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Show LKH1 and HEARD around tne Wp FhEE PRESS. LKHI. I TAH SEEN FIGHT PNEUMONIA WITH SERUMS NATIONAL CAPITAL Wider Use of Injections Checks Deaths From Some Types of Germs Now Prevalent; Best Advice: Don't Catch Cold! By FAMOUS Carter Field WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT President Roosevelt Washington. of trouble Is going to have plenty and restraining the pork patronage-hungr- y fflR TTTi Ask Me Another O '" BcB senators and representa-live- s when they study the figures security lfgislatiuu But ihere that will be available in his budget vw,i be ln:n"r to both of as many message, especially St me can he cleured Ihem were thoroughly convinced before last, by away as to ,: last year, and year i instance it of enthusiasts is pioi.! ' will U- an th,e js'ew Deal tax ;i u : ,. :x .a .y the Fra; kfurter school, that taxes -, oi'u'...-:-,on corporations ought to be a great v.i:.; ;. Nv;ii ' P Gct'LiV in dtit. A! ' v ay nt.r deal higher than they are now. e Outside and unofficial estimates present ;,i nets f. r anin revenue rise F').ete !!:,,(:;:!. ery. t ur whut-"- t indicate that the :v w u! be any ticipated by the Treasury over last i.t. But il;cat.i..n f t. e U;i rear's estimates will exceed a d pie for I., ..: u:vi and a half dollars may easiearn- ms. There n,! :.t be any ly reach two billions! ti ui,';:I,u!i fit !;.t now pnvThis is due in part to increased taxes, in part to the policy of forc- erning new r additional plant or the undistribut- productive capacity. ing out dividends by more ed earnings tax. and even Answer Is Simple than either of these to improved The answer to this is very simple. in in mind 1936, bearing business The underlying principle here is that while the government figures to part of the warp and woof of the on a fiscal year from July Roosevelt economic doctrine. It is June 30, the individual and corporatnot a new doctrine so far as he is calon the are taxes figured ion concerned. It is not something to endar year. which he has been converted, and Estimates in President Roosefrom in which, therefore, he might be message velt's budget January, showed an increase in cor- expected to be swayed. A careful 1936. , reading of his acceptance speech poration income taxes of $211,600,-000before the Chicago convention in was due which $42,000,000 of July, 19:i2. will reveal that he had to increased rates, and the remainthe same logic then which drove inincreased to corporation der him to last year's tax bill. come. Conservative actuaries outIn that speech accepting the nomside the Treasury department figure he demanded to know what of ination, on to be this top the increase shown in the President's budget had become of the "piled up surmessage will not be less than $350,- - pluses" of the corporations from the coo.ooo. prosperous days. Some of it, he Last January's budget message said, had been put in additional estimated individual income taxes plants, which "now stand stark and idle." would be $936,000,000, an increase So it is far from being just a over the preceding year's estimate idea about taxing the rich by Of this bright $62,000,000 of $207,000,000. But forcing out dividends which would was due to increased rates. put them in higher income tax this year, outsiders figure, the increase over last year's estimates brackets. And it goes way beyond even the idea of protecting the miwill not be less than $500,000,000. nority stockholders from the ambiOut of Proportion tions of their company managers, This seems out of all proportion though both are felt very strongly to the increase in corporation taxes, by the President and most of the but there are two important reamen on whose economic judgment sons. In the first place, the imhe relies. It is much more fundamental. It provement in corporate earnings for 1936 over 1935 is much better goes to the idea of "planned econthan the increase 1935 showed over omy." It revolves around an un1934. But dividends increased out derlying idea of Mr. Roosevelt of all proportion to earnings, due which every business man should to the unprecedented in American remember, that the big business extax history undistributed earnings ecutives of the country failed rathtax. er lamentably in 1929 and that diAs a result, the boost in individual rection of some aspects of business incomes from dividends was much by government officials could not be greater than the boost in corporatmuch worse. ion incomes. And as a tremendous Planes for Spain of dividend percentage paying There was not the slightest fear, stocks are owned by people already at the State department or paying income taxes, the result will either White House, that the renovated the be to force many of them into for Spain about which so airplanes tax brackets than they higher was raised by the excitement much have ever figured in before. As the more income, the higher the administration would ever take part in hostilities across the water. That rates of tax, the swelling in fednot the purpose of the hubbub. was eral revenue here is greater in whole purpose of the news The income. in rise the than proportion was to affect the gentlemen Incidentally there has been much splash talk about bonuses and salary and on Capitol Hill to convince them that no law they might possibly wage boosts also, but this is trifling draft could reach every situation so far as federal income tax figures this are concerned, compared to the that might arise to embarrass flood of dividends. Lots of the wage government that discretion must to handle increases went to people who will be vested in the President not pay income taxes at all. any situation which might arise. So far the resulting propaganda Estate and gift taxes, however, from do figure importantly. Even the has been most satisfactory the White House of standpoint the a January, 1936, estimates, showed and the State department. Even boost over the previous budget eschairtimates of $42,000,000, though the Senator William E. Borah, comtotal of $293,000,000 would have man of the foreign relations shrunk had it not been for a boost mittee, has weakened considerably firm attitude against granting in the rates and a tightening of in hisPresident discretion. the loopholes. But estates liquidated in To understand the true inward1936 benefited from much higher seof the situation it is necessary ness than and real estate prices curity the to those liquidated at any time since go back a little. Originally, State the departand President the stock market crash. wanted a very definite sort of Altogether, it looks like good hunt- ment wantneutrality legislation. They ing for the pork hunters. Presithe would give ed a law which for Work for Congress dent complete discretion- -a law, to him would which permit Despite many learned surveys, example, to the of arms there is no agenda for the session sanction shipments and to of congress recently opened. It nation wantonly attacked, to the arms of will develop as it goes along, guided prevent shipments somewhat in its building by changes aggressor. The sort of law which, would example, due to expediency by the gentleman to use a classicPresident to Wilson in the driver's seat, and molded have permitted to and BelFrance Suimportantly allow shipments by forthcoming but preme court decisions. gium, particularly Belgium, Those who look for an index in bar them to Germany. the three formal utterances by Rather Clumsy President Roosevelt in January his Was of this sort was started bill A first message, his budget message through the works in congress, but and his inaugural address are it was radically doomed to There very sdenly disappointment. administration, the before will be lots of messages as things changed, with other and seemingly busy very develop. There will be telephone thing., had time messages and privately spoken more important to bear. All diswords to the leaders, some of which to bring pressure the b, 1. cretion was removed from will be ocThere the later. name to repudiated was made could casionally will be indications that An attempt which materials kmd of war the President is letting congress be barred, but it was provided that solve its own not do but problems, war these must be in the event of be unduly deceived nation s by these. Conbarred to the warring as to what gress will not be. is still controversy for these reasons it is tremen- 7hc tins articles-und- er to dously difficult at the moment and guns Machine elude make accurate forecast materials from any very but re on some of the Applies are made are important questions. Some of the most vital depend on Sous, and many supplies actual--of the Supreme court. Some will be for the carrying on ary n determined, after much backing not specified. and filling, by the President, after war are clearly ; , not on v quite wis 10 Rh:' ' listening to a host of disagreeing what the from sp.rrt , advisers. The President is in the d.fTorent in happy position of not having to make UP his mind about the op: anything at any W given moment at least not for power w., sme time to come. There are a few exceptions to ed U' S'i Svnl.cate -- WNC Service this, of course. Some things are 4. What is a biconvex lens? 5. What is a dormant partnart 0. Where is Dartmoor prison? 7. What country was sometimM referred to as the "Caleatial Empire"? 8. What was a 9. Which is tha satrap? "Bayou State"? 10. In what Dickens novel dot 'Fagin" appear? 11. Who wrota "Miss Piakar-ton"- ? ,,--t. - u-,- 12. What is a i,b-la- i. u-- ir,od-rlyi.n- pnnci-:r,bu;e- 1. - 1 wS J e.-- SsdiEreUary ship's log? Answers The Styx. 2. A large ship in the India trade. 3. The knee. 4. One rounded on both sides. 5. One who supplies capital but takes no part in managing Dullness. 6. In Devonshire. 7. China. 8. A military governor. 0. Mississippi. 10. "Oliver Twist." 11. Mary Roberts Rineharl 12. Its daily record. g bil-jio- n law-re- ally .ttimMHimn what joint is the patella 3. Of uiAit-rbru- U'piji-i;.L- WNU Into what stream did Achilla mother plunge him? 2. What was meant by an "India part? a::u-!.d:nen- !:-- Sra&mt. 1. man"? now clear. For instance it bo 2 utmost gated with the Wlil be r'y substantial modification of eit'-ethe fx A General Qui I 'W med'ca1 center as viewed from the air. In the left foreground is the hospital of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, where much of the important experimenting with pneumonia serums has been conducted. Inset: Dr. Wendell M. Stanley, winner of $1,000 award for isolating viruses causing colds, influenza and other k Clty s new ?:' I Good Breeding breeding U tha art el showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sens. Improved by conversing with good company. Cato. Good diseases. By WILLIAM C. UTLEY is the open season for pneumonia. The dread disease, attacks so quickly and with such telling effect, is "going the rounds" more thoroughly than usual this year. Look out for that sneeze! Shun It has hardly reached epidemic proportions; yet New Yorkers people like this. You may catch colds. Pneumonia usually reported nearly 700 cases in the last week of the old year, Chi- their starts with a cold or the "flu." cago had 521 pneumonia deaths in December as compared with 330 in the same month of 1935, and other localities have been must go to bed, take plenty of waalarmed by similar outbreaks. ter and nourishing food. There must Although actual figures were not yet available at the time be plenty of fresh air and, if necesof this writing it is probable that pneumonia in its several types sary, some artificial means of supkilled off nearly 100,000 persons in the United States in 1936. That plying oxygen, such as an oxygen tent. it is there is as if some swift and terrible scourge had wiped out the entire will beIf a nursein toa hospital keep constant Wilkes-Barrwatch and to keep the patient from population of a city like Savannah, Ga., Rockford, 111., injuring himself if he becomes dePa., or Sacramento, Calif. THIS To Alkalize Acid Indigestion Away Fast e, Fortunately there are aspects of the picture which are heartening as well as those which are dismal. Health authorities believe that if serum treatments were made universally available and were adequately administered, deaths from which causes lobar pneumonia, about half the fatalities, might be reduced 46 per cent. Pneumonia Follows Colds. There is a popular conception that pneumonia frequently attacks persons who were perfectly well. But by some widely known authorities, this is considered "the bunk." It rarely happens. Pneumonia usually follows a cold ease. After a patient's sputum is typed the physician knows which kind of serum to administer. One difficulty in the use of serums which is being overcome is that they are expensive. Treatment for one case of pneumonia may involve the use of serums costing $50 or more. This is a real hardship for many families indeed an impossibility for some. But in three states Massachusetts, New York and Michigan the state health departments will supply free serum to doctors for use upon patients who cannot afford to pay for it. It is reasonable to expect that, in view of the success of these states in reducing the number of deaths, other states will follow their lead before long. Serums Highly Specific. Serums have been used in treating pneumonia for more than 25 years, but they were slow to grow into general acceptance and widespread use. There are several reasons for this. One is that the serums are highly specific. Type I serum will help cases of Type I pneumococcus only, Type II serum will combat Type II pneumococcus only, and so on. This specific nature was not sufficiently understood for a long time. Often the wrong serum was administered, the sufferer failed to improve and the blame was laid upon the serum. In addition, the serums obtainable in the early days were not always of the best quality. The earlier a serum is administered, the better the chances of the patient's recovery. Among the earliest symptoms are chill, pains in the chest or side and a short, dry cough. The .patient feels faint, nas irouoie o.eau. 8 arm ueve.ops If you would proor influenza. tect yourself from it, say health officers, don't disdain from losing a day's work just because of "a little cold"; stay home and take care of yourself. If you are a mother, don't is neglect a cold because there to housework to do and children take care of; go to bed. Don't let a child go to school or a husband go to work if he is suffering from a cold. A cold is, of course, not always pneumonia in its first stage. But if you have a cold accompanied by a fever better call a doctor. Time was when he could not tell very quickly whether you had pneumonia or not, and could not begin adtreatg ministering the ment until the cold had a stranglehold upon you. The modern physician does not ordinarily have to take such chances. He can take a small portion of the sputum a sufferer coughs up and send it to a bacteriodelogical laboratory. The health maintain states some of partments branch laboratories at convenient If such points for use by doctors. docthe close be by a laboratory tor may have a full report within half an hour. There are two kinds of pneumos nia, bronchopneumonia and pneumo-coe'eu(or lobar) pneumonia. The former occurs usually as a complication of some other disease, and often strnces eiueny ijc, It is who are feeble and infirm. an-- ! responsible for about half the nual death toll from pneumonia. The lobar form, caused by oval-- ! shaped germs called pneumococci, is responsible for the other half. 32 Types of Pneumonia. Lobar pneumonia is an acute infection in which the lung's light, con-spongy tissue solidifies, cannot breathfor ineflicient is and air tain 1 lung nils witn Diooay and when the sulterer coughs his sputum is There are 32 known types of the pncumococcus germ which causes The bacteriololobar pneumonia. the to physician tells gist's report him which type is causing the disThe ine. ovudnt.-:- . ...kmlltaH fti.or eacnl case suum.iuvj, of the cases are caused V. VII, by germs of Types I, II, and VIII. For each of these types there the dis- may he u: ;ed in fighting ease two-third- s in A I 1 1 1 1 to get blood through a congested lung, the pulse beats faster and fasier. The blood is not able to pick up enough oxygen from the lungs, and the patient may start to assume a rather blue color. Desensitizing Patients. In the usual procedure after a physician has obtained a report revealing the type of pneumococcus causing the patient's illness, he tests the patient's sensitivity to the serum. A small amount of dilute horse serum is dropped into one eye and a little of it is injected under the skin. Before the curative serum is given steps must be taken to desensitize sensitive patients. In the first dose the amount usually injected into the veins is 20 This is done cubic centimeters. at once. The patient begins to feel better after the first dose, but another injection will be made the second day, and probably another the third day. In cases which have been discovered early enough, the m n V hp U11 -flftpr 1hp- fhirri frirjtinnt -- .. j dose of serum, but must spend some time resting in bed. From the moment a case is diag- ; nust have the strictest care. He lirious. The physician, too, must keep constant watch, visiting the patient often. If the latter is restless, quieting medicines may be used. The doctor may strap the patient's chest if paki is very great. People Everywhere Are Adopting Must Avoid Yisitors. This Remarkable "thilllpt" Way Recovery from a pneumonia for which there is a specific serum is The way to Rain almost incredibly from stomach condition usually more rapid than from one of quick relief, from overacidity, is to alkathe others, sometimes coming arising lize the stomach quickly with Philwithin a few hours after the treatMilk of Magnesia. ment. Patients who suffer from a lips' You take either two teaspoons of which no for is serum the liquid there type Phillips' after meals; or receive the same sort of general two Phillips' Milk of Magnesia Tabcare and, with the help of oxygen, lets. Almost instantly "acid indigestion" poes, gas from hyperacidity, stand a good chance of pulling from through, but their recovery is apt "acid headaches" and in food or smoking to take a longer time. feci made You relieved. nausea are It is of prime importance that no you have a stomach. visitors be allowed, for the good of over; forget this Phillips' way if you have Try for well as of as the health society any acid stomach upsets. Get either the patient. Persons in close conthe "Phillips or the remarktact with the patient may carry able,liquid new Phillips Milk of Magnesia germs in their mouths, and ought Tablets. Only IV for a big box of tablets at drug stores. to wear masks and gowns. auIt has been recognized by ALSO IN TABLET FORMi thorities that if we were to check Each UbUt the spread of pneumonia, we might la th tiay equivalent ol a teupoonful begin by checking the common cold ot tonolM I'hil- I and influenza, for it is with one of 11 these that nearly all cases of lobar pneumonia start. We should stay out of crowds when there are common cold epidemics, avoid persons who have colds, keep ourselves from getting chilled, overheated or generally "run down." Leading in the battle is the Rockefeller Institute for Medical ReA BOY search. It was in the institute's hostix of but New in York rSZ pital city that the V medial mm ta first patient suffering from Type I UM Dr. L U. S. u the seV. was Pierca of Buffalo, H. treated with pneumococcus Y.. who wia bora oa a rum, and the organization has been fana In Pa. Dr. Pitra'a foremost in developing pneumonia haa Favorite PreacrlpUon far nearly 70 year baas serums ever since. Now Dr. Wenhelping women wba) aav dell M. Stanley, headache and backache wlla fnnrltaaal staff hag iug of tn dlatorbancea, and older woeaea wha experireceived of flaahea. ence the beat th appetite $1,000 Increaatni Br cently prize to upbuild the bodv. Bay ft the American Association for the thte tonic helpaMew alat, tabe., SOc, ttqaid ft. roof druggist. Advancement of Science for his disof g of nature the covery viruses that cause colds, WNU W influenza and some other diseases. Seek Immunizing Agent. Ironically enough, the day Dr. AND Stanley was to present his paper before the association, he was unable to attend its meeting, being stricken with influenza. But his paper was read. It declared that viruses are capable of mutating or changing from one form to arv other. Thus they are able to produce a new disease through a spontaneously mutated form. It is believed that the great epidemic of THE ITS 1918 was caused by a sudden mutation of great virility. HOTEL BEN LOMOND Dr. Stanley and his assistants at Ogden's Finest . . One of Utah's Best the Princeton, N. J., laboratories 350 Baths 350 Rooms of Rockefeller Institute, are now to $4.00 $100 to find us to immunize ways trying Air Coded Corrida) from the cold and influenza viru5es. Delightful Rooms Coffee Shop Grill Room They have so far reported success Spacious Lounge and Lobby in rendering inactive 36 out of 57 Courteous Service varieties of plant viruses by treatEvery Comfort and Convenience ing them with the serum of rabwill be found at bits which had been injected with the same virus without producing THE HOTEL BEN LOMOND any disease effects. OGDEN, UTAH -- ce Sw5i Phillips FARMER thirty-two-year-o- ld disease-producin- IN UTAH f, Wtilern Newtpaper Union. "COME AS YOU ARE" CHAUNCEY W. WIST, OKN k Ma |