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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-03-21, Page 6ural Ontario 'Needs 'Attention In Health Matters Expert Voices Serious Situa- ation Affecting Villages and Country Alike TIME FOR ACTION by DR. GO$OON BATES General Beoretary, Canadian Social Hygiene Council Ts the life of a farmer worth as Much to Canada as the life of a political background and has been Stockbroker in a big cit?y I think so.;: Then why is it thatso troch more money le spent on safeguarding the stockbroker's life, and health; titan the farmer's? Why is it that to keep the stock- Urolcer Healthy, the big, city has an emciout medicai health officer, work. ing all day, every working day in the year, and an excellent health depart- ment, while the farmer has only au overworked, part-time country merl- cal health oM ee. to advise him about what to 'V° in order to keep from get- ting sick? Of course, it is an excellent thing that the city people should have their big health organization to protect them against typhoid, smallpox, dipth. eria and all the other diseases that hill so many Usousanus of Canadians, every year, long before they have liv- ed out their three -score -and -ten, For it has been proven beyond a doubt that in Toronto, for just one in- stance, there would be 2700 more deaths every year, if it were not for the activities of the Toronto Medical Health Officer and his staff, in keep- ing sickness down and saving lives from disease. But if that is the case—and it un- doubtedly is—then why shouldn't peo- ple in the country, and in towns and villages share in all these life-saving advantages? Their lives are just as Important to Canada as the lives of city dwellers. We are all Canadians. Yet every year, in rural and semi. rural Canada, thousands of lives are lost that could be saved, if these places had the same public health work done for them, that the cities have. Tne answer is that public health work, though it saves lives, costs money. And the big cities have the Honey to spend while the rural coun- tieshave not. But is that altogether fair? Already many prominent Cauadians are begin- ning to decide that it Is not, More and more, people are beginning to think that health is a national assest, more valuable thangold-mines or rail- ways ,and as valuable as crops and and that is must be conserved, In Quebec, where people began t,. f,:ei this way so,rso time ego, they or- ganized "County Healtii Units" -- mail, full-time medical health depart- ments. Since than, the counties pro- tected by these County Health Units have had fewer deaths and fewer eases of sickness than ever before, Their health has improved amazingly. Hundreds of lives have been saved. What has worked in Quebec will work equally well all over Canada. Some day every part of Canada wit, have County Health Units. Even now a plan is being worked out— and it is hoped that it wi,I be adopted --whereby the Dominion and the pro- vinces will combine to help the coun- ties to pay for full-time County Health Units. Some such plan must inevitably be put into effect. Until it does, valua- ble lives are being lost each week in rural Canada—lives that the country Can til afford to lose. Lives that Could be saved, if country people had the same chance that city people have - An amusing story tells of a well- known artist in tha fifties of the last Century who was much upset by a Strong criticism by Ruskin of one of his pictures. Ruskin heard of this, and wrote to the artist to say how eorry he was that he could not speak more favorably of his work but hoped It would make no difference to their friendship, The painter replied: "Dear Ruskin, next time I meet you I shall knock you dawn, but I hope that it will make no difference to our friend - Britain Pushes Trade Airways Seeks Regards. Weekly India Service, Starts in April; Plane Tested for Duration, Distance Flight The expansion Of her commercial airways isreooiviug equal attention with the maintaining of the name of Great Britain le the aviation records of the Federation Aerenantique Iu- tei'uationale. .A eonoerted effort is to be made by, British flyers this year to win both'. the duration and the world's long•dis- tattoo airplane record, The plane that will make the at- tempt on the world's distance record already has been built and test flown. Considerable secrecy has surrounded the construction of this plane by the Fairey Aviation Company, Ltd., and. thh test flights at Cranwell, The ship has a wing span of eighty-two feet and a remarkably thin fuselage for such a large craft. It is generally believed that the flight will be made over a course from South Africa to Croydon, ap- proxiryately.6,000 miles. The new weekly air service be- tween Croydon and Karachi will be inaugurated early in April by Imperial Airways, and will resemble somewhat the air -rail systems which have been proposed for transcontinental travel in the U.S.A. The first stage of the Journey will be from Croydon to Basle, by way of Paris. Armstrong Whitworth Argosies will be used for this section, and on ar- rival at Basle passengers will travel by night train • across the Alps to Genoa, where they will embark on a short Calcutta flying boat fbr the trip to Syracuse, Sicily, where the second night will be spent. On the third day they will continue by flying to Tobr•nk, in northern Africa, via Navarino, in Greece, and at noon on the fourth day they will arrive at the combined Sea and land port at Alexandria. After lunch a De Haviland Hercules will resume, the journey to India, flyingbefore dusk that night to Gaza, Rutbah,, Wells and Bagdad on the second day, Bushire-Lingeh-,Task on the third and Rask-Gwadar-Karaaht on the fourth, a total of only seven days from Croy- don. roydon. The fare from London to Karachi by this service will be about 0000. Doctor Tory , With enthusiastic supporters on either side of the House of Commons and of the Senate, and wit han active executive representative of practical- ly every denomination and organiza- tion throughout the country interest- ed in the maiutenance of world peace, the League of Nations Society of Can- ada is entering upon the eighth year of its existence. Its function is to awaken and sustain an interest In the activities of the League, and to- wards this end it has already accom- plished a great deal. Presided over first by Sir Robert Borden, later by Sir George Foster, and now by Doctor ET. M. Tory, it has been ably led, and the powerful and beneficial influence it has grown to exert appears likely to continue. Doctor Tory, the newly elected president, is known throughout Can- ada as President of the National Re- search Council, EOM in Nova Scotia and for many years President of Al- berta University, he is intimately as- sociated with the east and the west; and as a student of international af- fairs and a member of the. Society since its inception in 1922, he is keen- ly interested in and closely in touch with the activities of the League of Nations. The Society of which he is now president numbers upwards of sixteen thousand members, and has branches established everywhere in Canada. Following the membership drive of the Society on April 16th, "League of Nations Day,' it will probably be con- siderably increased, and friends of Doctor Tory andsupporters of the League movement in this Country, will join in wishing him every Success in the discharge of his new duties. MUTT AND JEFF.—Bud Fisher. A GRACEFUL YACHT IN THE SUNNY •RIVIERA Lloyd George, his wife and daughter, Megan, have embarked upon . the Sabrina, which has just slipped her moorings at Cannes en route for a Mediterranean cruise. Bognor Awakes To Call of Pipes King George's Favorite Piper Sounds Morning Call at Seaside Resort Persian Brides Demand Right , To Meet Fiances Teheran, Persia.—In the moderni- zation of Persia,• along lines adopted by Kernel Pasha in Turkey and at- empted by:the deposed Ring Amen - With in Afghanistan, Persian women make three principal demands. The first and the most revolutionary of all, is the right to make the ac- quaintance of a future husband before Governor General A Health Expert Has Had Long Experience in Work of Fighting Ven- ereal Disease Bognor, England.—King George at HELPS CANADA Craigwell House is awakened' by bag.- pipes each morning just as at Buck- Ottawa. --An interesting conference Ingham Palaces between the . Governor-General and Pipe Mayor Forsyth, the King's Col. L. W. Harrison, M.D., during the. Scottish piper, is included i nthe staff Tatter's visit to Canada illustrates • the their tnaesties have taken to Craig- marriage: keen 'interest that Lord' Willingdon well House, and every morning •Persian women also demand the takes in the efforts being made to promptly at 8 o'clock he will stand combat the scourage of venereal dis- below the King's bedroom window and right to work outside their own homes - him a Highland tune as an eye- and that the law relating to divorce ease. pipe g y Probably net one Canadian 'in ten give `women equal lights with men. opener. thousand realize''s how tremendously The King has had his favorite piper Canadian Status His Excellency has aided this work for many years and count $ en the bag -In Canada and in England. Not only, pipes to arouse hint, ex ept in wet Halifax Herold: Just Trow far has by the weight of his patronage—he is weather, when he will not allow Major this country' travelled along the high. patron of the Canadian ' Social Forsyth to stand in the rain to play. way of "status" to "complete auton-- Hygiene• Council and immediate past The major is usually very punctual, omy —to "sovereignty"? ' Where is president of the British Social. but one morning when the Ring was the • journey to end? Does the diplo- Hygiene Council—but by leadership very ill at Buckingham Palace he was matte unity of the Empire still exist? and hard work, he has helped to a little late. Just after 8 a.m. the Great Britain signed (the Kellogg break down. thebarrier of silence that King asked: "Is it raining, nurse?" Note) with certain reservations: Can - ,has surrounded this problem, and to Before she could answer the pipes ada signed without reservations.( foster' the growing public realization struck up and the King smiled. "Oh, Does that affect unity of diplomacy?that here is a menace: to bo fated and no, it's fine -weather," he said. The Canadian people could 'ask for` combatted, rather than an unpleasant Tho King's`.personal police, consist- more ligh: orr'questions of this kind subject to be avoided by' an ostrich= ing of a superintendent and'eight ser- that go to the very foundations of litre burying of the national head in geants and constable, are with him at British institutions. Bognor to control the external ar- , `7 rangements and to guard Craigwell • The West Indian Trade House during his residence thee. Empire Buying Our Empire First (London): One of the results of out and out Free Trade in Great Britain is its very ser- ious handicap upon the development of Inter -Empire trade. The expansion of trade unionism In the Empire since the War has introduced another quo- tient that at the moment is having a harassing effect upon British indus- tries, It is coming to be realized that the world has to be made a better place to live in. The British Empire can fairly claim to be taking a lead- ing part in practising this democratic religion, despite recurring strikes and lockouts, foolishly alined at hastening or delaying the process. There is an all-round and insistent demand for higher wages and shorter hours of labor, and a consequent higher stan- dard of living for the manual worker, This necessarily incurs an increase. in cost of British production. Were all other countries adopting the same principles the cost of production in all countries would be more or less equal, except in so ,tar as the Indi- vidual worker, efficient workmanship, first-class material, and good sales- manship would attract trade to the fittest and most efficient country. The man who takes up any new thing after his mental processes are matured and formed must know the reason why—have the principles clear i nhis mind before he can achieve suc- cess.—Irving R. Allen, SECIMenseastmalassapoor the sands of indifference. Col Harrison is one of the world's outstanding authorities in this branch Saint John Telegraph -Journal: Our of medicine, being advisor to the Brit - people should not delay taking action ish Ministry of Health in Venereal to study the West Indian market. Disease and Director of . the Model They should get in on the ground Venereal Disease Clinic at St. floor.. The islands are themselves . Thomas' Hospital, London, England. taking steps to co-operate in the in- I So in conferring with him, His Ex- terest of increased production, pro- collency showed a far greater appre- vision of cold storage and the develop-' dation of the Importance of his visit went of a larger trade. This makes to Canada, than has the average lay - the time more opportune for Canada, roan. and especially the Maritime Pro-' "Undoubtedly, this visit will prove vinces, to cultivate closer relations most stimulating to all those inter- ested in the' Venereai.Disease control scheme in Canada", Dr Gordon Gates, general secretary of the Canadian Social Hygiene Council, stated. Con- ferences, at which several govern - La Petrie (Cons.): (An escaping ment representatives were present prisoner in Ontario was mortally unofficially ,discussed the matter In wounded by a policeman.) It re- all its phases. quires a considerable effort of the imagination to pretend that an ordin- ary policeman has the authority to kill with impunity unarmed persons with all these colonies of the eastern and western groups. - The. Right to Kill THE RIGHT TO SECEDE who are making no effort to resist Bombay Times, of India: The prob- and who are merely accused of minor eco of the right of eoCesaihe, how - crimes, when the taw does not int- ever, c an inconvenience to the £ d that than pose the death penalty after a hear- a difficulty, due to without tadea that the ing in court for the most revolting British Empire is a constive crimes, until in each rase the mat -1 tion. The. Imperial Conference gave ter has bean referred to the Cover- the British Empire. a -definition; Out uor-General, it did not attempt to give it a con- stitution. Even if a Dominion . de- cided to secede, there exists at the British Settlers for Canada moment no established method by Saskatoon Star -Phoenix. While this which. the secession could ire made country cannot undertake to absorb feative, The definition of 1026 wouldef- Britain's unemployed or unemploya- hardly provide a cue, and even when ble surplus, there is room here for the definition was made, it was freely rather more immigrants from the old admitted that administrative, legisia- land than have been coming out in tive, and judicial forms were not en - recent years. tireiy in accord with it. Canadian Leaders In Mining to Meet Annual Sessionm of Institute This Week Will Be Held at Winnipeg for First Time Government Represented Toronto.—A dlstifguished 'gather- ing of mining men and representatives of,aliied interests will meet in Win- nipeg during the week of March Bra at the thirtieth annual, seseiop of, the .Canadian ,Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, which will be for the first time at the capital, of Manitoba, Charles Stewart, Dominion Minister of Mines, will attend and reply to the toast of the government at theban- quet, which will conclude the sessions, He will bo accompanied by Dr. Chas. Camsoli,; who will preside at the in- stitute luncheon on the opening day. Dr, R. C. Wallace,. formerly Com- missioner of Mines for Manitoba, past president of the institute and now president of the University of ,Alberta, will take the ch'hir at the morning session of the second day. Other well-known Canadians who will .attend are J. D. Galloway, Pro- vincial Mineralogist of British Colum- bia; Dr. C. V. Curless, formerly man- ager of the ,Mond Nickel Company, who will present a paper' entitled "The rood Deposit; A Suggestion as to Its Orogin," and J. E, Hammill, president of Northern Aerial Minerals Exploration, Ltd., a company pushing exploration into the furthest North.' Five Canadian mining men have returned from a visit to the various mining cainnps of Patricia district and express optimistic opinions regarding the future of this gold belt. The party consisted of J. E, Ham- mill, president of Northern Aerial Minerals Exploration, Ltd.; A. G. Burrows, Provincial geologist; Regin- ald E. Hore, consulting geologist, Canadian National Railways; A. Kel- sey natural resources department, Canadian National Railways, and G. Duncan, engineer in charge of the Northern Aerial's explorations. Steam railway, dog teams and snow- shoes . were used in reaching Sioux Lookout, the place of•the plane's take- off. The flight, made in sub -zero wea- ther in the face of bitter winds, cover- ed about 200 miles of virgin wilder- ness in a few hours. Until recently the time required to survey such an area in summer would have been sev- eral weeks and in winter would have been impossible. Siscoe' Gold Mines, the first gold - producing mine in the Province of Quebec, reports having made its first shipment to the Royal Mint at Ottawa. The value was about $25,000. The mill was completed early in January, but during the initial stages it was oper- ated on waste and low-grade material and only recently reached a normal production basis, The output, though satisfactory, thus cannot be considered a representative return for the per- iod. The Preferred Countries Manitoba Free Press: The reason why some countries were listed as preferred and others as non -prefer- red was that they were regarded from the point of view of the Comparative readiness with which their people would beoome assimilated with the Canadian population. It is recogniz- ed that the people of Central Europe have their virtues and excel in many ways, but it was thought that a great- er racial difference between them and the people of Canada would make their assimilation a slower process. The Racial Riots in Bombay Truth (London): There is a moral to be drawn from these melancholy events.It is the British, who are above factions, who are called in to quell the • disturbances. Our aloof- ness from the age -long conflict be- tween the various races of India Is our justification for remaining there. British administration has no doubt been guilty of many errors and may be many crimes; but that is simply to say that we, like others, are human. It remains that if we left India, what is happening in Bombay would be the universal rule rather than the excep- tion throughout the country. JEFF, r- Pur AN AD. IN The 1'APeles SAYING = HAD A MecHANIcAL RoBoT Pore SAID To FILL IN AT BOZlbGE PARTICS Ore WtIAT l i o You; SLIP ON THAT tiGAti-Pieter sOMeBoby'S AT The pbotel Me N t2 s'poNse Ta `(ouR Ab: HsW MUctt'bo You WANT Ftlie. This MCCHANtcAL R bBo-t ? [TIN e Buck S) • Jeff impersonates a Mechanical Robot and the Deception is Perfect. Hews A-FIUs sP0T: t<EGRTflG CHANGGi HC's nHGAP AT elVG To me: Now DO You FtGURG. TNAT our: $'LL 050 IT•T0 TesT ouT Neu.. O'ARAc %uves Ar AN ALTITUDE oC bNe: MILE: IF A PARACNutg FAILS, To tuoRk -a cAN STILL sett. c.TeuMPLGOTt1c' JUN c ANa mot.) A Fore. even): 1Winnipeg Starts Parent Education Recognize That Parenthood is , Special Job Needing Specialized Training A NEEDED EFFORT Winnipeg,—Oise is so eQGastomad. to hearing about the oduoatiori of children that R now comes almost as a .shock to learn that adult Witutlpeg has taken to a new ,branch of study, known as "parent education". Popular lectus'es'fornd the "classes" to which daddies and mothers ,conte ., as pupils. And they have "twine - work" too—the most interesting kind of homework, for it consists of trying out on their own offspring, the lee sons they learned at "school", And the sole and only purpose of that school is to teach them how to be- come successful parents? "And wiry not?" demanded an of- ficial of the. Winnipeg Health League, when asked about it. "In this age of Specialization, when a professional man has to study six or coven years before beginning to practise, why shouldn't there be tome speclflo train- ing available for tboee who take on one of the most important duties in society—that of parenthood?" "We want to teach people Simple, Sound, common-sense .things about children—noticing faddish you under, stand, or complicated, Just the good bread-and-butter facts that pureute. should kno wif Canadians of the next generation are to be as healthy mor- ally, mentally and physically as it Is Possible to make them," Prominent Canadians from time to. time have expressed themselves' very strangly upon this theme. A sympo, slum of their writings shows that the trend of opinion amongst thinking people 1s emphatically in support of the idea. Judge H. S. Mott of ,the Juvenile Court, Toronto, says. "Parents are very much in need of assistance in parent education, I think It should start before marriage." Judge Emily Murphy: "Educate Parents if you can. It should be at- tempted by all means." The Most Reverend Arcltibishop Neil' McNeil, Toronto; "A knowledge of the duties of parents and the say' oftreating children should begin at the time of marriage." Dr. Margaret Patterson, Judge of Women's Court, Toronto: "There is no question regarding parent educa- tion. It should start with the grand• parents entail possible, but 'certainly with the parents as children," • Dr. James L. Hughes, former chief inspector of schools, Toronto believes that parent education should start in high school. "The best tiring I can suggest", be says, "is the .prepara- tion of a book on true child develop- ment and the passing of a law that the groom In each marriage should produce tise book at his wedding with his name on the title page." Hon. L. A. David, Quebec: "I be- lieve that parent education should start before marriage." Hon. William F. Roberts, M.D., former Minister of Health for New Brunswick: "Yes, at twelve years of age." Judge J. F. McKinley, of the Ot- tawa juvenile court, agrees that par- ent education should start at twelve. Prefessor Peter Sandiford says that every parent should be a child psycho. logist. "Seventy years ago Spencer pointed out that we trained people as if they were never to be the par- ents of children," he says. 4 Fish for Lent Timely advice for the preparation of fish for meals during the Lenten season is given by Ina B. Rowe in the March issue' of "Pictorial Review." Filleted fish may be cooked by any ' of the ordinary methods of cooking fish,fried in deep fat,,pan-fried, baked, fish— fried in deep at, pan-fried, baked, broiled, or boiled-. A quick cooking at a high temperature seals in the juices and preserves the natural deliciousness of the fish.- If Ash is dry and tasteless it is frequent- Iy because it has been cooked too long at a low temperature. Boiled fish is frequently tasteless food, and this is not surprising when the really fine flavor of the fish la often stewed out into the kettle. Care- ful cooking preserves the savor, how- ever, and is no more tedious than careless cooking. Two of the best utensils for boiling fish are a medium -large kettle and a glass fruit -jar, such as is used for can- ning. A wide-mouthed frulljar is es oeptiouaIly ,good. Form the skinned fillets into "turbans" as follows: Cut off the thick or head 'end, and then slit the rest toward the tar end down the center. Roll each of these pox, tions, beginning at the thick end, and skewer with' toothpicks, Divide •Ihe head end into two parts for easy handling, and skewer together to ap• proximately the same shape as the longer pieces. Add a thin" slice of lemon, one of onion, and the usual seasoning to each piece, Place in a • jar and seal perfectly tight, cm that when it is dropped into a kettle of boiling wetter bubhies will not escape ,around the jar ring. Cools in Bolling water for approxi. mately 20 minutes, beginning to count the time after the water has begun to boll, vigorously. Remove the jar,