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THE CHINA, MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 0, 1954.-
AND BACK THEY COME
Cumming
BE RUTHLESS! THAT'S |__ HOW TO DODGE A COLD
Chapman Pincher meets a man who has
a tough formula for NOT catching cold
THE business man looked carefully at the com- mercial traveller who had called on him and said: "Would you mind going into the next oflice and 1 will talk to you over the 'phone?"
catches If his wife
a cold
beck the spare he sleeps in
for room or goes to his club a few days,
1 were you be is no grouch. genial or gregarious A more
un would be hard to find. He is simply luking sensible pro "Have you got a cold?" caullons against a serious com- said the voice of the busi- plaint, which costs the country
million mam-days Hess ma33 as the traveller 50 picked up the telephone, and many lives. "Yes, a shorter," the travp- lor replied.
trapl
said the "I thought so,“ voice.
"Please do not take offence, but if I catch end It probably meins being laid up for alx weeks with So let's do our bronchitis.
- business this way until you
are better."
BY
is
Sent home
Y auch ruthless mensures the business man, who a close
friend of luc, has managed to keep clear of rolds
and consequent chest troubles O for this winter-the first time for
ten years.
Ife is satisfied that my business he may have lost through his brusque treat- inent of
people
"I
who K around spreading colds has been more than made by the fact that he has not been kept away from office.
Any of he clerks, typiste. Executives who Turn 1/
work with obvious colds
smartly get hutne
his
The person who
year
gallantly
Deens to
Thiu
cul rule vaccines
worthwhile method of peventing colds, for the short protection they would give would hardly justify their
cust.
Children
To find no support for the THE scientists were surprised belief that children are mainly colds responsible for bringing go to work with a cold enn
into the home. People living in childless houses caught as many coldn as those in daily contact with youngsters.
itimate aim of sniffz-und- setzes inquiries like this is to devise methods of idling cold- by Krims in the air breathed people working in offices sund
bay na dangerous to othera As typhoid carrier-particularly an elderly people subject to bronchitis.
20 Keema
be
This is especially tric this th, for the mold germ which been going the rounds ainen Christmas
nusually virulent. Doctors are getting exceptionally high sumbers of patients with bud hints, sore throat, and diges- live
colds."
following "common
Avoiding contact with people with colds is the only effective tion anyone can take, because the doctors have nothing
NOW
to offer in Dự way of treat- ment far colds in spite of in- tensive research.
more
They have found out but the ways cokis spread, however, and the results help
Justly the netka taken my business friend.
At office
by
ONDON selenusta, led by Dr Donald Reid, recently - vestigated the spread of colds anong 131 In t women ofler workera. They found that half the people who "nught colds seemed to contruct RTU told from someone else at the office. 13 people-one in every whole year
LA HtAy Viere until they itre well again,
"I am sure I shalt 10 trough a
gain man-hours over the year with This way, by cutting down the spread of infection among the staff," he told me.
FRIEN
Spare room
ARIENDS who Call
home still snilling
at his from
κολά get the BATERS rough
justice. He will not shake hands with anyone who has a cold, since he Irarned that 101)- turbinated hands help tu aprenat infection.
[ -eny pani- persisteret
He moves CHLE way carriage
I
nose-blower coines in.
Inclorics,
No devier la licely to be ready for use for some winters yet. So, until then, the advlee »k my business friend is the best i know--like a tough line with people who go around spreadi ing colds, including yourself.
It's food after all
THE PSYCHOLOGISTS slur tint school falties over- ent because they are "emotion- ly retarded" has been de- bunked by French doctors who have Investigate! 100 weight chikirim.
The doctors concluded there is no consistenL
aver-
thet
REMEMBER, DO NOTHING IN THIS CRISIS THAT LOOKS
RE ACTIONARY, HARD-FACED
OR TORIFIED!
by Cummings
REMEMBER, DO NOTHING IN THIS CRISIS THAT LOOKS REVOLUTIONARY EMOTIONAL OR... SOCIALISTIC!
London Express Service
KENNETH MACAULAY REPORTS ON HIS
JOURNEY
OVER THE
SEALED FRONTIERS
B
EHIND the Iron Cur
tain in Europe #hd under the govern. ance "f almusi psycho-identical Communist regimes logtent difference between fat 100 million people live. 1 bring news of them, Brst pre- news of some of their home- recupied with food," the doctors lands for more than five
but they found many years. report,
among shiny
children and th size.
Most fatties are
voritekstis Palers
then Youngsters,
a cold. Most
of the others caught between two and three golds” in the year. Some had Ks many
U SIX.
Women, especially young onum, were far inore susceptible than men, a finding 10 colle which ties up with tests carried out at the Harvard Hospital, Salisbury, where human volun- leers were deliberately given volds.
The evidence showed Bal once you have had a cold you may have some resistance to a further attack from the sone Justs germ, but this numunally for only a short time.
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When you serve Coca-Cola.
galety enters the icono.
sparkling refreshment –
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matchless in flavour, matchless
in quality, Buy it at your grocer's
the handy al bolile carion
Bottled under authority of The Coca-Cola Company by
HONOKONG BOTTLERS, Federal Inc, V.1.4.
of average
tex
Chimp gives orders
trains
A CHIMP hay nough to recognise
muny
of the objects pletured in news- papers
U.S and magazines, scientist Keith Hayes d hi wife Catherine report.
They should know. A house- wrained chimp enlied Viki bas them for live been living with
years and has been treated like
child.
Several times in the fast your Viki has pointed to pictures in drink adverts, made 4 sound like the word "eup."
Traf her foster-parents
Thu kitchen to get her a drink,
-London Express Service)
an invlo
Cica Cita
Coca-Cola
HK. 332-F
than
BRINGING YOU NEWS FROM THE UNKNOWN THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN
AS SEEN
ON A 12,000-MILE TRIP TO FIVE COUNTRIES
very
left-overs after bad bargala basement sale, but they are elegant compared with the men who never wear a tle or button up their collars.
Yet there is the cult of the
Something brief-case.
went
to work the next day or the day after that. Then one of my staff told me he had been taken away by the police."
The man continued his story: "Later I heard that he had been sont to gaol for three months for to 'undermine the attempting regime by causing discontent and;, disaffection.'
population is still overwheim- which seem almost completely "Now, I knew quite well who ingly Roman Catholle.
deserted. Fields have gone back had reported him to the polloc,"
the Cardinal Vishinsky to
wild. I heard
Tares flourish my Cooch companion went on. one evening
St where cattle grazed and wheat “It was a woman, a widow who' preach
Anne's Church in Warsaw.
was gathered in.
herself had two children. Bun, standing There was not even room and his sermon was
I have journeyed 12,000 miles criss-cross over Europ, to see for myself how these
There is no mystery, however, of course, I did not, suy any- millions have been faring
about the abandonment of this thing to her about the man'a since they disappeared from wrong with the shower in my layed by loudspeakers to rich and ferille countryside. The arrest. She knew, however, that
plumber large crowd in the square out 2,000,000 people who once lived I knew she was an informer," a " the community of the free hotel bathroom. The
turned up with his tools in a side. He grid:--
here have all been sent back syp, if you like, nationa.
"This is the age of the whip across that
grass-grown border
I have Budapest,
Warsaw, in stayed
Bucharest, Prague,
briof-case.
and the machine gun. Every to Germany, whence they Couldn't help it
originally came.
and Sofla as long as the author Accent on youth drop of blood drawn by the
ties would let me. I have seen everything they were pre- pared to show me and gung everywhere they allowed me to
Ko.
It has not beezi vasy reporting, In some countries the most or- dinary item of information such as, let us say, the incidence of swine fever la guarded with as much desperate secrecy
the vulput for gures uranlun from the tumanlan
mines at Cluj.
They risked
uf
NEITHER has it been easy to talk to people freely without a third
party, in the person of an interpreter, being present. Nevertheless,
people muny sought me out and talked pri
their vately, risking, perhaps, liberty, maybe their lives, being seen in the company
a Western journalist,
Some
of
thought, of them, I were horrifyingly frank and in
discreet.
THE nightshift
to
whip cries aloud to heaven for vengeance."
Brave words
working 021 1 Warsaw's underground rail- why take their sandwiches the job in brief-cases,
My Interpreter seemed sur-N another occasion he at- tacked the "patriot priests" prised at my interest. everybody carry a brief-case in who are prepared to play along England? Didn't I think they with the regime. The cardinal
Didn't
Important? said:
look made a man Like a civil servant?
Brief-cases apart, there
Is too
Things
cont of He population-all the "ND DAY
\NE_DAY_she' came to my'
were
No country can expel 15 per-
She started /10......... Sudetenlanders were farmers'
cry. She said she was very and.. landworkers without much troubica about how: the severely affecting food supplies man's wife and children
griting on while the man was in gnoi.
" said
to her: "This is a start worrying fine time to AS if this loss of manpower about them. This is a fine time
No Marvel
another
havo reached such a pass in the Church today was not serious enough, un to start having a conscience. Why that people are afraid to go to official booklet handed to me by did you report IS
to the police? propaganda depart. You are a
are a mother. confession If they do, they the State
You have discloses that may find that they are confess ment
children. You know how dif- three-quarters of ing to an enemy,"
million neult things are. Yet you make people have been put to work things worse by getting 避 mani building steel plants where potato sent to gaol. Why do you èom's feids existed before,
crying to me? Perhaps you
a
#n Immensely impressive accent on youth. No expense grea
nothing is too much trouble Ir 11 succeeds in Brave but dangerous words. capturing the enthusiasm of the it is no wonder that he was forced to leave his palace in young,
Warsaw is the most savagely
Warsaw and "retire" to a mon- It is no wonder that Czecho want to get me sent to gaol too, all the capitals astery.
slovakin now has to import mest Yes?" damaged of within the
How this accent on youth and butter from the Soviet orbit, yet
Sovlet Said the Czech: "It was a priority has been given to the pays off in results! I remember Union, and no marvel at all that very risky thing to say, but her rebirth of the University
Prague of driving through
the cost of food in Prague nivelling made me very sorry... Physical Culture.
evening as the great, nean-red, higher than anywhere else in I was very indiscreet in my Soviet stars it up all over the Europe with the exception of anger, but I did not at the time city. With me was my inter- Warsaw.
саго, preter, a 21-year-old languages
Vast hydro-electric plants are "Then this woman said to men going up, student named Olga,
and absorbing still I could not help it.
The police more labour that should be at stopped me one day when I was work on the land. Power and going home and said that it r more power is needed for the did not agree to make reporta
and desperataly
about people in the factory I industrial venturos.
would lose my job. The electricity failed while my My children would then go guide and I were having lunch hungry, because
would never off Prague's get any more. work with the "This is not polico against me,
rt-
"When I see those big, red, shining stars," she said, "I get a wonderful feeling of comfort and security."
During the European amateur boxing championships 1 ported there, I saw at close range the care with which they surround their athletes.
Any boxer
who lost a bout and collected A Iew good
in punches
the process was taken off 10 a fully equipped
"Yes, security," she said, her one's foot- to have
He was first X-rayed." An eyes gleaming behind
palo examined orthopaedic surgeon steps dogged. It
even
thick spectacles, her red,
in that cafeteria mildly
kim sometimes, *****
and amusing
for damage to hands powdered face aglow. "I feel Wenceslas square. during an evening's stroll, wrists. A specialist connected
to
that I belong to my country and too bad, a power cut at 12.30," I do? Whose children should go notice the
up an in which
electro-cardiogram to the
I will take care BUL that, while recording what not be WELL they said, they compromised.
clinic. became an every-day ex-
It
perience
was
That word surprised me
her
un-
new
driven
What could
one was handed on along the check over the heart. A phy- eventry, which has done he said. "The lights will be on hungry, his or mine? There was-
slick way
street from ono shadower to another. That was to be ex- pected.
It was also to be expected that one's hotel room would be given a going over
and now
sician kept a recond of blood pressure during the first 15 minutes of recuperation.
Written off
me."
for me, belongs to again by o'clock. Sometimes
there is no electricity all day no choice for me. said: "I wonder if Rudolf My guide did not complain Slansky felt like that when he about the power cut, the food, looked out of his prison cell at or the price it would take an
Widow's son
those red stars on the night average Czech one and a half DURING the International St...
before, the was executed."
again and I have no hard feel THIS examination was given Lunch in Prague
ings at all over that smart
SAT down to lunch.in cafeteris in Pragize. The lunch
young woman I found looking not only to their own boxers through my belongings ong, but to two defeated members morning at a time when I was of the British team anti all the supposed to be out.
beat Russians... na
Hungary, I found that
could. fall Budapest could
down be of beef cubes, glavy, and four
of
But apart from this routine business of keeping tabe од vizitor from
received everywhero friendliness and
royally entertained,
Drab look
MY
with
·
hours to cam 6a. After a chance
Days' Motor-cyclo-Trial hald::. encounter I had had in a cafe at Gottwaldov, the British cons
evening before I knew that tingent, competitors and offefale. complaints made in public places alike, Wern besieged often reach the ears of the
almost
wrote "peatered"--by secret polico.
Cytochs who salt they - waritad the people of Britain to know the truth about how', they were toring under Communism and: what they what hey felt about it
over.
The Stranger
So here
Loris Susia aged 32, s widow, with
ja son, agód - 12/02
the Capitalist fore they would stop work on slices plain suet roll called West, It would be ungraelous the magnificent new stadium "dumplings." There were no HIS cafe conversation began not to acknowledge that I was there as big as Wembley. In potatoes
or other vegetables. by accident and with a Bucharest, capital
accident. I knocked a man's beer Roman Catholic. of Rumania, And the bill came to ús, sometimes they turned a huge refuse plé might have wondered why it
I asked her if she wern "bring. into sports arena with a cost so much to eat in the most
I apologised in English, and ing up her say as a Catholle too. seating capacity of 80,000all highl
industrialised of all the after the waitress had brought She sai***I :have taken hira done in four months
from teste' ovuntries it had not some more beer (3s, a pint) the to church every Sunday ever scratch.
known of the secret of Sudeten stranger began to talk to me since he was a baby. But I have Sports grounds come before land, as westem Czechoslovakin in English. ¡Y tour started in Poland. In stum clearance and gymnasium uied to be bulled. In -the It seemed that he had served: not tried especially to Impress any religious teaching on splic of what was then a before main water supplies. touchy situation, I found
Accent on youth and an mot dardin torbe seen the with the British Forces during dasciato sight anywhere the war and was now a super- optimism in Warsaw, A Pole, acceptance of the fact that an behind the Iron
Then she told me why you Curtain Tho intendent in a local factory! I on meeting a friend in the street, old dog cannot be taught the traveller coming in by road gets was interested to know how hử can imagine how did 7.1 would take out an old envelope new alectic tricks. Therefore, a first birit of the emptiness and workpeople had routed to the had slovo bare form be and scribble on the back of it the Communist regimes are zuin ahead as he checks out riots in Filzen over the ovale child might well way. Y said to his teacher, as any "1053." Then he would say: willing to write-off prewar from tile German Customs post. ation of the currenty "What world-shaking event is generations as being almost a At feit glance. It seems that this
earlier mother lays there this year. represented by these figures? dead los
"But ozi\bla 13th birthday the road hua ended, leaving He said: "Those riots were had a long talk together, mid 2
only You give up? Well, read them
It is a good propaganda tine a stretch of field between the put down by force, but there told him that he backwards like this:......
to let them keep their churches post and the Czech side of the are more mbtle ways of dealing enough boy now to share we "3: On the third HE
If they wish, to border. But it is not a fold. It with malcontents. We open and cle' fathers;
Let me tell the faith of. takon 1;
with his mother. what i fest of a doce-bury, you about one of my men who to know that he must ja
und old But it is noticeable that
at granite-paved highway. "8: On the ninth, I was the time for Sunday morning whose cobbles the grass
from came to work one morning, full buriod; and
churches in-the
there "I: That's ONE more of those are carrivals on the banks, 0 wheels of passiert: VDD electricity, cista, which mäda. I.
draws:ratik, azi? Unwoch by
"B: On the filth HE died;,
+
so-and-so Ruslane out of the tho Vistula for the youth of WALAW. I Bucharest's Stalin
world."
HE, Joseph Stally, had been Park there are aidekoum roik
monika.
dancing, and proostown Undoubtedly the first thin
how far this pim to keep tho
dead two
any visitor from the West doo
They
of
complaints.
sould that I believed He said he was you say has a plan Line Lavery in English And up with the from the plan of the Com
pass very seldoma
Frontal point on the wildse imposible for hir chalcons to use we have today
begins Indood. The road have anything, hot for break shock to him, in
how mach food, onay Those days, baro: May the Chica the price of cost a
the dificulties
If Light" eday-to-, Génoms - funt #tama: throśigh village' nibér villiga East. He also, striatableci-mhotļi? veus dày him knothing bas
who hó renchés Warew is to your wway from the churches * Bterials, wonder how the womenfolk Car moceeding. In Poland 1 destroy of the Com
put up with the simt of me would my hardly at all. There PLACIN Men doking
OF
drab, Art the Influence of the Reformas Party, cons
meble sway plotkun look no better tidin sever
of saying up for a good pair of
boot midday