Writer, Robbed of
Nap, Finds Bard's
Books Controversy
By DICK WEST
Washgton (L'PD The Folger
Shakespeare Lbrary here is a
high-brow- institution where
scholars convene to discuss
such burning issues as "what
the restora
tion did not
restore."
In a recent
report on its
spring convo
cations, the li
brary claimed
a distinction
which I, for
one, regarded
as a personal
challenge. "Nobody," it crow
ed, "has yet gone to sleep at
a Folger convention."
In making this bold state
ment, it seemed to me the li
brary was flinging the gaunt
let at all of those who, like
myself, take pride in scholas
tic slumbering.
So, at the first opportunity,
I charged over to the Folger
with the avowed intention of
taking a catnap under the
very nose of Library Director
Louis B. Wright.
No Anti-Sleep Test
Unfortunately, no confer
ences were going on at the
time of my visit and I had no
opportunity to test their anti
somnolent qualities against
my capacity for 40 winks.
However, the trip was not en
tirely wasted.
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It afforded me a chance to
inspect the library's collec
tion of paperback Shake
speare, which has become em
broiled in an international lit
erary controversy of minis
cule proportions.
The Folger. I should ex
plain, is widely recognized as
one of the world's outstanding
repositories of Shakespeare
memorabilia. This naturally
nas caused a certain amount
of carping among the British,
who feel they have a propri
etary interest in the bard.
In the most recent instance.
a writer for the literary sup
plement of the London Times
lodged a complaint against the
Folger's practice of publishing
anakespeare's plays in pocket-
sized books which sell for 35
cents.
Huckstering The Immortal
Quill quivering with in
dignation, he accused the li
brary of huckstering the im
mortal by catering Shake
speare to "a vague drugstore
and airport newsstand pub
lic." A priggish person might
wonder," he wrote, "whether
it is all worth while to de
sign an edition to help you
pass the time as you wait for
a plane at Tuscaloosa, Ala
bama ... It is good to make
Shakespeare available 'for
all'; but who can profit from
having him reduced to some
thing as light and undemand
ing as a pulp magazine or a
strip-cartoon book?
Well, Sir, it woul do your
old Yankee heart good to see
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
POP LARKINS drove his wife and six kids to town one
Saturday afternoon and, after two hours of hunting,
finally found a parking space. Relief registered strongly
on his face as he maneu
vered the car into the
long-sought haven; then
he turned to his family
and exclaimed, "And
that's that! Now does
anybody remember why
we drove to town?"
Horace Greeley, always a
newspaper editor with rules
of his own, insisted that
"news" be treated as a
plural noun. Accordingly,
ha wired his star reporter
one night, "What are the
news?" The reporter ans
wered, "There's not a darned new!"
Two Vassar seniors were exchanging confidences. "During my
whole vacation," declared the first, "I didn't allow one man to
make love to me." "Really," cooed her friend. "Which ont
was that?"
C I960, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed bjr King Features Syndicate
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Strang Superstition
Surrounds Praying Mantis
"Yep, that's a spitting bug.
If he spits in your eye you'll
always be blind," said the old
southern gentleman as he cau
tiously backed away from the
branch of a bush where a
large praying mantis was sit
ting.
Tile big bug was turning its
head from side to side, as if
debating in its own mind
whether to escape or remain
seated. Confident of its pug
nacious appearance, he decid
ed to remain. The old man
was the one that left.
Big Ones
"Yes," he said, "there are
lots of folks that have seen
it happen; the big ones up in
Georgia can kill a mule just
by spitting in their mouths,
and up there we always called
the way the Folger stood its
ground in the face of this
withering attack. A century
ago, it said, "the natives in so
distant a colony as Alabama
could be dismissed as worthy
of nothing more than an
amused comment at high ta
ble. But lately the colonials
have shown a disposition to
read." '
It said a lot more, but you
get the idea. Along with hold
ing sleep-proof lectures, the
library is prepared to defend
to the death the right of comic
book fans to buy Shakespeare,
even if by mistake.
Stop Me
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glass. Cp) Light,
Small Worlds
By Lynn M. Wkini
em mule-killers'." With his
body, all of three inches in
length, and large, scythe-like
pincers, held in a striking po
sition, lie is one of the most
ferocious appearing of the in
sects, but he is harmless. The
bug will even become so tame
as to eat from one's hand.
They feed on other insects.
Immobile on a twig or tree
limb, they wait for hours for
an insect to come close. Then
with a lightning-like strike
with tile armed scythe the in
sect is caught and later eaten.
Their appetite is tremendous.
Within the last few years
these insects have extended
their range into many states
and countries although they
are considered a tropical in
sect.
The mantis builds a rather
complicated nest of white
frothy material which hardens
into a. tough case atttached
to a weed-stem. In tiny cells
in" this material the female
places her eggs which will
hatch out the following spring.
This nest-making fluid is
squirted from the body of the
female and whipped into a
frosh by the tiny propeller
like fins of her tail, much the
same as a mechanical egg
beater whips eggs.
Males Attentive
During the mating season,
the males, much smaller than
the females, are very attentive
and .follow them wherever
they go. But as soon as the
eggs are laid the female turns
viciously on the poor guy and
eats him, leaving only the
hard legs and wings. This lady
"Bluebeard" of the insect
world will go even further
and hunt out and kill every
male she can find.
With characteristics a s
strange and weird as this in
sect possesses, it is easy to
understand how many of the
strange superstitions have
been brought about. I had
started out that bright morn
ing to find a "bessie-bug,"
but here I was watching a
praying mantis hold out its
arms in "prayer" while wait
ing for prey.
After I walked away from
the big bug, undamaged, the
old gentleman proved how
deep seated his convictions
were and how persistent su
perstitions are when he re
marked, "I'll tell you, you
were safe this time cause that
bug probably killed himself a
mule in the last few days."
(Released by The Register and
Tribune Syndicate, 1960)
Lebanon's per capita income
in 1957 averaged $325. That
national income rose about 11
per cent during the year.
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smooth, easy-going.
Hospital Operating Expenses
increase With Demands, Drugs
(Editor's not: This is in- j
ethtr in a lariat of article
in which ths increasing
cotti of hospitalisation ars
discussed, and why coats
ars rising. Ths article wr
prepared in cooperation
with local hospitals in con
junction with National Hos
pital Week, which was ob
rvad here recently.)
"The trouble is," a hospital
administrator remarked re-
cently, "that people think of j
us as hotels for the sick
"They compare our rates
with hotel rates and naturally
our total rate looks much
higher," a local administrator
said. "And there are many
differences. A hospital patient
receives services he does not
actuallv see being performed.
These are services which help
to make him more comfort
able and result in a quicker
recovery."
For instance, the three
Rogue valley hospitals. Sacred
Heart, Rogue Valley and Ash
land General, take meals to
the patient. This is a service
which the hotel does not per
form without a large extra
charge, administrators noted.
Personal Service
Hospital operations are
based on personal service, too,
people taking care of other
people. Local hospitals have
an average of slightly over
two employees per patient.
Hotels average one employee
for every two gusts, admin
istrators pointed out.
Jackson county hospital
rates are generally $19.75 per
day for board, room and gen
eral nursing care. San Fran
cisco and Seattle rates are
about $3 more per day than
the basic ward rate here, sta
tistics show.
Where does the hospital dol
lar go?
Taking the income first,
room charges average 42.5
cents of the dollar each pa
tient expends. Surgery, anes
thesia, central supplies, emer
gency equipment take 20
cents. Laboratory charges
amount to 11.4 cents. The
pharmacy gets 13.4 cents.
X-ray takes 10.1 cents, physi
cal therapy 1.2 cents, and the
fountain 1.4 cents.
Since it is a personal serv
ice institution, nursing,
one of the personal services,
takes the biggest slice of the
expenditures of a hospital,
38.9 cents of the hospital dol
lar.
Nursing Includes medical
and surgical nursing, recov-
ery room, anesthesia, obstet-
ncs ana central supply room
work. ,
Under housekeeping at a
14.4-cent charge are laundry,
engineer, maids and porters.
Pharmacy costs amount to 9.4
(3 and
ccnts. Administration, which
includes taxes, office and so
cial security, costs 9.5 cents.
The dietary department
costs 9.7 cents. Hospital food
is unlike hotel food in that
each patient's diet needs must
be served.
Hotels pay at least part of
their overhead through restau
rants, bars and newsstands.
Hospitals do not have these
extra sources of income, al
though Rogue Valley, the
umy s ei nuu.uu.
; nave tt attain u.ii hn viauwia.
The breakdown of the hos-
pital dollar reveals what the
patient does not see. Much of
the hospital operation is un
der the surface, not seen by
the visitor or patient. Only 20
per cent of the hospital space
is taken by beds, administra
tors pointed out.
A number of forces are in
creasing tile hospital bill. One
of the major forces is the
shortage of highly trained or
skilled help. As science de
velops new cures and treat
ments it forces hospitals
further into specialized fields
Another major cause for
high hospital costs is the pa
tient who cannot afford to
pay, and their bills must be
absorbed. There will be more
on this in another article.
Medical science's new dis
coveries also make hospitals
invest in more costly equip
ment and drugs. For instance,
a brain-surgery patient is giv
en a "brain-wave'" study with
an electroencepholograph. A
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United Nations, N.Y. U.
Lodge, rebutting Soviet charges about America s vi spy
plane by reading a list of Soviet spies caught in the West
since Stalin's death:
We also remember Fuchs.
chev. We do not need to recall the case of Col. Rudolph
Ivanovich Abel right here in
New York Gov. Nelson
national debate on the policies that led up to the summit
conference and the reasons
W owe our friends in
sciences something more
proclamation of national perfection."
Honolulu UPI Correspondent George Eagle of Hilo, dis
cussing the toll of 32 persons
of tidal waves touched off by earthquakes in Chile.
"Nobody really had to die in this one. They ware warned
in plenty of time they Just didn't respond to the alert."
Jackson, Miss. Segregationist Gov. Ross Barnelt, when
asked whether "draftees" will carry real guns in confederate
units reactivated for the state's centennial observance of the
Civil War next year:
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all of this and other expensive
equipment is used constantly.
But it is there ready when it
is needed.
Drugs, loo, although called
"miracle drugs." are expen
sive. The usual treatment for
a common cold now is four
antibiotic capsules a day for
three days. This costs $6 of
$7.
Recently, the county public
health department tabulated
a large number of reported
flu cases. Probably a number
of these became serious
enough for hospitalization.
The hospital administered the
antibiotic, raising the hospital
costs at the same time.
Erythromycin, an injected
antibiotic for infection costs
about S8 an ounce; trypsin,
to reduce swelling, about $10
a dose; heparin, an anticoagu
lant for extreme heart condi
tions, about $17 a dose. These
are just a few.
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Newer medical methods de
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rent shorter hospital stay
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tensive treatment, then is re
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No convalescent period in
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when the hospital used to
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ily. The hospital has to pro
vide this room. Families have
less lime for care of sick mem-
btrs, too. since so many wives
and mothers are working.
The older people become,
the more serious their Mlv
nesses become. This puts an-:
other
burden on hospital
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