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W0IL1 MSCliJKS Brain Bach ing Rocking chair marathons are a new craze in Quebec. One Canadian’s rec ord of 72 hours of ceaseless rocking only set others off in efforts to exceed it. Rocking in a chair often is associa ted with thinking. If the record-seek ers go in for that, too, they’re doing a fine thing. M en ta l Illn ess In c rea se Mental illness — not cancer and heart disease—is today’s most press ing medical problem, according to Dr. Walter Martin, president of the American Medical Association. Dr. Martin cites many conditions which he says have led to an increase in mental illness, and he offers two basic reasons: “First, an aging population with more persons over 65 years of age and, because of medical advances, the longer life span of the average citizen. With more older people, the increase in mental conditions of the aged follows. Second, and probably the most important cause, the greater stresses and strain of living in this industrial age which make persons more susceptible to mental troubles.” Dr. Martin adds: “This is a genera tion of tremendous turmoil. The population of this nation has shifted from easygoing rural life to the fast moving industrial life of the cities.” Good A d v ic e F rom B razil Baby sitters are unknown in Brazil and in that southern country there is no “organized juvenile gangsterism.” Wadiva Isabel Marchiori, editor- in-chief of Brazil’s Revista de Globo, Brazilian magazine, thinks there is a connection between these two facts. In a press conference during her recent visit to the United States, the 25-year-old Miss Marchiori said: “I can’t understand what American parents are thinking of when they hire people, even strangers, some times even teen-agers, to sit with their children. In Brazil children go along with their parents, or their grand parents take care of them, or else the parents don’t go out.” Because of this custom, she de
James O. Henry, M.A., Editor Associate prof, of History, Biolo Bible College
clared, “Brazilian children during their formative years never feel ne glected by their parents, and that is why there is no organized juvenile delinquency in my country.” America might well take this advice. B o oh B r iv e F o r The Ph ilippines A book drive for the Philippines has been launched recently by the Mission Academia, a student organ ization at De Mazenod Scholasticate, in San Antonio, Tex. The head of the organization is a Filipino theol ogy student from Manila. Most of the books will be sent to the earth- quake-haunted island of Mindanao where the Oblate missionaries main tain 16 high schools and colleges. The drive is being carried on in conjunction with the National Cath olic Student Mission Crusade with headquarters at Crusade Castle, Cin cinnati, Ohio. We wonder why Protestants have not taken advantage of the oppor tunity of such a drive for the Prot estants in the Philippines. Commun ists Plan Student C on trol The communist-sponsored student Progressives organization and the All- Burma Federation of Students’Unions have laid down a plan to remove the Non-Partisan and Democratic Stu dents’ Union’s opposition from the Burmese student world, according to the Nation of Rangoon. The time to implement the plan to control student unions throughout the country has been set for next year’s election. At the present time, the commun ists are faced with a formidable ob stacle in the Non-Partisan and Demo cratic Students’ Unions, which con trol many high school' and college student union groups. In several towns DSU strength is a real threat to the existence of communist-in clined student unions. Despite the present situation, the communists are determined that next year they will have the entire student population under their firm control, continued the report.
An cien t Chinese V illage Found Archeologists of the Chinese com munist-controlled Institute of Science claimed the discovery of the ruins of a 4,000-year-old village in Shensi province last December. A report issued by the New China News Agency, official news organ of the Peiping regime, said that the ru ins were unearthed on the east bank of the Tsan River. The discovery in cluded types of huts and farming tools which the archeologists were able to piece together. P o o r Substitu te F o r M ilh Recently in a Los Angeles court a 38-year-old father was convicted for getting his 214 -year-old son so drunk on wine and beer that the boy “passed out.” The father was convicted of endan gering the lad’s health and safety. The judge who heard the case gave the father a tongue-lashing. He said: “At his tender age, your boy appar ently has acquired a taste for alco holic beverages. You have started him in the direction of being an alcoholic bum.” Communist encyclopedia writers have been kept busy rewriting his tory. What with the necessary changes in the Beria chapter to be made, and preparation for further revisions in the Malenkov pages probably coming up, they haven’t had much time to worry about for eign personalities. Now it appears that Mahatma Gandhi may get the treatment. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia which lists the great Indian leader as “a reactionary who aped the as cetics,” may be amended after an ap proach by the Indian government to the Soviet.Embassy in New Delhi. A spokesman for the Soviet cultural delegation to India said recently that a move to amend the remarks would be made when the delegation re turned to Russia. VSSB M a g lieu -rite Gandhi’ s Life
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