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Bellefonte, Pa., February 8, 1929.
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PLANNING FOR BIG CENSUS.
Preparation for the taking of the
decennial census in 1930, the fifteenth
in the nation’s history, is now under
way by the census bureau under the
direction of William M. Steuart.
er 100,000 census enumerators will be
employed in the field and an’ extra
force of 5,000 clerks will be put to
work in the census bureau compiling
information received from the field.
The work will cover three years.
1930, 1931 and 1932 and will cost ap-
proximately $40,000,000.
Just when the actual field work
will start has not been determined.
The house has adopted a bill desig-
nating May 3, 1930, as the day while
the Senate census committee has
amended the house bill so as to have
the work start November 1, 1929. Di-
rector Steuart favors the earlier date
as he contends more people are
around their homes in November and
the farmers are in a better position
to furnish data about their crops.
The census will cover the collection
of statistics concerning population,
agriculture, manufactures, m ines,
quarries, electrical industries, trans-
portation by water, births, deaths,
marriages, divorces, wealth indebted-
ness, taxation, municipal and State fi-
nances, current business, and other
phases of our industrial and social
life.
From 1790 to 1870, the decennial
enumerations of population were
made by United States marshals and
their assistants. In the first census,
the marshals made their returns to
the President directly, although the
results were compiled and published
under the supervision of the Secre-
tary of State.
“The State department,” explains
Mr. Steuart, “continued to have
charge of census enumerations until
the interior department was estab-
lished in 1849, when the work was
transferred to that department.
From 1790 to 1900, the census office
was not a permanent establishment;
it was a temporary organization —
being assembled for each successive
enumeration. In 1902 it was estab-
lished as a permanent agency of the
government, and in 1903 it was
transferred to the department of
commerce and labor.
“The earlier censuses were primar-
ily a count of the population, classi-
fied by sex and broad age groups. As
early as 1810, however, some infor-
mation was collected in addition con-
cerning manufactures, and in 18290 in-
formation was collected concerning
persons engaged in agriculture, com-
merce, and manufacture.
“In 1830, data was collected 1elat-
ing to the deaf, dumb and bind. It
was not until 1840 that schedules of
inquiries were printed for the use of
census enumerators. Social statistics
were again collected in 1840, togeth-
er with information concerning popu-
lation; manufgctures;” mimes, and
quarries and agriculture. The field of
census inquiries has steadily expand-
ed since that date.”
Radio Adopted to Aid Police.
Escaping criminals will be pursued
through the ether by British Colum-
bia police within a short time.
Following recent experiments by
Constable C. Ledoux, plans are be-
ing perfected to equip all provincial
police cars, coast patrol boats and
even individual officers with portable
radio telephones, capable of. sending
and receiving messages.
A transmitting station, which will
be broadcasting headquarters for the
province, is being established in the
Vancouver court house.
The experiments made by Ledoux
demonstrated in a convincing manner
the practicability of conducting con-
versations by wireless telephone from
moving automobiles. © -
. He is now working on a pocket size
radio set, suitable for officers tramp-
ing beats in isolated sections of Brit-
ish Columbia or in a busy environ of
acity. ™ :
The Dominion government has as-
signed call letters, VE9AX, to the
provincial station. The transmitters
will work on wave lengths lower than
broadcasting stations and higher
than amateur senders.
In the event of a crime, where
time is important in cutting off the
escape of perpetrator, headquarters
will be able to establish instant com-
munication with all motor boats, cars
and officers equipped with receiving
sets. These, in turn, by their port-
able transmisquarters informed of
their movements.
ete eee.
Because I'm a Democrat.
From the Pathfinder.
Teacher—And just think! One of
you may be President some day. All
of you who would like to be Presi-
dent, please rise. (All rose except
little Willie.) Well, Willie, what's
the matter? Wouldn't you like to be
President ?
Willie—Y’yes'm, b-but I ca-can’t.
Teacher—Why not ?
Willie—Because I'm a D-d-demo-
crat. .
emma eee.
Remind Autoists to Sign,
Cards.
The card which arrived with 1929
auto license tags is the owner's cer-
tificate to prove ownership of the car
when questioned, officials said today.
The card must be carried with th2
car and must be signed in ink. A
separate card, known as an opera-
tor’s license, must be carried also.
Owners should make sure they have
both cards, properly signed.
RWHP.
- Marriage Licenses.
Carry
Daniel Kyler Maffet, of Osceola
Mills, and Sarah Ann Burdell, of
Huntingdon. Tee :
Simon Seprish Jr. and Mary Mec-
Closkey Seprish, both of Clarence.
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| EABLY ORDERING OF SEEDS
! URGED.
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Farmers are urged to give imme-
. diate attention to the 1929 seed cata-
logs now being mailed and to place
~ | their orders early, thus avoiding pos-
| sibility of last minute rush mistakes
| and insuring a more choice selection
is the advice in the weekly farm cal-
endar issued by Pennsylvania State
! College School of Agriculture. The
| farm calendar says:
Order Vegetable Seeds.—The 1929
| seed catalogs are arriving in the
‘mails. Do not lay them aside until
| spring, in which case you will likely
!mislay them. Read them, study
| them, and send your order early. In
this way your order will receive more |
i careful attention, there will be less
| chance for mistakes, and the best
| seed will not he exhausted.
Supply Stallion Needs—During the
{ winter months exercise is as vital as
jie ration to the Stallion. A horse
kept in a darkened and unsanitary
{ stall is subject to many ills and will
BANKERS IN NATIONAL MOVE FOR
UNIFORM FINANCIAL PRACTICES
Would Promote Greater Consistency Among All the State
Laws in Respect to Banking Conditions—Uniform-
ity of Practice and Understanding Will Make
for Greater Convenience, Efficiency
and Safety for All Business.
By S. J. HIGH
President State Bank Division, American Bankers Association
Ri interchange of business and the quick transporta-
tion of goods in the United States, coupled with almost in-
i never have the strength and vitality |
' necessary to a breeding animal. Also
‘he should have plenty of clean fresh |
| water.
Exercise, sunshine, and fresh !
i water are the three cheapest things
| available.
Feed Cod Liver Oil-—A moist mash,
when fed regularly, furnishes a de-
| sirable means of feeding cod liver oil.
{ One pint of cod liver oil may be add-
ed to the moist mash daily for 100
birds. This plan of feeding cod liver
oil eliminates the mixing of the oil
{with the dry mash and also helps to
| prevent deterioration of the oil after
the mash is mixed.
Keep Cows Contented—In
stormy weather dairy cows should be
out-doors only long enough to drink
and if the stable is comfortable and
out at all
days.
dry and comfortable at all times.
Silage is Good Sheep Feed-—Good
clean corn silage is one of the best
roughages that the flock master can
use. The hest shepherds use this
grain mixture with corn silage and
clover hay; 300 pounds of oats, 100
bran, and 25 pounds of oil meal.
except on clear, warm
Real Estate Transfers.
Mary A, Conahan to Harvey A.
Hoy, et ux, tract in Spring Twp.; $1.
Moshanon National Bank to Louis
Barontsis, tract in State
$30,000.
W. Scott Crain, et ux, to Homer W.
Putt, tract in Port Matilda; $1,000.
Orlanda H. Nason, et ux, to P. R.
R. Co., tract in Huston Twp.; $600.
J. W. O. Houseman to F. V. O.
Houseman, tract in Millheim; $900.
J. Edward Confer,
liam E. Keen, et ux, tract in Boggs
Twp.; $1,500.
Sara E. Green, et bar, to George
| Reese, tract in Worth Twp.; $1100.
Curtis E. Bechdel to Joseph W.
{ Bechdel, tract in Liberty Twp.; $2,-
+300. y : - .
Eva M. Cranston to John D. Win-
klebleck, et ux, tract in Haines Twp.;
$1,510. ‘ s
Edgar W. Summers, et ux, to Sam-
uel F. Mitchell, et ux, tract in Benner
Twp.; $268.
Twp.; $268.
Charles A. Jonas, et ux, to Chris-
Twp.; $500.
Effie Gillespie, et al, to C. R. Went-
zel, tract in Curtin Twp.; $150.
John D. Musser, et ux, to Harry E.
Coble, et ux, tract in State College;
$2,000.
David E. Wertz to Paul I. Wrigley,
tract in Ferguson Twp.; $100.
Alva C. Duck, et ux, to G. Edward
Haupt, tract in Gregg Twp.; $700.
Charles F. Noll, et ux, to Catherine
E. Brown, tract in State College; $1.
Ella B. Fiedler, et al, to Jennie B.
Table, tract in Bellefonte; $1,
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Will Check Cars With Ohio License.
‘A concerted effort will be made to
check Pennsylvania residents operat-
sylvania, Benjamin G. Eynon, regis-
trar of motor vehicles, Pennsylvania
Department of Highways announced.
The Pitsburgh bureau of police has
assured the department of its co-op-
eration and instructions will be issu-
ed to Pittsburgh patrolmen to check
and report Ohio cars observed daily
on their beats.
Investigations in the past year
have demonstrated that a large
number of Pennsylvania residents,
have secured automobile registration
plates in Ohio and are operating their
vania and Ohio. A majority of these
Pennsylvanians have taken out Olic
licenses because of the lower rates
prevalent in Ohio and a few of them
have taken Ohio plates because their
Pennsylvania operating privileges
were revoked. In either case, they
will be vigorously prosecuted. 71he
Pennsylvania owner who displays
registration plates of another State
in lieu of those which he should 9h-
tain under the Pennsylvania law, is
inviting a fine of $25 and costs. The
Pennsylvania Department of High-
ways has no desire to embarrass
bona-fide Ohioans driving cars in
Pennsylvania under the reciprocity
agreement between the States but it
is determined to force its own resi-
dents to comply with the Pennsyl-
vania law on registration of cars.
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Issue Game Permits.
Pennsylvania is the happy hunting
ground for residents of other States,
and after they have secured their
trophies a permit is necessary before
game may be taken from the State.
During December the Game Commis-
sion issued 200 such permits.
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—Subscribe for the Watchman.
ing cars with Ohio licenses in Penn-.
cars in Pennsylvania throughout the |
year, taking advantage of the reci- |
procity agreement between Pennsyl- |
cold
water available they should not go
It pays to keep cows warm,
Finberg, tract in Philipsburg; $5500.
G. Oscar Gray; et ux, to Polldoras
College;
stantaneous means of inter-communication by telegraph, tele-
phone and wireless, have welded the coun-
contract or
try into an economic unit. The nation is not,
in a business sense, conducting its affairs in
water-tight compartments, as in a measure
it did in the days of slow travel and remote
places, but styles, methods, commodities
and business practices flow freely today in
all directions.
that finance, trade and industry throughout
the country operate along generally uni-
form or at least consistent lines, so that a
‘Therefore it is desirable
an agreement or obligation in
connection with business transactions shall
mean virtually the same thing in all parts of
the country. Particularly necessary in this
connection is the establishment of uniform
financial and banking practices so as to fa-
cilitate the flow of trade along accepted and
S.J. HIGH
understood lines.
Banking in the United States is recog-
nized as a semi-public type of business and is therefore sub-
ject to laws to define the scope and character of its activities.
These laws at present set up
under which banking is conducted in
various parts of the country since
they come from both state and fed-
eral authorities. The national banks
are all chartered by the federal gov-
ernment and therefore operate on the
same lines in every state of the
Union, but there is mo such regu-
larity in respect to the conditions
under which the state banks chartered
by the respective forty-eight states
must conduct their business. All state
banking codes, while they have simi-
larities, also have many great dissimi-
larities in respect both to the na-
tional bank laws and the banking laws
covering state bank operations in oth-
er jurisdictions.
Bankers Move for Uniform Laws
The State Bank Division of the
American Bankers Association, which
et ux, to Wil-
latter includes in its membership
banks of all descriptions throughout
the country subject to all the varia
tions of state and federal banking
laws, is committed to the effort to
bring about greater consistency and
uniformity among the statutes of all
* {hese various jurisdictions. This body
is conducting a vigorous nation-wide
campaign urging that active steps be
" taken to secure greater co-ordination
Edgar W. Summers, et ux, to Dr. |
Asa L. Hickok, et ux, tract in Benner
tian A. Houtz, et ux, tract in College :
in banking legislation, more equitable
conditions and more uniformly effi
cient public supervision of banks in
the several states. .
The organization is particularly con-
cerned with fostering this movement
to bring about more uniformly desir-
' able conditions throughout the United
States in respect to the public super-
vision of banking institutions by the
state banking departments. It is on
record as favoring the policy that the
important office of state bank commis-
sioner should be kept as free from
entangling partisan politics as the ju-
diciary itself ‘and should be complete-
ly detached from all other functions
Jf state government,
Ti Is also on record as favoring the
policy that the tenure of office of state
bank commissioners should be made
more secure and lasting than is now
‘the case in many #tate jurisdictions
and tbat this impertant public officer
be granted sufficient compensation
‘and discretionary power so thatithe
i ¢fice shall attract and retain the serv-
«fees of men of outstanding executive
ability and successful banking expe-
‘iénece.
It is also a part of this policy that
the bank commissioner's ability to
serve well should be strengthened by
providing him with adequate forces of
bank examiners, selected on the basis
of merit from men having the requi
site qualifications of honesty, ability,
training and: banking knowledge to
carry out the duties of their offices on
the highest plane of usefulness to the
public as well as to banking.
The Trend of State Laws
The Association’s State Bank Divi
sion has recently concluded a nation-
wide survey of state banking legisla-
tion and conditions and in general has
discovered a definite trend along the
%ollowing lines:
There is a distinct tendency among
the states to raise the minimum capi-
tal required for banking institutions
to $25,000 and also to give the bank
commissioners or the banking boards
gole power as to the granting of char-
ters for new banks, thus enabling
them to use discretion as to the need
or desirability of added banking facill-
ties or the fitness of the organizers td
enter the banking field. In this con-
nection many states are creating
banking boards to act in an advisory
capacity with the state bank commis
gioners.
There has also been observed a
tendency to increase the compensa
tion of the bank commissioners and to
lengthen their terms of office and to
give them power to appoint necessary
deputies. and examiners so as to build
up an adequate force to carry qut their
responsibilities and duties. An impor
tant augmentation of -the powers of
a great diversity of conditions
bank commissioners in some states is
found in laws giving them complete
charge of insolvent banks and their
liquidation as distinguished from more
costly liquidation through the courts
In the Public Interest
Distinctly in the public interest are
laws prohibiting or limiting an officer
or director of a bank from borrowing
from his own bank unless his col
lateral security is approved by a ma-
jority of the board of directors of the
bank. Also there is recent legislation
noted providing for closer supervision
and regulation of building and loan
associations, credit umions, finance
companies and private banks.
In some states measures have been
enacted broadening the field for in
vestment of funds of savings banks
terially enhanced the service that
these institutions can render, particu
larly in the way of co-operation with
their customers in ‘personal financial
management.
lation, important especially to bank:
ing in view of the frequent efforts to
defraud banks, is that which makes
the issuance of worthless checks 8
misdemeanor with specific penalties
The State Bank Division of the
American Bankers Association en-
dorses in the fullest degree in princi
ple the development of banking laws
along the foregoing lines and is active:
ly engaged in fostéring the spread of
such legislation wherever its services
.are considered useful both to banking
and to the public. Uniformly sound
banking institutions and practices, to
gethér with common methods and un
derstanding, will materially add to the
convenience, efficiency and safety of
business in serving the well-being of
the public in all parts of the nation,
especially in those transactions involv.
ing dealings between different locali:
AMERICA LEADS THE
WORLD IN SAVINGS
The past year saw the greatest
gains in savings in a single twelve
month ever recorded in the United
States, bringing the total savings de
posits in banks to over $28,400,000,000
on June 30, 1928, held in more than
53,000,000 individual accounts, it is
reported by the American Bankers As
sociation. These are the biggest fig:
ures in this field shown by any cour
try in the world. *
These figures are indicative of pros
perity more general than any time
since the business depression of 1920,
the report declares. Only three states
failed to show a gain and the 1928
volume of savings constituted an in
crease of more than $2,327,000,000
above the 1927 figure. The gain per
inhabitant for 1928 over 1927 was $17
and the gain in number of savings de
positors was 2,496,079, an increase
of 5.2% as against a growth in tb-
population of the country of 1.2%.
The gain in savings per inhabitant
in New England and the Middle At
lantic states over the previous yea:
was $36. These groups of states, with
States and 52.8% of the total savings
deposits, have the largest savings rate
$461 per inhabitant, of any area in the
world. ‘The per capita savings for the
United States as a whole this yeas
stands at $237 as compared with $22(
last year. :
“An acre of alfalfa for every cow in
Howard County, Iowa,” is the slogan
adopted by the county bankers asso
ciation - there after -watching several
hundred thousand, .dollars go: out. of
their county last winter for feed.
and trust companies, which have ma’
Another type of legis,
29.9% of the population of the United |.
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Executor of Your Will
EF individuals combine the qualities
necessary for the proper administration
of an estate.
Do not neglect this important business.
We always are ready to talk it over with
you.
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BELLEFONTE, PA.
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handle your estate than an individ- °
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about this matter.
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