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-W v-' MADISON, Thursday, April 8, 1954 Cancer: Where We Stand Today Jj (This is the first of two dispatches on where we stand today on cancer, written for NEA Service by the medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society, now conducting its 1954 campaign. In this dispatch. Dr. Cameron reports On research. In the second he will describe the doctor and cancer control EDITORS NOTE) By CHARLES S.

CAMERON, M.D. Medical Director, American Cancer Society (Written for NEA Service) TVTEW YORK The exciting, thing in cancer research is that scientists are beginning to learn some of the factors that control growth. The nearly 1,000 researchers who are working under American Cancer Society grants have pierced the intricate it s' I 9s Fascinated by Chicks veil of chemical mystery in many places. They have found that cancer, being abnormal growth, is a product of body chemistry that involves almost every minute function both within and without the cell, the unit of tissue that multiplies by dividing. Some of this knowledge has been made available for clinical experiments.

The desperate efforts to halt cancer growth in hopeless cases by removing the CANCER CELLS IN THE TEST TUBE: These are human cancer cells before (left) and after treatment (right) with virus, a. Preliminary trial in man indicates that some types of cancer may be restrained by virus infection. su the incubator were furnished by the University poultry husbandry department. The chicks are growing fast and will soon have to leave. Shown seated above are Susan Dickenson, 5121 Loruth Terrace; Lynn Tennant, 1218 S.

Midvale Ernie Bruns, 4241 Mohawk and David Muldowney, 4260 Warwick Way. Karen Krueger, 5106 South Terrace, is Standing beside Miss Russert. (Photo by Carmie A. Thompson) THERE IS A LOT OF EASTER atmosphere in Miss Jean Riissert's kindergarten classroom at Nakoma School this year. In addition to Harvey, the housebroken pet rabbit who has had the run of the school for three years, the youngsters in Miss serfs class have a dozen newly-hatched chicks to' care for.

Miss Rustort is shown above with five of her pupils and the pets. The chickens were hatched in an incubator in the school room as part of the class Beginning of Life project. The eggs and By Walt Scott THE EASTER STORY ti ti ti a ti MEANWHILE Uj NOW TAKE the next step in release from our fears: ti etSU i) fJ Lite a a a ti 2 2 2 2 it Third, Fix it in your that to be worried and tense and anxious and afraid is a fools business. So cease being a fool. I A highly intelligent woman was afraid of having a malignancyr-She suffered from constant headaches as a result.

She calmly made up her mind that to worry herself sick in this fashion was a fools-business. -She would quit it. And she did. Her headaches dropped away. She might have worried herself into a cancer as one woman probably did.

She was afraid of it and got what she was afraid of. The thing which I greatly feared came upon me, said the scared writer. An illustration of this was a woman who was tense and anxious about everything chronically worried. When an operation took place, she died when she should have got well, the doctor said. She blocked the healing process of nature by her tense fears and anxie-.

ties. But we block the healing power of nature not only in an operation crisis; we do it all the time when we are worried and anxious. I could literally feel the warmth go into the lower portion of my body when I surrendered my tense anxiety, and I was well, said a woman to me. Her tense anxiety blocked off the circulation from the lower portion of her body and made her an invalid. Sb? was not only tied up spiritually; she was tied up physically, Schoolteachers should have common sense as well as sense.

Some do not. Here was a schoolteacher, very devoted and intelligent, who confessed to me: I have taught school for forty-five years. And yet I always had nervous indigestion for a week before school began. I was afraid of my children. And the children were prob- ably afraid of her! And neither one had anything to fear.

There was nothing to fear except the fear. i Am I severe in urging you not to be No, Im only echoing our own Master, who said, foolish men, with hearts so slow to believe (Luke 24:25. Moffatt). Faith is sanity; fears are insanity. Father, save us from the foolishness of fear, and introduce us to the wisdom of faith.

In Jesus name. Amen. AFFIRMATION FOR THE DAY: Faith, not fear, shall characterize all my thinking and acting today. Try and Stump Me I So They Say TUNE UP For Health Wants a Definition of 4 Full-Blooded American a Jacobs Thinks Multiplicity of Ancestors In This Country May Not Be the Answer By HERB JACOBS adrenal glands and even the pituitary, the bodys master gland hidden deep in the skull cavity, were mostly met with failure. Some believed that complete control of the glands might be a means of halting cancer.

By removing these glands and administering doses of hormones necessary to maintain normal body processes it seemed, in theory at least, that the growth machinery might be strictly controlled. It didnt happen that way. After the operations, studies of the patients showed that they were still excreting hormones ahd upsetting the possibility of exterior control of growth. Now from the laboratories comes the discovery that when certain animal glands are removed, apparently others take over their function. This opens the door to further research that may eventually bring the goal of endocrine control to reality.

In other areas of experimentation, science is concerned with some of the possible factors that upset orderly growth controls and start cancer. One of these possibilities is that some cancers at least are virus-caused. One of the striking bits of circumstantial evidence for this hypothesis is the existence of a compound found only in genes of the cells nucleus and also in viruses. This vital substance, DNA (desoxyribonucleic acid) is being probed in scores of laboratories. Some are trying to find out how DNA takes part in cell division.

experiments show that this nucleic acid increases as rats are fed azo dyes producing liver cancer. Actual viruses have been found that produce cancer in animals. A substance has been isolated from mouse milk that causes breast cancer in mice. A cancerous disease in chickens Is known to be virus-caused. A type of rabbit cancer has been verified as resulting from a virus.

But in man the quest continues and no concrete evidence to incriminate a virus yet exists. The laboratory search for cancers origin ranges all the way from protein synthesis to genetics. The fabulous efforts to break down 4he various intricate parts of protein, out of which all tissue is built, have produced some results. Almost endless combinations of elements, intricately contrived, form amino acids which are bound with each other into peptides, and woven together into fantastic patterns making up the protein molecule. Some of these chains of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen have been analyzed.

Chemists now think they can soon break down some of the simpler proteins. The remotest secrets of growth might then be solved. What is the role of the genes? Do these sub-microscopic cell particles that blueprint the bodys characteristics hold the final secret of cancer? Possibly. Scientists are learning more about mutations, sudden changes in a species that are handed on to progeny, and how they possibly are due to missing or mis placed genes. Can similar genetic accidents be responsible for tissue changes and cancer? We are edging nearer to the answer.

Nearly every system in the body is under experimentation. The whole process of metabolism is patiently being studied. Certain enzymes that catalyze various steps are under suspicion and may soon be acquitted or convicted. One enzyme, normally occurring in tissues has been found in the blood of some cancer patients. Studies of it are continuing.

Even plant enzymes that affect growth are under investigation. Those responsible for the resting stage of buds and bulbs may hold clues to growth control. The chemical attack on cancer HERES A QUESTION that has no real answer or perhaps it has as many answers as there are people in the country. The query concerns who can call himself a full-blooded American. I know a lot who think they are entitled to but sometimes they make me wonder.

Heres the letter: Dear Sir: Who can call them IN general, he (Sen. McCarthy) has turned up some so-called Fifth Amendment Communists and not very many, if any, were actually involved in conspiracies. Charles P. Taft. IT is true that there are at every level of our government able, patient, patriotic, devoted public servants yes, and Army officers, too but all too often, their reward is ingratitude and investigation.

Adlai Stevenson. WERE still the team to beat. Yankees Casey Stengel. YOU (Railroader Paul Rohler) are like a sailor except instead of a girl in every port, you have one at each end. of the line.

Judge Clark, Lee, hearing bigamy case; By JACK POBUK Americans who have trouble with their digestion spend millions of dollars every year in their search for relief. A lot of it is spent for laxatives. These brief articles do not go into details this very broad subject and cannot tell you when to stop buying your, pet pills. It would be wise to ask your doctor about that. CKAIR-EXERCfSC But spending money sometimes is not the answer and often is not the complete answer to constipation.

Many peoplfe have tried these 0am? WsndJ (Ti (Hi (TErW' 13 Apparently Is Mans Number KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (JP) Robert Brody was at the Knox County courthouse seeking a license number for his car with a lot of 13s in it. He explained: I was inducted in the Army on Friday, the 13th, assigned to the 13th Infantry, am home on a 13-day leave and have to report back to the base on the 13th of the month. Figured I might as well get a license number to keep the luck up. selves a full-blooded American? My friend claims that only one who can trace his parents, grandparents, for three generations back, all of have been born in this country, can say that he is a full- blooded American.

know that we are of a descent of some nationality such as German, French unless born in that country, but what about this other angle? Curious, a i-son. Consider two in friend: The only real 100 per cent full blooded Americans are Indians. Everybody else is an interloper and a Johnny-come-lately like you and me. Secondly, the full-blooded Americans who didnt happen to have Indian blood in them were the whiskey-drinking, psalm-singing pioneers who gouged this country out of the wilderness or kept it on its feet later by Crockett cost new. ing in mine or factory or on the The Capital Times will pay $2 for each question submitted and ttsed in Question of the Day Winner of 2 question used today is Mrs.

J. F. Meise, 300 Polk. Sauk City. TODAYS QUESTION If a girl had only enough money for one year at college, would you advise her to quit a good job to go to college, or to keep on working? WHERE ASKED Woolworth Store on the Square.

THE ANSWERS Meredith Meiler, Cottage Grove! student Id advise her to go to college. I believe every girl needs a good education and if she has enough money, I think she should go to school even if it is just for a year. She might find out. in that year whether she really wants to lontlnue or whether it would be wise for her to drop out. Mrs.

Gene Jones, Albany, housewife It depends on how bad she wants to go to school and on her money situation. And it would depend on the course she wants to take. She could go to business school or a beauticians school and finish in a year. I should think it would be a good idea to try college for a year because putting it off makes it just that much harder to go. Mrs.

George Miller, Route 3, Waubesa Beach, housewife I believe shed be better off to keep on working. The year of college wouldnt do much good, especially when she is so undecided about going. Going to school for a year would be an expensive experiment if she lost out on her good paying job without being able to get it back. Hildegarde Lucci, 231 Packers housewife Yes, I certainly believe she should at least try college for a year. It would be good for her to find out whether she really wants to go to school or not.

It would be good for her even if it cost her a good paying job. It always helps to have an education. Arthur Kroncke, Sun Prairie, rural carrier If she has the chance she should definitely go to school and get a college edit cation. Its something I missed and wish I had, but I wasnt fortunate enough to be able to go. Even just a year in college would be worth It to the girl any amount of education helps.

Library Book Fine Set at $263 TOLEDO. Ohio UP) Librarians at the Toledo Public Library estimated the fine on a book which turned up the other day at $263 but they said they would forget about it since there was no record who took the book out back in 1882. The b6ok, David Crockett: His Life and Adventures, was retrieved from among the books left by the late Antone Zeitler, who died several months ago. A note in the back said a 3-cents-a-day fine would be levied if kept more than two weeks. DOES AN UNHAPPY ENGAGEMENT PROPHESY AN UNHAPPY MARRIAGE? YESa NOD ANSWER TO QUESTION NO.

1. Yes. In her book, Life and Love for Teenagers. Evelyn Duvall says that many studies show that if a couple fails to become well-adjusted while engaged, they usually little better after marriage. Better break the engagement than break the marriage, she says.

land, or acted as robber barons, which caused people to work still harder to make up what had just been stolen from them. I know theres a lot to heredity, but the people who made this country great were the ones who asked what are you like and where are you headed? not where are you from and who were your ancestors? I would not begrudge the Plymouth rockets or the various daughters their ancestor worship, so long as they dont attempt to lord it over the rest of us, or assert that a family tree is more important, say, than a family. But Id better stop preaching. It seems a little extreme, was the cautious comment of Gilbert Doane, director of University libraries and author of a book on how to track down your ancestors, when I quoted him this business of having three generations back of you, all born in this country. I think I would say a full-blooded American is anybody born in this country of parents who were U.

S. citizens, naturalized or American born, Mr. Doane commented. When I suggested that some people just off the boat seemed to have captured the spirit of America more than some who went back to rock or flintlock, Mr. Doane said I think I might be inclined to agree.

Comments here recently on the Swedenborgians brought a phone call from Alfred F. Mergen, Route 2, Cottage who said he is corresponding secretary of the local Swedenborgian unit, and stands ready to furnish more information on meetings, to interested persons. Is this rushing the season? Dear Sir: We are trying to find where we can buy No, Bahama fishing hooks. Chet Fisher, 405 W. Mifflin Madison.

I assume you have tried local stores without results. Tle best bet that I can suggest is the great store of Abercrombie and Fitch, Madison Ave. at 45th New York, which is supposed to have everything in die sports line. has been more closely pressed in scores of Institutions. Mass screening of compounds to find one that might halt cancer has turned up a few that have a retarding effect on growth.

Some of these have been used in treating leukemia, with temporary results. But months, and some times years, have been added to some patients lives. Out of the laboratories too have come new facts about radioactive materials and new means of attacking cancer with more powerful X-rays. In addition to in surgery successful operations for cancer that would have startled the surgeon of 10 years ago the means of saving more and more lives each. year are steadily advancing.

These are only a few of the highlights in the wide and complex map of cancer slowly being drafted. It may be necessary to chart the last tree in the thickest forest of growth before cancer control is discovered. Or it may not. Somewhere along the way a highroad, up to now only imagined -in some obscure researchers mind, might suddenly loom clear and straight, leading swiftly to the conquest of mans cruel-est enemy. TTIHIIE MTiliLIE WflDMAEL exercises and have found that they help their digestion.

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rilE STOUY Otv E2AUTUA WAYNE By Wilson Scrag Wrong Auto high POINT, N. CL A defendant who skipped out on his Superior Court bond hitched a ride in a car carrying' a police officer and' his bondswoman. Im real proud of Emily she made it over from an old dress she bought way back last month. 1.