Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, October 26, 1928, Image 3
— Bemorraiiy Watdwon Bellefonte, Pa., October 26, 1928. Your Health, The First Concern. —3ince it was organized in 1913 the Institute has examined over 600,- 000 people and las accumulated price- less data bearing upon the best n.eth- human bodies, interpreting the condi- ods of analyzing human lives and tions found and conveying counsel as to the upbuilding of health. Dur- ing this period of time the Institute has been in tontact with leading re- search workers and progressive medi- cal men in the consideration of this material and constant study has been made of the best methods of conduct- ing these physical examinations and as to the significance of the findings. The purpose of the Institute’s ex- amination is not the diagnosis of so- called “disease” but the detection of physical impairments, pre-disposition to disease, or faulty living habits, the correction of which would have a beneficial influence on the life of the person examined. The health publications of the In- stitute, which you will also receive as a subscriber, cover a wider range of practical subjects relating to good health and the prevention of disease. All of this health literature, before publication, is referred to the special- ists on the Institute’s Hygiene Ref- erence Board and criticism, so that the information as finally published vepresents the consensus of opinion of the highest medical and health authorities in the United States. LOOK FOR YOUR DANGER SIGNALS. —Not long after I was asked to write a certain article which, I frank- ly admit, would have appealed to prac- tically every body. The idea behind it might have been expressed in some such title as: WHAT IS THE DANGER SIGNAL AT YOUR AGE. Naturally, everyone who read that question would have liked to know the answer that would apply in his own case. And this was to be given by warning people of the diseases most likely to attack them at specific ages: at twenty, thirty, forty, and so on. They were to be told what prob- ably would be the first symptoms of these diseases and were to be advised to regard such symptoms as danger signals. But I did not write the article— and for this reason: The time to be- gin looking for danger signals is be- fore you have evidence of serious trouble. . In most cases, there are at least caution signals long in advance of actual disease. If these caution signals are heed- ed, the disease may be escaped; or, at any rate, deferred, sometimes for many years. The earlier these warn- ings are noted—and heeded—the long- er, more comfortable, and more useful your life journey will be. The trouble with many persons is that, like a reckless or careless rail- road engineer, they run past these caution signals. The red light of warning is hung up before them, per- haps by their physician. Or it may be that nature sets the signal against them by making them conscious of something wrong in their physical condition. They may have no serious disease at present. The threatened wreck seems to be far ahead of them; and in the meantime, they tell themselves, everything will probably clear up. So they keep on past the warning sig- nals, until the wreck comes. There is another class, also; an amazingly large one, composed of people who do not even suspect that there are any of these signals for caution along their route. Most of the persons who come to us at the Life Extension Institute for a physical examination, do so be- cause they have had, or think they have had, warnings of danger. But an extraordinary number of them as- sure us that “nothing is the matter,” and that they want to be examined merely as a sensible precaution. Their attitude is absolutely correct. It is precisely the one I wish every man and woman would take. But the point I want to make right here is that the great majority of these people who say that “nothing is the matter” with them do not know whether there is or not! In practi- cally every case there is at least a caution signal. And in very many instances there are real and immedi- ate danger signals. I could describe hundreds of these cases. One man, for example, came to us for an examination, although he declared that the only thing the matter with him was that he had calluses on his feet. He did not think they were a danger signal, of course; but they hurt him, made him think about his body, and so prompt- ed him to have himself gone over. His motive was largely curiosity to see how he would show up. an the examination proved that he had a biood pressure of 240—it shoul have been nearer 140; that he had marked thickening of the arteries, en- largement of the heart and other very undesirable conditions, he was the most astonished man in New York. Yet the only trouble he had noticed was calluses on his feet! Plenty of real danger signals had been present, but he had not known they were there. Even when people do think that they perceive danger signals in re- gard to their health, they are very likely to misinterpret these warnings. If they ahve a pain in the back, for ex- ample, they jump to the conclusion that they have kidney trouble. Yet it probably means nothing of the sort. BANKS LARGEST USERS OF AIR MAIL LINES. Air transportation has reached into the daily activities of the popu- lation of the United States far more extensively than is generally appre- ciated, according to a survey made. It has shrunk the map of the con- tinent to the sixe of Texas. Mail, express and passengers, speeding 100 miles an hour through the air, are working rapid changes in business and social habits. More than a quarter of a million letters daily were being carried over 23 air routes before the new 5-cent rate went into effect. This new rate increased the mail 30 per cent. Air mail planes fly approximately 19,000 miles daily, or four-fifths of the dis- tance around the earth, it is shown by the American Air Transport As- sociation. Increases in the rate of call money brought air mail into greater use by banks. With call money rates fluc- tuating between 6 aa¢ 8 per cent. banks and financial institutions sep- arated by the distance from coast to coast, save three days in time, and three days of interest on millions of dollars. Each day approximately $24,000,- 000 in negotiable papers, bearing in- terest, arrives in Wall Street by air- plane from all parts of the United States. It has been estimated that in a year capital arriving in New York by air would total $7,200,000,- 000. Interest saved on this sum by air mail should reach $432,000,000, figuring interest at only 2 per cent. Recent increases in call money rates would substantially expand the daily total of interest involved. This accounts for the banks and invest- ment houses being rated as the larg- est users of air mail and the second largest users of air express. Motion picture companies, distrib- uting their containers of films, have taken a commanding lead in the use of air express. This makes every theater patron, anxious to see the latest releases, a beneficiary of air transport. The greatest increase in mail poundage carried through the air, which has grown from a few hun- dred pounds daily to more than three tons every 24 hours, has become since night flying over 7500 miles of light- ed airways put the mail planes on a 24-hour schedule. Short haul air mail business he- tween Boston and New York, Chi- cago and St. Louis, Chicago and Minneapolis, and other closely situ- ated cities is growing rapidly no less than the long hauls which have been carrying more than half of the total. Towns and cities all over the Unit- ed States are responding to the re- quest of the Department of Com- merce for more airports. The first six months of this year approximate- ly 557 have developed airports. Shooting Ducks, Geese and Coons Per- mitted. Pennsylvania sportsmen who have made a careful study of the often re- vised regulations governing seasons and bag limits realize that now the first legal hunting may be done. The real small game season, because of the ruling: which limits hunting to three ‘days a week, did not begin un- til Thursday morning, the 18th. Shooting of wild ducks, geese and raccoons then became legal. The sea- son for both ducks and geese will continue until January 15. The bag limit for the former of the combined kinds is 15 for a day and 60 for the season. The daily limit for wild geese is five and 30 for the season’s legal total. Wild fowl is one of the few kinds of game which may be hunt- ed every day except Sunday until the close of the season. Raccoons may be hunted until No- vember 30. Trapping them is legal only during the month of November. Hunters who took the field will do well to go armed with a copy of the regulations and spend their spare mo- ments making sure that they are fol- lowing the various provisions of the revised game laws. The season for squirrel, wild tur- key, ruffed grouse, made ring neck pheasants and partridges will continue until November 30, but shooting will be permitted only Thursday, Friday and Saturday of each week. Rabbits, the chief objective of the great majority of hunters, will not be legal game until Thursday, No- vember 1. The three-day rule will apply to them during the month of November, but they may be hunted six days a week during the first 15 days of December. The day limit bag for rabbits is five and that for the season 30 ; The bear season also will begin No- vember 1, with the three day rule ap- plying during that month and the six-day plan for the first 15 days of December. It is not believed that the Com- mission will alter its ruling on an open season for dee deer during the first 15 days of December. America’s Grape Crop. America’s grape crop will be the largest in the history of the country this year. How do you figure it out that California once saw the ruin of its vineyards? Evidently vine- yards never started in real earnest until Mr. Volstead started out of the Middle West for Washington. With evidence of a record grape’ crop this year producers and ship- pers are being urged by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, to practice “careful grading and pack- ing and wide distribution to prevent an unprofitable season.” The total grape crop is forecast by the Department at 2,844,764 tons as against 2,606,712 tons last year. Of this quantity, California will pro- duce 2,538,400 tons of grapes of all classes compared with 2,406,000 tons in 1927, All States outside of Cal- ifornia expect a combined crop of 306.000 tons of grapes, or 53 per cent. more thann their ligh* produc- tion last season. Eight other West- ern States with probably 11,587 tons show very little increase over 1927, but the leading eastern and mid-west- ern sections report sharp gains. | two are Catholics. help the poor, get boys out of scrapes | tions others JUST WHAT IS TAMMANY HALL? In going to the Tweed days for something with which to asperse the Good Governor of New York State, the Republicans remind us of Simeon Ford’s fussy boarder at the old Grand Union Hotel, opposite the Grand Cen- tral Station, who complained on be- ing served with ox-tail soup that “it seemed like going a good ways back for soup.” They have no nice fresh Tammany scandals to serve up because there are none to be had. When Charles F. Murphy took the organiza- tion in hand after Richard Croker vacated, he cleverly got rid of the term “Boss” which smelled bad and sounded worse even though sanction- ed by Thomas C. Platt—but there again Platt was a Republican, and Republicans are respectable enough to get away with anything. You do not hear much, do you, about the “implied obligations” of the Republi- can party to which Platt gave such close attention and from which he drew liberally for campaign and other funds? Whatever might be said about Croker, he was honest until William C. Whitney greased him to get the Broadway street railway franchise, already foul with scandal, in which Tammany had no share. But coming down to Murphy and from that time on it is impossible to dis- cover a stain on the record of the or- ganization. Croker cut some slices personally out of the first subway, but more as an investor than a graft- er. The big things were gone when Murphy came into power, though he was credited with a share in the prof- its of the excavations for the new Pennsylvania station which was not a matier of public concern. Judge Ol- vany who succeeded him has carried no other title than leader and has shown no signs of developing into a boss. He has sold the old hall that Tweed built and is building a new one on the corner of Seventeenth street and Fourth avenue where the building stood in which William Lloyd Garrison died in 1867. The structure carried a tablet to that ef- fect and we wonder if Mr. Olvany will have it gummed upon the face of the new tiger’s den and if he does, what grandson Oswald Garrison Vil- lard will say about it. Olvany has sent good men to Albany, and the city government, now under Hall control for the first time since May- or Van Wyck’s wretched day when Croker bloomed in full flower, has functioned to everybody’s satisfaction, even the vaudeville Mayor getting praise on all sides. Indeed, he stands so high that the sedate New York Times which prints only fit things had him trailed by special correspondents during his recent tour abroad and gave him the space due an Emperor at a shuddering cost for cable tolls. What more do the Roanokers need to know than that? The Hall, we may frankly state, is a political and bene- fit association combined and is only two weeks younger than our sacred constitution having been founded in 1787, by one William Mahoney, a rev- olutionary soldier, sometimes credit- ed with serving on both sides, in which he was not necessarily alone. At any rate, he was with us when we won, which is the main thing. We need not rehearse all of its lon history. It stood by Aaron Burr an Jefferson against Alexander Hamil" ton and the centralizing Federalists. It was in pretty good hands until Fernando Wood and Tweed took turns at using the power it possessed. Wood was a Philadelphia printer, and with his brother Ben owned the old Daily News and made money out of the lottery business and the policy game that succeeded it. Fernando was twice mayor of New York. One of our most useful and engaging citi- zens of today is his son, Henry A. Wise Wood, so named out of the re- spect Fernando bore the Governor of Virginia for hanging old John Brown. | He at least bred well, whatever else the old sinner may have done. Tweed we lay to Warner and the Republican campaign committee. We have also said enough about Croker, also about Murphy, though we do not mind add- ing that the latter was the shrewd- est and wisest man who ever played politics around our village. He had read the Sermon on the Mount and knew how to take an enemy with him. When he stole Grout and Fornes from . the reformers and used them to elect George B. McClellan mayor, he won laurels that have never faded—not that McClellan was of any use to him though he did well by the city and is a placid professor at Princeton nowadays. The Hall of today is run by the leaders of the thirty-six elec- tion districts who also have to see to paying the bills, something they nev- er fail in doing. A general committee of about fourteen thousand members is behind them, while Olvany leads and carries on a successful law busi- ness which has not been damaged by his taking part in Tammany politics. His father was a leader of the Amer- ican or Know-Nothing party in the old Ninth Ward who became a Re- publican. Murphy made him a judge because he was prominent among the Masons whom the Pope is believed to abhor. He was a Protestant until about six months after he became leader of the Hall, when he went over to Rome. Of the thirty-six district leaders four are Jewish and thirty- So far as known they are all capable men who look out for the interests of their districts, and perform other useful and patri- otic functions which include getting out the vote on election day. They also have to see that voters register, a formality not required up-state, where a voter’s name stands on the voting list until transferred to a tombstone. Even then in close elec- have been known to vote for him. This is one of the things you Roanoke people ought to think about when you hear New York knocked the way they are doing it: down South. Every restriction that can be thought of has been placed upon the city by legislation to make voting pure, while the woods have been left wide open. That is one of | the reasons why Al Smith has never | carried the truly rural counties, which are over-represented in the Legisla- ture and so keep that body Republi- . can. When these fellows begin talk-' ing about election frauds, it is only LUMB 71-16-t£ Oh, Yes! ER? W.R. Shope Lumber Co. Lumber, Sash, Doors, Millwork and Roofing Call Bellefonte 432 fair to say that the only box-stuffers and bigoted it may feel. —Wall Street sent to jail in three decades have been prosecuted under Tammagy rule. We would like to see what would happen to the Philadelphia Republican major- ity if it had to be rolled up under metropolitan restrictions. To wind up, we need only to say that Tam- | many is today a very human and helpful organization, which stood by the South whenever it deserved it, and sometimes when it did not, just to serve the Democratic cause, which the South now is seemingly disposed to forget. The Governor of New York does not ‘deserve to have Tweed’s old clothes draped on him and the South should be ashamed to have any part in the process, however dry Disturbed Sleep Is Nature’s Danger Signal Mrs. B. F. 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