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COLUMN DOCTORS yru/c I I VACATION FOR DOCTORS When the business man shows signs of fatigue, his physician sends hi maway for a rest. When the doctor needs a rest, he finds that he has many confinements about to come off. The physician would do well to heed the aphorism that all work and no play make Jack a dull boy. lie owes it to his family and himself to take more vacations and to indulge in more recreations. It is too bad that there is not a way to compel every doctor in the country to take a good vacation. When he returned, he would find himself not only fresher for work, but would also find that during his absence his patients had learned to appreciate more highly the value of the services he rendered daily We are openly -in the field for longer vacations for the overworked doctor. PLUMBERS AND DOCTORS Could you believe that some plumbers are fighting the idea put forth by the Copper and Brass Association, urging the use of brass pipe in homes to prevent corrosion? It is true. Some master plumbers claim that a continaution of this program will lessen the need for plumb-) ers?there will be no more leaky) pipes. But for years doctors have been cheating themselves ou.t of future potential . business by draining swamps, discovering new serums, improving medical treatment, etc. Acting on the plumbers' theory, physicians should proceed to the laboratory en masse and destroy all the good things which have reduced sickness,' on the plea that they are destryoing the need for physicians! As ai self-eliminating profession, medicine stands alone. MAKING GOOD ' A lady visiting one of the newfangled cuitists told hint that an orthpedic surgeon had advised a plaster cast for her spine. Absurd, said he. In two months I shall fix you so that you will not need a cast. Verily, he spake words of truth. In two months the lady's back was | stiffer than any plaster cast could ever have made it. WHAT IS IT? What kind of store is that fellow over at Toad Rock running? asked a motorist. Well, he has Ford parts for sale, replied the attendant In the filling station at Ten Degrees, buys butter, eggs, and poultry, deals in real es' tate, aints houses, marries folks in his capacity as justice of the peace, runs the postoffice, sells stamps, hams, molasses, etc., and takes boarder supstairs. I reckon you'd call it a drug store. THE PASSING OF THE INDIAN MEDICINE MAN Minnesota Indians Give Their Medicine Man the Gate and Come the White Doctor Behind the darkest clouds the sun Is shining, and its bright rays will reach the earth if only the clouds can be dispelled. Quackery and superstition are the blackest clouds on the horizon of scinetific medicine. Thg Indian medicine man, with his supposedy supernatural powers over disease, is nbw making a hasty exit leading the way for kiros, cultists and other hocus-pocus mongers. As soon as the public becomes better educated, and consequently less credltlous, and as soon as doctors abjure the cult of silence and make known to the public what the medical profession) has accomplished, charlatanism will wane. A prince of fakers was the Indian medicine man. With weird Incanta, t tions he would undertake to drive away the evij spirits. The bedlam of howls and tom-toms was calculated to scare the evil spirits away, but usually they succeeded only in frightening the patient to death. The modern Indian is fast forsaking sorcery and is coming to the white medicine man for relief from his ailments. The older men of the tribes have learned the advantages of such common methods of treatment as the u8e of the atomizer or spray for infections of the nose and throat and the external application of tincture of iodine. One the red man conquers his savage superstition and comes to the regular white doctor he is quick to appreciate what is being done for him. He soon learns that the white medicine man's prescription quickly puts him on his feet again. The Indian makes a very good patient. He does not suffer from the paleface's constant impulse to try something new. Once he has found a good thing he sticks to it. the polk county news Odd Fellows Interested In T. 6. Drivel MAY BUILD SANITORIUM |i FOR ITS MEMBERS SOONji Dr. L. B. McBrayer of South- \ ern Pines, N. C. Chair, of Commission Hav- , ing Matter in Charge The territory assigned to tne com mission covers all of the United States and Canada, and later may extend to thirteen other nat ions where he Order holds sway. . . At the hist session of the Soverign t Grand Lodge I. O. O. P., held in Philadelphia, September 192G, the f t Representatives from North Caro-i; lina introduced a resolution provid- . ing for a Commission to study the tuberculosis which resolution was unanimously adopted. The Order has some three million members and as tuberculosis takes its heaviest toll of life and health'' in the age group from 15 to 44 years ( this disease naturally causes much 1 of the distress that occurs among their membership and is also respon-' < sible for a large percent of the 3000 I' orphans being cared for in the Or-j t phans' Home of this Order. I' As there are needed thirty times < as many beds as we now have in the 1 United Statees for the treatment of ' tuberculosis, and a lesser percentage ' in Canada, it is thought very likely that the Commission will be eon-1 fronted with the necessity of recont-1 menditlp 'thai this Order will be compelled to provide Sanatoriums ' for the treatment of their members Tho' where a State or Province or locality has a sufficient number of sanatorium beds for its needs., it may be possible to make arrangements for the treatment of Odd Fellows in existing institutions. The Commission has no limitations and may also study tl\e Health Education side of the prevention of tuberculosis, both in adults and children and make recommendation i thereon. Grand Sire Ernest W. Bradford of Washington. D. C? has recently announced the personnel of this Commission as appointed by him? They are as follows: Dr. I,. B. McBrayer, Chariman, North Carolina Judge M. M. I?gan of Kentucky, Dr. A. E. Rose of Ontario, Hon. A. R. Langley of South Carolina, Hon. J Bert Leek of New I .Mexico. " Kitchen Rack Is Place for the Odd Implements J Little additions or Improvements in | the kitchen are u good thing to weep In mind. Take a rack, for instance. It can !" be made In a short hour, yet It will be used every day. Those long, ungainly forks and spoons, the egg heater and potato masher never seem to 1 mix well with the cutlery in the kitchen cabinet drawer. Their proper place ! Is on this rack. Three pieces are required, each a scant Inch thick. Two 5 inches long, 1 2 inches wide; the other 2 Inches wide, 10 inches (or a foot) long. The pieces are dressed down and the short blocks fustened with screws through the back to the long piece. These are then fastened to the wall with screws ' and a number of galvanized nails in a row along the front of the horizontal piece. This should be placed over the sink drain board high enough to be out of the way, or wherever It will be the handiest. Painted Cellar Walls Will Stop the Dust < "Where does the dust come from?" <i wailed a young housewife. "I clean J and clean?but look"?she brushed I some fine gray dust from the table. Jj "From the cellar," her mother re- i piled. "It sifts through the floor." J "But the floor Is tight," daughter ?i objected. j "This doesn't look like It. If you'll : have your cellar ceiled with wullbourd J and painted you'll And that your house ?i will be much easier to take care of. Dust can't sift through wallhoar l. and ?! If It Is painted it can't sift through ^ the cracks. ?i "Your cellar ought to be painted |j anyway," inotlier continued. "It's dark <i as pitch down there. Use battleship )j gray on the walls and ceiling. You'll ?i be surprised how much cleaner anil ^ brighter It will be." <1 "I should have known that," dnugh- J ter replied niefully. "The cellar at home was always painted and we J never had any trouble with ash dust.'' < THE POLK COUNTY NEWS DR. D. M. I OPTOMI Shelby. WILL BE IN TRYON, N. C., Tryon Pharmacy Drug S If You Have ! If Your EYES Come in ar L>K. M. MUKK1SOF REAS0NAB1 Eyes Examined, Gla Duplicated and C THE POLK O FORD MADE NOTABLE CHANGES ' Notable improvements have been eccntly made to the Ford line. They ire new color options, standardiza;ion of the gasoline vaporizer on all Ford models, and standarization of Ford wire wheels on Fordor sedans. Selection from three colors in now possible when buying Coupes, Tudor ind Fordor sedans; choice of two colors may be made when buying Touring cars and Roadsters. The three colors for the closed models are; Highland green with cream stripe. Fawn gray with cream stripe. Royal maroon with vermilion d ripe. Open-car colors are: Gun-metal blue and Phoenix brown. All colors will be pyroxylin laciiuer lpplied in two coats with an ) air irusli over primer and glazing coats. Roadsters assembled with pickup -.odies will be painted green. Pickup indies or service will be black as it present. Truck cabs, stake, and express indies will all be furnished in commercial green pyroxylin. Hoods will be furnished to match aodies. Radiator shells are unhanged, i. e.. neckel-plated on clos>d bodies, black on open bodies. Rranches have been arranging for lcalers' drive-aways to leave me >ranches in groups, whenever pisible hus displaying the new colorcs on rarious models until, one by one, the Irivers leave the group to proceed o the individual dealers' places of tusiness. ? Wire Wheels on Fordor I Standard equipment on Fordor ledans now includes Ford "on >iece," drop center wire wheels?one French Device Betray* Unwary Speed Merchant "Speed merchants," bewure! A Frenchman has Invented a dread device, an automatic whistle, which will give you away every time. This whistle, which was originally designed as un attempt to damp the demoniacal speed-lust of I'arls tartcab drivers, tits on a by-pass leading out of the exhaust pipe. (It Is suggested that one should be thus fitted to every motor cab In I'arls and sealed In petition by the police.) All Is well so long as the taxlcab proceeds on Its way decorously and demurely. The moment, however, that the driver gives way to his Inveterate love of speed, he becomes a screaming nuisance, a challenge to every police man within half a mile.?World-Wide. Gray Makes Room Large 4 < ?. "in iii r,' ii,? "i"i/r uatu i"i the walls in older u> make a room appear as large as possible. Tills gray, made from Chinese blue ami Vein tian red. combines a warm over tone with the peaceful character ol gray. If that is used the woodwork should lie dark cream and the ceiling light gray Paneling is very good in a room ol this sort. shop and ^ buy jg^v\cj Christmas Seals - j 5* ?!* <>*? \* * ?J? v ?J* *? ?j< ?j? ?j? ?*? ?j? y ?* : U A I A A I A f I A Momacn 50 uaa tan 1 % Eat Even Fruit i s; "For years was badly f ; constipated and troubled * ! with gas after eating. * I Could not eat fruit and % ; many other things. Ad- ? ; lerika has done nje good * I ?can now eat anything." * I (signed) W. H. Fletcher. * ; Adlerika removes GAS f ? and often brings astonish- * ! ing relief to the stomach. J ; Brings out a surprising X f amount of old waste mat- ? ! ter you never thought was i t in the system. Stops that A j; full bloated feeling and I > makes you enjoy eating. 4; > Excellent for chronic con- A stipation. I MORRISON 3TRIST N. C. Wednesday, Dec. 15, at the itore 8. A. M. to 5 P. M. HEADACHE, Burn or Blur, id Consult I about your Eyes JE PRICES. 1-1? 1 1 * T sses riuea, senses Hasses Repaired. 0. NEWS, TRYON, N. C. THURS of the strongest wheels ever built, f Since making baloon tires standard !c equipment on all models, June 19, t 1936, the popularity of Ford wire I wheels has continued to increase, r This wheel is perfectly adapted to I I bfcljoon tyrfcs and considerably in- v proves the appearance of the car. c n? "'nnrlard Pordor equipment J jl yj u. ex lars t Christ your ( torn ] Come f^Jj Breisn Br Dl No Charg ? UD ? ? will include five of these wheels, a j i sapre wheel carrier, a special speed ( wrench for changing wheels, and [a I j Many 1 The G Count anywl qualit smokt $110,( but th at rid Vnn o structions will be included in the new service manual now in preparation. Until the manual is printed, * ' ' 1 InotniiritAno f. 1. DEC., 9, 1926. our balloon tires and tubes, all, of j ourse, with no extra charge over he list price of 1545, f. o. b. Detroit. -All asembly branches have now eceived instructions covering the iriming and finish painting of these vheels and the cementing in place if the linere with linoleum cement. Instructions for ?oriiec)tly tnountng balloon tires on drop center i wire) wheels have been received by ill branches. A copy of these .in/allies Ye 1 1 Greatest Sale ev y, the Greates lere. $40,000 y merchandise, i and water, )00.00 of our sto ie cream of it ^ iculously low p] nd your family ?y getting your ;mas is but a f< Christmas prese trices, don't ta and see for yo PU er-Penny's ENNEI EPARTME 1 HENDERSON ,es--Every Sal folders giving iun iUoU.Uvlu?? mounting balloon tires will be plar ed in each Fordor sedan tooj kit. All baloon tires supplied by the company wil Ifit either demountable or drop center rims. Tire beads should be carefully put in the proper place before Inflating when mounting balloon tires on wire wheels. t To Be I ) g er held in Hem t Values ever o .00 worth of * slightly damaj at your own >ck went up in s xras snvpd and r? k1 V^VI. WXXVl rices. can save mai 1 winter needs sw days away ;nts here at roc ike our word urself ICE Former ! i l-PENI NT STOI VILLE, N. C. e Final-No i I ,t II. r *4 the I? Jf ' ' in i. M 1 Uf*0"lr. 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