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Bellefonte Po., June 10, 1927.
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Dr. Colfelt Tells of
Call to State College.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
By Rev. L. M. Colfelt D. D.
1 went forth to begin the world
over again, having resigned my
Charge, as naked of earthly posses-
sions as when I was born, indeed more
so for I was $27,000 in debt. I shall
never be sufficiently grateful to Mr.
Edwin S. Cramp and George S. Gra-
ham lifelong friends who came to me
at this juncture and offered me a
sum of money to tide me over this
critical time. I declined the kind of-
fer and betook myself to the sym-
pathetic arms of the two mothers who
never failed me in the dark hours of
life, my mother and mother nature.
With my feet upon the solid ground
behind the plow on my mother’s farm
and my head soothed by heaven's airs
and bird notes I began to fight my
way back to mental wholesomeness
and a fresh grip on the Eternal real-
ities. By selling my Endowment In-
surance Policy and some “financial
olive trees past bearing,” in a phe-
nomenally short time I cleared off all
my indebtedness and began life anew.
While behind the plow about a month
after returning home, a deputation
from the town of Bedford consisting
of Judge Longenecker, J. Barclay and
Judge Brice came and asked me if I
would consent to tutor their sons for
college. Feeling that this would af-
ford me more leisure for study, I at
once accepted the kind suggestion,
opened a Classical Academy in the
town the following Monday which I
conducted with success and satisfac-
tion for several years affording me
not only a moderate income but an
abundant opportunity of giving uni-
versity = Extension Lectures. They
were chiefly devoted to the results of
Antiquarian researches and a some-
what extended resume of Russian Lit-
erature and Literature in General.
This was a very agreeable task to
myself as well as contribution to oth-
ers for which I was the recipient of
many grateful testimonials. After
several years of this absorption Dr.
Atherton of State College invited me
to occupy the college pulpit for the
winter which ended in my removal to
State College for the definite purpose
of occupying the post of College
Preacher and Professor of Ethics.
During Dr. Atherton’s absence in
Europe and frequent visits to Harris-
burg to press State appropriations I
took over the instruction of his Sen-
ior Classes in Poliical Economy and
Constitutional Law. It was a busy
and vet not too laborious life and 1
think I can justly say that I was not
only at the peak of enjoyment in my
close association with the President
and his family and with the Scholar-
ly Professors and their households
and with the Student body who hon-
ored me with their selection as um-
pire in all disputes which arose be-
tween themselves and members of the
faculty but I was also at the peak of
my powers as Preacher having but
one sermon to prepare a Sabbath, into
which I could pour the quintessence
of my being and with an unwearied
body come before an audience of
rofessors and Students that could
appreciate the best a man could do.
That they were lenient auditors in
my case was witnéssed by the fact
that none of the students ever made
any but justifiable excuses for remain-
Ing away from the chapel sermon.
. Be it noted a college audience is
the most inspiring and critical in the
world and college authorities through-
opt the land having “a proper regard
for the moral guidance and Spiritual
Culture of the Student body should
Spare no expense nor pains to secure
for College Preachers the most elo-
quent and highly endowed men the
country can furnish, men capable not
only of religious information but of
Inspiration, Seers as well as Moral
Teachers. The long prevailing of de-
sultory, happy go lucky administra-
tion College Chapels has been = dis-
grace and hopelessly inefficient. The
noblest influence of a College Preach-
er as any other is a growth of vears
of high thinking, commanding per-
sonality and devotion to his lofty mis-
sion.
It was during my incumbency that
Charles M. Schwab gave his EI
gift of more than two hundred thou-
sand dollars to build a magnificient
Chapel for the Students in which I
preached the first Baccalaureate ser-
mon and represented Mr. Schawb in
making what would have been his
Dedicatory Address but for his en-
forced absence. I cannot omit the men-
tion of General Beaver with whom
I came much in contact at this time
and with whose and his family’s
friendship I was honored lifelong.
State College owes much to General
Beaver who was its nursing father
and mother through all the years of
its early vicissitudes. Heartily co-
operating with Dr. Atherton they to-
gether raised the standard of the col-
lege until it required a mental athlete
to pass its rigorous tests. This en-
hanced the reputation of the Institu-
tion far and wide by sending out stu-
dents who made good in all the depart-
ments of Engineering and blossomed
into Captains of Industry wherever
found. Thus these two men collabor-
ating elevated the institution from a
Farm School to a first class college
fitted to be a university and attract-
ing thousands of students where there
were but hundreds.
The people of Bellefonte treated
me with great kindness not only hon-
oring me with frequent invitations to
occupy her pulpits but making the oc-
casions ovations in the form of over-
flowing audienc2s. Judge A. O. Furst
especially endeared himself to me as
one of the warmest friends of my life
by showing me unnumbered kindly at-
tentions, extending to me the hospi-
tality also of his home. Mr. William
Humes proved himself a friend that
sticketh closer than a brother and
with his sister in their Old Colonial
TRIN NT.
Prophets Chamber waiting and a
warm welcome.
At this time I made a study of
Comparative Religions. It savored
somewhat of the quest of the dove
sent forth by Noah from the window
of the Ark to find a spot to stand up-
on. In making the survey I found
that Kuen-fut-se had approximated
closely to Jesus of Nazareth in his
doctrine of Reciprocity and in a neg-
ative statement of the Golden Rule
Zoroaser did much to define the dis-
tinction between Right and Wrong,
Good and Evil personifying them in
Ahriman and Ormuzd, Light and
Darkness, identifying Evil with Mat-
ter and Good with Spirit, and devel-
oping the so-called system of Man-
ichaeism which divided the universe
between God and the Devil making
the latter practically omnipotent.
Gautama Budha developed the idea of
Sacrifice to an Extreme that trans-
cended Christianity and even common
sense and fixed the source of all evil
and consequent suffering in the uni-
verse upon the act of God in coming
into consciousness for to be conscious
is to desire and to desire is to suffer,
therefore all consciousness is an evil
for which the only cure is sacrifice de-
sire—all desire even to live, and fin-
ally let the individual consciousness
cease by falling back and being ab-
sorbed in the universal consciousness,
as a drop of water falls and blends
with infinite ocean. Then only in the
annihilation of personal identity will
all desire, all suffering, all evil cease
and the soul reach. Nirovana Eternal
rest and be able to say “I Am
Brahm.” This is the doctrine of Sac-
rifice run mad. Plato in his Ideal
Republic put the Emphasis on Justice
as the cure-all for all the ills of
States and individuals. Aristokle
came a bit nearer a solution in Ac-
centing Friendship as the greatest of
all ideals saying “it is better to love
than to be loved” and if men were but
capable of friendship the world’s ills
would be cured and evil cease to ex-
ist. Now each of these great teach-
ers caught a glimpse of the White
light, polished one facet of the dia-
mond of truth, made an important
contribution to the moral evolution
and education of the race. But each
one in turn was but a partialist at
the best. Jesus of Nazareth alone of
all the Moral Teachers of Mankind
summed up all that had been taught
by every other Teacher beside in one
magnificent, all unitizing all compre-
herding Newtonian hypothesis em-
bracing the whole universe of Re-
ligion and Ethics in the declaration
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart and thy mind and
thy soul and thy strength and thy
neighbor as thyself.” Definition can
no further go. All Religion all Mor-
als are embraced in those words. But
it is their nice and exquisite balance
that confounds me. It recognizes the
utilitarian basis of all morals in put-
ting self as the foundation of all duty
and the final court of appeal. To
love one’s neighbor more than self
is excess of sacrifice and falls into
the mush of Sentimentalism. Less
than self is to run on the rocks of
selfishness and meanness. To love
one’s neighbor as one’s self is to
avoid Scylla on one side and Charyb-
dis on the other and find the blessed
mean of existence. Nor are there any
frontiers to this rule of life, no per-
iod of time, no realm of existence,
no planet, no human or angelic being
can be conceived to whom it is not all
sufficient. “Whence hath this man
this wisdom” was the question my
soul asked in the presence of a Teach-
I —
FARM NOTES.
—Guinea chicks are ravenous little
eat incessantly.
—In addition to the scratch grain
and the green feed, it is recommended
that a mash be kept before the birds
at all times. The following ones are
economical and effective: (1) 200
pounds of ground oats, 100 pounds of
ground corn and 60 pounds of a pack-
meat and bone; (2) 100 pounds of
ground corn, 100 pounds ground oats,
100 pounds bran, 100 pounds of mid-
dlings and 80 pounds of the meat and
bone feed; (3) 100 pounds of ground
corn, 200 pounds of ground oats, 100
pounds of middlings, 100 pounds of
gluten feed and 100 pounds of the
meat and bone product.
—For home use the Senator Dunlap
variety of strawberry is recommended.
It bears large quantities of dark-red
fruit in midseason.
Small fruits are most likely to suc-
ceed the strawberries, black rasp-
berries, blackberries and gooseberries,
according to W. R. Martin, horticul-
tuist at the Kansas State Agricultur-
al college. While grapes are not us-
ually considered in the class of small
fruits, they are well adapted to Kan-
sas soil, climatic, and moisture con-
ditions.
The two best varieties of black
raspberries are Black Pearl and cum-
berland. Black Pearl bears about
midseason and several days earlier
than Cumberland. Because these
plants are susceptible to anthacnose
and cane blight diseases, Mr. Martin
advises the planting of disease-free
plants in soil that has never been
planted to raspberries before.
Blackberries will succeed where
raspberries will fail because they will
withstand more hot, dry weather. Al-
though root cutting blackberry plants
are the most expensive, the horticul- ,
tural specialist states that they will
succeed better than the “sucker”
plants which are most commonly sold. |
|
—New Jersey peach growers should
now be convinced that our old com-
mercial varieties of peaches, with one
or two exceptions, no longer meet the
present-day requirements for either
growers or consumers, yet there are
still large numbers of trees of such
varieties as Carman, Hiley, and Belle,
points out a reeent issue of the New
Jersey Horticultural Society News.
To quote: “Some of these are young
trees in full vigor, while others are
old and on the decline. Get rid of the
latter as soon as possible.
“New varieties equal to Hale in ap-
pearance are in sight. You will want
to plant some of them as soon as trees
are available. Be ready to give them
a fair start.
“The site of an old orchard should
be put in shape for a new planting
by liberal fertilization and the grow-
ing of a crop that will return a large!
quantity of organic matter to the soil. |
If an old orchard site can be devoted
to other crops for several years, so
much the better. Clear the land that
is in old, unprofitable varieties of
peaches and get ready for better
days.”
The pear will grow on the quince
and mountain ash as well as on itself
and upon the hawthorn. Yet it is:
dwarfed by being grafted upon any-
thing but the pear, and becomes more
a novelty than a practical orchard
|
: plant. Grafting can be done in early
spring just before growth starts, us- |
ing the common cleft graft. The or- |
chardist will be more successful, how-
ever, if a tongue-graft is made dur-
er who could sum up all that mankind
had groped for throughout the ages
in an all satisfying rule of life for all
sentient beings. I do not know how
it may strike others but it was the
transcendent genius of Jesus of Naz-
areth that entranced my mind. Could .
this Teacher born in the meanest
province, -in the least intellectual of
all the villages of Galilee, have been
a natural evolution of his habitat, his
times. Forbid it Reason! “Never
Man spake like this man!” What
wonder Nicodemus said “Rabi we
know that Thou art a Teacher come
from God.” “Art Thou a King then?”
Pilate interrogated. “To this end was
I born and for this purpose came I
into the world that I might bear wit-
ness to the Truth.” His kingliness
consisted 1n his solution of the prob-
lem of the ages what is truth? He
alone could say “I am the Truth.”
Thus by a purely intellectual and not |
an emotional process I was so to!
speak reconverted, brought back and |
being to Jesus and acelaim his divin-
ity not because of his miracles of
matter but his miracles of
With a firmer grip upon the Divin-
ity of Christ than ever before, I re-
constructed the body of belief upon
the bases of filial devotion to man.
Henceforth my Theology was sum-
med up in the Pater Noster. Any-
thing in the theology that does not
square with the Divine Fatherhood or
in Ethics with the Brotherhood of
man is Anathema Maranatha!
HERE I REST.
“I have a life with Christ to live,
But ’ere I live it, must I wait
Till learning can clear answer give
Of this and that book's date?
I have a life in Christ to live,
I have a death in Chirst to die—
And must I wait till science give
All doubts a full reply?
Nay rather while the Sea of doubt
Is raging wildly all about,
Questioning of life and.death and sin,
I.et me but creep within
Thy fold O Christ and at thy feet
Take but the lowest seat
And hear Thine awful voice repeat
In gentlest accents heavenly sweet
‘Come unto Me and rest;
Believe Me and be blessed.” ”
Thus with my Theological bear-
ings clear, and my foundations re-
laid with a structure of truth and
body of belief that were my own ex-
perience and not the traditions of
Home and the Schools I was prepared
to resume the pulpit with a message
that I felt at least would ring true.
Coincident with this inward urge
came the outward Call.
——The Watchman publishes news
when it is news. Read it.
'least one incentive to choose varieties
; agencies such as the colleges and the
| experiment stations, he said.
ing the dormant season, using a piece !
of hawthorn root about the size of a |
pencil and a corresponding length of
scion wood from the pear. If one en-!
joys playing with a thing of this kind, !
| go ahead and try it. If, on the other |
hand, a man is looking for pears, he ;
better not bother with it. |
— Thousands of dollars are being |
spent annually in attempts to make
fruit trees bear which are unprofit- |
able simply because a given variety is |
not at home in the particular section
where it was planted, according to!
W. S. Borek, of the pomology division,
college of agriculture, University of
Illinois. Most of the time and money
thus spent is wasted, thus giving at |
carefully, using as a basis the experi-
ments and observations of reliable
i
i
“The variety is the key to success- |
ful fruit growing, but varieties of |
|
4 , | fruit vary widely in adaptability, both
compelled fo yield the homage of my |to soil and climate. A variety may
thrive on some of the fertile, well-
mind. | drained soils of western Illinois, but
refuse to bear profitable crops when
planted on other types of soil in the
same latitude. Still other varieties
are quite tolerant of poor soil condi-
| tions, but need such a long season
i for proper development that they can
be grown only in the South.
“For horticultural purposes, Ilinois,
for instance, may be taken as con-
sisting of three districts each com-
i posing roughly one-third of the lati-
tude covered by the State. Varieties
adapted to each district have been!
tabulated and, such variety lists are!
available for free distribution to res-
idents of the State who request them
of the experiment station of the col- |
lege of agriculture.
“In addition to adaptability, choice |
of variety depends upon the use for
which a fruit plantation is to be!
planted. A home orchard may con |
sist of many varieties, the ripening |
season of which should extend from !
the earliest to the latest. A commer- |
cial orchard should have few varieties |
in order that a large volume of fruit |
is ready at one time to facilitate |
economical marekting. Thus a farm
apple orchard might contain 20 vari-
eties with only 30 trees, while a com- |
mercial orchard of 1,500 trees Sh
have not more than 5 varieties.
“A peach orchard for home use
would be incomplete with less than a |
dozen trees, but a commercial peach |
orchard of 100 acres will in most
, cases contain but two varieties. |
i “The variety question is a local one '
iand no orchard should be planted
without considering all of the above
i questions in addition to securing such |
information as may be obtained by
, visiting fruit plantations in the
neighborhood.”
creatures and for the first week they |
! Central State Odd Fellows to Convene
in Lock Haven on June 18.
Three hundred Odd Fellows from
central Pennsylvania will represent
their respective orders at the annual
meeting of the West Branch Encamp-
ment association, which will be held
in Lock Haven, Saturday, June 18th.
Clinton Encampment, Na. 27, of that
city, will act as host to the visiting
lodge men and their wives.
A feature of the meeting, the pur-
pose of which is the furtherance of
Odd Fellowship, will be the observ-
ance of the 100th anniversary of the
founding of the patriarchal branch
of the order.
The gathering will be launched
with -the annual business session which
will be held at 3:30 o’clock in the I.
0. O. F. rooms on East Main street.
President Anthony Cockburn will pre-
side.
At 6:30 o'clock the visiting dele-
gates, members of the local lodge, and
others will parade, led by Captain E.
T. Miller, of Troop F, 103rd cavalry,
who will be chief marshall. Follow-
ing the parade, at 7:30 o’clock a spe-
cial session of Grand Encampment of
Pennsylvania, Ltd., will be held with
Grand Patriarch Samuel Bowen and
Grand Scribe George H. Banes in
charge. Beginning at 8:30 o’clock the
golden rule degree will be conferred
on a class of candidates in an impres-
sive ceremony conducted by Summit
Encampment No. 74. of State College.
The members of Queen Rebekah
lodge, No. 24, of that city, will enter-
tain the visiting ladies at a reception
in the rooms of Clinton lodge, No. 98,
1. 0. O. F.
The officers of the West Branch
Encampment association, which com-
prises 21 encampments and 7 cantons
are as follows: president, Anthony
Cockburn; vice-president, C. M.
Steese; secretary, C. Merrill Gibson,
and treasurer, Norman T. Funston,
all of Williamsport. The officers all
expect to be present at the gathering.
Girl Wins Honors at
State.
With the coming of the end of the
academic year at the Pennsylvania
State College, the usual program of
activities is under way among the
students preparatory to the com-
mencement week, June 10 to 14. New
class officers have been elected for
next year, the seniors have chosen
their class day and honor members,
scholarship awards have been made
by the college, and the girls are turn-
ing their attention to the annual May
fete to be held next Saturday.
Miss Marian Frain, of Bywood,
Philadelphia, wil be crowned Queen
of May, and will also act as “mirror
orator” on class day. Honor girls for
class day will be Miss Esther Frank,
Harrisburg; Miss Lillian Baker, Cres-
son; and Miss Frances Forbes, State
College. Senior honor men are G. P.
Lippincott, Marlton, N. J., captain of
the college soccer team, who won the
highest number of individual awards
on scholarship day last week; W. E.
Pritchard, Buffalo, N. Y.; and F. W.
Kaiser, Wilkes-Barre. Sherwood IL.
Reeder, Williamsport, has been elect-
ed valedictorian. He is president of
the senior class.
Alumni in larger numbers than for
many years past are expected to at-
tend the commencement week exer-
cises and the formal installation of
President Ralph D. Hetzel during the
graduation exercises on June 14.
Centre County
Altoona Races Drawing Near.
With the announced date of June
1, set for the final closing of entries
for the June 11th national champion-
ship classic at Altoona, a gradual in-
crease in interest has been noted, par-
ticularly within the past week.
Numbered among the most recent
entries are those of Pete DePaolo,
1925 national champion, and Tony
Gulotta, his one time mechanician.
Due to mechanical difficulties result-
ing in last minute delay, Pete was un-
able to effect entry in the closing
event held in 1926. The disappoint-
ment was felt by Pete and his host of
followers alike. True to his coura-
geous spirit, however, he hopes for a
come-back, and looks to June 11th to
prove his worthy claim for competi-
tion on the famous Mountain City
bowl.
News of his now possessing a new
front-drive car, named “Perfect Cir-
cle Miller” gives thought to his be-
ing well equipped for the coming con-
test. The new car is the result of
years of experience earned by the vet-
eran automotive engineer, Harry Mil-
ler, of Los Angeles.
The car in the hands of Tony Gul-
otta is the same four wheeled char-
iot that won DePaolo $40,187.72 for
the speedway of the past season.
DePaolo and Gulotta form a great
combination, and with the valuable
assistance of Harry C. “Cotton” Hen-
ning and Fred Blauvelt, their mechan-
icians, should prove a strong pair of
contenders.
Style Fatal to Ostriches.
London.—A dispatch to the Ex-
change Telegraph from Johnnesburg,
South Africa, says hundreds of os-
triches are being slaughtered daily by
ostrich farmers, who have despaired
of the revival of the plume market.
It is estimated that more than 200,-
000 ostriches have been killed. If the
demand for plumes should revive it
could not be met, owing to the de-
struction of the most valuable breeds
of birds. Ostrich-farming is dying
out because, after the coming of bob-
bed hair, large hats, such as formerly
were decorated with ostrich plumes,
are not being worn.
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A nagging backache is sometimes a
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