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Comment On This and That
Y HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Prtll Future Writer
Washington (U.R) A wound
er veteran has a problem about
how In et back into private life.
Walter need
h o s p i tal has
something o( a
solution.
The guy with
a leg or arm
off or who is
suffering frost
bite from the
cold of Korea,
has a chance to
find himself.
The fellow
who is destined
for retirement because of miser
ies committed by the enemy re
ceives the counseling of specially-trained
workers. These people
look into the background of the
hurt boy.
What they look for are hob
bies, what the kid used to do be-
fore he answered the call, his
family background.
Way Out Important
If the GI used to be a bank
clerk, maybe he likes a game of
billiards or a game of table ten-
Harmon Nichols
nis. So here is where ne is steer
ed in the recreation rooms of
Walter Reed.
But the way out is what is im
portant. When I boy comes back from
over there, he feels like the
world has lost or forgotten him.
But a popular part of the pro
gram which prepares him for the
difficult life ahead is education.
At Waller Reed there are 400
different subjects on both high
school and college studies. The
U.S. armed forces information
program provides most of that.
The Veterans Administration,
the U.S. Employment Service,
and the American Red Cross also
play Important parts in the coun
seling. A man will come in and won
der how he can get along after
he Is mustered out with only one
leg. The Red Cross will come
through. He may worry about
pension educational and voca
tional rehabilltalional benefits.
The vets administration has the
answer.
How about some spending
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Girls Aid Police
To Rout Raiders
Of College Dorm
New York (U.R) Police
and the girls of Barnard college
routed a bra-and-pantie raid by
1.000 Columbia University stu
dents early Friday.
The men of Columbia, facing
final exams starting Monday,
began to gather shortly after
midnight on the campus quad
rangle. As the crowd grew, so
did its courage.
Girls Give Come-On
When their numbers reached
1,000, they swept across Broad
way towards the fenced-in Bar
nard campus, a part of Colum
bia University, where their fem
inine counterparts crowded to
the windows of the three dorm
itories waving flimsies for en
couragement. Quickly gathered forces of
police set up lines in front of
the campus gates, and only 30
more venturesome Columbians
made the dormitories. The girls
who minutes before had shout
ed encouragement, changed
quickly and threw out the boys
by weight of numbers.
Police reinforcements were
augmented by water, garbage
and Junk thrown by the girls
on those who got too close.
Police Capt. John Drake a
greed with the Des Moines psy
chiatrist who described the col
lege rage for bra-and-pantie
raids as "impish pranks with a
sex flavor" which please the
girls as much as the boys.
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Vitamin B-12 Found
In Solids of Sewage
Chicago (U.R) Dr. Bernard
Wolnak of the Milner Laborator
ies, Chicago, reports that a high
grade fertilizer made from the
solids of sewage may have other
uses.
Milwaukee was a pioneer in
developing the activated sludge
process which changes sewage
into fertilizer.
Milwaukee sells 65,000 tons of
fertilizer each year made by the
process. It is shipped to all parts
of the United States, Mexico and
the Hawaiian Islands.
Wolnak said recent experi
ments showed that larg quan
tities of vitamin B-12 were pres
en in the dried sludge and a pro
cess has been developed to iso
late it from the rest of the
sludge.
He said that experiments have
been made with portions of the
sludge to step up the fermenta
tion of yeast. In some cases, the
fermentation time has been re
duced from 10 to 20 per cent.
"It is intriguing to speculate
on the future of the sludge,
Wolnak said. "We've found that
it contains one unknown
vitamin-like material and one
known but scarce vitamin in
large amounts, in addition to
smaller amounts of many known
vitamins. Perhaps the sludge will
turn out to be the coal tar of the
vitamins."
money? That matter Is taken
care of, loo.
By the time the patient is on
the "outside looking in at
service hospital, the wheels are
wheeling in a matter of 10 days
or so.
Many Interviews
Ahead of that, though, he is
interviewed by every possible
person who could help him stack
himself against the rest of socie
ty in a normal way of life. It is a
tedious sort of performance, but
if the vet will follow instruc
tions, not get mad, and fill out
all the forms, he will come out
a winner.
He gets a lot of help in filling
out the forms that the govern
ment says is necessary. If he is
smart he fills them out honestly.
If he does not, the record as
we say In Washington can
come back to haunt him. It has
happened.
At the same time he is advised
about his insurance benefits and
discharge and benefit payments.
After a man has been out risk
ing life, limb and future for a
little kid back home, that's the
least the government can do. To
see that his hurts are healed.
TRYING TO FORCE WARDEN to transfer him to Folsom Prison,
Frederick Zelenc, 31, Merced rapLst, stands on 135-foot smokestack
at San Quentln Prison where he remained nearly seven hours before
hunger convinced him he'd better return to cell. (International)
Hillbilly Music Bringing
Christianity to Marshalls
Likiep Atoll, Marshall Islands
(U.R) A New York City-born
former military policeman is
bringing Christianity to natives
of this tiny atoll in the Central
Pacific. He is doing it with the
help of a violin and the lively
rhythms of American hillbilly
music.
Michael Murray, Jesuit lay
brother missionary, uses a simple
formula:
"You win their confidence with
music," he said, "and by win
ning their confidence you win
their conversion and faith."
Two or three nights a week
Brother Murray gathers a chor
us of Marshalese musicians in the
palm-sheltered native village and
leads them with his violin while
they chord guitars and sing in
English "You Are My Sunshine"
and "Red River Valley."
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'There are five guitars in the
village," Brother Murray said.
fall bought from an American
mail-order house. They're traded
around among the 10 or 15 native
boys who can play them. There s
also a piano accordion which
two of the boys can play."
Learned From Movies
The boys bought the guitars
and taught themselves to play
after several of them saw Amer
ican singing-cowboys in movies
at Kwajalein, the navy's Cen
tral Pacific stronghold 105 miles
south of here.
Usually, 15 or 20 natives col
lect among the coconut palms
and breadfruit trees to listen
when Brother Murray and his
hillbilly band give concerts on
weekday nights, said the quiet
spoken 37-year-old Catholic mis
sionary. On Sunday nights the
audience swells to 80 or 90 when
Father John McCarthy, priest at
the mission here, announces
there will be music after serv
ices. Unlike the Polynesians of Ha
waii, whose music is often slow
and nostalgic, the Micronesians
of Likiep favor fast tempos.
Have Their Favorites
"You Are My Sunshine" is
their favorite. Brother Murray
said, followed by "Home on the
Range." "Red River Valley," and
'My Darling Clementine."
The. only number they like
outside the hillbilly-cowboy cat
egory is "When Irish Eyes Are
Smiling."
Brother Murray, during World
War II was an Army M P. for
four years, two of them spent in
Italy. He entered the Jesuit order
as a lay brother in 1946 and has
been in the Pacific nearly two
years.
Besides the violin, Brother
Murray plays the mandolin, ac
cordion and Scottish bagpipes.
He has ordered a set of bagpipes
on "probation." He thinks the
natives wll take quickly to the
spirited fortissimo of Highland
music.
Reform Inmates Now
Permitted To Smoke
Frankfort, Ky. (U.R) The
Kentucky general assembly has
voted to permit youthful in
mates at state house of reform
to smoke, regardless of age.
The legislature . repealed an
old law which outlawed all
smoking at the state institution
at the request of welfare offic
ials. The officials explained that
the inmates have been "slipping
around" and smoking in hide
outs throughout the reforma
tory, creating fire hazards.
They said they preferred to let
the boys smoke in supervised re-creatiorp-rooms
rather than run
the risk of fire.
CATER TO COTTON-With this
week being celebrated as National
Cotton Week, designer Stephanie
Koret of San Francisco comes up
with this denim playsuit and
sleeveless coat
Americans Using
Less Meat and Milk
Cincinnati, O. U.R) A Cor
nell university nutrition expert
says Americans are eating less
meat and annning km um
than they were five years ago.
Dr. Herrell DeGraff of Cor-
nell's school of nutrition esti
mated meat consumption averag-
ed 17 pounds less per person in
1951 than in 1847. nm con
sumption, he said, was down 70
pounds last year from the post
war high in 1946.
He told the annual conference
of the Distiller's Feed Research
council here that the nation's
meat and milk supply are not
keeping up with the population
increase.
"Meat prices in the butcher
shops are reflecting not only the
general inflation of our price
level and the high purchasing
power of consumers, but also
the declining per capita supply,"
he said.
FATHERS-TO-BE STUDY UP
Indianapolis (U.R) The In
dianapolis chapter of the Amer
ican Red Cross said five men
have completed mother and baby
care classes. The men considered
themselves eligible for the
classes because they are expec
tant fathers.
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Cats Like Sweets, .
Professor Discovers
Slate College, Pa. (U.R) A
Pennsylvania State College pro
fessor investigating feline taste
buds says that Tabby may not be
such a sour puss after all.
Dr. Hubert W. Frings, an asso
ciate professor of entomology,
said it's a mistake to think that
the family cat has no use for
sweets. Dr. Frings. who has de
voted research to the tastes of
many animals, takes issue with
a European scientist who report
ed that the cat has no liking for
sugar or sweet tasting food.
Beverly Cox. a graduate stu
dent, helped the professor cor
ral 20 cats at the farm of her
parents near Tyrone. Pa. They
were plied with diluted milk,
both with and without sugar.
The kitties drank the sweetened
milk and snubbed the other kind
every time.
Dr. Frings said he didn't use
whole milk because the cats
would lap it up too eagerly to
tell whether the sugar made any
difference.
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