"Bellefonte, Pa., January 8, 1926. PLACES WILSON IN LOFTY NICHE. “If you were placed at midnight on the slopes of a vast mountain range, the approaching morning would reveal to you briars, bushes, trees, rocks, irregularities of surface. Walk 15 or 20 miles from it and you will vision the glory and the sublimity of the eternal hills.” This metaphor was used in Trenton, N. J., on Decem- ber 28, by former Attorney General John W. Wescott, of Camden, in illus- trating the prospective change in public sentiment toward the late Pres- ident Wilson. “We are too close to him.” Mr. Wescott said. “The briars, bushes, trees, rocks, irregularities of passion and prejudice, bias and ignor- ance blind the vision. It will require perspective of time to enable us to be- hold the grandeur, simplicity, the practicability of the purpose of this great man.” Mr. Wescott delivered the principal address at the exercises held in the Assembly chamber of the State House, in honor of the sixty-ninth anniversary of Mr. Wilson’s birth. The chamber was crowded, many of the former personal friends and neighbors of the late President from Princeton being present, also a delegation from Cam- don. From his numerous personal associ- ations and confidence with the late President, Mr. Wescott related many incidents to illustrate his power, his breadth of vision and depth of under- standing, especially as a leader of the nation. “Woodrow Wilson has been characterized as selfish and unappre- ciative, especially by politicians,” said he. “No man ever lived who could fathom with more speed and accuracy human motive than Woodrow Wilson. In that respect he had a Christ-like gift. He was ever after the truth and the public good. Hence it was that numerous politicians, full of cunning and design, left his penetrating gaze with hatred in their hearts and de- nunciation on their tongues. Hence the declaration, ‘We are fighting Wil- son. “While he was Governor of New Jersey, I was in this very building discussing with him State politics. We went out to lunch. While walk- ing along State street, an old man passed us. His figure was bent, his clothing soiled, his face seamed with care, his eyes turned to the pavement. He carried tools in his hand. Governor Wilson touched my arm, and said, ‘Judge, I never see a spectacle like that without the profoundest emotion. We walked a moment in silence while I pondered his meaning. Then I ask- ed, ‘Governor what was in your mind?’ His instant reply was, ‘That man creates in silence and unknown. What is your merit in comparison with his? What is my merit in comparisen with his? This incident is a political sermon of deathless power. It disclos-. ed in its substance the vision and pui- pose he had when he entered the Pres- idency of the United States. “On another occasion, in private conversation in the White House, I said to him, ‘What, in your opinion, constitutes the greatest nation?’ His reply came like a flash. ‘The nation that has the greatest number of con- tented, happy unencumbered homes.’ Then I remarked, ‘But how do you curb human greed?’ His reply was, ‘By the majesty of human happiness.’ This again revealed his profound con- .cern for the welfare of all mankind. The temptation to detail other rec- ollections of equal interest must be avoided for the want of time, but may I suggest in closing this meeting name a suitable committee for the State that that committee be empower- ed to name suitable commitees in each county, that these committees co-oper- ate with the present national commit- tee and other similar committees throughout the country, first, to se- cure the home of Woodrow Wilson as a perpetual national shrine, and sec- ond, to give thought and impetus to the world movement to secure peace and outlaw war. In fancy, which Heaven grant may become a reality, I picture at that shrine the loftiest monument in granite ever builded by man; on its apex the heroic figure in bronze of Woodrow Wilson, at the base of the monument the words, ‘The first Statesman in history who died in his effort to identify statesmanship and Christianity.” ” Attribute Changing Climate to Re- moval of Dense Timber. Old residents of that part of Wash- ington and Oregon lying between the Cascade mountains and the Pacific ocean long have been declaring that cutting the dense timber that once covered the region is gradually chang- ing the climate. “Tt doesn’t rain like it used to,” the old-timers remark, recalling the days when they referred to one another as “web-footers” and “moss-backs.” And now comes L. C. Cover, gov- ernment weather observer at Tacoma with figures that partly corrobrate the old settlers. His figures show that there has been a steady decline in rainfall during 5- year periods since 1895. The average annual rainfall from 1895 to 1900 was 45.99 inches. From 1920 to 1925 it had fallen to 33.96. A generation ago the average rain- fall in that district was 45 inches a year but the present average, based on all available figures of the past, has dropped to 40.72. Mr. Cover is unwilling to say that the old residents are right in attribut- ing the decline in rainfall to wide- spread deforestation, but he admits that the figures seem to verify the be- lief that the climate has changed.—Ex. —TFourteen days at hard labor for fourteen cruel blows leaving their marks on a pig was a recent English punishment. A month’s imprison- ment was given by a Massachusetts judge last month for similar treat- ment of a cow. —— A ——— —Subscribe for the “Watchman.” -— FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. DAILY THOUGHT. Much that we think essentially is mere- ly a matter of habit.—Thomas Went- worth Higginspn. If there is one thing more than any other that makes a woman unattrac- tively conspicuous, it surely is an un- becoming hat. Likewise, an unbecom- ing hat can make a woman so unpleas- antly self-conscious that all virtues of her appearance are overshadowed by her uncomfortable, ill-at-ease manner or poise. A hat may be at odds, so to speak, with the rest of the costume, yet if it is becoming, its inappropriateness is often overlooked, or at least con- doned, since to offend the conventions of fashion is not nearly so unforgiv- ablé as to effect an unbeautiful ap- pearance. But there is no reason today why any woman should spoil her appear- ance by an unbecoming hat, or disre- gard any rule of dress by the hat she wears. Like anything else that is worth doing well, to be attractively and cor- rectly attired at all times requires not only an acquaintance with each new mode and its variations but also an understanding of the requirements of the figure, pose and coloring of the wearer. This knowledge can readily be ob- tained if you are willing to analyze yourself with the same brutal frank- ness that you use in criticizing your neighbor’s appearance. Also, you must accept the reports on new fash- ions not alone as entertaining news items, but as authentic information to be acted upon with confidence. It behooves the housewife to learn to tell the difference between hard wheat and soft wheat flours, and to know the particular use for which each is best adapted. She can then select a flour that is well suited to her needs. The increase in the production of bakers’ bread and in the use of ma- chines in the bakeshops has greatly increased the demand for the hard wheat flours. Their higher gluten content gives them greater ability to absorb water and to stand the severe “punishment” given the dough by power machinery. The result is that in many sections hard wheat flour commands a higher price than soft wheat flours. For many home uses soft wheat flours are just as good and better than the hard wheat product. It is easier to make tender cakes and pie crust with soft wheat flour. For thicken- ing sauces, gravies, and the hundred and one other small household needs one kind is as good as the other. The housekeeper, however, some- times has difficulty in telling what type of flour she is buying. The United States department of agricul- ture suggests that the following sim- ple tests for distinguishing soft wheat and hard wheat flours to be used: The flours from soft wheats have a velvety texture somewhat like corn starch, and those from hard wheat are ugnally- more gritty, but it- requires some experience and a fine sense of touch to detect this difference. Ex- perts usually do it by taking a pinch of flour and rubbing it lightly be- tween the thumb and the third finger. Another way to tell is by squeezing a handful of it tightly and noticing whether as the hand opens the flour remains in a mold and shows the im- pression of the fingers. In this test a hard wheat flour acts more like a powder and the mold breaks up more readily than that of a soft wheat flour. Weighing is still another way used to distinguish between the two kinds of flour. A quart of hard wheat flour that has been sifted once, dipped lightly into the measure and then leveled off, weighs about 16 or 17 ounces or even more. A quart of soft wheat flour sifted in the same way, weighs only about 14 or 15 ounces. “Blue is man’s favorite color,” de- clares Fred C. Kelly in the American Magazine. If he needs any more evi- dence to prove his statement, says Miss Jennie Owen in the Eldorado (Kan.) Times, he can get it from an Eldorado woman who never had any but a blue dress as long as her father selected her clothes and that was until she grew up and rebelled, and one time, she relates, he went to town and Dongns her mother three dresses—all ue. What shall we have for dinner to- day? Haven't you asked yourself that question scores of times and just longed for something new and differ- ent and awfully tempting to serve? I know that I have. I get so tired of ordering the same old chops and steaks and roasts, day after day. Well, I went in search of something different the other day and I found it. No, I didn’t discover a new animal, but I did find new and interesting cuts which melt in your mouth. They are so good. One delicious thing was a lamb noisette, just the tenderest, most luscious bit of lamb you ever tasted, without a particle of skin or gristle, and just ready for some delicious form of cookery. English mutton chops which looked like miniature roasts of beef were another novelty to me. They are wonderfully fine broiled and served with mint sauce and currant jelly. Filet mignon is the name of a tiny steak, just for one person, so daintily prepared, all wrapped about with ba- con and looking like a bouquet rather than the evening’s dinner. Then there were Delmonico steaks and such at- tractive crown roasts of lamb, the ver tractive crown roasts of lamb, the very thing to serve for a company din- ner. Of course these cutsI have des- cribed are the very pick of the mar- ket, the most tender, juicy, luscious meats, but so nice to know about when one is giving a little dinner. The noisettes, filet mignon and Eng- lish chops are fifty cents each. The Delmonico steak is fifty-five cents a pound, the crown roast priced accord- ing to its size; one suitable for serv- ing six or seven persons will cost about $2.50. There are less expensive meats to be had in the place where I found them, too, each of the finest quality, and most juicy and flavorable. Ask for a top muscle roast of beef at thirty-five cents a pound for some- HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE hen the correct letters are placed in the white spaces this puzzle will spell words both vertically and horizontally. which refers t column headed indicated by a mumber, Thus No. 1 under the The first letter in each word is o the definition listed below the puzzle. “horizontal” defines a word which will fill the white spaces up to the first black square to the right, and a number under “vertical” defines a word which black one below. dictionary words, except proper names. No letters go in the black spaces. will fill the white squares to the next All words used are Abbreviations, slang, initials, technical terms and obsolete forms are indicated im the definitions. CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 2. 7 (©, 1926, Western Newspaper Union.) Horizontal. 1—Very venomous snake of Asia p—Common laborers (chiefly Latin American) 9—Type of small boat 11—A slave 12—Negative 14—Pasty composition used for cov- ering walls 16—Third note of musical scale 17—African antelope 19—Of excellent grade, quality or size 20—An idiot 21—To drive out 23—To color by dipping in fluid 24—To search for 26—1Is becoming to 27—Flat dish 29—Cheering cry 30—Poisonous viper 31—Protective dress covering 33—To praise or glorify 35—An entreaty 36—To point at 38—Biblical character who sold his birthright 40—A pole or cane 41—A region supposed by some the- ologians to be on the edge of hell 43—Kind of soft metal 44—That is (abbr.) 45—Assistants 47—Thoroughfare (abbr.) 48—To succeed in an examination 49—True 3 51— Waterways surrounding castles 52—One of a number of steps A empm———— Vertical, 1—A kind of black tea 2—Near, or next to 3—To knock gently 4—Shoemakers’ tools 5—An equal in rank 6—To make a mistake 7—Belonging te 8—To change 10—Praises 11—Precipitous, as a cliff 13—A burden, or obligation 15—Man assigned to get enemy in- formation in wartime 16—Horse’s hair 18—Encroached upon 20—A post or station at a distance from the main body of an army 22—Jewelled headdress 24—A hurry 26—Notwithstanding (contracted form) 28—Slack, or unrestrained 31—Wood of the agalloch 32—Spikes 33—Ash 35—The last king of Troy 87—An evil sprite 39—Beneath 41—Minus 42—Native metals 45—Head covering 46—Reclined upon 50—Note of musical scales 48—Father Solution will appear in next issue. thing particularly fine, or a clitiek roast that will open your eyes for twenty-five cents a pound. WITH THE FLYING MAIL. In a recent artical in McClure’s Magazine Mr. Howard Mingos has re- lated some of the deeds and dangers of the flying mail service from coast to coast. Something of the variety of perilous adventures these men are likely to encounter after they have crashed or made a forced landing and escaped with life and limb from im- mediate disaster is indicated by the odd addition to their flying equip- ment that experience has promised. Flying over the snow country, they now carry snow-shoes lashed to the side of the plane; army canteens are carried in crossing the waterless Nev- ada desert, six-shooters and rifles to protect them where wolf packs range. In the air their worst enemy is fog or blinding snow, especially in the neigh- borhood of mountains. One flyer, Clair Vance, came down in a snowstorm in the Sierra Nevadas and, though his brother pilots aided by men from the army sought him for days, they had given him up for lost by the time he made his way back “to civilization, half-starved and with his clothes in rags and his shoes worn through. Another, Jack Knight, started one day in bad weather for Rock Springs and on reaching the first mountain range found the peaks covered with mist and snow. At that moment his engine began coughing. With most of his power lost Knight looked over the side for a possible landing. He was unable to see the earth through the murk. Glancing ahead at that in- stant, he was startled to find a cliff looming up in front of him. His plane was almost on the rocks. Knight worked swiftly at the con- trols; but he was helpless, for a ter- rific down gust swirling over the mountain peak beat upon the wings of his machine. It kept it out of con- trol. The next moment it had crashed against the ledge high upon the side of Telephone Canyon. The impact tore off the nose of the plane and knocked Knight unconscious. The en- gine and the propeller lay there in the snow and ice. The rest of the mach- ine, with Knight in it, was whirled out into space again, where it flutter- ed about like a falling leaf, still in the grip of that downward blast. Hours later Knight recovered con- sciousness and dug himself out of the snow and splinters at the bottom of the canyon. His nose was broken, and he was almost frozen. From his path in the sky he had observed a ranch house some ten miles back, and with that as his objective he staggered painfully and by slow degrees through the drifts. He reached the house. The people there carried him into Laramie, where he was put to bed. Three days in the hospital and Knight was flying again. Bob Ellis, caught in a downdraft, crashed against the side of a prec- ipice, where the plane clung to_the snow like a fly on the wall. Ellis could do nothing but sit there and wait for help. Another pilot found him a few hours later and spread the alarm. A rescue party worked its Solution fo Cross-word Puzzle No. 1. A A A S E All C A E way to the top of the mountain and lowered ropes. Ellis tied one of them around his waist, and they hoisted him a hundred feet or more up and over the top. It was many weeks be- fore the plane could be salvaged. Pennsylvania’s Need of Teachers. A recent survey made by school authorities shows that the State will need more than 5,000 new teachers in 1927. All teachers must hold a Nor- mal school certificate or its equivalent. To meet this situation the Normal schools must almost double their num- ber of graduates. To encourage young men and women to prepare for teaching the State offers free tuition “a scholarship” to every four year high school graduate who enrolls in a Normal school. A plan of co-operation between the Normal schools and the leading col- leges in Pennsylvania and other States has been arranged whereby the credit in the courses in Education to those who have completed the two- year Normal course. The growth of the three year “Jun- ior High school” group in the Ship- pensburg Normal school is remark- able. Those who take this course are given credit hour for hour in the lead- ing colleges and universities of the country. This course offers opportun- ities to specialize in various academic fields. Junior High schools are grow- ing so rapidly and the demand for teachers is so great that this course will soon be lengthened to four years with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education. It fits for teaching in Junior or Senior or Supervisory position. en eee eeee—— May Get Daylight Saving. Daylight saving will be made com- pulsory throughout Pennsylvania and other States if Congress approves a bill that has been introduced in the House of Representatives by David J. 0’Connell, of New York. It provides that on the last Sunday in March of each year standard time shall be advanced one hour and that on the last Sunday in October the clock shall be retarded an equal peri- If the bill becomes a law all com- mon carriers will be governed by its provisions, as will also all officials of the United States government. ——1I#t’s all here and it’s all true. 34—A den . —The “Watchman” makes it a bus- iness to print all the news that’s fit to print. It’s a home paper. o or