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ft- EVER TRY WALKING DOWN AN ASCENDING ESCALATOR? DAILY HEALTH TALKS BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. 4 The Battl Creelc ENQU1BEWEWS THE ENQUIRER, cstabllsned July 21. city planning commission's railroad crossing committee, has reported to the commission that the bill is now "deader than a dodo." The measure 'provided that railroads would stand a major portion of the grade separation costs, while the cities' shares in such projects would be materially reduced. A strong railroad lobby has kept the bill in the house committee, he said.

As discussion of the matter before the city planning commission brought out, it is likely that new sources and forms of revenue must be obtained to finance such a project, as well as the coordination of efforts of municipal groups. It is to be recognized that this will be a long-range enterprise, but the goal is infinitely worth while. something about this in your column. I suppose there are a good many people who share my sister's obsession." T. M.

A. I believe your doctor gave you the right answer. All I can do is elaborate upon what 'your doctor said. To prevent misunderstanding let me say first that the proper names for the diseases you probably have in mind when you use that wretched term "social diseases'" are syphillis, gonorrhea and chancroid. As your doctor said, it is possible to catch any one of these by just FEAR OF DISEASE "My sister makes life miserable when we got out together.

She won't sit down in a bus, subway or streetcar or even in a movie, for fear of getiing some form of social disease. She insists you can contract such disease by touching chairs, doorknobs or in fact anything a person having the disease has touched or come into contact with. She even claims you can get social diseases from drinking out of glasses, cups at fountains or in public lunch places or cocktail places. I aske 1 our doctor and he said of course in rare instances such infection may occur but he didn't think it was a risk one need worrv about. But I don't regard him as an absolute authority.

Please say History As News 'From the Enquirer and N'ews Fllesl TEN YEARS AGO TODAY The local auxiliary to the Order of the Railway Conductors was reorganized with Mrs. Mabel Williams, president; Mrs. Jane Bordine, vice president, and Mrs. Florence Nottke, secretary-treasurer. First established in 1906, it was disbanded in 1932.

Camp Custer, then 20 years old, started summer training as the first detachment of troops of the 2nd Infantry arrived from Fort Wayne, Detroit. Gordon E. Townsend was chosen a trustee of the Michigan Congregational conference at the 99th annual meeting held in Owosso. Robert Anderson. 19.

won the three first prizes, totaling $15 in cash, in the Junior Chamber of Commerce model airplane contest. (From the Enquirer anr News Files TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY H. H. Dacon, 261 Eldred. built a fine new lawn but returned home a few days later to find it just wasn't there, thieves having removed the several loads of rich surface dirt.

The Gage Co. got out Nichols Shepard's catalogue for the 37th successive year. The cover design was the work of Walter H. Gage. Church of.

God, West Burnham street, baptized many candidates Sunday afternoon at Goguac lake. Bathers and waters tobogganers paused in their sports during the service. The tax rate for summer was to be lowered and all departments, except fire and police, cut. (From the Dally Moon Fllesl FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY There was a heavy frost the night before. William J.

Smith of the Farmers and Merchants bank purchased a lot from Misses Olivia and Julia Hinman on Maple street and would erect a handsome residence there during the summer. Warren D. Baker, for two years instructor in Latin and Greek in high school, was hired as principal for the coming year. Two traveling pipers played on the streets through the day. Give the Often He Will Prove to Boy' a Chance Have Hidden Talents.

VJa What this country really needs is fewer people think they know what it needs and don't. Any person who failed to get in a report on the first robin of the season may still qualify in the "first fly" competition. The best feature of built-in conveniences around the house is that the neighbors can't borrow them. Sometimes it is necessary to carry coals to Newcastle. The citizens of Holland, have imported large quantities of lulips for the current tuUp festival due to the tardy blooming of the homegrown flowers.

A friend is temporarily enjoying a pleasure he never anticipated. Due to the closing of a street the bus now runs practically past his house. Ordinarily he has to walk four, blocks to ride. So the city planning commission has been advised that the proposed measure for financing grade grossing separation is "as dead as a dodo" for the present. That won't come as a shock to the oldtimers in the city, who have been hearing the same kind of news off and on for at least 40 years.

A friend says if we only had prohibition again we wouldn't be bothered with so many dandelions. It would be well to remember that the flowers or telegram we sent oi; the visat we made on Mother's Day won last the 'entire year. The best illustration of progress we've seen recently is the announcement that a young "down Easter" named Robert Fulton, has invented a combination airplane and automobile that both runs and flies. Wasn't long ago when another young Fulton was exacting "oh's" and "ah's" with a steamboat. At letlst the woman who married the bank robber a few hours after he was sentenced to 10 years in prison won't have to wonder about the "sick friend" some husbands sit up with a couple of nights a week.

One headline informs us the price of ice is up. And only a few weeks ago we were throwing the stuff into the street with a shovel. TODAY'S WORST JOKE Mother and daughter were busy with the wedding plans, when the bridegroom-to-be called. He watched the preparations impatiently. "Darling, we have such a lot to do," said his fiancee.

"And if we want to make our wedding a big success, we mustn't forget even the most insignificant detail!" "Oh, don't worry about that," muttered the young man. "I'll be there all right." Aged Pair Fight Duel Over Woman with Canes WASHINGTON (JP) An "affair of honor" fought out in a duel with canes landed two elderly Spanish-American war veterans in court here Both are residents of the Soliders' home and both sought the favor of the woman in the case Mrs. Leona Huff, who didn't disclose her age. John L. Cook, 67 and a veteran of 15 years' army service, related that he was escorting Mrs.

Huff along a street when he noticed Em- ilio Count Capeto, 69, following them. He said he protested, and words led to the battle of canes. A policeman broke it up, but only after Cook got a cut on his head and a black eye the result, he claimed, of an ungallant righthand punch by Capeto. Capeto was held at the arraignment on $500 bond for a jury trial on charges of assault. Look and Learn 1.

In what two states are the easternmost and westernmost points of the U. 2. Which President was known as "Old Rough and Ready?" 3. What Biblical character went mad and ate grass? 4. What is a neophyte? 5.

How is "69" written in Roman numerals? (See answers on comic page) till Dad sets borne to start dietine? dirt and then boss the job!" May 8, ion. Also uecctKT to THE BATTLE CREEK JOURNAL, established utabllsbed 1679. Published week-day evenines and Sunday mornings by federated pi Rl.ir a- TIONS, 31-42 W. state Street, Battle irieK. Mica.

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THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1947 The Pension Fund Mayor Bailey has given deserved prominence to the problem of the police and firemen's pension fund provided by a city charter election In 1937. Apprehensions about the financing of this program which means so much to the security of police and firemen have been expressed before, but the problem never has been forced to a reckoning. The situation is a good deal like that applying to purchase of in surance by an Individual. The longer the city waits to start pay lng its share, the more it will cost to have the insurance. Moreover, as Mayor Bailey points out, the city has actually fallen behind in its obligations at the rate of $60,000 annually based on the 1943 actuarial study made of the pro gram.

This is debt, and a man In debt not only should maintain his current payments but endeavor to catch up on what he owes, as the mayor points out. That a new actuarial study of the program may reveal even stiffer obligations than those foreseen by the 1943 study is, of course, a definite possibility. It Is also possible that a rcsurvey may bring to attention, again, certain provisions which have been criticized as more liberal than the program can eventually afford. The pension fund should be regarded, however, as a complete and accepted necessity for Battle Creek policemen-and firemen. They voluntarily doubled their own rates of contribution to it, in an effort to cooperate with city administrations hard-pressed for money.

The existence of the fund has tended to offset the low salaries paid policemen and firemen and given them assurance that in case of retirement, either voluntary or forced because of the hazards inherent In their occupations, they and their families will hot be destitute. Finally, the pension fund is a substitute for social security for which public servants are not eligible. Painful as it may be to start setting aside substantial amounts to build an adequate sinking fund, the city has no other course. It is also a fact that any true evaluation of the city's financial problems should include the requirements of the pension fund. Unfortunate as the municipal financial situation is in many respects, it is distorted on the optimistic side when pension needs are omitted from budget-making.

Efficiency At Work An ounce of performance in the matter of efficiency and economy In government is worth many pounds of promises, and it appears that Michigan's secretary of state, Fred M. Alger, has coma up with a high-assay specimen of action along these lines. Mr. Alger last week announced adoption of a simplified automobile registration system which; he reports, will save more than $100,000 a yean, in material and personnel as well as a great deal of time and temper of a public accustomed to a long wait in line for new license plates. The plan calls for establishment of a permanent record of car registrations and for issuance of a completely filled application blank to every automobile owner who has not changed cars during the year.

The new arrangement will eliminate filing completely new applications each year for most of the present 2.000,000 "registrations. The simplified procedure is the type of money and time-saving improvement which any efficient private business concern would have adopted years earlier. But that fact does not detract from the agreeable surprise over the secretary of state's ccrner-cutting move. Of course it raises the inevitable question as to how many other similar economies in state government are waiting for adoption by someone with initiative and imagination. Grade Crossing Setback Although the proposed state grade separation legislation is now termed dead, the problem it represents is just as alive as it ever was.

The problem continues to demand solution. A solution is demanded with each tieup of traffic by passing railroad trains in every community; it is demanded when fire trucks, ambulances and police cars are delayed by trains as they seek to carry out their important missions. Ronald M- Ryan, chairman of the BY ANGELO PATRI Few classes are without the dull child. He is the last to obey an order, last to'get on line, last to begin work, last to finish and his work never really completed. His marks are below the average and.

because he does not keep up with the class, the hurried teacher is likely to leave him in the back seat and neglect to call on him for recitations or any participation whatever in the class programs. One time there was such a little boy in the primary grades. He took so long to get out of his seat, stand on his feet, get his books in his hands, find the place again and begin to read that the teacher would often pass him by in order to allow the other children to read. That didn't help him any. The class decided to put on a play for the entertainment of the older children in the school.

They were greatly excited about it, talked about their parts, told about the costumes they were going to wear. What a grand time it was to be for all but the little boy in the back seat. The dramatic teacher came in to help with the undertaking. Each child told her what he was going to do in "the play. Before he could gather himself to answer, the others said, he's too slow for a play.

He can't take any part." such casual contact with a surf' or object a person having the u. ease has touched, but ordinary soap and water cleanliness is the best precaution or prophylactic against such infection that any one can use and such simple cleanliness amply protects against the hazard. It seems obvious that your sister suffers from nosophobia (morbid or unreasonable fear or dread of defilement from touching familiar objects) or nosophobit imor-bid or unreasonable fear or dread of disease) and that is not to be wondered at, in view of the shameful evasion of the teaching of hygiene in our common schools. The best suggestion I can offer in regard to protection against such infection is this: Make it an inflexible rule to warm your hands with soap and water always before you eat or drink anything, and don't acquire the habit of licking finger or thumb with lip or tongue when turning pages, shuffling or dealing cards and the like. Plain soapy water, In my opinion, is the most efficient all-around antiseptic or disinfectant.

Not nearly enough of it is used, and far too many public, semi-public and private corporations, agencies and individuals are culpably negligent or at fault in failing to provide adequate facilities for such cleanliness. In another talk we'll discuss the question of the spread of communicable disease by uncleanliness in hotels, restaurants, bars, soda fountains, lunch counters, soft drink vendors and the cocktail lounges. POLICEMAN AIDS VICTIM BOSTON (U.F When Richard D. Rogers was felled by a' bullet from the gun of Patrolman David Aheams during an attempted burglary, doctors sent out a call for blood donors. The first to respond was the policeman who fired the shot.

BATTERIES NEW USED Carburetor arvd Auto Electric Service BELL WOOD'S AUTO SERVICE 316 W. VanBuren Phone 2-5105 "Tire Headquarters" FRIDAY ONLY! Fresh Springy Pair Attached SUCH FAMOUS BRANDS COLD CROWN FOSTER COMMANDER PAIR ATTACHED iic UU an uu auup oca T1VCI W0MEH'S HiEL Penaltv For Minors While it is doubtful that legislation alone can ever straighten out all the problems created by the liquor business, progress is made at times. One example is the signature by Governor Sigler of a bill penalizing minors who obtain liquor illegally. Prior to the enactment of this measure, penalties were assessed only against those providing the liquor. It made.no difference whether sellers were honestly deceived.

As a result, the former practice penalized both honest men and the petty chiselers who were willing to sell liquor to young people to make a profit. Under the new law it has become a misdemeanor for a person under 21 years of age to represent falsely by documentary evidence that he is old enough to obtain such beverages. Thus the burden is placed on the violator, where it properly belongs. It is possible that the prospect of punishment will do much to eliminate the evil which has been a problem ever since the liquor business became a business. 'Twas A INice Try Congressmen, it appears, really can get down to cases some of the Take, for instance, the other day when a congressional committee tackled Dr.

F. E. Reichelderfer, head man of the weather bureau. The congressmen's request was simply that they wanted him to do something about the weather, such as producing rain for crops. It may be that this request was made with an eye on the 1948 elections.

For certainly it must be ad mitted that the congressmen were carrying the mail for their consti tuents on this one. Countless men have dreamed satisfying dreams of calling up the weather man, telling what he thought of what was being handed out, and ordering him to" "do something." And now congress had stepped into the breach for the "common man." At first, it was reported from Washington, Dr. Reichelderfer thought the gentlemen of congress were jesting. He Joked a bit, too. Then he found out they weren't Joking and thought of his annual budget.

He quit joking. He said "sorry" in a nice, detailed scientific way. The inference was that people will have to go on just talking about the weather, not doing anything about it. But every one will have to give the congress men credit for a nice try. PLUG FOR BATHTUB REFORM From the Kansas City Star Alfred P.

Cate of Fitchburg, thinks there ought to be an easier way of getting in and out of a bathtub. So he's invented a tub with a door in the side. The Cate invention would seem to have its points. Only if it's intended to revolutionize bathtub de sign, it doesn't go nearly far enough. Thus we would like to see Air.

Cate and the other bathtub-con scious inventors turn out a tub with a downy-soft, built-in headrest, a reading rack with lamp attached, a wall button making it unnecessary to reach for the hot water tap while submerged and an automatic back washer. An attached accessory for applying a nonskid coating to the otherwise slippery soap also would be a widely-hailed innovation. These improvements, we feel sure, would be the greatest advances in bathing since the rainwater barrel went out of fashion. And. for some of us, they might even make Satur day night worm looKmg iorwara 10.

The trouble with these "master plans" is that they require master tinancing. SIDE GLANCES "Don't you think we'd better wait He likes to turn the first spadeful of COWL 197 BY MM SCTVICC. Mi For Men, Women and Children $125 New York Day by Day BY CHARLES B. DRISCOLL NEW YORK A good memory is always a valuable possession. A person who can remember names, faces, and historical associations is at an advantage almost anywhere.

I have known several persons with what might be called phenomenal occupational memories. Paul E. Glase remembers every actor, every play, every theatrical event, and many of the lines of the theatrical performances of half a century. I wish he'd tell me the name of the play in which desert sand was stirred up so that it nearly smothered the audience. And I don't think it was "Omar the Tent maker." Also, who played the lead in "The Melting Pot," on tour? A man with an affectation of stage speech which was as attractive to his day and audience as was the "clipped speech" of the New York Theater Guild actors to.

audiences in the early days of the Guild. Two men of remarkably sufficient occupational memories were at a luncheon table with me recently and I was delighted with the names and dates they could pull out of the air. One was William C. (Bill) Lengel, editor of a group of magazines. The other was Burton Rascoe, writer.

Lengel once was private secretary to Theodore Dreiser. The best things I've ever heard of Dreiser, whose writings I've never liked, I've heard from Lengel. A man can't be very bad if his longtime secretary speaks well -of him when he's no longer being paid for the Job. Lengel was one of my first sources of news when I was a cub reporter in Wichita. He was manager of our first skyscraper, the 10-story Schweiter building.

That was in i911 or thereabout, and I was still in school, but paying the board-inghouse lady out of my $10 a week salary as reporter. This agile gentleman already has been a lawyer and manager of a real estate development company. He had been in New York; actually lived there! I confess that I was abashed by his worldly culture, smart clothes, and efficient' manner. I am still respectful in his presence. He lived in London and Paris, bought the most famous people of two generations, for W.

R. Hearst's magazines, and dawdled along Rotten Row with such personages as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells What a story this young man will have to tell! Mr. Rascoe, another luncher at the table of which 1 speak, remembers instantly the names of authors Inns foreotten.

the books they 'wrote, their publishers, their associates, and how many copies were sold. Rawne is a keen-eved. active. slightly nervous gentleman, with. graying hair, always smoKing a cigaret.

He was born in Kentucky, liven and worked as a reporter in Oklahoma, once wrote a syndicated tjpw York column, ana has written and edited a whole wagonload of books. I suspect that Hans Kaltenborn is the real pioneer of the airwaves. I can't remember when he wasn't broadcasting. Because his manner of speech is challenging and he appears at all times to be carrying a large oaken chip on each shoulder, Kaltenborn has been a controversial subject among listeners and readers. Kaltenborn loves to challenge any statement of anybody regardless of whether the statement is true, false or indifferent.

I know only one other man who, on the slightest provocation, will say "That's not true," without examining the evidence. Kaltenborn thrives on criticism. At 69 he is vigorous, dictatorial, self-confident. And he has a following loves his cocky is PAIR ATTACHED "So," said the teacher. "I think he would make a wonderful stone.

You know the stone rolls down the hill, chases the fairies out of the glen and lets the prince through the woods by opening the path. Remember?" Yes, they remembered. Turning to the little boy, she said, "you know this story, don't you? You would love being that rolling, fighting stone, wouldn't you? You'd just love chasing those fairies out of the way and letting the prince come through to save the queen?" A slow smile spread over the little chap's face, a mischievous light danced in his eyes. He nodded violently in agreement. He was the stone.

As soon as the dramatic teacher saw him in action, rolling along in a round heap, she found other parts for him to take. He became the clown, the very core of the story and the scene on the stage. He looked dull, was slow-moving, but inside there was great light and action. Give that dull one a chance. Maybe he could be the stone in the forest? Save your child from the unhappine;) broucht on by fears.

To know how to guard against childhood fears, read Pr. Patri's helpful leaflet. P-l. "Fears." To obtain a copy, send five cents in coin and a stamped self-addressed envelope to him, co. this paper, P.

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