MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1929
Page Three
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
Written for This Paper By
FRANK P. LITSCHERT
| GRAND JURY FINDS
MANY TRUE BILLS
The following true bills were returned
by the May grand jury Monday:
According to the Minneapolis Jour-
nal Arthur G. Staples, editor of the
Lewistown (Maine) Journal, has done
the active generation of today a dis-
tinct service by casting a retrospec-
Veto Sanzo, violation of liquor laws,
Humor in the Bible
Answering the question, “Is there
any humor in the Bible?” Dr. George
W. Englar, pastor of the Bethany
Lutheran Church in Pittsburg, Pa.,
writes in the Pittsburgh Dispatch:
Feeding America
The average use of coffee in
United States equals
twelve and one-half pounds a year
every person.
reaches nine pounds per capita.
more than
Candy consumption
Tea
Bottle Green Is Used
the
for
for Chic Spring Wrap
Used Flour Bags Make
This Patchwork Quilt
This charming old blue-and-white
patchwork quilt, made almost a century
ago, was part of the marriage equip-
ment of a New England bride. Hand-
ed down, generation after generation,
| To Industralize Agriculture
Urging capital to take over the
farms of the nation and organize them
lon an industrial basis, Wheeler Me-
Millen, associate editor of Farm and
tor.
rality.
tive eye on the “good old days” of|ity.
New England and finding that condi-
tions then were much worse than to-
day; that the family of 1929 is much
better off than that of a few genera-
tions ago.
ed as saying:
“What ails many of the lachrymose
potboiler-makers 1s that they have set
up a wholly fictitious ‘old New Eng-
land.” © It wasn’t so much. Poverty
was grinding. The city or the town
square was not so picturesque as we
fancy. We select examples of sturdy
and conscientious manhood; but the
village of sixty years ago was too full
of drunkenness and cruelty in many
cases to be worthy of praise. There
was always a village drunkard and
perhaps more, and there were always
communities of such degenerate folk
as were a public nuisance and a
shame to God. The life of the coun-
try town, today in Maine, is so much
better, cleaner, more sober, indus-
trious and happier than it was sixty
years ago, that figures would fail and
words are meaningless to express.”
The Journal declares that while Mr.
Staples was writing of Maine he
might just as well have been writing
of Minnesota, that the “good old days
are a myth” and that the people who
recur to them in their comparisons
are “mistaking homesickness for their
departed youth, for memories of bet-
ter environment and finer manners.”
If the case fits Minnesota as
well as Maine we are sure that
it suits the othe r common-
wealths in the United States to an
equal degree. We have improved
steadily and rapidly during the past
several years. There are millions of
men and women still in middle age
who remember the day when sobriety,
courtesy and industry in the individ-
wal did not meet the standards of to-
day. Hearken back in memory to the
old-time circus crowds and political
rally, and compare them with the peo-
ple in similar celebrations of today.
And it is not without significance that
some of our foremost educators have
quoted only -reeently as- saying
that the standard of honor among our
college youth is higher today than
ever before in their memory. This
despite all the talk about the “wild”
college youngsters of the present era.
_ Passing from ethical to material
conditions we find the changes even
more marked. Compare the city, and
the middle sized town and the village
of today with the same sized com-
munities of a generation or so ago.
There can hardly be a comparison.
The village and even the truly rural
home have more comforts and con-
veniences, more legitimate amuse-
ments than were possessed by the city
a quarter of a century ago. And the
talking movie bids fair to bring to the
smallest community the latest stage
presentations, just as the radio has
brought the best in oratory and mu-
sical entertainment.
Transportation, both of a public and
private nature, has improved. The
horse and buggy has been succeeded
by the motor car. Roads in the coun-
try are better than the city pavements
of a dozen years ago. The travel ra-
dius of the ordinary citizen of today
reaches from one ocean to the other.
We are no longer hemmed in by the
forty mile traveling possibilities of ‘old
Dobbin for a week-end pleasure jaunt.
And as a result of this traveling our
people are being made broader and
more nationally minded. They are
learning from experience what they
have been taught by the books, that
the United States is the finest and
most prosperous country in the world,
and that we are really one people,
united by common ideals and common
traditions, from Maine to California
and from Florida to Puget Sound.
It is true that we no longer have
the good old days. In fact we never
did have them. They existed only in
the imaginations of those who for
some reason or other are sorry that
they are alive. As a nation we are
better off now than ever before in his-
tory. The only respect in which we
have retrograded is that along with
more blessings, we have more cynics,
knockers and revolutionaries than
ever.
Calvin Coolidge has accepted a po-
sition with a life insurance company
but somehow or other we can’t vis-
ualize his trying to talk somebody in-
to a {wenty payment policy.
The Maine editor is quot-
James Buckley, prosecutor.
McLawish, prosecutor.
County Detective E. G. Darr, prosecu-
Harper Schrock, offense against mo-
Clyde Lisbon, offense against moral-
Robert Garber and Joseph Kurtz,
breaking, entering and larceny, Sergt.
Dan Shirey and wife, receiving stolen
goods, James Buckley, prosecutor.
David Fuller, Joseph McKenna, Andy
Shubik and Mike Skurko, aggravated
assault and battery, Corporal John J.
me.
the Bible.
glooms in the Bible.
ble.
plicates. It is man’s book.
So far as I know, I never stand
anywhere in my daily experience but
I see where the feet of men mentioned
in the Bible have stood there before
There are coffins and cradles in
There are glories and
There are far
ascents and deep descents in the Bi-
And when I put my ear to it I
hear universal man as he sobs and
sings and sighs and swears and sup-
And there is humor in it, too. Who
can read, for instance, the forty-sixth
chapter of Isaiah without seeing the
drinking has not increased as the
average person consumes a trifle less
than a pound of tea a year. The
most interesting statistics are being
furnished in Washington in the tariff
row—and it ‘is some row. Apparent-
ly the people of the United States are
child is credited with getting away
with more than 114 pounds of sugar a
year. We are, indeed, a sweet-loving
people. The beet sugar people have
grown and expanded under the bene-
ficent patronage of the protective tar-
iff. Perhaps there is significant con-
nection between the fact that the
interested, as every man, woman and’
tion and is admired by every
with its beauty that she had
plicated as a wedding present
son.
is extremely simple.
are set, so as to get nice, squa
ners.
it is still in a good state of preserva-
who sees it. A few years ago Mrs.
Herbert Hoover saw it and so taken
The actual handiwork on this quilt
Its effectiveness
lies in the care with which the stitches
It is quite in keeping with the
thrifty spirit of our forefathers, or in
this case should say, foremothers?—
that this quilt should be made at little
Fireside told the thirty-first conven-
tion of the National Metal Trades As-
sociation that only such a revolution-
ary measure can meet the problems
that now exist on the land.
Mr. McMillen further urged far-
mers to withdraw their opposition to
“corporation farming” and submit to
it as an inevitable development in the
growth of a nation in which agricul-
ture alone has failed to change itself
to fit new conditions.
Obviously, declared the speaker, the
solution of the farm problem lies in
improving the income of the farmers.
0 improve his income a farmer must
woman
it du-
to her
re cor-
Elmer Deaner, Humphrey Comp, Rob-
ert Magursico and Ross Schrock, fail-
ure to stop after being involved in an
automobile accident, Sergt. James Buck-
irony there?
the making of an idol.
lavish their gold and hire a goldsmith
who maketh it a god.
It is the description of
“The people
They bear it
number of sugar beet factories have
decreased in the country and the fur-
ther fact that the Great Western Su-
or no expense from used flour bags.
Nine or ten bags will be needed for
making a full-sized quit. If you do
Sm ——
do one of three things: obtain a high-
er price, produce a larger quantity or
lower his cost: of production. It is,
however, in the realm of costs, rather
was in session.
ley, prosecutor.
ity.
Non-True Bills.
in the following cases:
pay costs.
tor; latter to pay costs.
into the Clerk of Courts office.
Gray, charged with violations of
laws.
month upon payment of costs.
Civil Suits Settled.
brock, trespass, was settled.
dictus William
was settled.
G. Brewton,
and J. H. Beerits, co-partners,
as H. C. Beerits Sons,
settled.
prosecutor. .
prosecutor.
prosecutor. -
prosecutor.
‘proseeutor.
ity.
Fulton, prosecutor.
Lukas Kristopovich,
boarding-house keeper,
prosecutor.
wedlock.
tor.
ity.
One Non-True Bill.
Five Cases Nolle Prossed.
The following cases were
prossed:
William Cerwinsky, of Windber, de-
sertion and non-support, J
son, prosecutor.
Steve Kubis, of Rockwood, violation
of the liquor laws, Emma Holladay
prosecutrix.
Mike Sofolkonik, of Central City, as-
sault and battery, Alfonso Chiappelli,
prosecutor.
Joe Serluco, of Rockwood, violation
of the liquor laws, Emmo Holladay,
prosecutrix.
Albert Abdella, of Windber, assault
and battery, Mrs. Effie Swanson,
cutrix.
Two Pleaders in Court.
D. A. Augustine, of Addison, Fore-
man; Court Also Hears Civil Cases.
first called to trial.
One of the popular songs of the day
is entitled “I'll Get By’ and the irou-
ble is that too many people these days
are satisfied with just that.
John Ankeny, offense against moral-
The bills of indictment were ignored
Mike Kramer, assault and battery,
Walter Szelazek, prosecutor; latter to
John Holka, Joe Kaniak, tampering
with and operating automobile without
owner’s consent, H. Schwartz, prosecu-
Carl Courtney, of Meyersdale, entered
a plea of guilty to an offense against
morality in the Somerset Court yester-
day and was sentenced to pay the costs,
a fine of $10 and the sum of $1,000
A plea of nolle contendere was en-
tered in the case of Santo Zapulla, of
liquor
Sentence was deferred for one
The case of Percy 1. Mostoller against
Harry Halbrock alias dictus H. H. Hal-
The case of A. F. Ankeny and Anna
Ankeny against W. G. Brewton alias
trespass,
The case of Seaboard Air Nine Rail.
way Company against R. E. Beerits
trading
assumpsit, was
Warren Showman, solicitation to com-
mit a felony, John Miller, prosecutor.
Fred Gilbert, escape, Ed. G. Darr,
Charles Meyers, escape, Ed. G. Darr,
William Fulton, escape, Ed. G. Darr,
Cornelius Snyder, escape, Ed. G. Darr,
Edward Jacobs, escape, Ed. G. Darr,
Edgar Brown, offense against moral-
Tony Previt, aggravated assault and
battery and assault and battery, J. S.
“defrauding
Tony Molensky,
Thomas Baldwin, wilfully neglecting
to support a child born out of lawful
John Harnacher, manufacturing and
possessing liquor, Ed. G. Darr, prosecu-
Harnass Alt, offense against moral-
A non-true bill was returned in the
case of Mrs. Nora Sleasman, libel, Mrs.
N. R. Kuhlman, prosecutrix. The prose-
cutrix was sentenced to pay the costs.
nolle
ames Simp-
»
prose-
Pleas of guilty were entered in the
following cases in the Somerset Court:
Mrs. Harry Berkey, of Somerset, vio-
lation of the liquor laws, was ordered
to pay the costs within week, and $100
per month into the County Treasurer's
office for the next three months, and
the probation officer is to have
to the Berkey home at any time within
the next year.
John Kerekes, of Hooversville, assault
and batfery, was ordered to pay the
costs and sentence was deferred.
May Grand Jury
Sits at Somerset
access
The May grand jury convened in
court at 10 o’clock Monday morning.
Judge John A. Berkey appointed D.
A. Augustine, clerk, of Addison, to
serve as foreman of the grand jury.
The April term of Givil Court also
The case of Warden
K. Hoover against the Borough of
Garrett, action in trespass, was the
A settlement was reached in the
case of Percy L. Mostolfer against
Harry Halbrock, alias dictus H Bu
Halbroek, action in trespass.
upon their shoulders.
and set in its place and it standeth.
From its place it shall not remove.
They cry unto it, but it can not ans-
wer.”
Carmel: “And Elijah said unto the
prophets of Baal: ‘Choose you one bul-
lock for yourselves and dress it and
call on the name of your god.’ And
they took the bullock and dressed it
and called on the name of Baal from
morning until noon saying: ‘Oh, Baal,
hear us.” And it came to pass at
noon that Elijah said: ‘Cry aloud;
maybe he is musing or preadventure
he sleepeth.’” Think you there is no
humor in these lines?
Or come to the New Testament:
Two men are wending their way to
the temple. The one is a Pharisee
and the other a Publican. “The
Pharisee stands and prays thus with
himself, . . .” “Part of him is pray-
ing and part is listening.” I have an
idea that God in the heavens laughs at
the preposterous absurdity — “Man
measuring himself against the infin-
ite!”
The wonder is not that I find humor
in the book that is intended for uni-
versal man, but the wonder, in my
mind, is that so few read and know
of such a wonderful book.—Macon
Telegraph. ?
WEEKLY HEALTH TALK
“The average reader is likely to be-
come over-confident by the consistent
reports of lengthened life. And such
an attitude is most natural in view of
the repeated and correct assertion
that the life span has been noticeably
increased during the past two de-
cades. However, this fact must be
considered in the light of some very
important qualifications,” said Dr.
Theodore B. Appel, Secretary of
‘Health, today.
“While statistically correct this
truthful boast has practically no con-
nection with that vast army of citi-
zens who have attained the age of
a | fifty or more years. Which is to say,
that the real’progress in lengthening
life has been made only with those
whose age class is under fifty, and
particularly, among the infants and
younger children. Or expressing it
in a slightly different fashion, the life
expectancy of the infant of today has
been advanced nearly twenty years,
but on the other hand, that of the
person over fifty has not been in-
creasd in the least degree. ‘Which,
after all, is the real «crux of the prob-
lem so far as many of us are con-
cerned.
“Now the sad part of this situation
lies in the fact that approximately
300,000 annual deaths throughout the
United States in adults over fifty
years of age could likely be markedly
postponed if the individual citizen
would intelligently follow the rules of
preventive medicine and those of mod-
ern medical and sanitary practices.
“For example, the death rate from
heart disease alone in Pennsylvania is
responsible for nearly one-fifth of the
adult deaths. Cancer, diabetes and
tuberculosis are also in the forefront
of the killers.
“If the over-confidence of people |
which breeds indifference to their
physical welfare could therefore be
displaced by care in the form of the
annual physical examination, temper-
ate eating and sufficient rest, a sur-
prising drop in adult mortality would
inevitably result.
“Certainly such an interest is not
unreasonable to request and it may
save your life—the most important
thing in the world for you to save.
Therefore, why not develop it ?”
Seibert-Crock
The marriage of James H. Seibert
of Pittsburg and Dorothy Mabel
Crock of Greensburg has been an-
nounced. The wedding took place at
the First Methodist Episcopal Church
and Mrs. Daniel W. Seibert of this
place and will be graduated from Car-
negie Institute of Technology next
month. He has accepted a position
with a prominent manufacturing or-
ganization with which he will become
connected immediately following grad-
uation.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas J. Crock of Greens-
burg and has been-a frequent visitor
here for several years.
They carry it
Or” witness that contest on Mount
Commerce at the People’s State bank
of the club being to sponsor the use
of certified seed.
in Pittsburg, Tuesday, April the six-| merce. The other officers installed in-
teenth. clude: J. B. W. Stufft, first vice pres-
Mr. Seibert is the eldest son of Mr. ident; George Shaffer, second vice
president; J. H. Palmer, secretary; G.
B. Coleman, treasurer. :
industrial committee will have some-
thing of interest to report at the next
| regular meeting which will be held
Monday, May 13, in the school audi-
torium. C. C. McDowell, county farm
agent, will be the principal speaker
and the Harmony Glee Club will fur-
nish an entertainment program.
gar Company and its subsidiaries now
manufacture fifty per cent of the do-
mestie beet sugar production. Can it
be that we are threatened with a new
trust within a new industry? Con-
siderable attention has been given in
Washington to the company’s reports
for the year ending February 28, 1929,
inasmuch as this conspicious tariff-
pampered child is still asking Con-
gress for tariff sweets at the very
time when its annual statement shows
a net income of $7,785,699, after it
has paid seven per cent preferred di-
vidends, together with a substantial
stock dividend of $1,800,000 shares on
no par value common, but which ac-
cording to the New York Stock Ex-
change has considerable value, and is
a good dividend-earner.
The Great Western very frankly
admits in a statement published in
the Wall Street Journal that “domes-
tic producers are seeking a reasonable
increase in import duties on sugar
from foreign countries.” The hope is
added that there will be restrictions
upon duty-free importations, and the
company’s president says, “we are
encouraged to feel that some addi-
tional tariff protection will be! given
to the domestic industry.”
There is plenty of plain speech
heard nowadays ‘in the Capitol con-
cerning sugar. This has taken form
in the action of Representative James
A. Frear (Republican), from Wiscon-
sin, who has introduced an amend-
ment in the House to his “bounty
bill,” already before Congress. This
amendment reads, “no bounty shall be
paid to any sugar producers whose
net profits from sugar produced dur-
ing- the last preceding year exceeded
seven per cent of the capital invest-
ed.” n
Modern Machinery Takes
i the Place of Muscle
There are increasingly numerous
signs that the “Machine Age” is mak-
ing it hard for the faithful old plow-
horse to compete in the work on the
farm. In every department of farm
work machinery is taking the place
of muscle. Here is an illuminating
instance: J. W. Grettenberger, who
lives near Okemos, Michigan, had two
small fields, separated by a rail fence,
some stumps and some large trees,
growing along the fence line. It had
been easy enough to swing the team
of horses around at the end of the
short furrows. But the big tractor
was not so accommodating.
But modern methods were again the
solution of the modern problem. A
class of students from the near-by
Agricultural College had been study-
ing the practical uses of explosives,
and they were brought into consider-
ation of farmer Grettenberger’s prob-
lems. The students eagerly applied
their knowledge to the practical af-
fairs of their friend, the farmer, and
blasted out every one of those trou-
blesome stumps, and helped remove
the rail fence. Now the tractor fol-
lows an uninterrupted path through
the fields that had been separated for
a half a century.
“I sure never dreamed how easy it
would be,” commented farmer Gret-
tenberger. “If I had, I would never
have stood for all the fuss and bother
so long. I can raise.a whale of a lot
of potatoes on the land that has never
helped to pay its way before.”
Jennertown C. of C.
Has “Farmers” Night”
“Farmers’ night” was observed
Monday evening at the regular meet-
ing of the Jennertown Chamber of
building. The 1929 potato club was
organized with 20 members, the aim
L. G. Lichliter was installed as
president of the Chamber of Com-
The secretary announced that the
Ir. and Mrs. Seibert will be at
home at 5470 Kinkaid St., E. E. Pitts-
burg, after May 1st. The Bulletin
{ extends its very best wishes.
j real
Henry Ford has $72,000,000 less in his
cash account than a year ago.
Cheer up if you are a little short of
money. It is reported that
'Semisports Style Shoe
over the possibilities for individuality
in the separate blouse and skirt in
tumes that shops have instituted de-
partments wherein these are to be
found in innumerable styles and col-
ors.
play in forming a two-piece frock to
express one’s own color taste.
frequently two plain shades are allied
in blouse and skirt with surprisingly
Showing a stylish spring wrap of
bottle green, with a darker green pat.
tern outlined by beige. Shawl collar
and muff cuffs are featured, while the
close-fitting hat is of .matching green,
trimmed in beice. Beige slippers and
hose complete the outfit.
All Women Should Study
Problems of Dressmaking
Commercial dress patterns are made
to suit certain specified textiles, says
Marjorie Kinney, in an article on
home dressmaking, in the People’s
Home Journal magazine. Because of
this, she says, it is the best plan to
select the material and pattern in re-
lation to each other before purchase,
“A model is designed in a specific
textile,” says this writer. “This means
if a velvet model is bought to be cop-
ied, the pattern is adapted to velvet
and probably is not suited to cotton or
chiffon. This is the first stumbling
block for the home sewer—she does
not think in terms of material and
pattern.
“The second point is to select the
dress best suited to your type,” con-
tinues this writer. “The lines and
silhouette are most essential pre-
requisites for a smart and becoming
costume. Every woman should enjoy
studying her own problems of dress-
ing, selecting lines which will bring
out all her best points and cover any
defects, and indulging only in colors
which will make her look young and
pretty rather than old and worn. If
one will only give this thought to the
selection of her clothes there is no
reason on earth why she may not be
becomingly dressed for a minimum
sum.”
Introduces Innovations
An unusually attractive new semi-
sports shoe is being shown. It is an
oxford of leather with triple eyelets
and is made up in two colors, dark
brown with a rich beige. Heels, toes
and eyelet parts are of the brown,
while the remainder is of the beige.
The beige section is perforated in an
all-over design which lends a very
“swagger” appearance to the shoe.
The heels, too, are different from
those seen recently; they are high,
with straight lines, yet comfortable,
and very flattering to most women’s
feet.
For day wear there are new steel-
cut shoe buckles in square, oblong and
oval shapes. The designs are worked
out in conventional leaf patterns, solid
effects and modernistic motifs. Those
for evening wear are made on a white
gold or aluminum base with crystals,
rhinestone or colored stone settings.
These are made with the thought of
matching the ‘shoe color, or to lend a
touch of brightness.
Sunburn Powder Is Not
Given Warmest Welcome
That sunburn powder vogue Paris
sent over here has been duly noted,
sniffed at and shelved. That is, by
some women who realize the absurdity
of walking around looking “sun
burned” and yellow faced—for no rea-
son at all. This fad may go well dur-
ing the beach season and serve those
who do not wear well under the light
of the real sun, but absolutely no—
not a chagece has this dark com-
plexioned vogue got in a big city!
Paris has also made a little plea
for longer skirts. Here, too, the
American woman prefers to decide for
herself.
Separate Blouse, Skirt
in Personality Costumes
So enthusiastic has fashion become
the assembling of personality cos:
This allows the imagination free
Quite
smart effect.
than in the matter of price or even
yield per acre, that is found the far-
mer’s outstanding hope of higher in-
come. Things have been happening
in agriculture in recent years that
foreshadow changes of fundamental
consequence to industry as well as
farming. The central fact of these
revolutionary events is the increase in
output, not of an acre, but of a man.
Urging the introduction of the cor-
poration into farming, Mr. McMillen
pointed out the opportunity for cap-
ital to make secure investments in
land now and to begin operation of
large scales. “Under corporate en-
terprises,” said Mr. McMillen, “cap-
ital would be supplied to put each
economic unit into its most produc-
tive condition. Each unit can be
large enough to afford the services of
a thoroughly competent manager.
The overhead costs of machinery per
Expense.
not have these on hand from
bought for home baking, your
a few cents apiece.
kerosene or covering it with lard
warm water.
pieces of material a deep sha
blue, what is commonly known
pale blue.
blocks, shown in the illustration.
block is a checkerboard square
the checkerboard blocks will be
ed and thirty of the blue ones.
all the blocks are completed, sew
at the ends to make a straight
scheme.
each corner.
Skim Milk Solids Are
found so abundantly in milk.
George Walker,
more.
Perhaps the most startling
is the pronounced shortage in a
proportion of the diets of iron,
and phosphorus.
leads to rickets.
growth of nerves and bones.
elements are obtained chiefly in
and in certain of the vegetables.
ery child should drink not less
not less than a pint, according to
tor Walker.
the skim milk below that are r
the body builders. Homemakers
goods, ice cream, candies, meat
cialties and many other of the
milk solids.
Choosing Color Scheme
one dress, and one only, most o
more hats.
sly way of cleverly getting ar
ing definite color schemes that
the work of two or more.
Quilt Can Be Made at Little or No
will deubtless let you have some for
The first step is to rip the bags and
remove the stamping by soaking it in
night and then washing the goods in
Then dye six of the
The basis of the quilt is alternating
posed of alternating two-inch squares
of the blue-and-white maferials. The
other is of solid blue with a two-inch
square of the white in each corner.
For a full-sized spread, forty-two of
together in strips diagonally, filling in
taking care to follow out the pattern
Finish the quilt with three two-inch
strips of blue, white and blue, with a
nine-square checkerboard block at
Among Important Foods
Very few Americans eat correctly.
Most American diets are deficient
in the animal proteins and minerals
These are among the findings of Dr.
Baltimore scientist
who has been making a study of the
eating habits of the American people.
Doctor Walker laid the initial results
of his study before the American
Dietetic association meeting in Balti-
brought out by Doctor Walker’s study
Lack of phosphorus
He found that 94
per cent of all the’diets were below
normal in the proportion of calcium
and 62 per cent were lacking in the
phosphorus element essential to the
These
a quart of milk daily, and every adult
Doctor Walker’s findings follow on
the heels of other recent findings by
nutrition experts of the great value of
not the butterfat above the cream line
in the milk bottle but the solids in
would conserve the health of the mem-
bers of their families will, therefore,
encourage not only the free drinking
of milk but also the eating of bakery
articles that are now made with skim
to Hold Hat Cost Down
Inasmuch as real dyed-in-the-wool
perfection in dress today is represent-
ed by a hat selected to accompany but
will no doubt have to decide in favor
of fewer dresses or abandon ourselves
to an indulgence in the purchase of
It is a nice idea, but women have a
such corners by so carefully choos-
hat—one impeccably smart hat—does
acre can be greatly reduced, while the
most economical and suitable machin-
ery can be made available. The ad-
vantages of volume buying and sell-
ing can be obtained.
“The viewpoint of many in opposi-
tion is that the corporation would
sound the death knell of what we have
long regarded as the finest source of
American citizenship. Corporations
are not going to take the farms out
of the country. And I would point
out, too, that the rise of the corpora-
tion in industry has provided means
to make this the greatest land of op-
portunity the world has ever geen.”
flour
baker
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One
A NATIONAL DISGRACE
com-
Eh
One person out of every twenty-
four in the United States in 1920
could not read or write, according to
the Federal Census of that year.
Nine years have passed, and apsther, .
Census will soon be taken. © Wit will
its findings be? Will it again reveal
to us 5,000,000 illiterates within our
borders? Will it again place us
tenth among the great nations of the
world ?
Adult illiteracy can be wiped out in
the months that remain in 1929, ac-
cording to the statement of the Na-
tional Illiteracy Crusade, which is ac-
tively engaged at its Washington
headquarters in stimulating all res-
ponsible official and volunteer organ-
izations throughout the country to
make every effort to reduce the illit-
eracy totals.
The Crusade points with particular
emphasis to the most pathetic of all
illiterates—the 1,000,000 mothers who
can neither read nor write. While
the children are young, the mother’s
ignorance is a dreadful handicap in
training them, and when the children
have grown up and left the home her
loneliness is pitiable. She is separ-
ated from them by more than mere
miles. She cannot write to them, she
cannot read the letters they send.
She cannot turn to her Bible for con-
solation.
Surely these million mothers, many
of them native born Americans, are
worthy of the education which it is
within the power of every literate
adult to give. The National Illiteracy
Crusade has demonstrated that adults
can be taught to read and write in
from four to six weeks. It has plac-
ed suitable text books at the disposal
of the volunteer teachers. It has de-
veloped an easy method of instruction.
If the patriotic citizens of ‘this
country will cooperate by devoting
the necessary time to the instruction
of the illiterates in their communities
there is no reason why the Federal
Census of 1930 should not show a re-
need-
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them
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fact
large
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milk
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Doc-
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I um ay These | duction in illiteracy about which the
investigators have proved that it is |Entire nation may be proud. And al-
though literacy is an end to be desir-
ed in itself, it is bound to bring with
it many other benefits—improved
standards of living, more intellizent
care of children, and better under-
standing of American ideals. -
eally
who
Sharp Correction
spe- —
100d | There was a determined look in his
eye as he marched into the optician’s
shop.
“I want a pair of glasses, immediate-
ly,” he said. “Good, strong ones.”
“Good, strong ones?”
“Yes. 1 was out in the country yes-
terday and I made a very painful blun-
der.”
“Indeed?” Mistook a stranger for a
friend?”
“No, a bumblebee for a blackberry.”
—W atchman Examiner.
f us
We don’t know anything about the
election prospects over in Great Brit-
ain, but the Tories must be in desper-
ate straits as they are now offering
the voters cheaper tea if they win at
the election.
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one