Japanese Bombard the Shanghai Waterfront
A scene of confusion on the Whangpoo river off the Bund at Shanghai as Japanese airplanes bombed Poo
tung. Ships and boats of all kinds scurry to safety. At the right is the United States cruiser Augusts, which,
in acting as a protective barricade between the fighters and the settlement, was hit by a shell of undetermined
origin that killed one of the seamen and wounded 18 others.
“Dickie** Brings Help in Nick of Time
Mrs. Christine Toth, seventy, of Lucaston, N. J., fondling her pet
k poodle, Dickie, after the dog had been instrumental in saving its mis
f tress’ life recently. Ill from toadstool poisoning, Mrs. Toth wrote a note,
“Help, I’m dying. Mrs. Toth,” tied it to the dog’s collar and sent him
out of her house. The dog’s shrill barking awakened Rev. Harry R.
Stockton, pastor of the local Methodist Episcopal church, early in the
morning. Noticing the note, he telephoned for a doctor who sped to
Mrs. Toth’s side, reaching her just in time to save her life.
Hitler Dolled Up
as He Attends
Nazi Congress
Dressed in a faultless uniform.
Chancellor Adolph Hitler is greeted
on his arrival at Nuremberg, Ger
many, to attend the National So
cialist congress.
Stylish hut Weird
Is New Costume
for Ski Addicts
Paris.—Weird, but fashionable, is
this ski addict, clad in Schiaparelli’s
latest outfit made of black wool and
previewed at a Parisian salon. The
boyish knee pants are held at the
back with buckle and strap. The
“shocking pink” helmet is hand
knitted. A short jacket and long,
loose coat complete the ensemble. 1
A Stitch in the Britches Just in Time
But what if the needle should slip? This snapshot was taken at a
holiday camp on the Kent coast in England, where the fair needlewoman
obliged her unlucky companion.
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As 31 Young Men Entered the Priesthood
An Impressive view of the ceremonies at Latrobe, Pa., as Bishop Hugh C. Hoyle of the Pittsburgh diocese
(ordained 31 young deacons to the priesthood. Also shown are some of the 21 men who were ordained as
sub-deacons.
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
1—Senorita Anita I.izana, temperamental Chilean, becomes second foreigner to win United States women's
national tennis championship in Forest Hills (N. Y.) meet. 2—Desperate to save Shanghai, the Chinese Cen
tral government hastily ordered military training for women, who are fighting the Japanese shoulder to
shoulder with the men: some have already been killed in action. 3—Tiny Nancy Felio, youngest American
refugee from the war in the Far Fast, as she landed in Seattle, safe and sound.
NOT I, SAYS JOHN
New York.—John, youngest child
of President and Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, arriving home from Eu
rope, took advantage of the oppor
tunity to deny again that he had
squirted champagne in the face of
the mayor of Cannes, France, and
hit him over the head with a bou
quet, during the annual "battle of
flowers.” "It must have been two
other fellows. I’ve never met the
mayor,” he reiterated. His engage
ment was announced to Miss Anne
Lindsay Clark, of Boston.
“Miss America” Shuns Her Crown
Atlantic City, N. J.—Blonde, blue-eyed Bette Cooper (above), seven
teen, of Ilacketlstown, N. J., chosen the most beautiful girl in the United
States at the annual contest here, walked out on the promoters shortly
afterward, forsaking screen tests and other rewards for school and home.
Bette is 5 feet 6'^ inches tall and weighs 120 pounds.
Civilization Marches On in Europe
Berlin.—With war becoming more and more imminent in Europe, Germany hastens to protect her youth
from the most horrible of modern weapons—gas. As pictured here, officials oversee the distribution of gas
masks, making sure they fit properly before the youngsters are allowed to take them home at 2',4 marks
(about $!) the copy.
Sudden Stop for Navy Cruiser
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Annapolis, Md.—Football’s in the air again, and watch out. Army
mule! There’s plenty of dynamite in the 1937 Navy squad, pictured in
workout here. Whitehead, speedy back, is shown being stopped in his
tracks as he breaks loose with the pigskin from scrimmage.
SIGNS FOR F. 11. R.
Washington, D. C.—Jeanne Kava
nagh, twenty, pretty, blue-eyed Iowa
girl, pictured here, has been ap
pointed by President Roosevelt as
secretary, with the power to sign
his name to all land grants and pat
ents. She is the youngest person
ever to hold this position.
Germ Causes
Tuberculosis
By
DR. JAMES W. BARTON
© Bell Syndicate.—IVNU Service.
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IT IS hard to convince the
average man or woman
that tuberculosis is not inher
ited. They look about them on
every side and know that a
parent, an uncle, a brother,
or a sister of a patient with
tuberculosis has died of tu
berculosis.
Yet physicians, particularly those
working close to tuberculosis, tell
Dr. Barton
us that while tuber
culosis may appear
to “run in families,”
it is only "because
children catch the
disease from an old
er member of the
household who has
it.”
Shortly after I
graduated in medi
cine the superin
tendent of a large
sanatorium told me
that he believed that
In at least half the adult population
evidences of past or healed tubercu
losis could be found. Today it is
believed that if every part of the
body could be examined some evi
dence of tuberculosis would bo found
in everybody, which, for the time
being at least, was in a “quiet”
state.
Caused by an Organism.
Why then, if tuberculosis can be
found in practically everybody, do
we not all suffer with the symptoms
or at least show some signs of it?
“The specific or definite cause of
tuberculosis is a germ or organism.
If a few tuberculosis germs get into
a healthy body no harm is done
because the body fights back. But
if one lives daily with a careless
person who has the disease the
danger is great. Kissing, coughing
and spitting may be the means of
spreading tuberculosis germs. Any
thing which has touched the sick
person's lips may have germs on
it.”
It would be well for all of us to
remember also the first signs—the
danger signals—pointing to tubercu
losis. These signals may not mean
tuberculosis in every case but
should cause one to suspect tubercu
losis. These signals are: (1) too
easily tired; (2) loss of weight; (3)
indigestion; (4) cough that hangs on.
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Overweight and the Failing Heart.
One of the hard tasks for physi
cian and patient is when there is a
great amount of fat in and on the
body and the patient has a weak or
damaged heart.
The most effective method of re
ducing weight is cutting down on
the food intake and increasing the
exercise. Unfortunately the over
weight patient with a heart condi
tion needs food to maintain his
strength and can take little or no
exercise owing to the strain exer
cise puts upon the heart.
In addition to getting out of breath
easily many of these patients begin
to get a little swelling in the feet
which means they must get off the
feet more, and keep the feet on an
other chair when sitting. While this
may mean less work for the heart
it of course means less work or ex
ercise for the body and more fat
accumulates.
Therefore when the physician un
dertakes the treatment of the over
weight heart patient he does so, not
with fear and trembling as to what
must be done, but with fear and
trembling that his patient will not
follow his suggestions faithfully;
that he will continue to eat more
than his body needs.
One of the laws that applies to
all the organs or functioning proc
esses of the body is briefly: “An
organ performing its work with dif
ficulty undergoes a gradual deteri
oration, if increased activity is per
sisted in.” This doesn’t mean that
1 the organs or tissues will not or
are not able to do many times the
necessary work, but it does mean
that if an overload is placed on it,
and it has to work with this over
load for a long time, the fibers or
i tissues of the organ lose their
strength and elasticity, just as a
piece of elastic kept greatly
stretched too long will lose some of
its power to contract.
It is therefore getting these over
weights to lessen the amount of
their food intake and thus take the
overload off the heart (due to its
having to nourish this extra fat and
weight of the body) that the physi
cian so persistently aims at.
The converse or opposite of this
rule is: “If the work demanded of a
diseased or failing organ be a lit
tle less than it is really able to do,
a certain degree of power will be
restored.” In the case of the heart
this is known as “heart reserve.”
You can see then how important
it is to the overweight heart patient
that he get rid of his fat and lessen
the work on the heart. “When the
heart muscle is suffering from any
abnormal mechanical handicap
(such, for instance, as having to
pump blood to a large quantity of
inactive fat tissue) and shows signs
of failing, it should be given as
| nearly as possible absolute rest to
; regain some of its lost power."
