Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-03-06
Worlds News

Victoria, b. c., decided at meeting
here to begin a $4,000 advertising
campaign in March which will end in
August. Full-page advertisements are
to be carried In Arizona, California,
Eastern Washington, Idaho and Ore
gon newspapers, the association de-
cided.
NEW YORK. - tuberculosis and
sleeping sickness have so taken hold
in Central Africa that the health com.
mittee Of the League OF Nations has
undertaken study Of these diseases
as they manifest themselves in the
tropics. These facts are announced
in report to be filed with the Coun-
Gil OF the League, copy Of which has
just reached this country. 1t seems
that tuberculosis is a direct curse OF
civilization to Central Africa and the
black man, because there was little
or none of it before the coming OF the
white man. Sleeping sickness, which
used to be confined to small and def
mite localities, has been spread very
rapidly by the increasing means OF
travel and communication which civil.
ization has brought.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of the fed
eral arbitration bill providing settle
ment Of commercial disputes outside
OF legal channels was urged in re,
port adopted unanimously by the Ma,
tional Food Brokers Association,
Meeting here in conjunction with the
National Gamers Association conyen,
ton. The bill is expected to come
before the United States Senate at
the next general session.
NEW YORK.-John d. Rockefeller,
Jr, contributed 100000 to the build
ing fund of the Cathedral of st. John
the Divine, announces Bishop Man
ming. This is the largest donation the
fund has received. OF this amount
$4,000 will go toward the fund being
raised by the business mems division
to build the west front Of the big edi-
flee. The business men have agreed
to raise $2,50O,O00 for this purpose.
The rest of Rockefeller's gift will go
into the general building fund.
CHICAGO. - The present mild
weather constitutes threat to the
winter wheat crop, according to farm
implement men who attended a divi-
sional meeting of the National Farm
Equipment Manufacturers Association
here recently. should the snow and
ice melt into sheet OF water and
then freeze the wreat crop might be
sealed up for weeks they said. Win
ter wheat farmers in Indiana, Illinois
and Ohio have been working to break
the ice to save the wheat, according
to Frank c. Johnson Of Springfield,
Ohio, and now face the fear of thaw
followed by another freeze.
Observation-Disclosures of rail steel
for reinforcing bars is expected to
shatter all previous records during the
present year. A survey just com,
pleted by the Rail Steel Products AS
ISOLATION shows that most mills are
running at capacity to meet the de-
mand.
NEW YORK.-A commission to
study cancer to consist Of information
al medicine authorities has been ap-
pointed by the health committee OF
the League of Nations. The commits
sion will consist Of Sir George Blu
chanan as chairman, and DR.. Lutrarie,
an Italian; DR.. Jitta of the Neither
lands, Professor Leon Bernard and
DR., Carriere of France. The first work
of the commission will be comparl,
son of the statistics of Great Britain,
Italy and the Netherlands relating
to the cause of the difference shown
to exist between the cancer mortality
of these countries. The cancer com.
mission was further empowered to
extend its Investigations into the cpl
technology of cancer in general as far
as circumstances will permit. So far
European medical authorities have
discovered that there Is more cancer
In England than in Italy and tina.
there seems 10 be an inverse relation
between cancer and birth rate. This
hypothesis seems to be borne out by
the fact that In the United States
women of italian birth, according to
DR.. Eichel, have more children and
less cancer than women from the
British Isles.
SCRANTON, Pa.-The entire fam
ily of Louis Desino, including himself
his wife and four small children, was