Patton Courier Published Every Thursday, Editor & Proprietor, THOS, A, Entered in the Post Office at Patton, Pa., as Second Class Mall Matter. Subscription Rates $2.00 per year in Ad- vance, Jents, inch, or frac Card of Thanks, { per line; Busines £ ) Display advertis Je per inch; position, 256 pet. ¢ ; Minimum charge, $1.00, Cash must accompany all orders for foreign advertising, All Advertising copy must reach this office by noon Wednesday to insure insertion. Unsigned correspon- dence will be ignored at all times. "HERMIT HOPES TO LIVE 350 YEARS Puts Faith in Water and Pine Bark Cakes. - New York.—An amazing secret of longevity is claimed to have been dis- covered by a Corean, regarded as a saint, named Skajkinan—amazing in its simplicity as well as in its antici- pated results. For it consists in noth- ing but a diet of water and small cakes made of pine bark. Upon such food Skajkinan is said to have subsisted for many years, ac- cording to reports from Tokio. He is now 60 years old and “still going strong,” and expresses the utmost confidence in living for 290 years longer, thus rounding out three cen- turies and a half. Such an age is, of course, much less than that credited to the antedi- luvian patriarchs. But it is precisely twice that attained by Abraham, it is pointed out, and, of course, vastly greater than that attained by any one since his time. Skajkinan is a hermit, who lives on Corea’s holy mountain, Kongosan, He recently went to Tokio to tell of his method of longevity to the members of the Japanese Peer club. He says that he found the secret inscribed in ancient books, which record that in this manner men have prolonged their lives to 500 years. He sleeps only two hours a day, massages himself and performs other hygienic exercises according to the holy teachings of the Buddhists, and his food consists of a few of the pine bark cakes and one or two glasses of water daily. As a result of this regimen he said he feels younger and stronger at sixty than he did at thirty years. Suit Over 4 Cents Drags On 6 Years in France Paris—An 83-centime lawsuit has been going on nearly six years in France and the end is not yet in sight. This sum is about 33; cents, Millions of francs have been spent, courts have been occupied for weeks at a time and the best lawyers have argued on both sides. Marcel Boyer, a well-known “chan- sonnier,” conducting a sort of literary cabaret in the Latin quarter, started the judicial row by refusing to pay a disputed extra tax on two tickets he gave to an eld war comrade, Boyer, seeing the soldier at his box office, promptly passed him in, handing 4 francs to the cashier as the govern- ment tax on reduced-price tickets. The government inspector demanded 83 centimes more because, he said, 3oyer did not go through the formal- ity of buying the low-priced tickets frem the box office. Decisions of all sorts have been handed down, some courts holding one way and some another, but always leaving unsettled some technicality that caused new trials. These re- hearings then went to other jurisdic- tions. The case has traveled pretty well over central France since it started November 27, 1921, Sixteen Skeletons Found Under Berlin Elevated Berlin.—From midnight to dawn 16 skeletons of men, thought to have been murdered secretly in the revolution of 1018, were unearthed in the founda- tions of Berlin's elevated line. The burial ground was between the former military hospital and barracks, the scene of some of the cruelest battles of the revolution. The papers report that skulls were cracked by the butt ends of guns, which strengthens the theory that the bones are those of vietims of the revolution, though a group of experts assert that the skele- tons are a century old. Russian Claims to Have One Million Dependents Moscow.—Income tax time in soviet Russia awoke an echo of the past when a workingman, presenting him- self for tax assessment, was asked to fill out a blank indicating, for pur- poses of tax deduction, the individuals who had been dependent on. his earn- ings, “A wife, a mother-in-law, and one million British miners,” he wrote into the card. The claim in full was not allowed. “Prettiest Coed” Scorns Short Hair and Smoking Jackson, Miss.—The prettiest girl at Millsaps college has never bobbed her hair or smoked a cigarette, and is far from the so-called “collegiate” type. Ruth Buck is an Irish beauty, with deep blue eyes and wavy brown hair, She is not famed as an athlete, but during her three years in college she has made exceptionally high grades and is an accomplished violinist. BIRTHPLACE OF HYMN MARKED BY TABLET History of “He Leadeth Me” Told by Author. Philadelphia.—A bronze tablet has been placed by the United Gas Im- provement company on its new build- ing here as a permanent marker of the birthplace of the hymn “He Lead- eth Me,” and the historic fact that the First Baptist church once stood on the present site of the company's building. The tablet was erected on the Arch street side of the building. It bears date of June 1, 1920, erection having been delayed by the building of the new structure and the construe- tion of the subway. Information that paved the way for the erection of the tablet was given two years ago by the late Rev. Dr. John Gordon, a Baptist clergyman who pointed to a brownstone dwelling at 1409 Arch street, adjoining the new building, and said: “That old dwell- ing has a remarkable history; a won- derful hymn, ‘He Leadeth Me, was written there. The Rev. Dr. Gilmore wrote it way back in the '60s. The hymn has been sung all over the world.” . Words Set to Music. Dr. Gilmore, in his own account of the writing of the hymn, said: “As a young man I was supplying for a couple of Sundays the pulpit of the First Baptist church in Philadel- phia. At the midweek service—on the twenty-sixth of March, 1861—I set out to give the people an exposi- tion of the twenty-third Psalm, which I had given before on three or four occasions; but this time I did not get further than the words, ‘He leadeth me." Those words took hold of me as they had never done before. I saw in them a significance and beauty of which I had never dreamed. “At the close of the meeting a few of us kept on talking about the thought I had emphasized; and then and there, on a blank page of the brief from which I had intended to speak, I penciled the hymn, handed it to my wife and thought no more about it. “It occurred to her months after- ward to send the hymn to a paper published in Boston, where it was printed. It attracted the attention of William B. Bradbury, who slightly modified the refrain and set the hymn to the music which has done so much to promote its popularity. Hears His Hymn Sung. “I did not know until 1865 that my hymn had been set to music. I went to Rochester to preach as a candidate before the Second Baptist church. Go- ing into their chapel on the day that I reached the city, I took up a hymnal to see what they sang, and opened it at my own hymn, ‘He Leadeth Me.’ I accepted it as an indication of divine guidance, and have no doubt I was right.” Joseph H. Gilmore was born in Bos- ton, April 29, 1834, the son of Joseph Albree Gilmore, governor of New Hampshire from 1863 to 1865. He was educated at Phillips-Andover academy, Brown university, and New- ton Theological seminary. Professor Gilmore taught at Newton one year and then became, pastor of the Baptist church at Fisherville, N. H. He was called to the Second Bap- tist church of Rochester in 1865 and occupied the pulpit for two years. He was then appointed to the chair of English language and literature at the University of Rochester, He retired in 1908 after more than 40 years of service, 3,000 More Varieties of Roses in 20 Years London.—Horticulturists of England have much more to contend with in the way of selecting flowers than they had several years ago. Statistics just issued show there are 3,000 more different kinds of roses than there were 20 years age. In the same time the gladioli have risen from 2,000 varieties to 12,000. In 1907 there were only 1,500 sorts of dahlias whereas there now are 8,000. Research in poultry nutrition, pre- vention, extension of the industry and marketing of fowls were discussed in sessions held by various divisions of the congress. © Whole Family Has 5 1 Tails Like Beasts’ I . Sydney, Australia.—Reports of i. a family in which every member - except the mother possesses a . perfect tail, which, in the case - of the father, can be wagged like a dog’s, has excited the in- + terests of medical men here, - The father, a ten-year-old son A fe and two daughters, three and six, have tails. The grandpar- ents of the children were nor- J mal, and the father and the chil- + dren are normal except for the J i. tails which grow frem the bases * . of thelr spines. : i. “It is a case of atavism,” one k + medical man said. “The tailed + . father and children who inherit J + the appendage are undoubtedly - throwbacks, It is intermittent heredity. It is also harking ° back to a more or less remote ancestor, due to the reassertion or reawakening of ancestral ‘ontributiens which have lain for several generations latent or unexpressed.” | BLONDS SCARCE, SO SAYS EXPERT That’s the Reason Gentlemen Prefer Them. Chicago.—~The reason why gentle- men prefer blonds is that there are more dark than light-haired women in the world. For every golden-locked preference, Mrs. Ruth J. Maurer, beauty expert, says there are nine dusky-haired sec- ond choices. “Gentlemen prefer blonds,” ob- served Mrs. Maurer, whose experi- ences of the past twenty years have brought her into contact with 50,000 blonds, brunetttes and red heads, “be- cause they are hard to find. Dark- haired women, according to beauty statistics, outnumber thenr ten to one. “Another reason why men like them better is that masculine eyes focus like moving picture lenses. Blonds ‘take’ better than brunettes. Light hair and eyes illuminate the human retina just as they do the sil- ver screen, “Blonds, though, aren't like blonds. They are blue blonds or pale pink blonds or strawberry, peach, ash, gold or red blonds. There are 18 distinct shades of hair among the peopl of the white race. There are also 18 different colored eyes. There are 12 independent complexions, “A pale pink blond usually has a delicate strawberry complexion and China blue or moss-green eyes. A blue blond as a rule possesses an almond skin and occasionally dark hazel or light brown eyes. An ash blond is drab with chrome or light blue eyes. “The scarcity of pure blonds ac- counts for the popularity of the per- oxide bottle over the dye pot. Pro- portionately there are a greater num- ber of bleached blonds than dyed-in- the-hair brunettes. “The typical American girl is a brunette, a warm brunette, with peach skin and hazel or medium brown eyes.” Tired of Liver Diet? Apricots Just as Good Rochester, N. Y.—Anemics who have had to eat liver until they re- volted at the word itself may obtain a little variety with apricots, peaches and prunes. Recently experiments at the University of Rochester medical school by Drs. G. H. Whipple and F. S. Robseheit-Robbins indicate that, al- though liver and kidney are by far the most potent food materials for the re- generation of the red blood corpuscles, certain other animal organs and sev- eral fruits are also effective, and hence cam be used to vary the diet in anemia. A long-debated question in medicine is whether iron must be in organic combination before it can be utilized by the bedy in regenerating the iron- containing hemoglobin. or whether a simple inorganic salt of iron, such as ferrous carbonate, will suffice. Appar- ently the form of iron and the quan- tity in which it occurs’ are not the deciding factors. Beet kidney contains three times as much iron as does beef liver, but the latter is far more effective in blood re- generation. Raspberries contain more iron than do apricots and peaches, but are inert in blood regeneration. There is certain evidence that some unknown substance is supplied by the effective foods, and that it enables the body to utilize the iron. Science Hunts Cause of Knocks in Motor State Cellege, Pa.—The secrets of the automobile engine in hiding the real causes of its “knock,” may yield before the searching investigations of science, if coming developments in the study of, these problems prove as successful as prelimffary observa- tions, What happens in the cylinder of the engine can be shown by means of a spectroscope, an instrument for mak- ing and measuring artificial rainbows, said Dr. Emma P. Carr of Mount Holyoke: college before the institute of chemistry of the American Chemi- cal society. “The spectra, or rays, given by | these artificial rainbows show the na- ture of the materials present in the cylinder of the engine,” Miss Carr ex- plained. “The spectra of detonation, explosion and combustion show de- cided differences in structure and give us some indication of the chemical changes taking place..” Czarist Admiral Now “Man Without a Country” Cleveland, Ohio. — Andrew Pukit, fifty-three years old, a former admiral in the czars navy, found himself a “man without a country” when he faced immigration officials here on a charge of failing to report his en- trance into the United States. Pukit was arrested at the home of his daughter here, where he has lived for a year after entering the United States in 1923, when he was forced to flee from Russia because of his anti- bolshevist convictions. A graduate of the Imperial Navy academy, Pukit saw service in the Russo-Japanese, Chinese Boxer and World wars. He took out his first citizenship pa- pers in the United States a year ago, hut his status is uncertain, What's the Answer? New York.—The United States De- partment of Labor has been called upon to rule whether all musicians are artists or some merely “laborers in the field of music,” “oo. : THE PATTON COURIER By Arthur Bris LET THEM FLY SCIENCE AND MONEY GIRL BABIES BEST WHERE REAL WEALTH IS of = ~ PRESIDENT COOLIDGE wise- ly decides to move slowly in forbidding ocean flights. Army and navy authorities say to officers: “You shall not fly across the ocean.” WHY NOT? Flying machines can be developed only by USING flying machines. The deaths of ten or a thousand brave fliers in experimental work NOW might mean, because of quick airplane development, the safety of millions in case’ of war. There will be no war but an air war, this nation should be ready for it, and courageous young army and navy men should be AL- LOWED, not FORCED, to risk their lives, if they choose, in the good cause. An automobile fight is coming, and when the dust settles you will find all those that understand the automobile business selling more cars than they ever sold. With big wages and prosperity, the two car man and the four car family are increasing. Thirty million will take the places of twenty-two million old cars now running in the United States. new cars api Dr. Mees, who directs Mr. East- man’s scientific laboratories in Rochester, says science will end war by making it too deadly and too expensive. is ORGANIZED MONEY. Money has discovered that war kills more dollars than men, that it creates heavy income taxes, and other troubles. Organized money knows that future wars would re- sult, at the very start, in confisca- tion of capital to meet expenses. Organized money, which usually gets what it wants, doesn’t want war—a cheerful fact. A young man who had been pro- nounced dead was brought to life fifteen minutes later by an in- jection of adrenalin, a life sub- stance secreted by one of the mysterious glands. Doctors hope that many apparently dead may be saved. They even hint at arti- ficial creation of life. They may create that which may be called life, but how will they create THOUGHT? The great Darwin, explaining much by “evolution,” was baffled when it came to ex- plaining the development of the eve and sight. Japan’s Empress has a baby girl, and the young Japanese Em- peror is doubtless disappointed. Vanity leads men to value sons, not daughters. Yet, as Galton shows, Japanese girls have made the greatness of Japan, as other girls have made other nations great. There would have been no Charlemagne without his greater mother; “Bertha of the Big Feet,” as Villon calls her in his “Neiges d’antan.” There would have been no Abraham Lincoln without six-foot- tall Nancy Hanks; no Alexander the Great without the wild Olym- pias, dancing with snakes wrapped around her naked body. ‘Mr. John E. Madden, ablest horseman in America, will tell you “quality comes through the dam.” The State of Nevada is progres- sive. Night before last, at Reno, the last remaining street car in the State rolled into the barn to be scrapped. Surface cars vanish from Nevada, with motor buses taking their place. = Big cities in the East, West and Middle West take notice. One single American city, New York, in its public schools last week received 1,100,000 children. The real wealth of the United States, its hope and future, are stored away in those eleven hun- dred thousand young minds and in the millions of others in many thousands of blessed public schools all over this country. Wealth is not in mines, fac- tories, crops, buildings or stocks, Another force greater than but in thought, free and untram- sciecnce in onr civilization is meled From that all other wealt! inhi “4 rie Fnud that fore Want Flood Control and no Politics World's Ton-i Lowest {ile Cost for every line of business Whether you need delivery over city 1 a truck for fast, economical streets or whether your problem is the transportation of ton-loads over all types of highways— —we have a Chevrolet truck that will give you the world’s lowest ton-mile cost*, plus a type o performance unequalled in a low-priced truck! 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She found a turtle in the back yard of her home on whose back was carved “A. F. Landis, 1882.” Giraffe Centenary Paris.—Paris is celebrating a new centenary this year—that of the giraffe. Some interested zoologists discovered that it was just 100 years ago, in 1827, that the first giraffe came to the zoo at the Jardin des Plantes By Albert T. Reid | J == > 7 = = Zo Za — Sema a — a ENS Ea ZZ ZZ eT = I oe eft Tr a 2 Average Young American.~“Naw, | don’t wanna be president; I wanna be a prizefight- er. They get more for one little old fight than you paid all your presidents in the last nineteen years. Lotz, Turn the key! and your Buick is Double Locked | No lock could be safer! One turnofthe keylocks both ignitionand steering | wheel. But merely tura- ing off the ignition does not lock the wheel. You may shut off the engine and coast, if youlike, and still have your car under perfect control. And no lock could be more convenient! 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