S o u th ern O regon News Review, Thursday, A pril 28, 1949
N o w Linen Froshens Room
A BUTTON M AY MAKE GROMYKO A YES M A N . . .
W hat if Science Could C ontrol Man's Thoughts?
...O R
A RAY M IG H T MAKE HARRY CHEER KREMLIN
By H. I. PHILLIPS
John E ly Burchard. Dean of Hu-
SCIENCE AND
m anities at Massachusetts Tech.
THOUGHT CONTROL
There goes that gooseflesh creep
fr itr lT H O U T assuming any man- ing up our spine u gain I
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W tie ot prophecy, it is fa ir to
suggest that a b ility to control man's
Say it ain’t so, doctor! T ell us
thoughts w ith precision through you don't rea lly mean that the lab
science is by no means out of the oratory w ill find a way to throw
question. This is more awesome in a switch and make a m an's thoughts
its interpretations than was the come out the designated slot! Ad
mushroom cloud in 1945."—Dr. m it you are
not serious in con-
tem platlng a day when a button
may turn a yes man into a no man,
nice as it m ig ht be to see in con
vertin g G rom yko—p re sto!—from a
no man into a yes m an!
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Or Is it to be done by rays?
Turned by Joe Stalin onto
President Trum an, m ig ht they
halt H arry in the m iddle of a
stern "W e intend to stand by
to the b itte r e nd " and bring
fo rth an abrupt c ry , "H ooray
fo r the K r e m lin !"
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Do you see a tim e when the
Thirteen Men of Moscow, giving
I uproarious approval to a Pravda
e dito ria l denouncing Am erica, may,
| under a m agic ray in the hands of
Uncle Sam, suddenly glow with
anger and order the Pruvda edi
to ria l w rite r shot at once?
Is the tim e near when Vishinsky.
loaded w ith expletives and rising
to excoriate the democracies, w ill,
due to a current, a ray o r an iso
tope, break into a broad sm ile and
say, "Ladies and gentlemen, I am
just a Happiness Boy. There is
nothing in this w orld like frie n d
ship. See what the boys in the
backroom w ill h a v e !”
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Can Henry Wallace, m ount
ing the p la tfo rm , be reached
by a m ystery beam and his
address denouncing ER P, the
Trum an a dm inistration and the
A tlantic pact converted into a
talk on how to produce better
laying hens?
We see the follow ing possibilities:
1. —Moscow issues orders fo r the
complete seizure of China. The
Chinese Com m unist general gets
it, but Washington calls on its
| Thought C ontrol tower, centers the
beam on him and renders the gen
eral incapable of saying anything
but "N u ts !”
2. —The politburo prepares to is
sue a blast at Am erica. U nder the
Thought B litz e r the boys cannot
I think of the words "W a ll S treet,"
"M oney Bund” or "E x p lo ite rs .”
| This leaves them completely help-
Fiction
less.
3, —A new play opens on Broad
way. It is lousy. But the producer
has scientific connections. He con
trols the thoughts of the c ritic s to
such on extent they can’ t even dis
miss it as "adequate."
4. We go to the races w ith the
rig h t combination in the D ully
Double. It is 2 and 8. The guy ot
the window who has a thought con
trol apparatus fills our skull with
the numbers 4 and 7.
harm
quart and which is readily m iscible » fum
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fu l residua
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w ith w ater.
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ASK ro u t
DN-289 has shown high efficiency • H p a rra beneficiai • • r a í r
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OESUS
Innerta
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as an insecticide fo r use in the dor [ L O O M F O R T H « / _
O»« -T H E R A C K A O S ]
m ant period against a v a rie ty of
insects such as the rosy apple
aphid, the cu rra n t aphid, the black
ch erry aphid,
the m ealy plum
aphid, eye spotted bud moth, the
cherry case-bearer, the pear psylla
and oyster shell scale on apple and
lilac. It also has given ve ry prom
ising results in control o f the San
Jose scale, scurfy scale and the
eggs of the European red mite.
As a fungicide. DN-289 has been
used successfully fo r the control of
sooty blotch on pears.
"m a n y op po rtunities for graduates In
The amounts o f the compound
fine hospitals, p u b lic health , etc.
required to attain good control
- leads to K. N.
ranges from one q ua rt to two quarts
w ell-prepared nurse need never be
in 100 gallons of water. Aphids are
without a Job o r an Incom e.
controlled w ith one quart, w hile two
-o p en to girls ntnler 3 5 , high -school
quarts are needed to k ill bud moths,
graduates and college girls.
case-bearer and the pear psylla.
ask fo r m o re In fo r m a tio n
H eavier
concentrations m ay be
at the hospital where yon
needed to control oyster shell scale.
would lik e to enter nursing.
Research workers are conducting
extensive tests to find other in
sects and diseases that m ay be con
WNU—13
17—49
trolled w ith the chem ical.
MILLIONS
R IG H T !
ACROSS
1 A short
stocking
5 Fellow
9 Hazy
10 Book of
the Old
Testament
12 N arrow
passage
13 Vexed
14 Falsehood
15 Tavern
16 F ather
(ch ild ’s
te rm )
17 Flags
20 V ita lity
21 Tantalum
(sym.)
22 Am erican
editor and
philan
thropist
23 A kind of
wine
24 Suitable
25 Obese
26 Grows old
28 Fasten
29 Indefinite
a rticle
31 Wander
about id ly
32 Delicate
s k ill
34 M ulberry
35 Slice
36 Donkey
37 Precious
stone
39 Civet-like
anim al
41 Rub out
42 A ffirm s
43 Fencing
sword
44 Saucy
DOWN
1 Salt marsh
2 Eyes
3 H int
S o lu tio n In N e x t Is « « « .
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NURSING
IS A PROUD
PROFESSION!
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lock
5 Pulls oneself
up, as on c
bar
6 M usical
instrum ent
7 Question
8 C hirper
9 A man
servant
11 Conform
15 W riting
fluid
18 Wading bird
19 Obtained
20 Kettle
23 Sheet of
window
glass
24 Nourished
25 Paddle-like
process
26 A size of
type
27 G reat
q uantity
28 Abyss
29 C laim
30 Cozy places
32 R ailroad flare
33 More
rational
35 Packing box
38 Invalid's
food
39 Breach
40 Evening
(poet.)
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Serle» K—48
Ladino Clover Produces
Better if Bee-Visited
Ladino clover on which bees
were allowed to w ork free ly pro
duced 40 tim es as much seed as
that from which bees were ex
cluded, according to an experim ent
conducted by D r. H. A. Scullen.
F ro m 100 clover
seed heads
worked by bees he obtained 13,946
seeds, w hile
from
100 heads
screened against bees he got out
only 365 seeds, or few er than four
seeds per head.
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