————. The Centre Reporter | ——— CENTRE HALL PA LABOR EXCHANGES IN ENGLAND, exchanges instituted In act of Parllament had received a two years’ trial, interest in this country, plans for bringing where similar agitated. There are now 261 which the experiment was cancles was given of which 373,313 were by employers, rose to 757,109 and tively. In 1911 casual was provided through for 112.492 men and 12812 women. Last year 64,901 vacancies wore filled by the transfer of applicants to dls tricts other than those in which they were registered To facliitate this movement of labor from one part of the country another, an obstacle to which in the case of women work: ers is the lack of suitable lodgings, the suggestion made of establish- ing women's hotels in connection with the exchanges During 1911 the de mand for operatives exceeded the sup ply in the cotton, woolen and worsted trades, and in the in the clothing trades and in the laundry work. of the experiment is the growing confidence shown both 589.77 to in case of women One favorable outcome by men in the of friendly co its scope. employers and work- and the operation In system prospect extending One of the curio: wom us provisions of the an suffrage law of California calls for the registration women Nat z trouble wit height of the the h it. First the voters urally regls trars are havin of all, it has foot of a woman her head heels be su thorities to cate to be decided where begins and leaves off i biracted assu for them have heels? apparatus sccount, affairs of the or must whe n the urement? Artific have gone out of prepared with authority that matter the Toledo Bl But supposing that year, fashion of latter eighteenth century, not fe $ y “ro ashio are to speak on ade that part of the women SAYS next the when had their hair made uj whole baked, sho What would the registrar say when a before him? Would he remove with flour and the ild be the rage vyoter came ask her to ing a man of merely sigh with 10 Inc her bun? experience, wo the elector and credit hes growth in the course A clean, honest wholesome, but intended be There 8 so much clsm these guilty of it, an that keeps the right from succeedin There are to days dr yet instances every day where a noble fact ia kicked paraging remark slap. The serious trouble flippant criticisms Is & truth behind; it The thing to do ia to leave off the flip pant and make a thoughtful, frank and kind. If a ecrith cism is not thus attended, It and flippant, Or woman a dis intended only as a with these they never leave fs always a biotech criticism sincere, is false unworthy of a true man A New York factory commission Ras discovered in its Investigations that from £0 to 75 per cent of fires In that city are caused by carelessness, principally in the thoughtless use of matches, cigars and cigarettes The terrible results of this carelessness should be made an 'mportant point in the education of children, to the end of Its elimination from the ordinary risks of life. Apparently, not even the horrors resulting from this thoughtiessness can Induce the aver age adult to take the very slight trou ble required to prevent Jt The young Indian prince, sen of the Gaekwar of Baroda, has left Harvard because he could not get along thera on his allowance of $250 a week Even Oriental lavishnesa, apparently, can mot live up to the standard of the American money kings’ sons And this must rather puzzle the European and eastern minds to reconcile with all that has been told them about the simplicity of our republican matite tions Telling people how to sleep, the London Globe says: “You must have your head on a level wia or lower than your feet” We are opposed to an arbitrary rule A Brooklyn rallway has had a ver dict rendered against it of over §1.000 because one of {ts employes was rude 10 a woman passenger. Who says the world’s male chivalry has periabpd out? THINS SCOT, Says Peary. PEARY ARCTIC CLUB MEETS Made Of Blue Dia Meteorite, Pre- the Discoverer North Pole. Unique Medal, mond and Is To the sented of York. Rear Admiral E. Peary, retired, who discovered the North Pole, Amundsen, tain Scott, the South Pole view in an address at & marking the third anniversary of discovery, which by a meteoric Arctic Admiral New the Norwegian, and Cap the Englishman, He expressed celebration his at he was & unique medal made which he brought 1867 up in part of from the regions in Peary declared that from of Amundsen and Englishman had in reaching middle of January, or than Amundsen polar auspices of the Peary American Geogr and the American Histor: It was held Building and adte ’ his study the competition be Scott, he believed also South een about the ntl the Pole about a me . later reached it The celebration was under Arctic Club Soci the the aphlcal Museum explorers and Admiral Peary's ach! Osborn Zenas Pea iseum at Washing of the ry coll ve ' in re piving dre Admiral we Antarctic press explors ng his belle WILL BACK UP THEIR FAITH. Initiative and Referendum Law To Be Their Platform, {ieneral greement to next Bn annou ACY tention of in necement made candid elferendun a propo gal vention PEANUT CROP $15,000,000 Insects Eat $3,000.000 Product. of Stored Washington It that Unit amounted 20 per are injured by has been estimated the year 19810 that about the peanuts grown insects, bringing the estimate of annual loss to $3.000.000 Under the direction of Agriculture Wilson, products Insect investigations of the Buvean of Entomology are studying this problem the ed Si peanut Industry in for the $15,000 000 ates to cent of of Secretary experts FELL INTO OPEN SEWER. Four-Year Old Boy Swept To Death In a Current, New York A small boy, believed have beer four-yearsold William Pohorley, fell into an open sewer in East Seventy-fourth and was whisked swiftly underground East River, two blocks away ers rushed to gsewer's mouth and with poles tried In vain stop the emall body as it appeared. The little chap was carried to death in the cur rent that races past Blackwella Island, to gireet Rescu the to FAMILY PERIEH IN FIRE. House of Alabama County Treasurer Destroyed. Columbus, Ga. Mrs. Amanda Dunn, aged B60; Cleveland Dunn, aged 23. and the baby of Cleveland Dunn, aged | 4 months, were burned to death, and Mrs. M. M. Dunn, wife of the treas urer of Lee county, Ala, was burned | #0 badly that she cannot recover, ii the Istter's home at Ralem, Ala, was destroyed by fire of unknown _—. | [(heLio’ GARTie mY NT You LOOKAD BweEiL Wm YOouR BPAETER PRESS YESTERDAY MILO! 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Save CLASSIFIED SERVICE PLAN 0 Proposes Consolidation Revenue Cutter and Lighthouse Service In Labor De partment, § old t ian to register A bonded G00 ant Tra internal revenue ually nsfer of to classified ing given Consolidatic not thouse and ’ Bureau of i saving $100, lifesaving sery Lighthouses; im Transfer of iipment Service from Labor De abolition as =a message aving year of Revenue Treasury to Commerce and partment and its separate service, estimated in January 17 that $1 600,000 a of auditing offices of the Government one auditory; estimated saving $200,000 annually Discontinuance of mileage allow ances for Government per diem allowance for officers and employes in place of “subsistence” includes lodging for on economy about Consolidation would be under method of handling cor estimate of saving not Improved Coentralization of the distribution of Government documents estimated saving $242,000 a year Shot Over a Nickel, Greensboro, N. C not paid a nickel that fourteen year-old claimed was due old eolored man, by the boy James Hill, a of Goldaboro, Ned Jones, and killed boy, him, was shot Army Appropriation Bill, Washington The Army Appropris- tion Bill, earrying $85.2314.711, an In- crense of $7.537.454 over the House partment estimates, was reported to tte Senate from the Military Affairs Commitiee. Japanese War Minister Dead. * Tokio, Japan Gen. Shiaroku Ishio- moto, minister of war in the Japanese cabinet, to which post he was appoint in August last, died here of con. sumption at the axe of 68, BIPLAN Calbraith Rodgers’ Fatal Plunge at Calfiornia Resort. HIS TRANSCONTINENTAL TR.P the Fell Surf At Feet To he Almost He Finished 200 Beac Where a Distance Of t ana On Long on the Spot His O cean-to-Ocean Flight, y & level posit Failing in this, his instant the edge of the surf er and crashed craft furth in shore, later the craft fiol 500 feet fron the iher 10 last gpot where, on ecen : had flight. Many men ru Ernest Scott life guards, he finished his ocean-io-O0Cean shed to his aid and James Goodwin first reach him They said Rodgers’ head was hanging over one wing of the machine, the heavy engine was on his back and his drawn up nearly doubling his shoulders Jlood was flow ing from his mouth Rodgers was lifted from the wreck and hurried to the bath house hospital He died on the way were {to feet were over ECONOMIZING ON PINS, Greater Care In Demanded By Railroads. Chicago. Officials of one of trading Western raliroads have begun a campaign against the waste of pins care in conserving them will be de the officials thrown away the clerks the notice of that pins in great Last year used 2.300 2.400 pounds pins 0.012.000 of pins the pound, ping were There are to therefore NOT A CANDIDATE, SAYS ERYAN. { Primary Ballot. Los Angeles, , Cal-~William Jen nings Bryan, in a letter to the Bryan Club here, has refused to allow his pame to be placed on the primary ballot in California as candidate for President. “I am not a candidate and am not willing to be put in that attitude before the country,” read the letter. FLOOD FACTS SUMMED UP. Seven thousand persons home less. - Eight flad from Eight persons Property Hons, Ten states affected State and Federal helping afflicted inundated Cities. thousand persons have flood-threatened homes drowned run mil ions will into i governments Nine thousand acres of manufac turing district of Cairo, under water Future City and Urbandal Iving home sections of Calro, combined population of flooded Hickman (Ky.) factory and part home section Two thousand homeless Columbus, Ky with country, under water, 1,000 persons of homes Memphis (Tenn. ) river sections flooded, driving 1.200 from Many factories under water New Madrid, Mo., R00 Dorena, Mo. 700 homeless Eight th PETROS flood-threatened in ¢, out with 1.100, district flooded of flo outlying depriving homes homeless ousand fleeing ¢ irom nome in wns between Hickma SENATOR LODGE AFTER JAPS The Senator is Still An indircet Movement Afoot By Which Says There the Japanese Are Hoping To Secure a Naval Station DENIAL FROM MEXICO Savs Get 3 Station Foreign Minigter » 1 asking ormatior current Washing Calerao's © al of the po pos the acquisition of such a ilege by a foreign power was com prehensive and emphatic nor other foreign any cannot gain a fighting for it “Japan ernment gov foot of Mex! * he whom i can soll except by ared “Senator Lodge, one of the abl now in public moved by the his authorship of the reso ition, but the possibil the thing he fears is out of all question. The Senate of the United States io acting unon a theory for which there is no {| foundation, and 1 should be glad to | have any statement of denial sent to | the American people.” dec know out AR American statesmen i life, i» un doubtedly sincerest motives in ity of CALLS EXPRESS PARASITE. Senator Gardner Says Parcels Post Would Pay For Companies. Washington Express companies {are characterized as parasitic in an | open letter to the people of the Unit led States by Senator Gardner, | Maine, which was presented to | Senate by Senator Clarke, of Arkan | gan. Senator Gardner contended that lin one year, by continuing present | rates, the Government could make | good the $35,000,000 which is an esti mated physical valuation of express properties and rallroad contracts. JAPAN SENDS CHERRY TREES. Gotham Plants First Grant's Tomb. New York The first of 23000 cherry trees, the gift of the city of Tokio to the city of New York, were planted at Grant's Tomb under the direction of Park Commissioner Stover, A representative gathering of Japanese citizens took part in the ceremony. A tablet made in the Tokio Arts Schoo!, commemorating the gift, will be pinced near by. oo MIGHTY RES TERRIBLE HAVOC Forty Thousand Homeless Along the Mississippi. 10,000 MORE ARE DESTITUTE United States Troops Mey Be Bent To the Valley To Assist in Dis tributing Relief and To Preservas Order. Washington President Taft ard Wood predicted After a Major falk with General Leon chief of staff of that more than 40 be made hom 16,600 others would the Arioy, 600 per song would and more than be fed River prediction on reporis aireaqy Arms War D eLlPRE have 10 as a result of the Missiseipg flood General Wood based his rece veo from officers now Ir epartment wii Ae pos bie » flooded Ramsay Con MAKER OF PIES ES Found Consolation Of Card Mottoes in Religious Texts A MOTHER OF SOLDIERS. To in Civil Woman War Proposed Pension Had 16 Sons Wast Who Fran Hou nEtor R nin nas epresentative asked we on invalid Pensior to Cot mmediately a bill granting a Mrs Saral 1€ sons pengion of $1060 a month to Brandon, fight for Union during War Brandon, who Jacobsburg, O, old. She had who furnished the Mrs is sald to hae been marrie 12 oh has dren SUICIDE PROTECTED FAMILY. Wrote Warning. Against Matches, Then Turned On Gas Lafayette —Defore seeking his own death by asphyxiation, James Hall protected his absent family from a possible explosion and when they turned home the front Tes they found pinned on door a note: “Don’t strike & match in an upstairs room was Hall's body and the house was filled with gas from a jet he had opened Child Chokes To Death. Troy, N. Y.-—While blowing a blad- here, Jessie Kosska, 2 Polish child, drew the bladder into her throat, and though she made frantic efforts to re move the obstacle, she choked death within a few moments to Rhode island Leads In Good Roads. Washington Rhode Island, the smallest State in the eaintry, ranks Bureau of Good Roads. The State bas nearly 50 per cent. of improved roade, Massachusetts following a close see ond with 48 per cent. Indiana, Con necticut, New Jersey, Kentucky, Ver mont and California follow in the or fer named. In the entire country less than § per cent. of the roads are clase- ed as improved.
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