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Bellefonte, Pa., February 1, 1924.
A MOVEMENT FOR AN AMEND-
MENT FOR THE CHILDREN.
Word comes from Washington that
members of the new Congress are al-
ready focussing their attention upon
the drafting of a child labor amend- |
ment to the Federal constitution. This |
activity on the part of Congress 1s a
direct result of the aroused sentiment '
of thousands of people throughout the |
country that the child labor conditions |
which have so long been a blot upon
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our civilization must go.
People in the United States have
protested against the indignity of
child labor for many years—but child
labor remains. The census of 1920 |
showed 1,060,858 children between 10 |
and 15 years of age at work in the |
United States. But that figure would |
be a mild statement for the conditions |
existing right now. The 1920 census
was taken while the Federal child la-
bor tax law, which materially re-
stricted the employment of child labor
in every State in the Union, was in ef-
feet. But in 1922 that Federal law
was declared unconstitutional by the |
Supreme court and the regulation of
child labor was thrown back entirely
upon the consciences of the individual
States. The result is a mass of for- |
ty-eight different child labor codes in
this country, having little relation to
each other. :
And more than that, the result is a
definite increase in the number of
children employed in all parts of the
nation now that the Federal ban no
longer exists. Children who should
be in school are working in factories,
on industrialized farms, in tenement
sweatshops, on city streets—are los-
ing precious education and the play- |
time of childhood simply because their |
elders are not yet sufficiently enlight-
ened to protect them and train them
in the formative period of their: lives.
There was opportunity given for
discussion of the child labor amend-
ment and of the child labor ques-
tion in general on January 26th, 27th
and 28th, which will be set aside na-
tionally as child labor days. For
many years the national child labor
committee has sponsored the annual
observance of child labor day, realiz-
ing the necessity for a popular under-
standing of this problem which has
such a vital bearing upon the future
life of our country. If, as is confi- |
dently predicted, the bill for the child
labor amendment to the Federal con-
stitution is passed by the present Con- |
gress, the responsibility for making it
a part of our law will be up to the
popular vote of the individual States.
Every one of us will have to register
his opinion upon the advisability of
the child labor amendment.
Technical Grads Land Jobs Months
Ahead.
The annual scramble on the part of
industrial plants of the country for
graduates of technical colleges start-
ed three or four months ahead of the
usual time. : :
Forty men completed engineering
courses at The Pennsylvania State
College and received degrees on Janu-
ary 29th, and every one of them has
had a job offered him for some weeks
past. A number have had several of-
fers each. About thirty additional de-
grees were given men who completed
their college work at State College at
the last summer session. These have
been at work since last August. |
According to R. L. Sackett, dean of
the Penn State engineering school, he
had already received a large number
of inquiries from industrial corpora- |
tions for some of the approximately
200 June graduates to step into good
positions. Most requests are from
Pennsylvania industrial plants. Many
companies that have never before |
asked the college for graduates have
sent representatives to the college in |
recent weeks to look over the field and
determine the calibre of the “June
crop” of graduates. The engineering '
school at Penn State is not only the
largest of the six schools in the col-
lege, but it is one of the largest
schools of its kind in the country.
College Roll Jumps 550 Per Cent. in
Twenty-five Years.
Two new schools and two new build-
ings added to the facilities of The |
Pennsylvania State College during the |
year 1922-1923 are important items in
the annual report of president John
M. Thomas, which has just been pub-
lished. The schools were the Gradu-
ate school and the School of Educa-
tion, and the new buildings Frederick
Watts Hall, dormitory for men stu-
dents, and a beef cattle barn, both
erected from funds appropriated by
the Legislature of 1921.
The total enrollment for the year
was 22,385 including 3,600 winter
term students, 2,688 Summer Session
students and the balance in extension
classes and home study courses. The
attendance in residence courses has
jumped in twenty-five years from 347
to 6,288 an increase of 553 per cent.
Ninety-seven per cent. of the stu-
dents enrolled came from Pennsylva-
nia. The others came from thirty
other States and seven foreign coun-
tries. Every county in the State was
represented in the student body, Alle-
gheny leading with 665 and Philadel-
phia county second with 484.
Tough Luck, Sure Enough.
For 18 months two colored dough-
boys had been fighting, neither hav-
ing heard from home.
Two days before the armistice was
signed Sam entered the dugout for-
lorn and dejected.
“Heah, Ah got a letter says my gal
done went and got herself married.
That's what Ah calls tough luck.”
Rastus looked up, and with tears,
which he could no longer control,
streaming down his cheeks, mumbled:
“Man, dat ain’t no hard luck. Ah
just got a letter from my district
board telling me I'm exempt.”—
Judge.
“Do you know Max?”
“Max whe?”
“Max no difference.”
PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC SERVICE INFORMATION COMMITTEE
Jackie Hillcrest, focus of inter-
est in this group, is a waif adopt-
ed by the Home Economics De-
partment of the Pennsylvania
State College to give the students
practical experience in housekeep-
ing, including infant care. The
girls live in a model house, equip-
ped with every modern gas and
electric appliance. Miss Edith P.
Chace (in the circle) is Director
of the department.
‘STATE COLLEGE GIRLS LEARN TO
KEEP HOUSE WITH REAL BABY
Jackie Hillcrest, a Waif, Center of Attraction in Model Penn-
sylvania Home, Where Go-Eds, With Gas and Electric
Equipment, Study Arts of Domesticity.
State College, Pa,, Jan. 28.—Jackie
Hillcrest is at once the luckiest and
the unluckiest baby in Pennsylvania.
He has twenty-six mothers and yet
+ he has none.
He is lucky in another way, too,
for he is a model baby m a model
house. All the cenveniences of gas
and electricity are at his disposal.
A gas heater keeps his room warm.
When he has a pain in his stomach, !
an electric heating pad eases the dis-
comfort. jas-heated ironing ma-
chines, electrically operated, smooth
the wrinkles from his bed-linen, pre-
viously laundered in an electric wash-
ing machine, and electric irons make
his little dresses spick and span.
Vacuum cleaners sweep the rugs
and remove the dust from the drap-
eries. Electric lights prove a God-
send of convenience to his guardians
in the middle of the night if Jackie
wakes up with a ery of distress. And
if that cry should prove the signal
for something genuinely wrong with
his health, the telephone is at hand
to summon a physician.
A word of explanation may now be
necessary to give this waif—for
Jackie Hillcrest is not his real name
—a proper introduction.
Pennsylvania State College has one
of the finest Home Economics De-
partments in the country. Girls from
every county in the Commonuwealth
hurry here every year by train and
motor bus to be initiated into the
mysteries of cookery and the other
arts and sciences contributing to a
happy domestic life.
And, incidentally, Miss Edith P.
Chace, Director of the Department of
Home Economics, regards the pur-
chasing of gas and electricity as being
equally important with the buying of
meat and other foods.
«] believe people should give the
game care to purchasing public utility
service as they do to buying pro-
visions,” Miss Chace said to a repre-
sentative of the Pennsylvania Public
Service Information Committee.
«we teach our students to know
exactly what they are buying and un-
less they know what they get for
their money, it would be impossible
for them to make out their budgets.”
A gas meter or an electric meter,
intricate as each one is, holds no
terrors for the young woman. Meters
are attached to ranges, irons, washing
machines, percolators, heaters, lamps,
cleaners, and the girls take readings
from the meters in the most accurate
way.
The model house, which is Jackie's
home, is called Hillcrest Cottage.
Here the girls of the senior class live
for six weeks at a time. In groups
of six the young women study the
essentials of good housekeeping, for
the cottage has all the installations
and furniture of a modern home.
All? Well, until recently the house
lacked the one essential of every
happy household. It had no baby.
Miss Chace and Miss Ella J. Day,
assistant professor of Home Econom-
ics, succeeded in getting Jackie to
make his home with the practice
house students.
So now, Jackie, who is ten months
old, ean claim for his chief mother,
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Penn State College, which, in another
sense, has been the Alma Mater of
nearly eight thousand men and women
who have gone from its doors to be
professional and business leaders.
In addition Jackie has twenty-five
senior girls to mother him and make
a fuss over him. However, the young
man is just like other babies in that
he has only one mother at a time.
With all the conveniences that
modern ingenuity can devise, Jackie
promises to grow up to be quite a
man. He shows his appreciation, too,
with gleeful smiles.
The girls make out a schedule of
duties and so well does the arrange-
ment work, with the aid of the eco-
nomical and time-saving gas and elec-
tric devices, that the young women
have been able to set their table daily
with three meals at a cost of less
than fifty cents a day for each person.
It is the housekeeper for the week
who acts as mother to Jackie. She
looks after his bathing, feeding,
clothing, airing, sleeping hours, vis-
iting hours and the whole regimen
which young royalty must undergo.
His diet is exclusively liquid, which
is another characteristic of young
fellows of his age. He gets his bottle
at 6 and 10 o'clock in the morning, at
2 o'clock in the afternoon and at 6
o'clock in the evening. He has his
hath at 8 o’clock in the morning, and
then from 10 o'clock until 12.30
o'clock in the afternoon he sieeps on
the porch in a strange device known
as a “kiddie coop.”
Presumably he awakens at 12.30
o'clock, but for what purpose no one
could explain clearly, because his
round of social duties does not begin
until 3 o’clock.
From that hour until 5 o’clock he
is “at home.” His official visiting
hours are crowded, too, for the co-eds
and others on the campus flock to
Hillcrest Cottage to pay their re-
spects to the popular vouth.
And some of the girls say, with a
smile, that if Jackie's tastes do not
run to athletics he will make an ad-
mirable cheer-leader. He can make
himself heard.
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Still in Schaal,
May June met her friend Agnes in
the street. They stood talking for a
while, when a friend of theirs, Doris
by name, passed them on the other
side of the street. In animated con-
versation with her was Colonel Mitkin,
“Were not Doris and the colonel
schoolmates?” asked May, as she
caught sight of the pair.
“Yes,” answered her friend, “and
they are yet.”
“Where?’ asked May in surprise.
“Oh, don’t you know?” said Agnes.
“In the school for scandal.”
Too Sick to Care.
Mother, father and Willie were in
midchannel. It was rather rough.
Father did not feel too well, neither
did mother, and mother was also driven
to distraction by the mischievous antics
of the boy.
Finally she appealed to her husband,
saying:
“Father, do speak to Willie?”
And in a faint voice the father said:
“How are you, Willie?”
It Was Worth the Money.
A business man received a letter
from his son stating that the lad was
doing well in football, stood near the
head of his class, was popular social-
ly and liked his college. This missive
he showed to an associate with the
remark: “I sent the boy $50 and I
don’t regret it.” :
«] shouldn’t think you would,” re-
sponded his friend warmly. “That let-
ter is full of good news. Many a time
1 send $50 just for a hard luck story.”
Ticket Was Still Good,
As an express train was going
through a station one of the pas-
sengers leaned out of the window,
overbalanced, and fell out. He
fortunately landed on a sandheap, sO
that he did himself no great injury;
but, with torn clothes, he sad to a
porter :—
“What shall 1 do?”
“You're all right, mister,” said the
porter, “your ticket allows you to
break ycur journey.”
FARM NOTES.
—During the cold snap, cover the
cans with a blanket when the milk is
put out for the hauler. See that he
has a covering for his load. Frozen
milk delivered at a factory means a
loss in your milk check.
—Eggs for hatching should not be
held more than ten days. The tem-
perature at which to hold them should
be between 50 and 60 degrees. Eggs
freeze at 28, are chilled at 40, and
start to incubate at 68 degrees.
—Vegetable growers, whether home.
gardeners or commercial growers, are
often puzzled on varieties, cultural
methods, fertilizers, tools, ete. In-
formation may be had free by writing
to W. B. Nissley, of the department of
Serientonl extension, State College,
a.
—Due to the early frost and unfa-
vorable season considerable seed corn
did not mature and dry sufficiently
this fall to winter well in exposed
places. Freezing of moist corn in-
jures the vitality of the seed, and will
result in a poor stand of corn next
spring. Unless your seed was fully
matured and well dried, place it in
some heated place during the extreme
cold weather.
—Feed milk and plenty of green
food to the hens that are to be used
as breeders. Sprouted oats or cab-
bage will help to increase the fertili-
ty and hatchability of the eggs.
densed buttermilk can be fed profit-
ably. Fed at the rate of three pounds
per hundred birds, with a decrease of
16 per cent. of meat scrap in the
mash, buttermilk has a decided bene-
ficial effect upon the fertility of the
eggs.
—The Bureau of Plant Industry
tells us that rhubarb grows best from
roots divided from the parent stock.
One old root will furnish ten to fif-
teen piece-roots. These piece-roots
are planted preferably in the autumn
and should be kept well covered and
mulched during the winter.
Six to eight plants will be sufficient
for the average family.
Manure heavily and the plants will
respond wonderfully. Set plants about
four feet apart each way.
Combining a delicious acid flavor
with certain medicinal properties,
rhubarb is especially valuable to dia-
betic sufferers.
Plants will yield for many years if
properly cared for and not permitted
to go to seed. However, replanting
every six to eight years is desirable.
—An egg-eating hen is a bolshevik
that is liable to corrupt the rest of the
flock with her uneconomic notions re-
garding rations. She should be re-
moved to a place where her example
will have no effect on her sisters, or
she should have her head cut off, for
the habit is practically incurable.
Poultrymen of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture say it can be
prevented by taking proper precau-
tions.
kating eggs begins usually when an
egg has been broken in the nest, or
when it has been cracked by freezing
and then thawed out. Keeping the
nests well supplied with straw or oth-
er nesting material will reduce the
danger of breakage, and darkening
them will reduce the chances of brok-
en eggs being found by the hens. It
is a good idea to gather the eggs
twice a day in cold weather so that
none will be frozen.
Hens that are not properly fed will
have a ravenous appetite for eggs,
both the shells and the contents, so
that providing a well-balanced ration
is some insurance against the devel-
opment of the habit. In winter there
is particular danger that some lack in
the feed will develop an abnormal ap-
petite, so plenty of animal matter,
such as meat scraps, and lime in the
form of oyster shells or bone, should
be taken to provide it.
Another bad habit enjoyed by these
dietetic bolshevists is feather pluck-
ing from themselves or from other
members of the flock. Improper feed-
ing, insect pests, and too close con-
finement are the usual causes for
starting this habit. But it is not so
hard to cure as egg eating. A plen-
tiful supply of animal and green feed
and good range or plenty of exercise
by feeding in a deep litter, and free-
dom from insect pests will usually
bring the fowls back to a normal ap-
petite.
—If feed dealers and merchants,
prosecuted by the Pennsylvania De-
partment of Agriculture for infringe-
ment of feeding-stuffs regulations,
had made a more thorough study of
the feed law for the purpose of un-
derstanding the why and the where-
fore of its contents, fewer violations
would have been recorded and much
trouble and expense would have been
saved by every one concerned, says
the Bureau of Chemistry of the De-
partment of Agriculture.
A typical instance of failure to com-
ply with the feeding stuffs law, either
wilfully or unwittingly, is shown in a
recent violation reported by the bu-
reau in which it was found that metal
fasteners were being used to attach
analysis and shipping tags to sacks
of feed.
Tag fasteners made of metal are
prohibited principally because there is
danger that they may eventually find
their way into the feed and from
there inte an animal’s stomach. Ser-
ious injury results and in not a few
cases, the animal dies. Another
source of trouble arises from the cus-
tomary practice of putting empty
sacks to good use in numerous ways
on the farm, not the least of which is
their repeated service in hauling mix-
ed feed and grain. With one of these
sharp-pointed metal fasteners hidden
on the inside of a sack, the person who
shoulders a sack of feed is liable to
serious injury. On another score,
metal clips on the bags that are used
to carry grain to the mill, may get in-
to the milling machinery and do con-
siderable damage to the latter before
their presence is discovered.
The safest practice for the manu-
facturer is to have the analysis and
all required information printed on
the sack instead of a tag. In case a
shipping tag is required by law, as it
is in many States, it is best to sew or
tie the tag on in some way so that the
least possible harm and loss comes fo
those who have occasion to handle the
sacks or use the feed they contain.
Ex-
perimental results indicate that con-
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Clean-Up Sale
of Satin Pumps
Now on sale—my entire stock of
Ladies Satin Pumps, including all
styles and prices. We do not have
all sizes in the different styles, but
you will doubtless be able to fit
your feet out of the many pairs
on sale.
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