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Bellefonte, Pa., November 19, 1926.
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50,000 Will be Killed by Autos in 1935. |
«If automobile accidents continue
to increase at the same rate the next
ten years as they have in the last
decade 50,000 persons will be killed
in that manner in 1935, while the
total deaths during the decade will be
more than 300,000,” said Charles E.
Hill, General Safety Agent of the
New York Central Lines, addressing
the general session of the National
Safety Council at its 15th annual con-
gress recently.
Mr. Hill is one of the foremost
authorities on safety. He is a Vice-
President of the National Safety
Council and Chairman of its Advis-
ory Committee on Public Safety, con-
sisting of men of national prominence
in the automobile and other industries
and representatives from Yale and
Michigan Universities. He has just
completed a five weeks tour of the
New York Central Lines on a “Safety
Special” train, holding mass meetings
of employes to promote the safety
movement, :
“The cost of highway traffic acci-
dents in the United States is at least
six hundred million dollars a year,”
continued Mr. Hill, “and this does
not include the cost incident to traf-
fic congestion. Upon the basis used
in the foregoing calculation this cost
will soar to one and a half billion
dollars in 1935, while the aggregate
eost for the next ten years will be
more than ten billion dollars. I am
basing this statement upon the ex-
perience of the past.
Another startling statement by Mr.
Hill in the course of his address on
“Safety as a Community Problem,”
was this:
“Last year 89,880 persons were
killed in accidents of all kinds and
more than two and a half millions
were injured. This 246 deaths and
7,000 injuries for each day in the year,
or more than twenty times the daily
GIRL HEALTH CHAMPION TO
TRY FOR NATIONAL HONORS
Alerts Hoppe Took First Place af
lowa i*alr and at the Sioux City
Interstate Fair.
Chicago.—Alberta Hoppe, age fif-
teen years and ten months, who re-
celved a score of Y89 per cent, was
adjudged to be Iowa's healthiest 4-H
“club girl in a state-wide contest at the
recent Jowa state falr. Girls repre
senting 73 counties competed.
“A few weeks later she was declared
champion health girl at the Sloux
City interstate fair in a field of 4-H
club entrants from the states of Ohio,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri,
Kansas, Nebraska, South = Dakota,
North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana.
In this regional contest she ‘scored
99.8 per cent perfect, being faulted
only for a little irregularity of teeth
and a little weakness in the arch of
her foot. The latter is now being cor-
rected through exercises in prepara-
tion for the National Health contest
in which she will be entered at the
National Club congress to be held In
Chicago, November 27 to December 4,
in connection with the International
Live Stock exposition. There Alberts
casualty toll of American soldiers | BE
during the World War. The direct
economic loss from accidents is esti-
mated to be at least four billion dol-
lars a year. If these accidents could
be wiped out over night our economic
adjustment alone would be sufficient
to dispose of our public debts in less
than five years. ¢
“Twenty-one thousand boys and
girls under fifteen years of age went
to their deaths as a result of acci-
dents last year. Is there not suffi-
cient human interest in that fact to |
distract public attention from matters
of less moment?
“America is the most reckless na-
tion in the world. Our fatal acci-
dent rate is nearly two and a half
times as high as that of England
and Wales and three times higher
when automobile fatalities alone are
considered.”
Mr. Hill said that until about
twelve years ago the center of grav-
ity of accidental deaths and injuries
was in industries; but since that time
it has gradually found its way to the
field of public accidents. He pointed
out that no matter how effective pre-
vention work in the industrial plant
might be it was imperiled by the con-
stant addition of untrained employes.
Therefore, industrial safety was not
enly a plant problem, but a commun:
ity problem as well. The interest of
the community in accidents was furth-
er emphasized by the fact that no few-
er than 20,000 persons were killed by
accident in homes last year, the ma-
jority of these home accidents oc-
eurring in the most poorly housed part
ef the population.
The only way to reduce this ap-
palling loss of life and property, Mr.
Hill said, was by community effort
along orderly lines following a def-
inite program. As an example of
the effeetiveness of systematic, or-
ganized effort he said that railroad
employment was less than one-third as
hazardous as it was twenty years ago,
while employes and passenger fatali-
ties combined had been reduced 60 per
cent. in the last thirteen years, not-
withstanding a large increase in the
number of employes and in passenger
traffic also.
Responsibility for accidents, Mr.
Hill placed upon citizens both in their
individual and official capacities,
eivil and political. This included
schools, churches, homes, traffic courts
and other officials, fraternal and civic
organizations and the press.
The remedy, hesaid, lay in a com-
lete mobilization of community
forces, with the full co-operation of
all agencies. Industries are doing a
great work individually, but they can-
not succeed alone; they must have the
aid of the public. To carry out a
comprehensive plan consideration
must be given to three fundamentals:
1.—Engineering, including scientific
study of accidents and their causes,
establishing safe conditions and deter-
mining what constitutes safe prac-
tices; 2.—Education, including inform-
ation showing causes of accidents and
arousing understanding of the need
for personal carefulness; 3.—Enforce-
ment, through means for compelling
the heedless minority to observe safe
practices.
—— a
Deer Season in State December 1st
to 15th.
The season for killing deer in Penn-
gylvania is from December 1 to De-
cember 15, inclusive. Only male deer
with horns having two or more points
to one antler, may be taken. The bag
limit is one, with a maximum of six
to a party camping or hunting to-
gether, however large the party may
Those who are interested in the
game laws of this and other States
would do well to send five cents to the
superintendent of documents, govern-
ment printing office, Washington, D.
C., asking for Farmers’ Bulletin No.
1505, which is a summary of the game
laws of all the States, the Canadian
provinces and the Federal and Domin-
ion governments, for the -seascn of |
Alberta Hoppe.
will meet the healthiest club girls
from all parts of the country for na-
‘ional’ honors, each state being rep
resented by its champion health girk
A similar contest for club boys will
iso be conducted at the same time.
Josephine Arnquist, state leader of.
zirls’ club work in Iowa, says: “Al-
yerta, who is a farm girl frowr Linn
county, is a sp'endid example of a
club girl living up to the standards
of all-around development of h~ad,
heart, hand and health for which 4-F
club work stands.
“Alberta is a girl who lives up to
the rules of the health game. She
has been a 4-H club girl for four
yvears—where health is emphasized
in some way at all regular club meet
ings.
“Swimming is her favorite sport, al-
though she is fond of all gymnastic
work including folk dancing, volley
ball and indoor baseball. She likes
outdoor life.
“Alberta is a sophomore in high
school. In her freshman year she
averaged about 96 and ranked second
in her class. This shows how a good
body is the basis on which to build
a good mind and a good disposition.
She is an example of a. rather re-
cently established fact that school 3
children showing the best physical
development make the best progress
in school.
Austrian Trains Field
Birds to Talk and Sing
Bayersdorf, Austria.—In Austria the
starlings and nutcrackers talk and
sing, that is, all those who go to
school to Mitzi Hofer.
Fraulein Hofer has been teaching |
hese two varieties of birds to talk
and sing for the last twenty years.
And, so successful has she been, that
customers flock from all parts of Eu-
rope to visit her cottage, and to buy
her birds. :
She believes that the ability to sing
and talk is strengthened through in-
heritance. Consequently she breeds
her birds with the greatest care and
has developed strains of nutcrackers
and starlings which are not equaled
as singers and talkers in all Europe.
The starlings and nuterackers ge
0 school each morning, not just hit or
mics, but in classes. The birds sit on
her head, on her shoulders, in her 'ap
and as she trills and talks: to them, it
spurs them on to imitative effort.
And her method? Patience, an end
less amount of it.
Helps Doctors
New York.—The charleston and its
atest version, the’ black bottom, are
making a lot of money for some phy-
sleians. One who has an office on
fashionable Park avenue says that at
least 00 per cent of his cases now are
1926-1927. A copy of the State game | gialodged cartilage in the knee joint.
Taws can be obtained by writing to thz
Game Commission at Ha:risbu.g.
! Th: patients are mostly women.
Four Presidents Used Gold Key.
Washington.—Whenever a famous
exposition or ceremony is opened at
long range by the President of the
United States he uses a gold electrical
key studded with precious nuggets,
the only instrument of its kind in the
world. :
Four Presidents—Taft, Wilson, Har-
ding and Coolidge—and one first lady,
have touched the key’s handle to sig-
nal the commencement of expositions
and other projects of national impor-
tance.
When not in use, the instrument is
carefully guarded by its owner, Ed-
ward W. Smithers, chief telegrapher
at the White House, who has been on
duty there since the day after the bat-
tleship Maine was blown up in 1898.
It was given him by President Taft,
who used it for the first time in 1900
to open the Alaskan-Yukon Pacific ex-
position in Seattle. The key was spe-
cially designed for that occasion, be-
ing mounted upon a slab of Alaskan
marble, inset with Alaskan nuggets
and presented to Mr. Taft at that
time by George W. Carmack, discov-
er of gold in Alaska.
‘WILSON GOT NEW YEAR THRILL.
Probably the most ususual touch
ever felt by the instrument was that
given at three o’clock cn a New Year's
morning, when Woodrow Wilson, clad
in pajamas and bath robe, descended
the stairs of the White House to sig-
nal from the east room the opening of
the San Diego exposition.
caught the year 1914 in San Diego in
its last dying gasp and caused the
big fair grounds to burst into a blaze |
of light as the old year passed out
and the new year arrived.
Another big event, of which the gold
key was a part, occurred in 1913. As |
the key was pressed by President
Taft on that occasion, the waters of :
the Pacific and the Atlantic met for
the first time in the Panama canal.
i | The electrical impulse sent out from
the White House caused the explosion
in the big waterway which blew away !
Gamboa dyke, removing the last ob- !
struction between the waters of the
two oceans. |
MRS. COOLIDGE OPENED SESSION. |
President Coolidge used the key to
put the machinery of the $57,000,000
Skagit hydroelectric plant in Seattle |
in motion, and Mrs. Coolidge used it
on two occasions to open women’s
meetings far from Washington.
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With MLERAMNDER,
Smithers is extremely proud of his
possession. He keeps it stored away
at his home, but many sightseers who
have heard of the unusual historic
relic insist upon adding it to the list
of famous things in Washington they
can tell of having seen with their own
eyes.
“Just the other night,” Smithers
said, “four men from Oklahoma drove
up to the house about midnight to
see the key. They wouldn’t leave un-
til I got up out of bed and showed it
to them.”
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The Indian “Tree Game.”
Since archery is becoming popular
again, games with bows and arrows
are appropriate. Such games are
among the most popular of Indian
sports. The tree is very interesting.
About a dozen blunt or knob-headed
arrows are needed for the game.
These arrows are shot into a large
tree so that they are caught in the
foliage and hang there in many posi-
| tions. At a given signal the players
begin to shoot these arrows down.
Every arrow a player brings down is
his. Also each one of his that gets
caught or lodged in the tree becomes
The year
1915 had reached Washington three |
hours before, but the President’s touch
a “prize arrow” for the other players
i to shoot at. If they succeed in bring-
, ing down all the arrows they win. But
many times they lose all their arrows
and the tree wins.—Exchange.
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American Women Bring Barbers $150-
000,000 a Year.
According to a report by N. S.
i Sherman, of Indianapolis, before the
annual convention of Barber Shop
Men in Chicago recently, American
women spent $150,000,000 in the bar-
ber shops last year.
—
Men and women together spent a
billion dollars. The sales are divided
as follows: |
omen—DBobs, curls and so on,
$150,000,000. Men—Haircuts and
shaves, $600,000,000. Tonics—$100-
000,000. Shampoos, Singes and Scalp |
Treatments—$50,000,000. |
—The American people cut about
22.5 billion cubic feet of wood from |
the forests each year. Fuelwood com- |
prises 42 per cent.; saw lumber 37 per |
cent., and other forest products (poles, |
posts, ties, pulpwood, mine timber,
éte.) 21 per cent. :
Our nation uses 110,000,000 cords |
of fuelwood a year. This means just |
one cord to each man, woman and
child in the country.
and forehandedness «
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An Old Time Thanksgiving Sentiment.
The day, the joyful day, recom-
mended by the illustrious Washington
has dawned which invited united
America religiously to celebrate the
goodness of God—the happy fruits
and effects of one of the most memor-
able revolutions recorded in all his-
tory, a revolution, considered in its
rise, progress and speedy termination
without a precedent, at once exhibit-
ing such a phenomenon in the politi-
cal world as has attracted the eyes of
all civilized nations and attended with
such a series of providential interposi-
tions as might fell astonish disinter-
ested spectators, confound the infidel
and enrapture the saint; a revolution
in favor of civic and religious liberty
which in its principles has given a fa-
tal shock to tyranny and oppression in
general, a glorious revolution which
spake into political existence our 1
Paks republic, now Sar ith rapid
progress to meridian glory.—Benjam-
in Wadsworth at Danvers, Mass., 1795.
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THE TELEPHONE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER looks at a vacant lot—and
sees a great building.
He surveys a sleepy street—and sees a hustling business center.
It’s his job to have the facilities of service ready—on time.
He studies even the smallest community in the state. He projects
four million.
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It’s a business for vision and forehandedness.
He must be ready in advance of the demand for service.
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the telephone buildings, switchboards and lines on what will
happen next year, and the year after, and up to twenty years ahead.
He can’t wait until the new factory, or apartment or suburban
development is completed. That would be too late!
At this moment four million dollars of telephone construction
work is in progress in the state. The year’s total will exceed twenty-
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