Julian Street has been qualifying
for the Explorers club, He recently |
discovered New York. ‘True, Mr. |
Street has been a man of Manhattan |
for years past, but this was another | oo... [0 und industrial importance;
city. It was the New York of the |
dawn age. Because of an early oper- |
ation on a member of his family, Mr. |
Street was obliged to reach the hos- |
pital by 6 a. m. Knowing the night |
before that he was to make the trip, |
he conferred with Mrs, Street as te
transportation,
“Pake a taxi,” she said.
‘Don't be silly,” he responded. |
“What would a taxi be doing out af i
that hour.”
“I think there will be taxis” said
Mrs. Street, “but, of course, one coul( |
slways charter a milk wagon.”
Emerging from his door a few mo- |
ments before six, Mr, Street found a
New York he did not know. The air
smelled crisp and clean, free of g.80
line fumes. The voice of the city war
still. But there was a taxi.
. ® .
Mr. Street now believes the tax.
was driven by a man training for the
motor races on the Indianapolis speed-
way. The streets apparently were
empty and the driver took full advan-
tage of the fact. Mr. Street main:
tains that through the window he saw
what appeared to be one of those mo-
vies, where they speed up the film, of
a deserted village. He thinks they
passed other taxis; it was just like
two limited trains passing in opposite
directions, If the engines had cut loose
from the cars and were going right |
slong without them. He saw some oh-
jects he opines might have been milk
wagons, and claims he heard the voice '
of a newsboy, blown away by the rush-
ing air. He thinks a railroad station
or hotel flashed past, but isn't sure, as
he was too busy hanging on and vell-
ing at the driver. But it was very
bracing. Mr. Street still insists we
all should rise early in the morning
and see the city free from traffic. it
would be a great hour for a walk, he
maintains,
LI J
It was Willard Fairchild who dis
covered the horse and sleigh. This
was in the hills of Connecticut at a
“village which has po railroad station
‘and plenty of smow. The horse and
sleigh belonged to a farmer, who be
fore trusting the outfit to Mr. Fair!
child. asked him whether he was un
experienced driver, Mr. Fairchild as
sured the farmer he had been around
with horses a great deal, but neglected
to mention that it had been with the
artillery during the war, when he rode
the caisson and others handled the
Borses. Still, all went well. Mr. Fair-
<hild got his family inte the sleigh and.
when thie farmer handed him the reins
elucked in the approved fashion, which
apparently threw the animal into first
speed. and away they went The
horse took them for a very nice ride
and brought them back safely, It wus
then that the difficulty developed.
.
The farmer wasn't around, but his
auall boy said his father had told him
to ask Mr. Fairchild just to umhiteh
the horse and tie him up in the stall
in the barn. It seems that when you
stood alongside this horse, it seemed
sbout the size of a small elephant,
which made some of the buckles and
: hard to reach. But Mr. Fair
child undid them all, except that he
hept the bridle and reins intact. When |
be had managed to get the horse out
of the shafts and all the other straps
and things off the horse. he realized
be never had known how many parts
there were to one horse's harness,
aking: the, reins Into the barn, he
passed, them around post at a corer
of the stail.. Then, by walking away
with them—a good deul as you might
hoist a mainsail—he pulled the horse |
into shelter without taking a chance of
Being stepped on. That was a smart
Sdea, as when the horse reached the
it automatically put on the
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Phones Her Hourly,
So Law Takes Hand
New York. — When passion
burns Frederick Meder, twenty-
four, it burns.
He just can't keep his love
for Paula Reithmayer, nurse, to
himself. ;
Back in West Side court, he
¥ was charged with violating a
3 suspended sentence given him 2
two months ago, by phoning
Paula as often as twenty times §
a day to demand marriage. The
previous time he was arrested
after tricking his way Into
Paula's apartment wearing a
false mustache,
Magicirate Irwin held him in
$100 bail,
| le doctrine.
ELECTRIC ENERGY
DOOMS BIG CITIES
Redistribution of Industry
Seen by Harper Leech.
New York.—Giant cities will grow
no larger and will lose their present
industry will break up into smaller
units and operate in what are now
rural districts; the worker will re
ceive a greater share of his employ
er's profits in order to maintain buy
ing power; and the cost of killing a
| dollars, the present level, to approxi-
Champions of Olympiad
The Olympic games, forerunners of
the modern international contests bear-
ing that name, date back to the year
776 B. C. in Greece. They were orig-
inally held on the level plain of Olym-
pia and were limited to Greek con-
testants. Once in five years the Olym-
plad was held. and during the period
of the games and the pre-game train
ing period of ten months war was for
widden among the Greek states.
The contests were held over a period
of five days, and the various tests of
skill included running, jumping, wres-
tiling, throwing the spear, throwing the
discus, boxing and chariot racing.
Chinaman will jump from about fifty |
mately $17,500, all in the compara-
tively near future, and because wan. |
| kind has discarded human and animal
substituted for it his newly discovered
ability to convert solar energy into
work, principally in the form of elec-
tric power. These are some of the
When the champions were designated
they appeared in a grand review on
the fifth day, at which time their names
and feats of skill were announced to
| the crowds and they were awarded
energy based on food cultivation and |
predictions affecting the welfare of |
humanity made by Harper Leech, writ-
er on economic subjects, in his new
hook “The Paradox of Plenty.”
That “this is not a depression but a
mishandling of the greatest era of
plenty the world has ever known.” is
the thesis of Mr. Leeeh’s book. “The
plain fact is.” he says in his preface,
“that after thousands, perhaps mil
lions, of years of living on the energy
grudgingly tendered by the sun
through annual harvests of crops, man
suddenly became aware that the same
sun had been storing energy for mil-
lions of years. He discovered in coul
an energy store with millions of times
the energy available from his own
muscles, Nearly two hundred years
later, he still thinks of ‘searcity’ when
there is no scarcity. And, failing to
adjust his institutions and his finan-
cial mechanisms to the conditions of
plenty, he has failed to realize the ad-
vantages of plenty,
Transformation of the United States
The transformation of the United
Atates into a new form of industrial
society, through the interconnection of
electric power and transmission of en-
ergy, has already started, according
to Mr. Leech, and “is now proceeding
as rapidly as the previous political and
economic Intergration of America by |
railroad construction.”
Mr. Leech points to recent develop:
ments in the Carolinas as typical of
what may be expected of the future
industrinlism of the United States in
the wake of Ite constantly expunding
use of electrical energy. “Tn the Pled-
mont region of the Carolinas," he
writes, “the first quarter of the Twen-
tieth century witnessed a repetition of
the industrial revolution of the Eight-
eenth century in the north of England.
There was the same shift from agri-
culture and cottage Industries to fac-
tories, but np growth of cities to cor.
respond to the growth of the steam.
generated Babylons like Manchester,
Leeds, Pittsburgh or Chicago, which
gathered into themselves the great, |
constructive forces of the Nineteenth
century.
“Ihe new type of Industrialisn,
shick Is seen In most characteristic
form In the Carolinas has been sub-
jected to much criticism. But it
brought to the inhabitants ‘of those
regions a far greater net gain of in
come and welfare than came to the
people who lived through the great
transitions from agriculture to factory |
jife in regions of earlier industrial ma- |
turity. Whether urban critics like it
or not—the Carolinas today are a pro-
totype of the future industrialism of |
America.
The mammoth metropolises of the
modern world already show signs of
overgrowth and
which In the organic world foretell the
doom of an species.
“Because of the congestion in cities
overspecialization,
¢here has been bullt up a complex sys-
tem of’ distribution. ' There are brok- |
| of a tribe or section may fluctuate
ers, jobbers, wholesalers, and ware-
to the expense of transportation and |
handling.
“Superficlally, the greater per capits. |
sonsumption of electricity ila cities |
would Indicate higher living standards
than in small communities with a low-
| er per capita consumption, but much
| of the urban use of electricity goes
| merely te level up the city dweller's |
plane of life to that already enjoyed
| by the inhabitant of the smaller com-
| munity without recourse to electrica’
"| or mechanical power.”
Value Changes.
Mr. Leech points out in his book
| that the vastly increased ability to
produce agricultural and other prod-
| ucts that electrical energy has placed
| tive Insects. Social
In the hands of men has destroyed |
completely the promise that searcity
| is a measure of value, With the en-
| ergy now available, he says, it takex
but a small proportion of the popula-
tion to supply the essential needs of |
the whole nation.
Therefore, he adds, there can be ne
palm branches and crowns of olive
twigs. .
After the Romans conquered the
Greeks, they, too, were permitted to
take part in the contests, which were
of the nature of a national festival, as
the contest winners were exempted
from tases and were maintained dur
ing the period following the games at
the expense of the state. The erec-
tion of statues to the winners was alse
~ommon,
credit in the great war, may soon be | mm
zooming through Asiatic skies helping
the Cliinese to throw back the Jap- |
anese forces,
Ninee eighty experienced Royal Ca- |
padinn air force pilots offered their |
services ii a body through Chinese |
consul general for Canada, Tchuin Li, |
a number of American air pilots have |
expressed desires to join them, One |
of the American even offers to puy |
Lis own way to China. Recently Mr. |
Li received from the Chinese National- |
ist government at Nanking a cablegram |
indicating that there is a probability |
of their enlistinent offers being ac |
cepted. |
The cablegram received by the Chi-
nese consul general is in response to |
his cabled report of the enlistment of- |
fer of the experienced Canadian fiyers. |
It says that the Chinese government's |
i
aviation department finds the proposal |
| “Interesting” and welcomes the idea of |
The games were finally abolished In |
304 by Emperor Theodosius.
Chemist Eulogizes Sea
in Transport of Words |
“0 Sea! Thon saline and undulant |
aqueous solution of halides, carbonates. | to China, before definite answer can
phosphates, sulphates, and other solu
ble inorganic compounds!
terious colloids are dispersed within
thy slightly aikaline bosom? What
silent and unseen reactions vibrate in
dynamic equilibrium, constantly de.
stroyed and instantly restored, among
thy unnumbered oscillating mole-
cules? What uncounted myriads of
restless ions migrate perpetually
throughout thy tentatively estimated
What mys |
| diately upon receipt of favorable defi-
volume? What unguessed phenomena |
of catalysis, metathesis, and osmosis
transpire in thy secret fluid profundi-
ties under excessively indreased pres
sure? What cosmic precipitates de-
gcend in countless kilograms upon thy
argiliaceous, gelatinous, siliceous, dia-
tomaceous, and totally unillumined
bottom? In short, most magnificent
reservoir, what is thy flow-chart and
complete analysis?’ — Norman
Knight, in “Industrial and Engineer
ing Chemistry.”
Rights of Patentee
| pared to equip and man two squad-
| at a cost to the Chinese government
a more squadrons of eighteen machines
| nadian air force layoff.
There is a popular but erroneous no- |
tion that it is not an infringement of a
patent for an unauthorized individual
to make a duplicate of a patented ar-
ticle for his own use, particularly if it |
Is a tool, implement or device employed
in gaining a livelihood. . In a letter to
us the United States patent office says:
“The grant of a patent by this office
gives to the patentee, his heirs or as-
signs the right to exclude others from
making, using and selling the invention
covered by the claims of the patent
throughout the United States and its
territories for a 17-year period. An
Individual would have no right to make
for his own use an article covered by
the claims of an unexpired patent
without the consent of the owner of
the patent.”—Pathfinder Magazine,
Arabic Organization
The organization of the nomadic |
Arabs is represented by the tribe un-
der the contro! of a sheikh, an office
normally hereditary, but sometimes
elective, Within the tribe are a num-
ber of sections with patrilineal de-
scent, themselves often formed by
smaller groups. Esch section has its
own sheikh. suhordinate to the tribal
sheikh, and wueh importance Is at-
tached to the preservation. of tribal
and sectional genealogies. The size
house men, all adding tremendously from time to time with the popular-
ity and strength of its leader; a
strong and just man will attract to his
unit families or groups of families
from other tribes, aud these In time
may give rise to sections or lese their
identity in that of their adopted unit
Intelligence of Termites
Termites, a species of white ant,
are among the world's most destruc-
in disposition,
they live in colenies, eating wooed and
behaving In a way that excites end-
less surprises. Some of their prac-
tices are too unpleasant to be de
scribed. On the other hand, they are
industrious, and highly intelligent, ob-
serving complex social rules. At the
head of each commuuity are a royal
palr. The queen ranks as ose of the
most remarkable insects in the world.
| She Is carefully guarded by the work-
scarcity, and scarcity ceases to he a |
measure of value,
In conclusion Mr. Leech strikes a |
aote of optimisin for the future of the
United States and its citizens, and for
western civilization as a whole. “Slow- |
ly, he deciares, “the force of econemic
and technieal realities has been remov- |
2? | ng from the throat of western man-
kind, the dead hand of obsolete econom-
The evidence is unmis-
takable that humanity can escape from
the prison house of want: and, al-
though still rubbing eyes blinded from
long confinement in the dungeon, can
now see a8 pew world. With famine
vanquished. and other forms of priva-
tion being rapidly diminished, old
faiths born of want and fear have
been losing force.”
| ers and protected by the soldiers. The
nt is democratic, not men:
archial. The queen's actions: are veg-
ulated by the workers. The whole
community is under their control.
Underground Dwellers
Tunisia has perhaps the strangest
ave dwellers In the world. They are
round south of Gabes, on the fringe
of the desert. In their efforts to es-
cape the heat they have dug dwellings
in the sand. The traveler crossing the
plain of Matmat comes across what
appear to be wells. Looking down, he
discovers In the half light a small
courtyard, and tunneled from the bot.
tom of the well-like cavity are com-
plete dwellings. Access Is through a
slowly descending tunnel. Down be-
low the surface lives the whole fam-
ily, and there ure stables for their
animals
having experienced aviators from the |
Occident fight under the Chinese Na- |
tionalist flag.
It will be necessary, however, the |
cablegram states, for the Chinese avi- |
ation department to give full consider-
ation to the detailed report of the pro-
posals, now in the mails on its way
be given. According to the Canadian
alr force spokesman, who, because of
Canadian government opposition to the
move cannot reveal his identity, the
Canadian proposals should reach Nap
king about the middle of March,
“We are planning our organization”
ae said, “so that we can start imme-
nite reply from the Chinese govern:
ment.” i
The Canadians say they are pre
rons, one pursuit and one bombing,
for the first year of nine million dol-
lars, Including maintenance and sal-
aries. Each succeeding year would
cost but four millions. If necessary
the airmen say they can equip two or
each. There are about 400 pilots und
mechanics affected by the Royal Ca-
Shortage of Waterfowl
Shown in U. S. Survey
Washington.—A shortage of water-
fowl is indicated in reports to the
United States biological survey.
Flights and concentrations in vari
July ions of this country were gen
Hy smaller last fall than in previ-
ous years, the survey reports. Short
ages were especially severe among
canvasbacks, redheads and lesser
scaups, birds whose breeding ranges
are largely in the northwest and In
the prairie provinces of Canada, the |
areas most seriously affected by the
long dry season,
In a few regions unusually large lo
cal concentrations have been ohserved,
but these, the bureau explains, are a
result of mild weather and of the great
reduction in water and food areas that
followed the dry season. By these in
dications, the bureau adds, many have
concluded that the number of water
fowl has Increased, whereas, except in
limited regions, ducks were far less
pelntiful than in other seasons.
The bureau believes hunters have
generally observed the shortened 1931
bunting season, and that this factor,
coupled with the mild weather the |
country has experienced, has effected
a saving of ducks which will be able.
to return to their nesting grounds in
the spring. .
Construction Bargains
Seen in Lowered Costs
Chicago, — That construction bar-
gains abound for people who will take
advantage of them and build this year,
is Indicated by prices on contracts re-
cently awarded. A good exauple Is
the concrete wading pool for which a»
contract has just been let in Ouk Park,
Ii., at a cost of only $1,000.
of similar design which
iit in 1929 cost the com-
each. In 1981, the price
to $1,450 each for twe
pools installed. But the
low bid was more than 30 per
Whale Tows Smack,
Tears Off Anchor
Cape May, N. J.—Capt. Esse
Boies, master of the Sea Toy, a
fishing smack that salls out of
this harbor, returned to port, re-
porting ke had run inte a school
of whales, and that one of them
had yanked the anchor off his
boat. According to Captain
Boles, who is a teetotaler and a
member of the Methodist church,
he dropped anchor off Chinco-
teague, Va., in search of codfish,
but his anchor caught in the
stomach of a whale, apparently
annoying the leviathan intensely.
The big sea mammal dragged
his smack back and forth, Cap-
tain Boies. declares, until he was
almost ready to cut the anchor
cable. Then the whale jerked
the anchor loose and spared him
the tronble.
Flour For Free Distribution
e Bellefonte Chapter of the American Red
Cross has recieved 500 barrels of flour for free
distribution within its district. In Bellefonte
and Spring Township distribution will be made
under the direction of the Associated Charities on
Tuesday and Friday afternoons, to continue three
months. The flour is stored in the Potter-Hoy
warehouse on High Street.
Mr. H. P. Harris, Chairman of the Red Cross
Chapter, also has for free distribution, Red Cross
garden seed. :
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Baney’s Shoe Store
WILBUR H. BANEY, Proprietor
80 years in the Business
BUSH ARCADE BLOCK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Stetson Hats
Mallory Hats -
Kaynee Shirts, Waists
Kaynee Wash Suits
Boys’ Sweaters
Mens’ Work Shirts
Walkover Shoes
Mens’ all wool Suits
Boys’ 4-piece Suits
$ 5.00
3.75
15
1.00
50
50
3.85
15.00
A Dollar today has the great-
est purchasing power it ever had
— if you bring it to the Fauble J
Store. Watch” our Windows.
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