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TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1945
A Thought for Today
Their wine I* the poison or dragon*, and the
venom of asp*.—Deuteronomy 33:33.
It Is the act of a bad man to deceive by
falsehood .—Cicero.
The Jewish People of Europe
There is justified merit in the view
point taken by Rabbi Max Oifter speak
ing locally before the Bpth Israel Men’s
Club, who stated that he deplored the
lack of consideration given the problem
Of the plight of the persecuted Jews by
members of the recent Yalta conference.
Certainly the plight and problem of
the Jewish people, so unmercifully per
secuted by the Hitler hordes, is us much a
problem as are national boundaries on
the Continent, economic readjustments
•nd other pertinent factors taken into
consideration at the Yalta get-together.
|Ihe primary purpose of the meeting was
to foster the construction of a foundation
upon which would be built the pillars of
freedom. Certainly the welfare of the
remnants of these people should be care
fully protected and sheltered within such
at structure.
Millions of people of the Jewish faith
have been slaughtered while remaining
miiiiUiJa imvc uwu tiucuy acjwian:u “win
loved ones. The Jewish people have
always been outstanding examples of
adherence and faith in the family. The
disruption of the warm closely-knit fam
ily life of so many is in itself a cold facet
Of the entire dismal picture.
From an economic standpoint the re
habilitation and readjustment of these
people will be and should be a problem
witn which all of us are concerned. These
'people have lost fortunes, homes, farms
as well as other material holdings. Many
are old, many now are broken and crip
pled for all time. Their future is a mat
ter of tangible concern to all the Allied
people if a sound, economic and equitable
post-war era is to be a fact.
We sincerely hope that in the forth
coming San Francisco conference of the
Allied leaders, this problem will be given
full recognition and consideration merit
ting its preponderance.
Living Memorials
•Hie conference called by Mayor John
6. Monagan last week to discuss the sub
ject of World War II memorials was well
worthwhile in many respects. It brought
to the fore a number of opinions on the
subject which should guide the special
war memorial committee, as well as city
Officials, veterans’ groups, etc. on what
might be done and when it might be done
for auch a project. It would seem as if
there was a certain amount of sentiment
among those present not to press this
matter too strenuously.
John A. Coe of the American Brass
Company stated that he felt that the
war was far from won and that it might
be some time before Waterbury could
hope to see a war memorial in its midst.
He also remarked that the question of
time in relation to the conduct of a pub
lic drive for funds did not seem to him
to be material, as he believed that a drive
today or five years from today would be
equally successful.
JttaDDl William urteciuciu gavi «■
lought that should help when he asked
mt the participation of veterans of
i current war in the plans and the
itual campaign. His thought was that
ieir presence and their sentiments cer
inly would contribute to the whole af
fair. And representatives of the vete
such as Major J. Peter Costigan,
John Mulligan, and Harry Llebeskind all
:ed the same idea of doing something
for war veterans that would satisfy their
it immediate need for fraternization
>n the war ends and they can return
their homes.
Such an exchange of thoughts of this
kture cannot help but produce the re
lt« desired by the mayor and others
ited in the subject of a war mem
One Big City
Close on the heels of the surprising
oommendation in Hartford that a great
fetippolltan district be created there by
zamating all the towns surrounding
„ Capital City comes the announce
ent of * somewhat similar request down
Bridgeport. When we say somewhat
liar we mean just that. It isn’t the
i idea, but it is one calling for a large
opolis, geographically, politically,
It seems that Bridgeport, like so
_/ other American cities, just grew
so fast it couldn’t keep pace with
detail of government,
of these details was the creation
lthin the municipality of special taxing
‘itricts. Bridgeport is now anxious to
what Waterbury finally succeeded in
: in 1931. That was to eliminate all
endent taxation districts. Our last
_ were school districts. In Bridge
t’s case it is a "tax district”. We used
m those, too, but we got rid of the
v
first and second tax districts long before
the last school district had been taken
over by the city proper.
As In Waterbury’s case there is a tax
district covering most of the municipal
ity in Bridgeport. It bears the full tax
rate. But in the so-called first district
there is a section of It, which is not cov
ered by the second tax district. The out
side limits of this district bear a smaller
share of the tax rate. While this may
seem like a good idea in certain sections
of a community, it doesn’t make for good
government. Bridgeport will find that
when it eliminates all Its tax districts and
deals with each and every taxpayer on
an equal basis it will be better off.
Of course the city fathers know that,
for they have a bill before the Legislature
this year to do away with the two tax
districts. The complaint from the out
lying districts that they pay the same
taxes, yet often fail to get such services
as street lights, sewers, sidewalks, etc.
should be handled by tax assessments.
Any equitable assessment plan will rec
ognize the fact that a home, built at a
cost of say $8,000, but located on a dirt
road in the outskirts of the town, can’t be
assessed at the same amount as a house,
costing the same to build, but placed on
the best residential street in the town.
This Is News, Too
Union leaders frequently complain that
too much attention is paid to labor's
strikes, too little to its on-the-job accom
plishments in this war.
The answer to that is that, perhaps
unfortunately, the departure from nor
mal is usually what makes news. And the
answer also gives an excuse to repeat
an item of recent news that may have
been overlooked.
On Washington’s Birthday, mechanics
at two small New York war plants insist
ed on turning out vitally important
material for the Navy, even though the
building owners refused to provide heat
or elevator service.
The men worked all day at tempera
ture below 40 degrees. They drew only
straight-time pay. Nopody complained
or behaved as if he thought he were being
heroic or doing .something extraordinary.
If wc were an orchid-bestowing column
ist we should certainly distribute a bloom
apiece to these workers.
Even such a high official as the chief
justice of the Supreme Court of Connec
ticut is not out of the reach of the Leg
islature. This was proved last week when
the renomination of Chief Justice Wil
liam M. Maltbie was greeted by 68 oppo
sition votes in the House and 3 in the
Senate. In both instances it was re
ported to be a resentment of individuals
against interest of the jurist in legisla
tion, although a few politically-minded
individuals asserted that it was resent
ment of a personal nature, representing
an effort on the part of some few to ‘hit
back” on account of their court difficul
ties. Likewise this current session
brought in the sight of several judges be
ing confirmed unanimously, which one
legislative attache declared to be the
height of something or other. The As
sembly always could rise to various and
definite heights.
There should be general approval of
the Bridgeport decision to make jail
sentences mandatory for anyone found
guilty of turning in false fire alarms.
Every city in the country with a fire
alarm telegraph system has the same
trouble. There’s always someone ready
to ring in a box and bring the engines
out. In some cases it’s just to see the
engines go roaring by. In others it’s a
mental streak. Perhaps there should be
some effort made to determine the men
tality of the person found guilty of the
misdemeanor. It might be that instead
of jail, they need medical observation and
attention.
The death of former governor Charles
.1 Bi-van of Nebraska recalls the time he
ran for vice-president on the Democratic
ticket. That was in 1924, when the Ma
dison Square Garden convention in New
York City had dragged out for weeks be
fore it compromised on John W. Davis as
its candidate. Ex-governor Bryan was
never the spectacular public figure that
his brother, William Jennings Bryan,
was, but on the basis of his public rec
ord, it would seem as if quietly he had
achieved just as much success and prob
ably as lasting a place in the records.
Selected Poem
TROOP TRAIN
< Dorothy Ulrich Troubctzkoy In the New York
Times)
Listen to the tram
That takes my love away—
It walls on the mountain.
Wails on the mountain.
And will not let him stay.
Listen to the train
That leaves me lone with fear—
It wails through the valley.
Walls through the valley,
Down toward the sea.
Listen to the train
That leaves me lone with fear—
It wlals by the ocean.
Walls by the ocean
Too far for me to hear.
Daily Almanac
Moon rises 1:14 a. m. (war time)
Sun rises 7:19 a. m.; seta 6:49 p. m. (war
time)
All vehlcels must be lighted thirty minutes
after sunset.
Many people are not aware of the fact
that prior to 1883 all through the United
States every large city had It* own time,
so that If you traveled from Boston to New
York or vice-versa you might be losing or
gaining time. Now the country Is divided in
to four time sones, each one adopting the
time of the nearest standard meridian.
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* NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Robot Bomb
A* Artillery
By PETER KDRON
Wslcrbury llrmwril-NfA WmIi
ln|ton Correspondent
Washington, O. C., March a —
Use or the Oerman V-l type of ro
bot bomb a* “artillery" against
troop or supply concentration* may
be emerging gradually a* another
new weapon of the pre*ent war.
From Europe have come scattered
report* of flying
bombs falling In
rear area* of the
western front be
yond the range of
German artillery.
Because they are
extremely Inac
curate and have
not been launch
ed in any great
numbers, the ro
bot bombs have
been generally
scoffed at by U.
fl troops. But
they do go ofT
with a big noise,
create a lot of damage where they
land, and a* a psychological or ter
ror weapon they have their effec
tiveness since there Is no place to
go to get out of their range.
Up to the present time there has
been no weapon which could effec
tively cover wnat may now be con
sidered tlie "middle distance*”—be
yond the range of artillery. An ex
ception must of course be made
for bombs dropped from airplanes.
But, airplanes can seldom take the
place of artillery, and an Improved
robot, launching Its missiles from
th ground, could extend the range
of artillery tremendously.
V-l HAS LONG RANGE
The V-l Is of course the flying
bomb which the Germans launched
against London from bases across
the Channel In France, Belgium
and Holland, a range of nearly 200
miles. With an explosive head ol
from one to two tons, the robot
bomb can make the biggest field
gun look like a toy weapon. The
240 mm. '9.28 inch* howitzer fire a
360-pound shell for 25,000 yards, of
ust under 15 miles.
The tight-inch field gun lias a
range or 35,000 yards or 20 miles.
Use of the V-type flying bomb at
distances under its present maxi
mum range of around 200 miles is
therefore a highly desirable de
velopment. But to appreciate Its full
significance a clear distinction must
be made between rockets, artillery
and robot or flying bombs.
The robot Is neither rocket, nor is
It artillery, nor Is It an airplane,
but a combination of all three. It
has wings like an airplane and a.
Jet-propulsion engine which flies It
at speeds up to 400 miles an hour.
The rocckt has no engine but, like
a rocket, the robot bomb must car
ry its ov.n fuel load right along with
It. Robots must be launched from a
long, fixed-position ramp. .Since this
ramp cannot easily be changed to
point In varying directions, the ro
bot bomb cannot be carefully aim
ed like artillery at a variety of tar
gets In the same area. If the Japs
are now using a rocket that Is flred
from a mortar, as indicated by re
cent dispatches from Iwo Jlma, they
may have something new.
The limits of range on a flying
bomb are In the amount of fuel the
robot can carry behind its explosive
head. As used by the. Oermans
against England, the robots kept on
flying till they ran out of fuel, then
crashed and exploded.
In using robots for ranges beyond
the 20-mile limit of -artillery, but
less than their own 200-mile maxi
mum, the Germans are apparently
putting In only enough fuel to fly
the bomb the desired distance,
Naturally, they’re not doing very
accurate shooting that way.
NEW CONTROLS NECESSARY
Future development of the robot
bomb as long-range artillery will
therefore be dependent on new con
trols to govern their flight more ac
curately. Such "aiming" might bt
done In several ways:
1. Better gyroscopes and auto
matic pilots might be developed to
hold the flying bombs on truer
courses and drop the explosive head
more accurately on a wider selec
tion of pre-determined targets.
2. Radio controls might be de
veloped so that the robot bomb
could be guided Into their targets
from observation planes or control
stations many miles away.
1 Notir nloAtrftnlfl tlnvlpoc whtrh
huvc come out ol this war might
be hooked up so that the robot
would literally fly Itself to a desig
nated point on a map.
Such controls are In all likelihood
weapons for the next war. Their
mere conception Is enough to Indi
cate that In this next war, areas far
beyond the range of modern artil
lery’ will be active zones of combat
The rocket, like the robot bomb. Is
Just in Its Infancy. For ranges be
yond the present 20-mlle limit of
the German V-l type of flying bomb
the Germans resort to the rocket
principle for the V-2 bomb. The
V-2 has no wings, no jet engine.
But it carries Its own rocket pro
pellent charge, Is driven faster than
750 miles an hour which Is the
speed of sound, sails Into the strato
sphere above 30,000 feet before It
falls to earth at ranges which may
be upwards of 400 miles from
launching site to target. This is real
long range artillery If you choose
to call It that, but so Inaccurate
that It Is almost useless except as
a weapon of terror against great
centers of population like the city
of London.
Current Comment
Business, both domestic and inter
national, does need a large degree
of freedom. It needs to be free from
the domination of small groups that
control and direct the flow of a large
volume of money and credit.
—Henry J. Kaiser, shipbuilder.
The unofficial opinion in the Pa
efle area was, up to the Philippines
Invasion, that It would be 2 1-2 years
after V-E Day till Japan falls. Now
It seems that It will take longer.
—Lieutenant - Colonel Timothy
A. Mclncrny of Boston, Mass.
The Industrialists in Japan un
doubtedly see that their empire,
which has taken a great many years
to build up, Is rapidly getting in
to the position where It Is going to
absolutely crumble. And the dollar
means Just as much to them as It
does to any other industrialist in
any other part of the world.
—Adml. William F. Halsey Jr.
V
Good Grief! Do We Have To Coax ’Em?
r\
Washington Merry-Go-Round drew pk arson
Drew Pearson Says: Wallace and Hannegan Patch Things Up; How
Kaiser Travels; Alcoa Found Ally in Jesse Jones.
WASHINGTON, March 6. — Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace will make no
changes around his new Department for sixty days, until he gets the feel of the place1.
After that he will do some real reorganizing and rebuild a new, streamlined Commerce
Department from the ground up. __
Wallace refused to make \ny
deals In advance of tils confir
mation and Is now absolutely free
to wield the axe. One backstage
deal was offered to Win the vote
of Admirnl-Scnator Tommy Hart
of Connecticut. M1m Margaret
Conners, who nearly defeated
Clare Boothe Luce last November,
reported that the Admiral was
ready to voet for Wallace If Wayne
Taylor would be retained aa Un
drrsccctary. Wallace, however,
refused to promise and In the end,
Admiral Hart voted for Wallace
anyway.
Not many people knew it, but
Democratic Chairman Bob Hanne
gan, the man who led the fight
against Henry Wallace for Vice
President at Chicago, had a pri
vate dinner with Henry in the
latter's apartment shortly before
the Senate voted his contirmatlon.
The dinner climaxed a new
friendship between the two, which
began at the start of the Wal
lace confirmation battle.
At first, iriends had a hard
time getting the two men together.
Wallace still remembered how
Hannegan fought him at Chicago.
Hannegan also was aloof about
butting in. A newspaperman who
knew both men was largely in
strumental in patching things up.
“Did Wallace ask you whether
you wanted help when he pitched
in during tne campaign last
summer ana made all those
speeches for Roosevelt and Tru
man?" he asked Hannegan.
“There isn’t anything I
wouldn't do for Wallace," coun
tered Hannegan, “but I don't
know what his strategy is. And I’m
liable to get his wires crossed if
I start working without any di
rection from him.”
However, Hannegan, then in
New York, was finally persuaded
to telephone Wallace, also in New
York, with the result that they
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STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D.D.
THEY JUDGE TRUTH IN US
Someone asked a certain Mos
lem In Persia one day why he had
left his ancient faith and become a
Christian. He replied thta when he
was a boy be had gone one day to
the mosque
wearing a new
pair of shoes.
When he emerg
ed. the shoes
were nowhere to
be found. Ho
suspected that
the keeper of the
shoes had taken
them, and, when
at last he pulled
this functionary
to his feet, he
found that the dishonest chap had
been sitting on the shoes all the
time. This circumstance made a
deep and adverse Impression upon
the mind of the boy.
It Is, of course, never right to
udge a religion by the way Its ad
herents practice It. But it Is a mat
ter of cold fact that this Is the way
most people do Judge religion. If we
profess much and practice poorly,
people are not only going to lose
faith In us but In the things we
profess.
Most boys and girls today are
learning their religion not out of
the Bible but out of the incarnate
revelations of divine truth which
they encounter In their everyday
lives. TO them religion is largely
what their parents do, or what the
pillars of the church practice. They
are more Impressed by the conduct
of their teachers than they are by
the counsel which these teachers set
forth.
Every one of us Is a walking Bible
to someone. God Is being Judged in
somebody's mind by the way we act.
There Is no Justice In this, of course
but It Is a reality Just the same—
and it lays upon us a heavy respon
sibility.
All Rights Reserved
Bateon Newspaper Syndicate
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had lunch, and Hannegan has
been working hard for Wallaco
ever since.
At dinner last week they ex
changed Ideas on various things:
How to keep the Democratic Party
liberal; how to make #0,000,000
jobs; how to atreamllne govern
ment agencies. Ex-Republican
Wallace will consult staunch
Democrat Hannegan on appoint
ments to the Commerce Dep’t,
though he won't be bound by
Iianncgan's advice.
TRAIN CZAR KAISER
Bustling, busy-as-a-bee ship
builder Henry Kaiser maintains
two office employes in Ban Fran
cisco to get railroad accommoda
tions for hml and Ills staff. One
of them recently got a call from
Kaisers secretary, Miss Edna
Knuth.
"Mr. Kaiser wonts three
single bedrooms on the next
streamliner East. Ha also
wants them adjoining and in
the middle of the car. Will you
get them please."
"The next streamliner is on
Sunday," replied Fred Miller,
one of the transportation men,
“and this Is Friday. I don’t ice
how I con possibly get them.”
“Just call the Southern Pa
cific and say that Mr. Kaiser
wants them,” Miss Knuth re
plied. “Say that he must have
them.”
Kaiser is one of the biggest
Ahlppers on the West Coast and
the Southern Pacific Is not un
aware of that. So after consid
erable commotion, it finally side
tracked some other people who
had reservations and got ship
mogul Kaiser his three connect
ing bedrooms on the streamliner
to Chicago. Miller called back
Miss Knuth to report. He also
reported that he hod three bed
rooms out of Chicago on the Com
modore Vanderbilt for New York,
“Oh," replied Miss Knuth,
"Mr. Kaiser won't ride on the
Commodore Vanderbilt. He will
only ride on the Twentieth Cen
tury. You’ll have to change
those rooms."
Miller groaned, but got the
New York Central on the phone.
The Commodore Vanderbilt Is one
of tilt New York C ’ 1'Vfcl’s track
trains, leaving Chicago at 2:30 p.
m. But the Twentieth Century,
leaves at 3:30, and arrives at the
some time. However, the New
York Central somehow or other
managed to find three connecting
bedrooms on the Twentieth Cen
tury and Miller finally reported
this victory to Kaiser's office.
YELLOW CAR KAISER
"Have you also got reserva
tions from Chicago to Washing
ton?" Miss Knuth next requesK
ed. “Mr. Kaiser doesn't know
before he gets to Chicago
whether he will go to New
York or straight to Washington.
So you’ll need three rooms on
the Capitol Limited.”
Miller then wangled three bed
rooms from the Baltimore and
Ohio on the Capitol Limited to
Washington, and reminded Miss
Knuth to be sure to have Kaiser
cancel whichever he did not use
as soon as he got to Chicago.
But, Miss Knuth remonstrated,
Kaiser didn’t like to cancel Pull
man reservations himself hi war
time, so it was arranged that he
was to telephone all the way
back from Chicago to San Fran
cisco and mat Miller was then
to phone Chicago to cancel them.
Kaiser's secretary then added
the final straw.
"By the way.” she said, have
you get Mr. Kaiser's stream
liner reservatlens In the yellow
cars? Mr. Kaiser won’t ride In
anything except the yellow cars.”
Again Miller groaned. He point
ed out that he had already put
the Southern Pacific to great
trouble and he couldn’t bother
them furtner. But Kaiser's sec
retary was adamant. Her chief
must ride m the yellow cars. What
Kaiser had In mind was that gray
Pullmans from the Overland Lim
ited sometimes are hooked on to
the Yellow streamliner, and he
didn’t want to ride In (hose gray
cars.
Bo the Southern Pacific finally
sent a runner across the Buy to
its yards In Oakland on Saturday
before the train left to make suie
that the train was made up so that
Mr. Kaiser's three connecting
bedrooms were In a yellow car.
Thus the caar of West Const ship
ping finally moved majestically
off to New York and Washing
ton.
JESSE JONES AND ALCOA
R. S. Reynolds, vigorous organ
iser of the Reynolds Metal com
pany which did such a good Job of
enabling the nation to produce
wartime aluminum, told the Sen
ate Small Business Committee
last week the story of his diffi
culties In getting aid from Jes*e
Jones' RPC. Apparently anxious
to protect the monopoly of the
Aluminum Company of America,
Jones pbut every possible obstacle
in front of Reynolds when it
came to financing his aluminum
project.
After telling the Senate Com
mittee most of the story, Rey
nolds remarked that he had a con
fidential talk with Jones after
the Reynolds Metal company hud
gone into operation and shown
its stability.
"You know, Reynolds," Jones
had said, "everybody thought
you were going to go broke. I
did, too. Why didn't you?"
Reynolds replied, "Because you
are dealing with a very unusual
person."
“Jones thought I was going to
do a little bragging at that
point," Reynolds told the sena
tors. "All I said was that I
had God Almighty on my side."
Fnllnwln? which Connecticut's
hard-working Senator Brim Mc
Mahon remarked: "What it adds
up to is—God Almighty and you
versus ALCOA and RPC.”
NOTE: Tlie Aluminum Corpora
tion. hitherto enjoying an out
right monoi>oly in this country,
also drew up estimates for Ed
Stettinius. then in charge of na
tional defense raw materials,
claiming that no new aluminum
plunts were needed. Ed believed
them.
‘ (Copyright, 1945, by
The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Views Of The Press
GEORGIA'S POLL TAX REPEAL
(New Republic)
Keep your eye on liberal 37-year
old Qovernor Ellis Amall of
Georgia, who engineered the victory.
He could never have succeeded save
for the persistent, aggressive anti
poll tax agitation thta his gone on
right here in congress for years. The
drive will continue. Enfranchise
ment will follow. People want to
vote. Think of the breath of fresh
air that will blow through the
Georgia district of Eugene Cox, who
kept his scat in the 1943 election
when only 3,794 persons participated
all but one voting for him. He need
ed only two votes to win.
THE VALUE OP A WORD
(Christian Science Monitor)
Mayor KlmL«e or Laguna Beach,
California, like the author of
Your Health
By Dr. Williim Brady
Urn Ml ItUtn pertaining u par*
MM health ui hygiene, Ml to
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to ami* »<* ktorito not conform
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wlitem **«*J,»*!2*1 *52:
paper SM-vIrr. IN Wtfti MadUftn
Street, CDtoMto. "I
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High blood prftMure, la moat
cum. ta one ttf U» sign* or main
festatlona of ffce constitutional or
organic disease %he patient haa. It
ahouW not and <vnnot to properly
Interpreted or treated, by medi
cine, diet, rent, e.Amate elae, any
more than, aay, hfch tomperntura
or high pnlue rata s>u*uld be, with
out record for what alia the pa.
tlent.
Instruments for precIM meaaure
ment of blood preaaure dau from
1RM when the tT-ahaped mercury
manometer waa devleed. Vie type
of lnatrument now genere^y used
by phyaiclana to meaaure blood
preaaure (arterial tension), called
sphygmo-manometer, became fthtnd
ard fifty veara a«ro. and ta aa faMlI
lar aa the atethoacope or the head
light and apeeulum among the pan
aphemnlla every good doctor rar
rlea In hla bag or keeps cloae at,
hand for examining pattenta In thta
office.
Although I have harped incea
aantly on the fact that high blood
preaaure or arterial hypertenalon
or hyperplesla la not a disease or a
romplalnt susceptible of Interpre
tation or treatment In Itaelf, nine
out of every ten correspondents
who query me about It, obviously
exiiect that, however Incompetent
the doctor or doctors at home may
be, a doctor far away need only
know that the blood preaaure meas
ures so-and-so over ao-and-ao In
order to prescribe the right diet.
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Two familiar popular misappre
hensions deserve special mention
here. The first la thRt a person
with high blood pressure should eat
little or no meat, particularly red
meat. There Is no scientific found
ation for this notion and In many
Instances the individual’s health
suffers from the malnutrition that
Inevitably develop# from Iona-con
tinued exclusion or restriction of
meat. In the diet. People who har
bor quaint notions about meat eat
ing should know how exclusive
Vieat diet for a full year affected
the blood pressure of the Artie ex
plorers. Stefansson and Anderson.
Strtfansson’s blood pressure re
mained at 10B systolic, 70 diastolic,
thronydiout tit# year. Anderson’s
was IV* systolic. BO diastolic at. the
beginnix'k of the year. 130 systolic.
80 dtasfpllc on completion of tho
year of exclusive meat diet.
The otlV*t common mUaprclion
slon is that one with high blood
pressure should take saline rathar
tics frequently. This Is based up
on the notion that the patient s
blood Is ’’too thick” or that the pa
tient has “too .much blood.” The
truth Is that ode with high blood
pressure generally has only the
normal amount or thickness of
blood, although suClt a person is as
likely to be anemic as Is a person
with normal blood pressure of one
with low blood pressure.
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
Give It to The Red Cross
Please accept the contribution In
closed toward your service to the
wives of men In the army and
navy. I am an old veteran and I
know how much your fine booklets
’Preparing for Maternity” and
Brady Baby Book” have ha-lped
some of these young mothers or
expectant mothers whose husbands
are away. (A. M. T.t
Answer—Thank you for the spirit
of your contribution, but the book
lets are free to sendee men or
their wives who ask for them and
provide stamped addressed en
velope—so your contribution will do
as much or more good if you turn
it over to tne Kea cross or uio
U. S. O.
Tonsil Question
Dr. - says I must have my
tonsils removed. Do you advise hav
ing them removed? If I should,
how can I overcome being afraid?
Is it harmful? I am 14. (Worried).
Answered—Yes, sometimes tonsils
should be clipped, I should say, not
'"removed." if that Implies an ef
fort to remove every bit of tonsil
tissue. Write again, and don't be
so mysterious —Inclose a stamped
envelope bearing your name and
nddress. and I'll send you a pamph
let telling all about ‘Tonsils and
Adenoids."
Hair Turn Wfrite Overnight?
Discussion In our science class
as to whether hair every turns
white over night. Teacher said no,
because hair gets color or doesn’t
get It from the roots and hair can't
grow that fast, but one girl said
she knew of a case. (B. W.)
Answer—The teacher is right.
"Science" covers a lot of territory,
doesn't It? Send ten cents and
stamped envelope bearing your ad
dress, for booklet "The Hair and
Scalp"—but do not send a clipping.
Copyright 1945 by John P. Wile Co.
Proverbs, knows the value of 'U word
spoken In due season.” "Let's speak
to every service man and woman
we meet on Laguna streets," he
urges. "Just tell ’em a simple hello,
and they’ll think this Is the llnest
place In the world." The enterpris
ing Mayor may. Indeed, be thinking
of the reputation of his community,
but obviously he knows the helpful
value of a friendly greeting. Just a
"howdy” or a "hi!" and a smile 1»
capable of changing a line of
thought completely. A friendly
greeting costs the giver nothing,
but can Impart a priceless gift of
comfort or cheer.
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