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Secret is a wonder-working medicated creme called DERMA-SOFT that softens and dissolves those tormenting, hard to remove growths , so that they rub right off, leaving akin silky smooth and soft. So don't suffer another minute. Get DERM A-SOFT at all druggists. PHOTO CREDITS Page 12i The National Foundation. A GIRL SCOUTING 1 U SERVES THE FUTURE I GIRL SCOUT WEEK MARCH 1016, 1963 Backache & I Nerve Tension I SECONDARY TO KIDNEY KfilHTKHI 1 After 21, common Kidney or Bladder Ir- s rttatlons affect twice as many woman as men and may make you tense and nervoua from too frequent, burnlna or Itching j urination both day and nlshl. Secondarily, you may loa Bleep and suffer from Head- jg aches. Backache and feel old. tired, de- $ -pressed. In such Irritation. OY8TIX usually brines fast, relaalna comfort by S cur bine Irrttattna terms In strona, acid S urine and by analsesle pain relief. Oet 3 OYSTBX at druasUU. Feel better fast. Mutter at a Movl I do not mind when they grope through And crunch my toe (with cleat!) And knock my spectacles askew To take adjacent seats. No, here's what makes my language blunts Five minutes pass, or ten, And then they spot some seats down front, And here we go again! Gtorgie Starbuck Galbrailh These days the most effective way to diet is to eat only what you can afford. Anna Herbert There's a rumor that Russia has a new weapon which can wipe out the entire United States without firing a shot they've got a poison glue to put on trad ing stamps. A group of New York financiers sent one of their members to Holly wood to pick a new head of the movie studio they owned there. He was instructed to select an execu tive who could bring organization out of its chaotic financial condi tion, and his return was anxiously awaited because he had picked a totally unknown minor officer. "It was like this," the financier explained to his colleagues. "All of us were visiting the set of a circus movie when one of the lions es caped his cage and started stalking around .angrily. Well, the way this man reacted, I knew he was execu tive caliber." "He rescued somebody?" "No," the financier replied, "while everybody else was scream ing and running around, this man calmly walked into the empty cage and locked himself in." James Shurlock A little boy had just heard about all the satellites and missiles we have been shooting into space, and he seemed deeply disturbed. His father asked him what was wrong. "I think we're making a mistake shooting things at Venus and Mars," he replied. "They're liable to get mad up there and stop send ing us pencils and candy bars." Frances Benson "It's my wife, doctor," the man told a psychiatrist "She's abnor mally softhearted why, the cried the other day because a dog had a broken leg." "Well," said the doctor, "that's not unusual. Many women might cry over a dog with a broken leg." The man shook his head. "If the dog is in a box of animal crackers?" Hugh Burr MEDICINE'S FIGHT (Continued jrom page 13) which can be treated is pseudoherma phroditism. This produces the carni val's "half man, half woman" or "bearded lady"; more commonly, fe male infants with this condition are reared as boys, despite their physical inadequacy. Ordinarily, the pituitary and adrenal glands work in conjunc tion to maintain hormone balance. When the adrenal gland fails, how ever, an excess of male hormones re sults. If the baby is female, she will grow up with bass voice, beard in other words, with male characteris tics so pronounced her life will be a freakish nightmare. It is avertable now because, having learned what went wrong, we can inject adrenal hormones into the infant and do what nature has not. Surgery corrects any physical malformation, and there are now cases where girls with this dis order, have grown up normally and had normal children of their own. What caused the adrenal gland and liver to go wrong? One theory for PKU brings us to the foundation of Family Wrrkly. March 10. 1M1 all living things the nucleic acids DNA (deoxribonucleicacid) and RNA (ribonucleic acid) which brought 1962 Nobel Frizes to the three scien tists who discovered their molecular structures. DNA is believed to contain the "code" which tells cells how to mul tiply, whether into bone, .fingernail, or muscle; RNA takes the messages and generates the conversion of chemicals to living protein. In PKU, the theory goes, the DNA code is off, and cells are commanded to form an organ which functions incorrectly. Before such theories can be proved, and before we can hope to con trol our heredity, we must be able to read the code within DNA. Already two U. S. doctors, J. Heinrich Mat thaei and Marshall W. Nirenberg, have taken the first step by reading one code word the instruction for making the important amino acid; phenylalanine. Further knowledge of DNA also has led a scientific team to correct the heredity of an imperfect human cell for the first time. Drs. Waclaw and Elizabeth Szybalski of the Univer sity of Wisconsin took bone marrow which failed to make a necessary enzyme; when the cell split, it pro duced other flawed cells. The doctors fed the flawed cell perfect DNA. When the cell multiplied this time, it passed on a cell with a perfect DNA code for further development So great are these new avenues of research that the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, with which I am associated, has undertaken a campaign to raise $50 million in de velopment funds. A major portion is earmarked for a substantial in crease in its research program and the rest for projects which will sup port this effort directly or indirectly. The late Dr. Thomas M. Rivers, medical director of the National Foundation, which also is carrying on extensive research on birth de fects, put our hopes this way: "In recent research, man has moved closer to the core of the mys tery of life than through all the cen turies that lie behind him ... It is not too much to expect that some day man will manipulate the nucleic acid in the cells of intact living bodies. When he can do that, he can determine, to some degree as yet im measurable, what kind of human beings will inhabit the earth." This is the ultimate dream, of course, and a far-off one. But it is coming closer.
