Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, February 12, 1932, Image 6
Your Hea THE FIRST CONCERN DROUGHTS CHANGE PLANS Deworraiic Wald, | FOR FISH PLANTING. —~reD | In its survey of Pennsylvania Bellefonte, Pa., February 12, 1982. developed a scientific checkmate to - — m | drought conditions. Extremely low ‘water during the summer of 1930 1t h ‘and similar conditions last summer | resulted not only in the drying up . of many small tri streams ‘out seriously affected numerous un- | 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 h, during the peak of drought conditions. In larger _PARESIS THE RESULT OF SYPHILIS Streams and bodies of water through- “Mental disorders today represent out the State, the ravages of the a real social problem. Hospitals drought, while apparent, still do not for the psychopathics are crowded materially affect natural cover and and in many of them there are long |forage possibilities. The survey waiting lists. It thus appears that! plan calls for four requisites in modern civilization is exacting a Streams Sought ig pres terific toil. High speed living with ence Squaiic ge or its cruel exactions and reprehensible | fish, natural cover, and proper wa- personal conduct must also shoulder ter temperatures. In ascertaining much of the blame. The fact is ge gualisestions, trained men of tha Iv fifty . of _ the commission cons y are con- Gents entering oii for Ee | ducting a scientific checkup. disorders are there because of or-| Pennsylvania trout streams come ganic or toxic causes. This situa- | under the classification of brook or tion deserves consideration,” states Drown trout waters. Four groups Doctor Theodore B. Appel, Secretary Of streams come under the warm of Health. | water classification. The first group “For example, general paresis is | I ae adgpied to back the direct cause of one-fifth of the go " 04 a these Ly Wa- mental troubles in males entering... having black bass ike rch | hospitals, and one-tenth of the dis-| ' P pe | onder for all groupe. This. condi. | Or Susduenann son; vsLleN tion is an organic disease of the % | brain due to the germ responsible To ER tii ap | for syphilis. It is a preventable ,. A while the po rth classi | - disease if proper moral conduct is 3 hs observed, unless the malady is in- Reation is for yellow perch, sunfish | nocently inherited. Moreover, earl Jan a . \ and effective treatment of dno "The drought in Pennsylvania was serious, not alone in affecting the syphilis will block the terrible end forage of fish, but also in decreas- edie of Senaral ts Rive ing their range,” Oliver M. Deibler, ] , | Fish Commissioner, said today. “This sauguired Xs palaay Jrdquently are ‘simply means that in limited areas, With the primary manifestations I making the survey, employees -eliminated, mistakenly conclude that of the commission determine the ‘they have been cured. Prompt, ef-| ost practical portions of a body of fective and protracted treatment un- | water for the stocki f - der the guidance of a reputable | ticular specios of Ashe © A : s s a me | oe Jie Jiovey bun growl J a pe thet oy Pp - | creased effectiveness of fish distri- DVL proven weapon pytion throughout the State, for he Tn Bl TA | mi ha ree . | chart, only water where | extent by many sufferers. thrive are stocked. This makes | “Again, the excessive use of al- available for such streams many | “cohol is responsible for nearly ten|more fish from the State hatcheries | jpatcen; of Somianle ental in each year. | orders, at least in males. us ———— bt a——— making alcohol and syphilis combin- NATION NEEDS LIN V | ed responsible for about one-fifth of BOISE, | the hospitalized insanities. | At a public dinner in New York, | “Nevertheless, as already intimat- in commemoration of Lincoln, Miss ed, improper living habits continue | 1da A. Tarbell, anor of a “Lifeof | ar Tt a | “1 at iy a unm Lio ‘and a consistent over-forcing of | coln is the only man, living or dead, | Beivius ehargy axe the ‘pitfalls to) i HE EO a “Speaking generally, "nature dé) “Lincoln was a man who never BAT that her fundamental laws pretended to be anything be really “be at least reasonably observed. A wag ot He never found time to constant outraging of the physiologi- | conform to usages of society. | cal economy takes its toll yo only He did Not Bude or Sate for | in bodies but in minds also. In- ame e never learned to sanities and lesser nervous dAisor- Wear his clothes properly. His | ‘ders could be spectacularly reduced | trousers bagged. His coat did not | ye act Were ngre Seusrally ve-| “You may remember the eminent v * * * * | Massachusetts statesman who spent “A few months ago at a football an hour with Lincoln, and the only game a child was observed sitting entry he made in his journal after | --mext his father—the child bare-leg- their discussion of great national af- ‘ged and the father in a heavy fur fairs was that Lincoln wore yarn “coat. With the temperature down SOCKS. ‘to freezing it appeared that this “Lincoln always was anxious to ‘parent was sadly lacking in judg- get things just right. Sometimes, ment. Just why older people en- in consequence, he seemed siow to .‘tertain the idea that the mature the country, but he always insisted healthly person needs suitable pro- with himself that his acts must con- ‘tection against the winter chill and form to the moral law. You can-| ‘that a child of seven or eight years not conceive of Lincoln trifling with “neers little or none is difficult to his conscience. ‘determine; and this, even though the “He wanted to be sure always that youngster himself objects to stock- his decisions should ever stand as . ings, as is sometimes the case” | just in the annals of the world and states Doctor Theodore B. Appel, the history of human endeavor. | _ Secretary of Health. | “There are several instances to It is perfectly all right for those prove this. He was told by his responsible for the welfare of the supporters he would lose an election | young to exert every reasonable ef- by taking a certain stand. He did | fort to foster the development of lose, but he said: “We are nght. hardihood and sturdiness. However, The people will it by and | when undue exposure results it is by.” And did, and four years carrying the thing quite too far. | later he was in the White House. And the same may be said for “Lincoln had real goodness—not those over-solicitous parents who the kind of that preaches . wrap their young children in excess- only on Sunday, but the kind of | ively heavy clothing. Many a child goodness that reacnes out and em- | "has been made seriously ill by thus braces ail one's fellow men. He, overheating its body. | was the tenderest man that ever’ It follows that if older persons lived. No one suffered more than! * desire to under or overdress in he during the awful four years of | frigid weather, foolish and even civil strife. ! . i dangerous as that may be, they will “Lincoln was the best man Amer- | - have only themselves to blame for i institutions ever produced. It) wunhealthv conseouences. But toim- wo be, inaeed, a sad thing if our pose foolish clothing fads and fan- institutions failed at any future cles upon little children who are un- great crisis to produce such as Lin- | able to Airect their own actions, and | coln.” | #n this manner invite trouble, is scarcely fair to them to say the FOOD VIOLATIONS Reast. | “a season of the One hundred and seventeen pros- Clothing at any ‘ . wh upg or lit- ecutions for the violation of pure year, whether for grown-ups OO Jaws,” | tle folks, should be determined by food and other | the outside temperature. Style and were reported by Dr. James wi the mode should, if necessary, al- Kellogg, director, State bureau of " ways be subordinated to it. foods and chemistry, for December. If this advice would be generally There were twenty cases where ‘ followed, many illnesses in young | butter containing excessive mois- and older persons that will cause ture was being sold. Selling eggs suffering or worse during the re- as fresh which were not fresh, “mainder of the winter could be brought 25 prosecutions. Attempt- avoided. ‘Therefore, permit the ing to sell milk deficient in butter ‘thermometer and common sense to fat, resulted in fines for 13 dealers. | rule. Extremists in clothing just| Twenty feed and fertilizer deal- | as every other type of extremist, ers and manufacturers in seventeen are marked persons. An excellent counties were in the month's round- class to avoid!” . . 3 up of “law breakers” because they Perhaps the largest class of serfs were found selling products defi- cient in certain essential elements in the United States are the food slaves who, chained to the unre- or having an excess of fiber. The pure food agents made 4275 strained desires of the palate, habit- inspections and investigations, and ually overeat—with some type of al the chemists analyzed over 1400 backfire on nature's part as an in-| samples of foods and agricultural evitable consequence. | products. A total of 4416 licenses It would therefore pay every per- and permits were issued. son to take a conscientious inventory | of his habits and conclusively elim- = ‘4nate all those that are definitely | her returns for kind treatment. And peyond the natural laws. Some | one’s business in life is, or should sacrifices will have to be made un- be, to get the most out of nature doubtedly; even professional advice | that she is willing to give. Vital, may be required. | vibrant life will not be satisfied with However, nature is prodigal in| less. Banding Cigars in a Tampa Factory. (Prepared by National Geographle Society Washington, D. C.)—WNU Service. HE “barrel” of Florida's pistol shape may be bisected 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 side, the real Florida: vast, sparsely settled, strewn with fruit and farm colonies, cow ranches, sawmills, turpentine mille, 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- .er 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; Lor, 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, motor, 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 ear a minute, by actual day- light count, during the early months of northern winter, Vast Throngs at Play. A graphic picture this, a giant movie- (one of upward of ten hundred thou- sand Americans marching to play and work. Big league ball teams at prac- tice in the sun; tired and retired cap- italists on private yachts and patent medicine barkers in flivvers; horse- shoe pitchers, and croquet 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 creeds studying in the open 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 cruising taxi-men with “For hire” cars brought all the way from Detroit and Cleveland; edu- eators 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 smoeks and 390 beauty specialists in the eity of Miami alone; taxidermists to mount one's prize tarpon or sailfish ; market snakehunters, with 12-foot tongs wad- ing the Everglades, Then, as suddenly as it n, the /isitors’ 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 close and hordes of “snow-bird” waiters, bell hops, maids, and cooks 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- .er racket, the real Florida 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 1s 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 halanced food production; i i { i | | i 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. Excellent dairy herds are hers, yc, 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, potentinl feed for infinite eattle; yet the state imports seven-eighths of all its meat, Poultry farms grow flocks of 5,00, 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 south 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 single train hauled 104 cars of toma- toes. Neventy-five million hungry cus- tomers live within 36 to 48 hours of | her gates, by express and fast freight, Two hundred kinds of crops, fruits, | and nuts grow here, and shipments out of the state average one carload | every five minutes, the year around!’ She digs new potatoes and picks beans, | peas, tomatoes, celery, pears, papayas, grape fruit, and oranges when New York and Chicago are snowbound. | Though she ships nearly 100,000 cars | 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 can ride for miles and miles, over superb- ly surfaced highways, through 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 from south Florida as lower Alabama from Cuba. Colonists had settled and de- veloped an ante-bellum cotton and to- bacco aristocracy at Tallahassee and bines a close purling stitch in the thereabout when lower Florida was still a howling wilderness, day, we are told, one-fifth of all Flor- | ida's population was born in Georgia and Alabama: but that will not be true a decade hence, Long age, when bears fattened ou. erabs and turtle eggs where Miami) Beach and Palm Beach now blossom, Spaniards built St. Augustine and | Pensacola and connected them with a er over the head with ease, and this | 400-mile military highway. You motor | opening is held together at the top| over much of this same old fine now | when you drive from Jacksonville west | to Mobile and New Orleans, In the Cathedral at St. Augustine are to be seen erumbling, parchment-bound rec- | ords of marriages and baptisms among | of gugar, one-third cupful of t | Spaniards and Indians dating back to | 1600. | Yet Florida—but for that settle. 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 Florida 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 and jungles, and humanized coral-born keys, tying to the nation's railway net a new world of strange sights and smells, 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 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. —In 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 pound for roasting a turkey. A twelve-pound turkey will require six hours of roasting. to the —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- dered gay and good-looking by col- or and other devices. Kitchen uten- sils that used to be drab and dull now make the culinary department bloom like a gaily flowered garden. And so it is in the sartorial worl Take, for example, the humble sweater. Can you remember way back when that garment was an in- determinate brown or gray with no brightening touches, no other object than to keep us warm 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 wear inthe country, or with a smart skirt, for morning wear in town. To show you how the sweater has ssed a typical Schiaparelli model in black wool which com- upper bodice and sleeves with a Even to- loose, lacey stitch which makes the shallow yoke, lower part of the bodice and set-in cuffs. The yoke is edged with embroider- ed wool flowers in vivid colors and of the lace-stitch inset on the low- The neckline is slashed at the cen- ter front to permit the sweat- 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 cu 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 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 tea. It gives a delightful flavor and makes ordi- nary tea taste like the expensive teas. 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- ing if desired. Drain. Make a white sauce of the butter, flour and milk, add to it the grated cheese. Place alternate layers of po- tato and sauce in baking dish. Bake in moderate oven 1-2 hour. Leftover potatoes may be used, | in which case you can save time by | omitting the preliminary boiling. —Eighteen new demonstration areas were planted last spring to forest trees as a part of the exten- sion program in forestry. A total of 182,000 trees was set. to a dinner re- quires a personal call upon the host- | ADMIRAL BYRD When Rear Admiral Richard Byrc comes to town, it is like a tonic tc the spirit. represents ful | For Admiral Byrd fillment to those of us who have al { ways dreamed of going adventuring but never have. He has been ther: |and back. He has lived in the | strange, frozen places at the botton ‘of the earth, and he stands in ow | midst in Pittsburgh, smiling and un | changed. | Some heroes change before ou Leyes. They become aloof and tem peramental. But Admiral Byrd i always the same. The queer, col places of endless mght have no frozen the charming spirit of th man. He comes home to us wh have never had the chance to g adventuring and he is still a gentle man, which means that he is kind ly and considerate of others. Richard Byrd is more than model for American youth. Man a hero could learn from him how t go adventuring and come home ur changed.—Pittsburgh Press. LTT, '5ewiLsons 5¢ \ i For || Ready Cash rennn i “PDILLS, BILLS, and there's more feed to buy!” Robert Helm leafed through the papers and jotted down the totals. “Here's $150 in feed bills alone.” Mrs. Helm 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 3 closed. ! “Not so bad, Sue!” ex. i claimed Mr. Helm jovi. ally. “He'll be over to- morrow and the price is all right!” The modern farm home has i i a telephone reser sans nna ane i | i | Farm 6 | similar embroidery borders the w GC | P ° iy er part of the bodice. 0 | | ' A SPECIALTY | There 1a | | satisfactory ~ Employers, ‘This Interests Yi pensatic ! LIQUID - TABLETS - SALVE 666 Liquid or Tablets used internally 666 Salve externally, make a com and effective treatment for Colds Most Speedy Remedies Kno NOT SUFFER monthly pain and dela; ESTERS PILLS 3) “THE DIAMOND WF BRAND" AT