Newspapers / Polk County News and … / Aug. 26, 1921, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of Polk County News and The Tryon Bee (Tryon, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
g? Helps 7 leart ":Batierits Medical Director Telfs How. Car diac Convalescents Thrive on Exercise. MENTAL EFFECT IS GOODOO ; - : : ,:.;. r Treatment in Force Two Years With -Uniformly Beneficial Results Most Joyous of Play Exercises Phy- sically and Socially Stimulant. Nett ..York. Dancing as part of the regulai treatment of those convalesc ing from heart disease was prescribed two years ago by Dr. Frederic Brush, medical director of the Burke Founda tion, the great institution for the -care and treatment of convalescents at White Plains, to which many patients from New York city hospitals and other Institutions are sent. The re sults 'of this treatment as shown by its effect upon thousands of patients has been amazing, and doubtless will elicit a gasp of astonishment from the uninitiated layman as well as from the physician of the older school. Doctor Brush says, however, that there have not been any bad results, .but 'oh the contrary the exercise has been of great benefit. Modern dancing (ball, contra arid folk types) is a val uable form of physical exercise In the reconstructive-convalescent stages r neari disease, ne aeaares. it ai i fords a high degree of needed mental therapy, and advances the patient notably toward social restoration. Ex perience indicates its safety. It gives an added and readily available test of the cardiac reserves and of progress. The physician tells about his experi ence with dancing as a therapeutic agent in Hospital Social Service. Applied exercises In the' convales cent, constructive and preventive j stages of heart disease have three main purposes, says Doctor Brish. To Improve the general condition (nutri tional, muscular and organic). In crease the cardiac reserve power and lessen the" Introspective and neurotic tendencies. Gradual reentry into near nofmal occupational and social living is the end soneht It is of assured advantage, says the physician, to have the exercises pleasnrably anticipated andj- enjoyed : sndi particularly valuable to have them simulate or merge Into every day physical and social activities. Formal 'Gymnastics. . v Formal gymnastics aid by inspiring courage and further exercise, in get ting hold of the mild slacker or neu rasthenic, and serve well in bad weather times; but in six years' ob servation of some 3,000 heart conva lescents, says Doctor Brush, no regime Has; given such all-round satisfaction, safety and success as did the old farm lerime where a total of nenrlv f00 cardiacs, boys and youngs men, were given essential freedom In play and workr over the place (under reason able regulations of rest, etc.). Dancing may be called an inherent activity of all girls, of womenup to fifty, and of most young and middle aged men, says the physician; older persons are persistently happy In watching It; if is the most Joyous of all play-exercises, and both physically and socially stimulant. Convalescents with but a moderate degree of cardiac reserve may begin cantionslv to dance, then trn nn tn v - " " fcvr u considerable indulgence with safety and benefit, he asserts.'" The heart patients early led the way in this. Women were found to be dancing in their cottages and boys exhibited vari ous "Jig stunts," etc. The practice was checked, then carefully observed, enconrncort nnt - v - v - uuu ArcmrvircHl nnH annn ttvrv nr fVinnA v mal dances per week were given, open to patients of all diagnoses and ages. For twoi seasons past a dancing class for cardiacs under eighteen years has been conducted, . under, medical and nurse . watchfulness, the instruction being given principally by stronger patients of this group. . Class . 'attendance' is "-compulsory as soon as the heart strength is consid ered adequate. "The, weaker and more diffident are . gradually Inducted. Many cardiacs; have , given special fancy dances in entertainments. This high ly dlverslonal exercise is not stressed, but is Included In ,the direction, "to begin to walk, coast, golf, dance, etc., as soon as you feel able." Resident physicians' orders - are occasionally given for more or less or none of these various exercises. How Patients Are Affected. For six months the dancing is out of doors. The spectators, too, are strongly affected for good. Doctor Brush asserts. One hardly recognizes these patients at such functions ; they show color, animation, strength, good posture ; pains and neurotic depres sions have actually disappeared and are the less likely to return. "I can dance again !" is a valued expression by patients. l Attempt to Burn uux ; Snake Caused B?g Loss , A six-foot blacksnake refused to move front bis tien;. under, stump, and W. H. Winter, farmer -of ' Augusta, ' Ky., 1 n whose pbrtfperty the' snake ' had taken up a residence, decided to smoke out the reptile. Fire spread, from .the' stump . to a 20 acre hay field. Appeals were sent to the fire department and farmers hurried to the' scene to help extinguish the flames. At one time it seemed as though the fire would spread to the city, but a timely shower helped extinguish the flames. The snake escaped., There have been about twenty col lapses or partial faints among all the thousands of dancers (30,000 patients cared for). About half of these were in cardiacs and found to be mainly hysterical or neurotic. Some heart patients have complained of increased pain, etc., the day after, but no in stance of decompensating has fol lowed. (Decompensation means fail ure of the heart to increase in power sufficiently to overcome valvular dis ease.) The pulse rate rises moderate ly. Many patients express a feeling of benefit from the exercise. Fin & Mew Cities of Ancient Maya Carnegie Institution's Central American Expedition Makes Important Discoveries. OLD CAPITAL IS EXCAVATED Greatest Native Civilization Which America Produced. Once Flourished in What Is Now Desolate and Forgotten Region. Washington. After having discov ered and unearthed ancient and for gotten cities that once were the cen ter of America's civilization, and after having begun to recover th 3 an cient learning for the Maya people from their Indian descendants, the Carnegie Institution Central American expedition for 1921, which penetrated the region of Guatemala, In the de partment of Peten, at the base of the Yucatan peninsula, has returned to this city. The expedition, under the direction of Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley, associate in American archeology of the insti tution, left Washington early in Janu ary. The other Investigators were Dr. C. E. Guthe and William Gates, both research associates of the Institution. The activities of the : field season consisted of the exploration of the forests of northern Peten in search for new centers of this ancient civiliza tion under the direction of Doctor Morley, the excavation of Tayasal, the last Itza (a Maya tribe) capital, lo cated upon an island in the Lake" of Peten Itza, in northern central Peten, by Doctor Guthe, and a first-hand study of the Maya language as spok en today In northern British Honduras, and also by the Quiche, a Maya tribe living in the highlands of Guatemala, by Mr. Gates. Unearth Ancient Cities. ( Following along the chicle (the sub stance from which chewing gum Is made) trails which traverse this re gion, Doctor Morley's party discovered several new cities during the course of the field season, in what appears to have been the very heart of the old Maya empire. , Secretary Davis Buys Luncheon n -'7 ' tv ft'- A VI ' I - 1 tl Doctor Guthe's excavations at Tay asal proved equally fruitful. The prin cipal plaza of that city was located, and the work of clearing away the earth and fallen masonry from the principal, structures was commenced. The peninsula of Yucatan juts up into the Gulf of Mexico like the great thumb of a giant hand, pointing north ward. It is 25U miles wide, and be fore it finally takes root In the conti nental land mass far to the south, gradually merging into the foothills of the Cordilllerra, it is 400 miles long. This region, a limestone formation of recent geological age, has gradual ly emerged from the floor of the Car ibbean sea, and is now overgrown with a dense sub-tropical Jungle. It supports, in fact, an almost continu ous forest of mahogany, rubber, Santa Maria, celba, chico-sapote (the "chew ing gum" tree), and many other sub tropical trees, which so completely covers the country that one may trav el in this bush for days without see ing an open space large enough to ac commodate a modern bungalow com fortably. In this now desolate and forgotten region there developed during the first fifteen centuries of the Christian era the greatest native civilization which America produced, namely, that of the ancient Maya of southern Mex ico and northern Central America. Here great cities grew up, filled with temples, pyramids, palaces and mon asteries, built of finely carved lime stone, which were grouped around paved squares and courts. Once ' Brilliant People. In these spacious plazas beautifully sculptured monuments were erected, their sides inscribed with elaborate hieroglyphic writings, setting forth im portant historical and astronomical facts. A dense population, highly or ganized under strongly centralized governments flourished In the region, the vanguard of civilization in the New World. But in the course of centuries pes tilence, drought, civil war and famine overtook the Maya, so that when the Spaniards landed on the east coast of Yucatan In 1851, under Francisco de Montejo, the last remnant of this once brilliant people fell an easy prey to the shock of foreign conquest, and they were speedily reduced to dependence and slavery. Their once magnificent cities were abandoned, vast sections being actually depopulated, and. the tropical jungle again crept over the region, until today these former cen ters of life and human activity lie buried In the grip of a dense forest, and crumbling walls and piles of fall en masonry overgrown with giant trees alone bear melancholy witness to former pomp and glory. Investigations in this remote and Inaccessible region may only be car ried on under enormous difficulties. It is only very slowly, with infinite pains and at high cost, that this region is being made to yield its archeolog ical secrets and the truth about our foremost native American civilzation Is gradually being made known. THE GOVERNOR AT CONCORD ImparUaf Address -Was pellverect by " Chief Executive on Oblig.'itlons'of ' 'i- Both Labor and Capital. ;y "Fresh" Eggs Hatch in Store. Paducah, Ky. Fourteen chicks hatched out of eggs in the bottom lay er, of a crate at a market house here, were discovered after the top layers had been sold as fresh eggs. .. ' The chicks, wh'ch were several days Hd, apparently had been mothered ?by 'he heat wave and were in splendid health. . , ......... The, owner sold them for- several rimes the value of fresh eggs.; WlftryitfrtlMnrftitirii if! Sr'ffff YMf Visit - Secretary -of Labor, Davis. does no; oelieve in spending two hours eatin wiei uiibuu . wV.uUyU. viwery noon be may be seen standing before this Nickel 8hine- Back in Boston. Boston The nickel shine has re t urned. The boys of the north end :save Invaded the business district in ,:A.vC " 't,,' .;i-u;tlng.ra-t,from. 10 cent9 to'fi.'-. r" Concord. Governor Morrison ad Aressed a mammbth crowd at the Con cord graded .school grounds, here, - ex plaining his attitude toward the strike situation and the purpose of the s. ate in dispatching troops to the ' scene of the strike. '. ' The text of the governor's speech, in part, Is as follows: My own judgment was against my coming here and speaking on this .oc casion; bu: Mr. Barrett, head of the Federation of Labor, and other promi nent officials of organized labor, after our conference at Asheville on Wed nesday the 17th, gave me most positive assurance , that in thir opinion my views of the situation and of the dif ficulties which beset all concerned here would be of great benefit. "I do not deem it wise or proper for the Governor of North Carolina to interpose and interfere with the mak ing of a contract between citizens of this state. "The freedom of contract involves the very foundation of free govern ment. For the Governor of North Carolina to endeavor to force men to make a contract in this state- against their will is, in my judgment, a very improper thing to do. . - "Labor in North Carolina has a legal right to organize and to collec tively bargain when organized, provid ed, however, that they can find some body willing to bargain with them. Their rights to collectively bargain cannot be taken away from them under the constitutional securities of liberty, which are the very life of the republic. , r "On the other hand, employers with whom they want to contract have the right to contract with them or not contract with them, as they see fit, and deem it to their interest. This would no longer be a free country if citizens were forced to contract with any Individual or group of individuals with whom they did not want to con tract. There is no .law under which the governor or any other official can make them contract. None could be enacted under our constitution. UI believe in recognizing every le gal right of organized labor; but I also believe in recognizing every legal right of the employersof labor; and every legal right of unorganized la bor. "Furthermore, if I should Inject my self Into this controversy, and en deavor to adjust it, I fear I would no longer have the confidence of the side I had come to a judgment against in niy efforts -to uphold the law which a continued conflict might necessi tate. "In respect tc the disorder which had assumed threatening proportions in Cabarrus county, I think it arose largely from the fact that the local police officers did not clearly com prehend their duT more than from any unwillingness to discharge it. There has been much confusion in the public mind as to what would constitute illegal practices in a tense situation produced between striking laborers and those about to take their places. I announced in ray letter to Sheriff Cochrane of Mecklenburg some time ago (by the way, the wide ly published statement that Sheriff Cochrane called for troops was -untrue; he merely asked me for in structions), that it was the duty of the local police authorities to use all the necessary power to keep order and suppress intimidation and inter ference of anybody's rights, but that I would unhesitatingly send troops anywhere they were needed, what ever cause produced the trouble. "But I want to move them away from here, fend I appeal to all men of this county, whether you are standing under the standard of union labor and doing what you can to aid the striking laborers, or on the other side. Who ever you are, and wherever your sym pathies mayjbe, I appeal to you as a citizen of North Carolina to give your influence quickly and without delay to the sheriff and the police officers, and establish by common concord of til good men in this county a respect' for order, liberty and peaceful ar gument which will justify me in mov ing the troops here from your county. They neither want to stay nor do I want them to stay. They are here at immense sacrifice to themselves, and only for the purpose of enabling each side to this controversy to enjoy all the liberty guaranteed its followers by the law of the land. It is along these lines, and upon these principles that we can continue to enjoy liberty in this State and couniry. "Finally, I want to appeal to all con flicting classes to submerge and forget their class consciousness and class in terest in an unselfish devotion to the precious principles of our, government. ,. Morrison on .Employers. . "There is a wide " opinion that pub lic sentiment must jerk up every jarge employer of ,labdr and by abuse and villilication bring him into contempt when he exercises his undoubted priv ilege to refuse to enter into a contract which he does not want to enter Into with his employes. It is his own busi ness, and no man has any right, even those who want" to make the contract t which the employer in the exercise of his undoubted liberty, will not make, to become angry with him, and abuse him and hate him' ? s -.- On. Style Card .asJFall Near8 Despite me mushroom success - of new -.tailors and dressmakers in Paris who , have brought' out certain simple types and popularize them to' an al most unheard of extent, many women, writes a Paris fashion correspondent, now are ordering, their clothes from houses thtk have held to. their own definite types through all these changes In fashion.- , Madeleine Vionnet, who only a short time ago might have been termed an outsider in the great dressmaking circles, has Impressed both France and America very deeply with her simple floating panel styles and handkerchief drapery, but as women continually de mand varying types the opportunity Is not lacking for the success of a variety of styles. Tliis gives a house like Jeanne Lanvin an opportunity to keep her definite types. One model is a box coat suit In blue serge marked off in little squares with , white braid and blue beads. It has the high frilled collar and jabot which continue to find, favor. Lan vin has for some time been a strong advocate of these short, youthful-looking jackets, as well as all sorts of frilled high collars and fluffy jabot effects. Designer's Mark Always Present. It Is a very good thing for clothes ! In general that the great makers hold definitely to ideas that are distinctly their own. The designing and making of dress Is a great deal of a gamble, the past two years have shown very plainly that there is no telling when a very simple thing may meet with an almost over-night success. This is onlv r... , . tions thsit le man , ,. Mil I .. 1 blimps tliey win nn till.... f they will ls(Mi im, handsome n,o(),i, r ,! e 2 seen at ti.e !iutl:i- " s n will then remain fr tw- ,.1...!... , . ' u,,men t . vuuH-e, nut it is v,.p.. ,.. 1 take TmKt:., 51. 1'uuin; ,.,v extent of the du'l weave in silks. Lanvin alwuv .., U-i'd to an! the a that 'innfor of most w an eries. Recently . K mH ing out some xTr:,,,;-(M '' n through entirely r., .v J eH stance, she nses tZJ color tones ami tn give the I panels. "ns Some New Trimming Effect In u charming s.iii this effJ, been achieved thm,, .i, white braid and t,!!; Vur- camtbt imagine this iakr' entirely from embrown, " v-"-s..-, in mui-k of this- has been raised to the eminence? fine art in her work r.mms and 1 amount of study and effort spared Children, too, i,s,Vy their ' fashi nowadays and their clothes iTi ceiving an amount oPstudy 'ml tention which wouhl have astonii makers of cliildren's ciotii .7 aw years ago. Great defers have & covered the artistic Hi issiliiliti,. .i i uuirs for lie in these little irarmems. Rlii rnA Cif MsAmi With AlilfA DMiU Dl.. C3H and a ing Satjn Dress Worn Recently by a French Actress. If all the dressmakers In Paris nad followed Vlonnet's lead and made her type, of dress because It was the best seller, for the time being, they would ' have lost their cachet com pletely and would have been prac tically nowhere when the wave of en thusiasm over this particular style had died down, as it certainly must. Of course, they cannot always hold to a definite type, ' No designer cau do this and be a success. New themes or variations of successful old ones must be continually worked out. Flowing Sleeve and High Collar. The same holds trite of those who do not design clothes, but Import to America. -the works of the various great French makers. They must permit their own taste -to prevail in making their choice. For instance, 'it was all very well to bring over those unique models from Madeleine et -Madeleine which had " the waistline placed at the knees,' If one desired to show great novelty, but It was not reasonable to suppose that the women of this country or any other, no matter how capricious , they,1 might be, wee likely to adopt such a fantastic style. There are two outstanding features of the Lanvin clothes which are notice able in dress at the present time the flowing sleeve of greater length than those used heretofore and the high collar. The former might be termed a fashion which is thoroughly crystal llzed and the latter a strong fashion tendency.. '' '';" Vn? - Sleeves open s at1 the: top' to reveal almost the etitlre; arm are featured in one frock.' It was created by Lan vin for a well-known French : actress to, wear m a. recent. production. The raarenai usea is a - inHnitfiv more tractive than In the days vtien ,j did not differ from the dresses w elders and when little babies or were miniature duplicates of j motners' TrocKs, r last decade, wnen ciumca 1 iuin find use'ul nf nrsA the best children sow I are simple. It is impossible to o J . . . .. (nH no If1 simplicity in tnem. 1 ha' niMV u" special interest of design or ns do those of -grownups. We have In great abundan J - ... a fichus or "7 the very iiU ,J fvtUa flnnnfPS nnd flchUS dred years ago in dresses w i-orv l debutantes, nut m- . tllllJg 13 or some delicately c lored A voile with a bit of band ne ndornine it. Styles Seen at the R. The lovely summer days ior laree attendance at rue w All of the week days are than the Sundays and n - , sunny afternoons at Auteuil Saint Cloud, Ma and Vincennes that the - lenue has an opportune hor lfltPst extravagances. Among the novelties jo plaid cape wraps wh cn rfs j more than big. f wide as they are K'im. the shoulders. , ,t be 9 i, mnhflSlS tan" . nf.tP XOO inutii en-- ,.ir ty v '.J u continued poPu,jr Ul'- . J cp 111 cape and the continued use flmminir on , r rur as . ay summer wrap for both da) nine wear. r
Polk County News and The Tryon Bee (Tryon, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 26, 1921, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75