TIMELY TOPICS

Northern Advocate, 12 October 1934, Page 4

TIMELY TOPICS

“OUR CHOICE TODAY.”

Professor Zimmern writes as follows in the “Contemporary Review”: —Our choice today is between a collective Treaty with a guarantee and no collective Treaty at all. And a collective Treaty even in this form does present a number of solid advantages, It maintains our contact both with the Dominions and the United States. It ensures us, as a result of President Roosevelt’s declaration last year, against the danger of a conflict between the two chief sea Powers. It puts an end to competition in armaments and cuts at the root of that struggle for power which, if unchecked, must sooner or later involve Europe in a new war. It brings home, not only to our own people but to the peoples of Europe, who still have an exaggerated belief in the power of armies, the over-riding importance of sea-power in an industrialised civilisation. Above all, it marks the victory of political principle over opportunism, and so prepares the way for those organic pro- i cesses of co-operation from which alone can spring the mutual understanding and good will which rightly remain the ultimate goal of our foreign policy.

MISTAKEN IDEAS ABOUT SUNBATHING.

“We have quite mistaken ideas about what benefits us in sun-bath-ing. We think it is only the ultraviolet rays, and that these can only be had when we lie in the flame of the sun. But the sun has three kinds of rays, all beneficial to man. First the infra-red or heat-rays, which are invisible. They go down through epidermis to the blood-vessels in the dermis. Next, the red or luminous or visible rays of light. They go right down to the muscles below the dermis, and their light, absorbed, turns into heat. Last come the much shorter waves, the invisible ultraviolet ones which sunburn or tan. They act chemically on the epidermis, but very few indeed reach the blood vessels or nerves in the true skin beneath. It is the dark - heat rays and the ordinary light rays which do that, and increase, to our great betterment, the flow of warm blood and lymph through the skin and the whole body.”—“Medicus,” B.Sc„ M.8.C.M., a practical volume for the layman, entitled “Know Thy Body—the Wonders Within Us."

WORDS OF WISDOM. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainb'ow, or with taperlight To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish. Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. — Shakespeare. <j> 's> <s* TALE OF THE DAY. Tenant, paying arrears of rent: Well, I’m square now. Landlord: Yes, but I hope you’ll be round again next week.