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Show MTTT.APT1 rOTTMTY rHRrvNTTriTrc. DEITTA. UTAH ' : DENTAL HYGIENE Child Dental Hygiene Changed Greatly as Result of School Study WALPOLE, Mass. In the schools here, they have added a new ele-ment to the traditional three R's, readin', 'riting, and 'rithmetic. The fourth item is brushing. Brushing the teeth has become a carefully controlled, carefully recorded daily event, as the children lend them-selves to a study that may bring about a major change in child dental hygiene. Every afternoon school session in the past two years has had a period devoted to super-vised brushing of the teeth. The Walpole studies 'have been carried on by the Tufts College Dental School in Boston. Dr. Helmut A. Zander, professor of dentistry at Tufts, chose the town (popula-tion 9,000) because it offered the opportunity to study the dental problems of children in two schools representing similar home environ-ment. In some cases, different chil-dren were enrolled from one family in each of the two elementary schools. His purpose was to note the effect of penicillin when ap-plied locally as a dentifrice. Following three years of labora-tory study and experiments, Dr. Zander's research staff had settled on penicillin as an effective con-trol fnr rlpntal (VnvitipsV They had eliminated several hun-dred chemical compounds during their experiments. WALPOLE SCHOOL and health authorities cooperated with the Tufts hygienists, dividing 400 young-sters into two groups, one in each elementary school. Their ages ranged from years. Each child brushed his teeth regualrly follow-ing a course of instruction on the proper method for brushing teeth under classroom supervision. One group used a tooth powder containing penicillin, and known as dentocillin. The other group used the same tooth powder, without the added penicillin. Both groups were given dental examinations at frequent intervals. The children who used the tooth powder with the added penicillin showed a reduction in tooth decay of 55.3 per cent at the end of the first year. At the end of the second year of the study, the same group had 53.8 per cent fewer cavities than the children who used the tooth powder only, without the peni-cillin formula. Information on these studies has been requested by school adminis-trators in many areas of the coun-try, as the statistics developed. To study the possibility of peni-cillin sensitivity or induced resist-enc- e to the penicillin ingredient, research was conducted by the Tufts dental hygienists on more than 4,000 ' adults. No serious re-actions were noted, even in people with known sensitivity to penicillin in other forms. Submarine British Test Robot Subs MADRID, Spain Spanish newspapers have reported the British are experimenting with a revolutionary crewless subma-rine in the waters off Gibraltar. Some dispatches in the news-papers report that although the British admiralty is cloaking the project in secrecy, the subma-rine has dived to the greatest depth yet achieved anywhere in the world. The newspapers also report that the French navy is experi-menting with a new type subma-rine that uses water for fuel. Water is decomposed into hy-drogen and oxygen in a high temperature chamber heated by kerosene. The two gases are then propelled into the engine where they are ignited. This type engine fuel is not entirely new. In Sweden, water is used as fuel on some trucks and has been found to be a 50 per cent saving over other types. The Iron Curtain WINSTON CHURCHILL'S phrase "the iron cur-tain" has now become so universal that some people really believe the Soviet border is encased in iron. Actually, however, the curtain is made of barbed wire and rusty barbed wire at that. This writer visited the southern-most segment of the iron curtain today at a spot where democratic Turkey and Communist Bulgaria meet. This border is the start of a long tangled barricade zigzagging north past Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany and Po-land. And though the fields of win-ter barley are just as green on both sides of this barbed-wir- e barricade, it might just as well have been made of iron as far as free ex- - change of human intercourse is con-cerned. I drove up to the curtain in a jeep with Captain Feths Seckin and Lieu-tenant All Aksoz of the Turkish army. The latter is in command of a ten-ma- n detachment guarding the Kaprilnile outpost. The road leading to the curtain was paved with centuries-ol- d stone and beside the road were Roman wells built by Emperor Adrian. But the traffic leading to the barbed-wir- e curtain, aside from an ox team pulling a John Deere disc drill, a tribute to the Marshall plan, was nil. Suddenly the road ended. Ahead was an iron gate bearing that in-ternational English word known to every tongue; "Stop." Beyond it was another gate slightly rusty and delapidated bearing the words "Bul-garia" in both French and Cyrillic. This was the iron curtain and the place which Turks call Serhad, which significantly has two mean-ings: the frontier and the neckline where one's head is chopped off. Blockhouses Guard Curtain Alongside the gate was a series of blockhouses one on the Bulgaria side, a little shabby with some of its windowpanes missing, and two on the Turkish side, both new and orderly. One Turkish blockhouse set back from the iron gate but connected with it by a series of trenches' housed troops. I climbed stairs inside the thick-walle- d parapet to the tower on top of which a Turkish soldier stood scanning the landscape through field glasses. Through his glasses we could see a Bulgarian guard in the tower on the opposite side of the iron curtain, scrutinizing us. From time to time he would run to the telephone evidently to notify his headquarters about our party. Aside from this, there was almost no movement on the frontier. The sturdy walls, pierced with rifle slots, looked down on nothing more than the winter barley fields and the long, long barricade of barbed wire extending north. Prisoners Escape A herd of water buffalo grazed in the distance. They did not know the difference between communism or democracy, between Russianized Bulgaria or Turkey to which the Truman doctrine is supplying arms and Marshall plan' aid. They only knew that the grass was just as green on either side. "Sometimes," remarked Cap-tain Seckin, "sheep or buffalo get under the wire and cross to the Bulgarian side and the Com-munists shoot them. Our far-mers get no chance to herd them b a c k." Sometimes, also, I learned, Bulgarian political pris-- . oners sneak through the barbed wire at night to give themselves up to Turkish authorities. This happens at the rate of two or three times per month and they tell a story of harassment and political suppression in what once was a relatively democratic country. Climbing down from the watch-towe- r we moved closer to the iron curtain to the second Turkish build-ing. This one was just six feet from the gate separating the two coun-tries. ' On rare occasions an official with a properly visaed passport is per-mitted to pass through this gate and customs officials are kept on the Turkish side to handle such transits. We sat down a few feet from the gate to drink coffee with the customs officials. The weather was cold but the sun was warm, and I pulled my chair out onto a stone platform in the sunshine in full view of the Communist guards peering down through rifle slots in their watchtower fifty feet away. I don't know and never will know whst they thought of the stranger the civilian dressed in western clothes who sat and drank coffee just below them. 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The Herlihy independence cropped up early; refusing help, he worked his way through high school and Boston College; had one of the most exten-sive newspaper delivery routes in Boston. Now holding down one of I ''I f f ED HERLIHY radio's top assignments as emcee of "The Big Snow", he also is heard and seen on other important radio and television programs, and as the voice of the Universal Newsreel. Janet Gaynor and Charlie Farrell will appear again in "Seventh Heaven" on March 26, in a radio version of their popular picture of long ago which shot Janet to star-dom. This is their first appearance together on the air. Both have re-tired long since. Janet is the wife of Adrian, the dress designer; Charlie owns and operates the Rac-quet Club in Palm Springs. Geraldine Brooks, scheduled to make "The White Road" in France starting April first with Glenn Ford, plans to leave ahead of time in or-der to visit Anna Magnani in Italy and be in Rome for Easter services at St. Peter's. Frank Sinatra has been signed by Universal-Internation- to star in "Meet Danny Wilson", a modern romantic drama laid in New York and Hollywood. The studio has a option on his services for the next three years. Samuel Goldwyn has given Farley Granger a new contract, with more money, though the old one had sev-eral years to run. Goldwyn feels he is the most popular young man on the screen today. His next pic-ture will be "I Want You". Barbara Weeks, of "The Road of Life" and "Young Dr. Malone", has originated a new earring fad. She's had a jeweler make pairs of ear-rings which are mated but are dif-ferent a bow and arrow set, a cat and mouse set, etc. EI INSTINCT WINS CORNER By Richard H. Wilkinson i W;:;;:; "SNICKER" Snyder, of the Whirlwind baseball club, signed on a new play-er he always handed the newcomer a sheaf of typewritten papers and told him to read every line. Snicker was 5D years old and had been af- - filiated wi" -- Minute 3 . .. baseball and baseball players ' ' all his life. The game had certain fundamental rules, certain regulations that Snick-er felt no rookie could possibly ac-quire on either a home-tow- n or a college team. Therefore he had written them all down and he made each new player read them. When Jock Dudley was handed the sheaf of papers he stared at it blankly and grinned. Snicker said sharply: "You read 'em, young feller! Every danged word." Butch Garrison, Snicker's head scout, had found Jock. Butch was enthusiastic: "The kid's a natural," hp tnlrt Snicker. "He nlavs bv in- - Facts, however, are facts. Jock pitched in 10 games that season and won them all. didn't do him much good. He ain't polished yet." "He don't need to be polished," Butch says. "I tell yon the boy is a natural." . 'xr ... . . i in . m stinct." "Instinct be damned!" Snicker said sarcastically. "Some players are naturally good, but, by gum, I've been in the game long enough to know you gotta learn the funda-mentals or you get no place!" Three days later in the bullpen Snicker watched the new rookie throwing a few to old Dutch Fever-el- l. Snicker flew off the handle. He could tell by the way Jock was throwing them that he hadn't read the typewritten sheaf of papers. He called Jock aside and laid into him. But a week passed before Snicker was sure that Jock had read the typewritten rules. Then he wasn't satisfied. "Maybe he read 'em," he snapped at Butch, "but they books. It don't happen." "It is happening," said Butch. "The kid's throwing 'em and he's hitting 'em. What more do you want?" "Polish," said Snicker: "He's got to do better." Facts, however, are facts. Jock pitched in 10 games that season and won them all. Snicker wasn't, satisfied. He wouldn't admit that Butch was right. Yet at the same time he did confess that Jock was a profitable addition to the team. pERHAPS Snicker was right In his insistence. At any rate, through-out the winter training, Jock steadi-ly improved. He had acquired more polish. Snicker was almost satisfied "See!" he said to Butch. "What'd I tell you! The kid's been reading my rules. It's helping him." "You're balmy," Butch replied. "The kid don't need rules." And so the two old cronies con-tinued to disagree throughout the summer. Jock Dudley brought laurels to the team. Snicker was happy. He took all the credit for Jock's fame for him-self. The only thorn in his rosebed was Butch. Butch insisted that Jock's greatness was due to no one but himself. "You're sore," Snicker told him, "because folks are giving me the credit. Every one knows one knows it's them funda-mentals I thought up that put Jock where he is. Instinct! Nuts!" Butch was fed up. He got sore He told Snicker a few things about himself that Snicker had never heard before. "If you were any-thing but Butch roared at him, "I'd have told you some-thing long ago." "Told me what?" yelled Snicker I'm always willin' to listen to rea- son." "If the reason fits in with your ideas you are," Butch yelled back 'I'd a told you this long ago only I knew the kid was a natural, but you're so thick-heade- d you'd a thought he wouldn't make the grade unless he read your rules." "He did read 'em!" "Like hell he did! That kid that you're so sure got places because of your danged old fudamentals can't read or write! He never read your paper because he couldn't. Now what do you think of that'" And Snicker didn't snicker One County in U.S. Has No Federal Employees, Report PIERRE, S.D. It's hard to be-lieve, but there is at least one coun-ty in the United States that does not have a single federal employee Armstrong county, South Dakota. It has only 52 residents, mostly Indians, and only 12 residents are taxpayers. It is a broad expanse of praire in the north central part ofv the state. The land is scarred by innumera-ble gullies which make travel pos-sible only by horseback. There are no' roads, towns, schools, or churches. It not only has no federal em-ployees; it also has no state em-ployees, no county employees, no government, no postoffice, no fed-eral agencies. In a moment the reader will be convinced there's no county. It does exist, however, 525 square miles of grassland and gumbo which supports thousands of. cat-tle, jack rabbits, coyotes and grouse. Armstrong's claim to fame as the only. U.S. county without a federal employee was revealed in a report issued recently by the joint com-mittee on reduction on nonessential federal expenditures, headed by Senator Byrd of Virginia. ' Armstrong county is part of the Cheyenne river Indian reservation. The land is virtually inaccessible. It is bound on the south by the Cheyenne river and on the east by the Missouri river. The soil is so poor that it has never been settled. It is good grazing country, though. For governmental purposes Arm-strong county is attached to Stanley county on the south. All seven of its residents who voted in the last election voted the straight Democratic ticket. I r ' , hi,- I WARNS OF WEAKNESS . . . Gen. Omar Bradley tells senate committee that weakness in Eu-rope invites attack and makes laughing stock of defense plans. Trapper Fights Off Cougar That Invades Isolated Home CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. Ed-ward McLean, a rugged part-tim- e trapper ' and linesman with the Canadian department of transport, revealed recently his hand to hand battle with a fierce cougar in his lonely one room cabin. He reported he was getting ready for bed when a big cougar crashed through the window of his cabin 120 miles northwest of Vancouver. He fought barehanded in the dark, punching and kicking the 60 pound cat as it went for his throat. "The crazed cougar clawed and chewed at my right arm and throat," he said. "I managed to drag him to a corner of the cabin and grabbed a butcher knife. Using my left hand, I plunged the knife into his throat and stomach." McLean ran barefooted, and clad only in his underwear, to his nearby rowboat, intending to summon help from a line cabin six miles to the south. A brisk wind kept him adrift for more than two hours. He reached the cabin but no one was there. He was too weak to strike a light. He crawled into a sleeping bag and slept for nine hours in subzero temperature. When he awoke, he used the transport department's telephone to call for help. Two men rushed Mc- Lean 54 miles to a hospital. Then they returned to his cabin. The cougar was still alive, but barely breathing. A bullet finished it off. GRASSROOTS Your Bank Account Backs Up Government Deficits By Wright A. Patterson SINCE JULY 1, 1950, the has spent more than it took in. The government now owes $255,979,876,517. Although the gov-ernment is not taking in as much money as it is spending, it is pay- -' ing all bills promptly. No one with a bill to collect is left standing on the steps of the treasury building to wait for more money to arrive. I have frequently wondered about the government's continued cash opera-tions and have just had the answer. Government bills are being paid with the money of Ameri-- - can bank depositors from both saving and checking accounts. The government demands that each bank maintain an extra re-serve in addition to that maintained for the protection of depositors. This is a sum equal to a prescribed per-centage of deposits. Against this extra reserve, the government writes checks. So, out of the money of de-positors, the government writes checks in settlement of its debts when sufficient taxes have not been received. Simple, isn't It? People with bank accounts are financing government deficits. I know of one rural bank that is forced to carry $4 million dollars of extra reserve so the government may draw on the bank for all or any part of that amount. The gov-ernment pays no interest on that re-serve it forces the bank to keep. But the bank must pay the deposit insurance covering Its depositors. The people of the community are denied the right to borrow uny part of the S4 million. The denial affects not only the bank's earning, but the accommodations it can offer its patrons. The local economies are affected. I do not know whether it was con-gressional or presidential edict that demanded this extra reserve, but it is a long step on the road to social-ism. It socializes the money of people with bank accounts. If it is the result of presidential edict, it is a long step toward dictator-ship. When government can control people's money, it can control all their activities. The fact the government is pay-ing its bills does not mean it is not going into the red. Bills are being paid from American bank deposits to the detriment of the banks' stock-holders at a cost to the communi-ties the banks serve. It is fair to assume that the people of no community would have approved of such methods of gov-ernment financing had they known what was happening. But neither the government nor the banks ex-plained. It was just another of the moves the clever guys in Washing-ton got away with. Now that the method is well estab-lished, it undoubtedly will be con-tinued until something more drastic takes its place. Not since the period during and immediately following World War I have American f- "-- enjoyed such prosperity. During that former lush period, which they expected would continue indefinitely, the farmers went wild in the investment of more land. Then the war time prices dropped, leaving mortgaged farms and no high-price- d market. y many of the mortgages have been paid off or greatly reduced, and prices for what they raise are still high, but the farmers should not continue to expect those prices to continue to advance. When and where it will stop is within the hands of congress, and the farmers should not forget that there are five urban votes to each one on the farms. When the families of the towns and cities get fed up with paying exhobitant prices for farm products they will appeal to their representatives at Washington and congress will act. The farmers must moderate their demands if they are to be allowed to continue a reasona-ble degree of prosperity. Just re-member those five urban votes to one farm vote! People on both the east and west coasts are clamoring for the instal-lation of radar signal stations on both coasts as protection against Russian bombing planes. Congress made an appropriation for such in-stallation, but nothing is being done. It is all talk and no action. That could be a job for the corps of en-gineers instead of the building of needless and expensive projects on which they are engaged, and which we could get along without. England's Forces Now Have 23,000 Women in Service LONDON, Eng. There are 23,000 women serving in the women's sec-tions of the British armed forces, it was reported recently. They have the same rank system as the men and are serving in most of the nineteen countries and ter-ritories in which Britain is now standing guard. These countries are Germany, Gibraltar, Eritrea, Cy-prus, Ceylon, the Caribbean, Hong Kong, Aden, Austria, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Libya, Malaya, Malta, Sudan, Suez and Trieste. Though the women, all volunteers, are not trained for combat duty, many of them serving in the wom-en's royal army crops stand ready to take over antiaircraft batteries, as they did during World War II. Some of the women's royal air force members take up planes to test their equipment in the air, and many of the women of the women's royal naval service are trained in seamanship. |