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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-01-04, Page 3Ely TOM A, CULLEN - Newspaper Enterprise Association • LONDON — (NEA) — Warm- hearted Britons are sadly begin- ning to realize that kindness may sometimes be a killer. The lesson is being taught them by the experiences of the 262 refugees from the volcano- wrecked island of Tristan da Cunha who landed here this fall. The brown-eyed, brown-skin- ned Tristans are incredibly inno- cent to the ways of the world. Until their South Atlantic island was destroyed on Oct. 10, only eight of them had seen the out- side world, The rest had never seen an automobile, television or a telephone, The British quickly took them to their bosom. The Women's Volunteer Service, the Red Cross and local school children have done their best to brighten with curtains, rugs and flowers the wooden barracks in which the Tristans have been housed at an army camp near Merstham, Sur- rey. But the sweet-tempered and likable Tristans have a terrible weakness. Innocent of the me- chanical marvels of industrial civilization, they also have no resistance to its diseases, They are vulnerable to the first virus that comes along, So far three of them have died of pneumonia, despite anti- biotics and every other medical aid. The first death in exile — that of Johnny Green, a 64-year- old fisherman—plunged the com- munity into gloom. It was fol- lowed by two other deaths in quick succession, Three more Tristans are seri- ously ill with pneumonia, while another hundred refugees have severe cases of influenza. There are also cases of infectious jaun- dice reported. What surprises medical experts' is the suddenness and violence with which viruses attack the Kindness Proves A Killer To Refugees From Far-Off Island EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Tristan refugee is taught how to give hanc signals while riding a bicycle, assurance were the statements: "Drinking and delinquency are two different problems. "Not every teen-ager who drinks is destined to become an alcoholic." At the same time part of the problem was identified in the remark. "Actually, a good many youngsters drink at home with parents," Yet, in answer to the argu- ment that "all the other kids" drink, Lunenburg parents say, "Then perhaps it is time for us to consider the possibility that our children have the wrong kind of friends," Here, doubtless is where part of the responsibility falls on, the person or persons who fur- nish the teen-ager with liquoi, whether in a home or in public establishments where it is against the law to serve liquor to minors, In Massachusetts a minor is anyone under 21 years but young people have only to travel to New York State where the legal age for purchasing intoxi- cants is 18 years, Surrounding states still are agitating for New York to raise its age limit Teen- agers lured over the border by this discrepancy in the laws are an easy prey to accidents on the return trip, home, writes Betty Mt.yo in the Christian Sci- ence Monitor, Recently Dr. Laurance A, Setistrilan, thaitnian of the Ad- visory Council of the State Di- vision of Alcoholism for Island told an audience at the state university that teen-age drinking is "Very Coffin-ion" and r that "the tiddS are one' to seven that the' social drinker will be- cOme an alcoholic." Patalleling the problem of elripking: ttfiiiiifg teen-agers is the kitteatititi 451 Stricikiligi as, c. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING dramatic, long-shot rescue that Polzin and Morris came to re- alize that they were—providen- dtially - equally rusty on their Morse. Dah . . . dab . dah, dit dit, dit; dah „ dab . dah stands for OSO. That's SOS spelled inside out, Left Out Santa— And Caught Blazes! In the heat of August, the top brass of Montgomery Ward & Co. gazed with approval at the proposed cover for the big mail- order house's Christmas cata- logue. It was a melting scene in soft colours: Two small children, appealingly pajamaed, peeking into the living, room where their parents were decking the tree and piling presents around it. There were a few voices of dissent, from executives who in- sisted, quite rightly, that it's Santa who trims the tree. The majority pooh-poohed the idea. But after 6 million copies were distributed, angry letters started coming in. "I was never so upset in my life," one parent wrote, "Are you trying to kill the spirit of Santa Claus?" demanded an- other, "Y o u should be shot," said a third, The critical letters 'totaled only about a score by last month, but Ward's was upset. Chairman John A, Barr wrote personal apologies to each pro- testing parent: "I assure you that none of us at Montgomery Ward ever had any thought of destroying one of the favourite Christmas stories , . As a par- ent, I fully understand . . I and my associates are very sorry that we have caused you such concern," As added balm, he enclosed as a present a book containing "The Night Before Christmas" and "Rudolph, the Red - Nosed Reindeer" (Ward's catalogue price: $2,69), The apologies drew a new round 01 letters, and Ward's was breathing easily again at the weekend. "I am rather embar- rassed," one mother wrote, "Thanks for the lovely book," How Can 11' Ely Roberta Lee 14. 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Wrong Signal — But It' Did Save Lives The night was black and rain- swept, and when several deer bounded into the path of his headlights, David J, Morris swerved too far to the right, The car toppled over an unguarded shoulder into a deep (120-foot), wooded ravine in B el le v u e, Wash., a sylvan residential com- munity just across Lake Wash- ington from Seattle. When the somersaulting car crashed to rest, Morris's wife, Ern, 34, lay helpless on the soggy ground nearby, with a brain concussion and a back injury, and in critical shock. Morris, an insurance underwriter, also 34, was trapped halfway out of the right-hand door through which Mrs. Morris had been hurl- ed, the weight of the over-turned car crushing down on his chest and abdomen. With agonizing effort, Morris found he could reach the horn. What happened next, as the principals reconstructed it last month, was this: Gerald A. Polzin, 37, a robust, crew-cut security guard from the Boeing Co., and his wife, June, were reading in bed in their home about a mile from the accident scene, when a strange, buzzing sound disturbed them. "It sounds like something elec- trical," Mrs. Polzin said. Polzin turned off the tight, thinking a faulty connection might be re- sponsible, but the noise persisted. Then he opened the window) and heard the faint but unmistakable sound of an automobile horn, beeping out a signal: Dah dah , dah; dit, dit, dit; dah . . dah . . dah, "It's an SOS from somewhere!" Polzin said, dredging from the murk of his memory a smattering of Morse code, absorbed nearly twenty years before as an airman in World War 2,(That was just about the same time that Morris had been exposed to Morse as an Army Engineers sergeant.) Polzin squirm ed into his clothes, snatched up a flashlight and his car keys, and rushed off to locate the distress signal. Once the sound grew faint, and he turned and headed in the appo- site direction. Finally, he found i t Slipping down the steep em- bankment through wet under- brush to the wreckage he almost stumbled over Mrs. Morris He grabbed an automobile robe and put it over her. "Please get me out," Morris said from beneath the automo- bile, "Take it easy. I will," Polzin said. "How is my wife?" Morris asked, "She'll be all right," Polzin said With a jack from his own car; Polzin started lifting the weight of the damaged vehicle from Morris. "How's that?" he asked as the jack forced its burden up. "Better. Move it one more notch." "OK" "Just one more notch." "He said that six times," Polzin- re-called. "I knew how he felt but I said: 'Prn afraid it might roll off the jack'." Hailing a passing car with his flashlight, Polzin ultimately summoned police, who called a wrecker. Later, as both Mortises were recovering satisfactorily in Over- lake Hospital, Morris said a Polzin: "If he hadn't arrived, We Would have had it . . There just aren't" ‘VordS:td:, tell hose I feel 15ciltin said of M5rris: "He etas cobli-Crati've. He did half the W6tk. Then he Sent floWers td Imagine."' It was Spite day's' liter the ager of the National. Fire Pre-. tectiOn Association, "but it may have one good result. It is a forceful reminder . . . that any hospital, no matter how safe, must be examined again and again for fire hazards," --From NEWSWEEK One American View Of Canada's Problem Prime Minister Diefenbaker's administration is beginning to face up to the prospect that the United Kingdom may join the Common Market. The Canadian Prime Minister is not finding this prospect easy to live with. He has made a great effort, with not too much progress, to shift more of Canada's trade toward the United Kingdom. His whole orientation has been toward the Commonwealth at'gl the mother country. Now he is being told by Her Majesty's government that the United Kingdom may move in the opposite direction. Present estimates of how Ca- nadian trade will be influenced by Britain's entry into the Com- mon Market are vague. Of total exports to the United Kingdom in 1960, amounting to $915 mil- lion, some 76 per cent, would be adversely... affected by the loss of preferred status, by new tariff barriers or by both. Hardest hit would be agricultural and fish- ery products. The president of the Canadian Exporters' Asso- ciation recently estimated that these might be cut to as Little as $100 million, unless new ar- rangements are made for their benefit. The exporters' spokes- man foresaw the loss of almost half of Canada's total exports to the United Kingdom and slim profits on the remainder. Conjectures Like these explain the intense concern of Canadians with the decisions about to be made by the British. They must nevertheles be seen in perspec- tive, even assuming that the figures are not exaggerated, as guesses born of apprehension sometimes are. Canada's exports to the United Kingdom account for only 17 per cent of her total exports, They are about 21/2 per cent of Canada's_ gross national product. Annual fluctuations in Canada's exports often have been of the order of several hundred million dollars, and the loss of trade resulting from the Common Market presumably would be spread over a period of perhaps ten years. Canada, moreover, has already taken ac- tion to strengthen her exports and her balance of payments by depreciating t h e Canadian dollar by over 5 per cent. In an emergency this device could be used again, although at a cost to the rest of the Canadian economy as well as to the sta- bility of international financial relations. In assessing the consequences of the Common Market for Ca- nada and others, there is a dan- ger, too, of concentrating too narrowly on immediate effects of tariff changes. The total economic consequences need to be examined, the advantages as w e 11 as the disadvantages. Growth of the British economies will accelerate. The political strength of the West will be en- hanced. Canada and the rest of the world are bound to reap compensatory advantages. — Washington Post islanders. All three pneumonia victims, for example, died with- in 24 hours of being admitted to the hospital. Deeply concerned, the British Medical Research Council has rushed a team of doctors and sci- entists to the army camp, includ- ing an expert on human races, specialists on blood, bacteriology and chest ailments, Viruses are not the only worry where the Tristans are concern-4 ed. There is the whole problem of teaching them how to live in the 20th Century. The island children are being given road safety demonstrations, which include hand signals for those learning how to ride a bicycle. Both children and adults must learn how to cope with pounds, shillings and pence. There are other, sadder lessons to be learned. The Tristans are, by nature, trusting. They never before had locks on their doors. Explains their chaplain, Father Charles Jewell: "Now we must teach them not to be too trusting. They must learn that there is such a thing as dishonesty in the world," Not much is known about the early history of Tristan da Cunha, which is located about 2,000 miles from Brazil, but there was a British garrison there until 1817. When the garrison was evac- uated, one of the soldiers, Wil- liam Glass, stayed behind, He and a handful of other Euro- peans, most of them sailors who had jumped ship, married na- tive women and founded the pre- sent colony. A return to Tristan da Cunha appears to be out of the question, but as the Christmas decorations ' were going up in the drab wood- en huts which are the Tristans' temporary homes; Willy Repetto, their leader, said: "It was an unhappy day for us when we left Tristan, and there will never be real happi- ness again until we go back." Many Hospitals Are Fire Traps Is °Ur hospital adequately pro- tected against fire? This grim question Was re- peated across the nation last month in the wake of the re- cent Hartford (Conn.) , Hospital f re which killed sixteen Pa- tients, visitors, and hospital em- ployes. One attack upon hospital safe- ty regulations came last month from the New York City fire commissioner, Edward F. Cav- anagh Jr., who studied the scene of the Hartford blaze while local police guarded the smok- ing hospital corridor for pos- sible new outbreaks. Even though the cause of that fire is still uncertain, Cavanagh pin- pointed one weakness in his own city's hospitals, "Eight out of ten (hospital) fires , are caused by careless smoking," he said, as he demanded tighter smoking regulations. The National Fire Prevention Association in Boston estimated that in 1960 there were 1,500 fires in the U.S. nation's 6,876 hospitals, accounting for $1.5 mil- lion in ,clamage. A recent study of 600 fires in hospitals, the NFPA said, showed that only 20,9 per cent were caused by careless Smoking. Among the other causes; Defective wiring, electrical appliances, and static electricity, 23 per cent; mishand- ling of oxygen and anesthetics 7,4 per cent. "More important than the cause of a fire is finding. out why it spread so far so fast," the NFPA said. One reason for the Hartford disaster, the associa- tion's engineers said, was that a janitor fought the blaze for half an hour before turning in an alarm. The fire roared up a waste chute and fed on ceiling tile made of highly combustible sugaxcane. "We tell our employes not to be embarrassed to turn in a fire alarm," a Johns Hopkins Hospi- tal official pointed out, "We'd rather answer 50 false alarms than be an hour late for a fire." Fire habards in a hospital in- elude the usual ones found in any home, restaurant, or hotel, and the unusual ones resulting from the use of highly combus- tible gases and chemicals in operating rooms and labs. Am- ong the fire precautions taken in many of the best hospitals are: Smoking: "If we outlawed it, patients would be sneaking smokes and we wouldn't have c ntrol over them," the. Univer- sity of California Hospital in San Francisco reported, Like most hospitals, UC allows patients to smoke when not under sedatives or oxygen therapy. Waste Chutes: "Fires can start from cigarette butts dropped in waste containers, then dumped down waste chutes," a spokes- man for Passavant Memorial Hospital in Chicago pointed out. "We sealed up our chutes long ago." Operating rooms: "Static elec- tricity --0 which could spark an explosion of anesthetic gases — isn't a problem in our area of high humidity," said an official at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, "butswe take the routine precautions anyhow, We 'don't permit woolen.5 or nylons' in the , operating room. Everyone wears shoes with composition soles, and we ground the anesthesiolo- gist," "The Hartford fire was tragic," said Percy Bugbee, general 'man- Teen-Age Drinking 'Way Down East What parent would allow his son or daughter to engage in a sport which was known to be injurious to, one out of every 16 participants? The answer is Obvious. Public opinion would outlaw the game in short order. Yet, many parents apparently do not consider the seriousness of such statistics when applied to the drinking of alcoholic bev- erages among teen-agers. If they did, one typical community, Lun- enburg, Mass., doubtless would have attached more significance to the danger pointed up in a recent study of the drinking habits of its high school stu- ' dents by the Parent Teachers Association. Stating that an "informed op- inion recently claimed that more than 50 per cent of all Lunen- burg High School students have consumed alcoholic drinks of one kind or another," the study dis- missed evidence that alcohol is a narcotic or is habit-forming. But it noted that, "One of every sixteen who drinit be- conies a' problem drinker. Side effects from drinking kill hun'. clreds every year in various kinds of Accidents, including cidents caused by driving while Among warning signals to teen-agers and parents in the re- port were theses "PopularitY fed by aloha is , ''Availability of an autdmobile makes drinking easier for teen- agers, Mobility of youngsters in iii 'ear Makes it Possible for them to escape adult scrutiny." Intended presumably 'MOWS so much inflation now, there's no money in money, • ONE SHEET IN. THE WIND—Jay Johansen takes his .sister Lahng and Stephanie Knott for a sail along a street Dhah- rah, Saudi Arabia,.iri his windrhobile. Jay helped develop- the "craft,' which/ works well a 13nsk breexe, a e.