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I I i Infantile Paralysis WaicMa- GOOD TASTE UjafFoiiow mmon Cold ill 'Way Back When TODAY 1 ViT By JEANNE mi Mieticelcst Preventive n1 SET SaVC Monkeys, But Will They Work on H.als? By EMILY POST JAMES W. BARTON in WIIH Service. SCIENTIST WAS BORN IN SLAVERY lei! mmw Wofld'i Foremost Authority on Etiquette Emily Post. Wording Invitations to Sub-Deb's Party students we U4- fVit inflnpn. HIS master traded a broken-down race horse, worth about $300, for George Washington Carver when he was a little pickaninny just before the Civil war.

Today, he Is the pride of the negro race. fln was due to a cer- little organism or oacn-lalled the bacillus of -ler after its discoverer. epidemic of 1918, it ilund that a number of indi- not A worn-out speller was the only I education available to him until he 1 was ten years old, when he attended a small school in Neosho, Mo. He i slept in a barn there and did odd i jobs to earn a living while learning. The young negro boy's thirst I for knowledge grew, and he went on to finish his elementary school education in Fort Scott, where DEAR Mrs.

Post: My husband and I woutj like to give a small dance for our daughter who is of sub-del utante age, and the question of a proper form for invitations has come up. If have them engraved "Mr. and Mrs. request the pleasure of yuur company at a dance In honor of their daughter won't this invitation suggest that we are bringing our daughter out at this dance? We would not like to create this impression. It seems that all the invitations my son receives to debutante parties are worded this way, but it is also true that my husband and I receive invitations to older parties also in "an, wno I Hi ne Viuyitia wnu suffer with flu had this bacillus or organism in their throats.

Today many-physicians believe that more than one organism may cause the common cold and give rise to the usual symptoms of sneezing, running nose, increased pulse and temperature and a feeling "on the he worked as a hotel cook, a dishwasher, and a housekeeper. Later he bent over wash tubs night after night doing laundry for people, to thin the wertj ont Page spj this same wording. ca' light Barton nation fe. id observf; ely. that tts'; I 1 Hf fjrxl brtH V' 1 1 1 1 Si ii Jedness.

iever, when a case goes on to jne prostration and greatly in-jed temperature, it is believed fo the organisms of another li.t entering in, such as that of Jneumonia, bronchopneumonia Ise; he ork City ers. i we 16: Leaves the Door Open. New Yak ut of fort. SOmeullc llcts adiu iiiafc wic urther, h. cold when it enters the fen leaves the door open which Answer; An invitation such as you suggested and also the one in which the daughter's name appears immediately under that of the parents does mean that she is "out" or is to be presented at the party.

On invitations to parties given for younger daughters it would be better to have forms engraved, if you do not already have them, which are intended to be tilled in. These same forms are used for dinners or other occasions, which do not require a large enough number to have an especially worded invitation engraved. Your daughter's name would simply be written across the top. Where Fashion Leads We Trail Like Sheep DEAR Mrs. Tost: Will you please explain about the wearing of veils in the present day? Mother Insists that they were never intended he believe uld not peg 5' ew Dealt, New York nation and ilerferes with the defenses of ose and throat that they can't these other organisms from fing.

It would seem that very the first ailment to follow a irjie or common cold is the flu, tfj.he flu so prostrates the indi-l during the first few days that I other organisms, often ally present in the body, are able ht off the natural defenses and litacture the poisons which doctor howevel that sitd battle bejj Hero monkey that's what science calls the tiny rhesus monkey, like the little fellow here, whose nose is being sprayed in an experiment to test a preventive for infantile paralysis; thousands or monkeys have died in the cause. If the sprays prove successful on humans it may mean the end of pitiful cases like that of the little girl above. The annual, nation-wide series of President's Birthday parties helps to raise funds for the research work; a scene from one is also shown. Democml le before I ive Deid ie the serious symptoms that fol- and the party tiki Roosevelt I also to lki ttei of 1940:1 1 Campari conservd aligned Hi ronj win? firing the 1918 epidemic it was jfprivilege to be senior medical ler of a military base hospital of sleds. At the end of the first it of the epidemic we had to in-I extra beds in wards and in 4 corridors to accomodate the number of flu patients, fortunately most of the patients to us directly from their units, ained a few days, and made a recovery.

But many patients remained on their feet for the two or three days of the flu, reported sick to their own med-efficer and were then sent to us, had or developed serious pay his way through high schooL He worked as a hotel clerk for awhile and then entered Simpson college at Indianola, Iowa, where he earned his tuition by doing odd jobs. Three years later, George Washington Carver went on to Iowa State university, graduating with a degree in agriculture. In two more years he won his Master of Science degree, and was made a member of the faculty, so Impressive were his accomplishments in agricultural chemistry. In 1897, he took charge of the agricultural department at Tuskegee institute, in Alabama, leading negro university. The contributions George Washington Carver has made to agriculture of the South are outstanding.

He was among the first to advocate crop rotation for wornout soil and he has developed hundreds of commercially useful articles from the principal agricultural products of Southern states. From the peanut alone Carver made 285 products and from the sweet potato 118. Thomas A. Edison once invited him to work with him, but he preferred to concentrate on problems of southern agriculture. In addition to his prominence In science, George Washington Carver is an accomplished musician.

STAR PITCHER WAS A COTTON PICKER ither side. York pnd is the id idential i going tc: against the spread of infantile paralysis. It was a battle that widened to many more fronts as time wore on, and by 1885 the infectious nature of the disease was pretty generally accepted. Yet it was not until 1908 that the first real advance was made in the search for a germ. Then Land-steiner and Popper, in Paris, injected portions of the brain and spinal chord, taken from a fatal human case of infantile paralysis, into some monkeys.

They succeeded in infecting the monkeys with the disease, thus putting it on an experimental basis for the first time. Only a short time later several doctors almost simultaneously managed to pass poliomyelitis from one monkey to another. They were Flexner and Lewis in New York, Leiner and Von Wiesner in Vienna, and Landsteiner and Levaditi in Paris. The way was now cleared to studying the mechanism of the disease. It was indicated how the germ was spreading, but scientists still had not banded in any united effort.

It took a national tragedy to wake them up. been By WILLIAM C. UTLEY WITH a wave of infantile paralysis assuming serious proportions in the south central region of the United States, science may find its long-awaited opportunity to make mass tests of nose sprays as a means of preventing the dread, crippling disease. Nasal sprays have proved nearly 100 per cent effective upon laboratory monkeys, which respond to poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) in the same way humans do. But until an extensive outbreak of the disease occurred there was no chance to conduct experiments upon humans, for the lives of large numbers of persons must not be endangered unnecessarily.

Now that outbreak may be at hand, for the south central regions are reporting an increase in "polio" cases far over the normal increase which comes with the summer months. Between May 9 and July 24 there were, according to the United States public health service, 486 cases reported from the west south central region, as compared riew by 'opeland Implications during their stay with hat PresiJ f-pneumonia and bronchopneumo- jig in ne must get off his feet and to Copela I immediately when attacked by have vere cold or the flu. listic tt Deal fs ent has Sate Method of itives iiere are a great many individu- Bator fa side i to be worn after dark and I can hardly believe she is right because why would so many of the hats bought for 6treet wear have veils attached to them? Answer: It is impossible to at-tept to limit fashions. Perhaps women will wear veils around their wrists or around their necks next, for whatever fashion says to do we all, like so many sheep, follow after. Of course they didn't used to wear veils in the evening.

Of course they didn't used to go without backs in their dresses either, nor did they play tennis in panties! At present they do wear stiff little rue trimmings on the hats and call them veils, and also call some of the hats they grace evening hats. As for the large circular evening veils that are dropped snugly over the hair to keep it in place, and then flare smartly at the bottom edge, which are illustrated in the fashion magazines, they are perhaps legitimate children of day before yesterday's "fascinator." Announcing a Birth DEAR Mrs. Post: Is it unusual for parents to handwrite an announcement of a baby's birth on plain white cards? I think something simple like "Mr. and Mrs. John Parents are happy to announce the birth of Mary Lou at St.

Luke's hospital" would be nicer than having them printed, or filling in stock forms. And is it all right to mention the hospital as I have, since I would like my out of town friends to send letters to me. Answer: I would get a box of very small sized white note paper Instead of cards, and write exactly what you said. Break the message down this way: Mr. and Mrs.

John Parent are happy to announce the birth of Mary Lou at St. Luke's Hospital on Friday, February 10th Cutting-In at Dance SOME time ago I was the guest of girl at a big dance at which I ise, be itionto Swho, while not really fat, know vt they are carrying ten to fifteen ire pounds than they should to JR'e comfort and proper working "Iity. They naturally dislike the a of going on any one of the JMal diets, but would be willing follow in a general way a system would take off the surplus Co? JEROME HERMAN (DIZZY) DEAN was born in Lucas, in 1911. Son of a poor cotton picker, he was forced to quit school when he reached the fourth grade, because the family was so poor that iha 50 rpnt rlav rnlilH pam In others ral poii: consent Ice bat -ght over a period of six months 1 a year. .7 lanaged Jometimes it is ennnph fnr thom 1 Farlej As is know what classes of foods to foid and what classes to eat.

Thus "Sea ttle me cotton neias was a necessity. Under-flourished, poorly clothed and uneducated, as he was, Dizzy Dean always had confidence in himself. Perhaps that explains why he was able to develop what small advantages circumstances in life allowed him, and develop them to championship quality. Confidence and a strong right arm hardened in Jtting down on highly nutritious or caloric foods sugar, potatoes, Nd, butter, cream, pucr.vnllfa Copej increasing the less nutritious or I caloric foodi mhhoo as the tion leir ca f'er, skimmed milk, fresh fruits, fi green vegetables is all that ter with the President, he conceived the idea of a gigantic series of parties which would enable millions of Americans to do their share in the war on polio. Under Colonel Doherty's direction the mammoth party-organizing task was started.

A national headquarters was established in New York and civic-minded persons were called upon to help. The first series of parties was held on January 30, 1934, the President's birthday. Funds Aid Experiment. So far more than $4,000,000 has been raised by the annual parties. Seventy per cent remains to fight infantile paralysis in the community where it was raised, while 30 per cent goes to the national fund, to be used for research or rehabilitation work.

One important use to which the receipts from the parties was put was the development of the nasal spray preventive for poliomyelitis. How this spray came to be discovered is a dramatic episode in medical history. The subvisible microbes have ever defied scientists to follow their meanderings. Yet, after long and brilliant experimentation, scientists in laboratories in New York, Chicago, Stanford university and London at last found out that the nose was a doorway to the polio virus. In the laboratories of the United States public health service, Charles Armstrong, a "microbe hunter," decided that if he could find some means of blocking that doorway, there would be no way for the deadly germs to attack.

For three years he experimented with a whole drove of rhesus monkeys. Finally he found what he wanted. By washing the insides of the monkeys' noses with a weak solution of picric acid and alum, he was able to save 24 out of 25 monkeys exposed to a hot, exceptionally dangerous infantile paralysis virus! Confusion Hampers Test. Armstrong was confident that if his solution worked with monkeys it ought to be effective on humans. But he was forced to wait for an opportunity to make the test.

It apparently arrived last summer, when an epidemic broke out in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. Rushing to the scene, he won widespread support to his plan of spraying the solution into the children's noses. He planned to have the doctors supervise the spraying and keep careful records. Unfortunately the experiment got out of hand: the doctors became swamped with demands upon their time and many parents used the easily procurable solution without bothering about scientific counsel on its use. After salvaging what records he could and making extensive records of his own.

Armstrong decided that a more powerful solution was needed. Two California scientists, working on funds supplied by the President's Birthday Ball commission, supplied it. They were E. W. Schultz and L.

P. Gcbhardt of Stanford university, and they offered a 1 per cent zinc sulphate solution. Zinc sulphate had been used fur years as an eyewash. They discovered it was virtually 100 per cent effective in preventing infantile pnralysis when sprayed into ths noses of monkeys. (fe Wpstnrn NeHp tper Union.

i selef In the summer of 1916 the great infantile paralysis epidemic hit the United States. It began in a small area in Brooklyn, then spread rapidly over the rest of New York City and Long Island, eventually cascading over the entire country. It touched every state, and struck down more than 25,000 persons, most of them children. Health Officers at Loss. Panic swept the nation.

In the mistaken belief that only those under sixteen were susceptible, railroad officials refused to let children ride on trains. Vigilante bands of citizens established unofficial martial law in many places, and health certificates were required as "passports" for children moving from one community to another. Health officers made every conceivable effort to check the disease, but they still lacked a working knowledge of ways and means to combat its ravages. The epidemic died of itself, finally, and so did public terror. There have been lesser epidemics since then; 15.000 cases were reported in 1931.

and 10,000 each in the years 1927 and 1935. Medical science recognized infan needed to brine art Jw, fi fed reduction in weitrM te with only 18 cases for the same period of 1936 and 65 cases for the same period of 1935. During these weeks the east south central region reported 317 cases as compared with 234 in 1936 and 57 in 1935. There was some indication of the spread of the disease eastward. Doctors hope that the nose spray will be proved definitely successful in its application to human beings, for it is more than a century since the first written account of poliomyelitis was made by a trained physician.

English Doctor Started Crusade. Even so, progress has been phenomenally rapid in the light of the age of the disease, for it is probably as old as mankind. But it was only 102 years ago that Dr. John Badham, of Worksop, England, moved by the condition of four tiny patients, pleaded through the medium of medical journals for other doctors to come to his aid with suggestions for the cure of a disease nobody knew anything about. burrci As far as meat, fish, eggs (pro- WHS) are rnnnnmnA Mate" P'ng of meat nr fich ny pn daily to maintain the of the boriv Thuo 1 tart seu into "should include lean meat, eggs 'ft cheers (which supply pro-land are at the s.imo tirr, 1 ra' hat sff was a total stranger.

Stags cut ln on us frequently and I stood out most of the evening. Could I have cut In on other girls whom I had not met? hind cot eir tut any Si-long in. lit cfisT ikeiy fuel value) and small pounts of a few carbohydrate or foods such as bread, pota-H? and very simP'e desserts. be amost entirely ed bccse their fuel or food C. 15 than twice that of stnrch foods.

iarer' CVCn 11 fats anl cnes are cut down and fruits Wet inCreaSed' the wa (meat, eggs, fish) must be i'eased nt only for their and for maintaining lCfS'Ture butso because pro-mik "fast burning- Hi ipeii iell it I ke ru'ef lb. greaUy increa turning up sur- as fat. Hence jrason would lose weight faster on Answer: What your friend should have done would have been to take you up to some of the girls first before you and she went on dancing. Then the next time she was cut in on you could have cut in on any of these girls to whom she had introduced you. To leave you not knowing a person in the room was showing very little social tact on her part.

"At Home" Cards. DEAE Mrs. Post: After our marriage we are going west for several months but do not expect that my husband will have to stay on after that time. His next place will be permanent but we are not sure where it will be as yet. Under the circumstances, what should I do about enclosing at home cards with my announcements? Answer: I wouldn't enclose at home cards.

Those who want to write you can write to your own home address and by and by, when you are settled permanently, send out your visiting card with your address on it. WNU Service. mt an insufficient tile paralysis as one of its most challenging problems and redoubled its efforts to find an answer. Foundations, research laboratories both public and private, universities and individual physicians and research workers concentrated their attention upon it. But it remained for a layman.

Col Henry L. Doherty. to begin the met novel move in the battle, one which popularized the fight among all classes of Americans. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, himself a victim of Infantile paralysis, inspired the move.

President Roosevelt's previous interest in the cause of fellow sufferers had been repeatedly manifested by activities on behalf of the Warm Springs, foundation where victims are treated. First President's Birthday Ball. Visiting Warm Springs in 1933. Colonel Doherty also became deeply interested, and acquired a firsthand knowledge of the research and work going forward country. He saw the need for widespread uf eiTorl.

Af.er dressing the mat Dr. Badham's paper, telling ot me plight of the four crippled youngsters doomed to pathetically unhappy lives, launched one of the greatest crusades in medical history. Poorly equipped as they were, doctors of the Nineteenth century did not hesitate in responding to the pioneering Badham's call for assistance. Only five years later. Jacob von Heine, German orthopedic surgeon of Cannstaat, made public an important study of infantile paralysis.

His practice brought him in contact with many cases of deformed limbs in children. A shrewd observer, he noticed something about young paralytics which other medical men had largely overlooked. He saw that paralysis was the result of some kind of acute disease which preceded the appearance of muscular weakness. Get on Trail of Germ. The discovery was epochal for.

111 other words. Heine perceived that paralysis in children didn't just hap-pen-it had a definite antece, wit cause. He won tor himself a place of honor in ranks those battling the cotton fields were Dizzy's equipment for facing life. He learned to throw a baseball with amazing speed and controL In 1929, he was signed up by Don Curtiss, scout for the Cardinals' Texas league. The salary was comparatively small, but it looked like a fortune to the former cotton picker.

After training in Houston, he was shipped to St, Joseph, where his confidence and fast pitching won 17 games. Transferred to Houston, he developed rapidly and soon became star pitcher for the St Louis Cardinals. Meantime, his brother Paul, or won a pitching berth on the Cardinals. Dizzy was always the more spectacular, the higher paid, and the mora widely publicized. He has indorsed many advertised products, made a motion picture, appeared in vaudeville, and spoken over the radio.

I lis recent earnings have been $40,000 or more per year. WNU Service. fit DUl Wlth a greater ln Proportion to chM because th "eat U.rn" more freely. anount cf "great" 1 ights beeause many over- symp- Pressure or kid" ConCb Physicians doing special aoidance J'Sf 8 comPle "sne" advise that Of tr7dav I00ds be eaten ev-.