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Tht Newi-Revlew, Roitburg, Of . Thuri., Dec. T, 1949 had a crackup from trying to make a million dollars by the time I was fifty. I slowed down started taking a 15-mlnute nap after lunch ana another one be fore dinner. I haven't made the million yet, but I think I'll have ten years longer in wnicn 10 en Joy what I have made." Maybe the answer is to have a "siesta room" In every office, where everybody could sack out for a quick post-lunch nap. But the national labor relations board might not like the Idea. It nrobablv would have to set tie the thorny question of who'd supply the couches the boss or me nirea nanas. Busy People Shortening Their Lives Seeking Way To Prolong Existence By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK W) Many people today are shortening their lives , trvlnir to find a way to live longer. The main idea seems to be that if a man puts his whole energy into earning money he can piie up enuugh chips iu the Unit lo retire at 50 or 55, and spend his declining years clipping bond coupons. This Is a fine theory except that it is often the widows who do the coupon clipping. The ov erly ambitious men have a bad habit of ending up under the dai sies at 40 to 45, dead from a busted heart artery or valve brought on by worry and taut living. The United States has more miles of arterial highways than any other country in the world. It also has more miles of arter iosclerosis In the veins of its fret Jul citizens. Its apoplexy rate is a matter for medical apology. It is true that Americans live longer on the average than most peoples. But thlB is a tri umph of mass sanitation rather than individual commonsense. For folks here no longer can blame a poor hungry germ for killing them. A germ hardly dares bite anybody in America anymore for fear he'll be slug ged in the protoplasm with a new wonder drug. No, Americans to day, in large measure, have no one but themselves to blame if they don't live out their three score and ten years. .They have the dubious honor of killing them selvesthrough their own igno rance. Easy Paoe Never Learned In the opinion of this poor man's philosopher the trouble lies in the fact that as a nation we have never learned that "easy does It." We take an un justified pride in living the stren uous life so we work and play with the throttle wide open. And we eat, drink and smoke too much. We treat our body as If it were a tuned-up machine In a lifelong race on the Indianapolis speedway. But ordinary flesh can't take that pace. And the body rebels by break ing down. It has to have the pause that refreshes. Older civi lizations realize this physical fact, and allow for It we have a tendency to ridicule our British cousins for breaking their rou tine with 11 and 4 o'clock teas. But don't we, In effect, do the same thing? What office worker doesn't try to slip down for his morning and afternoon cup of coffee? And he works the better afterward for this brief relaxa tion. fiesta neeommended Another custom America might well borrow Is the siesta popular in all Latin countries. Thomas A. Edison is supposed to have gotten by on four to six hours sleep a night but he rare ly missed also taking a good snoozle after lunch. If he hadn't, ha wouldn't have lived so long. An American dentist who had lived 30 yearn in Cairo, Egypt, once grumbled to me: "Too many of my dern fool countrymen who come out here laugh at the siesta. They play tennis bare-headed after lunch, and they pop over dead on the court from a heart attack. I don't care what they do to themselves, but they usually are burled in the afternoon. Out of courtesy I have to go to their funerals and that means I miss my sies ta." And a successful Manhattan businessman said: "Twelve years ago I almost DRESSMAKING ALTERATIONS Zot Nswman 2S Cobb St Phone 387-R Premature Birth Takes Sizable Toll Of Infants By JANE EADS WASHINGTON Premature birth is the leading cause of death among infants under one year oi age. u s the eigntn lead ing cause of death among all ages of persons in the United States. U. S. children's bureau special ists acclaim the reduction of mor tality in infants under a year old since a third of a century ago, when 10 out of every 100 babies died. They protest, however, that today's total of some three out of every 100 is still too many. . With good care half of these babies could be saved, says Dr. Leona Baumgartner, associate chief of the children's bureau. She says if we could put Into prac tice all our modern obstetrical and pediatric knowledge we could save about 20,000 lives annually. Mobilizing for a national attack on the problem, the bureau's ex perts point up a triple-threat pro gram emphasizing: 1. That all mothers should get good care during pregnancy. 2. Any baby prematurely born should get expert care from doc tors and nurses specially trained to care for premature Infants. 3. Good follow-up care should be given alter llrst-stage measures. A premature baby Is any baby born before its time, be it 30 days, 60 days or 90 days. The ex pected time Is often uncertain, bo to make certain that all receive proper care, the bureau defines premature as any baby weighing less than five and one half pounds at birth. From five to sev en per cent of all births are pre mature, in lower income Drackets, the figure often runs to 20 per cent. Because they are not fully developed, premature babies have dimcuity in Dreatnine. suckine. swallowing and digesting food. They have little or no resistance to disease. They need highly spe cialized care. Such care requires a highly trained staff, incuba tors, oxygen tanks, sterilizers and other costly equipment, usually in a unit in a hospital. . It would be impractical, the bu reau agrees, for all communities to provide such elaborate services Individually. But by working through their state health depart ments many communities can share jointly in this life-saving service. Many folks ask: "Do prema tures develop Into normal chil dren?" Victor Hugo, Charles Dar win, Winston unurcniu, sir Isaac Newton. Voltaire and Jean Jacques Rousseau were prema ture. Dare to dream again... parfumEMIR In the fabulous courts of the Persian EMIRS ' there were those who vowed such perfume as this did magic thingj . , . that, while she wort . it, a merely pretty woman became beautiful ... while a beautiful woman became , . . breath-taking. . Parfum EMIR by Dana for VOUI $2.75 lo $18.J0-t utrs Celognt $2.25 ni $4.00 tat tltrl BoJ; SjAI $1 .50 lu tttrs FULLERTON'S REXALL STORE 127 N. Jackson Phone 43 " ' . ' v i P AND B TOWING SERVICE erect a tent over the new quarters they are building for them selves at 743 South Stephens street, to protect the pumice block mortar work in progress dur ing the recent rainy weather. The job was a cinch, as one. of the company's huge cranes was used to hoist and hold the tent. The picture above was taken by Ed Person. P and B is owned by Edgar L. Person and Lyle Buell, who have been in the towing and wreck ing business here for three years. (By Paul Jenkins.) ' O'Leary Family Ends Journey Of Sorrow To N.Y. TROY, N. Y. VP) Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J. O'Leary and a tiny white casket holding the body of their six - month old daughter, Karen, arrived home here in a drizzling rain. The dav was as bleak as the cross-country trip from Portland, Ore., during wnicn their Darjy died, they went broke, and fin ished the Journey through finan cial help from residents of a mid western town. O'Leary, 32, said his 27-year-old wife was "pretty close to a breakdown" as they watched the casket being transferred from the train to an automobile. It was taken to a funeral home at nearby Cohocs. The O'Leary's left Portland, Ore., by car in mid-November when O'Leary decided to come east to find work. Mrs. O'Leary's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Schemer horn, of Troy took the weary cou ple to their home. The trip by train had been made possible by residents of Stuart, la. They arrived in Stu art by car Friday. It was at Stuart that O'Leary stopped at a filling station and his wife discovered the baby was dead. O'Leary was broke and his gasoline was running low. He hid stopped to ask help from the Red Cross. When the residents of Stuart, a community of 1,600, heard about the family's troubles they raised $100 .Then, -as the O' Learys were leaving, a bearing on their car burned out. So the people of Stuart raised more money and put the couple on a train Sunday. The couple left this area about two years ago. Things weren't go lng too well in Portland, O'Leary explained, so they decided to re turn east in their 12 year old au- Income Tax To Be Explained In Government Book WASHINGTON B The gov ernment will issue a "new and improved edition" this week of the best-selling booklet in which it tries to explain its admittedly complicated income tax laws to confused taxpayers. Internal Revenue Commission er George J. Schoeneman an nounced that the 138-page pam phlet "Your Federal Income Tax" will go on sale at tne gov ernment printing office here Dec. Like last year's issue which was the first the price will be 25 cents, despite a 13-page in crease in the size. The commissioner said the booklet is- designed for those among the 53,000,000 persons making Income tax returns who "have special problems or want more detailed inlui nmuuii." Britain Plans To Protect Tourists From Bad Guides By DONALD B. SCHWIND LONDON UP) Britain plans to clamp down hard next year on phony guides who make up their English history, as they go along. By cleaning up the guide busi ness especially in history-crammed old London the government-sponsored travel association also hopes, to protect gullible Am erican tourists from seedy little men who conceivably might try to sell them Nelson's column or some horses of the household cavalry. The association will launch its campaign for better and more accurate guides January 1 when it sets up a voluntary central register for qualified guides. Bona fide guides will wear badges and carry certificates in dicating that they know their English history. Prime sore spot with the asso ciation, a spokesman said, is the fly-by-night guide who "makes free with Nell Gwynn's reputa tion." Nell's career as orange girl, actress and mistress of Charles II is a favorite plaything for Bri tish guides with a flare for in- tomoblle. He said he had spent more than $100 on car repairs when they reached Adair, la., 17 miles west of Stuart. He spent his last 12 cents there for gasoline. ventlon. To hear some of them tell It, few London boudoirs failed to provide a setting for the an tics of "pretty, witty Nell." "These men say much the same thing about poor old Queen Bess," complained 37 year old Bryant Peers, who is in charge of the campaign. Peers, a former schoolmaster and a student of medieval his tory, says tons of undistinguished London rock and used timber pass into tourist baggage as "au thentic" pieces of the houses of parliament or Nelson's Trafalgar Flagship "Victory." The prices are stiff, he said, and the racketeering ' guide charges all he thinks the traffic will bear. The "Victory," Peers pointed out, is still lying Intact at Portsmouth. Peers and the association are also pressing for a law to license guides. He said reputable guide agencies and free-lance guides were backing the campaign. . 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