Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1955-04-22
HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE

FRIDAY, APRIL ~, 1900
HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE
With 1866 still in its first half, we think
it is perfectly safe to name DR.. Jonas E.
Salk as the Man-of-theY ear.
With the reading in Ann Arbor on April
18th of his 113 page report, DR.. Thomas
Francis, Jr, of the University of Michigan,
who evaluated the most massive field trials
in the history of medicine, the world learn
ed that poliomyelitis can be, and will be lick
ed.
In essence, the detailed study Of the 1854
trials, involving the vaccination OF 44O,O00
children in the "A states with three separate
inoculations of the Salk vaccine, has estab-
lished the effectiveness of the preventive
treatment at 60 to 80 per cent New data
presented subsequently by Dr. Salk on both
the processing of the vaccine and the method
of administering indicate increasing effec-
tiveness from here on.
At the Presidents direction, machinery
was swiftly set in motion to share the Salk
discovery with the world and to Formulate
plans for proportional distribution through
out the u. S. and the prevention of black
marketing of the vaccine. While it is not
expected that we can produce enough of this
precious fluid to ship any quantity abroad
before 1857, Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles will send copies Of the Ann Arbor
report duO lu1I Odld OIl lIlc Odlh NdCCIilC W
our diplomatic headquarters in Is foreign
nations, including our embassies in Poland
and RusSia-Whence the information will
undoubtedly go to Red China
But, amidst the rejoicing, we should bear
in mind two important points. First, be-
cause Dr. Salk's great gift to humanity is not
yet 100 per cent effective, and because 1t
will be long time before all of our young
people and expectant mothers can be inOc-
11ofoH ht1n6rp6c az vat tO he stricken
down by this dread disease And second, for
thousands of those now suffering from polio
the battle can never be won.
Here, as with every epoch-marking adj
vance, the suffering of those who were born
too soon is etched all the sharper against
this background of immunity for others.
SEEMS TO BE SOME CONFUSION
On May 18th, 1854, the Supreme Court
of the U. S. handed down its monumental
decision outlawing racial segregation in pub
lie schools, and on April 18th, 1855 this tri.
bunaI ended four-day hearing on how the
decision should be supplemented.
Lawyers from Arkansas, Delaware, Dis
trict Of Columbia, Kansas, Maryland North
Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia
pointed out the difficulties and dangers OF
abrupt and immediate action, and We're sup
ported in their plea for gradual desegrega-
ton by the Justice Departments Solicitor
General Simon E. Sobeloff He objected te
the Court issuing forthwith" DEGREES that
would set up next September as deadline
for integration, and he further urged the
Justices not to undertake to act "as super
school board !"
In concluding these sessions, the Court
took these problems and advice under ad-
visement and gave no hint whether or not
DEGREES might be forthcoming before early
June when this body winds up it's work year
In the absence of directives by that time we
would assume the tribunal was favoring the
gradual approach.
But greater puzzle to this layman is
why the Supreme Court, after its May 18th
decision of the basic ISSUE concerns itself
with the details of making it effective. This
job, if we remember what the school books
said about the division of authority among
the Legislative, Judicial and Executive de
partments, would seem to belong to the lat
ter-more specifically the Department OF
Justice. Or, are we blowing new ground il
a sort of Constitutional never-never-land?
NSoNs
GOODBYE, CINDERELLA
Lady, if you have big feet there may b
compensations. Morton Hack, president O
the Michigan Shoe Retailers Association, toll
his organization that woman with large fee
ARE more pleasant, and as generous of char
acter as their pedal extremities.'
He more than made up for these kint
words by the rest of his message "Our wo
men have the biggest feet in the world ant
they seem to be getting still bigger" gen
Grafton ago, Hack said, the average woman
took 6B shoe size. Today she takes sever
and one half B.
This is much more sensible If woman
shoes are too tight, not only she but he
friends and family suffer. It is time to Civ
up the idea that by wearing uncomfortabl.
tight shoes, woman becomes as beautiful
and lucky as Cinderella. On the contrary, sh
becomes cross and hard to get along with an,
ugly lines deepen in her face.
It the women with neat but comfortabl
skccs Who are rice to dat crs' co-e.e homo f