Show DEATHS CAPTAIN tuberculosis once described as captain of the men of death has been demoted now ranking no higher than sergeant heart disease is now the captain claiming nearly twice as many lives as any other cause of death tuberculosis now stands sixth among fatal diseases statistics for the year 1929 the last available show that for every of population in the united states died of organic heart disease next came cancer 96 pneumonia 92 bights disease 91 apoplexy etc 82 and tuberculosis 69 the alarming death rate from heart disease and other maladies resulting from a degeneration of the blood vessels is attributed by many physicians to the stress and worry of our complex modem life excessive mental or physical work with insufficient sleep and recreation the ambition for success the intemperate use of stimulants and other modes of burning the candle at both ends tends to throw a too heavy burden upon the heart and if long continued may end in collapse medical science at present offers little in the way of curative agencies for the condition which these habits bring about tha only means of r elief appe arff to be the abandonment of tha practices which cause the trouble countless lives are shortened be causs people will not take sufficient to enable their bodies to recuperate after strenuous or physical activities p truth is stranger than fiction and also scarcer r mk it seems that many people have hitje respect for laws win aws va with better times promised r we may be able to go into debt a attle deeper SL t we read that a certain legislature has imposed a severance tax may be a new name for alimony f A girl who is beautiful but dumb might make a good wife if she would only stay that way germany wants a big army and navy and why not all other important christian nations have 5 cartoonist A person who just now spends most of his time drawing pictures of elephants and donkeys still to be fairly regular he only bolts the republican national ticket once every four years jh was a boy he had to naughty literature from a strain news butcher and read it in the haymow irja i 41 C w t in |