Capital journal., June 21, 1951, Image 15

Both Sides in Kenny Fight
Agree on Certain Points
By FRANK CAREY
(Auoclftted Prtu Science Reporter)
Washington, June 21 VP With all the differences between
the Kenny and non-Kenny schools of thought on polio, are there
any basic ideas on which both agree?
' Officials of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis,
although they disagree with Miss Kenny's concept of the na
ture of the disease, say that by
and large all doctors use some of hot packs is intended not
"modification" ol the treatment, umy io relieve pain dui aiso to
methods championed by her.
They add that, while not all
Miss Kenny's ideas on treatment
are original, she did do a great
service in stimulating fresh
thinking about polio and in
prompting an extensive use of
physical therapy. Prior to her
entry on the scene, they say, rela
tively few doctors were employ
ing hot packs and physical ther
apy although tneir use nau utrcu
described in medical literature.
Kiatpr Kennv contends that
any "modification" of her treat
ment is inadequate.
As far as this reporter can
determine after studying the
medical literature and interview
ing doctors on both sides of the
fence, both seem to agree on
only two things:
1. Some form of heat should
be used at least at some stage
of the treatment.
. 2. The involved muscles should
be moved by the therapist at
some time during the treatment.
- Aside from that, here is the
picture insofar as this reporter
can understand it:
To furnish heat Kenny adher
ents always use hot packs. In
some cases hot baths may also be
used, but the hot packs are never
left out. Non-Kennyists often use
hot packs, sometimes do not.
Kenny people contend that
the use of hot packs in "modi
fied" treatments is sometimes
"haphazard." Non-Kennyists say
that not all patients require hot
packs and that with some
patients a hot-pack schedule may
be exhausting.
Kenney disciples say the use
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Four Corners "The Firemen
of Four Corners offer free in
spection for danger from fire
hazards. Aware of the National
Fire Chiefs program of fire pre
vention and unnecessary loss of
life and property, all residents
of Four Corners are requested to
leave their address at the Four
Corners post office or call 21319
and a fireman will be sent to
each residence to inspect the
premises for any possible danger
of fire. Last year the national
death list from fire totaled 20,
000, Let's not let it happen in
Four Corners. Signed, W. R.
Gould, fire chief." .
A grass fire called out the
Four Corners fire department
Wednesday about 10:30. It was
soon brought under control.
The Circle 4 Dance club has
called a business meeting for
Friday, June 22 at 8 p.m. in the
Community hall. There will be
election of officers. Later danc
ing with Neil Brown as caller.
The Four Corners Rod and
Gun club held its annual ban
quet Tuesday evening in the
Community hall at 7 p.m. Cov
ers were laid for 50 with the
wives of club members and other
invited friends as guests. Fol
lowing the dinner hour a film in
technicolor on wild life was
shown.
Book Lover Has
3,000 Books,
Steals a Few
London, June 21 (ff) Sydney
Wordsworth was so crazy about
books he wanted to line the
walls of his cottage with them.
He nearly succeeded until the
law stepped in.
The 57-year-old factory hand
spent most of his 5 pounds 10
shillings (S15.40) weekly salary
plus a nestegg of 5 0 0 pounds
($1,400) on DOOK3.
The Wordsworth library grew
to 3,000 volumes, and its owner
ran out of money. But he want
ed still more.
In magistrate's court, Words
worth pleaded guilty to stealing
five books from a London stall.
But Magistrate Paul Bennett let
him off with a warning to curb
his obsession,
Wordsworth told the court his
eyesight was nearly gone. He
had never read any of the 3,000
books he'd acquired through the
years.
Profitable Hunting
Everett, Wash., June 21 U.P.)
Four deer escaped from the
Everett zoo Sunday night.
Park Supt Walter Hall and a
erew went out to round them
up, came back with five deer,
help prevent or minimize poten
tial deformities. Non-Kennyists
say hot packs are helpful in re
lieving pain and in aiding muscle
relaxation, but most of them
doubt that hot packs are impor
tant in preventing deformitnes.
Kenny adherents begin the
use of hot packs as soon as a
diagnosis of polio is made. Other
doctors who use packs may not.
Some recommend complete rest
for the patient until all pain has
disappeared.
Simultaneously with the use
of packs Kenny adherents begin
exercising affected muscles. Such
"early motion" is not employed
by all other doctors.
Kenny followers say they
never use splints or braces of
any kind during the acute stage
of the disease. Other doctors
may apply these temporarily
especially at night as supports
for weakened muscles when they
are not being exercised. Many
doctors say the Australian nurse
made a major contribution to
polio treatment by weaning the
profession away from over-use
of splints and casts.
As to exercises, the actual
physical motions appear to be
about the same whether pre
scribed by the Kenny school or
by other doctors. The objective
seems to be gradually to induce
muscles to go through as great
a range of motion as possible.
Among both Kennyists and
non-Kennyists, "passive" exer
cise is first used that is, the
physical therapist moves the
patient's limbs. Later "active"
exercise is used, the patient being
encouraged to try to work his
muscles against resistance.
Kenny people contend that in
general theirs is the best treat
ment. Other doctors say it is
difficult to appraise the Kenny
treatment, the so-called "modi
fied" Kenny treatments or in
fact any treatment.
The reasons, they say, Is that
polio is marked by many "vari
ables." At the outset one patient
may appear to be seriously af
fected and then recover rather
quickly. Another may seem to
have only a slight attack and
oventually become a hopeless
cripple.
The only way to make an
evaluation, these doctors con
tend, would' be to study many
cases in various' parts of the
country, with half the patients
in each area being given the
particular treatment under study
and the other half being treated
without it, but with all receiv
ing a common basic treatment to
assure their safety.
One unofficial estimate is that
it would cost $250,000 to set up
and operate such a test project.
(Tomorrow: Miss Kenny's Claims.)
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It Takes a Lot of Talk to
Save Any Money in Senate
By ARTHUR EDSON
Washington. June 21 W) There's nothing like a little dis
cussion on finance to irritate the average family.
Mother irks father by suggesting they all save by having
father give up golf; father, in one of his finest hours, gallantly
decides mother would oe usi as pretiy n sne ciitin t nave as
many hair-dos,
Testifies Comptroller Gen
eral Lindsay C. Warren, Un
cle Sam's boss accountant,
tells senators in Washington,
there has been "an undoubted
weakening of moral stan
dards" in government and out
of it. He testified before a
senate labor subcommittee as
a leadoff witness in hearings
on government moral stan
dards. (AP Wirephoto)
Vote 24 New
Vet Hospitals
Washington, June 21 VP) The
house voted Wednesday to add
16,000 beds to the veterans' hos
pital program by building 24
new hospitals and enlarging 14
others at an estimated cost of
$335,000,000.
It passed by voice vote and
sent to the senate a bill directing
the veterans' administration to
add the new project to its con
struction program despite the
fact that President Truman can
celled a previous authorization
tor tne same projects in 1948.
The legislation is not binding
inasmuch as it carries no funds
for the hospitals. Even if it did,
or if congress provides the money
later, tne president could im
pound the money as he did pre
viously.
An identical bill passed the
house in the last congress but
died in the senate.
The veterans administration
opposed the bill on the grounds
it is contrary to the president's
program.
The new hospitals provided for
in the bill would include loca
tions in Klamath Falls, Ore.,
Norman, Okla.; El Paso, Tex.;
Houston, Tex.; and San Diego,
Calif.
Enlargements to existing hos
pitals would be made at several
others, including Oklahoma
City.
In addition to the estimated
initial cost of the hospitals, the
VA claimed, it would cost $60,
000,000 annually to operate them
at full capacity.
And during all this discussion
things keep bobbing up that
have nothing to do with saving
money.
It s the same way in tne sen
ate.
Monday the' senate was consid
ering appropriations for the fed
eral trade commission ttioj.
Everybody was in a saving
mood. I know that, because tney
said so.
Senator Wherry (R-Neb) said
the FTC might have enough mo
ney except that it spends its
money lobbying for more mo
ney.
Senator Frear (D-Del) said he
agreed with that, but didn't
Wherry know that a former
chairman of FTC had been a
good republican?
"I don t know whether one
good republican can handle all
those democrats or not, wherry
said.
Senator Long (D., La.) said he
was more concerned with what,
he called the cement lobby than
he was with what the FTC was
up to.
"I know where the campaign
contributions are coming from,"
Wherry said, "and I know where
they're going to go."
Up popped Senator Neely (D-
WVa) to say:
That's something I want to
find out where they're going
to go."
Nobody answered Neely, and
pre'tty soon Senator Ferguson
(R-Mich) got the floor and elud
ed his colleagues for wandering
so far afield.
Ferguson said the FTC had
ten full-time employes auditing
vouchers for expenditures of
$191,000. He figured these em
ployes were paid around $36,000
so one of their biggest jobs, he
said, would be auditing their
own pay.
"They have 35 employes," Fer
guson said, "working in service
and supply. I don't know what
they're servicing and supplying,
but it surely must be red tape."
Well, this went on for a time,
and Ferguson soon was talking
about feudalism. He said it
what we're drifing toward, that
it's the same as socialism and
communism, and he's against all
three.
I tiptoed away at this point,
leaving the senate to save as best
it could. As I hinted in the be
ginning, in the home or in the
senate, it often t a k e s a lot of
conversation to save a little
money.
wiak practices what he preaches,
He fined himself $3 for pass
ing a stopped school bus.
The judge was not arrested.
but he explained he felt better
about it when he fined himself,
The money was turned over
to the pdlice sick and disability
fund.
Judge Fines Himself
$3 for Passing Bus
Dunkirk, N.Y., June 21 ()
City Judge Raymond J. Bartko-
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Be Surprised in
Year of 2951
Los Angeles, June 21 (P)
One thousand years from now
someone may want to dig un
derneath the Pershing Square
underground garage and find
out what life was like in Los
Angeles in 1951.
A "time capsule" is to be
planted beneath the three-story
subterranean garage. The cap
sule is three feet high and 12
inches in diameter, and has steel
walls a half lncn thick. It will
have a screw cap like the nose
of a bomb that will make it air
and water tight. Its weight, 225
pounds.
It hasn't been decided yet
what all will go into the time
capsule, nor has anyone given
much thought to the possibility
that a demolition squad may
take the capsule out in the Pa
cific in 2951 A.D. and dump it,
in the mistaken idea it was one
of those infernal bombs made
back in the warring Twentieth
century.
Want an Elephant?
Better Hurry to Buy
New Delphi, June 21 W)
Better move fast if you want to
buy an elephant.
The Indian government today
applied an export quota of 75
a year for elephants after the
food and agriculture ministry
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