FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY- FOUR NURSES HELP GUARD Published Every Thursday HEALTH OF SCHOOL PUPILS Thos. A. Owens, Editor & Prop. Staff Has Grown Constantly in Penn- . : 4 Sn. sylvania Since Passage of Act E. F. Bradley, Associate Editor 5 Back in 1911. Entered im the Post Office at Patton, Pa, ee as Second Class Mall Matter. Four hundred and sixty-four nurses a. | are engaged in guarding the health of Subscription Balch 93.00 per. yoar In Ad ihe children in the schools of the com- . monwealth, the department of Public RATE CARD—Legal Notices, $1.00 per| instruction announced the other day. fnoh, o graciion jaefect, tor > insertions, One hundred and fourteen of the nur- per line; Business Cards, $10.00 per year; ses are in first class school districts, Display advertizing, 30c per inch; Fulllanq 350 in second, third and fourth position, 26 pect. extra; Minimum charge, class $1.00. Cash must accompany all orders for ; ; foreign advertising, All Advertising copy| The present service is the outgrowth must reach this office by noon Wednesday of an idea that began in Philadelphia to insure insertion. Unsigned correspon-|;, jq44 when the visiting Nurse Socie- " all times. ] lente will we lenored = ty offered the services of a nurse to the public schools. THE REPUBLICAN TICKET. As a result of various studies and demonstrations, school nursing service TESTS SHOW VALUE OF TREE LEAVES IN TIMBER GROWTH Chemicals Worth $4.46 Are Found in A Single Ton; Fire Causes Loss. The richness of virgin forest soil is proverbial, but form studies conducted by the Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters it has been possi- ble to translate in dollars and cents the commercial value of leaf fall from an ordinary forest cover. One ton of oak leaves evaluated in this manner is said to possess a chem- ical value alone amounting to $4.46. This comprises 2.8 pounds of phosphate 18.8 pounds of nitrogen, and 7 pounds of potash. The nitrogen alone at 24 cents per pound is worth $3.73. When the lightest ground fire passes through forests, burning the leaf lit- ter, wood, and humus, the nitrogen of President .............. HERBERT HOOVER | gradually became recognized. So that Vice President CHARLES CURTIS |when, in 1911, medical inspection was United States Senator DAVID A. REED | made mandatory in Pennsylvania by State Treasurer....EDWARD MARTIN | Section 1508 of the school laws, it was Auditor General... made possible for any school district to ....CHARLES A. WATERS | provide nursing service. Judge of the Supreme Court ...... In 1921 the number of school nurses WILLIAM D. PORTER | employed had grown to 71 in the first Congress. J. RUSSELL LEECH | class districts and to 149 in the second, State Senator............ JAY R. SHEESLEY | third and fourth class districts. General Assembly, Second District: In an effort to improve the quality MILTON SPENCER, EDMUND of service rendered to school districts, JAMES, JOHN R. MUSSER definite standards for qualifications for this position are being promoted by the department of public instruction. OWNERS OF FOREST LAND Specific requirements for certification PROFIT UNDER SPECIAL TAX are placing the school nursing service PLANS, SAYS STATE REPORT (in a rank similar to that of the teach- er. Districts are being urged to employ nurses who can at least meet the min- imum standards for temporary certifi- cation, which include graduation from a four year high school or its equiva- lent, graduation from an accredited school of nursing and nurse registration in Pennsylvania. A large percentage of nurses are se- curing additional educational training in order to obtain permanent certifi- cation. Seventy-five per cent of the school nurses employed in the second and third class districts of Pennsylvania have secured four years of high sch- ool education or its equivalent, while the figures for the United States as a whole indicate that only 34 per cent of public health nurses are graduates of a four year high school course. Many private forest owners in Penn- sylvania are taking advantage of the Auxiliary Forest Reserve Act, accord- ing to a statement issued the other day by Secretary Charles E. Dorworth of the Pennsylvania Department of For- ests and Waters. The auxiliary forest reserve laws pro- vide for seperate assessment of the forest land and the standing timber. The land isetaxed at not more than $1 an acre, and no taxes paid on the for- est growth until the trees are cut. Ten per cent of the stumpage value is then paid by the owner. The purpose of this plan is to postpone taxation while the forest is growing, and provides no saur- ce of income until the time when pro- fits from the cutting and sale of timber ars derived, Sng Meewner is In 2 Do The major aims of the school nurs- sition to pay. tii : ing program are to secure 100 per cent. “The possible objection of paying an correction of remediable physical de- annual tax upon & timber crop that fects of pupils; to prevent and control requires forty, fifty or seventy ~five the spread of communicable disease, to years to mature is obvious,” Dorworth secure healthful surroundings at school said. “It means that the wood growth and in the homes. To accomplish these is taxed over and over again, year af-| io qemands that the greater portion ter year. In the case of a forest hand-| or the nurse's time is spent in visiting led on a fifty year rotation, the first the homes of the pupils, year’s growth is taxed fifty times, the | = sp, “iy ortant feature of the school wood added to the trees in their.thir- nursing program during the past year tieth year’s growth must pay annually, heen the increased number of pre- taxes for twenty additional years, be-| 01 clinics which have been held by high fertilizer value is lost, although a large portion of the potash remains on ] the ground. To this loss may be added the great value of the forest carpet as a retainer of moisture. It is estimated that two tons of lea- ves fall to the ground yearly on an acre of well stocked oak trees. Four dollars probably estimates conservatively the money value of the fertilizing element that goes up in smoke and gas when a single year's crop of oak leaves on one acre is burned. Foresters point out that this meas- ure of fertilizer value of leaves is ar- bitrary, for the leaves do not possess as great value in the forest as they would if transferred to agricultural land. It would necessarily mean, they say, that $4.46 worth of wood value would have to be added ‘to the timber in the for- est each year on account of the fertil- izer value of each year’s leaf fall, and must therefore be regarded as an ag- ricultural measure of a forest value. Experiments covering many years of study in Europe substantiate the fact that wood growth is materially decreas- ed with the removal of litter from for- ests that are otherwise well handled. When the litter is removed annually in good Scotch pine stands, the incre- ment is reduced eight to eleven per vent; it beech woods it falls off eight per cent on very good soil, and from 32 to 50 per cent on poor soil. All studies show that losses in wood increment in- crease with the number of years during which the litter is removed from the forest. The portection of ofrests from fire in Pennsylvania not only preserves from destruction the leaf fall of the current and past years, but insures the contin- uance of the forest cover, every tree of which is in effect a tree adding fertil- ity year by year, and at the same time growing in wood value. Thrifty growth of the trees is promoted by reason of abundant leaf fall, and in forests pro- tected from fire they are enabled to reach correspondingly greater sizes year by year and add a greater am- 208 ACRES OF SEED POTATOES THE PATTON COURIER GIVEN CERTIFICATION 0. K. Two hundred and eight acres of po- tatoes out of approximately 600 acres entered, successfully passed the state certification requirements, according ot the Pennsylvania Bureau of Plant Industry. The fields which were cer- tified are located in twelve counties. One hundred and thirteen growers were entered in the certification work this year as compared with seventy- two in 1927. The number of growers certified is, 35, four less than a year ago. While almost 30,000 bushels of pota- toes passed inspection in 1927, the in- creasing popularity of Pennsylvania grown seed potatoes has resulted in a demand far exceeding production. At no time during the past five years has the production come up to the demand, bureau officials said. The growers and number of acres are given by counties as follows: Growers Acres County Certified Certified Bradford .. Ee 33.75 Cambria .35.50 Carbon .... 4.00 Centre .. 15.00 Erie ... . 3.50 Huntingdon Indiana ....... Lehigh ...... 6.00 Lycoming 9.00 Potter .... . 20.00 Somerset 11: 45.00 Sullivan d Tota] .vcivnnmminnio BS icnrcisini 203.00 RULING HELPS CURB THE POOR NURSERY STOCK Unreliable nursery stock salesmen and dealers who caused a great loss and disappointment to purchasers of nursery stock a number of years ago, have been eliminated to a large degree through the registration of all nursery- men and dealers in Pennsylvania, ac- cording to the bureau of plant industry, Department of Agriculture. eer eet Bee — - 666 Cures Malaria and quickly relieves Biliousness, Headaches and Dizziness due to temporary Constipation. Aids in eliminating Toxins and is highly es- teemed for producing copious watery evacuations, times each year and the general condi- tions have been found to be good, of- ten much better than the stock shipped into the commonwealth, Not only must all nurserymen have a license but all dealers in nursery stock as well as agents canvassing for nur- serymen, must be licensed. Anyone con- templating purchasing nursery stock should ascertain the status of the grower, dealer or agent before placing an order, attaches said. All agents are required to carry a card certificate. FALL SHIPMENTS OF FISH IN STATE ARE NOW UNDER WAY Commissioner of Fisheries N. R. Bul- | ler has returned from a tour of the | hatcheries where he has made arran- gements for the fall shipments of fish. This is what is known as the height of the season to the Board of Fish Com- : missioners, and it is now distributing trout, perch, sunfish and catfish. These fish are being shipped from the hatcheries, located at Union City, | Pleasant Mount, Bellefonte, Philadel- | phia and Corry. The majority of the shipments are going through by truck. | The policy of the Board of Fish Com- | missioners covering the size fish which are being sent out has met with the hearty, approval of the fishermen, Bul- ler said. No trout are being shipped out this year under six inches in length, and there are many seven and eight inches. These fish will make good fish- ing when the season opens in the spring. - The state law requires the inspection of all woody nursery stock offered for sale in Pennsylvania. This service is given free of charge to all persons sell- ing nursery stock and assures the pur- chaser healthy plants. The Pennsylva- nia nurseries are inspected one to three EVERY HOUSE FOR RENT—Second and Beech avenues. Bath and double gar- age. Inquire Mrs. S. A. Cooper. Bell Phone 34-R-14, 34-R-15 Established 1912. MAPLE FARM HOME Because its new + + + Because it's individual: - Because its the most beautiful automobile of the day, this new Buick~~~the car of cars is enjoying the year of years+ + « « bodying performance abilities un matched anywhere in the world — but also because it ushers in an en- tirely new style—a fascinating new mode—of automotive beayty and luxury! Drawing the greatest crowds— winning the most enthusiastic praise — rolling up the biggest de- mand in all fine-car history —the Silver Anniversary Buick with J New Masterpiece Bodies by Fisher The motorists of America “looked is scoring the most sensational suc- ty the leader for leadership” in cess ever won by any new quality automotive design. Buick! anm- car! swered with this epic car. And the public is responding with over whelming demand —a demand that has forced the great Buick factory thusiastically placing their orders to Pproductionlevels unprecedented for the Buick of Buicks and car of iDitsentire history! cars! THE SILVER ANNIVERSARY BUICK With Masterpiece Bodies by Fisher PATTON AUTO CO, PATTON, PA. Millions of spectators thronging Buick showrooms in all parts of the country! Tens of thousands en- And all because it is not only a leading engineering achievement of the past twenty-five years—em- Akron, Lancaster County, .Pa, | Situated in Garden spot of Aeris. | REUEL SOMMERVILLE F R ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Office in the Good Building. conducted for comfort of elderly guests L needing care and cheerful home, med- | ical and nursing if necessary; good food; cheerful and honest service. Per- manent arrangements made providing GIDAIRE PRODUCT or CENERAL MOTORS The Electric Refrigerator made and guaranteed by the Great General Motors a good home and care for life. Write Corporation. Four out of every five El- for rates, photos. Location near Lan- caster, Pa. ectric Refrigerators is a FRIGIDAIRE, More than 450,000 satisfied users. Priced PICTORIAL 1. En route t sweetheart anc si 2. When the CONTROLLER Ebensburg, Pa., S SEALED BIDS: —TU A. M., Monday, Octo bids will be received a County Contorller fc delivering bituminou Cambria County Cou Juvenile Home, the c fore it is cut. It is altogether possible} g.)q0) officials. At these clinics the |ount if fertility to the soil in which that the forest owner may find that| pqren four and five years of age|they grow. his taxes, carried forward over a Der-| yore given a complete health examina- iod of years, with interest included, tion. An intensive effort was made to | CLEAN RAGS HELP PREVENT equal or so reduce the profits of his, ve a1 remediable handicaps correct- DISEASE; MUST USE THEM forest investment that it really pays|eq pefore the child entered school, as not to grow timber.” ysuch handicaps have a direct bearing ue in force for a per from date of the conf Coal must show th ysis: Not less than 68 not more than 22 per ter; not more than |! phur; not more thar HERMAN R. FRANZEN, 7 Box 22, Akron, Pa. Baths NJ) Y TWANG from $180 up. L. E. KAYLOR, . EBENSBURG, PA. Modern Rates Reasonable WEDNESA Dealer, Pennsylvania will likely take its place An additional advantage in deferred) school progress. taxation of growing timber pointed out by Dorworth is that the tax is all paid at one time and is easy to calculate. It is more accurate and equitable, be- cause it is based on timber products whose exact quantities are definitely known at the time of cutting. The sale value provides a true index for assessment, and there can be no diffi- culties arising from guesswork as to the amount or value, nor are impartial assessments possible. The work connec- ted with numerous annual assessments is also eliminated. The principles involved in Pennsyl- vania’s Auxiliary Forest Reserve meas- ure have since been embodied in prac- tically legislation for the relief of a by other states. The Cham of Commerce of the United States after a nation wide study of for- est taxation in 1926, approved the prin- Approximately 70 per cent of the second and third class school districts now provide a school nursing program for their pupils. The need for this work is said to be as great in small third and in fourth class school districts as in the larger districts. Frequently, how- ever, such districts are handicapped by lack of funds or by the fact that the school district is not sufficiently large ‘to use the service of a full time nurse. Some counties are solving this problem by employing a county school nurse, other districts are employing the ser- vices of a school nurse jointly with one or more adjacent districts. —————————————————— STATE'S DEATH RATE THE SAME AS MANY OTHERS Pennsylvania’s death rate of 11.4 in 1927, was exactly the same as for the entire birth registration area of the as one of the states requiring that only new or sterilized wiping rags be pro- vided for use of industrial workers if a recommendation of the bureau of in- spection of the Department of Labor and Industry is adoptee. The matter probably will be presented to the in- dustiral board of the Department at an early meeting. A bureau of inspection official said this week that the need of a regulation of this sort has frequently been im- pressed in the past, ana that modern ideas of health protection of the work- er can no longer countenance a comple- te lack of restriction of the condition of the materials provided for the num- erous processes which call for wiping rags. Inspections, it was stated, frequently reveal that rags of the filthiest sort, apparantly offering every possibility of communicating disease to those hand- SUBURBAN ONY IW ALTOOM BOOSTER STORES Just to remind you that Wednesday is a good day to shop in Altoona Booster Stoses fo the things that your local merchants can- not supply. Now that coldes weather is here there will be many personal and home needs to be secured for Fall and Wy, 1 ) 1 : | ciple of the Pennsylvania plan. Follow- | {yhitaq States, according to a report [ling them, are contained in bales sup- ing this study the Chamber S¥pressed prepared by the bureau of vital Jopon plied by junk dealers or purchased from the belief “that the taxation of grow- | j.." ¢ the state department of health, | individual rag gatherers. Quite a num- ing timber should be based Shon the (The area includes 37 states. ber of concerns, after having their at- principle of the yield a5, wis RSRSOn Of these thirty-seven states, sixteen |tention called to this health hazard, able uniformity among : stat es inlpave a distinctly lower rate than that | Dave voluntarily agreed to purchase in such taxation,” and stated that “to re- |e Pennsylvania, eleven a somewhat | the future only washed and sterilized re ih engaged in Taine goes) higher rate, while nine others have the | "38S or new rags. At least one large es- en Me hs Brees} ne me or tpproximtay tne same. rus obishmont rently ale + sar crops to which they relate is a denial pt DepndVlvanis. Of Sates immean- HAs Shiamens of 0s ow, = A v tely adjoining Pennsylvania, New York | 4 study conducted by the bureau of i ; Maryland and Delaware reported high- | ispection in the south central part of HT er death rates in 1927 than us, while | *he state recently showed that there BLAMES BAD DIET FOR MALNU- Ohio, West Virginia and New Jersey | Was not much difference in the quota- TRITION IN MANY CHILDREN |had lower rates. font or Junk dealers on soiled rags and Since the death rate is affected by |On those that had been washed and Dr. J. Bruce McCreary, chief of the |changes in population and by the com- | Sterilized. The unreclaimed rags were bureau of child health, State Health | position of the population, the infant | duoted at about 9 cents a pound and Department, issues a warning to par- [mortality rate, which is the number of | the washed and sterilized ones at ab- ents regarding the condition known as| deaths under the age of one year to|Out thirteen cents. There are today in mEinutation. every 1000 live births, is considered a several cities laundries devoted to the “The fact must be constantly borne [better measure of the relative physical | Washing and sterilizing of rags. It was in mind,’ ’said Dr. McCreary, “that the | well being of various communities, pointed out by one dealer that the dif- frequent cause of malnutrition, the In 1927 the infant mortality rate in | ference in cost between dirty rags and most crippling of all the children’s dis- [ Pennsylvania was 69.0. The highest of those that have been treated probably eases, is over fatigue. Malnutrition can [the death rates was in Arizona with | Vanishes entirely when it is considered Winter and Booster Stores can be depended upon to supply your every need with entire satisfaction. ' BOOSTER STORES LEAD IN STYLE AND VALUE! While Booster Stores maintain leadership in ev- erything pertaining to val- ue and style, they also give special attention to quality with the result that all merchandise offered by the Booster merchants can be depended upon in every de- tail; a guarantee of satis- \ faction or money back goes with every sale made by a Booster Store. be —The Erskine Six— —at $860— Today’s Greatest Value Tomorrow’s Smartness Speed, Comfort, be brifly defined as underweight for |125.8 and the next highest 125.6 in the | that 100 pounds of dirty rags contain Good Roads L [ The CC height and age. All children who are 10 | state of Washington. Among the states | 2P0ut 15 pounds of foreign materials, 00 oaqs ead to Al- d ] d P m $ per cent. or more under the standard immediately ad joining Pennsylvania, which means that they have about 15 toona — The Highway of an nequa c Cc or ance. 5§& weight for age should be considered as [the highest rate was in Maryland and | Per cent less absorbtive value than the Good values and Depend- cases of malnutrition. This condition |the lowest in New York. Maryland, | Washed rags. able Merchandise Leads to The Touring I usually not dus to lack of food, bu: | Wess Virginia ahd Delaware had high- | 0 some locslities the rags supplied IRE ape oo p00) M5 2800 SR oaisige ox to improper food, too much work or|er rates than Pennsylvania and New- | {0 industry by junk dealers are nearly a Booster Stores! The Coupe. . too much play. York, New, Jersey and Ohio lower rates, | 2}! imported. It is considered not at al} ALTOONA O ot er stoc car un er The Deer “The records show a large percent-| Detailed mortality statistics are not | improbable that epidemics from other BOOS i NS Regeneron age of malnourished children in the |yet available for many of the registra- | Parts of the world are transmitted here OSTER ASSOCIATION. Sport rural sections, where their food is ab- |tion states. The largest states for which | through the medium of unclean wiping Sabrjolet in} undant. In these days of activity a |figures are now available are Minne- | 28S employed in industry. : {helnpetal child’s time is occupied from early in|sota and Kansas. Both of these states etree EY — 1000 S ce r t ] d Utility the morning to late at night with the |have low death rates and low infant | FEW LOCUSTS ARE FOUND a VE rave Cc Tens) hast, school duties, home chores, movies and | mortality rates. But Pennsylvania has IN MANY SECTIONS THIS YEAR STRAND Theatre, ; Light other recreational activities. a lower typhoid fever death rate than| The seventeen year locusts which ALTOONA, PA. ; . in “All children suffering from malnu- | has Kansas, and a lower cancer rate | made a visit to Pennsylvania this year 4 ® ° All prices f. trition face a greater hazard because | than either of these states. These sta- [were less abundant than in the pre- One Week, Starting Saturday, 10 Michi, of their lowered resistance in case of | tes have better records than Pennsylva- | vious visitation accordiag to reports October 6th, mi €S mn mi nutes Sunek Cu infectious diseases. Over 12,000,000 ses- hia in most all other causes of death, |reaching the bureau.of plant industry, sions were lost through absences last In general Pennsylvania is usually | Pennsylvania department of agricul- They include handling and charges an “THE TERROR” eyar. close to the average of the states in| ture. The Second All Talking “It is safe to say that malnutrition | the registration area. The locusts were reported as very Pict; had much to do in developing the ee ————————— numerous in Dauphin and Schuykill chute en ra ara oo atto diseases which were responsible for the DENNIS SULLIVAN. counties, in southern Luzerne and in With VITAPHONE Accom- 9 vast 10ss.” Dennis Sullivan, aged 89 years, died | northern Carbon counties. The major- animent ] at 9:10 o'clock Tuesday morning near | ity of the reports indicate that the in- » Ebensburg from arterio schlerosis and | festations were lighter than seventeen Also VITAPHONE' Acts. bronchial pneumonia. He was a veter- years ago. David Franklin Boring, aged fifty-|an iron moulder ana had worked for nine years, passed away at his home at | the old Johnstown Foundry Company REPORT MALTA FEVER. South Fork recently. Mr. Boring was | for years. So far as is known he left ! Several new cases of Malta Fever the father of fifteen children and was | RO relatives and the funeral was held | have been reported to the bureau of hn twice. Burial took place in Bel- | on Wednesday with interment in an | communicable diseases of the state in Ebensburg cemetery. DAVID F. BORING. i ———————————— STUDEBAKER the past week.
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