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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1938-01-20, Page 6Modern Medicine 7. rows Potent ""71it hes' . 'r wsn Of J3e.liaeval Times—Snake Poi- son Helps to Cure Colds Tl?e .days when witches brewed pa - tions of such weird ingredients as spi- ders, toads, beetles, and serpents, may seem very far away. Yet queerer tie stances are used int modern medicine than ever before. Astonishing cases have often been - reported in which people, apparently.. dead, were restored to life by an in• jeetiott of adrenalin. Asthma suffer• cis know the almost miraculous relief an injection of this drug gives during an attack, From Ox Glands And adrenalin, which hasbrought relief to millions, is extracted from the glands of oxen and, recently, from tropical frogs. .Many a twinge of lumbago or rheu- matism has been eased by a canthar- ides plaster. Cantharides consists merely of a certain kind of dried beet- les. Victims of a bite from a mad dog rush to a doctor to be inoculated against rabies. But most of them do not know that the injection is made 'from the brains of infected rabbits. Snake Poison For Healing Snake -bite, which annually took an enormous -toll of human life in the tropics, has lost much of its terror since scientists discovered that it could be cured by venom "milked" from the fangs of the snake. Snake venom is also used for haemophilia— the bleeding disease. In haemophilia the blood does not harden to forma scab, and the suf- ferer may bleed excessively from a trivial wound. Even the extraction of a tooth may have fatal results. Hardening of the blood is definitely hastened by cobra venom. The common- cold is now treated with a salve containing the venom of the viper. This salve, which has been ' prepared by a scientific in.etitute in Austria, is rubbed into any part of the body; and headache and runnizig nose promptly disappear. As a pain- killer, snake venom has been of great bene it, and it establishes no drug habit. Lawyers Offer Services Free Four Young Winnipeg Lawyers Have Been Appointed to Hear lnnariries From Those Unable to Pay. Persons unable to pay for legal ad- vice will be assisted by a social ser- vice to be set up in Winnipeg and to be known as the Needy Persons' Ad- vising Centre. R. B. Maclnnes of the Law Society of Manitoba, announced the new ser- vice, being sponsored by the society. It will be carried on for a year in the Winnipeg judicial area after which decision will be made as to whether the service should branch into all Judicial districts of Manitoba. Meet For Consultation Mr. biacInnes said a committee of four young lawyers has been appoint- ed by the society to hear inquiries from those unable to pay for legal advice. This committee will meet regularly in the law courts where consultations will take place without Yee payments. After hearing the cases and making necessary inquiries, the committee will make recommendations to a cer- tificate -issuing committee and a gen- eral chairman for final decision. The general chairman is John Kelly and the certificate -issuing committee in- cludes R. M. Maclnnes, E. G. Phipps Baker and W. P. Fillmore. No Criminal Cases If the certificate -issuing committee considers the cases within their juris- diction and they point to a possible successful verdict, their recommenda- tion is passed on to the general chair- man who supervises the operations of the agency, Mr. Maclnnes said the Law Society would stress the duty of every prac- tising lawyer in giving his services free- Cases outside the scope of the service would include slander, libel. small debts, cases against the debt ad- justment board or any other such boards, anti appeals to the Court of .Appeal; unless the committee decided there had been a miscarriage of jus- tice and considered an appeal justi- 1 ed. The agency will not touch oriminal cases as the government supplied a lawyer when the plaintiff or accused Was without means. Await New Japanese Moves LONDON: --With the sessions of the Palianese Imperial Conference, the ar -East situation is believed here to be entering a new and more danger- dus phase. It is recognized that dap- anese strategy continues to be direct- ed against the Western powers, the decision of the Tokio Conference re- etarding the actual war in China being relatively meaningless. It is learned that British Cabinet *misters have been notified to hold emselves in readiness ter an enter - Salley session if Tokio developments follow the expected course and Jatene formally declared war on 'phine. ZDi`CORIAL COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE, ' CANADA -Canada's:-Task do 1938 Make Canada one nation: that is .('anada's job of the year. It ie a job to which every citizen must put his hand, To leave it to selfisiz, narrow•ntind- e d provincial politicians - of the type that have been particularly vocal in • 'ereit weeks is to jeopardize our fu- ture as a nation. The job will require a modernized constitution. It will require the best wisdom and judgment the Rowell Commission can bring to bear on our complex financial and taxation puzzles. It will require elimination of over- lapping services and of the vexatious confusion and waste that have crept into our governmental system since 1567. It will require encouragement .of every unifying force such as 'our na- tional publications. Above all,•it will require the active • co-operation of all Canadians who be- • lieve Canada should go forward as one nation and who are prepared to make sacrifices; if necessary, to achieve :this end. This is Canada's job for 193S.—To. route 93S.—To- route Financial Post. Forgotten Hero " Among the forgotten heroes is the stork In the Millar will derby.—Ham- ilton Spectator. Or Grapeft•tit! An exchange points out that t trouble with too many ambitious m in the public eye is that they are the public eye—like a cinder. --C gary Herald. . THE EMPIRE Love's Autopsy . The acting • chairman of the .Aus- tralian Wine Board has asserted that lack of knowledge of cooking is per- haps the most prolific cause of divorce, The statement is provocative in this 'compressed form, but when it ` is ex- panded it sounds quite feasible, Bad cooking means bad indigestion; bad indigestion means bad temper; bad temper leads to the deatie of love. So the autopsy reveals that; love died of wounds inflicted by (a) a blunt in- strument such as a frying -pap, and (b) a shart instrument suoh es a can. opener. But bad cooking -does not al- ways lead to divorce.. ,Many a husband proves long-suffering in more senses than one. Although he speedily learns . that his "lass with a delicate air" is also a lass with a delicatessen flair, be forgives her,—Melbourne Argus. Stimulating Migration For some years British migration to Australia was in the doldrums.; in fact the flow of migration ran back- ward, with a loss to Australia of near- ly 30,000 people of British, stock dur- ing the pei•led 1930-36...,Now • the tide has turned at last, anal the flow is in the normal direction, outwards from Britain to this. country. ',In the nine months ended in September of last year our population gained 117 peo- ple by migration. For the seine period this year the gain was '2,435, a rapid and gratifying increase which is also e natural indication of the change he from depression to sconainie recovery, With better conditions, too, there has en been a reccut psychological change in in the attitude to migration,both here al - and in Great Britain .It is •felt—and felt rightly—that the -time has come when praeicai plans for stimulating Undisturbed Canada's gold, nickel, capper ai lead mines are yielding more the ever before in sour Ihistory, Evidently haven't beard the tales of the ticker- tapes.—Ottawa Journal. • Absolutely Essential Unless a larger spirit of goodwill is built up between the provinces of Canada, this Dominion is certain to face troubled times. It should not be difficult for any provincial govern- ment to achieve at least a measure of understanding of the viewpoints and problems of other provinces. Af- ter all, it is very doubtful if the peo- ple of any province, as individuals, harbor ill -will toward their fellow Canadians who happen to live in other parts of the Dominion. Edmonton Journal, Id out and put into action. — Sydney British migration should be worked u (Australia) Herald. Rights of the People It is well for the people to remem- ber always that the freedom of the press is not a privilege enjoyed by owners, publishers and editors of newspapers for their own -exclusive use and advantage. As a matter of fact, the press has no special privilege before the law. Freedom of the press was granted not to newspapers but to the people.. Without it, democracy cannot function. Newspapers may be irked at suppression of news but it is the people who are injured when a right is enjoined. The people who are shut off from facts about their gov- ernments or news of nations or peo- ples are the principal sufferers, — Braindon Sun. A year ago a discarded cutting from a pineapple plant was thrown on a rubbish heap at Torquay. It is now bearing fruit and growing rapidly. So, although it refused to thrive when. pampered with care and attention, it manages to enjoy life when left to its own devices on the rubbish heap. Because Germany cannot produce all the iron and steel it needs prefer- ence is being given to orders in con- nection with the Pour Year Plan and other projects under government control. Glacier Breaks Speed Records Scientists Measure 25 -Foot Ad- vance 10 Days -Running of Alaskan Ice Field If Alaska's Black Rapids g'laeier is moving at the rate the frontal partion is reported to be advancing, the speed is shattering all known records,,E. N. Patty, former head of Alaska College's School of Mines, said at Fairbanks last week on his return from the area, Mr. Patty said that before. the Black Rapids glacier began its rapid ad- vance, the record had been held by the Muir glacier, which moved seven feet a day. • Earthquake Partly Responsible Otto William Geist, of the Univer- sity of Alaska museum department, also recently returned from the glacial site, where he conducted in-' vestigations to determine the distance the glacier had moved in the last few months, the rate of its progressat present and other data relating to the sudden advance, • After ten days on the glacial field, Mr. Geist and his party found that the speed of its advance averaged twenty-five feet a day. "It is quite possible that earth- quakes frequently registered on the university seismograph may have vastly accelerated movement of the ice pack," Mr. Geist said. He also pointed out that a series of avalanclies. from the mountains had hacl a great deal to do with the advance of the glacier. It is some sort of a criticism of radio talent that right now the most popular tiring on the air waves is a ventriloquist's dummy. B—D German Ancestor Worship •Spreads In Mecklenburg, Is the Centre of New Extreme Neo -paganism Ancestor worship such as that practiced by the Japanese and Chin- ese has appeared in Germany along the Baltic Sea coast, notably to 1VMeck- lenburg which has .become the cen- ter of extreme Gorman'sm and neo - pagan experimentation,. The head of the National Socialist party in Mecklenburg has ordered tlnat• unused chapels be transformed into "ancestral halls." Here ances- tral tablets will be placed, containing the names and symbols of families in the vicinity. Replace Christian Marriage Ceremony A regional cultural director of the party recently dedicated such an an- cestral chapel. It was decorated with a swastika and the ceremony opened with a Chopin prelude. The party of- ficial delivered an address and then "received into the community of all Germans" six children of a local fam- ily. - Like ceremon'es are taking the place of Christian marriage and bap- tim in coast villages. News In Brief Supreme Soviet Foregathers MOSCOW. -- Newly -elected Soviet deputies gathered in colorful array in Moscow this week ready for the first session of the- Supreme Soviet. Many of the deputies, coming from distant regions, had to start their journey in sleds drawn by reindeer or dogs. In some cases it took 15 days to reach a railway. Several had never seen a train before, Pone ' 'is Hitler BERLIN, -A .- :vatic warning by the envoy of Popo Pius to Chancellor Ilitler that mankind calls for peace, and a reply in which Hitler pledged himself "honorably and confidently" to co-operate with all nations marked a New Year reception to the diplo- matic corps this week when brilliant- ly uniformed foreign envoys and a little group of high Nazi Government officials were grouped in the Fueh- rer's Chancellory in the historic Wil- helnnstrasse, Younger Men Appointed LONDON. --Further high army ap- pointments were announced last week end as additional proof the policy in- itiated by Leslie More -Belisha, Secre- tary for War, of bringing youth and ability to the fore, is being aggress- ively pursued. The new appointments are a direct consequence of the sweeping shake- up of the Army Council, Dec. 2, when the Minister passed over fifty senior Generals to make Maj. -Gen. Viscount Gort Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and, by wholesale retirements, reduced the average of the Council from 63 to 52. Rioting In Austria VIENNA.—Disorder raged through- out Austria this week -end as Monar- chists and Nazis clashed with clubs, stones and stink -bombs at sixty mass meetings, called to open a campaign to restore the 25 -year-old Archduke Otto to the Hapsburg Throne. The worst disorders occurred in Vienna, where eleven meetings were held in tribute to the handsome and exiled youth, who is hailed as "Aus- tria's savior." Fifty anti -Monarchists were arrest- ed in Vienna and at least 200 in oth- er parts of Austria. Numerous sus- pects were released after they were taken into custody for investigation. New Jap Conscription Law TOKIO. -The Japanese War Office has called for a new conscription law to mobilize additional man power for the war in China, while Emperor Hirochito presides over an Imperial conference on the conflict. The Ministry of War announced that the conscription bill to bo sub- mitted to Parliament would swell the ranks of the armies by restoring the —THE NEWS INTERPRETED A Commentary On the More Important Events of the Week. By ELIZABETH tEEDY 1 UNCONQUERABLE? — An inter- They based their remarks on tests made of forty-three patients in an. Ohio mental hospital and of another group of forty-three college students. Which shows you never can tell'.. As the old saying goes, 'All' the world's a little queer but thee and me,. and sometimes I think thee's a little, queer". • eating article by Frank Illingworth in an English magazine discusses the ex. ceedingly timely topic, "Can China Ever Be' Conquered?" Drawing les- sons from Chinese -history, the writer comes to the conclusion that the Jap- anese will detach more and more of China; that the Chinese will fight' des- perately, and probably lose. But as soon as the conqueror set- tles down, the Chinese will go back to his fields, back to his books of wis- dom, back to the cities and villages where life has not altered one bit for centuries. ''And the Japs? They'll be- come Chinese!" China has already been 'conquered successively in the past two thousand years by the Tartars, the Kitans, the Juchens, by Jenghiz Khan and his Mongol hordes, by the Manchus. But all these invaders have settled down and been absorbed amongst the Chin. ese. - Two thousand years of history .have by now accustomed China to the thought that any conquest of her 400,- 000,000 people can only be a tempor- ary affair. * * * WE'RE ALL CRAZY: Scientists and psychologists are telling us now, and apparently no-one is daring to say them nay, that insanity or a tendency towards it exists in a large number of people who look to be perfectly normal. Two. specialists . speaking be- fore the American Association for the Advancement of Science, went so far as to declare that a great many sup- posedly normals should trade places •with insane patients in mental hos- pitals. old 24 -month •term of service instead of the present term of 18 months. The former term was in effect until 1927, when the conscription law was revised. Unemployment Insurance Proceeds OTTAWA.—Although 'Laced by an opposition blockade of three Provin- cial Governments, the Federal Admin- istration will proceed with plans to Provide for an reemployment insur- ance measure, Prime Minister Macken- zie King intimated last week follow- ing a meetingof his Cabinet. Tide Has Turned MADRID.—President Manuel Azana declared in a decree this week the victory of Government forces over Spanish insurgent troops at the pro- vincial capital of Teruel, 160 miles east of Madrid, changed the face of the Spanish war. Ozana awarded the Laureate Insig- nia of Madrid to General Vicente Ro- jo, Chief of Staff of the Government's central army and commander of the Teruel offensive, Refuse to Recognize Him WASHINGTON, — The United States' refusal to recognize King Vic- tor Emmanuel of Italy as Emperor of Ethiopia has resulted in suspen- sion of the Italo-American negotia- tions for a commercial treaty. Informed sources said Mussolini re- quired the new treaty to be made in the name of Victor Emmanuel as King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia and that State Secretary Hull re- fused. Arrested igen Fraud Charge CHATHAM.—Bail was set at $5,000 each last week -end for two London, Ont., men who allegedly obtained $300 from a Raleigh township resident by claiming they were members of a syn- dicate which had sold a patented chemical formula to Lawrence Du Pont for $4,000,000. The two are Sam- uel Willis, 69, and Thomas Agnew, 57. * THINK OF THE CHILDREN: If loving parents bent on giving their firstborn a beautiful name would pause a moment and reflect on how that name is going to sound to the bearer of it twenty years hence, there would be far fewer foolish monickers disguised under variegated initials in the world today, and the number of sheepish, henpecked -looking individu- als slinking about their daily rounds would be considerably less. Think of the effect the precious name is going to have on your sensistive child be- fore you make the decision irrevoc- able! Best rule to follow: steer away from the exotic; stick to common sense. • It takes all a man has, to rise above a name like "Cyril" or "Einer" • * * * HEAVIER POLICING: Motorists o1 Ontario were given a chance to be- have themselves on the roads at Christmas time, and look what a mess they made of it—the blackest holi- day toll ever! A wave of protest has swept the country and indignant let- ters have been appearing in the press. Now the Attorney -General of Ontario is- doing something about the situa- tion, ordering an immediate and sub- stantiel increase of the motorcycle patrol force of -the Provincial Police, instructing them how to prevent vio- lations of the traffic laws. We motorists have failed to act like edult human beings on the streets and highways of Ontario. If for a change we are treated like the children we evidently are, better road behavior may result. BALANCE OF POWER: When Ital- ian Fascism in the person of Musso- lini's son-in-law, Count Ciano, crossed into Hungary last week on a diplo- matic mission, it met with a sharp disappointment. Hungary and Aus- tria refused to say "yes" to the Ital- ian suggestion that they quit the League of Nations and recognize the regime of Franco in. Spain. Neither would they join the anti -Communism pact recently signed by Germany, Italy and Japan. The democratic powers had reason to breathe easier following this re- . buff. Nevertheless the new Rumanian set-up with Octavian Goga as virtual dictator under King Carol's wing is viewed as threatening to reverse the balance of power in south-eastern Eur- ope, and the democratic governments tremble. Reason why: Rumania, as ally up to now of Czechoslovakia, has been helping to block I-hitler's pro- posed march east through Czechoslo- vakia to seize the oil and grain fields of the Ukraine. It is our fervent hope that Rumania will continue • with her former allies in spite of governmental changes and not line up with the Fascist powers. * * a: BIRTH RATE FALLS: In the first half of 1937, births decreased iu the Dominion of Canada, 0.7 per thousand. At the same time deaths increased 0.6, the figures raised by a higher dis- ease toll and a larger number of auto- mobile fatalities, Looks as if the population of this fair Country may shrink to nothing before we know what it's all about. "The bungling, over -sentimental or wilful handling of the parole problem still remains one of the greatest dis- graces America has ever knwon." — J. Edgar Hoover. THE WONDERLAND OF OZ And how they did run, The warriors fairly stumbled over one another in their effort to escape the fatal poison of the terrible egg that the scarecrow had thrown at the little king. Those who could not rush down the winding stairs fell oft the balcony In " the great tavern beneath, knocking over those who stood below, Willie the j(iitg ryas still yelling for help, 11is throne room became empty of everyone of his warriors and before the Monarch had managed to clear the egg away from his left eye, the Scare crow drew a second egg from his pec• ket and threw it into the Ring"e right eye, where it emes1ied and blinde'l him entirely, The Xing wasepnablc to flee because he could not see which way to run, no he stood still and howled and shouted, and screamed with fear. While this was going on, 13illina flew over to Dorothy, and standing upon the lion's back, whispered eagerly to the girl, 'Get his magic belt, It unbuckles in Um back. Quick, Dorothy, quick." Dorothy obeyed. She ran at once to the Gnome King, who 'Was still trying to free his eyes from the ogg, and in a twinkling she had unbuckled his splendid :jeweled belt and carried it away with her to her place beside the Tiger and Lion, where, because she did not know what else to do with it, she fastened it around her own slim water.