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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1951-5-16, Page 3Fixatioti eat Fator by Richard H. Wilkinson Ivir. Harlow sat bolt upright in Lk chair. The psychology lecturer was saying: "And iu the normal family, when the daughter reaches the age of 12 or 13 it is quite likely that her fixation will shift front her mother to her father, 'They will become great friends. Offen this fixation on father will retrain until the daughter transfers her affec- tions to a nate. However, if father does not respond to daughter's fixa- t.ion, the child will, unconsciously, shift back to mother, who, in many cases has resented the original transfer Mr. Marlow rose. Ile made his way clown the long aisle paying no heed to the annoyed glances of other listeners, gained the outside lobby, mut paused there. dabbing at a moist brow with itis handker- chief. So that was its he told himself. So that tt as the cause of his wife's indignation and wrath and. resent- ment. In his mind's eye the pieces o£ the puzzle that had troubled him for the past month fell into place. He ut,derstood now what had hap- pened: he could see it taking place, step by• step.''r ant his only child had attained the age of 13. Site was nearing maturity. C,radu- ally, unconsciously, her fixation had transferred from mother to father. The two had become great friends, Mr. Harlow had been tremendously proud and happy. Not so Mrs, Harlow, Mrs. Bar- low was annoyed. She hadn't under- stood and presently her annoyance changed to resentment against her husband. 1fr, Harlow returned late that night, it was not his habit to return house late, but tonight there was a definite purpose. Mrs. Har- low had retired, and 10 minutes after he entered the house his daughter Virginia came M. Virginia had been to a party. Seeing a light in the living room, Virginia Came to the door. ,kt sight of her father sitting there alone she uttered a little cry of delight and bounced upon his knee, with the full intention of providing hits with details concerning lter.eve- ning's activities. Something about the expression on her parent's fare. however, restrained her, Afr, ilarlow smiled at her in a manner that bespoke faint enthau•- rassmcnt. He attempted to brush something from his coat but failed. Titus having had her attention at- tracted 1.0 the sonwthing, Virginia investigated and found it to be a daub of powder. She looked at it and frowned, Looking further she • discovered along strand of blond hair, horror {tied (act est.-. e hurt look, au expression of time and wonder and iacredttlity, gradually giving wary to something Lortlering on accusation and scorn. She drew away, "\V(ty, Daddy! \Vludt•vcr--who •-f" Mr. 'Harlow interrupted, ges- turing :drily, saying something about an apology, presently lapsing into it lengthy but rather stupid discourse and ending by stating. that it svottld not be wise or necc,- safy to mention lir matter to iter lumbar, \'ireiuia stared. .\I'reptly she flume her arms about her father's neck and promised hint that no matter what happened she would keep his secret. It would he their secret. Poor mother. She Hoist never lana1. Lut he most prnmist•.- Ves, yes, Of course he'd promise, It was all very silly anysay's, Just one of those regretful thins that would never be repeated. After awhile \ irginia rose and left pini, tier. attitude brought e lump lata Rir. Harlow's throat. Batt when she bad gone he sighed in vast relief. Beginning tomr>r• row, be knew his daughter's lisa- fiom wonhi by transferred Istel: to her mother, Ries, 11,clov, would teaso to he it'rilal>te and resentful. I1arnwy t:tnitl reign once more in the household. And sometime, Mr, 'Harlow takl hnnseli, when Vir- ginia etas safely married and away, he would contain it till -and hope 'drat she would understand. Rain->na� ling P law ,Serious Busilietis what i, 11. liter to lire iu ,1 "seed- ed" entin.ttntruti' 71d rifer, to ei,aul-*vatting 111 uludily tum, 11x• pert, of the weather. This scientific esperiolent or ad• taoe, it still regarded in the East as a coutbimtd,>n of convenience, curiosity, and annoyance -where it 1, not still derided as a hoax, But in the semi -arid ,'rest, we take it ith great seriousness. Just a little more snowpack 00 the mountains to increase supplies of irrigation crater, just a little more rain at the right time to mature drying land crops and increase pas- turage, less lightning to burn for- ests, and less hail to blast crops— these would make a tremendous difference to our economy. So we watch the weather even more keenly, and with more vivid emotions, than do people in the Fast says Roscoe Fleming, writing its The Christian Science Monitor. Even while the natural scientists are still debating whether it can be done on a worthwhile scale, the West is rapidly being covered with cloud -seeding projects. For 1951, they will cover areas, in ll, about six times as large as New England or one-sixth tate nation's area. Or perhaps more, since new districts are being form- ed daily. Denver. with 600,000 population in its metropolitan area, is the larg- est community so far to be in- cluded in a consistent. scientific, seeding program; which will prob- bably be continuing. The Denver Water Board has joined with neigh- bouring interests to buy such a program—its first t ertbeing six months. But, apparently. Denver has actu- ally been experiencing "seeded" weather for several months. Gee- erators along the Continental Di- vide have been seeding general storms for sttowpack in the mount- ains all winter. The silver-loxide smoke plumes reach far downwind over the city and into the plains. Tieing keenly interested in the subject—as well as in our weather generally—I have been watching it more closely than ever. It seems to me that every time it made as if to suave this winter, it has' showed: and that when, nor- mally. we night have got a mere flurry, on almost every occasion we got from -one to seven inches. Further our weather has turned extremely businesslike, It doesn't fool around. When the clouds conte over, it starts in to snot' or rain. and keeps it up until -they break. Yet the proportion of sunshine to cloud is about normal, and, of course, very high compared to the cloudy East, Sine the sprieg.secdiug program started, we have had at least one general rain, and again the char- acteristics were the sante: the clouds started marching, the rain started falling, a stole, gentle soak• Mg drizzle. Now, though this is only one. person's impression attd formed from entity a few month,' experi- ence, it seems to me that deeding has changed .these characteristics of our climate, noticeably. to anyone who watches the weather. Rain and. slaw fall for a longer time during each storm, hitt the rain falls more gently, and the water has time to soak in, rather than running off. 'Flue experieucc has already been reported from other areas in which seeding has gone on longer, It is too early to tell, of course, whether we actually get more moisture, That can he told for stare only after years of experience and comparison of records. Wilen we hear an. ••Iderly nom tilt about how titch Ileum. the boys believed when he ...es . •,nn:', we wearier ult:•the1 1t^ i suffering front indigestion or had sleeping sickness during 111, teen age. --Shel- don Mail, •Mends C.P.R. Division lames W. Stewart has been appointed superintendent of the Canadian Pacific's Bruce Division under a new setup whereby lines in and adjacent to Toronto are placed under a separate division headquarters. Tremendous increase of business throughout the whole territory made the separation of operating administrations necessary, in order to improve service to Ontario centres. THHA1M FRONT Joh j*, . S-Iere's really good news for everybody—excepting the rats, And by rats I do NOT mean commun- ists, fellow -travellers or other ro- dents of the human variety. I mean rats of the sort with which man- kind has been waging a ceaseless battle since before the dawn of recorded history. At long last it looks as though a new—and this time a decisive—weapon has been found, And here is the set-up, A number of years ago when cattle were dying front eating spoil- ed sweet clover, carte the first hint that a new rat poison was in the making. The spoiled clover was responsible for a hemorrhagic con- dition caused by a toxic factor which clotted the blood more slowly than normal, Research isolated, identified and named this factor Dicumarol. Dieumarol has been adopted in medicine as a blood anti -coagulant to prevent "strokes:' and post-operative blood clots. During the Past fifteen years in the iIepartntettt of Biochemistry of the University of Wisconsin, Professor Karl Paul (.ink and Itis associates have been studying the effects of ane, -coagulants, With the identification of Dicumarol, they went further to find a compound more speedy in action, In 1043, among one hundred and fifty ex- perimetttai chemicals, they discov- ered one to have toxicity too great to be used in medicine. This fact led them to believe that it night be effective as a rat poison, Further research lay inactive. during tite war, but four year. later Link's staff found an anti -coagulant most etIce. Live in producing hemorrhagic con- ditions in rats and ntlre. It was found to be twenty to thirtytimes more toxic titan Tlicuntetrol. ft was named "Comm, carol 42" front the fort, seemed compound investigated and front this c'o,'e designation the product i; non known as warfar- in,, Scheel and \Vu• unknowingly had discovered the compound which Link ltd predicted Ewan could make a gond rat poison. BY - HAROLD ARNETT CURTAIL' REPAIR REPAIR RIPS IN A SHOWER CURTAIN BY RUNNING HORIZONTAt-MECO Or TAPE ALON& 1145 RiP AND LOOPING' A VERTICAL. PIECE OVER iT. An unusual feature of the poison is that single doses are rarely fatal. The amount of warfarin in the bait is so stnall that the danger of pois- oning to humans or domestic ani- mals is low. Single doses are rarely fatal even to rats or mice, but over a five, ten or fifteen -day period of halt feeding the anti -blood coagu- lating chemical induces gradual in- ternal hemorrhage. After three to five clays, less and less of the bait is eaten and dead rodents are found. Two weeks may be required for the control of rats and somewhat long- er for mice, Warfarin is effective agaiust both Norway and roof rats as well as mice which gives this new product a definite advantage, a feature which hitherto has not been incorporated in any outer ro- denticide. Rats and twice accept tate bait with no shyness, thus eliminat- ing the necessity of pre -baiting. A great dead of research and ex- perimentation has presented con- clusive evidence of the advantages of warfarin. Under laboratory ob- servation large single doses of the poison are not indicated, but rather small amounts placed in the bait to -which the rats have free access have proven most effective. Rait c•otaitting as little as 0.0125 per cent has resulted in a ore hundred per cent death tate. Ifowever, after consideration of all factors, it was found that 0,025 per cent content of poison was to be rccoutenes'ed to insure complete kills itt all ece- tions of the country where rodents had the cboice of more tempting food• other than the ioisoned bait, While rates were given warfarin by stomach tithe its varying. amounts. Findings hoc indicated that,, small dose, repeated over a number of days were morc octet', lice than large doses. For example doses of one milligram rant per 'kilo- gram given at one day intervals for period of five days pare one hundred per rent ntnrtalit, of the animal;. .\ single dose of 1110 urn. per kg, gave only fifty per cent death -rate of ten rats. even though the amount given 1015' twenty limes as great, Oatmeal, cornmeal anti ham- burger baits were used in the la- boratory feeding tests and a com- plete kill resulted to all vases evert though the rats were aide to choose between the. poison bait and their regular diet.in musty eases, tate animals preferred the deadly Ma- terial, Neither did the rats seem aware that the poison was harm- ing them. Very sick animals were observed dragging themselves to the poison dishes attd eating more of the deadly bait. R: * * In field testing warfarin was found to be particularly useful on poultry farms. On one farm as many as fifty rats were counted every night, Cornmeal baits were put out and at the end of five days, fourteen rats were found dead. Fol- lowing the first count, the chicken house was examined every day for a period of six nights and sixty- three dead rats were discovered, It is unlikely that all the rats killed were 'found, But the rodents had completely disappeared from the premises, Its another test, dead rats were fottnd on the third day and at the end of tea days, fifty-three had been accounted for, In this case, it ap- peared that the rats had been com- pletely eliminated, ft is worth men- tioning that during these experi- meuts the rats had a free choice between the baits and the mash provided for the hens, In addition to laboratory and field tests practical experiments were carried out in abattoirs, bak- eries, grocery stores and ware- houses. The results were satisfac- tory and numerous i>usiness estab- lishments have' reported that their premises are free or almost free of rats for the first time, even though on many previous occasions they had used other rodenticide.. e • In another test carried out a white Leghorn hen, one year old, was given (1.075 anilligratns per r.c. of warfarin in the drinking water for a period of almost fourteen months. During the whole of this time, the hen showed little evidence of poisoning. When rats ural eat the poison bait, no marked changes can be noted in the appearance or activity r•f the animals. The first indicated evidence that Internet hemorrhage is taking place may. he seen by the bleathinp of the skin of an albino rat. This usually begins on the third or fourth day and persists until death. The pink epos of the alhiun Uerome red caused front in- ternal hemorrhage in the eye, As sul,rutancous hemorrhage develops, the rats i,ecotttr quiet and inactive. At this stage, they become drowsy and the animals are cunttatt to re- main as quiet as possible, When walking they move with a slow and measured shuffling gait with a tendency to drag the hind feet. * a '1'!te last twenty-four (tours pre- ceding death, the rat lies on its side with little or no movement other tbau breathing. Finally it dies from suffocation caused by lung hemorrhage or from exhaus- tion due to insufficient blood to carry food to the tissues. The vas- cular system has no sensory nerve connections, consequently, there Is no previous warning when hem- orrhage occurs and no pain. The animal passes on, showing no out- ward signs of violent actions which might educate other members of their population and thus cause "bait shyness." The bait gives no physical association between it and the hemorrhagic condition, and the stricken animals continue to eat the bait until the end, * A: * Examinations made on dead ani- mals disclose internal hemorrhage confined usually to areas such as the heart, lungs and less often to the gastro-intestinal tract. Inter- nal organs were pale, indicating that the real cause of death was the ap, parent lack of oxygen to, vital organs. e no blood appears rs • • ns.Little or a s been unless the r externally tt 1 sst has a injured, although occasionally, a small amount of blood is passed in the urine and through the nose. In eight months about six hundred tests were studied and summarized. The pre -testing has now been pass- ed on for the benefit of everyone. At present, warfarin is sold chief- ly as a powdered concentrate, a five per cent dilution of warfarin in cornstarch, tinted green to distin- guish it from foods. Suggested doses are one part of the poison thor- oughly mixed with nineteen parts by weight of some other ingredient such as bread crumbs, cornmeal, rolled oats, nut crumbs, dogfood meal. crushed corn or other similar foods. Some companies sell it ready. mixed. Where the poison has a tendency to dust, add enough min- eral oil to moisten the bait mixture, e If perishable halts are used, such as fish. fresh ground meat or vege- tables, they should be set out in late afternoon and replaced daily with fresh baits. However, because such materials are perishable and are likely to he more attractive to cats and dogs, they are not so highly recommended. Owing to the clanger of children and livestock costing in contact with it, bait that may be readily carried by rats and mice should he avoided. Do not use mouldy, soured or decomposed baits. Animal fat or oils should not he used for bait because of their vitamin In content. Vitamin K acts as an antidote to warfarin poisons. Cereal bait= are more generally employe d. Ratting should he done where rats and mice frequent and should continue as long as the rodents, are feeding. This will be from the beginning of control and lasting over about a two-week period, Ile - baiting is merely a matter of re- plenishing the bait supPly as the animals eat it. After the fourth, day smaller quantities will be needed for replacements. Where infestation of the rodents continues from near- by fields and dutnps, permanent bait stations should be safely Placed and replenished when necessary, Even though warfarin is comparatively safe to use, it trust be out of reach of children and livestock, Rodent control through warfarin is mast attractive from an econ- omical standpoint. Five pounds make about one hundred pounds of bait, which is enough for a large farm, One pound enalces twenty pounds which is about right for the average farts or for small ware- houses and food handling plants. One-quarter pound makes five pounds of bait, enough for the aver- age householder over an extended period of time, * is * Success in using the poison de- pends largely 00 providing the pests with all the bait they will eat during the first fourteen days of control, Warfarin is an entirely new method of rat and mouse con- trol and not just "another rat poison." "A FEATHER IN YOUR CAP' Sontetitnes, if you pull off some - tiling particularly creditable, such as passing a hard examination or beatinghng an expert t at his own game, people will say, "That's a feather in your cap," Though they may not realize it, they are referring to the blood- thirsty practice of scalping, North American Indians used to add a feather to their headgear every time they killed an enemy. The custotn was also known in other parts of the world, and in ancient Hungary, no one was allowed to adorn himself with a feather un- less he had first killed a Turk. The reason the average girl would rather have beauty than brains is that the average man would rather look than think.— Istason City Glohe-Gazcttc. 7 * Fasnlon Note Wlio Wouldn't Want To Live In That Dear Russia? MINUTES OF WORK REQUIRED TO BUY THESE FOODS UNITED GREAT STATES CANADA BRITAIN FRANCE U S S. R. BREAD (1 ib,) ittleiht Index of Amount of Work Require to Buy Food Basket BUTTER (1(b.) MILK (1 qt,) EGGS 11 dor.) 29 POTATOES (1 lb) COFFEE (1 Ib) SUGAR (1 Ib.) JITTER ••••ANtt WHEN (CAME HOME 1 FOUND MY UE5151 500 UPStD0 DOWN Att0 EVERYTHntO 00N0/ WELL, PONY YOUWOARY LADY WE'LL CATCH THE CULPRIT AND RECOVER V00R Twines O.) ' •i By Arthur Poynter A CRO -I< ALWAYS MAKat> SOME t'At.SI MOVE AND THEN YOU'VE GOT NIM/