- ~ — Demcaiia BY P. GRAY MEEK. am—— INK SLINGS. Mr. Edison is still working on the problem of fighting the subma- rines and he usually gets results. When he speaks he will “say a mouth- ful.” — Don’t encourage any one to at- tempt to evade registration next Tuesday. The government will later find the slackers and punish them se- verely. — Tuesday, June 5th, will be regis- tration day in Centre county. Every male person who has attained the age of twenty-one and is not yet thirty- one years old must register. — Take no chance on going to pris- on for a year. If you are twenty-one years old and have not yet reached the age of thirty-one go and register. That will be the only safe plan. — The worst of it all for the fellow who tries to evade registering next Tuesday will be that after he has served a year in prison he will be en- rolled as soon as he is released. —Troop-L is to be called out afoot and not on horseback this time. There are no cactus plants on the fields of France and Belgium so the boys will not need their jumpers to clear them ~ when they go to charging. — Science records several instances where sleep has continued over a per- iod of twenty years. The Altoona newspaper men think Johnstown is one of them and the Johnstown news- paper men think Altoona is the other. — Those who don’t think the recent rains have been helping the wheat and grass and all other crops are convine- ed that they have been rotting the corn and potatoes. Some farmers al- ways see the doughnut. Others see nothing but the hole. —If you are of the eligible age, no matter what your physical condition, how many dependents you may have your employment, or whether you are married or single you must register next Tuesday. The government will decide from the statements you make when registering whether you should be called for service or not. —“The submarine kiss” is the new- est thing. You take the lady in bath- ing, then induce her to dive with you and slip her the kiss under the water. It was invented by a Chicago preach- er who was investigating means of combatting the starvation which the government threatens his calling with by taking all the marriageable young men off to war. A really, truly maiden speech was made in Congress on Monday when Miss Rankin, the lady from Montana, broke the silence that has surrounded her desk since being sworn in as the first Congresswoman in the United States. She moved an amendment to the food bill pending that in making the survey of food supplies in the country women be em- ployed as far as practicable. Her amendment carried. —_You will recall that the “Watch- man” was much interested in raising Centre county’s share of Pennsylva- nia’s proportion of the deficit of the national campaign and succeeded in raising a considerable sum, which was forwarded to national treasurer ‘Marsh. Therefor you might be inter- ested in knowing that Pennsylvania won first honors in raising her quota. Our State was assessed $40,000 and already we have sent more than $43,- 000 toward liquidating the debt. —John D. raises the price of gaso- line a cent a gallon and then starts in to buying Liberty Loan bonds in five million dollar blocks. He expects to buy twenty-five million dollar’s worth of the bonds and on these he will save $250,000 a year, for the reason that they will be tax free and even though they pay only 3% per cent. interest the new taxes on any other securities bearing a higher rate he might have invested in would have been so great as to make them yield $250,000 a year less than the Liberty Bonds. Some John. —No excuse will be accepted by the government for failure to register next Tuesday. If a person who is twenty-one years old and has not yet reached the age of thirty-one should be ill or away from home that day that will not be accepted as an excuse. If an eligible should be too ill to pre- sent himself personally at the polling place for registration some relative or friend must procure a card for him, have it filled and signed and present it to the registration officer, who will then enter the name of the eligible and give him a card showing that he has conformed with the requirement of the law. ——If you have a son or friend whose voting place is in Centre county, but is away from home visiting, working or attending school write or telegraph him at once if he is of the age to reg- ister next Tuesday, and might by any possibility overlook the necessity of registering. If he doesn’t want to come home to do it personally he can procure a card in the city or county in which he is temporarily located, ll it out and mail it to the registra- tion officer, who will be the judge of the election, of his home voting pre- cinet. Do this for your son or friend because if he should be unaware of the strict provisions of the law you will surely save him from arrest and imprisonment for a term of a year. There is no fine for failure to regis- ter. The penalty is imprisonment. VOL. 62. Commercialism in Politics. The war between the Brumbaugh and Penrose factions of the Republi- can party is to be ended on a commer- cial scale. According to an esteemed | Philadelphia contemporary the con- ditions are on a 50-50 basis in the dis- tribution of spoils. The Governor has the best of it under existing condi- tions. That is to say he has the ap- pointing power and though his nomi- nations to office have not been con-: firmed, his appointees draw the sala- ! ries. An unconfirmed appointment would be an empty honor without the | salary. The refusal to confirm is an | wirridescent dream” if the salary is not ! stopped with the adverse vote. Being | thrifty gentlemen Brumbaugh and Penrose are alike discontented with the situation. i There are two or three exceedingly | choice specimens of fruit on the gu- bernatorial plum tree. The death of | the late Governor Pennypacker cre- | ated a vacancy in the Public Service ! Commission and that of the late Dr. Henry Houck left the Department of Internal Affairs without a head. The duties of the Insurance Commission- er, those of the Commissioner of Banking and the Superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings are be- ing performed by unconfirmed nomi- nees. The agreement is said to be that Penrose will consent to the con- firmation of Brumbaugh’s appoint- ments already made if Brumbaugh will appoint friends of Penrose to the places still vacant. The Governor gets the lion’s share, under this ar- rangement, but half a loaf is better than no bread to Penrose’s depend- ents. ! Senator Vare is said to have nego- tiated the deal and as it involves the nomination of a Penrose follower for Governor next year there is a good deal cf room for conjecture. For ex- ample the nomination of Senator Sproul for Governor would relegate Brumbaugh and his friends to perpet- ual obscurity unless the candidate of | the party should be defeated at the ensuing election, On the other hand if Brumbaugh should control the nomination next year and elect his man there would be an end of Pen- rose. It is plain, therefore, that Sen- ator Vare is ‘simply taking a gam- bler’s chance for if Penrose wins he will go into the discard with Brum- baugh unless he can make terms with Penrose on a commercial basis. There is no politics in the prep- aration for our part in the world war and if President Wilson can prevent it there will be none in the conduct of it so far as the United States’ contin- gent is concerned. Censorship a Necessity. There is no legislation pending more essential to the successful pros- ecution of the war than the censor- ship bill. Every day presents new ev- idence of the necessity of preventing the publication of information that will give aid and comfort to the ene- my. Only last Sunday one of the leading Republican papers of Phila- delphia contained an article in which it was declared that nothing has yet been done to abate the submarine evil and the tone plainly indicated that “the wish was father to the thought.” A few months ago an ex-Secretary of the Navy was filling columns of space in all the anti-administration papers | which could be induced to publish his rubbish that our navy is worthless. Every day some of these newspa- pers are filled with complaints that nothing has been or is being done to prepare for the service in the war that all know must be rendered. But the military experts from Europe recent- ly visitors in this country commented freely upon the marvelous progress that has been made in this direction. Of course it pleases the Kaiser to learn that our army is helpless and our navy a joke and such statements make it easy for the German press to encourage the uninformed or ill-in- formed German peasantry that our entrance into the war makes no differ- ence and in no respect impairs their certainty of a speedy victory. But it makes a vast difference to the allies. There are newspaper editors and managers who need no espionage for the reason that their patriotism is greater than their cupidity. News- papers directed by such men will not publish stuff that strengthens the en- emy and causes death and suffering among ourselves and our allies. But unhappily there are also the other sort, and still others, who, influenced by partisan bigotry, publish rumors that do harm. This sort must be re- strained and the legislation necessary to accomplish this result should be en- acted promptly and be sufficiently drastic to make it effective. The pa- triotic people of the United States do not want news at the expense of thousands of precious lives. ——————————— —Fverybody will have a chance to buy a Liberty Bond, anyway, and by the same token everybody who can afford it ought to buy. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. 3 YVVYVVIYIYY PLY EY ve aa wv JU Public Duty For VV a elllsltssssssst est ttn VV VIVVYY Americans TH VATE 2—Ever his twenty- YAY VVVVIIIVIV III IIIT EET 00s s00 provided in the draft act. AAs lllsstsssetet MV WVNIYIIIIITY mailed by the sick p trar of his voting pre certificate. $ certificate. registration day, June 5, 1917. » » > p d p b > p 1 J Where employed ?. . p p » » p b b p p p are true — The women of Philadelphia are planning what they call a three course dinner, following the example of their plutocratic cousins across the sea. Meantime some of us up here in the country will be satisfied with a one-course dinner even if it is only vegetable soup. — The Liberty Loan is a safe enough investment and fairly remu- nerative. But you have to have mon- ey to buy the bonds and “there’s the rub.” Many of us have more patriot- ism than patrimony. Senator Lewis, of Illinois, might encourage enlistments in his proposed agricultural army, if he would offer his whiskers for use as sunshine. —__After all maybe the Hinden- burg line was only the shadow of a rainbow. BELLEFONTE, PA., J UNE 1, 191% 7 a a a alll llssststsee ste tWVVIVINE YoY Tuesday YOU MUST REGISTER! § SEVEN POINTS ABOUT REGISTRATION ) 1—There is only ONE day for registration, June 5, 1917. ; male resident of the United States who has reached rst and has not reached his thirty-first birthday MUST register on the day set, June 5, 1917. The only exceptions are offi- cers and enlisted men of the regular army, the navy, the marine corps and the national guard and naval militia while in the service of the United States and officers in the officers’ reserve corps and enlisted men in the enlisted reserve corps while in active service. ° on———— 3—Registration is distinct from draft. No matter what just claim you have for exemption, you must register. 4— Registration is a public DUTY. For those not responsive to the sense of this duty the penalty of imprisonment, not fine, is should cause a representative to apply to the county or city clerk for a copy of the registration card! The clerk will give instructions as to how this card should be filled out. erson or delivered by his agent to the regis- scinct. ~The stele person will inclose a self ad- dressed stamped envelope for the return to him of his registration c— 4 L - « , > 4 4 b i 4 L # 4 4 4 4 b ; . 5—Those who through sickness shall be unable to register ; ; pr <4 b 4 - b : 6—Any person who expects to be absent from his voting pre- 4 cinct on registration day should apply as soon as practicable for a « ¢ registration card to the county clerk of the county where he may be b $ stopping, or if he is in a city of over 30,000 to the city clerk. The 4 $ clerk will record the answers on the card and turn it over to the ; $ absentee. The absentee should mail this card to the registrar of ¢ ¢ his home voting precinct so that it will reach that official by regis- ¢ tration day. A self addressed stamped envelope should be inclosed $ with the card to insure the return to the absentee of a registration ?—Registration booths will be open from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. on Army Draft Registration Blank Following is the form prepared at Washington for the registration on June 5 of those called under the first draft for the new army: £ « 4 § p REGISTRATION BLANK FOR ARMY DRAFT, (FORM 1) No, —— b REGISTRATION CARD. $ Given name. Age in years. Family name. b La NATe HETHL firrtiess a ttiiiveeiret Th teaitenenes § 2— Home Address. ..ceessseecessccccsscncss 8—Date of birth............ sas ive us vasa b 4—Are you (1) a natural born citizen, (2) a naturalized citizen, (3) ¢ an alien, (4) or have you declared your intention (specify which) ? p Town. 5—Where were you born?...... 6—If not a citizen, of what country are you a citizen or subject?..... 7—What is your present trade, occupation or office? . coeeencecncnces 8—By whom employed?....ccccceccececsee. 9—Have you a father, mother, wife, child under 12, or a sister or brother under 12 solely dependent on you for support (specify which)? 10—Married or single (which) 2....cc000eee Race (specify which)?... 11—What military service have you had? Rank......Branch.... Years...... Nation or state. . 12—Do you claim exemption from draft (specify grounds) ?.... I affirm that I have verified above adswers and that they see AHHH HHLLLVLLLLS AVI w TORNADO TAKES HE AVY TOLL. 1 REGISTRATION WHY JAY!! NEF] All Between | | 21 and 30 | Years Old Inclusive VV 20.8 LVN 1 1 < } 4 te « The card should then be State. Nation. HVA VVMVVVVIVIIVIT III IIe EE Tad (Signature) al slllASesststest VV IVIV — The city steam heat made its exit yesterday, and the question now is will it be revived in the fall? If it is any consolation to steam heat users, however, it might be added that Wil- liamsport and Lock Haven are in about the same predicament Belle- fonte is. —— — Miss Rankin made her “maid- en speech” in Congress the other day and according to the press dispatches won her point. It may be said there- fore, that she talks better than she votes. ——— — The worst thing about it is that the German Republic will be obliged to pay indemnity for the property brutally and senselessly destroyed by a crazy monarch. —Sugar is three cents a pound on the wharves in Cuba. Here it is ten. Surely the way from the producer to the consumer is a costly one. NO. 22. | More Than 150 People Killed and Mi.- lions of Dollars in Property Destroyed. Chicago, May 30.—More than 150 | persons were killed, 1,000 or more in- jured and millions of dollars’ worth of property destroyed by tornadoes which swept through Kansas on Fri- day, Illinois and Indiana on Saturday, and parts of Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky and southern Illinois on Sunday. Reports indicate that a large amount of farm implements, needed to produce the bumper crop desired this year was ruined, although the Spastodis wind struck only here and there in its frightful play through the rural regions. Crop damage is said to be not heavy in grains. Mattoon, Ill, May 30.—Stoically taking up the task of recovering the dead, nursing the injured and housing and feeding the homeless, Mattoon and Charleston, swept Saturday even- ing by a tornado that took a toll of more than a hundred lives in Central Illinois and northwestern Indiana, by night had established systematic methods of relief. : Sunday’s sunrise showed that Mat- toon had lost 51 known dead, with a score of persons missing and 500 in- jured, some of whom may die, in the devastation of 140 blocks of homes oc- cupied by working men in the north part of the city. The wind razed 496 houses and partly destroyed 146 more, rendering 2,000 persons homeless. These are sheltered with friends, in public buildings and in a tented ref- uge in Peterson Park. Morning disclosed hundreds strug- gling over and through the demolish- ed houses, seeking lost relatives or personal belongings. At the wrecked home of Thomas Patrick the mother sat on a stool and cared for a baby while the father and other children collected bits of broken furniture and clothing from the debris of their home. 2 One woman and her two children were blown through a window of their at the entrance of a cellar in which Mrs. George Kemper and a few neighbors had taken refuge. The women and children were taken into | his wife and children, only to be kill- the cellar to safety by Harry Beavers, who later left the shelter to look for ed by a flying plank. : 38 DEAD IN CHARLESTON. = Mattoon, 5,000 population, suffered a larger loss in proportion to its size than Mattoon, the know dead total- ing 38, with over 100 injured. Four are missing in Charleston also, and some business buildings were wreck- ed, including the Mapel Hotel, two railroad stations, three grain eleva- tors and a lumber yard. : Flag Raising at Curtin. A beautiful flag was floated to the breeze at Curtin on Sunday afternoon with appropriate exercises. The af- fair took place at four o’clock in the presence of practically every inhab- itant of the village and country-side. Ten members of Troop L rode down to be present for the occasion and the Curtin band furnished the music. Capt. H. Laird Curtin was master of ceremonies and he first introduced Rev. Josiah Still, who offered prayer. The flag was raised by two old sol- diers after which addresses were made by Burgess Edmund Blanchard and Col. H. S. Taylor, of Bellefonte. In response to a request of his neigh- bors and friends Capt. Curtin also made a brief speech, after which Rev. Still pronounced the benediction. Earnings at State College. _ More than 450 students at The Pennsylvania State College have earn- ed $4500 to help pay for their educa- tion during the present college year, according to the annual report of John M. Horner, acting secretary: of the student employment bureau. This is a slight increase over the earnings of the student workers last year. It is estimated that double this amount will be received by the stu- dents for their work during the com- ing summer. Hundreds of them have already left college to go onto farms and into the army and navy. About 500 students are accepting jobs with industrial plants, munition factories and steel mills, where wages are high. One-third of the students are earning their own way through college. Young Schwab Enlists. Charles M. Schwab, Jr, of New York city, nephew of the Bethlehem Steel magnate, has dropped his studies at The Pennsylvania State College and enlisted in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve. He has been ordered to the training station at mosquito fleet. : : “Young Charlie,” as Schwab is fa- miliarly known to his State College friends, is a Sophomore in the depart- ment of industrial engineering. For two years he has been a sergeant in the college regiment. — — At an early hour on Sunday morning there was an exchange of shots between an unknown man and one of the guards at the Titan Metal company’s plant, but the unknown got away without being recognized. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Huntingdon borough has retained nearly all her old teachers for the coming month in salary. — Three times during recent weeks has a German flag been discovered flying from a tall tree in the Licking Creek region, Juniata county, and been removed. —The liquor sellers of Cambria county have graciously determined to close their bars on Memorial day for two hours— while the people were in the cemeteries, we suppose. The directors of the Knights of St. George, in session at Johnstown, have adopted a resolution pledging their loyal- ty to the country and authorizing the purchase cf $25,000 worth of Liberty War Bonds. —Cyrus B. McCurdy, a well-known res- ident of Dunnstable township, Clinton county, is dead of a complication of dis- eases, in the 57th year of his age. He was a commercial traveler, traveling for a Lock Haven tobacco house. — Sheriff Wilson, of Huntingdon county, recently sold the plant of the Union Fur- nace Manufacturing company to Howard Himmelwright, trustee, for $1,000, subject to a mortgage of $35,000. The plant will be operated to its full capacity. —Workmen on the new highway between Mill Creek and Huntingdon held up Gov- ernor Brumbaugh’s automobile near Ar- denheim, on Saturday, in accordance with instructions from the constructor to per- mit none to pass, obliging the Governor to return to Mill Creek and go to Hunting- don by a detour, by way of Union Church. —Seventeen-year-old Fred Cunningham, of Licking Creek valley, Juniata county, became mentally deranged and escaped from the home of his parents one night recently, clad only in his night clothes. He was found on Black Log mountain next morning and conveyed to jail at Mif- flintown whence he was removed to a State institution. Miss Catherine Coleman, of near Bloomsburg, had her clothing stripped from her body when the horse her moth- er, Mrs. George Coleman, was driving, ran away. The two women were dragged un- der the buggy top for several rods. The mother was only slightly injured, but Miss Coleman was rendered unconscious and had her arm broken and suffered se- rious lacerations. —The officials of the Lehigh Valley Railroad company last week made official announcement of the fact that the state- wide express will be continued in service. It will be remembered that the train had been ordered off on May 1 but was subse- quently retained pending a settlement of the issue. An agreement has been made between the Lehigh and the Pennsy and the state-wide express will continue. —The will of H. 8. Williamson, of Lan- caster county, philanthropist, filed on crumbling home and deposited unhurt | Tuesday, makes bequests of $10,000 each to Franklin & Marshall college, Lancaster General hospital, Lancaster Free library, Shippen school and Morrisville, Bucks county, the last named to buy a tract of jand to be known as Williamson park. Morrisville is required to plant at least one tree annually on the tract. It is giv- en an additional $10,000 for the mainte- Charleston, lying 10 miles east of 1 Newport, R. I, where he will join the: V nance of the park. — Smallpox in Pennsylvania, on account of the large number of men who have come into the State lately from other States, is at the present time threatening the pub- lic health, according to State Health Commissioner Dixon, who says that con- ditions mentioned in his warning last week still hold good. Drastic steps are being considered at the Health Depart- ment, whose staff is keeping in close touch with conditions throughout the State by order of the Commissioner. __Daniel Gerrity, of Shamokin, has re- ceived word from his son, Daniel, Jr., that he is held a prisoner at Dulmen, West- fallen, Germany. The latter aged twenty- one, disappeared from his home last De- cember. His father did not know what became of him until he received a card stating that he had shipped as a sailor on the vessel Esemorles, which was sunk in the Atlantic ocean by a submarine. Only fifteen of the crew escaped. They were taken by the submarine to Kiel, Germany, and afterwards removed to a prison camp. He is well taken care of, he says. There will not be any Allentown fair this year. A lease has been signed be- tween the officers of the fair and the War Department, whereby the government will immediately take over the fair grounds as a training camp for the United States ambulance corps. Men enlisted as mem- bers of the corps will receive their inten- sive training there prior to being sent to France. The rental is $30,000 a year. There will be accommodations for 3,700 men, and 2,000 motor ambulances are to be taken there. Two University of Penn- sylvania companies and four companies of the Cooper battalion, of Philadelphia, will go there for training. Mrs. Rose Brandle, of South Altoona, through her attorney, Samuel B. Hare, Bsq., on Monday brought suit in the Blair county courts against C. J. Potts and M. G. Irvine, trading and doing business as the Llswen Motor Car company and R. J. Zavitz, for $10,000 damages. The plaintiff is the widow of Joseph Brandle, who was killed by being run down by an automo- bile, the property of Potts and Irvine, and operated by Zavitz, at Llswen, on March 95 last. The widow claims damage because she and four minor children are deprived of the earnings of the husband and fath- er, as well as his fellowship and compan- jonship, hence this suit. —Farmers throughout central Pennsyl- vania have been approached during the past week by speculators. who endeavored to close a contract for all the potatoes they will harvest this fall. The prices of- fered range from $1.40 to $1.70 per bushel. The potato raisers, however, failed to re- spond to the attractive proposition, as they have been warned against just such schemes. The plan js this: The stranger gets the farmer to sign all his crop over at an attractive figure and if the general yield the country over is poor and pota- toes scarce, he promptly appears OR the scene and binds the farmer to his bargain. But, on the other hand, if there is a boun- tiful crop and the price low, the stranger never puts in his appearance and the far- mer is left to dispose of his crop the best he can. The scheme was unearthed re- cently in New Jersey when the federal au- thorities attempted to run it down, but the farmer's copy of the contract meant year and given each an increase of $5 a nothing, as the name given by the specu~- lator was probably fictitious. Ca prado
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