AAI SUES EERE * BewriDatdan Bellefonte. Pa., February 3, 1928. WILL ROGERS BELLEFONTE AND SLIM LEWIS Briefs from the Humorist’s Own Story of a Transcontinental Flight. Recently Will Rogers, cow-boy hu- morist, movie actor and mayor of Beverly Hills, Cal, made a trip by air from Los Angeles, California, to New York. It was a round trip, com- pleted in four days. The distinguished traveler landed at the Bellefonte air port, though he was in such a state of utter dilapida- tion when his ship arrived here that he was in no mood to do any wise- crackin’ for the edification of the crew on the field or the few others who had gathered there to greet him. Will tells of his trip in character- istic vein in a recent number of the Saturday Evening Post. We get from his narrative that he did nothing but eat all the way from Los Angeles to Cleveland. Lew Dockstader, the old time min- strel, had a pet story to the effect that he didn’t object to paying three dollars a day to the hotels for board- ing his dog, but he did object when the overstuffed pup went up to his room and regretted it. It was apparent from the condition of the mail bags and everything about the plane that Rogers stopped cating at Cleveland and started in to make Dockstader’s dog’s most violent reguritation look like a mere wet-rift in comparison with the regretting he did from Cleveland here. In his story of the trip he would have us believe that the change of planes here was due to a whim of the pilot who was to fly from here to New York. That might have been s0 and then again it might not. But let Will tell you of his indisposition and other bits of information inter- esting to readers in this section of his route. “Now let me tell you about this sickness, The air is just the same as the ocean. I am making no alibi’s for it. If it’s rough, you are liable to feel your stomach rising and fall- ing with the plane. But if it’s nice and smooth there is not a chance in the world of being sick. “Now ordinarily one pilot goes all the way from Cleveland to New York. But he is only going as far as Belle- fonte and then turn the same plane over to another pilot. Well, when we get here, this other pilot knew it was so bad he wouldn’t take a chance in another plane; he wanted his own. They are all alike, but naturally they all have their spe- cial planes they are used to, and I am glad to see him ask to have all the mail changed over into his own. It will not only help his presence of mind but extricate me from an em- barrassing physical position. This was Pilot Thomas Nelson. It was drizzling rain and the worst part of the mountains were to be gone © over. It’s getting late in the evening but not dark yet; the clouds are low. This field is in a kind of valley; you couldn’t see the tops of the mountains for the clouds. Well, we got among them. Moun- tains and clouds and peaks all lnnked alike. This line, going from New York to Chicago, has a very remarkable rec- ord that will compare with the Boeing or Western Air. They have only had it a short time—in fact since May. They have flown over 1,000,000 miles and no injury to anyone. The whole one-way fare of the trip $407—not more than twice what you would pay on a train, including four days and nights, berth and food. OUR “SLIM” LEWIS From Cheyenne to Salt Lake, on the trip back the pilot was “Slim” Lewis known to most everyone here. “Slim” seems to have impressed Rog- ers as a daring and very expert pilot. We believe he did because we know he could and is just “devil” enough to have done so. When “Slim” was stationed here it was just part of the day’s fun for him to make rings around the steeple on the Presbyter- ian church and swoop up High street so low that the wind from the pro- peller blades would make the fish on the Court house tower spin so fast that its scales blew off. Again, we'll let Will, in his own words; tell you how good old “Slim” carried him from Cheyenne to Salt Lake. Slim is quite a hunter and he asked me if I liked to hunt. So it’s just good daylight as we leave Cheyenne. We have been going for perhaps three-quarters of an hour when—I hope the company don’t reprimand Slim by me being so mouthy as to tell this, for I don’t imagine it was what he was exactly supposed to do. But I felt the plane swerve em a short bank and I looked out to see if by chance we had hit a detour, and Mr. Lew- is had his left wing right on the tail of a Gray Wolf. He scratched that Wolf’s back for him about 100 yards and then swerved back on the straightaway. The country was so level we were flying very low all the time. All at once he makes another razee and this time it’s a bunch of antelope. Some of them seem to know old Slim and know he won't bother ‘em. They sure did look pretty. Well next comes a coyote. He run him ragged for a few seconds; then more, Antelope—about six bands in all; then over lakes that had ducks, which Slim informed us he was eoming back to get on his days off. He knew every old rancher across Wyoming. They would all be out BELLEFONTE HIGH ENDS FIRST SEMESTER 22 ON HONOR ROLL From The Bellefontian. The middle of last week saw the end of the first Semester of scholastic work in Bellefonte High school for the year 1927-28. The first Semester was completely finished and on the books, Friday afternoon when the pu- pils of our fine school received their long-awaited (?) reports Several bombs and quite a few bouquets were received and the student body wishes to thank the faculty for their kind- ness while the faculty wishes to thank the students for refraining from vio- lence. The grades were fine in quite a few cases but deplorably low in some. The Junior class in particular, is very weak. In fact, this class is very far below any of the other classes. Any self-respecting Junior class should, at least try to equal the under classes and, if possible, surpass them. Starting to take the school from top to bottom the following facts ap- pear outstanding. SENIOR GIRLS This group has the highest average of any in school. These girls are do- ing fine work except for a few strag- glers, who straggle here but would lead in some other groups. SENIOR BOYS As grades go, these could be better but comparing them with the other boys in school these records seem splendid. However, here are some blots, too. A few should brace up and then B. H. S. would have a 100% Senior class. JUNIOR GIRLS Girls usually excel in academic work and here is the exception prov- ing the rule. When a group of girls become “poor” in their studies it’s time they got busy. These girls are in that predicament and they had better get our very quickly if they want our respect. JUNIOR BOYS Few words are needed here. The poorest group in school” is sufficient but will it do any good? SOPHOMORE GIRLS Outside the Seniors these girls man- age to seem rather good but in some cases where the ability to obtain bat- ter marks is easily discovered, the marks are not satisfactory. SOPHOMORE BOYS These grades could and should be much better. A fine bunch of stu- dents are being lost here: Fellows, get to work! You have the stuff in you so seize your opportunity. FRESHMAN GIRLS In academic work these girls are encouraging but their Home Econom- ics grades are far below par: To make them into real marks would be a good goal for these girls this Sem- ester. FRESHMAN BOYS Every bit as good as the girls and that in itself is very good so at least B. H. S. has a good crowd of Fresh- men. 3 These facts are all down against the students for the first Semester but now the second Semester is “the thing” for everyone to watch and get busy. THE HONOR ROLL Catherine Clevenstine Catherine Bullock Sara Garbrick Edith Hile Louise Meyer Mary Rogers Dorothy Stitzer Louise - Tanner Peter Meek Caroline Kalin Anna Rhoades Grace Zeigler Warren Wilson Mary Curtin Eleanor Hoy Jane Musser Barbara Sloop Samuel Bricker Reynolds Shope Paul Taylor John Musser Robert Thomas Correctness First! There came a peremptory knock at the door, and into the editor’s private sanctum walked a very angry man. “You are the editor of Welch War- bler?” he snapped. “Yes.” : “My name is Morgan T. David. Yesterday your paper printed an ar- ticle about me. You called me a thief, a robber, a blackleg and a lot of other things.” “We did,” said the editor. ; “Well, sir, I'm here to tell you, by thunder, my middle initial is T. and not H. If you can’t spell my name correctly have the godness to leave it alone.” —Speaking of refrigerators leads us to remark on the convenience of a little set of white enamel dishes in which to stow away left-overs in the ice-box, They have fitted edges and may be stacked all in one pile or used separately. The white enamel set costs a little over $2; a similar set made of oven-glass which we men- tioned last Christmas is more ex- pensive, costing about $4, but may be used for baking as well as for stor- age containers. waving at him. This mechanic talked a good deal about engines. But no more than I did about act- ing. Finally I told him I didn’t know a thing in the world about engines, that if they stopped this plane and raised up the hood and a rabbit jumped out, I would just figure he belonged in there. Begin to strike some mighty pretty little ranches in the valleys over toward the mountains back of Salt Lake. You could see the little lighthouse keeper's house now that it was day- light—just about big enough to keep some matches in. We swooped down through the mountain pass and over the beautiful Salt Lake City again. Meadow the Scene of First Sunday School Robert Raikes of Gloucester is often set down as the founder of the Sun. day school, writes an English corre- spondent, but nothing is heard of Fm- manuel Twynning, the shepherd of Magpie Bottom, Sheepscombe, Glou- cestershire, from whom Raikes got his idea. Magpie Bottom is a beautiful crinkle at the edge of the Sheeps- combe, where the lane departs down the valley, at last reaching Glouces- tershire. The young man must hive been up here to take a service. At any rate, as he went by Magpie Bot- tom there was Shepherd Emmanuel Twynning in that thyme-scented little paradise, with a ring of children round him, explaining perhaps pas- | toral parables of the New Testament. Master Bob Raikes stopped, perhaps Joined in a hymn and talked to the shepherd, asking him how he “went on” when the weather was not so fa- vorable. He was told that on wet days some handy cottage sheltered the class, and that, come wet or fine, there was a class every Sunday. During the walk back to Glouces- ter the thought took root and, with- out the thyme and the marjoram and the inconsequent chirruping of grass hoppers, Robert took up his shepherd- ing in the dark streets of the cathe- dral city. : Ancient Greek Had Idea of Evolution Empedocles; the Greek philosopher, anticipated Darwin in his theory of evolution by more than 2,300 years. About 430 B. C. he published his ex- planation of life and its interpretation of the universe in which he held that “being” or matter was imperishable and hence eternal. He maintained the existence of two fundamental and opposing forces which he typified as friendship and strife. The first he represented as internal and the sec- ond as external and these two as In perpetual conflict—the first struggling to maintain the status quo and the second to change it—thus producing, according to his theory, all the phe- | nomena of nature. He held that these | changes had been occurring through | all the past ages with the effect of | development in all phases of existence with man as the highest product, thus far, of the process. Modern scientists declare that in thus indicating the principle “strife” Empedocles grasped the germ of Darwin's idea—the sur- vival of the fittest—for by its exposi- tion he seems to have intended to con- : vey the idea of competition for exist- ence or supremacy.—Kansas City Star. Practical Bible Warning | “There are extraordinary sarcasms In conincidences,” says Alexander Black, author of “The Seventh Angel and “The Great Desire.” “One night a thief made off with my overcoat from a restaurant, It was not the sort of resta rant in which one is admonished to be alert. Moreover, I had never been robbed of anything in my life, 1 had had no admonitory experience. Naturally the incident made a rather profound impression. The weather deepened that impression. | “That same night I happened to | open my Bible to verify the location ' of the verse from which I took the title of ‘The Seventh Angel.’ And in the verse immediately preceding I read these startling words: ‘Blessed | is he that watcheth ang keepeth his garments.’ ” Scented Teas in China scented teas are popular. The aroma is from flowers. The flow- ers commonly used are the white jas- mine and the “yu lan,” a species of | magnolia. Such teas are prepared hy heating the flower petals with the tea | leaves. Sometimes the flower petals | cre left in the tea, but usually they are taken out after the tea has the de- | sired scent. In the preparation of some varieties the process consists of sprinkling a layer of fresh blossoms over a layer of tea, and repeating the process until the container is filled, Then the container is placed aside un- til the perfume has thoroughly per- meated the tea leaves. The old petals are then removed and fresh petals added. This is repeated until the de- sired aroma is attained. The tea is then packed for market. Seeking Black Canary A Burbank of birds is trying to pro- duce a black canary, according to a | recent issue of the Pet Dealer. (a- naries, to date, have been produced white and blue beside the convention- al yellow, but no one has yet succeed- ed in producing a jet black feathered songster and perhaps there will be “millions in it” for the man who sac- | ceeds. Novel and harmonious color effects have been produced in recent years by the use of colored bird cages in interior decorations, but the novelty of a jet black canary and a pure white bird cage will be sufficient to satisfy the most exotic demands of the in. terior decorators, Mystery of Egg Lines Why are some birds’ eggs pure white and unmarked and others va- riously and highly colored, with all sorts of marks upon them. from mi. nute dots to scraggly lines? asks the American Forestry Magazine, [Flow are those spots and markings pro- duced? Nests of birds run all the way from the female laying a single egg on the bare rock on the coast, to tise laying ten or more eggs in x very elaborate nest built in very different focalities. . and actresses. . are often very tasty. ALTHING BODY 997 YEARS OLD Parliament of Iceland Also Has Problems. Reykjavik.—The oldest democratic parliament in the world is claimed for the althing, the parliament of Ice- land, which in 1930 will celebrate its millenary. It was in the year 930 that all the chief peasants and traders were called together to decide upon the new faith as against the pagan Wodan cult, with the result that Christianity was accepted by an overwhelming ma: Jority. To celebrate the occasion a church will be built on the Thingyalia plain a3 well as a national theater in Reyk- Jjavik, the capital. The althing has seen many changes fm the 997 years of its existence, but it is considered that never at any time has it been more balanced than now. The elections during the summer