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CONVERSATION between a Doctor and a
“The man who discovers a cure for the common cold will deserve any honour we can give him," said the Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, eighteen months ago.
M
So far the cold wins. Nine people out of every ten catch at least one cold a year.
problem."
micro
buses, theatres, stuffy rooms, day you will be better. I And telephones. You might promise. even be called pampered by dis D: Well, one thing I know, at respectful people.
least 50,000 people ought to M: To a certain extent you're have done that to-day, instead of right. Do you remember that which they are just spreading explorer fellow, Lincoln Ells you all over the place. And as worth, who came to London a well as infecting people round few weeks ago? He had spent them, their own work is only three years in the Antarctic and about half as efficient. I'm be- came back bursting with health: ginning to feel a sore throat But not for long. On November myself..
24 he arrived in London, on M: Just what I thought. November 24 he caught a cold. Remember now, if you must do
"ICROBE: Well, I'm Middlesex Hospital found that And the same thing happened the heroic, go slow, just do the out. He admitted a week or to Mr. Andrew Croft, who came things that would worry you if quite willing to
two back that inoculation was home Inst September after they were not done. -talk to
"tinkering I'm only you.
with the thirteen months in the Arctic. D (smithing): You don't seent
We like our little joke. Phone 27778-9 Stubbs Rd. not afraid of giving away
to think much of us human D: Yes. I remember now, the D: Yes, but one of these days beings. secrets. To start with, you workers, 350 of them over a laughing. For one thing, some a little respect for, but even he G.P.O. tried inoculating 900 we'll get' you, and then we'll be A: Well, there is one I have can't see me, and you don't three year period; but only recent experiments show that is as much at my mercy as-for know what I look like. All ed any Improvement. I suppose in their early stages by going fessor Dochez, of New York. about 10 per cent, of them show apparently colds can be cured instance-jou are. I mean Pro- you know is that I am the you were in on that.
up to ten thousand feet in an He and his assistants were the M: I was. I tell you one thing airplane. gerin that gives you a cold. find, siner they gave us the
people who came to the con- M: 'm. There's probably clusion that I am a virus infec- chance to go about it system- nothing in it, you see, How- tion, one of those tiny little tically. Men seem to have ever, I'll give you a tip.
organisms by which a disease is stronger resistance than women, I tion't mind telling you the transmitted. That is your best and women stronger than girls best way to keep us at bay. guess so far; though I'm not ar boys. And another thing; (Because 1 am sure that no one saying it's right. He found out it doesn't matter what precau will be sensible enough to take by making tests on a lot of tions you take. If we want you the advice.) When you find chimpanzees, the only laboratory to have a cold you're going to yourself with a slight headache, animals (except hedge-hogs) have it. Nothing gives us more dry throat, sluggishness, and which catch colds Over here pleasure than infecting the generally feeling not so good you only used human beings to tough gentlemen who wear open- (here the doctor shiners) don't confirm his discovery. necked shirts all the year round, get up in the morning. Stay in D (miffs). under the impression that this bed. Get warm, take some salts. M (checrily): Well, as I said hardens them against us. They gargle, and douche your nose before, if you want to make. sheer at colds and end by every two, hours (I'm talking things as difficult as possible for sneezing at them.
like you, doctor!). Have ten us, eat wall, keep healthy, and D: All the same, you must grains of aspirin, plenty to keep away from dangerous admit that you do best in ultra- drink, and sweat. Keep plenty places. civilised conditions. You lovy of fresh air in the room. Next. D: Atishoo!
The
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1937,
Doctor (miling): Yes. All we know about you (and we're not so very sure about that) is that it would take at least a hundred million million of you and your friends to cover a shilling.
M: Let me remind you that you also know, or should know, Urat last month was the month in which we did
most of our dirty work.
Dand in March. Decen- ber and March are your best
months, we calculate.
M: And yourd, if you get my meaning, doctor. I pride myself that I am your greatest asset. And, of course, your greatest disgrace.
EMPIRE MIGRATION
Increased financial provision with a view to expanding the present volume of Empire migration has just been ap proved by the House of Commons, with an understand Jing that the suggested maximum
of £1,500,000 for this purpose it? may be increased if it is. found D: I'd like to hear your side, that if you live in a town you M: Now, you know this much,
to be inadequate. The matter is
D: Well, I suppose you 'could put it like that-(miffs),
M: Shall I tell you how I do
Are Mongrels the Best Men?
one for co-operation between the breathe every hour about 14,000 No question is at present
TO Mother Country and Dominions, and Mr. Malcolm the time the air gets to your of the nation.
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By Prof. E. W. MACBRIDE
The Fighting Races
counted
even-
If
two
Sicilies to become a by-word for Ignorance, superstition, and brigon- dage,
feated Hannibal,
wore sadly deci- mated by that war, and the cultiva- tion of Italy was largely handed over to slave labour The Roman civili- sation would have followed the that it is for the later nations hope the little beasts will get igently discussed we must clearly
Greek to ruin had it not been for a how to say the word "Go." thinned out by mucus and the distinguish between a nation and a
Krent reservoir of the Saxon race little bairs which line your nose,uce, for the two terms are by no
which inhabited the German forests There has been considerable
Well, to give you a cold we means synonymous. Thus the ma
to the north of Italy. These people, prominence given to this ques-have to get past here. Then land, the Dutch, a considerable pro- jority of the Lowlanders of Scot-
who were called Goths, had an in- born love of fighting; they tion in the Dominions latterly, there is the second line of de- portion of the inhabitants of North and cloudy. The soll was poor and
enlisted in the armies of Rome, much as to- since it involves not only the fence, the little white corpuscles inhabitants of Norway and Sweden dant source of food was fish, ng in- tually composed the greater part of Germany, and the majority of the
unproductive, and the most abun- tish Armies in India. They
day the Ghurkas enlist the Bri- question of the development of in your blood. The easiest time belong to the same race. The indeed it is to-day.
territories but also
to get past these is when, for habitants of Central France, Southern the
the Roman forces, whilst the Roman finding of work for men who with a draught coming under tria are members of a secondi, nimsiest of boats and to face and quietly pushed aside by the Gothic To gain this food our forefathers Emperor became more and more a instance, you sit in a hot room Germany, Northern Italy, and Aus-
had to venture out to sea in the titular nobody, till he was finally cannot be absorbed in the Okl the door. Hot heads and cold tong
different race. To a third race be- ride through sudden squalls. Unless lender. The Roman Empire in this Country. The Dominions do feet make for bad circulation. Southern Italians, and the Greeks.
the Spanish, Portuguese, the crew of such a boat held toge- way outlasted the Great. Empire by not, however, want unemploy-So that the mucus dries up and
ther and were faithful to one an about 700 years, A race, then, consists
a group other, their doom was certain. The ables; they seek men who are
we can get in easier.
of mankind distinguished from other dull sky through which only sickly its place was not taken by the sturdy When the Saxon stock died out, itted for the kind of work which
D) (shivering): Yes, and many and mental characteristics in common. traction and final loss of the brown duced belong to a race now repre- groups by having certain physical sunbeams penetrated led to the re- Etruscans. The slave peoples Intro-, will lie before them overseas.
a cold has been caught by going These characteristics have been ac- pigment of the eye and of the hair, sented by Syrians and Arabs, and, A well-known Vancouver manu-bath.
into a cold room after a hot quired by their exposure to
the for this pigment acts as a protection startling, as it may seem, by the same environment for thousands of of the delicate facturer touched
retina and years, an environment against which against excessive sunshine. The cold and the south-west of Ireland.
slcull small dark people from West Wales many M: Oh, no: your mistake, they had to struggle to maintain climate led to delay in attaining full was the spread of this rate that led interesting aspects of the That's just a superstition. We
sexual development, and this was to the Bnal undoing of the Roman problem in a recent address. He nearly always get to work by
the cause of the great stature, for civilisation, and caused the south of pointed out that Canada will choosing one victim (the doctor
nothing inhibits growth as much as Italy-the kingdom of the too early sexual indulgence, increase its imports na its here mixes himself a hot drink) manufacturing industries
as the base for attacking an- grow
During the historic perlod men and
other: nine out of ten colds are have been great wanderers, and mix- need more raw materials,
In prehistoric times, when indivi- The Seeds of Decay remarking that to provide a
caught from some one else. tures of races have been continually dual strength and courage
D: Aha! Isolate the victim. taking place; sometimes the weaker for much, and arms for little, it was domestic market for manu-Another thing,
has been overwhelmed and inevitable that this what factured products the Dominion inoculation?
these einssical about
exterminated, but generally, it has
should needs immigration from the
survived as the lower grade of the swarms of young men went forth to tory, and their effects can be die- spread far and wide. Every spring examples of the mixture of races, beenuse they have passed into his- M: Inoculation's
mixed society. no good. during the waning phases of fairy tales, which are Indeed only torian. The very same races which But in prehistoric seek their fortunes they do. In passionately discussed by the his- United Kingdom as well as the Your friend Dr. Moncrieff at the the Glacial epoch, means of tran- the dim and distorted legends of this lived then persist still to-day, the Scandinavian countries. A
sport were rudimentary and mess warning was at the same time $92,000,000 worth of goods to movements of people practically non-Europe and subjected to their sway three, and the ancestry, of most of They over-ran the whole of British population is made up of nil issued that unless Canada opens Britain, and her imports there- periods that
existent, and it was during these the races which they found there- us is mixed. Nevertheless the mix- the leading races of and they did this not once but many ture is to a certain extent unstable, her arms to farm-trained men from reached approximately the mankind received their permanent times. and women from the Mother-same total.
features.
and the discerning reader will easily Other figures show
The latest authority an Greek and see evidence of a certain tendency land, the latter would find it that the United Kingdom bought the great races was alluated is by out that the statues
Where the original home of each of Roman civilisation, Gunther points to strailleation, and the preponder necessary to subsidise them and £21,000,000 worth from Russia, no means certain, but the race in ancient
and busts of ance of each one of the three at a which we take most interest--the countrymen of Mussolini but Eng-
Romans represent not the certain level in society. protect their products by raising which purchased in turn only fair- thoroughly investigated, and with their yellow beruser. Homme Saxon race prepondentes ruga- In Sweden and rural Scotland the tariffs against the Dominion. £3,000,000; from Denmark pretty locks were mem-out all levels. The
through- we can form a good guess as to the bers of the same race, as were the portions of the Mediterranean race compared with place where it originated and the Spartans who "combed their golden represented by the influx of Welsh perous times, it is claimed, has | £13,000,000; from Germany circumstance in which it was born hair, before engaging in unequal and Irish into the industrial centres been due to two causes-she put £30,000,000, compared with The physical features of this racej and hopeless combat with the Per-is bringing about her house in order carly in the £18,000.000;, and
an alteration In from.
when it is found purest, as in Sweden Blons in the pass of Thermopylae. the character of the population, an the and the North of Scotland, are fair Now Gunther points out that the alteration which many thoughtful depression, and 97 per cent. of United States £87,000,000, com- hair, tall stature, narrow head, long ruling race in Greece who alone bore observers deplore. For her population is white, mostly pared with £22,000,000. There small blue eyes. Its spiritual features by the Peralan
straight nose,
the mem- and comparatively arms were gradually, exterminated bers of this race are notoriously [Anglo-Saxon. In the case of is
wars and by their rani
rapid breeders, and tend to a strong feeling in Canadaos they may be termed-in a word, own internecine Peloponesalan wor gate in the slums, in which they pro- Canada, it is claimed that she is that the economic links between the character of its men and women As they disappeared and were re- duce large families. Fifty years ago living up to the Ottawa agree the
are Intrepid courage, enterprise, and placed partly by aboriginal racer, the majority of their children died, Motherland artd the Initiative, honesty and loyalty to partly by Imported slaves, Greek now, owing to humanitarian scnti- ment, buying dollar for dollar Dominions
civilisation perished can be greatly comrades. with the United Kingdom, whose strengthened, and that a wise southern shores of the Baltic and later, times became known
and became ment, they are preserved at the cost merely Its original home lay.around the
a memory, and Greeks in of the State; and so this section of population is more than thres system of Empire migration the North Sen. This region in Post-
nimble-witted
as a the population tends to become more and untrustworthy and more preponderant. If this con- mes that of the Dominion would help materially in this glacial times was even more The The Roman peasant stock, who produce exactly the same effects in "! sequence follows it will eventually climate was cold without much snow, after a colossal" struggle finally de- (Continued on Page 5.)
Australia's return to more pros£32,000,000,
Lant you
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Canada exported direction.
race
Lime.
race.
race
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congre-