Uy AT a. © 2 XA A a Wp. ll Thursday, July 9, 1942 YOUR HEALTH * % Xx From Educational Committee of Board of Trustees of the Medical Society of Pennsylvania, which Cambria County Medical Society is a component . , , TETANUS Tetanus or lockjaw annuaily kills about 1,000 persons in the United States. During the first years oi the last World War tetanus occurred in about three of every 100 wounded Britisa soldiers, ™ 4 In the American Army, of the 225,- 000 wounded soldiers in the first War, tetanus developed in only 36. Tetanus | amitoxin accounted for the difference, * ££ ¥ The disease occurs when the tetan- | us germ enters a wound. * * =» The tetanus bacillus exists in soil in which there has been some mix- ture of animal manure. * % *% Following automobile accidents, in Last October the department direc- highway or roadside may not have been removed from the wound, tean- us antitoxin is now administered as a routine precaution. * ¥ x Tetanus causes spasams of certain muscles, especially those of mastica- tion, often followed by convulsions and rigid locking of the jaws. * ¥ ¥ It usually requires from four days tetanus to develop in a man after the to three weeks for the symptoms of germs have entered the wound. * ¥ ¥ Thig period varies depending on the type and location of the wound. It is believed that the poison is carried by the blood stream to the central nervous system. * x # Before recent laws controlling the general use of fireworks on the 4th | of July, many cases of tetanus re- sulted from injuries due to fire- crackers and other explosives. * * % Fortunately tetanus toxoid will now give immunization against and protect against the serious dis- ease commonly described as “lock- jaw. Printed with a fluorescent chemi- | cal, a luminous necktie glows brill- iantly in a blackout. After exposure to light the treated pattern will glow about 20 minutes. SLAP THAT JA Tl | BUG SWATTER cost money! BUY u.s. WAR BONDS STAMPS tetanus | ALLIED COMMANDO | ~ FORCES TRAINEDTO D0 ROUGH DUTIES Somewhere in Australia—Men of | the sort who made the allied com- | mando raid on Salamaua are trained | ! day and night, rigorously and inten- | sively, at a secret camp for the day | when Gen. Douglas MacArthur's | forces start their offensive against | the Japs in the southwest Pacific, { According to a press dispatch from | this camp the men “eat tough rations, [wear a minimum of tough clothes, | practice only the toughest fighting, | | look tough, talk tough—and are | | tough!” { They are learning to approach and | kill silently, using their firearms only, | | in massed frontal attacks. They drop | | from upper branches of trees upon the i | shoulders of an unsuspecting man, nominated to impersonate the en-| emy, in their own improved adapta- | tion of the tactics which took the | Japanese through Malaya. | | The commandos are mostly sea- soned soldiers, but many are former “push stationers,” Australians who lived the lonely, hard life out in the | unpopulated areas of this vast con- | tinent. Their skin is as leathery as | the camel hides on which they sleep. | Harold Guard, nationally known | correspondent, says: “I recently met | a youthful, weather beaten former bush riding lieutenant who told me | laughingly of his men: i | “ ‘Some. of these coves are so tough they don’t trouble any longer to open | their bully beef cans. They eat can | and all’ “These men out all their | training on the run. They have no | regular training hours; their day al- | ways starts unexpectedly, and they | must be ready and alert on the in- stant.” | An alarm whistle sounds at 3 or 4 {a. m. Fully dressed, because they go to sleep in their clothes, the men | turn out on the run, dawning their light minimum-weight equipment as | | they come. Some have tommy guns. | Seemingly by telepathy, for it is| | pitch dark, they follow their leader carry | plunging headlong down a 20-foot | | rocky river-bank, fording the river | | sometimes shoulder high. They work | their way in the dark through barbed | | wire fence constructed in the stream, rand through dummy gelignite fields: Flinging muddy water spouts, they | | storm the steep opposite bank, the | supposed enemy position, and enthu- | | siastically stick their bayonets in the | dummy Japs. i They come back, drenched and} | scratched and breathless, and drop prone to resume their interrupted | sleep. KNOW YOUR STATE | Pennsylvania is one of the three] | leading states in the union in the re-| | fining of cane sugar. Every year the | state’s refineries produce from 500,- | 1000 to 600,000 tons of refined sugar, | | valued at more than $50,000,000. Only | New York and Louisiana, exceed the | | Keystone State in the value of their | output of cane sugar products. In addition to this direct manufac- | ture of sugar, the state planning | | board of the department of commerce | points out that 2,821 establishments | {in Pennsylvania with 65,512 employes | who earned $78,602,000 and produced $383,498,000 worth of food products {all use sugar, molasses or cane Syr- | {ups, in their output of food stuffs. 1 | Thus, 20 per cent of all the food | and kindred products produced in the | state are more or less dependent on easily . . . over a long PLAN Telephone 467 The Road to Recovery Is Paved with Paid Bills Freedom from worry over unpaid bills goes a long way in helping convalescence. So if you or one of your family has been ill, come to us for the money you need to pay those doctor pills. We will provide you with a dignified personal loan . . . a loan which you can repay Hours: 9 to 5:00 Daily, Except Wednesday Afternoon BARNESBORO BUDGET BUY DEFENSE BONDS AND STAMPS period of time. , INC. 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Large quantities of sugar, molasses, yrup are packaged in Pennsyl- vania for direct consumption, but a | larger quantity is used in the prepara. tion of other food products which are made more nutritious and palatable | by their sugar content. Flavoring syrups and extracts val- ued at $4,760,000 are either sold direct | { to consumers, to soda fountains, or are employed in the manufacture of | soft drinks and package foods. Cane | | sugar products are indispensable in- | | alone can enact those tax measures gredients in the manufacture in the preserved foods each ted and soft drinks, nearly $55,000,000 | worth of chocolate and coca products, | | more than $40,000,000,000 worth of | confectionary, $39,000,000 worth of ice cream and $139,000,000 worth of bakery products. Sugar products are employed in the manufacture of ice cream cones, in the preparation of condensed milk, | and in the compounding of catsup and | sauces. American consumption of sugar is higher than that in any other nation in the world, largely due to the fact that sugar cane products enter into | the manufacture of many articles of | food demanded by Americans, and possibly demanded because of the | great energy-producing properties of | sugar as a food. | Pennsylvania's important position | in sugar refining and manufacture | has been made possible largely thru | the port of Philadelphia, which pro- | vides a short haul from Cuban and | Latin American sources of sugar cane | tI is also a tribute to the energy and | enterprise of Pennsylvania industry | that it has attained such an import- | ant position in the manufacture of | a product of which all the raw mat- | HERE'S HOW TO KEEP AWAY INFLATION Washington Here, according to Budget Director Harold D. Smith, is what Congre labor and the farmer and employer and consumer should do to help hold the home front ag- ainst inflation: Congress—Only the Congress has fhe power to make possible the stab- ilization of farm and food prices; it which are an essential element in the | whole plan; its action is required to authorize such subsidies as are neces- sary for maximum production under the stabilization program. ‘L'hus far the President's program has not yet been fully implemented by the neces- sary legislation.” Farmer— The farmer who applauds his organization or his representative trying to force up prices must know REFLECTOR BUTTON DEADLINE EXTENDED Harrisburg The department of highways has granted an extension of six months to public utilities for the installation of reflector buttons on poles which are along the highway right-of-way. Lact October the department direc- ted that this installation be com- | pleted by July 1. | These reflectors under the depart- ment’s order of October, 1941, speci- | fied that three buttons be placed aon | that he acts against his own best in- | terests in the long run. He also un- dermines the President's efforts to stabilize wages. Labor cannot be ex- pected to forgo v e increases unless 100d prices are being stabilized at the same time.” Labor— I'he wage earner who ex- pects his union to fight for higher wages now, must know that he, too, is acting against his own best inter- ests. He makes it more difficult to control the prices of food. He under- mines the gffort to stabilize the cost of living.” Employer— The employer who of- fers increases in wage rates in order to lure workers away from other war plants undermines the wage stabili- zation program . . . Labor may rea- sonably expect equal sacrifice from corporate officials and stockholders. No one can deny that there have been erial comes from sources outside the! too many excessive increases in high commonwealth, T0 RECLAIM SLAG An estimated 90,000 to 100,000 tons of steel will be reclaimed from slag | deposits by a Phoenixville iron com- | pany that dumped the once worth-| less refuse. | Undertaking the recovery of steel from the mountains of slag formed by | many years of operations is the Phoe- nix Iron Co., which is building a large reclamation plant. Employed in the process will be a magnetic separator, | screens, an “oxygen lance” and other detecting and separating equipment. salaries and bonuses. Congress is now working on legislation greatly to in- crease corporation taxes , .. That is as it should be, since the profits are coming mainly from Government bus- iness.” Consumer— “The consumer who in- stead of buying war bonds, buys a | new suit, for example, though he still could use last year’s suit, must know that he impedes the President's pro- gram.” | —Don't waste! What you throw away today you may want tomorrow. | Don’t even throw away food. Ive been trying to giv extra miles out of your ga can do yourself — and o : Check up on the w starting (if you don’t h , ave i Push it all the way ring regularly, Alw careless use can waste you several blocks, Let me check your batter every two weeks in summer slow starting — and the s more raw gasoline is pump without being used. Of co your battery when I give Atlantic Lubric 1 ation—hut for battery safe ut th THE ATLANTIC REFIN Publi 2 ublished by Your Atlantic Dealer € you tips on how to get ay you use your choke in in, the instant the engine is ays use it sparingly because enough gasoline to take y regularly — at Jeast urse, I check ‘and fill your car a thorough ty and gasoline economy, all utility company poles that were within eight feet of the highway. Re- cently a number of utilities have in- formed the department that the work cannot be completed within the time limit because of the war. Highway maintenance sperinten- dents have been directed to inquire of those companies unable to finish the work the schedule for the remain- ing installations. The utilities will be asked to place the reflector buttons on the poles adjacent to the main traffic arteries first, to be followed by those on secondard routes. ® Issue No. 3 soline. 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