American Legion Convention in Session
General view of the Cleveland auditorium with the American Legion annual convention in session. More
than ten thousand veterans were present.
Testing Boulder Dam's Great Valves
Twelve needle valves at Boulder dam, six on each side of the dam,
pictured pouring their tremendous flood water out of the downstream
side of the mighty structure. This was the first time all twelve valves
have been opened since completion of the dam.
Wins Title of
Empire State’s
Best Cook
Mrs. F E. Dona of Canton N. Y.,
is hailed as the best cook in the
Empire State, for she won first
prize in the menu contest sponsored
by the state bureau of milk pub
licity. The prize dinner cooked by
Mrs. Dona consisted of onion soup,
fish baked in milk, riced potatoes
with carrot sauce, diced baked
beets and buttered peas, whole
wheat scones, apple salau and lem
on pudding, with milk for children
and cafe au lait for adults.
PERSIAN HALFBACK
Omar Fared, University of Chica
go halfback, is a Persian He dis
played clever running and passing
lor Chicago last season. He weighs
only 167 pounds.
New Auditorium Built for San Jose
Here, beautifully situated amid palms. Is the new municipal audi- j
torium in San Jose, Calif. It was erected with the aid of a PWA grant
of $500,000, and is the first unit of the city's proposed civic center. Other
imposing buildings are expected to form a part of this new development,
which will make San Jose one of the most imposing cities of California.
In Memory of the Sailing of the Mayflower
Representatives of American and British societies celebrated the anniversary of the sailing of the May
flower in 1620 at the actual spot on the Barbican at Plymouth, Devonshire, England.
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
1—Ex-Queen Victoria of Spain in New York looking after her son, Count Covadonga, who is afticted with
haemophilia. 2—Members of the Coldstream Guards, who volunteered for service in Palestine, on their way
to take ship to that country. 3—Pickets in the lettuce workers’ strike at Salinas, Calif., routed by tear gas
used by the state highway police.
Keeps Eagle Eye on Penn Gridsters
Something new in football fans is this falcon, “Blue Beauty,” shown
j with its owner, Alva Nye, of Chevy Chase, D. C., at a workout of the
University of Pennsylvania grid squad. Nye, who is a regular of the
varsity squad, raises the falcons for a hobby. This one will be seen
on the bench throughout the coming season.
“INFANT IN POLITICS”
Dean John R. Murdock of the Ari
zona Si.ate Teachers college at
Tempe, Ariz., a self-styled "infant
in politics," who deft a ted eleven
Democratic candidates foi the
state’s long congressional seat. His
nomination is considered tanta
mount to election.
JULIANA S FIANCE
Prince Bernard Zur Lippe-Bicster
feld of Germany, whose engagement
to Princess Juliana of Holland was
announced recently.
Two Big Ones Escaped, Says Hoover
Still smiling over his angling success, former President Herbert
Hoover talks over his fish and things with Lawrence Richey (left), his
former secretary, and Arnold E. Rattray after their cruise in Block
Island sound. In the four-hour fishing expedition Mr. Hoov r and his
party hooked five good-sized blueflsh—with two of the largest escaping
capture.
Barcelona Seminary to Be Popular University
Members of the Iberian Anarchist federation dismantling the ancient Seminary of Barcelona pre
paratory to converting the establishment into a university of the Popular party.
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Nervous Ailments.
SOME of the names used in
describing mental ailments
are naturally confusing and ev
erywhere research workers are
trying to get names that will
describe certain symptoms and
these names could then be used
throughout the world.
And even names of very common
ailments or groups of symptoms are
Dr. Barton.
not as well under
stood by most of us
as they should be.
Thus imbecile
means that the in
dividual did not
have enough brain
power when he was
born and never will
have enough to en
able him to earn a
living. In other
words, he was bom
that way.
Dementia, on the
other hand, means that the brain
power has "gone downward.” The
individual was born with sufficient
brain power and was able to think,
do mental work, earn a living, but
his mental power has become less
due to various causes. We have all
seen this in many friends or ac
quaintances who have lost their
memory, their power to think as
they grew older.
Types of Dementia.
Now this dementia may not be
one of decay but of change in the
attitude of the mind towards the
surroundings, family, or work. The
individual may get very excited
about things, very depressed, or
pay no attention to the most im
portant or vital matters. This latter
is called the apathy — not inter
ested—type.
The excited dementia patient
talks a great deal, is greatly in
terested in a matter, drops it and
gets greatly interested in something
different; his attention being at
tracted by the most trifling object
or subject. He is generally pleased
with himself, but may have out
bursts of furious anger.
Depression is exactly the opposite
to excitement. “The patient is slow
in all his actions, thinks with dif
ficulty and is miserable and u n -
happy.”
Mental Indifference.
In the third type of dementia
patient — apathy or indifference —
the patient is neither excited or de
pressed, but absolutel> indifferent
and without apparent interests, de
sires or ambitions.
The patient sits down, doesn’t do
anything because he isn’t interested
in anything. As a matter of fact
the patient can and ols observe
and understand everything but
nothing seems important enough to
stir him to thought or action.
Thus in a general way then im
becility or being an imbecile is not
having enough brains. Dementia
means having brains but not
balance.
• • •
A Sane Reducing Program.
In following a reducing diet every
overweight individual tries to re
member that starch food—potatoes,
bread, sugar and pastry — Is
definitely known to store fat. It is
of course known that these foods
are all good necessary foods as they
create heat and energy in the body.
But as the average fat individual
does not use up as much energy
in work or play as one of normal
weight, the excess starch food gets
stored away as fat. It is only nat
ural then that potatoes, bread and
sugar are the first foods reduced.
Similarly with fat foods. Fat
foods give twice as much energy
as stsrch foods or the proteids —
meats, eggs, fish. In every reduc
ing diet it is advisable that butter,
cream, and fat meats be also re
duced.
Now this reduction in starch and
fat foods—the energy producers —
often means that the individual
feels weak, lacks energy, is afraid
he or she will collapse, with the
result that both starch and fat foods
are immediately resumed in full
amounts and these individuals feel
that reducing weight by reducing
food just cannot be done in their
particular cases.
It might be well therefore for
some who are reducing to start re
ducing the fat foods first, leaving
the reduction of starch foods for a
few weeks later.
Another point to remember is
that food must not be cut down in
large amounts at first. While the
excess fat on the overweight indi
vidual can serve to a certain extent
as fuel for the needs of the body,
only a small amount of it should
be used as fuel daily or there may
be shock, and sagging of face and
abdomen.
However one of the main points
in reducing weight is to remember
not to cut down on proteid foods;
in fact it might be well, to actually
increase the amount of m at eaten.
Whereas fat foods and starch foods
burn slowly, meat foods burn fast.
@—WNO Service.