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WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 1. 1962
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Hypersensitivity
Many persons appear to be
born hypersensitive, like the
persons who. in late summer,
"" react violent
ly i- 1 . I ly to the many
pollen grains
which enter
their inoses to
produce hay
fever or asth
ma. Millions
of other per
s o n s are
breathing in
Alvarra lne '' P'
len grains, but they are not
reacting violently enough to
be ill.
Much of what I now go on
to say may be hard to under
stand; much of it is hard for
me to understand myself, but
perhaps I can give my read
ers some glimpse of the new
Ideas which are now becom
ing more and more important
in medicine.
Much information is being
obtained of late in regard to
these hypersensitivities, and
some surprising facts are
being learned. Perhaps most
surprising is the .Idea that
some of us can at times be
come seriously 111 when we
react violently to some of
our own proteins (the main
chemicals in meat).
One of the first diseases of
this type was the so-called
serum sickness, which in
some persons can be violent
after a little horse serum has
been injected to give protec
tion against an Infectious dis
ease. When in 1918, one of my
children had a severe pneu
monia she was given an anti
serum. Soon thereafter she
developed a scrum sickness
which was almost as bad as
the pneumonia. She broke out
all over with "hives," and a
rash; she had fever, tremen
dous itching, and a great deal
of discomfort. Fortunately,
she cleared up entirely. Prob
ably even today some 40
years later, it would be dan
gerous to give her even a tiny
dose of horse serum; she
might get another violent re
action. Sickness Can Develop
It has been shown that rah
It has been shown with rab
bits that some, when injected
with an antigen (a foreign
protein) do not develop an
antibody, others - have low
levels of antibody formation,
and some have large amounts
of antibody circulating in
their blood. It is in the third
group that acute serum sick
ness can develop. According
to Drs. Raymond D. A. Peter
son and Robert A. Good, the
rabbits which, when injected,
get low levels of antibody
production can develop chro
nic nephritis a kidney dis
ease which is similar to that
which developes in some men
and women.
Another explanation for
the development of curious
diseases in some persons is
their lack of the gamma glo
bulin which is normally
found In the hlonri. As many
parents now know, if inject
ed quickly, gamma globulin
ran save their children from
rnming down with an attack
of measles or hepatitis. Re
cently, research workrrs have
found that adults who lack
gamma globulin easily can
get what is called a collagen
disease such as rheumatoid
arthritis, dermatomyositis (in
which the skin and the
muscles under the skin are
Inflamed), or a generalized
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lupus erythematosus, or a
thrombotic leukopenic pur
pura (in which the person
gets black and blue spots
under the skin, together with
other troubles.) It appears
that the person who can make
only minute qualtitics of anti
bodies is the one who, when
a "foreign protein" enters the
body, is likely to develop
chronic diseases of the ar
teries. Another difficulty of some
people is called ATOPY. This
is a term much used by aller
gists. The patients are subject
to asthma, hay fever, and
eczema; and mixed up in the
production of the symptoms,
is a substance called hista
mine. This is released when
the invading antigen and the
skin-sensitizing antibody com
bine. Some of the persons
who arc subject to atopic dis
ease lack gamma globulin.
Another peculiarity of our
human rear-lions to invading
proteins is the development
of what are called cross-reacting
antibodies. For in
stance, In cases of so-called
infectious mononucleosis, (an
infection of young people)
there is what is called a
heterophile antibody. This re
acts, not with the as-yet un
known virus, but with other
substances. Peculiar anti
bodies may be at fault also
in cases of lupus erythema
tosus. Changes Take Place
Peculiar Is what is called
sympathetic ophthalmia.
When a person loses one eye,
due perhaps to a penetrating
injury, changes 'sV? place in
the proteins of that eye which
cause the body to regard it
as a foreign body. According
ly, autobodies develop against
it, and these can soon destroy
the other eye. Often the only
way to save the good eye is
quickly to remove the injured
eye.
Today, there is tremendous
interest in the discovery that
although the body generally
will not make antibodies
against Its own tissues, when
slight changes take place in
the antigenic characteristics
of some tissue, this tissue can
then be regarded by the body
as a foreign substance, which
must be destroyed. Then
there is trouble! For instance,
in certain diseases of the kid
ney one can demonstrate in
the patient s blood antibodies
which tend to injure the
kidneys.
Another peculiar feature of
immunity is that some body
cells, when they combine with
some chemical which has
been given as a medicine, be
have as antigens which then
are attacked by the body.
Perhaps this explains how a
disease such as lupus erythe
matosus can be produced tem
porarily by the taking of a
certain drug.
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Edith Green Leads Supporters
Seeking Equal Pay for Women
By YVONNE FRANKLIN
Mill Tribune Washington
Bureau
Washington (Special) -Rep.
Edith Green and a pha
lanx of supporters marched
through the
House of Rcp-resenta-t
i v e s with
banners f 1 y
ing for equal
pay for wom
en last week,
although the
Dcm o c r a t s
fell back for
rr.nkim Rcpub 1 i c a n
amendments.
Mrs. Green, who has been
prodding congressional lead
ers on this bill ever since she
came to Congress, handled
much of the debate during
the four-hour House battle.
She was flanked at the lend
er's table by Ni thwest Dem
ocratic Reps. Julia Butler
Hansen of Washington and
Gracie Pfost of Idaho, and
tilted microphone lances
with GOP Reps. Catherine
May of Washington and Kalh
erine St. George of New York
who I e d Republicans in
amending the bill to change
key wording.
For the second time in his
tory a woman, Rep. Edna
Kelly (D-N.Y.) sat in the ex
alted speaker's chair as
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chairman of the whole House
during the debate. She had
a very busy time. Amend
ments flew about like rock
ets. The hubbub of voice frus
trated speakers;, members
were continually assailed by
raucus cries of "vote, vote"
and order had to be restored
countless times.
Tlu bill as written stated
that no employer who hires
over 25 workers in interstate
commerce "shall discriminate
between employees on the
basis of sex by paying wages
to any employee at a rale
less than the rate at which
he pays wages to any em
ployee of the opposite sex
for work of comparable char
acter on jobs the perform
ance of which requires com
parable skills."
Mrs. St; George, known to
be an ardent feminist, proved
to be a brilliant field gen
eral for the GOP when at
the beginning of debate she
moved to amend the bill by
substituting the word "equal"
for "comparable."
She claimed "comparable"
gave too much latitude to la
bor arbiters. Democratic op
ponents argued that past la
bor arbitration history had
established the word "com
parable" as a classic word
capable of enforcement, and
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that "equal" was not enforce
able.
But Mrs. St. George with
rhetoric skill and a gift for
the emotionally w i n n i n g
phrase quoted Susan B. An-thony-C'Men
their rights and
nothing ,moro; women their
rights and nothing less") add
ing a ringing "Equality is
what we want and nothing
more and nothing less."
Mrs. St. George sunk the
Democrats and won laughter
and applause by quoting from
the Declaration of Independ
ence that "all men are cre-
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ated equal." She asked the
Democrats if they would
change that to "all men are
created comparable."
- Although her forces lost this
skirmish, .Mrs. Green predict
ed later that the wording
would be changed back to
"comparable" in conference.
The Senate has not yet pass
ed an equal pay bill this ses
sion. '
Another disputed point
was the bill's provision which
forbad employers from low
ering the wages of male em
ployees in order to pay equal
wages to both men and wom
en. The Republicans success
fully deleted this section
amid Democratic cries of an
guish that this was "a step
backward and a move to de
press wages."
Republicans argued, and
Democrats Green and Labor
subcommittee chairman Her
bert Zelinko did not answer
the charge, that tUs word
ing allowed the employers no
flexibility. Charles Goodell
(R-N.Y.) argued that if an
employer was faced with a
huge loss because of having
to pay women more and
might go out of business they
might fire women or "try to
devise some means of evad
ing the law."
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Republican and southern
Democratic efforts to substan
tially change her bill, Mrs.
Green strode to the well
(front) of the House on a
crucial amendment which
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exempting from the law those
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"I think now we see the
publicans have done," she
said. "They have taken out
of the bill the enforcement
procedures. They have said
upon the record 'Oh, we love
women and we want women
to be paid the same wages
men are paid, but we make
it impossible to enforce the
federal law, then we say that
the federal law has no mean
ing - that the state laws will
take precedence." j
The House quieted while
she was talking on this point,
and she was joined by Rcpub-
licans, among them Cather
ine May of Washington, who
opposed the amendment. It
was defeated.
When the bill was passed
by voice vote, applause swept
the Chamber and Mrs. Green
was soon surrounded by
members congratulating her
on the victory. She said later
that although she was dis
appointed in the successful
amendments which changed
"comparable" to "equal" and
which had no safeguard in
preventing employers from
lowering salaries, she was
happy that the bill had
passed.
"This is the first time an
equal pay law has passed the
House. This country has
made great progress in dis
crimination against other mi
nority groups, but we have
lagged behind so far as prej
udices against women is con
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