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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1935)
OLD WATER SYSTEM Bellakan. a city which existed up to the Fifth century in the Steppes, ll being excavated. An ancient lrrl Ration system wns found so wed preserved that It could be used to day. LOVES OATMEAL MORE THAN EVER • Once you learn that oatmeal is so rich in Vitamin B for keeping fit*, IS IT ANY WONDER THAT THOUSANDS STICK TO OATMEAL BREAKFASTS? Many are nervous, poor in appetite, system out of order, because their daily diets lack enough of the precious Vita min B for keeping fit*. Few things Keep them back like a lack of this protective food element. So give everyone Quaker Oats every morning. Because in addition to its gen erous supply of Vitamin B for keeping fit,* it furnishes food-energy, muscle and body building ingredients. For about J^c per dish. Start serving it tomorrow for a 2-weeks test. Quaker Oats has a wholesome, nut like, luscious appeal to the appetite. Flavory, surpassingly good. All grocers supply it •Wbm pttr nmJiun u dm it Uuk */ Vtlsmit B M VITAMIN B FOR KEEPING FIT ... 1c worth of Quaker Oats •qtiala 3 cakes of Fresh Yeast Q—her «■4 Mittwr** Q«t» are the twin Poetrj What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.— Goethe. (pieman^. Iron INSTANT LIGHTING ' Iron Lha assy way In one-thin) low time with the Coleman. Iron in comfort any place. It's entirely self-heating. No cords or wires. No weary, endless trips between a hot stove and ironing board. Makes its own gas. Barns 98% air. Lights instantly — no prw-baa ting. Operating coat only nd an hoar. See your local dealer eg series for FREE FoUer. THE COLEMAN LAMP 6- STOVE CO. J51fc '•KLJ&K'-- m Faint Heart If the vote of the people rejects i needed Improvement, some citizen lose interest In the community. |T|TlfF7R WNU—U 43—S' ’T2* FREE | SAMPLE skin deep Aak your doctor. Ask the beaun expert. OARFIELD TEA—a cut nightly—often doe* more fot your akin and complexion than coatlv cosmetic*. Expels poison, out body waste* that clog the pore* and eventually cause tnud dy, blotchy, erupted skin. A week of this internal btauty treatment" will astonish you. Begin tonight (At your drug atone) 4SLuiUlU2JuAJ A mpimnditt JLaxaticm Drink seen and HEARD arbund the NATIONAL CAPITAL py Carter Field ^ Washington.—With the President and congress both away, Washing ton Is a hotbed of rumors, most of which have absolutely no basis whatever, but all of which nre In teresting. For Instance, there Is the one about Henry Morgenthau, Jr. The secretary of the treasury Is enjoy ing a holiday In Spain, whereupon there Is seriously circulated the story that he Is to be eased out of the treasury, and Is to become ambassador to Madrid. Several de tails are added, for example, that the administration Is most anxious to have Claude 0. Bowers, now am bassador to Spain, back In this country for the next campaign. He Is a spellbinder of parts, and has been keynoter on many big Demo eratlc occasions. Now It Is beyond denial that cer tain very Important figures In the New Deal are convinced It would he an excellent thing If Morgen thau were sent to Spain—or to the FIJI Islands—anywhere out of touch with Washington. They regard hint, to put It mildly, as a flop ns secre tary of the treasury. But to anyone who has watched Roosevelt It Is simply unthinkable that Morgenthau would be thus humiliated. He went to extreme lengths to avoid humiliating Wil liam II. Woodln, who was a far worse secretary—from the White House standpoint—thnn Morgen thau. Woodln disagreed distressing ly with most of the New Deni poll cles. His personal loyalty to Roose velt prevented his resigning, for a long time, despite the excellent excuse of his health, but he actu ally had nothing to do with formu Inting the more Important phases of treasury policy. Whereas Morgenthnu hns been the Ideal "Yes Man" to the President. His first thought nt all times Is to do Just precisely what the Pres ident wants, and to tell the Presi dent thnt any Rooseveltlan Idea Is simply swell. He has never sought self-glorification In the public prints, and has not Joined in any conspira cies to unseat Presidential favor ttles from their places near the throne. Morgenthau Will Stay So this observer believes that Mr. .Morgenthau will serve as secretary of the treasury ns long as he wants, and, when the time comes to go, will get a wonderful send-off, and with no such lame excuse as "promoting” him to be ambassa dor to Spain. Then there Is the story about Herbert Hoover’s motive In attract ing so much limelight. This is that Hoover really hns no Idea of being a candidate, hut Intends to hold the limelight and make no state ment which would take him out of the apparent race before, say, next February. The explanation given for this Is thnt Hoover wants to shield any other possible Repub lican nominee from being put on the spot ns to the soldier bonus. By February, Washington believes, the bonus will have passed Into his tory, with Its passage over Roose velt’s veto, and hence will no long er be an Issue. This writer still believes, and on excellent authority from close lieu tenants of the former President, thnt he craves a vindication, that he would like to have the nomina tion forced on him, but that with very little urging he would step out actively and go after it. Most of the stories going around are Just as silly as that one now exploded about Roosevelt’s shelv ing Garner and putting up some one for Vice President next year who would draw strength In some state or section more doubtful thnn Texas Is expected to be. No Real Conflagration Belief that Italy will eventually have to yield to economic pressure Is very strong In diplomatic circles here. The opinion of the diplo mats, perhaps the best Informed persons as to actual conditions. Is that there will not be any real con flngration. They do not believe, for example, that Britain will ever nctu ally blockade Italy, which dire )k>s siblllty would lead to tremendous consequences. They point out, however, that, contrary to popular opinion, Ger many Is not sympathetic with Italy, hut anxious to go along with Great Britain. They do not believe there fore. that Germany will supply Italy with the needed munitions—using munitions In the broad sense of things necessary In time of war. and not confining It, as the United States neutrality net does, to “arms, ammunition and Implements of war.’* Several well-informed diplomats were questioned by the writer ns to what they thought Germans nnx lous to sell goods would do If they saw a chance to make a nice profit by selling to Italy—especially as It has become Increasingly diftl cult for Germany to market goods she would like to expoFt. Invariably the answer ha* been the same—that German merchant* would not hesitate to go against the policy of their country If they could turn a good deal for themaelve*. but that they would hesitate a long time before selling anything to Italy on credit. Italy’s credit, at the moment. Is not too good. Diplomats here say that despite the refusal of Austria and Hungary to commit themselves In advance to league sanctions against Italy, this distrust of Italy's ability to pay will dry up these sources of supply. Italy Short of Gold The gold reserve of the Hank of Italy has shrunk tremendously in the Inst 18 months. She is now down to something like $.'100,000,000 gold In terms of Atnerican dollars Roughly this Is $100,000,000 less. If calculations are made in terms of the American dollar before devalua tion. Importance of this last is not generally realized in this country, save by persons who have traveled In Europe since devaluation. But actually the purchasing power of the lira has not changed In the mean time, either In Italy or on the con tinent of Europe. Italy always buys a great deal of food from across the Adriatic, cattle especially. The Yugoslavians do not like Italy at all. Neither do the Greeks. They are afraid of Mus solini's Imperialistic dreams. Wash Ington believes that Italy has been compelled to pay cash for merchan dlse, with credits closely held, and that this Is the really Important ex planatlon of the drop of three bll lion lire In the gold holdings of the Bank of Italy. To the contention that Germany wua able to go on lighting for years ■ while under virtual blockade, dlp^ Inmats answer that the cases are very different. Within the centra) powers was a stretch of territory from the Baltic to the Black seas and extending beyond the Black Inti Asln. This territory has tremen dons diversification of products, In eluding those essential for war metals, oil and food. Moreover Germany was able to buy from Nor way, Sweden, Denmark, Holland and Switzerland. Italy must buy virtually all her metals and oil, and a great deal of food. After effects of the World wat demonstrated rather forcibly whal could happen to credits. Convlc tlon that Italy will take a ghastly economic heating In the present war, no matter what mllitnry wars shd nmy achieve, lends point to this, And her gold supply does not promt lse long continuance of cash pay» ments. Neutrality Act A tight to broaden the neutrality act so that the President would lit} authorized to prohibit export to bell llgereuts not only of “arms, am munition and Implements of war.” ns the present act rends, but “mu nitions,’’ ho as to Include cottonj copper, chemicals, acids. In fact, all materials, ranging from foodstuff.1] to mules, usually regnrded ns war supplies, will start with the tap of the gavel when congress convenes In January. The administration Is embarrassed now by the lack of authority III the neutrality law, but will be eveil more embarrassed when the tight! In congress comes—especially be1 cause of the political pressur.J against even the grant of authority to ban cotton and copper. At the time the neutrality act passed. President Roosevelt exi pressed only one regret—thnt th# act did not ban foreign loans for war purposes. The narrowness of language In the neutrality act defining war sup plies was not nt once noticed by offi cials. It was assumed until very recently, for example, that the President could add cotton, or cop per, or chemicals and acids used for explosives, etc. In fact, there was a brond Inference In official quarters nfter the President’s proc lamation that Items would be added from time to time. Watch Shipments The government, does not Intend to hamper export trade unduly In seeking to discover If shipments to neutral countries nre Intended for belligerents, officials Insist, but they point out that they have been catching such violations, with re spect to I.atln-Amerlcan wars, “every week or so,” and say the same sort of watch will be kept on any country which might pass them on, either to Italy or Ethiopia. For Instance, If there should be a heavy shipment of explosives or guns to Germany, the government may require substantial proof that the shipment Is not going any fur ther, or Is not going to replace similar supplies sold to Italy. Newspapers, according to officials, have enormously exaggerated the amount of raw materials Italy bought in anticipation of this war. They do not deny that Italy has laid In a supply of raw materials, but Insist that In most Instances, the amounts purchased are not greatly In excess of normal purchases. On the other hand Is the tremen dous shrinking in the Bank of! Itnly’s gold supply. Which would seem to Indicate, es pecially as unofficial Information is that the gold supply has been coin ing down sharply since September 20, thnt Italy has been buying heav ily, despite official reports to thi contrary. Copyright—WNU ServJc*. In Mexico City Indian* Selling Toys in Mexico City. Prepared by National Ueovraphlc Society. Washington, D. C.—WNL1 Service. IN CONTRAST to the situation In any great city of ♦lie United States, one finds In Mexico City practically no night life In cafes, cabarets and showplaees. By 9:30 p. in., except for patrons returning from moving-picture houses, the streets are almost deserted. Climate causes this. Because of high alti tude, nights are often exceptionally cool. Dinner Is usually served In the early afternoon and a light re past at night. Late In the afternoon you see the city’s busy shopping streets at their best. Crowds throng the fnmous avenues; taxis, busses, and private motor cars crowd the streets, where traffic Is handled by policemen In white gloves. An odd cosmopolitan ism marks the larger stores of Mex ico City. In German stores you may see American-made machines, type writers, tools, hardware. Ice boxes, and furniture. Fancy American gro ceries and preserved meats are sold by Spanish merchants. Women’s wear, soaps, perfumery, Jewelry, silks, millinery, and other depart ment-store goods are retailed often by the French, and In nearly all lnrge stores English Is spoken. In the past It was obvious that fash ionably dressed Mexican women pre ferred hats, clothing, and shoes im ported from Paris. Now, to a grow ing degree, American styles, espe cially In sport and street clothes, are closely followed. This Is an In fluence, no doubt, of the moving picture shows and Increasing travel between the United States and Mex ico. American style and Influence are reflected again, not only In dress, but In the occupation of Mexican women. There Is more social and Industrial freedom. Now a growing number of Mexican girls are em ployed ns stenographers, bookkeep ers, clerks, and telephone operators, and have well proved their fitness for a place in the new world of Mex ican economics. Since the passing of the Diaz regime, changes have come fast. You see such change not only In new buildings, but In better com munications, more people who speak English, more skilled workers, and a high standard of living. People Eager for Knowledge. The popular thirst for knowledge Is bona fide and deep-rooted. Free libraries multiply and all classes and ages frequent them. In the li brary of the department of educa tion Is a room for children, with a famous artist’s panels depicting a charming version of Little Red Rid ing Hood. Out In Chapultepee park, amid giant ahuehuete trees that were there In Aztec days, stands the fascinating Quixote fountain. Tiled sents run around It and a statue of Don Quixote faces one of old Sancho Panza on his mule. Fit ted Into the base of the statues are bookshelves, with copies of Cervan tes’ tnles and the works of I’lato, Plutarch, Homer, Stendhal, and Goe the. Here flock the young and old men, who wish to be quiet and rend the classics. Around the basin of the fountain runs a sentence, the first line of Cervantes’ Immortal ro mance: “At a place In La Mancha whose name I do not care to recall.” Tourists, especially In the cold winter months, throng the city In ever-increasing groups. Many come now by airplane, for regularly es tablished lines tie the Mexican capi tal to various American cities. Re tween Mexico City and the Pacific coast port of Acapulco a motor high way has been opened, following In general the ancient military road used when Spanish galleons from Manila discharged cargo at Acapul co for shipment to Spain vln Mexico City and Vera Cruz. Out to historic Cuernavaca, where the American ambassador and oth ers have country places, a scenic motor highway now leads, and like wise to Puebla, ancient and prosper ous city. From the American bor der motor highways, like the one to Monterrey, are beginning to pen pfrate, and It Is only a question of time until touring motor parties from the United States will be a common sight on the streets of Mexico City. Native Art Is Amazing. The art of the Indian and the modern Mexlcnn Intrigues every trlgues every tourist. Whether one Is lured by Aztec art In the museum, by native serapes or ceramics, by the many fine old paintings In the churches and galleries, or some times by the more futuristic murals and canvases of the moderns, Mex ico City is, beyond question, the conspicuous seat of Spanish-Ameri can artistic culture in North Amer ica. The brush-and-pen achievements of mere school children and their plnstic work in clay is inevitably a source of astonishment to foreign visitors. Even in early colonial days, a few Indian painters, trained by the pa dres, painted pictures which attract ed much attention in Europe; and today an increasing number of ar tists come to Mexico, not only to study the work of the ancients, but to mingle with modern native ar tists and to work in the atmosphere of the old Aztec capital. Not only is the city the cultural center of the nation, but It is also the center of the publishing and book trades. Practically all news print and book paper used is made locally. Most Mexican writers—bar ring a few of the older men of let ters who cling to the provincial cap itals—reside here, and each year there is Issued from local presses about 200 new titles, often reach ing more than 2,000,000 volumes. Be sides these, the numerous book stores, large and small, sell a steady stream of books printed in Spain and France. The works of Spanish writers appear more popular than those of Mexican writers. About 4, 000.000 books printed in Spain are sold in Mexico each year and per haps 500,000 from France. Each of the great Mexico City dallies, Universal and Excelsior, prints a bulky Sunday edition, pat terned after American metropolitan Spnday papers, with illustrations and features, even Including some of our well-known “comic strips” and cartoons, with texts rendered in Spanish. To art students, and particularly to sculptors, the graven Images on the mysteriously old ruined temples in the valley of Mexico are of pro found Interest. Some of the most colossal struc tures built by prehistoric men any where in the Western Hemisphere are found In Mexico. Mitla, Uxmal, Palenque, Chlchen Itza, the Incom parable pyramid of Oholula, Its base greater than that of Cheops—all these are monuments left by forgot ten civilizations. The Ancient Pyramids. Skirt Lake Texcoeo, on a fine mo torway from Mexico City, and you soon reach San Juan Teotlhuaean. Here, before even the Aztecs came, some mysterious race appeared, building its temples and pyramids with a symbolic art strangely like that of ancient Egypt. Here is the Pyramid of the Sun. On its summit, according to tradition, once stood a giant stone figure, which bore on its breast a great plate of burnished gold, fixed there In such a position that it reflected the rays of sunrise. A few furlongs from here, on a strange road called the Path of the Dead, stands the Pyramid of the Moon. About the moon temple are many ruins of other structures adorned with oddly evil serpent faces carved from stone. Persistent as Indian conservatism has been and deep ns is the native Mexican love for handicraft, you see it yielding now to the machine age. Cignrette factories here are marvels of modern speed, efficiency, and mass production. Tourists visiting one famous factory, which employs hundreds of men and girls and lias its own private chapel, medical de pnrtment, school, post and telegraph offices, ns well as a complete litlio grnphlng plant for Its advertising work, are fascinated at the velocity of the great machines, which make nearly 1(5,000,0(H) cigarettes a day. It Is the mushroom growth oi small shops, fostered by electric power and the new Import tariff laws, which is most significant. In recent years an amazing number of necessities, formerly Imported, have come to be made here. From a ver itable host of tanneries conies leath er of good quality, which is skill fully worked into trunks, harness saddles, belts, boots and shoes, and handbags. Candy and cakes and soft drinks are important manufac tures, and the output of ready-made clothing from cotton, wool, and lin en has grown hugely in recent times. Railroad shops, iron and steel mills, as well as smelting and refining works, now give employment to thousands; and a new industry, air plane construction, la growing up. HOSv ARE ^B Reducing Weight 5 YOU know, there are two main classes of overweight. The first is made up of those who have always been heavy; were big babies or put on a great amount of weight at puberty—14 to 16 years of age. The second is made up of those who have simply eaten more than their bodies required and because they are overweight take lit tle or no exercise. The first type is spoken of as endo genic obesity (overweight) because the cause is within themselves—glands that are not active enough—and the second is called exogenic obesity be cause it comes from outside the body— eating too much food. However, whether the obesity is due to the glands or to eating too much, the reduction in weight to a very large extent should be accomplished by cut ting down on the amounet of food eaten. Hr. U. Arany, Berlin, stresses three points for those whose overweight Is due to overeating. (1) Cutting down on the amount of food eaten; (2) in Dr. Barton s creasing the amount of exercise taken which calls for more oxygen to burn or use up the body tissues, and (3) regulating the water exchange by In creasing the amount of urine manufactured by the kidneys. Doctor Arany sug gests that the Individ ual be examined, weighed, the metabol ic rate measured (rate at which the body processes work) and when the food Intake be reduced by as much as 20 to 30 per cent below the food intake that these measurments re quire. He suggests that bulky foods such as cabbage, lettuce, celery, spin ach, fruits, vegetables (except potato), graham bread, breakfast foods from whole grains (oatmeal, shredded wheat) be eaten In large quantities because there is so much roughage (fiber) re maining after digestion. These foods have less fuel value or calories than more concentrated foods and also help to prevent constipation. The foods that are rich or concen trated and do not have much roughage are sugar, white bread, highly milled breakfast foods, meat, potato, fats, and milk. These foods should he re duced in amount. The second point, muscular exercise, is very important, as exercise increases heart and lung uction and the in creased oxygen coming into the lungs burns up the fat tissue In and on the body. He warns those who are over weight to begin with light exercise and gradually increase It; the strength of the heart, lungs, and circulation or blood pressure being carefully watched. The third point—the water balance— Is very important as overweights car ry an excess of water In proportion to the excess in fat. As mentioned be fore, one pound of fnt carries three and one-half pounds of water with It. simply because fat tissue holds so much more water than an active tis sue like muscle. Water Is removed from the body (and water means weight) by sim ply cutting down on the amount of fluid taken—water, tea, coffee, soft or hard drinks—by inducing sweating by steam or Turkish baths, and some times by taking drugs to drive out fluids by way of the kidneys. It is amusing to see an overweight individual weigh himself, take a fair ly long Turkish bath and lose three to five pounds and when he is ready to leave, weigh himself again only to find that he as heavy as before he took the Turkish bath. This is due, of course, to the fact, that after emerg ing from the bath, he drank a number of glasses of water which replaced the water removed from Ills body by the Turkish hath. The removal of the wa ter and its replacement was good for him, but It prevented the loss of weight. Boxers, Jockeys, and others who must "make” a certain weight by a certain time often have the weight removed by the Turkish bath, but drink little or no water, and so are able to make the desired weight. Doctor Arany’s suggestions to reduce weight are in accord with those in gen eral use—less food, more exercise, less water or other fluid. • • * Danger of Overweight Or. L. G. Graves In tils book “Foods In Health anti Disease’’ says, “An ex cess of fat Is detrimental to health and Is a predisposing factor in degen eratlve d senses of the heart, blood vessels and kidneys. An accumulation of fat around the heart handicaps its action while the increased body weight adds to the work demanded of It and a large percentage of over weight persons have high blood pres sure.’’ Dr. E. P. Joslin. Iloston, the out standing authority on diabetes, warns those who have a family history of diabetes against the danger of becom ing fat. He believes that those with a family history of diabetes may es cape diabetes by avoiding overweight. He believes also that overweight is the most common cause of diabetes, c—W.VU Svrvlca THE DOCTORS AREJGHT Women should take only liquid laxatives Many believe any laxative they might take only makes constipation worse. And that isn’t true. Do what doctors do to relieve this condition. They use a liquid THREE STEPS M -J-1 TO RELIEVING 15=! hi A a cleansing aose loaay; a smaller quantity tomorrow; less each time, until bowels need no help at all. laxative, and keep reducing the dose until the bowels need no help at all. Reduced dosage is the secret of aiding Nature in restoring regularity. You must use a little less laxative each time, and that’s why your laxa tive should be in liquid form. A liquid dose can be regulated to the drop. The liquid laxative generally used is Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. It contains senna and cascara — both natural laxatives that form no habit even with children. Syrup Pepsin is the nicest tasting, nicest acting laxa tive you ever tried. 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