AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[llY TELEGRAPH —ri:ti PRESS ASSOCIATION.] FOOT AND MOFTH DISEASE NEYY YOBK. March 7. New outbreaks of foot and mouth disease have alarmed herdsmen throughout Calitornia. Forty ot the best dairy herds have already been slaughtered. Canada has declared the ahosiilute prohibiten of > attic Iroin the l,"nitod States owing to the outbreak. DENTAL DISCOVERY. NEYY Y'OBK, March ti. The discovery Inis just been announced ot a new corrective treatment for pyorrhea, credit for which goes to Doctor Harold Cox, Professor at the Royal College in the Fnivrsity of Toronto. where lie is about to lie publicly homed by the Government. Cox's treatment is praised m umiualiiicd terms by Forbes Gudtroy. Provincial Minsiter of Health who declares me discovers i- important in tin* dental field as Banting’s insulin is in the medical. ('ox’s process mu use vnecine or uuKluiiu*, but is simply it piitli-o-logical theory, which ha- hitherto been unproved. Cox shows pyorrhea originates in the membraneous lining of the gums by the loosening of some loom socket's sufficiently to admit lnyrobiwhich cause a traumatic occlusion, due to unequal pressure on the teeth. Ihe Cnx process checks this condition and grows new bone, thus preventing the lodgment of microbes. A TGI.KRA.NT STATEMENT. XFAY YORK, March (I. A tolerant statement to-nighi by ten Episcopal Ministers of divergent thenlogical opinions blew a breath ”1 li'esh air into the overheated fundamentalist controversy. The statement is the result. of an informal amicable discussion among the signers who declare: "I he facts whreon Christian faith is based have stood tlie test of centuries, therefore we are more ready to recognise the rights of .scholars to the widest freedom of thought and inquiry in the field of Bibliean theological research. This may lie termed evil, but it is less crave than foreclosing an inquiry by invoking a method of authority. Faith is not a more act. of intellect. Its value depends upon the extent to which it becomes the basis of our daily |j v jng. YVe believe that men’s minds move in divergent intellectual orbits, vet feel between themselves a mighty central attraction of some divine pn'Aei which binds us all invNubfy together.”

MINE DISASTER. 175 DEATHS FEARED. VANCOUVER. March. 8. \ message from Ca.xtlegate, in l lab, states that it is feared that 1/5 miners who were entombed through an explosion. are (lead. The entrance to the workings is obstructed. and the rescuers are unable determine where the first bla-t occurred. '