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Bellefonte, Pa, June 29, 1928, |
Your Health,
The First Concern.
“For the most of us, two weeks out
of the year’s fifty-two are set aside
during the summer months for the an-
nual vacation. And for many these
two weeks have in the past invariably
meant hustle and bustle, late hours,
‘going the pace’ and a return home,
as one honest soul remarked, ‘more
dead than alive,” said Theodore B.
Appel, Secretary of Health, recently.
is there is a great deal of
excitement in rushing hither, thither
and yon, gaily living a new life and
nerally indulging in a hectic time.
or many there is much fun in it. But
there is little health and sense to it.
And these factors should be given
more consideration than they have re-
ceived in the past when plans are be-
ing made for the annual sojourn.
A vacation in these days of high
gear living should mean much more
than diversion which burns up energy.
Change is not enough. Rest and com-
mon-sense recreation is what the
average vacationist needs. One does
not need to enter a sanatorium to
achieve this happy combination eith-
er. A few less miles at high speed in
your car, a few more hours of restful
sleep each night, a few less midnight
cabarets and a great deal more
thought to the real object of your
two weeks’ furlough will in most in-
stances achieve the object.
If one were a hermit or a back
woodsman there might be some ex-
cuse for him to use his two weeks
away from home in one wild endeavor
to catch up with life. But for the
man or woman who has been travel-
ing at top-notch for a year to in-
crease the devitalizing demands upon
the body under the spell of the vaca-
tion is sheer folly.
The vacation to do you real good
should include:
1. Real rest.
2. Change of location.
+ 3. Good food.
4. Avoiding the use of luxuries as
a substitute for a healthy diet.
5. A super-abundance of out-door
living and fresh air.
Two weeks of rational vacation liv-
ing can not make a new man or wom-
an of one but they can lay a firm
foundation for a healthier and a hap-
pier year. Therefore, why not plan a
pilgrimage this season that will in-
clude the prime essentials? Discover
what a real vacation really is and
what it will do for you. Curiosity on
this point will pay handsomely.
Forty-five million tooth brushes are
annually used in the United States.
“This is a large number of brushes in-
deed, but it is scarcely enough to care
for the teeth of one hundred and ten
million people, said Dr. Theodore B.
Appel, Secretary of Health, recently.
With the plans now being complet-
ed for Dental Health week, the cel-
ebration of which will be coincident
with the Child Health celebration the
first week in May, this subject is par-
ticularly timely. |
Fortunately the State-wide inter-
est in child welfare will direct the at-
tention of parents to the necessity of
proper oral hygiene for the young
people. This important prophylactic
and preventive measure cannot be ov-
-er-emphasized. The first and second
sets of teeth need regular supervi-
‘gion and daily attention. It is much
easier for a dentist to fill little holes
than big ones, it doesn’t take as long,
it doesn’t cost as much and it doesn’t.
‘hurt as badly. Moreover, to march
the children to the dentist's twice a
year is to practice real economy, as it
‘insures the efficient functioning of
teeth that otherwise would likely fall
.down on their job. This is eloquently
proved by the fact that seventy per
cent of all school children have tooth
-defects which are usually due to poor
diet, on account of home hygiene or
the direct neglect of the teeth.
So much for the children. Now,
"how about you? Are you, the par-
«ent, brushing your teeth three times
«daily? Are you religiously visitin
your dentist twice every year? If,
through the disregard of these things,
‘the worst that could happen to you
would be false teeth, it would be bad
enough. Just ask some person who
‘owns a set if you do not believe this!
But there is a more possible calamity
-attributable to neglect than that.
Here are some of the diseases which
‘may be caused by bad teeth: gastric
ulcers, kidney infections, rheumatism,
neuritis and heart disease—a rather
“high penalty to pay for your criminal
indifference to dental attention.
Therefore, be over-solicitous con-
cerning your children’s teeth, but in
‘the process don’t forget your own.
Make Dental Health week a family
celebration for health and life’s sake!
Tuberculosis is both preventable
and curable. We can guard ourselves
from tuberculosis by maintaining good
health, which increases our natural
‘immunity. We can guard against in-
fection by avoiding contact with per-
sons having the disease and who are
careless in exposing others. :
There is no specific for tuberculosis.
"There is no drug which alone will af-
fect its course, nor has a serum or
vaccine been produced which will con-
trol it. The cure of the disease re-
solves itself into the upbuilding of the
individual and improving his general
health, so that the natural immunity
which everyone possesses will bring
about the arrest of the disease.
It is gratifying to know that tuber-
culosis is much less prevalent and less
fatal than it used to be. We are
learning how to live, and with in-
creased health knowledge and practice
will come and end of this disease.
Cig. ig
INCREASE OF PENSIONS TO
COMMENCE JUNE 4.
Representative Louis T. McFadden
has for many Congresses been en-
deavoring to obtain an increase of
pension for all widows of the Civil
and Mexican War and the War of
1812 in the sums of $40 and $50 per
month. : :
However, the Congress has not
seen fit to allow $50 per month pen-
sion for these widows, but has finally
agreed upon a pension of $40 per
month for widows who have reached
the age of 75 years. Although Con-
gressman McFadden stood out for the
$50 rate this $40 rate became law on
Yo 23, 1928. .
The widow or former widow, when
75 years of age, of any person who
served in the Army, Navy, or Marine
Corps of the United States during the
Civil War for 90 days or more, and
was honorably discharged from all
contracts of service, or regardless of
length of service was discharged for
disability incurred in service and line
of duty, is entitled to $40 per month
under the act of May 23, 1928. Mar-
riage to the soldier must have been
prior to June 27, 1905.
This $40 rate commences on June
4, 1928, in the cases of those on the
pension roll who had attained the age
of 75 years on or prior to June 4,
1928. When the pensioner attains the
age of 75 years after June 4, 1928,
the date of commencement of the $40
rate will be the date accepted as that
on which age of 75 is attained. Per-
sons who had not attained the age of
75 years on or prior to June 4, 1928,
should, about the time of attaining
the age of 75, call up their cases by
letter in which the date of birth
should be given. This is necessary to
enable the Bureau to fix the date of
commencement of the $40 rate or pen-
sion.
In cases of widows or remarried
widows now on the roll and of at-
tained age of 75 years no application
of any kind, not even a letter, needs
be filed by a pensioner for this in-
crease of pension. In fact letters of
inquiry about particular cases will
retard the work of the Pension Bur-
eau, and pensioners and their rela-
tives or friends can materially assist
in the expeditious handling of these
cases by refraining from correspond-
Ing regarding them. It is hoped that
all now on the pension roll, entitled to
this $40 rate, will have received no-
tice to that effect prior to September
30, 1928. Pensioners not receiving
notice by that date should then make
Inquiry regarding their cases.
It is estimated that about 90,000
widows and remarried widows of Civ-
il War veterans have now attained
the age of 75 years and are now en-
titled to this $40 rate. There are ap-
proximately 175,000 Civil war widow
pensioners on the roll whose cases
must be drawn and examined to as-
certain those now entitled to the in-
crease of pension. These cases will
be drawn in numerical order, handled
as expeditiously as possible with the
force available, and notices sent to
the Disbursing Clerk of the Pension
Bureau, authorizing payment at the
increased rate. He will send these
notices to the pensioners with the
first check in payment of amount due
at the new rate. Nothing will be due
in any case before the regular pay-
ment on July 4, 1928. :
Your Congressman will be pleased
at all times to assist any widow cov-
ered by the foregoing provisions and
trusts that they will feel free to cor-
respond with him whenever they
think he can help them or give them
additional information.
What Trees Mean to Nation’s Pros-
perity.
North America, with one-twelfth of
the world’s people, uses about one-
half of all the timber consumed in the
world, says the Forestry Primer pub-
lished by the American Tree Asso-
ciation at Washington.
There are 200,000 known kinds of
tree-attacking insects. It is estimat-
ed that these cause a loss of $100,-
000,000 every year.
The railroads of the United States
use about 130,000,000 new wood ties
every year. There are about 3,000 to
the mile.
Something like 5,000,000 trees are
cut annually for telegraph and tele-
phone poles; we use 500,000,000 fence
posts every year.
The forest fires in the United
States cost us nearly $100,000 a day.
There are 81,000,000 acres of idle
land in this country all of which
should be put to work growing trees.
Millions of feet of pulpwood are
used every year to keep the newspa-
pers of the country providing you
with the news of the day.
About two-thirds of the population
uses wood for fuel. A greater amount
goes to this account than for any oth-
er purpose.
Experts say our population is in-
creasing at the rate of 1,000,000 a
year. We must grow trees for a
growing people.
Will Add Film to Wild Life Series.
Motion picture reels depicting the
raccoon in his native haunts and the
life and habits of several native game
birds are being prepared and will be
added to the list used by the bureau
of research and information of the
game commission to broaden the pub-
lic understanding of Pennsylvania’s
wild life.
At the present the bureau has over
fifty reels of motion pictures, cover-
ing sixteen different subjects. The
pictures portray the haunts and hab-
its of deer, bear, beaver, and wild
turkey. The pictures are in constant
demand not only by organizations in
Pennsylvania, but from other States
as well, They have been used at 746
meetings which were attended by a
total of more than 200,000 persons.
—German chemists have discovered
a means of liquefying coal. By add-
ing hydrogen, it is converted into a
liquid motor fuel comparable to gaso-
line, The significance of this achieve-
ment is that when the world’s supply
of petroleum has been consumed we
may turn to soft coal, which will sup-
ply us for four thousand years.
| WARNS TOURIST CAMPERS
OF LURKING DANGERS.
The mushroom growth of camps
and free camp sites has presented a
definite sanitary problem to health of-
ficials throughout the country. Many
States have efficiently solved it, in-
cluding Pennsylvania, says Dr. Theo-
dore B. Appel, secretary of health.
Nevertheless, a warning must be
given to the thousands who, in re-
sponse to the “call of the wild” and
the “back to nature” e, will soon
take to the road, gypsy fashion.
It is not enough to arrive some-
where at the of the day, erect
tents for the night’s stay, and assume
that the health department has, fully
protected you. On the main highways,
and even on the more traveled side
roads, such is likely to be the case.
In camps of this character, the water
supply will ca: the familiar yellow
sign—Safe Drinking Water, the sani-
tary facilities will be adequate and
the cleanliness of the surroundings
evident.
However, there is a surprising
number of camp sites that are to be
found in more remote sections, many!
of which, even if the road has been
covered by the sanitary engineer,
have come into existence after the
survey has been made and conse-
quently has been missed. It is a spot
like these that care and circumspec-
tion must be exercised.
The lure of such a camp is strong.
The seclusion of a wooded tract “far
from the maddening crowd” some:
times overcomes all consideration of
personal health. The motorist is so
taken with the scenery and aloofness
that he fails to give any thought to
the water supply—the source of
much of that disease which, by reason
of its seasonal incidence, is known as
vacation typhoid.
Deep in the mountains, spring wat-
er is likely to be entirely safe, but
when using such a source, investigate
the immediate neighborhood ‘for pos-
sibilities of infection. It may knock
a bit of romance and poetry out of
the situation but what is the lack of
a little of that compared with the
typhoid bacillus which may be await-
ing a chance to infect you?
The following rules are the guid-
ance of those more adventurous spir-
its who spurn established camps or
the approved camp site:
1. Always investigate the source of
your water supply. If a spring, see
to it that contaminating factors are
absent; if a stream, then invariably
boil the drinking water. A drop of
tincture of iodine may be added to
every pint of water in lieu of boiling.
Others may have polluted it, and con-
trary to a popular notion, water does
not purify itself in every eight miles.
2. Do not throw any garbage or
refuse into a stream, open well or
spring—bury or burn it. !
3. Bury body eliminations.
4. Avoid mosquito infested areas.
5. Leave the camp site in a neat and
sanitary condition. There are others
who will likely follow you. Make
sure that all fires are out.
Back to nature is a splendid idea.
Observe the rules and live to enjoy
such an outing again next year.
Game Commission Helps Farmers to
Build Fence to Stop Deer.
The Board of Game Commissioners
have furnished to farmers, orchard-
ists and produce growers during the
past year a total of 4,683 rods of deer-
roof fence at a total cost to the
ame Commission of $6,863.67.
The Legislature in 1923 passed un
act giving the Game Commission the
right to co-operate with landowners
in the construction of fences which
would protect their crops from dam-
age by deer. The original act made
it compulsory on the land-owner and
the Game Commission each to pay
half the cost. In 1925, however, the
act was amended providing an alter-
nate plan by which the Game Com-
mission is permitted to furnish the
woven wire fencing and staples on
condition that the landowner will fur-
nish posts and construct the fence.
This latter plan is considered the
most advantageous to the landowner,
as he usually can obtain posts from
his own woodlot and is able to per-
form a great deal of labor himself, re-
quiring little or no outlay of money
on his part.
Since the deer-proof fence law was
first passed the Game Commission
has co-operated in building a total of
18,415 rods of fence, which is eight
feet high, expending altogether a to-
tal of $26,731.99. More than half of
the fences constructed were for the
protection of orchards.
The Game Commission is permitted
by law to expend not to exceed $10.-
000 per year for this purpose, but in
no year has the full amount of the
appropriation been used. In no in-
stance ‘has an application for fencing
been disapproved where the owner of
the land had shown that the deer were
actually damaging his crops, G. Ward
Conklin, chief of the bureau of ref-
uges and lands, under whom the ad-
ministration of the deer-proof fence
law has been placed, said today.
Air Service, New York-Chicago to
Open This Year.
Regular airplane passenger service
between New York and Chicago re-
quiring only seven hours as against
20 hours made by the fastest rail-
road train is to be inaugurated with-
in six to eight months by the Na-
tional Air Transport Co., of Chicago,
Colonel Paul Henderson, general man-
ager of the Transport Co., announced
recently.
The transportation planned between
Cleveland and Chicago, Toledo, De-
troit and New York will start, accord-
ing to Henderson, with a fleet of sev-
en de luxe, tri-motored planes to cost
approximately $500,000. Each plane
carrying from 12 to 14 passengers is
to have a cabin steward aboard which
will serve buffet lunches enroute.
The National Air Transport |Co,
has increased its capital $1,000,000
to finance this new passenger service
and purchase $500,000 stock of the
Transcontinental Air Transport Co.,
the air-rail hook-up with Pennsylvan-
ia railroad, it was said.
New Reports Show Auto Death Toll.
Pennsylvania’s automobile death
toll for the first three months of 1928
was 347, while 3196 persons suffered
injuries of a more or less serious na-
ture, 421 of which were bone frac-
tures. Automobile accidents covered
by the compulsory accident report re-
quired by law for the same period to-
taled 4,854. :
The Pennsylvania Department of
Highways, in making public the fig-
ures, pointed out that fifty-four
deaths occurred on the open highway
at locations not considered dangerous
for driving at normal speed. e to-
tal accidents on open stretches were
1849. Crashes at street intersections
topped this figure with a total of
1912 accidents, twenty-eight of which
resulted in fatalities. :
In 496 cases the motorist admitted
exceeding the speed limit, 400 were
on the wrong side of the road, and
418 did not have the right of way
when they figured in two-car crashes.
In 36038 cases the motorist filing his
report declared that he was driving in
a straight course, yet in this group
100 of the fatal accidents are report
ed.
Pedestrians crossing streets at the
corners figured in 180 accidents, six
of which were fatal. One of the chief
causes, according to the analysis, of
pedestrian accidents is their penchant
for walking into the street between
two parked cars, entering the traffic
stream in such a manner that motor-
ists cannot see them in time to stop
or avoid them.
Male drivers who figured in acci-
dents ran up a ratio of about eighteen
to one over female drivers. Drivers
under 18 years figured in only 163
accidents, with three fatalities, while
those of 18 to 24 years took part in
1302 accidents, with thirty-two re-
sulting deaths.
Drivers 25 to 54 years of age ran
up a total of 3647 accidents, about
three to one over the younger drivers.
Deaths resulting from accidents in-
volving the elder group of drivers
were sixty-nine, more than a two-to-
one ratio over the younger men.
Friday proved to be the most dan-
gerous driving day, with thirty fatal-
ities, while Saturday served as run-
ner-up with fourteen deaths but 922
injuries, the greatest number of in-
juries for any day in the week. Sun-
day, usually credited with being the
most dangerous day to go pleasure
riding, maintained a middle position
in the week’s calendar of hazards.
The compulsory reports do not in-
clude accidents which involve less than
$50 property damage or personal in-
jury.
Rheumatism is Blamed for 80 Per |.
Cent of Heart Disease Deaths.
Rheumatic diseases are responsible |:
for 80 per cent of deaths from heart’)
disease under 20 years of age, accord- |"
ing to Sir George Newman, chief
medical officer to the British Ministry
of Health.
Speaking before a conference on
rheumatic ailments, attended by med-
ical men from the United States,
France, Germany, Holland, Belgium
and Sweden, Sir George said.
“The acute rheumatism of children
is sowing the seeds of a growing har-
vest of disease of the heart and ner-
vous system. Chronic forms of rheu-
matism are very seriously crippling
many hundreds of thousands of peo-
ple all over the world.
“Closer supervision by parents and
teachers should be exercised over all
children under the age of 14. The
personal and environmental hygiene of
children must be steadily improved.”
Engine Trouble Often is Traced to
Spark Plugs.
When an automobile engine misses
at high speed or in climbing hills, the
trouble can often be traced to the
spark plugs, according to H. Rabez-
zana, research engineer.
Much of this trouble, he says, is
due to the use of improper type plug
or spark plug points being set too
far apart, or because the. plugs are
simply worn out. 3
e gap between the points should
not have more than .025 inch clear-
ance or .020 inch in high compression
engines.
s spark plug trouble is often mis-
taken for valve or piston ring trou-
ble, the proper thing to do before
ing repairs is to have the plugs
inspected, which will save unneces-
sary expense, the engineer says.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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OTICE IN DIVORCE—Emma E.
Brown vs. James W. Brown: In the
Court of Common Pleas of Centre
County: No. 28, Feb.—May Term, 1928.
Libel in Divorce. To James W. Brown,
Respondent. Whereas, Emma BE. Brown,
your wife, has filed a Libel in the Court
of Common Pleas of Centre County pray-
ing a divorce from you, now you are
hereby notified and requested to appear
in the Court on or before the first Mon-
day of July, 1928, to answer the complaint
of said Emma E. Brown, and in default
of such appearance you will be liable to
have a divorce granted in your absence.
HARRY HE. DUNLAP,
78-28-4¢ Sheriff of Centre County.
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Children don’t eat food to
build sound teeth and good
bones, but parents should
give them food that is rich
in calcium and other bone-
making, tissue building-
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