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o o o SIX MEDFORD (OWtao) WML TIlIBUKr Tuesday, November 5 1957 Theyll Db It Every Time -S?700 A D4T Y41-'' WAWHSfwHAl A 5Jy NO i5SJrsi -J-V FOR I WAAYLLX M4TTER HOW TOUGH l WEEK--THEY GIVE 'CM ? My LITTLE THINGS 4RE HE'S ; TrfWTSlMSJKi' 4CT OR THE Bl&$8 43LE TO L4UGH J By Jimmy Hatlo Howcum Dept. DlNKy DILLY, THE , SM4LL-T1ME COMIC, WAS THE HAPPIEST 6Uy ON E4RTH IF HE COULD . 6I?43 4 TWENTY BUCK CLUB D4TEL, ONlCE EVERY BLUE MOOM O U G O WC'MOMLETSC5TOUT4 WfV I - I Til f HER5 I GOTTA GO SEE ' W ...II JJ I MY PSYCHIATRIST WHERE'S M FlLLV HE HIT THE TOP HE'S MP.Rlrt IS HE H4Ppy? DON'T -4SK GIVE A LOOK- LISTEN TH4NX 1S0 4 TIP OP TH H47LO H4T TO CHICAGO 10, ILL. The Medical Roundup Emerttu Consultant In Hedlcln. Vyo Clinic Emeritus Proiessor of Medicine. Mayo Foundation flft --1 fry ?t Dr CATARACTS Many old. persons, or their relatives, ask me what will hap pen if they have their cataracts operated o n. Usually,, first, they ask if there is any medicine that they can take to dissolve thg. opacities. Some have heard of a quack who Alvarez says his medi cine will do the trick. But I am sure there is no such medicine, ao4 1 always tell people not to wiite their time trying drugs. Fortunately, the operation is not at all dangerous to life. It is per formed under local anesthesia so that it won't hurt at all. A skill ful ophthalmologist (eye doctor) can perform it in a matter of minutes. With a delicate knife he makes a cut in the upper half of the cornea (window of the eye) and through this cut he squeezes out the opaque lens. If it comes out clearly, if there is no complica tion, and if the seeing part of the eye (retina) is normal, the per son later should have good vis ion. I have known men and women who, after the removal of cataracts had better vision than I have. After the cataract is removed, usually a big thick glass lens is worn. This takes over the function of the lens that was removed. Today, a few peo ple are using a contact lens which is not visible. Many persons ask when they should have their cataracts out. Obviously, this decision must be left up to their ophthalmologist. Sometimes the doctor has to wait until a . soft cataract has become hard enough for remov al. Incidentally, I am assuming that everyone knows that a cat aract is the lens in the eye which has become frosted and opaque so that the person cannot see through it. Against Operating Many persons who have a cat aract in only one eye and have good vision in the other ask if they should go ahead and have the bad eye operated on. I have asked a number of the best oph thalmologist in the United States about this and they have all told me that they are against operat ing in these cases because, so commonly afterwards, the two eyes cannot be used comfortably together. Several people have written to tell me that they could get by by using a contact lens on the eye that was oper ated on, but I have in my files a lot of letters from people who said that, after having the one bad eye operated on, they were very sorry. Now, in order to read, they have to wear an opa que cover over the eye that was operated on. They just can't use the two eyes together the images that reach the brain from the two eyes are of such different sizes that they cannot be fused. If an old person lps bad cat aracts in both eyes, and if he wants only enough vision so that he can read a bit and move about his house or go for a walk, he can have only one of the eyes operated on. But if he uses his eyes a great deal, he will do well to have both cataracts removed. Loss of Smell and Taste Some elderly persons want to know why, suddenly, they lost much of their sense of smell and. with this, much of their sense of taste. Usually, on talking to them, I suspect that what they had was what I call a small stroke. A little blood vessel sup plying part of the smelling-area of the brain plugged up, much as a small artery plugs up in the heart of a man who has what is called coronary heart disease. Naturally, if this is what hap pened, there im't much that any one can hopeto do with any medicine. The area of brain de stroyed will not grow again. Fortunately, in some cases, after a while the sense of smell re turns, probably because other parts of the brain have taken over the work of the area that was injured. I have seen a few cases in which the sense of smell went when the patient had a mild de pression. Later, when he was cheerful again the sense of smell returned. For Some Diseases There Is As Yt No Treatment Whenever I admit in this col umn that there is no known treatment for some disease, such as most types of feebleminded ness in children, a number of un happy mothers of such children write to scold me bitterly. They say this is no way to talk, and, so far as they are concerned, they are going to keep traveling about the country spending every cent of the family's sav ings, trying to find some phy sician or some quack who knows the cure. I would love to give these mothers the hope they de mand but, first, I must be honest. I was pleased recently when in the book, "Your Child and Mine," (Harper's New York), on retarded children by O. E. Hood, an expert on the treatment of such children, I found him say ing that one of the most unkind things we doctors do is to keep telling mothers of children with a bad injury to the brain to go on hoping and searching for a cure, when we know that no one can hope to rebuild that brain. Dr. Alvarez hopes his readers will understand that it would be impossible for him to answer re quests for information or to at tempt to diagnose by mail. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate. 1957) INDIAN EXPERT DIES Randolph, Vt. (IP) Dr. Charles Russell, 64, educator and expert on Indian affairs, died Sunday after a brief illness. AVON PRESIDENT DIES dLos Angeles RP Joseph Meyers, 59, president of Avon Publications, New York, died Saturday while visiting here. li- Court Records DISTRICT COURT arrell Foster Wallace, failing- to dim lights, S10. Thomas Elder Deckhard, overload (twice); S133: S50. BiUie L. Green, no operator's cense. ?10. nail. Neal William Roberts, inadequate muffler, $5. Frank Andrew Benson, failure to stop at red light, S10. Donald D. James, shooting from public highway. S30. Lona Louise Bishop, failure to obey traffic control signal. $10. Bernard Emil Andrew, failure, to stop at stop sign. S10. Donald Dean Goyette, one license plate, 56. CIRCUIT COURT Alice Marie Butler vs. Barton Bal lard Butler, divorce complaint. Clair Margaret Fogel vs. Edward Joseph Fogel, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Robert Clyde Lake. 430 North Grape St., and Sheyla Rae Thompson, 4850 South Pacific highway, Medford. Family Council Bertram S. My mother-in-law tells the children lies about the facts of life. Mrs. N. M. You've got to start lying somewhere. Bertram S. I am a young widower with two children, 7 and 5. We all live with my mother-in-law, who undertook 'the care of the children when my ,wife died. My mother-in-law is a good woman, but extremely old-fashioned in her ideas. She believes telling the children all kinds of nonsense about the stork or the doctor bringing the babies is the right thing to do. I have been reading a lot on this subject and I feel they should be told the true facts from an early age. Besides, all children today are told the truth. They must know it already from their friends. When I have tried to explain certain things to the children, my mother-in-law jumps in and says, "There's time enough for that." She says as long as the children are in her care she's going to see they are "protect ed." How can I make her see the light? Mrs. N. M. My son-in-law acts as though I am an idiot or something. I have read things too, and I know that modern psychology is wrong about a lot. They change their minds every day about the right way to bring up children. All I know is that I've brought up six children all healthy and all happily married. They didn't have any complexes and they didn't get into any trou ble. A child of 7 believes what ever he is told. It is not neces sary for him to know anything else until he is 12 or so. My son-in-law has frightened the chil dren with some of the things he has told them. I told them not to believe it or anything their friends- tell them. They have confidence in me and are good and happy children. The way I see it, one question is bound to lead to another. Somewhere you've got to start lying. Why bring things to this point? The Council: These children are in a very difficult spot, in deed. Bertram is right that "all children today are told the truth." Their grandmother may be able to reconvince them of her story for a while, but it won't last long. They will cer tainly lose all the confidence they have in her when they realize she lied. Mrs. N. M. ought to know it is not only "modern psychology" which propounds the idea of slowly, leading the children to the truth about life from the time they are old enough to ask questions. Educators and religi ous leaders are unanimous in this view. There has been some discussion as to how and where this teaching ought to take place, but it is generally agreed today that the best place is in the home from parents who are both well jnformed and at ease with the subject. Since neither Mrs. N. 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Bertram know to handle it prop erly, they should take up the problem with their clergyman. He will be able to suggest some good books on the subject. There is absolutely no excuse for frightening the children. Mrs. N. M. ought to realize there is really nothing modern or newfangled about this view. In earlier days children learned the facts of life by observing animals. The children, cut off from nature and brought up on lies and fantasies, needs to be straightened out. (Copyright 1957, General Features Corp.) Ike, Nixon To Meet Republican Leaders For Policy Review Washington HP President Eisenhower and Vice "President Richard M. Nixon will get to gether with other Republican leaders for a high-level GOP policy review next month. The meeting was called at the same time that there were re ports the President has come under considerable pressure to adopt a more conservative legis lative program next year. Informants said some influen tial Congressional Republicans have warned him he will get less cooperation from GOP congress men unless he does so. Meeting Called By Alcorn Republican National Chair man Meade Alcorn announced Sunday night he has called a meeting here of the Republican National committee for Dec. 6. The 72-member executive com mittee will hold a session the day before. The leaders probably will as sess, among other things, the political impact of Russia's re cent satellite-missile triumphs, the Little Rock, Ark., integra tion dispute, the state of the na tion's economic health and the rise in living costs. Alcorn said the main purpose of the meetings will be to ob tain "a frank appraisal of the status of the Republican party and its organization." Eisenhower also will meet with GOP congressional leaders at the White House in Decem ber to discuss his 1958 legisla tive plans. GOP sources said some Republican leaders will make a strong protest at the meeting unless the President takes a more conservative tack. Eisenhower is being urged, in formants said, to hold his budg get below last year's $71,800, 000,000 spending proposals, to curtail new federal spending programs and to drop his feder al aid school program. Alcorn said Eisenhower was invited to confer off the record with national committee mem bers at a Dec. 6 breakfast ses sion "and he has enthusiastical ly accepted." He said Nixon will meet with committeemen at a luncheon the same day. NEW BORN VOLCANO Horta, Faial Island, Azores (IPI A new islet was rising from the surface of the sea today amidst volcanic explosions less than a week after another disap peared. The Faial underwater volcano has gone into renewed activity and has hurled ash and molten rock high into the air. In nearly a month of earlier activ ity,, the volcano built a new islet which last week sank into the sea and disappeared. There are about 21 million bicycle riders in the U.S. SUBCONSCIOUS URGI Chicago (IP) Arrested for selling part of a 30,000-pound shipment of watermelons he was transporting from Henderson, Texas, to St. Louis, Mo., Chicago truck driver James O. Clark, 40, told police "I hate watermelons." About 60 per cent of the earth's crust is made of silica. SWBDM 1UILD MTStf L3 Stockholm, Sweden Wg Sweden has built a guided mis sile which is being tested by two destroyers, it was announced to day. The missile is fired by rocket and powered by a jet en gine, and can hit a target in any kind of weather, the an nouncement said. WORRIED? Where to GET the CASH to PAY Your TAXES? - LOANS FROM - $25.00 to $2,500.00 AUTOMOBILE FURNITURE SALARY COMMERCIAL indDstrial FINANCE CORP. Phone SP 3-4564 Sparta Eldg. 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