w * Pecan Bellefonte, Pa., February 12, 1932. Noni He alth THE FIRST CONCERN. PARESIS THE RESULT OF SYPHILIS “Mental disorders today represent a real social problem. Hospitals for the psychopathics are crowded and in many of them there are long waiting lists. It thus appears that modern civilization is exacting a terific toll. its cruel exactions and reprehensible personal conduct must also shoulder much of the biame. The fact is that nearly fifty percent of the pa- tients entering hospitals for mental disorders are there because of or- ganic or toxic causes. This situa- tion deserves consideration,” states Doctor Theodore B. Appel, Secretary -of Health. “For example, general paresis is the direct cause of one-fifth of the mental troubles in males entering % hospitals, and one-tenth of the dis- orders for all groups. This condi- tion is an organic disease of the brain due to the germ responsible for syphilis. It is a preventable disease if proper moral conduct is observed, unless the malady is in- “nocently inherited. Moreover, early and effective treatment of acquired syphilis will block the terrible end results of general paralysis. “Unfortunately, persons who have vacquired this malady frequently are careless regarding treatment, and with the ~eliminated, mistakenly conclude that ‘they have been cured. Prompt, ef- “fective and protracted treatment un- der the guidance of a reputable Physician specializing in diseases of this type is the only safe procedure. "The pity is that this proven weapon against the ravages of this malady is disregarded to such a lamentable -extent by many sufferers. “Again, the excessive use of al- cohol is responsible for nearly ten percent of committable mental dis- orders, at least in males. Thus making alcohol and syphilis combin- ~ed responsible for about one-fifth of the hospitalized insanities. “Nevertheless, as already intimat- ed, improper living habits continue ‘to impair many brains. Insuffi- cient sleep, neglect of bodily care and a consistent over-forcing of nervous energy are the pitfalls to avoid in this connection. “Speaking generally, nature de- mands that her fundamental laws be at least reasonably observed. A constant outraging of the physiologi- cal economy takes its toll not only in bodies but in minds also. In- sanities and lesser nervous disor- ders could be spectacularly reduced ! “if this fact were more generally re- -spected.” I ES * ES Ea “A few months ago at a football | "game a child was observed sitting "mext his father—the child bare-leg- ‘ged and the father in a heavy fur coat. With the temperature down ‘to freezing it appeared that this ‘parent was sadly lacking in judg- ment. Just why older people en- tertain the idea that the mature healthly person needs suitable pro- ‘tection against the winter chill and ‘that a child of seven or eight years “neers little or none is difficult to determine; and this, even though the youngster himself objects to stock- iings, as is sometimes the case,” states Doctor Theodore B. Appel, ‘Secretary of Health. It is perfectly all right for those ‘responsible for the welfare of the young to exert every reasonable ef- fort to foster the development of “hardihood and sturdiness. However, when undue exposure results it is ~carrying the thing quite too far. And the same may be said for ‘those over-solicitous parents who wrap their young children in excess- primary manifestations | DROUGHTS CHANGE PLANS FOR FISH PLANTING. In its survey of Pennsylvania streams, the Fish Commission has drought conditions. Extremely low water during the summer of 1930 and similar conditions last summer resulted not only in the drying up of many small tributary streams wut seriously affected numerous un- I derground stream sources. Only | through careful listing of every fish- | ing stream in the State has the Fish | Commission been able to combat the | drought’s effects. The ability of any stream to sus- | tain fish life may be determined | solely by its water area when it is at lowest ebb or during the peak of drought conditions. In larger | strearfls and bodies of water through- developed a scientific checkmate to | out the State, the ravages of the drought, while apparent, still do not materially affect natural cover and | forage possibilities. The | plan calls for four | streams, drought resistance, pres- | fish, natural cover, and proper wa- | ter temperatures. | tnese qualifications, trained men of ducting a scientific checkup. Pennsylvania trout streams come under the classification of brook or brown trout waters. Four groups of streams come under the warm water classification. The first group consists of waters adapted to black bass, yellow perch, sunfish, and cat- | fish and having these species. ters having black bass, pike perch or Susquehanna salmon, yellow perch, sunfish and catfish are in the second group. In the third group | are pike perch, yelow perch, sunfish | and catfish, while the fourth classi- | fication is for yellow perch, sunfish {and catfish. | “The drought in Pennsylvania was | serious, not alone in affecting the | forage of fish, but also in decreas- ing their range,” Oliver M. Deibler, | Fish Commissioner, said today. “This Wa- | | simply means that in limited areas, | larger fish devour the smaller.” I making the survey, lof the commission determine the ticular species of fish. bution throughout the State, for with the results of the checkup as a chart, only water where fish will thrive are stocked. This makes available for such streams many more fish from the State hatcheries each year. NATION NEEDS LINCOLNS. At a public dinner in New York, in commemoration of Lincoln, Miss Ida M. Tarbell, author of a “Life of Linclon,” spoke as follows: “I think I can say Abraham Lin- coln is the only man, living or dead, with whom I could have spent five years and not known boredom. “Lincoln was a man who never pretended to be anything be really was not. He never found time to conform to the usages of society. He did not undérstand or care for its amenities. He never learned to wear his clothes properly. His a bagged. His coat did not | fit. “You may remember the eminent Massachusetts statesman who spent an hour with Lincoln, and the only {entry he made in his journal after { their discussion of great national af- | {fairs was that Lincoln wore yarn | socks. | “Lincoln always was anxious to | get things just right. Sometimes, in consequence, he seemed slow to | the country, but he always insisted {with himself that his acts must con- {form to the moral law. You can- {not conceive of Lincoln trifling with | his conscience. “He wanted to be sure always that his decisions should ever stand as just in the annals of the world and | the history of human endeavor. | “There are several instances to | prove: this. He was told by his ' supporters he would lose an election by taking a certain stand. He did lose, but he said: [ by.” {later he was in the White House. | “Lincoln had real |the kind of goodness that preaches only on Sunday, employees | most practical portions of a body of water for the stocking of any par- | The stream survey has greatly in- | creased effectiveness of fish distri- | | | | | | | } i | | | | i i | | { i “We are right. | The people will recognize it by and | And they did, and four years | goodness—not | survey | requisites in | High speed living with | ence of acquatic life or food for | In ascertaining | the commission constantly are con- | | | but the kind of ively heavy clothing. Many a child goodness that reacnes out and em- | has been made seriously ill by thus overheating its body. It follows that if older persons «desire to under or overdress in frigid weather, foolish and even dangerous as that may he, they will have only themselves to blame for unhealthv conseouences. pose foolish clothing fads and fan- ies’ upon little children who are un- “able to Airect their own actions, and in this manner invite trouble, is scarcely fair to them to say the east. Clothing at any season of the year, whether for grown-ups or lit- tle folks, should be determined by the outside temperature. Style and the mode should, #f necessary, al- ways be subordinated to it. If this advice would be generally followed, many illnesses in young and older persons that will suffering or worse mainder of the avoided. winter ‘thermometer and common sense to just extremist, An excellent rule. Extremists in clothing as every other type of are marked persons. class to avoid!” * * * * * Perhaps the largest class of serfs in the United States are the food unre- strained desires of the palate, habit- ually overeat—with some type of a backfire on nature's part as an in- | slaves who, chained to the evitable consequence. It would therefore pay every per- son to take a conscientious inventory of his habits and conclusively elim- definitely Some sacrifices will have to be made un- doubtedly; even professional advice “inate all those that are veyond the natural laws. smay be required. However, cause | ture was being sold. during the re- could be | Therefore, permit the ing to sell milk deficient in butter nature is prodigal in | braces all one’s fellow men. | was the tenderest man that | lived. he during the awful four civil strife. He ever | No one suffered more than | years of “Lincoln was the best man Amer- | | institutions failed at any future | great crisis to produce such as Lin- | | coln.” FOOD VIOLATIONS | One hundred and seventeen pros- | ecutions for the violation of pure | food and other agricultural laws,” were reported by Dr. James W. | Kellogg, director, State bureau of | foods and chemistry, for December. | There were twenty cases where butter containing excessive as fresh which were { brought 25 prosecutions. Attempt- fat, resulted in fines for 13 dealers. Twenty feed and fertilizer deal- ers and manufacturers in seventeen counties were in the month’s round- up of “law breakers” because they were found selling products defi- cient in certain essential elements or having an excess of fiber. The pure food agents made 4275 inspections and investigations, and the chemists analyzed over 1400 samples of foods and | products. A total of 4416 licenses and permits were issued. her returns for kind treatment. And one's business in life is, or should be, to get the most out of nature that she is willing to give. Vital, less. vibrant life will not be satisfied with mois- | Selling eggs | not fresh | ican institutions ever produced. It | But toim- would be, inaeed, a sad thing if our | | agricultural | + Two Floridas | | | Banding Cigars in a Tampa Factory. (Prepared by National Geographic Society Washington, D. C.)—WNU Service. HIE “barrel” of Florida's pistol shape may be bi-sected by a canal. Plans are under way for the construction of a 135-mile waterway across the state in the vicin- ity of Jacksonville. Promoters of the project assert that the canal will cut shipping time between gulf ports and New York and Europe by from one to four days. Florida, which not many years ago was a sleepy peninsula, now ranks among the most progressive states of the South, She tilts her sunburned nose so far down toward the Tropics that only here, in all the United States, can you pick coconuts from their lofty habitat—that is, if you climb well! Her map spot in the sun gives florida on odd character. Tt makes her, economically speaking, dual-faced. On one gide, the real Florida: vast, sparsely settled, strewn with fruit and farm colonies, cow ranches, sawmills, turpentine mills, seaports, cizar fac- tories, smelly fisheries, and industries that produce, among other things, in commercial quantities, fuller’s earth, kaolin, titanium oxide, and—be it proudly said—about 85 per cent of this country’s supply of phosphate rock. On the other side, familiar to win- cer visitors, a strangely different state. Through long, drill months she drowses and suns herself; yet from December to March, gay, boisterous, and bizarre, she affords an astounding spectacle of massed humanity, idle, yet often ath- letically active, probably without parallel anywhere. The tourist trek to Florida is unique; .or, lured by sun, sea, and the in- stinctive love of outdoors, people turn toward Florida each winter, at which time her population almost doubles. By train, metor, boat, and plane this army comes. One even sees walkers and men on bicycles, a suitcase lashed atop the handlebars. Through Lake City and Jacksonville, more than a motor car a minute, by actual day- light count, during the early months of northern winter. Vast Throngs at Play. A graphie picture this, a giant movie- tone of upward of ten hundred thou- sand Americans marching to play and work. Big league ball teams at prae- tice in the sun; tired and retired eap- | italists on private yachts and patent medicine barkers in flivvers; horse- shoe pitchers, and eroquet players from small towns of the Middle West ; erack swimmers and divers, golf profes- sionals, brown sun-bathers, school children of all ages, hues, and ereeds studying in the epen air at desks set on the sand. Stunt flyers, prima donnas, and parachute jumpers; street fakers, and “the world’s smallest horse”; wax-figure shows of Grant and Custer, Buffalo Bill, and Jesse James working the county fairs; dane- ing teachers and eruising taxi-men with “For hire” ears brought all the way from Detroit and Cleveland; edu- cators and evangelists, palmists and pugilists; puritans and impuritans; a great circus in winter quarters, its tapirs and giraffes capering in warm sunshine; barbers in green smocks and 399 beauty specialists in the eity of Miami alone; taxidermists to mount one’s prize tarpen or sailfish; market snakehunters, with 12-foot tongs wad- ing the Everglades. Then, as suddenly as it began, the sisitors’ tumult and shouting die. The army departs. It goes pell-mell, swift- ly, as noncombatants evacuate a eity before advancing enemy troops. Sump- tuous, high-priced hotels e¢lose and hordes of “snow-bird” waiters, bell hops, maids, and eooks backtrack to prepare the northern resort hotels for another season. The tourist wave takes months to reach the high-water stage, yet all want to go North in a week, thus straining even the great facilities of the railways tapping the Far South. Divorced from the tension of win- cer racket, the real Ilorida relaxes and breathes easier, She counts the profits earned from winter paying guests in return for bed, board, and otherwise; then turns to her big job— that is, how to work and prosper dur- ing the quiet months, when tourist trade is nil, When the Tourists Are Gone. Some towns and industries are long established and now stabilized, They would live well without tourists. Yet, to a singular degree, the huge sea- sonal income from tourists has upset the economic balance of the state, Tourist trade grew suddenly, and much faster than the state could increase its own balanced food prodaction; thus Florida presents an odd picture | At times she throws away surplus fruit and vegetables. Later in the same year she may have to live out of tin cans. She has not yet learned to feed herself, but she is educating her- self along these lines rapidly. ixcellent dairy herds are hers, ye. | she imports about two-thirds of all her butter and milk. Here virgin, America heard the evening low of wandering kine brought by Spanish explorers; here are vast grasslands, potential feed for infinite cattle; yet the state imports seven-eighths of all its meat, Poultry farms grow flocks of 5,000 and 10,000 chickens, yet a large share of fowls and eggs consumed is brought from other states. Despite the eco- nomic commotion of the past decade, Florida is still in sense a pioneer state, Her growth has been spotty, haphazard, marked by local spurts and lapses, seemingly a precocious child trying to run before she walks. | Riding scuth to Florida in the win- | ter months along the Atlantic coast, | you meet long trains of yellow-hued ! refrigerator cars rolling north, laden | with fish, fruits, and vegetables. One | FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. DAILY THOUGHT A man cannot be his highest and best self without giving out those things which are best in him.—Bernard Snell. —A call is not necessary after a tea or afternoon reception. — The visiting card may be used | in issuing informal invitations. __A business address is never en- graved on the visiting card. __All liquids are taken from the | side, not from the end of the spoon. Visiting cards vary slightly in| shape or size from season to season. Reception cards state the hours between which the hostess receives. | —An invitation to a dinner re- | quires a personal call upon the host- | ess a week after the event. ——-At the wedding all expenses ex- cept the clergyman’s fee are borne by the family of the bride. —At an afternoon reception a half hour’s stay is sufficient, several of such affairs being attended in an afternoon. —All green vegetables except spin- | ach should be cooked with the lid off the saucepan. —1In storing away old scraps of | material place them in a bag made | of an old net curtain, then the de- | | sired piece will be easily seen when | wanted. | —Use a clothespin to untangle a | fringed mop. It takes little time and | the mop will be as fluffy as when | new. Allow thirty minutes to the pound for roasting a turkey. A! twelve-pound turkey will require six hours of roasting. | -—Wash pastry boards and rolling | pins in cold water and then wash in hot soapsuds and rinse well in| hot water. — Always rinse out milk glasses or bottles with cold water and wash in hot soapsuds. PARIS STYLES Beauty in everything has become a duty. Even the most utilitarian objects have been beautified, ren- | eyes. single train hauled 104 cars of toma- | dered gay and good-looking by col- toes. Seventy-five million hungry cus- | or and other devices. Kitchen uten- tomers live within 36 to 48 hours of |sils that used to be drab and dull her gates, by express and fast freight, | now make the culinary department Two hundred kinds of crops, fruits, |bloom like a gaily flowered garden. and nuts grow here, and shipments And so it is in the sartorial world. out of the state average one carload ys fo ean ery five minutes, the Jerr oma) | back when that garment was an in. She digs new potatoes and picks beans, | determinate brown or gray with no peas, tomatoes, celery, pears, papayas. 4 brightening touches, no other object grape fruit, and oranges when New | than tokeepuswarm and miserable- looking. But the rage for beauty and the craze for handknit garments have combined to put the sweater on the map, and so we find now that near- ly every house is showing smart colorful sweaters that have made sweater devotees of women who! would have scorned to wear one a few years back. But with all its decorative touches | the sweater has lost nothing of its | usefulness and is still grand for | York and Chicago are snowbound. Though she ships nearly 100,000 car. of orchard and garden crops a year, or more than 10 per cent of all that is | sold in America, only a small part of her available land is tilled. You cap ride for miles and miles, over superb- ly surfaced highways, threugh grass and pine lands as empty yet of human | life as in the dawn of creation. | What North Florida Is Like. North Florida is as different frou south Florida as lower Alabama from Cuba. Colonists had settled and de- | veloped an ante-bellum cotton and to- baeco aristocracy at Tallahassee and | thereabout when lower Florida was still a howling wilderness. Even to- ida’s population was born in Georgia and Alabama; but that will not be true a deeade hence, | Long age, when bears fattened ou. | erabs and turtle eggs where Miami | Beaeh and Palm Beach now . blossom, | Spaniards built St. Augustine and | Pensacola and connected them with a 400-mile military highway. You motor | over much of this same old line now | when you drive from Jacksonville west | to Mobile and New Orleans. In the! Cathedral at St. Augustine are to be seen erumbling, parchment-boung rec- | ords of marriages and baptisms among | Spaniards and Indians dating back to | 1600. | Yet Florida—but for that settleu | strip along her upper edge—stood still | for generations, which the rest of America was in the making. The rea- son, of course, was the trend of mi- gration to the great West! Till recent years, when better con. munications came and America’s food habits began to change through inten- sive distribution methods, refrigerator cars and high-power advertising, there was no great consumer market for the | golden winter fruits and green vege- tables which the state today grows. Nor, till long after the Civil war, did manufactured fertilizer on which Flor- ida agriculture now depends, come into general use. Also, years ago, there was yellow fever. In epidemic days it paralyzed Pensacola, New Orleans and Havana, Then came Reed, Carrol, Gorgas, and ohter great men of medicine, and through science life was made safe for whites in mosquito lands, After the Spanish-American war Miami had 300 people. To-day there are 157, 000 residents, Today as utterly as the West has forgotten the Indian dangers, so mod- ern I'lorida has forgotten such past dangers, for practical sanitation and good drinking water prevail, and every intelligent Floridan teaches, preaches, and practices what science has given to mankind for the protection of health, As science whipped mosquitoes, s. bold “builders conquered swamps ang jungles, and humanized coral-born keys, tying to the nation’s railway net a new world of strange sights and smells, | wear inthe country, or with a smart skirt, for morning wear in town. | To show you how the sweater has | progressed. a typical Schiaparelli | model in hlack wool which com- | bines a close purling stitch in the | upper bodice and sleeves with a | (loose, lacey stitch which makes the | .day, we are told, one-fifth of all Flor- shallow yoke, lower part of the | bodice and set-in cuffs. | The yoke is edged with embroider- | ed wool flowers in vivid colors and | similar embroidery borders the top | of the lace-stitch inset on the low- | er part of the bodice. The neckline is slashed at the cen- | ter front to permit passing the sweat- | er over the head with ease, and this | opening is held together at the top | by a metal clip. Did you ever hear | of such involved descriptions being | necessary for the humble sweater? DIVINITY BALLS Cook one and one-fourth cupfuls of sugar, one-third cupful of light corn sirup, one-fourth cupful of water, one-eighth teaspoonful of salt to the hard ball stage. Leave the saucepan over the burner after the heat has been turned off. Beat one egg white until stiff. Pour over the hot sirup very slowly, beat until the mixture holds its shape. Add one- half teasponful and one-half cupful of vanilla, one cupful of sliced dates and one-half cupful of nut meats; mix thoroughly and turn out on a marble slab, make into balls and roll in toasted or tinted cocoanut. This makes one and one-fourth pounds. —Place one teaspoonful of grated orange peel or lemon peel in the tea pot when making tea. It gives a delightful flavor and makes ordi- nary tea taste like the expensive teas. TASTY POTATOES 4 cups potato cubes 1 onion 2 pimentos 4 teaspoons butter 4 teaspons flour 2 cups milk 1-2 teaspoon salt 1 cup grated cheese. Boil the potatoes and onions 10 minutes. Pimento cut fine can be added during the last half of cook- i i desired. Drain. ake a white sauce of the bp flour and milk, add to it the ge cheese. Place alternate layers of po- tato and sauce in baking dish. Bake in moderate oven 1-2 hour, i Leftover potatoes may be used in which case you can save time by omitting the preliminary boiling, —Eighteen new demonstration areas were planted last gpri forest trees ag a part of are sion program in forestry. A total of 182,000 trees was set. ADMIRAL BYRD When Rear Admiral Richarq Byrg comes to town, it 1s like a tonic t, the spirit. For Admiral Byrd represents ful fillment to those of us who have 4). ways dreamed of going adventuriy but never have. He has been there and back. He has lived in tp, strange, frozen places at the bottom of the earth, and he stands in gy, midst in Pittsburgh, smiling ang yy. changed. Some heroes change before our They become aloof and tep,. peramental. But Admiral Byrq i always the same. The queer, cold places of endless mght have not frozen the charming spirit of tp, man. He comes home to us wp, have never had the chance to adventuring and he is still a gentle. man, which means that he is king. ly and considerate of others. Richard Byrd is more than a model for American youth. Many a hero could learn from him how tg go adventuring and come home yp. changed.—Pittsburgh Press. — Pei A¢WILSO re) \ Ax COUGH DROPS boll EN ——, — — TT TT TT TT TT ITT For Ready Cash id ILLS, BILLS, and there’s more feed to buy!” Robert Helm leafed through the papers and jotted down the totals. “Heres $150 in feed bills alone.” Mrs. Heim came to her husband’s desk. “I’d sell some stock,” she coun: seled. “Those calves and the two Holsteins will eat their heads off before win- ter’s over!” Mr. Helm hesitated. “Prices are awfully low, Sue. But wait a minute.” He hunted through the desk and found a card. “Here’s the name of that dealer who wanted to buy last month. I'll call him by telephone.” In a minute or two the deal was in progress and in five minutes it was closed. “Not so bad, Sue!” ex- claimed Mr. Helm jovi- ally. “He'll be over to- : morrow and the price is all right!” The modern farm home has a telephone Farm 6 Good Printing A SPECIALTY at the WATCHMAN OFFICE There is no style of work, from the cheapest ‘Dodger’ to the fin- es! BOOK WORK that we can not do in the most satisfactory manner, and at Prices consistent with the class of work. all on or communicate with this office. Employers, This Interests You The Workman's Compensation Law went into effect Jan. 1, 1916. It makes insurance com- pulsory. We specialise in plac- ing such insurance. We inspect Plants and recommend Accident Prevention Safe Guards which Reduce Insurance rates. It will be to your interest to consult us before placing your Insurance. JOHN F. 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