Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 206, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1922 — Page 11

LEPROSY CURE FOUND AT LAST IN HONOLULU I Sixty Patients Discharged From Leper Colony Since Discovery. INJECT OIL INTO FLESH HONOLULU, T. EL, Jan. 7On the Outskirts of Honolulu, set •well apart prom all residential districts, is a little | oasis of green lawns and spreading shade trees beneath which stands a group of plain but scrupulously clean and rather attractive buildings. No wall sh its out the outer world, no signboard Identifies the place. It might be a school or even a group of private buildings fenced off from the public only by an ordinary wire fence. This unpretentious, nameless, out-of-the-way establishment is the Kalihi receiving Btation, where victims or suspected victims of the world’s most ancient sconurge, leprosy, are sent upon apprehension by the public health authorities. Two years ago this pretty spot was a place of tragedy. At its gateway wives parted from husbands, parents from children and friends from friends, never to be united this side of the grave. For from Kalihi it was but a step to the absolute isolation of Molokai, from which in those days none returned, and but few ever returned to their loved one* from Kalihi. DISCOVERY OF TREATMENT.

Then from the laboratories of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu came word of anew specific for leprosy, derived from the chaulmoorga oil, which for years had been the only known weapon against the dread disease, but which in its form as then applied was unbearable to the patient in effective quantities. Scientists searched and awaited word of another nature in the long record of attempts to find a cure for leprosy. Heedless of these skeptics Dr. Arthur L. Dean of the University of Hawaii, discoverer of the new chaulmoorga oil derivatives, a* he called his specific, and Dr. J. T. McDonald, physician in charge of the Kalihi receiving station, went to work to test j the discovery. Difficulty was encountered at first in finding volunteers who would T .rmit the ; authorities to experiment with the new treatment on themselves, such the new treatment on themselves, such was the evil reputation of the old oil treatment. Some were found, however, who were willing to sacrifice themselves for the possible good of their fellows, and the work began. From the first the symptoms of extreme nausea which had been pronounced in the patient from the old treatment were noticeably absent with the new derivatives, which were applied by injection into the flesh. This encouraged more patients to volunteer, Insuring to the experimenters more definite results. SEVERAL PATIENTS CURED. Then to an astonished world came news that several patients at Kalihi, known victims of the disease, were to be discharged, cured of the disease as far a smedieal skill could ascertain. The world still doubted. The idea of the Incurability of leprosy was too firmly Implanted to be thus easily rooted out. More patients were discharged from time to time, but not until early In 1921 were the skeptics finally put to rout. At that time some sixty-seven patiens were discharged from the Kalihi station with a clean bill of health, all through treatment with the now derivatives of the I chaulmoogra oil. On the day of this great event Kalihi ceased to be a place of tragedy and became instead a place of good cheer and hopefulness. Suspects consigned to the station went not as men leaving the world but as men going to be cleansed of a disease as they might go to any hospital. On Sunday afternoons particularly is the place bright and cheerful, for on that afternoon the members ©f various churches go to the station to meet with the patients In an inspiring outdoor service. At these services well-known musicians perform, and are entertained in return by the choruses glee elubsan and orchestras of the station, of which a number have been organized by the patietns. There is a min limim of preaching, a maximum of cheerful music, and the entire atmosphere is one of brightness. HOPE TAKES PLACE OF DESPAIR. No visitor having seen the former tragedy and tears of Kalihi could visit there on Sunday afternoon now without marvelling. Separated only by a low wire fence and a few feet of ground, two groups face one another—one of townspeople, one of patients at the station. The latter for the most part Hawaiians, range In age from tots of three and four to middle aged men and women. On the faces of all, young and old, is the cheery stamp of well-ground-ed home, and no one hearing their splendid singing and watching their joy in It could doubt that to them life Is no

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longer a hopeless tragedy, but a thing | of brightness to which they look forward j with full confidence and courage. SAYS GERARD AIDED EXILE German Newspaper Comments on ex-Envoy’s Views. BERLIN, Jan. 7.—“ James W. Gerard (former American ambassador to Germany), was one'of those who in 1918 asserted the Kaiser was the main obstacle to peace,” said the Deutsche Zeitung today, in commenting on Mr. Gerard’s published views of the Kaiser-Hindenburg correspondence. “Mr. Gerard helped to make sentiment in Germany which led Field Marshal von Hindenburg to give the Kaiser the fateful advise to leave the country.” Mr. Gerard said Hindenburg was true to the old German standard of “all for the kaiser” and was offering himself as a sacrifice in order to restore the prestige of William with the German people. Man Drowns When Auto Goes Through Ice MADISON, Wis., Jan. 7.—Hal R. Martin. inventor and weaitliy Madison attorney, was drowned during the night when an automobile which he was driving across the ice on Lake Monona, went through thin ice. He had driven across the lake to visit a friend early in the evening and was returning only a few blocks from shore, when he met death. The body was not recovered. Community Chest Has New Secretary Homer W. Borst of Minneapolis, new secretary of tha Indianapolis Communi- - I , s ,ex I> Pcte<l begin his duties EVb. 1. Mr. Borst was named at a meeting of the board of directors at the Chamber of Commerce vesterday F F Angerer was named assistant secretary Mr Borst Is assistant director of the Minneapolis League of Social Agencies.

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MERE THOUGHT OF SKYSCRAPER SHOCKSLONDO? Proposal for 23-Story Building Meets Storm of Protest. LONDON, Jan. 7—Will London evetually come around to the idea of the skyscraper? An Increasing number of British architects are beginning to think so. The other day the Old Lady of Threadneedle street, as the Bank of England is popularly known, received the. shock of her life when I rof. A. E. bun ar(lson of the University of Loudon pro erecting n twenty-three-story tower bu and '"professor Richardson drew a sketch his pronosed building, with architectural orpaments which’ give the appearance of church steeples. This sketch, the author declared was more to illustrate a principle than actual building. PREPARES PLANS TO A ?here places in the city and in other parts of London, he said, “where the height of buildings could be raised without damage to the general “Such a ease is the Bank of England. T have prepared this sketch partly o arouse criticism and discussion and partlv to call attention to the fact that it should be possible to build, from within the bank, a building which would act as a foil to St. Paul’s.” Somebodv thought of asking the opinion of the Lord Mayor on the proposed skvseraper. especially as ids Mansion House is directly opposite the site. .lie laughingly regarded the entire plan as a joke. . Among the F.nglish architects some favorable comment was elicited. One wellknown architect came out publicly in favor of the new idea. ONE HIGH BUILDING WOULD CALL FOR MORE. “The only trouble Seems to me,’ he said, “to be that if they are going to put up buildings like that in London they

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