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gfac>(Uf EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE, CANADA Not So Far From War The real point is that Canada is not-so far away from war dan- gers as the more complacent Canadians imagine. Even in the Great War an attempt was made to blow up a factory in Windsor. That was just a taste of what might be expected in the way of incidents in these days of improv- ed ways of killing peopleâ€"Wind- sor Daily Star. Why Not Cut Sales Tax? It has been pointed out that the Canadian National Railways sys- tem pays about $5,000,000 annual- ly in sales tax. In other words, the amount may be reckoned as part of the deficit met through taxation. The sales tax is also a substantial item in the cost of goods purchased by school boards and other municipal bodies. If it cannot be abolished it ought at least to be reduced from the pres- ent high level.â€"Woodstock Sen- tinel-Review. Our Canadian “Cities Another thing that might well be standardized throughout the Dominion is the population re- quired before a community may be incorporated as a city. For many years an Ontario town could become a city if it possessed a population in excess of 10,000, and it has been repeatedly sug- gested that Broekville should take advantage of that stipulation, and get out of the ranks of the towns in which she has been situated since 1832. Within recent years, however, the provincial lawmakers have raised the standard, and 15,- QÛ0 is the population now requir- ed of a community before it may legally attain cityhood. At that rate, it appears that Broekville will have to wait for some years before it joins the other cities of the Province. But in Manitoba a it has 10,000 or over. In Alberta, a city means a community of 5,000 or more, and in .British Columbia it is actually the law that any place with 100 male inhabitants may become incorporated as a city. -â€" Broekville Recorder and Times. The EMPIRE “Sauce for the Goose ...” If the Spanish war ends with a victory for the insurgents while the Czechoslovak question is still in the balance, France will find herself faced not only with the German menace to her ally but with an Italy able and willing to raise all sorts of trouble in the Mediterranean, to cut the sea routes to the French colonies, per- haps to help General Franco in some demonstration against the French frontier. This state of things is only to be ended if France admits Italy’s right to" in- tervene in Spain while forbidding herself the mildest of counter- measures. The logical and suffi- _ vient answer to this is obvious enough. If Signor Mussolini con- siders that. France is “intervening” dangerously in the Spanish war he has the remedy of declaring for genuine intervention on all sides, France, Britain, and all the peaceable States of Europe would be overjoyed to see all “volun- teers” withdrawn from Spain, all supplies of war material stopped. There is not much doubt that the civil war would end quickly enough if its conduct were left to the Spaniards themselves. But if Italy will not agree to non-in- tervention then she should have no right to complain even if the in- tervention of other Powers were on a scale to match her own. Motorcycles made in Germany last year totalled 141,591, com- pared with 125,131 in 1936 and 47,630 in 1932. Death In The Home Although melt spend less time in the home thftn d° women, the greater number of fatal accidents, in the home hâve men as victims for all age groups up to sixty- five, above which the greater number of victims are women, ac- cording to Metropolitan. Life In- surance Company data compiled from death reports among its in- dustrial policy holders between 1931 and 1935. In the age group from fifteen to sixty-four, for . 100,000 deaths, 13.8 males and 9.3 females are killed in the home. The most frequent cause is falls, the rate for men being 6.2, for women 4.5, Men are asphyxiated ly than women and men also have ly that women and men also have a lead in accidents due to fire- arms. Burns claim nearly twice as many women as men. There is a heavy increase in deaths from falls in the ages above sixty-five with women victims half again as often as the men, the rates being 95.7 and 61.6. Hastings, England, will give a tree, plant and maintain it for everyone in the city having a front lawn. i NAMES ,'„N= NEWS j SIR FREDERICK BANTING K.B.E, Recognized the world over as the scientist who made one ot the most important discoveries of our times, the cure for diabetes, Sir Frederick Grant Banting, K.B.E., has given Canada reason for taking great pride in such a native son, a bene- factor to humanity, and a truly remarkable man. Born 47 years ago in Alliston, Ontario, Frederick Banting attend- ed the local public and high schools and passed on to the study of medi- cine at the University of Toronto. After graduation, he enlisted with the C. A. M. C. for service over- seas, was wounded at Cambrai, de- corated with the Military Cross. Following the war he entered the Sick Children’s Hospital, Toronto, as resident surgeon, shortly going to London, Ontario, where he join- ed the staff ot the University of Western Ontario, working with the Physiology Department. In 1921 the young scientist came to Toronto. On May 16th of that year he began his epoch-making research into the internal secretion of the pancreas, experimenting with dogs and on himself. Epoch-Making Discovery In March of 1922, the discovery was announced to the world of an extract obtained from the “islands” (special little groups of tissue) of the pancreas of animals which when injected into a human being with diabetes would overcome faul- ty oxidization in the body (inabil- ity to utilize starches and sugars) and cure the disease. Dr. Banting and his co-worker, C. H. Best, received tremendous ac- claim throughout the world for their discovery. Dr. Banting was awarded with the Nobel Prize the following year, the youngest man to win it. He has since been hon- ored by many medical and scien- tific bodies of this and other lands. During the past few years while ho -lias.beea--Professer -of -Medical Research at the University of Tor- onto, Sir Frederick has interested himself in cardiac diseases, cancer research, prevention of silicosis, a specific to cure infantile paralysis; he has investigated the qualities of the royal jelly of the giant bee, be- lieving it might contain properties capable of prolonging life. He has discovered "iny uses for insulin; in a shock treatment for mental dis- eases; in cases of malnutrition; in lessening the effects of infectious diseases. More and More Research With regard to the search for a cure for cancer, Sir Frederick re- cently said: “The solution of the cancer problem probably wiil not come by chance, but by further re- search. What is needed in the treatment for cancer is a specific.” Research and more research is what he calls for. At present Dr. Banting is Chair- man of the Associate Committee on Medical Research of the National Research Council of Canada. This summer he plans to tour the Domin- ion from coast to coast, visiting each of the principal centres in turn to learn at first hand of the scien- tific work in progress here. NEXT WEEK IN THIS PAPER A NEW FEATURE WILL START--- ARE YOU LISTENING? Snappy Microphone Gossip About the Week’s Radio Programs and Personalities .... By Freddie Fee WATCH FOR IT ! Ottawa Indians Do Rain Dance In July of This Yearâ€"Their Efforts Met with Success in 1937â€"Broke Dry Spell For the first time in the hun- dreds of years of their tribe’s ex- istence, the Ottawa Indians will permit a squaw to take part in the tribal dances which will highlight the fifth annual naming ceremon- ial and festival July 24th at Har- bor Spring's, Mich. The naming ceremonial dates far back in Ottawa history, long before the coming of the white man. It had been an attraction for tourists only four years. The Michigan Indian Defense Association is in charge of ar- rangements for the ceremonial which will bestow native names on two white persons who have prov- ed themselves friends of the In- dian. Snake Dances, Too Chief Fred . Ettawawgeshik, president of the Mida, will be in charge of the festivities, which will include sun dances,: snake dances, scalp dances and rain dances. It was during the rain dance last year that twelve-year- old Clarence Fisher earned na- tional renown by dancing so earn- estly. Heavy .showers broke a pro- longed dry spell a few hours later. Clarence will try to repeat the achievement this year, Some have looked on Clarence’s feat as pure coincidence, but faithful Ottawans think differently. Incinerator For Summer Cottage A cast iron, concrete inciner- ator for use out-of-doors might solve the problem of garbage dis- posal particularly at the camp or summer cottage. This incinerator stands four and a half feet high and has a capacity of three bush- els. The smoke stack has a spark arrester and is also provided with baffle plates which drive, smoke and bases back into the fire pot where they are Consumed. The incinerator is filled through a hopper door by first putting in a layer of dry refuse, then wet, then dry again, until the hopper is three-quarters filled. The final layer is dry refuse. To this a match is applied, the hopper door closed and the rest of the garbage disposal is automatic. It is use- ful, also, for dead leaves, lawn rakings and the general cleaning up of rubbish in the spring. One Manhole Strike The owner of a block of flats in a Jewish suburb of Jerusalem spent 6 hours in a manhole, with only his head showing, to estab- lish his exclusive rights to the drainage arrangements. Civilized Gorilla Wears Nigktgo.. n Brought From the Jungle, She Has Learned to Take Cream And Sugar With Her Cereal, Even a gorilla can "be “raised to be a lady” and sleep in a nightgown an’ everything. Not only that, but. “Coquette” insists on. her tea, cream with her cereal, and chicken with “all the trimmings.” Coquette arrived in St. Louis, Mo., last week, after a two-months trip from the Congo in Africa, ac- companied by Trainer Phil Carroll, a young orang-outang captured by the late Martin Johnson, and a sec- ond young gorilla. “Coquette is as smart as most six-year-old children, and twice as well-mannered,” Carroll insisted. She was raised by a French couple. “She ate with a knife, fork and spoon, slept in a bed, and shared their daily life,” Carroll explained. That’s where she learned to wear a nightgownâ€"made from a burlap bag. Spider Poison Aids Seasick Venom Is Found to Be Good Thing to Take Before Jour- ney By Water, An orange spider from romantic Curacao in the Dutch West Indies has come to the rescue of seasick tourists. Dr. Roy Upham, of New York Medical College, informed the American Institute of Homeo- pathy last week that a weak solu- tion of venom taken fi-oni.....the | spider has been found effective in preventing shipboard illness. “Several doses can be adminis- tered four or five days before sail- ing,” he said. Brake On Nerves The venomi produces its benefic- ial effect, he said, by serving as a brake on the nerve messages be- tween the organs of balance in the ear and the brain. Rocking of an ocean-going ves- sel causes such an unusual disturb- ance in the balancing mechanism that reflex messages flash rapidly to the brain centre, causing sick- ness. Four men and 12 women, aged from 50 to 80, of Lancashire, England, have completed a 3,000- mile tour by air, rail and car. Norway has decreed that all ships flying the Norwegian flag while engaged in transatlantic service must be equipped with wireless. Owners of buildings in Denmark have been ordered to paint and redecorate their places at certain periods or be fined. THE WONDERLAND OF OZ The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good. The Gnome King had never tried to be good, so he was Very bad. Having decided to conquer the Land of Oz and to destroy the Emerald City, the Gnome King kept planning ways to do this dreadful thing and the more he planned, the more he believed he would be able to accomplish it. .About the time Dorothy returned to Oz, to ask Ozma to help Uncle Henry and Aunt Em, the Gnome King called his Chief Steward to him and said: “l think I shall make yon general of my armies.” “I think you won’t,” replied Kaliko. “Why not?” inquired the King. “Because 1 am your Chief Steward and know nothing of warfare,” said Kaliko, preparing to dodge if any- thing was thrown at him. “I manage all the affairs of your kingdom much better than you do yourself,” he continued, “and you can never find another steward half as good as 1 am. Your generals get thrown away so often 1 have no de- sire to be one ot' them.” “Oh, there is some truth in your .remarks, Ka- liko,” remarked the King. 1 Sum- mon my armies and assemble them in the great cavern.” Kaliko obeyed and retired, and in a few minutes the armies were assembled. So the King went out upon the balcony that overlooked the great cavern. “I have thrown away General Slug because’ he did not please me,” said the King, “so I want another general. Who is next in command?” “l am," replied Colonel Crinkle, a dapper looking gnome who stepped forward" to sa- lute his Monarch'.