Sir Matthew Nathan, former Governor of Queensland, Australia, and of a number of British Colonies, was a guest at the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday. Sir Matthew has been in Washington for some time making a study of some of the United States Governmental departments.
After long service in the British Army, Sir Matthew headed the Government of Sierra Leone in 1899. For the next three years he was Governor of the Gold Coast, after which he was made Governor of Hongkong. After two years of service as Governor of Natal, he was appointed to various portfolios in the British Government and special committeeships under Government supervision. In 1920 he was made Governor of Queensland, a position which he held until last year.
COMMUNICATION TO THE EDITOR
Sir:
Weth regard to the report that Dr. Louis L. Harris declares the Jews are susceptible to Diabetes owing to the high tension under which they work, may I say that I am much surprised to see that Dr. Harris does not explain this susceptibility as a result of over-calling, and indulgence in rich, unnatural food.
Diabetes, I believe, is always the result of a violation of God’s laws–whenever people cease to live simply and wholesomely, they are subject to diseases of “heart, blood vessels and kidneys.”
During all the years of my living among the Arab peasantry and Bedouin tribes I never saw a case of Diabetes–these people living a simple life and eating very sparingly.
It seems a pity that such an intelligent people as the Jews should be so negligent with regard to their food. The day will soon come when human beings will be ashamed to suffer from Diabetes as they are ashamed now of venereal diseases.
ALEX. AARONSOHN.
New York, April 15, 1926.
Among the twenty-three Columbia College seniors who were initiated into the honorary fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa on Friday night nine are Jewish. They are Daniel Berman, Saul Bernstein, Clarence I. Blau, Jacob S. Freedman, Abraham J. Gitlitz, Morris C. Goldberg. Murray I. Gurfein, William M. Hitzig, Julizis Jacobs and Walter Prenowitz.
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