The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 20, 1952, Page 4

}a moment’s confidence to one of the jnmates will find himself in Initial Contribution ‘Thursday, Nevember 20, 1952. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 3 Blood Tests Show Traces Of Diabetes By FRANK CAREY AP Science Reporter WASHINGTON ?—You and your doctor should always be alert to the possibility you have diabetes. Its rather easy to detect it by urine and blood tests, but diabetes experts say it can also be easily overlooked because it can underlie virtually any symptom of human disorder—from constipation to di- arrhea, from excessive appetite to indigestion, from high blood pres- sure to eye trouble, from itching to overtiring, from overweight to underweight. While there is as yet no known eure for it, the ailment can be effectively controlled—sometimes by proper diet alone, but almost surely by a combination of diet ‘and regular doses of insulin. The more quickly control is es- |" tablished, the better the diabetic’s chances of avoiding the serious complications which account for most of the deaths from this. dis- ease—No. 8 among the causes of death from sickness in America. These complications include dia- betic “coma,” hardening of the arteries, gangrene and a proneness to various infectious diseases, in- cluding tuberculosis. You yourself can be on the alert for such early signs of diabetes as these in yourself or your chil- dren: Excessive thirst, frequent urina- tion, constant hunger even though eating: a bit, a sudden drop in weight. , Sometimes diabetes can be pres- ent evén though these signs ap- pear, so experts advise you to see your doctor and ask him about the possibility of diabetes 1. There has ever been diabetes Citizen staff Photo ON BEHALF of the Key West Kennel Club, Mr. Charles Arono- vitz, right, presents a check for $50.00 to Paul Sher, March of Dimes treasurer, to mark the first advance contribution to the March of Dimes Campaign for Monroe County. While the cam- paign itself will not swing into high gear until January 2, 1953, several prominent businessmen have indicated that they will support the Advance Gifts program of the March of Dimes cam- paigh by liberal contributions. In authorizing this donation to the March of Dimes Cam- paign, Mr, Abe Aronovitz of the Key West Kennel Club indi- cated that it was the purpose of his organization to select a committee of five outstanding citizens of Key West to determine the distribution of proceeds from the charity nights at the Dog Track allowed by the Florida Racing Commission. In this man- ner, Mr, Aronovitz said, it would be possible to handle the division of charitable funds in such a way that local citizens, with a knowledge of local conditions and needs, could place such funds where they would do the most good. HAL BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE NEW ‘YORK (#—America is be- coming a nation of after dinner speakers. It might be a good idea to put a government bounty on them right now, or there won’t be an ear fo lin the land left unbent, whether you have dia- on American Diabetes Associa- ADA) is sponsoring Diabetes “i bear oa primarily to de- ated more than one Americans) who have dia- ut don’t know it. Special have beer provided an 700 eounties - to enable le te for diabetes in most places without chia A urine test is not-infallible, but it gan raise strong suspicions, which can then be confirmed by a usually sure-fire blood test. TODAY'S BUSINESS MIRROR By WALTER BREEDE JR. (Por Sam Dawson) NEW YORK —Buying junior a new bike this Christmas? You may not be able to get the exact style and color you want. Manufacturers who have been bucking shortages of chrome and steel are hard-pressed trying to keep up with demand. “The sales outlook would be ter- rific if we could only get enough steel,” says an industry spokes- man, “We're selling more bikes than we can’ make.” The tight situation in bicycles goes back to 1951 when steel re- strictions held production down to 1,800,000 units. The industry's en- tire output for that year was sold out by Christmas. Things looked pretty grim, but the manufacturers scrounged around for scarce materials and developed new sources of supply. Today they feel they’re producing enough bikes to take care of this year's Christmas rush, although the selection may be somewhat narrow. John Auerbach, executive secre- tary of the Bicycle Institute of America, credits the “ingenuity and production acumen” of the manufacturers with licking the shortage problem. “It is hoped that there will be an ample supply of bicycles to meet the Christmas demand,” he says. “Manufacturers report that they have been unable to fili all orders placed by distributors and that some models may be in short | Manufacturers have not resorted ing to trade sources. Retail prices are about the same as last year. Prices next year are expected to reflect a 7 per cent increase recently allowed bicycle | manufacturers by the Office of Price Stabilization. A major gripe of the manufac. turers—but one they don’t often discuss in public—is the growing competition of British-made adult bikes. The American light weight As a people we have always had an outspoken admiration for the gift of gab. But the idea used to be that the gab had to be good. That noble standard of criticism has gone the way of vaudeville. Today listening to after dinner speakers has become a form of mass self-punishment. In Europe people still go to a hotel or res- taurant for the food. But here? The price of the entree is no long- er determined by what they put on your plate. It’s determined by the fee of the vocal ehords rented for the occasion to deliver “‘A See Of Importance To Us I hate to be counted as a cul- tural savage, but sometimes wouldn’t it be quaint and old- fashioned and good clean harmless fun to go to a dinner where every- body just traded conversation and enjoyed a real meal—and skipped the message? Why do they have to skimp on the menu to provide the inevitable r message? Must the ice cream always be followed by a dismal lecture on “The Perils Of The Brave Petunias In Patagonia?” Or a dashing lady wild-life slayer telling how, all alone in Africa, she survived the hear-on charge of a maddened herd of antlered grouse? This growing willingness of the public to sit in slack-jawed, glazed- eyed paralysis, trying at the same time to digest a limp hunk of lamb and a cliche-studded oration, has created a new entertainment indus- try. This is the business of sup- plying after dinner speakers. Tt is a cash corn crop that rivals the value of the crop grown in the fields to fatten livestock. In the last few years dozens of lecture agencies have sprouted up that keep stables of after dinner speak- ers on call—and they range from bird imitators to U. S. senators, Do you want to learn to make a sound like a rose-breasted gros- beak? Would you like really to more money, or find out how one man learned to beat his wife at needlepoint in one ¢asy lesson? The nearest lecture agency has someone ready and waiting in a WOUND-COVER FOUND dressing that quickly coats a } wound with an infection-proof film the attending doctors can j through while healing goes on. Announcing the development, Air Force headquarters said the film had ngs for emergency other disaster, and also might dis- place gauze as dressing for many kinds of surgical wounds. it is still know how to whip inflation, make | tux and black bow tie to fly by plane to tell you after dinner. The fee ranges from $25 to $1,500 or more, g on the rating of the professional ear bender, and the crucial nature of his message. “Anybody who can do anything today can earn money as an after dinner speaker,” one lady mana- ger told me. “I met a fellow at a party recently who happened to mention he had just grown an or- chid on his refrigerator. I signed him up at once. You'd be amazed how many people in this country have secretly yearned all their lives to grow an orchid on a re- frigerator—and never realized it before.” But the real reason so many folks will suffer through after din- ner speeches is this: They figure if they listen to enough of them somebody will get around to in- viting them to. make an after din- ner speech, too. Then they will get a chance to deliver their message. And what man today doesn’t have more messages in his soul than Western Union? . KEY BOOKS By A. de T. GINCRAS (THE ILL—TEMPERED CLA- VICHORD by S. J. Perelman, humorous essays published by Si- | mon and Shuster, New York city, 245 pages) Mr. Perelman’s lates collection of essays range from mildly to halariously funny, but they are al- ways funny. The degree of the reader’s* en- joyment of each piece depends to some extent on his interests. Any- one who has writhed and trembl- ed under the fictional machinations of Dr. Fu Manchu and his carni- vious orchids, rare Oriental poisons and stranglers will relish “Why, Doctor, What Big Green Eyes You Have.” A reader who has leapt around with half-human novelized dryads anywhere from Nathaniel Haw- thorne’s “Marble Faun” to Cyril Hume's “Wife of the Centaur” will ‘like “Antic Hey-Hey.” And there are pieces like “Chew- ies the Goat but Flicks Need Hypo” which are universally funny be- cause the cinema is a universal experience. Mr. Perelman bases his essay on a theatre magazine’s editorial anxiety that the movie business is in extremis,”. bats and mice are daily replacing audiences in theatres across the land, cobwebs are forming on the ushers. ,..” As a result it seems a member. of the Allied Theatre Owners of Indiana blames the human sto- mach, . .the consumption of cara- mel popcorn, molasses chews and coconut bars sold in thretre lob- bies. Not only are members of the audience disturbed by the munch- crunch of the candy being eaten, but by the advertising trailers on the screen describing the conces- sion-stand wares. Mr, Perelman describes the way the sweets can be sold painlessly to the audience by inserting a mention of them surreptiously into the main feature. Anyone who has ever worked on @ magazine and been exposed to the interminable morning editorial conferences in which everybody talks much too much, will find “The Hand That Cradles the Rock” a delicious piece. Perelman uses that inimitable phenonomon of the publishing world, Fleur Coles, edi- tor of the recently demised “Flair” as the boss lady. He describes her as a high-voltage executive in whose personality a Kansas cyc- lone has been successfully wedded to Devonshire clotted cream, Mr. Perelman then puts the straw-haired sleekly groomed wo- man behind a huge horseshoe-shap- ed desk high above Fifth Avenue’s sidewalks. Before her he places the high priced editorial and ad- vertising brains, and the mad con- ference begins! This book is an excellent gift suggestion. (HOPALONG FREUD RIDES AGAIN by Ira Wallach, short pa- rodies, published by Henry Shu- man Publishing Company, New York city, 144 pages.) WITH OUR HOUSEHOLD Waterless Author Wallach in this thin |volume tries his hand at burles- que imitations of everything from the essence of Tennessee Williams to Jean Paul Sartre and existenial- | ism. He even tackles James Jones of |‘‘From Here to Eternity” fame. | It seems Jones has made the state- ment that the only thing wrong with literature in our time is that it lacks the proper proportion of malice, envy and hate. Using as the plot skeleton the fairy tale of Snow White and the Seven dwarfs, Mr. Wallach pro- ceeds to tell the yarn with an exaggerated proportion of all the purported lacks. Freudian inspired bits of introspective contemplation based on the famed Jones’ style, are ins@rted, about the most un- expected subjects. Here is the upon the kingly thoughts of Snow White’s father regarding the cob- blestones in the courtyard - “, , . did the cobblestones lie down at an angle? or did they resent being squeezed flat against each other, each cobblestone against another, each feeling the other’s rain-rounded cheek against his own, lying flat with round sides till some big horse clopped too hard right in the middle of one and you saw a gap where the stone used to be and the cobble- stones around the gap got chilly because one was missing from its place... .” And G. I. language is imposed upon the delicate fairy tale. Snow White’s mother before she dies and becomes a cold herring stranded on the beach of life, calls the king a “lousy, sceptre-swinging, divine- righted bastard’ in the house of the dwarfs, Snow White settles down to a stretch of sack duty, and at the end the wicked step- mother is lying on the floor, her dice cooling off. In a blood-thirsty erotic parody called, “‘Me, the Judge” the detec- tive fiction of Mickey Spillane is turned into a howling burlesque for the course of ten pages. Be- ginning with the sentence that somebody is going to cut valentines out of somebody else’s large intes- tine, killers and beautiful women in cheesecloth negligees compete for the reader’s attention. Bullets are persistently introduced into guts, and ladies walk about in peach-fuzz panties. In “Nursery Confidential” Mr. Wallach used the methods of the authors of U. S. A. 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