Bellefonte, Pa., December 16, 1927.
Has a Political Look.
To the disinterested reader that
story from Harrisburg about the
State having lost $1,500,000 during
the Pinchot administration through
the unbusinesslike methods of the
Department of Highways does mot
ring true. We hold no particular
brief for Gifford Pinchot, but every-
body knows that in his four years as
Governor he was most scrupulous in
seeing that every dollar of the tax-
payers’ money was honestly expended
and that great results were ac-
complished in pulling Pennsylvania
out of the mud. Even according to
the story itself there was no loss of
$1,600,000, because nearly $1,000,000
seems to be involved in slow collec~
tions or in disputes between State
officials and local authorities over the
amounts to be apportioned in the
building of good roads. When it is
remembered that during the Pinchot
term nearly $200,000,000 was expend-
ed upon the highways the alleged
losses complained of, which can prob-
ably all be explained satisfactorily,
seem rather picayunish.
We fear that this is merely an
opening wedge for the introduction
of political methods into the Depart-
ment of Highways. It was greatly
to the credit of Governors Sproul and
Pinchot that they revolutionized high-
way work in this State, and that by
the expenditure of several hundred
millions of dollars they made the
roads of Pennsylvania equal to those
of any Commonwealth in the Union.
This was accomplished by eliminating
politics from the Highway depart-
ment and by putting trained engineers
and experts in charge of the wonder-
ful improvements made. Governor
Fisher cannot do better than to emu-
late the example of his two immediate
predecessors. If he permits factional
politics to have a part in this depart-
ment of his administration he will be
laying up trouble for himself and
great loss to the taxpayers of the
tate.
The new styles in ladies’ tan and
grey arctics only $1.95—Yeager’s.
P. L. Beezer Estate.....Meat Market
YOUR CHRISTMAS TURKEY
This is to call your attention to the
fact that we have bought for hun-
dreds of Christmas dinners the fin-
est turkeys we could locate. We
have them—plump and tender—in
all weights, both gobblers and hens.
We ask that you let us have your
order as early as possible so that
we can reserve for you the bird
that will meet your needs.
Telephone 450
Market on the Diamond
Bellefonte, Penna.
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2.—Monthly payments to meet your income.
3. A large per cent. off for cash.
4. Every car in fine running condition.
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I 1925 Chevrolet Tourings, two, at éach.....$190.00 =f]
Oc 1927 Dodge Sedan (business) ........... $750.00 on
Oc 1924 Chevrolet Tourings, two, at each.....$175.00 =]
Ic 1923 Studebaker Light Sedan... $275.00 =n
Oc 1928 Nash Sedan, four door... $525.00 oi
Ie 1927 Chevrolet Truck, 13-ton $450.00 =
1925 Ford Coupe, Ruxteel Axle ......_.. $200.00 =
1926 Chevrolet Coupe, fully equipped... $475.00 =i
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1926 Oldsmobile Sedan, Sport Model... __. $525.00
1926 Ford, four-door Sedan .........__.___._ $250.00
1923 Nash Touring > . $100.00
1924 Rickenbacker Touring .........___ .--$200.00
1924 Oldsmobile Twin “4-cyl.” weeee--$180.00
1923 Ford Roadster, two, at each... $ 80.00
Other cars in running condition as low as $25.00.
Decker Chevrolet Co.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Corner of High and Spring streets.
Open Day and Night
The Spirit of Christmas
Is in the air.
of Jewelry,
Glassware, Clocks,
Leatherware are lasting reminders of this most
wonderful of all festive occasions.
F. P. BLAIR & Son
JEWELERS
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Our assortment of the beau-
tiful is more complete than ever.
: GIFTS
Watches,
Phone 405
gine
Lamps,
Silverware,
Tableware,
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1928 COLORS IN MOTOR TAGS
' Several States other than Pennsyl-
vania will have blue numerals on the
1928 motor vehicle license Sete, but
the background will be different, ac-
cording to a list of color schemes of
the various plates announced by the
Pennsylvania motor federation. The
other States having blue numerals are
Montana, Maine and Missouri.
Following a long established cus-
tom the 1928 Pennsylvania plates will
be a reverse of those in use this year
and will have blue numerals on a
background of gold.
The color scheme of the plates of
other States and of the provinces in
the Dominion of Canada follows:
Arkansas, black numerals and let-
ters on orange background.
Alabama, Federal yellow back-
ground, black letters and numerals.
Arizona, vermillion red numerals
and letters on copper background.
Connecticut, passenger—white' nu-
merals and letters on blue back-
ground; commercial—reverse.
Colorado, black numerals and let-
ters on salmon background.
California, blue background, gold
letters and numerals.
District of Columbia, black numer-
als on chrome yellow ground.
Delaware, black numerals and let-
ters on white background.
Florida, maroon background, deep
orange letters and numerals.
Georgia, white numerals and let-
ters on blue background.
Illinois, white numerals and letters
on maroon background.
Iowa, black numerals and letters on
white background.
Idaho, green letters and numerals
on light brown background.
Indiana, white numerals and let-
ters on maroon background.
Kentucky, white numerals and let-
ters on green background.
Kansas, white background and dark
blue letters and figures.
Lousiana, minimum cars up to and
including 22 horse power, blue num-
erals and letter on white background.
Maximum cars over and above 22
horse power, white letters and numer-
als on dark blue background. Trucks,
red numerals and letters on cream
background. Dealer, white numerals
and letters on black background.
Trailer, black numerals and letters on
orange background.
Maryland, white numerals and let-
ters on light blue background.
Massachusetts, white numeralseand
letters on green background.
Montana, blue numerals and let-
ters on bronze background.
Michigan, green background, white
numerals and letters.
Minnesota, passenger—black num-
erals and letters on drab background.
Trucks and trailers, black numerals
and letters on gold background. Deal-
ers, white numerals and letters on
maroon background. Tax exempt,
lemon yellow numerals and letters on
granite background.
Mississippi, black background, and
white letters and numerals.
Maine, blue numerals and letters
on pure white background.
Missouri, blue numerals and letters
on orange background.
New Jersey, white numerals on
Sky-biue ackground.. iol
ew York, yellow numerals on
black background.
North Carolina, red numerals and
letters on grey background.
New Hampshire, white numerals
and letters on green background.
New Mexico, gold numerals and
letters on New Mexico blue back-
ground.
| Nebraska, blue background with
i white letters and numerals.
| Nevada, red background with white
letters.
North Dakota, passenger — white
Jetters and numerals with black back-
‘ground. Trucks, white letters and
{numerals with green background.
Oklahoma, black numerals and let-
ters on yellow background.
! Ohio, dark blue background with
{ white numerals and letters.
Oregon, black numerals and letters
on a white background.
Rhode Island, white numerals and
letters on black background.
South Carolina, yellow background
and black letters and numerals.
South Dakota, white numerals and
letters on red background.
Texas, white numerals and letters
on green background.
Tennessee, white numerals and let-
ters on black background.
Utah, black numerals and letters on
Federal yellow background.
Virginia, orange numerals and let-
ters on black background.
Vermont, green numerals and let-
ters on gold background.
Washington, orange background
with black numerals and letters.
West Virginia, green background
with white letters and numerals.
Wyoming, blue background, yellow
letters and numerals.
Wisconsin, orange background,
black letters and numerals.
Quebec, white numerals and let-
ters on black background.
British Columbia, orange numerals
and letters on black background.
Saskatchewan, white numerals and
letters on emerald green background.
Victoria, orange numerals and let-
ters on black background.
New Brunswick, white numerals
and letters on maroon background.
Ontario, black numerals and letters
on yellow background.
Manitoba, black numerals and let-
ters on green background.
Nova Scotia, orange-yellow back-
ground, black figures and letters.
Prince Edward Island, 1927-28—
white letters and numerals on green
background.
The place to buy where you get full
| value for your money.—West Co.
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| Whales Nearly Extinct, State Bureau
Warns.
Solemn warning is given by the
State department of fisheries that if
the killing of north Pacific whales
continues at the present rate, within
a few years the earth’s largest animal
will be extinct.
| Each year whaling ships, equipped
; with the latest improved weapons and
| appliances, search the Arctic for these
denizens of the deep. The industry
ment - which has likewise been abol-
produces big revenue and unless an!
international agreement limits or sus-
pends for a period of years the hunt-
ing of whales, nothing will stop the
destruction.
This season the catch of wales
from the Alaskan coast stations is
large and it is reported the mammals
are easily taken. However, it is re-
ported that every year the whales
grow smaller, which, say authorities
on the subject, is evidence that con-
tinued hunting prevents the full de-
velopment of the huge species and
only the undersized ones are victims.
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OLD METHODS OF TORTURE
DESCRIBED IN PRISON BOOK
Horrid forms of torture once prac-
ticed in the West Virginia peniten-
tiary are described in “Work and
Hope,” a prison publication, in com-
paring the present humane methods
to the punishment inflicted on pris-
oners years ago.
The publication stresses on the im-
provement in prison management and
the reformative methods brought
about in the past twenty-five years.
How prisoners were allowed out of
the penitentiary only with “a ball and
chain” is vividly described in the re-
cent edition of “Work and Hope,” as
compared with the way they are now
trusted outside the prison gates alone.
“To this little building (peniten-
tiary) at one thme,” the magazine
states, “all men convicted of felony
in the state were sent, and more than
a hundred men were therein confined;
and when worked outside they were
only allowed in stripes, ball and
chains and strongly guarded. We now
have many men, life-termers includ-
ed, working on the outside, coming
and going almost at will and it is
very seldom that one of them causes
any trouble, proving that the more
trust placed in a man and the more
like a human being he is treated the
better he becomes and the further he
can be trusted.”
Speaking of the punishment in “old
days,” the prison magazine says:
No doubt it is hard for citizens of
West Virginia to realize that men
have been beaten to death or other-
wise slaughtered, while undergoing
brutal punishment in their State pris-
on, yet such are the facts.
“Since prisons were built, flogging
has been a recognized form of pun-
ishment for refractory prisoners. An
instrument of torture which was once
used in this prison, was a big strap
about two inches wide, made of pieces
of harness leather sewed together.
When soaked in water over night,
dipped in sand and vigorously applied
to the bare flesh, caused most excru-
ciating pain.”
It is recorded here that women were
paddled in this manner, also. The
only difference being that the women
were dressed in a very thin gown be-
fore the paddling was administered.
Other forms of punishment were
grewsomely depicted such as the
“water-cure,” “gagging and freezing.”
“Underground dungeons in which
men were alternately frozen and suf-
focated, were also employed,” the
magazine asserts. “Bucking and gag-
ging was another dreadful punish-
ished.
* “This torture was inflicted usual-
ly by handcuffing the prisoner, his
hands slipped over the front of his
knees, his mouth forced open and
filled with a large piece of cork or
wood and left in this position until
life was almost extinet.”
No Excuse for Being Bald, Hair Now
Sewed Into Scalps.
Science has now come forth with a
method of putting hair on bald heads,
even though they be as bald as billiard
balls. The hair is “sown” into the
scalp in much the same manner as
young tomato plants are transplant-
ed to the spring gardens.
The first demonstration in this
country of this latest scientific
achievement was carried out recently
when Professor Christian Askhaven
of Oslo, Norway, sewed a patch of
curly bronze hair into the head of
Miss Peggie Tudor, who says she is
a descendant of the noble English
family of that name which figures so
prominently in English history. The
hair was sewn into a bald patch about
the size of a quarter where the nat-
ural hair had been killed by a beauty
parlor accident.
Professor Askhaven later explained
the process of inserting this foreign
hair into the scalp.
After disinfecting and applying lo-
cal anesthetics on the part of the
scalp under treatment, he explained,
two root ends of hair are fixed into
a gold ring that is so small is scarcely
can be seen with the naked eye.
By means of a hollow needle the
ring to which the hair is attached is
then pressed into the hair canal down
to the hair follicle, the needle is
drawn back, and the ring to which
the hair is fixed remains behind in
the follicle. It does not irritate the
skin, for it passes easily down the
hair canal to the follicle, and it is
only by means of its stringy nature
that it holds the hair fast in the hair
canal,
In this way the hairs take a nat-
ural position, they do not get tangled
on being washed, it is easy for them
to draw moisture and fat from the
scalp and they are thereby kept sup-
ple and strong.
This sewed-in hair will stay in the
head forever, the professor says, or
at least for 2,000 years.
Professor Askhaven said he has
worked at his discovery for the past
eighteen years, during which time he
has covered many European domes
with hair where once they were per-
feetly bald.
“That takes time,” he explained,
“because only a small bald patch can
be filled at one sewing. For a large
head three months are required and
perhaps 32,000 separate hairs are
used.”
Curly hair raises technical diffi-
culties, the professor said. In cover-
ing a bald spot he always starts along
the edge of the natural hairs, so that
the spot gradually grows smaller un-
til it disappears.
Velvet pumps for women—$2.85—
at Yeager’s.
Saving for 1928 Christmas
Join the fortunate band to whom we mailed
checks on December 3rd.
A little sum every week that you will scarcely
miss—a nice check at the end of the year that wiil
pay your Holiday bills.
Begin now to put money in your Bank Purse for
next year.
The First. National Bank
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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