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16 A TUESDAY, JUNE 4. 1913 MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON fry 1 They'll Do kj;very Time By Jimmy Hatlo 3 S-VIu" fe3&h V-.4 .UP "OUERS, & BALI- SENT STAN0SEEIN6A WW M) OTHER TEAM A DUMB ANIMAL A-3 (m"- TO THE I TAKE r " fJXi.il , - i TUUOSPITAL I Kief f..i.V FeELING FOB LUSHWEIX, THE TENDERHEARTED TOURIST WHO IN TURN FEELS FOR THE BULL 7r 43 A UATlfi HAT VP TO 1 J7: CuURf 0U1MD A- laNAUa .XI " i-jr-TaV,. Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. 'TRUTH JN PACKAGING Tho odds now appear against pasgagn by this session of Congress of the highly controversial "Trulli In Packaging" bill, but It could squeak throutfh Hurl If 1 were a business man who might be affected by Ihla precedent-shattering legislation, I'd luke this as an Invltutlon In bc-ut Congrcgg lo the gun. I would begin at once to attract moro customers and make fuller profits by telling the American cnniiunier that I already am doing everything the bill would force me to do and not doing anything the bill would orhlcl me in do. I would put over tills message loud and clour by every medium. I would do it In whatever role I playcd as u man ufacturer, distributor, designer, package or retailer of per gonal and household gooda (the ao-callcd "kitchen and bath room" Itcma). The Truth In Packaging bill It the first major Icglalutlon ever Introduced In Congrea to control the packaging and labeling practices of American businessmen. It us strongly opposed by the Chamber of Commerce, the National Aa (ociation of Manufacturers, many Individual businessmen, but it also ! strongly supported by consumer groups, labor unions, top offlciult of tho admlnlalrutlon. A Senate subcommittee, headed by Mlchlgun's Democratic Sen. Philip A. Hart, has completed hearings on the legisla tion and a subcommittee vote could come any day. "Willi luck," says subcommittee, the bill rould reach the Semite floor In July. A companion, bill bas been introduced In tin House by Brooklyn's Demouruljc Rup, Emanuel Celler, and If the bill passes the Suiiulu, hourinijs will immediately be arranged for a Huuao subuommittoa.. Thu "foubnii'' is that the Senate subcommittee spukosinuii: ia axuituunitiiiu whun he says, "Wo think Ilium's, a good eimneo Una your." But tho bill obviously, is buini! tuken senoiuly; it- could hip through. Sine being introduced, ih bill, has bean modified and Hart himself intends lo recommend that provision foe criminal penalties in the event: of violation be eliminated from the bill. The key elauaea, though, remain. The bill would demand that the net weight or unit con tent of a package be displayed prominently on the front panel of a package in unqualified terms. It would prohibit "deceptive" packages oversize boxes filled far below the buyer's expectations. It would set standards for meaningful site designations and servings a two-pound package couldn't be hailed as the super-griper two pound package, and a one pours'! TV meal serving twe couldn't be culled a serving for lour. !l would ban "cents o.f" and "economy sl.c" promo tions which are misleading and are only comc-on. U and hcn this bill becomes law, il could be tough on the businessman who goes In for deception packaging and labeling gimmicks. But the vast majority of manufacturers, mailers, packagers, designers, etc, do not go In for this. "Why, then, shouldn't an honest businessman turn the adverse publicity about practices which confuse, mislead or deceive consumers to his own advantage? Here Is an opportunity to: (!) Review all your own practices aguinst the background oi this Truth In Packaging legislation to make sure you arc not deliberately or Inadvertently carrying on unfair or de ceptive practices. If you arc deceiving us, we already arc auspicious of your products and you should waste no time in regaining our confidence. (J) Work out I program to tell us that you ara In lact doing everything right and nothing wrong. This sort of ad In any newspaper would impress me, and I'm a housewife and shopper. I would appreciate big prominently displayed labels on packages which I could understand quickly as 1 walk though the supermarket. I wouldn't miss the phony cents of and economy sise sales gimmicks which never have fooled m anyway, and I'm no great brain In the grocery store. (3) Plan public appearances by your company's nfflcltils andor meetings with customers, suppliers, etc., so that all your audiences know you slund on this question of mislead ing consumers. You can't defend cheating consumers-- so turn it around and get the maximum benetit out o( not cheating us. Then no matter what happens to the Truth in Packging bill, you'll come out ahead. Family V'" Council Miinr'i M"i: The rgmlly Coun rSI cun.l.le nf a lijSea. a nityrhla IrlM, three clergymen, a new.liarier rrlllor, a Humrn't editor, and two writer., Kat-n arllrla l a unimary ? an ai-lilal cane hUlory, The 'ritiluil rruoru on nrohlemg that have been dealt Willi by reapon- inia agem'ief ana roiinkeiors. (t:iiiyrlght IDS! tleneral featurei Corp,) Daniel I, - Ho nurtures grievances Instead of letting lliein fudc, Henry I, - Some things Just can't be forgiven or forgotten. e Daniel I. - I'm from Eng land, In America on a short visit to my relations. I'm shocked to find Uncle Henry still rolling out his old cata log of complaints about the "slights," the slings and ar rows he's suffered from mem bers of the family and former friends. He's in his 60s now and if he doesn't change, he'll have mighty few visitors In his old age. Henry I. - Dun has been an attentive nephew. He writes me a few times a year and has spent several evenings with me on this trip. Bui his American cousins and their parents have been Insulting and scornful toward me, and I -can't conceal my disgust with thcrn. How would you feel about a niece living a block away who never calls? The Council: What would Uncle Harry think of a fel low who wrapped his gall atones, say. in cotton batting and spent hours gazing at them, just so he has beefs, gripes and kicks (really his millstones ) strung out as the trophies of his life! Dan shows proper repugnance at the dis play. Mr. I. should learn the trait of personality that makes another man, perhaps as "ill used" us he, dump his hurts down tho druin und preserve Instead a mental ".icwelcusc filled only with uplifting memories. The difference is one of health, mental and emo tional. One reason she never calls on Mr. I. may be that she knows a visit would be clouded over with whines, re proaches and recriminations such as Daniel cites. Were Mr. I. a hip-hip up-beat sort of uncle, one who count? his blessings the way a curator catalogues his art-treasures, thai niece would man a Re lo pop in. She'd know her uncle appreciated , her problems, didn't just wallow in his own Sllns Murncr had his Eppic to change his outlook. Uncle Henry needs a clergyman, doc tor, or counselor to "spring clean" his storehouse of rem Iniscenses. Autos Responsible For! U.S. Economy As Envy . of World New Vork'-tTfr- The stream of autos which dog the na tion's highways produce trag edy, exasperation add frustra tion, but it represents a way of life that has made Amer ica's economy the envy of the world. As the auto industry goes so goes the economy rnay be ov erstating (he case, but it is becoming increasingly evi dent that what is' good for that industry is good for the country. Within this context the statement recently by Ccncr al Motors Chairman Frederic Donncr that sales of 7 milion cars a year has become "the normal yardstick" for the auto industry certainly bodes well for the future business out look. Sales Climbing Going o"ne step' ' farther GM'i President John Gordon recently stated: "We could be looking at a situation not long from now when 8 or 9 million car sales a year will be nor mal." : Meanwhile, mid -May auto sales tooled along al an an nual rate of nearly 7,500,000, which would, if sustained, crack the 1953 record. But most auto officials will glad ly settle for the 7 million fig ure compared with 6,900,000 last year. Detroit's performance was! reflected in steel mill output last week which climbed for the third consecutive week to the highest level since mid- March I960. Production total ed 2,626,000 tons, up 0.8 per cent from the prior week. The increase lifted production so far this year ahead of the 1962 pace for the first time. Mill officials said, however, that incoming orders are un der the April peak because users have placed most of their stockpiling orders against the possibility of a strike. Efforts to reach an ac cord In preliminary steel la bor talks are coming down to the wire. . . In another steel develop ment, the seventh-ranked steel company , Youngstown Sheet & Tube, announced it is jumping into the competi tive battle for a larger share of the Midwest steel market. The steelmaker said it would build an $30 million sheet mill in the Chicago dis trict. U. S. Steel, Bethlehem, Inland and National have al ready committed sizable sums to expand in the nation's larg est consuming region. Machine tool orders - a tip off to expectations of future factory activity - remained brisk in April, rising nearly 30 per cent over the same month lust year. The marked ly Improved trend has been in evidence aincc January and some Industry officials are confident II will continue through most of the year. Miss Cornell Accepts Teaching Position Joanna Lou Cornell, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hen son, 2000 Wcsterlund dr., has accepted a position as a .social science teacher with the Long Beach Unified school district, Long Beach, Calif. " Miss Cornell is scheduled to be graduated in August from Southern Illinois univer sity, Carbondalc, 111., with a major in social sciences. The Medical Roundup by . .rVT. .ear a 1 1 J i g Cauritw ConeeltBM ta kgaeleiae May Cluue Eaaernsa rro(aaar mt MaallUH Stay CttMIc ' (Baiiaur aaa Trlbs lialkau, lit)) - ml TA Pain at Minimum With Modern Dentistry St. Louis - IUPII - Dr. Irving 11. Goldstein of Atlanta, Ga., says every effort should be made "to erase the public image of the dentist as one who inflicts pain." Those days are gone, he said at the dental convention here. With modern preventa tive dental health and the advancement of techniques, "little or no pain is involved in modern dentistry,'' Gold stein said. Cigarettes and Lung Cancer I must point out again, as I have before a number ot times in thii column, that some 20 stud ies now have shown that people who are heavy cig arette smok ers are much more than normally sub ject to the de velopment of Aarei cancer in the bronchi (the tubes which car ry air into and out of the lungs). It has also been shown that cigarette smoke contains several carcinogens - chemi cal substances which can pro duce cancer if repeatedly rub bed into the skin of a rabbit or a mouse. I have been much interest ed in the work of Auerbach and his co-workers who show ed the marked swelling of the inner lining of the bron chi that is to be found in peo ple who smoke two or three packages of cigarettes a day. The exlensivcncss of these changes goes hand in hand with the amount of smoking done. The changes in the lin ing of the bronchi can account for a bad cigarette cough, and they can account for the fact that sometimes when a chain smoker gets pneumonia, he dies Within a couple of days, because he has no resistance to infection. Anothcr-fact which to me is very significant is that of ten in the much-swollen inner lining of the bronchi of heavy smokers, one can see what are called "pre - cancerous changes;" in other words, one can see the beginnings of the cancers which will form later. Tested on Dogs Because some men have not been satisfied with the inter pretation of the many studies made of cigarette smoke and cancer, and because some have ; expressed their belief that heavy smoking and' a high incidence of cancer are both due to some cause as yet undetermined, it was a good idea to see if the frequent application of tiny amounts of a condensate of cigarette smoke (some call it cigarette smoke tar) will cause bron chial cancer in dogs. These animals ohave no "emonional tendency to smoke cigarettes," animals have no "emotional ency to develop bronchial can cer. ' Each one of the many dogs used, first under anesthesia had a little window made through the skin of the neck and into the trachea (the main tube that runs from the throat down into the lungs). Through such a little window it Is easy to pass a lighted broncho scope without hurting the animal. For perhaps five years, three times a week, a tiny amount of "cigarette tar" was applied to the wall of the left, main bronchus of 130 dogs. Twenty-five other dogs just had the bronchial lining rubbed a bit, and 27 were not treated in any way. They serv ed as "controls" to show that there was nothing in the air of the kennels to make the cancers. Actually, nothing happened to them. Only in the dogs treated with the cigarette smoke con densate did anything serious happen. In two, a wart-like growth appeared; precancer ous changes appeared in 25; localized cancer grew in three; and an "invasive" can cer which spread to other tis sues was found in one dog. These experiments . tend . to rule out all such arguments as that lung cancers are caus ed in man by some emotional peculiarity, or by the exhaust Wooden Wafer Pipes Art 153 Years Old Chicago -WW- Wood water pipe, 1J3 yeara old, were re cently dug up from under Washington, D.C. Pennsyl vanie ave. by the construc tion crew of a utility com pany. The National Lumber Man ufacturers association said the pipes were well preserv ed, 13-inch diameter logs of 10 feet in length with a neat ly bored hole through the core. The logjs were joined with cast-iron nipples that formed watertight joints by the swelling action of the wood. from automobiles, or from smog. Should Be Convincing These valuable studies were made by Drs. E. E. Rockey, F. D. . Speer, S. A. Thompson, K. J. Ahn, and T. Hirose, of New York City: It seems to me that this study should con vince those people who thus far have not cared to accept the very positive results of the many careful studies. Fifty years ago, when ' I was a young physician, can cer of the lung was a rare disease, while now it is very common. According to Dr. Bertram W.. Carnow, since 1930 there has been a tenfold increase in the "age-adjusted" mortality from lung cancer; the figure for the mortality from cancer of the bronchi in smokers of many cigarettes a day was recently 157.1 per 100,000 men, while for non smokers it was 3.4 per 100,000 men per year. As he says, this means that a heavy smok er of cigarettes has 50 times the chance of dying of a lung cancer that a non-smoker has! What do YOU know about cancer? Just what do the sci entists know about cancer? How many kinds are there . . . and how do they strike? If you - wonder about these questions and want the an swers in a booklet by Dr. Alvarez called "W hat We Know About Cancer" send 25 cents and a stamped, s e 1 f addressed envelope with your request to Dr. Walter C. Al varez, Dept. MMT, Box 957, Dcs Moines 4, Iowa, Lesley Boss To Slate Penitentiary Lesley Eugene Boss, 20, ol 1204 Washington St., was sen tenced Monday iri Jackson county circuit court to 3',j years in the Oregon Stata penitentiary for entering a motor vehicle with intent to) steal. He pleaded guilty to entering: a car owned by J. R. Whitney Motors, on, March 25 and taking a radio. He waived right to a grand jury hearing and a pre -sen tence report and requested immediate sentencing. District Attorney Alan B. Holmes noted Boss is current ly on parole from the Oregon State Correctional institution. He had admitted to removing a series of items from cars and to entering a Sterling creek cabin on January, 1961, it was stated. 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