The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, July 20, 1933, Image 6

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STONE
SICKNESS -
STONE 1S
FOUND TO BE
ATTACKED AND
HARMED BY
BACTERIA.
THE SOOT FROM POORLY
ECLIPSED -
CAREFUL OB-
SERVATION UN-
EXPECTEDLY
SHOWED NO
CHANGE IN
JRADIO TRANS
MISSION SIGNAL}
STRENGTH DURING |
THE ECLIPSE. |}
Legend of the ‘Golden Man’
Not Unbelievable.
, Colombin
and other
precious metals, yi
the mud sat the bottom
but deep lake in the Andes mountains,
huge neralds
one with a for
their
So goes the legend,
true
Way.
cost
walting for some
to reclamation!
it may be
8 that
eramhl
gambie
on
and
Certainly everything point
But one can never tell and
of an expedition to recover
priceless treasure would be
Of course. nothing Is more
than that a country known to be rich
in natural deposits of gold,
and emeralds, should have its fabulous
The
South America’s n
former stamping ground of
cas Indians,
Grabbed Vast Wealth.
the
the
ENnormons
natural
platinun
legends, country is Colombia,
t nation,
the Muys
rthernim
In the Sixteenth century, the Span
fards came to this mountainous garden
spot and wrosted wealth
from the ground. re
cent history tells vs of the galleons
which set forth in i
Cartagena,
leading Atlantic
treasure consigned to the Old world
Today's commercial statistics show
enormons
Com aratively
from ancient
fleets
today one of Colomb
ports, Isden
Marathon Winner
Dave Komonen of the Monarch A.
C., Toronto, Canada, shown with the
National A. A. U. trophy which he
won in the second snnnual 15-mile
marathon race at Washington, Over
128 of the best long distance runners
of the country took part in the race,
the same region, known
public of Colombia
Jolilvar freed It
oke, to be South
lifficult to be
Man"
whose city was
» “Golden
Cas
Dorado” the treasure
Every vear on a certain
ing to the
from generation
by word of
his body
tain trees and pe
of his ety
foot,
inture hlow guns
He them walked majestically
to the shore of Lake Guatavita,
gem-ltke pool of crystal clear water
cupped Im the heights of the Andes
quite near his eapltal city of El
Dorado. There he left his prie
hind, putting forth upon the
a small raft. Arriving
of the lake
¢
Muy ReNs ir
down
mouth, the
with the sticky
to cover
with gold dost, appli
down
| pure
to
ts be
witer on
the center
for a showe f pot from the gods
Then he Qived ove
This wns
1 os s} ered
the
precious
slong the shore take part in
cere to hurl their
possessions into the lake
invariably gold
emeralds,
tnast
tpasd
ny,
These were
Jewel
which they mined with great
the adloining mountain
and chiefly
eifort from
sides,
It Grew and Grew.
And so, year after year, the treas-
ure at the of Lake Guatavita
grew in size and immeasurable value.
The legend of the Man was
repeated and spread through the New
world, Germans who had settled upon
the coast of Venezuela In 1500 set out
for Lake Guatavita to recover the lost
wealth, but Indians banded together
and drove them back. Others fol
lowed, A Frenchman named De Se.
pulveda partially drained the lake and
recovered a emeralds of
which he was reported to sold
for 3100.000. Spanish conquisiadores
tried their hand at the treasure with-
out As late as 1903, a group
of Dritish engineers were given a gov-
ernment concession to retrieve the
treasure of Ei Dorado. They spent a
fortune draining the lake, but found
that the bottom had caked so hard
that other fortunes would be required
to chip it away, so they abandoned
their venture. The lake filled wp
again and has so remained for thirty
years.
Today speculation is rife as to
whether there really exists a fabulous
treasure at the bottom of Lake Gua
tavita or whether it Is merely n fig
ment of the imaginative Indian mind,
a story elaborated ns it posses from
mouth to mouth, from father to son,
until the facts are lost In fantastic
embellishment,
bottom
Golden
few ote
have
SUCCrES,
(cs
(2)
aN
TRYING TO KEEP
A LU BOY From
ETON Fo}
HURT +
EN
[AAS
PROGRESS
. By
LEONARD A. BARRETT
“A Century of Progress"—a most
title for the World's fair.
A hundred years of
progress in sclence
and Invention may
mean much or lit-
tle depending upon
attitude
ward social values,
“A Century of
Progress” in in
has devel-
the machine
in Industry,
Bligcests a
question-—
interesting
One's to-
vention
aped
which
serious
can the develop
ment of the wma-
cliiine be acclaimed
indiseriminately with hearty applause?
The ultimate worth of an Invention is
found not field of scientific dis-
but in its value to
the triumph of
in the
covery,
As
society,
the
deme
reviews
age as it | being
onstrated at the fair, he q
naturally arises, “Is society any better
off at the end of this ‘Co
Progress’? To
unemployment
of the machine?
that the very m
plete the fair
the raul
whom may h
iestion
what extent is prese
due to the perfectios
May It true
y OW
now rel
Une]
been
not be
irked to com
irned to
ome of
have
5 of the
ive fae
cept welfare donations?
Progress
three
pression
heralded us an ad
unless human relat
lif more livabl
that progress is scarcely worthy of so
achieved at
of the
known in
Years
8 celebration,
The other sid
costly
e of the pi
ever, looks toward tomorre
be prophetic. What we
fair i
and
chitecture,
may be In
orn 1 Lr
grander futur
telus
he econo
'
t
being Hfted
noe
It will, however, take a
for the
the last tl
If. however, we get
and
ables us to build wvpon that founda
a mobler future socially that
t the fair can truly
Age
Ong ime to atone SACTICe
and suffering of
three years,
back to normalcy
the “Century of Progress™
atl
Mis
have witnessed a
he prophe fie
ave
Progress
that
iinisters to the i
spiritug
r Us
For Town Wear
Natura! linen erash with red and
white polka dot trimming, cool
and smart for town wear. The jacket
is fitted at the hips and has the new
epaulet sleeves that reach just above
the sleeves of the frock. A red suede
belt is worn on the frock.
Cyrus the Great
Cyrus the Great succeeded Darius, as
monarch of Media and Persia In 508 B.
C. His great rival Croesus, seems to
have succeeded his father on the
throne of Lydia, at about the same
time, being five years younger than
Cyrus,
§
CENTRE HALL. PA
»
Led Art J.
Shirts”
Commander-in-Chief
or American Fascists,
witra-nat list
onnnsiic
The Household
0
Jy LYDIA LE BARON WALKER
Whether has read the book of
titled “Gar
or whether one
ane
Expectations”
1 term is
g
iiy
ent
Dickens’ I
not, ti
has
familiar because so frequen
not in reference to the vol
an attitude of mind, It
whatever
o!, however, there
ime,
is often used
fmsically, In form
fot!
be fo different per
SON
the fact that
ever the thing is, #1
what
is the at
{f mind of
person It Is
attitude which
XX AAR watch
IYI ALYY:
Ba i yes
deh J / 15
- \ | \
"SEove—
Fa
jr
that a belief
ing to
te happen 2
mei.tatty ¥2ady for
happy, or distressing things to come
to them, or to whomsoever they are
thinking about expectantly. It is po
light inaiter to have such expecialions
which are certainly great in their ef
fect for misery and misfortune,
One drawing force in the expecta
tion of good or bad things occurring,
is that the person contemplaling them
sees wars In which they could hap
pen. For example, if you are expect
ing things to turn out badly, you are
quick to see the ways by which the
worst could occur, and thinking thus
you are slow to see avenues of escape
from direful results. There may be as
many opportunities of exemption, but
them
pass, oper } for
rEOns are gett §
disagreeable, u
Pauper Divorced;
Ho Marries Again
Helena, Mont --It may have
been courage or it may have
peen gratitude to Lewis and Clark
county for paying costs of his di
voree suit, but Herman Scholer re
married immediately after obtain
ing his freedom
Scholer took a pauper’s oath that
he could not pay the costs of his
suit charging Selma Scholer with
desertion. The court then granted
him a decree, custody of (wo of
the four children by the marriage,
and ordered the county to pay
costs of the suit,
Scholer walked from the court.
room, paid cash for a marriage li
cense, and a short time later was a
married man, with Katherine E.
James as his bride.
these “Khaki
f by
Smith (ext right)
r hands ir solute
They wear
and carry lengths
ene
made Tamous
even spiked helmets
{ gas
4
who expects
wets what
gets wha
ooking ways by
the good pid ppen and he
faith { and
attity the way for for
iis to
Right
come to piss,
of Way.
ttle in eall
tion to the power of greal
it" not to
best
be e ohlert
possible
Uy the
and thereby
It is a la7)
wmred at
wlgtions
Unrepentant and employing a dic
tionary to find new words to express
his defiance, W. P. Blake, fifty-three,
California's modern day duelist, was
found guilty by a jury In Superior
court at Los Angeles on a charge of
Herman Miller, patent attorney.
Blake, an inventor, was accused un
der an old prohibiting duel
challenges
25.Year-Old Love Pact
Between 3 Carried Out
London —With the wedding of Mrs,
Mary Helena Barker and John Weath-
erald In Tow Law, recently, a love
pact made between twin brothers
28 years ago was carried out.
John and James Weatherald devel
oped an attachment for Mrs Barker,
who is a widow, a quarter of a cen-
tury ago. One of the brothers be
came engaged to™her, and the other
was so downcast in losing her that
the three agreed that the bride-to-be
should become the housekeeper to the
twins, and that if one died she should
marry the survivor. James died four
months ago. John Is now seventy.
nine and Mrs, Barker sixty-seven.
statule
By Charles Sughroe
How IBrokelnto
The Movies
Copyright by Hal C. Herman
a,
By WILLIAM HAINES
a boil
later,
with
more of that
beginning
If you ever hope to siny
never have your
It gets to be a }
once you've started
movies
taken,
i Blop,
1 was in New York
trying to get
i bonds. | read all
#i01
the boo
and hoped
tof the firm.
some doy
Then, 1
taken,
new i
1 gave
and
test,
“habit of
ii’s how | broke in
Perhaps those who rej
my entrance into the cim
were my former employers
house and those New York
raphers, who really started
downward path
WNU
the
Hollywood Makeup Artists
Supply New Faces for Old
The makeup men Hollyw
who have done wonders for both male
and female players from time to time,
making beauties occasionally of
rather plainfaced folk, be
| headed for fresh triumphs. At any rate,
they have now solved the problem of
furnishing completely mew faces for
| old, to be worn temporarily.
“The beauty of It.” says Percy West
more, who Is chief of the makeup de
partment of the Warner studios, “is
the absolute plasticity of the whole
thing. We are now able to create a
completely new face, using the actor's
own features as a foundation, which is
completely In contact with his own
facial muscles at every point and
which he can vivify at will, more eas.
ly than the fingers of your hand can
move inside a silk glove”
of
out
seem to
Screen Career “Stunting”
Jack Holt launched his screen ca
reer several years ago as a “stont™
man and shortly became a western
star. As such he rose to unprecedent.
ed heights, When the populacity of
“cowboy™ fms bege=n to wane, Holt
on the verge of reYfrevont was signed
by Columbia 1or 4 scries of pictures.
Since then he bas appeared In soch
outstanding productions as: “Flight”
“Submarine” “Father and Sen"
“Hell's Island” “The a0 Parade”
“Dirigible,® “Bobway Express” “Fifty
Paghoms Deep,” “A Dangerous Af.
fair,” “War Correspondent” “This
Sporting Age” and "Man Against
Woman,” : Yl