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Bellefonte, Pa., June 4, 1926.
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WAY OF FINANCING
FEDERAL AID ROADS.
Some very interesting facts about
‘the true source of the governmental
income used to build federal aid roads
have recently been brought to light
by the investigation of the American
Association of State Highway Offi-
cials into road-building finances.
One of the most interesting facts
shows that though some States pay
heavily into the federal treasury, the
real source of revenue paid by them
comes from other States.
To illustrate this point, the associa-
tion cites the cases of Michigan und
North Carolina. Seventy-three per
cent of the automobile excise taxes
paid in this country are paid by the
State of Michigan. “But this money,”
the association finds, “comes from the
entire country. The taxpayers of
Michigan do not really pay the 7.9 per
cent of the total revenue which the
‘State sends to the federal treasury,
for almost half of Michigan’s total
federal tax is the excise tax paid on
motor vehicles and this tax is paid
by the buyers of motor vehicles who
live in every State in the Union.
These States pay the money to Mich-
igan and Michigan forwards it to the
United States treasury.
The same situation exists in North
Carolina Here large revenue pay-
ments are made by the tobacco com-
pany. In this State 86 per cent. of
the federal revenue comes from to-
bacco in its manufactured form. This
revenue which tobacco manufacturers
send to the federal government is not
obtained from the citizens of North
Carolina, but from tobacco users
wherever they may be. So while
North Carolina is theoretically credit-
ed with large contributions to federal
income, persons living outside the
State in reality pay much of the
money credited to North Carolina.
“This situation,” says the associa-
tion, “is typical of many States which
are heavy contributors to the federal
treasury. Basic wealth, that is wealth
based on the annual value of the prod-
ucts of the mine, the forest, and the
farm, really is paying the bill, regard-
less of where the final checks come
from.”
Some States, the association finds,
are fowarding taxes on property not
located within that State. New York,
for example, sent 22.8 per cent. of the
national corporation tax paid by man-
ufacturing, while Pennsylvania sent
in but 11 per cent. The manufactur-
ing plants and equipment were valued
in New York at $2,138,897,000 while
the value for Pennsylvania was $2,-
193,873,000. Since New York paid
move than twice as much as Pennsyl-
vania on less valuation, the associa-
tion, concludes, that there are manu-
facturing corporations whose char-
ters or office locations cause them to
pay income tax in New York on prop-
erty located elsewhere.
The conclusion drawn from these
facts is that the degree of financial re-
sponsibility for each State is equit-
ably traced through a comparison of
percentages of population, basic
wealth and total wealth, rather thn
through internal revenue payments.
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Wider Roads are Needed.
As you drive over the narrow rib-
bon of paved highway such as consti-
tutes the bulk of our hard-surface
roads, has it ever occurred to you that
the average automobile driver must
have a good sense of judging dis-
tances, good eyesight and steady
nerves, tc pass another car at high
speed without more accidents than the
large total recorded?
So great is the danger of accidents
on narrow highways that engineers
are suggesting remedies such as: “1.
Roads at least 18 feet wide, so if pos-
sible; 2. Widen the dangerous “bottle
necks’; 3. Build by-pass roads through
traffic, thereby relieving congestion in
the cities’ busy districts; 4 Construct
permanent roads that lead immediate-
ly into the cities, at least 40 feet wide;
5. Provide at intervals of not more
than 300 feet, level parking places
entirely off the main traveled roads.”
Public opinion is aroused on the
question of widening roads and thus
making them safer but it will take
organized effort to secure remedies
‘such as are suggested.
Western States are progressing rap-
idly with a program of widening high-
way pavements by building 2-ft.
shoulders on each side of 16-ft pave-
ments and, in addition, putting 2 feet
of crushed rock along the new shoul-
ders. This gives 20 feet of pavement
and 4 feet of rock, which virtually
makes a 24-ft. hard-surface of high-
way.
Such construction produces a satis-
factory road at a minimum of ex-
pense.
Electric Typewriters.
Steady advance is being made in
the development of the electric type-
writer. The essential feature of the
latest machine before the public is a
toothed shaft which crosses the in-
strument under the type levers. The
shaft runs by means of a small elec-
tric motor which can be attached to a
plug at 300 revolutions per minute.
As the keys are struck, whether light-
ly or heavily, the type levers engage |
the teeth of the rotating shaft, oper-
ating them as the fingers would do.
A method is provided for increasing
the strength of the impression so that
that several carbon copies can be tak-
en, and a simple apparatus prevents
two keys being pressed down at one
time.
Suicide as Result of Forest Fire.
Remorse caused by the accidental
starting of a forest fire at Glen Sum-
mit, near Wilkes-Barre, caused a
young woman to take her life on Fri-
day, according to the Department of
Forests and waters at Harrisburg.
Reparts received at the department
did net give her name Chief Fire
warden Wirt said.
Wild Flowers are Under Protection.
With touring parties to the woods
increasing with nice weather the
Wild Flower Preservation Society,
with membership throughout Penn-
sylvania, calls attention to the fact
that wild flowers and shrubs are pro-
tected by law now, and any persons
not having ownership in such flowers
or shrubs is subject to a fine of $500
and imprisonment up to three years
for taking them.
The Pennsylvania State Federation
of Women is cooperating with the
League in an endeavor to protect the
wild plant life in the State, and be-
lieves that an appeal to the reason
of most people will suffice without
necessity of invoking the law.
Taking shrubs, flowers or any oth-
er growing thing from another’s prop-
erty is, under the provisions of this
act, a larceny.
Domesticating Silver Fox.
The United States Department of
Agriculture has issued a bulletin on
the silver fox industry in which it
says that as a fur animal propagated
in captivity the silver fox has no
equal. Beginning in 1886, when Sir
Charles Dalton and Robert Oulton
conducted their first experiments on
a small island off the eastern coast
of Canada, the growth of this indus-
try has been steady, that today it oc-
cupies a strong position in live animal
husbandry in the United States.
Rapid draining of swamps and cut-
ting of timber, togther with the heavy
increase in population and a growing
demand for furs of all kinds, have cut
deeply into the fur supply. Even such
fur as skunk—decidedly unpopular
three years ago—is now bought un-
der its rightful name.
Bison of Mixed Breed.
The American bison is the one ex-
isting species of the European wild
ox. Bos (bison) bonasus, known in
Russia as a Zubar, together with the
nearly allied New world animal
known in Europe as the North Amer-
ican bison, but in its own country as
the buffalo. The American bison is
distinguished from its European cou-
sin by the following among other fea-
tures: The hindquarters are weaker
and fall away more suddenly, while
the withers are proportionately high-
er, especially characteristic is the
great mass of brown or blackish-
brown hair clothing its head, neck and
forepart of the body, the shape of the
skull and horns is also different and
more sharply curved, while the fore-
head of the skull is more convex, and
the sockets of the eyes are more dis-
tinctly tubular.
Records Show German Soldiers Were |
Sold.
ner in which some of the fortunes of |
Germany’s former royal houses were
acquired, in connection with the ques- | one dead one.
tion of indemnification by the repub- ' Landgrave
lic, has disclosed that German prince-
lings up to the Nineteeth century had
sold 296,166 of their subjects for $3,- 000.
750,000 to England for army service
against the American colonies, the
French and other enemies.
Frederick
Poe
!
Duke Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of
Braunschweig sent 4,300 men to Eng-
; land for $38 a head, it is disclosed,
Berlin.—Investigation into the man- | with an additional indemnity of $22 a
head for each man killed in action,
three wounded men to be counted as
There has been produced a letter
from the Landgrave of Hessen-Cassel
to Baron Hohendorf, his commanding battalion of Hessians.”
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officer in the American colonies, in
which the writer commended the bar-
on “for seeing to it that of 1,950 of
the landgrave’s peons in the battle of
Trenton only 300 escaped alive.”
“Be sure to send an itemized state-
ment of the losses to London,” the
of Hesse | letter continues, “as the English min-
“sold” 12,000 Hessians at $75 a head, ister wants to pay me for the only 1,-
with an annual “rental” fee of $500,- ' 455 killed. I am entirely dissatisfied
with Major Mindorf, who, according
to dispatches, succeeded in saving his
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Storm-proofing the Service
Experiments with underground telephone lines were made as early as 1882.
In the beginning the wires were wrapped in cotton and twisted into
cables, usually of a hundred wires each. To prevent moisture getting in
and breaking down the electrical circuits, the cables were soaked in oil.
At Philadelphia in 1890 was laid the first lead-sheathed “ dry core” cable,
in which the wires were wrapped with paper. This marked the beginning
of what has now become the universal type of construction. And the
hundred wires of the early cable: have now increased to 2400, inclosed
in a lead sheath less than three inches in diameter.
The use of these cables in urban development is well known.
Not so generally appreciated, however, is the extent to which they are
reaching out through the state, tying the cities together.
Across the central part of Pennsylvania, from east to west, is the longest;
and continuations of it already reach to New York and Boston, Baltimore
and Washington, and Chicago and intermediate cities.
Similar cables radiate from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and are steadily
extending onward. North from Reading to Bethlehem, Easton, Hazleton,
Wilkes-Barre, and Scranton is another very important link of an inter-
city cable system that is now growing at the rate of three hundred miles
a year in Pennsylvania.
Twenty years ago such cables would not have “ talked.” Today, furnishing
a service which is as flexible and natiral as a cross-town connection, they
comprise an outstanding example of the continuous progress of telephony.
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ATTORNEY’S-AT-LAW.
KLINE WOODRING — Attorney-at-
S Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices ba
all courts. Office, room 18
Exchange.
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KENNEDY JOHNSTON—Attorney-at-
Law, Bellefonte, Pa Prompt at-
tention given all legal business em~
trusted to his care. Offices—No. 5 Hast
High street. bi-44
M. KEICHLINE — Attorney-at-Law
and Justice of the Peace. All pre-
fessional business will receive
prom t attention. Office on second floor ef
mple Court. 49-5-1y
G. RUNKLE — Attorney-at-Law.
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PHYSICIANS.
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Crider’s Exch. 66-11 ais Sollee
Holmes Bldg.
8. GLENN, M. D., Physician and
Surgeon, State College, Centre
county, Pa.
Office at bis resi-
85-41
dence.
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licensed by the State.
Eyes examined, glasses fitted. Sat-
isfaction guaranteed. Frames repaired and
lenses matched. Casebeer Bld’g. High St.,
Bellefonte, Pa. 71-22--tf
VA B. ROAN, Optometrist. Licensed
by the State Board. State Colle;
every day except 8aturday. Belle-
fonte, rooms 14 and 15 Temple Court,
Wednesday afternoons and Saturda 9
a. m. to 4:30 p. m. Both Phones. 48
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We manufacture a Poultry
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0il Meal, 34 per cent. protein, 54.00 *
Cotton Seed, 43 pr. ct. prot., 50.00
Gluten, 23 per cent. protein, 48.00 *
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$2.00 per Ton Extra for Delivery.
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