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Show CACHE AMERICAN, LOGAN, UTAH By WILLIAM NCE there was a song concern. infl the glad experience of a lad who had limped into a five and ten cent store and then had danced right out again with a million-dol-la- r baby under his arm. It was not a very good lyric and there was some exaggeration here and there but, without attempting to shill for such emporiums, I now can under, stand the young man's enthusiasm for what he was popping off about at the time. That is because no day can pass unless some fight man-agsoars into this office in the same ecstatic mood. C. UTLEY 350 eases APPROXIMATELY polio" for known as infantile paralysis" have been brought to light In North In one of the worst epiCarolina demics of the dread disease In recent history. The epidemic Is rapidly spreading north Into Virginia. Its further course will probably be checked with the advent of cooler weather, for polio is a summer disease, and by the efforts of local, slate and federal authorities, they have turned Let Greenberg k Tcllof Diamond i Nothing Is quite so Important to icalth as food. The wellbeing of i child depends on It, and his future stamina will reflect nutritive liscrepaneies In babyhood. The mother who thinks that there s time enough ahead for corrective diet Is laboring under a traditional delusion that up until two years of vge and sometimes longer, milk Is the sum total of everything. Milk Is the warp and the woof of what It takes to get through life, and especially at its beginning. But it needs supplementing, because Its chemistry Is low iu a few needed essentials and the child, set In his diet, resists other foods. Doctors Prescribe Varied Foods. Doctors long ago recognized the value of adding other foods to the diet of milk, early In babyhood, in order to offset future finicky appetites. Tints the infant of six weeks r oil and orange gets Ins Juice or tomato juice; a little later a spoonful or two of prepared vegetable juice or even the strained vegetable Itself. At a period that in the past would have been considered, murderous he gets his bit of cereal, part of the yolk of an eg; a snack of bnked potato and mashed stewed fruit. Whatever todays baby Is given, should, of course, be absolutely under the doctors direction. There Is a difference in babies. But the great truth that many mothers do not know is that children with touchy appetites at six or eight or ten years of age, are the results of fixed preference In babyhood. Caution Must Be Exercised, Another thing that should be remembered Is that as milk must be the alpha and omega of his meal, therefore the amounts of other food given must not be so great that the willingness to take milk Is decreased. The doctor will give you lists and schedules for feeding. My suggestions here are only for one purpose. That is to show why" and how" aversions to needed foods are started. Food habits, which mean flavor habits, have to be cultivated early, White hat tilted over one glitter-lneye, voice trembling with emotion, hands pawing with sweaty vigor, he flits from desk to desk tellNew York Post WNU Service. ing how he has discovered a sturdy THE FLAVORS JOIN IN young fellow who must certainly become a champion. Sometimes he GLOR-I-OU- S THE CHOR-I-OU- S also tells the truth and admits that he just happened to be ambling past the back room when the bus boy tossed out a too critical customer. Usually, though, the ensuing explanation Is a build up for the rare foresight, due diligence, Editor s Note: Sometimes you wonand such other tilings he (the mander what a homerun hitler thinks about. Often U is not about homers, ager) has exercised. however. Hugh Bradley this week has Either way since I grudge no called upon Hank Greenberg, Detroit man his momentary Joys or brain first baseman and leading hitter of the storms it does not matter. American league, to conduct this colProbably the lad who ran a dime umn, giving some of his impressions. Into a million thought that what happened afterwards was nobodys By HANK GREENBERG business. But a fight manager is BIG moment In baseball has a guy who will share anything. So, MYpassed. sooner or later, he will wander In It doesnt matter feet lagging, hat pulled down again, I beat If eventually over sorrowful eye, right hand tremBabe Ruths record bling because It Is perfectly aware of 60 home runs of what the left Is doing. for a season, If I What happened to that great bat In more runs than Hack Wilsons white (black, brown, yellow or any National League variegated shade also can be used mark of 190, if the here) hope?" you will ask him when Detroit Tigers go the silence has become too tearful. on winning We pen. Ah," he will sigh then. nants for the next chucked him into the ring the other 10 years. night, Just for a warm-up- , you know. He leads with his right, gets Why, I could even smack the winning homer with the socked In the lug and" But let bases full off my 1934 nemesis, us draw the veil over his anguish. Dizzy Dean, and would still have What we really are concerned with had my greatest thrill In basebalL here is why so many of those babies of the fight racket I was just a kid when it happened, paying my little half dollar must return so quickly and In so to sit and fry on the bleachers at much worse condition to the division, where they were the Polo grounds. Up to then John OnCE you taste Grape-Nut- s Flakes, youll discovered amid the small timers. McGraw was my hero. cheer tool And it not only has a delicious around rumors were There going flavor, but its nourishing. One dishful, with n about Frisch, I remember. He Pugs f milk or cream, contains more varied nourishwasnt trying to play ball for the Likes to Travel Cat ment than many a hearty meal. Try it Giants. He wanted McGraws job. Just Cant Take It Tommy, a cat which makes his But that afternoon In a double-headheadquarters In the restaurant of the your grocer has it! Product of General Foods. he came to bat eight times, one that station In Carlisle, England, likes to My own explanation rapped out seven assorted hits and does not seem to have occurred to travel on trains. figured in three double plays. I the Christopher Columbuses of pucouldnt sleep that night gilism Is simple. Since this is It overshadows In my mind what business where a guy must natFrisch, as playing manager of the urally expect to be socked on the Cardinals, did to us In the seventh tug now and then the first aim of game of the World series last fall the discoverers should be to ascer. when he doubled off Eldon Auker tain how the guy is going to react with the bases full to cook our when socked there. When they Ten years is a long while neglect such precautions they can goose. in baseball a kid in the stands, scarcely hope to be any better proyoung, watching his hero, tected than the then standing on first, a sick feeling aters they keep shoving Into the in the pit of his stomach, watching ring. In mentioning this I am fully his hero a villain now make the turn going down to second, the aware that there have been numerCardinals away to their big inning. ous Jack Sharkeys, Prlmo Cameras, But the Tigers had already lost Phil Scotts and others who were their the series with the sixth game the unable to take It on their chins,neveror their feet, but who ribs, basestill before. Thats my day ball nightmare after nearly a year. theless have achieved rare distincreI remember meeting Joe Medwick tion. I doubt, though, that any under the stands on his way to the cital of their glowing experiences Cardinal dugout. I felt that we In these recent fight years would have much to do with disproving had the Cards down. the point that was made a para"Well, Hank," Joe said wearily, graph ago. All of them were pick'Til be glad when its over. Make ups of men who had the money or It ns painless as possible, will you, other talent necessary to exploit feller! them properly. Ordinary discoveries cannot hope to be that lucky beWorld Series Joy cause ordinary discoveries are not that Is Fleeting Thing For Instance there Is Jack Dempsey. Probably people are correct I nodded, looking in claiming that he away. I was was one of the sorry for Joe. We had played down In the Texas league together, and greatest champions hes a good guy. But you can't take of all time because with to bat a baseball friendship up he could hit so should It was Medwick who you. hard and so often have felt sorry for me. Yet It is not the entire truth. WilI know that I forgave everybody. lard, Firpo and Of course, Id like to get even with Carpentier blasted Dizzy for the fresh manner In him with everywhich he made me go after bad thing they had and balls all through the series. But I at least two of honestly would rather play the them were no mean Giants In the series than the Cardthat stubbled chin inals again. which so often had pressed so close But asking me to root for an all' to the chill rods beneath a box car Yanks New York series between the no liking for the caress of had and Giants is going a little too far. canvas. Right there But were going to take good care you have the main difference beof the Yanks. Their pitching may tween a Dempsey and those other give us some anxious moments from hopes of 15 years or so ago who are time to time, but weve got some back 'under the box care again. winning pitchers, too. There also was a fight that took I always thought this Pm not swinging to beat Ruths place 13 months or so ago. A widetalk aboutcoffee being home-rurecord this year. Its a ly heralded but untried young man harmful applied only who could hit did so In the first tough assignment to children! for any round. Most of the rlngslders SINCE HG MISS BlAK, YES... Oh, no, Daddy I hitter. bet glanced at the veteran who had VOtlR FATHER SORE SWITCHED To POSTUM many ad ults, too, find Hack Wilson and been sent sprawling by the blow that the caffein in cofHE HAS FELT ANO HAS CHANGED! ID and then glanced away, too bored Jimmy Foxx real- - f fee can upset nerves, Ize that now. The RATVlER CADOV FOR to listen to the count Some of them Acreo like a cause indigestion, or prevent sound sleep! are did not look next I back nntil the parks simply HIM THAN AW DIFFERENT MAN! not built for us. round. MEMBER OF THE If you suspect that coffee disagrees with you ... try I CUJBJJ Any way, Ivs got When they did look they were Postum for 30 days. Postum contains no caffein. Its plenty of years left amazed. The veteran was standing simply whole wheat and bran, roasted and slightly to try for it I In a neutral corner grinning. The sweetened. Its easy to make, and costs less than In baseball hope. young man was down and out One half a cent a cup. Its delicious, too . . . and may when you say that, of them could give it but could not prove a real help. A product of General Foods. mister, you've got take It The other could do both, FREE! Let ns send you your first weeks supply to smile. It Is a thought that only real of Postum reef Simply mail the coupon. Babe, I verily believe, would have difference between Corn Grlffen hit .400 a season if he had tried for coffee and cakes w. a. u Gekehal Foods. Battle r'reek, Mich. for singles, baiting In runs. Thats In small southern towns, and Jim Send me. without obligation, a weeks supply of Postum. the mark I might break this year Braddock, heavyweight champion of runs batted in. Id rather do It the world which can be recom c home-ruthan he the king. Its the mended to all fight managers seek real test of a hitter. City lng to cash In on the mllllon-dolla- r Fill in oompietety print name and address Wish me luck, if your name is babies they persist In finding In This offer expires July X, 193d or stores. Greenberg Clancy. g Hopes, Thrills & DIETARY HABITS NEED FOSTERING EARLY IN CHILD cod-live- Left: Exercising the muscles of an infantile paralysis victim in the underwater treatment. Above: A new shipment of Rhesus monkeys arrives from Asia to provide experimental serums. Right: Ready to give their lives for science. termined, for It has not yet had ficient suf- test. A necessary requisite for both vaccines Is the Rhesus monkey, the little blushing" monkey, so called because of the way his face gets red when he Is excited, which we see In zoos. Rhesus the area into a gigantic laboratory for the study of the use of vaccines In immunizing persons to the disease. Medical authorities on the spot believe it will prove to be the most Important experiment of Its kind ever undertaken. North Carolina's plight follows in tile wake of lesser epidemics in California and elsewhere. The very seriousness of the increase In infantile paralysis eases may prove to be a blessing in disguise If enough can be learned about the insidious virus, which twists and cripples bodies, to protect humanity against it in the future. The first widespread attack of polio was noticed in Jackson county, In the far western part of North Carolina. From there the disease jumped, in the words of Dr. J. C. Knox, state epidemiologist, "like a skyrocket," and burst" In Italelgh and the rest of Wake county, all the way across the state, on the Atlantic seaboard. It Is believed that the disease In North Carolina has been checked and is abating, but in Virginia the number of cases reported Is on the upturn, its course having seemingly followed the highway over the entire length of the state, with no Indication yet as to where Its spread will stop. Cause of Spread Unknown. Just how the disease .was carried is not known. Direct contact with a diseased person is not necessary to contract it. It almost never strikes two members of the same who Carriers people family. have such mild cases of polio that they do not even feel sick carry the virus to others whose natural Immunity Is low and who therefore contract the disease in considerably more violent form. That is much the same as the manner in which typhoid fever and diphtheria are spread. A single carrier, unknown to himself, may create several severe cases. When a few carriers hit a region where the natural immunity of the people is relatively low, an epidemic Is usually the result. That is probably what happened in North Carolina and Virginia. While the disease Is not nearly so much confined to young chil- dren as the term infantile paralysis would suggest, it is still more prevalent in children of five or less than In any other age group. For that reason the one sure preventive is a 'difficult one to administer. It Is complete Isolation. The only way to be absolutely certain of keeping children from catching polio Is to keep them away from all playmates and from all crowds. Unfortunately there is no sure way to tell who is immune and' who is not. And there Is no means of effecting artificial immunity which has been satisfactorily proven. Vaccines which may do the trick are being tested now in the southeast epidemic. Dr. Maurice Frodie, working under Dr. William II. Parks, head of the New York city health department, has developed the Pnrk-Rrn-Il- e vaccine. Another has been developed by Dr. John A. Kolmer, of the Temple university medical With the school In Philadelphia. William H. Morrell company, chemists of Cincinnati, Doctor Kolmer Is providing between 8.000 and 7.000 shots of the vaccine free every month enough to raccinate about 3.000 children. Test Two Serums, Neither of these vaccines must be believed to be a cure. They are merely preventives. Both of them contain the polio virus not a bacterium, but a poison. The vaccine contains the killed virus and Doctor ICoimer's contains the greately weakened virus. Both have been known to produce in animals an Immunity which lasts about two years. How long it will last In human beings has not yet been de- Parks-Brodi- e monkeys are Imported from India, where they are held to be sacred, at a cost of $10 each. In preparation for giving his life that humanity may be saved from the scourge of polio, the monkey Is quarantined for two weeks to make sure that It is in good health. At the end of that period it Is given an ether anesthetic and the polio virus Is injected through its skull into the brain. Infantile paralysis develops. When the disease reaches Its climax, the monkey is killed and its spinal cord, full of the virus, Is removed. This cord Is hacked up Into tiny bits and immersed In a salt solution In a vessel which contains a number of steel balls a half inch or so in diameter. While the vessel is shaken and agitated for 12 hours, the balls crush the bits of spinal cord to a pulp. The fluid which Is thus contained is attenu- ated with sodium ricinoleate and allowed to Incubate for eight hours. Then It Is strained and purified and put Into bottles which hold five cubic centimeters each, enough to bring immunity to three children. Children Replace Animals. While Indications certainly point to the fact that at least artificial Immunity has beeu perfected, the vaccines are still admittedly In the stage. The lat great experiment is one of the most dramatic medical tests that could be imagined. For Instead of monkeys or white mice, the laboratory subjects are boys and girls. Some of them are selected to receive the vaccine and an equal number are selected as controls who will not receive the injections, but who will be observed for symptoms exactly the same as the vaccinated subjects. All selections are made by lot. To insure against the personal acquaintance element which might destroy the impartiality so vital to such an undertaking, the administration of the tests has been taken out of the hands of local authorities. Medical men from the United States public health service are operating to relieve local physicians from the Inhuman task. Dr. James P. Leake directs the work. Dr. A. G. Gilliam, at Greensboro, N. C., has been charged with the thankless job of deciding which children are to" receive the vaccine and which are to act as controls. It Is he who must listen to the pitiful pleading of parents that their children be given the chance for immunity. Here is something which may prevent their loved ones from contracting one of the most dreadful of Even If it' does not all diseases. Work it will do no harm. But humanity must know for certain whether It will work. And If such knowledge is ever to be acquired, the tests must be conducted impersonally. The vaccine must be administered to children of all classes the poor, the rich, the Intelligent, the unintelligent. It must be given to many whether their parents want them to have It or not. And it must be withheld from others whose parents have, like one of the most prominent surgeons In the South, fought tooth and toenail and pulled every string In desperate attempt to secure Immunization for them. Selecting the Subjects. There is a drama for you! What heroes these federal men are to be able to withstand the frantic pleading of loving mothers and straw-graspin- g fathers! Here's does It: the way Doctor Gilliam . Parents who desire vaccine for their children register with their family physician. Half the children are selected for vaccine and the other half as controls by Doctor Gilliam's office. Then those to he vaccinated are ordered to rppnrt back to their physician and are The physician given the vaccine. must give It as ordered, must ac count for his supply, because the federal men have the names of the recipients on file and the recipients themselves under observation. The idea, of course, Is to observe whether fewer cases develop among the vaccinated group than among the control group. Of course other tests are being made. It Is being found that Injections of serums prepared from the blood of convalescent cases is not harmful, but Is also of very little belp. Dr. W. Lloyd Aycock, of the Infantile paralysis commission of Harvard university believes that heredity Is an Important factor and Is making experiments to determine the truth of bis assumption. Symptoms Often Unrecognized. I Infantile paralysis in a locality where there Is no epidemic is often unrecognized until actual paralysis sets in. At first it looks like any one of a number of other Infectious diseases. There Is headache, vomiting, drowsiness, Irritability, fever, flushing, congestion of the throat and great sweating at night. Usually early symptoms are stiffness of the back and neck. Since the Inflammation reaches the nervous system, there may be pain In the muscles and joints, tenderness of the skin and pain In moving any of the joints. This latter pain may be so Intense that any slight movement will be almost unbearable. As soon as the doctor suspects polio, he will probably want to make certain laboratory tests to make sure, for there are other diseases, such as meningitis, which affect the spinal cord. He will probably Inject a needle into the spinal cord and draw off some of the fluid to examine it In the early, or preparalytic stages, the disease may resemble a severe summer cold and Is indeed upon Instance without more harmful permanent effect than a cold. Early and correct diagnosis is of great importance. The victim is immediately put to bed and given absolute rest. Perhaps the doctor will administer a convalescent blood serum or a vaccine, the usefulness of neither of which Is certain. The patient is kept away from all contact with others. And that Is about all that can be done at that point Six or eight weeks may be the period during which all movement or exertion is highly dangerous. The apparent helplessness of the physician during this period sometimes drives frightened parents to accept the remedies of natural healers and other quack3 which often destroy the patients chances for survival. Exercise Must Be Gradual. Not until every trace of tenderness is gone can even the simplest of muscle exercises begin. Fatigue must be avoided. Relaxation and ease must be encouraged. Swimming pools and underwater treatment are desirable In most cases. This method was discovered In a Chicago hospital. The development of the Warm Springs, Ga., pool under the patronage of its most distinguished and visitor President patient, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and using his name for Its natural publicity value, has encouraged many cities to maintain pools for the underwater treatment of infantile paralysis. Slowly but certainly, mankind is going to learn how to beat poliomyelitis, Just as it has other diseases. One of the most Important steps will be the experiments now being conducted in North Carolina and Virginia. Meanwhile, parents whose children have been afflicted need only to examine history to take heart. To mention only two, there are men who have attained great heights although victims of infantile paralysis. Sir Walter Scott was struck down by the disease when hardly more than a baby, yet lived to become immortal In the world of letters; Franklin D. Roosevelt did not contract It until he was a fully grown man, yet he Is today President of the United States and one of the most tireless dynamos of energy in all history. The moral Is: Take heart and dont give up! O Western Newspaper Union Five-and-Te- round-heele- d n right-hande- ... &, I g |
