New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 6, 1929, Page 12

| Moseow, Feb. ¢ (UP)—A million | hume Hves, among them 300,000 infallp, are saved every year by the Cy issariat of Health, its head, i Y holag Semashko, ‘ claimed in an fpterview given the United Press. In ggipport of his claim he cited’ the re@Mad death rate in the Federated | Socwmllst Soviet Republics—21 of ev- | x 1,000, against a pre-war rate of | per thousand. | ~=r, Semashko started his profes- siewal career as a country doctor | in Ahe Volga region. Now, chief ‘of one of the most important branches of the Soviet government and re- spomsible for the health of 140,000, 000 people over one-sixth of the earth's surface, he still retains the air of a country doctor. Cheerful, rather rotund, with a professional- looking pointed beard, he is un- doubtedly one of the most-charming- men in the Soviet hierarchy. | But urler Dr. Semashko's charm one senses a hard umsmiling ear- nestness. As he speaks there emerges a picture of his enormous, almost disheartening task. 1In a| country which for gencrations has accepted the most fearsojne epi- | demics as a matter of course, & country for the most part still| steeped in the darkest sort of su- perstition, a country almost de- void of modern mechanical sanita- tion, his Commissariat isyattempt- ing 'to introduce the latest preven- tive medicine. “Evil Eye” Feared “In thousands of villages” he said, “one of our serious problems is the ‘magician.’ The ‘evil eye' is «till, credited with - more diseases than the bacillus, and cures are still cxpected from the local witch in- stead of the local hospital.” Nevertheless, Dr. Semashko convinced the great progress leen achieved. There are more hospitals, more dispensaries, more sanitoria, more of everything that conduces to health, he pointed out, and it is only a question of time hefore Russia will be brought to a par with other European countries in the matter of health. The general level of health, he declared, is undoubtedly higher thag before the war. He credited this to two chict factors, First, the peagant now has land and therefore eats more and better food. Second, the .general cultural efforts both in city and cohntry have led to great- er cleanliness. As 2 good indication of thé popu lation he produced interesting fig- ures about the army and the navy. Drawn from the same sort of people substantially as before the war, the statistics offer some basis of com- parison. For cvery 1,000 officers in the| army, in 1913, there died of disease 6.85; for every the death rate was 3.96 in the same year. The corresponding figures in 25 were 1,81 officers-and 2:50 aol- diers; in 1927—1.19 officers and 1.21 soldiers, 4 Deaths from disease in the navy per 1,000, m 1913—6.37 office —2.9 officers, in 1927—4.21 officers, 18 has 1.9 sailors; 1.03 sailors. Famine Stricken Chiriese Receiving Little Grain: Argrain allowance. of - 20. pounds per month for each aduit fn the family, is all that keeps --starving Chinese alive during famines, ac- cording to Rev. A, D. Heininger, minister of religious education st the First Congregational ‘church. Rev. Mr. Heininger is home on fur- lough from China wheré he was lo- | cated for a. number of. years. He has gone through a famine over| there and was there at the outbreak of the Chinese civil war until or- dered home by the American board of foreign missions. He later re- turned to China, but for the past vear or more bas been back in New Britain, PLAN GOLD! RULE DEGREE Midian Encampment of Hartford | will visit Comstock Encampment No. 29 of this city Friday evening for the purpose of exemplifying the work of the Golden Rule degree. The degree will be ‘worked on the | stage in the auditorium of Odd Fel- lows hall, Arch stréeet. TPatriatchs from Hartford, Middletown, Meri- den, Bristol and other nearby cities will be present. After the .degree refreshments and a social hour will be enjoyed. All Patriarch’s will be welcome. 9orn Instantly then Lift Right Off! Drop “Ifrcezons” coen. TInstantly it that stops on aching hurting; then shortly you lift the corn right |1ows were taken at a meeting 1ast | gnying his 47 years' off with your fingers. really! Tt is so casy hurt one bit! every time, A tiny bottle of ‘Ireczonet costs only a fow conts at Aany drug store. and is suf- ficient fo renave hard eorn. soft corn and callontes Trv it: You'll laugh, and doesn't Works like a charm. thousand ‘soldiers, {he was d } of employe: Speed Attempt Maj. H. O. D. Segrave, British racing driver, 1s bringing his Golden Arrow to the United States to seek a new automobile speed record at Daytona, Fla., in March. Upper picture shows beach at Dayton with artist's drawing of new car. Inset is rear view of the new car taken fore Major Segrave sailed from England. BRINGING HEALTH TOREPAY 4 FAVOR Physician Aids Children in (Gounty Which Bducated Him SejniaNi C..' Feb. 6 (P—A eur: ggon’s debt,of gratitude to his home ceunty, ddting back to%he impovers ished days which followed: the Civil war, has brought relief to 205 school children of this section who have been suffering from discased | tonsils and -adenoids. Dr. Wade H. Atkinson of Wash- ington, was born in Johnston county 18 months after the end of the war between the states which wiped out his family's fortune, While he was struggling for an cducation in his teens, the county gave him an ap pointment to the state universiy, and ready at 25 to begin his medical carcer in Washingon. Visiting his brother on the old homestead several yearsago, he ob- served the backward condition of miany school children of the county, and found that most of them were suffering from diseased tonsils and adenoida. He was inclined to ascribe their backwardness, in large part, to this condition, and offered his services free for 100 tonsil opera- tions on such children. The school commissioner and the ‘overworked physicians of the county welcomed the aid, and borrowing operating gowns, instruments and some of the necessary anesthetizing materiais from Sibley hospital at Washington, Dr. Atkinson came home to pay his 40 year old debt of gratitude. With an froning board he impro- vised an operating table in the of- fice of the Sctma superintendent of schools, F. M. Waters, and with the assistance of Dr. C. C. Massey. county health officer, three local Physicians, two trained nurses, and several husky volunteers, he set to work. The voluntcers kept the crowd: away from the operating table and carried patients to and from the “operating table” in a steady stream ¥or nine days, Dr. Atkinson per- formed 10 to 18 tonsilectomies daily. He was about ready to quit on the tenth .day, the last of, his visit, when a bus brought 13 more pa- tients from a necarby school district. They raised his total for that day to 36 operations, and, for the entirc period, to 205. The achievement has attracted considerabie aftention from medical publications, which have displayed particular intorest in the methods used to overcome {he lack of regu- lar opcrating tables and cquipment |and the strilization of instrument all of which had: to- be improvise | as the need for them arosc: | The children went through the orde in good shape and, county | officials de . many of them have | sown improvement in their school | work. .‘Boston ‘State House e Reeks With Liquor Boston, | Feb. 6 (B—Fumes of li- auor in the state house so strong as Ito constitute a menace to the health in the structure were | described by Col. Paul executive secrctary of the de ment of public safcty, to the legi lative copamittec on state adminis- tration today H favored the an; al recommendation of Gov Frank G. Allen that liquor seized Iy #he police and now stored in the stdte house e removed to some other building in- | Appoint Committees | OnL 0. O. F. Convention | Definite steps in the plans for the | Grand' Lodge convention of Odd ¥ night when a parade committe appointed | Willia gler was na lof the publicity committee and Al- ibert Peferson was appointed ch | man- of th& gencral committee. Bak- er 1. Mann was namied sceretary and | Mr, Ziugler was appointod freasurer. Meetingg will be held weekly until ime the onvention which will be on April 14 and 15 and publicity we n Zi A head | IReab' uekay crassirip avs FIGHT STARTS 70 KILL HUB BOOK CENSORSHIP Blll to Abolish Law Called “Legal Curlosity” Boston, Feb, 6 (—Boston's book censorship, which has attracted wide attention, came up for consideration itee on legal affairs. Publishers, M- brarians and others appeared to fa- vor a bill sponsored by the Massa- chusetts Library Club, Inc. This bill would eliminate the word “book” from the present law pro- hibiting the sale of obscene litera- ture. 1t would add to the law a sec- tiofi providing imprisonment for two years or a fine of. not more than $1.000, or both, for any person who “imports, ' prints, _publishes, sells or distributes a book, knowing it to contain language which, when considered in connection with its en- tire text and theme, is indecent or impure.” Galen W. Hill of Quincy, president of the library club. introduced Hen- ry L. Burnham of Boston as counsel for the proponents of the bill. Burn- ham characterized the present law as a “legal curiosity” in that it al- lowed a finding of guilty on the language used in any pcsé ® a book without “ consideriug the complete text, *The tone of literature " he added, “is never cured by suppression.” Old Time Opera Singer Is Dead at Age of 90 Swampscot!, Mass., Felw 6 (#-— Madame Celiste Huntley Piccoili, noted grand opera singer of half a century ago, died today in her 9%0th year, She was born in Marlow, N. H., the daughter of Russell and Amie Huntley, and began her carcer as a singer in church choirs. She studied in Boston and then went abroad to complete her training. As a prima donna, she had sung before most of the sovercigns of Europe. She was married in Brussels to Giromala Piccolli, a tenor who had sung with her‘in many operas. They latcr sang together in South America and lived at Montevideo until their separation, when Madame | Piccoill returned to the United States, She had been living here with a niece, Miss Amie Balch. For many years she was a teacher of singing in Boston and Lynn. Reichstag Votes o Ratify Kellogg Pact Publishers and Librarians Sponsor | today before the legislative commit- | NEW ROVALTY HISES OVER GRAVEOF0L0 The King May Be Dead, But | NewKings Appear i Gotha, Feb. ¢ (P—OId thrones may fall, but new oncs are rising, |say the chroniclers of that famous book of reference, the Almanach de Gotha, of which the 166th annual cdition has just heen published. The list of the present and ex- dynasties in Europe is headed this year by Albania, where Ahmed Zogu T, of the house of mats, sits {upon the new throne at Tirana. 8o |far, seraldic experts have not yet granted him the style of “majesty,” although William of Wied, “for. mer reigning prince of Albania,” re- joices in the label of “highness.” Another potentate, who makes hi first appearance in the Almanach is the Dalai Lama of Tibet, whose name is Ngawang lopsang Tupden Gyatso, born in 1876. He is de- scribed as being the 13th incarna. tion of Buddha. New Arab kingdoms also appear for the first time. There is Asyr, whode Ameer is Seyed Hassan Ibn- ‘.\lll of the house of Tdrisi. Under +Jedjaz, Ali Ibn-Hussein appe “ex-kt~w,” In Nejd, the Wahabite House of Ibn-Saud, after many vicissitudes, rules in th eperson of Abdul Aziz 111. King Feisal I Ibn- | Hussein still holds sway in Iraq. iHis Highness Yahya Hamid Ed-din | jal Mutawakkil is high priest and king of Yemen, and Sheikh Ahmed rules the destinies of the remote Arab principality of Koweit. Dates and places of birth of most of , these potentates secm to be more or less wrapped in mystery. | appear to have numcrous off- springs, but data concerning them arc of the vagucst. Probably no one knows. | Hope to Ward Off Cruiser Conference ‘Washington, Feb. 6 (M—Without taking the cruiser hill to conference on the senate amendments the house will consider the measure to- morrow as the first busincss of the | day « ! Chairman Britten of the house nav committee announced that an ment had been reached with Speaker Longworth to recognize the committee immediately after the reading of the minutes. Then, Brit- I ten said, unanimous consent to bring up the bill for the consideration of the senate amendments will be QUEST OF CILTURE LAWS 3% Resideats Discussing Possibility of Dry Cowatry ~ Mexico City, Feb. ¢ (P—The wave of idealism that came in with | the Portes Gil administration appar- tly found a public disposed to cooperate. Various measures pro- posed during the month in which | the present government has func- tioned have sroused interest and favorable comment. It remained for the president's latest declarations, however, to cause a real sensation, and today Mexicans from Juarez to the Guatemalan border are discussing the possibility of a dry Mexico. This land, famous for its tequila and puique, is wondering whether music and sports — whether the program of “cuitural education” planned by its chief executives can take the place of the liquors 0 in timately associated with- national tradition, | When the president brought | forth his new labor project, :eek.'| ing to set up .abor courts, con- script labor In time of emergency and work other drastic reforms, the people displayed lively interest, and when the secretary of public | instruction, Esequiel Padilla, an- unced that the soviet Russian system of education would be adopted in Mexico, further interest and a furtherance of the favorable atmosphere in which the govern- ment is working became apparent. But when the newspapers printed the Information that a “cultural education” campaign would be launched in an effort to stamp eut alcoholism the prohibition or “es. tado seco” question §mmediately became the prime subject of dis- cussion. Had the president attempted to bring about an immediate ban on liquor it is generally conceded he would have incurred public hostil- ity, but his plan of gradually sep. arating the people from the drink habit hag met with applause and the public seems inclined to aid in conyerting itself by promoting Berlin, Feb. 6 (®—The Reichstag asked. and efforts will be made to |today adopted a bill ratifying Ger- ' sccure their immediate adoption to Norton, | t |many’s signature of the Kellogg re- |nunciation of war pact. The vote was 287 to 127. Don’t Neglect Don't neglect any cold nowadpys Colds arc so weukeni and | weakened condition, you |ceptible to more serious troubles. When you find you are catching cold, ta open. 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