Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
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Pennsylvania had less than sixty per
cent. of its draftees fit for service.
1t ranks thus with other industrial
states. while South Dakota had over
eighty per cent. of it's youth tuned
physically to the hour.
''Pacificators'' Condemned
A big crowd, many of them wom-
en- with their babes in arms. heard
the most awful condemnation from
Miss Fisher on the use of 'pacitica-
tors" This, be it known, Use the IA
miliar nipple handed out to babes
to keep them quiet.
1T is q crime" pronounced Miss
Fisher dramatically, Ito give babies
''pacificators. They cause enlarged
tonsils, adenoids. make the mouth
crooked and as the 'pacficators" Of
ten falls in the dirt, babies are en-
dangered with all sorts of infectious
diseases"
The various meetings were crowd
ed with interesting facts and criti-
cisms. I. C. Williams in report on
the progress of forestry in 1918,
notes: The area of land purchased
and paid for and now constituted
into fifty-three state forests was, to
the first of January, 1919, 1852. .23S
dtISS, lOE WUlGn lHGIt was pdiu a
consideration of $2,350,033. or an
average price per acre of S2.27. This
vast area, distributed in twenty-sev-
en- different counties of the state,
chiefly in the mountainous region
extending north and south through
the center of the state, together with
such conditions as may be made
from time to time, is bound to be-
come a great future storehouse of
wealth for Pennsylvania"
Scores School Folks
Mr.. Williams has a brief against
school folks, saying: by an amend
ment made to the school code at the
legislative session of 1915, all re-
ceipts derived from the state forests
are paid into the state school fund,
there to be invested and the interest
only employed for future school
purposes. To January ], 1919, the
receipts from the state forests have
been S172,099.66. This sum of money
has, therefore, become incorporated
into the state school fund. While it
is small compared to other sources
from which that fund derives money
at the present time, it will shortly,
with increased production, be swelled
to a considerably greater monthly
amount, which is now about $4,000.
Unfortunately the school people are
doing little or nothing to help the
cause of forestry. They take our
money and seem glad to get it, but
give little help and no encourage
ment in return.
Gould all the dead, dying and
blighted chestnut now upon state
forests be marketed speedily, from
this source alone could be obtained
net return of about S1,500,000.
other improvement operations with
in the forests would add a substan-
tial amount of this sum-"
Potato Variety Tests
The potato growers heard c. +.
Preston, secretary of the Pennsylva-
MIA Potato Grocers' Association,
who spoke on tests. He explained
that "the objects of a potato variety
test are three fold. 1t aims first to
dtermine what variety of potatoes
will yield the most bushels per acre
under the existing soil and climatic
conditions of state, county or COM
munlty; second, to furnish informa-
ton on disease resistant qualities,
and third, to secure the adoption by
majority of growers in a commun-
lty OF that variety which is best
suited to local conditions as indicat-
ed by the variety test"
by way of summarizing results he
said that the Dibbles Russell variety
appeared in all six tests thus far
made and occupied first place IN five
instances and third in the sixth. The
RoXbury variety was included in
only one test Chat of Lehigh county,
and occupied first place with a yield
of two hundred and twenty-four
bushels. Petosky appeared in two
tests and occupied second place in
both. Sir Walter Raleigh took sec
ond place in one test. third place in
two tests and fourth in another.
Rural New Workers No. 2 occupied
second position in one test, third in
another, fourth In two cases and fifth
in another.
Gold Coin, Green Mountain. Irish
Copbler, Heath's Late Beauty, Car
man NO. and Uncle Sam follow ap-
proXimately in the order named.
A mighty poster picturing a dozen
oanies demanding fair play, hit the
sympathetic eye, each baby asking
Ior some relief: Don't kiss us in
the mouth" Give up pure milk"
we don't want flies" Miss Fisher
demanded loudly that all mothers
IN Pennsylvania throw away pacifi-
Gators.
Blamed For Deaths
1t is believed that this Crime" is
responsible partly for the big ave-
rage in deaths of babies under one
year of age. Reckoning by counties,
this average at present includes:
Fayette, 174; Washington, 40;
Lebanon, 123. Dauphin looks good
with 80 babies in 1000 perishing
under one year of age. Adams is
the healthiest county in the state.
having percentage of 65.
One reason for tnis may be the
plentitude of milk, for State College
spoke milk" with a loud voice to-
day while hundreds heard that this
commodity is the very best food
known.
Make Pennsylvania healthy by
wise eating" was secondary slogan
and representative Harrisburgers
looked hard at the fact. Preston
Crowell, with delegation of Rotary
men, pondered over the fact that a
breakfast of stewed prunes, Quaker
oats with milk or cream, two slices
of buttered toast and coffee with
sugar and cream, equals in nutrition
one pound of eggs q eggs) or one
pound of broiled chicken, or two po-
tatoes, or As pound of steak, and
only cost IA as much.
In the animal activities where
McKensie, the Highland sheep eX-