Alcohol Deaths in
France Drop Despite
Drinking Increase
Paris-flJPD-France has re-. 50 Frenchmen, compared to
a marked decrease in I one for every 286 Germans or
ported
deaths from alcoholism al
though Frenchmen remain
the world's heaviest drinkers.
.The national committee for
itudy and information of al
cohol reported that 15,853
Frenchmen died from the ef
fects of excessive alcoholic
consumption in 1958.
. This amounted to 10 deaths
per 100,000 persons greater
than tuberculosis fatalities but
23 per cent below the alcohol
ism death rate of 14 per 100,
000 in 1956.
Three Times as Much
Despite the drop, and the
committee's continuing efforts,
Frenchmen still consume more
alcohol per head than anyone
else. For example they drink
three times as much as Amer
icans. Frenchmen consume 1,200,
000,000 gallons of wine and
other alcoholic drinks a year
23 gallons apiece on the aver
age. ,
Alcoholics cost the govern
ment roughly a billion dollars
a year in hospital care, wel
fare costs and rehabilitation.
This is as much as it costs
France to fight the Algerian
war.
There is one bar for every
3,000 Norwegians
The decline in deaths from
alcoholism was seen due to
several factors: Increased
health consciousness among
Frenchmen: the moral resur
gence that has accompanied
the adventof Gen. Charles de
Gaulle's fifth republic, and
the committee's own persist
ent anti-alcohol advertising
Every Metro (subway) car
carries placards advising "no
more than one liter (1.2
auarts) of wine a day," and
similar slogans.
The drive against alcohol
ism really got going under the
government of milk-drinking
Premier Pierre Mendes France
in 1954 after post-war alcohol
ism had risen alarmingly.
The drive lost much of its
momentum after the fall of
Mendes France's government,
partially as a result of the
opposition of the country's
most Dowerful lobby, the
winegrowers.
But under de Gaulle, the
campaign has picked up speed
again. One of de Gaulle's first
moves was to raise wine
prices. Though his motives
were more financial than hy
gienic,
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Nixon SeesTalks
As Opportunity To
Solve Problems
Washington-(tIPD-Vice Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon be
lieves the Eisenhower-Khrush
chev talks here may provide
the President with an oppor
tunity to explore the possibil
ities of solving some cold war
problems.
Such solution, Nixon declar
ed, "might be developed at a
later point" when U.S. Allies
were represented.
But he cautioned that the
exchange of visits was no sign
that the Russian line has soft
ended or shifted.
Other Comments
The scheduled visit to . the
United States by Soviet Pre
mier Nikita S. Khrushchev
next month provoked, other
new comments.
-Rep. Stuyvesant Wainright
(R.-N.Y.), who is supporting
New York Gov- Nelson A.
Rockefeller for the I960 Re
publican presidential nomina
tion, said Nixon's political fu
ture may hinge on the out
come of the Khrushchev visit.
-Sen. Mike Mansfield (D
Mont.) said he was "skeptical"
about what could be achieved
during the premier's visit and
was "worried . . . about this
matter of security as far as
Khrushchev is concerned." He
said the visit put the President
and Nixon "on the spot."
Not Understood
-Sen. Thruston B. Morton
(R-Ky.), chairman of the Re
publican National Committee,
said it would be better if Con
gress were not in session dur
ing the Khrushchev visit be
cause, the Congress is quite a
forum, quite a sounding board,
and our system is not under
stood throughout the world."
-Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-
N.Y.) said that if the national
interest would be served by
inviting Khrushchev to ad
dress the Senate and House
"that's all right with me .
I don't think for one minute
that the American people are
going to be taken in by Mr.
Khrushchev."
Doubts Promotion
-Former New York Gov,
Averell Harriman, wartime
U.S. ambassador to Russia,
said that Khrushchev consid
ers himself such a good sales
man he thinks he is going to
promote communism in the
United States during his visit.
"I don't think he will," Har
riman added.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Moscow: ' x
Dr. V. Kemenov. a member
of the Soviet Academy of Arts,
blasts the abstract art display
ed at the American Exposition
now being held in the Jaoviet
capital as an "ugly GRIMAGE
( ? ? ? ) in esthetics."
He says these abstract paint
ing and sculptures are "start
line in their ugliness and un
believable .tastelessness," and
adds that for good reasons
Soviet spectators refuse to re
gard them as works of art.
STILL
If the Soviet AUTHOR!
TIES come to the conclusion
that they don't like abstract
art they'll BAN IT.
We .TOLERATE it on the
theory that each American
should be free to follow his
own likes and dislikes in such
matters.
Therein lies the fundament
al difference between our sys
tem and the Soviet system.
IIHLVT about GRIMAGE?
' Webster's Collegiate Dic
tionary ignores it. So does
Webster's New 20th Century
Unabridged Dictionary.
But let's not be picayunish.
If you or I were trying to ex
press ourselves in Russian, we
might easily pick off the
wrong word. The interpreter
might have pulled a boner.
" Seeking to make himself
understood in a strange lan
guage, Mr. Kemenov's eye
maj have fallen on the word
GRIMACE which our dic
tionaries define as a "a distor
tion of the countenance: a
WRY face."
That's the effect that ab
stract art has on a LOT of us
fN THE home front, the
" ways and means commit
tee of the U.S. house of rep
resentatives finally votes to
recommend another cent to be
added to the federal gasoline
tax as a means of financing
the huge federal highway sys
tem. The alternate proposal
was to issue bonds, thus put
ting it on the cuff for future
generations to pay.
Why is that interesting?
Well for the moment, at
least, it means that common
sense has prevailed in Wash
ington. Imagine voting billions of
dollars of bonds to build na
tional highways that will be
worn out or outdated when
thhe time comes for our chil
dren or our grandchildren to
dig into their pockets to pay
off the bonds.
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MOVING QUICKLX to quell a riot of 300 to 400 persons in
St. Paul, Minn., police officers seize unidentified woman,
pinion her arms behind .her as she resists them. The
trouble grew out of a police request of a Negro to iden
tify himself. Unruly mobs gathered from nearby bars.
! Boy Takes Own Life i
When Swim Refused
Little Rock, Calif . - (UPD - A
13-year-old boy, apparently
angry because his mother re
fused to allow him to go
swimming hanged himself
Monday, sheriffs deputies re
ported.
The body of Robert Black
well was found dangling from
a barn beam with a chain
wrapped around his neck. His
brother, Donald, 5, made the
discovery behind their home
in this Los Angeles county
community and called their
mother, Ruth, 33. She said
she earlier had refused to al
low Robert to go swimming.
ONCE TOO OFTEN
Ogdensburg, N.Y. (UPD
Charles Mills, a freshman at
Ogdensburg Free Academy,
won the pole vault event in
an intra-squad track meet
with a SVfc-foot leap, but he
wasn't satisfied with his per
formance. So he tried again
and broke his left arm.
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PICKING peaches during the
labor shortage m Modesto,
Calif., area, U. S. Navy Air
man Bart Bronson, of Grade,
Idaho, helps harvest ' fruit
crops. Shortage of 5000
laborers is reported at criti
cal period of harvest. -
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or.
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 1959
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Desi Arnaz Escapes
Injury in Accident
Oceanside, Calif.-ttlPfl-Actor
Desi Arnaz, husband of Come
dienne Lucille Ball, escaped
injury when his sports car
careened off the road, tore out
20 feet of metal guard rail
and hit three utility poles, the
Highway Patrol reported to
day. The accident occurred
shortly before midnight last
Friday when a truck forced
Arnaz off Highway 101 north
of Del Mar, Calif., according
to the patrol report just made
public.
CRACKERS GET CRACKING
Hartford, Conn.-(UPB-It was
firemen, not police, who rout
ed some cafe crackers. The
latter fled after their acety
lene torch had set fire to the
building "in which they were
"working."
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shopper's "paradise"
will be opened
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