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- w THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1938 Low Back Pain Dr. Barton By DR. JAMES W. BARTON © Bell SyndicaU.—WNU Service. W HEN an attack of low back pain occurs—lunv bago and sciatica—the first thought is naturally to relieve pain which is very severe, espe cially in sciatica. Rest is also part of the treatment, particu larly if there has been any strain from lifting, making a miss-step or from a fall or oth er injury. However, if there has been no strain or injury, the first thought should be of infec tion and the com monest cause—teeth or tonsils—should be remembered. If in fection is the cause and the patient is taking no medicine to relieve pain, he will not usually be free of pain even if he is resting in bed. In strain, rest or freedom from pain can usually be ob tained if the patient places himself in a position that will relieve the strain and take the “pull” off the muscles. Danger From Infection. Unfortunately there are cases where there is both infection and strain and there are cases where infection has previously been pres ent and left some damage to the bones and joints of the lower back, which is followed by the present in jury. Thus the disks of cushions be tween the lower back spinal bones may be injured and press on the spinal cord itself or its branches, causing intense pain in the hip ex tending to the back of the thigh and right down to the calf of the leg. Sometimes old infections will actu ally cause the joints between the spine bones to become fastened to gether so that sometimes two, three or four bones are thus fastened to gether, forming a splint and, of course, preventing proper move ment in the lower back. To tell whether the severe pain is due to strain or infection is often difficult. Dr. Joseph H. Barr, Bos ton, in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, reminds us that “the clas sic signs of low back strain are spasm or tightening of the muscles, listing of the spine to the opposite side away from the injury, lessen ing of the normal amount of move ment, inability to raise leg with knee straight, tender ‘spots’ down the back of the thigh and calf.” • • • Exercise to Reduce. In giving advice to reduce weight most physicians, including myself, suggest that the amount of food be reduced, particularly the fat and starch foods. Further suggestions are that the rest periods at night, and also any rest periods during the day, be reduced in length. These suggestions, of course, make for “safe” reduction in weight. However, the other big factor in reducing weight—exercise—is not stressed so much by health writers because many overweights have heart and bloodvessel conditions which may make vigorous exercise really dangerous. Besides many overweights, as they are over weight, do not like exercise because the moving of their bodies causes too much effort. Nevertheless, when there is no heart or bloodvessel condition pres ent, exercise is really the best meth od of reducing weight as it gives in return for time and effort spent, greater strength of body—a strong individual mentally and physically. Gladstone said that systematic training of the body gave a larger rate of interest than any other in vestment. Reducing the food intake is an excellent way to reduce weight be cause, as not enough food is eaten to supply the body’s needs, some of the fat on the body is used to supply the amount needed, and thus fat is removed from the body with the resultant loss of weight. ^ In the case of the Turkish bath, perhaps 2 to 5 pounds of weight is removed because the heat drives the water out of the fat tissues. This weight is often put on again before leaving the bathing establishment or shortly afterwards by drinking a great amount of water. You thus see that reducing the food intake will get rid of fat and water, and the Turkish bath will get rid of much water, yet neither of these methods give strength to the body itself; that is in the way of building up muscle. Exercise builds up muscle. With the increase in muscle—physical strength—there is an actual “desire” to take exercise. Instead of exercise being a bugbear, it becomes a real pleasure; in fact exercise invites itself. Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1—Members of the Italian Fascist good-will mission pictured daring their visit to Tokyo. 2—Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford shown as they celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary recently. 3—Erstwhile troops of the Spanish Loyalist army shown as they arrived at a concentration camp at Lnchon, France, after they had fled across the border to escape annihilation by General Franco’s rebel forces. Papa Passes His Examinations How Giraffe Battles Lion The giraffe has never killed an other animal except in self-defense, he is strictly vegetarian, and he can travel at the rate of 30 miles an hour—and the meek animal can even give a large lion a good trounc ing by adroitly kicking him. Wrestling with a washable doll, Anthony Cappi, one of the fathers-to- be who recently graduated from the four weeks’ course on handling a baby, gets a pointer or two on the proper technique of diaper-changing. The instructress at the school is Sarah Gould. Other brave fathers-to-be look on wondering bow Tony manages to account for all those ends. HANDY WITH GUN Fitted against some of the best women shots in the country, Miss Eleanor Lum of Beaver college, Jenkintown, Pa., carried off the Na tional Women’s Amateur small-bore rifle championsbip. When the final tabulations were made, Miss Lum had scored 599 out of a possible 600 shots. NEW GOLF KING Frank Strafaci, a Brooklyn, N. Y., boy who once won the National Pub lic Links a golf championship, is shown with' his gold medal and sil ver trophy after becoming the 1938 North and South amateur golf cham pion at Pinehurst, N. C., recently. Strafaci gamed a 4 and 3 victory over George T. Dunlap, Jr., of Gar den City, N. Y. Duce Honors War Dead Kin Here is one answer to “What Price Glory?” Three brothers of Sig nor Preset, left, were slain fighting for General Franco in Spain. Signor Presel is being consoled for his loss by an embrace from Premier Mus solini in a ceremony honoring the families of Italian aviators killed in the Spanish war. Helpless as an Overturned Turtle Rocks loosened by recent storms slid to the railroad tracks three miles north of Easton, Pa., causing this locomotive and 12 cars to crash down the embankment to the water’s edge. Two of the cars were actu ally upended in the swollen Delaware river. The engineer and fireman were taken to a hospital. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for May 1 FOLLOWING VISION WITH SERVICE LESSON TEXT—Mark 9:14-29. GOLDEN TEXT—AU things are possible to him that believeth.—Mark 9:23. PRIMARY TOPIC—When Only Jesus Could Help. JUNIOR TOPIC—At the Foot of the Moun tain. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— Living Up to Our Knowledge of Christ. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— Following Vision with Service. / Happiness Happiness grows at our own fire sides and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.—Douglas Jer- rold. Our Business It is to you, who are grown men, noble and honorable, that the whole world calls for new work and noble ness. AND you can make them for yourself with the greatest of easel Send for the patterns right off—even if you haven’t done much sewing, they’re quick and easy to follow. Each is accompa- One of the lessons that 1 seems hard to learn and to keep constantly effective in the life of a Christian is that mountain-top experiences of spiritual uplift are not an end in themselves but a preparation for service. All too often we come to regard such times of peculiar bless ing, whether in* the privacy of our own room, or in the great confer ence of Christian workers, as some thing which should glow warmly in our own hearts, making us glad in the Lord, and not as a background and preparation for ministry to others. One might just as well hope to feed the physical body constantly without any work or exercise and keep in good health, as to feed the soul on good things, do nothing tor God or fellow-man, and still avoid what someone has called “spiritual dyspepsia.” The writer has just attended a most unusual and blessed Bible con ference, the leaders of which right ly apprehended this truth. Evan gelism was the matter chiefly in mind, but instead of announcing the theme of the wt'Jc’s meetings “Evangelism” the p-ogram pj ed it as “Preparation fj ism.” That is sound spl We came not to discusa itself so much as to q selves to go out and 1 God help us to do it! 1 Jesus rightly charaol time in which he lived f I. A Faithless General 19). “Jesus found in the vj ing scribes, a distracted demon-possessed boy, aii disciples.” The unbe called forth the rebuke q revealed in different pha were the scribes, willfu sistent unbelief; there father, unwilling unbe 1 was the boy, irresponsible and there were the disciples, un conscious unbelief. The whole at mosphere was an unbelieving at mosphere” (Morgan). As we look at that depressing pic ture of long ago, let us consider our selves lest we also be tempted to “limit God” by our faithlessness. The most casual reader of Scripture cannot help but see that God seeks out and honors faith, and as we be gin to study God’s Word with care we realize that the fundamental of all fundamentals is really to believe God. Some Christian men and wom en are living out a tremendous testi mony for God by fully believing Him and His Word, but many of those who profess to follow Him actually make Him appear ridiculous be fore the world because their unbe lief makes Him out to be a “small” God instead 6f the infinite, eternal, omnipotent God. II. The All-Powerful Saviour (w. 23-27). The keynote of our first division might well have been the sad words “they could not” in verse 18. But now the Son of God has come and the new keynote is the inspiring words of verse 23, “all things are possible to him that believeth.” There is no problem too difficult for our Lord; there is no sorrow too deep for His comfort; there is no challenging opportunity too great for His enabling power. IH. Prayer the Connecting Link (w. 28, 29). The disciples in chagrin at their inability to deal with the difficulty of the demon-possessed boy, having witnessed the power of Christ in delivering him, begin now to realize that evidently even though uncon scious of it, they had come into the powerless position of unbelief. What a solemn warning there is for us in the experience of these followers of the Lord. Like the termites who destroy the very life and strength of wood—and yet leave it apparently whole, only to crum ble in dust when it is put under the pressure of daily use—there are spiritually destructive influences which all but unconsciously destroy the virile strength of the Christian. Prayerlessness is the most effective weapon of Satan at this point. With out prayer there is no power. Real problems are not successfully met nor are opportunities grasped “but by prayer.” I>f78 14-77 nied by a complete and detailed sew chart that answers your ev ery question. Gay and Perky Apron. 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Each pattern includes a sew-chart which enables even a beginner ts cut and make her own clothes. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, IU. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. © BeU Syndicate.—WNU Service, Uncle SajjA: < A Time for Anger “Always a soft answer” is poor philosophy. Anger, righteous an ger, is ^auMBprtant ancj S3 Clevelar Silence Helps The soul needs silence more than speech. the Grover Presbyterian minister, suc ceeded Chester A. Arthur, son of an Episcopalian minister. Zachary Taylor did not hear of his nomination until one month after the conventiori ad journed. Thirty-one men have served as Presidents of the United States. Herbert Hoover was the first President bom west of the Mis sissippi river. He was born in' West Branch, Iowa. VEGETABLES & SHRUBS Demand original $ealed bottles, from your dealer 3tyy Still Waters Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away.—Herbert. 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