We are used to having attacks on cocktails but it is very rarely that they have been challenged in regard their appetite creating qu however, Dr. H. festigator for the Indus-rial Health Research Board, giving Evidence before the Licensing Com-the highly alcoholic cocktail would do more harm than admitted, however, that he thought peuple were shy when they first came. together, and the cocktail feaused them to liven up, become Jess shy, and start conversation.
will be whether such a denial ofts appetite-Producing qualities will do away with the faith of the cocktails Tollowers on the stimulation to jaded appetites. T do not think that this will be the ease. In our ordinlary everyday life we do not hear 30 much about this very pleasant. bat according to reports very harmful drink, but it shows ug sign of abatement and will always be popaler if only for the qualities it possesses of inducing 'a feeling of well-being fand Toquaeiousness to a shy company.
In aAbernon, who was Chairman of the Liquor Control Board di the war, said—and we agree with him—that a vast fortune and the gratitude of humanity awaited the discoverer of a_drink which had alli the good qvnliffes but none of th bad qualities of alcohol, The new beverage would have to be something attractive to the palate and would have to appeal to the drinker more than liquor did at present. At the present time this seems a more wonderful dream than a Castle in Lord d'Abernon thought, of Licensing whole, a private authority was more competent to exercise supervision and conduct the trade than private ownership, and he suggested a Commission to supervise the whole;}of the administration of the liquor trade and that nationalization should be pushed forward to eliminate unhealthy competition. The public ig getting a little tired of the Royal Commission on Licensing which has eat for so long and considered s0 much conflicting evidence. The! public is also sorry for it and does rot envy its work on such a controversial and difficult topic. What und great deal of make there is be a Preparing for the "Pr ly getting ready for ide Concerts at the Queens Hall in August, and although these concerts were once regarded purely-as a popular London affair they have now reached the status of a festival of national importance, and indeed in many ways, the greatest festival of the English year. Between August 9 and October 4 twelve new works will be performed under the baton of Sir Henry Wood, by the latest edition of the British Broadcasting Corporation's Symphony Orchestra of 114 performers. This Orchestra is intended to be the finest in the country and the players who are all engaged on a whole time no deputy. basis, include many famous names. Of the 12 works which the Orchestra is to play only five appear to be English, and only one product of the modern school—an oboe concert aby Eugene Goosens. medical Scheme uly 20.
The British Medical Association considered at its annual meeting last Saturday a scheme for the establishment of a general medi service for the whole nation. This! aims at providing a medical service available for every class of the population, and covering the whole: field of preventive and curative medicine.
The scheme which will embrace a satisfactory system of medical service directed to the prevention of disease no less than relief; the provision for every individual of general practitioner or family doc-for; a consultant service and all necessary specialist and auxiliary, forms of disagonizes and treatment available; and the extension of the ymedicial.beneGits of the present.
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