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"Bellefonte, Pa., January 21, 1927.
NAVY BUREAU LISTS
ALL SEA DERELICTS.
Washington.—While seas quietly
bap the shores of the world, a vigilant
maritime patrol, unknown to most
|“landlubbers,” busily stalks the silent
‘but treacherous foes to commercial
shipping.
Icebergs, floating debris, land abut-
‘ments, drifting buoys, derelicts and
opaque fogs are constant menaces to
‘mavigation against which war must be
waged. The nerve center of opera-
‘tions the world over is the hydro-
graphic office of the Navy department.
This bureau tries first of all to keep
a finger on the whereabouts of all dan-
gers to shipping about which it is im-
perative, in safety’s cause, to know.
An elaborate intelligence service, en-
Hsting co-operation of hydrographic
services of other countries, assists the
bureau to chart known impediments
to water traffic, and send out warn-
fngs.
Report New Derelicts.
Constant communication with ships
at sea, advising them of newly sight-
ed derelicts, rafts and other things is
maintained. The bureau supplies all
navigators with information and asks
their reciprocation by advising of the
tongitude and latitude of icebergs and
other straylings. It immediately dis-
seminates the news over all ocear
highways.
Meanwhile the navy and coast guard
annihilation squadrons are notified
8nd patrols sent to visit the scenes
of drifters and remove them,
A task which the coast guard
tackled last July was to find and de-
stroy 37 steel cylindrical pontoons
which were lost from a barge that
broke adrift off the coast of North
€aroling, menacing coastwise shir
ving.
Hauled it In.
A target raft which had to be aban-
doned during a hurricane while it was
being towed caused “policemen of the
main” seme trouble. After a ten-day
search it was located, the position sig-
mnaled te the hydrographic bureau and
six destroyers were sent to look for it.
The minesweeper Rail eventually
picked up the tow and hauled it inte
port.
Reconnaissance patrols are main-
tained along water highways in the
spring months to look out for errant
fcebergs. The patrols are withdrawn
June 30 when it is assumed the ship-
ping lanes are safe. The duty of pa-
tro} boats is to report daily the situa-
tion in their territories to the hydro-
graphic office, which rebroadcasts
twice & day warnings to mariners.
Invatuable service is carried on by
radio from the hydrographic office for
the. guidance of open-sea navigators
who may lack knowledge of condi-
tions on approaching American shores.
Radio compass bearings are broad-
east to aid them.
Finds Yank Molder
Has $17,000 Home
London.—English workmen have re-
geived a colorful picture of the Ameri-
, €an prosperity from J. T. Kay, trades’
. union official who visited the United
. States as a member of the mission to
viv] was
~
search for the secret of Americar
high wages.
Mr. Kay told the institute of British
foundrymen in Birmingham how. hav-
ing a letter of introduction to a Pitts-
burgh melder, he called on the man
ynexpectedly to satisfy himself that
the introduction was not a “catch” te
deceive him.
A negro maid answered the bell of
& fine house and said the molder was
at dinner, but the man came out at
ance, resplendent in evening dress.
W®ining with him, also in correct at-
tire. were his wife, brother and son.
. After a pleasant evening, the host
erought out his 80-horsepower car,
drove Mr. Kay to his hotel. mention-
- tng, ieidentally, that he had paid $17,-
000 for his house and had $10,000 in
the bank.
assured.” said Mr. Kay,
~that that was a fair example of a
man's achievement when he fried hon-
estly to get on.”
tHe Wears Same Suit
23 Years; She Sues
Lawrence, Mass.—When he took the
witness stand In the local probate
court, Matthias Florence of this city
-told Judge Harry R. Dow that he was
fagrried 23 years ago, had worn only
gne- suit during that time, and that
. the . has never been inside a moving
picture theater.
His wife, Antoinette, is suing him
for divorce on the ground of cruel and
abusive treatment and he contested
the.action.
She testiffed he never gave her
enough money to run their home, al-
though: he- owns two. tenement houses.
She also asked: for the custody of their
two minor children. Judge Dow took
the plea under advisement.
Drop in Weddings
London.—Weddings have dropped
oft’ more than 60 per cent ip the South
Wales coal fields since tho dispute of
the miners and mine owners threw
more than 1,000,000 men out of work
last May.
Must Pay Taxes.
Paris—~Amenicans having “an ha-
tual residence in France” must pay
‘ench income: tax on all their reve-
ie, whether derived from the United
ates or France.
BAD WEATHER OF
1926 EXPENSIVE
Research Fixes Cost at Over
$500,000,000.
New Haven, Conn.—The inclement
weather this year has cost the United
States $500,000,000 and that of last
June more than $100,000,000 alone,
Prof. Ellsworth Huntington, research
associate at Yale university and me-
teorologist, said here. This astonish-
Ing loss never was realized by the pop-
ulace, however, because they were
“still extraordinarily stupid,” Profes
sor Huntington added.
“Ever since the earliest men began
to think,” he said, “they have known
that their happiness depends to a cop-
siderable degree upon the weather.
“Nevertheless, even in our day, we
still have only the crudest conception
of just what the weather is doing to
us. The relationships between the sun
and the weather and between the
weather and the crops, and between
crops and general circles of business
are very complex,
“A solar condition which brings
prosperity in one region is almost cer-
tain to bring calamity somewhere
else,” he explained. “When one re-
gion has unusually warm weather
others may be cooler than normal;
when one region is unusually stormy
or rainy others are practically cer-
tain to be free from storms and te
suffer from drought,
He pointed out. that the financial
panics of 1837, 1874 and 1893 came
after several years of low rainfall over
a wide area. He also said a short,
overly hot spell would take more than
the usual number of lives. He valued
each life at $7,000, and showed that
these willing heat spells had a very
definite effect upon financial equilib
rium.
His Family of Three
Holds Down Ten Jobs
Morrisville, Vt.—Vermont's busiest
family is the Sweetsers. Three of
them—Truman H. Sweetser, his son
Percey and his daughter-in-law Min-
nie—have between them ten jobs that
they are actively engaged upon. Not
political sinecures nor soft public
service berths are these, but good
honest, every-day occupations.
Down on Brooklyn street they have
Just finished a new “business build-
ing” that houses most of their en-
deavors. In the front of the structure
is the grocery store, managed by Mrs.
Sweetser., who also is an expert ste
nographer and bookkeeper.
On the other side of the building
the activities of her husband are
housed. He is a plumber, tinsmith,
steamfitter and dealer in stoves and
heavy hardware, The rear of the es-
tablishment is given over to the young
man's. father, Truman H. Sweetser,
who Is a photographer and has his
studio and laboratory there.
Besides taking pictures, Mr. Sweet
ser is a master mechanic and a car-
penter, “turning his hand” to these
tasks when he is not busy with his
graflex and view camera.
While Percey Sweetser was serving
a France with the Yankee division
his wife was a yeoman at the Charles-
town navy yard.
Russian Students Must
Take Military Training
Moscow.—Military training for all
iniversity students, both men and
women, has been ordered by the com-
missariat of war.
Under the order all students are re-
juired to take 180 hours of instruction
in military science during their regu-
lar four-year course and two months’
field practice during the summer.
When their university course is fin-
ished the men must ~erve nine months
in the army or, if they prefer, one year
in the navy.
‘While the women students are re
quired to take the course equally with
the men, they are exempt from the two
months’ field practice and active serv-
ice in the regular army,
As the new regulations apply to al
universities and academies in Russia,
tens of thousands of students will thus
become potential soldiers.
Favors Music
New York.—Music, in the belief nt
George Eastman, Is a potent antidote
for the restlessness of spirit engen-
dered by the drudgery and routine of
modern business.
Indians Wealthy
Oakland, Calif.—The richest people
mn the world are the American Indians.
Their per capita wealth is $4,700,
nearly twice the All-American average.
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Warn Against Rabbit
Germs; Produce “Flu”
Washington.—An infectious
disease known to science as
“hueremia,” which mysteriously
emanated from the skin of a
rabbit some six years ago, was
made the subject of warning
bulletins issued by the public
health department,
Humans contract the disease
during the process of skinning
the rabbit. If the person has a
slight cut on his hand, or a rash
of any sort, he is more suscepti-
ble to the disease, which brings
on an illness similar to the “flu.”
If the rabbit is properly cooked
the consumer is in no danger.
doctors said.
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CANADIAN DOLLAR
JOLTS VISITORS
Dominion Money’s Advan-
tage Over Ours Due Part
ly to Trade Balance.
Toronto, Ont.—United States visi-
tors to Canada are chagrined when
they find the American dollar is no»
at a discount here.
In a monetary way the amount of
the discount is insignificant. For all
ordinary transactions United States
currency Is accepted as par by every-
one everywhere in Canada. But on
large banking transactions the tech-
nical discount becomes a reality and
the American eagle has a little bi*
clipped off its wings.
The prosaic rates of exchange tables
on the financial pages tell the story.
Day after day the Canadian dollar is
quoted in New York at a slight pre-
mium. Some days it Is only three
thirty-seconds of 1 per cent premium;
more frequently it is five thirty-see
onds or more,
What is thé explanation? The sub-
ject of rates of exchange is so coms
plicated and so contentious that fit
would be foolish to be dogmatic, but
there are certain explanatory conds-
tions that are obvious.
Production One Reason.
In the first place Canada is produc-
ing wealth at a rate which, having re-
gard for her small population and
scale of expenditure, is enormous.
Hundreds of millions of dollars a year
from her wheatfields, more hundreds
of millions of dollars a year from her
pulp-wood forests and mines, to say
nothing of the output of factories,
grazi~g lands, hardwood forests, fish-
eries and other sources of wealth, are
building up substantial surpluses.
For the year ending July 31, 1926,
Canada’s excess of exports over im-
ports amounted to $388,000,000—more
than $40 for every man, woman and
child in the dominion. A proportion-
ate favorable trade balance for the
United States would be around $5,000,
100,000.
A favorable trade balance first made
ts appearance in Canada during the
war in the era of high prices and mu-
nitions business. It was predicted it
would disappear when abnormal condi-
tions passed. So it did—almost. In
1920 it was only $11,000,000. But
since then year by year it has grown.
Last year the increase was $100,000,-
700 and there is no sign now of its
Jdiminution.
Another factor in the Canadian dol-
«ar premium is the continued influx
of outside capital. Every year for 11
years there has been a stream of
United States capital flowing into
Ccnada at the rate of $200,000,000 a
year. It finds investment either in
government bonds or in industrial en-
terprises. Before 1914 the flow was
from Great Britain.
Some economists, particularly high
protectionists, who are dissatisfied
with the present conditions of trade,
claim that it is this stream of United
States capital inte Canada that is the
decisive factor In putting the Cana-
dian dollar at a premium. They say
the favorable trade balance is illusory
and disappears when invisible exports
and imports are taken into account.
Interest Big Item.
3ut the chief invisible item is in-
.erest on foreign investments in Cana-
da. These are estimated at around
$5,000,000,000, on whieh the interest
would be, say $300,000,000. Substantial
reductions must be made from this
amount. Some of this interest remains
in Canada for fresh investment, the
balance or tourist traffic will account
for another huge sum. Canadians also
have investments abroad on which
they collect interest.
Demonstrably Canada’s real favor
able trade balance is large even if
some deduction has to be made from
the $388,000,000 which the government
figures show. It represents a real in-
crease in wealth in the country. When
there is added to it the large annual
acquisitions of fresh foreign capital
comirg in to be added to the invest-
ments of profits that Canadians are
themselves making, the anomaly of the
premium on the Canadian dollar is not
as puzzling,
Canada’s pros-erity makes her a
netter customer than ever of Uncle
Sam. While her excess of exports
over imports last year were $388,000,
000 for the whole world, she bought
from Uncle Sam $170,000,000 more
than she sold to him. Even if the
United States did take payment in se-
curities, the condition reflected here
is not one which Canadians accept as
permanently satisfactory.
Paper From Bamboo
May Supply the Earth
Bombay.—Forest research experts
in India hava discovered how to use
bamboo as pulpwood in the manufac-
ture of white paper. The process, it
is announced, has been perfected afte:
15 years’ experimenting by the Forest
Research institute and college at
Dehra Dun.
The authorities say that by the
aew process India will soon be in a
position to supply the paper demands
of a large part of the world.
Ten Days; Ten Gallons
Dover, Ohlo.—For every day they
do not drink a gallon of water while
in jail, a day will be added to the
sentence of four men sentenced by
Mayor P. J. Groh for intoxication.
The quartette was given a minimum
of ten days.
APPLIED SCIENCE
USED BY INDUSTRY
Bureau of Standards Repor*
Indicates Advantages.
Washington.—American industry is
more and more turning to applied
science to ald in solving its many and
intricate technical problems. This is
Indicated in the annual report. of
George K. Burgess, director of the bu-
reau of standards of the Department
of Commerce. The bureau, it shows,
has contact with industry through ap-
proximately 80 advisory committees
and through a large number of “re-
search associates” sent by industrial
groups to work on problems of inter
est to their respective industries.
Results are applied quickly by the
industries concerned, so that the pub-
lic soon benefits from Improved proc-
esses. In the fiscal year 1925-26 there
were 62 of those associates at the bu-
reau, representing 36 separate indue-
tries.
About 180,000 tests, having a fee
value of $675,046, were completed by
the bureau in the year. The char-
acter and scope of these tests spanned
the province of applied science from
sugar to cement, from thermometers
and pyrometers to paints and var-
nishes, and from aerial photography
to studies In city planning. In addi-
tion to a vast amount of consultation
and specification work from various
governmental departments, specific re-
search covering 40 projects was per-
formed from 15 government establish-
ments,
Forty-five simplified practice recom-
mendations have been accepted by in-
dustries, resulting in great savings in
the production of articles in common
use. This is one of the most impor-
tant ways, it is pointed out, in which
an industry can effect immediate
economies. The demand for publica-
tion on this work is evidence of in-
terest manufacturers are showing in
it.
Attention to building and housing
produced important results. A stand-
ard building code, submitted for gen-
eral adoption, was drawn up by a
special committee. A report was is-
sued on the important subject of city
planning. and zoning, containing a list
of 436 municipalities which have
adopted zoning ordinances.
Among outstanding research under
takings of the bureau was that in con-
nection with increasing the wearing
quality of paper currency. By intro-
ducing certain changes in the manu-
facturing process, a paper was devel-
oped which it is believed will increase
the life of bills by 50 per cent.
/ Out of 1,513 Women
Want to Be Housewives
Lawrence, Kans.—Gentlemen who
prefer homemakers will have to look
some place other than the University
of Kansas in their search for such, if
statistics made public here as a re-
sult of a questionnaire bear up.
Of 1,513 young women students at
«he university who turned in their
preferences as to what line of work
they wish to follow after graduation,
only seven expressed a desire to be-
come homemakers,
There were 97 different occupations
iisted by the men and women of the
university in the report. Of these. 24
appeal alike to the men and women.
Forty-eight were listed by the men
which did net show in the women's
list, while 25 were chosen by the wom-
en which the men passed up.
The teaching profession came first
with 816 women and 144 men desiring
to enter this field. The medical field
was next with 412 men and 20 wom-
en; business eame third with 361 and
27; law next with 301 and 7, with the
various branches of engineering listed
in the next place. Journalism appeals
to 89 men and 70 women.
Nature Freak Taken
Fresno, Calif.—A ring-tailed cat
that has the ears of a fox and the eyes
and nose of a coon was captured by
B. P. Lester, while on a hunting trip
on the Kings river and has been
brought back to this city.
Taught Poisoning
Belgrade, Yugo-Slavia.—Five ring:
readers of the Lucretia club, which
taught its members, unhappy, how to
mix mediaeval poisons, are in jail.
Murders of husbands are attributed
by the police to the club.
Deport 10,904 Aliens
in Year; Bar 20,550
Washington.—A total of 10,
904 aliens found to be unlawful
ly within the United States dur
ing the last fiscal year were de-
poried to their home countries,
Secretary of Labor Davis an-
nounced in his annual report.
This is greater than the number
so deported in any previous
year, and was 1,400 more than
were deported in 1925.
Aliens debarred from enter
ing the country numbered 20,-
550. Nearly 86 per cent were
turned back at the international
land boundaries, 15,808 from
Canada, and 1,755 from Mexico,
the others being principally
stowaways and seamen trying to
enter without passports, Of the
deported aliens, Europe received
5,088; Mexico, 2,588; Canada,
2,102 and Central and South
America, 430. The emigrant
aliens during 1926 totaled 76,992.
COORCOOCRRERRERINOREORREORE
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They Take Long Chances on the
Weather in Arizona,
Isaac Ward, who recently left his
haunts up about Pennsylvania Fur-
nace to make his home with his
daughter, Mrs. A. Heil, in Phoenix,
Arizona, writes under date of January
1, that they have confidence in the
weather out there. Such incredible
confidence that we shall let him tell
the story himself.
Phoenix, Arizona, 1, 1, 27.
Dear Editor:
I have been keeping quiet or—still
would be better—so that it has been
some time since I have asked you to
change my address on your mailing
list. I left Penna. Furnace October
14 and drove through to the Coast by
auto. Lived in San Diego long enough
to find out that the climate is fine and
nearly the same all the year around,
but at this season of the year is very
damp from 6 p. m. to 8 or 9 a. m.
Here in Phoenix it is cool during
the night but nice and warm all day.
People are going around here without
coats and sitting outside like we do
in June in Pennsylvania.
We had a few frosts here in the
city last week, but six miles to the
south where the oranges and grape
fruit groves are they never have any.
This is a greater produce section
than I imagined it to be before com-
ing. Why they are shipping 600 car
loads of lettuce, alone, from here
every week.
While over in California they adver-
tise sunshine every day in the year
really I think this country has more
of it than they do on the Coast. Of
course I haven’t been here long enough
to know of my own observation, but
they must have sunshine pretty de-
pendably for, the other day, I saw a
sign on a restaurant in the western
bos of the State with this startling
offer:
ALL MEALS FREE
on
Days the Sun Does Not Shine
and at another place a filling station
had a sign out that read: “Gas and
Oil Free on days that the sun doesn’t
shine.” Imagine how long a business
up in Centre county would last if it
pinned its faith to the weather like
that
Wishing you all a happy and pros-
perous New Year, I am
Yours truly,
ISAAC WARD.
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Whether they be fresh,
smoked or the cold-ready to
serve—products, are always
the choicest when they are
purchased at our Market.
We buy nothing but prime
stock on the hoof, kill and re-
frigerate it ourselves and we
know it is good because we
have had years of experience
in handling meat products.
Orders by telephone always receive
prompt attention.
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