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NEW PARALYSIS SERUM
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l(New York World-Telegram)
Said Dr. William H. Park, Director of the city’s medi
cal research laboratory, announcing what he thinks is im
munization of infantile paralysis, “We wanted to be able to
say we had tried it on ourselves before we asked others to
submit to our experiments.”
Therefore he and his associates applied the virus of a
dreaded and ravaging disease to their own bodies.
When they got immunity and no bad effects they tried
it on children. Other children will be inoculated as fast as
monkeys can yield up their spinal columns for the Serum.
The treated children will be examined from time to
time during the years to check on the effect of.the immuniza
tions.
All over the nation are the twisted bodies of victims
of infantile paralysis. By the affliction of these can the great
new developments of Dr. Maurice Brodie and Dr. Park be
measured.
To those who hold that only money urge “makes the
mare go round” and advances civilization this ought to be
noted:—Dr. Park, who in the ’90s developed diphtheria an
ti-toxin and since has produced many other gifts to health
and medicine, receives from the City of New York, $7,000
a year.
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SOCIAL REFORM SLOW
(New York Times) \ ,
When President Roosevelt told the Security Conference
at Washington that there could be no such a thing as hurri
cane social reform, he seems to have both surprised and
piqued some of his own aides and advisers. They did not
like his program of “one step enough for me.” They want
ed to go all the way to the goal in a single stretch. Secretary
Perkins, in fact, let it be known that detailed plans had been
drawn for legislation which the President had said must be
put aside for the time being. This doubtless is the case. Mr.
Roosevelt’s characteristic way is to encourage his multitude
of counselors to go on with some comprehensive plan, all
the time reserving to himself the right to decide which should
be adopted and which dropped from the schedule for the
present. Very likely the elaborate bills of which Miss Per
kins and others speak will be duly introduced in Congress,
but it is certain that they will not be pressed to enactment in
the next session against the President’s recommendation.
He is known to desire a short session of Congress. It could
be congested by worthy projects of social betterment just as
easily as by doubtful bills affecting the currency, or by a
drive for the bonus, or laws for other special groups. His
deliberate choice is to unite on one useful measure and let
the rest wait.
It must always be borne in mind that the great social
changes, such as those proposed,' hre necessarily slow in
reaching the statute book- Who remembers now that Presi
dent Hoover also had large and well-studied plans for the
security and well-being of the people? He too had his vol
uminous reports, his succession of conferences at the White
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House, all filled with projects designed to be of the widest
benefit. But few of them ever got as far as Congress, and
none of them which had any importance were given the force
of law. It is a process which cannot greatly be speeded up.
As President Roosevelt said, it is necessary carefully to study
the mistakes made by other countries, and then to seek to
avoid them. He also emphatically laid down the principle
that the finahcial set-up for all such agencies must not be
“unsound.” If this means delay, it also means waiting until
the business is well in hand and entirely mastered before
going ahead with it. Doubtless the President’s genial smile
will continue to irradiate those whom he has disappointed
by deciding to do one thing at a time, but they will soon find
out that not what they think but what he determines will
be the order of the day in Congress.
There is said to be a more rapid movement of currency
but we guess it must be in the opposite direction—(The Bos
ton Herald)
An Australian can stand on his head and drink 12 glass
es of beer. No one interferes, as long as it is his own head.
A New York robot can drink whiskey and beer, smoke
a cigarette and put its arms around a woman. Huh, any
common man can do that.—Florida Times Union.
Here’s to the streamline train and the streamlined auto.
May they never meet.—Toledo Blade.
Whatever Mr. Roosevelt was running for he seems to
have won.—Detroit News.
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