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The Huron Expositor, 1938-05-06, Page 6L !�f VOW rr cu C R Crusade kiting the Great Scourge with Knowledge ....A Campaign to Wipes Out Igicerantaq, Fear and Neglecct. 1 W. 5. McCullough, M.D., D. P..H. Secretary Can* er Committee ......... THE HEALTH LEAGUE__ OF CANADA NOW DOES CANCER SPREAD? A cancer ie extremely email at first. It consists at the beginning of a sin- gle cell. If It were possible to dis- daover a canner at this date there would be n'o cancer deaths. The or- iginal cancer grows by division of the cell. The cell divides and sub -divides rather rapld6y, far more rapidly than the normal cells of one's body. Through this division of sells, cancer begins to insinuate itself into the neighboring tissues of the body. At this stage cancer is still', local and readily cured. The length of time in which a cancer remains local is un- known; the period varies In different kinds of cancer and in. different tis- sues of the body. After a time, cancer spreads by way of she lymphatics, tiny diannels found AT HOF 20 WEEKS ?'e\'Collecting 1 (By •Mabel M..Swan"3n TIset f h;4s- tian Soignee antitor) An eater? pg as ,well as ntttr}tc- tive tuformal. talk ort "Adventuress' in Bottle Collecting." was- given by Mrs. Lrbre-Woodatde . Watldne at the—April meeting. of the National .'Early Ameri- eae ss Club. Her sen collection was -Slade several years ago.for the purpose olinteresting a smell boy •mho now >in the curator of a large Massachusetts Muse)tm. Author of the book -"Cambridge Glass," Mrs. Watkins modestly said the collection bad little 'commercial value, but it shad achieved its purpose, and Inci- dentally bats stimulated the- activities of many other persons. • The earliest American bottles were English or Dutch, and these were, us- ed be the pioneer •Settlers whose decu- Mn,�nnts may be ?iia l fn •the Probate Reoords. of Essex County- TJp to 1790 there is mention of bub few black bot- tles, ot tles, as the mound type were far more comanon, Early insventories 'mention cares of bottles.,., English examples are often identified by dates on the side. Early in 1700 forms changed to shorter necks, pudy body, ands she bottom pushed up, bell-aihaped- To- wards the middle of the century, the sides became straighter, the necks shorter, and the bell shaped bottom made still deeper. As the 1700'e con tinued,,.types became amore and more slend'e'r. The first clear. or fancy -colored bot- tles in this country were made by Baran Stiegel, who copied the import- ed models, principally Dutch. To -day we find many of Stiegel type, of Ger- man origin but d f interior glass and engraving. Sea captains chests con- tain many interesting ones of this sort. One most unusual shape whiclf the speaker showed was like a tea caddy, Stiegel type,, made for the Boston 'market. Another was• laven- der with ribbing, fragile, lovely, and much . admireds About 1765, smelling salts contain- ers came in, the earliest not. having glass dtoppers, but corks. Those with molded esunburat on the side are attributed to South Jersey., Both the New England Glass factory at Cam- bridge and the Bosten and Sandwich 'Coumpany made this �ahape. The New England Glass Bottle. Company at East Cambridge,, founded by Deming nerves, made bottles from 1826 on, and they advertised round and octa- gon ,flasks, ink bottles, preserve jars, sevensgailon wicker demi johns and many other types. The Boston Crown Glass Company had to promise to make 4,000 bottles a year in order to obtain 'tax exemption. The speaker told of an interesting experience within a year or two when a wall at Harvard Hall, Cambridge, was torn down and behind it were found hundreds of • fragments of bot- tles marked "New England Glass Bot- tle Company." Many were other types which Mrs. Watkins mentioned, emphasizing the fact that one can have mute fun, as e ell as learn a great deal about glass by collecting only bottles. all over the body. The cancer cells pass .through the lymatphatic veils and are :1eeught up by the lymphatic glands. •; Titus, for example, a cancer of the breast will soo er later, if it is not removed'lor, deettoyed, ap- pear in the glands of the axilla- 'At this stage cancer is no longer local. It has become a serious matter for the indiatcl sal- Prompt rind comsplete removal not only of the affected or- gan, but of all affected glands is es- sential to cure at this stage. At a later date, the cancer cells spread through the blood vessels and in this way reach the remotest parts of the body. Thus a cancer of the breast may appear iii abone, in the lung, the liver, the brain or other part. The spread of cancer is always by means of its own cells. A cancer which has spread from the breast to the brain, tor example, is comyposeds not of brain cells, but of breast cells. This fact proves that cancer is spread not through the medium of germs, but by the dispersion of the cells of the original cancer. Cancer is a living thing, and, like all living things, cannot last forever. A few cancers reach the teem of their natural life and die before they kill the patient. What sometimes happens is this: the dsoelor declares with truth that an 'advanced cancer 'is hopeless- ly inoperable, and that he can do no more for the patient; the patient in desperation tries some quack remedy. Then the incredible thing happens; she cancer begins to die and the pat- ient begins to live again. Not one in 10,000 -cancers is so-.abliging as 4.o die before its human host. The inorediple tbing has happened through the can- cer possessing a low order of vitality or because of the high resistance of the body. This fact is encouraging because research into cancer may dis- cover a means of accelerating the ex- haustion of caner vitality or of in- creasing bodily resistance to malig- nancy- WITH RHUMATI SM Wife Feared Husband Would Never Work. Again When cher husband had been at home 20 weeks. with rheumatism' in his back, this woman began to' think he would never work again. At last, she said to him: "Let's try Kras- dhen" and the changethat took place was, in her own words, "like a mir- acle." Here; is her letter: "My husband is subject to nheu- metism and suffered terribly with his back. ,Soule time ago, I had him in the house 20 weeks with it. I really didn't think be would ever work again. We tried all the different kinds of salts you could mention, but none of them did him any good. Then I said, 'Let's try Krusehen-' Sines theri, we have proved Kruscben Salts to be worth its. weight in gold. My husband is, back at his job, thanks to Krus- chen. The change it made is like a miraole "—('Mrs.) S. ' Two of the salts in Kruschen are the most effectual solvents of uric acid crystals known to science. They swiftly dull the sharp edges of the painful crystals and convert them in- to a harmless solution, wlhdoh is than expelled through the natural channels. trillITHOITINSECTOT It$ig r sones o phis Arab o' a plot.. t)zanm,er'a'..even'1nt�,`, fumi g- t►a :hand e moppeds ,��. iellfi-•hells" a Pted a w lag 'Jones, I �nee not tat/be ,stopped. • 4' d I daft lnnow- I4ow yoµ'�d: go to, seerk In the, ituonpiau'g, fpr it's a• long Walla n trrom ;this sdbarb. Yotl would�l'1. iretin, nµy;,amayn nwn?: �NR�.M"a*�'9•�M.✓ "4th p hand h bin b "width tin:, `settlers be .f1a4:ed tie air With nqt be . driving. for, very bably v eloitea swinge. of ..a.. fltawatter. lids 'theme never would ba been an auto - elusive 'targets were mos'qui'toes.. ,. ""Oh, for a world wttb'otl,'t. insectel," he Moaned across the driveway to me: tWhy do we have to be bothered with such pests? All ?)hey do Is woo ry `ate rest di! us trying to make the world go around—Man, bird, and beast." "There's a place for all these =ea- teries," „I replied. with a- .phrase not, original with me .but one I have, alp ways liken "You've got to show me," replied Jones. Well, he had me stumped for a Moment, until 1 thought of au article on insects by a noted entomologist df'my alma maser, Dr. H. B. Hunger- ford ungerford of the University of Kansas. I went Home and found it, reread it, and:finally was loaded for Jones: The nett' Mot I strolled over to his �pore`tXoS "You'd like 't`o see a world without insects" I began. "Well, if there were no insects, what wouldie:you eat?' "Why--er—what I eat now," he re- torted. "What's• that .got to do with it r. "Plenty," I answered. "You'd get along, 'you'd have foods,: but you'd hun- ger hunger for a lot of the things you now enjoy. •'Foe instance, you'd have no tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, cab- bage, or other plants of its family, apples, pears, peaches, plums, figs; strawberries, blackberries, . raspber- ries, mulberries, grapes; no oranges or related fruits; no maple sugar and no shondy- • All these' plants are pol- linated by insects." ` • By that time I had Jones wavering: "I never thought of it in that way," he mused. I had she advantage, so I pressed it. "You'd be badly off for clothes, too. There would be no cotton, no silk, no linen (because no Sax). We would still 'have woollens; but woollen shirts and underwear •are not the most com- !ortable things in the world. We would still have skins of some fur - bearing animals bit not all of, them —those that ]five on insects. We would still have some of the products Cooked up by the chemists, but they, too, would be handicapped'by lack of the insect -pollinated plants." al'HAT TO EAT TO BE HEALTHY Number Four ' Every -individual requires to eat a certain, quga?.tity of vitamin C to pre- vent •scurvy,, A lack of vitamin C af- fects the miles and miles of capillar- ies throughqut the body. The following foods give you vita- min C: Oranges, lemons and grape- fruit, toutetoese raw or factory oanne,d, and moat•• raw fruits and vegetables. VetC Is very readily destroyed by heat. It is eseentiai',•,,thelrefore, that everyone take each day some raw fruit or 'sew vegetables. Cana . than factory canned tomatoes are an, excellent source of vitamin C because the cooking in done without exposure to air, ......,..•.... The lack of vitamin D in the diet causes rickets in children, sett bones and defective teeth. The f ollogring foods give you vita- min D: Cod liver oil and ether fish oils in liquid or capsule form, egg yolk, and sunethhine in summer. As this food element is not obtain- ed in ordinary foods in adequate arnounts, it is absolutely 'essential for every: infant and child, and very ad- visable ,forevery adult, to take some vitamlh D during the winter months —from October through to April One ,,teaspoonful of cod liver oil gives you its Much vitamin I) as 14 egg yolks or 1,500 servings of spinach. There 'are available in Many parts of, Can- ada specially prepared "mile and bread whioh contain vitamin D.", Much has been said and;'written in recent yenta about the vitamins, but not all that one hears and reads about them is true, Food faddists and l exploiters Have toyed with the vita- mins extensively. They'liare a very important part to play in normal diet for normal peo- ple and if you follow carefully the information contained in this series of articles on "What To Eat 1. To Be Healthy," you will secure authentic information and practical advice on. the foods you should eat. The next antiele In the series will deal with minerals in the diet. Questions concerning Health., ad- dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 • College St., Toronto, will be answered personally by let- ter. Officer (to midshipman in ranks)— "Sound off."- • plebe — "Midshipman MacTavish, fourth class, sir." Officer—"Wshy are you late for for- mation?" Plebe—"I squeezed out too much toothpaste and had a., hard time get- .ang it back into the tube, sir." • Tai. , to Mother on sDa3' SUNDAY, MAY8th Eden though you think of her often, words on "your ..thoughts into • call he Mother's on and Its almost like irons Distance! The so PP' in on win give hound of youi voice pleasure asany gr nst as much you can send. LOW' NIGg TDATES every On Mother's Day,and through- out on .. he yerWeekdays, begin at 7 ening- ARILY ALL DAY 400n6 LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE k, ;4. cis e.. es .iii i .,1,,1 e. • irry��a� mobile lavduatry. Autgahobilea need, rupber"Urea and there •,wouldfl t be aaly i ubber—•for tires,' rahtecoats, oviersboea Or anything ease. The rubber_• has to be erose pollinated by in - Elects." may' that :Gime Jones,' was hangip;g am the ropes. "Well, I could alt, .. at home' and admire my. flowers, any` stay.r bo gaePedt ihated to dialilusion him ,on that bat I had to. I quoted Dr, Hun- gerford: directly: " Woul(l there les any colorful Sow- ers In all Maris world? I doubt • it, All those gorgeous colors and *sweet od- ore that nature bas ,contrived to lure the insect visitors and bring about the fertility of the plant through cross pollination would be useless and would not exist. Certainly the mar velous and' ingenious shapes of the iris Sower, the orobide, the milk- weetls, tibe salvias, the °belies, the petunias, the honeysuckles., and a host of ethers would neverhave de- veloped. With mane of our shade trees gone—leaving she evergreens, 9f course, sand some ethers—twithout the inspiration. and pleasure of our flower gardens, without the birds and gay butterflies to delight our leisure time afield, with a drab world this would be to many of nsr!" Janes gazed at me in awe. '"You *in," he said. 9 never dreamed in- sects were of such ' Talue to us, But (ewish!) , I still don't like mosqui- toes!" .. WHAT TO EAT TO BE HEALTHY Number Five No . lees thin twelve minerals are required , for art adequate diet, but from a practical standpoint we need only be concerned with a supply of me three of the, because if our diet is at all a reasonable one, it will con- tain adequate amounts of the other nine. The three minerals that we must watch are: CALCIUM, the lack of„which caus- es defective banes and teeth. IRON, the lack of'which causes atnaem4a. IODINE, the lack of which causes goitre. There is a constant storage and use ds of 'calcium in the bones, ana person may appear in the best of health, yet skis bones may not contain as much calcium as they should. In time, this deflci�ency will interfere with the health. For example, a pregnant wo- man is likely to suffer from booth, de- cay because there is a tremendous drain on ber calcium resources. If she does not have an, adequate amount in ter diet, nature takes it out of skier banes and teeth. Our greatest sources of calcium are milk and milk products. To get an adequate supply, admitsslhiould con- sume each day, close to a pint of milk, while the growing child who is forming new bones should take a pint and a half of milk. Cheese is an excellent source of calcium, too. Iron is obtained largely frofr vege- tables and fruits. Other sources+"are eggs, liver ands kidney. • Iodine is obbaiimed largely in sea foods. People who live remote from she sea have to depend Sanely upon iodized salt as their source of this mineral food. The following foods give you min- erals: Milk and cheese, eggs, liver and kidney, leafy vegetables such as cel- ery, lettuce and cabbage, also fruits and iodized salt. Remember --milk and •cheese for calcium; eggs, liver, kidney, vege- tables and fruits for iron; and iodiz- ed salt far iodine. . Questions concerning Health, a d - dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 Oolle a Street, Toron- to. will be answered personally by letter. The following foods give you car- bohydrates:— Sugar, molasses, candy, jam, mar- malade, etc., bread and pastry, mac- aroni and potatoes. Our chief source of energy in foods is carbohydrate, and if we did not have this chief source of energy :n the form of flours and sugars, with their wonderful keeping qualities, our modern civilization, with its huge consumption of food, could not exist. However, one must be careful, that due to their use in tasty products such as cakes, pastries, jams, candies, etc., and their easy accessibility, one does not consume an 'excess of these and thus crowd out the other food elements.And we now conclude this series of articles on What To Eat To Be Heal- thy by repeating what We said at the outset. Every day of your life, except dur- ing illness, aims to -have a pint of pas- teurized milk, which' includes that us- ed in cooking, same meat, an egg, two cooked vegetables besides potatoes, and some raw fruit or vegetables. In addition, during the winter months, take a teaspoonful of cod liver oil daily, or some other source of Vita- min D. Questions concerning Health, ad- dressed to the Canadian Medical As, sociation, 184 College Street, Toronto, will be answered personally by let- ter. WHAT TO EAT 'TO BE HEALTHY Number Six its adsdition to vitamins and min- erals, the falue of which we have already discussed in this ' series of articles on What To Eat To Be Healthy, we must now ,consider the three important food essentials known. as proteins, fats and carbohydrates. The followidg food's' give you pro- teins :— Meat, fish and poultry,' milk, eggs, peas, beans and lentils, and flour, ' The list above indicates that there are animal, vegetable and grain, pro- teins. Phe most effective tissue build- ers are she animal proteins. The following foods give you. fats: Butter and cream, bacon and other fab meats, lard and vegetable oil, shortening and yolk of egg. Fats are used dhiefly to Supply heat or energy. They are also ese,ential for the normal meta'belism or work, ing in the body: If some of the fatty acids oantained in fats are withheld, the h'eallth of the individual Will be seriously impaired. The p r o p, e r ,amount of fats Will be furnished if one consumes two ounces• of fat per 4,y. Butter is one of the beet forms " fat. �t S r1' vel PAGES FROM AN ALBUM t 'fpr tinctiervi el:" Fiur -new'Fems end ' we." ,. AT Rr.. •D. • would assuredly bave prevented sow* of the' worst blundlere- Wiren ;he became Foreign Secre- tary in the present British National Government lie„ ,bad •..bo • handier the most ',difficult -problem& There was, for. examplee Manchuria. Shedd the League have acted vigorously or not? • That depends on one's conceptions of the League, and ones aPpreciaatfon of the possible consequences, ands that depends On one's knowledge of for- eign affairs. which interlock. Sir John . came to a luncheon over which I pre- sided at Geneva and althoug9h I made, 4t clear to hire that it might be 'inad- visable, considering the mixed com- pany, to be too frank, even in .a so- called "confidential” ting. be -' laid Ms 'cards on she table with breath taking completeness. I have never quite decided whether the was artless- ly trustful, or whether be was ex- ceedingly artful om this occasion, well aware that bus views would be spread abroad without compromising him, or his Government,—.too much, since there could be no direct publication. Some years before .the World War, winern I was, a young man in London, I was take to the House of Com- mons by a distinguished editor, and introduced to Sir John Simon. He had then been appointed to high of- fice under the Liberal Government, although he himself was remarkably young. We Malted in the lobbies amid she coming and going of excited politicians, and our conversation was interrupted by repeated calls for the presence in the House of the 'rising lawyer from his chief. 'llhat was) the beginning of a cer- tain association of nearly thirty years. For I went to edit a political paper in the constituency of Sir John Sim- on. It was a queer experience, of which I could write insuch. But the immediate port. is that, :by virtue of my relation to the Member of Parlia- ment, I accompanied him on,his rounds at election time, a'nd sme- times spoke on the same platform. There is. of all the men with whom I have dome into contact, no readier speaker, no better improviser, than Sar John; but it was nevertheless his custom to have typed and to mem- orize the salient, paragraphs of his utterances. I have often sat, with a sheet of paper in my band, following the words of the orator; and have mar- veled to find that he changed not 'a syllable in the delivery. Ile was as. letter-perfect as • an actor. Yet he could, if he chose, fashion the most polished sentences on his feet; and it was to me a ,lesson, wihi'oh.. I never forgot, of the desirability, however well equipped by nature one may 'be fes any emergency, to leave nothing important to chance. He 'left the Government because he dissented from its project of con- scription, during the World War, but be joined the Royal Air Force him- self and went to France. Et is a pity that his keen intelligence was not employed in the peace -making; he As 'he often, in this interviews with newspapermen,. appealed to me for a sort of corroboration, especially is French .matters, I took the liberty one day of being perfectly candid. The Council of tibe League bad condemned Germany for rearming in violation of the Versailles Treaty, though every- body else was rearming. "Did you observe, Sir John," I said, "how the Council was composed? The Cheir- man was the delegate of Turkey which •immediately tore up the Treaty. of Sevres' altogether,. and: was reward- ed with a new Treaty at Lausanne. Then there was the delegate of Rus- sia which broke its war pledge to the Allies and afterwards repudiated the Treaty of Brest -Litovsk with Ger- many. Poland was represented and, Poland Ibis just publicly denounced its Minorities Treaty. As for the countries which have unilaterally . set aside their debts contracts with the United States! I mean, all the mem- bers 'of the Council have torn up treaties—if it is only their obligation • in she Covenant to reduce armaments —and there there is surely some ir- ony in their sitting in judgment on Germany." Sir John reflected before be re- plied: "But did you not observe that in my speech I said that our criti- cisms must also apply to ourselves? I£ I had not, then certainly we could , have been described as sanctimon- ious humbugs!" He is undoubtedly one of the most intellectual of the British politicians. He takes, paind to understand. Long ago he could, had ' be chosen, navel gone to the Woolsack—become the Lord Chancellor of England. But. he declined. PICOBAC .PIPE TOBACCO _ FOR A MILD,000L SMOKE Middlesex -Huron Regiment Forms Guard of Honour At the post -Easter Wedding of Lt. Robert' t:. Ardiet and Kathleen Edna MacKay Port Elgin, brother officers of the groomtb Regiment, the Middfesex.Hurof Regiment,attended in a body and supplied the Guard of Honor under the comiitatcl of Mdjoi E. A, Corbet..:Tile above photo shows the_ wedding party leaving the church. Lt. Basil J. Duncan, of Sea'lorth, vitae one of the guard of hone. i4 Ph1 aat i 7