The Centre Reporter
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CENTRE HALL,
FAMILIARITY AND CONTEMPT.
Familiarity, of course, is a term of
straight Inheritance from “familia”
the Latin name of family; and it is
too bad that a word which stands for
the beautiful relationship of intimacy
in the household should also have
come to do duty for another meaning,
that of disrespect, says the Philadel-
phia Ledger. Why shouldn't ripening
acquaintance mean a continual acces-
sion of reverence? Why is it that “no
man is a hero to his valet?” Must it
be that only the glaring deficlencles
and discrepancies progressively ap-
pear instead of the graces and the vir.
PA.
ot
closely scrutinized character? In the
ideal family life there is generous
concession, each to each, in the point
of view. There {8 a real affection
which creates an atmosphere of tol
erance and kindliness. The parents
remember that they were not always
as old and as wise as they are now.
They realize that a child cannot look
through their own bifocal lenses on
life's problems at quite the same an-
gle or in exectly the same light Age
with increasing wisdom, the “sour
saws” and the “severity,” ought to
bring an added disposition to glve
youth and impulse the benefit of the
doubt. Old age and youth may not al-
Ways agree; January and May are
traditionally at odds; but they can af-
ford to let each other live, and neither
can afford to be condescending. “We
are none of us “infallible,” sald Jew-
ett, “not even the youngest of us.”
The young girl who killed herself
through frenzied adoration of a grand
opera prima donna was probably men-
tally deranged and would have killed
herself over any other matter which
affected her imagination. To draw
morals from her fate is superfluous,
says the Baltimore American The
usual adoration of the average mati
nee girl for stage idols is a very harm-
less thing which arises from the con-
fusion In an immature mind between
the stage character the person
representing itself
in the course of time, leaving no scars
and
it and wears out
behind, being a matter more of amuse
ment the than
anything else. Even illness i »
phase, and beyond care to
its extravagant
th
th
for idols emselves
its
passing
check
nothing for alarm.
expression has
In cases of really
unbalanced brains, 1
it is merely
tneans a cause
ke the one cited,
incidental by
in itself.
and no
Pupils of the public schools
Pennsylvania town were taken |
in a
n di
d
the
of impressing
upon them their geographical studies.
There does not seem much doubt that
moving pictures will play a large part
in the conduct of the schools in the
future. Their will sup
plement books to a large extent, since
to the childish mind, especially, things
seen are mightier than things heard
visions to see moving pictures of
Panama canal as a way
fllustrations
Now a Chicago experimenter comes
forward to deal another telling blow
to the down-trodden sex in his conclu
gions on animal observations, that the
female of the species is more intelli
gent than the male. He hints in a
traitorous way to his own sex, that
while these observations may not ap
ply to the human race, it is more than
suspected that they do. After a while
mere man will be thankful that he {a8
allowed to exist
A letter from Dublin says that Eng-
lish middle-class are taking
to sending their sons to Ireland to re
ceive their education, the Irish, mid
die-class schools and colleges being
lees expensive than their English
equivalents and without the vicious
attractions which often environ educa-
tional centers in Great Britain. The
result is that the young men usually
secure a better education than if they
were kept on their side of the
channel. This state of things revives
memories of Ireland's days of glory,
when the green isle was the nursery
of learning for all Europe.
parents,
own
A sclentific expert In Los
is experimenting to produce
of zebrastriped rats. What result to
the human race the success of this
experiment would be is hard to tell,
except to render the horrors of a late,
inebriated homecoming more poign.
ant than ever, if a feasting rodent
happened to be disturbed by the late
eomer.
Angeles
the other and less complaisant states,
residences In Reno must be something
of an exile.
A man in New York clubbed by a
policeman collected several hundred
dollars damages. The policeman
should have hired a third party to per
form the assault.
STUDY OF CROPS
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Farmers and Financiers Ad-
vocate Organization,
FEDERAL LOANS TO FARMERS
Under Federal Control, a Thorough
Study Of Markets, Crops and Cost
Of Transporting Foodstuffs
Would Be Efficient.
Chicago.—A committee, authorized
at the closing sessions of the Confer
ence on Marketing and Farm Credits,
will go to Washington in a few days
and present to President Wilson
conclusions of the
cuiturists, financiers
who met here
They will appeal for the
ment by the government of
for the thorough
crops and cost of
stuffs. They
propriation
organization,
should be increased t«
will ask for f
The chairman, Frank P. Hollar
will name a committee in
to place the matter before the
governments an favorabl
action
Arrangements
a second national co
in Chicago on April 14
an international
Francisco in 1915
To the President
report of the
which
“The cost
the farm t«
sarily
ed are
efficlent
the
agri.
economists
500 scientific
and
establish-
a bureau
markets,
transporting |
that
$60,000 for such an
now is pending
£1.000,000. They
study of
ood-
will assert tl
1€¢ ap
of
which
to
federal loans
ii,
each
state
d secure
were undertaken
nforends
RDierelics
1914,
to open
and
confer
Comte
states
large and
wasteful
m
these farm
GIVES LIFE TO SAVE CHILDREN.
Man Crushed Under the Hoofs Of Run-
away Horses.
bovs
attached
dashing
children
middle
of
horses
came
Young
in the
shouts
proaching
from the
dragging
leather thon
he lost h
death
warning
runaway
beneath t
welght,
WILSON EXPLAINS VISIT.
Only Dignified Way To Address Both
Houses At Opening Of Session,
President Says.
Washington President Wilson
asked
renew the
“The reasons,
simple. 1 think that that is the
dignified w President to
dress the at the ing of
session instead of sending the address
up by messenger and letting the
read it perfunctorily in ti
clerk's f valee 1
the dignified and natural thing was
read it It ig a precedent it 1s
true has been discontinued a long
time, but which ig a very respectable
precedent.’
what motives mpe led hin
custom of
for the
houses open
tone o
which
ADMIRAL EATON'S WILL.
Estate To Widow Who Is Charged
With Murdering Him,
Plymouth, Mass The
Admiral Joseph G. Eaion,
probate here, leaves his estate, with
the exception of $600, to widow,
who is awaiting trial on the charge of
baving murdered him. The value
the estate is not given.
wil of Rear
filed for
his
or
| BABY FATALLY HURTS MOTHER.
Traumatic Meningitis,
New York--Mre. Katherine Me-
was the victim of a peculiar accident.
the eye with a nureing bottle by her
infant daughter, The injury was at
first regarded as trivial, but it became
moved to a hospital, where traumatic
| meningitis developed.
OF SENATORS
DIRECT CHOIGE |
The Amendment Now Part of
the Constitution.
IS RATIFIED BY 36 STATES,
Proclamation By Secretary Of State
Only Needed To Make it Effective.
Connecticut's Ratificaticn Gives
Necessary Number,
NENCANS HAE
AGAIN WARNED
Firing Across the Border Will
Not Be Tolerated.
MANY AMERICANS IN DANGER
American Town Of Naco Only Separ-
ated From the Mexican Town
Of Naco By a Street Fifty
Feet Wide.
APATHY THREATENS DELAY.
doption Or Seventeenth Amendment
May Be He Up
id
RIGHT OF HOME RULE.
New York Cities Get It i= a Bill
Signed By Governcr,
\lbany, N. Y
1s
home
New
ome
ar.
Il cities
reguiate,
property
the rig
sdiction necessary
into execution.
extended
mpowerin ill sig: by Gov
The
ite power
jlzer
tl St
aE and
f
privil
to car
man-
and
He
ss
control th
local affairs, th
eges and Jt
ry their powers
all 8],
U. 8. TROOPS SHO
Fighting Of is Re-
ported Near Naco, Arizona.
Furious Nature
Nac 0,
Ariz Fightin hetween
garrison Sonora,
commanded by General Odeja and the
Maderista ide that town be
gan one mile south of the international
boundary A number are reported
t wounded, Bullets failing on the United
States struck two United States
cavalrymen patrolling the border.
Federal of XNaoo,
foree out
side
| Petition Asking For Permission,
Sugar Is Made Free, Out.
Honolulu ~The Star-Bulletin
that a petition is being prepared de
claring that "Whereas, Hawaii is dom:
mercially made to exist under free
sugar, 1 be allowed to withdraw from
the Unioh and resume Hs previous
status of independence if a free sugar
| provision be enacted by Congress.”
FOR FLOOD FUND
OF $10,000,000
Federal Aid Proposed by Re-
presentative Cary.
FORDIKES AND LEVEES.
Would Take Up Relief In Territory
Waste By Fire,
Earthquake
Laid Flood,
and Other
Catastprophes.
TO LEASE EMBASSIES ABROAD.
Bacon's Bill Appropriates $20,000
Yearly For Chief Capitals.
A con
of
>
Was
for tha
OF i
iingion
fy ov
OK
Dre en
¥
HS embas
8
tions
oad, and their
proposed by
introduced
chase, was
fn 111
i a Dil
the Foreign Rel
leasing of
bass
ations
offic
adores at
Germany and
authorize the
an ai
Am Great
Russia
appropriata
lly of $20,000 each
priation of $10,000 each
the #
A
an
for fu
ame
Lesser amounts
smaller capitals
nosed f he
posed for the I
PARCEL POST BUSINESS.
More Than 150,000,000 Packages
Mailed In Three Months. *
Washington More than
parcel post packages were malled dur.
ing the first
was in operation, according to com
putations announced by postal ex
ports and based upon reports from the
largest postoffices, Approximately
66 per cent. more business was handled
in March than In Chicago
leads all other cities, 6.855.744 par els
being handled in two months: New
York handled 5,973,075, and Boston,
1,657,036
150 0«
O00
three months the eystem
bot)
January
RACE SUICIDE IN PARIS.
Only One Birth To Every Thirty Fam.
ilies Last Year,
Paris.--The birth rate in the French
| capital for 1812 was the lowest since
1861, according to a municipal report
just made public. There wag only
one birth for every 30 families. The
infantile death rate was 143 per 1,000,
Prohibitive rentals are said to have
been the chief cause for the decrease
{in the number of births,
DOCTORS EXEMPT.
Physiclans Not Necessarily Liable For
Burns Resulting From X-Ray.
Washington, — Skilled physicians
who burn or injure patients with X.
ray treatment are not necessarily
lable in damages, the Supreme Court
‘solemnly decided in denying the right
to pecuniary balm of a former house
keeper at the Belgian Legation for a
| back biistered under an X-ray machine.
ion of
by the people
ilsory
i Washington Direct election
|
i
| United
was
| Tuesday,
i ture ratifi
| ment submitted by
la apo Ratification already
! been Kiven by &i Th
tates i
Lion thes ts LAroughn
States senators
and made
when the Connecticut jegisia-
authorized comp
the constitutional amend
Congress i¢
od
gE tt
ial
Year had
al resul out the
try, where many iegisiatures
wirned until 161f
MW
confusion in
he Senate
3 Of senators
toward dire
be carried
fle the of the sec-
r final ratifi-
yy 36 states
proclamation
tow
re in in iirecl ele
in Congress, expressed
mend rit |
endment is
part
ATONEMENT FOR BROTHER.
Automobile Bandit's Sister Will Enter
Convent
FATE HANGS ON WATER
Man K
Claims Court
For
Lacked
Sentenced
WOMAN MADE CITY TREASURER.
Three Others Given Offices In Kansas
City, Kan,
Kansas
ment of four women «
City, Kan
RO
edd by
was app LH
Addison C
x
2
Kansa five imp
tions in the vernment of
re women
ted city
and
treasurers
Mrs
Est
Miss Be
Merle utier
her Bower, depu
ilah Reitz, city clerk
ARMY AVIATOR KILLED.
Lieut. Rex Chandler Drops Into the
Bay At San Diego.
“and
Chang
San Lieut. Rex
jer, of the aviator corps of th
Army,
Brereton
Diego, Cal
e¢ United
Lieut,
bes Sua
killed and
was seriously
States was
when their hydroaeropians
bay The
the machine Chandler
the machine when it struck
and drowned
dropped
here men &t con-
was
et iy
iis ii
:
ti water
the Was
WOMEN LOSE IN BAY STATE.
Senate Accepts Adverse Report On
Suffrage Amendment.
Boston. —The fight women suf
frage in the present Legislature prob.
ably ended in defeat. The Senate ac.
cepted the adverse reports of the com-
mittee on constitutional amendments
on three resolutions providing for the
enfranchisement women. It is ex-
pected that the House will concur in
the adverse reports
for
of
CLARK'S SON NAMED.
Cets Position Of
Salary
Adviser To Father.
is $4,600.
Washington Bennett Champ
Clark, son of the Speaker, was ap
pointed House parliamentarian. The
job, which carries a salary of $4,600
a year, makes him adviser to his
father on all disputed points of order.
Clark is 23 years old and a graduate
of the University of Missouri. He is
the youngest nn to hold this re
{ sponsible post.
| MRS. PANKHURST FED BY FORCE.
i
London Paper Says Suffragette Is In a
State Of Collapse.
London, —Mrs, Emmeline Pankhurst,
who I on a hunger strike in Holloway
i Jail, has been forcibly fed, according
| to The Express, and is in a state of
| collapse. Her condition is considered
| serious. She refused food and resisted
i all efforts to feed her,
SNAPSHOTS AT
STATE NEWS
All Pennsylvania Gleaned for
Items of Interest.
REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD
Farmers Busy In Every Locality—
Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy Objects—Iitems of Busi
ness and Pleasure that Interest.
Royersford
water
One plumber
Houuceq uo
MTB
Mary
1 ¥
Josephine
Barber we
has a new
might si
ent
eak
fart}
the art
river, ti » i w
built th resent Warrior
1
'
and
Church
original Warrior
place was turned int
site was used
un gravevard
) & park
Farrell,
a
ore
of
A
Mercer
BOOTY YOUng men at
county, have organized
Bachelor Club” There are m
Young in Farrell of marriage
able age than men, and Farrell girls
are famed for their beauty, but the
bachelors assert they are determined
to resist feminine wiles, and any mem-
ber who breaks his vow ahd marries
will be considered a social outcast.
The officers are: President, John Ley-
shon: vice-president, Earl McCreary,
gecretary, Robert A. Irvin: treasurer,
8 J. McCreary; doorkeeper, William
Owens. In retaliation the young wom-
are talking of organis-
ing a club, taking a vow never to wed
and to quit making fudge for mem.
women
Dr. E. C. Statler was elected presi
The Alletown Chamber of Com
merce is energetically engaged in an
effort to get cheaper gas,
On account of scarcity of labor, No.
1 blast furnace of the Crane Iron Com-
pany, at Catasaqua, has shut down.
According to the South Bethlehem
assessors, that borough has a valua-
tion of $8,288,948, with a T-mill school,
pail] borough and 3-mill county tax.