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On this occasion Dr. Gubbins, the notorious Flect Street quack, will deal with popular beliefs and grandmothers' Anyings handed down from generation to generation, and answer if they are false or true.

Fish is a brain food. False. Anybody who thinks he will become more intelligent if he eats more fish is such an obvious fool that no amount of would make any difference to fish, or any other kind of food,

a mind like that.

It la true that there is phos- phorus in flah and phosphorus in the brain tissue but that doesn't mean that if you swallow a pound of plafce it will go straight to your head and turn you into a genius.

If you are born a fool, you will remain' a fool, even if you swallowed a whale..

Note: Don't write in and tell me that a whale isn't a fish. Stuff a cold and starve a fever.)

Falso, To Atuff or starvo yourself at any time is either disgusting gluttony or neurotic self-pity. To dlo either when you are ill is plain nonsense. If your own inside can't tell you what you need, no doctor cannot

even a real one.

And as you can't stuff your- self at any time unless' you are in the black market and you have heen half-starved for years, I advise you to eat anything you can grab hold of.

Although the composition the new Taxation Committee has been publicly criticised, Govein- ment has ranged farther afield than is usual in its choice of mem- bers and it is, all things consider- Jed, fairly representative of the main interests involved. Only two Government officials have a seat on the eleven-man Committee, the Financial Secretary who is to act as Chairman, and Mr. W. M. Thomson, whose experience as Tel. Nos. Director of Supplies, Trade and Industry should prove of consider- able value. Nobody will pretend that the Committee has either an casy or a particularly pleasant task. The time when living costs are abnormally high, and are plac ing a severe strain upon the pri- vate budgets of seventy to eighty per cent of the community, is not one when increased taxation will he most favourably received, and if there is any significance at all in the spate of correspondence in the Press on the subject of taxation,My husband and I have had it is rolbly to be found in the little education, and have never taught ourselves anything. This somewhat natural instinct to argue in favour of placing the means that our children will not

have much intelligence. greatest weight where it will least affect the advocates of this form of taxation or that. The Commit tee's terms of reference cover the entire system of taxation, with their attention particularly direct ed towards recommending what existing taxes can be stiffened, what new sources of revenue can he immediately utilised and whe- ther Income Tax is a practical alternative to the War Revenue simplication thereof. As far as the Committee is concerned, the paramount consideration must be equitability of distribution cording to means, and the key to the correct answer lies is what scope any particular tax allows for evasion. The merits of direct taxation as against indirect taxa- tion, these days scarcely justifies argument, yet such is Hong Kong that those who ürge various methods of increasing the revenue through indirect levies are able to make out a sub-tantial case. Of course, nu programme will meet with universal approval. At best, we shall get a series of compro mises between conflicting view. points that cannot otherwise be reconciled. In such

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False. Education has nothing to do with intelligence. Although it can, and does, help a clever man, it can do nothing at all for a ninny. The common belief that clever children are always- born of clever parents, and the re- verse, is also a fallacy.

The world has always been full of the ne'er-do-well nons of successful men, not always be cause the sons are stupid, but because life is made easy for them. So they don't try hard enough. Most people don't try until faced with disaster.

On the other hand, history shows that the majority of ex- ceptionally clever men have been the sons of ordinary; half-educa ted people.

But don't get excited about this. It's a million to one that your children will be fools like

you.

Carrying a weight on the head improves the carriage.

True. It is obvious that to carry a weight on the head you must keep your neck straight and your shoulders back.

But you can't walk about the streets with pots and pans on your head without causing a Bensation. And don't experiment with China ornaments. They're scarce enough as it is.

Fot men are folly. Faise. Fat men appear to be jolly, because it is expected of them. They are also trying to laugh it off. But they are really embarrassed by their big tum mics, and often cry themselves to sleep at night,

most controversial issue will be Income Tax, and since no plan that has been advanced in Hong Kong has been able to command Unofficial support, those who predict a negative answer by the Committee are not likely to prove very far wrong, The Financial

True. Any good food is good Secretary will need to be convincing and persuasive than But if you imagine that carrots

than for any other part of the body his predecessors to break the re- will give you the eyes of an

Carrota are good for the eyesight.

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

· 1908 BY MLA SERVICE, #90, T. 32. REG. 1. 2. PAT. OFR

BY THE WAY

By BEACHCOMBER

The American who has started to walk round the world pushing

a wheelbarrow says it will take

12 years,

him

Ho. will ace more of the word, says my reactionary correapoik dent, than the people who fly.

But why tho wheelbarrow?" The man who pushed the pea up Snow don with his nose would have taken 1107 years to push it round the world, according to statistics issu- ed by the authorities.

If he had put the pea in n wheelbarrow, and kept his nose to himself, honor would not have been antisfied and his descendants would have hung their heads whenever his name was mentioned.

News Item

Two young laundresses are put ting their savings into building # stadium, where electric towels vil be chased by motor towelhorses.

Not Much Use.

Yesterday C. Suet, Esq., went to inspect the hotel which is to be lls head office, adjoining the fac- tory.

He found the first floor occupied by the Society for the Prevention

"What's the Idea, saying I'm as blind as a bat? I can of Housing, the second floor by the

sec just as well as you can, madam!”

LOOKING AT LONDON

Evatt-standing

Colossuslike

over the puny yes-men thronging the stately hall of Luxemburg Palace-spoke for England, too.

Every word he spoke might wall have come from the mouth of the man-in-the-street who, lived through six years of the hell of war, now sees the long-dream- fold air of power politics. cd-of peace disappearing in the'

having

Londoners like Evatt's style. They sense that while liis hend Is on the political heights his fees! are firmly grounded in Australia.

j

League of Girl Air-Scouts, the third Пост by the Anti- Metallurgical Society, and the two other floors by the Council for International Calipral Betterment and Educational Co-operation,

In the basement were various rates and allow increased carh-horses, a B.B.C. Listening Club, ings only as a result of higher the Artificial Flowers Experimen- output.

tal Clinic, and a Mrs. Wowie.

Forward!

An alternative proposal was to take goods away from the export market, nad make more available thereby for the home consumer, hicreasing the workers incentive to produce to the full,

There is strong reason to ba lievo that Daltog favoure the second proposal.

Civil Servants Under Fire

Britain's Civil Servants came into the firing line on the wrong

Carrying banners inscribed with

the words: "End the secrecy! Give the people uranium and let them make atom bombs" a deputation from the Society for International Atomie Peace marched round and round Trafalgar Square yesterday. "This is real, democracy," said a spectator, wiping tears of joy from his face.

reviewed by the War Offco.

They know that here is no pup- pet pulled by hidden strings.

The British public is firmly conside-for them-of the guns.

e "Daily Express, leading vinced that true peace cannot be

under the uneasy the attack, painted out that the Civil Service wage bill ate up 37. achieved

in every $1 of the British, incoms By G. G.

tax and asked whether the firm of John Bull and Company could hegemony of the Great Powers afford to maintain such an ex- who, because they believe they pensivo board of directors. did most to win the

About 700,000 Civil Servants,

He got 10 years, which, on the to criticlam, put their fest surface, seams an extremely baran won inured apparently consider it has them the right to dictate

the firmly under. their desks and sentence for an extremely honest conrso of civilisation for ever-ignored the "Daily Express" answer.

moro.

war..

now

col-

The influential · political Lanist Alastair Forbes, moved to unaccustomed enthusiasm, com- monted: "Tho small nations may court the day fortunate when Dr. Evatt decided to embody their into His rights and aspirations international political platform."

The loss cloquent street contented him muttered "Good old Evatt!" Inflation Chill In Holiday Air Holiday-makers tound August sun chilled by the cold draught or intiation.

a

taunts,

But ono anunyanuas desertor in their ranks blew the gaff by writing to the Press complain-} ing that though his salary was $1,000 a year he had no work to do himself, far less to give his

staff.

Ho diagnosed tailure to sack re-

One case to be reviewed con- cerns a soldier who, when asked "what would you do if German tanks appeared on the rand ahead?" replied, "I would run like a blankety-bisk."

London Cafes Please Copy

The era of the traditional shepherd nio and rias pudding" hospital menus took a body-blow this week when Middlesex County Council announced it was ap- officer at £14 a

pointing food

-in-the-dundant wartime Civil Servants

as due to the fact that senior week to ensure "palatable, nutri- Civil Servants feared their own trious" food for the patients. Jobs would become less important It would be a good thing if some if they hadn't enough assistants London restaurants adopted a

aimilar resolution under their orders.

Many male months watered at that Miss Evelyn A. the news Sharp had been appointed Bri- tin's Highest-paid woman Civil Servant at 22,500

the

A Briton, taking his family for a week's seaside holiday, quickly discovered that the most ephemeral thing in Britain is toe pound atoriing.

year.

in

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For a week's national savings appeal, a poster has been display-

e urging people to save in order. that they might one day own a piece of land of their own,

The pastor has now been with- because it embarrassed drawn

want to nationalise land.

One London club spent 200,000

No matter what posterity bringe Roosevelt in Those wanting to make a motor- the late President ing holiday found they could buy the United States, he will always Members of the Commons who remembered gratefully ba fairly easily a ten-year-old car,

Lordati with an engine using almost as The aren around Mayfair's Boccer players are the only much of as petrol, at anything from £60 more than the car coat Groovenor-square-United States Londoners able to get houses.

military headquarters during the now in 1830.

Last wealthy travellers stood in war-will be the sito of Britain's buying suitable homes for players who otherwise might have asked packed train corridors, and paid memorial to him.

The square itself may be ro- to be put on the transfer list bo one-seventh more for the privilege paid for corner seats in 1939. of travelling standing than they named Roosevelt-square and Par- cause of lack of London accom-

Homat will be asked to authoring modation. creation of At the seaside, boarding-houses,

garden containing

came

sistance, and offer concrete pro- eagle you are an foolish as the whase prewar tariff averaged a) his favourite flowers around his the news that the local profes-

posals to which business interests will be prepared to adhere. In these circumstances, the more im- portant thing, perhaps, is to get [quick decisions.

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About

the new

movement

man who think fish will turn him into a genius.

modest two guiness a week, were statue. Lost Art Of

Taxidermy

now in the seven-eginea elass.

Otherwe,

only obvious difference from 1939 was that

Taxidermy is becoming a lost |

The idea grow up during the war when the Ministry of Food had a glut of carrots. In order the rooms were dingler, the art in Britain to persuade the gullible public sheets and, towels

more ragged,

to buy them it was stated that, and the food infinitely worse.

night fighter pilota ate carrota

The declino began when people' started turning out the stuffed hids and animals they'd inherit ed from their.. Victorian grand- mothers.

Now even museum work la hold

From Folkestone (Kent)

sional football.club would offer guaranteed jobs and houses to any six good professional players will- to sign on for Folkestone. Folkestone has a waiting list of 2,000 peo

people

wanting houses.

Greyhound betting receipts for Greater London's 20. Wacks.como from £33,500,000 in 1944 to

69,500,000 in 1945,

key-money. The law, will help a great fool doing this, but young away, thousands of Lon-attract now recruit. Prospects to bread ration b

+

Everywhere it was a case of "Dlz deep, holiday- to enable them to see better in

maker" the dark, the implication being

At Brighton, a mesi of beans on

There cortainly monay-for that carrot caters would see toast and

fusive. among Chinese landlords which is better in the blackout. Night, and cofee cost fivo shillings un by a shortage of skilled taxi- some-in nursuit of the

of a rowlag-boat was ten dermists.

olectric hare. preferred oggs | chhings for half an hour.

Even forcing up rents in spite of the fighter pilots

Apparently all the bird-stuffers the cost of children's went to America in search of the restrictive legislation,. Govern- and bacon.

-NOTES AT RANDOM: South. ment will presumably take the chew every mouthful 80 buckets and apades soared to 21-

golden dollar

and British taxi-end (Essex) Food Oface turned times my digestion will improve. tronomical heights.

dermy still pays too little money, down a request for

extra an same attitude as it has done. about

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It looke, alas, as if we shall be because it considered he had a $32 those who are prepared to carry a panic and choke yourself. brought their children back to

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Still, thuro's consolation in the time. or to one of the courts can ex- bolt their food like beasts. They allday on loss expensive home fact that more stuffed shirts are

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