EXPLORER OF POLE
GEN. GREELY,
SURVIVOR OF ARCTIC DRAMA
Tragedy of American
-Expedition
"ONLY SEVEN OUT OF 25.
RESCUED ALIVE
After a life of
thrilling
adventure. Major-Gen. A W
Greely, the American Arctic
"If I cannot sleep. I take whisky, and then another and then another .
"What if you do not sleep alter three whiskies**
*After that I don't mind if I sleep or not.”
THE CHINA MAILS MONDAY, NOVEM
DRUGS OF
TO-DAY
to-day's Short Story
The Mossgrip
Arms
Walter Brooks
HERE was once a man by Well one night Mr. Mossgrip the name of Mr. Ferdinand was asleep in his master bed Mossgrip who lived in a fine room in thepent house on the
PROSPECTS
T OPENED BY
DISCOVERIES apartment house on Park nintreuth floor. It was a nice bed-
Secrets Revealed By Vitamins
srennet He owned the apart-room and had a view of the East ment house and it was named River if you leaned out. Mrs. after him The Mossgrip Arms.Mossgrip was asleep parallel to He was one of the Boston him in the big bed which the first Mossgrips. He had had a good Shadd had brought over in the deal of money at one time but Mayflower. And something woke he had always been rather con-M. Mossgrip up. All at once be ventional in his ideas and had was awake like that. He looked wanted to do just as all the other people he knew did so as not to be vulgarly conspicuous In his recent address to the so he had bought stocks when medical students of Birming everybody else buying ham University, Sir Walter them and had sold when every
INTERNAL CHEMISTRY OF HUMAN BODY
Was
Explorer, died on October 20 THE ARYAN Langdon Brown drew attention body else was selling and pretty
at Washington. at the age of
91
As a youth he fought in the
American Civil War and later bei
came an officer in the regular
MYTH
army, his duties bringing him in "THERE IS NO
conflict with Red Indians in a thrilling period.
Skill as a signals officer în erect-; ing the frottelegraphs in the West and a keen interest in meteorology preceded his selection in 1881 as the leader of a U.S. ex- pedition to the Polar regions. His mission was to establish a chain -of-15 stations round the Pole, and bis party of 25 reached a point farther North than anyone had reached at that time.
Deaths From Starvation
ARYAN RACE,"
SAYS SCIENCE
Idea Is Biologically Untenable
PURITY OF RACE DESCENT HAS NO BASIS OF TRUTH
to the general scepticism re-soon all he had left was the garding the value of drugs Mossgrip Arms and Mirs. Moss- which was characteristic of the grip who had been a Miss Shadd medical profession 30 or 40 of Duxbury. Mr. Mossgrip
Iyears ago
-
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be *And Nemesis Smiled,” by Shaugh Courtenay.
sometimes felt that neither of around to see if anything was There were a few basic drugs them had been a very good in-wrong and his foot touched the whose value had been definitely vestment for though Mrs. Moss-water-bottle which had been a proved. Most of them-quinine is grip was free and clear and hot water bottle when he went to a good example had been discover without encumbrances she had bed and he let a yelp out of him. ed by untrained- but accurate ob had ne dowry for the Shadds and sat up straight in bed. Mrs. servers and found by many years were decayed gentry. And as Mossgrip stopped moaning in her of experimental use to confer cer- for the Mossgrip Arms most of sleep and said What is it Fer tain definite benefits. But hosts the tenants who were left in it dinand is it that dream again? of others had Engered or in me had stopped paying rent and it Because he was always dreaming Louse dical text-books and traditional was mortgaged up to the flag-about having
the country. And Mr. practice merely because they had pole which on clear days few in gained the credit due to time or a banner with the arms of the Mossip said. No I touched the the personality and suggestion of Mossgrips to wit gules, three hot water bottle. And Mrs. Moss- velvet gloves. dexter sable. grip said Arrrh go to sleep. And Mrs. Mossgrip had designed it so she went to sleep. Mr. Moss- grip got up and went to the wip- dow and pulled aside the curtain which he thought had moved, And
the prescribing doctor.
3 little
Sensitiveness of Body With the advent of bacteriology and later of bio-chemistry there Cut off by the ice. they could The theory of the existence not be helped by rescue expedi-of a superior ryan race, to has, however, been a swing of the tions. Ten of the party died from which so much political import-pendulum, and a new order of pre- PREHISTORIC FINDS there was a burglar. starvation. Another was shot at ance is attached in Nazi Ger- based on scientific observations bas many, is vigorously denied by
(come into being. When at last, after three years. Dr. Julian Huxley and Dr. A. C. It was found that the human
U.S. warship rescued the sur-Haddon, late Reader in Ethno- vivors, after two other expeditions logy at Cambridge University,
Greely's order for thefts.
scriptions, much"morë accurately
economy was largely dependent
Abad failed, only seven men were in a new "Survey of Racial "pon the internal secretions of cer- alive. Not one could walk without Problems," published recently.the thyroid, and the suprarenals. tain Hands, such as the pituitary, assistance and they were in the "last stages of exhaustion. It was said that 48 hours later all would "have been dead.
Gen. Greely. during military operations from 1898 to 1902. laid thousands of miles of telegraph cable in China, Cuba, the Philip- pine Islands and elsewhere. He was also responsible for laying sabmarine cables.
He took charge of the relief! operations at San Francisco after! the earthquake of 1906, and re- presented the United States Army at the Coronation of King George 7.
In March of this year he was given the Congressional Medal of Honour for his Arctic heroism of 1881-84 The only other living holder of the medal is Cal Lind- berga.
"SOCIAL CREDIT” POLICY
£300 A Year Dividend For All
MANIFESTO ISSUED
A "national dividend” of £300 a year for every family, over and above present wages and salaries, is the proposal of the Social Credit part of Great Britain-the Green Shirts-in a manifesto is- susd" recently by Mr John Har- greave, the "Ketional leader.
Such a proposition, they declare,The chemical formulae of some of in their book "We Europeans" is them have now been determined, scientifically quite untenable. and most valuable drugs have been
There is not, and cannot be, such based upon them.
"JEWEL OF THE COURT"
Indian Scientist Who Won Nobel Physics Prize
Mysore.
A gold necklace set with dis- monds and other gems, Jace shawls, and robes will be the appurtenances of Six C. T. Raman the Indian scientist, whe was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930, as the result of a new title that has been con- ! fered upon him by the Mahara jah of Mysore.
He has been dubbed “Rajah Sabha Bhushana,” or "Jewel of the Court"
a thing as an Aryan race, since the term Aryan refers to language." "the authors site.
The real source of the modera
idea of the superiority of so-called "Aryan races" is a work-by the French Count Joseph de Gobienean. published about 1850.
From France To Germany
IN SIBERIA
Proofs Of Climatic
Changes
LAND NOW DESOLATE ONCE DENSELY POPULATED
Moscow.
Stick em up
said the burglar and shoved a gun isto Mr. Mors- | grip's stomach. The gun was even colder than the hot water bottle, and Mr. Mossgrip let an- other yelp out of him and the bur- glar said Hey will youse quit vippin'? and Mis. Mossgrip woke up and said What do you see dear are some more tenants moving out? Go to sleep said Mr. Moss- grip and she did and he said to the burglar Well what do you
The discovery of the vitamins has thrown further light upon the Prehistoric knitting needles want? sensitiveness of the human body combs and spoons of mammoth
Jack and jewellery said the bur- to even the minutest amount of bone have been found in an ancient glar Come on hand it over as we certain chemical substances. A settlement near Obdorsk, Nerthey in the underworld. Each fraction of a milligramme, as Sir Siberia, by an expedition sent out said Mr. Mossgrip Don't stop me Walter Langdon-Brown reminded by the Institute of Anthropology this is the first time I have really his audience, of a vitamiz Or and Ethnography of the Academy Laughed in five years. Quit stall- hormone may spell the difference of Sciences of the USSR
out between health and disease.
The expedition recently returned your necklaces and tiaras. Ho ho More recently still it has been to Moscow after seven months said Er. Mossgrip laughing un- (shown that every stimulus flashed work It has excavated 12,000 trollably. You poor
fish do you down a nerve acts by liberating, articles of pottery and bose. Iknow who I am? I am Mr. Moss- at its terminal, a definite chemical
Besides knitting needle, combs grip the owner of this apartment substance, and that this determines and spoons, they incinde miniature house that's who
in' said the burglar Bring
I am. What!
the further progress of the meshoes for tilling fields, pieces of said the burglar This is indeed a sage and the ultimate response to melting pots for metal and bones catastrophe A landlord eh? well it of the organism. It will thus of animals and birds which no well Still he said there must be be seen that a whole new order longer inhabit the peninsula un something worth stealing these of drugs is dawning on the me which Obdorsk stands.
are expensive hangings and that dical horizon founded upon an in- The remains which have been is a nice bed too. Yes said Mr. tomate knowledge, never before found show that the peninsula, Mossgrip and told him about the possible, of the internal chemisty which is within the Arctic Circle, bed. But he mid it is too big to lof the human body.
was once densely populated.
CHASED BY WIFE
AND "G MEN”.
“Public Enemy No. 1”
Sued For Divorce
CORSICA'S LATEST
INDUSTRY
Bandits Replaced By Croupiers
steal and anyway my wife is asleep in Well said the burglar I like antiques. Don't be imper (tinent said Mr Mossgrip. So the burglar begged his pardon and put his pistol in his pocket and said: Well now I mast
O dont go yet said Mr. Moss- grip. It is a long climb up nie- "In the begining of the present
Tuka, Oklahoma —Alvin Karpis,
teen stories of fire escapes" and ↑ century the East Prussian, Gustav
(you must be tired and won't you. Kossins, took up the ides and the present Public Enemy No. 1
Ajaccio.-Corsica is to exchange take something before you go?.1 applied it to prehistoric archseo- of the United States, is being sued
wher well-known "bandits of honour" had planned to said the burglar logy, and this made German pre- for divorce. history
but you haven't got anything. Ô zational pre-eminently
He is charged with non-support for roulette wheels. science. His object was to show and desertion in the suit that bis Having successfully cleaned up I mean a drink said Mr. Mossgrip. that throughout the press wife has filed here the island and made it a fit place I don't mind said the burglar 30 ages advance, culture has beezi entirely due to peoples whats the Mrs. Karpis, who married the for croupiers to live in, the Manies Mr. Mossgrip got on a dressing identified with the Nordic, Ger- outlaw in September 1931, says patCouncil is now considering gown and slippers and they tip- The party proposes to open a
manic, or "Aryan' peoples, these in her suit that she has not seen the exploitation of roulette and toed past Mrs. Mossgrip and into National Credit Office, to izme the terms being regarded as inter her husband for more than a year trente-et-quarante: fables at the the living room. Mr. Mossgríp dividend to every citizen without changeable.'
Igot out the Bourbon and they took distinction, whether in employ-- This Nordic theory speedily be and that to the best of her belief Mumeipel Casino. -
This is made possible by the a couple of fast ones to catch up he is in linois. ment or pot tranfald (caine very popular in Germany, and.
Alvin Karpis, wanted on charges recent French decree, which took with each other and then they "It is estimated,” the manifesta was made the basis of propaganda states, "hat, Great Britain is do- in the peendo scientific writings of of kidnapping, is being hunted by sway Monte Carlo's monopoly in poured out a long one and sat G me throughout the United roulette and gave a new source of back And Me Mossgrip- said ing less than a fifth of its possible Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the
income, derived from the world's you don't look like a burglar and production. The nationd dividend fotorious Anglophobe, and others
Perity of racial descent, add the could rapidly increase to at least
Reuter 2500 a year per family of four authors, partienlarly lacks any on condition that you were willing adequate basis of support in Ger to help production by working hard many, in view of the fact that when your work was needed.”~-
that country "nearly one
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