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Chinese Goat Hair Erases Bad Luck
For Lifelong Cripple in Midwest
St. Louis (U.R) When Wil
liam H. Zimmerman's idea in
volving the use of goat hair
clicked two years ago, it snapped
a string of bad luck that had
dogged him since childhood.
Zimmerman was five years old
when he tumbled off of a school
yard fence and severely injured
his right hip. Tuberculosis of the
joint followed.
Seven years later he broke his
right knee in another fall and
the resultant infection nearly
proved fatal.
The series of misfortunes kept
Zimmerman in the hospital and
away from his studies. When he
was graduated from the eighth
grade in 1930, he was 19 years
old.
Lame and broke, Zimmerman
went out to California to regain
his health and find employment.
A caddying job helped him re
gain the use of his game leg and
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also enabled him to add 100
pounds to his skinny, 96-pound
frame.
Jobs Hard to Find
Recuperation, however,
proved much easier than finding
a steady job. Zimmerman tried
everything, from selling vacuum
cleaners to publishing business
directories.
Then fortune smiled. He got a
job as a clerk in a San Diego
radio repair shop at $22.50 a
week. Within six months, am
bitious, energetic Zimmerman
had become a joint owner of the
store. By the end of the war, a
profitable $75,000 business had
been developed.
But adversity again plagued
Zimmerman. Competition in the
over-crowded radio repair field
forced the shop into bankruptcy.
Zimmerman, now married and
the father of two children, de
cided to try a different tack. For
a long time he had thought about
inventing a device, attached to
the tone arm of a phonograph,
whieh would keep the needle
clean and records dust-free.
Savings InvttUd
Zimmerman took his life-savings,
$2,700, and used them to
finance his invention.
Working long into the night,
day after day, he eventually
completed the device except for
one item hBir. Zimmerman
needed a hair for his needle
brush that, while porous,
wouldn't generate static electric
ity. "I guess I tried out more than
100 different kinds of hair,
everything from human hair to
dog hair," he recalled.
A tip from a national brush
company put him on the trail of
the Chinese goat. The hair off
its ears worked perfectly. Zim
merman was ready to sell his
product.
Demand Grows
After a slow start, retailers
were soon demanding the device,
contained in a plastic brush-cup
and secured by a Y-shaped met
al holder. The inventor formed
the Zim Products company in
October, 1948.
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By DR. WILLIAM BRADY, M.O.
Readers should address inquiries is: Dr. William Brady,
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forty or fifty is as "critical' a period
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COLUMBUS, O. tU.Rt A
woman bandit forced Martin
Knudson, 28, to ride in her cur
for several blocks and then
robbed him of 50 cents. She
misled four $1 bills he had in
his bakedy uniform under reg
ular clothes.
THE GENERAL PRACTITIONER AND THE SPECIALIST
It has been said that a special'
1st is a man who knows a great
deal about very little, and as
time goes on
he gets to
know more
more and more
of less and less
until ultimate
ly he winds up
knowing
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if erai pracuuon-
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I who knows
verv little
oi. Brady about every
thine and fin
ally winds up knowing nothing
about everything.
85 of all the ailments of
mankind medical, surgical unci
obstetrical are handled very
competently by general practi
tioners. In large cities particularly
there seems to be a growing ten
dency for people to seek spec
ialists rather than general prac
titioners,' to treat self-diagnosed
illnesses. Thus a man feeling
pain in his back may assume he
has ' weak kidneys, or kidney
disease," and thereupon decies
to look up a specialist in mat
line in order to get what he as
sumes is the best care available,
In some sections it is socially
humiliating for a young mother
to have to admit that her oaoy
is under the care of the family
doctor. The hoity-toity members
of her "set all of whom taKe
their children to a baby special
ist are, she suspects, inclined to
regard her with ill-concealed
contempt as one who is not too
bright and, possibly, unable to
afford the care a specialist
offers.
A specialist is indispensable
in the present day setup of
medicine. When all or nearly an
of his professional time is spent
in devotion to a limited field of
medicine, it stands to reason
that he will have more exper
ience with the rare, complicated
or unusual diseases falling witn
in the confines of his specialty
than a general practitioner might
have. But there is no reason to
believe that his competence is
any greater in the HSVo of cases
which the general practitioner
handles competently, than is
the general practitioner s.
The general practitioner re
moves an appendix with skill
comparable to that of the doctor
who specializes only in surgery
But in a complicated case a gen
eral practitioner may feel that
his experience does not warrant
total assumption of the responsi
bility and will suggest the serv
ices of the specialist. This is as
it should be.
The general practitioner de
livers the vast majority of
babies with skill and competence
equal to the specialists. He may
decide at times, in view of a
threatening complication, thai
the added services of a specialist
will further insure the welfare of
his patient, and this is as it
should be.
Ideally, Na specialist should
come into action as the result of
the family doctor's or other phy
sician's request. The referring
doctor is in a position to know
the extent of the competence of
the specialist something the
casual "specialist-seeker" would
have no way of knowing and a
patient thus directed has every
reason to proceed with confi
dence. In this arrangement, the
reputation of the referring doc
tor is just as much at stake as
is the specialist's.
There is no reason moral or
ethical why a doctor should
not limit his practice to what he
likes and to what he feels he is
most competent in. And there is
no reason why he should not de
velop a practice based almost
entirely upon patient-recommendation
rather than physician-recommendation.
But either
way he chooses to proceed, his
best advertisement is his work
and not the sign in his window.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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Pleano send me literature on noc
turnal vtt cramps. Where can one ob
tain tetany? IK. L. D l
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written request I'll send a pamphlet
on CROWING PAINS AND ADUL'I
TETANY In you provide stamped
sell-addressed envelope.
The Menopause
Sunday. April 16, 1950
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UNDERSEAS RECORD The U. S. Snorkel-type submarine Pick
erel, shown (above) entering Pearl Harbor, has set a new record for
underwater operations by traveling submerged 5200 miles from Hong
kong to Honolulu. Sub remained submerged for 21 days according
to U. 8. Navy announcement.
White Men and Not Indians Started
Scalping Practices Congress Told
Washington (U.R) Charley
Grounds, a Seminole Indian,
has asked Congress to remove
from its halls a picture of an
Indian scalping a white man.
Grounds insisted that it wasn t
true; that the white man started
the scalping.
Accordingly, the Association
for Indian Affairs. Inc., made a
review of the history of scalping.
Its researchers checked bmith-
sonian Institute publications as
far back as 1910 and 1906 and
came up with the statement
"that scalping was not general
among American Indians before
the coming of the white man."
James ftlooney in the Hand
book of American Indians" is
sued by the Smithsonian's bu
reau ot ethnology in 1910 said:
Limited at First
"Scalping was confined orig
inally in North America to a lim
ited area in the eastern United
States and the lower, St. Law
rence region. It was absent from
New England and much of the
Atlantic coast rcuion. and was
unknown until comparatively re
cent times throughout the whole
interior and plums area. It was
not found on the Pacific coast
or the Canadian northwest.
"Scalping in its eommonlv
known form was largely the re
sult of the influence of white
people,'' Gcorg Frederic! wrote
in the Smithsonian annual re
port in 1910. "They introduced
firearms, which increased the
fatalities in a conflict; brought
the steel knife, facilitating the
taking of the scalp, and finally
offered scalp premiums."
Frederic! said the New Eng
land Puritans in 1637 were the
first to offer premiums for na
tive heads and later scalps. The
French offered premiums for
white enemies as well as Indian
scalps.
Competition Keen
Competition was keen and
premiums went at high as 100
for one scalp. The English prices
were higher than those of the
French, Frederici said.
One Hannah Dustin, he said,
was reputed to have received
50 from her colony officials for
"bringing in with her own two
hands the scalps of two Indian
men, two women and six chil
dren." In 1764 Gov. William Penn
listed prices the State of Penn
sylvania would pay for scalps.
They were S134 for each male
Indian scalp and S50 for the
scalp of every slain squaw.
BABY-SITTING
CONSHOKEN. Pa. (U.R)
Robert C. Landis, superinten
dent of public schools, feels
baby-sitting is here to stay. He
has started child-minding cours
es in the borough's public high
school.
Walter Pidgeon
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ARLINGTON, Mass. (U.R)
Mrs. Clara H. Bason, 98, clearly
recalls the day when, as a girl
of 13, she attended the funeral
of Abraham Lincoln.
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