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Show THE LEIII SUN. LEIII, UTAH le p. roy. in is anged icy. 'Celebration of Its Centennial by i Illinois Medical Society Recalls the Heroic tout llto CTulO SCOTT WATSON C urf W ffe9tern NeWSpE,p" UrU0n, moth anniversary sunt . havei 1 waica. 0 the celebration of the HU -nia State Medical so. U which is being held in CriaMay21to,naSmu K local significance. Not Sdoes it pay tribute to the J dersof one of the first L.. medical associations in country but it also serves Ln the heroic services acu.J 1 Gen: "rithjft: nth 5. i:ew" , . . j Pioneer P5s-a--u Heons aunng wic uvuviv. nf American rusauiy. i a or whether that frontier . atons? the Atlantic sea ird, in the Ohio and Missis- pi valleys, on me we.ii. ,-ns of the trans-missouri st or in Rocky mountains, of the most important fig- in the pioneer commu- js was the "man with the ie black bag." It was he, Jo, undaunted by the perils I attack by savage Indians t wild animals, heedless of i danger from floods and rairie or forest fires, and ilerent to the discomforts t blazing summer heat or iging blizzards in winter, ieerfully climbed into his addle, or into a "one-hoss toy," and set forth to allevi-!e allevi-!e human suffering. And this heroic preserver of alth and life had precious few 'is in his work. Mostly he de-aided de-aided upon his unaided senses 9 diagnose the case and decide pen the treatment. He was with-it with-it the help of a thermometer, iich did not come into general until about 1870 and then was 9 inches long and required five itmtes to register temperature! e had no stethoscope, no instruct instru-ct for measuring blood pres-jre, pres-jre, no blood count or blood hemistry determinations, no 'ray-no way, in fact, of exam-icg exam-icg the interior of any organ, a the light of modern medical ractice, the miracle -is that he wed as many lives as he did. I was such men as these who lounted their horses one morn-x morn-x in the early part of June and which v s: Nsr Icelane tiles; I iglaai, irrnat I ve 1 1 manb:: ngeolJ 'e; and! I and ;: GY was in: ige,tlsi latlyfc uethe; ) lose t raisiii nbs it: i, plus: orwaj, le R-igland, R-igland, . I bon':: I forces : tar Coot ode over the uncharted prairie nd forest trails toward Springer Spring-er the struggling little village a the banks of the Sangamon iver. History has preserved the lames of a few of them Eastern-rj Eastern-rj who had "come West to grow ? with the country," such men s M. Helm, a graduate of the atimore Medical college; Wil-?m Wil-?m S. Wallace of the Jefferson -hcal college; and John Todd, had been graduated from the versity of Pennsylvania in' 310. ! Associated With Lincoln. Ihe latter had another distinc-. distinc-. for he was the uncle of Mary m had recently become gaged to a rising young law-J law-J m Springfield named Abra- Lincoln. Evidently Todd a .leader among the fellow-Jacans fellow-Jacans for when, on June 8, .these doctors launched the State Medical society, gtchsehlm as their first pre name of William S. Wal- . Previously mentioned, is JaRthe name of He had come -: rmgfieid m lm &Rd "to Prrmarried Mafy Todd's 80 the course 2h,?e became Lincoln's SIS d 1861 Srew!n fam0U3 ws 'SSLm feUow citizens &t li-tl0th rear of a ' accom'5 More than that Cff the Presidential SSlu faster in the t seS ExPsure in nuli-"mce nuli-"mce caused his death in iiftS,.P Hughes- o aiirgtao7theorgani- had r i . e Iuuiois so- Xtory as stir- BorSif3 ? Which he fy in 1807, ' late? fettsburg, Md., '"iSiSth. Baltimore. 8 'k . i?41111 was unpaired aserica. a vo?a& to Latin of theS an is le last lave i: their r para: atoges elepa? :atioa e sta! doii a cr: situpe ralitj '' itsffi- an as I iep8' t eft tads' ;deo: ricioi? : ssr s. ft L?-tiouse Epared by were atl.ves because fes Practic"16 men"" teM an years One davPPOrtUnity to flay. seeing an Service of Pioneer Doctors The pioneer doctor's horse waits patiently in the storm while his master is busy on his errand of mercy. American vessel nearing the shore, he secreted himself 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 organiza-tion meeting was held. Almost as adventurous a career as Doctor Hughes' was that of Dr. Charles H. Webb of Livingston Living-ston county. In 1822, with his brother, he took passage at Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh 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 by Outlaws. When the flatboat on which Doctor Webb was a passenger reached Cave-in-Rock, the captain cap-tain and three of the passengers, one of whom was the doctor's brother, were decoyed into landing land-ing at that place. When they failed to return, Doctor Webb went ashore to find them. He was promptly seized by three of the outlaws, blindfolded, his hands tied behind him and placed in a skiff which was rowed 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 the frail craft. At daybreak day-break he managed man-aged to reach a small inhabited inhabit-ed island where he was provided provid-ed with a paddle pad-dle and advised to proceed to Smithland, Ky. Dr. John 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. DesDite this evidence that Ford was one of the outlaw gang, Doctor Doc-tor Webb nroceeded to fall in love with Cassandra. Eventually he returned to that vicinity, married mar-ried her and with his bride settled set-tled in Livingston county to practice prac-tice his profession. In the meantime mean-time his brother had been released re-leased by the outlaws and made his way safely to St. Louis. Still another pioneer doctor who had an adventurous career was Dr. "Charles Chandler, whose name is Deroetuated in the town of Chandterville, 111. A native of Rhode Island, he was prac-tirini prac-tirini in that state when the spirit of adventure influenced him to migrate to the western country. Chandler arrived in Illinois at the time of the Black Hawk war and started up the Illinois river with the intention of settling at Fort Clark (Peoria). Uut wnen the eantain of the boat on which he was traveling declined to go farther because oi tear oi uie Indians, In-dians, Chandler disembarked at Beardstown. He was so impressed with the beauty of the country around what is now Chandiervnie that he entered 160 acres at the land office and built a cabin on his tract A Versatile Doctor. OinnrfW soon built up a big tikM practice in the new country and . J 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 sup-plies without traveling to distant Beardstown over the worst kind of roads. With his brother he established a general store, slaughtered and packed for market mar-ket 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 en-gaged 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. pio-neers. Typical of these public-spirited physicians was Dr. Benjamin Kirtland Hart of Alton, one of the founders of the Illinois State Medical Med-ical society, who had served as president of his town board and who, three years later, fathered a movement which resulted in the purchase of a site, later the 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. Like many of the pioneer physicians, physi-cians, 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 em-ployed him as a regular correspondent. corre-spondent. Then he turned his hand to fiction and produced "Virginia Rose; a Tale of Illinois in Early Days" (which had for its background back-ground the lawlessness centering around Cave-in-itocKj ; wnicn ran as a prize serial in the Alton Courier in 1852; "The Gray and the Blue"; "Brought to Bay"; "From the Beaten Path"; "G. A. R.; or, She Married His Double"; "Dr. Caldwell; or, The Trail of the Serpent"; and "Prairie Land and Other Poems." Later he became be-came editor of the Jacksonville Journal, then the Constitutionalist. Constitution-alist. At the outbreak of the Civil war Roe, who was then the first professor pro-fessor of natural science at Illinois Illi-nois State Normal university near Bloomington, raised three companies, com-panies, 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 be-came editor of the Bloomington Pantagraph, was appointed marshal mar-shal of the Southern district of Illinois, and served in the state legislature. His varied career ended in 1893 when he died in Chicago Chi-cago at the age of eighty. Another literary doctor was Benjamin Franklin Allen, a native na-tive of Watertown, N. Y., who began be-gan practicing medicine in Kane county. 111., in 1844. In 1860 he settled in Joliet, I1L, and began to devote his time to writing. Among his writings were "The Uncle's Legacy," which ran as a serial in the Will County Courier for six months; "Irene; or, The Life and Fortunes of a Yankee Girl"; and a series of humorous sketches under the title of "Experiences, "Ex-periences, Advice, Comments and Suggestions of Barney OToole," who seems to have been an earlier "Mr. Dooley." huhimpr F THAT MILLION-FOR-niTLER OFFEE Mr. Samuel Harden Church, The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa. Dear Samuel: I have read your offer of million smackers for the capture of Adolf Hitler and in reply I would state that ths proposition Interests me. But I do not like the way you emphasize empha-size the part about his being caught "alive, unwounded and unhurt" What about me? However, It is a novel Idea and the most original business proposal of a decade. I know of no cash offer of-fer like it since the depression and It is good to know there Is a man In this country who knows where to get a million dollars these days. For that much money there are people peo-ple who would do anything. The big drawback is that HiUer has got such a big start, and I don't think it sporting to limit the offer to May. This is pretty short notice for grabbing grab-bing a guy who has been on the loose so long, and besides, May is hard month for the capturing business busi-ness on account of the birds and bees and little green things furnishing furnish-ing so much distraction from any pursuit Could you extend the time through June? And are you serious about the "undamaged, unwounded and unhurt" un-hurt" clause in your spring offer? Are you willing to stretch a point? I mean would it be okay if Adolf is brought in with a little mouse over one eye or with a lock of his hair missing? It would be a helluva note if I catch him and you rule the capture illegal just because he says that his back hurts him or something. Who Is going to Judge whether he is hurt or not? I want a good referee ref-eree as I have a hunch that Adolf will do a lot of squawking when he finds himself In Pittsburgh in a "Million "Mil-lion Dollar Thirty Days Only Contest" Con-test" and he may insist that he is in terrible condition instead of being undamaged and as good as new. In fact I think you should stretch a point and say that if he is warped a little in transit the cash offer will still stand. And about the idea of trying him. I do not want any part of that If I deliver him it is up to you and Pittsburgh to run the trial. I am taking no t&nces on trials. All he would have to do would be to get a good lawyer to say that he wasn't quite clear mentally. Then there would be the old business of getting get-ting the psychiatrists to ask him a lot of questions and then report he was clearly a victim of the fact his folks made him eat lettuce without with-out sugar in his boyhood or something. some-thing. He would get put on probation proba-tion and in no time would be on the loose again. So I want the cash on delivery, Sam. Let me hear further details from you soon. Yours, Elmer TwitchelL P. S. What are you offering this week for Mussolini? ALL DONE BY MIRRORS' "The New York police department today began distributing leaflets Inscribed In-scribed 'A healthy driver is a safe driver in a campaign to keep down auto accidents. The health of a motorist is an Important consideration considera-tion in any safety drive,' said Police Commissioner Valentine. There are many accidents caused by sudden illness.' "News item. Apple sauce! Also nassenpfef-fer, nassenpfef-fer, baloney and bunk! A healthy driver Is not necessarily a safe driver; we have been chased up alleys by some of the healthiest drivers In existence and knocked for a roal by drivers who were notably in the pink. FAT GIRL: 1940 You'll get thinner by and by, If on a diet you plan to sup. Meanwhile let them laugh at you; Chins up, little lady, chins up! Richard Avedon. Comedian Jack Haley's definition of Yale is "a period between a change in voice and a Job as an insurance in-surance salesman." DAYLIGHT SAVING CHAOS Today at timetables I stare, And find a train that won't be there: It's where it ain't, the trainmen say I guess I will not go awayl ADD SIMILES As individual as the way a person opens a boiled egg. a. thabbv looking as your old shoes when you are trying on a new pair. As long-winded as credit titles in movie. Wallace Reyburn. UOOO.OOO" f1 REWARD -JP. WORLD I H;--SS. Kathleen Norris Says: Women Dodze Thought of Aaxna BeU Syndicate Whatever th it when th it old- the'U hate it. So why worry about it? By KATHLEEN NORRIS DON'T be one of those women to whom only beauty, money and a good digestion are important in life. t 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 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. 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 ut-terly unprepared. These ripe years, which ought to be the very best of all, strike them like a thunderbolt They've never considered the financial finan-cial side of them. They've never considered the social or domestic side of them. They've never considered con-sidered 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, moth-er, 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 Inevitable conditions arise In her own case Peggy is shocked and despairing. All her plans have Included herself as im portant, attractive, and protected by John. But now her daughter Is married mar-ried 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, griev. ing. Burden on Others. Instead of having that child de pend upon her, and half envy moth. er's independence, freedom, high spirits, Peggy becomes a burden upon the younger family. Her con versation becomes a long dreary re cital of what glories and possessions she once had. She cannot sufficiently sufficient-ly reiterate the trials, the dismal- ness 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 trium-phant 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, use-less, so defeated and mhappy, as the girl who tries to be independent independ-ent In rushing off to Paris, or into some unknown field of endeavor, she only proves to herself that she has thrown away the honest beginnings of liXe, refused to play the game by rule, and beside making herself ridiculous, ri-diculous, has made it practically impossible im-possible to get back to a real start With the older woman it is different differ-ent She has served ber apprentice (k)$ ykik' Ut& 4 ,t,'l V A-JL'! V V,' WNU Servtca.l and to her forty-five It oldth knowt Your Companion Mayb you nrrer Hopped to think about it, iay$ Kathleen Norrit, but then really it only one companion that you hav throughout your Hi and that it 10 f A Finding out just what that companion com-panion it like, what tht wanti aril doetn't wont, what tht needt and doesn't need it th job every woman wom-an should Uih upon hertelf. A fie creept up on perton and all the things that teem important to young women aren't really that important. Find out what you need t prepare pre-pare for old age, I'repara yourself for it and it will b th happiest period of your life. Don't prepar and you 11 liv to regret mat you didn't. ship. She has been daughter, wife, mother, housekeeper for a long quarter of a century. And thesi have been happy years, proud years, years full of the Joys of trips and frocks, parties and flattery and self-confidence, self-confidence, t - - 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, gar-den, Its dog or Its cats, its visits from adored grandchildren, Its quieter qui-eter visits from old friends. In planning plan-ning trips, in club work and charities, chari-ties, in easy hours and easy dressing dress-ing and games of dominoes or crib-bage crib-bage or backgammon with a few tried and true neighbors and friends, are real pleasure. If the companion of her youth is still beside her, all this felicity is doubled. But even if he is not rich and ripe and useful living is still hers. Tame and Uninteresting. Now, unfortunately, this paradise of the middle years sounds extremely extreme-ly dull, to youth. It sounds tame and uninteresting to the last degree. Youth never will change ideals with age; it hates the thought Age is no more convinced that it never will be youth than is youth sure it never can grow old. And so many a woman who could be planning now for her later years 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? Why train her character to desire de-sire what is true and lasting; why search Into her own soul and develop de-velop its miraculous resources? Why deny herself and the children superfluous su-perfluous luxuries and extravagances 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, gar-dening, for any one of a hundred interests and avocations, when to day there are movies and beauty parlorf and flirtations and night clubs to fill her time? What is the answer? Ask yourself why. 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 coun-try 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 nothing, you would certainly prepare to make that change. You would study the conditions, the lim-ItaUons lim-ItaUons and opportunities of the people peo-ple of that country; master its language; lan-guage; cultivate a few friends who must make that journey with you. Middle age, old age, can be a long peaceful holiday. A useful holidaynot hol-idaynot by any means an idle holiday. hol-iday. But a bappy time in which a woman who has done her honest share of living in the younger years can find endless interest a thousand absorbing occupations, complete peace of spirit That's something worth achieving! Mexican Tea Towcl3 For Colorful Kitchen TLAXCALA, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Sonora all the romance of Mexico comes to mind as you embroider em-broider these new tea towels. Palm trees, cacti, and the brightly costumed Pablo and Conchita afford af-ford opportunity to use every vital color In your sewing basket. On NUMO hot iron transfer, Z9174, 15 cents, there are three motifs each of Pablo and Conchita, one of them together at the fiesta, and the sombrero design for a pan-holder. pan-holder. Add color to your own kitchen or that of a friend with sets of these gay Mexican motifs. The NUMO hot iron transfer will stamp several times. Send order to: AUNT MARTHA Boi 1N-W Kni City, Mo. Encloio 13 cents for each pattern deilred. Pattarn No Nam Addreas Cheapest Light The most efficient source of light in the world is the glowworm. glow-worm. Chemical changes on the sugar absorbed by the insect produce pro-duce the light from which it gets its name. ' In this process only 3 per cent of the potential energy is lost, the remaining 97 per cent being given out as light. Compare this to the 12 per cent given by electric bulbs. LOSTYOURPEP? Hr la Amazing Rail! of Condition Dim to kluggUh Bowala fa Duul, Uiuiuuglt, rctmhlna. lnviiofUn. V IMOdabi tllkl I rum irk bwdtchr. btUotai wtrtt. tired loellnf rbea unrelated With ronatipotlos. WItkmtt DicV aaSclool NR from yout IMUlOUt KISK druultt. M.ka th lot ibra If mat drliihtad, Rtura lim boa to aa. Wa via rafund th purchaa iluaa in purcnaae aaBMaaaBaBaaBMk rl. TN.i'a f.lr. I.V.jTT TtX H NR T.UW. to-l.T. P Gat Old In Hours A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. Bacon. llelp Them Clcanae the lilood of Harmful Body Waste Your kidneya ara eonitantljr filtering Waata matter from tb blood stream. Hut kidneys sometimes lag In their work 40 not act aa Nature in tended fail to remove re-move Impurities that, U retained, may Eoison tb system aod upset tba wa'oia odjr machinery. Symptoms may ba nagirlnf barkache, persistent beadacha, attacks of dimness, getting up nights, swelling, pultlnesa under tba ayes a feeling of nervoua aniii'ty and loss of pep and atrenth. Other signs of kidney or bladder disorder dis-order ara sometimes burning, scanty Of (oo frsquent urination. There should be no doubt that prompt treatment la wiser than neglect. Us Voan'l tills. Voan's have been winning new friend for Dor than forty years. They have a nation-wid reputation. Ar recommended by grateful people tba country over. Aik your ntighCorl WNU W 2140 What You Can The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do. Emerson. Salt Lake's NEWEST HOTEL 1 J! .t rir-r' 3-jii.'-,a" Hotel TEMPLE SQUARE Opoceit Mormon Teaaplo HIGHLY BECOHMEXDEO bres$1.50ro$3.00 It's mark of distinction to stop t tfiii beautiful hostelry ERNEST C. BOSSTTER, Men. aaapaaaraep?yire e w p lai iiaja sot. - vs. j- J |