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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1950-11-30, Page 3=Pr* Aymw "Clinically Dead" Vet Now Alive S tieing new 3 came civ the wires rc'cepttly lieu a olnll:A11 in childbirth reunited to life- aft, t rive to eight minutes of apparent death-., 't'lmre was no louse, no blood prey. arc, uo breathing. "Clinically dead" was the verdict of the d estot•, i!% atteudann'. Sht, aunt her 5i14- and-.rhalf-pe,uud baby girl were 1 ing well when hist heard of. Jn t before this case was report- ed by the press. Dr, William I. Wolff went over the whole ground of resuscitation in the Journal of the American Medical Association. He described the case of a 45 -year- old maw NV 1111 had entered a hospi- tal, a victim of advanced tubercu- lush, of the right lung, and who had undergone an artificial pucuuutus thorax, meaning that his lung had been collapsed and immobilized by the injection of nitrogen gas. He had also received streptomycin, In the course of another operation he died; no pulse, no heart sounds. The abdomen was opened. No blood flowed, Dr. Wolff massaged the heart by squeezing it rhythmic- ally. In fifteen seconds there were contractions; in anothcr Ill teen 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 operative1 was performed. A year later the man was discharged. Sudden stopping of the heart for 00 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 case in medical literature in which the heart was kept beating for nearly two hours merely 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 surgeon sometimes starts it again by pressing on the diaphram 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 lar 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. If 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 tunes as much oxygen as any otheer 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 from 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 man for more than an hour before the heart begins to beat again of its own accord, Usually he 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 beatagain. The heart by itself could not have started up again without the cooperation of the lungs. Heart and hogs work together, Dr. Wolff believes that in the titans case artificial ventila- tion of the lung explains what hap- pened. Seine of u• odd -timers can re- member when eltalfa 'was nothing -,ouch more than a vaudeville joie, • "The hayseed with alfalfa on his chin" tool so on, We can• also re call when soy beans sounded for- eign and exotic, You went to China- town and ,ate something or other "with soy beau sauce!" * a a But now alfalfa is un integral -part of farm economy in many sec • - tions- of the Dominion, and every year more and more farmers are experimenting with growing soy beaus, And it is hard to realize that -less than half a century ago • soy beaus were—as far as this con- tinent goes—nothing but an Ori- ental novelty. Back around 1905 or thereabouts, a few agricultural stations were studying the soy bean, and a hand- ful of adventurous farmers were experiuneuting with its growing. And now—well, just look at the darned stuff1 Over in the States soy beats are topped only by wheat and corn ilt 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 knots' when you are eating or handling something containing soy beans," t: 5 5 Never before has there been a soy bean harvest as big as this in the United States. Across au estimated 13,000,000 acres the combines kept rolling. When the job was done, some 281, - legume had been harvested, a * Before World War I it - was planted on less than a half trillion acres in the U.S.A. and was used only for forage and stay. Today's $600,000,000,soy beats processing in- dustry was not• thought of. A few processors were experimenting in • soy bean oil extraction, but if anyone bad told them 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 pet- cent of the protein supplements mixed into feeds, it would have seemed a wild dream. * * * 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 animals and human 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. * * Y, The soya's growth and maturity depends not only on climate but on length of days, hence special vari- eties must be developed for differ-. ents degrees of latitude, * * M • American climate and latitude were close enough to that of Man- churia to snake it possible to use seed from that country for a start. Travelers to the Orient brought back samples ands farmers grew them successfully,. A. E. Staley, founder of the big processing com- pany which bears his name, recalled his father returning front a Metho- dist conference in North Carolina with seeds given hint by a mission- ary. Mr, Staley, then a small boy, planted thein and they thrived. From that time on his father raised soy bean 'hay on his farm. • rn' • HAt4OLD ARNETT •-t ij SANDING TRICK. SAND IRREGULAR SURFACES WITH SHEET OF ABRASIVE PAPER WRAPPED AROUND RUBBER SPONGI; . PAPER WILL CONFORM TO MOST MOLDINGS. -.w«..(w(�., It was the a;;runotniets of the Deportment of Agriculture and the experiment stations, however, who were chiefly responsible for Wing- ing over the iuuuigrent, Always on the lookout for new, useful craps, they began. seriously working on say beim importations in the 1890's. Pioneers in this field •were W. P. Brooks of the Maeeaclutsetts Ex- periment Statim and C. C. George. soti of lti.ansae.- both returning from the Orient with seed and beginning • experiments with it. - Over a period of years Depart - uncut of Agriculture agronomists brought in more than 2,500 distinct varieties from China, Manchuria, Japan, Korea, the Bast Indies, and India. Each had different maturity periods, size, shape, color, composi- tion, surd other growing character- istics, here was something to work on. 1V. J. Morse in the department devoted himself with such single- ness of purpose to the soy bean that he won for himself the title "Daddy of the Soy bean in Amer- ica," Good varieties suitable to Ameri- can conditions were produced through crossing importations. Vari- eties have been developed to meet climate and latitude conditions of the far South and the far North and alt the regions in between. A made -•to -measure Lean for each zone was produced that matures early, resists insects and disease, stands up against wind and rain lo it can be mechanically harvested, resists shattering, or the tendency of pods to burst open in the field, has high oil content, and other virtues, all combining to produce high yield. Thanks to research Ivorlc and the experimentation, the state average production in Illinois, for example, rose in 25 -years froth 11.6 -bushels an acre to 20.9. k, 4 k: L'ut the •experts were not satis- fied. The search for a better soy bean goes on. In 1936, the Depart- ment of Agriculture established the Regional Soy Dean Laboratory at the 'University of Illinois. It co- ordinates the work of 26 state ex- periment stations tvhiclt are work- ing on soy beasts. 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 in the eagerness of farmers to adopt the new varieties produced. A few year's 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, Mini was virtu - Thrill Of A Lifetime—Little Kathleen Howell, 5 -year-old polio Victim in a hospital saw her dreams come true when site looked up froth her bed and found radio's Charlie .McCarthy, With Edgar Bergen, had come to see her --in person. Kathleen's mother. — whti recently contracted polio herself — credited "Charlie's" letters to her daughter with "palling her through" when the child was near death. ally obsolete and 85 per cent of the soy bean acreage in the state was planted to Lincoln. * s: 5 Still the experts aren't content. Quest for a better bean continues on an expanding scale. J. L. Cart - ter, director of the United States Regional Soy Bean Laboratory, points out that 'it takes 10 years from the time a cross is made until a new variety is ready for distri- bution. 5 * At the sante time,, studies are be- ing made of extraction methods and industrial uses of the soy bean to assure a continuing market, dustry, Two recent studies at the north- ern regional laboratory concern the problem of stabilizing tate flavor of soy bean oil so it does not revert to a "beany" taste, and retaking 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 entail 15 per cent into paints, plastics, and alt 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 than 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- front a prankster the following letter:— "Dear Sir—I enclose six shill- ings. Please send me a word." Kipling responded: "Thanks," November's Blanket Novetuber's lashing rain and gusty wind bring down the colour from the treetops. The wooded hills overnight lose their banners, and tate maples, the buttonwoods and all the birches stand leafless against the sky, as though never again would suclt 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. Thus 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 sterns in the meadow. Their primary func- tion was to trap sunlight and manu- facture food for the parent plant.. That function completed, at a pro- per titne they underwent physical change which gave them 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 theta, 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 tern 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 ve night 111',1!' :ire KR t.1 1116cldt, tti i,iA.1 oil the tn;tt tet n4' hair than o any` other httmztn ,'brin:eteristic. One of theee myths is that cutting the tau will snake it grow faster•. But feetr Intuit! at the Mellon institute in America hew ].roved the leen •hebt belief of specialists that eettieg, shaving and singeing ltaee tr., rut ct 00 hair term Ili. Hair does not gross (roe the. ends, batt from the runts c'entr'ed in OW corimat or body of the skhi. And as earl strand "(lies," ;thee a life r,1 from six montlie to four years, 0 is replaced by a nee one INMdrit will not reach the surface for about two months. This natural shedding of the hair affects Viler people Blondes in the Lead Each lour sue etas guielde just after emerging feel' the scalp, but aft. that the n;,ie of erc,r:tit eienee down. -Another false belief is that su•.xte_ sunlight with produce extra bait•. The hair on the scalp and legs of twelve girl students were once examined in the spring and again itt the late sunnier, after the girls had produced a golden tan art enti- 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 hair 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 usual for redheads. Each square inch of scalp thus contains about 1,000 hairs. The variation in individual color is due to the presence in the cells of tate shaft of a pigment called melanin (the staff that gives that sun -tan). If there is a plentiful supply of melanin the result is jet black hair. When the quantity is smaller, the color graduates from broth to blonde. But hair colour changes through time. a result of the inability of the ageing body to keep on 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 hair changing colour almost over- night. This phenomenon was once believed to -be impossible, but re- cent cases have been well dom. 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 fur the Babbacombe murder, walked to the gallows three times and three times the trapdoor failed to yield. When Lee returned frons the third triphis hair had gone white. A young man, locked in a boiler by playful workmates who threat- ened to raise steam, emerged after fifteen minutes with white hair. One explanation is that the hair in such cases is filled with tiny air bubbles, which may produce a permanent or temporary colour change. "Politicians keep their promises; they file them 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 heat both internally and externally in the hope of forcing the early collapse of Tito's rebellious reghne. 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 world be created by Tito's fall. External 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, gusts 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 then lack modern .and heavy wea- pons; they're equipped meetly for guerrilla and mountain fighting. By next spring, it is felt they'll be inferior to the combined satellites, Moscow is, of course, alert to the likelihood that an armed attack on Yugoslavia would etnbroil Russia in another world war. Experts here think she isn't untidy for that yet. But they fear the changed balance of military strength foreseen for next spring may encourage the Kremlin to act then 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 countries. There has even been evidence of some restlessness there. Tito, the hivins proof that a Communist state can exist without subservience to Russia, therefore remains target No. 1 for Stalin, Recently the Cominform': offi- cial journal forecast that "tire day is not far off" when pro -Moscow un- derground forces will revolt against the Tito government. In daily broadcasts, I-Iungary, Rumania and Bulgaria call foes,"death to the Fascist, Tito." Artificially l:rovolted 'and care- fully executed border incidents and armed skirmishes have transformed Yugoslavia's frontiers into au explo- •aiye no-ntan';-land; Spies and saboteurs specially trained in Cominform schools are streaming across the borders. The Yugoslav police capture many, but a lot manage to filter in to carry out acts of sabotage and destiny. tion, For a long time Tito refused to acknowledge publicly that he and Itis ex -masters in the Kremlin were no longer friends. But in his speech at Zagreb he openly admitted for the first time that his people arc t.�r;st °t Superior Now, :But For How Long?Tito':, army. of 500,000 it xtoty better• than comt r . ,vKu nu R'- elav1a'srated borders,as But egtlipmeuttate, like thh4„ne rifles thnrese solY1tdierbtt Are cleaning, is . mostly for guerrilla and mountain warfare. actually' engaged right now in a "small war" with Russia's satellites, He spoke of the "train of human casualities" brought by the eatttinu- ous series of border provocations. Determined now to seek food and favour in the West, Tito has at last begun to relax somewhat his heti grip on his osvu people. :Elis is still a ruthless dictatorship, a totalitarian police state, but as one Yugoslav writer put it to me, "it is a dictatorship with a guilty cone science." '['here have been fewer night arrests lately, and the secret police terror has lessened a bit.