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Show THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, by Western Newspaper (Bell Syndicate-WNU By (Released celebration } of chance IIli- founders of one of the first ‘to recall the heroic services of the pioneer physicians and ‘surgeons during the frontier era of American history. For whether that frontier was along the Atlantic seaboard, in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, on the Great Plains of the trans-Missouri or in Rocky mountains, . ne a tina ecennanemaeneatats eae ees > en entes A aorta oan ae eae neneetnreaeraae se i ae pera raat a oe alana And this heroic preserver of health and life had precious few aids in his work. Mostly he depended upon his unaided senses to diagnose the case and decide upon the treatment. He was without the help of a thermometer, which did not come into general use until about 1870 and then was ten inches long and required five minutes to register temperature! He had no stethoscope, no instrument for measuring blood pressure, no blood count or blood chemistry determinations, no X-ray-no way, in fact, of examAning the interior of any organ. In the light of modern medical practice, the miracle is that he Saved as many lives as he did. It was such men as these who ‘mounted their horses one morning in the early part of June and rode over the uncharted prairie and forest trails toward Springfield, the struggling little village on the banks of the Sangamon river. History has preserved the names of a few of them-Easterners who had "come West to grow up with the country," such men as M. Helm, a graduate of the Baltimore Medical college; William S. Wallace of the Jefferson Medical college; and John Todd, who had been graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1810 per saree pene een tats rang wares a ee ogee PA, avian etienrsiemtinretinpene rtiomtnie cnn tak Sanath aay a i Sane gig rtangetlniy ttl Gains CEA ae Soe - le Sill a inen toeeettencasteeaieeene fa oe cae~ ae ~~ =. Associated With Lincoln. The latter had another distinction, for he was the uncle of Mary Todd who had recently become engaged to a rising young lawyer in Springfield named Abraham Lincoln. Evidently Todd was a leader among the fellowphysicians for when, on June 8, 1840, these doctors launched the Illinois State Medical society, they chose him as their first president. The name of William S. Wallace, previously mentioned, is also associated with the name of Abraham Lincoln. He had come to Springfield in 1836 and three years later married Mary Todd's sister, Frances. So in the course of time he became Lincoln's brother-in-law and in 1861 when Lincoln spoke his famous words of farewell to his fellow citizens of Springfield from the rear of a railroad train, Doctor Wallace stood beside him. More than that he accompanied the Presidential party to Washington appointment Union army. to accept as paymaster Exposure an in the in mili- tary service caused his death in 1867. Dr. Charles F. Hughes, who acted as secretary of the organization meeting of the Illinois society, had a prior history as stirring as the times in which he lived. Born in Maryland in 1807, he was graduated from St. Mary's college in Emmettsburg, Md., and later from the Maryland Medical college in Baltimore. Because his health was impaired he took a sea voyage to Latin America. When the ship on which he was a passenger arrived in Guatemala, the negro natives, who had started an insurrection, captured the ship and killed all of the officers, crew and passengers except Doctor Hughes and another physician. These two were spared by the superstitious natives because they were "medicine men." Hughes practiced his profession among them for seven years before he had an opportunity to escape. One day, seeing an ies elephant'- or Rs / ‘state medical associations in this country but it also serves one of the most important figures in the pioneer community was the ‘"‘man with the little black bag.'"' It was he, who, undaunted by the perils of attack by savage Indians or wild animals, heedless of the danger from floods and prairie or forest fires, and indifferent to the discomforts of blazing summer heat or raging blizzards in winter, cheerfully climbed into his saddle, or into a ‘"‘one-hoss shay," and set forth to alleviate human suffering. an The pioneer doctor's horse waits patiently his master is busy on his errand of mercy. American shore, vessel he secreted nearing himself the among some barrels, reached the ship safely and returned to America. He arrived in Sangamon county in 1836 and was practicing in the little village of Rochester, near Springfield, when the organization meeting was held. Almost as adventurous a career as Doctor Hughes' was that of Dr. Charles H. Webb of Livingston county. In 1822, with his brother, he took passage at Pittsburgh on a flatboat bound for St. Louis. At that time a grotto, called Cave-in-Rock, situated on the banks of the Ohio river near Shawneetown was a rendezvous for a band of river pirates who enticed river boats to stop and passengers to disembark with an attractive sign, ‘"‘Liquor Vault and House for Entertainment.'' Captured When Doctor reached tain and one of brother, ing at failed by Outlaws. the flatboat on which Webb was a passenger Cave-in-Rock, the capthree of the passengers, whom was the doctor's were decoyed into landthat place. When they to return, Doctor Webb went ashore to find them. He was promptly seized by three of the outlaws, blindfolded, tied behind skiff which him and was his hands placed rowed in a out into the river and then set adrift. In the middle of the night Webb succeeded in freeing his hands and with his shoes began bailing out the water that was threatening to swamp craft. the frail At day- break he managed to reach a small inhabited island where he was provided with a paddle and advised to proceed to Bsc Smithland, Ky, Risscccccamennt ?F-4ohn Todd Anxious to learn the fate of his brother, Doctor Webb set out afoot but sprained his ankle and was barely able to hobble along. He was discovered by a girl mounted on a horse. She told him that her name was Cassandra Ford and persuaded him to mount her horse and accompany her to her home. When he arrived there he found that the girl's father, James Ford, had the flute with which the doctor had entertained the other passengers on the flatboat and which had been taken from him when he was overpowered by the outlaws. Despite this evidence that Ford was one of the outlaw gang, Doc- tor Webb proceeded to fall in love with Cassandra. Eventually he returned to that vicinity, married her and with his bride settled in Livingston county to practice his profession. In the meantime his brother had been released by the outlaws and made his way safely to St. Louis. Still another pioneer doctor had an adventurous career who was Dr. Charles Chandler, whose name is perpetuated in the town of Chandlerville, Ill. A native of Rhode Island, he was practicing in that state when the spirit of adventure migrate influenced to the western Chandler arrived in the time of the Black him to country. Illinois at Hawk war and started up the Illinois river with the intention of settling at Fort Clark (Peoria). But when the captain of the boat on which he was traveling declined to go farther because of fear of the In- dians, Chandler disembarked at Beardstown. He was so impressed with the beauty of the country around what is now Chandlerville that he entered 160 acres at the land office and built a cabin on his tract. A Versatile Doctor. Chandler soon built up a big practice in the new country and in the storm while often traveled 100 miles in 24 hours over a territory which now includes seven counties in Illinois. He was also active in many other ways. He erected stores and small shops so that farmers might obtain their necessary supplies without traveling to distant Beardstown over the worst kind of roads. With his brother he established a _ general store, slaughtered and packed for market as many as 3,000 hogs in a year. He acted as postmaster in 1849 and donated sites for parks and cemeteries. Nor was Chandler the only one of these pioneer doctors who engaged in activities outside of their profession. They helped lay out townsites; start industries and businesses; install systems of education; provide churches; print newspapers; serve in public offices and, when need be, they went to war and fought shoulder to shoulder with their fellow pioneers. Typical of these public-spirited physicians was Dr. Benjamin Kirtland Hart of Alton, one of the founders of the Illinois State Medical society, who had served . the purchase of a site, later the Like many of the pioneer physicians, Dr. Edward Reynolds Roe turned from medicine to devote his natural talents to the less strenuous pursuits of writing and became so much in demand as a writer while practicing medicine in Shawneetown in 1850 that the Illinois Journal at Springfield employed him as a regular correspondent. Then he turned his hand to fiction and produced ‘‘Virginia Rose; a Tale of Illinois in Early Days'' (which had for its background the lawlessness centering around Cave-in-Rock); which ran as a prize serial in the Alton Courier in 1852; "The Gray and the to Bay''; "‘From the Beaten Path''; "G. A. R.; Blue'; or, She "Brought Married His Double''; "Dr. Caldwell; or, The Trail of the Serpent''; and ‘‘Prairie Land and Other Poems.'"' Later he became editor of the Jacksonville Journal, then the Constitutionalist. At the outbreak of the Civil war Roe, who was then the first professor of natural science at IIlinois State Normal university near Bloomington, raised three companies, composed mainly of his students, for service in the Union army. He was captain, major, and then lieutenant-colonel of the Thirty-third Illinois regiment and was dangerously wounded at Vicksburg in 1863. Later he became editor of the Bloomington Pantagraph, was appointed marshal of the Illinois, and legislature. ended Southern district of served in the state His varied career in 1893 when he died in Chi- cago at the age of eighty. Another literary doctor was Benjamin Franklin Allen, a native of Watertown, N. Y., who began practicing medicine in Kane county, Ill., in 1844. In 1860 he settled in Joliet, Ill., and began to devote his time to writing. Among his writings were "‘The Uncle's Legacy," which ran asa serial in the Will County Courie r for six months; "Irene; or, The Life and Fortunes of a Yankee Girl'; and a series of humor ous sketches under the title of "Ex. periences, Advice, Comments and Suggestions of Barney O'Tool e." who seems to have been an earlier "Mr. Dooley." « you to the end, and that's yourself. Find that companion, cultivate her, give her a taste for the things that last, before it is too late. PAT BARRETT whom radio fans know as ‘Uncle Ezra''; William Thompson, the ‘‘Old Timer,'' and Harold Peary, the *‘Gildersleeve'' of ‘‘Fibber McGee and Molly''; Don Wilson of Jack Benny's program; and Jerry Colonna of Bob Hope's; Marjorie Bauersfield, the air waves' ‘‘Mirandy''; and Cliff Arquette, who's likely to bob up on almost any broadcast. Bill Phillips, of the Warner Brothers studio, reduced 27 young girls to tears the other day, and got paid for it. You've guessed why, of course-he's the makeup man on "All This and Heaven Too," and they were shooting the scene in which Bette Davis tells her pupils the sad story of her life and makes them cry. So Phillips stood off at one side and blew menthol fumes at the girls, and they wept buckets-full of tears, right on schedule. consi tipsie If you're going to New York for the World's fair this summer, remember Metro's Information Centre, located in the city-on the little island at Forty-sixth street between Broadway and Seventh avenue. The attendants will supply you with information about the city and the fair, (last year they helped more than a million persons,) give you free guide books and guide pamphlets, and speak to you in any one of 11 different languages if need be. Also, there is a visitors' registry at the booth-you can put your New York address on file so that your friends will know where to find you. Metro deserves a lot of thanks from friends all over the country for this. Del Sharbutt, announcer for Lanny Ross, is being ribbed by his friends because of a mishap while playing softball. He was playing first base with a team composed of members of the staff of Columbia Broadcasting System. A ball was hit slowly to him, and Del whirled to throw to third base for a double play. The throw was wild; it hit the pitcher on the shoulder, bounded back and struck Del on the head. Wonder why softball seems to have such ers. a fatal lure for radio announc- aWw 7S ODDS AND ENDS @ Truman Bradley, announcer Burns and Allen program, was on the signed re- cently for his most important screen role; he'll portray one of five millionaires in RKO's "Millionaires in Prison." @ Paramount will make "Aloma of the South Seas" with Dorothy Lamour in the role created for Gilda Gray-though it wasn't a good picture when the shimmy . ing Gilda did it, years ago. @ Oscar Levant, of "Information Please." has a featured part in "Ghost Music," Bing Crosby's next, Women don't think enough about this. When they are young they feel that age never will come, and when it does come it finds them utterly unprepared. These ripe years, which ought to be the very best of all, strike them like a thunderbolt. They've never considered the financial side of them. They've never considered the sociab or domestic side of them. They've never considered the moral side of them. Twenty-Five Years Ago. To be sure, 25 years ago Peggy married gaily enough, leaving her own father and mother alone. And when that mother was widowed, Peggy shed dutiful tears for her lost father and felt quite sorry for mother, who was immediately plunged into money difficulties. But all this doesn't affect Peggy personally at all. SHE never thinks of herself as fifty, and alone. SHE never will be widowed, her one child married, her entire provision for old age a small life insurance policy. When these arise in her shocked and plans have inevitable conditions own case Peggy is despairing. All her included herself as im- portant, attractive, and protected by John. But now her daughter is married and gone, her husband dead, she must give up her home, and in her bitterness and loss she feels that there is nothing left. She very probably sinks into the limbo of those unhappy lonely little women who live only in their child's life- complaining, remembering, grieving. Burden on Others. Instead of having that child depend upon her, and half envy mother's independence, freedom, high spirits, Peggy becomes a burden upon the younger family. Her conversation becomes a long dreary recital of what glories and possessions she once had. She cannot sufficiently reiterate the trials, the dismalness of age; when you get to her age, she says, you might as well be dead, and goodness knows she often wishes she were dead. Now, since you know, you women of 25, 30, 40, that this time must come, why not prepare for it, why not defeat it of its horrors? It can be the most serene, the most triumphant period of your whole life. It can be a time of harvest, rather than of famine. Older Women Different. For in the years after 45 a woman can be herself, express herself, live her own life as she never can in younger years. No girl is so useless, so defeated and unhappy , as the girl who tries to be indepen dent. In rushing off to Paris, or into some unknown field of endeavo r, she only proves to herself that she has thrown away the honest beginnings of life, refused to play the game by rule, and beside making diculous, has made herself ri- it practically im- possible to get back to a real start. With ent. the older woman color NUMO it is differ- She.has served her apprentice - doesn't want, what she needs and aren't really that hot sewing iron AUNT Box basket, transfer, Z9j MARTHA Kansas 166-W City, Enclose 15 cents for each pa desired. Pattern No..... eo eccceece Name cccocccccccece occ cccccccccccccsl AGAGTESES ‘siciccdccccccccecdsccanan j Cheapest Light The light in most efficient the world source is the g worm. Chemical changes on sugar absorbed. by the insect duce the light from which it its name. In this process only 3 per of the potential energy is lost, remaining 97 per cent being gi out as light. Compare this to 12 per cent given by electric b doesn't need is the job every woman should take upon herself. Age creeps up on a person and all the things that seem important to young women important. in your 15 cents, there are three mg each of Pablo and Conchita, ¢ of them together at the fiesta, the sombrero design for a y holder. Add color to your own kite or that of a friend with sets these gay Mexican motifs, NUMO hot iron transfer stamp several times. Send order: . Don't be one of the millions who consider eating and drinking, amusements and parties, flirtations and gay companies, smooth hair and smooth skin the real objects and aims of existence. All these things are fun, in mild doses. But there is only one companion who goes with president of his town board and who, three years later, fathered a movement which resulted in erection of a building, for Alton's first schoolhouse. At the rear of the Peoria home of Dr. Rudolphus Rouse was a fine opera hall which Rouse had caused to be built. The result was that pioneer Peoria witnessed some of the finest drama of the day, since Peoria became a stopping point for road companies traveling from one large city to another. yj girls would be child's play compared to putting your hand on a dozen of | the animals just when you wanted em. That's why O. C. Stratton, Para-|# mount property department head, has arranged to feed 12 of them) 23 from now until next summer, when|¥ the filming of ‘‘Moon Over Burma'' J is scheduled to begin. The elephants belong to the defunct Hagenbeck and Wallace Circus, whose receivers agreed to keep the stock on the West coast if the studio would foot their board bill. So the pachyderms are quartered at Camarillo, Calif., devouring dollars' worth of hay daily-and it is hay- while preparations for ‘‘Moon Over The story opens| & Burma'"' goes on. in Mandalay and shifts to the teak plantations of Rangoon, where the elephants will be shown hauling the Rilo akc. heavy wood, while Paramount for< PAN ated gets about buying hay and just pays she is old-and to her forty-five is old-she knows when is she Whatever rental fees. ----'-_-_ she'll hate it. So why worry about it? When you see ‘"‘Comin' Round the By KATHLEEN NORRIS Mountain'' you can close your eyes Your Companion ON'T be one of those and pretend you're at home listenMaybe you never stopped to think ing to the radio-there are eight Lo women to whom only about it, says Kathleen Norris, but well-known radio names in the cast. there really is only one companion beauty, money and a Bob Burns, of course; Pat Barrett, that you have throughout your life good digestion are important and thatis..... YOU. Finding out just what that comin life. panion is like, what she wants and as yj ford opportunity to use every Union.) rather, on a herd of elephants. though Hollywood You see, has plenty of practically everything else, it's short on rounding up a | ee elephants; thousand unusually pretty nois State Medical so‘ciety, which is being held in ‘Peoria May 21 to 23, has more ‘than a local significance. Not ‘only does it pay tribute to the West on as yoy to mind comes broider these new tea toy Palm trees, cacti, and the bright costumed Pablo and Conchita Service.) VALE Newspaper ARAMOUNT is paying out quite a let of money because it's not safe to take a Union.) the VIRGINIA by Western Hidalgo, Oaxg the romance py LASCALe. Sonora-all Mexico anniversary 100th SHE For Colorful Kitek Dodge Thought of Aging Women | ByELMO SCOTT WATSON (Released Mexican Tea Towel Kathleen Norris Says: Celebration of Its Centennial by Illinois Medical Society Recalls the Heroic Service of Pioneer Doctors , MOAB, UTAH Find out what you need to prepare for old age. Prepare yourself for it and it will be the happiest period of your life. Don't prepare and you'll live to regret that you didn't. ship. She has been daughter, wife, mother, housekeeper for a_ long quarter of a century. And these have been happy years, proud years, years full of the joys of trips and frocks, parties and flattery and selfconfidence. But they have vanished now. And now comes HER time; the time when she can be most truly and wholly herself. Her small house is a veritable kingdom with its garden, its dog or its cats, its visits from adored grandchildren, its quieter visits from old friends. In planning trips, in club work and charities, in easy hours and easy dressing and games of dominoes or cribbage or backgammon with a few tried and true neighbors and friends, are real pleasure. Here is Amazing Relief of Conditions Due to Sluggish Bowels ri e draws away in repugnance from the thought of them. Whatever she is when she's old-and to her 45 is old-she knows she'll hate it. So why think about it? character to luxuries box if not delighted, return refund the purchase price. That's fair. Get NR Tablets today. the box and _ extrava- gances now, to gain the superlative comfort of financial security for her old age? Why form a taste for fine books, for language study, for gardening, for any one of a hundred interests and avocations, when today there are movies and beauty parlors and flirtations and night Clubs to fill her time? What is the answer? 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Buta happy time in which a woman who has done her honest share of living in the younge r years can find endless interest, a thousand absorbing backae persistent headache, attacks of dizziz getting up nights, swelling, pufil certainly can e Cleanse the Bloot) prepare to make that change. You would Study the conditions, the limitations and opportunities of the people of that country; master its language; cultivate a few friends who must make that journey with you. Middle vt eAteh a Help Them Answer Is Apparent. The answer is that if you knew that in 25 or 30 years you had to move to a strange country, a country in which the eyes you use now could see nothing, in which your present ears could hear nothing , of whose language and customs you know spell the te de- sire what is true and lasting; why search into her own soul and develop its miraculous resources? 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