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They 11 Do It Every Time
By Jimmy Hatlo
BY BILL JENKINS I
Signs that one is growing older
by the day are always easy to
find. But some of them can be pret
ty sad when they roll around. The
holidays taught us that we can no
longer go for days on end with lit
tle or no sleep. That we expected.
But just the other day we were
watching a pair of small children
skip down the street. And got cur
lous enough to try it out to see
how it would feel. Only to find that
our aged old legs had forgotten
the rythm and we were unable to
accomplish this simple little act.
Oh well, the old chair and the
book are comfortable even if they
are indoors.
Having come within aces of run
ning out of gas several times dur
ing the past week or so we are
wondering why car manufacturers
don't put a buzzer or so me th inn
noisy on the dash to warn one when
the tank is about to run dry. They
seem to think bI, of us have the
vast powers of memory that only a
few are gifted with.
One of our prized possessions
around here is a 1954 calendar
that gives us the weather dope.
Put out by the St. Joseph aspirin
people, snow or rain is predicted
for today and generally stormy con
ditions tomorrow. The weamer
forecast for the whole month,
printed down at the bottom of the
page, says It will be pleasant in
California. I suspect the chamber
of commerce of having a hand in
that one. The moon will be full on
the 18th in case you are interested
and dark today. The calendar also
mentions the fact that on this date
In 1896 Utah entered the Union.
Last Saturday a jet plane
crossed the continent in four hours,
seven minutes and fifty one sec
onds. This probably proves some
thing. Mainly that airplanes are a
faster means of travel than afoot
or on a horse. Even a little faster
than cars, although the way some
people drive makes you wonder.
We, however, in our staid and
stuffy old way are going to slick
to the theory that we aren't in thai
much of a hurry. Most people have
more time than money or good
sense anyway, but the way they
save it you'd think it was valued
only to be banked like money and
hoarded. Money in the bank will
draw interest (this is a theory
which I understand to be correct
although I know little of it from
personal experience never letting ;
my money stay in a bank long
enough to cool off but hoarded the nation tonight President Eisen
time doesn't get you an extra min- Mower steps across the line divid-
ute. You can only use it while itsjing his first and second years in
here, like snow or the ice on which ? oiiice and two periods in his life,
you skate or the air you breathe, j By tne caiendar nis first year
So why all this frantic rush i doesn't end umil Jan. 20. But his
lo get somewhere in a hurry? AH second year actually begins to-
wmzit? people . hr fpTlPl Wfiirl
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JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON In his talk toimost for
made."
you'll do is sit around at the other
end and wait anyhow.
Keep noticing the cats that one
sees in the windows of downtown
stores and wondering if they are
good mouscrs. Have a cat at home
that catches mice, moles, etc. out
side like mad but seems to feel
that the mice in the basement
are also household pets. And shoot
ing them the mice) with a pistol
is proving both expensive and
noisy. Also ineffective. - Anyone
have any tips on how to turn a
Siamese cat into a basement
mouser?
ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL
By KEN McLEOD
In the late years of the 19th ccn-1
tury, the world had the birth of a !
new field of science which in gener-1
al we speak of today as "micro-1
biology," it developed largely as
the result of the invention of the
microscope which was able to
broaden man's conception of life in
the world. In these early years a
group of brilliant scientists emerged
to father this new field of research,
names like Koch, Lister and Pas
teur and Indelibly Inscribed in the
history of mankind for the founda
tions they started In the study of
disease.
Among many of the discoveries
these scientists made was the fact
they definitely established that
drinking water could bring death
as well as life to man. Typhoid
fever and cholera, two of man's
most deadly enemies, were traced
to water supplies. So were many
other diseases. The years have
rolled on since the beginnings
made by these early scientists and
we are still learning the field Is
far from exhausted. New tools and
techniques are constantly being de
vised, the electron microscope has
greatly extended the eyes of man
Into the field of life, so small as
to be invisible to the best of the
optical microscopes in use by mnn.
Scientists today are trying to find
out the connection between pol
luted water and such diseases as
polio and undulant fever.
Today we are protected against
these water-born diseases by the
modern miracle of water-purification.
Engineers can take dirty, pol
luted water from a river or lake
and change It into a safe, sparkling
liquid a modern chemical cock
tail to satisfy man's demand for
water. Today there are hundreds
of thousands of people in the United
States who have never tasted the
clear, cool water of Nature, they
live their life time out drinking
a liquid prepared bv water treat
ment specialists whose profession
Is luce that of a physician for
they cure water Uiat is already
sick.
Life as we know It today could
not exist without the skill and the
Vigilance of these "water-physi
cians." Thanks to them, the
death rate from water-borne dis
eases has been cut to almost
xcro; only 91 Americans died from
these disease in the period 1038-1048
But by polluting our streams we
make the task or protecting the
health of American more difficult
each year and the task becomes
more costly, the chemical cocktail
becomes more potent, until today
Rome people are beginning to won-
ner u uie cure may not eventually
turn Into a curse. With our iri-
the enemies he has
The Doctor Says
GIFT
HONO KONO Ml The United
States government today donated
$160,000 to Uils British crown
colony for resettlement of 60.000
Chinese refugees made homeless
In a fire at a squatter's village
Christmas Day. U. S. Consul Gen
eral Julian Harrington presented
the check.
creasing pollution of the waters of
the land we also increase the dan
ger in spite of the safeguards
we have developed to prevent the
spread of disease, A small break
in our protective wall a human
error or a mechanical failure
could open the Pandora's box of
plague we have deliberately
created and disaster would natural
ly follow.
The researchers dealing with
problems of public health are not
group who are prone to cry
wolfl wolf" even when the wolf
Is present. I came across a very
good example of this attitude a
number of years ago, quite by
accident, it illustrates how these
workers go about trying to protect
the public health without arousing
the fears of the public. The ex
ample does not. apply to water
borne disease but to the animal
borne disease, bubonic plague. As
I recall, it was back in the middle
1330 s I encountered a group of
biologists studying the rodents of
this area and eastern Oregon, they
were much concerned over their
findings for they had discovered
that across our land there stretched
a belt of bubonic potential that was
a far greater potential than in the
home highly publicized plague rid
den areas of China. Their findings
were never publicized, in fact kept
as secret as information on the
atomic bomb even though the po
tential of death was equally as
great.
We escaped a serious outbreak
of plague due to the fact that
American s are unlike the Chinese,
we do not live in dense population
groups in highly infected areas,
and, we do not make a practice of
picking up dead animals for use as
human food. The plague ran its
course through the animal popu
lation and died out, however, the
seeds of plague will always re
main present until some other
favorable opportunity presents it
self for it to run rampant and a train
become a menace to public health.
The same is true of water borne
diseases, we American's are a bit
fastidious about the water we
drink, but nevertheless, the seed of
plague still exists to confound us
if at anytime we may drop our
guard.
One big reason for pollution con
trol is the protection of cur pub
lic water supply. Our health is
much too valuable to be endan
gered unnecessarily.
In a world full of problems, the
basic problem is simple and stark:
How can we produce enough food?
The land at present is carrying the
burden of the load, we have sur
pluses it Is true, yet, there are
millions of people in the world
who today are wondering where the
next meal is coming from. The
world's population is still growing
larger aim at the same time the
amount of good land for raising
crops Is getting smaller. Scien
tists agreo that we must eventual
ly turn to the waters for an in
creasing shore of our food in the
years to come, this is another fact
that causes us lo be concerned
about pollution.
night with his broadcast report
tvnich is preliminary to the return
of Congress Wednesday.
For Elsenhower 1953 was a pe
riod of preparation. The public, re
garding him with high esteem and
patient expectation, waited while he
postponed action on some major
issues and got ready the program
he would hand Congress in 1954.
Now the period of performance
begins.
Because of the wide differences
in Congress on almost any major
issue, Eisenhower will have to
fight for his program.
Allan Nevins, a historian, in "a
recent appraisal of the adminis
tration in Nation's Business, a
magazine published by the United
States Chamber of Commerce,
made this remark:
Every true national leader has
to take for his motto: T do not
want to be liked; I want to be en-
teemed.' Our best administrations
have been desperately unpopular
in wide circles."-
He used the administrations of
Lincoln, Cleveland, Wilson and the
two Roosevelts as examples, and
added:
'If President Eisenhower thus
lar tins shown a salient weakness.
it is that he wishes too much to
be liked. In the lontr run. the mass
of the people admire a president
,This observation may .be accu
rate within bounds, but a course
of action by which a president
makes enemies of the mass of the
people is guaranteed to make dead i
ducks of him and his adminis
tration. The same state of political ex
tinction could be arrived at by a
president through exactly opposite
means: by being so anxious to
please everyone that he made
compromises that pleased no one.
So far Eisenhower seems to have
made few, if any, enemies. But
the truth of Nevins' opinion that
Eisenhower wants too much to be
liked will get more of a test in
1054 than in the year just ended.
He kicked a lew shins with rub-'ber-toed
shoes designed to cause
a minimum of pain and anger.
In calling no names, he took out
insurance deliberately or not,
against being called names in
turn. .And he still wore the armor
of his immense popularity.
He had some practical reasons
for sticking to his policy of pa
tience, restraint, and mildness:
with Congress so evenly divided
between both parties he'd need
help from men on both sides to
put his program across.
Moreover, nothing could have
tarnished his luster so quickly as
a few cat and dog fights with a
politician.
It's possible he can pursue that
policy through the four years of
ins administration, get his program
through as he wants it, make no
enemies, and have to endure no
personal attacks. But'it isn't likely,
BRUCE BIOSSAT
By EDWIN p. JORDAN, M. D.
Two readers have recently
asked for a discussion of the
disease called myasthenia gravis.
This is rather uncommon, but ex
tremely interesting. Its cause is
still unknown, but its treatment, if
not cure, has been enormously Im
proved. It is generally sjiown by a
combination of fatigue, weak-
NEW YORK lifi Time has
lifted the lid on another Pandora's
box the year 1954.
Peck as hard as you will, you
still can't tell for sure all that
lies waiting for you in the darkness
inside. One thing, is sure. Hope ,
is there a great hope, the lum- t
inous possibility of more peaceful j
tunes.
A forecast of lower Income taxes
is somewhat offset by another
forecast that many people won't
make as much money either. The
effect of this on the ulcer popula
tion is still unclear. Some people
Ret ulcers worrying because they
have so much money; others get
them because they feel they don't
have enough.
In some lields, of course, a man
today is known by the ulcers he
keeps. They are a form of income.
The big problem for these men is
whether it Is better to take their
worry pay in the form of one big
ulcer or two small but active ones.
If the slight economic downturn
now predicted does take place in
1054, it could have a number of
side effects good for us as a
people. -
Prosperity that comes to a man
too easily often makes him into a
stuffed shirt, pompous, fat-headed
and unappreciatlve. He takes the
finer things of life for granted,
assumes them as a natural right
or a tribute to his ability, even
I though in fact they merely floated
to him on a rising tide of national
wealth and good times.
Poverty creates its fair share of
snobs, too, but never in such num
bers as prosperity that comes
swiftly and with little real sweat.
Sweat rarely makes a snob.
The American people are
medically estimated to be carry
ing around now more than half a
billion pounds of excess weight
harmful to their health. A doctor
might say that most of this fat is
concentrated around the waist. A
philosopher would say there Is
even more unnecessary fat be-
ness, and frequently wasting of
muscles, particularly those in the . tween tne ears and it this fat
that should be burned up first.
The first thought that comes to
mind in reaction to the announce
ment that two American Army di
visions will be withdrawn from
Korea is: Can we afford the risk?
The question is natural because
the Communists cannot be trusted
to maintain the present truce.
They show no signs of eagerncsss
to translate the truce Into more
lasting peace arrangements. They
are notorious in Asia for using a
truce as a blind for a new military
build-up.
We could not. of course, base our
disposition of troops on any fragile
assumption that this time things
are going to be different. And this
decision to cut down our forces in
Korea does not imply a sudden
surge of faith in the Rods.
For one tiling, the South Ko
renn army has been increasing
steadily in size and effectiveness.
From the time President Eisen
hower first began appraising the
Korean outlook, he planned a
mounting emphasis on native
forces as they became trained and
equipped. This is the first impor
tant fruit of that policy.
In the second place, our govern
ment and the other United Nations
belligerents have indicated that
any Communist breach of the
truce most likely would mean ex
pansion of the way beyond Korean
so;i and the use of more devas
tating offensive weapons.
The clear import of the warning
delivered to the Reds on this score
Is that we would bank more heavily
on growing air power in any re
newed conflict. And there Is at
least a hint running through the
various official statements that we
would consider using atomic wea
pons in the hope of smashing the
enemy decisively.
Tims, not by a foolish taking of
a risk but by a carctul calculn
Hon of the military probabilities,
U.S. authorities have concluded
they can now rc-deploy two divisions.
Tlie swelling ranks of trained and
outfitted South Koreans arc the
relinnce against a swift overrun
ning of free Korean soil. Even as
suming a large build-up of Red
armies aoove tne truce line, there
is unlikely to be a repetition of
July. 1950, when North Koreans
brushed aside the frail opposition
south of the 38th Parallel and swept
down until held by hastily as
sembled American forces. .
As a back-up for the now strong
er south Koreans, the United States
will still have four division on the
peninsula and others In reserve on
nearby Japanese Islands. This
ought to discourage any ideas of
a quick Red thrust to Pusan.
On the other hand, should we
have to think again of conducting
offensive war in the Korean area,
obviously we do not intend to de
pend so much as formerly on
ground troops. We will be thinking
in terms of our more advanced,
air-delivered weapons.
The move to pull out two di
visions make eminent good sense.
It is wholly consistent with our
own maximum security and our
determination to protect free soil
in Asia. At the same time, as the
President said, it gives us a chance
to show the world our Intentions
are peaceful and that we want to
create a climate of good will.
Do the Communists dare to of
fer a similar show of good faith?
Ground Crew Tries
To Reach Plane
PERPIGNAN, France W A
ground rescue team made ils wav
today toward the wreckage of a
French military transport on a
snow-covered peak in the Pvi-p.
nees. There was little hope th.it
any of the 11 French military men
aooaro me plane had survived.
xutr piHne oisappeared Tuesday
on a test flight Irom Algiers to
France and wreckage was later
signtea.
THKFT
MONTREAL (,ii Thieves broke
inrough a one-loot wall with
chisel during tne weekend and stole
a collection of rare stamps valued
at $10,000 from a downtown store.
All Winter
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upper part of the body. Although
the disease does not affect any two
patients exactly alike, a rather
typical description was given by
an anonymous patient a few years
ago in a British medical journal.
The patient was 18 years old in
1925. She first noticed seeing dou
ble and felt fatigued. After several
months of this, while she was
ironing a dress, she suddenly found
that she could not hold up her
head which kept dropping forward.
Soon thereafter her knees started
giving way underneath her at odd
times and her eyelids would droop
as soon as she became the least bit
tired. She became weaker and
weaker. Many medicines were
tried and many doctors consulted
without any permanent improve
ment. Ten years after the first symp
toms began, the patient's fiance,
who was a medical student, told her
that he had something new for
her to try.
"I submitted to the Injection,"
she said, and -"within a few min
utes began to feel very strange.
When I lifted my arms exerting
the effort to which I had become
accustomed, they shot into the air.
My upper eyelids were strangely
retracted (pulled up), and every
movement I attempted was gro
tesquely magnified until I had
learned to make less exertion. I
had simply regained relatively nor
mal strength it was strange, won
derful, and at first very frighten
ing." The patient continued to take
this now well-known drug almost
every day for. the next 14 years.
In the summer of 1937 the pa
tient married her medical fi
ance. With an additional drutr
started in 1940 she became so well
that in 1942 she began work in a
tank factory.
But there Is much more to do.
Now there is a new group (The
Myathenia Gravis Foundation,
780 Lexington Ave., New York
17. aiming at supporting research
and improving treatment of this
strange disorder.
Missing Rings
Turn Up Behind
WACO, Tex. I.fi Mrs. Deriedcan
Howard reported yesterday threl
rings sne d ptnned to her night
Buwn were missing when shi
awoke.
Police searched her house. No
rings.
Shortly after they left, Mrs. How
ard phoned the station again. She
had found the rings, valued at
Mrs. Howard explained she had
pinned them to her nightgown, a 1
right, but had put the nightgown
on Dackwards.
A fathead is always more danger-i
ous to an individual and to a so
ciety than a plump midriff.
There is some truth to the criti
cism of many foreigners that pros-I
perity has gone to our head and
we have too little sympathy for
the' hardships of less wealthy
lands. It is true despite the fact
we have freely given away more
billions to other countries than any
nation in history.
A forced tightening of our belt
one notch in 1954 could do us some
good as a people, spiritually as
physically. No one who lived
through the last depression could
look forward with equanimity to
a return of such hard times, but
no such prospect appears in the
picture for this year, we will go
on buying our apples in the stores,
and not from street corner ped
dlers. But even a small increase in
the unemployment rolls should re
mind us that the Job we hold,
though naturally far below our
sterling merits, is after all a job
and a paying Job.
The wo.'kingr man feels about
his Job during a recession like a
combat soldier does about his life
in wartime it never seems so
important until It looks like he
might lose it. And suddenly it is
a dear thing of tremendous value.
If the average man finds he
has a few less dollars to toss
around in 1954, he is likely to use
them more wisely and be more
grateful for what he has.
That is the odd thing about grat
itude. A thing taken for granted
adds nothing to your happiness.
But when you appreciate some
thing at Its true worth it gives a
deeper meaning to your own existence.
Liquor Raid Is
Silent One
CLEVELAND Ml Police had to
hold a written conversation during
a liquor raid here last night.
After a period of questions and
answers, the bartender was arrest
ed on a charge of selling liquor on
Sunday.
The clubroom is rented by the
Cleveland Assn. for the Deaf and
all of those present here deaf
mutes.
TRAGEDY
LEXINGTON, Ky. Itfi-George S
Tinglrj, 74, homeward bound yes
terday alter three weeks in Good
Samaritan Hospital, died at the
same hospital two hours after be
ing released.
Police said Tingle was driving
home with his son Scott, 46, when
their automobile was involved in
a head-on collision with another
car.
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manship displayed by a hunter during the current Off
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LOSS
I have just learned of Uie pass
ing of an old iriendt Paul r'arrens
of your city. Paul was in the class
ahead of me at Grinncll College
and I have known him ever since
1907. I lived- in Portland many
years when Paul resided there and
know the high esteem in which he
was held both by members of the
bar and by citizens who came in
contact with him In the many civic
enterprises which secured his in
terest.
Pau was a modest, effective cit
izen. He was a loyal son of Grin-
nell. always contributing time and
funds to its progress. I know he
must have been a substantial citi
zen to your city. As a member of
the Oregon bar myself, I had oc
casion to know of his leadership
in his profession.
Paul Farrcns embodied all that
we prize in our democracy a kind
ly interest in his fellow citizens,
giving of his lime to worthy civic
projects, a devoted father and hus
band. Only those who knew him in
timately can assess their loss.
Ned Harlan
415 Village Lane
Boise, Idaho
Reds Using
Terrorism
WASHINGTON fP A State De
partment publication says the Soviet-backed
rulers of East Ger
many are practicing terrorism but
reportedly are still encountering
sitdown strikes and work stop
pages. Geoffrey W. Lewis wrote in the
State Department Bulletin Dub-
lished yesterday that several thou
sand participants in the June re
volt of Germans, including women
and children, arc reported to "have
been seen loaded aboard trains
headed for the Soviet Union."
Lewis, head of the Office of Ger
man Affairs, said some Commu
nist leaders' "heads have rolled"
and that there are indications of
a purge of those who favored le
niency toward the rebels and ma
jor changes in the party program.
Nike Plan 1
Be Speeded;
WASHINGTON (ifl-The Ar1
portedly hopes to overcome
year lag in its schedule for 3
up Nike guided missile he:
bases and have about 12 :e'
midsummer. J '
Signs are that, nrlnrifv liQSt
given obvious industrial tly
such as the New York-New A '
metropolitan area, Northeiy t
craft manufacturing centerPa
Buffalo and Seattle and lhe(Wi
go and nearby Indiana iirjrtr
complex. ou
Only one installatoin hi'ici
completed for the big mlsi"!
tended to seek out and torn
enemy aircraft. It is at Ft. Srir.
Md., emplaced to defend K. '
ton and Baltimore. The goilrtii
derstood to be about 35 W 1
sites guarding the northern tpri
of the United States. ini
Shortages of both equipmrcgu
trained manpower are under th
to have hampered the progn yi
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