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SWEEPSTAKES AS AID IN

THE DOLLAR CRISIS

tributors.

at the to

its

general research and

£6,000 for its investigations into the chemotherapy of tuberculosis.

Good Example

Dublin

Good Miring!

"China's issue. Coming discris- sion in Singapore."

The popularity of these birth control talks seems to be spread- Ing. (

Permanently run down.

"His face was disfigured. As leng as I can remember, he has had a car on his face."

•

A tall young man, recently” ar- Price winners on the Derby are and in British African territories. ideas into Myrtle's head, but they scattered over the West Indiesrived from Home, tried to put

died of loneliness. The Dollar Crisis

would like to know if any

An inquiry into the laws and pulsary additional contributions Medical Research Council of Ire in July and August and rising to practices - governing betting, to the past National Health Service | land for 1943, refèss to a gift of £143,000 in September before gambling and sweepstakes in scheme, to as much as 9/10 per £10,000 fibm the Hospitals. Trust the Cambridgeshire. British Colonial territories is being week per head, there is a strong Fund for

He told the Commission that made in connection with the work move for a relief from this taxa-

the Post Office Acts 1908-1943 of the Royal Commission on Bet- don by some such means as

and the Statutory Regulations ing. Lotteries and Gaming which State lottery which, as a Member

governing postal services did not is now sitting in

of the Royal Commission pointed London.

contain any specific prohibition of The Royal Commission has ad; out, might ease the dollar situation At a time when the problem of the transmission of lottery cor- dressed a questionnaire on the if it was open to American con- Improving the health services of respondence through the post "Pakistan. newspapers fail to subject to the Colonial Office

the Colonies and of providing hos- There is evidence that people appear: Journalists strike.". Two White Papers just publish-

Well-what else was there left The Republic of Ireland now pital accommodation and trained from Britain and from all parts ed by His Majesty's Stationery claims to have some of the best staffs is an urgent one, this ex- of the Colonial Empire buy tickets for them to do? Office

show grave

concern by equipped hospitals in the world as ****

directors the Commission of Members of

result of the operations of the ample of what can be done in a by writing to ownCIS,

small country by means of a lot and managers of stores, hotels, which the Right All-news contributions to be Willink, Honourable H.U. Teish Hospitals Trust Sweepstakes, tery must be very much in the travel agencies, and other busi- minds of the authorities, and willness concerns in all parts of Eire, vast expenditure of manpower all parts of the world.

undoubtedly be taken into con in addition to writing direct to and material in the football pool!

The principle factors that led cideration by the Royal Commis. the Hospital Trust in industry which is destracting ef- to the lean Ireland were the parsion when it makes its recom

legalisation of sweepstakes in Southern fort from the export drive.

mendations for consideration by In a few years the pools business lous state of hospitals and

the Briti

British Government has developed into the seventh health services prior to 1930. largest industry in the United The hospital institutions

Already editorials are appear- in Kingdom, and is now spreading which Irish physicians and suring in the African Press advocat CHINA AND INDIA to Colonial territories.

geons were trained were

ing profits from sweepstakes Reference to proposals to help out of date and badly equipped social services speak fordi frank/News at the Royal Commission that there was winner of one where a particular where As the Communists expand solve the dollars crisis by means in voluntary hospitals particularly of the prizes of £25,000 on this a large volume of opinion by peo and consolidate their control of state controlled sweepstakes the position was steadily worsen-

ple who urged strongly that the of China, the dominating in- comes at a time when the Ameri-| ing. By 1930 the majority of the year's Irish Sweepstake on the way to solve the dollar crisis was!

-British-Canadian talks

Derby was in Nairobi, Kenya, in Irish hospitals were reaching a fluences on the future of Asia

Fashington may release surplus point where it was impossible to there is widespread support given to have a national lottery. They become gradually more ap

dollars for inve

investment in new cope with their work. Owing to to the Irish, South African and She added, "that if all this gambling is going on why should parent. The new China will Colonial enterprises, and in in-the expense there was little other national lotteries.

The only evidence, however, not the State have a rake-off? vie with the new India in de- treased purchase by America of modern medical equipment, while

Colonial raw materials.

Government; Why should we not get something published the provision of additional accom-

to relieve our taxation from this ciding the fate of the con

sweepstakes, After

quoting evidence as to the modation or the building of new White Papers on

cheap money which is going tinent, with Japan playing 3 extent to which the Irish Sweeps hospitals was quite beyond the concerned that run by the Irish about in an uneconomic way?

Eospitals Trust secondary part for the time take is being supported in England resources of those responsible.

In answer to Members of the Memorandum pre- notwithstanding restrictive

Commission being.

he said that there Act Passed In 1930sented by the Home Office said were many gulations,

administrative the White Papers com- great

pare lotteries with street betting.

"It has been the policy of the vantages for a national lottery. In 1930, therefore, the Irish Par- Hospitals Trast, a statutory body it was cheaper to run, it was the are mainly agrarian, but now based on different systems. dog racing or football pools, in liament passed an Act by which having the full support of the plest form of betting they had which, there is constant, frequent hospitals were authorised to Government of the Republic of China is expected to develop and continuous betting, and xx- operate sweepstakes for the be-

Communistic presses the views of the Chairman refit of the sick poor. Further/reland, to press Irishmen abroad and it did not involve the same i on generally lines. India is likely to stick | and Members of the Commission Acts have since been passed by cular scope for this in Great Brit create vested interests, so that

Both the

countries

in

re-

amount that can be won was dés-

India starts with one great advantage. The history of the past half century has shown that what is needed for transforming the-life of purposes. agrarian societies is a large supply of capital, and the do-

Malta Lottery

on a

On this a

the

.

The pur-

ad-

Stupendous Figures

00

siever benefits from the ad

vices a solicitor gives,” challenges

writer.

Certainly; the solicitor.

The Maharajah of Ramazina Chose two dark beauties for his

zenana.

He carried them off by introd

ways To his ruined fort in a moun-

tain maze,

the

And locked them up in

lonely harem. Brother! Did that harem

scarem!

"The man's skull was fractured, and he was not given a chance to live by the doctor attendingʊ

English from Tokyo. "Our new baby camera

From an American magazine advt:

We invite you for a never-to-

-

From Down Under. I "Mr. decided to stop here A thousand Post Office workers for a few days on his way to

vane; more

and

aaj danger of corruption, as other sell

buy tickets as

forms of garbling, neither did bell and and patriotic

and there is parti-i buc duty, that in some ways lottery might the sweepstakes now operate to free enterprise, combined seem to.be less with a moderate socialism, it would discourage the expendi- Acts, 1933-1940. The question is state lottery and there are a great

socially dangerous authority of the Public Hospitals tain where there is no competing it could be cut off at any time revolting invention."" and to a political structure ture of countless million man- now raised whether findings of the many Irishmen or persons with which is broadly liberal. hours in research to fill in coupons Royal Commission will encourage Irish connections.

Inevitably they will be in competitions in which the Parliament

Colonial Govern-

Further, the Hospitals Trust On other forms of gambling rivalry. The competition beamed by Members of the Cements to introduce state lotteries remunerate-their-agents well, as stupendous figures were given to be forgotten visit to our renown-

a similar scale.

for example, the seller of the the Royal Commission,

ed new hotel Rates from $10 tween them will show which mission as much a lottery as a In Eire it is optional to any ordinary book of twelve ten shill- The National Greyhound Rac- Gally include all meals, activities, system, Communism or a re sweepstake

hospital to join in the sweepstakes ing tickets is required to remiting Society estimated that last complete service. Hay fever tree." latively free economy, can

In addition to enquiring into or stay out. With very few ex- only £5 thus making a £1 profit year the attendance at Greyhound the position of lotteries in British

on each book and in addition hej Racing racks was thirty millions, Iron, curtains? give Asian countries today the Colonies and the operations of the ceptions all are now in.

Two hundred and twenty six receives a seller's prize if one of and the eim spent

"For the less formal interior, betting greater efficiency, and enable Irish Hospitals Sweepstake, the hospitals and similar institutions the tickets in the book is a mis-580,000,000

straight-hanging, unlined draw living standards to be raised Royal Commission is amassing in-beneft under the terms of these ning ticket. The Royal Commis- regard to herse racing, curtains are helpful in creating an most rapidly.

formation on the operation Irish Acts.

sion of 1932-1933 decisively

the Churches Committe on atmosphere of intimate hostility." Europe. Between the monies raised for lected the idea that state or large Gambling. which other sweepstakes

regularly There is evidence that number

My cigarette lighter is tem- of countries are turning to this the hospitals and the Red Cross seale lotteries should be set up in publishes estimates of the volume

of betting in its various forms, peramental. method of gaining revenue for the sweepstakes have been able Great Britain to combat sales of

calculated the turnover, on and The spirit is willing, but the their social services and other to provide for these combined irish sweepstake tickets.""

bodies the extraordinary sum of Britain's Contribution of the course, to be £350,000, Aash is weak. over £16,500,000, averaging

000 in 1948. More than 10,000,000 The extent to which people in football pool coupons are issued nearly million pounds a year

I know a warder who got so Britain contribute to this sweep since the sweepstakes_started.

2 week-

k-representing a coupon pally-with-the-inmates-of-his-pri---- In addition, the Irish Govern was shown in evidence by Sir for nearly one in two of the adult son that he was fired, Maita, whose economic pro- minion can expect this to be

Raymond Birchall, the Director invested from abroad, parti- blems have recently been the sub-ment receives a handsome revenue General of the Post Office, who Sectland and Wales, and one sixth victs by their first two figures. working population of England, He used to call the older con→ Ject of deputations to the Secretary from the operations of the sweep, said that there was a large non- of the number of letters handled cularly as a result of Mr.

of State, introduced a State lottery the promoters paying three postal traffic in Irish Sweepstake by Nehru's visit to Washington. in July, 1948, immediately after

United There is also a nest egg in the having self-Government restored holds a miniate for sponsored tickets in addition to by the General Post Office in the

half-hour programmes on Radia chase of tickets through the post.

Kingdom. Gibraltar runs a State Jottery Eirean, with an additional hand- A sterling balances, which are

table which be produced are unlikely to be drastically for their new housing programme. their Sunday programmes. ".

from which they hope to help pay red and twenty-five pounds for showed the monthly fluctuations up in employment by the Tokyo to say hell to his many scaled down, even in Britain's Contributions to their lottery were

in the value of

of British Postal classifed than 40,300 persons friends."

as in full-time work Last month the Irish Govern- Orders cashed in the Irish Re are employed by pool promoters, present financial difficulties. recently described by Mr. Edward

public which coincided with the 322.480 by bookmakers and Capital invested in India Bishop, Empire Correspondent for ment announced a new big sever-

year hospital building programme Irish Sweeps run on the Grand the

Fälld in other forms of

239,- gambling; would be used for big irriga- "Sunday Empire News" as be- including provisions for new nonal,

the Derby, and the mo

2,000,000 postal orders valued ati ing to them like taxation without tion projects, for building fer- tears.

tuberculosis Sanatorium in Water- Cambridgeshire, in the spring, 250,500,000 were sold in con-

autumn. Between

een nection with football in tiliser factories, for greatly extending

Office of the High Commissioner Dublin, regional hospitals for January and December the total 1946-1949, there all porno r

A statement just issued by the lord, communications, for developing industry. The for India in London indicates that Limerick and Galway, and a Sana-value was £1,182,000 and the of £1,000,000 was a turnover

torium in the new constitution being pro-

monthly fluctuations were £122,- for Galway as well.

Govern-

YOUNG plans have been worked out posed for the new Republic of

The fund which is drawn upon 000 and £133,000 in the months 200s from which the

ment.took £12,000,000 in recently SCIENTISTS and are believed practicable. India, lotteries organised by the for this scheme is derived from uary and February proced-imposed taxation; more

Sweepstakes tong the Grand National,

£3,000,000

WANTED a year profit goes to The sums needed are large, Government of India and the Gov- the Hospitals

pared with

2 mere £45,000 in ernments of any other state, are which will be added a Govern- March,

in the Post Office in the but not nearly as large as

traffe. of £970.420 £179.000

rising to £95,000 and It. the time spent by such a down for discussion by the Central ment. allotment. what America has provided

Government.

which was asked for by the Min pectively in the months of April, tion in for Europe under the Mar-

In their conpans and In Britain, handicapped by ister of Health..

May and June before the Derby, studying form that is giving con shall plan.

phenomenal taxation with com-i The latest Annual Report of the dropping to £66,000 and £94,000 cern to Members of the Royal Commission, and which may turn the scales in favour of some form of State-controlled lottery. Such a step would have incalculable effect on the economics and social? welfare of British Colonial terri picious about any food, boil it tories. vigorously for at least 15 minutes Said an official of the Royal before you even taste it. A taste Commission in an exclusive inter- can kill, it the food is poisoned view, "An examination is being by botulinus, but boiling will made of the laws governing gam-1 make it safe.

bling in all its forms in the Col-1 But even boiling cannot des onjes and in other Commonwealth tries have therefore to ask

troy the poison (fortunately, re- countries, and the views of Col- Sir Wilson Jameson. chief

latively mild) manufactured in onial people will undoubtedly themselves whether India medical officer for England and

foods by staphylococel germs, so weigh with the Commission in looks like a risk worth tak-Wales, has just disclosed that

typhoid, paratyphoid infantile, perhaps the best and satest axiom their recommendations.” ing.

A programme of this there were 785 outbreaks each

carried by where food is concerned is: Keep paralysis-may be kind would be a gamble, but persons in 1947 an increase of involving from me to dozens of

contaminated ·food..

all food scrupulously clean, and But even when gertas" do gain when in doubt throw it out! the existence of a strong gov (-167-over-1346dbcess to our food, they rarely ernment and a trained civil Food poisoning is a germ dis- do so in numbers large enough sérvice provides a reasonable ease, just like a sore throat or to be immediately dangerous, guarantee of success.

boils. As a matter of fact, the The two things they need to the staphylococcf germs of a boil, and warmth. streptococci of a sore throat and reach the menace stage

are time Food consumed

It must now be fully realis- ed by the West that invest- ment in India would not be acceptable if it were made conditionally and subject to political provisions. India, having only recently achieved independence, is exaggerat edly sensitive about any en- croachment on its

sover-

eignty.. The Western coun-

a new Fever hospital near

summer and

and

com~

12

thars

£108,000 res-large line of the popula

Food Poisoning: Germs Must

and

knows

Food poisoning is new. news, every summer. The irony of it all is that science almost everything there is to know about the prevention of food poisoning, yet the number of outbreaks in England mounts steadily.

Eat To Live

:

By GEORGE GLENWOOD

Dalai Lama Wants Help Against Reds

Calcutta October 12.

If the Indian economy can be galvanised, and an up-if carried into food on dirty within an hour or two of bre swing of prosperity begins, hands, can themselves cause food paration is usually safe, food. the attraction of Communism poisoning.

Prepared foods allowed to stand will at once diminish. And The other two of the "Big for more than two hours in A the same can be said about Four of the food poisoning warm place may become potent,

An are betulinus and salmonela or even deadly, poisons. Pakistan, although its prob-

You needn't try to remember Proper and

The American radio broad- lems aré different.

immediate re- The their names, but here are a few frigeration chilis the germs into caster, Lowell Thomas, caine quicker they are to reconcile acts about them you ought to a state of hibernation. If kept out of forbidden Tibet today their disputes, the readier the commit to memory,

cold, they will lie dormant and and reported that the Dalai West will be to invest in their The food poisoning germs must be unable to grow to menacing Lama wants help from the future.

sat to live. They thrive wender- proportions. One thing to bear West against the Communists. China also needs large sup-ully on prepared or made-up in mind however, is that it is

toods: cream pastries, salad always summer in a wat plies of capital if it is to de- dressings, meat pies, pudding chen or larder. velop industrially, but the soups, etc. Flies and other ver One word of warning If Communists are unlikely to min are dangerous sources if you're planning a campaign get worth-while loans, either contamination. from Russia or anywhere else. They may, of course, be will- ing to trade with the West and buy machinery and the like, but this will most prob- ably be on a basis of equal payments.

ì

kit

sa-

Thomas

was carried into the cuside world on a litter. He injured his right hip when a borse three him against a rock- against rodents, avoid the pile 170 miles from ; Lhasa, the

Dalai Lama's capital A called rat or

or mouse "viruses. They

usually are made up "of} brought him here for Living salmonella germs, Another major source of food these germs it makes no differ contamination is unclean hands.

whether they ence

make you or Hands which outwardly appear the rodents rice. An authority lean still may be contaminated on food poisoning gering had this the with

enough germs to seed an to infection in food.

say on the subject

real Prevention lies in thoroughly undoubtedly resides in the eme danger to public health washing and scrubbing the hands

ployment of so-called, rat viruses

and forearms with lots of soap. There are on record a score

warm water immediately or more instances where the care

and

He said that the Dalai Lama loid him that Tibetan: leaders were waiting anxiously for some! word from the Western world about help to keep the Cem- munists, who are over-running| Crine, from also : dévouring

Thomas said there is no chance

Thus, if China is to be modernised, it seems that the money must be raised for cibly from its own people How this can be done has been for to handling food. In addi-ess use of a commercial rat of Tibet turning Communist for} shown by Russia. It is not an

• to foock poisoning itselfs visus has been followed by hu. it is age of the most anti-Com- other infectious diseases man infection sometimes with attractive spectacle. If in- CONS

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