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EDITORIAL 
THE MENACE OF RELIGION IN GOVERNMENT 
T
HOSE fire-brand communal jour-
nals, daily and weekly publica-
tions, that seem to be dedicated to the 
cause of hatred, strife and violence 
and all their devastating works, 
constitute a tremendous obstacle to 
progress toward a peaceful and stable 
government in India and Pakistan, and 
are a real menace to these countries. 
Formerly their ranting was directed 
toward a foreign government which 
they asserted held them in slavery, and 
which was the cause of all of India's 
ills. But now that they continue their 
evil agitations under the new govern-
ments it becomes apparent that it is 
not any government as such that is the 
cause of their grievances, but rather 
that which is within themselves. 
The attitude of insubordination and 
disloyalty toward former authority that 
was characteristic in past years is 
carried over into the present and 
continues to be a menace to peace and 
tranquillity under the new regime. 
Without loyalty and voluntary submis-
sion by citizens to the government 
powers that have recently come into 
being in India and Pakistan, tranquillity 
and prosperity can never be regained. 
A tremendous amount of space, it 
seems to us, is devoted in these com-
munal publications to lauding and 
extolling the religion, culture, achieve-
ments and general virtues of the com-
munity they represent, and to boasting 
of the wonderful influence the com-
munity with its religion and culture 
will exert on the world. But unless 
the citizens of India and Pakistan can 
learn to practise a little self-control 
and implement at home a little of the 
superior philosophy of human life that 
they claim to possess, their grandiose 
and infantile boasting can draw upon 
them only patronizing pity from an 
onlooking world. 
Eighty-five or ninety per cent of the 
populations of these countries are 
illiterate and ignorant. They are 
poorly housed and half-starved. They 
know nothing of government and care 
less unless stirred np by evil-minded 
demagogues. They are easily influ-
enced to be law abiding and docile, 
but equally easily stirred to discontent 
and violence. We would therefore feel 
that it is not the masses that are chiefly 
responsible for the horrible outrages, 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, JANUARY 1948 
the arson, the murder, the plundering who, deprived of such freedom, would 
that have devastated certain sections of fight like wild tigers to defend their 
these countries in recent months, but religion, and who could be suppressed 
rather disloyal traitors, lustful for only by overpowering and bestial 
power and authority, in order to brutality as is being done in certain 
promote their own personal interests. unhappy countries even today. 
And since communal publications �
Religious compulsion and intoler- 
supply much of the incendiary mate- ance cannot generate the loyalty that 
rials used by such traitors, we would is strength to a government. All 
humbly suggest that such public-- citizens of a State are in duty bound 
tions would do well to refrain to be loyal, and while they are law 
from publishing material that tends abiding, regardless of religious allegi-
to exalt the religion, culture, and gen- ance, they are entitled to equal rights, 
eral virtues of one community while privileges and benefits conferred by 
disparaging and abusing those of the State. 
others. This, we are aware, would 
Non-citizens, while claiming the 
entail the sacrifice of some gratification 
protection
. of the State, and enjoying 
of human vanity, but would be an act 
certain benefits, while remaining loyal 
of loyalty in the interests of peace. If 
to their mother country, are in duty 
the religion and culture of the com- 
bound to submit to the laws of the 
munity really be so superior, it will 
country that is their host, and must 
not be necessary to arouse the resent- refrain from all subversive acts that 
ment and ill-feeling of other corn- 
would in any way injure the govern- 
munities by boasting about them, for 
ment, and their host must not deprive 
the results of such religion and culture 
them of thei
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right to worship ot not 
will be the only worthwhile and 
to worship according to choice. They 
effective testimony. "By their fruits 
who cannot or will not render such 
ye shall know them." 
respect to the laws of the country in 
It is regrettable that some men who which they are aliens should not 
have attained to positions of influence sojourn there but return to their own 
and power are agitating for theocratic native land. Only those despicable 
forms of government in India and beings with characters like rats can 
Pakistan. Religious feelings are ex- claim the protection of the State and 
tremely deep seated in the human soul, at the same time be disloyal and 
and simply cannot be controlled by, treacherous. 
civil governments. Attempts to control 
the practice of religion by civil force �
There are delicate situations that 
have resulted in violent hatred, brutality, need to be adjusted and which will 
and bestial crimes that are a disgrace require more than human wisdom in 
to civilization. Such attempts violate order to be settled without bringing on 
and infringe man's most sacred rights. disaster. There are Indians ih Pakis-
Probably the violation of no other tan, loyal to India; there are Muslims 
right so quickly and so violently arouses 
in India, loyal to Pakistan. No doubt 
resentment and hatred, especially there are Muslims in India who will 
among the people of India and choose to reinain as citizens of India, 
Pakistan, who, generally speaking, are and Indians in Pakistan who will 
an intensely religious people, even to choose to remain as citizens there. Can 
fanaticism. �
It would seem from such in any or all eventualities deport 
themselves according to the principles 
reports, that the majority of the des- 
tructive communal disturbances that outlined above? That is one real test 
have ravaged India had their Easis in of loyalty. 
 
religious feelings and practices; but �
Only frenzied hatred in the hearts 
we shudder to imagine what the of men can lead to such blood-curdling 
consequences would be if governments events as have befouled the land in 
should attempt to impose on all recent months. There is already too 
citizens forms and practices that would much hatred. Wherefore, let govern- 
be utterly loathsome and repulsive to ment leaders, however enthusiastic and 
many, who, given freedom to worship zealous they may be about the virtues 
according to conscience or choice, of their own religion, very earnestly 
would be loyal and useful citizens, but beware of employing one more cause 
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to engender more hatred by attempting 
to govern by religion. Let everyone 
in any position of responsibility com-
bat any and every process and influence 
by which hate is engendered. Hate is 
a destructive power which often turns 
on the hater. It is a virulent disease 
that spreads and kills, turns homes 
into rubble, plenty into destitution, 
light into darkness, life into misery and 
death. 
Man's social nature is such that when 
freedom of religion is taken away, all 
freedom perishes. There is no longer 
freedom of speech, no freedom from 
fear, and freedom from hunger and 
want is jeopardized. There are other 
causes for fear and want, but when 
people are deprived of freedom of 
religion the loss of other freedoms is 
certain to follow. The peculiar prob-
lems of India and Pakistan with their 
multitudes of races, cultures and re-
ligions, lends special emphasis to the 
need of religious freedom as an es-
sential factor in building these countries 
into reasonably prosperous and happy 
nations. 
With the coming into existence of 
these new nations and new govern-
ments, has come the power of position 
and office to many. Possession of 
power and of the instruments of power 
without a mature sense of responsi-
bility is a frightfully dangerous situa-
tion. While we call upon the common 
citizens to be loyal to the governments 
that be, we must also call on such 
governments to respect human nature 
and the fundamental rights of citizens 
and residents. Permission granted by 
a government to a foreigner to reside 
in the country and carry on his business 
or avocation according to law is a 
privilege, but not an inherent right. 
But freedom to worship or not to wor-
ship, is not a privilege,—it is the most 
fundamental of all human fundamental 
rights wherever human beings may be 
found as long as the forms of worship 
do not ihterfere with the personal wel-
fare or rights of others. If servants of 
government are to be instruments for 
the preservation of peace and welfare 
of the country they must have a mature 
sense of the responsibility of their 
office and refrain from attempts to 
employ the civil law to deprive their 
fellow citizens of the freedoms they 
claim for themselves. It is heartening 
to know that those larger souls who 
stand as captains of the Ship of State 
have voiced their determination to 
protect such rights, and we earnestly 
hope that the lesser but still very im-
portant leaders, whose personal incli-
nations and prejudices would lead them 
to do otherwise, will volunteer to 
sacrifice such inclinations and follow 
the greater leaders in this matter. 
4 
Ticks 
THE tick, a remote cousin of the 
spider, is no true insect. Ticks and 
spiders have eight legs, bona fide 
insects have only six, the legal limit 
set by science. The tick's extra pair 
of legs serves him well. When a tick 
senses an approaching meal, he hangs 
on to a low bush by his two hind legs 
and gropes hopefully with the other 
E;X. 
If animal or man brushes past 
the bush, the tick grabs on with all 
eight legs, and makes for the skin. 
Having attached himself, he bores in 
with his hard snout and begins to suck 
blood. 
Female ticks are deadlier than males. 
They gorge themselves to the bursting 
point and, if disease carriers, are just 
as dangerous to the tick-picker as to the 
victim whose blood they suck. The 
male is smaller, flatter, and less greedy. 
When he is sated, he noses around the 
host until he finds a feeding female, 
mates with her on the spot, and moves 
away to begin all over again. When 
the female is completely engorged, she 
drops off, finds herself a cranny in 
which to lay 5,000 eggs at a time, and 
begins the cycle once more. 
Age 
MOST doctors think that no human 
being can live to be much more than 
one hundred years old. They say that 
the ripest old age ever verified was that 
of a Canadian who lived to be 113. 
But according to Dr. V. G. Koren-
chevsky of Oxford University, an au-
thority on longevity, more and more 
people are approaching the Canadian's 
record. The percentage of centenari-
ans is rising faster than the population. 
Between 1938 and 1945 Britain had 
873 centenarians, a gain of 145 over 
the previous eight-year period. Women 
outnumber male centenarians five to 
one. Dr. Korenchevsky says that he 
exploded the idea that taking into the 
system certain hormones can rejuvenate 
the body and defer aging. Giving such 
hormones to an old person, he says, is 
like whipping a tired horse. It may 
lash him to a quick and fatal collapse. 
Soy Oil 
ARGENTINA is in danger of losing her 
annual North American market for 
linseed oil now that soy bean oil has 
been found equally good for paint and 
linoleum. 
Unmapped 
OF CANADA'S 3,695,000 square miles, 
only 5 per cent have ever been mapped 
in detail on an inch-per-mile scale. 
Enormous areas where there are rivers, 
lakes, and topographical contours, are 
marked only by dotted lines on the 
maps. But during the latter half of 
1947, aeroplanes carrying ample crews, 
equipped with cameras and thousands 
of feet of film, have been used to 
photograph 700,000 miles of hitherto 
uncharted Canada, the biggest picture 
job in the country's history. 
Slaves 
THE slave trade from Africa across 
the Red Sea into Arabia has recently 
taken a new lease on life, according to 
a recent survey made by the Swiss 
weekly, Pour bow. 
It reports that 
attractive young women bring from 
Rs. 390 to Rs. 520 and men up to 
Rs. 1,040. Most of the captives come 
from the Ivory Coast, the Cameroons, 
or the Gold Coast. The new activity 
in this nefarious trade is due, so it is 
said, to relaxation of British naval 
patrols in the Red Sea. 
Energy 
"In America," says News Chrericle, 
"it has now been proved conclusively 
that atomic energy for industrial pur-
poses can be produced at costs com-
parable to those of coal. This is start-
ling news, to say the least, for it may 
now be said with certainty that the world 
is on the threshold of a second indus-
trial revolution, the economic, social, 
and political consequences of which 
are unpredictable. We of this genera. 
tion may live 'to see our streets lighted, 
our factories and railways operated by 
the fabulous resources of atomic energy. 
Excavations 
EXCAVATIONS at the site of a new 
hydro-electric power plant in Azer-
baijan have uncovered a human 
skeleton measuring over seven feet. 
Bronze swords and urns also found in 
a vast burial ground are believed to 
date from the first century before 
Christ. One type of burial urn fea-
tured doubling up the body and 
placing it in an urn. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, JANUARY 1943 
Below: Princess 
Margaret's Gift to 
Her Sister—A 
Picnic Set. 
A Model of the Royal 
State Coach Used at 
the Royal Wedding. 
Above Is a Model of 
the Bride. 
w. N. P. S 
Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret With 
Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten Just Before the 
Royal Wedding. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN. JANUARY 1948 
King Frederik and Queen Ingrid of Denmark and Their Three Children. 
W. N. P. S. 
W. N. P. S. 
W. N. P. S. 
5 
SELF-APPOINTED DOCTORS 
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T
HE woman in the second scat on 
the right rubbed her aching 
temples. The swaying of the I,us did 
not help any. Across the aisle a well 
meaning passenger leaned over and 
whispered, "Headache?" 
The sufferer raised her eyes. "Oh, 
yes. I have them now and then, but 
this one, today ... it is driving me 
crazy!" The other woman smiled 
understandingly and opened her purse. 
She withdrew a tin of widely adver-
tised headache pills. 
"You just take two of these, and in 
a jiffy you'll never know you had a 
headache!" 
"Well ... I had intended to see a 
physician..." 
"Pah! Doctors! What do they 
know? Here." Her warm smile and 
convincing manner dispelled all doubt. 
The victim of pain swallowed the pills. 
Eight days later she was dead. 
Autopsy revealed the cause of death 
to be a ruptured blood vessel in the 
JAMES A. BRUSSEL 
brain due to a tumour that, if 
diagnosed early, could have been 
successfully removed by neuro-surgery. 
A war veteran was embarrassed and 
worried about his acute attack of 
gonorrhea. He avoided his local 
doctor for fear the neighbourhood 
would learn of his venereal . disease. 
Army experience had taught him that 
the sulfonamides were specific for such 
conditions. He purchased a supply at 
a chemist where sales took priority 
over questions. Within seventy-two 
hours he was hospitalized and 
physicians were working frantically to 
stave off death. Injudicious and un-
supervised self administration of the 
sulfa drug had damaged his kidneys. 
These are samples of the peculiar 
attitude of too many people that their 
physical disabilities can be helped by 
anyone but a physician. At the slight. 
est "miss" in the engine of his motor 
car, the average man will rush it to an 
expert mechanic and in panic-stricken 
tones plead for an immediate diagnosis 
and repair, regardless of price! The 
housewife, the keenest shopper in the 
world, will examine with microscopic 
scrutiny the latest dress she has 
purchased. Let one thread be broken, 
one seam a hundredth of an inch out 
of the way, and the gown is promptly 
returned. 
Sewing machines, electric food 
mixers, and other household gadgets 
are oiled and cleaned exactly "as the 
book says." Motor cars are lubri-
cated and have oil and spark plugs 
changed within one-tenth of the mile 
as dictated by the manual. Laundry, 
house-cleaning, cheque books and 
social obligations are not permitted to 
deviate by one hour ... but the human 
body, which cannot be exchanged for 
a new one and has few replaceable 
parts, is permitted to suffer neglect and 
want for expert care. 
A large part of this woeful self-neg-
lect is due to the myriads of patent 
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THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN. JANUARY 1948 
medicines bally-hooed by the current 
"barkers" in the press and on the 
air. Ingredients in many of these 
proprietary preparations might be 
helpful, some even specific, when ap-
propriately used. Others are harmless 
if taken once or twice, but with chronic 
usage become devastating poisons too 
often fatal. Nevertheless, the average 
person is lulled into a sense of false 
security by cleverly worded slogans. 
It is, says one manufacturer, "com-
pounded just as your own doctor 
would prescribe." No doctor has a 
panacea for headaches. Not when pain 
in the head, or cephalalgia as it is 
called, is too often a symptom of 
conditions that range from brain tum-
our and faulty vision to heart trouble, 
arthritis of the spine, and neuroses. 
Another advertiser cautiously adds at 
the end of the commercial a hurried 
and unaccented admonition that "if 
headaches persist, see your doctor." 
What is the definition of that word 
"persist"? Days, weeks, months, or 
years? How long should the victim 
of high blood pressure give the remedy 
to eradicate her pounding headache 
before seeking medical aid? She may 
suffer a sudden brain hemorrhage and 
never see her doctor. 
There is a tendency among us all to 
estimate the seriousness of an under-
lying condition by the severity of the 
symptom. Hence we tend to feel that 
a "minor" backache signifies a minor 
condition—it surely deserves little 
notice other than to seek relief from 
discomfort. 
But that simply is not true. Nature 
is a prime deceiver as far as bodily 
signals are concerned. Serious disease 
is often heralded by an insignificant 
sign. Conversely, symptoms that 
appear to be nothing less than fatal 
may lead to little more than the fright 
they produce. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, JANUARY 1948 
Consider the harassed and embattled 
business man: "nothing wrong" but a 
little heartburn and some distress in 
the lower part of his chest after meals. 
Beyond the wholesale consumption of 
various alkaline compounds which af-
ford relief after meals for some time, 
he gives his minor symptoms no 
thought. But one day as he is leaving 
his office building he is suddenly seized 
with a violent pain in the abdomen 
and collapses on the sidewalk. His 
stcmach ulcer has finally perforated 
and the surgeon must now fight to 
save him from peritonitis. 
-Had he consulted a physician who 
would have made certain tests and 
X-ray studies, the ulcer, in its early 
stages, might have been cured by 
simple dietary measures and medica-
tion. But no, the radio spot singer 
liltingly croons, "When acid in-di-ges-
tion upsets your tummy ... take BELIE-
VO!" And, if you cannot absorb 
that kindergarten lesson, the warbler 
will go on to spell it for you. 
Another spoke in the wheel of in-
difference to health and hygiene is the 
mother-to-daughter influence. "Oh, 
Mother, I'm going to call Dr. Jones. 
The baby is vomiting!" 
"Nonsense! 
I can tell you what to 
do. Why, when you were a baby you 
had the very same thing! Waste five 
rupees! The very idea! Now. you 
get the tin of dry mustard...." 
Grandma will probably be right nine 
times out of ten, but if the tenth time 
is a case of pyloric stenosis or a 
swallowed foreign body, the end result 
will be white crepe on the front door. 
Grandma is ever ready to match her 
infallible sixth sense, her innate 
wisdom, against the ablest trained 
psychiatrist. One afternoon her 
daughter confides in the older woman 
that Johnny, aged five, is becoming 
more and more seclusive, shuns other 
children, prefers to sit over picture 
books and day-dream in the privacy of 
his room. 
orget it!" Grandma advises. 
"He'll get over it! I tell you I know 
children! It's just a phase!" 
The daughter timidly mentions a 
child guidance clinic she heard of at 
a parent-teacher meeting. Grandma is 
shocked and aghast. Go to one of 
those crazy doctors who are crazier 
than any patients they see? Take up 
a lot of drivel about development and 
sexual impulses? Are you out of your 
mind, girl? 
Yes, Grandma knows children; but 
she won't recognize her grandson ten 
years later in the state hospital where 
he sits, hour after hour, staring silently 
at the wall, a schizophrenic now 
beyond any help. 
The modern conveniences and com-
forts of civilization, the high standard 
of living, hearsay, unscientific advice 
and the average medicine chest stocked 
with dozens of patent medicines have 
swerved too many from any reasonable 
attention to their health. The warnings 
of nature are usually ignored, probably 
because they are mild and insidious. 
The slight shortness of breath on 
exertion, the gastric distress, the pain 
over the eyes, fatigue ... they mean 
nothing. And there is always a 
vitamin preparation—or a detonative 
laxative—or some analgesic concoction 
—that the patent medicine manufac-
turers have ready for any symptom. 
Should you be in doubt, you can 
always seek counsel with the man who 
works at the next desk, or your next 
door neighbour. �
These consultants, 
without fail, have either suffered with 
the exact, same condition and know a 
sure-fire remedy or they know some 
one who has. They are, unfortunately, 
so disarmingly reassuring, too. Why, 
it's nothing ... nothing to worry about. 
That may be true. But it is some-
thing to find out about—and not from 
amateurs! 
WHY SUFFOCATE? 
'THERE is no oft-quoted maxim that 
is more fallacious than the one 
which says: "Beauty is only skin 
deep." That is exactly what beauty is 
not. The idea that we can buy beauty 
in a jar of face cream or rouge is as 
absurd as trying to purchase happiness 
at the store. They both come from 
within. 
The glowing complexion, the spark-
ling eye, the gaiety of manner—these 
are qualities that charm; and they can 
be cultivated by the conscientious use 
of what I have called "internal 
cosmetics," treatments applied to the 
hidden organs of the body, and given 
us by nature for the asking. 
Have you ever sat in some public 
place next to a person whose breath 
was so offensive that you had to move 
away, Or, worse still, have you ever 
suspected, when you saw your neigh-
bour move, that you might be such a 
person? If so, the remedy does not 
come in a jar or bottle or a box of 
pills. It comes from following a few 
directions that will cost you only a 
little concentrated study and some 
faithfully budgeted time. �
The first 
and foremost of these simple rules is: 
Learning to breathe properly. Further 
explanations will be more easily under-
stood if we look first at a word picture 
of our breathing apparatus. 
Think of the windpipe as the trunk 
of a tree from which air channels 
branch off, getting smaller and smaller, 
until they are almost invisible to the 
naked eye, and ending finally in still 
tinier air sacs, or alveoli, which can be 
seen only through a microscope. 
The walls of these millions of 
infinitesimal air channels are lined 
with a thin mucous membrane, which 
again is studded with still tinier blood 
vessels or capillaries. These originate 
from bigger blood vessels which, 
through the pumping action of the 
right side of the heart, transport the 
blood, laden with carbonic acid and 
other poisonous gases, into the lungs. 
Through the thin walls of the 
alveoli a gas exchange takes place; 
that is, carbonic acid and other poison-
ous gases are exchanged for fresh 
oxygen. While the poisonous and 
often foul air is exhaled by the lungs, 
the purified blood is collected by 
other tiny capillaries and transported 
through bigger and bigger blood 
vessels back into the left side of the 
heart. It is then pumped throughout 
the body, from which it returns after 
a 
short while, laden again with 
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poisons, to be purified again within the 
lungs. 
I have already mentioned that the 
tiny air channels are lined with a 
mucous membrane. This makes the 
walls of the alveoli stick together when 
the air is expelled from them by 
expiration. It is easy to see that, un-
less these tiny channels are opened by 
incoming air, no proper gas exchange 
can take place in them, and that, as 
they remain tightly sealed under such 
conditions, the poisons which they 
should have discharged accumulate 
within them. 
It is also obvious that it must take 
considerable time for the incoming air 
to force its way into these little 
channels, whose walls must first be 
unfolded. When we breathe through 
the mouth, very little of this unfolding 
can be accomplished. When we 
breathe through the nose, many more 
of the fine air channels are opened. 
And when we, in some way or other, 
prolong inhalation sufficiently, even the 
smallest alveoli throughout the lungs 
can be filled with air and will then 
provide their supply of oxygen to the 
body. 
Doctors often send patients with 
lung trouble to the mountains or the 
desert in order to effect a cure. Have 
you ever wondered why? It is not 
because there is more or even better 
air in such regions, as pure air can be 
also found in other places. The reason 
is that on the warm desert and at a 
high altitude the air is thinner than 
near sea level, and we have to inflate 
our lungs more to get enough oxygen. 
In other words, we are forced to 
breathe deeper in these localities. 
I propose to send you on such a trip 
to the desert or to a high mountain 
without making you leave your home. 
My object is to show a way to provide 
all your little lung channels with 
oxygen and thus get rid of at least 
part of the poisons which are accumu-• 
lating in your body—poisons which, 
mind you, keep your skin from being 
beautiful, your hair from being glossy. 
your eyes from sparkling, and your 
breath from being inoffensive. 
Most persons have not taken a really 
deep breath in their whole lives, and 
therefore they keep wide areas within 
their lungs constantly unaired. We 
must, first of all, learn how to breathe 
with our entire lung space. and this 
can be done best lying down. 
The first basic breathing exercise is 
done in the following manner: Lie 
tig 
down and relax the whole body (how 
few persons really know how to 
relax!). Be careful to wear nothing 
that constricts the waist. You may 
put a hard pillow under your head. 
Now exhale through the mouth as 
much as possible. You can do this 
audibly, making a hissing sound. Now 
inhale very slowly but continuously 
through the nose, and watch what 
happens. The stomach is lifted; then 
the flanks, next the chest, and finally 
the shoulders are raised. Now hold 
your breath for three or four seconds 
and then exhale quickly through the 
mouth, with that hissing sound, as 
much air as you possibly can; and, 
without any pause, begin inhaling 
again. 
The lying-down posture is recom-
mended for beginners and for delicate 
or older persons. After you have be-
come sufficiently familiar with this 
kind of breathing, you may, if not 
ailing or delicate, do it while sitting 
or standing. 
Through this practice you will learn 
to bring all your respiratory muscles 
into play. Your whole body will 
respond quickly. Your chest cavity 
will assume a better shape, and the 
physical and mental benefit will be 
great. Do not follow other breathing 
exercises until you have mastered this 
basic one; that is, until it is natural 
to you, first lying down, then sitting, 
finally standing. 
Of course, the object of such deep 
breathing is to let it become second 
nature. However, it is obvious that 
you cannot go about your daily activ-
ities making hissing sounds and act-
ing as if you were smelling flowers. 
That is the reason we also have to 
learn to do deep breathing silently. 
Inhaling as well as exhaling are to be 
done through the nose in absolute 
silence. You will find it more difficult 
than the audible way. It is the kind 
of breathing the Indian yogis use when 
meditating; and you will find, after 
you have tried it for some time, that it 
has a soothing effect on the nerves and 
the brain. The best posture for this 
exercise is sitting with crossed legs on 
the floor. For many persons, though, 
this posture is uncomfortable. They 
had better do the exercise while sitting 
erect on a chair. 
The first and second exercises may 
follow each other, or either may be 
done alone, as one wishes. At first 
take two minutes for breathing exer-
cises. Later increase the time up to 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, JANUARY 1948 
fifteen minutes. Don't overdo; repeat 
your deep breathing. In order not to 
attract attention, you will probably 
use the silent breath exercise most 
often. You will be surprised how 
quickly it clears your brain and helps 
you to overcome fatigue, depression, 
anger, or worry. 
In due time these two simple 
exercises willilead you to unconscious 
deep breathing. In other words, they 
will become second nature. 
These two exercises are really all 
that are necessary. You may, how-
ever, after a while increase the time of 
holding your breath, beginning with 
two seconds and going up to five 
seconds. You may also gradually 
increase the difficulty of inhaling by 
partially throttling the incoming air. 
This is done by putting a piece of 
cotton in one nostril, by pinching the 
nostrils slightly together, by learning 
to make the nostrils narrower 1 that is 
the way the, yogi does it), or by 
diminishing the diameter of the air 
passage back of your nose, the way 
one does when snoring. All these 
procedures will prolong the inhaling 
time considerably and in due time lead 
to a noticeable chest expansion. 
Here are three more breathing exer-
cises which you may use, either alone 
or in addition to the ones given above. 
The first one ventilates and clears 
breathing apparatus and has a stimu-
lating effect upon the whole system. 
It is especially effective for public 
speakers and singers and others who 
have to strain their voices for any 
reason. Follow these directions: 
1. Inhale as slowly as possible 
until your lungs are full. Retain the 
air for from three to five seconds. 
2. Pucker your lips as if you were 
starting to whistle, but without swell-
ing your cheeks. 
3. Exhale a little air through the 
pointed lips with great vigour. Stop 
for a moment and then repeat the 
sharp, vigorous blow. Stop again and 
repeat until you have exhaled all the 
air you can. This exercise may be 
repeated. 
The second special type of breathing 
exercise is a fine heart tonic and is 
used as such by doctors abroad. 
Lie down or sit or stand erect. 
Inhale until the lungs are full. Hold 
the breath for a few seconds. Then 
exhale with almost closed lips and 
sing at the same time in a comfortable 
key the word "you." Do this two or 
three times. This may be repeated 
once or twice during the day. It is 
important that the "you" sound should 
be slightly below your usual speaking 
voice. Put the palms of your hands 
on your chest while making the sound 
and you will quickly discover the key 
to which your chest vibrates best. 
These exercises, either combined or 
alone, should not take more than 
fifteen minutes each time, but they 
can be repeated at intervals, several 
times daily. 
And here is the third and last 
exercise. It is best done while you are 
out for a walk. But there actually is 
no better time for • breathing exercises 
than during the errands to the market, 
while you are out with your dog, and 
the like. 
This exercise is done in the follow-
ing manner: Walk erect with chin 
slightly drawn in, shoulders back and 
down. Take a comfortable easy gait. 
Inhale deeply, but do it staccato; that 
is, inhale with each step a bit of air, 
a bit more with the next step, and so 
on until your lungs are filled to 
capacity. It will take from three to 
five steps, and you may increase the 
time gradually. Walk another three to 
five steps while holding your breath. 
Exhale again in a staccato manner 
while taking three to five steps and 
repeat until tired. Inhaling and 
exhaling should be only through the 
nose. 
There are many other breathing 
exercises which are beneficial ; but 
these five are sufficient to feed your 
body with the necessary oxygen and 
help you in reducing or in body 
building by cleansing your breath 
from obnoxious poisons, which are at 
least partly the reason why an external 
search for beauty is often such a 
pathetic and futile quest. �
It costs 
nothing to breathe. Perhaps if it• did, 
we would all insist on getting cur 
rightful share of wonder-working 
oxygen. 
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9 
R
EMEMBER when mothers used to 
admonish: "Don't whine about 
every little pain; keep your aches to 
yourself; don t talk auout diem"? 
We have all been annoyed by 
aggravating little pains at some time 
or other. But we were brought up to 
believe that it was "sissy" to mention 
them. We were disgusted with Aunt 
Hattie because she brought every 
twinge out into the open and broadcast 
all of the details; but Aunt Hattie 
lived to be a good ninety-six years old 
and never did suffer more than those 
publicized aches. 
Pains, when they first appear. are 
warning bells that should shake us 
loose from the indolent neglect of our 
bodies. Did you ever hear of anyone's 
going to a dentist to have a tooth 
pulled until it started aching? If the 
tooth did not hurt, how would you 
even suspect there was anything wrong 
with it. unless you happened to be at 
the dentist's for some other purpose 
and he discovered it? If the tooth 
hadn't been pulled when it started 
abscessing, it would have poured its 
poisons into the body and started a 
series of other pains. 
Recently a middle-aged woman 
visited her doctor. �
"I'm sorry to 
trouble you when you're so busy," she 
apologized, "but this pain is getting so 
bad that I thought maybe you could 
give me some pills or something for 
it." 
On questioning her, the doctor dis-
covered that the pain had been 
gnawing for more than a year. "But 
Pain Is a Warning—Not a Disease. 
be ignored or not." People who 
ignored the tinkle of pain's warnings 
are now forced to wait for the fatal 
knell. "How could I know?" they 
cry. "I didn't think this would ever 
happen to me. It wasn't a bad pain; 
but it kept nagging." 
Naturally you do not want to run to 
your doctor every time you feel a 
twinge. But stop and think. Is this 
the first time you felt that certain 
pain? Is it the same pain you ignored 
last week when you walked to town, or 
cleaned the attic, or ate too much 
pickled herring? Perhaps it is only 
a catch in the right side. If it goes 
away, you can afford to ignore it. But 
if the same pain persists, consult the 
get him to visit the doctor. Mr. 
Adams grumbled all the way there, 
but the doctor had him admitting that 
he had slipped while walking to the 
store and had taken a tumble. The 
X rays showed two fractured ribs, 
which were duly taped so they healed 
properly. 
The pay-off occurred, however, when 
the doctor took Mr. Adam's blood 
pressure. It was much too high—
something they had not suspected. The 
old gentleman was put on a diet and 
his blood pressure controlled, and he 
lived to enjoy his grandchildren. 
Heeding the little warning pain that 
time brought a twofold reward. 
Usually the child who falls down 
and skins a knee is called "cry-baby" 
if he whimpers about it. We have 
always wanted our children to be brave 
and to learn to endure life's hardships, 
but now it seems best to teach the 
child to come to the parents arid tell 
them whenever there has been an 
accident. Children can be taught to 
give this information without making - 
weaklings of them. A skinned knee is 
an invitation to infection. Surely there 
is nothing sissy about having the sore 
washed and treated with a disinfectant. 
The same applies to pains and aches. 
Earache is nothing to ignore. Home 
remedies may relieve it temporarily. 
But an earache is so closely related to 
the mastoid that it is wise to consult a 
physician if the pain is more than 
temporary. And those pains in the 
legs that we used to call "growing 
pains"—heed them instead of thinking 
BE THANKFUL FOR PAIN 
RUTH K. KENT 
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I didn't want to complain," the 
woman continued, "when so many 
people are really sick. This is only a 
stomach-ache." 
After a series of X rays and tests 
the doctor told this woman: "If you 
had only come to me a year ago when 
the pain started, it would have been so 
much simpler to treat you. As it is—
well, we'll give you some medicine 
and—well, it's a shame you didn't heed 
that pain." 
This is not an unusual case. It 
happens so frequently that the past 
president of the American Medical 
Society said: "If people would only 
take their pains to their doctors! They 
are the ones to decide if they should 
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doctor. No, perhaps it is not 
appendicitis at all. It may be the 
beginning of colitis. Or it may be 
only a strained muscle that will not 
heal because it is continually being 
used. 
Mr. and Mrs. Adams were getting 
along in years, and Mrs. Adams 
noticed that every time her husband 
got up from a chair he put his hand 
over his left side. "Does your side 
hurt you?" she asked. 
"Oh, no," he shrugged. "It's about 
time for me to have a little touch of 
pleurisy. Get it every year, don't I?" 
But the touch of pleurisy persisted, 
and Mrs. Adams finally managed to 
that they will go away as soon as 
Johnny gets his growth. Maybe they 
will go away, but in the meantime 
there is the threat of rheumatic fever. 
So heed those warning signals. 
Give the doctor a chance to find out 
what makes them buzz. Don't com-
plain and bemoan your fate when a 
pain begins to annoy you. Be thankful 
for the pain, because it is the one thing 
that will prod you into action when 
there is something threatening your 
health. Bring your pains out into the 
open,—there is nothing shameful about 
them,—and you will have a much 
better chance to live a long and happy 
life. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, JANUARY 1948 
AFRAID OF HEART TROUBLE? 
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T. 
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ECENTLY a woman came into my 
office with the complaint, "Doctor, 
it's my heart." After a careful exami-
nation I was able to assure her, "Mrs. 
Jones, your symptoms are not of heart 
but of nerve origin." "Well!" she ex-
claimed, "you're the twelfth doctor 
who has told me that." 
Because of the widespread and 
persistent fear of heart disease, this 
article has been written. The follow-
ing is an interpretation of the nine 
most frequently encountered symptoms. 
We describe them as functional symp-
toms because they so often are present 
in the absolute absence of any 
structural heart disease. These symp-
toms are a variation from the usual 
normal response of the heart to various 
nervous exciting factors. There is no 
actual damage of the heart itself. 
First, let us understand that every 
organ in the body is controlled by 
nerves, the electricity, or radio waves 
of the body. The chief sending and 
receiving station is the brain; it is the 
union station of all nerve trunks 
reaching to every vital cell in the 
body. Anything that disturbs this 
sending station produces static at the 
receiving end. 
Most of us know that the blood must 
get to all parts of the body for those 
parts to live. If the blood supply is 
interfered with, the affected part will 
behave abnormally, but many do not 
know that wherever there is a blood-
vessel there is also one nerve or more. 
Voluntary nerves are the nerves that 
give us the power to control conscious 
action, as throwing a ball. On the 
other hand the automatic, or autonomic, 
nervous system, takes care of many 
body activities which need no conscious 
thought. As examples we find that the 
heart beats automatically, the lungs 
continue to fill and empty, even during 
sleep, the digestive glands pour out 
their juices, the hair stands up on end 
when we are scared or cold. This is 
an important functioning system. We 
cannot voluntarily make the heart beat 
faster or slower any more than we can 
tell any one hair to stand up on end. 
These effects are the body's automatic 
response to various outside stimuli. 
The power of this automatic nervous 
system needs to be fully recognized 
for us to appreciate the production of 
many so-called heart symptoms. Here 
is the list: 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, JANUARY 1948 
ARTHUR S. KOTZ, M.D. 
RAPID BEATING 
Rapid beating of the heart normally 
accompanies bodily exercise in order 
to provide an extra amount of blood 
for the increased need. When our 
Army moves fast in the field, we at 
home have to work harder and faster 
at the production lines. Even an 
emotional exertion such as "boy meets 
girl" or a first speech in public 
stimulates the automatic nervous sys-
tem, causing the heart to beat faster. 
Sudden great stimuli, as a severe 
fright, may produce the opposite effect, 
with slowing of the heart. This gives 
the impression that it has stood still. 
The same nerve causes blood-vessels in 
the face to contract, and it becomes 
white, and at the same time the hair 
stands up. 
SKIPPED HEARTBEATS 
Then we can have skipped heats or 
extra beats of the heart. The individ-
ual feels a disturbance in the regular 
heart rhythm. Some describe it as a 
"flop of the heart," "the heart turning 
a somersault," "skips," or "hesitation,' 
"a sudden thump or jump or choking 
sensation in the throat," "the heart 
suddenly sinking," or "a wave passing 
over me." Actually a normal heartbeat 
has come a little ahead of schedule. 
Counting the number of heartbeats per 
minute, we will still find the same 
number as the minute before even 
though there were one or more early 
beats. 
In order to offset this early heartbeat 
there follows a pause a little longer 
than usual. During this pause, which 
is actually only a fraction of a second 
longer than usual, the heart fills with 
blood. Because the heart has had 
more time to fill, the next heart con-
traction sends out more blood. This 
of course fills and distends the arteries 
leaving the heart. We feel this as a 
sudden "wave" or "flop." 
These early heartbeats do not indi-
cate heart disease. They are due to an 
irritable nervous control. These dis-
turbances of rhythm are most apt to 
occur while one is at rest, especially 
while quietly sitting in a chair or try-
ing to fall asleep. 
Scientifically it has been demon-
strated that many of these impulses to 
the heart come from a nerve centre in 
the brain. So it is that emotional or 
other irritants to this nerve centre may 
produce the premature heartbeat. 
PAIN OVER THE HEART 
Offhand I would say that for every 
patient who has come under my 
observation complaining of pain "over 
the heart" or pain in the heart, which 
was actually from the heart, there were 
ninety-nine in whom the pain was 
produced by other causes. The pain 
that comes with coronary heart disease 
is most frequently found after the age 
of forty, is located under the 
breastbone as a squeezing pain, is 
usually produced by some form of 
exertion, and is typically relieved by 
rest. On the other hand functional, or 
extracardiac, pains are more to one 
side, are short, sharp, and jabbing in 
character, come on just as likely at 
complete rest or in changing from one 
position to another, and are frequently 
relieved by local heat, rubbing, or even 
exercise. We find that more folk in 
the younger, less stable age group 
complain of heart pain than in the 
older age group. 
The most frequent causes of pain 
about the region of the heart are 
neuralgia and referred pain from a 
distended stomach or colon. Both of 
these organs are located just beneath 
the heart and are separated only by a 
thin dome of muscle, the diaphragm. 
When we see how many stomachs are 
abused by careless eating, it is no 
wonder that they mahv times cry out 
in agony. Because of proximity to 
the heart, innocent hearts have been' 
blamed for pain from this source, just 
as the proximity of a painful tooth has 
led at times to removal of a perfectly 
sound neighbouring tooth. 
SHORTNESS OF BREATH 
Shortness of breath is one of the 
symptoms encountered in true heart 
disease, but it also occurs with many 
other conditions, such as simple over-
exertion, general weakness after an 
illness, asthma, and nerve and emo-
tional tension. If you feel short of 
breath when sitting perfectly relaxed, 
you either have no heart disease or 
yours is so advanced that there will be 
many other symptoms which will leave 
no room for a doubt. If you get short 
of breath in climbing one flight of 
stairs today, but you can climb the 
same stairs tomorrow or even dig the 
garden without shortness of breath, the 
chances are against organic heart 
trouble. Usually the same amount of 
exertion will cause similar shortness 
of breath in true heart disease. 
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The Doctor Finds Important Clues in the State of the Heart. 
hundred and sixty beats a minute, and 
he may feel faint. He is frightened 
the first time or two, before he has 
learned to know what is happening. 
Such an attack, which we call 
paroxysmal auricular tachycardia, may 
subside in a few minutes or in a few 
hours, occasionally in days, just as 
abruptly as it began. The heart rate 
again is as normal as if nothing had 
happened. The causes that start this 
racing of the heart are numerous and 
inconstant. Sometimes a sudden twist-
ing of the head or bending forward to 
tie a shoelace may be a cause. Much 
IRREGULAR HEARTBEATS 
An irregular heart rate is found very 
frequently in young healthy adults and 
children in whom the rate is rhythmi-
cally affected by changes of respira-
tion; it slows on deep inspiration and 
speeds up on expiration. Emotional 
disturbances often markedly influence 
the pace setter of the heart. In 
children and young adults, who most 
frequently present this complaint, ir-
regular rate is normal in the great 
proportion of cases. 
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SWELLING OF THE ANKLES 
Swelling of the ankles may take 
place in heart disease, but also in 
other conditions with a perfectly 
normal heart. In kidney disease the 
swelling takes place during the night 
and disappears in the daytime. Some 
other conditions are varicose veins, 
sluggish circulation in the legs in fat 
people or delicate and thin women, or 
prolonged disuse of a limb. As in 
heart trouble, the swelling comes on 
during the day and is gone in the 
morning after a night's rest. if there 
is sufficient heart damage to cause 
swelling, then additional heart symp-
tonis will be present. 
HEAVY FEELING 
Many, many nervous people com-
plain of a heavy feeling in the heart. 
If that is the only symptom you have, 
you most likely need a vacation from 
your strenuous present emotional work 
programme rather than a heart tonic. 
If the heart has enlarged to the extent 
it produces heaviness, there will be 
many other evidences of it physically. 
FLUTTERING 
important symptom 
it is such a frequent 
individual suddenly 
racing, perhaps a 
less frequently violent exertion may 
initiate it. Emotional factors and even 
sudden thoughts and dreams will set 
off an attack, or again it may be an 
excessively large meal. 
The cause of such occurrences is 
that a new pace setter for the heart 
commences to send out electrical 
messages. This may occur in one of 
several of the nerve centres of the 
heart, and in the majority of cases 
without any organic heart disease. 
Therefore this type of fluttering is 
classed among the functional disorders. 
In the majority oT cases there are no 
serious' after-effects to these attacks. 
Some folks do feel faint during the 
episode, and if the attacks are frequent 
we make an attempt to reduce them. 
A simple trick is to take a deep breath 
and hold it as long as possible or 
apply firm, sudden pressure with the 
thumbs on each eyeball. However, if 
these attempts are unsatisfactory certain 
drugs are available through your 
physician which reduce this nervous 
muscle irritability. 
WEAKNESS 
Finally, there are some folks who 
are bothered with several of the 
foregoing symptoms, and in addition 
they complain of extreme weakness. 
Their condition is identified by a term 
now familiar to many not in the 
medical profession, namely, neurocir-
culatory asthenia (nervous circulation 
weakness), also known as "soldier's 
heart." Patients with this disorder are 
often young, and they complain of 
palpitation, weakness, dizziness, pain 
in the region of the heart, and 
frequently shortness of breath, or a 
combination of several of these 
conditions. The palpitation is usually 
associated with normal heart rhythm. 
The patients merely feel the pounding 
of the heart, which has either a normal 
rate or is slightly accelerated. 
We are all born with different 
temperaments and constitutions, with 
which we react differently to various 
emotional strains. The stress of war 
and of the aftermath of war brings 
out any unstable circulatory tenden-
cies. That is why we see much of it 
today. The very thought of becoming 
a soldier, with the hardships entailed, 
is sufficient to produce palpitation, 
weakness, chest pain, tremulousness, 
sweating, giddiness, and dyspncea in 
many individuals. Some will show 
these symptoms in training camps; 
others when landing abroad; and still 
others may have stood the strain of 
battle for several years, and then on 
returning home, will commence to 
complain of heart difficulties. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, JANUARY 1948 
Fluttering is an 
to discuss, because 
complaint. The 
feels his heart 
Probably the most important factor 
in setting the stage for this disease is 
the constitutional factor. Many have 
a family history of sub-normal nervous 
make-up, such as nervous breakdowns, 
weeping spells, the psychoses. In 
ordinary life the same hereditary 
constitutional factors are present, but 
there the direct precipitating causes are 
anxiety after loss of fortune, the death 
of some friend or relative, a love 
affair, or any other state conducive to 
fear or emotional nervous tension. 
We can safely assure these persons that 
the outlook in cases of functional heart 
disease is excellent. One does not fear 
any serious complications, and there is 
no mortality from this condition. 
Cures, however, are obtained only in 
the proportion to which the underlying 
O
NE phase of the cancer problem 
which is seldom considered is that 
of cancer in childhood. For some 
reason most people are under the im-
pression that cancer in childhood is 
extremely rare. Unfortunately, this is 
far from the truth. According to the 
latest vital statistics, cancer will cause 
more deaths in children under five 
years of age than will cerebrospinal 
meningitis, infantile paralysis, asthma, 
kidney disease, or diseases of the ear 
and mastoid. Also in children from 
five to fifteen years of age there will be 
more deaths from cancer than from 
measles, diphtheria, influenza, whooping 
cough, or dysentery. 
This means that parents should 
constantly be on the alert for suspi-
cious symptoms in children that might 
mean cancer just as they should be 
constantly on the alert for suspicious 
symptoms in themselves. In childhood 
a cancer in its earliest stage, receiving 
prompt treatment, can be cured. If 
cancer is neglected in childhood it 
grows very rapidly, much more rapidly 
than in an adult, and not much can be 
done when this has occurred. 
There is no age at which cancer may 
not begin. It may begin at birth. In 
fact, a child may be born with cancer. 
Quite a few of the cases under five 
years of age are of children horn with 
cancer. Such children die shortly 
after birth. 
There are some very special con-
siderations to be given cancer in 
childhood. There is a type of skin 
ailment occurring in childhood in 
which the skin is dry and coloured 
brown with pigment. This may go 
along for several years without any 
particular changes being noted. A 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, JANUARY 1948 
fear tension or mental disturbance can 
be removed. 
Some will have symptoms that will 
go through regular changes, improving 
and then reappearing as different 
periods of stress and strain come and 
go. Because of the great fear of heart 
disease that prevails among so many 
people, those who have only functional 
heart trouble need constant reassurance 
and encouragement to carry on. 
If you have sought competent 
medical advice, and your doctor tells 
you that your heart is structurally 
sound, then follow his advice and stop 
the worry about your heart. Over-
coming this fear and worry will go a 
long way toward overcoming your 
symptoms. 
little later areas of pigmentation like 
freckles appear, particularly on the 
face. Several years pass, and it is 
noticed that after the summer months 
have gone these freckles no longer fade 
away. In fact, they become enlarged, 
and more appear on other parts of the 
body. In time they develop ulcers, 
which eventually change into cancers. 
There is not much that can be done 
in this condition. The skin is highly 
sensitive to sunlight. It is a type of 
skin that the child was born with. The 
cancers may be removed as they 
appear, and the child's life prolonged 
for a few years. 
Another type of childhood cancer is 
that which starts in the eye. It almost 
always occurs in infants under four 
years of age, and frequently starts in 
one eye and then involves the other, 
always resulting in blindness. In this 
type of cancer, heredity often plays a 
leading role. Life may be saved by 
early removal of both eyes. 
Another frequent type of cancer in 
childhood is cancer of the bone. 
Mechanical bone injury is common in 
childhood, but whether this causes 
cancer of the bone is not definitely 
settled. The vast majority of childhood 
bone injuries never produce cancer. 
In children under five years of age 
cancer of the kidney is the commonest 
type of cancer encountered. In the age 
group between five and fifteen cancer 
of the bones and brain is the most 
frequent. A cancerlike disease of the 
blood is sometimes detected in routine 
blood examinations during the same 
years. 
All children should be examined 
periodically noting suspicious growths 
and lumps, serious loss of weight with 
no apparent reason, sores that do not 
heal in a reasonable length of time, or 
unusual bleeding. 
There are many harmless lumps and 
growths in childhood which never turn 
into cancer. Warts are a common 
childhood affliction, and no fear should 
be entertained that they will become 
cancerous. Tumorous growths of the 
blood vessels are also common and 
quite often harmless. Tumours of the 
thyroid in childhood are seldom a 
cause for alarm. Dark-coloured and 
hairy moles bear watching. If they 
begin to enlarge, you should have 
them examined immediately. 
The treatment of cancer in childhood 
is no different from that of cancer in 
adults. The accepted methods are by 
surgical removal of the cancerous 
growth or its painless and total 
destruction by radium or X rays. This 
should be done promptly in the 
earliest stages of the disease. This and 
other factors determine the success and 
the final outcome. The other factors 
are the accessibility of the cancer and 
its tendency to spread. 
In childhood cancer, even more than 
in adult cancer, delay is dangerous. 
If treatment is delayed, secondary can-
cerous growths begin to appear with 
amazing rapidity, and the child is 
doomed to an early death. 
Much can be accomplished in the 
way of education. The facts of cancer 
should be made known to every child 
of high school age. In biology they 
should be taught that cancer is a 
universal disease of all living creatures 
and that no fish, bird, reptile, 
amphibian, or mammal can be assured 
of escaping it. There is no immunity 
to cancer. 
Cancer can be made an interesting 
subject in biology by explaining the 
action of the cells in normal and 
cancerous tissues. Thus there is 
nothing mysterious about cancer when 
it is explained in this manner. Anyone 
can easily understand that cancer cells 
are a ruthless group of gangster cells, 
running amuck among the orderly 
functioning tissues of the human body. 
The human gangster and the cell 
gangster actually do have something in 
common. Both arise as a rule under 
unfavourable environments. 
Since children are exposed to 
sunlight for greater lengths of time 
than adults, the matter of sunlight and 
its relation to cancer is of interest. 
Some scientists have gone so far as to 
say that preventing cancer by sunlight 
may be possible if scientists can learn 
more about how the sun's rays affect 
the body. Evidence that exposure to 
sunlight does produce immunity to 
cancer in some cases has been presented 
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CANCER IN CHILDHOOD 
EDWARD PODOLSKY, M. D. �
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by Dr. Frank L. Apperly, of the 
Medical College of Virginia. Cancer 
mortality in the United States and 
Canada grows less, Dr. Apperly has 
found, as the amount of sunlight 
increases across the country, and as 
more people are exposed to it, for 
example, where more of the population 
are engaged in fanning or other 
outdoor activities. 
Dr. Apperly does not believe it is 
necessary to have cancer of the skin 
to become immune to other forms of 
cancer. Besides statistics of cancer 
deaths in various climates, Dr. Apperly 
cites animal studies by other scientists 
which, though not completely applic-
able to human beings, have a bearing 
on the question. 
"We may be able to reduce our 
cancer deaths," he states, "by inducing 
a partial or complete immunity by 
exposure of suitable skin areas to 
sunlight or the proper artificial light 
rays of intensity and duration insuffi-
cient to produce skin cancer. The study 
of the effects of sunlight on the living 
organism, and of those conditions in 
the skin which modify its action, may 
produce results of inestimable value." 
Another interesting fact about cancer 
in childhood has been discovered. The 
doctors making this discovery showed 
that the destructive power of the blood 
upon cancer is greatest in childhood 
and that this destructive power is lost 
in old age. They have thought that 
perhaps the thymus gland in the neck, 
which decreases in size and function as 
one grows older, has something to do 
with this. It has been suggested that 
both the thymus gland and the bone 
marrow have a protective action 
against cancer. 
Do children who develop cancer 
inherit this tendency from their 
parents? The question of the heredity 
of cancer is still a problem which is 
claiming the attention of many cancer 
experts. Some very interesting facts 
have been unearthed. 
One of the most interesting phases of 
the cancer subject is the inheritance of 
susceptibility to cancer. The fact is 
now widely attested that the milk of 
mice of a genetic strain notably liable 
to cancer of the breast in adult life 
contains a factor which is transmitted 
to suckling mice of strains ordinarily 
free of the disease, with the result that 
many of them have cancer of the 
breast many months later, when they 
are mature. In this instance, at least, 
the susceptibility to cancer may be 
transmitted from parent to offspring. 
Whether this can he the case in humans 
is not known. It remains for more 
research to bring to light the complete 
explanation of cancer in childhood. 
6 U
NCLE Harold is coming to stay 
with us for two weeks," eight-
year-old Jenny, my neighbour's little 
girl, informed me, as she romped 
around the room in high spirits. I 
asked why she liked Uncle Harold so 
much. Her answer came promptly. 
"Oh, he and I have such fun. He 
plays grown-ups with me, and tells me 
1 know a lot of things. Besides, when 
we play other games, he never laughs 
at my mistakes. And he never calls 
me little girlie!" 
There, in a nutshell, was the secret 
of a child's love for one particular 
uncle. Here was a grown-up who did 
not patronize a young person. He 
treated her as an equal and entered 
her own world. That is a fundamental 
requirement in getting on with children; 
you must fit into their scheme of things 
if you want them to like you. 
The trouble with most grown-ups is 
that they talk down to children. 
Nothing can be more annoying to a 
child than to be subjected to this con-
descending type of conversation. 
The grown-up starts with all the odds 
in his favour. Politeness decrees that 
he is always right, whereas the child, 
recognizing from long experience that 
Mother is always on the side of the 
grown-ups, is unable to retaliate or to 
meet a visitor on the same ground. 
Because of this, a wise person is 
careful not to take an unfair advantage, 
and tries to treat a child whom he has 
just met as he would another adult. 
Children are no more interested in 
stereotyped conversation than you are, 
yet every child is constantly subjected 
to such exclamations as "How you've 
grown!" or the equally dull: "You 
look just like your mother!" 
Condescending questions or personal 
exclamations are not conversation. If 
you are going to talk to a child, stop 
for an instant, call into action a little 
of your hard-won social sense, and 
talk about what interests him. 
Children, I am convinced, like 
grown-ups to retain their dignity. They 
understand them better that way. And 
they detest being addressed in ridicu-
lous baby talk. It is a good idea to let 
a child tell you something, or explain 
how a toy works, for this gives him a 
feeling of importance that grown-ups 
seldoin allow him to have. 
But, of course, be careful not to 
overdo it. If you introduce him into 
an alien world by the booming chal-
lenge: "How are you, young man? 
Doesn't that new baby cramp your 
style a bit?" he will view you in 
solemn distaste, and escape as soon as 
possible. 
It is fatal in the cause of friendship 
with a child to be overfriendly at once. 
Don't rush at a child; as soon as he 
has overcome his initial shyness and 
become reassured in his own mind 
about you, the child will make over-
tures. You will be invited to join in 
a game, or look at some favourite toy 
or pet. See the world as a child sees 
it and you may be sure children will 
like you and enjoy your company. 
DO CHILDREN LIKE YOU? 
IAN HARMAN 
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THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, JANUARY 1948 
Diagram of Lymphatics in Process of 
Digestion. 
O
VER the entire human body, per-
meating the skin and the tissues 
beneath, stretches a remarkable net-
work of tiny, transparent vessels, some-
what like knotted lace in appearance. 
This is the little known lymphatic sys-
tem. Through its microscopic conduits 
flows a mysterious, straw-coloured fluid 
—the lymph—which in its leisurely 
course performs marvels of biochem-
istry for the maintenance of your 
health. 
You've probably witnessed one small 
miracle of the lymph without knowing 
it. A cut or scratched finger was neg-
lected for a day. Then a droplet of 
pale yellow fluid oozed from the cut. 
This was the lymph, loaded with spe-
cialized cells, augmenting the warrior 
action of the white corpuscles in killing 
off the disease organisms. 
Whe-i infection penetrates deeper, the 
protective action of the lymphatics is 
even more dramatic. The invading or-
ganisms are caught up in this independ-
ent system and carried to the nearest 
lymph node where another attempt is 
made to trap and destroy them. 
These lymph nodes, which vary in 
size from a mustard seed to a large lima 
bean, dot the lacelike network of the 
lymphatic system. Within them nature 
performs one of its most vital protective 
functions: the production of lym-
phocytes, a type of white corpuscle that 
is an important disease-fighting unit of 
the blood. 
The lymph nodes are located abun-
dantly throughout the body. Larger 
nodes are clustered in the neck, groin, 
armpits, and intestines. These me-
chanical filters are designed to trap not 
only bacteria but any cell debris and 
foreign matter that might be harmful. 
One physiologist aptly calls them "dust-
bins of the body." 
Trapping debris and combating in-
fection, however, form only a small part 
of the lymphatics' job. Life itself de-
pends on this enigmatic body fluid 
which closely resembles blood in chem-
ical composition—and yet emphatically 
is not blood. The lymph derives from 
the blood system and passes back into 
it eventually. But in the interim, em-
ploying its own private network, it per-
forms a miracle of body economy, a 
physiologic duty very much its own. 
That duty is to salvage vital proteins 
—the very building blocks of which our 
body is made—which would be lost en-
tirely were they not thriftily gathered 
up by the lymphatic system. Greatly 
simplified, here's what happens: 
Under pressure from the heart, fluids 
seep through the porous walls of the 
capillaries—the tiniest blood vessels—
carrying nutriment to tissues and ab-
sorbing waste products. These fluids 
consist of molecules of protein, salts 
and water. Swiftly the salts and water 
pass back into the veins and race back 
to the heart. 
But the proteins cannot directly re-
enter the venous system. Here a 
potentially awkward situation develops. 
If these proteins accumulate, the super-
fluous concentrations may damage sur-
rounding tissues. Moreover they are 
sorely needed for redistribution to other 
parts of the body. At this critical junc- 
ture, the lymphatic system comes into 
play. 
With blotter-like action, the lym-
phatics soak up the protein-laden fil-
trate. Through its own circulatory sys-
tem, quite separate from the veins and 
arteries, the lymph now proceeds to-
ward the centre of the body. In the 'in-
testines the lymph vessels take up an 
emulsion of fats from foods that have 
been transformed by the digestive 
juices. 
Now the lymph, laden with fats and 
proteins, is ready to return to the blood 
stream. Tiny flaplike valves on the in-
terior walls of the lymph ducts prevent 
Lymph Node With Its Incoming and 
Outgoing Duct. 
any backward movement of the fluid. 
The lymph can flow in one direction 
only—towards the heart. 
But unlike the blood stream, which 
depends on the pumping action of the 
heart, the lymph has no driving force 
behind it. What then propels it on its 
way? The progress of this strange 
life-fluid depends solely on the body's 
muscular and breathing movements. 
For example, lymph ducts twine them-
selves around the muscles of the arms 
and legs: when we move, these muscles 
contract and expand, thus exerting a 
kind of squeezing pressure on the lymph 
vessels. 
In the intestines this task of propul-
sion is enormous. The emulsion of fats 
taken up by the lymphatics is very 
RIDDLE OF THE LYMPH 
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Diagram of Cir-
culation of the 
Blood. Lymphatic 
Circulation Depends 
on Circulation of 
the Blood. 
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heavy. A powerful force is required 
to squeeze or draw it upward. Now 
occurs a marvel that ranks high among 
physiologic wonders. The lymph ves-
sel winds itself around the mightiest of 
arteries—the aorta--and utilizes the 
powerful pulsations of that huge blood 
vessel to propel the lymph upward! 
Usually the lymph current moves at a 
rather sluggish pace, but it can be 
whipped up—with definite advantages 
to health and body tone—by exercise 
and resultant deep breathing. Where ex-
ercise is not possible or desirable, 
lymph flow may be beneficially stimu-
lated by massage. 
At a point slightly above the gate-
way to the heart the main lymph stream 
pours into a major vein. One-tenth of 
a second later it is pouring into the 
heart for redistribution throughout the 
body. Thus the choicest products of 
digestion have been gathered up and 
delivered safely to the blood stream in 
a roundabout and biologically in-
genious manner—by the lymph. 
But all along the line, before finally 
entering the blood stream, the straw-
coloured fluid has passed through the 
myriad wayside filtering stations, the 
lymph nodes. And because these glands 
are a catch-all for harmful bacteria, 
they are subjected to many severe trials. 
For example, an infection of the hand 
may cause painful swelling of the 
lymph glands in the armpit; an infec-
tion of the foot or leg may produce an 
inflammation of the glands in the 
groin. This is nature engaged in the 
death struggle to annihilate the invad-
ing disease organisms. Unless the bat-
tle is won, the bacteria will pass on to 
the blood stream, causing septicemia, or 
blood poisoning. 
Sometimes the trapped bacteria in-
fect the lymph nodes, causing acute in-
flamniation and abscess formation; then 
it may become necessary to remove the 
infected glands surgically. The lymph 
nodes filter out cancer cells; but then 
the glands themselves may become the 
site of new malignant growths. Thus 
in the treatment of cancer, whether by 
surgery or radiology, attention must be 
directed also to the lymph glands that 
drain the area of the primary growth. 
The lymphatic system is also subject 
to diseases of its own. In elephantiasis, 
for example, a threadlike parasite at-
tacks the lymphatic tissue and renders 
it incapable of draining off the fluids 
that collect in the tissue spaces. The 
result is the familiar symptoms of 
swollen, water-logged lower limbs and 
coarsened skin. 
But the miracle of the lymph in the 
normal body suggests a question: What 
would happen if the vital fluid were 
prevented from returning to the blood? 
Scientists found a definite answer in 
the case of a young woman who had 
been stabbed in the neck. The wound 
severed the main pathway of the lymph 
stream on its way back to the heart. 
The patient suffered serious loss of 
weight, and was losing ground so 
rapidly that a fatal outcome seemed in-
evitable. Then the lymph lines were 
surgically repaired. Again the lymph 
flowed back into the blood stream. 
Within a few weeks the patient regained 
her weight and was able to leave the 
hospital in the best of health. 
Silently, invisibly, the lymph river 
winds through our cells and organs, 
bathing them in a vital alkaline fluid. 
Thus lymph is seen to be one of the 
most remarkable of the adaptive mech-
anisms that enable the human body to 
maintain its interior balance and econ-
omy. It is an instrument of survival, 
versatile and awe-inspiring as the blood 
from which it springs, and which, by 
the strangest of physiological proc-
esses, it nourishes and sustains. 
TOO MUCH FAT IN DIET 
INJURES RED BLOOD CELLS 
C
OMES the postwar day when you 
can once more get all the thick 
whipping cream you want, your doctor 
may be advising you to go slow on it 
to avoid anemia. Drinking one pint 
of 32 per cent cream causes human 
blood serum to become injurious to 
the red cells of the blood, making them 
more fragile and more easily destroyed. 
This discovery and its implications 
are announced by scientists at the 
University of Chicago. 
The extra blood destruction result-
ing from the taking of a lot of fat or 
cream seems to be insufficient, the 
scientists state, to produce anemia in 
normal persons whose bone -narrow is 
capable of replacing the extra red 
blood cell losses. 
It remains to be determined, how-
ever, whether (1) building new red 
cells after blood loss through hemor-
rhage, when the bone marrow blood 
cell factory is excessively taxed, might 
be hastened by a low fat diet or re-
tarded by a high fat diet; or whether 
(2) abnormalities in fat absorption or 
abnormal sensitivity of the cells to the 
injurious substance might help produce 
certain anemias not associated with 
hemorrhage or blood loss.—Health. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, JANUARY 1948 
TEDDY AND THE CLOCK HOSPITAL 
ELLEN M. STEWART 
T
HE small Swiss clock on the dining-
room mantel struck seven times, 
then made a queer whirring noise and 
stopped ticking. Teddy's mamma gave 
a little exclamation of distress and 
turned to Teddy's father. 
"There," she said, "that clock will 
have to be repaired again, and the last 
time I carried it to the jeweller's to be 
fixed it cost me Rs. 15. I believe we 
may as well get a new clock and throw 
this one away." 
"Please yourself, my dear," answered 
Teddy's father, and went on reading his 
paper. But Teddy looked up eagerly. 
"Please, mother, let me take it to the 
Clock Hospital," Teddy begged. "I'm 
sure it won't cost a lot to have it 
mended, and I've wanted to go in there 
ever and ever so long." 
Mamma asked about the Clock Hos-
pital, and, after talking to father again, 
decided that Teddy might take the 
clock for repairs. 
Right after breakfast mamma put the 
little clock in a box, and Teddy started 
on his mission. He got off the car 
right in front of the Clock Hospital. 
After pausing for a look at the clocks 
in the window and the big sign, "Clock 
Hospital," over the door, he went in. 
A short stoop-shouldered man asked 
what he could do for the little boy. 
Teddy explained his errand and men-
tioned that his mamma had been ready 
to throw the little clock away, but that 
he had begged to bring it to the Clock 
Hospital. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, JANUARY 1948 
The old man seemed pleased and led 
Teddy about to look at the various 
clocks in all stages of repair—clocks 
with broken legs and broken wheels 
that were being made as good as new. 
Teddy laughed outright. "It's a 'sure 
enough' hospital, where they bind up 
broken legs and arms," he said in 
amazement. 
"Surely," said the little old man, and 
then he opened the box containing 
Teddy's clock. 
"A fine clock; it should not be giv• 
ing any trouble yet," he said in a 
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puzzled voice. Then he opened the 
door of the little clock and laughed 
aloud. "See what has stopped it?" he 
cried, and he took out a bit of spider-
web, and presently a frightened spider 
was taken out as well. "The door has 
dropped a pin and the spider got in 
that way," he explained. Then he 
reached over and selected a tiny pin, 
which fitted in the clock's door as if 
it had been made for it. That night 
Teddy had much fun telling of his trip 
to the Clock Hospital, while the little 
clock ticked merrily from its place on 
the mantel as if to thank Teddy for not 
letting it be thrown in the scrap heap. 
44 
 W
HAT, oh, what will I do in 
this quiet place?" wailed Jack 
Emery as he looked around the little 
house among the tall trees, where he 
was visiting his grandparents. 
"Quiet place?" repeated his grand-
father," "'Now, now, my boy, your fa-
ther lived in this house. It was his 
home, and he did things." 
"What kind of things?" Jack asked 
earnestly. "I don't see anyone around 
here to play with, and there's no place 
to go. I—I—" 
"I know," said his grandfather, "you 
were going to say that you wished you 
hadn't told your parents you'd stay 
with us while they went out West. 
"I was thinking like that, grand-
father," Jack answered. 
"Well," said grandfather, putting his 
arm around the boy's shoulder, "it's not 
nearly so bad, or so lonesome, as it 
looks. The woods about us are full of 
pleasant surprises. If you will try, you 
can make some very good friends with 
the folks in the woods." 
"Folks in the woods?" Jack repeated. 
"Who are they?" 
"They are the squirrel and the rah-
bit family, the monkeys and the 
chameleons, and many • wild birds. 
You can study their ways, how they 
live," he added. 
"I must try to make friends with 
some of these creatures, grandfather," 
promised the lad, "but I'm not sure 
I can." 
Jack had made up his mind that he 
would not go around complaining 
about being lonesome any more. He 
began to visit the woods back of the 
farmhouse, and soon his grandmother 
had to call him in for his meals. 
One day his grandfather thought he 
would go out and see what Jack had 
found that interested him so much. 
Imagine his surprise when he caught 
sight of Jack aid two beautiful parra-
keets. The birds were quite friendly, 
flying down to the ground near him. 
Jack was busily talking to them as he 
gave them grain and raisins. Grand-
father stole softly away. 
That night he asked Jack if he was 
still unhappy in the country. 
"Unhappy !" repeated Jack. "Why, 
I think the country is great since I 
made friends with the folks in the 
woods. 
I don't care if mother and 
daddy don't come back until school 
begins." 
Grandfather smiled and promised to 
take Jack on a long tramp in the north 
hill forest where the wild deer could 
often be Nund. 
17 
HOW JACK FOUND 
HAPPINESS 
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RECIPES 
G
LUTEN is the protein element in wheat. 
Whenever more protein is desired 
in a vegetarian diet it may be obtained 
from wheat flour in the following manner: 
8 cups flour; 21/2 to 3 cups water. 
Mix flour and water as for bread. 
Knead into a smooth loaf. Place this in 
a bowl and cover the dough with water. 
Let stand like this in the water for half 
an hour or more. The starch will all 
dissolve. Wash this out by pulling the 
dough apart. Now wash the dough in 
several waters until all the starch is 
removed and the water in the bowl is 
almost clear. The remaining dark, sticky 
mass is gluten. Form this into a ball. 
Cover with waxed paper and keep in 
refriaerator until needed, or use at once 
in the following recipes: 
GLUTEN POTPIE 
Gluten from 8 cups bread flour; 5 cups 
water; 3 cups diced potato; 1 cup finely 
diced celery; 2 large onions chopped fine; 
1/2 cup cream; 2 tablespoons Vegex (or 
Marmite); 4 tablespoons flour, level; 4 
tablespoons fat; 2 tablespoons minced 
parsley; 1 teaspoon salt. 
Braise minced onions in fat; add Veaex, 
and a teaspoon of salt. To this boiling 
broth add eluten cut in pieces the size of a 
walnut. Cover and boil slowly twenty-five 
minutes. Add cream (or canned milk) 
and the flour made smooth in a little 
water or milk. Pour all into a casserole; 
cover with medium thick pie crust; bake 
until pie crust is a nice brown in hot 
oven (fifteen or twenty minutes). Serves 
eight. 
PIE CRUST 
1 cup flour; 4 cup butter or fat; 2 table-
spoons cold water. 
Mix fat and flour well; add water and 
a pinch of salt; mix and roll out; cover 
top of casserole. 
GLUTEN STEAKS 
1 cup chopped celery; 1 large onion 
minced; 2 tablespoons Vegex; 1 tablespoon 
fat; 5 cups water; 1/2 cup tomato juice; 
salt to taste. 
Prepare a broth with the above ingredi-
ents by frying the onion in the fat and add-
ing boiling water, the tomato and celery. 
Slice the gluten into quarter inch slices 
and boil in this broth for one hour. Drain 
the cutlets. Now have ready one egg beaten 
and half cup of bread crumbs. Dip cutlets 
in the beaten egg and then in the crumbs. 
Fry a golden brown on both sides in a 
small amount of butter or fat. The ideal 
protein steaks. 
VEGETABLE GLUTEN STEW 
3 CUES raw potato cut in pieces; 1 cup 
chopped carrots; 1 onion chopped; 2 
tablespoons butter; 4 tabF,spoons browned 
flour, level; 1,/: cups gluten• cut in small 
pieces; 1 tablespoon chopped parsley; salt 
to taste. 
Place all in Wino: water. Boil 
forty-five minutes. Thicken broth with 
brown.(I flour mixed in a little water. 
Sprinkle more chopped parsley over the 
stew and serve. 
DAL PATTIES 
2 cups cooked dal: 3 tablespoons 
chopped onion; 2 cups mashed potatoes; 2 
tablespoons butter; 1/2 teaspoon sage; 1 
cup chopped nuts. 
Put onion into a hot saucepan and 
quickly fry with a little fat for a few 
minutes; add the cooked dal; mix with 
the mashed potato; add the chopped nuts. 
Form into patties and brown in an oiled 
frying pan. Serve with tomato sauce. 
Tomato Sauce; 1 chopped onion; 4 large 
tomatoes; 2 tablespoons chopped parsley; 
1 tablespoon chopped green coriander; 2 
cloves of garlic, crushed; salt to taste. 
Boil all together in very little water; 
force through a sieve, add salt to taste 
and serve. 
NUT AND BANANA LOAF 
1/2 lb. nuts ground fine; 1/2 cup corn-
flakes; 1 cup seeded dates or raisins 
chopped fine; 1/2 cup water; 2 ripe bananas 
or plantains. 
Mash the plantains. Add the other in-
gredients. Mix well and put in an oiled 
pan to bake in slow oven for about 45 
minutes. 
CABBAGE AND CARROT SALAD 
1 cup ground raw carrots; 1/2 cup 
chopped parsley; 2 cups finely shredded 
raw cabbage; 2 sliced green onions; 1 
teaspoon sugar; 1/2 teaspoon salt; juice of 
1/2 lime. 
KEEP POISON OUT OF 
MEDICINE CHEST 
IF YOU have been keeping poisons 
1 in the medicine cabinet, find another 
place for them, so that neither you nor 
any other sleepy, sick member of the 
family can make the tragic mistake of 
swallowing a bichloride of mercury 
tablet instead of aspirin, or gcrgling 
with shoe dye instead of the antiseptic 
solution your doctor may have pre-
scribed. 
The family medicine chest is not the 
correct place for cleaning solutions, 
ant poisons, roach powder, or even 
narcotic drugs or medicines containing 
opium or morphine. If you need to 
keep these, find a place for them where 
they cannot be mistaken for other 
medicines or food, and be sure they are 
clearly labelled. 
Discard any and all medicines not 
recently prescribed and being used for 
current illness. It is often dangerous 
and never wise to save and use again 
a medicine prescribed for someone else 
without first consulting the doctor. So 
avoid the temptation by throwing out 
the medicine. The safest way to dis-
card old medicines is to pour them 
into the toilet. If the bottles are 
saved, they should be thoroughly 
washed with soap and water. 
Two little girls were playing. One 
pretended she wanted to rent the 
other's playhouse. �
"Have you any 
parents?" the playhouse owner asked. 
"Yes," said the other little girl, "two." 
"Oh, I'm so sorry," said the owner. 
"I never rent to children with parents; 
parents are so destructive." 
V. B. 
Outside of toothpastes and powders 
and similar toilet articles, the strictly 
medical preparations for the medicine 
chest should be selected with the 
guidance of a physician. Boric acid, 
vaseline, and aromatic spirits of am-
monia are generally considered good 
stand-bys. Adhesive tape and sterile 
gauze for dressings and bandages 
might also have a place in the medicine 
chest. Each item should be clearly 
labelled.—American Health. 
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INCREASE WEIGHT: Ques.—"My son 
three years old does not seem to be 
making much progress. He is healthy but 
looks very weak. He has an Indian diet 
of. chappatties, rice, dal, etc., as well as 
milk. What should he take in addition 
to increase his weight? He talks a lot 
though not fluently and in a clear voice." 
Ans.—The' use of special "fattening 
foods" for otherwise healthy persons is 
usually unnecessary and a bit expensive. 
Usually they can be encouraged to take 
more food. An extra banana now and 
then at the end of meals or some special 
dessert or sweet that the child likes may 
be given at the end of the meal as a reward 
for eating all of his other food. Extra 
milk can be given at bedtime or between 
regular meals. It should be at least one 
and one half hours away from regular 
meals or it will spoil the child's appetite. 
If the child does not relish milk it can 
often be rendered acceptable by the 
addition of Horlick's Malted Milk or 
Ovaltine. As to his talking, if he has no 
tongue-tie or other discernible defect, 
clearness of speech is largely a matter of 
training. 
DENGUE FEVER: Ques.—"Please tell 
me what you know about dengue fever. 
How can it be treated? Is it serious, as 
far as health is concerned, in future years? 
Does it leave any permanent defects?" 
Ans.—Dengue fever is transmitted by a 
mosquito bite. It is a virus disease. The 
symptoms appear from two to five days 
after the bite of the mosquito. Fever 
quickly rises to 102 degrees to 105 degrees. 
The face becomes flushed and the eyeballs 
sore. There are severe pains in the head, 
the back, the joints, and the bones, so 
much so that the disease is sometimes 
called "breakbone fever." After three to 
five days the fever goes down and the 
patient begins to feel quite well. In from 
one to three days more it comes up again. 
Death from dengue is exceedingly rare. 
There is no known medicine that will cure 
it, however. Prevention is possible only 
by destruction of mosquitoes or by avoid-
ing their bites. Good nursing is the best 
treatment. 
IVY POISONING: Ques.—"What is a 
reliable preventive of ivy poisoning? 
What is a good cure?" 
Ans..—There is no really effective pre-
ventive of ivy poisoning in the case of 
persons who are susceptible to it. A 
special cream bas considerable preventive 
power, however, if properly made and 
used. To make the cream, mix together, 
by warming and stirring, 1 part of 
potassium hydroxide sticks, 3 parts of 95 
per cent alcohol, 15 parts of stearic acid, 
and 60 parts of water. Shortly before 
using, add 1 part of finely powdered 
sodium perborate to 10 parts of the 
cream and mix thoroughly. Rub some of 
the cream well into the skin and apply a 
layer to the surface. This treatment 
must be repeated every three or four 
hours, each time washing off the old 
cream with soap and warm water before 
applying the fresh cream. During the 
worst itching and blistery stage of ivy 
poisoning, use continuous wet dressings of 
a 1:500 solution of aluminium acetate. 
When the blister3 have dried, apply 
calamine lotion to which 1/7 per cent of 
phenol has been added. Any time when 
you have come in contact with poison ivy, 
if you will wash the exposed skin 
promptly and thoroughly with strong 
soap-suds, a In'•ge fraction of the poison 
can he removed from the skin herore it is 
absorbed enough to cause much trouble. 
LOW BLOOD COUNT: Ques.—"I have 
been told that my blood count is only 
50. when it ought to he 90. Is this a very 
serious condition? What should I eat to 
help correct this condition?" 
Ans.—When one speaks of a "blood 
count" of 50. what is really meant is that 
the hemoolobin, or red colouring matter of 
the blood, is only 50 per cent of what is 
considered normal for an adult man. 
Adult women normally have about 85 to 
90 per cent as much hemoglobin per unit 
of blood as do adult men. A more 
accurate use of the term "blood count" is 
when it is used to tell the number of red 
or white blood cells, or both, in a standard 
unit of blood—the usual unit being one 
cubic tnillimetre It will take more than 
a mere knowledge of the amount of 
hemoglobin in your blood to determine 
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type, the treatment should include 
liver extract. Liver extract, both by in-
jection and by mouth, is as yet the 
stand-by of most physicians in pernicious 
anemia treatment. Its use should always 
be supervised by a physician. 
INHALATIONS AND TUBERCULOSIS: 
Ques.—"I have had chronic bronchitis for 
more than twenty years. A few months 
ago I found that I have a small spot of 
tuberculosis. Does my tuberculosis make 
it unsafe to use steam and tincture of 
benzoin inhalations for my bronchitis?" 
Ans.—I do not think a small spot of 
tuberculosis would be injured at all by 
taking medicated steam inhalations in the 
ordinary way. If very deep and forcible 
breathing were practised during the 
inhalations, it might be injurious, since 
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BREAST LUMPINESS AND SORE-
NESS: Ques.—"For the last week my 
breasts have been sore, and they are 
lumpy to touch. Sometimes I have a 
sharp pain in my left breast. I am 
forty-three years old. Kindly advise." 
Ans.—Breast lumpiness and soreness 
such as you describe, and at your age, is 
probably chronic cystic mastitis. The 
lumps are swollen areas of secretory tissue 
in the breasts. �
The condition is not 
malignant or dangerous of itself, and it 
does not often develop into malignancy. 
The only cure, however, is surgery. If you 
do not have the lumps surgically removed, 
you should at least have them examined 
from time to time by a physician to 
detect any malignant change at an early 
stage, if such a change should occur later. 
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SWELLING OF THE FACE; NOSE-
BLEED: Ques.—" (1) In the morning, 
when I get up, my face is slightly swollen. 
What is the cause ? I think it must be 
my bladder, but I had a nurse test my 
urine some time ago, and she said there 
was nothing wrong with it. (2) Also 
what causes frequent attacks of nosebleed ?" 
Ans.—(1) A slight swelling of the face 
on awaking from sleep may not indicate 
anything serious. The circulation becomes 
slower during sleep, and the recumbent 
posture in bed permits relatively more 
blood to go to the head and face. With 
a slight increase in blood supply and a 
slow circulation, a little fluid may tend to 
seep out of the blood vessels and to collect 
in the tissues of the face. As a rule, how-
ever, getting out of bed and washing the 
face with cool water will restore the 
normal state of affairs within a few 
minutes. If the swelling is quite notice- 
able, especially around the eyes, and if it 
persists longer than a few minutes after 
washing the face with cool water, you 
need to think of impaired kidney action. 
Trouble with the bladder alone is not 
likely to cause such swelling of the face. 
I advise you to have another urine test, 
perhaps more than one. Have the test 
made by a dependable clinical laboratory, 
and have a physician interpret the labora-
tory report for you. What should be 
looked for especially in a case like yours 
is albumen, but the analysis should be a 
complete one. (2) Frequent attacks of 
nosebleed may come from any one of 
several different causes. A common cause 
is varicosity of some of the blood vessels 
in the septum of the nose—the partition 
between the nostrils. If a doctor makes 
an examination when the nose is not 
bleeding, it may be hard for him to detect 
the real condition. If the patient can be 
taken to the doctor while the nose is still 
bleeding, the bleeding point is easier to 
find. It is often possible to cure the 
tendency to repeated nosebleed by cauter-
izing the vessels at the bleeding point or 
points. 
IRREGULAR HEARTBEATS: Ques.—
"What is the cause of irregular beating of 
the heart ?" I began to notice a year ago 
that by spells my heart skips a beat 
every five or ten or twenty regular beats. 
Sometimes it does this for several hours 
at a time. I do not feel anything else 
during such a spell, but I can feel that my 
heart is beating irregularly without 
putting my fmger on my pulse. I am 
fifty-four years old and in good general 
health." 
Ans.—Skipped heartbeats such as you 
describe are not often serious. As long as 
the heart muscle is healthy and the 
skipped beats are not too frequent, the 
circulation is maintained normally and the 
body does not suffer. The skipping is 
caused by some abnormality in the bundle 
of nerve and muscle tissue that conveys-
the impulse from an area called the 
"pacemaker" in the auricle down to the 
muscle tissue of the ventricle. Occa-
sionally the impulse fails to get through, 
and the result is a skipped beat. 
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POSSIBLE TRICHINOSIS: Ques.—"Is 
there not a disease called 'nematode 
parasitic worm,' which works in the 
muscles and stomach of a person? How 
does this disease act, and how will one 
know if one has it ? Is this disease 
dangerous, and is there a cure for it ?" 
Ans.—The word "nematode" is a general 
name for a class of worms that are com-
monly called "roundworms." There are 
many species of roundworms that may 
infest the human body. Some of them 
cause much distress and damage to health, 
while others cause little or none. If the 
worms stay in the intestine, their presence 
is best detected by stool examinations to 
find the eggs, which will usually be 
present in considerable numbers. The 
symptoms and effects caused by the dif-
ferent kinds of intestinal roundworms 
vary so much, however, that a full discus-
sion would take more space than is 
available here. From what you say in 
your questions, I suspect that the worm 
you are asking about is Trichinella 
spiralis. The disease which this worm 
causes is trichinosis. The dormant larval 
form of the worm is found in lean meat, 
usually pork. If the meat is eaten 
without being thoroughly cooked of other-
wise processed to kill these larval worms, 
they become active in the stomach and 
the intestines, grow to maturity, and 
begin to produce large numbers of young 
worms, which burrow into the muscles of 
the body, where they coil up and become 
dormant. The presence of the adult 
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irritation and distress. As the young 
worms are burrowing out into the 
muscles, the infested person has fever 
and rheumatic pains. If the number of 
young worms is great, the illness may be 
severe, and sometimes fatal. There is no 
medicine yet known that will kill the 
adult worms in the intestines or the 
young worms in the muscles or other 
tissues of the body, without at the same 
time endangering the infested person's 
life. The only way to be safe from 
trichinosis is to avoid eating meat that 
may contain the dormant larval worms. 
MIDDLE-EAR INFECTION: Ques.—
"What is infection of the middle ear? Is 
there any cure for it ?" 
Ans.—Infection of the middle ear in-
volves that part of the ear on the inner 
side of the eardrum. There is a small 
cavity in the bone here, which communi-
cates with the nose and throat through a 
small canal, the eustachian tube; and the 
germs reach the middle ear through this 
tube. Swelling of its membraneous lining 
may close the tube and prevent drainage 
of pus. If the infection is at all severe, 
pain in the ear may be intense; and relief 
and cure will probably require lancing of 
the eardrum to let the pus drain out. The 
hole caused by the lancing usually heals 
well and does not often cause impairment 
of hearing. Neglecting to lance the drum 
leads to two dangers. First, the pus may 
break through the drum, leaving a ragged 
hole which will not heal well. Second, the 
infection is much more liable to travel 
upward and backward into the mastoid 
cells of the bone back of the ear, causing 
mastoiditis and, possibly, thrombosis of 
the lateral sinus (obstruction of a large 
blood channel beside the brain) or a fatal 
meningitis. 
TREATMENT OF FIBROID TUMOURS: 
Ques.—"Do you know any method of 
removing fibroid tumours other than 
surgery? Is it possible for nature to 
remove these tumours? What do you 
think of a natural therapeutic programme 
—elimination, vitalized foods (fruits), 
manipulative procedures, rational exercise, 
and hydrotherapy—for the removal of a 
uterine fibroid? Is it possible for one to 
eliminate fibroid tumours by using raw 
vegetable juices from one to six months? 
Do fibroids in time tend to undergo 
degeneration ?" 
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The therapeutic programme you describe, 
also the use of raw vegetable juices, would 
doubtless do a person's general health 
good, but I doubt that it would have much 
influence on a uterine fibroid. Fibroids 
tend to keep on growing with the passage 
of time, and there is some tendency for 
the larger ones to degenerate. Those near 
the surface of the organ in which they are 
located often cause bleeding—in fact, 
persistent bleeding from those near the 
inner surface of the uterus is the greatest 
danger from these tumours. Such bleeding 
is decidedly weakening, and produces an 
anemia which tends to grow worse and 
worse. Occasionally a person bleeds to 
death from fibroids. They rarely become 
malignant, but this sometimes happens. 
When it does, the condition becomes cancer 
of the body of the uterus. 
LOW BLOOD SUGAR: Ques.—"When a 
blood sugar test comes out 54.5, what does 
that indicate, and what would be appro-
priate treatment? Could you tell me some 
of the causes of this condition and the 
symptoms produced by it? Is adrenal 
cortex in nutritional form given for this 
condition, and would the eating of sugar 
in any and all forms be indicated?" 
Ans.--A blood sugar report of 54.5 in-
dicates a blood sugar that is much below 
normal. The fundamental cause of such 
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Ans.—I know of no way to remove 
fibroids except by surgery. They 
sometimes naturally stop growing. It 
might be possible for them to disappear 
naturally, but I have never heard of such 
a case. I would certainly not advise a 
person with a fibroid to wait and see 
whether or not nature would remove it. 
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a condition is probably the production of 
too much insulin in the body—at least, we 
know that an overdose of insulin is the 
most effective method of reducing the 
blood sugar promptly to a low level. Low 
blood sugar usually causes a feeling of 
weakness. if it is suddenly produced by 
an overdose of insulin, there is also a 
feeling of faintness, with sweating, ap-
prehension, 
and trembling; bun These 
unpleasant sensations are not so marked 
if the blood sugar is low all the time. 
Adrenalin, one of the normal secretions of 
the adrenal glands, tends to raise the level 
of blood sugar. That is the reason why 
preparations of the adrenal glands are 
sometimes recommended in cases of 
debility and low blood sugar. These 
preparations are not very effective when 
taken by mouth; and if adrenalin itself 
were used, it would have to be injected 
to do any good. Furthermore, the injec-
tions would have to be repeated frequently 
in order to succeed in keeping the blood 
sugar level raised, since the effect of one 
injection wears off quickly. Eating sugar 
would be a reasonable and simple measure, 
but to be effective it is probable that small 
amounts would have to be taken 
frequently. To do the most good and the 
least harm, it should be taken in the form 
of glucose rather than cane sugar. 
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HEARING AIDS: Ques.—"I learn from 
your Magazine that 'Ear Radio' hearing 
aids are available in India. Please inform 
me where these are obtainable. -1 am deaf 
in one ear. Please advise which type of 
device would be beneficial to me and how 
to use it." 
Ans.—"Ear Radio" hearing aids are 
available from the Deaf Appliance Cor-
poration, 252 lialbadevi Road, Bombay. 
These appliances enable many deaf and 
partially deaf to hear. However, they should 
not be purchased until one has had his 
hearing careiully examined by a specialist. 
In this way the proper type of appliance 
may be obtained. Usually, if one has good 
hearing in one ear but is deaf in the other 
it is not worthwhile obtaining the 
appliance. 
CRACKS ON TONGUE AND LACK OF 
SENSATION: Ques.—"My tongue is full 
of cracks, and 1 do not feel any burning 
sensation when I eat food with chillies. 
Please tell me the cause for this and give 
me your advice." 
Ans.—Cracks on the tongue and a lack 
of sensation of burning when eating chilli 
suggests that there is something wrong 
with the nerve supply to the tongue. You 
should see a competent physician and fol-
low his advice. 
FILARIASIS: Ques.—"Why is it, that 
no research is done to find a cure for 
filariasis? Could you suggest any method 
for the cure of this disease? What is the 
cause of filariasis and the consequent 
swelling of the legs? Would a change to a 
higher altitude be advisable?" 
Ans.—There has been considerable re-
search on filariasis during the past war, 
but nothing really spectacular has been 
developed. After the swelling has devel-
oped medical treatment seems to do 
little. Surgical procedures are recom-
mended for advanced cases. In the early 
stages much may be accomplished by rest 
and elevation of the legs and application 
of an elastic bandage or stocking. It is 
advisable to avoid additional infection. A 
variety of the Culex mosquito is the 
carrier of the parasites, so the usual anti- . 
mosquito measures as spraying the 
premises with insecticide, using a mos-
quito-net at night, and eliminating 
mosquito-breeding places near one's house 
should be adopted. Also some authorities 
recommend that one should keep fowls in 
the yard near the. house as the carrier 
mosquito seems to prefer to bite fowls 
rather than man, hence the fowls would 
get the filaria and not the man. If one 
can arrange to move away from the area 
where the disease is prevalent to a higher 
altitude, this would prevent acquiring 
additional infestations but would not cure 
the swelling. 
DIETETIC VALUE OF PUMALO 
JUICE: Ques.—"Please let me know the 
food value (vitamins and minerals) of 
pumalo juice. Can it be given with other 
fruit juices?" 
Ans.—I do not have a food table avail-
able from which I could° quote the exact 
nutriments and minerals and vitamins in 
pumalo juice. However, it is a citrus 
fruit and has somewhat the same food 
value as oranges, limes, etc. It comnares 
well with these for vitamin and mineral 
content, but does not have as much energy 
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bowel movement. Kindly suggest its 
cause and cure." 
Ans.—Pain in the abdomen followed by 
loose motions daily should make one sus-
picious that he has some intestinal para-
sites, possibly amoeba. The proper course 
to follow is to have a competent physician 
examine you and send a specimen of your 
stool to a laboratory for examination. 
The doctor can then give you proper 
treatment. 
YOGURT: Ques.—"I was interested in 
the article, 'Yogurt Youth and You' in the 
October, 1946, issue of your HEALTH 
magazine. I am anxious to try it, but it 
does not tell how to make it. Will you 
give me particulars in order that I may 
make it and try it?" 
Ans.—Thus far, I know of no firms in 
India carrying Yogurt cultures in stock. 
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author who is unfamiliar with the curd 
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LOSS OF WEIGHT; SUGAR IN 
URINE: Ques.—"For some time now I 
have noticed a decrease in my weight. 
Urine examination shows fasting blood 
sugar 143. My height is 5 feet 5 inches, 
weight varying between 136 and 140 
pounds. What treatment should I take, 
also what diet is good for me?" 
Ans.—Your question concerning loss of 
weight associated with sugar in the urine 
indicates that you are mildly diabetic. 
With a fasting blood sugar of 143 you 
will probably not have to take insulin if 
you are careful in your diet. Since your 
height is 5 feet 5 inches, a weight of 135 
to 140 pounds would not be too low for 
you. It is better for one's diabetes to 
maintain one's weight a bit below average 
than a bit above. However, at any 
further fall you should again consult your 
doctor. Since you have diabetes you will 
have to be more careful about caring for 
any small infection such as a boil or any 
diseases as a cold, for in those with 
diabetes these things become much more 
serious than in the average person. And 
they in turn make the diabetes more 
serious. You should be very careful not 
to bruise or injure your feet particularly, 
as minor injuries to the toes and feet 
often lead to gangrene in the diabetic. If 
you should develop a boil, or bruise your 
feet, or develop a cold, report to your 
doctor at once and always tell the doctor 
to whom you go that you are a diabetic. 
He will be able to help you avoid serious 
consequences. A careful diabetic may live 
just as long and useful a life as a normal 
person. The main characteristic of a 
diabetic diet is that it is low in cereals, 
and sugar is forbidden, while it is quite 
liberal in vegetables, milk, leaves and 
ghee. Daily you should take: 2 glasses of 
milk (boiled), 1 egg, 1 serving of leafy 
vegetables, 3 servings of other vegetables 
except potatoes, 1 citrus fruit, wheat or 
other whole grain cereal prepared any way 
you like. Limit this to about half or a 
third of the amount you usually take. 
Ghee may be taken freely, and dahl. An 
occasional plantain or papaya will not be 
harmful, but one should avoid all cakes, 
sweets, sweet drinks and puddings, siomr, 
honey or syrup. If you have a (meatien 
about any specific food not forbidden or 
not mentioned here, ask your doe or. And 
if your doctor suggests an alteration of 
this diet, by all means follow his sugges-
tions. for he knows much more about your 
personal case than we do. 
HOURS ONE SHOULD SLEEP: Ques. 
am advised by a friend that three or 
four hours of sleep at night are sufficient 
for the average person, and he gives some 
examples of those who get on with this 
amount of sleep. Is it safe to follow such 
advice?" 
Ans.—The number of hours one should 
sleep very with the individual. The 
average is about eight hours for adults. 
Some people do not feel well and are not 
alert unless they average nine hours, 
others do quite well on six or seven. 
Occasionally one hears of an exceptional 
individual who is said to be healthy and 
happy and alert on only three or four 
hours of sleep. These are the very rare 
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Weariness and exhaustion would in the 
end overtake most of us who without 
genius try to copy the habits of sleep of 
those who possess it. If one still feels 
weary and constantly tired after eight or 
nine hours of sleep, something is wrong 
and one should consult a doctor. 
GAS: Ques.—"I am very thin and can-
not increase my weight. I am suffering 
from gas and constipation, and though I 
have taken vitamin B complex on doctor's 
advice, I have not benefited. Please advise 
what medicine I should take, also diet." 
Ans.—Your having considerable gas may 
be due to any one of a number of things: 
(1) You may be unconsciously swallowing 
air with your food. This results in a 
feeling of distention immediately after 
eating. A little care in swallowing will 
enable you to avoid this. (2) Certain 
foods as cabbage, beans and chestnuts are 
notorious for their ability to produce gas. 
They do not produce gas in all persons. 
So do not eliminate any foods from your 
diet unless you have noticed on several 
occasions that the eating of a certain 
food always produces a large amount of 
gas, anti that leaving it off eliminates the 
development of gas. (3) Excessive 
amount of gas is sometimes a symptom 
of irritation from intestinal parasites. 
You should have a competent physician 
send your stools to a laboratory for 
examination and undergo treatment if any 
parasites are found. (4) Sometimes gas 
is due to defective elimination due to 
improper diet, lack of exercise and insuffi-
cient rest. This is particularly apt to be 
the case among students who are spending 
much time in lectures and classes. One 
should eat daily the following things: 
(1) 2 glasses of milk. (2) Whole grain 
cereals such as unpolished rice. (3) Two 
green or yellow vegetables. (4) One. citrus 
fruit. (5) One other fruit. (6) One egg 
or some nuts. (7) Dahl or beans or peas, 
and whatever else you desire. 
BED-WETTING: Ques.—"My brother's 
(laughter now aged fourteen has wet her 
bed at night since she was a little child. 
She has undergone treatment, but with no 
benefit. Kindly suggest any suitable 
medicine to cure this trouble completely." 
Ans.—The problem of bed-wetting is 
usually not one that can be cured by 
giving medicine. Of course, one must have 
the youngster examined to be sure that 
there is no disease present. After this has 
been eliminated or treated, the main part 
of the treatment is re-education of the 
child's bladder. This involves care and 
encouragement and much patience on the 
part of the one who supervises the child. 
(1) Limit the fluid intake of the child 
from about three hours before bedtime. 
(2) Have the child empty its bladder just 
before going to bed. (3) Get the child up 
at night one or more times to empty its 
bladder. Be sure the child is fully awake 
and knows what she is doing. If 
bed-wetting usually occurs about. 1 a. m., 
get the child up at 12:30 a. In. (4) 
Always encourage and praise the child for 
a dry bed, and don't scold about a wet 
one. The chances are that the child 
doesn't like a wet bed very well but has 
become resigned to it and scolding doesn't 
help in such cases. Praise or rewards for 
a dry bed do help though. Remember, 
there are apt to be accidents even when 
retraining is well established. Don't be 
too upset about them. This habit has 
been going on for years and it will take 
some time to re-educate the bladder. 
FREQUENT URINATION:- Ques.—"My 
daughter passes .urine in small quantities 
about fifteen to twenty times in 
twenty-four hours. Medical treatment has 
been without success. She is now under 
the care of a doctor, but so far shows no 
improvement. When busy with play or 
study she goes very little to pass urine, 
also at night she is not disturbed. Her 
digestion is bad and she is weak, though 
she is not sick. She also suffers from 
adenoids. Please suggest some remedy for 
her trouble." 
Ans.—From your description of your 
(laughter's trouble and from the fact that 
your doctor found nothing wrong at the 
time of examination, I would think that 
the frequent urination is a nervous habit. 
Since she is urinating frequently only 
when she is not occupied at her play or 
studies, and since she does not have to 
rise at night to urinate, I believe that 
with general measures aimed at improving 
her health, she will improve more than if 
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the frequency of urination were itself 
treated. I notice that your doctor has 
prescribed Marmite. This is a good tonic 
and vitamin source and should be• taken 
every day (usually three times a day) for 
at least two months. See that your 
daughter gets plenty of sleep, good varied 
food, one hour of exercise in the open air 
daily, and plenty of pure water to drink. 
If she follows this programme regularly, 
she should eventually overcome her habit 
of frequent urination. 1 suggest that she 
return to your doctor occasionally so that 
she may change the course of treatment if 
anything new develops. 
INFANT MORTALITY: Ques.—"Kindly 
explain to me in detail the various causes 
for infantile mortality. My wife gave 
birth to a son, who was normal in every 
way, but the child lived for only a few 
minutes. Please give the cause•for this."•` 
Ans.—There are whole books written on 
the causes of infant mortality. The causes 
are many and varied. The most important 
fact from the average person's standpoint 
is that if one has a miscarriage or one's 
baby lives only a few hours or days after 
birth, one should see a competent physician 
for a complete and thorough physical exa-
mination, including blood test for syphilis. 
Briefly some of the common causes for 
lack of survival in infants are: (1) 
Syphilis in the mother. (2) Malnutrition, 
beriberi, avitaminosis. (3) Depletion of 
the mother's health by too frequent 
childbearing. (One child in two years is 
considered the most desirable spacing for 
children.) (4) Inapt or misguided treat-
ment and feeding of babies. (5) Various 
acute infections. (6) Congenital malfor-
mations and difficulties due to abnormal 
birth account for only a few. The proper 
diet for a mother expecting a baby should 
include an abundance of fruits and 
vegetables and plenty of protein. Mother 
should take at least two glasses of milk 
every day, one egg, two servings of dahl 
or nuts, two green or yellow vegetables, 
one citrus fruit, one other fruit, whole 
grain cereal, and whatever else she wishes. 
SKIN WHITENING; OILY SKIN: Ques. 
—"A friend of mine is interested in mak-
ing her skin whiter. Her skin is tanned 
and very oily. Is 'Whitex' lotion good? 
Is there any possibility of whitening the 
skin and how can oiliness of the skin be 
overcome?" 
Ans.—Attempts to make one's skin 
lighter usually do not result satisfactorily. 
One should learn to be content with the 
colouring God has given. The care of an 
oily skin begins, strangely, with the care 
of the scalp. One should shampoo one's 
hair often enough to prevent its being 
excessively oily. The face itself should 
be washed twice daily with warm water 
and a good toilet soap. The application 
of Cologne or Mennen's Skin Bracer after 
washing and drying is beneficial. 
FASTING; EATING ONLY WHEN 
HUNGRY: Ques.—"Please enlighten me 
on the following: (1) The advocacy of 
fasting when sick and of fasting once a 
week when in normal health, the former 
as a curative and the latter as a prevent-
ative. (2) The doctrine of 'eat only when 
you are hungry.'" 
Ans.—(1) Most persons 'who are healthy 
and well nourished do not seem to be 
harmed at all by an occasional fast. The 
stomach and other organs do not suffer. 
When there is no food delivered to the 
stomach, the stomach does not produce 
much gastric juice. Many mental workers 
say that an occasional day of fasting helps 
them to think better. But physical 
workers who need the energy of food in 
order to do their work are apt to feel 
faint and weak if they miss even one 
meal. A sick person needs nourishment 
and water often much in excess of his 
needs when well. It is only a few 
diseases which require fasting, and then 
we make every effort to give the patient 
nourishment by other means—as intraven-
ously for example. (2) The doctrine of 
eating only when hungry sounds logical 
enough, but often produces considerable 
irregularity of habits. In many diseases 
there is a total failure of appetite and the 
patient has to be urged to eat in order to 
ensure recovery. In spite of what some 
people enthusiastically proclaim, most 
people do better on a regular programme 
whether it is for food, work, or sleep. 
PIMPLES: Ques.—"I am suffering from 
pimples on my nose. I have been using 
sulphur ointment, Cuticura ointment, 
talcum powder, etc., but to no use. Please 
suggest a remedy." 
Ans.—Pimples are usually simply in-
fected blackheads, so the treatment for 
pimples is the treatment of the blackheads 
that predispose to pimples. (1) Wash the 
face and pimple area twice a day with a 
mild soap and warm water. (2) Twice a 
week remove blackheads as follows: (a) 
Steam face for five minutes with a towel 
wrung out of hot water. (b) Rub into 
the blackhead area a good grade of 
vanishing cream or olive oil. (c) Steam 
again for fifteen minutes. (d) Remove 
blackheads by gentle pressure or with a 
comedo (blackhead) remover obtainable at 
oxsioie.rade 
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JANUARY �SUPPLEMENT �
1948 
KEEP RELIGION FREE! 
N
O more important contribution 
could be made by the United 
Nations in promulgating its proposed 
International Bill of Rights than to set 
religion free from governmental control 
in all participating countries. 
Religious opinions ought not to be 
under the control of legislative 
authority. The citadel of conscience 
should be safeguarded from invasion 
by civil government. Differences in 
religious belief should never be the 
basis for inequalities in the civil status 
of individuals. 
To accomplish such worthy obier•-
tives, I would urge the removal of pref-
erences established by law in various 
lands in favour of any one religious 
persuasion, church, or system of 
worship. Complete religious liberty 
does not and cannot exist where one 
religious organization is favoured by 
the government and thus given a legal 
advantage over other religious bodies. 
When religious distinctions against one 
class or sect are established, in-
equalities result, and the way is opened 
for persecution. 
What I am calling attention to has to 
do with something far larger than 
sectarian freedom alone. My appeal is 
for individual freedom of religious 
belief, the right of the individual be-
liever to practise and promote his 
faith. I earnestly desire to see brought 
about, as a major contribution to the 
removal of the causes of war, universal 
recognition, not merely of the rights of 
religion. or the rights of organizations, 
or the rights of churches, but basically 
of the right of the individual to think 
and act for himself in matters of reli-
gion and without interference from 
any source whatever. 
Government and religion are both 
good, both ordained of God. But they 
do not belong together. One of the 
great contributions that could he made 
to the effort to remove the causes of 
war would he for the proposed 
International Bill of Rights to provide 
that church and state, religion and 
government, shall be kept forever 
separate. 
The history of nineteen centuries af-
fords convincing demonstration that a 
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union of church and state is always a 
baleful influence. The recognition and 
establishment of religion by law and 
the legal enforcement of religious 
observances, or of customs of which 
religion is the foundation, result in 
giving religionists control of govern-
ment to the extent this is done. 
Wherever a union of church and 
state exists, heresy and heretical prac-
tices are likely to become infractions 
of the civil code, punishable no longer 
as errors in religion but as violations 
of the law of the land. When the 
state makes itself the enforcing power 
of a religious body or system, and acts 
to compel orthodox practices and 
observances, dissent in religious things 
becomes opposition to civil law and 
rebellion against the state. That way 
leads to strife and conflict. 
The proper relationship of civil 
government and religion, therefore, is 
the complete and absolute separation 
of church and state, leaving every 
person to the free exercise of his con-
science. Then no person will be 
brought under compulsion to attend or 
support any religious worship, institu-
tion, or ministry, or be subjected to 
coercion, restraint, or molestation, or 
suffer disabilities, penalties, or in-
equalities, on account of his religious 
beliefs, observances, and worship. 
The basic concept of the democratic 
way of life as contrasted with the 
Enforced Religion 
Is Tyranny. 
Statue of Liberty, 
New York. 
authoritarian concept is the integrity, 
dignity, and importance of the indivi-
dual human being. This concept is the 
core of human freedoms. It is the 
hope of many that this will be the 
principal concern of the International 
Bill of Rights and will be placed as 
foundational in the system of interna-
tional justice provided in the Charter, 
and made the underlying purpose of 
the United Nations Organization. 
The democratic principle provides 
for the rule of the majority, but while 
the majority may have unlimited 
power, it does not have unlimited 
rights. The correct principle of civil 
government recognizes no authority in 
majorities over minorities in matters of 
religion, but only in matters which 
relate to the conduct of men toward 
their fellow men. The state is a civil, 
not a religious, institution. No state 
has a right to legislate in religious 
things. Consequently it is without 
right to rule in religious concerns. 
Religion is not within its province or 
jurisdiction. 
Religious liberty is a basic freedom. 
It is affected by every other freedom. 
In turn it affects every othe- freedom. 
It is the keystone of the arch of human 
rights. 
It includes not merely freedom to 
worship, but also freedom to rear and 
instruct children in the faith of their 
parents, freedom for any man and 
every man to change his religion with-
out interference or penalty, freedom to 
publish and propagate his faith, 
freedom to join with others in 
organizing churches, freedom to ac-
quire and hold property for the 
promotion of religion. 
Unless men may believe and teach 
and speak in accordance with the di-
rections of their individual consciences, 
limited only by the well-being and 
liberties of their neighbours, they have 
no freedom. 
Primary. therefore, among all human 
rights is this foundational liberty of 
religion, freedom to believe and to live 
according to conscience. May the 
International Bill of Rights give it its 
rightful place. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, JANUARY 1913 �
1 
T
HE Greek mind seems to have 
been filled with a restlessness 
that gave it no peace until it had 
attempted to solve the deepest problems 
of the universe. Of the Athenians in 
Paul's day it was said that they spent 
their time in hearing and discussing 
some new thing. This attitude of mind 
characterized the Greek people from 
their earliest history until they were 
lost in the rising power of Rome. It 
is this same inquisitiveness that has 
been passed on to the modern world 
and has given rise to the scientific 
method of study. 
The early Greeks were not satisfied 
to accept the religious customs of their 
time blindly, but were intent upon 
learning the secrets of nature. How-
ever. with no background in scientific 
knowledge, their search was more 
theoretical than practical. In spite of 
this fact, nevertheless, there grew out 
of their speculations a vast system of 
philosophy that was bound to influence 
scientific and religious thought for 
centuries to come. 
The first philosophical studies of the 
ancient Greeks were directed toward 
the problem of the nature of the world 
and of life and the soul. Thales of 
Miletus, who lived about 600 B. c., 
believed that water must be the uni-
versal substance from which all others 
are made. Others of his contemporaries 
and followers thought differently. 
Some said that there were four ele-
ments: fire, water, earth, and air. 
Others denied the reality of any of the 
elements, and taught that all natural 
materials were purely illusory, and that 
motion was the only reality in nature. 
Thus, by one theory after another, 
they tried to find the secret of the com-
position of matter and learn what made 
nature function. 
Some of the Greek philosophers be-
lieved in a god, but as in the philos- 
2 
ophies of the East, we find that their 
god was a pantheistic god. They con-
fused nature with God, and failed to 
recognize His personality. God and 
nature are one, they said, and all 
natural phenomena are but the mani-
festations of His being; and since 
nature and god are one, matter is 
indestructible and eternal. 
Empedocles, who lived about 450 
B. c., in Sicily, claimed that each of 
the four elements—earth, air, fire, and 
water—is eternal, and is acted on by 
two forces, love and hate. The end-
less combinations of these four ele-
ments give rise, he said, to countless 
forms of living creatures, which change 
with the passing of time. The ones 
best fitted will survive, whereas others 
will perish. Thus, 2,300 years before 
Darwin, he taught the theory of natural 
selection and the survival of the fittest. 
What looks like a scientific view of 
the universe was first proposed by Lein 
cippus and Democritus in the middle 
of the fifth century B. c. These men 
proposed the atomic theory. All 
matter, they said, is composed of tiny 
particles, the atoms, which are the 
smallest parts into which matter can 
he divided. The atoms are eternal. 
They move according to natural laws. 
There is no purpose or meaning to 
things, only blind mechanical move-
ments of the atoms. This atomic theory 
profoundly moulded the thinking of the 
world for the next 2,000 or more years. 
If the philosophical speculations of 
a few men had been confined to the 
halls and porches in which they taught, 
their ideas might not have made much 
difference to the world at large; but 
their teachings had a wid.e, influence 
in their own time, and have been passed 
en to 1^ter generations. �
It is with 
their influence upon religion that we 
are particularly concerned, 
The naturalistic philosophies of the 
fifth and sixth centuries B. c. had 
shaken the hold of religion on the 
minds of educated men. The old 
myths and legends, though they might 
have been false, had nevertheless held 
the popular mind and had caused men 
to respect religious customs and to fear 
the wrath of the gods upon evil. When 
philosophical research destroyed faith 
in the old religious beliefs and offered 
nothing in place of them, men found 
themselves wandering in a maze of 
uncertainty. They were like derelicts 
drifting on a stormy sea with no 
driving power and no rudder. 
The decline of religious power in 
Greece culminated in the Sophist move-
ment. The Sophists established schools 
to train men for public life. Their 
studies included history, language, 
literature, grammar, argumentation, 
and ethics. At first this movement was 
highly commendable, but as time went 
on it grew into a revolt against all 
establisned law and order—political, 
social, and moral. Modern scholarship 
could well take a lesson from this 
period in Greek history. 
Two men appeared on the scene near 
the close of the Sophist movement—
Plato and Aristotle. These two men 
have probably had a greater influence 
on human thought than any other 
teachers except the Great Teacher, and 
many of His teachings have been 
interpreted in the light of their 
writings. As their influence has been 
so great, we should notice a few of the 
main features of their teachings. 
The outstanding point in Plato's 
work was his doctrine of ideas. 
He 
said that there is no material reality, 
but that true reality exists only in 
ideas. For example, the only true 
circle is that which exists in the mind. 
No one has ever seen a perfect circle. 
So with all things—there are numberless 
ideas, but visible objects fail to meet 
perfectly the ideal concepts. 
Matter, Plato said, is purely illusory. 
The real world, the great world of 
mind, acts upon our senses and gives 
us impressions of reality. God 
fashioned the world after the pattern 
of an ideal world; but since matter is 
not real, and continually resists Gnd's 
attempts to form a nerfect world, t},ere 
is continual evil and imperfection. The 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, JANUARY 1948 
Human Philosophy 
Can Never Ex-
plain the Myster-
ies of Creation. 
THE FAILURE 
HUMP 
HAROLD 
weaning of these ideas is hard for 
modern minds to grasp, accustomed as 
we are to matter-of-fact views of 
nature. Christian Science doctrines 
approach closely to the Platonic 
teachings. 
The doctrine of immortality follows 
naturally upon Plato's concept of the 
reality of things. Only spirit is real. 
Gcd is the great Spirit, and He has 
created other spirits, which become 
attached to the bodies of men. Upon 
death, Plato taught, these spirits are 
released and return to God. Many of 
the doctrines of popular Christian 
theology regarding the soul and the 
future existence have been derived from 
the Platonic interpretation of Bible ref-
erences to the soul. 
Aristotle was the most illustrious 
pupil of Plato. His teachings were in 
many ways opposed to those of his 
teacher. He believed that matter was 
real. The real meaning of things is in 
the things themselves. There is in 
nature a law which drives it toward 
perfection. This principle he called 
entelechy, or purposiveness. At the 
end of the way nature eventually will 
other hand the god of the Stoics was 
one of impersonal intelligence, while 
the God of Christianity is a personal 
God who rules by love. The laws of 
nature, according to the Christian view-
point, are the laws which God has 
ordained for the good of His creation, 
not blind, mechanical chance that de-
prives man of individual freedom. 
Epicureanism was the opposite of 
Stoicism. In its basic appeal it offered 
men a philosophy whereby they might 
find release from the complexities of 
life. By returning to natural and 
simple pleasures, the strenuous efforts 
to find the truth would be avoided. 
Taking the skeptical attitude toward 
religion, the Epicureans denied the 
existence of God and swept aside all 
religious and moral scruples. In the 
mechanistic atomism of Democritus 
they found an explanation for every-
thing. Natural processes are inevitable 
results of the play of atoms. Therefore 
there can be no design in nature. 
Epicureanism was a popular philos-
ophy during the latter days of the 
Roman republic. Weary with the 
hopelessness of political strife and 
foiled in their attempts to find a reli-
gious background for life, men found 
in this doctrine of pleasure an easy 
way to escape from the problems that 
confronted them. "Eat, drink, and be 
merry, for tomorrow we die," seemed 
to be their motto. But such a doctrine 
offers nothing of permanent value, and 
eventually men turned from it to cne 
of two other religions—either the 
mystic cults of the East or Christianity, 
which came upon the scene soon after 
the founding of the Empire. 
Thus human philosophy had run its 
course. Fluctuating from one extreme 
to the other, it had failed to give men 
a solid basis for living. Torn between 
idealism on one hand and blind mech-
anism on the other, they found nothing 
upon which to rest their faith in moral-
ity or their hope for the future. When 
Jesus Christ came to this world, He 
came at a time when human eltorts for 
salvation had reached their lowest ebb. 
The world had tried to save itself by its 
own efforts of thought. What it 
needed was a power from above, not a 
system of thought. 
reach perfection in the pure idea. Thus 
Aristotle's god is merely the personifi-
cation of the principle of truth which 
he located in nature itself. He never 
realized the truth of the personality of 
God. 
Two great systems of ethical philos-
ophy grew out of the doctrines of Plato 
and Aristotle. From the idealism of 
Plato eventually came Stoicism, which 
has peen char,-terized as the rmhlest 
of all pagan philosophies. In Stoicism 
the emotions were not something to be 
controlled; they were to be denied 
altogether. Men should have no 
passions at all. Desires must cease to 
be. A man must live according to 
duty alone. Since we are part of the 
d-ity within us. there can he Po such 
thing as evil. God knows what is good 
for us, and no matter what happens, it 
is good. 
In many ways Stoicism approached 
the principles of Christianity. The 
recognition of God as an ever-present 
spirit, even though in a nantheistic 
sense, laid on mPri the obligation of 
obeying moral �Denial of the 
lusts of the nest' was a doctrine in 
common with Christianity. On the 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, JANUARY 1948 
PHILOSOPHIES 
LARK 
Man's Philosophies 
and Man's Inven-
tions Cannot Save 
the World. 
Edison Listening 
to His First Talk- 
ing Machine. 
PLUNGING TO RUIN 
G
OING to work in the early hours 
of the morning some workmen 
saw a white-robed figure on the top of 
a high house. She was a somnambulist. 
Having arisen in her sleep, she had 
unconsciously climbed the stairs to the 
roof of the building and was now 
standing on the parapet—dreaming, no 
doubt, pleasantly dreaming. 
The workmen wondered Ova they 
could do to save the sleepwalker from 
her peril; but while they were yet dis-
cussing. the problem. the sun arose in 
its splendour, the woman awoke, saw 
her danger, and with a shriek fell 
headlong to her death. 
Likewise, when the world at large is 
asleep, the Sun of Righteousness will 
arise. Even now we see the gleams of 
the dawn of a new day. But 
multitudes 
are living a visionary 
existence, oblivious of the spiritual im-
plications of this solemn hour. 
God has marked this period as that 
immediately preceding the final catas-
trophe of nations. 
In answer to the disciples' question 
(Matthew 24:3) concerning the signs 
of the closing days of this world's sad 
record. our Saviour indicated the 
beginning of the end of time with the 
declaration: "The sun {shall] he dark-
ened. and the moon shall not give her 
light, and the stars shall fall from 
heaven." Verse 29. 
The specifications of this prophecy 
have been fulfilled in modern times by 
the dark day of May 19, 1780. the 
strange phenomenon in the moon the 
following night. and by the meteoric 
shower of November 13, 1833. 
The dark day is on record in Noah 
Webster's Dictionary, edition 1869. also 
in Whittier's poem, "Abraham Haven-
port." Recently it was popularly de-
scribed in the May. 1946, Coronet by 
Vincent H. Gaddis in his article, 
"America's First Black Friday." 
A vivid description of the falling 
stars may he read in the annals of the 
American Journal of Science and Arts, 
vol. 25 (1834), pp. 363. 364, in an 
article by Professor Denison Olmstead 
of Yale University. and in Professor 
Charles Young's Manual of Astronomy, 
page 469. We would empha,;ze here 
that these three events—which Luke 
refers to as "signs in the sun, and in 
the moon. and in the stars" (Luke 21: 
25). the like of which had not occurred 
in all the previous history of the world 
--were given by Jesus Himself as 
tokens of His second advent. They 
!nark the commencement of the close 
of time. 
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ASHLEY G. EMMElt 
But Christ not only predicted when 
the sands of human probation would 
begin to run low. He also character-
ized this period as one when there 
would be "distress of nations, with 
perplexity; ... men's �
hearts �
failing 
them for fear, and for looking after 
those things which are coming on the 
earth." Verses 25, 26. 
Surely no evidence is needed to 
prove that there never has been so 
much international distress on this 
planet as in the century since the 
"signs in the sun, and in the moon, and 
in the stars" appeared, the last of 
which, as we have already remarked, 
taking place in 1833. Following the 
Napoleonic Wars came the Crimean 
War, the Civil War in America, the 
Franco-Prussian War, culminating in 
the horrors of World Wars I and II. 
Beyond question this must be the 
time foreseen by Jesus, distinguished 
by wars of awful intensity, ferocity, 
and wanton slaughter, the bloodiest 
period in all history. John on Patmos 
also predicted a phenomenal anger 
among the nations in the days just 
preceding the advent. Revelation 11: 
18. Scientific, total warfare could not 
have been possible in any other 
generation, and that for lack of the 
causative increase in knowledge re-
served for "the time of the end." 
Daniel 12:4. 
Nor will conditions improve, for 
Christ went on to say that men's hearts 
would fail them for fear "for looking 
after those things which are coming on 
the earth." Thus He indicated that it 
would be no time for humanity to 
slumber in pleasant dreams of 
millennial prosperity. �
On the con- 
trary the state of civilization would 
deteriorate until the final plunge to 
chaos. How few realize the imminence 
of the danger in which they stand! 
Another earmark of the interval 
between the celestial omens and the 
second advent of Christ is humanity's 
moral lapse, described as abounding 
crime and lack of faith. Luke 18:8; 
Matthew 24:12. 
,War and immorality cannot he dis-
associated. "Decreasing moral sense 
has steadily kept pace with the growth 
of armament; for as explosives have 
gone un. morality has gone down." re-
marked, MR ior General J. F. C. Fuller 
in Army Ordnance, July-August, 1945. 
"Treaties are now scraps of paper" 
in this modern age, he observed. 
"Pledged words are sugared lies; 
honour between allies, veiled deceit; 
and obligations toward neutrals, im- 
plements of betrayal. Allies change-
sides, enemies become friends and 
friends become enemies, and the 
leaders of the opposing nations bawl 
at each other like fishwives, until war 
dissolves into a howling pandemonium 
in which every kind of atrocity is 
applauded when committed against an 
enemy, and execrated when perpetrated 
by turn." 
The present capital and labour 
strife, the wave of crime, with its 
sex and triangle murders, juvenile 
"stick-ups" and multiplied divorce, all 
are surtace lesions cf a deep-rooted 
and deadly disease that has humanity 
in its relentless clutch. For all con-
flicts—international, communal, or 
domestic—come of the "lusts that war" 
in our members. James 4:1, 2. 
A lack of vital godliness is our 
besetting social disease. "Man's mate-
rial discoveries have outpaced his 
moral progress," diagnosed Clement 
Attlee in his address to the Congress of 
the United States on November 14, 
1945. "The greatest task that faces us 
today," he declared, "is to bring home 
to all the people, before it is too late," 
"that our civilization can only survive 
by the acceptance and practice in 
international relationships and in our 
national life of the Christian principle 
that we are members one of another." 
—New York Times, Nov. 14. 1945. 
No wonder General MacArthur 
warned in his V-J Day address from 
Tokyo harbour: "We have had our 
last chance." Humanity is about to 
step over the parapet, so to speak. 
We are walking in sleep. The great 
general affirmed: "The problem is 
basically theological, and involves a 
spiritual recrudescence and improve-
ment of human character.... It must 
be of the spirit if we are to save the 
flesh." Otherwise, as he stated, 
Armageddon is at the door. 
How near are we to the second 
advent? While no one knows how 
long the present deplorable condition 
of society is to continue. we d' know 
that things cannot continue as they are 
indefinitely. �
Jesus has not revealed 
the day nor the hour of His coming; 
hut He has indicated that it would not 
be far from the last of the supernatural 
signs He mentioned in His discourse 
to the disciples on the Mount of Olives. 
After defining the signs in the sky 
and on the earth in the interval before 
His return. lie deelprod: "Then shall 
they see the Son of Man coming in a 
(Amu] w;th newer and great glory." 
Read Luke 21:28-33. 
THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN, JANUARY 1948