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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1950-12-6, Page 3Sweass Off By Richard 11. Wilkinson Pill 1Ii14,r1.1 i, off wouu•tt for life. 1 mgioar I aitelion is the reason, It happened this tvay. Carolyn, Lilt'- sister, brotudit I tamintr up to 11. C'liffor'd t'tanp 4,u lad June niter scltool closed. The two girls had beet ronnuu.te, at Wellesley, Bill's mother and father and Pill were all present. 11111 was up from, New Work for lois annual two •seeks vacation. As a rule women ditluh. interest Bill very litttt•1L But this Dagnia:' female bottled Lint over. She was a brunette with dark brown eyes and a petite figure. hill took one look at her and fell. Even so, Uagutar who rather Went .for Bi11 also,, had competition, 'For Bill was a roan with e hobby. Fishing. Ile was nuts on ih and as usual he planned to spend his an- nual two weeks frisking about in coves and inlets turd bays with rod and line. It depressed hint to think he'd have to divide his time be- tween flirting with trout and flirt- ing with Dagmar. But on the seocnd day the situation was settled. For Dag - mar, after listening to one of Bill's fish stories, announced that she thought fishing must be fun and would Bill take her? They set out the next morning in Bill's outboard. Bill produced a couple of 'Whirling Duns and proceeded to rig tackle. °Fish are sensitive to color," he explained, "On a day as bright as this a dull fly does the trick," They entered a cove, cut the mo- tor and drifted. "We'll be sure to land something here," Rill ex- plained. He cast and Dagmar cast, Very patiently Bill unsnarled her line from an overhanging bough and explained how the thing was done. Dagmar nodded and tried again, They fished for an hoar and failed to land the big one Bill •promised, It grew cloudy and the sun disappeared. "Ah," Dill said, "We'd better change to a bright Very patiently 15!!] unsnarled her line from an overhanging hough and explained how the thing was done. fly." Dagmar suddenly said: "There's something pulling on my line!" "You've got a biter he yelled. "Start reeling iul" He got up and stumbled over a creel. When Ire looked up Dagmar was holding her line clear of the water. A. tett-inch trout was dan- gling on the hook. "Not" Bill yelled. "That's not the wayl Yottve got to play him!" But Dagmar didn't understand. She began swinging the fish like a pendulum. Presently she caught the line on the up swing and held it. the 10-iucher squirming on the hook. "Look outl" Bill yelled. "You'll lose him! Don't do that! You've got to play him! firing him in with a nett" But Dagmar said; "I can't see what's wrong with this method. After all, the idea is to catch fish, isn't it?" And she dropped the trout, hook, line and all in the bottom of the boat. Bill made a lunge at her root, but The tripped) again, fell sidewise. The outboard wabbled, Dagutar caught off balance, threw out her heeds to brace herself, hissed the gunwale and went sprawling over - hoard, Bill was already in the hater, and it wasn't until he'd gone down and come up again splutter- ing, that be remembered he could not swim, He yelled, splashing around with his hands and ship- ping a lot of water, He went down again and came ftp. :Chen soddenly he felt a pair of hands grabbing him underneath the shoulders, .He clutched at the hands wildly, and something bit hint it stunning blow on the jaw, • \Vhelt Bill opened Ibis eyes be was lying on shore. Dagmar was close . by, wringing out her dress. Bili sat op, "Wha happened?" he asked. T)agmat' soiled: "You tell me," Bill thought Intel:, and the picture Ids memory conjured was most humiliating, (fight then and there ire made his resolve that he Was off women for life, Unless. of rottt'sc, he marries r)igniars Van- them, eantHoll, "Clinically Dead" Yet Now Alive Slit Me neer came over the w'irt•, r'e,lY1lIV when a W01111111 in childLirf1t returned to life after• live to eutltt minutes of apparent death. There r:a,- 0o pulse, no blood pres- :ur,, 110 breathing. "Clinically dead" was the verdict of the doctors in attendance. She and her six - and m-LatfTotted baby girl were doin,s r:cll when last heard of. just- before this case was report - cel by the press, T)r, William I. Wolff 0151[ otcr the whole ground ni rc,useit,,ti.,u in the Journal of the lutcricau Medical Association, 11e described the case of a 45 -year- old than who had entered a hospi- tal, a victiut of advanced tuberett- 1osi- of the right lung, and who had undergone an artificial pneunton- thc,ra:, intuiting that his lung had been collapsed and immobilized by the iujertitnn of nitrogen gas. He had also received streptomycin, 10 the course of another operation he died: no pulse, no heart sounds. - TLe abdomen was opened, No blood flowed. Dr. Wolff massaged the heart by squeezing it rhythmic- ally. In fifteen seconds there were contractions; in another fifteen seconds the heart began to beat rapidly and regularly. Dr, Wolff estimates that six minutes elapsed between the time when the heart stopped and started again. Three months later another operation was performed. A year later the utast was discharged. Sudden stopping of the heart for no .apparent reason occurs often enough in surgical operations. At- tempts to resuscitate' the heart by squeezing or massaging it rhyth- mically have been made for at least seventy-five years. 'There is a also in medical literature in which the heart was kept beating for nearly two hours purely by thumping the chest. The procedure proved to be futile, The chest could not be thumped indefinitely, and so the patient died. If the heart stops during an abdominal operation the sttrgeott sometimes starts it again by pressing on the diaphrana or by pressing the chest rhythmically. Oxygen for the Brain To bring the dead back to life in this way the surgeon must act promptly, even going so tar as to open the chest in order to massage the heart and thus start it beating again as if it were . a pendulum clock. The surgeon has only a few minutes in which to do his work. H he waits too long he may bring his "dead" man back to life, but the mind would be that of an idiot. The brain needs oxygen, and the only way that oxygen can be sup- plied is through the. arteries. If the heart stops, arterial blood _ceases to flow. The brain requires seven tines as Hutch oxygen as any other part of the body. Deprived of oxy- gen, it dies seven times as rapidly as any other part of the body. How long can the brain be de- prived of oxygen? Experiments per- formed on animals have led to conflicting conclusions. Sometimes revived dogs showed that their minds were affected after the brain had been cut off bout oxygen for only forty-five seconds; yet after a quarter of an hour of "death" some dogs have been brought back with complete recovery of all their faculties. A surgeon may work over a dead titan for more than an hour before the heart begins to beat again of its own accord. Usually Ile sees to it that the lungs are supplied with oxygen, Heart -Lung Cooperation The case of the woman who came to life in Washington and of the man whose heart was massaged are remarkable because about six min- utes elapsed before the heart started to beat again. The heart by itself could not have started up again without the cooperation of the lungs. Heart and Innis work together. Dr, Wolff believes that in the man's case' artificial ventila- tion of the lung explains what hap- pened, Some 0! tr:: odd-tiu+t•r, can re• member when ;,ii tb t was nothing notch more than a vaudeville joke. "The bay-ecd alttt alfalfa nn his C11111" and :-o 08. We can also re- call when s„t- hr_ans ounded for- eign and exotic.1 on .cent I,t 1:hina- 4,1{11 tun.l tits ,otuething or other "with soy bean -.tire!" Rut ut now alfalfa is tut integral part of itu'ut economy in many set• tions of the Dominion, and every year more and more farmers are xperintenting t: itis growing soy beans. And it i, hard to realize that less Manur half a century ago soy beans twrrr•--as far as this con- tinent goes --nothing but tut Ori• ental novelty. Lack aruund 1903 or thereabouts, a few agrictdtural stations were studying the soy bean, and a hand- ful of adventurous farmers were experimentting with its growing. .And now—well, just look at the darned stuff! Over in tine States soy beans are topped only by wheat and - corn in value and quantity handled by the grain trade. As Dorothy Kahn Jaffe states in a Christian Science :Monitor article, "so many uses have been found for it you never know schen you are eating or handling something containing soy beans." :U !: Never before has there been a soy bean harvest as big as this in the United States. Across an estimated 13,000.000 acres the combines kept rolling. When the job was done, some 28 1, - legume had been harvested. Before World War I it was planted on less than a half pillion acres in the U.S.A. and was used only for forage and hay. Today's $0100,000,000 soy bean processing in- dustry was not thought of. A few processors were experimenting in soy bean oil extraction, but if anyone had told then[ that 30 years later the new industry would supply more than half the oil used in vegetable shortenings, more than 40 per cent of that used in margarine, and that it would furnish about 20 per cent of the protein supplements mixed into feeds, it would have seemed a wild dream. * 4, 4, The story of the soy bean's rise to fame and fortune is one of co- operative effort all down the line. It begins in the early 19th Cen- tury with efforts of a few indivi- duals to import seed from China and Japan. There it was an ancient crop, possibly the first one grown by man. It was mentioned in the writings of the Emperor Shen-Nung of China some 4,800 years ago. Its value in the diet of- an!ntais and htunan beings was widely recog- nized. Europeans had tried to grow it, but the latitudes of north Euro- pean countries, higher than those of China and Japan, made it difficult to adapt. * * 4, The soya's growth and maturity depends not only on climate but on length of days, hence special vari- eties roust be developed for differ - eats degrees of latitude. * American climate and latitude were close enough to that of Man- churia to make it possible to use seed from that country for a start. Travelers to the Orient brought back samples arid farmers grew them successfully, A. E. Staley, founder of the big processing com- pany which bears his name, recalled his father returning from 11 Metho- dist, conference in North Carolina with seeds given him by a mission- ary. Mr. Staley, then a small boy, planted them and they thrived. From that time on his father raised Coy bean stay on his farm. BY • HAROLD ARNETT SANDING TRICK+PIANDI IRREGUl"At;'4 SURFACES WITH 5HEET GE ABRASIVE PAPER WRAPPED AROUND RUBBER SPONGE. PAPER WILL CONFORM To MOST MOLDINGS. It was the a icons cistrs of the Department of Agriculture and the experiment stations, however, who '(10 chiefly responsible for bring- ing over the immigrant. Always on the lookout for new, useful crops, they began seriously working on soe bean importations in the 1890's. Pioneers iu this tield were W. P. Brooks of the ?\lassaclmsetts Ex- perintcmt Station end C. C. George. son of Kansas, both returning from the Orient with seed and hegiuniog experiments with it, Over a period of years Depart- ment of Agriculture agronomists brought in more than 2,500 distinct varieties front China, Manchuria, Japan, Korea, the East Indies, and India. Each had different maturity periods, size, shape, color, composi- tion, and other growing character- istics. Ifere was something to work on. W. J. dors•• in the department devoted ]himself with such single-. hes,; of purpose to the soy beau that he won for himself the title "Daddy of the Soy bean in Amer- ica." Good varieties suitable to Ameri- can conditions were t,rodueed through crossing importations. Vari- eties have been developed to meet climate and latitude conditions of the far South and the far North and all the regions in between. A made -to -measure bean for each 50110 was produced that matures early, resists insects and disease, stands up against wind and rain so it can be mechanically harvested, resists shattering, or the tendency of pods to burst open i11 the field, has high oil content, and other virtues, all combining to produce high yield. 'I'htudcs to research work and the experimentation, the state average production in Illinois, for example, rose in 25 years from 11.6 bushels an acre to 20,9. But the experts trete not satis- fied. The search for a better soy bean goes on. In 1936, the Depart- ment of Agriculture established the Regional Soy Bean Laboratory at the University of Illinois. It co- ordinates the work of 26 state ex-' perimeut stations which are work- ing o4, soy beans. Its object is to develop improved soy beans for in- dustry and to uncover natural laws which, when understood, make pos- sible more rapid breeding of vari- eties, Success of this work is indicated a, 0, 4+ in the eagerness of farmers to adopt the new varieties produced. A few years ago, for example, there was a rush in Illinois to adopt the Lin- coln variety. Previously Illini was the favorite soy bean. It had been developed by the Illinois Experi- ment Station, and farmers went over to it in such numbers that finally. 85 per cent of their acreage was planted to it. Then Lincoln was re- leased in 1944. The experts told the farmers that careful tests proved it had 1 per cent more oil content than Illini and that its yield was three bushels an acre greater. Farmers believed the report and switched. Two years later, Illini was virtu - Thrill Of A Lifetime—Little Kathleen Howe11, 5 -year-old polio v'hctint in 0 hospital saw Iter dreams come true when she looked u1 I from her beck and found radio's Charlie McCarthy, with Edgar Merger, !tad come to see her itt person, Kathleen's mother wlo recently contracted polio herself --- credited "Charlie's" letter., to her daughter with "pulling Iter through tt-lten the child was near rleath. ally obsolete anti (SS per cent of the 503 bean acreage in the state was planted to Lincoln. * „ Still the experts aren't content. Quest for a better bean continues on an expanding scale. J. 1.. Cart - ter, director of the United States Regional Soy Bean Laboratory, points out that it takes 10 years front the time a cross is made until a new variety- i, ready for distri- bution. At the same time. studies are be- ing made of extraction methods and industrial uses of the soy beau to assure a continuing market. chistry. Two recent studio at the north- ern regional laboratory concern the problem of stabilizing the flavor of soy bean oil so it does not revert to a neatly" taste, and making a type of soy bean flour acceptable to the baking industry. At the present time, however, the big demand is for use in food and feed. It is estimated that 85 per cent of the soy oil processed goes into food products, and only a small 15 per cent into paints, plastics. and all the other indus- trial uses, and that 90 per cent of the meal is used in mixed feeds. After all, the industrial use of the soy bean is still in its infancy. The sturdy little immigrant hasn't been Americanized for more titan a few decades. The question is not what it has already accomplished—which is important enough—hut where does it go from here? HE OBLIGED Rudyard Kipling was one of the best -paid writers of his time: Ac- cording to the best calculations, he received on average six shillings a word. One day he received from a prankster the following letter:— "Dear Sir,—I enclose six shill- ings. Please send the a word," Kipling responded: "Thanks." November's Blanket November's lashing raitt acrd gusty wind bring down the colour front the treetops. The wooded hills overnight lose their banners, and the maples, the buttonwoods and all the birches stand leafless against the sky, as though never again would such a spectacle occur. The remnants are there under- foot, a rustling blanket that is al- most as wintery as the barren hills. Yet it is more than a blanket. So well ordered are the seasons that this blanket not only protects the roots and bulbs there in the wood- lands but at a proper time it will feed their reaching shoots, Rain will leach away the crispness, and snow will press it close to the self -renew- ing earth. Titus are the woodlands renewed and enriched; thus are the lesser acids of decay provided to hasten and continue the life pro- cesses of tree and vine and bush and shrub. The leaves are not discarded any more than the crisp grass stems in the meadow. Their primary func- tion unstion was to trap sunlight and manu- facture food for the parent plant. That function completed, at a pro- per time they underwent physical change which gave then[ vivid color. And after that they returned to the earth itself this winter blan- ket of protection and nourishment for another spring. There they lie, brought down by wind and rain, and there they will be absorbed by the soil. And from them, when the time comes, will spring colour again, the colour of violets and cranesbill and anemone, and the stately green of new -leafed trees, the green that will turn gold and crimson in another October and will come showering down in another November rain. For the cycle has no ending.—The New York Times, Their Hair Turned Colour Overnight There are more a1211.e., •.t,aoa a on the matter of hair '0,411 or, any other lithium claractehtic. One of these myth, is that cutting the loth will make it grow faster. Pm; 14 1; made at the 'Mellon Institute in America 1,11ru proved the lots, 1,,!,( belief o1 :•pet ialists that cutting, shaving and ::<iufieiag hard 4,r. dis'ci an hair growth. Hair does 11,0 t;rcw f.o,tt the• ends, but from the 104,10 _e 101 4',1 in UT corium or hndy of the skin. And as ea;1 stear] "diem' aft:,' a life of front 41111 rttonths to four years, it is replaced by .r new one which will not reach the surface for about tsvo meatttits This natural shedding cif tl,r hair affects most people. Blondes in the Lead Each hair ..routs quick]) just after emerging from the scalp, but after that the rate of growth slows down. Another false belief is that strong sunlight will produce extra hair The stair on the scalp and legs of twelve girl students were once examined in the spring and again in the late summer, after the girls had produced a golden tan on sun- baked sands. The microscope showed no change in the condition or texture of the hair. The wearing of hats is not a cause of baldness. Some experts, in fact, maintain the view that going bare- headed all the time is liable to make the stair so brittle and dry that it breaks off. Blondes average about 150,000 hairs on their pretty heads; brun- ettes about 100,000, while 90,000 is ttsual for redheads. Each square incl[ of scalp thus contains about 1,000 hairs. The variation in individual color is due to the presence in the cella of the shaft of a pigment called melanin (the stuff that gives that sun -tan 1. If there is a plentiful supply of melanin the result is jet black hair. When the quantity is smaller, the color graduates from brown to blonde. But hair colour changes through time, a result of the inability of the ageing body to keep not producing melanin. And that is one deficiency that all the powers of science have so far been unable to correct. Instances have been recorded of Bair changing colour almost over- night. This phenomenon was once believed to be impossible, but re- cent cases have been well docu- mented. One young boy, several days af- ter a violent display of temper, awakened to find that his hair had turned from red to blond -yellow. Two days afterwards it returned to its natural colour. John Lee, sentenced to death for the Babbacontbe murder, wallced to the gallows three times and three times the trapdoor failed to yield. When Lee returned from the third tt'ip his hair had gone white. A young than, locked in a boiler by playful workmates who threat- ened to raise steam, emerged after fifteen minutes avith white hair. One explanation is that the hair in such cases is filled with tiny air bubbles, which may product a permanent or temporary colour change, "Politicians keep their promises: they file theist away for future re- ference." —Anon. MOSCOW SQUEEZES TITO FROM ALL SIDES By Leon Dennen Belgrade—Russia, well aware of Yugoslavia's worsening economic plight, is putting on the beat both internally and externally in the hope of forcing the early collapse of Tito's rebellious regime. The belief among western obser- vers here is that only Moscow - inspired Cominform Communists would be ready and able to move into the vacuum which 'would be created by Tito's fall, Externai pressures are building up on Yugoslavia's borders. It is reported the Russians have at least 10 well-equipped divisions in the Danubian area. And within recent weeks they have been quietly strengthening the armies of the Red statellite countries which en- compass Yugoslavia. Led by Soviet officers, these forces are said to be well fitted out with tanks, guns and other modern heavy arms supplied by Russia. For the present, Yugoslavia's army of 500,000 men is still rated superior to the combined forces of satellite Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Albania. But Tito's men lack modern and heavy wea- pons; they're equipped mostly for guerrilla and mountain fighting. By next spring, it is felt they'll be inferior to the combined satellites, Moscow is, of coarse, alert to the likelihood that an armed attack on Yugoslavia would embroil Russia in another world war. Experts here think site isn't ready for that yet. But they fear the changed balance of military strength foreseen for next spring may encourage the Kremiin to act ttcn or soon after'- ward. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union is striving feverishly to overturn Tito internally. The Cominform has stepped up its campaign of terror and its war of nerves against the Red rebels. This has been especially true since the North Korean reverses at the hands of United Nations forces. Observers in Belgrade feel Russia is concerned above all with regain- ing prestige behind the Iron Cur- tain. Communist defeats in Korea apparently caused widespread re- joicing among satellite comttries. There has even been evidence of some restlessness there. Tito, the livins, proof that a Communist state can exist without subservience to Russia, therefore rentatus target No. 1 for Stalin. Recently the Conlinform's offi- cial journal forecast that "the day is not far off" when pro -Moscow un- derground forces will revolt against the Tito government. In daily broadcasts, Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria call for "death to the Fascist, Tito," Artificially provoked and care- fully executed border incidents and armed skirmishes have transformed Yugoslavia's frontiers into an expIo- sive ncf-man's-]sad. Spies and sahoteut's specially, trained in Comiuforiti schools are streaming across the borders. The Yugoslav police capture many, but a lot manage to filter in to carry ort acts of sabotage and destruc- Balt, For a long time Tito refused to acknowledge publicly that he and his ex -masters itt the Kremlin were no longer friends. But in his speech at Zagreb he openly admitted for the first time that his people arc Superior Now, But For How Long? Tito's 4rlu7 -of 500,0010 is .rated now as hatter th^ I ik1C cotubmned roes along Yugo- slavia's borders. Bill: nnit:,,ntetit, like the rifles these soldiers are cleaning, is mostly for guerrilla at";j UtOttntain -warfare. actually engaged [tight now Itt :l "small war" with Russia's satellites. He spoke of the "train of human casuatities".brought by the continu- ous series of border provocations. Determined now to seek food and favour in the West, Tito has at last begun to relax somewhat his iron grip on This own people. His is still a ruthless dictatorship, a totalitarian police state, but as one Yugoslav writer put it to 1110, "it is a dictatorship with a guilty con- science," There have been fewer night arrests lately, and the secret police terror has lessened t bit.