The Mail-Journal, Volume 4, Number 44, Milford, Kosciusko County, 7 December 1966 — Page 10
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The Christmas holiday season is almost here, and preparations for Christmas and New Year’s are already under way. More than 50 million American homes will decorate Christmas trees as part of the holiday observance. A few tips on how to choose and care for your tree will help keep your heme fire safe during the holiday season, says the American Insurance Association. The Assotiation presents these Christmas safety suggestions: Buy Your Christmas Tree When you shop for your Christmas tree this year, make sure you get a fresh tree. Brush the needles of the tree with your hand -if some needles drop off. you should choose another tree. If all of the trees on the lot seem dry. go to anothei tree seller whose trees are fresh. After you have purchased your tree, it is a good plan to keep it out-of-doors until you decorate it. Keep the tree standing in a small pail of water because a freshly cut tree will continue to ‘‘drink’’ water, and that keeps the tree fresh and green. Decorating Your Tree To keep the tree fresh as long as possible, wait until just before Christmas to bring it into the house. The tree should be put up in the coolest part of the room. It should be placed away from radiators, hot air ducts, heaters. and firepl.ues. It is a g<Hxl plan to use a stand with a metal container that you may fill with water, because this will keep the tree fresh longer. Some member of the family should check the metal container daily and refill it regularly. When you decorate your tree, use flameproof decorations. The safest decorations are those made of glass, metal or some other fire-resistant material.
The Truth About Arthritis Arthritis, which affects soma 13 million Americans, is our No. 1 crippier. In a recent statement, the U. S. Surgeon General also revealed that arthritis costs our economy well over a billion dollars a year. "Because the crippling effect of arthritis has created a national medical and economic problem” he concluded, "arthritis must be recognixed as a major health threat that must be surmounted.” Dr. William S. Clark, president of The Arthritis Foundation, spells out the problem in the latest booklet on rheumatoid arthritis from the Foundation: "We do not know the cause and we do not have a cure. Nevertheless, the painful and disabling effect of rheumatoid arthritis can be alleviated by modern medical Skills. With early diagnosis and treatment of symptoms most of the severe crippling can be prevented. With new techniques for rehabilitation, even severely disabled persons can be brought back to a more active and productive life.” Os Some 100 diseases that affect the joints, five stand out: ankylosing spondylitis, osteoarthritis, gout, rheumatic fever and rheumatoid arthritis... the most painful and troublesome of all. There is no single pattern of treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, since all cases are different. It will involve a number of things, not just one or two. Exercises may be prescribed, and almost certainly pure aspirin will be. Even a patient’s mental attitude can have a bearing on treatment. Pearl buttons are made at Muscatine, lowa.
SUIT CLUB WINNER THIS WEEK WAS STEVE YODER — Syracuse TOM SOCKS SPORTSWEAR Wawasee Village Syracuse
Wednesday, December 7, 1966
EDITORIALS
Christmas Convocation At Purdue University lAFAYETTE—More than 30,000 people will see the 33rd annual Christmas convocation at Purdue university. Produced by the Purdue | Musical Organizations. it is a high- ! light of the winter season. Sellout | crowds have become traditional, with members of the audience coming from ail parts of the midwest. . Five performances have been scheduled this year in the 6.060 seat Elliott Hail of Music. PerformSaturday. Dec. 17; 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, and 8 p.m. Monday, Dec 19. Mail orders are being accepted at the Had of Music box office The 1966 program will be climaxUsed Equipment 1958 Ford 861 1956 Ford 850 1957 Ford 960 1957 Fordson Major Diesel 1956 Ford 860 1957 Ford 640 w pwr. sig. 1955 Ford 640 1954 Ferguson “30” Loader for Ford Tractor w hydraulic bucket 1964 Ford Baler Used Ford Plows Forage Harvester Mowers Used IHC Grain Drill De Good Tractor Sales FORD TRACTORS & EQUIP. Rd. 15, North Warsaw
Safe lights on a tree are highly important. Before putting up tree lights, check the wires and sockets. Those with frayed wires or faulty connections or plugs should be discarded. When buying new lights, be sure they bear the VL label of Underwriters’ Laboratories. If you use an electric train As part of your Christmas display, set the tracks away from the tree. A spark from a toy train, coming in contact with dry Christmas tree needles, could start a fire. Remember to turn off Christmas tree lights at bedtime, and when there is no one in the room. In particular, do not leave-lights on when nobody is.home. Throughout the holiday season, check the Christmas tree frequently to be sure it is not becoming too dry. Also check tree needles near lights. If needles near a light seem brittle, change the position of the light. Metal trees should never be decorated with Christmas lights—there’s always the chance of a short-circuit. Off-the-tree lighting should be used, instead. Christmas trees in the yard should be decorated with heavy-duty cords, especially designed for outdoor use. Taking Down Your Tree On Christmas Eve or Christmas morning, when gifts are opened, all wrappings should be picked up immediately. The ones you wish to save should be folded and put away and all other wrappings should be gathered up and disposed of. When you take down your tree after the holiday season, remove it from the house at once—do not store it in the basement or elsew here. It is a fire hazard when dry. - Keep the discarded tree outside where it can l>e picked up by the garbage man or sanitation truck. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
ances will be at 5 p.m. and 8 pm. ed by a candlelight procession of the 500-vvice university choir to the stage to sing “A Christmas Choralogue.’ The convocation will include trad: Lion ;il and secular Christmas music by the Glee club and the Purduet tes I wish Santa would bring me a Junior House suit or Pant Suit in the "Springtime” Heathers. Available in lilac, yellow and Melon. Ike House Across jL The Street Jn NAPPANEE, IND. OPEN WED.. FRI.. and SAT. NIGHTS
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In the long pull Indians will kill more (whites as well as other shades of mankind* than all the thousands of “redmen” destroyed by our ancestors, for among other things introduced to the world by them was tobacco. How many men have died and will die as a consequence of taking on this Indian discovery will never be known. White men haw been using the weed and its products for about four hundred years, but Indians had known about its joys and sorrows for countless centuries before this. Indians smoked several varieties of tobacco and mixed it. often, with other leaves and substances. Among these were Jimson leaves, poplar bark, dried birchwood, dogwtxxi. sumac, sweet willow, dried laurel, bearberry and manzanita leaves, to name a few. Perhaps some of our future smokes will be from among these mentioned, for after all. the Indians used this stuff long, long before white men knew of it. Interestingly, there are many kinds ! of tobacco plants in North America ; and the type we smoke today (Nic- ■ otiana tabacum* was introduced by English colonists to Virginia, and was a product of South America. Nicotine seems to be derived from Jeat Nicot. a French ambassador to Portugal, who dabbled in a little of the leaf and sent some to Catherine de Medici, or so the story goes. Indians first blended tobacco and it is known that they used different mixtures for different ceremonies. That they should do so is readily understandable for, although they knew about curing to a degree, the true weed was mighty strong and no one could smoke it straight But it was venerated by ancient Indians above most everything else. Thev used it in all ceremonies, scattered it in camp fires, burnt it in sacrificial rites, blew smoke toward the cardinal points, scattered it in the winds, fastened tobacco leaves in water to insure fishing luck, applied it to wounds, internal, external and mental and took it with them to their graves. They smoked i it in pipes, they smoked it in cigars ! and tbey rolled cigarettes by filling I leaves w ith other substances in the roll. And when white men discovered these things they took tobacco Ito the rest of the world and it was used by the most learned doctors to cure everything from carbuncles to stomach-aches. Whites used it for nwre things than Indians did, heating leaves and applying them to affected parts, rolling little pills and sticking them in body cavities, making syrups and ointments and inserting tobacco juice in open wounds They evra advocated using i the ashes from pipes as a dentifrice. Wlien we think ci Indians smoking, we automatically think of a calumet and a peace treaty and | conjure up all sorts of ideas about red men and white men sitting are-und a camp fire, passing a long.wwWWWvV v■ wwyw WWW WWW w wwv WWWM | swimsli
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stemmed pipe that looked like a tomahawk about the circle, solemnly inhaling and waiting and burying hatchets and all these things. They happened, but infrequently. Tobacco to Indians was mainly smoking and they indulged in it just like other men did and do and will. Tite Indians of the midwest seemed to have liked pipes best and they could whip up an emergency pipe from clay in very short order if they left their equipment back at camp, often used community pipes which had several stems, so that a little party could sit around a common bowl and puff away. Indians had tobacco brands so
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potent they could produce states of intoxication, ecstasy or even delirium. They are known to have smoked cigars in reverse, when buddies met. This system consisted of one fellow putting the lighted end of a cigar in his mouth and blowing smoke into the lungs of his pal on the other end of the stogie. White men have much to learn about smoking, but we must remember that we are just beginning to know about it. The fellows that got chased out of this region had been experimenting with it and its uses far longer than .American, P. Lorillard. R. J. Reynolds, and all the others put together.
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