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ITALIAN MEN GREAT
PINCHERS Swedish actress
Anita Ekberg (above) claimed
that Italian men are crazier
about touching, pinching and
patting women than anv other
males in the world. Especial
ly with the "Mano Morta" or
"dead hand."
Genetics Facts Must Be Learned
If Human Race Is To Have Future
Tuesday, October 25. 19SS
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE IVE
By DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
New York (U.PJ Prof. H. J.
Muller's full position on the fu
ture of the human race is that
it will have little if any future
after a thousand years or so
unless it learns the facts of gene
tics and starts taking those facts
very seriously.
The learned, scholarly Muller,
who received a Noble Prize in
medicine a-d physiology in 1946,
was the center of a furor re
cently when he wasn't ' permit
ted to deliver a paper on atomic
bomb radiation damage to hu
man germ cells at the Geneva
conference on the peaceful uses
of atomic energy.
Position Expanded
Atomic radiation damage to
germ cells, however, was only
a part of his position which he
has now expanded in full detail
and in only semi-technical lang
uage. In brief, it is that at the
rate the advances and refine
ments of civilization are going,
the race is doomed to extinction
eventually with or without the
hydrogen bomb.
Muller chose a scientific for
um the pages of the Scientific
American for his exposition,
which began with a primer of
the fundamentals of - genetics.
Sketchily given, for brevity, they
are as follows:
Genet Change Naturally
The genes contained in the
germ cells, which convey all in
herited characteristics, change
or "mutate" at a very low rate
naturally. These changes or mu
tations are almost all harmful,
either immediately or potential
ly. The individual bearing them
may die prematurely or they
may lessen his fertility or they
may have their effect in his de
scendants. But nature has estab
lished an equilibrium, obvious
ly the race has not only per
sisted but has increased in num
bers and the quality of its mem
bers has steadily improved.
But now man himself is inter
fering with nature's slow rate of
change or mutation of his own
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germ cells. Here Muller spoke
very critically of the medical
profession for its free use of
x-rays which in heavy doses or
in accumulations of light doses
mutate "genes. Also x-rays are
being employed more and more
in industry.
Furthermore, there's good sci
entific reasons for believing that
various chemicals, singly and in
combination, can step up the
mutation rate, too. Here, he
pointed out with qualified sus
picion to substances containing
caffeine, such as coffee.
Harmful Genet Increasing
Third, are the remarkable ad
vances of medicine and sanita
tion. They disturb nature's equi
librium, too, because individuals
who in a more primitive society
would have died young -of in
herited constitutional weakness
es, now live and reproduce, pass
ing on those harmful genes.
By mathematical progression,
the reservoirs of harmful genes
in the human race as a whole
are increasing. Dr. Muller, who
is professor of genetics at In
diana University, was able to
demonstrate mathematically that
the end of the road a thousand
years from now could be extinc
tion. Even a war fought with
atomic bombs would only shorten-the
road.
Technique Not Abandoned
. He saw a way of avoiding
this and the way "does not by
any means abandon modern. so
cial techniques or call for a re
turn to the fabulous golden age
of noble savages or even of rug
ged individualism."
In essence, that way is .ithe
attainment of such gen et a 1
knowledge of genetical facts that
those persons "who were rela
tively heavily loaded with gene
tic defects could consider it their
obligation, even if those defects
had been largely counteracted,
to refrain from transmitting
their genes, except when they
also possessed genes of such un
usual value that the gains for
their descendants was likely to
outweigh the loss." -
Grange
Eagle Point Grange
Eagle Point Grange met in
regular session Tuesday, Oct. 18,
with Master Mabel Wentz pre
siding. The meeting was pre
ceded by the annual wild game
dinner.
Nat Edsall, instructor in the
I vocational agricultural school
1 recently established in Eagle
! Point, was guest speaker.
Reed McKay, master of Shady
Cove Grange, and Ed Cowderi
were honored guests. Cowden
celebrated his 85th birthday on
Monday.
Mrs. Goldie Chamberlain "was
in charge of the program and it
consisted of readings, violin
piano numbers by Ed Cowden
and Goldie Chamberlain, and a
talk by Edsall who outlined the
work of the 49 boys in the agri
culture class.
A pin and silver certificate
were presented to Mrs. Lottie
Van Scoy in recognition of 25
years membership in Eagle
Point Grange. .
Bob ' Bitterling, agriculture
, chairman, commented on the
large crop of clover seed and
subsequent low. price, and he
also noted that many people
yiew with alarm the fact that
much valuable farm land is now
being subdivided and sold for
small home tracts, not only here
but all over the country. 1
, Election of . officers will be
held at the next meeting of the
Eagle Point Grange on Nov. 1.
HEC meets in Medford, Oct.
26, at the home of Mrs. F. Clif
ford, 1211- West Main st., with
Mrs. Augusta Perry as co-hostess.
Lodge Says Ike Looks
'Belter Than Ever'
Sioux Falls, S.D. (U.PJ
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., U.S. am
bassador to the United Nations,
said last night he has "never
seen President Eisenhower look
ing better."
Lodge spent 25 minutes with
the President at his Denver hos
pital yesterday before coming
here for a. United Nationi day
speech.
He said - Mr. Eisenhower's
mind. was alert, he was in good
spirits and he was "the same
old Ike."
DRAIN ON POUND
Scotland. Ont. (U.R) Percy
Stratford, local animal pound
keeper, said today he doesn't
mind taking care of the usual.
run of cats and dogs but if the
owner of a 1,400-pound grey
Prcheron mare turned in the
ether day doesn't show up soon
he's going to sell the horse for
her feed bill.
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