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MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1937.

Council

By

A Medical

Correspondent

ANY good general's aim in

battle is to discover the the plans and resources of the enemy.

Your body, through its soldiers, the corpuscles in your blood, is constantly wag ing war against germs, though the only time you are aware of this is when the germs score a victory and down you go with a cold, 'flu, tonsilitis. or blood poisoning.

Thanks to the amazing virility of your bodily or- ganism and to the advanTES of medical science you are nearly always on the winning side.

But you want to know

Germs in conference

all of them much magnified on Bacilli and Tetanus-Bacillus. their slides for important ing in Anthrax Bacillus, and from occasion. Addressing the meet- left to right we sen representa. tives of Pneumococcus, Strepto- cocci, Tubercle Bacilli, Diphtheria

hold a

of War

"We have worked hard, but

NOW

guess what's happened.

Rounded Up

Some fellow named Felton [Dr. "IN spite of our being too small Lloyd Felton, of Harvard] gets to be seen under any of their hold of us; probes our family microscopes I'm afraid they're tree in his laboratory; cuts us going to round us up. Our worst up into four types, and then enemy is Sir Patrick Laidlaw.. invents a serum to kill each of He has a lot of us in a concen-

How can

tration camp cooped up with we live in face of these doctors?"

mnice and ferrets.

us.

Their Last Fling?

the

"Of course, the boys laughed at him to start with. One.or

sometimes what

your

op- ponents, are up to. So here a doctor takes you behind the FRANCE LOOKS enemy lines and gives you a

germ's eye view of yourself. TO DEFENCE

THE scene is the Annual Win- Financial difficulties notwith- ter. Conference of Germs

Affecting Man standing, France is obviously de-Group). In the

(Hongkong chair is the causes termined to take every possible Anthrax Bacillus, a large, thick- fever, and St. Vitus's Dance."

arthritis, rheumatic

step to guarantee her integrity set fellow. holding his position by "Fiddlesticks, sir," interjects and security. Conscious that virtue of his seniority as the the hoary Bacillus Festis. "Why. A this there is a great hubbub, two of them even jumped out

All sorts of germs rise to of the first germ to attract the atten- in my heyday when I had the Germany is steadily building uption of the human race.

nose of a ferret that whole of the Far East at my

air their grievances.

was sneezing on to one of Sir her military might, she is to em-

The Tetanus bug, who causes Patrick's friends and gave him bark on extension of the famous retirement, and making rare nothing. They got rid of me, if he can get a dozen victims u pened?

In spite of living in semi- mercy during the Great Plague

But then what hap you counted for absolutely lockjaw, shouts that he is lucky the 'flu. Maginot Line along the Belgian appearances in Hongkong, he and they'll get rid of you. What year now that anti-tetanus "Why, a whole crowd of doc- and Swiss frontiers. Germany still enjoys a certain prestige about these new drugs Prontosil serum is so easily obtained. tors gathered round and started recently gave an assurance that having infected a year or two

and Sulphonamide? They're The aristocratic Klebs-Loeffler to collect serum off him to kill she would respect Belgian ter-ago a man who shaved with a making you look pretty small. germ, elegantly turned out in us when we attacked anybody ritorial integrity, and she has diseased brush. He opens the Cutting down your ravages to a fawn with lavender spots, calls else.

"We shall find next year we conference thus:

fifth of what they were. You'll for a vigorous attack on doctors now followed this up by making

be a back number soon enough," who are stamping out diphtheria are up against a vaccine that a similar declaration in respect

"Germs," he says, "we are in

by wholesale inoculations of will make victims pretty hard the middle of winter. As you

Wasted Time school-children,

to pick. And even if we bring of Switzerland. None the less, know, it is our custom at this ORDER, please!" cries the S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.France is evidently in no mind delegate conference to exchange

Many others try to state their up the pneumonia reinforce. chairman, "We cannot al case, but the chairman inter- ments they'll counter the attack to take risks. Her relations reports of our experiences in low personal animosities to venes to announce the arrival with a beastly serum that's York Building

attacking the Human. Race. For interfere with our proper task of an influenza delegate fresh nearly ready now. with Italy have deteriorated remy-own part I regret to have of discussing the progress" of from the (epidemic-front)-in-

little to tell you.

Modern Doctors Man's struggle against us. I England.

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A pair of Siamese twins stand tiny that to make himself hospital they now turn an ultra- "ORMALLY lurking in my up. They have thin conical heard he has to perch on the violet death ray on anyone they spore I used to meet fair sue- Perfectly

less conspicuous form of a bodies joined at a broad base. microphone,

suspect of harbouring us." synchronised they "Fellow-germs," cess by clinging to the bristles begin:

he begins "Fellow-germs, I warn you, breathlessly, "we are doing our these modern doctors are well of shaving brushes, so that un-

"Germs, we want a square best. This may be our last on our track, and the people witting shavers rubbed me into deal.

themselves, too, with all they We used to be able to fling. their self-inflicted cuts. I fear

about the value of

special defensive measures along Most Dreaded this frontier also. A further cause for anxiety is the Spanish civil war, for the possibility that the insurgents may triumph in the long run is known to be causing anxiety at the D'Orsay, Thus, placed in an are

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count on having a good time in "About a million people are know now Quai those days are over. All brushes winter. To-day it's different. being knocked out by us dally. sound dieting, fresh air, and FITTED WARDROBES.

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liking,

poses and throats on the off- awful thing is there are men on BEDROOM SUITES.

In tense silence the chairmen pared to utilise her man-power

"So I propose to call on

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germ-a long, sinuous figure-rises to speak:

cratic countries in Europe, France fouls strongly that she begins, "that of all the germs "You are well aware," he must at all times be ready to de-I am the most dreaded by man. fend her people, her possessions Given a free hand I could an- and the liberal principles for

nihilate the whole race. I have only to infect all the mothers which the Republic stands.

In and there you are. No mothers, this respect, she is following ano babies, no more men, policy in line with that adopted

"If you want more, look at

ing pneumonia.

our blood.

ever before."

SISYPHUS IN RED TIE

ing

Waste of Blood

Freuchmen and Russians before their respective revolutions, sufficient to justify all the violence and wholesale murdering that accompanied those historie upheavala?

NEVER in my time did contempor

ary events more amply vindicate Revolutions a the cynicism of the, well-known French aphorism about life being a tragedy to those who feel bui a by Britain. The process may be my skill in causing scarlet fever comedy to those who think.

Some people may think so, but I costly, but the necessity is ap- and tonsilitis.

And it hard to persuade myself the They .can The world at large, which so easily | sterilise their food and drink might be such a plensant place, is By "AN OLD STAGER" game was worth the candle. To- parent.

morrow, as old Omar reminds us, we It is, admittedly, true what they like, but I can still disturbed by deep unrest, distracted that wholesale re-armament can-nip across the air in a sneeze upheaval.

by wild

may be ourselves with yesterdny's rumour, and torn by violent

ten thousand years AS YOU WERE not of itself guarantee peace, or a cough and be inhaled by We sea Spaniards engaged in kili-

MASS HYSTERIA another'

victim. prospective

cach other with Intensive ferocity There are those, indeed, who ar- Once inside I snuggle into his two conflicting systems, of political sweetly. We have longed to grasp count for when weighed in the scales

We have all sometimes felt the over such a nice point as which of urge that old Omar sings abou! se What does any human cataclysm gue that it may produce entirely tonsils. And don't forget my force majeure they want to live this sorry scheme of things entire of even one million years? Yet some opposite consequences. Yet there. non-haemolytic cousin who under. So nerce are the partisan shatter it to bits, then remould blind fate, some weird mass hysterio,

passions aroused by this bitter nenrer to the heart's desire. If we is the other viewpoint-that if

internecine strife that even outsiders did, probably we should make a sud seems to drive mankind at intervals into a paroxysm of futile political peaceful nations permit their de- at which security from invasion are being drawn into its vortex. mess of things.

insanity, out of the bloodstained coils Statesmen in other countries with fences to drop to a low level they is ensured; it is only on the dimculty restrain their compatriots possible-for mortals to improve on sently emerges very little changed in It is difficult-perhaps even im- of which the people concerned pre- from joining actively in the deadly the slow processes of natural evolut condition from its former state. may be merely inviting aggres-question of the degree of re-melec.

lun by any sudden, drustle unheavals, It is this belief which lies Armament

Perhaps a new set of rulers, that the Socialists Yet the spirits of the wise, looking Indeed, it is an outstanding char-enforcing a new order of trite and on this insignificantly tiny acteristic of all revolutions that they evanescent shibboleths, replaces the behind the British Government's differ from the Government. atom-heap called the world, as it leave things, in all essential matters, old one, but the world goes on just atbitude on this question; and, The laying out of huge sums on

momentarily through the pretty much where they were. sunbeams of universal eternity, may Unlike the slow-grinding mills of we have already had occasion to non-productive "expenditure may well be asking, Why all this fevered the gods, the mills revolution

Even the successful revolutionary grind nothing save human bones. leaders, who oust the old gong and remark, even the Government's be regretted, but it is difficult to

turmell and impassioned upheaval?

It might be supposed, by anyone

The world has advanced crities have voiced their approval see what other policy is possible in was the most vital factor in evolution and not revolution,

studying our affairs to-day, that ably in the last fewned consider collar the loaves and fishes, almost

centuries by

invariably enjoy no more than a. but, brief donkey's gallop before dying of the principle of bringing the with world conditions as they are the lives of men, the very breath of apart from this, is the difference violent deaths at the hands of their

confederates and associates. nation's defences up to a point to-day:

life, instead of being in cold-drawn between France and Russia now, and reality the merest sido-show.

the condition of the majority of *** (Continued on Page 3.)

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