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Show i 1 i t FREE PRESS, LEHI, UTAH LEH1 T THAMES TELIj r i f '1 -- .I Hay Fever ITS TALE V -- 'A 1 Is No Longer Such WHO'S NEWS a Mystery to Medical Science Test Can Now Skin Sensitization i THIS WEEK... Find What ?TTYTYYYf Allenjv Is Troubling You 4 r. Sniffle, Ha - ha - ha - V.'ISH - cccc: sniffle, wheeze Rib be a happklii.T, quig! Hey, hey, it's JL V. the good old summer time and the hay fever season is In a patch of ragweed; what a open. place for a hay fever victim! "Why, oh, why, do I have to go throurh this every year?"is across one in the street one day he the wail of the hav fever sufferer, and well it might be for there it closely to examine n Is hardly an affliction so relentless in its unwelcome annual visits. apmoached .he queer animal at length. He be-ija- The onswer to the victim's cry Ih.i Hi inn ni" - -- - t.- -. Weighing a Shipment of Elephant Tusks on a London Wharf. i 1 hi From Every Corner of the Earth Come Ships That Ply This River I'rrparf-- i hy Naliima! I). C Wi.liii;;i.,n, lrof?tailiic Society, W KV Srrvicc. makes THAMES traffic world's foremost river port. Since Roman galley days when Britons traded grain, slaves, and dogskin for European salt and horse collars commerce has flowed between London and the continen- tal countries along the Schelde, the Rhine and the Elbe. After Drake nerved England to smash the Spanish Armada, London ships gained in time the lion's trade. share of ocean-born- e Names immortal in discovery and conquest are linked with this water front. From here Frobishcr went seeking the Northwest passage, and Hawkins to Puerto Rico and Vera Cruz; from here Lancaster made his voyages to the East, before the downfall of Portugal and the rise of the British East India company. Raleigh sailed from here to explore the Orinoco, to popularize tobacco and, tradition says, to start the Irish planting potatoes. It was London's daring money which sent Sebastian Cabot to found the Russia company, opening trade with that land. London merchants and skippers promoted the Turkey, African, Virginia and Hudson's Bay companies. London emigrants helped colonize in the Americas, in Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Africa and the rich islands of the sea. English Spread From Here. From this water front went the English language. In Drake's day only a few millions spoke it. Now it is a world tongue. Of all letters, telegrams, books and papers printed now, it is estimated that 70 per cent are in English. London alone uses enough newsprint every day to cover a ranch of 9,350 acres or nearly 15 square miles of paper. "The smell from that big paper mill at Bayswater is one of the marks I steer by on foggy nights," a Thames pilot will tell you. Exploration of London's crowded docks reveals not only what amazing piles of food a great city can normally eat, but also what odd items, from live bats to rhino horns, are mixed in the life stream of world commerce. Imponderable, in variety and magnitude, are these fruits of man's barter. Here, too, his work ranges from rat catching and opium sampling to dredging the Thames and handUng annual cargo enough to fill a ro?d with loaded trucks from the Yukc to Patagonia. To ay that every day some 500 craft, big and little, pass through the Thames mouth tells only half the story. More significant is what happens on the docks. Commission Ends Confusion. Even London people themselves don't dream what incredible activity is here. Few ever see it. Confusion on this crowded river, in days gone, grew so intense that waiting boats often lay unloaded for weeks; goods were piled in disorder on banks, and pilfering was enormous. One river bandit stole almost a whole shipload of sugar! To combat this chaos the West India merchants built their own fortlike docks. With more trade came more wars and docks, and more other confusion. This ended in 1909 when the Port of London authority, a Royal commission, took full control under act of parliament. It paid 23,000,000 pounds for privately owned London docks, spent millions more to make the lower r Thames the world's longest channel and to enlarge and cargo - handling facilities. It has dredged mud enough out of the Thames to build a Chinese Wall, and has constructed the world's most extensive dock system. One of its cranes, the "London Mammoth," lifts 150 tons! Finally, with characteristic British financial genius, it sold its debentures on the stock exchange, and now its operations usually pay all costs and interest and leave a profit which is used for more improvements. Giant Docks and Yard. The PLA is not in trade. It is merely custodian of merchandise fhat may range from wild animals Xor the zoo to a shipload of molasses river toll-rat- e deep-wate- re-equ- ip from which to distill fuel alcohol. It weighs good:;, reports on their quality and condition; it opens bales and boxes for customs inspection, furnishes samples for buyers, and looks after repacking and loading for those who ship from London to other ports. On the north bank of the Thames, scattered for miles downstream from the Tower, stand these great PLA docks: London, St. Katharine, East and West India, Millwall, Victoria and Albert, King George V, and the Tilbury. On the south bank, near London's heart, are ancient Surrey Commercial docks, with a lumberyard that covers 150 acres! Besides the railways and truck lines that tie these docks to the outlying kingdom, some 9,000 Thames barges handle goods to and from ships' sides. Each dock has its own character. St. Katharine docks are built on the site of the old Church of St. Katharine by the Tower, founded by Queen Matilda in 1148. What heterogeneous goods they store: wool, skins, wines, spices, sugar, rubber, balata, tallow, ivory, barks, gums, drugs, coffee, iodine, hemp, quicksilver, canned fruits and fish, coir yarn, coconuts, and brandy 1 Navy at One Dock. West India and Millwall docks lie in a river peninsula known as the Isle of Dogs. Here the passer-b- y may smell 12,000 puncheons of rum, a million tons of sugar and shiploads of dates. Victoria and Albert and King George V docks form one huge structure, the world's largest sheet of enclosed dock water. Often 40 or 50 ships equal to a good-size- d navy tie up here at one time. Tilbury is the first dock one sees when sailing up the Thames. Its long landing stage forms a homeland gateway for people from Australia, New Zealand, India, China and other eastern countries who land or embark here. Fast trains of the London, Midland and Scottish railway touch the dock's edge and whisk passengers away to all parts of the kingdom. In the city, PLA has still more warehouses. At its Butler street building are 70 rooms full of oriental carpets enough to cover a farm of 120 acres! People buy most carpets in June, for wedding presents, you are told. There are electric ovens, too, for conditioning raw silk, a mountain of Havana cigars and leaf tobacco 0 enough to last one man, say, years! Here is a furtive horde of lean black cats, to help out the official human rat catchers. Musty wine vaults use 28 miles of underground track on which to roll barrels that hold the 12,000,000 gallons of wine brought to London each year. This is the world's ivory and tooth market. It takes 16,000,000 artificial teeth from the United States every year and some 2,000 elephant tusks from Africa and Asia. Not many tusks ere from newly slain elephants. Most of them come from mudholes, left by animals long from mudholes, left by animals. Tea for Iondoncrs. Wool was England's chief export in the Middle ages. Today it is one of London's main imports. It takes the fleeces from about fifty million sheep to meet London's annual demands! Tea trade has centered here for 300 years. In Mincing Lane you can see brokers bidding on lots which have been expertly sampled by TLA's own teatasters. When they "bulk" tea, or mix it, on some warehouse floors you may see it heaped up in mounds higher then men's heads. Think of all the "liquid history" that has boon packed into this ancient water front since Roman s traded here; since Danes and Vikmgs came to plunder; since the great companies of merchant adventurers launched their tiny sh;ps for daring trade and colonizing far over then sons. Think of the (50.000 ships a year that now form smoke lanes from London to every nook of the world where goods can be bought or sold and you begin to see why this stretch of "London River" is, incomparably, the world's busiest 500,-00- pal-ley- little-know- water front n is in the air, probably the pollen from a r.lant or weed. What, particular whether its plant it is pollen rides the air waves in May, Juno, July or September. Time used to be that hay fever victims, when they began to sneeze, their eyes started to water and ti.e'r ror.es to sniffle, simply had to paek up, leave home and make for the North Woods or the resorts at Charlevoix and Mackinac island in Michigan where the air is comparatively free from dust and pollen. While this made an excellent excuse for a vacation it was a considerable expense and often a great inconvenience. Fortunately today medical science has made such strides that hay fever can now be treated with a pretty fair degree of success right at home. The big task is to find out what type of pollen is causing each individual case. To do this doctors may have to be expert detectives, for many different individ-Oal- s are allergic to different things. Results of Allergy. All of us are allergic to something or other, whether it be a certain type of food, the hair of a certain animal, feathers from pillows, some types of dust, or even smoke. But only about one person in ten is allergic to such a degree that he is uncomfortable. By allergic we mean, in a free sense, that we are unusually sensi tive to something. A high degree of allergy to some of the things mentioned in the foregoing paragraph may result in any one or combination of a number of afflictions eczema, hives, "colds," hay fever, headache, diarrhea and other ailments. Hay fever symptoms spring from hives which occur in the nose, sinuses and eyes, causing sneezing and itching. If they were to occur in the lungs, causing spasmodic contraction of the bronchial tubes and coughing, they would produce asthma. When hay fever occurs the pollen to which the victim is allergic enters the nasal ducts, inflaming them; the poison passes to the throat and bronchial tubes, and finally to the ends of the bronchial tracts, where swelling occurs. The hay fever victim need not even be living in the neighborhood of the plants whose pollen are at the bottom of his grief. To follow a hypothetical case, let us say a patch of ragweeds was blossoming in a vacant lot of some city. A high wind came, spiriting away the seeds, lifting them up over the city and carrying them a hundred or even two hundred miles from the place they grew. At last as the wind dies they settle down, unhappily, right before an unfortunate soul who is allergic to ragweed pollen without ever having discovered it. lie breathes them into his nose thousands of them, for it would take 50,000 to cover the head of a pin. Test Skin With Tollen. Soon his nasal duct is inflamed and he begins to sneeze. Then the poison passes down through his throat and bronchial tubes and "WW."! x ,(n i .1 ,t allereic is to ragweed pollen. to the doctor prote-t- s to choke up and there was a severe excretion of fluid from the h.r.gs. Now he had played with cm$ at times, and he owned a little fox terrier, but none of v r.ce had ever alfectcJ him so. It ki-- t turned out that he was allergic H that he has not boon near any ragweed need not confute us, for we know how ti e pollen pot to him. The doctor t:::'ia:ns it to liim, too. Now the doctor orders injections of tiie proper type of pollen vaccine ir.'.o the blood. Next year, now that the patient's allergy is known, he will be given minute, but increasing doses of the injection, starting in February and continuing for a few weeks until it is thought he should be immune when the season comes. It does not always work out that way, and sometimes daily injections during the season itself do not help. Different pollens do their dastardly work at different times of the year to i. r. e hair. Actually, now that skin sensitization tests are common, it has been found that many supposed hay fever sufferers did not have hay fever, Lut were allergic to their own aller-ci- c dug or cat. You can even be to cigarette smoke. There is on record the case of a woman who was sensitive to that kind of smoke. Her husband smoked a pipe; when she played bridge at the home of friends who smoked cigarettes she would begin to sniffle and appear to have a cold. The doctor found what in different sections. In the eastern was troubling her and treated her and central states, for instance, for it. Now her companions could June grass causes trouble around smoke corn silk without bothering the beginning of that month; in her. Seasonal asthma is frequently early July it is Timothy hay. late swelling occurs. His eyes redden. his nose itches "where he can't get at it to scratch it," and he begins to sninic constantly. Perhaps our fnord thinks ho has a cold. Cut the. doctor says, "Hay fever," and tells him he had better find cut what type of pollen is causing the trouble. The customary procedure is for the doctor to he: in ir.a.h.: g sk:M sensitization tests. Little Fciv.Mies are made on the nrm, and into each of those scratch.es one drop of pollen solution is placed; a ddTricnt type if pollen is used on each scratch. The sufferer is anergic to the type of pollen placed in any scratch whi.di reddens end swells. We'll soy our hypothetical victim Trans-Jordani- a. it. Since the death of his brothers, Feisal and Ali, he has been a unifying power in the three Arab states of Hejaz and Iraq, comprising many millions of Arabs. He also is a powerful leader of the movement, started by o old Sultan Abdul Hamid, II, years ago. He is the Abdullah of Lawrence's "Revolt in the Desert," campaigning brilliantly against the Turks, and then finding Winston ChurchiD and Sir Herbert Samuel long on promises and short on fulfillment historic recreance which caused Lawrence bitterly to reject royal favor and hide himself away as "Aircraftsman Shaw." The Emir, too, was embittered, but he is a realist. He knows the power of England and scrupulously r maintains the synthetic status quo. England, of course, has a tremendous political stake in Islam as a buffer to Ind;a, but there are even more tangible factors I which the Emir weighs and praises and cannily uses. Those three Arab states have cotton, rub-- ; ber, tobacco, mineral and oil lands and developments which have sup-- j plied the Emir with an ace card in dealing with European nations, He has been deliberately hostile and resistant to Mussolini and Italy's radio blast across 1,000 miles of desert. "I wish I could be the first Arab to enlist to defend Ethiopia," he said when II Duce started his African adventure. England pulls the strings for all three Arab states and none has complete autonomy. The Emir is reconciled. He says wise men com-- ! promise until they caa command. He is of medium stature, with a neat goatee, restless, searching black eyes and strong white teeth a man of culture and charm. silk He wears a dagger robe, with a hung from his waist. Sometimes he wears the "kuffich" or white veil sometimes the traditional (and sheik's head dress. Next to the picture of his father, the ing old King Hussein, hangs a ture of a particularly ferocious ben- -' gal tiger. "I like to keep them together." he says. "They look so much alike." Trans-Jordani- a, ic fifty-tw- 'A 1 hi i post-wa- -j ap-- r- - f - 1 -- Awl fv I ' I I I I . rvtfr T: L V "x " r 1 ' Here are what the pollens which make hay fever sufferers sneeze and sniffle look like. The models (magnified 3,500 times) which the young lady is holding are, left to right: Timothy hay, short ragweed, bunveed", marsh elder and coitonwood. the following month the giant ragweed and as September starts it is the small or common ragweed. caused by house dust which mixes more actively through the air at the time of the year when the radiators are turned on for the first time. June flies cause asthma in the area about the Great Lakes; elsewhere butterflies or other insects could provoke it; so can certain foods, such as berries, aspara- or muskmelon. Almost any-- 1 t one knows somebody who simniv When Suffering Begins. How severe a victim's symptoms are depends upon the amount of pollen that is filling the air he breathes as well as iron his susceptibility. The amount of pol'e.i is likely to vary from day to day. It will be stirred up more, of course, when there is a good brcere, and it will tend to settle on a calm day. In some states at the height, of the season it is not unusual to find 1,000 to 2,000 grains of pollen to the cubic yard of air. Pollen thins out in can't eat strawberries without getting the hives. When a person begins to have regular attacks of asthma at a certain tinie of day or night, the doctor is likely to examine every article with which the victim regularly comes higher atmospheres, but aviators in contact at that time. If' ocfind a it tests can seicntihe making cur at night, it might be thethey feathmile above the earth. ers the pillow, the hair in the It is when the air contains a pol- bed inmattress or the wool in the len count of 25 to the cubic yard blankets. that the hay fever victim begins to Boys Hate Haircuts, Anyway. suffer, so you can imagine his mis-cr- y when the count reaches 2,000! Sometimes the doctor has to be a According to medical scientists, nudity clover detective to find em, however. There is the case you should net sit next to r.n open window on a train if you would of a small boy who had an attack every few weeks. After avoid hay fever, although cars are nil rirht, for the much observation it was found that pollen is filtered from the air in i'i a general way the attacks to the time of his them. Nasal sprays will protect the to the barber. nose in soi'-treasure from attack, It was found that he was allcr-- c and a little wlvte vaseline around to h,nir-- not to his own of !i;e nostrils will keep the opcim-hair, or seme of the pollen from getting in. the b.v.r of anyone in his famiiv. but iair of anyone with whom he Victims will hr.d themselves more as comfortable in a dark room where Tl: 0 iif'roit News there are no drafts. reports the case of a v'or in that city who suffered Although t;n persons in one f: tverv Sunday. Ho dred s.a'Ter to decree because r 'v :.". y discovered that he was al- u a'h are of ore these !( r; only they 10 ten, oil an nve ""day r.cw;prpcrs! No ;e, has hay fever, Various ail vv. y victims suffer in kl Id s;". lie was sensitive t ta.n vrf.ieh the various inks various w; s. r,.,vr forth; because of the much to Hair Horse Sei'ihe purer on Surxhy. ho sr.ont Take the case of the city chdM s:t deal more tirse with ii. To who was accustomed cnourh to '."' ' paper did not have cnou-- h thousands of automobiles in his to affect him hnt tl, c,..,.-- i daily life, but seldom, if ever, laid on did. eyes on a horse. Finally coming Western Newspaper Union. asth-rr:,t- ;c st g Trans-Jordani- a Pan-Islam- 1 Aerial surveys, conducted thou-tethe air for sands of feet up, hay fever pollen. 11 VTVTTrrfTTuiT? Emir XT EW YORK. At the entrance to the main reception chamber of the palace of Emir Abdullah or is a Cone? hiaiMj mirror. A visitor, salaaming to royalty, perhaps with constraint and sees his person wildly and ridiculously distorted. The Emir smiles and puts his guest at ease. He explains that this is rr.ere'y his way of breaking stilted routine and getting on a basis of friendly understanding. Rollicking old Gomez, late dictator of Venezuela, usod to play jokes on important visitors but he was just mischievous, while the Emir is philosophical. Ruler of the nearest pure Arab state to Palestine, the Emir approves Britain's tri partite division, with the Arab section added to his' From his palace window, he looks out across the desert to the mountains of Moab, where Moses surveyed the Promised Land. It's a long view back into the ceih turies, and it seems to induce in the Emir both disillusionment and patience. His attitude is important, in the political backwash of the British cabinet's sudden decision, and it seems quite probable that they sounded him out before announcing Fun-Lovin- Cy WILLIAM C. UTLEY that he is a!lor?ic to something Lemuel F. Parton By x 4 ' ULl 1 i peri-v-s'- ls e gold-sheath- -' hard-fight- Victorian Idol. THE turn of the centrry. Mrs. ATPatrick Campbell was described by interviewers as "haughty and still " At seventy-two- , playing, she is disclosed as genial, humorous and friendly. Lyric legends of the theater crowd in as she rehearses for a revival of "T h e Thirteenth Chair," at Milford. Conn. n idol cf two The world-weary.- Late-Victoria- continents, sharing Olympus with Duse and Bernhardt, she has been on the stage for more than lUty i doyears. She was Beatrice btcua merner, the daughter of a London chant. She played Shaw, Pincro, Barrie, Wilde, Ibsen and Maeterlinck and some of these dramatists wrote plays for her. Broadway remembers her best as Eliza in Shaw's "Pygmalion." Her first husband. Major (icorge Cornwallis West, died in the Uocr war and her son, Allan, in the World war. She was in the iilm'j from 1934 to 193G, departing wutt the remark that no longer would she "jackanapes in Hollywood. be a j j hun-om- c -- : cer-cuom- t j tu-.- . Censor of Burlesque. Sam A. Scribner, New York's no v bur- - seventy-eight-ycar-ol- censor d nnn Hrnmntienllv tei.nn.-- i of 1'CSlS.eJ ho vv.'lS a la .it Vlion .. Carnie's seminary in Clarion, l a., . r(n . r.rcP in . . - .....j,. music teacher rapped his s knuckles, tor playing stead cf scales. He furred toe svv." . teacher with a a himscf and walked out and got Job m a blacksmmi sz.op. 1 Then he joined a small eircu later bought a sm all Pittsburgh his cl'.op.-'ticu- rounJ-hou.-- booking oi'iice. e V Consolidated News Feature!. UNU Service. |