PAGE TWO
Second Half
For Softball
Begins Today
The second half of the city soft
ball circuit begins today with Bank
ers meeting Kiwanis at the high
school lot.
Tomorrow’s contests find Gro-
Swift meeting Purol, and Christians
meeting Rose.
The first half winner has not
been decided, Rose having to play
the Christians t<* decide the winner
of the first half bunting.
All teams have been strengthened
for the second half race, and tougher
contests are expected during the re
mainder of the season.
Games will be played at the high
school lot and on Red Taylor’s dia
mond at the Hill Top Service sta
tion on the Raleigh Road.
Warner, Card
Win At Golf
Rodney Warner and Tommy Card,
of Raleigh, defeated Chuck Alexan
der and Bill Cozart, of Durham, on
the West End Country Club links
yesterday afternoon before a fair size
gallery one-up on the 20th-hole of
their 18-hole exhibition match.
Those who followed any part of
the match saw the golfers lacing
long drives down the fairways, and
approaching the greens with the
touch of master golfers.
The match was interesting from
the first hole to the final.
Warrenton To
Play West End
Warrenton will come nere Wed
nesday for an inter-city golf match
Syith West End linksmen, and th6
local golfers expect to take the
visitors, and avenge a defeat at the
hands of the Warrenton Club last
Wednesday.
Inter-city play has been one of the
features for golfers during the past
few months, and a schedule for other
games is expected to be drawn up.
• Indications now point to some kind
of activity at the club for golfers on
July 4, definite plans, however, have
not been worked out.
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.1 PIEDMONT LEAGUE
-* Asheville, 5; Durham, 4.
"• Norfolk, 7; Rocky Mount, 2.
" Portsmouth. 4; Winston-Salem, 2.
* Charlotte, 17; Richmond, 16.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit, 6; Washington, 5.
St. Louis, 7-2; New York, 3-11.
Cleveland, 8-2; Philadelphia, 4-10.
Chicago-Boston, rain.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York. 3; Cincinnati, 2.
w: Brooklyn, 6; Pittsburgh, 5.
Chicago, 4; Philadelphia, 3.
Boston, 8-2; St. Louis 5-0.
iStafidthfts
SOFTBALL STANDINGS
(City League)
Club W. L. Pet.
‘'Rose 12 3 .800
Gro-Swift 12 4 .750
Bankers 12 4 .750
Purol Pep 6 10 .375
Christians 2 13 .133
Kiwhnis 1 15 .063
PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Team W. L. Pet.
Asheville 41 24 ,631
Portsmouth 36 32 .529
Rocky Mount 34 31 .523
Charlotte 33 30 .524
Durham 31 32 .492
Richmond 30 32 .484
Norfolk 28 35 .444
Winston-Salem .... 24 41 .369
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Team; W. L. Pet.
New York 46 12 ,793
Boston 31 23 .574
Cleveland 32 28 .533
Detroit 32 29 .525
.Chicago 29 28 .509
Philadelphia 24 35 .407
Washington 24 38 .387
St. Louis 17 42 .288
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Team W. L, Pet.
Cincinnati 37 22 .627
St. Louis 32 25 .561
New York 33 27 .550
Chicago 32 29 .525
Brooklyn 28 29 .491
Pittsburgh 27 30 .474
Boston 24 34 .414
Philadelphia 19 36 .346
Carole Lombard In “Made for Each
Other”—Stevenson Today and Tues-
Rockies Whip
Epsom Team
TRI-COUNTY LEAGUE
W. L. Pet.
Louisburg 11 3 .786
Pilot. 9 4 .692
Epsom 6 7 .462
Pine Ridge 6 8 .429
Greystone 4 7 .364
Warrenton 3 10 .231
Pilot, June 26—Pilot bunched
three hits for two runs in the 11th
inning and turned back Pine Ridge
6-4, here Saturday in a Tri-County
league contest.
Pine Ridge tied the score at 2-all
in the seventh on Bill Bullock’s
homer, which brought in Bill Shel
ton, who had singled.
Buck Cone, first up in the 11th for
Pilot, slammed u long homer past
the leftfielder to the woods border
ing the field. Bill Hoyle got on
first via an error and came home
on Aubrey Bullock’s double.
Score by inning: R
Pine Ridge 001 100 200 00—4
Pilot 400 000 00D 02—6
Parrish and Kemp; Green and
Benton.
LOUISBURG WINS 10-8
Louisburg, June 26.—Louisburg
aimed back Warrenton, 10-8, here
Saturday in a 21-hit slugfest. Louis
burg cv.l_v.w-J 13 hits.
John Cameron, Louisburg College
coach, led the Louisburg attack, with
a double and a single son three tries.
Harold Troutman, Trojan athlete,
was next best, with a double and a
;ingle for four.
Leaders in Warrenton’s attack
were Outfielders Evans and Lewis,
with two singles for four apiece.
Score by innings: R
Warrenton 000 710 000— 8
Louisburg 600 031 0(Tx—10
V. Lloyd and Mayfield; Wheeless,
Troutman and C. Doak.
EPSOM LOSES, 4-3
Epsom, June 26.—Greystone
bunched its hits for three runs in the
sixth inning and a singleton in the
seventh in edging a 4-3 victory over
Epsom here. Each team connected
for 10 bits.
Leaders in Greystone’s attackjwere
Reynolds, Winstead and Feimster,
with two hits for five tries apiece.
Bing Miller led Epsom, with two
singles and a homer for five tries.
Score by innings: R
Greystone 000 003 100—4
Epsom 200 010 000 —3
Feimster and Robertson; I. Byrd
and Poole.
Toda^G^mes
CITY LEAGUE
Bankers vs Kiwanis (HS).
(Games Tomorrow)
Gro-Swift vs Purol (HT).
Christians vs Rose (HS).
PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Durham at Richmond.
Norfolk at Asheville.
Rocky Mount at Portsmouth.
Winston-Salem c.t CL'.rrlotte.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston at Washington.
Detroit at Cleveland.
New York at Philadelphia (night).
No other games scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
No games scheduled.
Scientist claims some species of
moths never drink. How come, then,
they lead such a butterfly existence?
SO-Animals Keep
Healthy-WHAT ?
By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.
WITH v GRE AT regularity human
beings'are asked to go and observe
the bee, or the cat, or the dog, or the
> r lion, or the leopard; the idea being
that animals, especially wild ani
mals, keep (hemselves very healthy,
and that l.uman beings have no
good habits or instincts in this di
rection and could profit by following
the example, .of our brute friends.
Animals, we hear, are very fas
tidious. The instinct for cleanliness
is deeply rooted. Observing the toi
let of the cat, we are supposed to
learn a great lesson. Ducks, I un
derstand, devote a considerable
portion of each day to the care of
their plumage, dealing painstak
ingly with each individual feather.
Hawks and eagles keep their bills
Dr. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
and talons scrupulously clean.
Cattle frequently lick each other’s
coats.
They are also fastidious about
their food. There is a popular be
lief, so my zoological friends tell
me, that animals will eat anything,
but this is not true. Mares will not
feed on plants that have been soiled
by rabbits. Most birds and animals,
and even insects, will eat nothing
but what they have just killed.
Long ago the Egyptians made a
rule to avoid water from which the
sacred ibis would not drink. Cuckoos
invariably press out the contents
from the food canals of caterpillars
before they eat them. Even a sea
gull washes a fish before he
swallows it.
I am perfectly willing to believe
all these stories, but I fail to see
that they have any particular les-
SO 2 1° also » invariably wash
a fish before I swallow it. The sea
gull is not ahead of me in that re
spect. Furthermore, most animals
die at an age which would be dis
graceful for a human being. All the
animals mentioned in this article
usually die at the age of what woul4
HENDERSON; (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1939
Cotton Mixed
At The Close
New York, June 26.—(AP) —Cot-
ton futures opened eight to twelve
points lower under hedge and spot
house selling and foreign liquidation.
July W3S cjjff nine at 9.38 and Oc
tober was down eleven at 8.66 at
the end of the first hour of trading.
Around midday, the list was off
live to seven points.
Futures closed five points higher
to two lower. Spot, nominal; mid
dling, 9.91.
Open Close
July 9 37 9.51
October 9-65 8.75
December 8.44 8.56
January 8.34 8.45
March 8.35 8.37
May 8.20 8.30
Losses Mark
Stock Prices
New York, June 26. —(AP) —The
stock market suffered a few mild
selling spasms today, with fresh in
ternational irritation receiving the
principal blame. The list tripped
up at the start on light selling.
Volume picked up for brief periods
after midday, then dwindled to a
trickle. Losses running to two or
more points for leaders at the worst
were reduced in many cases at the
finish. Transfers for the five hours
approximated 500,000 shares
American Radiator 12
American Telephone 160
American Tob B 83 1-4
Anaconda 23 1-4
Atlantic Coast Line 17
Atlantic Refining 20 1-2
Bendix Aviation 22 3-8
Bethlehem Steel 54 1-4
Chrysler 68 5-8
Columbia Gas & Elec Co .. 5 7-8
Commercial Solvents 9 3-4
Consolidated Oil 7 1-2
Curtiss Wright 5
DuPont 149 1-2
Electric Pow & Light 7 1-8
General Electric 33 1-2
General Motors 43 1-2
Liggett & Myers B 107 1-4
Montgomery Ward & Co .. 49 7-8
Reynolds Tob B 39 1-8
Southern Railway 14 1-8
Standard Oil N J 42 1-4
U S Steel 45 7-8
Congress to Tighten
Up on Spies
(Continued From Page One)
ocrat, Ai'izona, announced the ap
pointment of a judiciary sub-commit
tee to conduct hearings on it.
The House Judiciary Committee is
considering a bill penalizing attempt
to interfere with military disciplijlfi.
It would provide for the licensing' of
civilian militai’y organizations and
the fingei-printing of aliens.
Two other measures of this nature
are pending before the Senate Mili
tary forces, and the other would pro
hibit military drill by individuals
wearing uniforms or insignia re
sembling those of foreign govern
ments.
An American type fish has been
found in Asia. Poor fellow—bet it
was shot as a spy.
—
The Japanese army has penetrat
ed so far into China that the mikado,
according to the man at the next
desk, is contemplating sending out
searching parties.
correspond to about 10 years old in
the lifetime of a human being.
Primitive Man
Another example that is often
held up to us by health faddists and
food faddists is primitive man. The
idea is that of a strong, wild brute.
As a matter of fact, primitive man
was completely pathological; he was
almost a pathological museum, if we
can interpret properly such remains
as can be examined. He had tooth
disease, bone disease, foot disease,
eye disease; in fact, he led a per
fectly miserable existence from the
date of his birth to the date of his
death.
If we could bring back intact a
Neanderthaler (not just his skele
ton, which is all that we see of him
nowadays), even the celebrated Mr.
Steinbeck, whose novel “The Grapes
of Wrath” is upsetting the sensibili
ties of ail my friends, could not ade
quately describe what an awful
physical condition he would be in.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
W. O.: “I have uric acid in my
system. Kindly advise me what par
ticular diet to observe. I am 00
years of age and overweight.”
Answer—How do you know you
have uric acid in your system?
Everybody has uric acid in his sys
tem. The normal amount of urie
acid is two milligrams per 1,000 ce '
of blood. If it rises above five milli
grams you have an excessive uric
acid. This can be very accurately
determined. I do not believe from
your letter that you know whether
you have too much uric acid in your
system or not. The ordinary diet
for uric acid is to abstain from putin
foods liver, kidney, sweetbreads
and red meats.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Clndminc has
■even pamphlets which can be obtained by
readers. Each pamphlet sells for 10 cents. *
for any one pamphlet desired, send 10
cents m coin, and a self-addressed envelope
stamped with a tbree-cent stamp, to Dr
Losran Clendehing. in care of this paper,
The pamphlets are: “Three Weeks' Redue
!"? Diet". “Indigestion and CotSupK^
• R ?? u , c ,l ne and Gaining*?, “Infant Feed
!".* • Instructions for the Treatment of
-sasrdtSafa-gssr'’
When Thyroid Gland
Secretion Diminishes
By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.
A WOMAN reader writes me that
she is much too heavy for her own
good and energy. She eats in spurts
for a week or
lid
Dr. Clendening
two, and dur
ing that time
shei says she
can’t seem to
get enough, to
eat. Then for
another week
she doesn’t feel
like eating.
She notices
also thqt she
oversleeps. “I
h av e tw o
alarm clocks
which I never hear. I am constantly
late for appointments. Unless some
one awakens me violently by shak
ing me, I sleep 12 or 14 hours.”
Her third complaint is that her
skin is dry and itches, for which she
can find no remedy. “I went to a
doctor but he didn’t do me any good.”
Condition .Plain
As I said in answer to this corre
spondent, I never fepl that it is sat
isfactory to try to make a diagnosis
Dr. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
by mail or to prescribe treatment
through correspondence, but in this
case it seems to me the condition is
so plain that a diagnosis may be
ventured. * The symptoms plainly
point to a deficiency in the secre
tion of the thyroid gland. In fact, it
seems to be a full-fledged case of
myxoedema. There are thousands
of such cases going around, and
many—too many—of them consult
doctors without obtaining a satis
factory opinion.
The condition seems to occur more
often in women than in men—4 to 1.
It comes on in middle life with an
increase in weight and, particularly,
a thickness of the skin. To illustrate
Effect of Smoking
on Health Debatable
By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.
I WAS stopped in reading Wil
liam Lyon Phelps’ “Autobiography”
the other day when he recorded the
saying of G. K. Chesterton concern
ing the American attitude towards
smoking, 1 quote: “I remember
once receiving two American inter
viewers on the same afternoon;
there tvas a box of cigars in front
of me and I offered one to each in
turn. Their reaction was very cu
rious to watch.. The first stiffened
suddenly and declined in a very cold
voice. The second first looked doubt
ful, then sly, and said, ‘Well, Mr.
Chesterton, I am afraid I have the
habit.* As I alsp have the habit and
Dr. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
never have been able to imagine how
it could be connected with morality
or immorality, I confess that I
plunged in with him deeply.”
I don’t know where he found a
journalist in this country who be
lieved smoking was immoral, but as
regularly as I write on the subject I
get letters from school teachers who
believe that, and I am glad to be able
to record the opinion pf so great and
good a man as Chestzrton to the
contrary.
Absurd Reasoning
I have actually had letters from
Americafi schoolmasters to the ef
fect that they observed the students
who smoked cigarettes were the
ones who frequented pool halls and
cultivated low company. Such a
cause and effect seems to me entirely
absurd. <*
On the physical side, the effect of
unoking is still debatable. If any
thing, there has been more evidence
of the harmfulness of smoking late
ly than the harmlessness. Dr. Ray
mond Pearl, of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, a man notoriously lenient
■with human habits, reported some
tables in March, 1938, that conclu
Called Modem Inquisition by Franco Government
In the beautiful villa (left) in Barcelona, according to testimony of
thirty witnesses, were located tiny, misshapen, crazily-decorated torture
cells, allegedly used by Spanish Republican officials for purpose of gain
ing information from captured insurgents. In one room (second from
the sleepiness, one case I saw oc
curred in a night watchman. He
claimed he had been discharged be
cause his employer had lost all his
money. As I happened to know that
his employer was particularly pros
perous, I suspected that perhaps
sleeping on the job was the cause of
his discharge, and on telephoning
the employer found that my surmise
was correct.
Get Metabolism Test
What my correspondent should do
is to go to a doctor and ask for a
basal metabolism test. This test is
simple to make and any city in the
United States is in close touch with
a laboratory which can give the test.
It is painless and harmless.
It consists in measuring the
amount of oxygen which the patient
consumes. Any animal of given
weight and given body surface con
sumes a definite amount of oxygen
at rest in a definite period of time,
if bodily conditions are normal. The
most important oi-gan in disturbing
oxygen intake is the thyroid gland.
If it begins to increase its secretion,
the oxygen consumption goes up. If
it begins to decrease its secretion,
the oxygen consumption goes down.
And it does so in proportion to the
extent of the lack or increase of the
secretion.
This last fact gives the physician
a most valuable guide in the direc
tion of treatment. The treatment of
lack of thyroid secretion is naturally
to supply it artificially with the ad
ministration of thyroid extract. But
the patient should never attempt to
do this for himself. The doctor, after
the proper examination, can give the
proper dosage.
EDITOR’S NOTE : Dr. Clendening has
seven pamphlets which can be obtained by
readers. Each pamphlet sells for 10 cents.
For any one pamphlet desired, send 10
cents in coin, and a self-addressed envelope
stamped with a three-cent stamp, to Dr.
Logan Clendening, in care of this paper.
The pamphlets are: “Three Weeks’ Reduc
ing Diet”, “Indigestion and Constipation”,
“Reducing and Gaining”, “Infant Feed
ing”, "Instructions for the Treatment of
Diabetes”, “Feminine Hygiene” and “The
Care of the Hair and Skin”.
sively prove that the less you smoke
the longer you live.
Charles Ricket, winner of a Nobel
Prize, and in physiology, too, said:
“I have fettered myself with this
habit with no better excuse than
universal folly. I injure my appe
tite, my memory, my sleep and the
action of my heart by breathing
noxious vapors.”
Whether all of this is true, I se
riously doubt. A recent study pub
lished in the Journal of the Ameri
can Medical Association indicated
that tobacco had no bad effect on the
alimentary tract; that digestion
went on at the same speed and with
the same efficiency with tobacco as
without it.
Can’t Believe It
So with sleeping; I hardly believe
tobacco keeps people awake. In the
many physiological experiments that
have been made on sleep in the last
few years, every experimenter
agrees that the use or omission of a
cigarette or cigar before bedtime
has no effect on the quality of sleep.
The criterion of how much harm
tobacco does is the number of peo
ple who use it. The habit is so uni
versal that if it did all the harm
claimed for it, we would be a hag
gard, weary, pallid, dying race. And
in spite of claims to the contrary,
we are not.
Carlisle perhaps put it best. “I
was miserable with it, and miser
able without,” he said. “I’d rather
be miserable with it.”
If you would like to give the habit
up, however, according to'Dr. J. C.
Furnas in his little book, So You're
Going to Stop Smoking (Simon &
Schuster), it is very easy. 9
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Clendening has
seven pamphlets which can be obtained by
readers. Each pamphlet sells for 10 cents.
For any one pamphlet desired, send 10
cents in coin, and a self-addressed envelope
stamped with a three-cent stamp, to Dr.
Logan Clendening, in care of this paper.
The pamphlets are: “Three Weeks’ Reduc
ing Diet”, “Indigestion and Constipation”,
“Reducing and Gaining”, “Infant Feed
ing”, “Instructions for the Treatment of
Diabetes”, “Feminine Hygiene” and “The
Care of the Hair and Skin”.
"Ages" in "Life"
Os Tuberculosis
By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.
AT DIFFERENT periods of the
life span there are striking differ
ences in the nature of tuberculosis,
both as to the symptoms and the
outlook for life, and also to the
danger to other human beings who
might come into contact with the
person who has the .disease.
Tuberculosis, according to mod
ern ideas, lasts a lifetime, is almost
always acquired in infancy and is
entirely different in infancy than it
is in adult life. In infancy it is lo
cated mostly in the lymphatic nodes
« Dr. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
nis column.
of the body and not until maturity
does it involve the lungs. Tubercu
losis of the bones is almost entirely
a disease of infancy and childhood.
Infected at Home
Since infants cannot move about
to court infection, they are ordina
rily infected at home, and are ex
posed to heavy and continued infec
tion or none at all. In other words,
infants get tuberculosis from some
member of the household —parent,
grandparent, brother or sister.
Food and nutrition play an impor
tant part in the outlook of infantile
tuberculosis. In other words, of two
infants, both of which are exposed
to infection, the one who lives in a
household where there is an abun
dance of good food is more liable to
overcome the infection.
From the second to the fifth year
of life children develop a consider
able immunity to tuberculosis; few
cases of active clinical tuberculosis
can be detected at this period. Be
tween five years of age and puberty
the child can move about more and
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Senior Girl Scouts Virginia Brittingham (left) of Wilmington, Del., and
Patricia Townley (right) of Abilene, Kans., are two of the five American
girls selected to represent the U. S. at an international encampment in
Switzerland. Both girls, 18, are recipients of the annual Juliette Gordon
i/ow memorial fund awards.
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left), cubistic patterns would seem to change before the prisoner’s eyes,
sometimes driving him insane. The cells were designed to keep a prisoner'
in a crouch, as shown (second from right). In the small cells (right)
prisoners were strapped down while a light was focussed into their eyes.
may be exposed to pri nary infection
or to reinfection. Tn this period of
life, however, childi en are most pro
tected against the vicissitudes of
life, and are sparedlhe stresses and
debilitating influences of later life.
After adolescence, that is, after
the age of 15, the death rate from
tuberculosis rises very sharply. This
is the most dangerous age so far as
the individual’s fate is concerned.
In adult life, that is, after the mid
dle twenties, the individual who has
acquired tuberculosis has usually
also acquired immunity, and the
death rate is comparatively low. In
old age, after the age of CO, the
death rate again rises. It is sur
prising, however, that people who
had tuberculosis all their lives can
go on to the age of 70 or 75, cough
ing and expectorating tubercle ba
cilli, infecting their grandchildren,
without any suspicion of what is the
matter with them.
I remember seeing an entire fair,,
ily of five children with tuberculosis.
Nobody could explain how they got
it, because they were of an economic
status that allowed of plenty of good
food, airy sleeping quarters and
other hygienic protection. Finally
somebody called attention to grand
pa’s bronchitis. It had been hang
ing on a long time. Grandpa was 7S
years old and his sputum was loaded
with tubercle bacilli. The children
used to sleep in grandpa’s lap in the
late afternoons, when mother and
father were calling on the neighbors.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Clendening has
seven pamphlets which can be obtained by
readers. Each pamphlet sells for 10 cents.
For any one pamphlet desired, send-10
cents in coin, and a self-addressed envelope
stamped with a three-cent stamp, to Dr.
Logan Clendening, in care of this paper.
The pamphlets are: “Three Weeks’ Redact
ing Diet”, “Indigestion and Constipation",
“Reducing and Gaining”, “Infant Feed,
ing”, “Instructions for the Treatment of
Diabetes”, “Feminine Hygiene” and "Tht
Care of the Hair and Skin”.
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