The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-07-29

WHO'S NEWS /
i THIS WEEK..
BY lemueI F. Parton
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Foe of Demoniac Forces.

COuCluUcu Ills "CNOhs oi ZIG
Angels" with the observation that
mans only hope lay in "The Con-
quest of the Demons of Anger and
Fear in His Own Soul" The quota
ton may be a bit awry, since the
book is not at hand, but it is peril
nent to tOday's news of the expedi-
ton to the arctic in the interest of
demon slaying-the first of its kind,
barring Siegfried's hunting trip in
the land of the ice queen.
The above allusion suggests no
over-simplifcation OF the purposes
of DR.. George w. Grille, famous sur
geon and bio-chemist, who is head
ing voyage to the Arctic. Specifi-
cally, he fights the demoniac forces
of anger and fear which now range
the world and which any newspaper
reader can recognize on sight. At
seventy-three, he hopes to find in
the Far North knowledge which will
strengthen his arm and temper his
sword, supplementing knowledge
which he previously CLEANED in the
African jungles.
Seals and walruses, neither of
them particularly angry or scared,
will be studied by DIR. Crile-nOt as
examples of dignity and cOmplac-
ency, but as the owners and pro-
prietOrs of certain unique energy
releasing mechanisms that seem
to work better than the human
carburetOr, the suprarenal gland
system. DR.. Grille has dissected and
studied about 500 jungle animals in
the interest of civilized human be-
havior, and now, to piece out his
mosaic of life energy, he goes North
on an expedition-not to the ant but
the sea lion.
These researches have enabled
him in certain instances to cure
chronic anger and fear. He finds
that in this day of newspapers,
radio and press agents there are
high-voltage stimuli loose every
where which make high blood-pres-
sure the curse of the age. T h e
name John L. Lewis will make
one citizen apoplectic, while "Tom
Girdler" will induce a similar en-
bolism in another.
For aggravated cases of this kind,
DR.. Grille has simple "Denerva-
ton" operation, in which he throt-
ties down the too rampant adrenal
glands. Judging from the past, he
could operate on the opposed prin-
cipals in a labor dispute and have
them falling over each other to sign
an agreement.
A resident of Cleveland, he is the
founder and head of the Cleveland
Clinic, which is carrying through
profound studies of the adrenal and
thyroid glands, and of bodily me-
tabolisms generally. His researches
in the world war vastly widened
and deepened the knowledge of the
mechanical functioning of the en-
doctrine glands.
These discoveries led him to de-
scribe the human body as an auto
mobile, in which the brain is the
battery, the suprarenal gland sys-
tenn the carburet0r, the liver the
gasoline tank, the muscles the mo-
tor, and the thyroid gland the gear
box.
In Africa, DR.. Grille shot and dis
sected hundreds of animals, from
the smallest up to lions and rhino-
cerosi. He finds that lions have a
sympathetic gland reinforcing sys-
tenn which enables the adrenals to
deal action hormones with a ire
mendous kick. That's what makes
the lion such a good self-starter
and the sure winner of any jungle
track meet. Lions, tigers and fero-
cious lone workers in general have
this hair-trigger starter.
Herding animals have less SEN
sitive starting and stimulating
mechanism. Less complex, co d :
blooded creatures, like crocodiles,
with special defensive armament,
have an even slower takeOff, but
DIR. Crile's main point is that they
all have an ignition system which
perfectly serves their survival
needs.
AS DR.. Grille sees it, the malad-
justment or malfunctioning of our
energy apparatus releases ungov-
erned emotions, precipitated in body
poisons, and helps put the world
even more out of plumb than it ma
turally seems to be. An artificially
changed environment-with all the
new problems of urban living and
an unstable and complex economy
makes people keep on getting
mad about things which they can't
possibly affect or control, unlike the
animals, and renders latterday man
a signal failure in the main business
of life, which is continuous adap-
tation.'
At home in the wider generaliza-
tons of his subject, DR.. Grille sees
here the collective elements of So
cial instability - Fuehrers, mobs,
demagogs, kluxers, messiahs, war
mOngers, and infiammat0ry d
provocative meters of world de-
mentia in general. He thinks a gen.
eral all-around job of scientific hui
man reconditiOning is possibly the
only answer.
He is a native of Chic, Ohio,
taking several academic degrees be-
fore completing his medical educa-
ton in number of foreign uni
versities.
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