‘Come, come... .’

Lydia’s ‘cancer cure’
like Socred nostrums

Offensive book barred —
from Toronto school

A book which holds Negro «

VICTORIA, B.C. mo and the only physician in the

Mrs. Lydia Arsens (S.C., Vic-
toria) can always be depended

* upon to liven up a dull evening
Food
and
fanatical opponent of fluorida-
tion, Mrs. Arsens likes to mount
her various hobby-horses and

session of the legislature.
cultist, anti-vivisectionist

gallop off in all directions.

Earlier this Session she started
off on the question of diseased
chicken livers, declaring that “a
royal commission would disclose
conditions on dirty Lower Main-
land farms just as shocking as in

the dairy industry.”

“Don’t deal with any other ani-
groaned Liberal
leader Art Laing. “I haven’t eaten
a chicken since last year.” He
was refering to a speech Mrs.
Arsens made at last year’s ses-

mal, please,”

sion.)

Switching to fluoridation, Mrs.
Arsens blasted the Victoria Jun-
ior Chamber of Commerce | for
starting a campaign to put fluor-
ine in the city’s drinking water
to help children’s teeth, and
quoted. from a number of leaf-
that fluorine
speeds growth of cancer, causes
abortions and aggravates goitre.

lets to “prove”

“Your health department re-
commends it,” suggested a mem-

ber.

Sis no credit to the depart-
ment,” she shot back. “I have
lost. faith in. it completely.”

As for vivisection, she said
there is no reason to “torture
these pure animals, for no scien-
tific advance has ever been made
through experimentation.”

This week Mrs. Arsens' was
back on: her favorite subject. As
she elaborated her claim ‘that
cancer can be cured by control
of diet, Dr. Lorenzo Giovando,
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exasperation.

Nutritional deficiencies, Mrs,
Arsens asserted, could cause

cancer, multiple sclerosis, polio

“and countless other ailments?’

She blamed these nutritional
deficiencies on use of chemical
and synthetic fertilizers — “con-
trary to the laws of nature’ —
so that our hospitals and jails
were being filled with “a sick
race of people.”

Then she startled the House by
announcing, “There is a cure for
cancer.”

THis was too much for Dr. Gio-
vando. .
“Oh, come, come,” he inter-
jected.

“There is a cure for cancer,”

Mrs. Arsens repeated firmly, re-
garding him as though he were
the embodiment of all those

{things the Pure Food Guild de-

cries.

“Oh, come, come, I’d better go
to Essondale then,” chided Dr.
Giovando.

“Tt might be a good idea,” Mrs.
Arsense retorted tartly.

It was evident that she was
going to give the House her can-
cer cure whether she convinced
anyone or not and Dr. Giovando
abandoned further attempts to
put her straight.

. ‘It has been proven,” she said,
“that potassium deficiency is the
cause of cancer and that sodium
encourages its growth.

“So, by feeding a cancer pa-
tient more potassium and elim-
inating all forms of sodium, the
body heals and cancer dis-
appears.”

Then she proceeded to name

the clinics which, she claimed,

were “doing this wonderful work,
all by the right diet,” and wound
up on a spiritual note that might
have left even Premier W. A. ee
Bennett a little envious,

“Proper diet, proper nutrition
through healthy plants and ani-
mals, will not only solve all phy-
sical and mental illness, but the
spiritual as well,” she declared.
After all, doesn’t Premier Ben-
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in Toronto, following a year-long campaign ‘of parents and labor organizations.
for withdrawal of the book Little Black Sambo from all libraries

School trustees voted 14-2

of approval.

The book has already been re-
moved from all schools in Nova
Scotia.

Mrs. Edna Ryerson was orig-
inally the only school trustee to
back the protest of Negro par-
ents, who complained that their
children were taunted following
use of the book in the school-
room.

A “Committee of Negro Par-
ents” which appeared as a depu-
tation to the board described the
word “Sambo” as “slanderous,
sontemptible and derogatory,” an
expression used to indicate con-
tempt for Negro people.

Mrs. Ryerson’ in® a’ fiery ex-
change with board chairman D.
M. Morton charged that both he
and school officials had discour-
aged presentation of a brief by
protesting parents.

Joining in the united protest
against the book were letters
from the Canadian Brotherhood
of Railway Employees, Division
175; the Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters and the Joint Labor
|Committee for Human Rights of
|both labor councils in Toronto.

One letter called the book “a
‘carryover from slavery days in
the U.S.” and charged that it was
ae affront to human dignity.”

Trustee J. S. Midanik, who
moved a resolution calling for its
withdrawal, circulated a copy of
the offensive books, saying that

in schools, despite efforts by paid

officials of Toronto Board of Education to give the book the seal

not only was its title discrimina-
tory, but “the drawings in it ate
offensive too, and caricatures” of |
the Negro People.

He rejected the theory advanc-
ed by Superintendent ‘of Public
Schools Z. §, Phimister who |
claimed withdrawing of the book
represented “book-burning” and
censorship. Midanik ' indicated
that other books and activities
for six-year olds were all regu-
lated. The board was setting no
precedent nor entering into cen-
Sorship by urging its withdrawal
from the schools, he said.

Negro parents and Trustee Ry-
erson strong.y emphasized that
use of the book was not only bad
for Negro families and their chil-
dren but.had a deteriorating ef-
fect on all citizens,

“It is nob only offensive to

children in the Negro community,
but it damages other children as _
well,” said Mrs. Ryerson. “Once
the human rights of-an individual
are violated and discrimination
continues, democracy itself. is
threatened and ceases to exist.”

(In Vancouver, school board
officials said the book Was on the
approved list and they, had no
intention of withdrawing it.)

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