| Show I i Tv as This Way WayBy j By LYLE SPENCER I IC O C W Ve Western tern tem Newspaper Union j I Animated Cartoons lIE first animal to appear In TIIE T i. animated cartoons was neither Felix the Cat nor Mickey Mouse It was a playful dachshund who had a weakness for eating German sausages The first real motion picture Car ear Cartoon toon drawn by John Randolph Bray was a combination of cartoon cartoon cartoon car car- toon characters and living persons Released by br Pathe Freres in 1912 it showed the misadventures of this dachshund who kept kepton on eating sausages until he be finally exploded It proved so successful that Bray drew 18 more similar cartoons within the next year ear Not very long after that colored cartoons made their debut in n motion motion motion mo mo- tion picture theaters The first one released in 1016 1918 was entitled The Debut of Thomas Kat Rat It was the story of a kitten who had been taught by br its Us mother how bow to catch mice The kitten kitlen soon coon became so cocky about his abilities that he tackled a rat with very verr tragic re- re re reo cults These early drawings were made on transparent celluloid the colors then being painted on the reverse side of the film tUrn Such early attempts attempts at at- tempts were a far cry from the quality of our present productions Some of the newer super super specials l li like 1 k e The Three Little Pigs i drawn by men like Walt Disney are bigger drawing cards than regular feature pictures and occasionally make as much money as films tUrns produced pro by Hollywoods Hollywood's greatest stars Death at Sea SeaS I S SCURVY CURVY is a disease we practically practically never hear bear about any more But up to a hundred years ago it was one of the horrors of sea life lile It was a slow creeping scourge that made sailors sailor's teeth fall faU fallout fallout out robbed them of their energy and pep and finally made them I sink into a lethargic lassitude that often ended in death On long voyages it was not unusual un un- unusual I usual for half the crew Clew of a sailing salling ship to die of this mysterious dis dis- ease We know now that scurvy is caused by lack of vitamin C inthe Inthe in inthe the diet But two centuries ago j I when salt sail pork and hard tack were j standard ship fare and cream of I tartar and elixir of vitriol were the I usual medical treatment its cause was unexplainable I Captain Hawkins of the Royal Royall Royale i British navy the man who first found an effective cure for tor scurvy was hot not a physician and knew practically practically practically nothing about medicine In 1593 while in command of a ship on a long sea voyage to Africa many of his crew fell feU ill with the dread disease Without avail the ships ship's doctor administered all aU the remedies then known to medical science As a last resort Captain Hawkins broke out a case of limes from cargo and ordered the sailors to suck Them hem Miraculously most of them recovered In short order The only thing left to commemorate commemorate I rate Hawkins' Hawkins act is the fact that the British sailors are still called I limeys The Pain-Killer Pain I PICTURE the hospital operating room of a century ago hooks rings and pulleys cover the walls Operating tables have bave straps and ropes to to prevent patients from squirming while receiving surgical attention Anesthesia has bas not yet been in I vented The man who needs an operation must bear the excruciating ing ng pain while fully conscious The first man to develop a successful suc suc- anesthetic was Dr W. W T. T G. G I Morton a dentist He had bad learned about the pain-killing pain properties of ether from watching medical stu students stu 1 I dents go on ether Jags jas where they became dizzy and sometimes even passed out After trying out ether successfully success success- I I fully on several of his dental patients pa Morton gave a public demonstration dem demo at a Boston Doston hospital in 1846 1848 Before Defore a crowded room of skeptical doctors he administered I Ithe I the ether to a patient then stepped aside for a surgeon friend of histo his his his' to perform the operation IA i iA A breathless silence fell over the I i room as the surgeon poised his I gleaming scalpel and began to oper- oper ate There were no screams of tortured anguish that doctors were i accustomed to hearing It seemed almost like magic Gentlemen j I said the surgeon as he finished this is no humbug I have bave seen something today todar which will go I round the world The audience broke out in thunderous applause So was completed the first operation operation opera opera- tion under an anesthetic Dr Morton Morton Mor Mor- ton its Us sponsor bad probably done more than any other single lingle manIn man In the history of the world to alleviate al al' misery and pain I aI |
