Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-14
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INFANTuE PARALYSIS.
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In New York City there is a prevails
ing epidemic of what the doctors cali.
infantile paralysis.
The children are young, mostly around
one and two years. They sometimes are
taken with a fever; sometimes with i'm
digestion or bowel and stomach troubles.
After a few hours they cannot move
themselves; are paralyzed and many die /:
within a days time. 1t has been i'm /;
creasing all the year. Many more dying !:
in June than in January, until it is 1t
this time pronounced to be epidemic and
violent and notable.
No causes are given in the newspaper
accounts that have reached me, and the /.
city of New York seems to be most at :
flicted. I myself lost two children
years ago, one at sixteen months, the
other at twenty months, brief little lives.
One was taken with vomiting and tne
other with dysentery, but l do not re-.
call any appearance of paralysis.
1 have helped to nurse number OF
other little sick babies, but have never
seen little baby children thus paralyZed.
l take it there are local causes in New
York City, and the milk problem may
enter into the spread of the disease. In
this connection 1 want to say, that the
milk question is a very serious one, and
babies that are fed on milk (Which is
| by all odds the child's food by nature)
should be protected by careful attention
to the quality of the milk that is vend-
ed everywhere. =
/ can tell the difference in the quality
of sweet milk by tasting it, with MY eyes
shut. l can discover watered milk, also
in the same way, and l can tell when
cows have not been sailed sufficiently,
and when bitter weeds have been eaten4
by the cows, etc. Nothing gives out
the sign so quickly as sweet milk
whether for good or bad milk. 1 found
an eating place in a cafe, near to my
hotel, in a late Washington City visit.
where the sweet milk was perfectly
grand 1t had the right taste and the
right color, and had been daily examinedi
! under the regulations of the pure food
law. 1t was so good that l went there
regularly for my large glass of delight
full cold sweet milk. 1t is one of the.
pleasant memories of my little trip to
the national capitol.
AS GERMANY TALKS ABOUT 1T. b.
When Germany is interviewed (by it's
mouthpiese, the kaiser. of course) it
has no intention of suing for peace. 1t
is therefore decided that Germany for
| itself is doing well enough at present;
| The war has been on so long, and muir
der of human beings is so common trnt
| they are used to 1t over there. Carnage
! is the product of kultur, and carnage
wifi always result when mans ambition
is more important that divine sanction.
How long Germany is to continue thus
intoxicated, how long continue insane
as to ambition, We have no means of
knowing, but that Germany is going to.
J try the last ditch and fire guns in the
| last trench and squirt liquid fire FROM
the last iron spray pump. is Germany's
present and sole intention. Butchery
| is Ge-manys strong card, in this bloody
game and although precedent AMI history
| furnish disastrous parallels for dead
and gone nations of the earth, Germany
| is spending no time in consideration Of
peace problems.
| If Russia continues to take prisoners
| from Austria at present rates, and it
| was told last week that Russia took
over Austrian prisoners to the number
: of one hundred and seventeen Thousand
| in a weeks time Austria will take that
method for keeping Austrian soldiers
alive, by allowing Russia to feed and
/ hold them. 1 have oftentimes wondered
| why that policy has not become general,
where human beings are continually
driven to the battle front for bullet food,
to crafty the ambition of their rulers.
A live dog counts for more than a
| dead lion; and If I had to choose as a
serf between a Russian prison or
grave in the trenches l would say: I'll
try to live for another day in Russia