The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-31
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON

L BY LEMUEL r. PARTON
Consolidated Teatures-wNU service.)
NEW YORK.-In Goldfield, New,
= when the camp was going
strong we staged a battle royal"
with 10 men slugging each other, the
Denny Must Haze TO s,''J the last
Studied Decorum man to stay
In Code Duello on his feet.
was an old desert rat, who didn't
like to stay out Of good fight.
Somehow he got mixed up in the
milling and fiattened the three re-
manning contenders.
One wonders at the self-c0ntrol
Of George v. Denny Jr., under
similar provocation. With NO
holds barred and no punches
pulled, Americas Town Meeting
Of the Air is getting more like
the battle royal and less and less
like its antecede chautauqua
meeting. In the melee over aid
to Britain, in which Verne
Marshall was the storm center,
it looked as though Mr.. Denny
might be pulled in any minute.
But he wasn't, and with rising
popular blood pressure and
tensing vocal chords, he gives .
marvellous weekly exhibition Of
keeping cool and watchful, and
giving everybody break. That
was the main idea Of the town
meeting, which he organized,
and now directs.
He began his New York career
as an actor in Paul Green's "Pu-
liter prize-winning" play, "In Abra-
hams BOSOM" In the University OF
North Carolina, he became MEM
Der of the Carolina Playmakers."
After his graduation, he was instruc-
tor for dramatic productions at
Chapel hill, which experience may
have contributed to the uniformly
good showmanship of the town meet
ing.
Mr.. Denny was worried about the
rising power of pressure groups, in
dustrial strife, intolerance and other
such matters, and these concerns
directed him to an association with
the League for Political Education,
of which he later became director.
The Town Hall of the Air was a nat
ural extension of the work of the
league, founded by DR.. Denny in 1885.
IT MAY sound far-fetched to link
! the Monday morning hangover
with Britain's chances for victory,
but such things can be, the way one
Perhaps Figs snnt s the thes ~
May Be Gathered days. In the
From Thistles waning days
ton era, DR.. Norman Jelliffe, an up
and-coming young New York med
leo, made timely study of the bod
lily and psychological aftermath of
bathtub gin. In translating chang
over" into '.polyneuritis," he discov-
cred that he was studying not nee
essarily alcoholism, but imperfect
diet which lessened mans capacity
to stand up to his liquor.
These imperfections or made
quacies of modern diet led to studies
Of vitamins as possible correctives,
with DR.. Jolliffe's later conclusion
that plenty of B-1 would restore
caloric unbalance caused by alcohol.
He urged liquor manufacturers to
slip a small jolt of crystalline B-1
in every bottle. It wasn't that he
was trying to help citizens keep up
with their drinking. He was just
taking homo sapiens as he is and
trying to give him hand.
Moving ON with their vitamin
studies, DIR. Jolliffe and his col
leagues find Mars just as dura-
BILE as barleycorn, and an even
tougher antagonist, with vita
minis, again useful to buttress
resistance. So here's the ''vita.
minis for Britain" committee,
with DIR. Jolliffe participating in
its effort to get ''millions Of vita
min tablets" over there to boil
ster the .Sceptered Isle" against
the effects of narrowed and UNI
diversified diet, nervous tension
and heebie-jeebies. Is il possible
that prohibition was 3 lab0ra-
tory to turn up a trick to save
democracy?
DR.. Jolliffe, a New Yorker, was
graduated from the New York uni
versity medical college in 1926. His
vitamin researches gained him
membership in learned societies
and the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. He is
chief of medical service Of the psy-
chiatric division of Bellevue hospi-
tai, and associate professor Of medi-
cine at New York university.
WHEN John D. Biggers was ap-
w pointed to organize and man.
ora %Ln ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS povaS,vo IN