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Why Bother with Chest X-Rays? THE TB GERM IS the luckiest germ in the world. ' It is small. Imagine 1/32 of an Inch divided by 300. This is the length of a TB germ. It can locate in any organ of the body, and frequently does. It is mobile. Once launched by cough, sneeze, or spitting, it remains airborne like dust observed in a ray of sunshine. Today, it dwells in some 3,000,000 unsuspecting Ca~ nadians. It favours large colonies, and can create them quickly simply by dividing itself. Food offers no problem, for it just consumes the walls of its home, and at the same time makes room for relatiVes. A single tuberculous cavity may contain as many as 10 billion germs. Its most baffling advantage is its ability to outâ€"wait an unobliging host. When a healthy body resists it, it just hangs on and quietly waits for old age or ill health to help it. A ten or twenty year wait is nothing. Its luck runs out only when everyone coâ€" operates through regular TB check-ups. The Association‘s free clinics have given 5,000,000 examinations and tests leading to the discovery of 420.000 tuberculous and non-tuberculous chest ailments, including heart disease and can- Cer of the lung. The clinics also administer the amazing drugs which now enable patients to recover from TB.â€"From the National Sani- tarium Association. Telephone Chains Editor’s Note: Sometimes an Institute Secre- tary writes: “Most of our members are elderly. We feel we are getting too old for the regular Institute project's. Can you suggest something for our members to do?" We wonder if the idea of a telephone chain might be worth inâ€" vestigatingfia chain to watch over not only Institute members but any older person of the community who lives alone, OR SOME ELDERLY Canadians, the telephone is a virtual lifeline to the out- side worldâ€"to the corner store, the doc- tor, druggist, etc. But what happens if a sud- den illness or accident strikes, and the man or woman is unable to reach the telephone? In too many tragic cases, it has been days before people have realized that an elderly neighbour has not been seen recently. Telephone Chains, such as a pilot project started several months ago by the Leaside Branch of the Ontario Division of the Cana- M dian Red Cross, are a definite answer n. [his problem. And it is the elderly Citizem them selves, organized by an interested chm h . Dl' socral group, who check up on each on eliminate the fear of sudden illness or kl‘ The chains are made up of five 5,; elderly people, with a Chain Captain in Am. of each group. Each chain membel “pm one phone call and receives one ca? n.3,). day, in a preâ€"arranged order. If our 71min member cannot reach the member t. . m call, he notifies the Chain Captain the Captain cannot reach him within a fin n” the sponsoring group is advised and lt'tli. ately makes a visit to find out the rt: 10, the unanswered phone. Further information on suggested pit m for starting a Telephone Chain is aw: _. m brochure form from: Senior Citizens t m. tee, Ontario Division Canadian Ru nus Society, 460 Jarvis St., Toronto 5. ‘ rm, Uninformative Reporting LATELY I FIND I AM becon in. illusioned with conventions, or spa I should say with the reports mn- ventions," a thoroughly annoyed Won in- stitute member writes. “Returning 4 tics report that they received ‘great ins| in‘. but not a whit of this is transferred mt'. Assuredly the travel and social events ed in a convention evoke interest and pic , :1? they recount thcmfibut do they evoke -~:\i in Women‘s Institute work? Surely | In spiration must come from the Spett at speeches, the discussions, the conversatlv in business, even the reports. “I hear or read: ‘Mr. X spoke on «I rid such a topic.’ I long to ask, ‘What did aft that was new, that I or my Institute “111 into practice?’ I read or hear: ‘Dlv 'on groups were held after the talk and I anâ€" clusions were reported at the plenary w :ix' I want to ask, ‘What were some of tilt. Hits of view expressed? What were the cone in? What ideas did women of other natit HES contribute that would be helpful to us but contributions of ours did they say were it" to them?‘ ” (The last two questions p l‘ll‘ have to do with the A.C.W.W. cant cc. Ed.) “I find out that the business \i c” discussed and was carried sometime a small majority. What was this business? one of it at least? Why was there such \ it‘d opinion? “I feel that unless better convention 0“- ing is done, the kind of growth needed 0'9” branch Institutes will be very, very SI 'r '11 coming." HOME AND CO . .lTRY