// Race To Head
Health E
ment
Dr. F. O. «wqdeabarg,; rtty
health officer today leaned 11k è
following statement Ip regard tip
the minor quarantine restrictions
new effective In thia city:
"There la no epuae for alarm
and excited fear to Ashlaqd. We
do not know a great deal regard-i
Ing paralysis and ' in conjunction ‘
with actiqn taken by Medford and «
Grants Pans wa deemed it advis- ’
able to place restrictions which i
would prevedi children from ru- ’
ral districts mingllqg w lth 't h •
children to our public
schools«
promiscuously. Practically every I
</se of paralysis tn this county
has developed to rural districts—
t he one case we have in Ashland
having been brought to thia city
from the Pinehutot district.
"So' far as medical science
known— and this is very little—
Siren of the Southern 8eas.
the paralysis carrier is the com Leona Makaena. Who win dance
mon horse fly or deer fly and as the Aasertoan Hula a t the Vtotog
development of the disease In Theater on Wednesday, Oct. Sth
Klamath Falls and Lakqvlew die*
only to the vaudeville wet, "A
trets followed the holding of ro
Night to Hawaii" la coming high
deos th&re, It wcqild seem this
ly recommended, playing to big
belief Is well founded.
houses and enthusiastic audiences
"Again it. le difficult to de
termine or diagnose paralysis an everywhere, according to Manager
ti* the paralysis has developed— Hurst.
Other girls featured are Lehua
frequently In the early^jstage of
the disease, it appears like a mere Kaal, * who dances /h e Hawaiian
Evafana
Kealoha,
and
attack of summer flu. We are hula,
keeping every suspicious case nn-. Luana Keala who dances the
Charleston hnla.
der close observation.
The picture showing is Dance
" I receive many Inquiries re
garding the situation, and 1 desire Magic.
everyone should know the ' true
situation—-we have had no par
alysis develop tn Ashland— w e
lìsce jthe children under minor
restrictions for the purpose of
preventing an epidemic, not for a
cure:"
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\b tn e , Louis Hill (left) learn»
how to repair aa air pump. John
Moir, shown with him, is the
ulna who taught * Louis' father
th e same trirk, 30 years ago.
Ilelow, right, Courtland Hill
peeves that he doesn’t mind get
ting hie hands nod face dirty
while assembling cylinder bends.
MINISTERS TO
gT. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 1.— (IP)
The two grandsons of the la*.e
HOLD MEETING — James
J. H ill are working as <tyy
CHEV DEALERS
TO EAT-MAYBE
Wjhlch will be feast com« rise
beans or turkeyT th is Is the
question which The Automotive
^5hop, ld ^ i Chevrolet dealer la
worrying abojit, for the local
dealer is paired with another
dealer and the onqw hlch sells
the most Chevrolets during Oc
tober wRl eat a turkey dinner,
while the loser w ill have to alt.
across the table and be content
with beans.
This is an annual 'contest
among the Chevrolet dealers and
last year resulted in one of the
largest sales in Octqjier to the
history of the company. A re
p o rt‘ from the Chevrolet factory
shows that the August and Sep
tember sales exceeped previous
August and September sales, and
the leaders expect the bean and
turkey contest In-October to re
sult In the sale of 100,009 jChOv-
rolets.
«.
The Automotive 8hop to con
junction wjth the Medford Chev
rolet dealers were paired against
the Klamath Falls dealers last
year, and the latter won. How
ever, the Jackson county dealers
this year expect to carry off the
honor.
Myrtle Point— Work ,rt
complete new hotel for
fair.
laborers on the Great Northern
railroad-^—the railroad they will
some day own.
They are very yonng ipen; as
far as money goes, each- of them
could onrn a railroad of his own
right now if he chose. But they
are setting out to earn their
ownership, one by working with
a construction crew and the other
>. by laboring as a machinist’s
helper.
t
Furthermore, they are having
a race— a race to see which will
J 'get first to the president’s ehair
o of the road their / grandfather
built
*
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One is working up. The other
f is working down. If the latter
meets his brother at the half-
• Way station, he’ll turn around
. and go back up with him.
Won’t Start at Bottom
>
Courtland H ill, 11,- the young-
■ er of the two brothers, is the
one who. Is “working down.” He
doesn’t pfopose to work his way
through all departments and all
Jobs; not for him are the suc-
I cess stories about the ambitions
lad who began at the bottom of
the ladder and workhd to the
• top by slow and painful struggles.
9 But he does want to know some-
• thing about the railroad and he
( doesn’t mind getting his face
and hands dirty while he’s learn-
r tag.
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So he Is working as a machln-
I let’s helper, working in the Dale
- street shops. But soon he’s go-
1 Ing to quit his Job and go back
» ~(a trifle tardy, perhaps) to Yale
i University, where he’ll be a
sophomore.
Some day he may
i return to the shop. Bat he ad-
. mits that it’s the presidency of
the road that he’s after.
“I ’ll take that Job maybe next
year, maybe not until I ’m through
j college,” he says. “ But that's
what I ’m after. Louis (the broth-
| er who is working up from the
< bottom) can stay down. I think
| he’s bulling, anyway, about this
I bottom start stuff.”
'
lr> «•■ A!.ii«moratlon of ths «ym
tri i.. .un Francisco to Hoaoftata.
In
impressive mld-Paei«« coi
shows th* crowd aboard thwate
That remark depicts the dif
ferent attitudes of the two
brothers.
Jnst now. Louis, at 2b, is a
member of a construction crew
on the Klamath Falls extension,
to Oregon. Before that he was
timekeeper for a section gang In
the Iron range region of MJnne-
sota, working for 12.25 a day
with bunk and board thrown in
And, for a time, he worked in
the shops where Courtland is
sow working helping classify
scrap iron'and inventorying nails
and gaskets, lamps and wicks,
gauges and pistons and What-not.
Louis keeps the very modest
wage that he draws: Cowrtland
scorns to. ■
«corns «2 a D ay' J
I ’m here to learn. In short<.or-
der, how to be president of the
road,” say Courtland. “Pm not
out to learn how to get 12 a
day.”
Bnt Louis Isjn o re thrifty; he
■ot only keeps his wages, bnt L
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Ccventy-two eases* of epidemic j j «,
infantile paralysis have been re- o{
ported to the Oregon State Board tw,
of Health. There Is no desire to V#1
cause unnecessary alarm, hat the ||k
fact remains that there Is ap an-
usually large number of cases of wc
infantile paralysis tn this state. MW
Reports from other statde Indicate ra|
an increase in the 'number o f Th
cases of the disease reported as ¡n
well as In Oregon. Every avail- tm
able precaution against Its spread jn(
should be taken. Children should we
not be permitted to come In con
tact with sick persons whether j at
It be adults or children who are d«.
«»•
rei
The essential point In treat- gh<
went during the acute stage of pei
Infantile paralysis Is to keep the Bo
patient quiet and avoid handling cai
as .pinch as
possible.
Spinal . oft
punctures may be used to relieve I cct
pressure. Occasionally splinting ail
may be necessary te prevent de- do
formity. Serum from convokes- ca8
cent cases has been found of val- _
uo. There appears to be much dlf- _
ference of opinion.as to the Val
ue of stock serun^now on the
market. * Such serum Is made by
the use of streptoccoccus which is
not yet accepted as the cause of
Infantile paralysis.
After the acute stage' Is over,
the treatment consists in re-edu-
catlng the musciep, correcting any
deformity that may have occur
red. and preventing further de
formity. This line of treatment,
of courae, snould be in charge of
n qualified physician. In t h e
best hands It often requires a
period of years to obtain t h e
greatest degree of Improvement
in the after-care of infantile par
alysis cases.
The cause o f Infantile paraly-
”
sis is not known./ The virus is
known to be present in the dls-
charges from mouth and nose, and
also in the secretions of the ali
mentary tract of a case or car
rier. There is still some uncer
tainty about Jts method of spread
ing. It appears probable t h a t
healthy carriers and missed cases
play an Important part in dissem
inating the disease. Owing to the
carries his lunch to work w ith , i f r need to know more about limitations of our knowledge, it
is not possible to prescribe exact
him Just like any othftr merabt the business.
of the crew. Courtland .a lw a y i
“ But If Louis and I meet on measure of control and be sure
eats j i t restaurants. Courtlan«,I the way, with him heading up, 'hat they will be effective.
however, points out that the1 i i'll turn around and go back with
father, Lonis H ill, Sr., gets n > hltn, and beat him back, too.”
walarf for his service« as chair-
Louis' didn't overlook hi» ede>-
raan-of the board of' the Gre: . cation in bis effort to start at
Northern.
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the bottom and work up.
He
Oddly enough, it Is* Courtlan 1 i graduated from Yale, studied a
who looks the part of the grim ‘-year at Oxford and spent another
laboring man morj than Louk i year traveling around Europe.
Courtland wears stained qn<’ j Rut he’s learning faster now than
streaked overalls, hobnailed boot.:' Courtland is— as Courtland Is
and smilingly tells of pleas Iron' ' willing to admit,
his family to "try, please, to gc ■ !
Won’t Go On Name
your fuce clean.” Loiiis-ris more
Neither boy is willing to trade
careful with his dress and la on the family name— the name
more inclined to look like the that means so much in the north-
son of. the chairman of the board west, where picture's of James
Louis, however, insists that It J. H ill hang on the walls ot many
probably will bo two years be- farm homes Just as pictures of
fore be is ready for a white-’ Lincoln or Washington do else-
collai* Job.
where. The family is proud ot
"Louie’s a good kid and ho them, too; Louis W. H ill, Sr.,
means well," says Courtland, beams down benlghly from his
“But he’s so slow going about Olympian heights in the rall-
thls thing. Now me— ” and his road’s general offices, and corn-
white teeth gleam as a smile mends the industry and ambition
wrinkles his grimy fate— “I aim ot hl® « ”»«.
high and that’s where I ’m going
And when tbe’r’re not arguing
lo Btrlke: r t r t t for the eb .fr be- • b0" t
" ,be
k" ,U d 10
grace the president’s chair, the
hind a frosted glass door marked boys have a good deal of admjra-
‘?resldent.’ Then I ’ll ibme down.tlon for each other, too. •
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