Scientists Challenge Theory That Beer Isn't Intoxicating Beverage
By DELOS SMITH
ViiM Ptms Science Editor
Kew York J.B I the man
who is "high" or "tight" isn't
drunk. Prof. Leon A. Creenberg
of Yale ought to coin new words
with which to describe the con
dition. This challenge came from Dr.
Albion Roy King and Dr. Harry
N. Tiebout in their objection to
Dr. Greenberg's theory that beer
is not an intoxicating beverage
scientifically speaking.
The trouble with Dr. Green
berg's theory is that it considers
only the -man who staggers to
be intoxicated, said scientific
critics. They argued that the man
could be a little drunk as well as
very drunk. -
Dr. Tiebout was sorry Dr.
Greenberg ever brought up the
subject. But since he did, he
would have been "far wiser to
recognize several stages or de
grees of intoxication and to say
that beer drinkers seldom reach
stage three or four of X.'
Dr. Greenberg's point was that
people generally do not show
consistent signs of intoxication
until the alcohol content of their
blood reached 0.15 per cent. He
demonstrated scientifically that
It is all but imposible to drink
enough beer to raise the blood
alcohol level to that amount,
Questions Asked
Dr. King wanted to know how
about the "high" or "tight" as
pects of drunkenness "which ap
pear in the spread from 0.1 to
0.15 per cent, where beer drink
ing is obviously a factor." He
thought Dr. Greenberg had per
formed "a feat of word manu
facture and manipulation" and
he thought people generally
wouldn't go along with the feat.
Dr. King and Tiebout are well
known figures in scientific stud
ies of alcoholism. King is pro
fessor of philisophy at Cornell
College, Mount Vernon, la.; Tie
bout, who is a psychiatrist, is
vice-chairman of the Connecticut
Commission on Alcoholism.
In publishing Dr. Greenberg's
theory, the official journal of the
famed Yale Studies of Alcohol
ism, published their criticisms at
the same time, along with that
of Dr. Frank J. O'Brien, asso
ciate superintendent of schools,
New York City, who is a three
way doctor of medicine, philoso
phy, and education.
Dr. O'Brien objected to gen
eralizing the amount of alcohol
which wouldn't raise a hair on
"A" would make "B" very
drunk, he said. "If, for example,
So smooth
it leaves you
breathless
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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1955
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ENDING HOSE MYSTERY, George Di Peso, Downey, CaL,
holder, snips off famous "burrowing hose" eliminating hope
of explaining phenomenon. Watching father, from left: Jean,
10, and George, 7. Hose worked into front lawn, couldn't be
pulled out, attracting thousands of spectators. (International)
Texas State Fair Displays Iron Horse
Dallas, Tex. (U.R) Five
years ago trie Texas. Mate iair
received from the Texas and
Pacific Railway company, what
was called "the world's largest
Christmas gift."
It was a giant locomotive that
cost $117,000 when built 30
years ago. As the railroad be
came dieselized, its president,
W. G. Vollmer, thought it would
be worthwhile-to have one of,
the old-type steam locomotives
on exhibition at the fair.
The locomotive, No. 638, was
given with no strings attached.
A ramp was built to the cab so
youngsters could see the inside
of the "iron horse."
But that was a mistake. The
big engine became a victim of
juvenile vandals, who made off
with small levers and gauges,
broke windows and otherwise
defaced the once-proud locomo
tive. '-
Fair officials decided the lo
comotive in the . jhape it was
assuming was no credit to the
Texas and Pacific. They ordered
the locomotive sold for scrap and
the cutting torches went to work.
Thousands of Americans
Discuss School Problems
In Community Gatherings
Washingto n 4U.fi) Many
thousands of Americans are
talking about their schools these
days at meetings being held
throughout the country.
Bv the time the meetings are
over, perhaps as many as 1,000,
nnn will have ioined in the lo
cal, county, and state discus
sions.
Conference Scheduled
These meetings are forerun
ners to the White House confer-
enn nn education to be held
Nov. 28vto Dec. 1. Their
purpose is to arouse citizens' in
terest in the problems facing
their schools and to search for
solutions to them.
Clint Pace, director of the
White House conference, said
"There never has been such a
wiHpsnread interest in the
schools."
This, he said, is reflected by
the number of people attending
the pre-conference meetings now
going on. These meetings, he
said, are eivinC persons con
cerned about the state of the na
tion's schools a voice in pro
posals for doing something about
it.
Pace, a former Dallas news re
porter, was regional director at
Dallas of the National Citizens
C o m m i s s i o n f or the Public
Schools- when he was picked last
October to head the White House
conference.
The main problems facing the
schools are too few classrooms
and too few teachers. An admin
istration program of federal aid
for school construction is be
fore Congress.
The nurnose of the current
meetings is to study these ills in
exhaustive detail and consider
how they may best be attacked.
The meetings result from a
1854 appeal by President Eisen
hower for the most thorough
study of educational problems
ever made by the American peo
ple. Congress appropriated $200,-
000 for the national meeting and
$700,000. for state conferences
preceding it. , . .
a person becomes intoxicated
and especially if this has become
an habitual occurrence, it is of
little help or consolation to him
or those who wish to help him
to rid himself of this habit to
know .that others who drink the
same amount of the same bever
age do not become intoxicated."
The critics all thought Dr.
Greenberg's scientific definition
that beer is not an intoxicating
beverage, might cause people to
lose their respect for it, which
would be too bad for reformed
alcoholics since anything con
taining alcohol is a poison to
them. Dr.' Greenberg . himself
made an emphatic point of this.
NEW FUR
Chandler, Ariz. (U.R)
An equatic ranch near here has
imported 34 sea rodents called
coypus from Argentina to breed
and produce fur pelts similar to
those of the beaver. Tom Kunce
has built special pens at . his
ranch to hold the animals, which
cost $800 a pair.
Odd-Looking Devices
To Squelch Big Fires
, Memphis, Tenn (U.R) Two
odd-looking fire-fighting devices
dubbed cellarpipe and stream
master probably will be squelch
ing major fires throughout the
nation in a year or two.
The Memphis fire department,
which pioneered the mobile deck
gun, developed new devices and
demonstrated them here to 1,500
of the nation's top fire-fighters.
The cellarpipe is a six-foot
long iron pipe especially design
ed for fighting basement fires.
It is used by knock-tag a hole in
the floor and lowering one end
into the hole. Four hoses are
connected at the upper end, run
ning to fog or straight stream
nozzles in the bottom part.
Double prongs on the bottom rest
the device on the floor.
The stream-master operates
like a giant stationary lawn
sprayer. It permits firemen to
aim the hose at close range, then
walk away, leaving the stream
unattended.
The stream-master holds bos
that would take up to six men
to control. With one type of noi-
zle, it discharges 800 gallons of
water a minute; with another,
up to 400 gallons a miiute.
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