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Bellefonte, Pa., March 5, 1926.
FALL OFF MENTALLY
DURING LONG FAST
Test Shows Result of Absti-
nence From Food.
Can you rise to greater poetic
heights and to clearer regions of
thought on an empty stomach than
on a Square meal? From earliest
times persons have claimed they
reached rare esthetic levels by for-
swearing food, and now a scientist
has set out to study the facts.
J. A. Glaze of the University of Chi-
cago tested the psychological effects
of fasting on a number of subjects
and reported the results to the Amer-
ican Psychological association, which
met at Cornell university recently.
Two men and a woman lived on water
alone for from ten to thirty-three
days.
One of the most important facts
determined was that the mental effi-
ciency of all the subjects as shown
by their performance of tests de-
creased during the fast in five of the
tests out of the total of seven. The
average loss in efficiency in compari-
son with the period before and after
the fast, ranged from 1 to 24 per cent.
The subjects, however, galned in
bodily steadiness during the fast, es-
pecially after they had been foodless
for a week or more. They were able
‘to point more steadily at small holes
‘with a pointer. They could stand at
attention, blindfolded and with vision,
for two minutes at a time, with some-
what less wabbling than before th~
fast.
“The after effects of fasting,” Mr.
Glaze said, “are beneficial in many
ways. One's mental activity seems to
be increased, but this only takes placa
after the fast is over.”
" The subjects described their various
experiences during the fast in diaries
which they kept. One of them re-
-called his dreams and they were most-
ly about food. The sense of smell, it
‘was agreed, was much mere acute
while fasting. The pangs of hunger
were not noticed after the third day.
How physical desires may change
with long fasts was illustrated by one
@f the men who had occasionally en-
joyed a cigarette. After about three
days he did not want to smoke at all,
and only after he began eating nor-
mally again did he have any desire
to resume smoking.
Machine Reveals [lis
Vagrant aches and pains which
often afflict the stomach and are hard
to identify may now be accurately
Jocated and classified by an instrument
resembling a miniature seismograph,
the device with which earthquake
tremors are recorded, according to
Popular Mechanics Magazine. The
pain finder, devised by Dr. W. C. Al-
verez, of the University of California,
is said to register the course of such
ills in almost any part of the abdo-
‘men and to reveal every step of the
ligestive processes. By the recorder.
the passage of food through the diges-
itive tract can be closely followed, and
whe exact spot and instant of the set-
ting up of any trouble definitely
learned in a few minutes. The in-
strument, called the multiple-electro-
anterograph, is said to obtain its data
vy means of a pendulum swung in a
vacuum tube and marks its records
with a needle.
Helping South America’s Poor
- An American corporation—Cerro de
Pasco—one of the largest copper pro-
ducing concerns in the world, in an
effort to help Peru hetter the living
conditions of her poor, is importing
. fifteen pedigreed Hereford and Angus
bulls from Colorado. They are to be
crossed with the range cattle here in
the hope of stimulating milk produc-
tion. The low production of whole-
some milk in Peru and Chile is be-
lieved one reason for the high mor-
tality among children. The Cerro de
Pasco, along with other American cor-
porations, is showing much humani-
tarian interest in the poor and ig-
norant native workers, who have been
exploited from time immemorial and
still are by most native companies.
Old Army General Orders
‘Copies of two general orders, one
-promoting U. §. Grant from brevet
second lieutenant to second lieuten-
ant, and assigning him to the Seventh
infantry, and the other announcing
the death of John Quincy Adams, have
been received by Col. Frank Morrow,
commander of the Seventh infantry,
U. S. A, at Vancouver barracks. The
copies were sent by G. M. Knisely, an
army veteran, who saved the orders
from destruction years ago at Fort
Leavenworth. The order announcing
the death of Adams was signed by
President James K. Polk, and was re-
ceived by the Seventh infantry while
on duty in Mexico in 1848. That pro-
moting Grant was issued September
80, 1845.
His “Pickup” Claimed
Somebody stole E. R. Kerfoot’s car
at Hutchinson, Kan., and when it was
returned to him from Missouri, Ker-
foot found 100 $50 bills in the spare
tire. Kerfoot wasn't caring if the car
was stolen again at that rate, but an
Oklahoms bank has since claimed the
$5,000. Bandits had used KRerfoot's
car in robbing the bank, overlooking
the tireful of loot afterward.
SUCCESS WITH DELINQUENT
CHILDREN SHOWN IN REPORY
Agencies Co-operating In “Child Guid-
ance Clinics” Under Commor
wealth Fund See Improvement
New York.—Can our public schools
prevent delinquency and crime by giv-
ing early and painstaking special at-
tention to pupils who are backward
or out of focus, or whose behavior
makes them constant puzzles or pests
to teachers and parents? Even
though all such “problem children”
are not necessarily headed for jall,
will timely study of their difficulties
make them happier and more effective
citizens of the school and eventuallv
of their community?
Affirmative evidence in this respect
and a story of progress in establish-
ing “child guidance clinics” and visit-
ing teacher service to help such chil-
dren are found in a report just issued
by the joint committee on methods of
preventing delinquency which sum-
marizes four years of work under a
program initiated and financed by the
Commonwealth fund, one of the larger
American philanthropic foundations.
In organizing this program for the
prevention of juvenile delinquency the
Commonwealth fund, after a careful
survey of present needs in the field
of child welfare, approved a scheme
of co-operative activities to be car-
ried on by the national committee for
mental hygiene, the national commit-
tee on visiting teachers (affiliated
with the Public Association of New
York city) and the New York School
of Social Work. By conducting local
demonstrations, issuing publications
and offering scholarships, it was pro-
posed to develop scientific study of
difficult and delinquent children in the
schools and juvenile courts, to foster
sound methods of treatment based on
such study and to increase the num-
ber of trained and competent workers
in this field.
Under the direction of the national
committee for mental hygiene. says
the report, demonstration child guid-
ance clinics are now being conducted
in Philadelphia and Cleveland. Sim-
ilar demonstrations have been carried
on for periods varying from six
months to a year in five other cities.
As a result of this work child guid-
ance clinics, fully supported by the
local communities, are now in oper-
ation in St. Louis, Dallas, Minneapolis,
St. Paul, Los Angeles, Memphis and
Richmond. At these clinics children
who are proving too much for the
adults responsible for them are given
systematic physical, psychological and
psychiatric examination, and assisted
by trained and sympathetic welfare
workers to adjust themselves to hap
pier and more normal ways of liv-
ine
ing,
Judge Urges Mother
to Spank Girl, Sixteen
New
the Jamaica court urged Mrs. Mar-
garet Ramsden to spank her daughter,
Beatrice, sixteen, after the girl had
been arraigned as a wayward minor.
Mrs. Ramsden, weeping, said she
understood authorities would inter-
fere if she undertook to chastise the
girl. The court reassured her:
“There are too many people med-
dling in everybody else's affairs and
not minding their own business. They
said the same thing last year, when 1
said that I always knocked some sense
into my children’s heads.”
Magistrate Gresser insisted. “1 tell
you that, so long as she is under your
roof, you have absolute authority to
exercise such parental measures as
are necessary to keep her a good girl.
Your husband can take her across his
knee and knock some sense into lier.
If parents exercised this authovity we
should have less waywardness among
children.”
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Fine Levied 18 Years Ago
Threatens Man's Home
pes Moines, Towa.—Facing depriva-
tion of his home to satisfy the state's
demands for payment of a fine im-
posed 18 years ago, Charles Eddy,
seventy-year-old painter, of Belle
Plaine, has appealed to Governor
Hammill.
The property has been ordered sold
to satisfy the judgment of (he
Benton county court, imposed Sep-
tember 25, 1907, for a state quer
law violation. Eddy pleaded guilty
and was fined $300 and costs and sen-
tenced to 90 days in jail.
He served the jail sentence, but was
unable to pay the fine. The state for
18 years left Eddy unmolested. While
the fine was growing to $725 through
increase of interest, he saved his mon-
ey and bought a home.
Eddy’s attempt to obtain a lean op
his property brought to light the old
judgment against him,
Physical Defects in
Students on Decline
jackson, Miss.—A vast decrease in
physical defects of college students |
has been noted in examinations over
the last decade at Mississippi A. & M.
college. D. C. B. Mitchell, college phy-
sician, attributes the improvement to
educational work in public health
programs,
In a letter to Dr. F, J. Underwood,
state health of'cer, he called atten- |
tion to the improvement in teeth and
corrected eye (efects.
“I find practically all teeth in good
condition, whereas nine years ago I
seldom feund a Set of sound teeth.
There ge 37 freshmen with properly
fitted glasses. Nine years ago I found
only six with glasses.”
York.—Magistrate Gresser in |
black one below.
dictionary words, except proper names.
terms and obsolete forms are Indicated in the definitions.
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 4.
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
When the correet letters are placed in the white spaces this puzzle will
spell words both vertically and horizontally.
indicated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the puzzle.
Thus No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will
fill the white spaces up to the first hinck square to the right, and a number
under “vertical” defines a word which will fill the white squares to the mext
No letters go in the black spaces.
The first letter in each word fis
All words used are
Abbreviations, slang, initials, technical
1—To sum up
4—Internal organs
8—Growth on trees
11—Not many
12—Before (poetic)
13—To rap gently
15—Sun god
17—Ralilroad (abbr.)
19—Senior (abbr.) 20—To hate
22—The figure bounded by two radii
and the included arc of a circle
25—That is (abbr.)
26—Note of scale
27—That which may be eaten
81—Imitation satin
83—Conjunction
9—Dellcate
16—Conjunction
34—Preposition
86—Part or “to be” 36. —Like
87—Crowd 39—Proper
40—Donkey 41—Roman emperor
'43—To lease
45—European country
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8 q
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15 76
20 21
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27
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41 2
45 26
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(©. 1925, Western Newspaper Union.)
Horizontal. Vertical.
1—To state
2—District of Columbia (abbr.)
3—Puts off
4—To swear solemnly
6—Part of “to be”
6—Rhode Island (abbr.)
T7—Insect
8—What the butcher sells
10—Point of compass
11—Liberty
14—To acknowledge, or to declare
as one’s belief
16—Bone 18—Concerning
20—Expire 21—To flow out
23—Domestic animal 24—Hastened
28—Metal 29—Behold
30—Exertion
31—Governor of a province in an-
client Persia
82—Part of “to be”
82A—Same as 10 vertical
47—Same as 13 horizontal 88—To ask 40—Some
42—Note of scale
Solution will appear in next issue. 44—Half an em 46-—Mother
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Desire to Own Auto Adds to Wealth
of U. S.
Now that the trend of automobile
absorption is no obvious country-
word, the statistical hounds who have
been contending the saturation point
has been reached for the motor car
have taken a back seat, and there is
every indication that automobile pio-
duction and sales this year will ex-
ceed all previous years.
Our best little economists have es-
tablished saturation points for thi
motor car more than once.
every once in a while they burst into
the song of sorrow. In every in-
. stance however the point set has bec
i reached and passed and the industry
is still growing by leaps and proverb-
ial bounds.
The statisticians lose sight of the
underlying cause of increased use of
the motor car, which is its constant-
ly increasing contribution to economic
and social welfare. The same rule ap-
i plies to the telephone, to the radio, to
the talking machine and in fact to
every civilizing influence that has
been brought into use as a result of
science and invention. The motor car
is no longer regarded as a luxury. It
is just part of normal existence. The
I high, the low, the rich and the poor
"use the motor car. Individual trans-
portation is a recognized part of
American life.
{Naturally this demand for the mo-
tor car, which never existed in the
case of the horse, has had animpor-
tant bearing on finance which had had
to adjust itself to meet the require-
ments of the times. The fact that the
prospective motor owner has not the
money to buy a ear outright is no
longer a block to his purchase. His
confidence in the future, based on
either experience or observation, is
that the motor car will pay for itself
i while it is being used, or at least that
| the expenditure spread over a long
| period of time is a fixed charge of
i living that is altogether well worth
while.
Particularly is this so in the coun-
try. The city man is rapidly reach-
ing: the point where he finds disad-
vantage in car ownership. The con-
gestion is such that he cannot park,
and certainly the traffic rules are such
ing with pleasure. Garage rents are
enormous and other expenses are cor-
respondingly high. None of these
conditions apply to the country. There
are the open spaces, good roads, no
garage rent and a full and free op-
portunity to get all there is out of a
car whether for business purposes or
for pleasure. Already more than fifty
per cent. of all the automobiles manu-
factured in the United States are sold
in towns up to five thousand popula-
tion, and to the farmers, and the de-
mand is increasing steadily.—Houtz~
dale Citizen.
| Maine Man Realized Handicap ef
Weather.
Governor Smith, at a dinner in Al-
'bany, was talking about New York's
incredibly changeable weather.
“In a hotel lobby the other night,”
| he said, “a Maine man told a New
| Yorker a hunting story.
|“ Yes, sir,’ he wound up. ‘I killed
that b’ar with this here little pearl-
i handled penknife. Guess you never
had a tussle with a b’ar, hey, strang-
er?
“ ‘My goodness, yes,’ said the New
Yorker. ‘I was fishing in Saranac
lake one day when a big bear made
a rush for me. He knocked the rod
clean out of my hands, and so I was
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defense. But I grabbed the critter by
the throat, roughed it up with him a
bit, and then downed him and held
him quiet till he froze to death.’
“The Maine man nodded thought-
fully,
“ ‘Yep,” he said, ‘I've often wanted
to try that dodge myself; but the
weather up our way don’t change as
quick as it does down here in York
State.” "Exchange. ;
Do You Knew How The Weather is
Fereeast?
The followimg is, in brief, the
method of the UW. S. Weather Bureau
in making the daily forecasts read by
millions each morinng in the papers.
It is interesting; t@ note that compari-
son of these forecasts with the weath-
er for the periods covered shows an
approximate verification of 90 per-
cent. since 1891. or
Twice a day, at 8 a. m. and again
at 8 p. m., Eastern: standard time, ob-
servations of 1lecal weather condi-
tions are taken: simultaneously at ap-
proximately 200 regular observing
stations throughout the United States
and the West Indies. Each Weather
Bureau station is operated by one or
more trained observers, and equipped
with mercurial barometers, ther-
mometers, wind vanes, rain and snow
gauges and anemommeters, as well as
other devices whielrx make a continu-
ous, automatic reeerd of the local
weather conditions and changes.
The results of those observations
are immediately telegraphed te the
central office at Washington, and
other forecast centers.
by experts trained to forecast the con-
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report includes the following data:
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level), precipitation, direction of wind,
state of weather, current wind veko-
city, clouds and maximum and mini-
mum temperature since last observa-
tion. From this data the forecaster
is able to trace the paths of storm
area and approximately determine
their subsequent courses and attend-
ant weather conditions.—From Every-
body’s Magazine.
State Pays for Losses Caused by Dogs
Only Upon Proper Appraisal.
In a statement to all owners of live-
stock and poultry who seek payment
from the State for damages caused by
dogs, Secretary of Agriculture, F. P.
Willits, points out the need for proper
| appraisal of the damage by local au-
| thorities.
The Pennsylvania Dog Law provides
that the local appraisers shall examine
the livestock or poultry killed or in-
jured and that only upon proper ap-
praisal can the claim for damage be
legally approved for payment.
The Bureau of Animal Industry
occasionally receives claims for alleg-
ed damages when the owner did not
call upon the local appraisers for
some time after the damage occurred
and the livestock or poultry had been
burned or otherwise disposed of. The
law does not permit such claims to be
paid. The only way compensation
can be allowed is to have the local ap-
praisers examine and appraise the
killed or injured livestock or poultry
| immediately after the damage has oc-
curred.
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
“My, how old-fashioned!”
This couldn’t be you. In everything—your
clothing, your automobile, the home you
live in—you demand the “latest.”
And yet, thoroughly up-to-date in every-
thing else, one point may have escaped you
—the watch you wear.
Style in watches is as important nowa-
days as style in clothing. One cannot be
_ really up-to-date and
carry a watch as far
behind the times as the lady in the picture.
Our extensive assortment of reliable
watches dressed in the famous Wadsworth
Cases will be a revelation to you of the
part played by style in the modern watch,
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Spring of 1926
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