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Friday, August 30, 1940
The Paducah Post
Page Three
#iealth Protection
Considered Vital
AUSTIN, Aug. 30—“This
country has embarked upon an
unprecedented defense program.
Billions have been appropriated
for battleships, tanks, dive-bomb-
ers. and many other war imple-
ments. The public graciously has
accepted the situation, realizing
that ‘billions for defense are
cheaper than even one small war.
However, despite the inventions
that have ,made modern war
mechanism so devasting, man pow-
er of the most vigorous type
must be relied upon to produce
and operate them,” states Dr.
Geo. W. Cox, State Health Of-
ficer.
“That this fact needs emphasis
is indicated by the intensified in-
terest in the physical condition
of the nation’s men, women and
children: on the part of health of-
ficials and the medical profession
generally.
“This attitude is logical since
present-day war preparedness is
not limited to combat forces.
Never in history have wars been
waged so far in advance of the
actual fighting. Preparedness calls
for vigorous efforts of millions of
men and women who, in addi-
tion to those in uniform, are a
vital part of a nation’s defense
system. The physical condition of
^veryone not only is a matter of
Individual but national concern.
“In the production of defensd'
material, certain standard's can be
demanded and achieved. On the
other hand, vigor of body and
mind is entirely too personal to
be affected directly by govern-
mental decree or public health
regulations. Nevertheless, it is rea-
sonable to suggest that the health
of all citizens should be developed
to as high a plane as possible and
be maintained at that level.
Moreover, it is definitely one’s
patriotic duty to see that this
is done.
“For example, a physical
check-up by the family physician
for those of mature age is likely
to bring to light any existing
latent condition and thus make
remediable measures promptly
possible. On the assumption,
however, that many of those sub-
mitting to the test will be free gf
any incipient disease or physical
defect, this professional contact
will afford an opportunity to ob-
tain advice on habits of living.
Some practices indulged in daily,
in thousands of individual cases,
now represent the difference be-
tween maximum vigor and a con-
dition short of actual illness. And
maximum vigor now is the na-
tional need. Such habits include
lack of exercise, insufficient rest
and relaxation, exessive reliance
upon stimulants of various kinds,
improper or unwise food consump-
tion, and other activities frowned
upon by nature.
“In short, the general develop-
ment of a positive, rather than
passive, attitude toward health
looms large as a personal pa-
triotic and preparedness duty. In-
cidentally, such an attitude con-
ceivably can add years to one’s
life and generate a physical zest
which will mean much in terms
of efficiency and happiness,” con-
cluded Dr. Cox.
Style Show Will ,
Open Celebration
WICHITA - FALLS, Aug. 30—
Th^-^fiiC^r- folks will be smelling
.strongly of cigar smoke and
lingeringly of moth balls, while
the women folks will be preened
in the vary latest bib and tucker
and surveying with critical eyes
as a spectacular Fall and Ancient
Style Show in the Memorial Audi-
torium opens the Wichita Falls
Birthday Jubilee, here on the eve-
ning of Oct. 3, Jack Barnard,
general chairman, announced this
week.
Born of a long-suppressed de-
sire to make whoopee and friends,
citizens and business men of
Wichita Falls decided to stage
another Birthday Celebration', the
first since the “Golden Jubilee”
was staged here some: eight years
Floyd County Egg
Association Formed
THANKS
I wish to take this means of thanking the voters of
precinct 2 for the support they gave me during the re-
cent election.
OSCAR L STOKES
COLLEGE STATION, Aug. 30
—Twenty Floyd county farm
families will realize an avei’age
of $100 a year extra income
through the organization of an
egg marketing association.
The association, according to
the Floyd county agricultural and
home demonstration agents, D. F.
Bredthauer and Eidth Lois Wil-
son, is the outgrowth of work by
the .local land use planning com-
mittee.
A subcommittee authorized to
develop local markets reported,
among other things, that farm
eggs were being penalized because
of their low grade.
The 20 families agreed to form
a demonstration association. A
committee visited the farm of
each member, inspected the flock
and equipment and made recom-
mendations for increasing the
productiin and marketing in-
fertile eggs.
A sales committee contacted
a local buyer and agreed to de-
liver 1,000 dozen infertile, high
quality eggs each week at a price
4 cents a dozen above the local
market. , ' '
' After a 30 day period of im-
provement, the members began de-
livery of the eggs. Extra income
to date has averaged $40 per
week.
ago.
The celebration is planned to
run through Thursday, Friday and
Saturday of the first week in
October, and plans include pag-
ents of pulchritude, contests of
champions, melodies of musicians,
equilibrium of equestriennes, and
just plain old fiddlers contests,
square dances and: other things
of ancient vintage that are en.
joyed with renewed vigor by
modern folks. n<
The Wichita Falls Celebration
will be unique in that all out
of-town visitors "who register will
be presented with free badges that
will entitle them to free admis-
sion to the many stunts and en
tertainment features.
The Mammoth Fall and Ancient
Style Show will be just that: pre
senting both the latest of dress
for milady as well as a fashion
parade of what great-grandmother
wore fifty-eight years ago.
The style show is scheduled for
nine o’clock Thursday night, Oct.
3.
Industrial research can now
make sponges, superior to those
in nature, out of wood and cot-
ton.
50 million bushels of wheat eml
up in the form of bread each
year in toasters, and 950 million
pounds of butter are spread on
the toast thus made.
Mother Shipton’s
Prophecy
Mother Shipton was born in
Yorkshire, England, in July, 1488,
and died about 1559. In books of
information she is described as a
half-mythical English prophetess,
baptized Ursula Shipton, who later
married Tony Shipton. According
to the tradition she was the child
of Agatha Shipton and the devil.
The following extracts from her
amazing prophecies were taken
from a scrapbook reputedly own-
ed at one time by a Rochester wo-
man:
A carriage without horses shall
g°,
Disaster fill the world with woe;
In London Primrose Hill shall be,
Its center hold' a Bishop’s See.*
Around the world men’s thoughts
shall fly,
Quick as the twinkling of an eye.
And waters shall great wonders
do—
How strange, and yet it shall come
true.
Then upside down the world shall
be,
And gold found at the root of
tree;
Through towering hills proud men
shall ride,
Nor horse nor ass move by his
side.
Beneath the waters men shall
walk;
Shall ride, shall sleep, and even
talk;
And in the air shall be seen,
In white, in black, as well as
green.
A great man then shall come and
go,
For phophecy declares it so.
In water iron then shall float
As easy as a wooden boat.
Gold shall be found in stream and
stone,
In land that is as yet unknown.
Water and fire shall wonders do,
And England shall admit a Jew.**
The Jew that once was held in
scorn
Shall of a Christian then be born.
A house of glass shall come to
pass
In England'—but alas, alas!
A war will follow with the work
Where dwells the pagan and the
Turk.
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The states will lock in fierce
strife,
And seek to take each other’s
life;
When North shall thus divide the
South
The eagle builds in lion’s mouth.
Then tax and blood and cruel war
Shall come to every humble door.
Three times shall sunny, lively
France
Be led to play a bloody dance;
Before the people shall be free
Three tyrant rulers shall she see;
Three rulers, in succession, be,
Each sprung from different
dynasty.
Then, when the fiercest fight is
done,
England and France shall be as
one.
The British olive next shall twine
In marriage with the German
vine.
Men walk beneath and over
stream—
Fulfilled shall be our strangest
dreams.
All England’s sons shall plow the
land,
Shall oft be seem with book in
hand.
The poor shall now most wisdom
know
And water wind where com did
grow;
Great houses stand in far-flung
vale,
All covered o’er with snow and
hail.
And now a word ini uncouth
rhyme,
Of what shall be in future time;
For, in those wondrous, faroff
days,
The women shall adopt a craze
To dress like men and trousers
wear,
And cut off their lovely locks of
hair.
TheyTl ride astride with brazen
brow
As witches on a broomstick now.
Then love shall die and marriage
cease,
And nations wane as babes de
crease.
Then wives shall fondle cats and
dogs,
And men live much the same as
hogs.
In nineteen hundred thirty-six
Build houses light of straw and
sticks,
For then shall mighty wars be
planned,
And fire and sword shall sweep
the land.
But those who live the century
through
In fear and trembling this will do.
Flee to the mountains and the
den,
To bog and forests and wold
fens—.
For storms shall rage and oceans
roar
When Gabriel stands on sea and
shore;
And as he blows his wondrous
horn
Old worlds shall die and1 new be
born.
*When this prophecy was utter-
ed Primrose Hill was two miles
from London; today it is nearly
the heart of the city.
**Disraeli, Weizman, etc.
It is predicted that by 1945
the air-conditioning industry will
have expanded 300 per cent.
AUSTIN, Aug. 30—Discovery
in Texas of Mexican bed bugs
(kissing bugs) infected with try-
panasoma cruzi, a parasite capable
of causing Chaga’s disease, was
reported this week in the United
States Public Health Service Re-
ports, according to Dr. Geo. W.
Cox, State Health Officer.
While no human cases of
Chaga’s disease have been report-
ed to the State Health Depart-
ment, the presence of the organ-
isms in the insects that transmit
the disease make it a potential
public health problem, Dr. Cox
pointed out.
About 65 per cent of 150
specimens of the bed bugs col-
lected in one central Texas town
were found to be infected with
the parasite trypanasoma cruzi.
Experience with the disease in the
tvopics has indicated that adults
are susceptible to the disease
than children and that in. some in-
stances persons harbor the
parasite of Chaga’s disease in
their blood stream withdvif the
actual condition of the disease
being present.
It has further been shown in
areas where the disease is prev-
alent that infants of about one
year of age are most susceptible
to the disease and in the presence
of the disease show a low grade
fever at night. During the period
of infection the face becomes
puffy and the thyriod gland and
superficial lymphatic glands are
enlarged. The puffiness of the
face accompanied by sore eyes is
so charateristic as to be almost
diagnostic of Chaga’s disease. In
the final stages a child develops
symptoms that resemble meningitis
or sleeping sickness and death
generally takes place within a
month of the onset of the disease.
Should the child survive, the
disease passes into the chronic
form.
The State Health Department
through its Division of Bedding is
intensifying its activties to secure
proper sterilization of second-
hand mattresses before resale and
to supervise closely the manufac-
ture and retailing of bedding pro-
ducts so as to minimize the po-
tential infection of mattresses
with the Mexican bed bug and
other disease carriers.
Cooperation of the public is
urged in buying new or used
bedding products by demanding
that each product purchased carry
the regulation stamps and labels
certifying the product as being
approved by the Bedding DivsiorJ
of the State Health Department.
Compliance in purchasing only ap-
proved bedding products will in-
sure that the bedding obtained will
TEXAS.
OUT-O'-DOORS.
Chukars Still Question Mark
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 30—
While a few reports of Chukar
Partridges doing fairly well have
been received, the majority of the
Texas Game Department Biolo-
gists and other field men who have
worked with this bird, which is
native to India, are not optimistic
over the future of Chukars in
the Lone Star State. However,
they are withholding final judg-
ment on them until they have had
more time to determine the birds
habits and adaptability to Texas.
It appears that if the birds are
to thrive at all, they will do so
in West Texas. The following
report to the executive secretary
of the Game Department is typical
of many received:
After a year and a half of ex-
perience in Orange County on a
chukar and quail project, the
game keeper in charge is very
pessimistic about the possibilities
of adapting. Chukars to South-
eastern Texas conditions. At pre-
sent" ht. is attempting to raise
them on“ wire; using
to incubate. Last season 200 adult
Chukars were given free range
on 2,000 acres of good quail laud
and they hatched off approximate-
ly 75 young birds. However, last
fall these could not be found.
When the.birds were finally trap-
ped early this year only 60 re-
mained. What happened to the
others is not known. Predators
could hardly have taken many as
intensive control, of opossums,
house cats, stray dogs and other
such animals is practiced. No
signs of predator kills were found
in diligent searches over the area.
Ever See Boxing Jackrabbits?
Some fight promoter might get
an idea from this: J. R. Barton'
of Wichita Falls and a state game
warden recently saw a pair of
jackrabbits boxing. The rabbits
repeatedly jumped high in the
air and hit each other with their
hind feet. Finally, without either
knocking out the other or ap-
parently gaining the advantage
over the other, they departed,
each in a different direction.
The outdoor advertising indus-
try in the United States distri-
butes more than $30,000,000 each
year in payrolls.
be as free as possible from the
carriers of disease which may be
harbored in mattresses.
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FOLKS!
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