Bellefonte, Pa., June 8, 1928.
Your Health,
The First Concern.
This is the time of year when it
rains on occasion. You are bound to
get wet once in a while. Some folks
worry every time this happens for
fear they will take cold.
The same folks are afraid of fresh
"air and especially currents of air.
They wear skull-caps and night-caps.
They are scared if they feel a draft.
They are afraid of wet feet. They
think they must begin to snuffle and
sneeze after the least exposure. I
sometimes think this speedy effect is
psychic, but it exists and must be
‘considered.
Getting wet is a common experi-
ence. I do not approve of going out
with the deliberate intention of get-
ting wet, but clean water never hurt
anybody. It makes no difference
whether it is taken internally, or ap-
plied externally, either intentionaily
«or inadvertently. No one need worry
over a good wetting. There is noth-
ing harmful about wet clothes. The
danger comes from living in damp
garments for hours, with consequent
chilling of the body.
If you get wet, go on briskly with
your work, or walk. So long as you
are exercising, so long as your heart
is doing its full duty, you are just as
safe as you would be in the surf or
lake.
Everybody knows it is unpleasant
and unsafe to stay in the water too
long. Likewise, if you are in wet
clothes too long you get the same
physical ill effects.
There must be proper reaction af-
ter such exposure, in order to ward
off possible danger. Go home, rub
yourself vigorously with a rough tow-
el, clothe your body in dry garments,
and you are just as safe as if you
had had a dip in the surf at Altantic
City.
Make sure your hair is thoroughly
dry and especially that your stockings
are free from moisture.
Don’t stay indoors because it rains.
Put on your rubbers and sally forth
in rain coat or under your umbrella.
Let your skin rejoice in the moisture
it will receive. It softens its texture
and cleanses its pores.
In England and Scotland nobody
pays the slightest attention to the
weather. Shoes and clothing are
made with reference to whatever may
come.
Of course, you will not be foolish
about it, and stay in your wet shoes.
A large limousine recently drove up
40 a roadside water pump which car-
ried the sign, ‘Dangerous. Do not
drink this water.’ The sign was no-
ticed, read, laughingly remarked up-
.on—and disregarded, said Dr. Theo-
dore B. Appel, Secretary of Health,
‘recently.
It is indeed difficult to believe such
a story, but it is true. Whatever
“were the motives back of such an at-
‘titude the fact remains that foolhar-
.diness and foolishness were thus de-
ploringly displayed. While such a
case is most unusual it nevertheless
emphasizes the duty every traveling
motorist owes to himself to protect
his health.
It is of little avail to an individual
that city health departments purify
water and otherwise safeguard health
if while traveling he becomes entirely
careless as to the kind of water he
drinks, contracts typhoid fever in
consequence, becomes seriously sick
and dies.
In Pennsylvania every effort has
been taken to safeguard the motorist
.on the road. All private water sup-
plies on the main highways and many
«of the secondary ones have been ex-
-amined and placarded either safe or
dangerous. It will pay absolutely to
“believe in these signs, even if all the
.others on the highway are discounted;
they tell a story of scientific examina-
tion which in every particular may be
-relied upon.
It will perhaps demand some will
‘power to drive by an unmarked sup-
ply on a side road if ome is thirsty.
But it is a safe thing to do. The ex-
ercise of a little patience is better
than weeks in bed with an illness.
Some jurisdictions do not examine
‘private water supplies. And in this
.situation the only safe thing is to
carry along water the purity of which
“has been established, boil the water
“if obtained locally, or place a drop of
“tincture of iodine in every pint of the
. supply used. Vacation typhoid, now
in season, will be considerably re-
duced if these suggestions are ser-
iously considered.
To tourists who are planning exten-
sive trips out of the country, anti-
typhoid immunization is strongly ad-
vised. Unpedigreed milk and water
of other lands and localities are ren-
. dered impotent by this simple, scien-
tific, preventive procedure. So why
- take chances? Life being sweet, do
not impair or lose it, by acquiring
vacation typhoid, whether at home or
abroad.
Today, science tells us the whole
wheat products are richer in protein,
fat, minerals and vitamins than the
highly patent flours or cereals be-
cause of the inclusion of the outer
layers and usually the germ of the
wheat berry.
The important vitamin in the whole
wheat products is “B.” This vitamin
is essential to the health of all ages.
The absence of it from the diet is |
first noted by loss of appetite, weight
and vigor. If the diet is not correct-
ed collapse—beriberi, the dread Ori-
ental disease and even death may fol-
low. Vitamin “B” has a wide distri-
bution in Nature, it is found in fruits,
Co-operation Aids Registration of
Births in State.
Dr. Emlyn Jones, director of the
State Bureau of Vital Statistics, to-
day reported that the percentage of
birth registration in Pennsylvania is
rapidly approaching the goal set for
attainment a year ago. The success
of this work is attributed to the ac-
tivities of the State field inspectors
under the direction of Colonel James
Duffy, to bureau officials who have ap-
peared before medical societies over
the Commonwealth and to newspaper
publicity. Physicians and mid-wives
also have co-operated extensively in
reaching the present level in birth
registration.
Commenting on this situation Dr.
Jones said, “Breeders of fine stock
have been particular to have the in-
crease in them properly recorded. On
the other hand, for years the only
record for human births was in the
family Bible, which during the course
of years was frequently misplaced or
lost.” -
_A bureau force of approximately
ninety employes and a field group of
800 registrars now comprise the per-
sonnel that supervises the details in-
volved in acquiring the vital statis-
tics for Pennsylvania’s great popula-
tion. Over nine millions of birth and
death certificates are now on file in
the bureau and are deposited in fire-
proof steel cases, thus making an in-
valuable permanent record.
“The season is now at hand for par-
ents and school authorities to be re-
minded that certified copies of birth
records which will be required for pu-
pils entering school next term, and
particularly for minors contemplating
summer employment, should now be
obtained. Much inconvenience will be
avoided if applications for such cer-
Hitates are made at once,” Dr. Jones
added.
meester Asn
Death and Birth Rates Lowest Ever
in State.
The 1927 rates both for births and
deaths are the lowest ever recorded in
Pennsylvania, and the death rates for
a number of the more important
causes of death have also established
new low records, Dr. G. B. L. Arner,
of the department of health, announc-
ed today. The only important high
record set in 1927 was for automobile
deaths on the basis of 100,000 popula-
tion, but when the automobile death
rate is computed on the basis of 1,000
registered motor vehicles in the State,
even this becomes a new low record
of 1.1 as compared with 1.2 in 1925
and 1926.
The 1927 birth rate is almost the
same as in 1926, but if the commuta-
tion were carried out one more deci-
mal place, it would be slightly lower
than in 1922, which was the previous
low record. But the general death
rate, and particularly the infant death
rate, shows such a remarkable drop
that the population increase in 1927
from the excess of births, over deaths,
was well above the average of the
past twenty-two years.
Prisoners Prepare for Poultry Work.
Nearly one hundred prisoners in
the eastern penitentiary at Philadel-
phia are taking poultry husbandry
work with the Pennsylvania State
agricultural extension service. Start-
ing with 40 interested in the work the
number has steadily increased.
At a recent meeting they displayed
trap nests which they had made. C.
0. Dossin, State College extension
poultryman, who judged the products,
says that the workmanship was very
good and the ideas original and satis-
factory. The prisoners subscribe for
all of the leading poultry magazines
and practically all of them are study-
ing the State College correspondence
courses in poultry husbandry. They
also are planning to get egg-laying
contest reports so they can follow the
progress of the different breeds.
A large number of the men are
planning to enter the poultry business
when their freedom is gained. Some
are asking for transfer from present
work to the new prison farm being
erected in eastern Pennsylvania so
they can gain practical experience.
Grange to Break Ground for State
College Dormitory.
Prominent officials and members of
the Pennsylvania State Grange will
gather at State College on Farmers’
Field Day, June 15, for the purpose of
breaking ground for the $250,000
memorial dormitory building the
Grange is to erect on the campus.
Preliminary sketches for the design
of the building have been approved
and construction will be started when
the plans are completed and the con-
tract placed.
The trustees have also instructed
the college architect to prepare pre-
liminary plans for the new botany
building unit to be erected with State
funds, the building to be an addition
to the agricultural groups.
New Stop Watch Picks First, Second
and Third Winners in Contests.
An improved “stop” watch has just
been invented by a Kansas City man,
which should go far to eliminate in-
accuracies in the timing of all varie-
ties of races.
The new device, according to its
producer, Professor Edgar Linton,
will time contests to one twenty-fifth
of a second. Linton asserts his me-
chanism to be the most perfect in-
strument ever devised by human
hands.
Another feature of the watch is that
it records three times. The product
is the result of more than ten years
of study.
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Over 600 to Graduate.
The June graduating class of the
Pennsylvania State College will total
604 young men and women to receive
bachelor degrees, and 33 are to re-
ceive advanced degrees, according to
estimates by the college registrar.
With addition of those graduated last
August and in February, Penn State
will probably set .a new graduation
vegetables, leaves, stems, tubers and
. yeast.
record for the academic year 1927-
1928
| Expect to Finish All Road Oiling Be-
fore June 15.
Oiling operations of the Pennsyl-
vania Department of Highways ac-
cording to the spring program will be
completed far ahead of the predeter-
mined date, set at June 15.
In making up the schedule for sur-
face treatment of highways the de-
partment took into consideration the
tourist season so that major opera-
tions would be completed by June 15,
Early movement of the materials en-
abled greater speed than was antici-
pated.
June commencement exercises of
the Pennsylvania State College was a
factor considered by department fore-
es in that locality and oiling has been
empleted four weeks ahead of sched-
ule,
The spring program of the depart-
ment embraces the regular annual
maintenanée work covering the en-
tire State and necessitated by winter
action on the highways. A similar
program is carried out in the fall to
prepare for the coming winter.
With the completion of the early
program the only oiling operations
during the summer months will be
minor maintenance jobs, patching or
repairs of an emergency nature
brought by unusual traffic on a cer-
tain section. Flood action is another
factor.
Motorists, the department promis-
es, may expect the end of major oil-
ing work early in June. Halfwidth
construction work, involving resurfac-
ing with macadam or bituminous will
take place in scattered instances.
| Deer Flee Forest Fires Contrary to
Popular Tradition.
The statement that deer invariably
run into forest fires instead of away
from them has been disproved, ac-
cording to a statement recently re-
ceived by the Pennsylvania Depart-
ment of Forests and Waters from Dis-
trict forester Paul H. Mulford, of the
Tioga forest district, with headquar-
ters at Wellsboro.
During the Woodruff Hollow forest
fire in Tioga county this spring, deer
fled from the forest and sought refuge
in an open field. They were observed
to come out of the burning forest
area in groups of three to five, and at
one time district forester Mulford
counted twenty deer standing in the
center of one field. In an adjacent
field twelve deer had congregated.
Penn State’s New Catalogue Appears
To supplement its new illustrated
catalogue, the Pennsylvania State
College has just published its usual
general catalogue of courses of study.
It announces a2 number of new courses
and curricula. Outstanding additions
are a new four-year curriculum in
physical chemistry and two-year cur-
ricula in industrial education. Distri-
bution of the new catalogue is in the
hands of William S. Hoffman, the
college registrar.
New Jersey Plants Trees.
State Forester Wilber, of New Jer-
sey, is able to announce that residents
of his State planted a million pine,
spruce and fir seedlings on 1,100 un-
productive acres this spring. Distri-
bution of seedlings began in 1923; in
that year 300,000 of them were set
out. In the main they have done
well; each year sees more land own-
ers interested, more applicants for
seedlings, more intelligent care of the
plantations. Nothing better, nothing
more profitable can be done with
much of the land in every State than
to plant it to trees. Trees pay divi-
dends in soil enrichment, in water
conservation, in protection of wild
life, in cash. Trees cause posterity
to rise up and bless the generation
that planted them, says the New
York Sun. A great deal would be for-
given the man who consistently plant-
ed trees; but the man who plants
trees is not the kind of man who
needs forgiveness. He leaves that
for the man who requires it—the man
who by carelessness, in ignorant
greed or otherwise, fails to do what
he can to preserve and extend the
forests of the land.
Enrollment Gains in High Schools.
Statistics recently compiled by the
division of research and information
in the Department of Public Instruc-
tion, show that for the last school
year there were enrolled in the sec-
ondary schools—senior and junior
high schools—of the Commonwealth
312,036 students, an increase of 21,-
161 over the previous year.
The number of instructors empioy-
ed in these public secondary schools,
including full time and part time
teachers, was 13,994. :
Read Program to Reach 550 Miles by
End of Month.
Road construction projects adver-
tised or under contract, including a
letting to be held June 19 to 20, total
550 miles, the Pennsylvania Depart-
ment of Highways announced. Un-
completed contracts carried over from
1927 and eovering 210 miles of con-
struction are included in this figure.
The total mileage advertised by the
department in 1928 exceeds the 1927
Spurs for the same period by 150
miles.
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ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
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KLINE WOODRING.—Attorney-at
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices im
Office, room 18 Sridecs
KENNEDY JOHNSTON.—Attorney-at-
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt ate
tention given all legal business em-
trusteed to hiis care. Offices—No. 5,
h street.
M. KEICHLINE. — Attorney-at-Law
and Justice of the Peace. All pro=
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prompt attention. Offices on second floor
of Temple Court. 1y
G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law, Con-
sultation in English and German.
Office in Crider's Exchange, Belle-
fonte, Pa. 58-0
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Crider's Ex. 66-11 Holmes Bldg.
8. GLENN, M. D., Physician and
Surgeon, State College, Centre
county, Pa. Office at his residence.
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D. CASEBEER, Optometrist.—Regis-
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Eyes examined, glasses fitted. Sat-
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and leases matched. Casebeer Bldg., High
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every day except Saturday,
Bellefonte, in the Garbrick building op-
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noons from 2 to 8 p. m. and Saturdays 9
a. m. to 4.30 p. m. Bell Phone
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Wayne Chick Starter - $4.50 per H.
Wayne All Mash Starter, 4.40 per H.
Wayne Buttermilk
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Wayne All Mash Grower, 3.50 per H.
Wayne Chick Feed - - 3.50 per H.
Wayne Egg Mash - - 3.50 per H.
Wayne Pig Meal - - 3.40 per H.
Wayne Calf Meal - - 4.25 per H.
Wayne 32% Dairy Feed, 3.20 per H
Wayne 24% Dairy Feed, 2.90 per H.
Wagner's 22% Dairy Feed, 2.70 per H.
Wagner's 30% Dairy Feed, 2.90 per H.
Wagner's Pig Meal - 3.00 per H.
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State College Bellefonte.