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ARTHRITIS WARD: LIVE At the National Athritis Foundation meeting in Dallas..a Foundation officasays victims are still sitting ducks for the various quack remedies..and spend more than 400-million SAW1A) dollars a year on AMts..devices and ointments the biuack-Mm claim will help Jerry Walsh..an arthritic who serves as a Foundation investigator..says the quacks are smart enough to stay up-to-date.Hucksters be anwith snake oil sold from the back of a wagon..after Uorld War Two..radioactivity brought out pads..pillows and blankets claimed to be lined with radio-activ material to he arthitics n..At's Ioon dust..radi active sand and the latest .acupuncture.Walsh has had arthritis for more than 30-years..and warns fellow victims..that aspirin in doses prescribed by doctors..is still the first line of treatment..and door-to-door charlatans~should be reported to authorities.