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Bellefonte, Pa., November 16, 1923,
INSULIN, DIABETES REMEDY,
PROVES EPICHOL DISCOV-
ERY.
More than 1,000,000 persons in the
United States are victims of diabetes.
Of this number 50,000 lives, which
might be saved, are sacrificed each
year. ET :
The great increase in diabetes is
due to ignorance and delay in apply-
ing for treatment. It can be stayed,
and frequently a complete cure can be
effected, if treatment is taken with
regularity and persistence.
Diabetes is not contagious nor her-
editary.
These are facts culled from the re-
port of the recent investigation of the
Rockefeller Research Foundation to
determine the value of the recently
discovered serum, called insulin, which
scientists acclaim the greatest boon
to diabetes.
The story of the recent great prog-
ress in the treatment of diabetes is
the story of the greatest triumph, so
far, in the study of the glands of in-
ternal secvetion, according to leading
physicians of this city. What is even
more remarkable, they claim, is the
fact that this achievement is that of
a man not particularly equipped with
scientific training, but endowed only
with a burning, almost morose, faith
in the rightness of an idea.
WHAT DIABETES IS.
“We grow accustomed to see the
terrors of disease attacked by groups
of highly trained scientists working in
richly equipped laboratories,” said Dr.
Alfred Stengel, of the University of
Pennsylvania. “Here, on the other
hand, is a tale of an obscure doctor
who flings aside his newly establish-
ed practice, burns his bridges behind
him and goes at the proving of his
idea like a bull at a gate, resulting in
the discovery of insulin.”
Diabetes, which, according to sta-
tistics, has been greatly on the in-
crease in the United States during the
last half century, is in brief, failure
of the liver to “warehouse” sugar, the
accumulation of sugar in the blood,
and the failure of the tissues to use it
as fuel. The muscles, unable to use
sugar for energy, must have some
kind of fuel to burn. So they try in
an imperfect way to use proteins and
fats. They obtain these not only from
food, but from body tissues them-
selves. Hence the wasting away, so
characteristic in the sufferer from di-
abetes.
‘This knowledge gained, doctors at
nce put diabetics on a diet which con-
tains much protein and fat, but little
;sugar or starch. That is the idea at
-the bottom of the dietary treatment
of diabetes. Many patients, middle-
.aged or older, can lead normal and
«quite useful lives on such a diet.
On the other hand, in many cases
‘the wasting away proceeded in spite
of every care. Unable to use sugar,
the body seemed to try to use pro-
teins and fats of its own tissues as fu-
el for energy, with very poor results.
Scientists in the past agreed that
the most effectual treatment was the
scantiest sort of a diet, low in starch
and sugar—Ilittle more than the stav-
ing off of death—until the discovery
«of insulin.
MBISCOVERY WINS NOBEL PRIZE.
‘This “is a practically new serum
isolated by Dr. F. G. Banting, a young
Canadian, during a series of experi-
ments dating back only as far as May
21, 1921. Within two months after
the first test, promising results had
already been obtained. Generally
Jong periods of fruitless effort are the
lot of the scientist who sets out to
prove a theory which at first glance
Seems plausible and easy to work out.
And now, to Dr. Banting and Dr. J. J.
R. MacLeod, of Toronto, has been
awarded the great distinction of the
Nobel prize for outstanding world
progress in medicine during 1923.
Thus a very serious and widespread
Jhuman disease like diabetes that was
once grouped with the “incurables”
:seems about to be conquered. The
dests having passed the rigid require-
iments of the Rockefeller Research
Foundation, John D. Rockefeller con-
tributed $150,000 to fifteen hospitals
in the United States and Canada to
promote the use of insulin in the
&reatment of diabetes. The endow-
ament was designed to bring this ex-
-traordinary boon of the new Ppancre-
atic extract discovered by Dr. Bant-
ing within the reach of both the med-
ical profession and the non-paying
public. :
Already there has been arranged a
«course at the University of Pennsylva-
nia for the instruction of physicians
in the use of insulin. This is in charge
of Dr. John Musser Jr., who has been
a champion of the Banting method
“from the outset, and a critical follow-
«er of its tests and developments.
Dr. Bartlett, of Hahnemann, where
“the use of insulin has met with re-
‘markable success, declared that im-
‘provements in the production of the
-fluid recently have been made in hos-
-pitals throughout the country, where
«experiments with it were tried. As
he method of extraction improved, he
said, the cost would be lowered. Only
‘recently it has been found that the
“future supply of insulin probably will
«ome from fish in the sea which hith-
erto have been believed to be of little
economic value.
WORKS BEST IN WORST CASES.
‘Dr. Alfred Stengel, professor of
‘medicine in the Medical School of the
University of Pennsylvania, regards
the serum as “one of the big discov-
wries of the age in medical science.”
Dr. D. W. Shelly, of Ambler, at the
Polyclinic hospital, said there was a
widespread lay interest in the use of
finsulin, for unlike most curative
sagents, insulin produces the most sat-
asfactory results in aggravated stages
of diabetes, owing to its almost in-
:stant restoration of the amount of
ssugar in the blood to normal ration,
holding out hope for so-called “hope-
Hess” cases.
_ “In diabetic eoma, insulin is con-
«Sidered a specific,” said Dr. Shelly.
“*In the diabetes of children, insulin
saves life. In patients in whom dia-
Wetes is associated - with ‘Infections
such as tuberculosis or in which sur-
gical operation is required, insulin is
invaluable. And for the majority of
diabetics whose comfort and whose
diet has heretofore been limited, in-
sulin offers opportunity for a more
normal existence.”
The Canadian government, in rec-
ognition of Dr. Banting’s discovery,
has granted him an annuity of $7500
a year.—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
TELLS HOW EATING
ALTERS CHARACTER.
Would you like to be magnetic and
have personality and natural beauty?
Then—
Drink raw egg yolk and eat an on-
ion now and then.
Florence L. Knapp, dean of the
College of Home Economics, Syracuse
University, an authority on foods and
health, has explained the relation of
food to health in all its phases, includ-
ing personality and temperament.
“The glass of health is the skin—
a sparkling eye, creative ability and
initiative come with the continued use
of foods supplying iron, calcium, po-
tassium, sodium, chlorine, oxygen,
phosphorous and sulphur,” she said.
“Iron and oxygen work together to
make red blood. Iron is supplied by
many tasty foods and oxygen we can
get from the air. Oxygen is the eas-
iest and cheapest material to supply,
but the majority of people do not even
take the trouble to breathe deeply and
so supply this valuable chemical. Iron
attracts oxygen and the oxygen tends
to make one a good mixture. Any
person wishing to do successful work
with people should take up quantities
of oxygen.
“We have not given much thought
to feeding the brain. The idea that
the stomach is all that needs consid-
eration in planning the menu is fast
becoming Victorian.
“While the power center of the
brain makes one able to do big things
in a big way if properly fed, it soon
wears out if stimulated continually
by strong beverages of any kind or
too stimulating food or narcotics.
“Children under seven should not
be allowed stimulating drinks or man-
ufatcured sweets in excess.
“People who become drug addicts
have not fed this center but have
worn it out by excitement and over-
stimulating foods and finally seek a
stimulant stronger than foods can
supply.”
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A Give Away.
Blake was talking to his friend
Scribbler, the well-known English
journalist of Fleet street, London.
“Do you believe in writing anony-
mously ?” he asked the hero of the
pen.
Scribbler looked to see that the
door of his study was shut ere he re-
plied in a confidential whisper:
“Well, I’ve often wished that one of
my productions had been anonymous.”
“What was that ?” asked Blake.
“A letter proposing to Mrs. Scrib-
bler,” groaned the famous writer.—
St. Louis Star.
GROWTH OF BUS LINES.
Twenty years ago, says a bulletin
issued by the American Highway Ed-
ucational Bureau, the prophecy that
there would soon be developed a sys-
tem of public roads that would open
the way for highway passenger and
freight lines, that through the intro-
duction of such an agency, farmers’
wives and farmers themselves, could
go to town and return without tak-
ing their teams out of service in the
fields, thus delaying farm work—such
a prophecy would have been flouted
with derision. :
But such a development has come to
pass. In Pennsylvania, where public-
spirited citizens decided five years ago
to embark upon the construction of a
comprehensive system of State high-
ways, there are today 250 highway
passenger lines in operation. Un-
doubtedly this new and popular form
of transportation has been fostered by
the splendid system of hard-surfaced
roads which Pennsylvania has set out
to build.
Some of these lines perhaps were
running in the jitney stage, but their
major development has come within
the last two years. Back of this de-
velopment lies a reason.
Trade moves in unison with wheels.
Where movement is slow and irregu-
lar, business languishes; where it
speeds up and restrictions are per-
manently removed, opportunities for
gainful transactions multiply. More
people moving about creates more
business.
How to reach out over longer
stretches of thoroughfare to a great-
er number of homes with potential
buyers has become the logical next
step in retail trade building. Wise
merchants know this. That is why
their advertising signs are encounter-
ed along the highway.
But a bargain in the store is not
a bargain on the farm without fre-
quent and inexpensive means of trav-
el from farm to store. Neither is a
day used to full advantage when the
commercial traveler or man of affairs
is forced to wait until the “five-fif-
teen” that afternoon, when the busi-
ness in hand requires only a few mo-
ments. Selling cost is always a part
of the retail price, and time-waste at
railway stations has already added to
sales costs in no small amount.
The motorbus in highway passen-
ger service has come to change all
this. It is the modern cash register
in commercial travel. It helps the
salesman conserve his time and ring
up more orders in the day’s run.
Control and operation of the motor-
bus rests in the communities which
it serves and the money it earns in
well-merited passenger service goes
back into local channels of trade. It
pays its share of highway construc-
tion and maintenance, and thereby
aids materially in the development of
the State highway system.
The further extension of Pennsyl-
vania’s highway passenger system
over well-built state highways is of
vital concern to every community.
But, if the public hopes to keep down
transportation costs in this new
agency, it must look well to the con-
struction of strong rigid surfoces up-
on which fuel and repair costs may be
held to a minimum.—Ex.
Many Religious Faiths Represented
at Penn State.
Twenty-five different religious de-
nominations are represented in the
student body at The Pennsylvania
State College this year. The Presby-
terians lead all others according to
the announced preference of all but
about 200 of the 3300 students.
There are a total of 753 students of
the Presbyterian faith enrolled at
Penn State. The Methodists follow
closely with 646. The Lutherans are
third in point of numbers, with 363.
Roman Catholic students total 288
and the Reformed faith is represented
by 207. ;
Penn State is a non-sectarian in-
stitution and the student body repre-
sents a very democratic group. Other
sects represented in the order of nu-
merical representation are: Protest-
ant Episcopal, Baptist, Hebrew,
Evangelical, United Presbyterian,
United Brethren, Society of Friends,
Church of Christ, Congregational,
Dunkard, Christian Science, Morav-
ian, Unitarian, Mennonite, Universal-
ist, Greek Catholic, Disciple, United
Zion Children, and Schwenkfelder, the
last three having but one representa-
tive each.
The State College borough Presby-
terian and Methodist churches both
have special assistant pastors to care
for the student members of those
faiths, the large numbers making this
provision advisable.
FIRST OF TEXAS RANGERS.
The mounted police of Canada is
the only other similar organization to
the Texas Rangers on this continent.
The service of the rangers is more ef-
fective than that of the regular sol-
diers, for they pay less consideration
to the possibilities of international
complications.
“Killed in resisting arrest” is a
very frequent report of a ranger, and
it is always considered a satisfacto-
ry explanation of the death of an out-
law or criminal attempting to evade
arrest.
The original rangers came into ex-
istence in the early days of the State,
along about 1840, in the neighborhood
of San Antonio. To affiliate with this
band it was absolutely necessary for
a man to possess courage, to be a
splendid rider and an unerring shot,
and to have a fleet horse worth at
least $100. For this he was remuner-
ated by the State with the sum of $1
a day.
. The ranger was usually clothed in
buckskin and wore a broad-brimmed
hat. For his accoutrement three or
four revolvers and as many bowie
knives were thrust through his belt
and a short rifle was thrown across
his arm. Years of fierce border war-
fare had inured them to every hard-
ship and had prepared them for every
eventuality.—Detroit News.
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MILES OF
BELL TELEPHONE WIRE
ADDED IN PENNSYLVANIA
1919-1923
0 200,000
MILES OF WIRE
300.000
Half a Million Miles
To the moon and back again with enough left over
to wrap around the earth.
That’s how much new wire is being added to the
Bell System in Pennsylvania this year.
And in 1924 we expect to add 630,000 miles.
New buildings are being constructed, twenty-two
of them, thirty large additions to other buildings,
ten millions of dollars’ worth of new switch-
boards and Central Office equipment, seventy-six
thousand new telephones. :
Factories are working day and night, train after
train is hauling the equipment.
To what end?—That the telephone system in this
state may keep pace with the needs of the people.
The Bell Telephone Company
of Pennsylvania
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C. W. Heilhecker
ONE POLICY, ONE SYSTEM, UNIVERSAL SERVICE, AND ALL DIRECTED TOWARD BETTER SERVICE
er
The Qutlook for Bushiess is
Cheerful
onditions have recently improved.
We must go ahead in the United
States, in spite of our political
prophets of despair.
The war caused a tremendous up-
heaval, and the automobile has intro-
duced a new era.
But the world is slowly adjusting itself
to changed conditions.
The First National Bank
Bellefonte, Pa.
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W. L. FOSTER, President
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Heavier Underwear that turns 6 A. M.
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