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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1929-03-14, Page 7Rural Ontario Needs. AttentjOn • In Health Matters • kuP,ett Voices Serious •Situa- • -4,4„ ta0n .Affecting Villages tuld Country Alike '1INIE FOR ACTION DM GORDON, BATES •' Genera Secretary, Canadian $00141 hygiene Cottimil flue life of a farulee' -worth ns tO Canada ae the life or a in4j background and has been stocktiteker in a big cit?Y t Oak so, • Then erlay is it that so much more money' la spent on safeguertling the stookbrOkee's lifeand health, than Ile rtiahnerha Why, is it that to keep the stook- brokok healthy, the big city has an djeletent, medical health officee, ivorite tog all. day, every working day in the Year,. oald an excellent health .depart - rues while the farmer has only az) overwoelted, eiart-time country marl - eel health officee to advise him about diltar to do in order to keep from get- • ' aux tacit? Ore caurse, -it is an eacellent thing .- literate lofty people should have their big health organizatteer to protect them against typhbld, smallpox, (Utah- eria and all the other diseases that kat ao, many thousands of Canadians, eery- year, long before they have liv- ed elite their three -Shore -and -ten. For it has been proven beyond • a doubt that in Tordnto, for just one in- stance, there would be 2700 more deaths every year, if it were not for the activities of the Toronto Medical Heaith Officer and his staff, in keep - sickness down and saving lives from, disease, Buttf that is the case—and it un- doubtedly is—then why shouldn't peo- ple tti the oountry, and in towns and villageo share in all these life-saving inivasitageS? Their lives are just as important to Canada as the lives of eite 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 piacea had the same public health work done for them, that the cities The answer is that public health work though it saves lives, costs inoneY"., And the big titles have the money to, spend while the rural coun- ties baxe. not. Due fa that altogether• fair? Already - many prominent Canadians are begin- ning to decide that it Is not. More and more, people are beginning to think that health is a national assest, ittorevaluable than gold mines or rail- ways And • .as valuable as crops and rein, and that it must be eonserved. ID Quebec, where people began to feel this way estate time ago, they or- ganized "County Health Units"— small, full-time medical health depart- ments. Since then, the counties pro- tected by these County Health Units have had fewer deaths and fewer cases 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 traits. eves now a plan is being worked out— wid it is hoped that it wi,l 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 ill afford to lose. Ldves that ,could be saved, if country people had the seine chance that city people have. An amusing story tells of a even - known artist in the fifties of the last century- who was muck upset by a strong criticism by Ruskin of one or his pictures. Ruskin heard of this, and- wrote to the artist to say how sorry he was that he could not speak more favorably of his work but hoped it would make no difference to their friendshiti. The painter replied: "Dear Ruskin, next time 1 zneet you I shall knock you down, but I hope that it will make no difference to our friend- ship. •,,,P.1.4 PP Britain Pushes Trade Airways Seeks- Records Weekly India ServiceStarts in.April; Plane Tested for Duration,- Distance Flight The expanelon o liar commercial airways. is receliriug equal attention with the nialutalning of the name of Great Britain in the aviation records of the Federation berenautique Iii- tornationalo. i. concerted effort is to be made by P,ritish flyere Vile year to will both the duration and Lite world's long-dis- teems. airplane record. The plane that will make the at- tempt on the world's distance record already' has beau built and test flown. Considerable secrecy has surrounded the construction of this plaue by the Fairey• ,Aviation Company, Ltd., and the test ilights at Cranwell. The ship has a -wing span of eighty-two feet and a remarkably thin fuselage for such ,a large raft. It is .generally 'believed that the flight will be made over a course from South Africa, to Croydon, ap- proximately 6,000 miles. **, egeedee,:ete ,eeeeednee ?heeeeeed A LittAoE.FLIL YACHT IN THE SUNNY RIVIERA Lloyd George, his Wife:and daughter, Megan, have embarked upon the Sabrina, The new • weekly • air service be- moorings at -Cannea en route for a Mediterranean cruise. tween Croydon mad Karachi will be inaugurated early in April by imperial • tlie l • 'ins which have been Airways, aAjjtett -resemble somewhat air-rai proposed for-Vitnscontinental travel in the U.S.A. The first stage of the journey will be from Croydon to Basle, by wadr of Paris. Armstrong Whitworth Argosies will be used tor 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 for the trip to Syracuse, Sicily, where the second night will be spent. On the third day they will continue by flying to Tobruk, 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, flying before dusk that night to Gaza, Rutbah, Wells and Bagdad on the second day, Bushire-Lingeherask on the third and Kask-Gwadar-Karachl on the fourth, a total of only seven days from Croy- don. The fare from London to Karachi by this service will be about $500, Doctor Tory With, enthusiastic supporters on either side of the House of Commons •and of the Senate, and wit 'ban active executive representative of practical- ly every denomination and organiza- tion throughout the country interest- ed in the maintenance 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 Arst by Sir Robert Borden, later by Sir George Poster, and now byDoctor H. M. Tory, it has been ably led, and the powerful and .beneficial influence it has grown to exert appears likely to co'ntin.ue. Doctor Tory, the newly elected president, is known throughout Can- ada as President of the National Re- search Council, Born 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 and supporters of the League movement in this country, will join in wishing him every success in the discharge bf his new duties. Bognor Awakes To Call of Pipes King George's Favorite Piper Sounds Morning Call at Seaside Resort Bognor, Eagland.—King George at Craigwell House is awakened by bag- pipes each morning just as at Buck- ingham Palace, Pipe Major Forsyth, the King's Scottish piper, is included 1 nthe staff their maesties have taken to Craig - well House, and every morning promptly at 8 o'clock he will stand below the King's bedroom window and pipe him a Highland tune as an eye- opener. The King has had his favorite piper for many years and counte ca the bag- pipes to z'ouse him, except in wet weather, when he will not allow Major Forsyth to stand in the rain to play. The major is usually very punctual, but one morning when the King was very ill at Buckinghani Palace he was a little late. Just after 8 a.m. the King asked: "Is it raining, nurse?" Before she could answer the pipes struck up and the Ring smiled. "Oh, no, it's fine weather," he said. The King's personal police, consist- ing of a superintendent and eight ser- geants and constable, i.i.Y.440-hfin at Bognor to control the external ar- rangements and to guard Craigwell House during his residence there, —4— Empire Buying Our Empire First (London): One of the results or 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 aimed at hastening or delaying the process. There is en all-round and insistent demand for higher wages and aborter hours of labor, and a consequent higher stand dard of living for the manual worker.1 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 far as the indi- vidual worker, efficient worktnanship, 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 nhis mind before he can achieve sue- cess.—Irving R. Alien. pr. • which :has just slipped her '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 King. Amen- ulah 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 marriage. Persian women also demand the right to work outside their own homes and that the law relating to divorce give women equal rights with men. Canadian Status Halifax Herold: Just how far has this country travelled along the high- way of "status" to "complete auton- omy"—to "sovereignty"? Where is the journey to end? Does the diplo- matic unity of the Empire still exist? Great Britain signed (the Kellogg Note) with certain reservations: Can- ada signed without reservations. Does that affect unity of diplomacy? The Canadian people could ask for mare light on questions of this kind that go to the very foundations of British iustitutions. . The West Indian Trade Saint John Telegraph -Journal: Our people should not delay taking action to study the 'West Indian inarket. They should get in on the ground floor.. The islands are themselves taking steps to co-operate in the in- terest of increased production, pro- vision of cold storage and the develop. ment of a larger trade. This makes the time more opportune for Canada, and especially the Maritime Pro- vinees, to cultivate closer relations with all these colonies of the eastern. and western groups. ••••••••••••. Governor General • A Health Expert Has Had Long Experience in Work of Fighting Ven- ereal Disease HELPS CANADA -Ottawa.--An interesting conference between the Governor-General and Col. L. W. Harrlsou, M.D., during the latter's visit to Canada illustrates the keen interest that Lord Willingdon takes in the efforts being made to combat the scourage of venereal dis- ease. • Probably. not one Canadian in ten thousand realizes how tremendously His Excellency has aided this work in Canada and in England. Not only by the weight of his patronage—he is patron of the Canadian Social Hygiene Council and immediate past president ot the British Sodial Hygiene Council—but by leadership and .hard work, he has helped to break down the barrier of silence that has surrounded this problem, and to foster the growing public realization , that here is a menace to be faced and combatted, rather than au unpleasant subject to he avoided by an ostrich - like burying of the national head in the sands of indifference. • Col Harrison is one of the world's outstanding authorities in this branch of medicine, being advisor to the 33ria ish Ministry of Health in Venereal Disease and Director of the Model Venereal Disease Clinic at St. Thomas' Hospital, London, England. So in conferring with him, His Ex- cellency showed a far greater appre- ciation of the importance of his visit to Canada, than has the average lay- ; man. ! "Uncloubtsdly, this visit will prove most stimulating to all those inter- ested in the Venereal Disease control scheme in Canada", Dr Gordon Gates, general secretary of the Canadian. Social Hygiene Council, 'stated. Con- ferences, at whicb several govern- ment representatives were present unofficially ,discussed the matter in all its phases. The Right to Kill La Petrie (Cons.): (An escaping prisoner in Ontario was mortally 'wounded by a policeman.) It re- quires a considerable effort of the. imagination to pretend that an ordin- nry policeman has the authority to kill with impunity unarmed persons who are making no effort to resist and who are merely accused of minor crimes, when the law does not Im-' pose the deathpenalty atter a hear- ing in court for the most revolting crimes, until in ea0h case the mat ter has been referred to the Gover- nor-General. British Settlers for Canada Saskatoon Star -Phoenix, 'While this country cannot undertake to absorb Britain's unemployed or tmemploya- ble surplus, there is room here for rather more immigrants from the old land than have been coming out in recent years. THE RIGHT TO SECEDE Bombay Times or India: The prob- lens Of the right of secession, how- ever, is an inconvenience rather than a difficulty, due to the fact that the British Empire is without a constitu- tion. The Imperial Confeeence gave the British Empire a definition; but it did not attempt to give it a con- stitution. Even if a Dominion de- cided to secede, there exists at tb.e moment no established method by which the secession could be made ef- fective. Tho definition of 1926 would hardly provide a cue, and even when the definition. was made, it was freely I admitted that administrative, lasts's:, i tive, and judicial forms were not en- u tirely in accord with it. 1 t Canadian Leaders in Mining to Meet Annual Session of Institute, , This Week Will BO HOld at Winnipeg kr First Time . Government Rqlreseuted Teronte.—A distinguished gather. ing ef mining men and representatives of allied interests will meet in Wiu. tipeg during the week of Mareh grd at the thirtieth annual session of the Canadian 1eInstitato 'af Mining and 1VIetallurgy,'whieh will be held J:or the first thne at the capital of Maniteha, Charles Stewart, Dominion Ministe-r Of Mines, will attend and reply to the toas of the government at the ban. quet, which will conclude the sessions. He, will. be accompanied by Dr. Chas, Camsell, rho will preside at '411e in- stitute luncheon an the opening clay, Dr. R. C. Wallace, formerly Cone missioner of Mines for Manitoba, past president of the institute and non president of the University of Alberta, will take the chair a the morning session of the second day. Other well-known Canadians who • Will attend are 3. D. Gallowray, Pre. viacial Mineralogist of British Coltnan bin; Dr. C. V. Curless, formerly man- ager of the Mond Nickel Company, who will present a paper entitled "The rood Deposit: A Suggestion Of to Its Orogin," and J. E. Hanmaill, president of Northern Aerial Minerale Exploration, Ltd., 'a company pushing exploration into the furthest North. Five Canadian mining men have returned from a visit to the various mining canips 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 wen- thee- in the face of bitter winds, cover. ed about 200 miles of virgin wilder- ness in a, few hours. Until recent13 the time required to, survey such an area in summer would have been sme eras 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-, i od. The Preferred Countries Manitoba Free Press: The reasoa 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 become 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 ago -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. t remains that if we left India, what s happening in Bombay would be the niversal rule rather than the excep. Ma throughout the country. MUTT AND JEFF.—Bud Fisher. ) JEFFIL Put AN AD- 1?') Th PAPeRs SAYING x tin p. PACO -WWI cAk. Ratedr ftfe SALE. Tb FILL IN . At BRIDGE. l'ARTICS OR WHAT Me You SLIP ON 1 -KAT lidAD-pce i someleobhde AT laic, poolei [Vesicle murr, rue, come. Ito RAS poNiec Te \ifouR. AD: rot%) MOCK bo you wmir Tees hote-nHANIcAl. R ? ge-C-'s A FIVGsPor atANGt-! 14G'cReAP Five Tb Me 107)) EMT& z -I A 4* 1-tous Do ‘to t.) ThAr FIGURt.- t' Jeff Impersonates a Mechanical Robot and the Deception is Perfect., LL USG ce-re resr mit- New PAteAceideas Ar Ate ALrtrobe ON tAtt.c: 1F it, F'AreAck.ti,fra. FAILs Wel'qk CAN eroa. setae Tea. cmumpLeb 14,r,3 FOR, Mb tIteeAt< cuceoldi- 1 ?-1-11.19-\ „.14-e ....-• Pow. .0/ eP b—fi 1 4