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The midland journal., 1941-08-22
Remember Ping Bodie?
He's Now in HOLLYWOOD

Remember Murderers' Row? The
old original Murderers' Row? Babe
Ruth batted No. 8, Ping Bodie No.
A, Bob Meusel No. 8, Wally Pipp
No. 6, and the ball game was over.
Well, on either an R-K-O or Par
amount stage, depending on just how
the work falls, you will see an elec-
trician handling sun arc or a
baby spot or whatever the camera
man happens to be wanting. He is
middle-aged, little thick around
the pants, more than slightly bald,
and he has the sloping, gorillalike
shoulders that all good hitters seem
to have.
He's the old No. 4 Of Murderers'
Row, Ping Bodie, the Yankee out
fielder. Real first name Frank,
but nobody uses it even now. He
was named Ping on account of the
sound his bat made when it hit a
ball. "They weren't baseballs; they
were rocks" says Ping, who turned
up 80 or 81 home runs lots of sea-
sons in many ball clubs.
Bodie is now an operator-mean-
ing he can do anything an electri-
clan is expected to do. Probably
the best trained and ablest men are
assigned to the sun arcs. With mod
ern high-speed film cameramen get
along in small scenes with 500-watt
lamps, but big scenes still require
the carbon burning arc lights, and
there's an art to keep pair of car
bons burning without flicker and
without noise.
Ping has been married to the Sec
ond Mrs. Bodie for Is years and
they're about to build their own
house in North Hollywood, which is
in the San Fernando valley. The
valley is hot now, as real estate
goes, with more and more movie
folk moving across the mountains
away from Hollywood.
The midland journal., 1941-08-22
RULES FOR BICYCLE RIDERS
Bicycle riders, attention.!

Bicycle riders, attention!
To help in reducing bike acci-
dents, the Keystone Automobile Club
has formulated a set of ten rules,
observance of which, the Club SAT-
ETY. experts declare, will make cy-
cling safer without in any way mini
mixing its enjoyment: Here they
are:
/. Obey all traffic signals. signs
and rules. Observance Of stop
signs is important, because motor
lists ON through streets are unpre-
pared for sudden appearance Of BIZ
cycles from side streets or highways.
2. Ride in single file. There is
grave danger when groups of cycl-
lists ride three or four abreast on
heavily travelled roads.
8. Keep out of car tracks and ruts.
Numerous accidents are due to rid
ers being thrown from bikes in
front of oncoming traffic.
4. Don't do stunts or race in
traffic.
s. Don't carry a passenger or
permit children on roller skates to
hang ON for a ride.
6. Always signal intention to
make a right or left turn.
z. Make repairs on the travelled
portion of the roadway.
8. Walk the bike across heavy
traffic unless it is controlled by
officer or traffic light.
9. Don't hitch rides ON trucks or
other vehicles.
10. Always keep brakes and front
and rear lights in good operating
condition.
The midland journal., 1941-08-22
THESE YOUNGSTERS MUST
MEET CERTAIN REQUIRE
MENTS


An army OF youngsters nearly
5000 strong--will take to the high.
ways and byways of Maryland when
the schools open in the fall and the
boys and girls who have reached
school age this year start their
training I'm the three RS.
Parents of these youngsters are
reminded by DR.. r. H. Riley, Direct
or of the State Departmtnt of Health
of certain things that should be at
tended to, and Of one, I'm particular,
that must be done, before the young
sters may be received at any public
school in the State.
"That one must is vaccination
against smallpox, which is compul-
sorry Ian Maryland. OF this require
ment and of the other things that
should be done, DR.. Riley said,
"In accordance with our State law,
a child must be vaccinated against
smallpox before he or she may be
enrolled at any public school In
Maryland. Largely through the OBJ
servance of this law, the State has
been kept comparatively free from
smallpox-we have not had a case of
that disease for over ten-years-but
smallpox is widely prevalent in other
parts of the country; is highly con-
tagious, and the only way to be
protected against 1t is by vaccina-
tion.
"Diphtheria is just as prevalent as
smallpox, and just as dangerous for
the child who has not been protect
ed against 1t. But fortunately, thru
the use of toxoid, child can be
protected against diphtheria as read
lily as against smallpox by vaccina-
tion. s, we can, and do, urge every
mother whose child has not been
protected against this disease to
havesit done, at once.
Every childr should have a
physical check-up some time before
starting in at school SO that condi-
tions that need correction may be
attended to and the child can enter
school free from handicaps that
might cause ill health later on, If
neglected now. Bad tonsils, teeth
that need attention, defects of vision
and of hearing, and bad eating hab-
its are among the things that are
very likely to affect the health If
they are neglected.
"You probably have noticed how
mouv Of tho ormv omd NAVY droffooc
have had to be rejected because
they could not measure up to the
physical requirements. Many of
these conditions could have been
avoided If they had been discover
ed and taken care of when the boys
started to school, just as your child
rem are doing now.
Health conferences for the exam
ination of children who will enter
school this fall have been held in
that they have been well attended.
In connection with the examinations,
clinics have been held for vaccina-
tion against smallpox and protection
against diphtheria for the children
for whom these services had been
neglected. If your child has not had
the benefit of these safeguards,
don't wait until the schools open,
take him or her to your doctor, OF
the nearest health officer and have
them attended to now without furth-
er delay"
The midland journal., 1941-08-22

The theory that diabetes often is
caused by some injury has been con-
tradicted by DR.. Elliott Joslin Of
Boston, who has had years of expe-
rience with treatment and study of
the ailment.
$50 far as I can remember no
definite case in which I considered
injury cause Of diabetes has oc-
Cured among approximately 1900
patients with diabetes who have con-
suited me-" DR.. johnson said.
II know no surgeon who has post.
poned an operation on . patient b.
cause Of the possibility. that injury
would bring On diahstss4'
The midland journal., 1941-08-22
Ancient Law

Forty-two years ago a law was
enacted in New York making it a
misdemeanor for an investigator to
make false report to his employer.
There never had been q conviction
under 1t until recently when John
Borthwick, Brooklyn, got off with a
suspended sentence in Special Ses-
sions for making conflicting reports
on a family he had been assigned
to check on by an investigating serv-
ice.
The midland journal., 1941-08-22

Stockholm -. Stockholm, Sweden,
ranks second in telephone develop
ment In the world, having 40.16 tele-
phones per 100 people, according to
recent telephone statistics. The re-
port showed that London, England,
which before the present war actually
had more telephones than any other
single city outside the United States,
on March 81, 1889 had only 1881 tele-
phones per 100 people or less than
one-half the ratio existing in Wash
ington, d. C.
The midland journal., 1941-08-22
AT LASTi THE TRUTH ABOUT
"CARDIFF GIANT"

After seventy years of silence
the son of a stonecutter reveals
how his father chiseled Barnum's
famous petrified man out Of block
Of gypsum. One of many interesting
features in the August 31st issue of
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
the big magazine distributed with
the BALTIMORE SUNDAY
AMERICAN
The midland journal., 1941-08-22

South Carolina law says that wine
al per cent alcohol is '.n0n-alcohol-
ic and non-intoxicating''. II takes .
lot to intoxicate people inooQlAted
with swamp moonshi1as
The midland journal., 1941-08-22

Littleton Six-year old Joan
Hadley, of Littleton, N. H., was in the
habit of telephoning her father, Fire
Chief H. Edgar Hadley, daily for a
chat. So, when she came in from play
one day recently and found her mother,
Mrs. Florence Hadley, and her sister,
Ruth, unconscious, she went to the
telephone, called her father, and told
him that they had tainted. Chief
Hadley sounded an alarm and dashed
to the house with an inhalator. The
firemen revived the mother and daugh-
ter and two other persons, who were
suffering from carbon monoxide
poisoning.
La Paz ;. The Bolivian telephone
system is privately owned with offices
in La Paz, Oruro, Cochabamba, Tarija,
Potosi and Santa Cruz. An estimate
of the number of telephones indicates
a present total of about 1000, repre-
senting a considerable increase over
period of years. There are hardly
any long distance connections in
Bolivia. There has been little in
crease in the telephone wire in use,
the total approximating $500 miles.
Dial telephone service is now being
installed in La Paz.
San Francisco The most talka-
%svro 10 =, %k1 TT,,s1y, ;e Co1.f1~,,so
according to american Magazine"
which cites census figures to show that
the average Californian makes 464
telephone calls year. The state Of
Washington is second, and Iowa third.
Mississippi makes the least number Of
calls per person. The most talkative
city is Washington, D. c., averaging
627 calls per person per year.
Jungfraujoch i. The highest tele-
phone exchange in the world has
recently been completed at Jungfrau-
joch, Switzerland, in the lofty Alps
where it is safe from bombs, blizzards,
and avalanches. The automatic dial
central office and all wires are buried
in solid rock which had to be blasted
to permit construction of the exchange.
The exchange serves only four SUBJ
scribers, the Hotel Berghaus, the rail-
way station, the post Office, and the
High Alpine Scientific Institute.
Cheyenne A monument to a
telephone pole has been erected in
Wyoming. Between Cheyenne and
Laramie on U. S. Route 80, the tablet
commentaries the first telephone pole
set on the Lincoln Highway.
Boston The first advertisement
for the telephone appeared in May,
1877, in the form Of small four-page
circular entitled simply "The Tele-
phone" It announced that speech
could be transmitted for 20 miles and
pointed out with complete candor the
shortcomings Of the then new and
crude instrument.
Kearny In an average year
over 100000 in reclaimed materials
from waste substances of manufac-
ture are saved at the Kearny, N. J.,
plant Of the Western Electric Com
lpany, manufacturing and supply
Organization of the Bell System. To
the reclamation department come, for
example, rubber shavings, paper, cot
ton, machinery, cinders, furniture,
gold sludge, etc. All this and much
|more is sorted into about 200 classi-
Ifications.
The midland journal., 1941-08-22

The Nazis still respect the rules
Instead of stealing French indus
tries, they make the French give
them the money to buy what they
want.
The midland journal., 1941-08-22

.Americanism: A Senator reveal
ing military information to crowded
galleries: then asking reporters to
keep 1t secret.
The midland journal., 1941-08-22

A four-fiusher is a person who
thinks he can seem important by
using a deep snarl when answering
the telephone.
The midland journal., 1941-08-22

Some men are 80 brave they new
or lock their windows or sleep with
q gun handy unless their wives are
away.
The midland journal., 1941-08-22

1t is well that men love fame and
money Otherwise, when romance
ends they would have nothing left
to work for.
The midland journal., 1941-08-22

Hint to the ladies': You can make
your snooty neighbors call. Just
dress your sloppiest and leave the
living room In . mess.
The midland journal., 1941-08-22

Another strange thing about man
is the number of crackpot ideas he
can have and still be considered
smart.
The midland journal., 1941-08-22

The only thing worse than q bugle
that can't play q tune is an auto
horn that does.
The midland journal., 1941-08-22

Description Of bore: His COM
veraataon is a. tiresoms e. the mia
atea 9t Tie last meeting,
The midland journal., 1941-08-22

Using rouge is an art Too little.
and you seem about TO faint: too
much, and you seem teveEish,
The midland journal., 1941-08-22

What the sinner resents is not
being reformed. but heing reformed
BY people not IS decent a. be Il.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-02
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AIso-He offers you expert chassis
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He suggests a full supply of long
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Y He checks battery and fills with pure
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\ He tests spark plugs and lights, free.
' He cleans windshield, rear window
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-11

treatment, have gone step in this direction
for they seem able to build up mental
allergy" in the minds of alcoholics who have
taken their cure
Another step toward the goal of some
super anti-alcohol drug has been made by
DIR. D. H. Arnott of London, Ontario who
believes he has discovered a way to remove
the craving for alcohol as surely as vaccina-
ton removes the danger of smallpox
II person gets over smallpox it Is
because his system has developed little anti
bodies which forever after will attack small
pox germs if they enter his body That is
how immunity to smallpox is built up.
DR.. Arnott believes that if a person drinks
heavily for long time his system creates
something akin to antibodies to alcohol. which
contrary to common ideas is not stimulant
but is a narcotic and depressant. But the
alcohol antibodies. whatever they may be-
are a stimulant. says DR.. Arnott
Chronic alcoholism. by this picture comes
when the patients blood is so saturated with
the stimulating factors that he has to drink
to I've comfortable. If drinking is cut off short
the over-stimulation drives him almost mad
He cannot sleep, sit still or stop trembling
DR. Anotts medicine appears to stop the
system from creating the stimulating factor
in the blood: why he does not vet know
This lets the body come back TO normal with
out the incessant craving for alcohol,
The causes of alcoholism are 80 complex
that some kinds may be benefited by the
Arnott cure. But most doctors can point to
people who hate the taste of liquor but keep
on drinking to escape from the responsibilities
of life. These people have no craving for
alcohol. They just use it as a way to dodge
realities. For them the psychiatric treatment
probably works best.
However much experts disagree among
haV oil .of, ,Ha 81
on one thing. No patient is going to be cured
unless he sincerely desires 10 be cured That
goes for the Voegtlin-Lemere or the Arnott
treatment or any other.
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to Confirmed Alcoholism,

possible. The doctor urges him to have an
other with the same worse than-negative re-
suits. When the wretched patient declines
any more, the doctor invites him TO smell of
a bottle of whisky. the best in the country.
He is then asked. a connoisseur. if less
popular one with its delicious woody smell
is not really superior.
on one preteXt another the patient is
induced to sniff samples of WHISTLES brandes.
and cordials. Finally the doctor opens bot
tie of beer and suggests that it might perhaps
settle his stomach
1t seems like a good idea but it isn't.
Thus everything is done to associate in the
alcoholics mind the intimate link between
his drinking and his misery. From five to
seven of these dreadful sessions occur, with
rest periods in between Usually the patient
is in the sanitarium for about five days.
How well is the patient conditioned? Well
81 per cent of the people abstain for six
months and Ga per cent of them abstain for
four years or more. Further statistics on di-
vorce and remarriage to John Barleycorn
will be given later First should be explained
in case the reader has not already guessed it,
the trick in The treatment.
The injection the alcoholic receives is not
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-11

minds whenever they see or smell alcoholic
drinks
The results claimed for the Voegtlin-
Lemere treatment are surprising. 1t is said
that over 81 per cent of the alcoholics stay
ION the wagon" for six months and at the
end of the year 81 per cent of them still
abstain from alcohol over a four year period
about "a per cent will still avoid drink so
that if an alcoholic can get through the
crucial period of from six to twelve months he
will probably be cured
Curiously the treatment only works on
people % years old or over. The Seattle physi-
clans have never yet had a cure with any
person under IS. No one yet knows why this
is so.
One remarkable thing about this treatment
for alcoholism is that no attempt is made to
use psychiatry Drs. Voegtlin and Lemere
themselves realize that failures during the
first six months, small as they are, probably
are due to severe psychopathic cases that need
careful psychiatric analysis of their problem.
DR. Voegtlin, in his scientific report makes
no claim that the new method is superior to
others used elsewhere. However, he points out
that most methods of treatment can only show
Is per cent cures. over a four-year period
At the symposium, sponsored by the Re-
by American Weekly Inc Great grtt.ip RIGHTS Rose
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-11

a 12-hour fast. both from food and hauor
Then. when they seem about to die for a
drink of alcohol the doctor brings them 10
the conditioning room. There. in an array
on the table are all kinds of liquor wine or
beer bottles
The patient is told that he shall have his
drink But there is only one hitch the drink
is going to make him very sick. The alcoholic
who has probably put away plenty in his
time, merely smiles at his threat grins in
anticipation and demands his drink.
All right, says the doctor, he shall have
his drink but first comes a brief physical
examination and a hypodermic injection of a
stmulant to help tide him over the sickness.
The examination and the injection are
quickly and painlessy over and, after a little
while, the promised drink is handed to him.
The alcoholic downs the drink. feels fine for
a moment and is wondering how soon he can
get the doc. to set 'em up again, when sud
denly that preposterous prophecy comes true.
He finds himself more violently nauseated
than he had supposed human being could
be and live.
Can it be that the sovereign cure-al for
anything that ails an alcoholic has failed him?
Has the demon rum betrayed his slave? In
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is merely substituting alcoholic phantasy for
real accomplishment in life.
Yet, for the normal person, brief fight
from reality may be a harmless blessing if
not overdone a few drinks at a party make
everyone forgetful of grim problems that
await at the home and the office Only for
the chronic alcoholic is this day off from
reality dangerous. 1t is the difference be-
tween the sailor who spends a gay night
ashore but turns up the next morning, and the
one who deserts ship in a foreign port.
OF course after about the first session
of the Voegtlin-Lemere conditioning room. the
patient unless dumb Pavlov's dogs,
poets that there is an emetc in the bottles or
the needle. After that he must submit vol
unfairly to the treatment and if he sticks it
out there is good chance for a cure.
This brings up another point, stressed by
all experts on the subject, that one must
wish to be cured or all will be in vain. There
those who. having been cured of the
craving. find the realities of life so dun and
boring that they deliberately stick their heads
in the bottles mouth again. in order to get
back TO the world of alcoholic make believe.
Some physicians, as DR. Wilfred Bloom
berg. of Boston City Hospital told the alcohol
symposium, find that the hangover" drug
benzedrine sulfate, helps cure the alcoholics
of their morning "jitters." These filters are
often overcome by the alcoholics themselves
by another drink of the hair of the dog that
bit them" This only leads to renewed drink
ing. Benzedrine sulfate serves to avoid this
morning drink
The real and final cure for chronic alco-
holism would be to find some drug which
once injected into the body. would permanently
make a drunkard sick if he or she ever
touched liquor again. This almost magical
anti-alcoholic drug, still unbound, ought to
make person stay away from liquor just as
people with allergies have to stay away from
eggs or whatever kind of food it is that makes
them sick
Drs Voegtlin and Lemere, with their
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-11

a stimulant at all but a mixture
of emetine, pilocarpine, ephedrine
and water which will produce
severe nausea in from eight to
ten minutes. The most important
thing is TO time. the first drink
given to the patient so that il has
Just been downed when the severe
nausea hits him.
Gradually the alcoholic gets sick
whenever he sits down 10 look at
the liquor bottles. He knows the
misery ahead of him and even the
smell of liquor makes him i'll.
The conditioning is based on as
ISOLATION of ideas, which is one Of
the crudest form of reasoning, also
the Oldest and commonest and so
powerful that it often acts when a
persons higher intelligence knows
better. Animals reason that way as
shown by the famous Russian sci
enlist Pavlov.
Pavlov. in one Of the most noted
Of all psychological experiments,
fed his dogs and at the same time
rang bell Naturally because
their food was in front of them, the
salivary glands of the dogs began
to secrete the gastric juices. Their
mouths began to water. Pavlov
then found that after a series of
such feeding he could make the
dogs salivary glands begin secret
ing whenever he rang the bell al
though there was no food in sight.
In a comparable fashion. Drs.
Voegtlin and Lemere condition their
patients against alcohol and create
nauseating association in their
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search Council on Problems of Alco-
hol, at the Philadelphia meeting of
the American Association for the
Advance of Science, scientists readily
admitted that the alcohol problem
only affects a very small minority of
people in the nation. Some of them
said it was just about as rare to find
a teetotaler as it was to find an
alcoholic. And that each was just
about as unusual compared to the
great mass of the population who are
social drinkers, and for whom alcohol
is only a pleasant little luxury and
relaxation. not some great curse.
DR.. Robert V Seliger of the Johns
Hopkins Medical School explained to
his fellow experts the profound as
poets Of psychiatric treatment in cur
ing alcoholics. He listed 35 different
ways that the patient must cooper
ate. such as realizing that drinking