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(Two Bears ago, Associate Edi-
tor Dick Davids, visiting Swed-
en, ran across two Scientists
there who were producing giant
rabbits by treatfnp sperm with
ehemicale. Farm Journal, has
kept t7'acic of this research ever
since and now presents a pro-
gress report, dealing with hogs.
--Thr I'dttors,)
A big white boar, lazying away
at all experimental stator: in
Swadeu, may go down as the
most fatuous hog in history,
"Eber" (the name means boar
in German) was born, unprom-
isingly enough, in a litter of ten,
weighing a pound less than the
others. But at one week lied
caught up, and at three weeks
he'd grown past all his litter-
mates.
itteimates. From there on he grew
even raster.
He reached 200 pounds in 14%
Less time than average Swedish
hogs alts on 85% of the feed,
Eben' is the first hog ever to
have his germ cells radically
changed by man. He's a "trip-
loid," has half again more chrom-
osomes than the usual or "dip-
loid" hogs.
The two Swedish scientists,
Professors Goats Haggquist and
Allan Bane, who produced Eber,
didn't set out to breed a super -
hog, They simply wanted to
prove a point to other scientists:
that colchicine (a powder used
in treating gout) can be used to
change germ plasm in animals
just the way plant breeders have
used it in recent years to pro-
duce those giant flowers in your
wife's garden. ("Tetra" snap-
dragons, for instance.) Colehicine
has revolutionized plant breed-
ing, because it produces com-
pletely new shapes and colors
and occasionally enormous size
and vigor—in a single genera-
tion.
Starting first with frogs, Hagg-
•quist mixed colchicine with the
aperrn, and produced tadpoles
that kept right on growing to
enormous size, but nearer chang-
ed into frogs.
On rabbits, they produced oft -
Humility For Mahatma -British
Socialist Leader Clement Attlee
removes his hat and shoes in
reverent respect before laying a
wreath on the tomb of Mahatma.
Gandhi in New Delhi, Attlee
was en route to the Asian
Socialist Conference al Ran-
goon.
spring twice as big as their par-
ents, These rabbits bore young,
too, but they were dead at birth
or died shortly,
Two years ago they tackled
hogs, and, working with farmers
in Sweden, treated sperm in
scores of litters. Some pigs were
freaks, some died or were born
dead, others looked no diffel'ent
from the usual. It seemed es if
the pig experiment was a farl.-
ure. But a little later, Eber start-
ed to walk awry from the others
in size,
Since then, the scientists have
produced five other triploids,
three of which got foot-and-
mouth disease and had to be kill-
ed, (That disease has played hav-
oc with Swedish research, )
Will liber be a giant? No. At a
year and five months, he weigh-
ed 572 pounds,. although he'd
been kept thin to test his repro-
ductive powers. His rate of gain,
compared to American stand-
ards, is not phenomenal.
Can .Eber sire live pigs? That's
a question the Swedes Had 'anx-
iously awaited. Eber's first litter
has nine healthy pigs. One that
was lain on and killed had ehro-
nnosomes about half -way in num-
ber between sire and dam. A
younger triploid boar has served
a sow which is pregnant. The
third triploid, a sow, has. just far-
rowed eight pigs.
Whether or not Eber and the
two other living triploids can
found a new race of faster -gain-
ing, more efficient hogs is ques-
tionable. We may already have
U.S. strains as good or better.
The important thing is this:
We now know that colchicine
works on animals, and with it,
we may have a tremendous new
tool for breeding better stock,
whether Eber and the other hogs
in present experiments work out
that way or not.
—From ."The Farm Journal."
Changed His Story
Saved A Girl's Life
A famous British surgeon once
found a slowly -dying girl read-
' ing a newspaper serial in which
the heroine suffered from the
same disease she had.
He hurried to the author and
asked how the serial ended, and
was told that the character died
in the last instalment.
"Can you alter the ending so
that the heroine lives?" he asked,
and went on to explain his
theory. He. believed that if his
patient read of a similar case
surviving she might find the
strength to combat her disease,
The author willingly agreed to
change his story, and the serial's
heroine and patient both lived,
That is only one example of the
power of suggestion. Some doc-
tors believe that suggestion is
the cause of many human ail-
ments, A patient believes himself
to be 111, and makes himself ill
simply by worrying.
Many people believe that cof-
fee prevents sleep, due to the
presence of •a drug named ' caf-
fein. Doctors at a London hospital
decided to find out how much
sleep was prevented by the drug
and how much by suggestion.
A selected group of patients
were given coffee one night, and
the next night, at the same hour,
they were given milk.
All the patients reported that
they went to sleep quicker and
slept more soundly on the second
night. They were never told that
the milk had been mixed with
three times as much caffein as
was in the coffee.
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Glowing Example of Ingenuity -Bernard J. Patton has fashioned the glowing out-of-doors room,
above, of revitalized fluorescent lamps. Patton has devised an electronic device which gives new
life to about 80 per cent of burned -out fluorescent lamps. The feat, once considered "impossible,"
gives as much as 2,000 hours of usefulness to the tubes, and hos supplied Patton with a fast-
growing business,
Lack of Nails, Luml3er,
Boosts British Crime
By TOM A. C'ULLEN
NEA Special Correspondent
London—(NEA)—Largely f e r
want of some nails—and some
'lumber to put' between them --
Britain is slowlylosing her bat-
tle against lawlessness.
A shortage of nails, lumber
and other building materials has
led to an acute lack of housing.
Expeits claim the housing prob-
lem is a big factor in England's
.growing crime rate.
It's partly to blame, for in-
stance, for a shortage of 10,000.
policemen. Sir Harold Scott, Lon-
don police commisioner, says the
lack of horses is an obstacle to
recruiting. -
'"1 can't get enough men," he
complains. "Indeed, I even lose
a lot of men I already have. All
because there are no homes for
themselves and their families."
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Aside from its effect on police
forces, the housing shortage has .
helped hike the divorce rate. And
with so many "broken homes,"
there has come the usual rise in
juvenile delinquency.
Law -breakers meet .the housing
problem again when they're
caught and sent to prison. Bri-.
tisk prisons are more crowded
today than they've been for 75
years. More than 4500 inmates
are sleeping three to a cell for
lack of space.
The annual report of the Pri-
son Connmisioners lists 24,000 in-
mates, the most since 1877. The
number has been rising steadily
for three years, sometimes al
therate of 300 0l• more a month.
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Three-fourths are "repeaters,"
with one or more previous con-
victions. They're in and out of
custody so often that some ob-
servers have facetiously sug-
British Bobby - There aren't
enough of them because there
isn't enough housing.
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gested that the prisons use re-
volving doors.
The governors of the Staftt`ord
and Lewes reformatories report
a continued drop in the quality
of young first offenders.
At Lewes, they're "less alert
... less reliable." At Stafford, the
governor says:."A number of lads
to whoa-. I've spoken about their
futures have said, 'I hope I don't
comeback,' almost as if they had
nopower of decision as to whe-
ther they would or not."
The director of a regional
trebling prison chimes in by
branding the attitudes of young
prisoners "appalling."
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"They regard the State as ap-
parently possessing an unlimited
number of bottomless coffers," he
says, "which are there to supply
their financial. needs' whenever
they feel like it."
The prisons can't handle the
influx. All available rooms and
huts in 23 prisons are being used
for sleeping purposes. But the
commisioners report a need for
at least six flew 500 -man insti-
tutions to siphon oft the excess.
Restrictions 'on capital expen-
ditures and staffs, however, have
ruled out much expansion. The
first new prison under the build-
ing prograin will be started this
year, but may not be ready for
use until sometime in 1957.
Until then, the Prison Com-
missioners say the situation
stands 'to get worse, not better.
A11 for the want of some nails.
Wants To Take Your
Birthday Away
Is your birthday' on March
31st, May 31st, August 31st, or
December 31st?
If so, Elizabeth Achelis wants
to take it way. She is the found-
er of the World Calendar Asso-
ciation of New York, which be-
lieves that its new calendar will
come into operation on New
Year's Day, 1956, by order of the
United Nations. And if it does,
those lour birthdays will dis-
appear.
For years industries and gov-
ernments have been worried
about Mr calendar, with its
months of varying lengths, and
red -letters days falling on a dif-
ferent day of the week every
year. It has meant that in et ale
years workers have fifty-one pay
days, land in others fifty-three.
The Inland Revenue, the rail-
ways, the .Board of Trade. and
similar organizations dealing
with figures- of daily trade, find
their annual statistics sec -sawing
because the number of Satur.
days and Sundays varies iron)
year t0 year.
The «ew calendar would bring
order out of chaos. Every year
would start on a Sunday and
end on a Saturday, tot would each
quarter. In each quarter the first
month would consist of 31 days,
and the other two of 20 each,
This system leaves yetir rather
short, and to make up the last
days Elizabeth Achelis has an
idea which everyone would like.
When the last day of 1955, De-
cember 80th, arrives, the first
day of 1950, January 1st, will
still be twenty-four hours away.
Between it will come a nameless
day, with no date and no descrip-
tion!
The olan is to make it a World
Holiday on which all the member
,cations of U.N. woud dedicate
themselves to peace.
The nameless day between the
years would occur annually. In
a leap year another holiday
would come between Saturday,
June 30th, and Sunday, July 1st.
The World Calendar Association
points out that for all nations
in the Northern Hemisphere (the
bulk of the world's population) a
leap year day in midsummer,
making a long week -end, would
be far more popular than the
extra day in the wintry weather
of February.
Apart from those who would
lose their birthdays there is op-
position to the proposed calen-
dar. Religious groups are ready
to protest at a scheme which
inevitably will affect the days
of many religious observances;
while the two extra holidays, ac-
cording to their views, tamper
with the divine order of six days
of labour followed by one of
rest and worship.
Calendar and diary manufac-
turers also wonder about the re-
sults on their trade. No one will
ever need to consult a calender
to see on what day any date falls.
It will be the same every year!
Several nations are supporting
the plan, and it is likely to cause
a lot of discussion before the
General Assembly in the months
to coupe.
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NDAY SCHOOL
LESSON
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ev. 11. Saretay Warren
S.A.. B.D.
Gaining or Losing the Kingdom
Matthew 21:33.93
Aleatory Selection: Fear son
little flock; for it is your father's
good pleasure to give You the
kingdom. Luke 12:32.
The kingdom of God has beek
described as the "reign" of God,
"the kingdom of right relation-
ships," and "the regime in which.
love reigns." Jesus teaches about
the kingdom almost wholly in
pictures. There are three pie -
tures in today's lesson though
only one is in the printed per-
tion. It is the old story of abused
stewardship. The men to whom
the vineyard had been let are
intoxicated with a sense of greed
at the time of harvest. The ser-
vants sent to receive the owner's
portion are beaten', stoned or
slain. Then comes the owner's
son. Surely they will respect
him. But no; recognizing that he
is heir, they catch him, lead hint
out of the vineyard and slay hiss,
They think they will have the
inheritance. But the Owner Imo
another thought. These wicked
husband -men are slain and the
vineyard is let to others.
Jesus makes the application to
the Jewish leaders. God's king-
dom will be taken from this;
nation so richly blessed because
they rejected the message of
God's profits and are even now
plotting to slay His Son. It hap-
pened that way. The message of
the Kingdom went to the Gen-
tiles, many of whom gladly re
ceived the truth. The day of the
Gentiles was ushered in. But
God hasn't forgotten His ancient
people. They are gathering back:
to the land promised to their.
father Abraham. Some are turn-
ing to the Messiah. Israel is so
tiny country, but none is so int -
portant. Watch for God's deal-
ings with this people.
Not all the Gentiles are receiv-
ing the kingdom. Many are
sneering at God's commands and
promises. Disaster will result
Be not deceived; God is not
mocked: for whatsoever a meat
soweth, that shall he also reap.
For he that soweth to his flesh
shall of the flesh reap corrup-
tion; but he that soweth to the
Spirit shall of the Spirit reap li€r,
everlasting." Gal. 6:7, 8.
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grown giraffe sprawled on her cage floor one morning. Curator
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