Bellefonte, Pa, December 18, 1929
Your : Health,
THE FIRST CONCERN.
Cause and Care of Common Colds,
~“The term ‘colds’ usually refers to
a condition characterized by a feel-
ing of fullness in the head, obstruc-
tion of nasal breathing, sneezing
and a discharge from the nose. This
is at first thin, watery, and very ir-
ritating. In many cases there is
swelling, redness, and soreness of
the entrance of the nostrils because
of the action of this secretion. Some
persons develop so-called ‘cold-sores’
or fever blisters on the skin of the
nostrils, on the lips, or in the mouth,
" “At times the patient feels tired,
his muscles are painful and he may
have a distinct headache due to
swelling of the lining membrane
within the nose. As a rule, if severe
headache is present it means that
the cold is accompanied by an ex-
tension of the inflammation to one
or more of the cavities in the skull
connected with the nose, the so-call-
ed sinuses, of which the antrum, or
sinus situated in the upper jaw, is
most often involved. :
“While it is commonly . supposed
that a ‘cold’ is merely a reaction of
the nasal tissues to a draft of cold
air, it may be due.to the inhalation
of irritating dust, chemical fumes,
étc., and is. very often actually
caused by an infection with differ-
ent ‘germs’ or bacteria, transmitted
from one person to another. Cer-
i acute contagious diseases, es-
pecially measles, begin with a run-
ning nose.
“For the ‘treating’ of colds, many
remedies have been used, but we
know that an acute cold is a self-
limited disease which usually ends in
from five to eight days unless some
complication, such as a sinusitis, oc-
curs. Therefore, simple, old-fashioned
measures, such as taking a cathar-
tic, then a hot drink to cause free
perspiration, will be sufficient, If
headaches or muscular pains are
present some of the salicylates in
amounts proportional to the age of
the patient may be used. To relieve
the soreness of the nasal opening
zinc oxide ointment may be applie
several times a day and the interior
of the nose is often relieved by ap-
plying some. of the mineral oil so
often used as a laxative, or using.a
heavy oil base, either the well-
known vaseline or mentholated vase-
line, since the menthol is very sooth-
ing and so reduces the swelling of
the nasal lining membrane,
“phe complications which may
arise during the course of a cold are
usually due to an extension of the
infection into the sinuses in which
case there is usually headache, ten-
derness over certain parts of the
head, a discharge of yellow or green-
ish yellow pus and at times some
fever. At other times, and especially
in’ children, the infection extends
pack to the nasopharynx namely
that upper portion of the throat in-
to which the nose opens.
“In this region, we may have the
so-called adenoids, a mass of soft
lymphoid tissue which is present at
birth -and which is often very large
n young children. In this region is
likewise the opening of the eustach-
an tube, which runs to the middle
sar. If the adenoid tissue swells, the
passage of air through the nose is
further blocked and the patient is
sompelled to breath with open
mouth, causing great discomfort, be-
ause of its drying effect on the lips,
mouth and throat.
«But much more serious is the ex-
-ension of infection from the ade-
roid, or its vicinity, to the middle
sar, which is very painful and may
iave serious results, such as a mas-
‘oiditis.
“If the infection in the upper part
)f the throat extends downward, we
yet a sore throat (with or without
‘onsilitis) with pain on swallowing,
swelling of the glands of the neck,
‘ever, etc. If the inflammation goes
itill further down, we get an involve-
nent of the larynx with its vocal
sords so that there is hoarseness
)r even complete loss of the voice
'or the time being. The trouble
nay extend still further down along
he lining membrane of the tra-
‘hea, or windpipe, to the bronchial
ubes in the lungs, causing cough,
xpectoration, etc.
74go we see that while most colds
re self-limited and do not cause
erious difficulties, they may and
airly often do, especially when a
jevere infection like an epidemic of
lue is present.
“The prevention of the so-called
olds has been much sought but thus,
ar no definite dependable measure
1as been found.
“From the general standpoint cer-
ain facts should be remembered. It
3s not cold weather or cold air itself
vhich causes colds, for we know
hat the Eskimos had none until the
shite man first visited them and
ransmitted his infections to them.
lather it is the improper overheat-
ng, of our homes in Winter, espe-
jally with steam, which gives a
ety dry heat, as well as over-dress-
ag and, particularly, the vicious
abit of often keeping on heavy Ov-
reoats (some people even keeping
hem buttoned) while indoors in
eated homes, offices, or large de-
artment stores and then, while
heir bodies are very warm, or even
erspiring, going outsidé into the
ery ¢old atmosphere of mid-winter.
‘merefore divest yourselves of the
eavy wraps until about to go out-
oors again,
(Continued next week)
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IF YOU CAN'T BOOST :
DON’T KNOCK
During the football season Stan
Baumgardner, who fathers “The Old
Sports Musings” in the Philadelphia
Inquirer, visited Bucknell University,
at Lewisburg, and there met James
R. Hughes, headmaster of the Belle-
fonte Academy. In the Inquirer of
December 2nd he tells of the meet-
ing, as follows:
“I am going to introduce you to
one of the finest men in this State,”
declared Henry Byrod, of the Sun-
bury Item, as he piloted the Old
Sport through a maize of. football
fanatics at a pep meeting in Sun-
bury a week ago.
“He is a football nut, but one of
the loveliest chracters hereabouts,”
Byrod confided. :
«Shade hands with Mr. Hughes,
headmaster at Bellefonte Academy.
We all call him ‘Unce Jim’ and you
can ido the same if you admit that
Bellefonte has a good football ma-
chine.”
These preliminaries over, we reach-
ed out to grasp the hand of a man
you instinctively admire, one whose
handshake warms you all over,
whose twinkling eyes make you be-
lieve that there is something worth-
while in this old world after all
He is—well, wedo not know how
young. His hair is a silvery gray,
but his cheeks are ruddy with health
and when he steps up before a
football gathering to give a pep talk,
as he did that night, he hops about
like a college cheer leader.
The present generation would be
proud to say, “Boys, there is my
dad.”
Bellefonte, of course, has a foot-
ball team—a whale of a e.
In fact, as long as the Old Sport
can remember, they have had one.
Sometimes it 13 the best prep school
eleven in the country; occasionally
it is second best, but always you can
count on & battle when you play
Bellefonte.
BELLEFONTE BOAST OF ALL AMERI-
CANS
“Uncle Jim” proudly boasts that
more All-American football timber
has “been growed” at Bellefonte
than any other prep school in Amer-
ica. t
“Over
made the grade,”
Hughes. 3
This in itself is enough to centre
the eyes of football fans on the
school—but when it is further known
that the enrollment at Bellefonte is
seldom over 150 these same fans be-
gin to lift their eyebrows and say
Oh! Oh! Where is the Ethiopian?”
It was in just this mood that we
approached Uncle Jim with the re-
mark:
“What are the quotations on a good
quarterback today?”
Such a dig, coming from a total
stranger, would have provoked nine
out of ten men—but not Uncle Jim.
He was too big a man. He laughed
heartily and came back with the
query, What am 1 bid?”
Later, when the chuckling had
subsided, Hughes, however, did have
something to say which was not on-
ly illuminating, but struck a respon-
sive chord in the heart of the Old
Sport.
HAVE HELPED MANY NEEDY BOYS
THROUGH
“We give scholarships at Belle-
fonte and have no apologies to offer
to the Carnegie Foundation or any
another investigating body,” averred
Hughes. “In fact we are proud of
the fact that we can help out needy
boys who would otherwise be depriv-
ed of battling their way through life
on even terms with their fellow men
more fortunately fixed.
“Let me give you a few concrete
cases. Some twenty years ago
Bellefonte proffered aid to the first
needy boy who sought it. I visited
an old student of the Academy in a
Central Pennsylvania mining town.
The former scholar had been a star
athlete in his school days and paid
full tuition. He was interested in a
boy of twenty years of age, whose
faher was dead, whose mother was a
poor little scrub woman, while he
himself wsa spending most of the
day-hours digging coal in the mines.
“This boy was eager for an educa-
tion and hoped that his athletic abil-
ity would aid him in reaching his
coveted goal. He had never been to
high school, I granted him the in-
terview. I asked him if he wanted
0 go to Bellefonte to have a gooa
time or secure an education.
“He quickly replied that he
couldn’t bear to think he must spend
his life in the mines and he would
be grateful if I would give him a
chance. I asked him how his moth-
er could afford to do without his
wages.
« «0, he replied, ‘Mother says she
will go on scrubbing for a few years
longer if I can only get an educa-
tion.’
“The appeal was too strong to re-
sist. I gave him a four years’ course
in the school and he rendered me his
best service on the athletic teams
and helped in every other way he
could. He later went to Pitt, star-
ring on the football, basketball and
baseball teams; remained there for
four years and then was placed by
friends in a position of responsibility
in a Western Pennsylvania mine.
“He married and has two fine
boys, ‘coming footballers for Belle-
fonte’ he claims, and is taking care
of his aged mother. His name is
Dillon,
“Any apologies needed for helping
that lad? Well, I guess not.
THIS LAD DELIVERED THE GOODS
“Here is another case in point.
Several years ago I was visiting in a
West Virginia town with a student
at that time at the Academy. He
introduced me to a boy twenty years
of age who had left the public
schools and taken a job in a glass
factory. His ftaher had left home
when he was very young, leaving the
support of two daughters and him-
self to the “mother.
forty Bellefonte men hav?
proudly chanted
“This boy sat in the swing one
day and listened to me explain the
who desired to enter Bellefonte and
whose father was a judge and able
to pay full tuition. ‘Both boys ac-
companied me to the railroad
, powder,
need and significance of an educa- | month’s subscription to a Centre
tion to the mother of another BOY county newspaper. Fi. 8
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tion. Afer I had purchased a ticket
and stood waiting around I found
that this boy from the glass works
wanted to talk to me. He said,
‘Would you please go and talk to
my mother as you did to Mrs, Blank 2
I was touched and replied, ‘Isurely
will, Go and get my ticket redeem-
ed and I will go and talk to your
mother.’ SEG > a
“Soon the three of us were in his,
mother’s parlor. The result was that:
the mother and sisters agréed to
raise the ‘small amuont of money
asked for and when school ope
this boy was on deck. He played
four years on the athletic teams,
was leader of our musical club, plug- 3
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ging all the while to prepare him-
self for a leading university. He
spent four years there, playing on
the football team, captaining the
baseba'l nine his senior year, singing
on the glee club and succeeding in
his efforts to win a diploma in the
Dental Department,
“Today he is a successful dentist
in a Western Pennsylvania town,
with a nice little family about him
to make him happy.
“Do I apologize for helping this
lad out? Well, I should say not.”
Later on in the evening Uncle Jim
introduced this year’s Bellefonte
backfield. “I brought them over
here because I am proud of them”
he declared.
And we did not blame him, They
were four upstanding young boys
about 19 years of age, all powerful
athletes and fine looking lads.
We agree with Uncle Jim. He has
nothing to apologize for. The ath-
letic world should be proud of such
men who have the courage of their
convictions to come out in the open
and not only speak, but act as they
believe. : Shai
THE BUSY SUSQUEHANNA 17
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
In examining records of the
Pennsylvania Legislature for the
year 1829 General Edward Martin,
State Treasurer. several days ago
found a report showing that a hun-
dred years ago the - Susquehanna
river was one of Pennsylvania’s busi-
est thoroughfares, The report to
the Legislature contained the fol-
lowing statement:
“From an accurate account, kept
by a respectable citizen of Harris-
burg, it appears that between the
28th of February and the 23rd of
June, 1827, there passed that place,
on the Susquehanna river. -
“Rafts, 1631; arks, 1370.. It is
supposed the rafts contained on an
average 25000 feet of lumber, which
would amount to 40.775,000 feet.
“Two hundred of the arks were
laden principally with anthracite
coal, averaging 55 tons each, mak- , :
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ing 11,000 tons. . '
“The remaining 1,170 arks were
loaded principally with flour and
whisky for, the Baltimore market,
and carried on an average 400 bar-
rels each, making 468.000 barrels,
“It is supposed that about 300
keel-bottomed boats, carrying from
800 to 900 bushels of wheat each,
drescended during the same period,
making about 240,000 bushels of
wheat, at 35 bushels to the tom, or
6857 tons.”
Annals of Luzerne county say
that 30 lumber rafts passed down
the Susquehanna in 1796. In 1804
22,000,000 feet of sawed lumber went >
down the river.
In six days. from May 18 to May
23, 1833, 3480 rafts were floated
down the Susquehanna reached their
quehanna.
General Martin discovered from
the old record that almost every
rock and projection in the Susque-
hanna river from Marietta, Lancas-
ter county, to Port Deposit, had a
name familiar to the raftsmen.. In
many instances these points receiv-
ed their titles from the fact that a
raft was once “stoved”’ upon them.
Some of the old names were “Spin-
ning Wheel” “Sourbeer’s Eddy,”
“Blue Rock,” “Turkey Hill.” “Broth-
er,” “Old Cow,” “Hangman's Rock,” .
“Horse Gap,” “Ram’s Horn,” “Slow
and Easy” “Hollow Rock,” “Hog
Hole.” “Sisters,” “Old Port Bridge,”
and “Shadfly.” !
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One hundred years ago only two-
thirds of the arks which
down the Susquehanna reached their
destination, the balance generally
going to pieces on the bars and rock, |
The loss annually,
reached $225,000.
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AN APPEAL FOR HELP
FOR THESE SUFFERERS
Centre county has nine patients
in three State sanitoriums for tuber-
culosis. : :
At South Mountain there is one
child from State College and an
adult from Bellefonte.
At Cresson there are an adult
from Pleasant Gap, two adults from
Bellefonte, a child from Snow Shoe
and an adult from Hublersburg.
At Hamburg there is one adult
from Snow Shoe and an adult from
State College.
An effort is being made to collect
a few small articles from the people
of the county to send to these pa-
tients at Christmas time. Will you
help to make the Holidays a little
brighter for those who are suffering
and cannot be at home.
Articles may be left with Miss
Noll, State health nurse, at the w.
C. T. U. room in Petrikin hall,
Bellefonte, beginning Monday, De-
cember 16th, and ending Friday, De-
cember 20th, between the hours of
1:30 and 2:30 p. m. Gifts will be
called for if notice is sent to Miss
Noll; phone No. 604-R-3.
Following is a list of suggestions
of suitable gifts: Fruit, nuts, candy,
cakes, jellies, stamps, stationery,
tooth paste, shaving cream, talcum
games for children, six
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Mothers should serve a
What would be nicer than
generous amount of to
a piece of
Furniture for Christmas. §
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