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10 A SUNDAY. OCTOIWP. !7. IflM MEBFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON The Family Council The Medical Roundup ant- Tha V.mtl TuUnrll eiMlLIf Of tW. ?hy hl.TUl. Ikr cleriyuitn. tinea dlmrs inn a tv.im.n i r dllnr tcb arurlr la a mmirarv ul family iMiretmril preiniilfd In lit. Council th Councl! tf-ilt with nrnhlamt. m1;.r and minnr. ii'cunlM.d by luldincc c..untnr and vicial wurkeri. tailed D lira liai Draar. (Ciifurllht kr Cna.-.l Malum lu'O) ifarrv s T want to trade in the expensive Bible they gave we. ... Mn. B. G.-He'll find it his best friend when he's far from home. Harry S. When I asked my aunt where she bought the elaborate Bible she gave me last June for my graduation from college, she learned I don't want it and would rather use the $60 she spent on it for a few vol vumes of good poetry. She's up set, but I bet she never read that so-called Good Book. It's full of horror stories, cruelty, bloodshed, and primitive super stitions. Mrs. B. G. - Yes, I gave Harry an ivory-bound Bible with a solid gold clasp. I knew he'd be leaving to do graduate work in Greece and I wanted him to have someting inspiring to trav el with. Of course I've read my Bible. I'm 73 and it's been my nMr anrf cniiHn flnH comfort all my life. Harry is still too young and cocKsure to Know us irue value. When trouble comes he'll be glad he has it. . The Council: It may sur prise Harry to learn that many Bible owner's and Bible lovers have reservations like his as to the Bibles's merits. That doesn t Organ Instruction for i Beginners and Advanced Students : YOUR HOME Call 664-1502 stop them from keeping a copy within reach on land, sea, and in the air! Even a Church of England dignitary, Canon John Pearce Higgins of Southwark Cathedral, lioid.i that much in the Bible, it taken literally, is just "plain wrong." . . . Our word to Harry: Don't be hasty. The Good Book is really many books some with debatable history and parables, others with uplifting poetry, maxims, and eternal verities. Between its covers (and they need not be ivorv ones) lies the distillation of centuries of ancient, tried and -true wisdom. Okay, trade in the "heirloom" volume if you wish, but use the money for an inexpensive Bible among the poetry books you plan to sub stitute. National Bible Week was last week and this is a good time to suggest that you cling to your copy, if not from faith, then from respect for good literature and from wonderment as to why so much of its "old hat" teachings permeate our laws and customs today. The reasons are human, whether or not the text is divine. By Cmeritus romuiunt in Medicine Mao 4 limr ' Emeritus rrolkr of Mrdirinfj Mayo ( linir (Re Kilter and Tribune Syndic ale, 19bJ). Leo the Lion's Bite Doesn't Hurt DES MOINES, Iowa (UPD If Leo the Lion turns up, don't be afraid, because "even if he bites you it doesn't hurt much." This was the word from Mrs. Benjamin Sorscnscn, owner of the 25 pound, 14 week old cub who disappeared Tnursday night for the second time in three days. On Tuesday, Leo broke a wire link in his chain but was found in ' a' yard two hours later. The sorsensens plan to e n d Leo's prowling days when they find him. They said they will put the pet in a wire cage at a health studio they operate. Kindness to llospitalizrd Children Several times in this column I have protested against the heartless regulations in most hospitals which much restrict the hours when a mother can call on her sick child. Also, I am outraged when I hear that a much frightened child is sent up to the operating room alone. It would be a wonderful help to such a frightened child if his mother could spend at least tnc first night in the hospital with him, but so far as I can learn, few hospital authorities will per mit this. They say they fear that a mother in a hospital will be a nuisance, but actually in me few hospitals in which a moth er has been allowed to go in with her child, the nurses have found that not only is the youngster much easier to handle, but because the mother takes over much of his care, her help is appreciated. Some few mothers, of course, can at first get in the way, but with a little advice from the nurses, they will quickly calm down and behave well. I have read that in some hospitals in which mothers have been invited to come in, the plan has worked so well that the nurses would never want to go back to the old ways. Shown in Article That an effort is being made in some hospitals to be kinder to frightened children is shown by an article by Dr. Morris A. Messel and Nissa Simon in the August number of the "Red book." Dr. Wessel is a pcdialri- . . 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PIUS THISf FINE EATUIESt Parmonanl magna) 4' da rang spckr Mtcrophona input ond aitarnal tpaakar a Hand-hald wida ranga raicrepKana a lorga cord ttoroga spoca a Racord sota'y lock Open Mondays and Fridays Until 9 p.m. ACRES OF FREE PARKING Phone 773-5348 .'.'JJHJHU.KH Medford Shopping Center cian in New Haven, Conn.v and a professor of pediatrics at Vale. As he says, the hospital rules that prevent a mother from slaying with her child are based on the sort of ancient tra dition to which most of us hu man beings love to cling like grim death, long after the prac tice has been shown to be not only foolish and inexcusable, but actually harmful. Months ago, after I protested against the cruel isolation of children m hospitals, I received letters from several lay people and some physicians who said that they knew ot children whose mind had ben left dam aged by their hours of terror when their parents disappeared and left them with strangers. For months or years after wards, the child had horrible nightmares; he screamed in his sleep, and he did not want ever to let his mother out of his sight. As Dr. Wessel says, as long ago as 1927, there were mother child units in English hospitals. In 1950, the British Ministry of Health recommended that the visiting hours for all children in hospitals be restricted, and that a provision be made for mothers of children less than 5 In slay with them in order to help in their care and to prevent the distress of separation. And here is a remarkable fact: the British National Health Service now feels that the mother's presence is so impor tant in the care of her child that she is not asked to pay any thing for her accommodations, or her food, while she is in tne hospital! But, as Dr. Wessel now says, progress is slow. A recent article in "Pediatrics" reports that only 28 of the 233 hospitals approved for pediatric residency training provide facilities for parents to remain overnight with a child. Dr. Wessel says that this is as disturbing to him as if only 28 of these hospitals had lacilities for blood trans fusions or treatment with oxygen. Would Have No ftlemiory When a child needs an opera tion, it would be easy to put him to sleep in his bedroom, wun his mother holding his hand. Or he could be given a good sized dose of some barbit urate, and when asleep taken to the operating room. This would mean that the child would have no memory of his opera tion. That this procedure is easily possible is evident to ir.e from just one fact. When I was operated on three years ago, my good iriend and surgeon. Dr. Charles W. Mayo, had me given in my room some seda tive, so strong that 1 have no memory of going up to the op erating room, or of going under j the anesthesia. Since I have ! known several children and I adults who died of fright in an operating room before they I they touched, or the anesthetic started I am sure that the prac tice of pulling people to sleep , in Ihcir rooms would he an ex cellent one for all apprehensive persons. It would save lives. Many years ago. Dr. George Crile saw so clearly the groat i need for this type of thought-1 fulness that he' put his goiter patients to sleep in their bed. and Ihen look them up io the operating room floor. Changes often arc so mild that for a while diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease or Shaking Palsy are missed. If you would like information about the dis ease, send for Dr. Alvarez' booklet about it. Send 25 cents and a self-addressed, stamced envelope with your request' to Dr. Waller C. Alvarez. Dept. M.MT, Box 957, Des Moines, Iowa 50304. ial Declared in Condemnation Case A condemnation suit regard ing properly south of Ashland for construction of Interstate 5 ended in a mistrial in Jackson County Circuit Court recently. The suit, filed by the State Highway Commission against David and Aneta Curtis of Ash land, sought property five miles south of Ashland near Neil Creek Koad and U.S. 99. A mistrial was granted by Judge James M. Main after comments in the opening state ment made by the state's law yer were declared to be inad-missablc. mm 'duM ' Deadline Monday For Filing lor District Director SUBMARINE LAUNCHED The fleet ballistic missile submarine USS Von Steuben goes down the ways at Newport News, Va., after being christened. (UPI) GRANTS PASS - With the , deadline for filing set Monday jff at midnight, only one candidate ' has been nominated thus far for each of three director posts to be filled on the Grants Pass Ir-; rigation District board, district : manager Charles Dillon said p Thursday. 1 W Candidates for whom petitions : q have been submitted are Roy ! ' Halcomb of Rogue River, Di vision 1, three-year term; Lyle Douglas, Division 2, two-year term; and Paul Brandon, Divi-1,, sion 5, three-year term. Brandon i and Douglas are currently on " the board as appointees, serving , out unexpired terms made va- i B cant by earlier resignations. Division 1 is a new division resulting from an earlier par doning of the district. It includes the town of Rogue River and other Jackson County acreages which lie within the District boundaries east of Savage Rap ids Dam. Division 2 includes all land north of the Roaue Rivpr he- tween central Grants Pass and I the Savage Rapids Dam; and Division 5 includes lands south of the river between Grants Pass and the dam and lands south of U.S. 199 west of Gi ants Pass. Election for the new directors is scheduled Nov. 12. The next regular board meet ing, Nov. 5. will be held in con junction with the district's Board of Equalization, Dillon said. A Tribute to The Moose Lodge of Medford! The Medford Moose lodge and the City of Medtord Parks and Recreation depart ment deserve praise for their conlinuing program in the interest of boys and girls of this community during the Hallowe'en season. Young folks, in order to participate in the annual window painting contest and the costume parade and theatre parly, must sign the 'Youth Honor Day Pledge Card" and must live up to that pledge. Older boys and girls enjoy a Halowe'en night dancing. 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