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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Dec. 9, 1957
May Need Fourth Shot
When next spring rolls around and thoughts of Asian flu shots have vanished from the college student's mind, it will again be polio time.
For those of us who have had the series of three polio shots, the required number for maximum protection from paralysis, a fourth shot may be necessary.
Dr. Lewis L. Coriell, a doctor at Pennsylvania University, is urging all persons under 40 who haven't done so, to complete the three shot course and then add a fourth.
He said he was recommending a fourth "booster" for persons who have previously received the usual three shots, because of "observation that some paralytic cases have occurred in triple vaccinated children."
In a report prepared for the eleventh clinical session of the American Medical Assn. he also said:
"Three years of increasingly widespread use of polio vaccine have coincided with unprecedented reduction in reported cases of poliomye-
litis. A particularly low incidence and low paralytic rate are the outstanding features of the 1957 season."
He said estimates suggest that protection against paralytic disease approached 90 per cent in patients who received "three or more" properly spaced injections of vaccine, and 75 to 80 per cent in those receiving less than three shots.
He added, "It seems logical to predict that poliomyelitis will be reduced even more drastically in 1958 provided the vaccination program is continued, including a full course of three properly spaced injections for all persons under 40 years of age and a fourth booster dose in the spring of 1958 to all who have previously received three or more injections."
Undoubtedly Dr. Coriell knows what he is talking about. It is essential that everyone get at least the three polio shots. Certainly, it would not be a waste of time to get that fourth shot either.
—Bob Hartley
Problem For The Nation
While Mr. Eisenhower suffered a "strokelet," Wilson, while he campaigned in the United States for the League of Nations, suffered a "real" stroke.
Despite the denials of the medicine men that President Eisenhower's illness was a stroke, the condition resembles the ones which struck Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Wilson was confined to bed and a wheel chair during the remainder of his term, while the vital decisions concerning peace in the world, and the government, were left undecided.
It was a similar condition that plagued Roosevelt and ultimately caused his death while still in office.
Typical of some of the wool-pulling done by White House aides and press secretaries, Roosevelt's difficulty was blamed on a new set of false teeth. It was a "real" stroke that brought his death April 12, 1945.
He suffered a number of strokes in 1944 and 1945. The last one before his death was after the Yalta conference. Roosevelt also had a speech impairment like Mr. Eisenhower's. When FDR addressed the nation following the Yalta conference, it was evident that he was having difficulty with his enunciation.
One of the most important factors in the President's health and in his continuing to be able to perform his duties is his age. At 67 the chance of reoccurrence of a cerebral condition is high. If he remains in office to the end of his term, he will be the first President to reach 70 in the White House.
The President seems to be on his way to a rapid recovery from his most recent bout with poor health. However, history proves that he is not the first President to have cerebral trouble.
Regardless of how much he is liked and how much we want him to have good health, it is not easy to overlook the observation of one private physician who said the odds of a reoccurrence in the President's case are high.
—Bob Hartley
Since several daily papers around the country have commented on the National Inter-fraternity Conference last week, perhaps it's time to take a look at the issues in question.
No Problem Here
The Des Moines Tribune says "If colleges and universities decide that fraternities with discriminatory rules have no place on the campus, this
is their right." That may be true in Des Moines, but it isn't the case here.
The administration here has stated that membership rules of Greek organizations are the affair of the Greeks, and not of the administration.
The point of the resolution at Colorado Springs was not a pitch
for discrimination itself; it was a statement that the fraternities should have the right to decide their rules, without advice or interference from the shoals.
Undoubtedly, there are groups—and possibly powerful ones—among the Greeks which prefer to keep racial clauses in their bylaws or charters. This is not the point.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
The question is simply this: does the fraternity or the University make membership rules for the fraternities?
At KU, there is no problem. The administration and the fraternities agree that in this, at least, the Greeks are independent.
"DO YOU EVER HAVE ANYTHING ON YOUR MIND BESIDES GIRLS?"
Alan Jones
Letters...
Oops! Sorry
With this letter I would like to reassure those of my friends who saw "my" photograph in Thursday's Daily Kansan. No, I did not grow a mustache and neither have I undergone an operation that changed my features so much. It was just an error. The picture was that of a Turkish student.
Editor:
Perhaps the staff of The Daily Kansas subscribe to the Greek point of view over Cyprus so wholeheartedly that they hold that even a Turk would not mind lending his face to an interview where that point of view is exposed.
Costas Kazakis Athens, Greece graduate student
(Editor's note: We are sorry that we made Mr. Kazazis a Turk. It was unintentional, a case of too many pictures being shuffled too much. We hope his friends were not too startled, and realized an error had been made.)
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