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THE STATE OF THE

ROYAL AIR FORCE

by

Group-Captain.

H. S. L. DUNDAS, D.8.0., D.F.C.

T

that

demonstrated

As for the multi-jet heavy U.S.A.A.F. bombers-whleb, Incidentally, speed and range.

delivered to squadrons.

The Americans, on the other produced severni

ming.

FOR YOUTH

Myths about childbirth

By SIDNEY RODIŅ

₪HE hullabaloo in Par- son had gono on to dis- Thullabaloo covor chloroform, studio

Aneurin Bovan's rofusal the Queen took chloroform to support the Analgesia for the arrival of tho Prince Bill is not the first occualon in 1853. This royal ap- that a move to relieve pain proval did much to over- in childbirth has caused come the deep-sonted be- public uproar,

lief that a woman makes a better mother if she has been awake through all her agony,,

A century ago when the idon was first tried out it

was denounced from hun- dreds of pulpits as "a de... coy of Satan.".

Horrified preachers quot ed, Genesis wherein la written "In sorrow thou

Such a belief is akin to many superstitions and old wives' tales centring for hundreds of years around the miracle of birth. Some

shalt bring forth children.", of them still persist.

women, for Mothers were shocked at, Thousands of this flying in the face of instance, still imaging that any-- thing that happens to them. in divine providence,"

WHL bave pregnancy

somno

And doctora and mid- dramatic effect on the child. wives warned that the use

FAMOUS CASE of chloroform. "an In-

If a baby is born with a toxicant." would lead to

birthmark resembling a cherry frightful debaucheries in on its left. leg the mother will the lying-in room.

.

say the mark is dus to the fact that an over-ripe cherry was Sir James Young Simp- spinshed on her left leg. son, the son of a Scots Medical science ridicules such

fleas. baker, was the man re-

In 1720, news got abroad Unt she had given birth to a rekult. Over the next few weeks, it was sald by the villagers,, she was delivered at scores of rabbila.

sponsible for all the fuss. One famous case recorded by doctors as lustrating the In Edinburgh, on

depths of superstition regarding January 17, 1847, he was birth is that of Mary Toft, who their the first man to deliver a lived in Godalming, Surrey.

baby with the mother un- ⚫ are being built by a firm that A Boeing Stratojet BX 47 conscious from

a dose of has never before produced an flew 2.289 miles in 220 minutes ether. aeroplano-It is my belief that at a height of 30,000ft, and a YB 40

The patient was so de THE Air Minister has The Minister of Supply the R.A.F. will have to wait Northrop flying wing

4hrs. 25 announced in the announced with a great fan- several years before they are flew 2,258 miles in

lighted that she called her

Crowds Journeyed to Godal- House of Commons fare last January that one

The Arst can carry ten tons girl-child Anaethesia, and

ning to inspect the rabbits, and Britain's jet fighter of our robot

In the meanwhile, if Bomber of bombs, the second 15 tons. planes had

there still exists the por- nolly George I sent physicions force is to be doubled dur- flown faster than the speed have to re-equip with American and will not have them next Annethesia, sent to Simpson Command is to survive, we will

Britain has no such aircraft, trait of herself which and surgeons from the Court. ing 1949.

of sound. But months be-

planes. These may be Super year or perhaps even the year on her eighteenth birthday. Mary Tott had all her rabbits One of them discovered that fore this an American pilot- fortresses. already considered after. At the time of the Battled machine had done the obsolete by the USA.AF.

smuggled into her

her of Britain We had 52

husband, concealed them about her person, and grooned in pre- squadrons for home de- same thing. fence, of which 10 were I know that the British and, have

superb new Auxiliaries. Today I believe aircraft industry has plenty war.

bombers since the am convinced that, given the Scotland upbraided him sending to give birth to them.

opportunity by the Govern for what he, had done,

the R.A.F. can we have less than half that of ideas for supersonic

There is still a prevalent number of

Convair B 36. again to the glorious heights of Simpson answered: "God belief that a mother with child There is the R.A.F. day planes, and that one or two

and achievement used a similar device In must cat enough food for two. and night fighter squadrons new types are flying which The same size and weight as the efficiency

Brabazon, this huge piston- which characterised it between

extracting n rib from. in the United Kingdom.

are far in advance of the engined bomber is now being 1939 and 1945. At present what Meteors and Vampires. turned out in large numbers. To accomplish this we must Adam, for did He not throw squadrons we have are at We do not lack ideas, but A short time ago it flew 9,100 let the inventive genius of our Adam into a deep sleep?" ving

to pro- we are slow in putting them miles non-stop, and dropped a designers be exploited Reginald half establishment; cach

Queen Victoria, having gave birth to perfectly healthy simulated bomb load weighing duce the best and fastest planes

already suffered the panga two tons somewhere beyond the in the world. GARDINER can put up six planes. Mr into practice.

OLD SUPERSTITION Henderson's statement in-

halfway mark.

And we must let youth, well of delivering seven children, dicates that by the end of

good conditions had long talks with Simp-

One old

for superstition It paid and with Slung

before her eighth, which the medical profession this year they will be up

Prince Leopold, was due. has respect was to full establishment, and

the giving of en- raspberry leaf tea to expectant will be able to fly 12

Finding ether not planes, with at least six more in reserve.

int couldn't help mandating what was gingen!

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au-

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ment,

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ADAM'S RIB

Church in When the

Belsen and Yet women in other concentration camps on starvation railons

babies.

carries its own protectivo of service, have its head in the go

R.A.F.

The Americans recognised I would say that for every fighter plane,

one. of. our experi- Last month, within 24 hours, long ago that the air arm is no mental types the Americans two multi-jet bombers of the place for promotion by renility.tirely satisfactory, Simp- mothers. have half a dozen flying every day.

At 2.30, 5.15.xiliary squadrons manned

Apart from the Bell XI., by some of the most battle experienced pilots in the which is believed to fly at kingdom. Only two or about 1,000 m.p.h. and whien three of these squadrons recently climbed to 23,000 one minute 40 have even begun to re- feet in

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This, they found, was a good Idea, for raspberry leaf is rich In vitamin C.

In Lancashire it is stit believed by many women that have a male If they want to child their husbands must wear boots at the time of conception."

Some mothers think that swellings on the right side of their bodies Indicale their baby will be a boy.

In

shocker, "Better Dead,""from

Even if their right eye is door to door, finally paid out

think this 50, £100 to have a shilling edition brighter, they

there Is 10 scientific New York. this one as most likely to last. published, and wound up £25 yet

evidence to support it. liary pilots have grown too crities in the House of Com-M Broadway is discover- £12 each

AKING people laugh, Tickets are still being sold on out of pocket.

£10 to the black market for

Midwives report that Along Sucker Row-as Naw mons with, irrelevant pon-

term that certain country districts mothers Sidney Kingsley has a new Yorkers elegantly tifications

"re-ing this season, is a pretty about

under their business.

a plece of metal Most play opening a detective story, gattdy area of Fifty Second Street during confinement sleep with

chiefly for pro- volutionary developments" serious

is n New York maintained

vincial visitors the news is the pllows. This is a relic of the which, he

was said to would theatregoers if you asked Background

them why they go would a police station.

The plot centres around a return of Broadway's old friend, days when motal

the original fan ward off "the evil eye." YET this is the terrifying take time.

most certainly say to be man for whom life has no fine Sally Rand, fact. Hundreds of our jet

Until late in the 18th century He instanced pressurised made to laugh, but New shades of meaning-it is all dance girl. fighters have been sold

cabins, without which #York's current crop of suc- black or shining white.

I went to see her perform in an men doctors were not allowed The theme that such men in overcrowded, overheated abroad.

to do midwifery except under crypt pilot, however great his cesses doesn't bear them

high places

dangerous, with a dim purple apotlight modesty blanket." This was that goodness and

tled to the patient and round high moral just bright enough to outline The Vampire V. and oxygen supply, becomes un-out at all.

principles are deadly without a the tables without showing too the obstetrician's neck "so that Meteor IV. are great air- conscious above 15,000 feet.

Almost without exception the

even for the mother is not shamed." much of Sally Rand I

the Air craft. But it may be that

real hits are all harrowing, all tempering of humanity.

the baldheads, who, as usual, that there is full of cruelty and death,

Ralph Bellamy, who won

BURNED AT STAKE as a result of rapid strides Minister

in nothing revolutionary about being made

tables. "Street Car Named Desire" Broadway fame with State of had pre-empted all the floorside

In the 17th century a Dr America, they will be old- pressurised cabins. I piloted has been packing the theatre the Union, is the star.

does What

she do? Sha Werit, of Zurich, was burned at Apart froin Bellamy's return fashioned before long. a pressurised fighter (Spit-now for 15 months. "Anne of the

a great deal, the stake for witnessing the Thousand Days"

Krim there isn't much along Broad- waggles her fans fire Mark VI.) in 1942.

little less.

baby without a her anatomy a

She birth of a beautifully gehn, but grim all way. Is the position in Bomber

ths.

same from start to finsh. The town's real attraction has sheds a filmy piece of gossamer, blanket. Command any better?

Miss The season's big hit, "Death been on exhibition over at the which appears to be all she has

Salesman," Mr Henderson hng sald that of a

comes so near public library just on the rim of on, but isn't.

recently She waggles the fans again Charlotte's Maternity we shall have jet bomber this to fundamentals that many of the bright light sector, a show- year. He added that the time the audience weep-especially ing of remarkable first books by and that's that.

as she says the rapid advance of onte- Even overshadowed English authors. needed to develop a heavy bom-the men.

drawing the has been by This has been

Robert Morley, natal work during the last half We had such a plane ber of this type had made it The tragedy of the little man designed in 1945, but some necessary to order a twin jet who blew himself up so high crowds like a movie first night Britain's Miss Leucen MacGrath century has killed all old wives'

end of the office wife in "Edward, tales about birth. with his own illusion of great- especially the writing

emerging as one "The only tale," she says, unadventurous chair-borne as a stop-gap.

his

dreams finally the Broadway crowd, for it has My Son's

the season's warrior in Whitehall de- He implied that this inter-ness that

Broadway "that I have told thousands of Lace, is more a message especially for them, of

It's her first ap-mothers is this: Have every- cided that it would be too mediate machine has not yet blew up in his

but here,

thing bright and cheerful when flown.

This is truc, though I than many of the men, face to that there's nothing new in successes. dangerous even to make believe that at least one proto-face with the unrelenting kunt struggling young writer paying pearance

for the daily dollar, can take.

you are going to have a baby. out of his own pocket to have won't be ter last. the experiment of flying it. type may soon be ready..

What does she think of it? If you haven't got a garden, get It is odd, but quite under his writings pubitshed.

There was Thomas Hardy, for "Frankly, when I came out a box and plant some seeds for So three years were frit- It does not take a master spy standable that women have

il your window sill... more de- instance, who, it seems, pald was suspicious-1 thought

But "If you can't go away for a tered away while trials were to find out that there is little been able to take a

isn't. There's n Remedies" printed in 1871. carried out with pilotless prospect of these intermediate tached view of its essential £75 to have his "Desperate would be pretty bogus.

tremendour holiday, change your furnituro imachines going into squadron tragedy.

the surface around. Happiness brings forth aircraft launched from Mos- service in any quantity before Of all the plays on Broadway There was a youngster called urgency beneath

happy children." this season I would nominato James Barrie, who peddled his. about Broadway. I like it," quitos.

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