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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1956
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Life is made up of small happenings, little incidents.
Sometimes the failure to salute a man may have calami
tous results. But Pm not dealing with catastrophies or
anything of sinister aspect or grievous possibilities.
On a trip recently I saw a car which seemed to have stall
ed while trying to climb a steep embankment. The car was
uninjured, apparently but was almost upright as though
trying to climb. That was near Green Pond. Know where
that is?
After a long hot day in a car without refrigeration, or
air-conditioning, I felt as though the “unwearied sun from
day to day' had sapped all my vitality and left me dried out,
if not dessicated, you kn9W. The condition called for relief.
If I had been riding with a certain cavalier he would have
suggested some sort of cola, probably with a sardine or
two. But I was ambitious and adventurous and decided on
something that I could tell you about. So I drank a glass
of cocoanut milk and followed that with a glass of papaya
juice. And thereby hangs a tale, as the Bard of Avon says;
or, perchance, two tales.
I was adroitly framing up on you so that I might tell two
stories of my quiet and uneventful life.
Papaya juice. Years ago, in South America, I had a di-
gestic disorder. An assistant suggested that the papaya
(amelon like a cantaloupe or muskmelon) would prove a
help to indigestion. The papaya has a tang and is said to
be full of pepsin. It did the work. So I bought a glass of culd
papaya juice. It didn’t seem like the melon; probably it was
I, not the papaya who had changed.
And as to cocoanut milk: there again. Makes me think of
Banana cake with no flavor of bananas; or cocoanut ice
cream without a trace of cocoanut.
On a ship coming back we spent a couple of days at Guay
aquil,Ecuador. A lady on the boat told me of the marvelous
allure of cocoanut ice cream, a poem of refreshment—and
all that, in the exuberance of a lady’s admiration and gusta
tory delight—if you know what I mean.
I then and there—and thereafter—set out to find this
grand and exhilarating confection which could banish dull
care and fillone with inexpressible goodwill to all the world.
Well, I tried and tried at various ports of call and when
neither Ecuador nor Colombia, Panama nor the Canal Zone
provided cocoanut ice ccream I resigned myself to a life
without cocoanut ice cream, in spite of all the perfervid
prognostication of that lady.
Life has its turnings, you know. As I walked down the
street in Havana, all forgetful of cocoanut and cocoanuts,
however arranged to beguile the unwary I saw the sign
Helados de coca. There it was: Cocoanut Ice Cream. Of
course I made a mess of the occasion. Havana has—or had—
a Cerveceria—a beer place, serving free beer. It was a pop
ular retreat, even a hang-out. Not being a beer man my
intoxication would not be bibulous exactly, although ice
cream quickly liquifies. I ordered a dish of cocoanut ice
cream and a big segment of cocoanut cake. That combina
tion neutralized each element and I derived no thrill from
either, not even the taste.
But I learned something: the best cocoanut ice cream I
ever ate was sold by a man in Columbia, alas no longer in
business. Whenever you want the best, try it at home.
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What are the Medicos up to now? When I was a small
boy I heard a physiciann talking to a young lady. He was
speaking of the “idiosyncracies” of people, discussing learn
edly the so-called pecularities or special susceptibilities or
allergies, you know. I had never heard that word “idiosyn-
cracy” and I was much impressed, as was the young lady.
The good physicians of today don’t work magic charms,
but they sometimes overwhelm us or over-awe us by the
words of many syllables.
. In fact there is a discussion of that in a recent issue of
Newsweek.
Says the editor:
“Why do patients fail to follow their doctor’s instruc
tions ? One reason, perhaps, is that the doctors do not always
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make themselves clear.
Even M. D.’s are belatedly realizing that unwillingness
to cooperate may actually be an v inability to comprehend.
As one practitioner put it last week: Tn promulgating eso
teric cogtations, the doctor may resort to platitudinous pon
derosity, jejune babblement, asinine affectations, and ven-
triloquial high jinks/ Or, as Disraeli once said of Glad
stone, perhaps the doctor is nothing more than ‘a sophisti
cal rhetorcian, inebriated with the exuberance of his own
verbosity/
To test this theory of patient-obfuscation, doctors at a
Florida hospital recently made a study of the vocabulary
understanding of 106 women patients from 15 to 46 years
old, half with elementary—and half with high school edu
cation. Each was given a list of twenty wiords commonly
used by doctors in talking to patients. None knew all twen
ty: only 17 per cent understood sixteen or more, and the
average number of words known was only twelve.
UNCHAINED
Least familiar terms: Anemia, rickets, hemoglobin, en
riched and protein. To most of the patients, ‘maternity’
meant a type of dress. ‘Anemia’ was defined as ‘enama’;
vitamins stood for pills, but not as related to food or nutri
tion. Yet, 80 per cent of these women read magazines and
newspapers regularly and listened to medical news on the
radio. Rural or city living had no effect on the score.
How can doctors brides this gap between professional
intent and patient appreciation? ‘Let the doctors’ extempo
raneous descantings have intelligibility without thrasoni
cal bombast’.”
As a mere layman I should not venture into a discussion
of physicians, but I think the advice about simplicity of
speech will cau sethe loss of much psychological effect.
If the Medicos use simple language and suggest simple
and cheap remedies they will lose the curative potentiality
of ponderous words, evil-smelling concoctions and expensive
shots. All the words and medicines we don’t understand are
a stimulus to our faith;; and faith is a wonderful restora
tive.
Town Journal Editorial carries a stimulating editorial
which I copy:
“The genius of progress. The other day General Motors
dedicated a new Technical Center near Detroit. There, on a
330-acre campus some 4,000 scientists, engineers and tech
nicians experiment with all sorts of things from nuclear
energy to the elusive secret of a car clock that will keep
time, and a car that will run on such fuels as peanut oil.
General Electric’s famous research facilities are expand
ed every year. Out of Chrysler’s laboratories came an ex
perimental car with no pistons that lately crossed the
country. The Ford Motor company has an immense re
search organization. U. S. Steel has just announced plans
for a giant new research center near Pittsburgh, and has
44 existing research facilities of its own. The great chemi
cal company laboratories have advanced American progress
in thousands of ways. >
The Technical Centers, the research laboratories are for
ever making changes in our ways of living, changes for the
better. An old and large pharmaceutical concern reports
that more than half of its sales are being jpade with items
which only eight years ago did not exist.
Look at the items in your own home, and in your town
stores, that could not have been there ten years ago! Cloth
ing, food, medicine, equipment—nearly everything has been
improved by research.
Research itself has become a $5 billion industry in the
United States, and is growing fast. It grows because it pays.
Ever new products which serve human health and comfort
also make ever new jobs and businesses for the growing
population.'
Can’t we ever be satisfied with what we have? Certainly
not!! Who wants to go back tofhe ‘good old days,’ even of
1940—when we had no antibiotics, very little nylon and no
television ?
Mankind lives poorly through long centuries because all
people were ignora t of the resources about them. What
little work could be done had to be done with muscles. No
one had figured out how steam or petroleum or electricity
could multiply energy. Nothing was known about chemistry,
so it was impossu e to separate or combine the abundant
elements of earth and air to make the marvels that are
commonplace toda. . Average life was short because so little
was known about the body itself.
We live in a new and different world. As long as there are
research laboratories and Technical Centers investing in
tomorrows, living can keep on changing for the better. And
enormous foundation of scientific knowledge has been built.
Upon it new discoveries and new advances will develop. No
Discovery in science seems to be final. Each one opens up
new questions, and when those are answered others appear.
Science performs no miracles; it only accomplishes new
understanding. Research is an endless quest for facts about
X. A kfflick is (a) * carriage; (b) small anchor; (c) kiln.
S. To peculate is to (a) steal; (b) gamble; («) act peculiar.
&> Typhoeus (Or. Myth.) was (a) a king; (b) monster; (e)
huge bird.
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From the Ravens wood News,
Ravenswood, W. Va.: The fairly
vital question of “Row fast is too
fast?" is no longer a problem of
highway construction or of auto
mobile design, of horsepower or
brake effectiveness. It’s gotten way
beyond that into the speculative
realm of the human' mechanism
and its responses.
As matters stand, the car can
take considerably more than the
driver. Hence, the differing no
tions of what speed limits should
be: 80 miles an hour on the New
Jersey and Pennsylvania Turn
pikes, 65 on the new Ohio Turn
pike and 55 on most of our other
super-highways. On modern, "trou
ble-free" roads, with wide-swept
curves, gentle grades and excep
tional range of vision, the steady,
uninterrupted pace keeps creeping
up somehow as the unaccustomed
sense of security slows {town the
reflexes. As the minutes and miles
go by, the sense of speed dimin
ishes and with it the awareness
of bow rapidly dower vehicles are
being overtaken, and the distance
required fbr stopping.
"Highway hypnosis/* they call
it. And at night the conditions are
magnified, complicated by oncom
ing headlights and roadside shad
ows. “Night-vision" varies widely
among drivers, and the same per
son’s night-vision may be excellent
or poor, depending on his state of
health.
Rut, day or night, if a vehicle
on the road up ahead is presumed
to be moving when it is actually
stopped, the scene is set for trag
edy. The very instant a car or
truck or bus is disabled on a busy
high-speed highway, that vehicle
should be so distinguished. Too
many truck drivers, for instance,
have been killed by oncoming traf
fic while in the act of putting put
or taking in the pot torches, red
electric lanterns or portable re
flectors required by law.
• • •
From the Catskill Mountain Star,
Saugertles, New York: To fear that
automation will create widespread
unemployment flies in the face of
history. Every improvement in
production methods, along with ev
ery invention of importance has
ultimately produced not fewer Jobe,
but more and better Jobs.
The automobile destroyed the
horse and buggy businesses—but
an almost infinite increase in em
ployment and opportunity followed.
More recently, prophets of doom
forecast that dial telephones would
bring a catastrophic degree of un
employment among operators. Yet
there are seventy per cent more
phone operators than there were
ten years ago.
Automation is to be welcomed,
not Feared.
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HOG FEEDER . . . Piece Of sheet metal is welded to one side of
old metal wheel. Next, two grease drums with ends removed are
welded together and to spokes of the wheel. Canopy from d^eartied
electric chick brooder serves as a rain shield.
Daie Carnegie
AUTHOR OF "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING" +
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H ELENE DU GUAY, 5 Tudor City Place, New York. New York, says
that when, without warning, her mother had to have her eye re
moved, her mother accepted it bravely, but Helene did not. While her
mother was in the hospital Helene tried to make her visits gay, but
her heart was heavy and she dreaded the day they would remove the
bondage.
The day her mother was dismissed from the hos
pital she went with her to get an artificial eye.
Cowardly, Helene sat in an adjoining room while
her mother was being fitted. Soon the doctor called
her in. There was her brave little mother looking
anxiously towards her to see her reaction! Hold
ing back her tears, she said, “Ybu look marvelous
Mother!”
"The eye will have to be bathed every four
hours,” said the doctor. ’’You, Helene, will have
to take the artificial eye out for the first few days!**
Helene froze, but she could not hurt her mother.
The doctor, sensing her fear, said, “Here. Take It out now! Cold wa
ter seemed to be pouring down her back and silently she cried: "Dear
God, give me courage; don’t let Mother know how frightened I km!”
Then she took the eye out and put it back in—and she Conquered Fear!
Q ■ Can you tell me what distinction the oburta have made as to where
the line is drawn as between agricultural commodities and
tnred products in regard to regulation of public carriers by the
Interstate Commerce Commissioa?
A—On April 23, 1856, the Supreme Court ruled that fresh and frozen
dressed poultry is an agricultural commodity and not a manufac
tured product and as such was not subject to Interstate Commerce
Regulation in transit. On May 7, 1956, a three-judge Federal Court
in the State of Washington ruled that frozen fruits and frozen vege
tables were agricultural commodities and not manufactured prod
ucts. In its April decision, the Supreme Court said: “At some point
processing and manufacturing will merge. But where the commod
ity retains a continuing substantial identity through the processing
stage we cannot say that it has been ‘manufactured* within the
meaning of Sec. 203." The Court held that frozen poultry had “be
come marketable by incidental processing.**
Q—What are the prices fixed under the new international Wheat agree
ment? / . ;
A—Fifty nations have signed the agreement, a new three-year pact,
setting a minimum price of $1.50 and a maximum of $2 per bushel
basis on No. 1 Manitoba northern wheat in store in bulk at Fort
William-Port Arthur, Canada. The United States guaranteed ex
port under the agreement would be cut from 197 million to 132 mil
lion bushels.
the materials of Nature, for facts about the laws of Nature,
and for knowledge as to how to obey these laws.
We are all fortunate that free American industries can-
invest profits in the search for facts which make for better
living. Research itself is a product of freedom. The freedom
of scientists to inquire, and to seek answers, is the genius
of progress/’
CARNEGIE
T HE attitude of Business gen
erally as spearheaded by the
United States Chamber of Com
merce and Business Trade organ
izations is that the Federal gov
ernment has no business in busi
ness . . . that when Uncle Sam
goes into any kind of business op
eration, he is competing with pri
vate enterprise and losing reve
nue from taxes that would be col
lected if the business in question
was run by an individual, a Com
pany or corporation.
But there is another side of this
coin. It seems that down through
the years, starting with the postal
service, when Uncle Sam has en
tered into a business enterprise
like manufacture of paint for the
Navy, or uniforms for the armed
forces, or shoes, or any of scores
of business enterprises in which
the government is engaged, it has
been because the procurement offi
cers have proved to Congress that
the Government can get more for
the taxpayers dollar by doing it
himself than by paying private
business to do it for him. It may
not be true of an business, but it
certainly has been the rule with
most, that whan they are dealing
with Unde Sam and public money
there is little compunction about
piling on what have come to be
known as "unconscionable” prof
its.
In debate ever extension of the
se-caned Renegotiation Act, where
in the Renegotiation Board has the
power to renegotiate contracts with
firms doing business with the Gov
ernment, these “unconscionable
profits*’ were glaring examples of
how private business “rooksd” the
government. Here are some exam
ples taken from the public rec
ords:
A company making tractor saws
in 1952 had renegotiable sales to
the Government of $1,163,325. He
charged the Government $261,000
profits. The Board said $200,000 of
these was excessive and allowed
the company only $61,000; on a
contract for screw machine prod
ucts, sales to the Government
were $426,795; the company
charged profits of $72,357. The
Board took away $40,000, leaving
the company $32,357. A contract for
bobbing machines totaled $1,183,-
469. The company charged $691,-
469 .profits. The Board took away
$400,000, leaving $291,469. A con
tract for aircraft parts totaled
$674,728, with claimed profits of
$132,425. The Board allowed only
$72,425. On an aircraft contract on
renegotiable sales of $2,410,685, the
company claimed $406,018. ‘’The
Board said $75,900 of that was ex
cessive. On aircraft fuel tanka, the
contract was $4,064,001 with a prof,
it of $800,711. The Board said ef
this amount $08,800 was excessive.
These are but a few examples of
the hundreds of cases which have
come before the Renegotiation
board. In 1000. for instance, the
Renegotiation Board reviewed 8.001
contracts and called for refunds
from these companies totaling
$107,206,200 at an expense to the
Government ef 04,400,728.
These compthloe have the right
of appeal from the Renegotiation
Board's review to the United States
Tax Courts. Several caaas have
been appealed, but for some rea*
son or another none have eves
come to trial, the eases being with*
drawn before toe trial date.
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Track*
7 Chinese
pagoda
10 A king at
Judah
13 Oxidized
14 Takes away
15 Behind
17 To peruse
18 A king of
Crete
IS Swamp
30 Runs away
23 English
sandhill
23 Tree
34 Place where
money Is
coined
28 River of Italy
27 Place
28 Babylonian
, deity
29 Scandinavian
30 Venture
S3 Baseball
position
33 Goes in
35 Corsair
37 Chair
38 Bring forth
39 Weight (pi.)
41 Foreigners
43 To marvel
45 Preposition
47 Warbled
48 Prohibits
49 Syllable of
scale
80 Skill
52 Musical
syllable
53 Male off-
FUZZL.E Ns. 4C1
spring (pi.)
84 I have
(contr.)
88 Coin of
Morocco
57 Intended
89 Period of
time
80 BibUcal city
(Douai)
63 A connective
63 A catkin
68 Improper
87 Consecrated
person (pi.)
68 As It stands
(mus.)
69 Bitter vetch
70 Take into
custody
20 Storage pits
21 Box
23 Legal charge
24 Warlike
26 Speakers
29 Transactions
30 Noise
31 Short jackets
34 Beverage
35 Dance step
36 Finish
38 Heavy East
Indian wood
40 Domestics
42 Hindu chari
table gift
43 To lack
44 Female ruff
45 The ankle
46 The East
48 A shackle
51 An aunt
(S. Africa)
53 Courage
(slang)
54 Feminine
name
56 Branch of the
Tai race
58 Hearing
organs
59 Turkish title
81 Reverential
fear
63 Swiss river
64 Sound enjoin
ing silence
68 Land measure
<67 Continent
(abbr.)
DOWN
1 Malay pewter
coin
2 Cutthroats
3 Flower
4 Bolivian
^ Indian
8 Celtic
Neptune
State (abbr.)
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Canvas
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weapons
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shelter
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(pi.)
11 Rocks
12 Items of
property
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15 Assist
17 Geometric
figure
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BRAVE LEADER . . . Coach
Fred EKaaoy replaced Charley
Grimm, who resigned after four
managing
three yean.
After 16 years with the
the Idea of playing ban for
er club holds no appeal for
Rizznto who annount
that he would retire if toe Ya
kees traded him off to another
• . . Archie Moore, light
weight boxing
that Rocky Marciano win come owl
of retirement, pointing out that a»
other match between the \wo got
the heavyweight
“a two
Bfll Pearson, the
$04,000 on a quiz
a race named for him at
and won it ... In
vine, Frank H. Miner, Sr.
his first hole-in-one after i
of golfing. Mffler need a No. B
to fire the ace on toe ISO yard No.
8 hole at Shawnee Golf
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