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Health Progress

The xarlous Institutions and or-

ganizations that are working for better health conditions in this Province and across the Dominion have warrant for feeling that tlicy .mg playing 21 notcworlliy part in adding to the life span of Canadians. Attention was drawn to this cu- coui'a;:iiig (lcvelopnient iii an address the other day by lion. Brooke Clax'- toii. former federal Minister of Na- tional Dcfeiice, and now head of one of Canada's largest life insurance companies". lilr. Flaxton eniPIli1SI7-"fl a strikiiig fact when he pointed out that the average life span of Cana- dians is now 70 years. Barring some unforscen circumstances. this trend should continue. Canadiaiis should continue to live longer and enjoy better health as the years go by, and a healthy race is one of the great assets of any nation.

The death rate in Canada in l936 was about the same as in lEl.'i.'i, which was an all-time low of 8.2 per 1,000 population. Last year was the fifth year in succession in which the death rate was under 9 per thousand. The increase in the aver- age life span to 70 years represents a gain of almost four years in a decade, and of fully nine years since 1930-1932, when the average was only 61 years. A notable feature of the record for I936 is the remark- ably low mortality from tubercu- losis. For the second year in a row the death rate from this disease is below nine per 100,000 population. Only a decade ago the rate was about six times its present level. A small increase was Indicated In 1936 in the death rate from the major chronic diseases, which take their highest toll In middle and later life. The cai'diovascuIarrenal diseases, cancer and diabetes, were relatively more frequent than in the year be- fore.

"The Canadian people can be proud of the marked progress they have made over the years in reduc- ing the toll of premature death," said Mr. Claxton. "Rapid advances in medical science and the rise in living standards have been major factors in this achievement. Further

gains can be made by the fuller use of existing knowledge and by the development of new knowledge. Par- ticularly urgent is need for research on the diseases of the newborn and ofboider people."

Where the average span of life in Canada stands at 70 years, as is the case at present. certainly here is a tribute to collective, cooperative effort. Better health, and consequent longer living, are not achieved by doctors and hospitals alone. out- standing though their contribution is, but by all interested persons and organizations working in unison.

U. N. Anomalies

That the United Nations, in its present form, consists of anything but an impartial tribunal on world effairs has been demonstrated pretty clearly during the past few months. Some of its anomalies are pinpointed in El recent address by Lord. Cher- well, one of Britainls foremost scientists and a leading spokesman for the Conservative Party in the ' - House of Lords. A close friend and

- adviser of Sir Winston Churchill, he twice served in Chlllttiilll Cabinet: and is fully conversant with United Nations functions and activities. pi Loni Chenveii poitmiout that in

the Aniembly, tho ultiitioto govern- & of the U.N., barely 5 per ltho world's population can Guanine up other 95 i w all y m w

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ligation to conform. The Assembly is split into a number of blocs. There is the Afro-Asian bloc. the South American bloc, the Iron'Curtain bloc. the members of which tend to vote together on their likes and dis- likes, in accordance with instructions from their home government. No one pretends that they are influ- enced by the evidence or the speeches. Judicial impartiality is the last thing that seems to matter. The absurdity of the constitution of the Assembly was recognized from the start by those framing the Charter of the UN. No nation could be expected to submit without ques- tion to such a body. Only if the (lreat Powers were in agreement would there be any chance of its decisions being respected or en- forced. If they were, it was hoped they could prevent small local wars among the minor Powers. If they were not, it was realized that It would be useless to expect the ma- chine to operate.

To ensure this sort of executive body. the Security Council was in- stitutcd. on which the five Great Powers had permanent seats. Six moi'e seats were allocated for two

years at a time to other nations, selected by the Assembly. All the signatories of the Charter undertook to accept and .carry out the decisions of the Council, but not those of the Assenibly. Since what were at that time regarded as the five Great Powers had a veto in the Council, obviously action could never be taken against one of them, because no nation was under obligation to obey resolutions in the Assembly. This intention appears now to be cast aside. The Assembly claims powers which have been assigned to it only by itself. In recent months it seems to have usurped functions that it never intended to exercise. It has, apparently, instructed the Secretary- General to raise a military force, to negotiate with Nasser, to clear the Suez Canal, and generally to take executive action. ”I can find no warrant in the Charter to which we all subscribe," says Lord Cher- wcll. ”for such action by the As- sembly. It is as though the llouse of Commons were to instruct the Clerk of Parliament to raise a pri- vate army, to negotiate with the Mau Mau leaders, and to settle the dispute with the Argentine about the Falkland Islands."

EDITORIAL NOTES

The tragic story of the catastro- phe of Hungary set into motion what may become the largest peace- time operation of the Red Cross.

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Canadian livestock were flown in a mass airlift to the Dominican Republic to participate in an inter- national livestock show. The ship- ment included more than 150 head of dairy and beef cattle and sheep. Canadian breeds have been found to do well in this West Indies country.

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New Zealand cheese, for the first time in history, sold wholesale in London, England, at a price higher than New Zealand's finest butter. U.K. observers credit this situation to an over-supply of butter in re-

Iation to demand. and strength in

the cheese market, due to the rela-

IIWLV high price of meat and eggs. 9 O O '

The administrator of the United Statcs' part of the St. Lawrence Sea- way project has reported that the American work will cost 544 million more than the amount originally estimated. The increase comes from added costs of planning, designing, construction, etc. It would be inter- esting to know how much more than the sum allocated will be necessary for completing the larger Canadian pmgram. The extra cost will prob-

t ably be in the vicinity of N100 mil-

Hon or more.

It is obvious. comments the Syd- ney Post Record. that the Member: of Parliament cannot keep their minik off the coming general elec- tion. The business of the present pension in Ottawa is incesuntiy punctuated by references to tit election and guessing the am. it hntai the work of the House Id ucommono it the Government

Obuidoaomueiiuietthonppi-oxh

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A STOUTER STICK TO KEEP HIM FROM THE DOOR

a beat-up

limousine. Iiostcssses

slrusc delicately

These

Robert: H

term as London.

told this He has right-hand

minister

effort.

in 1946-49. have ministe. s gift

For all

He lacks

than rid--

rationing.

mcmbc-..x

formality

Eleanor

He's one of f'auiida's top (lip- lumats--lnit

a htilf-block-lonll

IlIc's a oiic-iiiziii brain trust. btil his shortage of small talk gives

He can produce a policy for ah- i n te r national problems.

political and economic factors. but he's so modest he won't use push biittons to suminmon a secretary. GOES TO WASHINGTON somewhat qualities are

as any man to shape Canail.-i's for- eign service. At 5'2. he goes soon to Washington to bend the Cana- dian embassy, ending a five-y r

The move completes his expcri-I ence of the 0ttawa-I.ondon-Wash- ington circuit. the tnp-level diplo- matlc triangle which has largely bounded his 27 years in politics. The Americans will meet a for- midable man.

”Roberlson is uncanny." a Brit- lsh government minister recently

more sides to a question than any- body I know."

Ida's foremost policy-makers. An

Mackenzie King in the Second World War, he was one of the secret brains behind the war

The late he would as soon consult Robert- iion on British affairs as any of his own department heads. COUNSEL RESPECTED

Sir Winston Churchill and Sir Anthony Eden when prime minis- ter, wught his counsel. When the high commissioner returned to Ot- tawa, after his first London tour

"It is remarkable how often. and with what respect. his opinions been quoted privately by

Formulating policy in ii special

"Give Norman R ))l'tIIlI('lll and that wonderful niiiui Hlllllls into action." said It man ulin knows him. "0.it of one niciiial compart- men! come all the rcleinnt his- torical fact us. out oi mioilier the economic patterns, and so on. A: r you watch him ..t uurk. your hor- izons wide... and everything falls into pl.-rspecii"e.

son is reticent and shy in society. Recently he travelled from a Lon- don airpnrl in a station wagon carrying diplomatic

car which il0('laII. in these days of gasoline

He is interested in people, rem

reel off their family backgroundl. His staff vvirshlps him. He hotel

fnnitled things like push button.

A Canadian Top Diplomat

By Alan Harvey Canadian Press Staff. London

,Alta.. his secretary nearly eight , y-cars, says iliis sometimes means l ''lots of running back and forth" but makes plain she wouldn't want it any other way. Robertson's desk is innocent of mechanical de- vices except for two telephones, one green. one black.

LIKES OLD HATS

in appearance he is distinctive, his broad. hunched shoulders sur- mounted by in high - domed bald head which makes him seem tal- lcr than his six feet. 1!: inches (farless about clothes. his large. flovP.V. long-wearing hats are a legend. In wartime Ottawa he sported a toque until, in despera- lion. Mackenzie King bought him a cossack-type fur hat and made plain it was meant to be worn.

His range of interests is tre- mendous. He reads widely. in French as well as English. though he claims he gets little time now.

He's supposed to have an ab- sent-minded strain and they say he gave his wife I box of choc- olates, bearing an Ottawa tag, af- ter A world trip.

lie is a bold, original bridge player. but in a city of high-stake card experts he limits himself to an arid slxpenny session at the Saville Club. He is informed on Canadian paintings but lacks a sensitive ear for music.

Norman Alexander Robertson was born in Vancouver March 4, 1904. with a double dose of high- land Scots blood. His father. Lem- uel. was a classic: teacher in Van- couver and his mother was I Macleod from the isle of Skye Macleotla.

A RHODES SCHOLAR

He graduated at 19 from the University of British Columbia. won a Rhodes Scholarship and went to Ballloi, Oxford. Later. studying at Brookinga Graduate School. Washington. he met 1 Netherlands girl there on scholar- ship. Jette Welling. They were married in 192! and have two daughters, Alex. 15, and Judith, 14. Alex now is with a Toronto department store.

Robertson entered government service in 1929 and stayed, except for a depression-years interlude at Harvard as a lecturer. His big break came in i941 when he was appointed external affairs under- secretary and became behind-the- scenes mastermind of the war of-

he'tl rather rule in station wa-.1ou than in anibassattiwial

the shivers.

balancing all the right

contradictory united in Norman who has done as much

high commissioner in

reporter. "He can see

long been one of Can-

miin to the late prime

Sir Stafford Cripps said

The Times (lIIl7imCl1I('fI'

and others."

fort.

He has stood at the centre of

some great political events but his role may never be disclosed fully. "I don! keep a diary and I don't write private letters.''' he suys. shrugging off I suggestion About memoirs.

Newspaper men are kept at arm's length. A reporter has to content himself with hints that during the recent Suez crisis, Ca- nadian diplomacy played a major part, even toning down some of the phrases in Britlnh speeches. when Britain had to withdraw. cunng: ideas Illih proved help tul. silent diplomat iind done it again. -

his bi'ninp.nier. Robert-

r piiblic-relations touch.

g mail rather in the bin ninbassndof! mkes him squirm, eo-

their names and can

and won't use new -

Fleming of hellibrldgc.

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PUBLIC FORUM

This column in open to the discus min by K-urreaimmienis of question al inierenl. The Guariiiuu duel not nu-coo oai-ily enduibo the opinion of oorrob pondcntl.

EGG l'RI('ES

Sir,--lteccntly a friciid of mine flom huine sent me 6 clipping of a letter written to the press by

Leonard Mil('I)tlIiaId complainingI

of the very low price of eggs at

that time. I drew the matter to I

the attention of the Minister of

Agriculture, lionoiiralile J.G. Gar- I diner, and asked for his comment. I

Mr. Gardiner has replied. and I suggest it may be of interest to your readers. I hope that the suit- gtstions he makes may prove workable and that they may be helpful.

Since the Department has agreed to purchase the eggs outright at is price of .'lii cents per dozen. nlua one cent extra to cover oiling, It wnuld seem that if Mr. Gm-diner'l suggestion is followed, it would result in a higher price for eggs to our producer: at home.

It should be explained. however. that this would probably not I- bout 30 in 31 cents to the producer. At least that is the opinion of people in the Agricultural Prices Support Board with whom I dis- cussed the problem here. It cost: about eight cents to grade. candle and pack the eggs. An oiling vat. l was told, is not expensive.

I am Sir. ctc..

NEIL A. MATHESON, lii.P.

OTTAWA. (Enclosure)

The Minister's letter follows:

”f)car llir. lilathcsonz

”This will acknowledge your let- ter of January (list in which you enclosed a copy of Mr. L. Mc- Donald's letter to the Charlotte- town press.

"Since 1950 until this year the plan of price support for eggs has been to offer to purchase any eggs left. at an appropriate period dur- ing the your, if the eggs were all- ed and stored to the Board's spec- ifications. This left the trade the maximum opportunity to merch- andise their eggs.

"This year it was PFOPOSHI '0 ii,-eain use this plan since with some variation in regulatiohs from time to time it had worked reasonably well. However, due to a variety of reasons. among which the extra heavy production of Grade A Large eggs in December and January as well as the smaller than usual export market for Grade A Med- ium eggs. the Board has in ad- ditinn offered to purchlse Grade A Large eggs ouu-lam on the has- is of .13 cents per dozen plus one cent allowance for oiilnii. at ap- proved storage pginiti across Can- ada, in not less than minimum carlnts. Any organization or KNIIP of producers may take advantage of this after. it would seem to me that producers in Your Pl'0VIll.c9 should have no difficulty in obtain- ing this support when necessary-

"I would also suggest. that pric- es of eggs are usually much high- er in the Newfoundland market and that your pi-oducerr orlllllllllolll might give more attention to all- ing in thin morkot. I7 "I!" IN extra qulntitllt d

Medically Speaking

UNNEEDED TBANSFUSION MAY SOMETIMES IE FATAL

CERTAIN routine blood trans- fusions given in hospital: through- out the nation might be unneces- sary. in some cases, injection of

' unneeded blood can be extreme-

, ly harmful - even fatal.

. in fact. not long agorat 1 meet- ing in Chicago of the American Soceity of Clinical Pathologists. Dr. William Freeman said that tens indicated that certain pa- tients who normally would have been given additional blood by transfusion had more than enough to start with. However, these cas- es are the exception to the rule. TOTAL QUANTITY

Until quite recently. doctors have had no accurate method of measuring the tool blood quantity of a patient. Instead. we have had to estimate the amount of blood circulating through the system by time consuming analyses of ele- ments of the blood. plasma and cells. .

But now, by injecting radioac- tive iodine into the blood stream. and with the aid of the laboratory. doctors can come up with a pretty accurate measurement. With a sensitized geiger-couting machine. they can tell where this iodine in in the blood stream. where it is going and how much It has been diluted. -

The extent of the dilution rc- veals the total amount of circula- tinn blood.

Using this method of determin- ing the need for blood. Dr. Free- man checked 300 seriously ill or postoperative patients who might have been given routine blood 'ran- fuslons on the basis of usual tests.

Ti-ansfusions. he reorts. would have been wasted on 75 per cent. of them. In cases of arterulsclerw sis or Imparied heart, addition of superfluous amounts of blood can even at times cause death by ex- eitlng excessive pressure on the artery walls. This might over- strain the heart.

INADEQUATE SUPPLY

Generally. it is believed that loss of blood during operations or child- birth frequently leaves a patient uiih an inadequate supply of blood vihlch can be restored through transfusions.

However, Dr. Freeman. says. his studies show that n numbei of patients actually have oversup- plies of blood and blood fractions.

All of which certainly seems to indicate that tests of the total blood volume should be made whenever possible before giving a transfu- sion. That In just what most doc- 'orii are doing today.

WUESTION AND ANSWER D. B.: I have been losing weight -mi oughing up blood. Could hese be tuberculosis symptoms Answer: one of the first symp-

toms of tuberculosis are fatigue

and loss of weight. There in a loss of appetite. which in followed by coughing. expectoratlon, more loss of weight, fever and night sweats.

Erma 5.:

SONNET

In LiiIIdII00d at the shore xhrleks of glee

I leaped the leaping waves; ncli rising crest

smothered my breath. bent down increasingly,

Until subdued I quenched my laughing zest '

And new the In I sported with at lengt

in larger pattern, duhing at my

with

Oyl

Not bound by short not tempered to my strength

But humorously roaring to do- urny.

so now I sport with life and no entranced

Lite means no upon in 4 " with my frame.

My ieaming gifts were light of gladneal glanced

Blind force doe: ntrlvo incredibly In maim.

whnt though my dearest offer in- 'le

spies BY THE WAY I

The fellow who get: one about the obscure house number on other

people residences doesn't worry about marking IIII own. since he know: were it is.-Brandon Sun

There are time: when an old groucli smile: that ho is merely rooting his face.-St. standard.

A good waiter will tolerate the poor soul who orders his neck well done as long as be make: up for it pyl overtipplng.-lluniltuu Spec-

: or.

For uine reuon. A man who in modernizing an old house is al- way: either going into or coming out of 3 bank.-Sti-atford Beacon Herald

The weaving of win is describ- ed by u wignulier as a lost art. But bald head: remain. no the chaos: must be inancceptance of the theory that but ness is a sin of brains.-Ottawa Journal.