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Bellefonte, Pa., August 7, 1981.
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INVENTOR'S MEALS
COOKED BY SUNLIGHT
A West Elizabeth inventor has a
pew device whereby sunlight cooks
his meals. A sun-driven device gen-
erates power that fries as tasty ham
and eggs as is possible to conceive.
It does every kind of cooking that
an electric stove can produce.
The inventor is William Snee, life-
long West Elizabeth resident. He is
the inventor of a hundred devices.
Harnessing sun rays presents a
particular appeal, it was pointed out.
Families who bemoan high cost of
fuel may be glad to know of the
device.
The sun-driven motor is simple.
There are five pairs of pipes, each
of small-size bore. They are con-
pected by elbow joints. To these are
attached a small dynamo and gen-
erator. Bottled sunlight in the coils
provides energy for the dynamo to
operate. One can attach the electric
plug and “tune in" on hot plate per-
colator, toaster or any other device.
One can attach the electric wash-
ing machine, sweeper, or even hair-
curling iron to the same dynamo.
Power generated is the same asone
gets at the electric outlets in one's
own home.
“There is no question as to the
amount of power,” Snee said. You
can get as much power as Niagara
Falls.”
Snee has been at work “harnessing
the sun” for years. He noted the
vast units of power wasted on days
when others merely mop brows and
say, “Whee. isn’t it hot?”
The principle is one of compres-
sion, he explains.
“If I had a whole acre of coils I
could get 5,000 horsepower of ener-
gy. Sunlight so compressed has an
on of 100 times. So I might
have 100 acres of energy compressed
into a single acre of tubes.”
An interesting side of the sun-
driven motor is that it will work
with equal facility after sundown.
Snee has been granted a govern-
ment patent on a safety device for
airplanes. The device is an automa-
tic control, whereby the plane is
kept at the altitude intended.
UNGUARDED WATER
MIGHT CARRY GERMS
OF TYPHOID FEVER
“Look out for typhoid fever,”
warns Dr. J. Moore Campbell, chief
of the division of communicable
diseases, State Department of Health.
“Remember what pened last
year, during the drought, when ty-
phoid fever jumped to ninety-nine
cases in July over two hundred in
August and to nearly four hundred
in September” Dr Campbell said.
“Somewhat similar conditions exist
this year although in a lesser de-
gree and it is to be hoped that our
typhoid fever rate will be much low-
er. However it is »p to the individ-
ual to take care himself and to
see to it that he drinks no water or
milk until he is sure of its purity.
Stay away from roadside wells and
springs unless they bear the approv-
al sign of the Department of Health.
“It should be remembered by trav-
elers, campers and persons on va-
cations that many other States do
pot have the same highway water
supply service that exists in Penn-
sylvania. Typhoid fever may be pick-
ed up in any farm or small village |
water supply taken from wells or
springs that are not properly pro-
tected.”
ONLY POOR SPORTSMEN
DIG OUT GROUNDHOGS
“A hungry bear likes to dig a
woodchuck from its den but it
isn't a sportsmanlike proceeding for |
Officials referred to the practice of
Game Commission officials
“hog hunters” who make no attempt |
to shoot the animals but depend en-
tirely upon digging them from their
holes.
Ability to kill them with a small
calibre rifle is the boast of many
sportsmen, some of whom use them
for food.
While the law does not protect
the little animals at any season of
the year Cemmission officials are
anxious not to have them extermi-
nated in sections where they can do
no damage.
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AUTOMATIC MACHINE
TEES UP GOLF BALLS
A machine that automatically tees
golf balls has an oval container,
holding several balls, to which a
movable spout is attached. Depress-
ing a short lever with a club end
causes the spout to drop, deposit-
ing a ball on a rubber tee. When
the ball is in position the spout
out of the way. It is used on
practice driving ranges, both indoors
and outdoors. Since it can be load- |
ed once for fifty drives there is no
time lost in setting up balls for
shots.
GOVERNMENT NAMES 87
Thirty-seven medical examiners
have been provided by the Depart-
ment of Commerce for examination
of airplane pilots in Pennsylvania. |
The physicians are located in 22
various cities of the State. Embryo |
aviators must be examined by one |
the designated examiners, who
are also authorized to issue student
permits to those passing the exam- |
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of
inations.
TO HEAT CAR QUICKLY
The amount of heat given out by
an exhaust heater is directly depend-
ent upon the voiume of hot gas)
vapor passing through the coils. The |
to get up heat quickly is |
to climb a hill in high gear, being |
careful not to drive so fast as to
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best way
to allow the car to roll to freely.
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Attitude Toward Time |
at the same rate. Our attitude
the thing that counts. If we
busy, if we are happily concerned
the affairs of life, we do not notice
passing of time. It is then we say
that it passes quickly. When we are |
bored and discontented and gloomy,
we think that time hangs heavily upor
sur hands. And it does.
The right attitude to the matter of
time should be something different. |
Time, and therefore experience, must
come and go. Are we being intelligent |
enough to utilize every second of time |
in the best possible way, and are we
directing our lives to the fullest possi-
ble advantage as a result of the ex-
perience? If we are not, we are not
pushing on. Valuable days are pass
ing, and people are suffering; some |
physically, some mentally; many in
both ways. There is no time to lose.
If we are economists of time and ef-
fort, as we should be, there is need
for a closer and a more intelligent
understanding and grasp of our jobs;
pot only our personal tusk, but the
business of caring for others.
We must push on. There must be
so faintheartedness, If we would lead, |
there must be courage and determina- |
tion.—Exchange.
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Queer Designations Given
Animal and Bird Groups |
Perhaps the ingenuity of the sports- i
oan Is nowhere better illustrated than |
by the use to which he puts the Eng- |
lish language In designating partic- |
ular groups of animals. Here is a list |
of terms which have been applied to
the various classes: |
A covey of partridges; a nide o
sheasants; a wisp of snipe; a flight
of doves or swallows; a muster of
peacocks; a selge of herons; a build
ing of rooks; a brood of grouse; a
plump of wild fowl
A stand of plovers; a watch 0
alghtingales; a clattering of choughs: |
a flock of geese; a herd or bunch of
cattle; a bevy of quails; a cast of
hawks; a trip of dotterell; a swarm
of bees; a school of whales.
A shoal of herrings; a herd o
swine; a skulk of foxes; a pack of
wolves; a drove of oxen; a sounder |
of hogs; a troop of monkeys; a pride |
of ons; a sleuth of bears; a gang of
olk.
Steed on His Dignity
Bill, aged six and one-half, came
home to announce pridefully that he
grade, and that he meant to be t
best boy In the world and study like |
everything. 5s : |
Imagine, then, the surprise of hi»
mother when the very next day she
got a note from Bill's teacher saying |
that Bill bad been astoundingly bad.
Actually, be had flatly and persistently |
refused to cut and paste and color
pictures,
“And you did It so beautifully ah
Mast term,” said his mother. “What |
ever possessed you to refuse?”
“Sure I did it swell last term,” Bil
agreed. “But you don't catch me do-
Ing baby stuff like that now I'm grown |
ap. What they've got to teach me Is
reading and writing and arithmetic, or |
ll walk out on 'em.”"—New York Sun. |
| Koreuns themselves us well as other
Co-Operative Farming
In an arid country, so rocky that h
compares favorably with the slope of
the Rocky mountains, a rancher has
tried to eke out a living for more than
years. With him lives his hired
w! bas been with him that
of time also, One day a visi:
asked the old rancher how he man-
to pay the old hand his wages.
“It’s this way,” said the rancher.
hired him for two yegrs and gave him
a mortgage on the ranch to guarantee
his wages. At the end of twe years
he got the ranch, and I went to work
for him on the same terms, For 50
years the ranch has passed back and
forth every two years and neither of
us has drawn a cent of wages. So we
made it pay.”
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Youth Must Be Served
A Pittsburg man addressing a local
luncheon club the other day said the |
eighty-one-year-old grandmother of the
family lives at his home.
Mot long ago, he related, she came |
back from a shopping trip with a pack- |
age and took it on up to her room.
There was considerable curiosity as to
what was In the package, but grand-
ma seriously objects to being ques-
tioned. A little later, however, she
came down with another bundle, and
handing It over to her daughter, re-
marked: “There are all my old
| nighties, get rid of them, for I've just |
DOCTORS FOR AIR TESTS
laid in a supply of siik pajamas that
I sport from now on.”"—Cincinnat! En-
quirer.
African Form of Greeting
Perhaps the nearest form to our |
handsheke found in Africe today Is |
the custom of the Hausas, a nation |
numbering more than 6,000,000, living
in northern Nigeria, The Hausamen
much the same manner that we do, |
only they do not shake them. Then |
after holding hands for a few mo
ments, with much feeling, they re |
lease their hold, and each touches |
his breast, and sometimes his fore. |
head. This is repeated two or three
times. They also clasp hands agnin
when parting
| will be struck by ightning in his home
| goddess. Kilnuea Is merely a crater | ; pad been separated one hundred
| sliding sideways toward the ground. |
about
| practically all fish swim: or drift down
WHY =—-—mr==
Many Men Fail to Make
Good as Business Leaders
Ambition and bard work are not suf- |
ficient to make real business leaders.
Ninety-nine out of a hundred average |
business men never become leaders
because they are unwilling to pay the
penalties that leadership demands, ac
cording to Owen D. Young. one of the
foremost Industrial and financial fig:
ures of the day, in an Interview in the
American Magazine.
“Lack of ambition—or lack of a sort
of wishful thinking that often passes
as ambition, Is rather rare. Most men
honestly want places of power, but
they refuse to believe that the price
is so high,” Young continues.
“There is nothing magical about
leadership. But there are certain pen-
altles attached to It. The average
man has a sneaking notion that he
| can get ahead just as fast and be com-
fortable at the same time. He thinks,
no doubt, that in his case it won't be
necessary to pay the penalties—tha*
he can beat the game.
“By the penalties of responsibility
I mean the hard driving, continuous
work—the little dally sacrifices—the
cournge to face facts, to make de
cisions, to stand the gaff—the scourg:
ing honesty of never fooling yourself
about yourself. Even when human be
ings do apprehend at least dimly, the
real cost of leadership, too often they |
If
they had a big crisis to meet, on which |
they knew thelr whole future would |
| depend. they would meet
it with
| clenched fists and a high heart. Bui
in the little daily demands—the things |
they can do or duck—it Is here they |
tail. If you see anyone shy away |
from a task, however small, you may |
be sure that you can't rely on him |
qt the finish.”
Why Use of Lightning
Rods Is of Real Value
While it is true that If lightning
should strike a building equipped with
lightning rods the lightning probably
would run off rods without harming
the building, the principal function of
Benjamin Franklin's device, as stu
dents of physics know, is to neutralize
elouds charged with electricity.
The reason for this lies in the be
havior of tiny electrical charges called
electrons, Caldwell & Curtis’ “Introduce
tion to Science” points out.
“Although most persons fear the
lightning, there really is very little
chance of being struck by It.” the
book says. “It recently has been esti-
mated that the chances that a person
are only one in many millions.”
Why Old Custom Prevails
The custom of casting chelo berries
into the crater of the volcano is a very
anclent one in Hawall, The object
is to propitiate the goddess Pele. The
goddess Pele appears in various guises.
Formerly it was believed that she
would never allow the volcano to harm
any Individuals, but the recent flows |
of luva have shown this to be not true
Red flags are often placed to mark the |
boundaries of the village and a live |
pig Is tied In front us a sacrifice to the |
on the largest volcano in the world |
though not the loftiest. |
Why Korea Became “Chosen”
“Korea” wus the name given to the
country in northeastern Asie by for
eigners, particularly Europeans. The
Orientals preferred to call the coun
try “Chosyon,” because that was the
old native name. *Chosyon,” usually
written “Chosen” In English, is from
Chinese “Ch’ao Hsien.” It was nnt-
ura. that the Japanese, after they took
possession of the kingdom of Koren
should have preferred to call it Chos
en.—Pathfinder Magazine.
Why Ne Lift on Wings
When an airplane Is on a $0-degree
banked turn in a vertical bank, there
is no lift upward on the wing. There
is a lift Inward toward the center of
the circle, however, and this In part
helps to counteract the force of
gravity and prevents the plane from
In other words, the plane travels |
in a circle and is jammed
against the air as if it were an auto
mobile traveling about the inside of a
racing bowl. i
Why Insect le “Spider”
The word “spider Is merely a cor
rupted form of the noun “spinner.”
which Is derived from an old Anglo
Saxon verb “splunan,” meaning to
spin. The spider was So called be
cause it spins a weh.— Exchange.
Why Named the Balkans
The Balkan mountains huve given
their name to the Balkan peninsula
the area between the Black, Ageun
and Adriatic seas, and this In turo
has given its name to the countries
into which It is divided.
Why Fishes Face Currest
The bureau of fisheries says that
stream tall first. They face the cur
rent in order to hold their position.
Why Touch of Tinfoil Hurts
Tinfoil coming in contact with the
sold filling In a tooth causes a sharp
pain because a slight electrical cur
rent is thus generated.
Why Jurors Were Summoned |
Originally the jury of 12 neighbors |
sux chosen because of thelr knew! |
pdge of the accused.
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| hour or two—consuming such tobac-
| Cliristinas tree.
Gorgeous Funeral Even
for Lowliest Chinaman
The Chinese pay their doctors not
to cure their ills but to keep them
well, because, though it is cheap for
them to live, it is exceedingly expen
sive to dle. Even the poorest and most |
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miserable coolie, who existed on a
few cents a dey. attains dignity and |
importance in death among his ances- |
tor-worshing fellows. His family will |
mortgage its income for years to give |
him a funeral consistent with its ides
of prestige.
For the rich mandarin the final hon- |
org are proportionately greater.
And |
to provide a fitting send-off to distin- |
guished citizens the Nanking govern-
ment has adopted a state burial law
allowing $10,000 funeral expenses In
meritorious cases. Often when a death
occurs in China a necromancer Is |
called In to arrange details and name |
an auspicious day for interment, which
may take place from one to five weeks |
after death. During this period rel-
atives and friends, in white mourning, |
lament loudly in the death chamber.
Buddhist and Taoist priests intone |
prayers for the departed spirit. Can-
dles burn. Blue, perfumed incense ar
~ends In clouds.
On the day of burial a procession
forms, made up partly of paid mourn-
ers. It is led by musicians with
drums, cymbals, fifes and flutes. Its ||
size and splendor depend on the
amount of money the bereaved family
can spend.
Writer Advises Letting
Young Authors Struggle |
Rising young authors ought to strug-
gle. It is the only way to prove they
are good for anything. It is not wis
dom to give a prize of $18,000 for a
first novel. The book is written for |
the prize, not as a talented emanatior
| +hat could not be withheld.
Prizes are now dangled everywhere
by publishers for all sorts of literary
output. Yet we know that the beat
of all literature is that which bubbles
out with no greedy eye on what is ts
he paid for it.
Not but that the seally precious
should be rewarded as It deserves.
While one may still feel a qualm that
poor Milton got but £10 (wasn't It?)
for “Paradise Lost,” he may rejoice
that our modern authors live comfort-
ably—many of them sfuently—on the
product of their pens. No one be
them wealth; but that wealth
grudges
or the hope of it, should not corrupt |
| thelr literary integrity.—St. Lculs
Globe-Democrat.
Plymouth Rock Reunited
The secretary of the Pilgrim soclety |
of |
: "In 1774 the Inhabitants
Plymouth decided to remove the fo-
mous, rock to Town square and estab-
lish & shrine of liberty. When they
attempted to raise It, however, It
broke into two parts, one of which |
was permitted to remain and the oth- |
| er earried to its destination. It re- J
| mained there until 1884, when it was |
removed to the yard in front of Pil- }
| grim hall, where it was surrounded by
an iron fence. It so remained until
1880, when it was pemoved and placed
on that part of the rock from which
and six years before, and over which,
The peristyle which now surrounds it
was erected by the Soclety of Coloni Hi
al Dames.”
Smoking Throughout Sermon
The question asked by the bishop
of Ely whether listeners put out their
pipes during the broadcasting of re-
ligious services would not have trou-
bled the clergy of past generations,
writes a columnist in the Manchester
(England) Guardian. In some of our
parish churches smoking during the |}
service used tc be so commonm that |
pipe-racks and spittoons were provid-
ed, and in Wales ax late as 1850 the
start of the sermon was an accepted
signal for the male members of the
congregation to light up. Readers of
“The Heart of Midlothian,” too, will
remember an
who smoked throughout the whole of
the sermon—often a matter of an
co as he could borrow from other
worshipers.
In his “A Systematic Dictionary of
Nea Terms” C, Grand Plerre says on
this subject: “Dead reckoning is the
estimation of a vessel's position by
means other than direct observations,
when tliese are not feasible. Unlike
all other marine uses of the word,
dead, here, does not express anything
inert or adverse. Formerly logs were
loose ruled sheets of a prescribed
narrow to admit the words ‘deduced
latitude’ in full, the expression was
abbreviated ‘ded. 1.’ and later short |
ened to ‘ded’ which was corrupted to |
‘dead.’ "—Pathfinder Magazine.
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Origin of Christmas Tree
important personage
| meanwhile, an elaborate granite can- ||
opy may now be seen, in its original
position, on the shore at Plymouth. |
Business, as Some
Economists See It
Mr. Babson says: No depression lasts longer
than it takes to wear out two pairs of shoes.” The
Harvard Economic Service finds the foreign situation
very serious, but points to the great activity in shoe
manufacturing, and to the advance of 50% in the
price of hides. While this is local, and may not per-
sist, it gives point to Mr. Babson’s saying.
The Anualist, while admitting that conditions
abroad have not improved, says, “At home, on the
contrary, various indices indicate a substantial up
turn in business activity.” Commerce and Finance
feels that pessimistic conditions which prevail over-
seas, have been exaggerated; that, but for the fear
of another war, we would probably find ourselves in
the midst of the greatest business revival ever
known. All the conditions for such a revival are |
here. Cheap money, abundant credit, adequate |
labor and an improved understanding of economic
laws- And thus it goes.
Mr. Babson was almost alone in publically pre-
dicting the 1929 crash. Maybe he is right now.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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The Scandinavians of North Europe | |
worshiped trees in thelr pre-Christian |
days, the special deity of the North- |
men sea-savages being called Ydrasil,
or The Tree of Life,
Their Tree of Life was adopted by | |
Christian England as an emblem of |
the Blessed Savior, and has been for
centuries the center of the gift-be- Jif
stowing at the hlessed season as a | jf
In olden times it was
placed on the rood screens, in the
minstrel’'s gallery, or in the chancels
of the chnreches
Baney’s Shoe Store
WILBUR H. BANEY, Proprietor
80 years in the Business
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Our Entire Stock of
Boys’ Wash Suits
ON SALE
AT ONE PRICE