>
Deworeai acon,
Belleforit¢, Pa. December 2, 1927.
Your Health,
_ "The First Concern.
PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE
IS FAIRLY NEW
By C. T. Chamberlin, M. D.,
Natchez, Miss. :
The late Maj. Gen. William Craw-
ford Gorgas was truly the father of
preventive medicine, the object of
which is not only to save human life
but to prevent human sickness and
suffering.
The purpose of the Gorgas Memo-
rial is to perpetuate the work in pre-
ventive medicine to which the life
of the great benefactor of humanity
was consecrated.
As an example of what preventive
medicine can do, we may take the
disease diphtheria. This, once a
dreaded scourge, can be prevented
and finally will be eradicated, as yel-
low fever has been, by proper pre-
ventive measures. When the public
has the scientific information regard-
jng diphtheria and willingly * co-ope-
rates with the doctors, this disease
will eventually be conquered.
For some years we have had a cer-
tain cure for diphtheria in anti-toxin.
In order that the anti-toxin may act
as a certain cure, it is essential that
it be given in the early stage of the
disease. In indigent cases the state
boards of health furnish it free of
cost. Proper co-operation between the
family physician and the patient is
necessary if anti-toxin is to be ad-
ministered early, when it is most ef-
fective.
Parents should not be too ready to
attribute a hoarseness occurring at
night to croup. This actually may
be due to laryngeal diphtheria, one
of the most dangerous forms of the
disease, and one in which early ad-
ministration of anti-toxin i§ most im-
portant.
' We can now immunize our children
by the use of toxin anti-toxin. Three
doses of toxin anti-toxin given at
one-week intervals will prevent diph-
theria. Better still, by a very simple
skin test, known as the Schick’s test,
we can tell if the child needs toxin
anti-toxin. One can easily see that
with this measure properly carried
3%, diphtheria can be entirely eradi-
cated.
It is the purpose of the Gorgas
Memorial to see that such informa-
ion is properly brought to the at-
fention of the public.
{ “It is well to remember that men
and women by nature are not hiber-
nators. Bears can go into caves and
remain inactive during the winter
season because they are built that
way. But human beings are quite
different,” said Dr. Theodore B. Ap-
bel, secretary of health, today. °
i “While there are many things that
ome animals do that could well be
emulated by the human race, the
habit of ficeing from the rigors of
the winter and going to sleep unti:
spring ce:tainly is not one of them.
et, in effect, that is what thousands
of people do. Sighing for the con-
¢lusion of winter, looking forward to
dpringtime and taking one’s evercice
in a clesed automobile are not exactly
what nature intended or in reality de-
mands.
“Many tired business men being de- |
prived of their weekly golf are con-
sequently now sitting in over-stuffed
chairs with over-stuffed stomachs, and
as. likely ‘as not, with over-stuffed
minds. = And they expect nature to
keep them young, happy and healthy
while they remain physically inactive
hoping for better days.
“And what is true of men is equal
ly true of many women. Winter
means a full social calendar and an
empty exercise program. It is scarce-
ly to be wondered at then that peo-
ple who lead a lazy physical life dur-
ing the winter months and whose
recreations are limited to indoor di-
versions are sorry when winter comes.
“Literally many. thousands,. upon
the approach of ‘frigid weather, pile
on the coal, hug radiators—and hope
for spring. This sort of thing is not
only foolish, but may be positively
harmful. It certainly is not condu-
cive to a top-notch physical condi-
tion. :
“Winter is one of the finest of sea-
sons. The cold breezes and the spark-
ling atmosphere are full of life and
health. But to'become acquainted with
the salutary powers of winter time
through a window pane is to lose most
of the fun and the joy of this period.
“Welcome the snow, the northern
breezes and the biting frosts with
wide-open arms. Get acquainted with
this wonderful season by bucking up
and meeting it more than half way.
If you need any inspiration look at
the way your children or the children
of others make use of winter. Nothing
is more conducive to health than a
brisk two-mile walk on a cold day,
especially if you walk it every day.
The adoption of this little suggestion
conceivably can change your whole
attitude toward cold weather and
change you also—from a grouchy,
lazy unbeliever in winter’s charm to
an ardent disciple of the ‘weather from
the north.’
“Winter is a strong ally. Don't be
~ afraid of it. It won’t hurt you. It
really wanted to help. For the sheer
joy of being alive and healthy, no
season surpasses it. Step up to it and
take it seriously by getting out into
it frequently.
“Go to the movies if you like them,
play bridge if you're fond of cards,
read books by the lamp while the
wind howls outside, if that appeals
to you. But—don’t hibernate!”
“Dame Fashion is becoming more
sensible every year. One has but to
Appel, secretary of health, recently.
“The two objectives of fashion are
| beauty and comfort with equal em-
phasis upon both. That they have
been attained is plain to everyone.
However, be that as it may a note
of warning is still needed on some de-
tails of dress, one of the most im-
portant of which at this season is
with reference to fur coats.
“This article of apparel is not only
beautiful to gaze upon and comfort-
able to wear but demands the appli-
cation of judgment if it is not to
back-fire upon its possessor in the
form of illness.
“In this latitude, unlike that of
more northern countries, fur coats
{must be ‘handled with care’ or they
will carelessly handle you. There are
of course many days during Pennsyl-
vania’s winter months when this gar-
ment is of value. The main thing to
remember is that there are also
numerous days from November to
April when a fur coat positively
should not be worn. This is frequent-
ly forgotten, and sometimes with dire
results.
“Colds, sore throats and even the
deadly pneumonia are all on good
speaking terms with fur coats when
the temperature is high. While no
definite statistics are available, it can
be stated with a reasonable amount
of certainty that an appreciable
amount of illness which will be con-
tracted this winter, especially among
the feminine branch of the population,
will be caused by the injudicious use
of the fur coat. Isnt this rather too
high a price even for style?
“It follows then, that no matter
how attractive a fur coat may be,
or how attractive one may appear
when wearing it, vanity has no right
to overcome judgment when the ther-
mometer plainly indicates that a coat
of lighter weight is required.
Follow Fashion, for she never was
more sensible and attractive than
now; but do not follow her blindly.
Fashion and common sense make the
ideal team—a combination that not
only lends itself to beauty but to
good health also.
“Therefore, if you have a fur coat,
use it. But let the mercury in your
outside thermometer dictate the days
when it should and should not be
worn. Health is in this advice; ill-
ness may follow its rejection.
“One may become ill this
in spite of precautions. But get out
of the fur-coat-victim class by get-
ting J the coat only when the day
is cold.”
Se ——————————————
TELEVISION NOT YET EX-
PECTED.
Forty thousand electric impulses a
second, riding wireless waves which
travel 186,000 miles a second—that
is radio television today, and still
it is not fast enough to be practical.
Now that the transatlantic beam
radio transmission and television have
been accomplished, laymen may re-
gard it as a short step to the time
when scenes and speeches from a
Geneva peace conférence can be car-
ried into their homes.
But the scientists and
who are intrusted with the task of
bringing about something of that sort
are doubtful. They point out a multi-
tude of: obstacles, and say. that gen-
eral use of television, especially for
big scenes, may never be practical.
Beam transmission for messages
and photogra 15 not only practical;
it is in actual use for messages from
London to Cape Town, Canada and
Australia. This autumn the Radio
corporation will put a beam line into
operation between London and New
York, in addition to ifs “undirected”
broadcasting lines.
But the beam, which takes only
| about one-fourth as much power as
generally radiated broadcasting, is
not the slim pencil of energy visuai-
ized by amateur prophets. It is rather
a cone, which spreads so much in
traveling 3,000 miles across the At-
lantic that nobody really knows how
broad it is at the base.
The Radio corporation has ma-
chines which can send and receive 250
winter
as many as the human operators can
send and receive, over ether waves
This speed of transmission gives se-
crecy to messages.
makes 250 words a minute seem noth-
ing at all.” Using a transmitter that
of equipment is one of the minor ob-
stacles to commercial television at
present—the best available apparatus
of the Bell Telephone laboratories
manages to transmit over wires or
ether waves a picture about three
inches square. Engineers consider this
far too small a space to portray a
King’s coronation or a football game,
The three-inch picture consists of
2,500 dots of light and darkness,
flashed on the screen separately, but
so fast that the eye seems to see them
all at once. To get motion into the
picture, at least sixteen slightly dif-
ferent scenes must be flashed on the
screen each second, each reproduced
from the source by a separate elec-
trical impulse. The dots have been
enlarged to a maximum that gives a
blurred picture two feet square, but
the picture loses clarity with each
amplification.
To transmit these “dot” impulses,
| energy for synchronization of ma-
{chines and for a conversation, re-
| quires facilities that would carry four
{to six telephone conversations. En-
| largements would be possible by di-
| viding a scene, for instance, into
| quarter sections, transmitting each
I section as a separate picture and then
| recombining them as a single view.
; But this would require four transmit-
Iters, with transmission facilities for
| sixteen to twenty telephone conversa-
| tions, or, if sent by air, it would oc-
{ cupy the ether wave bands of sixteen
{ radio stations, and it would transmit
scenes one way only.
glance at the mode of dress of a few.
decades ago to appreciate thoroughly
this statement,” said Dr. Theodore B. |
that travel with the speed of light. :
Auto Defects Fatal,
While recklessness, speeding, jay-
walking and other flagrant violations
of safety principles are receiving most
of the blame for highway accidents,
there are less spectacular but equally
important factors which have re-
mained somewhat in the background,
the American Road Builders’ associa-
tion stated today in its campaign for
courtesy and caution on the highways.
“Approximately 1,000 deaths last
year were the result of defective auto-
motive equipment,” it was stated. “In
addition a large number of casual-
ties resulted from incompetency of
drivers. More than 3,000 of the 25,302
deaths resulting from highway acci-
dents in 1926 were caused principally
Feeds
We keep a full line of all kinds of feeds
at the right prices.
Wagners 229% Dairy Feed $50.00
Wagners 32% Dairy Feed $54.00
Made of cotton seed meal, oil meal, glut-
€n and bran.
Wagners Mixed Scratch grains per H $2.50
Wagners Egg Mash, per H 3.00
Wagners Pig Meal, per H....... «2.80
We handle a full line of Wayne feeds,
Wayne 827 Dairy Feed, per ton....$58.00
Wayne 249, Dairy Feed, per ton....$51.00
Wayne Horse Feed, per ton......... $52.00
Wayne Poultry Mash, per H....... $ 8.20
Wayne Pig Meal, per H........... $ 2.90
Wayne Calf Meal, per H............ $4.25
Cotton Seed Meal, 439, per ton....$56.00
Oil Meal, 349%, per ton.............. $56.00
Gluten Feed, 28%, per ton.......... $48.00
Alfalfa fine ground, per ton....... $48.00
Winter wheat bran, per ton........ £38.00
Winter wheat Middlings, per ton...$44.00
Mixed chop, per ton ................. $45.00
Meat Meal, 50%, per H............. $ 4.25
Digescter Tankage, 60%, per H...... $4.25
Meat Meal 50% per H.............. $ 4.25
Svs ecsiiianey 4.23
Digester .tankage 609,
When you want good bread or pastry
Use “Our Best” Flour.
We are the exclusive agents for the
GOLD COIN FLOUR. A high grade of
Spring wheat, :
0. Y. Wagner & Co. Ing
68-11-1yr. BELLEFONTE, PA.
by unfavorable physical conditions. Of
this number, approximately 26 per
cent resulted from defects in vehicles
or adjustment of equipment.
- “Deaths resulting from defective
equipment are often more tragic
than fatalities caused by recklessness
or speeding, because they were caused
by persons who thought they were
driving with the utmost courtesy and
caution.” 3
—-Subscribe for the Watchman. ——The “Watchman” is the most
readable paper published. Try it.
Mendel’s Knit 8ilk Hose for Wo-
men, guaran to wear six
months without runners in leg or
holes in heels or toe. A new
FREE if they fail. Price $1.00.
YEAGER'S TINY BOOT SHOP.
lippers will ever lead as a gift item, so it seems.
To aid
you in choosing to suit your needs, we offer the follow-
owing styles and qualities :
Ladies’ Felt Slippers in All Colors
Men’s
Children’s Felt Slippers in All Colors
Ladies’ Velvet and Satin Slippers
55c. to $1.25
69c. to 1.25
65c. to 1.25
. $1.39 to $4.00
[4 ““ “wu é@
Bellefonte, Pa.
Bush Arcade
engineers |
words per minute, about eight times |
But television requires a speed that '
would fill a fair sized room—and size
your dealer to play these
~ Edison Records
VAUGHN DE LEATH (THE RADIO
GIRL). . Someday You'll Say“0.K.!I” 52093
The Night Before Christmas - - 52131
MID-PACIFIC HAWAIIANS...
¥ .
in Songs of their Native Islands - 52119
TWO DARK KNIGHTS...
in Side-Splitting Darky Dialogue 52133
VERNON DALHART AND CARSON
ROBISON...
My Blue Ridge Mountain Home 52093
THE EDISONIANS...
Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin) . 52145
THE ROLLICKERS...
It Was Only A Sun Shower - - 52121
B. A. ROLFE AND HIS PALAIS D’OR
ORCHESTRA... Down South - 52132
MURRAY KELLNER’S DINNER
MUSIC ENSEMBLE... Nola - 52092
JUAN PULIDO, Baritone . . .
Amapola - . . . . . . . . 60063
J. DONALD PARKER, Tenor . . . When
The Sunset Bids The Day Good-Bye 52125
And All the Leading Dance Hits
Edison Owners !
Hear “Close-up ” music on the
new Edison Records
New! The very latest musical hits! Rol-
licking jazz and marvelous melodies . ..
brought to you “close-up” in amazing per-
fection... volume...detail. You can’t resist
the catching joy of Rolfe and his Palais
d’Or Orchestra, or keep from swaying to the
Lilt of Vaughn de Leath’s delightful singing.
A few of the many Edison Records are
listed at the left. Come in today and hear
“close-up” music . . . it is unique with
Thomas A. Edison’s latest achievement . . .
EDISONIC
HARTER’S MUSIC STORE,
Bellefonte, Pa