Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 96, Decatur, Adams County, 23 April 1958 — Page 16

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More Research On Smoking Is Needed Overconfidence Os Scientists Scored By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor - NEW YORK (UP) —A worldrenowned scientist has spoken out in alarm against “a spirit of overconfidence" which is causing scientists and scientific i organizations to believe cigaret smoking has been proved to be a cause of lung cancer beyond quibble 01 doubt. The so-called ‘‘proof” is not proof at all, according to Sir Ronald Fisher, professor of genetics at Cambridge University and until recently visiting professor at Michigan State University, East Lansing. The "proof” is statistical and Sir Ronald’s renown is in statistics. He is often called “the father of modern statistics.” The alarming thing about this "over - confidence,” he continued, is that it blocks scientific re searcn which could either verify or destroy the ‘'proof,” and other scientific studies that could really find out why lung cancer rates have increased so much during the past 50 years. Had Deter mental Effect “The worst effect of that overconfidence, so far, is that it seejpns to have held back the various teams of workers," he said. ..1 think nothing but overconfidence that they had found the solution, that they had. the game in the bag, could have prevented them from following up some of the other lines of inquiry wmch are much needed." He pointed to one facet of the Bitish Hill and Doll statistical studies upon which some of the case against cigaret smoking is based. In their very first study, those statisticians asked both cancer patients and patients with other diseases, "Do you inhale?” Surprisingly, there were fewer inhalers among the former than among the latter. Injects Judgement On the face of it, you’d think inhalers would be more prone to lung cancer than non-inhalers —if cigaret smoking and lung cancer truly ere associated. "So," continued Sir Ronald, "our evidence about inhaling is embarrassing and difficult. It would look as though, if one could make the inquiry by comparing people who smoke the same number of cigarets. there would be a negative as-i sociation between cancer and in ; haling. It seems to-me the world ought to know lhe.unsser to that question. Another inquiry he thought it was urgent for science to make, was the part the hereditary makeup of the individual plays in his susceptibility (or lack of it) to lung cancer. The statistical sudies suggested that these genetic differences exist, but the suggestions haven’t been followed up. He also was impressed by "the very striking fact that at the same level of cigaret smoking, ~ dwellers in towns have considerably more lung cancers_ th an.; dwellers in the country." The Hill and Doll reports, as well as the American Hammond and Horn reports, showed these differences, yet "I don't know any extensive piece of research which has beer, set on foot to get to the bottom of that imporant difference." Sir Ronald sot forth his views in Michigan St ate University s "Centennial Review of Arts and Science." Four Mistakes AUGUSTA, Me. (IP — The "deei kill" during Maine’s 1957 huntint season included two a priz< bull and a bull calf, all mistakei by hunters for deer. If \ ; fir new ARAB TOWER' -What course Saudi Arabian policy will take remains to be seen to the wake of relegation of power to Prince Feiaal (upper) by 57-year-old King Saud (lower). Feisal, 52. reportedly team toward Egypt. He has been given power in foreign, financial and domestic fields, as well as power in relations with oil interests. (International J

Aristocratic Meat Is Being Packaged High-Priced Meat JBy Packing House CHICAGO (UP) How would you folks like a nice beef roast, 14 to 16 pounds, price $39 50? Too big? Well, here’s a box of six Tbone steaks for $27 50.

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You can get these items, and others like them,, from a Chicago packing ( house that has given the meat business a velvet touch and has put the lowly hunk of beef somewhere between bonded bourbon and emeralds. The firm, Pfaelzer Brothers Inc. ignoring the recession, today jumped into a high pressure campaign to sell—delivered to your front door—a full line of aristo- , i cratic meat that some of us would 1 have to buy on the installment | plan.

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Leonard Pfaelzer. one of the i brothers who runs the firm, said many Americans who can afford the best are getting only the second-best when it comes to meat. "Our service will permit them to c~t in accordance with their station in life/' he said.However, he said, the items aren’t especially intended for the carriage trade. They are for anyone with discriminating tastes regardless of income. The items include 8 boneless sirloin strip steaks at $35.00, 16

tenderloin steaks at $32.50, 8 filet mignon and 4 sirloin steaks, $33.50. Then there’s pork chops in petite, regular and king-size, short ribs, ground round steak, lamb shops, and ham steaks. Prices? Oh, who cares—let’s live it up‘Td like to point out,” Pfaelzer said in an interview "that the prices aren’t as high as they sound. Consider this is the very top grade of meat. There’s none finer anywhere. Consider also there’s absolutely no waste — no bone, no fat, nothing but delicious

t meat.” I Pfaelzer, executive vice presii dent, said the company is putting t top quality meat—“prime"—in the > kitchens, “something that's never 1 been done before.” ■» "It’s hard to realize,” he said, • “but no matter how much money • you’ve got you can’t buy prime r meat at retail except in a very r few stores. Now we’re shipping it > all over the country, packed in > dry ice. ready for the fire." > "And if you’ve every wondered i why the steak your wife slapped

down in front of you isn’t like the one you got at the restaurant, it’s because it isn’t the same kind of meat. It’s the difference between prime —the best—and choice—the next-best.” SIOUX FALLS, S. D. (W — The State-Federal Crop and Livestock Reporting Service said South Dakota raised 21,200,000 pounds of Kentucky bluegrass seed in 1957, the most in the nation. Kentucky wasn’t even second. lowa was.

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Penny Wedding SAN JOSE, Calif. (W — Dixie Lane, 19-year-old telephone operator. and Alfred J. Clements, were married here, paying all expenses with 2,750 pennies saved .during the past year. They used the $27.50 this way—s 2 for the license, $lO for the minister, $5 for the organist, $lO for the church janitor, and 50 cents for refreshments. Trad? in a good town — Decatur