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JOURNAL
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Paul Harvey
7-01DAY'S WC:0RLO
 May, 1968 Vol. 21, No. 5

EDITORIAL
JOURNAL OF BETTER LIVING
On Lizards and Liquor
E. J. FOLKENBERG, Executive Director
FRANCIS A. SOPER, Editor
Twyla Schlotthauer, Assistant Editor
It was 11:40 a.m. in the biology lab at Southwest High School in
Elizabeth Varga, Editorial Secretary
Saint Louis, Missouri. Students were listening to Robert Vico talk on
reptile care, and watching him feed his beaded Mexican lizard, a prize E. H. J. Steed, Public Relations
among his many reptile specimens in his personal collection. T. R. Torkelson, Office Editor
Robert, now seventeen, has for ten years been interested in herpe- Howard Larkin, Art Director
tology, and has already become a recognized authority on reptiles. Eric Kreye, Layout Artist
During his demonstration he broke an egg
into a bowl and the A. R. Mazat, Circulation Manager
lizard ate it. With a paper towel the boy moved near to wipe its mouth, L. R. Hixson, R. E. Adams,
but in a split second it lunged, grabbing his left thumb. Sales and Promotion
Venom as deadly as that of a diamondback rattlesnake oozed into
him. "Take it easy," he told himself as he sat down, fastened a tourni-
quet, and in the meantime called a teacher to arrange for a trip to the
. . . in this iiJue
Deaconess Hospital for treatment at the snakebite center there. Also 2 On Lizards and Liquor Editorial
he asked for a call to be made to his friend Moody Lentz, curator at 3 "Quick, Nurse, I Want My Boots On!"
the Saint Louis Zoo, who himself had been victim of snakebite. Irwin Ross, Ph.D.
Red streaks began shooting up Robert's arm, and the pupils of his 4 Don't Lose Your Marbles
eyes were dilating. Events moved rapidly—they had to in order to save
his life. The reptile which bit him is described as a cousin to the gila 5 Youth Looking to the Future T. E. Lucas
monster. It fastens itself to its victim and hangs on with a chewing 9 We Want to Join! Teen-age Feature
motion, in the meantime releasing its nerve-attacking venom.
10 Paul Harvey—Today's World
Robert was fortunate on two counts—the lizard was released from Francis A. Soper
his thumb before all its venom flowed into the wound, and immediate
12 I Am Bill's Liver William I. Gendron
help was available to provide an effective antivenin to neutralize the
poison. 13 Modern Rosary (poem) R. M. Walsh
However, there are millions of people today who are not as fortu- 15 COLOR STREAK SPECIAL
nate as Robert. They also are having contact with a poison, but on a Listen's Newspaper in Miniature
continuing basis. It may be slower-acting and not as potent, but in many
20 Debbie Meyer—World Champion
cases it is as dangerous in its cumulative effect. In this very fact lies Irene Wray
its deceptiveness.
This summarizes the menace of drinking. Alcohol acts as a poison
to the human system; the body tries to get rid of it as rapidly as pos-
. . . in the next illue
sible. It serves no good purpose in the body. * Is graciousness something woven into one's
personality? Is "Graciousness—A Way of
In the long - run its impact can be deadly. Though not sudden and Life"?
spectacular, its sting can be no less final when it does take hold. Perhaps *All drug-dependent families have one thing
this is why the Scriptures warn so specifically against meddling with it, in common. The story is "Pills—A Peril to
for "at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder." the Family."
Proverbs 23:32. * At least nine out of every ten Canadians
are now aware of what smoking does to
health, as "Canada Faces Its Smoking Prob-
lem."
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national; page 16, Joe Clark; Science Service; page
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 "Quick, Nurse,
I Want My Boots Onr
I'M WRITING this on a Sunday between Saint Louis paid for doing, and must do, is therefore work. Boys play
and Chicago. Since writing is one of my vocations, I sup- baseball or football for sport, but I doubt whether many
pose that, strictly speaking, I'm at work. Yet, walking professional ballplayers find much pleasure in it. Everyone
through the train from the diner, I wonder whether I'm wants to travel, except traveling salesmen.
not the only person here who's really enjoying himself. When I was a youngster, I used to hang around my
Most of my fellow passengers are fighting boredom. Two father's newspaper office, begging for permission to write;
or three are asleep, looking very uncomfortable, and a but when I first drew a salary for doing it, writing became
dozen others are compelling themselves to talk about noth- a job. Until I discovered that nothing else is as exciting
ing in particular. A man across the aisle is reading "the
funnies," without smiling, and two women are struggling
with a crossword puzzle. I have a fondness for words too, Reward Yourself With
but it seems to me far more interesting, and less laborious,
to fit them into sentences and stories and articles than into Your Work
little squares.
So far as I can see, the only difference between work Irwin Ross, Ph.D.
and play is the financial consideration. Whatever you're

IAA JefightIrfor.
ILLUSTRATION
BY JAMES CONVERSE
and absorbing and productive of happiness as a job, I was
as glad of my day off as the next man.
The unhappiest people I know are the idle people. I've
seen them all over the world, chasing sunshine and currying
favor with headwaiters. I've seen them at home, at Palm
Beach, and along the Riviera, planning silly little social
diversions, worried sick over some fancied slight, petting
their palates and stocking their wardrobes, trading scandals,
nursing imaginary ills, going in for the pleasures of child-
hood or adultery—and bored stiff, every one of them!
Even people with cultivated interests, cultural interests,
soon weary of idleness. I love taking a month or two off
and going to Paris or Port au Prince, but the satisfaction lies
in the fact that this is a holiday and will end. Once, I spent
seven months wandering around the world, and the most
pleasant thing I saw was my desk when I got back.
How many men do you know who were young and
alert and well at sixty when they retired, and dull, crotchety Don't lose your Marbles
old fellows a year afterward? Not necessarily men without Robert J. Aspell has parlayed a sack of dime-store
interests, either. My best example is a professor of archae- marbles, a little homespun psychology, and a lot of
ology who yearned for quitting time so that he could spend faith into a most unusual alcoholic recovery program.
his days in museums. He's in North Africa at this moment, Aspell, who has been executive director of the
and trying to get a job at a small college in Iowa! Jackson (Tennessee) Area Council on Alcoholism
I never can understand why so many of us are actually since it opened three years ago, attributes his success
afraid of work or regard it as something of which we should to his marbles. Admittedly a hopeless alcoholic until
do as little as possible for as much as possible. Along high- thirteen years ago, he confesses, "I carry one marble
ways, I see men leaning on picks or spades, loafing as busily myself."
as they can. Surely their days must seem longer than those When an alcoholic comes into his office to coun-
of their fellows who use spades as tools rather than props. sel with him, Mr. Aspell tells him:
Hundreds of thousands are banded together, crying in "I am about to give you a small gift, which will
chorus for a thirty-hour week. What do they expect to do remind you of what you have just told me about
with the other 138 hours? They can't sleep much more than yourself—that you know you can't drink anymore.
sixty, and that leaves seventy-eight. They may have other "It is this small marble which fits in a pocket
plans, but to me seventy-eight hours of doing nothing where you can often touch it as a reminder that you
worthwhile seems the hardest work imaginable. can no longer drink. It will help give you moral
Seventy-eight hours of chasing a ball across meadows, support when you need it.
or watching television, or reading newspapers and maga- "But this marble isn't magic. You may be one
zines, or doing all these things, would drive me to the of those unfortunates for whom the temptation to
depths of boredom. I've spent most of my life trying to drink is just too overwhelming.
manage a thirty-hour day! "If it looks like you're going to be a loser, go to
Nobody ever did anything well, or got anywhere, without a bar. But before you enter, take this marble out of
joy in his job, and that is as true of little jobs as of big your pocket and throw it as far as you can.
ones. The porter on my train this morning was at every- "Then, go into that bar and order your favorite
one's elbow, trying to discover new ways of being helpful. drink, with the added knowledge that now you
"I thank you, and hope to have you again," he said when have lost all your marbles."
I laid a five-dollar bill in his hand. It was a generous fee Aspell's success with his marbles can be measured
because he deserved it, but he told me, "Most folks are by the response from former patients. "Seldom a day
generous. I'm doing fine, and even if I wasn't I'd like the goes by that someone doesn't come up to me, slap
job because I like doing things for folks." me on the back, and proudly display his marble,
The other porter who serviced my car area was surly; saying 'I've still got it.' "
maybe he had a sick stomach or a sick wife. Anyway, he Mr. Aspell estimates he has given away more than
did the least he could, and when I left him, he was making 5,000 marbles in the last three years. "We don't bat
rueful efforts to jingle coins that weren't there. a thousand—but we go down swinging."
It's amazing how quickly you can tell the man who gets His latest marble story is of a patient who kept
more than wages out of his work from one who doesn't. his marble for eight months, then finally decided to
It seems to me sometimes that America's greatest con- "get liquored up." Before entering the tavern, he
tribution to life was our concept of labor as something threw his marble into the darkness, but it bounded
dignified and desirable for everyone. Abroad, there had off a telephone pole and rolled back to his feet.
been a laboring class and a class that didn't labor; here, we "I was so unnerved," says the patient, "that I
still speak of the laboring class, but the truth is that we picked the marble up, got in my car, and drove to
have none other. The better a man's class, position, and the nearest A.A. meeting. You didn't tell me there
(Continued on page 14) was a boomerang attached to it."

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Youth Looking to the Future
LISTEN interviews Theodore Lucas
World Youth Leader, Seventh-day Adventist Church
HOW MANY teen-age young people are there from the rich, some from the poor, some from the
in the the Seventh-day Adventist church? unfortunates, some from the fortunate—every possible
About half a million. kind of background.
Do they come from a typical cross section of What basic differences do you see between the
home backgrounds, religious training, and career youth of this church and the youth not of this
interests? church?
My travels around the world have proved to me that The great difference I have observed is in the home
they come from every possible situation. Some of them situation. The basic problem in the world today is lack
have been Adventists all their lives. Some of them come of discipline, lack of a Christian direction, lack of unity

"I have a personal pride," Theodore Lucas says, "in being able to say that I
have never done anything else in my life but work for the youth of the Seventh-
day Adventist Church. At nineteen I was an elementary school teacher. I fol-
lowed the teaching profession from 1923 until 1938, when I became state youth
leader in Wisconsin. In 1942 I went to Michigan, then to the church's Lake
Union as youth director. In 1946 I was invited to join the General Conference
young people's department as an associate secretary. In 1955 I became the leader
of the young people's work of this denomination. My contact has not only been
with Adventist young people, however. At Indiana State University I was
awarded a master's degree in education. This gave me opportunity to make a
careful study of the youth of my church as compared with other youth. Also I
served on President Eisenhower's first committee on physical fitness."

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 do not smoke, drink, indulge in questionable recreation,
or conform to lax social standards.
Do Adventist youth share the conviction that
Though they live in their physical habits have much to do with other
aspects of living?
the "now" world, Being Christian young people and holding the two-
world idea which we just mentioned, they believe they
Seventh-day should prepare themselves for heaven now, which in-
volves care and improvement of the mind and body. You
Adventist youth cannot abuse the body, any part of it, without detriment
to self-improvement, physically, mentally, and spiritually.
do not always Do you feel that smoking and drinking and other
habits of this nature are real temptations to Ad-
accept its idea of ventist youth?
Without doubt they are. These things have been made
what is "normal." attractive and very popular. Anyone who watches tele-
vision observes the graceful handling of the cigarette,
watches the supposed happiness on the faces of young
people as they smoke. Great amounts of money are
in goals regarding the personal development of integrity, invested in advertising today in newspapers and maga-
unselfishness, and things of that nature. The breakdown zines, all for the express purpose of making these activ-
of the family, in that parents go their own way and chil- ities so appealing and so magnetic that to refuse them
dren go theirs, gives rise to great differences in the char- would be difficult.
acters of young people. Everyone wants to be like the crowd. If the crowd
presents an attractive mode of living, no one wants to
It is my understanding that the Adventist youth be different.
have somewhat of a two-world view—this present Adventist young people are no exception. The greater
world and the world to come. Do you feel that their the impact of communication, the greater the tempta-
aim for the world to come detracts from their en- tion. This is something they with others have to face.
joyment of life in the "now" generation?
My observation is that the happiest young people are Would you say then that because of these pres-
those who hold the two-world idea. The past has proved sures in society, Adventist youth are liberalizing
over and over again that it is the things which Christian their stand and their habits?
people have sponsored which have brought the greatest Not as a group. And certainly the church has not
enjoyment and improvement to society. America was liberalized its stand on these deceptive, destructive social
founded by people who left their homelands that they appeals which have become so common. It is altogether
might have freedom to worship and to develop their possible, however, that individuals among them are
lives in accordance with Bible-oriented ideals. The edu- falling for these temptations because of the influence of
cational institutions of this nation were established on advertising and other means of communication. But of
Christian beliefs. Wherever we find these ideals being one thing I am sure: There will be always a preponder-
trampled upon or ignored, we find a lessening of those ant segment who will stand uncompromisingly in opposi-
pursuits helpful to humanity. We may improve in the tion to these destructive habits.
cultural things of life, but if spiritual ideals are not What is the reaction of Adventist youth to the
attached to them they are used for destruction rather philosophy of the hippie movement?
than for the elevation of society.
The hippie movement has been watched by all of us
Speaking of Adventist youth in the world in with great concern and with great interest. When it
which they live, would you call them "normal" began, it was not altogether understood; and it ap-
people? pealed particularly to a cerain type of individual be-
Yes, very much so. They look forward to getting cause of its being different and unusual. It is losing
married, rearing children, and educating them. But these ground and will one day disappear altogether, but some-
young people demand that "normality" be defined. It thing else will rise to take its place. The young people
seems that the word today has become applicable to sit- of this church, to my knowledge, have not succumbed
uations which they shun. Normality now is something to becoming a part of the hippie movement. There are
different from what it was several years ago. Adventist evidences, however, that some of the freedoms exhibited
young people do not think of normality as participating and called for in this movement have influenced a small
in some of the customs commonly practiced today. They segment of Adventist youth.

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 Do Adventist youth have a program to prepare
their own bodies physically for the best service?
The Youth Department of the General Conference
of Seventh-day Adventists has experimented for a num-
ber of years with the Silver Award plan for youth on
the high school level, providing for them an opportunity
to participate in activities which appeal to youth who
really want to excel in physical conditioning. This pro-
gram now has a basic place in our educational plan for
youth, and has encouraged us to inaugurate on the col-
lege level a comparable program which we call the Gold
Award plan. We think these two plans will inspire all
Adventist youth of high school and college age to par-
ticipate in a fixed program to improve their physiques.
Is this same concern being felt on behalf of the
youngsters on the elementary level?
In this regard we perhaps are stronger in this church
than any other church body. We have inaugurated a plan
comparable to the Scout program which we call the
Pathfinder organization. This is operative in Adventist
churches and schools throughout the world and has
proved valuable beyond expression in the interest of the
physical well-being of our boys and girls.
Would you say that the ideal of Adventist youth
is summarized in the term "self-control"?
The weakening today of our civilization has to do
with the lack of discipline, the lack of self-control. Hu-
man nature must be disciplined. Human nature is nat-
urally self-destructive. Self-control is important to the
community, to anything that has to do with human life.
Self-control must govern the individual, regulating every
facet of his life; and this belief does summarize ideal
behavior as understood by Adventist youth.
What then would you list as the true ideal and
purpose of Adventist youth?
We must follow our Saviour in finding the answer
to your question. The greatest commandment of all is
to possess a love for our fellowmen. We must not be
influenced by politics or any other factor. There is only
one basic answer, that is the possession of a love which
The psychedelics are rather popular today, espe- will prompt us to serve others as ourselves.
cially LSD. What is the attitude of Adventists to- Unless we are willing to make sacrifices which will
ward an artificial control of the mind? help others, even though those sacrifices are detrimental
Adventist young people are adamantly opposed to to us economically or otherwise, we do not have the
these artificial means, mindful of the consequences that full concept of our duty.
come to those who put themselves at the mercy of others.
When an individual uses such drugs as those to which Top: Typical of the mission outreach of Adventist youth are
you have referred, he allows himself to be placed in an Jerry Mitchell of Texas and Karla Krampert of Wisconsin,
both students at Union College, Lincoln, Nebraska, who serve
uncontrollable situation so far as the present and the
as student missionaries. He works on a river mission launch
future are concerned and renders himself unable to make in Brazil, and she among the San Blas Indians in Panama.
decisions properly for his own good or the good of
others. Adventist youth definitely are in opposition to Bottom: Students from Columbia Union College have orga-
nized an Urban Service Corps to help underprivileged children
anything which would take them out of the realm of
in Washington, D.C. The program includes the three R's, also
sensibility and put them in an environment of destruc- the fundamentals of character building and religious training.
tion.

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 Teen-age Feature

Bob

We Want to Join! Neil

THIS "club" is not an organization. It says, in all Letters began arriving from other states, other coun-
seriousness, that it has "no need of money." It doesn't tries. A newspaper story or two and a few articles in
have a glowing title, a glamorous program, or a long limited-circulation magazines have appeared about the
list of famous backers. It doesn't advertise or promote club. This is all the publicity or promotion it has had.
itself. But Bob Neil has been busy keeping up with the
Yet a thousand teen-agers a month all over the coun- mail. He has enlisted the help of interested teen-agers.
try clamor to join, writing in to the Nashville, Tennes- Members furnish postage, and a local printer provides
see, headquarters for their membership cards. cards and letterheads. One grateful parent wrote, "I'm
Its name tells the unadorned story: Worldwide No remembering you in my will."
Smoke—No Drink Club. This invisible fellowship con- Today, the membership includes youth in all fifty
sists of teen-agers who purpose, with the help of God, to states and in forty or more other countries, totaling above
live a clean life, keeping themselves free of alcohol and 75,000. The club started literally at home. Neil's own
nicotine. Each is reminded of his commitment by the son carries card No. 1.
card in his billfold containing his name, his pledge, his Enrollment requisites are simple. Each teen sends his
membership number, and the signature of the club name, address, and a stamped, self-addressed envelope
"president." to No Smoke—No Drink Club, 5120 Franklin Road,
Mr. President is Robert G. Neil, originator of the Nashville, Tennessee.
idea, and longtime teacher, coach, and principal of East Even some adults carry cards, but they must have
Nashville High School, now with the metropolitan a youth purpose in order to do so, such as scout leader-
school organization. ship, teaching, or law-enforcement work.
In his school cafeteria one day he watched students Mr. Neil in his own promoting of the idea feels the
who went hungry at noon lunchtime in order to buy economic argument is more potent than the health argu-
cigarettes. When he was coach, he was forced to "de- ment. He will take a dollar bill, or a five, or a ten, with
frock" his basketball team captain since the player a cigarette lighter before the students.
couldn't kick smoking. He saw many of his students "You will wonder about me if I burn this dollar bill.
fighting a losing battle against both smoking and drink- When I burn this five, you will think I'm crazy. When
ing. The two habits usually go together, he found. the ten goes up, you will know I'm nuts. But this is
Also he was very much aware that teens like to be- nothing; this is chicken feed."
long—as do adults. They conform, are a part of the And he points out that if a smoker starts at age fifteen
crowd. and continues until age sixty-five, a lot of money goes
So he decided to form a crowd that is positive, with up in smoke. Suppose that instead of smoking a person
right ideals, and make no bones of it! invests 30 cents a day at 6 percent compounded quar-
Student leaders at his own high school grabbed the terly. In fifty years the amount saved would total more
idea enthusiastically. His students began enrolling. The than. $33,000.
Nashville Tennesseean on January 16, 1960, carried a Also, he constantly emphasizes the fact that habit
little note on the youth page. The idea "jumped the back once established is tough to break. "Chains are usually
fence," as he says, and took off running. too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken,"
Hillwood High signed up 600 members, John Over- he quotes.
ton High enrolled four fifths of its students—all on Teen-agers respond to facts, he goes on. He feels that
their individual initiative and choice. In six weeks, some here is a fertile field. The truth of his conviction is plainly
2,000 had joined. evident in his worldwide No Smoke—No Drink Club.

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/ F YOU don't like the shape the into space these splendid, bigger, "He spices his reports with
world is in, stick around. I've met faster, stronger—unguided missiles." ments that may be critical, cau
with some of the men and women This is indeed today's world! But or compassionate," says an assoc
who are going to reshape it, and I'm only one side. "but never casual." Here is the
not afraid!" Paul Harvey prefers to "accentuate who makes page three exciting
Newsman Paul Harvey had just the positive" and constantly searches page one understandable. "Co
come from a prayer breakfast at Colo- for "the beautiful faces of young peo- geous" is the word most often apr
rado State University, a "demonstra- ple who know where they're going to him, also the title, "the burr Lit
tion of consequence," as he phrased . . . and along the way, day by day, the saddle of the American
it. This was one of 125 similar "dem- renewing, reinforcing, revitalizing, science." A radio executive obser
onstrations" on campuses across the their mother faith and their father- "Whether you agree or disagree
nation, where students marched to land." that man, you listen to him."
preselected sites "to pray." He sees young eyes, it is true, that After Tulsa, Paul managed a
"I get my own battery recharged in are "prematurely old from countless tion in Salina, Kansas—announc
the presence of these dynamic young compromises with conscience"; yet he selling, arranging programs. The
people," he says. is much happier to find young faces short stop in Oklahoma City, an
Paul Harvey sees today's world—all which mirror "sublime assurance." hop to St. Louis where he bec
sides of it. On the one hand, he sees Paul Harvey sees people. He learns news and special events director
the "nutsy notions," as he says. from people. He has not only the Station KXOK. Here he special
Here are a few examples of Paul traditional "nose" for news, he has in on-the-scene broadcasts, descril
Harvey's comments: the eyes, ears, and taste for it as well. news events as they happened.
"Our crime rate is increasing five For some thirty-five years now he has The biggest such event, howeve
times faster than our population, and been searching it out, writing it, far as he was concerned, was new
our juvenile crime rate seven times broadcasting it, interpreting it. "I go Paul's own making. It was liter
faster." to the people who make the news,"
"Our nation has seven million alco- he says. And go he does! Ever on the
holics and three and one-half million fly, he joined the "million-mile club" The Harvey family—
problem drinkers. Combine all our more than twenty years ago. hostess "Anc
churches, synagogues, and temples and When fourteen, young Paul pes-
they are outnumbered by our taverns tered people around station KVOO in
by 175,000." his native Tulsa until the program
"In ten years illegitimacy has in- manager said, to get rid of him, "We
creased 300 percent, pornography has are very busy, son. But you can hang
become a 500-million-dollar-a-year around the station some. Maybe you
business, venereal disease has increased can pick up a few tips." He did hang
72 percent in one year, our crime bill around, and he did pick up a few
is twenty billion dollars a year." tips. A year later he broadcast his
"For all the womb-to-tomb security first newscast. Since then he has broad-
our politicians promise, our undis- cast a few more—maybe as many as
ciplined young remain so unstable, 20,000. Now his voice goes twice a
so insecure that they seek escape in day over the ABC network of more
drugged oblivion." than 400 stations and is heard by an
Paul Harvey does not close his eyes estimated fourteen million listeners.
to the basic reason behind all this In preparing these newscasts, he
trouble. "For this our whole society does much of the work himself, not
is to blame. Our young people have only in sifting and sorting the raw
been given no reason for living or material, but in the actual writing.
being. We try to give them too much This is unusual in this age of ghost
—make things too easy for them. writing. He works to get the "feel" of
"I quite understand the frustration, words, at times working five or more
exasperation, and sometimes rebel- hours on one broadcast. To those
lion of our school-agers who are ex- working with him he is a "tolerant
pected to have mature opinions on perfectionist," and he expects others
profound subjects before their judg- to be likewise. He likes a clean, or-
ment has matured. Thus do we hurl ganized desk, and a sharp pencil.

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trmnsy-
Annown_c•
✓ by Francis A. Soper
at first sight when he met Lynne president of Paul Harvey Products,
ier, an honor graduate from Inc., accountant for Paul Harvey
hington University, who did ra- News, and hostess for a stream of
programs in educational and national and international guests in
en's fields. That night, under a their spacious home in River Forest,
tiful moon, came his proposal to a western suburb of Chicago.
Angel"—and the Yes. The name Perhaps "spacious" isn't the word,
;tuck with her. since several rooms are devoted to
arriage came months later. Both office use for secretaries and helpers,
ed on broadcasts during the war files, and reference materials. Angel
; in Michigan and Indiana. Even has her "retreat" on third floor, to
a Paul joined the Air Force, An- which few guests are invited but
continued a full schedule from which is the nerve center of a bustling
a. business operation. She also serves in
'hen peace came, the Harveys many community organizations in a
e Chicago for "big time" radio, volunteer capacity, and often repre-
re their focus narrowed to news sents her husband at meetings impos-
dcasts. sible for him to attend because of his
ntil the night of February 15, schedule.
3, when Paul Harvey, Jr., was In a small reception room on first
I, Angel worked alongside her floor one can see a virtual museum
,and in office and studio. Since of keys to cities, awards, medallions,
she has turned to a more home- and mementos of Paul Harvey's years
of public service—such as five gold On many questions of current interest
ered life, but still serves as vice- medals from the Freedoms Founda- or of life philosophy he preserves a
tion, Veterans and American Legion mental flexibility and an open mind.
ul, vice-president and citations, Salesman of the Year award,
Commentator of the Year (1962,
nist Paul II. 1963), the first Colonial American Paul Harvey is personally somewhat
award (1966), to begin the list. retiring. He often turns down requests
If you were in the Harvey home, from magazines or other media for
you would soon hear the grand piano personal stories.
in the living room being played by On many questions of current in-
young Paul. In his aspirations toward terest or of life philosophy he pre-
a concert career he uses the original serves flexibility and an open mind.
family name Paul Aurandt in his un- One thing, however, on which he is
derstandable desire to develop his own not flexible is integrity on the matter
professional life. of sponsors. He refused one because
For some fifteen years Paul Harvey he did not desire to be identified as
News has also appeared as a thrice- a "huckster." Another was refused be-
weekly newspaper column. Here too, cause, "I've got one of your products
as in the broadcasts, there runs the at home. It is not what you claim."
gamut from bull's-eye news reporting He refuses cigarette and alcohol bev-
to sympathetic human interest. Three erage sponsorship, "because I can't
books have come from the Harveys' endorse them." Neither does he en-
pens (Angel as editor), with another dorse them in his personal habits.
in process of building up in mental Paul Harvey's vast influence,
planning. Some fifty of his news whether in his versatile voice across
broadcasts have been entered in the the air waves, or in his persuasive
Congressional Record, perhaps a rec- pen on the printed page, or in his
ord for any one person. Two of his continual human contact, is ever one
recorded albums are "The Uncommon of a positive nature, recognizing the
Man," which decries "the cult of prevalent problems of today's world
mediocrity," and "The Testing Time," but seeing also the potential in the
a sober look into the future. future if high standards and ideals
In spite of his constant public life, serve as its guiding star.

II
 William J.Gendron

I Am 'Sues Liver
I'M A SOFT, spongy, three-pound heavyweight. I'm
still discovering new ones. And what is Bill doing for me?
Mostly, he gives me a hard time. His heavy drinking over
a long period has impaired my normal function.
In his alcoholic haze, Bill takes comfort in the notion
not much for looks—reddish-brown in color, about twelve that as long as he eats properly, he can drink without
inches long, and with an unimpressive wedge shape. But physical harm. Bill has heard that many doctors blame
I am the loyal, lifelong servant of—well, let's call him cirrhosis of the liver (a common cause of death among
Bill. Bill is fifty, well-built but slightly overweight. He alcoholics) on inadequate diet rather than on liquor itself.
has a pretty wife, four chidren, and an excellent job. Those But science has now stripped Bill of even this meager
who don't know my master would say, "Bill has it made." comfort.
Me? I'm Bill's liver. Researchers are beginning to confirm what I've known
And Bill? Bill is an alcoholic. for years—liquor produces an accumulation of fat in liver
I'm the largest organ in Bill's body. I am attached by cells which precedes cirrhosis. When Bill drinks a pint
ligaments to the uppermost part of the right side of his or so of liquor daily for a few weeks, I develop a fatty
abdomen. You can feel my lower edge in front, just under condition, even though he is eating better than average
his ribs. Aptly named by the ancients, I perform so many meals. What produces the fat? It comes not only from
vital functions for Bill that my destruction would result the food Bill eats, but from the fat I manufacture. Alcohol
in his rapid death. The liver was once thought to be the interferes with my proper use of fat by increasing the
seat of passion and desire, but I'm not. I'm just a rough, amount of hydrogen atoms in my tissue. The only way I
hardworking task force—a combination of chemical lab- can handle this excess hydrogen is by producing fat to
oratory, storehouse, food-processing plant, manufacturer, incorporate the extra atoms. Science has no answer for
and lifeguard. this problem—so the best thing for Bill to do is to stop
I do so many things for Bill that I can hardly remember drinking. But alas, he never thinks of me. If he did, he
them all. Thus far, some five hundred of my functions have might realize how important I am to his health.
been catalogued by scientists and doctors, and they are At least one half of all the blood pumped by Bill's heart

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goes to me and his kidneys to regulate his blood compo- alcohol. For instance, Bill is unaware that pure ethyl alco-
sition. I receive a unique mixture of arterial and venous hol ( the kind most frequently used for human consump-
blood. Both are important. Arterial blood comes directly tion) is a colorless liquid with little odor. That alcohol
from Bill's heart through his hepatic artery, bringing me has little odor may perplex Bill's wife in light of her
oxygen for fuel. Venous blood comes from his portal vein, intimate contact with his "breath." But nobody drinks pure
bringing me foodstuffs from his intestines. I am highly alcohol. The strongest liquor Bill drinks contains only 50
vascular, millions of tiny branches of the hepatic artery percent alcohol.
and portal vein run among my countless many-sided cells. In spite of his many years of heavy drinking, Bill has
I circulate and process about 1,500 c.c. of blood per min- no idea that alcohol is absorbed through the walls of his
ute, which amounts to 580 gallons a day. That's enough alimentary tract and is distributed by his circulating blood
blood to fill seventeen bathtubs. to all the tissues of his body. He doesn't understand that,
I am an incomparable chemical laboratory, capable of unlike most foods, alcohol requires no digestion before it
modifying almost any chemical structure. Yet my amazing can be absorbed. Bill doesn't realize that, as a drug, alcohol
feats of chemical magic go unheralded—even unnoticed. is unique in that, like ordinary food, it provides a source of
My work is done with such silent efficiency that Bill is not energy in his body.
aware of me. I convert the sugars and carbohydrates in Bill expends about 3,000 calories daily. A fifth of whis-
Bill's diet to glycogen—a form of starch. When he takes key liberates about 2,200 calories, which curtails his appe-
a flight of stairs in a hurry, or forgets to eat ( which is too tite. He often skips meals because he isn't hungry—Bill is
often ), I respond by converting glycogen into blood sugar drinking his meals. But this is a murderous diet from all
to supply the fuel for his muscles. This is important to standpoints. Whiskey supplies no nutrition, only calories.
Bill. I maintain a blood sugar concentration of 80-120 mgs. Even the calories released by large amounts of alcohol are
per 100 c.c.; this is one of Bill's physiological constants. not as useful to the body as calories derived from food.
I manufacture much of Bill's essential blood protein. In Despite his irrational use of alcohol, Bill is intelligent.
my storage bins are iron and copper ready for making red He knows he's an alcoholic in the sense of "intellectual
blood cells when Bill needs extra blood. My warehouse is acceptance," but he's not ready to admit it wholeheartedly,
loaded with vitamins too. without reservation. He knows about Alcoholics Anony-
One of the most important chemical functions I perform mous and has even attended several A.A. meetings, but no
is the transformation of fats and related substances extracted argument can penetrate his perfected rationalizations. A
from the venous blood from Bill's intestines. Mainly, I vivid capsule description of Bill's submission to alcohol
desaturate fats, making them suitable for use ( oxidation) addiction has been coined in two shocking words, "chronic
by the other cells of his body. I play a big part in the suicide." Long ago Bill tried to limit his drinks to five
machinery of protein metabolism, helping to form amino
acids which are used by all of Bill's cells for growth or
replacing worn-out cells. Livers have been manufacturing
vitamin A for thousands of years, from carotene in yellow
vegetables—carrots, squash, et cetera. This trick in chem- MODERN ROSARY
ical gymnastics has only recently been accomplished by
R. M. Walsh
scientists.
Every day I produce about two pints of bitter, yellow- Modern man says his rosary,
green bile and bile salts, which are important to Bill's diges-
Prays to the god of Pharmacy.
tion of fats and vitamins dissolved in fat. My secretion of
Counts his pills and begs they bless
bile into Bill's intestine is necessary for his normal health
—even his continuation of life beyond a few months. Doc- And grant surcease from guilt and stress.
tors used to blame bilious attacks on me, accusing me of It's two before meals and one at night:
producing excess bile. Bill's small intestine can handle any Two red, two blue, two pink, one white.
quantity of bile with ease. But the liver is no longer the
villain of digestive upsets, for they have now been traced Pills before breakfast, pills before lunch.
to other causes. If one won't do it, take a bunch!
If he cuts himself shaving, Bill would bleed to death Pills to sleep and pills to make
but for me—I produce fibrinogen and prothrombin that You sharp and quick and wide-awake.
help clot blood. I manufacture antibodies too, for protec- Pills for every kind of ill,
tion against invading bacteria and viruses. Without these Not to mention, of course, "The Pill"!
antibodies, even the tiniest infection would mean sudden
death. Bill smokes heavily and often takes sleeping pills Though Science promises pills that ban
—sources of nicotine and barbituric acid. Both are poisons Every ill and failing of man,
which I detoxify. Other poisonous substances which Bill It won't find one to cure mankind
may inhale or swallow I break down and pass on to his Of sin, and give him peace of mind.
kidneys where they are excreted. Some poisons are held
Poor, frightened man, you should know well
within my substance and released in small, nonlethal quan-
You're seeking heaven, but apt to find hell.
tities. These duties are but a shadow of my versatility.
Bill is very knowledgeable about liquors, from bock beer
to brandy; but paradoxically he knows almost nothing about

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highballs a day to prove he wasn't an alcoholic, but he could way for him to feel really good is to make himself superior.
not do it. His striving for superiority has gotten him a good job, but
In thirty years of drinking, the last twenty compulsively, it also gets him into more trouble, causes him more frustra-
Bill has stuffed me with fat until I am now twice my nor- tion; and the harder he tries, the more inadequate and
mal size. I have served him faithfully, even though he has uncomfortable he becomes. Bill uses alcohol to banish feel-
poisoned me. I am now cirrhotic. That means I have cir- ings of insecurity and inadequacy and to gain a sense of
rhosis. This condition has hardened my cells, which are now well-being.
replaced with useless scar tissue; I have begun to shrink The point is this: Bill is neither inferior nor superior,
or atrophy. My surface is normally smooth, but cirrhosis he is just Bill. When the false self-image which Bill has so
caused by alcohol has produced nodules on my exterior, up unsuccessfully tried to escape from is changed, then he will
to bean-size. Half of my surface looks like the sole of a no longer want to escape from it. This will be his moment
hobnailed boot. I wish he could see what's happening. of insight; it will mean the end of his need or desire to
What caused the hardening? Let's explain it this way. drink. Bill, like most alcoholics, is a lonely fellow. He feels
Alcohol is used in the pathologist's laboratory to "fix" or that his problem with liquor is somehow different and
harden tissues being prepared for microscopic examination. unique. He needn't feel this way though, because doctors
Because I must "break down" alcohol, my cells are exposed now say that alcoholism in the United States is epidemic.
to this "fixing" action, which hardens my tissue and impairs Ten percent of the United States population are alcohol
normal functions. Years ago I started falling down on the dependent and 5 percent are alcoholic.
job of producing important blood-clotting factors. Vascular But I'm not the type to complain. I have to be badly
"spiders" (dilated blood vessels just under the skin) began injured before I show evidence of my troubles. My sub-
to appear on Bill's face and upper chest, indelibly etched stance can be 80 percent destroyed or diseased before I
there for the rest of his life. They will never diminish or make any loud protest. Just the same there are some things
disappear, even if Bill never takes another drink. that Bill could do to give me a break. He could see his
Now don't get me wrong. I'm not the sole recipient of family doctor and lay his cards on the table. There are
alcoholic abuse. Other parts of Bill's body suffer from liquor many blood and urine tests possible to determine my func-
as much as I—mainly his nervous system and especially his tional impairment, if Bill only cared. His family doctor
brain. Bill gradually developed a certain amount of toler- might recommend a psychiatrist who specializes in treat-
ance to alcohol, which means that each year he had to drink ing alcoholism. Bill could submit to a short period of
more to produce the same effect. Thus he set up a vicious hospitalization.
circle which probably caused a change in the basal metab- He needs help—medication to render his withdrawal
olism of his brain cells, so that they became dependent on symptoms bearable, a high-protein, high-calorie diet, mas-
alcohol in order to function. This may be responsible for sive doses' of vitamins and minerals—but absolutely no
some of Bill's frightening withdrawal symptoms. alcohol. If he would only follow such a program, he could
Why does Bill drink so much? What does liquor do for depend on me to do my part. Even after I have been severely
Bill? No one knows exactly, but here are some reliable damaged, if given a chance, I possess the remarkable power
clues. Bill's feelings spring from the false premise that he to regenerate myself within a few months; and I could
is inferior. All his feelings, about everybody and every- keep on working for Bill for a long time.
thing, are based on this false premise. He figures that the The real tragedy is that he has lost sc much of my ser-
cure is to make himself as good as anybody else, and the vice because he got mixed up in drink in the first place.

1) One of the friends I understand best was a day laborer

"Quick, Nurse, I Want My Boots On on Long Island. In the twenty-five years I knew him, he
(Continued from page 4) became a kind of field boss. At last he told his boss: "I'm
standing in the community, the harder he is likely to work. sixty-five years old, and I think I'll quit."
Out of that came our progress, our prosperity, equal oppor- "Why, John," the owner said, "I thought you were the
tunity, and democracy itself. kind of man who dies with his boots on."
We can have neither progress nor prosperity, neither John looked ashamed of himself, and kept the job. A
opportunity nor democracy, while any considerable number year later he had a stroke and was taken to a hospital, where
of us regard work as an enemy. Rather we shall find our his life terminated three weeks afterward. Nearly a month
dignity to the same measure lessened, and our self-respect after that, John's son told the owner of the business, "Of
and our pleasure in living also. course, Father went entirely cuckoo at the end."
There are dirty jobs, dull jobs, devastating jobs; but I "Nonsense!" the boss exclaimed. "I saw him every day,
think there can be few, even of these, that do not give some and he was as sane as you are."
return outside of the pay envelope. It really must help to "You don't know," the boy answered. "Ten minutes be-
know that you're pulling your weight, doing your bit, and fore he died, the old man put his finger on the bell and
holding your place in the world—at least, it must help the kept it there till the nurse came. Then he yelled, 'Quick,
man whose vision hasn't been distorted. nurse, I want my boots on!' She put 'em on, and he died
Almost every successful person in this country started that way."
in a dull job, and so far as I can learn from reading biogra- When my time comes to die, I hope, like John, to die
phies, none of them found it dull, and none were wretched with my boots on. . . . Meanwhile, here we are in Chicago.
or resentful or ashamed. They were banking on themselves, I wonder whether the journey seemed as short to the ladies
playing a thrilling game. with the crossword puzzle.

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Taverns Must Assume Risk of Drink Results

Barroom owners can be held le-
Coffee Causes "Cold" gally responsible for highway deaths
and injuries caused by drunken driv-
And then there was the thirty-nine- ers, according to a ruling handed
year-old waitress who complained down by the Massachusetts Supreme
for six months about her "cold." Court.
She had a low-grade fever almost In a decision written by Chief Jus-
every day. She suffered from chills, tice Raymond S. Wilkins, the court
lack of sleep, and irritability. After ruled that a Belmont lawyer, Greg-
losing twenty pounds, she weighed ory H. Adamian, is entitled to trial
107 when admitted to a Philadelphia in a suit he brought against the
hospital. owner of a Waltham barroom.
Her trouble? Too much coffee The suit was in connection with
drinking. an automobile accident in which
She drank fifteen to eighteen cups Adamian's wife was killed by a
a day, the woman told her physi- drunken driver shortly after the
cian. Her cold symptoms disap- driver left the Three Sons, Inc., bar
peared after five days in a hospital, and restaurant.
during which she was limited to one The decision said it is illegal under
cup of coffee a day. state law to serve an intoxicated
A report on this case of caffeinism person and that the law is designed
is described by Dr. Hobart A. Rei- not only to protect the intoxicated
mann, of Hahnemann Medical Col- person, but "members of the general
lege and Hospital, Philadelphia. Taverns are legally responsible for ac- public as well."
A cup of coffee contains about Judge Wilkins says there has been
cidents which occur as a direct result of
one-tenth gram of caffeine. A single a recent trend in the law to hold a
one-gram dose of caffeine causes their serving intoxicants to the persons
bar liable for injuries caused to a
mental confusion, shivering, tremor, involved, according to a ruling by the
third party by a drunk who contin-
vomiting, and diarrhea. Ten grams Massachusetts Supreme Court. ued to be served at the bar after
of caffeine is said to be fatal. becoming intoxicated.
The waitress's caffeine intake was
probably more than 11/2 grams a
day. The intake was spread over Alcohol Is the Culprit
several hours, however—probably Researchers have blamed alcohol
Most Needed:
the reason she was not more seri- —not the malnutrition accompany-
ously -ill.
The woman also smoked more
ing the_subnorm al
heart function often experienced by
Problem Solvers
than a pack of cigarettes a day and drunks. The United States faces a $2-bil-
regularly took sleeping pills. The Dr. Timothy J. Regan and his col- lion-a-year problem without enough
nicotine and drugs also may have leagues at New Jersey College of trained manpower to begin to han-
affected her reactions to caffeine, Medicine, Jersey City, measured the dle it.
Dr. Reimann says. performance of the left ventricle, The problem is alcoholism, which
"Caffeinism is said to be cur- the heart's main pumping chamber, afflicts between four million and five
rent among intellectual workers, in eleven alcoholics. million Americans and their families
actresses, waitresses, nocturnal The eleven were chosen because and eats up industry profits through
employees, and long-distance auto- they showed no signs of malnutri- absenteeism and inefficiency.
mobile drivers," Dr. Reimann re- tion or heart disease, Dr. Regan said. The first report of the National
ports. The investigators compared the Advisory Committee on Alcoholism
alcoholics' heart function with that calls for Federal money to back state
of six nonalcoholics by applying ar- and local attacks on the problem.
tificial stress to both groups with But it notes, "there is insufficient
injection of the drug angiotensin. manpower for existing programs of
Angiotensin raises blood pressure, treatment, prevention, education,
1111W which puts a greater pumping bur-
den on the heart.
and research relating to alcoholism.
"None of the efforts which may
The hearts of the nonalcoholics be proposed for dealing with alco-
adjusted to the extra load better holism can be effective unless man-
than those of the alcoholics, re- power shortages are corrected."
ported Dr. Regan.
The researchers then studied the
alcoholics while the subjects drank
continually for four hours. A grad-
In This NEWS
ual decrease in the amount of heart * New York City finds it hard to
work done with each contraction cure drug addicts. See page 16.
was noted as alcohol consumption
progressed. * "Memory" drug is just another.
Constant drinking of coffee is dangerous
The researchers also found indi- nerve stimulant. See page 18.
to health, since the drug caffeine can
cations of loss of heart-cell compo-
cause physical symptoms similar to nents that could signify deteriorat- * Emphysema doubles in one year
those of certain diseases. ing heart function. in Veterans Hospitals. See page 18.

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 LISTEN NEWS MAY, 1968

fairly good doctor-to-population ra-

New York Finds It Hard tio, the Institute points out that this
is not the case, due to poor distribu-
to Treat Drug Addicts tion of practitioners. Some 39.6 per-
cent of the doctors are concentrated
At least 100 sections of New York in Mexico City, which has 14 percent
City have serious addiction prob-
lems, says Dr. Efren Ramirez, al-
of the nation's population (now over
6 million).
Medical Reports
though most persons believe it is
limited to certain areas, such as
Greenwich Village or a square
known as Needle Park. Dr. Ramirez Cancer Drug
is the coordinator of the city's nar- Preliminary tests of a new kind
cotics addiction programs. of potential anticancer drug are en-
Practically all citizens are affected couraging, say medical researchers.
by drug addiction in this city, he The chemical is an enzyme called
adds, because they know addicts, or L-asparaginase and is produced by
because they have relatives who a common type of bacteria. It has
become addicts, or they have seen attracted considerable scientific and
the effects of the use of narcotics. medical interest because it is thought
He describes the problem as "a to work against cancer cells in a
medical-social epidemic" and says manner entirely different from pre-
that there are 40,000 known users vious anticancer drugs.
of heroin in the city. "There may be It is thought to take advantage of
100,000 others, for all we know," he the first distinct "qualitative" dif-
adds. ference to be found between cancer
Dr. Ramirez says that very few cells and normal cells. Until rela-
users of narcotics are psychotics but tively recently, scientists could find
that all of them have personality Measuring exercise effects on heart pa-
only "quantitative" differences, such
disturbances. They come from differ- tients, doctors check a victim's oxygen as differences in size, rate of growth
ent settings, the ghetto, the middle consumption through a plastic hood over or rates of use, and production of
class, and the lower-income groups. his head. The treadmill he walks can body chemicals.
They all have one thing in common be speeded from two to eleven miles
—the tendency to alienate them- Warning on Drugs
selves from their surrounding social an hour. Such experiments have proved
structure. that mild exercise such as walking can Smoking marijuana can cause a
Dr. Ramirez says he has found be greatly beneficial to heart patients worse form of lung cancer than nico-
that hospital programs are not suc- and increase the ability of the heart to tine, and using LSD can cause a
cessful. "Those trying to kick the function. change in a man's or a woman's
habit," he says, "use hospitals as chromosomes sufficient to produce
revolving doors." Instead, he feels deformed children for generations.
These warnings are sounded by
A Form of Birth Control? Otto G. Heinecke, director of the
Women who smoke are less likely Federal Bureau of Drug Abuse Con-
to become pregnant than nonsmok- trol.
ers, according to Dr. George K. To-
kuhata, director of research of the
Pennsylvania State Health Depart-
ment.
He also has found that smokers
are more likely to lose their babies
through spontaneous abortions or
stillbirths.
Other studies have turned up evi-
dence that maternal smoking might
be related to miscarriages or still-
births, Dr. Tokuhata says.

Cold Storage for Blood

Supercold storage that would pre-
serve a person's own blood and bone
the best approach to the problem marrow until he needs it is predicted
is to make contact with addicts in by Dr. Israel Davidsohn of the Chi-
storefront operations, day clinics, or cago Medical School and Mount Si-
special care centers. "Even this nai Hospital Medical Center.
doesn't work," he explains, "unless He says the time may come when
the person making the contact is a the first deposit of blood for a per-
former drug addict, someone whom son's account in a long-term blood
the user can talk to and believe in." bank will be taken from the placenta
before his birth.
He could begin making deposits This is an electron microphotograph of
in the bone marrow bank later in
Some Places Need Doctors! life to have it available in case he DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the virus
Mexico is in forty-third place needed it for a bone transplant or core material that has been synthesized
among the world's 102 nations in the to replace marrow damaged during by scientists at Stanford University.
ratio of doctors to people, with 1,700 heavy radiation therapy. DNA, the substance that is the master
inhabitants served by one doctor, ac- "Good methods for marrow pres- chemical of life and which determines
cording to a survey released by the ervation are already available," the heredity of living things, has never
Mexican Social Security Institute. says Dr. Davidsohn. "Present ac- before been produced artificially. The
Israel, with one doctor for each complishments justify the hope that,
430 inhabitants, is in first place; horizontal line at the bottom of the
with further improvement and sim-
Rwanda is last, with one medical plification of equipment and meth- photograph represents a length of one
man for each 144,000. odology, red cells and marrow may micron (approximately .00004 of an
While Mexico appears to have a be preserved indefinitely." inch).

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MAY, 1968 LISTEN NEWS

WHAT
WHAT VV*4°1WHEN
WHERE WHY? HOW
WHO WHAT
44 NOW0W
WHERE
W 4 -Wen W
* If your name is Mackay, Molloy,
"Are you or Murray, beware of drink. The
Council for Alcoholism in Glasgow,
sure that Scotland, has discovered that people
that stuff whose surname begins with the let-
ter "M" may be eight times more
isn't habit- prone to alcoholism than others. This
forming?" "M hypothesis," as they call it, re-
sulted from a survey checking the
initials of all people in the council's
files. (UPI)
* In Richland, Washington, police
call the parents of minors arrested
on charges of drinking immediately
after the arrests instead of waiting
until the youngsters sober up. Jus-
as patients. Some doctors, like many tice of the Peace Albert Yenecopal
LSD and Peaceful Death members of the public, feel that al- wants parents to see their sons and
coholism is primarily a moral issue daughters in the city "drunk tank"
Dr. Sidney Cohen, a leading au- to give them more incentive to in-
thority on LSD, says he plans to rather than a disease, says Dr.
Rouse. Other doctors are reluctant fluence the youngsters against drink-
conduct an experiment to determine ing. (UPI)
whether the potent hallucinogenic because they feel they lack the spe-
drug could lessen the dread and pain cific knowledge necessary to do the * Cigarette consumption in 1968 is
of dying persons. job. expected to exceed the record of 552
Dr. Cohen, chief of psychosomatic He says the AMA also will press billion smoked by Americans last
medicine of the Veterans Adminis- "more vigorously than ever for the year. According to the Department
tration hospital in Los Angeles, has admission of alcoholics, as alcohol- of Agriculture, this usage is 11 bil-
been studying the effects of LSD for ics, to general hospitals." lion more than in 1966 and 41 billion
fifteen years. The researcher says At present, doctors find it very more than in 1964, a year in which
that although LSD has been used difficult to admit alcoholic patients smoking declined after the Govern-
with individual patients in the past, to most hospitals unless it is under ment report on the health hazards
no systematic test of its effective- the pretense of some problem other of smoking. (New York Times)
ness has ever been conducted. than alcoholism.
During the planned experiments, Another part of the AMA effort * Medical reports say that the
he says, a small number of dying will be to create greater awareness Strickman cigarette filter is not as
patients will be divided into three of what physicians who work in in- effective as its inventor claims. After
groups. One group will be given dustry can do to rehabilitate alco- tests by Columbia University, the
LSD, one an LSD-like drug, and one holic workers. filter "is not much better—if any—
a placebo. than commercial filters now in use,"
All three groups, Dr. Cohen says, says the National Broadcasting Com-
will be told they are receiving a sub- "I drink because I am un- pany report. (New York Times)
stance that will make them feel happy, but my drinking always
better. * Air pollution can cause consid-
A psychologist will follow the makes me unhappier."—John erable fading of color and color
progress of the patient to determine Barrymore. changes in many fabrics and fibers.
whether those taking LSD have an The ozone responsible for this dis-
improved attitude toward death, less coloration is derived from sunlight
need for pain-killing substances, and working on gasoline fumes and ox-
better relations with their families ides of nitrogen present in the air
and hospital staff. from engine exhaust. (AP)
* Homemade "thrill capsules" have
New Plan vs. Alcoholism made at least eighteen teen-agers
seriously ill in Salt Lake City. The
The American Medical Association pills were made by grinding up in
has outlined a new ten-point pro- a blender medicated cigarettes for
gram to combat alcoholism. asthmatics and putting the powder
Dr. Milford Rouse, president, says in empty gelatin capsules. An over-
the AMA will push for a deeper in- dose of these thrill pills could be
volvement in the treatment of alco- fatal, says the University of Utah
holism by all informed physicians, Poison Control Center. (AP)
not just psychiatrists.'
Other parts of the AMA's "prac- * The Government plans to halt
tical plan of action" include paving the marketing of several drugs that
the way for greater acceptance of have been used to minimize bleed-
alcoholics by general hospitals (in ing. National Academy of Sciences
addition to special treatment cen- experts have found that none of the
ters), and removal of "unrealistic" four drugs to be removed are effec-
limitations on the extent of coverage tive in preventing or decreasing
allowed by health insurance plans bleeding or breaking of capillaries.
for alcoholism treatment. In testing the new "memory" drug, rats These four drugs are rutin, quer-
Large numbers of doctors are re- were trained to respond to a buzzer to cetin, hesperidin, and biofiavonoids.
luctant to accept chronic alcoholics avoid electric shock. See item next page. (Wall Street Journal)

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LISTEN NEWS MAY, 1968

saved from cancer in 1968, but an-

other 100,000 cancer patients will
lite YOU "PUZZLED? unnecessarily die. Earlier and better
treatment would have saved them.
Next year about 915,000 Americans
will be treated for cancer, and 600,-
000 new cases will be diagnosed for
the first time.

Test for Alcoholism

It may be possible to detect alco-
holics by means of a test similar in
principle to one now used to identify
diabetics, says a University of South-
ern California authority on alcohol-
ism.
The test would measure the indi-
vidual's rate of activity of an enzyme
now known to be solely responsible
for the metabolism of alcohol, ac-
cording to Dr. Nicholas J. Khoury,
assistant clinical professor of med-
icine.
Just as the glucose (sugar) toler-
ance test can be used to diagnose
Differences: diabetes, the enzyme test may have
the capacity to pinpoint alcoholics
These two pictures by revealing an abnormality in the
differ from each activity of their alcohol metaboliz-
ing enzyme, the physician says.
other with respect Such a test, if it proves practical,
to seven details. could provide doctors with a much-
needed scientific method of distin-
Which? guishing alcoholics from nonalco-
holic drinkers, he explained.
The enzyme that metabolizes al-
A United States Public Health cohol is called alcohol dehydroge-
Emphysema Doubles in VA Service report issued last summer nase (ADH). Although its existence
has been known for about a hundred
that went beyond the conclusions of
The Veterans Administration says the 1964 report has not reduced ciga- years, human ADH was isolated and
it has had to double its facilities for rette sales. The new report describes purified only four years ago by a
treatment of emphysema, a disabling cigarette smoking as a probable group of Harvard University re-
and deadly lung disease. "cause of death from coronary heart searchers.
At the same time the VA has disease." One of them, Dr. Warren E. C.
stepped up its efforts to discourage Even the warning, "Caution, ciga- Wacker, says alcohol is metabolized
patients in its hospitals from smok- rette smoking may be hazardous to almost exclusively in the liver. Un-
ing. your health," which has been printed like many other substances metabo-
The VA says that "smoking, which on every pack of cigarettes sold in lized by the liver, alcohol is not
provides a specific pollution of the this country since 1966, has had little oxidized at a faster rate as the
air in the lungs, has been clearly effect in discouraging smoking. amount ingested increases.
established as one cause" of em- The Federal Trade Commission But, Dr. Wacker says, there is
physema, a progressive loss of lung recently proposed that the warning some reason to believe that certain
function which frequently results in should be strengthened and changed individuals have slower and some
death. to read "Warning: Cigarette smok- have more rapid rates of alcohol
Special units for the diagnosis and ing is dangerous to health and may metabolism.
treatment of emphysema now have cause death from cancer and other He also mentions there may be a
been set up at fifty-two VA hospitals. diseases." genetic factor influencing a person's
The VA has a long-standing policy ability to get rid of alcohol and
of discouraging smoking by its hos- therefore, perhaps, a genetic factor
helping to determine who becomes
pital patients and refuses donations
of cigarettes; but patients still may
Cancer Keeps Going Up an alcoholic.
purchase cigarettes on their own Approximately 52,000 Americans
from shops in or near the hospital. died of lung cancer last year. In
1968 the figure will rise to 58,000, Memory Pill Not So Good
says the American Cancer Society. The so-called memory pill is no
Smokers Seem Hard to If present rates continue, more more than a stimulant, says Dr.
than 50 million Americans now liv- Roger P. Maickel, a psychopharma-
Convince of Health Peril ing will eventually develop cancer. cologist of Indiana University, after
Despite numerous Government as There are now 1,400,000 Ameri- doing experimental studies on rats.
well as nongovernmental attacks on cans, alive today, who have been Rather than enhancing memory,
smoking in recent years, cigarette cured of cancer, with "cured" defined magnesium pemoline acts like an
sales have continued to rise. as "without evidence of the disease amphetamine and stimulates the
Cigarette sales in 1967 rose to 551 at least five years after diagnosis nervous system.
billion units, or about 2 percent more and treatment." Widely hailed as a memory-
than in 1966, according to the De- About 200,000 Americans will be improving drug, pemoline—trade-
partment of Agriculture. name Cylert by Abbott Laboratories
The increase in cigarette sales last —has been the focus of several in-
year reflects mainly the rise in the Solution: •punq mop dependent studies since it was first
number of youngsters who reached -uim ettl puo 'BuP13!"1 094 '9IP U D9 laW publicized two years ago. But the
smoking age and the return of some -L11134 094 '08.14 094 ico 4ocii 010 40 seuois fo evidence has never convinced skep-
who had stopped smoking or had Ihip alp 'punoilibpoq eqt a qn.nis Imam 094 tics that pemoline actually makes
turned to cigars or pipes after the '501.104SJOUJO) 094 pa 0110 '6UpJDOCI 031.19i people smarter instead of simply
Surgeon General's report in 1964. excited.

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 In developing breath for longer swimming events, Debbie sings as she swim!

When told that she had broken her first world record, the 800-meter freestyle, Debbie asked, "Are you sure?"
WHAT does it take to make Debbie swims at least three hours every day. Distance train-
a world champion? What does ing is also an importance factor in her success, she believes. "I
it feel like to break four world swim 3,000 yards twice a week. I never get tired. I'm used to it."
records? How would a fifteen- Debbie's records show why she was named "best female
year-old girl react when told swimmer in the world" by all the swimming federations of the
she had been named "best fe- world, and why she has been nominated for the Sullivan Award
male swimmer in the world"? of the Amateur Athletic Union:
Debbie Meyer can answer World Records
all these questions. She broke 400-meter freestyle 4 minutes 29.0 seconds
four world records in freestyle 800-meter freestyle 9 minutes 22.9 seconds
swimming, she is the best fe- 880-yard freestyle 9 minutes 44.1 seconds
male swimmer in the world. 1500-meter freestyle 17 minutes 50.2 seconds
She's been featured in "Life,"
"Sports Illustrated," "Pace," American Record
Paris "Match." Even "Tass," the 1650-yard freestyle 17 minutes 38.1 seconds
official Soviet news agency, "She's just a normal teen-ager," says her father, Leonard
selected Debbie as "Sports- Meyer. "She likes peanut-butter sandwiches and yelling at foot-
woman of 1967," after an international poll. ball games."
"It's not the fact she's broken world records that's so great," "Normal, but not average," submits Coach Chavoor. "Her
says her swimming coach, Sherman Chavoor. "It's the way she attitude is what makes the difference. Give her a challenge;
did it. Two and a half years ago, Debbie couldn't even break she'll meet it."
30 seconds in the 50-yard freestyle and didn't qualify to be on "Debbie's just a normal teen-ager," says her mother. "It's
our club's twelve-year-old relay team." 'Pick up your clothes, Clean up your room,' around our house
Sheer determination, dedication, and many hours of hard too!" She is a sophomore at Rio American High School in Sacra-
work have developed the pretty, ever-smiling teen-ager into mento.
a world champion. "I'm on top now, but it's going to be hard But Mrs. Meyer admits it's amazing how much activity Deb-
to stay there," says Debbie. "Records are made to be broken, bie can pack into a twenty-four-hour day. She finds time to do
and there's always someone striving to break them. You never her schoolwork and keep a B average and to make her own
get to sit back and rest!" clothes. When she has to miss school to compete in a swimming
Debbie joined a swim club when she was eight years old in meet, she does makeup work.
Haddonfield, New Jersey. She performed not in the first rank, "She does her best in everything," says her mother. "She
but never last. When the family moved to Sacramento, Califor- accomplishes more, I think, because she knows she has only
nia, she wanted to join the top-rated Arden Hills Swim Club. a certain amount of time for each thing and has learned to
"Debbie was absolutely awestruck when she saw the Arden make the best use of her time."
Hills kids swim!" says her mother, Mrs. Betty Meyer. "Their "Debbie's future looks great," predicts Coach Chavoor. "She's
power, speed, and stamina were unbelievable. But she soon increasing her pace gradually but relentlessly."
found out why." The 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo produced phenomenal
Coach Chavoor's strenuous workouts were the reason. Deb- aquatic records. But Debbie has broken some of those records
bie wasn't used to marathon-type practice sessions. "This was already, and records will tumble again in Mexico City this
the turning point," explains her mother, "and she learned how summer.
to work, and work harder than she had ever worked before. Debbie is fast enough to break four world records. That was
She realized that wishing won't make you a swimmer." yesterday. Tomorrow, for Debbie, is the Olympics, 1968.