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JOURNAL
HOW TO LIVE
LONGER
By JOHN CLARENCE FUNK
A. M . S«. D.
I Director >1 Public Holtb F duct ion.
# Stuto of Pennoylvsnla. i i
Co-Operate
TPHESK day* one hear* so mn-h
A about tbe word co-operate that
It has almost lost Its significance.
Nevertheless, when It Is applied to
matters of health It Is not only an apt
term but an absolutely necessary one
as well.' '
The present-day emphasis on health
In maguzinea. newspapers, moving pic-
tures and over tbe radio Is unprece-
dented In addition, a continual now
of Information and ottletnl supervision
can be traced to the private, munici-
pal. state and federal health agencies;
not to mention the valuable work
which Is constantly being a room
pushed by the insurance companies.
It Is unmistakably a sign of the tlinea,
and a most gratify lug one.
Unfortunately, however, there Is a
tendency on ilie part of thousands ol
people to conclude that with so many
people Interested lu (lie oilier fellow’s
welfare that little. If anything, need
he done toward that end b)r the fel
low hltnnelf.
Even after the establishment of site
quute water and milk eontrol, the de
velopment of proper sewage facilities
and efficient communicable disease
regulation, the biggest |ob In health
remains for the Individual bimsel! to
do.
Health departments and officials can
eloquently end eveD vigorously tug
test that one needs sufficient sleep
all the fresh air he can get, a proper
■ mount of wholesome food and dally
exeretsei Rut then they have gone mi
far as they can go. As for the in
dividual, It It strictly ■ “take It or
leave lt“ proposition.
“Tike It" and live long! “l-eav#
It" and live leas! Which seems to In
It's ap
iVeec/ less
" Pain!
Ireatli, or ii
ed’sour stou
lfagtncsla: I
Oet acqua
IlHIchl that
gOSnd und s
Med* at Hi
fcSSrty meull
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Medical cridl
■ifniona or ii
have “lndlgl
don't sufTcrl
Meariant to I
The naiml
identifies til
fit Magm-.nl
teed tradcl
fkllllpa nl
The man who wouldn't drive hie
motorcar half a mile when it’s out of
order, will often drive his brain all
day with a heed that's throbbing.
Such punishment isn’t very good
for one’s nerves! It's unwise, and
It'a unnecessary. A tablet or two
of Bayer Aspirin will relieve a head-
ache every time. So, remember
this accepted antidote for pain, and
spare yourself a lot of needless suf-
fering. Read the proven directions
and you’ll discover many valuable
uses for three tablets. For head-
aches; to check colds. To ease a
■ore throat and reduce the infection.
For relieving neuralgic, neuritic,
rheumatic pain.
People used to wonder if Bayer
Aspirin was harmful. The doctors
Ca.pt. NX
1 Myle-f N
«St.o.«diyK
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
l^rtHANKSGlVING
approaches,
Ifl rU and as our thoughts turn to
[ft l,ic l’llgrim Fathers, mine Is
^ffi IS more worthy of remera-
R| |R hranee than Cupt. Myles
T P Standlsh. For he waa “the
_ Sr J first military communder of
. V-/ our country and the greatest
•example of protection and prepared-
ness that ever existed. The compact
iwlileh he and his associates signed on
board the Mayflower was the founda-
tion of our form of government. The
law-abiding, God-fearing Pilgrims could
not have existed without the strong
arm of Capt. Myles Standlsh.”
Such wag the tribute paid to him
recently by Major Myrlck, captain of
the Atoclenjt and Honorable Artillery
Company of Boston, In dedicating a
Simple boulder In Duxbury, Mass.,
which marks the site of Myles Stan-
dlsh’s home. Associated with him In
dedicating the memorlul and decorat-
ing the grave of the Pilgrim captain
nearby were Myles Standlsh, eighth
lineal descendant of the colonial lead-
er. Wtnthrop Winslow, a direct de-
scendant of Captain Winslow, of the
Pilgrims, and more than a hundred
members of the artillery company.
1 The Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company of Boston was an offspring
.fit the Honorable Artillery Compnny
|Of London, organized In England In
i!637. It was founded In New Eng-
land In 1038 by Itobert Keayne, who
had previously been a member of the
(London company. The only time In
ftfi MBtory in which It engaged In war
as munlt was in 1645, when it Joined
Mffi^^teidUb^nd his company in
S’taTvJiiKlr Grave,
•SoutVu Duxburtj,T'/ra.JJ.
answered that question years ago.
It is not. Some folks still wonder if
it really doea relieve pain. That’s
settled! For millions of men and
women have found it does. To
cure the cause of any pain you must
consult your doctor; but you may
always turn to Bayer Aspirin for
immediate rtlitf.
a mile by the sea side, they espied 5.
or 0. persons with u dogg coming to-
wards them, who were salvages.” But
the Indians “rune up Into the wooda”
and that night Standlsh aqd his men
camped on the shore "A set out their
sentinels." On November 25. sixteen
armed men, “everyone his Musket,
Sword ami Corslet, Under the com-
mand of Cuptulne Myles Standlsh,”
were sent ashore for a second explo-
ration. ■‘They marched through what
Is now Provincetown, where they sew
several Indians, followed their tracks
about ten miles and spent the night
In the woods. Three more expeditions
were sent out later, and on the third
near Nanskeket they were surprised
hy the Indians upon whom Stnndlsil
tired, hut the skirmish was alight.
In February, 1021, Standlsh was offi-
cially made military captain. Daring
that first terrible winter when disease
wl|»ed out half qf the colony, among
them his wife. Rose Blandish, who
died on January 21, It was to the min-
istrations of this fiery little flghtlng
man and the gentle Elder Brewster
that many of tbe survivors owed their
lives. But he waa to prove his worth
to the colony In many ether ways, end
to Justify the statement that the “PU-
BAYER ASPIRIN
Plea Sl.JT of Gorilla
Scientists from Yale university plan
to make ■ year’s study of gorillas In
the Belgian Congo to learn If there Is
any similarity between the conduct of
ape and man.—Providence JoumeL
First Chile.■ Nowspopar
In 1811 a printing presa was sent
from New York to Valparaiso. It was
set up and managed hy three Ameri-
cans who went with It and furnished
Chile with Us first newspaper.
dlcate that co-operalloo pays
to youl
The Wayside Camp
'VERY possible precaution has been
- thrown around the automobile
arise Federal and state officials are
itremely solicitous for the man and
■ family on tbe road. Well do these
ithorltles appreciate that no matter
>w Dae the weather, bow Inspiring
e scenery, or how good the road,
see things will amount trf Uttle it.
i a result of the trip, illness follows
Its wake.
•M» therefore gpt enough Vh»I. <*■
w°m«ry Jfre lln*
algos abd'
grlms couTdn&’Killra «ls^Ssf^rm^Wt,
the strong apn of Capt. Myles Stan-
dlsh.”
In 1622 the planting of a new settle-
ment at Weymouth angered tbe Mas-
sachusetts Indians, who formed a plot
to destroy not only these Englishmen
hut the members of the Plymouth col-
ony ns well. The plot was betrayed
by Massasolt and Standlsh with ■
force of oily eight men marched to
the relief of the settlement at Wey-
mouth. Standlsh enticed the hostile
chiefs, Pecksuot and Wltuwamat, and
a half-brother of the latter Into a
room where the Indians were killed
after a desperate fight, marking tbe
first shedding of Indian blood by the
Pilgrims. A general battle with the
Indians followed but Standlsh and bis
men routed the savages. The news of
Ids battle spread terror among the
Indians, and ns a warning ngnlnst fur-
ther depredations, the head of Wltu-
wamat was cut ofT and exposed on a
pole In Plymouth.
In 1635 Standlsh led an unsuccess-
ful expedition against the French who
had driven a party of Plymouth men
away from Penobscot, Maine. In ad-
dition to being the military leader of
every exploit of Importance In the col-
ony, Stamllsh’s counsel was often re-
quired In civil nffulrs. For many years
he was treasurer of the colony, and
In 1625, when the colony was In trou-
ble wKli Its partners, the Merchant Ad-
venturers, Stnndlsh was sent to Eng-
land to seek relief, henring ■ letter
from Governor Bradford to the coun-
cil of New England urging their Inter-
vention In behalf of the Pilgrims. On
account of the plague In London, how-
ever, Stundleh could accomplish noth-
ing.
After the death of hts wife, Rose,
the captain married her younger sis-
ter, Barbara, and to them were born
four sons, Alexander, Myles, Josias
and Charles, and a daughter, Lora.
In 1632 Standlsh made his home at
Duxbury on Captain’s hill. There he
died on October 3, 1658. Today a tall
monument stands on Captain’s hilL
On top of It Is the statue of a military
figure, looking eastward. Its right
bnnd, holding the charter of the col-
ony, Is extended toward Plymouth, Its
left rests upon a sheathed sword. It
Is s fitting memorial to Capt Myles
Standlsh, the first military commander
of our country and the protector and
savior of the Pilgrim Fathers.
today it Is the only link which exists
between the present United States
army and the first colonial company
Which defended this country from the
first Indian attacks.
It Is’probable that most Americans,
when they think of CapL Myles Stan-
dlsh at all, think of him In terms of
(fengfeilow's famous poem, which Is
unfortunate for, as a recent writer has
paid “The poet Longfellow has set an
pxamplc Oi Innccuracy In dealing with
pur Pilgrim ancestors, which has been
{Widely followed.’’ Among those Inac-
curacies are first of all the spelling of
bit name, which was “Myles” and not
VMIles,” ns Longfellow had It, and
calling him a “Puritan leader.” There
pras a difference between the “Sep-
aratists,” who called themselves “Pil-
grims” and who founded the colony at
Plymouth In 1620, and the “Puritans"
prho founded the Massachusetts Ray
colony In 10!i0. More than that, Stan-
dlsh was not a member of the Sepa-
ratist fnlth, but he was “a dissenter
from the dissenters." But the princi-
pal mistaken Idea about' the captain
■t ovary eroaaroad and curve. Health
department! have gone farther by et-
tetnptlng to regulate the eanltatloo at
the wayside camp It la plain, bow
ever, that even with regular Inspec-
tions on tbe part of the official per-
sonnel. the real key to the proper oh
terra nee of the law. so far as these
establishments are concerned. Is held
by the tourist himself.
Many Jurisdictions In this country
require that safe water be supplied
at theee places, that the grounds be
maintained at all times In a sanitary
condition, that a prompt disposition of
the garbage he made, and that comfort
tacllltlea are properly kept
It will pay the traveler to be finicky
ou this camp question. If the place
does uot meet tbe fundamental require-
ment*. then move on. Far belter thut
a few more miles he added to the trip
than to run the risk of typhoid fever,
which st its ve.., best Is an exceed
Ingly risky malndy.
And In this connection, do not for-
get that the lonrlst also has a duty
to perform which can be summarized
under three “don'ta.” 1. Don't throw
garbage Into atrenms. 2. Don’t pollute
running water In any manner. 8. Don't
drink from creeks or rivers no matter
how poetical their selling or how clear
and cool the water may be.
With the camp proprietor doing his
beat to comply with regulations and
with the patron, by Ids conduct and
cholceness. assisting und Inspiring him.
a combination ts set up that will be
hard for old typhoid to beat. Now
then, all aboard for a safe and pleas
ant Journey I
(A lilt Wootorn Nowop* por Unlos )
The association of the name of Dux-
bury with that of Standlsh Is based
upon authenticated copies of deeds of
the Fourteenth century which show
that Ralph de Dokesbury made over
his Lancashire estates to his lawyer,
Ralph Standlsh, who took up the mort-
gages and thereby dispossessed the
Dokesbury or Duxbury family. If Is
signlflcant that one of the later Pil-
grim settlements, which becume the
home of Mylps Standlsh, was named
Dnxhury. Within the last year the
sale of Duxbury hull near Chorley,
Lancashire, recalled the fact that In
1840 descendants of Myles Standlsh
In this country subscribed a large
amount of money and sent an expert
to trade the claim of their ancestor
to this estate, of which It has been
assprted, he was unjustly deprived
when he emigrated from Englund to
America.
In his youth Myles Standlsh entered
the English army and served In the
wars on the continent, thus furnishing
the authority for Longfellow's having
him tell about "the sword of Damuseus
t fought with In Flinders" and the
breastplate which once shved his life
from a bullet "Fired point-blank at my
heart hy a Spanish arcabucero.” Just
how Standlsh came to Join the Pil-
grims Is not known. He apparently
was serving In the Netherlands when
the Separatists went there from Eng-
land, and one historian asserts
that the Merchant Adventurers, who
financed the Pilgrim emigration to
America, expecting them to settle In
the region of Virginia, sent Standlsh
as their salaried scrvnnt to defend
them and teach them to defend them-
selves. At any rate, Standlsh Joined
the Pilgrims at Leyden and sailed with
them from Plymouth, Englnnd, In the
Mayflower on September 16, 1620.
Myles Standlsh was one of the sign
era of the Mayflower Compact on No-
vember 11, 1620, for the government
of the proposed colony, but his mili-
tary career did not begin until Novem-
ber 21, when the Mayflower was an-
chored In Cape Cod bay, and the cap-
tain with 15 men went ashore. “When
they had marched about the space of
Children Safe fo take medicine
as a rule, but every child love* the
taste of Castoria. And this pure
vegetable preparation i* just as
good a* it tastes; just as bland
and harmless as the recipe reads.
(The wrapper tells you just what
Castoria contains.)
When Baby'a cry warns of colic,
a few drops of Castoria has him
soothed, asleep again in a jiffy.
Nothing is more valuable in diar-
rhea. When coated tongue or bad
breath tell of constipation, invoke
its gentle aid to cleanse and regu-
late a child’s bowels. In colds or
children's diseases, use it to keep
the system from clogging. Your
doctor will tell you Castoria
deserves a place In the family
medicine cabinet until your ckiU
is grown. He knows it is safe Cor
the tiniest baby; effective for a
boy in his teens. With this special
children's remedy handy, you need
never risk giving a boy or girl
medicine meant for grown-ups.
Castoria is sold in every drug
store; the genuine always bears
Chat. H. Fletcher’s signature.
Shows Evolution of Horso
The history of the horse family,
bowing the evolution of the horse
rcmi a four-toed animal the size of ■
at to the present large one-toed or
roofed type, is Illustrated hy an ex-
ihlt In the Field Museum of Natural
I story In Chicago.
fvhlcti the poet hns given us Is In his
having Standlsh use young John Alden
las hlu mouthpiece in wooing Priscilla
piullins. “There Is not n scintilla of
evidence that the fearless enptaln,
Who was small of stature and red-
headed, blit every Inch a soldier, hud
tany desire to win (lie affections of
Priscilla Mullins,” sa$f the writer pre-
viously quoted. “It seems too had
Night Life Gets You if You
Don’t Watch Out! I
War Vet almost takes
count, but pals help.
Lucky Day for Clerk
When He Answered Ad
Young ItnndaU, a clerk In a big
office In the Orand Central district,
had felt for a couple of years that
his work was not receiving the re-
ward It merited, and that he would
never be given a chance to ascend
the ladder of success In that par
tlcular place He was sure that bis
Immediate superior was to blame snd
eventually he gave up all hope of re-
ceiving a promotion.
The next day he answered ■ keyed
advertisement In a newspaper, pen
nln* a note that he himself agreed
was a good one. It evinced eonfl
dence. ambition and vision, and he
that It would receive a favor
OOW would you like It if every
LA two weeks you had to give up
your good night’s sleep, and work all
night instead? This is what hap-
pened to W. H. Huggins of 90
Savannah Street, Rochester, "New
York. When he came back from the
War, he took a night “ahlft” job.
"It certainly shot me all to pieces,”
laid Mr. Huggins. *1 was licked
before I started. My pals noticed
that the night shift got me, so during
a *lunch’ period in the middle of one
night one of them said to me, ‘Hug,
I bet I know what’s the matter with
you. This irregular life gets us all
unless we watch-out. Why don’t you
try Nujol? Most of the boy* are
onto this little health trick. Try itl*
"Well, that very night on the
way home I got * bottle and within
a week I felt like a different person.
I wouldn’t know myself. You can
lick any job, even a night one, if you
get the poisons out of your system
regularly. Nujol euro did It for me!"
Tkat’i the grew! thing about
Nujol. It absorbs the poisons in your
system (wt all hnvw them) mad
cleans them out regularly. It cannot
hurt you no matter how long you
take it, and It form* no habit '
Nujol contains no medicines or
drugs. It la simply the world** moat
famous method of bodily lubrication.
You can get a bottle at any good «
drug store, in ft sealed package, fur
lea* than the cost of a couple of good
cigars. Begin today to prove to
yourself how Nujol oaa help yon to
MMgpsusMi j
was sure
able anawer.
And It did—from the president of
hie own company I He waa requested
to call for an Interview, and he thud
dered at the thought of the mesa Into
whlcn he had gotten himself. Event
natly he got up nerve, marched Into
the president'! office and told his
story. The president was Impressed
to ench an extent that he gave the
youth the bigger Job and howled not
i he detiertwent head who had failed
to take cognizance ot the nmbitlon jt
lie voutb. — New York Hun
crosier, and the name “la crosse” was
suggested.
As played by the Indians, lacrosse
waa almost a part of their religion.
Days of fasting preceded the games
played by two tesms of rival tribes,
■ nd the players subjected themselves
to tortures of the severest kind. In-
flicted by tbe medicine men.
Saccos* la Achiavamaat
The saying, “Nothing aucceeds like
success” wits used In reference to the
first operation tinder ether performed
by Dr. John t’olllne Warren it the
Massachusetts General hospital on Oc-
tober tfl. 1846
^ Origin of Lacrosse
‘ The game Of lacrosse can trace Its
Mgln to the Algonquin Ifidlans. and
•jta name waa flrat ottered hy the
Vtoerbrnan. Charlevoix, according to
Donald W. White, writing in the
■portsmtn, Boat on.
t When the explorer waa ascending
ghe St. Lawrence he ,aaw tbe game
tribe of Indlane near Que-
Braail’s Official Language
Portuguese I* the effldal language
of Brazil. It Ii tbe only Latin Amer-
ican country In which that la tbe prv
vailing language.—Pathfinder liege-
elan.
Nation's Swaat Tooth
Tbe United States consumes more
than 20 per cent of the world’s cane
■Dear.
red by * Ji-
The stick used In the gems sp-
ied to him to be Uke a bishop'*
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Satterwhite, Ed. The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, November 15, 1929, newspaper, November 15, 1929; Wortham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1056045/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.