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Bellefonte, Pa., January 25, 1929.
STATE GAME COMMISSION
DEFENDS DOE KILLING.
Following is the report presented to
Governor John S. Fisher by the Board
of Game Commissioners on the 1928
Special Season for antlerless deer:
My Dear Governor Fisher:
The Board of Game Commission-
ers wish to submit the following re-
port on the 1928 deer season. This
season was for antlerless deer only—
our first such general season since
1907. Under the provision of Section
511 of the Game Code, this season
was declared a Special season and
those who hunted deer were required
to pay an additional two dollars spe-
cial license fee.
During the season 25,097 legal
and 1,593 illegal deer were taken.
Of the illegal animals 354 were fawn
does weighing under 50 Ibs., dressed.
A survey of the season has revealed
to us the following facts: :
First, that there was no such im-
mense slaughter of animals as we
expected. We feel. of course, that
not enough animals were removed to
remedy conditions; but there are many
hunters who thought they could ap-
proach a doe as easily as they could
a cow, who went home without even
having had a shot at a deer. Second,
that hunting accidents during this
season were few, only three men kill-
ed, and but twenty causalties among
the deer hunters, a remarkably good
record. Third, that young bucks are
not producing good antlers probably
as a result of over-abundance of ani-
mals and consequent lack of need for
sturdy implements of warfare. Fourth
that the breeding period is so upset
as a result of unbalanced sexes that
fawns are produced too late in the
season for them to compete with their
elders in securing food during the
winter. Fifth, that the kill of illegal
deer was not great, in fact propor-
tionately less than in the regular buck
season.
The Bureau of Animal Industry,
interested in the deer herd partly
because its presence in Pennsylvania
may mean the development of an
epidemic among our live stock, has
been cooperating in a Study of the
life history of these animals. In a
recent field investigation they found |
that an amazingly small number of |
does were carrying fawns, even
though the breeding season had sup-:
posedly terminated. This field study !
revealed also the fact that over-!
abundance of the animals is leading !
to poor development of antlers in!
young bucks which may mean a grad-
ual and dangerous lessening of hardi-
hood in the race.
We are attempting to manage
Pennsylvania’s wild-life in a scienti-
fic, business-like way. We feel that
if the sport of hunting is to continue,
our game must receive the same effi-
cient, intelligent handling that is
granted to our agricultural interests,
or to our forests. We believe it nec-
essary to reduce the deer herd to a
size cominensurate with its natural |
food supply; to bring into proper
balance the sexes; to relieve widely
property damage—in short, to so reg- i
ulate our deer population and to so
thoroughly understand the inter-re- |
lationships of the animals with other
wild life and with human beings as
to permit us to insure good deer
hunting for the coming decades.
We have found our deer dificult
to feed during winter wher food |
problems are acute. We beliove that
we can eventually produce more deer
with a relatively small herd which |
is constantly productive because the
sexes are properly balanced, than
with a large herd where there are too |
many does, where the food supply is |
not constant and where the animals !
are overcrowded. i
We are not forgetful of the fact
that Pennsylvania has won for her- |
self an enviable reputation as a game !
State. We are convinced that the |
continuation through the coming
years of good deer hunting in Penn- |
sylvania and the quality of the ani-.
mals taken will prove the efficiency of
the measures we have employed.
Respectfully yours,
ROSS L. LEFFLER,
President Board of Game Cominissioners.
Illegitimate Birth Rate 2.3 in State |
is Slight Increase.
During 1927, of the 210,360 live
births reported in Pennsylvania, 4915
were illegitimate, a check completed
today revealed. This is a rate of 2.3
per cent., and represents a slightly
higher number of such births than
has occurred in former years.
In Philadelphia the percentage was
2.8 and in Pittsburgh 3.6. The rural
areas average percentage was but 2.1.
While the statisties of illegitimacy
for this year by color and nativity
of mothers are not yet available, the
percentage of births out of wedlock
during 1926 indicated that they oc-
curred among foreign born whites at
a rate of 6 per cent.; colored, 9.5 per
cent., and native born white, 2.3 per
cent.
The most recent comparative sta-
tistics available show that among
States in the registration area Penn-
sylvania was only slightly lower
than the birth registration area as a
whole The highest percentage of
illegitimacy is found in the Southern
States, due to the colored population,
while the lowest ones were in the
States of Wyoming and Utah.
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Willie was dejectedly walking home
from school, and his woebegone ap-
perance attracted the attention of a
kind-hearted old lady.
“What is troubling you, my little
man?” she asked.
“Dyspepsia and rheumatism,”
plied Willie.
“Why, that’s absurb,” remarked the
old lady. ‘How can that be?’
‘Teacher kept me in after school be-
re-
cause I couldn't spell them,” was
Willie’s dismal answer.
Needlewomen in China
Ply Trade in Street
China is perhaps the only country in
the world where one may have his gar-
ments mended on the street while he
waits, In nearly all the chief cities of
the country native sewing women are
to be seen seated on low stools, per-
haps on the sidewalk, mending articles
of masculine wearing apparel.
The accomplishments of these street
seamstresses are somewhat limited,
thelr efforts with the needle being con-
fired, as a rule, to “running.” Other
branches of needlework are virtually
unknown to them. As a consequence
thelr efforts are better appreciated by
natives than by foreign travelers.
They are never short of patrons
among the Chinese tradesmen, for
these are often natives of other dis-
tricts, and having come to the city to
engage in business have no one to
mend a rent for them. Their wives
being left at home, they are glad to
employ the street needlewomen. For
this class of customers the skill of the
itinerant sewing woman answers every
purpose.
Objected to Viewing
What He Was Missing
Vincent Shean, traveling correspond:
ent for a number of magazines and 4
chain of newspapers, was commenting
on prison life in different countries.
“In China,” he says, “the tortures
meted out to culprits for various of-
fenses have made prompt execution
almost welcome. Indeed, the execu-
tioner is called ‘the messenger of
mercy. Yet, I sometimes wonder if
Oriental methods are not really more
kind than these of the so-called re-
formed penal institutions in America.
“Once, 1 was talking to a convict in
a large American city. I told him how
it was in China. “Then give me China,
instead of this, he declared. ‘Here 1
am, in for life, and once a week |
have to go Into the prison movie the-
ater and what do I see? Travel pic
tures!”
Masterpiece Ruined
There is a legend to the effect that
L.udo Vico II Moro, the husband of
Beatrice I'Estro, commissioned Leo-
nardo da Vinei to execute “The Last
Supper” on the walls of the refectory
of the convent of the Santa Mario
della Crazle, in Milan. The commis-
sion was given to the great artist al-
most in the sense of an expiation of
sin. Tt was occasioned by Ludo Vico's
orief over the death of his young
wife, whom he had treated unkindly.
The painting 1s now practically
wrecked, largely due to the fact that |
the artist was experimenting in the
media whieh he used. In Napoleon's
day a door was cut in the wall be-
neath the painting and a large por-
rion of thie center of the mural was
cpt away.
Rea!m of Thought
The term “trapscendentalism” is a
vague one which was applied to the
philosophy of the group of American
writers which centered about Con-
cord, Mass, between 1830 and 1880.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was the best
known of them, while Thoreau, Chan-
i ning, Alcott and Margaret Fuller were
other well-known members of the
i eircle. The transcendental philos: phy
might be briefly described as the be-
lief that man reaches his fullest de-
velopment by fixing his mind upon the
highest and noblest elements in life
and overlooking the mean and sordid
phases. “As a man thinks, so is he.”
The modern cult of the New Thought
derives much of iis doctrine from
transcendentalism.
Swearing “By the Swan”
From earliest times the swan has
neen held in highest veneration. Poets
have lyricised its grace and beauty,
religions have used it as a symbol of
both spirit and sex, painters have
found it a challenge to their best
efforts, and in England the early
Christian kings required thut oaths
he sworn on the swan as a sacred
bird. As late as 1304 Edward 1 used
this graceful creature to take a royal
oath, having two of them brought be-
fore him in a golden net. The Yankee
ejaculation, “I swan!” is merely a
shortened form of this oath which in
its original form was “I swear by the
swan.”—Detroit News.
Bible in Cracker Box
The British and Foreign Bible so-
olety has published an important edi-
tion of the Scriptures in the principal
language of Uganda. The volume is
very long in shape, but it is only
three inches wide and about three
inches thick.
A peculiar reason occasioned the
adoption of this form. In Central Af-
rica the white ants and other insects
rapidly destroy a book unless it is
well protected. The representative of
the society recommended that the edi-
tion mentioned be issued In a form
that would fit into the tin biscuit
boxes which are used in Uganda.
Each to His Own Work
There must be work done by the
arms, or none of us could live. There
must be work done by the brains, or
the life we get would not be worth
having. And the same men cannot do
both. There is rough work to be
done, and rough men must do it; there
fs gentle work to be done, and gentle
wen must do it; and it is physically
impossible that one class should do, or
divide, the work of the other.—-Johp
Ruskin, i Le .
' tered,
Laughter Puts Joke
on the Fault-Finder
As long as life lasts, we shall find
that troublesome, unpleasant person
who seems incapable of saying a sip
gle word without finding fault.
And there's nothing to choose on
this point between men and women.
Some of the former can be really bad
at the game, For, after all, it is a
silly game, which may become a men-
ace to our peace of mind.
It seems to be an inseparable part
of the mind of some folk—this fault-
finding. Often it is based on mere
nothings.
There’s one thing these pernickety
people don’t like. They hate you very
badly if you laugh at them. It upsets
their rhythm. And most of the fault-
finders work to a rhythm, Put then
off it and they are undone.
Of course, says London Chronicle,
there are more ways than one of
laughing at them! You don’t need
to laugh outright. A twinkle of the
eye, a steady, amused look, a sly dig
—metaphorically, of course, although
a nice Eighteenth century one
wouldn't be amiss sometimes—a bit of
leg-pulling; any of these methods are
warranted to disturb the lines of at-
tack of these fault-finders.
No, indeed; they can’t stand being
laughed at.
Seems Odd Method of
Relaxing From Strain
Many of the drivers of London
busses, says an English paper, own
small cars and motor cycles and get
relaxation from handling busses by
piloting the smaller vehicles in their
‘eisure time.
In the same way it is easy to under-
stand the benefits derived by, say the
hushand of a mother of six in taking
a bride of a month to tea, or the op-
erator of a steam shovel digging in
the children’s sand box with a tin
shovel and pail, or an amateur mara-
thon enthusiast running to and from
business every day, or a wholesale
florist picking daisies in an empty lot,
or a bank teller matching pennies, or
a big game hunter shooting flies with
a rubber band, or a mail clerk playing
post office, or a high diver jumping off
curbstones, or an explorer searching
for funny names in the phone hook,
or an astronomer looking at germs
through a reducing glass.
Or writing a piece like this.—Kan-
«as City Star.
Beauty in Motion
A symphony is beautiful or satisfy
ine in its action, like changing winds
and clouds of sound. It may be a
vehicle of moving meaning, but hes
ro unchanging stable quality, no statie
bennty; because it has no static ex-
istence. Action is its being. Likewise
an epie poem moves and lives in ae-
tion. The Odyssey has no moveless
beauty, but the beauty of heroic and
romantic action, Its words are winged.
Even more palpably a drama is cen-
focused action, an unpausing
utterance. A lyric is a quick flow of
feeling and perception.—Henry Os-
born Taylor, in “Human Values and
Yerities,”
Lesson About Hats
Fatlier didn’t like the hat she was
wearing, and he didn’t hesitate to tell
her so. That's a little freedom fa-
thers often take. The interesting
thing about it was that she changed
the hat.
A week afterward father took a
ood look at a girl friend she brought
home, and took a second look as if In
admiration.
“Say, Gladys,” said he, “1 like that
aat that Myrtle is wearing. That's the
kind of hat you ought to have.”
“Yes,” said Gladys, scornfully,
“that’s the same old hat you didn't like
when 1 had it on,”
Electric Lamp Progress
In 1900 it was sald that the incan-
descent lamp with carbon filament was
so perfect a device that it could never
be much improved. It was at about
that date that industrial research wus
inaugurated in the electrical industry.
Since then the efliciency of the incan-
descent lamp las been approximately
quadrupled, and the great increase in
the intensities of artificial lighting
made possible by the cheaper light.
The new applications created by the
new lamps have had a far-reaching
effect on our industrial prosperity.
Various Summers
“Indian summer” was first used dur-
ing the last part of the Eighteenth
century. In the next decade the term
was supplanted by “second summer.”
Indian summer became established
about 20 years after its first appear-
ance, which was in western Pennsyl-
vania, and spread to New England by
1798, to New York by 1799, Canada by
1821 and England by 1830. Horace
Walpole used the term in 1778, not in
reference to America, but in relation
to weather in the tropics,
Child Reform
After three years’ study of the treat:
ment and training of child offenders in
Scotland, a committee appointed by the
secretary of state for Scotland has sub-
mitted 214 recommendations for pre-
ventlon and cure of crime among the
young. Many of the ideas follow the
trend of progressive social procedure
in ether ~yoatries. Among them are
the elimin~tion of the young as street
tenders or employees of gambling re-
sovis. pnd fucreased recreational fa: | toueh some charm
cltftier,
Tragedy and Comedy
in Alchemists’ Dreams
Tragedy in England, comedy in Ger-
many ended the researches of alchem-
ists for the means of turning baser
metals into gold and silver. In Eng-
land James Price claimed to have
found a way of causing the conversion.
He even demonstrated his experiment
before a large group of celebrities, in-
cluding King George III. When re-
quested by the Royal academy, how-
ever, to exhibit his method to them, he
showed a disinclination to do so.
Finally, however, he was persuaded.
When only three members of the
academy arrived on the day appointed,
Price swallowed a quantity of the
strongest poison known at that time
and died.
A contemporary theologian, named
Semler, in Germany, placed a so-called
panacea, the Salt of Life, in a jar with
a stone. He later found flakes of gold
on the stone. He entered into a series
of debates with famous chemists of the
day, but failed to convince them that
he had analyzed the substance and
found it to be gold. They analyzed
some and found it to be a metal called
“Dutch Metal.” Upon investigation it
was found that a servant of Semler's
placed the gold each day on the stone
to please his master. In the servant's
absence the wife purchased the cheap-
er Dutch metal and spent the remain-
der for brandy. Semler admitted his
mistake and the matter was a standing
joke for many years.—Detroit News.
Artificial Silk Not
Yet Near Perfection
Although most artificial silk fabric
is made of wood pulp, it can also be
made from cabbages, bananas, or any
other vegetable matter from which cel-
lulose is obtained.
People can usually tell the difference
setween pure and artificial silk by
squeezing it up in their hands. Real
silk, unless weighted with chemicals.
feels warm to the touch and will not
crease. Artificial silk feels cold and
slippery, besides being too lustrous.
Its creasing propensity is one of the
greatest problems for manufacturers,
and many experiments are being tried
to cope with the difficulty, and save
women the trouble of having to iron
an artificial silk frock each time it has
been worn.
Best Workers
Spinsters and married men are the
nest federal workers, bravely asserts
Malcolm Kerlin, acting chief of the
efficiency bureau which supervises rat-
ings of government employees. The
reason is that single young men and
women think more about “dates” and
personal beauty than they do of work,
and the old bachelor, also lacking re-
sponsibility, is continually wanting to
«change his job. “The spinster,” says
Kerlin, “moihers her job with utmost
care and the married man drives on-
ward with ambition for his family.”
Kerlin fings that the best work In the
government departments is done dur-
ing the midforenoon hours,.—Path
finder Magazine.
Barred All Argument
Many years ago there lived a wise
man vemed Ptah Hetep. He was re
garded as an ancient philosopher long
before Tutankhamen was born. Some
of Lis sayings or maxims are reported
in a roll of 18 columns of Egyptian
writing of the Twenty-fifth century B.
C., which is preserved in the Louvre,
and in one of his letters to his son,
Ptah Hetep says: “Do not argue with
your superiors: it does not do any
good. Do pot argue with your equals:
make a plain and courteous statement
and content yourself with that. Do
not argue with your inferiors: let
them talk and they will make fools of
themselves.”
Some of It Available
Sonny Bush, five years old, had been
galloping wildly around the back yard
with two neighborhood boys playing
racehorse. On a turn of the track on
the concrete driveway his foot slipped.
Steed and rider both went down in a
heap. No casualties resulted except
a badly barked shin. Sonny, red and
hot, ran in to mother for consolation.
Mother holds the tear-stained,
dushed face up to hers.
“Oh, sonny, how I wish 1 had yom
veautiful, clear skin.”
“All right, mamma, go out and get
it. It's out there on the driveway."—
Kansas City Star.
Flamingoes Are Queer
Among the peculiarities of the flam-
ingo are the great length of its legs
and the formation of its bill, which is
large and bent downwards at the mid-
dle, It feeds on water weeds and
small aquatic animals, and flies about
in flocks, uttering a harsh cry like
that of a goose.
The flamingo is distributed over the
w~armer regions of both hemispheres,
occasionally being found as far north
as the British isles and northern Ger-
many.
“Evil Eye” Feared
fn Italy especially the evil eye has
peen believed in and guarded against
for centuries. It is known as “la jet-
tatura,” and many persons were and
still are known as “jettatori,” or pos-
sessors of the evil eye, who have the
quality of injuring all on whom they
look, even against their own will,
Those who meet them cross their fin-
gers or make the sign of the cross or
against the evil
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A Corporate Executor
W-.. should you intrust the estate that
you have built up after years of work
and self-denial, to incompetent hands.
A banking institution with Trust
powers and large resources, is better: qualified
for this important work than any individual.
The First.! National Bank
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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