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Bellefonte, Pa., July 18, 1924.
DAVIS AND BRYAN DEMOCRAT-
IC NOMINEES.
Former Chosen on 103rd Ballot,
Latter No Organized Opposition.
Following a tempestuous session of
two weeks and two days the Demo-
cratic national convention concluded
its work last Wednesday night with
the nomination of John W. Davis, of
West Virginia, as the candidate for
President, and Governor Charles W.
Bryan, of Nebraska, as the candidate
for Vice President. The break which
was the begining of the end did not
come until on the one hundredth bal-
lot. Following the ninety-ninth roll
call McAdoo’s managers released his
delegates from all efforts in his be-
half. Governor Al Smith had pre-
viously signified his willingness to
withdraw if McAdoo would do so.
The trend toward Davis began on the
95th ballot but it did not become over-
whelming until the 103rd, or last bal-
lot, which resulted as follows:
Davis - - - - - 838.5
Underwood - - - - 108
Walsh - - - - - 58
Glass - - - - - 23
Robinson - - - - - 20
Silzer - - - - - 15.5
McAdoo - - - - - 11.5
Smith - - - - - 7.8
On motion of Governor Brandon, of
Alabama, Davis’ nomination was
made unanimous.
Quite a number of names were
placed in nomination for Vice Presi-
dent but following a recess the con-
vention nominated Governor Charles
W. Bryan, who had no organized op-
position. At 2:24 o’clock Thursday
morning the convention adjourned
sine die. Following is a brief sketch
of the candidates:
JOHN W. DAVIS.
John William Davis, nominee for
president, was born in Clarksburg, W.
Va., in 1873, the only son in a family
of six children. His father, John J.
Davis, also a native of Clarksburg,
was an attorney and was constantly
active in civic enterprises. He served
in the legislature of the state and was
twice elected to congress. Mrs. Anna
Kennedy Davis, the mother of John
W. Davis, was a native of Baltimore.
Mr. Davis, was an alert student, be-
ing graduated from Washington and
Lee university at the age of 19. Af-
ter recieving his bachelor of arts de-,
gree, he spent three years studying
law and won the law degree at the
age of 22 in 1895. He was admitted
to the bar the same year.
The following year he returned to
the university to become professor of
law. He taught one year then began
the practice of law in Clarksburg in
partnership with his father.
Vhen in 1898 the Democrats of his
town sought to send him to the house
of delegates, the lower house of the
legislature, he was reluctant to inter-
rupt his professional practice and re-
fused the nomination. He finally ac-
ceded, however, and was elected easily.
He was made chairman of the ju-
diciary committee of the house and
later floor leader of his party. After
one term in the legislature he re-
turned to his law office and clung to
his determination to eschew politics.
Between 1899 and 1910 the only po-
litical offices he held were those of
county chairman, member of the
state executive committee of his par-
ty in 1908, and delegate to the na-
tional conventions of 1904 and 1908.
When in 1910 the Democrats of his
district chose him for representative
in congress he was again reluctant
to accept. A unanimous vote of the
convention won him over, however,
and he conducted a vigorous cam-
paign and was elected in a district
that had been Republican for 20
years. He was re-elected in 1912.
In the national house, as in the leg-
islature, Mr. Davis was made chair-
man of the judiciary committee. He
took an active part in the impeach-
ment and trial of Judge Robert W.
Archbald.
As a result of his service on this
committee President Wilson selected
him as solicitor general in 1913 and
Mr. Davis resigned from the house to
accept that office.
In the summer of 1918 Mr. Davis
went to Europe as a member of the
‘commission of three Americans to
treat with Germany as to the ex-
change of prisoners of war. He was
in Berne on this mission when, upon
the resignation of Walter Hines
Page, Mr. Wilson made Mr. Davis the
American ambassador to Great Bri-
tain. Mr. Davis returned to this
country for a conference with the
president and took up his work in
London in November, just as the war
came to an end. In his capacity of
ambassador he was present in Ver-
sailles during the peace conference.
CHARLES W. BRYAN,
* Charles W. Bryan, Governor of
Nebraska and candidate for re-elect-
ion, nominated last Thursday as the
Democratic vice presidential candi-
date, attracted national attention by
his purchase of a large coal yard from
which he retailed over the state in an
effort to reduce prices to consumers,
and his efforts to bring about a re-
duetion in the price of gasoline. Dur-
ing his term as governor Mr. Bryan
claimed to have reduced the number
of state employes and to have effected
3 saving of $1,000,000 in operation ex-
penses of the state government.
Governor Bryan in 1915 was elected
to be mayor by the elected city com-
missinoers of Lincoln and immedi-
ately pushed city gas rate legislation
that had been slumbering for years.
Later he established a municipal coal
yard. He was elected governor after
a truce was declared between the Ne-
braska Democratic factions to which
he and his brother, William Jennings
Bryan, belonged and that with which
Gilbert M. Hitchcock, former United
States senator, was affiliated.
Upon selection Mr. Bryan faced
the problem of working with a Re-
publican legislature and in comment-
ing on his record in office before the
Democratic state convention in Oma-
ha last May declared that where
pledges he had made had failed of
fulfillment Republican legislators
were responsible.
Charles W. Bryan became intro-
duced with his brother in Nebraska
politics in 1896. Together they war-
red against the saloons. In the same
year Mr. Bryan was appointed a mem-
of Governor Holcomb’s staff.
When the publication the Com-
moner was started in 1901, Charles
W. Bryan became assistant editor,
William Jennings Bryan being editor
and publisher. The paper in recent
years ceased publication, William
Jennings Bryan removing to Florida.
Governor Bryan was born in Salem,
I11., February 10, 1867. He was edu-
cated at the University of Chicago.
When a young man he went to Lin-
coln, Neb., where William Jennings
Bryan had prcceded him. A short
while later he went to Omaha. There
he worked 2s a traveling salesman,
but soon returned to Lincoln and be-
came active in poltics.
Governor Bryan married Miss Eliz-
abeth Brokaw, of Salem, Ill, on
November 29, 1892. They have two
children, Mrs. W. E. Harnesberger, 22
years old, of Ashland, Neb., and Silas
Millard Bryan, 30, a practicing attor-
ney of Minneapolis, Minn.
Governor Bryan is not a member of
any church. Mrs. Bryan and the two
children are members of the Baptist
Church.
With the nomination of Governor
Bryan, Lincoln achieves the distinec-
tion of having been the home of the
Vice Presidential candidates of both
major parties, Charles G. Dawes, of
Evanston, Ill., the Republican vice
presidential nominee, having prac-
fied law in Lincoln from 1887 to
1894.
10,419 PUPILS ATTEND CENTRE
COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The annual report of assistant coun-
ty superintendent of schools, H. C.
Rothrock, which was filed last week,
shows by statistics some especially
interesting features of the school
year recently ended in Centre county.
Of outstanding interest is the fact,
as shown by the report, that during
the past year the number of pupils
attending the public schools in the
county, including both High schools
and grades, was 10,419. Of this num-
ber, 8963 pupils attended grade
schools, and 1456 were enrolled in
High schools.
Looking after the education of this
great army of Centre county young
folks were 334 teachers, classified as
follows:
High schools, first class, 39; second
class, 4; third class, 8.
Special teachers, art, 1; music, 3.
Grades, 22.
Special teachers in grade work, 2.
Rural schools, 229.
Departmental work, 23.
Supervising principals, 3.
Total number of male teachers, 96.
a number of female teachers,
The number of pupils attending the
six first-class High schools in the
county follows: Bellefonte, 344;
Centre Hall, 66; Gregg township vo-
cational, 69; Millheim, 49; Philips-
burg, 357; State College, 268. Total,
1153. Second-class High schools, pu-
pils attending numbered: Walker
‘township, 41; Harris township, 30.
Total, 71. Third-class High schools,
pupils attending numbered: Haines
township, 16; Howard borough, 38;
Liberty township, 28; Miles township,
17; Milesburg borough, 27; Snow
Shoe borough, 45; Spring township,
36; Worth township, 25. Total, 232.
Of the 31 male and 24 female teach-
ers engaged in various classes of
High schools in the county, those hold-
ing college diplomas numbered 37;
those having Normal school certifi-
cates numbered 6; holding permanent
certificates, 5; holding special, or oth-
er certificates, 7.
It is interesting to note how the
8963 grades pupils were divided
among the boroughs and townships
throughout the county. Rush town-
ship had by far the greatest number
of children in attendance in grade
schools of any borough or other town-
ship in Centre county, the total being
1177. Philipsburg borough ranked
second, with 745. Snow Shoe town-
ship was third, with 688, taking rank
over Bellefonte borough with 641;
Spring township, with 616, and State
College, with 488.
The following table enables the
reader to appreciate how many grades
school children, as well as teachers,
there were in Centre county during
the past year, as shown by the enroll-
ment records:
District Pupils Teachers
Bellefonte BOro ........... 16
Benner Twp... 0 i svar. 202 8
Boggs TWD. .vvcceecsnnens: 236 1
Burnside TWD, vec: vrvrcven 63 3
Centre Hall Boro ......... 131 3
College TWP. iceeiernriose. 282 8
Curtin TWD. ...iesverscees 167 8
Ferguson. Twp. ............ 329 12
Qrege TWD" ©. cr. v-acs 208 13
Haines Twp. ..edinicende 176 8
Halfmoon TWD. ....ci000.0 87 5
Harris TWD. or sscocesessina 148 5
Howard BOro .c...ceveess: 93 3
Howard TWD. .coveeveorses 127 5
Huston Twp. wives, 136 6
Liberty Twp. ve vvi.ivnvans 234 : 9
Marion TWD. cccevevannnaes 107 = 5
Miles TWD: cveeerrssssssnsns 200 7
Milesburg Boro ........... 111 3
Millheim Boro ............. 83 3
Patton TWD. seeeesessenses 100 5
Penn TWP. cococeesvssncnne 127 5
Philipsburg Boro ......... 745 16
Potter TWD. scsecessreerees 273 10
Rush TWD. ssecesossssecase 1177 25
Snow Shoe Boro .......... 132 3
Snow Shoe Twp. .......... 688 15
South Philipsburg ........ 138 2
Spring TWP. .eccceceicnees 616 18
State College Boro ........ 488 15
Taylor TWD. ccoveevrennnes 83 ° 4
Unionville Boro ........... 50 2
Union TWP. eosessrecsssese 136 6
Walker TWD. ceeresieinnes 208 9
Worth TWD. .oivvvsnvncnes 211 7
1 8063 287
When the Tide is Out.
The age-old question, what becomes
of the tides in the open sea, has led
men of science to observe the ocean
currents from the Nantucket Shoals
light vessel, which, anchored in twen-
ty-nine fathoms of water forty miles
from land, and which, riding to a long
cable, is free to swing with current
and wind. Twice in a lunar day of
twenty-four hours and fifty minutes
the tidal current swings the vessel in
a complete ellipse. The current seems
to change its direction continually, so
that in a period of twelve and a half
hours it sets toward every point of
the compass. Evidently the tide does
not go straight out and back, but los-
es itself in rotary motion. The ver-
tical rise and fall of the tide in the
open sea is slight.—The Youth's Com-
panion.
Important Facts About Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania has a population of
approximately 9,000,000 people. The
value of its manufactured products
exceeds $11,000,000,000 annually.
Pennsylvania people have more
than $2,000,000,000 in bank savings;
$15,000,000,000 in wealth and reserve;
$1700 per capita wealth, and $225 per
capita savings.
Pennsylvania has 25,000 manufac-
turing establishments, which give em-
ployment to 1,500,000 people, who are
paid more than $2,500,000,000 each
year. The annual per capita wage is
$1500. The annual per capita value
of production exceeds $7000.
Pennsylvania controls virtually all
the workable hard coal in the world,
with a normal production of 80,000,-
000 tons. The normal yearly pro-
duction of Pennsylvania’s soft coal
mines is 140,000,000 tons. More than
300,000 miners are employed. Man-
ufacture of coke in the United States
was begun in Pennsylvania in 1841,
and today this state supplies about
two-thirds of the total for the country.
Pennsylvania oil fields were devel-
oped among the first in the United
States, and the production of fine oils
has always been an important item in
the state. The annual production is
in excess of 7,000,000 barrels.
Pennsylvania has been among the
leading states in the manufacture of
steel from the colonial period until the
present time. In 1849 Pennsylvania
held third place, but advanced to sec-
ond place ten years later. Now Penn-
sylvania leads all the states and sup-
plies approximately 50 per cent of the
total for the country.
Pennsylvania leads the country in
value of the products of its mines and
quarries. Among the items is the
mining of limestone, of which Penn-
sylvania produces about 15 per cent.
Most of this is eventually burned to
form cement.
Pennsylvania has 17,657,513 acres
of farm land, divided into 202,250
farms. On these farms there are
more than 500,000 horses, 60,000
mules, 500,000 cattle, 500,000 sheep,
1,200,000 swine and 15,000,000 hens.
As contrasting examples of quant-
ity production, Pennsylvania manu-
factures 21,500,000 pairs of shoes
annualy, and every twelve months its
farmyard hens lay more than 912,000-
000 eggs.
Pennsylvania farms produce 62,
000,000 bushels of corn, 13,000,000
bushels of oats and 8,500,000 tons of
hay each year. !
Pennsylvania farmers use 125,000
automobiles for pleasure and business
and more than 20,000 motor trucks
for the transportation of crops. .
There are more than 1,000,000 auto-
mobiles in the entire state, two-thirds
of which are in southeastern Pennsyl-
vania.
Pennsylvania has more than 140,000
retail merchants, who transact an an-
nual business in excess of $2,000,000-
000; and more than 13,000 wholesale
merchants, whose annual turnover ex-
ceeds $1,000,700,000.
Pennsylvania leads all the states in
the production of slate. In 1923 the
output of the Pennsylvania quarries |
represented approximately 65 per
cent of the value of all the slate’
quarried in the entire country. !
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Live fish and shellfish similar to
those inhabiting the lakes of Pales-
tine, have been found by artesian well |
borers at depths of 200 feet and 300 |
feet beneath the burning sands of the !
Sahara Desert. i
Clinton County Boys Form First U. S.
Tobacco Club.
The first boys’ tobacco club in
America has just been organized in
Clinton county with six future far-
mers as members. Under the super-
vision of county agent J. B. McCool
and Otto Olson, tobacco specialists of
The Pennsylvania State College, lo-
cated in Lancaster county, each of
these boys will grow one-half acre of
tobacco using the most approved
methods.
Local banks are ‘financing the pur-
chase of proper fertilizers and the lo-
cal tobacco association will give a
prize for the best crop. The boys will
do all the work themselves under the
supervision of the agricultural spe-
cialists. Plants are being grown in
co-operative seed beds on one farm in
the county. One bed was planted by
the approved method of steaming and
covering with muslin; another bed
was steamed and covered with brush;
and a third unsteamed and covered
with brush. By comparing the three
beds, the boys hope to demonstrate
the advantages of the best method of
growing tobacco plants.
Tells Food Men He Wants to Put
Iodine in Salt. »
A Philadelphia salt merchant has
asked the Bureau of Food and Chem-
istry, Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture, whether it is contrary to
the State’s pure food laws to add io-
dine to common salt for public sale.
Director James Foust has referred
him to the Federal and State Depart-
ments of Health. He said if the
health authorities approve the propos-
al he will issue a regulation requiring
the salt containers to be labeled car-
rying the information that the chem-
ical has been added.
Foust said he understood it was pro-
posed to introduce iodine into com-
mon table salt for the reason that it
is regarded as a general treatment
for goitre. Some States, he declared,
require the iodine content in all salt
sold within their borders.
No Chance.
Way down in Florida two darkies
were discussing as to the color of cer-
tain Biblical personages. One of
them asserted that as Palestine was
about in line with Africa the people
must all have been colored.
“Lor’ bress yo’ heart,” said the
speaker, “Saint Peter an’ Saint Paul
and the rest of the Apostles was as
white as that Noth’n gen’l’'man ober
dare.”
“No sah,” said the man in oppo-
sistion. “Paul may ha’ been, but
Saint Peter—no sah! Saint Peter was
a col’d gen’’'man.”
“You're wrong, for if Saint Peter’d
been culler’d, dat cock wouldn’t ha’
crowed more'n once’t.”
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Scenic Theatre..
Week-Ahead Program
SATURDAY, JULY 19:
JOHN GILBERT in “ROMANCE RANCH,” a Spanish romance of the old
California days, in which a will is brought to light after many years and
the lawful heirs reinstated and romance follows.
MONDAY, JULY 21:
Also, 2 reel Comedy.
PAULINE GARON in “THE CRITICAL AGE,” a good, six reel drama of
the Canadian woods, founded upon rival lumber companies.
with rescues furnishes the thrills.
Pathe News.
be easily forgotten. Ten reels.
THURSDAY, JULY 24:
perfect.
FRIDAY, JULY 25:
A good Universal live wire feature,
A log jam
Photography and scenes good. Also,
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 AND 23:
All Star cast in “SCARAMOUCHE,” the wonderful one hundred per cent.
picture that has been taking the cities by storm.
and masterfully acted and directed feature.
French revolution in the 18th century. Alice Terry and Ramon Navarro
do the leading work. Many thrilling scenes, the memory of which will not
A beautifully costumed
A story leading up to the
VIOLA DANA in “DON'T DOUBT YOUR HUSBAND,” a delightful come-
dy drama that will please all lovers of this star, one hundred per cent.
subject to be announced later. Also,
3rd episode of the dandy thrilling serial, “THE FAST EXPRESS.”
SATURDAY, JULY 19:
IRSA AOA PAELLA AAA EASA ASSASSINS
feature. Also, 2 reel Comedy.
bu Polonitg
OPERA HOUSE.
REGINALD DENNY in “THE SPORTING YOUTH,” one of the greatest
racing pictures ever produced with romantic thrills all through. A fine
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, JULY 25 AND 26:
HAROLD LLOYD in “WHY. WORRY,” is a six reel farce comedy of the
first water and will please all who like comedies.
Comedy.
Also, another 2 reel
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The Greatest, Asset,
that a Bank can have is the confidence of
the people with whom it transacts business.
This confidence is based not only on the Bank’s
financial strength but on the character of its man-
agement.
When people think of a Bank they have in mind
an individual—some one active in the conduct of
its affairs, whom they feel they can trust. The
sharp, shrewd dealer, ready to take every advant-
age, has no place in a properly conducted Bank.
The interests of the depositor and
of the Bank should have equal place
in the mind of the true banker.
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