' in the historic fight between
Tani Sayers of England, and John C.
Heenan ("The Benecia Boy") of
America, on April 17, 1860, which
ended in a draw when the police sud-
denly appeared on the scene.
Heenen, by the way, later married
Adah Isaacs Menken, the eelebxated
beauty, whose name crops up with
suspicious frequency in biographies of
the mid -Victorians, She was a
friend of Charles Dickens and Algae-
non Swinburne, among other nota-
bles. Heenan died on October 24,
1873, at Green River Station, Wy
oming.
• * *
Mention of Thackeray reminds me
that Sir James Crichton-Browne, emi-
nent physician, recalls in his remin-
iscences "What the Doctor Thought,"
that he knew Venables, the soon who
broke Thackeray's nose, the unlucky
fight which resulted is the life-long
disfigurement of the great novelist's
nose occurred when Venables and
Thackeray were students at Charter-
house school. It was a wet half -holi-
day and a boy named Glossop asked
leave- of Mr. Rompell, a master at
Charterhouse, for Thackeray and
Venables to fight.
"We wanted some amusement,"
Rompell recounted later, "so we Iet
them fight it out in the long room,
with the unfortunate result to Thack-
eray's nose."
* * *
Every one knows of George Ber-
nard Shaw's interest itt boxing —
through his loud talks with Gene
Tunney. But G. B. S. has no use for
brutality or commercialism. In a
preface to "Cashel Byron's Profes-
sion" he offered the opinion that bare -
fist fighting lived by its blackguard -
ism and died of its intolerable tedi-
ousness.
* * *
A few days before the Dempsey -
Carpentier fight Mr. Shaw wrote an
article about the coming contest, in
which he said it was fifty to one on
the Frenchman winning. After it
was all over, in another article, Mr.
Shaw proceeded to show that, mor-
ally,
orally, at all events, Carpentier really
won. And he had the entire French
nation agreeing with him. I forget
upon what theory Mr. Shaw worked.
'it out: that Dempsey lost ' and • the
Prenchinan Won. but I: ant'.sure it
was along scientific lines as opposed
to what is called in the boxing world
"the punch,"
• * * *
That sturdy liberal, Moorfield
Storey, whose biography has been
written by •M. A. DeWolfe Howe ---
"Portrait of an Independent" — used
to tell a story on American bankers
which is particularly apropos at the
moment:
"It was said that when a financial
measure was pending in Congress two
deputations of bankers, one from
Boston and the other from New
York, called upon Mr. Lincoln. The
first told him that if the bill passed,
the country would be ruined. The
other told him that if it did not pars,
it would be ruined, and they left him
in a state of some uncertainty. The
next day he received a letter from
one and a telegram from the other,
each reversing his former opinion and
taking the ground of the other side.
Since then I have always had my re-
serves with regard to the opinions of
bankers."
Catching Health
Col: Robert Ingersoll said one time
in about these words, "without intend-
ing to be irreverent, it I were In
charge of the universe 1 would make
health catching -not disease." It is a
lot easier to radiate good nature and
buoyancy when enjoying robust
health.
What New York
Is Wearing
Illustrated' Dressmaking' Lesson Fur-
aaiahecl With Every Pattern
Can't you imagine how ravishing
this dress would be in a gay red and
white printed crepe silk.
A white crepe silk cape collar cov-
ers the sleeveless arms sufficiently to
make it quite suitable for town for
warts days. The edge of the collar is
finished in the daintiest way with a
narrow frilling of self -tissue.
The cleverly cut skirt gives extreme
snugness through the hips. The panels
will make you appear tall and slender.
Style No, 2841 is designed in sizes
14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36 and 38 inches
bust. Size 16 requires 314 yards of
35 -inch material with % yard of 85 -
inch contrasting.
Carried out in one material a plain
marine blue crinkle crepe silk is lovely.
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS.
Write your name and address*plain
ly, giving number and size of such
patterns as you avant. Enclose 20c in
stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap
it carefully), for each number, and
.address your order to Wilson Pattern
Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Threntes.
Lord Bacon on the Art
of Prolonging Life
In urging physicians to give more
thought to the art of prolonging Life,
Lord Bacon itt The Advancement of
Learning says:
"This is a new part" of medicine,
"and deficient, though the most noble
of all; for it may be supplied, medi-
cine will not then be wholly versed
for necessity, but as dispensers of the
greatest earthly happiness that could
well be conferred on mortals."
"One can hear some sour Schopen-
hauerian protesting, at this point,"
says Will Durant, commenting upon
this statement in his Story of Philos-
ophy, "against the assumption that
longer life would be a boon, and urg-
ing, on the contrary, that the speed
with which some physicians put an
end to our illnesses is a consumma-
tion devoutly to be praised. But Bacon,
worried and married and harassed
though he was, never doubted that lite
was a very Rue thing after all."
This statement of a great philos-
opher furnishes a sufficient answer to
latter day critics who say that human
life never .has been prolonged never
can be prolonged, and never should be
prolonged.
Hookworms Kilt Live Stock.
About $100,000,000 in live stock Is
killed each year by netnas, or hook-
worms.
Sun iayr School
Lesson
July 31. Lesson V The Giving of the
Mannar -Exodus 16: 1,5, 14, .15, 35,
Crolden Text --Every good gift and
every perfect gift Is from above,
and cometh down from the Father
Rf tights. -..James 1. 17.
ANALYSIS.
L MURIAORINQ, Y$. 1-3,
II, "RUM) PROM MAVEN," vs. 4, :5.
IIIc COD'S PENSIONERS, vs. 14, 15, 35.
INTRODUOTION—It is difficult to
Conceive the triumphant feeling which
the passage ,of -the Red Sea called
forth in Ispael. The Israelites re-
garded it aa,ra signal act of God's
favor and lovingkindness towards
them. Their sense of gratitude was
fittingly voiced in a psalm of praise
on the shores of the sea, Exod., chap.
ter 15. But after the Red Sea, the
wilderness!. "That great and terrible
wilderness," as it is so frequently
called in Deuteronomy. Here they
were exposed to privations and dan-
gers on every hand, fierce roving
tribes, whose hand was against .every
man, wild beasts lurking in secret
lairs, the oppressive heat of great,
sun -smitten spaces, and the scarcity
of water. The problem of water very
soon engaged their attention. But
1 God, in his lovingkindness, turned the
bitter waters of Marsh to a pleasant
sweetness, Exod. 15: 22-25. In short,
God was with then as they attempted
to revert, meanwhile, to the difficult
conditions of nomadic life.
I. MURMURING, vs. 1-3.
The Israelites, having left the oases
of Elim, were now i,t the wilderness
of Sinai, Almost immediately the
problem of food supply—always one
of the most urgent problems of desert
life—became acute. No mention of
made that provisions had been brought
front Egypt, and even had there been
some supplies brought along, they
would be very soon co- stained. So ab-
sorbed wee the men of Israel in the
distress of the moment that they for-
got swiftly and completely their joy-
ous sense of grat;tude that God had
brought theta through the Red Sea.
Face to face with the difficulties of
l:fe it is hard to sustain for very long
an exalted spiritual mood. So these
hunger -stricken Israelites turned
against Moses and Aaron, their lead-
ers, blaming them severely for having
ever induced them to leave Egypt,
where they had had plenty, and to
conte into the wilderness, where they
had almost nothing. Although their
murmuring was ostensibly against
Moses and Aaron, it was in reality
against God.; for Moses and Aaron
were but servants under him. Hunger
made the Israelites' memory, perhaps
also their imagination, lively; they
recalled fondly the "flesh -pots" of
Egypt. Most people in Bible -lands
lived on a -vegetable fare, but in Egypt
the Israelites had enjoyed flesh. They
were well off there, whereas in the
wilderness they were likely to die of
.'r .ams l
i. ,, RREAD'P1t0112 HEAVEN,„
VS. 4, '5.
The.
'world's problem has .ever been
the problem,of bread, but it is one in
which God, the Sustainer of the Uni-
verse, and the sleepless ICeeper of
his people, is directly interested. He
heard Israel's cry and promised them
"bread from heaven.” What could
this be? A promise so vague was de-
signed to stimulate their curiosity and
b make them vigilant for its :oming.
I ' their careful attention to the direc-
tions Laid down for gathering .t, their
obedience and their trust in God would
be prat to the test, v. 4. Now when
God gives bread from Heaven, there
is sufficient for each day—lout no
more. If Tsrael followed God's direc-
tions there would be no da iter of
hanger nor chance for hoarding. Each
day would have its labor of gathering,
and each day its sufficient supply.
God's command, "Gather a certain
rate every day," is the Old Testa-
ment counter-, ai t of the petition in
the Lord's Pryer, "Give us this day
our daily bread." Evidently the
r, .thering of the manna involved hard
labor. No manna fell on the Sabbath,
but twice as much on the preceding
day. The conditions under which the
manna was given reminded Israel that
the Sabbath was to be kept sacred,
even in the wilderness.
III. GOD'S PENSIONERS, vs. 14, 15, 35.
Site the Israelites had had no pre-
vious experience With this `.`bread
from heaven" they exclaimed, on see-
ing it, "Manna;" which -means, in He-
brew, "What is tide?" This was the
name by which the strange food was
ealled henceforth, v. 15. Its coming
was mysterious. In the morning be-
fore the dew disappeared it was to be
found on the ground, and its appear -
Miss Hileko Maehata of Nagoya,
Japan, who will represent her
country at the Olympics, is now
in training at San Francisco.
arce was' like hoar frost or, "like a
thin scab," A description of what
might be done with it is given in
Nuns. 11: 8. "They ground it in mills,
or beat it in mortars, and boiled it itt
pots and made cakes of it." Now the
Iseaeities liveu in a world of mighty
wonders, because it was a world in-
habited by the living God. To them
the mania was a wonder wrought by
God. In this they were right. But
God's wonders may appear in the ordi-
nary process of nature. Travellers in
the Sinaitic Peninsula suggest that
the manna may have come through a
process of nature peculiar to that re-
gion. A species of tamarisk gives off
a sweet juice. "It exudes in summer
b night from the trunk and branches,
and forms shall, round, white grains;
in the early morning it is of the con-
sistency of wax, but the sun's rays
soon melt it. The Arabs gather it in
the early morning, boil it down, and
strain it thorugh coarse stuff. Its
taste is agreeable, aromatic and as
sweet as honey." Whatever may be
the explanation of the manna, it had
its origin at any rate in the loving -
kindness of God.
The Unvisited
What was there, there beyond that
farthest train,
Day beyond day the gentle 'wave-
like plaits,
Deserts and deep canyons and silent
-forests
Climbing to snowy peaks without a
stain.
Groves of great fruits and towers
built of old,
Vine -terraced hills and crystal
streams and gold,
soft -fronded palms, blue seas and
golden beaches
That murmuring fringes of white
foam enfold.
Dream -prairies spread with 'Rowers
that never grew,
And breezes balmier than ever blew,
A fiercer wilderness and mightier
mountains
And deoper woods than traveller ever
knew,
Aud mellower fruits and bluer, love-
lier bays
And warmer starrier nights and idler
days,
No pain, no cruelty and no unkind-'
noes,
Peace and coated and love that al-
ways stays.
--3'. C. Squire, in "Poems of America
and Others."
Several prominent Canadian
firms are having talking pictures
made of their products and pro-
cesses to exhibit before the Imperial
Conference in Ottawa this mouth
If God were not a necessary Being
of Himself, He might almost seen to
be made for the use of benefit of
men.—john Tillotson.
News Oddities
REN ADOPTS KITTEN'S,
Luray, Va. - 4 hen i"rbieh prefers
kittens to baby chicks and which dew
prived a cat in this vicinity of its sbc
young ones has caused something of a
sensation hereabout.
The hen is the property of John
Short of Alma She found her nest
occupied by a cat and half a dozen
new-born kittens, and promptly elias.-
eci the cat out. Taking possession of
the kittens, the hen firstly refused to
allow their mother to get thein again.
This kept up for two weeks, ac-
carding to the story, during which
period the kittens had to be taken
from the hen's nest at' mealtime and
given access to their mother. Sixteen
incubator chicks were put into the
nest in an effort to alienate the affec-
tions of the hen, but she was not in-,
terested.
"MANUSCRIPT LAUNDRY"
Berlin—"Any' manuseript for the
laundry?" asks a neatly dressed man
who goes the round of the literary
cafes here.
His job—his own idea --is making
rejected articles look like new.
"I am making a fair living out of
my literary laundry," he said. "Manu-
scripts that have gone around a dozen.'
times are creased, thumbed, ink -stain-'
ed and pencil -marked. No wonder edi-.
tors won't look at them.
"I clean them up and make them fit
to be sent around again. Many cases
I've known of them being accepted
after rejection, and by the same edi-
tor, tool"
B171LD NEST ON GROUND.
Cologne; May 20.—A pair of storks
in the Cologne Zoo have upset tradi-
tion and confounded ' rnithologists by
building their nest on the ground—an
unheard of thing in best stork circles.
When nesting time approached, the
zoo management fur.-ished the crude
makings in the shap. of a cartwheel.
covered with brushwood, mounted in
the shrubbery four feet above ground.
Whether Mr. and Mrs. Stork consid-
ered this elevation inadequate, or from
some other consideration, they• com-
pletely ignored the arrangements and
started construction "work in a per-
fectly flat meadow, gathering in large
quantities of paper scraps for lining
the nest.
A TALL FISHING STORY.
Will. Bergman and Alfred Crawford
of Fort Frances, Ont., were about 40
miles north of Mine Centre. Crawley'
felt that Iake trout would be a wel-'.
come change for supper so he began
fishing. He caught a five -pounder. II
the process of preparing it for the
pan he took it down to the Iake to
clean it. As he was doing so a huge
great northern pike shot out of the
reeds, grabbed the half -cleaned trout
out of Crawley's hand and made off.
with it. Away went supper.
Chiles Po. pulation Expeae
To Use 6 Million Paris Shoes -
The population of Chile is 4,271,-
398, according to the official census
of November 27, 1930, and in normal
times it is estimated that an. annual
demand exists for between 6,000,000'
and 7,000,000 pairs of boots and
shoes.
Because these figures would allow
less than two pairs of shoos each
year as the per capita consumption,
the estimate given would appear to
under -estimate the actual market,
but it should be remembered that
nearly 30 per cent. of the total pop*-
lation is composed of a class which,
either improvises its own footwear
or goes barefooted the year round.—
U. S. Commerce Reports.
Wool Manufacture Oldest
Important Portuguese Trade
Wool mauufaoture is one of the
oldest and most important industrial
in Portugal, particularly in the nor
thorn part. The industry, which is
said to have expanded considerably
in recent years, naw comprises 190
mills, with about 50,000 spindles and
1,934 loins. Covilha and vicinity,
the iti •in:•ii,al weaving centres, ha*
aht.' 1 ."0 dooms, of which 600 are
hand .,. ,,.....
The annual production of wool
cloths in the Covilha district Is este.
mated at 4,500,000 meters (meter --
10,936 yards), valued at about
500,000.—U. S. Commerce Reports.
MUTT AND JEFF— By BUD FISHER
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