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Zurich Herald, 1934-08-30, Page 6Voice of the Press j Canada, The Empire and The World at Large "SPINACH, AND THE D1ONNES Some folks may grow a bit weary et reading about the Dionne quintup- lets, We don't. We get sort of tickled every time there is a report which says that the little ladies have added another ounce cr half ounce. Likewise it is interesting to read of the chan- ges which are being made in their diet, -The last reticle was good. In addi. tion to the buman milk which is fed to the five gide. each 0119 receives 20 drops of tomato juice per day. That, we consider as being splendid. The reason for mild joy is that the tomato juice should have received preference over spinach. The tomato is a regular old standby. It goes into ketchup, chow -chow, pickles, stewed tomatoes, tomato soup, raw tomatoes and an manner of things, and the tomato is such a handy thing to fling about when a little trouble stirs in the community, It produces no Injury but is capable of the maximum am - aunt of discomfort. It is such an all- round sort of thing. Spinach has been making an at- tempt to oust the tomato in popular faney. Some person started the re- port that spinach had vitamins. There wers, some doctors who fell for it, When a patient came in lotting a little white about the gills and not quite hitting on all cylinders, the ad- vice was that vitamins were needed and spinach could supply these strange things. People who write thins for the papers have been talk- ing epinach, and the folks at home make people eat it under tbe guise that it's good for them. We were fearing that they would be starting to feed those Dionne sisters, five of them; on spinach, and then the thing woutd get into the papers, and there would be a uew spinach campaign un- der way.—Stratford Beacon -Herald. IT WORKS BOTH WAYS Many girls in bathing suits look mush more attractive in their street clothes. But many look more attract- ive in their street clothes than they do in bathing suits. —St. Thomas Times Journal. THE WHISKERS PERIOD The male Mormons of Utah have all grown whiskers in order to fit- tingly celebrate this year the arrival of Brigham Young and his trail -stain- ed followers at Salt Lake in 1847. Little is to be said about the his - tori lel aspects of this group of poly- gamists; but the wish will be general that the idea of expressing tribute by reviving the hirsute decorations of a past period may not become infec- tious. Our own sturdy forbears, who are arse worthy of all honor, leaned rather strongly to whiskers at a time when razors were scarce and barbers lank aown. Yat who knows? One of these days the Auggestion might be made and accepted that we should abandon the shaving habit and give a befitting de- monstration of what our ancestors looked like with their flowing beards. As a hot weather thought the thing is agonizing.—Brantford Expositor. Premier Hepburn, "Alfonso is out." —Stratford. Be/mon-Herald. PUTSCH'S EXACT MEANING 'alie word "putsch" is in these days seldom out of the central European news for loupe I3ut, accordiug to a German scholar, It, is being used very wrongly, when as bas coni ei to be a widespread, practice, it Is made syn- onymous with 'evolution. It is correctly applied only to an at- tempted revolution which ends in a fiasee That was the outcome or the affair at Munich, in November, 1923, that brought Hitler to the fore and led to his arrest in a beer ball after whiels he served a year iu prison, It wasn't In describing this abortive attempt at revolution that the word was first extensively resorted to in the despatches But th movement that made him Chancellor was cer- taints not a putsch in the original sense That launched against Dollfull Wednesday had the term applied to it before there was any assurance el.. ther uf its success or failure,—Edmon- ton Journal. THINGS THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN Let's see. Unless the war debts were cancelled three years ago the world was to sink in cbaos. Unless Britale gave India independence two years ago,,,the white man was to be driven into the sea. And this year if the Goverume.nt collected a tax on gold, mining would be ruined. What's the next croak ?—Sault Ste Marie Star, "LONE SHIELING" RECALLED The late Professor Donald Suther- lani. IVIcIntosh of Dalhousie University bequeathed to his native province, of Nova Scotia, 100 acres of land in Cape Bretou with tbe request that on it there would be erected a building sim- ilar in design to the "lone shieling" male famous In Scottish literature. Probably the most quoted stanza in the poem called "The Canadian Boat Song," is as follows: "From the lone shieling on the misty island Mountains diviae us, and the waste GRANDMOTHERS A. Chicago woman a grandmother at 32? What of it? The report fails to impress Mrs. Lela Corn She's a great-grandmother at 49. She was a grandmother at 32. Her mother is a great -great-grandmother at 75, Her daughter is a grandmother at 33, and the latter"s child is a mother at 16. All of which recalls the ancient command: "Arise, daughter, and go to your daughter, for your daughter's daughter nas had a daughter.—Kam- loops Sentinel. COURTESY A PLEASANT TREAT Making reference to the death of a notable public man it was said of him that he will be remembered for his unfailing courtesy. That feature was stressed. and that is as It should be. There is rothing as fine as unfail- ing courtesy, whether it be in man or woman. It smooths the pathway of life and makes contacts with our fel- lows much more pleasant. It is a plea- sure to do business with a truly cone. teoue man or woman. No matter what the businese may be courtesy is a greas. factor to bringing it to success, But courtesy must be something in- nate, not foreed. The outward ex- preseion of an inward state of mind. —Nis,gara Faib' Review. o seas— But still the bleed is is Highland, And we in dreams brides." strong, the heart behold the He - "This Is A Tank, Carle* 3 ese Japanese tank display staged at Tank Corps base in Tokyo brought out many women, among thent the pupils of the Tokyo Academy of Music. Girls showed lively interest in every detail of the intri- casies of modern death -dealing war machines which were demonstrated and are seen grouped about as officers explain operation of turret. aateessaree EASY MONEY DOES IT Why is business improving in Great Britain? 1. Because foreign countries have confidence in our ability to man- ufacture and deliver according to con- tract. 2. Because the banks, by pay- ing virtually, no interest on deposits, are fur cing idle millions into produc- tive channels —London Sunday Re- feree. VULNERABLE WOOLWICH The War Office is said to have un- der consideration a project for mov- ing Woolwich Arsenal to South Wales. The primary object would be safety from air attack, but it would have a great many other advantages. In the War, London proved to be anything • but en ideal site for an ordnance fac- The poem, which first appeared in • tory. Sooner, ur later, and the sooner Blackwood's Magazine in September the better, not only the Woolwich Ar - 1829, has been attributed to John I senal, but all our aircraft factories, Galt. John G. Lockhart, the Earl of Eglinton and others. Periodically the discussion of the authorship is reviv- ed, but it has never been settled def- initely and probably never will be.— Toronto Mail and Empire. POLITE POLICE A pi ovincial motorcycle officer has been relieved. of his duties on the grouud of discourtesy to motorists. "I called for the constable's resig- nastee," General Williams, chiet of the Provincial Police, announces. "We inteiJ that our men shall be court. eous, and any constable that isn't will have to be moved to places less accessible to enemy bombers, as a matte; of common precaution—Lon- don Sunday Dispatch. With The Gangsteks "I am not being boastful," says Mr. Gordon Fellowes in "They Took Me for a Ride" (Allen and Unwin, Os.), "when I say that I am one of the few men who have ever been taken for a ride by gangsters and lived through the ordeal." It certainly sounds a su- premely uncomfortable experience. He courteous can get another job." was acting as a criminal investigator On the whole we believe Ontario in St. Louis at the time, and could has a Provincial police system of not have been too popular with the which it may well be proud. In all de- gangsters, So they arranged an ap- partments it seems to be doing good pointment with him:— work. The motorcycle division is par- "As I walked up to the main door ticularly smart and efficient and the of the Pierce Building four men con - various officers with whom we have fronted me, and I realized at a glance come in contact left nothing to be de.. aired in the way of courtesy. We quite agree with General Wil- liams that it is desirable to have the force known everywhere as a 100 per cent courteous body. A traffic officer can do his duty and still be courteous. Occasionally one finds a constable, and I knew that in all probability I who does not appreciate this fact, was about to begin my last hour of Sucu a man, ot course, is unfitted for life. I had a curious feeling of ex - the work.—Border Cities Star. PUBLICIZING THE PIG it au explanation of the apparent preference for pork in Canada is sought it may peehaps, be found in the power of advertising. The merits of vatious brands of hams, bacon, sau- sage and other pork products are set forth consistently In the packing house advertising, but does •any one recall ever having read au advertise- ment concerning a tempting roast of beet or a tender juicy steak,—Monc- ton Transcript. FINGERPRINTS l'ue files of the U.S. Department of Justice contain more than 4,400,000 that I had walked into a trap. One of them, a big, blustering man, making no pretence of concealing the gun in his hand, barred my way. "Fellowes," he said, "we're going to take you for a ride," I knew it would be useless to argue, THE TRIUMPH OF THE AUTO Dealing with fast automobile driv- srs is not a new tbing, In the Ottawa Journal it is recalled that 25 years no there weve complaints that cars were travelling "on Wellington and ethee streets as fast as thirty miles en hour," That was baking the civic by- laws in many small pieces because the speed limit then was ten miles per hour and on the Ottawa Improve- ment Commission's driveway, of whih some sections were in use, sev- en miles the utmost speed allowed. In the same column of The Jour- nal It is related that there was rebel- lion in Spain and King Alfonso was iootcd in the streets. Thus the speeding autos and the King of Spain Were Matters of con- cern a quarter of a century ago, The autos seem to have been possessed Of greater powers of resistance. They Still epeed but to use the pbrase Of hilaration. THIRD DEGREE METHODS. They rushed him across to a car and sat him in the back between them. Tbey drove him out to a deso- late part of the country, and set to work. What they really wanted was to find out where he kept his copy of the confession of another gangster who had betrayed his comrades:— From seven -thirty till nearly mid- night—almost five hours—I was cross- examined, searched, struck with guns and fists, and subjected to every im- aginable form of mental and physical suffering. Backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards, the car drove along those quiet roads, and in turn each man questioned, threatened, cursed and struck until I was hardly in a state of consciousness. But, in spite of everything, he re- fused to give in. He felt that once they knew where the confession was hidden, "the next dawn would have found my body lying in a ditch" — "bumped off." As it was they let him go. Later he received another warning. He was working with a prominent Senator who was determined to sup- press the gangsters, and he knew that they both were suspected. One night, he says, • "I answered the telephone to hear a voice, which I did not recognize, saying in cold, precise tones: "You're on the spot, Fellowes, and this is the last warning you will ever get. Got me?" I certainly had got him. I would have been a fool to bave ignored the warning. He went to the Senator and told him that be was going to lie low for a bit. That evening the Senator was murdered in the theatre! POLICE WARNING. According to Mr, Fellowes, many of the police work hand in hand with the criminals. He was shot at one day, and next morning was summoned to the police station to identify a couple of possible assailants. In the ante- room, An officer walked up to me with a smile --not a very pleasant smile. "Say, Fellowes," he muttered, "you don't know these guys. Get me?" "Well," I returned, "I should rec- ognize the man who took a shot at me." "You'll do nothing of the sort!" snapped the officer. "You'll keep your mouth shut." Thinking that discretion was the better part of valor, he would not SIMPLE TEST TO DISCLOSE CANCER PRESENCE FOUND Blood Reaction Indication, Says Polish Scientist, Pupil of Prof, J. I), D'Arsonval, Paris Announced Academy of Science fingerprints. But any home with a Paris.—A simple, inexpensive test baby can show that number on its which doctors anywhere may perform wane —Woodstock Sentinel -Review. to determine if a patient has cancer SMOKING FORBIDDEN was announced recently at the exclu- 'Ne smoking' was the notice that sive French Academy of Science bY greetea the hundreds of guests who; Prof. Jacques Aresene D'Arsonval as danced at Ham House, Lord Dysart's I the discovery of one of his pupils, Dr, historic mansiot at Richmond. I Laclislas Kopaczewski, a Pole. It was only on condition that this The test consist of congealing a notine was hung in various parts of blood sample by incorporation of 10 the house and that strict observance; per cent. ot lactic acid at a tempera - of Me rule was enforced. that it was ture of one degree centigraden possible to hold the debutante's ball i Dr. Kopaczewski, in an exclusive ex. there for the mansion is insured for planation of his test to the United six nundred thousand pounds. Guests Press, said: "It will now be possible who wanted to smoke had to do so for any human to undergo tests ebeap. outdors. ly, as often as he feels it desirable Guests who included Prince Arthur to satisfy himself whether he is suf. of Connaught, the Xing of Greece,i fering from cancer tumor. The blood Princess Katharine of Greece and the' of a normally healthy man without Prince and Princess Christian of Hes-I cancer should congeal under those. se, had the first pine trees to be plantonditions with the addition of ladle ed in England floodlit for their bene. I acid in 120 minutes. Blood Of persons fit, Other Sights were floodlit for the' suffering the worst cancers eongeals first tints, and included the gate that. almost instantly, has not been opened sine Stuart! "Between those two extreme• we times and the ilex grove,—London have charted an index which allows Daily Telegraph I positive proof of Whether or not a you—did you ever see such' tweeds and such a cap?.'Arry in Parry If 1 ever saw one.' (This was in the days when an Eng. lishman always went to the Continent in a cap.) "And behold," adds Lucas, "the end of the room was. all mirror, and It was himself and his friends iat were reflected in it," * * * A warning to autograph fiends! "My favorite story of that house (Ralph Waldo Emerson's) relates how the Olympians of Concord decided to have a club," reminisces Clara E, Laughlin ( in "Travelling Through Life.") "It met on a Monday evening in Emerson's study. There were erson and Hawthorne, and Alcott and Curtis, and Thoreau, and I can't re- member what others; and they sat about, stiffly, while conversation languished because no one could think of anything sufficiently Olympian to say. "Presently Hawthorne, willing to be social on a low level if they couldn't attain a high one, asked Emerson: ',Do you get a lot of letters asking for your autograph?' "'I do indeed,' said Emerson. I "'What do you do with them?' I "'Throw them in the wastebasket.' "'But they enclose stamps,' said Hawthorne, "'0! course,' said the author of 'The Over -Soul'; that's' where I get all my postage'." • * * * In case you may think it Is a mis- print for "hook," Sir Wilfred offers; some additional evidence of the. breadth of a cod's appetite and—dig- estion, identify the men—although he recog- nized one of them perfectly well. And nothing more was heard about the shooting. Mr, Fellowes tells us teat he and the Senator "tapped" the telephone line of a high police official and heard some astonishing conversations. One day a gang leader rang up and de- manded that one of his men, in prison for killing a bank manager, should be released. This was to be done by fixing the murder charge on some.; body else, Next night they heard this:— "Guess I've got the guy you want .... His name is McG---, and he is lo- cated in Detroit waiting for sentence for another rap, I suggest I get the Judge to pass him to us for the Phelps murder." "Fine! I knew you'd do it for me! How much do you want for the job?" The police official was undecided .about his charge. He said , . . would content himself with asking for an advance of five hundred dollars on account of current expenses. This was agreed upon, and the two men proceeded to elaborate the details of a scheme whereby a high police offi- cial should charge with murder a man Who had no connection with the crime in order that the real murdeter should go free. . . . THE GANGSTERS' INCOME. The profits made by the gangs are enormous if we are to believe Mr. Fellowes. In Chicago, he says, Jack Zuta, a prominent gangster before his assassination, told him that The weekly income of Chicago gangsters and extortioners derived frothabout 8,000 speak-easies, 2,800 disorderly houses paying protection, 200 of the larger gambling dens, and 2,000 bookmakers, amounted to about 6,000,000 dollars. Mr. Fellowes is speaking of condi- tions some few years ago. Things may possibly be better now. But judging from the publicity, given to John Dillinger and others, America still has a long way to go. Mr. Fel- lowes has certainly written a most exciting accouut of his experiences— many of which, we imagine, he would not like to go through again. He now finds it safer to live in England. — person is suffering from cancer and to what extent. Thus far we have been unable to discover a means of pointing out the exact location of the cancer, but the new method will enable :%ny doctor anywhere to ex- amine the blood and determine be. forehead whether surgical interven- tion is necessary. "Tests every six months show the start of cancer, and allow immediate treatment with almost certainty of a Cure if treated sufficiently early in development of the malady. Thus far we have made no progress in ism. lating the cause of cancer, but when we can now prove whether a Immix has the disease 'we have made con - Dr, Kopaczewski lectured in New York hospitals in 1929, Being poor and not practicing, ho was enabled to carry his experiments to success through ti e assistance Of Professor D'Arsonval, famed as the father of electric theraDeuties,• who took him in as a pupil and gave him the use Of laboratories. Pithy .AnecdotesFamous Of the "Scissors, oil cane and old boots' have been found in them. One skip- per who lost his keys overboard in the North Sea got them in the stom- ac'h of a codfish," he goes on. "Two full-grown ducks, feathers and all, were found in another, apparently having been swallowed alive. Candles, guillemots (beaks, claws, and all), a whole hare, dogfish, turnips " But, there, that's enough! * * « Of course, you mustn't expect to find" such treasure trove in the inter- ior of a cod lying in the humble cor- ner of a fishmonger's stall. No, sir, Sir Wilfred is talking about the big fellows. "The Labrador record cod was 102 pounds in weight and 5 feet 6 inches long," he says. "The English record is a poor second. He was 78 pounds in weight and 5 feet 8 inches long. The largecod recorded from the Newfoundland Banks was 136 pounds, In the international competition the honors go to America with a Bank cod of 160 pounds. An Aberdeen man hooked a larger one but unfortunate- ly it broke the line and escaped. When the Englishman suggested to him that it was a whale, he replied that he was using a whale for bait at the time." Baby Harp seals are practically all , born—on. floating ice—on the same night, March the fifth. Thousands of them! They are very beautiful in their "white coats," says Sir Wilfred Grenfell. But listen to this: "To make the rich milk the moth- ers have to leave their offispring both in fair weather and foul, lying on the ice which has moved in the mean. while, aud return. to find their one parparticular baby among all the other thousands. Yet no man could tell two baby seals apart. Moreover, in maternity hospitals, with only a few dozen human babies at most, each has to haye a little brass tag chained to his arm, -for fear that their moth- ers will not know which is which." * * * Speaking of codfish reminds me of a story told by the late Professor John W. Burgess, of Columbia Uni- versity (in "Reminiscences of an Am- erican Scholar.") Recalling the days when pedagogues were not paid the princely (!) salaries they now receive, he tells of the exultation of a 'fam- ous old Amherst Professor when his salary was raised to $800. Rushing home, he burst into the front door of his cottage and cried out to bis good wife: "Martha, Martha, thank God we can now have codfish for breakfast." Quoting Andrew Laing's little- known lines about the two men who thought they were looking into mir- rors and were looking at each other through a pane of glass, E. V. Lucas (in "Post -Bag Diversions") tells about an amusing experience along the same lines that once happened to a friend of his "now a legal lumin- ary." First, let me give the Laing lines: Brown his tie adjusted, And Green arranged his hair. They each exclaimed, disgusted, 'I thought -1 hoped—I trusted My face was far more fair!" As BrOwe his tie adjusted, And Green arranged his hair! * * * * Now for genial E. V. Lucas' story President Moore was the first Pre - about bis friend, the "legal lumin- saint of Amherst College, and he ary": was, therefore, the first president to "He and some friends. were visit- he professore—Ebenezer S. Snell seta.' Parie and one day went out to tatorian to the first class whin gra. * * It was this same professor—"to whom Amherst was the centre of the world and Amherst College the soul of America and of universal culture" —who always carried an extraordinary looking umbrella, an old blue cotton concerti tied in the middle by a string. "I value that umbrella more highly than anything I possess", he told a friend one day. "It belonged to the first president," "Indeed," said the friend, "anyone would value highly an article once used by Washington." "Oh," replied the professor, look- ing a little disconcerted, "I did not mean Washington. I meant PreSidellt. Moore." Siderable progress." Versailles. As they were walking duated from Amherst College, t ho along one of the great, florid Geller. Class ot 1822, and connected with col - les they saw advaiming upon them lege from the clay It opened un til bus from the far end a party similar in Sloth in 1876, number, also bent upon tearing the "He was an institution in Amherst secret ;ram the sumptuousnees of the College," says Professor Burgess, an Sun -King. old Amherst man himself, "Look," said my friend, ',here comes the British tripper with a vengeance, The turning Nita in a girl's life Is and his compatriots with him. I ask when sire decides to tutu blond.