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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1938
Page
9
A 1938 Q&A discusses whether death is inherited, the link to life expectancy, and how long living families influence longevity. It argues science shows heredity shapes aging and that long life comes from marrying into healthy lineages. It also covers compatibility in marriage and the idea of “gentleman’s jobs” versus practical work for youths.
Edmonton telegram reports a famine among Eskimos of Victoria Island caused by a caribou and fish shortage. Capt. Ernest Pasley, Arctic mariner and trader, says natives now depend on seal meat as they face starvation on the ice-bound island 1,450 miles northwest of Edmonton.
In a snowy Adventure Cave rescue Uncle Wiggily is saved from the Bad Chaps the Bob Cat Fox and Wolf by the Police Dog with help from a carrier pigeon. The pair remove stones blockading the cave and the rabbit hurries home in a fast March wind slide.
ST Louis report that Washington University medical school studies balance organs in pigeons cats rabbits and Japanese waltzing mice to gain more understanding of equilibrium mechanisms. The research aims to reveal how motion and balance are controlled in these animals.
Dr. Dorothy Wolff explored inner ear diseases by filming normal pigeons then destroying balance areas in their inner ears. Post treatment, the birds’ heads bobbed like humans with inner ear disorders. Pigeons were later sacrificed for microscopic study to connect movement with organ changes. Japanese waltzing mice showed circular movements with ear lesions in the semicircular canals.
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