[we to send the
great Pratt Institute in Brooklyn for
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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
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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
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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
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maintain in them will bear
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|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
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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
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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!
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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
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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 |
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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
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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
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drove me to my
in car. He was obviously |
ease, and I tried in vain to diag- |
cause. When at last I
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t two-
nixt month, not to
tion the foal Tanglefoo!
—an'
—an’
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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.
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courage, and creative ability which | delicious to help you out in
a man or a women possesses.—By
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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
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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
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