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llle paralysis is that of an ordinary in

fectious disease. Somewhere between

the first and the sixth days muscular

weakness lie-ins. This symptunt is lia

ble to lie overlooked unless the physi

cian and the family especially tost the

muscles.

The methods of testing consists in

having the patient draw his kness up

against resistance or push with his feet

against resistance.

About one or two weeks after the at

tack begins electrical tests will show

that the muscles and nerves are degen

erating. About two or three weeks

after the onset of the disease the

shrinking of the muscles is apparent to

the eye. Electrical tests show that the

degenerating changes in the muscles

and nerves keep up for about six

munt lis.

The shrinking of the muscles may not

be present at all. When present it does

not start for several days after the dis

ease has started and proceeds slowly.

By skillful manipulation begun in time

the shrinking of the limbs can be en

tirely prevented. The time to begin is

at once when it is seen that danger to

life has passed. As soon as the tem

perature returns to normal manipula

tion of the affected limbs should bo be

gun.

In mild cases It Is possible to begin

massage within two weeks of the on

set of the disease. In more severe cases

Militarists and Boy Scouts.

Prom the Indianapolis News.

The announcement that the executive

committee of the Hoy Scouts of America

has detinitely decided that in the event of

svar the boy scouts as an organization

vill neither participate nor ally them

lelves with any movement for universal

military training Is welcome to those who

nave watched with interest the efforts of

several preparedness societies to add to

:heir strength this vast body of whole

some young Americans. There arc at

present in this country something like

00,000 boy scoute and S2.U00 ofticials, such

as scout masters and members of local

councils. To have enlisted in a prepared

ness campaign this group of young Ameri

cans would have berii a great achieve

ment.

Rut this does not mean that the boys

are without the training and physical

qualifications of good soldiers. Their pas

time is a combination of woodcraft and

militarism. It is planned to make better

citizens of them. Incidentally It makes

better soldiers of them, just as any train

ing which takes a man out of doors and

teaches him self-reliance makes a poten

tial soldier of him. But the executive

committee has seen in the boy scouts the

minds of the men who will be running

the country within few years, and, rec

ognising the seriousness of any step

which might influence the boys toward

militarism, it has refrained from partici

pation in a movement to that end.

The boy scouts at present form an

army larger than the United States army

and navy and the total guard strength of

all the states. Many of them have en

listed for service in a possible war with

Mexico. With the consent and encourage

ment of the executive committee many

local scout troops have agreed to take

charge of Red Cross supplies destined for

the front. And they hold themselves

ready to give to their respective states,

use of scoute over the age of IB, who (nay

in the absence, of the home guard, the

be useful in case of large fires, floods or

»ther catastrophes. But the executive

committee wlshe« It understood that "It

dhall be the privilege and pleasure of each

member of the organization to do his duty

as he sees it according to the facts pecul

iar to the case." I'nder this policy the

movement is strengthened, for any at

tempt to influence the boys would have

met with the dlHfavor of thinking men

Who do not recognize the right of any

organisation to usurp the place of public

opinion in Its Influence over the minds of

the young men of the country.

No Invasion of Germany.

From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican.

Only repeated reverses have brought out

the fallacy of this argument, which really

amounts to a plea for attacking an enemy

at his strongest point instead of his weak

est. The present strategy of the allies,

Bo far as the military map reveals It. ap

pears to correct this blunder. Nothing Is

3aid of marching on Berlin, or of crossing

the Rhine, or even of driving the Germans

Jilt

of Belgium and Poland. The object

of attack is to be the weak spot. Austria,

while from all sides simultaneously the

German armies are firmly grappled where

they are. It may he that a shortage of

men will dictate the abandonment of the

vast foreign territories east and west

which German armies are holding. But

that is not ail essential part of the plan

Napoleon was beaten in Belgium if Aus

tria succumbs, Germany may be beaten on

alien soil.

Little Is heard now of the feeling often

vxpressed :n the allied countries earlier

in the war, that Germany must be invaded

In order tl: it it should suffer something

what Fince and Russia has suffered.

Otherwise, it was said, after the war. It

would be reftdy for business with Its towns

and factories unscathed, while the war

ravaged countries would be years In re

pjtiring the damage. The feeling still ex

ists, but it has taken another form. It Is

recognized that to Invade Germany would

In Krueger's phrase "stagger humanity."

Kven If the fortune of war should make it

possible, the loss of life on both sides

would be appalling and the war might be

protracted to the ruin of all Europe. Nor

Is there iow much talk at indemnity. It

lingered longest In Germany, but It Js

doubtful whether Intelligent people there

any longer think of It seriously. Tet the

disparity between Germany with its fac

tories unharmed and the other countries

whose industries will long be crippled has

not been forgotten, and we may surmise

that It lies at the base of the economic

conference of the allies in Paris. Since

neither a war on German soil nor the ex

action of a huge indemnity is any longer

looked for, the obvious, if fallacious, rem

edy lay In an economic alliance against

Germany, particularly through the years

of reconstruction while the war ravaged

countries are under a handicap. Thus

while the German chancellor insists on the

military map as a basis of negotiation,

the allies have resolved to view It simply

as a military map, and from that point

of view it is not wholly to their disadvant

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SHRINKING Of THE MUSCLES AFTER INFANTILE

PARALYSIS.

For several days the course of ipf:in- it should not hp bet:un until later. Many

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Uneventful.

From the Philadelphia T^cdger

I consider our voyage uneventful.—

Captain Koenig, of the Deutschland.

The perfect and heroic word of one of

the many great ones who go down to

and down under the sea in ships. Un

eventful it must have been to the man

who did the job which has set the world's

heart and the world's mind aflame with a

new imaginatio'i. The first words spoken

over the telephone passed uneventfully

and the first flight In the air was un

eventful. And the heroes of science and

of warfare, almost unconscious of their

prowess, give always, uneventfully, to the

world, its great events.

Leap Year Hints.

From the Boston Transcript.

Miss Plain—Would you advise me to

marry tie first man that proposes?

Miss Pert—By all means! I would

not even wait that long, if I were

you.

patients pass through a stage in con

valenscetice when the paralyzed limbs

are too tender to be handled with

comfort. Most authorities hold that

cases should not be manipulated dur

ing the "tender" stages. It may be

necessary to delay the beginning of

massage and manipulation for two

months, but it should not be delayed

longer than three months.

Any tendency of the paralyzed limbs

to draw must be overcome by sand

bags or splints. Manipulation of the

paralyzed limbs must be persisted in.

There is no m$gic about it. Patient,

persistent work'is necessary to accom

plish results.

A few years ago it was taught that if

the case had been neglected for six

months there was no hope of improve

ment. The teaching at the present

time is that intelligent, persistent pa

tient, passive motion, manipulation,

ntai.sage. and muscle training will

greatly improve some cases that have

been neglected for years.

Of 205 persons attacked in the Buf

falo epidemic. 25 per cent showed no

signs of wasting six months after their

illness.

In not all the cases can muscle

shrinking be prevented, but the propor

tion in which this after effect can be

prevented is large. Kven after wasting

has been in evidence for years im

provement is possible, at lejust in come

cases.

PLANS TO SEARCH FOR

BURIED PIRATE GOLD

From the New York Times.

When Commander Stephen Allen

Reynolds of the Sunken Treasurer ex

pedition slnmmed down the cover of

his desk at the expedition's mobiliza

tion base at 28 West Twenty-sixth

street last evening, he had more than

150 applications from persons of both

sexes who wanted to enroll themselves

a.s members and accompany his down

to the Spanish Main. Commander Rey

nolds Is the man who, as told in yes

terday's Times, has assembled a staff

of scienticts, explorers, adventurer*

and hardy marines to sail shortly for

the Caribbean sea, to uncover three

hoards of burled pirate gold which he.

believes have been reposing there since

the days of Pizarro, the South Ameri

cans Incas and Captain Kidd.

1'nless complications develop with

two friendly Latin-American republics

Commander Reynolds and his chief

electrical engineer, !. Van Antwerp

Clarke of Boston, will try for the first

time on an island in the Caribbean the

experiment of locating, through high

frequency radio waves, the doubloons

and pieces of eight which they seek.

They estimate the value of the treas

ure they expect to get at more than**?

$10,000,000.

"It Is difficult to explain to the lay

man just how we intend to locate this

buried treasure," said Mr. Clarke, who

is the inventor of the floating peri

scope for submarine craft. "It may be

said, however, that the principles ofv

conductivity, polarisation, and wave

reflection are involved, particularly In

their modern application. In our

search for the best instruments to use

we have had the co-operation of the

commissioner of patents, and advice of

Commander Reynolds himself, who

formerly was connected with the coast

and geodetic survey in Washington.

"Here, in brief, are two methods

we're going to use," said Engineer

Clarke. "Kvery electrical engineer

knows what it meant, and the mode of

procedure, but a* far as l'ye learned

it will be the first time they will be

applied to the search and location of

buried treasure.

"The first method consists of tmc

cesaively causing electrical Impulses to

travel definite lengths of earth, form

ing part of a circuit superimposed upon

an electrically energized closed circuit:

measuring the resistance thereof, then

repeating the measurements at differ

ent angles. Finally we shall .compare

t*he resistance. This is what may be

called a 'conductivity' method. The

figures will prove absolutely the loca

tion of definite bodies of gold, silver, or

other valuable metala.

"The second method is a 'wave re

flection' method, and brings into play

the most modern concepts of electrical

science. By means of transmitting

waves of known length between sta

tions at points above the supposed lo

cation of treasure, at a known distance

apart, and varying transmission

conditions until the existence of Inter

ferences with waves transmitted di

rectly between the stations by waves

reflected upwardly from such treasure

is ascertained, and then further vary

ing such transmission conditions until

a definite relation is established be

tween the directly transmitted and the

reflected waves, the maximum possi

ble depth of the reflecting surface of

the treasure can be determined."

With these two methods backed up

by sluicing and coupious applications of

nitroglycerine under the direction of

Chief Engineer H. de Watteville

Se^itha of the expedition, Commander

R/.ynolds hopes to lay bare millions of

bV.ried treasures before he returns.

Another Big Bank In.

From the St. L»ouis Republic.

The one disappointment brought by the

currencv law was its failure to attract the

state banks. At present those institu

tions are enjoying the protection which

the reserve system gives to all classes of

business without contributing their

strength to the support of the system.

It has been hoped that the attitude of

the state banks would change in time, but

It must be confessed that they have been

so slow as to warrant a feeling that the

state banks would never come in In large

numbers. However, the time is not ripe

for despslr. There have been some re

cruits among the state banks, and now

comes another, the Corn Exchange bank,

of New York, an institution with more

than $100,000,000 of deposits and many

branches scattered throughout New York

city.

In announcing the change. President

Walter E. Frew said: "Whatever feeling

of disapproval and distrust of the system

we may have had has been put aside in

the larger view that the federal reserve

system has come to stay, and it became

a duty not to oppose it, but to cooper

ate to its improvement."

It would be a very valuable thing.to this

country if many other state bank* would

see their duty in the same light.

Loan Secured by Radium.

From the Chicago Herald.

Three tubes radium were given as col

lateral for $250,000 on four-year mort

gage notes today. The loan nego

tiated by the Continental and Commer

cial Trust A Savings benk and the

Physicians' Radium association, of Chi

cago. Its purpose is to furnish for char

itable purposes the us* of radium la

medical treatment

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