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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1943.

COUNCIL OF EUROPE

WILL

SUCCEED

sembly. But this was a miser

"Will the Council of Europe, Ministers has already been lar-jzational Socialist bloc in the ́As- succeed? Can it become a real guly averted. Parliament of Europe???

The whole Conheil now revolves | ble failure. "question of the fround what has That is the

been called the For on this humensely eme hour in Strasbourg and it is the "Spaak-Van Zeeland aris.” The plicated question of free Europe question I kept asking myself as former, as President the All Socialists do not, see eye to I flew back from that fagbedecked sembly, and the latter, as chair-eye. Nor, for that matter, do a city after witnessing the birth of this experiment in multi-na- tional democracy.

I believe

that the Council at Europe will succeed for the fple lowing reasons:

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University are what I describe as the political heavy weights"

but

men

By JASPAR SAYER

Conservatives or any other políti- cal sect or breed.

Small Beer New and wider loyalties

New Drugs

New Hope

By ANTHONY WEYMOUTH

Drugs discovered in the past half-a-century have re volutionised medical treat ment. Insulin, anaesthetics in the veins (which avoid the smothering of the chloroform mask); the

sulphonomides and penicillin.

Good Morning

As a passenger off the General Gordon said yesterday: "Now be I know what it's like to Shanghaied."

"

"Cabinet will ask £at vote of

confidence."

-As long as it doesn't fall too

Fat

•

make

a lot of heartburning

As one of our staff was heard to say to another over a bowl of On the

more salary, they're perfectly

chow fan yesterday other hand, you don't ask for willing to let you keep on work- ing for what you're worth."

"India May Be WHO Guinea Pig."

WHO stole my pork away. WHO......?

•

emerging in Strasbourg, and a

"Mexico is minting masses at silver dollars

each for China, new and a wider division is being ploughed, between the delegates- And now come other penicillin- stamped with the Generalissimo's of Europe. The delegates from man of the Committee of Minis-between those who really believe like chemicals, also derived from head.

can and must be moulds. There are hundreds of

That will

presumably the 12 countries are, for the most ters, are in permanent liaison, so that Europe part,serious-minded politicians that urgent matters may im-mited, and those who just tag moulds four have already been them automatically his property, who believe that it is an urgent

pressed into service for the con- and save ventilated as be along. mediately be political necessity

*** later. to draw

The Socialists certainly fall quest of infection. Penicillin at- tween the two bodies. the

this division. tacks the "coccal" group of bac- gether the £75,000,000 people who Among all delegates, indeed. on both sides of

there is inhabit Western Europe.

growing realisation Morrison and Mr. Dalton don't seria streptomycin has cured a They map-not-themed parliament exist cut much toe in European circles, meningitis

fair, percentage of tuberculous a discase formerly EXODUS FROM

cranks who want to rush towards without government, and that for neither of them played men

in one fell if the Assembly da to become an leading part in the preliminary proved very effective against or- invariably fatal Aureomycin has world government

who know, from effective parliament, necessarily efforts (eg. in the European Canisms which have become resis swoop. SHANGHAI,

bitter experience, that national in stages, then the Committee of Mogement) which paved the way tant to penicillin: while the latest sovereignties can be broken down Ministers has got to act as

to Strasbourg. its

arrival, chloromycetin, counters The large number of Euro- only bit by bit

contrast, one By

their West- many of the bacilli, among others government. peans who arrived here from

It is just because this view Perhaps the most importar minster back benchers, Mr. R.W.G. those responsible for infamation Shanghai yesterday were prevails that the potential wreck As soon as the Assembly opened, McKay commands considerable of the bowel and bladder. much less bitter about the ers of the infant Assembly (eg. obeervers began predicting that attention, because, though all

and inevitably don't agree with all his ideas, he has hitherto defeated as is rheu- circumstances that led to the delegates from Eire, who it would SODA

And now the their leaving than one might the place to raise the old burbear division

nsively imagined that this was split op into the old Left-Right has worked hard for European matoid arthritis.

it has done unity since the end of the war. Mayo Clinic in the United States In fact have

The cause supposed. Many of or partition)

has of free Europe produced Compound E. This site to press demand," have been board nothing of the surt them had fine homes and in somewhat contemptuous silence. There was it is true, a transcends conventional divisions substance was manufactured from

Now, that really is a sword of So long as these national issues happy",

between good businesses until a few

incident

Mr. of parties just as it transcends part of the adrenal gland; but it Damocles... can be Churchill and

Mr. Morrison in national frontiers. It is because took an enormous amount of tissue months ago, and were con- and national quarrela

Stras-to yield an infinitesimal quantity "My father has a black leather scious that by their efforts quelled, as they have been, their corridor, but this was the clash the dominant figures at

will be ineffective. sponsors

of personalities and had precious bourg-Winston Churchill and M. of Compound E (otherwise Cor-aller they were contributing to With the immensely adroit little to do with Europe.

Spaak-and most of the delegates scared by the Maro Clinic that mildew. Is there any way to re the welfare of the com- Paul Henri Spaak President

RS

There was, it is equally trus, realise

this truth, and speak there would be none available for move the mildew without harm munity, as well as making a jof the Assembly, the threatened an initial attempt by the Soci- accordingly that I believe that a years. good livelihood for them clash between that Assembly and alists present, led by the French true European Parliament will Fortunately, there is now hope!

af and Brities, to organise an inter-come into being.

selves.

It has now become impos- sible for them to continue in a place where many spent most of their life, but to a considerable extent

they seem to have accepted the fait accompli of Communist rule, and are now ready to start anew elsewhere. Their resilience is to be admired.

the controling Committee

Education And The Future

Linental civilisation

in the East

com-

has

Communal Living

of

Western

By

WINDRUSH

on.

i

He

In a sense this is the extension into the practical life of the West of the ethics which the War 1 prached formally and there- tically for centuries.

One of the few diseases which

sone). The present writer was

"Forty women circle, over UN

to the leather?”

is covered with

If heavy drinking makes, you fatter,

I'll have a double chin.

Yes. Move to a less humid. climate, and get your old man to that an entirely fresh source can be tapped. The United States take the thing out of his pocket Public Health Service confirms a occasionally. report that Cortisone can be obtained from a tropical vine.

Undue optimism is unwarranted: but if this report is confirmed by further research, millions of suf-

I can make myself awfully un- ferers throughout the world may escape from the crippling life comfortable any time by asking myself: "What would you do it which at present taces them.

An authority on theumatism in you knew no one would ever Arnerica has stated that the old Lind it out?" disease of man seems to be de- finitely under control.”

A very different disease and

*

English as spoke.

While one who gangs is cer

*

From the point of view of the; there is also a great and lively; the building up of a social organ East, the West is a single civilisa movement for making the schools isation by which from the cradle ton. But there are great dif- truly human, truly "schools of to the grave the individual ferences between one

Western citizenship.”

brought into intimate touch with his fellows.

They have reponsi country and another nearly as

bility for him-to see that he great as between, say, China and

the

not unemployed to provide bir India. In particular

is different

with doctors and so In the majority of cases

is made to feel that he has res from the Anglo-Saxon elvilica-

it is a disease because it is a cell- tainly a gangster, one who bass they comment favourably tion of Great Britain and the The aim of building up a lite ponsibility for them. More and craving is chronic alcoholism. can hardly be called a boorter. about the behaviour of USA

ly sense of communal living is more, the average man finds his Hitherto, no single drug has prov-Nor one who rues, a roster. the Reds, as far as honesty, To understand a civilisation probably the most interesting and pleasure in common action with ed capable of tackling this dis- his fellows. The communitability. The tendency is often in-

One of the a/t bakers in the freedom from graft, etc, are it is necessary to look at the sys-civilisation

valuable activity

community life, is the berited, as is the weak will which 40th Division wrote his fiancee today. The nine-centre, concerned. particularly in

The education term

which

accompanies it pattern of life for the twentieth so often

"for "Sweet tart, your waffle cute, contrast to the Nationalists, moulded its children. There is!

century.

mental instability which is so and you're roll the world to me. characteristic makes escape from I'm a well-bread young fellow. On the other hand, they also a different spirit in the educa-

reality welcome. Alcohol does and that's the raisin you should confirm earlier reports that tion system of England and Am-

this

те marry

when I raise the erica from that of the continental the new rulers are very

Treatment in an institution is dough. Be my batter half and Prople in short of skilled administra-countries of Europe.

Asia would do well to study this

not always successful. But a drug everything will pan out all right bas now been discovered. tors, and are operating large- difference when they are making teenth century liberalism of Eu-

Icing your praises day and tetraethythfuram disulphide

bakecause I loaf you. Doughnut ly by trial and error. It is plans for the reform of society rope has been largely discredited It may be that Eastern society which its discoverers have humo- refuse, honey bun, or your crailer also clear that they are car-

and rejected because it turned is destined to pass in this con- rously named Antabuse. This than I think you are. I deserve rying out an emphatically

8 rather similar

substance is harmless and pro- a little oven, for you're the flour A reflective Italian, Dr. Nen- society into a mass of individuals tury through Soviet purge of "reaction cioni,

themselves evolution. Eastern countries duces no symptoms unless alcohol of my eggistence." a civil servant in the who lived each for

taken. If it is, nausea is taken. vivid social have not suffered, as in the West,

and aries" and establishing Italian Ministry of Education, has and without any

over-development of vomiting, Bushing of the face and Myrtle's grandfather says a man typical dictatorship of the been studying the American life. This is an unnatural way from the

Much of the revolu- the individualistic way of life. Falpitations occur. Reports say who wins a girl's hand often proletariat, however alier educational system, and has writ of living such a system is likely to York "Herald-Tribune" is a disguised expression of the from an over-development of the so long as they take the tablets.

ten an interesting article for the ionary unrest in modern Europe They have suffered, however, that as a proportion of chale Anishes up under her thumb.

sufferers bave remained abstinent prove in Shanghai.

This is an ideal spot for a desire by man to achieve a more claims what has roost impressed him.

family. The

This promises to be easily the picnic, sald the father of the healthy social life. Men may interests of a man in Eastern 50 most efficacious help which has He says: "Europe is a very think that they are agitating for ciety are too often bounded by that foreign individualistic society in which concrete material aims: actually his family. He is shut off from ever been devised for the alcohol family as he guided his flock to...

It is a curious fact that such shady place in the park. It and they are protesting against an or healthy commimal living by his the individual feels alone

people Art almost invariably must be," agreed his wife. "Fifty

rmillion It is an inherited wrong."

just can't be m charming. does not need to group with his ganisation of society which left family.

To break down this relic of weakness of character, allied to neighbours to achieve his objec- each individual locked up in his tives. The European, if he is own little individual world. the past organisation of society, their good nature, which leads to down. Others, however, hold not a Communist or Socialist, One of the must remarkable the best means is to inspire the their undoing. out no hope for foreign com- usually does not like the wide, changes which

has come

Over schools of the East with the new A word about Trilene, the self not even the prick of a pin was

administered anaesthetic Is it registered. social ideas. At most he is ta- England in the present century - ideals of corporate life.

safe? Well, women in childbirth There can be no question in terested in an idea or an etter-

have consistently administered the mind of any rational person chloroform to themselves in the that pain in childbirth should be past. There seems to be a wide relieved. Whether Trilene is the imargin of safety for these patients answer remains to be seen. Some. and Trilene is certainly a safer other self-administered analgesic drug than chloroform. The writer may before long be invented. :-.. inhaled it with no unpleasant

In the meantime, results.

Some incorrigible optimists are still sure

business can be expected to resume on a normal basis as soon as conditions settle

trade with the Communists will be far from easy seems to be borne out.

elite. That is

panies except on a very restricted scale. Оп

the whole, our earlier view that prise which involves his own days in your American schools, I why, living for 40 felt clearly that America is not a new world. For the American school is a "social" school and its principal task is to form goodi American citizens adequately ad- Justed to the American society." He gives a chilling picture of

#

Aftermath Of. Nazism

Formal And Academic

of the

Ordeal Of The Milkman

By GRAHAM STANFORD

lic.

All that happened was a com-

The cumulative effect of recent

news items makes the European school: one wonder just how con- vinced the Germans are that Nazism is, an evil doctrine.

He's one of 40,000-odd milk-ated and hundreds still make the They can see its physical

men who Jast year delivered rounds by pony and milk float. effects in their own divided

1284,000,000 gallons of milk to Here-and in Suburbia-he has and occupied country, in the

the doorsteps of Britain. But to-much more intimate contact with ruins of their cities, in their and austere, they are open, not day he's "ed up" and doesn't the customers. Says an official of|

He wakes up Eritain with the them living in large blocks of plete dulling of sensation so that clink of his bottles winter

and flats, summer hail, rain, or snow. He pushes his heavily laden to block; has Usually he's a cheerful sort of truck from block

his cus- chap with a joke for the house cursory contact with wife and if he works in the tomers. In the country his cus-

tomers are fewer, widely separ country-a ride for the children.

own war dead and crippled. They can feel its moral effects in the burden of guilt which hangs over all who were in any way responsible for the Hitler era

But apparently many have not yet repented. These Germans are more resentful against the surgeons who have been trying to wipe out the disease of Nazism than

*Separated from the contem forary life, formal and academic, intellectual and unethical, cold

to all, but to the bright people'

hesitate to say so.

the National Dairymen's Associa He's tired of doorstep wrang-tion: "He knows all his customer's The American school, on the ling of the abuse that is being personally listens to their wor contrary, is more-interested heaped upon him by angry house rins, and that's where the trouble

the relation between the child wives short of milk. He's weary comes in. If something goes man and--believe me-a lot of is a school for every child and and be threatens to walk out. not only for an elite. Every

He believes that the limit was them are getting very fed-up. child, bright or dull, is regarded reached this week when an angry They say that they're sick of as having an equal right to the housewife fore the shirt from the 'carrying the can back"" muidance and care of the teacher. back of a milkman. in Cheshire Earnings Cut

and society than in culture. It of his "Why blame me?" retorts, wrung they all blame the milk-:

The aim of education is to teach because she couldn't get milk for What else makes the milkman.

person,

the child self-reliance as a free the children's breakfast. -1

not facts.

Not that he altogether blames see red? This may seem a rather ideal the housewife. His grouse is with

He says that the present short- they are against those who ised picture of American educa- the "system" which makes Brlase pot only means "cute" in his carried and- spread that Lion. Its standard varies from tain short of milk when she is comings but is alienating plague.

tomers who, now that they ca school to school and from state producing more than ever before choose their own milkman, may in state. But in his analysis ́ot

the ideas underlying the system,

Dr. Nencioni is right. What he

"sign on" with another dairyman. Bonus Pay

He contends that the only What are the facts and what thing he has to sell is his sales-

One correspondent has re- ported that a class of poli- fical and economic outcasts says shout schools in America makes the milkman set redmanship, and that if customers has been created in Western of schools in Bagland, Eng. Minimum wage for a milkman's desert him he will ultimately get

would, broadly speaking, be true are these land has perhaps still a touch of 24 14 8dy in the larger pro- salesman

15-hour week in London Germany." Who

the reputation of being a bad outcasts? They include all the continental attitude, but it Germans who have worked only a touch. Educational ideas the rural areas £4 85 In ad- ployer, and that would be the in- vincial cities £4 10s 6d, and ir He is answerable to his cm- for any military government have been

cen evolving rapidly dition there is a

in England in recent years, both

complicated evitable deduction if zales went agency, but especially for the state schools and in the private overtime system, exxomission on down. He adds that customers those who were employed in schools (which in England are sales, and in some cases a bonus won't sten to his explanations the denazification courts. On called public schools). Though the System. Proposals for a general and that. In any case, it isn't his the other hand, the little main effort in educational reform wage increase of is a week are job to offer excuses, Nazis, the ones who went is the sheet, physical one of find now being considered.

That he says, is a job for the Reliable estimates of Exact Government. One milkman told along with the party in ing schools and, teachers for the weekly earnings are hard to ob- me "T'm sick of being a buffer power, are not in trouble. Education Act of the war years, in a busy area may average £B, customer. Why don't they tell the

enlarged system under

tain, but in London a milkman between the Government and the This may not represent

and in rural areas £5 10s. Some country the facts?? tong the majority attitude, but ironies in all history if we earn much more, others auch What are the tacts? In

1938-39 its very existence is a serious permitted the new Germany less, but a vagis evert tells me sales of milk were 787,000,000 sign of the times, and it is to fall under the influence that is about a safe average, gallons. In 1948-43- they were obvious that Allied policy of those who still secretly methods vary greatly from town 500,000,000 gallons, or 66 per Working hours, conditions, 1.284.000.000, an increase of over should be examined in view sympathise with the crimi to country. In London a milk cent. In the past 12 months milk of these facts. It would be nals who debauched and man may have more than 500 production has increased by 170,- one of the most monstrins destroyed the old Germany. customers on his books, most of 1000,000-gallons, or 24 per cent

the

insects

there seem

no reason why, with proper, press cautions, Trilene should not be used in suitable cases.

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