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Daily News, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec; 1952jDr. H. N. Bundesen Facts About Health NEW YORK, Today hasn't yet succeeded in charting so It or lump' it, today is the tenth much as a safe path through, the birthday anniversary of the atomic atomic wilderness. But he has sue age.

And, astonishment, I own a piece of Perhaps you, too, own a piece of it, without realizing just ceeded in getting the stuff on the Stock Exchange. own 25 shares in an old, highly reputable industrial corporation as esoteric, immaterial the moment, building ship in the new atomic ago, but the engine for the first atomic .1 a piece that can be reduced to a share of stock, neatly engraved, registered with the authorities, and paying a proper dividend. powered submarine designed and ordered by the United States Government. When I learned ten days ago that Ten years ago today, man first this corporation is making an atom- succeeded in controlling the relea'sejc engine, I was not only astounded of atomic energy in an improvised laboratory In a squash court under the west stands of Stagg Field at the University c-f Chicago. Today, ten years after, man Man-Made Rain Turns J.

Woods Into Thick Jungle WASHINGTON What would happen to the U.S. landscape if 30 times the average rains fell, for example, on the crowded region between New York and Washing- Erich ty John Swgyzt Looking At Life but genuinely dismayed. I immediately called up the broker who vested for men. the few pennies left over after taxes and hair ribbons. "Sell that stock.

Sell it!" I yelled over the phone. "I don't want any atomic slock. I don't want anything to do with an atomic submarine. Go buy me some nice stock in a bicycle factory!" Nonsense, the broker said in effect. "You are living In an atomic age whether you like it or not," he TO AID KIDNEY STONE ATTACKS Many doctors believe that kidney stones can be prevented by bolstering the body's natural defenses against them.

Drugs are being used to do just this, by restoring the normal substances found in normal urine. Doctors -are not sure just what causes kidney stones. They think that kidney infections sometimes lead to the formation of stones, or that an extra high amount of salts in the urine may cause them. Vitamin A Deficiency It has been shown that a tumor in one of the parathyroid glands may be another cause. The para- thyroids, in the neck, are Important in distributing the right amount of calcium in the body.

Then again, a vitamin A deficency may give a person a tendency toward chronic attacks of stones. Once a kidney stone forms, it may increase any infection present, and cut off the normal flow of urine. This leads to a condition known as hydronepbrosis, which may destroy the kidney. Kidney stones often cause a severe stabbing pain in the back, which is almost unbearable. The pain may spread down in the groin or around the abdomen.

Healthy urine contains certain substances that have a pro- They are doing a lot of blasting on the road iii front of my So it Is quite impassible for me to do any thinking. Would mind doing your own thinking today? I'll give you a few detached items, on which to chew. In Eastport, Maine, a little old lady went to (he postoffice with a package. It contained a Bible which she Extends Sympathy "Pretty Boy" roubles Of Star By ALINE MOSBY snorted. "Within a every tectlve action, and prevent kidney great industry in the United Sfntes stones from growing.

These sub- will be kneo-deep in some typo oflstances are In the form of colloids, Ion. D. atomic production. Any number of American corporations are already involved in some kind of atomic work. "The trouble with you is that you are thinking of the atom only in For the last three years, in a terms of death and destruction," patch of woods la southern New tne broker went on.

"Don't you Jersey, millions of gallons of re nllze that If this atomic-powered submarine works, its engine will have hissed from gun-like spray nozzles as man-made rain. Strange changes have taken place. Whera once an ordinary scrub-oak woodlot, a jungle now grows. Measured against world's record rains (Cherrapunji, India, was doused with 1,041 Inches in 12 months, and'averages 426 Inches a year), this spot In New Jersey has the wettest forest on earth, the National Geographic Society says. The region's normal rainfall Is 41 inches a year, but these few acres have received up to 1,200 Inches in a year's time.

Vegetable Factory The jungle stands on Seabrook Farms, a huge mechanized vegetable garden and processing plant near the town of Bridgeton. Largest combined 'truck farm and frozen food factory In the nation, Seabrook Farms cover about 20.000 ecres of rich factory in Cumberland and Salem Counties west of Atlantic City. Its cannery and freezing plant uses 12,000,000 gallons of water a day at the peak of the packing season. Disposing of so much water was a serious problem. After trying various methods oi purifying the outflow, the company had almost decided to invest a million dollars in a biofilter Installation gravel beds In which vegetable scraps and other wastes in the water would be consumed by bacteria.

Johns Hopkins University, how ever, has a laboratory for the study of climate at Seabrook Farms. As last resort, the climalnlogists tried spraying the river of waste w-vter back on the land, In hope that the ground llself be turned into a huge filter. The first tests in an unused open field of clover failed. The soi soaked up only so much water then turned to soup. But when thej moved to the revolutionize not war hilt peacetime Industry? "Simmer down," he concluded, "ant! try to realize (hat the atom can open up heaven as well as hell and that its industrial possibilities are at least as great as its destruc- ivc ones; Where are your pioneer nstincts?" So, like the man said, I simmered And during the process, I realized that for ten years the atom lad seemed so mysterious, so vast and so threatening ns to forbid any dnti of day-to-day use or particlpa- ion.

When an Island disappears under he impact of the atom, it is hard or man to see beyond the destruc- ion of Vishinsky. Its force seems so horrendous, and untamable that ts peace-time possibilities are forgotten. Yet it is on its peace-time application that industry is banking as it puts together an engine 'or an atomic submarine. Ton years ago today, when man first succeeded in controlling the release of atomic energy in that, Chicago laboratory, Dr. Arthur Compton phoned Dr.

James B. Conant, president of Harvard, In Cambridge, Mass. In cryptic, but strangely poetic and prophetic code, Dr. Compton said: "The Italian navigator has landed in the New World." Maybe, with luck, that World will be shining instead of smoking. I don't, know how you feel, hut I feel a lot better since I know thut man has reduced thr most awesome force in the worlrl to a stock market commodity.

Somehow, it seems more manageable and less mysterious. And I'm not so scairt as I was. which are suspensions of very tiny particles of chemical substances, such as we see in milk. People with kidney slones are thought to lack the proper amount of these colloids in the urine. However, a drug known as hyaluronldaae can be to in crease the amount of colloids to normal.

The drug Is mixed with a weak salt solution and Injected into the tissues under the skin. Recently, this drug was used ii twenty persons who had attacks kidney stones in both kidneys These people had suffered from stones for years, and no previous treatment had proved effective in decreasing the number formed. Some of these persons have been taking the Injections over a year with no sign of kidney stones Where there were large slones present, they did not increase in size under this form of treatment QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS C.H.: I have tuberculosis am am pregnant. Will pregnancy help my tuberculosis? Answer': Usually -during prcg nancy there is a tendency for tuberculosis to Improve. However after delivery, the tuberculosis may become worse.

npray edge ov, water was sprayed into the woods, it was soaked up as fast ns it fell 50 inches of man-made rain "in ten hours, and since 1949 up to 100 feet pf water a year in certain spots. Mailed Thickets When Seahrook's project began, the spray area looked like any other wooded area on the coastal plain. Scattered underbrush, slender second-growth oak, and poison Ivy grew in the sandy soil. Today, it is as if the woods cannot grow fast enough. Seeds germinate that would otherwise have been dormant.

Small shrubs and vines twist together into a solid mat of greenery. Through thn Jungle-woods run far larger than normal numbers of small animals inch as wood mice. Scientists studying the changes In plant and animal life havo to hack their way. through (his outdoor laboratory with machetes. The U.S.

Geological Survey is interested in the effects of the spraying on ground water levels in the surrounding area. Seabrook Farms Is trying to unravel the secret of why the woods will soak up so much water while open fields of the name soil will not. What had farming done to. the soil? Can field crops be Improved with tremendous doses of water? If a jungle can be grown In the woods, perhaps more peas, potatoes, beets and spinach might spring from earth soaked far beyond its normal saturation point. The possibility is being explored.

Olga The Hippo Refuses To Go Back Of Iron Curtain BERLIN, Today (INS) West Berliners are wondering wheth3r Inve or politics Is the basis for corpulent Olgn's refusnl tn return to her hnme behind the Irnn Curtain. Olgn is an East Berlin hippopotamus who was transferred into the Free Sector of Berlin for an annual reunion with her hippopotamus mate. Knautschke. On previous occasions after Olgn and Knautschkc had revived their marital status the Intly hippo was willingly returned lo the Enst Berlin zon she calls home. But this yenr the hefty lass re fused to be parted from her schke and the freedom of West Berlin.

Even Olga's personal curator from Leipzig was unable to persuade the lady hippo'to return to the Soviet Zone. Since Olga was transported to the Allied area for the. purpose of becoming "with it may be that she prefers to give birth to her little hippos in a lane where they will not be subject to dictatorial rule. At least, West Ber liners like to think that. Easi German Reds Like Slaughterhouse Queens Today America can have its Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor.

The Communists of East Germany prefer their "slaughter-house queens." The' slaughterhouse charmers members of Gcr- "women's butcher brigade," which the Red-controlled press has called a fine "example of modern womanhood." Praising the muscular me (lingers, the East German press said each of the women butchers slaughter as many as ten ealvec day, are the nine many's first Glamor Photo Of Queen On New English Stamp LONDON British Post Office officials announced today that the first postage stamps of the new Elizabethan reign on sale next bear an unprtce dented glamor portrait of Britain's lovely young Queen. Thrusting aside the tradition of using a staid profile etched from a painting, the officials ordered the stamp portrait of Queen Elizabeth II taken directly from a three-quarter view photograph of the mon arch's face. "To Indicate our pride in having a young Queen as our monarch, the design has been made deliberately feminine," Postmaster General Earl de la.Warr told a press conference. "Wo want to represent the younc reign in new, fresh terms." The stamp bears a photographic likeness of the Queen, taken from a portrait made by a professional London photographer. was sending to a nephew in Korea.

The clerk asked her whether the package contained anything breakable "Only the Ten Commandments," snapped the lady. A famous opera star, for a handsome amount of money, gave a testimonial to a cigarette manufacturer. to the. effect that their cigarettes never hurt his throat. "But- how can you do that?" asked his wife, "when you know very well that you-don't smoke cigarettes." "Well, then," replied the singer, "how can they hurt my throat?" By the way, I just read of a new invention.

A cigarette case with a time lock. It's for peopl'e who want to break themselves of the cigarette United Press Hollywood Writer habit or cut down on their smok- HOLLYWOOD (UP) Robert aylor extended sympathy today John Derek "because he's oing through the same 'pretty oy' trouble I had." Young Derek aylor who is is so a latter-day handsome it especially Derek. He has urly black hair, long eyelashes ml the profile of a young Greek od. Taylor figures he himself has inally lived down the curse of ood lonks with rugged costume movirs like "Jvanhoe" and "All 'he Brothers Were Valiant." But his widow's peak and erfcct profile became matinee- dolized hack in the late ics made life miserable for the actor. Derek's gelling the same treatment I did," he chuckled.

"No mater what his studio tries to do, he's till a good-looking I laugh at all the magazine stories that how him lifting weights and clean- ng the stables. They're trying to make him tough-looking. "But the only thing that xvill help a few good parts." The decline of the Taylor empire, he went on, began while he vas working in "A Yank At Ox- brd," In 1938. "Somebody sent me clipping rom a gossip column that said, Robert Taylor will try for a come- when he returns from Eng- Comeback!" he snorted. "I Elizabeth's Crown Worn In 1837 By Philadelphia Girl NEW YORK Philadel phia girl, 114 years ago wore th' crown which will be used for th coronation of Queen Elizabeth I next June.

The portrait of Queen Victor! which hangs in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, Is the ro mantic link between Victoria, th American girl and Queen Eliza both II. When Thomas Sully, the note American artist, received lette at his Philadelphia home in 183 giving him permission to paint th coronation portrait of the 19-year olrl Victoria, Sully decided to tak his 2-t-year-nld daughter Blanc with him. His idea was that Blanc could act as a stand-in for th Queen in case she could not giv him enough sittings. Crown Too Heavy The Queen and Blanch becam well acquainted. They "chattere together like any two Sull wrote in his letters home.

Victoria found that the crow was to heavy to wear and a muc lighter one was designed for he small, sleek head. was ttr crown, included by Sully in painting, which Queen Elizabet will wear at her coronation. When Sully asked whether would he permissible for his daughter to net as stand-in, Victoria replied, "Oh, no! No impropriety, but do not spare me. If I can be of service 1 will sit." The Queen gave Sully several sittings during the spring of 1838 the portrait was painted after her accession and before her coronation. Queen's Stand-in Victoria had feminine desire to know how she would look in her full regalia of the coronation, so on May 15, at the Queens suggestion, Blanch Sully sat on the throne wearing the glittering crown with its hundreds of diamonds, combined with two rows of pearls, the regalia, the robes and the glittering orders.

The great pear-shaped diamond earrings had to be fastened over the tops of her ears with, wire since Sully would not permit nor to haye her ears pierced like the Queen's. Sully himself described what happened after this: "The Queen sent to ask leave to visit us on condition that she would not interrupt of course, on her entrance Blanch paid her respects. The Queen was very affable, asked many questions and then observing, 'I am interrupting curtsied and left the room." Sully's portrait of the Queen is in Gallery C. 36 of the Metropolitan Museum. Sully later made other, studies from the original and these were bought by the St.

George's Society, Philadelphia, the St. Andrew's Society in Charleston, S. and the Wallace Collection in London, i lldn't know I'd been gone and lere I was coming back already." Taylor admitted he floundered in a scries of "romantic type movies which I never got out of a dinner jacket." 'It didn't matter whether I gave a good performance, or a bad one," le said. "Tho critics just decided he guy's good-looking, and he can't do anything else. The fact was gAod-looking reacted against me.

definitely was a handicap. Some people seemed to resent out couldn't help it." Taylor solved his problem by getting rugged roles, such as one of a boxer in "The Crowd Roars." Recently he's opened up still another career by becoming the Errol Flynn of Culver City in such swash-buckling epics as "Quo Vad- Is" and "Ivanhoe." He paled, though, he confessed, when he had to wear a toga and show off his legs in "Quo Vadis." "It really was embarrassing," he said. "It took me two weeks to get used to climbing into those 'new look' skirts to go to work." ing. You set it for 15 minutes, an lour, two hours or whatever interval you decide on for your smokes. At the appointed time a tiny bell rings, the lock snaps open and one cigarette becomes available.

Of course, there is another very useful device, which has been invented many, many years ago; Will power! Here is another new invention. A triple coating for pills. Supposing you have to take cer tain pills three times a day. So you have to carry three pills with you, or remember to take them In case you don't go out. This new coating saves you the trouble.

It's three pills in one. The first coating dissolves righ away when you swallow the pill The second; much harder doesn't dissolve until four hours later. Th'e third, one, stili harder waits another four hours to dis solve. Incidentally, do you know when medicine has taken effect and when you are either completely cured or, at least, much better? When you first see your doctor you take his prescription great promptness. Then, after a while, your wife has to remind you.

Finally you say, "Oh, the heck with it," or forget about it entirely. And here is another sign of having gotten well again: When you forget to pay your doctor bills. In French Equatorial Africa the authorities refuse to pay social security benefits to polygamists any longer. Some families have collected for as many as 30 children. There's a limit to even to this column of piffle.

New York NEW YORK Louis Calhern, afe-supping with a brilliant red anky peeking from his brea'st ocket, has me shopping all over own for its twin, though I fear'I'll never manage wearing it with such flair A nii'a sporting, a salmon, colored shirt once sent me post haste to the 1 haberdashers When I donned my purchase I discovered that while there may be some people who can wear sal- cerni the New York hotel at which the management was upset "over breakage'of glassware. Coming out of the steam sterilizer, it was too tipt to handle carefully; Viscardi picked a man who solved the problem, a veteran who had lost a hand. The. artificial replacement allowed him to set a record. JWAYZE mon are also some who cannot Producer Max Liebman's insistence that rou- ines could be successfully' repeated by the same stars on the same elevision show has paid off.

Some of the Imogene Coca-SJd Caesar carbons have been equally hilarious the second time around By the way, why wouldn't Bob Burns click on arid where is he? I've always thought his bazooka the slickest of the gimmicks the comedians use. The Maine Stein Song continues a hardy favorite, having niched for itself a place on the hit parade into, which'the music men dip regularly as the years go past. Rudy Vallee is, course, responsible. He once told me.that shortly before his rendition zoomed it to popularity, the 5 i t'y of Maine, unknown to him, was about to buy the song's copyright for $50. As the number began 'to catch on, copyright owner refused to sell.

By holding, he made several hundred thousand dollars. Expressive, I think, of the cos- mopolitan marks New York-is the Pole in City Hall park. It is" dedicated who died in the fightfor independ- ence. The bottom half it pi wood cut in Oregon. and the top is of timber from Maine.

-Minding Business: Hard to that the place 1 of generals Washington 'and Putnam just before -thefbattle of Harlem in '76 was spot where the Paramount --i building stands. A plaque; marks, it's the' heart "of Times today Ite'med on the menu of a midtown cafe: "Escalope de Veau Baleoise." A capsule explanation beneath labels it, Swiss rendition of a classic French dish." My. French isn't classic enough, I still don't know what it is vendor's cart And on a fruit Harlem: "Don't pinch me until I'm yours. All In A Lifetime A Dog's Life Last night 1 finished "A Man's Stature," Hank Viscardi's book about "Just One Break," the employment service he runs from a two-room cubbyhole in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. Viscardi, himself a cripple since birth, heads "J.O.B.," a service aimed at finding jobs for the disabled, which was founded by Orin Lehman, the investment banker's son, and Dr.

Howard Rusk, a pioneer in rehabilitation. Latest venture is plant, which a Long Island assembly "Abilities, Incorporated," was in the black three months after it opened. Among them, the first five men Viscardi hired had only one leg and six arms. The cases of handicapped person proving more proficient than others are numerous. One con- CURVE TESTER VIENNA, A male juror a beauty contest faced a suit recently because he reportedly wanted to check a rumor that the winner's curves were not- genuine.

He invited "Miss Aurora 1952" to supper in order, as he put it, "to see for myself whether we made a mistake." 'The girl, misunderstanding his alleged motives, slapped his face and called for the police. PHOOEYl THROUGH RAIN SCHOOL THATSTHE THANKS Fire Marshal Chases Blaze On Passing Truck CINCINNATI, Fire Marshal William Telscher recently chased a mobile fire until he caught it. The marshal was sitting in a firchouse when he 'spotted smoke billowing 'from a pile of furniture and mattresses in the rear of a passing truck. He jumped into his car, flagged down the truck and then put out the blaze with a hand extinguisher. He blamed the fire on a careless smoker.

It's Better To Be A Kitten A Lion or Tiger Can't Curl Up in Someone's Lap! By MAX TRELL HANID, the shadow-girl with the turned-about name, put Purr-Purr the white kitten In her lap and sat down at the foot of the steps. Purr-Purr curled up and was about to shut her big eyes when Hanld said: "Aren't you glad, dear, that you aren't a lion? If you were a lion, you know, you wouldn't be able to curl up In ray lap, you'd ba much too big" Hanld waited for Purr-Purr to say whether she was glad or not that she wasn't a lion Instead of a kitten, but Purr-Purr didn't say anything at all. She simply looked at Hanld for a moment or two, then started to shut her eyes "Aren't you flad jou're not again. Do Lions Have Laps? "Besides," Hanld went on, after lion?" Hanid asked Purr-Purr. away place.

I wouldn't let him curl up in my lap like you're doing deciding that Purr-Purr probably now I'm sure you must be glad didn't care to talk about lions, "a you re not lion or a tiger or a By Jamas J. Metcalfe TO SLEEP AT NIGHT There is a time for work and play And time to' rest our head And most important by the clock Is when we go to bed It matters not how long we sleep But when we close our eyes It matters if the night is young Or dawn has filled the skies The early hours of the night Are those in which to rest In order to maintain our health And do our very best No daytime slumber makes amends nightly slumber lost And we must make the moments up pay a heavy cost so it seems Almighty God Created day and night To sleep in darkness and to work And play when there is light. LAFF-A-DAY iz-e 1912. King Fotum rijhts mcmi "Probably had to go next door to borrow sugar." This Funny World WORD-A-DAY 8y BACH ilous scurn A skur GRO6SLV OR OBSC6NEW OB ABUSIVE'; USlKlfi OR -fo INDECENT OR OFFENSIVE lion is a ferocious, wild animal. No one ever sits with a lion In his lap.

And I don't suppose a lion would let anybody sit In his lap. I mean, If he has a lap. Tell me, Purr-Purr," she said, giving the kitten little shake to keep her awake, "do you think a lion has a lap?" Purr-Purr wouldn't say. Hanld sighed. "You're not very talkative this morning, are you, Purr-Purr? You might at least meow and I'd try to guess what you were trying to say.

You really should know something about lions. Lions are your cousins, Purr-Purr. They're cats too- great, big wild cats, who live In Africa." Purr-Purr kept on being silent. She didn't seem to care much about her great big wild cousins who lived In Africa. Other Cousins, Too "And," continued Hanid, "you have some other cousins, They're just as.wlld as your Cousin Lion.

There's your Cousin Tiger. I wouldn't keep him In lap, either. Have you ever seen your Cousin Tiger? He looks' like a big cat with Purr-Purr wouldn't whether she had ever uen her Cousin Tiger. "And then," said Hanld, "there's your Cousin Leopard. has spots.

I think he also lives in Africa or India or come other far leopard." Purr-Purr didn't seem to mind one way or the other. She did nothing except purr. "Of course, dear," said Hanld. "You might -like being a lion, a tiger or a leopard for other rea- sons, even though you wouldn't be able to curl up In my lap. Aren't Afraid of "I don't think, for Instance, lions or tigers or leopards are the least bit afraid of dogs.

In fact, I'm quite sure dogs are afraid of them. There's hardly a single animal In the whole world who Isn't afraid of them. Just think, you could walk around the streets and everyone would run away from you as fast ai they could go." Hanld shook her head slowly. "No," ishe said to. Purr-Purr, "I'm glad a kitten and not any of your big wild cousins.

It Isn't only that you wouldn't be able to curl up In my lap. You also wouldn't' be able to live In this house. You'd have to stay In the zoo, behind heavy bars. You'd never get a chance to drink milk out of a saucer or to creep down into the cellar at night and hunt for mice. You wouldn't be-happy at all.

You'd just roar at people' and keep thinking all the time of how mucrr-you'd rather be small, the way you are now, and tx allowed to curl up comfortably in a little girl's lap." tz-a. fCKROETCM gyndicite, ColHnr'i "We ought to be able to find a full deck in here someplace" Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo BRINGS SOWMV TO THE DENTIST STAMPS 8V.AWKIMG LIKE A COOL GENERAL INSTRUCTING COMBAT ME TAKES A TURN IM HIA1SELF (OR SoES ME THEY'LL DO IT TWICE A NOTHING ID. YOU EVEU FEEL BE A THERE'S MO SUCH TUNG AS IT'LL 8E TlME.MNP.