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You CAM Live Longer! American Surgeon Tells How To Do It! Follow Ten "Rules of Omission11 for Health and Added Happy Years DR. E. PAYNE PALMER, staff president of St. Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona, and originator of the nation-wide system of first-aid stations, gives here his version on the ten commandments for a longer life, a comprehensive treatise on the subject of death and life's handicaps. Ry PAYNE PALMER, M.D., F.A.C.S. (Fellow of American College of Surgeons) THERE are two major projects now before the American Burgeons: one la the gtudy of death and IU various causes, and the other la the prolonging of life. Of course Just to prolong life Is not sufficient, because life must oe made happier and healthier as H Is prolonged. I am often asked for the ten commandments for longer life, but I would give, rather, ten rules for omissions Instead of commandments. These things eliminated would, I believe, make life more worth the living while they also increase its length. Here they are: 1. Alcoholism. 2. Excesslve use of stimulants. 3. Excesses and Indlsoretlons. 4. Anger. 5. Ambition. 6. Avarice. 7. Avoidance of parenthood. 8. Gluttony. 9. Uncleanllness. 10. Vanity. The last may be very harmful to health if It leads to attempts to acquire a slim figure. Emo tional states may very often be an Important factor in disease. Also I should like to point out that the positive qualities of hu man character, for example, char ity, hope, kindness and love, help to promote good health. It seems that we have become public-minded concerning death in many phases. There Is, for instance, the so-called "mercy death," but I would say that no physician has the legal, nor the Japan's "King of Poor" Here to Study Economics li-HE world's most Intelligent mystic," Dr. Toyohlko Kag awa "King of the poor of Japan" "The Ghandi of the Orient" has returned to the United States, but he will not be able to see the glories of this "Land of the Free," which taught him the Christian faith for he is practically blind and must carry an American nurse wherever ho gocB! For four and a half years the mystic has existed In a window less wooden hut In Shlnkawa, the vilest slum . district of Japan; where ten thousand people live within 10 blocks and as many as nine people sleep In a room six feet square. It was here that Dr. Dr. Toychiko Kagaw Teaches Christianity i. Kagawa contracted his strange eye malady which seemingly can not be checked and which at times leaves hh.i l: darkness. He Is familiar with the gamb lers, thlovcs, murderers, prosti tutes and beggars of the Oriental slum, and to them has carried the banner of his Chrlsltan faith (learned while working his way through Princeton In tho United States), giving nway nil his clothes except those ho wore and living, on, two bowls of rice gruel a day. Right now he would study the United States economic structure in order to give still more to his native land. He Is challenging his country for Justice in China and has an ambition to see one million Christians in Japan and also to raise the standard of living for the masses in that country. Ho agitated strenuously for universal manhood sufTrnge which was granted In Japan In 1925, and later organized the first labor union, which sent him to prison, but so great was the clamor of , the people that the government repealed this law. ' Bmcc then he has organized the Farmers Cooperative Society, which Is growing In Jjipan to Im portant size. As a result of his book telling of tho slums, the House of Peers appropriated 20,000,000 yen or $10,000,000 for the elimination of these slums. Ho has opened tho first free clinics and milk depots of Japan, and during the great earthquake he demanded of the Priests of the Temple of Asukusa that they pro vide shelter for the people sleep ing on wet ground. His request was refused, so Dr. Kagawa erected a huge tent on govern ment ground for their shelter. Later ho convertod the priests to Christianity! Then he convorted 6,700 of his hearers in Tokyo. His home is a church by day and a shelter for the homclesB and III at night. The church Is called Kyureldan Church, and on rainy days it was always filled, for workmen could huddle In there Instead of their squalid rooms. It is said that he is one of the most picturesque and colorful of the modern mystics, going about preaching the gospel of the Christ with largo Innterna on the end of long poles, so that by night his listeners might be able to see. His books have been "best sell ers" which furnish the money for his settlement work. He anya he became converted to the Christian faith by the Sermon on the Mount In the Illble. How long ho will stay In the United States and what he will do in tho future depends upon his health. COLORFUL KOREA SEOUL, ancient capital of the kingdom of Korea, is bocoming known to visitors to the Orient. The nppronch, today, la aboard a dc luxe train that rolls along an open valley, past ancient palaces and flower gardens, temples and tombs, giant carved images. The superstition as to evil spirits Is still strong. Sign posts to frighten these spirits are everywhere In evidence. Added to the primitive animistic belief are the cult Images of Buddhism and gaudy plnearda of Confucianism. Seoul Itself is an ultra-mixlcrn oasis, with beau tiful government buildings, de partment stores and paved boule vards. Hut behind this "front" is the old city, exhibiting true Kor ean culture. Old street costumes still prevail. Weddings are ar ranged without knowledge of those to be wed. Through Ivory covered gates, you walk In a city of tho past. Carved roofs with colored rafters. Inlaid with fan tustlc porcelain Ilgurea hie still being built to edge the modern Japanese structures. Clothing means color. The well-dressed young man wears Immen" buggy trousers of soft gray, gathered PACE EIGHT at tho bottom by largo baby-blue ribbons, and his shoulders are elaborate with peacock-blue bro caded silk designs, designating family heritage. Kven today trav elers may llnd customs unchanged for thousands of years, if they seek such old cities of the Orient. Time marches on. but the true Ko rean alters not at all. He Uvea in dreams of past glories, broods on lost freedom. SALT-WATER SLANG OLD sea-dogs recall sea slang of Yankee clipper days, when a sailor's bunk was a "bug trap," a cockroach was known as "Jinny Spinner," a sailor down and out whs "on tho hones of his bank," a "plneh gut" meant a tight-listed cook. Descriptive? Hut wait! "Shipping his land face" was the practice of an old time skipper who was a devil at aen. . . when he went ashore to become pious and polite to his owners. Some i upturns made a ritual of washing oft his land face" when out of sight of land . . . sending for a bucket of water and performing the cere mony, which warned the crew his temper had returned to normal moral, nor the professional, right to produce death prematurely. Neither docs the desire of the pa tient to end his life extend to the physician this privilege. Should he do so, that physician Is guilty of manslaughter or murder. The oath of Hippocrates 24 cen turies ago outlawed such death. And to this oath does every phy sician subscribe: "If any shall ask of me a drug to produce death, I will not give It nor will I suggest such counsel." DEATH by self-destruction has frequently been resorted to as an escape from an Intolerable situation. But for this there is no excuse. There has never yet been a situation so Intolerable that man could not live through It, that man could not overcome it! Many men with chronic and In curable diseases have done this. They have learned by properly . taking care of themselves to live to an enjoyable and ripe old age. So may death ever be stayed if one has the courage to fight on, and be of good cheer. The high est faculties of the mind can, and Dr. E. Payne Palmer l ; V rs7 'f C,A ever will, triumph over deformity and disease. The Divine in man has given him dominion over the earth and himself! In him lies a love of beauty, a passion to savor of life In Its fullness, a will and a mind to secure his desires. Countless are the world's leaders who have so triumphed. Mohammed suffered a most serious form of epilepsy from in fancy until death. The younger pharoah, Julius Caesar, and Lord Byron were also epileptics. Dos toievsky likewise was troubled with epilepsy as well as chronic tuberculosis. Chopin, Schiller, Laennec, Trudeau, Roger W. Bab son and countless others were af flicted with pulmonary tubercu losis; yet all of these carried on an exceedingly active and suc cessful life In spite of poor health. As with these great men, so others can achieve not only hap piness, but greatness In face of their adversity If they but have a mind for It. THE first step is to change froni one of drift to one of action. Then must one determine what he needs, and go after it with all the power of his will. Let death take a holiday. Let man have the courage to live on in the face of discouragement Nothing is impossible to a willing mind. I should like to add this, how ever. Though death la not to be desired, yet It is not to be feared If one is prepared to meet his Creator. Death, physically, must be inevitable, but no one has the right to bring death to himself or to another except it be the Judgment of a jury and a court. WITCH DOCTOR INVOKES "BLACK MAGIC" NOT so long ago this tale came from Africa's Interior, where witch doctors Nianga Nkissi still hold their tribes in deadly fear. One local wizard, a clever, influential fellow known as Ma ti ki, accused the chief's wife of sorcery, and forced her to under go . an ordeal by poison. Mabkl appointed the day. acting himself as official poisoner. Since he dis liked the chief, the concoction would certainly kill. The woman's , relatives tried to bribe him with fowls, strings of beads, and ele phants' tusks, but he refused. The woman was doomed. By chance an English doctor heard rumors, and searched the district The sun had risen some hours before he located the crowd encircling the chief's wife. Mabkl warned him away, natives shouted in sults. Disregarding stones and jeers, the doctor went to where the woman was staked out to die. The tribesmen melted into the forest. The victim lay writhing in agony, as the doctor gave her an antidote. A few days later she recovered. By living she. had proven her Innocence, and Mab kl's power was broken. The wiz ard was Immediately buried alive, his head alone showing. 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