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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1931 PACE FIVE Maternal Mortality -- Still Heavy In Canada (By The Canadian Press) Yoronte, May: 19.-- Women and mem of note and standing are col- laborating:to reduce the maternal death rate in this.city. Dr. W. B. Hendry, professor of gynaecology and obstetrics in the University of Toronto, favored (at a recent gathering), maternity bonuses for. under-privileged mothers. He drew to. the attention of his lis- teners the fact that both in Can- ada and the United 'States no im- provement had been brought about in maternal death ratio in the last . few years-- Canada's 5.7; that of the United States, 6.7. He 'quoted Germany, 5.1; Belgium, 5.6; Norway, 2.8; France, 2.5; Holland, 2.4; Italy, 2.4. "In thé United States over 16, 000, and in Canada, 1,300 'die an- niially" in pregnancy. , That is a high price the women Have to pay. Why should it have to be? The answer is not far to seek. It is be- cause you and I, the public in general, patient, nurse and doctor, have taken too much for granted." Incisively the speaker attacked the doctrine of letting nature take her course. Without assistance things were likely to go wrong, he insisted. He further observed that over 80 percent. who died had no ante-natal care. Forty-three re- plies to questionnaries sent to 112 hospitals showed that only 4 of the 43 had any natal clinics. Dr. Hen. dry urged the responsibility of every city, town, and rural dis- trict council in regard to mater- nal welfare centres, and the need of specially trained nurses--to be stationed at outposts where doc- tors were not available. Dr. Helen MacMurchy ' stated that in 1929 there had been born 12,485 babies--the price paid in that year was 88 mothers-- seven in every hundred; more than one every week, more than three in the fortnight, than seven every month. Quoting further, figures of other countries, she showed Tor- onto "near the foot of the class," The speaker, however, took into consideration the 1908 inquiry made by Dr. Hastings with regard to registration of births and the subsequent increased care in re- cording. PIONEER TRANWAY BUILDER IS DEAD Thomas. Scott Dies in Hos- pital After Brief Illness Montreal, May 22--Having served as. general roadmaster: of the Mon- treal Tramways. Company for more than 30 years, Thomas Scott died Tuesday afternoon at the Montreal General Hospital ,after less than a forgnight's absence from duty. Born at Salisbury, N. B., in 1860, Mr. Scett. commenced an active railroad ; career when 16 years of age, assisting his father to build the Canadian Pacific Railway line between Edmundston and St. Leon- ard, N.B. Following completion of this work, Mr. Scott was engaged with the Miramichi Railroad con- structing a road between Marysville and Woodstock, N.B., until he as- sumed charge of the. Greenville Junction section on the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1892, when the Montreal Street Railway commenced to lay tracks for the first electric line in this city, Mr. Scott was called to Mon- treal by the late F. P. Brothers. Subsequently, in 1897 he installed 25 miles of electrified track for the Jamaica Electric Railroad Company, in Kingston, Jamaica; and later, in 1899 and 1900, built some ten miles of line in Georgetown, British Guiana, During his service with the Mon- treal Tramways Company, Mr Scott personally sunervised the installa- tion of all the present track sys- tem amounting to more than 300 miles of road. The track depart- ment of the Montreal Tramways Company, including three sons, son- in-law and several grandchildren, received their training trom his broad experience, forceful person- ality, and unexcelled knowledge of railway track work for city service. Surviving Mr. Scott are two bro- thers; D.- Scott, residing -at Syra- euse, N.Y.,-and W. H. Scott, at Van Buren, Maine; three sons, William, Henry and Fred, all of whom are engaged with the Montreal Tram- ways Company, and two daughters, Mrs, D. Lagace and Mrs, A, Bour- din, of Montreal. Mr. Scott was twice married, in 1879 to Edith Moreau, who prede- ceased him in 1906, and to Mrs. Diescia Raymond in 1923, who sur- vives. There are besides 19 grand- children and two great-grandchild- ren. TOSSED BY WAVES DOGGED BY SHARKS FOR TWENTY DAYS Hongkong, China, "Never have I seen sharks at one time, They were all around the raft and under- neath it--sYarks of all sizes, waiting until one of the men should die and be thrown over- hoard." In these word. A, J. Neckiman, chief officer of the motorship Baringia, described the finding of th7ee Annamitse on an impro- vised raft in the open sea off the Malay coast recently. "One of the passengers first drew my attention to the raft--a mere speck on the horizon to the naked eye. But with glasses T made out the figures and we had to turn the ship around in order to come up to them," said Nee- kelman. "I took charge of a boat, The men on the raft were in a terrible condition, The raft was about ten feet long by eight feet wide, made of wood tied together with creepers torn from trees in the jungle. "There was no shelter of any kind, and the men had been un- der a blazing sun drifting, ex- cept for the effect of a small sail made of gunny-bags, for no few- er than twenty days. There were no provisions of any kind when we picked them up and they told us that a fourth member of the party had died two days previous ly from thirst. I expect he had bdgen drinking sea-water, and that would send him mad in the course of three or four hours. He probably fell overboard, aud that would account for the ire- mendous number of sharks that May 22.-- 80 many were all around the raft, "They could speak nothing but Annamite, and as we had nobody on board who could speak their tongue they made us understand by means of signs, We took them on board and . put them in the hospital, as they were all terrib- ly weak from exposure, In addi- tion they had numerous sores on their legs, caused by the salt water and the sun." From what can be gathered from the men it that their ways, used to seek advice that would enable them to make another start. It has since heen laid down that vocational guid- ance will be given only to boys and girls between the 'ages of 156 and 24. One'of the most inter- 'esting facts revealed by the tests that are applied is that 7 per cent. of boys are colour. blind, During three years, only two colour blind girls have been discovered, ; "We can claim a 99 per cent. they canle from Pulau Condore, and this has given rise to the be- lief that they are escaped con- viets. In other quarters, however, it is believed that they are fish- ermen who were engaged in the deep-sea fishing when a strong current. caught them and took them out to sea. The theory that they come from the French convict settle- ment of Pulau Condore fis strengthened by the fact that one of the men bore a tattoo in French characters. Sydney Vocational Guidance Bureau Proves Big Success (By The Canadian Press) Sydney, N.S.W., May 22.--As- tonishing success in finding suit- able jobs for boys and girls is be- ing accomplished by the Sydney vocational guidance bureau, a branch of the education depart- ment. The bureau has been in operation for three years, and it is expected that 10,000 boys will be given a test next year, three times as many as were accomodat- ed this year. The increase is due to the gen- eral economic position which has made more parents realize the im- Jortance of finding suitable work for boys and girls when their schooling is completed. In the past many parents were satisfied if their boys became mnavvies or slipped into any other job that might be offered. They have seen the danger of this and are now only too willing to have the henefit of expert advice given af- ter a series of exhaustive tests framed on scientific principles. All kinds of people have appli- ed for vocational guidance. There was a time when mothers used to take their babies to the bureau and elderly people, confident that it was never too late to mend f Sore pass a car on a hill... or curve Experienced drivers of motor cars have learned that there is one rule of: the road which cannot be violated without danger to life and limb . . . these seasoned drivers always keep in line when the road ahead is obscured. Hill tops and curves are blind spots on the highway. You can't see what is coming toward you . . . and there's almost always sure to be another car coming around the curve or over the hill, ONTARIO DEPARTMENT of HIGHWAYS GEO. S. HENRY, PREMIER OF ONTARIO AND MINISTER OF HIGHWAYS The one safe rule is to stay on your side of the road . . . the right side. ! Every time you take a chance that the road ahead may be clear, you jeopardize your own safety and the approaching motorist may be made an innocent victim of your « + » surely a heavy price to pay in conscience and cash. After all you. can observe the "Hill and Curve rule" for a whole season without losing as much as sixty minutes' time all told . . , Why not? } | | | | ® in onr work," said the superintendent of the bureau the other day. "Occasionally a boy does mot prove satisfactorily in the job we have selected for him, but then we send him to another employer, and almost invariably he succeeds. ¢ "A number of girls we examine are only suitable for home duties and they do not like being told so. One girl received very high passes in her léaving certificate éxamina- tion, but when we tested her she had to count on her fingers to take five from nine. She had as- pirations of becoming an account- ant or a book-keeper or something like that, and she was very dis- gusted when we told her that she was quite unsuited for that class of work, but that she would make a very good cook." Montreal, Canada. -- Insects at work in Canadian forests cause damage at the rate of $100,000,000 a year, according to. Dr. J. M, Swaine, associate Dominion entom- ologist. Montreal, Canada. --Organized la- bor bodies in Canada have a com- bined membership of 322449, or about 3.25 per cent of the estimated population of the Dominion. The figure is the largest in the history of the country with the exception of the years 1919 and 1920. GIANT FLYING BOATS IN SERVICE Big New Craft Will Shorten Journeys on Empire Routes London -- (By The Canadian Press)--Marked acceleration of the British air services to the East and Africa is assured by the completion oi flying trials of the flcet of big four-engined flying boats intended for regular operation from the mid- dle of May in the Mediterranean. The new machines, the largest passenger-carrying boats to be plac- ed 'in commission by.any air line in the world, also ensure a degree oi comfiort till now unattained in air travel. The size of the great hull has enabled the interior decor- ator to provide salon accommoda- tion equal in luxury to the costliest pullinan. rail coaches, relative free- dom from noise is secured by pack- ing the walls with sound-deadening material and in the location of the power units between the huge bi- plane wings well above the hull, an the view outwards through large windows is unhindered by struts or other structural members. Power derived from four "Jupi ter" air-cooled motors, each giving up to 552 h.p., drives these big ma- chines through the air at a top speed of 100 m. p. h. The engines are moderately supercharged, and accordingly deliver {full power at heights up to 5000 feet; the boats may thns be flown without loss of speed or flying efficiency at the most suitable height over the water below 5,000 feet as the weather con- ditions dictate. The flcet of three craft was built lat the works of Messrs. Short Lewis said he offered the medal | Brothers, situated at Rochestra, Im- I perial' Airways, pilots will fly them to the Mediterranean, where their great lake "Calcutta" the African three-engined | which have flown the Mediterran- jean rontes for the last two years. The greater speed oi the new | boats, which are styled generically the "Kent" class, is the most in- portant factor in reducing the tire scheduled for the air line journey between London and Karachi, dia, irom over seven days to 5 days 2 hours and 35 minutes. able dimensions. board the total weight is more than 30,000 pounds, approximately 13 tons From wing-tip to wing-tip the up- per plane spans 113 feet. Length from nose to tail is 78 feet and the greatest height is 27 reet six inches, In addition to fifteen passengers and a crew of three, no less than 1/4 tons of mail and urgent freight can be air-borne in special holds-- three times as much as mail and freight load carried by "Calcutta" craft OFFICIALS AT YALE the Alleged Offer Medal to Library Causes Controversy New York, May 22--There seem- ed to be a wide divergence today between Sinclair Lewis and officials of Sterling Memorial liprary at Yale University over whether the author had offered his Nobel prize medal to the library. arrival will release for scrvice over | smaller | biplanes | The "Kent" boats possess formid- | With full load on | the | In- | | | DENY LEWES" STORY: of Nobel] | put which he was awarded with the $10,350 prize, to the library. Charles E. Rush, association librarian, said no offer v "1 thought the ale library was the natural place for the medal, and so while motoring from West- port, (Conn.) to Bethel (Vt) last Saturday, I stopped off at New Ha- ven," Lewis said. "I learned better, however, than to trv to make any presents to 'the Yale library. They just did not seem interested, and said there wasn't any place in their collection tor such an item." Librarian's Versian Rush, in his version of Lewis' vis- it to the library, said: "He asked if we had any exhibit of coins or medals, a permanent exhibit. , | told hin that we had quite a numismatic collection and would be glad to show it to him then, if he would care to look at it, "He said no, he did not want to see it, but did we have a perman- ent loan, and 1 asked him to ex- olain., Then he said, "No, 1 won't do it." And turned on his heel and walked out of the building. He had not made the silghtest mention of any gift to the library or of the Nobel Medal" Professor Andrew Keogh, chier librarian, said that the Yale library had not refused the offer of the Nobel Medal because it had never been made. "We would take the gift cheer full," he said, "all he has to do is it in a box and mail it to us and we will put it on exhibit for a period of time, then place it with our other coins and medals. "As for putting it on permanent exhibit in the main hall of the lib- rary that is a different matter. He would have to make formal applica- tion before it would be even con- sidered." 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