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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1931-09-04, Page 37,7 ....•••••/•••••••••-•-•"-•''';'•'''",••••••'••••••.a.,•••••,....a.".•.,.:•"'"•;:s,,••;:•••••••••-•••, ,,,,,•;er *It aaaarak, keeee.''' A otk .• ,o,e 19111i The f*rnleir aeeda ..01r rne thetas well AY hllektee andPre,..„ 40ton• Thy beat place to See: the,lates_t eevelaimitenta Agricultm tar, Live 8%94 and, Pakying method's is at the Western IN PRIZES AND Over 0 . - ' ' - . ' ' rie ' . „ . Writ. tho Secretary for fallinformation Entries close Sept. 3rd - J. H. SAUNDERS, W. D. JACKSON, PresideI nt. _ becretary. 0 THE CATACOMBS OF GUANAJUAT011 Guanajuato is perhaps the most un- usual and the most unique city in all Mexico. It lies a daises journey by rail west of Mexico City and is situ- ated in a -harrow rnountaig gorge 'through which flows the Guanajpato River. The city itielf is a source of much beauty with its white stone and adobe houses flanking the narrow cobblestone streets. Up above the city in the grandeur of the surrounding mountains are some of the richest gold and silver mines in.the country. Guanajuato con- tains some of the most beautiful ex- amples of Mexican churches. The city also contains the Alhondiga de Granadita, once used as a species of grain market, often put to use as a fort, but now serving as a prison. However, neither cathedrals, mines nor old Spanish forts can exert the same weird fascination over the vigl, tor as do the former inhabitants of this unique mountain city. They are to be found in the Panteon, or ceme- tery, which is located on a height that overlooks the city from one end to the other. The Panteon is built in the form of a great rectangular stone wall. In- side this enclosure are tombs built a- bove the surface of the ground and occupied by the wealthier classes. The surrounding wall is composed of noth- ing but riches—layer upon layer. Due to the meagerness of topsoil through- out the vicinity, these niches serve, as a burial chamber for the deceased who have left enough money or whose rel- atives can afford to rent one of the narrow compartments. Rents are payable for periods of five years, ten years or perpetuity. Bodies are slip- ped lengthwise into the niches; the last rites are held and then the open- ing is sealed with bricks and mortar. .A marble slab is placed in front bear- ing the epitaph and often a photo- graph of the deceased. It is enthral- ling to walk around the square, ob- serving the marble slabs. Here there is an, empty niche, waiting for a new occupant, over there is an epitaph that bears a glass -encased photograph of a little boy and tells the observer Chat he died at the age of five from smallpox. A wave of sadness passes over the visitor as he realizes that be- hind that cold marble slab only part- ially filling the niche is the body of .s. young child. A • few niches farther and there is carved on the marble slab a short story of an American en- gineer' killed by bandits—and so a- round the entire wall the epitaphs re- late brief biographies of . Mexican Army officers, Spanish aristocrats, young senoritas, infants and children. After the termination of the five or ten-year period, in many cases, rela- tives and friends df* the unfortunate dead often forget or disappear and the new rent that falls due remains unpaid. When this happens the re- mains are rem,alvecl from the nichea and placed in a common ossuary. The startling fact about these .remains is, that due to climatic conditions and their close peoteetion from'decomposi- tion among the inner niches of the wall, many •of the bodies have mummi- fied in a nearly perfect state of pre- iservation. Practically the same Atti- tudes and positions that the individu- als had assumed at the time of their death still remain in the posture and expression of the mummified bodies. The ossuary is tunneled in the form of a long catacomb or cave into the rock beneath the Panteon. It is reach- ed by uplifting a heavy stone trap- door in the pavement at the rear and descending dark, winding stone steps which lead the visitor into the dimly filtered light of a long corridor. He is left staring intently art a number of gratesque, shriveled forms. A dry odor a mustiness pervade* the vault. Aitrong compelling curiosity forces the. visitor forward into the penetrat- ing atmosphere of the vault. Slowly the onlooker passes along; among the horror-stricken faces of the dead. A narrow wooden plank runs the length of the corridor. On this narrow bench 'the rigid forms stand side by side, leaning against the wall. On the stone -paved floor, with the edge of the 'bench as a prop and at rarer intervals than above, a sec- ond row of stiff, silent forms stands. Some orf the mummies still retain their burial clothes, wade on many others either all or part of these clothes 'have long since rotted off. One mummy has only a pair of stockings, one up, one down, flake name untidy 'boy. Another still, lays claim to a good pair of boots. Some still retain' suits, dresses and man- tillas, quite well preserved bit wrink- led and faded. At one end of the cor- tidos are the almost perfectly pre- served mummies of small, babies [bee - sed in brightly colored infant clothes; little red and blue Jackets, white dress- es and lace eaps—all lending 0 strange color that does not •harrioonite with the drab atmospberte s 'One mummy in pesticides is sin- gled 4)tit for attention/ The; red blood that once streamed down his .right thigh is perfectly preserved and very lifelike. Even more so is the expreit- sign of horror upon his face. He is probably an old soldier Whose side was shot. away in battle. Aihort distande farther and there is a young woman who died In ,ehild- birth. Her selaild, who entered this .10 4;41" • world only to be thrust into this dark underground cavern, is tial firmly to her wrist. The caretaker of the Panteon, an, old grizzled Mexican, is able to tell many an interesting story concerning some of these people. In the corner stands an old gray - bearded man. • He is fully and care- fully dressed and his arms are folded neatly across his chest. His eyes are wide and staring and his mouth still stands open as though shouting to someone. This old fellow was a French doctor. The reason for his residence in Mexico was unknown He had feyv friends and was of a more or less quarrelsome nature. One day one of his quarrels led to a duel and early the next morning he and his opponent met with pistols. When the smoke cleared away the doctor lay dead upon the, ground. His friends rented 'it vault for him in the "wall of niches." It was not long before they had either passed on or disap- peared; and when the rent again was due, the forgotten, friendless doctor was removed below to the narrow cor- ridor -like vault. A woman, a former resident of Guanajuato, returned from the United States to revisit her old home. One day she visited the Panteon and while staring intently at one of the mum- mies at the end of the corrider she suddenly fainted. It was latter learn- ed that she had recognized in this mummy her first husband, who had disappeAed many years ago. The Panteon has an unusual and weird effect on the visitor. • In ante cases it is depressing but in others it acts as an esiceedingly vivid stimulant to the imagination. The joys and sorrows in the lives led by these peo- ple, their ambitions and goals and their final bafflement by death enter into the visitor's mind and he is in a farm more thoughtful mood when he leaves Guananjuato's Panteon than when he enters it. Bishop Is Opposed to Transubstantiation The Rt, Rev. E. W. Barnes, Bishop 4 Birmingham, has for long lateen re- cognized as one of the greateLiberals h: the Anglican Church, leit hfe,broad- mindedness has its limitations. Free- dom of conscience is dear to the bish- op, but it has to be exercised within the bounds of truth as he sees it. This explains his present controversy with the Archbishop of Canterbury to whom he has addressed some remark- ably pungent words. Discussing the matter in the Springfield Republican, Richard Lee, writing from Coventry, says: •"Not for generations has a bishop set down his feet firmly and stuck to his position with such tenacity and fearlessness as the bishop of Birmingham. ^Never in the lifetime of the oldest living person has an archbishop had such straight words addressed to him as the words .of his grace of Birmingham to his grace of Canterbury." But should he not have said "his lordship of Birmingham?" We are not any great authority upon ecclesiastical nomenclature and courtesy title but we think Mr. Lee errs here. The trouble between the bishop and the archbishop centres in the sacrament. Is it necessary for one to believe that when one partakes of holy communion the consecrated wine and wafers really are the Mood and flesh of Christ? Has a miracle been performed by the consecration of these elements so that a tran- substantiation has occurred ? Or when one speaks of the body and blood of Christ being thus partaken of does one speak figuratively? It is the view of Bishop Barnes that to maintain that one actually eats the flesh of Qhrist and drinks His blood he is uttering an atrocious and horrifying blasphemy. He says that Christ is only present in the hearts and minds of godly men and women. We believe that there is considerable difference of opinion among Angli- cans of equal standing, on this point. Clergymen are permittedto hold either view without being tried for heresy. That, we think, is the difficult po- sition of the Archbishop of Canter- bury as head of the church. He does not instruct his clergy, 'but leaves them certain discretionary power. But it is different with Bishop Barnes, who in his diocese has control over hundreds of clergymen. Wlhen a new clergyman is appointed he must be licensed by a bishop before he can lawfully officiate. So Bishop Barnes, before he will issue any license, in- sists that all candidates must make a written declaration to the ' effect that they will not 'preach he doctrine that there is some special supernat- ural grace in the sacramental ele- ments. They must not say that the communicants are partaking of the blood and flesh of Christ, except in a figurative sense. All the clergymen in his diocese, with the exception o! thirteen, have taken this Pledge and governed themselves accordingly. The thirteen, sire presume, were licensed priests before Bishop Barnes became their spiritual chieftain. These, continue to teach the doe- { -tint that IS Oho/dens to the bishop and, appasendy, there exists no Meats by which he can rid himself • • ••• ,,S.,t9.,5;101442441%,;14240,11kiii ?yt'l '1,g‘ 4,7,1A;i asf.aSe•••• 4t14141ititP4 ,Pgga:W: , „ a 313°40 74302 Wil#40,04,004, *01, som9.. 914.f/010 .cottOk vilsOf..,asksa4tbalsiabersleseest,„, ,tedrald. •Vila,",1,4000 4404 eiva,4: monde if 114Vagt• *Ming, to.. 04.00 Wedge, and Mr. Starnupww„Tetuod. „Then the bishop refused to. densperate .Then the patrengt, pggeVolane doubt by the other ,eontnntelialis •clefs., gy, appealed . to the couets• and ehe tained • an order compelling .the bishop to act according to the law of the church. But he still refused, though threatened with a sentence for contempt 4of court. 'To prison Will go," retorted Bishop/Barnes. "I will n6t recognize idolatrous pies." But it • would 'Obviously 'be ,an, extremely dangerous thing to send a bishop of the ,Cluirch of 'England to jail, and there was some hesitation as to the next step. It was the Archbishop of Canter- bury who temporarily relieved the tension by licensing the rebel. Sim- monds.„, Against ' this action the bishop protested in the strongest of language.- in the meantime Rev. Simmonds who, we sincerely hope, is worthy of all the trouble he has caused, is on holiday before taking, up his duties in the diocese of Bishop Barnes. When he returns he will be summoned to the palace and again questioned. The result of this inter- view will probably be followed by a renewal of the controversy with what widespread consequences we cannot predict. The position of Bishop Barnes is a particularly strong one. He is a man of great intellectual gifts and accepts the teachings of modern science. • He insists that the church, must also 'accept them if it is ta live. He has the gift of inspiring the 'warmest devotion. He could fill any hall in . England he chose to speak in. He has indomitable cour- age. His critics say that in matters of theology and biology he is un- learned, but they admit his eminence as a mathereatician. He is just the kind of man capable of forcing an issue when he believes himself right, even though to de so may he to split' the Church of England in twain. ";,44 ..•,Y1441141t A114 14:41i.,404,4 Dr. Wm. F. Koch, Ph.D., In His Own Defence A friend of mine sent me a clipping from your paper of July 23rd, con- taining your article entitled, "How Medical Fraternity Views Dr. Koch's Claims." I have read it very eare- fully and with considerable interest to determine whether or not it differed in any respect from the information which the American Medical Associa- tion has been distributing ever since I brought out this cancer work. I find that it is in general the same as they have been Sending out for years. I do not know just what attituJe you personally take toward • my work and What I am attempting to do, nor do I know the attitude of your publica- tion, but I felt that I could impose upon yoursense of fairness to the extent of at least presenting my side of the story. In the first instance, the A.M.A. always 'commences itsi propaganda against me with the statement that I developed a specific cure for cancer less than a year after I graduated in medicine. After graduating from high school in Detroit, I took my A.B. degree at the University of Michigan in 1909. This was followed • by my ma:ster's degree in 1910. From 1910 until 1914 I was instructor in histology and em- bryology at the University of Michi- gan, being assistant to Professor Huber, at which time I received my Ph.D., majoring in physiological chemistry. It was during those years that I brought to the attention • of the medical world for the first time ilia function ' of the parathyroid glands. My , experiments and find- ings were published„ in the, Journal of Biological Chemistry and' also you will and them referred to in Oxford Medicin'e. These findings were later corroborated by Payton and Finley of Glasgow University. From 1914 to 1919 I was professor of physiology at the Detroit Medical College and in 1919 1 obtained my degree of Doctor of Medicine. It was after my work on the parathyroid glands and dur- ing the time that I was at the- De- troit Medical College that I developed my work on cancer. Now then, inas- much as the outstanding men of the medical world have come to re- alize that the solution of the cancer problem lies in the field of chemistry rather than in the field of medicine, it seems to be rather poor form on the part ofOth'e A.M.A. or anyone else to give the impression that I have had litle or no training' for the work I am doing. •Since 1919 I have devoted my time exclusively to the treatment of malig- nancy in every form and the results are beionling increasingly succestful. The charges of a commercial nature which have been made against me by the A.M.A. can be dismissed with the statement that I have never yet refused anyone this treatment regard- less of inability to pay for it and our records here in the office are open to anyone for verification. Fur- thermore, we have never sent out a single statement in reference to any- thing connected with this business, including the case histories of cured patients, diagnoses and record of at- tending .physkians, that is not ab- solutely 100 per cent. accurate. I say this for the reason that we are con- stantly visited by the employees of the United. States Postal Department, who at the instigation of the A.M.A. are very careful to see that we are not making use of the United States mails in any manner that can be termed fraudulent. Furthermore, the Treasury Department at Washington, which has jurisdiction of the en- forcement of the laws regulating the interstate shipment of antitoxims, made an investigation at the request of members of the A:M.A. and ob- tained sufficient information to con- vince them th'at melees they 'wanted against their 'will, to be of infinite help to, me in my work, they had best drop the investigation, which they IHd* difficulty with the first cord- Mittee arose from the fact that never could get the committee to- gether nor was I ever given 0 history 1 ROCKS .THAT ARE DIFFERENT This store is more than sustaining its reputation for showing the new things first. There is a wealth of the very . newest materials, made in styles that are so different and above all, un usually attractive. You will enjoy seeing the new Dress- es. $2.95 to $17.50 One• of the maily,,...*prt able, yet practice eColieTy,'Is.:thi, of the New Coats. There- is a „Aew:• Oat man at the price shewants to pay.: You.,can*.. never saved before on your new Fall .Coats—all 4,41"k with style authenticity. YOU. MAKE NO 1MT/ilia' BUYING .YOUR NE.W FALL COAT...HEIM. YOU'LL G E T STYLE; YOU'LL GET QUALITY; YOU'LL GET VALUE. Prices $15.00 to $35.0 4 HOSIERY New hosiery specially made to harmonize with the New Coats and Frocks. $1', $1.251 $1.50 Millinery Jaunty little Derby Hats, plain or with a touch of trim- ming in Black, Green, Brown. There is a very deeided new fashion in women's hats. And we are showing them here at very reasonable prices. 0..anciessmoonsammocavalswe= STEWART BROS. Seaforth. of any of the cases and all I knew about them was that they were brought in as hopeless cancer cases for the purpose of investigation. Whe- ther the committee was negligent or whether I was negligent is not in the least important and I do not make this statement as a confession of negligence on my part. What is irn- Portant is the fact that, of those sev- en cases brought in as entirely hope- less, two are alive and well to -day that I know of, nd, although assuming that the other five cases are dead, I do not know that to be true. In reference to the same paragraph' of your article, the statementby the committee that they had investigated fifty cases of mine is an absolute falsification. Therel never was any such investigation or clice•lcaup 0,) my patients and no one yet has been able to obtain from that committee the names and addresses of those alleged patients. I offered this treatment on three occasions to my local medical so- ciety, which I am reliably in- formed is the proper channel, only to have it refused as being of no therapeutic value. Being convinced from the results that I had obtained in lux own practice that the con- trary was true, nothing remained for me to do ,but to go right ahead and use it on my own patients. Now, then, here is a questien of ethics that you as a layman can probably solve. When a patient comes to a physician for treatment .for a par- ticular disease, is he entitled to the best treatment for that particular disease with which the physician is familiar or is he entitled to the best with which the physician is familiar, provided it has the endorsement of organized medicine? I claim that he is entitled to the best treatment the physieian knows or regardless of whether or not it is approved by orthodox or organized medicine, for the reason that when a patient con- sults and employs a physician, there immediately •springs•up a contract on the part of the physician to give the best that he knows of 'and on the part of the patient to pay a reason- able price therefor. No physician can live up to and respect his con- tractual duty to a patient and try to live up to the ethics, so-called, of the medical profession. I have been trying for years to 'give this treat- ment to the medical profession and am still ready to do so, hal am not going to give it to a medical society that has done nothing but use its ut- most efforts to discredit it. Votes New York Times World's Best Paper 'When you have nothing special on your mind," requests Jim Barry, "write us your 'opinions as to which newspaper is the greatest in the world. We had an argument on this ques- tion and most of us decided that the New York Timesosas." Well, Mixt, we have nothing in particular on our mind now, so what about looking into this -matter? We think it impossible to say which is the best paper in the world, meaning, of course, the Eng- lish-speaking world. Different people want different things in their news- paper. Why do so many Toronto peo- ple take the Telegram? And why do so many more take the Star? To say that if one gets sick of one of them there is only the other to take seeml to beg the question. There are thousands of people in Toronto who prefer the Globe to the Mail and Empire. It is not possible to say that they are deficient in judgment or lacking in taste. They simply like the paper better, just as they like their wives better than their neigh - hors' wives—at least, we hope so. So while there are hundreds of ,Amefilans who think the New York Times is the best paper in the world, one can only say that it suits them better than any other. But even if one had no particular prejudices at all, he would probably be bound to say that if the chief and practically the only function of a newspaper is to record the news, the Times leads all the rest. It gives not only New York and American news, but news from all the rest of the world, and we presume it is as uncolored as it is possible for news to be which has to be filtered through observers of varying degrees of opa- city. We have, heard its Russian news bitterly condemned as propa- ganda. But it seems impossible to get any news from Russia that is not open to the same objection from various sources. The Times is a great newspaper. We avoid reading it. The truth i, we find it dull. Its editorials are scholarly and rvery of- ten obscure. They are sometimes •per- vaded with a kind of learned bandy- ing which we find depressing. There is not a flavor of humor to be found in it except the kind that we might expect to be current among profes- sional pedagogues. So since we read newspapers for amusement as much as for ' edification we do not find much nourishment ''in the Tinies. But let us say that we believe it has the best front iiage in the world. There may be six or seven stories continued on inside pages, but on the front page there will be not less than half a column and sometimes more of each of these stories. One of the most annoying tendencies among our papers to -day is to cIp a big front page headline on a doz n lines or so; and bury the rest of the story deep in the hinterland. This is more noticeable in the evening than the morning papers. And we believe thtt average evening news- paper editor would die rather than refrain from a streamer headline. covering the whole page Oven if it were not more thrilling than: "Not Much News Reported in Evening ra- pers." The 'habit was formed in the war and while the morning papers broke themselves of it the evening paper addicts have found no, cure. Among the New York papers we liked the World by far the best, be- cause it was bright and amusing and liberal -minded and was read Y to fig'ht for unpopular Causes. It did not print a quarter of the news that the Times printed but it did print the kind of news that we happened to be inter- ested in. •In other words, the paper was edited laith a view of attracting such readers as ourself. But there were not enough of them to keep it solvent. We believe a consensus among English speaking editors would admit that the London Times resains the best newspaper in the world, a position it has held almost uninterruptedly for a century. It is learned; it is accurate; it is fair, though perhaps not very open- minded. It has by far the most dis- tinguished correspondents of any pa- per in the world. Its special articles are written by experts. In these two latter respects it quite outclasses it American namesake, though perhaps it does not print so much news. Still failure to print a lot of news is one of the things we can very easily for- give any newspaper. Perhaps the Manchester Guardian has had in the past 50 years the best editorial page in the world. It has not only been liberal -minded, but it has been high -minded -And it has been courageous and it has been informer. If an editorial page possess these qualities, and in addition that pre- cious gift which prevents it from being a bore, then it is well-nigh perfect in our judgment. There is an- other quality which seems to us to be the very soul of a newspaper, and lacking it hut sounding brass and tinkling cymbal. Is the paper in- teresting? In New York there are thousands of people who used to take two morning papers, the World and the Times. They took the World to read, and the Times to carry home in the expectation of reading some other time. They felt that it was extremely valuable and important and all time but not particularly inviting. So at the end, of the week these readers would heve accumulated seven issues of the Times which they would re- gretfully put in the furnace or the garbage pail. Thither the Worlds had preceded them, but the diffetence Was that they had gotte /separately after having been read, while the Times had followed en masse after boring been respected. These then are our views, Iim, but you know of course that nobody has authority to pany off any bets because of anything that may be said in this column. News and Information For the Busy Farmer Fresh Fruit Market For Grapes. The grape growers of Ontario are in a fair way to solving the market- ing of this melon's crop, according to Charles W, l3aver, secretary of the Ontario Growers' Market Council. The energetic steps taken by the growers under leadership of the win- eries committee have been bearing fruit. 'With the Wineriee' require- ments greatly reduced, the growers were faced with the 'necessity of mak- ing arrangements to sell thio year% • a ' "••••lac , ,..."/14%''';'4.1.1' 41; h',44 141. , I . 1,1, h#N „ s1}4 1,;," ;Z; ALY, , t—aftr , k. ' e '1010; • heavy. crop in some, other manner. Steps have now been taken to re- vive the fresh fruit market, far grapes. in the prairie provinces, in Ontario and Eastern Canada. 'An intensive market campaign has been entered in- to and an appropriation made for ad- vertising the household use of grapes which will be put on all markets at attractisne prices. If really depend- able table fruit, Canadian -grown, and if placed on the market at a reason- able price, its acceptance by the con- sumers seems to • be assured. Suc- cess in this ease is to a greater ex- tent than in most products, depend. ent on the quality. Current Crop Report. The grain harvest has- progressed rapidly over the province and threshing has been the general prac- tice. Fall wheat has averaged 35 bushels of good quality grain to the - acre and barley has yielded satisfac- torily. Threshing returns bear out earlier reports of material damage to the oat crop through rust and smut. Corn and roots continue very promis- ing. In Southwestern Ontario beans are being seriously affected by a small worm new to this crop. Gut- ting of the tobacco crop has been gen- eral since the middle of August. Fall Wheat Growers! Fall wheat growers have two problems df primary importance to consider, according to George R. Paterson, feed and fertilizer distri- bution expert: 1. What am I going to do with the crop just h,artiettlect? Mr. Paterson believes that farmers will feed what they can to cattle, hogs and poultry. Wlheat when sup- plemented, with other grains and sup- plementary concentrates may readily be utilized both in dairy cattle and hog rations. The returns at present prices of dairy products and pork might well be considered as definitely more than the present farm price of wheat. As a feed for dairy cattle, wheat should be supplemented with some protein, rich feed and it will give best results when mixed with bran and oats. Also for swine, wheat may be fed as high as one-quarter the ration in growing pigs and one- third in finishing pigs. Wheat is also a standard part of poultry' scratch. Ground wheat may also substitute for shorts in the mash. 2. Shall 1 sow fail wheat this year and if so, can I afford to fertilize) it and what fertilizer shall I use? Paterson regards this problem as a matter of common sense. The farmer who has practised a good sYstem soil management and followed a suit- able rotation will be well advised to make a moderate application ,of tos- phoric acid. Potash may he required where elowers are to follow. gen in limited cianntitica and eases Where e1 -as and mann ' have bean Soaringly used in the.prey,t,, • ions rotation May be valuable.. .Bb generally king ,X should form: file Win of avfall tAicary fattilizer ptogrant. • , V.1