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Bellefonte, Pa, May 21, 1926.
JEWS OF RUSSIA IN
PITIABLE CONDITION.
New York.—The wracking experi-
ence of a three-months’ “nightmare”
journey through a gray, huddled
Twentieth-century inferno of misery,
want and helplessness was recounted
by Miss Irma May of New York city,
who returned on the steamship Paris
direct from a tour of the “hunger re-
gion” of Poland, Galicia and Bessara-
bia, where hundreds of thousands of
Jewish families, after a ten-years’
struggle against the impoverishment
of the war, are now crushed in a final
tragedy of industrial ruin, destitution
and starvation as a result of the lat-
est economic collapse in eastern Eu-
Tope.
Miss May, who was abroad on a
visit when the first reports of the new
Jewish disaster in Europe reached
this country, was commissioned by
cable by David A. Brown, national
chairman of the United Jewish cam-
paign for a $15,000,000 overseas chest
to complete the reconstruction tasks
undertaken by the American Jewish
joint distribution committee in Rus-
sia and the eastern European coun-
tries, to obtain first hand information
of actual conditions and the extent
of the breakdown of trade and indus-
try affecting the Jews of these coun-
fries.
INQUIRY BEGAN IN JANUARY.
‘She started on her mission early in
January and in the last three months
has journeyed from city to city, from
village to village in all the large Jew-
ish sections of Poland, Galicia and
Bessarabia.
Her reports by radio and letter to
Mr. Brown, based on authenticated
statistical ' information, make up a
day-by-day chronicle of human ruin
and despair, crowded with intimate
detail of the suffering of workers
‘broken by months and years of unem-
ployment, of merchants stripped of
their last resources, of proud and
poor alike leveled to bread-lines and
:soup-kitchens, of women and children
starving and freezing and waiting in
piteous resignation for death.
More than a million Jews of Poland
—one-third the entire Jewish popula-
tion of the country—are at present
absolutely without any means of sup-
port, and their only hope of being
saved from extinction, Miss May de-
clares, rests on the early arrival of
relief funds from America.
The Jewish cities of Bessarabia,
Miss May found, present a repetition
of the Polish picture of impoverish-
ment, stagnation and helpless misery.
Due to a two years’ crop failure, the
historic Jewish agricultural commu-
nities of this region are shattered by
want, famine and disease.
Child mortality in Bessarabia has
reached 100 per cent, as a result of
severe malputrition and lack of med-
ical aid, and favus and hunger-typhus
are spreading ominously. The food
allowance of Jewish families in this
section of Bessarabia—all available
food supplies are rationed by local
“hunger committees”—is a few ounces
of corn meal and a fraction of a pound
of potatoes a day.
FRENZIED STRUGGLE FOR BREAD.
Miss May’s final experiences in Po-
land represent a peak of the appall-
ing panorama of physical and moral
breakdown in which a piteous, fren-
zied struggle for bread, hopeless sub-
mission to squalor and disease, and a
panic of self-destruction as an escape
from unbearable suffering and de-
gradation bespeak the utter collapse
of the ancient communal structure of
Jewish life in Poland, and threaten
the extinction of millions of lives of
of men, women and children.
In Brest-Litovsk Miss May found
the poorest of the poor, mostly war
widows, still living in the ruins of the
synagogues in: wkich they took shel-
Utterly depleted by the destruction
of the military occupations and coun-
ter-occupations, scarcity of work and
food and the struggle against broken-
«down, rudiamentary living conditions,
the years of famine and internal tur-
: relieving the plight of these people.
War orphans and chidren born in
the years of famine and internal tur-
moil are growing up as waifs, with
~ weakened constitutions and no out-
look for a normal adjustment to or-
~.derly productive life.
Pennsylvania Passes Goal Set for Seal
Sale,
As Christmas Seal Chairman for
- Pennsylvania I am happy and de-
lighted to report that the 1925 Seal
Sale passed the goal set, $500,000.
The total will run between $505,000
and $510,000. For this fine showing
credit is due to all who co-operated
+ :and assisted, and your organization,
. .you and your workers had a splendid
+ share in this.
The increased returns enable the
‘affiliated organizations of Pennsyl-
" vania Tuberculosis Society to do more
“ithis year and enlarge their efforts
“against tuberculosis. That this great-
er effort is ‘needed is apparent from
the more than 7,000 deaths each year
in Pennsylvania from tuberculosis, a
preventable disease. One of the most
serious aspects of this situation is
that the majority of the fatalities are
among people in the producing years
of life when they are most needed by
their families and their communities."
With best wishes, I remain, very
sincerely, Henry W. - Shoemaker,
Christmas Seal Chairman for Pa.
Gas Pipe Line 120 Miles Long.
One of the latest developments in
the long-distance transmission of gas
is near Essen, Germany, where gas is
sent through a pipe line about 120
miles long. This line supplies light-
ing and heating fuel for thirty vil-
lages and towns along its route.
—JIt’s all in the “Watchman” and
it’s all true.
VIRGINIA OPENS
TREASURE HUNT
State Ready With $500,000
to Redeem Missing Old-
Time Bonds.
Richmond, Va.—There is a treasure
chest of more than half a million dol-
lars in gold, or rather in gold bonds,
in this country, and there is no rea-
son why those who are devoting their
energies to chasing the will-o*-the-
wisp of fortune should not dig down
into old trunks and other receptacles
of family papers and find out if they
are entitled to share in this large sum.
of money.
Those who are entitled to partici-
pate in this chest of geld will not have
to employ attorneys to prosecute their
claims, nor will they have to make
an examination of genealogical rec-
ords. If they find a document bearing
the title “West Virginia Certifidte”
the chances are 1,000 to 1 that by pre-
senting this certificate to Rosewell
Page, second auditor of the common-
wealth of Virginia, they will receive
in return West Virginia 31% per cent
gold bonds, bearing coupons fro
January 1, 1919.
Mr. Page says that there are out:
standing, unclaimed, more than $500,
000 of these certificates, the redemp-
tion of which was provided for in the
Virginia-West Virginia = debt settle
ment.
Treasure Hunt Advised.
The certificates bear dates of 1871,
1879, 1882 and 1892. Because they
were of little value at one time their
owners do not realize that today thev
are so much gold.
An opportunity for the people to
indulge in a veritable treasure-hunt
game is here furnished. The bonds
to redeem these certificates have been
issued. They await only the recep-
tion of the documents to be issued ir
exchange.
The history of this transaction dis-
closes the successful effort of a state
to redeem its credit. Before the seces-
sion of West Virginia from Virginia
at the opening of the war between the
states, the mother state had Issued
bonds and owed approximately $35,
000,000, covering money expended for
navigation companies, plank road
companies, turnpike companies, bridge
campanlies, state roads, railroad com-
panies and state defense. Virginia
claimed that West Virginia should
pay a third of this debt, as that sec-
tlon of the old state had received a
third of the benefits of the bonds is-
sued. West Virginia denied the
claim,
State Redeeming Credit.
For a long time the bonds went un
sald, and the debt with interest went
‘to $45,000,000. Finally, on the dates
already mentioned, Virginia passed a
series of refunding acts, and gave to
the old bondholders Virginia bonds for
two-thirds of the amounts due them.
In addition she gave them, for the re-
maining one-third, certificates statinz
that West Virginia owed them the re-
maining third. These are the “West
Virginia Certificates.”
West Virginia laughed at the idea
of Virginia issuing “West Virginia
Certificates.”
were these certificates considered that
many of them were sold for 10 cents
per hundred and less. Finally, for the
benefit of the bond and certificate
holders, Virginia sued West Virginia,
and in decisions rendered by the Su-
preme court of the United States on
March 6, 1911, and June 14, 1915, Vir-
g'nla was awarded judgment against
West Virginia for $12,393,929.50 with
interest at 5 per cent from July 1,
1915.
West Virginia settled the debt ana
mterest in 1919, paying $1,062,867.16
in cash and $13,500,000 in gold bonds.
Of these bonds $1,138,500 were held
“in escrow” by West Virginia to pay
certificates that had not been present-
ed. More than $500,000 of this sum
has not yet been claimed.
Women Find Outings
Working in Orchards
Washington.—Despite the hardships
Jf the “fruit gypsies,” as the migrant
workers on western fruit ranches are
popularly called, a number of women
“follow the fruits” in this way in
order to give themselves or their chil-
dren an outing in the country and at
the same time to supplement the
family income, according to a recent
report by the United States Depart-
ment of Labor, on conditions of em-
ployment of women in the highly sea-
sonal industries of fruit growing and
canning in the state of Washington.
Nonresident workers constituted
about one-third of the 3,014 women
who were interviewed during the in-
vestigation and who were employed
in the berry flelds. In the prune, ap-
ple and pear orchards, in the fruit,
vegetable and fish canneries, and in
the fruit warehouses in the state. The
great majority of the migrants were
found in the outdoor work.
Some of the migrants failed to make
¢heir expenses and became stranded,
a fact attributed in the report to the
seasonal nature of the work and un-
certainty in regard to length of em-
ployment and earnings. .
Mule Shoots Horse
Peoria, Il.—A mule on Ernest Lar-
gent’'s farm has shot a horse dead.
Pawing on the back porch, his usual
signal that he wanted sugar, the mile
kicked a rifie over, the fall discharged
it and the bullet stopped fn a stal-
lion's neck. AE i
Of such little value |
The Cost of Automobiles.
It costs the average automobile
Pupil: Please ma’am they smelt it.
—Good Hardware,
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owner $700 a year for everything con- | 0 —rn : Al
nected with his car including the or- | J. McC. Davis, Owner. M.C. Luke, Manager | D5
iginal cost, according to figures giv- fic
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en out by the Bureau of Industrial
Technology. It would be interesting
: Water Street Inn
to compare that figure with what we
all pay for house rent or thé cost of | Reservations for Special Dinners
owning a house. ;
Probably the average automobile and Parties
owning family pays more than $700 | 71.20.1¢
a year on account of its home, but the
cost of the automobile in many cases
is as much as the rent.
The family of moderate means that
wishes to operate a car will do well
to study the means by which automo-
bile costs can be kept down. Rapid
driving over rough streets and roads
will greatly increase the charge for
depreciation and repairs. If people
must tear around the country as if
they were rushing to a fire where
their property was being burned up, 1784
they will have to pay an extra charge
to the garage man. Also the old car
will deserve the favorite title of
“junk” much soon” r.
Where people own their own homes
and erect their own inexpensive gar-
estes () eens
age on their own land, they reduce L | i
the cost of storage to a small item. { 5 d
In the days to come, every family all e S ee S
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BELLEFONTE, PENNA.
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Make Satisfied Customers
e strive to get the BEST GOODS MADE. We
are satisfied we get them. Hence you will
save money when buying from us.
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Dockash Ranges, Florence 0il Stoves, Kitchen
Newly-W S Cabinets, Refrigerators,
Linoleums, Kitchen Utensils, Etc.
Olewine’s Hardware
ought to learn to do simple repairs
on its own car. The inexperienced
owner may do his car more harm than
good when he tries to make his own
repairs. But if he makes a thorough
study of the mechanics of the car, Ze
ought to be able to do the less difficult
repair jobs.
The young man of the future will
find it just as desirable to know how
to repair a car as to do complicated
arithmetic examples. The country is
getting great benefits from the gen-
eral ownership of cars, but people | Garden Fertilizers ;
need to study the methods by which
such ownership can be made inexpen-
sive.—From the Reformatory Record.
142 years’ experience in
growing and marketing
seeds assures you reliable
results in your garden.
Sprayers.... Tools
Hats Off to the Nose!
Teacher: Does. any one know: how
iron was discovered?
Pupil: Yes ma’am.
Teacher: Well, tell the class
Potler-Hoy Hardware Go.
Bellefonte, Pa.
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on one of the Great Ships of the © & B Line makes a pleasant
break in your journey. A good bed in a clean, cool stateroom,
a long, sound sleep and an appetizing breakfast in the morning,
Steam “SEEANDBEE”-“CITY OF ERIE”—-“CITY OF BUFF. ”
- Daily May 1st to November 15th ALD
‘Leave Buffalo— 9:00 P. M. Eastern Leave Cleveland—9:00 P. M.
Arrive Cleveland *7:00 A, M. Standard Time Arrive Buffalo— *7:00 A. M.
* Steamer “CITY OF BUFFALO” arrives 7:30 A. M.
Connections for Cedar Point, Put inBay, Toleds, Detect nd other points.
ur ticket agent or tourist ckets i ourist
Aortic Rate $7.50, agency tor e New}
Send for free sectional puzzle chart of
the Great Ship “SEEANDBEE” and
32-page booklet.
The Cleveland and Buffalo
Transit Co.
Cleveland, Ohio |
Your Rail Ticket is
Good on our Steamers
Four
C & B Steamers
are $5.50
Tomorrow
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aperient, adds
tone and vigor to
the digestive and
eliminative system,
improves the appe-
tite, relieves Sick
Headache and Bil-
iousness, corrects
_Constipation.
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NN? JUNIORS~—Little NRs
One-third the regular dose. Made
of same ingredients, then candy
coated. For children and adults.
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RUNKLE’S DRUG STORE,
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Phone 362R
Koons & Stickler
Custom Tailoring, Dry Cleaning, Dyeing, Pressing
8 Bishop Street, Bellefonte, Pa.
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She Knows He’s Safe
She neither leaves him alone at home,
nor takes him out through dangerous traffic
and inclement weather to shop. Her tele-
phone makes this exposure unnecessary.
Mother need not leave the comfort mer
the duties of her home to get her meats—
a few words over the telephone will bring
the family food.
Order your Meat over the telephone trom
us. Our service consists not omly of free
delivery, but guaranteed quality at lowest
possible prices.
It will save you time, effort and money.
P. L. Beezer Estate
Market on the Diamond
BELLEFONTE, PA.
34-34
We’re Style
Specialists----
and young men know it
This is a young man’s store that sells
young style for all ages.
who makes the best styles and makes
them better than anyone else---and
we pick the winners for you.
want a two-button suit, we'll show
you one that hits style on all sides--
and hits it right.
Baldwin.
3 Sim The Clothier
—the house of Kuppenheimer Good Clothes
We know
If you
Ask us for the