1950-03-21 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1950.

SOCIALISED MEDICINE IS PROBLEM FOR MENZIES

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

GROCERY

"Attention, pirase anyone has found a mail asp trould they please return it at once la Lady Littlehampton in Box 17."

By Eric Ric!

SYDNEY, March 20.-A perplexing problem facing the new Menzies Government is the unscrambling of a disputed socialised medical Millions of plan begun by the ousted Chifley Labour regime.

national welfare fund from Australians have paid taxes towards a

which they have received no medical benefits because most doctors boy- cotted the plan.

The new proposals provide, in the main, for modification of direct free meticing and medical treatment in favour of subsidies to community health services.to They also provide subsidies for friendly

(or benevolent) societies,

Earle

the

A

pro- The Labour Government col- But some doctors today] The new Government

£00,000,000 in social also object to the first proposes to provide free medicine, lected

did service payments during posals of the new Govern-just as the Labour regime

but only in the form of vital 1049-1040 discal year. Chifley's provided life-sustaining budget for 1040-1050 ment to water down the life-saving and

to very for another £90,000,000 be "socialistic" aspects of the drugs which are mostly

collected in the current yent costly. old plan.

another major dif-Now, if the Menzies medical There' is

project is to be basically ference in the proposals. Under tributary

scheine Australians the okl pinn, an official formula will still want t know what limited the freedom of doctors is going to happen to all the tax 040 speelne prescriptions money they paid into the which the Government felt national welfare tund, out of would

social cover most medical | which, in addition to

old situations and stabilise the cost recurity benefits such na of the pinn.

age and invalid pensions, They were promired a national health plan Sir Earle Page's first BOW

plan help proposal which the Australian

"If the Government pinng to discusa- medical profession is

the country a give

real health ing now,

establishes a list of scheme, it will Inve to dip about 60 rugs only. It clors

heavily into the credit balance nol attempt to set up specific of the national welfare fund. If prescriptions.

not, then the public will want a lot of its social services pay- ments back-in tower taxation,” sald Sydnry Daily Telegraph editorial."United Press.

As Health Minister Sir Page explained, his new aims to help those who themselves."

Magician Catches Bullet In Mouth

Dublin

LIST SIMPLIFIED

The new list would include single preparations such as sulfa drugs; Anti-biotics such 45 penicilling streptomycin, aureo- insulin,

it March 20,-Apparently was just amych, chloromycetin, magician's trick, but they made it look real.

The scena on the windswept beach was reminiscent of a partisan execution,

A young man stood alone on the sand dunes. Thirty A group paces away stood a marksman with a rifle. of solemn-faced men huddled behind him, faces edged down into their collars against the wind sweeping off the sea.

in

London'a

diphtheria and tetanus toxoids: NEW

anti-malarials and oxygen.

Thus, if a patient nerds peni- ein in an emergency, the doc- 11 and the tor can prescribe

wilt pay the Government pharmacist for the prescription But if a doctor should prescribe same patent medicine not on the free list, the pallent would have to pay for it himself.

NEW PLANE

SIMULATES

BIRDS

Man's age-old desire to By like the birds may be three men who had perfected The marksman took care

"What is needed is not so realised in A new type of ful aim at the smiling mouth the trick. One. William Robins

sun, an American who went much free bottles of medicine, aircraft heing developed by as the raising of the general some 60 to 70 feet away, under the stare name of Chung standards of the health of the J. E. Caldwell, inventor.

and the Ling Soo was killed during D A phol rang

nation." Sir Enric Page CO Caldwell has completed pre- young man dropped on the sand. performance

Uminary tests of П fylug The spectators surged forward Woodgreen Empire shortly after tended. but not before the "victim" be-World War I.

Two popular forms of medical machine built in the form of a he believes gan ringgering to his feet, with

insurance would stand to bene-cyclogiro" which

To the "cyclegiro," a device it from the Government's pro-wolves the bird formula of fight posed subsidy plan. They

វា efficient the.

friendly (or benevolent) recognised

by the societies, for those earning less aeronautical Instrument

Advisory Council of the U. S. than £350 # year, and

Aeronautics, Caldwell has added medicni benefit fund for those ample attachment, which he

WIE1 duplicate the of

societies biggest earning more than £550. Two clas

British Principle of gravity propulsion, underwritten by the

said to be the birds secret of flight.

teeth.

after a

performance in

New

A bullet clenched between his Another American exponent, Theodore Anneman, died shortly

11c

Lambert, York. Was Hubert amateur Irish magiclan and father of four, who had defied The third, a French magician police displeasure and the pleas of the early 1800's named Robert of friends and fellow magicians Houdin, developed the trick to to flirt with death in attempting such a point that the French

trick which

Is re- | Government nlready ported to have taken the lives Murocco, then torn by Marabout Medical Association. of 12 exponents.

evolt, as ambassador.

Houdini, "king" of magicians, never attempted it.

sent

him

to

i

ara

are

treas

The doctors against the

maintain i would Houdin performed the trick be-sidy tore the native chieftains, and people in tower income

to join the subsidised convinced them that, since herd thus "conscript doctors in was "invulnerable," all French-uch areas to toe the line with men were "invulnerable."

The spectators were Brlish, Irish and Scottish amateur magiclans attending the annual convention of the trish Ring of The Marabouts promptly de- the International Brotherhood oflared peace, Magicians. Also were several

the society.

valice officers who went to the Houdini adopted the French scene

in an attempt to artist's name with the addition get any benefits unless Lambert's "projected suicide."

societies

da

ne

the

The inventor explains that sub- force birds ty simply by lifting their and wints for initial impetus then taking advantage of the force of gravity for gliding pro- pulsion, If birds had to

puli themselves along through the air as an aeroplane does, he points out, they could By only short distances before becoming exhausted.

WOULD HAVE TO JOIN

never

Then again, people would not they friendly or medical joined a lof an “,” but in all his years of shelly, even though they were

escapism anch at magic

It indirectly paying for bullet stuuf social service taxes, it is

tended.

in

con-

bench On the

fronting the headquarters convention Bettystown, Lambert took up his attempted the

two doctors In United Press, position, with attendance. A spectatur pleted

a bullet at random from a full hox and marked its head before handing it to an Irish Army truksian who Jel volum- teered to "shoot" Lambert.

SHOWS MARKSMANSHIP

had marksraan

been The brought under escort from camp

that morning and had never met or spoken with Lambert.

MOST FAITHFUL

FILM FAN

The most faithful fan in Hollywood belongs to an

However, he had to demonstrate actress who has not been a star for 20 years.

his marksmanship to police by plugging a six-inch plate dead centre

at 40 paces. The marksman, whose name was withheld on Army orders, put the marked round up the breach, squinted along his sights and fired.

A split second later Lambert fell back on the sand.

But every

month since 1915, whether she is working or struggling|

His new aircraft, Caldwell method. says, will imitate this

ling itself from the

ground

with powers supplied by a jeep engine and continuing in fight he the proper use of gravitation. The revolutionary plane ruse a foot off the ground during pre- liminary tests in Caldwell's hangar.

A wartime employee of the Howard Hughes Aircraft Co., the inventor became a centre of attention In 1949 when some Inventions he was developing

mistaken were

for "Mying saucers."

for a job. Mac Marsh has received a fan letter from Earl He Wonders

Darfler of Warsaw, Indiana.

The 410th in the series retired from the screen several times. But she has always come of missives was delivered back. She says it is the only recently to Miss Marsh on kind of work she likes.

20th Century- the set of

"I was a little apprehensive between his teeth was a bullet Fox's "My Blue Heaven," in about making the transition from which Maguire and the marks which she plays a small silents to taikles," she said. "I

Identified as the marked

part.

R1..

Clenched

round fired from the rifle.

What Made

Hitler Tick

and

What were the forces rot my best advice from director that dominated Hitler Henry King. He said the only how did they work? Lambert's Jaws were bruised "The letters missed arriving, difference was in the fact that but the mark was still there.

only once," she instead of thinking inwardly you

outwardly, You Lambert offered to prove

Just police ballistic examination that recalled. "But I got two letters think

One of them think about what you're saying the bullet between his teeth was the next month. the one fired from the marks-explained that he had been sick and how you're saying it." man's ride but no one took him and begged me to forgive him

for his tardiness,"

up.

By

on schedule

The answer to those questions is being sought by Douwe Stuur- man, an assistant professor of Santa Barbara College, Univer-

ity of California. Miss Marsh recently became a Stuurman, member of a war grandmother for the third time. time military intelligence unit, She has two married daughters became interested in the prob

lem witen his unit found many and a son studying Inw.

"They keep me on my toes," Nazi records burled in an Aus-

"There's no time to trian salt mine. she said.

Ile expeels to carry on most think about what used to be,

of Bis

earch

at the Library of in Washington and wants to live in the "They say a person has about Congress

in days to live

on may go to Ge

Germany. "The last thing she said to past," she said, "when things.20,000

That is a His research will include the me when I left home was that that are happening right now ordinary lifetime.

precious little span-too precious manuscripts of the Bavarian she hoped the insurance was are so much more exciting?"

to throw away by forgetting to-poet Dietrich Eckart, who he be paid up to date," he said.

attending

Miss the

March,

the day for what already hus gone leves had the most profound in- Magicians

one of

fluence in shaping Hitler's mind. convention could point to only greatest stars uf silent pictures, by."

Speaking with difficulty later, It's things like this that keep Lambert said he was not sure if Miss Marsh from pining for the ho would try again, mostly, he "good old days" when she was said, because of his young wife. a star of the late D. W. Grimth's

masterpieces. THREE OTHERS DID IT

**Who

K. O. CANNON

ʻGʻIYE FOR HOW, WHIEPER -O36.

AND ONS MORE THING.

He

The Riddle of the Red Domino

„LET ME KNOW. IF YOU THINK YOU ANG BEING WATCHED. I PROFILE KNOWS YOU HAVE SEEN MY AGAIN, HE'LL KE PRETTY TOUGH. HE MAY SVEN SEND YOU WHERE SON VAS

BENT YOUR FATHER, UMI THERE MAY BE AN

IDEA IN THAT!

THAT YOU, MA. PROFILE? FELLOW WITH A PATCH HAS JUST LEFT HGA)

FLAT, CAN I GET OUT OF MY

FANCY DRESS NOW? ♫

NEWS IN PICTURES

1950'S VENUS AND ADONIS-The physique of Al Brijunas, 21, won him the title of "Mr Chicago," in a contest in that elty. Ho is being presented with a trophy by Theresa Glorgian who was chosen "Miss Body Builder of 1950."

LIKE OLD TIMES-Perhaps Alec, the sea lion in the zoo at Whipsnade, is thinking of pre-captive days ag he frolics in the cracked ice. Or it may be he was just determined to have his bath despite the unpleasant temperature of the water.

SUB CHASER-The latest threat to submarines is the new Lockleed P2V-4 Neptune, shown flying over the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco. The special equip. ment to combat submerged subs is a radio sonobuoy, which is dropped in the ocean and relays the sound of the sub's propellers.

SHE BROUGHT IT ALONG-Just before she returned to the U.S. from England where she made a new film, actress Greer Garson went to Crieff, Scotland, to Inspect some livestock. She was so impressed that she bought seven helfers for her ranch in New Mexico.

GETTING A WINTRY WORKOUT-The snow did not prevent these six-day bicycle riders from working.. out in New York's Central Park. From left to right, they are: Alvara Georgetti, Italy; Antonio Bevilaqua, Italy; Giallo Rosal, Italy; Severino Rigoni, Italy; Fernando Teruzzi, Italy; and Marcel Bareth, France, There's a lot of international competition in the Ence.