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Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-20
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

pending a report taken from the Jour nAl of. American Medical Association of May 22, 1909, page 1879. This brings it with "authority,'' to even the most ardent vaccinator:
 The bureau of animal industry of the United States department of ag- riculture has just published the re- suit of the investigation of the origin of foot and mouth disease among cat tie which prevailed during the last winter, An abstract of the report furnished by the bureau is as follows:
 The recent outbreak of the foot and mouth diseaes in Michigan, New York Pennsylvania and Maryland started from calves used in the propagation of smallpox vaccine virus which had been contaminated with the virus of foot and mouth disease and the contanin- ated strain of vaccine came from a foreign country. These are <the con clusions from an inveStigation made Jointly by the bureau of animal indus try of the department of agriculture and public health and marine hospital
 service of the treasury department. a
 report of which has just been issued.
 The investigation was conducted by
 Dr. John R. Mohler. chief of the patho- l-g1cal division of the formCr bureau,
 and Dr. M. J. Rosenan, director of the
 hyg1enic laboratory of the latter bu- reau.
 AO0l anu 44Outll u4SGdSG was QlSCOK- cred among cattle in Pennsylvania November TO- 1908. and was reported
 to the department of agriculture by the 9tate veterinarian of Pennsylvania A
 few days after it was found in Michi-
 gan, New York and Maryland.
 In view or the strict quarantine maintained by the department of az riculture on imported live stock, and ] the fact that the importation of rum inants from countries where the dis
 ease exists was prohibited entirely
 the department considered it highly
 improbable that the infection was brought in with animals
 When, therefore, the disease was
 traced by inspection of the bureau oi animal industry to calves that had been used for vaccine by Detroit esta blishment (Parke-Davis Co.) ant the cases of longest standing were Iound among these calves, these facts ! caused the secretary of agriculture James Wilson and Dr. A. D. Melvin chief of the bureau of animal indus try, both of whom had gone to De- troit to make a personal investigation to, suspect that the vaccine was con taminated with the. virus of foot and mouth disease
 As. the United States public health service was charged by law with the supervision of biological products used in human medicine, that service was l industry in the investigation. The maiT | facts regarding the outbreak a: 1 brought out in the report are as fol. i lows: The H. H. Mulford Co. of Glen. olden. Pa. imported certain smallpo1
 vaccine virus which was contaminated | with the infection of foot and mouti | disease. In May, 1908, some vaccinnt 1 of this strain was procured by Parke- | Davis & Go. of Detroit. Calves uset by the latter firm in propagating vac cine were sent October 16 to the De troit stock yards and thence on thu
 same day to a farm near Detroit. Or October 20 three carloads of cattlt from points in Michigan reached thu Detroit stock yards and were put int
 the pens that had been occupied b!
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A NEEDED REFORM.

Statements have been issued by EPresident Wilson to the effect that the FsssauIts upon business by harmful and i1neddnng legislation are at an end. tThis indicates the turning over of 8 inew leaf in contrast to the manner fin which national legislation has been : sdirected in tho past two years. Com ling as if in response to the demands l of tho people as expressed at the polls ] November, 3rti it will be watched with interest.
 While such right about face fs Iaeine attempted it would be well if needed changes were undertaken in hcther lines of the government service Tt has long been rGAHwnized that the inen of the highest qualifications and los1oerience should be selected for the [ idiplornatic service instead of filling 7 such places with men who have been of valuable financial assistance to the administration a:S Q payment of ob1i- EgatfonA
 ! Such Is emphasized at the present
 time by the departure next week o1 iAmbassador Eerrick from France Igflese services were conceded by the |euyernrnent to be so valuable as tc {cause his retention for two years tiackinE -Four months, beyond the close Iof the republican administration. He is noW acknowledged to be a. mos i valuable diplomat who has faced : .znost trying situation with great cred. f1t to his country and himself. Ye- that service and his valuable expe. I1Ieucs are being sacrificed because O Ihts politics, and his successor take. Itnp inc duties under the handicap O
 n time comes. Apparently this oppor
 .srnaty for reform is getting littll
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the vaccine calves four days previous ly. some were sold for slaughter at Detroit. while the remainder were shipped to Buffalo and some were re- shipped to Danville and Watsontown, Pa, where the disease was first ob- served some days later. The disease spread to various places in Peunsyl- Tania mad New York and to one To- ca1ity in Maryland
 Three separate series of experiments were made by Drs. Mohler and Rose nan. Young cattle and sheep were in- noculated with vaccine virus obtained from both firms Foot and mouth dis ease was produced In experimental anil
 mals by the use of vaccine of the same strain obtained from both sour ces, while other strains of vaccine tested gave negative results. The dis
 ease was also transmitted from one
 animal to another through several 1 series, in two instances by natural
 modes of infection
 The Investigation also indie ttes that the foot and mouth disease in New
 England in 1902-O3 was probably l due to contaminated vaccine of Jap
 anese origin from the AIulford Co While an investigation was made ai
 that time, the results were eonfusins so that it was not definitely deter1nin- | ed. In the recent investigation by Drs Mohler and Rosenan, however they used animals which had beer vaecinated and were therefore immune | to vaccinia or COW pox, so that ir case of infection of foot and mouth l disease was present in the vaccine un- i der suspicion the lesions of that dis
 ease would not be suppressed or ob- ! Scured by those of Taccinia By this method and by means of intravenous ! innoculation they were able to detect ! the contaminating infection when il might not otherwise be discovered ! The fo that f1n infection r in the vaccine virus of the Mulfor6 1 company for so long a period but was | not transmitted to outside cattle was l doubtless due to this firms practice ot ! killing it's calves after taking the vac i cine vir5s
 Parle-Davis & Co, on the other | hand, rented their calves and placed | them on the market a short time aft i CT the vaccine virus was taken. In | this way the disease spread from the
 vaccine stables of Parke-D Davis. & Co but not from those of the Muiford Co., although it was the vaccine virus from
 tho latter establishment that infected | the formers cattle.
 The editor of The Peril says fur.
 ther: We are also informed that 2
 strain of vaccine virus was original, | imported that was contaminated witt
 foot and mouth disease, and this con taminated virus has been used and il still being used in the vaccination O human beings. By the analogy of his
 tory, we are Justified in asking tn | question. Was our present epidemic as others, caused by vaccine virus l And if it be again true that histor. repeats itself, we may be very sur that the instant this question is an swered in the affirmative the presen
 full newspaper accounts of the catas trophe that has overtaken the cattl of so many states will be so thorough ly and completely curtailed an
 squelched by an unseen and powerfI
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 hand that they will henceforth be in- visible to lay readers and for the req son that this course must be followed by tile medical powers that. be as a means of further preserving vaccina ton from reproach. During a debate on this subject in the United States senate February g.. 1909, it was borught out by Senator Money that our stock of COW pox vac cine needed to be revivified frequently by importation, as our native kind wIll not prevent smallpox. It would seem there is some responsibility some where for the contamination that was known to exist five years ago. Its continuance is the voluntary act of wealthy and influential serum manu- facturers. Let us see what is done about it. Meanwhile, keep the serum out of your system and out of the blood of your children.
 A ". DAVIS. Norwich. Nov. 1s, 1914.
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BREATHE FREELY! OPEN NOSTR|LS
 AND STUFFED HEAD-END CATARRH

fragrant balm dissolves by the heat of the nostrils; penetrates and heals the infIamed, swooien membrane which lines the nose, head and throat; clears the air passages; stops nasty discharges and feeling of cleansing, soothing relief comes ina- mediateiy.
 Don't lay awake tonight struS gling for breath, with head stuffed; nostrils closed, hawking and blowing. Catarrh. or a. cold, with it's running nose. foul mucous dropping into the throat, and raw dryness is distress ing but truly needless.
 Put your faith--just once-in .'Ely' s Cream Balm and your cold or catarrh vii surely disappear.
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When it is disclosed that 1000 lives nave been lost on grade crossings in the past three years, it is no wonder that determined efforts, are being made for their abolition.
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Try "Ely's Cream Balm
 Get a small bottle anyway, just to try it--Apply a little in the nostriis and instantly your ciogged nose and stopped-up air passages Of the head will open: you will breathe freely !; dullness and headache disappear. By merningi the catarrl1, cofd-in-head or catarrhal sore throat will be gone.
 End such misery nowl Get the small bottle of 'Ely's Cream Balm at any drug store. This sweet,
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The arena will open Friday morning under different circumstances from last year, when after 60 days of work it was opened for the university hockey team. This year there will be a room for the exclusive use of the team, be-
 sides others for the freshmen and wis., iting teams The entrance has been altered, and has a much better ap- pearance. A dual system of lighting has been installed so that no games may be cancelled because of 8 failure of one sat ce lights to work. An au-
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Announcement has been made that King George 9as approved the pres entation by the Council of the Royal society of a royal gold medal to Pro- lessor Ernest William Brown of Yale university for his Investigations in astronomy. This is one of the great est scientific flonors ever bestowed on Q Yale professor and has very rarely been awarded to anyone but a British subject. Two medals are given by the king at the nomination of the Royal society each year, one for biological research of all kinds, including botany and zoology. and the other for work in mathematics, physics or astronomy
 Professor Brown was called to Yale in 1907, since which time 1t has been his chief duty to compute new tables of the moons motion. This work has just been completed and is now being published. Professor Brown was awarded the Adams prize in 1907 and has just returned to CIV Haven from a trip around the world, during which heSattended the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advance ment of Science, held this year in Australia. ~
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Eoot and Mouth pissas.

MT. Editor: The following sleaned from an editorial in The Peril, a jour nal of warning and protest, printed in Battle Creek. Mich, relates a bit of history concerning past and present outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in this country. Besides being of inter est to farmers and cattle men, it should be doubly so to parents of children of school age.
 The Peril Says:
 "It is not generally known that thfs diseaes is a product Of vaccination. The federal government made an tf1- vestfgation in 1909 and traced the dls- ease to it's source. but the public was not informed by bulletins as fully as they are Inisinforzned on other points by political doctors who are running
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The man on the corner says: Half the joy of Thanksgiving is in think ing about 1t week in advance of it's coming.
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Man wants hut little here below, but he is usually on deck when there is any prospect of something being handed out
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The new task of tending to the fur mace comes along as a. change at least from emptying the tank under the ice box.
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The possibility of a peaceful adjust ment of Mexico's trouble is indicated by the sending of Villa troops to meet Ca1ranza's.
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IL is possible that there are those who will advise the government to refuse to- accept an explanation from Turkey, but they will get a short audience.
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The people of this country are mak- ing deliberate preparations for a tre- mendous attack upon and quick dis position of turkey.
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The difficulty of fixing the blame for the war, or for Turkeys participation therein, seems to be so pronounced that attention might as well be direct ed to other things
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With the Dutch coast guards pick ing up from a. dozen to twenty mines a day the North sea isn't exactly a safety zone
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billion and three quarters dollars and calling for g. million more men Great Britain shows that it has plenty of material for the confagra- ton.
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OTHER VIEW POINTS

Filing up of the state debt is an il- lustration of the little interest all of the people take when it comes down Aiiddletown Press.
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The success of the Germans in t:.e present war. in which they have, with their little submarines sunk a. num- Der of the enemy's big fighting ves- sels, has proved the value of the sub marine as an arm of the naval ser- vice It is probable that the navies of the future will contain more of these little demons of the, deep and fewer of the dreadnoughts.--- Hartford Post.
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Turkey has had recent evidence of the manner in which this country backs up it's demand for & salute.
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Negligence is the cause of much destruction, but it sounds the death knell of very few grievances
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It has been the experience of most everyone that rumors can be revived without the use of the pulmotor,
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The time has passed for expressing surprise at anything which Mexico and it's leaders decide to do.
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Instant Relief When Nose and Head Are ciesasd From . Geld. steEs Nasty cAtarrhai Discharges. Dull Headache Vanishss.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

If Mexico is wise it will start Car Fanza and Villa o1l globe trotting trip together.
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BULLETINS SPECIAL YALE LETTER
Total Number of Living Graduates Reaches 1s2s7-Thy in University Get Their 'eY'-King George Approves Medal for Prof Brown-Mass Meeting for Harvard Game.

tomatic player will furnish the music during the sessions. The rink is un~
 7e1 the management of the Arena Gen. terfreeze Co, which working in CO., operation with the Yale University Athletic association endeavors to cul- tivate the develonnaent of good hockey. There are normal seating accommo : dations for 5000 people, but at the time of the big games 800 more seats can be erected, besides standing room for 1000. The rink is the standard Ca- nadfan size, not being as large as the Boston arena, nor as small as the St. Nicholas rink
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trade of Soa1th America. It is a req sonable demand and steps should be taken to include this course in the curriculum of many institutions as a. legitimate aid 10 trade efficiency. - Ansonia Sentinel
 Under the war tax schedule it is provided that there shall be a. tax Of twenty five cents upon every protested mote, bill of exchange, acceptance, check of draft or any marine protest, whether protested by a notary public or by any other officer who may be authorized by the law of any state or states, to make such protest" This :s printed for the benefit Of absent-minG- ed persons who are careless about sussh matters but careful to kick about pro- test 1arges.-Waterbury Republican.
 The. Bridgeport Standard, going to Chicago for inspiration which it could get in better quality in New Haven, wakes up to the desirabilify of a per- n1anment manufacturers exhibit in Bridgeport. The permanent Chicago exhibit is only an advertising show or building materials. but 1t IS per1nail- ent, and that's the point Bridgeport should send a. delegation up here 70 see our exhibit before it is broken up for the Panama exhibit and get the whole of the i1ea---New Haven Regis ter. If Mir. Phillips can frame and get passed a law that will stop speeding by incompetent drivers. at least, he will do a service to the state. Or course no law can accomplish that unless 1t IS enforced constantly and severely. If it is passed, it will be subject to attac6 from the outset. and it will be 1e1ed or
 evaded until enough convictions. fol- lowed by execution of sentence, have convinced all concerned that the law does mean what it says and that those charged with enforcing it will not shirrS ! their part of the responsibility.- : Hartford Times
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There Is a renewed demand for tke teaching of Spanish in the public schools in order that this country may be in a. position to make an intelligent and effective attempt to capture the
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Saturday has evidently had its effect on the demand for the Yale-Harvard tickets. Over s0,O00 applications have been received for the 71,055 seats in the new bowl. The public applications which were received some time ago have all been returned, all borrowed applications have been cancelled, and many of the undergraduate applica- tions have been cut. The tickets were distributed Wednesday and much dis comfort was experienced by the un- dergraduates when 1t was learned that the Yale cheering section had been moved from the edge of the field to the top of the stands The better seats have been given to the graduates who have so literally contributed to the erection of the bowl
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The last mass meeting before the Harvard game was held in the Uni versity dining hall Wednesday evening. Captain sTalbott, together with a few of the coaches of the team, spoke in most encouraging terms relative to Saturdays game. The spirit shown by the 5000 students gathered in the hall was the most spontaneous of any meeting so far this year. An enthusi- astic mpromptu football parade was held last Monday night It was led by the cheer leaders, the 'FY'' men of the senior class, and a. band. It is esti- mated htat there were 2,300 men in line. Early in Che evening the band started playing on the campus where in a short while the crowd gathered and formed a procession which pro- ceeded around the campus and over through Shefftown, where at the cor Her of College and Wall streets the cheer leaders happened to see Profes- sor Taft, who was returning to his home on Prospect Hill. He was en- tl1usiastically clleered and was pre- vailed upon to say a few words. He replied: Men of Yale, you have caught organized spirit of Yale and I hope it will carry you to victory Saturday. '' The parade then proceeded down Cha pei street to the Green, where the bandstand was occupied by the band and the cheer leaders. Here the team was cheered individually and collec- lively and all oe the songs were prac- ticed with great success. The meet ing was brought to close before o'clock with the singing of Bright Col 1ege Years.
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Thirty -nine men now in the uniVer- sity have won their ''Y.' Of this num- Der, 15 have won it in track, IA in foot ball, eight in baseball, and seven in crew. Twenty schools are represent ed on this list. Andoyer leads with seven men and Hotchkiss is second with five. .)n this list there are r academic seniors, 14 Shelf. seniors and eight sophmores. The wearers of the ''Y'' are: Footbali-Ainsworth, Brann, Carter. Cornell, Guernsey, Hubbard, EiII. Knowles, Macleish, Neale, Plrn- belly, Talbott, Way, Wilson, Wise; hassbalI-EIanes, Hunter, AIiddlebrook, Nudge, PumpelIy, Reilly, Thompson, Way; crew-crocker. Denegre. Lac key, Low, McLane, Sheldon, Sturte- want; track-Brown, Carter, Clark, Cornell, Frost. Hampton, Johnstone, IIeughridge. Mathews, Poucher, Roos, Shet1den, Stackpole, TaIbott Wilkie. From the above list it will be seen that five men have won their letter in two sports. Each of these men have won their 'Y'' in football and one other sport, L. Garter. T. H. Cornell, H. A. Pumpel1y, N. S. Talbott and N. M Way
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New Haven, Nov. 1s.--The 1914 edi- tion of the Directory of Living Gradu- ateE, which has just been published, shows some very interesting figures number Of living graduates reaches IS,2Sf, an increase of 1.034 since the last edition in 1912. The reason for the increase in tho number of living graduates is to be found, of coures, in the Increasingly large graduating classes of recent years, whose nunl- oers much more than offset the deaths 3f the same period. If to this body of lS,2S7 living Yale graduates are add ed tke 6s3S5 living non graduates list ed m the directory of former students, the total body of living Yalensians is Drought up to 24,672. Increases dur Ing the past two years are to be found in the number of graduates of each school in the university with the exception of the Medical Schcool. Where classes, owing to the increased standards, have been notably smaller during the recent years. Of the total number of graduates, 9SS graduated from the college, 5.26S from the Shef- field Scientific school, 1,755 from the Graduate school, 2,202 from the Law school, 1,011 from the School of Reli- zion and 633 from the Medical school. Of the graduates living 17,570 are at present living in the United States and
 
 unreparted. New York state, as usual, leads all others with 4,53S Yale aradu- ates; 2,604 of these have their homes in tho city. Connecticut Is second with 3.924, and 1,437 from this state are New Haven residents. Yale is repre- scented in every state in the union. Con- sidering Canada as a foreign country, 1t has the largest representation of this class, 11S Yale men are Canadians. Japan has S2, China 7S, England 49, France 20 and others have smaller fig ures. Fffty-four countries have Yale men living in them. Of the various occupations law continues to attract the largest number of Yale graduates a total of 3,901; manufacturing fol- lows with 2,072; then comes engineer ing. 1891; education, 1880: mercan- tile business, 1.461: medicine, 1852; the ministry, 1,35s: journalism, 455; and agriculture, 396. An interesting fact is that the states of the far west have increased over 90 per cent over the number of graduates registered ir 1904. It is also interesting to note the growth of Yale graduates in the large eenters. There are IS cities which re- port over 100 Yale graduates. New York and Brooklyn 2,965, New Haven 1,437, Chicago 65S. Hartford 451, Bos- ton 439, and Pittsburg 269. Notable increases in Yale population is seer in Los Angeles, which has nearly tri- pied the total in decade.
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The Harvard varsity football team it is reported, will leave Cambridge on Thursday and will spend Friday evening at the Mohican in New Lon don, proceeding to New Haven early Saturday morning. A new Yale song. True to the Blue, has been written by Miss Eva J. Glaesner, and dedicat- ed to the University club. This song will be played for the first time by the Second Regiment band before the Harvard game on Saturday.