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Evening star., 1937-10-31

Franklin Delano Roosevelt. President
of the United States. All the afflicted
look to him for inspiration. since he
overcame all the handicaps. Twas
at his recommendation that the
Georgia Warm Springs Foundation got
under way and that the great birth
day balls for the President began in
1894. This gigantic undertaking. the
most widespread and novel campaign
ever started to combat disease, was
conceived by Col. Henry l.. Doherty,
who has served as, national chairman
of the movement since its inception.
Doherty first got interested in the
work after he had visited Warm
Springs, had seen at first hand what
the terrible disease can do to poor,
helpless humanity. Then he realized
the need of greater effort, concen-
tration of forces to fight the plague.
So he visited President Roosevelt,
laid the plan before him and re-
ceived enthusiastic Endorsement. This
was the start of the national BIRTH
day celebrations to raise funds for
the war against infantile paralysis.
The result was, under Col. Doherty's
direction, that another colonel-Carl
Byoir-set up national headquarters
in New York, launched series of
some 5000 parties to enable millions
of Americans to join with the SCI
entists In the fight against common
enemy. Parties have been held each
year. The next series will be OH jan
uary 30, the Presidents fifty-ffth birth
anniversary.
To date more than S4,000,000 has
been raised in the four series of par
ties Funds are divided so that 10
per cent remains in the community
where the money Is raised, with 80
per cent given the President to be
turned over by him to the trustees of
the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation
and the Research Commission. Last
year IA groups of researchists got
grants from the commission. These
funds we're used in development of
the epochal nose sprays.
Under present methods the birthday
ball funds may be used either for in
fantile paralysis research or rehabili-
tation work. One aims at discovery
of ways and means to wipe out the
disease; the other has to do with the
after treatment of victims
At present there are some 100000
polio victims in this country, of which
approximately 95 per cent are little
children. Only those two acids, the
sprays Of picric and zinc sulphate,
with the additional help Of the iron
lung" stand in the way of disaster,
Nose-sprays? Actually they are noss-
rays to the medical men.
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extensive was the failure to satisfy
normal nutritional requirements.
Indeed, while owners of food stocks
were unable to find remunerative mar
kets, some parts of the world were
suffering from famine; in others.
large sections of the population were
suffering from malnutrition. This
malnutrition, moreover, was not con-
fined to the poorest classes.
Hence the question naturally arose
whether it was not the duty of public
authorities to assume the responsible
tiles inherent in nutrition policy" "
THE League Committee did not
hesitate to answer that question
In the affirmative.
For nutrition policy to be effec-
tive, the problem must be recognized as
one of primary national Importance" 4"
it said. 1T lies with governments,
supported by enlightened public opin-
ion, to take the lead. If governments
play their parts in giving lead to the
movement, private agencies may be
expected to follow with their distinc-
tive contributions"
What the report recommended was
National Nutrition Committees to
ascertain prevailing food-consumption
habits and nutritional status of all
sections of the population, and to
work out a program to utilize to
the best advantage the teachings Of
science.
The committee over which Lord
Astor presided was so selected as to
represent health, labor. agriculture,
economic, financial, social welfare and
administrative viewpoints on the nu-
triton problem, and 1t advised that
national committees should be SINH
larly constituted.
No phase Of the world nutrition
(see DIET" Page F-3.)
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infantile paralysis with only a simple
atomizer and a harmless solution to
spray the nose. seems almost ridicu-
lous. Yet that is exactly what the doc
tors do.
Results achieved with these sprays
in exhaustive experiments performed
on monkeys approach the miraculous.
One type of spray, indeed, proved 100
per cent effective IN tests on animals.
Now the question is asked, will they
work Just as we'll with human beings?"
Widespread Endorsement given the
sprays by physicians clearly indicates
what the cautious medical profession
thinks of them. So the question verges
on the academic. Careful study and
analysis of how effective the sprays
prove with human beings must come
before a final verdict, but the general
opinion is that they will work with
human beings if they work with ami
mails. Especially monkeys.
A BOUT the iron lung" Prof.
Drinker. the inventor, first tested
his equipment in Children's Hospital.
Boston, in 1923. A little girl, sufferer
from infantile paralysis, was placed in
the iron lung" and lived for five days.
After that time she died of heart fail
ure, superinduced by pneumonia.
The next year the iron lung" def
nitely justified its inventors belief. A
Harvard senior was stricken with in
fantile paralysis. Taken to hospital,
he was placed in one of the Drinker
machines. Within three weeks he be-
gan to breathe normally. Later he
graduated from Cambridge and now
walks almost unaided, goes to work
each day, drives a car.
Though the newspapers carry pic
lures of the Iron lung" almost daily,
laymen know little of its functions.
AS described by an expert, the |
Drinker machine consists Of large, |
alright cylinder that resembles a
horizontal boiler on wheeled frame. |
The body of an infantile paralysis |
victim is placed inside the cylinder, |
the head outside. Rhythmic, gentle
changes of air-pressure within the |
cylinder cause the lungs to inhale and |
exhale, though the chest muscles can
not move voluntarily.
At present there are some 200 iron
lungs" in the United States and Can
ada. Only one each in England and
Australia. More are needed, though
one reason for the scarcity of ma
,hines is that the disease does not
necessarily affect the lungs. Hence
he main fight is waged by the acids
-picric and sulphate.
ONE Of the great heroes in the fight
against tnfantile paralysis Is
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Polio comes from the Greek word that
means gray.
CTILL more concrete evidence that
polio. or infantile paralysis, Is an
age-old disease comes from some of
the ancient written words inherited
by the race. Hippocrates, THE Father
Of Medicine" recorded back in the
fifth century B. C.. how paralysis
wrought havoc amongst the in
habitant of Thasus, Greece. in one
unhappy period. How it caused the
death of many persons unacquainted
with the glories of picric acid, zinc
sulphate and the Iron Lung.
Some % centuries later. science now
entertains its first real hope of stopping
the spread of infantile paralysis.
Twas in the middle of the nine
teenth century that polio research ac-
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, tually got under way-in England
John Badham Of Worksop actually
started the work. He became the first
trained physician to write an ac-
count of the disease. Yet it was not
until 1908-less than 80 years ago
that two research workers, Land
steiner and Pepper. placed the first
experimental laboratory for study of
the disease in animals. This was in
Paris. Poliomyelitis went on an ex-
perimental basis.
With 1887, as the elimination Of
those 90 years of intensive research.
the preventive weapons now in use
have at last won the approval of such
conservative force as the New York
Academy of Medicine. That, ir itself,
is triumph.
On the face of it, to say that science
can fight such a malignant disease as
Evening star., 1937-10-31
AMERICA GIVES FOOD ADVICE
World Study of Nutrition Is Advanced by Woman Expert in
Department of Agriculture Who Will Serve for Three
Months With League Health Section.

something about nutrition, and so
the leaders asked Miss Stiebeling to
come over. Europe, it seems, has a
habit, not unknown in this country,
of gathering vast stores of scientific
knowledge to be carefully placed in
cubby-holes. Meanwhile, those who
have to struggle with the problems thus
solved must blunder on without benefit
of science. Contrary to this custom,
Miss Stiebeling had made series Of
scientific diet studies which actually
were put into practice.
To those still thinking of food
merely in terms Of the corner CASH
and-carry, Miss Stiebelings sailing
should be news that there's a big
broad world viewpoint nowadays on
nutrition. It's being called a challenge
to craftsmanship" and "a duty of
governments" besides being a worry to
every modern mother.
Drop into doctors office and you're
likely to hear this instruction to
small boy patient: Write down every
thing you put into your mouth this
week and bring it to me next Satur-
day."
AS individual ills are analyzed on a
food basis, so indeed are international
ills. Here's how that mouthful, "The
Mixed Committee of the League of
Nations on the Relation of Nutrition to
Health, Agriculture and the Economic
Policy" (Which hereinafter will be
called nv the narno of Lord Astor IFS
chairman, to keep from getting mixed
up on this Mixed Committee), ap-
preached the vast ailments referred to
it for diagnosis:
The world has just experienced the
evils OF long and severe economic
depression. Markets were glutted and
producers were faced with ruin. At
the same time careful inquiries in =
number Of countries had shown how
Evening star., 1937-10-31
By BeSS FNrman.

w YITH chart Of how this
AA/ Nation eats, newly pre-
" " pared for international
scrutiny, Hazel K. Stiebel-
ing, senior food economist in the
Bureau of Home Economics, Depart
ment of Agriculture, sailed this week
for Geneva, where nutrition is being
gone into in a worldwide way.
Never before was such a chart
compiled. It's the Great American
Family Table in the form of a graph
Diets of ditch diggers and Of coupon
clippers, of gentlemen farmers and
share croppers, of college professors
and illiterates on the wrong side of the
railroad tracks were poured into q
great statistical pot, where they regis
tered their shares Of vitamins A, B,
c and D, of calcium and iron, OF
protein, carbohydrate and fat.
When all these facts were simmered
down to chart-summary form, there
was small all-black sector, where
there was so little to spend that food
could not possibly be adequate. There
was small all-white sector where
food expenditures were so high that
all thus blessed got well-balanced
meals. In between was a mountain of
diets, good, bad and Indifferent, wherein
all the American people could, if they
put their minds and cook stoves to it,
learn to eat right.
On payless leave, Miss Stiebeling
will serve for three months as a
nutrition expert to the health section
OF the League of Nations. This honor
she said. came as the proverbial bolt
from the blue.
A LITTLE stirring around revealed
that the health section Of the
League Of Nations really wants to do
Evening star., 1937-10-31
By John Jay DaIv.

~ YER old China and along tn,
Spanish peninsula, men whit
man the big guns call fol
picric acid-a deadly weapon
when mixed with other Ingredient,
and placed in shells. 1t became known
first as a terrible agent of death and
destruction at the time of the World
War.
Now, picric acid, that old enemy Of
mankind, is used for more humani-
tartan methods in the war against the
dread child's disease, infantile paraly-
sis. Sprayed into the nose by physi-
clans instructed in the use of special
atomizers. picric acid along with cer-
tain solutions recently perfected by sci
entists. sets up chemical blockade
against the germs. Thus, by the irony
of fate, one of mans enemies is turned
into a friend.
Not only picric acid, but zinc sui
phate-used in eyewashes for years
enters the picture along with the iron
lung" or respirator invented 10 years
ago by Prof. Philip Drinker of Har-
yard.
With these three companions in
their fight against the fiercest malady
that slaughters the young, American
scientists wage a war of their own for
the preservation of life while two por-
tions of the Old World-on the CONT
nent and in the Far East-battle to the
death with one of the same weapons,
picric acid.
NEW methods to prevent infantile
paralysis are highly ingenious by
reason OF their sheer simplicity. They
are based on the discovery that in
fantile paralysis attacks the nerves,
that the germs enter the system by
way of the nose, only place in the
human body where nerves are exposed.
That is why picric acid is made
into an atomizer and set up as a
chemical blockade. Close the door
and the germs cannot enter, say the
scientists.
Simple remedy, and yet it took
more than 100 years Of actual re-
search to get around to it. Its de-
velopment is the fruit of countless
numbers of research artists who ex-
perimented with the germs of in
fantile paralysis in their many and
dire forms. The spray solution seems
to be the last word in combat method.
Whether it be the spray with picric
acid base or one with sulphate of zinc.
With these simple remedies at hand,
scientists of America now have hope
of success in their far-flung drive to
wipe the scourge of infantile paralysis
from the face Of the earth.
Evening star., 1937-10-31

If the fight is successful it will
mean that American medical men
have won over force prevalent in
human society since the race began.
Men of authority believe that the
antiquity of infantile paralysis equals
that Of mankind itself. Without doubt
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Pc Acid Which Makes Big Shells More Explosive Deadly Has Poiomyeds
Germs the RnZn Suphe and Iron Lung Other ndpenables
Roosevelt Birthday Balls Big actors IN Advance

was more than 5000 years ago. On
tombstone from that era is the
epitaph of man with a shriveled
leg. typical of polio victims today.
They call it polio because it attacks
the gray matter in the spinal cord.
Evening star., 1937-10-31

1t was one Of the older plaques when
the world was young.
Infantile paralysis, or poliomyelitis-
its technical term-ravaged the people
who flourished back in the time of
the eighteenth Egyptian dynasty. That
Evening star., 1937-10-31

~ YER old China and along the
4 Spanish peninsula, men who
man the big guns call for
~ picric acid-a deadly weapon
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The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-10-01
NEW MEMBERS TO
Be HONOR GUESTS
Hagerstown Council, X.
of c., Plans Banquet
At The Hamilton

Approximately 25 new members
will be guests of honor at a ban
quet to be held at the Hamilton
Hotel on Tuesday night, October
Il, by Hagerstown Council No.
1865, Knights of Columbus.
The speaker, according to E..
Eugene Geary, Grand Knight of
the local council, will be a prom
inent member of the national or
ganization. Following the ban
quet, cabaret dance will be held
in the recently-purchased home
of the Knights, at 227 West
Washington street
The local Council has increased
it's membership considerably dur
ing the past year and the Column
bus Day Class to be initiated on
Sunday, October 10, will be one
of the largest during recent
months. Representatives from
various councils throughout the
State will be in attendance.
Officers of Hagerstown Council
are: Grand Knight. E. Eugene
Geary; Deputy Grand Knight,
Charles R. Mask; Warden, Sam
uel Wolfe, Jr.; Chancellor, Ar
thus Suter; Financial Secretary,
L. A. Bowers; Recording Secre-
tary, Francis o. Duffy; Treasur-
er, R. A. Ford; Advocate, Frank
Frantiani; trustees, A. L. Bopp,
Earl Ford and George ID. Martin;
inside guard, Joseph Ford, and
outside guard, Grant Moore.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-10-01
REPUBLICAN WOMEN
OUTLINE ACTIVITIES
To Hold Monthly Ward
Meetings Throughout
The City

At a meeting of the Women's
Republican Club, held at Hotel
Alexander, and presided over by
Mrs. John Dunn, plans were made
for activities of the club during
the coming months.
1t was decided to have a series
of monthly ward meetings at the
homes of members Of the club,
the first of these meetings to be
held in the month of October, on
date to be selected.
An outstanding event arranged
for will be large open meeting
at which prominent speaker will
be present and to which the wo-
men in both the city and county
will be invited to attend. The
time and place of this meeting
also will be announced later.