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BANISH

A WORLD SCOURGE

Half-Way House Of Europe

By ERIC BOURNE

All news contributions to be Prague is still to some extent the half-way house of Europe. To the visitor, on business or a short holiday, the drastic change-over from the regime of Masaryk and Benes to the Com- munists' authoritarian, single-party rulo is not readily apparent.

BIRTH

TERRETT-To Beatrice, wife of H. R. Terrett at Queen Mary Hast ital on the 5th of July, 1849, a daughter. Both Well,

MORE AUSTERITY

The

In his review in the House

Britain's Lon on of Commons economic position, Sir Staf- ford Cripps revealed little that had not been gloomily anticipated. The dollar de ficit actually doubled in the second quarter of this year,

year

Can

as compared with the first.maybe shopping in tho notice

a continued austerity pro-munting

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awnre

non-communist

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comes

By JOHN LANGDON DAVIES

A 29-year-old American woman, severely crippled by rheumatoid arthritis, has become the most interesting human being alive for hundreds of thousands of martyrs to that painful disease. She is the first of the very few lucky ones to hove been almost immediately relieved of her symp- toms, by an entirely new treatment.

no Berious suffering from

lisense do not often have children. But Dr. Hench found that since 1884 20 cases had been observed

doctora by

Always the disease) returned a few months after the baby was bors.

She was unable to move in bed, her right hip was badly diseased, she was in constant pain with swollen, twisted joints.

Ten days after treatment be gan the almost literally took up her bed and walked.

The Injection

It seemed that the temporary Improvement was due to changed blood

to chemistry duo pregnancy.

Ur

Not Practical

doctor teled

and

With all the gold, that lơ tuoled at both ends, you'd think there'd be nothing bitt a great big rain- bow between the Kremlin Fort Knar, with Truman Stalin danclag down it hand in. hand like a couple of gnomes..

And

Pailtical problems are often classed as mammoth but alnce

Cur of Yugosiny- Introduction rency In Trieste tiny have bem come dinarsire..

This Snyder seems to be snip- ing at our pound sterling.

One wonders whether the new become pounds will deflated known as "quidlets."

•

She had been infected with a minuto

chemical quantity of a produced In the body by tho adrenal gland.

An American whose name is In Budapest a Her doctor was Dr. P. S. Hench transfusing sufferers with blood! Moskow is petitioning to have Witchhun- the famous Mayo Clinic. from pregnant women. He had it changed to Moss. of Later she became again, but six successes, of whom four are ters kept wondering about which her experience has led to a great alive and well.

discovery.

in very

the

Bow curo

Swallon joints become normal, improve, patients feel happy after years of

pression.

A Warning

was n

*

•

Parties of Illegal Chinese im- It suggested that sufferers from! arthritis lacked a normal chemical migrants have been spotted cross- which their bodies only began to ing the Siamese border, heading manufacture when stimulated by South.

As comrades say: "Birds all Jaundice.

Пly one way when the wind blows off the steppes"...

•

hotels are state-owned but they are clean, com-

fortable and the service is quite good.

Ib and but- At the beat of them you

can buy ham ut 16/-

The amazing cat reasonably well-though good ter at 22/6, ar French brandy at liquor is rare, and bad plentiful, about £10 a bottle. and both are exorbitant in price. thing is to see the queues, with There is plenty of good music plenty of working people in them, and opera, and tickets are cheap. waiting every day for the "free"

Government department his girl I have seen old

friend worked in, and they tre- The most expensive seat in a shops to open. cinema on the Wenceslas Square Indies buying tea at £5 a

1 pound

bled the guards round the atom However, this method and coffee beans at £3. costs less than the cheapest on

Dr. Hench has now shown to a The average Praguer Loudon's West End, though it in

best cloth world congress of medical men in very roundabout way of dealing plants whenever he was in town. uncomfortable one.ordinarily clad. bard and

liko New York a film illustrating his with the disease, and it has not The Czechs are still buying 20 is exported and something

for proved very useful.

"British ly In the millionth but that two million Czechts, deprived of account of

rheumatoid arthritis. British films a

Then came another clue. Sutton."

arthritis often lose There can't be that much oint- does not mean that all that are clothing cards because they are

According to one who has seen forers from

if they get ment. chosen are exhibited. ideological aon-producers", have only the reasona prevented the showing "free" market, where prices havo

it, and who has been quoted in their symptoma even of the Arnhem, films) just been slashed, but cloth for

Journal, jaundice. Three British doctors bhe British Medical a man's suit can still cost £30,

patients who could barely walk infected 82 arthritis volunteers you are busy sight-seeing or

export and for the best export quality

Trouble with that ban on ex- are able to walk with complete with jaundice. twice as much.

first ren The

reminder of the freedom, run up and down steps,

Twenty-five of them were tem- ports through the Iron Curtain is of and was in fact the highest store, you won't at once

DI

iron curtain"

when the and jump-all within a week of porarily relieved of their arthritic that German goarts bounce back Western newspapers. for 18 months. This in spite the absence

A starting treatment.

nymptoms. But, of course, you off it into our own best customers of the most stringent controls,

You will be impressed by the visitor wants a London paper.

loveliness of the city your age you could still get mest

can't go on having jaundice for bags.

roturns ever; and the arthritis traffic cop of

of your choice the gramme, and an all-out export and the courtesy of the average of the London dailies but today weight and appetite

13 limited to the

If we delay the peace much stranger or drive.

whom you falteringly ask your "Daily Worker". The ban reaches

directly the jaundice subsides.

The experiment showed, how longer, we may And Russia and Embassy even into the Britiah The Chancellor had

and reading room where papers must Here, if anywhere, West

Indeed, a fourth great medical over, that an with the proguant China sitting with Japan on the fable and all solution to offer, except to

until official

samc red pencil to say that Britain, the United East might still find some meet- not be displayed

feels, sanction is received. It rarely is discovery has been added by our women some chemical change in same side of the

generation of doctors to insulin, the bloodstream took place for using the Common-Jug ground. Here, one States and the

alender chance, Most days the racks are 76 per the sulphonamider, and penicillin. the time being, and that this must initial it.

to do with for the intermingling of wealth countries "must seek there may still be a

ideas cent empty. Sometimes the pellco

This new thing, which will in have something leave and time alter the lives of millions, is arthritis. together a long term remedy which once made Prague the cul- stop Czechs as they

for their visit. for the stubborn problems of toral cross-roads of a continent. ank the reason

ог conterone, As soon na the visitor begins The Czech are showing tradi-17-hydroxy- 11 dehydrocorti Compound E for stubbornness The room the balance of trade between

closely he becomes tional

#hort. the Western Hemisphere and to look more

tremendous drive is always full and there is rarely of the It the rest of the world."

in progress to shape the national less than 20-30 people looking at the pictures of life in Britain is generally acknowledged lfe, of the Soviet pattern that Sir Stafford is sincere, every point. But get around shown in the windows.

Once, standing outside 1 Prague a little and you soon sense single-minded and capable,

the scepticism of people who, offered 25 crowns for the airmail and that he has worked con- however much they feel with the edition of the British newspaper berome ac-1 happened to be carrying under scientiously for the good of Slavic East, have

to thinking just Labour's supporters through-customed

There is wide audience too for the BBC, which is more popular out the country. These, still much with the West.

than the

"Voice of America".

A biochemist named Kendall have been a cachalot. promised full employment.

The average citizen Its not So far the authorities have done given the world's shortest

Indeed, until it has been syn. Isolated Compound E. Dr. Hongh working hours, fabulously ex-very much impressed by all the nothing about it either by for.

that talk, warning bidding listening or, so far as thesised, that is, made artificially tried Compound E on his patients,

chemical Inboratory in and they at enco Improved, journallatsand, and pensive social services, and newspaper

see, by Jamming-but it has in the

extracted from

It is now certain that everybody from been made clear more than once stead of being insurance, fact, almost cradle-to-grave

take care of living glands, there cannot be pound E is the missing substance, can be expected to continue the West-must be regarded as that the law will

potential or actual "enemy agents" anyone who organises "mass lis-enough to treat the huge armies the lack of which causes rhouma-

of sufferers who are waiting for told arthritis. their support of the regime.

The professional and mid- bent on the country's subjection, tening" to Western broadcasts,

ไ

Westerner finds himself al-

Clandestine Listeningit dle class, fearing a

protty sure of an open-

The result is that many Pra- But though this will be painful sooner or later, and subject-hearted welcome.

a rather self reading for many, it cannot ob Library and reading room and guers listen in

are conscious, clandestine way, but

scure the fact that science seems ed to a progressive lowering

language facilities

at last to have conquered rheu- of their standards of living. English

widely used as over, and the listen they do every night. us

foreigners matoid arthritis. The Praguer loves Le disinclination

seon in 5 shortages and high prices, are

He enjoy- and ho loves polities. likely to continue wondering Westerner's company seems now

widespread among seeing the world's press on the Conservatives have to be more

provided him with more ammuni- anything at all to offer the uncony official circles than among streets and he read it avidly. It

the ordinary citizens.

arguments country. There are, however,

For the latter, everyday life tion for the endless few signs that they have, and in Prague in still pretty difficult. that could be seen in fierce, good There has been some small im-humoured progress all adong the it is impossible to appeal to

in food this year. Wenceslas Square on any sum the electorate with the idea provement that removal of the more in- More people are getting a but- mer evening, before

ter and milk ration, hitherto for munists took ever. hibiting controls and a re-children and heavy workers only; surgence of British private Praguers love eating out and international gossiping, over their coffee and enterprise in affairs could do better, as they they still fill the cafus at night, but the ordinary ration puts a did in France, Belgium and mit on their eating, and meals Holland.

in the cheaper restaurants Reluctant though they are dull.

The foreigner, having better to jeopardise their 10d. worth

dinner! rations, can get a good of meat or their right to pay for two, with pleasant 3/6d. for 20 cigarettes, and wines if he is not too much of

If you have a sick dragon fish and roptiles-the odder the cushioned though they may a gourmet, for the equivalent of

Says Honeybill: "The_greatest from world prices by 30 to 40 shillings. Coupons must needing treatment with peni- better.

boom is in tropical fish. These days many people think the drawing- room isn't completo without a Low angel dish swirling lemurely about in an arty-looking aquar- ium."

WAS These words will bo read by

Some very complicated oxpert rhoumatoldments followed, and at last is many sufferers frem

Three sporting Auna fishermen arthritis, and so I must hasten to seemed probable that the chemi- add a warning: Compound E is cal needed to keep joints healthy

manufactured and their 37 It, boat are.reported so difcalt to produce that there was ona normally

sorge part of the adrenal to have been lifted high in the no chance at all of thero being by

air on the back of a whale. Must Any available in England for at gland. least two years.

if the

be

crash

Not Impressed

diplomats

100

are

I

can

the Com-

World Race

A red haired "wild man" seen eating Intners' chicken feed is ex-Air being an Com-suspected of

Force colonel.

Really, that seems to be carry- ing the birdman business a bit far.

art

The next step will be to Myrtlo's got a friend who is so

pearls even her manufaction artificial Compound nervous,

all over highly strung. E, and blochemists the world will

compele for pro. The story of Dr. Hench's suc- the honour of solving this It begins, blem. the observation perhaps, with ceas is an odd one. that prognant women sometimes lose the symptoma of rheumatoid arthritis without treatment.

There are not many such casce recorded, largely because women

£15 Will Buy A Nice Dragon

A Success Story By T. F. Thompson

heavy subsidies, the people be given up for everything, ex cillin-send it to Honeybill

two officially and Jackson.

are likely to find that there cont for one or

permitted

него

You ones.

it.

Amazon rivars of

restaurants, black"

Or perhaps you wish to make can cost

birthday is a much higher price yet to where dinner for two

present meal is not your best friend a

of a viper? Honeybill and Jackson pay for the low level of joy- £7 or £8, but the less security. Under the that much better.

The government has taken over will be delighted to oblige,

Britain is enjoying a boom in

Because they supply so many standstill agreement in dollar the "black market" by opening quear and exotic pots, and Tom

prices purchases, Sir Stafford warn-coupon-free shops

Honeybill, 32-year-old ex-Fleet educational specimens Honeybill ed that even foodstuffs may are pretty fantastic but not sa Air Arm rating, and his partner. and Jackson are one of about threa Bob Jackson, are cashing in on firms in Britain who have been have to be reduced. It is high as the "black"

granted a Board of Trade licenco possible that raw materials

In the confines of a bandker- to import reptiles. also will be cut in volume, ers will be unavailing. The

chief-sized garden, using Bob

No import licences are issued with Jackson's semi-detached home in

the partners breed and tobacco and Hollywood hard currency areas,

from fish that come film imports more stringent- the return of a buyers' mar Timperley Cheshire, as an office, for fish so

high-pres

or the ket, either do not want our they have built up a ly controlled.

export in waters Further, though prices are manufactured goods, or not sure import rising steadily, workers are at the prices we require, and creatures beautiful and shudders. Malaya in a heated glass shou Yes, I said export, America, within the Manchester fog belt. Australla Now Zealand, and It is, all very successful. warned that they must not certainly not in sufficient

viperz

Most popular buy today is the agitate for increased wages, volume to pay for our Im-Burope all want English and aquarium equipment. as this would inflate still ports.

from Jackson was carefully dusting Guppy-the inch-long rainbow flah

Trinidad Much as the new rulers further our already unecono-

They go at 12. 6d. a pair," It says may shy from the prospect, penicillin on a dragon's sore spot

sald mic export prices.

as Honeybill chatted about busi-

Hogaybill. They moll by the much for the British back- the only hope for heavily-

Britain is

The dragon, sometimes known thousand. So do exquisite angel bone that the public has populated

barb, native of Mintage, at 15: been able to stand Increas-gradual return to her former as an Indian monitor, is a night-fish at 75. 6d. each, and the tiger- And if you think nobody could ing doses of monotony and role of world banker, in- marish creature with grey folds

a chameleon, loved python incent of a giant hangover. misery, and even, in the vestor and trader, coupled of skin and a glassy stare remin

But, unprepossessing or not, there! Honeyblli and Jackson will tell

you they could and do. case of Labour supporters, with immediate expansion

The partnera do a nice line in courageously maintaining of Commonwealth potential- is a keen demand for dragons at

and stocking building vivarivana that their existence. in the Itles. Sweeping nationalisa-about £16

In fact, 80 is there for everything them with scaly pets. best in the world. It is tion for its own sake, aus-

and a controlled stocked by Honeybill and Jack- also. however, surprising terity

son, from the brightly coloured Honeybill and Jackson are doing one cloud in produce angel fish and rainbow hah to the nicely in the strange pat trade that the bitter times have economy

their aky-that they have to part "Jaws which Jackson with their stook. not thrown up one or more wealth in a country like Bri-young crocodile with the stoely, that there is only

all those sco, we like out of the mnorasi.

and this must surely become

explained Honeybill, "It's wrench to let our reptiles and The Socialists know they evident in time to the most passing a cup of tea to a vicar.

Fish Boom

fish go." cannot close the dollar gap, bigoted hater of free enter

After that I hadn't the heart The trouble is, the and are only propped up by prise.

A great deal of their stock gves

universities, but to ask Honeybill to sell me a ter American' uid:" Even the people will have to learn to schools and

private buyers are clamouring forl rapin for my garden pond. greatest effort by the work-the hard way.

cannot

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ness.

time.

leaders who could find a way tain (If, in fact, anywhere) snapping

handled na camially as though

"

Mrs. Stewart o' the Braes told her friend Maggie Adam that her Compound E dock not cure

favourite piece as a child was and for all it "Hushed was the evening hymn." elmply suppiles something which we didno hae watches when I arthritis once the body ought to making and wis a littiin," she explained, "an in not making.

I liked the verse 'His watch the

In fact, it acts in the same way temple child, the little Lovite, insulin acts in diabetes. It kept.' I couldns blame him," would, therefore, bo unkind to give many people the temporary bono4it.

In Czechoslovakia, apparently, "there are about 4,500 priests... We must wait until we have including 910 belonging to re- sufficient Compound E to main:igious orders."

tain the treatment for the rest of Tho rest, according to the

Reds, aro votaries of capitalism.

their lives.

Airendy British doctors have

Four hundred Communist sym- planned proper trials. They will begin directly there are sufficient auppiles available, and all sufferers pathisers armed with spears at-

can incked the police from rheumatoid arthritis rest assured that help is on the Moscow gold must be spread a

bit thin down that way. way.

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