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SMITH HAD MOST
DEMOCRATIC VOTES EVER.
Hoover’s Plurality Not as Large as
That of Coolidge. Final Count
in All the States.
Herbert Hoover's plurality over
Governor Smith in the November elec-
tion was 6,423,612.
Figures gathered by the Associated
Press from the election officials of the
forty-eight States show these totals:
Hoover—21,429,109.
Smith—15,005,497.
The total vote cast, the largest in
the history of the United States, was
36,798,669. >
The votes not accounted for in the
Hoover and Smith columns went to
minor parties. Norman Thomas, the
Socialist candidate, received the ma-
jority of these votes, polling 267,835.
Foster, Workers Party candidate, got
48,228, and Reynolds, Socialist-Labor,
21,181. Varney, Prohibitionist candi-
date got almost as many as Reynolds
—20,101—and Webb, Farmer Labor,
6391.
Mz. Hoover's plurality did not reach
the figures registered for President
Coolidge in 1924, although the for-
mer Secretary of Commerce polled a
much larger vote.
In that year Mr. Coolidge received
15,725,016 votes, giving him a lead of
7,338,513 over John W. Davis, Demo-
cratic nominee. The La Follette-
Wheeler independent ticket, however,
had 4,822,856 votes.
Hoover carried forty States, as
against thirty-seven carried by Pres-
dent Coolidge four years ago. Penn-
sylvania gave him his largest major-
ity, 987,796, while Governor Smith’s
largest plurality was in Louisiana,
where he had a lead of 113,495.
While overwhelmed beth in the popu-
lar vote and in the electoral college,
Governor Smith's total was more than
6,000,000 higher thsn the 8,386,503
cast for Mr. Davis in 1924.
Mr. Hoover's vote was higher in
every State than that of Mr. Coolidge
four years ago, with the exception of
Rhode Island. This held true in Presi-
dent Coolidge’s home State of Massa-
chusetts, which was carried by Gover-
nor Smith. The Governoi’s total was
less than the Democratic figures of
four years ago in New Mexico, Ten-
nessee and Texas, notwithstanding
the large increase in the number of
ballots cast.
The Hoover column shows he re-
ceived more than a million votes in
five States—California, Illinois, New
York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Gov-
ernor Smith reached the million mark
in Illinois, New York and Pennsylva-
nia,” :
HOOVER GAINED IN SOUTH.
States of the once Solid South re-
corded 3,004,145 votes for the two
major party candidates, almost a mil-
lion less than cast in New York State
for Mr. Hoover and Governor Smith.
Hoover polled 1,406,483 of these
and Smith 1,597,657 in Alabama, Ar-
kansas, Florida, Geargia. Louisiana,
Mississippi, South Carclina, all of
which States had sunnorted Demoecra-
tic presidential candidates since re-
construction days until the 1928 elec-
tion.
Mr. Hoover's Southern vote was
more than double that of My. Cool-
idge four years ago and almost twice
the combined fizures for the Presi-
dent and Senator T.a Follatte that
year. It came within 91.000 votes of
equaling Mr. Davis’ total in the same
territory.
The vote of 36.793.669 showed a
bio jump over the fieures for 1924,
when 29,091.417 persons east ballots
in the presidential race. This increase
was esnecially reflected in the Sonth——
Alahama, as an examnla, reardino
248.981 ballots as acainst 188.593 four
vars ago. Other States in various
sections showed a similar result.
The increase for the Natinn as a
whole over 1924 was clichtlv more
than 25 per cent. In the Sonth the
fionres were apnroximstelv 23% par
cent higher than they were four years
ago.
——— eee
Electrification of Farms Increases.
Experiments in farm electrification
which have been carried on in seven-
teon States are commencing to show
results in the increasing number of
farms fitted for nsing electricity for
miscellaneous worl, comments the
Penns: nia Public Service Informa-
tion committee.
At the end of 1926 a snyvey show-
ed that approximately 227,500 farms
in 27 States were supplied with elec-
trie service, as compared with 122,000
in 1923, an increase of 85. per cent.
The rerort of the Rural Wlectric Serv-
ice committee of the National Elec-
trie Light Association for 1927 shows
that an additional 21,217 farms had
been connected during the vear.
Fxneriments conducted in the var-
ious States have develoned manv uses
for electricity on the farm which re-
sult not only in greater convenience
to the farmer, but in a very direct
savine in labor and the cost of hired
heln,
The number of farms renorted
above refers to actnel farms located
in roral districts, and does not take
into acrount the verv laros nimher of
small farms or timek gardens located
in snhnrhan distriets where electrical
service has heen available and used
for many years.
Real Estate Transfers.
Horace G. Hunter. et vx, to Paul
W. Tonice, tract in Half Moon Twp.;
Wilmer C. Kerstetter. et al. to Am-
mon T. Rote. tract in Penn Twn.: $20.
R. H. Williams, et ux, to Gordon A.
Williams, et ux, tract in Worth Twp.;
$1. ’
E. M. Spear, et ux, to Samnel B.
Leitzell, tract in Bellefonte: $225.
S. W. Gramlev, et ux, to E. S.
Ripka, tract in Millheim; $300.
COST OF BOULDER DAM
TO BE 165 MILLION.
World’s Highest Water Wall Will
Curb Colorado River to Serve
Seven States.
One of the greatest rivers in the
world, the Colorado, will be harnessed
for flood control, irrigation, domestic
water supply and power development
under the Swing-Johnson bill which
completed a seven-year tortuous jour-
ney through Congress this week.
The measure authorizes, at a cost
of $165,000,000, the largest engineer-
ing project undertaken by the Gov-
ernment since the Panama Canal.
It contemplates erection of a 600-
foot dam, the highest in the world, at
either Boulder or Black Canyon, be-
tween Arizona and Nevada, to pro-
vide storage for 26,000,000 acre-feet
of water, regulate the flow of the riv-
er to eliminate the flood menace in the
fertile Imperial and Yuma Valleys,
cache domestic water for Los Angeles
and the Southern California coastal
plain, irrigate and lands in all seven
States in the river basin and generate
electric power sufficient to pay the
cost of the entire enterprise within
fifty years.
The project was btterly fought on
the ground it would “put the Govern-
ment into the power business.” As
it finally passed Congress it carries a
three way option under which the
Government may construct the power
plant, construct it and lease the
power at the switchboard or turn the
power privilege over to outside agen-
cies with States and municipalities
having first call and private enter-
prise coming next.
Senator Hiram W. Johnson and
Representative Phil D. Swing, both
Californians and authors of the pro-
ject, frankly stated in debate they
hope the Government will build and
operate the power plant. This was
haled by opponents as proving that
the whole thing is really a gigantic
public ownership project—an “open-
ing wedge.”
The bill divides the flow of the
river equally between the upper
basin, comprised of Colorado, Wyo-
ming, Utah and New Mexico, and
the lower-basin States of California,
Arizona and Nevada, with each basin
receiving 7,500,000-acre feet of water
per year, which they, in turn, are
to divide among themselves. The
upper-basin States already have
agreed on a split, but on the lower
group violent dissension has existed
between California and Arizona, and
a compromise finally was worked out,
giving California 4,400,000-acre fect
and Arizona 2,300,000. In addition,
Arizona is allowed exclusive use of
the waters of the Gila, within her
boundaries, but a tributary to the
Colorado, which yields 8,500,000-acre
feet.
No notice to Mexico as to the
amount of water that country may
be entitled to in the future was car-
ried in the measure, although
strongly urged by engineers.
Los Angeles plans to construct a
$150,000,000 aqueduct to obtain wa-
ter from the dam for domestic use.
The Southern California metropolis
also is expected to supply the market
for power, and the anticipation is this
city ultimately will guarantee the
entire project by giving the Secre-
tary of the Interior the contracts he
must have in hand before work can
proceed.
Arizona, which fought the project
stubbornly and prevented action
through several sessions of Congress,
has obtained valuable concessions, but
the possibility remains she may go
into the courts to prevent the im-
provement which, her officials still
contend, violates her sovereign rights
as a State.
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The New Ford Lock Foils Thieves.
Cne of the features of the new
Model A Ford car which is typical of
the care that has been devoted to de-
tails of design, is the theft-proof ig-
nition lock with which it is equipped.
Many automobile ignition locks,
designed to lock the switch against
tha clever thief with some knowledge
of automobile ignition systems. The
thief could simply reach behind the
instrument board, cut the wires back
of the switch and make a new circuit
on which the ignition system would
operate perfectly.
This cannot be done on the new
Tord, because the wires run direct
from the switch into an armored con-
duit which is integral with the dash.
in order to tamper with the switch
the thief would either have to take
the instrament board to pieces or cut
the steel dash or armored conduit.
xcept under the most extraordinary
circumstances, no thief would have
the tcols, the time or the freedom
from possible interruption necessary
to the completion of such a difficult
and tedious task.
This new Ford lock performs two
operations at once. It opens the ig-
nition circuit and grounds the distrib-
utor at the same time. Another ad-
vantage is that, being concerned en-
tirely with the ignition system, it
provides protection against theft
without in any manner interfering
with the mechanical car controls,
such as transmission or steering.
mee fees.
Fido Can’t Run in 1929 Without Tags.
More than 550.000 dog license tags
have been sent to the county treas-
urers throughout the Commonwealth
and are now available to dog owners,
according to the Pennsylvania Bureau
of Animal Industry.
“The Pennsylvania dog law re-
quires that 1929 licenses be on all
dogs by January 15. No extra time
allowed. After that date it is just
as much a violation of the law to al-
low a dog to be without a 1929 license
as it would be to run an automobile
without a new license on or after
January 1,” a bureau statement said.
——The seventh annual dinner and
dance of office employees of the Amer-
ican Lime and Stone Co., will be
held at the Nittany Country club Sat-
urday evening, January 26.
Poel’s Lyric Tribute
to Queen of Beauty
Julian Hawthorne saw a gieat deal
of Joaquin Mijler, the “Poet of the
Sierras,” when both were living in
London years ago, a writer in the.
Kansas City Times tells us. Once at
a garden party at which Lillie Lang-
try—then in the first bloom of her
beauty—was the center of attraction,
Hawthorne introduced the poet to the
ravishing Jersey Lily.
“I left them talking prospercusly,”
relates Hawthorne in his reminis-
cences, “Shapes That Pass,” “but Joa-
quin came hastening after me in a
few moments,
“ ‘Have you got a bit of paper? he
asked. ‘I have a pencil; she wants
me to write her a lyric.’
“I found an old envelope In my
socket,” adds Julian, “he seized it, and,
squatted down on the turf, where [
feft him scribbling and went back to
keep Lillie till he was ready. It
seemed hardly five minutes before he
came stalking toward us smiling in his
yellow beard and waving the ep
velope.”
And here is the lyric. Hawthorne
says he does not think it has been in
print till now:
if all God's earth a garden were,
And all the women flowers,
And I a bee that buzzed there
Through all the summer hours,
Oh, I would buzz the garden through
For honey-—till I came to you!
Folklore Legends That
Have Many Believers
Curious old customs, legends and
superstitions still existing in the Brit-
ish isles were recalled at a congress
of the British Folklore society. For
example, one speaker told the con-
gress that there still is a belief in the
Isle of Man that the cats of the island
have a king of their own. During the
day the “king” lives the life of an
ordinary house cat, At night he as-
sumes his royal attributes and travels
about in regal state. It is dangerous
for a houccholder with whom he lives
to treat the “king cat” unkindly. Cats
are further believed to be on intimate
terms with fairies and other invisible
inhabitants of the world of mystery.
The cat is the only member of tha
household allowed to remain in the
kitchen when the fairies enter to
warm themselves after the human resl-
dents have gone to bed. Again, larg
black dogs with flaming eyes are sup-
posed to roam the island at night, The
best way to pursue a witch is to chase
her with a greyhound having not a
single black hair. An old Manx law is
to the effect that any Manxman might
kill a Scotsman provided that the
Manxman must go to Scotland and
bring back two goats to keep the vic-
tim’s ghost away.—Pierre Van Paas-
sen, in the Atlanta Constitution,
Bird “Alarm Clocks.”
Living alarm clocks are quite the,
thing In Liberia. The little pepper
bird takes it upon himself to wake up
the Liberians every morning.
Pos-
sibly the bird is aware that the na-
tives cannot have the. regular sort of
alarm
clocks because the climate |
takes all the alarm out of them—and
life, too.
The pepper bird simply cannot stay
ters to the housetops, fences and
neighboring trees uttering his shrill,
excited calls, which have come to
mean “Get up.” The natives, and the
whites as well, can count on him, for
he has been found to be dependable.
He has been timed and checked, and
it was found that his waking cries did
not vary more than three minutes
from day to day. During the hot part
of the day the bird disappears in the
woods.—Pathfinder Magazine.
Pineapple at Its Best.
Travelers in Costa Rica love to tell
of the delight afforded in partaking
nt the pineapple grown in that coun-
try, and of the novel way of serving
it at the table. Servants have devel-
oped unusual skill in paring the rind
leaving the entire heart of the fruit
for the diner. It is served in a wide
and deep plate, a fork is stuck in to
Lold it in place, a spoon then enables
the diner to dip out the abundant
fruit goodness and enjoy it at leisure,
The fruit is overflowing with Juice,
delicate and refreshing, as the fruit
vipens naturally while on the tree —
1}. Venning,
Puzzling!
A boy entered a busy dry goods
store and asked for “Half a yard of
devil.”
He persisted in his request, explain-
mg that it was to match his granny's
dress.
Still he was not understood. Then
he said, suddenly, “That man over
there is serving what granny wants.”
“Oh, it's black sateen you want,”
said the clerk.
“Yes, sir, it’s black satan,” replied
che boy. “I knew the chap had two
names, but I didn't happen to remem-
hor the one the stuff is called after.”
At the Training Camp.
The recruit had hurried off to the
drill grounds without his rifle. Some
of the other rookies would be along
soon, 80 stepping into a canteen he
telephoned his company sergeant to
have one of the boys bring it along,
“What's that you forgot?” asked
ha sergeant.
“My gun.”
“Your what?”
“My gun. You know, G-U-N, @ ag
~ Jerusalem, U as in Europe, N ag
in pneumatic.”
I eco warehouse.
First Ceorge Seen as
Disgrace to Royalty
When the devil was asked how niany
monarchs he had in his keeping, the
legend has it he replied, “All that ever
reigned.” It is certain that during
the reign of George I there were many
Englishmen who heartily consigned
their monarch to the nether regions
but even at his death it is unlikely he
obliged them because he had never
really reigned.
His court, however, was one of the
worst that ever afflicted Great Britain.
The German courts whence he came
had taken their tore from the
profligacy of Versailles and George
Louis was too heavy minded to be an
exception. All was coarse and vulzar
around his throne and the attendants
and mistresses he brought along with
him scught to make their fortune out
of the nation upon which he had beer
foisted.
George could not even speak Eng-
lish, nor could his ministers speak
German. So the king absented him-
self from cabinet meetings and let the
nation run itself while he pursued his
own pleasures. One of his amuse-
ments between vices was (o sit on the
floor and cut out paper doliz.
If the king liked anybody, man or
woman, they could have anything they
wanted. Women were given appoint-
ments that belcnged only to men;
men utterly unfitted were given posi-
tions of great responsibility. Certain
infants at birth were made coronets
or ensigns in the army and received
pay up to a marriageable age. He
died in 1727.—Detroit News.
Sheep First Uzed for
Transfusion of Blood]
The first transfusion of blood to a
Lkuman being took place November 23,
1667, at a meeting of the Royal so-
ciety in London. A silver tube was
used to connect the carotid vein of a
sheep with a vein in the subject's
arm. Samuel Pepys, famous diarist,
was among those present and he de-
scribes the patient as “a poor and de-
bauched man that the college had
hired for 20 shillings to have some of
the blcod of a sheep let into his body
. their purpose to let in about 12
ounces, which they compute is what
wiil be let in in a minute's time by tha
watch.”
Dr. John A. Kolmer, in Hygeia Mag-
azine, quotes the transactions of the!
society for December 9, a week later,
which reported that “the man, after
this operation as well as in it, found
himself very well and hath given his
own narrative under his own hand en-
larging more upon the benefit he
thinks he hath received by it than we
think fit to own as yet.”
Mystery of Dollar Mark.
There are many theories as to the
origin of the dollar mark, but there is
‘not one which seeins to be thoroughly
satisfactory. It is popularly supposed
to be a conventional combination of
the letters U S, but there are some
which say that it is a sign made use of
by the ancient sun worshipers of Cen-
tral Asia, while another attributes it
to the bookkeeper of a Virginia tobac-
There are various
| other explanations, all of which have
still when the sun comes up. He flut-
been investigated by a university pro-
fessor who has given special study to
the subject, and his conclusion is that
the dollar mark as we know it is a
. direct descendant from the Spanish
abbreviations of PS for pesos, the
letters of which have been gradual-
ly combined and metamorphosed into
the present dollar mark. The P was
often made with two strokes, which
could very readily in the course of
time, become a U by making one
down stroke and continuing the line
upward.
Animals and Science.
Animals have not contributed solely
to the welfare of human beings, Dr.
John A. Kolmer points out in Hygeia
Magazine. The lower animals ave di-
rectly benefited by the advances in bi-
ologic therapy.
Tetanus antitoxin, for instance, is
often used to prevent tetanus in
wounded animals. Antianthrax serum
combats anthrax in sheep and cattle.
A serum for hog cholera is success-
fully employed by veterinarians. Dogs
are vaccinated against rabies. There
are-also serums for joint-ill of colts;
hemorrhagic septicemia of horses,
cattle, hogs and sheep; white scours
of hogs, cats, dogs and sheep; i fec-
tious abortion of cows, and rinGgerpest
of cattle.
Reserved Opinion.
The noncommittalness of the civil
servant is proverbial but this gem re-
corded by Lord Asquith takes the’
cake:
“It used to be said of one of the
most distinguished civil servants, Sir
Alfred Lyall, who was a poet to boot,
that even on such a topic as the
weather he would not go farther
than:
“‘I'm Inclined to guess that there
is a touch of east in the wind; but
of course you mustn't give me
away.’”
Gem From Doctor Johnsing,
Boswell was complaining that
wife wanted a new hat which
could not afford.
Boswell—S8ir, I told her to save
money by making the old hat over,
Doctor Johnsing—Why, sir, I tried
that on my wife once. Instead of
making the hat over she made the
roast over and I ate hash for six
days.—Louisville Courier-Journal
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Jurability of Slate \
Roofs Proved by Timi
Farly Britons lived in mud huis
nd the first real building that was
one in England was by the Saxens,
sho were 4s good builders as they
vere warriors. Finding forests in
ilenty, they proceeded to build wood-
n buildings and rocf them, at first
vith straw or reed thatch. Next slate,
eing found in considerable abundance
nd proving easy of cleavage, was en-
loyed and became the accepted rocf-
ng for ail buildings of importance.”
In Hartford-on-Avon there stiil
tands an old Saxon chapel covered
vith the slate roof that was put on
n the Eighth century. To this day:
hatch is used on peasants’ cottages,
yut slate has for centuries becn em-
loyed as roofing for the homes of the
rentry and for important public build-
ngs.
A British writer in 1602, writing of
he superior merits of slate as op-
poged to straw thatch, wrote that
slate was “in substance thinne, in
olor faire, In waight light and in last-
ing strong.” Today there is liitie
more that can be said of slate. Cen-
turics of use have proved its aston-
ishing durability. Thousands of beau-
tiful buildings throughout England
and Wales testify to its lasting charm’
and thousands of English type homes
in America show its appropriateness
in the consistently English style of
architecture.
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Aig Part Played by
Tempests in History |
The only time that great storms are
recorded in history is when they have
played an active part in the sea fichts
of the world. We all know of the
storm which wrecked the galleons of :
the Spanish armada after Dralie had |
harried them. And this is not the
only occasion on which Spain suffered
at the hands of the tempest.
After the renowned fizht of the Re-
vengze, in which Sir Richard Grenville
took on a Spanish fleet of 53 ships
single-handed and sank five of them,
a great storm sprang up. It wrecked
the remainder of the Spanish ships |
and the treasure fleet which they were
escorting, So the little Revenge was
mightily avenged.
in 1880 a hurricane was the means
of averting a possible war between Ger-
many and the United States. Warships
from each of the countries had been dis-
patched to the harbor of Apia, in Sa-
moa. Dut before anything like actual
hostilities broke out a cyclone swept
into the bay, and of all the ships col
lected there only the British warship.
Calliope survived. The blow was $0 / said the Field Marshall, “we know
stunning to the navies of the would-
be belligerents that they were brought
to reason and signed a treaty.—Lon-
don Answers.
Woman Knew Good Thing.
During the mining boom days in
Nevada a woman came to Virginia '
City from San Francisco and dis-
played a handful of stock certificates,
in the famous Comstock mines. She
said that she had been persvaded to,
buy them, at a few dollars a share,
and that she had been informed the
stock had now gone up to $600 a
share, Being informed that was the
price quoted she declared she wanted |
to sell. Buyers appeared so willing
even at that price that she becamea
suspicious and went out to see the
mines and mills. She knew nothing
about mining, but such was the activ-
ity and the prevalent atmosphere of
optimism that she turned to her son,
who accompanied her, and said, “It
will go to a thousand. Come on
home.”—Detroit News.
Speed of Falling Body.
An experiment was recently con-
ducted to determine how fast a man
falls when dropped from a gre:t
height. The velocity was found to be
considerably lower than that deducted
from the theory of falling bodies.
Were there no atmosphere,
would fall 16 feet the first
64 feet in two seconds; 246 feet in
four seconds; 1,024 fect in eight sce-
onds, ete, the distance increasing as
the square of the time. Due to tha re-
sistance of the alr, however, there
comes a time when the velocity is no
longer increased. This is known as |
the “terminal velocity” and was found
to be less than 200 miles an hour. It
was reached after the man (dummy)
had fallen 1.600 feet.
Glow Worm Still Puzzle.
Because it is to be found in the
grass and similar places the so-called i
glowworm is generally regarded as a |
worm, but it is really a beetle and
does not deserve the name it popu-
larly bears.
glow-producing insects, but the why
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New War Horrors Told to League
i The horrors appertaining to another
world war have been vividly pointed
out by Field Marshal Sir William
. Robertson in an address to the League
cf Nations Union.
“Should another great war occur,”
that the loss of life and waste of
| wealth will exceed by many times the
experiences of 1914-1918, while the
horrors which may be suffered by the
civil population from air attacks, com-
(bined with the use of new chemical
| Jebssanees would seem almost limit-
less.
! “The world will never know what
“it had to pay for the last war. Tak-
(ing the belligerents into account, the
‘direct money outlay seemed to have
(been nearly $200,000,000,000, while
| the indirect cost of such items as de-
. | struction of property and so forth
i may be put at not less than $150,000,-
D000: or some $350,000,000,000 in
all.
| “The loss of life was about 10,-
000,000 which was double that caused
‘by all the wars of the preceding 120
| years put together, and there were
probably not less than 20,000,000
wounded.”
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light, an end which they have sought
for years. There are various theories
about the purpose of their light, but
none is really satisfactory.
Where Tornadoes Occur.
Tornadoes seldom occur outside tha
United States. The Mississippi valley
reserves them mainly for itself, says
Nature Magazine. Texas, Oklahoma,
Kansas and Missouri run neck and
neck for funnel-cloud honors. Nebiras-
ka easily takes second place. Then
comes Mississippl, Alabama, Iowa, Illi-
nelg, the Dakotas and Minnesota. Out-
side this region the whirling cloud sel-
dom strikes. It is unknown in Calls
fornia. New England is never visited,
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at the
WATCHMAN OFFICE
There is no style of work, from the
cheapest “Dodger” to the finest
BOOK WORK
that we can not do in the most sat-
isfactory manner, and at Prices
consistent with the class of work.
Call on er communicate with this
office,