SCIENTIFIC
TO ‘COUNTRY DOCTOR’
WORLD FAY TRIBUTE
Fifty years ago a group of doctors
@athered in Berlin to hear an obscure
little scientist tell how he had isolat- |
ed a disease germ and had learned
how to cultivate it for study.
Dr. Robert Koch had been a coun-
Try doctor in East Prussia, and to
the scientists he addressed he must
have seemed a backwoodsman.
But Dr. Koch had brought his
proofs to show he had discovered |
the dread germ of tuberculosis. Also,
he revealed that he could make the
germ grow in an artificial medium.
Almost overnight he became a
greater figure in Paris than Pasteur,
and last week—on the fiftieth anni-
ve!
and bacteriologists the world over
paid tribute to his genius. Those | an
fighting tuberculosis still use meth-
ods of the experiment of Koch.
Dr. Koch died in Berlin in 1910,
Dr. Koch never cared for honors and
died in such poverty that a founda-
tion had to be provided to keep his
family from want.
Since the discovery, the ravages
of this disease have been reduced to
+ome-fourth of what they then were.
SCIENCE FINDS NEW METHODS
TO TREAT PERNICIOUS ANEMIA
Developement of a new treatment
“for pernicious anemia which has
produced “startling” results is an-
of his discovery-—physicians
| ELECTRIFYING THE | FARM NOTES.
| Inauguration of another
| step in the advancement of the Penn- | hours.
sylvania Railroad's electrification For
| and improvement program between
| Washington, Batimore, Philadelphia |
{and New York has been announced. |
Work will
;
:
| The total cost of the entire pro-
| jeet, including iastallation of exten-
! sive new cable lines, will be approx-
‘imately $7,000,000 and the work of
laying the conduit alone will require
approximately 1,000 men at its peak,
exception of 1830 which ran
Practice cleanliness with utmost 300 more for the year than the pres-
care | ent report for 1931.
Use good judgment in all Cancer steps into second place as
it was announced M. W. Clement, | assured | this alad
vice president in charge of the opera- will be — | Soom is arcally ie Ba
tion. | —There is no m or | the previous year, and in both cases
More than 100 miles of conduit are ' ghout pullets. Slow- is slightly lower than 1930.
included in the project, which is an growing pullets that are not ready HY was third in mortality
important preliminary step to actual to lay until they are eight or ten activities, showng a total number of
work on the electrification of the months old are a dead loss and 9470 for the past year. As a cause
| Pennsylvania lines from Wilmington should not be tolerated, of death pneumonia has stood high
through Baltimore to Washington. with good and strong pullets and in the lists for the past ten years,
The work will get under way im- hens that are physically fit to lay reaching @ total of over 14,000 in
| mediately and it will be pushed to eggs and have the feed necessary to 1923. The year just closed is about
| completion by the first of the next make the eggs there will be a mar- on a par with 1927 and 1930, running
| year. | gin of profit from eggs this next less than a hundred in excess of each
Construction of the new conduit winter.—R. B. Thompson, in the of those years.
line will complete tne underground Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman. | Bright's disease continued to be a
installation or the railroad company’s — large enemy of human life. The fig-
entire system of telegraph, telephone, | Turning stock on the pasture be- ures as announced are 9035 for the
and signal wires for a aistance of fore the grass has a well-established | year, It has not been so low in any
| 225 miles from New York to Wash- top and root growth may damage the year since 1923, and is about a thous-
ington. Over its heavy traffic lines, pasture and reduce the season's total and fewer than 1928, 1929 or 1930.
where interruption of communica- feed from it. | This does not indicate any particular
tions or the failure of a signal fof | — diminution of the activity of this dis-
instant might complicate the —Scenting pigs with kerosene is | ease. Since the early variations over
| operation of trains and cause serious suggested as a means of inducing a a period of ten years time, show it
| delays, it has been the policy of the sow to adopt the young of fothers. sometimes below that mark. The
| Pennsylvania railroad to place its past three years have been above
communications system underground In the form of butter, milk fat that line, while the present one falls
and thus avoid danger from weather is easily digested, is unequaled in slightly below.
hazards or any interference from the concentrated energy value, palatabil- Apoplexy stands fifth in the list, as
| overhead power system in electrified ity, flavor, and vitamin content, a cause of death. The figures stand
territory. | claim students of nutrition. at 8132 for the year. This is the
The conduit consists of six ducts’ — | lowest since 1923, and is the ninth
in which the various wire systems The most important apple in- straight year to record between eight
will be installed. These include the sects, a revised edition of Farmers’ and nine thousand deaths from this
railroad’s important communications Bulletin No. 1270-F, just issued, may | cause, The variations ars so slight as
system and the signal system, gov- be obtained free from the Depart- | to indicate that the ravages of this
erning the operation of all trains. ment of Agriculture, Washington. | malady are practically stationary in
This signal system, operated by re- — | the Commonwealth.
These five iseases account for
and your success with baby chicks a “killer” for 1931. The number who |
~Manure, or other forms of or-.
ganic matter, will greatly improve about 60,000 deaths in the State in
| garden soils. Apply eagerly enough | 1931, or about half the total number.
for straw material to decay. Plow |
mounted by Dr. A. C. Bachmeyer, Mote control through sub-stations lo-
superintendent of Cincinnati General cated approximately every ten miles,
“Hospital. i sets the automatic signals which de-
Dr. Bachmeyer said experiments | termine the movement of every train,
“have produced the “most satisfac-| Carrying 108 strands of wire in Spade deeply and thoroughly. Then INTERESTING FACTS,
tory BO no matter to what the communication cable, the new | apply fertilizer broadcast and work | “acts moi "
Stage the disease hus progrouses | telegraph and signal system will re- into the soll. A 4-12-4 mixture js| AMO ia Knows,
Pernicious anemia is caused hy a 9uire more than 11,000 miles of £00d on a farm garden with sum. compiled from all parts of the world
shortage of red corpuscles in the
blood. A series of experiments have
been started in General Hospital by
the department of internal medicine |
designed for treatment of pernicious
anemia, Dr. Bachmeyer said in a
statement. i
“The treatment is beyond the ex-|
permental stage and the startling
results obtained will soon be releas-
ed to the medical profession and
eventually to the general public,” he
‘said. |
Experiments conducted by four |
physicians, were based on an earlier
very that beef, digested by nor- |
gastric juice and fed to an ane- |
mic patient, increased production of |
_red corpuscles. However, if the beef
had been digested by gastric juice |
Trom an anemic sufferer, there was |
no increase in red corpuscles.
Working on this premise, scien-
“tists found, it was said, that proper-
ly neutralized gastric juice could he
injected into the veins of the patient, |
producing an apparent increase in
blood cells, Bv isolating the active
agent in this ivice, the effect was
said to be multiplied.
Pernicious anemia can be far more
effectively treated with a new liver
extract than hy feeding unpalatable
raw liver.
This liver concentrate solution has
been develoved by Dr. William P.
Murnhv, distineuished Harvard Med-
ical School scientist. with the assist-
ance of a vounger scientist, at the
"Peter Brigham Hosnital, Boston.
Dr. Murphv describes the nature
of the new remedv and some re-
markahle reenlte obtained hv its use, |
in the current issue of the Journal
of the American Medica! Associa- |
tion, He wns one of the nioneers of
the ravr Yivar treatment for perni-|
‘cious anemia in 1924, i
POWERS GREAT i
« Injections of the new liver con-
centrate are made in the patient's
muscles. The extract is seventeen
times as notent in its curative effect
a8 the hest calf liver itself. It is
‘more than seven times as mowerful
as anv other Yivar rancentrate so far
known, according to Dr. Murphy's
Tenort.
In same cnges two or three intra-
mnscunlar indectiops resulted in re-
voverey Marked improvement was
moticaa¥ia within 38 to 48 hours after
fhe first infection.
ANTERVALS ARE LONG
It is not necessary to give these
‘injections every day. In most cases
of pernicious anemta, all that is nec- |
. wssary is to give Injections at in-
tervals of one to three or more
weeks.
‘Perhaps the most interesting as- relatt
pect of the Murphy liver concentrate
treatment is that it can be used to
replace blood transfusions in the
«case of gravely ill patients.
Several types of blood diseases
‘can be treated by the extract, ex-
periments made on some thirty pa-
tients indicate.
AONEY AND MILK SIMPLE |
BUT SURE COLD REMEDY
Warm milk and honey at bedtime |
will induce sleep in the grown gen- ., °." .."rone now in existence) is lege last year it requircd 5.63 man
have the slightest symptom of a
wold.
Magistrate—“You sav this man
‘stole vour watch. Do I understand
that vou prefer the charge against
Him?”
Wurphv—“Well, no, your worship;
“X prefer the watch, if it's all the
same to you”
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| mington and W
wire for the installation between Wil- | clent manure, while a 4-8-4 is better
. This enor- | with little or no manure.
mous cable will have a capacity of | Sores
135 telephone and telegraph mes-| -—Providing low f roosts for
sages humming along simultaneously chicks as early as 8 to 4 weeks of |
through its copper strands. lage will help to préveiit coccidiosis, |
Following completion of each sec-' Say State College poultry specialists,
tiin of the conduit system, the ca- Furthermore, chicks will feather and
bles will be installed as rapidly as Brow more uniformly if forced to
possible. It is expected that the en- roost at an early age,
tire project can be completed next ue
year. | Runners root in June
— taking
| or early July are several times more
| productive than the later ones which
set in late’ August and
| An early start is important. Fispare
Special trains, carrying mixers and
cars of material for manufacturing
concrete on the ground, will be
to speed the work along. i
! the soil Patren—'"May I have some sta-
conveyors on these concrete trains soil early and se lants i | yionery ” “Who is that fellow with the long
will feed the concrete direct from APril. A sidedressing of st of | Hotel Clerk (haughtily)—*Are you | hair?”
the mixer to the excavations. | ammonia or nitrate is in giv-| 4 cuest of the house?” “He's a fellow from Yale’
fe se tase und gi Ut HS Patron—*Heck, no. Im paying| “Oh, I've often heard of those
MAIL PLANE PILOT | a i dollars a day.” Yale locks.
CRASHED TO DEATH | —Record kee on milk produc == kin
| tion of dairy cows becomes of great
Mail pilot Forrest Mallick, 24 er importance as:
years old, gambled his life against Detective work should
the weather, last Thursday, and lost.
And it was not in the mountainous losers are definitely t
stretch of Pennsylvania which face- “out they go” should: en
tious writers have dubbed “Hell's
Acre,” but on the flat expanses of —Be sure to rake off the mulch on
Ohio that he crashed to his. death. shrubbery borders and flower beds |
Mallick, flying the night mail from before active growth: starts. If this |
New York to Cleveland, fell in a is left on too long it softens the |
farmer's field near Bedford, Clewe- plants. De not remove’ the mulch on
land suburb, where he ran into a a bright sunny day.
blinding fog, rain and snow. | —
g 1,000 pounds of mail, B __gyulphate of ammonia and ni-
left the Newark, N. J. airport at trate plate are the two most Mo
10:15 p. m., or Wednesday. Shorty erally used fertilizers for fruit trees.
after midnight he arrived ar Belle- They should be applied at least 2 or
fonte, Pa. He: climbed out of his ship 3 weeks before blooming for best re-
a ask about the weather the rest of | gyuits. Broadcast the fertilizer around
way. tree halfw
He was told it was thickening but tne ends of the Branches i Lowers
he had flown the night mail on the the trunk and an equal distance out |
New York-Cleveland run for eight beyond the spread of branches.
fouls 2nd decided he could. make it —
throug | brooder should
At 2:30 a. m., only half an. hour A er a signs i)
from the end of the run, he was re- damp litter first weeks
ported over the airport at Parkman; kar the =~
| it is practical to rood
Ohio. A few jugs lates Be Jan jie i a prastics) to Clean ihe E RY
a ma
its engine * ? ce Of pheans, and similar crops,
Bedford and nearby towns. Several gnown om AE field
hours later, his body was found in| Sonny: troubies encountered im
the w of his plane. small gardem will disappear
feet from
ceiling
time to use
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Corps; Vice-Admirals rate Lieutenant |
General; Rear Admiral compares to | -
Major General; Commodore (though| In an experiment at State Col-
| the same standing as Brigadier Gen- | hours and 4.64 tractor hours an acre
ranks | to grow 89 acres of corn with tractor
“Tho the days be dark and trade
| The Lieutenant in the Navy is On phe tough, it's always well to make a
Fos Aging Te Ape ig s Cap- | bluff, to face the world with cheer- |
| tain, while the grade Lieuten- | fy] eye, as though the goose were
ant in the Navy is of the rank as hanging high."—Walt Mason.
ny First Lieutenant. and
| Second Lieutenants rank alike, as do
| Midshipmen and cadets.
Some men have reasons to advance |
for their failure, but on the other
‘hand, if they were successful there
| —We will do your job work right would be none.
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Cook Electrically
by Collier's weekly, the editors
[iikariicn te Sst plane to/the tollow,
More than 2,000 different articles
are now plated with chromium.
What is the largest palace in the
world? The Vatican, with 11,000
rooms.
Human skin is so antiseptic that it
kills 90 per cent of all disease germs
that land on it.
Any ordinary suit of men's cloth-
ing is made up of a 130
different pieces of
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and the hardwood floors attract the
admiraton of all who tarry under his
roof. He was a careful workman, at-
tested by the fact that he has many |
of the original tools purchased when |
he first started to work. |
Andrew Johnson and Miss Almeda |
Jones were united in marriage July
4, 1888. at the First Methodist
church in Camden, N. J. One son, |
Oscar, prominent citizen and lodge-
man of Tyrone, blessed their union.
Mr, Johnson has been active in
the church, having been a member
of the First Methodist church of
Port Matilda for 45 years, much of
which time he served in practically
all official capacities. Mrs. Johnson, |
who is the president of the Ladies
Aid society, was a teacher in the |
Sunday school for many years.
Ye has been vitally. interested in |
community affairs, and served many
years as president of the school
board. He was a member of the old
Tyrone division safety committee
for three terms.
As a fraternal man, he has been
equally as active as in other things.
He is a charter member of the
Knights of the Golden Eagle and of
the Junior Order United American
Mechanics, of Port Matis, ad has
the honor of being a cer,
having passed through all chairs in
each. He is a life member of Tyrone
Lodge No. 494, Free and Accepted
Masons, and of Harrisburg Consist-
ory. He also holds membership in
Jaffa Temple, Altoona, and in the
Tyrone Hook and Ladder company
of volunteer firemen.
Mr, and Mrs. Johnson look for-
of which will be spen
tilda where their life
been.
man has
Mother—'‘Mabel's
Have
La ing om
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YF amer— ot a word. I have not
even seen him since I mailed him
Jast month's electric light bill’ ’
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are available to all,
ARE YOU RENTING?
IF SO, and you move your electric range — well,
on the average, it only costs about $7.50 for rein-
| a stallation in another home on West Penn lines.
Hil
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if 4 Pieces ~—while you can still buy at the
il. ’s most favorable prices in years—
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And yet... prices have been lowered as much
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ll What is more, the cost of electric cooking on
| West Penn lines is so low that its advantages
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