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“Bellefonte, Pa., February 3, 1922.
A EL RT ET I
“IF I CAN LIVE.”
By Helen Hunt Jackson.
If I can live,
To make some pale face brighter and te
give
A second luster to some tear-dimmed eye
Or e’en impart
One throb of comfort to an aching heart,
Or cheer some way-worn soul in passing
by.
If I can lend
A strong hand to the fallen, or defend
The right against a single envious strain,
My life though bare,
Perhaps, of much that seemeth dear and
fair
To us of earth will not have been in vain.
The purest joy,
Most near to heaven, far from earth’s alloy,
Is bidding cloud give way to sun and
shine;
And ‘twill be well,
If on that day of days the angels tell
Of me, she did her best for one of Thine.
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PENNSYLVANIA HAS MOST VO-
CATIONAL SCHOOLS GET-
TING U. S. AID.
Pennsylvania has more federally
aided vocational schools than any otn-
er State in the Union and ranks first
in the number of agricultural rural
schools, according to the annual re-
port or the federal board for voca-
tional education. Figures from the
federal board report were made pub-
lic recently by vr. Thomas K. line-
gan, State Superintendent of Public
instruction.
In the number of federally aided vo-
cational schools the three ranking
States are Pennsylvania with 406 vo-
cational schools; New York with 197
and 'I'exas with 176. Pennsylvania
outranks its two nearest competitors
by having more vocational schools
than New York and Texas combined.
The number of vocational schools
in Pennsylvania in 1919 was 236,
showing this State made an increase
of 170 schools or 72 per cent. in the
last two years. Pennsylvania also
- leads in the enrollment in vocational
schools, having 52,934 pupils in these
schools with 2500 more junior project
students.
New York, which is second in the
number of vocational school pupils,
has 39,860 enrolled, and Massachu-
setts, which is third, has 28,866 en-
rolled.
In agricultural schools Pennsylva-
nia holds first rank with 125; ‘lexas
is second with 95, and Arkansas is
third with 84. Since 1919 the num-
ber of such schools has increased in
Pennsylvania from 38 to 125, an in-
crease of 87, or 229 per cent.
The enrollment in the agricultural
schools in this State, which has the
greatest enrollment of any State, is
2611. Michigan, which is second, has
2189, and Missouri, which is third,
has 2120. In 1919 the enrollment in
this State was 1005, making an in-
crease in two years of 1606, or 160 per
cent. These figures do not include
2500 pupils doing junior project work
and 5000 others on a project basis.
Pennsylvania also leads all other
States in the number of trade and in-
dustrial schools, home economic
schools and in enrollment in continu-
ation schools.
The leading States in trade and in-
dustrial schools are: Pennsylvania,
70; North Carolina, 52; Ohio, 49. The
number in this State jumped from 36
in 1919 to the 70 now functioning.
The leading States in home economic
schools are: Pennsylvania, 117; Ne-
braska, 68; Arizona, 45. The increase
in the number of these schools in this
Disie during the last two years was
In the enrollment in continuation
schools Pennsylvania with 39,029 pu-
pils leads New York, its nearest com-
petitor by almost 10,000, New York
having 30,124 pupils. Illinois, the third
State in enrollment in schools of this
class, has 11,294 pupils.
The vocational bureau of the de-
partment of public instruction has
achieved this remarkable development
in the last two years with a staff of
fourteen persons whose salaries ag-
gregate $59,000, according to Dr.
Finegan. The federal government
appropriates $20,000 toward the pay-
ment of these salaries, leaving the
State’s share $39,000.
The cost of administration for the
406 vocational schools with a total of
53,315 pupils is 70 cents per student
annually and is the lowest in the coun-
try, according to the federal figures
given out by Dr. Finegan. In 1919
the amount of funds received from
the federal government for vocation-
al training was $185,556, while in 1921
it had reached $292,355, an increase of
$156,996.
The amount paid by the govern-
ment as its share of the vocational
school work is more than four times
the entire sum expended by the State
for the administration of this work.
Ought to Change Game Laws, Says
Board.
Harrisburg, Pa.—The game laws
for Pennsylvania should be changed
so as to protect all deer until they
reach two and one-half years, or until
they have two or more prongs to one
side of their antlers, the Board of
Game Commissioners recommended
in its annual report to the Governor.
Under the present law it is illegal
to kill deer whose antlers are less than
four inches in len This law was
faithfully observ during the past
season the Board reported.
It was also recommended that the
game laws be changed to provide a
uniform season for all small game.
The codification of all game laws was
proposed in order to reduce the bulk
and to clarify the various provisions.
During the past season, with 20 per
cent. more hunters of large game and
a 45 per cent. greater kill of deer, a
50 per cent. decrease in the number of
illegal deer killed was reported. This
was ascribed principally to the grow-
ing sense of sportsmanship among
Pennsylvania hunters and the greater
interest taken in the preservation of
game,
WILD YEAR IF
SIGNS ARE TRUE.
The moon will be the reigning ‘plan- |
et in 1922 and the year will be a great
one for boobs, fools and “bugs,” of all
kinds, according to astrologers, star-
gazers and almanac makers. If it is
true, as is popularly supposed, that
the moon has an evil influence on the
minds of people, making some folks
act erratically at times and increasing
madness, in the mad, then probably a
“nutty” year has dawned.
This year comprises the latter part
of the 146th and the beginning of the
147th year of American Independence.
It corresponds to the year 6,635 of the
Julian period, and the year 5683 of
the Jewish era begins at sunset on
September 22nd. It is the year 2675
since the foundation of Rome, accord-
ing to Varro, and the year 2582 of the
Japanese era and the 11th year of the
period entitled Taisho. For Moham-
medans the 1341st year since the He-
gira begins at sunset on August 23rd.
The first day of January, 1922, was
the 2,423,056 day since the beginning
of the Julian period.
According to belief of the ancients,
a position of the moon similar to that
during 1922 will be noticed in the
state of the weather, the fruitfulness
of the earth and the particular con-
stitution of men and animals. The
year in general will be more humid
than cold and dry, spring will be very
humid and warm, and occasionally,
for the sake of variety, there will be
frost late in the season. Summer is to
be warm at times and cool at others
with all sorts of freakish weather to
conclude the moon year of 1922.
Eastern Pennsylvania will have to
worry along without the pleasure of
an eclipse during the year. Of the
two that are booked, both of which
are of the sun, one is visible to Eu-
rope, Afica and South America on
March 28th, and the other to Austra-
lia, New Zealand and adjacent por-
tions of the Pacific Ocean on Septem-
ber 20th.
As usual the 12 signs of the Zodiac
occupy spaces of prominence in the
almanac for 1922. Beliefs in the in-
fluence of heavenly bodies and that
certain signs and days are more favor-
able to planting than others, while
they may be relics of astrology, are
still followed faithfully by many peo-
ple. It is true of course, that in ear-
lier days the signs were more rigidly
adhered to than they will be in 1922.
Taken in connection with the increas-
ing or waning of the moon the signs
in earlier days constituted an entire
manual of farm practice. Grain was
sowed in the up-going, meat butchered
in the down-going would shrink in the
pot. Preserves made in the down-
going would shrink to little or noth-
ing.
Crops that produce their yield above
ground should be planted in the sign
of Aries the ram, and in the new or
increasing light of the moon to grow
vigorously. Root crops, on the other
hand, should be planted in the sign of
Taurus, the bull, and in the down-
going or decreasing light of the moon
to produce best results. Potatoes and
radishes may also be planted in the
down-going or waning moon in the
sign of Sagittarius, the bowman, and
Capricornus, the goat, will produce a
rapid growth of pulp, stalk or roots,
but not much grain.
The sign of Cancer, the crab, has a
number of influences. If in the full
moon it is a good time to plant beans,
in the new moon, lentile. Peas should
be sown if the day follows the new
moon. Just before the full of the
moon in this sign is a good time to
plant or prune fruit trees or grape-
vines. Scorpia, the scorpian, is a good
sign for corn; Virgo, the virgin, for
flowers, while Gemini, the twins, is
good for all plants that produce their
yield above the ground and especially
good for melons. The soil should be
stirred in this sign to subdue all nox-
ious weeds and the sign of Leo, the
lion, which is favorable to growth of
seed or transplanting, is also favor-
able for destroying weeds.
In the earlier days fortunes were
told by these same signs and more
recently a series of booklets that ap-
peared on the market and which clas-
sified the fortunes of people according
to the month in which they were born
attempted the same result.—Ex.
——— renee.
Poison Booze Has Killed 103 Since
January 1st.
New York.—Poisoned booze has
killed 108 persons in the United States
since January 1st.
United press dispatches from all
parts of the country revealed this
amazing total.
Deaths are continuing. Two per-
sons died in the New York area dur-
ing the last twenty-four hours.
These fatalities have occurred at
the average rate of more than eight
a day since the poisoned booze flood
was put on the market. “Many per-
sons are selling wood alcohol, appar;
ently indifferent as to the results,”
Dr. Royal F. Copeland, health officer
of New York city, said recently. “We
have been conducting an investigation
of this and find there is much wood
alcohol available. No one should take
a drink of liquor unless its origin is
known. Every drink of unknown
liquor is a potential menace. Uufor-
tunately there are some people who
will drink anything that is wet. The
man who does that risks his life.”
GET COLOR INTO YOUR
PALE CHEEKS.
If Your Face is Your Fortune. Don’t
Look Like a Bankrupt.
Who does not want red lips, a good,
clear, healthy complexion and bright,
flashing eyes ?
Some people have such wonderfully
good health nothing seems to hurt
them. Others could se easily have
fine color and more strength and vig-
or if they would help nature with
Gude’s Pepto-Mangan. It is a splen-
did iron tonic that physicians have pre-
scribed for thirty years. It is not an
experiment. It 1s not merely a tem-
porary help, because it makes plenty
of red blood and, as everybody knows,
red blood is the ony sure foundation
of permanent heal and strength.
Get Pepto-Mangan of your druggist—
and take it a few wee!
| sportsmen are daily sending in their
- where you all wanted a good culled
s and see how Ise de culled man what's got de job,
$9,000,000 FOR FREE SEEDS.
In 1839 Congress gave $1000 to the
Patent Office for the purpose of pro-
curing and distributing seeds of “rare
and improved varieties” and for gath-
ering agricultural statistics. From
this innocent beginning has been built
up the great annual free distribution
of seeds by Congressmen, which is a
monstrous and notorious graft. In
the last forty-five years it has cost the
taxpayers nearly $9,000,000.
What it amounts to is a privilege
accorded to Congressmen of distrib-
uting prize packages among their
constituents free of cost to them-
selves. This, of course, is valuable
from an electioneering point eof view,
each representative being thus ena-
bled to indicate a remembrance of his
constituents individually without
spending a cent. He does not even
pay the postage, but merely furnish-
es the requisite addresses bearing his
frank. Uncle Sam does the rest. The
sincerity of Congressmen in their re-
marks favoring economy will meet
with a crucial test when this item
comes up for consideration in the ag-
ricultural bill.
Secretaries of the Department of
Agriculture, one after another, have
protested against this graft; but in
vain. From year to year the appro-
priation for the purpose has been
made larger. In 1896 it rose to $80,-
000. In 1911 it was $289,690. Secre-
tary Meredith, a year ago, urged that
it be cut out. The response of Con-
gress was a further increase to $360,-
000, which is the amount spent dur-
ing the present year for free seeds.
There is no pretense that the seeds
are of any real use to anybody. How
could they be? The individual recip-
ient gets five little packets, the con-
tents weighing altogether about two-
thirds of an ounce. They are common
vegetable or flower seeds—cabbage,
cucumber, squash, turnip, tomato, or
nasturtium, mignonette, ete.
Each Congressman is entitled to his
“quota” of so many thousand pack-
ages. If he comes from an urban con-
stituency he may, and often does, ex-
change his seeds for public documents
which an agricultural member hands
over to him as a “swap.” Brokers
have done a profitable business in
government seeds, buying up quotas
entire, and, with cellars full of them,
selling them to Representatives at
one-fourth their cost to Uncle Sam.
Formerly the seeds were put into |
the envelopes with spoons by a large
force of girls. Now machines are
used which fill and seal the packets
automatically, each machine turning
out from 25,000 to 35,000 a day.
SPORTSMEN TURN IN
GAME REPORTS.
Sportsmen! Where are your re-
ports of game killed? The Game
Commission needs them now. Thous-
ands are coming in daily.
While thousands of Pennsylvania
reports of game killed, on stubs pro-
vided on every license for that pur-
pose, there are apparently many oth-
ers who have so far overlooked the
request of the Game Commission for
the reports immediately after the
close of the hunting season. Will you
not see to it that your report is sent
at once and that your sportsmen
friends do likewise? Send it in even
though you have killed no game of
any sort in order that complete tab-
ulated reports may be prepared and
distributed later on.
Last year the results of such tab-
ulation were very interesting and
highly beneficial to everybody con-
cerned, but because that was the first
effort, returns from sportsmen were
far below what was expected. This
season, however, the sportsmen have
displayed so much greater interest in
all phases of the work of the Game
Commission, including an observance
of the laws heretofore unable to ob-
tain, that we are confident the return
of reports will be many times that of
last year. In some States failure to
send in reports of game killed is pun-
ishable by very heavy penalties, but
in Pennsylvania we believe the
sportsmen will voluntarily do this and
thus head off sentiment for such dras-
tic laws in this State.
Will you help? Don’t let your
county be at the bottom of the list in
this matter.
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State Game Laws Violated—Sixty-
Four Licenses Revoked.
_ State Game Commissioner revoked
sixty-four licenses of hunters who vi-
olated the game laws, and a number
of others are being investigated.
Action will be taken at the Febru-
ary meeting.
The persons accused of hunting
without any licenses will be refused
licenses for the term of years deter-
mined by the Commission. The other
revocations are from one to three
years.
Nine revocations were for killing
song birds; four for hunting on Sun-
day; three for killing illegal deer;
three for possessing ferrets without
licenses; two for lending hunter’s li-
censes; one for “calling” turkeys, and
one for displaying more than one tag
while hunting.
_ During December bounties amount-
ing to $24,558 were paid for killing of
vermin.
It was the largest sum paid in any
December in the history of the Game
Commission.
Checking Up.
A Negro sauntered into the office of
a white friend. “Good mawnin,” Mr.
Withrow. Kin I use yo’ telephone a
minute ?” he asked.
“Why, certainly, Sam.”
Sam called his number, and after a
few minute's wait, said: “Is this Mrs.
Whiteside? Well, I seen in de papeh
man. Is you still wantin’ one? Then
the man youse got is puffectly satis-
factory, and you doesn’t contemplate
makin’ no change soon? All right,
ma’am. Good-by.”
Mr. Withrow called to Sam as he
left the telephone. “Now, that’s too
bad, Sam, that the place is filled.”
“Oh, dat’s all right, Mr. Withrow,
TRIED IDEAL NEWSPAPER.
Publisher Found by Cutting Out Pa-
per He Could Please Public.
Arthur H. Folwell, in Leslie’s Week-
ly, telles the following story:
A newspaper publisher, wishing to
Pease his readers, asked for sugges-
ons.
“How can I make mine the ideal
newspaper ?” he inquired.
“Cut out the crimes, the murders,
the sensational divorce case reports,”
said the nice people.
“Cut out the accidents, the railway
and steamship disasters,” said the
people who “couldn’t bear” to read
such things. ;
“Cut out the politics,” said the old-
fashioned woman, “I don’t understand
it, and haven’t time for it.
“Cut out the League of Nations and
all that heavy stuff,” yawned the flap-
pers of both sexes. “What's it all
about, anyway?”
“Cut out the so-called funny pic-
tures,” said the careful mother. “Such
pictures aren’t funny, and they’re bad,
very bad, for children.”
“Cut out the ponderous editorials,”
snapped the man who merely scans
the headlines. “Nobody reads ’em
nowadays.”
“Cut out the woman’s page,” said
the female with the strong mind. “It’s
mushy, trashy, trivial; an insult to
our sex.”
“Cut out sports and theatres,” said |
the intellectual. “Both are bad influ-
ences, and both have received alto-
gether too much notice.”
“Cut out—"’ began another and still
anpihar but the publisher beat them
0 it.
“Stop, all of you,” he cried. “On
second thought, I have decided to cut
out myself. It is no use trying to pub-
lish the ideal newspaper until I come
acoss the ideal reader.”
Saying which, he shut up shop and
went into the wholesale saxophone
business for rest.
Real Estate Transfers.
Lulu Thomas to Edward A. Nolan,
et ux, tract in Bellefonte; $500.
_ John Boyce to Ada D. Bullock, tract
in State College; $1,600.
Joshua T. Zeigler, et ux, to Samuel
Waite, tract in Spring township;
$1,500.
Wm. A. Snook, et ux, to Glenshaw
Sportsmen Club, tract in Miles town-
ship; $500.
Peter Stout, et ux, to Frederick
Stout, tract in South Philipsburg; $25.
Adam H. Krumrine, et ux, to R.
Donald Lewis, tract in State College;
$675.
Geo. R. Meek, et ux, to John Lam-
bert, tract in Spring township; $100.
Geo. W. Secrist, et al, to Midvale
Realty Co., tract in Penn township;
$6,000.
Edward G. Mingle, et al, to Midvale
Realty Co., tract in Haines township;
$2,250.
C. H. Pressler to Midvale Realty
Co., tract in Penn township; $8,200.
Lloyd C. Bartges, et ux, to Midvale
Realty Co., tract in Haines township;
$12,500.
D. Wallace Bartges, et ux, to Mid-
vale Realty Co., tract in Penn town-
ship; $12,000.
Betsy R. Treaster, et bar, to Mid-
vale Realty Co., tract in Penn town-
ship; $800.
James W. Roush, et ux, to Midvale
Realy Co., tract in Haines township;
$5,250.
Geo. E. Stover, et ux, to Midvale
Realty Co., tract in Haines township;
$480.
F. D. Stover, et ux, to Midvale
Realty Co., tract in Haines township;
$1,300.
Emanuel Kerstetter to Midvale
Realty Co., tract in Penn township;
$10,000.
James S. Weaver, et ux, to Midvale
Realty Co., tract in Haines township;
$7,041.
Mary Elmyra Motz, et bar, to Mid-
vale Realty Co., tract in Penn town-
ship; $13,072.
Wm. J. Bower, et ux, to Midvale
Realty Co., tract in Haines township;
$6,000.
A. S. Stover, et ux, to Midvale Real-
ty Co., tract in Haines township; $650.
Wm. E. Keen to Midvale Realty Co.,
tract in Penn township; $1,250.
Harry J. Bower, et ux, to Midvale
Realty Co., tract in Haines township;
$1,500.
H. O. Behm, et ux, to Midvale Re-
alty Co., tract in Haines township;
$550.
Annie B. Guisewite, et bar, to Mid-
vale Realty Co., tract in Haines town-
ship; $1,600.
J. L. Spangler, et ux, to M. F.
Broderick, tract in Bellefonte; $1,100.
J. L. Spangler, et ux, to Charles A.
Schaeffer, tract in Bellefonte; $550.
M. F. Broderick, et ux, to Charles
A. Schaeffer, tract in Bellefonte; $250.
John Felan, et ux, to Martin Aus-
tra, tract in Snow Shoe township;
$1,400.
John L. Holmes, et al, to Hamill
Holmes, tract in Ferguson township;
$300.
Hamill Holmes, et ux, to Charles
T. Shilling, tract in Ferguson town-
ship; $1,600.
I. G. Gordon Foster, et bar, to Ray-
mond W. Heim, tract in State College;
$1,000.
Charles C. Bange, et ux, to William
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* CLEARANCE SALE OF WINTER _
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S. Taylor, tract in Philipsburg; $4,350.
I. J. Dreese, trustee, to Park N.
Homan, tract in State College; $2,000.
Minnie W. Clark, et ux, to Horace
Yinkleman, tract in Walker township;
Abram Weber, et ux, to Wm. Web-
er, tract in Howard; $1.
Wm. Weber, et ux, to Rachel Web-
er, tract in Howard; $1.
He Would Not Sign.
Mr. McNab (after having his lease '
read over to him): “I will not sign
that; I have na been able tae keep
Ten Commandments for a mansion in
much better you feel and look. Sold but I’se jest wantin’ to check up.”—
in liquid and tablet form.—Adv. 67-6 Judge.
heaven, an’ I'm no’ guan tae tackle
aboot a hundred for two rooms in the
High Street!”—London Opinion.
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