Thursday, February 22, 1934. the WESTERN NEWS. LIBBY. MONTANA Pajfe Seven For “First Aid” Treatment The Capture of □v □ ■ i -----T~ Knowing Just What Is the Proper Thing to Do in Case f IT of Emergency May Save a Life, or Avert Vincennes 'M a Period of Suffering. • m I The man, woman or child who not arrive in a few minutes, gently ’* 4 knows a few simple facts about first -, apply an antiseptic to the wound and aid, and Is prepared for those einer- the end of the bone, Then cover T- ; gencles which confront everyone at lightly with sterilized gauze. A per­ ■■r <> v some time, often car. avert serious 9L4. i üi i à son with a broken bone should not I consequences—even save a life, km v Na- be moved unless emergency splints u tionai First Aid week is to be ob­ are applied. This is easy to learn Lé u served throughout t :<■ ? >■ -V # O v M the country, from a first aid'guide book. •"v- /< ■ r \ t -t ’ March 11 to 17, for the purpose of More accidents and injuries 5 occur .// ; >: \V ol. assisting people to prepare for these in the home and in automobiles than ■k V v I georqe^-3^ / v emergencies. at work or in any other kind of hu­ The first rule of first aid is to keep 51 'W flki Affejfyi Rogens Clerk man activity, so ft Is especially 1m- * cool. portant to have first aid supplies at yv; ■ * l si Hrst aids greatest service Is In home and in the car. Thev also hjv u is ÿp ¥ A' ip the treatment of minor wounds—lit | should be available at work in ‘/id tie cuts, scratches, and burns. These sports, and elsewhere, ”v. f injuries are usually not serious in It can be seen from these simple Sf s ' ! Pf • “A pp*' themselves, but may often lend to in- rules of first aid, that the w. fections which cause unnecessary materials are an antiseptic, necessarysterilized n suffering and loss of legs >i Mi arms, or gauze and a burn treatment. Other even lives. Every time the skin Is first aid materials usually can be :ï-4; >■ broken an antiseptic should be ap­ made up on the spot. Adhesive tape -■ plied at once and the wound covered h1 ,v-> l Is always handy for fastening wound A % V ■>s;\ with sterilized gauze, In Industries dressings or splints in place. Ê which keep careful records of their t First aid does not replace the doc­ ' accidents, it tins been shown that in­ tor. It is Important because a doc­ K ■> l m fected injuries cost more than twice tor Is not always present, and it Is as much us those which are not in­ usual]., desirable to do something Vi fected. A burn should be protected before he can arrive. First aid la -v:> at once from the air, by means of an one of these three means of reducing, ■ ; * -y ointment. Severe bleeding requires !>r accidents and preventing serious con­ mms .V.~< somewhat different treatment. Lose sequences from unavoidable injuries; Tie Surrenderof Fort -Sackvill#» Hotline. If the blood is bright red (From the Painting bu F.C Yohn '-»CLCKVII16 T Gen. Henrys First—Play safe to prevent acci Courte^f Bobbs-Merr-ill Compaq) and spurting, an artery is cut. Pres­ dents. ^Hamilton sure must be placed on the severed t ;■ / Second—First aid. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON artery between the wound and the à t Thlnd—Be sure that necessary F YUU were asked to make a list of heart. This checks loss of blood until medical attention is secured prompt- Italians who have had an important a doctor can arrive. If the blood Is 4 P ly. part in making American history, how dark and flows steadily, n vein Is cut. Accidents will happen. Many of I many would there be? Christopher A sterilized gauze pad bandaged us learn through pain and discom­ Columbus, of course, would head the S' 4 tightly over the wound, usually will jj fort that an umbrella is not a para- list, and after him would come Amer­ hold the blood in check. Be sure to chute. But if sonny succeeds In vj V. igo Vespucci, for whom America was m ■j/ ’ call a doctor ns soon as the blood proving it for himself, the next best 1 > a named, and John and Sebastian Cabot, I- flow Is stopped. thing to prevention is to meet him at who were Italians even though they M People often become unconscious the landing field with the right —■ ?■ XjM cell) did sail under the banner of England or dizzy. There are many different binntion of first aid knowledge, gauze in the era of discovery. You’d prob­ causes for these conditions. If the and forbearance. ably include Henri de Tontl, the “Man With the Clark's March to Vincennes _ cn-vm tu« Mural ty Gilbert White. Certes.! YaleUnive^ît^Sj skin Is red and hot, cool the patient, Your physician or druggist can Iron Hand," companion in arms of the great : i'd elevftte the head, but never give stim­ give complete first aid advice, and French explorer, La Salie, ulants; he is already over stimulated, indicate where first aid manuals can But there’s still one missing. He was one of if the skin Is pale and clammy, warm be secured. the foreigners who aided the American colonies the patient and lower the head. In In their struggle for Independence and thus had *5 either case loosen tight clothing and a part In founding this nation. Every American ■-T’? keep the patient quiet. Never try to Voice Tells Much of knows of La Fayette and De Kalb, the French- I* ;» I»* •S' make an unconscious person drink. Character of Speaker men; Koscluscko and Pulaski, the Poles; and The fluid may enter the lungs. Von Steuben, the German—ali of whom fit that bjjp. « * X y « «•P The voice can be beautiful, sooth­ In cases of near drowning, severe ing and entirely charming, or it can description. But how many of them know about electric shock, and many other types Francesco Vigo, the Italian? he unlovely, irritating and compial n- f Mill1® of unconsciousness, breathing often He was a “soldier, banker, spy, patriot, diplo­ \ ing. Some one has aptly described ir stops. But that does not mean that •the voice as the barometer of the mat and merchant prince"; he labored mightily the person is dead. A life often can In the cause of American Independence and long jT feelings. In other words. we may i£A- l'£ .'Ü/WüoT.Xi! be saved by artificial respiration. hide what happens to be passing afterwards in the Interests of the new Republic; The records of the bu he Is not only entirely worthy of being Included Fort Sackville,Vincennes, Ind. through our mind, but the voice will C From mn Old DrW.nq) reau of mines show hundreds of lives In any list, no matteishow small and select, of give us away in spite of ourselves, en from Vincennes, the real center of their saved that way. While artificial res­ as it puts into terms of sound the Italians who profoundly Influenced American his­ pow- the quintessence of irony that the fiscal agent’s piration is not hard to learn, it Is tory, but he also deserves a position of honor in er in that region, his hold on Kaskaskla mood in which we are at the moment. was pre­ letter was written on the very same day when difficult to explain briefly. Stand­ the remembrance of with the French­ carious at best and his chances for extending Sharply rising and falling inflec­ Vigo, the stranger, was turning over his entire ard first aid manuals, or physicians men, the Poles and the German previously his conquest were very slight The only answer tions express inward turmoil and men- fortune as an unprotected, unregistered, unlim­ and other persons who know how to tloned. to his problem was to attack Vincennes and often a disposition to be hateful and ited loan, which he never could collect if Clark make a person breathe until he is If this Is true, why is Vigo so little known to capture or drive ,away Gen. Henry Hamilton, the failed—and which he never did collect even mean. A level, monotonous tone of British commander, and his force there. Of this able to start his own breathing voice characterizes passivity, lack of most Americans? Because he Is one of those though Clark, by winning a skirmish, annexed .Roselll says: again, can teach this Interesting first interest and lack of initiative. A “forgotten heroes,“ who by some strange turn an empire." aid lesson. "Clark, at Kaskaskla, was helpless until he cheerful, cordial, enthusiastic tone of fate have been denied the fame that Is right­ For, as every American knows. Clark did win Broken bones are classed as either knew what was going on at Vincennes, over 200 speaks of interest in people and fully theirs. But fortunately for Vigo’s fame a his "skirmish" at Vincennes, a skirmish which J mlle8 aw«y through a muddy wilderness Infested simple fractures or compound frac­ things. It tells of cheerfuilness and fellow-countryman, who won renown a few years ended In the surrender of Fort Sackvllle by Ham­ tures. In a compound fracture the courage. ago by excavating the buried Roman city of ■ ^^h08e scalping Indiana of General Hamilton ilton to the Virginia leader on February 25, 1779, bone has pierced through the flesh The very manner in which an In­ Leptls Magna in northern Africa, has turned his whose prowess had brought upon that stern fight­ and the capture of this post strengthened the and caused a wound. Such a case dividual says the word “Hello" tells talents from archeology to biography and the er tiie nickname of ‘Hair-Buyer.1 No news had hand of the American peace commissioners at must be treated very carefully. If the a lot It may be gruff or welcoming. result la the first full-length “portrait" of this leaked through since August 1st (1778); winter the close of the Revolution In demanding that with Its terrors was already upon them; and wound has caused arterial hemor­ It may he repellent or caressing. little-known hero of the — the western boundary of the new Republic should rhage (bright, spurting blood) of the book “Vigo; A Forgotten Builder of the spring was bound to reopen the line of supply The surest way to cultivate a pleas- be the instead of the Allegheny course the blood flow American Republic." by Bruno Roseili, published between British Vincennes and British Detroit must be ing voice is to be cheerful and reads mountalna But how many Americans know checked at once. If the doctor will i to look for the best—Exchange. by the Stratford company of Boston, Vigo, at this time, already a prosperous mer­ what was the reward of Vigo for his services In It la especially appropriate to examine this chant who could not with impunity forego hla making that possible or what was his later Interests, and an Italian to whom the future of “portrait" at this time, for February 25 will career? this Franco-Angio-Hlspano-Araerlcan continent mark the one hundred fifty-fifth anniversary of It Is not a story of which we. as a nation, can the capture of Vincennes by George Rogers might have seemed Immaterial, left everything, and, with no remuneration whatsoever, started very well be proud. After the Revolution Vigo NEVER FORGET THIS TABLET Clark, one of the outstanding achievements of made his home at Vincennes. lie continued to the struggle for liberty because of Its later upon his career as a gentleman-spy. He took re- vrlth him a single servant, and made for Vin­ provide money to sustain American credit In the It Means the REAL ARTICLE suits. Without the aid of Francesco Vigo, George newly won wilderness. He tried to build up a cennes. Rogers Clark might not have won that splendid series of trading posts and protected trade routes victory, nor from It have come those Important “His one chance to accomplish his mission between Philadelphia, Detroit and results. depended upon the following succession of that would bind the Indians to the American GENUINE BAVg* Of Bayer Most of the school histories mention Vigo’s events: He must be taken prisoner—prevail upon cause. His extensive loans finally led to flnan- his savage captors not to scalp him—appear he- name, but they assign him a minor role In the disaster —for- the rIch "Spanish merchant"^ ASPIRIN Manufacture fore Hamilton—manage to avoid not only im­ story of Clark’s conquest of the Old Northwest and his plan for the trading posts and trade prisonment or execution, but even expulsion__ But Mr. Roselll has revised that view of him. Of routes was defeated by American Inertia and his early life, this much can be said: He was linger on In Vincennes, seeing everything in the Ineptness in dealing with the Indians. When he When you go to buy aspirin, Remember this for your own born at Mondovl. , on December 3. 1747, fort and everybody In the settlement—then make tried to get bark some of the money which ho Early In life the spirit of wanderlust seized him good his escape. Not an easy program; but one had lent Clark and others, a penurious and sus­ just remember this: Every protection. Tell your friends and he ran away from home, eventually arriving which he followed according to pians and sched- picious federal government refused to honor his tablet of real aspirin of about it for their In Spain, where he enlisted in the Spanish army ole. claims, despite the fact that Clark made full Bayer manufacture is protection, for service in the colonies as a muleteer, a driver For Vigo succeeded In doing Just as he had acknowledgement of the justice of the claims in stamped with this cross. No Demand and or caretaker of the long-eared animals which car­ planned. He was captured by Indians, brought letters to Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and tablet without this cross is get Genuinel ried army supplies. safely to Fort Sackvllle at Vincennes, questioned to George Mason. GENUINE Bayer Aspirin. BayerAspirin. Vigo was first sent to Havana. Cuba, with his by Hamilton, succeeded In allaying the British To Vincennes came William Henry Harrison, Genuine Bayer Aspirin Does Not Harm the Heart regiment and after a year there was sent to general’s suspicions enough so that Hamilton first governor of the territory, who became Vigo’s New Orleans, where we find him listed as n allowed him to depart after he had been »««»«»»» H. W, A. at friend. Years later while the Italian was pressing “fusllero’1 in the militia of that colony. Next Vincennes for some time upon his signing a pledge his claims against the government. Harrison, he became a member of a body of irregular that he would return to St. Louis “without doing then President, used his Influence (unsuccess­ Floating Iiland* World’» Strongest Man? i* > troops and by some means made his way up the anything injurious to British Interests." Vigo fully. albeit) to get them paid. Sadawaga lake, Vermont, has two Gama, the wrestling marvel of In­ Mississippi river to St. Louis, where lived His scrupulously kept his pledge by returning to St picturesque floating Islands. Resem­ dia, Is believed to be the strongest Excellency Don Fernando de Leyba, governor of Louis, after which he Immediately departed for To Vincennes In 1834 came the noted traveler. bling a huge ship with trees ns high man In the world. He Is 5 feet 7 Upper Louisiana, which had been ceded to Spain Kaskaskla and made the report to Clark on the Maximilian, prince of Wied, who wrote in his ns thirty feet for masts, a large inches tall, weighs 200 pounds, and by France in 17(12. condition of the garrison at Vincennes which journal ; Another interesting character lives Island has shifted Its position con- has never been defeated since he "The post was small and presently the two determined Clark’s decision to march here, hut forgotten, neglected, and in great pov­ against sldernbly during the last year. started wrestling near 40 years ago. men came face to face,” writes Roselll. "They that post erty. I mean Colonel Vigo, who rendered impor- tant services to the Americans. They. Indeed, fully understood their mutual needs, and, while But this spying trip of Vigo’s was not his only gave him the rank of Colonel, but now suffer starting from the opposite ends of the social contribution to the success of Clark’s expedition. ladder, they had the wisdom to find at him to starve!" once a In fact. It was the least of It. for far more common meeting ground. So, a little later important was his financial help which made In 1876 the "Vigo claims’’ totaling $40,898.60 Make this lip test “the two men entered Into a secret partnership; the expedition possible. During the summer of were paid by the government to the second gen­ forming an alliance which their neighbors only 1778 Clark had only Virginia currency, which eration of his in-laws, But the payment had T OOK at them . . . and your checks, too, without come Just 40 years too late to save Francis Vigo surmised at first, but which became a matter of was no good with the French merchants of that make-up. Do they possess the natural glow of public record at de Leybn’s untimely death.” town, for the purchase of supplies until Vigo from “repeating the words which had become his whifh comes from a sufficiency of rid», red refrain in the long evening of his last days: Thus Vigo embarked upon the career which was Induced them to accept It Now Clark was again blood? If they do, make-up is simple ... If they don’t to make him famous throughout the Mississippi ‘Everybody has forgotten me—everybody.’ Fie read on ... you may find one of the reasons why your In need of money—to pay hla men. to buy unit1» valley at the time as the “Spanish merchant, a and supplies. Again Vigo came to his rescue. On died on March 22, 1830, and this once wealthy skin Is not clear and rosy. “Spanish merchant" possessed at that time, ex­ WÀ You cannot have red lips, rosy cheeks, energy and contemporary designation which is largely re- December 4 he cashed a draft of Clark's on clusive of his credit (?) upon the government cheerfulness if your blood is in a run-down condition. sponsible for later error in regard to his na- Oliver Pollock, the Virginia agent at New Or­ tlonulity. exactly $77.62. Lack of hemo-glo-bin, th« red coloring of the blood leans, for more than $8,000 and on January 28 may also indicate a weakened condition of the body' \ By the time appeared on he cashed another for nearly $1,500. Indiana remembered him to the extent of nam- . . . loss of strength . . . poor appetite. the scene Vigo was rated as one of the wealth­ ing a county after him. The bronze voice of Forty-elght hours later, Clark and his party a _ *s no* Just R «o-called tonic but a tonic spe­ iest men in that part of the country with agen­ of 172, rapidly equipped with Vigo’s cash and hell, which he gave to his fellow-citizens of ll ^Ia designed to stimulate gastric secretions, and also cies for his fur-trading business in Kaskaskla, Indiana sounds every day from the courthouse supplies, were disappearing in the wilderness having, . the mineral elements so very, very necessary In Vincennes and as far north as Mackinac. The eastbound," writes Roselll. “A long time would of Vigo county at Terre Haute to recall hi* restoring a low hemo-glo-bin content. If your condi­ story of Clark’s capture of Kaskaskla in 1778 is pass before the gallant colonel beheld Pollock’s memory, and over a grave in the cemetery at tion suggests a blood tonic of this kind, try S S S Unless your case is exceptional, you should soon no-' too familiar to need recounting here, but Vigo’s sarcastic letter explaining his refusal to extend Vincennes the Daughters of the American Revo­ t»,Ce ®.P ck"uP in y°m «ppetlte . .. your color and skin part in the capture of Vincennes, the next step further credit to the Americans; ‘How Colonel lution have erected a memorial which tells that should improve with increased strength. in Clark's ambitious plan to wrest the Old North­ Clark and the State of Virginia expect such here lies "Francis Vigo, patriot, whose devotion west from the British, is not so well known. to the cause of American liberty made possible S.S.S. is sold by all drug stores in two sixes . . heavy sums to be paid by men without money. Is larger is more economical. . the Clark realized that until the British were driv- a qiystery which only time can point out’ It Is tire capture of Fort Sackvllle.” C Tht 8.8.8. Co. 0 by Wept*rn Newspaper Unlon.