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' '* , "l . * ' . PHYSICAL .CULTl RE \ % Teak MssclesAfldtyf Thatis Wing Strengthened by Macl lnes. J , ' ALL WflO LOOK STRONG AKEf NOT . 'Reconstruction Hospital Reports En* couraging .Success in Us* of Dial Devices?Patient Can Watch His Improvement , ( By .Elisabeth Smith w Samson wonl(Jn!t have given a tinker's tuppence about being the big boy if the dtherboys not so big hadn't * been around to see him/pull down the pillars. , A man may look as thoush he had . the pep of a wet ostrich* plume. 1 His heart action may be ap unreliable as a feminize wrist watch. ..His muscles may register the"farfamed ,one-half of; one per cent in strength. ? ' Yet all the same, he aspires to be a Samson. just to show the omer Doys: Because such is the vorkir>g of hLs mind, psychology has been called ip assist in the equipping of one of the strangest gymnasiums in the world, located at the Reconstruction HospU ta), at Central Park West and 100'th street New York. A psychologist designed tho exercising machines of this remarkable gyidnasium. whose function is to restore to norpial use, useless legs, arms and muscles. \Prdinarlly_ a. physical trainer migtyt ljfc expected to outfit a gymnasium withi' apparatus fV?r -exercising bodies, but In this instancy Professor E. A. Bott, of the University of Toronto^! was enlisted to dnsignethe extraordinary -exohatscus. Hlti''t designs wfcye supplemented by others devised by "Dr. J.'rTaIt Mackenzie, of the University of Pennsylvania. , / Briefly the secret of the success accomplished witfr these machines lies in the . fact that each has a dial or measuring device which records before the patient's eyes the progress he mak*a. Showing yourself and the other boys again, you see. , May Ba Seen at Coney. Professor Bott and Dr. Mackenzie did not have i to -go as far ">ack as Samson to prove the truth of their psychology. A trip to Coney Island would have sufficed instead. Down at Coney,-men crowd to pay money for the privilege of swinging a sledge hammer on a contrive.'ice that sends an Indicator up toward i a bell. Thfe indicator is measured of! like a thermometer tq-t record the farce of the blow. The (paying worker swings his. sledge, and then cranes his neck hopefully to' see the result recorded. The same oiaft, however, wculd tire promptly If given a sledge hammer to work or* exercise with. The Uidicator,, on The other hand, gives him the proper incentive. The mechanotherapy exercisers of the Reconstruction ,Hospital are built on this same basic psychological fact:* Interest inspires effort! Nearly forty, men and women and children .come each day to the bright, sunny room at the hospital that has been fitted up as a gymnasium. Here the work is directed by Miss Elin Petronella Stepstrom, who hps been an expert ip her line ft* many years. Those who come here have stiffened hands, lame arms, legs or backs, results of Industrial injuries qr war disabilities. Although not bedrldden^.they are not capable of resuming fcbeir usual physical work. Many wi^ convinced that they would never again have the use of disabled muscles. Everyday the mechanothertpy^irdom is crowded with those who are ?cr-educating these muscles so that they limy re-engage in proaucuvt WQrK. #Every eitfercise Is prescribed l?y physicians. Miss Stenstrom carefuHy studies the case when It comes into her hands, and sets to work applying her knowledge of psychology as well as of gymnastics. A group of men with stiff arms and crippled hands are set to throwing a ball. Were these same men put at plain hand-limbering exercises, they ? might weary of It promptly with exercise disguised as play however, they forget that their hands cannot close, and presently they are gripping the ball In catch or throw. Finger Exercised on Tre* Jmill. At a specially designed bench a' man with a mangled, stiffened hand exercises his finger on a treadmill. He is a baker by trade and his finger was crushed In the bread mixer. Unless he has relief he can ply his trade no ihore. The treadmill, however, will fix all that. This is a metal spool with liat surfaces sufficient for a fingerhold. Th6 spool revolves on a spindle and as the stiffened fingers, one by. one. revolve in a dPfrrAtf* thp snnnl winds nr. u to which dangles a weight. The finger tips must not relax their hold on the threads or the weight will roll the spool hack. This machine is dialed to show progress. On the wall of the gymnasium is a sheer vertical set Hf finger steps up which the patient forces his hand to climb. Thus not only exercises the hand, hut also gradually enables him ?to raise an arm held down'by a stiffened joint or shoulder. For the extension of gnarled fingers there are also gloves with fingertips attached to weighted cords passing over- pulleys. One of the simplest devices for exercising stiff wrists and hands is one ? ' * which resembled a towel roller around , which are wound cords to which weights are attached like the o'd oaken bucket. The patient tries twisting the roller, and as he progresses in strength he increases the weights until he can lift the entire set bv twisting the roller with his hand. On each of these machines le a de9 WILSON FUND ASKED TO ( Copvriohtj A bill has been introduced in! iiue act of 1921 so that persons wh dation can have the amount deduc Eicture is the latest one of the foi e is to-day, i vice by which the patient can measure the progress of his improvement from, day to day. ' Stationary Bicycle for Stiff Krlees. For feet and legs he simplest exerciser is the stationary bicycle. Mount- ' ed on this one sees Frederick .Halik, of the Twenty-seventh Division, who was1, wounded in the knee overseas 1 and whose knee and leg have become stiffened from two yars in a cast. Young Halik explains that this par- ' tlcular kind of exercise is the only one ' that has ever given him any relief and. that in hut \t week he notes great improvement. / . 1 Sevtyal other devices have peilnls resembling those of an organ. One of ' these can be used sitting or standing. In the latter position, the exercise ( gives rotation t,p the hip. 1-^or the sideways turning of the foot and amuo, a neavy 11 on ioui aim ?eg uia?? 1 ( is provided. This swings on a pivot with a heavy iron wheel dragging on the turn to force full bxertion in making the effort. Attached to this is a hand turner, which enables the beginner to move by hand power the j machine gripping vhis ankle. As the leg muscles grow tn strength, through i exercise, they are depended upon to ( move without assistance. } The strangest and yet the simplest ( device xof the Reconstruction Hospital's mechanotherapy is the track for !, correcting flat and weak feet. This device has footboards' that ,'iro tilted ( slightly from the middle, forcing the j ( patients to walk as they would along the two sides of a roof peak. I ( I'atients? That word lias crept more than once into this story, but it j ( was a mistake. For who can be a patient when get- | ting well is op^y A plan play like that offered in mechanotherapy? ? New York Evening Telegram. AUTOS INCREASE. More Than 3,000 Purchased In First Quarter of 1922. A total of 3,?33 new automobiles were registered with the South Cam III1U illgmvuy UV|IUI 1IMVKI uui m<first* four months of I!*!-, January, February, March awl April, according to figures announced by I,. H. Thomas, secretary of the state highway commission. This total includes nothing I but "brand new" automobiles. During January, February and March' 2,305 new autos were registered [and during April 928 new machines were licensed by the department. This would tend to show, to a small extent, i that the state is not broke. For April Anderson county registered 39 cars. Charleston 73, Greenville 79, Spartanburg 87, and Richland 145. For January, February and March, Anderson county registered 104, Char- ; leston -254, Greenville 192, Richland 370, Spartanburg 180 and Darlington 78. These were the leading counties. Richland county, it will be seen, blazed the way for the first four months in new cars. The popular j priced vehicles far outnumber ! the I higher priced ears, or in other words the "Tin I.izzie" outstripped every other make and also was more numerous than the combined total of all other makes. For instance, in Oconee county about 26 cars were registered in ; April, and 24 were flivvers. l ?In years to come we may expect a plague of candidates whose only quali- , fieation is a yearning to do something ' for a doughboy. BE EXEMPT FROM TAX. , ^jjwSyBg|*-.;| 5 S8BBS U ?? ? <AAA fl M L. - - - - J ~~ * - * _ , oy u nacrunua ana i/nam</ vvu. ;o the Senate to amend the reveo contribute to the Wilson Founded from their income tax. This rmer President and shows him as . . ' \} EASY IN GASTONIA. Gaston Bootleggers Ask Very Few Questions. Here's an instance of how easy it is in Gastonia: / During the stay of the Buffalo International League baseball team in the city last month, one of the playerB wanted a little for his stomach's sake, yid one of the good fellows of the limn offered to help him secure the same. He tells it thus: "We got in my car and drove into a certain section of town notorious for its liquor. We pulled up alongside the curb, and stopped the car. In less than two minutes, a man approached the car with the question: "'Whatcher want?' 'Whatcher got?' we replied.' "4Oh, I got about a pint, I guess, ^ can let you have.' "'What's it worth?' we asked him. " I'll let you have it for three dollars.' he said. " 'Whore is it?' wo asked him. "'Oh, it's here under my shirt,' he eplied. "lie climbed in the car and rode off with us. During the ride he transferred the booze to one of the pockets of the car, and soon thereafter he al^ht d. . "'Well, I've been in Buffalo a good while, right across the Canadian line, and that's the easiest I've gottep a drink of whisky in a long time,' said the#I!uffalo player. "'It's easy here,' I said to him, 'but don't blame me if it kills you.' " A bystander hearing this story, added: "Yes* and that's a Section of town that you .bad better dodge after dark. They'll do anything to you thcire. For my part ! don't hang around there any more than'rny business demands. Use- , tube cops patroled that part of town day and night, but haven't seen any ! there lately." Finis.?Gastonia Gazette. COW'S GREAT RECORD. Produces Forty Pounds of Butter In One Week. Forty pounds of butter in seven days is the production record just announc < (l for a California cow by Malcolm H. Gardner, superintendent of testing for the Holstoin-Freisian Association of America. The cow is Miss Aggie < nimby Segis, a registered. Holstein, owned by Fred Hartsook, L&nkersheim, California. Her milk production during the seven days was 64^.9 pounds. The test was supervised by the California Agricultural college, the California State association and the National Holstein association. Miss Aggie established a world's record over ail breeds for two year olds several months ago, producing in ten months 22.0S i pounds of milk, yielding 834.7 pounds of butter, it was stated. The daily average for the ten months' test was more than 70 pounds of milk a day. or more than 35 quarts every 24 hours. She freshened for her last record the last days of March, only a few months after completing the ten months' record, the announcement stated- Loss than fifty cows have produced 4a pounds of butler in a week. ! according to records of the United i Stales department of agriculture. ? Unfortunilely, however, American business enn't build a tariff wall J j around foreign markets in order to j keep out cheap foreign goods. 1 I DRIVE ON CHRISTIANS Chinese Students Start Campaign Bitterly Denouncing Religion. An anti-Christian movement has been put under way by students in China, relates a Pekin, China, dispatch. These students have been reading much outside propaganda and are leaning toward tho/(loctrlnes of the Russian Communists, so their campaign has no relation to the old Boxer movement, which was a revolt of Chinese reactionaries against western, ideas. Declarations have been issued bymany students' organizations, including those of the Pekin National University. The association at the latter institution says: 'The sins of religion are too numerous to mention. Speaking of its moral side wo find that it teaches men obedience, whjch is the moral mo^c of slaves. Speaking of its intellectual superstitions which hinder the search for truth. "Of all religions, Christianity lp, we i feel, the most detestable. One sin which Christianity is gollty of and which particularly makes our hair rise on ond is its collusion with militarism and capitalism. Call* Christianity Detestable. "Realizing: that China has long been and objec tof exploitation of the c^pltrlh;ts and imperialistic countries of tho world, Christlnplty is'utilizing its opportunity to extend- its influence. It is the intelligence officer of the capitalists and the hlrling of the imperlaiistlc countries"We who have had a deep hatred of Christianity for a long time are unanimous in our opposition and have just organized a Non-Christian Student Federation to co-operate in the extermination of this evil fiend until China gets rid of it." The Non-Christian Student Federation of the Pekin Teachers' College for Women says: Religion destroys true reasons, obstructs* progress and disgraces human historv. In this respect Chris tlanity is tho most detestable. When it was first introduced into China its followers ccfnflned their activities merely to the spread of the Gospel, but Hince the development of capitalism European and American capitalists have been using it as- their vanguard for their conquest of China. Stands As Belligerent*. "The. chjurches and the y. hL C. A., whose pernicious influence seems to be burning as fiercely as ever, havo led many of our youths astray. They are the tools of the' tigers and are willing to aid the evil. We who uphold truth, who maffitain humanity, ard who are /the eneAiy of capitalism, stand in a belligerent position with those organs." The country is callhd upon to denounce the Christian Student Federation. which is about. to, hold a conference here. An organization which slgno itaolf the Young China Society has also come forward with a declaration against the World Christian Student Federation. It says: "In the twentieth century, when science reacnes na iiuichl ueveiujjment, religion cannot Jive. Our society, whose object is to study everything in a scientific spirit, is naturally opposed to religion, which is unscientific and superstitious. Let our brethren throughout the country rise up and unite as one man to work for the attainment of the common object." 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