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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 6. 1962 B 3 They'll Dp It Every Time -- By Jir Hado The Medical Roundup I'onsultant In Medtrtne Me die I nt Mayo clinic Prufeuur of I Im.rltu. Mayo clime (Rifliter and Tribune Syndicate. 1962) MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON Bold Experiment in Dramatics Teaches Negro Slum Children By , JONATHAN KLEINBARD 'United Press International Philadelphia -I1MJ- Children in one of this city's toughest, most culturally bankrupt neighborhoods were exposed to the broad horizons of the arts this summer thanks to the vision of a slum district teacher and the many talents ' of a corps of volunteers from several states. The Philadelphia Theater for Children started out as a bold experiment in dramatics. Fulfilling that mission, its 12 member staff, unpaid volun teers from Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, and Michi gan, also taught their all-Negro, sub-teen students writ ing, reading, poetry and danc ing. - More than 100 children par ticipated in the program, which sprung up in a neigh borhood where poverty, ig norance, immorality and an acute disinterest in all things cultural were accepted norms. Productions Named Among the theater's several productions were Jean Coc tcau's modern play "Orphee" and Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex." Hiway 99 At The SPECIAL! HALE PEACHES CANNING BARTLETTS WE GROW IT teAcffERS tS WEAK GALLENKAMP'S BlueBird Shoes for Girls Little girl's saddle oxford with cushion crepe sole in black or red brush-to-clean nylon velvet or black glove leather or white smooth leather. Sizes 8V4 to 3, B, C and D widths. mora mlloa to a OallonKamo STORES ALSO Its last production was "The Silver Feather of The Bennu Bird," an original seven-scene play written by this reporter. The lead in "Orphee" was played by 10-year-old Arthur Purnell, who was a member of a special education class for retarded children in the Philadelphia School district before Christopher Speeth of Cleveland, director of the the ater took him in hand. Speeth teaches in one of the slum district's schools. Arthur now has a reading level several grades above the sixth grade which he enters this month. Like the other members of the cast, he mem orized within a week all his own lines in the 40-page play. For fun, Arthur also memoriz ed the rest of the play. The settlement-house type theater idea developed after Speeth directed a group of 10-year-olds in a full-length pro duction of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" last May. The production was well received and selections were given later at the Phila delphia Fine Arts Festival and at various schools and colleges in the area. Speeth, with the assistance THE PINK PIG Talent Junction lug $QO an orchard lug - YOU SAVE! 3.99 WRENTSV ASK FOR YOUR FREE "BARE FEET" BUTTON IN SALEM, PORTLAND, EUGENE and KLAMATH FALLS of Ross Gelbspan of Chicago, talked the African Methodist Episcopal church into donat ing a six-story vacant build ing in the slum area for the theater. The place was a wreck. Members of the theater's staff scraped walls, painted and did all the other work necessary to open the building. Joan Matonis of Schuylkill Haven, Pa., whose sister, Ann, teaches dance at the the ater, designed the costumes for the productions. Christina Muir, of Glendale, Ohio, arrived to head the dance program. Speeth's brother, Jeffrey, a drama stu dent from Cleveland, design ed and built the actual sixth floor theater. Another Cleve lander, Martin Purlich, a mu sician, also came East to help. James Rambeau, Northville, Mich., a graduate student, of fered his services as did Mel vin Baron, a college teacher from Brooklyn, N.Y. Charlie Chisolm, a minor league baseball player and jazz musician of Philadelphia, gave Jazz appreciation cours es. Neighborhood bus inesses contributed glass for the win dows, paint for the walls and other items. Churches raised money and offered their ser vices. The artistic staff also were the carpenters and painters. It wasn't easy to keep the eager children out of the building until the refurbish ing was finished. They walk ed in and tried to help. The staff found many of them scheduled for early sessions sticking around for afternoon classes, too. One child didn't even want to return home in the eve ning. Why not, she was asked. "No one is home when I come back," she said. "Another child kept show ing up at the theater covered with bruises. In reply to queries he re plied that because of the the ater's hours he arrived home 15 minutes late each evening and got a beating. He was changed to the earlier session, but still insisted on coming to the second series of classes. The neighborhood wants the theater to remain open through the winter. Residents drop around to watch the chil dren in their classes and to comment on the building's change from a six-story eye sore to a useful civic pro- I ject. - 4.99 little girl's black nylon velvet moccasin vamp slip on with black glove leather vamp and cushion crept sole. Sizes &Vi to 3, 8 and C widths. When New Drugs Prove To Be Harmful Today, the tragic experi ence of many mothers in Ger many has focused the atten tion of the world on a big problem, and one which is likely to be come more acute with time. When I was a boy, my father a phy s I c i a n had Alvar. avaiiBDie lo him mainly drugs of vege table origin, most of them with so little medicinal strength that today they are rarely used, and almost for gotten. They didn't do any good and they didn't do any harm. Today the situation is very different. Our drugstores are full of drugs of synthetic ori gin, many of them so power ful that we physicians have to keep using them with care keeping a constant watch over the patient, so as to make sure he stops taking the drug the day his skin breaks out or the day the number of white cells in his blood start dangerously to disappear. Occasionally, a new drug quickly starts causing trouble, and then the Food and Drug Administration people refuse to license it for sale. In other cases, a new drug works so well for the hundreds of persons who test it that it is licensed and sold. And then so many repor.s of bad reactions begin to come in that the manufacturer withdraws it quickly from the market. More often a drug will work well for a year or two, and then a few reports of serious blood injury or liver damage will begin to appear in our medical journals. Then, if the drug is a valuable one, the manufacturers will send out warnings to all the physicians in the , county to use it only with great care. To show how difficult the problem is, for some 20 years I have been prescribing a very . useful and wonderful drug that restores to health and usefulness hundreds of thousands of people. In all the last 20 years, none of my pa tients reported to me a bad reaction; then a few months ago, I heard of a dangerous one. Fortunately, I had warned the father of the girl to watch out for a bad re action, and so when her skin broke out he immediately stopped giving the drug. I then gave her another drug that is usually well tolerated, and she immediately proved to be sentitive also to that. Now I am giving her a drug which, so far, has agreed well with her. Apparently she is not sensitive to it. Now, if with the first drug, the gird had suddenly devel oped an "aplastic anemia," with too few white blood cells, and had died, should the father have sued me, to gether with the firm that makes the drug? He might, and a jury might have taken from me all of my life's savings. What then, in that case, should the drug firm have done? Should they have stop- 5& MEDFORD SHOPPING CENTER ped marketing the drug be cause one patient in a half million was hypersensitive to it? No; the government could not have permitted them to stop making and selling the drug because every day in every land it working miracles of healing for hundreds of thousands of people. My heart goes out to all those parents of a lovely child who was lost because of a bad drug reaction, but still 1 think that in most cases the cause of the disaster was not any fault of the doc tor who gave it or of the firm that sold it; the fault was with the abnormal sensitive ness of the child. Let us take as an example aspirin, which must be a very safe drug because millions of us Americans take it, and I read that tons of the substance are sold every year. But even this is not entirely or perfect ly safe. One of my daughters is so sensitive to it that she cannot touch it. If she were to take a good-sized dose, it might kill her. If it did. would her husband be justi fied in suing the makers of aspirin and the druggist who sold her the drug? Obviously not. Here is another example; for perhaps 20 years a urolo gist friend of mine, working in a great medical center, gave thousands of injections of a drug which, with the help of x-rays, very often gives a very valuable picture of the insides of the kidneys, together with very helpful in formation as to their func tioning. For 20 years the urologist had no trouble, and then one day a man came in who was so sensitive to the drug that he had a severe re action in which he died. As I remember, the widow sued the urologist and the hospi tal for a huge sum. So far as I could see, the urologist was blameless, as was the genius who originally devised the drug, and the firm that made and sold it. If the fault is anywhere, it is in the condition of the unfor tunate man who unlike 100, 000 of his fellows, was overly sensitive. When a jury awards the widow of such a man a huge sum in damages, what do our courts really want done? Do they want the firm to stop selling the drug, and do they want urologists everywhere to stop using it? Surely not, because that would mean poor medical examinations for millions of people with diseased kidneys. I think the answer Is In be found in an inexpensive "dis aster insurance" to cover such rare unfortunate re actions. If I were having my kidneys x-rayed I would be willing to pay the premium for such an insurance policy. Migraine headaches should be completely understood by their sufferers. Dr. Alvarez has prepared a brand new 25 cent booklet called "Mi graine." You may get your copy by sending 25 cents and a self-addressed, stamped en velope with your request to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept. MMT, The Register and Trib une Syndicate, Box 957, Dcs Moines 4, Iowa. Graduate School Gets Fellowships Eugene The University of Oregon Graduate School has received $167,500 from the U.S. office of education for 22 additional National De fense Education Fellowships for the 1962-63 academic year, Dr. Harry Alport, Graduate School dean, has announced. The new awards raise to 96 the number of such fellow ships given to the University of Oregon Graduate School since the program began four years ago. For the preceding academic year the University of Oregon received $165,000 for 26 fel lowships. The National Defense Edu-1 cation Fellowships were es tablished by Congress to raise the level of graduate work in the nation. Several new fac ulty members have been ad ded to the University of Ore gon Graduate School to meet the increase In graduate work. In the 1962-63 academic year the University of Oregon Graduate School will be able to offer fellowships in three new programs. These include four fellowships in economics, four In mathematics, and two In physics. 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