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tate, if necessary). Like castration, le m a l/ ' hormones seem to slow down the growtl of cancer cells. Drs. Charles Cornell' Herger and Hans Richard Sauer recently /r e p o r te d in the American Journal of Surfj&igery that 3 0 % of their patients getting f/stilb e str o l (a fem ale sex hormone) "responded with regression or softening of the prostate." / .-/ /" /'T h e castration argument is not over. iSt 'Many doctors are castration zealots. Others, like Dr. Kretschmer, are dead set against Drs. Herger and Sauer take the middle / 'ground: 1 they do not invariably castrate //a l l / p r o s t a tic-cance/ patients, rbut recom-v ///e n d ;'c a s tr a tio n 1 ) for patients-w ho .do /(.H ot respond to female' sex hormones, 2) to j p prolong and ease the lives of mehr whose / your' child is , slow with building //b lo c k s , but quick on tantrums, he may be ../ a lead eater. M a n y 'a parent knows that //b a b y should not be given -toys glorified / / with lead' paint. B ut n o t . aU parents - / / realize that children/thwarted 'in; this' re- / / s p e c t m ay start chewing lead paint off / i windowsills and other places. (Parents / make a mistake when they carefully re- //p a in t cribs with lead-containing paint.) And not m any'doctors realize that one .-/.consequence of the plumbic passion ip children may be stupidity.- Last week / d o c t o r s and parents learned the worst Lj/from an article in the American Journal D iseases of. Children, by D r. Randolph / -Kunhardt Byers and the late Elizabeth / . Evans Lord, Ph.D ., o f Boston.' ' '///./Y e a r s ago Dr. Lord had a hunch that ///th e r e was more to lead poisoning than //a n e m ia , constipation, paralysis, loss of / appetite, nervous disorders and deposits / ' o f lead in the long bones and along the / gums. She noticed that some lead-poisoned C /babies differed psychologically from nor- ';rm a l babies, patiently traced the effects A N m the school careers of 20 children, of /</,whom 18 had been paint eaters. -AH but one child, Dr., Lord discovered, / ''were school failures. Only five had normal and four of the five were so erratic ?/>jthat they could not learn easily. M ost of / / t h e other children were so stupid (I.Q . i^ ' 6 9 to 9 6 ) and ill-behaved that they had to J |* je p e a t classes, attend special classes or ^ ^ ^ y e n 'g iv e up school entirely. One little people just to see them bleed, and ^ .'expelled from school for dancing on he desks and the piano. * ' ' - .DECEMBER 20., 19,43 / / 49 A .'Fact. A lot of Amc now comes from sugar growers last year ship] lion tons yia Northern Q. F am ed elephant " J u m b o " w eigh ed as m uch as a m odern locom otive. F a ct or Jiction? A. Fiction. Giant Mallet locomotives, 87 times as heavy as Barnum's mammoth elephant, now speed vital materials over the Northern Pacific Railway. Q . P a p er on w hich news/ m ade Jrom im ported rags. A. Fiction. Newsprin wood pulp. More than yearly via Northern F wrap a 5-foot strip aro Q. G ra n d Coulee D a m p o w e r could b o il 4 8 billion eggs a day. F act or fiction ? A. Fact. Power from Coulee, Bonneville and other dams served by Northern Pacific is building a vast new industrial empire in the Pacific Northwest. Q. T h e re 's a p a r a d e e N o rth w est " M a in Street A. Fact. A parade of ing over Northern Pac Street of the Northwes more of the Northwest' NORTHERN M A I N STREET OF THE NORTHWE