1948-10-02 — Page 11

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1948.

DAB and FLOUNDER

By WALTER

Margaret Lane On Books

3 MEAT MEALS FOR THE SLAVEY

Expert says 'Health plan will fail'

NEW YORK.

SOCIALISED medicine in

"Britain will collapse with-

in five years,"

That is the opinion of Dr Lester Carson Spler, chairman of America's National Council

from Evelyn

WEBBER

if he qualides ho gets a year's con- fract, with option. He continues his studies while with the Group. And when he becomes a certißented member of the Dount of Surgeons In his field he may join the Group as full-fledged dortor, or start his own practice,

opplauds

Just Arrived!

NEW SHIPMENTS

OF

BRITISH

"MANFIELD"

Now

And

Dr Spler also on research for improvement the In Group Practices, who has just British Govenment are subsidising York's Associated Hospital Service cure or "Blue Cross" piu, a voluntary returned from England!

poor and adequate medical

American wouldn't organisation to which 3,200,000 verugo in Britain The Dr Spler has been

Brilons must people contribute £2 10s each a "I went to Britain to find out the year, getting medical treatment free studying the Government's health stand for the result.

He saw Health Minister truth, Dr Spier said. "I saw that when they need it. scheme. Aneurin Bevan.

130.

to enter

sun the lack of opportunity, and

"Ils privately run," sald the earnings under upon for restrictions money "Britain hasn'l the

upon ducter. "And you needn't join f saclalisexi medicine." Dr Spler fold socialism, will react severely

"Even America couldn't find the type of men entering medicine you don't believe in it There's no

then on the medicine fiself. There need for. the Government enough.

in the level nhwady. Into things like this.

imposed through ATTIC AND AREA, Fran- a symphony in the mind of someone

"The standard of British medicine la u drop munient

When I was in England'I mw to enjoy reading a cesca Marton (Hamish Hamil- abs

score in silence) i can imagine Missin newhere near as good as it should imitations

And instead of spending money Scelaliration remove all the loren-

tivu Doctors are human. How end signs of the development of a lively black market in physicians and ton, 10s. 6d. 422 pages).

Marton springing to her feet with {be. an inspired air in crying: "There

you expret the best type?

medicines under Socialism. And at is a novel to be made out of this?"

scheme Britain's least preferential trentment given your "Under ND Intleed there 15. A perhaps Attie and Area is not

doctors soon won't be distinguishable by some doctors to richer patients

who could afford to pay extra. from any other Civil Servants" the one, or at least not the only one. The

E domestic servant, as she be

n

The doct, is beginning fresh career as a crenture of legend. BeN She is suddenly romantle,

ant pleves heroine

for purit!

Lale in the day nostalgic novels.

could (but it

happen only post- humously in her case) she is clearly in for a spell of literary glory.

what has It is easy

Marton fascinated Miss Francesen

writing about

ani In Attle Victorian invey.

ate has In- Aren (excellent title) dulge a passion fur mid-nineteenth century domestle detail which must Infancy. her since have haunted

to the pitch at

ко

She is not interested In the below- sinies life of our own time, having

the No tuste for fag-ends rid cadence: no, she is drawn to 11 rich scene of domestic rvlee in its prime, which is little more than A hundred years ago, the period of Mrs Beeton.

15

unly The Victorian

maldservant that fascinates her.

It is every detall of domestle life in domestic superabundanlly perlod. It is the meals (three meat meuls a day for the servants, with

en n

alblet soup, a pair of roast ducks, a dish of stenka in gravy gooseberry ple with cream going up- the statrs) the big coal Ares, starched caps and aprons, the loom- ing clergymen, the knowing one's, place, the dread of being turned off without a character.

Betsey, the maidservant, heroine of this novel which is not really a novel but a tridle lovingly concocted out of numerous ingredients from

imaginative the author's

store- cupboard, is nothing but in excuse. a plump clothes-horse on which to hang Miss Marton's enthralled pre- occupation with the mid-nineteenth century.

Jus been That preoccupation deepened, 1 sure, by much

$1223 browsing about among old cookery books, especially those hand-written family volumes which, occasionally And their way into a second-hand Dish after dish, meal book-shop. after generous meal being visualised, almost tasted. as she reads (like

to

though NEW RECORDS

and

MANY

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER

1/13 John T. Winterich DOLLAR. (Benn, 98. 6d. 203 pages). WORKING one's way through col-

My DB 6705).

Gerald Moove

the

Tu

here.

£10-A-WEEK GIRL

Win

worthwhile new of the

*We charge our patients only passion is there, the obsessed

records

have been made by

what they can afford," he said. "And, feeling about something, without which no good novel is ever written, women, and you will do well to hear

Public for autpatients in our hospitals. but the feeling is all for tascinating Farrlet Cohen pinying Debussy's La AT 42 Dr Spler is senior director like Britain, we have social servicei

Cathedrale Engloutle, and Clair de A at the Committee of bits of period detall, and 1 have a

Lune, Miss Cohen gives a polished Relations for New York County That's for the very poor. suspicion that this is not enough.

in England I saw "When I wan for a

Bellevue good performance (Columbla DX 1496). Medieal Society, and a visiting sur- Not quite enough

Econ at New York's big novel: but it makes a pleasants di-

own that under the Health Scheme many leaves one

Maggie Texte, with admirable Hospital. He also runs dreaming version, and

London about the

that inspired companiment from unt

fertilized Cruikshank

and sings Debussy's Green, and L'hiver troup practice. Called the "Carson people, having paid their contribu- now, even if they can afford R. They brought the bane-

a Cesse by Faure (JIMV DA 18931 Group," it is one of many thousand tons, won't go to a private doctor swamped the outpatients depart Dickens.

perfection

perfect right. ment kitchen

There is a new Gigli record.

ments-as they have a practices They are private

not facilities for saw the golden age of the cookery the accompaniment of an orchestra

medical specialhi: But there are book. If for nothing else, I should conducted by Rainaldo Zambon, he which all the

dolly. instead commend Miss Marton's book 'für samps Segreto, by Tosti and Nostalgia are under one roof," he said, "I have, handling two or three hundred out-

He shows seves associates, each a specialist in patients per doctor glorious meals,

d'Amore, by Cittadini.

Patients don't have to the usual twenty or thirty.

Another he can still had his own with his Bet

other tenor Lat

worldtravel from one doctor to

"Socialised medicine ls not new, when special diagnosis or treatment

and not good, as I saw it there. are necessary.

i a delusion, dragging down In lighter There are two recards

the one rich-instead of raising the

Your "Groups share the rent, ven which are disappelning, but

expenses. by bettering the treatment. beenuse they are made by popular receptionist, and clerical

It bene- recording figures they deserve al-We keep one girl to fit in the forms. "panel" system was good.

from Mortu Kution. The first

Her salary in £10 a week. The cest filed the people who needed it." Gould and his Orchestra, playing to the Brlush Government, with

thou- BEVAN LAUGHED the and Beyond

its triplicate documents and Blic Horizon. Both these delightful sands of clerks, must be tremendous.

a most elaborate

formed to DSPIER found general condi- Mr John Winterich was a respect-tunes are given

in Foretiestration and played by a band able, street-playing little boy

Island, in the tot considerable size, but the results reduce costs to, everyone," said Dr Providence, Rhode

Intelligent Spter. "The patient benefits the in the sound like a not

must," early years of this century recent war he was absorbed by the jumble (Columbia DX 1497). American army, and asked to give

Tony Martin, with the Skyrockets an account on a printed form of nit

Wooll by directed had ever Orchestra, the paid employment he had. This set him off on writing his Phillips, has the benefit of first-rate own economie history, beginning as Eritish recording, and one had hoped. allowed odd-job boy in a grocery store and that he would have been ending up as trolley-car conductor when he was more than hall-way through college.

lege is an American Institution The wage-carning labit prevails, too, among boys of school age, and families for from poor. it is

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fitting preparation for life in a coutu try where the prime function of the Night and Day male is to make money,

It is a good idea, and presenta a curing and Illuminating: - rection of an American te, che quered with experience as door-to- door salesman, poulterer's assistant, ansmeter man, and trolley-car con- ductor. But it is also a slight idea, hardly robust enough to support whole book, and the author has had to pad it with the soft staff of re- miniscence and personal charm,

very

to hing some songs everyone wanted to hear. in Tenement Symphony Loth he and the orchestra do all they en with something that is as cous

"Our

groups

ECENT surveys

ure

tlons in Britain appalling.

the poor--

•

year said.

and

pro-

"Don't spend two hundred und

million

a fifty

pounds medicine," he socialising "Spend it on better housing. WHAT THEY PAY

Letter living through more

You wages. of his Carson duction

and more that Group have shown

over wouldn't need any ambitious poll- Ave thousand tient schemes then. five-year period. people treated by it paid less than 25 ach for surgery, obstetric cure, gynecology, laboratory fees, and X- ray treatments.

com com

as Morton Gould's version of

"That's our iden of good, Night and Day (HMY B800).

Dr Spier stylish munni medicine," conmmend the smooth,

Sullivat who rents. singing of Maxine

Seven assistants work in the Car- Beside the River Clyd: in a presents How Do I Know It's Real?

effortless manner son Group, besides the specialist and

Each assistant serves a three monthE' delightfully (Brunswick 03914),

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ROBERT TREDINNICK

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

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"Health schemes which come from the people's pockets in high taxation and compulsory subscriptions defent

They're their purpose.

THO USO if you must first reduce people's ability to buy adequate food and shelter," I asked Dr Spier if he had. told Mr Bevan all this when he met the Minister In London.

"Yes," he said. "But he's a jolly a month. fellow. He just laughed." -

"OH, DARLING, YOU'RE WONDERFUL WHATEVER WOULD I DO WITHOUT YOU TO--- FIX FAUCETS AND OPEN PICKLE JARE

AND EV'RYTHING. YOU'RE JUST THE

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“Politics At Home”

BU KEMP STARRETT

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WEEDS PULLED AND BURNED, THE

GARAGE TO BE CLEANED OUT AND...

TOREIGN POLICY: HATING THE NEIGHBORS WHO PRACTICE ON CORNETS AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK EVERY NIGHT.

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AND DON'T TALK TO ME LIKE THAT OR I'LL FORGET I'M A

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