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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1920)
Says Anthrax Is Not Fatal Importance of Early Treatment Is Emphasized by New York Specialist. SERUM CURES 100 PER CENT Inspection of Hides and Furs Under Government Regulation Is Urged by Doctor— Cure Takes About Ten Days. Santa Catalina Island, together with a prehistoric toothbrush. Is evidence o f the early-day activity o f women, according to* Ralph Gtldden, who made the discoveries while searching In dian graves on the Island for the Hayo foundation. The bristles o f the toothbrush were gill fibers from the jawbone o f the stingarec and the “ puff” probably would seem heavy today, for although It looks like the modern bit o f down. It feels like a lump o f lead. It was used. It Is said, to crush the ochre with which the Indians beautified themselves. anthrax should be a matter o f gov ernment regulation,” said Dr. Charles Norris, chief medical examiner, who' had listened to the discussion. “ It Is very nearly Impossible to disinfect without destroying the object disin fected. I know of only one process ami It is a long one. About the only thing I can see for any one to do at the present time is to take a chance— and If he contracts anthrax get proper treatment with the serum Immediately. It Is easy to cure It If It Is diagnosed In time.” “ There aren't enough cases to alarm nny one,” Doctor Symmers said. “ But it crops up here and there all over the country, and the newspapers call It ‘deadly’ and every one gets wor ried. Mr. Post came to the hospital on the fourth day of the disease, and he was In time. The earlier the bet ter, however. Where It gets danger ous is when the infection gets Into the blood. The cure takes about ten days.” Doctor Symmers said that the an thrax bacillus first was discovered In 1875. It really Is cultivated In a laboratory, he added. Now York.— Dr. Dougins Symmers, director o f the pathological labora tories o f Bellevue and allied hospitals, said that the case o f Frederick H. Tost, poio player, who was discharged ns cured o f anthrax from Bellevue, was most Important In that It may em phasize that anthrax Is not a “ fatal” disease. “ Mr. Post’s cose was diagnosed In time,” Doctor Symraers said. “ That is the most Important thing. Get an anthrax cose early enough and a cure is practically certain. This Is the fifth case to be cured In Bellevue with the serum prepared by the United States . department o f animal Industry. ABORIGINES POWDERED NOSE “ I would like to make It as emphat ic os possible In this connection that Recent Find Shows Girls of Prehis use in newspapers o f the phrnse ‘dead toric Age Beautified Themselves ly anthrax’ has a bnd effect not only With Ochre. on the public generally but on nny pa tient thut may be under treatment. Los Angeles, Cal. — Present-day You see n sufferer from nnthrax Is girls, with their cosmetics, orange fully conscious throughout the disease. sticks and nail powders, may be He Is Just ns clear mentally ns any one chngrined to learn that their aborigi up to perhaps the last hour, If It nal sisters, who disported themselves chances to be a case that was not beside the Pacific generations ago, tnken In time and cannot be cured. knew something about personal adorn That Is a peculiarity o f anthrax. ment. Bad for Morale. A stone “ powder puff” found on “ Now, In Mr. Post’s case, he was feeling In excellent spirits, and he wanted the newspapers. There was no reasonable excuse ?or not giving Qook on Lost Boat Picked them to him. When he got them he Up in the Open Sea read about 'deadly nnthrax’ and that It wouldn’t be known for ten days wheth Jacksonville, Fla.— A Greek er he would live or not, and It wasn’t cook, member of the crew of the particularly good medicine for his tug Wlnthrop, which went down morale. Mr. Post, It happened, was a man o f fine courage, high Intelligence off Cape Henry July 15, was and rare gameness. He was a splen brought here by the steamer did patient, so reading about the Kokomo. The Greek was picked mythical deadllness o f nnthrax In the up In the open sea shortly after newspaper accounts didn’t have as bad the Wlnthrop foundered. Other an effect on him as It might. members o f the crew who were “ But there are Other patients suf picked up by n steamer and fering from anthrax here and there landed at Norfolk had reported about the country, and the chances the cook and a mess boy as are there will be more In Bellevue. drowned. Th e public should be educated as to what the disease really is. “ Anthrax, at the outset, Is mani fested by a characteristic lesion at the point o f Inoculation. This usually Is on the face, ns In Mr. Post's case. It looks like an ordinary pimple, red and Itching. Within a day or so the pim ple breaks down Into a large, blackish ulcer surrounded by nn enormous but painless swelling. “That one pimple and swelling Is all the visible sign there may be of the disease. But, If the swelling Is on No Flaw Shows in Operation of the cheek, as In Mr. Post’s case, It Boston Dealer in Interna may he enormous, closing the eye. “ Now, If the disease Is taken right tional Coupons. there, a cure Is practically certain. No one with nny such symptoms should wait an Instant. Any one who has seen the characteristic lesion of anthrax could not fall to Identify It In stantly across a room. Converts American Cash Into Foreign Serum It Effective. “ At Bellevue the percentage o f cures Money and Buys International Re with the government serum Is 100 per ply Coupons Redeemable at cent. O f the 20 cases treated In the Normal Exchange Rate. Inst three years seven hnve died. But the last five, which are the only ones Boston.— A ban has been placed on In which the serum has been used, the rush of people to give their money hnve been cured. “ The disease Is caused by a large, to Charles Ponzl, head o f the Securi spore-bearing bacillus, very resistant ties Exchange company, on his prom to ail forms o f disinfection. It yields ise to repay their Investment with 50 most readily to steam under pressure. per cent profit In 45 days. A fter a conference with District A t The probability Is that Mr. Post was Infected by a shaving brush. Proper torney Pelletier, Ponzl, whose business disinfection o f the brush would have Is described as the exchanging o f In ternational reply coupons from one ruined It.” "Disinfection o f hides and furs for j country to another, agreed to accept SPOUSE TOOK HER NAME Representatives of the United States government paid tribute to the French the trl-color over the White House and decorating grnves of the French dead at graph shows Secretary of W ar Newton D. Baker placing flowers on the grave of headstone, a little to the right of it, Is the dead soldier's widow. Near the center March, U. S. A., chief o f staff. N av y to Stage M aneuvers Atlantic and Pacific Fleets to Be Combined in Great Sea Spectacle. : ! ADMIRAL WILSON IN COMMAND Not Intended to Concentrate All of Nation’s W ar Strength and Only Vessels Regularly in Commission W ill Participate. Mrs. Alfred O. Corbin of Ocamoik, Va., Is a real helpmeet for her hus band. She has Just returned to New York on the S. S. Mauretania after a business tour In Holland for her hus band, a member o f the W all street firm of Leach & Co. When they were married, each liked Mrs. Corbin’s old Virginia name so well that they de cided to assume that. Instead o f the husband's name. She carries two dolls which she brought from Holland for her daughter, aged nineteen. Their names are “ Lelda and “ Airy.” Alarm bells can now be rung by wireless at a distance o f 100 miles. Can’t Prosecute “Get Rich” King PROFITS BY EXCHANGE RATE Japanese Sailors See N ew York Pay Tribute to French on Bastile Day no further deposits until an auditor selected by the district attorney has examined his accounts, which are said to run Into millions. District Attorney Pelletier said tl i action taken was “ In no sense a final closing down o f the justness.” For several weeks past crowds of persons have flocked to Ponzl’s offices and given In their savings In exchange fo r notes o f the Securities Exchange company for the principal plus 50 per cent, payable In 90 days. Invariably Ponzl Is said to have paid off the notes In 45 days and there has been no com plaint that any person has failed to re ceive money when due. Takes Advantage of Exchange Rate. Ponzl describes his exchange system In a general way as being based on the use o f international reply cou pons authorized under the Internation al postal agreement as the medium for taking advantage o f the differences In rates of exchange. W ith deposits received from custom ers, Ponzl explained, he converts American dollars into Italian lire, or other foreign money. Then, through agents located In several countries abroad. International reply coupons are purchased, redeemable at the nor mal and not the prevailing rate o f ex change. The coupons are then trans mitted by the agents from one Euro pean country to another, gathering profits through succeeding differences In rates of exchange, with assured nor mal payment for redemption, until the transaction Is completed and the pro ceeds reconverted Into American dol lars. This usually takes 45 days, ac cording to Ponzl, who says his profits have reached 400 per cent In some transactions. U. S. Agents Can’t Find Flaws. Ponzf's operations have been under investigation by federal, state and county officials for some time without uncovering nny violation o f law. United States Attorney Gallagher said he was not certain yet whether the matter was one with which the federal authorities should concern themselves. The United States attorney said he was “ Informed by the postal authori ties that the United States govern ment Is the largest user o f Internation al reply coupons In the world.” “ The entire Issue o f the past 12 months by I the government, however, is only a j small fraction o f the entire number which must have been handled by Sailors o f the Japanese battleship Rasuga, In New York harbor, en routs Ponzl to account for the tremendous from Maine to Japan, got “ liberty" and Immediately set out to see New York Income which he claims to have mads vis observation cars. L since December last.” ou Bast He day, July 14, by flying Arlington cemetery. This photo Henri Coquelet. Just beyond the of the group Is Gen. Peyton G. Pearl Instead of a Boil on Man’s Neck Twenty years ago, James Lon don o f Clifton Heights, Pa., ate some oysters. One o f the bi valves had a pearl which Longen swallowed. He never gave the Incident a thought until a few days ngo when he had severe pains In a small lump In his neck. Longen thought the lump n boll, so he squeezed It, and the pearl broke through the skin, ending Longen's pains. placement. 17,700 tons; speed, 18 knots; main battery, four 12-Inch guns and eight 8-lnch; second buttery, 12 3-Inch, four submerged torpedo tube», 9-Inch armor. Propelled by triple ex pansion steum engines, developing 18,-1 000 horsepower; crew, 1,250, Including marines. Tennessee— Nlnteen hundred nnd 4 * * « * # « # * » * w * * * * * * w * * * w * w 4 l twenty. Length, 000 fee t; breadth, 97 fe e t ; draft, 31 fe e t ; displacement, 82,- 300 tons; speed (contract), 21 knots; 200 vessels, with over 100 more In re main battery, twelve 14-Inch guns; two serve or under construction. In 1910 submerged torpedo tubes; propelled 10 submarines were carried on the ac by electric turbines, developing 28,000 tive list of the navy. This yeftr hearty horsepower; crew, 1,000 men, Including lOd of tne submerslbles are attached marines. to the two fleets, with about 75 more under construction. Eighteen Dreadnaughta Available. Little Change In Cruller Strength. Eighteen single caliber gun ships The cruiser strength of the navy has classed ns drendnnughts will be avail able for the January maneuvers that shown little chnnge in the last ten were not completed in 1910. They yenrs. In 1910 the backbone of the hnve n combined displacement of 445,- cruiser force was the “ big eight” ar 000 tons nnd a combined gun power of mored cruisers, now reduced to six by 112 14-Inch guns, eighty twelves, 220 the loss of the San Diego and the Mem phis. No light cruisers of Importance 5-lnch and twenty-eight 8-Inch. A comparison of totnl battleship have been launched In the last decade. One of the most striking Increases forces available In 1920 with 1910 shows that this yenr there are 18 In Amerlcnn naval strength In the last drendnnughts and 19 predreadnaughts, teu years has been In auxiliary vessels. excluding the Oregon class, against 23 Both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets predreadnaughts In 1910, Including the now hnve well-organized and complete Oregon class. Most o f the bnttlesblps “ trains” o f hospital ships, s pply listed as nvnllnhle In 1910 are now con bonts, repair vessels, refrigerating ships, ammunition nnd fuel ships, In sidered obsolete. Ten yenrs ago the nnvy destroyer addition to motor patrol vessels, sub force consisted of about 38 vessels, marine chasers, mine sweepers and Including 17 torpedo bonts, even then mine layers, converted yachts, sub prnctlenlly obsolete. This yenr Admir marine nnd destroyer tenders and transports, practically un als Wilson nnd Rodman command de troop stroyer forces aggregating more thnn dreamed of a decade ago. Washington.— The greatest concen tration o f sea power In the history o f the American navy will result from the Junction o f the reorganized Atlan tic and Pacific fleets off the Pacific coast next January under plans now being prepared by naval officers. The great naval spectacle probably will be staged In the vicinity of the Gulf of Panama. Officials o f the navy department say the proposed mobilization will In no sense result In "grand" maneuvers. No effort will be made to concentrate all o f the nation’s naval strength and only ships regularly In commission with trained crews will participate. The exercises and drills will be simple nnd mainly o f a competitive nature, Includ ing unofficial athletic competitions be tween representatives of the two fleets and o f Individual ships. Admiral Wilson Senior Officer. Admiral Henry B. Wilson, cotnmnnd- er-ln-chlef o f the Atlantic fleet, will be senior officer o f the combined force, with Admiral Hugh Rodman, chief of the Pacific fleet, second In command. The maneuvers .w ill be unique In ninny respects, chiefly In that they will afford the first actual moblllzntlon of tile bulk of the new American navy. Junior Red Cross School Chlldrsn In Before the war the forces were always Italy Make Colsnders and more or less scattered and a shortage Sieves. of several types of vessels, particularly of destroyers, submarines, light cruis Collestrada, Italy.— The Junior Beil ers, aerial forces and fleet auxiliaries, Cross school at Collestrada, Italy, Is made It Impossible to concentrate a mnklng kitchen utensils from osiers well rounded out fleet, although the and withes to supply the countryside major portion o f the battleship force with the hardware thnt It Is Impos met each winter at Guantanamo, Cuba, sible to buy from stamping mills In for target practice nnd drills. Italy since the wur. Collestrada Is In During the war the shortage In most the heart o f Uinbrla, where straw types o f small vessels, notably destroy platting and osier weaving are two of ers and submarines, was overcome, but the principal Industries. The orphans the entire fleet was never mobilized, r.t the Collestrada school make colan due to the use o f practically all light ders nnd sieves and market baskets In craft In the wnr zone, the detail of sufficient quantities to furnish the cruisers to escort duty nnd the fact neighboring villages. that a considerable portion o f the bat The reed receptacles are woven very tleship force was on duty abroad much tight and serve for flour sifting. This of the time. Is an Important utensil In a part of W ill 8et New Mark. Italy where the flour Is ground on The Jannunry maneuvers will set a hand grist mills and contains many new mark In American naval progress. coarse particles. Another method of For the first time In the history of the mnklng these sifters Is to weave three new navy the battleship fleet will be thicknesses o f horsehair ncross a supported by a reasonably adequate wooden hoop, which sifts as fine as the number o f destroyers and other light best articles manufactured with steel craft. Submarines will be available j wire. In abundance, together with sufficient j The woven receptacles o f Umbria nnvnl aircraft for all tactical purposes j are not exported from Italy this year and a fully rounded out fleet o f aux because the country can use the en iliary vessels. The total number of I tire output to replace those formerly vessels to participate will depend on made o f metal by Italian stamp mills. the progress o f recruiting, ns many 1 Even the large output of the Junior ships are In reserve now for lark of Red Cross colony nt Collestrnda, crews, but It Is probable that Admiral which approximates a hit ltd red pnnlers Wilson will comtnaud at least 300 ves sels o f all types. The most modern o f drendnnughts to participate In the maneuvers will First Man-Eating Shark of be the great Tennessee. The lawt word Year Caught in Potomac In naval construction, this great float ing fortress displaces 32,t)00 tons, car Washington.— It remained for ries 12 14-Inch guns and Is propelled the poor old Potomac river to by electric turbines. The Tennessee j furnish the first “ man-eating Is attached to the Atlantic fleet. A .»hark” of the 1920 season. A sister ship, the California, probably local newspaper published a first will not be completed In time to Join \ page story o f sn eight and a Admiral Rodman's forces before the | half-foot wolf o f the sea, caught maneuvers. at Plney Point, Md., which Is A comparison o f the ships nvallnble ! considerable distance up the Po for next winter’s maneuvers with the tomac, hut where the water still naval strength available for a similar la salt. concentration ten years ago affords A doctor In the Ashing party, some striking contrasts. January 1. according to the account, re 1910, the latest battleship In the navy moved the shark's teeth and pre was the New Hampshire, authorized by sented them as souvenir» to the congress In 1904, and completed In other mernbera o f the party. 1908. A comparison o f the New Hamp Plney Point la not a summer re shire nnd the Tennessee follow s: sort. New Hampshire— Length, 450 fe e t ; breadth, 70 fe e t ; draft, 27 fe e t : dis Straw Kitchen Utensils and colanders each week, la entirely absorbed by the needs of the nearest vlllnges. The children learn to do tho work In a short time, for the only ex ceptional skill required Is In choosing the material carefully and soaking tho splints and withes correctly. NOTED GOLF CHAMPION Abe Mitchell, one ot me moat fa mous o f English golfers and holder of the world's ehamplouship for many years.