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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane Fly, Only When Birds Fly Shall the Idle Hibernate? ' In India and in Iowa Much About Cats An Interesting load of Americans Ameri-cans sailed on the Bremen recently. recent-ly. Chief Engineer Kettering of General Motors, discussing flying accidents, said: "Men should fly only when the birds fly. They have been fly-in fly-in lor many millions of years, and know.. They do not fly at night, or in a fog, or in a very heavy wind any longer than it take-them take-them to land and stop flying." Discover of insulin, marvelous remedy for diabetes, becomes more important and marvelous in view of recent scientific suggestions. A learned Briton says tha-insulin tha-insulin would enable the unemployed unem-ployed to hibernate as the ground hog, bear and other animals d in the winter, curling up, takin" in barely enough oxygen to keep the heart going and eating nothing. noth-ing. Interesting solution of the unemployment and dole problem perhaps. But the thought of five or six million workers and their familie;-curled familie;-curled up in the dark, all winter is, unpleasant. India's natives, under British law, must submit to moderr. methods of fighting the plague. They do not like this and figh against it, insisting on their right to swim in the "Holy Ganges" River, although corpses of those dead of the plague may be floating float-ing upon it. Iowa's State law compels test ing cattle to make sure that the; are not tubercular, a good ide? since children get consumption from the milk of tubercular cow-But cow-But it seems a bad idea to some Iowa farmers and it has ber-i necessary to call out the militia to protect those that have bee:-sent bee:-sent on to test the cattle. Societies for prevention of cruelty cruel-ty to animals are worried now about suffering cats. Because o the depression, many more than usual have been turned adrift t' shift for themselves, their owners moving and "neglecting the family fam-ily pet." The "cruelty pociety' should worry wor-ry also about the birds, upon which cats, turned loose, or running run-ning wild from birth, prey mas' successfully. Friends of cats and of birds wii" learn much from a pamphlet c-cats c-cats recently published by th State of Massachusetts. There are about twenty-fir. million cats at large in the ficlcr and woods of this country. They destroy, on an average, from ti-to ti-to twelve birds each day. Those birds, if spared would each kil . thousands of harmful insects ev ery day And the plague of insect in-sect pests, cut worms, grasshep pers, weevils, potato bugs, etc. that torment the farmer, would be less dangerous if it were not for the twenty-five million cat; that make a living killing birds, and eating young birds in th nests. The cat's history, often written is one of strange ups and down--, worshipped a a god, in India, th cat in various European cc-untria, France, Germany, England, was tortured, each year, on certain feast days, and in Scotland, impaled im-paled on a spit and roasted. In a great fire, in ancienl Egypt, the cat worshippers neglected neg-lected the burning buildings, to save their holy cats. One cleve warrior fighting against the Egyp tians caused his soldiers to hole cats in their arms, as they ad vanced. The Egyptian soldier.' would not. shoot at them, for fea,-of fea,-of hitting the cats. Also, be it remembered, cats carry diseases from one child tc another, so that intelligent doctors doc-tors forbid the presence of a cat in any sick room. The farmer . who keeps ten 01 twelve cats, to kill the rats in his barn and corn crib, instead o using scientific rat-procfing methods, meth-ods, keeps an army to destroy what would protect him. He cuts down - the value of his farm. Cats do their bird killing a! night, and are not seen. They cannot be cured of the habh which is inborn, and they shoul-be shoul-be treated kindly. Those with modest incomes enough to live simply should have in mind the possibilities of California. Cali-fornia. This is said with thorough thor-ough knowledgs of the attractions and opportunities of older territory in which the writer lives. A; present in California you can buy chickens for sixty-five cents a-piece a-piece not sixty-five cents s pound you buy turkeys for two dollars and fifty cents each and fruit for so little you can hardly believe it. For instance, a half bushel of oranges f or twenty- five- cents. Eggs are cheap, 'iou can live aU year round withou; heating your house. Rents are low, but don't go to California looking for work. Go only if you can take enough money with you to live decently. Japan admires the League of Nations, theoretically, but in matters mat-ters affecting Japan, that country cares as little about advice or direction di-rection from the League as does Mussolini himself. League authorities are told that shooting Chinese and capturing a Chinese city by Japanese soldiers is a little matter with which they need not interfere. A Chinese-Japanese Chinese-Japanese commission will attend to it. It is charming to see Japan, politely po-litely drawing in her breath wit! Oriental politeness, saying to th League of Nations: "You attend to your business and I shall attend to mine." The Nanking government gives an exhibition of faith by invokins; the Kellogg peace pact against the Japanese army. |