Bellefonte, Pa, December 11, 1981.
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LEFT HANDED CHILD
PROBLEM NO LONGER
Southpaws, leftys and persons who
tilt to the larboard side are no long-
er to be considered “left handed,”
meaning awkward.
Modern educators permit the child
to use his left hand to hold pen,
pencil, table knife or any of the oth-
er things a child's hand holds.
So the left-hander, once the bane
of every teacher, is no longer a
school problem, according to Dr.
Martin Chwrowski, director of the
Fanny Edel Falk Elementary School
of the University of Pittsburgh.
“There is no reason why the right
should be used more than the left
hand,” Dr. Chwrowski said.
“To right-handed people it looks
awkward to see a person using his
left hand. But is it awkward? Cer-
tainly not.”
In the school of modern educa-
tional tenets the child is instructed
to use his right hand as far as pos-
sible, unless he shows marked signs
of being left-handed.
“Up until a child is six years old
we try to show him how to use his
right hand, if it is not too great an
adjustment for him to make,” Dr.
Chwrowski said. “We only en-
courage the use of the right hand
because this is a right-handed world.
Door knobs are so placed to facili-
tate right-handed people. So are
innumerable other things. But if he
shows signs of being a person high-
ly developed on the right side of his
body, that is being a left-handed
rson, then we want him to use
his left hand.”
“Stammering, shyness and innum-
erable other things have come
about when children have been forc-
ed to employ the right hand in pref-
erence to the left,” he said.
They seem awkward, the educa-
tor said, but that is only because
right-handed people look at them
from an angle of prejudiced tradi-
tion. The very words, “left-hand-
ed” connote a certain clumsiness.
The French word “gauche” means
left. But it means “awkward” in
English. Sinister, a Latin word
meaning left, has a derived meaning
of which the connotation is evil, the
tendency to disaster. There is no
more reason why the left side should
be associated with evil any more
"than the right. But tradition has
it so.
A study of left and. right handed-
pess was commenced some 30 years
‘ago by a psychologist, G. Stanley
Hall, Chwrowski said. Researches |
have been carried on by Dr. Samuel
Orton, who has found that “handed-
ness’ - left or right, is inherited.
Handedness shows which side of the
brain is best developed. If a per-
son is right-handed, then the right
side of his brain is the better de-
veloped. If he is left-handed the op-
posite is true.”
A left-handed child forced to use -
his right hand often reads words
backwards, For instance he will
read the word “saw” as ‘was” and
“pot” as “ton.” In addition to be-
ing an educational disadvantage it
became a physical one and modern
educators abandoned the attempt to
form each child to a pattern.
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IF CHILD DRIVERS
CRASH, PARENTS PAY
The Pennsylvania vehicle code
makes a parent liable to damages
who permits a child under 16 years
of age to operate a motor vehicle
and:injuries to another person re-
sult, from an accident when the child
HARD TIMES AHEAD |
FORK THE MOVIE STARS
wr |
trom Eric M. Knights “Daily Film |
we lake the following concern-
about
Gussip’
ing ine hard times that ure
1st upon Hollywood.
The dawn comes for Hollywood,
and it is the dawn of common sense.
1tnose great big salaries that sound
LKe a vox-car number are going to
be just memories soon, wila memo-
ries that will be talked of just as’
we talk only haif-believingly today
of the gold collections of rizarro.
The first move comes from Warn-
er Brothers-First National, which
has made an announcement that has
set California to trembling. The
San Francisco earthquake was just
a little fluctuation on a seismograph
compared to this.
The company will ask contract
players to take from 20 to 30 per
cent salary cuts. Along with the
verbal notification went a little hint
that the players who refused to
agree might find themselves out in
the cold when present contract dates
are up.
This studio has such stars as
Richard Barthelmess, George Arkiss,
Dorothy Mackaill, William Powell,
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Bebe Daniels,
Edward G. Robinson, Joe E. Brown
and Winnie Lightner. Some of
these persons draw as much as $350,
000 a year.
Other players, of course, have pay
checks starting at $100 a week and
these have been asked, it is said, to
take a 30 per cent cut. All non-
union, noncontract players also get
a cut this week.
This looks like one of the health-
jest moves the industry has made to
date. This high-salary business has
been a bugbear.
The decision to cut by Warner
may be followed by other companies.
The producers will meet this week
with Will H. Hays. Unofficially, it
is said that they talk openly, but
solve their problems separately.
This sounds all right, but if they all
agree in open tak that Lottie Gazink
isn't worth more than $200,000 a
year then they can proceed to keep
that idea in separate procedure.
Lottie may squawk, but what if no
one listens to her? A combine?
Don't ask me. It's a healthy move.
Either that or some of the com-
panies must cut down on the num-
ber of films they have scheduled for
production. They may do thisany-
how--and close up a few theatres.
In it all I wonder what Ruth
Chatterton and William Powell
think—having just left Paramount
to go with Warner-First National
being lured away, one supposes, by
higher salaries and getting there
just in time to get wne guillotine.
However, there is alleviation for
the stars in news from Moscow,
which says that even the Soviet has
laid off 22 per cent of the cinema
workers. And Hollywood must re-
member, too, that along with the
cut in salaries Warner-First Na-
tional studio cafeteria dropped the
price of luncheons from 60 cents to
50 cents. >
So the poor dears who only get
$200,000 a year after the decrease
can still live—they'll get along.
WOMEN OVER 60 ARE
LONDON MANNEQUINS
Three ambitious women of sixty
or more are studying to be manne-
quins at a fashionable school in the
West End of London.
All are married and two are
grandmothers.
There is nothing surprising in
this, because three grandmothers
between the ages of 56 and 60 were
the most admired mannequins at a
recent big dress parade. Their
services are so greatly sought after
is driving, The same liability also 't).; jt is dijfficult for them to fit
to a person not a parent
who. allows a child less than sixteen
to operate an automobile.
“Children under sixteen may be
safe drivers in the opinion of their
parents but the law does not 80 Teé-,yiqnday, and have been busy ever
gard, them.” ’ “Parental pride in the ince. y y e
youngster's ability at the wheel can
«quickly be turned imto parental re-
morse. The law says that any
owner of a motor vehicle who per-
mits a child under the age of six-
teen to operate a car is liable with
such minor for any damages re-
‘sulting from an accident when the
child was driving.”
STUDENTS AT PENN STATE
FBOM EVERY COUNTY.
Every county in Pennsylvania. is
ted in the student body of
the Pennsylvania State College, ac-!
cording to a recent compilation of
the geographical distribution of stu-,
dents. ~ Africa, -Burope, North and
South America, the West Indies and
34 other States also are represented
jnsthe student body of 4857 men and
women, Almost all. of the 277 from
other States are enrolled in advanc-
ed courses in the graduate school.
Centre county leads with the larg- |
est number of students at Penn |
State, a total of 486. Allegheny
with 386 stands second, and Phila-
delphia with 320 comes third. Oth-
er. counties which send 100 or more
students to their State College are
Montgomery, Schuylkill and West-
moreland.
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Q. Are there many wild lions and
tigers in the world?
A. Lions were formerly much more
widely, distributed than at present.
They are found now throughout the
continent if Africa, but have been
exterminated in the more civilized |
regions; in Asia their habitat ex-
tends south from Mesopotamia and
Persia, to India, but in India only
near Kurraches. Tigers are widely
distributed throughout Asia, being
especially abundant in India, though
absent from Ceylon, and also from
the plateau of Tibet.
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Customer: You don't seem very |
quick at fi ures, my boy.
Newsboy: I'm out of practice, sir. |
You see, most of my customers say,
“Keep the change.”
i
all their engagments.
“The women whose family has’
left home finds life rather dull” one
of them explained. “I began as
a mannequin after my sixtieth
Naturally, women of my
age don't want to see their frocks
displayed on a young girl.”
WILD LIFE VANISHING
That the wild life of our land is
rapidly vanishing we all know or
ought to know.
laws passed to conserve this wild
life, the fo warring against it
are threatening its extinction. De-
forestation, pollution of waters, fire
and the increase of hunters and fish-
ermen backed, says the Nature Mag-
azine, by
traveling and killing have all con-
tributed to this growing scarcity.
Hope is expressed that the special
Senate Committee on conservation
of wild life will be able to check
this rapid ce of the na-
disap
tion's undomesticated birds and
beasts as well as its fish. This
Committee reports, “While there has
been a steady decrease of game and
game fish there's,a corresponding
increase in the number of hunters’
and fishermen. These are estimat-
ed to number about 13,000,000." —
Dumb Animals.
RULES FOR SAFE DRIVING
1—Concentrate on driving. Most
(accidents are the result of inatten-
tion.
2—Drive with a fire grip on the
wheel.
3—In traffic and at intersections
hav. your ‘oot ready for the brake.
4—Don’'t pass on hills, curves, in-
tersections or when another car is
dangerously near.
5—Play. safe.
use your horn.
6—Use intelligible hand signals.
Your Stop light is not enough.
7--Govern your speed by the con-
dition of the weather and the road.
8—-Don't endanger lives to ‘‘get
even’ with another driver.
9—Obey traffic signals and the
rules of the road.
Never hesitate to
10—-Don't permit any one to touch |
the wheel while under the influence
or liquor.
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In spite of all the,
improved machines for
Abandoned Mine of the Kimberley Group.
Prepared ny National Geographic Society,
Washington, D. C.)—WNXNU Service,
ISCOVERY of new diamond
deposits in Tanganyika has
made the colony the focal
point of enthusiastic pros
geciors in search of the glittering
gems,
The African diamond industry Is
miy slightly more than u half cen-
tury old. Today the continent pro-
duces nearly nine-tenths of the
It was in 1870 that
the windy, dust-swept region of
Griqualand, South Africa, suddenly
changed from No Man's Land to Ev-
eryman’'s Land, when diamonds were
discovered there. Later, it was an
nexed to Cape Colony within such me-
ticulously drawn boundaries that in-
side one farmer's house the family
dined In that colony and went to hed
in the Orange [I'ree State,
“Playing Jackstones with dia-
agonds!” Somehow that electrifying
aption was overlooked by news re
porters in 1868, when, at Hopetown,
wn the Orange river, the presence of
diamonds in South Africa was sig-
nitled hy a child, who wus discovered
playing with a casually picked-up gem
weighing 2134 carats,
At once the South African diamond
Lever was on. Ships lost their crews,
overseas shopkeepers their clerks, po-
lice forces their “bobbies,” the un-
derworld its crooks; and perhaps the
church lost a curate, and certainly
Natal lost a budding cotton planter—
he had once felt drawn to the min-
istry—in the case of an invalidish
young fellow named Cecil John
Rhodes. All raked up the price to
get them to Griqualund’s “desert of
drought and diamonds.”
Future Kimberley was soob a scene
Jf canvas tents, of wagons converted
nto huts, of prospectors sieving the
diamondiferous emrth, and of “kopje-
wallopers”—those who bought other
men's finds on speculation—hurrying
to and fro among the sorting tables,
Also, there appeared the resource
ul “I. D. B.” (illicit diamond buyer),
who, co-operating with what might be
described us the diamond-stealing in-
dustry, smuggled out stones in con-
travention to the law. Ntowing gems
in elgurettes, pipes and hollow shoe-
heels by no means exhausted his in-
genuity. The hungry-dog trick—that
is, feeding ® starved animal on meat
containing diamonds and subsequent-
ly retrieving them by cutting him
open—was much In vogue.
Controlling the Output.
Unaer desert conditions, food was
Jften more precious than “diamonds,
and baths, if you could afford that
luxury, were taken in imported soda
water. Despite prophecies of a brief
year's life for Kimberley, the first
two decades showed a production of
six tons of diamonds from the Griqua
country. Indeed, by 1880 the possi-
bility of South African stones swamp-
ing the market was so apparent that
fthodes and his group formed the
price-and-output-controlling De Beers
company.
Moderp Kimberley abuts on a three-
alleswide circle which contains, with.
in barhed-wire barriers, mines, hous-
ing “compounds” process sheds, com-
puny ' stores, hospitals, public baths,
and kitehens—in fact, everything nec-
egsary to the Industry and its 5000
Bantu miners.
These Bantu “boys” are voluntary
.ecrnits, who mine for six months
annually, returning to their Kkraals
with the wherewithal for meeting
(axes, for buying wives with lobola
(cattle dowry), or for less serious In-
vestments, such ag couceriinas and
mouth organs. In “above ground”
hours they are seen cooking their
food, or purchasing at cost price at
the stores, or depositing their wages
with the company's savings. depart-
ment, Often these deposits represent
such considerable annual aggregates
as £230,000 paid in by 12.000 miners.
Each week In the Kimberley mines
some 70.000 tons of “blue ground”
(hard, diamondiferous earth) are
masted out, crushed, fed into running
water, rotated In steel drums, jiggled
along in troughs, and washad across
tablelike surfaces coated with pe-
troleum jelly, The rotary process, by
centrifugal force, separates the
ground-up mass into different-sized
units. The jiggling process washes
away barren elements from the wa.
ter-borne “concentrate,” of gravel
like appearance; and, finally, the di-
minished residue flows across the pe-
troleum surfaces, to which only the
dlamonde adhere.
Not at All Exciting.
Yet “diminished residue” is putting
it but mildly, since these 70,000 tons
world's supply.
of blue ground will produce only
about 1014 pounds of diamonds—say, |
a ratio of 14,000,000 to 1. i
We might address the cleanse,
who, broad blade in hand, now and. |
then scrapes off the diamondiferous
petroleum and throws it into a vat of |
boiling water. i
“Scraping off millions of dollars |g
worth of diamonds in this way, Isn't |
it rather exciting?” t
“Why, no,” he will probably au
swer unemotionally—and everyone
knows what familierity breeds—"it's
about like handling mortar with a
trowel.” |
Inside the sorting room, to whiew |
visitors are admitted after an eye has
scrutinized them from behind a slid
back panel, men were poking dia-
monds through graduated holes in
small screens to ascertain the stones’
diameters, On one table alone lay 18.
300° carats-weight of gems, worth ap. |
proximately a million dollars. Feel
ing as dizzy as Ali Baba in the treas |
ure cave, one asks tremulously of a
sorter:
“Putting millions of dollars’ wortu |
of diamonds through screen holes.
isn't it a bit thrilling?” {
“Oh, no,” he answers, suppressing, !
a yawn-—again that familiarity com-
Amos
plex—aus he popped a one-inch dia.
mond through the screen, “it's about +
hs
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like shelling peas.” I'S
Kimberley town itself is as simpie |
and homelike a place as you'd find in ©
the suburban area of some American |
eity. It has produced nearly $1,300,
000,000 worth of diamonds in half a
century. It's dificult to see how the |
city could adequately have expressed
its wealth production save by pav-|
ing Its main street with gems; but
J
ingtruth it bas been its fate to have, || v
created fortunes that tog often flit.
ted from South Africa to the attrac
tions In London and Paris, i
Al
Yet there was an exception. af
Cecil | a
feast one Kimberley digger,
Rhodes, could amass a fortune, yel;
scorn to use it In the common way.
Great wealth constitutes a trust, to
be administered in the wider interests
of humanity—such was his view, And , 35
that he did, according to his lights,
within South Africa and for the Brit.
ish empire,
You may strike Lis trail along th.
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twisting street—Iit follows the route , =
of bygone diggers’ footpaths from ,
claim to clalm--that leads you to the |
long-abandoned “New Rush”
mine, |,
Here is the vast, extinct crater, al- 8
most a mile around and a quarter of | §
a mile deep, that once spewed dia
monds into Europe's capitals; and |S
here, too, If you've eyes to see them, $
swarm’ old-time miners’ ghosts, with’
avid eyes and avaricious hands, sift- '§
ing the earth and clawing at fortune.’ §
Tomorrow, for them, the fleshpots of’
Paris and London!
Many Used in Industry, t
Not. all diamonds. are destined to. 8
shine forth from jewelry that adorns
men and women. More than balf the ,
world's production of the stones, in |
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quantity, is used in industry. Some _
form bearings for watches, chrono-
meters, electric meters, and other ac-
curate instruments and laboratory ap- |
paratus. Some, In which tapered holes |
are drilled, are used for drawing fine '
wire . of platinum, silver, gold, and |
rare metals.
Other industria), uses for diamonc. |
similar hard
tools for lathe work; engraving!
points; and as cutting edges for rock T
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are ag drills for glass, porcelain, and ? :
substances; turning- {
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purposes only the less nearly perfect
and less valuable stones are used. |
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The United States Is the world's | §
greatest diamond consuming country. &
Normally it absorbs nearly the equiv- |
alent of the entire South African out- ' &
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put. If all the diamonds produced in \'§
the. world in 1929 could have been |
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combined Into a single cube it would |
have been five and a half feet across '¥§
euch fage—n crystal block as tall as K
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the average man and weighing more | '@%
than a ton .and a half, If the rough !
stones have been brought together and '
dumped into bushel baskets
would have filled two dozens of them,
heaped up.
In recent
luvial diamond deposits, Until this
change in mining methods came about, |
the greater part of the dinmonds had | :
been mined for decades by laborious |
digging to great depths in the “pipes” | '@
Then came the |
slow work of separating the stones v
of extinet volennoes,
from earth and rock,
they ‘8
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years a wealth of th, =
gems has been literally scooped up '¥
from the earth in the regions of al- §
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Cost, Values, Profit
and the Depression
all were forgotten when the doors
opened Saturday on the Fauble
Store’s 45th Anniversary Sale.
The crowd that rushed in our
store swept us off our feet. Our
greatly increased sales force
was unable to take care of the
crowd. The patrons knew they
could depend on a few dollars
doing the work that took many a
year ago. They knew that the A
high standard of merchandise 3
would remain the same. They J
knew the reductions were real .
and honest, and they came to
profit by this unusual oppor- %
tunity to save. 5
We are going to keep this big #
opportunity open until Christmas 4
Eve. We are making it possible 2
for the most meagre income to ;
keep that wonderful Christmas #
‘spirit alive this year, of all years.
Our celebrated Birthday Sale : 3
is the outstanding merchandis- j
ing event in Central Penna. We #
want you to come here expecting i
to find only the best of every- #
thing—priced lower than at any #
It's the store’s Birthday. It’s
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