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By Jo Fischer MIAMI DAILY NEWS, Friday, Sept 17, 1954 17" A BILL BAGGS EARL WILSON We Still Read Books Nasty Old Civilian Food FROM NINE TO FIVE I I tun rmt EnrrtM, I Ml rt hot I IP yx LSggj fay I Tew I have to leave tarly. Hysteria, so will you com in now and got bawled out for what you haven't done yet? After Television was sprung on the American people, and the likes of Milton Berle became known in the parlors of north Arkansas, there arose a babble from the sociologists of the land. They feared that Culture, was dead for sure now, and that a steady decline would set in until the time came when books would be used principally as door.stops. Now, which is a few years after the initial wail, it appears that the sociologists will have to discover another course of events to weep on. In the business year just our city library system reported the ciruclation of 260,000 more books than in the year previous.

National readership is also up. The increase is not attributed to a sudden burst of literacy. In fact, TV and the movies, can be patted on their cathode ray tube and Celluloid respectfully, as encouraging this readership of books. Fiction Probably the most popular book in the city at this writing is Magnificent Obsession. A hot movie is also Magnificent Obsession.

Now the people did not abruptly decide they would like Mr. Douglas' teary again. They saw the flicker, or heard of it, and you can't get the book now because it has. a waiting list. Another splash of fiction, The Egyptian, is popular right now.

A movie by the same name is in town. Not As A Stranger is another one of the favorites in our city today. Of course, A House Is Not A Home, has not been made into a movie, because the censors frown on bawdy yarns, and of course, this book could not fairly be described as a freighted contribution to American literature, but it is very much in demand anyway. The Mayor Reads The Power of Positive Thinking and Flying Saucers Have Landed Here are two hot non-fiction works. You may be surprised to learn that Miamians go for books about Yogi.

Two optimistic works, How To Turn Your Ability Into Cash, and Think And Grow Rich, are extremely popular with our readers. This may be the first significant manifestation of the Eisenhower administration. t. From confidential sources, the writer learns that one of the most-reading families in the community is the Aronovitz family. Commissioner Senerchia recently took a book on military affairs out of library.

He is a good customer, at the library also. Commis-. sioner Christmas took a book out a few days ago, and Commissioner Quigg occasionaDy takes out a book on hypnotism, presumably to sharpen up his eyes for the next campaign. This, incidentally, gives us a claim which few cities in the land can match. All our city fathers can read.

And do. Even Yogi Despite the prosperous appearance of our downtown library, which squats in marbleized splendor at the foot of Flagler street, we are in a bad way in that elegant building. Don't-have enough books. Facilities are there for 300,000 volumes. We have 106,000.

Branch libraries are similarly under-booked. The readers of Miami run a bit against the grain of the average national reader. For here, most readers perfer non-fiction over fiction. There is probably something highly significant in this mass choice of non-fiction. But I have no idea what it is.

I just know that the book business is doing fine. of Television, not in spite of it. From the record, even Yogi is benefitting from the trend. TO YOUR HEALTH I got hit on the knee with a foul ball." The Cardinal's eyes twinkled, as he added, "And you know, I have to keep my knees in good condition." THE MIDNIGHT EARL Lilliam Roth flashes us from the Houston Shamrock that she's so happy about slender Susan Hayward being cast to play her in "I'll Cry Tomorrow" that she's dieting, "so Susan can be more my type." The new Miss America, Lee Ann Meriweather of is a smart gal. She showed up at the Miss Universe show in Long Beach, in July to study how 'twas done.

Gov. Dewey's been offered a job with Hollywood's Johnston office. (T. Dewey, Jr. enters the Army Sept.

28) Mrs. Edward G. Robinson is suffering from a heart attack Fran Littlepage was crowned Queen of the Coney Island Mar-di Gras. Lucky Luciano wants to send his wife, Igea Iissoni, here for a medical checkup Bandleader Chauncey Gray leaves El Morocco Oct. Charley Towne takes over.

EARL'S PEARLS John Tillman claims his friend's wife is such a gabber that if the enemy ever captured her they'd have to torture her to make her stop talking. TODAY'S BEST LAUGH "When a woman has nothing to do," muses Mel Allen, "she figures it's a good time to catch up on her spending." WISH I'D SAID THAT: "Your son's growing up when he stops thinking kissing's for sissies and starts thinking it's for boys and girls." Jean Martin. Bob Kennedy was describing his expensive new foreign auto: "It's a very small car with very big payments." That's earl, brother. Cancer 'Cures' Just Fizzle Out GEN. MacARTHUR Art Rosett, "but they weren't very charming." EZZARD CHARLES' Jake Mintz of Pittsburgh, has a fight every day with the English language.

Jake's latest malapropism, reported by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sports editor Al Abrams, followed a prepared speech which didn't go well, Jake said, "From now on I'll speak expontaneously." TAFFY TUTTLE calls the game "Scrapple," because when married couples play a scrapple always occurs Frances Kroll, Brooklyn. SOME SAWBONE Sawbon-ers (from the Journal of the American Medical An Alabama paper reported that "a precious little bungle of love" arrived at the home of the John Joneses A dentist declined a patient an appointment, saying, "Today I have 18 cavities to fill" and off he went to play golf! KID STORY "Pop did the stork really bring me?" "Well, son, let's put it this way. The bird who delivered you sure had a big bill." (Ter Berkelmann, Queens Village, N. CARDINAL SPELLMAN was invited to a ball game but declined according to Joe Harrington in the Boston Post explaining, "The last game I saw. New York.

Sept. 17 After I printed Geo. MacArthur just lost 40 pounds, an Army man whispered: "That's what happens- to you when you give up those wonderful GI rations for the terrible food at the Waldorf A HOLLYWOOD comedian got drunk and made a horrible caricature of himself while trying to m.c. a large Pennsylvania affair the other night. He also made about 1,000 enemies who'll be happy never to see or hear him on TV or radio again.

HI, MIAMI I Olive Earl may be among you right at this moment. Not the Olive Earl that Brooklynites get from the olive earl bah-ul, but my friendly correspondent of the same name. She's spending three week's vacation at Hallandale where, she writes, "It's so nice and quiet and not too far from Miami Beach." And I've always thought that Earl and water didn't mix! JOE Dl MAGGIO surely ed like a happy husband when he and Marilyn posed for us at the St. Regis and at El Morocco the other day. But Joe couldn't talk to his own wife when he called her from the airport on his arrival.

The hotel routed the call to her Hugo French thinking 'twas from an autograph fan. An apologetic hotel official said, "We'd already had calls from six phoney Joe DiMaggios before you called. When Joe got to the hotel, he and Marilyn locked the doors, shut off the phones and spent the afternoon at their favorite pastime watching TV. WITH Wm. O'Dwyer doing the Cupiding, TV Star Ernie Kovacs, once of Trenton, and lovely singing actress Edith Adams, formerly of W'ilkes Barre, were quietly married in Mexico City.

O'Dwyer, who'd never met either party, made all the arrangements merely because a friend of the couple asked him to then gave them a wedding breakfast. "THE HURRICANE helped our business," reported Ed Kelly of the Glenmore Hotel at Chester, N.Y. "Ten new guests blew in." CELESTE HOLM was asked whether, while touring Morocco, she'd met any snake-charmers. "I met lots of snakes," she told visiting Casablanca editor EMMY LOU By DR. WALTER C.

ALVAREZ Eiwrilui Consultant la Medicine, May Clinic And Emeritus Professor of Medicine, May Foundation Every so often someone comes to tell me he has a cure for cancer which he would like to sell or which he would like to have developed and used by the medical profession. He is sure he has the answer to the age-old problem of the cure of malignant tumors. His story is that he had a cancer; he was given up by doctors he took some old woman's herb tea, or some quack's pink medicine, and' here he is well. Usually, I fear he goes away DOROTHY THOMPSON Weave A New Container MIAMI'S YESTERDAYS From The Daily News Files was visible even to the not very bright eyes of this columnist, as the record shows. The defeat of EDC caused no consternation at this desk.

Never for a moment did we expect anything else. The first reaction to the collapse of the basket was sheer hysteria, expressed in the blast from West Germany by Sen. Wiley, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Arguments Against EDC The habit of only listening to one's own words talked back precludes the exercise of the reasoning process. The Soviets can only claim the defeat of EDC as a victory for themselves because we insisted that its defeat would be an American and European catastrophe.

What nonsense! There were cogent rational arguments against EDC as an instrument to fulfill the purpose for which it was designed. Those who opposed it we leave out the. Communists, who merely jump to orders had logical reasons for doing so, and their arguments were neither vicious nor silly. And now that the hapless policy is out of the way, and tempers show signs of being restored, we might observe that, though the basket has collapsed, no eggs are broken that were not cracked to start with. The good ones are as intact as they were in 1950.

NATO is still intact and likely to be strengthened. The leaders of Western civilization should now take plenty of time to weave a new container for Western security. New York, Sept. 17 It is a very good thing that the United States Government, in consultation with the British, French, and other NATO governments plus the Austrian and West German, has rejected a conference, between the Western allies and the Soviets at this time. Such a conference, following immediately upon the heels of the defeat of EDC in the French Assembly, could serve no conceivable purpose except to widen Western rifts and deepen international confusion.

The conduct of diplomacy by conference is dubious in the best case, seldom resulting in wise or lasting agreements. For such agreements, long, patient, and painstaking negotiations are necessary, allowing for confidential exchanges of opinion, give-and-take, balancing of relative weights and considerations, and admitting the possibility of retreats from one position to another. Lost Art Of Negotiation There are signs, at last, that the Western governments are beginning to recognize and we hope recover the lost art of negotiation, that is to say of diplomacy, EDC being, itself, an outstanding example of impetuous action "taken at a conference without previous painstaking negotiations. In 1950 we put all the eggs of European security in one basket, our government (Mr. Acheson was then Secretary of State) insisting that no other container would hold them.

That this particular basket was full of holes 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 17, 1944 Dade County Commission has never undertaken to give away one inch of oceanfront road -or property and does not propose to do so now, Commissioner Hugh Peters, chairman of the commission's road and bridge committee, said. Commissioner Peters' statement was made in answ er to recent accusations that the commission is attempting to "give away" a half mile stretch of ocean highway. Sept. 17, 1944 Charges that anOPA-sanctioned price differ- ential is responsible for a black market' in fruit in the Miami area will be investigated by Arthur Guttman, district OPA enforcement attorney.

Some smaller importers charge that the price differential favor's the large dealers. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 17, 1934 Steps toward completion of Miami's bond refunding program, in prospect for more than a year, were hastened through validation of the new issue by the state Supreme Court. The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of Dade Circuit Court holding the bonds legal and overruling technical objections filed against them by N. Vernon Hawthorne, state attorney.

Sept. 17, 1934 Washington: The national lumber code authority fixed total production for the fourth quarter at feet, compared with 3,800,000,000 for the present three month period. This amount was designed to allow for an expected four per cent seasonal decrease in consumption and to reduce stocks in excess of those on hand at this time last year. thinking that my mind is closed to new ideas, or he feels that I belong to the "medical trust," whatever that is; or he feels that all doctors would refuse to use a cure for cancer if it were not discovered by a physician. Actually, of course, the last-mentioned assumption is silly because most of the great drugs which we physicians use today were discovered not by M.D.'s but by chemists.

X-rays were discovered by a physicist, radium was discovered by two chemists, the first sulfa drug was discovered by a chemist, penicillin was discovered by a bacteriologist and cortisone was isolated by a chemist. Within weeks after these great discoveries were announced, doctors all over the world were begging to be allowed to use them. Wants the Proof As I always, say to the well-intentioned people who come in to tell me about a "cancer cure," if they would just cure four or five persons with scattered cancer, well proved by a pathologist, their difficulty would not be to sell their idea to doctors: they would be begging the Chief of Police for help to keep the crowds of people from clambering into their, house at all hours of the day and night, begging for the drug. This sort of thing actually happened years ago to one of my friends when he thought he had discovered the cure for Within a few weeks he had several hundred patients trying to force their way into his office; and his assistants were kept working day and night trying to manufacture enough of the medicine, and to give the injections. Unfortunately, his theory proved to be a dud, and because no one was being cured, the furore soon died down.

But many of you readers are probably asking "How about the man who came to you with his cancer cured? That was definite enough, wasn't it?" Yes, in a few cases the diagnosis was made by an expert using a microscope, and the cure seemed to be permanent. During my lifetime I have seen a number of patients who came with a big cancerous-looking tumor which no surgeon could get out, and later I saw the person perfectly well sometimes without any treatment. Others Recover Without Aid The medical literature is full enough of records of such patients. When I was a young man, few women with cancer of the breast were operated on; they were left in a hospital or almshouse, without treatment; and neverthelesss 1 in 20 or more went on living for 5 or 10 years. A few lived on to die of something else.

They and the cancer seemed to learn to live together fairly amicably, much as in some places one finds a dog and a fawn, or a cat and a rat living happily together. Often the cells of the body and the cells of the cancer seemed to have fought it out to a draw. In some cases, when the person, died, some 10 years later autopsy showed the presence of many live cancer cells, but for some reason, had quit growing. In the July 28 number of the Proceedings of the Staff Meetings of the Mayo Clinic, Drs. James O.

Fergeson and B. Marden Black reported the case of a farmer who had a great big cancer which destroyed quite a bit of his large bowl. The thing was inoperable; it had punctured through to the outside of his body, and it was the sort of thing that, in most cases, soon causes the death of the person. In this case some x-ray treatment was given, but the doctors had no hope that it would be able to work a cure. Even today, they do not believe that it was the cause of the man's survival.

Actually, he came back some two years later to have the drainage openings in his skin closed. At the operation no cancer could be found; the tumor had disappeared, and the man appeared to be well. Look Out For Quacks Years ago when surgeons at the Mayo Clinic' got in touch with some 11,000 persons who had been operated on for a cancer of the stomach, they found that 1 or 2 out of each 100 who had had a purely palliative operation, in which the tumor was sidetracked and left in, were alive and well 10 years or more later. Evidently, in these cases, the body, had managed to stop the growth of the cancer cells. Naturally, when we physicians hear of a patient with cancer who got well after taking some herb tea, or the colored water sold by some quack, we suspect that he was one of those many persons whose body is able to fight cancer cells to a standstill.

The sad fact is that when the remedy the man took is given to a dozen other persons with proved scattered internal cancer it -does not work. "Terranee is terribly wealthy. The gas tank in his car is FILLED all the timet" ROBERT S. ALLEN Ikes Prestige On Line? i OMING SUNDAY P'iffM with your Most Republican chiefs are quick to admit Howell is out front now, but they have not given up hope yet. They feel Case will slowly but surely close the gap by November.

Disaster Could Strike The question is can Case come up fast enough to win? The Democrats have utter confidence and feel Howell won't lose unless disaster strikes. The greatest disaster, they acknowledge, would be a series of New Jersey talks by Mr. Eisenhower. Without Eisenhower, who twice has endorsed Case's candidacy, there is little chance Republican conservatives will vote for liberal Case. They dislike liberal Howell, too, and as a result many of them are talking of staying home on election day.

Miami Daily News -I A Special Real Estate Section Devoted to National Home Week IT'S THE LAW 1 vi IN FLORIDA MIAMI'S WHIRLIGIG NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS (EDITOR'S NOTE: Robert S. Allen is on vacation. During his absence, his guest column today is by Arthur Heenan, ace city editor of. the famed Newark Star-Ledger.) Newark, N. J.

Sept 17 President Eisenhower's prestige as a political leader may be on the line in the New Jersey senatorial election because of circumstances not entirely of his own' making. A year ago, just a few months after Mr. Eisenhower's overwhelming victory over Adlai Stevenson, any Republican would have been an odds-on favorite to win, this year's Senate contest, but the political breezes now are wafting in the direction of the Democrats. Few Could Envision Defeat Eisenhower had carried New Jersey by 358,711 votes, and few both Republican and Democratic leaders could envision a GOP defeat in the immediate future. Republican confidence was unlimited last year when they nominated Paul L.

Troast, chairman of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Troast was regarded as an unusually strong candidate. His opponent was then little-, known Robert B. Meyner, an ex-state senator from a rural county. But Meyner snowed Troast under in November by a 153,642 majority.

Thus, within a year, a Republican majority of 358,711 had been turned into a Democratic majority of 153,642. The Republicans considered the Troast defeat a political freak. They were sure they could win the Senate fight if they got a candidate who could in no way be connected with past Republican regimes. To get former Rep. Clifford P.

Case his "fiift" nomination, Sen. Robert C. Hendrick-son and Walter T. Margetts, both middle-of-the-road conservatives, were "persuaded" to withdraw from the primary. Case's Democratic opponent is Charles R.

Howell, a virtual stranger to many in the but the bitter intra-Republican party feuding has established him as an early favorite to win in November. A beautiful section, with full color coyer dedicated to home builders and buyers who want to live in this tropical paradise. A section that gives you the newest trends in homes and home building features to help you buy or bujld the home best suited to your, needs, and "budget, rvee'p Sunday's Real Estate Section as a valuable guide for the future. This series is presented in cooperation with the Dade County Bar Association. Readers are invited to submit questions of a general nature.

Specific legal matters should be taken up with your attorney. Question: Do you have to re-draw a will if you move into a different state? Albert lived in a northern state for many years, but like so many others, yielded to the charms of Florida and moved here. He resided happily for a long, long time, then passed away. His wilL drawn when he resided in another state, was never changed after moving to Florida. Some survivors of Albert contested the will and went into court.

7 THE DECISION: When Albert established 'his legal residence in Florida, te should have had his will examined by an attorney to see if it complied with the Florida law. In this particular instance, the state from which Albert came, and Florida, had slight variances in the laws pertaining to the execution of wills, and the survivors of Albert who brought the court action were upheld. Albert's will would have been quite alright in the state from which he came, but it was not executed according to the formalities required in this state. Thus he died a man without a will! CASH Now that Mrs. Fred Cash is seeking a divorce from her gunman husband perhaps Dade police officials are missing a bet in not questioning the young woman.

She knows plenty about Cash gang activities, as evidenced by the loot found in her Hialeah home. PROFITS A Philadelphia lawyer serving as counsel for Mr. and Mrs. E. N.

Claughton in their anti-trust' damage suit against six moving picture companies has promised a Miami Federal Court jury he will give them "a shock" before the trial is over. The shock, according to Attorney Francis W. Anderson, will be a disclosure of profits of the big film companies. SURPRISE A Federal official stopped by a motorcycle policeman along Sunset Drive the other day had the surprise of his life when he was handed instead of the'speed ticket he was expecting a Corona cigar. "My wife just had a baby," the grinning cop explained, waving the official on his way..