a a ee - the _ Liberals — ; bemg- . gress against the atomic bomb, for STARVATION DIET FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1958 | ‘Continued OTTAWA The fact is that the Diefen- baker government is party to the NATO decisions to con- tinue to “negotiate from strength”, that is, to continue the arms race and the cold war and to plant missile bases in Westérn Europe :— and possibly in Canada too. On the one hand — talk of negotiations. On the other — same suicidal foreign policy which has plunged this country into the mortal dan- ger by making it a base for the US. military. Double-talk endangers lives and increases world tensions instead of relieving them. It must be replaced with a frank and realistic appraisal of Canada’s position. Such an appraisal would show the ur- gent need to break with the Dulles policy and to. liberate this ocuntry from the domi- nation over its military and foreign policy now exercised by the U.S. with the-active connivance of the Tory gov- ernment — and which the now posing as peacemakers, brought into The labor movement is far too quiet on this central is- sue. The founding convention of the Canadian Labor Con- took a_ strong stand the recognition of China and ' Minister trade with the socialist” coun- tries. z These resolutions should be taken out of the mothballs and put into practice. Nothing would compel the Diefenbaker governmént to listen to the public demand for new peace policies more than a campaign by labor. It can -be done, and it will be done, if the labor move- ment. sets an example of popular pressure upon the government and all members of parliament. Continued THREAT no cases of plutonium poison- ing either in Britain or the U:S. “The assurance that a crash- ed bomber carrying a hydro- gen bomb would not result in thermonuclear explosion,” they conclude, “should not be taken to mean that such a crash would be of minor im- portance. It could be a great, if localized, disaster whose ef- fects. would be felt for many years.” (In Britain, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan tried to calm public fears over “bomb- ed up”, Yankee planes flying - over the countryside by as- suring people that they were “safe” even if. the H-bombers crashed. In Canada Prime John Diefenbaker has remained silent on this question - affecting the sov- ereignty of our country and the security of our people.) Unemployment will be topic at labor forum “Unemployment what must be done about it?” will be the subject of a labor for- um sponsored by the Labor- Progresive party on Sunday, January 19 at 2 p.m. in the lower hall of Pender Auditor- ium. This timely subject will be discussed by a panel of three ~ speakers. Tom McEwen, editor of the Pacific Tribune, will \present the LPP point of view. Les Walker of Mine-Mill Union _and Jack Phillips of Civic Em- ployees, Outside Workers will speak as trade unionists. ‘The meeting will be con- ducted as an open forum and the audience will have an op- portunity to join in the discus- sion. This forum is the first of a series on various topics being organized by the LPP. Future forums Wil be held February 2 and 23, and. March 9 and 23. period of time. © —Coroner Glen McDonald re- “vealed that four or five per- sons die each year from “legally prescribed starvation diets” but added that “the question of deaths from mal- nutrition is entirely up to the cabinet because the’ govern- ment allows. naturopaths to practice here.” Dr. Lynn Gunn, registrar of the B.C. College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, suggested that the government inquire into the activities of naturo- paths. He said an inquiry in Florida last year recommend- ed naturopaths be banned. Demand for a government probe was also raised by Kaj Rasmussen, 4124 West Second, whose wite died April 24, 1957 ‘of starvation following a prescribed diet. He said the diet was prescribed by Dr. E. E. Rogers, who also at- tended Mrs, Howard, In a signed statement, Ras- mussen said his wife’s weight dropped from 140 pounds to 61 pounds in. eight months after she visited Dr. Rogers. She believed she had cured herself of cancer, but an autopsy showed no sign of cancer or any trace of a dis- ease in the vital organs. Rasmussen’s statement read in part: : “My wife, Edith Rasmussen, mother of my five children, began to feel slightly ill in the spring of 1956. ~ “She went to our local gen- eral practitioner, who advised her she was suffering normal female problems concerned with change of life. He gave her some advise and treat-. ment, . “About August, 1956, my wife met some friends who told her about a Dr. E. E. Rogers and recommended him. She made an appoint- ment and went to see him in his surgery. He put-her on a strict diet. Her normal weight was about 140 pounds. “The diet was half a lemon in the morning and grapes. That’s all she was to eat for the first week. ne “Next week she had grapes and raw carrots. “From then on she had two meals a day of carrots, celery, Woman's death to be probed | Seo etc Robert Bonner this week ordered an inquest into the death of Mrs. Margaret Mary Howard of North Vancouver who died in hospital Christmas Day by alleged “self- -imposed malnutrition” after being under the care of a naturopathic physician for a long Probe long overdue “A quack is one who claims knowlege or skills he does — not possess. A medical quack is defined as one who offers fraudulent remedies or devices. good living by quackery — particularly in the health field. Don’t be fooled by these high powered salesmen.” So began an article on health which appeared in the Pacific Tribune on November 29. : The tragic death of two women from “self-imposed mal nutrition” —- the stories appeared in both Vancouver dailies last week — points up the timeliness of this paper’s warning. The Pacific Tribune believes that “a government prob into food faddist quackery in B.C. is long overdue, and shoul be undertaken without delay, before more deluded patients — lose their lives. Many people have earned a x parsley, radish, onions, cab- bage, watercress and garlic— all raw. On top of this she had paprika and olive oil. She also had half a grape- fruit and a tomato a day... — “She found she could not eat this food and said the doctor told her to take it in the form of juice. ' “We borrowed a mixer and made juice. “For several months before she died all she ate was this juice. “Her weight on our bed- room scales a week or 10 days before she died was 61 pounds. She looked Jike some- body in Belsen. She was all bones and there was not one ounce of fat on her body. “4 few months aiter_ this treatment I went to see Dr. Rogers in his surgery. I asked him if he was curing sd wife of cancer. et - ‘She had mentioned several times at home that -she was afraid she had cancer. “He (the doctor) said it didn’t matter if she had can- cer or not because her whole system was poisoned. He said he was trying to clean her system out. He also said it was hard to cure but if you happened to be an engineer you would know you have to clear the ground and put in the foundation before you I build a neee : fore she died, ~ termined that she died from January 10, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE “He said that was. vist he was trying to do. ~ -“I went home and told m wife she should have nothin more to do with Dr. Roger and she should go back to the family doctor. “She refused to do this an said she was getting better. She told me this until the da she died.” In the North Vancouse case, Mrs. Margaret Howar had been treated by Dr Joseph A. Boucher, a naturo path, and Dr. E. E. Rogers.” Dr. G. A. Mott, North Shore — medical officer, was called in on the case December 7 by RCMP, who said they had re- ports from neighbors that a woman was.on a _ starvation diet and they were afraid she might. die. John Howard, the woman’ husband, said he was satisfied | with the treatment his wif was receiving, and only sent her to hospital two days “because gave us a scare seemed to be cold ase pulse weak.” He believes died in hospital “because was given more food than her condition could stand.” Coroner Dr. Harold Dyer, a medical practitioner, made — an exhaustive enquiry in Mrs. Howard’s death and d self-inflicted malnutrition. — «33