ia E———— Jesse ADLER Looks at the NEWS MANCHESTER, ENGLAND: A de- fense firm here thought so little of an employe they offered to pay him $2.000 a year to stay away from the plant. He throotens to strike for longer hours! NEW YORK: One of the local shoe chain stores has this sign in its windows: “Victory Gardens are Hard en De-Feet-Stop Your Growing Pains with these Comfortable Shoes!" BOSTON: Spring has been so cold and snow-flurry here in the East all the merchants are singing: “I'm Dreaming of a White Easter.” BROOKLYN: Police are looking for an Irish Terrier, wearing a red sweater, who bit an 11-year-old boy Any true-blood Irisher would be mad enough to bite if you dressed ‘em in red SAN FRANCISCO: Henry J. Kal- ser's newest idea is a glant cargo plane weighing 175000 pounds--al- most big enough to carry all his crit- ics HOLLYWOOD: Henny Youngman says Kaiser built and launched a ship so fast, that three days after it left port the captain cabled: “Am half way across Atlantic—please in- stall motors.” PATERSON (N. J): The barber strike threat doesn’t bother me. I'm s0 bald I don’t part my hair any- more—1 hate to separate the two of them NEW ORLEANS: A horse-lover was arrested for feeding a lump of sugar to a horse. He explained he was just trying to sweeten his next- week's meal MANCHESTER (N. H,): Mr. S K Bruce opines that we Americans are lucky we can get three pairs of shoe: per vear—the people of the Axis countries have to be satisfied with three heels BERLIN, GERMANY: A sure-sign of Hitler's loss of confidence is a new scout car the Nazis have just perfected—that not only goes for- ward at 50 miles per hour-—but also reverse at the same speed NEW YORK: A certain doctor re- ported that a dozen chickens and one rooster were stolen from him-- but that the offenders better not eat them since they were being used as guinea pigs with sleeping sickness innoculations. One man’s meat can bo another man's poison, huh? GSSINING, N. Y.: Warden Kirby announces that for the first time in history, women are in Sing Sing hired as clerks. SECOND SECTION | dhe Centre Democrat The Most Widely Read Newspaper In Centre County A Visitor In Seven Thousand Homes Each Week | NEWS, FEATURES 0 {Fo { VOLUME ¢ BELLEFONTE, PA., THUI ISDAY, APRIL 15, 1943, NUMBER 15. Random [tems | | | i | Altoona Barber Held For Trial on Murder Charge After Shooting His Wife ‘Man Who Killed Wife on Hollidaysburg Court House Steps Following Support Charge Michael Musto, 45, Altoona ber, who created a dramatic scene last Tuesday morning at Holliday: burg by fatally shooting his wife as she emerged from the court house, | Was eld for court trial when ar- raigned Friday before Justice of the Peace C. I. Lewis of Hollidaysburg State Motor Policeman F. G Guire and F. GG. Rhodes were the only witnesses called to give testi- mony for the commonwealth. They are the informants the charge against Musto The defendant, wearing the same suit and hat he was attired in when he shot and killed his wife, lacking only his necktie, did not testify In fact no witne were called for the defense Present | ir in Sha of at the hearing were the Woman Injured In Two-Car Crash | Treated in Hospital After Col- lision on Mill Hall Bridge Mrs. 1. B 61 Fleming- ton, was admitted to the Lock Haven Hospital last Thursday evening for treatment of head and back injuries received in an accident in Mill Hall at the Fishing Creek bridge The car driven by Mr. Nolan, was struck at the bridge by another ve. hicle operated by Mrs. Norman A Myers, Johnsonburg. The Nolan au- tomobile was forced on the berm by the impact and then hit a parked se- dan belongingg to George O. Smith, Mill Hall. Damages the three cars totaled $280 The Motor Police inv crash Nolan of ry he tigated tl BALTIMORE, MD.: A new law] forbids wives from picking their| husband's pockets. The law is nulli-' “fied “However, by the fact that they call still wear the pants. CHICAGO: Everett Terhune's idea of the Kindest Words of the Week —your butcher saying “Glad to Meat You.” CLEVELAND: Favorite story of the week: Girl: “Oh sir, what kind of an officer are you?” Officer: "I'm a naval surgeon.” Girl: (wide-eyed) “Cosh, how you doctors do speciai- jae?” wm — PENN STATE STUDENTS PREPARE FOR ARMY LIFE A pamphlet entitled “Preparation for Military Service” has been dis- tributed to all male students at the Pennsylvania State College The booklet was prépared by a special committee on “fitting for military service” appointed by Presi- dent Ralph D. Hetzel. A forevord by Arthur R. warnock, dean of men, who was chairman of the committee, explains that a great deal of the advice contained in the pamphlet was suggested by former students now in the armed forces, Fully - thrqe-fourths of Penn State's present student body is now in some branch of the army or Navy reserves, and College officials pre- dict that all of these will be In ac- tive service by June, 1,000 Attend Sale Twenty-one head of pure bred Guernsey cattle and eight grade cat. tle brought over $5400 last week at the sale of the livestock and ma- chinery at the farm of B. W. Cole, above Benton, Columbia County. The sale totalled $8,500 and attracted more than a thousand persons from Columbia and nearby counties. ¥ Christian and Missionary Alliange W. O. Brooks, pastor. Rev. F Bertram Miller, evangelist and Bible teacher of Beulah Beach, Ohio, will conduct a series of special evangelis. tic services in the Gospel Tabernacle of the Christian and Missionary Al- liance, East Howard Street, Belle- Bar- defendant's Mec- | Hearing, Is Held Without Bail brother, Rocco Musto, and Michael Sinisi, the latter a friend of the accused man. None of the slain woman's relatives were present Trooper McGuire was the first witness called by District Attorney Wray. He said he was in one of the court house offices when he heard two shots and the screams of the two women who were with Mrs, Musto One of the woman cried out, “He shot her—there he goes.” The offi- cer gave chase, he testified, and fired two shots in the direction of the flee- ing man’s legs. As Musto neared the Methodist church, he tossed the gun to the street and said “I give up.” Describing the fatal wounds Of- Rhodes sald Mrs. Musto was twice, one bullet entering the left temple and the other puncturing her abdomen. Both bullets were re. moved from the body, he stated At the conclusion of the hearing Squire Lewis granted Mr. Wray's hold the defendant for hout bail. Musto wa his cell at the jail by Officers and Chief Baird tragedy climaxed a heated argument in which Mrs, Mus. to sought increased support for her- self and two children. Musto show - an ugly temper throughout the hearing and was reprimanded sever- al times by the presiding Judge After the hearing Mrs. Musto, ac- companied by Mrs. Anna Mirobeli and Mrs. Margaret Schoenfelt, both of Altoona, were coming out of the court house when the husband open- ed fire on his wife, killing her al most instantly ficer shot motion to wit court i re turmed t Blair county MeCGigiry Rhode he court ed Wc a — Train Fall Fatal to Frt. Conductor Not Missed by Crew Until Train Reached Altoona Railroad Yard Walter M. Ernst, 42, of Pittsburgh, iP.R.R freight conductor, died Sat- urday morning at 2 o'clock at Al- toona hospital of injuries received in & fall from a train late Friday night while it was rounding the Horseshoe Curve at Kittanning Point It is thought that he fell from the train about 11:30 o'clock as his watch stopped at that time and the train was recorded passing the block station at that hour. Erust was not missed by his crew members until i they reached the Altoona yard. The crew of a train following discovered the trainman lying along the track He was brought to Altoona and ad- mitted to the hospital at 1:12 o'- clock Ernst was able to give his name and address and remained conscious until a short time before death. His left leg was crushed off at the hip and the right leg Just above the ankle. The left arm was severed at the shoulder and his chest left side, including the collarbone also was crushed and «& severe punc- ture wound was found above the right knee - fonte, from April 20th to May 2nd. | at 7:30 p. m. There will be a meet. ing each evening except Saturday. Also, the evangelist will be speaker during that time for the Sunday morning worship at 10:45, Rev. Miller served us in this church at the time of our Missionary Con- vention in October of last year. His message was much appreciated, and those who heard him then will want to hear him now, and others want to avail themselves of this op- portunity to hear the old time Gos- pel. Everybody is welcome, - You might as well make up your mind to plant a Victory Garden. {The quicker the Dotter Red Cross War Fund Oversubscribed; ‘Officials Announce List of Donors Contributors to the War Fund of the Bellefonte Chapter, American Red Cross, which last week exceed- ed its quota of $0200 by a margin of $118, were as follows, according to a list released by officials: Business and Industry (Items under $50 credited to local- ity). Titan Metal Mig. Co. Office Employes ......... A P.ofl.Unbon.... .... American Lime & Stone Co. Office Employes A. F. of L. International Uilon. oo ; Universal Match and Office EMDIOYOR ..coonmommupsrssisisins A. F. of L. Match Work. ers’ Union Bellefonte Trust Co... 3950.00 - 17200 716.00 500.00 61 00 eign 31200 133.00 528.00 125.00 West Penn Power Co... 100.00 Bell Telephone Co.cc... 5000 General Refractories ......... 5000 C. Y. Wagner Co... 50.00 Collected in Theatres (to date) will | 110.00 PENN STATE GRADUATE on the {get $700 insurance. The bam HONORED IN N. AFRICA | the | A forestry graduate from the Pennsylvania State College, now with American t in North Af- rica, has been highly commended by his commanding general for ac- | {complishing a difficult mission in a | recent Tunisia offensive. i grail, of the class of 1841. The inci- ident was reported by “The Stars tand Stripes,” A. E. F. newspaper, | which describes y Megrail, February 2, was He is First Lieutenant Donald Me- | on! to deliver’ {important messages to two units at) ithe campus are largely responsible { the front. Under extremely difficult condi-| | tions, the citizens reported Megrail| | sm ccessfully completed his land “contributed materially great success achieved by our troops iat Sened.” - Relief in County Takes Drop State Treasurer G. Harold Wagner, ~—| reported that direct relief payments Total Local Clubs American Legion | Veterans of Foreign Wars Loyal Order of Moose Eastern Star D A R. Wonten's Club Garden Club $200.00 15.00 i «Total Zion . | Pleasant Gap (Bellefonte Air- | port $133.00) {8now Shoe Township Howard .... .. Milesburg Central City Other Districts 507.00 154.00 Blanchard . : Monument Hublersburg Mingoville 84.00 58.00 54.00 200 00 50.00 25.00 15.00 1000] $515.00! | $ 516.00 and Mrs. Otis Cowder, 117.00 pital last Th 116.00 peing kicked by a 111.00 Bnydertown 36.00 32.00 fr inn 321.25.00 Orviston Bush Addition ooo 72.00 | Miscellaneous Bingo GRIME isis Total | county during the past week totalled 1857210. Previous week payments totalled $500.30. Payments aggre- gating $26,675.50 were mailed to the twenty mission | to the {Bocial Relations: Migratory Birds RAN PA, N 4 N _(aaann, 750 They MIGHT —/ WHERE. PO “Ou | of suppose Tyee ) HYING TO? (pe WIGRATING TO ys ) (10 BERLIN RR TX) r ROME A oo h Tyrone Soldier Killed in Africa Was One of Five Sons of Mrs. Mary M. Denny in Armed Service Private First Class John M ny. one of the five sons of Mrs M. Denny, Ty in the service of the United States, was re- parted killed in action the north Africa area by the war department at Washington. Mrs. Denny receiyv- ing a telegram from the department inst Wednesday notifying her of he: 20m Dey Mary armed rone in death Denny was inducted into the ser- in Tyrone February 3, 1941, and in August He was a son of William and Mary Dry Denny and was born in Blants- burg’ on December 6, 1904 The family later moved to Bald Eagle where he attended school, later bee ing employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad company Altoona. vice went overseas at He is survived by his mother and ten brothers and sisters, four of the trothers being in service Mrs. Denny, the mother, had re- ctived a letter fram her son the day before receiving the notification of his death. Hig letier stated that he was well and getting along fine dnd that he was making plans for after the war ER Renovo Man Gets Term Commuted Sylvester Stroup, Serving Term For Arson, Grant ed Clemency Among those receiving commutia.- tion of sentences on recommendation of the State Board of Pardons last week was Sylvester Btroup of Reno. | vo, who was sentenced Feb. 4, 1042, Applications For Crop Loans Ready Applicants May Contact W, C. Armstrong at Recorder's Office Slressing for Increasing production of food and fiber crops, { Field Supervisor Joseph C. Myers of the Emergency Crop and Peed Loan {Office at Harrisburg, has announced that W. C. Armstrong of the Record. er of Deed’'s Office in Bellefonte, has been named to accept applications for crop and feed loans in Centre County It is our purpose to make short- term loans to deserving farmers in order to increase the production of food, feed and other vital crops.” he sald. “Farmers who are unable to obtain credit for crop production purposes from banks or other recog - nized sotroes of credit at reasonable interest rates may apply. The in- terest rate is 4 percent per year, and a first mortgage on the crops to be grown or a chattel mortgage on the livestock 10 be fed is the security re- quired. Loans are avaliable up to $400, depending on requirements, iand are to be repaid when crops or {Hvestock are sold.” i ki Supervisor Myers will be in : OMce in Bellefonte at §:30 a.m. on May | for the purpose of "taking applications the need Altoona Man Is Killed In Fall Falls Backward, Striking Head, After Bumping Into Parked Car Harry Harber died at the Altoona { Hospital Saturday evening from a fractured skull received In a rather unusual manner According to reports to the Altoona ’ by the Clinton county court to serve { Police department, he stepped up to two to five years in the Western Pen. (a parked car owned by Samuel B itentiary for arson. Sentence was to | Hainley, Hollidaysburg, at Elevent! be computed from the time of his street and then staggered backward, arrest, Jan. 12, 1042 falling down and striking his head Stroup and Mrs. Ruth Stimpson of (cn the sidewalk inflicting the frac- 8! Farmers Must Collect Points on Sales of Meats and Butter to Retailers Are Classified as Primary Distributors and Must Fill Out a Report on Form R-1609 To Local Board Regulations require farmers who slaughter their own animals or make butter, and in both instances sell these products direct to the cone. sumer (usually the house-to-house plan) to collect points from the con- sumer, This requirement has been in effect since March 28 Likewise, beginning Monday this week, farmers must begign lecting points on sales made to re tallers. Sales to retailers prior April 11 are on & "point free” bask of col 10 Farmers who sell to retailers or consumers are classified primary distributors, and as such, must fill out a report on Form R-1608, to their local war price and rationingg board before the board closes Friday April 30, &This form enables farmers to select “report periods” and vides for his returningg the “collect. stamps (0 the rationing board ar on pro- Ld Poultry to Face Cost Cut According to government circles poultry, eggs and fresh vegetables prices may be among the first to be it the Office of Price Adminis in carrying out Pres). order to hold or cut the { 153) tration Lie t's 4 agent cost of living The officials who backs on prices of poultry fresh vegetables sald costs foods have soared because of unusual consumer demand to substitute them cut ana predicted eRe of these Projects Produce Food for Victory Walker Twp. Vocational Agri- cultural Dept. Scores High in Results A summary of the projects com- pleted by the Walker Township Vo- cational Agriculture Department for the School year 1842 and "43 reveals that the boys realized $1.58 for every hour that they spent on their pro- jects. Twenty-one boys completed the twenty-nine projects ranging from five pigs to one sore of potatoes Some of the boys completed two and even three projects. In all of these projects the boys invested $1384 02 for feed, seed, fertilizer. labor ete. from this investment they earned $250200, leaving a net profit of $1207.17 the boy's thie was required for which they charged 812634 Thus their labor inttme amounted to $1.- 33351 The average project earned $85.38 and made a glear profit of $41.62 for the vocational student who carried it. Purther analysis showed that each $1.00 invested in the vocational project, by the boys earned $187 which netted B87 on every dollar in- vested. This amounts to an interest rate of #175 on the money invested! in the projects. This years projects show consid erable improvement over last years work. In the school year 1941 and | i In addition 842 hours of | Before May Ist for rationed meats goods. Some officias controls—recently placed mont of these items--came 50 that they reflected unwarranted price Jev. els Also slated were companion moves to boast government “support prices for hogs—-now $1325 per hu weight-—80 as 10 reassure prod against further price crease prices for corn sales of feed for live stock seek a 15 percent increase ir crop pig: and canned sald that price Over ate narea WCET +4 cu 10 he Fall of Intensive Farming Needs Attention \ MYSTERY This will serve notice on neighbor Harold D. Pritchman ‘ his pel turtle with t Jeft 1 ment for safekeeping while thi the nder UU irmer who Leta Tt depal [} i moved re turtle ha m ared @ 4 Ler w mo Fagg Nees ¢ er mi «@ fre y yu £ ay om abou with no Le Kis Was Xept In a pan of corners own family are much turned up missing A matier 4 4 ol | Lhe We Fritchman Baturdey of fact we White th a turtle dnt when tart iy ir ng a wh Wher tiiet as and definitely MEMORY: This week memon Sam MoeGinles 1 McGinley A. A. A. Official Announces Change in Closing Date of Farm Program Year ing We r A. Zehner yivarua Aid Ce man mittee A A § } chalr AAA Com jartment of food ; protect thelr soll serio The Blate meeting on RAMS O30 anc age AAA Commute March 31 the closing date particularly aliow farmers sufficient apply lime and fertilizer for in the program Deliveries of soll-bullding mater- lals have been delayed in many cases other dam aid IT i1 ia wl) payment conditions but because of new rechrd demands for such materials by farm-’ ers. He teporied farmers have ar- {dered through the AAA two and one- {half simes as much superphosphate this year as they had last year at this date. The use of superphosphate iis especially encouraged for pasture treatment, and as top dressing of good standing of alf New record amounts of lime have {been used for soll treatment during the last decade, Mr. Zehner sald. He gave figures showing that Pennsyl- ivania farmers in 1933 applied 160.- 000 tons of lime: 1940, 840.000 tons; in 1841, 800000 tons: in 1942 250,000 tons: and a further increase lis indicated for 1943 | “The annual need is greater,” he pointed out, “Based on one ton of lime to every acre of cropland every five years, and one in 4 La ill much he explained not only by wartime | Zehner | tre at ® extended | wa {eat fonts w Belle have ithout Maybe some arr oonild te made to buy fish food to keep then contented until after the war. LESSON: At the Tit plant Tuesdas morning a very business-like soldier {in combat uniform, member of the Army-Navy caravan which visited the plant, gave a blood-curdling demonstration of the gide arms car- U. 8 One was g about 1 cleay- only ins { 3 aigh had a wicked looking hook end. The hook is effective in disarm- ing an enemy. The cleaver wag de- scribed as being most effects shortener of life. The soldier borrovw- ed a pencil and with a little ja% of the cleaver sliced Wood in two. “War.” luded a pretty business’ SOLDIERS; Two members Newswriters' ation are 5 ¥ angement Pe adi JES soldiers size of a meat ried tw a thin er | F t i Lt eCge it ¢ the he CON ml 4% Pans & a of the Centre Coun- ty 5 in the service. Lt. Charlie Mensch of Bellefonte, has been with the Sea. Bees for a number of months and is now public relations officer at the Norfolk, Va.. Naval base. William K Ulerich, of State College, entered ton to every acre of pasture land every 10 years, farmers should be 1s ing 2 million tons of lime each Year in this State” ———— Keating pleaded guilty to arson charges before the Court, admitting that they conspired to set fire to a barn on the Stimpson property to was destroyed by fire Oct. 30, 18041. Mrs, Stimpson is serving an in. determined sentence at the Muncy Industrial Home for Women — ANNUAL CONVENTIONS WARTIME CASUALTIES Conventions and other events held annually during the spring and summer months at the Pennsylvania State College are wartime casualties! this year. The transportation problem to- gether with crowded living condi- tions doe to many service men on for keeping away the usual thon- sands of visitors to the College. Among the cancelled events are: the Pennsylvania Traffic Officers Training School: the Institute of {tournament convention of building { custodians; state-wide reading oon. H $2386.00 made to needy residents of Centre! 3 ference; alumni class reunions: Far | mer's Field Day; 4-H Club Week; and annual spring championship tournaments of Interscholastic Athletic Association, Tentative events still listed are the Firemen's Institute; Futurg counties in Northwestern | Farmer's Week; and the 4-H Club! Pennsylvania served by the Treasury Leader's conference. Regional Office in Scranton during previous week totalled $26,910.30. i Youth Kicked by Horse : Leo Ross Cowder, 12, son of Mr. 8. Army at Altoona last Tuesday and but a quantity of hay was destroyed. | Known Beech Was sent to the reception oetiter at] of | Creek, is a patient at the Lock Hav-| len Hospital suffering from a possible 26700 fracture of the skull, cerebral con- 185.00 cussion and a ruptured right ear to the hos- fraliny morning after ‘drum. He was -— New R. R. Station 6500) Measurements have been faken preparatory to the proposed erection of a new station for the Pennsylva- nia Railroad at Montandon. After improve- | of the abdomen, arms, {ace and 8he dressing the current week, Payments for the : 3 Newspaperman in Army Willlam K. Ulerich, editor of The Centre Dally Times, State Collews ——— New Cumberland. He was accepted fs a volunteer officer candidate in December and received his an Hila month, Mrs. Ulerich and - fant daughter will continue to reside a. m. and remained on duty for two | in State College during his absence, Burns Fatal te Girl Betty Louise Troutman, 10, of Ty- high schooi play | the Pennsylvania oa | {was inducted as a private in the U.' tured skull He was removed to the Altoona | Hospital by police officers Bufns and {Gindes, acompanied by Mr. Hain- { Jey. Hainley stated j did other witnessog who saw the ac- cident. Hainley stopped at the inter. {section to pick up a friend wlio is {employed at the liquor store, to take him home. {at the Harry Wollberg farm in Jun- {lata Gap. Authorities sent a tele- gram to a sister in Des Moines, Towa, but it came back unclaimed 800 Chicks, Hens Perish In Fire ——— i i Farmer's Poultry Flock Wiped Out as Barn is De- stroyed Fire struck the Allen Sheats farm, a half mile west of Greenburr, early Monday and swept the barn and four outbuildings, leaving the house {untouched as the wind, luckily, did hot change | 100 laying hens and 700 chicks | perished as the fire, starting in the | brooder house, burned through and | levelled two chicken houses, a corn jerib and the barn. Seven hundred bushels of corn were burned. The livestock and im- plements were saved from the barn : 1 The fire had a great start before firemen arrived. Other than water “supplying troughs, the nearest sup (Ra 8,00 area ov more itn hours, Eight Persons Injured i that his car was. completely stopped at the time, asi His last place of employment was | Eight persons were injured, sev! ‘42 an investment of $1,145.35 yield- | ed a return of $1960.70 making a net profit of $815.35 or 72% on the investment: while this years projects yielded 87% profit on the investment a return 15% greater than the pre- vious vear, The scope of the projects included 5.75 acres of corn, 2 hives of bees, 7 ‘dairy calves, 33 acres of potatoes, {220 chickens and 28 pigs-—the equi- | valent of a farm business. The pro. | jects prociucsd 262 bushels of shell. | ed corn, 7 dary heifers weighing ap- | proximately 2.850 pounds live weight, | 359 bushels of potatoes, 1.042 pounds | live weight of poultry, and approx- imately 7880 pounds live weight of pork. | Thus the projects made a substan | tial contribution to the war effort [in the form of all important food. {Even so the value of the projects reaches even deeper—twenty-one {boys received practical training of ! inestimable value—training that will jenable them to produce more and | better food to meet the demands of ‘the War effort. They studied to learn then learned 18 do by doing’! - ; | | ‘Despite {the past PENN STATE SPECIALISTS - 4 a low temperatures during are good | for a peach in central Penn- {sylvania, to W. 8, Clarke, {Jr and other fruit research workers iat iat the JBtate College oi experiment station. $ egtieul Cherries have been ‘dam [the extent of the i utitil the trees | Because War or no war the annual Osceola Piremens Fourth 3 rone, died at the Altoona Mercy eral seriously in a head-on crash of | Mills Hospital Thursday from two automobiles on the Shamokin. second degree burng suffered when Mount Carmel highway, when the her clothing caught fire from 8 ¢88 drivers were blinded by a snow and range in the Kitchen of her home, |jain storm. Stephen Hoskie, the most | Howard February 8. The child received EXPECT GOOD PEACH CROP : Falls 450 Feet to Death Walter Cheslock, 28, an indepen- dent miner, was instantly killed and Paul Kwiatkawski suffered severe Jdnjuries in a fall down a 450 foot pitch at the former Bear Valley jrock slope at Shamokin, They were retimbering a section of their mine in expectation for an official inspec- {tion visit volunteer officers training last week and wag sent to New Cumberland NIGHTMARE: News item this week reports 10.- 000 American-made alarm clocks are on the way to England to replace those worth out since the war start- ed. Don't the British have enough annovance as it is? | i | | | A Confession of Faith By MME. CHIANG KAI-SHEK ot i | 1 weed to think Paith, Belief, Im- | mortality, Were more Or less imagin- ary. 1 believed in the world seen, not {the world unseen. I couki not accept | things just because they had always | been accepted. In other words, a re- aia not necessarily appeal to me. J {do not yet believe in predigested re- ligion in palatable sugar-coated i 1 knew my mother lived very close [to God. IT recognized something great {in her. And 1 believe that my child- hood training influenced me greatly, leven though 1 whs more or less re- {bellious at the time. It must have grieved my beloved mother {found family prayers tiresome and {frequently found myself convenient. ly thirsty at the moment, so that I had to slip out of the room. i lished something, a kind of stability, which I am grateful to my pag- g8? i g i ligion good enough for my fathers that 1 felt Hig jJeading. And 1 must say that whenever Mother prayed and trust. ed God for her decision, the under- (taking invariably turned out well As long as Mother lived J had a feeling that whatever I did, or failed to do, Mother would pray me through, Though she insisted that she was not our intercessor, that we ‘must pray for ourselves, yet I know for a cerfainty that many of he: long hours of prayer were spent in. terceding for us. Perhaps it is be- cause religion in my mind is assoc. fated with such a mother that I have never been able to turn from it en- tirely. One day 1 was talking with her ‘about the Imminent Japanese men- ace, and 1 suddenly cried out in ir- ritable intensity of feeling: Like my brothers and sisters, 1 al- time. Then looking gravely at me she ‘gald: “When you pray. or expect me to pray, don't insult God's intelli-
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