Show Vaccine Believed Found I IFor For Sleeping Sickness 1 Two New Also Promise End to Infantile Infantile Infantile tile Paralysis PITTSBURGH Dec 27 7 P A P A I promising remising start toward vaccination a against sleeping sickness was announced announced an- an at the American Association for or the Advance of Science today The sleeping sickness vaccine is II developing from the same studies in I Ithe the he New York City health department department depart depart- ment which produced the recently announced an an- vaccine for immunizing children chil chil- dren ren against infantile paralysis For sleeping sickness the vaccine has as been tried only on animals The new ew experiment was described briefly by y Maurice Brody M. M D. D of the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York health department at a meeting meet meet- ing ng of the medical section of the as as- He is working under the I direction of William H. H Park M. M D D. Th They y took sleeping sickness virus from rom human patients in the St. St Louis outbreak and Inoculated mice thereby there there- by y producing sleeping sickness in the animals Use Mouse Brains Drains As this disease attacks the nerves and nd the brain they sought in the brains rains of ot the animals for the hoped hoped- for or vaccine They took a 5 per cent solution of the mouse brain and treated them with which killed killed the sleeping sickness virus This dead virus they then injected Into nto healthy mice It immunized all 11 the animals so that they could not be infected with sleeping sickness Furthermore the vaccine itself self had no apparent bad effect on onic the ic mice The possible end of infantile paralysis sis s also was forecast The results of two different vac vac- cines ines one discovered in Philadelphia the ic other in New York gave this promise Both are speedy one show show- lag ing ng immunizing et effects in m a littleover littleover little over ver three thice days and both within a week This indicates that both may possess pos pos- sess ess the power to stop epidemic outbreaks out out- breaks before they become serious The Philadelphia vaccine results on 25 5 children were reported by John JohnA A A. Kolmer M. M D D. of Temple sit ity sity None had infantile paralysis But iut they were poor subjects for or the vaccine tests because most of them were convalescing from r ni other dis dis- ease eases ases L t Strongly Resistant Nevertheless their blood after alter vac vac- became so strongly resistant that lat it successfully neutralized human infantile paralysis virus from the 1934 California epidemic Experiments with animals anima indicate that hat this neutralization tests is valid a sign of or r real al immunity gained from vaccination None of the children showed ill effects ef of- of vaccination tion The ages ranged from rom eight months to l 1 15 years Vac Vac- of a few adults has showed that lat they react like the children with increase of or immunizing g antibodies Vaccine Now Ready It is believed Dr Kolmer said that the vaccine is 18 now ready for vaccination of human beings and es es- children against itis is and particularly during epi epi- demiC He said it is not known how long immunity will last after this vaccine but ut that it has lasted for more than thana a year in vaccinated monkeys The vaccine is made of spinal cords of monkeys with infantile paralysis The cord of on ono one monkey produces enough nough vaccine to immunize 50 to children hildren The New York vaccine was described described de- de scribed by Maurice Brody M. M D D. D of the he New York City health depart depart- ment It is made of the virus of the disease treated with which reduces educes the virulence Depression Brings Brins New Class Parlor Pink Radicals S in U. U Uj S. S Schools PITTSBURGH Dec 27 A P A new class of radicals at al least parlor pink ones has been built up among American college and high high- school students by the depression two educators educators edu edu- today told lold the American Association Asso Asso- elation for the Advancement of ot ence There was a large and significant increase In liberal attitudes toward social problems among students in 1934 1933 as compared with the early early- depression years of 1932 1931 accordIng accord accord- Ing irig to a survey reported by Dr C C. C L. L Morgan and Dr H. H H. H of or Purdue university Coeds More Liberal College coeds they the found were slightly more liberal even than college college col col- col lege boys The coeds' coeds mothers likewise likewise like like- wise were more liberal than the fathers of the boys Many college and high school students students stu stu- dents probably would be in favor of some radical steps that would go beyond beyond be be- yond the present scope of the new deal the educators said including government ownership of ot railroads public regulation of oC business and heavy taxation of large fortunes and incomes College students are arc more radical however because they realize they are facing a less secure world than thanin thanin thanin in 1931 the educators b believe lieve They are more concerned with seeking new newhope newhope newhope hope and reasonable certainty in the future than with liberalism or con con- m as Issues in themselves Their increased radicalism is not due to more radical teachings in the schools and universities to any marked degree Conservative In Religion But against the rising tide of liberalism liberalism liber liber- religious teachings still stand steadfast the Investigators found Students who are mildly radical inmost inmost in inmost most other fields still are conservatives conservatives conserva conserva- tives in their religious religious' viewpoints Opinions on religion however were stated staled by fewer students than on an any of ot five types of problems surveyed by the educators Most o of the students included in inthe inthe inthe the survey retained their faith in democracy and the constitution The They believed the United States should let Europe settle its own political problems problems lems but that this country had not always been unerringly unerring wise and just justin justin in its foreign relations They were not optimistic about enduring peace and did not believe facts favorable to socialism should be suppressed The majority did not favor laws to prevent prevent pre pre- vent the giving out o information on on sex problems |