THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1959.
AFTER THIS-I HAD TO HAVE A SMOKE!
"NO SMOKING," screamed the sign in the
waiting room. "NO SMOKING," warned Says Gareth
1
another in the surgery and out in the doctor's sweet-smelling sitting room reached slyly for a packet of fags.
course,
"Young man, put them away," said Dr Lennox Johnston, Britain's No, fponent of My Lady
VOLF want Nicotine. "Unless, of end in an early gruve....in which case you will kindly was leave my house at once!
not habit "POISONOUS DRUG."
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but
I thought it was time to tell
"For this is my sanctuary, Dr Johnston why I'd called to
sur him. "About this week
It's the only place 1 car en camre you've just run, get away from the deadly began timidly.
Ha fetched a copy
fumes which are poisoning "You can't know anything mankind. Consider yourself, until you've read my book," said young man. You're 29 and the doctor. Smoking over 30 cigarettes 3. a day. I say looking a wreck.
You
were
No, You Don't
TD SAY YOU--AND 30,- D'RE BRITISH SMOKERS- ARE QUITE INSANE!"
Dr Ton whirled on h
Lednd washed into his the By Mount Peasant Read, New Highton.
I wanted....nef how: peaching for malar.
of
Bowen
of chocolates. "Because, clean ult is a basle bumin right,
clean "WILL POWER - break-that's the only way to Fight this give up smoking.
olson for a few days and you' win the battle."
Feel Fitter
Two of the group slipped out for which he charged fr after breakfast on Sunday
ixx:
Disease moming for a quiet drag, They Th
and came back shume-faced and con- To'skro Smoking
"I
Dr fussed
understood," 11 Cure") 151 15 compulsory
Jaluston told ine. *They were rending for five nicotine addie's the only married ones in the who suffered the tortures of a
were feeling free hell verently t Drop, and they Tibbetten's home. The way lonely. en was the latest we: por in his 21-year fight,
The
Guinea-Pigs
11; Johnston's quinta-pigs Found my were Dr David Jackiem, of
of Wandsworth, DUX X
"Na you un'," said a voler behind toy ear. It was the
Mirs
London Marian amusing, a Kingston-on-
N. Strickland Hull hotwifey Jesses, a Liverpool whole-ute
doctor.
"Take this," and he : Miss E. M. Robinson, offered me a half-eaten 207. sevretary, from Birkenhead; Brie Senek, a Londom map-make?. block of milk chocolate.
They were all heavy smokes
withenst 21 mandy dangling from their
fate this, my fad." motherf Dr Jouston. "Let this be your
De dayton, son of Setish Jemurten kept them
hevo mitter,
I forgave them, and we carried on as if nothing had
auxies!.
How did the guinea pigs get on afterwards?
Sald Dr Jackson: “From the moment Dr Johnston pushed me lo a non-smoker when he saw me on to the London tral I haven't succumbed. My palpitations have gone-30 has my sickness. I feel 190 per erat filter?"
Reported Mis Dunning wenly from Hull: "I got up four nights cigarette and ran down to the cigarette stopped nyelt ps. r metine but
Smoking friends my bath Just in time.
just froghed at them." fighting Friday midnight as he tried to time to dinner last night and I "You "Now I uve 110 desire 10 moking since 1928 when he demolish their deinsion, strated "infesting nicotine into commit a public
mutsaner, Jin
his arm to prove that smoking road is he passed around box ke," said recretary
Just Fancy That!
[APTAIN Jack Mellonie, 64, ex-Merchant Navy
Mies Robituson. "' Dr Johnston n wonderful mean?"
Mapmaker Scholiid somewhere in London's smoke; Mr Strickland Jones is survey- ing his nicotine-free thumbs on holiday somewhere in Puume- mouth.
This is what Dr Jahrilon tells
to do..
oleer, hayat:
given me the first delatts of his revolutionary sailing craft which can all forwards AND backguards,
Ile designed it at his home. Trebak Lodge, Mawnan, Corn- wall, and has just tested it—successfully on the Holford River.
The boat Ex 1971. long, 8ft, acruss and draws 18. of water. It has tw hulls, bland bows, rudders at bow and stern, and a tripod mast on which two square sails are set, one above the aller.
In reverse
Captain Mellonie dar stopped it dead in four seconds from a speed of 12 knots, and started sailing backwards at spred in Err. He told me:
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Burn all your cigarelles;
Keep talking about smoking
a "drug:"
Don't tell anyone at work what you're doing:
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Suck sweets increased weight wi
an soun EO you've conquered the eraving. And the best of luck.
1 didn't smoke for 12 hours after I luft Dr Johar-ton. Went two double whiskies. My chest downstairs at my hotel and drank
I ate breakfast-k gargantuan spring-heeled to the oflec.
" do believe I've got it." 1 Then I started to fold myself. write this article. Five times-I tore sheel one out of the type- sriter....
manoeuvrable, and the sails can be handledached. My head swans. " is highity ensly to change course of direction. The rudders are designed an
automatically the 'ruekre principle, so that they currzet position when travelling either way."
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take
tip
the
Why should a yaelit want to teverse?-"Saves time distance," said Caplalu Mellenir. "It does not have to come head to wind to stop or tack. It is an ideal offshore craft, and
and
about
six times as efficient as an ordinary schooner."
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I was either the smoke or no article. I SMOKED)
POCKET CARTOON by OSAERT LANCASTER
"What's the matter? Lost Your quide.do?"
If you ask me, this fellow Behan's just the healthy, manly type of which the British theatre's so badly
in need."
London Byrets ·Bervice-
Britain has agreed to lift the 10 per cent duty on Danish bacon—“a_blow," says the president of the National Union of Agricultural Workers, “that will undermine a large section of British agriculture.”
DANISH BACON DELIVERY COX
"I suppose nobody's seen my rear wheels?"
London Express Bervico.
Makeshift papers beat English print strike
SA
ATURDAY, June 27, was a good day for news
of the kind which sells newspapers.
The royal yacht Britannia was fogbound in the St Lawrence Seaway, Ingemar Johannson knocked out Floyd Patterson and Christine Truman was knocked out of Wimbledon; in Spoleto, Italy, Louis Armstrong was coming back to life.
Police hunted an escaped In in Staffordshire. sanviet
scamen Liverpool, 75 Nigerian wore on strike and to las Bown home to Lagos.
June 27 was clen the first Saturday of the most wide- spread printing stoppape Bri- tain has seen since the Generat But these Strike in 1926. only a jew of the stories which appeared in the most remark- able collection of nergency ncics sheets imaginable.
-by. George
Macrae
are
dalites The provincial
Thirty years much worse hit. ugo, every major town in Eng- land had at least one morning paper. Many had two or three in fierce competition.
The
Few Lett
mass-circulation
Fleet
Five days earlier 100,000 print ing workers had stopped work. Details of all printing disputes are complicated, but the buste conflict in this one was simple. The 11 printing unions wanted shorter hours and more money Street "nationals" printing re- in effect about a 20 per cent in- gional editions in Manchester Crease in earnings.
and Scotland have slowly driven The Master Printers and the most of the provincial mornings Today there Newspaper Society, representing out of business. most general printing works and are only 12 left in England. Yorkshire Post, offered Only one, the provincial newspapers.
an increase of about five per has a circulation of more than cent at the 11th hour. The 100,000. unions rejected the offer.
Country districts are better Hundreds of jobbing printers footholds for "momings" than and scores of local newspapers, towns. East Anglla, with no nut belonging to the employers really big cities, at han two, organisations, made their own
at Norwich and Ipswich, and the and with the unions
West Country two, nt Plymouth carried 1. The Fleet Street, and Bristol. Leamington Spa sti! Manchester and Scottish papers has one with a circulation were not affected.
terms
But all the rest, about 1,000 Arms, printing anything from encyclopedias to cigarette pac- keli, stopped production.
Duplicated Sheets
11,000.
of
The other seven provincial "mornings" are produced in the big towns of the Midlands and the North. No town has more than one. Birmingham, with
takes millon-plus population, 78,000 copies of its Post, Nor- But the unions said they wich, with 120,000 people, prints would not declare "black" news- 58,000 of lis Press.
Nearly all these papers lean papers printed by directors of
on their
inore racy the firms and printing appren- heavily
provincial tices, or duplicated broadsheets. stablemates, the
67 of Newspapers started advertising "evenings." There are
these In England and Wales, for extra typists.
The British appetite for most of them far out of reach newsprint well known, but it of the three Ficet Street even is not confined to the 16,000,000 Ings.
350,000
copica of "national" papers The biggest, the Liverpool printed every weekday, or the Echo sells more than 27,000,000 on Sundays.
copies, compared with 73,000 Tor
nor-
JENNINUN
NEWS WEST
M-Laineter Instax BRISTOL Lincolnshire Echo
CONNECT SIRASTIN,
THE TESTWIRY
Arti
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OLDHAM EVENING IN RƏN
PRINT TALKS MARING LITTLE PROGRESS
The Halifax
Weekly Courier & Guardian
Evening Argus
CHRISTINE IS BEA -* two Hidden ha-13 1
straight
Emergency
Edition
try later?
SP DERBY EVENING L
TELEGRAPH
JACK STAMPY ADMITS CIGARETTOn.
GOT SACH
The Guarding Journal
Chening Post NEWS
Will Discuss Popkoss
CEPKONT Eacion d
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KENAL LA The Citizen
"Liverpool Echo
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THE DAILY MAIL EMERGENCY
Evening Sentinel
SPECIAL EDITION
OURNALISTS BACK TO WORK £7 IN CO
AT WOLVERHAMPTON
ppeal for popening
of talks
NORKELAS
EVENING POST
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The Birmingham Mail E
Evening Despatch
HOME POLICY: LARGUE ONYERANTE MUST BE AMI TO DECOR
TATE:
rus montage shows the front pages of some of the British provincial netospapers which are managing to "go to press desplieg nationwide strike of print workers. In some areas, such as Birmingham, Bristol and Nottingham, competing papers are poaling resourcez to produce joint emergency editions. In others, the "local" is coming not of the press but of the duplicating machine.
and
national news, lis print livered coples of the Dally Mail local and
with the note: "This is instaud three papers joined up to print one "black" paper, its editor was of your Yorkshire Post
turned out of the public gallery by the City's Labour council,
Typists-Directors
I devours nearly 1,800 the moming Post, owned by the Several towns still д com- same firm. other papers with
circulation
onc of have more than binod
evening 25,000,000; 2,500,000 provin- paper.
The strike has had interesting claldai1le; 7,500,000 evenings and 15,000,000 week- effects on these dailies.
mal times, the "momings" alm Hes. The weeklies are the oldest to be complete newspapers, giv-
even managed to established Provincial Press, Ing full coverage of world and
the occasional ploture. Some of them have been pub- nailonal news, from agency re- lished continuously for more ports, as well as local happen- The Yorkshire Evening Post, than 200 years, long before there Ings. A local story has to be of on the other hand, was only a were any daily papers outside great Importance to get on the single foolscap sheet, duplicated
front page. The evenings un on both aides.
The most ingenious enterprise and he got into the headlines of London.
of local stories,
Altogether 44 out of 74 dallies was in Bristol. After 10 days the national Press as well as his Today there are more than much fuller 1,000 weekly papers in England though the main national news affected by the strike were com- inaction, the three papers there own paper.
Tiscir and Wales.
Most of these papers have all- ing out, 13 of them in printed got together and produced is is there, too. news
But the strike changed all form, in the first week, Those joint printed evening "News of nounced that they were appear- strictly local, bul elreulations
not printing at all put out dig. the West." This was promptly ing in dificult times as an act -plays-in-office-windows_and_declared "block." and someof duty to the pubile, as well as
names to keep their toured the streets with loud- journalists walked out. 'speaker vans. In some towns -But the papers' profits are to public bye. This is not just here was a revival of the pro- go to charity, and 200 members cant. Most of the emergency
of the staff, from typlats
to editions, without 'advertisements, fession of Town Crier.
Small papers like the Old managers, were made directors, can hardly pay the vendor's ham Evening Chronicle proud in an effort to make the paper wages and must be suffering ty printed pictures of chairman at least "grey" The Post's diary, heavy losses.
can be big. The South London that. Pross, a good suburban ̄weekly, has as many readers as the daily Birmingham Post.
Pictures, Too
duplicated Typical of the At least 100 local weeklien affected by the stoppage are still mornings was the Derby Evening Four-fiths are in Telegraph, a single sheet folded appearing. printed form, many with 10 or to make four Toolscap pagcz, ΠΙΟ ΓΟ pages. The rest are selling at id. instead of the mimeographed. Directors of normal 21⁄2d.
small newspapers can usually turn their hands to the presets,
and It is riot difficult to produce,
a few thousand "copies.
them mado clever use of hand-written lettering in its headlines
Probably the brit of
11. the Telegraph
a
"Black Boy's overalls, ally headed
Diary,"
and directors
fr
* slaving at the presses,
The Yorkshire Post crept back "Diary," into print after a week, after an
appeared simply
Nottingham. soon solved
Dy
in
Tho
It will be interesting to see how many "English, provinciall the newspapora, temporarily out of over-eager newangent had 'de- difficulty of choosing between action, never to appear again,