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
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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. He dioj
four days later of thirst and ex
posure .'. . and by dying prove J
his guilt.
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