TWO MT. JOY BULLETIN MOUNT JOY, PA. iE. SCHROLL, Editor & Propr. Sabscription Price $1.50 Per Year Six Months ..... 76 Cente Three Months ...40 Cents Single Copies 3 Cents Sample Copies ..... FREE Entered at the post office at Mount Joy was second-class mail matter. The date of the expiration of your sub- scription follows your name on the We do not send receipts for subscription money received. Whenever you remit, see that yo. are given proper credit. We eredit all subscriptions at the first of each month, Al] corr=spondents must have their com munications reach this office not later than Monday Telephone news of importance petween that time and 12 o'clock noon Wednesday Changes for advertisements must positively reach this office not later taan Monday night. New advertisements inserted if copy reaches us Tuesday night. Aavertising rates on application, The subscription lists of the Landisville Vigil, the Florin News and the Mount Joy Star and News, were merged with that of the Mount Joy Bulletin, which makes this paper's circulation about double that ef the paper's ordinary weekly. EDITORIAL TO OUR MOTHERS Pleasant evidence of the popu- larity of American mothers is con- tained in a recent report by the Department of Commerce concern- | ing the effect of “Mother's Day” on the sales of candy. Natiomal statistics collected by the depart- ment show that candy sales jumped twenty per cent last year during the week preceding that holiday, to be celebrated this year on May 10th. Mother's Day, it appears, sends more people to the candy counter than any other holiday ex- cepting Christmas and Easter. The tons of sweets personally presen‘ed to mothers or announced by the postman’s whistle are the best answer to the synies who de- clare that the mothers of this gen- eration are not holding the love and respect of their children. These same tokens of affection are also a defiant and conclusive reply to certain modern schools of psy- chology which are advocating a more detached attitude between mothers and children. The deep love and reverence that finds its expression in verbal and material greetings on Mother's Day is testi- mony to the sound and unbreak- able bond between them. Modern mo hers may be rouged and powdered. They may play bridge and golf. They may do less cooing over their babies, but the tenderness of motherhood is theirs as it was their own mothers’. A few women in every generation have been callous and indifferent to ther maternal duties and pleas- urers, but ‘n this day as in all oth- ers, a mother is the mos: influen- tial factor in a child's life. So let’s pile her lap high with candy and flowers, and let's write poems in her praise on Mother's Day. Her umselfishness and sacri- ficial spirit have made her worthy of all we can do and give, and her love will follow us around the world the one proof of an abiding faith and a constant affection. GOING BACK TO THE FARM We have been hearing for many years about the movement from the farm to the village and the city. Commentators who have let their imaginations roam have pictured a future civilization for America in which there will be no rural life at all. Everybody will live in cities, and food will be produced by chem- ical processes in factories to which these city dwellers will go every day to work. Light and sunshine and ventilation and exercise and all of the other essentials of health will be provided, according to these dreamers, by artificial means de- vised by engineers. As. a matter of cold fact, it turns out that the tide of migration from the farm to the municipality has been slackening: for many years, and now has definitely turned in the other direction. For the first time in twenty years the records of the United States Department of Agriculture show that there was a gain in farm population during 1930. There are 208,000 more peo- ple living on the farms than there were a year ago. One reason for this is that life on the farm is more comfortable and less stren- uous than it used to be. The aver- age farmer is no longer isolated from the world. Most farms today have electric light and power, ac- cess to communities in every direc- tion over good roads, and automo- biles with which to go to town to see the movies or take part in so- cial gatherings. Most of the farm- ers who haven’t already got radio sets will soon have them, while the telephone, now almost universal, brings the whole country within speaking distance. The commercial farmer—the farmer who makes a business of farming—has been affected by the present wave of economic depres- sion even more than the manufac- turer. But the great majority of small farmers, with whom life on the farm is more a mode of living than it is an industry, are the peo- ple in America who have suffered least by reason of the economic slump. The drought, to be sure, has hit hundreds of thousands of these, but the drought hasn't been univer- sal, and in the sections where na- ture has not interferred there seems to be little doubt that the greatest security and contentment to be found anywhere in the Unit- ed States is found on the naiton’s one-family farms. That sense of security, of having a piece of solid ground under one’s feet from which at least a living can be obtained by whoever is willing to work, is doubtless the reason why, in a season of wide- , spread industrial unemployment, , there been what amounts al- ' a rush of migration back label. | MAYTOWN Miss Ruth RaWer, of Bainbridge, is visiting her grafidmother, Mrs. Sa- die Sload. 3 | Brewster of Detroit, Mich. | | visited Mr. and Mrs. James F. John- | stin on Sunday. % | Miss Alice wit of Washing- | ton, D. C., spent the week end with ' Mr. and Mrs. | Mr. and Mrs. Mikhael Kewinskee and children visited Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Smith on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Sheetz,* of Bethlehem, are visiting the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Boll. Mrs. Alon Shewmantand daughter, Anne, returned to theirjhome at New Castle, after spending ® month with her parents, Mr. and Mgs. Henry B. | Haines. : Mothers Day services be held in the Reformed Church on Sunday morning, May 10, in charge of the Church School. The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the May- town Fire Co., will hold their month. ly meeting May 11th, at the home of Mrs. Howard Shireman. The Baccalaureate serthon to the graduates of East Donegal High School will be delivered May 24 at 7 P. M. by Rev. James B.: Musser, in the Reformed church. Miss Kathryn Eshlemah entertain- ed at cards, Tuesday evening. The guests were; Mrs. Cleve Bload, Ethel Culp, Lillian Sload, Mrs. ‘Albert Da- vis. Prizes were won by Mrs. C. C. Hicks, Marie Harter, and Mrs. Her- man Shue. June 7th, 10:30 A. M., commemor ating fifty years as a miaister of the gospel for Rev. NewtoniJ. Miller who was ordained June 5, 1881. Ser- mon by Rev. Paul M. Limbert, Ph. D Professor at Franklin and Marshall College. May 17th, 10:30 A. M. Service in charge of Rev. Ira S. Monn, Ldéncas- ter, Pa. The pastor as chaplain of Sons of Union Veterans of the War, Dept. of Penna., is the preacher at the official state-wide service held in Gettysburg. —— I eee LOBATA \ — Mr. anf Nrs. Cyrus Keefer vigited their Keefers, Sunday. Mrs. J. 1 Goudie called on Harry Smith and %¥amily, of Billmyer, on Friday afternpon. Howard Sil ger and family, of teich’s Church) visited Samuel Eber- sole and family {Sunday afternoon. Owen Kersey, Wife and children, of Harrisburg, A. H. Hoffman and B. L. Landis ald family Sunday afternoon. Miriam Heistand wa removed to the General Hospital & Lancaster on Tuesday where she is\undergoing treatment for mastoids. The services held by the nites at Billmyer on Sunday after- noon were well attended. Revi Sou- ders, of New Holland, officiated. Our Grammar school closed Yon Thursday, May 3 and the primary @n April 4. The epidemic of Three of our pupils took the examin- ation for entrance to the High school on Saturday, May 2, at Bainbridge. A nn STATE WILL START OILING HIGHWAYS THIS WEEK Oiling of State highways started Monday and will be completed in a- bout sixty days, Secretary of High- ways Samuel S. Lewis announced. If weather conditions ave favorable the oiling will take less time since allowance was made for a reason- able amount of bad weather, Sec- retary Lewis said. Oliing will again be done in staggered strips, leaving half the road open for traffic, and there will be advance information to motorists when a road is to be oiled through signs to be placed a week before the work starts. The maintenance forces of the depart- ment will do the job and more than 3,500,000 gallons of oil will be applied. tl Feed For Profit Careful feeding of dairy cows is especially important when the milk prices are low. The ration should be carefully balanced and grain fed strictly in accordance with the amount of milk produced. Careless- ness in feeding increases milk pro- duction costs. to the farm. And it seems to us that the unemployed industrial workers who have removed them- selves and their families from the congested industrial centers to the healthful security of the farm have displayed a high degree of pru- dence and intelligence. PLACING THE BLAME One of the popular activities of the times, if not at all times, is that of placing responsibility on others. Sometimes it can be accom- plished with a degree of success, but in other attempts they only turn out to be ridiculous. Public opinion may not always decide cor- rectly, but it is known to determine definitely. It is not consistent on the part of adults to complain if boys and girls imitate them, or even inaugu- rate some ideas of their own in the matter of apparel and conduct. Instruction which is not backed up by example is not likely to prove very effective in the matter of be- havior and morals. Some one has said that if you want to get the best results in measlely, dwindled the attendance considerable | THE MOUNT JOY BULLETIN, MOUNT JOY, LANCASTER CO., PA HEALTH TALK #RITTEN BY DR. THEODORE B. APPEL, SECRETARY OF HEALTH “The great difficulty with many | public health problems lies in the [inability of health officials to do {much about them. When conditions can be subjected to mass control the matter then is comparatively easily solved. For example, typhoid fever by reason of the supervision of water and milk suppMes has been shorn of its terrible power. A- gain, smallpox because of compul- sory vaccination seldom originates in Pennsylvania. And many of the {contagious diseases, thanks to the | efficient application of the quaran- tine procedure, are kept satisfac- torily in check. But when these and similar mass controls are applied, the rest of it is largely a matter for personal interest and concern,” said Doctor Theodore B. Appel, Secretary of Health. “As a matter of fact the biggest part of the health problem remains for the individual himself to solve. Officials can advise, implore and insist, ‘but when they have done that they can do little else. Indif- #erence, more than lack of know- ledge, is perhaps the greatest ally of such diseases as cancer, tubercu- losis, heart affections and diabetes. Refusing to recogn’ze the great de- tecting abilities of the annual phy- sical examination, people ignore it. Literally, tens of thousands of needles deaths annually occur as a direct consequence. “And what is so sadly true re- garding the cowardly slaying di- seases is pathetically applicable to the frightful toll of life to which American mothers are being an- nually subjected. It is indeed a sad commentary on this country’s ap- preciation of motherhood that of the 16,000 women in the United States who every year die from causes related to maternity, 10,000 of them should not have thus suec- cumbed. “If, in addition, it is realized that, of the 100,000 bab'es who now die in the first mon h of life, at least 30,000 of them could be saved by adequate maternity care, [the situation becomes even more shameful. “This year the national celebra- tion of Mother's Day, which occurs next Sunday, is directing attention [to this great and serious problem. | The attitude this year could well | be expressed: Honor those who save the {have passed beyond, but {lives of those who are here. | “Proper living habits advised by {a careful doctor, together w'th the help of a public health nurse, should be the program from the {first knowledge of the expectancy through the whole nine months. This, plus medical attention for six weeks after it, can spectacularly change the United States figures of 6.5 mother deaths per 100,000 live births—the world’s unenviable record. Parents to be, only your help can bring the results.” “ELIZABETHTOWN The Senior High School Chorus will present an Operetta in the Eliz- abethtown High School Auditor- ium Friday evening, May 8th. You are all invited to visit. The Reformed Minister's associa- tion of Lancaster city and county will have a banquet at its next meeting, June 1, in Christ Reform- ed crurch Elizabethtown, with their wives as guests. Mrs. D. G. Glass will address the group at 3 o’clock and Dr. H. M, J. Klein, of Franklin and Marshall college, will be the banquet speaker. Sixty Elizabethtown boys attend- ed the Boy’s Banquet, in obser- vation of Boy's Week, sponsored by the Elizabethtown Rotary club, on Friday evening in the Friendship Fire hall, Rev. Frank Croman, pas- tor of the Christ Lutheran church, addressed the boys. Entertainment was furnished by the Boys’ Band. The banquet was served by Elizabeth Hughes society. > The local Board of Directors of the public schools, is literaly flood- ed with applications from prospec- tive teachers, desirous of filling two vacancies occurring on the faculty this year, through the adop- tion last month of ga resolution making it compulsory to retire from active teaching in the local schools at the minimum retirement age of sixty-two years. —— Eee. MEASLES RECORDS FULFILL PROPHECY Records in the bureay of commun- icable diseases compiled today for Secretary of Health, Doctor Theo- dore B. Appel, indicate that the State Health Department's prophecy regarding the likely unusual preva- lence of measles during the spring of 1931 was entirely justified. Approximately 5,000 cases 3f meas- les were reported in the last seven days, representing a number some- what in excess of reports for a thir- ty day period under normal circum- stances, Doctor Appel said that while con- trol measures are exceedingly diffi- cult to apply, he has ordered the several hundred health officers to exert every effort to the end fhat the quarantine procedure be strictly en- forced in every case. The localities most affected during the last week included Lancaster, Chester, Fayette and Lehigh counties character for a child you must be- gin with his grandparents. This principle if it ever had a place, must still obtain, for human nature is very much the same from one generation to another. What is the use? Posterity will come along and do about as it pleases anyhow. Fertilize Blossoms Use of bouquets of cross—fertiliz ing apple blossoms will insure @ heavier set of fruit. een TD, Ars. sts. Patronize Bulletin Advertisers Subscribe for the Mt. 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