The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-19
ATTA|NS
AN EQUAL GROUND
AS Great a Destroyer of HUI
man Life as tuberculosis
1t is Growing.

London. May 1a.-.The time has
no." arrived when the attention of the
public must be directed to the fact
that cancer is at the point of over
,aklng consumption. statistically, as a
hrlnger of death to English men and
women"
Ihis statement occurs in a summary
OF mortality statistics from 1851 to
1910. just issued by the Society for the
Relief and Prevention of Cancer. The
object of the report is to furnish for
the of the public the es-
Sentlal statistics of the cancer prob
lem in England and Wales.
The compiler says: The public has
long been familiar with the numerical
gravity of the white scourge, but that
maladE. now SO we'll in hand. pales in
to inslgniflcance beside the new terror
raat has arisen. There is little rash
ness in prophesying that within live
Years cancer will have oustripped it's
rival and will have a heavier death
moreover, is a dying and conquered
zoe: the other shows a prime vitality
and rides %roughshod over the whole
realm of medical ingenuity. Yet the
pubic has campaigners galore against
consumption. hut its war against can
Ger has been left practically to a sin
gle imperial committee"
The annual death roll from cancer
in the United Kingdom during the
sixty years covered by the survey. of
this committee has increased from
1885 (497 a million) to ABBA (96O
a million). In other words the per-
centage has more than doubled.
Although nothing has as yet been
definitely arranged. it is very certain
that the Prince OF Wales, who has
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many, will before long start on a tour
OF the Dominions and Colonies. Cam
ada in all likelihood will be the first
Dominion visited and when there it il
possible that the prince. like his
grandfather fi~fty-three years ago, will
have a look atA,nerica.
The prince will finish his university
present year. He will then be given
a commission in the Grenadier
Guards. Whether he will actually
serve with the Guards is not known
yet. but if he does it will only be for
a short time. If nothing happens to
Intervene. he will be free to start on
his tour of the Dominions in the
spring of 1914.
Alexander Irving. an experienc
rubber grower of the Malay state.
will soon sail for Brazil in charge of a
party of rubber tappers who will teach
the natives the methods of tapping in
vogue in Ceylon and the Federated
Malay states. 1t is expected hat by
the use Of his method the output in
Brazil will be increased five fold.
Many thousands of tapping knives al
ready have been shipped to Para, ana
the Brazilian government is prepared
to spend S250,000 to instruct the ma
tives in the rubber country in this
very efficient system of tapping.
In the meantime rubber prices con-
tinue to tumble in the London mar
ket, and Is cents a pound is now De-
ing offered for the quality which
brought three dollars during the great
boom Of 1910. The output is rapidly
expanding and rubber brokers are
wondering how low the price will go
II thu promised five fold increase In
Brazil materializes.
Lord Claud Hamilton. who was
elected to parliament before either
Disraeli, or Gladstane became prime
minister. and is thus the last link with
the house Of commons as 1t was IN
the days OF the Palmerston, Russell
and Derby administrations, has de-
cided to retire at the next general
election.
Lord Claud. second son of the first
Duke Of A%bercorn. was elected a
member Of parliament for London
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