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Women Drivers Make
Bellefonte, Pa, August 17, 1928.
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A SLIP OF THE KNIFE.
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when his heart was revealed to me.”
“I understand now what you meant
about mysteries,” I said.
“I lost Drenmere, of course, from
that moment. I lost her. The boy
had died under my knife, as it were.
She couldn’t bear me near her after
that. And then—I had told. There
was nothing for it but to disappear.
The scandal was immense. But I
might have faced even the irony of
my own profession. What really sent
me here? 1 sometimes ask myself.”
“And what is the answer?” I said.
“Perhaps it is this—because I told,
couldn’t act a lie any more. So—we
are!”
“Lady Drenmere’s dead, isn’t she?”
“Yes. She died three years ago.
She was still with him. He didn’t
leave her. And she never tried to get
away from him. They stuck together
in the ruins.”
«] quite understand your life now,”
I said. 1
And when I left him that evening
I said: “I hope you'll allow me to call
you my friend.”
We were friends till Laton died two
years ago. He died at the bungalow
of an apoplectic stroke. That pur-
plish hue I had noticed in his face was
an indication that something was
wrong with him.
I don’t think he was sorry to go.—
From Hearst’s International Cosmo-
politan.—By Robert Highens.
Scientist Sees Machine World Coming
Triumph.
Visions of the time when the world
will be a modern Utopia driven by
machinery were unfolded by Pro-
fessor F. W. Burstall, Professor of
Mechanical Engineering in the stu-
dent’s meeting at Oxford.
Professor Burstall predicted the
day will come when the man will tri-
umph over work, when manual work-
ers will toil only five hours a day,
and when domestic service will be a
thing of the past.
“Man is always greater than ma-
chine,” he said. “Mankind will nev-
er in any circumstances allow itself
to be mastered by mere blind mechan-
ism, as some modern schools of
thought have prophesied.
«Laziness is the reason for all the
remarkable mechanical developments.
The human frame is quite incapable
of any serious labor. Humanity has
been struggling to provide other
means of doing the work which it
wants to do, and that is the bottom
of the idea of the mechanical work-
er or Robot. The human is not really
a working agent at all; it is really a
directing mechanism.
“Domestic service is going to be
non-existant in the future. I look
forward to seeing ‘a comparatively
simple form of dwelling, warmed and
lighted as they are today, provided
probably with clear, purified air, and
with such simplicity that it will only
be a matter of a few moments to re-
move the dirt and other substances
which we bring in during the day.
“Science is going to cut down the
hours of labor. I venture to think
that within a generation hard manual
labor will be reduced to five or six
hours daily. This is sure to come.
“Science is going to put into our
hands the possibility of a heaven up-
on earth. There are no limits to
what. we can do, but I venture to
think that unless the human makes
up its mind which way it wants to
go, then instead of being pleasant this
will be a curse.”
In Professor Burstall’s opinion,
once labor has been cut down to the
minimum, there will be more time for
amusement, with the result that a
definite and systematic instruction to
amusement and leisure will have to
be prepared.
In this modern Utopia of his, the
roads will be built so that the auto-
mobile traffic will be able to proceed
at speeds of 70 to 80 miles an hour,
and the pedestrian will have his own
road so that he can walk about with-
out fear of being knocked down.
Asks Farmers to Help Game.
Officers of the State Game Com-
mission today appealed to the farm-
ers to permit some cover to remain
for game birds and animals during
the late summer cleanup of weeds and
brush.
Earlier in the season the Commis-
sion offered the assistance of its game
protector in the protection of game
against machines and reapers. Usual-
ly, it was said, the nests of partridges
and pheasants are abandoned if ex-
posed by the cutting of hay or grain.
Several instances were reported where
game protectors obtained the eggs
and placed them under hatching hens
for incubation.
Although taking cognizance of the
desire of the average farmer to keep
his fields clear of brush and weeds,
officers of the Commission said that
on most farms there are patches of
brush which afford natural protection
to birds and game and which do not
detract from the value of cleared
fields if allowed to stand.
Penn’a Has Most Auto Dealers in
Nation.
About $10,500,000 will be refund-
ed to 53,125 automobile dealers as a
result of the elimination of the 3
per cent. automotive excise tax which
went into effect May 29, according
to figures of the American Mo-
torists’ Association.
Pennsylvania, with 4,085 has the
largest number of automobile deal-
ers of any State. Other leading
States are New York 4,000, Ohio
2,394, Illinois 3,329, California 2,504,
Wisconsin 2,381 and Michigan 2,227.
In addition to the 53,125 dealers
in the country, there are about 90,-
000 service stations and repair shops.
——
—Buying feed right is the first
step toward making a dairy pay.
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VINA DELMAR
Author of “Bad Girl”
On June 13, at Atlantic City Speedway, a fully equipped Studebaker
by women, traveled 500 miles in 388 consecutive minutes,
hour.
The large illustration shows The Commander circling
maintaining an
the track
of the women who drove this and other Studebaker cars at the speedway.
PENNSYLVANIA CITIES
PAY GOOD SALARIES.
Only four of the forty-one third-
class cities of Pennsylvania pay the
maximum salary allowed for the may-
or of such cities, according to a sal-
ary survey just completed by the
bureau of municipalities of the Penn-
sylvania department of internal af-
fairs. The maximum salary permit-
ted by law is $5,250 per annum and
mayors of Erie, Allentown, Wilkes-
Barre and Harrisburg are receiving
that amount. In Bethlehem and Lan-
caster $5,000 is paid while in Read-
ing the salary is $4800. The cities
of Johnstown, Chester, York, Mc-
Keesport and Easton pay $3500, while
New Castle pays $3600. A salary of
$3000 is paid in Altoona, the mayor
of Williamsport is paid $2500 and
Butler's mayor receives $2000. Un-
iontown pays $2400, while Hazleton,
Pottsville and Coatsville have fixed
the salary at $1800. The lowest sal-
aries are paid in Titusville, Monon-
gahela, Franklin and Connellsville. In
these cities the salary is $500, the
minimum permitted under the Third
Class act. Salaries paid in the other
cities range from $500 to $1500.
Members of council in Erie, Allen-
town, Wilkes-Barre and Harrisburg
likewise receive the maximum of $4,
500 allowed by law. The minimum,
$300, is paid in Franklin, DuBois,
Monongahela, Lock Haven and Titus-
ville, Reading pays $4,200 to council-
men in that city and Lancaster coun-
cilmen receive $4,000. The pay in
Bethlehem is $3600 and in Johnstown,
Altoona, Chester and McKeesport the
salary of a city commission is $3000.
Two councilmen in New Castle re-
ceive $3000 while the other two are
paid $2000. In Easton two members
of council are paid $3000 while the
other two commissioners receive $2,-
100. Butler pays its commissioners
$1600, while’ the salaries of commis-
sioners in all the other cities carry
from $1200 down to $450, two com-
missioners in Conellsville receiving
that amount, while two others are in
the $300 class.
Only a dozen city treasurers are
paid fixed salaries without addition-
al emoluments. In all of the other
cities a salary is fixed for the city
treasurer, but he is allowed commis-
sions on collections. York and Leb-
anon pay only $50 a year to the city
treasurer, but he is allowed commis-
sions. In Johnstown a salary of $60
a year is allowed and commissions.
The highest salary paid where com-
missions are not allowed is Altoona,
the city treasurer there receiving
$6000. Allentown and Chester each
pay $5000 with no commissions per-
mitted. The highest paid city treas-
urer who is likewise given commis-
sions on collections is in Duquesne
where the salary alone is fixed at $2,-
400. The next highest is in Lancas-
ter, where a salary of $2000 is fixed
and commissions are allowed to in-
crease the figure.
Whiteface mountain is the site
for a monument to be illuminated
by an eternal perpendicular flame in
memory of New York state soldiers
who died in the World War. White-
face mountain lies near the head of
Lake Placid. The plan to erect a
granite shaft at its summit topped by
an acetylene light, which will be vis-
ible for a radius of 125 miles. The
radius will include Montreal and
numerous resorts in Vermont, New
Hampgure, southern Quebec, as well
as ew York State. The beauty
spots from the site of this proposed
memorial include 656 bodies of water,
among them Lake Placid, the largest
lake of its altitude east of the Rocky
mountains;the St. Lawrence river,
Saranac lake, the St. Regis chain,
the Ausable river and Lake Cham-
plain. The eternal flame idea is
patterned after the light in the Arc
de Triomphe in Paris. The memori-
al includes the construction of a mo-
for road of sevenmiles to the moun-
ain.
Teacher: “Can anyone tell what
causes trees to become petrified 7”
Bright Student. “The wind makes
them rock.”—Chicago Tribune.
HOW TO SOLVE A
Thus No. 1 under the column headed *
the white sprees up to the first black
w“yerticnl” defines a word which will fil
below.
CROSS-WORD
Horizontal.
1—Any workman in general
5-—Hastens
9—Chicken
{2—Keenly observant
14—Companion
15—Swedish boy's name
16—A continued story
18—A fight
20—Turns down
22—Colorless liquid
23—Native metals
25—Pedal digit
27— Writing implement
28—Aeriform fluid
29-—To talk with an impediment in
the speech
32—Right (abbr.)
33—Pastry
34-—Auditory organ
35—To exist
36—Things which horrify
38—Fish eggs
39—To plant seed
40—Chinese coin
41—Young deer
42—Fathers
44—Swift
46—Fear
48—Anything which lines
51—Self
52—Mist
54—To follow
55—Prefix meaning through
56—Small particle
57—Noah’s eldest son
When the correct letters are placed im the white spaces
spell words both vertically and horizontally.
indicated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the pussle.
No letters go in the black spaces.
except proper names. Abbreviations, slang, initinis,
lete forms are indicated im the definitions.
(©, 1926, Western Newspaper Union.)
Commander Roadster, driven entirely
average speed of 77.21 miles per
at an 80-mile clip. Insets show four
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
this pusale will
The first letter in each word fis
horizontal” defines a word which will fll
square to the right, and a number under
1 the white squares to the mext black one
All words used are dictionary words,
technical terms and obso-
PUZZLE No. 1.
9
5
20
Vertical.
1—Possesses
2—Beerlike beverage
3—An attack of nervousness
4—Becomes arid
6—Skyward
7—To grab
8—Sliced cabbage served as salad
9—Warmer
10—Girl’s name
11—Never (poetic)
13—To make a kind of lace
17—A game of chance
19—A candle
21—An old French coin
23—A giant
24—Rodent
26—Everlasting
29—Man’s title
30—A drinking cup (Scot. obs.)
31—Sharp
33—Ability
35—To bend the body
36—Singular of 36 horizontal
37—Over (poetic)
38—A vegetable
39—Prolonged attack
41—Natives of Finland
42—Part of a stairway
43—A divan
45—A pastry
47—To decay
49—New (archaic spelling)
50—A jewel
53—To proceed
Solution will appear in next issue.
How to Qualify for November Elec-
tion.
Qualifying voters in order that
they can participate in the Presiden-
tial election on Tuesday, November
6, is just now the principal objective
of the leaders of the several political
parties in Pennsylvania.
All personal registrations of vot-
ers residing in any of the cities of
the State are void.
No resident of any city of the Com-
monwealth can cast a ballot next No-
vember unless he or she shall person-
ally register this fall.
There are three days upon which
registrars will sit at their respective
polling places to qualify voters who
present themselves to be registered.
They at the same time can be enroll-
ed as members of the political party
to which they claim allegiance, re-
spectively.
One of the qualifications for vot-
ing is that a citizen shall have paid
a State or county tax within two
years.
No tax receipts dated later than
November 7, 1926, can be used to
qualify a voter for next November's
election.
In order to purchase a poll tax,
a citizen must have his name on an
assessor's list.
The last opportunities for citizens
to get their names on the assessors’
lists will be Tuesday, September 4,
| and Wedneday, September 5, when
assessors are obliged to sit at their
respective polling places for that pur-
pose.
Saturday, October 6, is the last day
upon which poll tax receipts can be
issued to qualify for voting on No-
vember 6 next.
In all cities of the State registrars
will sit at their respective polling
places to register voters on these
days:
First Registration Day—Thursday,
September 6.
Second Registration Day—Tuesday,
September 18.
Third Registration Day—Saturday,
October 6. :
——Subscribe for the Watchman.
Grange Encampment and Fair
EGINING August 25th Centre Hall, will
be crowded with men and women inter-
ested in the most important business on earth,
the business of Farming. Both as a social :
and educational event this annual gathering
has much value. Farming has become as
scientific as other professions and a proper
social life on the farm, through modern in-
vention, is now being realized.
The First. National Bank
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Another Vacation Time
NOTHER vacation time is here
— and what a pleasant time
you can make it if you so de-
sire. How satisfactory it is to be well
supplied with funds. - Prepare now
for the vacation just ahead. Open an
account with the First National Bank.
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ON ALL
+ Wearables
Straw Hats at 4 price.
Palm Beach, Mohair and Zefirette Suits
at ¥4 off the regular price.
These prices will be in {force for
10 Days Only
You will find this a wonderful oppor-
tunity to save.
It’s at Fauble’s