[we to send the great Pratt Institute in Brooklyn for : AT Hi ae ry ses = SomUmmmm. = . was Bellefonte, Pa. January 22, 1932. 500; but five years ago when we — TT were able to build our first reinfore- EDUCATING THE CHILDREN OF ¢d concrete hospital, fireproof elec. the local boys, some been given similar chances for tech- nical training. When the Governor of the colony came North to open the building formally there was not one leak in a joint of the plumb- _ ing, nor a crack in the plaster, nor One of the great lacks of our fish- "G06 hort circuit in the maze of or people was ahd is that so Maly | ising of them can neither read nor . . "Denominational schools have been, They could not even keep simple ac- “0 .. opinion, one of the most ser- AY pg lg fous handicaps which Labrador and North Newfoundland have had to When I first went to the coast, they "hier in oy oo owned practically no books, a Be DA ittle village the numbers of them even sang their po ool grant being given pro rata hymns or repeated the Psalms from to the denominational affiliation of em the various members of the com- memory. munity. It follows that more often Yet there are things in- numerable which they could do With 4.0 04 in these isolated hamlets ease and skill, activities which were books to the fine young vol- there Lae JSrSuiaient « fuma at the unteer students who came north to PO embers of one de. TS from. 1 or Yale or Ox- nomination to enable them to main- ford or Cambridge Sein 8 oper a uh 2 grant - y n given to the whole e, ir- One of the characteristics of the ,oqpective of whether 2 a or the Anglo-Saxon, the determination not gehermen said their prayers out of to be unnecessarily beholden to char- 4 yok and others made them up out ity, is strong in our fishermen. It of their heads, there would have followed that if the fishery failed in heen enough to carry on a creditable 8 jan year, or if Htness Svertosk 2 primary school at least. In medi- readwinner Bling ite 0! Sea cine we have never claimed that a son of open water, y 50 reves ol pill or a plaster was more likely to Be TE a | We tne patient because J was Ja. in order to prevent starvation from Re at ae) the household, but we st 1 gpd find a job which the man gran. system, smphasizing religious must ig Frivafhiondh Bia Differences instead of points of sim- Sos Be 0 ep Su . toe Savity, B often 5% factor of unhap- respect. piness and discord. case of one needy village we decided * Through the help of volunteers, to have people build a schooner dur- tne Grenfell Association has been ing the long winter months. The ape to carry on a number of small only equipment which they could gymmer schools for the children of muster for the task was 3 few axes, | these remote fishing villages. These adzes, one or we saws, me 3 nm young college men and women, who mer ”s 80. a une mi Br “Dot have thus gladly given their sum- comm 19.0 re or y Ae mer's holiday to teaching a handful even the “foreman” to gg of children, would doubtless other- is gigi oT bBo Rog ag r e arbor. gin forest at the beginning of win- the end of their summer on the ter, selected and cut the timbers for coast, however, they have one and the framework, and spring found uj) assured me that they have had a hem ED ene, whereas, had the (ie ‘ut of & hole fran they would ’ " 0 a e would game problem been presented to thé nave in knocking a small A ball highly informed graduates of OUT into one. When they went North, Te er Tomy Tack las sr, Wl, = in n tional ho. Ts i r* " No ers can the situation ve ariably de- follow an obscure trail, tell you what manded that they stretch the cur- animal it is and what it is doing, riculum to include such allied sub- can fell ten trees while I am felling jects as public health lectures for sharpen an axe or set a the community, sewing, cooking, or- i ap Det, tWite ganized Sages, the NE of the nmen — ey e_delights .gram- where college men would starve. ophone, and often acting as parson One of our fihermen, it. YOU Mere Lo O0 er may have had no meet ave- t the un may have had no pue in New York, might look a previous training in any of these with his branches in no way debarred him “making a stab at it.” went by it was found education did not sat. It only lighted a lamp and P culties which others of their genera- tion must face elsewhere, will as- sume a peculiar complexion and of- fer a definite challenge, our task of to help them is correspond- ingly difficult. turbulent waters of the North lantic, it is you, the city bred and discovered unexplored reaches of the highly educated product of modern imagination. Gradually we were civilization, who would have to doff able to build larger schools in more your hat and doubtless owe your life populous districts, schools which are to his courage and skill, to his quick kept open all winter, and which of- reactions and trained eye and hand fer more advanced courses to their and judgment. pupils. There are now three of Would you call a man uneducated these, located at three of our hospi- if you were to come to his cottage tal centers, and we pride ourselves the middle a winter's bitter that the standard we moment's try to 3 3 similar schools in EE it i § social, industrial, take welfare, educational--it is our con- stant aim to give to those whom some might term the “underprivi- "” the same of serv- g FEEERE de 18; i g g g 3 g 3 i 1 ig ge gg i i i E ! i sz z : 2 < 5 = Ar SE § fie HE i a T 3 ! i 3 8 i g ge Es 2 : i 2 2 ¥ g g 3 g 3 8 5 B : 2£ " : i E> : 2 8 g ih! : 5 ged HE : ; : Ii Eek Eg 5 i : 2 girl i i 8 E » 2 2 : £3 HE £5ii EE & ago, on the deck of after the clinic we are lad of about ion, still to them some slight by the Sggma of the foreigner. The schools at the end ofa | technical colleges have co-oper- ‘ated more than generously with the tle patience. “It isn’t medicine that | Grenfell Association in this effort. 1 wants, doctor,” he to ex-| We have had to choose the educa- plain; “'Tis learning.” He could [tional institutions carefully, as we read a little, his Scotch mother hav- have never been much concern- ing taught him. When I asked him ed as to whether Jack would wear what he could pay for schooling, he a black. tail coat and a beaver hat, said that he had no money, but “was or an ollskin jacket and a souwester, handy with an axe and saw,” and and we certainly did not wish Susie nine hours [to add to her troubles by being a day as a carpenter if we would | taught to wear heels two inches give him one hour a day “learning.” high, or to use lipstick or rouge or of sf of teaching maintain in them will bear 3 id : |to one—and that's sixty-six five hundhred I win—an { the track spat on It and commenced rubbing vigorously; slowly a aul gieam ue {We Jorty-one hundhred wile appeared on the horse's nose. .. nl Pg ger And the judges stood beside him usan lars, —and ‘wane he rubued. earned every cent of it. Be Re a aicobol would, bring, 00 8. check for it this ‘the deception out clearer,” the pre- | siing judge decided, “but that can wait.” And to the who had come up to blanket the horse: “what horse is this?" ~1 don't know. 1 thought he was Tomitite. I found him in Tomitito’s pox when 1 came to lead him tothe paddock to be saddled, sir.” Ben Toothaker came down and joined the group. From his hip pocket he produced a silver flask una’ pourl some: of jte contamty on | ‘his handkerchief. Nobody , what the flask contained, but What- Lo awnich foul) one hunarid ever the stuff was it cut the stain | ooo he Pugied A away from the ringer's nose prompt. glad} Soul “All ly. The track veterinary was call. 800d to Timothy J. my ed and after exgmining the _horass juve a teeth declared him a ~year- - old; the paddock judge came and | able to tell it to a soul. swore the horse was not Tomitito, although, in deference to the racing up on the road! Your mare just beaten me out of a five- five. thousaad-dollar bet at even ”» . e) de sighed and a crvntic smile “And 1 thought I knew the that was going to win this Well, I know a little more | horses now—and my ecducation cost me something Tanglefoot, ccoled out now must be identified before tart for the t, he examin m | and I ay he was Tomitito. and beamed love upon her. “Well, no matter what his name or breeding,” said the presiding | * check for his wi judge, “he's a speed marvel running | under an alias. Tomitito could never have run the course in such fast company and the crooks knew he'd pay a long price if he won. This ringer is disqualified. Send one of our track police back to the barn with him and watch him every min- ute while they cool him out. We'll ascertain later his real name and who owns him and rule the man off for life. Tanglefoot wins. That's official,” and he called across the © track to have the winning numbers run up. Whereupon Timothy J. Donovan did that which he had never done before. He slumped down under Tanglefoot's discolored nose and fainted. “Stand aside, nnings. “Tell me, Tim,” he begged, you day. “I didn't know. she would, sor. I told ye afraid o' horses, did I not? 'the man wit’ the red flag just the fence ann her. stant the barrier's shtartin’ gate an’ out ag'in a times, usin’ up her energy &n’ sistant shtarters. spring like an antelope, so the ter-breakin’' horses get away entlemen!” Ben o Toothaker cried. She stuff is good oN openisy that wa up. for map th pousts 2 he poured 0 take her around the field. some O e conten i down Timothy J. Donovan's throat. will she run well if another Timothy J.'s faint was of brief duration. Presently he sat up in the dirt of the track and said: “What did she pay?” “Five hundred to five—hundred to 1d she pay?” Back “For two reasons. She's a (Continued from page 2, Col. 6.) sand on her in New York, sor. That 'wAn' the real Tomitito is a four- I'8ves thirty-one hundhred at fifteen Confound the day I ever picked you | cand-doller purse, not to mention a ed arcund the corners of his mouth. thinking of Timothy J. red-dollar | he reflected, “while Tim lives, joke on myself and never be An hour later, at the barn where | ‘blanketed, stood munching sweet rules which requires that all entries |Cqlifornia hay while Timothy J.| leaned over the half door of her box | Toothaker came by and handed him knew the mare would win to- I only suspected she's shtarted in close the sight o' oys There he shtands wit’ his flag ripplin’ in the ‘breeze, an’ ready to drop it the in- sprung, an’ makes her nervous. She's into the man handled by the brutes of as- “She's not calm an’ set for an’ she's afraid to press on through challenges her in the first three- ‘eighths an’ runs her neck an’ neck. go her eahs an’ she, quits.” “But why does she do that, Tim?" —an’ mares have niver the heart a I get! e% has | play- horse | race. about | has Roger Babson, the noted Economist, who 1929 predicted the collapse of prices, m ap says make | ™m “The worst is definitely over. Business is on the way back. and “Prosperity will return when fifty-one Ben per cent. of the people get right spiritually —Have Faith! Work, Love, Pray; do good. Do not hoard money.” “how | she's When inside THE FIrRsT NATIONAL BANK BELLEFONTE, PA. it | dozen | bein’ | a fast- | first | Nor | Si thries | Nor | horse i Baney’s Shoe Store | mare ane. What els¢ wou 'cclt or a gelding have. Thin she's | WILBUR H. BANEY, Proprietor thaker replied. “There were only, y . 0 ro tickets sold on her. My colt |E°L an old memory. Whin she was 30 years in the Business oF was the favorite.” “Not wit’ me, sor. An’ I bet a, hundhred on Tanglefoot at the track. The books'll pay fifteen to one on her save an’ excipt in New York, —— IIE * any of these other artificial adjuncts | which would be Supposed +0 add h e beauty to her already y an ty 3 Do Si bonnie face. : ) ; ow point to nearly a bun- “There's ‘nothin in life more who ve | | entered her in the Futurity at race she an’ fell. She took a complete ersault, an’ the memory of it her timid.” .. We can dred returned students rageolis come back to serve their da and | thugh ye eration north of the Roaring foot’s orties. ‘They serve as teachers, | stenographers and bookkeepers, mechanics, weavers, plumbers, elec- tricians, carpenters, trained nurses, industrial workers, trained cooks, and domestic science teachers, and we can boast at least one tinsmith, one pottery maker, and one stone ir, me few of the students —and they are not the least useful —after they have returned from their training, have quietly married and settled down in isolated little where we hope and believe are the cleanest ester nor a maiden mare. “But in back o' that ag'in she had the outside position, give the man wit’ the flag fifty wit’ the the mare couldn't see shtart. life which they had ] much to the detriment of the g TL sigs Et to remain. It is greatly to credit of our people, however, that] by far the number have | ladly returned home. i Only once, when I give a lecture in a large ci America, has an incident like Fad the gintleman, wit’ few mares, but I'd a me niece a while back she tells me times are 1 Eh : drove me to my in car. He was obviously | ease, and I tried in vain to diag- | cause. When at last I §E t two- nixt month, not to tion the foal Tanglefoo! —an' —an’ 5 the good babe in the horse chistnuts to come upon this brief account of te some of our educational problems in Labrador and North Newfoundland | may have received a little insight into the opportunity which ¥ country offered us when we went him and ‘there thirty-nine years ago and con- Kynme in Hearst's International tinues to offer in increasing measure. mopolitan. T cannot reiterate too often that] | Labrador has more | | | | | me far lure to all of us is not its | civilization, but its perpetual chal- | Variety Shop, Saturday Jan. |lenge to every wisdom, | opening at 10.30 a. m. Eve courage, and creative ability which | delicious to help you out in a man or a women possesses.—By | Sir Wilfred Grenfell. | there. 8 bwo-year-old an’ the fastest o' her IE year in America, her thin owners § an’ in the very shtart o' the t into a press o' horses “But she wasn't timid today, |G nor “a mother, sor—an' | ffe== do not know it, Tangle- | i six weeks gone in foal. bred mare's nerves are quieter; runs shtraighter an’ thruer an’ give the assistant shtarter fifty dol- lars not to manhandle her, an’ to shtand wit' his flame annointed his back so's it before the 21 t will bear us Jl please the Lord it'll be a colt ye kind boss but a just the same, an’ how could I V'ave ye for | the jackals to pick the bones o' § his Tanglefoot. —Peter than I have given it, and that its The gulld ot ne sale Boppal week-end marketing, can be got Sara- | i som- made iled. cou- | A IN she | | hon- | ff Dee... 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