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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH World War Officers Honor Pershing TO HEAD SCIENTISTS Let Our Motto Be GOOD HEALTH Chic and Practical Is This Ensemble BY DR. LLOYD ARNOLD Professor of Bacteriology and Preventive Medicine, University of Illinois, PATTERN 1943 College of Medicine. WHOOPING COUGH who has seen a child go the strangling, vomiting phase through of whooping cough, certainly wishes that whooping Anyone be face off the wiped of the earth. Whooping cough is a major infecIt tious disease. causes 10,000 or more deaths yearly in this country. In the seven yearn in 1931 ending there were approx cough might Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of the Massachusetts institute of technology and chairman of President Roosevelt's science advisory board, was elected to the 1936 presidency of the American Association for the Advancement of Science of the associations an Gen. John J. Pershing, although a life member of the Military Order of nual convention in Pittsburgh, Pa. the World War since its inception in 1920, was recently formally presented by the commander in chief of the order, Col. George E. Ijams, in the presence of DR. ROGER ADAMS the national officers and members of the general staff of the order, with the parchment designating him as its honorary commander in chief for life. She Chased a Duke on This Dr. Roger Adams, head of the department of chemistry of the University of Illinois, who has assumed office as president of the American Chemical society. COMING FAST of the duke of Gloucester, third son of King Determined to get a close-uGeorge and Queen Mary of England, on the occasion of his recent visit to Sydney, Australia, Miss Catalina Galmes, thirteen, chased the cruiser on which he traveled on her water bicycle, on which she is pictured. But tragedy almost ended her adventure. A passing ferry capsized her small craft; she could not swim, and was saved by a girl passenger on the ferry. p This Will Be a Giant Airship imately 2,000 deaths from whooping cough in the state of Illinois, or an average of about 285 a year. During 1931 and part of 1932, 19,000 cases were reported to the 1111 nols health department by physicians of the state. Ninety per cent of the deaths occur In children under three years of : ge. The largest number of deaths occur In the second half of the first year. Girls are more susceptible to whooping cough than boys are. It is the only communicable disease of childhood in which there is this sex distinction. Death rates are higher in the rural districts than in the cities, and the disease is more severe In colder cli mates than in the warm zones. While few deaths occur past six years of age, anyone may get whooping cough. Parents, if they have not had it before, sometimes get it from their children. But when one has had a case of this disease, one is usually immune to a second attack. So far . as is known, monkeys are the only animals besides man that can contract whooping cough. This Is one reason why It has been difficult for bacteriologists to experiment with this disease, as monkeys are scarce and expensive. Indeed, the papers reported recently the plight of a Cleveland doctor who is trying to bnd the cause of the distinctive whoop. He had secured four chimpanzees at a cost of $350 each. He gave the disease to two of the animals, but kept the other two isolated for a later experiment. But In somt way these two also got It, and he la unable to give any ore of the four a second attack. So he has to get a new lot of chimpanzees before he can continue his work. Whooping cough is transmitted from person to person in secretions of the mouth and nose, and by kissing and close contact. It Is not contagious dur ing the period of incubation, which ia from two to three weeks usually four teen to sixteen days, but it can be transmitted from the appearance of the first symptom, and it is most contagious during the early stage before the whoop develops. It may also be com municated in the late stages and foi some time after convalescence. We have not discovered any vaccine for it yet, either for its prevention oi its cure, as we have for diphtheria But in 1906 two Belgian scientists Gengou and the famous Bordet, dis is- - This Joe Louis of Detroit whosw progress toward the top in the heavyweight class is being watched eagerly, especially by Max Baer, the champion. YOUNGEST BISHOP covered the bacteria that cause whooping cough. These bacteria live fai down in the bronchial tubes, however, and for a number of years doctors tried out various methods of raising the bacteria to the surface, but with many patients they were not successful Id doing so. Then ten years later, two German scientists, Chievltz and Meyer, Invented a cough plate, which was perfected by a Danish scientist, Madsen. This is a shallow tin box, with a cover, the size of the palm of the hand, to which a special media Is put The pao of the coughis held before the ing child. Then the cover Is put oo and the box sent to a laboratory to find out if ihe whooping cough germ it presents The reason it is advisable to have this test made is because some nervoui children develop a cough that resembles whooping cough, nnd yet isnt, and it would be a hardship to isolate them from other children. And in the firs) stages of whooping cough, the cough does not differ so muen from the cough of a severe bronchial cold. The point is that If a child has be A. come exposed to whooping cough, and then develops a cold, that child should he suspected of having something mor than a cold that will yield to hom remedies. A physician should be called at once and the culture made. If the culture Is positive, then the child should be kept away from other children, particularly babies. chancelKearney, lor of the Roman Catholic diocese ol Brooklyn, who has been appointed auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn by Poje Pius He is the youngest member of the en tire Catholic hierarchy and the first bishop born within the Twentieth cen tury. There is a strong ray of hope, though, In the whooping cough situation. Several doctors here and abroad, who art devoting much time to whooping cough, have made very promising progress is their development of a vaccine for its prevention and a serum for its cure. A Wwttm Nwppt Daloa, A gas shaft is mounted Inside the skeleton of the LZ-9the Zeppelin which Is now being built at Friedrlcbshafen, Germany, and which will exceed all others when completed. An Innovation for the new ship will be a special hold built for automobiles. 9. Palestine Port Is Modern Haifa is the principal port of Palestine, and is a modern city. From Mount Carmel, above the city, the view embraces half of Palestine. On the mountain may be seen the School of the Prophets, a large, partly artificial cavern. In whlch it is said the Holy Family rested on the return from Viennas Chief Public Park The Prater is the chief .public park In Vienna,- - on the island between the Donah Kanal and the river itself. It is about four miles long and two miles wide, beautifully laid out. planted and decorated., The exposition of 1873 was held there and some of the' buildings remain.' -- Very Rev. Monslgnor thirty-two-year-o- Raymond Here Is a practical Idea which is at the same time devastatingiy chic it is, as you see, an ensemble consisting of skirt, blouse and jacket. Make it up of black satin and wear it on warm days without the jacket. 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