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NUMBER TWELVE
IN THE KITCHEN-
feuigg's Short Whiffs of May time Posies
By DOC QUIGG
United Press Correspondent
New York (W Short
whiffs of Maytime posies:
, What's the news from gay
Bohemia? Well, in that area
of Communist Czechoslovakia
there is a town named Chrud
im, and in that town there
it a factory, and in that fac
tory there is (or maybe was)
worker named J. Votava,
ho had a complaint.
Worker Votava, according
the Prague Pravo, wanted
complain about working
onditions. The factory man
tgement replied that "Votava
thould produce a health cer
tificate by a psychiatrist be
fore the complaint could be
investigated."
Nearly everybody, nowa
days, is sick, sick, sick.
One of the most delightful
learned and humble men I've
ever interviewed is Will Dur
ant, who for years has been
engaged on writing the story
of civilization at the rate of
one volume every five years.
His obvious impatience
with imposters intruding in
the broad sweep of history
shows in the way he kisses
off one figure in his latest
volume, "The Reformation."
Thus:
"One astrologer of this
period is still popular. Nos
tradamus was, in French, Mi
chel de Norte Dame. He pro
fessed to be a physician and
an astronomer, and was ac
cepted as semi-official astrolo
ger by Catherine de Medici;
she built an observatory for
him in Les Halles. In 1564 he
predicted a life of 90 years
for Charles IX, who died 10
years later at the age of 24.
"At his own death (1566) he
left a book of prophecies so
wisely ambiguous that some
line or another could be ap
plied to almost any event in
later history."
In our modern civilization,
where the smallest olive you
can buy from the shelf is la
beled "giant" on the can, and
where (in New York at least)
an apartment consisting of a
living room with some niches
around it for cooking and
bathing is labeled "2Vz
rooms," it is not surprising
to find advertised a row ' of
10 books with nothing in
them. i
They are merely cut out of
poster board to look like
books. You put them on a
shelf and let your guests be
bowled over by the crazy
titles on the covers. Such as:
"Brain Surgery Self Taught,"
"Tom Swift and His Electri
cal Grandmother," and "So
You .Want To Build A
Swamp." What we need now
is an imitation TV set, for
decoration.
At this time of year a cen
tury ago in Philidelphia, ac
cording to word sent to this
desk by a cleansing company,
you couldn't take a bath with
out fear of breaking a law. In
the 1850's, it says both Phili
delphia and Boston had laws
against bathing. Philidelphia
prohibited baths between No
vember and March Boston
banned baths without a doc
tor's written permission.
The same source says sta
tistics show Americans now
take 502,000,000 baths and
showers a week. If that's true,
we must be the best-scrubbed
nation in the world
And even if we don't bathe,
we're all being taken to the
cleaners every day, in some
way or other. t
FRATERNITY LAUNCHED
Ramstein, Germany fl?) A
group of airmen at the U.S.
air base here have founded a
"fraternity" whose main pur
pose is to work in conjunction
with all world youth organiza
tions to promote cultural
friendship.
iOIIIiL
Two Local Men
In Damage Suit
Nolan C. Vaughn, 1016 West
Second st., Medford, has filed
a complaint in circuit court
asking 518,027 for damages
incurred during an accident
on the Klamath River rd. in
Siskiyou county, Calif ., June
21. 1956.
The complaint was filed
against Leslie E. Feris, Pho
nix, and Charles R. Epper
son, 4189 Cedar lane, Med
ford. The complaint charges
that the defendants were neg
ligent and careless in the op
erating of a truck which col
lided with the truck operated
by Vaughn.
Vaughn states in the com
plaint that, he suffered back,
neck, spine, arm and shoulder
injuries in the accident. He is
represented by Hugh Collins,
Medford attorney.
PRINCESS PROGRESSES
London (IP) Seven-year-old
Princess Anne is "pro
gressing normally" after her
operation for removal of ton
sils and adenoids and is ex
pected to leave the hospital at
the end of the week, her doc
tors said today.
Psychologists Urged To Go
Slow on 'Psuedo' Retardation
By DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
New York HP) Discuss
ing the perilous scientific
business' of testing children
for intelligence, a child psy
chologist has warned all so
engaged to show "the utmost
caution" label
ing any child
men tally de
defective. Dr. Lucille
Hollander
Blum estima
ted that per
haps 15 per
cent of the
children so la
beled, turn
to be at all.
Delos Smith
out later not
The English sparrow was
introduced into North Ameri
ca in 1850.
Indeed, some turn out to have
superior intelligence. To pro
tect tnemseives from over
whelming demands, they put
on the mask of stupidity.
These children are pitfalls
for the psychologist because
he has no reliable technical
means of unmasking them.
They're "pseudo - retarded"
rather than actually retarded,
hut so far this correct diagno
sis has been made "only in
retrospect."
In a communication to the
National Association for Men
tal Health, Dr. Blum set forth j
her own experience with "de
fective" children who turned
out not to be. In almost all
cases they either were adopt
ed children or the children
of families in which there had
been some mental illness.
She suggested that either
of these circumstances might
increase the normal anxiety
of parents for their children
to "achieve." Under the cir
cumstances, some parents be
gin feeling there is some
dreadful reason behind fail
ures to "achieve" and their
stepped-up anxiety results in
demands which the child
can't take.
Yet, children develop ac
cording to their built-in de
velopmental patterns and po
tentials and sometimes the
stage of development is not
sufficent to support the de
mands. Then there it trouble.
If the major trouble is "pseu
do" retardation, the psycholo
gist can be fooled and so he
must watch his step.
Some Easy To Spot
A lesser trouble -are the
children who are not so dis
turbed that their intelligence
can't be accurately measured
by psychological tests. At
least it can be readily spotted
that they're not actually retarded.
She . cited one child who
was brought to her because of
his persistently failing school
grades. His IQ turned out to
be 161 "which classified him
not only as having very su
perior capacities but also
placed him in a group equal
ed or excelled by only one
out of 10,000."
In part the cause Is the age
we live in. Its competitive in
tensities produce anxiety in
parents. "In defense of the
parent," she said, "it might be
said that his own feeling of
uncertainty as to his role and
his child's future seems an im
portant factor in the strenu
ous demands he makes."
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon. Tuesday. May 13. 195S 3
MOUNTAINS FOUND
London W) Soviet scien
tists aboard the research ship
OB have discovered a vast
range of volcanic sea-bed
mountains beneath the waters
of the southwest Pacific, Mos
cow Radio reported today.
EX-MISSIONARY DIES
Little Rock, Ark. (IP) Dr.
Corydon M. Wassell, 74, a
former medical missionary
whose exploits in the Navy
Medical Corps during World
War II formed the basis of a
book and a movie, died Mon
day of a heart attack.
Edmund E. Hass
Vice-President
STUDENT FOUND HANGED
New York (IP) A 13-year-old
student at St. Anthony of
Padua parochial school in
Brooklyn was found hanged
Monday in a closet where he
had been sent as punishment
j for talking in, class. Thomas
Connolly was strangled by his
tie which had become affixed
to a hook in the closet.
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