onte, Pa.,, November 20, 1931.
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THE FIRST CONCERN.
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THE BRAN BUGABOO
By Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
Good Health Magazine
Something more than eighty years
ago, Sylvester Graham, a highly
cultured college professor and a
lawyer, became convinced that the
fine flour bread which was then in
general use was unwholesome be-
cause it represented only part of
the grain, the mineral part, the
bran and the germ being lost in the
bolting process. He set out on a
campaign to convince the public of
the superiority of bread made from
the whole grain meal. He was so
able a lecturer that he soon had a
great number of followers, and
bread made of wheat meal in a few
years became popular in many
places, and was known as graham
bread. In recent years, this whole-
some bread has become so widely
used its name is spelled with a
small g instead of a capital, and
probably few people know its origin.
When patent flour made by the
rolling process came into fashion,
the millers soon discovered that the
growing popularity of whole meal
bread was not at all in the interest
of their business, and so began a
campaign of opposition. Very soon
articles began to appear in the pa-
pers about the injurious effects of
bran and of whole meal bread. The
writers of these articles waxed elo-
quent in describing the lacerations
produced in the stomach and intes-
tines by bran, the danger of using
it in cases of ulceration, colitis, etc.
Those who listened to this teaching
soon found themselves suffering from |
distinct forms of constipation, which |
created a demand for mineral wa-
ters and laxative pills of many sorts.
Remedies for constipation multiplied
until their name was legion. A
large part of the population found
it necessary to resort yearly or
more often to various mineral
springs, the salt and bitter waters of
which by producing strong laxative
effects, were supposed to cleanse
the system from accumulated bile
and other natural consequences of
chronic constipation.
Very nearly thirty years ago, 1
suggested that sterilized bran be put
up in packages ready for use. The
idea was laughed at as being very
. absurd. 1 was very often advised
that intelligent people would never
be induced to use bran, but as I
had for years been prescribing it, I
had frequently found difficulty in
obtaining clean bran in fit condition
for food; and feeling assured that
in time there would be an apprecia-
tion of its value, I was anxious to
make it possible for people who de-
sired to use bran to obtain a clean
and wholesome product, free from
weevil and other insects, so under-
took to have bran especially pre-
pared from clean wheat and kept
free from dirt and refuse, and then
went a step farther in sterilizing
the bran, so as to make it in every
way as wholesome as bread or oth-
.er cereal products.
In spite of the opposition of the
manufacturers of patent flour, bran
has made steady progress in gain-
ing the confidence of the public, |
especially through educational cam-
paigns which the numerous manu-
facturers of bran products have car-
ried on through the advertising col-
umns of the newspapers.
At the present time, many car-
loads of bran products are required
daily to meet the growing demand. |
Probably more than ten million peo-
ple in this country alone are mak- |
ing daily use of bran. The shelves |
of drug stores are no longer loaded |
down with bowel-regulating nos-
trums of various sorts. Thousands
of drug stores have become cafe- |
terias and are selling more foods
than drugs. |
While the popularity of bran has
thus been increasing from year to
year, the opponents of its use have
continued their efforts but with lit-
tle success for, notwithstanding their |
dire predictions of the harm which
bran must certainly do, and in spite
of the fact that it is being daily
used by many millions of people,
little or no evidence of harm done
by it has been brought forward.
is evident that if the use of bran is
so dangerous, with so many millions
of people making a daily use of it, |
supervision,
and without medical
there should certainly develop num-
erous cases to support the claim
made respecting its unwholesome-
ness.
Certain medical journals have been
making much of a jingle case re-
ported by a Virginia doctor, in
which a man ate bran and had an
obstruction which was attributed to
the bran, so that an operation was
required. The case was brought
forward with much emphasis as
proof that the free use of bran is
dangerous. One well-known doctor
goes so far as to maintain that
rather than to make use of bran,
the bowels should be allowed to
move once every other day, insisting
that this infrequent bowel action is
natural for some persons, a mon-
strous assertion for which thee is
no scientific basis.
Several questions arise which are
at least worthy of consideration:
Is bran the only food which when
used in excessive quantity has be-
come a cause of obstruction? The
inquiry brings to mind a case with
which the writer hecame acquainted
| when serving as a student assistant
| with tae iate Dr. Lawson Tait, of
Birmingham, England. Dr.
vaiescing from typhoid rever who
was sunering from intestinal ob-
| struction. uring the fever he had
been fed, as was the custom in
| those days, on milk with an admix-
ture of whisky. A week or two
‘after convalescence was established,
|a lump the size of an infant's head
was observed in the young man's
abdomen and obstruction developed.
| When the abdomen was opened,
| manipulation of the mass led the
| surgeon to the conclusion that the
| contents consisted of indigestible
railk curds which had somehow be-
come lodged in the bowel. Instead
{of 0 the bowel, the doctor
gently kneaded the mass until the
| contents were reduced to a soft
‘paste and passed on, thus causing
|the tumor to disappear. The ab-
domen was closed and the patient
made an excellent recovery.
Milk is a food which is capable of
complete digestion, leaving no resi-
due, yet in this case, it happened to
form an obstruction.
Will it be argued that on this ac-
count milk should never be eaten
because of the possibility that it
may form an obstruction?
It is more than likely that the
food itse' w..: not the cause of the
obstru-..- 1 citaer in the case of the
milk or the bran, but of some un-
usual state of the bowel, a spastic
condition, perhaps, which held back
the food until a real obstruction de-
veloped.
That it is natural for anybody's
bowels to move once in two days is
just as reasonable a proposition as
it would be to maintain that hop-
ping on one leg is natural for a man
who has lost one of his legs. The
| one-legged man is crippled, and hop-
ping is the only manner in which he
can move from point to point. He
hops only because he cannot walk.
His mode of progression as the
ornithologists would say, it saltant
and not ambulatory.
| The situation is precisely the
|same with the delinquent colon. Its
delayed movement is due to the fact
that it is crippled.
The principal work of the colon
specialist is to find out just how
the colon is crippled or hindered,
‘and then to find some way to ren-
der the necessary assistance.
The one-legged man finds hopping
| very tedious and tiresome, but when
supplied with an artificial limb, he
can walk, if not so fast or so faras
a man with two good legs, at least
with much less effort and inconven-
ience than without the artificial as-
sistance.
It is safe to say that while among
| the ten or fifteen millions of people
| who are making use of bran, one
case of obstruction due to the in-
| judicious use of bran has occurred
lin the course of twenty or thirty
| years, there have bsen during the
/same time thousands of cases in
| which the intestine has been ob-
| structed by meat, or beans, lobster
‘salad, sauer kraut, or any one of
hundreds of other common foodstuffs.
And it is more than probable,
| already intimated, that when bran
was associated with obstruction, it
{was not the real cause, but was in-
cidental to some special morbid con-
dition present.
Of course it is possible for bran
to be used in excessive quantities.
| When taken by itself, it may pos-
sibly accumulate in cases in which
there is a spastic condition of the
bowel, that is, cases in which the
bowel is contracted to such a de-
gree that food
readily passed through it. In such
cases, the use of mineral oil with
'bran will prevent its packing to-
gether and accumulating.
Bran is bulkage, not
| for when wet it becomes pliable
land ceases to be a source of me-
| chanical irritation.
| In cases of chronic
in which patients suffer from pain
or heaviness after eating, nausea,
soreness in the gallbladder
stomach is empty.
In cases of this sort, bran should
be used in connection with some
pultaceous material which wiil serve
as a vehicle to help it through the
intestine. Taken by itself, bran
gives the stomach, and especially
the duodenum, an excessive amount
of work to aid in moving it along.
Psyllium seed is very useful as a
vehicle for bran.
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HOW OLD IS A MIDDLE AGED
PERSON?
A.—In the medical profession the
term applies to persons between 45
land 60 years.
| of middle age come earlier to some
|and later to others, but that is a
| fair average.
WILD GAME HELPS
HUNGRY MILLIONS
The food value of game birds and
animals taken by hunters over the
| country this
| tary fare
to many millions of dollars, in ad-
| dition to the worth of the recreation
| obtained in hunting them, observes
a bulletin of the American Game
Assoclation.
The Fish and Game Commission
|of New Jersey alone has estimated
the food value of the game which
| will be procured during the present
| season at $1,000,000. According to
the commission, the hunting season
| “will furnish an increased food sup-
|ply for tens of thousands of fam-
ilies.”
The Bureau of Biological Survey
at Washington has credited the
| country’s wild life with supplying
meat and fur each year to th: value
of $150,000,000.
Several State game
ber that, while no part of a game
creature may be sold,
properly tanned, makes a good coat,
and the antlers a good place to hang
it.
Tait |
| was caued LO see a young man con-
remnants are not
roughage,
duodenitis, |
that is, so-called cases of indigestion
region, |
the so-called “goneness” when the
The characteristics
year as a supplemen-|
for their tables will amount |
departments |
| are advising deer hunters to remem- |
a deer hide, |
PREVENT FOREST FIRES
TO PROTECT GAME LIFE
“The sporstman who protects the!
forest from fire” said George H.
Wirt, chief of the bureau of forest
protection, Pennsylvania department |
‘of forests and waters, ‘does the
| greatest thing that can be done for |
‘the protection of game.” |
The first few days of the hunting |
‘season are frequently accompanied |
| by forest fires. This year recent’
rains and the absence of frosts have!
eliminated the of forest fires
thus far. But all that is needed
are several hot, windy days to make
conditions right for forest fires to
burn. The true sportsman never
takes any chance with fire in any
yway from which a forest conflagra-,
‘tion may start. |
Every year in Pennsylvania many’
game animals and birds are killed by
forest fires because of their homing
instinct. Driven from their haunts
by forest fires they return before
the fire is completely extinguished.
Often their feet and legs are injured
and some become so severely burn-
ed on the body that they later die.
“Every hunter,” said Mr. Wirt,
“should be careful with matches,
tobacco and camp fires, so that
there may be no damage done to
the home and food of the game or
to the game itself. It is usually
the unloaded gun that kills someone;
and it is the careless use of fire that
starts a forest fire.
“A true sportsman will give his
quarry at least a reasonable chance
to save itself. Letting a forest fire
get started or continue to burn is a
sure sign, not of a sportsman, but of
a sport, and a poor sport at that. A
state game official recently defined
a sportsman as one who plays fair
when he pursues the recreation of
hunting and fishing or when dealing
with his fellow man and their prop-
erty.
“Fortunately, we have in Pennsyl-
vania an army of hunters, the ma-
jority of whom may be classed as
true sportsmen. But, unfortunately,
a few individuals often undo the ef-
forts of all the rest to protect the
forests and game. Carelessly drop- |
ped matches or cigarettes and un-
tended camp fires are the marks by |
Which he may be known far and
wide.
“When you read in the press of
several hundred acres of woodland,
where fire had been kept out for the
last twenty years, suddenly burned
over with considerable loss to stand-
ing timber and game animals and
birds, you can be sure if a hunter is
blamed he was a sport and not a
sportsman.
“Among the most ardent support. |
ters of conservation generally are
the hunters of Pennsylvania who
have constantly backed wise legisla- |
tion and reasonable regulations for
the protection of forest, fish, and
game. The great strides they have
accomplished are indicated by the
fact that Pennsylvania has a nation-
wide reputation as a foremost game
and forest State. But the premier
| position to which most of us feel
Pennsylvania is entitled will never
be attained until sportsmen them-'
selves eliminate from their ranks
the sports, the selfish game hogs,
and the “fire fools,” who somehow
still continue to violate reasonable
game laws and annually lay waste
thousands of acres of Penn's Woods.”
TARDY AUTOISTS
CAUSE A TAG JAM |
Scattered throughout Pennsylva- |
nia are more than 1,500,000 applica-
tions for 1932 motor vehicle regis-
trations waiting to be returned to
the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. If
history repeats itself, and in this]
case it usually does, an avalanche of
these applications will start rolling
into the bureau along about the
middle of December.
So commented Benjamin G. Eynon,
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, as |
he contemplated the coming of that
annual last minute rush.
“And the sad part of it all is
| that much of it could be avoided,”
the Commissioner sad. “Right now,
tucked away in drawers or pigeon
holes of desks are thousands of
these applications, the receivers of
which are fully capable of returning
them immediately. In most cases
it is just as easy to get them off
‘now as it will be next month. Con-
tinued delay may bring New Year's
day with the automobile tied up in|
the garage because it can't show
1932 tags.” |
If the pup has chewed the appli- |
cation or one of the young hopefuls
of the family has torn it to shreds, |
| Commissioner Eynon said the bureau
will be lenient and will forward a
new application on request without |
charge. This, however, does not
‘apply to lost 1931 rgistration cards.
| Replacing them costs 50 cents. i
“I am strongly in favor of that]
‘Do your Christmas shopping eagly’
slogan, praticularly so if the public
‘would also apply it to their 1932
| registration application,” the Com.
missioner added.
LIGHTS OUT OF FOCUS
ARE MENACE ON ROAD
Keep headlights properly focused,
the chief of the safety division of
| the bureau of motor vehicles says,
|i calling motorists’ attention to the |
| menace of a defective lighting sys-|
| tem. i
| “The motor vehicle operator isnot |
lan aviator,” he said. “His lights
| should show him the road ahead and
‘not the tree tops. Lights adjusted
last month may be improperly fo-
|cused this month. Many a fatal
|accident has occurred because of |
| blinding headlights.
“The ‘one-eyed’
automobile is a
source of danger. It deceives the
approaching operator. It confuses
him as to its location on the high-|
way. He can only guess if it is |
in the middle or on the side of the
road, and guesses often are fatal. |
Play safe and carry extra bulbs in|
| the automobile. !
under the direction of physical ex-
|gram of improving mental cases by
MENTALLY ILL PATIENTS
ATTAIN HEALTH BY PLAY.
A department of physical educa-
tion to help mental patients “play
their way to health” is the latest
innovation at the Danville State
Alfred Kan, grad
University, well versed in the theory
and practical application of physical
diversion as an aid to mental health,
is head of the new department.
Well directed physical activities
will bring to the hospital's popula-
tion an opportunity to improve phys-
ical and mental health as well as
enjoying athletic diversion.
Another activity of the depart-
ment will be to give to the students
in the Nurses Training School op-
portunities for diversion, exercise
and competitive sports. This diver-
sion for the nurse, whom
contact is made with patients, will
further promote the well being of
the 1800 patients through athletic
activities.
The first duty of the director of
the new department is the comple-
tion of a survey to determine the
activities now under way, such as
the hospital baseball team, falling
ercises, and outline a program
rounding out the present activities
and adopting a schedule of exercises
which will meet the requirements of
the hospital's guests.
The patients fall generally inte
two classes, acute admissions and
those remaining for long periods
of constant care. The physical edu-
cation must be arranged to meet
the needs of both classes.
To the present program of base:
ball, basketball, calisthenic, croquet.
swimming, horse shoe pitching, shuf-
fle boards, tennisand out-door volley
ball will be added such diversion as
bowling, track and field exercises,
hand ball, football, tennis, hiking.
ping pong, relay races and other
athletics.
The move is a pioneer endeavor in
the treatment of mental disease and
local hospital officials look forward
to satisfactory progress in their pro-
physical education.
ESTATE TAXES ORIGINATED
IN PHARAOH'S DAYS
Inheritance taxes in ancient Egypt
were higher than those which Penn-
sylvania now imposes on estates, ac-
cording to Linn Reist, Department
of Revenue official in charge of col-
lecting the State tax.
The Egyptian records of the
Seventh Century before Christ show
that there was a transfer inherit-
ance tax for the Empire of the Nile
Valley. The rate was 10 per cent,” |
Reist said. |
“The Pennsylvania rate for wife |
or husband, parents, sons, daughters,
grandchildren and all direct £
ants is two cents on each dollar.
Here is one tax which has been
tremendously reduced since the days
of the Pharaohs.” 2
Reist traced the history of in-
heritance taxes from Egypt to an-
cient Greece and thence into Rome
in the time of the Caesars.
“In the year 6 A D. Emperor Au-
gustus persuaded the Roman Senate
to a five per cent inheritance
tax much like Pennsylvania's. It
allowed deductions for funeral ex-|
penses, as we do, and reckoned
trusts of life estates on the basis of
capitalized income,” he said.
“On the death of a vassal in Eu-
rope in the Middle Ages, the prop-
erty reverted to the king for re-
distribution and later could be claim-
ed by the heir within a year and a
day on payment of a fee. i
“Our own Pennsylvania law allows
one year for the settlement of the |
tax before the interest penalty of |
one per cent a month is added.” |
TEACHERS SHOULD BE |
REQUIRED TO TAKE OATH |
|
Pennsylvania college or public!
school teachers paid from public |
funds would be required to take!
ths of to State and]
Federal constitutions, according toa
resolution adopted at the annual
convention of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, Pennsylvania
group.
The oaths would include obedience
to the Volstead and Snyder acts, the
national and State enforcement laws,
it was pointed out.
The resolution recommended to
Governor Pinchot and State Legisla-
tors that laws providing for such
oaths be enacted to include all
teachers paid wholly or in part from
public funds. It was introduced by
Mrs. John Repp, Philadelphia, chair-
man of the resolutions committee.
Mrs. William H. Alexander, Monon-
'gahela, Pa., was elected State regent
to succeed Mrs. Joseph M. Caley.
for only 10 cents?
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A CHRISTMAS PRESENT | ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
THE LAND OF SNOW AND ICE SE
Years ago Dr. Wilfred Grenfell | 5 Law, Barn
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captured the imagination of the all Office, Youn 18 Oriente
world when he turned aside from
the life of a conventionally success-
KENNEDY JOHNSTON.—Attorney at
ful physician in a great metropoli-
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt at.
tan center and steered his way tention given all legal business
among the ice-floes of the Labrador | East sind to Sra
to a field of service offering noth- |
ing but danger and privation. | M. KEICHLINE.—Attorney at Law
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who never saw, never heard this | promi Hares. Offices oa second floor
gallant and intrepid adventurer for of Temple Court. 49-5-ly
ont will o y acknowledge a!
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from that particularly deadening | Bellefonte, Pa.
form of selfishness which always
results from a failure to apply the!
Christian religion to life.
The superior value of Doctor Gren-
fell's work has been recognized and |
acclaimed the wide world over. In|
knighting him the King of England gelletonte
simply gave public and formal rec- Crider's Ex. 66-11
ogision to the honor and esteem in
which 2 was held by people of, gig is fs
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pealing phases of his work but we E by the State Board. State College,
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with the brave people of the North [gute in the Garbrick building Sppestia
land, of whom he declares with hr ny Dem. a us m.
characteristic simplicity and modes- to 4:00 p.m. Bell Phone 88-40
ty that they have given back to
him more than he has given them.
Our readers will be glad to know |
that a beautiful Grenfell art cal-
endar for 1932 has been produced
by Raphael Tuck and Sons. The]
quotations in the calendar are from
the writings of Sir Wilfred and the
very unusual pictures are repro-
duced from photographs of Labrador |
and Newfoundland.
The calendar is being sold for the
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“Life is always everywhere areal, |
tough, courageous fight, with daily
opportunities, to which are added
all the fun of achievement, and all
the glories of the conqueror’—these
words from one of the pages of the
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