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Chairman Legge of the Federal
"arm Board says bluntly to the
armers: Cut your acreage 10 per
ent, or we quit.
It the Farm Board quit and
umped its holdings of a hundred
aillion bushels of grain on the mar-
et distress would turn into disaster.
Suppose the farmers reduce their
creage (controlable) by 10 per
ent, and bad weather cuts the
ield per acre (uncontrolable) by
0 or 20 or 50 per cent.—where
7ll the farmers be then?
The farmer's expenses have treb-
»d in the last few years. He pays,
ollectively, more than a billion dol-
ars a year for implements and
sachinery made by industry.
His efficiency as a producer has
screased: acreage per man, 48 per
ent.; production in dollars per man,
19 per cent, (authority of Profes-
or F. B. Mumford, Missouri Col-
ge of Agriculture.)
His marketing methods have been
eveloped to a point where reduc-
ions incost of marketing are al-
scsi impossible.
What does the farmer want? He
rants a higher price for his product.
What did Congress try to do for
im? To help him, without increas-
ag the cost of food to the consum-
ri
What does Mr. Leggee urge? Re-
action of acreage, to lessen supply
nd increase demand.
There is an obvious incongruity in
his chain.
From the producer's point of view
fr. Leggee’s argument is fallacious.
there are substitutes for wheat to
/hich consumers will resort rather
han pay higher prices. They
grn to other cereals; to increased
se of potatoes and rice.
To reduce the chaos of factors
nd opinions to order would keep
py student busy for a lifetime.
hose who offer snap solutions are
ff the mark.
The act of Congress by which the
‘arm Board was set up tried to ef-
sect an economic revolution at a
ingle stroke.
The export debenture
iscarded.
That plan took into account the
inherited and fundamental belief of
he farmer,” as a Western dairy-
ian expresses it, “that large crops
re a blessing.” Such a belief can-
ot be wiped out by an act of Con.
Tess.
The debenture plan aimed specifi-
ally at assistance to the producer
f a surplus exportable crop, per-
sitting him to draw on the United
tates Treasury for half the amount
f money that would have to be
aid for a similar shipment coming
1
plan was
This plan was direct, specific, In-
jvidual; no more paternalistic than
he import duty enjoyed by indus-
ry.
Chairman Legge has a giant's
5b on his hands. Of course we
rish him success; but he is under
handicap through the very na-
are of the task set up for him by
‘ongress and the President—the
ask of achieving an economic rev-
lution in a hurry.—Philadelphia
tecord.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Jacob Winklebleck, et ux, to Wil-
am Burd, tract in Miles Twp.
3,600.
J. S. Burd, Adm, to Doyle W.
jest, et ux, tract in Haines Twp.;
1,695.
W. W. Phelps, et ux, to J. Munson
«ce, tract in Rush Twp.; $8,500.
Alfred P. Krape, et al, to Wil
am W. Kerlin, tract in Potter
‘wp. ; $3,000. .
W. H. Ertle, et ux, to John G.
feyer, et al, tract in Penn Twp.;
2,325.
Miles Decker to C. F. Clevenstine,
ract in Walker Twp.; $1. .
' Farmers National Bank and
‘rust company to Nora M. Orn-
orf, tract in Haines Twp.; $5,240.
J. W. Henszey, et ux, to Chi
Ipsilon Asso. Inc, tract in State
‘ollege; $1.
Charles W. Heverly, et al, to
fargaret Schenck, tract in Liberty
‘wp.; $400.
“Levi S. Wolford, et ux, to
teorge A. Corman, tract in Miles
‘wp.; $780.
| Emma C. Corman, Exec., to
jeorge A. Corman, tract in Miles
'wp.; $243.
Warren F. Stover et al, Exec, to
seorge A. Corman, tract in Miles
‘wp.; $50.
WwW. W.
R. Harper,
100.
Mary A. Rogers, et bar, to Lois
i. Kurtz, tract in Bellefonte; $9000.
American Butler, et al, to Bur-
ine Butler, tract in Liberty Twp;
1000.
Fortney E. Butler, Adm. to L.
feson Shellenberger, et ux, tract
a Liberty Twp.; $196.
C. W. Swartz, et al, to Milton
Nine, tract in Potter Twp.; $6,350.
F. V. O. Houseman, et ux, to
da L. Vonada, tract in Millheim,
10.
Rose Gillette, et al, to Wilson
avis, et ux, tract in Snow Shoe
‘wp.; $750.
John Kachik, et ux, to Steve
{achik, et ux, tract in Snow Shoe
‘wp.; $1,000.
First National Bank to Sarah B.
Phelps, et ux, to Paul
tract in Philipsburg;
villiams, tract in State College;
6,250.
Chemical Lime Co, to Chemical
ime Co. Inc, tract in Benner
‘wp.; $1.
Centre County Lime Co. to
‘hemical Lime Co., Inc. tract in
Jenner Twp.; $1.
English Law Demanded
Sunday holiday makers and trippers
will be interested to know that a stat-
utory liw in England years ago pro-
hibited such frivolity, says the London
Daily Mail. The Aet of Uniformity,
1002, ‘requires: All" persons, except
those dissenting from the worship or
doctrines of the Church of England
‘and usually attending some place of
worship not belonging to the Church
of England, are, if they have no law-
ful or reasonable excuse for absence,
to endeavor to attend their parish
chureh - or accustomed chapel, or, it
reasonably prevented from so doing,
some other place where the divine
service of the ‘Chureh of England is
performed; on all’ Sundays and other
days ordained and used to be kept a8
holy days, and te abide there orderly
and soberly during the time of com-
mon prayer, preaching, or other di-
vine service there performed. Fail
ure to observe this law renders the
offending “parishioner or inhabitant
of a parish” who Is not legally ex-
empt from attendance at divine serv-
ice on Sundays and holy days “liable
in proceedings taken against him im
the ecclesiastical courts to be cen-
sured for the effense, admonished as
to his attendance In the future, and
to be condemned im the costs of the
proceedings.” J
Ancient Builders’ Idea
of Humor Quite Modern
The builders of the old churches in
England were not so serious but that
they now and then perpetrated a joke,
even In stone. On more than one of
their ereations they carved in relief
a scene representing a monk preach-
ing solemnly to a flock of geese. The
same humerous spirit is sometimes to
be detected in the domestie architec
ture of early times.
Just upon the boundaries of Bed-
fordshire and Hertfordshire forwerly
stood an old rambling farmhouse. The
living-room was long and low, and on
the center beam that went across the
celling was inscribed this legend: “If
you are cold, go to Hertfordshire.”
This seemingly inhospitable invita-
tion was explained by the fact that
one-half of the room was in one coun-
ty and one-half in the other. “The fire
place was In Hertfordshire.
Disdainful of Physicians
Disraell affected to regard all doe
tors with a sovereign disdain, writes
a columnist in the Manchester Guardl-
an. “Gull is all froth and words,” he
declared at seventy-three. “They are
all alike. First of all they throw it
on the weather; then there must be a
change of scene; so Sir W. Jenner,
after blundering and plundering in the
usual way, sent me to Bournemouth,
and Gull wants to send me to Ems; I
should like to send both of them to
Jericho,” And Joseph Chamberlain's
insistence that. to go up to bed and to
come down again constituted exercise
enough for any man must have beep
a sore trial to his doctors.
Afraid of Life
“You're not afraid of life, are you?’
she asks him, and Finch is startled in-
to truth. “Yes, I am. I'm awfully
afraid of it.”
She reared her head from the pil-
low. “Afraid of life. What nonsense,
. . . I won't have it. You mustn't
be afraid of life. Take it by the horns.
Take it by the tail. Grasp it where
the hair is short. Make it afraid of
you, That's the way [ did. Do you
think I'd bave been talking to you
this night—if I'd been afraid of life?
Look at this nose of mine. These eyes.
Do they look afraid of life? And my
mouth—when my teeth are In—it's not
afraid elther.”—Kansas City Star.
Sunrise on the Moon
The transition from night to day on
the moon is very rapid, for the moon
has no atmosphere; no rosy tints
paint its mountain tops at dawn.
There are no graduations between
darkness and night, no twilight with
color-tinted clouds. Before the sun
comes there is blank, black darkness,
deeper and blacker than anything ex-
perienced on our earth. As the sun-
shine moves across its surface the
first peaks to catch its rays stand sud-
denly out, fully defined in a harsh,
untempered glare and In sharp con-
trast to the dense blackness of the
nearby terrain, where it is still night
Food Requirements
According to Prof. V. H. Mottram,
an adult woman needs but 2,500 cal-
ories a day. An adult man engaged in
sedentary occupation requires 3,000
calories daily. A man doing hard work
should have 5,000 calories. The physi.
ological reason given is that the feml-
nine organism utilizes food more eco-
nomically than mam, A child's food
should not be proportioned according
to his age, as he requires more than
half the food of an adult. Boys and
girls of fourteen are to be considered
as adults in food utilization.
Sanity in the Madhouse
I should imagine that a madhouse
would be an excellent place to be
sane in. I'd a long sight rather live
in a nice, quiet, secluded madhouse
than in intellectual clubs full of un-
intellectual people, all chattering non-
sense about the newest book of philos-
ophy; or in some of those earnest, el-
bowing sort of Movements that want
you to go in for Service and help to
take away somebody else’s toys.—From
“The Poet and the Lunatics,” by @
K, Chesterton, ;
Jumpin’ on the bus .
Minimum of Waste in
Sardine-Canning Plant
In a Down East sardige canning fac
tory the only thing that is wasted ie
the odor. That may not be a dead
loss, for there are persons who as-
sert they like the smell of a sardine
factory. The scales are sold to the
manufacturers of artificial pearls.
The fish meal is in demand in Ger
many and in this eountry. The waste
oil is collected and utilized in the pre-
duction of paints and varnishes.
Even the tin euttings from the cans
are baled and shipped to England for
reprocessing into new sheets of the
wetal. roe ;
Down East sardines are sent to 96
different countries. In Java, when |
representatives sought a new market,
the natives would have nothing to do
with the “little fishes bolled in oil.”
Two hundred free cases were offered
if the prospective customers would
place a 1,000 case order. At last the
deal was made. The sardines were
heaped high on trucks, together with
a band of native musicians, taken
from bazaar to bazaar, and sold. Thus
introduced, there was no further diffi-
culty in adding Java to the list of sar
dine eonsumers.—~New York Times.
Hard to Grasp Facts
of the Stellar System
At first the brain reels a little in
the attempt to grasp the facts of the
stellar system, even explained with
the lucidity and exactness of which
Sir James Jeans is a master. From
the vast extensions of the sky he car-
ries us Into the inmost recesses of
the atom, where the electron whirls
around its perpetual circuit several
thousand million times every second.
These numbers, says the London
Spectator, are but dazzle painting, and
it is simpler to say that the electron
travels as far in a second as our
latest seaplane travels in an hour.
Sir James Jeans has a happy fertility
in such comparisons, and forcibly
strikes the imagination when he tells
us that If the carbon atom were
magnified to the size of Waterloo sta-
tion, its electrons would. be repre
sented by six wasps flying round in
the vast vacuity. All the rest is
emptiness; and so in the celestial
spaces it is Immense odds against any
given spot being occupled. “We live
in a gossamer universe; pattern, plan
and design are there in abundance,
but solid substance is rare.”
One of Life's Tragedies
They sat gazing Into each other's
eyes. At last he slipped from the sofa
and, kneeling at her feet, gave uiter-
ance to the sweeping thoughts that
were swelling up his mind.
“Darling,” he said, “sometimes 1!
think how lucky I was to be born in
the same century as you, to have met
you. It seems as If Fate had Intend:
ed us for each other since the begin-
ning of time, and that at last the great
design has been completed in our love.
It has been Fate, my dearest, Fate.”
“ave,” she replied, a‘ little wistful-
ly, “it was fate all right. Your fate.
If I hedna trippit over your fate
And they pondered over the tragedy
of might have beens.—London Tit-Bite.
Paper Barometer
Henley's Twentieth Century Book
of Recipes publishes the following
method of making a paper barometer:
Saturate white blotting paper with the
following liquid and then hang up te
ary:
Cobalt chloride, 1 ounce; sodium
chloride, 3% ounce; calcium chloride,
75 grains; acacia, 3§ ounce; water #
ounces.
The amount of moisture in the air
is roughly indicated by the changing
color of the paper, rose red Indicating
rain; pale red, very moist; bluish red,
moist; lavender blue, nearly dry;
blue, very dry.
Unfortunate Early Savant
Henry, Marquis of Villena, a Cas
tilian savant in the reign of John II,
studied astronomy so diligently that
he lost all run of his worldly affairs
and caused a wit of his day to com-
ment sarcastically: “He knew much
of heaven and nothing of earth.”
His blind neglect of his financial
concerns cost him all his possessions
and reduced him to extreme penury
in his last years. He was suspected
of necromancy, and at his death in
1834 the king's ecclesiastical agent
threw more than a hundred of his
precious books into the flames.—De-
troit News.
Concerning the Law
The true view, as I submit, is that
the law is what the judges declare;
that statutes, precedents, the opinions
of learned experts, customs, and
morality are the sourcgs of the law;
that back of everything lie the opin-
fons of the ruling spirits of the com
munity ; who have the power to close
any of these sources; but that as long
as they do not interfere, the judges,
in establishing law, have recourse to
these sources.—John Chipman Gray.
Do Bees Know Beekeeper?
One often hears the statement that
vees know their master. This Is not
true. During the working season a
bee .ives for only about six weeks,
two of which are spent in the hive, It
is hardly likely that = beekeeper
would examine a hive frequently
enough ‘0 hecome %nown to such
short-lived creatures even if they head
the ability to distinguish between dif-
ferent hun an belnge.
represent the
PATIENTS TREATED AT
CENTRE COUNTY HOSPITAL.
Mrs. Basil Frank, of State Col-
lege, was admitted for surgical
treatment on Monday of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. John Leathers, of
Bellefonte R. F. D,, are receiving
congratulations upon the birth of a
daughter, born at the hospital on
Monday of last week.
Ralph Stam, nine-year-old son of
Mr, and Mrs. Clyde Stam, of Pine
Grove Mills, became a medical pa-
tient on Monday of last week.
Mrs. Vivian Buckwalter, of Cen.
tre Hall, was discharged on Monday
of last week, after undergoing medi-
cal treatment for two days.
Mrs. Thomas = Shaughnessy, of
Bellefonte, was discharged on Mon-
day - of last week after undergoing
surgical treatment for fifteen days.
Miss Betty Edmiston, ten-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Edmiston, of Bellefonte, was admit-
ted on Tuesday of last week for
medical treatment.
Miss Eva Grove, of Bellefonte,
was admitted on Tuesday of last
week for medical treatment and
discharged on Thursday.
Mrs. Charles Smith, of Jersey
Shore, a medical patient for fifteen
days, was discharged on Tuesday of
last week.
Mrs. Florence Stiffler, of Cherry
Tree, a surgical patient for three
days, was discharged on Tuesday of
last week.
Alfred Collier, of Nittany, was dis-
charged on Tuesday of last week,
after undergoing medical treat-
ment for two months. :
Roland Ickoff, of Bellefonte, a
medical patient for eleven weeks,
was discharged on Tuesday of last
week.
Miss Mary E. Swartz, of Belle-
fonte, became a surgical patient on
Wednesday of last week and was
dischargéd on Friday.
Charles Gault, of Harrisburg, was
admitted on Wednesday of last week
for surgical treatment,
Roy McClintic, of Linden Hall, be-
came a medical patient on Wednes-
day of last week.
Mrs. Helen Harvey, of State Col-
lege, was admitted on Wednesday
of last week for surgical treatment.
Florence E. Sawers, thirteen-year
old daughter of Mrs. Maude Sawers,
of Bellefonte, was admitted on Wed-
nesday of last week for medical
treatment.
Leonard Smeltzer, of Bellefonte
R. D. 2, a surgical patient for
sixteen days, the result of an auto-
mobile accident, was discharged on
Wednesday of last week.
Miss Marguerite Lambert,
Bellefonte, became a surgical
tient last Thursday.
Mrs. Boyd Weaver, of State Col-
lege, was admitted last Thursday for
surgical treatment and was dis-
charged on Friday.
~ Mrs. Elvina Rockey and infant
daughter; of Linden Hall, were dis-
charged last Thursday.
Miss Dora Neidigh, of State Col-
lege, was admitted on last Thursday
for surgical treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. William Scheckenger,
of State College, are the proud
parents of a son, born on Friday,
whom they have named William, Jr,
Mrs. Clara Horner, of Graysville,
became a surgical patient last
Thursday.
Mrs. Hazel Swartz, of State Col-
lege, was admitted on Friday for
medical treatment.
Mrs. Marcella Woodring, of Miles-
burg, became a surgical patient on
Saturday.
Charles Wensel, of Port Maitlida,
a surgical patient, was discharged
on Saturday.
Mrs. Ralph Williams, of State
College, a surgical patient for a
month, was discharged on Saturday.
Miss Marian Stiffler, seven-year-
old daughter of Mrs. Florence Stif-
fler, of Port Matilda, was discharged
on Saturday after undergoing surgi-
cal treatment.
Mrs. Wilbert Heffner, of Pine
Grove Mills, became a medical pa-
tient on Sunday.
There were thirty-four patients in
of
pa-
the hospital at the beginning of this !
i
week.
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM
FOR TEACHER'S COLLEGE.
At a faculty meeting last week
at State Teachers College at Lock
Haven, the commencement speakers
who are to represent the different
groups graduating from the College
this year were selected, Miss Eliza--|
beth S. Kittelberger, of Curwens-
ville; primary group; Miss
Puckey, of Altoona, was selected to
intermediate group;
and Mr. Samuel M. Long, of Liber-
ty, Tioga county, was selected to
represent the four-year high school
college group.
Commencement week begins on
Friday, May twenty-third, with the
Junior class play; Alumni day on
Saturday, may twenty-fourth; bac-
calaureate services on Sunday, May
twenty-fifth; class day exercise on
Monday, May twenty-sixth; closing
with the commencement program on
Tuesday, May twenty-seventh.
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——Francis E. Prey, of Jersey
Shore, a former teacher in the Belle-
fonte High school, has filed nomina-
tion papers in Harrisburg as a candi-
date for Congress from the Luzerne
county district. Mr. Prey was a
teacher in the Wilkes-Barre High
school for four years before moving
to Jersey Shore.
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—QGet your job work dome here.
FARMER was awakened
, one night by the reflec.
tion of light on the . He ran to the win.
dow in time to see the tail light of a retreating
truck and in a glance saw that his barn doors
were open. bi
Too late to pursue, the farmer telephoned his
Jwghbors and the sheriff. It was not more than
an hour before the truck was halted and its
occupants captured. They had attempted to steal
thirty bu of wheat, harness, and a variety
of farm implements.
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Nt $/. The Modern Farm Home
os/ Has «a TELEPHONE
Bank Account, with the maintenance of
A a proper balance not only gives one
money in hand for present needs, but
what is much more valuable, ‘establishes a
certain credit with the Bank.
The banker knows this, and prospect-
ive borrowers who tell him they have no
bank account, show a lack of business
sense, and are at a disadvantage.
There are few people, who at one
time or another, do not have to borrow—
often the need is urgent.
Relations with a strong Bank will al-
ways help. The account may be small,
but it puts one on better terms with those
from whom one wishes to borrow.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
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Men's Suits{that, we stand back of
—as low as $18.50. It’s the Fau-
ble Store that, tells you this.
We also show better suits priced
from $22.50 and upwards, that
we, the Fauble Store, say to you:
These are America’s Best Clothes
priced to show a saving of from
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