Demorraic Wald,
Bellefonte, Pa., April 18, 1930.
THE EASTER BUNNY.
He is only the Easter bunny,
Big and soft and white,
With little pink nose, so funny,
And little stub tail upright.
He's out on his annual errand,
Locating nests today,
Soon to be filled with eggs,
Brilliantly colored and gay.
Don’t forget to have yours ready,
For on his nightly round
He hippety hops in a hurry,
And late ones won't be found.
KEEPERS GUARD
AIR LIGHTHOUSE.
“Lighthouse tenders,” 120 miles
from the sea, are the two young
men at Numidia; Pa. who operate
the only radio beacon between
Bellefonte, Pa,, and Hadley Field, N.
J., which keeps the New York-Cleve-
land air mail on its course.
New York city is just an hour
away from the beacon on the mail
schedule and Bellefonte 35 minutes
to the west. The radio beacon at
Numidia marks a curve in the
course and also the point where the
plane’s radio must be changed from
the tuning that brings in Hadley
field to the wave length that brings
in Bellefonte.
On duty 24 hours a day, Malcolm
Dale and Stanley Beaver alternate
weeks in working the day and
night shifts. They make weather
observations and report the passing
of planes over the mail route.
The radio beacon apparatus op-
erates automatically from a huge
battery, sending a signal of four
dots. Through its use, pilots have
flown blindly in the fog from Belle-
fonte to Hadley field, listening to
the two stations and changing their
tuning as they passed Numidia.
The Numidia station, rimmed by
mountains that form one of the most
treacherous stretches of country
over which the mail passes, also has
a beacon light. It was near there
that Thomas P. Nelson leaped
from a burning plane last Novem-
ber and landed safely, only to lose
his life one month latter in a crash
in Ohio.
The Numidia radio beacon is
known as a “marker” while those
at Bellefonte and Hadley field are
direction beacons.
Authorization has been made for
the installation of three additional
radio beacons in Pennsylvania. Two
will be installed in the rugged east-
ern section at Slatington, east
of Numidia.
KEEP OLD CUSTOM.
Of all annual festivals among
Christian nations, Easter seems to
have made the most serious im-
pression, and the customs connected
with its first celebrations to have
lingered the longest. Europe, with
its many nations, and, therefore,
many peoples has ever been the
Scene of various ceremonies distinct-
ly belonging to the separate coun-
tries, with the Latin church always
in the lead in the matter of pictur-
esque symbols and processions.
The war last year and this will
make a difference in some districts,
but wherever there are a few gath-
ered together in his name in the
neighborhood of mighty cathedrals
still standing, or tiny kirks in the
heart of the woods or along the
sea, there will be some feature of the
story of the Atonement be told in
symbols.
In Brittany, a southern province
of France, which nestles close to
the Pyrenees, and in consequence
perhaps takes on something of the
colorful atmosphere of its neigh-
bors, the Spanish provinces, many
interesting customs are observed. It
is a land of legends.
On Easter morning at the Church
of St. Cronley, in the village of
Finistere, Brittany, every man, wo-
man and child of the vicinity is in
attendance. The women and chil-
dren are in their best frocks and
snowiest caps, and the men are
leading the cattle to the door of
this church, which would do credit
to a city of size.
"There the priest receives the men
and animals, and while the women
cluster around, gravely listening,
the cattle are blessed and the care
of St. Cronley invoked in their be-
half. This saint is a great favorite
all over Brittany; and, like so many
traditions of the Bretpns, his story
is connected with many legends.
He was hunted by wild men un.
‘til death seemed near, when sud-
«denly every pursuer was turned into
a stone, and so they stand today,
one group forming a regular border
along the road from Carnac to Ker-
‘lescant. !
seme fever
‘STATE COLLEGE WILL
ADMIT 1225 FRESHMEN.
One thousand men will be admit-
ted to the Pennsylvania State Col-
lege in the freshman class next
fall, according to Registrar W. S.
Hoffman, who said that the total
freshman enrollment would probably
be 1225. Fifty students will start
their Penn State college careers at
Mont Alto, where the first year’s
work in forestry is now taken, and
175 women students will be admit-
ted, an increase of five per cent
over last year.
LEADING ENGINEERS TO
MEET AT STATE COLLEGE.
In calling the eleventh annual in-
dustrial conference at the Pennsyl-
vaia State College for May 15-17,
Dean R. L. Sackett, of the School
of Engineering stressed the growing
meed for technically trained men in
industry. A number of men in the
foreranks of American industrial
life will attend, including C. BE. Den-
ny, president of the Erie Railroad,
who is a Penn State graduate.
Basque Peace Officers
Kept Reasonably Busy
Unique is the miguelete. Every-
where in Spain, from the gates of the
royal palace in Madrid out to the re-
motest, humblest hamlets, the civil
guardsmen have the right of way—
except in the Basque province of Guil-
puzcoa. The Basques have their own
police, called migueletes, who wear a
Jaunty uniform of baggy red trousers,
a blue tunic with a cape fixed to the
shoulders and a red boina on their
heads (a contrast to the civil guards’
yellow trappings and gray or black uni-
forms and shiny cocked hats, trian-
gular and of oilskin). Although a sol-
dier, armed and trained as such, the
miguelete, instead of parading about
in idleness, has many civilian duties.
He carries all the official mail in the
province, conveys lunatics to the mod-
ern asylum, inspects the roads, teaches
the illiterates to read and write, col-
lects telephone tolls and also taxes.
A Basque is always ready with a bet,
which is the common way of ending a
dispute about handball, tree felling,
grass mowing, stone lifting, swimming,
about what weight his pair of oxen
will drag or the fighting powers of a
ram from his herd. On every bet a
percentage is due and is collected by
the miguelete. It is the miguelete
also who takes charge of the savings
bank accounts, and so great is the
confidence he inspires among the
peasantry that old and young hand
over their hard-earned reales and
pesetas to this red-legged cop. What
prestige! Indeed, it has been proposed
that the League of Nations study the
corps with a view to making it a world
organization.
France First Country
to Organize Zouaves
Zouave is the name of a tribe of
Berbers in Algeria. In 1831 the French
recruited two battalions of Berber sol-
diers, who were uniformed in their na-
tive costume. In about ten years they
were converted into an infantry branch
of the French army and the uniform
retained. Before the World war there
were four regiments of zouaves still |
in the French army. The first service |
that these troops saw outside Algeria |
was in the Crimean war. They at-
tracted much attention because of
their uniforms and their fighting qual-
ities, and volunteer military organiza-
tions throughout the world adopted the
uniform, or a modification of it, and
the drills and tactics. There were
several of these zouave companies in
the Civil war, and they were taker
into the army as organized.
Canadian Bituminous Sands
In what is known as the McMurray
country in Canada, 300 miles north of
Edmonton, are to be found extensive
deposits of bituminous sand. The fu-
ture commercial significance of these
deposits is as yet not generally real-
ized, it adds, although it is possible
that eventually they may prove to be
of real national importance.
it is thought the bituminous sand in
Canada is in many respects similar to
the oil shale in the United States and
that the development of bituminous
sand should be considered quite as se-
riously as that of the oil shales. Yield
per ton from the latter will, in some in-
stances, be higher than from bitumi-
nous sand, but, from the point of view
of mining costs and certain other fae-
tors, the development of bitumi-
nous sands will probably have advan-
tages over oil shales.
Put Health First
The views of students as to what
makes life happy are revealed by a
ballot competition conducted by the
National Union of Students through-
out the universities of England and
Wales, says the London Observer. The
following was the order of importance
voted for the various attributes con-
ducive to a happy life:
A sound constitution; a sense of hu-
mor; a congenial occupation; an as-
sured future; a charming wife (or
husband); a blameless reputation;
£400 a year; a brilliant career; a thick
skin; a good cook; a persuasive man-
ner; a library and a poker face
(equal); an artistic temperament; a
schoolgirl complexion.
Tut-Tut! :
All judicial humor, fortunately, is
not retrospective. While some judges
dig .it up from the past, others are
busy extracting it frem the present.
A little while ago it was stated be-
fore a well known judge that a com-
pany was to run a revue named
“King Tut-Tut.”
His honor rubbed his brow.
“What does ‘Tut-Tut’ mean?” he in-
quired.
“It is an expression,” replied coun.
sel, “used on the golf links when a
man misses his drive.”
“You mean when the clergy are pres-
ent,” suggested the judge, amid
laughter.—Birmingham (Eng) Weekly
Post.
Native of the Tropics
Avocados are available in a number
of varieties from August and Septem-
ber on through to the first of the year,
says Nature Magazine. The tree,
clean and rather attractive, often
growing to be from 30 to 50 feet high,
is a native of Mexico, Central America
and the mountains of Colombia. Thus,
there are three main branches of the
family, but the common, or West In-
dian avocado, extensively grown in
south Florida, is the most tropical and
bears the largest fruit. This fruit is
covered with a leathery skin, which,
when ripe, is green or, in some in-
stances, a shade toward purple.
“Cover the Well Before
the Child Falls In”
—Old German Proverb |
"AWNING wells in back yards
Y where children play are prac-
tically extinct nowadays, but
the old German proverb still holds
good. Today few children are in
danger of plunging headlong into un-
covered wells through their parents’
carelessness, but in other ways they
need just as much protection as ever.
Children have little sense of dan-
ger. The normal, sturdy boy does
not fear the open well. Older and
more experienced heads must protect
him by such a device as placing a lid
over the opening and keeping it there.
Many other dangers exist in child-
hood, not so obvious as the open well,
but for which effective lids are at
hand. For instance, no child needs
to have diphtheria today. Smallpox
is another equally preventable dan-
ger. Scientific investigation tells us
that tuberculosis usually begins in
childhood, lies quiet and unobserved
for years and then flares up in adult
life as the recognized disease fatal to
many.
If we would cover the well as a
protection against tuberculosis we
must keep the child from becoming
infected with tuberculosis germs; in-
fection usually occurs from close
contact with active cases. Even the
ancients observed that “tuberculosis
runs in families.” They thought it
was inherited, but we know this fs
not true. Whenever it “runs in fami-
lies” it is because the seeds may be
readily implanted in the young body
when it lives in close contact with a
tuberculous person. It may be a fond
mother, a loving father, a dear old
grandmother afflicted with what she
er ———et—
“chronic bronchitis,” who neg-
calls
lects to cover the well.
Another protective measure is to
build up the child’s resistance. In
spite of all precautions, most persons
sooner or later encounter the tubercle !
bacillus.” But if the resistance of the
body keeps the upper hand, the dis-
ease does not develop into its serious
form. This resistance can be in-
creased to a great extent. Modern
science now makes it possible to pro-
tect chlidren against many resistance-
weakening diseases. Modern training
methods help to rear children to be
healthy and strong. They must have
plenty of sleep, well-regulated work
and play, sunshine and good food at
proper intervals. They must be
trained to form health habits.
Because the early stages of tuber-
culosis are usually without signs or
symptoms, the condition remains un-
discovered in many cases until it is
too late. Therefore, it is well to have
the child examined frequently by a
doctor.
X-ray help to discover early signs
before severe damage has been done.
In a few places in the United
States large groups of school children
have been examined for the earl
form of tuberculosis. About qne
of every fifty apparently we
dren were discovered to have it, and
t
many more were classified as “sus-
picious.” In all these
were taken to prevent the fu
development of the digease—-in 0
words, these communities are cover-
ing their wells.
So—cover your well before your
child falls in.
The tuberculin test and the
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Finds Throw Light on
Tribe of Philistines
Reality and even Individuality has
heen given to the Philistines, who for
80 many generations have been no
more than a name, by some of Sir
Flinders Petrie’s observations on dis
coveries in Palestine.
It was while searching in the
trenches made by Lord Allenby's
troops in Palestine that the most curi-
ous revelations were made about miss
ing epochs in Biblical history.
First the diggers found knives, hand
grenades, spoons, and “spurious Egyp-
tian antiquities” bought and brought
there by English and Australian sol-
diers. Next the Roman occupation of
Vespasian was unearthed, then a city
of the Greeks, and then pilgrim bot:
tles carried when Solomon was king.
Last came the periods of the Egyp-
tian conquests and weapons of the al-
most legendary Philistines, together
with objects, scarabs and jewels, which
trace the journey of the Israelites te
the Promised land.
Strangest of all, is that the soldiers
who fought in the Armageddon of the
Twentieth century, should by their
work have enabled the archeologist to
trace records of the people whose
prophets spoke of the Armageddon to
come,
Great College Honor
Nothing to Hotel Man
Where is the high-school student
who has not at sometime thought of
making Phi Beta Kappa at college?
‘Where are the parents who have not
hoped their son in college would make
the national honorary scholarship fra-
ternity? How—in the mind of the
scholastic world—could greater honor
be achieved? So much for that.
The other day in a large hotel a
guest stepped up to the manager's
desk and announced he .desired to
identify himself so that he might get
a check cashed.
“Have you anything to
you?” the manager asked.
“Why, yes,” sald the guest after
some hesitation, “here's a Phi Beta
Kappa key with my name on it.”
After looking at the key long and
earnestly the manager looked up and
exclaimed:
“Sorry, sir, I'm afraid this won't do.
Haven't you got a good Elks’ card or
something?'—New York Sun.
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Luxury, It Would Seem,
Depends on Viewpoint
Recently the Woman passed throuzh
one of the poor sections of New York
at 3 o'clock, just when hundreds of
school children were being releastd.
Directly ahead of her three little girls
strolled. One of them, a pale child
who looked as if sunlight and vege-
tables were not part of her daily
regime, was conducting a monologue.
In a high pitched, excited voice she
was describing a bedspread which had
been sent as a gift to the child's moth-
er,
“It’s so bee-utifyl, like sunshine. All
smooth and golden, It's like that
Look here!”
The children with the Woman—just
a step away—stopped before a dingy
store. Its window displayed a bed:
spread, cheap, coarse, glaring yellow,
“Isn't it lovely?” the little girl
asked.
The woman had visions of a poor
back apartment into which the sun
never peeped, To its occupants that
golden bedspread stood for every lux-
ury of life. The woman looked from
the happy face of the child to the
spread. Perhaps it was not so glaring
if you saw it from the right angle.
New York Sun.
Early Diving Suit
The diving suit is not so new as
one might think. A patent was grant-
ed to John Stapleton on March 17,
1693, for “a new engine so by him con-
trived as to permit a person enclosed
in it to walk under water, and to a
new invented way to force air into
any depth of water to supply the per-
son in the said engine therewith and
for continuing a lamp burning under
water; also a way to descerate and
purify the air so as to make the same
serviceable for respiration.”
Ask Me
She had done everything wrong.
She had disregarded the signal lights,
then stalled in the middle of the
street, and before starting had taken
out her powder puff and started te
apply It to her face. An {irate traffic
officer rushed up:
“Say, lady, do you know anything
at all about traffic rules?”
“Why, yes. What is it that you
want to know ?’—Chatham News.
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It will be to your interest to
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