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koHTA THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1928." Britains Consider Rheumatic Disease Conference of Eminent Physicians and Health Officials Held at Bath Influence of Environment were streptococcal in origin and that their clinical differences depended variations in the seed "and inborn acquired differences in the soil," namely, the consttutional, metabolic and endocrine factors. Means of Prevention Dr. R. L. J. Llewellyn insisted maintenance of the functional efficiency of the skin, which was best achieved by hydrotherapy with alternating applications of hot and cold water to the skin surface. "Our cilmate," he said, "will not adapt itself to us and we must there-Our peo- A conference on rheumatic diseases was held recently at Bath, England, under the Presidency of Sir George Newman, Chief Medical Officer of the British Ministry of Health, accord- ! fore adaPt ourselves to it. ing to the London correspondent ot\V\ need hardening^, not coddling.^ The Journal of American- Medical Association, Although no important additions to science were made, says the correspondent, the conference achieved its object of surveying the present position with regard to a group of maladies that cause an immense amount of invalidity. In his Presidential address Sir George Newman said that the object was to consider the campaign for the conquest or control of rheumatism. The urgency of this matter was mani-' fest from the advance of knowledge of th6 heterogeneous group of Joint diseases and from the data furnished for the first time by the school medical service and the health insurance system. The disease was a drag on industry and a source of heavy financial loss to the State. The main difficulties were three: (1) The relation of the varied forms of rheumatism to one another and their distribution in the world generally or In England cannot be exactly defined A national cult of skin hygiene and hydrotheraphy should be initiated, he Dr. F. J. Poynton did not believe in sodium salicylate for young children with acute rheumatic carditis. He used neoclnhophen. never followed by the depression and possible death from coma that might occur if salicylate was pushed. Sir William Willcox found that the virulent cases of rheumatic fever common thirty years ago did now occur to anything like the sa extent, which he attributed largely to thesdeve!opment of school hygiene. In chonic rheumatism. vaccines should not be given and! after the fullest clinical investigation and the treatment of any foci of infection. They were contra-ndlcated when sensitization to the toxins of Infection existed; also ff there were associated exophthalmic goiter. They were of value in Chronic rheu-itistn when any gross focus of in- ! (2)the causa causana Is not known' faction had been remqved and the with certainty; (3) there Is not ac-' toxlc Process was being carried on by cord as to the best means of treat- the chronic infection of a mucous ment i surface vith its accompanying gland- Sir Walter S. Kinnear, Controller'ular tissue. Stock streptococcal vac-Of 'Health and Pension Insurance 'cines were far l,ltartor to autogenous gave some startling figures. One- vaccines, he said, sixth of the total period for which sickness and disablement benefit was paid to men (one-seventh to women) was due to rheumatic diseases. In 1927 such total benefit in Great Britain amounted to $100,000,000, representing 34.000.000 weeks' incapacity. Of this the incapacity due to rheumatism amounted to 5.500,000 weeks,-' with a disbursement of $25,000,000. To this must be added loss of wages amountingto $60,000,000. j Influence of Environment ! Dr. Reginald Miller, Honorary Secretary of the British Medical Association Subcommittee on Rheuma tism and Heart Disease in Children, j said that juvenile rheumatism was! massed among the children of the! poor, it was not due to case-to-case -Infection, but seemed to be an environmental disease. So close was the of 80 Nationalists and bankers relation with tonsillar disease that it Shanghai for the consideration of the appeared that the environment fac-' problems relating to financing the re-tors must to some extent work by public, producing imVci,.,| tonsils There - ♦> ■ was ft particular connection wffh 1 - , , damP dwellings. | Charged With Sir Humphry Rolleston said that l Y • . i the term "rheumatic diseases" was j the LeViathan convenient, if umbrella-like, as It In-! eluded those acute and chronic infections, rheumatic fever and the rheumatoid groups. At one #nd of the scale was acute rheumatic fever, remarkably amenable to salicylates; at the other end was ostearthrltis, largely if not entirely a degenerative disease and nqt responding to salicylates: Between these two was a train of gradual transitions. The characteristic lesion of rheumatic fever was FINANCING OF CHINA minister, who Mail Robbery Official in Steward's Offic Said to Have Secured $6,000 THE CHAMPION SHOT OF THE BRITISH ARM Lance-Sergeant E. Poulton of the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards wi presented with the championship cup by Field-Marshal Sir George Milne. Preserving and Restoring Our Historic Sites Importance Carried Out by Department of the Interior Pioneer Days Recalled Canada's historical background con-Ins some of the most romantic and tcresting episodes In the history of North America. In n throughout the Domini emain visible evidenct ory in ruins which In served, but there are si often important s which are unm: ing a formidable invasion for the time being nad created great enthusiasm in the country. Nanticoke, Haldimand County, Ontario.--On 13th November, 1813, the Norfolk volunteer militia, routed a band of marauders who had terror-Marking of Sites of NationaiTized tlle country- This exploit Inspirited the military orcfes, restored ~ie confidence of the people, and was l mportant factor in the immediate covery of lost ground. Fort Drummond, Queenston Heights, Outarlo.--Fort built by tary labor for the defense of the frontier in 1814 and named in honour of Sir Gordon Drummond. Niagara-on-the Lake, Ontario.-- iny districts * Commemoratlug the treaties conclud-i there still j ed with the Chlppawa and Mlssissauga of our his-, Indians by Colonel Guy Johnson, e been pre-[May 9. 1781, and Lt.-Col. John Butler, nes of other I May 22, 1784. lotions and I Kingston Navy Yard, Kingston, On-ked by any I tario.- -The British naval station for the of what transplr-. lake Ontario during the years 1788-Tho Depart- 1818. Here were built fourteen King's has been carry-j ships. n, the war of 1812-14 this » enabled the army the Dominion ntlc ! otor hlgh-irtistlcally tain control of Upper Canada. Amherstburg Navy Yard, Amhi burg, Ontario.--The British naval station for lake Erie and Huron during the years, 1796-1813. Here nine give King's ships were buill peep into, of 1812-14 htl3 naval force enabled the army to retain control of that frontier. lin. jrd's ly with theft c ered i theformation of nodules, large in the the United StateB liner Leviathan, subsutaneous tissues, submiliary in between June 16 and June 22, while the heart. . the vessel was on the high seas. Subcutaneous nodules had often Chapman was held in $7,500 bail for been found in rheuatotd arthritis and a hearing on August 9, when arraigned ostearthritlesl but nodules had not before United States Commissioner been found in the heart. Flbrositis. Francis A. O'Neill. He Is 32 and the nonarthritlc form of chronic rheu- comes from London, England, matism, was also accompanied by! The Leviathan docked here recently, nodule formation. The streptococcal Commodore Cunningham, her mas-causatton of acute rheumatism had ter, said that It had been learned j Stony. steadily gained ground. It might be that the loss fr< argued that the various members of not exceed $6,000, but a postal inspec-the family of rheumatic diseases tor placed the loss $4,000 higher. the recommendation of theJ t-ic Sites and Monuments Board,; Department of the Interior! through the National Parks Service/ has marked 118 sites by the erection of suitable memorials. Each yearj mal meeting of the Board suggestions of the various members (viewed and a number of sites icommended for marking, ing 1927 tablets were placed ;wenty-flve sites and one of the i Picturesque ceremonies in this lection was the unveiling of the cairn and tablet at Blackfoot Crossing, near where the Cluny-MUo section of the Alberta Provincial Highway crosses the Bow River. This memorial commemorates the signing of September 22, 1877, near this point, of Treaty No. 7 by which the wide plains were thrown open to the white man and peace and security was assured the Indians. The unveiling took place on the fiftieth anniversary of the signing, the principals in which were: Hon. David Lard and Lt.-Col. James F. Macleod, representing the Crown; and the famous Indian leader, Chief Crowfoot, and other chiefs and councillors of the Blackfoot, Blood, Peigan, other Indians. The Red Reds Gain Upper Hand in Australia Ifejb --- ttie^Resolution Agrees to Affiliation With Pan-Pacific Secretariat Sydney, New South Wales.--With an overwhelming majority, the R element, by a snap vote, carried resolution at a recent section of the all-Australian Council of Trades nions supporting affiliation with the Pan-Pacific secretariat. Supporters of the "white Australia" policy were jeered at by the Communists when they crossed the floor to vote against the Controlling Sea Trade Men relinquished 50.000 square miles of fertile prairie in southwestern Alberta by this treaty. The site of the memorial is also near the grave of Chief Crow- foe India sfgne< August 3, 1871, and Treaty Fort Carlton, Saskatchewan, the 23rd and 2$th of August, d at Fort Pitt on September j attendance were, Dr. J. C. WehstM Shediac, New Brunswick; Judge W 'Crowe, Sydney, Nova Scotia; Hon P. Demers, Montreal, Quebec; Dr. J, |H. Coyne, St. Thomas. Ontario; Judge j P. W. Howay, New 'Westminster, The resolution, which was moved by Garden, secretary of the Trade Lair Council of Sydney and an avowed Communist, was that the Australian Council of Trades Unions should unite to combat the dangers of a Pacific war and also to-assist the workers of more kward countries to improve their It declared emphatically that afflli-.tlon with the Pan-Pacific Secretariat lid not mean affiliation with the Third nternationale, but the moderate ele-nent warmly challenged htsic laim. A House for Peter Pan If Peter Pan wants another house live in--just for fun--there is a wonderful one waiting for him. There would be one for Wendy, too. and two over--In fact, four. Perhaps it is rather a liberty to think that Peter Pan could want another dwelling, when he is so happy in his tree-tops. Yes--but this is a holiday cottage by the sea. His little house is on one side of a bridge over the river, and Wendy's Is on the other side. They painted gray, with little rounded >ox and a handle, and It has urtains, like the windows. One almost turn the handle and Just suppose! Each house :teep little garden, almost tum-nto the river, only there is a reen grass!--and purple Irises it be Wendy's Europe Is Bitter Over Disclosures on Nobile Wreck Demonstration of Co-operation Turns to Outburst of III-Will MALMGREN'S FATE Swedish and Russian Press Voice Grace Charges-- British Silent London--With tho element of mystery and hints of more sinister aspects injected into the latest phases of the grim Arctic drama, all Europe is watching tensely whilo the disaster to the dirigible Italia in Polar ice is rapidly transferred from a demonstration of International co-nperatlon sympathy into an outburst of the bitterest international ill will. The revelation that Dr. Finn Malm-gren, the brilliant, young Swedish ologist with General Nobile' expedition, was left behind to die i the frozen waste while his two Italian companions, Majors Fillppo Zappl Mariano marched on until they e tually were picked up by the Soviet ice-breaker Grassin, has stirred feeling In Sweden to fever pitch, and a diplomatic demarche toward Rome follow the official probe which the Swedish Government is carrying nto the circumstances of the sci-entist'sdeath. Russian reports have Malmgren was stripped of his clothing and his body eaten by the Italians. Series of Disclosures The partial bearing of Dr. Malm-gren's still mysterious fate, however, is only the climax of a long series of disclosures thinly veiling- the grave charges on the conduct of the expedition since its take-off from Spitz-bergeu down to the rescues of its scattered survivors. These are now more freely voiced In Sweden and other Scandinavian countries, as well as in Soviet Russia, but while the British press has scrupulously abstained from intervening In view of the cool relations already existing between France and Italy, it is freely adopting the charges against Nobile and his Italia colleagues. The Italian newspapers, on the other hand, are stung Into furious anger by the criticism in foreign newspapers, and the dispute has now spread over half the dontinent of Europe. The charge that the disaster was primarily due to Noblle's insistence on starting in time to reach the North Pole on the anniversary of Italy's entrance into the war cially denied, but there is the testimony of the Swedish newspaper respondents at King's Bay that the takeoff was made in the most llKut- hearted spirit with Dr. Malmgren already going on record that conditions were unfavorable. Then, ever since the Italta's radio flashed from the northern silence the first news that the expedition had met with disaster, the question of the conduct of the expedition and some of Its Individual members has been piled on question. Why, it is asked, in the first place, were the main relief efforts left to Sweden and Russia, which undertook to rush all aid to the castaways, despite Rome's rejection of their offer of assistance? Lack of o-operation The Moscow Government, which through the efforts of the ice-breaker 3in finally was responsible for of the rescues, has gone officially cord against the lack of co-opera-while members of the Swedish expedition, headed by Lieut. Torn-berg, including Lieut. Lundborg, the •o of the dramatic air swoop to pick Nobile drifting on floes, have been the gravest peril, and Captain mndsen, famous Norwegian explorer, with the French Captain Gil-baud and his companions in a Latham plane, are feared lost. Then, there Is the charge of Pro- fessor Behounek, the rescued Czecho-Slavia survivor, that the disaster was due to Noblle's Insistence, against ex-pert advice, on investigating the region 'to the northeast of Spitzbergen and the consequent drifting of the airship into a storm, led to the wreck when a jutting ice peak tore off the gondola from the dirigible's envelope, t, there Is the question why No-, contrary to all the traditions ot, manders of such expeditions, permitted himself to be rescued ahead of his comrades, some of whom were •eported to have been more gravely Injured than himself. Finally, there the story of Dr. Malmgren's death, ith the sinister suggestion injected that there was a fight between Nobile and the Swedish meteorologist over the former's alleged mismanagement of the airship, that Nobile was afraid of certain revelations which the latter might be able to make, and that the dirigible's commander was recalled to Rome In order to suppress documents which might be injurious to the prestige of Italian aviation. Majors Zappi and Mariano have capped the climax of the drama, charged throughout with the most intense human interest, by going on record that they abandoned Malmgren at his own request, when the injured' Swedish scientist gave out In the. march of the party toward land from Noblle's main camp. Into the tangled problem of ethics Involved in the behaviour of the two Italian officers, if their version of the tragedy is accept-] ed, the British press so far has re-' fused to enter. There is a concensus here, however,' that for the sake of the wider Inter-; ests of aviation, as well as to clear the impunged good name of those involved, and to damp down the international 111 will excited by the whole story, the Italia expedition from start to finish should be Impartially probed. This all bears out Amundsen and Ells« worth's sizing up of Noblle's inefnei* ent character after their "Norge" flight of last year. British Launch 8000-Ton Cruiser Government Builds Vessel Smaller Than Washington Treaty Maximum London.--The cruiser York, one of the new ships authorized by the Brit* fsh Navy estimates of 1926-27, has been launched by the Duchess of York at Yarrow-on-Tyne. It is the first of the new 8000-ton type which tho Government desires to substitute for the larger 10,000-ton cruisers hitherto fav- Thus the other two cruisers of the 1928 program are still on the stocks, Norfolk at Fairfield Yard, Govan. Both belong to the 10,000-ton type. Only one cruiser was provided for In the 1927 estimates. This vessel,' which is to be named the Exetera, Is about to be laid down at Devonport and it will be of similar size and design to the York. "In voluntarily building cruisers ot a smaller size than the Washington, treaty maximum," says the Daily, Telegraph, "Great Britain Is setting an example of armament limitation which the other signatory powers, with the exception of Italy, have not] yet seen fit to follow." In the Arboretum Fairy azalea flowers Flame from the hillside. Under the somber pine-tree branches.' Green, jade Do they scr The magic, San? v-white peak of Fuji- j Indianapolis News says: "Only lays until Christmas." Moral: :>ur shopping early! A View of the Very Unusual Mrio< The keel ol yard in Belfast ERE IS THE LONGEST KEEL IN THE WORLD ,000-ton liner laid down In the shlp- ? giant of the waves. 775. with Montgon rmy. The defeai o 1 the effect of repel credulity remains about "Sains IRON MONSTER -three people killei train operatio efficient that certain newspapers habitually insure their readers ;h a happening. Any of the estates of the killed or the injured a one of these papers would unhesitatingly receive up to $1000.