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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-11-12
Facts You Should STUDY

Why do half the young folks
become invalid before they finisl.
school? Of course there are
abuses that sap the vitality ano
affect the brain. They seldom
get very far in school. We mean
the clean, Industrious, studlous
ones are left invalid by the time
school work is finished. We will
try to show you that the eyes are
the chief cause of it. The farce
practice of fitting glasses to best
vision very often make it worse.
They are fooled by them and say,
| am wearing glasses so it can
not be my eyes. The majority or
glasses worn, do not fit, but
very small percent of the error
that actually exists, and many
are fit to a reverse muscle cramp
and do harm.
One optical authority states
that many M. D. S" advise par
ents not to have their children
wear glasses, that they Will out
grow" the refractive error as
their bodies mature. Thus, they
become greater menace to
health than all their medicine
will do good Do folks outgroW
refractive optical errors? This
writer says no! but let's see. A
babes eyes are soft and plastic
as a soft rubber ball. The babe
lying on its back much of the
time, these eyes naturally fiatten
from their own weight without
exception. The lids pressing
heavier on the upper and lower
parts of the cornea press them to
toric shape or like the side OF
an egg. The long way of the egg
horizontal, which is astigmatism
with the rule or regular. Eyes,
the reverse of this shape, are
found in a long while and are
pathological.
The ophthalmometer measures
VI InS SolhCt W oh
exact fraction. We find fiat cor
nea at years old, and at 10,
and at 20, and so on, very little
change after the eye has become
firm and the schlerotic coat hard.
The cornea will measure from
one to six diopters fiat in all eyes
and they don't outgroW this far
sight condition. So the only way
to "outgrow," it, is. for the crys-
talline lens to bulge out, and that
is Just what always happens, but
it is not outgrowing anything. It
is a circular set of muscles that
pinch up and force the bu &c on
the lens. The same nerve and
impulse that operate these mus
cles, also operate the converging
muscles, and also the muscles
that turn tho eye down. also the
sphineters Of the iris that con-
tract the pupils. SO when you
tcrow" the error you only
pinch up all eight muscles or you
couldn't see. You must hold
~ E CSFgyxY TpEsI Mice
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-11-12
REPLY TO w. G. GILBERT

A reply to w. G. Gilbert, asking
why the trustees of Morgan town
ship appropriated funds for the
improvement Of roads in Meigs-
vile township:
The trustees Of Morgan township
| did not appropriate one cent for the
improvement Of roads in Meigsvilie
township.
We appropriated .$2,500 for the
improvement of roads 35 and 80 in
Morgan township, the commission
ers using the two-mill levy from
Morgan township for the improve
ment of small portion of the road
which is in Meigsville township. The
two-mill levy belongs to the COM
missioners, and not to the trus-
tees
In your article why did you not
tell the voters that a portion of the
road which you claim is the most
important road in the township is
in Bloom township, and was con-.
structed with Morgan township
funds? You, we are sure, omit ed
! this from your article for the pur-
pose of deceiving the voters at the
recent election If not, why did you
not give the trustees sufficient time
in which to reply to your article
before the election?
There was substantial amount
given by the property owners along
the roads 35 and so, and not one
cent offered by you, on the most
important road in the township as
you call it.
There is school bus hauling
about seven or eight school chill
dren over roads 35 and So and
during the rainy season the children
must be hauled by horse drawn
equipment, which keeps the small
children on the road too long Is
you are not interested in the school
children, why not?-Alonzo Han
son, E. E. Miller, J. w. Parmiter,
! Trustees.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-11-12
White Pigeon

Roy James and family were after
church guests Sunday of Harvey
Greathouse and family.
Arthur McCann now of Deerfield
township spent Sunday afternoon
with his old friend and schoolmate
F. S. McInturf. and family.
Walter Anderson and mother,
Mrs. Granville anderson, and G. P.
James and wife were guests Sunday
of Belle Stiers of Centerville.
James Murphey and family of
Malta township were visitors at the
Geo. Shanks home, Sunday.
Holly Allen and wife. Mrs. Mary
Pemberton and Master Howard
Smith of Columbus spent from Fri
day until Sunday at the C. 3. Nc.
In-urf home.
Lawrence Bsot IF the 0. S. u,
srent the week end with home
folks.
Dallas Gin I'D wife spent Sun
d"y with Jac1s Fones ard family.
Jeh1 G'ose I'D wife of Buck Run
visi e l"st wef / 1t the Cyd Mcln-
turf h me.
L. o Sre rlcv Mrs Mary Merrill
and F cyd Snear! Y motored to the
capital ely .Fond;y While there
thoy gis.ttG Mra Della Williams at
the NJ. Carmel hospital where
they found her regaining her health
"lcwy y and feeling much better
than when she went.
Jay White and wife, Floyd Smear
10y ard wife of Stockport route,
spent Sunday at the Snearley home
If nothing happens the stone will
all be on the stretch of road lead
ing east from the c.. j. Kennard
residence in a very few days.
Russell Best has been out of
school several days with a cold.
Emmett Scott and family were
Sunday dinner guests at the home
of Kate Aber, east side.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-11-12

/ could positively work out in an
hour of hard work. He said:
Neither did |, but they are not
comfortable for a while and they
would not wear them and gave
me bad name that drove peo-
pie away"
If you have three diopters of
error at 10 years of age, you will
have it all your life. If you need
glasses at one age you need
them increasingly worse as you
get older.
If you cannot understand this
talk come in and We will try and
make it plain-with600 pages
of optical text books to prove it
by. Also a good many thousand
prescription records that also
prove it.
No use to try to work out mus
Gle cramp to do much good un-
less you can have a period of va
cation from near work 1t is
wasting money to buy glasses
that you could wear if fit when
you were doing long hours near
work each day. $4,000 on edu-
cation and end a physical wreck.
when $50 and six months time
would make normal eyes that
would stand anything and bring
you through school with a
healthy body.
Yes, we do get cross to see a
lot Of people with fiat or farsight
corneas wearing near sight glass
es. The cornea does two-thirds
of the refracting, so what shapf
must the crystalline lens be in to
cause this false near-sight con
dlt1on? The purkinje images will
SHOW its shape. The Fays and
Cross methods will show the
near-sight glasses to be wrong
The general appearance of the
eyes say they are wrong. The
veins and arteries of the retina
say they are wrong. The purk-
lnJe test says they are wrong.
The nervous condition of patient
says they are wrong. Yet the
nervous Wearer can't get along
five minutes without her near
sight glasses. If you have gone
without glasses or have worn
something but little better than
none and have visited the drug
store as often as the grocery un-
I'll 40 years old, the cramp can
still be drawn out OF your ewes
and sac you from continuing to
use up a lot of nerve energy bad
ly needed by other organs. But
don't expect this to cure your
chronic condition. They once
probably would have prevented
it. There are two classes of peo-
pie that it is not worth our
while TO waste time on. They
are the idiot and the over-wise.
The real folks cause little trou-
bic II they understand. THIS is
intended to help them under
stand Save it and study it.
8EV TRF,Y OHIO
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-11-12

them there, then they do just
what any other muscle must do,
get numb and half paralyzed to
that position. We call it cramp.
Grip the muscles of your hand
tight and watch the circulation
of the blood shut off, and when
it gets numb and cramped and
won't straighten out, you have
not 'out grown anything except
a useful hand. To make the
hand useful you must relax the
cramp, straighten out the hand
and restore circulation. This is
just what must be done to eyes
or they will always be a menace
to health. The average person
has three diopters of error. This,
one author says, requires II
times more nerve energy to OPP
crate these eyes than it would il
normal with glasses. Thus, we
tell you that eyes are responsible
for the big majority of physical
troubles and health breaks. Dis
eases nearly all come from be.
low normal vitality. The average
eyes are using II times more
nerve energy than they should,
thus, they exhaust your vitality
and you get Indigestion, and
gassy, biley, ulcered stomach,
nervous break, goitre, etc.
The eyes that are causing the
most harm, seldom hurt. That
is reflex. They see normal and
often better than normal, also
any glass placed before the eve
makes vision worse because all
muscles are cramped to position
of best vision. Eyes that don't
try to keep vision up to normal
are probably just lazy and are
not burning up the nerve energy
half as fast. This perfect vision
and without pain in the eyes,
fools folks and make them i'm
possible to get anywhere with
correct treatment. The Fays and
the Cross systems only will un-
cover the hidden error that some
doctors call ''outgrown." We
find it in hundreds Of cases by
using these systems and have
coaxed, pleaded and scolded to
have it fully worked out, but
they will not stand the first step
of treatment and we see them
become physical wrecks.
The dean Of optics at Ohio
State told me, your methods
are absolutely correct, but it will
send you to the poorhouse to
practice them for people will not
wear the glasses necessary to ac-
complish results, but will have
your glasses changed by a vision
tester" Tie said: II tried it five
years and found that any spec
tacle seller could please more
customers than I did, so / went
70 teaching / told him that |
never gave stronger glasses than
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-11-12
MALTA ROUTE TWO

Preaching at Hopewell M. p
church, Nov. Is, at 2:30 p. m. Mr.
and Mrs. David Coler of Chester
hill are going to sing. Both are
past 80 years of age. Come out and
hear them.
i'll, remains in a serious condition
Mr. and Mrs. Rolla Higgins of Co
lumbus, and Mr.. and Mrs. Mark
Parsons of Malta were week end
visitors at the Newsom home. 9th
er callers Sunday were Robert
Wetherell and wife of Malta, Carl
Wetherell of Coshocton, Scott Mel
lor and wife, Cecil Ham and wife
Of Malta, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Spring of Deavertown, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Francis Best of McConnels-
Vile.
Mr.. and Mrs, VIM Best spent
Sunday at Kate oer's of McCm-
nelsville route.
Mr. and Mrs. c. E. Newburn and
VIM. Chappelear and son Clair
spent Sunday at Chesterhill, guests
of Sherd Dougans.
Mr.. and Mrs Elmer Longfellow
and children of Belpre were over
night visitors at the VIM. Coler
home, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Pollock had
as guests for dinner, Sunday, Mr.
and Mrs. John Bailey and son of
GAINESVILLE, Mr. and Mrs Carl Wood
ward, Vesta Woodward and chill
dren of White Cottage, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wayne Bankes and son Rex of
Portersville. Callers in the after
noon were Louise Pollock, Merle
Abel, Ronald Burcher and Dana
Williams.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-11-12

votional, Mrs. Faires; p. t. A.
choir; business session; panto-
mime, 3rd and 4th grades; violin
solo, Howard Thompson; play, TIN
and 8th grades; talk, Development
of School Music, Howard Thomp-
son; vocal solo, Ted Ball; duet,
Georgia Lee McElhose and Edith
Blind. Program committee, Miss
Hoch, Ivan Ball and Evelyn White.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-11-12

Carlos Mendenhall's; Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur McCann of Deerfield, Mr..
and Mrs. NJ d. Harris, Mrs. Edna
Woodward of Todds, at j. w. Har.
ris.' Miss Phoebe Morris, Mrs. Car
rie McInturf, John Henne, Charlie
Longfellow and James O'Neal, were
afternoon callers.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-11-12
Page Five

Everett McInturf and wife called
on Mrs. Mary Ridgley, Sunday af-
ternoon.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-11-12

Prosperity is here now-the big
gest stove year Morris Hardware
has had for years.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-05
BY GENE TUNNEY
Former Heavyweight Champion)

'5tribling lost his fight. I think,
because Of nervousness. He look
ed 70 me as though ne hadn't
slept for three days before he went
into the ring. His nervousness,
evidently. caused the insomnia.
He was OBVIOUSLY nervous
throughout the fight. and, IN adj
dition. he seemed tired even in the
first round. He landed only half
his blows Clearly. considering the
contest from start to finish.
Max should have won the early
part Of the fight. 1t seemed to ME
as ! watched IL. But he did not
lead more than five good blows
throughout a rather slow contest.
The condition of Stribling's
nerves became apparent in the
first few rounds, for I could see a
~fluttering in the muscles OF his abb
domen. always an indication Of
overweight nerves.
"Stribling knew IN the early
rounds. / think, that hc was going
TO be beaten. There was never
much doubt as 70 the result"
Gene Tlnney. member OF The
Associated Press sports staff for a
night. finally got his piece in. But
the next time he has been told 70
cali the city editor and 70 quit do
ing his stuff in foreign languages.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-05

Camera to Be Max's Next
Opponent: Champ Is Happy

CLEVELAND. July 4. F-Max
Schmeling, triumphant in his
worlds heavyweight championship
match with Young Stribling. II
ready TO battle the Man Mountain
from Italy, Primo Camera
This engagement viii be the
powerful young Germans next de-
Tense OF his title. Joe Jacobs.
manager Of Schmeling. said today
the contest probably will be decsd-
ed next September. but he did not
know where. Leon See. however.
Cameras manager. was certain the
date would be September II. He
was uncertain as to the location.
Schmeling emerged from hts
championship battle with a lump
under his left eye, with q REDEEM
ed right cheek bone. but no fight
err, he declared, could 90 through
a bout like he did with Stribling
without getting marked up 2 Ill
tie. However. the lump on his
cheek bone did not pain him. for
he was looking forward 10 the
prospect Of collecting between
100000 and $4,000. Tor b~atter1ng
the pride Of Georgia TO o. knock
out defeat in the fifteenth round
Of their battle that finished 50
dramatically. Schmeling Is 70 re-
ceive 40 per cent OF the receipts,
Stribling - 1-2 per cent.
The 25-year-oId German fighter.
jur.lant over his victory, believes
his triumph wiped out whatever
doubt existed over his winning the
championship on a foul In the
fourth round from Jack Sharkey q
year ago. He Is convinced that he
has redeemed himself In the eyes
OF Americans, that he has proven
himself to be a worthy champion.
Schmeling declared that SIrib-
ling fought a tricky battle but that
the young Georgian was guilty Of
sticking his thumb into his eve IN
the first round and repeatedly
found him with kidney punches all
during the contest.
why, YOU know" Schmeling
said in his dressing room. "Strib-
ling spoke to me during the
fourteenth round and told me !
was a great fighter.
That was nice Of him. wasn't Il
Yo?" asked Schmel.nF. directing
the question 70 Manager Jacobs
That's all right said Jacobs. but
boy, how you did win. How YOU
can punch And with that re-
mark, Jacobs, bee-ling a wide
smile, threw his arms around the
Germans bread shoulders.
When Scnmeling. flanlzed By Doc
Casey. the trainer. MacMahon, and
with Jacobs tightly clinging 10 his
arms. reached their dressing room.
the door was locked, and II the
excitement or victory nobody could
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-05
TUNNEY LEARNS
TRIALSOF news
Former Champion Finally
Gets His Piece In
The Papers
BY EDWARD J. NEIL
ASSOCIATED Press Sports Writer)

CLEVELAND, july 3. tPl-Said
Gene Tunney as he sat at the
ringsIde. his floppy panama nest
ling down almost to his ears. his
eyes on a couple OF heavyweights
fighting for a championship that
used to be his:
"Of course Ill write a piece for
the papers. Id like to find out
how it feels TO be an author. And
I'll do it all myself"
SO the fight went on. and every
one was very busy. and finally Max
5chmellng tumbled Young Strib-
ling into the resin dust. The bud
ding young journalist looked on
with wise eyse. This vas going TO
be a cinch.
Then up comes the kind of a
problem that Is table to pop out
in ven the best OF the journalistic
families. The special train bear
ing The Associated Press new au-
thor was leaving in ten minutes.
NO time to sit down and think.
No time TO gather paper with a
crowd around and carefully nut
together glowing words and living
phrases. What to do? What 10
do?
Well the new reporter had an ap-
sentiment with the old reporter at
a club on the outskirts OF the city
and there the masterpiece was TO
be unveiled before critical eyes.
Tunney remembered that. II he
couldn't BE- there in person, be-
cause he was going 70 be on a
train for New York In ten min
utes, then his story would be there.
The new member OF the staff raced
for a telephone.
Hello. Hello" He barked. rs
there anyone there who can taks
d~icration?"
WAS list das?r answered a gut
teral German voice.
Il said IS there anyone there can
lake dictatiCn? Notes. Take a
story
va came the voice back. You
wish to order something, ya?'
1t ended finally with the Ger
man waiter in the club getting cut
a pencil and the backs OF a couple
OF envelopes and taking down IN
German long hand the following
piece for the papers. Amid much
grunting and gesticulating the
waiter finally deciphered 1t when
he was rOrnnred. He SwearS that
it went like this:
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-05
NICHOLS TO
APPEAR SOON
Elimination Matches To
Select Opponent Start
Tuesday

HARLTNGEN, July Am eliml-
nation 10 determine an opponent
for Hugh Nichols. Light heavy
weight wrestling champion. will get
under way here Tuesday night be-
tween Geo. Poul0s, Pat O'Brien.
Teddy Waters and Young Stecher.
II II announced by Promoter Ernie
stephens.
Young Stecher will take on Geo.
Pculos and O'Brien clashes with
waters ~ the Examinations Tuesday
evening mt the Legion wrestling
arena. A semi-final between Robin
Blue and Everett zo0k rounds ont
the card.
winners of the Ste-her-Poulns
and O'Brien-Waters matches will
be placed together the following
week and the victor " 70 meet
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-05
World Fliers Have
Restful Holiday

NEW LONDON. Conn. July A.. ln
Wiley Post and Harold Gattv
round-thc-world fliers. today left
the yacht Saelmo nt the Thames
river here and went 10 the Shene-
coSsctt Country Club FOR q round
of Golf.
The fliers. with their wives. and
IN. C. Hall. hacker NH their flight.
are the guests OK william n. Todd.
s~hipbuildrr. 0n " weekend cruise.
The party planned No leave this
port Inn the mid-afternoon for Mon
tauk Point where they were to meet
former Governor Alfred ". Smith
0f New York.
The Saelmo anchored IN the har-
Dor here ;-out 10 o'clock last night
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-05

find the keys. Schmeling hurled
his broad shoulder nc the door. at
tempting 10 smash it open. Then
somebody remembered 70 crawl
through the window and open the
door from the inside.
Max perched himself on a rub
bling table. clothed III a dressing
gown. and sat there To tel about
the battle. He said that Stribling
never once hurt him with those
crushing blows To the chin. bu.
that he was a good fighter and enc
hard TO beat.
After the first round I could
see that J was gaining. and / kept
trying Tor a knockout" Schmeline
said. After the sixth round
knew I had him weakening. Il was
Just As fresh at the end as when
l started and could have fought
fifteen rounds more
Schmeling was right as regards
his condition because he wasn't
even taking a deep breath by the
time he got back 10 his dressing
room. Tears came TO his eyes mo-
mertarily when he read q cable
gram from his mother. the first ~
Q long batch OF congratulatory
messages received from abroad and
this country.
Translated. his mothers message
read Darling son. 7 am glad X
see you as the real Champion
Tr mnntwnuN - A. F4r~m~
backslapping reception going or
for Schmeling III his dresSing
room. Striking presented u pathe.
tic figure as his father. Pa Strih-
ling, and close friends attempted *
heal his wounds. The fandsoms
young Georgian's face was puffec
and bruised with cuts about anc
under both eyes. He went TO the
showers as quickly as he got into
his dressing robe. and after finish.
ing stood in the bathroom alone
staring at the wall. He couiC
hardly realize that he had beer
knocked out for the first time aft.
CT fighting nearly 800 battles.
Stirbling praised Schmeling fol
fighting fairly and clearly. ~ was
a right-hand blow that landed jus
above his left eve in the eleventh
round that really started him K
defeat, Stribling said.
The young Georgian said 10 wa
an injustice to him 10 have thu
fight stopped BY Referee GeorEl
Blake with only fourteen second.
to GO. He argued that he hag
been knocked down only once ant
might have continued until TIT
finish. Stribling. however. was "
no condition 10 weather the storm
for he was groEEv and Keeling, AND
another savage blow 70 the CHR
might have resulted seriously.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-05
Masked Robbers
Hold Up Pair

FORT WORTH. Tex. July 4. Up
Masked highwaymen held up Neal
A.crrcw Of Fort Worth. and a woman
companion early today and took
A1crrow's automobile and $50 in
cash.
Morrow told police he was driv-
ing on Inspiration Point, Lake
Worth. when two men drove I'D BE-
side his automobile in another car.
They had handkerchiefs tied over
their faces. One Of the pair flashed
a Light on Morrow and his compan-
Ion and the other drew q gun.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-05
M'ALLEN TAKES
3 FROM LADDS
Nighthawks Split Double
Header With Last
Place Saints
FINAL STANDINGS
First Half


Results Friday
McAllen 8. Harlingen 3 after
noon.
McAllen as, Harrington 7-2 Cnight)
Ia Feria 4-3, san Benito pa.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-05
PALMS CAPTURE FIRST HALF; LA FERIA ENTERS PROTES'

Champion Nichols the following
week.
Stecher. known nv "the Cops
Companion following am alteration
With O'Brsen laSt week, viii have
hts hands more than fun when ha
takes ON the A~IL Greek. PoulOS
Both men r slugRers and they
should supply action galore.
O'Bricn and waters. the most
popular battlers tO show III the Val
lev. should make a. good match
Both are excellent showmen and
their bout should I've worth seeing.