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Show Thur~d:1v. THE MIDVAL E .JOURNAL Sentembe r 17. 1931 DO t1 POSSIBLE SPREAD OF YELLOW FEVER Experb Foresee Danger From Airplanes. A "new aviation peril," said to be A Milkman In Seville. (Prepared b:r the National Geo&TO.Phlo Society, Washington. D. C.) W ITH the revolution a matter of history, Seville, which a majority of visitors who travel down from ~fadrid and up from Cadiz call "The :.\lost Spanish City Jn Spain,'' has settled down to its usual routine. But in Seville, now scintillating, now sleepy, Is discovered a Spain uot of the drowsing past, nor yet of the bus· tllng present; it is an indiscriminate mingling of both. Abiding through the centm·ies here on sun-swept slopes, the city has built for Itself a dwelling place of traditions; but they are not a high wall hedging it about. Seville takes pride in her glorious past, treasures it, becomes frankly arrogant about It at times; hut her chief love Is life and the living of it. Her lichen-covered churches she holds Inviolate. Not one cobweb may be removed, nor a single crumbling block of hand-hewed stone be remortared; but, 11eross a well-paved avenue, a steel-fabricated office building must incorporate e\·ery convenience of the modern builder's art. Laden donkeys may, and do, wander willy·nllly through every downtown thoroughfare, hut the driver of a limousine must keep his ~oyes open for ''one-way street" signs and his ear:; alert for the traffic officer's whistle. Seville's history is as colorful as one of tli<' silken shawls that drape the shoulders of her dark-eyed senoritas. as n~ried as the moods of her people, as interesting as any story may well be that depicts the romance of a town which has li\·ed through the rise, glory. and decay of half a dozen nations. The city's aetna I genesis Is lost, hid<len by the obscm·ing veil which :shrouds much of the remote past of the 1\Ie<literranean, and which was only sli;;htly torn a:-:ide by the adventuring Phoenicians, and later by the warrior-merchan ts of Carthage. But there was a Roman Seville. Ol that ancient period definite traces remain. Some of the crumbling walls of the clty were built under the direction of the Caesars. The Vislgoths, following the fall of Rome's western empire, lingered for a brief three centuries ln Seville. The Jews, too, from behind Byzantium came here to have their home, rose to positions of power, endured grievous persecution, passed, but left carved memories of their stay. Gypsies Still There. Likewise the gypsies came llere, and here they yet remain, crowded together ln ooisy little and big families in Triana, the ragged suburb of Seville, across the Guadalquivir. Finally, the Moors possessed Seville. One must say finally because the city remains today something of a Moorish town. Saint Ferdinand brought It within the Christian fold some seven centuries ago; but all his might could not wipe out the Orient. The picture~que Santa Cruz district of Seville, with its narrow, crooked streets and fiat-roofed, comrmnionable houses. has changed very little In the last thousand years. The city's famous and equally beloved Gii·alda is today much the same as when a MoorIsh architect completed it, In 1Hl6, an,1 the white-robed followers of Mohammed used it as a minarf't from which to call the faithful to prayer nut Seville dwells not overmuch in reminiscence~. She re\·er~es her heroes of olden time, but It is the heroes of today that occupy her thoughts and newspapers. Annually she devotes many holidays in obeisance before nncient glorie;;, but the days before a•Jd after are spent In widening her narrow streets to ac~omraodute a rapidly increasing motor traffic and In building steel and concrete office hulld· ings wherein to house her ever-expandIng commercial enterprises. She points with pride to whe~ the caravels of the New world's conquer· ors anchored in the Guadalquivir river, but barely a stone's throw away electric cranes strive the day long with vast cargoes to and from the earth's four corners. Alcazar, the old Moori'lh palace re· built to house the splendor of the courts of Andalusian kings, remains much the same as it was seven centuries ago; but immediatl'ly across the street the new Alfonso XIII hotel transplants one straightway to the luxury of up-to-date Paris, or London or New York. Those fortUJ~ate Individuals who ceme to aouthern Spain armed with letters of lntrodurtlon to high officials and wealthy families go away with glowing accounts of the sumptuousness of life, of the Ia vish hospitality accorded visitors, and of the very modern manner of living in this only superficially modernized city. Other earnest seekers after local color who visit Seville and, in their desire to know· their Spain, live among the Se\illunos, endure the Inconveniences of modest l:lpanlsh homes, spend tong hours in crowded cafes to engage in endless discussions with the evertalkative habitues, attend frequent festivals and bull fights. These folk carry away a vivid, glowing picture of a Seville en fiesta-colorful, rather noisy, highly picturesque. Average Income Is Puny. Only in rare Instances does the foreigner come to know the true home life of the Sevlllano. There is not much money per capita In Seville these days. To be sure, certain of the city's families are immensely wealthy and live in the style of oriental potentates and O"Cidental plutocrats, while for· eign residents are forced, for appear· ances' sake, to struggle along at a sim· liar pace. But such folk are a statistical handful. Fnlly three-fourths of the town's population lives and has its being and Is wholly happy on an income of around a dollar a day per person. In many cases this Income must cover the needs of an entire family. and some of Seville's families need much. But somehow there Is always enough left over for the menfolk to afford a few hours each evening with convivial friends in a favorite coffee shop, and to secure a seat "in the sun" at the Sunday bullfight; and for the numerous children to purchase penny sweets, as occasion demands, f1·om the howl· ing huckster who passes the door each morning, accompanied by a congenial donkey laden with sticky lusciousness; and for the women of the family to have a new Imitation tortoise-shell comb, a cobwebby lace mantilla, and a holeless pair of silk sto~kings-thls last because the weaving of silk hos· lery has In recent years become one of Spain's leading manufactm·lng industries. The people of Seville blend past and present In their dress and in many of their customs. The high Spanish comb and lace mantilla of olden times are still worn here, perhaps more generally than In any other city of Spain. But the comb Is more often than not perched precariously In modernly bobbed hair, while the mantilla cov~ ers a beautiful head filled with decid· edly up-to-date feminine thoughts and ideas. Racially, the people owe much to the Moorish residence In southern Spain. Brilliant black and brown eyes and complexions ranging from darkest sepia to the most delicate of creamy textures are strangely reminiscent of long generations of ancestors who dwelt beneath the Sahara sun. Intermingled with this great majority, however, one finds Increasingly large perrentage of' the hlne eyes and light hair of more Anglo-Saxon communities. Olives and Cork. Seville Is an industrious city. 1\lany of the city's activities re\·olve about the production and shipment of pickled olives nod various grades of olive oil, for It is the central point of distribution for the richest olive-producing area In the world. There is an ancient local saying that the only genuine queen olives produced on earth are grown within seeing distance of the Giralda tower, the soli and climate of this region being particularly well suited to the full maturing of this class Qf the fruit. Much of the cork Insulation found In our modern electrical refrigerators and many of the cork disks In the metal caps of ginger ale-and otherbottles were shipped from the port of Seville. The world acknowledges no wrought !ron more artistic than that fashioned by the gypsy famliles of Triana. Seville's industries, however, are not permitted to Interfere too radically with her moments of rest and relaxation. Every co!Tee shop ('and there are scores of them in Seville) Is a noisy stumping ground, humanitychoked, from early in the afternoon until long after midnight. Indeed, one may pass at any time during the day or night and see gestleulatlng knots of men crowded about cup-cluttered tablei, talldng, talkin~. sensational in its possibilities. came up for discussion at the annual conference of the British 1\Iedical association. Sir 1\Ialcolm Watson called attention to the likelihood. almo!:'t the certainty, of "aircraft carrying yellow fe.,.er from West to East Af· rica.'' If that happened, he claimed, there was nothing to prevent It from spreading to Asia, from completely paralyzing Itself. Other physicians at the conference undertook to show how airplanes might be the means of "propagating plague, cholera, smallpox and typhus." And Sir Geor~.re Buchanan stated that, as there was a possibility of aircraft t'ntroduelng new types of influenza and cerebrospinal meningitis into England, the subject was engaging the attention of both the air ministry and the ministry of health. For himself he regarded It as "an impot·tant matter requiring measures In the yellow fever zones to prevent the spread of the disease.'' Almost simultaneously with these deliverances, though without an:v sort of connection with them, came an article In the London Times setting forth facts regarding the transmission of cholera over the world after its appearance at Calcutta In 1817, and asserting thr.t by 1831 It had become certain that no country was secure against the inroads of the disease. Appf'a ring success! vely at Bombay and ~larlras, it reached Ceylon in 1819 and spread thence and from India over eastern Asia and th•~ Islands of the Indian ocean. By lS~'l Syria was reached and Europe threatened. It disappeared from Turkey, but begun to pu!=:h north and west again after ravaging Persia and U1e lands south of the caucasus. In Russia more than ~30,000 human beings died as the result, In Cairo and Alexandria 30,000 were swept away In 24 days. And the alarm in Great Britain "incrensed enormously" In June, 1831, when Londoners received the news that the chol~ra had reached Uiga, where "700 or 800 sail of English vessels, loaded chiefly with hemp and flax," were waiting to come to ll:ngland. It was then, after an order had been Issued for the quaran•.!ning of all ships from the Baltic, that "the plague established \tself In England for the first time." Yet all through that period, beginning with 1817, there were none of our modern airplanes In existence, and no possibility of the cholera being carried by them. Are they In any way specially fitted for the conveyance of contagious diseases, for stimulating to special precautions, and for thus alarming the world? lltust It not be assumed that there is a like risk in the to-and-fro trips of our oeean stea mcrs and sail in~ vessels that have been so long connecting the continf.'nt~. the latter for many centuries past? Introduced disease, whether imported by airplane or steamer, Is dangerous In any case. The call is to pren>nt such im(lortation so far as that can be done, but especla lly to continue the fi~ht against disease In ull the countriPs which are affected or serve as its breeding ground, so that there will he as little as possible of it to export. And this Is the tasl( at which the srientif\ts and the plly::;icians are working In their campaig-n a~ainst that enemy of man, the poison microbe. Sole Voter Leave• Precinct The city of !'\ ew Yorlt wi 11 !'a ,.e S400 next primary election day, four men will be out of work an1l Manhattan will be minus one electinn dis· trict, hecause George Schrader has moved. 1\Ir. Schrader for two years has enjoyed the distinction of heing the only voter in the Thirty-eighth election district. You can't talk L bachelor out of his time-tried though often eccentric ways of enjoying hir·self. Do you choose your friends or do they choose you? 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I have sometimes had the fePiinq when I was applyin.~ an nntlseptk solution to my lacerated arms and hands that roses shouldn't be allowed at large, but that their cultivation !<houlr1 be wholly witllin g-uarded bounflaries where they coulrl do no harm. Ani! yet, a rose In bloom Is-a rose In hloom! An<l as long as su1·h blooms nre produced It seems hi~hly pi·ohahle that we'll eTHiure the 1horns. "In horticulture ro~e thorn~ are men ac ing: In literature they are monitory. :\[any of thP classlrists. for many a century. have recorclecl tho • c1isco\'PI'y-whic h has heen made hy so many other people-that there Is no ro~e without a !horn; and th<>n. with their u~ual ignorinq of facts. the metaphorists talk of rose-:;trewn paths as the wnyR of delight. anfl beds of ros('~ a~ ronchf'S of luxurion~ !"Omfort. Fellow amateur. who ha~ done some of his own rose pruning, would you like to walk along a rMe-strewn 11a th or Iii' on a he1l of rosps? You needn't answer. I'll answer for you. 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