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I GOP Candidate
Gunnar Demands
Congressmen
Clarify Stand
Pendleton-HJPII -Oregon Re
publican Chairman Peter Gun
nar Tuesday demanded that
Democratic Reps. Al Ullman,
Edith Green and Charles Por
ter clarify their position on
an "appeasement statement"
taken by Democratic Senate
Candidate Maurine Neubcrgcr
on West Berlin and Formosa.
- Addressing Umatilla Coun
ty GOP workers here, Gun
nar said in late September
Mrs. Neuberger said in Salem
he would "not favor risking
nuclear war to defend West
Berlin and Formosa and she
was immediately opposed by
Republican Candidate Elmo
Smith."
Said Their Duty
"As of today," Gunnar said,
"we have not heard whether
the Democratic congressional
delegation from Oregon sup
ports this appeasement posi
tion of Mrs. Neuberger. It is
the duty of Mrs. Green, and
Reps. Ullman and Porter to
state their position in this
matter."
Gunnar said it is of "grave
importance that all voters
know where their elected rep
resentatives stand on this sug
gestion that we knuckle under
to the Communists."
About one-half of the total
area of New Jersey is devoted
to agriculture, some of it in
truck gardens.
OF SMITH & MEN
By Jack Smith
(e) 19S0 Tlmei-Mlrror Syndicate
"There's a professor at I
MIT," I mentioned the other
evening at dinner, "who has
taught a machine how to play
checkers."
"Do you think," my wife
said, "there's too much Par
mesan in the zucchini?"
"Is that all you can say?" I
asked.
"Well, it's what I want to
know. Is there? It's a new
recipe."
"Ye gods!" I said. "Don't
you know what that means?"
"Well, good heavens," she
said. "Why get all upset over
a little zucchini. Here, give
me back your plate."
"Never mind the zucchini,"
I cried. "I'm talking about the
professor, at MIT. He taught
a machine how to play check
ers!" "What's MIT?"
"Oh Lord," I sighed. "That
doesn't matter at all. That
part of it's insignificant. The
important thing is that this
machine learned how to play
checkers. If a machine can
learn how to play checkers,
for lord's sake, what next?"
"I don't know," she said.
"Chess?"
"Thai's not the point," I
said. "Checkers. Chess. The
game doesn't make any differ
ence. It could just as well be
Pachisi. Except that idiot
game would even bore a ma
chine to death."
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"I don't think it's an idiot
game at all," she said. "We
used to play it when I was a
little girl. We used to sit on
the floor and eat ginger snaps
and drink lemonade and play
Pachisi."
"Doesn't it worry you at
all?"
"No. Why should it?" she
said. "It's only a memory.
Why should a memory worry
anybody. Sometimes I think
you're getting neurotic."
"I mean the machine who
plays checkers," I said.
"Aren't you worried about
that?"
"To tell you the truth," she
said, "1 never liked checkers.
To me it was just red. black
king, jump. I never had-any
iun."
Look I said. "Not only
lias tnis man taught this ma
chine how to play checkers
but now the machine can beat
him! How do you like that?
"Well, I don't suppose it
would be much fun if the man
won all the time," she said.
"Maybe he just lets the ma
chine win now and then. Re
member when we first played
tennis, how I used to let you
win?
"That's different," I said. "I
was trained for basketball. Be
sides, you were in love."
"Well, maybe this professor
is in love with his machine.
"That's it!" I cried. "You've
got it! You see? If a machine
cannot only learn to play
checkers but can also beat its
own teacher, well they're get
ting practically human. The
next thing you know they'll
have emotions."
"I don't see," she said, "why
just because somebody is good
at checkers it means he's hu
man or emotional."
"Theoretically," I explained,
"you can make a machine do
whatever you want it to do.
But if the machine gets so
smart it begins to think, and
to have feelings, then it can
turn on you."
t
'I know," she said. "Re
member that juke box in
Honolulu? When we were
first married? Whenever you
put a nickel in it to play 'Har
bor Lights' you always got
Im in the Mood for Love . '
"Yes, I remember," 1 said.
"And when you put a nickel in
for 'I m in. the Mood for Love
you didn't get 'Harbor Lights.'
You got Nelson Eddy."
"I'm afraid there is," she
said.
"Is what?" I said dreamily.
I was adrift in the past.
"Too much Parmesan in the
zucchini."
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State Department Tuesday
discounted but would not deny
reports that the United States
may be considering a reduc
tion of Its troop strength in
Germany.
Eyes
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By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune
Washington Correspondent
Washington-The two presi
dential candidates have indi
ratprl thov would, if elected,
go off in op
p o s ile direc
tions on the
complex farm
issue.
Vice Presi
dent Ft 1 c h
ard M. Nixon
would g e ner
a 1 1 y favor a
gradual with
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federal government from con
trolling the nation's farm
economy.
Sen. John F. Kennedy
would institute the toughest
control program ever design
ed for agriculture to cut com
modity surpluses and raise
farm income.
The farm issue is a major
one in the campaign because
it is generally agreed that the
efforts of the past eight years
have failed to resolve the
problems of mounting sur
pluses and falling net income
for the farmer. Secretary of
Agriculture Ezra T. Benson,
the controversial symbol of
these years, has been sent on
a goodwill trip to South
America to avoid being an
embarrassment to the Repub
lican ticket.
The Eisenhower administra
tion made some headway in
its program. It did reduce the
farm price supports, increase
surplus disposal at home and
abroad, remove 30 million
acres from production through
the soil bank. But as of now
farm income is down 25 per
cent below eight years ago
while non-farm income has
risen; and the government in
vestment in stored wheat,
corn, cotton, barley, butter,
rice, dried milk, soybeans,
peanuts, grain sorghums and
other minor commodities
amounts to $8.5 billion; and
the portion of the annual fed
eral budget devoted to financ
ing farm programs Is $5.6 bil
lion, second only to national
security and interest on the
national debt.
Although the government
has failed to cope successfully
with these conditions, it is not
alone to blame for them. The
postwar agricultural revolu
tion has brought advances to
the farm which have provid
ed increased productivity on
less land at a rate beyond the
consumptive needs of the pop
ulation. The issue in the campaign
is where do we go from here?
Would Reject Concept
Nixon, speaking in general
terms, has said he would re
ject the concept that federal
controls can bring the farm
economy into balance on in
come and supply and demand.
His emphasis would be on
whittling down the surplus
stocks in hand by giving
greater paymcnts-in-kind of
government -owned commodi
ties from the storage bin to
farmers who agree to plant
less. His program also men
tions converting more of the
surplus into high protein foods
to upgrade diets at home and
abroad.
Once supplies came into
line with demand, Nixon says
the government should with
draw from the farm economy,
abolish production controls
and start a new system of
nrice supports based on the
average market price of each
commodity in the years im
mediately preceding a crop
year. This would reduce sup
port levels.
Kennedy starts from the
premise that the government
must help the farmer manage
his supply If he is lo have the
bargaining power in the mar
ket that industry has for its
products when it produces
only what the market can ab
sorb to prevent falling prices.
He advocates "supply man
agement" which would be
Truman Deplores
Ike's Cuba Stand
New York -UiPD- Former
President Harry S. Truman
Tuesday charged the Eisen
h o w e r administration "re
fused to enforce the Monroe
Doctrine" in regard to Cuba
and allowed Communism to
move "5,000 miles closer to
our shores."
"We should have just told
them they couldn't come in,"
Truman said of the Communist-tinged
regime of Cuban
Premier Fidel Castro. "Presi
dent Grover Cleveland did
the same thing in Venezuela.
"There should have been a
man in the White House who
knew where he was going to
go and what he was going to
do. That is what happened in
regard to Korea."
SOUSA MAJOR DIES
Chicago tUPH Jack (Pea
cock) Kelly, 63, onetime drum
major for John Philip Sousa
and leader of the Great Lakes
Navy band, died Monday.
EDITOR DIES
White Plains. N.Y. - IWli -James
F. Gressler, 41, editor
and vice president of the
White Plains Reporter Dis
patch, died Monday.
The Medical Roundup
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Consultant In Medlrlnt
Mayo Cltnlr
Emeritus Pruressor of Medlcint
.Mayo Clinic
(Rrtliter and Tritium Syndicate,
I960)
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handled differently for each
commodity, depending on its
needs. Devices would include
strict marketing or sales quo
tas, direct subsidies, market
ing orders and agreements,
land retirements, flexible
price supports.
'Parity of Income'
Farmers should have "par
ity of income," argues Ken
nedy. By that he means the
farmer should get a price for
his commodity which repre
sents a fair return on his capi
tal, labor and management.
For example, according to a
Kennedy farm adviser, it
means a farmer with an in
vestment of $100,000 in land,
buildings and equipment
ought to earn at least as much
as "a good plumber." He
ought to get a four per cent
return on this investment,
plus $100 a week for his la
bor, plus $1,000 a year for hi
management skill, yielding a
parity of income of $10,200.
Nixon claims that Kenne
dy's program would result in
a 25 per cent increase in con
sumer food - prices. - Kennedy
denies this.
The problem isn't so simple
for either candidate, for only
Congress can enact necessary
legislation to alter the govern
ment's approach to the farm
issue. In Congress there are
conflicting interests repre
sented by sectional represent
atives some senators want
high supports for the crops of
their states, such as cotton
and tobacco, corn or wheat
and by the shift of power in
the country trom the rcral to
the urban areas. Either man,
as the new president, will
have to exercise his fullest
powers of lrfluence to engi
neer a new farm program.
Types ind Stages of Asthma
Every week dozens of un
happy wheezy people write
asking how they can get rid
of their asth
ma. I imagine
they hope I'll
send a magic
p r cscription,
but I cannot,
if only be
cause there
arc so many
causes for
asthma, and I
cannot guess
correspondent
has. He may be highly aller
gic, or he may have a badly
damaged lung., or a damaged
heart, or he may be going
into a spell of asthma when
ever his wife goes on an alco
holic bender.
As I think back over the
stories of some of my patients
with asthma, I can remember
well the man who alniosl quit
wheezing when I took away
from him his favorite pillow
full of goose feathers - to
which he was highly sensi
tive. 1 remember the girl who
got well when her doctor
made her get rid of her cat.
Unfortunately, when I hud
seen her, 1 hadn I had sense
enough to do this. I remem
ber the wealthy girl who got
asthma whenever she rode
her favorite horse. I remem
ber the wife who got asthma
in severe spells al night. By
having her keep a diary, I
discovered that the spells
came whenever she made bis
cuits and breathed in some of
the flour as she sifted it.
I remember so well the
woman who lost her asthma
the day she came to the Mayo
Clinic to sec me and stayed
in a hotel in Rochester, On
asking, I found that she
would be well when she went
to visit one sister, but not
when she visited with another
sister. After doing some de
teclive work along these lines,
I asked her husband, who was
a builder, to examine the
houses in which she never
wheezed. He soon found that
the difference was that in the
"bad" houses there was much
use made of a pressed type of
board. When he man sent me,
in an envelope, some dust
scraped off of this type of
board. When the man sent me
woman, scattered this dust
into the air in my office she
got asthma as soon as she
came in.
Can Give Pleasure
This type of detective work
in the diagnosis of asthma can
give a physician great pleas
ure, particularly when 11
quickly leads to relief of his
patient.
I remember how my old
professor used to tell us stu
dents that in order to become
asthmatic one should be born
with a tendency to it. Then,
one should keep running into
some allergen such as a dust,
or an animal dandruff, or
some tiny feathers, or some
pollen, or some bacterium or
mold.
Often, in his childhood, the
person who is headed for
asthma wilt suffer much from
hay fever. Sometimes the liny
fever seems to lead Hie child
over inlo asthma.
Sometimes there appears to
be a psychic factor. Half of
the children with severe and
chronic asthma who arc taken
to the Jewish Home for such
children in Denver lose their
wheezing as soon as they go
in the front door. Perhaps in
their home they were upset
by two very worried and
fussy parents, or parents who
were constantly fighting or
talking about divorce1.
As I have often said in this
column, half of the patients
suffering in an attack o f
asthma can get relief if just
put into a hospital, Why is
this? Probably because in a
hospital room the patients
gets away from much "house
dust" to which he is very sen
sitive. The hospital room is
kepi clean and fairly free
from dust, and it has a mo
nastic simplicity - witli out
stuffed chairs, drapes and car
pets. An asthmatic friend of
mine suffered a severe flare
up of his disease when his
wife made him move into a
luxuriously furnished apart
ment. Every night he set up
for hours wheezing away; and
it was all due to the expensive
carpet the woman had bought.
Changes Take Place
As my old professor used to
say: with asthma, you have
heredity, and then you may
have to have irritant dusts
Finally, after years of wheez
ing and hard coughing, perm
anent changes lake place,
particularly in the thousands
of little air-sacs In tile lungs,
They keep dilating and rup
turing', one into the other,
until the person has a bad em
physema - something that will
be a handicap to him for the
rest of his days. Always,
thereafter, he will have a ten
dency to be short of breath.
The health of many asth
matics is menaced by colds.
These get the victim to cough
ing and wheezing. After the
asthmatic gets past 40 he may
be a bit wheezy most of the
time. In the worst cases, the
taking of every breath is an
effort. This effort is all the
harder because the man's
lungs may be al all times ex
panded as far as they can go.
As a result, the chest becomes
barrel-shaped, and the mus
cles in the front of the neck,
which tend to lift up and
open up the chest, are con
stantly contracted. Also, with
an old asthma, hurtful
changes take place in the
right side of the liearl-which
pumps blond through the
lungs. With all these changes,
the man's wind gels worse,
perhaps so bad that Ile gets
all out of breath just trying
to put on his clothes in the
morning. His face becomes
"pinched" and In- looks anx
ious.
Obviously, in order to avoid
these final stages of asthma,
a man ought to make great
efforts to conquer the disease
in his youth.
Dr. Alvarez' booklet on
asthma, allergy and hay fever
may be obtained by sending;
25 cents and a large, stamped,
self-addressed envelope witli
your request to Dr. Walter C.
Alvarez, Dept. MMT, The
Register and Tribune Syndi
cate. Box 957, Des Moines 4,
Iowa.
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