Show P America Americas s s Famous Leper Runs Away Once More iT e r n ti ariy 1 L EARLY I d Waz c 7 r 4 quarantined in by armed years he prayed recover jiow an ivo years 1 as escaped from fr confinement many times By NItA NEA Service Sen lee NEW ORLEANS La Aug 8 John 8 John Early Americas America's most moat famous leper has escaped once more Well on the road to a complete cure at states state's at La this Spanish-American Spanish war ar veteran who contracted the disease while on ois military service In the Philippine Islands kiss has run away awa from the fed fed- federal federal federal eral hospital and vanished Into the midst of a nation of more than people They can c cant can't nt t tell you up at Camille Just how many escapes this makes for Early not Early not unless they go over the records back toward 1908 when ho he I Iwu was wu first officially pronounced a JI lep lep- leper lepI lep- leper I er cr and placed in confinement John is an Incurable runaway and I has escaped d probably 20 times OLD LEPERS LEPER'S CURE WORKS Chaulmoogra oil all taken by Injection Into the th body Is the treatment that within two years ears would v uld have set John Early free tree Chaulmoogra oera oil a oil a treat treat- treatment treatment treatment ment for leprosy that Is more than one th Us nd years Cars old old has has been made much more e by modem science There Is no longer any question In I our minds says pays Dr O O. E E. E Denney of the U U. S B S. S public health sen service ice in charge of the U U. S S. S at Can Carrville that when we get tet hold of ofa ofa ofa a use ease of leprosy early carly enough and fond treat it with chaulmoogra oil all we can remove remote from that patient any danger of communicating the disease d to those with whom he comes In contact We already have discharged 14 patient from after that treatment and after long Jon periods of observation We are fore discharging two more this week eek And within two years we e would have discharged John Early Earl AU All patients at the ex except ex- ex except Early ore lire protected by mity MOST FAMOUS toUS LEPER LErER But It would have been foolish the authorities knew to try to shroud John Early with the protection of anonymity for he lse Is the roost widely known leper In the world Too often oHen John Early has set the whole United States by the ears Back in 1803 1898 he enlisted In tn the army and fought through the Span Span- ish American war with service In Cuba and the Philippines He was Voas honorably discharged after the war ended He married Two ro children were born bom Then the symptoms of some Ome strange disease appeared on his skin Doctors were baffled At last as an sol ex-sol- dier der Early went to Washington and appealed to the government health authorities They placed him In quarantine near Washington They took an aban aban- abandoned abandoned house surrounded It with a barbed barbad wire fence and put lUt an armed guard to patrol outside that ten fenc fence ORG LEPERS LEPERS' CLUB Then the doctors decided John Early Euly had leprosy and his whole world came tumbling down about a out his ears He fought the decision Early was taken in custody to a aNew aNew aNew New York hospital and later was transferred to the U U. S S. leper colony at Carrville There he has been a p colorful figure ever since He lIe or organized or- or organized organized a club at Carrville the mem mem- members members bers all aU service ex-service men who had de dc- developed de- de developed leprosy They built a club clubhouse clubhouse clubhouse house on the edge of the colony and fitted it up U with all aU modern in conveniences entes But John Early had the itch itch- itchIng Ing ng foot The fhe government paid 1314 him a pen pen- pension pension sion for his army services es He would let the pension checks pile up until they th y totaled a bl surn Then he would vanish anish from the tha leper colony to keep out of sight for days d ys and Pond weeks months c even ren and bob up again anywhere in the United States Slates ALWAYS COMES IES BACK Once he went to Washington W reg reg- registered regIstered regIstered I at n a prominent hotel enjoyed the sights of the capital 1 for tor two weeks and then broke and weary gave him him- himself himself himself self up to the federal authorities About six months ago Igo he escaped went to North Carolina and md set 11 j a camp near Bui Burns on a tract of land he claimed he owned When he got tired of camping out he invited the authorities to come and get him Ahva Always Alwa's s at the end of his Innumerable Innumerable able escapes to freedom Early comes buck back or is 15 brought back to Dr Wil WH- William liam ham C Fowler at Washington his oldest friend Now it happens that Dr Fowler Fowl r has hasa eo a large staff of clerks oS and stenographers stenographers stenographers girls and men alike And while Dr Fowler lisa his a physicians physician's indifference indifference Indifference ference to associating with a leper his office staff start cant can't get that view view- viewpoint point Too many times Umes John Early has walked Into the tho office walked down the long aisles and brushed sleeves with danty daInty stenographers and well groomed clerks They dont don't like it So now when the wires carry the news that John Early is out again there is always 4 L near walkout in Dr Fowlers Fowler's office until the th leper l per is safe safe- safely safely safely ly back at Carrville But that office has developed a system system system tem There is one old who knows John Early well by sight The minute the dally daily papers carry the news that John Early is out again that t ye goes on sentry duty And the office Ar works ss peacefully away I knowing the some time or or later the door will open and the sentry will call Here he comes |