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tic atcha,
Bellefonte, Pa., October 9, 1981.
Your Health
Don't pass lightly over this col-
umn and when you have finished
, don't let Mrs. Fisher's
thoughts on Eugenics and Race
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WASHINGTON FOUGHT
HIS FIRST BATTLE
ON PENNSYLVANIA SOIL.
The Young Colonel Started the
French and Indian War near
Uniontown. “Fort Necessity” to
be Restored and Made a National
Shrine.
Last Tuesday, the Acting Secretary
of War, Honorable Fred H. Payne
and the national director of the
George Washington Bicentennial
Commission, Congressman Sol Bloom,
journeyed up from Washington toa
point ten miles east of Uniontown
and there, in a great open meadow,
broke ground as a preliminary to
the erection of a monument which
the United States government
will build on the site of George
Washington's first battle. “Fort Ne-
Betterment pass lightly out of your | cessity,” the young Washington call-
mind. There is
possibly not a ed it, and
reader in this community who has dire necessity for he
surely he regarded it asa
was being
not visited or heard about the calo- pressed hard by a force of French
rimeter at State College as it has and Indians five times the size of
long been considered the most in- his command.
teresting research work being car-
ried on there.
adays strives
ultry, even
poss zinnias, dahlias,
to raise blooded stock,
Every farmer now-'
When those two officials made
that trip from Washington to break
better and bigger to- ‘ground for the monument, they fol-
etc., and, lowed, for
most of the way,
evolution into something better and route that young Colonel Washing-
finer is the goal for everything but ton followed when he led his forces
Better Blooded Children!
Shouldn't | yp, from Virginia.
With this dif-
that be the most important prob- go ..nce however;.they went in six
lem for this “cocky” American na-
tion to attack; One hundred years
of promiscuous breeding has brought
—what? Let's try one
years of wise selection!
By Florence Fisher Parry
Twenty grand, Top Flight, Gal-
jant Fox, Princess Doreen, do these
names mean anything to you? Did
hundred through the woods and
you think of them when you sat at |
the Penn and watched that epic
picture of the race track, “Sporting
Blood?” I did. I thought of how
they proved the case of Heredity.
The Whitneys know all about hered-
ity. So do all horse fanciers, and
dog fanciers, and cattle fanciers.
They hew close to the line when it
comes to picking the forbears of
their favorites. “Blood tells,” they
could tell you.
It was just one phase of social
research which the Wickersham
Commission neglected to report ade-
juately when it gave its findings on
the Crime situation tn the United
States.
I listened in on Sunday to a
proadcast from Philadelphia, by Dr.
John M. Fisher, on “Heredity, En-
vironment and the Development of
Character.” I couldn't get it down
well, I wish I could have done
30. I should have liked to give you
3 literal report of what he said.
Some of it could make scare-heads
to tremble over! For it outlined
pretty clearly just where we are
jeading in our heedless disregard
»f the fundamentl principles of bi.
logy.
He reminded us that we have
nore money, more machinery, more
novies, radios, autos and luxuries of
Ww description than can be found
rip the countries of Europe.
We have more colleges, more stu-
jents, more children without paren-
al ce, more divorces, more
tate and civic political debauchery,
nore highway robberies, murders;
ve boast more laws, courts and
uries; and, correspondingly, we
\ave more houses of correction, pris.
ms and jails overfilled with social
ferelicts than exist throughout Eng-
and, France and Germany combin-
d
He reminded us that the insane
nd hopelessly feeble-minded in pub-
ic institutions in the United States
wmtnumber the sick and injured in
dl the hospitals of our country,
wen without our reckoning with
he hordes of the economically well-
o-do in private sanitariums, and the
aany thousands of the “better
-rades” of delinquents who are at
arge reproducing their kind.
What accounts for the constantly
aounting social depravity, lawless-
ess and crimes of every description
hat are afflicting the nation? Dr.
‘isher is ready with his answer:
the eighties and nineties
nd greater part of the present cen-
ury, our legislative fathers permit.
ed steamship companies, for pur-
oses of realizing instant profit, to-
‘ether with corporations and
heap labor agencies, to bring to
ur shores the lowest denizens of
outhern Europe; and the injection
f the biologic inferiors of Europe
onverted a controllable condition
ito a malignant one.
When our immigration laws were
t their worst was when the dam-
ge was started and is still piling
Rired "of cone ‘of hia European
of one
riends, “Why, is it that Italy suf-
ors less from high crimes than
.merica, while so much of the
riminality of our own country is
e to many of your own
ace?” The native replied, “We
snd all of our criminals”
Vvhat he could have said was,
While you secure a limited num.
er of our better stock, we send
ou our feeble-minded who repro-
uce their kind and infect your
eople with their lowered heredity
wough their inferior Rig
How a good biologic inheritance
ay be handed down through suc-
sssive generations, and how, on the
ther hand, it may be dissipated
nd submerged by the same pro-
»ss through contrasting matings,
ilustrated by the Kilikak family
ell known to all students of hered-
More than 150 years ago, Martin
ilikak, of excellent biologic back-
round, married a woman of heroic
acestry and superior endowment.
total of 496 descendants of this
ock have been traced. Among
iem have been signers of the
eclaration of Independence, univer-
ity founders, doctors, lawyers,
idges, educators, and other highly
seful members of society, up to the
resent day. There has been found
) trace of feeble-mindedness.
hours, while it took Washington
eight weeks to make his way
over the
mountains.
The historical significance of the
battle of Fort Necessity in 1754, or
the Battle of Great Meadows as it
is sometimes called, is very great.
Voltaire says it was “the shot fired
in the woods of America which set
all Europe ablaze” for it was the be-
ginning of the Seven Years War in
Europe which rebuilt the map of
the old world.
It was also the beginning of the
French and Indian War on this
continent which ended by eliminat-
ing the French as a colonizing in-
fluence in North America and de-
creed that the new nation should be
Anglo-Saxon.
It was the young George Wash-
ington's first battle. Here he was
sixty wilderness miles away from
his base, but the courage and re-
sourcefulness which he showed sc
impressed the officers under him
that one of them twenty years later
nominated Washington before the
Continental Congress to be Com-
mander-in.Chief of the Revolution-
ary army.
The young Colonel Washington
himself was so impressed by the
importance of this battle, that he
came back after the close of the
war and bought the entire Great
Meadows property of three hundred
and thirty four acres and held it
until his death, and disposed of it
in his will as one of his prized pos-
sessions.
It is this same property, once
owned by the Father of our Coun-
try, which the State of Pennsylva-
nia has recently purchased for the
purpose of maintaining it as a State
park. The central two acres, ou
which Fort Necessity itself stood
(and the outlines are still visible)
have been acquired by the United
States government and money has
been appropriated by Congress to
erect a monument there. It was al
the ground-breaking for this monu-
ment where the Acting Secretary of
War officiated last Tuesday.
The Pennsylvania Department of
the American Legion has voted to
provide the funds for restoring the
old fort itself, to appear just as it
did when Washington built it one
hundred and seventy seven years
ago. The Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution and the Sons of the
American Revolution and other pa-
triotic and fraternal organizations
are aiding in other phases of the
memorial. The school children in
most of the counties of Western
Pennsylvania are planning to give
their small coins also to the crea:
tion of a great patriotic shrine at
Fort Necessity.
This will be the only memorial of
its kind to Washington and to the
colonial period of our nation west of
the Alleghenies and it is estimated
that when the Fort Necessity mem:
orial park is completed, it will at-
tract about a million visitors a year,
for it is on one of the most traveled
highways in the country.
On the other hand, this scion of
good blood before his marriage to
the woman of quality, had an affair
with an attractive but feeble-mind-
ed girl. The result was the sub-
mergence of the superior male po-
tentials by the dominating inferior-
ity of the girl. For six successive
generations this union produced
feeble-minded and non-resisting pro-
geny. A total of 480 descendants
have been traced, 143 were known
to be feeble-minded, 36 were illegiti-
mate, 33 sexual perverts, 24 confirm
ed alcoholics, three epileptics, three
criminals, eight keepers of brothels,
and 83 children so feeble that they
died in infancy.
Upon our choice of a partner may
depend, therefore, the birth of a
genius who may live to bless man-
kind, or that of a future jail bird.
Better citizens cannot be made
with laws alone. Biologic knowl-
edge, eugenic practices, will do far
more to minister to and rehabilitate
the citizens of this country, than all
the social relief organizations, hos-
pitals, asylums, charity and so-call-
ed education can hope to do. Until
that day comes, we need not be sur-
prised at the contents of succeeding
“Wickersham reports.
the |
ing importance of which
it close to almost every citizen of
the Commonwealth. The statement
follows: - »
“As the House committee on game,
we are entrusted with a serious re-
sposibility and a task of no small
difficulty.
| which there are so many divergent
|and conflicting opinions. Our Penn-
| sylvania wild life has become a mat-
| ter of very real importance and in-
| timately touckes the imagination and
| the recreational activities of every
| citizen, man, woman and child; near-
|ly everyone has some pet theory or
game
game
administration; this primary consid
eration should never be overlooked.
quite
supervision, the present supply may | ihe
gradually and substantially
|sire to see put into practice and throughout favorable game areas is
which they fondly believe would the constant problem which will re. |
prove their wisdom and capacity to guire the best thought and sincere
| propagate,
‘our wild animals and birds.
maintain and conserve cooperation of all parties concern
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be | Friday,
deep seated conviction that they de- | creased; equitable distrib ution 2:00 o'clock P. 3
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“Now therefore, be it resolved, by |
“Many estimable persons become the game committee of the House,
obsessed with a notion that this or session of 1931, General Assembly of
| that thing is radically wrong; that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
| this or that
remedy and should be put into prac-
tice forthwith; the customary pana-
| cea “There ought to be a law” sug-
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| gests itself, and soon another game
bill is introduced. Each session we
(are flooded with a number of new
| bills widely divergent in character,
| often conflicting in terms, and us-
{ually inconsistent in purpose with
| regretable lack of knowledge on the
is the true and only that this preamble and resolution be
printed as a public document of edu- | tp,
| five an
cational value and economic service,
in such numbers as may be required
! distances,
for state-wide circulation to schools,
sportsmen’s organizations and
Granges, to all members of the As-
sembly and other interested parties,
| under supervision of the secretary of
| this committee.
| the game code; often they betray a |
part of the farmers, and in all too
| many instances would, if enacted,
do more harm than
“It is unfortunate and a burden
of expense on the Commonwealth,
that so much of the time and activ-
ity of this committee and of the
| business sessions of the Assembly
| should be taken up in the considera-
tion and disposal of bills which ob-
viously could not and should not be
enacted. With a view towards
eliminating so much lost motion, to
reduce the number of useless and
unwise bills introduced, and to con-
serve the time and efforts of this
committee, it seems to us appro-
priate that we should undertake, by
means of a resolution to be adopted
by this committee and to be gener-
ally circulated and given statewide
publicity as a matter of oublic in-
formation and of decided education-
al value, to bring about a better
more efficient cooperation among
and between the public, the game
commission and the Legislature.
“We appeal to the people of
State, sportsmen, nature-lovers, and
all who are interested in conserva-
tion and the propagation and main-
tenance of our wild life, whenever
they observe faults or defects in
local application of the game code,
or an apparent need for supplemen-
tary laws, to ever bear in mind
that conditions vary widely in dif-
ferent sections of the State, and
what you might justifiably regard as
desirable and beneficial in your own
locality, might be wholly inappro-
priate and harmful in other dis-
trictss In a great State such as
Pennsylvania, highly industrialized,
with extensive and productive agri.
cultural interests spread over much
of the State, with great urban cen-
ters, and thousands of busy and
thriving cities and towns, yet hav-
ing millions of acres of forests and
waters, wild lands, much of it com-
paratively sterile and unfitted for
cultivation, with mountains and
plains, with wide differences in cli-
matic conditions, it is obvious that
uniform laws and regulations, rigid-
ly Sopher, could not possibly be
equally satisfactory and beneficial to
all parts of the State. There must
be a considerable range of flexibility,
as every reasonable person will free-
ly admit.
“Recognizing this condition, the
State Legislautre has sought to pro-
vide a solution of the difficulty by
what seems the only practical meth-
od, which is to delegate certain dis-
cretionary powers to the State game
commission so that this commission
might modify or suspend certain
provisions of the game code in
townships or counties where condi-
tions appeared to require it. Suc-
cessful game administration on so
vast a scale as in the great State
of Pennsylvania is a highly special-
ized undertaking, and, as in all
human activities, some mistakes are
unavoidable; but with an attitude of
reasonable patience on the part of
the public, with the patriotic cooper-
ation of interested sportsmen, all
mistakes of omission or commission
will speedily become apparent and
quickly be corrected.
“On the whole, the present game
code has proven to be the best piece
of constructive legislation ever yet
devised for the welfare and prop-
agation of wild life and to pro-
mote recreational sports in m
civilized areas. Of course, it is
reasonable to expect that some
modifications, eliminations’ or addi.
tions will become advisable from
time to time, but these should be
carefully considered, thoroughly dis-
cussed, nd enacted only after cool
and deliberate reflection.
“We urge that sportsmen and cit-
izens interested in our wild life who
have grievances, or who have con-
structive proposals to present, to
first enlist the support of local
sporstmen, and then take tHe mat-
ter up direct with the game com-
mission before appealing to the Leg-
islature.
“We counsel the game commis-
sion to use every effort to work in
the fullest harmony with sporstmen,
particularly in the game areas
where public opinion is most apt to
be formed from experience and per-
sonal observation and therefore like-
ly to be dependable and useful.
“Regarding the State as a whole,
“Unanimously adopted by the
game committee of the House of
Representatives May 26, 1931.”
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700 FRESHMEN START
EDUCATION “A LA MODE.”
More than 700 especially selected brece
“smartest freshmen” were ordered lowance of six per cent.
to meet to hear President Robert
Maynard Hutchins outline the new
system of education at Chicago Uni-
versity.
The command was, it was said,
about the only “order” these ‘“smart-
est freshmen” are likely to receive
during the first year of their col-
lege careers.
When the youths have been told
what they are to do, the rest will be
almost entirely up to them, accord-
ing to Hutchins’ new plan.
They will go to class when they
feel like it, read books that interest
them, confer with professo
they like, and, in fact, if
to do so, go about the
coming educated in a
revolutionary as to
uninitiated es being
and easy.”
There is, a “catch” for the
man who
appear to
rather
s to help get an education,
but not one cent to force one”— | 3,
that is, in short, the plan of the
youthful president.
The system is based primarily on
a theory that an in t, ambi-
tious youth wants to be educated
and that it is useless to try to
force learning on him if his thoughts | r4j
run entirely to other things.
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engineers are experimenting with
transportation of pulverized anthra-
cite by pipe line ad a means of re-
ducing transportation costs.
Reports of the experiments show
that the have developed a
method of pulverizing smaller sizes
of anthracite, moving the product in
a semi-liquid state through a pipe
line for a considerable distance and
drying it at its destination.
The method is expected to reduce
materially the delivery price of coal.
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house and double house a
Estate of Margare:
The FIRST NATIONAL BANK
of Bellefonte,
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Trustees’ Sale of
Valuable Real Estate.
By virtue of an order of the Court of
Common Pleas of Centre County, Penn-
the Moshannon National Bank
Bltpabuiss. Pa., Trustee under mort-
e the Highland Clay Products
ompany, will expose to public sale at
front entrance of the Court House
Bellefonte, Centre County, Peénnsyl-
on October 23, 1931, at
the following describ-
property :—
ALL those two certain tracts of land
situate in the Township of Rush, Coun-
ty of Centre and State of Pennsylvania,
ed. | bounded and described as follows: —
BEGINNING at an iron
railroad track in the line of a warrant
in the name of Joseph Turner, thence
by land of Joseph Turner, North eighty-
four degrees thirty- eight minutes West,
fifty-one hundredths rods to a
stake on the bank of Moshannon Creek;
ence down and bounded
and
the same
thereby, the six Jollowitg
namely, No six degrees
East thirty-six and ninety-seven une
dredths rods to a stake; North nine de-
grees West fifteen and ninety-four hun-
redths rods to a stake; North one de- |
| gree fifty minutes
West,
hundredths rods
North eight degrees thirty
twenty-seven
to
stake;
a
min-
!utes East nine and fourteen hundredths
rods to a stake; North thirty-six de-
grees, twent minutes East five and
thirty-eight hundredths rods to a stake;
and North sixty-six degrees fifty min.
utes East, nine and twelve hundredths
rods to a post in stomes in the line of |
land warranted to Stephen Kingston;
and thence by land of Stephen Kingston
South five degrees fifty-six minutes West
eighty-one and seven-tenth rcds to the
of beginning; containing three
seventy-nine perches, and the al-
or roads, &c.
Which said tract of land was surveyed
on the twenty-second @ay of July, 47m
in pursuance of a warrant dated the
20th day of June, 1921, granted to John
Kyler, and recorded in the place for
recording of deeds for Centre County in
Deed Book Vol. 126 page 331, where
reference thereto being had will more
fully and at large appear.
2. BEGINNING at a point in the cen-
tre of branch railroad as now located
and running to Kelly mine tipple and
on line of right of way of Pennsylvania
Division of the N. Y. C. Railroad; thence
by line of said right of way North 45
Jninutes West 82.6 feet to a
t on line of
y mine tipple;
ds and along said
degrees 33 minutes
West 464 feet; y said lands and
along said railroad by a twelve de,
curve 500 feet to point of beginning,
containing 148 acres and 145 perches, and
being rt of a larger tract of land
convey: unto the grantor by Walter C
Stephens, Executor of the te of O.
L. Schoonover, deceased, by deed dated
April 19th, 1807, and recorded |
County, in Deed Book
EXCEPTING AND RESERVING
Parcel No. 2, nevertheless, all the coal,
fire clay and other minerals, oil and
fas in and under the said premises, with
right to recover the
damages to the
ages to any buildi or
erected upon th Ja
mises caused
surface of
sf
e surface of said
sald
and of any and of the e
fire clay and other minerals, oil and
in and under said premises wherein
coal, fire clay minerals are
owned by the Orrin L. Schoonover Es-
tate assigns, is hereby 22prealy
Wilved BY 1h: and frames in thls con,
unto the said
n at Moshannon and run
parallel to New York Central right of
the same premises which Win-
burne Fire Brick Company by deed dat-
ed February 7, 1925, ny onded in the
Recorder's office for County of Centre
in Deed Book Vol, 135 page S55. con.
ucts Com-
veyed to Highland Clay
pany.
T with all and singular, the
buil ngs, ways, waters, water (SSurats
ings, consti
gagor's i incidental
iafients, premises; and. appurtenances
buildings, equipment and improvements
that may hereafter be acquired by the
Being the premises described in the
aforesaid, recorded in Centre
County in Mortgage Book 52 page 678.
Sale of seid premises shall be made
bidder and
of the mort.
thereto.
to the highest responsibe
such sale shall be subject to confirma-
tion the Court. t shall be
made in full u confirmation, except
that the Trus may require such
amount as it shall deem , but
not exceeding two thousand ( .00
Dollars, to be paid on the day of sale,
For the further terms and conditions
of sale and for further particulars with
rospective purchasers
ns interested are referred
to er of sale entered in Centre
ber Ry 981 PE 2 4g the
, , In , Or
Trustee or its Attorneys.
MOSHANNON NATIONAL BANK
OF PHILIPSBURG, PA.
Arnold & Smith, Attys. Trustee
Clearfield, Pa. y 76-38-4t
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eleven and |
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Soy Bean Oil Meal - = = 170
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