Benoni Bellefonte, Pa., January 4, 1929. sr Your H eal t h, The First Concern. «With the exception of one ori- ental country with its hordes of peo- ple, to which even the term sanita- tion and preventive medicine are un- known, the United States last year had more cases of small pox than had any other place on e h. And this, in spite of the fact that of all diseases preventable by public health mea- sures, smallpox is the easiest to con- trol,” said Dr. Theodore B. Appel, Secretary of Health. «While Pennsylvania’s smallpox rec- ord in the more recent years has been a very enviable one, it must be realized that vaccination alone has been responsible for it. And in this connection, the State's vaccination law which requires that all school children attending public, private and paro- chial schools must be able to show satisfactory evidence of vaccination, has been an exceedingly effective weapon against this dreaded disease. «The misconception however that only children need to be vaccinated is a more or less general one. Small- pox is no longer a childhood malady. Of the cases reported in Pennsylvania the vast majority for years have been adults who had never submitted to vaccinated of pre-school age or in is- sionally is seen in children in this State, it has occurred only in the un- vaccinated of pre-school age or in 1S- olated instances in cl . parents had succeeded in evading the vaccination law. . : “Many adults, having been vaccl- nated in early life, are resting under the false security of lifelong secur- 1 y the simple and painless ex- pedient of effective vaccination of every individual in the nation, small- pox, except for imported cases, would be non-existant in the United States. ! That this disease still shows its pow- er in this country is therefore an in- dication solely of personal careless- | ness and disregard. «To aid intelligently in Pennsyl- | vania’s fight against smallpox, the following rules should be observed: 1. Have all children over one year of age promptly vaccinated. Do not defer until the health authorities in- sist upon it. The compulsory vacci- nation law applies equally to the pub- lic, private and parochial schools. 2. If one is a mature person and never has been vaccinated, be vac- cinated without further delay. 3. If one is a mature person and has not been vaccinated since childhood, consult a physician regarding the necessity of further protection.” “Fumigation is futile” as a means of attempting to control the spread of communicable diseases, Dr. Moore Campbell, chief of the bureau of communicable diseases in the State department of health, asserted. In- stead of being an aid the method of- ten results in causing more cases, he said. “This practice,” said Dr. Campbell, “js yet very general in rural com- munities, where disease outbreaks oc- cur in schools. The department’s records show that this method of at- tempted control is, in fact, often the ; direct cause of more cases. “It is the individual school child and not the school room that needs to be watched. To scatter the children by closing schools makes it impossible for the health authorities to maintain a check on scholars who may show symptoms of the disease only after they have infected others by being out of school. “Quaranting the known cases and keeping a close check on the other scholars, with an immediate removal and quarantine of suspicious cases is the modern, scientific and effective manner of meeting situations of this character. Fumigation is futile.” To the discerning, nothing in the world gives away the age of a woman so completely as her eyes, and among the laity few of these discerning ones understand the difference between the eyes that are illtreated and the eyes of age. The inference is obvious. following suggestions are for those who up to this moment have never considered it necesary to prescribe a toilet for the eyes, and who conse- quently look years older than their | actual age. We tax these long-suffering organs of sight more completely than any other part of our wonderful selves. We overstrain them in hundreds of ways—when we drive a motor at night in the dark, at the “pictures,” and when we sit reading with our chairs facing the light instead of in a spot where the light will fall from be- hind us directly onto our book. At night time we neglect the warning our eyes give us that they are tired; we are interested in our novel and nothing must hinder us from finishing that laster chapter. Or perhaps we are traveling, and, again interested, we insist upon insulting our eyes by making them do duty during a partic- cularly “bumpy” journey. And then, by and by, when sudden- ly our organs of sight go on strike against the unfair treatment we have been handing out to them for years, we are annoyed. Those tiny blood vessels running like fine scarlet lacework in the con- juncitiva (white part of the eyeball) have become irritated and inflamed be- cause the eye has been working in in- sufficient light, or at too high a pres- sure. Rest and proper treatment is necessary in order that the conjunc- tivitis will disappear. All reading should be discontinued and the eye should be given a boracic bath twice or three times a day, The ed LOCK HAVEN TO RENOVO HIGHWAY COMPLETED. The work of excavating and grad- ling the new State highway between Lock Haven and Hyner, a distance of | nearly twenty miles, has been com- | pleted by the William C. Horn Con- | struction company, and has been for- i mally accepted by the State Depart- {ment of Highways, at an approxi- i mate cost of $700,000, the largest con- 'tract for excavating ever given by the State. In spite of numerous slides of earth in cutting and blasting the roadway from the rock of the mountain sides for miles at a stretch, there has not been one fatal acci- dent in the two years since the be- ginning of the undertaking. Nineteen streams have been cross- ed, and eight large steam shovels have made six large rock cuts, at which points the roadway 1s about 200 feet above the river. The larg- est of these is at Ritchie, where a cut ranging from twenty to a hundred { feet in depth extends for one and a { half miles, and $5000 worth of dyna- i mite was used in making the three | shots to loosen the mountainside. At | Whetham a cut extending 4000 feet iis seventy feet in depth; at Glen { Union the road was cut through a | cliff for 4000 feet to a depth of fifty | feet, and a concrete bridge forty- | cight feet in length was built over | Baker Run; at Ferney and at Kast { Ferney cuts averaging depths of thir- | ty feet in each place extend for a mile | at each point; at Farrandsville a cut | 4000 feet in length is 150 feet deep. | while the greatest grade, of but 8 | per cent., is in the fill and rise just | west of the city limits at Sugar Run. The new bridge spanning the Sus- Hyner, and the i quehanna river at | Pennsylvania railroad tracks there, land a deep fill connecting the State { highway with the southern end of the | bridge will connect Lock Haven and | Renovo for the first time by State | highway, and the completion of the | bridge and the road is expected ‘0 {bring thousands of tourists into that | section. 3 a! children whose | Advantages of Physical Examination. | { “The Christmas season with its | spirit of good will and charity to oth- l ers is past and the present season is {an excellent time to consider a good | others happy, it is not out of place ‘to turn the same attention upon our- selves,” says Dr. Theodore B. Ap- pel, Secretary of Health. “And this could in no manner be ‘better expressed than by giving carve- | the annual ! then acting upon it. “If someone were to say that by traveling a certain road, death would likely follow, everyone undoubtedly would detour. However, that is just where the practical difficulty lies in developing the necessary amount of | which frequently does not occur. deed toward one’s self. Having made | 1 enthusiasm on the part of the aver- | age person for the annual physical | inquiry. lent on the question. warning whatsoever. The body is frequently si-| It offers no he "1 b “Nevertheless, it is the latent .de- | Ae fect that later comes to the surface | in an irremediable form. and other killers, has its surest foot- ing. “It may be blissful to be ignorant of the beginning of a fatal malady but it certainly isn’t folly to be wise to a condition which if caught early vight here that the and Cag (he most generous man in the world. disease, cancer, tuberculosis, diabetes | by the practiced eye of the physician | can be arrested or cured. “Life is sweet these days. To live long in a fine state of health is the | supreme blessing compared to which all others fade. “The annual ohysical examination ! may be the means of achieving this end. Use it for your life’s sake!” Pay Asked For Sick War Vets. A move to veterans relieve distress among in hospitals who cannot “Long Eyelashes Joy of Poet and Artist There are two sorts of long eye- lashes, those that turn up and tise that droop downward. The first sort have the charm that comes from that delicious curl that lends piquancy to the eye, while the others add as much to the eye by shading it and making it seem darker, more mysterious and wore luminous. So whichever sort of long lashes you have you may be satisfied from the point of view of beauty. How- ever, it is said that those that turn up betoken good health, while those that droop are cre often possessed by persons of delicate health, and ip dicate melancholy. Almost all poets and artists are agreed in praising long lashes. Luigi- no, the famous Italian Renaissance writer says “lashes should be long and black as Indian ebony,” but on the other hand, another Italian writer on feminine beauty says “the lashes should be thin and not overlong nor would 1 have them very black, which makes the gaze fierce.” Balzac could also see beauty in short lashes, for of the charming Camille in “Beatrix” he says, “The lashes are short, but as black and thickest as the hair of an ermine’s tail.” When Modest Man Had Right to “Limelight” Brown is a very rich man, but his aame is never mentioned in connec- tion with the various banks, factories and other enterprises in which he is interested. He writes books on economic sub- jects, and magazine articles on in- dustrial problems, but he never signs them. {le never grants an interview. He avoids photographers. He refuses to speak in public. ‘He is the anonymous donor of vast sums to charity. There was but one occasion when ae willingly allowed reporters and photographers to approach him. He posed in several positions while the cameras caught him from all angles. He read a prepared statement to the reporters. What's more, he cautioned them to spell his name correctly. He had just won the deciding match for the prize offered by bis club to players with a handicap of thirty or over.— ful consideration to the advantages of | [os Angeles Times. physical examination—- | 2 Muckraking Days The late Chauncey M. Depew was talking one day to a New York re- porter about the more tolerant atti- | tude of the public nowadays toward the great tinanciers. “You don’t remember the old muck: cuking times, I suppose,” said Mr. Depew. “In those times it was a crime vich. Our muckrakers—how they muckraked! “John D. Rockefeller, 1 suppose, is He has given I don’t know how many hundreds of millions for the benefit of his fellow-men. And yet our muck- rakers used to say that John D. was mean, yes, meaner than old Scragg, | the village miser. “Old Scragg, you know, used to skim the milk on top and then flop it over and skim it cn the bottom.” Sound Bores Holes Sound waves of a frequency of 200, 000 to 500,000 vibrations a second, . passed along a tapering glass rod, caused the tip to bore a hole in a | plece of wood and a plate of glass, a ' cently. prove their illness is due to war ori- gin, Representative Fish (R. N.Y) introduced a bill providing that each veteran in a Government hospital shall receive compensation of $8 a month. Mr. Fish said the hospitals were filled with men unable, after the lapse of time, to prove their illness due to war experience, and that they were for the most part in acute dis- tress. He said there were 200 such patients in the hospital at Castle Point, in his district. Mr. Fish said the Government should not ask a veteran fighting for his life ten years after the armistice to exist on less than the sum mention- “Tet the American people, through Congress, keep faith with these sick veterans by remembering that we promised that nothing was too good for them ten years ago,” he added. | i Prisoners Playing Chess Mail. | Matching college wit against prison “cunning, members of the University of California chess club and a similar organization at Folson prison announced the schedule has been un- ' der way for more than a month. Two , moves apiece have been made—by ' mail—so far. While neither side will ' admit the possibility of defeat it is ; said that college chess players will , change as the years pass, while those ‘playing on the. prison side of the board are headed by a man serving a life term. Through | | | Emile Walters, noted artist of the ! modern school and summer session instructor in oil painting for the last ' seven years at Penn State college, who { has spent the past four months paint- i ing landscapes of Centre county sur- | sounding State College, has gone to New York City where he will give an | exhibition made up chiefly of Penn- i sylvania landscape views. Similar ex- hibits by the noted artist will be made in Boston, Springfield, Mass., and Chapel Hill, S. C. | —Subscribe for the Watchman. Centre’s Landscape will be Exhibited. | French experimenter discovered re- When the waves were come municated to a glass thread about one one-hundreth of an inch thick and more than a yard long, the frictional effect was so intense that the flesh could be burned. Further tests with the “ultar-sonic” waves showed that they accelerated various reactions and produced crystallization. Need of Sunday The really laborious man cannot afford to work on Sunday. My Sab- , sible sense, baths gave me my happiest moments, and in a great stretch of years cruwd- ed with professional and public caves, they made family life in any respon- a possibility. Literary things, divine things, the significance of life for oneself, for all dear to one; for the great moving world; going to church—why that was but part of the ' patural homage which one paid to ' that supreme need which every sansi- tive soul feels for moral replenish- . ment.—Lord Shaw of Dunfermliro, | member. Lawyer’s Advice He strolled into a club in which he had managed to gain admission as a He looked around to see if there were anybody there he knew, | and after a while he discovered a well- known lawyer reading by a window. He walked across io the lawyer and peld out his hand, palm down. On hls third fnger glittered a diamond he had just bought. “What do you think of that?” he demanded. wSeems to be a fine stone,” sald che lawyer, “but if I were you Ig sell it and buy a nail brush,” —————————————— Honoring the Judge Rufus Choate, “The Wizard of the Law,” once began one of his ubtruse arguments before Chief Justice Shaw —says Francis L, Wellman in “The Art of Cross-Examination”—in the following manner: “In coming into the presence oJ your | honor, I experience the same teeling as the Hindu when he bows befoye his idol. I realize that you are ugly, but I feel that you are great!” FARM NOTES. —There are 13 varieties of winter apples grown in Pennsylvania and, according to Henry A. Eby, county farm agent, there has been a large crop during the past summer. Many apples sold in local stores are from orchards in our own State. The varieties are McIntosh, Smoke- house, Grimes Golden, Delicious, Jona- than, York Imperial, Rome Beauty, Rhode Island Greening, Northern Spy, Stayman, Winesap, Baldwin and Ben Davis. Government statistics for 1924 show that there are 6,727,473 trees of bearing age and 2,078,469 trees of non-bearing age in Pennsylvania. this number there are 210,477 frees, which includes both bearing and non- bearing, in Allegheny county. Although the crop during the past summer was not as large as in 1927, thousands of bushels of apples from trees in Pennsylvania, have been placed in cold storage for con- sumption during the winter months, while there has been a big demand for the apples by persons who have stored them in their homes. Some farmers use the apples from their orchards for their own use and store them in various ways. Some build outdoor caves, others use cel- lars of their homes, still others have specially built storage rooms, some have pits in the ground while others place them in crates and store them where they will not freeze. Local dealers purchase the apples from farmers and place them in cold storage houses, using them as they are needed. The Smokehouse is an old Penn- sylvania variety and is grown in the southeastern part of the State. It is of good quality and is rated as a good eating apple. The McIntosh is one of the best eat- ing apples to be had. It is juicy, high quality and of rich aroma. 1t is one of the finest for apple sauce ‘and is rapidly taking the place of the | Delicious apple which has been a fav- iorite for many years. The Delicious is one of the lead- ing dessert apples. It is of a mld variety and is not classed as a sweet apple. It is too mild to cook and is i good for eating only. | One of the oldest varieties of Penn- sylvania is the Grimes Golden. It is one of the leaders of Lhe State and is a fine eating apple, especially for { children. It was described as “not large, but large enough.” It is prob- ably the best for makinz a rich yel- low apple sauce. The Jonathan is an old time red i variety and is an all around apple. HI is good for eating and also good | for sauce or pies. The York Imper- {ial is a firm fresh variety and stands |up well when baked. This apple is ‘ideal for all kinds of cooking. The Rome Beauty is a good win- Iter apple and usually holds out well until April. It is good for eating and !also for cooking. The Rhode Island i Greening is a common old variety, hard to beat when well matured. It (is a sharp acid apple and keeps well | from November until April. { The Northern Spy is found in old | {arin orchards all over the State. It tis a good all around apple and dur- (ing the winter months is a good eat- Ling apple and there are none better i for cooking. The Stayman is a new variety and i ranks with the Northern Spy. It is ia fine eating apple. The Winesap, which is better known in the south- | eastern part of the State, is of high { quality both for eating and cooking. | The Baldwin has stood the test {for many years and is one of the i winter varieties which keeps well tuntil April if it is well grown and | stored away when harvested. | The Ben Davis is an apple which i should be used in season, which is i from January until June. It is used i for pies and sauce and is said to be {not so good as an eating apple. i —Oyster shell which is used for poultry is made by crushing the whole | shells, after which they are washed {three times. Following the washing | the crushed shell is dried in rotary | dryers, the intense heat of which de- | stroys all foreign and putrid matter, making the shell sanitary and clean. | The heating { odor and poisonous matter. _ After drying the shell is Enid iinto two sizes, for hens and chicks, | The oversized mater- | respectively. ial and dust is eliminated. The feeding of oyster shell is a good practice in poultry husbandry as the high calcium content provides hone-building material for growing birds and egg-shell material for lay- ing hens. For this reason the mater- ial should be available in feeders at all times. —During the winter months lawns may be given a dressing of manure to good advantage. Avoid making paths across the lawn in the snow and keep off the lawn while the ground is wet. When the ground has frozen hard it is well to wheel in any rocks, ma- nure, or other material which may be used in the spring, thus avoiding cut- ting up the lawn later. —Are you planning for good hay pastures next spring, summer, and fall? Alfalfa is conceded to be the best, furnishing a maximum of ideal forage throughout the season, even in dry weather. Other good pastures are sweet and red clover, rape, and mixtures of rape, oats and sweet clover. —Watch your evergreen trees. Some persons who do not know the law—and some who do—may try to help themselves to your trees. The law is plain and reasonably certain in its operation to those who avail themselves of it. — Farmers who take an annual in- ventory—and all would find it well to do so—should not forget the dog. He may be an asset or a liability, for he has to be fed and an annual tax has to be paid on him. —An ice house is a valuable asset to every farm. Winter is the time to store up a good supply of ice for use in the warmer months. _ —Home butchering gives the fam- ily a meat supply that is much cheao- er than that purchased each day from the meat market. insures freedom from We begin the New Year with good wishes to all. May it bring to every- one, Prosperity and Happi- ness. The First. National Bank BELLEFONTE, PA. Best Moments EASURE yourself by your best moments {not by your worst. It will give you a greater incentive to progress.& See how much you can save by depositing weekly with this bank. 3 per cent. Interest Paid on Savings Accounts THE FIRST NATIONAL DANK STATE COLLEGE, PA. MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM RN A Joke? No! No! Just a clean-up of Suits and Overcoats left over from our great sale. ‘See our window’s for prices You may think them a joke, but they are'lfacts. Facts that will save you a lot of money. FAUBL
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