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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 124, 194851 "A drawing from an English publication Yown My "THE* DAILY TIMES-GCAEFETTE LY THOIA- GE 29 Gifts and Laughter and Candlelight "Tis Time for Singing in the Night, (1775-1834) who wrote many glowing things about Christmas. By CHARLES LAMB of the time of Charles Lamb It is the happiest time of the year, It is the season of mirth and cold weather. It is the time when Christmas boxes and jokes are given; when mistletoe and red-berried laurel, and soups, and sliding and school toys il; when the country is illumined by fired and bright faces; and the is radiant with laughing children . . . But look! what thing is this, awful and coloured like the rainbow, blue and red and glistening yellow? Its vest is sky-tinctured! The edges of its garments are like the sun! It is: A faery vision Of some gay creature of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow lives, And plays o' the plighted clouds? No--it is the Beadle of St. ' How Christmas and consolatory he looks! How redolent of good cheer he is! He is corna-copia -- an abundance! What pudding sleeves! What &.collar, red and like beefsteak, is his. He is a walking refreshment! He Jooks like a whole parishful--important--but untaxed. SN WN oD ORR Ladies' Wear 9 SIMCOE ST. S. RN T. LAMBLE PHONE 528 MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR GLADYS DAVIES MILLINERY SHOP . Li AAVANANAAVANAAIAVAAAVANR 'May This Be The Happiest Christmas : ...i8 the 2 v 3 v 2 7 4 ; : ly H sincere wish of . . . 341 Athol East LAA RAHA HHH HHH A AHA A Ever! § MURRAY MILLER CO. PLUMBERS & & Phone 108 BERBER EEEEEEEEEEE EAR HHH XA Draws Few London--A drab little man in mismatched coat and trousers fum- bled his shabby 'hat nervously and told the hospital superintendent: "My wife is bleeding. It's bad." The superintendent went through a card file of 500 patients awaiting admission St. Bartholomew's Hospital. *" file showed the woman had' a uterine eancer and was on a priority list for entry "very soon." The growing tumor had caused a hemorrhage, making it an urgent case. Within an hour this 39-year- old wife was in 'the hospital where she could have care ranging up to delicate surgery and the use of Bri- tain's most powe: weapon against cancer--a 1,000,000-volt deep X-ray machine. The cost: nothing. . : This was one incident that occur- red in the first few weeks' opera- tion of Britain's. new National Health Service, which came into ex- istence July 5. , X It demonstrates the difficulties as well as the benefits that accom- panied the health program. St. Bartholomews one of Britain's greatest hospitals, treats 1,000 pa- tients at a time, but has a waiting list of 600, : Hospital Space Short. . If the woman ®ould: have had at- tention earlier, her case might nev- er have become so difficult. Too few doctors and too little hospital space kept her waiting until - the Health Service In UK Complaints/=: case was urgent and the ailment so deeply entrenched that - little could be done. : These problems' were present be- fore the health plan began. Health ministry officials figure that simi- lar cramping will continue several years, Eventually, they. hope to overcome it. More hospital building and equip- ment is still drawing-board stuff, waiting in line for men, money and material to be eased out of housing projects. It takes time to train doc- tors but Health Minister Aneurin Bevan believes more and more youths will try medicine for a career now that they are assured of a minimum living as soon as they are qualified and do not have to in- debt themselves to buy a practice. Alice Beacon, a Labor member of Parliament, complained recently that some doctors were running a "black market" in treatment. A few refused to take public pa- tients with cancer or other diseases requiring a great deal of attention, she said, and charged that others would promise good treatment only to paying patients. Bevan acknowledged Miss Bea- con's charges were true of "a very small minority" of doctors who en- tered the health scheme. Most, however, accepted the plan with good grace--even some of the minority who voted against the en- tering the scheme when the British Medical Association polled them. service to subjec supported. Subject To Dismissal Those who do not give adequate their public patients are Even the foes of the scheme have . It will ost an estimated £200,- 000,000 ($800,000,00) the first year. One-eighth is paid by contributions taken from the pay checks of all employed people. from general taxation. The rest comes The change-over from private medicine to large-scale public gdoc- toring wag confusion accomplished with less than was expected. 'Just Carrying On" C. C. Carus-Wilscn, adminis- trator of St. Bartholomew's Hos- pital, said "we're just carrying on as we always have." The independent medical jour- nal, "The Lancet," reported: "We have got through the first month without undue disturbance. feared. . . . with surprisingly few tehes." . For the patient, it works this way: On or shortly after July 5, he sign- ed on fo a doctor's list as a public doctor who had or years. A re- the family the whole brood of fhen on if any- he just goes to the ™ § palyip jit us. Dairy uct prices received by United States farmers declined from September to October, con- trary to usual seasonal price in- creases in other years. Reduc- tions in prices of manufactured dairy products caused a drop in MILK PRICES prices of milk for manufacturing. | # The average wholesale price re- ceived by farmers was £4.93 per 100 1b. in October, compared with $4.98 in September. 'The price of fluid milk has de- clined in October in central United | & States where formula prices have remained unchanged although they usually rise during this period. Sonsumption of fluid milk milk and cream in 1948 will be around average. Consumer.' expenditures 390 lb. per person, compared with |for fluld milk are still above nor- 400 in 1947 and 340, the pre-war | mal in relation to their incomes. . Yop BERGS LADIES WEAR § 8 KING ST. W. -- PHONE 1173 Of Great Joy We Bring ... We trust that every material thing you wish this Christmas to bring will be yours and that the blessings of Health, Happiness and Success be with you now and in the years to follow. JACK'S LUNCH BAR 180 ALICE ST. . PHONE 5134J FREON AER rl FS = Fe Brae " S. J: BABE, Chairman PUBLIC UTILITIES GEORGE 'SHREVE, Gen. Mgr. oR N © GWT 3077 PA