“They are mustering in the Guard.”
Four times within the memory of liv-
ing men these tidings have sped from
lip to lip throughout Pennsylvania.
Four times, whiie men's lips have
spread this terse message, men’s hearts
have sensed a stronger tension and
Jen's pulses have known a quickening
For men know that the simple an-
nouncement of this shifting of Guard
control from State to Federal hands
- can have but one interpretation—the
close approach of a great national crisis.
Once—almost a lifetime ago—the
tidings presaged the storm and fury of
clvil strife into which marched gaily
the youthful chivalry of Pennsylvania's
militia, to emerge, four years later,
stern and masterful conquerors.
A second time the message forecast-
ed the clash of arms which broke the
faltering grip of an old-world empire
upon an unwilling new-world colony.
And again file upon file of Pennsylva-
nia youth was seen on its way to take
up the cause of an oppressed people.
nce again—and this time so recent
that echoes of the measured tramp are
‘hardly stilled—the mustering-in meant
a long jaunt to the far southwest,
where the bright face of danger peer-
ed over the border.
Today—
“They are mustering-in the Guard.”
Well may the heart-tension tighten
and the pulses leap more responsive
than ever to this speeding message.
For never before has it been the fore-
runner of a national peril of such sin-
ister portent. :
War's Weird Shadow.
Less than three years ago peace-
loving Americans paused in their
placid progress to turn a startled eye
toward a fearsome spectre, which,
suddenly rearing itself in central
Europe, stalked rapidly over teeming
and prosperous lands, imprinting death
and blight with every ghastly footstep.
It was—and is—an uncanny monster
of blood, fire and steel, re ecting in
its hideous outline the hatred and ven-
om of its creators toward all mankind
who do not accept the idea of national
existence to which they have dedicated
themselves. It is muscled with human
flesh and guided by human intelligence
on a career of surpassing deviltry.
To the safe spectator on America’s
distant shore came first only a feeling
of loathing for this unclean creature
and its masters. It seemed unbeliev-
able that a monstrosity so foul and
malevolent could spring to life in this
enlightened day.
Americans viewing its revolting
progress with horrified eyes, did so
with only the impersonal inferest of
unconcerned onlookers. Danger to
their own free land—and free institu-
tions—from the disportings of this
monstrous thing appeared too remote
to be given any consideration.
Its bloody wallowings so riveted the
eye that for a time the grim purpose
animating its ruthless onslaughts was
entirely uncomprehended.
It was not until Belgium had been
shattered almost beyond hope of res-
toration and liberty-loving France had
been brought face-to-face with virtual
annihilation, that America grasped the
true significance of the demon machine
and its workings.
Shall Liberty Vanish?
And who can doubt, today, that this
significance is, in all probability, the
obliteration of the liberal institutions
to which free peoples are committed.
Should this machine prevail liberty, as
we know it, must, in time, vanish from
the face of “he earth.
The nation stands today at a cross-
road of ddstiny and the path to the
goal of security looms up rugged. Al-
ready it is resounding to the tread of
armed men. The regular army is on
the move and now the call has gone
out for the country’s second line of
defense—the National Guard. :
Pennsylvania once more is calling
her loyal sons. It is a time of stir
and bustle and furbishing of sword
and gun and bayonet from the banks
of the Delaware to the shores of Lake
Erie. Armories are ringing to the clang
of weapons and stalwart young figures
there, are seen tugging at strap and
buckle in the bundling of accoutre-
ments.
More than usual, there is noted the
prevalence of military uniforms in the
street crowds. And the walls are
everywhere proclaiming the need of
filling up gaps in the various arms of
the service.
The Guard is pulling itself together
for another sally to the “front.” There
is every indication that its departure
on this occasion will be more insplr-
ing than ever as a display of a great
State’s military power.
The country is proud of its regular
fighting men but, after all, the home
sentiment clings more fondly to the
fighting men of the Guard. Pride in
the regular army units is impersonal
because they are recruited from the
country-at-large.
But with the Guard it is different.
‘When a Guard regiment musters-in it
carries with it to the firing line the
good name of a particular community.
In that steel-tipped column swinging so
jauntily down the street, when the
Doar is passing by, are boys from
-gome.
Fight alongside Your Friends
up the National Guard
ALL BRANCHES OF ARMY SERVICE ARE OPEN TO YOU.
ogs/”
Chauce
Guards Rank as Veterans.
It is a veteran force which will, ‘on
this occasion, represent Pennsylvania
in the Federal service. The Guard is
but recently returned from a strenu-
ous period of duty on the Mexican
border. Long hours of stiff (
in military maneuver under the blis-
tering rays of a tropical sun have
case-hardened the guardsmen.
of national record.
They “did their bit”
with the regular army on the border-
land, acquiring, by emulation, many of
the campaigning tricks of the experi-
enced oldier.
But efficient as is this fine State
soldiery, its numerical strength is
much below the war standard fixed by
the Federal government. Some regi-
ments can muster, at present, only
two-thirds of the number they should
have in their ranks.
Pennsylvania's young manhood
which recently made such an inspiring
response to the call for registration
now has another patriotic duty con-
fronting it. Those who nave register-
ed are eligible for military service.
Sooner or later they will be ordered
to report for physical examination and
if up to the physical requirements, will
be ordered into the military service. |
There is no obligation, however, up-
on a registered man to await a formal
call to arms. In fact, since it is more
than likely he must go it is greatly to
his own advantage to be the arbiter,
himself, of where, when and how he
shall go.
Enlistment Beats Draft.
Isn’t it better, by way of example,
for an eligible man to enlist, now, in
a crack Guard regiment of his home
Section, where he will stand shoulder-
to-shoulder with friends, than to hold
back until ordered into the service,
assigned, perhaps, to a newly-formed
command where he will be a stranger
among strangers?
There is the glory of regimental
prestige—the satisfaction that springs
from association with an organization
of old and honored traditions—and the
confidence that is begoiten of comrade-
ship to commend voluntary enlistment,
All of these are assured to the man
who picks a home regiment,
On the other hand, none of these
things is assured to the man who waits
for a regiment to pick him. Voluntary
enlistment gives a sure-thing choice.
But the only sure thing in store for the
man who waits is the sure thing that
he will have to go, if he is fit to go.
The Guard offers the same induce-
ment in variety of service that is of-
fered by the regular army. Infantry,
artillery, cavalry and engineers are
open to recruiting.
This puts the Guard on the footing
of the regular service, of which it is
soon to be a part. From the recruit-
ing end, Guard service is even more
desirable with its opportunities afford.
ed recruits to be placed in the ranks
with the boys from home.
Always maintaining the highest pay i
of any army in the world, the army |
service—both regulars and Guard—
has taken a new lead far beyond even
its old pay-roll standard. The rate of
pay for enlisted men is now $30 per
month and upwards. 3
Even at $30 a month there is a big
inducement to save. Since everything
is “found” for men in the service, ex-
penditures need only be for a few per--
sonal luxuries. It is figured that a
man may easily save two-thirds of his
pay. There is a system in vogue by |
Ae eee tat tet ete eet St oamte AAAArnreerees sees semen en
which the money may be left on de-
posit, and 4 per cent interest is al-
lowed.
Army's Brighter Side.
And these are details not to be over-
looked even by men who are keen in
hot-hearted desire to serve their State |
and Nation. That there are many such
is the confident hope of the Pennsyl-
vania Guard. :
It is men of that calibre who have
made the Guard what it is today. And
it is to men of that calibre whom they
are appealing to make the Guard what
it must be in the future if it is meet
the high hopes of the State, the Na-
tion and a stricken world.
The sky is over-cast, and the war-
clouds have gathered. There is sore
need here, and elsewhere, of. that pic-
tured uprising of patriot manhood to
strike a blow for the Old Flag and the
Old Land.
And now—what does the mustering-
in of the National Guard mean to you?
Has it stirred you to no sense of
your personal responsibility in this
great crisis?
Has it not caused you to feel that it
is your duty to stand in.those bristlin
ranks—your country’s living walls o
defense—just as much as it is the duty
of those gallant men who have been
standing there from the first mcment
of danger?
If it does not mean all of this—and
more—to you, then you have failed to
grasp its meaning.
ennsylvania treasures grateful
memories of sons who have nobly re-
sponded to her call in every grave
hour of the past.
Shall Pennsylvania’s call. today,
find sons too indifferent to give heed
in this the gravest moment of her
history? 8
There is one sure response:
Fill up the National Guard.
ractice
And |
their efficiency has become a matter |
side by cide |
the Chamber of Deputies.
The Majesty of Armenia.
|
i
From more than one area of the
{ war zone, from Belgium, from Gali-
! cia, from Turkish Armenia, the same
i story reaches us; the same dread sa-
| ga of the wanderings of whole popu-
! lations under the spur of massacre,
‘rape, hunger. Little children fall hike
| flies by the way side and new children
| are born on the march. Mothers go
‘mad. Girls throw themselves into the
{ rivers. Men are killed and buried like
: dogs.
| But Belgium has almost all the
{ world for her friends and the faith in
| restoration goes before her exiles like
‘a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar
| of fire by night. Even the Jews of the
i pale, torn and tossed between the al-
; ternate victors begin to find organ-
| ized help and behold some faint gleam
{ of Zion upon the political horizon. On
; Ararat alone no ark can rest. For
- Armenia alone there is the cry with-
| out answer, “Watchman, what of the
. night ?”
Only for a minority can there be
{ political redemption, let us at least
| bring physical saivation to their ago-
| nizing remnant.
| Sister nations I have been accus-
i tomed to think the Armenians and the
| Jew. Both hail from sisterlands of
i the cradle of civilization. Both come
| trailing clouds of glory from the pur-
i ple days of Persia and Babylon. Roth
| have born the shock of the ancient
| and medieval empires and of the mil-
| itant migrations of their races, and
| both hold to their original faith, for
(if the one was the first preacher of
| Jehovah the other was the first nation
| to profess Jesus. And sisters, too, in
| sorrow, although exiled, scattered,
persecuted, massacred.
i Sisters, forsooth, yet not equal in
‘suffering. Hitherto through the long
| centuries the crown of martyrdom
has been pre-eminently Israel’s. And
| as day by day during this war of wars
; there came to me by dark letter or
{ whisper the tale of her woes in the
{ central war zone I said to myself
! surely the cup is full. Surely no peo-
ple on earth has had such a measure
of gall and vinegar {0 drain.
But I was mistaken. One people
has suffered more. That people whose
| ancient realm held the legandary Eden
has now for abiding place the pit of
{ hell. I bow ‘before this higher majes-
ty of sorrow. I take the crown of
| thorns from Israel’s head and I place
i joen Armenia’s.—By Israel Zang-
will.
How France Finances the War.
France will require 11,600,000,000
francs a year, approximately, to meet
her obligations and current expendi-
tures after the war, according to an
estimate of the finance committee of
Of this to-
tal, it is estimated that nearly half,
5,500,000,000 francs, will be needed
for normal appropriations, including
interest on the national debt existing
before the war, which was about 33,-
000,000,000 francs.
The remainder includes interest on
national defense bonds, pensions, in-
terest on 10,000,000,000 francs capital
required to repair war damages, and
I ——
finance social legislation, such as a
workingmen’s pension system.
This total represents only the fi- |
nancial charges incurred June 1, 1917.
It will be necessary to add to it 150,-
000,000 francs for each month that
the war goes on thereafter, the war
expenditures now averaging 3,000,
000,000 francs a month. .
Thirty-five months of war at the
E—
end of June has cost about 87,000,-
+ 000,000 francs, including advances to
Allies. During the same time the Gov-
ernment receipts have averaged 4,-
128,000,000 francs a year.
The finance committee urges the
adoption of the graduated income tax
as one of the measures to provide the
revenue France will need. It is esti-
mated that it will produce a net gain
of about 366,000,000 francs a year.
In addition the finance committee
proposes an annual civie or individ-
ual tax of 3 francs upon all taxpay-
ers residing in communes of less than
10,000 population, 6 francs in com-
munes between 10,000 and 50,000, and
9 francs in towns of more than 50,000
population. This tax, it is estimated,
will produce 42,000,000 francs a year.
MONDAY
OF that dreaded wash day! Isn't there some way to
y to avoid that terrific kitchen
heat, the back-breaking job of toting wood, shoveling
coal and cleaning out ashes? Yes,
do it easier—some wa
have chased this wash-day bugaboo away to stay. With a Perfection
in your kitchen you won't have heat all the time, but just when you
need it. The water gets hot—off goes the heat,
the kitchen cools off. You save money,
And the Perfection will bake, boil, fry or roast at a minute’s notice.
Just light a match and it'll begin to “do things up brown.”
Your dealer will explain its many fine points, such as the
fireless cooker and the separate oven.
THE ATLANTIC REFINING COMPANY
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
give best results unless
use Rayolight Oil.
smell. And it doesn’t
cost a penny more than
the ordinary kinds.
Always look for this
sign: ’
madam, there is.
fuel expense stops,
time and work.
Your Perfection, or any other
oil-burning device, simply can’t
It burns
without sputter, smoke or
conto,
you
62-18-9t.
Dry Goods.
Dry Goods.
LYON @& COMPANY.
ld-Summer Sale of Whe
We have too many Under Summer Muslins and will
have to make a sale to reduce our stock. We
have made special lots of the following :
NIGHT GOWNS.
Low neck, short sleeves, good quality nainsook, choice of lace or
Embroidery and scalloped trimmed, value 75¢, sale price 48c.
CORSET COVERS.
Lace or Embroidered trimmed, all sizes, qualities 35 cents and
50 cents, sale price 23c.
Better Quality in the exclusive Dove Brand,
Made of fine Nainsook val. lace or fine embroidery trimmed, re-
inforced arm holes, well finished, quality 75¢, sale price 48c.
Dove Brand, Silk Crepe de Chine Envelope Chemise, quality
$3.50, our price $2.25.
Dove Brand, Silk Crepe de Chine Wash Satin Corset Covers,
quality $1.50, our price $1.00.
® Dove Brand Night Gowns, Umbrella Drawers, and Petticoats
at less than cost to manufacture.
COAT SUITS AND COATS
We have a large assortment of
sizes, at greatly reduced prices.
Suits and Coats, all colors, all
SILK HOSE.
All our Silk Hose must be sold at a sacrifice during this sale.
65c Silk Boot, Black and White, our price 35c.
black, white and colors, value $1.35,
Pure Silk Hose,
our price 95 cents.
SILK GLOVES.
All sizes in Silk Gloves, colors black and white, $1.00 quality,
our price 75 cents.
SHOES!
Why pay more for Shoes when we
Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Shoes at the old
Men’s Shoes from $1.75 a pair up. Ladies’ Shoes from
pair up. Children’s Shoes from 7 5 cents a pair up.
Come in and look over our stock,
old price.
price.
$1.50 a
SHOES !!
can sell you Shoes at the
you will surely be pleased and
save money,
Ar r— riots
Lyon & Co. ... Bellefonte. |
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IN business, the
man who can
see ahead usual-
ly moves with
forethought and
precision. The
present interests
him only as it af-
fects the future--
he is wise.
In buying clothes
‘the same princi-
ple applies---and
he who thinks
not “how cheap”
but “how good”
bu
ys
1igh-Art
y
Clothes
and in the longer life of these very dependable clothes,
the lasting permanence of
style and fit, he reaps the
benefit of his foresightedness.
We show ALL the new correct styles and colorings—
in all sizes.
ET ————
FAUBLE’S.
Allegheny St.
58-4
BELLEFONTE, PA.