Bellefonte, Pa., September 17, 1926.
Legion Convention Plans Announced.
Arrangements have been completed
for a great program of entertainment
for the eighth annual national con-
vention of the American Legion at
Philadelphia on October 11 to 15, un-
der the direction of the general com-
mittee on arrangements.
Among the things planned for the
great gathering of thousands of Le-
gion and Auxiliary members from all
over the United States and several
foreign lands, are:
A Legion ball in the Sesquicenten-
nial auditorium, a military circus, the
first world’s baseball series for boys,
fireworks displays, drum and band
contests, with the best musical organ-
izations in the Legion competing, the
Legion parade, and a world’s fair with
millions of dollars’ worth of displays
and exhibits.
Music for the ball in the auditor-
rium accommodating 20,000 persons
will be furnished by two orchestras,
a band and the $150,000 exposition
organ. Special efforts are being made
to provide the sort of dances Legion-
naires in various sections of the coun-
try enjoy. Suggestions may be sent
to the American Legion Ball Com-
mittee, 301 City Center Building,
Philadelphia.
Two thousand picked men will go
through their trick military stunts
for the pleasure of the convention
throngs. Huge lights will shed a
noonday brilliance on the scene.
Lighting will be one of the most
spectacular features of this year’s
convention arrangements. At the
convention grounds there will be a
light with a candle power of 6,300,-
000,000 said to be the most powerful
ever contrived by man. Fourteen
super-power searchlights will provide
the concentration. At the entrance to
the Sesqui grounds will be a giant
replica of the Liberty bell with 25,000
lights of 100 watts each, concentrated
upon it. The bell, weighing 42 tons,
is suspended from supports 70 feet
high.
For the first time the Legion’s All-
American junior world series will be
played at the convention. Four teams,
representing four legions into which
the country has been divided, will
play in the municipal stadium. These
games are the culmination of a na-
tion-wide sequence of contests in
which champions have been chosen
to represent their cities, their dis-
tricts, their States and their regions.
Arrangements for the convention
have been in charge of National Vice
Commander Vincent A. Carroll, of
Philadelphia, who is chairman of the
convention committee. E. E. Hollen-
back and H. Harrison Smith are vice
chairmen.
Edward J. Meehan, lieutenant col-
onel in reserve, is executive secretary
of the convention committee. Upon
him devolves a very large part of the
practical details of staging the con-
vention. (Ele
Colonel Meehan, who holds the Dis-
tinguished Service Cross and the
Croix de Guerre for his World war |
services, is a native Philadelphian.
He served with the One Hundred
Ninth infantry in the Twenty-eighth
division overseas. He wears two
wound stripes from that service.
When the Paris caucus set in mo-
tion the activity which resulted in the
formation of the American Legion,
Colonel Meehan was present as a rep-
resentative of his division. Return-
ing to Philadelphia, he affiliated with
one of the first posts organized.
Garlic Cockle in Pennsylvania Wheat.
One-half of the wheat grown in
Pennsylvania is shipped out of the
State, but to meet the consumption,
three times as much is imported as
is exported. Much of the wheat pro-
duced in this State is garlicky and,
as 90 per cent. of the mills are not
equipped to mill garlicky wheat, it
must find a market elsewhere. Eighty
per cent. of the cars of Pennsylvania
wheat on the Baltimore market so
far this year graded garlicky. The
discount on garlicky wheat ranges
from 7 to 10 cents a bushel and the
presence of only one bulblet in a sam-
ple of two quarts of grain is all that
is necessary to permit it being graded
as such. \
More mills in Pennsylvania are be-
ing equipped to remove cockle from
wheat but its presence seriously af-
fects the grade. The discount ranges
from 3 cents on wheat containing 1
to 2 per cent. of cockle to 11 cents on
that containing 8 to 5 per cent. The
presence of 5 per cent. of cockle in
flour reduces the volume of the bread
loaf one-half, and gives it a very dark
color and a bad odor and flavor.
Farmers should exercise every pre-
caution in the selection of seed wheat
this fall to prevent the contamina-
tion of next year’s crop, for so doing
may mean not only larger production
but also a difference of from 10 to 12
cents in the price they receive. Seed
wheat can and should be absolutely
free from all other seeds. The germ-
ination test should be very high. Qual-
ity—not price—should be the decid-
ing factor. :
Sixty-Passenger Plane Soon to be
Used Over Atlantic.
Germany is building a 60-passenger
airplane which she expects to place
in regular trans-Atlantic service with-
in twelve months, Maj. Lester D.
Gardner, director of the Aeronauti-
cal Chamber of Commerce of Ameri-
ca, said on his return from abroad.
Russia, he sail, expects to begin
airplane service between Moscow and
Pekin, China, wthin a fortnight. An
air route already is established be-
tween Berlin and Moscow. If plans
for the new routes materialize, New
Yorkers will be able to travel all the
way to Pekin by airplane, he said.
Major Gardner predicted that Rus-
sia will assume leadership in aero-
nautics as soon as she attains econom-
ic stabilization.—Exchange.
Lenguage Purist Had
Something to Learn
“It looks like rain.”
“Eh! What does?”
“The weather.”
“The weather, my dear sir, Is a con-
dition. Rain is water in the act of
falling from the clouds. It is impos
sible that they should look alike.”
“What I meant was that the sky
lovked like rain.”
“Equally impossible. The sky is the
blue vault above us—the seeming arch
or dome that we mistakably call the
heavens. It does not resemble falling
water In the least.”
“Well, then, if you're so blamed par-
ticular, it looks as if it would rain.”
“As if what would rain?”
“The weather, of course.”
“The weather, as I said before, be
ing a condition, cannot rain.”
“The clouds then, hang you!”
“Ah, here it comes. And I have
wasted so much time in talking to you
that I shall get wet to the skin before
I can reach my street car.”
“l may not know so much about
rain as you do. but I've got sense
enough to prepare for it and you
haven't,” said the other as he raised
his umbrella and walked off in a huff
—Boston Transcript.
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Winnowed Down to Two
Stephen Leacock, in his book, “Win-
nowed Wisdom,” indulges in these
philosophical remarks: “A hundred
men is too many. A group of fifty
would be better. As a matter of fact,
a more compact luncheon of, say,
twenty would be better still. Twenty
men around a table can all converse,
they can feel themselves in actual
personal contact with one another.
With twenty men, or say, fifteen men,
you feel you are among a group of
friends. In fact, I am not sure but
that ten or eight would be a cozier
crowd still. You get eight or six men
together and you really exchange
ideas. You get a real mental friction
with six men that you car’t get with
a larger number. And moreover with
six, or four, men sitting down like
this day after day you get to know
one another and in point of service
and comfort there is no comparison.
You can have a luncheon served for
four, ‘or three, men that is really worth
eating. As a matter of fact, if fit
comes to that, two is a better number
still. Indeed the more I think of it
the better I like two—muyself and »
darned good waiter.”
“Kicking” Habit Strong
The tendency to kick on the part of
a few suggests the chronic kicker and
unt the philosopher.
This chronic kicking can be better
illustrated by a little story. A man
was led to the electric chair. Before
he was seated he was asked: “Is
there anything you would like to say
before the death sentence is carried
out?”
“Yes, there is,” he answered with
that surliness that comes from chronic
kicking. “rhe man I killed for kick-
Ing my dog for biting him ought to be
shot. My lawyer was a crook>and it
took three appeals und two reprieves
to break me. When I came here I
thought I would get decent treatment.
but you gave me a bed with bum
springs, and the food has been fierce.
“and,” pointing to the electric chair,
“I'll bet that d—n thing don’t work.”
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Heredity
“Be careful, “precious,” said the
fond mother to her three-year-oid
daughter. “Remember that is mam-
ma’s best diamond pendant, and thar
you're to take it straight to the safe
deposit company. And just a moment,
darling! Here is mamma’s new pearl
necklace. Take that, too. And be
sure to hold them both tight in your
little paddie, and to hit any one who
tries to take them from you with this
little toy sword of your brother's.”
It was but the influence of heredity
asserting itself. She came, that moth-
er, of an old family of bankers,
shrewd men of business who entrust-
ed payroll cash and negotiable securi-
ties to unarmed office boys and rheu-
matic watchmen.—Kansas City Times.
Echoes of the Truth
Golf is a game of skill and patience
At the same time it is also a great
strain on veracity.
Four men were playing a match the
other day on a course in which the
ninth hole lay over a deep ravine.
Three of them went to the ravine,
buat by a stroke of fortune the fourth
cleared it and found himself almost on
the green. The others inspected their
respective lies, and two of them de-
cided to give up the hole. The third
sald he would go down and play out,
and he did.
“How many strokes?” queried the
others when he reappeared.
“Three,” he answered shortly, “The
others you heard were echoes.”
America’s First Play
The American theater establisheqd
itself as an independent instttution in
1787 when a play by an American,
horn and bred in the colonies, was put
on the stage of the John Street thea-
ter In New York. This, the first na-
tive comedy ever put professionally
before the footlights of the new world,
was “The Contrast.” The author,
Royall C. Tyler, found his inspiration,
so the historians ¢f drama tell us—
and it is pretty obvious anyway—in a
view of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's
“School for Scandal,” given at this
fame John Street theater.—Donald
I"reeman, in Vanity Fair.
| association of Washington,
HOW TO SOLVE A CRO®S-WORD PUZZLE
When the correcy letters are pluced In the white spaces this pussle winl
spell words both vertically and horizontally,
which refers to the definition listed below the pussle.
Thus No. 1 under the column headed “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 will fill
No letters go in the black spaces. All words used are dice
tionary words, except proper mames. Abbreviations, slang, imitials, technical |.
terms and obsolete forms are indieated in the definitions.
indicated by a number,
black one below.
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 6.
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(©, 1926, Western Newspaper Union.)
Horizontal.
1—A gem carved in relief
6—Not a full-blood negro
8—Light tappings of the foot
9—Roman outer garment
11—To allow
12—Girl’'s name
14—Suffix to form feminine nouns
16—Intelligence
18—Mexican dollars
20—Prefix meaning three
21—Garments of state
24—A tribe of Indians
25—Loyal; not false
26—The home of a wild beast
27—To strive for superiority
29—A nugget of virgin metal
81—Fellow of the American acade-
my (abbr.)
33—Boy’'s name (German) commonly
used in this country
85—Skin disease of domestic animals
37—Prefix meaning without
38—A beverage
40—Minor army officer (abbr.)
41—Grievous (obs.)
43—Used for shade and wood
45—Esteem
47—Short jackets, once popular
Solution will appear in next issue,
Seventeen-Year Locusts Due to Come
in 1927.
Washington.—The question now be-
fore the scientific house is: Will the
17-year locusts appear on time? The
scientific world is going to try to find
out, for an investigation by the bu-
reau of entomology is going to inves-
tigate the belief whether the 17-year
locusts, scheduled to make their ap-
pearance this. summer in Virginia,
Georgia, Iowa and Missouri, has any
existence in fact. Entomologists in
these States have been asked to keep
a sharp lookout for the insects and to
report to Washington when and where
they are discovered.
The 17-year locusts live under-
ground all that time and then come
out by millions. If you see this peri-
odical cicada, let the American Natvre
1:0. Cy
know at once. The cicada is a forest
insect and a very large part of its life
is as an underground grublike form
feeding upon the roots of forest trees.
Toward the end of the period the full-
grown grubs make their way to near
the surface of the ground and under
certain conditions construct peculiar
above-ground chambers of pellets of
soil. The large stout black insect is
about 1% inches long, and has a wing-
spread of nearly 8 inches, the veins
of the fore-wings and the eyes being
red. :
It is stated that in 1927 large num-
bers of 17-year locusts will emerge in
certain sections of Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia,
Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Kan-
sas.
This is based upon records back to
1724, and it is said the locusts which
will suddenly come out by the thou-
sands and literally cover the bark of
trees and fill the air with their per-
sistent clatter next year are the di-
rect descendants of the first brood of
locusts ever recorded in this country.
There are some 17-year locusts com-
ing out somewhere in this country
nearly every year, but those coming
out one year belong to different broods
from those coming out the next.
Millers May Study Penn State Course
by Mail.
Practical millers and young men
entering the milling industry who
lack the time and the means to under-
take a regular resident course in flour
mill engineering at the Pennsylvania
State College may now obtain instruc-
tion by correspondence through the
Engineering Extension department of
the College.
Professor J. Orvis Keller, head of
the department, has announced that
a practical and comprehensive course,
written by Professor B. W. Dedrick,
head of the milling department at
State College and a national authority
on milling problems, will be offered
for the first time this fall in response
to a continuous and urgent demand
from all parts of the country.
Professor Dedrick’s book, ‘“Practi-
cal Milling,” will be used as a text
and arrangements have also been
made to have the Penn State milling
specialist give his personal attention
to the correction and advisory service
on the lesson reports, The course
will cover more than twenty different
topics. Inquiries should be addressed
to the Department of Engineering
Extension, State College, Pa.
——Senator Reed of Missouri is a
The first letter In each word is
the white squares to the next
Vertical,
1—To divide into parts
2—Likewise
8—A university degree
4—Girl’s name
5—Tribe of Indians
6—Entangles
7—Architectural term
8—Contrition
10—Self-confidence
11—Gaelic god
13—Tovlet fall heavily
15—A drunken person
16—Heat producing appliance
17—To burst forth
18—A song of praise
19—To grasp
22—Poetical contraction of over
23—A measure for cloth
28— Anger
30—Frozen water
32—Since or gone by
34—To move vigorously
36—The herb dill
42—Sheltered
44—Royal College of Surgeons
(abbr.)
‘people, little ears of corn are often
46—Postoffice (abbr.)
—
Solution to Cross-word puzzle No. 5
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Indians Held Corn As Heavenly Gift.
The Indian is the real advocate of
corn. To him it was the staff of life,
both he and it are distinctly Ameri-
can. The sailing vessels which car-
ried back to Europe news of the dis-
covery of the one bore also samples
of the other. Corn has meant so
much to the Indian in his economic
life that he came to reverence it. It
was one of the four original celestial
blessings sent down to him from heav-
en, the Indianapolis News says. The
others were squash, beans and tobac-
co. Corn meal is used by the Pueblos
and other Indians in all their relig-
ious ceremonials. No tribal under-
taking is complete, no official pro-
nouncement is effective, unless they
are accompanied, at their reception,
by the sprinkling of the sacred meal.
The medicine man finds ‘in the meal,
blessed and sanctified by his own
hands, his chief ally in imploring the
blessing of the good spirits which rule |
the Indian world, or in driving away
the evil spirits which threaten to!
usurp the functions of the good.
Growing corn will wither and die,
seeds will not sprout, horses and
sheep will perish, families cannot
prosper and the evil spirits of mis-
fortune and disease will sweep the
villages unless the sacred meal is
sprinkled at the beginning of all un-
dertakings. The chief fetich of the
Pueblo medicine man is an ear of
spotless white corn, adorned with a
plume of downy white feathers bound
to the top. Known as the mother,
this ear of corn represents the moth-
er of all mankind. With it the medi-
cine man performs wonders. Pollen
of corn and squash, especially among
the Navajoes, performs an important
function in sanctifying all undertak-
ings. It is to them the most spiritual
of material offerings and no ceremony
connected with growth is complete
without it. Its symbol, as well as that
of growing corn, often appears in the
sand paintings made famous by this
artistic people. The ancestors of the
Indians, the so-called cliff dwellers,
cave dwellers and mound builders,
used corn. Among arrowheads, pot-
tery, stone implements and other
artifacts found in the caves, cliff
dwellings, mounds and ruins of com-
munal houses of these prehistoric
discovered. To these people the great
American commodity probably was as
essential as it became later to their
descendants.
~~When the ration does not contain
a sufficient amount of animal protein,
the hens molt earlier, regardless of
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read. He had written it himself
and had named this Bank as
Executor and Trustee. It was full
of errors, for trust provisions must
be carefully drawn by a competent
lawyer. Persons who contemplate
leaving their estates in trust should
consult us.
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