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LET'S STOP THIS PANIC ON POLIO

RE you an over-anxious parent? Would you

A keep your children in gorra-free lun enge if that were possible? Mrs Stewart certain- ly would.

Hier son Jeremy

only had to blush

for her to believe

he had acarict lever.

disinfec-

I'm sure the voured inat

over his

ALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY

by CEDRIC CARNE

lettuce instead of salad cream. As for Jeremy going to the baths for a swim, anyene would think the chlorine water with boy-cuting sharks.

"No."

Was

Alica

said,

Mas Stewart

doctor. Only I'm afraid he might pick pollo germ there or same- thing like that."

"you're exaggerating.

up

child has been exposed to poliomyelitis he should, of course, not he allowed to swimming. All form of exercise should be avoided for at least thrie weeks.

"All the same you should try! child vaccinanted- to get your agalust 1," I advised.

The paradox was that though Mrs Stewart was over-nxious about polin, she had not regis-

la have tered Jeremy

the vaccine,

I

"Have you bad your own children don:?" the asked me. "AN matter of intel

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hayen't yet" I esplied. Like thousands and 10

rands of parent? I had played saft. F'd wanted

noble atti result rf, Not a tvdt, 1 admit, for a tinctor. But TAKE IT GENTLY 'I was mee than prepared It la known that the less for my kids to have the Brill

The

diffully is. physical exertion # person

ngages in during the neubn- the memrat, Pust ther tion period of a pollo Intec shortage of the stuff.

the "I take it, then, the results the milder will be tion,

have been gnot," Mra Stewart Hinc59.

play: a chea Thus

the sald. sickening for polio has

all-in advantag

over wrestler.

"Jeremy hasn't been a con- tact" Mrs Stewart said. "Only I feel that if there ar uny gering going around it's best to avold the swimming baths, of all places,"

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There was as much chance of Jeremy picking up polio swimming pool as at tehool ar in a cinema. I might as well not travel anywhere by bus or train in ense I sat next to a man who had leprosy.

'Anyway, if polio were raging in any particular stylet the public health authorities would close down the public swim- ming baths if there were any real danger.

"Maybe get siarmed

Stewart confesscal, ensily," Mrs

du get pollo aut Active, Polio is still fairly

1st

of the grst 200,000 to given British polio vareing, only Lo six childan were ported

become it after the hav

of these In none vaccination. could the illeces be related de finitely to the anti-pulio injec-

Linux,

"Belfer than the Amtrizan vaccine," said Mrs Stewart,

LET HIM GO IN

The test which the American vaccine has to undergo de not scem to be as strict

a we All tho demand in Britain.

more than 100 million samme,

The dots have been given i U.S.A. with hardly any serious

-effects.

about Propte don't worry having their children Vaccinated against mailbox. It's done all time without parents being the worried at all,

log

of

Quite rightly. But it has been proved an that there

a less

in having

child

than

Fare. It just happens to be news,

Mom sea of poliompetills rinic

are wild anyway, Not like raccinated against pollo

an orinary Inguz attack. Opaint smallpna.

Many have already had the

fection, unknown

thinking all the time

IN-

I was

are. Mrs

Register

50 Here you そずる them, Stewart."

rald. I Jeremy. Meantime, let him go to the baths and be happy. Let him splash about and jump in at the deep end"

Just another cold with a slight Jover. And such attacks, cern when they pass unnotiert, ger the person immunity for life.

And apart from this requirit immunity, there arems to be a high degree of natural resistance in the community.

"No, no,' Mrs Stewart said urgently.

"Why not?"

emy can't swim," explained.

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CHANGING FACE OF LONDON

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

SIR MALCOLM SARGENT

Flash Harry Beats the Band

Is this story

"The portrait of a fossle," "Saga of a dying_breed," or is it a snapshot of something permanent; durable; something in a changing world — unchanged?

"The Yeomen Of England"

By ALASTAIR DUNNETT

BOUT 80 per cent of when the crops do

not yield

work on smaliholdings and make ends meet,

No one is idle on a small.. many of them live far from holding. The men till the land. and harvest the crops, big cities or even sizable sow towns. In England those milk the cows and tend the The women look after men used to be

called Plas.

the house, cook the meals, keep: yeomen, while in Scotland the clothes in order,

and, as responsible they were known as cottare often as not, are in the Lowlands and for looking aflor the hens, egg

production,

butter and crofters in the Highlands.

form Most cheere making. The term crofter is still in house in Britain now have use, but the yeomen and running water,

of

NOW instead are now more having to pump bucketsful from well; but many have still small a called

neither electricity nor gas, and rely on the pleasant, soft lighti of oil lamps.

Many smallholders own the land they work. But whether they are owners they are proud of running the

own

cottars generally holders

Most of them run their farms on a family basts, with the help of their wives and one or more cons. Unlike the big farmers where three, four, or more men are likely to be employed as workers, the smallholders know that They Cannot produce enough from their land to give their families a decent standard manage to save a Bile against

for hired of living, and pay

They love the Often enough. help as well.

their is

to particularly it a bud stason ambition to hand it down

sors in in even better con- dition than they found It.

It is the eldest son who Inherits the holding. It is not, split up amongst all the sons as

AIR MALCOLM SARGENT is the idol of the tailors and of Britain's teenagers. To

SMALCOLM S S Known, irreverently in Flash Harry,

He does mot mind.

He did not even mind when his arch rival, Sir Thamos Beecham, coined the Asia Sir worst pun of the century. After hearing of Sir Malcolm's triumph in Thomas snorted: "Flash in Japan, I suppose."

hard times, land,

Men Of Medicine

A Noose

was waiting but- they stood to cheer

LEEVES rolled up to

rush of blood, instruments unsterilised, washed like the common tablo silver, the patient strapped to a home- made wooden table con- scious under the probing surgical steel, an American frontier surgeon made medi- cal history on Christmas Day in 1809. Defying the threats of an angry mob, Ephriun McDowell, pioneer doctor of Boone Trace, Ken- tucky, performed the opera- tion which oven Europe's greatest halls of medicine had echoed could not be done.

Frontier Rider

McDowell was used to riding the a hundred miles through frcatier wilderness to see his paticnta, He had ridden sixty miles

cabin to the

Mrs Thomas Crawford, whose pain fully swollen abdomen had led that she was others to bellove or pay rent

about to have a child even businesses, and of being twins. But McDowell shuddered roif-reliant and independent of at what he found hi that crude other people. They are usually bed of willow-boughs. True, he

will money and very careful

had studied abroad, at Edinburgh the best In fact, but even surgeon's duties scarcely went wounds dressing beyond and performing amputations. No one had ever expected to cur Into the great body cavity of the abdomen with any succeER, EVENT to attempt to remove the sort of affiction from which Mrs Craw- ford was suffering there before whose him, en ovarian tumour, excruciating presence offered no but death. No escape, unless she dared submit herself to the unhercdot operation he For brat years, proposed. Eplirium McDowell had been the leading surgeca of the Kentucky Frontler; asset Mrs Crawford, cast Ja the Eame ploneer mould, accepted.

their

is the

case in some countries. In Britain it is folt that in time this would lead to ridiculously small holdings.

eschpe So the eldest and the others son Inherits, seck out smallholdings of their awn or wor

work (1) blyger forms or, as a last resort, tako But a

a job town

city. It is a last resort, because your true sumilholder has time for city ways. He loyer the Ufe of the countryside. He is unlikely to listen to it unless may have a wireless set, but he

in a

to

110

The critics are manimously agreed that he is a first class musician. discussion of his techniques is kiable to dogenerate into a brawl.

tu a year

A year ago be resigned Some of them think he offered £7,000 has brought the classics of conduct an orchestra jn a devote himself wholly to

roving life as a free-lance con- music to life and made them London cinema for a few ductor, but he has continued as intelligitte the mid- minutes cach day. He re- conductor-in-chief of the Proms,it be to hear the weather twentieth century ear. fused.

to

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job he first took on in 1947.

earth,

ia

report for his area, or the He has conducted before prices livestock see fetching in On the other hand, he is not

Iocal

markets. IL 13 fall averre to personal pub- almest every people on

that Improbable extremely Sir except, he says, the Eskimus, there is a television set in the lielty. After the annual

do Con- and he hopes oro day to Henry Wood Promenade certs in the Albert Hall, he that, too. During the war, he house. Others hold to the opinion invariably has himself driven flew into Sweden In the bomb GOOD CONVERSATION that he secretly makes his away. in ciste in an cutomobile, bay of a Mocqulto to conduct n slace even whose interior tights Illuminate concert. He has musicians dip their instru- his foco whlie he waves regally made a hit in Moscow despite ments in oil and syrup be- to the crowd.

his obviously "bourgeois de cadence," foro every performance.

This, perhaps, is odd. Sir a Malcolm Hves just next door, in

Albert Hall Mansions,

call

01

Generally the smallholder Is frankly contemptuous of enter tainment ready-made for him. He prefers to provide his own. He is often a great reader and. In

he private life

mixes because he has time to think, caslly with monarchs and

conversation in these remote bobby-roxets. His friends are

Daring Plan

As they rode the painful 00 miles back to hia office Danville, it became evident that her life was not the caly eno success of dependent upon the the operation. Word of Mc- Dowell's daring ple had sprend before them, and by the time he was prepared to operate, A mob had gathered outside his doors, and a nose swung over the limb of a tree, ready for Mc- Dowell, should the operation fail. He had prepared as best ho could, in those days before anti- ' septic surgery red anesthesia, Strapped to the plain wood table, MIB Crawford wes given a few But the crowds especially drawn from almost every strats farm house is frequently of as high a quality as can be found

oplum pills to calm her, and as 11f and his the teenagers have their own of

Interests anywhere in Britain,

operation proceeded she leas about the way in which range from the theatre to the

to keep her spirit Village dances in the

Brog hymns local great man should behave, and zoo (where he is a regular

alive. After twenty-five minutes, halls are great occasions, Sir Malcolm believes in living visior).

I was over. McDowell had re- the women folk are busy for

moved a fifteen-pound tumour, up to them.

beforehand baking

sewn up the incision, and she sustain the

was still alive. But even as the fri the intervals

seething crowd outalde drew its between dancing. The loent

angry breath and cheered, Mc- hall, which is quite likely to Dowell knew that tho real danger still lay ahead, the Five danger of falai Infectlers, days later he was turned to ' er his patient up making her bod.

Until recently, he had a pet days

delicacies abandon budgerigar which he

оп itl than

died revellers he sherry. Unfortunately, it Beethoven of drink (or solt appeared).

Certainly, he can take ragged orchestrn ON On amateur chorus and beat great music out of it after a couple of rehearsals. Certainly, too, he diag the tenagers out the jazz dives and bop He would no more houses and into the con- als sartorial elegance

rewrite feert halls in numbers which would

make his rivals green with

He is a connoisseur of good, be the church hall, is also used envy. And he has a per- And he believes that the dry, sherry, but there is no for concerts, for flower shows, sonal folowing which is customers who come to a sym- danger whatever of his dying of and for staging ploys produced,

sume hi drink. He cuts sparingly (some acted, and sometimes Thony concert want rivaled only by that of Sir To It may be that the times he forgels meals when the by the people who live in the Thomas Reecham,

orchestra would lay

pressure of work is great) and neighbourhood. well if ike Olto Klemperer drinks even less. and the ultra conservative tchool of conductars, he scarce- ly moved his baton at ali,

The show

symphony,

But the customers would cer-

or-

He often works on his chestrations for into the night and he can get along on very litle sleep. He does not, how

make a fetish of this

written

Most smallholdera are deeply religious, and the clergyman in a country parish enjoys Д prestige which is shared, but rarely equallcd, by the ductor and the schoolmaster.

the

Border Legend

Mrs Thomas Crawford died at the age of seventy-uine, long eiler the man who had saved her life had become a living It is a closely knit life with freutler legend, and long after tile er no pretension shout it. his achievement had been re- The family comes first, ood

pested to save the lives of then the local community. It

others in America and abroad, is a United life and local feuds und to rescue abdominal surgery are by no means unknown, und from the terrors of the u can be very bitter, Above 1j known, Yet it is caly recostly, salisfying life, for with the discovery of modern antiblolies: that the threat McDowell $11- feared most has beca played, the fatal infecticu which could destroy in a momcat the achievement of the most deft surgery, and the most courageons hopes of the bravest surgeon Eed patkat alike.

It is not always recog- tainly loco some of their senso ever,

et the draina of music. ar Chuchilla capacity and he nised that there are very much of the art of bringing tries hard to get an hour's sleep distinct fimits to the sort accessful concert consiste in after lunch. of showmanship he will setting the audience into the

His trademark throughout the tolerate. Io will conduct a right state of mind.

world is the carnation which is brass band willingly (the

14 To Sir Malcolm, this

as never absent from his button-t must be bigger the band, the better serious a matter as understand hole,,,

In many cases the holdings have he likes it) but he has con- ing the score.

beca pastel down from father Aenera- to son through many sistently refused to conduct ›

It and smallholder indeed who finds himself with no son to whom to pass on his

It started during the war

tions. It would be altogether wrong when he used to give concerts jazz bands or to play jazz. to suggest that he ever takes for sick children, Afier the Once, in the days when his music lightly. He started concert, a child would always

his career as an article appren- present him with a carnation. money was money, he was

Alen at Peterborough · Cathedral

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"Cheer up, Boxshot-after alt, nothing can alter the fact that your TRUE re- tired colonet ta born, noS made."

and

Kaduated to

become organist at the parish church at

Melton Mowbray,

He studied the plano under | Moiselwich and måde his debut

"

goes on

as a conductor directing his own Then, two years ago, a 17- composition, "Impressions on a year-old orphan boy in London Windy Day", at a Queen's left his tiny fortune to a fund Hall Promenade Concert in 1921, from which Sir Malcolm y tu receive a fresh carnation before He has composent little zince, every concert for the rest of his but Sir Henry Wood, the life. founder and then conductor of

the "Proma", was so impressed The boy, who had long been by Sargent's performance that paralysed said, in the megrago he adviset him to make a career that went with the gift, that his of conducting

one pleasure in ke as he t

i had been listening to Sir Bargent promptly complied by, “Malcolm's music, founding the Leicester. Sym- phony Orchestra,

That in the kind of devotion the man Inspires. ..

From there, he went on to brocmo professor at the Itoyal It may even make him want Academy of Music, conductor of to disown the letter he once the British National Opera Com- wrote to "The Times" in which patty (now defunct), conductor ho vald: "It la surely more zobla of the Halle Orchestra and, to work in the sewers for the ultimately, In 1950, chief con- publie good then to work upon. ductor of the B.B.C, Symphony, the conducting platform."

skil, his knowledge," his land- in a word, hly inheritance.

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