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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS. RANDOLPH. UTAH . National Park HOW TO LIVE . Common Sense Comments on Health, Happiness and Longevity ' By GEORGE F. BUTLER, A. M., M. D. Copyright, 1930, by International Press Bureau TO that for the best nutrition strict regard , should be paid to the laws of hygiene-o- f the nervous system, the circulation Ordinarily when we speak of a per- with its vital organ, and alp the diges- -, son being well nourished we merely tive system, and last but not leat, the think of one or two important factors hygiene of the diet. LEARN HOW TO" in the workings of the organism. One LIVE. NUTRITION IN ITS RELATION HEALTH. RATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK is to be enlarged according to all 1 The senate passed indications. 1 v the bill (S.2797) the other day with- ) out opposition. The house is likely to follow suit; at least no opposition to the project has made its appearance publicly. The national park service is supporting it. The area to be added is public domain. There Is therefore no. expense. The enlargement is scenically attractive, is naturally a part of the park and is needed for the comprehensive development of the public playground of which Crater Lake is the feature. The small map given herewith has a broken line around the present park and the heavy continuous line shows the park as enlarged. The present park is approximately 13 miles east and west by 18 miles north and south and contains 249 square miles or 159,360. acres. The enlargement contains aout 145 iqqare miles 6r J&2.800 acres.' The park lies in Klamjtth county, In southwestern Oregon, about 60 miles from the California line. The nearest railroad points are Medford on the main line of the Southern Pacific, 83 miles to the southwest; Klamath Falls, 62 miles to the south on a branch line, and Kirk, 26 miles to the southeast on a branch line. The park lies on the crest of the Cascades and varies in elevation from 5,000 , to 9,000 feet . ' The addition Is spoken of locally as the Diamond lake region, because of the very attractive lake which is one of its features. This lake is about 5,000 feet above sea level and is about 5 by 2 miles. From Crater lake to Diamond lake by trail is 18 miles. Diamond lake is comparatively shallow and warms up enough for comfortable bathing. On the east and south the shore is grassy, with a gradual slope to a pebbly beach. The lake is beautifully situated and altogether the location makes an ideal camping ground. In this lies much of its desirability. Crater lake is a world marvel, but it ic not rntireiy admirable as a camping ground. The camping ground is of course on the rim, a thousand feet or so above the water. And as a bathing lake it is ut of the question, the temperature of its water being about 38 degrees all summer. And In addition the lake Is jnore than 2,000 feet deep in places. The Diamond lake region offers fine fishing also. To be sure, nobody could ask for finer trout than the rainbows in Crater lake. They run big; some of them scale ten pounds. And they are magnificent fighters ; many experts hold that pound for pound the Crater lake rainbow is the hardest fighter of all the western trout. But fishing from the rocky, broken shore at the foot of the lake1 walls is often hard work. The best fishing is from a boat and to some anglers this is comparatively no fun. They want to steal along a stream and find a pool and match wits with the big fellow it and holds it against all' that has comers. And thats just the kind of fishing there is up around Diamond lake. Two creeks Silent and Short flow Into Diamond lake at its south end. Two Bear creek flows into it from the north. Other trout streams are scattered over the ad' dition. - 'All the roads into the present park come from the south. The enlargement will give the park "a road from the north and direct connection with Bend and central Oregon points. In the future a connecting road to the wonderful Rim road around Crater la) e would be a natural improvement; at present only a horse trail crosses the range, which thrusts through the enlargement and into the park like a huge wedge. Right up in the very northeast corner of the enlargement is Howldck mountain (8,351 feet). To the east of Diamond lake is Mount Thielsen (9,178) and to the west is Mount Bailey (8,356). ' They are picturesque peaks and well worth ascending. All through the addition there is scenery worth while. Crater lake attracted 16,645 visitors last summer and the attendance is increasing every year; . So the enlargement In 1918 there Is needed to give more camping room, varied scenery and different trout fishing, aniong ether things. The enlargement will offer additional attractions and make Crater Lake National park the kind of place where the visitor will want to stay all summer. In short, Greater Crater lake will be both show place and playground. It is the plan of the national park service to give this playground aspect so far as possible to aH of the national parks. Not all of them come by It naturally, and these are to be helped Rtong by development d were-13,231- k country that contain miniature lakes ; but there .'1 is only one really great caldera of this kind in the ; ; world only one immense basin apparently formed . through the complete melting by Intense heat of the entire core of a great volcano, and the falling in and utter disappearance through subterranean massive bidk. ,, , The titanic convulsion that formed this remarkno human eye witnessed. Geoloable beauty-fepgists have concluded that ages ago, in the great chain of volcanic mountain peaks which today extends from Washington to California among them Mt. Rainier, Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams, Mt. Jefferson, Three Sisters, Mt. McLoughlin, Mt. Shasta and Lassen Peak there towered one, which has been called Mount Mazama, that may have tojto-- l the tallest of Its fellows. Judging from the pitch of the remnants of its outer slopes, scientists conclude with reasonable certainty that, if reconstructed, its snow-cla- d peak would rise from seven to eight thousand feet above its broken rim, Mazama stands today an uncrowned king, shorn of its diadem of burning gold and glittering silver, yet holding within Its heart a treasure the rarest in the world a beautiful lake, the deepest of qll lakes, with waters the bluest of all blue waters. And this Is Crater lake. Crater lake Is almost circular, varying from five to six miles In diameter. Its known depth is 2,000 feet and it is believed to be 'the deepest body of fresh water in the world. Its surface Is 6,177 feet above the sea. It has no inlet or outlet, being fed by springs and winter snows; Its water escapes by underground channels, reappearing as springs in the Klamath region, a few miles away. It is completely girdled by precipitous cliffs and steep talus slopes that fall sharply downward from its rim 2,000 to 600 feet to the waters edge. Closely encircling It rise many high peaks, notably Liao Rock, The Watchman, and Cloud Cap; also Glacier, Garfield and VIdae Peaks. Surrounded by canyons, ravines and pinnacled rocks, and belted by a wilderness of boulder-strew- n forests,1 the region for years was Inaccessible, and unexplored except by the more venturesome who were attracted by stories of the Indians of this mystery lake in its fantastic setting. Yet its discovery was accidental; it occurred in 1853 while an exploring party was searching ih the Cascade mountains for the fam- ous Lost Cabin mine. A dispute arose over the choice of a name, the party dividing between Mysterious lake and Deep Blue lake. Tt advocates of Deep Blue lake won the vote, but in 1869 a visiting party renamed it Crater lake, and this by natural right became its title. beThe first sight of Crater lake Is well-nig- h Unless looked into from the rim it is wildering. Wonderment at the height and steepInvisible. ness of its encircling cliffs succeeds the first astonishment; admiration of the loveliness of its coloring next enthralls the beholder in the sequence of impressions. Its upique beauty lies in no small measure in its coloring, the brilliance of which if reproduced in painting or print would seem exaggerated and impossible to those who have not seen the reality. Nowhere else is there such an azure. One feels that a glass of its water would show blue as if stained with cobalt, but it Is clear ad crystal and as pure. The deeper parts are a brilliant ultramarine, shading to turquoise in the shallower reaches, and to light Jade green inthe few indented coves around the shore. A hundred feet down the glaze of a plate is plainly discernible. The surroundings help the brilliance of the blue; the rocks are of metallic hues ; the peaks of the rim are often snow covered ; the lava gray of the steep scarred walls is mottled and splotched with bright yellows and reds, markings left by volcanic action long ago, and always there is the dark green Of the pines and firs and shrubs that grow on these declivities wherever The waters are usually placthey find root-holid, gleaming as though glazed by the sun, and in this mirror of Nature the reflections stand out with astounding distinctness. . tcavegns-iofflt- s ot Yellowstone, our oldest and most famous national park the first national park in the world never had been a success as a playground. The truth is it is a wonderhouse of freak scenery-gey- sers, boiling springs, volcanic curiosities and the Yellowstone Falls. Also it has its bears and its wonderful big game. In the old days of the stage coach the regulation trip took five days. After that the, tourist was ready to leave. And he seldom returned to see the park a second time. Now that the automobile has taken the place of the coach, the time of the regulation trip has been cut In two; otherwise the same conditions obtain. The Yellowstone attendance figures tell the story. In 1915, the attendance was 51,895; in 1916 it was 35,849; in 1917 it was 35,400; in 1918 It was 21,275; In 1919 It was 62,261. By way of contrast take the corresponding attendance at Rocky Mountain National park, which is a play ground park where people stay their entire vacation time and there are thousands of regulars who go every year: 31,-0and 51,000 and 117,186 and 101,497 and 169,-49Rocky mountain has no freak scenery, but its scenic magnificence wears well and a large proportion of its visitors regard it as their summer home. In consequence the national park service is promoting the project of adding about a thousand square miles to the south end of Yellowstone, including the Teton range. Grand Teton, Mount Moran, Jackson lake and the Jackson Hole region and the headwaters of the Yellowstone. This addition will give the Yellowstone the kind of scenery it lacks. Moreover, plans for the farther development of the Yellowstone Include large mobile camps, golf links, tennis courts and the encouragement of fishing, mountain climbing ahd riding. In short, the Yellowstone is to be made a playground sufficiently attractive to hold the tourist for a time and to induce him to return. Another example of needed enlargement is Sequoia National park in California. This park was created in 1890 and contains 252 square miles. It was created largely for the purpose of preserving the Big Trees (Sequoia glgantea) the biggest and oldest living things on the earth. The General Sherman tree, for example, is about 36 feet in diameter and Is approximately 5,000 ywirs old. Congress, with an eye to the big trees only, cut the park boundaries arbitrarily and left out a magnificently scenic area which lies contiguous. Features of this contiguous area are the canyons of the Kings and Kern rivers and the summit of Mount Whitney (14,501), the highest mountain in continental United States., It Is now purposed to add about a thousand square miles of this contiguous area to Sequoia and to change its name to Roosevelt, making the enlarged park a national outdoor memorial to the dead statesman. Here again the public playground idea is the basic proposition. No description can do justice to Crater lake Itself. Uncle Sam, however, has done a good job under the circumstances in a booklet issued last season by the United States railroad administration. And this booklet says among other things: All of our great national playgrounds have their distinctive beauties; each Is different in great measure In the sublimity and attractiveness of its national grandeur, but Crater lake stands alone in this: that all likeness to any familiar landscape here ceases. Other lands have their crater lakes Italy, India and Hawaii and there are some craters in this 2. - d. may think that the digestive process as pertaining to the stomach must be in good condition, or perhaps he may become experienced enough to consider that perfection of the whole digestive system, of which the stomach is only a part, is requisite to the best nutrition of the body. It is barely possible, however, that one might only consider the food supply of the body as the element in the end to be obtained. Hence the question, What shaU I eat? or, If 1 could only get my stomach to work I would become strong. I do not say that these special queries are not important, for indeed they are. The only trouble is that they are only a limited part of the process. Tile study of nutrition is not merely the study of what we shall eat or how the stomach will handle it, but rather the study of the whole organism, and the making of it. The study of nutrition begins with the preparation of food for the body and the partaking of it. ' Next the work of the digestive organs, as they reduce it to that condition so that the nutritive element can be absorbed and taken into the circulation. During its course in the blood channels some of the vital organs, especially the liver, produce certain changes in the newly formed products, which prepare some portions of it for the tissues assimilation, and other parts to supply energy and force to the activities of the body. The lungs bear an important relation to the same work, as they supply material which is of equal Importance to the building and repairing process. The final and step is the actual assimilation by each tissue of the element appropriate v for its own use. It is success in all these steps that furnishes the members of the body with tissue and force; and a weak place at any point will interfere with the work and cause malnutrition, which may mean the loss of strength and flesh, or It may mean the deposit of an abnormal amount of fat, or other local or general morbid growths. In the hygiene of nutrition one must study ail these functions. In the prepay ration of food simplicity and taste are points to be emphasized. The more simple the diet of nutritive food the better it can be adapted to the uses of the body. The cooking of food is only to put it in the best condition to be handled by the digestive organs. Taste is an Important factor, as it is the main active stimulus in the digestive work. Care should be taken, however, not to pervert it, as then it becomes unsafe as a guide. The hygiene of the stomach is simple. When the right foods have been properly prepared and properly eaten It passes our guardianship. The greatest point to he urged relative to the stomach is Give it is proper share of the nerve force that Is not actively using the nerve force of the body in other work while the digestive processes are being started and also not exhausting them before taking a hearty meal. If this precaution is taken it will take care of its own work, provided its work be not in excess of the needs of body. The other part of the digestive apparatus is alike faithful and capable. For the best action of the liver and the lungs a good circulation is essential. The latter should not be Impeded by clothing that prevents the free flow of blood. Overwork or underwork will Interfere with the trophic nerves, and prevent their properly regulating tissue nutrition. Mental worry or constant overstrain by excessive work will exhaust nervous vitality and force and Incapacitate the nerves to preside over the function of nutrition or any other function of the body. Of course, it is not necessary to say that all dissipating habits, as the use of liquor and tobacco and all other like poisons, come first In power to undermine the nervous system. From these suggestions we conclude HARDENING THE BODY. Beginning with personal cleanlinessthe whole body should be bathed daily with cool or tepid water, and then rubbed thoroughly dry with a rough towel. The least one can do with.-anattention to cleanliness or healths is to sponge the face, chest and back with water and dry rub the rest of the body at least once every day. , For a thorough wash of the hands use warm water, and before soaping them steep them well in the water for a minute or two, rubbing them a while, then use soap and a nail brush. End by holding the hands under a tap of" cold water and give them a shower bath it is refreshing and strengthening to the fingers; or dip tlier- - into-cowater and rub them briskly. The first thing in the morning the ollowing procedure is beneficial: the feet in a foot bath of cold .vater Enough to cover the ankles. Begin, according as the reaction of the individual is weaker or stronger, with, water at 77 degrees, or even at 81 degrees and 86 degrees Fahrenheit, amt use colder water gradually in th course of weeks to 68 degrees and eiry exceptionally to lower temperature. In? all cases the cold foot bath, lasting only a few seconds, must be followed? by quickly warming the feet. This cam be done in a few minutes by returning to the warm bed; it is not necessary to rub them ; the more quickly the bed. is regained the easier it will be to bear the cold foot bath. Only when the temperature is too low will it take more-thaten minutes before they get well ' warmed To harden the skin of the whole body I recommend the following procedure: First wash or spray the body with cold recomwater or the temperature mended for foot bath. The throat, chest and back of the neck especially should be treated. Such an ablution with foot bath will take only a A few moments only should: be given to douching the body. This Should, be' .followed by vigorous rubbing with a coarse towel. Never sit down to breakfast without going out into the open air for n while, A brisk walk taken half an hour before breakfast in the early morning: p air, especially when accompanied breathing, Ms a wonderful health promoter. The expansion of the lungs, quickening of the circulation and oxygenation of the blood give one a keen appetite for breakfast, and the man-whcan eat a good breakfast with relish has something to sustain him in his work and is more fit to cope n than the unfed man, with his breaks fast who nothing, more substantial than a roll and cofAerate and redistribute your fee. blood by means of a walk before breakfast, then you will be able to eat and? digest that meal without trouble. Such a preparation for the days work y ld Im-ne- rse the-ma- A good general massage, with resistive exercises twice a week will prove-- a great benefit In making one strong and vigorous. Sports in moderation improve our physical condition, but they may prove disastrous if reason be not exerciser and they are Indulged in to excess. The advantages of the various kinds of sport in hardening the body ore that with them can be combined the very important agencies of fresh air and? sunshine. No better example Of what training and a resolute purpose can to toward harderflng the body can than in the history of Theodore Roosevelt. His advice to the American boy is as applicable to the American man. He must work hard and) play hard. He must be In life as in and clean-livea football game the principle to foilow is: Hit the line hard; dont foul and dont shirk, but hit the line hard.' LEARN HOW TO LIVE ... clean-minde- Health Notes While we are ail deadly afraid of microbes, bacteria, etc., we live In such It Is just as reasonable to feed a a way that our bodies become deficient dog on dry grains and grass alone as in resisting power to the same germs, for a man to subsist on a similar di- and when they are present we expect " in some miraculous manner to have ' etary. them expelled. Our dependence upon surrounding Itj is a law that as much curcumstances increases with our must be consciously expended In curphysical weakness, and on the other hand in health there is liberty. Work ing a habit, as unconsciously has been employed in acquiring it. for health. As a man eateth, so he thinketh. j will-pow- 1 . It is almost Inconceivable that today, in our civilized nation there are still so many otherwise sensible women who are willing to malm and cripple their feet and suffer pain for the sake of wearing shoes Just a little toe small, or which are, as they Imagine as to the effect of what you have falsely, prettier or more fashionable. . eaten. While we all want to enjoy life with To the brave and strong hand, the all its comforts, pleasures and happicapacious lungs and vigorous frame ness, we are apt to forget that upon fall, and always fall, the heavy bur- health these all depend, and that health dens; and where the heavy burdens is the vital principle of bliss and exercise of health. full the great prizes fall too. Do not clog the system by an oversupply of food. Never eat unless hungry. Never force yourself to eat a food because it has been recommended as a health food. Eat only such food as is relished. Be temperate in eating and there will be little cause for worry - |