Monday, April 3. 1958
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utlook
Editor's not: This 1 the first of
five dikpatchrs on the outlook for
curbing polio In 1956. It was prepared
bv a corerspondent who won the Na
tional Headlinert' award for bis polio
stories in 1955.
Bright for
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ajor Victory Over Folio During Coming Year
By MICHAEL J. O'NEILL
United Press Correspondent
Washingto n U.PJ The
outlook Is bright for a major but
by no means total victory over
polio in 1956.
The new polio geason is com
ing up. But this year millions
of children, many more than in
1955, will be protected by Salk
shots.
The vaccine was pronounced
a success on April 12 last year.
A nationwide inoculation pro
gram was started but was plag
ued for months by controversy,
confusion and delay.
This year the outlook is far
more optimistic. The safety trou
bles seem to be over. Produc
tion is picking up fast. It now
looks as if most children under
15 will get two shots before the
polio season is in full swing.
Millions of parents are asking
questions about the vaccine and
the 1956 inoculation program.
The man with the answers is
Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, surgeon
general of the Public Health
Service. Scheele, just confirmed
by the Senate for another four
year term, has ridden herd on
the vaccine program since it be
gan. Here are his views as given
in an exclusive interview with
United Press:
Safety:
Q. Dr. Scheele, is the present
Salk vaccine safe? A. Yes, Mr.
O'Neill, it's as safe as science
can make it. We have had no
reason to believe that any lots
of vaccine have had any prob
lem in terms of safety since the
problem we had of the Cutter
vaccine last year.
Q. There is little or no risk,
then, for a child who takes the
vaccine? A. We believe there is
no substantial risk in taking the
vaccine but the risk of contract
ing polio is, of course, a substan
tial one by comparison.
Q. What guarantees are there
against any live virus getting in
to the vaccine? A. The safety
standards and production technique-
have a whole series of
built-in safety factors. We now
require many more tests than
formerly and we are also spot
testing vaccine in the National
Institutes of Health here.
Q. What chances are there of
a vaccinated child transmitting
polio to his brothers and sisters
or to his parents? A. There
shouid be no danger unless the
child has had contact with polio
in the neighborhood and the vac
cine has not given him protec
tion. Effectiveness:
Q. How effective is Salk vac
cine in preventing paralytic po
lio? A. During the last year of
use, we found it was about 75
per cent effective even though
most children got only one shot.
Only one-fourth as many vaccin
ated children got paralytic polio
as did those in the same group
that did not get the vaccine. It
should be pointed out that not
all children respond in the same
way in developing immunity af
ter thty get the vaccine. We
must as parents recognize that
it will not necessarily be 100 per
cent effective.
Q. Some areas are postponing
their third shots in order to ex
tend available supplies of vac
cine. If a child has only two
shots, will he be protected dur
ing this year's polio season? A.
Yes. I think we can say they will
have Quite good protection in
most cases. .
Q. Is it recommended that
children get one shot, at least,
even though they are unable to
get the second and third? A. Yes.
Supplies:
Q. What about supplies, Doc
tor? Will there be enough vac
cine for all the children who
need it this year? A. I wish I
could gaze into a crystal ball
and give you a yes answer. We
hope there will be enough for
most children who want it by the
end of the year but we just can't
predict in advance.
Q. You expect to be able,
though, to reach a substantially
larger number of children this
year than last? A. Yes, definite
ly. Q. How soon do you expect
vaccine for Adults? Any time
this year? A. Well, there is vac
cine available for pregnant wom
en at the present time. How far
it will extend beyond that be
fore the year is over will depend
largely on how the supply is in
relation to overall demand.
Distribution
Q. How is the vaccine being
distributed now? A. Well, each
time a lot of vaccine is cleared
by the Public Health Service,
the states are notified regarding
their proportionate share, figur
ed by taking the population in
the age group 0 through 14 and
pregnant women. The states, in
turn, notify us regarding what
percentage they wish to go to
public use and the percentage
they wish to go to commercial
use. This whole distribution sys
tem is a voluntary one in which
the manufacturers and the states
and thd medical societies, physi
cians, and others are participat
ing in order to make the scarce
supply stretch the farthest.
Timing of Shots
Q. What is the present recom
mended course of inoculations?
A. The present recommended
course is the first injection fol
lowed in five or six weeks with
the second. The second followed
in about seven Months with the
third.
Q. Is there any harm done if
the second shot is given much
later than six weeks after the
first.
A. No, none at all. It will still
enhance the degree of immunity
in most children. It just isn't
the ideal spacing.
Q. What is the best time to
have your child inoculated or
vaccinated? A. Ideally it is be
fore the polio season. But it is
our feeling that any time is an
appropriate time, even in the
Japanese Prince Attacks Nation's
Sacred War God-Emperor System
Tokyo (U.Ri For the first Japanese sytem in an appendix
time, a member of Japan's once
sacrosanct imperial family plans
a public indictment of the "sa
cred war" Japan waged more
than a decade ago and of the
pre-war god-emperor system.
Prince Mikasa, earnest soul
searching youngest brother of
Emperor Hirohito, wrote the bit
ter denunciation of the pre-war
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to a scholarly book on the an
cient Orient which he is to bring
out soon.
In it, the 40-year-old prince
attacks the "abominable atroci
ties" of Japanese troops in China
under the masquerade of a sa
cred war. As an imperial prince,
he automatically became a sol
dier and was assigned to that
theater as a staff officer.
He also flays the rigid
shackles plcaed on members of
the imperial family under the
pre-war imperial household sys
tem and describes his release
from the system after the end
of the war as like being liber
ated from a "prison without
bars."
Excerpts from the article, re
cently printed in the newspaper
Mainichi, showed the mental
torture of a man, himself loving
simplicity and the common man,
being forced against his will into
the career of a soldier and iso
lated from people bv the barriers
! of an inexorable god-emperor
system which extended to all
royalty.
"When I was a staff officer in
Nanking," he wrote, "I lost all
faith in the secred war and
wanted only peace. I was dis
gusted at the actualities of the
sacred war. There is no need to
bring up here again the abomin
able atrocities inflicted on the
innocent Chinese people. Under
the name of a just war, looting,
violence, destruction by fire and
rape were being carried on.
"I would like to apologize ,to
my subordinates of that time
concerning" the moral fable of
the sacred war." '
When the war ended, Prince
Mikasa was torn by conscience
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and moral pangs and thought
seriously about what he himself
should do. Many Japanese had
been jailed as war criminals. All
nobility except immediate rela
tives of the emperor had been
stripped of their rank.
Studied Archeology
He wrote that he thought of
renouncing his position as a
member of the imperial family
and becoming a commoner, "but
remained because I thought, as
a prince, I might be able to do
some good."
Later, the prince began study
ing Oriental archeology at Tok
yo University. He described his
relief at being able to study and
talk freely without a frock
coated chamberlain in attend
ance in the classroom.
"I tasted the pleasure of open
ing an aluminum lunch box and
eating salted salmon in the re
search room," he wrote.
The prince, who is now a lec
turer on Oriental archeology at
a Tokyo University, explained:
"The reason I studied Oriental
archeology is that I wanted to
seek out from the ruins in the
Middle and Near East, which
was the origin of mankind and
culture, the outlines of man and
the state and think over what
man should be."
The book in which this ar
ticle will appear is compiled
from a series of radio lectures by
the prince and has been tenta
tively given the title, "Emperors,
Graves and Peopls The Dawn
of The Orient."
Prince Mikasa was instru
mental in arranging a visit to
Mesopotamia by a group of Jap
anese archeologists this year and
may accompany the expedition
himself.
Around Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
1
Hollywood (U.R) One vet
eran star has buck teeth, wears
no clothes, is sassy and has a
w n i n l n g
Brooklyn ac
cent but to
day he cele
brates his 20th
anniversary as
the boxoffice
champ of Hol
lywood. Bugs Bunny
has been War-
Aline Mosby ner Studio's
top money-maker and the head
of Hollywood's boxoffice poll for
20 years. No other actor can
make that statement.
Unfortunately, Bugs, like Dor
is Day and Susan Hayward, nev
er has won an Oscar. But his
creators sigh that many a top
ticket-seller never makes the ar
tistic grade.
On Bugs' 20th birthday and
20th anniversary in pictures I
dropped in at his home, the
Warner cartoon department
where Bugs is spoken about as
if he were a two-footed veteran
such as Spencer Tracy. The busy
bunny shows no signs of drop
ping in popularity.
Carrot Juice Licensed
"We've just licensed Bugs
Bunny carrot juice, carrots and
waffle and gelatin molds in the
shape of the rabbit," beamed
Edward Selzner, chief producer
of the cartoon department.
"Bugs gets many offers to ap
pear on TV. But if a star is on
TV all the time, people get tired
of him."
The racy rabbit started his
film career as an extra in a car
toon, "Harem Scarem." Two
years later the studio decided to
star him in "Heckling Hare."
Bugs was a smash.
Marilyn Monroe has changed
in appearance since her first
film. So has Bugs. His legs and
body are longer and he's switch
ed from tawny fur to blue-gray
fur. But his personality remains
the same.
Bugs in Character
"Bugs is sassy and happy-go-lucky,"
explained Selzer. "When
we develop a story for him we
select it with as much criticism
and care as if he were Anna
Magnani. We won't put him out
of character."
Bugs has starred in 146 mov
ies, including thii year's "Na
poleon Bunny-Parte," and "For
eign Legion-Hare." He appeared
twice in live movies. Always the
lopeared star has the voice of
Mel Blanc.
"Blanc," insists producer Selz
er, "actually is allergic to car
rots. So we leave his carrot
munching line of "What'f up,
Doc?' to the end when we record
the sound.
"Mel tried celery and apples
but nothing sounds like a carrot.
Funny, but Blanc just can't
stand carrots."
Movies, Pictures to
Be Allowed at Trial
Denver (U.R) Sound movie
films and "still" photography as
well as wire and tape recordings
for re-broadcast will be permit
ted of the John Gilbert Graham
airliner bombing murder trial,
District Judge Joseph M. Mc
Donald announced Saturday.
But live telecasts and broad
casts of the trial, which opens
before-McDonald here April 16,
were ruled out..
Washington (U.R) The U.
S. Atomic' Energy commission
Saturday asked for bids for con
struction of the new AEC head
quarters building near German
town, Md.
Dead line Sundav Classified Is at
noon Saturday 10 ajn Monday for
Monday; otaer days 3:30 previous da;.
polio season.
Q. When should shots not be
given? A. It is advisable not to
give them, for example, during
illness, when a child is other
wise sick or if one had reason to
believe he was coming down
with polio or another infectious
disease.
Q. Is vaccination advised for
children who already have had
polio? A. Yes. If they have had
type 1, they might later be ex
posed to type 2 or 3.
Q. Will children have to get
booster shots every year to main
tain imunity? A. We don't know
yet. Dr. Salk and others are
studying this very carefully.
Q. How early in life should
vaccinations be started? A.
There is no harm in giving them
after the first month of life.
Polio Incidence
Q. Doctor, do you expect the
Salk vaccme to make a signifi
cant dent in the polio cases this
year?
A. Yes we do. But it is very
difficult to predict just what the
dent will be because there are
so many differences between the
incidence of polio from year to
year normally.
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