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Avoid 'Watermelon'
By Proper Posture
By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.
SUMMER, with its outdoor pos
sibilities of exercise and activity, is
the ideal time to get fit and stay fit.
In order to make a program for the
development of the body really suc
cessful, one should begin at the
fundamentals.
Begin with posture..
Posture is defined by the Oxford
Dictionary as “an attitude of body
or of mind.”
This definition is highly praised
by Dr. Armitage Whitman in his
book, From Head to Foot (Farrar
& Rinehart, New York).
There are few diseases that might
be said to be 100 per cent material
in nature. Posture is an attitude of
body and also mind. If you stand
as if you felt well, you are more
Dr. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
likely to feel well than if you slump.
Some people naturally have a
good posture. Others naturally
•louch. The cause of bad posture is
SBual some underlying condition re
sulting in fatigue. It is not easy
then to improve posture, and it must
be done slowly by improving the
underlying condition and the men
tal attitude.
Two Views
* Two points of view on posture and
the difficulties of correction are well
explained in the column of my col
league, Mr. Damon Runyan. Mr.
Bunyan should be made a doctor for
■writing that article. He notices that
Mr. Iter Winchell advises mid- j
d*e-aged gentlemen to hide what he
calls ttke.T bay windows. Mr. Run
fan prefers to g : ve it its scientific
nave, “the '♦atoiL'cl'm.” Mr. Win
cWl says, ‘Don’t bo Hold in |
the stomach muscles oo they will
harden. Sit ull walk tall.”
Thr.t : s ail r-rj well for Mr. Win- 1
chell to say b=e*L-e he is naturally;
slende: and c ver\ S* 1 Isrme figure
of a man, with vi*ct!«*iiy no water
melon at all. B A as Mr. Runyan
points out, the idea of holding the
stomach muscles so they will harden
is quite a task and requires such
eternal vigilance that a man can
hardly think of anything else. And
th*~, i f for one moment you let go,
oit pops the watermelon.
* Time Is in Youth
The time of life to cultivate good
posture is in youth. A summer’s
care devoted to correct posture will j
go far towards promoting a general
feeling of bodily health. True, the
“Thrilled” by First Auto Ride
-> "Just like gliding” was verdict of Dorothea Swainson, of Bermuda, after
tl waking her first trip in an automobile. Dorothea, 18, and Bermuda's
*- ‘first beauty queen, was photographed spending vacation at New York’s
;. World’s Fair. The trip was prize for winning the contest.
(Central Press)
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jS Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter of the Supreme Court, and his wife,
are pictured on return to New York from Europe. While in England
fei. Justice Frankfurter received honorary degree of Doetor of Laws at Ox*
ford University. (Central Press'^
! proportion of average citizens with
good posture is negligible. But this
does not mean it is not important.
Bad posture does not kill, but it
heightens greatly the irritability
rate.
The greatest obstacle to good pos
ture was placed in our way a long
time ago, when one of our very early
ancestors decided to stand on his
hind legs. Man was never designed
to assume the upright attitude.
But since he assumed it, let us
make the best of it. The back should
be straight, the head up, “looking
for enemies.”
How to cultivate this posture?
Dr. Whitman warns against the slo
gan, “Throw your shoulders back."
Doing so gives you a still further
hollow back and pot-belly. The most
important thing posture accom
plishes is to give the abdominal
organs support and keep them from
puddling. If you tighten your ab
dominal muscles, you strengthen
and lengthen your spine, and you
look healthier and more successful,
you feel that way and are that way.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A. A.: “’7 II you please devote
a little space in your daily column
to the subject of excessive perspi
ration? I am troubled by this con
dition, especially in the feet and un
der the arms. The waist and arms
are always rolling in perspiration.
On occasion w hen excited or nervoua
the arms become instantly wet.”
Answer: This is a very annoying
condition. It affects a certain ner
vous type of individual. And noth
ing very helpful can be done about
it. The human race has been di
vided into vagatonics and sympathi
cotonics, depending upon which half
of the involuntary nervous system
predominates. The involuntary ner-
Vi-.Js system controls the glands of
perspkeiion. What the above
amounts to i*. like saying there are
s weaters and nor-sweaiers. Person
ally, I would rather he a sweater.
They are more active and alert and
aggressive anyway. I wish there
were some other reliable advice I
could give you, but really the only
thing to do is grin and bear it.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Clendening hag
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 envelop*
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 “Th«
Care of the Hair and Skin”.
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1939
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American consular agents are in
tervening in case of L. W. Holland,
of the American Methodist Episco
pal Church, at Nanchang, held by
Japanese on suspicion of “grsve
acts” against the Japanese army.
(Central Press)
F.D.R. Assistant
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James H. Rowe, Jr.
James H. Rowe, Jr., of Montana, is
the third secretary appointed by
President Roosevelt as his special
assistant in the White House. Rowe'
was formerly assistant to White
House Secretary Edwin M. Watson.
Resigns in Scandal
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L. P. Abernathy
L. P. Abernathy, chairman of the
Louisiana state highway commis
sion, resigned his post without stat
ing his reasons. The resignation,
however, followed admission he was
interested in an equipment supply
house which had done extensive
business with the state university,
affairs of which are being probed.
(Central Press)
Socialite Fined
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Justice of the Peace Ernest Du
prille, of Broomall, Pa., lectures'
John S. Harrison after he fined him!
$26 and costs following party at|
Harrison’s estate. Four other young,
socialites were arrested and fined]
for allegedly throwing stones at
passing automobiles during the
course of the party.
Next Stop, Federal Prison!
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Dr. James Monroe Smith (left), former head of Louisiana State Uni
versity, in custody of United States Deputy Marshall Burglass, leaves
Baton Rouge jail on way to the federal prison at New Orleans to await
trial. He is under indictment with four others on charges of misusing
University funds and materials.
Survives Mine Explosion
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Dennis Walker (left), one of the miners in the Duvine mine, at Provi
dence, Ky., at time of the explosion, shakes hands with his father after
emerging from the mine. Young Walker was the man who first tele
phoned the news of the disaster from down below. Twenty-eight men
lost their lives. (Central Press)
Round - the - World Grandma
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Grandmother Virginia L. Pfuderer, of Riverside, suburb of Chicago,
doesn’t believe in rocking chairs for old people. They move much too
slowly. She’s shown leaving Chicago on first leg of a round-the-world
tour by plane, which will take approximately a months
(Central Press)
She Broke the Glider Record
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Master of Soviet glider-sport V. Htshenko (left) and glider-pilot B. Z«1
enkova watch the take-off at Moscow of woman-pilot Klepikova in a flighl
that saw both Zelenkova and Klepikova break the international womenV
record. Klepikova covered mora than 460 miles.
(Central Press)
Victims of “Cat Man”
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Mr. and Mrs. Stephen “Laddie” Sanford, socialites, are the latest victims
of the “cat man” who is blamed for more than a score of robberies at
fashionable North Hills, L. I. The burglar left no prints in robbing the
Sanfords of more than $3,000 in jewels and cash as they slept.
(Central Press)
Victim of Live-Wire Blockade
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The body of a Chinese coolie, victim of electrocution, lies beside the
Japanese charged-wire blockade fencing the British concession at
Tientsin, China. (Central Press)
Discuss Arming of Latin America
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Leaders of the United States armed forces, and a representative of
4 the State Department appeared before House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee discussing administration-approved bill to authorize sale of
arms, munitions and warships to twenty-one Central and South Amer
ican republics. Left to. right: Admiral Leahy, chief of naval opera
tions; Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary of State; Rep. Sol Bloom,
chairman of the committee, and Brig. Gen. George C. Marshall, Army
chief of staff. (Central Press)
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Li rd 77,® T? #a s - 5 ua cutter, Campbell, in a sea transfer from the
T/yj^ w ’ J? 0 mil es at sea. He was a yeoman aboard the rescue
piane, V-164, which crashed, bringing death to three. The Campbell
- returned to Stapleton, S. I.