Show ) tiif nAmANn timfs 0 OF MERCY A hundred INSTRUMENT and fifty thousand dimes contributed in the 1946 March ol Dimes paid for the fuify equipped mobile emergency unit three views of which are shown above In addition to moving emergency patients the unit serves as a training center and auxiliary hospital facility whei The unit proved its worth during the severe epidemic last summer needed CEASELESS WAR niwi Aivn ittah A JAPANESE TIDAL WAVE ANI) FIRE EARTHQUAKE striking photograph made as the town of Bhingu Japan burned after the earthquake and tidal wave had struck parts of Japan People fled from tho town to the beach flats in foreground the fire to eat the heart out of Shingu Hundreds died la leaving were rendered homeless by the Japanese disaster and thousands coastal communities High Folio Toll Gives Impetus To March of Dimes Campaign WNV crippling Hardest hit during 1946 acto foundation figures cording waa the Mississippi valley region where Minnesota headed the list of heavily hit states with a total FlorHowever of 2813 cases ida on the east coast and California on the west coast also 'were seriously affected and other widely scattered regions were bard hit as well FROM CAMPUS BELIEF f4 ri’ Adhering to its policy of leaving half of all funds collected during the March of Dimes with its local county chapters the foundation left more than eight million dollars with these chapters during January 1946 Up to November more than 360 of these chapters had entirely depleted their shares of this fund and had to call upon the foundation for help This help reached the sum of more than four million dollars Emphasize Research Besides supplying local chapters with emergency funds the foundation used its share of March of a in furthering Dimes collections and widespread concentrated program of research into causes and and of the cures malady possible in training doctors physical theraand other epidemiologists pists "front line” soldiers In the war A considerable polio against amount also was spent on public and during 1948 more education than six million pieces of literature on the disease were distributed free During the last fiscal year nearly two million dollars was expended for research activities foundation The emphasizes that no victim of polio regardless of age race creed or color need go without the best availcare through lack of able funds the statement Infantile paralysis points out is among the most unNo one of diseases predictable knows when or where it will strike —but until research finally finds the answers to many puzzling questions still obscured there is one sure thing about polio— and that is that it will strike Immune Despite its name it can strike and has struck persons of all age groups although the age group five to nine appears to be most susceptible Boys seem to be slightly more susceptible than girls and there is no evidence to show that any one race is more immune to its ravages than any other What is important at this stage the report says is that a doctor be consulted us soon as the disease is the suspected — and sometimes resemble so closely symptoms those of a common cold that no be taken chances should Early may diagnosis and hospitalization cripprevent death or permanent and tha pling the report stresses media services of competent early cal man are absolutely essential In discussing the rethe future port expresses confidence that th cause and a prevention of the dread crippler will be found In the meantime it is pointed out the public has every assurance that March of Dimes funds distributed by local have chapters in their territories the best available made possible and care purchased the most of equipment regardless exicost so that any foreseeable gency can be met Aid la Assured Behind the local chapters stands the national foundation carrying on its program of public education and research and ready to send aid to any county which may deplete Its unusual funds through epidemic conditions The work will go on the foundation promises Funds collected during the 1947 March of Dimes will so exhausted treasuries replenish that when the 1947 polio season rolls around— sometime in the late spring and through the summer— the nation will be ready No 4 i Features With latest reports compiled by National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis indicating that the year 1946 witnessed the most severe epidemic of polio in the history of the foundation concerted effort is being centered on the 1947 March of Dimes which opened throughout the nation on January 15 The national foundation spearhead organization in the ceaseless war against the great cnppler is directing agency for the annual March of Dimes campaign The drive will be concluded January 30 Heavy expenditures resulting from the nationwide 1946 epidemic have dipped deeply into the foundation’s funds directors assert in urging generous support for the 1947 solicitation to provide means for coping with any emergency in the future The March of Dimes they add is the only method employed by the foundation to raise money to finance its many activities Fatalities Decline Figures compiled by the foundation disclose that in 1946 there were more than 24000 cases of infantile paralysis with fatalities running between 5 and 10 per cent In the year 1916 before the foundation was organized the greatest polio epidemic in history was recorded That year 27363 cases were reported by 28 states fatalities running as high as 25 per cent The sharp decrease in fatalities Is attributed in part to the persistent educational program waged since the foundation 'was started in 1938 which brought about better diagAt nosis and early hospitalization the same time improved therapeu-- tie methods were credited with of many cases of permanent f m Group If t aJ 1 ‘J IfrLf j § o 0 IN TOKYO DEMONSTRATION General view of the glaaiwdemoBstratloa staged by Japanese labor union In Tokyo to protest government policies and demand ouster of the Yoshlds cabinet demonstration held in front of the Imperial palace was the biggest In the Japsnese capital tinea tha Gen drew from Red were carried censure that MacArthur Douglas flags Many day parade by tha demonstrators The May GRIND College Students Given Time To Think' In the future will to think”! and then” will be granted so students can study talk to their teachers "or “Just sit and think through" some of their academic and social problems it was announced by Byron Hollingshead young president of the local college will stick Faculty member around the campus for informal conferences “preferably over a cup of coffee In the grill” Hollingshead said Library and reference rooms will remain open The day will be selected well In advance by the faculty executive committee and the student council Averring that “right now modern education defeats its own purpose" the young educator declared: "It's Impossible to get tn education In the modern colleges because the colleges make It impossible by rushing the student through college students be given "time A day off "now tha curriculum” HAIR CUT AT FOUR MONTHS Stephen Aprigliano Brooklyn Y a mighty young man of four months is getting his first haircut His mother keeps him in good humor with his diet of milk whllo the on was bored barber with tho carries Stephen Terry actually operation Terry said Steve waa the youngest customer he had ever served— and about the hairiest one to clip Usually moat boys get their Brat barber shop hair cut after they have reached ripe age of one year N EAST LANSING MICH — Latest introduced by Michigan device state police In an attempt to curb is an highway accidents art test for drunk drivers All patrol cars in the state will with the be equipped accorddevice by ing to Capt Caesar J Scavadara head of the state police traffic division purThe device has a miscarriages pose: To eliminate when persons resulting of justice are charged with drunk driving be Dividends Longer Life Pays Cash credited by The — Man's CHICAGO quest for long life Is paying dividends — in cash according to Frank G Dickinson economist and statistician for American Medical association In Contrast to the heydey of when anyone Roman Empire 40 was considered "old” life pectancy In the United States 63 to 49 In 1900 from Jumped or 1946 the 35 ex- - has In advance to modem Dick- medicine better inson food and Improved housing In 1900 Dickinson points out the average map of 20 earning $1250 annually could have valued his lifetime earnings st $27400 In 1940 he could place a value of $29900 on his prospective earnings Prospective earnings for a man of 35 increased from $25000 to during th safn period MAN OF THE YEAR Sec re tary of State James F Byrnes wh recently selected by Timei magazine as “the man of the year was made on tin The selection basis of outstanding work done bj Secretary Byrne daring United N tlons’ meetings was cause they are sick injured or have taken drugs and to provide police with a "foolproof method of proving Intoxication Th intoximeter enclosed in a small cardboard cylinder permits a police officer to make an test for intoxication subject to later check by a technician The motorist or pedestrian or givvolved in an accident blows up a ing signs of intoxication small rubber balloon attached to th device the officer clocking the time required for a red fluid in a glass tube to become colorless Huge Plastic Buffalo Planned as Memorial CODY WYO — As a memorial to Buffalo' BiQ a mammoth plastic buffalo one day may be erected atop Cedar mountain here Sculptor Lawrence Tenny Stevens says he plans to build a buffalo standing 150 or 200 feet high on the mountain in memory of the famed scout Inside th body will be an elevator lunch room curio shop and perhaps a cocktail lounge th sculptor adds MISS SLICK CHICK OF 1947 The Poultry and Egg National board has announced that they will pick Miss Slick Chick of 1947 at the premiere showing in New York City of “The Egg and Selection will be made on charm personality and aex appeal including coquettish-es- s of eyes contour of figure and twerp of tail I" TEACnER PRINCE’S Ellst win beth G Vinlng Philadelphia Is serving a tutor for Crown Prlna also Is teaching J a pane Akihito teachers on “education for demoo " ' ' racy |