The Blyth Standard, 1930-03-27, Page 3Rural Health Units
The Canadian House of Commons Without Division
Approves a Motion Requesting the Government
to Consider Subsidizing ''County Health
Units", to Give Health of Rural Canada
Better Protection
The 0,710111 scope of such 0 nu
jest at fust eludes one, as doss th
great significance of ithe fact that by
approving the motion without dlver-
eion, the house put the questMii of
national heaitlh where it helonge—oat
of the field of party politics,
Tli8 Is extremely forininte, for 11
eu lble:e every Canadian citizen to ilis-
oi s0, and to give his approval without
ratieem or.emisideratoua of party af-
flil;a1iolis to what - to probably the
greatest piece of health -legislation
over contemplated in the history of
the World.
Per the County Health Unit seinen
when it le in working order through
oat the Dominion, 00 it is bound to b
eventually and as it already Is 11
pugs of Quebec, Saeltatchewan amt
Bre leh Columbia, save snort Canadian
lave, and more Canadian dollars that
the majority of us realize aro nee
beteg wasted, Icor there is no (10ub
that future generations will look back
upon our present•day rural health
Management with banner, as beim; 11t
the Omit of criminally' negligent,
At. the beginning of this century the
country was a healthier place to live
in than the city. In fact, most of 001
l'o, krs will probably, bo surprisoil to
learn that it is so no longer. Alcual-
ly official statistics prove that th
harmer hos much less chance of long
life and health than has his city cons -
in, and the reason Is simply that the
city man's health ie looked after scien-
tifically, by modern, rip-to-dato public
Stealth departments, while the farrier
and the small-town dweller do not
eharo [1r this advantage, because it
coots a great deal of money, and the
comiley and the small town cannot af-
e the organization of such n uii
ll(_�r,
L'
Derieg :192e there were 013 death,
in the ilietrlet from general causes
In 1918 this flgurr. dropped 150 to 187
Shnilaiy, infant deaths were reduce(
from ^_1.;1 to _J0; deaths from tuber
culeeis -rem 56 to 51, ttud deaths iron
011111 710119 disetts0(1, from 06 to 27.
39,1191(0, lodicotil:g the reduction o
da et,se generally are not yet avail•
able, but a study of the death rate
makes logical the assumption that
Ode too, must have been comparative-
ly inlpertallt
Three other health 1111110 w0r0 also
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> 111. 1?ui11e Nadeau, Assistant Director, Preii�i', Prima
1) �I 1 Lessard, Director, 1 •
Qneher. Provincial 'County
Hca Health. Peers. and Professor
What is the 'Cody Ilealih Unit"
sys(cu1 which we are presently oper-
ating in our Province of Quebec? It
•
consists In the establishment, in a
county 'or in two small neighboring
counties, of what might be designated
as it 'Bureau of Health in miniature"
composed of a full-time medical sin -
1101', 1100 or more public health nitrites,
a sanitary inspector charged with the
0 enforcement of the health regulations
and with the education of the munici-
pal officers, tdgother with a secretary
to handle the clerical work of the of-
fice which is generally located in the
principal town of the county. The
whole population of the county is thus
submitted to constant supervision of
the part of this staff, Health educa-
tion is intensively carried on, a con-
siderable amount of propaganda work
is done continually, and not a single
municipality' escapes the attention of
the officers of that unit, Tho medical
officer coven's all the parishes, meets
there rho civil and religious autihori-
ties, maintains cordial relations with
local doctors, gives public lectures
(announced tho preceding Sunday by
the cure inthepulpit) has friendly
tants with mothers on the neeeesity
of pro -natal, post -natal and pre•sehool
hygiene, visits the school and looks
after outbreaks of infectious diseases,
'1'110 nurses examine the school child-
ren and refer those defective iu ally
way, to the faintly -physician;... they
give the :teachers instructions in
hygiene w9loh they, 1n turn, pass on
to their pupils; they go directly into
the home of the people to snake them
understand the necessity of following
the golden rules for clean and healthy
living, they advise 900115 mothers on
how to protect their babies or babies -
to -he, etc. The sanitary inspector
visits the municipal enforcements of
the health lases, looks after water
supplies,` sewerage, nuisances, sees
tint quarantine is observed in case of
, contagious diseases, etc. Tho secre-
tary attends to the office work, hand-
les correspondence, answers (Meries,
keeps r'ecor'ds, and, one important
matter, collects from all the ministers
of worship' -'the birth, marriage and
death certificates, makes corrections
o 1tlicm if necessary, takes a copy of
each, and sends them to our Division
of Vital Statistics in Quebec.
'NI.- ('manly health Unit Plan, pro•
Vining as it does for Federal and Pro.
Sh 1n.1 payment by subsidy of two-
thitdo of the cost of each County
Health Unit, the municipality served
payieg the third, recognizes and acts
11)11 1)0 factthat health is a national
n59et end that rival Jives are as
yalulhble ' Cffna(a as urban ones.
Surely this ie eminently sound on
Vraetteal, as well as humanitarian
grounds, Everyone, regardless of po-
litical affiliations, agrees that Canada,
ineeging social machinery ca9abl0 of
eel', leg more 111ah 11011910 her present
population, made 500010 morn than
tinthing else ln'tlhe world. We' seek
amt me willing to pay for immigrants
of the right hind. Yet every year we
10.,,: r,,.al-born, native Canadians by
theesentle, 90110 ahead of their tine,
111191 glh diseases 1(11ch could he en.
lonely eliminated—for example diph-
theria ,and typhoid, both of which are
mete -limbic and conitl bo wiped oat
within a generation—and through
tuberculosis, heart disease, complaints
p(culiai' to infanta and their mothers,
metriet fever, causer, despite the fact
that profiler mug -twee of nubile health
tall save and in some centres are an-
nually e,aving many lives from all of
chem.
Quebec 1100 attacked this problem,
She has 17 Mural Health Units in
operation, and expects 00011 to 11000
eight more. Consider what happened
In Bowe County, Quebec, following
Pn'oblem in India
Of "Untouchables"
Tho -Simon. Commission report will
be issued in the spring, and the con•
tri ut.i0n by. Sir Charles Manns,
I* (8.i., in the hldia number of "The
!'lines," on the Caste System, is of
ypectal Interest, Among other per.
tlnent points raised, Sir Charles
writes;
"Today castee are to he reckoned
by rho hundred and identifiable minor
caste by the thousand. Caste remains
as etrongly as ever a matter of birth.
A man is born to honor as a Brahman
Or to dishonor as a sweeper; the worst
of Bi'alhraaus cannot lose his da.nct[ty
and the noblest of sweepers cannot
break his birth's invidious bar, ex:
Cept by going right outside the pale
of his religion.
"To a great extent occupation is
attn.) determined by a mane's caste,
though .various causes, such as edu-
cation and travel and the development
of industry and the desire for Gov
ernnent Service, have blurred the
bonnlary lines,
"L,icll casteenforcesits own rules
b3' means of committees called pan-
elisyets. A•caste man who breaks 111e
rules by engaging in a degrading so-
oupetion, or eating improper food, or
-" m arl'y'll(g beyend the pale, is arraign -
oil before the caste tribunal, Ho 1009
. off by paying a fine or standing
dinner, But for major offences he
11111 L -s utcaste, and then none of his
Own ,•nate-fellows will have anything
he do With him; nor can Ile get ac-
cess to the temples, nor service from
Any o ithe Other workers, the burlier,
the cobbler, the 1Casheruran, on whorl
1h1 depends for neces(1('9 offices,
";'0 places where there is a demand
for WI ccs, girls of.'nunble caste ole
s1me(ihuee brought by dishonest brok-
ers, who dispose of thou at a profit
by rapresent[ng them as of higher
CF°'' 'van 'he" ere. 1"his practice
may suggest the question Why a -low -
caste man crooned to a , degrading
trade should not likewise go off to
some place where he is unknown and
give 1,imeelf ottt as of a high caste.
The auta answer h unknown h ie that a nk town strang0rs
are always objects of suspicion in
India; and that before he was accept-
ed ho 100111d bo put through tests un-
der which he would break clown for
sheer lack of knowledge of the so-
ciety which 110 sought to enter.
"There is little difficulty about the
precedence of the major castes, Al.
ways the Brahman comes first, and
then the modern representatives of
tho three 'twice born' communities,
1lelow theft there would be no gener-
al agreement as to the sequence, Some
Sudi'as are 'clean', others, though not
clean, are yet not thought of as opl-
luted.
"Below tllose,,again, are a descend-
ing series of 'Untouchables,' In the
South, where Brahmanism is strong-
est, the degree of pollution with which
the -various kinds of pariah are in-
vested is measured 11y' the distance
within which they may not approach
a Brahman,
Tho depressed classes are reckoned
to number from 60 to 60 millions,
They used to be thought of as de-
finitely beyond the pale of I-Iinduism,
Their position is more ambiguous
nowadays, when growing torsion be-
tween Hindus and Moslems makes it
important to each community to in-
crease its numerical strength.
"But it the outcastes aro to be rec-
koned as Hindus 11 is only just and
Proper that Hinduism should threat
them better, Logic and expediency
alike tend to reinforce the efforts a1 -
ready being made by the more gener-
ous -minded of the caste leaders to
show more consideration to those be-
yond the pale. The movement has
long figured on political programmes)
It is now actually gaining atrengtbi
but it stn has great d1m0)Iltlei b over
come in the s sue of *ibo w Win, Latest, largest and fl, 'est ambulance plauo, developed by U.S, Army Air Cops, to he tested at Atd Copps
xervas't exercises at Saoramento, Calif.
Their Views on Russia'-' and
Religion, and the Exist-
ing Situation
"Ie tho Foreign Secretory aware
that two months ago I worshipped
peacefully with a thousand other pee -
pro in the Cathedral of the Redeemer
In Moscow?"—Mut Malcolm- MacDon-
ald, M.P., in the house of Commons,
"I have already recelv9d a ; great
deal of info'lnatiol which greatly in•
creases both the gravity and the dlt`-
ticulty of the subject. I'desire, after
there has been greater opportunity, to
consider the whole matter and to (11s -
cuss it with the fullness which is inn-
possible now, to have the matter de-
bated egalu 1n your Lorrlships'itonse."
—The Archbishop of Canterbury 111
the H0)1se of Lords.
There is not much chant;o in the
situation with regard to the religions
controversy nod 11nss1an relations,
Dr, Lang, Archbishop of CanterbnrY,
states above that he has received "In-
formation which increases tihe gravity
of the subject," and the only evidence
in the other direction appears ha Rey-
nolds's Illustrated News, but as the
source of information fe vaguely al-
luded to as of "high authority" peo-
ple will ' form their ower 00(1015(1one.
This "high authority" says:
"I have heard it said by one who
certainly ought to know, that. not 1
per cent, of the churches In Russia
have been'010sed,
"And even if ft were 10 per cent„
that figure would not be -higher than
the number of churches which,' for
various causes,- have of late been
closed in Britain, '
"Soule of the churches have been
removed on the demands of young
Communist groups,- who have proved
to the commneity in which they live
that the churches serve no useful
purpose.
"No doubt a considerable number
of priests have been dealt with, not,
however, because of 'the practice of
religion, but ell account of their'coun-
ter-revolutionary sympathies,
"I do not think it is tree that there
have been actual atrocities in any,
real seeee of the term, end the prieets
expelled have been dealt with or
general political grounds, This ap-
plies to the Orthodox Church.
' "But I believe that the Soviet has
dealt snore severely with. the Baptists,
and for the reason that they are an
international organization. Foreign
influence is thus introduced, and to
this the Soviet objects."
The Premier's View
Mr, Ramsay MacDonald, the Pre-
mier, writing to a correspondent,
says:
"Tho Government Is much concern-
ed with what is going on, Wo cannot
say that we have got the facts...-,_
"News supplied from Riga should
not be believed until corroborated; a
good part of the statements which
have done duty have been proved to
be false.
"Tire history of religion in Russia,
however, is unfortunately full of the
records of persecution.
"Persecution has never, in ons way
or another, been absent from Russian
religious life, and the revolutionary
mentality which generations of op.
pression have created has all the
characteristics of narrowness' and vlo
Immo of purpose.
"ft is a1 active will riding rough•
shod and 111(15lly over every obstacle,
real or imaginary.
Pelsocutlon is Hateful
"To my colleagues as to myself re•
ligions pe; -locution is hateful. We
have inherited that hate from our own
stock, -and 015 ((0tail0oly to be Indif-
ferent to any persecution In any part
of the world, of in any time either
past or present,
"\V0 have recognized Russia dlplo•
011111cally because we believe that that
is for the general good, ]however intri-
cate and troublesome the immediate
Problems may be.
"To•outlaw a Country isnot tomake
it amenable to world opinion, bat the
opposite.
"The only gaestiol is, what aro tate
facts and what -aro our opportuillties,
and how eau they best bo used?
"It 'vvoni,1 be the easiest thing in
the world to act in such 0 way as
would add to the loflictlono which
Christians may have to eud(110, That
1'0 shall' avoid whatever the ;nation
may be,"
A Bishop's Suggestion
Dr; Headlam, Bishop of Gloucester,
in a recent oddross,said that he "did
not believe 1: was right, wise, or
necessary to attempt to interfere with
the diplomatic relationsof the two
countries, fie believed tho presence
of the 13ritfell Ambassador and proper -
1y appointed Consols would have a
beneficial effect.
"Ile could not doubt. ilea the right
course was that the heads of thevarl-
ous 100510us bodies,. the Arclibiehop
0f Canterbury, the President of the
Free Church Council, Cardinal Bourne
and tho Chief Rabbi should be asked
to 05510ch the Ruosian Ambassador
here: and discuss the platter h1 a sync -
Pathetic manner,
'Ile ilelieved that if they were to
do so they m1g111 be able tq bring
Moue to the Ambassador, and through
91110 to those who sent hinh, the resent-
ment that was widely felt, a resent-
ment 1111111 aright have far-reaching
consequences in the future, H1e be.
tiered that an appeal bend on uiiyer-
sal principles coinnem td"1lumasity, of
justice, liberty, toleration and fairness
lutist in the end have weight."
Lord Perinea'', in the -House . of
Loris, took a similar lino when he
told the Peers; "1 tale the vlev of
the present Government that if yon
want improvement in Russia the way
to obtain it is by a friendly resump-
tion of ordinary normal diplomatic re-
lations, and that is the only way in
1111011, in the long run, I think Rus-
sia will come' into co-operation with
the general life and general outlook of
other European countries:"
A Fact Not Generally Known
An interesting personal tribute was
paid to Lord Parm0or by Lord New-
ton, who said in the Lords' debate:
"I cannot refrain from expressing
My admiration for the noble and
learned Lord, Lord Parmoor, and I do
not think that justice has ever been
done to him with regard to this par-
ticular, matter. Tits noble and learn.
ed Lord, in the course of a long and
honorable career at the Bar, amassed,
I believe( a considerable fortune,
largely by defending the interests of
Capital in the Committee rooms up•
stairs, and 11e invested a large'portlon
of his hard-earned gains in Russia.
"The moment the Bolsheviks carne
into power I believe they seized every
Liquor Control Gives Ontario
$9,661,448 Profit for 1929
Commissioner Reports Sales Totalling $55,360,569; Day of
Large Bootlegger is Declared Over as Regulations
Broaden Scrutiny of Purchases
Toronto.—With. sales totaling $55,-
300,500, the Ontario Liquor Control
Conmissioh has reported to the Legis-
lature a profit for 5929 of 09,061,448.
Commenting on° operation of the
control system, the report said:
"Evils resulting from the abuse of
liquor have ever been present. The sin
of drunkenness is still with us and
probably will remaln,, With hosts of
other sins."
The commission declared the day of
he large bootlegger was ended, "IIc
it regarded today as the common en-
enly," it said.
Use- of rubbing alcohol find other
substitutes was held by the commis-
sion as responsible for a large per-
centage of drunkenness 'in solue see -
tions and said measures were being
taken to eliminate this abuse.
Sir Henry Drayton, chairman of the
commission, also said a new pian
would bo put 'oto effect. 111 en en-
deavor to prevent abuse of the permit
privilege, Tinder the new•regulatons
n person buying beyond his mean' or
for bootlegging purposes will be lint•
Rod to purchases at the store nearest
his hone, thus permitting a closer
scrutiny on his purchases.
During 1929 there were 541,04-1
permits granted: Sales fico» the 123
government stores totaled $.37,626,779,
with the remalneler.f. rem 106 brewery
warehouses and breweries. The report
showed that the per capita consuuhp-
tionof alcohol in Canada had [luctu=
ated from :703 gallons in 1917 to a
low of ,395 in 1919 and to a high of
.723- in 1921. The consumption in 1028
las .425 gallons per person. .
penny that he possessed. Yet the
noble and learned Lord boars no mal,
Ice, ,ITeels the first to fling himself, so
to speak, upon their necks.
"Personally, I -um quite incapable
of soineng to heights of altruism of
that description, If a Mau had flag-
rantly robbed me and if I was again
called upon to associate with him I
should feel rattier reluctant to do so,
especially if not only having robbed
111e to the past he 10w indulged til
continual vituperation of ale end my
associates."
A Nonconformist i'rofeasor
Professor Bernard Manning, of
Jesus College, Cambridge, writing in
the Morning Post, says:
"Wo arc asked to wait still for the
facts, The Soviet snakes no secret of
its policy towards those things that
we most prize; it Is only our English
sentimentalists who shut their ears
to what the Russian Communists say
about their 1seltlevemdnts and their
policy In nhatte'e'of religiei.
"Dissenters like myself care not
two straws how the Russians arrange
their property; but we caro very
greatly for those o Elie household of
faith, 'and despite any worry that it
may cause t- Miss Wilkinson and Mr.
Henderson 1'e shall go on caring, The
Nonconformist conscience may exist
as a butt for third-rate huulovists; it
]las never existed as a soothing mix-
ture for I.hne•serving politicians."
Wavey—'Zest i, 11(1,', hare. Have
you though what you will do?"
Hubby -"Ch, I reckon it will be as
usual --cut down on family expenses
h1 order to buy you an Easter want,
VALUE OF CHARACTER
Wedgewood, though risen from a
workman, was never satisfied till he
had done his best- He would toler-
ate no inferior work. If it diti not
come up to his idea of what It should
be he would break the vessel and
throw it away, saying: "That won't do a
fc,r Josiah Wedgwood." Character
mancereputation,
s and Wedgwood pot -
t
eery, with Wedgwood's character be.' t
bind it, won world-wide celebrity.
There was no evasive secrecy; iris
art was his Holy bride, and he 005000 -
ed her with open glory,
Brave Fighter
Goes Far in Politics
Ex -Colonial Secretary Has
Had Hectic Career and
Risen to Heights
Potent and foremost among- those
who have begun to march against the
hosts of Empire Crusaders Is Lo'd
Beaverbroolt's old personal and politi-
cal friend, Leopold Charles Maurice
Amery, himself an apostle of empire
trade, The cables quote him as de•
daring that ho stands by Baldwin's
"Safety First" fiscal measures rather
than by the adventure proposed by the
Barron of Fleet St. Amery, thus once
lno1e in the empire spotlight, Is one
of the most extraordinary figures on
the stage of British politics.
Ho began with 'a reporter's note
book. He had no marriage bringing
fashion and Influence to help him, no
clique ties witih men of ruling houses,
no advantages of wealth or birth. But
had quenchless energy, limitless am-
bition and a pretty thick skin, and
from picking up odd iihs of news
around Whitehall, landed Info writing
lcadere and "spociale" for the Times.
As ho was the kind that mattes the
most of every opol'tttity, he plunged
right into the fiscal controversy, turn-
ing out articles and pamphlets that
were priceless to a hal-pr-scat Tory-
i9v1, and coming to be regarded ae 00
encyclopaedia upon anything pertain•
ing to tariffs aid imperiali3m. ldis
"Fundamental Fallacies of Free Trade'
because a sort of text hook for tariff
reform advocates.
Versatile1 r
is well .1
l a pugnuciuus, he
leas interested In things 101111ary, awl
n1 1599 wrote a book called "Prole
hens of the Army." It was a good
book, got him the job of editing the
Times' "History of the Boer War," a
task which he performed with the old
of that strange character, the Irish
rebel, Erskine Clillders. While writ-
ing this history (it was In seven yet
tunes) and turning out tandere, he
found Hine to study law, end in 1302
leas called to the bar at Inner'10019te,
But 11e Hover practised,
His 011000)1 career was polities,
Beaten in three successive by-elec-
tio10 bo finally reached the IIouse of
Conunohs from tho - Cihanberlaiu
stronghold of Birmingham, which 1'5.
turned hint fa 1911. ','flhereafter 1310
progress was steady;"1e was mill
tont Tory when militatlt'y`-lves•ihe key
to Tory preferment; 1('11)1 while he
never could be an F. E. Smith, he wax
1 least one of those who rallied with
Ulster and Carson, In the Great 1\'a',
oo, the was conspienous, Ile was ou
fro staff of the Fourth Army corps;
on special service in the Balkans;
served at G.H.Q. at Salonikl, 13y 1917
ho had landed into the post of assist
ant secretary of the war cabinet.
After that his task was clear, There
followed promotion to the colonial of
flee, and .when the Carlton club revolt
sent Lloyd George into the wilderness
and brought Toryism to office, Amery
was on the right side of the fence—
and walked into the aduliralty. He
went down with the Baldwin ministry
when Labor took ofhee in 1923, and re-
turned with it hr 1924 to become secre.
tory for the dominions. Since then he
has been around the world, all over
the I3uitlsh empire, turned once more..
out of office, and one of Mr. BaldWIn's
best t kh'rs,
Ho Ilghis anytehingnllshebut pleasant in ap-
pearance, Middle-aged, 110 is short
and thick -set., looking more like a
pugilist than a politician, and with a
llnll> that 1s a legacy of a broken leg
in our Rockies. IIo is a fanatic about
physical fitness, is always in perfect -
condition, and two years ago punched
tihe jaw of Mr, Buchanan, the Socialist
radical from the Clyde. No ono would
tanto him for a successful platform
speaker, yet ho le formidable in de -
hate, irrespressible in 0(7010ent, 0091 -
ons it vocabulary, and with something
of iron in his stiff altitude, clenched
hands, cramped little gestures, when.
ho speaks. 1 -lis voice is poor without
cadences, but his brain is as clear as
a bell, and iris speech extraordinarily
fluent. And ho fortifies all this with
a disconcerting memory and an amaz-
ing talent for figures.
Amery knows Canada peter than
lIloot Caittdlans, and 1}e married an
C31t�Jtu q:fl—a sister if Sir Hamar
�GruLwt 4.
REFORMERS
The only way to judge reformers,
I've found, is by the amount of work
they're ready to do after they have
addressed the meeting, — Frederick
Palmer,
An expert says that a really good dia.
mond will nuke a holo in almost any-
thing.
nything. Especially a banking account.
Thrift la alleged to have become
a vice 1n America, but little credence
Is attached to the rumor that many
ostensible apealt-easier are in reality
savings -banks,