Bellefonte, Pa., February 5, 1952.
Your Health
THE FIRST CONCERN.
“There is a popular
“that pyorrhea can not be
“This is absolutely false except in
those advanced cases where the in-
‘curable stage has been reached. It
should therefore be very plain that
with this disease the proverbial
“stich in time saves nine,” states
Doctor C. J. Hollister, chief of the
State Health Department's dental
section.
“The secret of a successful pyor-
rhea cure lies in its early detection
amd proper treatment. The dentist
must have a chance to detect its
presence, as freguently the patient
is more or less unaware of its ex-
istence. He must then be given an
‘opportunity to treat it or direct the
‘case to a practitioner who makes a
-specialty of this type of service.
“One of the main treatment fea-
“tures involves instructing the patient
to care for the teeth and gums
properly. As a matter of fact, had
the victim been sufficiently interest-
ed to have acquired this information
years before and then had conscien-
“tiously applied it daily, the need for
pyorrhea treatment would in all
probability not have developed.
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“Another false idea connected with
‘this affliction is that mouth washes,
medicated toothpastes and patent
«zgoncoctions afford definite and per-
manent relief. The fact is that in
‘mearly all pyorrhea cases. drugs play
Stile if any part in the treatment.
“What the family dentist or specialist
‘actually does is to remove the dead
membrane which always adheres to
‘the root of the tooth. He also
‘scrapes away tartar which has
formed. The failure or success in
‘this treatment is based upon the
‘efficiency and completeness with
which the dentist does his work—
that, plus the intelligent home care
of the mouth.
“It is therefore seen that there is
no reason to despair if one discovers
pyorrhea.
cause teeth are removed, the
ation shuld immediately be plac-
‘ed upon the dentist to arrest the
_ changes that almost inevitably fol-
Sow. In this connection it should
We emphasized that the substitution
«of a false tooth or the placement of
a complete denture is a job requir-
dng expert work and most conscien-
“ious handling.
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person to persuade you that one can
afford to be careless with his nat-
‘ural teeth on the theory that the
‘false ones are just as good. They
‘rénder a great service, but fall far
short of the teeth provided by na-
Juve. Migety loves company, you
ow. eep your teeth by kee
«lean teeth!” yo y ping
Attention of the Bureau of Com-
"municable Diseases, State Depart-
_zmett of Health, having been called
#o a condition existing in certain
sections of the State, where chil-
“dren are being permitted to attend
‘school as immunes from such dis-
‘emes as measles, German measles,
chicken pox, mumps and whooping
«ough, simply upon the assertion of
their parents that they have had
such maladies in the past, Dr. J.
Moore Campbell, Chief of that Bu-
veau in the Health Department, has
Sssued the following instructions: —
“Please be advised that under the
regulations of the State Department
of Health, there is no evidence of
immunity which your health officer
may accept, other than an actual
wecord in his files, or in the files of
‘the Health Department at Harris-
Yurg, of the prior illness with the
disease, from which the child is al-
¥eged to be immune. Health of-
¥icers must not issue school attend-
mmce permits to so-called immunes,
wmless such a recrd has been found,
‘no matter what the statement con-
werning a prior attack made by the
“parents, or physician, may be.
“If such a record is not found,
‘all children must be included in the
quarantine just the same as though
‘they had not had the disease. The
‘prover observation of these regula-
tions, upon the part of all health
‘officers, as well as parents and fam-
flv physicians, will be very greatly
anvreciated by this Department,”
said Dr. Campbell.
AQontinuing, Dr. Campbell said:—
“It i= respectfully suggested, in or-
der that the work of the health of.
firer be made more efficient by com-
plete co-operation, that he advises
‘a school authorities that the in-
tention now is to carry out the reg-
“ulations in this matter to the very
Yetter, and that such school author-
ties must not accent anv child from
‘a home which is. or should he, un-
ser quarantine, 'mlsss that child
presents a permit to attend school
wAnly signed by the health officer.”
Fifty-two per cent. of all deaths
*~ mder one year of age occur in in-
S/smts under one month.
As long
wn this 18 true, efforts should be re-|
wjomhled, and a wider camvaign wag-
es? in baby life-saving measures.
New Device Puts Control ir
One Man's Hands.
London.—Entire fleets of ships and
airplanes, manned and controlled en: |~
tirely by radio, are foreseen in the
near future by Charles Keeling, »
young English radio engineer.
Keeling claims that he has per
fected a wireless Invention that will
revolutionize remote radio control. He
declares that by his device radio
‘signals cannot be jammed, even if an-
other wireless station is operating or
“he same wave length,
Secrets Guarded.
“I am guarding the technical secrets
very closely,” he sald when asked
‘about the invention, “for it has not
been patented yet. Before taking that
step 1 am going to consult the British
admiralty, the war office and possibly
the admiralty.
“My method Is entirely new. O.
one wave length, high or low, 1 can
transmit eight distinct signals. This
means that by various combinations 1
can control 4.000 operations from a
single wireless transmitter.
“Two men in one airplane could fi,
a dozen or so craft carrying hundreds
of tons of freight or mall. With the
new robot pilot, which the air minis
try still has on its secret list, these
‘machines could be landed with safety
without a single hand touching their
controls,
Control of Boats.
“Cargo boats could be controlle:
either from the shore or, if in a group,
from one master ship. They would
require no crew, every operation of |
| the boat would be mechanical
and
‘would be controlled by wireless.”
Keeling said that the most valuable
commercial aspect of his invention
was that it made possible a system
of transmitting tvpewritten messages
by wireless which would not only he
extremely fast but absolutely secret
“A girl sitting in London,” he col.
¢inued, “could type out n message on
the keyboard of an ordinary typewrit-
er which would be simultaneously re-
corded In typescript at all the receiv
ing stations tuned to that particular
transmitted.”
Moving Lights Used to
Aid Imperfect Vision
Philadelphia, —Four weeks of “eye
sxercise” straightened the cross-eyes
of a twenty-two-months-old baby at the
clinic of the Pennsylvania State Col
lege of Optometry,
The exercise was mostly the engag
ing occupation of gazing at little col-
‘ored lights and figures that moved, but
considerable ingenuity was exercised
by clinic attendants In getting the
child's attention,
This patient is the youngest eve.
treated by the clinle, according to Dr.
Fdwin Forbes Tait, chief of the clinic
and a member of the college faculty.
One of the oldest and most difficult
cases was a man of forty-eight years
of age. Correction is dificult in per
sons past twenty.
The clinic of the College of Opt.
‘metry is one of the few in the East
equipped to specialize in the treat-
ment of cross-eyes, which the opto-
metrist knows as “squint.” From 10
to 20 per cent of their cases are of
cross-eyes, though approximately 2
per cent of all eye-defect cases are en-
countered in the average clinic.
Paris Claims Credit
for First Periscope
Paris,—The submarine periscope was
not Invented by Sir Howard Grubb,
Englishman, as generally believed, but
by a Frenchman, according to a state
ment made before the French Acad:
emy of Sclences.
M. Jean Rey, French invento;
Jaimed that he himself conceived the
first periscope and that it was used
aboard the French submarine Gymnote
fn 1801. At that time, he asserted,
England had no underwater craft and
the British government disapproved of
then.
M. Rey attributed the perfection o.
the marine periscope to another
Frenchman, Jules Carpentier, who
constructed his model In 1897. He
concluded by saying that other nations
have since copied the principle of the
Carpentier periscope.
Bright Future Forecast
for Aviation Firms
Detroit, Mich, — Commercial alr
transport has grown steadily in the
last two years, despite the depression,
according to Carl B. Fritsche, presi-
dent of the Aircraft Development cor
poration.
Predicting “even better days” in .
cecent address here, the executive
sald the industry will soon emerge on
a sound economic basis. The fact
aeronautics weathered the depression
and continued to grow is unmistakable
evidence the Industry Is here to stay,
he sald.
Letter Is Returned to
Writer After 11 Years
Farmington, Mich.—A lost letter,
which wandered over the United
States for 11 years, has reached its
uddressee here.
As Miss Florence Ratcliff, the au
Jressee, wrote Franklin college, Ind
requesting credentials for a teaching
job. The credentinls were malled In
June, 1918.
They were delivered to Miss Ratelll,
ow Mrs. Albert Leach. The paper is
¢ollow and the ink faded. Mrs. Leach
sald. The most recent postmark Is
fort Smith, Ark.
boats link up in Egypt with the pl
from London and provide a fast serv-
ice down to Mwanza, on the southerr
‘shores of Lake Victoria.
The sea lanes on the southern flight
carry gold miners, Kenya coffee plant
ers and big game hunters, who save
weeks on the journney compared with
other times when they had to spend
weeks at sea and then travel for days
by train from the east African const
into the jungle lands.
Gold from the mines is brought dow.
from the Interior by native carriers,
the journey to the lake occupying =
full day of trekking. The precious
metal is loaded at Mwanza, taken to
Khartum and then to Cairo. Here the
gold, which 1s often accompanied by
gold miners flying home on leave after
years in Africa, is transferred to the
Belgian air liners, arriving two hours
later in Brussels and then lodged In
the vaults of the state bank.
Saving of three weeks on the ship
‘nificant only as a work of the dim
ment of gold to Brussels 1s highly |
Important for the Belgian bankers, en-
abling them to have rapid deliveries
of fresh gold to replace gold withdraw. i
| strikingly emphasize the value of the
als from the country.
Cherry Growers Unite
to Boost Sale of Fruit
Traverse City, Mich.—A farm reliel
novement not connected with drives
for special legislation, curtailment of
acreage, or other cures suggested In |
recent vears is being undertaken by
the cherry growers of the country, ac
cording to an announcement here,
The growers have determined tha’
the quickest and shortest route to
economic recovery lies In the sale of
cherries. They've started out to sell
them by staging, first of all, a national
chérry week, during the Wasliington
birthday period. The dates are Febru-
ary 15-22. They are building their
sales efforts around the legend of
Washington and the cherry tree. Cher-
ry ple contests, radio addresses, and
appearances by the national cherry
queen, Maxine Weaver of Traverse
City, form part of their program,
Sixteen hundred growers of Mich
fgan and Wisconsin took the lead in
this movement, heard by H, W. Ul
sperger, of the Fruit Union,
Sturgeon Bay, Wis. They were soon
joined br representatives of the cherry
industry from the states of Oregon,
Colorado, Montana, Ohlo, Pennsylvania
and New York. Canners, including
Howard Morgan, president of the Mich-
igan Canners’ association, have given
their support to the growers,
Not Cowardice to Seek
Cover, Ranger Asserts
Austin, Texas.—It's no sign of cow-
ardice to take to cover. The authority
for this 1s W. W. (Bill) Sterling, six-
foot Texas border ranger, now tamed
down to the duties of state mdjutant
general,
“If there was a shooting going o..,
and 1 had no duty in connection with
it as an officer, and it was none of
my affair, I'd take to cover and be
glad to find it,” said Sterling,
“1 do not see anything wrong iv
that.” he continued, “but it's a fact
that many a man refuses to admit
that he has ‘taken cover’ in just such
instances, i} i
“1 have known truthful men to per
jure themselves on the witness stand
when asked what they did when a
shooting took place. Nine times out
of ten they will say that they stood
there and watched.” if]
Mail Lost 40 Years Ago
Is On Its Way at Last
Macon, Ga,—A score of letters and
postcards forty years Jold have just
been sent on their way from Macon
post office, after being found behind a
distribution case that had not been
moved since the Civil war.
Carried Mail 235,000 Miles
Marshall, Wis.—After carrying mah
a distance equal to nine times around
the world in the last 30 years, Thomas
T. Pyburn, rural mail carrier, has been
retired on a pension. A conservative
estimate of the distance covered ty
Pyburn is sald to be 235,000 miles.
FRR R NRTA NWR H WNW
Paris Street Leads
in Missing Persons
Paris.—Paris holds the world's
record for being the city with
the greatest number of missing
people, according to statistics,
The Society for the Protection
of the Family, which alds the
French police In tracing missing
individuals, announces that 27,
000 people have disappearec
from Paris during the past year
This Is an Increase of 7.000 ove:
1930.
1t is emphasized, however, thu
many of these so-called missing
have not fallen victims to crime
nor accident, but have merel;
suddenly left town for reasons
of their own.
POPPER ERP.
| level at Shanhaikwan on the Gulf of
TEAT WALL AGAIN
IS FRONTIER LINE
{Marks Boundary of Chinese
and Enemy Territory.
Washington—China's Great Wall,
glamorous to all who have studied
geography, but asually considered sig:
past, has become a marker in recent
news dispatches. With the fall of
Chinchowfu to Japanese forces, the
Chinese have moved south of the wall,
and that ancient barrier now forms
the frontier between Chinese and en:
emy territory as it did for centuries
after its construction. A bulletin from
the National Geographic society tells
of this great engineering wonder o”
the world.
“In a world of airpianes, bombs,
heavy artillery and high explosives,
the Great Wall of China is of no value
as an obstacle to an enemy army.”
says the Bulletin. “Because this is
true, and has been for a long time,
the Great Wall has come to be looked
upon by many as a prodigious folly.
But In its day it was of iacalculable
value to the peace-loving Chinese who
were able for considerable periods to
keep the ‘Northern Barbarians’ out of
their country.
Once Effective Barrier.
“The wall was effective because en-
emies of the northern plains came
against China with unorganized
armies of cavalry, which, many times,
beat ineffectively against the well
manned barrier. There were occa
sions, it is true, when the hordes broke
through; but these successful forays
and the losses that flowed from them |
wall through the many years when it
functioned successfully. i
“Astronomers have speculated tha. !
the eat Wall is one of the few |
works of man on earth that would ;
be discernible by the naked eye from |
the moon. No other single engineer- |
ing accomplishment of any age com-
pares with it in size, extent, and con-
struction difficulties. Starting at sea
Chilsli, it reaches an altitude of 9,900
feet among the mountains of western
China, In the intervening area It
crosses several mountain ranges quite
or nearly a mile high.
“The Great Wall is not a single
structure but a system with sections
built at different times. Its magni
tude can best be understood If it is
imagined that it were taken bodily up
and set down in the United States,
with its eastern emd at Philadelphia.
This transplanted wal! would extend
half way across the North American
continent !
“The Great Wall is at its best in it.
eastern section. There its sheer faces,
from 20 to 50 feet high, are construct-
ed of carefully built masonry. In
places the entire wall is of masonry, in
others the space between the masonry
faces is filled in with stones and earth,
North of Peiping (Peking) great blocks
of carefully cut granite ure used, held
in place by mortar superior to that
made by the Chinese today. In other
localities the wall is faced with large
bricks of a finer quality than most of |
those now manufactured In the |
western world. !
Chin Made Great Wall Great.
“Good engineers designed the wal.
Rain water accumulating on the top
is carried away by stone drains set
at intervals of about 100 feet. The
fine preservation of much of the wall |
is owing to the foresight in providing |
these drains, More than 25,000 to
ers were built along the wall, at 5
tervals ranging from 100 yards to a
mile,
“The first disconnected walls along
the northern frontier of China were
probably constructed as early as 469
B. CO, when Xerxes was invading
Greece. But the ruler who made the
Great Wall great came two and a half
centuries later: Chin Shih Huang-ti,
who tried to brush aside previous Chi-
nese history, and who insisted on be-
ing called ‘First Emperor.’ Improving
existing walls and erecting new ones,
Chin created the first extensive sys-
tem of defensive ramparts. Probably
a thousand miles of wall was built in
fifteen years under this ‘First Emper-
or' and his immediate successor. The
structure has been extended and re-
paired at intervals during the past
2,200 years. During the past 300 years
no extensive repairs have been made,
and many of the less carefully built
sections of the long rampart are fall.
ing into decay.”
Carpenter’s Fall Reveals
Rare Medical Disease
Wilmington, Del.—Victim of a rare
malady, Paget's disease, Norwood Roe,
forty-three, is now one and a half inch
shorter than he was 13 years ago, And
physicians believe he may shrink
even more. Recently Roe, who is a
carpenter, fell from a bullding.
Rushed to a hospital, an X-ray
showed that his vertebrae had shrunk
greatly and were abnormally thin,
typical of Paget's disease, with which
he must have been afflicted for years,
they said.
Aids Friends in Getting
Work, but Fails Himselt
Winsted, Conn.—One of the unsung
heroes of the depression is a Winsted
resident who heard of an opportunity
for employment on a new road project
and gathered a group of his friends
who needed work. The employer lined
the men up, counted down the line
untii he came to the man ahead of
the benefactor and said: “That's all
for today.”
LIGHTS ) B00
of NEW YORK
them before the crash.
one of the men deeply concerned abou
present conditions. He had something
to lose, and he’did not intend ‘to lose
it. Some of his money went into gov-
ernment securities, some went Into
savings banks; a considerable sum he
turned into gold and put in safety de
posit boxes. He did not stint himself
on what he considered necessities, but
ne was eareful not to Indulge in lux:
urles. He sald it was no time to
throw money around. He died the
other day. They haven't been able to
find a will. The relatives certainly
are having a swell fight over his er
‘ate,
For some reason this makes me
think of a story a friend told me about
an uncle of his. It seems that this
uncle spent his money in a manner
viewed w’th alarm by members of his
family, They used to remonstrate
with him; speak somberly of a rainy
evening; urge economies; deplore the
willful waste which makes woef8l
want. To their best intended warn
ings, delivered only for his good, the
uncle would reply:
“l may go to the poorhouse once
You go there every day. 1 like my
way best.”
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The most expensive restaurants anu
:he cheapest restaurants are the ones
that are getting along best in New
York these days. The places in be-
tween these two classes are having a
tough time, Even the bootleggers are
feeling what Is known as the depres:
ston. Customers who used to buy sev-
eral cases at a time, now purchase
their liquids by the bottle,
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There is now a cofitrivance on the |
market which, fastened to the window, |
silences all the noises of the town
while still permitting and even encour
aging air to enter. Willard Fairchild
says that this is well enough, but that
what really 1s needed is a contrivance
for windows in the country which will
soothe the visiting Manhattanite to
slumber by reproducing all the differ-
ent sounds he is accustomed. Mr.
Fairchild thinks that perhaps It might
have to have some sort of taxi horns,
the rumble of the elevated, and the
flat wheels on surface lines. A good
inventor might go even further. He
could arrange perhaps to sound the
special note, the voice of the city
from which the visitor came.
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A city fellow, who visited a smal
village last summer, thought it would
be romantic to take a young lady for
an old-fashioned buggy ride, The only
horse available belonged to the local
grocer and general merchant. This
led to complications. The man from
the metropolis couldn't steer a horse
very well, and the animal insisted up-
on turning smartly into the yard of
any good customer and stopping at the
back door. Tt was the delivery wagon
horse and it knew its stuff.
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It was a most conservative newspa
per and the most conservative person
on It was the gentleman of the old
school who ran the clipping bureau, or
“morgue.” It was on this old-timer's
.day off that the chief editorial writer
wished to make some reference to the
homb outrage in Wall Street. In or-
der to be exact, he sent for the elip-
pings on that subject. It was reported
that no clippings could be found. The
editor was annoyed; sald they must be
there; asked under what headings a
search had been made. He was told
there was nothing under “bomb,”
“reds,” “explosions,” “outrages,” “an-
archists,” “eataclysms,” ‘“catastro-
phles,” or any other head which
seemed to bear on the matter. They
finally got In touch with the gentleman
of the old school. “Certainly It is
there!” he exclaimed indignantly.
“You will find all clippings concern
Ing It filed under ‘mishaps.’”
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Most of the former New York play
ooys are now plow boys. Their fore-
heads are furrowed and their spirits
are harrowed. From flying high, they
have come back to earth with discon
eerting force.
(©. 1932, Bell Syndicate.) —WNU Service.
Hunter Shoots at Turkey,
Opossum Falls From Tree
Kinston, N. C.—A hunter shot at a
turkey in a tree near Kinston. The
turkey flew away, but a wounded 'pos-
gnm dropped from the boughs, and the
hunters bagged it. The ‘possum was
sleeping on a branch above the line of
fire.
Gobi Desert Safer
Beloit, Wis.—Life on a Gobi desert
expedition Is safer than city life, Roy
Chapman Andrews, famous anthropol-
ogist and Beloit college alumnus, told
students here,
Policemen Unable
to Open Own Safe 3
Newport News, Va.—Poilce JX
% records of this city are abso- ©
i? lutely safe nzainst any Kind of 2
% disclosure. The outside door of
¥ the safe was closed by some one
% who did not know the rule that ¥
i? it was necessary to keep it open
% at all times. The reason was no ¥
¥ one knew the combination,
Ry
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Pennsylvania State Highwa
Patel will rigidly enforce this
on.
' OUNG Tom McVey
tossed the last log into
place. “That's the lot, Dad
— fifteen cords, I'd guess.”
His father’s ge
Wprdatieet
Aru twelve, sen, but
hardwood.
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Father and son sur-
their handiwork.
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