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The Medical Roundup
by
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onsnjunt In Medicine.
Mayo CUnlc
Emarltua Profpssnr of Medlclna.
Mayo Foundation
Th Woman Frightened Br
A Sore Breait
Dr. Max Cutler was remind
ing me of those many women
we physicians see, much alarm
ed over what
they assume is
a sore or pain
(ul right
breast. Exam
ination shows
no lump but
only a soreness
of the ribs and
the muscles
under the
right breast.
Dr Alvarea
Dr. Cutler always then asks the
woman what she was doing the
day before the soreness came,
and usually she says she took
down the curtains in her home
or she papered the shelves in
her pantry or she waxed a table
top. What happened was that
she over-strained the "pectoral"
muscles under the right breast,
and got them sore.
Eye Exerciies
Many persons have written
"How-could-you" letters, com
plaining about my supposed
"bitter attack" on Bates and
his weird idea that one can get
good sight by exercising the
ocular muscles. People are so
jtunny. Some wrote to say that
ior five years they have loved
my columns and have sworn by
;hem, but now they know I am
untrustworthy, an ignoramus,
and a stooge for the American
Medical Association! What these
people forget was that I said
that although I knew enough
rlrbut eyes to know that Bates'
theories sound utterly stupid, I
had not criticized them until I
had spoken to several of Ameri
ca's leading ophthalomologists
who agreed heartily with me. To
say that the leading eye special
ists in America do not know
eyes is like saying that the men
who built the Empire State
Building knew nothing about
architecture.
Many persons, of course, wrote
to say that after using the exer
cises they had thrown away
their glasses, but this does not
prove anything. As I have said,
my father and millions of men
and women have done this, us
ually because, at a certain time
of life, an original near-sightedness
and the "far-sightedness"
of mature years canceled out.
Became Millionaire)
Cures worked by a crackpot
do not prove anything. Years
ago a doctor in Madrid got the
stupid idea that he could cure
almost all diseases by cocainiz
ing the nose. The treatment
seemed to work, and for the next
few years, each day there was
a queue of people trying to get
into his office. The man became
a millionaire, but then he ran
out of patients, and after that
the treatment would no longer
cure. Dr. Asuero went to Italy
and tried desperately to get his
practice going again, but he fail
ed. Anothpr eccentric physician.
Dr. Albert Abrams, also a mil
lionaire, treating all diseases
with an electric gadget which,
to great experts on electricity
like Professor Millikan, seemed
to be unbelievaby stupid. Any
high school boy able to make
his own radio set would have
laughed the contraption to scorn.
And yet. during Abrams' life
time it seemed to work Promin
ent writers swore by him, and
sent all their friends to him
for treatment. But when he died,
his method largely died with
him.
Around 1798. a quack named
Perkins, was going great guns
"curing" thousands of people
with two little supposed magnets
which he sold for a large sum.
All went well until an able phy
sician gave a big clinic at which
he drew out pains with the little
"magnets," and apparently cured
a dozen people. Then he took
out his penkife and cut up the
supposed magnets which he had
made of wood: Everyone laugh
ed, and that ended the career
of Perkins as a healer!
I hope all of those people who
thought me so stupid and unfair
read the fine article in a recent
number of Life in which the
authors have no kind word to
say of the theories of Bates, Pep
pard and others.
Defects in Argument
Mrs. Aldous Huxley, whose
husband published the -book ad
vocating the use of eye exercises,
has very kindly written me to
say that her husband "writes
and reads for seven or eight
hours a day without the aid of
lenses. Moreover, though blind
in one eye and carrying scar
tissue in the other he can do
his work without eyestrain or
fatigue thanks to that Art of
Seeing, which he learned from
Dr. Bates' gifted and resource
ful pupil, Mrs. Margaret D.
Corbett."
The two defects in this arg
ument are 1) that it is not con
ceivable to an expert eye special
ist that Bates' type of "training"
could stop the progress of the
type of disease that caused Mr.
Huxley's partial blindness, and
2) oculists could show hundreds
of people In whom an eye in
flammation stopped by itself and
left the person with usable sight
in one eye.
Dr. Alvarez hopes his readers
will understand that it would
be impossible for him to answer
requests for information or to
attempt to diagnose by mail.
(Released by The Register and
and Tribune Syndicate, 1957)
Night Club Band
Plays To Empty House
Washington (tP) The lights
are out these nights at the Casi
no Royal.
The air conditioning is off.
The windows are shut. The
doors are locked. There isn't
even a peanut butter sandwich
in the house.
But there's music.
Each night Bob Simpson and
his seven-piece dance band
show up in white dinner jackets
and fill the close, heated air
with soothing melodies.
The Casina Royal closed for
refurbishing last week. But the
band's contract had one week to
8-
The band insisted on being
paid for the final week.
Restaurant manager Leon Zei
ger insisted that if he paid they
played.
"I explain the situation to the
boys and they say fine just so
long as I pay them," Zeiger said.
"If I'm going to pay for it, I'm
going to get it. So I'm getting it."
Family
Council
Mrs. E. D. Leon isn't really
stupid.
Mr. E. D. The teacher knows
best.
Mrs. E. D. Our youngest boy,
Leon, is an awful problem to me
and my husband. He is 17 and
very backward in school. His
teachers say he has normal in
telligence, but is just a slow
learner.
During the past year, he has
had a teacher who has made
things worse by telling him that
since he can't keep up with the
others he ought to quit school
and go to work and earn his
diploma at night school. I know
that once he goes to work he'll
never finish his high school ed
ucation. Leon used to be de
termined to finish, but now he
says, "Mom, I guess I'm just
too dumb."
I know my boy and I know
he isn't stupid, only a little dis
couraged. The trouble is my
husband doesn't see things my
way and that makes it harder
for Leon.
Mr. E. D When the boss tells
you that you might be better
off at another job, then it's time
to stir yourself and if doesn't
do a bit of good to hang around
until he waves "bye-bye at you.
That's how I look at Leon's sit
uation. The teacher knows best.
Leon doesn't belong in that
school any more, now that he's
struck out.
My wife has been sticking to
her own opinion about Leon for
years, no matter what anyone
tells her. I say she is just blind
ed by mother love and doesn't
want to face the facts. After
all, the teachers are experts.
When you go to a doctor, you
don't argue when he tells you
something. He knows and you
don't, so you accept it.
I would like to see Leon finish
school, but facts are facts.
The Council: It is true that
parents and others are some
times blinded by love, but it is
also true that love can serve as
the magic spectacles that enable
someone to see below the sur
face of things. It is also possible
for a person to be blinded by
lack of love and faith.
Mr. E. D. seems too ready to
give up his love spectacles for
the word of an authority. He is
also too ready to accept as a
verdict on his son's capabilities,
a comment that may have been
intended simply as a practical
suggestion.
A teacher's opinion is usually
well worth considering, but Mr.
E. D. should bear in mind that
experts often disagree. No men
tally sound, conscientious parent
Y Knot Square Dancers
Hold Potluck Dinner
The Y Knot Twirlers Square
Dance club will hold a potluck
picnic dinner and dance at the
Twin Plunges in Ashland Thurs-!
day night. Club officers said din- ;
ner will be served about 7 p.m. '.
Doug Fosbury and Kenneth
Hood, president of the club, will
call squares. Dancing is expect
ed to start about 8:30 p.m. i
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On The Side By E. V. Durling
(Distributed by King Feature! Syndicate, Inc.)
She who never aanweri till a huiband
coolt.
Or. if ihe rulei him, never howi
the rules.
Charms by accepting, by submlttinf
sways,
Yet has her humor most when she
obeys.
Pope (A Clever Wile)
How many things have you in
pockets? Following a criticism
I made of the number of items
the average woman carries in
her handbag my girl friend bet
me I had more things in my
pockets than she had in her
handbag. I lost. However, I don't
think it was fair for her to in
sist that a cigar case with six
cigars in it sould be counted
as seven items.
Do you claim to tie a Young
should be willing to let an "ex
pert" determine his child's fu
ture. Mrs. E. D. is right in her feel
ing that her husband's lack of
faith "makes it all the harder
for Leon." If the boy is going
through a trying time in school,
he needs plenty of encourage
ment from both of his parents.
He is likely to mirror their
confidence or lack of it.
Outside of these considera
tions, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. should
discuss with Leon the possibility
of taking up the teacher's sug
gestion, with the idea it could
be the thing that will bring
out the best in him. He should
not feel he has "struck out" in
school, but simply that his dis
couragement over schoolwork
could be offset by some success
in the job world. That alone
would give him new incentive to
get that diploma.
COPYRIGHT 1957,
GENERAL FEATURES CORP.)
Old Timer with a good memory?
It so, state quick as a half a
flash in what year the stage
play titled "You Can't Take It
With You" was a hit. It was
the same year in which Tal
lulah Bankhead appeared in "Re
flected Glory" and Jimmy Dur
ante, Bob Hope and Ethel Mer
man were featured in a Cole
Porter musical titled "Red, Hot
and Blue." Have you guessed
the year yet? Well, Bold Venture
won the Kentucky Derby that
year and Bing Crosby introduced
the song "Pennies From Heav
en." It was the year Margaret
Mitchell wrote "Gone With the
Wind." What, you haven't guess
ed the year yet? I'll make it
easy for you. It was the year
King Edward VIII abdicated and
declared he was so doing for
the woman he loved.
Asking
Queries from clients. Q. I
measured 30 inches when one
year old. I am a girl. How tall
Bow and" Arrow Now
Popular for Fishing
Worcester, Mass. SIP) Massa
chusetts' new bow-and-arrow
fishing season on carp, suckers
and eels is proving popular.
Earle Mallett bagged five carp
in Lake Quinsigamond, the larg
est a 34-pounder.
Several carp have been shot
by archers standing at the rail of
the Lincoln Street bridge at the
north end of Quinsigamond.
Arrows are made of metal
and fitted with barbs rather
than broadhead point, but they
are not feathered. Taped to the
bow are plastic spools designed
to hold 50 to 100 yards of line.
Wednesday, July 24, 1937
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
will I be as an adult? A. You
will probably be about five feet,
four as an adult. That's a nice
height for a woman if she wears
two-inch heels, hold her head
up and carries herself well . . .
Q. If our expected child is a
girl my wife wants to name her
Madge. Have many successful
women had that name? A. Three
successful actresses have had it,
Madge Titheradge, Madge Ken
nedy and Madge Evans. Also a
very successful legal light, Judge
Madge Taggart.
Sidelights
Recently reported was a two
car accident on the Lincoln
Highway in which seven per
sons met sudden death. Isn't
that a record for number of
deaths in a collision between
two passenger automobiles? . . .
Now there is a non-stop plane
from New York City to Copen
hagen. Me for that on my next
trip to Europe. Copenhagen is
one city I want to see before I
pass from this vale of tears and
taxes.
Tattooed
Ed Gorey, Chicago newspaper
man, says that in all his 35
years of journalistic experience
he never met a man holding a
position of trust who had any
tattoo marks on him. "Is there
any significance to this situa
tion? askes Ed. I can't answer
that query. All I can say is that
I also do not recall any success
ful man who had been tattooed.
This item causes me to recall
a very amusing song titled "The
Tattooed Lady" written by Billy
Jerome and Walter Donaldson.
It could stand a revival. A good
comic song is a rarity nowa
days. Jiggers
A San Franciscan protests as
to that liquor measurement gad
get called a "jigger." He says
there is too much variation In
the capacity of the jigger. That
it should be standardized at one
ounce. The man's right. The
"jigger" in some bars holds
holds about five-eighths of an
ounce. The same is true of the
jiggers used by the excessively
economical hostesses at some
cocktail parties. Incidentally, I
regret to say I have been re
liably informed that quite a few
cocktail party hostesses have
been watering their liquor. A sad
situation. Who can a man really
trust these days?
Japanese Floods
Worst in History
Tokyo (W More than two
million persons have joined the
rescue operations in the flooded
Shantung and East Honan prov
inces of Communist China, Radio
Peiping said today.
The floods, worst in the his
tory of the Yi, Shu, Wen and
Szi rivers, covered 11.400 square
miles of territory, and drowned
at least 557 persons. The radio
said observers believe the cas
ualty figures may well rise Into
the thousands.
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