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PAGE SIX
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Sentenced to two days to bo spent
in the Erie county jail reading
the Bible, 16-year-old Pearl For
ger of Buffalo, N. Y., is shown
serving her time. The judge im
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Claire-Clarence Schreckengost, 20, of Dayton. Pa., who is being changed
from a girl to a boy by a series of operations to remedy her dwarfism,
is finding it hard to choose between feminine and masculine habits.
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Diphtheria Once Scourge
Conquered by Doctors
By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.
IF YOtJR CHILD were entering
school in September, 1890. the
chances would have been about 1 to
10 that he or she would contract
diphtheria before
the year was
over.
Once contract
ed in 1890 the
chances would
have been about
even that the ill
ness would
have resulted In
the child’s death.
From 1888 to
1594 the death
rate In the Bos
ton City hospital
was only once
below 40 per
cent, and tn 1892
It rose to nearly
Dr. Clendening
SO per cent.
This year, even If you take no pre
cautions, the chances of your child'
catching diphtheria is less than one
in two hundred
And even if the disease Is con
tracted. provided antitoxin Is given
on the first day, the chances are
400 to 1 that the child will recover.
(The mortality reported by the
health department of Chicago shows
that patients injected with antitoxin
on the first day have a mortality of
027 percent—27/100 of 1 per cent).
Has anything more wonderful than
this aver happened in our modern
civilization? What accomplishment
SloM Numskull
DEAR NOAM WOULD You
SU<>€»6SV THAT
SAXOPHONE PLAVER.S
PLAV OVER. THE WAVES *
THE- first Four, tears?
EDDIE Bi.OU<nH- AKRoN^OWO,
DEAR NOAH ~ SHOULD I
WEAR RIDWS BREECHES
the nett time i have
A NIGHTMARE ?
-BUFFALO Bill, BUFFaIo.HY,
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DEAR. NOAH
WILLTHC SQUEAK IN A
SHOE LAST-r
Bear waLKen, san D\aeo,cAuF.
posed the unusual sentence aftet
Pearl’s father and mother had
her arrested for refusing to obey
their orders against going out
with a youthful sweetheart.
of any other group of men equals
this of the medical profession prac
tically to wipe out an enemy of man
kind—a malignant, deadly enemy
which bad taken its toll of hgman
lite since the dawn of time and down
to less than fifty years ago was still
as terrifying and powerful nay,
more terrifying and powerful thafl
ever?
Nor was this any happenstance or
accident—merely the ebb and flow
that certain diseases have through
tiie years. We know that such things
happen. For instance. In the case of
influenza, we know that the disease
mysteriously disappears and will not
be heard of for ten. twenty or even
forty years: and then suddenly and
quite as mysteriously as it went it
will come again and engulf the en
tire population of the world.
But diphtheria was never like that
We know of it as long ago as the
Babylonian Talmud, during the first
century in the writings of Areteue,
and continuously ever since in every
country it appeared every year.
No. the conquest of It was delib
erate. And Its beginning is sharply
in the year 1895. when antitoxin was
generally introduced into practice.
In a typical city. Milwaukee, the
mortality in 1890-1894 was 116 per
100.000 population. In 1931 it was
214 per same number of people. And,
to show how sharp the point of the
beginning of the fall ' was, In 1895
the significant year, one year after
the mortality was 116. it was less
than half of that —51.
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HENBE2SON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1934
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Reichsf jehrer Adolf Hitler re
turns the Nazi salute to adoring
Germans from a window of the
chancellery building in Berlin
shortly after more than 40,t)00,-
000 voters went to the polls to
Do You Know if You’re
Right or Left Handed?
*y LOGAN CLENPENING. M. D.
i READ in a recent magazine ar
ticle that Mr. Vernon Gomez, the
sensational pitcher for the New York
Yankees, started out in life as a
right handed in- v ,
dividual, and is
now the great
est or the left
handed basehall
pitchers.
He fell from a
horse and broke
his right arm
when he was
young, and then
began learning
baseball all over
again, throwing
with his left arm.
He got so good
by hard practice
that within a
year he was of
sered a contract
with the Pacific Coast league.
The probabilities are that he was
left handed all the time and that at
first he was corrected, or decided
himself, to imitate the rest Os the
world and developed his right hand
instead of his natural instincts.
I would like to know if he stut
tered when he was young and if his
stuttering left him when he began
to use his left arm. Because one of
the most plausible theories of stut
tering is that the stutterer is nat
urally left handed and is taught to
be right handed, thus causing an un
balance of cerebral dominance. It
has been explained several times in
these columns.
A great many tests have been de
vised to determine whether a given
individual is dominantly right or left
OUR YESTERDAYS
When II Duce Was Just a Cit izen
And Not Even a Very Desired One
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Mussolini being arrested Ipß Bg.* ll
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At his desk after becoming premier.
PREMIER BENITO MUSSOLINI
has pot always beeu hailed as *TI
Duce” There was a time, of course,
wheji Mussolini was just another
Italian citizen, and sometimes, a
very undesirable one. During an
archistic demonstrations, in 1915,
tor example, Mussolini was placed
vote “Ja” under swastika influ
ence in the nation-wide plebi
scite. Almost 5,000,000 citizens
replied to Nazi pleas for a per
fect “rollcalt*’ with a decided
“Nein".
handed or ambidextrous. For In
stance:
In using tools with long handles,
such -as a hoe, rake, shovel, golf
clubs, do you put your right hand or
left hand near the outer end of the
handle?
In which direction do you sweep—
toward the right, left, or have you
no particular choice?
With which foot do you kick?
Which hand deals the cards?
Which hand holds the .salt shaker?
' Which hand goes into the coat
first?
Under which arm do you usually
carry books?
Which shoe do you take off first?
Which hand picks up the left shoe
in dressing? Right shoe?
Which glove do you put on first?
Which hand supports you in rising
from a sitting position on the floor?
These questions may not he of any
value except passing interest to. yon
If you have a speech disorder, such
as stuttering, on the contrary they
may be of first rate importance.
There is one, however, which is of
value to everyone.
Which side do you sleep on?
But that is another story which
will be taken up tomorrow.
EDITOR S NOTE: Six pamphlets
by Dr. Clendening can now he ob
tained by sending 10 cents in coin, for
each, and a self-addressed envelope
stamped witn a three-cenf stamp, to
Dr. Logan Clendening. in care of this
paper. The pamphlets are: “In
digestion and Const ipation.'* “Re
ducing and Gaining,” "Infant Feed
ing.” “Instructions lor the Treatment
of Diabetes." “Feminine Hygiene**
and “The Care ol the Hair and Skin."
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Dr. Clendening
under arrest and hustled off to
jail when he became a bit obstrep
erous at a meeting. The attitude
toward Mussolini changed consid
erably by 1922 when fascism took
control of Italy after the famous
march oj! the Blackshirts on the
Italian capital.
—-OUR YESTERDAYS—
When Dayton \Vas Inundated by a Gveat Flood,
Taking Enormous Toll in Lives and Property
View* of tjio great Dayton flood.
DESPITE MAN’S energetic ef
forts to defend himself against dis
astrous eruptions of nature, the
• elements frequently find away to
beat his ingenuity. Prior to 1913,
the city of Payton and its Imme
• diate vicinity seented cats enough
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Important Notice?
Every year prior to the opening of the Hender
son Tobacco Market, local merchants are greet
ed with smiling faces and open palms by repre
sentatives of state newspapers, who have come
to help them advertise their business arid to re
lieve them of as many of their advertis
ing dollars as possible.
In buying advertising space in newspapers with
large circulations, many advertisers overlook the
fact that only a small portion of the large circu
lation they are buying is m their trade territory,
yet they must pay for the entire circu
lation regardless of where it may be.
Using Henderson as an example, advertisers
here are asked by outside newspapers to pay an
advertising rate three times as large as the rate
charged by the Daily Dispatch, when it is ex
tremely doubtful if any out of town newspaper
can offer half as much circulation in the Hender
son trade territory as that offered by the Daily
Dispatch. This is certainly true as to rural sub
scribers, because the large newspapers after
leaving their immediate home territory, circu
late chiefly in the towns instead
of the rural sections.
In other words, it is just like asking a Henderson
merchant to pay $9.00 for one pair of shoes in
some other town, when he can buy two pairs
of the same shoes in Henderson for $3.00.
All of which makes advertising in the State news
papers, as far as local,merchants are concerned,
not only expensive, but very unnecessary,
unless one just wants to make a contribution.
Think It Over?
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from floods with its embankments
and dams on the Big Miami river.
But on March 25 of that year, the
swollen torrents of the riyer over
flowed the banks and broke down
all other barriers, Inundating the
district. This great flood, which
spread to other parts of Ohio and
other states, cause’ l 732 persons to
lose their Uvea, ana a property
damage, in Dayton aJone, of $128,-
000,000. The Miami vai’.ey has since
been harnessed Is a gigantic flood
control project.