THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1950.
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Directed by R. O SPRINGSTEEN
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By CHAPMAN PINCHER
century
HE medical man of the century went back recently to the small green-tiled room where 21 years ago he chanced on the clue which led him to his great
discovery.
THE MAN was 68-year-old Nobel prize-winner Sir Alexander Fleming.
THE ROOM was a one-time laboratory at St. Mary's
Because of space shortage, it is now Hospital, W. student-doctor's bedroom.
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THE DISCOVERY was the drug penicillin. As Fleming stood by the window overlooking busy Praed-street, his mind went back to that lucky September day when a certain microscopic mould-spore drifting in the air had settled on one of the many glass dishes ha And filled with gultures of virulent germa.
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to build up thai chanee event. Jika The most for-reaching medienį advance since Pasteur discovered disease germis nearly 100 years ago.
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burning curiosity which made him look closer at The entrimitated dish instead of discarding it A junt another spotted experimen!
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alive all those killing mout! years in case it should ever be Amil The Tories" So far, I needed
Fleming, must confess, they do bƐ seerzi
yan with a 1950 "new Florey, and the scientista to be much better.
who followed them look" in to bo-seen on the tid far more
than produce roads of Holland. While Mr Atlee's party offers | rapkt cure for piyumonia, tes bigger dose of Soghalls to blood-poisoning, bringing
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en toy when i was born, Rave us an tsaays a series of gifts that have transforms! life, in luding the airplane. The stra tograph radio, and television
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muruka, may prove to be the most inwoneradun duwuvery for good Iltal truan ban ever Grader
"Ah, but,"
CAR young indien Ney. "how Trirable life was for the ordinary family
When life was happier, freer
Thant is DON'T you believe it
politician's story
Some people suffered too much hard- ship,
they
to- VANI
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do
day, but for the majority of IMIT people was happler, freer, and more satisfying for most of the half- century than it is today.
A man was the raaster of his own destiny, He could tale
make his career with ease in any açtivliy he chose, which is more than he can do today.
il today pride in werk seem Largely to have gone
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honest, Fast
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The idea that you must start on your own feet is sorusd
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t th slower You wirk ward the nure you dodge, the greater Fellow YOU KNO tautions shendid come the bustness of the payers to keep your
Now, that outlook 121 Bf Can only bring disaster in the erud Therefore one of the first tutus facing us 10 Lar new half- century is to get it out of our system.
I differ profoundly from Mir Aneurin Bevan and others of his kind who take the view that you must hate those who were born
a downer bed than you were. I think that is a contemptible philosophy. No country and no people can ever rise to greatness by practising ft. No I
I say that
Another change we must make in the new half-century is to purge the minds of people
who have swallowed such non-
sense.
11 is not by hatred
ut other that we shall rise, but by widen- the opportunities of those
ing
ourselves to rulu because
we are stißing It.
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But ully the body is new. The keep the cold winds of life from tons, und other emonly
chassis., 20 years old, was once Mi
party fatal complaints. Churchille
They started used on the streets of London think very much to the uld wor
a world search for mould ex We dont get back to the sys-
as a bus. Flora discomfort merely coun- tracts which may yield cures ten of hfe wherein a man with lets wit FI pelley thi look for every germ disease.
1930 Leyland The bus. arreative k can one mile pretty much like a bluer brand | Within three years of fol
double-decker, after service in give full play without first
lowing the new lead, American London was sold to a provincial scientists found
yeast-like fungus which
needing
Tenor from Government official
One L
WS ENT esture the
Cours
thin know crolive that bende th
men who discovers,
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vents, or Cyph merely works well, can reap the full fruits of has admour and enjoy thes
So I Sukkest thni the swift restoration of freedom is anoth prime essetatiul if we are to mucke The new balf-century as progres save us the last
Hope lies in new leadership
Af
we trend in spar Politically we are i an age of small men Take away Churchill, and where is the man In any porty today who is above bigmy stature?
By some means, and wil some speed, we have to get back spiring lesdership, which will Rive us pride and confidence in ourselves.
of the summe medielne
Yet, if the Tones could set a Vision of hope and greatness
before us, they would sweep the
Can they 115e to its
country
Breath of fresh air
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bus company. During the war it tumycin-the first drug to prove was bought by the exiled Dutch Government in anticipation of effective in the
treatment of
would have the time when they some type of tuberculosis.
rebuild Holland's transport Then in a pot of red soil sent servlees. 121 from New Jersey another group
mould which yielded a golden powder with great germ-killing power.
discovered
to
After the liberation the bur was used to take miners to and
Called aureomycin, this powder from the pits.
curi
curt certain
pneumonia,
fortne of
OFFER Mr Churekli one sug-
Restion He should suck the Trew round im
the Country with this as the first plank in his platforms
"N who has bres a cubinet Minister to cases of typhoid fever. Doe: put on a durḥp. as ang prendono Government will fors describe Its curative power
There was seen by officials be Minister in the next Gor-n "dramatic."
Веоген
of other promising of a big Dutch biscuit company. crament i form
being tested.
converted They bought it and That might blow such n breath germ-killers are
The surge of discovery started the chassis into its present mo- fresh air through the country.
dern appearance. as would astonish not only us. by Fleming may produce even than penten the world. And start the richer results half-century well.
in the second half of the cen- tury.
Then, in 1946, it was bought by the town of Maastricht. Now comes news at the Inte penicilin-type drug- Finally, when Manstricht got chloromycetin-is being given some new buses, the vehicle was
London Express Service)
-London Express Service).
The chassis is thought to have done at least 1,500,000 miles.
~~(Londón Express Service)
C.V.R. Thompson Reports
The American Scene
For too long
we have allowed the world to regard us with amused pity. It is time we set ourselves to win wholesome respect instead.
And the swiftest way to do
the int that is
this business of living sluthfully un other nn- tions' charity and begin standing is a "bad old Socialist." enterprise,"
Britain.
un our own feet
How can we do that?
By getting into the leadership who like Mr Bevan and myself men who can rouse and light us --begin life with heavier hand- with a vision that will transform our minds and set us marching сара than there should be.
again. These opportunities involve.
NEW YORK.
Undesirable, according to the
DEOPLE are always say. report, is a combination of free editors showed that 71 per-
Png President Truman stantial
government and
But a report passed by him has just been published by his economic advisers, and it shows that President Truman still has a long way to go.
POLL of 723 US newspaper-
"n very sub- cent of them are against Presi- uf free dent Truman running for an- to that in other term in 1952, and that 74 percent want to see General Eisenhower as America's next!
diminution
similar
President
Well, he does want a national
Said the report: "The most im health scheme, pensions for ull and a few other Welfare State portant phase of public policy.
today is directed toward the OR THE FIRST TIME in 40 eral salvation of the phe kind of
years aritish orchestra, things.
world in which the business man the Royal Philharmonie, will visit Amggich next autumn. can breathe,"
All through the report the Homeward bound, Sir Thomas Government's hand is held out Beecham said he has signed to free business. The business dollar contracts with 45 cities. I man is even encouraged not to asked him why it had been so em- fluence publle polley just be one has asked us, and even an that cause he is outnumbered by Englishmon dosen't go, where
workers and farmers.
he's not asked,"
If he had ambition, u capacity for work, and the essential quali tles in him, he could mise him- self out of the ruck by his own in my view, giving the indivi- Where can we march? Where efforts. and attain power and dual as much freedom as possible does our future lie? Where else fortune to any degree that satis--not as little. For I believe that but across the broad lands of
a country is not made great by our own Empire, sadly reduced The report calls for an ever- think it "futile" to try to in long in coming. His reply: "No fled him
the action of Governments bat by our present misleaders, but expanding economy, but And in doing it he had in most by the efforts of its individual still vast and great and rich be-phasises again and again cases the satisfaction of streng- eluzens.
yond our dreams.
this economy must be free.
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