THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1958,
Page - 7
SOUTHGATE THE The 'Safe' Cigarette
QUEEN OF
THE BOROUGHS
by
CHAPMAN
PINCHER
ONCE a year the Borough of Southgate, which I have represented in Parliament for 23 years, holds an official Sabbath Service in a selected local church. The Mace Bearer in gown and cocked hat leads the procession, followed by the newly elected Mayor, then by his predecessor who has stepped down to the level of Deputy Mayor, after which comes the Lord Lieutenant of the County followed by the member of Parliament, and finally we have the Alderman and the Councillors Dr WOME together with the Town Clerk and the Borough Surveyor.
when the
The mayors, like the years, come and go. Yet for the rest of their Hves they remember that glorious year of office, erch of hen in turn was First in of the! Burugh. They give their services without financial remuneration and only A tiny expense recount but i that golden year they become part of Southgate's story for all Ume.
By
Sir Beverley Baxter
But what has all this to do him into such a fend incarnate with Southgale and its annual that he knew neither just've nor Civic Church Service? Tho mercy. answer la that my constituency Then look at Southgate on has its own way of doing things, thut sun-strewn Sabbath where and therefore, this year it broke the people chose a woman, a with
tradition Ind elected a Jewess, to be the First Citizen woman to be its Mayor for the of the Borough and fo tete the ccarlung Cays, when rich coming year, Perhaps I should precedence over all others, in- hors which in the process of expilates that there is no electoral cluding the member of Purila-
contest for the mayorally. The ment. choice is made by members of the lee Council.
This
lovely Borough of Jakes beautiful parks and ille was the South gate to London in Country
men built sumpiuõus
NOT AT ALL
and
TOO MUCH?
R ERNEST WYNDER,
Mel Ferrer type of man who is the world's top authority on the link between smok- Ing and lung-cancer, flew into London to tell 2,000 other scientist's how to make cigarettes safer.
With the crusading zeal which he has pursued this problem for the last 10 years he gave me advance news of the most pro- mising experiments he wil des cribe at the International Cancer Congress opening at the Festival Hall.
burning tip.
He thinks this can be done by small amount of
To all 25-a-day men the world's foremost authority
on smoking
and cancer makes an astonishing claim... in London recently
new
.
reduced
Statistics.
Dr
Sir
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burn at a lower temperature that elgarettes made from to- Wynder fecks he can offer them "I wonder if he has heard-of
advice. He thinks should make a
Seventh much safer bacco of low lar content can be unbiased
as
our investigation on well as a cooler smoke.
highly satisfying. Indeed, once that they should voluntarily de- Day Adventists, e religious sect content of their who never smoke? We found Wynder new 37, offers little people have smoked them they clare the tar
on every cigarelle that they had 10 per cent lesa hope of producing, "catalysed" find high ter tobacco distasteful. product
threa "Reducing the far should not juckage.
lung-cancer than the general cigarettes for at least
doe nflect the pleasure because there Though he is a non-amoker, popitiation. This was true even, years. The effect of the
is 210 need to take out the nico- he is human enough to reallas in Los Angeles, a notoriously tored tobacco will first have to be tested by subjecting animats tine which is the soothing ele- that addiets cannot be talked out zmog-laden city. So the differ- to the smoke at 50,000 cigarettes, ment in tobacco. Nicotine is not of a habit by tales of frighten- ence was not due to air pollu with Wynder, it
German-barn Wynder, who cancer forming." rhymes
ing consequences. So he has tion," Wynder's really safe cigarelle concentrated on the more realis-
Wynder diemirans elnder, belleves that the secret works with Teutonic thorough- of the safe cigarette is to cut resa, Insists that each of the will eventually embody the three tic goal of enabling smokers to Ronald's claim that the link is (Town the cancer-provoking seven promising catalysts he is precautions-tobacco selection, go on inhaling their six feet of based purely ca statistics. His outtering. and the addition of a cigarelles a day-the burn-up work, which I have laspected in chemicals in the smoke by re- now testing must be tried
25-a-day man-without New York, showed that tobacco ducing the temperature of the this way on at least 30 animais. cooling catalyst. But the list of
save fear. two alone could definitely
far catises cancer in enimals. It WGS
British Two ideas
lives now, he claims.
disputed by workers, but I now learn that "I am enlisted that smoking Am perhaps attributing too
a chemical, such as powdered
I asked him what he thought it has been confirmed by Pro- But he is certain that the contributes to 80 per cent of the
Blackwek `n St much Individually to thin North
US. The of the opinion of Sir Ronätd fessor Jehn With dae aluminium, Into the tobacco in a danger from smoking could be lung cancer in the London Borough?
who igure is almost certainly higher Fisher, the Cambridge Univer Bartholomew's Hospital. respect I think not. These Midway which would not interfere substantially
whts believes has caused sity statistician,
lung-cancer in County
with the smoker's pleasure. Boroughs,
the mediately by two simple moves in Britain," he said. lex
statistical With the incidence of this that
evidence animals, by treating them with "At the Sloan-Kettering In- of the
lar extracted from although they are part
alltute in New York we have
distressing complaint still rising against cigarettes is like a girl tabaceo known as "Greater area
1. The use of tobacco which rapidly it is The most urgent in a bikini--what it reveals may cigarette Alter-tip. found it is futile to try to make London", are as individualistic
tobacco safer by laking any has a low for content.
problem in the whole vast field be suggestive, but what it con- Dr Wynder's claims are not or towns far re-
likely to 10 entirely "Any
research.
unchal- as villagen
2. The
Wynder- ccals may be vital. tting of effective of cancer
that it is also the
congress, plani material eels free gancor- álter-tips to reduce sull further points out
"Fisher Ignores the enormous lenged at the
which moved from a metropolis. Take thing out of it," he said, for
Southgate's exomple
from w continue. But he is cer- forming agents wher it is the amount of tabacco tar enter only one on which the doctors weight of the statisties Amateur Dramatic Societies as
the 'every are pretty positive about
part of the world," tainly offering the most con- burned at high temperature. I ing the mouth and lungs. well as its Choral Societies.
you smoked spinach it would be The variation of ter content main cause.
Wynder said. "They could be structive prospects yet for the I am the president
all- moker, Tobacconist, nearly
cigarette just as dangerous.
disputable only if we were between different types of to- "But adding catalyst - a bacco is enormous," Wynder ex-
1,000 per cont out in our cal- manufacturer, and Chancellor of all of them and when they put a play at Church House
chemical to make the tobacco plained. "U.S. tests have shown
culotions.
the Exchequer. on (which has an adnitrable stage) I try If at all possible to attend performance the Friday night
it is usually three-night and when 20 presentation) play is over I go on the stage and give them critical op- preciation which he nearly always favourable, ta fact what with Choral Societies, Operatic Socleties and Dramatle Societies my Friday nights Dre usually spent in attending us the putron or present,
the years have now become museums and galleries Abraries. Teeleally Southgate" Is kuva as
dormitory Part of the significance of the
incorporating that the election of Alderman Mrs Ruth CONFITUENCY, meaning men travel by Undergrouanel na
Winston to the rank of the First lies in car to the City for their work, Citizen of the Borough
to sleep in the fact that she is the daughter 1125 come lock
Thus the of the local Rabbi. Suulingate,
which Daruurch of Southgile, has had a Canadian represent ing: it In Parilament for 23 years, now chooses a widow, the Then is my onstituency just daughter of a Rabbi to be in the eating a suburb log in the gigante First Citizen for comi
Greater year. called London? Tile nnswe is -
So not at all! Suthgate is as in- cividualiste ux Gueber or even Toronto. Take for example that Sunday in the Hitler war when the Germany, who I occupied France, therided to hol n vistory demonstration in Paris at the Arc de Triomphe in the presence of French crowds,
Everything was arranged to show that the Nuzls were con- providing querors but friends,
that France was willing to bow to the German yoke.
*Thur evremony was to be ad noon but at eleven a.m n young IAF.
there came this year's Civle Sunday. As the Dedleation was to be held in the Synagogue wo were dnly warned that we had to keep our heads covered throughout the service. In other koep our top- words we had pers or soft huls covering our bak spots from the sun that gated through the windows.
TRIUMPHANT
triumphant
And what r service it was Here at the side of the Chancel was a male quintet ut singers whose voices rang out as ir il Which brings me to our local
the pilot from Southgle were
march weekly, newspaper, the Palmers had an iden, With or without from AIDA. The first tenor hud Green" "Gazstie. Let the press permission he took: o in
thunder
• voice of operatie quality that lors of Fleet Street Aghter pline, roared his way shook the roof when he let loose and rear against a politicien yet across the Channel, then swoop- the full volume of his high he will survive. But if his local
over the Champs Elysees, he notes. So do the climax of the newspaper turns ing
against him when a Freneti Tricolour of service drapped
the Mayoress then he is in real danger, For- the base of the Arc de Triomphe kneel before her Rabbi father tunately the
Palmers Green to the fury and dismay of the and received his blessings and Goazette which don:inates my assemble: Germans..
advice on her appointment, constituency is dmirably edited and maintains remarkable vitality.
To the French with their Bense of drama and history it was an incident the helped to light the flame of resistance of a moment when defeat and disaster seemed almost to have broken their spirit.
Look ahead with pride bul look back in anger. i was not
But if Southgate has 146 so long ago when the Infamous Lecuty spots and more then ita Her sent thundreds of thou share of kindly folk it also has sands of Jews to their death in
prout and tragic memories. Five the horror ovens. Intolerance times in the war Hitler's V.2 and besotted venity had turned bombs, travelling faster
A British Crossword Puzzle
3 4
8
19
110
127
J Where
20
21
ACROSS
to hol
a
fictory
dence? (8),
8 Mary's troops (4),
0 Make things go further (B).
11 Noi abstract stuff! (8).
13 May be fine, short, lung or
deep in a field (4),
15 Entered into rivalry (8).
18 He's to be found on board, as
a rule (8).
30 A drop in the rent? (4).
21 Maximum (8).
25 Fulse show (8).
20 Catch about len only? Is that
the nearest you can do? (4)
27 Pleasingly fragrbut (8).
26
2.3
24
DOWN
1 Lubricaling powder (4).
2 Portent (4).
4 Endeavour to "get of" (4),
5. These animals are nearly all
related (4),
6 Good advice to a tug-of-war
tcom (5).
7 The Fleet Street gang (6).
9 Went all wrong (5).
10 Ia different in motherhood
(5):
12 A ring and a belt will have
bracing effeet (5).
14 Ghostly spirit (5).
10 Shakespearean Athenian (5); 17 Stupid (5).
10 Narrowing light? (5),
20 Make alterations to a repairt
(5).
21 Ring out (4).
22 Operate radar? (4),
23 Concoction (4).
24 Takes nourishment (4).
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FRIDAY'S CROSSWORD-ACTONIC 1'5-mile-9, 4 Bucka, 7 AD-option, 8 Noted, 9 Tripie, 11 Nations, totards, 15 Beason, 18 Limes, 10 Positive, 20 E-me-nd, 21' Scraps. Downy 4: Smart, 2:Top up, 3 Stip-end, 4 Bonnpt, 5 Controly, 6 6pides, 10 Intimate, 12 Assists, 13 Relate, 14 Rasped, 16 Autor, 17 Neal
than
sound, stuck crucily nt the Borough,
There was no warning, there could be no warning. One
pleasant the moment
villas would be blinking in the gun-
death and in another moment and destruction wee of hand. the while the ghostly Wait of V.2, left behind by the super- speed of the rocket, arrived to give new horror to the scene.
THE SCARS
Nor was Southgate spared by the V.J's which few pilotless and without any accuracy
of
im, until the control clock cut off the engine and sent the plane and its bomb crashing on house
tops or in the open streels like a mai creature primed
senseless maniacal fury,
with
But today the scors have yone, and the Queen of the Loroughs has no warfare, except when some cricket team in- vades our pitch and learns toa Into that it must go down to defeat. It, of course the in- vaders win then Southgate glyos them a cup of tea and swears that next year they will take revenge
I began this Lonton Letter with Mayor's Day at the South- gate Synagogue, Let me end with an inelden! that occurred Con- 24 years
ngo when the
had to |servative Association
choose between Duncan Sandys and myself as Southgate's Tory candidate for the next election.
After various questions, friendly,
semi-friendly and
critical, a member of the Association asked it, despite my name, I was not a Jew, On the well there WAB
striking Disraeli portrait of Benjamin the great Tory Prime Minister. Pointing to the portrait I said: "You ask whether I am of the
Dls race as Benjamla racll. The
B 'NO' although I would be proud if it were 'YES' " All of which way loudly applauded and the chair- man hurriedly called for the next question.
3rmo
answer
Thus ends my story of South- gate, the Queen of Boroughs. Come over and see it some life. We are always wind to hear about the rough planeer, its in Rosedale or Westmount Shaughnessy's Heights:"\
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