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ghe ORIENTAL HERALDAg'HEALTH • z Archaeologists Digging for Historical Evidences of the Ancient World Shattering the Bulwarks of Decency A Triumph of Archaeology — Points on Tropical Hygiene— Romanism in the Free Churches 4.40 = Li • Around the World A GRAIN of rice sold at an exhibition in Cairo for £100. The British Air Ministry announce that before the end It was an ordinary grain of rice, but it had written on it of this year a biweekly air service between London and the first chapter of the Koran and a speech made by the Bombay, India, will in all probability be an accomplished first caliph, Abu Bekr-150 words in all. Under a magni- fact. fying glass every word stands out distinct. A typewriter that is said to be capable of transcribing 5,000 Chinese ideographic signs, designed by a native of An airdrome is being built in the meadow of Buyukdore Shanghai, has been recently put on the market in China. on the upper Bosphorus, near Constantinople, where legend It is claimed that with two months' practice, an educated states that Godfrey of Bouillon, a leader of the Crusaders, Chinaman can acquir a speed of 2,000 characters an hour. camped with his soldiers when they were on their way to The entire apparatus weighs about 40 pounds. Palestine. Before the World War, when Constantinople was the capital of Turkey and a flourishing commercial city, The government of Venezuela, we are told, has for- this meadow was used as an athletic field by the members bidden the importation of any more radio sets, because of the foreign diplomatic bodies. the Venezuelans, when they go home for luncheons and siesta, turn on their receivers and forget to go back to Human slavery exists to-day in Abyssinia, Tibet, work. "Bootlegging" of radio sets has become an active Afghanistan, the Hejaz, Morocco, Tripoli, the Libyan business since the prohibition went into effect, and any one who is fortunate enough to own a set can get a fabulous Desert, Rio de Oro, Liberia, China, Arabia, Egypt, the price for it. The government has stopped all afternoon Sudan. Eritrea, Angola, Mozambique, and French, British. concerts that it controls, but in the oil belt, where foreign and Italian Somaliland, in most of the independent interests hold concessions, enough programmes are still Mohammedan states, and in Nepal, and the Philippines. This information has been gathered by the Temporary broadcast to keep the Venezuelans busy with the ear phones. Slavery Commission of the League of Nations, which has been at work since 1924. It is said on good authority that more than six hundred million pounds' worth of automobiles were sold last year on the deferred-payment plan. Two hundred million Although the word "paper" is derived from "papyrus," pounds was paid in cash by the purchasers, and four hun- papyrus is not a paper at all, and the beginnings of the dred million pounds' worth of cr dit was extended by the paper industry are not traced back to it, but to the genuine selling agents. About three quarters of all automobiles are paper made by the Chinese from very early times. From sold on the deferred-payment plan. So far losses have been the Chinese it spread to other races, and was probably very small, though some financial observers see danger in brought into Europe during the twelfth century through the the tendency to accept smaller and smaller cash payments Moors into Spain and at the time of the second crusade into and to ext nd the period of credit to a longer time than Italy. About - the year 1150 a paper mill was started at a year. Fabriano, Italy, which became the principal center for paper making, and this region continues the manufacture to It has long been known that two imperial pleasure gal- the present day. From Italy the art spread to France and leys, built by the Emperor Caligula, lie at the bottom of Germany, somewhat later to England, where it was not Lake Nemi among the Apennines, southeast of Rome. well established until the revocation of the Edict of Nantes The idea of raising these galleys, in the hope of recovering in 1685 sent many French paper makers into exile to a wealth of antique sculpture and jewelry, has long plagued England and America. In 1690 the first paper mill in the minds of the Italians. Leonardo da Vinci worked on America was built by William Rittenhouse at Roxboro, the problem four hundred years ago, but the water of the near Philadelphia. The first paper mill in New England lake is so deep that no plan for raising the galleys has ap- was built by a company to which was granted by the peared practicable. Now Mussolini has ordered that the governor and legislature in 1728 the sole privilege of making thing must be done, and it is believed that he will author- paper in the province of Massachusetts for ten years. In ize the digging of a tunnel in the side of the extinct volcano 1730 the manufacture of paper was begun by this company, the crater of which Lake Nemi occupies. That would and specimens of its product were shown to the legislature. empty the lake and expose the galleys at once. Up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, while machinery was used to reduce the rags to a pulp, the for- mation of the sheet of pape'r was done entirely by hand, French scientists have discovered a new use for grape sheet by sheet. This method of manufacturing paper by seeds. They are extracting a lubricating oil from them. hand from the inner bark of the paper mulberry, as As soon as the grapes have been pressed, the seeds are practised to-day by the Japanese, probably represents the removed from the skins and dried. They are then subjected method in vogue from the very earliest times. About 1798 to a process for removing their oil. A thousand kilograms Louis Robert, a workman in the mill of Didot at Essonnes, of grape husks give about 230 kilograms of seeds, from France, patented an invention for making paper in an which about twenty-seven kilograms of oil are obtained. endless web, but it was not put to practical use till developed The residue is used for fertilizer. With this new oil, in England by Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier, who spent and French engineers hope to replace castor oil, which it re- lost a fortune perfecting the machine. They are properly sembles, as a lubricant for delicate motors, especially of considered the founders of modern paper making, and their airplanes. Castor oil is expensive, being imported from machine is universally known as the Fourdrinier machine. India, while the new oil is comparatively cheap and equally So well was their development work done that the early efficient. Already factories have been established in many machines differ in minor details only from the most modern wine districts of France, with a capacity for handling machine running to-day. thousands of tons a year, and a new industry is developing. The Oriental Watchman ooi) AND HERALD OF HEALTH 0,g- Vol. 2 Poona, October 1926 No. 10 Shattering the Bulwarks of Decency By Keld J. Reynolds HE fact that money is spent so lavishly was not the picture of a good girl. " That is our in the publication of magazines is suffi- best seller. " cient evidence that these periodical sare Remembering that one must not be too quick bought by the public and widely read. to judge by appearances, I looked inside. It con- The magazine is, therefore, a great edu- tained a group of stories with titles suggestive of cating force. But in what is it an education? marital unfaithfulness, "triangles," and glorified A few years ago we could have affirmed that licentiousness ; all the stories were profusely illus- question in the full assurance that, in the main, trated with posed photographs. It fairly reeked the magazines of America were useful, quickening with sex filth. contributors to literature and public thought. For "Do you mean to tell me," I exclaimed, "that a present answer, the reader is asked to go around enough younc people can be found in this respect- the corner to the nearest news stand, and there able community who will read this trash, to make spend a few minutes looking over the stock, then it your best seller?" to judge for himself. "That is what it is. And it is being bought What A Collection! in ever-increasing numbers. It seems to be like dope. You have to keep increasing the dose in Hendrick van Loon, a New York litterateur, order to get the desired kick. It keeps getting says that he found on display at a news stand worse too, for the same reason, I suppose. I some- "the foulest collection of smut, dirt, and plain por- times wonder if these publications are not exper- nography ever offared to an unsuspecting public in iments, sent out in order to test the elasticity of the name of literature." He states further: "The our postal laws. We'have laws, as you know, that world is being overrun with a putrid stream of the prohibit the sending of indecent pictures or printed most despicable, the most iniquitous, and, on the matter. But it seems to me that these laws must whole, the most dangerous, form of a degraded va- be largely inoperative. riety of literature. This stuff is being publicly sold and publicly sent through the mails; and.

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