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The Huron Expositor, 1930-06-06, Page 3,.e pf J,+ r r r. 1 4't Pi iI TROUBLE LOOMS AGAIN ON INDIAN FRONTIER There is trouble again on the Indian • frontier, and trouble cr. the frontier usually- is a more serious bareness than trouble with the more docile, if equally fanatical, Hindu in the cen- tral !plains. On the frontier Great Britain has to do with famous fight ing tribes, chief among them being the Pathans, Fuzzy Wuzzy in his • borne in the Sudan was no braver and not as easily roused. He was a . good deal more easily dealt with, for in a sense he stood alone. But behind the Pathans stand the Afghans and behind them .the Russians. In the past few years a great deal of pois- onous bulsheivik propaganda has been spilled in the neighborhood of the Khyber pass. It has not taken the form of treatises on Marxism nor the special virtues of the proletariat. The bolsheviks have not sought to make converts• out of the fiery Pathans. They have merely sought to make them an ever graver source of trou- ble for Great Britain. Any story that aright convince some of them that Great Britain meditated evil would serve the purpose. The present unrest is only indirectly connected with • Gandhi's crusade. Perhaps the Path- ans have never heard of Gandhi. They do ,not belong to the same ,religious camp, and if they are interested at all in the Hindus it is merely as easy victims once British rule is shaken. We are unable to explain the im- mediate causes of the trouble and that being the case can confidently fall back on the theory of balshevik prop- aganda, which cannot be patriotically contradicted. How susceptible the hill tribes are to rumors from the outside world is noted by P. W. Wilson, writ- ing in the New York Times, who says that for thousand of years the recesses of the Himalayas have been the whispering gallery of Asia. "The virile prejudices, the profound beliefs of the hilimen are easily inflamed by their mullahs, by Russian agents and by Indian propagandists. What chief- ly impresses them in the British raj is prestige. Break down that prest- ige and until something is substituted for it the Himalayas, if they follow precedent, will break loose." Three years ago here was nearly a serious outbreak as the result of some mis- guided Hindu publishing a pamphlet in the Punjab dealing. after the man- ner of the higher criticism, with the private life of Mohammed. It is true that hardly one out of a thousand Pathans can read a word, but their mullahs read and burned with indig- nation that the prophet should be thus scandalously dealt with. They corn - Now "Undy "Tints Last for Months REMARKABLE New INSTANT RIT produces smartest, daintiest Parisian shades which last through nua ny extra washings. Keeps urrolerthings fresh and new -looking for weeks longer than usual. 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The government havin made no preparation for such an ex odus, sought to restrain it and in collision with the military police Pathan lost his life. When new reached Peshawar other thousand announced that they were bound fo Afghanistan. So an amazing proces sion proceeded over the Khyber pass toward Kabul. Theme, however, the pilgrims were refused admission and had to turn {bank. Hundreds died on the road, and the government had to make provision for the destitute sur- vivors when they returned to their former homes. It wase nevertheless thankful that the thing ended as it did for at one time it seemed that Britain would have another of those little wars on her hands with which the northwest frontier has been so prolific. It is; /possible to unite the Pathans on a question of religion but almost impossible to get them to act in con- cert for anything else. That, perhaps is what has made it possible for the British Government to deal with them in the past. But how to deal with them most wisely remains in doubt. Here the missionary has done little to sof- ten the convert, convict him of sin and make him amenable to law and order as understood by the Briton. He can be killed on occasion but he cannot be exterminated, since there are about 3,000,000 of these highlanders dwelling in their desolate and • inaccessible gorges. They are not husbandmen. They raise no more than they can eat. They are not merchants, so the ideal of law and order' as the founda- tion for successful business does not appeal to them. They are in fact born warriors and footpads, assassins and religious fanatics. The chief thing they desire happens to be the very thing that the British Govern- ment cannot give them, namely per- mission to raid the Punjab. One of the• most successful schemes tried with regard to the Pathan is that associated with the name of Sir Robert Sandeman. In brief, his idea was to make the Pathans the official police of the northwest. Other police were withdrawn and the new force was recruited from the thieves and murderers whom they had sought to suppress or !bring to justice. The Pathan was naturally suited for the work, which permitted him to go about armed and with a sense of in- dependence. He was also paid, which was an inducement since what the Pathan did for the pay he would hardly call work. This practice has been pretty generally followed, but, of course, only a small percentage of the Pathans can be enrolled as police- men. Many of them have joined the Indian army and have made excellent soldiers. Tht problem has been ad- vancing more rapidly toward solution n the past 15 years than in the :pre- vious 100. The motor car, the better roads and the airplane are all making the hills more accessible. Education will come in time, although when it comes suddenly, as it did to the Ami: of Afghanistan and his queen, it is apt to lead to fatal results. In the meantime the troulble on the north- west frontier has always been the more or less permanent jab of the In- dian Government. 1c, weight in fur. ag, Mian has to "'pay a price for this ex, tra Weight in several unuaua1 ways, e Energy has to be used, for example,. to carry the extra weight around.r- This a Bess clothing worn by men a1- s so results in men living in a self -pro - o duced tropical climate the year around ew within their clothing. The temperature within the clothing of the average an man in 87.8 degrees, Fahrenheit; for e women's clothing it is only 80.6 de- f grees. The relative humidity inside e men's clothing is 70 per cent. and for - women it is only -615 per cent. The at- observed consequence is that men suf- - fer from heat stasis and from exces- sive perspiration. g A miracle of nature is the way in - which the human body is lCppt at a a uniform temperature, almost regard - a less of the external temperature in s which it is placed. Our bodies have s continually to radiate heat in order to r keep their temperature at the health- - ful constant of 98.8 degrees. 'When, however; the environment has a high- er temperature and a higher humidity and the air circulation is diminished by the clothing, the body cooling func- tion is hampered. Thus, regardless of the room temperature, men's bodily mechanisms have more difficulty in keeping the body temperature at na- ture's point, due to the secondary air environment within the kind of cloth- ing they wear. Thus the basal metabolism is low- ered, a load which may reach danger- ous proportions is thrown on ties sweat gland, and this affects the water distribution in the body and may influence the kidneys and other vital organs. These statements are not based simply upon scientific logic, though the logic is plain. These effects have been observed by several scientists. How well sunlight could reach the bodies of men and women has been specially studied by Dr. E. Friedber- ger in• Germany. Using strips of paper which were sensitive to light he discovered that much light reach- ed the body surface of clothed women, but that the sun's) rays do not pene- trate men's ordinary clothing. Pact of them will penetrate a shirt, but if it is covered with a coat, practically' no light reaches the :body. The admission of air is of perhaps equal importance with that of vitaliz- ing light rays, and, in this case also, the •clothing of men extracts a pen- alty. Ultra -violet light penetration through ordinary clothing materials has been studied intensively by the Bureau of Standards of the Depart- ment of Commerce. They fiat that rayon, batiste or nainsaok cotton, and inen allow more of these rays to pass hrough than do pure silk or wool. When the materials ere dyed or Blight- y yellowish with age, the passage f the ultra -violet is cut down. Wool- en is only about half as transparent o these rays as-Ts—white cotton. The -eave of clothing greatly affects its ransmitting power. Crocheted or nitted weaves allow the most light, nd also air, to bring their benefits to he surface of the body. Better than an overdose of ultra- iolet, as on the seashore with its an- oying first day sunburn, is a con- inual mild exposure, such as would e given by a proper selection of lothing. Much of the benefit from esting at the seashore comes from he ultra -violet baths taken on the each, although this should not be ov- rdone at first. Other advantages hich make people erroneously think hat sea air is intrinsically bracing, ome from the breezes which unbur- en the heat -regulating machinery of he body by removing the layers of tagnant air between the body sur - ace and outer clothing. Belts add to one's discomfort, not specially because they bind the blood essels, but rather because they stop e circulation of air within the cloth - g. Tightly fitting garters do Kam- er the blood stream, as well as quick - becoming unsanitary themselves. ince constriction is an imp'rtant em against the garter, the same`con- deration should annihilate the tight tting starched collar entirely. Col - ✓ manufacturers have been having ouble finding a market lately, Per- aps men are at last rationally re- lting against this last remnant o e corset' which was originated as a otectiop against lance and sword rusts. . The blood vessels in the ck are large but are limited t8 a all area. They are important ves- ls which carry great quantities of ood to the brain. "Whenever you ffer from a headache," said Dr. oyal S. Copeland, "my advice to you to loosen the collar." In addition constricting the circulation of the ood the tight, stiff collar prevents e free circulation of cooling or re- eshing air currents over the sur- ce of the body. The collar, garter, long underwear, d lined clothing result in only the ce and hands of men being exposed the sun and air, In the case of men, fully one third of the body rface is exposed more or less to nlight and ultra -violet, while prac- all.y her entire body surface is con- uously ventilated by air currents. e is much better, physically and ntally, for this. Why did people start wearing then? One theory is that the cus- m was started by women who want - to make themseltes more attrac- e. Another theory is that clothes re adopted for warmth, or as pro - tion from,insect'bites. Still another eery supposes that people began to 1 immodest. This last is difficult to rept because among isolated tropi- people where no clothing is worn is considered immodest to hide the dy. But, regardless of how clothing or- nated, we should heed the warning ovided by scientific research which icates that clothes may ruin man less fickle fashion or common sense ng about a change. IS BABY TEETHING? Teething time is a time of worry to most mothers. The baby is nervous; fretful; feverish. His little gums are swollen and sore; diarrhoea, constipation, colic and sometimes con- vulsions set in—neither baby nor mother can sleep. These troubles can be• quickly ban - 'shed, however, through the use of Baby's Own Tablets concerning which Mrs, Louis Grubb, Teeswater, Ont., says:—"I have used the Tablets for all my babies while teething and have found them a splendid medicine." Baby's Own Tablets are sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. WHAT IS WRONG WITH MEN'S CLOTHING? For years it has been known that slightly more boy than girl babies are barn. Boy babies are the more deli- cate, however, and. there are more early deaths among them. By the time high school age is reached the ratio has been altered so that there is an excess of females. As years go on, this ratio is changed still more, in- dustrial accidents eliminating more men than women; disease also reduc- es the number of men more than it affects women. - nglish medical inspectors have jus$$ reported on thorough studies of English boys and girls who are enter- ing industry. They report definitely that the girls are much better develop- ed physically than the 'boys. The med- ical inspectors are inclined to attri- bute a large amount of this digerence to the clothing which is being worn. It is only in the last two decades that women's clothing has differed es- sentially from that of man; and the puny, almost neurasthenic, women typical of the 80's seem largely to have disappeared, along with the dis- appearance of several square yards of woollen clothing per woman. Fifteen pounds of clothing was the average worn by men a few years ago and women wore "a little more." 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