When you think of blood, think of it as Life
EV
VERY drop of your blood contains 250 million red corpuscles, 400,000 white corpuscles, and 15 million other ́oddments called platelets-and all suspended in a pale yellow nectar called plasma.
If you ask me how. I know this. 1 can only realy out the
x.rs told mit and
them.
hellove
I cut the lobe of my left ear while shoving
the
other
merite. It was a tiny et. val it fow
ຕາມກ thousand theles And other things
Il ter
while a chan iv. But with the facts have just conveyed to you still fre in my mind (1 had just
emphlet #laminat them), 45 A drops of blood now signifiennes for
d
In Pagination they
mul
A validously. They be
Just come, my stead only, The deallons of thousands wapanda of people who give thousands of burties f bic. I to the buspifalt each year, De erat dy-needed bloat which,
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has been estimated, saves in Un voy fteen Bina: 11,husat The year.
TOO COLD
Blund. Then, is hig busness, Shoh that fe to cold and re me fra way of putting it,
The blod nest by hospitis
Bows from healthy, willing. snejhly-conscious people . -- intal
By a Special Correspondent
They
are off by ambulance. Lake with them a precious par- cel-which holds blood.
Sho They
They find the condition of the woman lu be critical. needs blood desperately.
ve
"blind" without knowing to which blood group she be fongs, but they have brought with them, and this Kroup O should be safe.
They give the woman Gree ints and this brings back her hulse: her blood pressure, now, Is just accordable, She is si?} very
Meanwhile the umbulance has been dispatched with a sample of the patient's own blood, and returns with two pints from v matching group. This is trans- fused.
ROUTINE
Half-an-hour later the patient
It le intr sture-trueis beck is to much better that a small
to hendtuntees to be played ration can 134 performed. and grouped thoner into Be Three-quarters-of-un-hour after "banks" and the hospitals. And that she recovers consciousness; then, yulekly, but is a matter Bow of routine, a patient needs. it Imperatively, and another fe is suved.
Why do the world's medical services need this ever-increasing forrent of blood? Why won't the neeth of a dreade ago sutisfy medien! requirements now?
The answer is quite simple. It is that medient crience, leaping abel, discovers Bew ways of saving life, and dramatis new palliatives for chronic illnesses, And almost every one Beed blood to make it effective. Let me give you a few recent exam- plex
the pulse is good and elf she goes in hospital. Ten days later she discharged, fully coverext.
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As I say, It's almost routine But there's still some and therefore high novelty,
other and drama, in the
rurer cases, where the ilfe of ebild is in the balance.
the
Previously, in the ensus of the Fort I am about to describe, Bul the babies simply died.
then, in 1946, the discovery of the Rin sus factor in blood was made,
The grouping of blood Into Road trafe in almost every dif
qualities l country inerenses astronomically been know what now became do tu neridents. A apparet was that each person, end so
of all serious whatever group his or her blood high proportion auad accident eases need blood belonged to, was either positive
transfusions.
or negative. It was further di coverze that the positives ware
in a single case of serious rore numarou about 05 burning, a patient may need up every. 100.
to twenty bottles of plasmu,
so you ca
imagine what de-
the
fe
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1959.
"One minute they tell us thore won't be anybody around in 2959
THE ROCKET'S
SECRET MEANING
KHRUSHCHEV'S MASTER STROKE CONCEALS THE STALEMATE
OF FEAR INSPIRING HIS VISIT
TN ordering a rocket crash-landing on the moon on the night before he set out for the U.S., Mr Khrushchev had one political purpose: To demonstrate that Russia's rockets are now so reliable that any time he chooses he can launch missiles accurate enough to hit the moon-or New York.
He has unquestionably succeeded. Western defence experts are tremendously impressed by the timing and accuracy of this second "Lunik." It was so precise that it captured the word's head- lines immediately before Mr K. reached the U.S., yet did not compete with him for news-space.
I was so necurate that It com- pletely overshadows all previous feats of misälle mark.manship.
disasters may make ugon
ECHT 3 st regional blood POSERUITERS of bank.
Symbol
to
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London Express Bervice
-by- Chapman Pincher
In 1999- standing room only
IN just another 40
years, if the world population increases `at its present rate, there will be one person on every square yard of the earth's surface, zoolorist Dr L. Harrison Mat- thews told the British Association recently,
And ware of the future, be mid, might be waged to sccure stunding room. The obvious requirement was a method of restricting fertility after the best
denalty population
for each part of the world had been fixed.
Dr Malliowe, father of two children, went 01: "Aldous Huxley's pill for the bravo new world has not yet been pro- duced, but I have no doubt the problem will be solved.
"We might then find Govern- ments imposing a heavy tax on the parents of more than two or three children, and abandon- Ing the folly of subaldising Irresponsible parents for laying further burdens upon their neighbours in an already over- populated country.
It is surprising that there are bishops willing to bless battle- ships, bomber planes, or troops before battle, but who condemin birth control.
"It is dimcult to ballove that it is right to inflict indescribable suffering upon people, but that Is wrong to avold procreat- ing them to endure such Lorrors."
London Express Service,
John Griffiths visits Russia and · says...
I
Self-confidence
abounds, but.....
DOUBT if a 20-year stay in Russia would provide anyone with firm, detailed conclusions about the country or its people, but patterns and attitudes occurred with sufficient frequency during my stay to justify at least a hypothesis.
The overwhelming impression I got was of the genuine desire of the people for peace. They want The British Government to be able to get on with reaching the goal of carried in a trunk, if not an attack with such weapons is view the prospeel of defence plenty, which, while promised, has seemed so far
other big centres of population out of reach for so long-but which now have been virtually declared appreciably nearer.
yet small enough
suitcase, has now been realised.
The dimercions of the new U.S. rocket called Minuteman give away this secret. Its H-
on warhead is c cylinder only 31. long and 31. wide.
The radioactive fall-out from
enormous that entire so blenkly that London and all countries could be made un-
50
inhabitable.
-Advances
In
It is officially estimated that East It Communist bases domed Germany
were heavily bombed end the wind happened to be
from the ext, blowing to 8 per cent of Britain could be dangerously contaminated by full-out.
This new knowledge enabled maids industrial or aircraft tectors to apprehend the possi
woch of the by in sume
should Mr K want to Why
ballistle bullseye just bible: treing born with serious anemia; to give constant pre-
when he seems to be in the natul treatinent and to be ready mood to ease East-West tension? for the immcelule blood trans-
iny This
onc means that his main Because although nearly lavays, fusion which nowadays, saves the baby's life purpose in meeting President Agliter under the control of one man can deliver more explosivo to there is-some of Elsenhower is Well,
make
than a the bombers of all sides the effort genuine
to stop the information contained in a
dropped in the Second World pamphlet about blood Trans- nuclear arms race, he wants to
that he speaks War. And the cost of producing make it clear fusiott.
much There's
more
from strength-that he is not such a weapon is down to about than this, of course,
tu heel by £250,000. brought being countless There
shu- arc
Western threats. Allu mented instances in every
But more dramatic than thy of examples I have given, that it for the simple reason could affect any family, is the their raving of mothers and newly-born babies.
A baby is boreal is healthy. Eut the mother has repeated haemorrhages, and it seems
if she will die. But not these days.
nurse rings
the
Danger
There is no need for bombers to get near Moscow to take it uninhabitable from fall-out.
Open Cities in the event of air eticek.
No effort will be made to defend them.
Fear
In this Arst meeting we are already witnesslag how in the
.
DAILY
Self-confidence
seems
girl whom I know from leaving
One Russian student put it to me rather neatly:
"Run la is like a runner who Russia to marry a Westerner i These, I belleve, are the basic har had a bad start in a long-resented. facts which have motivated the distance race. She is red be-
This is not a cause for high cause she has had to come fur up Khrushchev Eisenhower reel-
The forces of destruction in a short me to close the optimism, which would be quite
unwarranted. ings.
We are not going sides are soon the leaders, but she knows
Russla to convert
into outrageous that there is a com- she must make the effort to go available to both
sill faster to be first past the Western-style democracy over- plete stalemate of fear.
night, or even at all. It might past. I think she will win."
not be a good thing it we could.
The Russians, by and largė, The same applies to New York because the Russians have
have complete faith in their way elther made or will make the
abounds of life, and in Socialism, end are They have face of such overwhelming fear everywhere slace the end of the proud of both. same nuclear advances.
Both Khruschev and political pride is beginning to Stalin ura, but it is still not done much for the ordinary President Eisenhower take second place. Mr Khrush-strong enough to do away with Russian.
has chev
made considerable fear. know that there is no
What scars have been left by zacrilico in making the Jounicy It follows that the amount of
In order to keep the Russian the years of oppression I am not It is also a Atting symbol for destructive punch which
prospect of any defensive to see President Eisenhower in car
move Stalin people ever-reaching to greater in a position to judge, but scars the talks between the two leaders now be picked
into t big which will affect the issue Washington—a because they have been driven to bomber of giant rocket
eventiality, over the next 10 critical would never have countenanced, efforts, and to greater prepared there must be. The President risks politieelness for any They
through technicul fantastic. meet mainly
years.
censure from many Americans Russian lenders feel obliged to cach developments in
koop the weapon
their brains awash with the
Work on the anti-missile for inviting him.
Left to think for business which have frightened
Naturally In this early propaganda.
Yet the very fuct that op- everybody in the know.
missile i proving so slow and
Is
feel they must themselves they might conse to unpromising that there
sparring they
that neither is fear other countries and slacken Pression is no longer openly dis- thni
played as a weapon of pelley strong chance
the only make it plain
to the other, their efforts.
makes me feel that the Russian Western weapon system which knuckling under
to counter The moon-shot makes this polni However, as Russia
grows people have come passively to could be available missiles before 1970-the Nike for Mr K. without any, sabre-
daily more confident In her accept Communist rule, the lack und the ralling on his part. Zeus-will be scrapped.
of personal freedom and, perhaps own strength, through
surrender of personal respons!- the medium
the of
in every hospital office ladleat- that tar blood is always needed by -meone else
DJ
What happens in these course we all know that; bat fi frequent cases, if the contine remetimes needs a stimulus 10 ment is at home, is that the ring it home. materialy
the transfusion services hospital. The hospital mobilises get enough blood? No. Its resources; a consultant ob make ends meet-bul, stetrician, a house surgeon, year, it must be "more of nurse pack their equipment and game."
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The moon-rocket makes this point for him in the most spec- tocular way.
One heavy U.S, B52 bomber or a Russian Tu95. can now de- liver up to 60 megatons of ex- The truth is that the plosive. This is equal to the nightmare concept of an amount of high explosive which H-bomb powerful enough could be packed in a goods train
stretching halfway round to destroy capital city world.
A
Sicilyalar
7-9
tho
CHUCKLES
MeHaught Bradlute, Inom {
17-26
- Amrelian Legion Magazine
"That's a stranga 'request, Qillman wanting to etry here and work during your vacation"
#
Medavakt Syndicate. Ing
- American Legion Magazine
"And now, in your own words, will you tell the court just frow you were able to avoid paying
income taxes for 17 years?"
the
international exchangos taking by.
in the physical sense.
ATTITUDE
J
place these days, more aware Tals dzes not mean that thoir ihat the West will play fair, she attitude has become immutable. may feel less aggressive and less It does mean that change will assertive; but this is only rue be cautious and gradual and that (a nuclear holocaust apart) they are unlikely to roject to Communism for years to conte
And we must lean to live so as not to with Communiom
IMPACT
The thorn in Russia's tide remains the fear of a rearmed
Germany seeking revenge. Until live under it,
1 is removed, or at least Russia's energy and Industry, blunted, Russia will continue to her welfare schemes and hor be gorded into recklesmess. In technical skills, her achieve view of this I rate Dr Adenauer's mats, has optimism, her intel- I ungrudgingly and recent letter on peaceful inten- lect ilona as one of the most signt genuthely admire. Alcuni diplomatic acts since the
With..
On the ether hand there is much in Rusia thal 1 abhor-
dividual who
The Russians dot only believe though I never met an in- in the, absolute superiority of rence in me. their economic system, but also
croured abhor.
This is the important thing. that it can be spread throughout The man I work with, or Live next door to, may disagree with
the world,
the existence
It is worth bearing in mind, ma deeply on eve such funda- that, when the Russians talk of mental issues as
I don't the value of exchanging idens, of Ged, but provided they really mean the value of thrust my ideas down his throat bombarding us with their own nor ho his down mine we, can and being dent to ours.
work and live together peace- fully. There is another side to the
We may even come to like Russian picture that would each other. welcome the Impact of treaḥ, If both cles can remember thinising and above all, fresh this end as yet they do not-s information from the West.
there is no regson why we' and Hurkiors (prople People belleve their letters tho
don't like it, leaders alice) cenot are opened and Restrictions on travel are irk tolerant acquaintances, it
yome to many. Above all, the good friends, bititude that prevents a Russian We must,
and brcome
not
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