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POiJCcouinrgiTiiwoTO n. o. - mmjL. T LHFATTHTQ-UTPATYtl-irj --iir : -:rJlfe-" I --I..,,Ci H M Hp ArHGIENE i 1 LIFE Huns' grave, but W mist ffiiiisli tk mM .. . . ... . it . By REV, WILLIAM A. SUNDAY Uncle Sam's Liberty war chest needs filling, again! We have the cash to fill it as many times as he lifts the lid. There are only two horns to this dilem ma you are either a. patriot or a traitor. The men on the firing line and on the battleships have turned from business, home, mother, wife, children, and they stand ready to their lives and shield with their bodies us who remain at home. We are unworthy to be thus, protected, if we do not do our utmost to sustain them. We must be one in our determination to win this war. We are traitors to the cause for which they are giving their lives, if we do things here that make their efforts harder. Life is not worth living unless there is something to live for. Life would not be worth living if that bunch of Heinies should win. That is why they cannot win. That is why we cannot lose. What a mountain of 'crime God- has on his books against thttf, horde, of Hellish Huns. What grave is deep enough for this thousand-armed, thousand-footed, thousand-headed, thousand-horned, thousand fanged pirate of the air, assassin of the seas, despoiler of the earth and ambassador of Hell! Bitty Sunday The army and navy will dig the grave, but we must furnish the spade. Our boys will soon hang crape on the door of the Potsdam Palace, and the bands will play Yankee-Doodle and Dixie along the Rhine. Uncle Sam is the cactus in the Kaiser's pillow. Our boys have gone over to clean up, on that fool bunch of Huns and it; is up to us to supply them with whatever they need to finish ther job. It takes money to keep the riveters; riyetingr-the sawyers sawing" the machine guns spitting bullets and the grub wagon always on hand with the eats. There is nothing, too. good for our brave defenders. Our vocabulary contains no words adequate to express our approval of the achievements of our government since we threw our hat in the ring. We are rich on top of the ground; we are rich under the ground and our rivers creep like silver serpents to the seas, bearing our products The children of England, France, Italy and- Belgium are- laughing' once more be cause they are being fed from Uncle Sam's bakeshop. One carload of meat every two minutes, one. hog out of every four, nine million pounds of' meat a day all going over to feed our boys. We are in this scrap to the last dollar, the last grain of wheat, the last day. We will never stop until Germany dips her dirty blood-stained rag to the Stars and Stripes. It's a whale of a job we've tackled, but we can and must put it over. But you must help. Don't whine. Don't knock, You can't saw wood with a hammer. Don't turn the hose on the fire ; add fuel. Buy Bonds ! Bay Bonds!; Buy Bonds ! This Space Contributed to Winning the War by Co BttJSIHI A 0 1 ' 0i 0i UEOTONS OK lf H. MYC M -Z -J. .w M-ifvr vr hniul mTERCST TO OiW RCADCIIS Witt M INIWMH Mi - -?1 KAISER Tax Your Business ? Think this thought twice over: "If we should fail to" win this war what would happen to my business? What is left of business in the invaded districts of France and Belgium? What will be left of business here, if we fail to crush the sinister power of Russian mibtar ism? How much would you have left after paymg the taxes and levies imposed by a victorious Germany? Defend Yourself: With This is not only a war for Democracy and Liberty, but a war of self-defense. Germany menaces our rights, our self-respect, our homes, and our means of livelihood. Every citizen every businessmanhas weapons of defense ready to his hand. These weapons are Liberty Bonds wSnot all fight with guns and bayonets but we can allfight withLiberty Bonds. Buy to Your Utmost Of course vou have bought Liberty Bonds. Every onehaButW of th? Fourth S and of the war ftself depends on your answer to that question. - Buv all the bonds you can. Go to your bank and ma& youf SSSnts. Buy more thanyouever thought you could buy. Buy to Your Utmost This Space Contributed to Winning the War By 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 $ 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 0 0 0 4 Gt (EpEQAli0: "f "' TMATMMT OP INDIVIDUAL OMMM WIU 4l fl tM I W Wi4 Just Warf You've heard of weasel words, words which suck the strength out of what you have to say? Well; wo have before us this evening a polecat word, a word used to soften suspicion or dis tract attention. For instanee.the pole cat "specialist" who Is invariably anonymous and always "perfecting" wonderful new remedies, urges you to "just get an ounce of" and you go and get it. We know mighty little EVEN A FROG HAS SOME SENSE. If You Are Troubled With Warts, Don't Take the Chances of Blood Poison by Careless Treatment. Have a Good Physician to Cut Them Out for You. about warts, hardly enough to venture a talk about them, so, with an apology to the beautiful and. inoffensive-animal above libelled, we entitle the talk 'Just Warts." Jadassohn inserted fragments ofi common or vulgar warts from four pa tients in superficial incisions of the skin in six adults. Out of seventy-four inoculations, thirty-three were follow ed in from two to six months by the development of warts, according to 1896, pi 497. This goes to: show that warts must be caused by some specific micro-organism:- A wart may be con sidered a nest, of bacteria. In young people warts are only a nuisance. When warts come on the skin of elderly! people, or people of middle age, they seem to have a tend ency to break down into little ulcers which presently prove- to-be cancer ous. Hence, though a young person may dally with warts, any elderly per son had better not. Beyond all question the surest, 9 - - safest, least troublesome way to dis pose of a wart is by cutting It out, un der local anesthesia, and bringing the edges of-the little wound together with, a stitch in order to prevent visible scar. Occasionally warts are tubercular, acquired by handling tubercular car casses or hides (butchers, etc.) arid sometimes acquired by physicians and students in the dissecting room. The reason why children ?more gen- i Ar& r hava-warts tnan aouns is mat children indiscriminately handle ev erything And naturally hate to wash their hands. Warts go with irncleanli- ness. and not wit' undue familiarity with toads. Sometimes a crop' of warts on' the hands may be cleared up by occasion ally painting the wholf . Affected gar face with half strength iodine (hilt tincture of iodine and half alcohol, say, once in four or five days), and re ligiously scrubbing with soap and wa ter, several times a day t discourage microbes. Exposure to sunlight is also a cure in many cases. Condensing the sun's rays upon a wart with a reading glass every day, up to the limit of tol erance, will clear it up after a time. When too many warts are present to attempt the removal of each lesion, a few X-ray treatments will usually de stroy them. A multiple growth of warts on unexposed skin is beat at tacked by the currette under ether. There are as many sure cures for warts as there are victims Of warts. Acids, caustics and other irritants are unwise, because these are often pain ful, usually unsatisfactory; and'some times apparently productive of malig nant change in the lesion (cancer). Moist warts, about moist surface, may be cleared up by careful cleanli ness, and bathing with one dram f tannin acid dissolved in three ounces of alcohol, then powdering well with boric acid or- zinc stearate. The region must be kept dry. IS SAVED BY HANDKiEi V Aviator Stranded in tig OanM Land, Faces Fire of ..... ; Friend and Foe.1 Questions and Answers. Miss A. J;: Is there any safe way of removing freckles? . Answer: Freckles which are nrrxliicAd by exposure to the sun and wind may be generally made to disappear if the skin lis protected. Th" onrtllfntlrfn at buttermilk or oatmeal poultices is' a sim ple means that will facilitate di8atpearr ance. Freckles which aoosar In thi, uttfn without special exposure cann6t be re moved by such means but may be re moved by the carbn dioxide ic. This method, however, Is likely to , produce slight redness of the sklh. In the case of very dark brown freckles the tA nana may be preferable. Mrs. H. F. E.: Can you tell me , the cause of an enlarged Joint of the big toe and how it can be cured T Answer: The enlargement may be ue to many causes, the most common being rheumatism, gout, and in the case of the great toe the pressure of an im properly shaped toe. You may be suffer ing from a. bunion requiring a slight operation. Change in shape of shoe would probably help. Mrs. M. S. K.: What is a remedy for car-sickness? It is necessary'' for me, to travel, but I am always fright full J- sick - Answer: Chronic autointoxication ran- a person very suscertlbTe t r- ders Sickness and to seasickness when the owels are trained to move three or four times a day so that the blood is keot clean, car-sickness is less likely to oc cur. For immediate relief the horiirtn tal position, the application of col to the head, and keeping the eyes Closed are simple measures of value." D. S. A.: Please suggest a remedy for pin worms in children.. Answer: ip wormji rro usually ssfso- ated with constipation. Some form .mtt parasiticide may oe necessary? Trie faf; ill' physician' should be consulted.. Does The Skill Show Health? One of the cruelest of all fishwife superstitions is the idea that a skin eruption, blackheads and pimples, for sxample, is a sign well, a sign of any thing in particular that is wrong with an individual's habits of health. That It has no such significance anyone may observe in the numbers of first class young physical specimens in the army showing more or less pimply skins. The old-time nostrum maker, the fellow who used to dispose of veri table rivers of nice flavors like sarsa- parilla in the guise of "blood puri fiers," found this popular delusion a gold mine. Many a bottle of feebly medicated alcohol did he sell at a ALL THE WORLD'S A -FOOL. Especially When It Comes to Paying Out Good Money for Worthless Nos trums Such, as Pimple 'Cure and Skin Foods. dollar per, or 69 cents in some stores, with a s.ort of implied guarantee to 'rid the blood of humors" whatever they may be. It has been rather noticeable, In examining 4arge numbers of young men and young women, boys and girls at the time of adolescence, rthat this condition of blackheads and pimples (doctors call It "acne") was quite atf likely to , be found in r the healthiest cleanest specimens as in the othef class. Indeed, It is the : opinion of some excellent physicians that the explanation for the frequency of pim ples at adolescence is nothing more nor less than the very rapid matura tion and growth of skin cells at that time of life, a growth so rapid that the skin-is temporarily unable to cast off thef superfluous -cells, 'f - The condition of the , skin, its ap pearance,: feel and activity, does tell lb trained physician a great (deal about the state Of a patient's meta bolism. But the accident of a crop of pimples on the face tells neither the physician nor any old woman a single thing. This is not meant to imply that pimples and blackheads is not a disease. It is a disease, but as insignificani as decayed teeth, and a whole lot less Important. Neither is the color of the skin a cri terion of the patient's health. Every experienced- doctor - knows bow com monly patients with serious disease are assured by their friends that they are "the picture of health." That pic ture seems to be a vague combination of obesity, moderate or marked, with a rather obvious paralysis or weak ness of the arterioles of the skin, which gives a florid or red appearance to thef face. Even the old crannies know well enough that young people with well established tuberculosis "of the lungs may have what the casual observer considers a perfect complexion, but what the observing physician recog nizes as the flush of fever and the ab normally brighter blue-white eyeball of anemia or weak blood. The poor old liver is dosed unmer cifully by thousands of credulous folk who assume that a sallow" skin calls for calomel or other alleged "liver regulators" whatever they may be. Any doctor Is aware that a rather fleshy person- who becomes anemic, whose blood is" weakened from any cause whatever, or whose circulation i 8 even temporarily disturbed by emo tiOnal factors or ! acute Illness, will show a sallow face, which is the nat ural color of the subcutaneous tissue, the fat layer of the skin, sbihins through and not tinted as pink -as th blood usually tints the flesh. QUESTION AN b ANSWERS. 5 Pellagra A Dietary Drsease. ?t;Mrs. 'B. - What .is the Cause" 6f pel lagra? What Lare 1U principalymp tomS r Is ' it' contaglitts ? 'ls'lt curable T Answer: Pellagra is now 'widely: ;re girded as a- "deficiency .disease," that is,, it:is rfoposed ta: be caused bya diet deflv cient in certain required food elements. This: view is not universal by any means: but It Is the vtew now held, by the great reaiority of doctors.- In a recent' editorial the: Journal of American: Medical Assoc! continually" reasserts '..itself." Its principal symptoms are emaciation, -persistent diarrhea, a characteristto eruption on face and hands; and later generally in the course of the disease, insanity." -It lis tiot (contagious. It if curable, especially if treated' by a good physician in the early stages, Tha prin cipal treatment is dietary, ; i r ? , WAe SIGNAL TO FIIEIIGj By Fast Running Seroeant Baugha7 Reaches Comrades in Safety ll Rewarded With Military Med- . al by the French. f A Washington.Flight Sergeant Jantls1 H. Baugham of Washington, who WaV transferred from the Lafayette esfeg drille to the Paris Air Defense sgtiiSfe Ji nas Deen reported a prisoner .idf unofficial advlqes to his mother, ife Mary A. Baugham, president of the Dixie Agricultural company of Wash ington. Sergeant Baugham joined the Lafayette escadrille in 1917 when Jier was eighteen years old and won .th6t Military medal, the highest FrenW honor to noncommissioned men. 'V The Incident that earned the npi geant the medal was described In a let ter he wrote recently. Paying trtbf ta to the wonderful spirit of his Fretica comrades, Sergeant Baugham said r ' . "We had been sent out to patro back of the German lines and to . it tack anything enemy we saw. Having incendiary balls In my gun, I was pre1 pared to attack a German 'sausage or observatory balloon. Just as I-as beginning the descent to attack, I saw a Boche airplane going In the direction of our lines to do photographic work; I put on full speed and signaled to tlte other planes to follow. They evldefatf ly did not see my signal, for they didn't go down with me. When T ftpt 100 meters from the Boche I started firing. The enemy -replied by turnjlfi loose both guns at me., I. must haya got him, however, with the first bla for when I pulled up to make another dive he was silent. 1 "Then something happened truii would make the goodest man on e&Vtli cuss, and as I am not one of the bit you can Imagine that I left'Jlttle in said. My. motor stopped absolutely dead. There was only one thing for ine to do and that was to dive,' lose th Boche and try to volplane, to he French lines. As I went' past.4 the-(e)S -man machine ' It Immediately cd down and, putting some nice steel vry close to him, I did all the acrobacyI had ever learned. When I had finished I found that I had come doom 10,000 to 1,000' feet and there "was no Boche in sight. ... : Alone in No Man's Land. 'I then looked.around for a pce to land. I saw a fairly good placeyoff to the' right and madeit. I therstepped out of the machineright .onhe face of a dead German. It took jhe a inln nte to realize what was happening and I awoke to the soiind of bullets whiz zing past my head That didn't disturb ime much, because I w&s wondering why somebody hadn't buried Jhe Ger jnan.: Looking around, hpweverV-ralTI could see ' was dead Germans ttlBii deniy dawned on me that ! Was'itfW Man's Land, Of all the plaices ;'the8 are to land' In France and; GermSnyJl had to land between the two.1 j "Then I realized what pre6Urai?(?at I was in and began to hink uporiio way to get out of it. The thought .jSa&e to me that if I was nearer the. Geb5n lines than to the French, J bad-better get rid of those Incendiary balls pi'iny pocket, for if the 'Ge'ritaaticU with them you "are" shot at bncei'!. climbed back Into my machine to rt"ho tune of bullets and took out a loijltyt over 300 cartridges, threw them o'ttfe ground and "then removed my compass and altimeter.' ':X "The first thing I struck was a g$Ve, unfinished, with two of the enenljn it. I eased myself down into It, lifted up oner of the Germans and pu;e cartridges beneath" hiinV I strt5d walking back to tny machine. AsLl got near it the Boche llries stated their mltrallleurs and rifles at mejaiid the French, unaware that I was onfejif themi also opened up."v I had4o $vlfc 500 feet between the lines and itjwis no joke with all that fire concentritjd in my direction. One bullet passed fo close to my face that I rearly felt''1 the wind. I decided' that I'd "have to pfo one ot the lines, enemy or frlendbut just then l heard a macmne overneaa. I looked up and saw white puffs brfeafe- -ing out all around it. i Signaled With Handkerchief. "On the way "the i' 'fire 'got so hotI had to fairfacedown'and I didii't move for, I guess, five minutes. Ierjo being no good reason for my being shot like? a dog, I yanked out my hna kerchief and waved it at the Freach lines. a They finally got lt,f after ten toin utes'bf waving, and I saw, a Frncli officer becKoiUhg'm,e.,romrabil;'0 woods. If there ever has been a f ajjttet " 50yard sprint' i never heard of 1U I ran so fast that I rati; right into-tha officer, arid' Very nearly knocked his re- volyer out of his hand. ? I showed my ldentmcatloa car and,tfien started cursing him' for. shooting ait me. 3To had been taking pofs'n6tsJat meWt t there Hear)6logize44 saying that! )bo could , only, see my head. ' because hia ation says that, "in the. ce of pUagra I . position , wai -slightly "lower than TSTa the theory of a possible infection factor f Vt Za? -""5; r10 . 'jreyjfook gerietairandf r reprfeWmri had seen more than 300 dead Germans and only tsm Frepchmeflraadft him modlpbr that he We rae f lllnner raente4;aie for being a "good eolffle1 , i nu ti 1 ' 1i H 'i -v - - i S
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