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The indices are bioccgical measureâ€" ments, ranging from pulse rate to body shape. They show in effect who shall survive the attacks of disease sufficiently to expect a ripe old age. In the heart and blood vesse‘ class, iwo groups of white men, 193 in each, were. compared. â€" They were first seen‘ at ages ranging from 20 to 60, an average of 40. They were followed until all died. > SPRING â€" HATSâ€""Pancake crowns bumper brims, bonnets with chin straps will lead in this year‘s parade of spring hats," the fashion papers tell us. And already we see on the streets of Ontario‘s small towns, large towns, our styleâ€"conscious woâ€" menfolk strutting about with the latest millinery confections atop their Biologist Able to Tell If Men Likely to Reach Old Age These longâ€"lived men had slower pulse rates. â€" The * differences, Dr. Pearl said, were quite small, around four beats a minute less. But this slight difference was statistically sigâ€" nificant. | The longlived men had different blood pressure than the shortâ€"lived. Dr. Pearl said he did not wish at this time to reveal the blood pressure difâ€" ferences. The men who lived long averagzed six pounds cach less weight, notwithstanding that all the men in both classes were average build and weight. Longâ€"Lived Smallâ€"Waisted The men who lived long had smallâ€" er chest girths at expiration of breath, and smaller waists at the naâ€" vel level. F It is not true, Dr. Pearl reported, that the "absolute" length of human life has lengthened. Actually, he said, fewer persons aiive at 70 toâ€" day survive until 90 than 40 years ;.:: The lengthened life span of toâ€" day is due to saving the lives of more babigs and children, he said. the BIG ~<AME CommEniat UH ECC Highlights of the Week‘s News . . .. By Elizabeth Eedy Commentary on the Oe T p JA SHIRKS‘"â€"Writing in the \ Commentator, an Ameriâ€" al obserser undertakes to died. L 26 Years Difference oup was longâ€"lived; the othâ€" â€"lived. The longâ€"lived men | 26 years apiece more than ROMANCEâ€"Last year Duke and Duchess of had the world‘s tongues love story of a century, This spring it is Greta eopold Stokowski, two it names in the news, iline us with firstâ€"class al (?) observer cannot 1, however, that more chosen styles to suit ly realized that those imnels are meant to be . sweet young things here are altogether too looking women peering inder _ unsophisticated ike us think too readily Riding Hood‘s Grandâ€" Lhost or ourselves now take ion in world affairs. Statute of Westminâ€" n, we keep on hangâ€" â€" apron strings, and make our major deâ€" ur critic points out, the average is payâ€" for the defence of he Dominions, each s les« than a tenth Why, the United iz more Lard cash f the Englishâ€"speakâ€" n@ Canada, than all en times over." pot Imeé A1 ad, since it we m Great Britain ‘ our shores, we iwrselves now take [M:it‘y of Canâ€" her British Doâ€" s not doing her :« says, expects to be defended ut is doing noâ€" e to strengthen ArC t of view, the n ut co other two * anc name the way of since the wever on bitâ€" The outlook for it is so serious that representatives of the United States and Canadian governments, as well as the governments of Ontario and of the eight states bordering on the Great Lakes, met in Detroit in Februâ€" ary to agree upon a uniform protecâ€" tion of small fish. Decline In Whitefish The decline of the whitefish catch from 3,500,000 to less than 500,000 pounds annually is only one measure And yet, as the result of lack of proper regulation, this important inâ€" dustry, conservation experts warn, faces extinction. The outcome of a campaign in this territory is unpredictable, since Rusâ€" sia at any time might come to the help of the Chinese Communists. Nevertheless Japan now proposes to go ahead and make good her oftâ€"reâ€" peated declaration that the real obâ€" ject of the present hostilities is to wipe out Red influences in North China. THE WORST DRIVERSâ€"Addresâ€" sing delegates to the Ontario Motor League‘s Annual Conference, George A. Hodgson, chief examiner of drivâ€" ers of Ontario, declared last week that at least 80 percent. of the car accidents occurring in this province were caused by drivers whose experiâ€" ence amounted to five years or more. In other words, it is the experienced drivers who ought to know better who pile up the worst records. "Furthermore", he said, "the colâ€" ourâ€"blind driver is safer than the man who is not colour blind. He can tell you immediately that the top light is red and the bottom green. Our difâ€" ferences are with those who have all their faculties." Apparently, then, the more a man is aware of his deficiencies, the more alert and careful he will be. Press despatch reads: "Poland stepâ€" ped into the diplomatic forefront this week as a possible balance between Great Britain and France on one side and Germany and Rtaly on the other, in proposed European agreements." The Great Lakes Fishing Industry American and Canadian commercial fishermen take some 120,000,000 lbs. of fish out of the Great Lakes annualâ€" Iy, valued at approximately $8,000,â€" 000, says the Detroit Free Press. of the fate in store for the Great Lakes fisheries if something effective is not promptly done to curb the rayâ€" ages of cutâ€"throat competition among the fishermen, who seem to act on the assumption that a fish in the net is worth two in the water. SHANSE FALLSâ€"With the virtual taking over last week of China‘s Shansi province by the Japanese, the Rising Sun armies are in position for a westward drive across the Yellow River into the heart of the Chinese Red territory, the mysterious INorth Shensi area, the country with a "questionâ€"mark." (Few white people have succeedâ€" ed in penctrating as far as the Comâ€" munist _ strongholds â€" there. â€" Edgar Snow in his "Red Star Over China" tells the story of a sojourn in this stamping ground of the Chinese Red forces presents photographs of peoâ€" ple and places never before caught by the camera; describes a visit to the capital of the "mobile Chinese Soviet" in the north central portion of the area.) TEETERâ€"TOTTER â€" An Associated Commercial Catch Totals 120,â€" 000,000 Pounds Annually The end of that sort of thing is bound to be the extinction of the stock of commercial fish in the lakesâ€"and, with it, the destruction of the profitâ€" able business of supplying tables with piscatorial delicacies fresh from local waters Behind this news lies a multitude of interrelated facts, chief of which are: following his conversations with Prime Minister Chamberlain of Great Britain, which he hopes to conclude successfully, Premier Mussolini of Italy is expected to propose an alliâ€" ance of four great powers who will run Europe‘s affairs; France would be unenthusiastic about such a plan unless Poland, her ally, were invited to participate in the talks, England is not the only country with antiquated laws. An ardent filmâ€"goer in Akron, Ohio, has reâ€" cently discovered that a 41â€"yearâ€"old law, never repealed, forbids women to wear large hats in theatres. He has now invoked the law, which has to be carried out by theatre manâ€" agers, and can go to his favourite cinema with a guarantee that his view will not be obscured. As the result of spareâ€"time study more than 500 miners have left the mines of South Wales to enter proâ€" fessions in the last three years. Hats Of! Photograph Speedy License Numbers Camera Has Been Invented That Will Snap Numbers on Fast Automobiles at Night The photographic marvel, Foote said, is expected to pierce the brightâ€" est headlight rays and clock the speed of the carâ€"at the same time,. Foote said that he planned to place the equipment in three or four cars operated by each of the 18 police troops in Pennsylvania. Front or Back Plates The camera would be set up close to the windshield of the "ghost" car, and could photograph through the glass of the windshield, getting the license plate of a car in front or of a vehicle coming in the opposite diâ€" rection. A camera capable of photographing licences of speeding automobiles at night was brought forward last week by the Pennsylvania State police as a new weapon in the state‘s war on highway adtcidents. Commissioner Perey W. Foote said that the camera would bo installed soon in many of the patrol‘s white "ghost cars" that took to the road some time ago to combat highway law violations. Pierces Brightest Rays Infraâ€"red cameras are being develâ€" opend for police use by Capt. Flavel M. Williams, retired naval officer and fog camera expert, who was drafted by the Pennsylvania force to carry on his researches. Earliee in the day, the minister had secured first reading for a bill allowing Transâ€"Canada Airlines to purchase a certain allotment of stock in the company operating the ocean service, as provided for under terms of an agreement with Great Britain, the Irish Free State and Newfoundâ€" land. The TransCanada now has 21 piâ€" lots. The minister boasted that they are equal to any in the world and are familiar with the British system of navigation, The service from Vancouver to Winnipeg is "pretty well completed," he said, and the jump from Montreal to the Maritimes will be pushed ahead as soon as the weather permits in the spring. Canadian Minister of Transport Predicts Transâ€"Canada Airlines Vancouver to Montreal The transâ€"Canada, Mr. Howe said, will have a thorough service from Vancouver to Montreal with only one feeder, from Lethbridge to Edmonâ€" ton. It was the government‘s inâ€" tention to leave ordinary feeder serâ€" vices to private enterprise. Tenders for air mail services connecting the main cities of Saskatchewan, are beâ€" ing called now. It was generally the government‘s intention, the minister said, to exâ€" tend aviation to all part of Canada when air mail warranted it. Nearly 320,000 decorative _ trees are to be planted in County Durham in England. Oceanâ€"toâ€"ocean mail service will be in operation on the Transâ€"Canada Airlines within a year, the House of Commons was informed last week by Minister of Transport C. D. Howe, Two Trips Per Week He also made the announcement that it is "quite within the realm of possibility‘" that a regular air mail service across the Atlantic Ocean, consisting of two trips each way per week, will be in operation before the end of the present year. Foresees Ocean Mail _ Flights During 1938 Sst_enming through Johore Straits, the U. S. S. Memphis is shown ariving at Great Britain‘s new naval base at ingapore. _ Ocean Service Will Be In Force Within a Yearâ€"21 Pilots Now Ready Trained. U. S. S. Memphis Pays Visit to Singapore New arrangements also were made respecting administration of the quota on canned salmon. The ‘following other Canadian comâ€" modities are given new or additional quotas: Cheese, tomato juice, mowing machines, electrical apparatus, elastic fabrics and manufactures of asbestos. Benefits of the French minimum tariff have also been extended to the following Canadian products: Sweetâ€" ened condensed milk, artificial carbonâ€" ate of magnesia, uranium oxide, telâ€" lurium, _ incandescent â€" mantles, calf brains, gas and alcohol stoves, lamp and gas burners and parts. OTTAWA.,â€" The Francoâ€"Canadian trade treaty, ratified last week by the French Chamber of Deputies, is an extension of the 1933 and 1935 comâ€" mercial agreements. Most important concessions to Canada are larger quoâ€" tas for lead and zinc in pigs and bars. The additional quota in lead is exâ€" pected to amount to about $700,000 and zinc to about $200,000. # TORONTO.â€"Legislative authority for a Governmentâ€"appointed Commisâ€" sion to investigate secret cancer cures was sought last week in the Ontario House by Hon. Harold J. Kirby, Minâ€" ister of Health. TORONTO.â€"Thirtyâ€"eight charges of theft, robbery and shopbreaking were laid last week after hours of persistent questioning of four ‘teenâ€" Paris Ratifies Trade Treaty TOKIOâ€"A vigorous Soviet protest this week registered renewed tension in Japan‘s troubled relations with the Soviet. Moscow protested against the continued detention of two Rusâ€" sian steamships in northern Japan ports and of a Soviet airplane in northeastern Manchoukuo. The Japâ€" anese came back with charges that® Soviet authorities â€" were _ "illegally holding" 58 Japanese < subjects in Russian Sakhalin and nine Japanese vessels. Stock markets on this continent last week took some hard knocks but after a few hours of slipping prices, they staged a practical comeback. The recovery in the face of the failure of Richard Whitney & Co., a prominent New York stock exchange firm, was regarded as an exceltent demonstration of the strength underâ€" lying the market. Canada to Gain â€" Dominion Quotas Higher on Several Products Revelation of formula and details of treatment are required by the bill, according to the Minister. Sweeping powers to inquire into any type of "soâ€"called cure" are provided. The Chinese also said a Chinese cavalry detachment repulsed a Japaâ€" nese drive against Lini, in Southeastâ€" ern Shantung, killing 500 Japanese. Successful Guerilla Tactics SHANGHAT.â€"Chinese _ ‘reported over the weekâ€"end that guerilla bands had recaptured a dozen towns in conâ€" quered territory north of the Yellow River, Japanese artillery meanwhile bombarded strategie cities on the south bank. Most of the reported Chinese sucâ€" cesses were along the Honanâ€"Hopeh border, forty to sixty miles behind the Japanese advance lines, which were held up by the broad river, Stock Exchange Setbhack Russoâ€"Japanese Tension Want to Probe Cures News In Brief Held On 38 Charges Away From No "Saturated" West Extinct Species? Humanitarian l-'eelinfil We say "amen‘" to the indignation of Tavistock people, directed toward the unknown hitâ€"andâ€"run driver who killed a wireâ€"hair terrier puppy in that village. The mean killer neither slowed down in an attempt to miss the wee dog, nor to make amends after running over it. Contrast this incident grith one in Dubuque, Iowa, where l!men worked for ten days to rescue a small terrier from a fox hole.â€"Stratford Beaconâ€"Herald. Concurrently with the upbuilding of the Royal Air Force, the Governâ€" ment announced last week it will give increased stimulus to civil aviation. Measures are to be taken within the Air Ministry to strengthen the orâ€" ganization dealing with civil aviation. The Y.M.C.A. in Toronto is conâ€" ducting a course to cure blushing and there will be a little mild speculation as to where they find folk nowadays that do blush.â€"Peterbcrough Examâ€" iner. Modern â€" machinery has enabled fewer peovle to produce more on the farms. This has inevitably been reâ€" flected on the villages. But there is a growing realization that urbanizaâ€" tion can be carried too far. The huge city strangles itself. Everyâ€" where we see suburban developments as men try to escape from the high taxes and crowded streets of the city. Industry is said to be following the same pathway. Hydro and rapid transportation cancel many of the advantages once possessed by the city. It will be interesting to see what succeeding years contribute to the problem.â€"London Free Press. LONDON.â€"Great Britain make a bolder bid for inter air traffic. There is a limiting factor holding down Westernâ€"and, for that matter, Canadianâ€"population growth.â€" But that factor decidedly is not "saturaâ€" tion" or overloading of the physical resources. The soil of Western Canada is neither overcrowded nor overloaded, nor anywhere near that condition. A look at Russia, with its 165 million people, challenges not only comparison but serious study. Naturally, we do not want to des cend to the Russian standard of livâ€" ing, but "standard of living" is itâ€" self a shibboleth which might well be analyzed. Some of the ideas and habits by which we mould our lives in Canada might be revised with beâ€" nefit to everybody in the Dominion â€"but the scientists who are most capable of attacking the problem hare "no actual data" and are so burdened with routine that they have no opportunity to give the longâ€" view leadership which might inspire the people and start a new era of progress, Whem Con c o OES 0 ol h . o romeen mey cCO adey 3 and visit poor districts in Glasgow the following day, it was officially announced this week. aged boys caught by an unarmed poâ€" lice chief after an cightyâ€"mileâ€"anâ€" hour auto chase and a fiveâ€"mile manâ€" hunt through the bush near Whitbhy. To Open Empire Fair LONDON.â€"The King and Queen will open the Empire exposition at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, on May Civil Aviation To Go Ahead VOICE THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA reat Britain is to bid for international of the German Autos Hit British Car Sales Australian Foreign Policy Can Japan Last Out? Whereas only twentyâ€"three German automobiles were imported into Briâ€" tain in January, 1937, the number jumped to 1,067 last month,. Moreover, it is said that, owing to the German subsidy, German trucks and heavy oil vehicles are being imported into South Africa, Ceylon and other ‘British Doâ€" minion markets at prices with which neither British nor American makers can compete. Although the German "People‘s Car" has not yet appeared, other types already in production are makâ€" ing such inroads in the British marâ€" ket as to cause anxiety among London and Oxford manufacturers. Australia‘s distinctive interests reâ€" volve around two different centres; the Pacific and the British Commonâ€" wealth of Nations. Our geographical position and our economic welfare inevitably mean a regional preoceuâ€" pation with the Pacific. In many re spects we share parallel interes‘s with the United States, and one of the recognized planks in our foreign policy must be the development of Australianâ€"American friendship and coâ€"operation. We desire to place ovr trade and other relations with Japan on a satisfactory footing, We recognize her economic difficulties, but, on the other hand, we cannot remain blind to the Japanese aggresâ€" sion which has aroused even India to strengthen hor defences, and any potential threat to our security reâ€" minds us that we can only find safety in coâ€"operation with Great Britain, just as our interests and loyalties are ineluctably bound up with the Empire.â€"Sydneyâ€" Herald. The inventor has discovered that silk of such high insulating value can be obtained by treating the material with dry steam. Thus less silk would be needed to produce the same amâ€" ount of insulation. The fine wires used in many electrical instruments | are insulated with windings of silk thread. According to his process, the silk fiber is placed in a chamber previousâ€" ly heated to 150 degrees Fahrenheit. The dry steam at a temperature of 220 degrees Fahrenheit is introduced. The treatment lasts for 20 minutes. After this, the silk is dried and ready for its use as an insulating wrapping. Canadain Invents Insulating Silk Silk insulation that exhibits 13% to 17 times more electrical resistance than ordinary silk is revealed in a paâ€" tent granted at Washington, D.C., to Alfred (. Goodings, of Toronto. According to the Daily Telegraph, the prime purpose of the German subâ€" sidy arrangement is to obtain credits abroad for essential imports. Last year‘s automobile exports, it is believâ€" ed, actually paid for all the rubber for tires required on Germany‘s own auâ€" tomobiles. In the last three years we have heard so much of the horrors of war in Abyssinia, Spain and China that many of us take it for granted our own country must sooner or later be involved in similar miseries. But we overlook one factor of transcendent importanceâ€"never betore in history has it been so obvious that war canâ€" not pay, even when all the bombs and tanks and artillery are on one side, as they were in the Abysinian affair. Without foreign credits Italy can do teritorq I have already, in this arâ€" policy. 1 have already, in this arâ€" ticle, called attention to the cost in men and money of the German and Italian war in Spainâ€"a war waged by these nonâ€"Spaniards with that sinking feeling that any pickings at the end of it are more likely to go to the City of London than to Berlin or Rome. But the most impressive example is that of Japan. Mer enâ€" tire resources are now involved in a campaign which will almost" inevitâ€" ably ruin her , . . It seems almost unbelievable that any nation should manage to forfeit so much good will in so short a time. Who, after such examples, will dare to start a new war? â€"Vernon Bartlett in World Review (London),. Dry Steam Treatment Found to Moscow proclaims that its new subâ€" way is the most beautiful in the world. Andl?oininiomWithSub- sidy On Exports PRES S THE EMPIRE Resistance Powers ONTA CANADA _ THE EMPIRE Flying A Plane At 36,000 Feet . French bombing pilots are learnâ€" ing to fly at the 36,000400t lovel which their ofticers say will be the normal cruising altitude for bombers in "the next war." i Lost And Found In The Vatican Equipped with light masks and oxyâ€" gen tanks, the French *‘high fliers* make daily flights in the substratoâ€" mphere, preparing for the day when antiâ€"aircraft ganners will be looking for planes in lower altitudes, Next Cruising Aititude Erhard Miich, Germany amderâ€"secreâ€" tary of air, said in Zurich recently that in case of hostilities bombing planes would fly above 33,000 feet in mormal operations. Promntly Fronch newspapors :mix whot‘or the general staff of the army had taken adequate steps to teach French bombing plane pilets to fly at that height and if France had the equipment to take them there. South Africa Has Vast Health Plan Used to Oxygen Tanks One of the main schools for high flying pilots is at Istres, west of Marâ€" seilles, where military | pilots with standardized army equipment make daily hops. One of the pilots said: "At 36,000 feet over Marseillies you can see Corsica and Mont Blanc. The air ministry immediately let it be known that ‘"almost all" French bombing planes could cruise at that altitude and stated that French pilots had been "flying regularly" around the 36,000foot mark for more than & year. "It‘s a great life, The bomber pilots have grown so accustomed to the masks and oxygzen tanks that they feel lost without them when they take up a fighter." The absentâ€"mindedness of sight seers in the British Museum, London, England, is proverbial, but visitors to the Vatican are almost as bad, and the Vatican‘s Lost Property Ofâ€" Kice has some curious articles to deal with. 6. A cash payment during periods of sickness. National Health Insurance "The adoption of a scheme of naâ€" tional health insurance such as that recently recommended by the departâ€" mental committee of enquiry," says Sir Edward Thornton, "is one which would make an enormous improveâ€" ment in the public health of South Africa. Broadly, the scheme will apâ€" ply to all employed persons, includâ€" ing dependants of either sex or all races who are resident in the area of local authorities and are earning not more than £400 (about $2,000) per annum." It is explained that the funds reâ€" quired for the provision and adminâ€" istration of these benefits will be deâ€" rived from contributions by the Govâ€" ernment, employers and employed people in the proportion of approxiâ€" mately : Government, 14 %, employâ€" ers, 49"%, and employees, 364 %, Among the items lost in one month recently, were a woman‘s frock, two dogs, two undergarments, two bathing suits, one revolver, eight bicycles, an album, 30. purses, a bracelet, a letter of credit, four hats, eleven sums of money, six docuâ€" ments, three photographs, three camâ€" eras, seven pairs of spectacles, cight umbrellas, four watches, seven founâ€" tainâ€"pens, nine cards of identity, tem pairs of gloves, seven attache cakes, two fans and thirtyâ€"five assorted ol jects, & JOHANNESBURG, South Africaâ€" If a scheme to provide medical and other similar benefits to the people of South Africa is adopted by the Government, a gift of £5,331,691 (about $26,658,455) annually will be provided in the Union. 1. A general medical practitioner service including free drugs, medical and curative appliances. 2, Specialists‘ services, 3, A payment towards the cost of hospital treatment of those employâ€" ed persons and their dependents who would in present cireumstances be required by provincial hospitals to make some payment towards the cost. 4. The payment of a lump sum on confinement of an employed woman or the wife of an employed man. 5, A payment of a lump sum for the cost of burial of an employed person or his dependents. But perhaps strangest of ‘all were the 55 pocket cases and 21 bunches of keys which were lost by Vatican visitors who have not yet applied to the Lost Property Office for their reâ€" turn,. The scheme, which was outlined in the annual report of the Depart ment of Public Health, includes:â€" And Maternity Benefits Daily Flights In Subâ€" Involved 1+