The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-14
OSTRICHIsM OF THE
 WISEACRES

Last warning to publishers of dictionaries: you had better have the NO SALE indicator in good working order when you come around hefe with the next edition if 1t does not include the nouns cri and vite. And while you are at 1t, please have another go at the verb ostrich, for I am confident Gerard Darrow, e. K, will support me when I say the ostrich does not such thing and even if the bird ever does hide his head in the sand he is not mere ly pretending not to see, he just honestly does not see.
 That's the way 1t Is with the Wise acres. The Wiseacres are 8 cut above the Morons intellectually al- though outnumbered by them at least two to one. They are. even harder to teach than the Morons be- cause when Wiseacre acquires a littl knowledge that's all he wants to know whereas Moron frankly admits he doesn't know and does as he is told. You have to supervise or direct a Moron, but you have to watch a Wiseacre lest he decide he knows better than his boss, em- ployer, doctor, teacher or adviser and proceed to follow his own su- perior judgment regardless.
 Wiseacres impose childlike faith in the efficacy of dash of some- thing they believe to be "antisep- tic" to prevent. or cure infection, whether of wound, burn Or sirni- lar lesion or of the nose or throat. They have the same touching con- fdence in a dose of anything they believe to be "stimulant" to pre- vent or relieve exhaustion or col- lapse or shock or weakness.
 To the Wiseacre mentality 1t seems as reasonable as the spieler makes 1t seem that one can indulge in abuses of all kinds and remain immune from the consequences If one will only take a good dose of this or that nostrun. It never oc- CUTS to the Wiseacre intellect that killing ache, pain, or other sense bly, means of analgesic drugs is not equivalent to correcting the cause of the distress.
 MT. Wiseacre had acquired the habit Of resorting to popular pick -Ine-up or bracer whenever he felt tired. mean, headachy or just worried. He felt uncomfo mfortable one evening after dinner, took two or three doses of his favorite dope and went to bed. Toward midnight his breathing became stertorous, which woke his family. But he was al- ready deeply cyanosed (blue) and died immediately. Acetanilide poi soning, no doubt. But the kindly medical examiner recorded 1t as fatal coronary thrombosis. The pick -me-up contains a rather large dose of acetanilide in each spoon full. Cyanosis (blueness) of lips, nails or skin is one of the charac- teristic signs of acetanilide poiston- ing. Of course cyanosis might oc- cur with heart failure from other causes, but there was no history of heart disease in this instance. Probably 8 good many Wiseacres go like that-long before their time thanks to the indiscriminate use of dangerous drugs in popular nostrums.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Insulin Reaction
 I'do not agree with J. K. M. who said any diabetic of ordinary intelli- gence should recognize insulin shock in time to stop car if he happens | to be driving. Several times 1t has hit me so suddenly that I know ] could never have kept control of a car if were driving.
 (AGiss F. S.) Answer-It is 6 question of fact i and not of opinion. Fact is that 6 good many trafiic accidents have been caused by insulin reaction many 50 recognized. Probably many more have escaped recognition for obvious reasons. No one taking in- sulin should be permitted to drive 6 car. Send ten cents coin and stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress. for booklet ssTgaknirg soz pisbstss z