The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-28
EAT A BUNCH OF ONIONS A DAY AND~SEE
 WHAT YOU CAN KEEP AWAY

That apple a day keeps the doctor away
 makes good enough rhyme if it doesn't make | sense But what would the press of two contin- | ents have readers believe the lowly onion pre- vents? Nothing less than cancer Not only that, but American paper quotes the Paris corre- spondent of the London Daily Telegraph as stat 1 ing that a Doctor Lakhovsky, who has for some years been engaged In cancer research, as as-
 serting that raw onions are not only preventive. sion the doctor draws from the observation that certain communities of Jewish ascetics in Rus | sia and Poland live exclusively on bread, water
 and raw onions. and among these no case of
 cancer has been reported; also the doctor has
 noticed that Serbians, Rulgarians, and certain
 communities in the Caucasus who eat raw onions
 daily singularly free rom cancer. For publicity purpose it may be sufficient that
 no case of cancer has been reported in given | community. But before We order carload of
 onions delivered to the cellar it might be as well 1 of life among those Jewish ascetics may have to do with the cancer question. critical student | might even ask whether the kind of bread they
 eat or the character of the water they drink has some relation to the low incidence of cancer | among them.
 This Doctor Lakhovsky, I suspect, is brother of Mrs 'Arris. The Paris correspondent i of the London Daily Telegraph, according to the version published here, makes the doctor re, re- sponsbe for the suggestion that onions, like | many other vegetables, have radioactive prop critics when eaten raw. So has almost any spring. well or river water used for drinking purposes but in this country nobody but the sharpsters | and the suckers think this common radio -activ- | ity has anything to do with cancer any other disease. At least nobody knows it has, wonder how Doctor 'Arris or Lakhovsky gets 1 that way, or how much the vendors of radio active" nosrums sadgets might be willing to pay for such publicity for the trick idea?
 The reader E who nk kindly sent the clipping urges | reminder about it's sovereign value as a remedy | for colds"
 A good honest medical man tells of the cus-
 tom of immigrants in his community who place egar over it and let it stand hours. They then give infants a few drops of the liquid in
 water as substitute for soothing syrup or other is comparatively harmless, at any rate. like onions. raw. green, dried. or cooked. l regret to say cannot believe they have any re- medial value that is not readily available in
 other greens, in fresh or dried vegetables, raw or cooked.
 Onion poutices probably quite effective | as any other kind, where poulticing is advisable But even the radio active properties of onions | fail to endow them with any mysterious powers
 over health sickness.
 Let take onions without the baloney. 1 .5z QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | Husband Came Back | My husband saved by Girl Scout. He was l pulled out of the water by n friend who applied the only method of rcsusciation he knew, by lay | ing him on his back and forcing his knees up to | his chest. Fortunately this girl came along and | she immediately turned him and began you teach it. I not there and don't know
 just how 1t Is performed, but I'd like to. (Mrs D.
 A. S.)
 Answer-Al right send your name and ad-
 dress on q stamped envelope and ask for tho Resusc1t tation Booklet These Girls Scouts are pretty good friends to have at hand in an emerg ency when older folk are apt to be so useless. old Diseases Newly POpuIarIzcd Arc not infantiIc paralysis and spinal mcnin- gitis comparatively new diseases? (Mrs +. Jo Answer4--No. but medical knowledge of them IS comparatively new and hence they seem new to the laity. think you mean the epidemic cerc- bro spinal meningitis. another name for which is spotted fever" or brain fever" Freed From Slavery
 believed 1axatvcs absolutely necessary to human life and happiness until I began to
 read your column. At first thought you n
 'nut"; later began to find your teachings hard to dismiss easily; finally saw the light. That
 was about four years ago. My son is 1-2 years old and has had laxative. He has been
 sick few Hines but never seriously. always cali the family doctor soon any of the children shows any signs of illness. So far know our | other trimph to your crcdit-nIy sister has talk | cn dope" for constipation all her life. Last | week she "acccptcd Dr. Brady" She has gone q whole week without any medicine and she in- tends to continue (Mrs II. A0 Answer--Occasonally actual organic disease or defect makes artificial aids necessary. But all | most always the physic habit is simply a bad | habit deliberately cultivated and slavshly fol- lowed. The first three days the hardest After that, if you have the right understanding and att titude, you smile. Slaves who think they'd like to | try and get back to nature or normalcy, send | stamped self-addressed envelope and say 1T | the habit" If you ask for cure or treatment | for anything you're out of luck.