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io he ~ = . News Fotvcks Commentary on the Highlights of the Week's News . . by Peter Randal HALF-STARVED CANADIANS: -- During the past couple of years, the British public has been waking up to the fact that a great proportion of the population are undernourished, that if Great Britain doesn't watch out, she will shortly become a C8 na- tion. The national physique is deter- forating through lack of the proper vitamin-carrying foods. Reason given is that the above-mentioned articles of diet are too expensive for the low- er wage groups. Here in Canada it has been esti- mated that if a family of five are to receive an adequate supply of vitamin- containing milk, an outlay of $2.99 per week is required, at present prices. Then the appalling discovery is made that such a sum represents 20 per cent. of the total income of families living on between $750 and $800 a year! x Excluding farmers who generally belong to the $800 income group but who supply the family table from the products of their own toil, the number of Canadians falling below the $800 mark {8 indeed very large. There is a wolf outside more doors than we have imagined, and that wolf is Malnutri- tion, Good news is that the newly-ap- pointed Canadian Council of Nutrition hopes to do something about the sit- uation. Exhaustive research work will be done, and the public made nutrition-conscious. SOFT PEDAL: The United States apparently has stopped sending notes to Japan protesting the bombing of the Panay. For a while there, it was thought by. some that the incident might lead to, war between the two countrics. "But not by Washington. As the Montreal Star pointed out in a capable editorial, the U. 8. Govern- ment had to make a huge fuss to sat- isfy public desire for retaliation. It wouldn't have done to have let the outrage go unnoticed. The last thing in the world the United States wants is war, so it was a hard course for the diplomats to steer--between the two extremes. This week the Japanese came out in praise of the peaceful scttlement of the Panay crisis which demonstrat- ed, they said, the ability of "two civil- ized nations to solve their problems in a civilized way." ANOTHER DICTATORSHIP: As a result of a vote impasse in the King- dom of Rumania whereby Premier Taterescu and \his 'Cabinet found it necessary to resign, King Carol II may take it upon himself to act as Royal dictator with a pro-Fascist gov- ernment under him, Another dictator- ship, another Fascist State in Europe! UNOFFICIAL FLAG: Lancashire, England, has asked the question: "Why should Canada be the only one of the Dominions without a flag of her own?' Lancashire asked the question --and manufactured a Red Ensign with the Canadian coat-of-arms on it. This is quite unofficial but many Can- adiang seem to like it. They call it "our Lancashire flag," and it has been flown a good deal. London "Answers" comes back with a smart one: "What Lancashire weaves today Canada waves tomor- row?" ; . But the fact is, we still have no offi- cial, distinctively Canadian, flag. "COLD TO MIGRATION": Domin- ions Secretary Malcolm MacDonald last week told the British House of Commons that the time is not yet ripe to ask Canada to co-operate with the United Kingdom in encouraging the migration to Western farmlands of assisted Britons. The issue may never actually come to a head since, while time is being consumed in preliminaries, the British birth-rate is falling day by day and re- lief of congestion by emigration is be- coming less and less necessary. Commerce Studies Sunspot Problem Presence Cycle Nearing Its Peak and Radio Interference Will Reach Height Scientific matters of purely acad- emic interest have a way of becoming of commercial importance. The spots on the sun have been observed and recorded : fer nearly two hundred years as something of interest to the abstract scientists, but now they are studied by commercial companies. With radio, telegraph and telephone circuits operating over the oceans, it ig important to know what conditions are going to be encountered in order to be prepared to overcome them. To this 'end the Bell Telephone Labora- tories have delved into the sunspot problem. They are studying the pres- ent cycle, which is now nearing fits peak, and would like to know how high that peak is going to be. The higher the peak the more sunspots, and the more sunspots the greater the amount of interference with radio and wire transmission. A Two-Year Lag They have charted the studies of magnetic activity on the earth and find a two-year lag between the maxi- mum number of sunspots and maxi- mum number of magnetic storms. This factor is more likely to interfere with wire transmission, since the effect on radio of sunspot outburst is almost in- gtantaneous. Only the eleven-year cy- cle is available for forecasting the ex- tent of the latter factor. It has been found that there is a correlation be- tween the low point of one cycle and the height of the peak in the next cycle, the higher the starting point the higher the peak, and vice versa. As a result they have estimated that the coming peak will be of only mod- erate height, between sixty and nine- ty. The curve was rising so rapidly during the last year that many scien- tists thought it would go to extreme heights, perhaps the all-time record of 165 in 1780. New Eyelids Grafted After Face Scorched Kenneth Donnelly, of Sharbot Lake, Ont., 14, slept with closed eyes Christmas Eve for the first time since he was ten months old when he suf- fered burns which left one arm prac- | tically useless, disfigured his face and scorched off his eyelids. A month ago he was taken to King- ston where Dr. L. Noble Armstrong, eye specialist, and Dr. Stuart Houston, plastic surgeon, took diamond-shaped pleces of skin from two to "three in- 1% ghes in size from his leg and grafted them onto his eyelids. Kenneth can now open his eyes only slightly as the muscles are at the stage of development reached when he was tem months oid. Drought is causing the rationing of witer in parts of South Africa. 1) A--Q | Machine Teaches Slower Readers To Comprehend Whole Phrases at Once -- Reading Is An Art Where Practice Makes Perfect A machine to develop speed, rhythm and comprehension in read- ers is employed at Washington Uni- versity. The machine is rectangular, about a foot high, four feet wide and { rests on legs three feet high. On the front is a device resembling a roll on a player piano, on which reading mat- ter is printed. The roll, controlled electrically, moves along at any de- sired speed, displaying sentences according to 'the reader's reading rate. As the machine ticks phrases and then whole lines the read- sections of | oft words, | er falls into the rhythm habit. When the reader becomes accustomed to the speed of the machine it is stepped | up a notch and the pupil's speed is gradually developed. In a Definite Rhythm "If you are a skillful reader, your eyes move in a definite rhythm," Dr. Stephen C. Gribble, of the department of education in charge of the clinic ' at the university, said: "They move evenly across the line, stopping about the same number of times in each line, taking in about the same number of spaces at each fixation and with- | out moving back along the line to re- , read part of it. "For ordinary reading it has been determined that a person should need about three stops per line. Read Wholes Not Parts "The first law of reading is the ap- plication of the law of relative im- portance. Be selective and read for the broadest meanings at first, If you will focus attention on the more mean- ingful words, your reading span be- | comes wider, thus increasing both your speed and comprehension. Read wholes, not parts. Read sentences, not words." y The average reader covers 200 to 300 words a minute. Psychologists say that reading is an art in which practice makes perfect; that there 1s a correlation between fast reading and good reading, and those who read most are likely to be { the most comprehensive readers. Mending Hearts In Greek Fashion You have heard that a drop or two of perfume on your pillow at night will help to produce a good night's rest but did you hear that a Greek poet insisted that perfume had a more mportant function? The Greek ladies healed a broken | heart by changing their perfume for- mula, So if your newest beau seems hopelessly uncooperative, change your perfume just .in case. i why not , Luck charms sell well in New South ] 'Wales, where, it is estimated, nine persons out of ten in every walk of life carry them. As Grenadiers Enter City of London Commander J. R. roland salutes the Grenadier Guaras, as tae no.cd oritish regiment enters the City of London, colors flying and bayonets fixed, ac- cording to the tradition that grants the regiment this privilege, The unit will serve at the Tower of Lcmdon. Doctors Would Nationalize Support of Public and Govern- ment Is Being Sought For Re- search Work--Wish to Combat Cancer on Wide Scale. Canadian medicine plans te-put on its long-range fight against cancer and other baffling diseases. on a na- tional basis. The attack will be through a national medical research council, designed to co-ordinate medi- cal and scientific effort against the enemies of public health. Advise R@yal Commission Dr. T. C. Routley, general secretary of the Canadian Medical Association, has announced the C.M.A. would rec- ommend to the Rowell Commission on Dominion-Provincial relations the for- mation of the research body. A fav- orable finding by the commission, the doctors feel, would result in govern- mental and public support, = Under the proposal, medical re- search .into cancer which last year killed close to 12,000 Canadians would be placed in the hands of a branch of the present National Research Council. Qther baffling mai 38 such an infantile paralysis wople zewise com 'r the council's tes. ny for stuidynoX "experiment. 4 A first step toward 'matio.jalizing medical research has already been tak- en with organization of a medical ad- visory committee of the research council. The Canadian Medical Asso- ciation is represented on the commit- tee by its president, Dr. T. H. Leg- gett of Ottawa. edical Research Provinces Must Co-operate No one province can conduct the health education and research neces- sary to combat cancer, which took 500 more lives last year than in the pre- vious year, the. Rowell Commission will be told. The Canadian Medical Association, in line with its four-point cancer com- paign, is organizing also a Canadian Society for the Control of Cancer un- der which both lay and medical forces will be mobilized. The association last March was made the beneficiary of an annual $14,000 grant from the King George V Silver Jubilee Cancer Fund, contributed in a national campaign in 1935. om Four-Point Program It is pledged to: 1--Educational medical profession. 2--Improve cancer work in hospitals and existing research centres, 3--~Collect statistics for clinical re- search. 4--Conduct a public campaign to re- move cancer phobia or fear among the generrl public and to enlighten them on {ie many helpful treatments work within the 4 now availdble, provided they are used early enough in the development of the disease. Knights of the Garter, the most distinguished Order in the world, must wear some part of their insig- nia always--night and day, Canada's National Parks Picturized New Films Show Scenic, Recrea- icnel and Wild Life Fea- tures of Our Parks Two new motion picture films have recently been produced by the Na- tional Parks Bureau, Department of Mines and Rescurces, Ottawa. Bear- ing the titles, "Colourful Days in Prince Albert National Park" and "Playgrounds of the Prairie," these films are fine examples of motion pic- ture photography, and bring to the screen the scenic, recreational, and wild life features of the National Parks. "Colourful Days in Prince Al- bert National Park" is a fifteen-min- ute visit to Prince Albert National Park in Saskatchewan, while "Play- grounds of the Prairie" depicts the scenic beauty of Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba. These films have been produced in natural colour, and are also available in 'black and white. 84 Subjects In Library As a publicity and educational med- ium the National Parks Bureau oper- ates a motion picture library contain- ing a great variety of subjects des- criptive of the magnificent scenery, re- creational advantages, and wild life of the National Parks, The library con- taing 84 subjects, comprising more than 1,300 prints, and all subjects are available in both 35mm. and 16mm. sizes. These films are lent to con- servation societies, universities and schools, writers, lecturers and other organizations and individuals interest- ed in wild life conservation and in making known the many attractions of Canada's national playgrounds. New subjects are constantly being added to the National Parks film lib- rary, and the increasing demand for films reflects the growing interest in Canada's National Parks. Through the medium of motion picteres the beau- ties and attractions of these great recreational areas are becoming known throughout the whole world. National Parks films are now in ecir- culation in the United States, Great Britain, France, Austria, Czecho-Slo- vakia, Holland, Norway, India, Aus- tralia, New Zealand, Hawaii, South Africa and the British West Indies, as well as throughout the Dominion of Canada. } Woman Killed While Doctor Is At Door Mrs. Ellen Barlow, aged 65, sat knit- ting at the bedside of her 72-year- old husband, Henry, a farmer, of Longdale, near Sefton, England. Henry Barlow was seriously ill, and they were waiting for the doctor to call. There was a knock at the door, and Mrs. Barlow|put down her knitting to let the doctor in. A moment later Mr, Barlow heard a thud. He struggled out of bed and | went downstairs. His wife was lying dead with a frac- tured skull. He had to step over her body to open the door for the doctor. A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest. 1938 Ford V-8 Trucks, Commercial Cars RUGGED BEAUTY is the key- 1938. Leaders in the two lines are] wheelbase of previous years, avail- Introduced in the truck line this note of the newly styled Ford V-8|year is the 134-inch wheelbase, |light delivery and station wagon trucks and commercial cars for|which replaces the 1313-inch]bodies are available on the 112-inch commercial chassis. Panel delivery, sedan delivery, The sedan de- pictured above. (Top) The de luxe|able again in standard and dump |livery has the front end design of two-ton heavy duty truck with the]truck chassis. 167-inch wheelbase and powered | continued and the rugged 157-inch with the 95 horsepower V-8 engine. | wheelbase chassis with cab is again It is shown with a stake body.{available, De luxe trucks are | the standard passenger car and the station wagon the front end of the de luxe passenger car. The latter New treatment of the {has safety glass windows all around (Lower photo) The de luxe panel|truck radiator grille gives the front | which can be locked. More head- delivery, aristocrat of the new com-{end a more massive, impressive{room is provided in the cab and in- mercial cars. It is built on the{appearance. This effect is height- |teriors are fully lined with washable 112-inch wheelbase commercial}ened by long louvres extending |"artleather." Improved braking and chassis and is powered with the 85 | horizontally along the sides of the hood, which is hinged at the cowl.inew trucks and commercial cars. horsepower V-8 engine, easier steering are features of the p-- | News In L 3 Review } ne RE A F: c¢'st Rumania BUCHAREST - Octavian Goga, the leader of the Fascist-inclined National Christian Party, has succeeded in the forming of a new Government which foreign observers predict will swing Rumania away from Europe's demo- cratic' powers toward the Rome-Berlin axis. Goga was said to have told King Carol that he would not deviate from the National Christian Party program, which includes: 1. Close co-operation .with Fascist countries. 2. Severance of relations with Rus- sia. 3. Adherance to the Berlin anti-com- munist pact. 4. Seizure of all Jewish-owned land. Quints Gain Weight CALLANDER -- Possibly due to the huge Christmas dinner they ate, the 'Dionne quintuplets, now three years and seven months old, all registered weight gains during the past month, Dr, Allan Roy Dafoe, their physician, announced. Emilie furnished the major surprise of the month when she added one and one-quarter pounds to her weight to draw up on even terms with Annette for the first time since they were born. Annette, prior to this month, has alternated with Yvonne for the heavyweight title among the sisters. Husband and Wife Dead MONTREAL -- Hacked with an axe Mrs. Joseph Pozsony wag found dead in her home last week-end, and soon afterwards her husband's body was discovered hanging from a transom in an upper room of the house. The 36-year-old housewife was lying in the hallway of the St. Urbian St. home when her son, James, 14, return- ing from work, saw her sprawled body through the glass of the locked door. She was dead by the time a doc- tor had arrived. To Control All Shanghai SHANGHAI -- Japanese army claimed "in principle" this week-end, the right to 'extend provisions of its military law into Shanghai's Interna- tional Settlement and Freneh Conces- sion, where thousands of Britons and other foreigners make their homes. The Japanese army spokesman an- nounced the claim, under which the troops could enter foreign areas still outside Japanese control and arrest and try "all persons" suspected of crimes against Nippon's armed forces. New Irish Constitution DUBLIN -- A black flag flew over the headquarters of Sinn Fein this week as the new Irish Free State con- stitution came into effect -- a consti- tution which, though it is called only "near republican," severs most of the remaining ties with Great Britain and brings the country close to the status of an independnent republic, Sinn Fein disapproved the constitu- tion because it did not provide for an actual republic, with no ties at all, and threatened to hold a demonstra- tion to-night "to mark the resentment of citizens at the enforcement of a British Empire constitution which sub- verts the republic and maintains Eng- land's occupation of Ireland's territory and port." Unemployment Up OTTAWA, -- Industrial employment in Canada dropped by 34,444 persons during November, exceeding the av- erage for the period in the last 15 years although being smaller than in 1929 and 1930, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports. The bureau reported "a large sea- sonal contraction," at December 1st, from 1,194,171 the preceding month to 1,159,727. The crude index based -on the 1926 average as 100, fell from 125.2 at November 1st to 121:6 at December 1st, while the seasonally adjusted in- dex declined from 120.3 to 119.1. When Does Man Become An Adult? It is difficult to say exactly when a person is a fully-fledged adult. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian In- stitution, says a man is not full grown at 25, and may not even be at 40. The process of growth continues almost to old age, he says, and may never be complete. The arms, legs and body are known to grow long after manhood and womanhood are considered com- plete. Women's feet grow more than men's after 25, and a man's chest' grows till he is 40 or 50. When old age sets in, the chest and trunk shrink and the legs shorten slightly. The nose continues to lengthen 'throughout life in most people. A Doctor Directs His Own Operation Eighty-two-year-old Dr, Jacob Sch- winn, of West Virginia, is recovering after directing an operation on him- self. He was given a local anaesthetic, and while the two operating surgeons were busy with their knives he gave them detailed instructions of what they were to do. This stoic doctor, after the opera- tien, insisted on dressing his own! wound every day, and finally removed, | without any assistance, the stitches; that the surgeons had made. fe dr + bur A st = Say. A }