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CatnMcntary an the
Highlights of the Week's NeWs
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'M4N, OF "ri-iR HOUR—Captain
An-
thony gden, who resigned Febru-
Ary 20"as..British Foreign. Secretary '
tecadse he ceald not tolerate the
Government's 'policy of ,negotiating
at that time 'with the dictators,is.
looked uPOtt by inottY as a, katibt.,
in-shining-aimor-on-a,white-horse A
deliverer. The Ideal Pit/Sher in-
carnate. •'• • °
. ,
Por. several months fellowing, his
•
resignation Anthony . gdee, kept
strietli. 1i .the backgreitird, leaving
the .field• • clear for; his farmer.
:Chief, Prime Minister dhairibeilain,
to, put his theories into practice.
' now; Coincidental with A.rise of
feelingagainat
' the Govcrn-
incnt's Policies "(as they are %Work-
• „; ing out in Spain, for instance), he
. emerging ,from his, retirement '
' maY•step into the arena again. .
As a potential flritish deader,
Eden has tremendous drawing-pi3w-
• ar. Should liathen- onceimore take
. • _
• tip ?the . cudgels in .defense of. the
League of *thins and collective .-
, security; . he wonld..carry a large '
: percentage -'of the British' pepula- •
than with Mr,. ' •
, •
'DAY -AND -A -HALF .WEEKEND
A' progressive businessman' in one. '
• jai oar more up -and -corning -Western
Ontario, toittris is suggesting to the ;
. „local branch of the Retail Merch-
ants'' Association that • shops and
...placea of business -close sharp ,at
12.30 Saturday noon of . each ,Ni -eek
. instead, of keeping bpen till ail
•hours Saturday .'night? ." He would
have .a. national -half-holiday ,pro- '
'claimed . for every' Saturday,after- ,
•, naonland•A' day-and-a:half week -end
far. the whole : 'Partners:,
in. the • snrtarindipg_area„.coald
ieir iviewe shopping and Willing
on ,Friday , night instead: liredi
•...clerkt and bnainest,'peable \vault .-.
have; '4 chance to rest up before
:Sunday .and- be, able to etim,e back
•;.,refreshed to start their next Week's
• We believe that our progressiye
businesanian lias .Senriething:; •It
to be.hoped.that his suggestion will
. be noticed, taken' up and 'acted 'Lipp
, .
•
on. ,
WHAT • ITALY
thoritative Italian • newspaper.
. nate' , setting 'forth' Italy's'',
• Stand in. the Spanish embroglicP;'de, '
• dares.: ,olgia, conflict. Of interest's al.:
. .
-vidett or can Italy and Spain,
, • •
'who by defending .freedom in the:'
. „
Mediterranean are defending their ,
independence as natiOni.
''•
1t.
plete apit foul mastery of the' Meal,
ferrainean can 1)erni4 one And.ibe"
other to develop its social 'arid eco-
nomic energies.'?' :•0., • :„
• '11.Thieb ildeSn't exactiy.fit in•with!
Great_ pregraM In the
*editerratteap:, We .100d. sat,
BAKTO. THE YVilP.,§7-01siory
tells us that this catintry,•originailY
beqinged ta'the.iridianse Then the
French took it away froih then),
; and thh,Englisa took it 4waxiirain.'
'' the: Freael.. .Onc.!. a.;:;
4ei'ce aPd•PwOtfilfrace; became" to
'a. certain : extent a Subject..
• living in "reset:ye,' areas;:.; ;
Canada-• • is .becolning itioreaaingly
• hard. to deal wlth. A kind of .pseu-
do -civilization has been imposed 011
, the Indians:1:7 their 'close " contact,
wig! White people; tuberculosis is
takiag, a terrible 'tell: of
' liveS;• inroads bywhite trappers
and ;Minters have el:Moat destroyed
their livelihetail, the hunting and
trapping: by whichIndians used to
Support themselves.; '
doinilsitru4t-iii.;e 01, eanigngdei.a'antioripsro:b;eitifer
do
were advanced in the House at Ot-
tawa last week by Siiperintendent-
' d,eneral ;of. Indian affairs •••Crerar.
-Plans, he said, are already, under
way:. in the :Northwest', :Territories
to. Set-aside large areas where in -
diens May. pursue . their aneient.
• cation. Of ,trapping and 'hunting un-
, disturbed by the white man:
woud advocate also that efferts be
:Made ;to . train 'Indiana' as . guides
and .fOrest, workers, park attendants
•
and to teach Abein.. woodcraft :and
• b.4thr:611F4 '•• • 'r
:
NEW PACT MOOTO)—Ilnder. con7':
• sideration at the present:time IS
;Pact of Mutual. 'eSsistaitee-betWeea , •
France and Turkey. . Otr the sur -
'face this may net appear to be very
inipertant, bitt•shenid an.agreement'
be reached, it would provide France:
.1 With a contact -with her:Powerful
• 'ally, Rhasia;-.`througli the. Darden-
.shouid the north ,route be-
tween Franceerid the '.'poiCt. ,Union
be blocked by,Gerinany in the event
:of lipstilities'....- • '• '
• Tp.e• trea0T: would :also. serve 63'
'.1ink: 'Prance More .strangiy with- the
•,Little Entente (dzeehoSlovakia,
Yugoslavia,- Ilbuniania) and the bat- 4
„•kan Ehteate.:(ThrkeY,•dregee you,
'Mania and YugoslaVia),,a11;ef which
gauntries . Germany I•and 'Italy are
trying .6:attach to • the Rome -Ber-
lin
,
aXiS. '
• "
Slightly Bab* .
.,Year 'Ago Dominion Bureau
of Statistifz Report Indicates.
Spring Wheat and.: Coarse
Grain; Shaw. Improvement. :
...,..•COnditien figures 'for . afl field
„crops in Canada At the 'end of May
. were 'all'.:clOae to normal and, with
:the exception of Fall. wheat, . were.
weIl.ahovc . the .condition figures at
thesametinte last year. the
.13ureaU of pt.ati3O,cs.'rePorts. ,
. Pall: 3,Vheat prospects in:: Ontario
:41010, below .theee of a
year!aga;:'Wliiie Fall -rye conditions
in the Prairie 'Provinces are :mita&
ly•bettetthan in 1027: 'spring wheat
• And ...coarse.;grainS, are , showing a
•cantiderable • iMprOVement, • over .
their Condition at this date 'a Year
ago, as. a 'result of more norrriai
.Moistare conditions in the Prairie
:Provinces; including ,, the
• grass -
plains area which: last year was so
markedly affected • by drotight •
" Pasturage Better .
Pastures and forage • crdps are '
• greatly improved. inthe West, and
are considerably :better „hi Ontario .
'atid;-.4tItiebee this. -Year in :the
.' settee Of an open Whiter .WhIcil re•
suited .in. Winter-killingha year age.
' In Ontario, the linik; Of ,the,Spriiig:
" grain Was planted from 10 days to
• • two weeks earlier . than last year,
'iti.now in about average 'Cari-
GerminationhaS beep good
.aed.inast lielda show an even stand.,
• Fall wheat has made' excellent
except in .‘47.6Stril Ontario.
witere.qUite a.'"feW'fielda are report,
a little thin and patchy. Frese.nt.,
.ptosPeeta,however, indicate an al,
'moat :average yield, •()id alfalfa
,fieldswere badly Winter -killed.
, 'Other hay .and 'Clover; ' and. neW
seedingiof alfalfa are generaliy',
making satisfactory groWth. Pas-
turea': are good fiat. 'this dine • of,
year, • •
•
. 'High tre,441.1
, , . ,
.From Pneumonia
.The' •slight ,:det:line•h pneutinia
m�taBt in tbdlast fifteen' yeara .
Is insignifiCailt,"Cofroared With. 'the
• &Cline M. deathaStain such coiman.
nfeable"diaeases as titbercitiosis and
diphtheria; Dr, A. 11.:•Sellers,.Med17
• cal 'Statistician of the Ontario. De-
partmeneof Health, told, delegates
to the Ontario Health Officers As-
aociation's 24th annual -convention
• in Termito. last week. • ".
)1.1te death records,". he pointed
out, '''make it quite clear that pneu-
.monia: is quite prevalent through-
.
out (intern!, As a cause Of invalidisnand death; it far exceeds all the
eorniatinicable diseases Of.cbild-
,
hood and very few acute conditiona
• have such a high' death rae."-,., .
P1ieurtion1ci1e--7stated,; ranked
•• fourth aniong tbe Chief, cense§ of
. death in Ontrvio, with 66 per pent.
Of: all' pneuntoriia deaths. eccurring
at home.: ' •
Volcano Drives
Native Insane
..,• •
Another .Dies of .. „Fright. When
Eruption inPhilip-
pines Reaches Climax; .
Sinoire. and 'denies shot from., .•
• yort volcano in the .PhilifipiiieS with •
great violence 'fait week; terrorit,,
frig. the populace Of Albay 'Previtide
and., causing the ,deitth of.oneman'
thrthigh. fright, '
' The sixdaY..eruption of the ,70,)0
' feat peak Mounted in intensity,
causing' fear that the climax or the.
Volcanos aetivity as yet to
ikenerta franr. the •village of Foe ,
said 0t0... man 'there died of fright
while the Siglit.ot the 'flaming vol-.• •
eatio; which had been quiet for 10
had d:',i,ven'a,.tuitlirr ,nttto In
,._
Earthquakes •Accompanied ,
.After.,a night of e ose,ap. obser-
Vatiott,'Iley,' Miguel Selga,.. directur'..
'Of ,the V';'eather Bureau; ex,
preasett'apPrelienaion that tlie..acti:'
vitY, of the crater Might be graver.,
• that .nt.'first.'0,As indicated:. ttot
• 6•Airthelit,akew adtotmyfit)10'the 1
ibigs from the.crater.
Mole than 10,000 -villagers of lire
Area ,200.'itillea •Seutlictiat 'of Manila
11ao Y4cated their homes -and have ••••
'• iietight Safety'. frani. the lava flOw
,
from the. `velean,o Ichich caused tile
•'death bt 1,200 IpeePle IA an ,brup*
-' (jail, lfl 1s,11, • ,
•
• •••
apsules Reduce
Accident Flazwisd-
• May One Day Be Used BY Mo-
torists to Guarantee Safe.
Driving"ImProve Vision
• .
It may not be long 'before an au.
tomobile•driver- willswallow a cap-
sule to help, keen WM out 0! mot�r.
ing accidents at` night,. • •
• That proceditre, -was hinted at in ,`
expeqinents"reperted an •Ohio7,
' Medical Journal article, • • The capsule is fi1ld with caro'
lniprOyes„visioti
• in the Varlc.,; reducing eyestrain ands?
fatigue; tWO • big. canSea' Of
smash -tips.
pserot the ;capsule as "Safedrit,
.ing .41e:clic/ea". Was. .
reetly by. the, experimenter's:* pr.
• Ralph Wise,. eye • i.pecialist. of
• Mansfield ()" and !Dr; a •11. Shet-
tier Of tae Medical department ,tar"
. . .
the Westinghouse Electric Com-
• ie'Ven Eye .Fat'i9.4"
The Ohio: Journal' article on the if
W9r1,1was devoted
entirely to the primary •concern of
the etiperiments:--relieving eye fa- '
tigae among, certain' types bf
In-
dusrial workers and thus -,improv-• .
ing • the workers' general health
and PaPneltY for work.
The article'. reported that by
,the .workers 'three carotene -in.
oil capsulei'„dAily, Vision; was iso .;
iinpreved:lhat the ,ehicien0 of col-
or -matching irispectors„: in a mer-*
.:Chandising plant was increased
more, than .15 Per cent,
.Improv the Health ,
.As a by-product ,Ot the teats,. the ,
. article said, 'the ex5erimenters'
• covered an...appreciable •••
.ment improve -
in the workers! .
. Anotlief :•by-product, the doctors
disclosed in connection with the
„ tiele, •-wasz-the capsules' effet .on
1".0.4r7df.ivi '777
• A'. 'mintier of employees' he •said;'''
reported, that Whereas they. had ••
dreaded night driving'prier to tak-i
' 'Mg the. capailles, they ,fatihd motor-
- •ing no longer a, strain .after usiflg
the medicine.• ,
1
Germans Suggest
Economic Empike
Papers Cite British Treaties As
Example for Balkan Areas
• '..Two', German newpapers are
urging the campaign : for , Reich
econorniC hegemony ;:'in the rich
Balkana. and 'Danubian 'Basin . be
furthered„ by according "dOrnin-
ion" status to these areas under a
system of ACeards similar to those.
.evelVect' for the, British perinnon
wealth of Nations:. by Imperial
Conferences of the Past, '
7 The Berliner. Boerseti ,Zeitung,
criticizing' the ."incomprehensiori":-
of the deinOcracies of "problems"
.facing Czechoslovakia's Sndeten,
Germans and other Southeastern
European issues, said the Balkans:
and the Danubian Basin,: muSt he
tied to the Reich just as the .seV-
eral Doininions;-.ate. 'linked With
Greta Britain, .•
'• With. Preferential Tariffs
The nevvspaper 'Germania, in
Nw'suggesting. an, eminernic,: plan in
which the equiyalent of a •Colon-
ial •,erimire *mild .b..e;• achieved by
preferential: tariffs Modelled after
the .BritiSh Empire's teconomic
.; agreements, contended that the
Reich and ,-Italy should play •the
„central role. Enjoying primary
links • with them,. wotildHun-
gary. • Yugo
Greece, Albania, Spain . and, the •
Spanish Colonies. On the herder
• Of the :CdOnomic "conirnonwealtli"' -
would stand Poland, Rumania,:
. Turkey and Japan.
•
Plan Would Shift
Half Population
Within 72 Hours
,
., The British Goyernment.and.. the
railway coMpanles have Worked mit
;a: 'plan 'under, whielt .3,500;000 'pea-
ple cottld he Ineved• At least ..50.
miles ;froth London by rail In zg
lietirs, Geoffrey Lloyd, Under,Seere
tary
to the IfoineOillce: to1,47the '
' .11:Ouse of Commons teat Week. .
• A,Piatt. for' ,reception „cif 'Snell re,
fugees, • in...the" ;event • of an -eriters
,genc.y,„, 'and. ;their ,diSposal In rural.
:areas, al So waa:drawn tipt.-said Mr,
1,16YdaShe tel for the Ger-
i' , .•
erninent ,tt ebate' en 'aft. raid. ,
eautione'. , •
„
Bomb Proof •,Sliefters
• 'Earlier it Saninei Roareillionie
"Secretary.; reveaieddetails' o'ebtlier
,preparati6nS to prOtect pclpulations
Of largeclt10S Ile stated., trench
'Atid.dug-Otit air raid shelters Aceatn.
'it -iodating 11 O 1,50.0,p00. „people
• :timid. •be buit lij London's- open
aPaCes,. •' • . '
'pci sit op 1 1116.1);, formed at
er."Jpristitittion beiween
.•fice experts and obser-Veri'd se•re,to
bombings, "in i4 ArdtIon,A .and Other ,
'Spanish- . GoVertinient elties, Sr'
'anluoISaid,,,Washtlat it WAS better.
te. diSPorie. the Population 'ot 'A raid.,
cd
than tt?trY tO ,ebildentrate them
vast underground , cenatrifetiOilS,
. ,
THIS PAP..E.R„ NE.
. . .
Snappy Microphone Gossip About the. Week's Radio
Programs and Personalities : . By Freddie Tee
WATCH FOR I
FHE •WOIZI,D
AT LAdE
of, the
CANADA,
THE EMPIR4
CANADA.
Five Kin& of Wolves
The Sault Star, says there are
three kinds of wolves in'Algorna.
—thetimber, the bruth• and the
.e9Yete, What about the other two
••'•-•,L•the', human .wolf and the wolf at
' the door? • St 'Themes Thaw.
Journal., • '
.Goes Often, Anyway'
Ari Ontario dean asserts. that
Coining of the. Catiediazy five -cent.
•• pieces ',was -a ctitse to ' the
'Church" Still; it may, be said. for
the nickel' that it 'goes to :chtirch-
oftener than :-thq.'bigger eoit:is, 'Or
.d01161- b,iM.-714onfreal. Gazette.
- Not '$o Far. From War
is not so 'far away from. War dan-'
- gera as the.; , more ' complacent
Canadians :iniagine._ Even in.: the
Great , War an attempt was •init1
to 'Now up a ' factory in Wind(.
That was just a'. taste of ,,'what
might be 'expected ,in the way of .
Incidents in these days. of IMProv-
ed ways' of :killing people—Wind- ".•
ser Daily Star. •
Why Not Cut Salei Tax?. .
•,:it has ,been .pointed out that the
. Canadian Nationall RailWaya, sys- '
teni.paySahotit $5,000;0,00 annual-
ly in sales tali. In .Other Words, ,
the anionnt I May be -.reckoned as •
„Part of the deficit.: niet through
taxation.. The , salas tax is also a .
substantial -;limn in the ', cosi , af.
goods purchased by school boards
-and 'Other municipal bodies.' Ifit
cannot be abolished • it ought at
least to be reduced from the prei-'
. ent high.' level.—Woodstock '..Sen-
tinel -Review.' • -• • ' •
. -
Hit -and -Run Cowards
. Six hit-and-run accidents;' one .
--death ,And ,f9ur .persons -injured
during :the; week -end': • That Isla .•
---
• pretty Monday, re_ ning reflection '
for . any so -Called fivilized'.', con1-
4rinnity-,to get t f it,self. How long '
is Ontario &nig ' alloW it to go
' on? How •Many. People have to die
.nnatteridedin roadside! diiches„be-
. foie ;public opinion moves against
this inest :contemptible of cow-
ards? :Where do we draw the line..
lietiVeen7 a man who deliberately
murders and.orie who, knowing he
has injured. another, Sneaks off to
let liim: ilie, so inhumanly, perhaps
', rieediesslY?—Toronte Globe 'gnil
_ _ . . .,
Mail. ., •
Our Canadian "Cities •
. ;Another thing that might
be standardized throughoat the
• Dominion is the population
before eamitimity may
he incorPorated as ' a city. E'er .
many years an Ontario town could -
'become a city' if it peeeeaseci
•'popullitiOfi. in exccss of 10,000,'•
and it /MS, been , repeatedly shg-
gested that Brockville should take
advantage' of that stipulation and
get out of ,the ranks of the towns
• in : which she has been situated
since 18320. Within recent0 years,•.however, the provincial lawmakers
have „raised the 'standard, And 15;-
000 is the population now requir-
ed of a community before it ma .•
legally, attain cityhood. At that
rate, 'it appears that -Brockville
will have to Wait for some years
.before it joins the other cities of
the Province. • But in Manitoba a ,
place May still beconie a city when
:•it has 10;000 or ever. In Alberta;
A cityznieana a canntunity of 5,600
or More, And" in British ,Colintbia,
it is. actually the :laW that ,Any
place "with. 100 Male inhabitants•
, inay become, incorporated ,,as •a•-•
city. Brockville; Recorder and ,
• • ;
• •
The: EmplRg
"Salute for the 'Goose •
, It the Spanish war, ends With a
Victory for the„ iristirgeriti while
the CiecliOslovak question is Still
;in the balance, French.. find
herself faetitl hat only With "the.
. ,
German menace to her': ally but
with an Italy able and Willing to
raise all, Setts of trouble iti 'the
Mediterranean,' to, etit the , sea
routes to the Pretioli enlePies;
•
per-
haps to help . General Franco in
in'
some, demonstr*on .against the •
French' frontier. This State Of
,things is only .to be ' ended if ,
France admits Italy's right to in-:.
• ' tervene in Spainwhile forbidding
herself the mildest of 'counter
• measures. ' The logical, and .suffi-
cient ' answer to this is obvious
enough: If Signor Mussolini con, -
siders that 'France is "intervening"
dangerously in the Spanish vyar- he '
has , the, remedy .of declaring . for.
genuine intervention on Rill -sides. •
, France, Britain, and the
peaceable States of Europe 'would
• .be • oterjoyed to see all "volun-
teers" withdrawn .from Spain, all
, supplies of, war 'material stopped:,
There is .not 'much *doubt that the
• civil war would end. etuickly
. • • . •
enough ifits conduct were left
.--to-the7:SPaniardsz-themselveKrBitt—
, if Italy will not agree' ,to
terVention.thert she Should have ho.'
right to; complain &enif the
tervention of other Powers were
on •a scale to match her own.
Fa:nails Skull h
Restored to Body
,
• VIENNA4—The skulLof ; Frani
Joseph Hnydn, eighteenth Century
Austrian eoniposer;' is to be re-:
stored to the Test' of thebody,
froni...which it was ,separated '129.
years ago. Mayor Herniann Neu-
bacher has ordered the skull, for
years the Property of'the„ Vienna
• Men's' Singing Seciety, retuzned to
the resting . place of the body in
the Burgenland town ...of Eisen,-
stadt. Haydn died in 1800 at the
age,. Of 77. Two days after ..his
,funeral the skull was stolen film
his coffin, •
According ..to 'aiOtaid Yorkshire
SuperstitiOn, cutting a. chi1ds nails
duringi,the :first yearof his ;life
birn -to 'g'itow ufi' a thief:
Britis
$8,750,000 Will Be Spent In
.• Effort to Win Market 's"
Filmirsg Gilbert & Sul,
,
livan ColerS
' -• Pinewood Studios 'Over, ,Bucks,',
has annotiacedlhat $1,790,000 ($8,-
750,000) willbe spent on dime there
in the next .few" Months,: This'.
nienus work for .2,090.:. people untll
• the end 'Of OOt4her.--
:the. A/Men.tieeMent Iles ta.•
vh•f$: '1?Ooh" to estahlish.. 130tiol.t."
grom• On. the. World's Mar-
kets. ' •
Although : RineWOod...wa5; only
•
completed 18 nlontlls ago' With' •
cries:thatlt would -never be...a Sue -
cess the. 'Fonp4ny. p,oh'10 It MAY •
,....prove the. real pioneers of a Come- ,
back in British Bons:..
• The :most: •C4tpenspte filnis Wilf.‘ be
A adored version Of Gilbert . and
'Mikado" costing .£.40.0i.! •
Wordr will . start on that within.
the ri.e*t tWAnionihs,..And it will .be
•felloWedby n.reoinan, of the 'buard,"
:•.involving Another 'zioo,op.o.„• •
enefo,i4 a 1)90.41 corning, and we ,
are ready for -It. • Our studios are
capable .0f.,Pretiticing any film, no.
matter how. amnitieus It may be.
flt is now the: finest studio in the
,CanntrY and ,in 'many. respects
sil-
Perior to liellywocat,"-
.." •
Chenust .Serves
As Caterpillar
Now, instead of carefully guard-
ing --millions of caterpillars, pre!,
vkling thern. with bushels.
of 111U1-
bci-ry leaves. ad waiting patient-
ly .f.or the .pr yerse creatures to
'spin their ; silk -covered „ cocoons,
--the.;..chernist;takeS,,!a,ffahort-cut.--and,
turns plant.I.Material into
withotit, an intermediary, • "
. The. mulberry leaf'eonaurned• by
the .silkworm contains, ...Cello:198e,
the "principal raw - Material used
in the manufacture Of rayon.' Bilt
thefibres of silk and rayon are
:quite different cheneiCally. The
chemist Chooses the Stiruee tree
and cotton plant -as his source of
highly purified
The ,silliwerrn is also a chemist,
but it changes. cellulose.. into a
filament -that is chemically, a' pro-
tein c'ompOund, extruding through..
two ergans :called spinnerets. 'I'his,
niakes several important differ-
116es in the end products. One
is 'that'. silk demands 'different
dyes than rayon in* order' ' to:..
achieve best 'resaltS.Another int -
portant difference is that ' While
nothing tan -be '.dotie.-(9--goVerii
!the size of fibresspin , by :the"
worni; rayon can be spun any. de- '
sired size from Alarnents finer than .
silk to others more coarse ;than
. horsehair:Likewise; chemicals
be used to Modify or control.ithe
degree. Of :lustre or dulness of
• rayon Yarn. '
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'Recognized. the World over as the
setentiat ,whe Madeone'Of the Meat
ihiP,Ortant;diricaverieS of 'Oar:
the etre foi diabetes, Sir Frederick
Grant Beating, ICBM,' haa given'7
Canada." reason 'for ' taking . great
pride lii
site!' a nat've son• belie
,
.factor -to hurna.nity,'and t 0,14v
man,:
/101%.47 yeare 'ago' M
Ontaldb;.•Prederick 'flantiag attend, •
eil he lOcal.publie and high sehOola
end' passed ofl to the sttidyof medt
eine: at "the:;Tini;g.er$ItY of +-.roronto,:
Aft&gitaiNgtioti, he enlisted with.
. •
C. OVer;
seas, as WOUnded at Cerebral, ad,
,
ddrated With ',the, Miiitary':Croa
, .Following the -.war he entered the,
Sick • Ohildren'a 'Hospital, Toronto,
as reSidentaiirgeOh,' iiliaitly,gaing •
to Learnt,. Ontario; ;Where he
. ed the, aid( Of the •'University Of',
Western ..(intario„ Work ia g With the ;
lii. 1921 the
:.ycithig, scientist tattle to. Toronto,
Oo MO 19th Of tha yea hd 'began
"•his ePOdli.making research.into the..
internal:seeretien of the Pariereati„
:•eXPerithenting Withntigs arid' -Oit
"!
THE
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.Epo6hAtlaking b;scovery;
In Maich of 1924- the .discovery
as announced • to the world 'of an
extiact obtained 'from the "islands"
, .(special little grOtiris'.of tissue) of
tbe. ..pancre.as. of 'animals• Which, •
-when-injected -1nit-Atlitilifertreitig7.'
with diabetes :Would, 'overeanie foal-
• ty.; Oxidization -in the body (inabil- ,
. . . , • • ,
;- tty to utilize starches and sugars)
and ehire the diamise.' • •• •
Dr, Hantingand.lifiecr•workeri.b.
hos't, received .tretriendoiiti,ac*.
claim thrOugheat the . World "'for '
'•their.AisCovei.y.„Di panting' Was.:
.,..awardeil with; the Nobel Prize the
following year; the. youngest man':
,to win it He has 'since been •Itein,
:'•ored by Many Medical and •aciett-,
'tide bodies this and .other.lands,"
„During -the .past. few Years, While .
• lie has been PrOfesser of Medlcal
Research at the -University' Of' Tor.;
.Onto,. 'Sir 'Frederick has Interested; ,
himself in.cardiae .diseasea;•'eanCer
reeeareh, p'rev•;tition:9(siliebsis,, a
speeiile to%eure infantile 'paralysis: 1.
has 'invest!'.-L'ated the qualities'ef '
the ,royal jelly' of. the giant bee, be
'Betting ft might.eontabi prOpertfee
capable of .prOlonging ' lite. -He has
:disedyered:',,nny Uses for :leatilin;
.itt a *bask t reAttn an t for Men tali. d I
..‘eases;.10 Casea af ipilnutiitlon In'
lessening'', the .effects ot Infectious
• diseaSes.,.
More and More irt.eitarch
With. regaid to the search for a
.ture-for eatteer, 'Sir:Torederiek te
'.•tently, Said: oThesolution of
• caiteer problemprobably- will -hot..
'•• eanie• by chance., but by ftirther fre•o,
'Search, ,What .Is needed In the !.
treatMent for caneerla. speCifie,"
itesearth ' and • niore'
whet ha' calls, tnr,'
At Pteseht„Lit. Baking is Chair,
mail of the A0bditt0tnitte0�h
lItedicai IteSeareli of the National"
Researdh COOACII of tanada,.''Thia-
tO tour'the Domn
l�n front doast to cbaSt
eadh. of the prinditial. centibit In tarri
to learn a t"tikst: hand . of ;the 'sClen..
tifie WOO( lit''PrOgreaa •
riends,Rarksoin
Noted Scientist
axis Paid to Releaze Dr, Freud
From Germany, Conte=g,:_da
. Reveal • ,
•Pil':1?47.SYtihflit141nr4:(5/1 "-
established "himself in London, -'
°nie4f1.1:gunaltheeS
/kl.
)aar;LAduig.:41:tiawneAku,t.1), 7and 4'ities.c0,., it was,
Through friends
of the 82-yearrOld scientist it be- ,
conie known that -physicians,
ethleatorg and.Plen of Wealth '
teiasted in 'obtaining -the release
Of scientists held prActi'Cally
pris-
oner in Austria .have .accumulated
substantial fund'to .facilitate
their departae to Other lands':
• •;; 'This been .nned to 'an."-
' Sist many, scientists-. PIA ot "AIW
' tria, it was explained, and spe'cial'
..efforts had been, made tn 'Dr._ •
Freud's behalf. Just how' flinch
r igannN
e. YWa ;is nt oturned.1:ibt ionv rt r%oAs ius;
for Dr •Freud to leave'the' Country
could not be ;learned,: nor to whom
the -money was actually paid, It .
was known, 'hciweirer,: that the U.S::
te
ttiShnht :aa United
diplomatici1. D°cbPtaaritr7tlonet.:111:' States
Ph Giwi toasNse:. nele,t1 nea9 mat- co-Operat-
ing
raai
in
Austria saw to it that 'Dr. Freud -
got safe Passage'. across .the Aus
triaa
'
Masi ThinkingHarms Britain.
Be Individual; Be Independent,'
Says Earl. Baldwin- '
' • •IVIeehanized: 'amusement; • ingekt,,;;
-"Wiiried' 'and' ' inechanized.;-„:.
• thblight says EarfBaldwin,
consti-
ttite 'dangerlin Great Britaiti•to".
,
The fernier prime • niinister, opr
enint'a corrutunity hall at Wilton, '
England; declared: "Gitir England
•has .always been a 'country of M-
' dividuals, of individual. thought, of
iridividual Work, of, individttal
Minds; and I pray God it May al-
ArVveys be so.": . .
Modern transpOit had inereaSed
• • , • 4
the influence%pf the' town the
Country. The tante: films Were
sten, the ,samp newspaper's' read,'
ill toWri and country', •••
'
"The danger Of that," contend -
cd Lora. Baldwin, getting a
.kind Of standardized; suburban, •
'nlcchanizcdmind, and it is, in
view aa2EngliShmen, thc iMproper,.`
use.. o'f-tiiese--tnedia
countries -today has enforced. upon -
the peoplea: re'giiii,entation'. of :
thought which., we; believe is :• a '
great danger for the: future." "
• •Hoping •the ,,ceitimanity ,hall
wauld-'he a:.nieensof, recreation
• , and enlighteninent,, lie , :warned:
"13e yourselves of the old English
countryside.Be your own pet- •
.fOrrnets,':.for your .own
yourselves, . think Youi.
Oivn thoughts, -.act, as you will; be- individual, ,
,be independent:"
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Electricity Trains
Disordered Minds
lielps Epileptics; New Idea Is
Explained to Psychiatrists
Meeting in San .
Francisco
.The use of- • .electricity to train
:11 disordered brain so that its im-
pulses return td the mental path-
ways Of sanity was ,suggested to '
the AineriCan .Psychiatric Aisotia- .
,tion,.. meeting at San Franciseci
• last week. ,• •••
••• 157; Persons Treated•
• T'his. new use for .electricity‘ has
shown its possibilities in; expen- •
thents on 157: • 'epileptic personsll
conducted . by Wilder Penfield, Of
McGill University, and
• boldrey Of Montreal. They use
.virttlally the seine kind ,of
ex-
trcrnely rild electric, current
which is given off by the brain it-
.
The brainetirrent is a series Of
• eleetrienl waves, - representing pe- •
tentials of a few Millionths of a ,
volt eaeli. It, flcws from a noririai
brain nt the rate of , about 10
. waves .a second.- Prom the brains
of epileptics the ,electrital'pulse"
, is ,SloWervartsi more irregular.
• Locate Seat of"Waves'
•. The Madill . University phyti-
ciatis located the seat of
.leptie brain waves. :Then they ap-
i plied a 'shied electric stimulating
.Jcnt, to the- part Of the- head -
nearest the'ertileptie centre. •
The electricity Applied to these
af.CAS caused mild attacks Of
• lepsy. They -were; not enough. tO'
" cause uneoniiciaitsneas: The-, pa-
tients , were ' able .to give the „doc-
tors intelligent . descriptions of,
their feelings. • •
.
• in this way itwaslearned that
the; brain disorders which dense\
ePileptie Attacks
•
habitual pathways in gray Matter.
Epilcpsy Is:thtta shown to be Part.
,I, a matter of the brain getting
,into bild 'habits. in paSsing
, IneSs-
ages to or frOtn..the nerve's,: •