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TUBERCULOSIS
kills 1 out of 5
of all who die between
Itis the enemy of steady em-
ployment, high wages and
prosperity. For tuberculo-
sis strikes during the most
productive years of life.
Help us to rout tuberculosss
CHRISTMAS
18 and 45
BUY
SEALS
The National, State and
Local Tuberculosis Associ
ations of the United States
Tuberculosis Days
Governor John S. Fisher, in ane
pouncing his acceptance of the Honor-
ary Chairmanship of the Christmas
Seal sale in Pennsylvania, suggested
the observance of December 1 as
Tuberculosis Sunday and December
13 as Tuberculosis Day in the schools.
The Governor said:
“The wealth invested in the bodies
and health of citizens is one of the
State's greatest assets. This is strik-
ingly illustrated in a study of the
tuberculosis problem.
“In spite of the progress made in
recent years in lessening the White
Plague, it is still one of our greatest
liabilities. Tuberculosis stood sixth
as the cause of death for all age
groups in Pennsylvania last year, but
from age 1 to 3b it stood first. Be-
tween the ages 15 and 45 one out of
each five deaths is caused by tuber-
culosis. The majority of the victims
are in the prime of life. Each death
in the younger age groups means not
only the taking of a life but the loss
of all future possibilities.
“Fducation is one of the most pow-
erful weapons that can be used in
combating tuberculosis. As one
means of disseminating health knowl-
edge, plans are being made to observe
Tuberculosis Sunday in places of
worship on December 1 and Tubercu-
losis Day in the schools on Friday,
December 13. With this preventable
disease striking hardest in the early
years of life, it is natural that
churches and schools should have an
unusual interest in this problem.
Tuberculosis Day provides an oppor-
tunity to focus the attention of these
large groups upon the health prac-
tices that are so important in fighting
this scourge.
“The 1929 Christmas Seal portrays
a bell ringer sending forth a message
of health and happiness to remind
people that sickness can be prevented.
The ringing of many of these bells
during the Christmas season will
mean better health for Pennsylvania
next year.”
Plan of Battle
The campaign against tuberculosis
includes both the discovery, care and
treatment of existing cases, and pre-
vention of the disease. Community
measures form one phase, while the
success of public hygiene and the war
on tuberculosis depend also on per-
sonal hygiene.
In 25 years of intensive effort the
official agencies have come to have
chief responsibility for institutional
care and treatment. The voluntary
agencies, of which the Pennsylvania
Tuberculosis Society is the oldest,
have concentrated on prevention
through informing the public regard-
ing the facts and the need to support
city, county and state programs.
Te reach the public, literature, ex-
hibits, news stories and health talks
in newspapers, health movies and
talks are provided.
Information is made available to
the medical profession through dis-
tribution of publications prepared by
tuberculosis specialists.
Public health nursing and. clinic
service form an essential feature.
The State Department of Health pro-
vides a widespread plan of clinics and
nursing and sanatorium care. In ad-
dition many public health nurses are
employed.
In many counties Seal funds aid in
meeting the local expenses of state
clinics and extending their services.
Extension clinics in remoter communi-
ties form another part of the work.
Industrial service provided through
Christmas Seal funds include the es-
tablishment of health divisions, pro-
vision for health examinations and
educational publicity in industries.
Will Meet at Erie
The thirty-eighth annual meeting
and conference of the Pennsylvania
Tuberculosis Society will be held in
Erie on Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan-
uary 14 and 15 next. Persons promi-
nent in the health work of Pennsylva-
nia and other states will speak.
Following this meeting, the annusi
Social Welfare conference of Peun-
sylvania will be held in Erie.
Christmas Seals
Ring in Health
In the olden days anyone could be
a bell ringer. Sometimes a citizen had
to pay for the privilege; if he abused
the honor he had to pay a fine. In
All Saints’ Church, at Hastings, Eng-
land, these words may still be seen:
“This is a belfry that is free
For all those that civil be,
And if you please to chime or ring
It is a very pleasant thing.”
All through history since the 16th
century, which was the golden age
of bells, chimes have called out to
people their cheerful messages, usu-
ally telling a story, For example,
with the passing of the old year the
bells were tolled in sadness, then,
when midnight had struck, the merry
peals clanged forth their welcome to
the new year, Before the invention
of the newspapey the town ecrier
focused the attentiom of the people by
lustily clanging a bell before he
shouted the important news it was
his duty to spread throughout the
city. Since bells have so often served
to proclaim victory it {s not surpris-
ing to find that the design of the mod-
ern cup presented as a token of vie-
tory in sport is in reality an inverted
It is equally fitting that on the gay
little Christmas Seal for 1929 a bell
ringer should be portrayed tugging
at a heavy bell, announcing once
again to the nation that further ad-
vances have been made against the
enemy tuberculosis. Each year the
Soal brings its message of health at
tha Christmas season to remind peo-
ple that sickness can be prevented.
) Although the
stamps are now
well known, they
originated in a
modest manner
only twenty-five
years ago as the
invention of a
Danish postal
clerk, who de-
vised = them to
raise money for a
The First
Christmas Seal
tuberculosis hospital for the children
of Copenhagen. Miss Emily P. Bis-
sell, of Wilmington, Delaware, was
the god-mother of the Christmas Seal
in this country. She also was seek-
ing for a method to raise money for a
tuberculosis institution in her state
and in 1909 found the solution to her
problem in a magazine article de-
scribing the Danish seal and its suc-
cessful mission. Through her efforts
a fund of $3,000 was raised and the
project begun. The following year
the first nation-wide sale of tubercu-
losis Christmas Szals was undertaken
and women’s
clubs, religious
bodies and busi-
ness groups gave MERRY
their support to (1
this cheerful
method of raising
money. In 1910
th: then young
National Tuber-
culosis Associa-
tion took over the sale of the Seals
and has directed it ever since. The
Seals therefore - should be called
tuberculosis Christmas Seals.
Thanks to the tiny Seal, state after
state has been organized to attack
tuberculosis with a scientific program.
Through the intensive educational
The First American
Christmas Seal
work made possible by the Christmas:
Seal, health laws have been passed
and are being enforced; tuberculosis
specialists and nurses reach the most
remote country districts; printed mat-
ter on disease prevention is circulated
in schools, homes and factories, and
there is an active public interest in
tuberculosis control among civie, po-
litical, commercial, social and re-
ligious groups. ;
This year again the Seal carries
its message of health throughout the
country, giving everyone a chance to
be a bell ringer as in olden days—a
proclaimer of the important tidings
that health is the best insurance for
happiness and that tuberculosis may
be cured if discovered in time.
The fight against tuberculosis has
proved education to be one of the
most effective weapons in combatting
thiz disease.
60,000 TONS OF STEEL IN
WORLD'S LARGEST BUILDING
Enormous Quantities of Material
Used “in Merchandise Mart
in Chicago.
—
Chicago.—Another few months will
see the completion of the largest
building in the world of today, much
larger than any the world has ever
known. It is the Merchandise mart,
being erected in this city. ‘The
amount of materials used in the con-
struction of this mammoth “building
makes interesting reading. Into the
building have gone, or will go before
its completion, the following:
Sixty thousand tons of steel, in-
cluding 61,000 columns, girders, and
beams; 558 caissons, requiring 50,000
cubie yards of concrete; 3,915,000 cu-
bie feet of concrete; 200,000 cubic
feet of stone; 29,000,000 bricks; 5,500
windows, requiring 132,000 square feet
of glass; 30,000 lighting fixtures, with
2,000,000 feet or 380 miles, of wire
weighing 60 tons; 35,000 electric
lamps, drawing 15,000 kilowatts; 15
passenger elevators,
miles a day; 14 freight elevators with
a single trip total capacity of 104,000
tons; 5.000,000 feet of lumber; 9,504,-
000 square. feet of steel wire rein-
forcement for floors, enough for a 100-
mile highway, 18 feet wide; 142 miles
of piping for the sprinkler system; 50,
000 sprinkler reads; 32% miles of pip-
ing for the steam heat system; 40
miles of plumbing pipes.
Outside base dimension for the Mer-
chandise mart are 296 feet on Frank-
lin and Orleans streets, 326 feet on
Wells street, 573 feet along the north
pank of the Chicago river, and 724
feet on Kinzie street.
To duplicate the 4,000,000 square
feet of floor space in the mart, a sky-
scraper 200 stories high on a ground
plot 125 by 150 feet would be re-
quired.
To heat the mart 204 tons of coai
will be burned each day in cold weath-
er to produce 2,880,000 pounds . of
“steam, 2,000,000 cubic feet of fresh air
per minute will be forced through the
building by fans and radiators, enough
to furnish air for a quarter of a mil-
lion people.
Six ard a half miles of plate glass |
will be used to line the 650-foot sales
corridors on 18 floors; 62,000 square
feet of space will be utilized on the
nineteenth floor to accommodate the
National Broadcasting company in the
world's largest broadcasting studio.
He Claims His Device
Aids Sailing in Fog
London.-—Navigation in fog may be |
solved through an invention recently
demonstrated by John L. Baird, in-
ventor of television.
new instrument the “noctovisor,” and
claims that a ship fitted with the ap-
paratus could pick up the navigating |
or masthead lighl,of a ship in even
the thickest blanket of fog.
The first public test of the nocto-
visor was carried out inland, on #&
dark night, but without any fog. The
instrument was located on top of a |
hill, and a single headlight of a motor
car was lighted some three miles
away. The light was left burning, but !
was entirely hidden by a sheet of |
ebonite, which Baird claims is the best !
artificial substitute for fog.
The noctovisor then went to work
on an absolutely dark scene, hunting
for the one light obscured by the arti-
ficial fog. The rays of the machine
swept the valley several times, and
finally the flash of a brilliant orange |
light on a disc inside the apparatus |
indicated that the motor headlight |
had been picked up. The exact dis- !
tance and position of the invisible
light was accurately determined.
«The importance of the whole
thing,” Baird said, “is that what we
have done can be done on the bridge
of any ship, in the densest fog.”
Fences Joint Driveway;
Keeps Car From Garage
Royal Oak, Mich.—The space be-
tween the homes of G. Hoffman and
one of his neighbors is only wide
enough for one auto driveway back
to their garages, SO a joint drive was
built which lies on both their prop-
erties.
Recently neighborly differences
arose—as neighborly differences will
—and ‘the neighbor built a fence down
the center of the driveway, more or
less spoiling the usefulness of the
arrangement. The neighbor still has
room to squeeze down his side by get-
ting off the cement and hugging the
house.
Hoffman is less fortunate in the
way of excess room and he has asked
the city council for what aid it can
give. Meanwhile, the Hoffman garage
is empty.
Women Given Mirrors
: by Astute Politician
Boston.—A new magnet designed to
attract the feminine vote has been
devised by former Mayor James M.
Curley, who is again running for
mayor of Boston. He has distributed
among Boston women thousands of
gay little mirrors. On the back of
each mirror is his picture and the
slogan: “Boston needs Curley.”
Aged Men at Banquet
Coulommiers, France.—Sixteen OC
togenarians, the guests of eighty-four-
year-old Albert Griotteray, gathered
around a banquet table to toast their
advanced ages. Their total age passed
1,204 years. All of the men had fought
in the War of 1870.
traveling 500 |
Baird calls his |
TA W. KEIGHLINE
Registered Architect,
74-23-4m BELLEFONTE, PA
THE CHRISTMAS CANDLE
The legend runs: On Christmas eve
A little candle's ray,
Shining through the dusk, will light
The Christ Child on His way.
I've polished well my window pane |
And set my candle there; |
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T'll light it when the twlight comes
And say a little prayer:
Dear Christ Child, may my candle’s light
Lead you into my heart tonight. -
: 1420 Chestnut St.,
—By Anna B. Baker PHILADELPHIA
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January 2, 1930, is the last ddy
on which World War Veterans who
have not already done so may make
application for Adjusted Service
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In 1924, Congress authorized the
issuance of a paid up twenty-year
endowment insurance policy to all
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men and officers below the rank of
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their hours of labor or perhaps to
retire from active business. Inthe
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