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Afraid To Eat The Pips?
By CEDRIC CARNE
"D
ON'T" the
harassed mother had suki to the child in the bus, "dan't swallow the orange pips."
"Why not?" the boy ask- ૉ. *Bredung, well.. because,
The mother looked bamed, Some of the pariengers had laughed. All the same, I knew that the woman in the hús was really worried about appendicitis, Thousands of people beleve appendifilis je due to powndlowe ing indigestible articles Itke mange or apple pays. Hud though I've seen innumerable patiens wil opend,x bemble, only tree has that theary been valid. vecarjun, when the appendit was opened, hard pea which presumably had remoled buling--was found.
1921
I told this to my patient, Mr Hollis.
who was convalescing uter having his appendix cr -
surprised," he sold.
moved
I'm
Mothur would never let me rat tomatoes for fear of appendirilis. She was particularly concerned because all my elder brothe hd to have the operation. tomatoes or not. I had appen- dicitis finally."
TWIN SYMPTOMS
$3,
It tends 10 run in tamilm.“
I said. "A a matter of fact, not
so long ago girl twins were ad- mited to hoogslot at the same
the mulering to in appui tefiis
On operation the appendix
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both casca w; exuelly the game shape and size, dit in the sanile condition."
Mr Hollie's alfuck med sturteci few weeks
My tele-
firs bell
Truk uident;
وا
early hours of
1713
morning
wake 2140 Soon 1 Mr bed.
was at He's
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PRAVICS
"Once more round the block, O loved ones. We've got to use the damn stuff up somehow."
MY SON AND I: HE WILL WORK IN A PUSH-BUTTON AGE, BUT
I DON'T WANT HIM TO
FIND HIS JOB TOO EASY
'VE been reading a lot
about automation late- 1. The papers Svete f of it earlier He had year--and, frankly,
mother, I find the prospect of push-button
wirke
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chế
Vagun ehe located in the
intddle of the abdomen. Later worrying.
the pain became localist in th
ight side above the great
1 told ban he hari .r1t
and advised appendicitis
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RHONA CHURCHILL con-
tinues her talks with
men who the future
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this
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should know what
to meet it.
felries holds, and how parents can
Fr not sitre 1 want my sor to live in a world where
V have the appendix out, for machines take over so dirge.
ie hart hnd
number of midfieally from men. attacks prèviously And the more mile attacks o person hom the more hable
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recur.
arc
Int
"I'm glad you advbed me have it out,” be salti. now that the operation was wasn't really an ordent "
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WITHOUT GAS
that
I told him recorded surgical removal appendix was cl
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I know frosu experience that it's mure fun working hard than
ching. I want
my son to have
to work hard for his living in his early Jack, I want him to have absorbing job, and one 10 mohl man ever take from
.
Brat w
in olungh to remember December 6, the utery early 30's, the gal 1735
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anger, depresana, a, what
il to Cledhur Amgaul The operafma
the mits who found no one any lengthy Tool, half an hour A
longri sted the +41 period can
the back by torta discovered
It's all we may Bow,“ Mr Hols confirmed "Just our. two, three and you don't know anything about a with these new ricestielles Stai, isn't appert
3 h
my son.
novin lippen to
1 toid Sir Ewart that my son like
all his school-
bad
males,
been
crum-
ming Latin
the
since age of seven, order
to reach the 13- year-olds'
prepare their sons
Commen soletilist und stein- Wutlo, s
oglat, give me sound advice.
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I was right, Dr B. has Three young children, so he, too, has a big stake by the future. In fact, the training
of youth far the age has become
sentine fils hobby-horse,
"Your sou must study selence at school," he told me, "That's absolutely vitel in this day and nge, with science developing so rapidly.
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't natter what career he ventually choose, he will need to have a basic know. ledge of the language of science to pass as an educated man in The 1970's. Without it he'll get left behind.
So 1 wat to the leaders in indust
ot set to the calugiss
more e mamon these day them what catconation Than ved to be?"
It is commune. Pian allowing even
lov
It was.
better
diagnosis Nowadays. removal of the appendix accounts for more than half of all abdominal emergency operations. Seme people believe it is bren use more people are eating meat, Crythaly vugetarians do nut suffer from uppendix trouble ro commonly.
Then again, there are all those people who have vague .bdo- minal discomfort and Buttleme fron time
tinic. 10
Taksi. dyspepsia is not necessarily due
wout rully And how he
mona to my boy could best protect
sell from it.
Nervous
FOUND the dusted giants FR VOUA THỂỀ mentioning the word, "Forget 11" Dhey advised. But uldn't. It's the biggest question mark In niv NOTT'S future.
Fet ut mation. I soon learnt
to stomach neidily or itleers Wely used, could give my son'
but
to
wife
a far higher standard of a chronic appendicitis. There symptoms citu up when living than i enjoy, or it could
But deprive
the appendix is moved.
tais set of ek one appendicitis moth
in diffled to diagnose. Nut in-wileh frequeally a normal uppendix is removed in error.
"How was mine?" Mr Hollis
sak anxiously.
"Di&cascú," I raid, and. nulla- 11ed. he snulted. prodly and
radiantly.
to
her of the things my managed without,
bul
ke for granted.
my problem first to Dr
J. Bitnowski, chlet of the Coal Boat: Research Station
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Cheltenham, and our mily's TV pin-up boy, His Brains Trust felt he answers re So sane L
"He must learn now to this
the world 21 and
their make- Ap and to un- derstand and ALS Q quite naturally words which ATC strange to You
"And auto- mation?" 1 "T asked. clon't wont a machine tak- my ing over Jon's job.'
Auto- mation will have n found eifert cf1 Ilte in Britain when your Ground
pro-
צח'11
sun
is 30.
SCIENCE IS A MUST
say Dr. Bronowski (top)) and Sir Ewart- Smith,
(C
but I will not mean unemploy- ment. Your son may well work shorter hours and fewer days per week,
"ODE of the big changes. I lorence la that industrialists will need to keep their factorles worlding day and night to cover the high cosi of their automne- tle machines.
"
Higher standard
and
multiple factorics work shifts there will have to be round-the-clock faclilties for entertaiment
shopping. Productivity will rise, and with it cur standard of life, provided we use autoihation Intelligently.
"People may,
at first,, abuse Their new-found leisure, but not for long. That is human
nalure.
"Your soti will probably do INOVE gardening,
home carpentry, and more reading
maro
than his father has been able to do. Develop his interest in hobbies.
My
how
"IL is hard to quickly these changes wilt come. A war might accelerate them, on- economic crisis would slow them down. They will certainly come faster in America than in Britain, becau Amerien ganz more readily afford the capital oullay."
once dard.
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stan-
Sir Patrick Honnessy
"It seems to nie all wrong that a dead language should Will be thought so vital in this
age," I sold. "What sélentifie
of
So I asked
M
Sir Patrick, Fords: "How can help my son to become a manager in a big outfit like yours?"
"You can do
a lot to foster the wecessary characteristics in your son. Develop his courunge and independence. Don't send him to the university just for the sake of broadening his out- look.
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"A
university education important for the scientist and The professions, but I don't bc- leve in it as a preparation for life.
Life is the best unilver-
ally. Send your boy round the world, working his passage.
"Remember that the man is important than his tech-
more
win
do you think, us a man at the nical qualifications. Concerns head
dron
ours always be search- employing like 100,000 and facing automation?"
ing for
youngsters with high Integrity, strong personality, great enthusiasm, complete absorption in the job, and a flair for getting
on with their fellowmen nt all levels. Such men make good managers.""
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"You're right," he said. "Your son would have been better off sludying physics. It provides a more logical discipline than Lalin, and at the same time, is usehu as a
foundation for all technical and scientifle work,
'Keep your son at school and college as long Eventually, if we
as you can. our own as an industrial na- are to hold
tion, we shall have to raise. our school-leaving age lengthen the period of versity courses. But
these changes may come too late to benefit your son,
and
uni
"If he is interested in engl- neering he can't go wrong if he learns to understand tho new and compileated machinery now being designed Britain is (o- ing to be very gineers,"
short
A flair
of on-
INCREASED automation will also mean increased effl- clency and better management it Britain is to survive as an economic power. Without it. For more detailed knowledge say the experts, our nation will of how my
son should prepare become an economic nonentity. himself for an automutie world, Frankly, I'd rathée my son I went to Sir Patrick Hennessy. became a maniger. than (an British chief of Fords, and Sir engineer. I've watched him Ewart Smith, technological chief succeed, 18 A Scout, patrol- of 1.C.I. and chairman of the leader. He has a flair for run- British Productivity Council. ning things and organising.
THE WORLD PAYS HIM £140 A WEEK—BUT IT'S THE WORLD'S WORST JOB
THERE'S NO SLEEP FOR
D
New York weariates as he pre- URING the past few alded over one crisis days Dog Hjalmar on after another. They obseryd his Agne Carl Ham- patience, his skill in marskjold, Secretary preventing debates from gefling out of General of the United hand, and his obvious Nations, has slept only four dedication to his job.
There Was one hours out of every 24.
#pell when Tuporta fooded the United
They call him the man
with the most impossible, Nations glasshouse on
job in the world.
He is at the centre of a spider's web of world crises. He is tired to his bones and looks it.
But his prestige and landing at a time when the future of
the East River that.
he was going to resign,
MISTER UN
climbing the public has a ple- able him to live luxuriously, what it means, would ture of me with an alpine click employ a Swedish buser - und become a world per in one hand and a volume of houseloooper, two Norwegian sonality overshadow- Eliot in the other.
recretaries, and an American
Ing his predecessor, 2. “That's not me at all. It's a. chauffeur Trygve Lic
caricature.
He likes good wine and good Hammerakjold hever "Everywhere I go mountains food, frequently entertains, and wanted, to occupy the and T. 9. Eliot. That's bills entertained, but' has, tit out
headlines. and the I hear.
spotlight.
When he announced
one of his first hur-
ried peace trips, to
By
Hammarskjold Belding a corresponde DON IDDON
spectacular."
ent. said: "It will be i
replied:
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believe that he fell that the "Too spectacular." United Nations
was near. I have watched him woric for collapse and his own work had three years, this blond, ended in failure,
man whose face is ridi Today he is
„optimistle. with anxiety,
almost all panties during the post-4wo weeks, and KRUNNE
Bavagely He sovers red tape
first became When 410 Secretary-General he astonished his staly by anying: “It la'absurd 'do aur” mo' in a special express' elevator to my offices 17 tide with
Laveryone else. we in the ! Sometimes he upp
perlurbod. by iftician pr. the Unites, Nations." „[msors: "Thudi warki "óðuld, mot Live of pesce without the United Notions
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