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Bars More Than 45 Drugs From U.S. Mail Since 1955

By ROGER GREENE

“WASHINGTON (AP) — Been feeling tired? Tongue the wrong hue? Stomach out of sorts? Don’t like the face staring back at you from the mirror?

The medicine men are falling all over themselves to help you with pill, capsule, lotion or salve. And they’re telling you so in a steady, fulsome chorus of claims.

How’ good are they? In _ the United States the authorities are taking a hard look at literally scores of so-called ‘“‘revolution- ary’ remedies now flooding the market in a titanic battle for the constmer’s dollar.

TRUE WONDER DRUGS

Commissioner George P. Lar- rick of the U.S. food and drug ‘administration and officials of other supervisory agencies em- phasize that modern drugs like penicillin, _streptomycin, aureo- mycin and others have worked virtual wonders in’! combatting man’s age-old diseases. -

But in recent months, Larrick says, they have seen:

1. Simple throat gargles and nasal sprays extolled as potent guards against Asian flu.

2. Oldtime bromides being pe- died as variants of the fabulous new tranquilizing drugs used in mental institutions to calm high- strung nerves..

3... Aspirin based products touted as “‘astonishing discover- ies’ for the treatment of arth- nitis, gout and rheumatism.

74. Phony Dr. Kildares bandy- ing pseudo - scientific catchwords as though they were genuine phar- maceutical terms, often without a clue that most of these white- jacketed pitchmen are really members of Actors Equity.

5. And so -.called “‘pep pills’ guaranteed to make you an ab- solutely new person.

These are only a few examples of, a sitatuion that is creating concern. The stakes are enor- mous. Americans spend $2,000,- 000,000 a year for medicine.

‘proclaim that with their help you

They swallow - 53,000,000 aspirin daily, consume $227,800,000 worth of vitamin tablets and capsules annually, and buy 339,000,000 pre- scriptions costing $956,700,000 a year. ;

But in their quest for health, they fall for some of the weirdest quack devices and phoniest nos- trums since the invention of black magic.

At least one congressional com- mittee and three federal ‘‘watch- dog’’ agencies are investigating various phases of what is rapidly becoming known as ‘‘the battle of the medicine men.”

BETTER THAN OIL WELL

“Finding a new drug is better than discovering an oil well,’ one official said.

“In the absence of such a dis- covery, some of the slick operat- ors dream up a magic-sounding trade name, adda few harmless frills to an old standby remedy, and hail it as a sensational new laboratory discovery. Too many magic ingredients these days are not magic at all.”

Right now perhaps the biggest target of investigation is the so- called ‘‘no diet’? weight-reducing gimmick,

DUBIOUS NOSTRUMS

Thé post office department and the federal trade commission are currently investigating no less than 40 dubious nostrums which

can “melt” or ‘float’ off 10, 20 or even 30 pounds of fat and keep right on raiding the icebox for a Dagwood snack at bedtime.

“Lose pound after pound of ugly fat . . . while continuing to enjoy sizzling steaks, savory soup, hotbreads, butter, gravy, rich creamy desserts, ice cream. . .”

So ran the dream world claim}:

of a New York maker of weight- reducing tablets — until the post office department slapped down a fraud order. The department has barred more than 45 similar gim- micks from the mails since 1955.

One Barrier To Russian Science Works Is — Russian

NEW YORK (AP)—The maga- zine is called Doklady. Akademii Nauk S.S.S.R. and its 36 issues a year cost $40.

“Reports of the- Academy ‘of Sciences, U.S.S.R.,’’ as the title indicates, contains some of the choice Russian scientific findings.

It is only one of some 300 So- viet scientific and technical titles offered for subscription by the Four Continent Book Corporation, the official Russian publisher’s representative in New York.

There is one barrier to the use of all this information: It’s in Rus- sian.

EXPENSIVE WORK : y

Jt. costs about $25,000 a year to translate and publish the average _ Soviet scientific journal in Eng-

lish. By that yardstick, it would cost $7,500,000 to translate the en- tire Four Continent science list.

But this is the price of looking over Soviet Russia’s scientific shoulder. And it is infinitely - cheaper than doing the same re- search twice, facing already

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In the days prior to Sputnik I, few, Western scientists read or cayed much about Soviet science.

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Ten of these journals are in the physical sciences such as physics or chemistry and six are in the life sciences or the biomedical field.

To the translators these 16 journals mean 146 different monthly and bimonthly issues a year, each issue the size of a small magazine. —

It may take as little as 60 days to translate an issue into English, or it may take as long as a year.

Some Russian journals are available in translation, and have been for some time. One of the commercial serviees offering

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Page 12, The Guardi>n Wed. February, 5,1958| Retire Oldest

Canada Gets Record Number

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Of Babies In ‘57, Is Report

OTTAWA (CP) A record number of babies were born in Canada during 1957.

The crop, largest in Canadian history, numbered an cstimated 475,000 — an increase of 24,300 from 1956, the bureau of statis- tics reported today.

Birth statistics, gleaned from 10 provincial vegistration offices, also yielded a birth rate—based on each 1,000 population—second only to the 1947 all-time high.

The national rate last year was 28.6 compared to 28.9 in 1947 and represented a sudden rise fol- lowing two successive declines in 1955-56.

All provinces except Saskatche- wan contributed increased num- bers of babies. Saskatchewan slip- ped by 271 births, to 23,937 last year.

Ontario, folluwed by Quebec, Al- berta and British Columbia, con- tributed lions shares to the baby brigade.

Births in Ontario increased by 9,684 to 153,773 from 114,089.

There were 142,299 new Quebec

7.054-from the year previous. The number of new British Colum- bians rose to 38,523 from 35,865 and Albertans to 36,661 from 32,- 905.

Deaths last year also reached a record high while marriages were second only to the all-time high in 1946.

Deaths totalled an estimated 138,800, an increase of 6,800 from 132,000 in 1956, to raise the na- tional death rate to 8.4 from rec- ord low rates of 8.2 during the previous three years. All prov- inces except Prince Edward Is- land recorded :~ore deaths.

The number of marriages rose to an estimated 136,000 from 132,- 700. The record hgh was 137,398 weddings in 1946.

Despite the fact there were 3,- 300 more marriages last year than in 1956, the national rate for each 1,000 population dropped slightly to.8.2 from 8.3, continu- ing the gradual decline since 1946.

Three Maritime provinces P.E.I., Nova Scotia and New Brunswick—recorded fewer mar- riages last year than in the year

citizens last year, an increase of

previous. :

Trade Mission

Urges

Larger British Sales Here

Canada’s 55-man Trade Mis- sion to the United Kingdom, which returned home in Decem- British exporter whose goods are ber, now has some advice for the not making progress in the Can- adian market, suggesting ways to overcome this. :

According to a report in ‘‘For- eign Trade’, published fortnigh- tly by the department of Trade and Commerce, the members of the mission gained the impres- sion as the tour went on that if British exporters have a weak-

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ness, it is not in producing but in selling: One member of the mission pointed out that Cana- dians would not cross the Atlan- tie to buy British goods—Britons would have to cross the Atlan- tic to sell them. SELLING NEEDED

Selling in North America ‘re- quires extensive advertising and . sales promotion, and effective use of salesmen. Among the selling techniques British exporters would do well to adopt in the Canadian market, the mission

Locomotive

MONTREAL (CP)—Locomotive No. 5529, oldest passenger loco- motive on Canadian railways, has been retired after 52 years serv- ice and is headed for the scrap yard.

The CNR anounced Monday that No. 5529 finished her career during the weekend on the Mont- real-Victoriaville, Que., run.

No. 5529 and her sister locomo- tives were giants of their day. But their fate, like that of all steam locomotives, has been sealed by diesels.

The locomotive was designated

designed to run between Montreal and the Atlantic Coast. The old Intercolonial Railway, which be- came part of the CNR syseem, had No. 5529 and her sisters built to pull the Ocean Limited be- tween Montreal and Halifax.

But they were relegated to local and branch-line passenger service as bigger and more powerful loco- motives came along.

Seek Yarmouth,

Boston Service

HALIFAX (CP) — The Nova Scotia government is continuing negotiations with Eastern Ship- ping Corporation of Miami, Fla., for a summer passenger boat service between Boston and Yar- mouth, N.S. :

Trade Minister Manson said Monday the government has sent

suggested the following:

(a) periodic visits of top of- ficials of British firms to talk to agents and customers,

(b) For technical products, pro- vide technically qualified sales- men to visit Canada at intervals or to work fulltime with the agent, and

(c) when careful study of the Canadian market indicates it, use a Canadian advertising agency to make sure advertising cam- paigns are effective and direct-

ed: towards the customers.

the Pacific type although it was,

a draft agreement to the com- | pany iv. acceptan -. The Con, pany has given ao answer.

The agreement is believed to) involve government financial aid | in operating the service. |

Mr. Manson said the tantative |

plan is for sailings on the over-| night run beginning about June 22 and ending Sept. 14. Eastern Steamship Lines ran a steamer service between Boston and Yarmouth until 1953. Cana- dian National Railways has oper- ated a year-round auto ferry be- tween Yarmouth and Bar Harbor, Me., since 1955.

The tourist industry in western Nova Scotia has campaigned to have the boston service resumed on the ground that the Bar Har- bor boat cannot handle all the traffic during the summer travel rush.

Murdered Boy To Teach Lesson

ters)—A former Sunday School teacher, found guilty here Mon- | day. of murdering an eight-year- old boy, was alleged to have said: “Je had been cheeky to me at Sunday Schoo! and I thought it would teach him a lesson.’

Roy Riddington, a 23-year-old clerk, was found guilty but in- sane on a charge of murdering Keith Priestley.

Two doctors gave evidence that Riddington suffered from schizo- phrenia.

Riddington was said by the

into a canal, causing his death by drowning.

He denied it when first ques- tioned by police, but later said: “Tf I tell you the truth, will it help me? He had been cheeky to me at Sunday School and I thought I would teach him a les- son.

HORVATH DIES VIENNA (Reuters) — Hungar- ian Foreign Minister Imre Hor- vath died Sunday night after a long and serious illness, Radio

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New Glasgow, N. S, Man

TORONTO (CP)—C. A. Potter of New Glasgow, N.S., was elected president of the Life Un- derwriters Association of Canada at the association’s two-day an- nual meeting which ended Friday.

Mr. Potter is a representative of the Manufacturers Life Insur- ance Company. ;

A new method of electing na- tional presidents was instituted under which next year’s president is elected to the office of presi- dent-elect, becomes a member of the board of directors and auto- matically takes office as presi- dent a year later. M. L. Levy of Toronto was elected to this posi- tion.

The Halifax association re-

ceived the “totem ..,, as the “best elkdiaad ° aay ciation of the year,” al ayy SURVEY TAKEN Delegations from 7 ganizations across the g i tended the meeting, iy A report by the fee “committee on statyg> “latin, plies toa survey involving «, & sociation members indica : 91 per cent want the : to continue work; y improvement of trainine tt te tional standards, ethics ; sing requirements foy writers, “with a view 4 the association more fessional organization,

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