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DEVALUATION YEAR'S RESULTS

Ganshell

-Prophets of doom

RED FACES UNDER THE BEÐ

World Copyright by arrangement with Dafly Herald.

Sitting on the Fence.... by

A typist working in Dllings-

gate complains that her employer, once a fish porter, is stili inclined

to use the "language at the fight market

JAKE a blankety letter.

I beg your pardon?

I said take a blankety

letter.

You don't have to be in- sulting.

You're—a—cherihand typist,

aren't you?

Yet, I am,

Well, take a blankety leller, Dear Sir-In reply to yours of the 16th ultimo quoting prices for your retten, mouldy llah ...

Rotten, mouldy fish? You card the first time.... Where was 17 Oh, yes, Fish,... I ave given my careful considera- tion to this matter and ave re- gretfully come to the conclusion that you are nothing but a swind- ling blankety pirate.

Really, r

Full point. Paragraph. If you think I know nothing about the financial angle of this business because I was once a blankety Ash porter all I can say is that you ought to ave your blankety brains examined. Exclamation mark, Got that?

Yes. But Mr

In conclusion, I would like to express the opinion that you are

disgrace

blankety to the market, and to inform you that you may regard this letter as a formal termination of our agree- ment, you dirty, four-flushing, blankety son of a blank. Twe exclamation marks. Yours in- cerely.

Is that the blankety lot?

What did you say?

I said is that the blankety lot? Do you think I want to stay here all the blankety night?

Don't get blankety nasty, I shall be as nasty as Ibtan- kety well like. This morning 1 missed my blankety lunch, and now I've missed my blankety bus, All because you haven't the common blankety decency to treat a girl with consideration, on blanketu. blankety lane driver, you.

Is it?

Then two tablespoonsful

honey are added.

of

Honey on raw oatmeal? Then you can either add nuts, uncooked dates, figs, prunes, a akin, grated apple, including

core and pips, or raisins soaked Hullo. Are you there?

in lemon juice... NATHANIEL GUBBINS

"Forms?" ask the "What were they?"

children.

"Pleces of paper asking all sorts of silly questions which you had to answer."

"What sort of questions?" "They asked when and where you were born, who your father children you was, how many had, whether you were married. who you had married, and how much money you enmed."

"What was money?"

pieces of paper **Just more which were given for work done and which the Government stole from you,"

"If they stole, why didn't they

thieves."

to prison, like the other

ΤΟ 10

1

"You must have learned your history lessons that when steals it is not 20 Government theft. When a Guvernment kills Besides, they It is not murder. controlled the prisons."

*

"What did they want the money for?" asked the children.

"Why?"

Old

chlidren.

ask the "Was everybody 11?"

"Nearly everybody," says the Man, Anxiety about bombs

and and form-filling taxes ruined their digestion and made them "

Yes. I'm here. Which do you prefer? Prefer?

Does smoking y

A

increase risk of cancer?

By Trevor Williams

LTHOUGH the treat bacco has risen from an average perzon

port similar increases In the

ment of cancer has of three pounds per progressed to the ex- each year to rearly five pounds, tent that there are today Other countries

which many thousands of people tobacco la smoked heavily re- living who have been com- number of cases of cancer of the pletely cured of the disease lungs. The only important and thousands more whose exception is Iceland, and here lives have been prolonged consumption of

Tobacco abnormally low, by several

the years,

than medical research worker agure which was exceeded in one pound per head, a must still confess to many Britain many years ago.

Iittle

Is

mere

gapa in his knowledge of the These figurer, and the

cause and treatment of the

exceptional records from, Ice- disease. It appears, Indeed, land, are extremely suggestive that there is no single cause but by no means conclusiva in of cancer and, consequently, themsel

themselves, for during the past

of medical bavo Improved so

one may expect more than 30 yearn methods one form of treatment to bo required.

that there fu no doubt at all that a substantial part of this remarkable increase is due Research 5, however to this cause alone-cases which gradually indicating some of the would have been overlooked causes of cancer, and with this altogether years ago are growth of fundamental know- diagnosed promptly. ledge is developing knowledge about methods of prevention and cure.

ix

Onc

lenst, cause, at established beyond doubt; It is

Steadily Aging

11ow

Furthermore the population that certain chemicals constantly of Britain, like that of many applied to the body will in the other countries, is steadily aging, course of lime-generaly

of years

and cancer of all kinds is mainly

in the case of a disease of the elderly, so that

matter human beings-produce a can-

cerous growth. This knowledge some increase is to be expected.

indeed of considerable from this cause alone. antiquity, although it has only The research team, therefore, been clearly appreciated for set out to see whether as some some 35 years, for as long ago have asserted-the whole of

1775 Percival Pott dis- the increase can be accounted covered that a certalu form of for in this way. They reached cancer to which chimney the firm conclusion that it can sweeps are liable is due to the not and that at the same time continued action of

has in- ordinary as the tobacco habit sool.

creased, the real Incidence of lung

has cancer

multiplied coveral times.

Risk Recognised

The

method used เก this

of

Slace that time research has researcir Involved Interviewing down that cancer is an occupa individually about 2,500 cancer in 20 large London tional discosa amorg those patients

Aboul a Afth of whose work Involved the hospitals,

types of these proved to have cancer certain handling of

In particular, they or the lung. those particularly material, your which result from the incom- were carefully questioned about plete burning of substances such their smoking habits through- The definition out their lives.

10 2 of a smoker os as coal and wood.

Thur, like chiraney sweeps, non-smoker proved father diff

lifeline coal-ur workers are able, un-

as during their

vary their habits less suitably protected by special people

of personal clothing, to develop cancer of muth, as a result the skin, In Britain this risk taste, economie factors, and so

recognised in law, and on. workers in these industries con

Come mind.

ΟΠ.

Make up

"Did the medicine make them better?"

It's difficult, isn't it? You can have the whole works If you like, Oh no.

Not the whole toorks.

"No. It made them worse."

"Did the them gick money and medicines sicker?"

Government by stealing then spend that

mode

it on mess. Now I'm adding figs and them raw prunes.

Noi rato prunes?

Cult

I

30

Eventually, bowever, person was classed as a'zzzoker

The results

As a matter of fact, the whole works would do you good this make morning. I've slirred the honeyclaim compensation if they con- their and catmeal into a brown, sticky roet cancer of this type. The who had smoked at least one

responsible actual substances have been identified and have cigarette a day for at least onc were quite be been proved to

complex year. It looks like Christmas Day in chemicals containing only car clear-cut. Lung cancer is much

bon and hydrogen.

more prevalent among smoker

non-smokers, the workhouse,

and the than For many years it has been added risk appears, ús might. suspected that smoking, Involv be expected, to be roughly pro- ing as it does the introduction portional to the amount of to- into the body of products of bacco smoked. combustion, might be a cause of cancer,

hitherto the jevidence has not been entirely

conclusive.

"That's right," says the Old "No wonder the awful Man. 1930's are now called the dark ages, when England, once the land of

no poetry, produced ports."

"What were the poets doing if they were not writing poetry?" ask the children.

"Filling in forms, I expect," says the Old Man.

Dialling TUM

JULLO. Is that my stomach?

To buy themselves sweets and Hour stomach speaking.

toy ?"

"They certainly bought them selves a lot of dangerous toys they called armaments," shya the Old Man. "They also had to pay thousands of people to compile the forms and thousands more to steal the money,"

"What else did they buy "Millions and millions gallons of medicine which was distributed free."

We're going to have our first health breakfast this morning. The morning after a party? Isn't health what you need after a party?

I suppore so, Besides, it we take it every day we shall probably live for

ever.

Shall we?

The raw calmeal is soaked in water all night,

Can I have a cup of tea first? No. In go the nuts and dates, Now I'm grating the apple. Good heavens!

What's the matter?

I think there's a maggot in it. Oh, no. Not a maggot. It's all right. It hasn't fallen Into our breakfast. It's wriggling on the table.

Don't.

One more stir and It's ready. Couldn't

little

we walk a

while?

Don't you want to live for over?

Not today.

*

of

but

More Dangerous

$9-

the BOL or HOL Increase the

extremely Now, however,

More

detailed analysis painstaking investigations dicates that cigarettes are more. carried out in Britain during dangerous than pipes, though,. the past three years by research oddly enough, it seems to make workers of the London School tule difference whether

and

Inhaled Tropical smoke is Hygiene Medicine und the

Medical Advancing years Research

Council havo Cs risk; among those over 45 years tablished this suspicion beyond of age it seems likely that lung.

as much as 50 tim doubt. Tobacco smoking, It has car

cancer

among

those been shown, definitely predis- as

as likely cancer of the smoke 25 dgareties or more a lungs, though to avoid starm it day than among those who do should at once be painted out not smoke at all. that the risk, although quite real, is not great.

Stand by for the first mouth-poses towards tul.

Oh, BIO. RO

Don't be a coward, Please, Please.

First mouthful coming down.

-London Express Service}

to

This careful investigation 18.

1t important because

gives a Arm really

foundation to No III Effects suspicions which have been aroused for zome years: but which have bcen extremely The vast majority of smokers, difficult to confirm or confound.

hundreds of millions, suffer no

C.V.R. Thompson reports the U.S. scene who must now be numbered in The investigaters suggest, that

FOR

Forward glance deny devaluation rumourstration £.

THE

THE Old Man sits on a seat In the ideal village in the

year 2000.

Arca: Unofficial postscript. The dc- because Russians are deliberately

bunkers

the

day

And

It seems that by abstinence --

cancer of the lung might well ill effects, so far as cancer is be regarded as an occupational, the Sterling back to NEW YORK.

nitetime of concerned, from

disease, for the heavy smoker TRY Smoke for more thna sixth TOR. a change it is the speculators activities

of a possible revaluation up pressing dollar values in black more or less heavy smoking. Americans' turn

hours a day, almost a full-time to wards of the British and Aus- ninrkets behind the Iron Cur-

The background io this tain.

investigation, carried out with occupation. elaborate precautions to devaluation of the dollar, Pestered by

and BENSATION of business men for some that is.

- along New York's Fifth Avenue eliminate the personal opinions man has wimin his power th

of the Invea means of almost eliminating Prejudices Eurance. John McKiernan, New was a London Bobby guarding

tigators, who included both, one particular form of cancer: gold Wall Streeters have become York representative of the Dea £35,000 British-made

the, tobacco habit is to disturbed by

smokers and non-smokers, is the but rumours that partment of Commerce, asked tea and coffee service on dia Registrar General's records of sirmly established,

Jeweller's shop.

and gives "Tell us more about the awfut such a step might be necessary his boss In Washington what play in a

such pleasure to many millions, to say. to stop a supposed "fight from

The crowds who stopped the cause of death in Britain. shout the 1950's,"

may doubt the dollar."

In 1922, 412 people were re- that one told the worried chat with him were startled What he climbing on his knees.

Suggested causes for a dol- Wall Streeters-there Is no when he spoke to them with a ported as dying from cancer of the slight increase in the odds. survival, among the. The the lungs in 1947, 9,287 are against of lar scare-istrust

its fight from the dollar; recent strong Brooklyn accent.

gold movement, are Insigni- secret: he was only a local pri-known to have died, from this many other bazards of modern stability from fears of more in-

they anyway

are vate detective dressed up in a same cause--a 15-fold increase life, will lead to any great fallon at home and successive cant, and tax increases to try to stop it: "healthy." No dollar devalua- uniform borrowed from Broad-in only 20 years." the Increasing flow of gold tion in sight.

children,

"Well," says the Old Man. "apart from fear of the atomic bomb which we thought might end us all, there was an even greater fear, of filling in forms."

NANCY

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WHERE ARE YOU GOING?

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By

Ernie Bushmiller

I'VE BEEN.

SAVING THIS

FOR 'A

RAINY DAY

whether

In the same lowering of the consumption of period tho. consumption of to- tobacco.

BALD SPOTE!

Don't Cat this happen to you!

Fitch's

START USING

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