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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. FRIDAY. AUGUST 9, 1940 Find Early Race Highly Civilized Culture of Mound Builders Revealed in Recent Excavations. WASHINGTON.—A full flowering civilization, not essentially inferior to that of the Aztecs in Mexico or the Maya in Yucatan, vanished with out a trace in North America, prob ably a few generations before the first landing of Columbus. This is the conclusion drawn by Frank M. Setzler, head curator of anthropol ogy of the Smithsonian institution, from an effort to reconstruct out of such scattered clues as are avail able the history of the Hopewellians, the mound builders of the Ohio and upper Mississippi valleys. From the results of more than a century of research Setzler explains in a study just published by the in stitution a tentative picture can now be drawn of the ways of life of this mysterious people. Construction of the large mounds the surrounding earthworks and the hundreds of smaller mounds, he says, clearly required a dense popu lation and a well co-ordinated so ciety. This population must have had some stable economic basis. “Hunting and fishing,” he con cludes, “no doubt were of some im portance as evidenced by barracuda jaws and other fish remains and by the representation of birds and ani mals in realistic carvings on pipes. Conscription of Labor. “There must also have been con scription of labor to construct mounds, which are 30 feet high, 150 feet wide and more than 200 feet long. We do not know what division of labor there was, but the excel lence of the art suggests a special craft of sculptors and modelers. To obtain obsidian from the Rocky mountains, mica from the southern Appalachians, copper from Wiscon sin and amphibians and fishes from the Gulf of Mexico required time for exploration. Since most of the large mounds were built to cover the bodies of the dead, accompanied by their personal adornments and other objects, one can postulate a well-developed ritual associated per haps with a remarkable religious fervor. “The specific form of government organization cannot be known, but certainly some regimentation is in dicated by the great communal works. “Possibly their political organiza tion was a northern extension of the system that prevailed in Mexico and Yucatan, although very few speci mens can be identified with Mexi can deities. Copper-head ornaments and colored woven garments deco rated with fresh-water pearls and mica suggest insignia of authority. At least persons with such attire would be set apart.” Impact of Two Peoples. This strange civilization, Setzler believes, resulted from the impact of two peoples, probably without definite conquest by either. A sur vey of the field shows the same cul ture, but in a simpler form, in the lower Mississippi valley and around the Gulf coast. It appears to have moved northward until it came in contact with a more primitive but apparently vigorous and progressive people. No clue has yet been uncovered, Setzler says, that permits the dating of this development more closely than some time between the begin ning of the Christian era and the coming of Columbus. There cer tainly were no Hopewellians left when the first white hunters and traders came into the Ohio valley, for not a single artifact of European origin ever has been found in the mounds. In fact, the country was then inhabited by woodland Indians who had no memory of their prede cessors or even legends concerning them. They’re Ready to Defend America’s Coast ... r ", '." Manning coast defense guns will be one of the important military operations in the new defense program of the United States. Members of the 207th coast artillery of New York are shown receiving instructions in their duties. A number of regiments of the National Guard, particularly along the Atlantic seaboard, are being transformed into coast artillery units. They will be trained to repel attacks coming from either the sea or the air. Regular army coast defense units are likewise being expanded. IT IS DECIDED TO LEAVE THE OLD ORCHARD TJ AVE you ever noticed how some -*■ people seem born to make trou ble for others? Bully, the English Sparrow, and his wife, Mrs. Bully, are not very big. In fact, they are small. But they can upset an en tire neighborhood in less time than it takes to tell about it. They seem to just delight in a fuss, and when they cannot stir up a quarrel among their neighbors they quarrel be tween themselves, so that where they are there is very little peace. Now, until they moved there from the city the Old Orchard had been one of the quietest, most delightful places in all the great world in which to live. To be sure, there were occasional little outbreaks, as there are bound to be in all neighbor hoods, but they were merely little misunderstandings which were soon I_I OW do you create an illusion of *• perfumed loveliness in the eve ning? One way is to spray perfume from the atomizer on a chiffon scarf which may be tied over the head. Use the perfume also on your ears and forehead, but not too heavily. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Country’s Youngest Quads Go Sunning Here are shown the nation’s youngest foursome, Joyce, Jeanette, Jeraldine and Joan Badgett, donned for the first time in bathing suits, enjoying the cool breezes and sunny skies of Galveston, Texas. righted. Then came Bully and his wife, and from the day of their ar rival the Old Orchard was never the same again. At first the other people living there had hoped that after a little Bully and Mrs. Bully would settle down and things would be as peaceful as before. When “Just listen to them!” cried Wel come Robin. matters went from bad to worse they began to hope that something would happen to drive Bully out of the Old Orchard, and when Chat terer the Red Squirrel appeared and tried to get the six eggs in Bully’s house for the first time in the his tory of the Old Orchard the other bird folk didn’t offer to help drive the would-be thief away. The truth is they hoped that he would get the eggs and that then Bully would de cide to move back to the place he had come from. But Bully and his wife had needed no help from anyone. They had been quite equal to giving Chatterer such a punishment as he had not had for many a long time, and then when they had made him run for the safety of the old stone wall how they did brag and boast! This was too much for their neighbors. “Just listen to them!” cried Wel come Robin. “They are common, just the commonest kind of com mon people. I simply cannot live in such a noisy neighborhood. This is my last season in the Old Or chard. I hate to do it, but next spring I shall look up another neighborhood in which to live.” “That is what I am planning to do,” announced Winsome Bluebird. “I don’t want to, but I simply must. I’ve spent every summer since I can remember right here and my par ents lived here before me, but I cannot stand such goings-on anoth er year. I shall not come back.” “I feel just the same way,” sput tered little Jenny Wren. “I like my house. It is the best I ever had, but I’m going to give it up and look somewhere else. This is no neighborhood for honest, quiet-lov ing people, and all on account of those upstarts from the city. It is an awful thing to say, but I do wish that Chatterer had got their eggs. It would have served them just right.” All the other birds living in the Old Orchard, including Drummer the Woodpecker, Goldie the Oriole, Pe- wee the Flycatcher, Skimmer the Swallow, and Chippy the Sparrow, own cousin to Bully, agreed that this would be the last summer they would spend in the Old Orchard. They would leave it to Bully and his family, for it was very clear to Name Is Wojtkiewicz, But ‘Bow Wow’ Will Do MOSCOW, IDAHO.—It is not for lack of political astuteness that Stanley Wojtkiewicz, Pitts burgh, is a leading campus figure at the University of Idaho. Confronted by the name “Wojt kiewicz” on the ballot during a class election, freshmen voters were temporarily stopped. But not for long. “Just call me Bow Wow,” ad vised Wojtkiewicz, who says his name is correctly pronounced Woa-cha-hoe-ich. He was elected president of the freshman class. all that they could not live in the same neighborhood with them. And this is how it came about that the Old Orchard was in danger of los ing the little feathered people who loved it so and whom it loved. © T. W. Burgess.—WNU Service. CACTUS CAPERS A cactus capers print depicting amusing little men and women of green cactus makes an amusing and novel pattern on this summer resort frock of natural linen. Larger fig ures border the full-gathered skirt, pockets and short sleeves which are bound with red and white square dot print. Village Blames Slump To Runaway Freighter ST. GEORGES, DEL. — St. Georges, a prosperous town strad dling the Delaware and Chesapeake canal a year ago, has asked the state to repeal its charter. A runaway freighter ruined the community’s tourist trade and cut the town itself in two last January when it wrecked a bridge over the waterway. The DuPont highway, which ran over the structure, was detoured far from St. Georges. The federal government has an nounced that it will build another bridge, but local residents see little hope, as the new structure will be a skyway and will not touch the community. “Actually, a town no longer exists, so we do not propose to continue the expense of running one,” an aider- man commented. SCIENTISTS STUDY HISTORY OF EARLY NEW YORK INDIANS POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.—Arche ologists, through excavations in the Hudson valley, expect to acquire knowledge of the people who inhab ited that region prior to the Seven teenth century. Dr. Mary Butler of the University museum, Philadelphia, will direct the work which will continue throughout the summer. Vassar college initiated the project last year under a five-year grant from the Carnegie corporation. The Hudson valley, Dr. Butler said, “has been an open road for north-south travel and trade ever since man first came to the New world.” She said knowledge will be sought of the people who “traveled the re gions back beyond the Seventeenth century through the preceding cen turies of Indian occupation that started human history in the region now known as New York state.” In connection with excavations last year she said. “Last year’s field work tested 14 Indian sites, including rock shelters, camp sites, shell midens and a workshop or flint-quarrying site. It found prehistoric culture sequence in a black topsoil level character ized by broken shell and containing pottery and stone and bone imple ments. “Fragments of ground slate semi lunar knives show a connection with northern cultures, and pottery deco rations show Iroquois contact, but the early Indians of the valley un doubtedly belonged, like the Algon- quins whom the white men found there, to the Woodland pattern, basically different in many details of way of life from the Mississippi pattern, to which the Iroquois be long.” TODAY'S HEALTH COLUMN Two Methods Of Fighting Constipation By DR. JAMES W. BARTON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.! M ANY persons think of the large bowel—colon—as al ways full of waste matter which must be removed immediately to prevent the poi sons in the wastes being absorbed in to the blood caus ing such symp toms as laziness, drowsiness, pains in joints, de pressed spirits, and others. As a matter of fact it is true that a “full” colon will cause the above symptoms partly be cause of poisons being absorbed into the blood, and also, as Dr. Walter Alvarez, Mayo Clinic, has pointed out, because the very weight of this waste in colon may cause symptoms by pulling on the nerves in colon and its supporting structures. However, nature never meant that these wastes should be vigorously pushed or flushed out by purgative medicines, because a colon (large bow el) that requires constant flushing out cannot remain a healthy bowel. The bowel was not meant to be com- pletely empty. The ^ healthy bowel is able to push wastes Dr. Barton downward and out of the body by means of its muscles. • Nature gave man two methods of keeping the wastes moving down the large intestine—exercise, and rough or fibrous parts of the food. Thus all the bending exercises, with knees kept straight, exercise or work on the outer abdominal mus cles, which in turn massage the mus cles of the large bowel and stimu late action. In addition, the exer cise squeezes the liver which causes an extra flow of bile into the intes tine, and, bile is nature’s purgative, ‘Roughage’ Needed. The fibrous foods, which not only rub against the nerve endings of lerge bowel and stimulate bowel ac tion, also have something in them aside from the roughness, which stimulates the bowel. Thus the eas ily digested foods—meat, eggs, fat, sugar, and starches—do not leave enough rough or fibrous waste to stimulate bowel action so that foods with hard or fibrous waste in them —fruits, vegetables, and cereals— must be eaten to prevent constipa tion. Nervous, high strung individuals, with a tendency to stomach or in testinal ulcer, must, of course, avoid these rough foods. • * * Poor Posture Cause Of Many Ailments T SPEAK often of the benefits ob- tained by a good posture—sitting and standing with head erect, chest out and abdomen drawn in. This does not mean trying to attain the overerect position which is some times seen in military and other parades. This “forced” holding of the erect position not only spoils the appearance but is hard on nerves and muscles because of the tense ness maintained. Two serious things happen to the body with the slouchy attitude. First, the stomach, intestines, and other abdominal organs fall forward or downward, thus interfering with the digestion of food and the remov al of wastes from the lower bowel. Second, the lungs are crowded be cause of the falling forward of the shoulders preventing the lungs from getting the needed air. One of the results of poor posture is its effects on certain joints, the ligaments around these joints and the muscles moving these joints. That general weakness of the body causes the poor posture is true at times and in other cases there is some infection present which by get ting into the joints of the spine (or elsewhere) causes the individual to assume some very bad positions (posture) such as stiff neck, poker back, severe limping or the flat- foot walk. Strengthening the abdominal mus cles which hold in the abdomen, the chest out, and the shoulders back is the first thought. Bending exer cises with knees straight is the best single exercise. * * • QUESTION BOX Q.—Please recommend a method of diagnosing a tuberculous condi tion in a child of pre-school age. A.—A common test is by use of tuberculin. Your physician can make the test. Q—Is Psoriasis curable? Is it con tagious? A.—Psoriasis is not contagious. 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The greatest recorded depth in the Atlantic, 30,096 feet (5.7 miles) was discovered north of Puerto Rico on February 14, 1939, by the U. S. cruiser Milwaukee, during maneuvers.—Pathfinder. TO CHECK t^666 ” LIQUID OR TABLETS Preservers of Beauty- Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.— Dickens. V :° R TIRED FEET I Li PENETRO. After Taste? “Do you “.ink you could learn to love me?” “Possibly; but wouldn’t you hate to think you were an acquired taste?” THE WHEREFROM mn “What pretty hair you have, Jean. You get it from your moth er, don’t you?” “No, I s’pose I get it from dad dy. His is all gone.” Just the Reverse At a reception the woman chatted for tome time with the distinguished guest. One of the listeners complimented her. “Oh, really,” she said with a smile, "I’ve just been concealing my ignor ance.” The distinguished guest smiled gal lantly. “Not at all, not at all, my dear lady. 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