AMERICAN CARLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1927, Page 3

AMERICAN CARLE NEWS

(Australian «fe N.Z. Cable Association.] FURTHER FLOOD DAMAGE. (Received this day at 8.50 q.m.) NEW YORK. A lay 17. New Orleans reports another barrier against the floods collapsed, marooning fivo hundred inhabitants of Morville. The victims rushed to the top of the levees anil awaited rescue. A relief train loaded with food and twenty boats is being run through the water towards the town. It will proceed as far as possible on the track, after which boats will be unloaded to rescue the sufferers. The railroad cm- 1 bnnkmont n’t Mervillo is also crowded with automobiles and household goods for refugees. Boats are being sent in many directions across the flooded sugar bowl lands to rescue townspeople. Mr Coolidge announces no intention of calling an extra, session of Congress to deal with the flood situation, believing the work of rescue, and reconstruction is proceeding with sufficient impetus to care for all necessities.

CANADA'S liMMIGRANTS. OTTAWA. May 17

The Immigration Department announces that Central European immigrants are coming to Canada on the understanding that they will work on western farms, where labour is badly needed. They will bo compelled to live up to the understanding in future, or be returned. Advices received by tho Department indicate that a large number of such immigrants refused to work on farming areas and many are unemployed in the western cities whither Central Europeans are brought by railway companies for specific farm work. It is estimated one thousand of these unemployed are at Calgary alone. Many are also idle in Winnipeg. The men ask for construction work on buildings and railways rather than leave the cities.

PRESIDENT AT M.KDICAI CONFERENCE.

WASHINGTON. May 17

President Coolidge, addressing tho annual session of the American Medical Association, declared that early in the nineteenth century there were-only three medical schools and two general hospitals in the United States. Ho outlined the rapid progress since, particularly in the past half-century, stressing the development of the Federal, State and Municipal health organisations.

The President said in part: “The human race is by no means young. It lias reached a state of maturity, ft is the inheritor of a very wide experience. It has located a great many fixed stars in the firmament and it is the truth no doubt that a multitude of others await revelation by a more extended research. Somewhere in human nature there is still a structural weakness. We do not do so well as we know we should. We make many constitutions inact, many laws laying out the course of action providing method of relationship one with another which, theoretically are above criticism, but they do not come into full observance and effect.

“Society is still afflicted with crime and among nations there are still wars and rumours of wars. What part the physician will play in the further advancement of the well-being of the world is an interesting speculation. Ko one can doubt that if humanity could Ire brought to a state of physical well being, many of our social problems would disappear.’’