New Britain herald., 1924-04-05

With the election day only a fe'
 hours away, more uncertainty exist
 than at any other time within th
 past few years.
 Despite optimistic talk in democra
 tic and republican camps, few can b
 fourd who will predict positively tha
 either Mayor Paonessa or Judge Al
 ling will win. The fact is that neith
 CT side is over-confident and the gen
 eral impression seems to be that tn
 winner will have small plurality.
 The past week has been devoted t,
 an exchange of personalities. Mayo
 Paonessa has attacked the leaders o
 the republican party, nsming par
 ticularly Judge George W. Klett. re
 publican state central committeeman
 He has insisted that if Judge Allinf
 is elected. he will not actually bt
 mayor but that the pen associated
 with him in his campaign will dictate policies. This has aroused the ami. able Ben to such an extent that he
 hit back at the c. o. P. rally Thurs day night, declaring that if he is elect
 ed, he and he alone will be the ex-
 ocutive.
 There is enough enthusiasm to go
 round. The rank and file of demo-
 cracy seems to be keyed up to a high
 pitch of confidence and the republi-
 cans at their Thursday night meeting
 showed that they are not lacking in
 this essential ingredient. Certain it is that the republicans will not surren- der until they have combed the city 1 for every possible vote. No demo- cratic candidate in recent years has aimed his shots directly at the leaders of the republican organization. Mayor Paonessa has not hesitated to name names and his opponents are reused to fighting fury.
 A popular subject of debate is whether the tide has changed at all during the past week. It is reported that some democrats fear Mayor Faonessa has not helped his campaign by referring to individuals, but the counter claim is made that he has strengthened his position by criticis- ing some of the republican leaders who are not popular with the masses but who, through a false idea of courtesy, have not had their names mentioned in other reelection drives.
 ES-NTayor George A. Quigley has dropped out of the limelight like a meteor out of the sky, or like the stick from skyrocket. He disauali- fled himself for an active part in the drive by his statements at the repub- lican meeting when the nomination Of r. M. Holmes was being discussed. On that occasion he challenged anyone to show that Mayor Paonessa's adminis- tration had been n failure. That was a bitter pill for the republicans 10 swallow. coming from a man of their own party. Whether Quigley gets into the fight between now and Tuesday will make little difference. Whatever he can say in favor of Judge filling cannot erase the lines he spoke when he defied the lightning of the bosses and defied it successfully.
 lnfantile paralysis is disease to which children are especially snseep- tible. and which sometimes attacks adults. says "The World Book" Its scientific name is anterior poliomyeli- tis. It is much dreaded because it is attended by paralysis Of the muscles, due to the fact that the poison intro duced into the system infects the spin al column. It is essentially a. summer disease. The infection is caused by a special microbe, the nature Of which is not fully understood. At various times after the disease was first rec ognized, in 1890, epidemics appeared both in Europe and America. an es- pocially severe one occurring in the of 1916 in New York: and other American cities caused health and physicians to exhaust every possible means of preventing and curing the infection. The death rate in New York city was about twenty-two per cent.
 The disease does not spread in the same manner as docs smallpox or but is transmitted by the most roundabout routes. Ten or twelve cases may appear in one neighborhood. and another group be in different neighborhood, from one to three or four miles away. often there will be but one case in single l family or apartment building. In other words, the control Of the disease 1 has been made especially difficult be- 1 cause it is as yet impossible 10 trace '. the source of any single case. It has been aptly described as a "pestilencc 7 that walketh in darkness" At the | same time health authorities unite in !, urging parents Of young children to I take stringent precautions against if. | lt is thought by some that the disease | Is spread by persons having so mild I an attack that the symptoms are not 
 Early symptoms are fever (not usually higher than 103D, vomiting. | howel disturbances and headache. Ac- 1 these there may be symp- .oms associated with other diseases, ! .uch as sore throat and infected ton- i, 'ils. discharges from nose and eyes. md distressing cough. Specially I Of infantiie paralysis l however are the pains that occur in he legs and feet, stiffness Of the neck | md sensitivencss Of the spine. Conn 1lete paralysis of the limbs is liable o result within twelve hours. Fol- owing this there may be delirium and ,onvulsions. Diagnosis Of the disease 2 difficult whenever the resulting par IIysis is slight or transient. and 10 overcome this difficulty physicians \ est the muscles by specially-devised apparatus.
 The injection into the spinal col-