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Show OSEM-GENEVA TIMES Thursday, August 14 ,1947 Published Erery Thursday At Orem, Utah M. NEFF SMART, Editor and Publisher Entered as second class matter November 19, 1944 at the postoffice at Orem, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879. MEMBER: Utah State Press Association Subscription Rates: One year, strictly in advance $3 00 Six Months $2.00 WHOSE CASE? From all sections of the state, and mainly from city and county retail grocers' associations, are coming to the mayor and city council congratulations on Orem'a stand in passing and defending the Sunday closing ordinance. It pleases the Utah County Retail Grocers' association and similar groups throughout the state, of course, that Orem is taking the issue; to the courts. In a large measure it is their own ordinance ordin-ance which is being tested, and the action will determine the legality of the association-inspired ordinance. The operators of Esquire Market and Park's Super Market, defendants in the case, also, no, doubt are receiving congratulations galore for standing on their constitutional rights and questioning the legality of an ordinance which in a sense aims at' the repression of free enterprise and the supresssion of individual initiative. It's an odd thing, but few, if any, of the congratulatory congratulat-ory messages contain anything more substantial than congratulations, con-gratulations, and thus far the burden of financing the costly court action which seems destined to go right on up to the supreme court will rest squarely on the taxpayers of Orem and upon the Orem merchants who are defendants. We make the brief suggestion that those retail grocers who are anxious to see Orem win its case and win their own battle might like to underwrite a portion of the cost of the case. And by the same token, those who believe that basic individual rights are being infringed upon by closing grocery stores on Sunday might fight for that principle with something some-thing more substantial than words. It isn't Orem's case. This city has no ulterior motive in the argument. The city councilmen who passed the ordinance ordin-ance believe that such an ordinance is necessary to serve the best interests of the city. They are fighting the case because a principle is involved and they believe that defense of the principle is more important than the cost of the case. . .... Ti i rT-L . 1 .- ,. I,. .ill. Ana ll isn i me rams case, inv juiuua was uuuk uh individual enterprise and hard, rough competition. They, too, believe a principle is involved and are willing to defend that principle. The case is the people's and should and will be watched with interest to its conclusion. Income is what you can't live without or within. Cut Man Labor Farmers in the cash-grain area of Illinois are today uruducW a Peace that passeth all under- bushel of corn with sU mlnutea of standing is what the world man labor, wherai 39 years ago It needs. required 32 minutes. BIRD ISLANDS tJUTAH WM'iiijlilVjl HT KUNO. OH GKAT SaiT IAKC, IN THE MlOIHWBT PART OF THE LAKE COVERS ONLY 24 ACRES, BUT IS THE HOME Of WE OF THE LARGEST COLONIES Of THE GREAT WHITP PELICAN. A DIMINISHING SPECIES. THESE EUROS SOMETIMES FLY AS MUCH AS 100 MILES FOR FOOD. THERE IS NONE ON THE ISLAND. f 1 1-V WHAT IT'S LIKE TO STARVE; A DOCTOR TELLS THE STORY U atBD ISLAND. OH UTAH IAKI IS A LOW. FLAT ISLAND WHOSE ! VMltl WITH THB LEVEL OF THE LAKE. THIS ROCKV WOOKIKV I im: UUL OF ORNITHOLOOICAL. FIELD TRIPS FROM THE Sj.Y.UNIVERSITV. "UOENTS ANB TEAtMCW VISIT THE ISLAND TO STUDY THE NESTING HAEITS OF THE Valws Swl AM i OTHER WATER FOWl WHKH INCUBATE ON THIS R0CMANYTA STiSoOFtSSOft ANO IADY HAVE LOST THEIR OWNITY ANDfiRACC MMUMoV THE INDISCRIMINATE 0MARDMEf41 T OFTHE EXOTED i'D$ANP HAVE ONCtREMONIOOSLY OUOHT REF066 WNOS A NEWSFAk-kR. OR V6WTO FAitR EA. Precautions Against Polio Listed by Utah Univ. Doctor ' With Utah's "1947 Polio Season" Sea-son" following in the wake of August "dog days," Dr. Louis P. Gebhardt, professor of bacteriol- 6. Don't allow children to play in areas where sewage may be a problem 7. Spray garbage cans with DDT to help eliminate flies and always keep a lid on garbage cans. Dr. Gebhardt also advises par-pnts par-pnts to be watchful for illness ogy at the University of Utah, triat are marked by fever, loss lists a few simple precautions 0f aDDetite. nausea or vomiting that parents should take in safe- or stiffness of the neck, it might guarding their children from be polio. "Do not try to diag this disease . ! nose symptoms yourselves,' Observation of these practical warns Dr. Gebhardt, "consult a rules will lessen the possibility doctor." Despite the severity of of your child becoming a polio a first degree case of polio, par-victim. par-victim. I ents should beware of panic and 1. A child under ten should remember that in Utah's worst get not less than ten hours of epidemic, in 1943, only four in sleep. a thousand children were polio 2- He should avoid fatigue patients, and of these, only a and chilling. Too strenuous ex- fraction - were paralyzed and ercise will cause the virus to died. "The crippling effects of "sting" like a wasp if it hap- j polio can be minimized and ev-pens ev-pens to be in the nose or throat- j en aliminated in some cases if 3. An adequate diet should be prompt attention from a quali-given. quali-given. fied physician is procured" re- 4- Keep flies away from food.' ported Dr. Gebhardt. It is clean-Children clean-Children should not eat out of , liness, a watchful eye and a doors if flies are in evidence. . cool head that will do the most All foods that are eaten raw! in combating polio beyond the should be first washed with soap ! ward rooms of a hospital. and water. 5. The child's hands should be washed before eating, even before be-fore eating bread and butter or an apple in-between meals. BEFORE CALLING OREM TELEPHONES PLEASE LOOK UP THE NUMBERS IN THE TEMPORARY DIRECTORY JUST ISSUED We have just opened our new telephone office in Orem and calls between Orem telephones are being handled by operators at our new switchboards here instead of at Provo. To do this we had to change some Orem telephone tele-phone numbers, particularly rural numbers. So before you call Orem telephones please refer to the new temporary directory we have just issued. It lists all the new numbers. Any transactions regarding your telephone service, including payment of bills, will be handled at oul: new Orem office, located One Block South of City Hall Orem. GETS PROMOTION T5 Norman T. Richards, whose home is in Provo has recently re-cently been promoted to his present pre-sent rank of Technician Fifth Grade. T5 Richards is assigned to the 20th Infantry Regiment, which is a unit of the 6th Infantry Infan-try Division. The 6th Division is now on occupation duty in Southern Korea. T5 Richards enlisted in the army in August, 1946 and took his basic training at Fort Bliss, i Texas. He arrived overseas in December 1946 and joined the Sixth Division in Korea- Believed in Varfety Solomon's household was Insignificant Insignif-icant compared to the record chalked up by two African kings. Mtessa of Uganda and the king of Loango, who are said to have had 7,000 wives. Tlio Mountain States Telephone And Telegraph Company Give Your Lawn An Even Shave! A well-lubricated, sharpened sharpen-ed lawn mower makes the job smoother and easier on you. Keep your mower in god, tight condition. Let us see to it every so often- Pickup serTice Saws Sharpened CARTER'S Saw and Lawnmower Shop Phone OSJi Route 2 Box 671 The following story it reproduced re-produced from the Utah State Department of Health bulletin bulle-tin for July and was written by Dr- Avelheid Wawerka, who was in charge of the children's clinici in Vienna. Hunger is numbing- You are sitting at your desk with a pa tient, and suddenly, you find you cannot keep your attention on what the child's mother is saying- You sit there until your strength creeps baclc and then you work a little longer. Or, you are standing up, and suddenly sud-denly you have to sit down. It is pitiful to see the old people who once thought they would spend their last 'years with their children and grandchildren grand-children around them- That was before the war; now they live as best they can, huddled in the dark in the cold. When they walk they stay near the wall and press their hands against it for support. They move like ghosts, ghosts for whom the other have no time, for the young must be up and about to try. to get food in any way they can. The papers say there will be flour and the people wait, but the flour does not come that day, or if it does the supply gives out before their line is reached You can live on flour, so they have learned. You brown it, add water, and it makes soup. That's what the women are doing as they bend over the little fires along the sidewalk, the fires they made of a few sticks of salvaged sal-vaged wood held between bricks or tiles. Many of the homes in the bombed areas have no stoves left. It is cold, this second wint. er after the war, very cold. The hunger .though, is worse than the cold- You can do something some-thing about the cold. You can find something else to put over the shoulders or wrap around the feet. Or, you can go to bed and stay there. You can wait the cold out, for there is a begin-iing begin-iing and an end to cold but there is no end to hunger. And being hunerv vnu dn things you thought you never would do. You send your children child-ren out to trade on the black market- It would go hard on you if you got caught, but with the children, if they get "picked up"' the authorities will be more lenient- You learn, too, not to ask ytur children too many questions when they bring food home-You home-You don't ask anybody questions quest-ions about where food comes from You eat it, a ad while you are doing so you hoDe no nn will come in with whom it ought to be shared. You have not enough for your own. Adversity uues not bring out the best in people, not when it is a question of who shall live ar.d who shall starve. It is each for himself and his own You see the children grow thinner, day by day. With the babies it is all right as long as they are nursing. They grow fat as babies should, but their mothers become like wraiths. Ard the baby lives and the mother m&y die. Yes, of course, places are set up where nursing mothers can get supplementary feedings, but they hate the way it is rinnp. Thf ruin ic (Vi-jt ln- must eat the food nt the center. ! Otherwise they would, of course take the food home for the children. chil-dren. You gag when you eat food knowing that your cnild-ren cnild-ren are hungry, but the rule is me rule and ii you don t pat, there will be no milk for the baby. When he's taken oif the breast he'll lose weight fast enough and become like the others. younger brothers and sisters for there is a school feeding program pro-gram of sorts, or there was when UNRRA was bringing in help. But the children cannot always al-ways go to school. They must take turns wearing the shoes or the overcoat- And, in bad wea ther, the school is likely to bo closed ;thc wind and the rain and the snow come tnrough the empty panes and the torn roof. Even if the building should be intact the likelihood is that it would be unhealed. You might keep children in it ,c-ven so, if they were well fed, warmly clothed, and bundled up, as in fresh-air schools, but these children chil-dren have come to school with empty stomachs and their cloth es even when they have on the family wardrobe, are not enough to keep out the chill. They get sick and there is nothing no-thing to be done about it- The "authorities" in Vienna know as much as people anywhere in ihe world about how tuberculosis should be dealt with, but they do nothing because they are helpless. In all Austria to get to statistics there are only 1,-600 1,-600 beds for tubercular patients and places in the mountains that used to be used for these people are now otherwise occupied or else standing empty. So those who have tuberculosis live as the others do- The sick and the well live and sleep together and the well, of course, get 6ick. Many die. Many of those who die are young boys and girls for tuberculosis, tuber-culosis, even under more favorable favor-able circumstances, strikes hard, est at the adolescent group-Those group-Those now in their teens in many places in Europe have never ne-ver had enough to eat' and without with-out any reserves, they are a highly susceptible lot. They need food anl plenty of food more perhaps tnan any other group of the population; yet there is nothing for them. What there is goes to their younger brothers and sisters. They take their chances with the tdults. Starvation goes by still other names than luberculosis. Sometimes Some-times on the death certificate it is lised as typhoid fever or it is called diarrhea, or any of the diseases that come from an impure im-pure food supply. When you're hungry you'll eat anything, and people do. They eat what there is to be eaten, though ordinar ily it would turn their stomachs. stom-achs. And they drink what's to be drunk; they do not have pasteurized pas-teurized milk and they do not have refrigerators, nor do they always have the means to boil water. Death takes whole families sometimes there is no one left to notify- Death also leaves many orphans. The younger ones are cared for in institutions. The older ones look after themselves and "juvenile delinquency" in thir rasp is a way of saying boys and girls are hungry. They take as then can ;they oppose with violence the peasant or anyone who tries to stop them-The them-The girls have their own ways of getting along- Young as they are they come to terms early, as hungry people everywhere come to terms- Even their own mothers moth-ers rrust someiinries come to terms. Of course, one is ashamed when the authorities come because be-cause one's children are running the streets at night, and one cannot tell the authorities about ' the soldier who comes to call while the children are out. But . the Soldier brings food and what , is better? That one's children go hungry? The neighbors know; , the authorities know; and someday some-day one's own husband, now a! prisoner of war, will have to ' know- Who is to say who is a good mother and who is not, in times like these? It is the war. And you hope, because you must. Help must come you say to yourself as with others who are able you do what you can to get the children fed and the sick amorfg them cared for- You, who are in Vienna, that once was the place doctors came to from all over the world to learn what was new in medical practice put j aside for a better day the tech-1 niques you have acquired in well-equipped hospitals and clinics. clin-ics. You practice medicine without with-out instruments, without the drugs you need .without supplies, sup-plies, often without even hot water. Your patients come to you from long distances and they walk a good part of they way, or you make the rounds on foot or by street car to their shelters. The prescription in most cases would be simple, if it could be filled food. A doctor's doc-tor's world like every one else's world in the devasatated parts of Europe, gets brought to that one word: food. 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