Bellefonte, Pa., June 8, 1928.
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THE COST OF BEING
OUR PRESIDENT.
Florence Fisher Parry’s Reaction to
thie Vision of Calvin Coolidge
at a Theatre.
The lights had gone down for the
rise of the curtain, and in the mer-
ciful dark hush, a little man slid in-
to his single solitary seat in a box,
and his attendants retired to a re-
spectful distance.
The curtain rose, the footlights
blazed, and in their near reflection
a rather ashy, drawn and compact
face turned conscientiously toward
the stage, as if determined to scrup-
ulously fill the moment’s prescribed
duty.
It was the President of the United
States taking his evening’s recrea-
tion.
The Tiller Girls, whipped into taut
precision, like soldiers passing the
reviewing stand, gave their best.
Fred Stone concentrated his life's
training on an exhibition of perfect
acrobatics, and the company took on
an earnest concentration, as if their
very lives depended upon their max-
imum of effort. :
The little ashy man shrank into his
seat with a slight stoop. He sat
quite still. At times his fixed, grim
attention was broken by a small and
shifting fidget; his hands, tightly
clasped and rigid in repose, traveled
nervously to his cheek, cupped his
chin, his forehead, and then clasped
again into a close grip, as if in obe-
dience to a rigid inner command. His
small eyes, focussed narrowly upon
the stage, kept their strict, prescrib-
ed vigil, and his head jerked nerv-
ously, fussily, above his collar.
There was a drained, gray lock
about his face, a kind of stiff pallor,
which fixes itself on the visages of
those who are trying to stave off the
claims of illness, and which presages
Smt—
a break more ominous than physical
infirmity. ;
Alone, throughout the required
number of facts, the President sat
there, joyless and apart. Between
the scenes a secret service man came
close, asked a diplomatic question,
and retired absequiously to the cur-
tain of the box. :
To a man, the audience watched
the President. Watched his fixed,
sharp face, his pale eyes, his taut
and fidgety hands, his shrinking body,
his small, self-conscious gestures.
The single, concentrated eye of an
! pinched and shy man. He is sick.
i He is spent. Some natures might
thrive on such an honor. Some men
might flower under such limelight.
It shrivels him. It congeals him.
It could mean his death. . . .
“I do not choose to run.” Who
dares laugh? Who dares mock? Who
dares speak of drafting him into
service?
Stand aside. Let him pass. He is
a human being. He does not choose
to be denied, any longer, his inalien-
able right to live his own life.
rs Mp iene.
Food Bearing Plants Needed.
Berry bearing trees and shrubs are
to be grown and distributed free by
the New York Development Associa-
tion, Inc., from its own nursery for
planting by sportsmen’s clubs and
others, to provide food for game birds
on all large areas to be reforested in
New York, according to an announce-
ment just issued by George A. Law-
yer, former Chief United States
Game Warden of Watertown, N. Y.,
now managing director of the New
York Development Association, Inc.
The association's program con-
templates the planting of a billion
trees within the next fifteen years
and the planting of one hundred mil-
lion trees annually thereafter until
the four million acres of idle waste
lands in the State are reforested, and
includes the planting of a liberal
supply of berry-bearing trees and
shrubs and hardwood trees, such as
| beech and maple, to furnish summer
{ and winter food for the birds.
“The reforestation of large areas
with coniferous trees,” Mr. Lawyer
says, “would be nothing short of a
crime unless provision is made for
wild life. He points out that game
birds, in addition to cover, must have
foed and sunlight and places to dust
and obtain gravel, without which the
birds would be compelled to abandon
entirely a coniferous forest.
On any reforested area of more
than one hundred acres provision
should be made, it is said, to leave
one or more small tracts in the wild
state on which the food bearing trees
and shrubs should be planted, and the
birds may obtain the necessities of
life. _ The association also plans to
furnish berry-bearing trees and
shrubs free for planting where need-
ed for other than reforested areas to
provide food for game birds.
Game Commission Buys 9900 Acres.
_ Addition of 9900 acres to its hold-
ings has been announced by the
Board of Game Commissioners. The
three tracts are in three different
counties. Members of the board said
they are of the type which will fur-
nish good protection and cover for
TEXAS LUNATICS
TO TAKE UP GOLF
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State Lays Out Course on
Grounds of Asylum.
Austin, Texas.—Lively times are in
prospect on the new golf course which
the state board of control is laying
out on the grounds of the state insane
asylum at Austin. Inmates of the in-
stitution make it their principal topic
of discussion, and they are already
preparing to challenge some of the
best golf players of the state for
match games. It is the theory of R.
B. Walthall, chairman of the board of
control, that playing golf will result
in much physical and mental benefit to
insane patients. The board is prepar-
ing to establish golf courses at all of
the other nine insane asylums, sani-
tariums, training schools and hospital
of the state.
“Some of the institutions have more
ground than others, but we shall see
to it that all get golf courses,” Mr.
Walthall said. “It will be recom-
mended to superintendents that they
set certain hours of the day for cer-
tain groups in order that all may get
a few rounds evéry day. If this can
be arranged, the 2,000 inmates at the
San Antonio asylum, 2,000 at the Ter-
rell asylum and 2,000 at the Austin
asylum will get in their ‘daily dozen.’ |
The Wichita Falls insane hospital hae
but 1,028 inmates.
“Many of these inmates already are
doing outdoor work, such as garden-
ing, but some kind of sport also is
needed. Most of these institutions
raise their own garden truck and have
dairies that produce sufficient milk
and butter. This largely reduces the
state expenses and nearly all of the
work is accomplished by patients. We
1. .u patients recently to put up a
building at San Antonio and they
thoroughly enjoyed the labor. It did
‘hem much gcod.”
Marines’ Good Behavier
Makes Friends in China
Tientsin.—A foreigner’s treatment
of the Chinese coolies with whom he
deals is taken by old-timers in China
as a good test of that foreigners
character. Americans in Tientsin
therefore have taken pride in the fact
that not a single case has been re-
ported of trouble between rikisha
pullers and the 3,800 American troops
here—3,000 marines and 800 of the
Fifteenth infantry—since the marine»
Death in Boiling Oil
Old English Penalty |
The last person legally boiled to
death in England was so executed ip:
1542.
Save as a metaphor for the vulgar,
the boiling of human beings has
ceased to be a factor in our civiliza.
tion. We do sometimes say our pet
aversion ought to be boiled in oil. Tt
is a jest, merely. Nobody boils in
England nowadays; except perhaps
with indignation, and even in tropic
climes, thanks to missionary effort,
the practice of allowing one’s fellow-
men to simmer gently till tender is
rapidly passing into the realm of
legend.
Our ancestors were less squeamish;
and in 1542 a servant girl, Margaret
Dany by name, suffered this penalty
for poisoning three households by
whom she had been employed.
Boiling ag a punishment was legal-
ized by Henry VIII and abolished by
his son, Edward VI. During the 16
years it existed as part of the Eng-
lish penal system—being reserved
only for poisoners—quite a number of
people met their end in this way. As
neither medicine nor sanitation was
very far advanced in those days we
are led to wonder how many deserved
their fate and how many merely suf-
fered for an unlucky outbreak of
ptomaine or appendicitis.—From the
Continental Edition of the Londop
Daily Mail,
Magpie Combines Both
Good and Bad Traits
The farmers of the West are divided
in their opinion of the magpie. Some
regard the bird as a serious nuisance
and others defend it.
Magpies have been known to steal
eggs from chicken yards to carry to
their young. They sometimes kill
chicks. They also show great par-
tiality to cherry orchards. Perhaps
their worst offense is harrying weak
or wounded animals, and even, occa-
sionally, sound and healthy creatures
The magpie attack is torturesome,
A magpie has been known to keep
pecking and enlarging a wound of an
animal, finally resulting in its death
after days of suffering.
On the other hand, the magpie is
often beneficial. Its diet includes a
great number of injurious insects, in
particular grasshoppers and caterpil-
lars in the spring and grasshoppers
later in the summer and autumn, The
grain the magpie eats is largely waste
in the fields, for the bird prefers in-
Properly Equipped
HE First National Bank of Bellefonte, is
equipped to properly care for business
of any kind relating to banking.
Commercial Banking
Savings Department
Foreign Exchange
Travelers’ Checks
Financial Information
Trust Business, Administration of Es-
tates.
In any of these we can render efficient
service.
More and more each year the properly
managed bank is supplanting the individual
in the care of estates.
The First. National Bank
BELLEFONTE, PA.
RE the people who keep their valu-
ables in our Safe Deposit Vault —
because they know they have the
proper protection against loss from fire
and theft. Private Lock Boxes here rent
for as little as $2.00 and up per year.
sects both at planting time and during
the harvest time.
epitomized world focussed relentless-
ly upon this hour of the President's
leisure, making of it a ghastly cere-
mony, a stunt, a side-show.
Two more hours, and the curtain
lowered. The President rose, fum-
bled into his overcoat, clutched, with
: arrived eight months ago.
Zeme 2nd om supposnded by desir-| (laghes between foreigners and
The ne Dy vnder- .con- | rikisha coolies are not uncommon in
. So 2 ; “| the Orient. Some passengers are
pl I ll approximaely | sticklers for the Wei i while
amination of titles and necessary | many of the coolies are truculent. The |
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
STATE COLLEGE, PA.
MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Boston’s Eveless Adamses
Modesty, lack of self-contidence,
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a nervous flinch, his hat. His es- | SUrveys for the various tracts are | marine and the rikisha boy, how- | was (and is) a fault of Boston in char-
corts stood at attention. The audi- under way. | ever, are good friends. The coming | acter—just as undue self-consciousness
ence parted. Our President walked One block of 3088 acres purchased | of the Third marine brigade has | is in manners. The Cabot type—‘a
through the respectful aisle. A hol- by the commission is in Monroe | proved a blessing to the thousands of | semicivilized tribe inhabiting the con-
county, six miles from Pocono Manor. |
low, nervous hush fell upon the The tract. inoin thant ease oe ob rikisha coolies who swarm Tientsin | fines of Boston with customs, but no |= ~~ — -
crowd. No flutter: No -applause. e tract is-in the heart of the re- | greets seeking a precarious living. | manners,” us the great lexicographer | ¢% ¢% ¢% ¢% 6% ¢% 6% 6% 6% 206% 6% 6% 670 670 6% 670 0% 6% 670670 6% 620 670 0 %0 6
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A kind of shock. Here, they subtly Bory Section and is drained by sever-| rust winter hundreds of them spent | defined them—had at least mo man. | 3°® ¢ ¢ ¢OTECHTLS YY ry YY
felt, was a man showing signs of a 5 rout streams, | days on the bitter cold streets with- | ners, and that is all right. “How for- 9’
The second tract purchased com-
9,00,
deep, terrible strain. A depression ; " tol in “ Tare IN tra ate” sai Prone Ce \ * ee
owed PO foncral arity, At | prizes 2867 acres and is located in out picking up a Tare. Now there ire tunate, said the French ambassador | 0, ® e
3 Aint iT Tioge ty. iH. 1 {les hardly enough rikishas to meet the of some Eve of Boston's Adamses, | o% °®
last the shrinking figure reached the | 11082 county 1s eleven miles ie American loath “that tl 3 : (3 ¢
end of his solitary march. He disap- | {rom Wellsboro and eight from Mans- | demand. And the American leather . “that that young lady has no man- oo NS
peared within a car. Flanked by of- | field. neck or doughboy is not disposed to pers! Because, if she had man- $ 3
fiers, secret service men, he rode | The third tract, 3945 acres, is near argue about a few cents after the ners they would be bad.” Only in- op *
home, to the stiff sanctuary of the Monroe, Bradford county. Two good Chinese fashion; hence new prosper deed, that Boston's Adamses have no | ¢% %®
White House. He stretched himself ig Steams have their sources on ity for the rikisha boy. Eve. Eve is not a Boston type, any 3 oo
uneasily between the wide presiden- | the tract. i John V. A. MacMurray. American | more than Astarte.—F. J. Stimson ip ©
Be Sets. He fell Iie Santings fit- pareane oF the land yas pads minister, expressed official praise = Scribner's Magazine. ole s*
ul, solitary sleep. . . . Then, after a | POSS y the Increase in hunters . ; t on in Tient- | %*
lonely, en respite from the license fees, authorized by the last i : a pt i ; . x ANOTHER SHIP MENT OF oo
Presidential Plan, he rose again, next | se3sion or fhe General Ajsenly, | toward that better understanding | Gives View of Sea Bed ot S
ei, ai - e three tracts wi e £ £ Bes ! o
“I do not choose to run.” That! Later, in accordance with the policy | velop in China.” | 31 iy unnecessary fn send a Qiicr Gann oly *o
is all. - #1 do not choose to run.” Do of the commission, game refuges | ——————————————— i simply to find an object, for the ved ee : °®
not smile. Do not bandy this terse | May be established in the center of | ik Fi LE id - | of the sea can be seen quite well with $ : &
phase about. Here is a vital, a re- | €ach, using less than one fifth of the ' Millikan Finds Evidence the aid of a submarine telescope. It op 3
vealing sentence, summoned desper- | total area for that purpose. of Continued Evolution | is called the “Catoptric tube.” Ld Tt
ately from a man’s great need for Calif —~ Discovery of evi: | In appearance this tube is similax oe oe
Rest—for Peace—for Privacy, with- Rel Bstate Trash ;.P Bn Li 8 afion 1s | 10 an ordinary large telescope, but it | °¢ oe
out which no sensitive human being. ale nsters. | dence that y i proses ot Sl the | Das lugs attached to it, to which oo PRICED :
say re, Rn Jig: to ators sre B, Witton: fo Chllis Laird, Loins ie i ama topes can be attached for keeping it oo *
1 8 . hom | et ux, tract in Port Matilda; $2,375. | , : ? vertical in the water. Sometimes, in- %®
i i 1i i oin 5 TEL eT Tl
Dy ST Ya i ke g Morice Miler 2h u% do $ N. B. | Io = biti Steal) of Ds 2 Panny oe This & : 3
incalculable recreations. Men like | PP2NgI€T, tract in belietonte; ol. bd s announced here recently b Diee : Down as J od. ™ 50
Wilson, with his sense of anointed | N- B. Spangler, et ux, to Maurice | BR A. Millikan, noted fd “Catoptric tube” is very often used & @ 5
consecration. Men like Cleveland, | Miller, et ux, tract in Bellefonte; $1. Het § ih in recovering small articles of value | Jb, %°
Taft, Harding, with their friends,| Frederick P. Weaver, et ux, 0] Doctor Millikan's announcement, | [hat Dave been lost by dropping them | $ Se
fishing, solaces. But not, not Cqol- Clara T, Bateson, tract in State Col- sade at 4: meeting of the California in the sea from a pier or small boat. &
idge. Not that austere, frigid, shy |lege; $1. ; : :
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man from the meager soil of Ver- Clara T. Bateson, to Frederick P. Institute of Technology, said while his oo
wont, whose only change from work,
whose only variety from self-disci-
pline, whose one essential need on
earth would be, it seems to me, PRI-
VACY. :
“I do not choose to run.” Can you
conceive of the inarticulate strain,
eves, et ux, tract in State College;
Martha W. Way, et al, to Freder-
ick P. Way, tract in State College; $1.
William B. Strunk, to George B.
Vonada, et ux, tract in Walker Twp.;
experimen. had not been completed
and should not be taken as final, “we
may have some confidence in the
conclusion.”
The findings of Doctor Millikan in:
dicated the atoms which form oxygen,
silicon, magnesium and iron—the ele-
Common Sense or Brains
The judge of the Probate court was
trying to determine the intelligence of
Mamie Lee, a thirteen-year-old col-
ored girl, who had been considered
“not quite bright.” Pointing to the
woman who had brought Mamie into
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the unvoiced need, which lies back | $1-
of that small, fretful phrase? “I| Robert T. Hafer, et ux, to Albert E.
do not choose to run.” I Dare Say | Yougel, et ux, tract in State College;
he could say, instead, if he were at! $1.
court, the judge said:
“Mamie, if Mrs. Garrick weighs 16%
pounds, standing om both feet, how
ments whick make up about 95 per
cent of the mass of meteorites and a
similar proportion of the earth—are
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all spectacular, “I do not choose to being constantly created in the | much does she weigh standing on one
oa 2 | St Fh us, 52 Agr heavens and shot with terrific speed | foot?” &
For over six years this reserved |lege; $1. ? : into the body of this planet. Mamie eyed the judge suspiciously, oe
and, I think, frail man, has yielded The cosmic rays are held to be en | and replied: “Ddes you Want me to
: : ; Thomas Anderson, et ux, to John . &
himself up as an effigy of presidential Li . | ergy which escapes in the process of | use my common sense, or does you | O& d the money.
power. He has tried with all his hon- Pepe o} ux, frock in Rush. Tops formation of these atoms, want to see if I can divide by two?’— | o% The maker neede y oe
est if inexpresive soul to serve his
country. Whatever pomp and cere-
mony, whatever public gesture has
been demanded of him, he has sub-
True Story Magazine.
dy,
John M. Hartswick, to Zora Klain,
tract in State College; $950.
Lloyd R. Smith, et ux, to J. Forest
Not a suit in the lot that you can
duplicate under thirty dollars. Many
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The Arts and Religion
mitted his eniien) forts to supply: Bible, tract in Potter Twp.; $500. Hen Earns Twice as Drea Scams to have cotng froil To. op > e >
Visitors hand-shakings, pictures, Hi TO _
eternal public appearances, all the Cigaret Output Declines in Year. Much as Stenographer Agony nial Ee un s of them worth all of thirty ve &
empty acrobatics of state, he has sub- Cebit Vancouver. — Maizie, the ties 1 ined p i * 3S
seribed to, albeit his innate reserve Pennsylvania manufacturers turned world’s champion hen, made Euripides it remained a sacred thing *.0 dollars. s*
must have Binched before their exac- | out Spe of 2150,817,2% Sigarety twice as much money laying 8 Athens 1 A om fhe oo oo
tions like a slave before a scourge. in , according to compliation o r . 4 y LG- ’
He could, he did, change the So made by the bureau of statistics in Dew iv yr gan in the Mass and in the pious pa- & These won t last long. Come s*
ner of his living; he cannot change | the Pennsylvania Department of In- stenographer reaps annually for rades which pictured for the medieval oo . oe
the essence of his being. He can | ternal Affairs. The production show- beating out letters op th y mind the life and death of Christ. | $ qt once and profit by this wonder- RA
whip himeels into austere dignities ol a Selling off from 1926 When Sly iii e.1yp Sculpture found a new splendor in the oe S
of state; he can not yield to their | 660,3 were made by the varicus . ; .
more amiable distractions. ~ Atten- | cizaret plants in the Commonwealth. Farnings of the famous White A any an is ful opportunity. oe
tions embarrass him. Ostentations| The value of Pennsylvania-made Leghorn pullet totaled $2,225 for inspiration of Christianity. —Will Du- *s
confuse him. Ceremonies irk him. |cigarets in 1927 was $17,854,706, 1927, according to Prof. BE. A. » in Cosmopolitad ! NY ’ %°
He can not seek sanctuary in the | while in 1926 the value was $20,027, Lloyd of the university. Of this Pans or & IT S AT **
gracious amenities of social inter- (400. The cigaret industry in 1927 total, the proceeds from hatch: KX %
course; even leisure is, to him, but | gave employment to 799 workers or ing eggs represented $925, while Another Beatitude! 4.0 s
an embarrassing, torturous necessity. | sixteen less than during the preced- the sale of breeding stock, which «Blessed be the man who really | o% o = J
x Some 20d a Jas jing Jeor were progeny of the hen, brought loves flowers—loves them for their | 4% F A U B ¥ be - ? = **
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lie DE ctions of each presidential | On the basis of price of apples and 51,200, Maizie broke all records own sakes, for their beauty, their as- < vy oe
§ faii p f app in 1926 by laying 851 eggs In a sociations, the joy they have given ik $
day. And now we are asking him | yields from an acre during the past 265-day test ’ 30 3 : oo
to stretch the years to 10. Ten years five years, the best returns have come | ¥ ™ ¥itost 2 aways will give."—Henry Ward * re uu abe Verh Gaile stadt 2s %04% o%.4% o% 004% 2
as President. Look at him. Look at from Northern Spys, Greenings, | DEHHHHEHHEIHHHEI AHHH | Cocoon OOOO OODE DIE DE DOE OI ICI 009069 06946996709 26% 967 %% 97 %°
him closely. In six years he is a Kings and Baldwins.
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