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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1956)
Group Battles Dread Disease Of Cluldren By JOHN B. KNOX LYNN, VI u. UfuLlnds Ksden, almost I, turned from the TV Ml beside her sickbed and spoke ty her father: "You know that man on TV he looks very dark. Everything looks dark ... he looks like death." But the TV picture wasn't dark. and the room wasn't dark. And Edward Kaden then knew that a struggle of almost six years to keep Linda alive was near its end It had been a struggle which, in those long years, took all his spare time, sent his wife to a hos pital, and consumed all the M4 000 he could scrape together. Mentally bright beyond her years .good-natured and uncom plaining, Linda was a victim of cystic fibrosis, a childhood ail ment often not recognized because its symptoms are mistaken for other sicknesses. Yet is Is so com mon that It is said to take each year a toll greater than polio and other widely known child diseases Doctors studying cystic fibrosis say about one in 600 babies is born with it. Very LaaeMint Linda was one of them. Born In 1949, she died a year ago. "I'm very lonesome without that little girl." Kaden says. ' There's a void in my life I can't fill." Dedicating himself to others who have borne, or will bear, this same heavy affliction, he has tried to fill the emptiness in his life by assuming the duties of president of the newly-formed Children s Cystic Fibrosis Assn. of Massachusetts. He Is also a trustee of the National Cystic Fi brosis Research Foundation. While still little understood, cystic fibrosis is now considered likely to recur in families. Re searchers say it may be a reces sive characteristic carried by cer tain persons. They say that if one happens to marry another of sim ilar tendency some of their chil rirrn may be afflicted. But at this tinip. no test reveals his tenden cy in advance. Research on the rlispase is only a few years old. Now Incurable According to the state associa tion it seems at present to be an incurable disease, although some persons with a mild form of the ailment are known to be still liv ing in their 30s and 40s. Failure to recognize it comes from the fact that its characteris tics still are not generally known ecn to many doctors. There is danger, the association says, of mistaking and treating its symptoms for other illnesses: Bronchitis, asthma, some form of allergy, or an intestinal ailment known as celiac disease. The symptoms include chronic eough. repeated pneumonias, bulky diarrhea and tremendous appetite accompanied by poor weight. The latter symptom arises from inability to digest portions of food because of missing en rymes from the pancreas.. There fore, treatment calls for giving pancreas preparations with each meal. Weight Loss The victim becomes a thin, coughing child, mentally bright but in pathetic physical condition. While a better climate might be desirable, an ailing child must re main near a good hospital. Thus far, it seems exclusively a white race disease. No case has been reported among Negroes or Orientals. The state association and the national foundation raise funds (o- research grants, undertake to educate both laymen and physi cians, and seek to bring the di' sease to the attention of the gen eral public so that stricken chil dren may receive early treat ment. Meanwhile, meetings are held to help parents of victims ex change ideas, learn ways of car ing for their children of pre paring food, and most of all, to keep up flagging morale. Of his work with the associa tion. Kaden says: "I suppose it's selfish, the work does so much for me "I'll never be a big person. This Is my pleasure." Income Tax Hit by Former Commissioner SOUTH BEND. Ind. iff T. Coleman Andrews, former Com missioner of Internal Revenue in the Eisenhower administration, Sunday called for a letter-writing campaign for congressional ab olition of the federal income tax. Andrews appeared on the weekly radio program of Clar ence E. Manion, South Bend law yer. Andrews contended the 16th amendment permitting the fed eral income tax "was conceived in class hatred. It is an instru ment of vengeance and plays into the hands of the Commu nists. It fulfills the Marxist prophecy that the surest way to destroy a capitalist society is by 'steeply graduated' taxes on in come and heavy levies upon es tates of people when they die." Andrews, of Richmond, Vs., argued the Income tax Is "unsta ble" during a period of economic depression and "has robbed the citizen of his constitutions! guar anty of privacy and respect for property rights." 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