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MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1U1 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD,' ORE. ' Small Worlds Around Us lynn W. Watkim (Rediter ic Tribune syndicate, lltl) 12 A VS By . - ' ' few';'" Do You Slop North end South? Btir Girt It Some Thought It all started year ago when grandma came for an extend' ed visit. The lirst night, just before the kerosene lamp was , blown out, she exploded "What in the world are you , thinking about" she demanded to know, "placing that child's ' bed in that position?" "What possible difference docs it make" the child's mother asked, "whether the bed is pointed north and ; south, or east and west?" . "All the difference in th world," answered grandma. . "The child's head should al ways be toward the north, so that the electricity coming from the north passes length' ways through the body. Every one should sleep that way; never east and owest."' We discovered later that : grandma was not alone in her idea. Some of her friends be lieved that a child's growth would be stunted and that he , would experience all sorts of tantrums and stomach upsets unless the head was always toward the north. "It brings," they explained, "more vitality, and a more agreeable nature. Some of them even had some meager idea of magnetic fields; probably because of the action of a compass needle that always pointed north, and- they understood some- ' thing about that, even If many other factors of electrical ac tions were, at the time, un dreamed of: they even. knew that the air was fresher after a severe electrical storm. Those people who did not believe in .'the . "north-south sleeping position" treated it as a joke.' "Nothing to it" they said, and their stand was back : ed up by medical men of the time. , But science admits now that there may have been something to all this north and south business. Now we are a little more familiar with magnetic fields, polarity, and Us possible relationship with living things. Electrical im pulses and their actions have been pretty well Investigated. : We even toss around some high 'sounding words In refer: ence to these things, such a word i as 7, "magnetotropism1 which may become a common word very . soon. Arrival at this stage of accumulated knowledge has come about be cause some scientists have dis covered that plants grow bet ter when their roots, or stems, are pointed in 'the direction of the south magnetic pole reverse the little plant and It doesn't do so well; growth is slowed down, and it even gets puny and weak. If this ' works for plants, might It not also work In liv ing animals? It is altogether possible that grandma "had" something there she didn't uiv dcrstand, but firmly believed In; she may have been headed In the right direction without knowing a single thing about magnetic polarity. And to think, we laughed at grandma, whose superstition was way ahead of her time. Camp Fire Girls Bluebird. Sing The Eagle Point Bluebirds spent their last meeting of 1960 by going Christmas car olling after school one night. They returned to the school for hot chocolate. Among the Bluebirds and leaders who sang for residents during the heavy fog were girls in the Pretty Little Blue bird group under the direc tion of their leader, Mrs. Lyle Greenwood. They were Ruth Greb, Cheryl and Carol Smith, Ethel Haley, Karen Green wood, Patty Morrison and Ka ren Greb. Pretty Gay Blue birds, with Mrs. Le Roy Dra per as leader, also sang. Terry Arens, Paula Algoe, Rena Bishop, Judy Draper, Sheryll Machacck, Margy Martin, Sandy Meyer and Mary Sting er were in the group. Beauti ful Bucbirds, directed by Mrs. Loren Greenwood and M r s. 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