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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 / /
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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'
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