Wages on The agricultural workers are now The Farm V d Gos. a week. This raises difficult issue. 1 LENE and the labourer at 48s. a, week, the minimum in the country districts i the contrary, except for house-ren! often dearer. But if agricultural. raised to 60s, it is practically certain which will either be passed on to the 3 farmers will be compensa! or met by increased subsidies from the State. To allow a rise in the prices essential foodstuffs would start an -1 higher wages, which it would be impossible to resist. This being so, the policy of higher sub-e only reis family allowances, which would be both cheaper and more equitable than a general upward revision of wages, with its unavoidable inflationary effects.
Hamlet as fete story remember that the ami When rewriting "Hamlet" as a Detective crux of the affair is the Royal Murders, writes "Rough Galley" in the "New Statesman and Nation." The "late king' bəs had poison-poured in his ear—by whom? And when Hamlet comes on his uncle apparently at rayers, it is to find that Claudius, too, is dead rom the same poison. Hamlet takes up the investigation at once. He is in the direct line of sleuths, with Leslie Howard-like monologues before the mirror, classical tags, fencing bouts, theatricals and wit at the expense of Sergt. Polonius (the local man, awaiting instructions from the Yard). He should smoke Kyprinos Special and quote Eliot. From the first, all the characters are suspect; Ophelia for her albomania (white dresses, lilies, purity), the Queen (a husband-poison: om wil she marry next?), Laertes, with his violert enti-Royalist tendencies. There is a strong case against each. The climax occurs while Inspector Fortinbras is on his way to Elsinore. "Gertrude's voice was as smooth as cream, but it held a threat, too." Hamlet is cross-questioning his mother; Sergt. Polonius is taking notes behind a curtain: the Ghost appears. When the sergeant makes a grab at this mysterious figure he is mortally wounded. It is obvious that the Ghost must be th" murderer for whom they are looking. But who ^an it be? Not the Queen (present) not Ophelia (too weak to deliver such a blow): Laertes is in England, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern provide ' each other's—alibis. Hamlet has shrewd suspicions, but as yet can prove nothing, and plays possum till the arrival of Inspector Fortinbras. When the Inspector seems to be getting on the track, Hamlet unmasks the murderer. Horatio! His honesty had been overdone from the bennning (plenty of clues there). It was he who "planted" the Ghost on the ramparts and who afterwards assumed the part whenever I was needed. Motive? Jaro's. Jago was his favourite character in fiction. Having begun by destroying Hamlet's father and uncle, he would have ended with Hamlet himself on the day of his coronation. We need not be too sorry for him as he is led away.
Invisible caT Y the Chief Medical Officer of isible A new kind of alert has been sound-Invaders the Ministry of Health: the warning to take action against certain invisible invaders, the germs which cause diphtheria, Against this disease experience proves that there is a certain, safe and efficient safe-guard which if adopted by epoush parents ensures that children need not hav. diphtheria at all. much less dic from it, writes A Doctor in the "Listener." Divhtheria immunization was first used 1912, but the technical method for its.apolication was greatly improved and it first became generally used in about 1923. When I immunized inv young davehter in 1926, it was not as easy to make that decision as it is for mothers and fathers today: the method had been recently introduced: there was limited knowledge of just how much could be accomplished. Wa did not know that the procedure was harmless. In the years that have intervened, the worth of diphtheria protection has become so well defi that in the community in which I live in United States, the protection of young children against diphtheria is a matter of course. as it throughout North America wherever ' the welfare of children is taken seriously. Diphtheria protection is brought about through use of a material called toxoid, which contains no poisonous perms and is made from the toxin or nelson from diphtheria which has been so trented with anticentic that all poisonous promerti^" are removed. Nevertheless it still has the ability to produce an antitoxin which protects against disease. Two injections of this inert toxoid are administered in small amounts at suitable intervals. The actual injections are no more than a ninprick: often no reaction follows anô usually nothing is noted beyond an area of local tenderness of temporary durafion. The protection that follows lasts for matter of years. Wha should be protected prainst diphtheria, and when should it b" done? Almost all verne children are snscentible and therefore all should be protected. The—bes time for protection is the very first birthday.
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