AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

Cl'll ATIVK POWER OK INSCI.IN. [II E UT EILS T EL ECnA M 3. J (Koceiral this day at 10.20 a. in.) OTTAWA, August 111. haW doses of insulin do not necessarily exert proportionately greater curative power, mronling to tin* results of i'X| enment.s ra!ric;l out l<v C. 11. Dost and K. (!. Smith, as report-i-d to tin- Driti.sh Association Conference at Toronto. Working with both normal and dialictic dogs. they tound t.iat ;i small dose of insulin <>l ten units may exert as rapid and sustained elicet upon the Mood and sugar in a normal doe as a. dose ten times greater. Doctor K. Aid illon, of Ohm I'iiiversite, declared Ins lesearclies ili-iTowd that in healthy indft idiial> sugar in the Mood caused the ] onerous t<i di.siTinrgo insulin into the Mood. In diai holies this sugar accumulates and in- * creases. '1 he prohlcm is to find what causes the panerea.s to liberate insulin in healthy animals. I'M TV OF THE K.MI'IHK. OTTAWA. August 12. Interviewed at Mnutjcal. Sir Evelyn Cecil, a Britisher ('oiiiiiioner, said the utmost sympathy "'as telt in all quartet's in Britain v.ith (.'amnia's efforts towards the solution nl the problem of tjiaintaining the unity ol the Hu]>ire together with the complete liheiiv of individuals in the Dominions. I here need he no fear that anyone in the Old Country would resent Canada’s action in raising the ticklish questions as to the signing of the treaties and the extent to which tliise are hinding on the Dominions; or that anyone there thought Canada "as needlessly creating trouble. On the contrary, lie thought the general feeling was that these <|uestions had to he raised sooner or later and Canada simply had hcen the (irst to tackle an awkward problem.

WORK AND WADES. OTTAWA. August 12. Addressing the Economic .section of the Toronto Science Congress, .1. I!. Commons, of the Kdiversity of Wisconsin, said that unemployment insurance had reached its limit. It was ielt that the recent and vivid experience of unemployment had directed .many leaders of labour and businessmen to the importance of either smoothing out the curve of unemployment or smoothing out the curve of daily wages. The two problems that were thought to be different were related. SIKI OUTCLASSED. NEW YOKE, August .12. At Buffalo, Homer Smitli. of Michigan, outclassed Si Is i. in a ten rounds bout. DESTROY KISS COM.IDE. VANCOI'YE!!, Aug. 12. A message from Dreinerslnn. Washington State, reports the destroyer.Di.tehlield and Eaenbolt of United States battle fleet collided during inaiioeiivres ami wirelessed that they were putting in for repairs.