The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-13

| In a stinging address the other night, Raymond Fosdick. Commission CT of accounts and the nemesis of Co., tham's grafters charged that the up-
 responsible for the widespread preva- lence of bad politics throughout the
 country.
 .@To-day municipal politics is a mat | ter of graft; there is not a man in the community who is not affected by it." MT. Fosdick arraigned the prompted him, after discussing civic righteousness, to ask if it were not
 possible to find an easy job for his son.
 q say it is this kind of man who is an insidious thing in a commun- ity like New York; said the speaker. Before we start out to save our breth- ren, let's look at ourselves It is fun damentally a problem of better citi- zens. I am surprised at the attitude of the average citizen toward his gov- ernment. It is almost always an at titude of indifference, as if his inter ests were not related to 1t. In this, struggle for good government are we getting anywhere? The last two years ples of city government and such a shameful administration of State gov ernment it all seems to have brought us no nearer the goal
 My experience in New York has brought the conclusion that 1t IS among the upper class-if we are to draw lines of class distinction-that most of the difficulty lies. It seems an improbable thing. that from virtuous sources the men trying to clean up our city government ind the greatest op- ''If the college bred man could. be eliminated from the Legislature, poll tics would be cleaner It is against the man of insidious opinions in our contend Tammany Hall plays an open game in comparison. The cards are laid down and you know what you have to face
 q wouldn't like to leave the impress sion that I am pessimistic about the quality of our citizenship in this coun- try. In fact, I believe it is improv ing. have seen about every form Of public dishonesty and public betrayal, but we are on the uphill road, not on- ly in this city but in all the cities"
 Dr. simon Flexner, head of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re search here believes that the discovery of the use of a drug, known to science ralysis will result in saving every year the lives of tens of thousands of babies.
 Infantile paralysis is one of the dis eases that in recent years has stag ge-ed the medical profession, but it's trelr endous increase has only recently been suspected. Dr. F1exner declared the disease to be among the most conta- gious and deadly that young human life may have to face. He believes that with some notifications of the drug it will do away with the scourge medically called acute anterior poliom- gelitis, and commonly known as in fantile paralysis. The drug, urotro- pin, is formed by the action of ann monia on formaldehyde and is one of the greatest antiseptics known to sci ence. It seems to lack the deIeter- ious effects of other antiseptics when directly introduced into0 the human system.
 The method of administering the drug is peculiarly heroic A hole is actually bored in the skull and the brain entered by a hypodern1ic needle. This is done under anaesthesia. In this way the specific is introduced di- rectly into the nervous system. The 1 reaction is sharp and pronounced.
 The discovery of the use of this drug came to the investigators at a l time when they almost despaired of 1 funding a cure for the disease. The | worst feature was that it was discov- cred that an antiroxin serum was inn possible to obtain. In one instance 1 the serum was passed through sixty l individuals, and at the end was more l virulent than when taken from the | original patient. The immunity us- | ually produced in most diseases by this | paralysis.
 Dr. Flexner advances a peculiar the | cry regarding this disease, that at | tacks only the very young and Is so | contagious among them. He believes