Bellefonte, Pa., July 13, 1917. | PEACE HATERS. The dove of peace was on a limb. It cooed in tones pathetic, “Oh, why, throughout this world so grim Is strife so energetic? They talk of me in tender strain While rendering my position One of embarrassment and pain Through scattering ammunition. And even in a neutral clime They start investigations, Which keep me trembling all the time With wild and weird sensations. Each man assurances will bring That preciously he rates me, And yet, while all my praises sing, ‘Most everybody hates me. — Washington Star. ——————————————— A Year to Plant Things. There is no more occasion for a food crisis, or a food scarcity, in the United States of America, in peace or war, says the Boston Transcript, than there is for an oxygen famine cn the suramit of Mount Washington. In one year, this country could, if it would, produce food enough to feed all the world, including China. We are amazed, nowadays, at the way in which Germany has stood the test of an almost complete dependence on her own resources in war. But do the people of America realize that the cornfield of the United States—the land devoted to the maize crop alone now, or the area which might be de- voted to it without taking an acre of ground away from any other food grain or from the needed pastures— is larger than the whole extent of Germany? Our wheat field is larger than England. Our pastures are greater than the area of Germany and Austria and France together. And not more than one-half the land which might be devoted to the raising of food is cultivatea for food. Cot- ton, tobacco, we can cut them down; corn we must have. But if we are hard pressed on win certain lines of food supply, it is actually and truly because our capabilities are so great, co boundless, that no one has ever considered that they would not be ad- equate to every emergency. We have had so great a food-field that we have not stopped to plant it. We have not considered our food—only our money, and the chance to make it. ; But the time has come to think about it. We are no doubt the Egypt of the world—the land te which all others can and do come for food—but before Egypt feeds the world, it must feed itself; nor must it cease eo feed the worla. On the face of the earth now, 20,000,000 men are removed from productive toil; they are de- stroying, not increasing, the world’s resources. Many more millions of men than that are at work keeping the fighters for civilization supplied with the munitions of war. The fields of France are ploughed with bomb shells instead of with the implements oi peace. England can never produce her own corn. And now we may have to stand side by side with these Na- tions, millions of our own with guns in their hands, and feed these of our own as well as the others whose cause of liberty is our cause, toc. With an immense emergency con- fronting us, it is the duty of every man and woman to turn farmer. Parks, lawns, meadows, scrub-land, should all be planted. The other day 2 woman reader sent the proof that in her back yard in Roxbury, by plant- ing two ten-cent packages of vegeta- ble seeds and four pounds of seed po- tatoes, she had grown in that back vard not only all the vegetables she had need of in her household, but had sold $30 worth of vegetables, includ- ing $6.30 worth of new potatoes 1n their season. What if every woman in New England who has a little plot of land about her house did that? And America, including New England, is the home of that most wonderful of all food plants, Indian corm. The and which gave this plant to Amer- ica never meant that there should be a “food crisis” here. Corn will produce four times as much as wheat per acre, and requires only one-tenth of the seed to sow it, and only one-third of the time from planting until it can be used for food. A woman may take a spade and a hoe and with a quart of seed can plant a back yard full of corn which in two months will bring her and her children their roasting ears. Our fathers fought their wars with the Indians on a handful of parched corn per day. We could fight anoth- er and a greater war on corn products alone if it were necessary. Now steady and sure again, And measure of stroke and step wekeep; Thus up and down we cast our grain; Sow well and you will gladly reap. Fall gently and still, good corn, Tie warm in thy earthy bed; And stand so yellow some morn, For beast and man must be fed. ——————————————— Rome’s Great Colosseum. The most imposing theatre ever erected by mortal hands, a grim house of death, consecrated by blood and tears, the Colosseum stands today a stupendous monument to Roman pride and degredation. Almost a third of a mile in circumference, it towers 157 feet up into the air, the original and monumental “play to the gallery” of popular approval. In 80 A. D. Em- peror Titus opened its history with a tremendous inaugural of a hundred days of “games,” in which men fought with other men and with wild animals, and no one knows the exact tale of the lives snuffed out on its bloodier sands to make a Roman holiday.” In the construction of the Colosse- um its builders adhered to the then new note of ‘superimposing the three orders—Doric, Ionic and Corinthian— an idea that has exerted a greater in- fluence upon the design of monumen- tal works than any other Roman in- novation. : But who thinks of that standing be- fore it today the golden Italian sun- shine glorifying every car and conjur- ing back from the dead past vivid spectacles of Roman holidays, full of noise and color, laughter and bloody agonies, or when liquid moonlight transfigures the classic ruin into a magic, where stalk the thin ghosts of saint and vestal, slave and emperor ? — National Geographic Magazine. ee i eae 1 German Atrocities Recounted. i Pomeroy Burton, a native of Bea- | ver county, this State, is delivering | addresses throughout the country, urging more thorough enlightenment of the people in regard to the Euro- pean war and the reasons why Amer- | ica has been forced into the great struggle against military autocracy. | Mr. Burton is manager of the London | Mail and other British newspapers. | Recently he visited Pittsburgh and | was interviewed at length for “The | Dispatch,” in which he covered much of the matter discussed in his address- | es. In the latter, however, the former | Beaver boy dwells upon a sentimental | timidity in regard to full exposure of | well authentic atrocities of the Ger- | man military, a censorship of such | matter in England and France which | has prevented Americans from gain- | ing a full appreciation of these hor- | rors. For instance, in his address at | the International Rotary Convention | which met at Atlanta, Ga., he said: | “If, coupled with this urgently needed campaign of enlightenment | there could be accomplished a radical | revision of the French and’ English censorship rules, permitting a much | freer flow of all kinds of war facts and war developments from the fight- | ing areas than is possible under exis- | ting conditions, the effect, I feel sare, | would be enormously beneficial to the | whole Allied cause. - «Tor instance, would it not be the | height of wisdom to reverse the poli- | cy which, even yet, conceals from the |! world the full truth about the incred- | ible atrocities in Belgium; atrocities | which, if possible, have been outdone | in Rumania, and which up to now | have not been publicly disclosed; | adopting a new policy which would ! release to the whole world the story i of appaling barbarities perpetrated by | the Germans there—many of them too horrible to describe from a public platform, but all of them serving to show the people here what they might | expect in the event of a German inva- sion of the United States; what sort | of enemy, in fact, it is that we are fighting; exposing the fiendish devil- try which caused thousands of poison- ed candies, filled with typhus germs, | to be dropped from German aero- | planes for Rumanian children tu pick | up and eat; the tragic story of how | the Queen’s little boy, her youngest, | picked up one of these poison-laden | sweets in her garden, ate it, sickened | almost at once, hovered between life | and death for weeks and finally died | in her arms, this story being written | by the Queen’s own pen and sent to a | lady who has recently returned to New York, and who has the etter | with her now; the shocking story of ! how brutal German soldiers forced gentle and refined Rumanian women to disrobe in public, and then drove them in groups through the streets; the story of Rumania’s pitiable plight today, with disease raging uncheel?”~7 for lack of surgeons, physic. = medical supplies; the blood-curdling details of scores of submarine sink- ings where non-combatant victims were ruthlessly shot down, or, when they escaped that horrible fate, were cast adrift without food or water, in small boats on the high seas, to die one after the other from madness and from thirst; and in a different category, the thrilling stories of those combats in the air which are *iking place every day over the fighting lines in France, stories of courage and dar- ing the like of which have never been equaled in the widest realm of fiction; the countless stories of noble heroism, of human sacrifice and suffering for a great cause, which show in their true light the details of modern warfare, so persistently concealed, and so ur- ! gently needed to stir the people's pulse and to make them fezl and real- ize the truth and the full truth about | this gigantic struggle between might and right on the one side and might alone on the other. ’ “Reverse this policy of secrecy, let the people at home have these and other true pictures of the var as it re- ally is, and I firmly believe the re: sponse would be electrical—the peo- ple of the United States would rouse as one man to their task, fired with patriotic ferver born of a full and true understanding of what this war means to them and their future, of | the individual obligations it imposes upon those at home as well as upon those who are constantly facing death in the firing line for the sake of those at home.” Not Well Enough Known. We cannot accomplish much in the treat- ment of dyspepsia. however much we may temporarily relieve its symptoms, SO long as the blood remains impure. It is a fact not well enough known by people general- ly that when the stomach, liver and other digestive organs are supplied with impure blood, the digestive process is impaired, so as to cause faintness and loss of anpe- tite and sometimes a deranged state of intestines, and in general all the symp- toms of dyspepsia. Hoods's Sarsaparilla is of great service in dyspepsia, because it purifies tke blood, making it the healthy stimulus the diges- | tive organs must have for the proper ver- formance of their duties. Hood's Sarsa- parilla, especially if taken in a little hot water, has “a magic touch” in dyspepsia. Get it today. 62-27 — Honor Buttons Presented to Rejected Volunteers. Upon our entrance into the world conflict, prompt steps were taken by navy recruiting stations at New York to protect men of patriotic motives from being confused with spineless slackers because of their civilian at- tire. Buttons bearing the inscrip- tion: “I have volunteered for the na- vy—have you?” were issued for per- sons who applied for enlistment but, because of physical imperfections, could not be accepted. When pre- sented, the badge is accompanied by a letter which establishes the holder’s right to wear it. —Popular Mechan- ics Magazine. — ——>Put your ad. in the “Watch- THE RESTLESS SEX. Robert W. Chamber’s New Novel Be- gins in July Cosmopolitan. “The Restless Sex” is the title of Robert W. Chamber’s new novel, the | first installment of which begins in July Cosmopolitan. After a short foreword, “The Rest- less Sex” gets away to a quick typic- al Chambers start. “About a decade before the Great Administration began, a little girl wag born,” are the exact words in which Mr. Chambers introduces his latest heroine, Stephanie Quest. The father of little Stephanie was an intinerant actor; the mother, an uneducated and very young girl who | by night. tinted photographs by day and did | fancy skating at an ice palace in Utica : From this unpromising start, and from a scrdid early child- hocd, Stephanie emerges like one of | those rare, beautiful flowers that. sometimes takes root and flourishes in the mire of poverty. It is too early in the story to fore- | cast the ultimate destiny of the char- | acters, but if performance holds true ! to promise, “The Restless Sex” will | surely add another laurel to Mr. i Chamber’s already crowded wreath. | In the United States only one | farm in seven, of more than twenty | acres, now supports sheep, and conse- | quently we import nearly a third of a | billion pounds of wool yearly. N00 Pi ES ] CAS “AND CHORUS Wo ir Niky NSfa)ty.N TIME TO GET THAT SEASON TICKET SAME OLD PRICE $2.00 rere ry Since the very beginning of the automobile industry, when Michelin invented the pneu- matic automobile tire, Miche- lin Tires have been famous for their durability, GEO. A. BEEZER, Agent, Bellefonte, Pa. Yet, to-day, you can buy Michelins for less than many other makes. Come in and let us tell you how you can save money by using Michelins. Michelin Casings are just as good as Michelin Red Inner Tubes, which are oftén «imitated in color but never in quality. er FOURS. Touring from $ 940.00 to $ 985.00 Roadster a 930.00 ** 985.00 Everyweather “1,140.00 ** 1,185.00 Chassis fs 850.00 ** 885.00 North Water St. man.” ANNI ITT STAN DS FOR EFFICIENCY. Effective March 1st, Prices Advance DURABILITY. SIXES. Touring from $1,180.00 to $1,250.00 Roadster “7 1170.00 * 1,250,00 Everyweather °° 1,380.00 :% 1,450.00 Chassis 1,090.00 °° 1,150.00 Heaslet Victoria Top 1.450.00 °° 1,575.00 ‘ “Exten. * 1,450.00 1,500.00 GEORGE A. BEEZER, AGENT, 61-tf. BELLEFONTE, PA. HI rr meammmearcaeth Honest Clothes Priced Honestly AT THE FAUBLE STORES. We will surely surprise and please you with the values we are showing. We will prove to you that The Best Clothes made in America are here, and our prices will positively show you a big saving. Allegheny St. BELLEFONTE, PA. 58-4 Lyon & Company’s July Clearances bringiwonderful values. : =Wel still have a full line of colors in stripestand floral designs in voiles that we sold so fast at 10c. The bettter quality voiles that sold at 20 and 25 cents now must go at 14c. Everything in wash fabrics must be sold now at great reductions. CHILDREN’S HOSE. One lot of Mercerized Hose for infants in light blue, pink and sand shades, sizes, 41-2 to 6. included qualities 25 cents, our price 12 1-2c. Ladies’ Out Size Silk Hose. One lot of black Silk Hose, out size, regular values 90c¢, our price 30c. WHITE SALE. We are going to continue our White Sale of Under Muslins, Night Gowns, Drawers, Petticoats, Corset Covers, En- velope Chemise, Camisoles, at less than cost to make them. White Shoes. All our White Summer Shoes for Ladies and Children, in high and low, at less than cost to manufacture. ; Also Men’s Fine Dress and Work Shoes at greatly reduced prices. Come in and see what great bargains we have. J AAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAA AA RR A I I I NN NNN AAPA PAPI PIII Lyon & Co. -- Bellefonte. EE
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