Doctor Soys Keeping Fit Is a Duly to One's Country By LOGAN CLENDENING, V. D. ONE DUTY' we rr.n >11 perform for the country ir. ihis hour of stress and responsibility is for each of US I o keep in as good physi cal shape as possible. Y'ou can't tell nowadays when you'll need Dr. Clendening will answer questions of general interest only, and then only through his column. that reserve energy to do an extra job in a hurry without warning or preparation. 1 don’t join with the scare heads that have been thrown at us. I think we are a good deal healthier than we have been told we are, but we can all do something to im prove our physical fitness. Get some exercise every day— the younger you are, the more you should get. Keep the legs and the wind in condition. Get back some strength in your arms. Y'ou may have to carry a rifle twenty miles one of these line days. We’ve been told by some people in authority that half of us Amer icans are in a state of semi-starva tion. but in my opinion most of us eat too much. Let's go at it more moderately. Get trimmed down so our hearts don’t have to carry so much extra weight. It will leave some food for our allies in other countries and at the same time improve our own state of bodily preparedness. Eat the balanced foods, with enough vita mins—milk, eggs, vegetables and some fruit once a day. Meat at least twice a week (it contains more Vitamin B than any other food). Cut Out Overindulgence Those who indulge in alcohol or tobacco would be patriotic to re duce the quota. The climate of North America is a very bad one for drinking. We are told by au thorities that we live in the most high pressure area on earth—-the area where climatic conditions conduce to the greatest amount of physical and mental activity. We also live in the area where nature has provided such bounty thai we get the greatest reward for our labor. The combination makes for a . ate of mind and body for the average man that if he starts stimulating himself ar tificially, he is ry likely to overdo it. With iicjuoi and tobacco, those of us who indulge at all can prac tically reduce our consumpt: r. by one-half for the liquor and a quar ter for the tobacco. Of course this advice muit be administered Witi. some common sense. We ere not all the same age and we haven't the same capabili ties. We can t all take the amount ol exercise that would condition a person for a tennis champion ship or a prize tight. Kach Person Different There are 140,000,000 of us nnd since the linger print pattern of each one is different, it’s a reason able assumption that the muscle fibers of our arms and legs are not all exactly the same in tone and endurance. You are a good judge of yourself. If exercise makes you feel good, take plenty of it If you’re over fifty and a little exer cise makes you feel good, take a little more. If it doesn’t make you feel good, stop it and don’t have it on your conscience. Let plenty of sleep or rest if you think you need that more than ex ercise. In this high power climate its quite possible we should imi tate our good neighbors in the tropics and U.iu* a siesta after lunch. Remember that it has been said on good authority, “The United States is the healthiest large na tion in the world.” Such a cool organization as the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company writes &uch have been the successes of modern medicine and public health in the past few decades, that the results have exceeded even the most sanguine expectation of the leaders in the field.” The leaders in the field—not the scaremongers. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS M. C. A.: “Will low blood pres sure cause severe headache and eye pain? Will it load to other serious ailments if not corrected?” Answer: I.nw blood pressure oc curs in many states of lowered general nutrition and might well be accompanied by headache and eye pain. Correction of low blood pressure depends upon the cause. It may be undernourishment, tu berculosis, diabetes, and it may he neu cast henia. I.TUTOR'S NOTF: Hr Clrndeninp: has c\pm pamphlets who h can hr obtained by i' ■ - l.a- it i•:11nj•.t1 •. . yells i< r 10 cents. 1 "?• any one pampln. : desire.!, send lu • ••t- in coin, and a o' ’.'-addressed envelope stamped with a th nv-cui stamp, to l)r. Thu pamphlet . a• e : "Thru*’* Weeks' Hr.me nu: I Met", " I ndipe ; ton and < '< u-1 i pation Rc-lin ir:;r and tlaininj:". "Infant l-'eed ' I n. t met ions for l he Treatment of leaRotes . i emit'ir c H• i-tune” anti "The i are of the H .,r ami FI.in" Lower Death Rate of Married Folks Kills an Ancient Joke By I.OCAN CLKNDENINC, M. 1). 1 HATE TO bo in on the death ( f a joke, and there is nothing that kills a good joke as quickly as the sober-sided demonstration that it is literally true. The rea son the "Why does a chicken cross the road?” joke is going to be eternally good (of course, it’s a Dr. Clendetiing will answer questions of general interest only, and then only through his column. little stale to you, but that craw! or of two on the floor is going to get u big kick out of it about four years from now) is that nobody is ever going to know whether the chicken really crosses the road to get on the other side or whether he has some ulterior mystical mo tive in his ornothological psy chology. But one joke is dead. The Met ropolitan Life Insurance Com pany, with cold, clammy logic, has proved that the old one about why married people live longer—"they don’t, it only seems longer”—is not a joke but is literally true. Among males in the essentially productive ages of life, the death late among the single or widowed is about double that among the married, according to statistics for New York State, exclusive of New York City, for the years 1020 to 1031. Kecorded Kates At the age of forty, the actual mathematically recorded rates were G per 1,000 among the mar ried and 12 per 1,000 among the single and 13 among the widowed. Ningle women and widows are a little less resistant than their married colleagues. At the age of forty, married women have a death rate of o per 1,000 as against G among single and 7 among widows. Of course, these figures are open to a certain amount of interpre tation. Widows and widowers are, by the very nature of their situa tion, older than married people and therefore the death rate is higher. The same does not, however, ap ply to the single people, but other tactors enter in. Alcoholism, for instance, particularly among males, is far more prevalent among the single and widowed than among married people. The actual figures show that l'a per 1 ent of all deaths at the ages of twenty to forty-four for the single and 1 per cent for the widowed were attributed to alcoholism, while for the married, there was only a little more than '2 of 1 per cent. Accidents More Frequent Accidents appear to happen more often to people living alone than to those who have family at tachments. Single and widowed people are more inclined to take serious risks. The death rate among widowed males between the ages of twenty and forty-four was due to accidents in 22 per cent of all deaths. This is an as j !. ;shing figure. Tuberculosis and accidents taken together account for almost one-half of the death* in this group. Suicide is also higher among the single and widowed, which would seem to indicate that the respon sibility of a family tends to strengthen the will to live even when seemingly insurmountable problems present themselves. Another group of diseases which indicate that there is some differ ence between the married and single state is influenza and pneu monia. Single and widowed male* between forty-five and seventy four have a rate of 7, while the same group among the married have a rate of C. That females do not show quite the marked differ ence might be interpreted as indi cating that the married men have someone to look after them and flutter over them and make them change from wet to dry clothes and keep them from exposure. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS M. S.: “If one is X-rayed and fluoroscoped and the appendix is not seen or does not fill with bari um. does this indicate that there is trouble in this region or that there is no trouble there?” Answer: In my opinion the X ray has no value whatever in the diagnosis of any kind of appendi citis. It was only by accident tlia* a French doctor once saw the ap pendix visualized by the X-ray. 1 think it was a great tragedy that he did see it, because it has led to condemning many normal appen dices, and to useless surgery. EDITORS NOTE: Dr. Clenclenlne has seven pamphlets which can be obtained by readers. Each pamphlet sells for 10 rent*. For any one pumphlet desired, *end It cents in coin, and a self-addressed envelope stamped with a tiircc-cent stamp, to Dr. Logan children of God ' Sci i: jv fti; t It.'- I::’. ' n - : ' j Hi: nut ' m;oldkn tkxt-.v i". ■ ;o. Veterans May Be Buried In National Cemeteries Quartermaster Corps Outlines Procedure to be Followed in Mak ing Application for Lot in Final Gathering Places. | I Atlanta, Feb. 20.— Dotted here • I and there over these United States i are park-like spots, studded with , flowers and shrubb. r. and kept bc.-util'nl by perpetual rare, where the veterans of Unde Sam's !.noting 1 forces may gather at long last. They are the national e. meteries j and any veteran ol the armed lorce; • who has been honorably discharged is entitled to burial there, Colonel ; Jtim.s R. Alfonte. fourth corp> are quartermasR r, announce d t >day. With this announcement \v;u an outline of the procedure* to be taken by the relatives or friends of the d ceased veteran to gain permis sion for his burial in the-a ceme teries Uncle Sam fjrovici.es :or hi soldiers, sailors and marines. To g in such permis.-ion. the 'amily must take the e sup rintendent of the cmetery ' which burial is desired. Comple tion of rrangemsnts is then the re snonsibility of the manager of the facility and the superintendent of be cemetery. The manager will ad i.se the superintendent when th? .body win' strive 'tine! whether the deceased is white or colored. Tin Veterans’ Administration has con tract/ with mutt rtakei in each city where a nat. mal cemetery is locat-■ d. If touching up st»rv.ce is neces v'orv. thi-- i ' furnished in addition to the hear e and pa!! hean r.s. The contract my undertaker bills the Vote, am Administrate-n. ordering t*:" '■e. '. .' Expenses for clothing, casket, shipping box and transpor tation to the nearest national ceme tery is paid by tin* Veterans’ Ad ministration. II it is dew red that the body be shipped din ctly from the place ol the nat rial en tery, ar range na-s t will be made by the iper.mtcndent ! -r rvices at the cemeler •. such request is made o! ti. ti ie the superintendent 1 lirst eont. ted. H w res of the family such as s'-hgious rites, will be grant-i ed ins >!a r as j ossible. Local Band To State Contests The H :u 1 < : - . high -chool band i v.g 1 to He' .eh on March 27 to compete ,n G. trict elimin- ,tion j < ist- ■!' tin- state music contacts i ;ad vs.11 go to Greensboro in late; April to the state contests if qnali- | lad at Raleigh, members of the I • tid Hiioste: - club were told last j night at a meeting at the high school. 1’r- 1 'll :: of tree, • portal :..n of the I band have been intensified by the sat: ming program, it was point ed oat. net it uas decided that . the Gioin-b so trip mater uh/-. s the . bard members rho .id go i \ bus. with t lull playt .' paying his .. ex-j pi uses, but that the Raleigh trip wall i, ■ ule by private cars, with t ieh i.-and member paying a share of the expenses of the trip. Mrs .VI. V,’. [ Wet o'a named chairman of a I i<’ii•!.111(.’(■ to ;»»Tarigo to;- cars i*»• :* < :!n Raleigh trip Bandmaster W T. Hearne an nounced plans for a number of pub lic concerts to be played by the band during tii. spring and early summer and -aid th t a; hast one concert will be played prior to the Raleigh musie contests Present plans are that both the high school band and the junior band \\;!1 appear in the first concert of the scries. It was repor'.ed that the benefit | football game after the close of the 'Cason !:.-1 vear netted SSiH 05 for I ’.!:<* club tr usury. Mrs Ralph Thompson, presid- nt ! of the Band Boosters club, presid' d at the meeting. LOCAL MUSICIANS TO PLAY CONCERT FOR FORT BRAGG The all-eastern North Carolina t high school band w:!l play concerts I at Fort Bragg tumor:ow and Sunday I and the locaT high school band hr.-- 1 been invited to send eight musicians to the play with the group, it was . nnuunced today by VV. T. 11 ante, bandmaster. The members who will make tip the group going to the Army camp I are still undetermined, Mr. Ilearne . said. The band was invited to play at Fort Bragg wh. n it appeared recently at Greenville, when a group from tin- Henderson high school band took part in the Greenville band clinic. Special Service. There will be .1 -pedal service at die colored Holiness church Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. A program will be rendered by the New Bethnl Spiritual chorus, and the public is cordially invited. GR ANTED LICENSE. Joseph Woodrow Soup.on. 21, and Shirley L. Wortham. iO. secured the! only marriage paper issued Thurs day the Vance Registry office.! ( o - d ore howed today SWIMMERS MEET IVo aw. E,.t>. :>U — Back horn.’I ■u« tv o-.t;," -u through V r iiiu. Duke'.- \.c-■■■ ' swimming t rm repares to met t William and Marv n tbr- Duke pod tomorrow aft'-rnoon it 3:30 o’clock. REV. MR. GARDNER AT DANVILLE FUNERAL Rev. E. Norfleet Gardner, pastor tin First Baptist church ut Hen derson. went to Danville, Va., today ' » attend the luncral M Wade Pierce, husband of his half-sister, who died Thursday at his home there. Fun eral services were held today. Mr. Gardner was returning home from Dallas. Texas, when he re ceived the message of Mr. Pierce’. death. He had been to the annual meeting in Dallas of the Relief and Annuity Board of the Southern Bap tist Convention, of which he d a member representing North (da »ilina. Proposed Civilian Defense Reorganiza tion Pigeon-Holed (Continued trom Page One) from Statu Coil ge and the Depart ment ot (' iw-ci vat ion and Develop ment. Many months later, when wai finally an ved. Johnson told a meet ing he: ■ t.nat only about half the counti1 - had been organized. In most of them. a.'.rough the director did not -ay the organization had not ace 'ipiished anything. S "o the declaration o! wai .iohii m and his assistants have real ly • mid. But their efforts, ac cord,ng to criticism reaching Raleigh from .11 over state, have not been . ery effective. There has be- n a lot of r.mn.ng around in circles, dupli cation- of effort, misunderstanding of what is to be done and who is to do it. Johnson has been under fire. He has been accused publicly and pri vately of bring ineffective. Some of that criticism emanated from mem bers cl hi- own council Some from lie peopl working under him. That is the orl of organization It has been. But Johnson does have a good de fense. Much of the general confusion, much of the ineffectual running ir circus, is due to the confusion and 'an-dancing activities of Iht office civilian defense in Washington, rgiie his defenders. Moreover, the ‘ire and oilier rationing jobs drop p'd m iiis lap made ii impossible foi him i i give enough time to the res! of the job, they say. The go. c. nor lias listened to bntli sides t ;t Some of the governor'. own sen ark- indicated that he might relieve Johnson of till duties except that concerning rationing, rhem was an intimation that lie might be called buck to State Col lege and tla whole job turned over m somebody else—or several other pe >ple 1) it apparently the governor has changed his mind about that— if. indeed, h” tiad over made it up. Tile business of salvaging waste paper, scrap metal, old rubber and rags has been taken away from John son's office foi the most?'part. The federal gove. nu.erit has set up its own salvage .nice, which works v. itfl Johnson not under hen M ireover, it : ;u t? possible that ati cling will be !.ilicii over by fed • ra! offices, also. The otliee of price idmmistration intends to set up a Month Carolina otlice It may d t!:c local job 11sell. So it ingins :• look as if the state defense council will have Rss to do and that its director will be left in charge of its acth ity. .'rune uceKs ago me governor went tu the American Legion to get a man wini would serv. as Johnson's "ex ecutive assistant". The belie! was that in time h • would take full charge of the straight Release and protective activities ot the office. I Tite governor offered the job to j Bill Jiiyisr and to Commander Mc Millan. Both turned it down. McMtl- | lan did so on the insistence ot some ot tile Legion leaders. The governor ] then countered with requests lor a list of abl 1 Legionnaires from whom he might pick a mat. who could do the job. McMillan furnished one list and a Legion eommitt.e atiothe. One man recommended was Andrew Joy ner of Greensboro. The jog was ot tered to him but he turned it down. It is understood that another man also received the offer and declined it. Tli governor became irked and made that it hdr shrdlu shrdl shrcll said that he would look elsewhere. Among the men the Legion sug gesttd to Governor Broughton, in addition to Andrew Joyner, were Bob Hanes oi Winston-Salem who is pretty well taken with iiis defense contract work, Thurman Chatham of Winston-Salem who since has been accept d by the Navy, Bill Duncan of R Heigh. Burgin Pennell of Ashe ville, John Stedman of Lumberton, | C!a tde Ramsty of Raleigh, Pat Tay- ! 'or of Wadcsboro, and Bill Umstead [ t Durham. It is obvious that the mn- | iority of these man would not take i place as assistant to ^ohMfjtt^Tbcy ! might be willing to Tun TO oTnce j Jesus Appoints and Teaches the Twelve "BRASS TACKS” ON THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON £he (5oldett Jesus appoints the twelve. "Even so let your light shine before men: that they mi\ see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.”—Matt. 5:1ft. By M YVM AN C AMPBELL (The International Uniform Les son on the above topic lor Feb. 22 is Mark 3:13-19: Matt. 5-7: Luke 6:12-49, the Gulden Text being Matt. 5:16. “Even so let your light shine before men: that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.") After healing multitudes, Jesus went to a mountain alone and com muned with His Father all night, j When morning came His disciple- : .•amt* to Him and He chose 12 of! diem to be constantly with Him. and ! to do Hi.- wi :■ k alter Him. He eho.-t j Simon, wh mi He surnamed Peter, md James, son <•; Zebedee. and j John, his brother; Andrew and Philip. Bartholomew, .md Matthew, Thomas and .James, .-on of Alphaeus, TTuddeiis and Simon the Caananite; md Judas Iscariot, who was His be trayer. ‘The multitudes followed Him there d>n. and seeing them Jesus went up • nti a mountain and taught, saying: "Ble.-ed are the poor m spirit; tor .heir.- is the kingdom oi heaven. "Blemed are they that mourn; 1m | diey shall be combated. "Bie.'-ed are the meek; lor they -hall inherit tin* earth. "Blessed are they which do hun ger and thirst after righteousness; or they shall be filled. "Blessed are the merciful; tor they shall obtain mercy. "Bles ed are the pure in heart; tor hey shall see God. but would hardly br willing to take the blame if they weiv not given the authority. Th. governor says ti.it !;.■ - play ing no pi >1 it ics v. :1 - evei m tin ! matter of civ ilian de.'ciisc So do tfu Ltgionna.rei It . inli .1 t :i.; to ::ut> nuwev or, thiit m : 1 tr.e mm recotumtnded by the vet, ran* were not To ■ ugh;,01 men J . u. 'tie last gubernatorial jOiina: v IVuw i was Maxwill'- a .a. .gi ■ i ):ii 10.1 He publicum Grahu ; , Hr ; .-ml pro bably Ciiathai we e : »r H o tun. Maxwell or Gravel;. S,• were Kum sey, Taylor and T st 1 One of the things the Legionn ire want is to get new il tense chair men in many 0: the counties Tin y harp on the allegation that tin . . oeacc-time appo:nt:nen!s were 11 >. 1..r | ennf rred f n- political reasons. ’ If the governor had g.me ahead with his original plan and put a top-flight man on the job. he un doubt.dl.v would have given him ■■msiderable authority But n all j probability he would have endeav or- j ed to keep the tmal say-so ,m im portant matters ili s own h nd~ He has tt under Johnson and he wo ;!d have had : und r McMillan and Joyner. But he might not get along so well with some of the others. His desire to keep the reins is understandable. So is the view-I point of some of htose w ho are afraid that polities already has played .. much part in d tense organizations and market continue to do so. The trouble is that nobody has ever got around to the point of putting per sonal prejudices, personal power, personal politics, personal publicity, personal credit and personal blame aside und centering their attention on the importance of the job that is yet to be done. “I've somewhat changed my no lions,” 3 id the governor, wh:n a ;kec ihout ih appointment which now may never be made “I’rri goieg to let a good, firs'-elass office -tiapager That’s the chief need~no’w.“ '• Blessed are the peace makers: for thev • hall be c;.i'ed the children of God. "Ble> id are they which are per secuted for righteousness sake; for theirs is ihe kinge -m of heaven."' Blest Are Happy. To be blessed is to be happy, to be prosperous, not ui the worldly sense, hut m the : ... sen-e. Noth ing : more ala lying than to feel blest. The poor ii -p r,t.' not weak spirited, lacking in proper spirit, out those who sro needy, shall gain the kingdom ol hear en. These who mourn shall i e comforted: the meek and lowly hall be the one- to inherit the earth: they who are hungry tor the righ: hail fie filled Tile merci ful -hall . o'; n m.ei cy lor themsel pure ii heart .-hall lia\ e seeing Cl".!: ,:nd tin- peace make .-hall la called the children of G...1 Ti.'m Ah.*- -uilei fi»r the •• ake . 1 : . ..n . t ti.e king dua ol heaven. All :: ■' a_i. "U: !c ,n t. h day we arc t. isi \.i : c,mduct ana though: uld e, whatever the circum.-tan. e- . nr lives. To be truly ''ho :.' * o; hi not mere ly obey ■ • 1 down by Moses for the gu i.itice I:,'- pc .pie. as the Phsi isc. i s' ■ y the good impulse- ol o 1 caits no matter what happen t. a Thu what Je sus taught His ap tie anti the mul titudes who came ' . ■: - to Him. Not to de.stniy ! • i Jesus said He came into the v..•• but to give finer, inner laws \.l.:c!u if obeyed, would save tin . ever It is bo easy task He rt .. '. ..y to follow Ilin K en th, i -t Chri - tians Hu i • h. rd '. ■ cat t.ney et p ol: t.;. .ii.’.. Tl'.e 1 • siah . ■ .'- ,-h uld not ■.ill, but Jest, sa. i ’C\ er c. en angry ' t ’ • ut cause, sb; h a a - r ■ judgment. Don't to c; m at ex pecting to be y ■ ., grudge again.-: iriepil. First go and ' y iur brother, and ' git you bring to the :• ' ! uie. 1,0’.. ■ A new Y, h i. heard it ■ the neighbor at i y Bi t nil : e' • g to the ■ ■ : pi ay ■■■■t thi :■ • y • ar.'t PCr.-c< '> .'"t: Ft i t ; ' etwe wo kn • Hi: • I. i ■ pY usually .tn.t.ng the.:’. . .. , . ’ ,uter land a t t do w hat v :: u in. kn .ugly . we are 1 1 ; <• v i r.c their ange: and : 1 .! ■.. be friends In tin• ri. k.ermm, Je t, • taught Ha- d. -e |i . - i. >\\ fe pray, :u Cording t > l\!;.tthev . He gave the::: what We call thi L * d- prayer, and warned th- it imt f., pray 1-ke t-.« hypocrites, -landing :i public place• so that everyone e.'itld hear then and think how religious they were, but pray to Cmd the Fafh.er in sec: t r “Lay not up for yourselves tier. - lire, upon t > th, win. re moth mb rust doth e.erupt and til'eves broil : through and steel i’.irt lay tin f-.r yourselves, treasures in lumen for where vour treasure is, there vill your heart be also" "Judge not, that ye be n>.‘. iudged.” is annth* r admonition e! the Savior which is difficult for us to remember and to practice. "GIVF I S THIS I)AY Ol'R DAILY BRKAD" (Mat. G:11 > “YOUR” Daily Devotional Program 7:15 a. tn. WPTF. Raleigh. N. • . |