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% $ peri per ent‘ $tos lot res cer tha dit Ca In Te T The Human Skin Is Iiness Clue When It Tightens The skin, which doctors call "the outer defense of the body," changes its elasticity _ during disease. The change is connected with alterations in the pressure of body tissues. The Tulane phyâ€" sicians have worked out methods of measuring both skin stretch Burch, M.D. The methods of using skin atretch, worked out at Tulane University school of medicine, were reported to the American Medicalâ€" Assoctation by William A. Ability of the human skin to stretch is a newly discovered prognosticator of death or recovâ€" ery in several serious diseases. FEELING THE PINCH: Pullâ€" ing in her belt another notch at bome last week, Japan is preparâ€" ing for the greater and greater But the ironic part of it is that Mr. Chamberlain asked Mussolini to ask Franco to stop the bombâ€" ings, when everybody knew that Italian planes were responsible for the outrages! A laugh indeed, but a grim one. fuss about the consistent bombing of British ships by insurgent airâ€" men in Spain (55 British vessels have been sunk in two years with corresponding loss of life). A GRIM LAUGH: â€" Vociferous profests from the British people led by the parkamentary Opposiâ€" tion caused Prime Minister Chamâ€" berlain last week to make a real Prison reform in Canada is thus given an indefinite setback because our parliamentarians were in a hurry to get away for the holiday. SENATE KILLED IT: The peoâ€" ple of Canada felt that at last they were getting some action, when, following the report of the Royal Commission probe into the Dominion‘s prisons, the Governâ€" ment gave notice of its intention to carry out some of the recomâ€" mended reforms, to establish a threeâ€"man Commission to adminâ€" ister Canada‘s penal system. But the Senate killed thg bill as it was rushed through on the final day of the parliamentary session. But even though the farmer may never go on strike for a free Sunday, some day he will murder the occupants of the first car to turn into his lane of a Sabbath morn. And the jury: will acquit hink . . «. Sweet are the uses of hospitalâ€" ity but they can‘t stand too much strain. If the farmers of Ontario were not such outâ€"andâ€"out indiâ€" viduals, they would long ago have risen up in a body to protest against their Sundays being takâ€" en away from them in such inconâ€" siderate fashion. SUNDAY COMPANY: Take a drive through#Easterm 6r*Western Ontario‘s agrigultural greas of a Sunday afternoon, an#® what do you see in every farm lane? Two or three s#: canr! standing* empty after ing a‘load of visâ€" itors from the city or mearest big town to sponge on theig. poor farâ€" mer friends and relatives for the day. And there you see the comâ€" pany, rocking back and forth on the verandah chairs wh:te the farâ€" mer‘s wife, up since dawn, slaves in the kitchen.in mortad fear lest the table won‘t "groan" enough to suit those â€"limitless * cityâ€"bred appetites, always ready for anâ€" other meal. Commentar C C Â¥1 i A W’d_ the Week‘s News ... By Elizabeth Eedy Disease by Its Elasticity the gnome King. "What is your name, general?" "1 am called Guph,‘ your Majesty." _ "Well, Guph," said the King, "come with me to my private cave and v.e‘ll Aalk it over." Then he turned to the army. "You are to obey the ecmmands of Ganeral Guph until * Rhe becomes dog feed," he said. "Any man who tails to obey will be thrown away. You are now M.D., and George * us * The diseases are heart edema, kidney troubles, pernicious anemâ€" ia, peritonitis, pregnancy toxemâ€" ias, malnutrition and sclerodema. The latter is the "steel skin" deâ€" scribed by Sir William Osler. The skin loses all its elasticity, until fingers cannot bend and finally it cracks. The pressure in the tissues of the back of the hand is equal to a column of water half an inch deep. From this leow it ranges up to an inchâ€"andâ€"aâ€"half of water for leg tissues. But in some diseases these tissue pressures are multiâ€" plied up to 10 or 15â€"fold. In disease the skin tightens; the tissue pressure rises. In health the abdomen skin has the greatest elasticity, six times as much as that of the shin bone, and twice as much as the skin on the back of the hand. and tissue pressure and of using them to foretell the course of illâ€" ness before the patient himself feels a change. * Expect developments in that diâ€" rection, then, not many weekâ€"ends off. In France, however, the belief is current that the next Hitler "putsch" (now that Czechosloâ€" vakia has him stopped for the time being) will result in the annexaâ€" tion of Danzig. The capture of this Baltic port would be an easy walkâ€"over, would restore Hitler‘s flagging prestige. NEXT OBJECTIVE: Poor litâ€" tle neutral Switzerland is shiverâ€" ing in es shoes. _ Within her borders dwel! %,000,000 Germanâ€" speaking people, a juicy bite for Herr Hitler whose avowed purâ€" pose is to unite all the German race into one nation. Switzerland shivers in spite of the assurance given by Berlin last week that no German _ troops _ would _ march through her territority in event of war. One reason why she quakes: German Field Marshal Goring reâ€" cently published in his "National Ze‘tuns " map of Greater Gerâ€" many, prepared by Reich propaâ€" gandists for ~chool use, which picâ€" tured practically the whole of Switzerland as belonging to the Reich. The Swiss frontier is "the boundary of the internal separaâ€" tion of the German people," anâ€" nounced Goring‘s newsâ€"sheet and claimed Switzerland‘s 3,000,000 Germans as "exiled citizens of the German Reich". The next two weeks will be deâ€" cisive ones. Better times for all of Canada will result if present crop conditions hold. BUMPER CROP: Hold your breath now lest something happen to spoil Western Canada‘s chances for a bumper wheat crop this year. At the moment, everything is all set for the fulfilment of our Prairie farmers‘ best hopes, moisâ€" ture concitions Leing just right. Political observers are pracâ€" tically unanimous in their view that, at the rate she is now going, Japan cannot possibly last those ten years. f Says Japanese War Minister Itagaki: "The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kaiâ€"shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his lifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue. Consequently, it is necessary that the Japanese reâ€" solve to continue fighting at least ten years." strain which is sure to be felt as the Chinese war keeps on. War essentials are now rationed (no more cotton eloth or iron proâ€" ducts may ‘be manufactured for domestic use); imports, save of war materials, are curtailed; the government is controlling prices of commodities. the best way to get along with the King was to show him that he was not afraid of him. Guaph went to the King‘s priâ€" vate cave and sat down upon the King‘s chair. Then he lit his pipe and threw the live coal he had taken from his pocket upon the King‘s left foot and puffed smoke into the King‘s eyes, making him ver uncomfortalle. For he was a wise old gnome and he knew that THE WONDERLAND OF O2Z Those who Jost money some years ago betting that "transpire" didn‘t mean "sweat," are now being askâ€" ed to lose some more by peqple who say they can produce dictionâ€" ary authority for accenting the noun "envelope" on the second sylâ€" lable. And they can. Funk and Wagnall, Century and the New Imâ€" perial give this as the preferred acâ€" cent. As for pronouncing the first "e" like the "a" in "alms", some authorities favor that too, but the Oxford English dictionary, while This is something The Journal has sought to emphasize all along; the clear fact that interest on the national investment in the Canadiâ€" an National Railways is and must be in resultig public service; just as the interest on investments in many other public worksâ€"aids to navigation, harbors, post offices, etc.â€"is and must be in public serâ€" vice. In other words, to put the thing briefly, transportation, in a land such as Canada, is a basic and essential government functionâ€"its cost a part of the cost of governâ€" ment; of the national existence.â€" Ottawa Journal. The Highway Traffic Act now makes It clear that passing another vehicle on the right is not permitâ€" ted, and no exception is made in respect of street intersections, but the news does not seem to have got around. Where some of our taxes go: To pay interest charges on the public debt of Canada, makes necessary a weekly outlay of $2,750,000. Try working that out in days and minâ€" utes.â€"Niagara Ralls Review. And then there is the story of the motoring fiend who had his first ride in a trailer. He nearly went mad because he couldn‘t pass the car in front. â€"Toronto Saturday Night. Farmer‘s Utopia The farm without weeds is either owned and operated by a master farmer, or the soil is so poor that nothing will grow.â€"Farmer‘s Adâ€" vocate. Breathe Correctly One good way to begin a voiceâ€" improvement campaign is to do a breathing exercise regularly until you breathe correctly all of the To say that a girl has a nice voice doesn‘t necessarily mean that she has a low voice. It can be high and still be pleasant to the ear. It‘s a mistake for any girl to work hard to improve her figure, hair, skin and her taste in clo%es but ignore completely the Et that she has an improperly placed, unpleasant voice. Because, no matter how attractive she is, unâ€" less her voice has a fairly soothâ€" ing effect on others, they just aren‘t going to listen to herâ€"not for long anyway. An Unpleasant One Ruins the Whole Effect Otherwise Proâ€" duced by One‘s Personality. A Good Voice Is An Asset Public Service Its Purpose The Dictionary Says So VOICE Sometime We‘ll Learn Where The Taxes Go THE WORLD AT LARGE CANADA Not For Him have carried But”;)hrâ€";ish-;." "I am ready to talk," he said. The King looked at his new genâ€" eral fiercely. "Do you not tremble to take such liberties with your Monarch?" he asked. "Oh, no," said Guph. "You mant to conquer the Emerald City and I am the only gnome in all your dominions who can do it, so you will be very of the It is reported that when the League Council assembled on the last day of its recent session at Geâ€" neva a spectator in the gallery stood up and shouted: "I speak for the people of Europe! Long live Peace! Long live the League and the United States of Europe!" He was promptly ejected by detectives. In the circumstances, perhaps, this was wise; for the 101st session of the Council will surely go down on record as the most depressing in its history. In considering the present sickness of the League, however, it is important to distinguish beétween cause and effect. The cause, as has often been pointed out, is no fault in the organization or principles of the League but the weakness and stupidity of its members. So when, recently, the Council rejected Spain‘s appeal, gave but cold comâ€" fort to China, and encouraged the abandonment of Abyssinia, these were the failures of Governments and, in particular, of the Govern: ments of Britain and France. Such failures may be disastrous, but they need not directly affect the strucâ€" ture of the League of Nations. In time new and different Governâ€" ments will be elected to power which, by using the same tools as those now thrown down, will conâ€" struct peace in Europe.â€"Manchestâ€" er Guardian. Tools For Peace TORONTO We just thought we‘d tell you that: There are 48 nations in the world still at _ 1ce. A large numâ€" ber of autoists drove safely and courteously _ through _ Vancouver streets yesterday. Several million Canadians are working and drawâ€" ing regular pay cheques. We saw people laughing this morning. The mangleâ€"wurtzel crop is good this y ar. Most poople really like spinâ€" ach. A girl and boy sat on a Vicâ€" tory Square bench at lunchâ€"time yesterday, and lost track of the world around them as they looked in each «her‘s eyes. This isn‘t news, but we thought we‘d tell you. Sometimes we get so fod up with news that we like to stop and think of things like these. â€" Vancouver Sun. admitting it is permissible, says there is no good reason for giving this French sound to a word that has been Anglicized in spelling nearly 200 years.â€"Toronto Star, tfime without thinking about it. Lobsterâ€"eating Champ Charles A. Young won the world lobsterâ€"eating championship at Atlantic City by eating 22 lobâ€" sters in 2 hours. Silica, sand, salt and limestone or lead, the four principal subâ€" stances necessary for glassâ€"makâ€" ing, are well distributed throughâ€" out the world. Nearly all the maâ€" terials necessary for the ~many branches of the glass industry are obtainable in the United States. The exercise to correct bad speech is as simple as the breathâ€" ing exercise that will tend to imâ€" prove the voice. Just read ajoud for fifteen minutes every day. Go to your room, close the door. then read. Listen to yourself and try Do practice speaking slowly and enunciating correctly.: Nothing is‘ worse on anyone‘s nerves than having: to listen to a woman .who rattles on, slurring words together and speaking so rapidly that half she says ‘can‘t be understood at all. PRES S The EMPIRE CANADA THE EMPIRE Not "News" is that you don‘t think enough. You would go ahead and march your army through the tunnel inâ€" to Oz and get defeated. I won‘t. And the reason I won‘t is because when I march I will have a host of allies to assist us." "But suppose you fail?" asked the King. "Then it‘s the slicing machine. I agree to that," anâ€" nounced Guph. "But if you do as I tell. you there will be no failâ€" ure. The trouble with you, King, $ M who & $AP c $18 K im. Recent issues of stamp journals carry articles dealing with the unique interest of covers bearing the postmark of Coober_ Pedy, which is the aboriginal name for white man‘s burrow. It has been suggested that spécially decorated covers should be made available for use on Coober Pedy‘s interâ€" national air mail. New Zealand plans to abolish its unemployment tax on wages. NEW ELEMENT TOO ELUSIVE TORONTO.â€"The chances of man ever discovering or seeing the eleâ€" ment ‘illinium," one of the few misâ€" After that, its application to huâ€" man beings would be considered, Dr, W. R. Franks, assistant profesâ€" sor in charge of the work, says. VACCINATION FOR CANLIR TORONTO.â€"Vaccination against experimental cancer is being sucâ€" cessfully carried out in the laboraâ€" tories of the department of mediâ€" cal research, University of Toronâ€" to, in the Banting Institute. To date it has been proved effective in mice, against chemically induced cancer and will have to be tried out on monkeys when further deâ€" veloped. The demonstration was one of the features of a twoâ€"day program. HAMILTON.â€"Medical men atâ€" tending a clinic at the General Hosâ€" pital here saw a demonstration of an amplified stethoscope, a new inâ€" strument which actually "broadâ€" casts" movements of the organs of the body and the blood stream. NORTHERN LIGHTS MAKE NOISES Many persons have claimed they could hear sounds from the heavens during displays of northern lights, but most of the observers were without scientific training. A reâ€" port by Professor Carl Stormer, of the Institute of Theoretical Astroâ€" physics, Norway, states that during the great auroral display on Januâ€" ary 25 and 26 members of his staff distinctly heard sounds which they associated with the movement of the white beams in the lights, and reports from outside observers conâ€" firm their findings. Two physicians at St. Bartholoâ€" mew‘s Hospital, reporting in the Lancet, describe results of pneuâ€" monia treatment with a new memâ€" ber of the soâ€"called "sulphanilamide group" of drugs, "M and B 693", named after the makers, May and Baker. " What Science * Is Doing * DRUVG ATTACKS PNEUVMONIA LONDON, England. â€" A drug that attacks pneumonia by breakâ€" ing down the capsules or shells of the bacteria and allowing the white blood corpuscles to vanquish the orâ€" ganisms points the way to a neW line of medical research, experts believe. LISTEN TO BLOOD STREAM woget «lltemc on ionsmnepin B GOnine ic t t eP L0 6 ® omm . Ceeroeger Li Canada Life, the country â€" has passed through very difficult times. Mr. Mitchell had a tough job, but he has done it well. His sound conservatisir., his great energy and capaci‘y for work have been inâ€" valuable assets, will continue to a‘d him in a distinguished career. When the Federal was absorbed by the Sun Life in 1915, Mr, Mitchell joined the Canada Life as an Assistant Superintendent. In 1926 he became Assistant General Manager ; General Manager, 1980; Viceâ€"Prosident, 19385, In the period during which he Mr. Mitchell has had a diversiâ€" fied career, starting out as a school teacher, branching out into newsâ€" paper work, then joining the staff of the Manufacturers‘ Life as adâ€" vertising manager in 1921. He remained with the Manufacturers for ten years, rising to the posiâ€" tion of Assistant Secretary of the company. In 1911 he joined\ the Federal Life in Hamilton, was ap» pointed General Manager the folâ€" lowing year, A. N. MITCHELL Chosen as the new President of the Canada Life Assurance Comâ€" pany, Mr. A. N. Mitchell, of Toâ€" ronto, still in his early fifties, is one of the most brilliant of the younger insurance men in Amerâ€" ica. Only last month he was elecâ€" ed President of the Life Insurâ€" ance Officers of Canada. Abundant Feed Pastures in Middlesex County gencrally are in excellent condition with abundant feed for all kinds of livestock. Spring grains there wil} have a fair length of straw while corn and roots "are rather backâ€" ward because of cool weather, but in most instances are a good stand." Britain is aiding emigration to Australia. "May crop is looking very good as we have had plenty of rain, but the grain crop is probably damaged by a little too much rain," the deâ€" partment‘s representative in Cochâ€" rane said. ‘The report added that "‘all crops, however, looking better than average." Look Promising North Simcoe reported that freâ€" quent and heavy rains in the past two weeks "have promoted very rapid growth," although damage was heavy in the north part of the county from a recent storm. Prince Edward County, in Central Ontarâ€" io, reported that "all crops look promising." The report says: "A new indusâ€" try in the form of an alfalfa deâ€" hydration plant is in full swing in the Oakville district. This plant is merchandising approximately 20 tons per day." TORONTO.â€"Spring rains and warm weather have brought promâ€" ise of good crops in most parts of the province, the Ontario Departâ€" ment of Agriculturs announces. Department of Agriculture Reâ€" port Shows Bountiful Harâ€" vest for Most of Province; Damaged Tobacco Replantâ€" _lllinium has been the most eluâ€" sive of the elements and was s0o named by a group of University of Illinois physicists who made the nearest approach to isolating and identifying it. It is one of the soâ€" called "rare earths," samarium and neodymium being its nearest neighâ€" bours. have vanished. ~ ; Dr. T. R. Wilkins, of the Univerâ€" sity of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., fold the American Physical Society meeting here last month that a new method of precise chemical analysis indicates the element either does not exist or at most comes into exâ€" istence and vanishes again in a few millionths of a second. sing links in ghert‘ablo of elements, Is Favorable For Ontario General of deniyis. Wncs t oi nds Aettznnoes oo un Convicted of embezzling his parents‘ pension cheques, an American has been sentenced to spend 40 weekâ€"ends â€" Saturday afternoons and Sundaysâ€"in jail Reason: On weekâ€"days he can work to support his wife, his two children, and his parents. fore. "In the southern drought trianâ€" gle the improvement in moisture conditions has been substantial although current rains are needed in other arcas. Increased plantâ€" ing of Thatcher® wheat gives a more effective insurance apainst rust than we have ever had be. ter than at any E'in'\'ei;ivnc; Vl !-":‘ii, Finance Minister Dunning told the House gf Commons last week, OTTAWA.â€"Crop conditions in the wheatâ€"growing areas are betâ€" Finance Minister Dunning Says Conditions in Westerr: Wheat Belt Unequalled Since 1932. Crop Is Best on malt drove the Scots to strike by refusing to drink beer. But here the Chancellor won, and the Scots swallowed the tax. Cromwell invented the "plumâ€" pudding" tax, one on currants and niuinz:_w_llile 200 years ago a tax "Plumâ€"pudding" fax In 1797 a clock tax was imâ€" posed at the rate of 2s. 64. in London and Middlesex, and 1s. elsewhere. The tax was a frailure and was repealed the next year. He put a tax on horses, which so enraged a farmer, named Jonathan Thatcher, that he rode a cow to market as a protest. Windows were also taxed, the larger the house the greater the tax â€"â€" which explains the many blind windows to be seen in old mansions today. Hackney coachâ€" es, hats and hairâ€"powder; yame licences, hearts, and candles, all brought unpopular grist to the C;uueellor's mill. That was in 1784. A hundred and fifty years ago, says the Magazine London "Titâ€" Bits", when we had lost our Amerâ€" ican colonies and had just conâ€" cluded a war with France, Pitt, as Treasury dictator, invented all sorts of weird taxes to raise the money nceeded te pay the counâ€" try‘s way. British Treasury Once Taxed Windows, Hats and Hair Pitt Invented Weird Taxes A shirt made like a carpenâ€" ter‘s jacket of closely woven nubby cotton has a row of deep pockets across the front below the waist, where a man can tuck the things he wishes to carry about with him. For the man joining the ladies on the terrace of his country club there has been deâ€" signed a collarless jacket of heavy crash linen that is cool and looks easy to wear. Singleâ€"breastâ€" ed, with long sleeves and an clasâ€" tic strap across the back to give it a slightly nippedâ€"in line at the waist, it can be had in Pavy or white. I Salesmen in men‘s shops never forget that they have to have in stock what they call women‘s merâ€" chandiseâ€"things that appeal to wives who shop for their husbands and are subsequently exchanged. It is a woman‘s duty, obviously, to steer clear of these cyeâ€"catchâ€" ers. This turns out to be laughâ€" ably easy if the woman keeps in mind one fundamental; the garâ€" ment or accessory the woman is considering for her male rclative will be welcomed if it has pracâ€" tical value. Several men‘s shops in New York were combed for practical, attractive summer things this week. 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