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â- -w«mm^ Midshipmen Hold Parade Voice of the Press CANADA STYLE CHANGE The girl who u»e<l to spend a lot of time in front uf the glaaH making • ure her hat was on straight now spends the same amount of time making sure It isn't, â€" St. Thomas Times-Journal. MENTALLY ILL. There is decided merit In the pro- posal of the Hon. Ilr. J. A. Kaulkiier. the provincial Minister ot Health, that the word "insane" shall be de- leted from Ontario's statutes wher- «ver It may occur and be replaced by the phrase "mentally ill and de- tetlive." We have made much pro- gress from that dim period in whloh Individual? suffering from mental illness were considered to be in such a hopeless state that they were con- fined in virtual prisons and set apart from the world for the remainder of their days. â€" Hroikville Recorder ISLAND STEPPING STONES Suoii every liitlu island in the ocean is Koiiig to find it-self important and it is certain thai, wiUi aviation devfcioping as It is, places which in the paiil have not oven been spots ou the map will become centres of Intcresl. Here, for instance, is the case of the Wake Islands, away out in the I'acillc Oiean. These aio three small Islets, wiliji a total area of rot more than 2, COO acrea, yet they are to bo a point of call oQ the pro- jwicd r.K. -China air route, plans for wliiih are now well under way with Pan-Amerii an Airways and Ihe Knlt- •d Stales Ciovernmcnt cooperatiog. â€" Sault Slar. BRITAIN'S PROGRESS The soundness of the basi.'i on Vrhioh British recovery has been built Is shown mora clearly than over In Neville Chanibtrialn's budget for the coming year. The average Briton's Btandard of living has steadily im- proved. The cost of living last year was 8ul)stantially below the lovol of 1931, whf-a the National Government came into power. Indu.strial produc- tion rose \'i pel cent, last year; ex- ports Inrrpaspd »1 4r>.Oi)O,00«. WInnl- fesr Tribune "THE STAGGERING TOTAL" Any altemiit to e.stablisih llie ib- golute total of direct and indirect Tictlms of the war in the whole :world, ITofdssor HersCh of the University of Geneva sums up, "Is doomed to failure," in the first place "because we lack reliable data for the backward countries.' But, h» •dd», "even with these saps we ar- rive at the following approximate es- timates" of deaths directly and indi- rectly Hltributflble to the world War: Military Civil Europe. U,63«,0U0 12,^1»,0UU Americit 170,000 1,500,000 Asia tia,uuo ii),vuo,tiuo Africa 99,000 900,000 Oceania 76,000 60,000 13,065,000 28,379.000 Which glvee the stag-erlng total of "early 42 mlllioD people destroyed" â€" a number actually greater than the population ot France, England and Wales, and four times a« great as the total population of the Dominion of fanada Halifax Herald A SPECULATION, Tile population of thd United Stales in 1800 was 6,308,000, less than half th'i population of Canada today. Even m 1820 it did not exceed 9,6:i6,- 000, or 1.600,000 less than the num- ber of people who iijra in this Dom- inion now. The rate of increase, however, was consistently greatur than that of ('aiu-.da. owing to the heavy lininlgiHllon whioli continued tintil drastic restricive regulations were Irnlxised fifteen or twenty years ago. When economii; condltiims have impi lived It may be predicted that Canada's population will Increuse at a greater rate than at any otlior time In her history and may reach 20,- 000,1)00 within Uio next two <leca<les. â€" VI<ioiia Time-. ORGANIZED CHILDHOOD The Hctuml ( bibt of twenty years ago knew little or nothing of air- planes ur radio or aiitouiobiles, but today these are a part of bis life. Ohild life Is also orKanlzed today as never heforo with lloy Scouts, Girl Ouldes, camps, dubs, choirs and athletic teams. 'Hie process of relat- ing education to this more sociMllsod ♦llstiivce Is In itself a pioblem of imiHii lance, --J,ondon i'ree I'reHs. PARADOX ON THE FARM. /MttiougU thf! Washington tluvcrn- Sent has taken unprecedented steps Ihe iHHt t*o years to reduce farm prucliKlion, an odd turn ot events hag resulted in a substantial Increase In the number of fanners. Census bur- eau offlclaU estimate that at least half a million new farms have sprung up ic the United States during the depression. For the mo.st part, it 1» believed that this is due to the re- lurr to rural areas of city folk whose Jobs vanished wheu factories shut down. Over a period of many years the American farm population stead- ily declined. It Is surprising enough to find this trend reversed, over a flveyear stretch; but to try to un- derstand Just how this reversal fits In with reducing farm production is quite a task.â€" Quebec Chronlclf^Tele- graph. EXPENSIVE AND SLOW It has been estimated that it costs $25,000 to kill one man In modern war. Worse than that, tiie grandson foots the bill for the man hU grand- father killed. -Toronto Mail and Rni- pire. SECRET or LONG LIFE. Mrs. William Kussell ot Mitchell, celebrated her 101st birthday on March 25. So unusual Is sue* an event that It comes under 'he head- ing of remarkable. Like a good many oiliers to whom length of years has been measured in increasing degrea, Mrs. Un sell had something to say aliout the sec- ret of a long life. It .liad nothing to do with diet, but it was merely that gelling up early In the morning was the place wherein the secret rested. And Mrs. Kussell means four o'clock in the morning when she sa>is ''early."- Stiatfoid Beacon-Her- ald. FIXING THE BLAME A nie<iical man viently opinod that heredity is a factor in Jiead- aclies. It seems our ancestors are blam- ed for a lot of things these days. We had bolieved that many modem heaiiachos resulted from irregular hour.5, and sometimes excsissive eat- ing or drinking. There must still be a variety ot causes to produce t>he otTect, depending upon the indi- vidual factor, of cour.so; bin what a final excuse a ttjan may offer here- after - that an ancestor la respon- sible for his "morning after'" feeling. Ilordi'i' (.'ities Star Scene on parade grounds at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., as the future officers of the U.S. Navy go through their paces in first dress parade of the year. THE POPULAR BRITISH POST OFFICE. By an energetic campaign of ad- vertising by the systomatic .btudy of the public needs, by the drastic chea- pening of the services, the Post UI- flce has been transformed, almost overnigiit, from a semiobsolete bur- eaucratic machine into an enterprise chargwl full with vitality. Sir Kings- ley Wood de, erves the gialitude of the Cf)iiiitry for this far-sighte<i and courageous a(liieveni»nt. â€" l/ondou Morning I'ost. BRIGHTER TRAINS. Yesterday the iliuirnian of the Southern Railway did a little elt-clii- tying himseir. Waitin.^rooms, he said, would be made , into places where anyone could enjoy the wait- -iig. Though here and there trav<"l by rail -has been iiuiih uiore cheerful lately, the gi'iicral stamiaril remains so low tli.ii to most train Iravellers IhesB senliirieiits will seem revolu- tionary. And In truth nulhing short of a revoluliiiM i.s wanted. The ad- vant.'iges of travel by tiain are in danger of being buried in a doleful wilderness of ugly dark termini, old- fashioned slailoiLs Kiiil \iiiorian car- riage-. I/ond<in Daily liiTald. DECLARE GLANDS SUPPLY 'DRIVE' UNKNOWN. ear when i spii- LURE OF THE ThiiS is a time of it of restlossnews tak^s hoiil of many of us. Wo feel a desljc and an urge to break away noni our accustomed tasks and occnpat'ons, to go wandei- ing in search of change, and sigbls that are new or dlfferenr. It lis, perhaps, the modern syjup- torn of Ihe wanderlu.st to which man- kind in past ages was able to give rein in the mass. Wanderlust is won- derulst; longing for the unknown things to be seen at the end of strange waters. Individuals of all ageis and all generations have known It â€" have felt It dragging them from the beaten tracks to trails that lead into uncharted regions. Some never return. Some return in rsgs, weary and broken, with scars to prove their adventurei. A few return in fins rai- ment, enriched, with stirring tales ot good thing* fouild and evidence that hears them out. Wanderlust takes many fornu. Somotimots it gets into the feet and pulls Its victims along strange paths towards wondrous places, new lands, unexplored wastes. Sometimes It gets into the mind and leads towards istrange theories and after strange objectives, soone of lliem real, soma chimerical, some good, some bad. Sometimes the lure of the unknown draws toward strange political, mor- al, social, economic or metaphysical "Isms" some of which prove sound and safe, but .some unsoun'd and deadly dangerous. Many wanderers perish <m their Journeys along strange nient{,.l lines.. Others return, sadder and wiser. WJiatover diToclions tli,. vvalider- lust lakes Individuals, it would be a dull world without II. - Kingston Whig Standard THE EMPIRE AGES OF MA.'g The age in which he do«i not know anything and doesn't know ho does- n't know anything. The ago in whli>li he doesn't know anytlilnp but thinks ho knows it all. Tliu agu In which he is convinced that his father is a diimboll. The age In which he coniei to find out he doesn't know ft all. The age in which iiu illscovers that his father it poa^essed of normal good sense. The age in which ha discovers that lis leally knows very little. The age In v.hiih he discoveris Ills fatJior WR.'i possessed of more sense than he has Tlia age in which he has a son who thinks ho Is n dumbbell. -I,ondoh Opinion. PUBLIC HEALTH IN S.A. The griiai (.'n.stacle to the general adoption of more liygenic nioasures everywhere appears to be the reluc- tauco of the community, and also of Provincial and local aullmnties. to pay for lliein. The provision of pure wale', and of ade(inate sanitary facil- ities, costs money, uiul many people do not yet seem to realize that il would be niniiey well siieril. Mt^iy lo- cal autborilicH. on the other hand, have not got the raoiK^v to .spend, and for that reason it has been suKgetted to tho I'njviiicial l-'lnaiice t'ominis fiion that llie whole organixation of the Public Health Services, as well Bi the tlnaiKial provisions of the Puli- lic Health Act, need revision and re- adjustment. The position has been lu- cidly reviewed by titie Secretary for Publlo Heslth, and the remedy has beeu evident for many years past. The present time provides an excel- lent opportunity for Initiating the re- forms that alone can make satisfac- tory provl«|(in for a healthy South Af- rica In the future. .lohanneshnrg 'IMtuei. K% Plladelphia, April 30. â€" From 30O of the dead, medical science has its ansiwer to-day to one of its major mysteries, whether human person-- ality is just a matter of glands. The answer Is no â€" the glands do not make personality, but they are ill powerhouse. Tiiey leave un- explained why one person is a geni- u.s, another a pauper, but for what- ever talents man possescsc Uliey fur- nish the "drive." Dr. Walter Kreeman. ot the Black- hiirn Laboratory, St. lOlizaheth Hos- pital, and George Washinglou Uni- versity. Washington, reported to tihe America College of Physician- • that tliey oxi)la!n the drive which makes a scientist spend 50 years studying a mouse, or the power of the orator who sways millons. TIIK ENDOCRINK This answer was found in measur- ing and wei>;i'iing Ihe endocrine, or inieriial secretion glands. <]f ;'>Ipu per- sons who dii'd at St. Klizabeth Hos- pital. They had been long time pa- tients, their personalities in life carefully rec<irded. It Is true, Dr. Kreeinan said, that miraerous personality tendencies were seen which appeared to be a - sodated with whether one or another of those gland- was e.vtra large or e.\tra small He added: "Two inipdiiant func- tions, as tar as the personality is concerned, may be safely granted to tlio endocrine system. These are eniollonal stability and energy and drive. The irritability and emotional instability seen in hyper thyroid- ism, in hyper iui ulinisni. in hyper parathyroidisni and in certain other endocrlnopalbies, are relieved by re- storing the normal endocrine bal- ance. ' "The eneigy drive is augmented to a greater or less degree by cor- recting any deficiency of tho pitui- tary, thyroid, adrenals or gonads. "Nevertheless as far as determin- ing whether an iudlvidual shall be proud, seii-dtlve, suspicious paianoid individual; or a timid, shut-in. dreamy. schizoid ierg''n; a boister- ous-, Jolly, haiifellow well-met cy- cloid; or a moody pedantic, egocen- tric opileplold individual, the endoc- rine glam'.s would seem to have little say in the matter." HEAT FOR SINUS DISEASE Warmth Is Supplied by Water Run Through Tubes in Nostrils There probably never was a time when heat was not regarded as a means of alleviating: pain. Just what occurs when a hot-water bag is ap- plied to a lame back or an aching ear is still obscure; physicians talk of stimulating the circulation, of do- ing something to cells that is still the subject of speculation. The plain fact is that heat often aids nature in achieving; her own ends. Much of what constitutes modern physiotherapy depends on the appli- cation of heat by electrical appara- tus. When a physician invokes diathermy he sends through afflict- ed tissues and organs a curn/it which has the proper characteristics and which, as it encounters internal resistance, gencatcs heat. More recently short-wave therapy has come to the foreâ€" a treatment in whicii waves shorter than those used in radio penetrate the boiiy without the use of anythitiK that touches the skill. Extraordinary results have been achieved in killing the bacteria of some virulent diseases in this way. The hot-water bottle. the electric lamp and the radiator tliat emits in- fra-red rays have no such power. Hecause there is so much guess- work about these heat treatments. Dr. William Hiernian has actually sunk thermocouples in tli? ilesh aiui thus meas'ircd the relative ef- fect of powerful incade cent and infra-red lamps. Contrary to the prcvailintJ view, he found that heat from the electric lamp pcnetrate.s more deeply than infra-red radiator when waves knows exactly. heat from the What happens diatliernial current or short penetrate tissue no one It is impossible to not penetrate far into the sinusvs. After much experimenting, he lyis devised an improvement which t^e- serve.5 the consideratioh of physi- cians who specialize in the treat- ment of diseases of the ear, throttt and nose. His modification mak«i if- possible to apply heat not oniy to the region of the bones and tip- gues aCected, but to control it au- tomatically. In the treatment of sinus diseane. tubes of purest rubber are in.^ertel into the nostril as far as the hard palate. Each tube is divided len^h- wise by a partition, and each branches from a main tube le.idi^g to a compresi ion und suction pump. The business of the pumps is to drive hot water through the systi^ of tubes in a ceaseless flow. An electric heater keeps the water zi\- tomatically at the right tempesa- ture. Valves control the pressure, which varies from one to three pounds. What we have !â- Â» sonfc- thing like the hot-water circuatory system by which house? are sorr»e- times heated. The rubber tubes aje simply heat radiators controlled by a thermostat. It is astonishing how much h-yt local tissues and bones cau stand. At first the temperature is only 112 degrees F., but every ninety seconds it is raised one de-rriJe. Usually 128 decrees can be endur»d without discomfort. Patient.-^ lie in their backs and let the hot wat§r circulate separated from the mu- cous membrane only by a thin wail of rubber. A treatment lasts froil.t fifteen to twenty minutes. The sin; uses, which lie near the mucous membrance of the nose, are bene' (ited, as they usually are when sub' jected to heat treatment. In thifV case the benefit is especially mark; ed. Undoubtedly some heat is con- ducted throueh the adjacent bone. * HEAT TREATMENT RECORDS • What actually happens is not dear in anv method of heat treatment^. But liefore-and-after X-ray pictures of 170 cases of sinus disease treatefl by this dry heat, hot water method show sometimes a complete disap- pearance of telltale shadow, some^- timcs partial clarification and only rarely no improvement at all. In his article in American MedK cino, Dr. Shorell refers to the inv- provement of hearing in case.* of chronic catarrhal deafness that fol- lows this treatment of the sinuse*. The reason may possibly be given by Dr. M. M. Collum in a paper which he read before the Americar Medical Association and which is piiblifhed in its Journal. CuUoifi presents statistical and pathological evidence of an association of sinurf disease and infection of the middle, ear. "I have the feeling that, ow- mv. to the position of the sinuses at the top of the respiratory tract, they are a menace to all lower-lying structures." he ventures. Drainage from infected sinuses contaminates everything it reaches. Tlie conclusion is drawn that ear infections, which may result ir acute or chronic catarrhal deafness, mav be treated by way of the sinuses with good results. Dr. Cul- lom is apparently in favor of opera tions of some sort. Dr. Shorell re- lies on his modified heat treatment and pre.-ients his case records to sup- port his stand. measure temperatures in electrical- ly heated tissues because the meas- uring apparatus itself is atfected. .Ml this is of moment in consider- ing the work that Dr. I. Daniel Shorell of New York describes in .\mevican Medicine. He is a spe- cialist in the treatment of diseases of the ear, nose and throat, and sinuses attract his attention. Like others in his field he recognizes the benefits of heat treatment. Also he sees that the heat radiate*! by lamps and sources of infra-red rays can- Your Non-Stop Endurance Test British Farmers In Tithe Protest No man has ever constructed such a marvelous, complicated piece ot mach nery m nature has put inside ot his body. No watch Is more deli- cately adjusted each part depend- ent on the other. Quite unknown to you, most oC the time that amaiiug machine of yours is making Its own repairs.^ Minor adjustments are automatically made. Sometimes, though, outside help is needed Jielp from a com- petent man or a surgeon. Machines that have been run a long time without in pection, especl- ally those more than forty years old, deserve to have a thorough inspec- tion at least once a year. O've that maii'ilne of yours an opportunity to oontinue faithful service. Kind out If it needs repairing or tun'ng up. Beating Disease Mule spinners' cancer which has for generations been the dread ot lyiincashire cotton sikinners ha.; at last been conquered. Its cause has beeu traced to the spinner's contact with certain lubricating oils rs he leans over i!iis machine, and an ef- fective preventive consist; of smear- ing over tibe exposed parts of the body with lanolin and olive oil be- fore and after work. During the last tew years thousands of exper ments have been conducted by Dr. Twort,, head of the Cancer Research De- partment at Manchester University, and his brotiher. Mr. J. M. Twort. of the .Manclieater Cancel Comirelttee, with a view to discovering lubrica- ting oiV-t which may safely he used on the spinning machines, and the evidence to date points the ftnget of suspicion at the iieavyoil engines as the greatest offenders. .Mine than 11(11 laiii'cis |M-iiti-stiiig ayaiiist tlie lithe collei-tions, "tjui'en .-Viine's bounty," i burned el'fijiies of tho .•\rciib|,hop o" Canterbury in ilerical garb and (Jiieen .'\nne, during a deirion- i stvation at Asliford, Kent, England. The protest was staged after lack of bidding had prevented the auction of nine dairy cows seized in mi effort to collect more than $800 in tithe arrears for the Kulestiastical ('omniissioners. Tlie aliova photo shows tho effigies being carried to the scene of I the^oii fire. I To be cussed seems to t.o the na- ! tiiral state ot man. Kven the rural [ mail carrier is more cu8.;ed for th« s ngle trip he misses on a stormy (lay tbun he is ble sed for sll the .♦.riPs he makes right on time.