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BRIDGING TIME AND SPACE

Deep freeze may be
way fo other worlds

HOW WOULD you like to be
put into cold storage, and wake
up unchanged a few years later?

A recent scientific experiment
may have brought this fantastic
idea within the bounds of possi-
bility. At the National Institute

for Medical Research in London,

rats have been taken down to the
temperature of ice, kept there
for an hour, to all appearances
dead, and then revived.

The rats were put in a sealed
container so that they re-breathed
their expired air, which would
have a relatively high concentra-
tion of carbon dioxide gas. This
is what the dormouse does when
beginning to hibernate, by bury-
ing its nose in its f

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This might conceivably throw
light on the alleged feats of In-
dian fakirs and holy men, who
are ‘said to allow themselves to
be buried alive, to be dug up a
week or -two later and revived.
In their underground coffin the
carbon dioxide concentration
weuld certainly rise, and the tem-
perature might approach freez-

In their state of “suspended
animation” the rats do not
breathe, and the activity of the
heart and other organs is at a
standstill. So little

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chemical -

change occurs in the tissues that
it is difficult to see why artificial
’ “hibernation” could not be pro-
longed for quite considerable
periods without ageing or death.

‘But ice-temperature is probably
not low enough to arrest the pro-
cesses of change and decay. Al-
though new-born mice can be pre-
served for about an hour at zero
centigrade, if they spend much
longer in the refrigerator they
can no longer be revived.

But to lower the temperature
much below freezing point is fatal,
because ice forms inside the ani-
mal. However, it has been found
at the National Institute for Medi-

cal Research that isolated tissues —

can be protected from the ill
effects of deep-freezing by pre-
vious soaking in a glycerine solu-
tion.

_ lf long-term cold storage could
be applied to the whole animal or
human being it might solve the
space traveller’s problem: how to
get to stars which would take the
fastest conceivable space ship a
century to reach?

Passengers and crew, roused
from the deep freeze by a timing
mechanism, would emerge on ar-
rival from 100 years. sleep feel-

ing not a day older!—DONALD
MICHIE,

Rersy and American inves-
4 tigations into the relation-
ship between. lung cancer. and
cigarette smoking have reach-
ed almost identical conclu-
sions, : :
One of the world’s foremost
cancer experts, Dr. E. A. Gra-
ham, of Washington, reported
in London last week that his
own investigations and those
in Britain were conducted at
the same time. ;
“Both of these studies seem
to show a very remarkable re-
lationship between cigarette
smoking and cancer of the
lung,” he said.
“Since that time there have
been 10 additional studies on

Cigarettes and lung cancer

the subject and every one of.

them shows a very definite
statistical relationship _ be-
tween excessive smoking and
cancer of the lung.”

He revealed two other points

+ Men are five or six times
more liable to get lung cancer
than women,

+ It takes 20 to 30 years
of smoking to produce this
cancer,

Dr. Graham said it would be
difficult to understand why
the disease was so much more
frequent in men if it had any
relationship to the atmosphere.

“It requires 20 to 30 years
of smoking to produce that
cancer, and women have not
been smoking that long, in
general.

BOOKS

‘

Hutchison forgets D'Arcy McGee
in making his apologies to U.S.

RECENTLY a few Canadians
have been loudly hawking the
idea that Canadians are an in-
ferior people. Inferior, that is,
to the “Americans,” but superior
to all others, because we are

more like Americans than anyone
else,

Thus, only a few months ago,
Professor A. R. M. Lower was

‘condescending enough to his own

people to admit in New Liberty
that Canadians were “good sec-

ond bests.” ‘

Hiram McCallum, manager of
the Canadian National Exhibition,
is getting ffom Canadian perform-

ing artists a justifiable retort to

his complaint that Canadians
won't take lead roles in the CNE
grandstand show because they are
afraid (sic!) to appear before 'bi
audiences. 2

Now the latest example is the
article by Bruce Hutchison in the
May 14 issue of Colliers (the U.S.
magazine that shocked the world
two years ago by its private de-
claration of war on the USSR).

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OSTENSIBLY MHutchison is
telling his U.S. readers why Can-
adians get irritated with them.
Actually he is saying that Cana-
dians are acting from a sense of
inferiority. He says the people
of the USA “by their very good
nature offend the mute passion-
ate pride of a people who built a
nations on little else.”

What is “mute” about our
pride? Only those who are afraid
to invoke it against the mon-
strous cosmopolitanism that eman-
ates from across the border —
lest it “offend” Lester B. Pear-
son’s pet “senior partners.”

Hutchison complains: “Canada’s
huge production so far has not
included a national sense of
humor — as proved by the out-
burst of anger whenever that ob-
vious fact is mentioned.”

This, of course, is also a Hutchi-

: son blind spot. —

New pamphlet

This

is the title of a new

Pamphlet by Tim Buck, LPP na- .

tional leader, embodying _ his
speeches to the fifth national con-
vention of the Labor-Progressive
Party last March. (It is obtain-
able in Vancouver at the People’s
Cooperative Bookstore, 337 West
Pender, price 25c). Within the
pages of this*pamphlet Buck ex-
amines and answers the problems
facing the working People of
English and French - speaking
Canada and shows how the People

can advance to a peaceful and
secure future,

One of the earliest Canadian
plays was L’Anglomanie by Joseph
Quesnel. It satirized those French-
Canadians who took the same ap-
proach to British overlords as
Hutchison takes to the Yanks.

The first great Canadian work
of fiction was by the satirist
Judge Haliburton, The Sayings
and Doings of Sam Slick. It is
well known that Haliburton’s
work provided the model for the
great humorists of the U.S. —
Artemus Ward and Mark Twain.

.Haliburton has Sam Slick, the
Yankee clock peddler, say this
about the people of Nova Scotia:

“They must recede before our
free and enlightened citizens,
like the Indians; our folk will
buy them out, and they must
give place to a more ‘intelli-
gent and active people. They
must go to the lands of Labra-

BRUCE HUTCHISON

dor, or locate back of Canada;
they can hold on there a few
years, until a wave of civiliza-
tion reaches them, and then
_ they must move again as the

Savages do. It is decreed; I
hear the bugle of destiny,-a
sounding of their retreat.”

And then, too, there’s Steph-
en Leacock—not to mention sev-
eral contemporary humanists and
Satirists, among them Barry
Mather, Eric Nichol and Mel Col-
by. Weve produced a number

of good radio cémedians and com- °

edy programs, too.
bie RE ee
HUTCHISON maintains that
“In their current mood Cana-
dians are inexcusably ungrateful
to the United States, which alone
can defend their safety and ex-
istence.” : ;
' History shows we’ve done quite
well defending ourselves from
foreign invasion. In fact our
history shows us that the great-
est threat to Canada is from the
U.S., and Canada relies for her
“defense upon the courage and
unity of her people.

We have nothing to be “grate- .

ful” for in the present policies
of the Dulles-Kisenhower-McCar-
thy regime whose main aim is
to drive the world into another
war.

Confederation itself was made
an immediate necessity in Cana-
dian history because of an econ-
omic crisis precipitated in Can-
ada by U.S. trade policy and be-
cause of the threat of annexa-
tion. Canadians then turned to
their history to strengthen the
vision’ of Confederation.

One of Sangster’s finest poems
is a tribute written in 1860 to
General Brock and the Canadian
heroes of the war of 1812
against the Yankee invaders:

“One voice, one people, one in

heart :

And soul and feeling and desire

We boast not of the victory,

But render homage deep and
just,

To his — to their — immortal
dust

The cheers that stir the sacred
hill

Are but mere promptings of
the will

That conquered then, that con
quers still ;

And generations yet shall thrill

_At Brock’s remembered name.

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ANOTHER poet of the period
who sought to establish the vision
of a free, united Canada was
Thomas D’Arcy McGee, one of
the Fathers of Confederation.

From his youthful participation
in the Young Ireland movement
for the independence of Ireland,
McGee brought to Canadian let
ance of national history and na-_

. ters a deep sense of the import

tional consciousness in literature.

After the U.S. Civil War, Me
Gee was one of the first to see
the new danger to Canada from
an armed and predatory U.S.
fact McGee’s opposition to the
U.S.-hatched Fenian plots to i
vade Canada brought about his
assassination less than a yea!
after Confederation.

In 1861 McGee drew attention
to:

“The mercenary and military
interests created . . . by the
armies out of uniform who prey
upon the army, by the army °
contractors who are to feed an
clothe and arm the million; by
that other army, the army 0° —
tax-collectors, who cover the
land, seeing no industry escapes
unburthened, no possession ul —
entered, no affection, even, Ww
taxed. Tax! tax! tax! is the nee
from the rear! Blood! blood!
blood! is the cry from the front!
Gold! gold! gold! is the chuck
ling undertone which comes up
from the mushroom million
aires.” ‘ ‘

McGee called on Canadians 1
recognize the danger:

“Let us remember this: that
when the three cries among our
next neighbors are money, taX
ation, blood, it is time for us Ae
provide for our own security. —

And he posed the question
which Canadians were to answe!
by winning for their country the
salvation of Confederation: “AT
we capable of being inspir
with sentiments of a saving pat
riotism?”’ :
By this question Canadians at
again beginning to weigh thelr
public men in all spheres of ee
intellectual as’ well as politica: —
Let the Hutchisons weigh theif
words by this question, before
the Canadian people do so, ae
find them wanting. — VICTO!
HOPWOOD.

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