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THE ILLITERACY OF
UNEDUCATED PEOPLE.
There is need of a united effort to
reduce the illiteracy of educated peo-
pla, It is not enough for us to offer
etter cpportunities to our new citi-
zens and others whose chance of
schooling has been limited. We must
try to develop among ourselves better
habits of reading. Let us include four
good resolutions about our own illit-
eracy among our stock. They may
not last longer than other good reso-
lutions, but at least we shall have con-
fessed our illiteracy and next year we
can try again.
First: That we will remember what
we read. It would be far better for
us all if we read less and remembered
more. Qur present habit is born of
the theory that we can always find a
mental filling station a little further
on down the road. Life proves this
untrue. When the times occur of ill-
ness, loneliness, depression, crisis, or
catastrophe we have no reservoirs of
memory to draw upon for comfort and
for guidance. Lord Bacon said,
“Reading maketh a full man.” It is
not too much to add that our waste-
ful habit of skimming over the sur-
face of books and newspapers makes
empty minds instead of full ones.
Second good resolution: We will
think over what we read. It is a good
practice to close the book and ask our-
selves, “Is it true? Does my exper-
ience or thought confirm this?” Of
course this kind of reading takes long-
er, but educated people would be less
illiterate if we practiced mental
Fletcherism and gave fifty intellectu-
at “chews” to every chapter. A friend
of mine made a rule never to buy a
book until he had read it. As a re-
sult, his shelves were filled with books
that he was proud of. They were
his friends. He knew them, liked
them, valued them. How many of us
would have a large library if we fol-
lowed his plan? Have we any real
scale of values in reading? We shall
never get it until we read less and
think more. This is particularly true
of newspaper reading. It is our duty
to form our own opinions on the day’s
news. Too often we only echo the ed-
itorial or the opinion of some one who
is quoted in the news. Every true
editor will wish his readers to go with
him, not blindly, but upon reflection.
He can’t write for thinking people un-
less people will think. Did you ever
realize your responsibility as a read-
er for the kind of reading you get?
Granville Barker, the dramatist, said
lately, “The audience makes the play.”
It is still more true that the reader
makes the newspaper.
Third good resolution: We will ap-
ply what we read. The illiteracy of
educated people is most striking in
this regard. We read as if in a vacu-
ure. The innumerable contacts which
the author makes with our own lives’
are never cnergized by the current
which we alone can supply. Our
mind’s batteries are dead. We need
to recharge them. Nine books in ten
we read not in order to apply them to
life, but to distract our minds from
life. Books are a dissipation, a scat-
tering of our energies, not a charging
and strengthening of them. This is
not fair to books. Can we not change
the proportion and make nine books
help us to live, while the tenth book
alone serves as an opiate to drug our
senses ?
Fourth good resolution: We will
grow with our reading. Most of us
read one elementary book after anoth-
er, with no direction or plan. We
never think, “Where is our reading
taking us?” We never stop to consid-
er that books are steps upward. We
keep on exercising with eight-ounce
weights when our mental muscles are
trained for two-pounders. The way
to correct this bad habit is to choose
our lines ¢f reading: one connected
with our occupation; one connected
with a hobby, pastime, recreation or
avoecation. Then we can plan to go on
from the easy book to the more diffi-
cult one, from the known to the un-
known, from the narrow to the broad
horizon. How many parlor tables are
filled with a random lot of primary
books? Let us go to school to our
books, we educated illiterates, and not
stay always in the first grade.—By
Henry Noble McCracken.
ALL NEED MORE EXERCISE.
“Spend one day of the week in
thought, and one day in exercise, and
you will be able to put seven days’
work into the other five.”
That is the creed of Sir Harold
Stiles, regiusprofessor of clinical sur-
gery of the University of Edinburg
and representative of the Royal Col-
lege of Surgeons to the American
College of Surgeons, which recently
met in annual convention in Philadel-
phia.
Sir Harold learned of the statement
made by Sir James Cantile, a London
surgeon, that “old age is just a pose.
We only begin to live at forty-five.
Down with the gospel of folded
hands.” Sir James is seventy years
old. For fifteen minutes every morn-
ing he dances the Highland fling and
the sailor’s hornpipe.
As a result, a passion of exercise
has taken held of the older heads of
London, and Sir James is leading
groups in calisthenics in all quarters
of the city.
Sir James Cantile’s campaigr. “for
physical jerks for young men of more
than 50 and young women—say more
than 40”—brought smiles of approval
from Sir Harold Stiles.
“Exercise—why it’s the greatest
thing in the world.
“You Americans are too fat. The
ordinary American as I have seen him
is far more robust than the average
Englishman, not because you exercise
less but because you eat more.”
Sir Harold is an earnest champion
of golf. “If I did not exercise one day
out of the week, I could not get along
the rest of the time,” he said.
Americans are waking up to the
possibilities of exercise, Sir Harold
believes. He has visited this country
three times. Each time he has found
conditions permitting exercise im-
proved more for the “middle-aged,
tired business man.,”—Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
RUNVILLE.
Mrs. Ida Witmer, after spending a
week at State College, came home last |
W. J. Kunes, of Mill Hall, spent a
few days last week among his friends '
in this place. |
Lemoyne Lucas, of Snow Shoe, spent |
Saturday and Sunday with his grand- |
mother, Mrs. Annie Lucas.
Miss Lizzie Weaver, of Philipsburg, |
made a week’s visit with her friends, !
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Poorman, and call- |
ed on a number of others during her |
stay. !
The Ladies Aid will hold a pie so-
cial on Saturday evening, February |
4th, in the P. O. S. of A. hall. Ice:
cream and cake will be served. Every- |
body is invited. |
Mr. and Mrs. Plummer Strunk en- |
tertained a sled load on last Saturday
evening: Mr, and Mrs. Clyde Shutt
and three children, Mrs. Lulu Am-
merman, Misses Annie and Grace Spi-
cer, James and Frank Emel, all of
Bellefonte.
Birthday Party.—A delgihtful birth-
day party was held at the home of J.
0. McClincy on Friday night, Janu-
ary 13th, commemorating the forty-
third anniversary of Mr. McClincy.
The evening was spent in a very joy-
ful manner, beginning with games,
in which many participated. Vocal
and instrumental music were render-
ed, followed by refreshments. Then
the attention of all was attracted when
the forty-three candles of different
colors, which were inserted in the
birthday cake, were lighted. Those
attending the party were Mr. and Mrs.
J. 0. McClincy and two daughters,
Georgiana and Bessie; Mr. and Mrs.
John Lucas and children, Iva, Donald
and Vincent; Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Walker and daughter Goldie; Mr. and
Mrs. John Furl, Mr. and Mrs. Toner
Furl, Samuel, Edward and Arthur
Furl, Jackson Witherite, Merrill, Mel-
vin, Harold and Kenneth Watson,
Mrs. Ted Poorman, Bettie Lucas and
Maynard Sparks.
Golden Wedding Anniversary.—
On Saturday, January 21st, the home
of Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Poorman was
all aglow, when a host of their friends
assembled in honor of their fiftieth
wedding anniversary. The parlor was
beautifully decorated for the occa-
sion, in white and gold, and a large
golden wedding beil hung gracefully
over the arch to which the happy pair
were escorted, attended by Mr. Poor-
man’s sister and husband, Mr. and
Mrs. William J. Fetzer. The wedding
march was played by Miss Fay Con-
fer, of Yarnell; the beautiful ring
ceremony was informally used by
their pastor, Rev. G. A. Sparks. After
many congraulations and hearty good
wishes that they might live to enjoy
many more anniversaries of their wed-
ded life all were invited to the dining
room where an elaborate dinner was
in readiness and to which all did jus-
tice. An inspiring address was made
by Rev. G. A. Sparks and also by our
school teacher, Mr. Austin Allison, of
Jacksonville. The tokens of love and
esteem were presented in many pret-
ty and useful gifts, among them being
twenty-five dollars in gold. Those in
attendance were Mr. and Mrs. Willis
Poorman and sons, Raymond, Chester
and Willis Jr.; Naomi Stover and Miss
Alice Yarnell, of State College; Mr.
and Mrs. Claude Poorman and sons,
Ralph and Guyer and daughter Ger-
trude, of Bellefonte; Mr. and Mrs. Ed-
ward Heaton and daughters, Mabel
and Alice, and son Claude; Flem Poor-
man and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Poor-
man, of Holts Hollow; Mr. and Mrs.
Ellis Pownell and son Wayne, Mrs.
Edward Confer and daughter Fay, Mr.
and Mrs. William T. Fetzer, of Yar-
nell; Mrs. Raymond Spond, of Avis;
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pownell, of Os-
ceola Mills; Miss Lizzie Weaver, of
Philipsburg; Austin Allison, of Jack-
sonville; Mrs. Etta Watson, of Snow
Shoe; Rev. and Mrs. G. A. Sparks,
Mrs. Belle Lucas and son Milligan,
Miss Dorothy Brown, of Corning, N.
Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Witherite and
daughter Thelma, Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Kauffman, Miss Vivian Poorman, Mr.
and Mrs. James McCliney and daugh-
ters, Georgiana and Bessie, Mary
Heaton and Ida Witmer, of Runville.
BUFFALO ON THE INCREASE.
Latest Reports Show that the Animal
is not Likely to Become Extinct,
at Any Rate.
The fear that existed not long ago
lest the native buffalo would soon be-
come extinct is dispelled by a report
of the American Bison society, which
states that there were 3,393 wild and
tame buffalo in the United States in
January, 1920. This is an increase of
about 300 per cent. since 1908, in
which year there were 1,116 wild and
tame buffalo in this country.
Of the nine government-owned
herds, two of the largest under the
care of the United States Department
of Agriculture are located in the
Wichita national preserve, Oklahoma,
and on the national bison range at
Dixon, Montana. The herd on the
Wichita preserve now numbers 154,
including 28 calves of this year. In
this herd four bulls and 12 cows are
ten years of age or over, and one cow
is twenty-nine years old. The 15 an-
imals that constituted the original
Wichita herd came from the New
York Zoological park.
It is planned this year to dispose of
some of the surplus buffalo in the
government herds in accordance with
the provisions made by the 1919 ap-
propriational bill for their care. Pub-
lic parks and municipalities are the
largest patrons. By distributing the
animals over the country, if disease
or misfortune overtakes the main
herds, there still will be stock left
with which groups could be built up
again.
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A pessimist is a man who
thinks the world is against him. And
he is probably right.—Punch.
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Thursday.
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Shares of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
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you so desire.
Buy outright through your Bank or
Broker, or on the Partial-payment Plan
Banks do not recommend any particular stock.
They desire, however, to encourage systematic saving and careful investing,
and most of them afford the service and facilities of their loan departments to
customers who desire to purchase reliable securities on the partial-payment plan.
The usual arrangement is to make an advance payment of approximately one-
fifth of the purchase price, and pay off the balance gradually.
The dividends on the stock will more than pay the interest on the loan.
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The First National Bank,
Centre County Banking CO.,
The Bellefonte Trust Co.,
The First National Bank, -
The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania
CC. W. Heilhecker, Local Manager
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E INVITE YOU to Share the Pleas-
ures and Benefits of
Our 1922
Christmas Savings Club
Which Started Monday, December 12th, 1921
It is not too late to join. You can become a
Member any time. Please come in and let us
explain to you.
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BELLEFONTE PA
January Price Reductions
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FAUBLE’S
All Suits and Overcoats—men’s
young men’s and boys’—none re-
served— to be sold during the
month of January at a
Reduction of 33:7
Every Suit and Overcoat in our
Store is included in this Sale..
Come, take your pick. Deduct
1-3 the marked price and you will
go home with the Biggest Clothing
Bargains you ever had.
Remember, it’s at Faubles and
it’s Honest
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