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New

Spirit Of Optimism Abroad In Britain

By JOHN SHIPTON

This in one reason, in my opinion, why the Bankside pow

station plan should To through without further op-

Britain's bunny babies, more! grand work by the miners. n long term rebuilding plan for H.K.$18.00

the City of London, the brit 6 months .....K.$38.00

liant success of the British In- gave you the news of the new Position or wrangling. 11.K.$72.00 dustries Fair and a glorious One year

City of London reconstruction ..........................................*********|mpell of summer weather plan as outlined by Dr. Charlen thrown the pesalmists and stalden and Professor W. G. ma jimmies well out of their inlford. Now the scheme for Hiride and new apiril of optimism seems to be abroad now city from the ashes of the old, forced mainly by traffic In these sunny days.

chaos and Luftwaffe bombs.

DONATIONS AND

TAXATION

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It was no surprise to me to learn that Britain's post war bables were: bigger and better than ever, for I have first-hand knowledge that mothers und their children are "nursed" by

benevolent Ministry

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has been placed before the City fathers and has met with gen- era! approval.

power

About Time After all, four new stations will eventually be need- ed in the Thames district and it is about time the Hankside business WOR settled. The Presa neem to be unanimoun The suggestion which the Hon. Mr. R. D. Gillespie is to make

now, after an initial baiting of in Legislative Council tomorrow,

Mr. Silkin, that the Bankside design is good, and that it will that donations to the War-Mem

not detract from the benuty of orial Fund be allowed as ah off

New Guildhall

St. Paul's. As has been wisely set against salaries and profits]

Among their proposals is a pointed out, the Cathedral on itself to a tax, should commend Government with little more ado. Health on a scale which cannot trafic roundabout in place of one side of the river symboliacs the present Mansion House, spiritual force, the power sta- be approached by any other with the building of a new tion on the other side repre- The logic is unanswerable.

Mansion House in the recon- eents material force. fact, it is a concession which has country in the world. For ex ample, each expectant mother

structed Guildhall. The new The British Industries Fair, already been mildly canvassed, as

ne which should apply not to the ration allocation, there are ex-

is granted one extra egg on the reconstruction plan is divided just concluded, has been de into a long term scheme to scribed as the greatest flip to War M-morial Fund is isolation, tra half rations of meat week-cover the next 30 years, with British trade ever held. I am but to all donations of a charit¡y, vitamin tablets, and an ex-

a ten year programme for "m- now told

that many Overseas able nature. Mr. Gillespie puts tra pint of milk. After baby's

mediate action." The Intter buyers went out of their way arward the proposal as offering birth, fruit juice. vitamin

would provide

Board of part

Trade for five to visit the

stand public tablets, and three extra egg "through corringeways" as the

and offer their con- encouragement

the per week from six months to

taking gratulations on an "astonishing main arterial roads

There two years of age are available. traffle through the city. Provi- show."

were buyers in addition, there are child wel- sion to made in rebuilding the from South America, Norway, fare centres in every would

comelty for an adequate supply of France, America and Holland, munity, with medical advice

daylight to all new buildings all of whom made favourable and sunray treatment provided free, if necessary. This is the system of district heat- comments compared with Euro- ing for central heating and pean trade shows they had re- main reason why the Ministry domestic hot water is propos-cently visited. A Norwegian of Health's latest report makes ed for all premises in rebuilt* said he had never seen a iner such invigorating reading.

bxhibition than the 1947 B.I.F.

generosity in

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Better Physique

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Genetic Death Risks In Radiation

discover

CARNIVAL 1

(By Dick Turner

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"Boy! You shoulda seen the big one I got away from!"

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE By Shepard Barclay

"The Authority on Authorities"

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pelled North to lose two heart tricks. Instead he tried for The main facts of it are that

ruff of hearts by his partner, fewer children between the ages of op und 14 died from dis-

Willingness to lead a trump a terrific long shot, North play- at the right time is vital eas than ever before in Bri-

to ing low and dummy's J forcing tain's history and fewer than

good defensive play. That time the A. Now East, who would of the Colony's total charitable two mothers In

to return another every thou-

can be either at the beginning have liked donations over a year. In actual | sand died in childbirth.

The

of the play or later on. Usually made, had none left, so used a North won the second diamond. practice, the loss would undoub: death rate was lower than 1029,

ita purpose is to prevent Dr. Herman J. Muller, 1940) It is for these reasons that we edly be ersiderably smaller. In which year, according to the Nobel prize winner in medicina need hardly expect to

declarer from using one or more with a ruff, trumped his heart Moreover, Government would report, there were decreases

and physiology, recommends that conspicuous evidences of nowy of the dummy's trumps for ruf-in dummy and discarded three mt, in making such an allows then considered "almart phenomen exposed to heavy radiation, arisen mutations in the offspring fing and instend compel him to hearts on club tops, leaving him

menal." The Improvement in such

no hearts except the K. thone cards on rc- ance, be creating any sort of pre

as X-ray, refrain from atof parents who were subjected to consume

Thus, the kindly opponenta en- cedent, as relief from taxation in the growth rate, too, suggesta tempting fatherhood for some two radiation even though many such gular trump tricks. There

mutations were inevitably pro- lots of contracts which can not abled North to make an other- that the children are of better months thereafter. respect of charitable donations ~!

physique than those of 1940 or This should be done, he said, as duced,"

be beaten by any other proce. wise impossible contract elready standard practice in before the war. This certainly a precaution against abnormal He sald, however, that it is the dure.

task of public health not only to most, every country where au in speaks well for our much cri- developments of life.

Dr. Muller, who won the Nobel attempt to prevent and treat the come tax system is in forer, justicised rationing scheme and prize for his discovery that route-ills that hit the body fron exter- as it is a common rule to exempt must point out that every

tion. or biological changes innal origin but also those that may charity performances and the like schoolchild is provided with a species may be produced by X-ray, be linked to hereditary causes. from liability to entertainments bottle of milk a day free.

also warned that with the increas "It can be estimated that with- tax. Apart from minor factors of Of course, every credit must ine medical, industrial and mill-out modern treatment something S. AB 2

modern parents. Atary use of X-ray be given

it becomes like the tenth of a population, H. Q843 this nature, it is not easy to pr case of child neglect is so rare mandatory for radiologists to see would regularly nuet what may be D. 7 duce a protracted argument

nowadays that if a case in dis- to see to it that

and even by page news.

sinnders" be One fact

protected that is standpoint from out in this most encouraging scattered radiation so far sa pos- report that every baby born elle. He sur

He suggested the use of

load in Britain has advantager un-pintes over vital organi. known to previous generations was Dr. Muter who recently

It

(Dealer: North. North-South He suggested that in the distant and every child has a brighter stated that the Japanese surviving future this 10 percent of the popu- vulnerable.) prospect of a long and healthy at Hiroshima and Nagasaki might iation who are burdened with the North

East South West life than a decade ago. All well wish they had been killed if most detrimental mutations"

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1,000 years from now.

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Dbl welfare aids provided by the

His stalement indicated a belief | State and congratulations

tice birth

control.

There are players who would that the powerful radiation from Dr. the fathers and others who atomie explosions would, in the must "refrain from the practice East against that kind of bl

Mulier said that radiologists have preferred a trump lead by 1.8.6.32- have been "educated" to take course of generations, cause dras of using radiation either to stimu- ding, to advantage of all the facilities the changes in hereditary charac- and scientific measures at their teristics. command,

Special Techniques.

in

favour of the suggested pro- covered it usually makes Front they themselves air batlents, designated as 'genetic death' from C. J 754

peats,

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cedure: simply because it ap

on the face on it, obviously right and proper Little more than the action of drawing Government's attention to the oversight' should be re- quired to produce the appropriate

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such causes," he said.

Birth Control lity in modern times shown that a

"The great decrease in merta= }

considerable amount of these deaths are now avoided.”

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prevent North from H. K 9,6 6 vivid fears of anatomic war, one

produce a sterility that may be This particular East, however CAD fact of true international pro-

temporary,"

He said that it was urgent that led Dr. Kuller, who in professor of } gress does exist. The fact that

Although they have won Zoology at Indiana University, re further research be instituted with trumped and, seeing the Belgium, Holland, and Luxem-

their buttle for the five-day contly told the Institute on public the object of determining quantita- ger of two heart losers, bourg are breaking down their week, the miners know that health of the New York Academy tively the frequency and the disfrained from leading that it economic frontiers and will soon Britain's future prosperity desi

of Medicine.

tribution of tyres of mutation pra- at once. He sent forth the spade

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be fine.

"Since most mutations Post-war international pends on them. Their increas cessive and most populations are

are reduced by given doses of radiallen. K, hoping the A would be

"Only then," he said, "ean we

(Dealer: North. East-West | conferences have come and gone ed output has been well maine) already laden with very numerous know definitely just what risks of singleton, so trumps could not

of be returned.

vulnerable). Tand, mostly failed). yet since tained and for the second week mutations inherited from the die genetle death of individuals of September 1944, when these three of the five-day working their tant past," he said, "the demon future generations are involved in but might as well have been, guide North and South Into the The A was not a singleton, What safety factor should wax mote than fouratration of the production of new the exposure of the present countries signed a Customs Con- Gutput

million tons-higher than for mutations and the measurement of generation for a given amount of for West did not return the best contract here, if sound bid- vention in London, their repre-

frequency ordinarlly The thair

re-radiation."United Press.

trump which would have com- ding is done? sentatives have persistently, stead the last six day week. fastly worked towards

miners, it is agreed, are justify-nuires very special genetle techni ecunding the five day week, an in ques, nic fusion. The first step shown by their continuous - Customs, Uniun-is ready for work, absenteeism lower by final approval on July 1, and will half compared with the aver- be put into operation in Septem age for March, and it is ob- ber. Thenceforth, at Conferences Vious the coal cutters, now have such as the ITO. at Geneva, these countries will have, not It seems at long, last that the three delegations, but one. If

a new inspiration. „

miners are a contented band

of workers and the Nationalign-

an un-

100 Years Ago Today

Jinnah Calls For Pakistan Fund

New Delhi, June 16.

Cori-

Nehru bluntly said. that re cognition of the states' Inde pendence by any foreign power would be an unfriendly act, and the Elder Statesman of the Congress Party, Mohandas Gandhi, said the declarations were "tantamount to declara tion of war against the fron this has, as Mr. Anthony Eden tion of the mines, one of the

A concrete move to finance the evolution of Pakis- millions of India." {From the files of the "China recently pointed out in the House first steps of Britain's labour Mall)

tan was made tonight by Mohammed Ali Jin-| |--Lord. Mountbatten; back of Commons, caused little com- government, appears

The Slave Trade~~(From "The

nah, President of the Moslem League, as dis- from a short vacation at the ment, it is nonetheless of great doubted success. Domestic Times"),

sention brewed in the southern central inland summer capital of Simin, met

Bardar Vallabhai Patel, significance. Imagine Britain, consumers, too.

"Few people, we are playing

ure, sure,

state of Hyderabad, one of the two princely America, and France deciding to their part well, for as I write of the egregious follies to which entertain any adequate conception

states whose rulers have declared their inde-greas Party Home Member of the Interim Government; Dr. merge the pound, the dollar, and nearly half the target of six

pendence after the British withdrawal.

Ргавай, Rajendra

Congress the franc into a single currency. week's winter stocks has a commit ourselves in perpe. fusting our blockade of the

Mr. Jinnah. appealed to every Moslem in India to Party President of the Con- Regrettably, that sounds fantastic. ready bean achieved. Although African coast. In the first place contribute to a "Pakistan Fund" earmarked stituent Assembly, and Yet. Belgium, Holland, and it is impossible to estimate how Luxembourg propose to do just the ban on domestic fuel con-it is certified by the concurrant much coal has been saved since and this we should think would

for the immense task ahead--preparations for leaders today. supersede, any further arguments that with their florins and francs.sumption was enforced on May testimony of witnesses most com.

the "very vital" referendum whereby the peo- Communal Strife

But as the foundations were ples in the Northwest Frontier Province, As- Nor can the larger, countries pro- 5, it is understood to have led potent to speak, that the success duce the excuse that it is easier for to considerable saving, help of the scheme is beyond hope and

sam and Bengal will decide whether they will laid for a cleavage of the sub continent, its.communal strife the small ones. It is not A ed more than a little by the that if, instead of our

be Hindustan or Pakistan. six-and- Mr. Jinnah spoke of the com-, democratic constitution and are still continuing. host of difficulties have had to be mild weather we have been ex- thirty vessels we had the whole pletion of the Constituent As- form an Interim government,

word" In Lahore 64 persons Rivalry between periencing since the end overcome.

Injured when a bomb. exploded: "It le not the Princes who in the courtyard of a Hindu of English navy upon · the coast, It sambly, which would function as Belgian and Dutch ports has April, always been strong. These prac

would still be out of our power a sovereign body until the will be independent the mo- hospital. It was one of six in It is home months since I to intercept the traffic in Pakistan constitution cama in- ment that the British withdraw various parts of the city, in tikal men of the Low Countries

to being, as well as partition of from India-It will be the mil- cluding another at the hospital.

are to set up a Transport Com

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slaveš,

other

Police were investigating this, first blast at the hospital when the second occurred.

In Amritsar, the police rafde

J, Iness being aware of the the entire assets and liabilities Hons of people of the states," mission, to share, out traffic be- countries," said Dr. E. Jaspar,

of the present. Central Govern-he said. great Inconvenience familles are tween Antwerp, Rotterdam, Secretary General of the Belgian subject to in not being able to mont

Travancore and Amsterdam according to Dutch-Luxembourg. Commission,

In Hyderabad, Swahi Ram- procure at all times articles of

In the other "independent" the capacity of each. Belgian must show the world the advan every day consumption of a good Anand, President of the State's farmers are fearful that Economic tages of suppressing economic and wholesome character the pas. Congress Party, declared that princely state, Travancore, in od a deserted building and dis Union will bring a flood of frontiers. The Union," he added sage by way of the Cape being so the announcement of indepen the southwestern coast of the covered 187 homemade bomba. Dutch produce on to their Cylancing, no doubt towards the very tedious and long. J. Incas dence after August 16-when tip of India, its Fremier, Sir-Reuter,

the Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, C. P. Kamaswami Aiyer, last markets An Agricultural Com East) is directed against no having taken things into .com. mission is thus to devise a proper body." Doubtless, Mr. Anthonysideration has made arrangements has said that the British may night assorted support for the

the 84-year-old Maharajah's dés EMBARGO LIFTED distribution. It may well be that Eden is not the only statesman to with the well known house of withdraw did not reflect

claration. Economic Union, once complete, take note of these remarkable Thos Hastings & Co. to ship will of the people:

avery month by the overland malt He would, he said, call for an The Congress Party's Work-

"Now. Delhi, June 16, will be followed, by (still more facts. Do consciences twinge, in certain quantities of Chedder, out-and-out-resistance if the ing Committes yesterday pasa-

The Goverámèrit of India' har ambitious plans. Joint - defence various capitals, as politicians soc Gloster and Barkley Choeas;

state did not agree to convene ed a resolution refusing to ad-lifted the embargo on juta exports a Constituent Assembly elected thit the right of such a declara- to Egypt, which was placed sig albo, |arjd ́a common foreign policy are what can, to simply and so sensi-

nót, culed out. These three bly, be done?

bama”Jams and follion. by adult franchise to frame a tion by any state. Pandit! months ago.-Router,

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