Bellefonte, Pa., February 22, 1929. GEORGE WASHINGTON A TOWERING PERSONALITY. The fame of Washington will live as long as the memory of men en- dures. He is one of the towering per- sonalities of human history. No man had a more kingly presence than he yet, “in the course of human events,” he was destined to become the first President of the world’s greatest re- public. He had everything that a great king should have—a magnifi- cent presence, matchless dignity and a sort of majestic aloofness and re- serve—but no king ever seems to have combined these qualities so ideally. We cannot conceive of the Revo- lutionary war ever having been brought to a successful conclusion by the American colonies without George Washington. His figure moves through the stirring drama with stately dignity, and despite the most heat-breaking difficulties, he appar- ently was always calm and self- contained. Washington was a splendid ex- ample of the solid, conservative type of citizen, yet he was the leader of a revolution. Most of the conspicuous figures on the American side during the Revolution were inherently con- servative men, and this fact gives emphasis to the justice of the cause they championed. Conservative men do not shoulder guns and change gov- ernments without provocation. As military leader of the American forces, Washington's burden must have been tremendous. He was lead- ing an untrained rebel army against the famed soldiers of England, whose might he and his men had been taught to respect. While Washington was in the field, the Continental Congress, a tempor- ary makeshift, was scrabling to pro- vide ways and means of holding the colonies together for war purposes and making a desperate effort to pro- vide the sinews of war, not always with conspicuous success. For a large part of the war Wash- ington necessarily was on the defen- sive, running away or parrying and avoiding a more powerful foe, and oc- casionally taking almost a gambler’'s chance to strike a telling blow. He SERB did this, too, with ill-trained, ill-fed, ill-clothed and often dsigruntled men. Washington was, in fact, playing a game of hide and seek with the Brit- ish, in which a serious mistake on his | part probably would have meant dis- | aster to the American cause. The Father of his Country also had his | full share of scheming enemies with- in the American ranks, and some in | whom he placed great trust failed him in the hour of need. Being human, he occasionally must have thought of himself and what would become of him if the war went against him. His life probably would have been forfeited, or at least he would have been exiled and all his property confiscated. Nor must it be forgotten that Washington had no guarantee that if the war was suc- cessful, the great experiment of self- | government would succeed. He was | taking a chance on that, and he had | as much at stake as anyone in the country. ! The actual service of Washington to his country as a general and a statesman was of incalculable value, but perhaps even this was surpassed | by the value of his tremendous per- sonality to the American cause. He enjoyed the deepest respect of the great men who were his associates, | and his mere presence seemed to stif- | fen the backbones of ordinary men, even when the posture of affairs | | 1 seemed almost hopeless. Washington was an anchor for the cause of liber- ty when the storms were fiercest. Those calm, knowing eyes that peer at us from his best portraits, seemed to inspire men with courage and de- | termination when there was hardly an | excuse for hope. | Try to Revive Indian Tongue. | Rescue for linguistic science of a diappearing Indian language is the | mission of Harry Hoijer, 24-year-old graduate student in anthropology, at : the University of Chicago, who has! just left for Tonkawa, Oklahoma. | In Oklahoma the young Chicagoan | will record the word meanings and | gremmar of the Tonkawa language, | an obscure speech which scientists | have been unable to classify and it is | said that only nine old Indians, mem- | bers of the tribe which flourished in | southeast Texas in the rollicking | days of the Spanish conquest now | speak it. The entire tribe today | number only 40. [ In a preliminary study at Tonkawa | last year, Hoijer, who will submit his | work for a doctor of philosophy de- | gree, said that although 600 Tonka- | wans survived at the time of the Civil | War, only sixteen full-blooded mem- f bers now remain and the group will soon disappear entirely through iu- ter marriage with other tribes. The origin of the Tonkawa Indians | is obscure and somewhat hidden in mystery, Hoijer said, but they are be- | leived to be related to the Siouian and | Hokan tribes. They are now farm- | ers,, he said but originally devoted all | their time to hunting buffaloes. Their Indian neighbors report that they were once cannibals but the Tonk- | awans deny that, according to Ho- ijer. Hoijer's project, which is financed | by the committee on linguistie re- | search of the American association | for the Advancement of Science, is| the third project for recording Indian | languages undertaken by anthropo- | logy students at the University of Chicago recently. : —Subscribe for the Wakchman. |: SLAYER WHO FEARED KISS IS GIVEN LIFE Youth Is Sent to Prison for Killing Girl. New York.—The seventeen-year-old murderer, who was afraid of a Kiss, has been sentenced to prison for life. He is Vincent T. Rice, a Staten Island boy, and he slew his fifteen-year-old sweetheart, Alice Joost, when she isked him for a Kiss. Having heard two alienists express their opinion that the boy’s act was committed under the influence of an impulsive terror of intimacy with girls —probably the effect of a too intensive religious training on a backward mind and an undeveloped sexual instinct— Justice Selah B. Strong allowed the boy to change his plea from not guilty to guilty of murder in the second de gree. The opinion of these two mental ex- perts corroborated the statement Rice had made in his signed confession, that the murder was unpremeditated, an act born of his exaggerated horror of a kiss which he said Alice Joos »ffered to give him. Breaks Down and Weeps. Rice, a pale. good-looking boy neatly dressed in a brown suit and maroon tie, who had sat stolidly chewing gum and leaning on his hand during the taking of testimony, showed his first sign of emotion when, after the court- room had been cleared, he suddenly pegan to weep on his brother's arm. After Medical Examiner George Mord had described the condition in which he found the body of Miss Joost the night of November 2, Mrs. Lucille Joost, mother of the dead girl, a white-haired woman all in biack, calm ly told how, when she returned to her home that evening, she found her daughter’s body across the bed in her room, with a gash on her forehead and a piece of electric light wir” ‘ightly twisted around her throat. Then Rice's confession, signed the day after the murder, was read. In it Rice told of his afternoon with Alice in the Joost home, how they sang and played the piano, how, at dusk, Alice tried to kiss him, and asked him to “he a good sport’; how her actions and words filled him with uncontrol- able anger, how he struck her down and then, overcome with fear, stran gled her with wire. Afraid of Kiss. Then came the scientific description 4 Rice as a young man deeply re- pressed sexually. afraid of airls, afraid that to kiss them might cause him se- | rious physical harm, who reacted with | terrible violence when a girl offered him a caress. Dr. George H. Kirby, an alienist oi | (111 Park avenue, engaged by boy's family, was called to the stand. He had examined Rice in jail, he the | suid. and found him constitutionally . inferior. ‘ ords no longer being available. “Do yon think,” asked the districi attorney, “that this murder was pre | | the late W. O. McDowell of Newark, | nieditated 77 “No. in my opinion, it was not,” | Doctor Kirby testified. “1 look upon | pis whole act as impulsive and unpre- ! meditated.” Q.—How did the defendant explain | nis act to you? A.—He said he had struck the deceased in order to pro: tect his honor and preserve his health. | ).—How would you describe the jefendunt’s life? A.—It intense repression. 1 attribute was one of this to his religious training and the home | influence. Doctor Kirby went on to explai. i of all,” declared the girl. chat Rice had had epileptic fits from the age of one to four, and that these had undoubtedly resulted in his being mentally and sexually retarded. Some- | where, he said, the boy had acquired a real fear of intimacy with which would explain his abhorrence. when, if his confession was truthful, the girl attempted to Kiss him. Air-Traffic Cops Make girls. 219 Arrests in Year Washington, —Air-trafiic made 219 arrests without complaint that the aerial were sleeping on their posts, Fifty inspectors of the Departmen. sf Commerce air regulations division, charged with arresting and prosecut- ing air-trafiic violators, have been on the job throughout the country for more than a year. Sixty-five of the offenders drew. .mes of $3.000 to $5,000 for their of- tenses, while 116 were reprimanded. One hundred ninety-five cases have come up for hearing since the division was organized. Charges included landing in un Luthorized sections, low flying over congested areas, stunt flying with pas- sengers aboard and carrying explo- sives, cops bluecoats get - ORs | TORE et ge, Princess Gets Tortoise From Japanese Diplomat London.—A valuable tortoise, a pres- ent from a Japanese diplomat, is the Jatest pet of little Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the duke and duchess of York. The tortoise has markings of red and orange, denoting its aristo- cratic pedigree, and has been named “Madame Butterfly.” One of the first things the little princess does on get- ting up in the morning is to go into the garden and feed her tortoise its cabbage leaf. Serious Problem One erying need of the day seems to be a method of disposing of old automobiles. So many have heen dumped secretly on vacant lots in the Bronx “at the board of trade is dis- | tussing the problem. have ! a single | Battlefield Gives Up Secrets of the Past There are certain kinds of armor which we read about hut have never seen because up till now no examples were to he found in museums. [e- cently, however, many specimens have been found in two great pits outside the old city of Visby in the island of Gotland. In 1261 Gotland was invaded hy King Valdemar at the head of a4 pow- erful Danish army, and a desporiie battle was fought before Vishy. The valiant defence of the Gotlanders was all in vain, and Valdemar marched in- to the capital leaving nearly (wo thousand friends and foes dead en the field. They were buried hurriedly, with weapons still in the wounds. in two great graves which have not been disturbed for five and a half cen curies. Recently a Swedish archeologist has been excavating the pits, with thelr treasure of medieval armor and their poer bones marked by axes and ar rows. The Swedish and Danish gov ernments will erect a moment where so many men died gallantly becuse Valdemar wanted to plunder Gotland. . Pleasures of Table Dear to German Heart With the possible exception of Chile, | argentina and Brazil, individual food | consumption is greater in Cermany than in any other country. | The Teuton is not content with one oreakfust but must have a second one, | usually about eleven o'clock. This is | indulged in by everybody from street | cleaner to banker. 1 have had conver | sations with outstanding financial and | industrial figures interrupted at tlie | sacred hour of the second na) | { | | by the arrival of a waiter with a tray of sandwiches or fruit. Apparently the Germans never stop ;ating, which explains, perhaps there are so many German why waiters. { When they are not hurd at food they are drinking coffee in the innumer- able cafes. If you look inside the leather briex case that nearly every German of high or low degree carries you will find | that its principal content is a bundle of sausage sandwiches.—Isaac¢ F. Mar- cosson in the Saturday Evening Post. Chicago’s Liberty Bell The Columbian Liberty bell was cast at the foundry of the Meneely Bell company, Troy, N. Y., in 1803, and weighed 13,000 pounds, the dizimeter at its mouth being 88 inches and its height 75 inches. It was a duplicate ! of the new liberty bell that wis | placed in the tower of Independence ! hall, Philadelphia. in 1876, and wus : cast from the same molds. Each thou- sand pounds represented one of the: thirteen original states. The exact cost of the bell is unknown, the rec- ; The hell was bought by a committee repre- | senting patriotic societies of which ! N. J., was chairman, At the conclusion | of the Chicago World's fair the bell | was exhibited in various cities! throughout the United States. Much Older They had been up to town to see | the latest musical comedy, and were | discussing its merits as they traveled homewards in the train, “l think I liked the bad man bes. “He was in everything—and hair—so black and natural lovely 80 very oh, what curly !” The young man beside her cursea mwardly. He was very fair, “What did you think of the big :norus of twenty-two?” he ventured, to change the subject. : “They were more than that,” de cared the girl decisively. “There wasn't one under thirty, in my opin- | fon.”—London Answers, Quakers in World War The selective service law in vogue during the World war provided exemp- tion 10 “a member of a well recognized religious sect or organization, orga- nized and existing on May 18, 1917, whose then existing creed or prin- ciples forbid its members to partici- pate in war in any form, and whose religious convictions are against war or participation therein.” This selec- tive service law applied to Quakers as well as many other religious sects. However, there were numbers of Quakers who served in our active fighting forces. Air's Temperature The temperature of the air at a ziven place depends not only on the sunshine it is then getting but also on {#§ own recent history. Wind from the south on a cloudy day may be as warm as wind from the north on a sunshiny day. This is particularly true when, «s often happens, these winds have come . long way. Furthermore, when it is warm, humid air feels warmer than dry air at the same temperature. —Washington Star. Cleveland and Pittsburgh Cleveland, Ohio, is named for Moses JOleaveland, the founder of the city, | but the exira “a” has been eliminated. pittsburgh honors the name of William Pitt. Its first name was Duquesne, given by the French, who had located | a fort at the junction ~f the Allegheny ! and Monongahela rivers. After its cap- ture by the English, in 1758, George Washington, then an officer of the 3ritish colonial troops, suggested that it be named Piftsburgh. SEEKS QUIET AFTER TEMPESTUOUS LIFE “Black Hawk’ Settles Down in Gas Station. Alpena, Mich.—Familiarly known as “Black Hawk, “The Poet Ranger” and “Doc,” George H. Connor, sixty- one years old, wanderer and adven- turer, has found security from the dangers of a tempestuous career at a little gas station, called by him “Ranger's Rest,” which he operates on U. S. Highway 23, a few miles north of Alpena. He got the title of Black Hawk through having been adopted hy a roving Indian tribe ir Mexico in 1881. “Doc” has heen a ranger, practicing physician, chiropractor, lumberjack, bricklayer, railroader, tool and die maker, contractor and entertainer. He is a prolific writer of poetry which he signs with the sobriquet, “Black Hawk.” Life of Adventurer. Connor has led a life of action and adventure. He lived in Texas, Arizona and Mexico in the early '80s when those sections were spots which at- tracted the adventurer and the out- law. ‘He has been shot three times and stabbed twice and has had 21 bones broken. considerable ability, playing the guitar to the accompaniment of verse which he writes himself. Connor is a picturesque character. Scores of tourists passing his Ranger’s Rest stopped daily during the height of the tourist keason, attracted by his appearance and held as interested au- ditors by his ability as a conversation- alist. He wears always the western sombrero and other clothing affected by the plains ranger. His mustache and goatee add to his personality. Connor was horn in West Bay City. <on of J. B. Connor, lumberman. He ran away from home when nine years of age and obtained employment in the lumber camps of Michigan, peel- ing spuds and doing chores. Later he drove a tote team and then was grad- uated into the realm of a full-fledged lumberjack. Doc went to Texas in 1881 and re | nained in that state, Arizona and Mexico for four years. While there he had many thrilling experiences and adventures. He returned to Michigan and re-embarked in the occupation of river driver. He worked in the vicin- ity of the Au Sable river for years, but also did lumbering on the Rifle and Ocqueoc. Almost Killed. Connor said that while he carrieu mn flirtations with peril in the South- west. one of the closest calls with death was while employed in Au- Sable. April 13, 1885. repairing a giant Gram mill burner. This burner was 80 feet high with a 20-foot neck at the top, giving it a bottle shape. The purner suddenly collapsed while Con- nor wis working on the fourth scaf- fold. Seventy thousand bricks rained down upon him and the five other workmen on the joh. Four were in- stantly killed. One died from the effects of being buried under 137 tons of debris. Connor was the only one who survived and was released only after having been imprisoned under tons of bricks for five and one-half hours. “The agony which I suffered— buried alive—cannot be described.” “Doe” says in telling of his experi ence. Subsequently he worked in Detros. shere he went to night school at De- croit eollege. He qualified as a doctor of medicine and practiced six years in Detroit. He also followed the profes- sion of chiropractor for one year in Canada. The prosaic character of his profession and the demands it made upon him were too severe and he quit practicing. North China to Punish Bribery With Beheading Peking.—“Off with their heads” is he order issued by the Chihli provin- cial government for officials who are caught taking bribes of more than $500 gold. The order has been sent out to all magistrates. Capital punishment for corrupt oft: cals is a new regulation in China, where officials have regarded “squeeze” as a part of their jobs for centuries. Some of the most notable officials in the past have been most notorious for stealing public funds. But the Nationalists declare the, ntend to discourage this practice and will make an example of the first of- ficials in north China who are caught. It has been rumored that Nationalist officials have stolen large portions of the public funds, following age-old precedent. Stone Age People Made Toys to Amuse Children Stockholm.—\Whether or not there was a Santa Claus in the Stone age primitive people provided toys for the amusement of their little ones. [var Schnell, archeologist of the state his- torical museum, has found miniature stone objects, clearly meant as play- things for children. a tiny but well-made stone ax 2.5 centimeters in length, evidently fash- ioned by some fond Stone age daddy for his little boy to play with. Fair Exchange Pittsburgh.—J. S. Trees, who has made money in oil, is giving a peach orchard to the school for boys at Warrendale. In return he is getting an elm, weighing forty toms, which will cost him $5,000 to move to his estate. One of these was | He is a musician of | Bonds Called for Payment HE entire issue of the Westinghouse Electric & Manfacturing Company 5% Bonds, has been called for payment March 1, 1929, on which date interest will cease. Bonds delivered to us will be forward- ed for payment, without charge. 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