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PAGE TWO Struggles 31 Years to Keep A Hopeless Cripple Alive KANSAS MAN DEVOTES LIFE TO CRIPPLE William Whitby of Wichita, Kan sas, Keeps Up Fight for Cripnled Son WICHITA, Kas., Nov. 23.—For 31 years Willaim Whitby, a grizzled Kansas farmer, has been fighting a hopeless fight. Thus far he has wen; but there is no joy in the victory, and he knows that some day he must lose. Whitby has been fighting all these years to keep life in the helpless body of his son Rolla, as hopeless and complete a cripple as ever ex isted. If there were a law providing lor the legal elimination of the miser- i erable and unfit, Whitby admits he ■ would have Rolla put out of the way. But since there isn’t he refuses even to think of it. And, through it all, he works his ; farm, keeps cheerful and even writes sprightly verses for various farm pe- i riodicals. It was in 1894 that Rolla then three years old, met with disaster. The lad was climbing about In , his father’s barn when he fell from the loft to the barn floor. The fall , caused paralysis of his nerves. This robbed him of speech and of all j power of movement. He could not tell his wants, could not move a mus cle, could not even tell when he was in pain. Imprisoned Doctors said constant nursing was al! that would save his life. So the father went to work to see that his son got it. I r 20 years he continued to care MISS ROGERS GAWD 15 LBS. IN SIX WEEKS Ski-ny Men and Women Gain Five | found* in 30 Davs or Money Back. My dear Friends: A ter my attack of F<ue I was ( th n, rundown and weak. I had a '.>w complexion, my cheeks were t u in and I was continually trou- i il< <1 with gas on rr.y stomach. I felt tuf f y and had lost my appetite. I iad >ead about McCoy’s Cod Liver Ji' Compound Tablets and decided to give them a trial. At once, I beg tn to pick up an appetite, my •h. i<s filled out aid my complex- i ion became healthly looking and I 1 ga ■ d 15 pounds in six weeks and ar ery thankful for what McCoy’s | Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets did for me. | Mss Alberta Rogers, 2G4 IV. , Corn Gorda St., Decatur, 111. To take on weight, grow strong j and vigorous, to fill out the hollo vs in cheeks and neck, try McCoy’s Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets for 30 days. 60 Tablets—6o cents at Nathan Murray’s and Howell’s Pharmacy and live druggists every- j where. If they don’t give you won derful help in 30 days, get your money back—you be the judge. But be sure and ask for McCoy’s, the original and genuine.—)adv.) A >x ’ * ■ i i wm lE£E °” 1 ' .!, i' ' ‘*' The Happiest Christmas of Your Children Is the One That Puts Them All On Wheels Our stock of Chrsitmas Bicycle* i* ready for your inspection. Place Your Order Now ; Compton’s Bicycle Shop 205 Cotton Avenue , |||J ■ . • Wil®*' * ’ I z I i <W ■ 1 i ■ ikjF wr ; Sfht -A ■ c •- i? ■ i .** T i William Whitby for his helpless son. The boy nev er spoke to his father through all these years, tie never took one bite of food that did not have to be ’ placed in his mouth for him; never . made on? movement of his limbs, . however simple, without assistance ' never knew anything of the chang ’ ing seasons, of harvest time or sow ; ing time, of the happiness and sor row of those about him. He lived in a prison that cut him off from all intercourse with other people as es ; fectively as though he were on the moon. I And the father bore his share of his partnership of sorrow without a complaint. Then misfortune struck again. Whitby went hunting with a i friend. The friend fell in crossing a fence; his shotgun went off and i the charge tore off Whitby’s left arm | ■ just above the elbow. I And then, just as Whitby return- i ed from his hospital his wife died. 1 ! Whitby gave over his 20 year fight I and put his son fn a hospital. Two ‘ weeks later he was informed that ‘the child was dying. He hurried o ! the institution. Doctors insisted j there was no hope. Probably Whitby would have been relieved to have his son’s sufferings —and his own —end. But New Eng land consciences flourish in Kansas as well as Vermont, and his drove him to labor for this child’s life as fervently as he would have had the the son been healthy. So he spirited Rolla away from the hospital and took him home. | And Rflla did not die. He lived, ror j seven months Whitby was in atten dance on him almost night and day, with doctors shaking their heads and saying the end would come “at any time.’’ At the end of that time Rol la’s flame of life was burning a lit tle more brightly. Whitby had won his fight. I Rolla is still existing—but that’s all. Not a word has he said for 31 years. He can do absolutely noth ing without his father’s help. He cannot tell whether he is fn pain or well, happy (if such a creature can in "•*•* be happy) or unhappy, hungry or rhirsty or tired.. And his father never complains. I Agrees With Blazer Whitby has the deepest sympathy for Dr. Harold Blazer, Colorado physician who killed his rippled daughter under remarkably similar circumstances. “Who can criticize him?” he asks. ’And who on this earth knows what will please God? We rush the blooi of our young manhood off to wars', where they are butchered or made cripples for life. Yet we must per mit hopeless imbeciles to be made a public care. 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It asserts the countess (does not fall within any of the class | es excluded under the act of 1918, i characterizes the attitude of the de- j partment as “arbitrary and unjust" and declares “the broad principle in | volved” justifies executive action. | “He (Secretary Kellogg) has arro j gated to himself authority not only to make arbitrary decisions against citizens of friendly countries,” the ' letter continues, “but also to decline to permit them to present evidence that the unknown accusations against ! them are false. j “If, as we believe Countess Kar- I olyi is being excluded for her social : or political protagonists of freedom i would have been admitted to the i country under simular rulings.” tutions where more or less disinter jested attendants allow them to with er away for years, in agony. 1 “Would it incur the displeasure of the Almighty if we were to destroy them by some humane method and end their tortures?” > I Whitby says he has never enter tained the thought of doing this to Rolla, and will not, unless he has rea son to believe, as Dr. Blazer did, that e himself is going to die and must 1 ave the boy behind. I “I would do precisely the same as he did, in that case,” he says. Whitby somehow has found time to keep his farm in excellent shape, to develop a new grain that is a cross between wheat and barley and that has aroused the interest of state ag riculture officials, and to write poe try for farm magazines. First Picture* ot Chinese f lood ? hi// z l is 111.. Hundreds were drowned and thou sands made homeless when the Yel low river in China was flooded and overflowed its banks. These exclu sive photos are the first to reach this ountry. At the top is shown a section of the bank that was cut through by the langing torrent. Center shows four destitute Chinese standing guard by the bodies of their drowned children and at the right are two men on CORETHROAT Gargle with warm salt water —then apply ov» r throat VIS? - MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 23, 1925 , improvised rafts, living on bean- | which they have to dive below the surface to get. Below shoys a hastily-constricted Land For Sale ! 200 acres of cocd land, ICO ac es clea'ed, 100 acres in good t.mber- The timber is around SI,OOO. This place nas a goed horse bams, etc. Included with this is two mules, wajon ind 200 bushels of corn, for $22.50 per P. B. WILLIFORD Cffice in Windsor Hotel ♦ J JI r ■ w** We.,, shelter on piles in the flooded dis tricts, with survivors clinging to it.
