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The Harvest
IT IS exactly a month since General Franco and Signor Musso- lin each proclaimed, in exultant publle addresses, that the wor Spain was over.
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A roference to the Telegraph" files shows the following statements: March 28 "The war in Spain Is over." Signor Mussolini.
April 1-To-day the Red army is captive. ..the war is over." General Franco's last communique.
Now read the following:
"I desire to reaffirm that if this evacuation fins not been completed of the moment of the termination of the Spanish civil war, all Italian volunteers
leave
remaining
will forthwith Spanish territory And all Italian war material will simultanc- ously be withdrawn."
That also is Signor Mussolini. It is the pledge he gave Mr. Chamber"" Jain in the Anglo-Italian Agree- ment.
Last week it was officially an- nounced 1 Derlin
that General Franco has agreed to join the anti- Comintern Pact.
answers
to
Here, then, are two those who throughout the Spanish war argued that Britain's policy of "non-intervention"
would win Franco's gratitude in the end. That bit of wishful thinking has
been blown to the winds. Franco's grati- lude and quite naturally, too-has been reserved for those who helped him by guns and bombs and acro- planes to crush the Spanish Repub- lic.
Italy also agreed to Non-Interven- tion, and broke her word on that pledge. The British Government dis- graced itself by maintaining a so- obviously one-sided arrangement
after it became clear that neither Italy nor Germany intended to keep their word. Non-Intervention for from ensuring strict neutrality, aided Franco to victory.
The Democracies are faced now with the fruits of their policy. As a result of Britain's and France's self-delusion and wilful obstinacy at a time when the whole of Spain might have been made a bastion ogainst the dictators, the commupl-
HELP IS ON THE WAY V
·TUC
He'll live to be
NYONE, except a new, inexperienced father, would have recognised
Aa hundred
as a normal, new-
born infant.
"Do you think he'll live?" asked my friend, anxiously sur- voying his first-born.
Why, he'll live to be a hun- dred," said the doctor cheerfully, as he gathered up his bag.
The trouble with young fathers 18 that they are so literal-minded about their offspring.
"Did he really mean that?" my friend asked me when the doctor had gone.
"Well," I said, judicially, "your son can expect to live fourteen years longer than you could when you were born."
If I had had the chance I would have explained what that meant, but he had already dashed to the telephone to tell his relatives....
What I had been trying to tell him was that the average span of life when he was born was not three-score-years-and-ten, but 48 years. To-day, because of the health services and the advances in medical knowledge it is about 42.
And that is still only half of the life-span which the biologist from his study of animals would ascribe, to man. Because in animals we find that the period which they take to reach physical maturity- when all their bones are set and their teeth complete-is a Afth of their normal life.
the TN human beings
wisdom teeth may bo sald to complete the body-structuro. Those appear at Five times 23 or 24 years of age. that gives 120.
Surgeon-General Thomas Por- of the United States Public Health Service, has been telling a Committee of Congress how we could add another ten years to the life-span. how we could give the Psalmist's "three-score years and
800,000 More
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Orders for further 800,000 domes- tic steel air-raid sheltern at Home have been placed. Plans have been made for intensive production,
The first delivery of 400,000 shelters
pleted.
cations of the British Empire are to householders will soon be com- thrown into the direst peril and the French Army must face possible Invasion from the west as well as the cost and south.
Sir John Anderson announced in the House of Commons recently, the names of the 12 AR.F, Commissioners who will control regions in England, Scotland and Wales. Twelve deputies have also been appointed, and It in expected that these names will be announced at the same time.
British statesmanship and sense of fair play has changed radically since the days when. Wellington and Moore chased Napoleon, from Spanish, soll. On that occasion Britain alded the Spanish people against a dictator.Finsbury deep shelter scheme, may
During the past two and a half years Britain has reversed her polley to such an extent that, far from aiding the Spanish people against an allen Invader whose'alms and objects were no less inimical to our interests than were Napoleon's, she has passively. aided the dictators to achieve their object.
THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. zolini and Hitler intervened in
Who can doubt now but that Mus-
Spain, not to crush the "Reds", but to eruáti, it possible, the democracies?
The report of experts appointed by Sir John Anderson to investigate the be made public. before Easter.
BASEMENTS
Experiments in the strutting of basements have been concluded and a report, on this form of protection may also be made soon,
Wholesale provision firms have been naked by the Food Defence Plans Department to form groups to ensure regular supplies of food in wur-time. If one "firm were put out
of action its business would be con tinued by other members of the group under Güveritment supervision.
by RITCHIE CALDER
(REPORTING PROGRESS)
ten" to the average man and
› woman.
At the moment only one in forty people in Britain live longer than that,
That additional ten years he has pointed out would be the dividend which medical science could ‘de- clare if only the knowledge which is now available for the treatment or prevention of tuberculosis, pneumonia, cancer, and other diseases could be fully applied..
Bre
EMEMBER, WO living in the Golden Age of Medical Know- ledge. Greater advances have been made in the last 25 years in the study of human weaknesses and diseases than at any period in his- tory.
One hundred years ago the aver- age life-span of the town labourers was less than 20 years. That is to say, the high infantile death-rate, the deaths through tuberculosin and the other discases
which struck down the labouring classes before they reached adult life, ro- duced their chances of surviving to a third of what they would be to-day.
Nowadays, we are saving more and more children by proper care both of mothers and infants. But it stni is not good enough. In- deed, another generation will con- sider it disgraceful. The infant death-rate in New Zealand is less than half what it is here.
It is true that the infant death- rate has been halved in less than
40 years, but what right has the Ohtof Medical Officer of Health to talk about the rate "approaching the irreducible minimum" when other countries aro doing 80 much better?
Especially when well-to-do suburbs of London can show an in- fant death-rata of 82 per thousand births compared with 114 in, for instance, poverty-stricken Jarrow- on-Tyne.
Through poverty and the dis- cases to which it gives rise, more than half-a-million men, women, and children-in-the North and in Wales died prematurely in the last ten years. Year after year in those "districts we are sacrificing 50,000 human beings who, but for poverty, might have lived a full life span,
That is the grim side of the reckoning,
N the credit side, we have the great strides which have been made in preventing or treating human diseases the rapid decrease in the death-mate from tuberculosis and infectious diseases, the vast im- provements in hospital methods. and, prophetic of степ advances, the growing knowledan of how the Human body works. Eclence is finding the koys to Nature's secrets. We are learning - how the glands, which promote growth and control the processes of living, work.
From these we can learn how
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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By Lichty
I lost control of the car and drove past three bargain
rules before I could stop it."
In
men and women grow old. animals, scientists have speeded up the life-process. In human beings It may be possible to slow it down, prolong the life-span. We may be able to adjust the balances as a watchmaker adjusts a clock.
For instance, it is now known that in the pituitary, a gland no bigger than a pea situated at the base of the brain, there is a chemical-producer which nets as a counter-balance, to the tiny glands, "The Islets of Langerhans" pro- in the pancreas, The "Islata duce the insulin which controls the amount of sugar in the blood.
Tow if that sugar is ex- cessive, it causas dia- betos. But if, on the other hand, there is an excess of ' insulin, it is equally fatal. And the job of part of the pituitary is to prevent that.
This method of check and coun- various ter-check between the
glands seems to govern the work- Ings of..the body, and the methods. by which men and women reach maturity and then gradually de- cline into old age..
Maybe we will be able to coun- terfeit those counter-checks and postpone the decline.
In the last few years we have been given drugs which doctors de- scribe as 'miraculous,"
"Prontos!!," the red anbine dye converted into powerful drug by German chemists, makes it pos sible to wipe out deaths from child-bed fever.
Ita offspring "M and B 603," produced by a British firm. through study, of 'Prontosil," has hed phenomenal results in the proven- tion of deaths from pneumonia, meningitis and other gern dis-
cases.
Books on medicine are out of date before they are a year old, to rapid is the advance. Every week brings something new.
Maybe my friend is the father of a centenarian.
Germans Not To Marry Foreigners
Berlin.
A law is to be issued shortly by the Reich Government forbidding marriage between Germans and foreigners.
Boxes.
It will apply to both Present marriages are not affected
by it.
It is probable that a "zero hour" for lovers who are already engaged and contemplate matrimony will"be annexed to the law, so: that Berlin may expect a rush to tho altars and register offices this spring.
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· “GERMANIC PURITY? German girls consider it a great privilege to be able to marry a man, of foreign nationality, as by obtaining the passport of another Stata they can escape the wearisome responsi blities now heaped upon themse
This measure which will en
SI Mie purity" in the future]
is considered in Berlin political cir- cles as a symptom of the radical
policy which has hitherto
this year.
It is not yet known whether law will forbid marriage, with Ger mah-speaking -nationals of othẨn States-German-Americans, formaja
in Poland 'and1people of Czech, Hưn garian and swiss blood):
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