The Bermuda Recorder

              wednesday october 20 1954 the bermuda recorder page three * special articles family feature page jokes news comments recipes poetry household hints study of 750 patients finds nervous ancestry recipe mechanical wizardry ihe family a billion years ago ticking on new lab's atom clocks 1 at edinburgh roundtable banana cream pie exhibition fill baked pie shell with sliced bananas pour cold soft custard over chill cover with whipped cream de corate witii sliced bananas in whipped cream sprinkle with cocoanut by elgiva ball xew york global by earl ubell ey dr walter c alvarez emeritus consultant of medicine tfeyo clinic palisades x y oct 11 — scientists have built the world's largest laboratory here devoted to the tracking down of invisible atomic footprints left in rocks oceans and air 1 geological end archeological events of thousands millions and bil it down tor science dr kulp has worked out an improvement of the original atomic clock method of dr w p libby of the univer sity of chicago wdio is how an atomic energy commis sioner dr libby's method dated archeologic specimens up to 20,000 years old dr kulp took it down to 30,000 years and a new method will probably take it to 00,000 years dr kulp said oftentimes some one scolds me lor believing in the inheri tance oi neuroses and psy choses they accuse me of ignorance actually tor forty much i.'dness of any kind m any of them all of the adolt are highly intelligent i'ei'jcins easy to live with jtis of them have college tl'grees and all have been successful in life a few of tbem have been eminent a laiking notebook — • pocket-size machine able te record everything staid at » wo-and-a-lialf hours business ■ is dear miss ball i am 11 years old and lots of times i ' have to baby sil wl n my parents go out my brothers are 9 and 6 and my sister is 3 my mother was very strict on me but she ti psychology on john and alvin the boys but now sic tries to be strict with them loo john will not obey and i ■• cannot do much with him if he can't have his way h kicks or beats alvin mother cries a lot over bim my meeting five have been custard examples of mechanical wiz reading every tiling i conn 1 find on the mode <>■ years 2 cups scaled milk ;{ pargi yolks ardy on ■ ~ ' at an omcc e.iiupiuent exhibition in edin burgh scotland this month i . device measuring onlv , s x 4 x 77 s inches slips h 11 dr j laurence kulp in charge of the laboratory which is part of columbia 1 diversity's lament geologi cal observatory conducted the first test tour of the new building today and described ins or years ago heritance of ability and .^,_ nius as well as of uu'jfal re tardation and nieiit'^i disease i , cup sugar 1 s t>p salt 1 j teaspoon vanilla \^ teaspoon salt expect fine children all ai us know families like the one just described and we know that when a bride and groom have this good type of heredity back k them they can expect to have line children and fine grand children surely this is a most encouraging feature of human genetics ,■ pocket and has a micro ,..., ie which attaches to the 1 am now vnbr a hot t „, the subject of t ' m inheritance of neuroses th e jfat-ts of which are derived r<oui my analysis of the case h st ories of 750 of my most 4 , u rvous patients beat eggs lightly with fork add sugar and salt add hot milk gradually stirring constantly cook in double thickens when a coating begins to form on spoon strain immediately chill and '.( c :\' under the lapel how it works ir records on a steel wife only one two-thousandth of an y h in diameter here is how it works cos mis rays striking nitrogen gas atoms in the upper atmos phere convert those atoms to carbon of atomic number 14 unlike carbon 12 carbon 14 is radioactive with half of any given amount of carbon atoms decaying back into nitrogen in 6,000 years long ago plants took carbon 14 from the air and made it into sugar and wood the sugar was eaten by animals so that both plants and animals had carbon 14 in minute but con stant amounts scientists by measuring the amount of car bon 14 left in a fossil old mummy cloth or bone can compute the age of the sample father says he told her not to try that psychology business and 1 do not think much of it either john behaves when my father is home is there bpj thing mother could do to n ake him different .' i dozen projects the scient ists have under way scotn.di-biult ollice macnmes a,e to be featured in the exlii ■ stauds will be occii they are checking into the seen ui recent year study s ows that most per sons , who are a bunch ot lu yves have a decidedly nerv jus ancestry this ace of a peruvian mummy cloth believed to be 4,000 years old they are trying to find out how sulphur ac cumulates in subterranean domes they want to know when man first came to xorfh america they are working on the phenomena of weather and want to see how long the last ice age lasted flavoi i . n ion pied b ■ say some critics w^a^tpbd of that but we won't accept the other side of the picture we won't agree that when an aleholic bun marries a qneer girl whose other is in the state hospi al several of their ehildrei are likely to be lacking ii intelligence or sanity when people talk like that they mav be able to foo themselves and that may b a omfort to them yes . ; ;* ii i a iiuiidee urn lere^vill be 21 machines in hiding their newest cast i ister with a credit sanctioi people who note that i be lieve that man inherits his abilities just aa a racehorse inherits his sliced or a prize pie crust enid — alabama 2 cups sifted pastrj cake flour -■: teaspoon salt 1 o cup shortening i tablespoons watei ■ i ' auotiier stand tner^wuibe the latest electric lyjh'writer which requires onh 2 oz of pressure to depress tht keys as opposed to six to eight lines that amount with tin ordinary standard model dear enid ber aoiiuy tc sccrete butterfat want n>c tr accept tiie present-day fad of denying that heredity mat anything to do with the mind but i never worry about fads i am too interested in facts facts always remaii facts while fads come and go >: iii 1'sy hology is good when properly applied but there are people upon whom 1 semis not to work it is likely thai your brother knows yonr mother cannot control eow a teaspoon of tritium sift flour and salt together chill shortening cut in quick ly and lightly till mixture is in small chunks add water quickly and chill before roll ing out all these problems involve extremely sensitive measure ments of minute quantities of anof her machine to be on low will fold letters or docu ments any shape or size at up o live thousand pieces an ■ ' ; • sfie teets itt s^eur^where he is concerned and therefore takes advan tage of the situation children are smart they take then cues from adults john knows well what your father will d if he is bad hut be calk yom mother's bluff he is testing her so to speak should yoni mother surprise him a few times after he kicks alvin with a few good spankir>gs vou would see i ehangei him oi one hopeful thing about human genetics is that just because one has insane an cestry even on both sides of one's family one does not have to become psychotic or queer a number of children of the insane escape the curse the elements un various geo logic samples one ma chine can detect the presence of tritium — the stuff of which hydrogen bombs are presum facing facts noui other atomic clocks to measure long periods of time involve uranium lead thori um helium potassium argon and rubidium sonic people say i have no right to be so discouraging actually of course a real scientist always faces facts without emotion no matter how discouraging or un pleasant they may be but really human genetics is not always discouraging share your wisdom wit and humour ably madi — if only one tea s po n of it is dispersed in 10.000 cubic miles of pure so of tiiem escape 11 st completely that they cannot hand it on to their children others get a bit of the curse but succeed in hanging ontc their sanitv for all of then wniei ■ tii scientists wouk neel^only a quart of the mix : • ■■• for the analvsis by dr thomas r gaines she found the flaw pjua xew york global — nothing we can do in the shape of physical culture can undo the harm of negative thinking the quest for im provement must be an inner one a desire to ehange from negative to positive forms 01 thinking high thoughts such as forgiveness unselfishness tact thankfulness possess a inch rate of constructive beautifying f 0 r e e low thoughts such as fear com plaining sillier sensitiveness anger possess an equally high rate of vibration but of the destructive type leading to f u t u re ugliness premature face aging and contenanee old mrs mccoy was an incurable grumbler nothing pleased her then one autumn her pastor heard of her exccl 1 n1 apply crop and figured i hat ai last be had found one thing about which mrs mccoy are concentrating on perfect ing various atomic clock so that they can accurately date various events in his tory even the date of the but the scientists right now for instance i once knew an able physician who told me that in his parents fami lies no relative was known to have suh'ered from insanity or epilepsy or any serious nerv ous disease seventy-five years ago he married a woman also of a fainilv made up of health y intelligent and friendly people john ... the letteri rtart theb from all over the frc world come inch comments as these from reader of the christian science monitor an international daily newspaper days it is important that a parent be firm with his child never argue with the child but try reasoning and if that fails revert to the old fashioned methods clamping down oil him will spare the parent later lieartaeh.es psy chology is good so use it but never go to the extreme to day's parents need to find a happy medium — a blending fight to stay sensible the world is full of such fine courageous people only the spouse of such a person knows what a hard fight it has been for him or her to re main sensible and well con trolled oh not possibly complain creation of the earth they have good clock methods for dating events that occurred between 5,000,000,000 and a i lillion years ago and for dating those between 60,000 years ago and the present there is a gap between a mil lion and 00.000 years how well sister mccoy he exclaimed t know you're happy now i've heard a lot about that fine apple crop of the monitor is must read ing lor straight-tkinking people . . ." i returned to school after a lapse of 18 years i teill get my degree jrom the college but my education comes from the monitor . . ." yours th • woman glared at him i knew the doctor's chil drcii and i know most of his grand-children and great grandchildren and there isn't certainly we cannot ex pect to keep the good and en couraging side of heredity while rejecting the bad and thi depressing side that would be like telling a breed er of kentucky racehorses that it is all right for him to get a derby winner by mating winners or brothers or sisters of winners but actually he could do just as well occa sionally by mating a couple of hack horses and then feeding the foal well grom ing him well and training him well oh i guess the apples 11 do she admitted but where's the rotten ones for the pigs the monitor gives me i'uas for my work . . ." of the old and the new th psychological a p p t o a e h is ' to b used effectively read ing such books as being a flood parent or di eiplino both by james l byrnes jr may give your r other a better understanding and may suggest a method of dealing with john this will benefit all of you ever i truly enjny «'» com sad 3ut true that gap is extremely tan takzing dr kulp said be eause so many interesting things are supposed to have happened between c0.000 and a million years ago man's appearance on earth the be ginuings of culture the up lifting of the siera nevada mountains are just a few but we'll figure out some mp'^h you loo will find lb mor.itoi informative with con;phie worl ircwa yon will discover a con structire viewpoint in svery n-.vt atory pany . . . a young man after a par ticularly discouraging session in a and trap sought to re lieve the uncomfortable silence by cheerily declaring to his caddy "( jolt's a funny came brooke bond tea is economical hardening uae die coupon below lor a spe cial introductoiy golwcrip'.son — f month for only 3 charm tw cfcrklua science monitor oa hum s boiwn js m«i . b s a train t meant to be the boy said moroseh e b ytaam mod m a ini.-nlu-lo.r wv-.rrip ubs |» th chrhtiaa science monitor — 7 km i »'!'" »'• by lou lutour jl)r kulp tlnrty-tnree is associate professor of geo chemistry at columbia and once had an offer to play first base for a xew york giants farm team when he was ai drew university he turned » xew york global — what about your telephone manners when you place a call do you wait for the other person to say good bye first i if so he is likely to issue a hold up charge and pass a quiet sentenei — avoid your calls since you placed the call it is your business to suggest terminat ing the conversation giving the other person a chance to banc up graciously if by mutual consent you want to continue to chat all well and good but be sure it is under stood that you are not the one who is prolonging the conversation u but sav most persons to day a good environment is everything xo i cannot believe that i can remember dozens of my patients who adopted and took into their beautiful home of culture and refinement a child born to ignorant or mentally diseased me and myself oa.i lit rcn your best helper electricity i ve spent a lot of valued time resenting many things i've oft rebelled against the world its arrows and its slings r parents my patients did everything to give the child love a beautiful environment and a good education and all thev got was a youngster about as stupid or unmanageable or criminal as he would have i ve fought against conditions and i've kicked against pricks believing them too out of joint for even cod to fix continued on page o vint all the time 1 battled i received a like return more foolish than a lire-wise chili who shuns a second wunih ...-.-: m knife in skull cut out i stood a lot of jars and jolts until i learned to see i could not truly lik the world i'ntil 1 firsi liked me after 8 years the city cfeaners-'n-dyers marysville calif oct 11 — it wasnt work or worry that gave robert mcclellan those stabbing headaches — it was a two and one-half inch knife blade imbedded in his skull for eight years cilice then 1 haven't fretted much about what people do ot what my neighbors talk about if it be false or true monthly pains topped j days of collection and delivery • or amazingly re eved # in 3 out of 4 cases in d fmn tests i • chances are you're putting up — unnecessarily — with the functionally aused pains cramps and weak no jood feelings of menstruation virol and when i see a fellow piling troubles on his head i tell my eh ; hat's his affair and let him go ahead s a t u r d a y a marrysville doctor took x-ray pictures that showed the blade pressed against the left optic nerve in a delicate operation where a slip could mean blindness the doctor removed the piece of steel western parishes mondays and thursdays for in actual tests by doctors lydia pinkham's compound brought com plete or striking relief from such dis tress in 3 out of 4 of the cases the food tor growth ii isn 1 thai i'm cold or hard indifferent to sin i've simply learned the world reflects whal i have built within lydia pinkham's is modern in its notion central parish tuesdays and so get lydia e pinkham's vege table compound today see if — taken through the month — it doesn't give : relief from those backaches jitters — j help you feel better before and during your period v,«oi m .. concentrated food containing n all extract spenalh refined fats egg sugars m7v lneose and fang («*, with the addition oi wiixerd salts _ * - ■ i i :• mr mcclellan a farm hand figures the blade was plunged into his head during a fight in arkansas his native state the blade snapped off right at the skull so it couldn't be seen or felt — from the out side at least eastern parishes wednesdays & saturdays and so i try to leave tlie world and all its creatures free and know that i can help the world when i have first help me or — if you suffer from functional hot hashes of change of life ." pnd out how wonderful pinkham's is or that too ml vjtaa.ii uiildrcn thrive on virol becww t 1 __ j r,nuv ihe food essentials for strength vitality and ■■■■■ ■ tt ha rflwt on i nterine . that ll often ammm nifji-»rual whrltnmh p lnl j i round constitution for the man to call just dial 1268 francis j gable