Bemarral Wald,
ess mm
Bellefonte, Pa., August 7, 1931.
PREDICTS DECLINE
IN U. S. POPULATION |
The prediction of a stationary
ulation for the United States by foto,
with the birthrate and the deathrate
equalizing each other, to be followed |
by a further decrease in the birth-
rate to possibly 10 per thousand, and
the inevitable result of such a de-
crease—the
Dr. Louis I Dublin,
the Metropolitan Life Insurance
company, as he sailed to attend the
second General Assembly of the In-
ternational Union for the Scientific
Investigation of Population Problems
held in London, June 15-19. Dr. Dub-
lin is chairman of the American
National Committee of the Interna-
tional Union.
!
“The birthrate in all civilized
countries has been declining at an
accelerated rate for the past fifty
years,” said Dr. Dublin. “In Ameri-
ca we can definitely forecast that |
if the decline continues at its pres-
ent rate, the population will become
stabilized around 1970.
“The decline in the birthrate is
due somewhat to decreasing fertil-
ity but more particularly to birth
sontrol. We have the knowledge of
the latter and its application is
spreading rapidly throughout the
sivilized world,
American city dwellers. The crude
rate of natural increase is already
it a low figure in the cities of the
United States. In many of them the
‘rue rate is either zero or a minus
juantity at the present time.
«Studies we have made indicate
hat the population of the country
will become stabilized as to age com-
yositior in less than fifty years.
Nhen that happens the population
»f the country will be in the neigh-
yorhood of one hundred and fifty mil- |
jon and the expectation of life at
»irth will have increased to approx-
mately 70 years. The true birthrate
n 1928
he true deathrate in that year was
5.6, leaving the true natural in-
rrease at 1.7 per thousandfl
“If the true birthrate does finally
all to 10 per thousand and it gives
yromise of doing so, even with the
yest mortality the population will
lecline one-half in eighty years.”
JRBAN POPULATION
NOW EXCEEDS RURAL.
The population of the United
itates now is 56.2 per cent urban
nd 43.8 per cent rural in character,
ccording to an announcement just
iade by the United States Census
jureau based on the 1930 door-to-
oor count. Persons living in rural
ections number 53,819,515 and those
ving under city conditions 68,955, -
21—a total of 122,775,046.
The proportions show a continu-
nce of the trend that was
oted in 1920, when the population of
ae country as a whole became more
aan one-half urban. Se
rban proportion was as
. Had this year's anal-
made on thesame basis
of 1920, the urban proportion
1930 would be 55.9 per cent.
Formerly urban population was de-
ned as including persons living in
ties and other incorporated places
tf 2,500 or more inhabitants. This
sar the definition was changed to
iclude persons living in "townships
ad other political subdivisions that
ad a population of 10,000 or more
ad a population density of 1,000 or
ore per square mile.”
Business men are interested in the
ange because it affects their pre-
ous appraisal of consumer buying
ity in suburbs of many large
ox of New England and the East-
o States. Buying capacity is esti-
ated on the basis of a density of
»pulation, and the new census re-
rt gives a somewhat different pic-
re of this condition than formerly.
The new report marks the urban
-oportion of the population as un-
ually high in New England, New
ork, New Jersey, California and
inois.
0G DAYS ARE HERE
THEY CAME JULY 26TH
“The term ‘Dog Days’ seems to
.ve come down to us from the an-
ants. They also called them the
nicular Days. Canicula was an old
me of the Constellation Canis Min-
. it was also used to denote Sirius,
e dog star. The rising of the dog
ar was supposed to be the occa- |p
mn of the extreme heat and the
seases incidental to these days.
ie ancients reckoned their dog days
ym the helical rising of Sirius;
2 rising of
» hottest peri
aes and countries of the old as-
ymomers. The time of its rising
on the latitude of the place,
d is later every year in all lati-
jes, due to precession. Some time
the future the star may rise in
y dead of winter.”
ACIAL RIVERS OF NORTH
TOUCH NO EARTH OR ROCK
livers that never touch earth or
ne, though they flow for many
es in the far north, are described
Capt. Robert A. Bartlett, in a re-
+ to the National Geographic so-
Lose rivers flow on the great ice
et that cover practically all of
enland. They rise in large lakes
t form in summer when the sur-
e of the ice melts, and flow long
ances until they fall intoa crev-
in the ice or into the sea.
2
{rs. Gadder—And will this clean-
fluid take the spots out of every-
1g?
lerk—Y es, Ma'am. By 1931
i won't be a leopard left in the
rapid decline in the
American population—was made by
statistician of
especially among |
was 17.3 per thousand and
first | ated all over in the open-air
er ——
| FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. | FARM NOTES.
DAILY THOUGHT | —Wiring the drop
We, ignorant of ourselves, the hen house not
often our own harm, which the wise | trol worm infestation but
Powers eggs cleaner.
| Deny us for our good; so find we profit
Joy losing of our prayers.
—Shakespeare. | be made ready for the butcher at
[jus earliest possible date.
It's easier to keep cool this
| summer than ever before. Because —The better calves should
{you can wear less in the way of properly grown and given a chance
‘clothes than ever before. to become profitable producers.
And how is that? Decidedly not! —
| by wearing fewer items. But by| —Dry cows should be fed some
| wearing less material. And that grain during the entire dry period
doesn’t mean fewer yard lengths of which is usually of about six week's
| material, either. Only less area. | duration.
| All of which sounds a puzzle -—
| doesn’t it? But the answer is sim- | —Hay is fed to calves as soon as
|ple. Mesh. The fashionable cotton | they will eat it. They also receive
material with the empty spaces in whole grain and wheat bran as soon
lit. Actual holes where the air can as they have a liking for it.
| get through.
And you start
—It is just as hard to make milk
'in summer as it is in winter, and
the heaviest producing cows will
right in at the
| skin and go through to dresses and
| jackets and all outer clothing if you
| want to mesh-up for vacation. | pay well for a little extra feed if
| You can have shirts and shorts or | they are on thin, dry, scant pasture.
| union suits of either cotton or slik |
mesh. And girdles of openwork net
| combined with meshy elastic (or no
‘elastic at all.)
We haven't discovered any slips of
mesh yet, but that’s just about the
only thing that doesn’t seem to be
in this cool, airy material.
Stockings were about the first
item of ciothing to adopt the fash-
jon of mesh. First there were just
| silk mesh stockings. Then along
came lisle (which is cotton) mesh
| for sports wear.
Then the mesh anklet or tennis
| sock appeared. And the newest de-
velopment is the pure white lisle
| mesh stocking for wear with white the developing
| sports costumes. | them growing and developing at the
| Next dresses took up mesh. We same time. Too often they are
| saw lots of mesh dresses in Palm | turned out on the pasture and ne-
Beach last January. And, as al- glected untu a week or two before
ways happens with any good winter calving.
sunshine resort fashion, the cest of |
the country took them up as soon as |
warm sports days arrived. | pans deep enough to cover the holes
| They're fine for tennis and golf in the nose as they drink. Notice
dresses sa well as spectating cos- | how they blow out food when drink-
tumes. Most often they're made in ing otherwise it might clog their nos-
some very simple, tailored style such | trils and choke them.
as a shirtwaist dress or the fashion- | —
able rever type, with polo sieeves. |= —Early molting hens are usually
You can make up your own mesh poorer producers and late molters
costume with a separate skirt and are the better producers.
blouse (or a lacy, mesh-like sweat-H Probably the easiest way to
er) for two-piece dresses are right check up on the weight of the pul-
in fashion. We've had one good |lets is to color band a few birds in
blouse sketched—one in double- each peu and weigh these occasional-
| breasted effect—but there are many ly.
| other kinds just as smart. |
Cotton mesh hats—well, you've! —The day is coming when the
been seeing thousands of them these most successful poultrymen, even on
last warm weeks. Swank little rool- | general farms, will raise their chick-
ed turbans and brimmed hats that| ens inside of fences like they raise
shade the eyes. Fine hats to pack their hogs and cattle.
in the week-end or vacation suit me
case, You can't crush 'em. | —The most successful way to pro-
And if you want a hat of all tect fruit trees from rabbits is to
mesh, you can have one with cool, kill the rabbits. It is very effective
mesh crown and straw brim. |if properly done and perhaps it also
Mesh shoes? Yes, indeed! We've | tends to satisfy our baser nature,
had one sketched—the tip, strap and | which sometimes craves vengeance
heel in calf and the sides in mesh | for losses endured.
fabric. And there are others
meshy linen and of leather
—The usual falling off in milk
| flow in most dairy herds during the
|late summer months is due chiefly
| to an insufficient amount of feed and
the hot weather.
—The calves should be put in
sight of the cows. It is best to
wait 12 to 24 hours before attempt-
ing to teach the calf to drink, as it
ge be hungry by then.
—After the heifers are bred they
must be fed enough grain and hay
lor pasture to meet the demands of
—Ducks must have clean water in
—The success or failure of an
orchard may be influenced by the
| owner even before the trees are
planted. One of the preliminary
or-
ashion
of mesh.
Of course, a mesh handbag goes
with a mesh costume. | The ion | ae that should be Laken is ne
envelope —fayori fashion- | selection’ of varieties.
ably ea ilustrated. | are adaptea to the locality where
But there are pouches, too. [the oxelard’ 15/40 De plated.
There are short jackets of bright- -—
colored mesh, smart with a dressof Alfalfa, red clover, or soy bean
white mesh or any other white ma- | hay of proper quality solves the
terial. Full-length coats of open- green-feed problem. The way to
work, meshy materials. : |feed the hay Is to cut it into one-
Mesh scarfs, too, and even mesh | half-inch lengths with a clover-cut-
gloves that are as cool and com- | ter and feed it in wire-netting feed-
fortable as bare hands. And mesh ers. The hay can be fed uncut in
belts and flowers of the crocheted packs. If the proper quality of hay
t are some of the most fashion- | is unavailable, add 5 per cent by
able there are. | weignc of the best quality alfalfa
— meal. Warm driviing wales helps
— Prickly heat and kindred irri- make winter . ens dislike
tations of the skin are unpleasant ol water and drink it sparingly.
annoyances which frequently appear | When a layer fails to drink enough
A the scorching days of July | water, she eats less feed.
nd Aug | —The man who can supply his
In some cases the trouble is local | pply
where the skin has become irritated dairy cows with 30 to 35 pounds of
corn silage per head per day during
itl the Detapization Witch BR eight to Blige months of the es
the friction against the folds of skin 504 wil 1 Jo 13, Dounas cf 3 alts
sets up an inflamed and painful con- | 2%Y seaso
have no in making .
dition.
In most cases, however, the diet
has much to do with the trouble.
Indigestion aggravates the trouble
and for this reason a diet of simple,
nourishing, cooling food should be
chosen. It is important that the
liver and bowels perform their func-
tions daily.
Food which causes the blood to
become Sverisatey a too
great a on the ve organs
must be eliminated. Rich pastries,
fried foods, and any liquid contain-
ing alcohol even though in a small
on is black listed for those
ded
ing pay, provided he has y
good cows. many farmers
do not realize it, silage and legume
hay are the most important feed for
the dairyman to supply in abundance
to keep up the milk yield.
—Modern developments in market-
ing turkeys through pools and co-
operative asdociations in the West
are beginning to be felt in the east-
ern States. Working along similar
principles of quality standardization
turkeys as have the Pacific
sub; ko Jun yiitytons tn PWT" teach the eastern growers a lesson,
especially. just as the western egg folks show-
Also on the list of discarded food |S "yo oagtern egg producers how
is meat such as beef, pork and mut-
ton. Broiled lamb wey be eaten oc-
casionally, likewise and chick- Quality and standardized marketing
en, besides non-starchy vegetables, | must be preceded by quality and
frit, except bananas and thin sou standardized production.
The erer must regulate Right now it seems that the rais-
of turkeys in confinement is to
ow close on the heels of rang
chickens in confinement. The -
sylvania experiment station has dem-
onstrated the confinement raising of
exceeded
turkeys in a manner
all expectations. Some growers in
Maryland are also raising turkeys in
close confinement with marked suc-
cess.
diet, otherwise the local treatment
will have little, if any effect, asthe
trouble must be traced to its origin,
the blood, and corrected there.—
Philadelphia Inquirer.
—There are unlimited uses and
places for sugar in the diet. Don't
neglect it; your system it.
Sugar itself is not e for
overweight, but excessive eating of
sugar, starch and fat, of course, is
fattening, whereas abstinence starves.
No one can afford to eliminate sugar
from the daily diet.
—Despite a decrease of 24 per
cent in value of livestock during
1930 Pennsylvania has retained a
position as one of the 11 leading
livestock States and one of the five
greatest east of the e
river More than half of the total
value represents dairy cattle. The
livestock values of the whole State
on January 1 totaled $148,351.000.
Clearfield county is 46th in the
—Feet shut up in shoes sixteen or
eighteen hours of the twenty-four
need a daily bath to keep them in
condition. The best time to
give feet their hot-water-and-soap
bath is at night. In the morning
boards in|
y helps to con-
keeps
—Old, low-producing cows should went.
be again.
clean, bright, dry quarters out of
calf and to keep
bring you home
|the rip of a match; smelled the
| After what seemed a 1
back door opened and shu There
| was the muffled sound of an auto-
| mobile going; of rain bea on the
| window. Some one was in the room
| with her, jarring the bed.
| coftee? Careful, it's hot.”
| THE DARK MOUNTAINS.
(Continued from page 2, Col. 6.)
| “Joie doesn't know I'm blind. He
| —he hasn't been to many parties.”
| parties they have now.”
| That was true. Rachel Nash sat
up nervously, but lay right down
Her head swam. Hunger—
thirst—hidden anguish. Joie, think-
|ing she had failed him, gone to a
| wild party—!
| Mother huddled under the coat
| that had been spread over her and
| wrung her hands
| Maybe she slept.
heard the
| loose wall paper, the bang of a door.
| Voices. Something touched her.
| “Maw,” Jole said hoarsely.
| “M-mother."”
{ “Why, hello!” Mother forced an
| admirable gaiety. “We having the
| party?”
| “Uh-huh, Maw, with a man knows
all about eyes. Shake hands with
my mother, Dr. Hill.”
Rachel Nash groped and felt her
fingers closed in a cool, firm grasp.
till they ached.
For suddenly she
There was the fragrance of fine wool |
| garments with rain on them; cigar-|
smoke. Not a dream!
| “It's cold in here.” a voice s range
|and not strange said. “Think you
can get out to the fire, Mrs. Nash?"
“Of course.”
Mother straightened her rumpled
garments; steadied herself, and went
forward holding Joie's arm;
| the house was rattling coal into the
| heater. She was in the wooden
rocker facing something that
be light
| She was moved this way and that
like a cloth woman-—cloth that could
do nothing but suffer. The cool
‘hand tucked a rool under her neck;
her head hung back. When her lids
|had been turned till they could not
| resist, something whiskered over
(them like fire rushing across dry
grass. i
Then the stabbing light was shut |
away by damp, leafy pads, bya soft,
thick bandage—heavenly! She was
back in bed with a warm blanket
(over her. From a distance she
{heard the doctor say she was not
| blind—what an idea! No, just the
| worst case of overworked eyes pos-
| sible not to be blind.
| “I'm leaving some witch-hazel
| with the box of cotton,” he added,
“and a dropper with the healing lo-
tion. 11 make the glasses when
|you bring her up to Stillwater.”
| Ira had hardly spoken; now he
asked, “What do I owe you, sir?”
| “Your son has paid me.” Hill was
| struggling into his overcoat, and his
| voice sounded jerky. “But maybe
you won't mind going back with
me. Strange road, you know. I
talked with your daughter—they'll
in the morning—
| Now, if I had a cup of coffee—"
| Of course, Ira would go—when
had he ever missed a chance to go
|to Stillwater? Steps moved toward
the kitchen. Rachel Nash heard
|scent of a cigar, of fresh coffee.
That must be Joie rattling at the
heater, Why—Joie had paid the
doctor—how ?
time the
“Maw,” Joie said, “you want this
| Rachel Nash sat Ng up. Her
| fingers fumbled with cup handle;
| steadied there. How long did it
‘take one to learn to drink in the
|dark? My, the coffee was good! No
wonder she had been dizzy—choked
| —scared!
| “Too bad about the party,” she
murmured. “Reddy didn’t miss the
party,” Joie spoke matter-of-factly.
“She went with old Bill. His dad's
got scads of money. Bill's had a
crush on Reddy for a year; but if
led, not knowing, of course,
Mother knew just why he did chuckle.
“Wouldn't I be a bird—with a
yey But—but Reddy's a good kid,
ww."
“Of course,” Rachel Nash breathed
warmly “I hate to have you—"
“Hurt, Maw’ I ain't hurt, It's the
fool boy of it, I guess, being crazy
12 something and then wondering
yy"
Again the huskish voice trailed
off. The clock back in the kitchen
struck twelve—was it that late?
“Crazy’s right,” Joie muttered at
sight of a
T
“Why they didn’t go on and expel
I heard it, all right. We wet
Joie gritted his teeth in his -
“Gee,” he breathed. i»
Then it all rushed out in sentences
passion-
ate, triumphant. of it,
Maw-—Reddy mad because you didn’t
shake hands with her; me, asking
for pie. And you sitting there all
through dinner, pretending to see,
pretending to eat—such a darned
good sport! But you listen, Maw;
listen to me!”
Joie took the cup and saucer and
set them just anywhere. ‘‘Tomor-
row,” he then said, “we're going to
Stillwater—to live. I got a job,
Maw; a man-sized job.”
Mother put out her hand and
touched her boy's sleeve. Found his
fingers and felt them grip hard. May-
“It wouldn't hurt him if he never eg . i
You don't kmow about the | ;
“z-z-z" of wind behind
felt a |
gush of warmth where the man of |
dug |
into her eyes like a knife—could it
that was so agonizing? |
a plunge in a bowl of cold water
will make them hardy and keep the
skin and flesh firm. Be sure to
dry them tnoroughly by vigorous
rubbing. A little foot powder dust-
ed over them is soothing and helps
absorb excess moisture.
~——Subscribe for the Watchman.
list of 67 counties in value of live
stock, with $1,260,250; other coun-
ties of this section in their relative
order are Centre with $2,269,980;
Indiana, 1,775,600; Clarion, 1,759,300;
Warren, 1,619,400; Jefferson, 1,472,.-
590; Huntingdon, 1,407,290; Cambria,
1,342,280; Blair, 1,301,050; McKean,
872,330; Clinton, 738,340; Elk, 478,-
630 and Forest, 145,800.
be Joie guessed what she suddenly
feared
“It won't keep me out of the Uni-
versity, not if T get down and dig.
Just make us something to rent a
good house cn; something to cure
your eyes with. Dad's for it, Maw.
We talked it over before he and
Doc left. He's to rent the
ing cotton at the experiment station.
| You glad—Maw?"
“Oh no, I'm almost killed,” Rachel
| Nash laughed—or did she sob.
| How easy it was to joke again!
Enrap.wred was the name
| Glad?
| dear had been lost.
were not dark.
| grew there and spread for her feet.
| Joie had come to meet her—with a
lantern. —Hearst’s International
| Cosmopolitan.
JAIL POPULATION
SHOW INCREASE
The population of county jails in =
May 1931 had increased 30 per cent.
over the population of these county
institutions in the same month of
11929, according to a report of the
bureau of restoration, made public
‘today by John L. Hanna, State Sec-
‘retary of Welfare.
| The population was 6,100 on the
last day of May 1929 as compared
with 8,821 on the last day of May
1931, indicating an increase of 2,721.
| The report further indicates that
| during the month of June there
were more prisoners than were ad-
mitted. The figures showed that
9,802 persons were admitted and
6,974 were released.
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KLINE WOODRING.—Attorney at
| Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices in
all courts. Office, room 18 Cn
Why, she wasw't blind. Nothing | J KENNEDY JOHNSTON.—Attorney at
ning along the to No dark | entrusted to his
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Eyes examined, glasses fitted. Sat-
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E™ B. ROAN, Optometrist, Licensed
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Wagner's Pig Meal - - - 180
Wagner's Mash - - - 190
Wagner's Scratch Feed - - 1.60
Wagner's Horse Feed - - - 150
Wagner's Winter Bran - - 1.00
Wagner's Winter Middlings - 1.10
Wagner's S - - 150
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Wagner's Medium Scratch Feed 1.80
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Wayne Chick Starter - - - 2.28
Wayne Chick Grower - - 22
Wayne Calf Meal - - - - 350
Oil Meal 34% - - - - - 190
Cotton Seed Meal 43% - - - 1.90
Alfalfa Meal - - - 2.10
Gluten Feed 23 - - - «- 180
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