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."
CRAWL SAVES DOG
OAKLAND iff Humane offi
cer Bob Middlekauff crawled two
blocks through a 24-inch sewer
Saturday to rescue a cocker span
iel which had wiggled through
grating.
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