Bemovealc Wan,
Bellefonte, Pa., February 10, 1928.
Your Health,
THE CANCER HAZARD.
Cancer has become one of the most
common causes of death. In Penn-
sylvania it causes onehalf | more
deaths than tuberculosis. In twenty
years its death rate has nearly dou-
bled, whereas the death rate of tuber-
culosis has been cut in half. This
year one out of every thousand per-
Sons of Pennsylvania will die of
cancer. If this increase of cancer
continues, the outlook for Pennsyl-
vania’s health in this particular line
js not very encouraging. The re-
corded deaths from cancer in this
State by decades have jumped as fol-
lows: in 1906 from 4208 deaths, in
1916 to 6526, and finally in 1926 to
9157 deaths. ;
Heredity is not a definite mode of
cancer, although there may be an in-
herited deficient condition which
rather predispoges towards its de-
velopment, as occurs in tuberculosis.
Cancer, at least, is not directly in-
herited, as syphilis. In the experi-
mental work which has been so es-
sential in the study of this disease,
cancer has been carried down through
successive generations of certain
strains of white mice, but in them the
resistance to cancer dominates over
‘the susceptibility. There is no evi-
dence that heredity plays a role with
the human family.
The definite cause of cancer yet re-
mains one of the unsolved mysteries
of medical science. It is known, how-
ever, that injuries to the breast by
babies have nothing whatever to do
with causing cancer in their mothers.
There is no evidence that any indi-
vidual injury will produce a cancer
growth, but there is some circumstan-
tial evidence that long continued in-
jury, especially the continuous appli-
cation of heat or other irritating sub-
stances over long periods of time
probably does induce the development
of cancer. Among the Asiatics who
hold charcoal fires against the body
for warmth, among the tar workers
who are constantly being burned by
hot tar, and among those who smoke
pipes with hot stems, cancer common-
ly develops at the point of contact.
Among workmen, who wear nothing
but overalls at work cancer is found
to be prevalent, caused by the blue
dyestuff in the denim.
To such extent can cancer be pre-
vented, by avoiding pressing against
the skin by the hour, day after day,
for long periods of time, any sub-
stance which will heat or will irritate
the skin. The cancers in X-ray work-
ers follow X-ray burns received from
daily exposure to these dangerous
rays.
Stomach cancers, or cther carcin-
&tmas of the abdomen, are the most
difficult to detect and to overcome.
They are usually the ones which are
least suspected and hence diagnosis
is delayed until the case becomes in-
operable. Persons beyond forty-five
with chronic indigestion and disap-
pearing weight need inedical or sur-
gical attention.
Old scars from childbirth are apt
to become cancerous and should re-
ceive attention; they should have re-
ceived surgical attention when caused.
The presence of Pelvic cancers may
be detected by bleeding, and as
soon as any abnormality of this kind
is discovered, a surgeon should imme-
diately be consulted. Too much mod-
esty in these matters hastens death.
The detection of cancer cannot be
written briefly, suffice it to state that
pain is not a symptom of early can-
cer. In order to detect the beginning of
cancer, the possessor should be able
to note any abnormal condition of the
body, but must not develop a cancer-
phobia, or constant dread of the dis-
ease, and think that anything and
everything leads to carcinoma. When
cancer begins, it appears as a lump
beneath, or as a breaking down of,
the surface. This is true whether the
cancer is on the skin, in the mouth,
breast, or in an internal organ. When
the surface breaks away sufficiently
there is bleeding, which is most apt
to occur from the mucous membrane
lining some of the internal organs,
particularly of the pelvic region.
Therefore anybody who notes any
seeming abnormality should at once
consult a physician.
Cancer of the breast is very com-
mon and usually begins as a small,
hard, but painless lump. Whenever
a lump is noticed a surgeon should be
consulted at once and the lump re-
moved. These breast cancers in a
few weeks or months grow and in-
volve thz lymphatic system. A com-
Piste operation at that time may pro-
ong life for only two or three years,
but an early operation on the whole
cancerous mass when it is small fre-
quently is an absolute cure.
Cancers spread by extending into
surrounding tissues or else through
the blood or lymphatic systems. The
latter spread is called metastasis.
Pressure upon any cancer squeezes
the malignant cancer cells into the
lymph or blood streams to be carried
to other and usually inaccessible
parts of the body. Whenever a per-
son has any cancer, therefore, great
care should be taken that it is not
rubbed, squeezed or pinched, as these
promote its spread. It is dangerous,
therefore, to keep rubbing a skin or
breast cancer, or to press upon the
latter by tight clothing.
The treatment of cancer is entirely
surgical in its nature, and includes
such physical agencies as X-rays and
radium. No medicine can affect the
growth or spread of cancer. The hope
of a cure lies absolutely in early diag-
nosis and early surgical operation.
Delay determines death as the out-
come.
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PROTECT THE CHILDREN
FROM BLASTING CAPS.
It is claimed that about 505 chil-
dren are killed or injured annually in
the United States while playing with
blasting-caps picked up in the vicinity
‘ refreshment time.
of mines, quarries, construction work, '
or in the fields where agricultu
blasting has been going on. The very
thought of 500 children killed, blind-
ed or mangled every year is appalling,
but so far nothing of a very effective
or concerted nature has been done to
stop all this suffering and human
waste.
Blasting-caps contain fulminate of
mercury, a quick, powerful explosive.
It is readily exploded and will “let
go” when struck by a hammer or
when thrown into the fire or when
children try to extract the contents
with a pin.
A grown nan is assumed to have
sense enough to exercise ordinary
caution when handling explosives. It
is the danger to children who do not
appreciate the risk they take when
they bite or hammer a curious bit
of copper that worries us. There is
no use in warning the children. They
must not be left where they will fall Io wot
into the hands of children.
" Boys often play in and around
quarries and construction jobs on
Sundays and if there are any stray
caps lying around they will inevitably
pick them up and start to investigate
them. It is rarely that they do this
without getting hurt. Perhaps they
know the caps are dangerous and that
a spark or a blow will explode them;
but they do not realize how sensitive
they are, how violently they explode,
or how the pieces of copper fly. Even
the name is misleading in this re-
spect. The word “caps” suggests the
paper caps used with toy pistols, and
because the blasting-caps are called
by this name it is natural to think
that the two articles belong to the
same family. They may; but they
bear about the same relations to each
other as a man-eating tiger does to a
pussy-cat.
If all the children mangled in a
single year by blasting-caps were
hurt in one big explosion what a tre-
mendous stir would take place! Pub-
lic indignation would be so great that
‘and a shaded light overhead illumin-
immediate measures to prevent a re- |
currence of the catastrophe would be
taken. But because the accidents are
scattered all over the country and
lipped 5% the rate of ouly.asbont for: | sought his Maid Marian, John Ridd,
ty or fifty a month, nothing is done.
Indeed, the best and only thing that
can be done is to educate the whole
population to realize how dangerous
blasting-caps are when out of their
proper place, and what a dreadful
thing it is to go through life erippled
or blinded for want of a little care
and knowledge. A child who is
maimed. or blinded at ten or so has
little to look forward to but a life of
dependence and frustration. Merci-
fully, the little victims do not real-
ize the horrible facts of their case,
but that doesn’t make them any less
deplorable nor compensate society for
the transformation of potential assets
to life-long liabilities. :
In a community such as Centre
county, where millions of caps are
used annually in stone quarries and
coal mines the danger is a constant-
ly present one. Its remedy is care,
cn the part of those who use, in not
leaving them lie where they can be
picked up by curious children. Pai-
ents might also advise their children
never to pick up mysterious looking
little articles lying around quarries or
mines.
reelection.
Ford is America’s First Billionaire,
Bitter though the pill must be, Wall
Street is obliged to deciare Henry
Ford thz werld’s first billionaire. Wall
Street watches Henry like a hawk,
and when the Ford Motor company
filed its balance sheet for 1924 with
the Massachusetts commissioner of
corporations, as required by the law,
Wall Streeters sharpened their pen-
cils and figured up the total value of
the company to be $863,000,000. This
is on the basis of shares being worth
$5,000, which is said to be the exact
minimum estimate. But the making
of cars is only one of Ford’s money-
making interests. He manufactures
tractors and airplanes, and operates
boat lines, railroads, lumber camps
and coal mines, all of which add to
the total value of his property and
bring it to about one billion dollars.
A comparison of assets and liabil-
ities for 1923 and 1924 indicates that
the surplus of the Ford Motor Com-
pany was increased by $100,435,416
during 1924, and the Wall Street es-
timators put this down as the net
profit for the year. The company
made 2,100,000 cars and trucks last
vear, which would mean an average
profit of $47 on each machine. Prof-
its on the 172,645 shares of stock
may be estimated in the same way.
At a par value of $100, profits would
be $5382 per share or 582 per cent.
No, you cannot buy any of this stock
at any figure. It isn’t for sale.
Last year was Ford’s best year. He
‘and a bright red apple was tossed in,
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
Sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sin-
cerity, is the finest characteristic of all
men in any way heroic.—Carlyle.
No matter what kind of a Valen-
tine party you're going to give, a
Jack Horner full of favors is fun at
We were at supper on the second
of February when the door opened
while a young voice outside called
out “Good Morrow, Valentine.” In
the square white envelope attached
to the fruit by a bit of a red ribbon
was a rhymed invitation.
The men’s invitations, it developed,
had been sent by the afternoon mail
and were much simpler than those
sent to the girls, They read;
Saint Valentine requests the
pleasure of Robin Hood’s com-
pany at eight-thirty, p. m., on
Tuesday evening, February Thir-
teenth, at Twelve Park Street.
To meet Maid Marian. R.S.V.P.
The name of the movie character
whose company was requested, as well
as of the personage he was supposed
to “meet,” varied, of course, on each
invitation. The girls’ invitations, it
should be mentioned, were written in
delicate, old-fashioned hand by the
hostess’s grandmother, on large
squares of heavy, parchment-like pa-
with a heart-shaped wafer of red
sealing wax, as was the custom be-
fore the days of envelopes. The meth-
od of delivering the invitations was
suggested by the old custom of at-
taching a valentine to some sweet-
meat, fruit, or trinket, and delivering
it in the manner described.
Everyone came in costume, as re-
quested, and before the inevitable
guessing of identification had fairly
started, the sliding doors between
living- and dining- room were pushed
back, and there stood an immense old-
fashioned lace-paper valentine. The
edging, it may be explained, was
made of imitation lace shelf paper on
an oblong pasteboard frame. Hearts
and other valentine symbols had been
cut from the crepe paper and pinned
to the sheet which was draped in-
side the frame. Screens stood on
either side and behind the valentine,
ated the space belind the frame. An
old lace curtain could be utilized
beautifully for the frame. Each per-
son was then asked to pose for a few
second in the frame to give the others
a chance to inspect and identify.
This process enlightened partners
in finding each other: Robin Hood
his Lorna Doone. Thereupon the
matchied-up couples 'were asked to
pose, representing if possible some
moment in the film play from which
they had borrowed themselves. Here
there was a wide field for dramatic
ability to disclose itself.
This tableaux feature in itself sug-
gests an evening of entertainment |
with admission charged for a club or
church. In such a case each “still” |
should have a setting arranged, and
the actors should rehearse under al
critical eye to insuré the utmost’ in|
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
When the correct letters are placed in the white spaces this pussle will
spell words both vertically and horizontally. The firat letter in each word is
indicated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the pussle.
Thus No. 1 ander the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will fill
the white spaces up to the first black square to the right, and a number under
“yertical” defines a word which will fill the white squares to the next black one
below. No letters go In the biack spaces. All words used are dictionary words,
except proper names. Abbreviations, slang, initials, technical terms and obso-
lete forms are indicated im the definitions, :
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Horizontal. Vertical.
1—High-minded
2—Italian river
3—Bird of night
4—To conduct
5—Short written composition
t—Negative 7—Skinny
8—Foundation
11—Company (abbr.)
12—Evening 14—To merit
16—To ensnare
18—Woolly animal
20—The forepart of a boat
22—A journey
1—Famous French emperor
T7—A weight (abbr.)
9—Is indebted to
10—Sea
15—To continue
17—Fertile spot in a desert
19—To wear in, as a piston
21—An arrow 23—Near
24—Makes a mistake
26—Three feet 28—That woman
29—A part of speech
31—Pastries
33—Tellurium (abbr.)
13—To exist
36—To erode 37—A trail 25—Brings sult against
39—Bone 41—Complacent 27—Costly 30-—Cognomen
3—A foray 32—To plunge a knife into
45—Scarlet 34—Superlative of bad
47—A black wood (poetic)
$9—Kind of sailing vessel
36—Chafes with friction
38—To eraploy 40—Prophets
61—Dry 42—Precious metal
53—Snow vehicle 44—Delves
55—Self 66—Hobo 46—Depicts with a pencil
58—An arrow 43—Cattle of the ox kind (pl.)
60—Thus 50—Material 52—To give forth
61—A rustling sound, as of silk 64—To leak
skirts §7—Addition to a letter (abbr.)
63—To become fatigued
65—Highway (abbr.)
66—Delays
59—Prefix meaning three
62--Hour (abbr.) 64—And (French)
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possible and convenient to keep ev-
eryday linen, as well as the finest in
the best condition.
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sold cars at the rate of 250 an hour, |
twenty-four hours a day, for the 300
working days. He paid his employees
$253,001,528 in salaries during the
year. And to think that the Ford
company was incorporated only twen-
ty-two years ago with $8,000 in its
treasury. The story of its growth is
the greates romance of modern indus-
trial history.
Birth of Wireless.
The first wireless message sent
from a ship at sea was dispatched
from the American liner St. Paul to
the Needles, November 15, 1899, the ' white has found a simple and happy
vessels being then 66 miles from the
land station.
The wireless was first used in sav-
ing lives early in 1909, when Jack
Binns sent out his memorable call for
help from the stricken ocean liner Re-
public, after its collision with the
Florida off Nantucket.
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' Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
, over the chandeliers and under chairs
for enough there was sure to be a
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grace and pose. The tableaux can
be made real works of art, and if ac-
| companied by well-selected short
readings from the books or plays
from which the screen versions were
taken can be most decidedly divert-
ing. There is a possibility too of ar-
ranging soft music for the duration
of each picture, thus rounding out
the harmony more completely.
After the tableaux guessing the
men were separated from their part- |
ners, the men going into one room
and the girls into another,
| The men found a large table. with
tissue and crepe paper, paper lace,
I colored pages from old floral cata-
‘louges, paste, scissors, crayons, and
, all materials for making valentines.
They were instructed to supply. with- |
in a stated time, a valentine for each
girl in the party.
Meanwhile with the aid of old com- |
ic supplements, clever fingers, and
subtle wit, the girls set to work fash-
ioning comic valentines for the men.
Each was put into an envolope ad- |
dressed to the one for whom it was |
intended, and the hostess saw to it!
that each girl prepared her valentine
for the man who was making hers. |
Each guest, upon receiving his or her
valentine, was required to read it
aloud and show it to all, then to
guess who had made it. When the .
guilty one was guessed or had con- |
fessed the couple became partners
for the next event.
This proved to be a wild auction
and exchange, in which everyone
ruthlessly sought to exchange the
maker of his valentine for someone
else. The medium of barter was
candy hearts, and great was the con-
fusion for the next ten minutes. Of-
tentimes it was found that the girl
who had sold her valentine for ten
hearts had herself been disposed of to
another by her unloved and unloving
partner for five hearts.
When the excitement had subsided
the hostess declared that the only
fair way to select partners was by
lottery. The means chosen was an
old-fashioned cobweb hunt. Accord-
ingly, each man was asked to choose
one end of a string, the men all start-
ing in one end of the house and the
girls in another. Upstairs and down,
the strings ran; but if one pursued
partner on the other end of the cord.
As a parting souvenir the hostess
gave each guest an envelope contain-
ing five bay leaves, in acocrdance with
the old St. Valentine tradition, for
legend has it that a bay leaf under
each corner of one’s pillow and one
under the center on St. Valentine's
Eve bring dreams of one’s future life
partner.
The problem of keeping linen pure
solution. While the effect of blue in
serving this purpose has long been
known and has been commonly adapt-
ed to use by putting blueing in laun-
dering water, or by wrapping linen in
blue paper, only recently has there
been a more practical adaptation of
this knowledge. If the insides of
drawers are coated with blue paint
the linen kept in them retains its del-
$125 more, the city of San Diego
| has decided to place a picture of
[ Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his
famous Spirit of St. Louis on the
$650,000 airport bonds. A commit-
tee, appointed by the city council, so
decided. :
An oval showing the head and the
shoulders of the trans-Atlantic flier
| will be shown, with the engine and a
part of the historic plane in the back-
ground.
Lindy is smiling his famous smile.
| Across the top of the oval will be
printed “Air Capital of the West,”
and underneath “Lindbergh Field.”
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will come in and ask how. At no other time in the year have you
a better chance than during the next few weeks.
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a wonderful Holiday present.
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ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
KLINE WOODRING.—Attorney-at
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices im
all courts. Office, room 18 Crider's
Exchange. b1-1y
KENNEDY JOHNSTON.—Attorney-at-
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt ate
tention given all legal business en=
trusteed to hiis care. Offices—No. 5, East
High street. 57-44
J M. KEICHLINE. — Attorney-at-Law
and Justice of the Peace. All pro-
fessional business will receive
of Temple Court. 1y
G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law, Con-
sultation in English and German.
Office in Crider’s Exchange, Belle-
fonte, Pa. 58-5
PHYSICIANS
R. R. L. CAPERS.
OSTEOPATH.
State College
66-11 Holmes Bldg.
GLENN, M. D. Physician and
Surgeon, State College, Centre
county, Pa. Office at his residence.
Bellefonte
Crider’s Ex.
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D. CASEBEER, Optometrist.—Regis-
tered and licensed by the State.
Eyes examined, glasses fitted. Sat-
isfaction guaranteed. Frames replaced
and leases matched. Casebeer Bldg., High
St., Bellefonte, Pa.
VA B. ROAN, Optometrist, Licensed by
the State Board. State College,
every day except Saturday,
Bellefonte, in the Garbrick building op-
posite the Court House, Wednesday after-
noons from 2 to 8 p. m. and Saturdays 9
a. m. to 4.30 p. m. Bell Phone 68-40
Feeds
We keep a full line of all kinds of feeds
at the right prices.
Wagners 22% Dairy Feed $51.00
Wagners 32% Dairy Feed $55.00
Made of cotton seed meal, oil meal, glut-
en 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 329% Dairy Feed, per ton....$60.00
Wayne 249, Dairy Feed, per ton....$55.00
Wayne Horse Feed, per ton......... $52.00
Wayne Poultry Mash, per H....... $ 8.20
Wayne Pig Meal, per H............ $ 3.00
Wayne Calf Meal, per H............ $4.28
Cotton Seed Meal, 439%, per ton....$58.00
Oil Meal, 349%, per ton.............. $58.00
Gluten Feed, 23%, per ton.......... $48.00
Alfalfa fine ground, per tom....... $48.00
Winter wheat bran, per ton........ $38.00
Winter wheat Middlings, per ton...$44.00
Mixed chop, per ton .......ccov0000ee $45.00
Meat Meal, 50%, per H........co0.. $425
Digescter Tankage, 609, per H...... $4.28
Meat Meal 50% per H.............. $428
Digester tankage 60% ............. 4.23
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 & Go. Ine
66-11-1yr. BELLEFONTE, PA.
Caldwell & Son
Bellefonte, Pa,
Plumbing
and Heating
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Pipeless Furnaces
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Full Line of Pipe and Fit-
tings and Mill Supplies
All Sizes of Terra Cotta
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Fine Job Printing
at the
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There 1s no style of work, from the
cheapest “Dodger” to the finest
BOOK WORK
that we can not do in the most sat-
isfactory manner, and at Prices
consistent with the class of work.
Call on or communicate with this
office
Employers
This Interests You
The Workman’s Compensation
Law went into effect Jan. 1,
1916. It makes insurance compul-
sory. We specialize in placing
such insurance. @n We inspect
Plants and recommend Accident
Prevention Safe Guards which
Reduce Insurance rates.
It will be to your interest to
consult us before placing your
Insurance.
JOHN F. GRAY & SON,
State College Bellefonte,