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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-06-23, Page 2LINOLEUM FOR THE WALLS — A housewife who lifts art up off the kitchen floor, Mrs. Joanna Hall carves a relief sculpture 'in linoleum while her 8-month-old son, Jason, watches. Mrs. Hall, of Toronto, started making alinocuts" w hen she was paralyzed by polio five years, ago. 4784 SIZES 12-20 ~fy nLumetYV1+ HRONICLES etti9RFA.E1 fe. A Real Topper PRINTED PATTERN 4Akte,.. 44414 , JIFFY-CUT blouses. Pin pat., tent to fabric — presto! Cut out sicritipIete blouse instantly. Top listif all your skirtsi, shorts, Printed. Pattern 4784: Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, Size 16 ttop style 11/2 yards 35-inch; Mid- kale 1.1/4 yardS; lower 11/4 yArds.. ,.iffy-cut in one piece: Printed directiOns on each pete rtekri part: Easief,'. edentate. Send FIFTY CENTS ("statripS. of be accepted, na6 pnatal Ft., e for safety) for this pattern,. lease Print plainly SIZg, NAME,ADDRESS,'STYLE MIAltigit. Send oedet to ANNE: AbAMS, Dok 1, 123 Eighteenth St.; Neve 1oronto, Orit, ISSUE 26 1664 lasting insecticide that most quitoes on conteet. It was as simple as that—in theor:" In practice it has meant an enormously complex prc,blem of organization, ""We are engaged in A monster programme," 1)r, C. A,. Alvarado, Director of WHO's Division of Malarial Eradication, says. "We shall need tens of thousands of teams, and millions of tons of supplies, and equip- merit. Hundreds of millions of homes must be visited, hundreds of millions of blood tests carried out, and tons of drugs supplied, "Thousands of lorries, ears, bicycles, donkeys, camels, ele- phants arid boats are needed, We must co-ordinate the work Of hundreds of laboratories and workers, arrange meetings of experts, translate reports from many different countries so that they can be understood in' the others." This drive to wipe out malaria also means making thousands of maps, taking a census of popula- tion in the affected areas, keep- ing a check on the movements of millions of nomads, giving lec- tures, and holding open-air dis- cussions with villagers to con- vince them that everything is being done for their own good. This impressive programme has sent men of many races into action with spray guns in some of the wildest parts of the world. An Italian doctor from ze WHO, for example, has had to introduce himself to the wand- ering Kurds of Iraq and Persia, . who are reputedly murderous, and certainly verminous and disease-carrying. To prevent their reinfecting areas he has cleared of malaria, he trained them to spray their folding tents, and became re- nowned on the nomad trail as El Mudir Malaria (Big Chief Malaria). A Swiss nurse has taught Cambodians to help themselves, and her first two Cambodian trainees have gone to Canada for further training. A pretty Eng- lish nurse wins the confidence and co-operation of tough Af- g h a n tribesmen. Sanatarian Maclnnes of WHO leads a sup- ply team of bearers through mountain passes with tons of material for the anti-malarial campaign in Nepal. In every part of the world, the war is being carried to the enemy on every form of transport known to man. The war map at Geneva shows many successes. Malaria still maintains a toe-hold in Europe, but mopping up operations should finish it by 1962. Greece is almost free. The enemy has been annihilated in British Gu- iana, Ceylon and Cyprus, and is in retreat in Afghanistan, India, South America and the Philip- pines. Health and prosperity are re.; turning to many previously dis- eased and desolate areas. Africa is the last formidable malarial stronghold which remains to be stormed. WHO was founded in 1948, It has inherited the traditions of the old League of Nations Health Organization, but its aims are• much wider—not merely to control and eradicate disease, but to work for "the attainment by all pepoles of the highest possible level of health." The field of human distress is enormous and a list of priorities had to be drawn up. It included tuberculosis, malaria, venereal disease, malnutrition, sanitation, and mother and child health. The African mother roves her child intensely, but she is ap- pallingly ignorant of the food he needs. As long as he is breast fed the child is fairly healthy. But when this stops the baby is put straight on to adult food, which often lacks sufficient pro- teins and vitamins for adults themselves. Far, far too frequently the undernourished child dies soon after weaning. Kwashiokor, the most dangerous of the deficiency diseases, stunts growth, discol- ours the skin, swells the belly and, worst of all, ruins the mind. The remedy is simple—a milk diet is enough to save the pic- caninnies. But now WHO is go- ing ahead with a plan to provide permanent balanced diets for parents and their children. And new drugs and vaccines have brought relief to millions of sufferers from other afflic- tions. There is yaws, Yaws is a dis- figuring and painful skin disease that darkens the lives of 166 Million people. It can be per- manently cured with just one shot of penicillin costing about a shilling, Young Eddie Nwaegbo of Ni- geria had yeees in his left foot. It hurt hint to walk. Itad he not been cured by penicillin, every footstep would have pained him for the rest of his life. "Now I can run like the other boys!" he cried, happily, Twenty-two Mil- lion people have been cured of yaws' to date. We et:One into the World intui. cent, but right way things are being pinned on REFLECTION—Reflecting on and in a flood, Edith Taylor stands on a bank of the Mississippi. River. Wedding Chimes Ring Out Cash- " As June rolled' around it shap- ed up, true to form, as a happy month for brides and business- men. The marriage rate is going up, and the'June brides -- 208,- 000 of them or one out of every eight girls getting married this year — will spark a shower of wedding business of more than a half billion dollars in the United States. It will cost an average of e1,000 just to tie the knot — for wedding, gown, cake, orchestra, catering, if it happens to be a catered affair. The wedding be- hind, bride and groom will spend about $1,200 to outfit their first home. A $300 slice of that cake will go to furniture and bedding dealers, almost as much to ap- pliance and kitchenware retail- ers. Each new household will average $70 to $140 for steeling silverware. Daddy gets stuck for most of the initial $1,000, but the newly- weds will have to conic up with nearly all of the remainder by themselves, They can figure un getting about $100 of it in pres- ents. Another, the business of wed- dings and setting up new house- holds will amount to $5,5 billion this year — and then the baby market begins. 'They Sdy this IS' 011 easy course. 8orne day T hope to gtt on IL" The weather during the last week should have helped the farmers a little bit surely. I cer- tainly hope so. A week ago was speaking to a farmer's wife in Halton county and she told me they had not got any seed- ing done at all. She sounded really worried. Who wouldn't be — the end of May. and no seed in the ground is SOMething to worry about. Later :ire the week came a letter front Dufferin county. The writer,said they fin- ally had had a few days with- out rain and managed to get one field sown. "But at least we shall have plenty of hay" she added. Yes, I thought, but a heavy hay crop can be quite a headache too. Again eVerything depends on the weather. You know how it is, weather means different things to dif- ferent people. Young suburban mothers get constantly annoy- ed when it is wet, trying to keep children amused indoors when they want to be outside. "Why can't we go out, Mummy . . . why can't we, eh?" Then comes the week-end and the whole family wants to go on a picnic, or bp country to see friends, or for a visit to the cottage. Wet weather spoils their plans to the, extent that it eventually be- comes "a lost week-end". But after all delayed pleasure is merely annoyance. It isn't likely /to cause any permanent damage. For the farmer it's another story. To him, Weather, good or bad, makes a difference to his bread and butter. It is reflected in so enany ways — in milk returns, in poultry losses, in egg receipts and in man-hours of labour. Even so it all seems significant compared with what is taking place in Chili. Can you imagine anything more terrifying than an earthquake? One's natural instinct in the face of disaster is to run for cover — but the dreadful part of it is you wouldn't know where to run to. All things considered we should think ourselves jolly lucky if we have no more than wet weather to grumble about. That is what I thought any- way as about forty minutes ago I settled myself out here in the garden, among a small grove of wild ash trees, I was prepared to enjoy a little fresh air and sunshine. So whet happens? Af- ter about two minutes Ditto catches a field mouse and starts bringing it over to Me. Taffy rushes Ditto and the mouse es- capes, After that they were both frantically chasing around try- ing to find the boot little crea- ture. Sometimes Taffy caught sight of it among the grass but every time it moved he got scared and jumped away, I fin- ally left them to it and went into the house for a clip of tea, leaving. Taffy loose. That wasn't Such a good idea. A neighbour' oIl the mkt lot was execising her lady dog so 1 went out again and rescued Tally before he got any ideas in his head. Two cups of tea and another mouse later settled down Alain and then along tame a neighbour to dig up some q2e 111*06 prom- iced her, erg:a my quiet session in the garden. In a lit- tle while it will probably be even 'less quiet as Bob, Joy and the boys will be along for a vis- it. However, it was nice while it lasted even if I did get a few tent caterpillars dropped into my hair and down my neck, I do love to sit among the trees but of course the various insects do tend to take, the joy out of life. Fortunately our little stand of trees is relatively free of biting bugs and mosquitoes. That is because Partner keeps the grass clipped and the lower branches of the trees cut off. This spring he also thinned them out considerably by transplant- ing some of the striplings, set- ting them out along the line fence. Can you believe it, we still haven't got any vegetable gar- den in? It is still too wet to dig. Our soil is heavy clay loam and yet over on the next road it is sandy soil. So all we have to look at where our vegetables should be is a row of irises, And they are really beautiful. They must like wet feet as they are all producing massive blooms, seine of which have changed col- our since last year. One plant has brown flowers and purple growing from the same root. I have been told that is the re- sult of bee pollination. Dee and family have gone to the cottage again this week-end. They are disappointed we don't make more use of the cottage ourselves. We expected to but somehow or other we get to be more home bodies as we grow older. We like to make our home as comfortable as possible so we can enjoy it at all times of the year with occasional short trips here and there to visit our trends — and to have them :visit us. The cottage is in a lovely spot on Stoney Lake and it is grand to be so close to the water but, oh dear, that long drive along the busy highways . that takes the gilt off the gingerbread for us, Do You' Grind Your Teeth At Night? An American Air Force dental expert, Dr. Allen Brewer, has discovered that a person who actually chews for only ten mine utes a day during his waking hours may grind his teeth for as long as four hours while Sleep- ing. He discovered this by install- ing tiny radio transmitters in artificial teeth in an effort to find out Why they Wear out. The tiny sets sent out signals Whenever the wearer chewed or broeght his teeth together. Amplified and recorded on a counting device, the radio sig- nals. reveal 'not only how often a patient chews, but also how hard he chews and how his teeth come together. "This information triay teeth. us why arid man's` teeth are worn down at thirty nine, and Antith. er's last twice AS lone said tit.• Brewer, DRIVE WITH CARE Could Abe Lincoln Have Survived. Survilypd. Could modern neurosurgery have saved Abraham Lincoln's life? Perhaps so. Lt. Col, George J. Hayes, a Civil War buff and chief of neurosurgery at Walter Reed General Hospital, Wash- ing,ton, P,C,, decribed in a speeele at the =Army hospital Re- cently how today's brain sur- geons would handle an injury similar to Lincoln's and possibly save a life. Standing behind the President on that lateful night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth held a small pistol 3 to 4 feet from the back of Lincoln's head, and fired. The bullet entered 1 inch to the left side of the President's skull. It tore upwards and stop- ped just above the left eyebrow, Along its pathway, the bullet crushed bone and tissue. Blood flowed into the President's eye sockets; his brain began to swell. "All these things hap- pened in a closed box—the brain — whieh regulates the blood flow and breathing," Colonel Hayes said. Lincoln lived for nine hours. But the pressure of the brain on the veins and arteries gradually depressed the Prsident's breathing and ended his life. Lincoln's doctors, includ- ing Army Surgeon Gen. Joseph K. Barnes, "gave Lincoln the best medical care possible at the time," Hayes said. Today, said Colonel Hayes, Lincoln would be rushed to Wal- ter Reed Hospital. In the operat- ing room, his head would be shaved; under anesthesia, doc- tors would (1) perform a tra- cheotomy (a slit in the wind- pipe to .aid breathing), (2) ad- minister transfusions, (3) clean bone and tissue out of the •bullet track, and (4) bore holes in the skull to wash out hemorrhages and relieve brain congestion. "We would have had about a 50-50 chance of saving Lincoln's life," concluded Colonel Hayes. "But if he survived, the Presi- dent would have been unable to see with his right eye; and his right side would probably have been paralyzed. He• might have been unable to speak or under- stand words . . . Abraham Lin- coln would have preferred death to such a fate." — From NEWS- WEEK. More Violence Than Kisses Violence, that favorite punch- ing bag of television's critics, was tattooed again recently, but this time the occasion was ac- companied by a certain amount of romantic relief. Not only did a new group of critics count up the amount of violence shown on the air during a given period but it recorded the number of kisses given and received. Win- ner: Violence over kisses, almost 4 to, 1. Some 300 students and facelty members at Los Angeles's Pep- perdine College, working under the direction of speech teacher Fred Casmir, watched' seven local channels for 601/2 hours during a one-week period. 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Hurry, send 25 cents for your copy. • Vast World Battle To Save Millions While, the leading statesmen of the world struggle despera- tely to lessen the risk of wale (me of the greatest offensives in hietery is quietly entering its decisive phase, It is the cam" paign which is being waged by the World Health Organization (WHO), without fanfare or trumpet, to wipe malaria from the face of the earth, A small international army of doctors, nurses and their assist- ants is engaged in a We and death struggle in ninety-two countries, Great Britain leas more men in the field than any other nation, but this great en- terprise is better known in places known in places like Oaxaca and Katmundu than in Toronto or Montreal. • Malaria is' one of the world's oldest scourges, It brings suf- fering and death to babies, saps the energy of adults, and in its day has stifled human life over vast areas. Once it was preva- lent in Britain—Oliver Crow- well was a victim. To-day, ma- laria is a constant threat to the health and livelihood of millions. Two million die of it every year and over 200 million suffer at- tacks from it, Nothing like WHO's total war against malaria has even been attempted. In these troubled days, it shows, hearteningly, that the nations can work to- gether for a common purpose. The enemy is the blood-sucking anopheles mosquito, which bites a person infected with malaria, picks up the deadly parasite, and shoots it into the blood- stream of a healthy person with another bite. Malaria cannot be transmitted in any other, way, but there are uncountable millions of mosqui- toes available for the. job. The anti-malarial problem, there- fore, is to break the vicious circle of infection: man—mos- quito—man, and to stop the mosquito passing on malaria. One way is to attack the mos- quitoes at their breeding places In swampt and pools. Another is to fight the malaria parasite in the blood of the victims with drugs—to kill the infection at source. But the most effective way is to attack the mosquito in the time between its first strike on a malarial patient and its next on a healthy person. Scientific observation of the mosquito showed that this was possible. ,A mosquito gorged with blood is aerodynamically over- loaded. It cannot fly for long and has to touch down on the hangings or walls at the scene of the crime. WHO decided to attack the mosquito by coating these landing, strips with a long- Ir' „ -,,t-i,•0.;.Vak''. Ao .."..f.;::?Ok• . t. i' ,,,,a4Ak. ...;.1,.,.. ,,,,, ,44..k. > GOING MY WAY? 'YugoOdorkin starlet Zoreeida Miaeoff Wears filtriltifirl version of 'tiettent Roman ritese for her part in 'a "aril' TV` series, 'Ike tarabriCifiSe" lading tamed' in Rbindi i 0 ►