Big Dispute (Cont'd)

Young Judge Lester William Roth of Los Angeles, who "used to be a newspaperman myself,"/- pleased the newspapermen covering his courtroom by continuing into last week the dispute .about the incipient gigantism of 235-lb., 6-ft., 14-year-old Adolph Roome (TIME, April 6). Last fortnight Judge Roth assured large Adolph's mother that her onetime husband, Dr. Adolph Edward Roome Jr. would not be allowed to "experiment'' on Adolph with pituitary extract. Said the Judge then: "The boy is not a guinea pig.'' But last week, Dr. Roome having shown that pituitary extract treatments are now well understood and having pleaded again that he simply wanted to save his son from being a physical monstrosity, Judge Roth decided for the father. Large Adolph must submit to Dr. Roome's ministration, because among Jewish Judge Roth's other reasons, "the Biblical injunction that children shall honor their father and mother is still upheld by the law of this State."

/-On the Los Angeles Examiner and Express while attending the University of Southern California.

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