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THE CHINA' MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1950,
FOOD HUMBUG EXPOSED
"Briton's should have sung
carols in thanks for calories
By Dr. Franklin Bicknell
as they have no reason to be all edible. But meat is ment thankful for food." **
That
appeara to bo the message of the White Paper published Inst
month by the Ministry of Food, It tells Britons 24354 what they have been eating lost
year
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most valuable form of ment. That is obvious whon.one remembers that the egg, contalus. increased recently by 20 per cent, everything necessary to build the a White Paper, and whether or but this increase is not as great healthy body of the chick, and not you eat it, that's your affale. as the loss of fat from having less so to build our own too.
meat and bacon.
Yet this year Britons have had
A local store la advertising for Utterly wrong
It is poor comfort to the British 17 per cent fewer eggs and dried sale, "Linen shirts, colour Fats are stated in the Introdur-housewite to have more "com gs than they had in
eggs
the last attached style." than to this White Paper to be pound cooking fat and margarine year of the war. This is largely nearly 20 per cent. above those with which she connot try, in because so few dried eggs have 1 is n profoundly worrying of 1046. This statement is utter-place of the meat dripping and been imported, and the increase; paper. The easiest way to underly wrong.
bacon fat with both of which In shell eggs has not made up for siand it is to consider each of tho
1 one takes
this. important foods in turn,
read a little further
look Nor, indeed,
வர் theso odit And even the extru shell eggs at the figures of what Britons fats as valuable for bodies they do get never appear to be
sees that genuine
animal fats. And no either fresh or English. They also Britons will be
very cheered to always appear to be very small see Britons are still only gotting pullets' in fact. It cannot really half their pre-war butter.
be true that all the countries Small eggs
which send eggs krep only pullets and never fowls. But it is very
Less weat than ever before la being eaten. For instance, in the All news contribution to both year of the war Brilans addressed to Editor-in-Chief.
ail had one-third
MAIL LTD.
more than
Advertisementa and Business, today. communications should be nd- Really they had even moro dressed to the Company CHINA than this, because today much of the meat is so tough, ao old, and of such poor quality that amount of cooking nor the strong- est set of NHS teeth can make it
DEATH
BARCLAY, died suddenly at 18 Stanley Torrace on 15111 January, Thomas Charles, Be loved Husband of Esther McLauchlan. Funeral Servier at Colonial Cemetery Chapel 4:30 pm. today, Tuesday, January. Cremation to No flowers by
ant
17th joll w quest
THE SQUATTER
SCANDAL
The local authorities, during the week-end, authorised the clearing of the squatter camp, in the Kowloon City area, in- volved in the recent big fire. Meanwhile, the homeless are being cared for in churches, schools, and other premises. More than 15,000 homeless persons have already register- ed, and the official in imme- diate charge of relief said he expects the number to reach 20,000. In spite of the fury of the fire, there were no casual- ties. This was the second fire of the same kind within five weeks. Had they occurred in the dead of night instead of in broad daylight that part of the story would have been tragically different,
to
never
and
no
the troublo
and
to
she can try.
have been eating one far from tats being 20 per cent up they are 3 per cent down. In- deed, they are lower than they ever were at any stage during the war, and, of course, for lower than before the war.
Eggs bgain are arry atory. | odd.
only What the preface meant to say Britain appears to Be the was that margarine, "compound country in the world that cannot cooking fats," etc., were in-produce her own. But eggs are a
They're shaking off the shackles
Women outnumber men in By Alwyn Tebbitt terve through a forest of pre-
every civilised country of the world except Indla and Pakistan, but their scarcity value there is not considered enough to gain them favour- ed treatment. The Indian man strongly believes in the "Goods and Chuttels" theory when it comes to his women.
napped during
kid
upwards through a forest of pre- Judies. The best-known of all the
п
Sugar puzzle
Many more mysterics are burled in the White Paper. Perhaps it is morbid to dig them up. But it would be interesting to know why Britons are eating 17 per cent less sugar than before the war, though the peoples of our in the own Empire, for instance Bahamas, want us to infport more.
ду
These backers who collected bets on a dead horse were lucky. I can't collect any on live ones
•
*
•
may defy "Egyptian women harem tradition."
This, it would seem, constitutes veiled threat.
It took only three minufer to conclude ti duel between two French military students and, of sourse, a couple of seconds.
Fooling the bill.
*
"Thec nhoen, with specially- made arches, were designed for your particular discomfort.”
The nomewhat overconfident golf stopped up to beginner the tee and looked towards the hole some 250 yards awny. Then he turned to the caddy and said, "One good drive, I think, and a
He addressed the ball carefully. vicious swing drove
Are invited for
one-third of a pint more fresh live men in Joln sales staff " Apparently end men sell
And why is Britain importing 26 times as much jam ond mar- malade
pre-war. she did སས་ thought English fruit this summer rotted in the fields? sub-continent's women dance halls, although among the
13 Or again, why are Britons cat- Society class Western dance music Pandit Nehru's widowed sister, ing so few dried peas and beans is very popular. A middle-class
40-year-old Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi which are truly valuable foods and with a
have Britons BO litiet about two feet away from the girl knows from the time she is Plindit, who is now India's Am- why
small child that her duly is to bas
bassador in Washington, and who dried fruit, far less than at any tec
The caddy stepped up, handed tline since 19437 It dollars, are the mother get married and become
was previously in Moscow.
him the putter and muld, "Now of the earliest opportunity.
Like her brother, Vijaya Lak-reason, could not Spain have re-
for the putt." Child
shmi has spent is illegal but
long time in placed California? the law in frequently ignored nad
marriage
prison for her fight against the There is a bright side, however,
"Applications cach Briton She did three long jail
This year
has had Air British. It is nothing unusual for to have had her first baby by the terms, amounting to two years
milk a week than eight months. 1947 time she is 13 Customs differ all mis-nver India and
Pakistans but in
The next best known is Rojust year of the war: rabbits have So far, many places it a girl does not
kumari
(terally Miss Raja gone up by nearly half an ounce produce
child within 12 months Amrit Kaur), India's 62-year-old,
by a week; oranges and lemons of her marriage. day she must
British educated, ex-tennis star.1% ounces a week; and potatoes fare much unpleasant criticis Minister of Health. The dough-by 2 ounces.
ter of
former n
Rejoice! The best has been kept ruler of Kapur- fton her hundreds of relatives.
Chala State who lost his throne to the end, All in all Britons have
been getting 3 a Christian.
per cent because he became Rajkumari Amrit Kaur is one of calories this year than last and 1
wo- per cent more than In the the few unmarried Indian
year of the war, men in pubile life. She had been interested in nursing and welfare work for
many years and Gandhi's secretary from 1935 un. lil his death.
Thousands of women were
the riots of and forced to become the tresses of their captors.
India has recovered 12,000 and
Pakistan 10,000 but it 19 not known how many there are hid- den away in various parts of the sub-continent.
Love rare
matches are extremely
ove, as understood in the Love, West, is almost unknown, and the ideo of holding up marriage till you find the right man or girl is renaldered crazy and does cross the Indun,
Husbands and wives are chosen the "happy by the parents and couple" rarely meet all the wed-
not mind of the average
ding ceremony.
The main cost of the marriage is borne by the parents of the
parents
To drudgery
A wife who does not promptly present her husband with a child is able to find herself relegated to household drudge while a more prolific girl takes her place us wife.
one
And
ter
Was
A
Pakistani women have an even more dimcult time than their In- dian sisters because although the
Is Islamic
religion (Pakiston Mostem state) theoretically gives with women complete equality men, custom, which is
strom than any law, relegates all wo-
to men the background
a very strict sugregates them in purdah system.
But again, in the Upper class, where
observance religious
Is
the he had
Health worse
inore
Jant
The results on the diet we can see in health. With the increasing use of new drugs like penicillin it should be much better.
sales.
•
No
"Don't brides usually wear white as a symbol of happiness?" "Yos. That's why the men wear black."
•
Myrtie's grundfather wonders why we have enough memory to recall the tiniest detofl of
und what has happened to us, not enough to remember how many times we have told It to the same person.
·
can
It
that you is claimed always tell the retired military man by the way he carries his rolled umbrella.
etr
You can Even
But, despite these barriers, the women of India and Pakistan are easily the more intelligent part of the race
race and, given the oppor- tunity.
would quickly outstrip the men at everything they turn ed their hands to--which is of the reasons why the men are trying their hardest to nip in the bud uny signs of independence on the part of their women.
A social Despite this there is revolution going on in india and
of it. It js Hills โต
bolstered up by school meals and The average weight of children, In India and Pakistan get partly the result of the 1947 riots
school milk, should be us good one of the freedom that the Bri-which left thousands of women tish girl takes for grunted. The homeless and without anyone to purdah system in some form or
And because cus-
as, or better than, it was in the support them.
last year of the war. But it was another affects almost 90
per tom makes it almost impossible
definitely lower in 1947, and the to find husbands, the
There are now signs that the cent of the 190,000,000 women In for them
scanty figures as yet Avaliable the country.
Government of India has opened women of the great custom-rid-
suggest it was worse again in wraining centres for them to be den Middle Cluse, who make up come nurses, enchars,
police-
the bulk of both India and Paki-1948.
An increase in tuberculosis and do secretarial jobs stan, are revolting against their of the lungs has always Women. in Government offices, where pre-invisible shackles, and although thought to be one of the men-und she
But the last Ministry of Health monthly bulletin states: "It can be concluded that the health of I he throws it into the men and women of working age every few yards, during the last three months of bet he in retired drum major. 1049 was poorer than a year pre- 10%
"He said that history showed and viously; and that during February
Eleanor and the poet Tanso lived it was poorer and March 1949 than during these same
together from 1870 to 1703," months In the harsh winter of 1947."
Na passing infatuation, that, The health of older men and women wes niso worse than in the March quarters of 1947 and 1948.
can
Indian middle-class girls never work in offices-al} the work normally done by giris in Britain is done by
a cinema unless she never go to is taken by a mule member of her family, her father, brother, or husband.
There are
vance
no such things
wake
are aware
Ming
have come into their own. Fatima Jinnah, the 54-year-old sister of the founder of Pakistan, is a well-known figure in public Affairs, and Mrs. Razia Ghulam All Is the sub-continent's Arst woman Industrialist
judice can above.
from it will take a long time and they be overruled
w have a hard fight, they will Most of the women in pubile! eventually break loose.
1,0
Zoo has a sick parade
By Rhona Churchill
indications that
a nation
been
truest WDE
being improperly nourished, To- day, thanks to new drugs and
fore.
and
new treatments, and also because before the war tuberculosis WAR declining, one
would expect tuber- culosis to be better than v
ever be- But it is not
is not so. The
inst year of the wor there were
42,100 Kiew cases, and lust yearner
Britain's wor
worse health, children, rising tuberculosis can
In- only be explained by her food, deed,
about health, one knowing
These happenings ought girl, and among the middle class can cust anything from £750 to provoke some furlous
£3,000
So to
have or more. more than one
in daughter thinking. They are a renewed warning to the petty Chau-family is major tragedy. Be- vinists who in the past have cause of their financial ability frequently neglect their played irresponsible polities tanby girls, and as It is no loss if with such problems, They a daughter dies,
millions never Pakistan, but only the very wide/uch less rigid, Pakistani women to grow up. live to justify the efforts of the Gov- ernment to do away with these scandalous and perilous Above all, squatter camps,
to consider they invite us whether much more ought not to be done to deal with this problem in a civilised and sensible manner. It was a problem of sover- the site, eignty, whatever
to raise an uproar on the basis of human rights is to turn the nature of the problem upside down. H human rights are involved,
ment Trust in Singapore has as they are, the point is that been doing great things in people should never have to regard to housing for the live in such circumstances, workers, and there are bigger especially when so many are plans still on paper. The
The London Zoo's only giant, tard plaster or a massage. What employed in important three projects in Malays of panda lay clutching her tum-
do they do? Why, they give the Chinese Government and the Colonial Development)
my rocking her head and rub- Poor old man o handful of aspirin could have guessed what would —yes, the same kind you take for Hong Kong industrial and Corporation include an ad- bing her sore eyes just as
the same allment-only his dose be in the White Paper. Or, reading other enterprises.
of £300,000 for
though she were a human suf- would probably kill you.
the White Paper, one could have foretold the country's sad state of The considerations involve Malayan Building Society, fering from too much turkey, most elementary issues When Lord Trefgame stated only with her it was too little
Have you ever wondered why health. there is glass between you and of sanitation, safety, sanity recently that the housing bamboo.
the monkeys In the monkey and resettlement. The squat situation In Singapore and
house? It is not to protect you. The Zoo doctor petted and but to protect them from catch- ter camps were a scandal and elsewhere in Malaya must be a disgrace. They implied the "the most desperate in the patted her, then pulled out all ing your very unpleasant com- ordinary hospital-type hypo- mon colds, Monkeys are terrors acceptance of standards low-world," he forgot Hong Kong, dermic needle and gave her u er than the social ideas of where it is undoubtedly far double dose of that same Vitamin for the Middle Ages.
worse. No fewer than 51 B complex they give to adults Quite frankly, we don't Malayan
housing projects suffering from malnutrition. He it into her shoulder pumped know how to take the dif- have been submitted for con- muscle.
How would you like to treat o full-grown lion for Adence of the Colonial Office sideration of the Corporation.
ingrowing Lien Ho, the popular gtant toenails? That's a routine job official who seemed so uncer The two essential conditions
at the top panda. Jwan
of the now in the lion house. tain whether It would or laid down are that the pro- Zoo's dally sick list. Each morn- not get them from walking too would not be appropriate to jects, should be for the ing the keepers tour the animal, much in tight shoes, but from
· of
the fish, and reptile houses, inspecting not walking enough in bare feet. convey an expression of con-economic benefit
charges and noting their and sympathy to the Colony concerned and be cases of sickness or injury.
of the fire. But commercially sound. More- Government or public over, the big squatter pro-
They have a special bax with a opinion-however jaundiced blem in Malaya is now being
falso bottom. It might be à`clr- cus prop. The lion is encouraged some sections of that opinion tackled on a large scale and It may be a giraffe with a boil to enter it, the door ty shut, the may be can
afford to tole on humane principles which on its chin, un elephant with a false floor removed, and the lon rate such shocking conditions. provide for the squatters touch of rheumatism, a llon with finds himself standing on bars. The Secretary of State for themselves a far better livon togrowing toenail, a cheetah The foot with the offending paw
can the
then be eased through and the Colonies gave their peo-ing and greater security than with distemper, or a camel with a swollen ankle. All go down on ples New Year slogan: they ever had before. the sick list presented with the the ingrowing mall trimmed in
MD | two minutes. "Fight for the future." He Hong Kong may have days report to Mr. George Cans
Animals need occupationa} urged them to co-operate modest views about its rols dale, the Zoo's superintendent
And they all have to be treated.. therapy, just like humans. Take with Britain in promoting as a show-window for the Face a giraffe with an angry the baby tiger, Baccha, brought their steady advance to bet British way of life, but it looking bolt on its chin and you recently from Baroda. ter living and greater" res- simply cannot go on ignoring are facing quite a problem. It rived with tummy trouble
the
cern victims
no
'What a list
any
ponsibility. These two things the problem of adequate Park. The pathologist made a happened recently at Regent's
nose colds.
Toeing the line
They do
Treatment is the same. Give him a pedicure. But how?
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and was confined to the sanatorium. he was treated wit the usual tummy powders, and should have BLUE recovered quickly, but he didn't. Then a keeper sald, I think bored and lonely,“ Let's fix him up with a long load and let him wander round the torlum. Then we can all stop to pet and pamper him when he wanders our way."
Two days of that treatment
BO
are at the root of policy modern and reasonable hous special, giraffe-sized lance, but nowadays and are the texting for the working classes, the animal would have none of the of repeated declarations. without making a mockery of The boll grew bigger, and bigger, Hong Kong cannot be ex- all the high-level declarations had to be burst, but how? cluded from them, whatever about raising the standards of It was a keeper who jsolved political uncertainty may living in the Far East. Many that problem. "Why not shoot it exist. And yet there is nei institutions do provide ac- with a pellet from an airgun?" he suggested. They did. The boll thor provision nor appro- commodation. The example burst, and the girane smiled priato machinery, for White- Is - good one, but the pro- again. hall still maintains silence of blem needs to be tackled on the Constitutional reforma broader bala through an projects,
* Municipal de other officiul something terrible" at times. Now is how the healthiest youngster in The Municipal. rove bodie
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The Zoo's only male elephant, did more good than all the
gote the
rhoumatics stomach powders, and that tiger
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