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Roosevelt’s Part In
Founding Of Warm
Springs Told By Writer
(By Mary Wylie McCarthy, in
Atlantu Constitution)
The story of how the Warm
Spring* Foundation came into being
ia almost as remarkable as the great
restorative work that Is going on
there every day. R dates back to
midsummer of 1921 when a very
tired businessman, seeking a few
days’ escape from the intense August
heat of New York city, went for a
cruise with a few friends and his
family to his summer home, Campo
bello, Maine. It was “Mr.” Itoose
velt in tnoae days.
No sooner had he arrived at his
camp than he entered upon the holi
day in the woods with the zest of a
schoolboy* hiking on a two-mile
stretch with his sons, swimming in
the chilly Maine waters and lolling
about with the freedom that camp
life affords.
A day or two after his arrival he
contracted what he thought was a
cold, with a little fever and the
slight discomfitures that summer
colds generally cause. The following
morning when he started to arise he
found that he could not move and
that his leg muscles were paralyzed
from the hips down. Specialists were
immediately summoned and were
quick to give their diagnosis the “in
fantile paralysis.” Unheralded, the
disease had claimed its toll from a
man, then 39 years old, on the thres
hold of a great career.
The handicap made it necessary
for Mr. Roosevelt to readjust his
mode of living and work, and he went
about it with a determination that it
should not defeat him and cut him
off in the prime of his life.
After three years of struggling to
regain the use of his limbs, during
which time the finest treatment
known to science was employed with
little progress, Mr. Roosevelt learn
ed through his friend, George Foster
Peabody, of the remarkable improve
ment that a young man, \ Louis
Joseph, of Little Neck, N. Y., had
found in the water at Warm Springs,
which Peabody then owned.
Joseph had been paralyzed from
the waist down during an epidemic
in the West Indies, where he had
gone as an engineer. Returning to
this country he went to Columbus,
Ga., able to get about with the aid
of crutches and braces. He made
frequent visits to Warm Springs to
try the baths, learned to swim in the
clear, warm water, and found that his
gain in strength was so marked with
in a few months that he was able to
discard his braces and walk with the
aid of a cane, by leaning upon some
one for support.
Continuing his baths through the
summer of 1922 and returning again
for several months the next year,
Joseph was able to take a few steps
alone. In 1924, he spent the summer
as clerk at Meriwether inn and con
tinued his swimming and walks with
a slow but steady improvement.
He returned to New York in the
fall of 1924, resumed his work as an
engineer and is now able to walk
alone without even the use of a cane.
It was this remarkable restoration
that prompted Mr. Roosevelt to try
the baths at Warm Springs. Short
ly after Joseph’s departure, Mr\
Roosevelt went to Warm Springs
where he made greater progress in six
weeks than he had made in three
years.
The following April, when Mr.
Roosevelt returned for his second
stay, he found that several people af
fected with infantile paralysis had
heard of his improvement and had
come to bathe in the springs.
Until this time, Warm Spring* had
been only a summer resort with no
facilities for medical care. Mr.
Roosevelt enlisted the interest of a
local doctor and sought to improvise
under-water exercise tables and other
equipment and pass on the knowledge
of the disease and its treatment he
had gained from specialists who had
attended him.
The next spring when he returned
he spoke before the Orthopedic As
sociation in Atlanta, told of the im
provement that had been shown in
the case of every patient who had
taken the baths and asked that mem
bers of the association investigate
the springs and its possibilities.
Mr. Roosevelt brought to Warm
Springs an orthopedic specialist and
a physiotherapist and the experiment
was set in motion with 26 people
of all ages who were affected in va
rious ways with the after effects of
infantile paralysis. Unknown to his
family and friends, two-thirds of Mr.
Roosevelt’s personal fortune was
thrown into the original project.
When the surgeon in charge re
turned his report at the end of six
months and show'ed an improved
condition in the case of each of the
26 patients, the establishment of a
hydratherapeutic center at Warm
Springs was unanimously approved
by the investigation committee of the
Orthopedic Association.
Mr. Roosevelt bought the 1,500-
acre tract and frame buildings from
George Peabody and formed in 1927
the Warm Springs Foundation, and
incorporated as a non-profit-making
institution.
Since the establishment of the
foundation more than 1,200 gifts
have (ome from all parts of the
country to carry on the work, one
of the largest contributions being the
glass-enclosed pool, the gift of Mr.
and Mrs. Edsel Ford.
In the past six years, patients
from 44 state-, and four foreign
countries have received treatment at
Warm Spring,-, and a large number
of the 250.000 people in this coun
try afflicted with infantile paralysis
have been benefited by the work of
the foundation.
“Georgia Hall,” the central build
ing, for which funds are now being
raised, will be the first unit in the
increased facilities that will enable
the foundation to benefit a larger
number who are suffering from the
serious handicaps of the disease and
will at the same time be a tribute
to the man whose unselfish devotion
to the work has made possible the
restoration to usefulness of hundreds
of lives.
BRINGING THE NEW ERA INTO
EXISTENCE
“America has not finished nor has
it stopped its march of progress,”
says the Mancos, Colorado, Times
Tribune. “After every depression
there has come anew era. A trans
portation era started at the turn of
the nineteenth century . . . another
era was that of national expansion,
the throwing back of the American
frontier; another, the development
of the automobile, the telephone and
the airplane ... A more recent era
has been that of electrical science,
the radio and further developments
in other sciences . . .
What we need now is simply to
start the wheels in motion—to get up
sufficient momentum to enable the
development of the era of the future
to begin. In that work every citizen
must co-operate. He must do his
part in putting money to work, in
providing jobs—and it is worth re
membering that one person who
spends a million, does no more good
than ten thousand spending a hun
dred each.
Every citizen with an income has
a duty to perform. He can best ful
fill it and at the same time benefit
himself, by "adding his money to the
money that is now coursing through
the channels of industry. He can
paint his house, build anew garage,
repair his furnace, improve his
grounds, do a thousand and one simi
lar things—and he will be getting
necessary improvements at rock bot
tom costs, and at the same time he
will be a fighter in the greatest war
this has ever fought—the
war against depression.
Jobs are cheaper and better than
charity—and the providing of jobs
is the surest way we have of hasten
ing the new era.
GEORGIA AGAIN PLACES FIRST
IN BANKER-FARMER CONTEST
Georgia has for the third consecu
tive year demonstrated her suprem
acy in agricultural endeavors. This
statement is supported by the an
nouncement that the state has again
placed first in the national banker
farmer contest, conducted annually
by the Agricultural Commission of
the American Bankers’ Association.
In this competition, every state is
accredited certain points for each of
its agricultural accomplishments, and
Georgia has made the perfect score
of 1,000. The state has been in the
front rank of this contest for five
years, placing third in 1929, second
in 1930 and first for the succeeding
years. North Dakota and Oregon
also finished first in 1933.
Points are awarded in each of the
following agricultural activities: (1)
Attendance at the annual meeting of
bankers, state' college workers and
the representatives of the American
Bankers’ Association; (2) Appoint
ment of a key banker in every coun
ty for leadership in agricultural pro-
jects; (3) Expenditures by banks
for agricultural and farm home im
provement; (4) Attendance by bank
ers at state college short courses,
participation in banker-farmer tours
and similar activities; (5) Addresses
by bankers at agricultural meetings,
writing, awarding 4-H prizes and
aiding agricultural organizations, and
(6) Definite enterprises promoted by
bankers in co-operation with farm
ers, farm women, farm boys and
girls.
To renew willow furniture wash
it with white soap and water, scrub
bing well with a still brush.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
TEXAS EDITOR DECIDES TO
TELL THE TRUTH
What happens when the editor of
a country weekly goes on tlje war
path and decides to tell the upvar
nished truth is shown in the dipping
below from the Fourth Estate, which
says a Texus editor delivered this
sermonette to his readers:
“A lot of people in this town fall
out with the editor and brand him a
liar when the ordinary mistakes of
life show up in the paper. You have
a little charity and fellow feeling for
every man in town but your editor.
You claim you want facts, and dang
ed if we don’t get them to you.
Read the next issue of this sheet, and
you will see facts with the bark off.
“I admit that I have been a liar,
an editorial liar, ever since I have
been editing this sheet, but I have
never printed a lie in the columns ex
cept to keep somebody’s feelings
from being hurt. lam not afraid of
any of you, and I’ll be dadblamed if
I don’t print the truth from now on
or until some of you get out of the
habit of calling me a liar every time
I make some unavoidable typographi
cal error. Now watch my smoke!”
Here are some of the paragraphs
out of the next issue:
. “John Bennin, the laziest man in
town, made a trip to Belleview yes
terday.
“Rev. Sty preached last Sunday at
the local church. His sermon was
punk and uninteresting, except some
stuff he quoted from Bob Ingersoll,
for which he failed to give Bob any
credit. He also cited a few passages
from one of William Gilbert Mun
say’s sermons, and had the unlimited
gall to palm it off as his own.
“•Regan Lloyd, cashier of the State
Bank at Willow Grove, died last
Wednesday and was buried by the
Odd Fellows at Pleasant Mound cem
etery. He had been taking the pa
per for several years and had not
paid us a cent. We thought that, be
ing a banker, he would certainly pay
some time. We will sell the account
for two-bits’ worh of groceries.
“Married —Miss Susie Scrubbs and
Horace Graffin. The bride is a very
ordinary girl, who flirts with every
traveling man she meets, and never
helped her mother three days in her
life all put together. She is any
thing but a beauty, resembling a
gravel pit in the face, and walks like
a duck. The groom a natural born
loafer and bum. He never did a lick
of work until his step-daddy ran him
off from home last fall. He went to
the county seat and rather than
starve to death he accepted a job as
chambermaid in a livery stable. As
soon as his ma found out where he
was she went up and got him and
brought him back home. They now
reside at the home of his wife’s
father, and he has no definite plans
for the future. Susie will have a
hard row to hoe.”
BUSIEST WOMAN IN
TOWN DRAFTED FOR JOB
OF MAYOR OF GIRARD
Girard, Ga.—Mrs. Bonnie Dixon
was called the busiest woman of Gi
rard, hurrying here and there with
multiple duties, and on top of all
that, they have elected her mayor.
If you see her transacting busi
ness on the run, there’s a reason, for
she is also president of the Woman’s
Christan Temperance Union, presi
dent of the Woman’s Club, a steward
in the Methodist church, assistant su
perintendent of the Sunday school,
teacher of a Sunday school class,
general supervisor of an organization
known as the Senior league, house
keeper and boarding house operator
for teachers in the city schools.
She did not seek the mayor’s toga
but citizens drafted her. Observing
that everything else hummed when
she put her hand to it, they begged
her to take office and wouldn’t take
no for an answer.
And does Mrs. Bonnie Dixon like
the busy whirl?
“Idleness is the biggest pest I know
of,’’ she says over her shoulder and
then runs off to attend some sort of
meeting.
Her ambition is to make Girard
the healthiest and best educated town
in Georgia and at the moment she is
trying to get state aid for a drainage
project so there will be no place for
mosquitoes to breed.
Another thing that has her enthu
siasm at a high pitch is a newly
founded system of playgrounds for
children.
Four years ago she was chosen the
best woman citizen of Girard, a town
of 400 population.
Mayor Dixon is emphatic in saying
there will be no beer in her domain,
irrespective of what any session of
the legislature might do toward
legalizing its sale in Georgia.
Fresh rhubarb sauce with sponge
or angel food cake makes a go(fe
spring dessert.
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Canned Foods Keep for Decades
AN interesting thing in con
nection with canned foods is
the remarkably long time
which some of them have been
known to keep in good condition.
Here are fonr well-authenticated
instances in which canned foods
have kept all the way from for
ty-four to eighty-one years.
The first two instances are con
nected with Sir John Franklin’s
expedition which was lost in the
Arctic regions in 1845 in an effort
to find the Northwest passage.
A tin of beef was one of the few
traces found of this expedition
in 1926. This tinned meat was
discovered on the fields of ice at
Beechy Island. When opened, the
meat was found to be in as sound
a condition as when it left the
hands of the packers eighty-one
years before.
Three years later the Canadian
mounted police discovered in
Sydney, N. S., a cache of canned
meat left in the Arctic seventy
seven years before by searchers
for the lost Sir John Franklin
expedition. T e food was tasted
and found to be good. Inspector
Arthur Joy, superintendent of
East Arctic policing, found the
cache on Dealey Island.
More Than Half a Century
The latest instance to come to
light was the discovery this year
of several cans of soup which
were carried by the third relief
expedition sent to Major General
A. W. Greeley, United States sol
dier and explorer, more than
half a century ago." Libby, Mc-
Neill & Libby of Chicago has
presented these cans of soup to
the M-aseum of Science and In
dustry in Chicago, founded by
the late Julius Rosenwald.
Greeley’s famous expedition to
Lady Franklin Bay in the Arctic
regions was undertaken in 1881.
It reached Discovery Harbor on
Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell
Land, during the summer of that
year and remained there until
the late summer of 1883. Then
it retreated southward to Cape
Sabine where it expected to find
relief ships, or at least supplies,
cached at designated points. Be
ing disappointed in this, Greeley
and his party were obliged to
spend the winter at Cape Sabine,
where all but seven of them lost
their lives.
The Relief Expeditions
The first and second Greeley
relief expeditions, in 1882 and
1883 respectively, failed to reach
them. Finally Commander Win
field S. Schley, U. S. N„ who had
seen service in the Civil War and
was later Admiral in immediate
command of the American squad
ron which destroyed Cervera’s
fleet off Santiago in the Spanish-
American war, was dispatched on
the third relief expedition and
brought Greeley and six survivors
back to Portsmouth. It was this
third Greeley relief expedition
which carried the soup.
The soup was packed by Libby,
McNeill & Libby which was then
located at 16th and State Streets,
Chicago. For several years after
the return of the rescue expedi
tion, the Portsmouth Navy Yard
stored some of it, but about the
beginning of the present century
it was sold at auction to a hard
ware firm. It found its way to
Chicago through W. H. Cullen, of
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THURSDAY. APRIL 20
200 Gates Street, Portsmouth, N.
H„ who obtained it from the
hardware company and sent it to
Libby, McNeill & Libby in its
original case which bore the
names of three ships, the “Bear”
of the Greeley expedition, and the
“Alert” and the “Thetis” of two
of the relief expeditions.
Samples of three varieties of
the soup * marked ’’Palestine,”
“Consommd” and “Julienne” were
sent to Chicago and subjected to
laboratory tests. It is worth
pointing out that they had been
stored under local conditions, not
in the cold of the Arctic, for
forty-nine years. The contents
were found to be sterile and in
good condition except for a some
what “tinny” flavor; the latter
being the result of the many
years the soup had been kept in
cans.
Fresh Forty-Four Years
Finally the London Times pub
lished early this year an illus
trated supplement which con
tained the following item:
“An interesting sidelight on
the duration of canned foods was
supplied some years ago when
Captain Ross, of H. M. S. Investi
gator, discovered in Regent’s In
let the stores of the crew of
H. M. S. Fury. The Fury had
been wrecked there in 1824. The
stores, which had been recovered
eight years after the wreck, were
brought home and taken to Liv
erpool. At a lecture arranged by
the Royal Society of Arts in 1868,
one of the tins of meat was
opened and its contents were
found to be in a state of perfect
preservation/’*