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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD Difficult Job Confronts Penicillin, Latest Triumph of Medical Research, Marks Another Long Step Toward Distant Goal . Magic Germ Killer Was Discovered by Chairman Hannegan, Publicist Porter, Must Rebuild Party Machine; Answer GOP Attacks on Bureaucracy. Fortunate Accident By AL JEDLICKA Released by Western Newspaper Union. By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. rages. Two weeks ago, I reported a visit to Republican headquarters up on Connecticut avenue and I attempted to outline the job that Chairman of the Republican National committee, Harrison Spangler, has laid out for himself. Since then, I have been admitted Into the front lines in the Democratic sector and now that I am back safe In limb and, I hope, sound In mind, 1 shall attempt to report the strategy that Field Marshal Hannegans cohorts seem to be employing. Democratic Chairman Hannegan is a young man, who has served in the ranks and worked his way up from ward politics to City Chairman for St. Louis whence he leapt to the national chairmanship. Just to give you a little of the atmosphere in which the Democratic GHQ operates, let me say a word about a gathering held recently in the Mayflower Hotel (which also houses the Democratic headquarters) Just a few blocks down Connecticut avenue from the old residence that the GOP has taken over. This gathering was the occasion of the retirement of Charley Michel-so- n and the assumption of his duties as Number One publicity man for the Democratic committee by tall and personable Paul Porter, who said he felt as if somebody had put him down in Carnegie Hall, handed him Krieslers violin, and said: Now play." That was a pat remark. We all We all know Charley Michelson. know Porter, who has been around Washington in one important job or another ever since the New Deal began dealing. And we know the typewriter of Charley Michelson is as hard for anyone but its possessor to play upon as Kreislers fiddle would be. However, when I was up at Democratic headquarters a few days later, there was Charley apparently giving such aid and comfort and encouragement as might be needed from the wings. One thing that makes it hard for the Democrats is that the Republicans are in a position to lift their copyright. As one Democrat explained it to me, it is like this: Nobody will have a chance to do the job that Charley Michelson did for us from 1922 on until the election of FDR. The trouble is the Republicans are in a position to use his theme song adapted, of course, to suit thpir needs. They have already started to do to the administration just what Michelson did to Hoover. They have started to attack the war agencies and all of the administration departments and activities, exposing every blunder, playing up failures and trying to show that everything the people think are burdens and annoyances can be traced directly to the administration. And you know," this wise old veteran added, what you write and say about how bad the other guy is makes a lot better reading than what you say about how good you think YOU are." That is one obstacle Chairman Hannegan is up against although the real responsibility falls on the shoulders of Ilchelson's successor, Paul Porter, and they are broad shoulders with a very good newspaper head between them. But Hannegan has another, bigger . problem. It is a Job for a master mechanic. It is a repair job on the Democratic machine which Is euphemistically designated in the language of party politics as the Jim Farley took over a pretty well running machine built up by Raskob. Farley did a splendid jot of keeping it spinning until 1936. It was a machine that far Then Farley got other ideas one, that two terms was enough foi as thal Roosevelt, and the other the next term, it would be Farley. The machine changed to a dog which, for four years, would only come when its master spoke and its master was Farley Ater the historic split, it fell apart except as the states kept their seg ments intact. So all Mr. Hannegan has to do is to put it together again if he car find all the parts. That is the first job as far as the Democratic offensive goes. As to the defense, they feel they already have a pretty clear picture of the Republican war plans as revealed in activities to date. They point to the campaign that won the Republicans another seal in the House of Representatives from the first Congressional district of Colorado. The Democratic candidate was a young war hero. His Republican opponent was a business man. He had a very simple line of attack. He hammered bureaucracy, he placed the present ills of the community squarely on the head of the administration gas rationing, for instance. one-ma- The OPA Fight The Democrats say this pattern-damn- ing the administrations administering has been revealed in congress too. The fight over the OPA is a current example. Minority Leader Joe Martin announced at the beginning that nobody wanted to do away with price regulation but that present regulation must be . What the Democrats expect is that the Republicans will drag out the hearings as long as possible, parade what they call "a chamber of horrors before the people, attempting to associate all the irritations, limitations and restrictions which are annoying the public, on the administration. There are other obstacles which are a product of the time which the Democrats have to meet. They are realistic about them. One is the fourth term, of course. That may partially be offset by the dont change horses in the middle of a stream" argument which is counted upon to influence a great number of people who think it might be disastrous to shift leadership, whether you like, it or not, while the war is going on. Another situation which the Democrats face and about which there is bttle or nothing to do is "the great migration of voters who have failed to establish residence in their new homes or who are in the armed forces and will not be able to vote. As one Democrat put it to me: We know we are going to suffer more than the Republicans from this change of residence business. It isn't the man and woman who lives in a Park Avenue penthouse who It is back in 1929. Prof. Alexander Fleming of London discovers that a mold growing in a container which he is using in research has killed certain germs. Although Professor Fleming does not enter into a thorough investi- medicinal constituent of cinchona, the wrinkled brown bark found by the Spaniards in Peru in 1630, and most effective in treating malaria. Louis Jacques Tbenard (1777-185who found boric acid and hydrogen peroxide. Frederick Belding Powder who worked on development of oil of peppermint and wmtergreen, and also oil of chaulmoogra, a (1853-1927- ), Other English scientists go to work on the mold and in 1940 find It effective in human treatment. Penicillin. the magic drug, has been discovered, and like so many great other discoveries, by chance. Penicillin is not the greatest nor the final discovery in medicine, but it is the latest and among the most effective, momentarily climaxing medicines long, steady march forward on the path cf alleviating mans pain. Sought by king and commoner alike, penicillin has proven its usefulness in the treatment of streptococcus pyogenes, a germ that causes pus and promotes diseases like septic sore throat, childbed fever and erysipelas; of staphylococcus aureus, another germ found in boils and in infections of the bone; of the pneumonia and diph. theria germs; of the organisms that cause gonorrhea, gas gangrene, meningitis and syphilis. In Chicagos modern Museum of Science and Industry at the foot of Lake Michigan in Jackson Park, Dr. Milan Novak, head of the department of bacteriology and public health of University of Illinois college of medicine, has established a public exhibit demonstrating the processes In the present production of penicillin. The penicillin exhibit Is just one of many in the museums medical section, which is under direction of Dr. E. J. Carey, dean of the Marquette university medical school, Milwaukee, Wis. In this section, we are given a graphic picture of mans gradual development of curative remedies from the early uses of vegetable and mineral substances. Seven Benefactors. One exhibit pictures seven great men and their works which have given mankind boundless relief from Its physical illnesses: Karl Wilhelm Scheele 1742-86who discovered chlorine, the constituent of common compounds like salt; tartaric acids, which make fruits taste sour; manganese, the metallic element necessary for plant development, and oxygen, the most universal of all elements. Pelletier and Caventou, who in 1820 extracted quinine, the active ), Prof. Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, is shown with a bottle holding cultures of penicillium notatum, as he converses with two visiting Turkish doctors In his London laboratory, where be made the remarkable experiments. source of certain chemical compounds for use in treating leprosy. who Bernard Courtois Isolated Iodine in 1811, when he observed that washings from seaweed ashes gave off purple vapors when treated with sulphuric acid, and then turned into crystals which contained the element, now so useful in medicine. who disAntoine Bilard (1802-76- ), covered bromine in 1828. Moderns as well as oldsters find the museums replica of the 19th century American apothecary shop an interesting contrast to the present, streamlined drug store. To say the least, the old apothecary shop ranked as a colorful spectacle as well as a popular medicinal center, what with its big, square jars of black zingiber, white zinc sulphide, reddish tincture of serpent and gold spirits odoratus. Drawers contained emery, talcum, manna, creta and iris. Of interest is the 19th century doctors bulky, varnished medicine case which he carried in his saddlebag as he made his rounds through the country. In the case, one can find quinine, turkey rhubarb, essence of peppermint, fire of magnesia, essence of ginger and tincture of orange peel. On the counter of the apothecary shop stands a box of herbal smoking mixture for cure of catarrh, bronchitis, asthma, hay fever. lung disease, coughs, hoarseness, ulcerated throat and all pulmonary complaints, the customer merely being asked to smoke and inhale it. Hard by the replica of the old apothecary shop, we find a drug exhibit depicting 19th century medicinal advances, from the discovery of alkaloids in 1816 to the develop- (1777-1838- ), And," he added, it is the soldlei son of families which have been reelecting Roosevelt who isn't going to get his ballot in from Kwajalein Wangle-shireptoll or Middlesex-on-sticks- , , S will be 6 civilian supplies of sugar per cent less limn 191J con- sumption, acc ni ding to WFA. Ecihn radio told Lulin America that the Gorman tounst movement in 1943 was only 8 per cent lawei than in yeais ref-uthe war. - . . RUN BOTH ENDS OF WIRE UGWlTlM,', Only three changes a day? BACK SPOOLS the beaten has gai Tracy Spencer wind ir '1 ACrMlXirv Jr, shortage with a surrey . . . Sign in Hollywooc window a jewelry shop (over the wedding ring tray): "Is the feeling nuptial? . . . Since then were no signs of their publisher! (Scribners) throwing a cocktail pod noveldy in honor of their debut as ists, Kyle Crichton and Robert Glassner chucked one for their publishers on March 6. The title of ths new book is The Proud People . . Garbo, who will never die as i RUN ENC UP THROUGH SIDE spools! favorite over at our house, wai warned by a Hollywood paragraphei types of g to watch her step . . . My deal with new easy-to-us- e The wire or cord is then man, she said, "orchids never enc through, as shown here, sot up in gutters. the shelves may be hung in a ner ready to hold articles of Brawls between the White Houst siderable weight. new and Congress arent anything . . . Almost every President has NOTE Mrs. Spears has designed gone through the Congressiona1 sctual-sizpattern (or these three j Cool wringer . . . When, frinstance, fully curved corner shelves which idges inner circle told him thai graduated in size. This pattern alo for cutting the legislators were after his scalp, tains complete directions Jmmng these shelves as well as a p Coolidge gazed through the White (or another larger set o ( spool she House windows and calmly an- Ask for pattern No. 255 and enclose swered: Well, I see the Washing- cents. Address: ton monument is still there. "V' Ol. MRS. RUTH WYETH Campaign Weapons ready has become an awesome, magical byword. Step by step, the exhibit demonstrates the processes of producing penicillin: First, theres the stock culture, with a mold similar to but not identical with green molds found on fruits or cheese, shown growing on jell-lik- e base containing 6ugar. Second, the spores (seeds) from the stock culture are transferred to a nutrient solution containing sugar, and they germinate into white woolly plants. In three days, the mold covers the surface of the liquid. This mold creates penicillin, which collects in the nutrient but not in the mold plants. Third, as the mold plants mature, their color cuanges from white to gray-gree- n because of the development of numerous spores (seeds). At this stage, the solution contains a maximum amount of penicillin and the culture is ready for collection. If allowed to become too old, the penicillin in the liquid loses some of its strength. Fourth, the first step in collecting the penicillin is to remove the mold growth from the liquid by filtration, since the plant itself contains none of the drug. The liquid thus filtered possesses small amounts of penicillin. An elaborate process of extraction and absorption is used to concentrate and remove the penicillin from the liquid. Fifth, the purification process removes objectionable substances. If left in its yellow-browsolution form, penicillin loses some of its strength, but is relatively Stable as a powder, into which it is converted by commercial production. When penicillin is to be Injected into a patient, it is dissolved. A hypodermic syringe is used for intramuscular injection, and if intravenous injection is desired, a blood transfusion apparatus is used. Penicillin must be tested regularly for strength. In the cup method, melted agar is uniformly inoculated with test bacteria, which cannot grow in the presence of penicillin, and Is placed in a round dish to solidify. Small glass cylinders are put in the solidified agar and filled with a penicillin solution, which then seeps outward into the infected mold. The test bacteria grow and cloud the agar, except where their growth is stopped by the penicillin. The size of the clear zone is proportional to the strength of the pen' n icillin. If penicillin is hard to get, it's be- cause its production is limited by its growth. From a large batch oi the nutrient solution only a relatively small amount of penicillin is As yet no synthetic method to produce the drug on a mass-scalhas been developed, and until some such process is installed, the civilians share will be strictly determined by the military and naval services needs. e drugs, like the sulfonamides for instance, are effective, authorities have insisted on employing them instead. Until synthetic production of penicillin is developed, its manufacture will continue a costly and cumbersome process. At me start of the year, about eight firms were producing quantities of penicillin, and the total was expected to he expanded to 20. Novelette: Irving Berlin arrived the other day from England with messages for km and loved ones o: members of This Is the Army." Berlin phoned parents, wives, sweet hearts and pals, and took dowi messages to relay to the boys In bis show now abroad. He made several huadred calls. The most touching: Two soldiers gave him the same name 6f thr only girl in the world. Broadway Rembrandt: The wise-guy- s are still talking about it breathlessly. A drunk wobbled into one of the saloons, clutching fistfuls ol $20 bills. He went to the bar and Fill em up. Everybody yelled: drink! For a gag one of the wisenheimers asked him if he had two 20s for a ten. he yelled back. "Sure, sure! Anybody else want two 20s for a 10? I can keep this up all night But I warn you, Ill break you! That kept up for half an hour, and finally, out of 20s, he staggered Into the night He kept his word, too. His 20s were counterfeit Ringside Seat: Robert Sherrod, whose new book, Tarawa, is a click already, says the Pacific war was nearly two years old and he had seen much of it elsewhere when we Invaded Tarawa. On the transport a youthful lieutenant asked Sherrod why he hadnt written a book. He said he was waiting for a real story. On the first day on the Tarawa beach, where our troops held only a beachhead, charges of dynamite were flung into a Jap pillbox. The officer turned to Sherrod, grinned and asked: "Will this one do? . 20-fo- Bedford Hills SPEARS Ken y0, Drawer cents for Pattern 10 Enclose 15 255. Dont Name Address rg to tor mi FERRYS SEEDS PLANT Make your back yard a battle ground for food by planting Ferry's Seeds Do display at your local Ferrys dealer FERRY-MORS- SEED E SAN DETROIT MONEY CANT CO. FRANCISCO BUY more depenii! than genuine pure St. Joseph Asf.. worlds largest seller at 10- - Why; more? Big 100 tablet size for only aspirin- - faster-actin-g, DONT LET CONSTIPATION . SLOW YCU UP When bowels are sluggish and f feel irritable, headachy, do as nnlhc - chew the mode Simply before you go to kf taking only in accordance with pad0 directions sleep without being i turbed. Next morning gentle, thoroaT relief, helping you feel swell again. do chewing-gu- FEEN-A-MIN- laxative m Tastes FEEN-A-MIN- good, is hsc Norma Shearer Is expected to reand economical. A generous family sop! sume her screen career in the role costs or of Katy (the mother) in Tree FEEN-A-MINT Grows in Brooklyn" . Franz Wer-fe- l, author of Song of Bernadette (after two heart attacks), is able to 7 Miles Up and Down leave his bed for two hours daily New Yorks Empire State bi . . Maureen OHara and her groom Ing has seven miles of elew expect another image in June . . . shafts. Hoover has commended the alertness of Mexican officials, who last week captured four escaped German war prisoners and deported them back across the border . . . Of about 300,000 investigations by the FEI (for draft violations, etc.) more than 140,000 men are now available for military service. also got 7,700 convictions for violators. BACKACHE Quotation Marksmanship; 'Walter Lippmann: The writers who have nothing to say are the ones you can buy; the others have too high a price . . . James J. Walker: A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass bottom boat . . . Ben Hecht: He ate like a man with a stowaway under his vest Mark Twain: It aint so much the things people dont know that makes trouble in this world, as it is the things that people know aint so . B. Kay: He beat a hasty retreat like a Congressman I screaming; Was misquoted . , . Hildegarde Schine: Little forget-me-nolooked up and laughed . . , Mary Roberts Rinehart: Gnawing on her ance like a dog on a bone . .griev. F. A deep kiss, Gasner: up to the heart . . . M. Bonnston; No words could translate the thoughts In her eyes. ts for fast diuretic FUNCTIC WHEN KIDNEY LAGS from this need . Functional kidney disturbance due to of diuretic aid may cause slabbingw ache! May cause urinary flow to quern, yet scanty and smarting! lose sleep from "getting UP,P1,! ) "beadav i,' may feel dizzy, nervous, ' In such cases, you want to 00 kidney action jast. So if there t wrong. systemically or organically Gold Medal Capsules. I hey " mous for prompt sction for 30 care to use them only as directed, n oo substitutes. 35 it your drug y1' MEDICATED POWDER FOR FAMILY USE hole. when our l d. less Bonds' Buy War Savings YOU WOMEN WHO SUFFER FROJ Until Synthetic Method Is Devised, Production Of Penicillin Will Remain Slow and Costly Brought doubly into the limelight by frequent dramatic uses of the drug, penicillin has been made available in cases where the patient would respond to it. Dr. Austin E. Smith, secretary of the council' on pharmacy and chemistry of the American Medical association, said. Because of its comparative scarcity, Dr. Smith stated, unlimited use of penicillin has not been permitted, and in cases where other i. e ... U. match holder, the china doll head and other im" ing trinkets that you have i tc treasuring. came Sinatra time The first The spools and shelves nowr Hwood he brought three suits. Thi be practically welded tegrWhat! time he arrived with 18 . . . c g moves to San Diego to work in an airplane plant; it is the hill billy who has voted Democratic all his life who moves to a war boom town and forgets to register." Under existing legislation all veterans of World War II who weie citizens of Illinois when they military service are eligible for Umveisity of Illinois scholar-ships- . ment of hormones for treatment of glandular deficiencies in 1901, with the introduction of coal-ta- r synthetic drugs in 1884 and thyroxin in 1893 grouped between. The 'Magic Drug. The climatic and currently most Interesting exhibit, of course, is the one dealing with the growth of penicillin, from a mold to a refined liquid containing the drug which al- - gation of the phenomenon, he takes the time to make a note of it, suggesting that maybe the mold could destroy germs in human infections. Hereford, England. Here are two main dishes the Democrats probably will offer the voter! The first, I have already mentioned. Dont change horses . . . The second can be encompassed in one word work! You can call it security, or any other name that smells as sweet. But the Democrats count on the fact that the average American fears another depression, or at least temporary unemployment when the boys come home Broken Machine The argument is, They (the Demo Hannegan is a young, energetic, crats) did it before, they can do it open-face- d Irishman, and it is a good again the Republicans brought tiling he is young and energetic and you panic, the New Deal got you optimistic because he has had to through it. start his Job of organization at Circumstances alter the best laid scratch. Anyone at Democratic plans of mice, men and national The first time the rare drug Has ever released for civilian use was headquarters will admit that. committees, but that seems to b in the case of Patricia Malone, two- year -old New York city girl, who The reason is revealed in this sim- what they are shouting at along was suffering from the staph lococci tpe of septicemia. The army gave ple chronology: Connecticut avenue today. enough penicillin to halt the disease, when appealed to by a New York newspaper. Ohios six State universities, Counthiough their cil, have asked the director of education of Ohio, Kenneth S. Ray, to call a state conference on pioblums relating to the rehabilitation of returning servicemen. "THESE graceful corner si. A are ten inches wide and', inches deep at the bottom the right size to hold the V old-fas- New Democratic Leaders WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. Bombs one day will cease bursting, ships will sail the seas undisturbed by torpedoes, and cities will no longer be levelled, but politics knows no armistice. The political forces are already laying down their preliminary bar- Shelves of Spool For Your Tril lliis tiny sealed vial contains 00U Morey units of pcnkillin. 10,- - Dancers Mirror: Maestro Melba of the Cotillion Room sums up the types of dancers who pass his gaze. To wit: The girl who doesn't but will stand practically still shag, while her partner does; the unmanage able trio on tne iloor-- he. she ano her hat; the chap who looks like a left halfback and waltzes the crowd in much the same through way he docs on the gruhion; the dippers who get into positions seen else where only on auto radiator caps; the couple that ogles the orchestra waiting for heaven knows what. HOT FlMflS; . If you suffer from hot weak, nervous, emnky fiellncs, W ft bit blue at times duo ? middle-ftKfunctional peculiar to women tryCom! Imkhnms Vegetable to relieve surh symptoms-regularlPlnkham s Com helps build up snob distress. It help J "d Also a fme stomachic tmlclow label directions O I rtsi'-tunc- - LYDIA i E. PINKHAi'S mi uno ting to th |