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“Bellefonte, Pa., June 9, 1922.
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9,000 KILLED AT RAIL CROSS-
INGS IN PAST FIVE YEARS.
In connection with the national
“careful crossing” campaign to be
conducted under the auspices of the
‘American Railway Association during
June, July, August and September,
the following message to the Ameri-
can people, prepared by the insurance
department of the Pennsylvania Sys-
tem, will be broadcasted by radio to-
day by the Westinghouse company
from East Pittsburgh, Newark, Chi-
cago, and Springfield, Mass. ;
Under the direction of the Ameri-
can Railway Association all the rail-
roads of the United States are taking
part in a National Careful Crossing
campaign. This campaign begins on
June 1st and will continue until Sep-
tember 30th. = 3
The object of the campaign is to
bring to the attention of the Ameri-
can people, in an impressive manner,
the necessity for exercising the great-
est possible care to avoid being struck
and killed or injured by trains while
traveling over highway crossings.
In the last five years, 9,000 deaths
and 24,000 injuries have occurred at
highway crossings, while in 1921,
alone, 30 out of every 100 accidental
deaths on the railroads of the United
States were classified as crossing ac-
cidents.
This record is bad enough in itself
but the increase in population, the in-
crease in the use of automobiles and
‘the rapid extension of highways all
over the United States will result in
a much greater number of accidents
at highway crossings from year to
year unless the people learn to exer-
cise greater care.
No better way could be found to il-
lustrate how accidents occur and how
they may be prevented than by a ref-
erence to the dispatches that appear
in the newspapers daily.
As a further illustration that care-
lessness and negligence cause a large
majority of accidents at highway
crossings the records of the Pennsyl-
vania System show that during a per-
iod of five months, 213 cases of auto-
mobiles running through crossing
gates and eighty-six cases of automo-
biles running into the side of trains
were reported and more than half of
these accidents occurred in broad day-
light.
During the same period, nineteen
accidents were due to a disregard by
the drivers of automobiles of the
crossing watchman’s warning to stop;
six accidents were due to defective au-
tomobile brakes and nine accidents
were due to the drivers of automobiles
being intoxicated.
From the yearly record of persons
killed and injured at highway cross-
ings, from the automobiles damaged
or demolished as a result of coming
in contact with trains and from the
passenger train wrecks that have oc-
curred, due to trains striking automo-
biles at crossings, it is certain that all
such accidents will increase in num-
ber as traffic increases unless every
available means is employed to pre-
vent them.
It is therefore apparent that the
American people should be brought
to a full realization of the fact that
extreme care should be exercised
when approaching or traveling over
highway crossings, and it is hoped
that the “National Careful Crossing”
campaign will accomplish this pur-
pose.
Remember the slogan, cross cross-
ings cautiously.
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Thousands of Trees Planted.
Figures compiled by the State De-
partment of Forestry show that this
spring 51 owners of forest land set
out a total of 81,162 forest trees in
Centre county. More trees would
have been planted but the big demand
for planting stock exhausted all the
available nursery supply early in the
season. Orders were placed for a to-
tal of more than seven million trees.
Reports indicate that most of the
planted trees are growing well, and in
time will produce excellent lumber.
In Clinton county seven tree plant-
ers set out 13,322 forest trees, and in
Clearfield county forty-one different
owners of forest land planted 434,200
“forest trees.
The nurseries operated by the State
"Department of Forestry shipped out
‘more than three and one-half million
trees this spring, the largest number
ever sent out in a single planting sea-
son. This spring, for the first time,
forest trees were planted in every
county of the State. This year’s
nursery output is fifty times greater
than the total shipments ten years
ago. The three and one-half million
planted trees will reforest more than
3,500 acres of idle forest land and
when grown up should produce 265,
+000 cords of wood,
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i.” Forest Fire Destroys Game.
District forester William F. Dague,
of Clearfield, reports that the forest
fire which started on Decoration day
on Bear Run, south of Philipsburg,
broke out several times after it was
first extinguished. It was the prompt
action of forest fire wardens and the
fire fighting crews that assisted them,
that prevented a much larger area
from being burned. This fire burned
over one of the best hunting grounds
in the entire Moshannon forest dis-
trict and destroyed a great deal of
small game, Hunters and other
sportsmen of this section are indig-
nant because more fires have occurred
this spring in this particular region
than in all the rest of the Moshannon
forest district.
Forester Dague believes that the
fire season is now at an end for the
foliage is becoming green and thick.
He says that if more fires do occur
they cannot travel very fast and will
be stopped before they do much dam-
age.
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WONDERS OF RADIO.
The wireless telephone or radio is
at this moment attracting a great deal
of attention, and it promises to be one
of the most wonderful scientific devel-
opments of our age. It is possible to
send a message or a song through the
air for hundreds, even thousands of
miles. The radio plant or transmit-
ting station projects waves In the
ether somewhat as a stone dropped
in a pool of water produces circular
waves in all directions. These ether
waves move in all directions from the
transmitter with the speed of light—
186,000 miles per second. If the sta-
tion has a range of 3,000 miles, every
receiving station within that distance
can take the message sent out, even
though there be millions of them.
It is said that between November
and March last winter 50,000 amateur
receiving stations were established in
the area of Greater New York city.
In order to catch a message a re-
ceiving apparatus must be tuned to
the right wave length. The receiving
station may be connected with an am-
plifier, by which an entire room full
of p2ople may listen to the music or
message sent out by radio. It is pos-
sible for the farmer with an instru-
ment that will cost less than fifty dol-
lars to receive weather and market re-
ports daily or to entertain his family
with the most delightful music which
is being produced hundreds of miles
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away. The New York Times and oth-
er papers are receiving much of their
European news by radio. It is possi-
ble to transmit photographs by radio.
A new picture of President Harding
was in this way produced in Paris in
twenty minutes. A writer on the sub-
ject in Current History for March de-
clares that with a fuller development
that may take ten years it will be pos-
sible for newspapers to receive their
news pictures from all parts of the
world by means of the radio, possible
also for a man crossing the Atlantic
to speak from his stateroom with his
office or his home in America or Eu-
rope. We are truly living in an age
of wonders—and the most wonderful
thing in our age seems to be radio.
To Provide Food for Trout.
To provide natural food for trout in
streams flowing through state forests,
the Pennsylvania Department of For-
estry is preparing to plant along the
brooks trees that will attract insects.
It has been decided that shad bush,
commonly called June berry, is the
most desirable variety, because bugs
and insects will come to the white
flowers which bloom in the early
spring. It is expected the insects will
fall into the same streams and be eat-
en by the fish.
John W. Keller, chief of the Bureau
of silviculture, has announced the De-
partment will collect shad bush seeds
and plant them in state forest nurs-
eries. When they are large enough,
the trees will be transplanted from
the nurseries to the banks of the
streams.
MARKING OF STATE ROADS.
Marking of State highways with
poles bearing color bands, which was
announced by the State Highway De-
partment weeks ago, will begin in a
few days, according to a Harrisburg
dispatch. Poles on north and south
highways will be marked with a blue
band; on east and west highways with
a red band, and on diagonal highways
with a yellow band.
Six-foot poles will be used. They
will be whitewashed to a height of five
feet and the color band denoting the
direction of the highway will be one
foot deep. The first road to be mark-
ed will be the highway leading from
the New York State line south of
Birghamton to Philadelphia by way of
Scranton, the Poconos, Stroudsburg
and Easton. It will be marked with
poles bearing the blue band.
The markers will be placed along
the highway at cross-roads only, to
prevent motorists from straying from
their route. The various highways
over the state roads in the different
places will be marked as follows:
Blue Routes—Maryland line to
York, Harrisburg, Sunbury, Williams-
port, Mansfield, New York line. To-
wanda to the New York line.
Red Routes—Waterford to Corry,
Warren, Kane, Smethport, Larabee,
Coudersport and Wellsboro. Mans-
field to Towanda, Montrose and the
Lackawanna trail at New Milford.
Yellow Routes—Williamsport to
Lock Haven, Bellefonte, Tyrone, Hol-
lidaysburg and through to the Mary-
land line.
The marking through municipalities
will be cared for by the motor clubs
and the Pennsylvania Motor Federa-
tion. At road intersections the pole
markings will be found on the far side
of the intersecting highways, on the
proper side for traffic.
Holly Leaf Tea.
The Government Bureau of Chem-
istry has found that the leaves of a
variety of holly, or “Christmas berry
tree,” when properly prepared, make
an excellent tea. They contain nearly
2 per cent. of caffeine, which is the
active and stimulating principle of
both tea and coffee. This holly tree
grows wild and flourishes in all the
Atlantic and Gulf States from Virgin-
ia to the Rio Grande.
It is commonly used for ornamental
hedges, being evergreen and beautiful
with berries in winter.
In earlier days Southern house-
wives used holly leaves for tea. The
Bureau of Chemistry thinks it might
be worth while to cultivate the plant
for that purpose. The hedge trim-
mings could certainly be utilized to
advantage.
MEDICAL.
That Morning Lameness
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suffer urinary ills, there must be a
cause. Often it’s weak kidneys. To
strengthen the weakened kidneys and
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Kidney Pills. You can rely on Belle-
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kidneys and felt so miserable with
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Nash Leads the World in Motor Car Value
May Writes New Nash History
May stands out in the annals of Nash
history by reason of two Impressive events.
Despite the new high sales record setby April
there was a 237 increase recorded by May.
And early in the month of April the
100,000th Nash left the factory, so that May
sees us vigorously on our way toward the
200,000 mark.
No other car of the Nash class ever attained
anything like this volume of business in the
first four and one-half years of production.
The new Nash line includes twelve models: Four and six cylinders; open and closed;
two, three, four, five, and seven passenger capacity; a price range from $965 to
$2390, f. o. b. factory.
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WION GARAGE, - -
BELLEFONTE, PA.
WILLIS E. WION, Proprietor.