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YESTERDAY'S CARTOON

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ABYSSINIA'S "AS"

Nearly at the Abyssinizu pisce

Tok the last few years, at re galar intervals during Inte summer and fall, a clump of cherry trees in an old cemetery in Mobile {Alabam, bàs been raining tears

(with an “A”, for instance: the old gravestomes and vanīts names in the news seem to begin beneath their branches The

Netice To Contributorā, All communications intended for publication should be addressed to the Editor, and be accompanied by the Writer's Name and Address not necessarily for insertion, but phenomenon has occasioned, con- siderable excitement and specula- {28 a guarantee of good faith.

tion as to the cause. But the real reason was found by Dr. E P. Loding, a Mobile scientist, who re- ports that the rain of tears cansed by the millions of jasside (leaf hoppers) insects nestled on

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The Laval Terms

the trees-

HOUSEHOLD GAS FROM CLOVER

Addis Ababa, Adowa, Alarm, Assalë, Ausso, Adigrat, Awasă. Apome

FIGHTING THE WHITE SCOURGE

SPAHLINGER'S VITAL RESEARCHES

FREEING CHILDREN FROM A “PERPETUAL MENACE”

N (By H. H. The Aga Khan)

Tovement of Northem Ire chance.

THE recent publication by the mhent should be tried

for an initial "s" or "e" before Henry Spahlinger, the long-delayed

Jast

The explanation may be that Amharic, being originally a Semi-{ tic language, requires initial vowels is

|land of its report on the Spahing I informed the doctors of my to soften consonants.blo

Practically all the Semitic and ger vaccine against bovine tuber-decision, and learned that the jour similar languages Arabic. Perculosis should have far-reaching (ney to Geneva would probably has ⚫sian, Hindustani-use uz “bresults, and bring its discoverer, ten the patient's end."

It did not Spahlinger treated. double consonants.

recognition, he so well deserves. the patient, who gradually recover- Ever since recorded history be

Let us hope that it also means ed and was finally cured Two gan Palestinian, Arabian and the beginning of the end of tuber-other people whom I Inew inti dian tongger have found such enlosis in human beinys.* mstelere treated by Spablinger

The words hard to pronounce. The compulsory adoption of this-both had been declared incurable. Biblical use of the password "shib-vaccine would undoubtedly save Both are-alive-to-day, enjoying boleth" is but one example.

thousands of lives. It is not perfect health.. generally realised that a very high

Other Cases of tuberculosis percentage human beings is due to an infer contracted in childhood through tuberculous milk

"Open covenants openly ar- Promising Experiments

In America

Accidental Discovery

I-SHTINES

Indian cook

What will Master please to take? Mattoni chop or beef i-skteak! Master having something nex, Master having Irish ishtew? Your Daily Smile!

hiom

Compulsory For Cattle

I

I know of many other cases which Spallinger has treated. Un fortunately, the preparation of the serum for the, treatment of Ivengs tuberculosis is still very long.

rived at," demanded President" Wilson. Open covenants in- valve open negotiations, for if the world is to be suddenly sur- St. Paul, Min: Ordinary clover prised with an arrangement will supply light and power to completely worked out in de the city of the future if a ̈dia- tail, it is very little improvecovery made by two boys, one of Thus to-day Constantinople has ment that it should be able to them a football player, in the la-to be Istanbul because Stamboul is read its terms and know thatboratories of a local college is too difficult for Turkish tungueS.

In India the predxing of an “i”

It is evident, therefore, that if costly and difficult. But it is to be it has been registered in Geneva found to be adaptable to commer-

to English names produces some! with the Secretary-General. It cial use.

Hastings becomes the world's milk supply can be kept hoped that the work, which he is is no secret that the older type "I think the process has great queer results of diplomatists regarded this possibilities," Dean R. U. Jones, "-Shtinks," and it is said that a free from Koch's bacilli the incid-carrying on will enable him soos to among so that the serum will come within procedure as quite Utopian, and bead of the college's chemistry brother of one Lord Hastings who enge of the disease will be con- simplify his methods of production. that practically nothing was department, said in announcing visited India became transformed siderably reduced. even

from the Honourable Mt. Has adults, while so far as children are the reach of all.

concerned it will be practically · Important as is the trestment of done at Geneva that had not his pupils' discovery.

tings" to "Orrible Shlinks.”

tuberculous patients, it is the pre- previously been discussed in

The prefering or the suffixing of wiped out private sufficiently for at least The new process, details of the general point of view of the which are closely guarded, con- the "" to break up consonantall At core the importance of the ventive vaccine, however, the well more important members of verta ordinary white clover into a combinations mouth to Oriental Sahlinger bovine vaccine becomes eventually stamp out tuberculosis the League to be known, even commercially usable gas. It was ears is illustrated by the following apparent Over 32,000 people die The old adage that prevention is if not approved. Several pro-discovered accidentally, in the verse pat into the mouth of an of tuberculosis every year in Eng- better than cure" finds here its fall

Jand alone, and by, making new of meaning jects were brought forward by course of another experiment.

(the vaccine compulsory for cattle

Early Experiments the death-rate among human be I have followed Spablinger' various delegates without these The inventors say that a single

ings suffering from this disease early experiments en immanising preliminaries, and in that case, tract of 3,000 acres would grow if they were widely supported, enough clover to keep this towa:

(must diminish considerably.

cattle against tuberculosis, and I With cattle immune against know about, the success of the the procedure was to embody of 250,000 inhabitants supplied the project in a protocol that for a year with enough gas for.

tuberculosis, children would be tests made in Norfolk, the results free from what is now a perpes of which were made public by me. required ratification by each all household and commercial

menace. No longer could babies And now, when I read the re State The protocol was-duly purposes, at half the present cost. circulated, but was not ratified-Better.

be fed on milk infected with this subs of the official tests in North- tubercle germ that condemns them en Ireland, I firmly believe that to suffer from therealous joints tuberculosis in cattle can be com and twisted spines, which make pletely eradicated, and with it the Hife a misery. The use of this infection of millions of human be- vaccine must be made compulsory.ings throughout, the world.

Men Saved From Death

Let us hope now that the critte I am no scientist - But I have ism which has been poured on the seen people die. of tuberculosis head of Henry Spartager will dis- Then I heard of Spahlinger and appear; so that he may be free to his method of human treatment. pursue his researches in other In 1925 a dear friend of mine) fields, and finally, perhaps, live to *Mother, you know was desperately ill with tubercu see the white scourge a thing of a Court of Law to defeat any move towards controlling the Little Girl:

If the past" action -

that he gave up the whole of the Nile, but at any that old vase you said has been hand-losis of the lungs and throat. whole thing as not worth the rate Ethiopia was to be theed down from generation to genera was told by several physicians that Let England show the way to the the case was beyond hope, but Ifworld; let her share with Northern risk of any attempted compul- first acquisition, for bargaining on m sion, and merely contented him- purposes. The dispatch of ad- self with appeals to reason and ditional troops to Libya, and has dropped. justice, which were forcible the stirring up of unrest in but not business.

Egypt are indication of the The advent of Mr. Baldwin means that might be used more Jas Prime Minister coincided strenuously someday. and with the adoption of a sugges would serve as menaces to day. tion by the advocates of League The treaty of 1906 provides that the leaky Article for consultation between Eng-

by more than a few minor Pow

ers, and was then pigeonholed, from being "merged into the There are quite a number of German Reich That would these stillborn schemes accu- be awkward for both, as neither mulating dust on the shelves. is anxious to have Germany as So far as England was, con- a neighbour. In return France cerned Sir John Simon applied was to support Italy in es- bis legal mind to the Covenant, tablishing or, as Duce sees and discovered so many loop it, re-establishing a Roman E- holes in Article X, and in the pire in Africa Quite probably draft 'motions such as he the new Caesar sees the con- would have been able to use in quest of Ethiopia as the first

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M La consulted on the less important take separate action. matters they ought to be con- val, placed in a cleft stick, has sulted on the more important agreed to sanctions, but inan- The corollary of this attempt gurated negotiations from time at "open covenants" is that the to time, which have given Italy public must be better informed the chance of laying in stores as to the action taken by their that have made her almost in- awn representatives, and also dependent of sanctions, and by the representatives of other now has produced a scheme States, and the motives behind that gives Italy all that she has such action. For it is not ala chance of conquering and case of a decision having to be holding. Sir Samuel Hoare had made in the air,” with no dis- no option but to pass this on to turbing circumstances to in-the League for consideration, finence the decision. Diplo when France had definitely re mary is continuous, and cannot fused to support the only effec- succeed unless the occasion is tive embargo — oil With taken as a link in a long chain France on her side or neutral, which stretches back into his and Italy prepared to fight to tory and forward into the foprotect oil imports, the alter ture Most of the comment on native was for England to fight the terms suggested by M. La-alone against the Italian Fleet, val after his conferences with for no other State was wiling Signor Mussolini ignores the to support "military sanctions." chain and concentrates on the It is a tangled skein, but what felse would his crítics dave done?

Mr. Baldwin was justified saying" that if he had chance

the first thing

is the

DIDN'T KNOW

about time that you "Szy, It's settled down and took a wife.”

"Te Eike to, but I don't know whose wide to take."

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AMERICAN VIEWPOINT "Why do these titled foreigners give themselves sa many" sira?"

"Because we give them so many heiresses."

AT LAST

Mother: "Yes, dear."

Title Girl: "Well, this generation was determined to help, and deter- Ireland the honour of stamping out

rmined that, the Spahlinger treat-tuberculosis.

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