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STATESMEN "DON'T KNOW HOW TO PREVENT WAR

J. B. Priestley's

Call To Youth

SAVING WORLD FROM SELF-DESTRUCTION

"Youth, with its life before” 15. has more to lose through war than any other section of the commun- Ity," writes Mr. J. B. Priestley in a message to British delegates to the World Youth Congress, which opened in Geneva recently.

"We see clearly now," he con- tinues, "that elderly statesmen do not know how to prevent war, pro- bably because unconsciously they Belleve that International connict Is always nevitable.

LEAGUE HEALTH BUREAU

Soviet Socialists Republics Visited

RURAL HYGIENE AND NUTRITION

At the invitation of the People's ran institute for controlling seca Commissar for Public Health In and "vaccines, which uses the the Union of Soviet Socialist Re-ternational standards established publics, the Bureau of the League's by the Health Organisation when Health Committee. assisted by testing sera prepared by the many several experts, held. one of its bacteriological Institutes, within periodical sessions recently in the the Union. The output of these palace of the People's Commissarsinstitutes is considerable, as may at Moscow. The People's Commis- be seen from the number of preven- and the members tive inoculations against typhold. sar Kaminski

dysentery, diphtheria and rabies, not to mention small-pox vaccina. tion, which is compulsory.

of the Narkomadray took part in the discussion, which related mainly to rural hygiene and nut- rition. These are subjects on which the Health Organisation already has the advantage of the co-operation 01 experts and of specialist institu- tions in the Union of Soviet Socia- list Republic.

"It is more than likely that the After the Bureau's session end-

only people who can save the Wes-ed, several members and experts tern world

from self-destruction were invited by the Commissor of are the young, whose mlads are | Public Health to make a tour of not fixed in mutual distrust and the Union of Soviet Scelalist Re- hate, who still have - generosity', publics, thus visiting Leningrad, and an idealistic vision, who have a natural eympathy with young men and women of their own age everywhere, and who realise that it is our business now to combat the world-wide evils of poverty, ignorance, waste, stupidity, and prejudice, ourselves all over again in futile mass murder."

and not

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Cork!, Rostov-on-the-Don, Tiflis, Batoum. duteni, Yalta, Zaparoje, Kiev. Novorossisk and Sebastopol. They had an opportunity of look- Ing at various aspects of social medicine and public health problem in this vast country and engage. of seeing how the matter is being treated in the Federation of R. publics, the autonomous Republies, municipalities, rural districts and villages, and in the home and the

The Poet Laureate. Mr. John Masefeld, writes "I am delighted to think that the youth of all countries will meer to exchange

their Ideas. Not one young man

farm,

in a hundred wants to fight his to

ANTI MALARIA) CAMPAIGN In connection with the campaign against malaria, the group visited the Sormovo zorze near Gorki, in which experiments are being made, in close contact with the Health Committee's Malaria Comi- mission, as to the therapeutic value of new synthetic medicines suitable for replacing quinine. “A large number of clinical observa-' tons have been made by malarlo-

Soviet

logists in the Union of Socialist Republics, and the results will complete the information on which the new report now in pre- paration by the Malaria Commis- son will be based.

The

col-

In nutrition, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has made some interesting innovations. lective kitchens and factory re- staurants, with suitable food for the workers whose physical con~ dition is specially in need of such, are worthy of attention. The scientific basis for this mass

To facilitate the study of the various problems, visits were paid a series of Institutions: in- neighbours. May your gathering stitutes of Experimental Medicine: feeding a furnished by the res- lead to a future of peace and in- Graduate School for the Medicaearch work of the Institutes of

rnational health and help."

Profession; Institutes of Bacterio- which the oldest established is in Sir Norman Angel also sends a logy. Plague Research. Balneothe

Moscow. A problem which will message "The truth is, and it is tapy. Dietetics; to tying-in hos require further study is that of the main tragedy we have to face.pitals, crèches, child-welfare con- the food ration in relation to the that millions can

be persuaded, tres dispensaries, dairies, watering occupation of the worker. This is and very easily persuaded, to want places and health resorts, sans-

a question which is being studied the things which made war inevittoria rest homes. pioneer camps by the International Labour Office able," he writes.

and the abundant information kolkhoses, sovkhoses, agricultural. "In Italy, in Japan, in Germany. machinery, ball-bearing and motu: collected in the Union of Soviet dictatorships have been establishi-factories, the Dnieprogees barrage Socialist Republies will facilitate ed because millions of young men and power station, etc. came to demand dictatorships, to want the things for which dicta- torships stand.

"The real enemy of mankind to- day is confusion-not malice or selfishness, but confusion of pur- pose, of policy, of values. The first step out of confusion for the youth of this generation is to be clear as to what it wants of the future.

HOMEOPATHY

Converting The Medical Profession

These visits were carried out under the guidance of Professor Bronner, member of the League's Health Committee. and of Dr.

Rakowski.

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the work.

The example of Moscow is gut- clent to show the importance attached in the Union to town- planning and housing. Factories, houses and fats have been built in large numbers." Arterial roads' have been pierced. A further

It appears that, as a genera: rule, the proportion of funds allot- ted to public health in the bue-plan of extension has been drawn gets is as much as 35 per cent.

up. providing for additional build- ings' and underground lines. The League's Health Organisation will be able to bement from the help of the Soviet Union's architects, engineers and health experts in the study of various problems of urban housing.

PROBLEM SETTLED The problem of free medical effectively attention

been has settled. The work done on behalf of women beture, during and after childbirth is to be, noted, "and also the manner in which the hygiene of maternity has penetrated e: as far as the Kolkhose. In many cases, toe expectant mother can obtain a midwife and come to te in at the maternity home of which

The latter is in charge.

As regards infants, crèches and welfare centres are found through

A retort to the critics of the doctrine of homoeopathy was made by Dr. C. E. Wheeler in his presi- dential address in the Internation- al Homoeopathic Congress at Glas-out the country. The 1937 plan Bow recenty.

provides for a large increase in "Derided, scored, traduced, and the number of these centres, This misrepresented. the practice of shows the interest taken by the Homoeopathy has yet maintained Government in the health of the itself by its success through,, de- very young. cades of opposition and fil-will,” he said. "To-day the possibility, at least, that the method may be useful is hardly contested, and we And that, whereas hardly tiny fragment remains of all the bettede In the name of which Hahnemann was ostracised and persecuted, his doctrine holds. the field unshaken."

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The same interest is displayed on behalf of the school-chi'd and the adolescent, as is shown by the pioneer camps and the develop ment of physical training in the Union of Soviet Republics:

The interest taken in the health of the worker is no less "manifest.. as is shown in the growth of a

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"PASSIVE TOLERANCE" The medical world's change of attitude towards the doctrine of homoeopathy, said Dr. Wheeler, carried, responsibilities for all of them as well as comfort..." "The active Ill-will has given way to a certain passive rather than pate ronising tolerance. That tolerance The main object of the congress | Socialist | Republic healthier, is, as yet, something of an obstacle was to inquire whether there was stronger and happier. May we to that widespread test of our any way whereby the doctrine of congratulate you on your tenure claims which alone can satisfy us. homoeopathy could be commended of the once of People's Commiséer We want more than tolerance-- to a wider audiencia

for Public Health in the Union.”

The general practitioner, he is both as regards preventive me Shanghai, Japan and "EUROFE via Siberia Kaki Mara

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