Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1947 — Page 5
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Heart Disease Research © Million U. S. Victims Have Ailment That Kept 40,000 Men Out of World War II
Cripples Without Crutches—
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(Last of a Series)
By MARC J. PARSONS, NEA Staff Writer .
+ ROSLYN, N.Y, Feb. 13—At St,
children of every race and creed are getting a chance to throw off the most ravaging scourge of childhood-—-rhetimatic heart disease, ) But St. Francis, in the fresh air, and sunshine of a Long Island
sountry estate, can treat only 150
the U., 8. alone there are a million victims of the disease which kills approximately five times as
many youngsters as the next six most common childhood diseases. Land for St.” Francis was do-
& Jew, and one of the most eminent men in his field, as medical director,
Hard to Diagnose The sdmatorium has spread In
: 10 years from an old carriage house
to six neat brick buildings, each But further expansion has been blocked, as has most of the other work to relieve the staggering burden of heart disease in the United States, by lack of funds, There are other institutions be-
sides St. Francis which have taken up the study of these “cripples _ without crutches,” but the task is difficult because of the nature of the disease. Extremely hard to diagnose, it usually is impossible to catch the
disease at or even near its be-|
ginning. In some cases both the rheumatic pains and the fever from which it gets its name may be present. Just as often only one or neither of the symptoms will be apparent, Many cases never even reach a doctor until years after, when only the scarred heart remains, Cause Unknown Nor are doctors sure what causes rheumatic: fever. There seems to "be evidence of an inherited weakess to the disease. It is more prevalent“in crowded lencment districts, occurs oftener ~in the northern states. Its victims ‘usually are children between 5 and 10 years old, yet 40,000 of the physically screened men inducted
into the services during world Waronjectives of the
II were immobilized for rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease. There is one theory that the original fever phase is caused by a hemophilic - streptococcus infection possibly preceded by scarlet fever, “strep” throat, tonsillitis, or other such illness, « “It becomes a heart disease when
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Francis sanatorium, a few hundred
of these children at a time. In
the disease, during the acute stage, damages the heart. Treatment is difficult because the disease extends sometimes for years. It progresses from the acute stage to the sub-acute and finally to the quiescent phase, yet the ‘line between these is not clear and the danger of new and more serious attacks is always present. Very few institutions and public! health agencies are equipped to provide the continuous treatment necessary.
the initial attack become “cripples”—economic liabilities to their families and to the communities in which they live, St. Francis, which has dohe remarkable work in the field, has {humanized its treatment as far as { possible, | Its children lead nearly normal lives, attending school at the sana[torium in classes carefully arranged |s0 there is no unnecessary drain of newly-reborn strength.
| Decorative Rooms
| . Treatment rooms are decorated In {pinks and blues to remove hospital atmosphere. Walls of the play rooms are decorated with rhymes |and pictures from Mother Goose.
| Older children learn skills that often show the way to later eco{nomic independence, _ Many community agencies | throughout the country are working
{on the problem of long-range treat{ment of cardiac children but, in {most cases, “in a completely hap{hazard fashion with lack of co-or-|dination,” says Dr. David D. Rut|stein, medical director of the {American Heart association. | None of them individually Is {equipped to handle the entire prob- | lem, he believes. One of the prime | association during {National Heart Week is to focus | attention on this community prob{lem and help bring order out of the |chaos of treatment, “In spite of our relative lack of { knowledge, much can be done to {lessen the burden .of this disease {on the individual and on the com{munity,” Dr. Rutstein says.
Two Faces
By Irene Lonnen Ernhart
THE STORY:
en of responsibility toward no Bhe tirus J by pre al of marriage, evgn though she is Tove wi m. When Le 15-year-old sister,
and wealthy
Cavendish try te Sos, they are headed | Cassie and Parker Hamilion, a. had dinner in a nice restaurant on Parker start arFoing that he could de a lot for her and . her family, Cassie hesitates to marty 3 CArr
off b friend of Leon's. Leni vews to get Seme months lster, Cassie meels Hamilton accidentally ng. When Parker
they proposes,
and first
man she does nol love. Later, away by his persistence, she accepls.
CHAPTER 12 PARKER took Cassie the
The elder Hamilton seemed cor-!
dial enough, there was no stiffness
‘in his manner, just a sort of mo-
rose impatience. Parker explained to her afterward, “Father's never had time for anything but work, especially since | my mother died. It's only been three years, you know. He told me he was glad I was marrying you, if it would last. Imagine that! He doesn’t know you like I do.” “You do have a lot of faith in| me, Parker,” she said as they drove away from the bank. ” » » » | “I MADE a fizzle of my first mar-, riage, you know,” he reminded her, © “Of course it was just a college crush. We were married just a| couple of months and then it sort | of fizzled and we got a divorce. | She wasn't your sort, Cassie—she | didn't expect anything from me— | no alimony—nothing but a clean preak. Her name was Elena.” “Elena.” Cassie said the name to herself, Did Parker ever think of her? Maybe it had been like] Mike was with her? A bold, reck- | less young passion. Maybe sometime she would be able to speak | of Mike In that same casual way? “You do have a lot of faith in| me, Parker,” she sald. “What]| ‘makes you so positive we can make a success of being married?” ~ » » HIS brown eyes meeting hers | wére somber dnd earnest, “Be-, cause you're you,” he said slowly. He parked the car in front of the Cavendish building. | They had gone to the bank during Cassie's lunch hour. He took her ‘hands in his and his jaw tightened ever so slightly. “You're the kind that will say all that stuff about for better or worse, in sickness and in health, till death do us part— and really mean it!” ~ Cassie looked away. She felt a queer sense of guilt. “I will mean it!” she thought fiercely. . x IT was that afternoon that she told them at the office that she was leaving. ‘Mr. Drummond patted her shoul-
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- der almost affectionately. “Sorry w you go, Miss Fletcher, And if you ever want
to come back—" his fat -pleasant face flushed ever so slightly and he corrected himself hastily, “What I mean is—if you should get bored, or wang for any reason to go back to work mgain, we'd be glad to have you back. Oh the dickens A you know ¥
Cassie Flelcher is the main support of her family and feels a burd them wn Mike Cargill's pro-|
n mi, her spoiled Lon |
next day to the bank to meet his father.
{put down the fat, red pincushion
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| “Yes,” Cassie said. “And thank you very much, Mr, Drummond.” Leni went to Indianapolis with {her to buy some clothes, Parken drove them up, and they
(the Circle and saw a show before (they went home. Even Leni's sullenness was dispelled in the excitement of the trip.
| Ld » » { THERE was, in fact; the faintest touch of melodrama about the
whole thing, Cassie thought. So many books had been written about women who married men for other reasons than love. The only trouble was that in all {the bustle, she was beginning to wonder if perhaps she wasn’t really {quite in love with Parker after all. The wedding was set for Apri] 2, and it was the night before that the telegram came from Mike. Mama brought it into the bedroom, where Cassie was pinning up the hem of the smart smokey blue suit Leni was to wear at the wedding, They weren't going to have anything pretentious—just the Fletchers and Mr. Hamilton in the small chapel-like parlor of the Methodist church, : x = “A TELEGRAMY' Cassie said. She
and scrambled to her feet. “For me?” She slit the yellow envelope n
“SORRY I MISSED SEEING YOU STOP THE BEST OF EVERYTHING TO YOU BABY.” It was signed “MIKE.” The deep black printing blured, and the room swam, round and round for a moment or two. “It's from-—Mike,” she said. Her voice was a funny, hushed whisper. Mama looked embarrassed, “I forgot to tell you, Cassie. He was here—one day last week. Let me see? What day was it, now? Oh yes—the day you and Lenl went up to Indianapolis? I meant to tell you. But with all the t'do I plumb forgot. He was real surprised when he found out you was gettin’ married” Mama ran on and on.
8 n ” BUT Cassie wasn't listening. The room was smotheringly hot, all at once. She picked up the light gray coat, part of her going-away outfit” and flung it over her shoulders. “I'm going for a walk. Be back—" “But Cassie,” Mama cried, “you hadn't ought to wear that coat yet. Not until tomorrow. You—" She fled from Mama's whinning voice and Leni's curiously mocking stare, out the front door, down the steps.
legs felt as though they weren't there. ‘ ; It was chilly; so that after a moment she put her arms in the sleeves of the new gray coat. Her hands in the pockets were clenched.
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She started .up the street and her
“Mike,” she whispered. . “Oh aE . 33
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'Makes Farmer Silo _PITTSVILLE, Wis, Feb. 13 (U. steel rods into the sides for a ladder
P.).—A Wisconsin farmer, Many of the victims who survife Schalla, has discovered a bigger torch. ’
TECH SENIORS—Members of the cast of "Cuckoos o play, arg (standing, left to right) Gaylord Allen, play director, Carlton Milhouse, and Eugene Burris, Seated on chair arms are Dona Dickerson, | and David Fenimore and seated first row are Herbert Reinking, Aileen Alee, Glenn Foster and Mary Helen Larkins, The play will be given April |1 at Caleb Mills hall, Shortridge high school.
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poles, & stump puller and a tractor, |in diameter and 38 feet long.
has set up a king size beer barrel ||ined with glass, and Mr, Schalla
n the Hearth," the Technical high school senior class Douglas Porter, William Henthorn, William Wilkerson,
Doris Townsend, Edith Bigelow
ws] Mother Gets Meat
on his farm. Mr, Schalla welded
Fred |and cut-out doors with an acetylene
said this will be an improvement
over the old silos because it will a hospital where she gave birth to eliminate the ‘lirge amounts of|y daughter, Mrs, Ralph W, Luce heart and better farm silo. The new silo weighs about 23,700. waste silage which ordinarily Sling stot ey Kilisa ~ Sightipoint buck rom the bac ch.
Mr. Schalla, with the aid of some pounds and is 11 feet, eight inches to the silo walls,
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FALMOUTH, Me., Feb. 13 (U. P). ~Three days after she returned from
retirement board of psychiatrists, and strative officials. Dr, A. J. Carlson recommends a tapering-off in the work required of older employees, with a corre sponding wage reduction. But older workers should be given the privilege of retiring if they do not care for this idea. ‘ We are just beginning to reap the social results of the reduction in the size of the average American family which has taken place in
follow the recommendation of a
this century. In the pioneer days,