Zurich Herald, 1933-12-28, Page 2N• �
Pithy Anecdotes
Of the Famous
the official courtesies due his posi-
How a .shortage of acetone- — an
essential element in the manufacture
of cordite—in the early dji s of the
World War, and the discovery by
Professor Weizmann of a process by
which it could be produced from
maize, led up to the famous Balfour
Declaration which became the charter
of the Zionist movement, is related
by Mr. Lloyd George. Meeting the
late C. P. Scott, editor of the "Man-
ehester Guardian," one day, Lloyd
George — ti en Minister of Muni-
tions—mentioned to him the acetone
problem adding that he was on the
lookout for a resourceful chemist
who would help him to solve it.
"There is a very remarkable pro-
fessor of chemistry in the University
of. Manchester," said Scott. "His
name is Weizmann."
tion:'
* * * .
"There must be some mistake,"
Powell protested. "If the Governor
had sailed for Europe I certainly
should have been informed
of ell was rep-
resenting
Met by my paper."
resenting the old "New York World.")
"There is no mistake," he was as-
sured, and a list of passengers, wired
from Bordeaux, was produced.
"I ran my eye down the paper,''
chuckles Powell. "Then I recognized
the cause of the Freuetlman's per-
turbation, for half -way down the
list I saw the name 'Gouverneur Mor-
ris de New York'." quarter of an
But it took Powell a q y
hour to "oneince the puzzled ]?reneh-
man that Mr. Gouverneur Morris,
the novelist and war correspondent,
did not rank a guard of honor and a
gubernatorial salute.
YU!AN � SU. LAUCUS
by Sax Rohmer
Matt Kearney sees his sister 17ileen
aboard the Waliaroo, bound for Colombo.
olom o.
Ktleen tells Jacic R3attraY, e
that she is upset by the sight of a re-
pulsive who had also sWilliam
id i goodbyes to
Eileen,
1 had traced Matt
Hent tofhimf opiumhto
re
detectiveslwereuable it tosearcunloadede ship.
Dawson is recalled to Scotlandarl a
asks Kearney to search King's
ware-
house, which adjoins Jo Lung's Place,
ing,, they
pickspect. up aAnotebook,re andaV-
is
surprised at the presence of a woman
who quickly disappears. Matt endeavors
to translate entries in the notebook. He
is trailed by one ut Jo Lung's confeder-
ates, who gains entry to his room,
* *
To cut the story short, Professor
volved the problem. Then it was that
Lloyd George said to him:
"You have rendered great service
t. the State, and I should like to ask
the Prime Minister (Asquith) to
recommend you to His Majesty for
some honor."
"There is nothing I want for my-
self," said Weizmann,
"But is there nothing we can do
as a recognition of your valuable as-
sistance to the country?"
"Yes, I would like you to do some-
thing for my people."
"He then," adds Lloyd George, "e`;-
plained his aspirations as to the re-
patriation of the Jews to the sacred
land they had made famous. That
st as the fount and origin of the fam-
leus declaration about the National
Hone for Jews in*Palestine.
"As soon s I became Prime Minis -
ler," continues Ll. G., "I talked the
whole matter`over with Mr. Balfour,
who was then Foreign Secretary. As
it scientist he was immensely inter-
ested when I told hini of Dr. Weiz-
Alann's achievement. We were anx-
ious at that time to gather Jewish
support in neutral countries. Dr.
Weiznlanll was brought into direct
contact with the Foreign Secretary.
This was the beginning of an associ-
Ittion, the outcome of which, after
long examination, was the famous'
Balfour Declaration, which became
the' charter of the Zionist movement.
leo that Dr. Weizmann with his dis-
covery not only helped us to win the
war, but made a permanent mark
upon the map of the world."
* * *
The passing of Augustine Birrell,
noted author, statesman, and wit, re-
calls a story of his early days at the
bar when he accepted a brief marked
"Fifteen shillings" ($S). The same
evening he was arraigned before an
impromptu court at the bar mess and
accused of unprofessional.conduct for
taking so low a fee. His defence,
which was deemed satisfactory, was
that his conduct could not be called
unprofessional inasmuch as he had
taken all that his *client had!
tracting the attention of one of therm;
His dispositions effected:
"That ought to do," he said to the
detective sergeant who accompanied
"Scotland Yard seems to think
that the murderer will make for here
tonight; if he does, he'll fall into the
net,"
In a mean house near the corner of
a mean street, outside. the cordon
drawn by the police around the sus-
pected premises, a light shone behind
a blue shade of an upper window, On
the opposite side of a second, wider
thoroughfare upon which this first de-
Leeched, a furtive figure crept along
close to the dingy shops. In sight of
that lighted window it paused, turned,
and seemed to sink into the shadows
again.
It next appeared, this slinking
shape, at a spot east of th a treasuref ,
h(use of Jo Lung. A
little courtyt.rd upon which several
mean residences opened, a blue -shaded
fanlight was dimly illuminated.
The lurking figure became merged
in shadows once more....then imme-
diately opposite a narow alley it stood
watching.
At the far end a dine yellow light
was visible. The indeterminate shape
darted across, then swiftly slipped
aside, and exercising a strange affin-
ity with darkness, became magically
lost again....except that reddish eyes
—like the eyes of a watching leopard
—gleamed in the dusk.
Someone was coming out—someone
who had stopped dead at the moment
that that elusive thing darted across
his path.
There was a moment of silence....
a soft whistle, two minor notes. It was
answered from the lee of a high wall.
Thereupon a reed -like voice spoke rap-
e'ly in Chinese: "Ali is here. Follow
swiftly. Do not show yourself."
Yu'an came out into the street. Be-
side him was a sinal' figure so muffled
in a brown fur coat that, beyond the
fact that she was a woman, no one
could have identified her. With no
glance to right or left they set out
in the direction of the river.
Ten paces they had gone when a
figure appeared from the alleyway
and glided in the same direction. Close
behind him, stooping, ape -like, carie
another. And this singular proces-
sion headed toward the Thames.
A • wicket gate was opened, and a
deserted yard crossed. Out onto a
wharf Yuan led, and down slippery
wooden steps to where;' riding the
,d;
CHAPTER V.--(Cont'de ,
The creature turned its little sunk-
eneyes upon Haig. He saw two enor-
mous teeth, exaggerated canines,
curved downward over the lower lip
---white and gleaming... .
For one instant a sort of superna-
tural dread held him spellbound.
Then, sword in hand, he leaped.
But, quickly as he leaped, the Thing
was quicker. Like a shadow, the
white -fanged, horror sprang'througn
the bedroom door. •
Haig -hinged wildly, The blade of
the Japanese sword passed completely
through a lower panel as the abnorm-
ally active fugitive crashed the door
fast behind him. Haig threw himself
against it, and as it swung open he
crashed forward, face downward upon
the bedroom carpet.
He was up in an instant, and sprang
tc the ' light switch. The room :was
empty! The window was more widely
open, and, racing across, he craned
out, looking down the face of the
building' into the shadowy court be-
low.
Something that looked like a big
cat was moving twenty feet under-
neath. Even as he looked, it had
gone—fading, had disappeared. He
would have been prepared to stake all
he possessed upon the impossibility
of any human being climbing down the.
fact of the building at that point. Yee,
he had seen it accomplished!
He thought of the creature's sunk-
en, blazing eyes. It had been under
the influence of drugs—was, for the
time being, homicidal—endowed, prob-
ably by some preparation of Indian
hemp, with supernatural daring and
agility.
Running beck to Kearney's writing
table, he pulled up, fists clenched.
The memo book had disappeared,
*.; *. *
Absolute silence prevailed tri t tte
Definite Improvement in Trade of Canada'
BANK OF MONTREAL .,ANNUAL MEETING
Manager, reviewing the annual state-'
liquid assets aggregated X492,600,000;
over one million deposit accounts in
Striking indications of the improve- Reconstruction Finance Corporation
trent that has occurred in world wide in the United States shows how little
trade, as well as of the steady gain in the elimination of political influence'
many industries In Canada, were Can be"relied upon, he said.
among the outstanding features of the Bank In Strong Position.
addresses submitted at the annual Mi'. Jackson Dodds, Joint General
meeting of the Bank of Montreal.
Sir Charles Gordon, the president, pent of the bank, pointed out that of
in the address to shareholders, stated the total assets of $768,600,000 the
that practically the world over trade
was better than a year ago, and'that or 71.1.5% of the liabilities to the Dub-
in Canada, for the better' part of the lie;
year, definite improvement in business Of special interest was the an:
had been going on. Canadas external nouneement that the bank now has
commerce had also grown in volume.
Sir Charles also had a cheerful word Canada.
in summsiig up, Mr. Dodds said;
regarding improved conditions in Great
Britain. The country's faith in simple, .Natural correctives are working tu-
well
proved methods had once more wawardworld recovery, but many arti-
n justified, with the result that Sri -
ficial barriers still impede progress.
Cain's credit stood as high as ever, and
Economic and financial disruption
London had regained her position as have been brought about to no small
the financial centre oP . extent by the operations of Central
Royal Commission onthe Banking Banks under political influence, by ex -
In regard to the question of estate cessive tariffs and quotas, by exagger-
lishing a central bank in Canada, Sir ated nationalism bordering on ancient
Charles pointed out that two member's tribalism, the stoppage of free migra.
of the Royal Commission were Cana- tion of peoples, distrust and selfish -
diens thoroughly versed in the bank- ness, by impatience, a loss of individ-
ing and economic conditions of this ualism on the part of citizens and
country. These two members are not their surrender of independence in
in accord with the rest of the Com- • many former democratic countries.
mission in their findings. He drew at- "In contrast, Canada is fortunately
tention to the cost of operating such circumstanced in that -it is a young
an institution and the probability that country, with an abundance of nature's
the bank would always be under the gifts,, with a hardy people, self-reliant
control of a political party and there- and free of traditional hatreds, and
fore subject to political influence, The with an inspiring past and a boundless
history of the Federal Reserve and s'e future."
Mr. Birrell was a Prince among
after-dinner spakers. When Chief
Secretary for Ireland during a stormy
political period, he was daily exposed
to relentless heckling and questioning
by Irish Members in the House of
Commons. Speaking at a banquet at
that time he said:
"In proposing this toast, I ask my-
self the question—(a slight and re-
flective pause)—though why a man
who is Irish Secretary should ask
himself questions"--
Neat?
uestions" Neat?
* *
Talking of the World War, an
emusing story about Winston S.
Churchill is told by Colonel E. Alex-
ander
ander Powell (in "Slanting Lines If
Steer—being the adventures of a
war correspondent.) It was after
the Fall of Antwerp, and Colonel
Powell who was piesent at the "fall-
ing" had prepared a book called
"Fighting in Flanders," in which Mr.
Churchill's somewhat spectacular ef-
forts—on the spot --to save Antwerp
were none too kindly noted.
* *
Silver and Turquoise
-Year after year I have watched the
rains
Blowing across the Southwest plains
As changing seasons pass—
Silver rains
And turquoise plains
Mingled and blent in a blur of grass
And earth and clouds—a gorgeous
mass
Of all the
"The ,ensors refused to pass my
Account of Winston Churchill's arriv-
al in Antwerp on the ground that it
tended to cast ridicule on a Minis-
ter of the Crown," relates Powell.
,(Mr. Churchill was head of the Brit-
ish Admiralty at the time.) So it
;Was decided to submit the manuscript
to Churchill himself. Having read
Powell's account of his (Churchill's)
sensational entrance into the belea-
gured city, Churchill said:
• "Powell has it about right. I'm
afraid that I did make rather an ass
of myself on that occasion. Go ahead
and run it a; it stands. I have no ob-
jections."
b-
jections."
"Which convinces tne," adds Powell,
Ythat the Right Honorable Winston
Ghuichill really was a big man."
colors of antique glass.
As I watched the seasons passing
I fashioned boxes to hold
The treasure that I gathered—
Jewels and silver and gold;
I fashioned boxes of Mexican silver,
Hammered and' wrought and scrolled
With delicate vines and leaf shapes
Inlaid in bronze and gold;
And these are the treasures
hold:
Silver of rant; and turquoise
Of the desert's summer noon;
Opal of skies at sunset;
Bronze of the desert 'noon;
Ruby of leaves in autumn;
Jade of the grass in spring;
Corsi of rose -red canyons;
Gold of the eagle's wing.
.--Year atter year I have
the rains
Blowing across the Southwest plains
As changing seasons pass—
Silver rains and turquoise plains
Mingled and blrent in a blur of grass
And earth and clouds --a gorgeous
mass
Of all the colors of antique glass.
—Lena Whittaker Blakeney.
Al out the P1ayDinner Dress
The "play sale" dinner dress for the
night when the hostess says "Wear
whatever you please," is a wardrobe
essential. It serves the perfect foil for
the nights when you haven't the re-
motest idea how anyone else will be.
dressed. This "Come-as-yot like" dress
should be a simple, modest little Mo-
del when the .jacket is on, and with
it off should show back decolletage.
A
saudal with spike beet, and some gay
cutout pattern on the vamp, is the
correct shoe. Inasmuch as this sort of
evening is likely to be spent in con-
versation, with opportunity for well-
shod feet to be seen, the slipper must
be fairly formalized and exotic.
stunning heel, or specially interesting
color will turn the. trick.
they
In the luxuriously appointed little
cabin of the cruiser, Yuan drew from
the pocket of his furlined coat a string
of blazing fire opals, roughly threaded
on waxed silk. He threw them around
the long slender throat of his com-
panion.
"Tonight, I can afford to be gener-
ous," he said. ."They suit you, Orange
B,ossom, who are all fire and ice...."
. (To be continted.)
"The King's Mail
Goes Through"
office of Jo Lung. The woman smoked sluggish tide, a boat was moored. Jo
cigarettes ceaselessly one after an
other. Yu'an
paccat-likethe
aet
his heavy yet
tread.
Sud-
denly:
"We shall be trapped," the woman
said. "Why are w'bewaiting?
c iting?ughtas th—
oe the Adder—may
return...."
Yu'an glanced at the speaker
through slit-like eyes. Then silently
he extended a plump yelow hand. in
the direction of the wall behind the
aesk. In one of the openings of the
switchboard glowed a tiny speck of
light.
"The blue lights are on," he re-
turned contemptuously. "Even if we
were surrounded neither would be
taken." hone
Game the muffled note of a p
bell.
Yu'an stepped quickly to the table
and took up the receiver. "Yes?"' he
said.
"Something is afoot," Polodos re-
ported. -
"I hope there has been no more
bungling."
"Shan announces that the party
which set out from Leman street is
now leaving Limehouse—bound in this
direction. What are your orders?"
"As already arranged," the high,
piping voice replied. "I am now going
to join Jo Lung. There will be no sea
tonight, so we shall cross in the
cruiser, Are you clear as to your in-
structions?"
"Perfectly clear, Excellency. Where
de you wish me to join you'?"
"At Trieste on Thursday morning
—the usual place."
Yu'an replaced the receiver.
"The polices I knew it!" cried the
woman, springing up.
He faced her. "With you," he said
softly, in Chinese, "the police are like
an evil dream. One would think,
Orange Blossom, that you feared
them. This is not flattering to me."
1 -lis voice rose very high on the last
note. The woman called Orange Blos-
som summoned all her natural arro-
gance to confront hila, but that cloak
of high disdain which she wore so
gracefully, somehow had slippe
(1
from
her.
As the portly Chinaman moved
;,lowly in her direction, she shrank
back, nearer to the door, With a
curling smile of arched red lips he
turned aside, slipped oft` his blue house:
garment which he hung in a p
board, and resumed his heavy over-
coat, taking up the broad -brimmed
black hat front the table. Then:
"Colne," be saic1, ''tve-ere going Jo
Ling waits for us."'
watched
Lung stood in the bows ready to assist
his passengers on board. This accom-
plished, the following shades, one
swift behind the other, leaped on
board also.
As Jo Lurg cast the painter loose
and took to his oars:
"Quick!" Yu'an spoke the word in
Chinese upon a note high with excite-
ment. "Which of you has it?"
A. large, claw-like hand was stretch-
er. back to him....and in it was -,he
green -bound memo book!
"How many?" he asked.
"One."
Whereupon he began to laugh, that
high, uncanny laughter which seemed
to harmonize with the creaking of Jo
Li:ng's oars....Jo Lung rested on his
oars, and:
"Police patrol," he said. "Shall I
pull for the bank, my lord?" •
"Fool! They would hear the oars.
The tide is carrying us down to those
barges. Stand by, my friend, with
ii . hook, and when we reach the first
of them, cling tightly. Should the
patrol pass inside/we may bc. detected.
Litt they w:ii probably pass outside.
Public Health Nurse
Tells of Her Work
Serves Area to West of Lake
Manitoba Where Struggle
for Living is -Hard
How a public health nurse carries
on where her district coers a large
slice of unorganized territory, poorly
served by roads, and with few habi-
tations where she can spend the night,
is revealed in reports sent by Miss N.
W. Anderson to pudic health head-
quarters at the Legislative buildings.
Winnipeg.
Miss Anderson is- a slight woman
of tneditun height, one of the quietly
efficient kind who loves her work. She
serves the. area to the west of Lek(
Manitoba, where the struggle is hard
to gain a living from the soil, and
where the few settlements are linker
by roads that are scarcely more thar
trails. During the past autumn sin
slept at night sin her car, and got
her own .meals in. tir4-open•air• She is
on the go constantly, bringing .eh(
message of health and hygiene tc
rural schools and to mothers in many
isolated homes.
To quote from her reports -to her
superior, Miss E. A. Russell, of how
she eats and sleeps out on the byways:
"Used some two by four boards to
cover hollow part of back seat and
had a small cot mattress to put over
all. This gave me the full length of
car and half the width for sleeping.
For blinds I used heavy brown paper,
lowering the window to insert it and
then rolling it up again. Always
locked myself in at night, and lower-
ed the windows as necessary for fresh
air.
"My eatables were kept in covered
cans or sealers in a wooden box—also
my dishes, which were as few as pos-
sible—frying pan, sauce dish (used
for kettle and also for cooking vegeta-
bles), coffee pot, tea pot and basin.
My stove was a two -burner gasoline
tamp stove, which folds up like a
small suitcase. It is not necessary to
do a lot of cooking during mild wea-
ther, 'when green vegetables and
fresh fruit can be obtained, except to
bcil kettle for tea or coffee. When I
trade breakfast I filled thermos bottle
for my lunch, which consisted of hot
drink anJ sandwich at noon.
"Found have the car rather crowd-
ed for washing and dressing, but
could do it. If I were carrying , on
this way for a conger period of time
would like small tent for dressing -
room. Many people might not enjoy
this, but a cup of tea, some sliced.
tomato and bread and butter outdoors
is a feast to me compared to any
meal indoors—because I like camping.
"The roads I cover are all bad, full
of steles often hidden by grass, also
stumps and deep ruts made in mud
that is hardened like rock. I have to
drive on intermediate as 1 can't go
slow enough on high without stalling
the car. It wracks the car terri3ly
and of course tires one one badly. li
T had to back to a stopping place or
centre each eight it would have been
harder on my car and harder on gaso-
line. Many, many ,y "i gtehomes
could not have stayed in, since they
had but one room ' for eating
sleeping."
Hudson Hope, B.C.-Facing death a
score of times, King Gething and
Frank Taylor are back in Hudson
Hope, proud that the King's mail "has
gone through."
For six -weeks the pair of mail car-
riers battled the elements over a 250, -
mile route and experienced the worst
trip Gething could remember in his
five years of carrying mail in the Far
Northern area. ,
Hudson Hope lies 176 miles north
of Prince George. The two carriers
left Prince George on October 14, and
when they reached Finlay Forks, 90
miles northwest, they found the Fin-
lay River unsafe for boat travel. They
abandoned the, boat and with 00
pounds of first class mail plodded over
an unused Indian trail on foot 45 miles
to the enol of their route, Fort Graeme.
Their supply of dried moose meat
gave out. The weather became more
severe, and they made snowshoes of
willow trees and cord. They were
without food of any kind on the last
lap of the route to Fort Graeme. Weak-
ened, they were put on a soup diet
at Fort Graeme before starting the 125 -
mile journey back. •
They attempted to run down the
Finlay River in a borrowed boat when
making the return trip. They encoun-
tered ice jams and made 20 portages,
one of them five miles long. Then, be-
fore they could make the last run to
Hudson Hope, they had to haul their
boat 20 miles on skis to the open
water of the Peace River.
Another of Colonel Powell's war
torte
s has it that when in Paris he
}vas urgently requested one morning,
Present himself at the French
res Bureau of the Quai d'Orsay.
'Arriving there, he was greeted with
itis question:
"Just what rank is held by thel
Governer of New York? Does 1
ce
orrespond to a perfect of one of our
ttepartmerrts or is he something high -
"Why do you ask?" inquired
Powell. `he land -
"Because,' was the reply,
ed. at Bordeau' this morning. We
'Vicere not Ir.f./tined of his arrival un-
til an hour or se a o, but who
n e
reaches Parte we Nish to pay him
ISSUE M., 51---'33
A Chuckle
A Cass County Sunday school teach-
er asked e little girl where do bad
little girls go?" and the reply was
".most everywhere." -- Cass County
Missourian.
1Jopnrtment store sales in Austro
!la are greater than a year ago,
* * *
"Cut outside those barges, Mason,"
said the officer in charge of the river
police launch. "I want to get a closer
look at that smart motor cruiser lying
it. the Reach."
"It belongs to Mr. Van Steyn, the
American sportsman. It has been
under repair in Bulker's yard,"
"What's it doing out in the stream,
then?" .
"I suppose the' repairs have been
completed, and they meant to go down
this evening but were held up by the
fog."
"Where the devil are they going?
This is no season for motor cruising:-
"I
ruising:`"I don't think there's anybody on
board except a scratch crew. They
intend to take her round to Cowes, 1
expect." '
"Is that so? 'Well, edge in close,
dead slow, and let's have a good look."
The river police drifted alongside
the spruce -looking craft a forty -foot
motor cruiser. Her paint work was
very, new, -but of a queer, battleship
gray, untisual in pleasure boats, She
had four lights on, but there was no-
thing to show that there was anybody
aboard:
But' when,' hal± an hour later, Jo
i,ung's party drew alongside, two very
active Asiatics appeared above the
bows of the motor eiuiser, Having
aesieted Yuan and the woman on
board, they rapidly hauled up and
disposed of a great mmnber of sinall
'packing cases stowed in the stern of.
the boat.
These contained the opiutu 'destined
tor Australia ---which Dawson Hate/
Led beet. covering. .
ht
it had been removed that night
under the very noses of the police and
was now safe from their curiosity!
Ink is Washed Off ry
Old 'Phone Books
Roanoke, bra. --- Old telephone di-
rectories now take a: chemical bath
and emerge to be purified into a high-
er grade of white paper, suitable for
newspapers, and even for billets doux.
The conversation was described to
the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers by S. D. Wells, Appleton,
Wis., paper expeiit. It is the first
big commercial step aiming at ulti-
mately washing the printer's ink off
all discarded paper. •
CHAPTBIt VI.
Inspector Eddy of Leman Stieet hada
placed his men with care. It would
have been difecult for a rat to enter
the premises of.Jo Lung without at.
Het Do you Imagine she ''e
marrying me for my money?
She: If anybody is thinkingat
ali of marrying you it must be for
your money_
'rhe most holy men are always ti.'
most humble men; none so humble on
earth as those that live higheet r:
heaven.---:leughey.
"In every dream an instinctual
wish is displayed as fulfilled:" -•--Sig-
mund 'Freud,
l.;rf lis Jscknt to be
Revived fox Mem
Philadelphia.—Men are not going tt
be left entirely out of the parade bull
to fashions of yesteryear, it seems,
With designers of women's clothing
dragging out the bustle, puff sleeves
and the like for milady's wear, tllt
males' dyke have been stirred to ac-
tion.
At a meeting of the Philadelp:Iits
elt.b of clothing designers it was ane
neenced the Norfolk jeckr•'t i, eroeitli
bade non: spring,