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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. THURSDAY. Auuuo' za.taio ' ' I' Small Worlds Around Us ! plpfe By Lynn M. Watkins j i i OPEN MONDAY AND FRIDAY TIL 9 P.M. SCHOOL DAYS BEGIN AT SEARS In Most of our Invention Nature Did U Better It's a little embarrassing sometimes to look around us at manmade inventions and realize that these ideas we ere so proud of have been in ' use by most of Nature's sub jects for untold ages, and in . the majority of instances Na ture has done It better. The electric light, one of our greatest accomplishments, : Is a poor substitute for the "cold light" of the firefly and i many deep sea creatures, i Those animals use what man ! Medical Schools Have Trouble Gelling Students By LeHOY POPE Uniitd Press International New York (UPD The bust' ess of being a doctor is bet ter today than it ever was -yet medical schools are hav ing trouble getting enough students, medical experts re port. ;.' Moreover, hundreds of ','towns are begging medical so cieties and welfare founda tions to help them get a doctor to locate in their communities. SThey offer financial help and 'promise him a lucrative prac tice. Many a small town doc .ioT nets $25,000 a year, and the profession is about the highest paid in the land. The doctor shortage, which has been getting worse ever since 1950, became more acute this summer when a crack down by various medical and hospital associations forced 4,000 u n licensed European and Asiatic internes and resi dents off hospital staffs. : These foreign-trained doc tors failed in examinations last spring to show sufficient professional qualifications or knowledge of English to keep their jobs. : Another 5,000 foreign-trained doctors passed the examinations. : But the crackdown may keep 1,500 to 3,0u0 foreign doctors from coming to the United States in the next year. Couple this with the fact that American medical schools are getting one - third fewer ap plicants for admission than they did in 1950 while the population has gone way up, and the experts said, the doc tor shortage assumes alarm ing proportions. It is made even worse, say the medical society spokesmen, by the fact that the average Ameri can goes to see the doctor twice as much as his parents did. The American Medical as sociation alone got Just under 1,000 requests last year froia communities asking help in getting a doctor. Other medi cal societies got such requests although certainly not so many as the AMA. Dr. Walter Wiggins of the AMA says a small town has virtually no chance of attracting a doctor nowadays unless local groups help financially to set him up In practice. Farm organizations and some big corporations have Jtaken an interest in the mat ter. Scars, Roebuck and Co., for example, has helped a number of communities to get doctors. . The strangest thing is to find the medical schools, which only a decade ago were desperately expanding facili ties to make room for quali fied applicants clamoring to get in, now advertising for students. !. Applications actually drop ped from 22,279 in 1950 to 15,172 in 1958. Money is the biggest reason. It costs an average of $47,000 to educate a general practitioner and $64,000 to educate a special ist. That is not all out of pocket expense to the young doctor and his parents - but the cash outlay over 10 to 12 years may be $20,000 Just for e CP. Then he must set up in practice. i Next, too many youngsters think they can't make it. They Imagine medical schools won't look at an application from anything less than an A-minus student. Fact is 65 per cent of all medical students come from the "B" ranks and 16 per cent were only "C" stu dents as undergraduates - yet many of these make gopd doc tors, medical school records show. ; The medical profession's "constant fear is that the doc tor shortage will lead to gov ernment controlled socialized Incdicinc. They hope to sec jthe scholarship approach, fi nanced by government and justness jointly, used to solve jhe doctor shortage with the Scholarship-aided doctors be coming private professional men instead of government enjplpyes. has never been able to dup licate actual light without heat. The bat, the only mammal In the world that can fly, something that man will nev er be able to do, uses a "ra dar" system. It is part of the standard equipment of every bat. By Jet The octopus has always traveled by jet propulsion. The wasps have been making paper and pottery since the world was young. They also used transparent substances for windows. Spiders have been floating through the air on balloons of silk long before we got off the ground. And, too, they gave us the idea for guy-wires. Sound waves to transmit signals are old stuff to the woodpecker who discovered a long time ago how to use a sounding board in order to send a message over a greater distance. The rabbit does the same thing by thumping his hind feet on the ground. All the resources of modern industry struggle constantly to make a good insulation ma terial. But if you think care fully about it for just a mo ment, you will realize that fur or feathers are about the most efficient insulators known. Man's much advertised imita tions are taking a terrific beating; none of them has even come close. Diet, Too Diet is another subject on which we have spent much time and money. Sometimes we think we know all about it; that we can prescribe foods for special wants and needs. But in this field, too, we are behind a long way as proved by that mysterious substance called "royal Jelly," made and used by bees. This "stuff," administered in a way understood only by these insects, can Increase the number of bees, the growth and even the sex of the ones being fed the mixture. And this feeding goes on in a hive that is "air-conditioned" by the insects themselves. The lowly termite, as well as the ants, bees and wasps, have perfected an organized society and a government of "thought control" and brnln washing that makes dictators' experiments look like a "last year's bird's nest." There are hundreds of other examples equally startling. So, if at times you feel like throw ing out your chest and patting yourself on the back with a "look-what-we-can-do" expres sion, better look around you. Nature probably did It first and better. Looks as if we are just a bunch of "copy-cats." (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate. 1960) Builder Perfects Boat Control Item Morrllton, Ark.-IUPD-Edson P. Williams, a boat manufac turer, has moved his trade one step nearer automation. He has perfected a push button device to guide a boat by remote control. Williams gave thought to the unlucky mamber of a boating party who spent most of his time clutching the steering wheel to the exclu sion of his fishing. The device permits the op erator to hold a little black box in his lap, push buttons to control direction of the boat, and still have time to fish. Williams now Is concen trating on what he thinks will be the ultimate in boat automation-voice control. He says he is certain that he can perfect voice command eventually. "It will be just like calling your dog," he said. API Suggests Children Help New York-IUPD-What to do with children on a long mo tor trip? 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