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"Bellefonte, Pa., October 19, 1923.
WHEN YOU KNOW THERE'S A
BASS ON YOUR LINE.
By Edgar A. Guest.
There's a thrill to the whirr of the par-
tridge in the fall and a thrill to the
honk of the duck,
And a thrill to the sportsman, whatever
the game, when he knows that his bul-
let has struck.
©Oh, the wide out-of-doors is a red-blooded
book of a red-blooded man to enjoy;
With the sun beating down and the wind
in his face he's a man with the heart
of a boy.
And it’s boy that I am, though my tem-
ples are gray—its boy though I
crowd forty-nine,
And the thrill that I crave is the thrill
that you get when you know there's a
bass on your line!
There's a time when forgetfulness wipes
out your cares and shuts out the
world from your view.
When the wrongs you have borne are eras-
ed from your mind and none is exist-
ing but you;
There's the high peak of bliss where no
stranger intrudes and where nothing
distracting you see,
Where from sorrow and heartache and
hurt and despair and hunger and
thirst you are free;
There's that brief space of time when
you're conscious of naught but a glo-
rious thrill down your spine,
And a tug you have felt and a leap you
have seen, and you know there's a
bass on your line!
It is seldom we're blinded to wrongs that
exist, it is seldom our senses grow
numb;
By countless distractions we're buffeted
round, except when the big moments
come.
And but few of the minutes life gives us
are big; not oft we're allowed to for-
get
The burdens we carry, the pain that we
bear, the failures and sorrows we've
met.
But they all disappear in a flash when it
comes—that time when the minutes
are fine,
When you see the rod bend and you hear
the reel click and you know there's a
bass on your line!
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT
YOUR OWN WATCH?
For most of the things in the daily
routine of your life probably you de-
pend most on the watch tucked away
in your vest, your trousers or on your
wrist, yet we venture the assertion
that, aside from the fact that you
know how to wind it and know when
it is gaining or losing time, you know
absolutely nothing about this constant
companion upon which you rely so
much.
Among its “Daily Talks with
Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects
They Know Best,” the Philadelphia
Ledger, last Friday, published the fol-
lowing interview with Ira D. Garman.
Mr. Garman, as most of you know,
is a Bellefonte boy. He has, for years
been in the jewelry business at 101
South Eleventh St., Philadelphia. As
a person who has been successful,
both in business and public life in that
city the Ledger reporter sought an in-
¥erview with him and, naturally, his
talk turned to the subject he knew
best. It is rather long, but so full of
information on a subject that so few
of us know anything about that we
republish it here, thinking that you
will probably be as much interested in
reading it as we were.
To have the correct time is now rec-
ognized as one of the most important
things in business and social life, as
in these days pretty nearly every-
thing is regulated by that factor, and
yet the average man pays little atten-
tion to the condition of his watch, al-
though it is this upon which he de-
pends for the keeping of virtually all
his engagements, says Ira D. Garman,
for years the president of the Penn-
Sylvania State Retail Jewelers’ Asso-
ciation.
“The average man expects a great
deal from his watch,” said Mr. Gar-
man, “and at the same time he knows
very little about it and about what Is
necessary for him to do if the watch
is to give him the service which he de-
mands from it. At the same time,
after an experience of forty-five years
in the business I have come to the
conclusion that most persons know
more about time-pieces now than ever
before, and that a great many more
men are now paying attention to their
. watches than at any previous time.
rs ‘WATCH VERY COMPLEX.
' ““A watch is a very complex and
- complicated machine and more than
any other, it may be compared to the
human body in its construction and in
its workings. There are more than
150 separate pieces in a watch, and
each of these must fit perfectly and
be kept in perfect condition if the
watch is expected to run right. One
imperfect part may not stop a watch,
but it will certainly cause it to run in-
correctly and either to gain or lose
time.
“As I said, many persons, perhaps
tthe majority of them, are careless
:about having their watches cleaned
and oiled. Oil is one of the most im-
portant things about a watch, and it
is also very important that the right
‘kind of oil be used. Less than one
«drop of oil is required to keep a
well-made watch running and in good
condition from six to twelve months,
but that one drop must be there. The
length of time depends upon how
much dust that particular watch col-
Aects. :
“To clean and oil a watch properly
the watch must be taken entirely
apart and each separate part cleaned
and re-oiled; the old dry oil is taken
out and all the pivots are repolished.
“Then it is put together again and the
mew oil put in the proper places.
Great care must be taken that teo
much oil is not used.
OIL CUPS VERY SMALL.
“As is to be expected, the oil cups
of a watch are extremely small, es-
pecially in the wrist watches and oth-
ers of very small pattern, which have
come so much into vogue during . the
i small that the repairer has to use a
magnifying glass to see them.
“If too much oil be used and the
i smallest amount of it gets into the
‘ hairspring, the tiny coil will stick to-
| gether and the watch will gain as
i much as two hours in every twenty-
four. It is a good plan for the own-
i er to allow his watch to remain under
i the observation of the watch-maker
for a couple of weeks after being
cleaned, as it takes that long to get a
watch to its proper adjustment after
being cleaned.
“There is no such thing as regulat-
ing a watch which needs cleaning. It
simply cannot be done. A watch
which has become impregnated with
dust or with corroded oil is just as
apt to gain time as to lose it. This is
usually a puzzle to the owner, who
finds it difficult to understand why a
watch can be out of oil and still run
too fast. So if after a year or so a
watch begins to run too fast, it is
pretty nearly a sure sign that it needs
reoiling. :
MAY INJURE THE WATCH.
“Many fine watches are so well con-
structed that they will continue to run
for months after every bit of oil has
dried up, but injury to the watch in-
variably follows. When it finally
does stop the finely finished and high-,
ly tempered steel pivots are usually
so worn that not only is the cost of
repairing very high, but the watch
will never again give the satisfaction
which it would had it received the
proper care in time.
“The importance of this accuracy in
time-keeping is appreciated by the
great railroads to the extent that
they have a rule requiring the watch-
es of those employees who have to do
with the running of trains to be ex-
amined every ten days and cleaned
at least once every twelve months.
“One of the most damaging things
which can happen to a watch is a se-
vere bump caused by being dropped.
It is possible for a watch to fall and
sustain no injury, but the better plan
for the owner is to take it immediate-
ly to a watch-maker and have it ex-
amined. Often a slight bump will
bend a pivot; the watch continues to
run and the owner forgets all about
the fall. Then in a week or so it
stops. The fall bent a small pivot,
but not enough to stop it at once.
The pivot revolves in its setting until
it becomes worn and has to be replac-
e If given immediate attention it
might have been
small cost.
“Many times a bump will crack a
jewel, and often the watch will con-
tinue to run. When a jewel is crack-
ed it leaves a rough edge and the piv-
ot revolving against this edge is soon
cut, and instead of a new jewel the
watch may require both a jewel and a
pivot—an expensive bit of work.
“But in most cases a fairly hard
fall will break the balance staff, this
being the pivot which holds the bal-
ance wheel in postiion, and when it is
broken the watch stops at once. The
balance wheel is what makes the
watch tick, and it ticks five times to
every second, or more than 400,000
times a day. If by a fall or other
straightened at
trouble the watch loses or gains only
a tick every second it will be a de-
viation of several hours a day.
“A grain of dirt as small as the
point of a needle will stop a watch if
it ludges in the right places—eithier in
the hairspring or between the teeth
of one of the wheels. These wheels
fit so perfectly that any firm sub-
stance, no matter how small, will
cause them to bind. When this oc-
curs it is exceedingly unwise to try
to start the watch either by shaking
or bumping it.
WHAT JEWELS ARE.
“There is a good bit of popular
misunderstanding as to what the ‘jew-
els’ of a watch actually are. They
are the points in which the pivots run,
and they must be made of the finest
material if the watch is to give good
service. There are from seven to
twenty-three of these points or jew-
els in a watch. They have nothing to
do with the time-keeping qualities of
a watch except that unless they are of
good quality and fit perfectly the
watch will not run properly. .
“It was found in the early days of
watch-making that pivots which were
set and run in jewels were more last-
ing and better in every way than
those set in brass or nickel plates. A
roughened (cracked) jewel is very
harmful to the time-keeping qualities
of a watch, and it should be immedi-
ately replaced.
“The best jewels are made of cut
rubies, although in the cheaper watch-
es they are often made of glass. The
ruby, however, has been found
through years of experience to be
very much the best substance which
can be used for this purpose.
GOOD WATCHES LONG-LIVED.
“If a good, well-made watch is kept
in proper condition constantly it will
last a life time. Much, however, de-
pends upon the care they receive and
the fact that properly qualified work-
men do the repair work which is
needed. A watch is so delicate and
so finely adjusted an instrument that
the utmost care is required when any-
thing goes wrong with it. A watch
that will not keep correct time is not
of much use to any one.
“In the last few years there has
been a great demand for the wrist
watch, and it undeniably has many
points of convenience and utility. It
started as a fad, but the excellent
points of such watches were soon rec-
ognized, and they are now more in use
than they ever were before. They
have come largely into vogue among
men, and the idea which at first pre-
vailed that it was effeminate for a
man to wear a wrist watch has now
been superseded.
“Most of these watches are very
small, and some of the foreign watch-
es which have been made in this style
are so tiny that it requires an unusu-
ally expert workman to take care of
them. It is a good plan to wind these
very small watches frequently; some
of them run better if wound twice a
day instead of once, as is the case
with the ordinary sized watch.
THE AMERICAN WATCHES.
“The United States has forged
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ahead wonderfully in the matter of
the making of watches within the last
few decades, and there are now four
or five establishments which do not
have to be afraid for their product
eveil when compared with the best of
the foreign watches, especially the
Swiss.
“The demand for finer watches
among the buyers in this country is
now greater than it ever has been be-
fore in the history of the watchmak-
ing industry. As the public has be-
come better educated in the care of
their watches, so they have come to
demand a better grade of watch than
formerly. While the appearance of a
watch has a good bit to do with its
sale, the requirement first of all is
that it must keep good time.”
GOOD BREEDING IN WRITING.
If you would only take time to read
The Life and Letters of Walter H.
Page, it would not be necessary for
me to quote what he said about style
in a letter to his son Ralph. As a
matter of fact you ought to read
those books for a number of other
things, and I keep on saying that
every chance I get, for I feel that in
recommending them I am doing a gen-
uine service. The writings of Walter
H. Page help one to get a true inter-
national viewpoint. And no man can
be in the truest sense an American
who lacks that.
However, this hasn’t anything to do
with what I started out to talk about,
namely, style in writing. This is
what Mr. Page wrote on that.
“Style is good breeding—and—art
—in writing. It consists of the ar-
rangement of your matter, first; then,
more of the gait; the manner and the
manners of your expressing it. Work
every group of facts, naturally and
logically grouped to begin with, into
a climax. Work every group up as a
sculptor works out his idea or a paint-
er, each group eomplete in itself.
Throw out any superfluous facts or
any merely minor facts that prevent
the orderly working up of the group—
that prevent or mar the effect you
wish to present.
“Then when you've got a group
thus presented, go over what you've
made Hf it, to make sure you've used
your riaterial and its arrangement to
the best effect, taking away merely
extraneous or superfluous or distract-
ing facts, here and there adding con-
crete illustrations—putting in a con-
vincing detail here and there, a touch
of color.
“Then go over it for your vocabu-
lary. See that you use no word in a
different meaning than it was used
100 years ago and will be used 100
years hence. You wish to use only
the permanent words—words, too,
that will be understood to carry the
same meaning to English readers in
every part of the world. Your vocab-
ulary must be chosen from the perma-
nent, solid, stable parts of the lan-
age.
“Then see that no sentence contains
a hint of obscurity.
“Then go over the words you use to
see if they be best. Don’t fall into
merely current phrases.
If you have
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C. W. Heilhecker
Twenty-Two New Buildings
That's only one phase of the construction program
we're working on this year in Pennsylvania.
It does not include 30 large additions to other Bell
Telephone Buildings in the state.
And in 1924 our expenditures for building operations
will be greater than this year.
The staggering demand for telephones—more
and more telephones—has brought about the
greatest telephone construction program ever
attempted in one year.
[his year we are adding 76,000 telephones; some
ten millions of dollars’ worth of new switchboards
and other Central Office equipment; half a million
miles of new wire.
With just one purpose in view—to keep pace with
the needs of the people of this state for communica-
tion facilities.
The Bell Telephone Company
of Pennsylvania
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ONE POLICY, ONE SYSTEM, UNIVERSAL SERVICE, AND ALL DIRECTED TOWARD BETTER SERVICE
‘last few years. These cups are SO
a long word, see if a native short one
can be put in its place which will be
more natural and stronger.
Avoid a Latin vocabulary and use a
plain English one—short words in-
stead of long ones.
“Most of all, use idioms—English
idioms of force. Say an agreement
was ‘come to.” Don’t say it was ‘con-
summated.” For the difference be-
tween idoims and a Latin style, com-
pare Lincoln with George Washing-
ton. One is always interesting and
convincing. The other is dull in spite
of all his good sense. How most folks
do misuse and waste words!”—The
Treasure Chest.
_ BOALSBURG.
Miss Mabel Brown spent Monday in
Bellefonte.
John Weber, of Centre Hall,
spent Monday with his brother and
sister.
Miss Anna Sweeney spent Tuesday
with friends in Lemont.
Squire and Mrs. J. F. Zechman are
contemplating a trip to Snyder coun-
ty this week.
Mrs. Goss and baby and Miss Ber-
nice Reed, of Milroy, were guests at
the Henry Reitz home from Friday
until Sunday.
Mrs. Robert Meyer and son Joseph,
and Miss Marjorie Shugerts, of Al-
toona, arrived in town Saturday to
visit friends in this vicinity.
Mrs. William Stover, Misses Mary
Reish and Nora Miller, and Louise
Shuey, accompanied Ralph Rishel to
Altoona on Saturday for a week-end
visit.
—Get your job work done here.
Looking at the new touring car from the side, you are at once
favorably impressed with the effect of longer, more graceful
lines
secured by enlarging the cowl and raising the radiator
Slanting windshield and one-man top lend material aid in giving
the entire car a lower, more stylish appearance.
An apron connecting the radiator with the fender skirts is also
a decided improvement.
A comfort feature much appreciated by ov /mers, is the additional
leg room provided by the enlargement of the cowl.
Allow us to show you the entire line of new Ford cars now on
display in our show room.
These cars can be
obtained through
: the Ford Weekly Purchase Plan.
Beatty Motor Co., Bellefonte, Pa.
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