Citizens Say—

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 399, 6 July 1928, Page 7

Citizens Say —

(To the Editor.)

THE PARNELL SEAT Sir,— In your list of Labour candidates published in yesterday’s issue, you omitted my name as the selected Labour candidate for Parnell. Will you kindly note it is still the intention of our party to contest this seat and that I am the official candidate. J. W. YARN ALL. A HERMITS QUESTION Sir, The present dark picture of unemployment with its resultant distress and crime, makes me wonder how our wild, savage ancestors, the cavemen, contrived to hold their own in their grim, desperate struggle for existence, having no tools, no machines and only their bare hands and rude weapons of wood and stone to help them in their long war against the savage beasts that surrounded and outnumbered them; but they won through. How they did it seems a baffling mystery. But that they were able to produce a surplus, and to mate and rear children is proved by the existence of the race which now rules the earth. Can anyone explain 'why the slave-men of to-day, abundantly equipped with all kinds of tools and machines that enable a few workers in a few hours to produce what would have taken hundreds of cavemen years of labour to produce, are out of work and in unfortunate circumstances? WILLIAM PERRY (The Hermit of Great Barrier). THE CURE OF CANCER Sir, — Among the list of decisions quoted in The Sun—as being given by the medical staff of the Auckland Hospital and having reference to the offer made by Mr. Field to demonstrate a discovery which he stated he had made for the cure of cancer, it states that it “would support warmly any offer which it believes would tend to arrest the progress of,, or to cure, cancer.” Several times in recent years the Medical Association has been asked to try out an important electrical treatment in the Auckland Hospital, which has been and is giving very remarkably beneficial results in London and the large provincial centres in the United Kingdom. In commenting on tne results obtained by this treatment under the capable management of many eminent physicians in the Old Country, who had previously only used orthodox methods, the London “Sphere’' stated that it was Curing “otherwise hopeless disease,” and an article published by London “Truth,” in referring to the same treatment as applied to cancer in comparison with surgical operation, stated that it was doubtful whether operation was ever justifie.d, unless this special treatment had first been given a fair trial. Yet, in spite of these facts, which are well known to the medical profession in Auckland, they not vnly refuse to test this treatment in the Auckland Hospital for cases wl\lch have proved hopeless when orthodox methods have been applied—a treatment which has yielded such remarkable results in England and other countries—but as emphasising thfeir determination to prevent patients receiving its benefits, one of the rules of this association is that no member shall be allowed to practise it.

The following, which is an extract from a recent medical work published in England, is perhaps one of the least remarkable cases, quoted of cure of cancer by this treatment, but I have 'fchosen this report on account of its brevity and absence of technical terms: “Female, aged 43. Right breast removed 18 months previous to my first seeing her. Recurrence in chest wail of about 10 or 15 nodules in the skin. Inoperable. General condition: Depressed, anaemic and weak. Was under treatment from April 24 to May 10, 1922, and again later for a week from September 11 to September 37. 1923. All the nodules disappeared, her health improved enormously and she has been continuously well ever since up to the present date. (Some*time in 1925.) She has had no further sign of recurrence of any sort whatsoever, and every time she has been seen she has expressed herself as perfectly well while her appearance has been one of perfect health.” This case alone, and hundreds of others can be quoted, is quite sufficient effectively to refute Dr. Sweet’s statement that it is only possible to cure cancer by means of excision, Xray or radium treatment. In view of the successful application of this treatment as practised by fully qualified medical men in England, Dr. Milsom’s statement that the British Medical Association and the medical profession generally “were only too anxious to investigate any treatment that would be likely to cure cancer” cannot be logically accepted as sincere. LUX. MEN’S SHELTER, 49 PARNELL RD. Sir.— May I ask you to allow me to thank the people of Auckland for their very generous response to our appeal on behalf of the destitute and homeless men? The shelter was opened last Monday, and its great need has been proved by the fact that upwards of 200 beds have already been occupied. Besides providing the men with shelter, we have been able to gtse those who needed It a complete change of new, warm underclothing, and every night supper is provided, while hot coffee is given to them before they leave in the early morning. No charge of any kind is made, it being understood that any who can pay must not avail themselves of the shelter. A number of very pathetic cases has been received, among them boys of 19 and 20. and old men verging on threescore years and ten. or over. The people of Auckland will feel happy in the knowledge that there is now no necessity for any man to sleep out during the cold of winter. The shelter, besides providing clean and comfortable beds, is for the time being a home for many men who have suffered the hardships of unemployment, and our hope is to give them a new incentive to fight on. The right hand of fellowship, and a little practical sympathy, goes far in giving them a fresh start. We shall be pleased to welcome any of your readers who would care to come and see the shelter. Thanking you for your kindly interest, and the public for its support. * CANON C. H. 'GRAXT-COWEX. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS ‘‘Reconciliation.”—Will you recast your letter? Tour last sentence is rather tangled and we cannot make head or tail of it.—Ed., The Sun.