Tom
Bellefonte, P., January 20, 1928.
Your Health,
The First Concern.
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SUFFICIENT SLEEP ESSENTIAL.
“This is the ‘open season’ for ra-
dio,” said Dr. Theodore B. Appel,
Secretary of Health. The amount
of amusement and information for
which this marvelous invention is
daily responsible is practically incal-
culable. However, like all other good
things, it is possible to overdo it.
“Sleep is one of the fundamental
requirements of the human body and
it is one of the most abused. Dis-
tractions are more numerous than ev-
er before in the history of man; and
they are likewise more appealing. It
follows that the American public to
some extent is permitting the attrac-
tions of its leisure periods to rob it
of many hours of peaceful and health-
glying slumber. The result is harm-
ul.
“The necessity of sleep and the un-
changing law of nature that accom-
panies it were made long before ra-
dio, mid-night revues and all-night
entertainments. But this is often en-
tirely ignored by thousands of pleas-
ure seeking people.
“Nature made the night for restor-
ing the nerve cells and body tissues
through the miraculous processes in-
volved in sleep. When this fact is
habitually ignored something is bound
to break. It is as inevitable as is
any other fixed law.
“One scarcely needs to be reminded
that ‘burning the candle at both ends’
exhausts it much sooner than was or-
iginally contemplated by its manu-
facturer. And in a measure the pen-
alty for deliberately creating and
maintaining habits that result in
-sleep-starvation amount practically to
the same thing. Of course. it is ex-
ceedingly fascinating between 1 and
2 a. m. to hunt and ‘get’ California
on the radio, but the price paid for
‘the fun is likely to be high, especial-
ty if the lure of the thing keeps one
at it night after night. ‘Getting’
:sleep would be more sensible and
much more healthful.
“And what is applicable to the wee
‘hour radio habit applies equally to
other distractions that sap energy
and life through loss of sleep.
“The pace that kills’ is more lit-
eral than many people suspect until
it is too late. Eight hours sleep each
night are required by the average
mature person. There is nothing
complex in this law. One either gets
‘it or does not. .
“A New Year's resolution that
would involve the readjustment of
.one’s nightly habits to include the
necessary amount of sleep in every
4wenty-four hours would be a wise,
life-sustaining and life-prolonging
«one to make and keep.
“Present day life is fascinating
but don’t become a victim of it.
Whatever else you get cut of life
will not be worth much unless you
get sleep—and plenty of it.”
INFANT MORTALITY.
Infant mortality no longer attains
a “Summer peak,” but instead, dis-
tinct increase of deaths in winter in
children under 1 year of age is ob-
served, according to the Berlin cor-
respondent of the Jouranl of the
American Medical association.
“This marked change,” he says, as
Prof. Schlossman of Dusseldorf has
recently brought out in the Klinische
Wochenschrift, is becoming constant-
‘ly more apparent. In 1925, in the
government district of Dusseldorf,
there were 163 fewer infant deaths
‘per 10,000 than in 1913; but for chil-
«dren under 1 year of age, in 1925,
‘relatively more died than in 1913.
“In 1913 only a third of all infant
.deaths occurred during the first
“month; in 1925, however, almost half.
‘With the second month of life, the
mortality of 1925 dropped so rapidly,
-as compared with 1913, that the mor-
‘tality for the year as a whole fell
below that of 1913, In 1925, in spite
of the fact that there were 30,499
fewer children born and that 4,725
fewer died, 28 more children died on
the first day of life. Also the second
and the third day showed a greater
number of deaths than in 1918.
Whereas the mortality of the first
day of life in 1913 was much lower
in the rural districts than in the ur-
ban centers, in 1925 the reverse was
true. The reason for this lay chief-
ly in the fact that the care of ille-
_gitimate children was less efficient.
There is no convincing explanation
.of the increase in mortality of infants
during the first days of life. Schloss-
mann thinks that medical care can
accomplish relatively little, since,
during the first few days, the life of
the child depends mainly on the mid-
wife. Medical care at childbirth
plays an essential part, as we are
. coming to realize how important the
whole birth process is for the fate
of the child. Extension of home care
‘by visiting nurses and the improve-
ment of children’s centers at mater-
nity hospitals through the introduc-
tion of more skilled medical person-
nel for the care of the new-born, are
. some of the measures that must be
. consistently carried out.
Finally Schlossmann calls atten-
‘tion to the fact that in Germany,
where hundreds of thousands of men
and women are out of work and
therefore must receive assistance,
about 5 per cent of all the women
who give birth to children work up to
within a few days of their confine-
ment, and many up to the actual day.
A law has, however, been recently
passed that will doubtless do away
-with this condition.” .
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14 AMMENDMENTS UP FOR
DECISION NEXT NOVEMBER.
Pennsylvania voters next Novem-
ber will have the opportunity to vote
for or against fourteen proposed con-
stitutional amendments. New York
last November believed that the nine
amendments its voters passed upon
were too many for a single election.
This State has rather run wild on
the question of submitting constitu-
tional amendments to e people.
Five of the proposed amendments
would increase the bonded indebted-
ness of Pennsylvania from $100,000,-
000 by $138,000,000 more. The last
Legislature prevented fthis possible
increase from being double, for a de-
fect was found to exist in the $35,
000,000 item for soldiers’ bonus pur-
poses after the 1925 Legislature had
passed the necessary legislation. The
1927 session also failed to pass for a
second time on a proposed loan of
$100,000,000 for the completion of
the Capitol buildings and the State
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Bridge
at Harrisburg.
It is generally believed that not all
of the proposed amendments will go
through. There may be organized
opposition to some of them.
he fact that motor-license fees
bring in $26,000,000 a year and that
the gasoline tax has been increased
to 3 cents will be used against the
$50,000,000 road bond issue, the third
of the series.
Persons interested in other loans
will work for them at the expense of
others. These loans include $8,000,-
000 for State College, $25,000,000 for
State forestry work, $5,000,000 for
State armories and $50,000,000 for
State institutions.
The proposed amendments will ap-
pear on the ballot in the following
order:
First. Permitting the State to con-
duct its own printing plant. .
Second. Eight-million-dollar bond
issue for State College.
Third. Twenty-five million dollars
for reforestation.
Fourth. Five million dollars for
National Guard armories.
Fifth. Exempting from taxation
certain public institutions.
Sixth. Extending the power of
courts to change boundaries of elec-
tion districts.
Seventh. Empowering Pittsburgh
to levy assessments on abutting and
nonabutting property following im-
provements.
Eighth. Prohibiting debt of cities
of the second class above 10 per cent
of assessed valuation without consent
of electors. b
Ninth. Increasing the road bond
indebtedness from $100,000,000 to
$150,000,000.
Tenth. Fifty-million-dollar bond is-
sue for State-owned institutions, pe-
nal, corrective, etc.
Eleventh. Increasing the debt of
Philadelphia. :
Twelfth. Providing the tax laws
may grant exemptions to estates of
residents of other States.
Thirteenth. Permitting the Legis-
lature to enact laws for the use of
voting machines in districts that de-
sire them.
Fourteenth. Making Allegheny
and Pittsburgh co-extensive.
Grange Declares for a New Method
of Helping the Farmer.
The ‘Grange has opened up a new
channel of agricultural thinking so
far as surplus farm products is con-
cerned in setting going an agitation
for extensive research work to be
started at Washington, with a view
to finding new uses for farm products
other than food for man and beast.
The Grange is calling attention to the
fact that the laboratory in recent
years has discovered that a great
number of products of universal need
can be produced from the products of
the soil, and the convention of the or-
ganization at Cleveland put itself
squarely on record in favor of liberal
appropriations by Congress for such
advance research work to start at
the earlist date.
Attention is called to the fact that
the demand for food will always lim-
it the consumption of farm products
to the capacity of the stomachs of
the race, while the demand for manu-
factured products is limited only by
the world’s purchasing power. Con-
sequently the Grange argues that ev-
ery time a new outlet for food pro-
ducts, using the latter as raw mater-
ial for essential industries, can be op-
ened up, a distinct service has been
rendered to agriculture and to the na-
tion, and a long forward step taken
in disposing of the troublesome farm
surplus which has caused so much ag-
itation in Congress and elsewhere in
recent years.
The legislative energies of the Na-
tional Grange will be exerted during
the coming year in behalf of appro-
priations by Congress to encourage
every possible line of research that
may afford new uses for farm pro-
ducts; while all privately supported
agricultural agencies will be urged by
the Grange to join in this new cam-
paign. Subordinate branches of the
organization are taking up the sub-
ject for widespread discussion, with
the likelihood that it will become one
of the most interesting topics of the
new year throughout the country.
Will Increase Seating Capacity of
Yankee Stadium.
The seating capacity of the Yankee
stadium for football purposes next
year will be increased to 85,000, it
was announced by Ed Darrow, bus-
iness manager of the Yankees.
The additions to the permanent
stands will be finished in time for the
opening baseball game of 1928, while
the enlargement of [the temporary
football stands will be ready befcre
the first gridiron contest next fall.
The additional seats will be erected
on the left field side of the park. The
mezzanine upper stand will be ex-
tended seven sections, while the tem-
porary stands for football will be in-
creased by more than 2,600. The
right-field boxes will be removed to
permit 3,000 additional seats, making
‘a total of 15,000 extra seats.
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~The Watchman gives all the
news while it is news.
NEXT FOURTEEN YEARS TO BE
“FAT” YEARS.
LONDON,—The Bruckner Theory,
ja theory of definite 35 year weather
| cycles, tells that 1927’s raininess is
"to be followed by a year of modera-
tion and sunshine. The theory of the
late Professor Bruckner has been
gaining in scientific support year af-
ter year as more close observations
are continually being made.
The weather for 1928, according to
the theory, will repeat the weather of
1893; every 35 years the weather in
temperate zones is repeated. 1927 is
supposed to have been similar to
1892, 1926 to 1891, ete.
Thirty-five year weather cycles
were casually observed hundreds of
years ago. The ancient philosopher
Bacon wrote: “Every five and thirty
years the same kind and sorts of
years and weather comes about
again.” More observation has added
weight to the idea of these weather
cycles.
Professor Bruckner goes further
than merely noticing the cycle’s ex-
istence. He puts it on a scientific
basis; points to definite meteorologic-
al forces and natural phenomena
which brings it about. He takes the
theory from the lap-robe of the as-
trologers, those mysterious readers of
the stars, and he clothes the theory in
i the respectable mantle of science.
| Predictions of 1928’s brightness
| came from observations of recent
i weather history. In recent times
“periods of rain have started in 1836,
11871 and 1906. Each rain period has
lasted approximately fourteen years.
i Then has followed a seven year per-
'jod of mediocre weather, and follow-
ing this a fourteen year period of
pleasantness and sunshine. At the
end of this period the thirty-five cy-
fle begins again with the rainy per-
iod.
The last fourteen-year rainy per-
iod is supposed to have begun in 1906.
The years from 1906 to 1920 weather-
men label as having been “moderate-
ly rainy.” The next seven years, of
which 1927 is the last have been
“moderate” for the average. The
year 1921 instead of being the normal
“moderate” year was sublime in its
sunshinyness. 1927, at the other end
of the seven year group has with its
nastiness kept the average of the
group at the “moderate” point.
1928 begins the fourteen ‘‘fat
years”; just as 1893 began 35 years
ago another period of fourteen fat
years.
Today scientists stress the essen-
tial truth of the Bruckner theory.
There are meteorological forces, they
say, which brings ahout a 35 year cy-
cle. But the scientist does not stop
there. He warns that there are many
meteorological torces which do not
run in 35 year cycles, but which also
have a marked effect on the weather.
Bad Luck to Stumble.
The idea that is it bad luck to
stumble when starting out upon any
new enterprise is a very old super-
stition easily explainéd by psychol-
ogy. It is one of which there are a
great number—which arises from
natural symbolism. Stumbling is the
natural symbol of poorly directed ac-
tion and the word is so employed in
popular speech as: “He stumbler into
a hornet’s nest,” to signify blunder-
ing into trouble; or “He stumbled in-
to a good thing,” to signify that he
succeeded only by accident. And fall-
ing is the natural symbol of failure—
as witness the popular slang. “He fell
down on his job.”
The primitive mind, still active in
man, no matter how civilized he may
be, and natural superstitions, make
the analogy instinctive, and hence the
superstition. If a man stumbles on
the threshold of a new enterprise the
outcome of the enterprise is doubt-
ful; if he stumbles and falls it is
doomed to failure.
The story is well known of how
William the Conqueror, mindful of
superstition when he stumbled and
fell upon leaping ashore in England,
answered the cry that went up from
his soldiers that it was a bad omen
by grabbing the sand and crying out
“I have taken seize of this land with
both hands.” There is a similar story
of the landing of Ceasar in Africa.
But Caesar and William scorned this
hoary superstition. Sir Walter Scott
did not. When Mungo Park, previous
to his last and fatal expedition to
Africa, was taking leave of Sir Wal-
ter his horse stumbled. “A bad sign,”
said Scott, “I shall never see him
again.” And he didn’t. Of course,
given a sufficient number of stum-
blings, the superstition is bound to
work out sometimes. And then peo-
ple say, “There! I told you so!”
Country’s Duty To Its Ex- Presidents.
Sending gifts to the President has
long been a popular pastime in Amer-
ica. Nearly every President receives
books, home-made medicines, rabbits’
feet, soft cushions, luckstones, table
covers, cigars, firearms, and books.
This slightly miscellaneous collec-
tion of treasures suggests an answer
to the question, “What shall we do
with our ex-Presidents?” “Let them
set up a general store in the hay re-
gions, or a gift shop in the suburbs.”
THat question found a different an-
swer in President Cleveland’s case. It
was raised by a hostile editor, whose
answer was, “Take him out into a
five-acre lot and shoot him.” Cleve-
land’s reply to this was: “That pro-
posal has never had my support. In
the first place, a five-acre lot seems
needlessly large; and, in the second
place, an ex-President has already
suffered enough.”
Must Supoprt Your Poor Relatives,
Says Judge.
Chicago.—If there is a child, an
aged person or a cripple in your fam-
ily, you may find yourself compelled
by law to support him.
That was announced by County
Judge Edmund XK. Jarecki, before
whom all cases of indigent persons
are brought for commitment to char-
itable institutions.
And the order in which relatives
are liable for the support of poor rel-
atives is:
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
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sped words beth vertically and herisenmtally.
to the defimitiom list
indicated by 2 number, which reddrs
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the white spaces up to the first black square to
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in the black spaces. All
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except proper names. Abbreviations,
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ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
KLINE WOODRING.—Attorney-at
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices in
all courts. Office, room 18 Crider’s
Exchange. b51-1y
KENNEDY JOHNSTON.—Attorney-at-
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Promp
tention given all legal business en-
trusteed to hiis care. Offices—No. 5, East
High street. 57-44
M. KEICHLINE. — Attorney-at-Law
and Justice of the Peace. All pro=
fessional business will receive
prompt attention. Offices on second floor
of Temple Court. 49-5-1y
G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law, Con-
sultation in English and German.
Office in Crider’s Exchange, Belle-
fonte, Pa. 58-5
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R. R. L. CAPERS.
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Bellefonte State College
Crider’s Ex. 66-11 Holmes Bldg.
8S. GLENN, M. D., Physician and
Surgeon, State College, . Centre
county, Pa. Office at his residence.
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Horizontal.
1—On time
6—A slip. as of the tongue (pl.)
11—Women’s quarters in a Turkish
house
12—Talks wildly
13—First man, according to Rible
14—Jungle animal
15—Greek letter
17—Stage extra (slang)
18—Companion 19—Preposition
20—Scarcer
21—To avoid, or shun,
does
22—South American ungulate
23—Salary 24—Border
26—To fondle 283—Wild plant
29—Tool for handling ice
30—Magician’s stick
31—Hurry
33—Skill
35—Projection on a fish
36—Note of scale
37—Rise and fall of water level in
ocean
38—Small body of water
39—Explosive devices left in water
40—Stove 41—Pieces of paper
42—Horse's pace
16—Nothing
as a horse
32—That man
34—Stops
Vertical.
1—A ghost
2—Wireless telegraph
3—Word of mouth
4—Memento (abbr.)
5—Postmeridian (abbr.)
6—Kind of beer
7—To state
8—Prefix meaning through
9—Steamship (abbr.)
10—To lurk
12—More mature
14—City in Italy
15—Men ;
18—Parts of a book
20—Stormed
21—Large flat boat
22—River in England
23—Desires
25—Cognizant
26—Prices
29—S8tories
11—Savory
27—Thin
30—Hoats
31—The lower regions :
32—Piece of door hardware
34—A suggestion
35—A set of type
37—To bind
39—This person
40—Sun god
$8—Cooking dish
Solution will appear im next issue.
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First, the father must support a
child. If he is unable, then the
grandfather; third, the mother, and
then the grandmother.
In the case of aged or infirm men
or women, their children, if they have |
any, must pay for their keep. If not,
a brother must foot the bills, and, if
they are without brothers, their sis-
ters are responsible, providing the
are unmarried. If they are married
and have no separate property, then
—and then only—are the coffers of
Cooks county open to them for food
and shelter.
“Hereafter when a person applies
to this court for charity we shall call
every relative he has to determine
whether they can take care of him,”
Judge Jarecki said.
And in accordance with his new
regulation he ordered a grandfather
and a brother to support two persons
applying for charity.
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Eyes examined, glasses fitted. Sat-
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and leases matched. Casebeer Bldg., High
St., Bellefonte, Pa.
VA B. ROAN, Optometrist, Licensed by
the State Board. State College,
every day except Saturday,
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posite the Court House, Wednesday after-
noons from 2 to 8 p. m. and Saturdays 9
a. m. to 430 p. m. Bell Phone 68-40
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Wagners 22% Dairy Feed $51.00
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Wagners Mixed Scratch grains per H $2.50
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Wayne 32% Dairy Feed, per ton....$60.00
Wayne 249, Dairy Feed, per ton....$55.00
Wayne Horse Feed, per tom......... $52.00
Wayne Poultry Mash, per H....... $ 8.20
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