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AN INSOMNIA BOOM

THERE is a boom in in- somnia—and the first to be affected are men and women who go to bed with a load of worry their minds.

on

In that class comes Sir Stafford Cripps and an in- creasing number of his tax- payers.

Whitehall is worried by insomnia. The Chancellor does not get to sleep easily these nights. His complaint ---which is endured far beyond Cabinet-level-prompts this survey

the search for sleep

of

by JAMES

BARTLETT

* FRANK

SWINNERTON always takes a “sliff" crossword to bed with him; "This never falls to close my eyes within ten minutes..

morn the

BENNY

Equal Pay? The Women Won't Stop At That...

S

By. W. J. BROWN, MP

HOULD men and wo-

Many men hold that "equal" men get the same rate rvice and equal results” are- of pay? This question should be applied. They paint not the only criterion which. has agitated the trade union out that it the man who movement for many years. normally has to furnish the It was recently brought up home.

again by the hearing before To this the women produce the Industrial Court of a four answer One is that in claim for equal pay in the these days furnishing the home- civil service.

is usually a Joint-operation, to which the woman contributes The House of Commons has

often as much As tho twice gono

Next, on record the feeding.

family allowances and favouring equal pay. On each have done something to relieve of school-children" Government of the man of the financial cont

occasion the

the day was beaten. But it is

rule of Parliament that de- of providing for his family. cisions involving public EX- Thirdly, penditure must be initiated by were anything in the argument they say, there the Government, and an ex- about the man "normally hav... pression of opinion by Parlia- ing a family" why is it that ment is not binding on the the unmarried. Government.

of

man, the con- Armed bachelor, gets the same The Socialist Party is pledged as his married colleague? by repeated decisions

Fourthly, many women, even if they annual conference to the navertheless contribute to the do not have children, principle of equal pay. But Eurerssive Socialist

support of Chan- cellars

to tho have nevertheless 10-

11

jected the claim for equal pay parents,

in the pubtle service on the

ground of cost.

The Tory Party. in Tho

Right Rond for Britain,

policy statement commits itself

others particularly support of

Seldom equal.

akeing

WHAT about "equal services

and results" as between

not only to the principle of men and women? The truth is

equal pay but to its application that

they его чегу seldom

Then there

women can

imposes some

for physiological

OF

In the public service. It says; equal, both

"Wo consider that there and psychological reasons. should be one rate for the job, If the job

is a standing-up provided that the services job, the woman la at an Im- rendered and the results mediate disadvantage as com- achieved by men and women pared with the man. sit them are the same The question of both down, and much of that * DOROTHY LAMOUR "takes adopting this principle must be disadvantage disappears. light love stories to bed and left to the machinery

col- Then there is the Incidence reads them steadily....they lective bargaining. With this of sick leave which is some- bore her so quickly that she in mind the next Conservative what higher with women than falls asleep,"

Government will proceed with with men. the application of the prin- *JACK

"im❜gines

are restrictions ciple as it affects the Govern-on the freedom with which that he is painting a gigantic ment Servico." The consulting physician for

be employed figure 3 on one side of an even There are two qualifications compared with men one of Brit in's largest industrial

Climate If people suffering from In- Changing the colour of

gigantic door. Only a hero, One is not sure how far organisation said: "I find that somnia

and the clock cannot get B good bedroom wall has often kept a very small paint brush is in The Night Road for Britain others. Night work for women since the war there has been a night's sleep without drugs, sleepless

his hand, and he says that he is still holds good as Tory policy is avoided as much as possible. patient out of the b'g jump in the demand for how can they get 17 sedatives.

doctor's waiting-room. Blue and usually asleep before he rounds Mr Butler has said that

Again, much depends on the will stands, but Mr Churchil have green Nearly

nature of the work On many quiet, soothing the first turn,"

make no promise except that Jobs the woman has a theory. Some are logicnt, effect; red, yellow, and orange SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE: he would act without fear or peramentally Is less tern- adapted to the spirit of Dun- work than the man: On others, POSSIBLE TIP:

A Govern- "Sleep is best induced by nar-favour in the ment bulleun noted that glass rowing the focal range of the kirk

notably routine and' repetitive mind....requiring. that it bo The second qualification Is jobs (such as the operation of painters using cobalt blue some made la concentrate on a single the Tory proviso that the "per-

and times fall asleep before their restful theme in order to relax vices rendered and the results she seems to be better adapted

comptometer

the like) cos:la

and in achieved by men and women than the man. In all work in- Are these elementory Ups? A the nervous tension West End doctor said: They duce proper rest. I have found are the same

What are the merits of the at an obvious disadvantage

volving physical strength ahe is are too often"

that

by taking whatever part 1 overlooked by suffers from

b currently playing in matter?

in Many mca: used, days Insomnia, who may think that sleep will come only and going over it carefully in

of unemployment, dishonestly Ilving on of this natural tendency-by if they swallow a tablet."

my mind, I soon bring about the

to support Equal Pay as a means of ensuring that the required steep." havnlg a regular bedtime,

FOR my own part I have no employer would employ a man

illusions about the equality rather than a woman.

women

every

sound sleeper

huco are exciting.

"Both men and workers complain that they con-

some are nonsense. Both my no! skrep at nights.

So they be workable. One man's dream tura to drugs that will help is another's nightmare. them relax."

Experts seeking to beat in- somula provide these cluba;==

From the factory to the surgery. Another doctor szid; "F"om what I have sien of

They have found that aufural

my patients in the last year or sleep has regular rhythm, A

to believe man stands best chance of sleep two I am tempted

that 99 percent, of the English- ing well if he takes advantage speaking world is drugs."

man

First, will-power

Was

What Shaw said

that no man is a

But

His view is not so far-fetched, (Late night sittings in the

* ERNEST BROWN (when) Enough barbiturates, which are House or urgent calls to Down-

Minister of Labour, March 1939). of men and women. I agree thon, men were deceivers, ever. sedative drugs, are sold each ing-street for example, ruin the TAPOLEON

probably "I like a nap. I can step with Shaw

*The truth is that no generali- United year in the

States to the idea for o

for any like Sir NA

Each dif Flཅ

woman, not sation is possible. alx any hour of the day or night, match when he 2014 send every man,

a poker and hob- ferent kind of work needs to woman, and Stafford.)

hours sleep was enough for any The man who can't sleep ought even with

nailed boots, So we will dis- be peparately judged. The child to sleep for a fortnight

man, seven for a woman, and not to be in the Cabinet"

miss theoretical considerations ratio of "ervices and resulte tight for a fool.

~(London Express Service) What about the practical ones? (Continued en Pagu-5):

Your

bed...

Commenting on this in the Medical World, a London sur-

When you pre dozing off, germ and physician oints out TE bed itself can easily up-will-power Is the first thing that even though these barbi

Det sleep.

One Arm in

to go and the last to reappear turales are on the dangerous New York tests

Its customers on waking. Hence the dificulty drugs list in Britain, too many on a special bed, and then of getting up in the morning are being consumed.

makes up a mattress with the

no matter how strong your riso- springs placed wire they are lutions were on the previous needed.

nistit.

"It is inevitabi: that the doctor shall be blarneyed, bullled, and enjolled to give prescriptions, It is inevitable that demand stall get satisfaction."

Dog

lesu.

Beware-

In

For the man who is sleepless Britain the experts say: The narrowest bod in which any one should sleep is one that takes a maltress 30 inches wide.

Reasoning power.goes next. A person lightly asleep may hear and answer questions but the answerz are rarely intelligent,

Memory and imagination sing nwake longer-so you dream.

Tick...

It

2 trip

C.V.R. Thompson Reports The American Scene

NEW YORK. plus hogs it bought up to main using up all that the coffee- NALYSIS from America's tain the farmers' prices And producing countries en produce. A Federal Reserve Board, just not only because of the dollar Floods in some of these coun“.

not

.

OCTORS ree danger in the growing demand for drugs

Most single beds in use today

Few of the organs get n com-published, says devaluation has shortage. Britain retuses to trics, droughts in others, have like phenobarbitone. Healthy are a rower than this.

plete rest. The heart, for

boosted sales here because buy been there is too much all but ruined this year's crop. people have died after taking " Colled springs give 15 percent example, makes about 2,500 too many experts in Britain had fat. eight grains; sick patients from better rest than the horizontally million bints in a lifetime with-

raised their prices and cancelled stretched wires known as link out a long rest.

out advantages of the cheaper £, A dose of one grain has an uprings.

Nonsense, replied some of New FOOD: Unless some way is York's shops. Even one of the found soon to recruit shep effect lasting up to 48 hours, It is wrong to tuck the bed- making the taker feel languid all covers firmly under the mattress.

world's largest stores, Macy's, herds, the Deportment of Agri- Britain's toughest critle in the culture warns that mutton will next day. The next night he is Tight wrapping means that the tempted to take another dose in body is kept tonally imprisoned TERE

which past, said sales of British goods become as rare as buffalo meat wing groomed to succeed. Clark the hope that he will feel better with little chance to sprawi may

There are only 32,000,000 head of 1370 you chang-are zooming.

Eighty years in the morning,

and relax.

ing the wallpaper:

best lines-liners, - sheep in the U.S. Instead, he makes himself

Reading in bed might relax trate оп tho tick of your quers, glassware, china, some ago, when the population was a more drowsy,

more forgetful, the mind--but not more than a wrist-watch, get the rhythm of woollens. Other shops said their quarter its present size, there

sales had doubled, and some were 40,000,000 head. moro confused.

25-watt bulb should be used if the ticks, for rhythm brings

times trebled in the past week or So doctors are trying to per- the light is clamped to the bed; sleep.

two. suade sleepless patients to the bulb should be frosted. switch to

less

familiar

drugs.

The WHAT PINCHER SAYS:

have not had the nation- wide publicity of police broadcasts that made lost pheno barbitone. tablets household

joke.

#

They are safer, lo so their effect suoner,

and are not habit- forming.

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KNEE AND ELBOW ON MATTRESS ...CHAPMAN. PINCHER submits this sketch of what he thinks in the best way to get a goad night's rest. The body should be supported by the overlying ; knee - and the top elbow should rest on the mattress,,,. It does not matter which side you sleep on.

Undercover Girl

HELLO, MINNIE- WHY ARE CHILLY TODAY

YOU

·ISN'T IT?

WEARING A BARE MIDRIFF PRESS ?

OH, I ALWAYS WEAR THEM ON WINDY DAYS

Concen-

quotes

Their

SHOW BUSINESS: Cecil B Do Mille's latest super epic, shown to groups of barbers "Samson and Delilah," will be

Paul Douglas, Holly wood's middle-aged sensation, is Gable

Lcalle Banks is back on Broadway for "Lost in the Stars"

a musical with a

a message (treat Negroes

as equal). Gertrude Lawrence is having no : trouble with Southern accent in

POTATOES already peeled her first Hollywood fim, "The PUSINESS Estimates are that green-grocers B000. Treated "After all, it's just 17th-century Dby the year end the TV in- with a solution that is harmless, dustry will be selling £350 mil- tasteless, and colourless, they lion worth of sets a year-nearly are guaranteed not to discolour £100 million above the best for a week. They will come in

will be sold by American Glass Menagerie. Bays: sho

Devonshire.”

THE

* CHURCHILL (in the war):

IP SERVICE will be paid to "I always went to bed at least

Harold Medina, the judes for one hour as early 4s year for radio. Next year the TV four grades for boiling, mash-

over America's "who presided possible in the afternoon and ex- men expect their sales will be 'ing, frying, and sauteing.

Communist trial, by the North ploited to the full my happy nearer £600 million.

Dakota town gift

almost

of Medina, By of falling

im-

THE BEST CHANCE our tea order of the mayor the citizens mediately into deep skep. By

salesmen have ever had to will TXCUSE offered by Hollywood

start pronouncing. It this

means I was able to press for a new crop of west convert Americns from coffed Medeona, Insead of Medevent, a day and a half's work into erns is

There is a coffee as tribute. "to a great Ameri- that the new-style is at hand,

crisis in the U. S. The prica la can "signiicance,"

geing up every day. By Christ- mas it may be 75.

one. Nature

not intended had mankind to work from eight in Western

has

the morning until midnight with whatever that means. out that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only

losts 20 minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces...."

WHY

Any moment now, elevenses AVERAGE, yes average, week- 08 SALE. 86 million tons of will cost is instead of dd. The worker, says Washington, are ly earnings of the American. 'pork, But Washington trouble is that Americans drink now £19 17 5d. • That is this cannot find a buyer for the zur so much coffe that they are second highest on record, TODA

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