Beworrakic Watcwn
Bellefonte, Pa., June 17, 1927.
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PRIZES OFFERED
FOR BEST VOICES.
America’s future generation of vocal
stars will be disclosed to the world
this Fall as another of the wonders
due to radio. Every young man Or
. woman with the gift of song, whether
from country, town or city, will have
an equal chance.
A nation-wide quest for the best
young singers and the opening of the
door of opportunity to them has been
undertaken by the Atwater Kent
Foundation, an institution established
for scientific and educational purposes
by A. Atwater Kent, the Philadelphia
radio manufacturer and sponsor of
the Sunday night grand opera hour,
broadcast over a network of nineteer
stations.
The Foundation has announced
plans for a “National Radio Audition,”
to find by competition the best undis-
covered voices in the United States.
Prizes aggregating $17,500, with tui
tion for a musical education in certain
cases, are offered as follows:
The two winners of first place in
the National Audition—a man and a
woman—will each receive a gold
A. Atwater Kent,
President of Atwater Kent Foundation,
which opens door of opportunity to
undiscovered vocalists.
decoration, $5,000 in cash and two
years’ tuition in a leading conserva-
© tory.
Winners. of second prizes will each
receive $2,000 in cash and one year’s
tuition.
Winners of third prizes will each
receive $1,000 and one year’s. tuition.
"Winners of fourth prizes will each
receive $500.
Winners of fifth prizes will each
receive $250.
Musical, civic an¢ women’s clubs in
each community in each state will be
invited to hold local contests to select
the best young man and best young
woman singers of their towns. These
winners will then be certified to a
state audition, which will be broad-
cast by a radio station in each state.
A state winner of each sex will be
chosen and will receive a silver
medal.
The next step is a district audition.
The young men and women who have
. won state honors will be taken to a
central broadcasting station in one
of five districts, where an audition
will be broadcast to select the two
winners—a young man and a young
woman—from that district.
The two winners in each district
will receive gold medals and the ten
finalists thus selected will be taken
to New York for the final National
Audition, to be broadcast over a na-
tional network of stations. All ex-
penses of contestants in the district
and final auditions, including railroad
fare, hotel bills, entertainment, etc,
will be paid by the Atwater Kent
Foundation.
The spirit and purpose of the Na-
tional Audition are indicated in a
statement by A. Atwater Kent, presi-
dent of the Foundation, who said!
“The discovery of one of those rare
voices, of which each generation pro-
duces a very few, seems to me an
event of profound national impeor-
tance. Even when such a voice could
give pleasure to only a few thousand
people in a year it was a national
treasure. Now that millions may en-
joy it on the same evening through
the medium of radio, such a voice har
become priceless.
~ “The National Radio Audition, sup-
ported by the Atwater Kent Founda-
tion, is an undertaking to search the
entire country for beautiful voices
and to offer. these singers an oppor-
tunity for full development, recogni
tion and reward.”
The principal qualifications for cor
testants are as follows:
Must not be over 2b years old;
must never have been associated with
a professional theatrical or operatic
company; must never have been a
paid principal in any concert held out
gide their own states; must declare
an intention to follow a musical ca-
reer and must be free from theatrical
or musical contracts.
This limitation permits choir sing
ers to enter the auditions, even
though they may have received finan
cial compensation for singing in
churches. Other groups from which
entries are anticipated are students
in musical schools and locally promi
nent singers in high schools amd col
leges.
. state are also afforded an opportunity
to participate.
Musical organizations in each |
LOCATING THE FINANCIAL LEAKS THAT
TAKE THE PROFITS OUT OF FARMING
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By DAN H. OTIS
Director Agricultural Commission, American Bankers Association
[OBTRIAL lines suffer because of inefficient firms, whose
officers cling to old methods and place goods on the market,
even at a loss, to compete with the more efficient institutions.
Agriculture,
farmer.
DH.OTIS
cultural colleges, may be used for collecting the information.
A banker in a dairy district would use data similar to
Farmer A’s summary in the following table as a measuring
stick to judge the condition of Farmer
B:
Farmer Farmer
A. B
Farm receipts eeecceee $5,465 $2,214
Farm expenses...... ceviii o128 1,079
Rec'pts above expenses $3,343 $1,135
Interest on total invest-
ment @ 5 per cent, . 1,070 989
Net income after de-
ducting interest...... $2,273 $146
ACTOS ,.vivsivinrssiaionss 12 130
Total investment...... $21,400 $19,773
Operating capital (ma-
chinery, 1iv e stock,
equipment) ...... cone ,862 4,473
Number of cOWS........ 18 11
Investment in cows.... $2,302 $1,206
The total investment of Farmer A
is moderate with a large percentage
(27 per cent) of operating or working
capital. Farmer B is low in operating
capital. The number of cows is also
low, which is reflected in the farm
receipts, these being $3,251 less than
those of Farmer A. The expenses of
Farmer 'B, although about one-half of
those of Farmer A, are, nevertheless,
high in the ratio to receipts.
The only way to safeguard a loan
to Farmer B is to consider assets and
not income. Before any loan should
be considered at all the banker and
the farmer should ‘go over the situa-
tion, uncover the leaks and outline a
definite program of improvement.
Diversity of Business Good Sign
Farmer Farmer
A B
Income from crops. .. $1,476 $851
From dairy products.. 2,343 752
Sale of livestock (in-
cluding increased in-
NERUOLY dns v oeev + sone» . 1,656 280 |
Miscellaneous income. . 327 181
".A good diversity of income serves
to protect the farmer against years
of overproduction of any one farm
product. Farmer A bas a good diver-
too, has this problem to face.
“ We find farmers who fight new methods.
They retard the prosperity of other farmers
by throwing on the market poor quality
products, frequently produced at a loss.
The nature of the banker’s business
places him in a position to help this type of
farmer as well as the more progressive
At the same time the banker can
assure himself of good loans based on the
farm as a going concern.
A study of the investments, sources of in-
come and expenses of the successful farm-
ers in his community will give the banker a
measuring stick by which to gage the haz-
! ard entailed in furnishing loans to other
| farmers. This study is readily accomplished
through the use of summaries of farm rec-
ords. Inthe absence of good records, survey
blanks which can be obtained from the agri-
gity of income. Notice that the lead-
ing source of income, dairy products,
constitutes less than one-half of the
total income. The various enterprises
that make up Farmer B’s diversity of
business all show marked decreased
income.
Quality of Business Shows Leaks
Farmer Farmer
Receipts per cow..... $130 $68
Receipts per livestock
units other than
COWS .vecvceancrscnss 94 32
Under the heading, “Quality of
Business,” Farmer B shows that his
cows are bringing in $62 less per year
than Farmer A's. The $68 a year which
they are producing is undoubtedly be-
low the cost of feed and keep. The
income per live-stock unit is still
worse, and while this farm needs
more cows to increase its volume of
business, it would be financial suicide
to invest in the same type of cow.
This poor farmer must weed out his
poor cows and feed the balance pro-
perly to get results before money is
loaned to him to increase. his herd
with good. stock. .
An analysis of the farmer's records
will bring out many other leaks which
the farmer may not have noticed. He
may be paying high prices for feed
when less money spent for fertilizers
and lime may énable him to raise the
right kind of feed on his own farm
and stop this drain on his pocket
book.
Barring temporary
farm loans handled on the basis of
income, indicating a‘ ‘going concern,
would hasten tremendously the day of
a permanent and prosperous agri
culture.
emergencies, *
Eank Vaults Flooded
to Outwit Burgla:s
Remarkable and elaborate defenses
are included in the rebuilding of tie
Bank of England. It is possible, in caxe
of invasion or other emergency, to flead
the vaults from three points—one in
the ‘bank, one elsewhere in Lond.
and one ten miles out of London.
The walls are constructed of rein
forced concrete blocks, six feet long
by two feet wide by two feet thick.
The reinforcement is made from old
steel-wire ships’ cables, which are sep-
arated Into single strands.
These steel wires are interlaced in:
to panels six feet by two feet, and
placed in the mold, one on top of the
other, until the mold is full of steel
wire matting. Liquid concrete is then
poured in the mold,’ and the whole is
shaken to work the concréie into ev-
ery crack and corner,
All these concrete blocks have
keys” at each: end to interlock them
when in position. There are also
semicircular grooves at the ends of the
blocks. Two blocks together form a
circular groove up and down which
pass electric wires. Any attempt to
displace ‘a block breaks these wines
and an alarm is immediately sounded.
Life Study Basis of
Old Greek Philosophy
The old Greek philosophers spent all
their lives ifi the pursuit of knowledge
concerning the riddle of life, discuss.
ing all its phases to the point of re
ductio ad absurdum. Ap example of
the dilemma to which their reasoning
led them is displayed in the following
argument between Aristotle and Prota-
goras, says the Market for Exchange.
The latter claimed that all is illusion
and that there is no such thing as
truth. Aristotle refuted him with the
following dilemma: “Your proposition
is true or false; if it is false. then you
are answered; if true, then there fis
something true, and yoar proposition
fails.”
Another famous problem of the
Stolcs ran thus: “When a man says
‘I lie, does he lie or does he not? If
he lies he speaks the truth; if he
speaks the truth he lies.” Exhaustive
works were written on this, Chrysip-
pus favoring the world with six tomes
in an attempt to solve fit. Philetus
finally met an early death because of
too long hours of study on various ex-
planations.
Beetles Long in Tree
That no appreciable changes have
occurred in a species of wood-boring
| beetle in the last 1.200 years is indi-
cated on comparison of live specimens
with dead ones which were recently
found hermetically sealed in a giant
Sequoia tree, says ’opular Mechanics
Magazine. The insects apparently
had entered the wocd after it had been
struck by lightning. . Some failed to
emerge and were imprisoned by the
pew growth that formed over the
lightning scar. The time they entered
the tree was computed by counting
the annual rings that had grown out-
side of them. Naturalists are not
surprised that the specimens were
the same as those found alive today,
for beetles are regarded as a “con-
servative lot,” and 1,200 years is pot
a long time, - geoiogically speaking.
Species that were sacred to the Egyp-
tians have shown no signs of change
in thrice that time,
Old Pals
“Yassum,” said Callie, the colored
cook, “I been engaged now for gos’
on ten days.”
“Who is the bridegroom?”
“Wellum. he’s a mighty nice man.”
“Have you known him long?”
“Yes, indeedy. Don't you member,
Miz Harrison, dat about two weeks
ago you lemme off one day right af-
ter dinnertime so’s I could get to the
fun’el of a lady friend of mine?”
“Yes, 1 do.” >
“Wellum, de one I'm fixed to marvy
is de corpse's husband.”
Ancient Helrew Custom
“Pidyon Haben” is a Hebrew phrase
meaning the “redeniption of the first
born.” This custom is in fulfillment
of the biblical command which pro-
vides that every first-born male cres-
ture belongs to the religious organiza-
tion through the fact that it is the
possession of God and not its par
ents. A first-born male child 35,
therefore, “redeemed” on the this
tleth day, according to the biblical
command. The price of redenipiion
1s 20 shekels, based on the price of
Joseph's redemption.
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Coinage
When speaking of a coin, the side
bearing the head is called the obverse
side, and the other the reverse side
Alexander the Great of Macedoria,
conqueror of the Middle East, who
lived from 356 to 223 B. C. subst-
tuted hig own portrait on the coing of
his dominions for the figure of ©
pagan god. Since that time the ob-
verse side has been occupied by the
portrait of the ruler of the eountry
issuing the coin.
| with 134 degrees in the shade.
Le ATHENS
WORLD'S HOTTEST
AND COLDEST SPOTS
Siberia Holds Record With
90.4 Degrees Below.
Washington. — Days are coming
when we shall enjoy just thinking of
the coldest gpot on earth. That imag-
inary comfort may be enhanced by a
knowledge of the exact time and loca-
tion of the coldest known tempera:
ture, Verkhoyansk, Siberia, just with-
in the Arctic circle, experienced 90.4
degrees below zero Fahrenheit on
January 15, 1885. It was unofficially
reported that this same place recently
broke the above record with 97.6 de
grees below,
However, do not start for Verkhoy-
ansk for your vacation, for the tem-
perature rises to 80 degrees during
the two-month summer. Miles City,
Mont., holds the low record for the
United States with 65 degrees below.
It may help the fellow who must en-
joy the sea breeze of an electric fan
to know of a hotter spot than his own
chair. The Italian meteorological sta-
tion of Azizia registered 136.4 degrees
Fahrenheit in the shade on September
13, 1922. Azizia is in the semi-desert
plain of Jefara, northern Africa. The
mean annual temperature for this re-
gion Is 70.8 degrees.
Before Azizia established her hot-
test day California's similar arid In-
land plain held the world’s record
This
was at Greenland ranch on the edge
of Death valley, where the thermome-
‘ter goes higher than 120 degrees every
summer..- Officials at the weather bu-
reau question Azizia’s record because
the conditions under which the 136.4
degrees were obtained were not cer-
tainly proper. However, this may be
the American desire fcr bigger and
better climate, as Prof. Filippo Eredia
=aw the establishment of the mete-
orological station at the Italian settle-
ment in 1913 and took great pains to
insure the accurate functioning of the
instruments after approved methods.
Though summer out-of-doors recre-
ation is tempting, the need for vaca-
tions is apparently greater in winter
than in summer. Scientific investiga-
tion has discovered that it Is a great
mistake to speed up at the end of
January while in May nature lends
her aid and human energy is in-
creased. We are still more energetic
in October.
Nervous America might well change
ner habit and relax in ‘winter vaca-
tions when the nee} for slowing up is
greatest. |
Hungarian Fencer
Was in 10,000 Duels
Budapest. — Ten thousand duels,
fought, arranged or attended, was the
_secord that enabled Karl Fodor, fence
* ing master, to die happy.
Fodor died recenfly after a celebra-
tion in honor of his ten thousandth
duel, which was in his fencing rooms.
For forty years Budapest duels
were held, as a rule, in his quarters.
He presided over the many political
sword quarrels of Count Tisza. He
saw behind the scenes of most of the
dals of his time.
His most famous affair was the
duel of Count Etienne Keglevitch and
Deputy Karl Hencz. It was to be a
deadly fight, but it ended before it
started. The count, very near-sighted,
ran against his adversary’s sword be-
fore the signal for the start and was
killed.
Moose Cows Swim to Isle
to Give Birth to Calves
Anchorage, Alaska.—Fire island in
Cook’s inlet is the maternity hospital
| $100.00 in Merchandise
for moose. Moose ¢rws are now swim- |
ming from the main'and to Fire island
to give birth there to their calves. The
island is of small size, but it harbors
no wolves and the young moose, when
old enough to look out for themselves,
are escorted back to the:Kenaim per
‘nsula. 4
The island is one of the most re-
markable of the Alaskan refuges for
wild game. :
Two other small islands near Fire
igland, Egg and Chisick, are natural
vesting places for the eider duck,
under protection in Alaska,
afognak island is the winter home of
sea otter and the summer resort for
the superb emperor goose.
i
ens to Lay Eggs
for Apes to Steal
Odessa.—A shipload of 14
chimpanzees has arrived from
Africa and will be established
on the Soviet government's
“monkey farm” at Suchum, in
the Caucasus. The commissary
of health is opening the monkey
colony to breed a supply of ani-
mals for transplanting monkey
glands to rejuvenate people.
Professor Ivanoff of the Lenin-
grad Institute of Medicine ac-
companied the chimpanzees. He
returned from a year's study
and experiment in central Afri-
ca, where he made scientific
tests of cross-breeding monkeys
with ether animals.
The “monkey farm” is-in trop:
ical Russia and has been pre-
pared to make the chimpanzees
feel at home; Even a flock of
hens has béen provided, to lay
eggs which the chimpanzees can
steal and suck as they do in Af-
rica.
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The Second Liberty Loan
olders of the Second Liberty Loan, called
for payment November 15, 1927, may
now exchange these bonds for an issue
of 33% % bonds maturing 1943. Interest due
on the old bonds will be paid in cash.
The right to subscribe will close about
June 15.
Act at once if you wish to exchange.
We will arrange everything for you
without charge.
The First. National Bank
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Peace and
Friendship
Japanese student declares that
America is full of “Peace and
Friendship.” Peace and Friend-
ship belong to the man who keeps a
growing account in the First National
Bank.
8 per cent Interest Paid on Savings Accounts
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political differences and society scab:
LYON and COMPANY
FINAL CLOSE-OUT SALE
Free! Free! Free!
WE ARE GOING TO GIVE AWAY
to the people who visit our Sale on
Friday--Saturday, June 17, 18
To the first ten customers who visit our Store
on Friday morning we will give a $2.00 pair of
Silk Hose, Free. re 1
To the first ten customers who visit our store
on Saturday morning we will give $1.00 worth of
any merchandise they may select.
During these two days we will give to every
customer buying $2.00 worth, at sale prices, fifty
cents worth of merchandise of their own choice.
A few of our Specials for these two days are:
$1.25 Turkish Towel Sets at - - - - 48¢ i
1.75 Ladies fine Ribbed Underwear - - 47c
1.00 Ratine and Crepes, per yd - - - - 19
2.00 Silk, Taffeta, Crepes, Satins - - - 98c
3.00 Velvet, peryd - - - - - - - 136
35 and 50c Dress Ginghams per yd - 18¢c
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