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New Drug Helps Mental Illness
We owe a great debt to the patient, persistent, unwearied
student who explores the field of chemistry for the al
leviation of pain; or for other beneficial result. With en
couraging frequency the laboratories bring us new remedies
or helpful drugs for use in combatting new or ancient af
flictions.
“A 30-year-old housewife with psychiatric troubles was
obsessed with fears of death, or disease, of killing her
child. Weeks of treatment in a sanitarium, including electro
shocks and various sedative treatments, failed to improve
her.
Three weeks of treatment with a new drug, a bitter-tast
ing whitish powder called chlorpromazine, produced ‘re
markable’ results. Her phobias disappeared; she was even
able to laugh when reminded of them. She resumed her
job as a housewife and mother.
This case history, chronicled in fuller detail in a medical
publication, is one of thousands of scientific studies of
chlorpromazine, a controversial newcomer to the drug field.
It’s one of two new drugs which are meeting success in
treatment of some mental illness. Chlorpromazine is also
being used to curb some other ailments — hiccuping, and
to ease the pain of cancer in its final stages.
Chlorpromazine was first discovered in France in 1950
by a chemist engaged in research on anti-histammes.
It is no cure-all for mental distress; sometimes it doesn’t
work at all. It’s ultimate value depends on the judgement of
the doctors who use it”.
Doctors say its greatest advantage is “its power to quiet
severely excited patients without rendering them confused
or otherwise inaccessible”. It thus has advantages over elec
troshock or heavy doses of barbiturates in controlling
seriously deranged mental patients.
Chlorpromazine quiets the anxious or belligerent but
leaves him responsive to the doctor’s questions.
Dr. Vernon Kinross-Wright of Houston’s Baylor Uni
versity College of Medicine thinks the drug may start a
new era in the treatment of mental disorders. He sees it
easing the work ">f hospital staffs or relatives, as well as
directly advancing treatment of* the patient. And he re
ports encouraging results with victims of schizophrenia, the
most crippling and chronic of mental disorders, in which
the patient may lose all contact with the world about him.
That chlprpromazine’s successes have been mixed with
failures can be seen from a report from McLean Hospital,
Waverley, Mass. Treatment of 29 patients with various
illnesses produced good results in eight patients, fair re
sults in ten, and poor results in eleven.
How chlorpromazine alters behavior of mentally ill per
sons is not clearly understood, phychiatrists say. “It seems
to act on the deeper centers of the brain which heretofore
have not been too easily reached”, one authority observes.
“It doesn’t eliminate a problem exactly; it just makes the
patient less conscious of it and enables him to adjust to it.
It’s like severing the connection between the emotional cen
ter and thd thinking center of the brain, so that what once
stirred a patient into acute anxiety or a wild mania no long
er bothers him”.
There are plenty of reservations about chlorpromazine,
even aittong the men who find it most useful. An unwanted
drowsiness in some patients may have to be offset with
other drugs.
Chlorpromazine, synthetized principally from sulphur
hydrochloric acid and diphenylamine, has something of a
rival, too, for popularity in mental hospital wards. It’s called
reserpine and is derived from the roots of a tropical plant,
Rauwolfia serpentina. It, too, has produced dramatic stories
of controlling raging maniacs and helping the mentally ill
toward normalcy.
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Government preference customers would be higher than the
rate now paid by those customers for their power.
5. The break-even cost of 8.52 mills per K.W.H. for
Hartwell power at the plant is greatly in excess of the 6.5
mills, or less, at which Clark Hill is now being sold at that
plant.
6. When the tax loss is taken into consideration the
cost of Hartwell power at the plant becomes 11.52 mills
per K.W.H., as compared to 6.5 mills, or less, the sale price
for Clark Hill power at the plant.”
Why should our nation spend the money of taxpayers for
this proposed scheme?
Does this nation intend to build cotton mills, or food
factories? Shall the Nation build telephone and telegraph
lines? Shall the nation operate food and clothing stores?
Why, then, must the taxpayers of all the nation build dams
and power plants? AH the talk of conservation and flood
control seems to be a misconception, isn’t it? At any rate,
when we read the report of experts and hear the promises
of the sponsors of the dam — What Is The Truth?
3TION of Secretary of Agri
culture Ezra Benson in slash
ing price supports on secondary
grain crops such as oats, barley,
rye an£ grain sorghums and corn
in non-commercial areas to 70%
of parity as compared to present
85% average, is added fuel to the
fire growing in the 84th congress
over the farm price support issue.
It will be remembered that back
in mid-September this column re
ported this action would likely hap
pen after the election, when tile
Secretary cancelled his total acre
age allotment plan for basic crops,
which would have prohibited
planting these secondary crops on
acreage diverted from the basic
crops.
The Secretary’s recent action
will bring support prices on oats
down from 80l in 1953 to in
1955; on Barley from $1.24 down to
94#; on rye, from $1.43 down to
$1.18 and on grain sorghums from
$2.43 down to $1.78.
Prices on com in commercial
areas likely will be placed at near
90% of parity in commercial areas,
but the Secretary said that com
price supports in the non-commer
cial areas likely would equal the
prices of secondary grains, or 70%
in non-commercial areas. However
it is this com from commercial
areas that is in market competi
tion with oats, rye, barley and
sorghums as cash crops. For com
in non-commercial areas is most
ly fed on the farms where pro
duced and therefore relatively un
important in the cash market.
Supporters of the rigid 90% of
parity in the congress declare ac
tion of Secretary Benson in slash
ing price supports on these sec
ondary crops is in direct conflict
with the promises of President
Eisenhower, who declared in his
famous farm speech at Kasson,
Minn., in 1952:
“. . . We must find methods of
obtaining greater protection for
our diversified frfims ... as pro
vided in the Republican platform.
The non-perishable crops so im
portant to the diversified farmer-
crops such as oats, barley, rye
and soybeans—should be given
the same protection as available
to the major cash crops.”
Secretary Benson in his an
nouncement declared: ’’Production
of these grains (the secondary
teed grains) in 1954 was substan
tially higher than in 1953 and there
will be no restriction in their pro
duction in 1955 . . . The lower sup
ports are expected to encourage
better adjustment and free flow of
the four grains into feed use.”
And that is what some of the
farm leaders in Washington expect
to happen, which they declare will
result in an inevitable flood of
cheap small grains, which, plus
wheat at 75% of parity next year,
will drive 90% com into price sup
port loan storage in great volume
from the commercial com growing
areas. Then with a new “com
surplus” on their hands the flexi
ble support adherents will offer
this new surplus as either an eco
nomic or political justification for
driving com supports down further.
per cent of the income of some individuals. That being so,
what man is so foolish as to want a lot of politicians &n<fip
bureaucrats to operate industries in the name of the Gov
ernment? Wouldn’t you rather coUect 52%, without in
vestment, and without risk, instead of dreaming and en
joying fantasies of Governhient-operated business?
The recent flurry in the New York Stock exchange, al
though since overcome, suggests that we prapare and forti
fy ourselves with accurate information as to the strong,
sound/ encouraging factors which make this vast nation
so progressive and rich.
“The lessons to be learned from the tragic ’30’s are that
we must keep alive within the framework of our ecorioihy
the spirit of initiative and ingenuity as well as provide
incentives for the assumption of risks, for these aj*e the
pillars upon which our system has been biiilt and without
which it cannot survive.
Despite a prolonged depression and World War, With sub
sequent critical international tensions, in the last quarter
of a century there has been substantial economic and social
progress, practically all of which came in the last decade
and a half.
Marked gains have been made in our standards of living
since 1929, as indicated by an increase* of 60 percent in per
capita real income during this period. Today nearly 60 per
cent of the families own their own homes, against 48 per
cent in 1929. About 98 percent of the homes are serviced
by electricity, as compared with 75 percent in the earlier
period. Mechanical refrigeration is now in 90 percent of all
households, while twenty-five years ago only 4 percent
had this modern facility. The number of telephones per one
hundred people is now over 30, or double the proportion
of 1929. There are now around 125 million radio sets in the
United States, twelve times as many ffs twenty-five years
ago and more than in all of the rest of the world combined.
The number of television sets in this country is estimated at
35 million, while there were none a quarter of a century ago.
Since 1929, the number of passenger cars per one hundred
persons in this country has increased from 19 to 28. Three
fourths of the world’s passenger cars are in the United
States. The amount spent for |recreation this year is esti
mated at around $15 billion, a threefold increase over 1929.
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What Is The Truth About Power?
What is truth? Men have wondered; others have inquired
throughout the ages. Wasn’t it Pontius Pilate, that man
whom the generations of men during twenty centuries have
clothed with the greatest ignominy, — wasn’t it Pilate who
challenged Jesus with the question; What is truth”?
A group of experts, ihen who know, mark you, these men
tell us, after long, thorough and detailed study that:
“The Hartwell Project cannot be economically justified.
It is primarily a power project. As such it would be wasteful
and uneconomic.
1. There is no need for additional power in the area.
2. The project is estimated to cost $90,000,000 but it
would be worth only $37,886,000 when completed.
3. Sale of Hartwell power would result in an annual
loss of $737,000, not including tax loss; including tax loss
the total annual loss woud be $1,831,000.
4. The break-even cost of Hartwell power delivered to
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AUTHOR OF "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING" ^
W A. ROORK, 3140 Raymond Avenue, Brookfield, Illinois, says
• that grid mold is a very important piefce of manufacturing
equipment in a battery plant, and must be very carefully designed
and built to extremely dose tolerance limits since mold life is figured
at ten to fifteen years and each mold produces literally millions of grids.
For more than three years he had ordered new grid molds and it
had taken five months to get each of such new molds
into satisfactory operation and up to expected pro
duction. Some took more time, some took less, but
an average of five months was needed to break in
new molds.
Such long mold break-in periods are exceedingly
costly, so he decided that on the next new mold he
would try to reduce that break-in time by using a
highly recommended rule. So he called in the operat
ing foreman of the plant as well as the maintenance
foreman, general foreman and plant engineer. After
presenting the problem to them, he asked for their CARNEGIE
ideas. At every point during the design of the mold they were asked for
their ideas. Such things as location of water lines and ejectors were
considered.
In due course the mold was constructed and put in operation. Within
one week it was in satisfactory operation and up to normal production.
The time was qpt from five months to one week!
Why is he telling us this story? Simply because it Illustrates, and
very vividly, the tremendous value of using an important rule. He had
let the other fellows feel the ideas were theirs. This became their mold!
and they meant to make it work.
Yes. it is a personally experienced proof that if you conscientiously
cultivate and practice this rule your success in winning people to your
way of thiniriny and getting enthusiastic cooperation is just bound to
be enhanced.
Not only are the American people well equipped with
facilities that make for a more pleasant and comfortable liv
ing, but also substantial sums have been invested in pro
tective coverage. The amount of ordinary and group life
insurance held by the American people is placed at over $285
billion, or nearly 3.4 times as much as a quarter of a century
ago.
Nor has the progress during this period been confined
to providing material benefits to the people. Work-week
schedules have been reduced by more than 10 percent. Ed
ucational opportunities have been availed of to an increasing
extent by a large proportion of our population. During the
past quarter of a century the number of high school gradu
ates has doubled and now constitutes 42 percent of our
adult population, as against 13 percent in 1929. The enroll
ment in our institutions of higher learning has increased
from 1.1 million to 2.5 million, while the number of college
graduates has increased 2.5-fold in the twenty-five year
period.
One of the strongest forces compelling the economy to
provide for pressing needs is the Vigorous population grow
th. In the last quarter of a century the number of persons
in this country has increased by about 42 million, or equi
valent to the current population of France. In order to pro
vide for the growing population and a modest increase in
housing space in keeping with rising living standards, it is
estimated that additional dwelling unites averaging a million
annually would be needed for the next six years. The flow
of cars is rising at a much faster pace than the development
of highways, which are built for about 30 miUion cars but
are forced to accommodate over 55 million. Technological
progress has been unparalleled. Expenditures for scientific
and engineering research this year amounted to around $4
billion or four times as much as for the entire decade of the
1920’s. Our scientist are blazing new trails with unlimited
horizons. In our dynamic economy, industries are on the
march. This is a sign of healthy growth. The migration of
people within the country is the greatest in history. Mobility
of population contributes much to the dynamics of the econ
omy, creates markets for new homes, and builds new com
munities. The extent of this migration movement is reflect
ed in the increase during the last decade and a half of 36
percent in the number of persons living in the suburbs, as
against a gain of only 14 percent in the central cities. Sheer
necessity has forced industries to speed up rehabilitation
work stemming from depreciation and obsolescence of plant
and equipment in order to cut costs to meet rugged compe
tition. Pressing challenges are met by science and igenuity.
For instance, the threatened exhaustion in a comparatively
short time of our fuel and water supply by the tremendous
demand of our utilities for electric power will be relieved
by atomic energy. ,
As indicated, there are strong upward pressures by fun
damental forces that and driving business forward. The in
dustries and firms with vision and aggressiveness have mad§
long-range plans to capitalize on the beckoning opportunities
in risk-taking ventures. These plans are based upon pro
jections that center around population growth and tech
nological development.”
Now and then we observe the Socialistic trend, that Gov
ernment should own and operate certain industries. I need
not point out that Communists in our country have long
planned to have the Government take over the electric power
business because electric power is the life-blood of industry.
If you control the power it is a short cut to control all of
industry, and Communism will have won an easy victory.
Someone has said that the Gevemment now collects fifty
two per cent of Corporation profits and up to ninety one
Our bureaucrats have meddled and muddled
else, so now they plan to invade the sacred realm of women’s
attire. My! My!' m
Those gentlemen in Washington must be credited with
great courage and daring, or, else, gross stupidity. I don’t
know which. Well here it is:
“The numbers are different, but the size is the same. If “
woman wears a size 12 dress, ordinarily she wears a size
blouse, a 26-waist skirt, a 36 sweater and size 5 panties.
The Commerce Department, with the help of two ot
Government agencies, has decided this is too confusing,
it’s come up with a set of ‘standard’ sizes for women’s
der and outer wear, excluding shoes, gloves and other
not worn on the trunk of the body. If approved by
the manufacturers of a given item, the new sizes
come ‘standard’ throughout the land.
Historically, each segment of the apparel industry
devised individual sizes based on its own conception of f(
body measurements. Most of these calculations stei
from opinions of model form manufactures. Dress
for instance, would figure a woman of certain proportic
would fit into a size 12 garment. Sweater producers,
their own measurements, would come up with a size 36
this same woman; blouse factories would set a size 34
on their product for the same woman, and so on.
The Commerce Department has recorded the m<
ments from a survey of the female population. Th«
statisticians have set up model body measurements for
most common' size groups, using dress / sizes as a
give its classifications wider latitude, the department 4
has included separate size measurements foV taller and
er womefe and for thinner and fatter women.
All in all, the department has come up with
different sizes with 48 body measurements
termining each size. As described by Mansfielc
charge of the project, the new system ’fits the
body instead of the body to the size’.
If accepted by the apparel industry, the new
would allow a shopper to fit her measi
Commerce Department’s calculation and call
her for all her clothing. For instance, a
she can wear a size 12 regular dress would
the same size blouse, sweater, skirt and
For more than five years the Commerce Department
been reshaping the female form into a common denol
nator. It aU started in 1949 at the request of a group of
mail order firms, who wanted an easiefc way to seU
disc through catalogs. The department’s Commodity
dards Division is charged with handling such proj
the request*of national trade organizations.” • m
It really seems sensible to a man, but put a '
When have the ladies accepted a man’s idea of what is t
sible? Do the ladies consult us about furs in ~
mere drapery in freezing weather? The superlative joy
womanhood is in doing what men can’t undi
I say that just as I am about to leave the city to
in the vast swamp of the Santee.
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coin (pi.)
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arabs
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24 Part of
bicycle
25 Knglish race
course
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