Labor revealed the cost of living
has dropped 9.3 per cent. in Pitts
and Scranton and 85 per
burgh
cent. in Philadelphia
was a year ago in those places. The
are as of last month.
Three prices dropped 3.6 per cent.,
while in Philadelphia the decline
amounted to 3.1 and in Scranton to
3 per cent.
During the period from June, 1920
to December, 1931, the reductions
were 20.9 per cent. in Pittsburgh,
205 in Philadelphia and 284 in
Scranton.
In all but the last set of figures,
the declines in the three Pennsylva- |
nia municipalities were approximate-
ly the same as the average for 32
principal cities of the nation.
The national average decline for
the year between December, 1930
and last month was 9.3 per cent.,
the same as that recorded in Pitts-
burgh and Scranton and slightly
greater than the Philadelphia per-
centage.
For the six month period the na-
tional figure was three per cent., the
same as in Scranton but less marked
than the decline in the other two
cities. The 32.7 per cent. reduction
for the time between 1920 and last
December was greater than the de-
cline in any of the three cities.
On the basis of prices of Decem-
per, 1914, the cost of living in Phil-
adelphia is still 50.5 per cent. above
pre-war costs. That sgure is made
up of an increase of 17 per cent. in
food, 42 in clothing, 40.3 in rent, 91.7
in fuel and light, 54.1 in house fur-
nishings, and 117.6 in miscellaneous
items.
In Pttsburgh the composite prices
of today are only 4.5 per cent high-
er than in Decmber, 1017. The
Scranton increase for the same per-
jod is 8.4 per cent.
Both cities are getting food and
clothing cheaper than they Aid in
1017, Pittsburgh's food bill being
20.2 per cent. less and Scranton’s,
22.8 per cent. less. In Pittsburgh
the declige in clothing prices
amounted to 13.3 and in Scranton
to 7.1 per cent. Rent in Pittsburgh
is still 52.3 per cent. higher, fuel
and light, 83.8 and miscellaneous
itmes cost 45.6 per cent. more.
For the same things, Scranton is
paying 51.8, 69.5 and 55.2 per cent.
re respectively, while house fur-
nishings also cost 7.3 per cent. more
than they did in 1917.
STATE AEUMNI IN COUNTY
TO ORGANIZE A CLUB
The new athletic policy of the
college will be fully explained by
speakers at the organization meet-
of Centre County alumni of the
he iiyivania State College called for
Monday evening, February 29, at
8 o'clock in the little theatre in
“Old Main.” at State College.
Developments in recent months
have brought to the attention of
athletic officials at the college the
fact that a few former students can
familiarity with all phases of
topic
would be the athletic situation.
The athletic program Aas it now
will pe covered by R. A.
spuds il be of TmeR at the col-
lege and a member of the college
athletic board of control and of the
Senate committee on ath-
Br tek to te tie
progr: e time
hen George R. Meek, of Bellefonte,
aduate manager, and
Vale
Q—What salary did George Wash-
receive as the President of
the United States? In what admin-
jstrations has the salary of the Pres-
8, 1878), when it was
to $50,000; in the second
session of the Sixtieth Congress the
ry was fixed at $75,000, during
administration of Taft
The salary at present is $75,000 a
year with an allowance for travel
ing expenses.
Q.—What is the total, income of
the people of the Uni States?
A.-For the year 1929 (prelimi-
nary estimate), the National Bureau
of Economic Research estimated that
the total realized income of the
ple of the United States was $54.
t, per cent.
ed in the schools for higher education
«Old | front when compared to other States, .,,cement.
mation, Pennsylvanian Department of
ing fixed by law and international.
'TEN-YEAR EDUCATION PLAN DIVORCE LAWS VARY
WORKED OUT IN DETAIL. WIDELY IN STATES
Details of the 10-year educational There are as many sepcifications
an being worked out by the State | for cutting the marital knot as there
_aepartment of education were pre- are States in the Union.
sented to school directors of the | Lawmakers, it would appear from |
State at their annual convention in a survey made by the California
Harrisburg, February 2-4. legislative bureau, do not see alike
Principal speakers at the conven- when it comes to the question of
‘tion were Dr. J. N. Rule, State divorce. The requirements, as a,
superintendent of public instruction, rule, are many and varied.
Dr. LeRoy King, of the University In Nevada, where the divorce busi-
of Pennsylvania, Dr. J. L. Eisenberg, ness is considered in the light ofa
president of Slippery Rock teachers’ major industry, a marriage may be
college, Congressman Clyde N.Kelly, dissolved for anyone who has lived
Dr. C. Wallace Petty, Pittsburgh. in the State six weeks. As con-
Features of the mew system are trasted to this, South Carolina rec-
'a re-adjustment of school tax system, ognizes no such thing as divorce ex-
redistricting of the school districts, | cept by special legislative act in the
iand increasing uivantiges to chil- individual case. :
dren in the rural districts with de- In Tennessee, proceedings may be |
creased cost. based on any one of 13 ar
The tax situation has not yet been while New York and the District of
worked out in detail, and it is rec- Columbia recognize only a charge of |
ognized that it presents some com- infidelity, and in the latter the de-|
plex feaures, but under the plan in fendant may never remarry. In
its present state it is thought pos-| pennsylvania, South Dakota and |
| gible to work out a system where & Tennessee, the defendant may not |
uniform tax levy of five mills for marry the correspondent until after
school purposes would take care Of tye death of the plaintiff—an af |
the situation, with the State stand- rangement, incidentally, which puts |
ing any cost above what that mill- | 5 premium on the disappearance of |
age would return. the innocent party.
The redistricting would create While these points would indicate
larger districts with a larger unit of
; reased _ that the disagreement over divorce
administration, with me POW= jetails is general, the survey points
rs, tending t iza
o the A aon out that the States do agree On Cer
: tain matters.
lutely necessary to bring the level of !
education throughout the State to With only a few noticeable excep-
tions, the States agree that in cer-
| the point it now enjoys.
There would be increased opportu- tain types of divorce cases the
parties must have resided in the
nity for rural school children, giv-
ing them access to facilities and cur- State for at least one year.
riculum now enjoyed only by larger The exceptions range from Nevada,
schools and doing so without having with its six weeks’ law, and Idaho
asking a three months’ stay, to Con- |
over a half-hour haul for any of the
children. This plan would work out necticut, which requires a residence
in all communities except the most of three years, and Massachusetts
remote and sparsely settled ones, which recognizes only those who
where the smaller schools would have lived in the State five years.
The survey indicates there is a |
have to be maintained.
It is not the object of the depart- definite concensus concerning causes |
ment to spend more money, but in for divorces as outlined in the stat-
this connection it was pointed out utes. 'Thirty-even States have at
least seven grounds, and only four,
to the directors that only one per
cept of all the money spent for edu- in addition to the District of Co-
lJumbia, recognize less than five.
cational purposes in Pennsylvania
| goes for the upkeep of the depart- Eleven States a ently have no
ment. Ten years ago it required sympathy for the pparen ¥ by sel-
ting up restrictions concerning the
ten per cent.
Comparing Pennsylvania with oth- rignt to remarry which do not ap-
ply to the plaintiff.
er States, the following figures are
interesting: Connecticut, 9 per cent;
Massachusetts 4!; per cent; New S——————— p= se
COUNTIES SPONSOR
SPRING FIELD DAY
York, 1.6 per cent; Ohio 10 per
cent: Virginia 4 per cent.
There are 2300 schools in the
fourth class districts of the State.
Half the children in the State arein
the fourth class districts.
A recent study made by the de-
partment otf pumiic instruction shows |
that thirty-one counties sponsor i
The poorest district in the State spring Held day. these neld days
has a valuation as low as $7,000 ure uncer ne supervision of tac
back of each teacher while in the county superintendent and his stall.
richest district there is a valuation The competition offered is largely
of $2,300,000 back of each teacher. of an athletic nature, although many
Thirteen hundred and nineteen of counties have competition in schol-
the districts out of the 2300 are un- astic events as well Preliminary |
able to offer opportunity to its chil- contests are held in many of the
dren and there are eighteen districts chool districts to determine who,
without a teacher, and 536 with four gng who |
or less teachers. sil pend: the district at the
Under the plan the tax- ~~ ppe athletic events include the |
payers would save from eight to ten
million dollars in Daring cXpenses, short dashes,
The high cost for collection of
taxes came in for good lacing. It
costs school districts of the fourth
longer runs, various
types of jumping, chinning the bar, |
baseball and basketball throwing for |
accuracy at distance, iy Naja |
races. Special events incl marble
class an average of $4 to collect $100, es athletic badge tests
in taxes, as against 10 cents in first Boy Scout tests, Maypole dances |
class districts such as Philadelphia | 0 oun games. yo
‘and Pittsburgh, where there Is a — g.pg1astic competition includes
central office for such taxes to be spelling, English, declamation, geog- |
paid.
. raphy, history, arithmetic, algebra,’
In Pennsylvania the local districts | art, Latin,
"| penmanship, story telling,
Bre Curiying 85 per cent of the bur- Co .} ang instrumental music, com-
In North Carolina
the department carries 100 per cent mercial subjects and vocational sub- |
He EP ett, in Floris 75 per |Jects
Approximately 55,000 pupils take
cent, in Texas and New York 50 in the preliminary tryouts and |
about 18,000 represent their schools
in the county finals. Attempts are’
being made in a number of counties |
to revise the program to include an
| $30,000,000. y
| 7" Another feature brought out was | ¢veP greater number of pupils. |
that the farmer spends 13.6 per cent
of his returns for taxes, while oth-
er occupations’ in the'State spend 9°.
per cent, showing some of the in-
equalization existing under the pres- sions under some system of
ent system. supervision, or by the States
a aes
i Si : growing st y over
| PENNSYLVANIA RETAINS ‘States. The American Association
LEADING POSITION | for Old Age Security, which is a
Despite. de and drought, group of philanthropic-minded Po
one or both of which have been en-| ph trying lo alvange She that out
countered on every farm in the oo 1.345 Xe : have edi-
Commonwealth during the past two yo." gi the subject in the
years, the agricultural industry of | past te years, more than a thous-
Pennsylvania continued in the fore-! gc... spe definitely in favor of the |
| Education for the biennium in our
, public schools costs $63,000,000 and
en—————— A ————————
OLD AGE PENSIONS
pen- |
The mevement for old age |
State |
‘the bureau of statistics and infor- | The old-fashioned “poorhouse,”
: with its stigma of , has
Agriculture, reports. ! r
Pennsylvania farmers produced gp {een abla in Seven Agen = bet
1931 the most valuable potato crop | ve :
of any State in the Umon. Only |Doeffet It ie no disgrac grate of Se
three States produced more valu- | |
lives to take help from the social
“able apple crops and only two States,
‘more valuable hay pb] ro which benefitted by their
Estimates on the production of /
principal crops show that Pennsyl- | pos systems TOF we
vania has regained first place
buckwheat infor alike contribute to.an insurance
[ed leading position in raising cigar- 'er illness, accident or age removes
filler tobacco. i
the worker from the of ac-
The rank of Pennsylvania among |
: 3 tive industry. But it would take a
. all States in 1921 production of va- | t y { ii the |
"First . a8 Elven cco (ull effect of such a plas, mr it
| First § ES wheat. i were put_ inte a it might a
{ Fourth in potatoes (first in value.) fal of he Ed bi
in grapes. | Experience in
th hg total apple crop (fourth! 4
. it is a more economical wa,
Fifth in maple products. is that ?
i Sixth in tame hay (third in value.) {OF talkin Pare oF ie aged poss thin
ae] SEL SEDO ls th Tor sons
| ’ . 1 our
Tenth in winter wheat and pears. ¢y.n the old system of making
| Twelfth in Pa m | “paupers” of these unfortunates.
| In the farm value of the 22 prin-|
| cipal field crops, Pennsylvania ranks |
AND SHE DID
‘William the Uenquerer.
production and has retain- fund to be available whenever eith- |
[eos » Qlother - Wha do you mean—
: on t young man's i»
| Blaisdell: “The New Year is al-| Daughter—“Why mother, = told
ways represented by a lusty infant.” | me to!”
|" Newlywed: “They overdid it in| Mother—*I told you? Why I did
my case.” he i nothing of the sort!”
| Blaisdell: How so? Daughter—“You did, too! You
| Newlywed: “Mine was represent- | said if he tried to get fresh I was
| ed by twins!” {to sit on him!"
WHOA, JACKIE!
A small boy, "leading a donkey,
by an army camp. A couple
WORRYING THRU
City Cousin—"Is it true, what:
they say about you're having such.
of soldiers wanted to have some fun, times down on the farm?”
with the lad. i #
“What are you hold on Wo! Farmer John— Wall, all we raise
your brother so tight for, sonny?”
said one of them.
Persian “Music” Apt to
Grate on Western Ears
Persia's pictorial and decorative art
was widely published at an exhibition
recently held im London. But beside
this art, there is a good dea! of music
in Persin. The Persian orchestra usu- | but the chickens pay the grocery
ally consists of a zither, played with | «So he won't join the army,” the bill and the cows keep up the radio
wooden sticks, a very ancient and youngster without blinking 50 I guess we'll pull thru the win--
| primitive style of guitar, made of mul | an eye.—The Baptist. ter.”
berry wood, with only three strings,
plaved with a bene “plectrum,” viols
thitt leek ke mandolins, a pipe, and | y-— er reeeeeeee
a Lorn, a large drum, and two small |
ones on the same principle as our ket !
de drums
The viols are mide out of pumpkins i
strengthened with ribs of wood, ivory
and bits of metal, while each has a |
long spike to rest on the ground, so |
that the instrument is played like the |
violoncello. The noise of such an or- |
chestra is terrific, especially Whew |
“singers,” who shriek at the top of
their voices, join in, But as the only |
type of western music that has been
introduced is that of inferior brass
bands, the Persians usually prefer the | The first real symptom of Success
native music to that which is imported. |
The First, Symptom.
is the desire to regularly save money.
Perkins Quick to See
Value of Imagination
Perking was feeling queer; he !
couldn't get on with his work; he |
couldn't do anything. So he decided |
to see his doctor. i
“I don't feel up to the mark,” he |
sid to the man of medicine. “Can
you give me a tonic?”
The doctor surveyed him for a me
nent or two, and, ricing from his |
chair. remarked: “Has it ever oc- |
curred to you that there's a great deal |
in imagination, Mr, Perkins?"
“Certainly, doctor.”
“Then imagine there's nothing the | !
matter with you, Come back in a |
week and let me know how you feel!” |
The patient went, doctored himself, |
wd returned at the appointed time
Young men, ambitious to go into
business, will®do well to begin saving
now.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
1
“AlN said the doctor. “You an. | L__ eee rere een
feeling better, Didu’t 1 tell you there's
a great deal in imagination?’ i = ia Sa -
“rhat's true.” said Perkins, “Wha. |
fs your charge?”
“One guinea,” said the doctor.
“Well, imagine you've got it,” sala |
Perkins. — London Tit-Bits, i
Baney’s Shoe Store
WILBUR H. BANEY, Proprietor
80 years In the Business
Toll of Horsethoes |
The levying of horseshoes from fa wl
mous riders has been long a custom i
at Osnkham, in Rutlandshire, England.
These shoes have been levied Aas
tribute from famous men who have | #8
ridden through the town, for no vis-
itor of high rank was formerly per-
mitted to enter unless he paid a toll |
of one horseshoe, The shoes, many of
them large and ornamental, now hang |
in the county hall, which was original. |
ly the banqueting hall of the castle. |
It eéms that the manorial rights of i
the castle were once held by the eount | . — . we .
of Derby, who was official farrier to |
BUSH ARCADE BLOCK
His descend-
4ntsé Stil) have six black horseshoes on
a silver ground in their arms.
Penny Theator Actor
The Penny theater actor's life musi |
indeed have been x wretched one, Like |}
the strolling player of Shakespeare's | §
time, his wardrobe was a mass of rags
and his appearance starvation personi- |
fled. Tenpence a night was thought
a fair wage for taking part in six or |
seven successive performances, while
seven shillings a week was considered |
high remuneration. Yet the poor per- |
former frequently found himself in
arrears of even this inconsiderable
salary, and a publie dispute would be |
cxrried on between actor and proprie
tor while the whole performance was
Held up. —Brian FitzGer#td in the Lon.
don Saturday Review.
Marked Special Days
“Red-letfer days,” a (erm now ex
;ended to any gala occasion of memor-
able day, originally was an ecclesins
tien! term used to characterize the
Sprir H for Men
pring Hats for Men.
more important festivals and saints’
days of thre church, which appear in
lam S. Walsh in “Curlosities of Popu. |
lar Customs.” i S .
In ordinary prayer books both o Stetson an d Mall ory pring
where two colors are not used in the i :
pristing, ave dove hr als and | Hats for Men are now on dis-
{he black-Telter days or minor festivals i
by lower-case Roman type. | pla . tH
| y- |
Ceénvincing Attorney |
* Years ago this hgppened.in Atel’
Jude Johnson and Julius Roar were f
Jude, who has always been a sman
alec, ‘insisted on acting as attorney
for himself and Mr. Roar.
stand, Jude protruded his chest, struck ’
voice asked: “Mr. Roar, will you be FAUBI E wy
so kind as (o tell the court and the
jury where you were on the night we
The jury was out five seconds, -
stehison Globe, il
red letters in the calendar, wrote Wil 16 3
the English and the Roman chureh, |
printing, (bese days are churacter-
|
ate
iui Your Hat is here. Let us
arrésted for stealing chickens,
show you.
Putting Mr. Roar on the witnes- |} | it |
a Napoleonic attitude, and with a deep
stole those chickens?’ BR |!
“Yeritable Calvados”
Less than a hundred miles by roua
irom Paris you can find Lisieux, a |g}
very charming little city of 13,000 in- | JR§
labitants, situated on the Toudques | |
river, whose old mansions and | Hj |
churclies are known to many thou- | § |
sands, [Lisieux Is a shrine and every | jij} 1}
year thousands of pilgrinis come to the | #8 |
little place to make their devotions to i
Sister Therese de enfant Jesus, Al £1 |
about the town are lovely Normandy | i
walks and many an hour can be spent | Ii¥! WM
at the concerts provided.— Exchange. (LL cmt A —_