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Med icine Cabinets Tuefday, November 30, 1954 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Declared Kegs of Dynamite Br DELOS SMITH 'United Press Science Editor " New York (U.R) A noted medical scientist lamented to day that every home medicine cabinet in the land "probably contains a potential keg of dyna mite." ' Dr. William Dameshek, pro fessor of clinical medicine at Tufts College Medical School, ' Boston, internationally known as an authority on blood chemis try, was giving a dutch uncle lecture both to physicians and their patients. "It seems that every slight sniffle, every tiny rise in tem perature, every ache and other vague symtom occasions the im mediate use of a potential - pharmaceutical," he said. Patients Make Demands . "The patients themselves, sur rounded with popular articles, radio talks and television broad casts extolling the miracles of modern medical practice, de mand numerous potent medica tions and, when these are not In the Day's News : Br FRANK JENKINS ' Nehru of India tells a confer ence of Indian scientists in New Delhi ' that atomic energy is MUCH TOO DANGEROUS A THING FOR A PRIVATE AGENCY TO DEVELOP. - .- He adds that in India develop ment of atomic energy will be regarded as , the exclusive re sonsibility of the state. NEHRU is a socialist. As such, he is suspicious of anything and everything that private in dustry does. ... Personally, when it comes to development of the immense po tentialities for good and evil of atomic energy, I'll trust any pri vate industry I can think of in preference to ' the Kremlin, which governs the Union of So cialist Soviet Republics that we call Russia. WORD more on Nehru. ' He's . a silk-stocking idealist with his head in the rosy clouds. But I'd be afraid of HIM if he : jot too much power in his nands. I'm afraid of ANYBODY who 'gets, too much power in his . hands. COMMUNIST CHINA is social ist like all other Commu nist states.. For that reason this v ditpatch from Hong Kong is in teresting: It is reported from Canton that farmers in the Yingtak dist i rict wrecked a market after the ; ration depot ran out of ice. (In ; Red dhina farmers are forced to sell their whole crops to the covernment and then buy bacK their own rations by the day or the week.) In the ruckus f ollowing the wrecking of the market Red sol diers killed six farmers and ar rested 20 others. That's how socialism works when it gets supreme power in its hands. STEPPING over from the se rious to the comic (a wise .philosopher once observed that the line separating the two is an extremely narrow one) the tele type reports that a parrot that can speak seven languages has just been dropped from a Span ish national contest for talking birds. It seems that the parrot, in the course of its language ra (searches, picked up a vocabu lary not fit to be heard in public. I More nroof that a 1 little knowledge is a dangerous thing. jipROM the Salem Statesman: t "The : Stayton Mail and the McMinnville News-Register gave I the Statesman the merry Ha Ha ion the subject of highways by passing cities after the States rman ran a picture and stories of ! division of traffic to the new jNo. 99 bypass with consequent falling off the business among establishments catering particu larly to the motoring public. "Well, the Statesman prints 'the news; but that doesn't mean ;we think the bypass entrances .'should be barricaded to force motorists through the heart of the city. Nor do the injured i businessmen seek that. They DO ! think a change in the signs ' would be helpful to them and to those who are using Highway 99.". TF what has happened general X lv over the country happens in Salem, these establishments catering particularly to the mo toring public will simply pick up and move over to the new bypass highway thus providing a new congested business aisi rict in a different place. prescribed, dose themselves lib erally from stocks obtained at the corner drug store." But "miracle" drugs, are po tentially destructive to the body's chemical machinery for the manufacture of new blood cells. Speaking to the profession and through it to patients in the technical journal, "Postgrad uate Medicine," he said that "of all the various systems of the body affected by drugs and chemicals, none seems more vul nerable than the blood and bone marrow." Six Hard Rules He praised the drug industry for "high ideals and careful re search." He thought it would be "folly" to return to herbs, bark, and other more or less simple medicinals" when the "miracle" drugs have saved innumerable persons who without them, would have been doomed by various illnesses. But they should "be used only when there is clear and impelling indication for their use. With their use should go a sense of responsi bility and realization of possible harm." For physicians, he laid down six "commandments:" 1. "Do not use drugs unless it is essential." 2. "Do not use potentially toxic drugs unless the need is impelling." 3. "If the finger of suspicion is pointed at a drug, avoid .it." 4. "Investigate the formula." 5. "Be alert for side effects, such as fever, point pains, skin eruptions, and the like." 6. "Do not rush into powerful an dpossibly harmful therapy, for in treatment, conservatism is a commendable virtue." Educator Warns On Age of Morons Portland (U.R) There nev er was a time in history when a moron could live so comfort ably and so well as he can to day, according to Dr. Jay B. Nash, dean of the school of rec reation and physical education at Brigham Young university. The Salt Lake City educator told a Chamber of Commerce forum here yesterday that this is "the age of morons, as well as atoms." The Romans had 15 slaves on an average, he declared, "'and look what happened to them." Dr. Nash said all the "moron" had to do in our great cities is to push buttons. "He has 125 slaves to serve him on an aver age," he said. Dr. Nash warned that no civ ilization has developed this kind of leisure' and survived. He said civilizations "were built by men who had to face problems ana solve them.-. . - ' : License Number Easy To Remember Brooten. Minn. 4U.PJ iiarry Kittleson says he will have no difficulty remembering his 1955 license plate number HK26I7. 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