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The boss was out of breath

*HEN Mr Franklin com-

plained of being a bit short of breath on hurrying and of an occasional throb- bing-in-the-head sensation, I took his blood pressure. It was high as old ham.

In a way I wasn't surprised. Certainly Mr Franklin

the kind of bombastic,

had you-

can't-put-it-oVFT-ON-ME

tem:

Perament that most people anxiety about the level of their

associate with high

pressure.

blood blood pressure than they

from its actual effects.

I know how he was suspi- clons of people's motives, how he was unmerciful to inefficient subordinates, and was proud of Ida own colossal energy.

"I wish all my staff had high blood pressure," he growled "Then we'd get some work done."

But then, is another kind of high blood pressure personality," I explained softly.

over-

OVET-CON-

Just as trying The other type can be just as trying. They avoid rows at all costs, try w secture obedience by repcated persuasion.

They themselves try to obviate

by criticisin

being scrupulous in their works,

Submissivo and scientious, they come office fral and leave lask

"Humph," grunted Mr Frank- n. "My employees try to come in last and leave first.

"My subordinates must have low blood pressure. Very low, iny, diminutive, Janitesimal pressure."

the

People with high blood

do

Another point to Temember is that a reasonably high blood pressure in older people is com- patible with normal health.

Mr Franklin was obese. Since the hears has extra work to do when the pressure is mised and overweight also may call upon the heart to work harder, it was worthwhile Mr Franklin going on a det.

"But most important don't I advised him. Tak

It easy!" "Take it easy," he shouted, when my employes come in late, leave uly. Listen, every k my firm bas Got junior twenty grandmothers who are always on the point of extinc- tion. Even my immediate

vistants exem

to spend years

at the dentist. human beings many teeth.

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I never knew could have When the Test matches begin the whaio ataff goes down with flu"

hig

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He was waving about, rod in the face now, his voice rising in unger.

"Useless, lazy, inefficient, the lut of them. None of them pressure have an abundance of wortla twopence," he roared.

drivo and "go," but their "It's a good job I have a fairly emotional frus-

tration

vents them

from using

their energy in the best possi- ble direction.

I told Frankila

AllBina

doctor's

Mr

day-by CEDRIC

how

many of my high blood

pressure pall-

ents

had 12

CARNE

extreme Insatiable need to dependi

unconditionally on someone they

love, and when ther didn

placid temperament."

AT THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1957.

Begins today: THE ART OF MAKING MONEY

A new series which will fire the imagination of everyone who dreams of riches. Here are the stories of men who began with little or nothing and ended up with fortunes. How did they do it? Alexander Thomson

No. 1. VINCENT JOBSON

He slept

on the

Thames

In

his Dorchester Hotel suite high over

two large Seatches.

"I am one of the very few people in my position who has over slept on the Thumes Embankment," he says. "One night more than 50 years ago I had to do itand by Jove it was cold."

There is a twinkling, far-away look In Jobson's eye as he nips his drink and puffs at

favourite pipe.

"That," he adds, "was when I was carrying bags at Liverpool Street station for a copper or two a time.

the

We are talking of Art of Making Money, for there is no hardship for Vincent Jobson now. He has his 104-tön yacht, the he cruises round the Lahtoo II, in which Mediterranean three months in the year. 11c has his Rolls-Royce-The 14th one, including Bentleys."

And he can contemplate with satisfaction that the Stock Exchange value of his business

Embankment...now

MISCALCU

RANGOON

WASHINGTON

Because fish served to Defence Department has ad-

Prime Minister mitted

obtain such an intense respouse Japanese

they felt thwarted. As a result Kishi during his recent visit error in estimates. come try to dominate people into Rangoon at the height of| order to gain general respect,

a 90-million-dollar

Last July, it announced In this way a chronic cond-the city's heat wave was un- the first earth satellite would

(tho fish was cost 10-million dollars. Hion of tension is built up. palatable

Today 55-million dollars Psychiatrists have reported that reckoned to be a trifle high),

of understanding of their the Comptroller ecif

the have already been spent and emotional difficulties can reduce President's Household has scientists believe the final or cure the condition,

The fact is people with high been forced to go on a spot bill will be 100-million dol- blood pressure suffer more from of leave.

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He is also one of the biggest makers of engineering castings in Europe.

Vincent Jobson, looking for all ure: worlu like a great big Jovial gnome stries around his

elegant Dorchester suite,

he is running

his 14th Rolls-Royce

The second big chance in the in the world. It turns out he confides, "I have my Brst fobson story was just like that, 14,000 a week.

pipe of the day in my bath, But

I seldom drínic out of pub

soda in hours,"

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Sipping Scotch und In his twenties, he explains, "The art of making money, he was running a smali stove his Dorchester sulle Vincent he says,

"is fuking big calcus and grate-muking business that Jobson admit that not all the We argue whether a thought- family more cards were stacked against him. ful smoke, glass in hand, plays

Money.

lated risks when you are young. had been in the

than 100 years,

"Then you have plenty of time to try again if they don's come of-and to push on and buka up if they do?

That is bew jobson came lu

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At 17, and with only 15s, DJ. In his pocket, he ran away from Rosal Schoul to try hly luck in London.

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"After all those years Its cash value was only about £8,000. And in another 100 years, It would not have been much more at the rate Wo wern

going," he says,

the

So yougz VJ, scrapped lot Flant, ligs, tools-overy- thing went out.

He did have a little something my part in this Art of Making to build on,

But what of those who have nothing at all? What should be their plan?

SKY IS THE LIMIT

"When you are young, nevet be afraid to stick your neck "Then we had to get new out," is Jobson's advice. "But Ideas. We had to eal, hadn't pick a comparatively new idea. we?"

That is where the best chances usually lie.

Jobson's idea was to choose something new that was going Why? "It was the biggest to develop, and then get in on

risk i could take at the time,"

*y's Jobson, "And I got away with it."

it fed to all sorts of jobs, besides carrying bags ut Liverpool Stroot.

it carly.

THE BEGINNING

This was the beginning of the 1920s, and Vincent Jobson chose the motor-cur.

For three weeks he worked at His family's little firm had the butter counter of a pro been in the iron-foundry bus Vision store. And diving at near. Very well then, it would Inikation of wrapping up a

big making castings for #TOW pound of bulter is still Jobson's care. luvourite parlour trick,

Thot 13 Just what has "The best sort of risk for a happened. Today I can make young man to take," he goes on, 1,000,000 castings a week for the is the kind from which there is Car factories and a host of other no turning back,

usere.

Lawn-mowers followed by "Then you derned well have accident, Yet Jobson's lawn-

"And if they offer you a small salary and a big cut from pro- fits take it. For then the sky really is the ilmit”

After his 50 years in business that is the way Jobson runa his big businesses

of

"Why, certainly," says Jobeon. "I doubt it" I my.

We stop being frivolous and tura

For mer serious again, who are already bosses Jobecn advises:

2.

3.

can't do

gemember you everything yourself,

ubility to plok a good, itaan to help you is half the baille.

“Don't employ relatives.

You got much better results from strangera.

“Your work must always be fun, Never Ink it be a born,”

To Vincent Jobson, with his tough Exterior and smiling cyon, life nas always boar a'lot" of

fun.

All his top executives aro on the 'small pay, big cul" basis. At the ego of 20, three T2 Ho reckons they are the most specialists gave him only five highly paid in the industry. But months to live, two-thirds their salary

He was 70 last January. So cheques are from prost-sharing he feels that the laughs are all

"This way a man backs him- with him, self. He and his employer both benefit, says Jobson,

The time slips by. Vincent Jebson reillis his 'well-smokel pipe.

"I have drunk whisky and

to go on until you make good” mower plant is now the biggest smoked a pipo slaco I was 17,"

KOCH — His ́ simple household laboratory provided tho answers to medical mysterios.

ROP everything and go at once at Koch!" said the

Within a decade,

NEXT WEEK

The man who never lost his temper.

London Exprem äsreice.

Robert Koch

the BIOLOGICAL DETECTIVE

staining and even photographing, In a broad sense, the bacterio- bacteria for comparison and logical methods which Robert identification.

Koch developed wato

M

even

greater contributions to medical The entire course of centuries solence than the spectacular dis- of medical thinking was to be coveries which followed. Koch'a changed by Koch's accomplish discovery of the tubercle bacillus ments before he was awarded

opened the battle for the Nobel Prize in 1905.

the eradication of the White Plague, but his fundamental precept that these micro-organisms amist be studied in pure cultures, and 'his- method of preparing these cul- Luzes were of even more far- reaching significance in modern biology and discaso research.

Honours

He won it for developing the tuberculin test for tuberculosis, the discaso whose very cause, the tubercle bacillus, he had dis- covered in 1883. Since then Like all great inventions, the Koch had accumulated honours, germ culture" moltiods, which but he never paused in his work. Koch developed were piørvelous In 1883, na boul of the German in their very simplicity. But

Commision and India, he had discovered the

slagle

Strides

upan his laboratory students one April day in 1876. chalem vibrio, and shown how that when Koch led in 1910, With other astonished scientists, gathered at the Univer- it was transmitted by drinking no

man, no "slimple water, food, and clothing. In laboratory could all his place. sity of Breslau, Cohnheim had just watched a young district physician named Robert Koch demonstrate the South Atlas of the request of the English goverment, he had complete life history of the anthrax bacillus—graphic devised a preventive inoculation proof that specific diseases were caused by specific germs. for rinderpest, and gone on to make valuablo sladica of Texas Cohnheim's Born in Hanover, he had studied fever blackwater fever, tropical The latest strides ta miclizine, exhortation would ring out to at Gottingen under Jacob Hanle, malaria, and plagio, His Ideas the development of modera brilliant students the world over, whose radical theories of disease had been succesfully employed antibiotics, have demanded the among them Welch and Ehrlich, contagion must have filled the in fighting cholera epidemie in co-ordinated efforts of innumer- to come lo study with this ex- young physlelan's mind on those Hamburg in 1892. He had able highly-trained scientião emmy surgeon who, at thirty trips down long country roads. shown how water-borne epide- minda, Penicilin, Nesrom cla three had just taken the first But Robert Koch was not a mics could be provented by pro- und more recently,, Bismamyci momentous step in his Nobel theorist, In on Improvised per Altration and tho methods have in' turn come forth to help Prize carocT.

laboratory of home," poneing be had established for the control write advanood-chapters in the through the microscope his wife of typhoid were adopted, almost grim history of infecdote damned The Hio of a country district had given him for his thirtieth everywhere. Even after winning -a chapter which opening in the doctor was fame and monaten- birthday, he patiently worked the Nobel Pulte, Koch was Ol: Laboratory · Robert Kochi ous for Koch, atten his wervice, out revolutionary methode of again to continue his studies of proviand at bond, "to knock the in the Franco-Prussian War, bacteria cullure, and of firing,, sleeping skokowi to Accione 12 monotony of his counity practive.