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...Poor Pig. The once white gravel of Hoppegarten was grey and unkempt. In place of the old gay flags were monotonous red banners. Instead of champagne, there was weak beer; instead of flower girls, old women hawking Communist "reconstruction lottery" tickets. The wives of Communist functionaries walked up and down munching garlic sandwiches...
This little pig went to market; This little pig stayed at home; This little pig had roast beef; This little pig had none; This little pig went wee-wee-wee All the way home...
Quaker Reeve is one of a dozen volunteers serving as human guinea pigs at Bethesda. He is also a conscientious objector. Under the Selective Service Act he had elected to work off his obligation with two years of service contributing to "the maintenance of the national health, safety or interest." Of the 4,000 Quakers, Mennonites, members of the Assemblies of God and Church of the Brethren, or other pacifist sects who choose this course each year, most go to work as attendants in mental hospitals. Only a hardy few volunteer for guinea-pig duty...
Another guinea pig now in the Bethesda center is 24-year-old Robert Brantner (Brethren) of Lanark, Ill. In metabolism studies he is being kept on a rice diet in an effort to make this unsalted. monotonous regimen (usually prescribed to keep down water retention in heart cases) less wearisome and more nourishing. The trouble has been that because it lacks protein the rice-fruit menu causes the dieter to burn up his own body proteins. Metabolism experts have tried to prevent this in Brantner's case by adding two amino acids, lysine and threonine, to his diet. Also...
Crooked Fence. Said he: "Some of them saw a great inflation . . . They have been proved wrong. Others then started preaching depression, depression." The President was reminded of Lincoln's story of "a farmer [who] built a fence that was so crooked that every time a pig bored a hole through it, he found himself on the same side from which he started...