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Thursday, August I, 1963
Life Can
Be Better
ROBERT V. OZMENT, Ph. D.
St. James Church. Atlanta
Finding Life’s Purpose Is A
Great Secret
Life is like a bank; you can
not withdraw money unless
you have made some deposits.
A man should spend more time
trying to get his life in balance
than he spends in trying to bal
ance his bankbook.
A lot of people never stop
to think of the true purpose of
life. Many of us are confused
and frustrated at this point. I
know a man who seems to have
as his aim in life simply to
make and save all the money
he can. He spends most of his J
time working. He seems almost j
like a stranger in his own!
house. He will wake up to the
fact one day that there are
some things in life that all the
money in the world cannot buy.
An ancient myth tells of
King Midas, who prayed asking
the gods to give him the power
to turn whatever he touched
into gold. The gods granted
the request. The king put on
his robe, and it turned into
gold. He sat at his table and the
food he wanted to eat turned
into gold as he lifted it to his
mouth. The water turned into
gold as he placed the cup to his
lips. He took his lovely little
daughter into his arms to kiss
her, and the little body became
cold and turned into gold.
Finally, the king fell upon
his knees and prayed that the
gods would deliver him from
his folly and take away this
strange power. He discovered
that wealth is much more than
just gold.
I would not trade good heal
th for all the gold in the world.
Almost every day, I see people
who would give all their earth- ।
ly possessions for a good strong
body.
A blind man cried out to Je
sus and said, “. . .Thou Son of
Bone Marrow Holds Many Secrets
By The Medical
Association of Georgia
The body has two kinds of
bones — “long” bones and
“flat” bones. Most of the long
bones are in the skeleton of the
aims and legs. Most of the flat
bones are in the skull, spine
and pelvis. Bone marrow, a
soft, dark red tissue intermixed
with fat, is found within the
long bones of the arms and legs
and between the outer and
inner layers of the skull and
other flat bones.
Certain blood cells are made
in the bone marrow. They are
red corpuscles or erythrocytes
and the granulocytes, the more
numberous of one variety of
white corpuscles. Blood plate
lets or thrombocytes, the tiny
element in the blood that en
ables it to clot, are also found
in the bone marrow.
Examining the bone marrow
has been compared to one’s
going to the factory to find out
about some defect in the pro
duct made by the factory. In
the case of the “factory” in the
bone marrow, defects might be
that it produces too few, many
or abnormal red or white blood
corpuscles. Such an examina
tion might explain a patient’s
anemia by showing that the
anemia results from a dietary
deficiency or from excessive
blood loss. A bone marrow ex
amination is often done to con
firm diagnoses of certain leu
kemias, tumors involving the
marrow and bleeding condi
tions.
How does the physician exa
mine bone marrow? The proce
dure is relatively simple. The
specimen for examination is
usually taken from the pati
ent’s sternum or breastbone.
The skin over the selected site
is anesthetized with a local
anesthetic. A needle is inserted
through the hard outer bone
into the soft bone marrow. A
few drops of marrow are with
drawn by suction into a glass
syringe. The drops are then
smeared on glass slides. Cells
in these smears are then stain
ed and examined in away very
similar to the way in which
ordinary blood smears are exa
mined.
Sometimes a tisssue section
a thin slice —of the mar
row is made in a pathology la
boratory. Pathologists, physici
ans who specialize in the study
of disease processes, and hemo
tolcglst*, physicians specializ
ing in blood diseases, ordinarily
interpret the findings.
Octasionaliy marrow obtain
ed in this manner doesn’t yield
the desired information. In
such ca*s. it may be necessary
to surgically remove a small
piece of bone and marrow for
examination.
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David, have mercy on me.”
(Mark 10:38) Jesus asked, "...
What wilt thou that I should
do unto thee?...? (Mark 10:51)
The blind man did not ask for
anything that money could buy.
"Master, let me receive my
sight,” was his reply.
Then, a man would be fool
ish to trade his character for
riches. The writer of the Pro
verbs made this thought pro
voking statement. “A good
i name is rather to be chosen
I than great riches, and loving
| favor rather than silver and
। gold.” (Proverbs 22:1) It takes
; a strong character to use weal
‘ th without abusing it.
A Christian shoe manufac
turer had this for his motto:
“God first, others second, shoes
third.” He found happiness and
joy greater than anything he
had known before he adopted
this motto. He placed God
where He ought to be, and his
business where it belonged.
Jesus gave us the clue to the
purpose of our existence when
He said, “. . .My meat is to do
the will of him that sent me,
and to finish his work.” (John
4:34) Jesus also said, “. . .Fol
low me.” (John 21:19)
We have learned one of life’s
greatest secrets when we come
to know that the purpose of
life is neither to make money
nor to become famous. On the
contrary, it is to discover and
to do God’s will. This is the
only way to find true happi
ness and spiritual contentment.
If I can find and do God’s will
in this life, when the curtain
falls on the last act of my
earthly existence, the Prince of
| Peace will surely say, “.. .Well
; done, good and faithful ser
vant; . . .enter thou into the
joy of thy Lord.” (Matthew
24:23)
I DOC MAG SAYS:
Bone marrow examination.-,
, reveal much about how the
i body is functioning. They shed
■ light particularly on the manu
facture of components of the
blood. Techniques for obtain
ing specimens of bone marrow
~ and examining the specimens
have been refined and are
more widely used than former
ly. They are part of a thorough
investigation of diseases of the
blood.
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Producers Show
More Interest
In Freezing Eggs
In an effort to find a market
outlet for small, stained, crack
ed and odd-shaped eggs, Geor
gia producers are showing an
increased interest in breaking
and freezing eggs on the farm.
1 Reason for this, said Jerry
Cox of the Cooperative Exten
sion Service poultry depart
ment, is the fact that the state's
commercial egg farms have be
come much larger.
“When a poultryman had
only a few thousand hens, he
could sell the undergrades in
the shell at the door,” Mr. Cox
explained. "But w’ith our larger
egg operations,” he added, “un
dergrades cannot be easily dis
posed of in the shell form.”
The University of Georgia
i specialist urged producers wh<
, are freezing eggs to make every
effort to sell a top quality pro
duct. “Freezing eggs on the
farm can be profitable, but
sanitary regulations must not
•be abused,” he declared. Mr.
: Cox pointed out that broken
‘ out eggs are extremely perish
-1 able and must be treated as
such.
He cited research which
shows the following rules
should be followed closely in
breaking and freezing whole
eggs: (1) Use only fresh eggs:
(2) wash eggs before breaking
(3) personal cleanliness should
| receive particular attention;
(4) surrounding must be clean
I at all times; (5) new contain
| ers should be used for packag-
I ing; (6) don’t beat the eggs too
long or too fast; (7) freeze eggs
immediately, and (8) freeze at
. a temperature of minus 20 de
grees F.
Mr. Cox said many problems
■ connected with the farm freez
i ing of eggs remain to be solved,
i ■He added, however, that many
I difficulties can be minimized
11 by following these steps and ■
paying close attention to all ।
i sanitary regulations. I
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