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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1946,

A TORY DISCUSSES THE

LABOUR GOVERNMENT

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BY THE WAY

The Jigsaw of Human Health

Many people are asking mo,nover intended probably nover; them, notwithstanding the facteels! An official of the Ministry the adventures going on every the world on how to give the right

half had

given a at the

Reporters & General Office 32312 why election results do not slow eye ought possible--was that that fully

a bigger movement of publie the Labour Party should use pledge the other, way (four lines)

opinion against the Government. their victory not for the par-election.

A plan for the transport in- I remind them of the story of pore of improving conditions of

on one dustry of this country could por: if and

brother ile but to levy war his Charles

of the trades, fectly easily take into account then James. James,

Duke of after another York and heir to the throne, classes, and professions of which the interests of the tens of thou- asked Charles why he did not the community is composed," sands of small firms- of long

Such a class war is totally distance road haullers. take greater precautions against

unnecessary. The great scheme But the Government has made assassination.

of Social Insurance planned by up its mind to destroy the live

Governmont in-lihood of all these men and the Coalition volved no such attack.

many of their employers.

One year

Self-Government

Charles replied that ho knew his Government was unpopular, "But," he added, "nobody would to make you kit me, James,

has And so at long last, P

His Majesty's Govern King." come. ment has under consideration the!

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same.

are

Full employment would have brought both high wages and good profits. An agreed scheme By QUINTIN HOGG, MP

National Health Service

WELS

almost for a comprehensive

achieved.

Free meals in schools and a subsidised price level would have brought the necessitics within the reach of the least wealthy.

Houses would have come slow- ly at firat, no doubt, but soon

cer-

of men and women have in the

Seven research. workers at, bottor manufacturers of essential

foodstuffs than others, Reading University have just re-

wholó That complicates tho ported on a bit of work which is typical of the thousands of selen- problem of giving sound advico to day around us.

quantity of vitamins to stave off The ordinary man reading the the effects of world famine. And account would certainly say

"It beco

becomes necesins.

to study the what!" and pass to another page, way in which

aro pro- animal Yet, properly understood, this duced in the

body. Now there is plenty of evid research la a picco fitting into a Jigsaw puzzle of very great im- ence that in the animal intestines billions of bacteria Ilve which portance to all of us.

The heroes of the affair were,

their pay very good manufacturing and board by

vitamins, friends the white rats."

By BEACHCOMBER." Palnangulenne! Morguienne! Stap my gizzard! Cram me with of Food said to a reporter the other day. "In theory, every one is getting two eggs a week" I am told, furthermore, that people living in theoretical houses are. In theory, gatting masses of fittings and furniture. Stuff me with theoretical but ter! Theory 'le the lad that does it! But how astonishing it is so often, man'd that Ministries and Government. Departments have not made more use of such a convenient phrase.

On The Slopes Of Popacatinakotl

That brings ua to the apl phonamide drugs. These drugs are pais valuable to human beings because they stop the growth of danger- ous bacteria. But all bacteria aro however, a not dangerous; some are valuable вдо- like these vitamin-making

Roscorchers Puzzled We all know that a certain amount of vitamin B is needed to keep rats, mice, and men healthy There small percentage of rats apt to annoy vitamin research workers by getting on

nicely when on very starved of all vitamin B. They ought to die, but they don't.

teria,

That being so it becomes decos- sary to find out what effect, if nny. the sulphonamide drugs have on friendly bacteria. The refect

By A SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENT

even

l rats are full of vitamin- making bacteria, so that, when all the vitamin D is removed from their food, vitamin B passea out of their body.

Aid For Doctors When the sulphonamides

aro

The Liverpool cotton market not merely provided in peace- The reason why by-elections

time the means whereby tain prices could be quoted in means by which in Hong Kong, do not yet show a swing against

and buyers advance to sellers as elsewhere in the Colonial Em-the Government is the

is losing its

of cotton throughout the world;

My special correspondent on pire, the inhabitants of the ter-The Government

it also provided a much needed. Popncatinaketi has been shield-

Some of these refected rats, as ritory can be given a fuller and popularity, but the Conserva

source of foreign exchange-ing his eyes for the first sight the tives are not regaining theirs.

particularly of dollars to the of the Strabismus expedition, they are called, were chosen, and more responsible share in

af-

tufe of at least £1,000,000 "But nothing stirs in the under- given a diet completely free of all management of their

Nevertheless, have detected no signa intely

who fairs." If there has been

that people

growth save birds of gorgeous vitamin B, and dosed with sulpho year,

Nevertheless, the Government plumage. A sudden flash

of B. which

namide drugdrugs Uke M, and of demonstration

en-vated Labour last Jane

have saved B, popular

Ho many decided to close the Exchange.

gold and green betrays the pre-human lives in

war and peaco thusiasm or approval in

con-slowly beginning to suspect that

These policies--covering n

sence of the orace, which rises alike, not as they would sequence of this historie announce things are

vost field of public life and chattering like baboon from

at once the rats declined pent by His Excellency the have wished

ele-its nest among the muteh-grose. In weight and most of then bego, Governor, the fact does not belier' They are right. The Governmere quickly under the combin-enterprise--have ail one the profotmd satisfaction with ment has mistaken the nature of /ed efforts of local authority an: ment in common, a deliberate To the left a lynx la baying. To to look, ill.

the the right an armadillo splashes which it has been greeted by all its mandate and is being rapidly private enterprise. The Educa- and planned attack by

tion Act was already on the Government on whatever group driven by its supporters into

Statute Book. sections of the community. The

There was no regaon what- plain truth is that the Colony is entirely wrong direction.

In the main, prople voted La- exuberant over the disposal of the dangers, real or imagined, which particular course which Minis- delusion that political sagacity they associated with Conservaters have seen fit to take.

In each case they have de- exhausted itself when the con-tive government.

of

Was the Colony

First of all, they wanted to liberately chosen to antagonise stitution

an important class or section of The un no risk of a return to mass formulated a century agy.

they hold the community with which their measures had to deal boot rather was on the ather fpot.nemployment, and

the Conservative Party respon- When the object is to build Had there been n ment, either on the return to civil ment which darkened our times his way to insult and frustrate for nationalisation despite the

shortly after De politics after 1921. government,

Secondly, they wanted certain the thousands of private bull-fact that it has provided a per- wards, indicating the dents al the era of patronage and privilege, basic fundamentals of civiliset ties up and down the country. fectly workable plan fer its own

When the plan is to create a

reorganisation. and the introduction of a genuine life to be available to all with-

comprehensive health service, he The truth is that the Labour measure of self-government, then out regard to their mean

Juntary hospitals and the medi-Party is nothing but the community could readily have fair start in life, both in food deliberately cuts across

excitement and education, medical attention,eni profession on whose con-antagonism. been stirred into

insuraneo against sicknen, timed good will the success of employment and old nge, a de- the scheme is quite likely to cent home.

ippend.

no longer in the mood to get boir In order to avoid certain ever to aécessitate or justify the past best succeeded in serving goun bordered by towering aminobenzoic acid. They began given them the vitamin B dis

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in that

Next, some of the ailing rate, in the fetid waters of an inland still fed and dosed na before, we're

given s alta

chemical called Ipecacua trees. Boll-flies пла the public

particular

marsh-beetles num through the to improve in health. One rat. sphere.

steaming air their iridescent going to pieces until then, was elven a little yeast and regained In each case the group can be wings gleaming as they dart to its health at once. written off as a sectional in- and fro. In a hollow pochoco

No doubt the principle can tree the Mexican eagle utter terest. It is a small minority his tow warning ery to the little of the nation as a whole. succas, Jungle-thrushes, a-hunt- be carried a good deal farthering for ensils pause to utter a

Mr. Wilmot has apparently

is no sign of human life.

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Humans Da It, Too Now what was the point of worrying these rats like this? How do the results fit into the

awncesible for the chronic unemplayhouses. Mr. Bevan goes out of marked down the steel industry silvern cascade of melody. There¦ jigsaw, puzzle of human health?

Pleasure, however, like every thing else, is purely relative, and even while the promise of the de- velopment of denueratic institu

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They very largely believed tions within this Colony conforms the propaganda which told them would not with general expectations, plea that Conservatives sure and content with the plans offer these advantages-and for were not wholly to unfolded arc fit diminished. this they Particularly satisfying is the wide blame. field of scope thrown open both by the Government's statement of policy and His Excellency's instructions. It is suggested that

Vo-

The National Insurance Bill

mense vested interest

it will

And

regu-

sal

meat be intended or not. A London Letter

appears. That means, the friend- ly bacteria have been injured.

So as to check on this result taken. It is step another known that p-aminobenzole neld stops the sulphonamides from in- juring disease-causing bacteria;- if then it is due to the drug that the vitamin B not being manu- factured, this bad result should

given. start when the acid

And that is exactly what hap- pena. And so the whole thing is proved beyond a doubt.

A WOMAN REPORTER LOOKS IN ON THE AMERICAN SCENE

Waafs Sure Sumpin'

Pearl Of The

Is

(By IRIS CARPENTER)

In these days of almost univer-

hunger it

It has been most im- Important Announcement

portant to learn how much yita- The decontrolling of unzoned min is needed to maintain health.

At once we see that something Unfortunately, it is not just utility catsmeat shall not applyi

matter of

of giving n man or an

very important to human beings to the décontrolling of such un- an imzoned catsment as was in process animal a pill or a capsule of given follows: a sick man being cured with sulphonamide drugs may be strength. in class of being zoned when the decon-

Take these refected rats. They ronning the risk of vitamin utar- trolling order came into force

a vitamin-free diet vation unless his dict is suitably are given go on---as unless such catsmeat as is there which would kill other rats, Yot enriched to counteract the pos group after group is successive in implied shall be deemed to be they are found to be full of vita sible cutting off of his body-made ly brought under the Labour zoned catemeat temporarily min B... In short, they are maksupplies.

Doctors can now see why some Garrow.

zoned during, the interim slage ing their own supply of vitamin

of their patients are not doing as No profession,-no-locality, no having regard to the 'regula B in their own bodies. could quite well have been so way of life will be safe any more tions applying to zoned cats-

And there is evidence that hu- well as they should, and take ap arranged as to take in the

than it was under the Nazis.

meat which was previously un-man beings do the same and that, propriate measures to put things

some coole are tight. friendly societies--but Mr.

All will be gleichgeschaltet zoned before the unzoning or as with rats,

Now the moral of all this is James, Griffiths brutally deter-

— that selence is not a matter of an mines to drive his supporters sooner or later until, maybe, der took effect. If however

on the such catsmeat as has been un

whether occasional sudden discovery, but decontrolled catsment What the electors certainly through the lobbies minst it will gradually dawn

people that although each class zoned during the zoning

to be utility priority or austerity cats-of thousands of little pieces of research carefully carried out like or group individually is a small lations shall be deemed

this one, seeming perhaps in them- minority, collectively they make zoned pending the coming into

Overheard At The Ritz

selves very little but adding up up the nation-and it is the effect of the order then such

"What's bitten er?"

to a tremendous achievement up- nation which is being attacked catsmeat shall be deemed to be

"She wants to see 'er legs in on which the safety and comfort one method of ensuring effectivel

of our lives. depend. The official figures of the their enemy. The medicos are piecemeal by our National So-unzoned until a further zening participation of the people off

order cancels the unzoning of them nylon lights." their chests and cialist Administration. Hong Kong in the management "fish harvest" as given by Mr. barin

dentists are baring of their own affairs would be by Tom Williams, the Minister of the

teeth; a big battle handing over certain functions Agriculture, are impressive. For their of internal adininistration, hit-the week ending March Bri- Is imminent. It is true that the tish landings alone, with little doctors do not dispute the aim herto exercised by Government, more than half the country's of the National Health Service! to a Municipal Council constitut-pre-war trawlers at work, were Bill. Their protest is against ed on a fully representative basis.90 per cent. of the total landings the means adopted to achieve It is a propusal that continends fore the war. With the ad- that aim. They foresee that the

turned up in a sextet of different itself as by far the most promis dition o. foreign landings the relationship between doctor and

Washington, Wednesday.

pastel tones. Thinking they were ing approach at this stage in the combined landings reached the patient will be killed by the dead!

War reporting allows the corre

china (they look exactly like it). Colony's history to the practical amazing total of 132 per cent. hand of bureaucracy, that the

I remonstrated, to be told to "Go difficulties of discovering the of the 1938 landings. Recently doctor will be unable to preserve spondent to see about all there is

en right back and take another look. You'll find. they're just a point at which the rights of several new trawlers have been the individuality he has treasur- to record in the way of human re- citizenship fit in most appro-are ti, be built. Dhe navy hav-in

fireproof as that dull old clear launched and twenty-three more ed in the past and that he will action, or so I thought until one amall Waaf arrived here a few time become Just another days ago to talk to the women of

"In the ftrat place," explaing glass and a whole heap oretilor." an expression as blandly diffident priately with readiness for resing done a splendid job in clear-civil servant. This last point. Americ

Pearl Pearl gently, lived all my life

They are, too! ponsibility. We delude ourselves ing the seas of mines there is of course, is one which has not The Waat-who

Nursery gag Was Flights her understatements.

apons on behalf of the British before the war in France. They

Much-headlined woman here if we imagine that Hong Kong's a large area availabic for fishing escaped the cartoonist. One wit Omeer Pearl Witherington before women's war effort with the simple knew, too, that I had taken spe- civic development can ineasure up and quite soon even more areas in morning paper depicts the

become Madame Cornioley-Was

divorcee Mrs. Verone dressed in brass buttoned uni- one of 13 dropped into France a give you an idea of some of the chuted in

Mrs. Moreno, brown-eyed, raven- swer any questiony except in re- for an ospecially dangerous job

had more than I could cope with." lation to our training.”

haired Government Secretary in black bag boars the label "Dor 13 have not been heard of since. the fact that the absence of re- The

Hands thrust

unlform

"Did I actually teach them In brief, rather halting sonten. tar, No. 413276." presentative institutions tend na-covered with plaice, solea. whit-dresses the lady of the house, hair smoothly centre parted over As he ad-pockets, shoulders hunched, dark

band: ces, she explains that it was their how to blow up bridges? Oh yes! Washington, advertised for a hus- Job to disrupt German communi. Was that part of my training? under 3b, especially one who is "A rolatively young man, turally to prevent the growth of ing, cod, haddock, herrings and on whom he is calling, he con-

cations. The radio girls had an civic spirit and to stifle initiative. kippers; and against this sombre sulte his very official notebook. merita no Order of the Nile.

"How long was your training, tall and likes to rhumba, though harder job than hers, be окол

none of these things is a must. solid background Between 'too much and, tou little, yet

a raspretful The main thing is that he likes there "I'm from the Gastric Depart-

Book of the Week is "Neither cause they had to sit where they honey child?" asks

the children." She gave her telephone "Three months," the Municipal Council idea seems brightly shine the gay colours ment", he says. "I understand Man Nor Dog" by Gerald Keroh, were all day coding and decoding voice from the back.

from and

number, and fort several of her to strike a happy mean. Direct of fees. There is plenty for all you've been having some trou-It's a collection of short stories knowing all the time that a Gor- bower, as somebody else inquires advertised BV15, of weight in participation in municipal affairs scallops.

One argument against the Bill all of them good and all of them

secret service man might about arms. "We used

matter of hours racing from her bazookas we were second floor living-room

to the is the best training ground for and no need to queue, the true democratic spirit and for and unexpectedly life has be- but no doubt

It seems that quite suddenly has not been fully voiced yet, really short. They have snap walk in on them.

O'Honry's best In May 1941 her BA.F. leader ver, very proud of the bassokes basement to answer the flood of when the time endings like

Inquiries. a sense of civic pride and respon como less depressing. How comea it will be.

The scheme stories and they are very read was arrested and sent to Buchen- Tearl informs "Small mechas pistols. and, of course,

Among several to get put on sibility. It is probably also true much this is due to the headling will cost £152,000,000 year table. If you like the author's wald, and she found here! la rens.

her reference list was a travelling that the problem of devising albeing calmer and the headwind operate Will the country be mish reviewers. Evidently they the Tets

style take no notice of the squea- charge of 2,000. Frencemen and astonating charges.

All in all quite a brilliant lesman and a Westerner offer or akaon

piece of propaganda work for, who ing lawyer's proof of a Cali- satisfactory franchise will prove, being softer it is hard to say able to afford. It? Brital is

over was responsible for th the schemes prefer the pace of a hearse to district.

fornian ranch home and an in- in experience, to be less acute As the news about foreign af- committed under

the speed of a Kersh.

Goggle-Eyed

Pail Posios

come in £425 than if an attempt were made, at fairs has become less harsh so which the Government is pro-

D Day her The sudden mulgating to groat programmes

"Verono ad- Film of the Week Is "The Corn Five days after this time, to extend the principle has the weather.

Can you Imagine a rubbish to Tho Arined Te Green." Emlyn Williams' troop was attacked by a greatly of self-government, to any drastic arrival of spring, it would ap- of expansion.

force. "But. dressy enough to port pear, has mollfled the hearts of Forces are to total over a mil play, preserves all its freshness superior German

Washington. Verone's four- order for terrain, our

an enamel Dail en wore for-rd extent, into other spheres. Some editors and Jollifted the 'outlook on men, education. is to be ex in the screen adaption. Bette owing ta' our knowledge of the posies and love knotst My phon- the lack of child-care, centres of coveral is.one John modification of the Legislative of civilians. This week we have tended, enormous

year-old re-building Duvia plays, brilliantly, the part turrately not

"What colour is your hundred children whose mothers brought a Council system may well be found had the warmest day since the plans are to be carried out, in- of Miss Moffat. The young Into shock-charged atmo kitchen, Gal?" from the assial, will have no place to leave-them to be desirable. While a job autumn, the temperature interest must be payed on the miner is portrayed by a practi-

sphere

tho roomful of women, ant of a

while they are at work if - I told her. "Red and white, being done, let us make it a good London, at midday, reaching 58 American loan, nationalisatio

to close cally unknown actor, one, John razing goggle-eyed and unable to

existing contres have job, and ensure that Unofficial degrees. During the lunch hour schemes are to bo pushed Dall.

bellove their cars, a mebody interey has to be are

old down, as threatened, in a fow merabers are both genuinely re- the streets were filled with over-through. All these things must The B.B.C. has a strangs jar solates, the fact that the Nazis put "What type are you?"

price Pearl'a head.

her, and asked, "Why?"

It takes £37,500 a year to run presentative of the community coat-loss strollers, and on the be payed for--and most of them run of its very own. One mom-to

"Oh. It's very important the the nurseries, which were started benches in the gardens the more through the pocket of the taxber of the European talka staff

∙sure I coch," she saya, and invested with more than a hardy snacked at their paste- payor. What relief can the tax was seated in hor office during worth

have been girl asured me. makes all

measure. murely as a wartime all evon to the Nazis." the difference in the world,"

The problean row is to find that emasculated power of protest: On

the very oventing | 1. "But, an earnest

What I would have got if I'd these lines, there is much that will led sandwiches and scattered payer expect? On April 9the the war on

the crumba to sequisitive spa:

Even mothers are not Chancellor of the Exchequer will when she started in her new job looking matron with a bird of depcribed myself differently in another

BH AN- have to be thrashed out in the

deliver his budget speech. The when a man burst into the room paradise aquatting on top of her trigues me mightily for the paitxiously hopeful that it will be as consultations which. His Excel-

Certainly spring's upsurge man-in-the-atrest. wonders who- and said, "Miss Blank, the upswept curls, "you muan you now altting by my sink has a red District Commissioner. Guy Mason.

2,000 men?"

and foot lover, and white He, wretched min, is faced with lency the Governor proposes to has come at the right time for ther, In view of what the nation Prime Minister is coming over had to brennosis Pearl. sides deganilyapattered with the mothers threat that unleas Initiate. It calls for camnest Britain's doctors. The 50.000 is committed to, ho can expett a now. Would you like him full Mahram,"

what want to

know," de small nosegavs. of red tulips and the money is forthcoming from thought by all responsible minda members of the British Medical reduction in lacome tax, or or bold It took her quite mands the ace Woman inter pink carnations tied with red, rib- the District Commission they will Test an attainable good bo lost, Associated must indeed feel repeal of the purchase tax some time to discover that she viewer of one of America's fore- bon.

love their children in his offic was being asked if sho'd like a radio hookups, "is how you Buch homoly kitchen nocassities when the nurseries close, ca sionism, or through lack of soli the blood racing more rapidly Play of the Week is "Murder verbatim of the spouch of Mr of any woman managed to get as mixing bowls are personal and What's more, he told either through a strained perfec. their own pulaos-quickoning, and

through their veins. With one on the Niữa" by Agatha Christie, Winston Churchill or whether one Frenchman to obey, a woman's colourful, too. My newly received | porters miserably, "I know they'll darity

valco they brand Mr. Bevan Bums shoutinga but no thrills. It she would prefer a procis.

ordera?"

sel-ordered in fireproof glass g1 độ 11:

to the standards required for full will be made ready for opening. I doctor. of the future who he married hor Maquis leador to statement: "I am here to try to cial training and had been para- greater injury if we lose sight of make a brave show just now. ferm and wears a peak cap; his year before D Day. Seven of the work we did, and will gladly an-1 So when especially to help them these past few days has been 20-

democracy. But we do ourselves

Truly the fishmonger's shops

white marble slabs are

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into

radio

man

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in

Yes!"

year-old I asked for volunteers

comes

flower

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Moreno.

After. several d

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