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|V \ \ \ 3S were streptococcal in origin and that their clinical differences depended on variations In the Reed "and Inborn or acquired differences In the soil," namely, tb© consttutional, metabolic and endocrine factors. Meant of Prevention Dr. R. L. J. Llewellyn Insisted on maintenance of the functional effl-j ciency of the skin, which was best; achieved by hydrotherapy with al-j ternating applications of hot and cold water to the skin surface. "Our climate," ha said, "will not Britains Consider Rheumatic Disease Conference of Eminent Physi- cians and Health OfBcials Held at Bath Influence of Environment A conference en rheumatic diseases was held recently at Bath, England, Under the Presulpncy of Sir George Newman, Chief Medical Officer of the ' a^laP' '^aelf to us and we must there- British Ministry of Health, accord- 't* adapt our-ielvea to it. Our-peo- Ing to the London correspondent of ' P'e "eed bardcnlng, not coddling." The Journal of American Medical I * national cult of skin hygiene and A»floclation. Although no ImporUnt ; hydrotheraphy should be initiated, he additions to science were made, says added. the correspondent, the conference' Dr. F. J. Poynton did not believe achieved Its object of surveying the ' 1° sodium salicylate for young chll- present position with regard to a ^ren with acute rheumatic carditis, group of maladies that cause an im- ^* "^ed neocinhophen. It was tnense amount of invalidity. j never followed by the depression and In bis Presidential addroas Sir Possible death from coma that might George Newman said that the object j <"=<="' '' salicylate was pushed, was to consider the campaign for the Sir William WlUcox found that the conquest or control of rheumatism. ^'â„¢lent cases of rheumatio fever so ,The urgency of tlits matter was manl- ' ^o^inon thirty years ago did not lest from the advance of knowledge ' "«" occur to anything like the same Of the heterogeneous group of Joint ' e^'ent, which he attributed largely diseases and from the data furnished '" ^^^ development of scl'ool hygiene, for the first time by the school med- 1 I" chonio rheumatism, vaccines leal service a>nd the health insurance ' Bhould not be given jntil after the system. The disease was a drag on ' f""e«' clinical Investigation and the Industry and a source of heavy finan- â-  treatment of any foci of infection, dal loss to the State. The main dlf- ''. They were contra-ndicated" when sen- flcultles were three: (1) The rela- 1 *'tir.ation to the toxins of infection Hon of the varied forms of rheuma- ' «'^5''<''' : also ff Uiere were assoclat'od tlsro to one another and their distri- â-  '^'='>P'>1*^'»'°''*= goiter. . bufion in the world generally or in '^'''^y were of value in chronic rheu- England cannot be exactly defliK-d; nw'i.sm when any gross focus of In- (2)the causa cau.sans Is not kn(>wiwf''''tlon. ^^'^ been removed and the With certaintv; (3) there is not ac- '""''-â-  Prt't-fiss was being carried on by cord as to the best means of treat- the chronic infectton of a mucous lueg^ I surface with its accuiupanyliig glund- Slr Walter S. Kinnear., Controller ' "'»•' tissue. Stock .strepto-coccal vac- Of Health and Pension lnnurance ' «'â- >«« ^^e""® fa"" 'ufar'^r to autogenous gave some startling figures. One- vaccines, he said. sixth of the total period for which i "* sickness and disablement' benefit was â- paid to men (one-seventh to women) j was due to rheumatic diseases. In 1927 such total benefit in Great Brit- ' aln amounted to $100,000,000. repre-! aentiug 34.000,000 week.s' iucapac-ity. â-  Of this the incapacity due to rlieunia-' tlsm amounted to S.SOfl.OfKI weeks,' with a disbursement of $25. 0(H), 000. To this mu.<!t be added loss of wages amountingto $60,000,0<W. ; Influence of Environment Dr. Reginald Miller, Honorary Sec- retary of the British Me<lical Asso- ciation Subcommittee on Rlieuma tlsm and Heart Disease In Children, said that juvenile rheumatism was massed among the children of the poor. It was not due to case-to-case Infection, but seemed ti> be an envir- minister, who presided at a moot ins onmental disease. So close was the of SO Nnlioualists and bankers in relatiou with tonsillar disease that It Shanghai for the consideration of llie appeared that tlie environtnent fac- prublems relating to tlnaucing the re- tors must to some extent work bv puljlic. producing Infected ton.sila. There â€" •:« â€" Was a particular connection with' damp dwellings. Sir Humphry Rolleston said that the term "rheumatic diseases" was ' convenient, if umbrella-like, as It In- cluded those acute and chronic infec- tions, rheumatic fever and tl.e rheu- matoid groups. At one end of the scale was acute rheumatic fever, remarkably amenable to salicylates;'; At the other end was ostearthritls, ! largely if not entirely a degenerative The Empire's Knight of the Keen Eye Europe Is Bitter Over Disclosures onNobile Wreck Demonstration of Co-oper- aticn Turns to Outburst of Ill-Will THE CHAIVIPION 3HOT OF THE BRITISH ARMY Lance-Sergeant E. Poulton of the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards was presented with the championship cup by Field-Marshal Sir George Milne. Preserving and Restoring Our Historic Sites Marking of Sites of National Importance Carried Out by Department of the Interior Pioneer Days Recalled FINANCING OF CHINA V. Soong, Nationalist flnance Charged With the Leviathan Mail Robbery Official in Steward's Office Said to Have Secured $6,000 Ing a formidable invasion for the time being nad created great enthus- iasm In the country. Nautlcoke, Haldimand County, On- tario.â€" On 13th. November, 1813, the Norfolk volunteer militia, routed a I bund of marauders who had terror- ized the country. This exploit In- spirited the military orcfes, restored the confidence of the people, and was an mportant factor in the immediate recovery of lost ground. Fort Druramond. Qiieenston Heights, Ontario.â€" Fort built by mili- tary labor for tho defense of the Canada's historical background con- frontier in 1S14 and named In honour tains some of tlie most romantic and j of Sir Gordon Drummond. interesting episodes in the history of| Nlagara-on-the Lake, Ontario.â€" Nortli. America. In many districts ' Commomoratiug the treaties oouciud- throiighout the Dominion there still ed with the Ciilppuwa and Misslssauga remain visible evideuces of our his- Indians by Colonel Guy Johnson, tory ill ruins which have been pre- j May !), 1781, and Lt.-Col. John Butler, served, but there are scenes of otiier ! May 22, 1784. and often important actions and! KIng.ston Navy Yard, Kingston. On- eveuls which are unmarked by any ; tarlo.-- Tlie British navai station for physical reminder of what transplr- , lake Ontario during the years 17S8- ed at these points. Tho Depart- j 1818. Here were built fourteen King's ment of the Interior, has been carijy- < ships. In the war of 1812-14 this I ing on a vaiuable work In preserv- , naval force enabled the army to ro-l ing and restoring the ruins and suit- ! tain control of Upper Canada, iibly tnurkiug tho sites of na'Slonal I Amherstburg Navy Yard. Amherst- hlstorc importafice. As a resultjburg, Ontario. â€" The British n.aval along many of the main motor high- 1 station for lake Erie and Huron dur- ways of the Dominion artistically i Ing the years, 1796-1,S13. Hero nine designed cairns and tabluts give King's ships were built. In llie war motorists and tourists a peep into of 1812-14 htis naval force enabled the our romantic past. I On the recommendation of the' Historic S'tes and Monuments Board, ; the UeparHnent of the Interior,! through the National Parks Service, I has marked US siies by the erection I of suitable memorials. Kach year at , the annual meeting of the Board the . Resolution Agrees to AfFllia- suggesiions ot tue various members ^- ^y,. , "„ r, tion With Pan-Pacific Secretariat Sydney, New South Wales.â€" With an overwhelming majority, the Red element, by a snap vote, carried a resolution at a recent section of tlie all-Australian Council of Trades army to retain control of that frontier. Reds Gain Upper Hand in Australia memorial commemorates the signing of September 22, 1877, near this point, of Treaty No. 7 by which the disease and not responding to sallcyl- ' New York.â€" Archibald Chapman, ates. r>etween tliese two was a train ' assistant linen keeper in the stew- of gradual transitions. The charac- ard's department, was charged recent- teristic lesion of rheumatic fever wus ly with theft of registered mail from j wide plains were thrown open to the theformatlon of nodules, large in the the United States liner Leviathan, white man and peace and security Bubsutnneous tissues, submlllary in between June 16 and .luno 22, whlle^ was assured the Indians. The â- â€¢"- the heart. the vessel was on the high seas. Subcutaneous nodules had often Chapman was held In $7.5uo bail for been found in rheuatold arthritis and a hearing on August 9, wlieu arraigned ostearthrltiesl but nodules had not before United States Commissioner been found in the heart. FIbrosltIs, Francis A. O'Neill. He is 32 and the nonarthrltlc 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- causation of acute rheumatism had ter, said that It had been learned steadily gained ground. It might be that the loss from the malls could •rgued that the various members of not exceed $6,000, but a postal Inspec- the family of rheumatio dlsea-sea tor placed the loss $4,000 higher. are reviewed and a number of sites are recommended fur marking. Dur- ing 1!)27 tablets were placed on twenty-five sites and one ot the most picturesque ceremonies iu this con- nection was the unveiling of the cairn and tablet at Biackfoot Cross- ing, near where the Cluuy-Mllo sec- 1 „ions supporting a tmiatlon" wit'li "the tion of the Alberta Provincial High-' way crosses the Bow Rivur. This Controlling Sea Trade veiling took place on the fiftieth an- niversary of the signing, the princi- pals in which were: Hon. David Lard and Lt.-Col. James F. Macleod, representing the Crown : and the famous Indian leader, Chief Crow- toot, and other chiel's and council- lors of the Biackfoot, Blood, Peigan, Stony, and other Indians. The Red Men relinquished their claim to 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- foot. Indian treaties signed in each of the at her Prairie Provinces, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, are also to be commemorated. Theaty No. 1 was signed at Lower Fort Garry, Manlto- I ha, on August 3, 1871, and Treaty No. 6 at Fort Carlton, Saskatchewan, I between the 23rd and 28tb ot August, j 1876, and at Fort Pitt on September 19, 1876. [' Recently the 1928 annual inoetlng ! of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board was held at Ottawa. One hundred and ten sites were reviewed and a number were selected lo bo n\arked as vt national importance. Brigadier Gen?<ral E. A. Cruiksliauk, who is a recognized autliority on the .SI ^^noiiWIi ^^^^^^^^â- ^^^^â- S^^^^â€"Il^BiHifl V^ military history of Canada and » jj^^^HplHJI^^^a^HI^^^Bjj^^^M^QI^Mll^HH In ^^^ meeting. The other Iu I attendance were. Dr. J. C. Welisler, Shedlac, New Brunswick; Judge W. 1^ Mil^^^^HM^^^H^^^^^^^^^H§^B^^^^H?9H IV Crowe, Sydne.v, Nova Scotia; I ^^^^^^^^^S^BH^^^^^I^H^^^^^jH^^^^^BHHI h ^' ^^1"'''^' iVIontreal, Quebec; Dr. t'i t.x!ilLsi^HHi^^^^^^^^^9^^^HB!fi^H^H^^^ffi lY H. Coyne, St. Thomas, Ontario; Judge P. W. Howay, New Westminster, British Columbia, representing West- ern Canada; Mr. J. B. Harkln, t'oin- mlssloner. National Parks of Canada, representing the Department of the Interior; and Major A. A. I'lnard, Secretary. Of the new sites or events selected for commemoration the following are In Ontario and Quebec; St. Johns, Quebec. -Site, nee.r here, ot the Battle ot Montgomery's Creelt, September 8, 1776, with Montgom- The keel of the new White Star 80,000-ton liner laid down In the ship- ery's Invading army. The defeat of fkrd .la BfiUaaC. â-² itvt^ giant of the waves. ~-^ . ^''^ Invaders bad the street of repell- HERE IS THE LONQEST KEEL IN THE WORLD Puu-Pacitic secretariat. Supporters of the "white Australia" policy were jeered at by the Communists when they crossed tho floor to vote against the measure. The resolution, which was moved by J. Garden, secretary of the Trade La- bor Council of Sydney and an avowed Communist, was that the Australian Council of Trades Unions siiould unite to combat the dangers of a Paoitlc war and also to assist the workers of more backward countries to improve their position. It declared emphatically that affili- ation with the Pau-Pnciflc Secretarial did not mean afflllatlon with the Third Internationale, but the moderate ele- ment warmly challenged htsic lalm. A House for Peter Pan If Peter Pan wants another house to live in-just for tun there is a wonderful one waiting for him. There would bo one for Wendy, too, and two over â€" in fact, four. Perhap.'s It Is rather a lil)erty to think that Peter Pan could want another dwelling, when he Is so hap|)y in liis tree-tops. Yesâ€" but this is a holiday cottage by the sea. His little lioiise \a on one side of a briilge over tile river, and Wendy's is on the other side. They are as like as two peas. Both are painted gray, with lilile KMiiided towerilke tops with windows in them. On the bridge-level is one iliiniiiiitive rounded room with throe window.s and a front door. Tho door lias a letter box and a handle, and It has white curtains, like the windows. One conld almost turn the handle and walk in. Suppose Peter Pan were there: Just suppose! Kach hoiiso has a sleep little gardeu, altnn.sl tum- bling into tho river, only ihero is a wall bi»twoen. Ono ha.s a grass plot â€" such green grass I --and purple Iri.ses (it must be Weudv'Bl. and one has a flower bed with wallflowora (Peter Pnn'B>. Outsido the wall which keeps the garden from tho river in a liny bit of beach at low tide â€" and Iboii, just tho fihlnluK river, flowing softly Hway under the bridge. • There Is nd doubt at all that it is lbs very placo for Peter Pan. The tax on credulity reniaiua about MALMGREN'S FATE Swedish and Russian Press Voice Grace Qiarges â€" British Silent London. â€" With the element of mys- tery and hints o£ more sinister as- pects injected Into the latest phases of the grim Arctic drama, all Rurope is watching tensely wiille iTie disaster to the dirigible Italia in Polar Ice is rapidly transferred from a demonstra- tion of inteniational co-operation and â- iympathy into an outburst of the bit- terest international ill will. Tho revelation that Dr. Plun Malm- gren, the brilliant young Swedl.sh ineteorologlst with General Nobile's expedition, v.as left behind to die in the frozen waste while his two Italian companions. Majors Fillppo Zappi and Mariano marched on until they even- tually were picked up by the Soviet Ice-breaker Gnissln, has stirred feel- ing in Sweden to fever pitch, aud a diplomatic demarche toward Rome may follow the ofHclal probe which the Swedish Government Is carrying out Into the circumstances of the scl- ent Ist'sdeath. Rnssian reports have It Malmerpii was stripped of his cloth- ing and his body eaten by tlie Italians. Series of Disclosures The partial hearing <>t Dr. Malm- greu'.H still mysterious fate, however. Is only the climax of a long series of disclosures thinly veiling llio grave (â- luirues on tho conduct ot the expe- ditH)n since Its take-off from Spltz- iiergen down to the rescues of Us scat- tered survivors. These are uow more freely voiced in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries, as well as in Soviet Russia, but while the British press has scrupnlously .abstained from intervenlug In view of the cool rela- tions already existing between l-'rance and Italy, it Is freely adopting the charges against Nolille and his Italia colleagues. Tho Italian newspapers, on the other hand, are stung Into furious anger by the criticism In foreign news- I)apers, and the dispute has now spread over half the Jonilneut of Kurope. The cliargo that tho disaster was primarily due to Nobile's Insist- ence on starting In time to reach the Nortli Pole on the anniversary of Italy's entrance into tho war was offl- (dally denleil. but there Is the testi- mony of tile Swedish newspaper cor- respondents at icing's Bay that the take-off was made in the most light- liearled spirit with Dr. Malmgren al- ready going on record that conditions were unfavorable. Then, ever since Ilia Italla's radio flashed from the northern silence the first news that tho expedition had met Willi disaster, the (laestlon ot the' conduct ot the expedition and some ' ot lis liidlvidiml members has been] pileil on queslion. Why. it is n.sked. in! the first place, were the main relief; eOTorts left to Sweden and Russia,} which undertook to rush all aid to the castaways, despite Rome's rejec-i tion ot their oiTer ot assistance'? i Lack of o-operation The Moscow Ciovernment. which through the elTorts ot tlie icebreaker Kiassin finally was rospon.sible for most of the rescues, has gone otllcially tin record against the lack of coopora-; tion, while members ot the Swedish I expedition, iieuded by Lieut. Torn- berg, including Lieut. Liiiidborg, the] hero ot the dramatic air swoop to pick ! up Nobilc drifting on floes, have been, In the gravest peril, and Captain j .•Amundsen, famous Norwegian ex- plorer, with the French Captain (Jil- liaud and bis companions in a Latham plane, are feared lost. Then, there Is the charge of Pro- fessor Rehounek, the rescued Czecho- Sluvla survivor, that the dlbaator wat due to Nobile's Insistence, against e» pert advice, (ui investigating the re- gion to the northeast of Spllzbergen and tho consequent drifting of the air- ship into a storm, led to the wreck' when a Jutting ice peak tore off the gondolu from the dirigible's envelope. .N'ext, ther; Is tho queslion why No-' bile, contrary to all tho irnditicma ot conimundors of such expeditions, per- mitlod himself to he rescued ahead ot bin comrades, some of whom were roixirtod to have been more gravely Injurt-d Ihan himself. Finally, there is the story of Dr. Malmgren's death, with Ibb smister suggestion Injecteil that there was a fight between Nobile' and the Swodish meteorologist over, tho former's alleged mismanagement of the airship, that Noliile was afraid of certain rovolatlons wiil<;h the latter might be able to make, and that the dirigible's commander was recalled to Rome In order to suppres.t documents which might be Injurious to the pres- tige of Italian aviation. Majors Zappi and Mariano have capped the climax of the drama, charged throughout with the most in- tense human interest, by going on record that they abandoned Malmgren at his own request, when tlie Injured Swedish scientist gave out in the march of tho party toward land from Nobile's main camp. Into the tangled problem of ethics Involved In the bo-. havioiir of the two Italian officers, II 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 Uio sake of tho wider InteW ests of aviation, as well as to dear the impiiiiged good name of those In^ volved, aud to damp down tho Inters national 111 will excdted by the whole story, the Italia expedition from start to finish pbould be Impartially probed. This all hears out Amundsen and Ells- worth's sizing up of Nobile's Inefflcl' ent character after their "Norge"j flight of last year. British Launch 8000-Ton Cruiser Government Builds Vessel Smaller Than Washing- ton Treaty Maxi- mum London. â€" Tlie cruiser York, one ot the new ships authorized by tho Brit-, Ish Navy estimates ot l'.)2G-27, has been launched by tho Ducliess of York at Yarrow-on-Tyne. It is the first ot the new 8000-ton typo which tho Oov- ernmeut desires to substitute for the larger liJ.OOO-ton cruisers hitherto fav- ored. Thus tile other two cruisers ot the 1928 program are still on the stocks, the Dorset.'ihire at Portsmouth and the Norfolk at Fairfield Yard, Uovan. Both belong to tho lO.OOO-ton type. Ouly one cruiser was provided for in the li)27 estimates. This vessel, wliiidi is to be named tho Kxetera, is about to be laid down at Devimport and it will be of similar size and de- sign to the York. "In voluntarily building cruisers of a smaller size than tho Washington treaty maximum," says the Dalljr Telegraph, "Great Hritain Is setting an example of armament limitation which the other signatory powers, wiih the exception of Italy, have not yet seen fit to follow." - ->• In the Arboretum Fairy azalea flowers Flame from tlie hillside, I'nder lii« somber pine-tree branches. Green, Jade green, are the leaves. Do they st'reen The magic, snow-white peak ot Fuji- San? â-  â€" Ada Frances Almy. » The Indianapolis News says: "OnlTi I 199 days until ChrlBlmas." Moral:; Do your shopping early! A View of the Very Unusual tl|| same. IRON IV10N8TER IS THROWN FROM THE TRACKS Tweniv-three people killed aud 48 Injured In a collison between an excup sloii train and a pai-cels train at Darlingtou, Eng,, where .ftiu operation i| usually 80 elttcient that certain newspapers habitnnlly l»-»i,. â-  .t^elr readert against such a happening. Any ot the estates ot tho k' Ifco InturH who curried one of ihese papors would unbeBlttitingly • to 11000, t.