Go to Bed!
HE first broadcast from 4ZB of Here’s ‘" Health was better than I had anticipated. We have been given such a lot of popular propaganda, in various ways, about the high spots of the world of medicine, that there can be scarcely a reader or a listener who does not think
he knows all about the sulpha drugs, penicillin, and the medical possibilities of atomic research. It is good, therefore, to find a programme beginning on a lower note, and dealing
with something so prosaic as the common cold. You might not think it possible to devote a quarter-of-an-hour to the’ common. cold; you might shrug it off with the suggestion that there’s not much one can do about it anyhow. In that case, you're the bait this session is angling for. You are the central figure of the plot as given here-the man who went to work with a cold, forgot to sneeze into his handkerchief, passed his malady on to the office staff and his children, and ended up in bed, where he should have been from the start. This sort of person is a Menace, and the programme told him so in no uncertain terms, while giving him advice about how to build up resistance and what to do once the cold is upon you. The one thing it didn’t specify was what the average boss would say (the fiction boss here portrayed was obviously a minority representative) if his employees stopped away and went to bed at sign of the first sniffle; no mention was made, either, of who was going to ged the sufferer’s wages during his time o
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 391, 20 December 1946, Page 11
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276Go to Bed! New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 391, 20 December 1946, Page 11
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