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Demoreaic ald,
~ BeHefonte, Pa., August 2, 1929.
Your Health,
The First Concern.
—Discovery of a process that
“gems to kill” cancer cells by starv-
mg them to death is announced by
We medical clinic of Freiburg Uni-
wexsity.
Fie announcement warns against
semsidering the new procedure as a
=eaelical cancer cure,” because it still
Bsc its initial stages.
The starvation is produced by flu-
amine, a rare gas, that appears in na-
Emre only as a compound, usually a
@dicd. Special interest, and possibly
signiticance, attaches to the German
#inding because it comes out simul:
tmmeously with an Amercian discov-
gry Bhat this hitherto unused gas cap
Wéreombined in a way to obtain new
effets with all sorts of organic sub-
~id@mees—that is, products of animals
ami plants
The» Germans’ surprising discovery
4%’ embryonic tissue of cancer
sonld be influenced by fluorine re
soited from a series of blood tests
which showed that the coagulating
gmpperty of blood is proportionate te
#s% assimilativeness of sugar.
“THe more sugar assimilated, the
greater the quantity of acid gener-
sted, which in its turn stimulates the
fsrmation of blood fibrin, or, in other
#oedk;, coagulation.
By this discovery a new procedure
For cancer research seemed indicated.
~The experimenters worked on ‘the
idem that cancer cells retain their
mfxiity through conversion of sugar
@fo acid and that therefore they re-
smire a greater percentage of oxyger
{ear normal cells.
“The attempt was made to deprive
zmmcey cells of their suggry, or sac-
wmharic acid, by the introduction of
Soorine into the system. When this
was done the cancer cells died of
starvation.
Repeated experiments upon tumor-
ams cells of animals seem to bear
amt this theory.
‘he American discovery was made
at Cornell University by Prof. Wil
dier D: Bancroft and Newton C. Jones,
wemearch assistant, working under an
August. Hecksher grant.
‘They perfected a method of pro-
discing: fluorine in darge quantities
HRtherto it had been largely labora
ory curiosity, its uses mostly un-
mown. Their announcement said a
Havge field of application was indi
amted for iuorine.
“The scientists called attention to a
faet surprising to chemists that
fworine combines explosively with
henzole..
—*This. sun-tan fad is being over-
dime,” said Dr. Pabst, “and already
libgpitals are receiving many cases
af’ severe sunburn. It would be well
§ibr all! persons desiring a coat of tan
5" realize that there are certain
pexsons, medically classified as ‘helio-
phobes;” who do not tan. They are
expeptionally sensitive to the sun's
==xys and burn instead of tanning.”
*A number of really severe cases
of sunburn have been brought to the
Pepartment’s attention during the
past several weeks. The victims have
skarfed out for their stay at shore,
mountain or lake resort filled with
enthusiasm’ and ended it in an inva-
Wd's bed at home. ‘Too much sup
fbb Mttle sense’ was the general ver-
dict,” said Dr. Theodore B. Appel,
Recretary of Health.
“There has been so much talk
shout the healing power of the sun’s
mays that popular misconception
meems to exist on this subject. Too
many people foolishly imagine that a
ody unexposed to the sun’s rays for
de better part of the year can sud-
dienly and lengthily be thus subject-
@F and physical profit be derived
#serefrom.
“Tt is one thing to accustom one’s
Bender skin to the sun’s rays in
fifteen minute graduated doses over
® period of days, and quite another
ane to flop down on a sandy beach
ie first day of the vacation and |
Bake one’s self into blisters, misery
and illness. Yet that is the offense
against nature which is being con-
sfantly committed by many thous-
amds on their annual vacation so-
Journ.
#The sensible person will realize
hat the two weeks’ outing should be
utilized wisely for health and rec-
reation rather than as an excuse to
indulge in excesses including over-
axposure to the sun.
“Again, there are apparently many
misguided people who assume that
they must come back with a tan in
order to advertise the fact that they
have been away. And while a real
fan is no liability, it too often as-
sames the form of blisters. Such a
condition certainly isn’t anything of
whiich to boast. Ratker, it indicates
x degree of foolishness quite inex-
eusable.
“If your desire to inform others
that you have had a summer vaca-
fion becomes too strong to overcome,
despite the fact that few will be per-
sonally interested in your outing
fitien rely rather upon conversation
fikanr on an outraged epidermis to
spread the news.
“The sun, even at its best, should
Be but a small part of your vacation
program. Change of scene, removal
fifonr routine, meeting new people,
ffesh air, good food and rest are the
main factors.
n——— A ———————
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NEVER TOO OLD TO
LEARN THREE R’S.
A campaign to end illiteracy among
women of the United States, begun
years ago when a group of aged Ken-
tucky “mountain whites” took to
gathering on moonlight nights in or-
der to learn how to read and write,
is progressing to nation-wide scope
under the leadership of Mrs. Cora
Wilson Stewart, director of the na-
tional illiteracy crusade.
Although the census of 1929 show-
ed that there were then more than
5,000,000 people in the United States
who could not even sign their own
names. Mrs. Stewart believes that
it will be possible to wipe out all of
the nation’s illiteracy by 1930.
Her organization has taken that
as its slogan, at any rate, and Mrs.
Stewart is confident that the goal
can be reached.
No state or class has any monopoly
on illiteracy. Some of the people
Mrs. Stewart is trying to help are
immigrants, huddled in big city
slums. Others are aged men and wo-
men who live in the fastnesses of the
southern mountains. Others are
farm folk living on the rich plains
of the middle west.
To explain her optimism, Mrs. Stew-
art points out that modern meth-
ods of instruction make it possible
for a totally, illiterate adult to be
taught to read and write simple lan-
guage in six weeks’ time.
At the start, when an unlettered
woman is to be taught, she is given
a little blotter with her own name
grooved into it. This is placed over
a sheet of paper and she is given a
pencil and taught to trace the groov-
ed outlines, over and over again.
Eventually, the outline of her name
,becomee familar and she is able to
write her name without the assist-
ance of the blotter.
This, especially in the mountain
regions, is always a moment of
triumph, for many of the mountain
whites feel that it is a social dis-
grace to have to “make the mark”—
form a simple cross—at the end of a
dictated letter or a legal document.
From the time an illiterate learns
to write her own name, progress is
rapid. Even the dullest pupil usually
iis able to write a simple letter a
| month later.
A book has been especially pre-
pared for illiterate mothers, its les-
sons of reading and writing are bas-
ed on the things that the mother
knows about—housekeeping, baby
tending, cooking and the like. These
books, incidentally, help to give un-
taught women a good deal of instruc-
tion about sanitation, modern die-
tary rules and the care and feeding
of infants.
“The mother of young children
finds her illiteracy a handicap in
rearing them, and the mother of
grown children who have left the
home is a fgure that touches the
heart,” says Mrs. Stewart. She can-
not write to them, she cannot read
the messages they send. She cannot
turn to her Bible for consolation in
her old age. Hers is a tragic loneli-
ness.
“If people could only be made to
realize that no matter how old an
illiterate woman is, she can be
taught, It would stimulate many of
them, I am sure, to take the trouble
to liberate them from this bondage.
In Kentucky, where I started - this
work among the illiterates, we had
an old man of 98 in our classes. I
shall never forget the joy in their
eyes when they showed me the first
letters they wrote to distant sons
and daughters.”
Mrs. Stewart began her work ip
1911, when she was living in Ken-
tucky and found many illiterate neigh-
bors coming to her to write letters
for them or read those sent them by
relatives. Wishing to teach them how
to read and write, she organized the
now famous Moonlight schools. The
| classes had to be held at night, and
since lanterns were scarce they were
‘held out of doors in the moonlight
Her example was copied in other
States, and in 1924 she was awarded
. the Pictorial Review prize of $5,000
' for having made “ the greatest con
tribution to American civilization by
any woman.”
‘The reproach of illiteracy can be
wiped out,” says Mrs. Stewart confi-
dently. “Members of women’s clubs,
‘of fraternal organizations, of educa:
| tional groups, men and women in all
. walks of life, have already come for-
ward and pledged themselves to
| teach some women. Others who will
' make the same promise will be sup
| plied with a copy of “Mother’s First
| Book’ with full directions for using
jit most effectively. The books may
be had by writing to the National Il-
{literacy Crusade, American Red
| Cross building, Washington.”
CLEAN PLANT NECESSARY
TO HEAT HOME EFFICIENTLY.
Next to guarding against cracks
and other defects that may develop
during the heating season, the most
important thing in the operation of a
heating plant during midwinter is to
keep it thoroughly clean, according
to the Holland Institute of Thermol-
ogy of Holland, Mich.
Soot and ashes in the gas passages
prevent the heat from passing into
the air that is carried to the rooms
upstairs. They also interfere with
draft action.
Flues should be thoroughly cleaned
at regular intervals; but a thorough
cleaning once a week is enough to
keep a modern vapor-air or super-
circulating warm-air heating plant in
fine operating condition, especially if
it is thoroughly cleaned by the suc-
tion cleaner method at the beginning
of the season.
A A ETA ———
WHY THE DEAD SEA IS SALTY.
One cannot sink in the Dead sea
because of the density of salt. There
are three causes for the abundance
of this salt: many salt springs which
empty into it; matural drainage of
surface water over adjoining salt
ranges; and evaporation of water
from the sea leaves its salt to re-
main.
I. ————
LINDBERGH PLANNED
HONEYMOON IN ADVANCE.
Col. Lindbergh and his bride were
acting on no emergency inspiration
when they disappeared completely
from an over-curios world on their
wedding day, only to turn up a week
later calmly honeymooning along the
New England coast in a 30-foot mo-
tor cruise. The entire “getaway” was
planned by Lindbergh five months in
advance, alomst as soon as his en-
gagement to Anne Morrow was an-
nounced.
This characteristic example of
Lindbergh foresightedness is revealed
in the current issue of Motor Boating
magazine, which discloses for the first
time the details of the flier’s honey-
moon disappearance which kept
newspapers and public guessing un-
til the bridal pair was forced to
make port for gasoline.
Only one man outside of the im-
mediate families knew the details of
the plan. He is Irwin Chase, execu-
tive of a motor boat company, from
whom Lindbergh ordered the cruiser
last December.
The flier foresaw the publicity that
would attend the honeymoon and
that the bridal pair could expect little
privacy if they traveled either by air
or by automobile, the magazine ar-
ticle points out. A motoor boat, he
calculated, was the only sure means
of getting away completely from
hero-worshippers, interviewers and
photographers.
Every precaution was taken to
keep the order for the motor cruiser
secret. The craft was ordered under
an assumed name, Chase alone
knowing the real owner's identity.
Lindbergh carefuly specified every
item of equipment and supplies, even
to the can opener and such delicacies
as mushrooms and olives in the gal-
ley. But the flier didn’t see the com-
pleted craft until he and his bride,
hurrying across Long Island by mo-
tor on the evening of the wedding
day, reached an isolated spot called
Eaton’s Neck.
Chase had piloted the completely
equipped cruiser out from the ship-
yards alone and anchored off shore,
rowing a canvas-covered dinghy
ashore. Soon the newlyweds drew up
in the dusk, stepped into the row
boat, while Chase got into the motor
car and the most successfully mys-
terious of modern honeymoons was
on.
Incidentally, the Motor Boating ar-
ticle reports that the Lindbergh hon-
eymoon has increased public interest
in powered pleasure craft by 100 per
cent. Demands for duplicates of the
Lindbergh boat have been pouring in
on the manuafcturing company since
the flier, who was inexperienced asa
seaman, demonstrated that the aver-
age man could, with only the sketch-
iest instruction, make a complete
success of a two-weeks voyage be-
hind the wheel of the craft.
STATE MAY REVOKE
UNSAFE CAR REGISTRATION.
Under the provisions of the Motor
Code the Commissioner of Motor Ve-
hicles may revoke the registration of
any motor vehicle deemed unsafe or
unfit for operation. Commissioner
Benjamin G. Eynon announced that
any of the following reasons will be
sufficient to cause such revocation:
(1) Steering mechanism so loose
as to permit wheels to oscillate.
(2) Bent or broken radius rod.
(3) Subjection of a vehicle to mis-
use, neglect, or accident whieh so af-
fects its stability of reliability that it
will not withstand normal strain or
road shock.
(4) Lack of adequate brakes,
lamps, horn, mirror, windshield wip-
er, muffler and tires so outlined in
and required by sections 811, 801,
814,, 815, 816, 819, and 820 of the
Motor Code.
Commissioner Eynon announced
that issuance of title on rebuilt cars
will be withheld hereafter, pending
investigation by the State Highway
Patrol, in all cases where a check of
the application against existing rec-
ords shows that the original certifi-
cate of the title has been cancelled,
either upon application for junk, as
provided in an amendment to the
Code, or return of title to the Bureau
with information that the motor ve-
hicle has been junked. The Patrol's
investigation will be made to deter-
mine whether or not the vehicle is
unsafe or unfit, and its report will be
the factor governing issuance of the
title.
“During the inspection campaign in
April of 1928,” said Mr. Eynon, 58
per cent of the passenger motor ve-
hicles examined were found to be
mechanically unfit in some particu-
lar, and while not all of them
were necessarily accident hazards,
it is undoubtedly true that the me-
chancial equation is an important
element in the problem of highway
safety. The reactions of individuals
who operate motor cars are governed
by mental processes beyond control,
but there is no good reason why a
motor vehicle should not be me-
chanically perfect.”
MANY TURKEYS, FEW
GROUSE REPORTS SAY.
Prospects for good wild turkey
shooting next fall are excellent but
grouse will be scarce, according to
reports of the field officers of the
the Board of Game Commissioners.
In all sections where wild turkeys
have been stocked many young flocks
were observed. On the contrary in
the country where grouse have been
plentiful few young birds could be
found. :
NEW HEATERS SUPPLY WATER.
Fuel costs can be kept low, the Hol-
land Institute of Thermology of Hol-
land, Mich., points out, by making the
central heating plant supply hot wa-
ter for household purposes. One re-
cent development of the Vapor-Aire
warm air circulating system is a
method of acomplishing this with-
out adding to the fuel charges.
—Read the Watchman for the news
18 WAYS TO KEEP
HEAT COSTS LOW.
Covering all phases of keeping a
heating system in good condition and
stoking the heater, the Holland Insti-
tute of Thermology of Holland,
Mich., has prepared 18 rules for op-
erating a home-heating plant eco-
nomically. The rules, which are
applicable to virtually all modern
central heating plants, including the
vapor-air circulating system, are as
follows:
1. The chimney should be sufficient
in height and in area and absolutely
tight with a smooth round or square
flue, straight from top to bottom.
2. The smoke pipe sohuld be
straight and short, sloping slightly
upward to the chimney.
3. A shut-off or cross damper in
the smoke pipe, and check-draft
damper beyond the cross damper are!
required. Use the latter for ordinary
daily regulation of the fire.
4. There should be an air-slide lift
damper or slide in the fire-door to
furnish oxygen to mix with the vol-
atile gases, but this never should be
used to check the fire. All dampers
must fit true and be tight.
5. With the checkdraft closed the
fire should burn quickly when the
draft damper in the ashpit is open.
Otherwise the draft is deficient and
the chimney should be examined for
defects.
6. The heater base must be tight
and grounded to the floor, so that no
air leakage into the ashpit can oc-
cur. Danger from this source does |
not occur with a well made warm air
circulating plant in which the ashpit
is one solid cast section.
7. Keep all heating surfaces free
from soot and fine ashes, and clean
out the ashpit daily.
8. Grates must be true and not
warped, must move easily, and have
no broken places for coal to drop
through. The cone-shaped center-
pivoted grate is to be preferred be-
cause of its freedom from these de-
fects.
9. All basement piping must be cov-
ered with suitable insulation.
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This Interests You
The Workman’s Compensation
Law went into effect Jan. 1, 1916.
It makes insurance compulsory.
We specialize in placing such in-
surance. We inspect Plants and
recommend Accident Prevention
Safe Guards which Reduce Insur-
ance rates.
It will be to your interest to con-
10. If soft coal is used, the heater
should be stoked at regular intervals '
so as to provide for steady moderate
combustion. Don’t poke or stir the
fire from above.
11. Keep the firepot full of fuel up
to the fire-door level. Don’t add coal
by the spoonful. In mild weather
ashes may accumulate on—not under
—the grate. Don’t shake grates too
long and hard. Remove clinkers with
as little disturbance to the fire as
possible. Shake fire before you add
fresh fuel.
12. Don’t let the fire burn too thin.
Try to anticipate heating demands by
firing the heater at the onset of a
cold wave. |
13. If your heater is too small for
your house, use large-sized coal.
Small-sized fuel can be used advan-
tageously only if the heater is ample
in size and you can give close atten-
tion to the fire. The way to be sure
your furnace is of the right size for |
your house is to have it installed by
a manufacturer who maintains a gen-
uine engineering service.
14, Thermostatic or other automa-
tic damper-control is essential to
economy.
15. Keep the temperature down to
70 degrees with a relative humidity
ranging around 40 per cent.
16. Keep a uniform témperature
throughout the house, not allowing
the rooms to cool more than 10 de-
grees at night.
17. Weather strips or storm sashes,
at least on the west and north sides,
are a genuine economy.
18. Your central heating plant,
and the whole system as well, must
be kept in first-class condition. It is
cheaper to have defects repaired
than to overcome them in operating
the heating system. All ducts, reg-
isters and other parts must be kept
scrupulously clean and free from
i cobwebs and other accumula-
ons.
HEAVY HAIR REASON
FOR REDHEAD’S TEMPER.
Well, here’s the reason redheads
have terrible tempers.
All the mental heavyweights met
at the University of Chicago, in the
central section of the American An-
thropological society, pondered long
and deeply on the temperament of
various types and here's the way
they figured it out:
(It’s a scientific defense,
you happen to be a Titian.)
“Blonde hair is the lighest,” ac-
cording to George Neuman, who con-
ducted tests on many heads. “And
that isnt’ a pun. By actual weight
measurement, the blonde has the
least to carry around with her, by
way of hirsute adornment.
“But the redhead must suffer un-
der the burden of the heaviest tres-
ses. The added weight of hair, ir-
ritating the delicate nervous organi-
zation of the scalp, would be enough
to justify the alleged temper dis-
played by redheads.”
With complex machines, Neuman
made experiments. He took ten
strands of hair each from a hundred
Caucasian women, a hundred white
men, a hundred Mongolian men and a
hundred Negroid males. He washes
the hair in ether to remove foreign
substances and then went to work, to
make deductions.
“The Mediterranean races have the
heaviest hair,” he said, in announcing
his results.
“Hair of the Alpines is lighter, and
the Nordics have the lighest locks.
The negro, because of lack of pig-
mentation and air bubbles has the
weightiest hair.”
Men have heavier hair than wo-
men, Neuman announced. But he ad-
mitted that close bobs have lessen-
ed the difference in ounces carried
around beneath the close-fit turbans
affected by the females.
Neuman’s discoveries, he said, have
been during four months of inten-
sive investigation into the subject of
hair, and the relation of its weight
to the temperament of its wearer.
Blondes, he found, have practically
no reason to be quick tempered, from
the standpoint of hirsute coverage.
in case
sult us before placing your Insur-
ance.
JOHN F. GRAY & SON.
State College Bellefonte
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