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"NOT ANOTHER
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1937.
1914"
MR. BROWN
"Too many members of the Government served overseas in the last war to commit this country to any courte which would lead our boys into another conflict like that of 1914-18 without imperative necessity," declared Mr. Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour, speaking at Coupar, last month.
Spals had
"It is not our duty, to use this country in pursuing the policy strong language about the forms of non-intervention In of government adopted by other committed the search for a solution countries," he said.
Indeed, 11 would be true to say that one of the elements of unrest in the international sphere to-day is unbridled language about the heads
of other States by men who boast that they are Left-Wing lovers of peace.
to the Government of thin enuntry.
SUBSTITUTE
FOR RADIUM
"Bellicosity of pacifists is becoming TO FIGHT
aby-word.
"OUR DUTY"
It was our duty, however, to main- CANCER
Inin our own view that democratic institutions and Parliamentary gov~ ernment were both the best and the
most dificult forms in the art of Lovernment,
It was of great significance that during the present week-end, the other nations who were engaged with
O. B. E. FOR
DRIVER ON TRAIN
(yer Krieghbaum)
Washington. Possibility of treating ordinary chemicals so they might be used in place of radium on dificult cancer Dr. Karl cases was disclosed by Compton, president of the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology.
In a letter presented at the joint And House session of the Senate commerce committees, Dr. Compton supported pending propusals for ap- propriating $1,000,000 annually for cancer research because Variety of new and interesting possibilities should be investigated.
*
As an example of one of these pos
cited that re-
MR. TOM CLARKE driver cent advances in physics had made it of the LMS. Coronation possible to induce radio-activity in Scot during its trial run when 52 of the 92 known elements. It is it reached a speed of 114 m.p.h. the radio-activity of radium that useful in the brought the royal train from makes it especially
treatment of cancer cases.
Under this
doctors might
Edinburgh into Euston, and,
possibility, wiping his hands and giving his give their patients suffering from cancer a specially treated chemical which would go direct to the disease: area and thus be comparable to send- ing a tiny bit of radium direct unto the cancer tissue.
ARRESTED? - Sigismund Lev- anevsky, Soviet Arctic Aler. rumored under arrest in Mos- cow in the new Soviet purge. The rumor arose when he was mysteriously absent from a re- ception for Dr. Otto J. Schmidt. who returned from the Russian North Polo air base, recently.
"It is therefore desirable to laves- tigate the
multitude of possibilities for using these artificial radio-elive materials for medical purposes gener- ally, and particularly for treatment of cancer," Dr. Compton wrote.
He said that these radio-active chemicals become normal again after several minutes or months, depend- ing on the chemical involved.
1ODINE
Iodine, for example, may be made
"Irelative ense' radioactive with
Dr. Curopton said. He explained that when radionetive Iodine was sprink- led on food and eaten 90 per cent, ut it found its way to the thyroid rland within an hour or two. Thus Was de. the radioactive substance livered by the blund direct to the specie organ.
Further study of the routing of these chemicals by the blood system may make it possible to get a radio- active sustance into the cancerous region, a feat not now possible be- cause radium is used externally and In the digestive tract.
Dr. Compton said that generally he believed it to be "doubtful policy" to appropriate funds in the "blind of money will
hope that the spenyes in a tick
accomplish the boots a polish with a piece of like this, but he said that recent cloth, hurried to the King's com-advances in Physics had opened up partment.
so many new fields to be investigated There he received the medal of that such funds would now be worth-
while. the Order of the British Empire from His Majesty.
Dr. Compton's letter was a high light of an all day session at which Inore than a dozen cancer experts urged Congress to report favourably
Clarke had changed into clean overalls during the last few miles of the run while his assistant driver bitt sponsored by Sen. Homer Bone, attended to the train.
D.. Ore., which provides for a $1,000,- The King asked Clarke if creating 000 appropriation annually. In the records and had any nerve-strain House Rep, Maury Maverick, D., effect and he replied: ""It is so inter-Tex., is sponsoring a bill calling for esting and you are so fully occupied a $2,400,000 appropriation of a feder that you have no time to think about al cuncer centre and a $1,000,000 an- your nerves, sir."
nually appropriation thereafter.
"What was the fustest speed you Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon gen- did to-day?" asked the Queen.
eral of the U. S. Public Health ser 52 miles an hour," Clark replied. vice, told the committee members The King smiling at the Queen's that more than 400,000 in the United questioning, glanced at the Princesses States had cancer to-day, that can- commented: "I suppose my cer is the second most frequent cause daughters are disappointed that you of death and that, cancer has received did not do over 114 and set up a new "comparatively little attention" from record."
health officials-United Press.
EARL'S DEATH THREE MONTHS AFTER WIFE
G
RIEF-STRICKEN ever since the death of his wife three months ago, the Earl of Wemyss and March, father of Lady Cynthia Asquith, died in his sleep at his home, Gosford House, Longniddry, near North Ber- wick recently.
The car was aged 79. Lady; cottage on the shores of the Firth of
Forth. Wemyss, who before her mar-
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Before Charles Adeane, and Pameln, wife Lordore he succeeded to the title Wemyss was prominent In of the lato Viscount Grey of Fallodon, politics. From 1883 to 1885 as Lord The earl, who was the 11th holder Elcho he was M.P. for Haddington, of the title, was in poor health when and from 1880 to 1895 represented
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