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sec ALTOONA TRIBUNE, MONDAY, JULY IS The Poets' Corner Today's Cross Word Puzzle I 1 Hither Yon By HAKRY A. THOMPSON A Washi ngton Bystander By KIRKE SIMPSON New York Day by Day By O. O. HcINTYKE Solution of Saturday's Puzzle ACROSS Fill out unnecessarily 4. Hindu divi nity 5.

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Goea down Rl SPAS TR aTojIsIa ElLDElRlTnElIJ ijojE IClTlU IT jdt mo EjNlN'E'A BIBLE THOUGHT FOB TODAY Suggested by Rabbi Hyman Siskin, Agudath Achim congregation. The Lord is nigh unto all that call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in truth. Psalms 145: IS. THE FATE OF THE GRANDFATHER PIXE Not long ago in the Service Letter of the Department of Forests and Waters, 1 2 v. 4 I 7 78 7f jPTT "''fa Jl "32 33 7T 42 Harrisburg, this writer described some huge white pine logs which were used as the parade in Philadelphia in commemorate the adoption of the Ann exhibits at 1SS9 to ps In the article referred to above mention was made of another giant white pine, considered by some to be the biggest tree of its kind that ever stood in Pennsylvania.

This mammoth forest monarch was known to the early pioneers in Sugar Valley, Clinton county, as the Grandfather Pine, because it towered high above all the other pines in the valley. The late Poet J. H. Chatham, when he drove across Sugar Valley, coming from Brush Valley by way of Morgan's Gap, in 1865, said that in the distance it seemed to him twice the height of any green tree in the valley. At that time most of the original pines had been girdled by settlers so that they would fall out of root; the bark and most of the branches had dropped off, and they looked to him like the myriad masts of the sailing vessels which then crowded the wharves at the foot of Market Street, Philadelphia.

(A weekly department maintained for the benefit of verse writers of Altoona and vicinity. Contributions to this column cannot be returned.) TO A CERTAIN IDEALIST "I'll set my course by. the highest star And reach the summit of my quest, Ere tomorrow dawns. 'Tis not too far," Cried one with flaming vision blest. 1 "I'll climb it's very peak by starlight, Be sure to find my dream's end there; Shadows will give way in hasty flight Before the star beams' tiny flare." The course was long, the light but a spark, Yet he scaled the peak.

What black rout! All was dark His star had flickered out. Heloise Frederic. DAISIES Daisies deck the meadows And the valleys low; Daisies on the hillside Pure and white as snow. Growing In thick clusters Scattered in the grass; Bending in the breezes, Greet us as we pass. Daisies white and yellow, Daisies fresh and fair; Blooming by the wayside, Daisies everywhere.

Daisies with long fingers Clasped as if in prayer; Always looking upward, Never knowing care. Smiling in the sunshine, Nodding in the rain, Growing in the pastures Over hill and plain. A. M. Aiken.

The Forum WAGE EARNERS BUYING FOWER Editor, Altoona Tribune: Inasmuch as there exists a terri flc battle between the advocates of the high wage and the wage cut ter, stoppage of wage cutting be comes the -immediate concern of the Blair County Central Labor union and its affiliated organizations. And whereas that public opinion is the greatest force to combat the evils of wage reduction, the Central Labor council did authorize, in a recent session, that publicity in the Forum of our daily press be given by secretary to a campaign to get before the public, employer, and employers organization the facts about what wage earners' incomes mean to local business. The purpose and intent is to show that wage earners constitute about SO per cent of the buying power from the retail trades and what the wage earners' buying power means to all business concerns, Wage cutting disturbs the foundation stones that sustain our economic structure. Wages constitute only one elements in production. Wage cutting is discounted by the lowering of morale and the possibly small reduction in prices is wiped out by the reduced buying power.

The problem of overcoming market difficulty can be met better by better sales methods. Most our industrial leaders generally have declared and demonstrated that they really believe in the high wage principle. Who and what prolongs business depression? Every business group is asking itself this question. An swers are forthcoming, by some, the advised lowering of wages, by others, the most forward way is to maintain high wage fates which restores purchasing power. The Central Labor union and the labor movement throughout the United States have the fundamental principle.

The maintenance of the present level of wage rate will maintain business and industry of our nation; also fundamental, if upon the efforts of business executives to maintain high wages and, in their efforts, be it in the lines and policies sponsored by organized labor and its groups. When such, then there will be a better purchasing power and the flood tides of depression will be and would be wiped out JOHN F. WELLER, secretary Blair County Central Labor Union. Kiwanis Health Fanh Lads to Heai- Herb Bolger Herb Bolger, premier pitcher of the Altoona Works baseball team, will address the boys of the Kiwanis health farm tonight at 6:15 o'clock, speaking on the subject of "Playing the Game." Bolger is the idol of many of the 40 boys at the farm who are anxiously awaiting the event. "Herb" will reveal inside information on how the great American game is played and the talk should prove to be both, interesting and instructive to the lads.

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Chess pieces 7. Article 8. Dislike In tensely SHARING TOYS By MRS. AGNES LYNE It is when brothers and sisters play together that they have the best opportunity for learning how to share and play fair. The character training which they get out of playing together, now co-operatively, now turn and turn about, now lending and borrowing, is invaluable.

The wise mother makes the most of this by thoughtfully and consistently teaching her children the rules of the game. It shold be understood within the family that any toy belongs temporarily to the child who is using if. Each child should understand that any toy of his which he is not at the moment interested in using must be given over without question to the child who wants to play with it. Children sufficiently close together in age, so that they enjoy the same play materials, should have only a few toys for exclusive use. In the case of an especially popular toy, such as an express wagon or a tricycle, each child should, if possible, have his own, since both will so often desire to use it simultaneously.

When one child is much younger than another, certain possessions of the older should not be used by the other if he is too young to play with them without spoiling them. In every family there should be a number of play materials which will encourage co-operative play. For this purpose an adequate set of floor blocks is If these rules are established as soon as the children are old enough to begir playing together, a good deal of unnecessary friction is avoided and very valuable social training is given through the excellent medium of concrete experience. Entomologist to Discuss White Pine Weevil Control L. B.

Smith, entomologist from State college, will conduct a demonstration on methods of controlling the white pine weevil at a forestry meeting to be held today at 10 a. m. on the J. L. Hartman white pine plantation at McKee's gap.

The Hartman estate is located along the main highway where the bridge crosses the railroad at McKee's gap. All persons interested in planting forestry trees are invited to the demonstration. -The weevil is said to be responsible for many malformed trees. It does not in many cases kill the tree but injures small white pine trees by killing the terminal branches. Guiding Your Child By MRS.

AGNES LYNE WASHINGTON About the tima General MacArthur as army chief of staff was announcing new plans for mounting most of Uncle Sam'a once dashing cavalrymen on gas-engined charges, the editor of th Arkansas Gazette of Little Rock; which boasts that it is "the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi" began looking over old files. The Gazette has such a collection that "One Hundred Yean Ago" is the caption it uses to top off its column of republications. A Motorization Parallel And the editor found an army transportation parallel to match with the news about gasoline cavalry. It was the proposal of the remount and Indian subsistence office at Little Rock for purchase of "sixty paid (or yoke) of oxen, between the ages of five and nine years, to be in good order, well broken to work and no ox to weigh less than 600 pounds. "I thought somebody at the War Department might be interested in this advertisement concerning the 'motorizing of the army a hundred years ago," the editor wrote Secretary Hurley in forwarding the clipping.

It tickled the secretary, whe promptly forwarded it to General MacArthur for comment. Probably it was no news to the general. If he did not see army ox teams at work in his own boyhood days about army posts, his lieutenant general father certainly did. In fact General MacArthur, pere. did a lot of campaigning in hia time with Philippine water buf- faloes.

The Gazette "Jipping reminds the Bystandct ot' a story his own grandfather used to tell, dating back to government contract work clearing the western end of the Oregon trail. The said grandfather took such a contract, which included the use of government oxen. Before the job was done, some of the oxen died. They had to be accounted for, and it was a long, long way to in those days. It took weeks of pony express riding, steam-boating and what-not to do it.

Official 'Hide-And-Seek' This grandfather of the Bystander's was a very methodical man. He filled out the papers with ticulous care, got all the necessary affidavit and sent 'em off to Washington with a sigh of relief that the job was done. But was it? Not if Uncle Sam's Washington bureaucrats knew t' emselves. A year later the papers made the transcontinental journey all over again to reach his hand. He had failed to account for the hides and horns of those late lamented government oxen.

What had he done with them? Cupid Gets Belter Than Even Break in Stale WASHINGTON, July 12. Slightly more than one-half of Pennsylvania's population of 15 years old and over are married. Of the total number of residents in the State of 15 or more years, 4.018,176 or 59.6 per cent were married when the census enumerators made their rounds in 1930. The figures were announced today by the census bureau. A total of 1.183.0S6 or 34.9 per cent of the male population were single, 4.8 per cent were widowers and six-tenths of one per cent were divorced.

Of the female population only 971.131, or 28.9 per cent were single, 10.6 per cent were widowed and seven-tenths of one per cent were divorced. There was very little change in the percentage of married, single or widowed in the last 10 years although the divorce rate was somewhat higher in 1930 than before. The number divorced is still below one per cent of the total, however. Spence Store Named Local Frigidaire Dealer Spence Electric and Radio store, located on Twelfth avenue between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, has been appointed the authorized Frigidaire dealer for Altoona and the county for the sale and installation of household and commercial refrigerators. A sales meeting was held in Pittsburg last Thursday which the sales personnel of the Spence store attended.

Those attending were J. E. Spence, proprietor; Otto H. Ep-ple, sales manager; H. B.

Bennett, W. E. Kyle, P. F. Mothersole, F.

H. Kettle, L. A. Stubler, C. R.

Rich ards, F. R. Weyandt and J. H. Mc? Cormick.

C. R. Wolf and Kenneth Kelly, in charge of installation ind service, also were present. The complete line of Frigidaires is now on display at the Spence store. An invitation is extended to the public to view the exhibit.

There is one gasoline filling sta tion for every 134 people in Mississippi. The annual consumption is 140,000,000 gallons. AT SEA, July 12. Through 'a cabin porthole the cyclorama of light that is New York's night skyline Is fadln'g. The great liner is shivering into the first ocean swells and there isn't anything I would not give to be back in my apartment.

In 19 crossings I invariably have this reaction. My travel thrills are entirely anticipatory. In the actual progress of journey I'm always wondering why I came. Yet by tomorrow I'll likely 'be planning a jaunt to Hawaii this winter. This trip might be an uncomfortable one had I been negligent in a matter of tipping several years ago.

In disembarking from the liner Paris I forgot the customary pour-bois for Tatibouet, a steward who had served me well. The next day I sent a fair fee along with an extra gratuityfor my carelessness by special messenger. Tonicht I found Tatibouet had been transferred to the He de France. And among the cabins he attends is 298 which we occupy. Imagine a rough crossing with a steward one had not tipped! I saw our take off from New York tonight through the eager and excited eyes of Ray Long, aged seven, who accompanied by his mother is making his first voyage.

He is to summer in the south of France, where Fall he will be speaking French like a native as children do while we grown-ups struggle for years to make the name of our Paris hotels understandable to taxi drivers. Our cabin before the leave taking became somewhat a miniature hall of notables. Many had come to bid bon voy age to others but dropped in en passant. Among them were Roy ana Peg Howard, Leon Gordon, Vincent Lopez, Frank Mason Clara Bell Walsh, and, of course the ubiquitous ship scribe Harry Acton. Inever leave a cabin un til a boat sails due to a horrible phobia I'll rush off it.

Billy, the Boston, is a fellow voy ager and a complacent one. Al ready he is under a bed with his head between his paws sound asleep. Without checking up I should say it is his seventh trip. If out ward appearances are indicative, a sea voyage means nothing in his life. Just a long sleep.

Rainbow, the Sealyham, was to come along but at the last moment we had misgivings. He is a puppy, sensitive and easily frightened. And it was decided he would be better off in the affectionate atmosphere he enjoys at home. He was too engrossed in tearing up a cardboard box to come to the door and see us depart anyway. Among the books I hope to read as we plough merrily along are: "The Moonstone," by Wilkie Collins; "The Caliph of Bagdad," a life of O.

Henry; "Flamenco," and for a shudderer, "The Night of Fear," which I snatched from a book stall at the pier. Nobody ever traveled with the right amount Of reading. There is always too much or too little. With my flair for the unusual I'm hoping my reading will come out just right. Finish the last paragraph of the last book, look up from the deck chair and there is land.

Or as we ancient mariners scream, "Land ho!" Due to customary indecision, I had only five hours between making up my mind to sail and actual sailing time. In the fever of packing I was reminded that I nearly always neglect some important article of shaving. So forewarned, I brought along three safety razors, an assortment of shaving creams, lotions, etc. I used similar precautions in other accessories such as two combs, two pocket lighters and the like. My wife calls out from the baggage space just now there is only one little thing I neglectedthe key to my traveling bag- Under a little glass at my bedside is a printed card: "Sonnez: Une fois pour le garcon.

Deux fois pour la femme de chambTe." And some wag has written underneath it: "And when that doesn't bring them, try screaming." In strange hotels I always in-soect pictures on the wall, hoping that I will not see a print of The Stag at Bay or a still life bowl of fruit. The art exhibit in this cabin is highly modernistic. Full face it suggests a clump of cacti about to skip a rope, turned up side down it is Charles Hanson Towne about to cry. The title is "El Relaa" which naturally clears up everything. One of the Relaa boys.

A prime joy of these floating palaces is all the caviar one may stuff free. I always pack myself up with this imported bird shot to help me feel I'm getting my money's worth. yes, one of the Vanderbilt's is aboard. One always is. CHEER CP! We cannot, of course, all be handsome, And it's hard for us all to be good We are sure, now and then, to be lonely.

And we don't always do' as we should. To be patient is not always easy, To be cheerful Is much harder still But at least we can always be pleasant If we make up our minds that we will. And it pays every time to be kind ly Although you feel worried and blue If you smile at the world, and be cheerful, The world will smile back at you. So try to brace up and look pleasant. No matter how low you are down Good humor is always contagious.

But you banish your friends when you frown. A-National Scandal Freedom with license goes hand-in-hand at Reno, which now combines all the sordidly profitable vices with its easy-divorce industry a trial in 10 minutes, a decree in 42 days. Reno has legalized wide-open gambling. Also it permits 30 wide-open saloons and a vice center called "The Crib." served by 300 pros-titues in 8-hour shifts. Reno's new name is "Sodom, Gomorrah and Hell," and the name fits.

The saloons and gambling houses run day and night, and Reno's boss gamblers collect $900 in rentals every 24 hours from "The Crib." Traditionally, Reno is a mining town in which gambling, booze and prostitution in some measure have long existed. Why not legalize them, was the cry, and make it pay? State enforcement of prohibition was repealed, then the liberal policy was extended. What is to be done when a com monwealth becomes a public nuisance and a national scandal? Congress has the power to make a State out of a territory. Perhaps it can also make a territory out of a State. If Nevada, which makes such a specialty of divorce, should have the Union divorce her, that would at least be poetic justice.

Eight Kings Dethroned In 'the last 21 years monarchs of nations, containing approximately 750,000,000 persons, have lost their thrones Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, China, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and Spain. The ninth would have been added had not King Victor Inimanuel of Italy wisely stepped aside to let Mussolini create a dictatorship, leaving Victor 'a king in name only. Few Big Crowns Left With the exception of Europe and Japan, only a few crowned heads are left in the world. This is the list: George V. England Hirohito Japan Emmanuel Albert Belgium Wilhelmina Netherlands Carol Rumania Gustaf Sweden Haakon Norway Christian Denmark Boris Bulgaria Prajadhipok Siam Ras Tafari Abyssinia Zogu Albania Fuad Egypt The Higher Education In a spelling test of 40 words, "all right," and "niece" proved too much for members of the Harvard faculty.

Thirty of the 40 words was the highest score made by a professor, and every one of the 40 was misspelled at least once by the professors. What could they do with a few examples in fractions handed out by a country school teacher? Man's happiness does not consist in the greatness of his possessions, but in the fewness of his wants. No one is useless in this who lightens the burden of it to any one else. Wisdom is always good to learn, whose wisdom soever it may be. A.

M. Fairbairn. Pretending to be wise is what makes some people appear so foolish. DIXIE DUGAN THE. OF A RESORT THE.

HvPffOTlC 6PEU OF LFUYGUIO flOOlY, SIGHIMG waters t- BUrsURELX, OWE FINDS HrTRSELF "DRAWN CLOSET? flriO CLOSER TO HET? EW FRIEND There were many Indian legends clustered about the Grandfather Pine, some of which this writer collected and published about ten years White men also venerated this super-tree, and it might still be standing had not it been voted against by Mike Courtney, the famed woods-boss of the millionaire lumberman Ario Pardee, who operated along White Deer Creek and in eastern Sugar Valley from 1S65 to 1885, during which time his men floated 111,000,000 feet of white pine logs down "White Deer" to his big steam sawmill near Watsontown. Despite the protests of old-timers like General D. K. Heckman, Jake Karstetter, David Zimmerman, Squire Herlacher, Henry Mark and Henry Wren, Courtney ordered it cut, as he said that if Mr. Pardee saw it he would have it shipped to the Centennial at Philadelphia, which was to open the following year.

Platforms were built around the tree, and four trained axemen from Maine "went at it" simultaneously. The tree was cut nine feet from the ground; the diameter at that point including the bark was twelve feet. From the butt to the tip Henry Wren measured it as 260 feet, or 269 feet from roots to top. Twelve feet of the butt were sawed off and a choice 40-foot log selected. It proved to be too heavy to be handled, as there was a "divide" in Schwenk's Gap that had to be crossed before the log could be gotten into White Deer Oreek.

Mike Courtney offered any man $100 in gold a big sum in 1875 who would get it to the creek. One teamster, Hen. Eyer, got it on his trucks, but the wheels went to pieces ike matches when the huge log was fairly on them. Disgusted, the woods-boss abandoned the big log, and thus perished miserably the Grandfather Pine. A year or two later Henry Mark had the of the tree cut into firewood for the big Pardee logging-camps, but remnants of the stump are still discernible on the Sugar Valley side of Schwenk's Gap.

Screen Life In Hollywood By HUBBARD HEAVY HOLLYWOOD George O'Brien doesn't mean to be snooty about it, but he's particular about the identity of the other fellow when he indulges in his favorite sport, boxing." The O'Brien profile, which helps support its owner, wouldn't be worth a dime if the nose were smeared all over his face, and that's just what a number of gymnasium athletes have tried to accomplish. The peculiar desire of many smateur glove wielders to spoil the looks of a movie actor is behind it. First class boxers never are spurred by the craving, O'Brien says. It isn't that he minds a good fight he couldn't have won the Pacific fleet 175-pound title if he did and he never has failed to hammer the daylights out of the. smart boys who have tried to slip one over.

The world war changed the life course of Paul Cavanagh. A graduate of Cambridge, he had a law office in Alberta, Canada, and revised the statutes of that city. He did not go on the stage until he returned from the war. Cavanagh invariably is the man the hero "gets" in the last reel of the picture. But he had his day.

Years ago he served nine months with the Northwest Mounted Police. Mallbu Curfew A mythical curfew rings out across the sad sea waves at Malibu beach film colony, sharply at 11 o'clock for players and directors who have 9 o'clock calls at their studios the following morning. The one route from Malibu to Hollywood is 40 miles lofig and in traffic and traffic cops it's an hour and a half drive. Even the house warming held by Edmund Lowe and Lilyan Tashman. in their new all white and red beach house, ended at 11:30 o'clock.

Many players who have Malibu homes live in them only between pictures. Janet Gaynor always puts on her right shoe first. The lapels of William Collier's suits usually wear out first. He's superstitious about pins and can spot one at 40 paces. Warren Hymer got his stage start breaking dishes.

He played a dumb waiter no, not the kind that runs up and down a shaft. One of the most cordially disliked film executives in Hollywood is paying the sanitarium bills of four unfortunates. He is related to none and indebted to none. of the United States. premature publicity to some Mike Courtney was one of the three greatest woodsmen of the West Branch Valley, who will be the sagas of the umbering lore of the future.

Joe Colberth, who broke the ten-mile jam at Lock Haven Dam April 22, 1S74, and still lives in Philadelphia, well up in the nineties, is Miles King, who broke the jam at the forks of Sinnema-honing on April 17, 1871, and rode ahead of the drive on a log for four miles before he could jump ashore, and died recently in Lock Haven, was another, while the third was Mike Courtney. Not long ago a Sugar Valley man met Courtney driving an ox-team in the West Virginia mountains. His magnificent black beard had turned snow-white; otherwise he was a powerful virile figure despite his more than ninety years. H. W.

S. By J. P. McEvoy and H. J.

Striebel fe WHITE HOUSE "LEAKS" IT is possible that some Tribune readers are wondering just why so much fuss is being made over a couple stories that came out of the White House recently, especially since the stories are of little importance. The story, for instance, about- the janitor who told White House carpenters to go easy on the hammering because the President had "declared a moratorium on noise" doesn't do anyone any harm, but does help establish the fact that the Chief Executive has a sense of humor. But a "leak" which would let a little story get to the world might be big enough to permit the passage of a big story. And it can easily be understood that official doings of the government might cause irreparable harm. 1 That is the real reason back of the investigation..