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ad ATA 35, BE HA ALL KF Common Colds And Power Of Suggestion A recent issue of Today's Health, published at the head- quarters of the American Medical Association, contains an interest- ing account of the findings of a University of Illinois medical team, This brief account relates that Dr, George G. Jackson and asso- ciates at the university tested volunteers with an infectious cold secretion. These volunteers were divided into two groups-- those who say they "get colds all the time" and those who don't. "Colds developed," the item sald, "in 21 per cent of those who didn't often get colds and in 32 per cent of the 'always-have-a- cold' group." "Then," the account continues, "they used a noninfectious ma- terial, with only 1 per cent of the noncold people getting any symptoms, compared with 24 per cent of those who feels colds pick on them." Commenting on the study, col- umnist Sydney J. Harris, in the Chicago Daily News, says: "What this strongly indicates is that autosuggestion is the cause of 'having a cold' in many cases. If you believe you are likely to get one from sitting in a draft or walking through a puddle, you will get all the symptoms--even though the cold virus is not present in your body." Army tests have indicated an- other side of this, too: soldiers have been drenched in water and exposed to drafts, with no colds Joeveloning. A few months ago Today's Health reported on a study by Dr. Harold Diehl, "one of the best-known scientific studies of cold remedies." The study lasted five years and included thousands of students at the University of Minnesota, ac- cording to Godfrey Sperling Jr. in the Christian Science Monitor. Some of the students received one of the known remedies; some received only a sugar pill. None knew which he got. At the end of the study, Dr. Diehl found that about as many students taking sugar pills as taking medicines reported that their colds left them in a day or go. "In fact," says the article, 'the most enthusiastic endorses were those who got sugar pills!" "The writer of the article then gives this explanation: -- - - "This is what is known as the placebo effect: attributing to a fegicive the powers you wish it ad. You buy a cold remedy where you buy all your drugs; it is packaged like a drug; it looks like a drug, and it even tastes like a drug. You have an illness and its label says the medicine will help. Furthermore, you want it to. The placebo's power is really your own power to de- ceive yourself." In that same issue there is an article by Bruce Bliven on "What We Know About Colds." Says the author: "There is same evi- dence which seems to suggest that psychology may be a factor in almost all colds. I know a -oints out that public lecturer," says Mr. Blevin, "who Invariably came down with a cold whenever he had to make a speech. Once he had frankly faced up to the fact that he didn't like public speaking but had fo go on with it, the symptoms dis- appeared." Blevin "continues: "Whenever large' numbers of people are given medicine--or even' sugar pills--and are told that it will cure existing colds, or prevent future ones, the number of colds in that particular group of peo- ple is reduced, for a while, by about two-thirds. This fact has led to various triumphant an- nouncements in the press, from time to time, that 'a cure' for colds had been discovered -- an- nouncements not verified by sub- seqent experiences." Mr. Harris cites an interesting case in point in his column: Preston Lecky, the psychol- ogist, once reported the case of a man and his wife who were bitten by their pet dog. The man became convinced that he was going to develop hydrophobia, but the woman was sure she wasn't. "In three days," Lecky said, "the man was sick in bed, his throat muscles were becoming taut, and he compiained of dif- ficulty in swallowing. His wife" was up and well. At the end of five days, the man reported all the symptoms of hydrophobia, and a physician saw that he was actually on the verge of dying from a disease he didn't have. "Finally, on the eighth day, the doctor persuaded him that no- body with hydrophobia had ever lived more than six days. He jumped out of bed and soon was as 'well as before the dog had bitten him." Harris goes on to say that a person cannot be "hypnefized against his will: "The subject must meet the hypnotist at least half way, must. want to be put in a trance. Much of the 'sug- gestive power' of the hypnotist is based on auto suggestion in the patient. . . ." How To Speed That Lingering Guest A Washington correspondent protocol at White House dinners calls for the President and First Lady to see their guests of honor to the door at a reasonable hour, thereupon retiring to their pri- vate quarters. This_is_ the sig-_ nal for the rest of the guests to depart. i President Kennedy hasn't been conforming very well to protocol. Sometimes he has stood chatting in the corridor near his front door until 1 a.m. and on a week night, too. But the other night, after a din- ner for President and Mrs. Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, Mrs. Kennedy. firmly guided her husband upstairs after the honor guests had been cordially seen to the door. The party ended at 11:30 and every- one presumably had a good night's sleep before attacking the problems of government next morning. The Washington gossips are wondering if this will be the pattern for White House parties from -now- on. This protocol business sounds sensible. It should be adopted all over the country. Unfortu- "nately ordinary Americans have no such control over their par- ties. Sometimes guests--stay-on -- and on while the host worries about the big work-load piled, up on his desk for tomorrow. If he sneaks off and goes to "bed, or walks into the living room winding his alarm clock, he is marked down as a boor. This should not be. What's good enough for JFK is good enough for the rest of us. -- The Ore- gonian (Portland) BUILT FOR TWO, OR MORE -- could be the title of this biey for baby Mr. and Mrs Jim the trans ri exo SON "And baby makes three," cle built for two with side-car ross, of Cardiff, Wales, solved portation problem when their now 15-month-old t expect another little "problem" late this year. associate blue with water and "than light-coloured ones. ;Juint firm now offers a range of "By the careful use of these pt PRIZE SPECIMEN -- What's good for the ostrich is g Ai ood for the gander. The prize speciment at a famous South African farm, Oscar, is shown here posing with one of his own feathers, while Joey Geldenhuys models summer bonnet made of ostrich feathers. STARTLING--Teal Traina in- terprets the cloak-and-dagger look in dresses at a fashion showing. Colour Plays An Important Part Colour has been found to have such a telling effect.on people that many large firms now em- ploy 'colour specialists" to de- cide which colours should be used in-the making and design- ing of different goods and in packaging them. Strange. facts have resulted from this careful colour study. Red is claimed to be the fa- vourite 'colour of the athlete, for example, while blue is favoured by the intellectual. Egoists delight in yellow, the sophisticated in purple and the gregarious select orange. Colour plays an important part, too, in food. Often we as- sume certain foods are whole- some because of their colour. Experiments have been car- ried out, using coloured lighting to change these accepted colours, and the result was that people have either refused to eat the food or have been violently ill when attempting to eat it! Re- tailers make clever use of this knowledge by using electria lamps to enhance their goods. Special . lamps are used in° butchers' shops, for example, toms] make the meat look more red! "and, consequently, fresher. =~ Restaurants, too, often take. the colour factor into account,™ Salads 'served on green plates- look crisper and more _appetiz-_ ing. Blue is the most unappetiz- ing -colour----and-so-blue-icing | and blue jellies are rarely used. Colour also influences us in shops. Detergents packed in blue packages have the greatest appeal -- possibly because we thus with cleanliness. Foods 'which will eventually be served hot are usually pack- ed in warm yellow or red pack- ages, while green goods, like peas and beans or spinach, are wrapped in' white or green. Colour plays an important part in the prevention, or cause, of accidents, Dark-coloured cars are involved in more accidents There are only three primary colours -- red which is the sym- bol of blood, warmth, fire and danger; .- yellow which sy m= bolizes the sun; and blue which symbolizes the spaciousness of the sky and sea. Fach of thése can be paired together and mixed to produce orange, green and' violet. From these simple beginnings one 9 different colour shades! golours an illusion of space oan be given to small rooms, and large barnlike rooms made to seem COSY, Rooms' with a northerly aspect oan ba given warmth, while those which are In the sun all Yay long can be made to scem 00 . . A model marriage is one in which the wife Is a treasure and' the husband a treasury, For the first time that I re- member I am able to sit outside - in comfort. Why? Because this year there have been no mosqui- toes -- not around here anyway -- and \we are generally well supplie I suppose the spring was tog cold to hatch the larva or eggf, or whatever it is that produdes young mosquitoes. And am I glad! We have a lovely shady spot at the back of the house and we are enjoying it to the full. When we came here five years ago it was a thick clump of ash trees which, para- doxically, Partner reduced, and ye: enlarged, by transplanting small trees from the middle of the copse to the outside. It is from here I see so many birds. Yesterday I saw one I had not seen before. It was a red car- dinal. We had visitors at the time and one of them sald -- "Oh, look at that beautiful bird. It's bright red -- whatever is it?" 1 was so glad it paid us a visit' at that time because I had been boasting 'about the lovely birds we get around here. So... see- ing was believing. But don't get the idea either Partner or I just sit out in the garden and watch the birds. Partner is busy with ~"the lawn and garden most of the time but he does sit down to rest in the shade when he feels like it. "And I made three pairs of pyjamas for my grandsons last week, using the sewing machine at night and saving the hand- work to do in the garden. One of the visitors we had last week was a lady from Yorkshire on her first visit to Canada. Our Ontario countryside ' impressed her as being so similar to Eng- land. Which I suppose is per- fectly true and yet we seldom realize it. Peel and Halton, for instahce, are very little different from Essex and Suffolk. And our inland lakes vary little from some of the lake districts in the British Isles. <tYou know, I sometimes wonder w this neighbourhood - got [a «| ##ong before we came here! That eSpunds awful, doesn't it? But "don't misunderstand me-- I only mean because Partner gets so many odd calls for help, mainly I suppose, because he is country- deal with odd situations. The other night a grass widow phoned. abeut 'eleven o'clock because a raccoon had got into the garage and knocked the lid off her gar- bage can. Hearing. a noise she had phoned the police. A young officer came up and decided it was a raccoon and not a burglar. But yet she wasn't satisfied until she bad got in touch with Part ner, The next day another neigh- bour -- this time a man -- asked Partner to go up and see what he could do to destroy a hornet's nest. . . And yesterday he was asked to call our Ditto home be- cause she was after a bird's nest in a tree near the house next door. However, the calls are-not all: one-sided. When 'we have minor electrical troublds we ask the advice of a neighbour who is well versed in the intricate prob- lems concerning electrical appli- ances, The same applies to' win- ter car-starting problems. In any neighbourhood - there is always something that one person cah do "better than another, The thing is to know your neighbours, Even advice was to whom to call for a repair job is very welcome to a stranger In a strange district, And of course among the women . opportunities for neighbourliness are unlimited. But sometimes a "Umit" has to be set, For in- stance 'it is great for a young mother to come to the rescue of rmrrm------ 4 mem ISSUE 26) 1062 a neighbour by baby-sitting in an emergency but it should be expected ONLY in an emergen- cy. And it is only natural for pre-school children to congregate in one another's backyard. But that, too, should be kept within limits. Mother, for her own con- venience, shouldn't suggest to her little ones that they go and _play in Billy's backyard. It may _ glve her an opportunity to get on with her work -- but what about Billy's mother? No young mother can have a yard full of children without feeling she must keep an eye on them, And that is a situation that does develop, especially if Billy has an extra lot of things to play with in his backyard, including a sandpile and a slide. I know" of one young mother who some- times had as many as ten chil- dren around day after day. 'And of course she couldn't blame the children. It was the mothers who were at fault. Well, -the: foregoing was writ- ten Sunday morning. And then in the afternoon we had a storm. Real rain, no less -- for over two hours." The best rain we have had this year. Now we shall see the garden stuff grow. I knew a storm was coming as Taffy wouldp't leave me for a minute, Even Ditto was uneasy. As for ---me I-had my usual "thunder headache". Queer how some peo- ple. -- and animals' -- sense a storm more than others. It does not affect Partner in the least. But Taffy -- we never had a dog so petrified of thunder as Taffy. I always feel so sorry for the poor little tike. Now Partner and ~ 1 are going to don rubber boots, wander around outside and take a look at the garden. Consider the postage stamp. Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. Josh Billings. Killer Joe Has It Made BIG "You might say I organized it and put it together." The speak- er was dance master "Killer Joe" Piro. His subject: The hully gully, a conga - twist - square - dance sort of a step that is the newest rage from Harlem to Palm Beach, By way of dem- onstration, Piro flicked on a phonograph and began a sched- uled private lesson. Kic corkscrewing, teacher an pupil ruthlessly .'punished the floorboards of Piro's Manhattan walk-up studio. An hour later, his black hair. still as sleek as a newly Simonized Rolls-Royoe, Killer Joe told a visitor; "The hully gully unravels tensions. You are free to solo, free to swing your hips." .To the cognoscenti of the popular dance world, it comes as no surprise that pint-size (8 feet 6 inches, 133 pounds) Piro should have enriched clviliza- tion with the hully gully. Killer Joe, in fact, is something of a hip-swinging legend. An ex-jit- terbug champion, he ruled New York City's Palladium Ballroom as the mambo king, later helped fire. the pachanga fad, still is many a working gal's idea of Valentino on a dance-hall floor. The 41-year-old dancer's repu- tation is just as big in the jet- borne international set. His stu- dio clients -- who pay $65 for six lessons -- include Eva Ga- "bor ("cute"), the Duke of Bed- ford ("a live one"), and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor ("Duke has a nice soft move- ment"). Indeed, acting as a sort of patron St. Vitus as café-society " shindigs, Killer Joe is fast be- coming as popular a stimulant as vodka on the rocks. "People want someone to make .them gay," he says. Piro made per- sonal appearances at 30 balls and private parties last winter and so delighted guests at a re- cent charity hop in Palm Beach by dancing the twist with all comers that, along with his us- ual fee of $300, he got a diamond butterfly stickpin that he now flaunts in his narrow black tie. (One prominent Nassau hostess, unable to present him in person at a party, stuck his silver- framed picture on the buffet table.) © "It's wild," says Piro, his big brown eyes gleaming. "The Duchess of Windsor introduces me at a ball as her dancing teacher, and someone else inter- rupts,. saying: 'What do you mean? He's mine, too." -- Killer Joe's early life was no ball. Son of an impoverished ~~ Itallan tailor, he took his teen- age knocks in East Harlem, eventually began to cop $15 and $20 prizes at the Savoy Ball- room, proving-ground for the lindy hop. "I wasn't good-look- ing, so I had to learn to dance well --- otherwise no dates," ex- plains Killer Joe. In 1940, he won the annual Harvest Moon jitterbug title, and during the early part of the war, his gyra- tions at the Stage Door Canteen were so wild that he won his nickname. Show-biz folks recl- oned that, like a great bull- er, he should be seen to- ng I he knocked himself out tomorrow, but good. Coast Guard tour in the Pa- citle left Killer Joe with malar- ia; he was, however, far from floored. He hooked on at the " Palladium as emcee and dance master, started his own studio, and 'soon got tapped to teach other instructors the latest Latin American steps. When the twist became the torque of New York, Killer Joe could usually be spotted stomping at the Pepper- mint Lounge -- for his own pleasure. He looked so good that gradually, by word 3 Eh and -columns, made 9) Emipe society as a twist master. He hasn't stopped Pir- ouetting on parquet floors since. Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. Is it correct, at a cocktail party, for the women to remove their hats? A. If they wish. And, of course, they may even come without hats. . Q. Is it proper to write a fow lines of good wishes on the card that you enclose with a wedding' gift? A. While not necessary, this is a quite proper and nice thing to do. . She LABOR OF LOVE -- Busy at her - knitting, sweater _ girl." Over the past nine years, Mrs. Eaton has warmed the hearts and bodies of countless Korean war orphans by knitting almost 1,000 sweaters and "hundreds and hundreds" of caps, mit- - tens, stockings and other ~ clothing. Es ty for the Sixties he Los Angeles housewife Mrs. Leonard W. Eaton shows why she is known: as Korea's born-and bred and knows how to - ai Pomona, Calif., 30 miles from Los Angeles, is undertaking a 10-year renais- sance of the city and surrounding Pomona Valley. Heart of the plan is a nine- block-long pedestrian mall, shown in drawing, above, expected to be completed by September, 1962. Construction involves building traffic underpasses, reloca- tion of railroad rights of way and establishing off-street parking districts, among other things. New buildings and shops will line the mall, which will be decorated with trees and fountain and will include recreation areas. Overall view of the new Pomona, below, shows a transportation center, which train is approachin at right, and a civic center: The Pomona plan is unique in being financed and le by private enterprise, without relying on state or federal aid. The city grew from 35500 in 1950 to 227,000 in 1961 and expects a half-million population by SR