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\\''cdnesday, Si'i>tciiihcr 8, 1937 THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE SNKe THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE Published on CoUinywood Street, F'.esherton, Wednesday of each week. Circulation over 1000, Price in Canada |2.00 per yew, when paid in advance II-rO; in U. S. A. |2. per year, when paid in advance (2.00. W. H. THURSTON, Editor. P. I THURSTON, Associate Editor The Vagabond Farmer S. S- ijuilcene, lU-twefn British Columbia and Washington Slate (By Alex. Sim) Sometime, somewhere this after- noon on board tht- Quilciii*; we crossed the International boundary line at a point many miles below the 49th par- allel. At the moment of the crossinsr our Trans-Canada trip comes to a close. The re.st is anti-climax, a three thousand mile dash across our sister nation back to Ontario. At the Immigration Office we had to give our race. 1 said Canadian.. There is no such thing a.s a Canadian race, I was told, there i.s a Canadian na- tionality, but no race. What extrac- tion are your parents, I was asked. I said Iri.sh and Scotch, so he wrote down English. .Neither point was worth an arRumont, the latter poss- ibly did violence to the rest of my ancestors. The former, about rec- ognition of a Canadian race, is a problem to which my generation must soon address it.telf. Since last week we haVf covered less than one hundred miles. \Vij •pent eight days in Vancouver with our little tent on the Spanish OanKs for headquarters. We finally sailed from there to Vancouver Island with Floradora and all our possessions. Landing at Nanaimo we drove leisure- ly southward to Canada's westerniost ' provincial capital, Victoria. Today We left Victoria and Canada, our next letter wil •onm from Ilolstein. While it will take something less than a fortnight's furious driving for us to pilot Flora, the F"ord, back t« the garage. This letter, po.sted by air mail at Seattle tonight, will arrive jn Toronto within fifteen hours, at a co.st of six cents. F'rior to 188.') there was no railway to our coast, and the journny we can make nonchalantly in fifteen hours today, wa« u feiit ac- complished by none but the nM)st hardy. In a decade Canada, the great sprawling wasU. of lan<i and water, will have been drawn by air service into an area smaller than Kngland rrf 188."), if ealculaleil in travel-hours. What this will mean to thi- realijsntion of Canadian unity no one can »ay. A Kinht Little, Tight Little Island A Canadian may step otf his coimi- try to the right of C'ape Breton, to the left of Vancouver Island in order to contemplate the Dominion objectively. Writing from Baddeck, Cape Breton, about eight weeks ago, you recall my He'<cription of that i.sland, its insular- iey, its f(H'liM»r of aloofness from ii« poor land-locked Ciuiadiaiis. Vancou- Te*- Island has the same alonfness, kho same insularity; it, Hto, has lum- ber, minerals, fish; rathur than Cape Brecon Gaelic, you finJ her« a peculiar type of Rnglishman. The l.vpe who leaves home to esca|)e income tft«, and British weather, he eomes hrn- to spend as little as possible, to live as long as poasibje, but ultimately to die. It is. a young man told nie, an EngliMhman's gravufard. Victoria. he said, has the highest death rate in the world. Which you may beliwve if you wish. Taken as a whole, the island is dif- ferent. Rich in natural resources, rich mines, f4i-tile soil, ^riant trees. waters leemin^r svith fish. Most oT its goods are exported; it imports mo.st of the foodstuffs with lh<' exception of truck. ks streets arc narrow, the English' actH^it is pro- rfomiaant, the people are settled with no desire for change. One youth said he had never been off the island, and never hop<?d to be. The worlil's best little island. \That a eonliast to fchp mainland of British Cohimhia! »<id the Prairies! There the stre !« arc wide; non Anglo-Saxons pri'doin- tnate, fiOy per cent, in Manitobji; tho lieoplc are not deeply rooted, t^e..- will move in a day if something better shows up. As We saw in Saskatch- ewan, where th« people are being so taarically expatriated. But do not mistake the Island for ••me dreamy Valhalla, peopled by de- ceased Englismen. We went inland .0 see the logging operations where ifiant trees are felled and carried to (he sea in trucks carrying over lO.OUU .'eet in a load with logs over 100 feot long. We rode into seemingly im- penetrable jungles On 100 horsepower â- alerpillars, to drag the logs out to he open. At the sea the logs were oadi-d on ships bound for New Zea- aiid and Japan. Here the Twain Shall Meet Kipling was wrong, the Ea.'.t and West must meet, they are meeting. Phe British Columbia coast stirs a 'Man's soul. Land of opportunity, ,'ateway to the Farther Wast. Here he ships of two score nations ply our waters. We hare a market in the millions of the Orient. Here is a future for Canada; to develop trade in .Asia, to cultivate friendship among potential enemies. In Vancouver there is a great !)riental population, Chinese and Jap- anese. They have their own daily papers, churches, fraternal societies. On occasions, when their native lands were at war, there has been trouble. Finally, their leaders met and decided to live agreeably together in Canada. It is the genius of Canada to find a place for every race within it. First with the Indians, then the French, then with the Continental Europeans ."Vow the Oriental. Yet we refuse these indi^jtrious and loyal races a vote. Unless we place a trust in them, how can we exact a ful neasure of loyalty in return. Among Those Not Mentioned The difficulty in writing these let- ters is not to find material to write about, but to decide what to leave out. So we must leare unmentioncd the fishing fleet, the canning factory, our fish dinners, that bowl of clam chow- der, an enjoyable day at the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, where British children are brought from the slums to be trained for Canadian farm life, and I haven't a line for salt water bathing, or moun- tain climbing, or how we washed Man- itoba mud off Flora. Flora, being the Ford, it was her first bath, and she looked beautiful. My next letter will be written from Holstein, but it may not appear in the next issue. Between then and now we are citizens of Canada, without race, in transit in the United States of America. Ship Your Livestock to DUNN & LEVACK LIMITED Canada's Leading Livestock Salesmen ESTABLISHED 1893 UNION STOCK YARDS â€" TORONTO Nowadays when strikers quit work they work harder than if they were working, keeping other workers from going to work. Victoria county mother of triplets distinguishes them by the niunber of freckles on their faces. Naturally they are easily spotted in that way. BARGAIN FARES SEPTEMBER 18 TO ; BUFFALO $3.90 CHATHAM $5.30 FORT WILLIAM $18.00 HAMILTON $2.50 SMITHS FALLS $5.M .TORONTO $1.70 Similar low fares to Helleville, f'obourg, Dunavllle, Cult, I,ondon, (>«haw,i. Parry Soiuid, Potcrboro, Shnrhot Lake, Smithville, Sud- bury, Twee<l, Welland, Woodstock Return limit up to Sept. 2ft Con.iult Ag«?its - Ask for Handbill Canadian Pacific ONTARIO fr The Ontario Department of Health Presents a Statement by The Academy of Medicine^ Toronto^ on INFANTILE PARALYSIS (POLIOMYELITIS) Realizing the anxiety which exists in the puhlic mind today with respect to the increased prevalence of Poliomyelitis ("Infantile Paralysis") in Toronto and other parts of the province, the Academy of Medicine of Toronto, which represents more than one thousand physicians, called a special meeting of its Council, September 1st, to review the whole situation. To this meeting were invited representatives from all departments of medicine interested in this subject. At the conclusion of the conference, during which time all of the pertinent facts of the present situation were presented and discussed, it was felt that, in fairness to the public, an official statement should be made to set forth the facts exactly as they exist. To this end, a committee was appointed to prepare and issue an ofTiciai statement, which follows; y \ !>^ Pt)lioinyflitis ("Infantile Paralysis") is a communicable disease. It is dctinitcly known that it is caused by the entrance into the b*)dy of a minute form of life known as a virus. It is known also that this virus enters commonly through the upper part of the nasal tract. There is no evidence that the disease is con- veyed by flies or domestic animals. When an outbreak of the disease occurs, healthy persons as well as those ill with the disease are found tt) harbour the virus in the secretiorw of the nose and throat. The disease is, there- fore, spread through the contact of persons one with another. Usually the virus occasions only a mild illness but some- tinu'S the virus enters the central nervous system, which may result in paralysis. The majority of adults are not susceptible to the disease. Pr<>8cut Siliialiou While the number of cases reported in Toronto is greater than in any previous outbreak of this disease, and there is no reason to presume that the incidence rate is likely to decline within the next two or three weeks, it must he borne in mind that not 25'/f of these eases show any evidence whatever of paralysis. Furthermore, among those dcveJoping paralysis, the majority eventindly will recover complete use of their paralysed limbs. It would appear, therefore, that while there is every reason for the puhlic to view the, present situation with concern, there is no justitication for uncluc alarm or hysterical behaviour. According to figures computed by the Deparmicnt of Health, Ontario, to date, there are estimated to be 750 cases in Ontario, of which 285 have occurred in the City of Toronto. Of this number, 212 cases have been admitted te the Riverdale Isolation Hospital, only 54 of whom developed some degree of |)«ralysi$. There were 1 1 deaths in this grouip. Statistics of a tiimilar nature apply to the Hospital for Sick Qiildren, which has received its cases not only from Toronto but from ocher parts of the province. Control Measures These include the strict isolacion of all persons ill with the disease and the quarantine of those who nave been in imme- diate contact. In as much as it is not known who are or are not carriers of this disease, it is advisable to reduce to a niinimum, contact with other people. In other words, keep out of crowds. As children are particularly susceptible, it is most important that they be kept as far as possible from mingling with other per- sons. For this reason, the opening of the schools of Toronto has been deferred and the Department of Health of the Pro- viiKe of Ontario has recommended to parents that they see to it that their children avoid attendance at theatres, playgrounds, bathing pcnils and beaches and other places of amusement where -.hildren congregate. The Academy agrees with the pro- vincial and municipal health authorities that the responsibility for the control of the activities of children is primarilv the :luty of the parents. The Department of Health of Ontatio has completed within its own organization plans whereby serum for the treatment of this disease is available in any part of the province upon the request of the attending physician. Nusal Spray Experimental work with animals indicates that Poliomyelitis can be prevented by spraying the extreme upper part of the inside of the nose with a harmless solution of zinc sulphate. This was discovered during the past year. To date, its value in the prevention of Poliomyelitis in humans is not known. To be in any degree effective, the spray must be applied high up inside the nose. This can only be done with a specially con- structed atomizer and by a physician thoroughly familiar with this type of work. The application of this or any other spray by an ordinary atomizer or to the lower part of the nose is quite useless. The possible value of the nasal spray properly administered is being determined at the present time in Toronto. The Council of the Academv of Medicine of Toronto endorses the attitude adopted by the provincial Department of Health and the local Board of Health in respect to measures deigned to control the psesent lituation. We would respect- fully tugsest that the general public will best serve its own interests Dv endeavoring to follow the advice which is being given by cnese health authorities. '**..Jifc%WBS: PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE TORONTO A-i 4l. *l