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Bellefonte, Pa., October 5, 1917.
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A Prophet of 1852.
That American statesmanship long
ago foresaw the present world strug-
gle between democracy and autocrocy
and urge an alliance of America and
England to preserve the principles of
representative government is interest-
ingly brought out in the reprinting by
the Manufacturers’ Record of portions
of Henry Winter Davis’ book, “The
War of Ormuzd and Ahriman,” pub-
lished in 1852.
The Maryland statesman saw in the
failure of the revolutionary movement
of 1848 in Europe a menace to the fu-
ture security of the United States.
Autocracy, triumphant over the liber-
al movement, was enthroned in Rus-
sia, Austria and France. England
alnoe, where parliamentary reform
had won its battle, stood firm against
the rising waves of absolutism on the
continent. Ormuzd, the good in hu-
manity, .must be defended against
Ahriman, the bad, which Mr. Davis,
looking into the future, saw sweeping
over the world. The situation, he
held, called for an Anglo-American al-
liance of offense and defense.
He argued “that this power (autoc-
racy) must from necessity, on princi-
ple and by inclination be devoted to
the ruin of free governments; that it
is absolutely inconsistent with the ex-
istence of the English monarchy and
the American Republic as free popu-
lar representative governments, and
that they will be compelled, sooner or
later, to defend by force of arms their
freedom and independence against the
intrigues, and diplomacy, the legisla-
tion, the hostilities of the despotic
owers of Europe. That it is, there-
ore, the part of wisdom to be prepar-
ed for the advent of the inevitable day,
and ready to seize the first favorable
conjuncture to strike in common the
first blow, and so to strike that it may
be the last.”
Those words were written 65 years
ago, but not one of them, says the
Kansas City Star, needs to be chang-
ed to make them a true prophecy of
the event. Continuing, the writer ar-
es:
“That the question we have to de-
cide is—not whether we will live in
peace and repose, or gratuitously go
on in a crusade for liberty throughout
the world, but—the absolute certainty
of a contest with the combined powers
of despotism being apparent—shall
we wait until those powers, having ut-
terly rooted out free governments
from Europe shall turn their might
for our destruction, alone and without
allies; or shall we now seize the first
opportunity of a decisive outbreak in
Eeurope to aid the cause of freedom
with arms and money, fight our battle
by the armies of Kuropean revolu-
tionists on the field of Europe and by
the aid of our allies forever settle the
question between freedom and despot-
ism? The only alteratives are war, in
Europe now, with allies—and war
hovosfter on our own soil, without al-
es.
_ England, Mr. Davis argued, was the
only obstacle that stood between au-
tocracy and its dominion of the world.
He could not then see that France and
Russia would become democracies, but
it was plain to him that autocracy and
democracy never could exist together,
either in Europe or the world. He
wrote: “So long as England exists,
resplendent in all the glories of liber-
ty, despotism can find no safe and qui-
et abode on the Continent of Europe.
* * * How and when the assault
may be made is—for the prophet or
the historian. I claim to be neither.
* * * Jtis enough to show the will,
the existence of a deeply seated plan
of policy—hitherto pursued -consist-
ently, resolutely and unfalteringly *
* * guiding the power of the
mightiest military monarchies of Eu-
rope—and that England stands in the
way of that policy.” In another place
he says: “England must either be the
accomplice, the victim or the conquer-
or of the allied despots.”
That the author foresaw the nature
and extent of the struggle that was to
come is evidenced by the warning he
gave his countrymen of that day not
to enter it lightly or unprepared. He
wrote:
“We must be ready to make costly
sacrifices of blood and treasure. Des-
potism will deliver terrible battle ere
it loose its grip on the neck of man,
and the next battle will be the final
and decisive one. It will be no pass-
ing cloud; but neither sun nor stars
shall appear for many days after its
fury bursts over the world; and they
that love fair weather and smooth
seas should pray that that day be put
far from them.”
It was put far from the day of the
statesman who saw it coming, but it
came, and the forces are the forces he
foresaw—autocracy against democra-
cy. The elements of the alignment
are different than he could foresee,
but its fundamentals are unchanged.
The hour being come, it is for democ-
racy, having struck its blow in com-
mon as he urged, “so to strike that it
may be the last.”
Pennsylvania Soldiers to Get a Vote.
Pennsylvanians in military service
outside the State will vote November
6 under the same plans of sending
commissioners to where the troops are
stationed as were followed out last
year.
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Woods was instructed by the Gover-
nor to make the plans. The vote com-
missioners will be appointed later by
the Governor. They will go to almost
any point in America where troops are
stationed and probably to Europe also.
No provision was made for voting in
the primaries.—Reformatory Record.
What Adam Missed.
At the close of his talk before the
Sunday school the parson invited
questions. A tiny boy, with white,
eager face, at once held up his hand.
“Please, sir,” said he, “why was
Adam never a baby?” .
The parson coughed in doubt as to
what answer to give, but a little girl
the eldest of several brothers and sis-
ters, came promptly to his aid.
“Please, sir,” she answered, smart-
ly, “there was nobody to nuss him.”
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THE DEAR OLD FLAG.
(Tune— ‘The Old Gray Mare.”)
The Dear Old Flag, she’s just what
used to be,
Just as she ought to be, just as she’ll ever
be.
The dear old flag is just what she used to
be
she
Many long years ago.
Many long years ago, many
ago, (D. C.)
long years
The brave old flag, she’ll float over land
and sea,
Emblem of Liberty, fearless of Germany;
The brave old flag is just what she used to
be,
Many long years ago.
Many long years ago, many long years
ago, (D. C.)
War Jobs for Middle Aged Men.
London.—If you read the news sto-
ries of the German air raids on Lon-
don, you saw prominent mention of
London’s special constables.
And there arises a story of interest
to every one of the hundreds of thous-
ands of men in the cities of the Unit-
ed States, who are too old to come un-
der the American draft and are doing
their bitin the war by joining the
Home Defense Leagues now organiz-
ed as police adjuncts in all the larger
cities.
The Special Constabulary is Lon-
don’s Home Defense League.
It numbered on July 19, the latest
date at which figures are available,
19,250 men. 1 believe the Home De-
fense League of New York city, the
largest in the United States, numbers
some 8,000.
London’s force, however, was no
new thing, although this was the first
time in its history it ever was called
upon to perform anything like its
present variety and duration of work.
I am told that the last time it was
called to duty was during the Chartist
riots of the ’40’s or ’50’s.
It sprang into action within seven
days after war was declared on Aug-
ust 4, 1914, although within 24 hours
after the war mobilization order went
out its head, Sir Edward Ward, K. C.
B., K. C. V. O., had been in his office
in Scotland House, on the Embank-
ment, getting its wheels into move-
ment.
Sir Edward is chiefly known in the
United States through his work as
transport officer in the Boer war. “The
greatest transport expert since Mo-
ses’ was what they called him in
South Africa. More recently, he has
been permanent Under-Secretary of
State at the War Office. His title in
the constabulary is chief staff officer,
and he is theoretically at the com-
mand of Sir Edward Henry, Commis-
sioner of Police for the Metropolitan
Area, although practically the Special
Constabulary carries on as an entity
in itself.
Under Sir Edward Ward are 1,050
officers of the Special Constabulary,
of which all are volunteers, serving
without pay. These include command-
ers (positions which are analogous to
the inspectors’ offices in the New York
police department), assistant com-
manders, chief inspectors, inspectors
and sub-inspectors. There are also
sergeants, who, however, are not
reckoned in the London Special Con-
stabulary as officers.
The rest of the 19,250 special con-
stables of the force are men from all
classes of society.
They include even a score of men of
the nobility, comprising the headquar-
ters’ central detachment, who have of-
fered themselves for, and are doing,
common patrol duty as special consta-
bles. Most of these are on night
shifts, patrolling the gardens of Buck-
ingham Palace from 9 p. m. to 9 a. m.
The remainder are engaged in all
the variety of duties which usually
fall upon regular policemen.
A good number of them are patroll-
ing night and day the “vulnerable”
spots of London, its waterworks, etc.
—work which in the United States is
usually given over to the National
Guard. Night and day these volun-
teers pace their beats, and many a
story of heroism lies in their lonely
watches. Drowning men have been
fished out of dark canals, runaways
have been stopped and armed and des-
perate criminals have been overpower-
ed by these dauntless volunteers of the
special constabulary.
Yet there are no medals to cry their
heroism into public notice.
Only one medal is given by the spe-
cial constabulary, and that is for
“long service.”
It is a small bronze badge, awarded
to men who have performed 150 du-
tes, a duty being defined as four
hours’ work. Sometimes it is pinned
on in the presence of two or three
companies of the special constabulary,
but more often it is awarded in com-
parative privacy.
And of the nearly 20,000 men now
in the force, 11,000 have been awarded
the long service medal.
It is a mute, ingloripus job, this job
of being a special constable. And for
that, all the more glory to the men
who have shouldered its burdens
without hope of reward of any sort!
Perhaps the fashion may be started in
America.
A probation period of 20 duties is
imposed at one’s entrance into the
Special Constabulary, and until it is
served, no uniform is allotted. This,
at the prescribed limit of four duties
a week (or 16 hours’ service a week),
is a five weeks’ period of probation,
during which the probationer is given
only a police whistle, a truncheon and
an armlet with which to identify him-
self to passersby as a special consta-
ble. This armlet, of black and white
stripes, worn on the left forearm, is
seen everywhere in the streets at city-
wide emergencies, such as air raids,
which necessitate the calling out of
the entire special constabulary force.
Whenever you see the special consta-
bles out in force, it’s a good sign there
is a raid coming.
When the probationer has served
out his twenty duties, he is equipped
with a special constable’s uniferm,
which is exactly like that of the met-
ropolitan police, the helmet with chin
strap, like those you've seen so often
in pictures of London “bobbies.”
There is, however, a force of 7,762
of the same 20,000 men whe are not
put in uniforms. They are known as
firms’ own men, and are sworn in to
guard the plants where they are em-
ployed. They, like the rest of the
specials, have all the powers of poliee-
men when called to duty, but are
never equipped with more than arm-
lets, truncheons and whistles.
The personnel of the Special Con-
stabulary keeps changing with a fair
degree of rapidity, due to the military
needs. From 12,000 to 14,000 men
have passed through its ranks into the
British army since the war started.
Their places are rapidly filled, how-
ever, and the Special Constabulary
still aids the police in the huge area
outside the city of London proper,
which is covered by the metropolitan
police, or an area defined roughly as
within a radius of 16 miles from the
city.
They are divided into lettered com-
panies, as are the metropolitan police,
Company A, of the specials working
in co-operation with Company A of
the metropolitan police. (Letters I,
0, Q, U, and Z are missing from the
i list of company letters, by the way.
: Nobody knows exactly why. It’s
| merely “always been that way.”
They have been of steadily increas-
ing assistance to the metropolitan po-
lice, as the war has kept cutting into
the ranks of the regular force. And
this, I think, is prophetic of the Home
Defense League of the United States.
——The recent erection of a bana-
na-flour factory in Tabasco, Mexico,
has aroused great enthusiasm among
agriculturists of that State, accord-
ing to a news item appearing in the
August issue of El Universal. The
planting of bananas there has been
neglected of late, and the establish-
ment of this factory will revivify the
industry. The equipment was pur-
chased in the United States.
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HAS NOT GONE UP
IN PRICE
EVERYTHING
All the goods we advertise here are selling at prices prevailing
this time last seascn.
MINCE MEAT.
We are now making our MINCE MEAT and keeping it fully up to our
usual high standard; nothing cut out or cut short and are selling it at our
former price of 15 Cents Per Pound.
Fine Celery, Oranges, Grape Fruit, Apricots, Peaches, Prunes, Spices,
Breakfast Foods, Extracts, Baking Powders, Soda, Cornstarch. The whole
line of Washing Powders, Starches, Blueing and many other articles are
selling at the usual prices.
COFFEES, TEAS AND RICE.
On our Fine Coffees at 25c¢, 28¢, 30c, 35¢c and 40c, there has been no change
in price on quality of goods and no change in the price of TEAS. Rice has
not advanced in price and can be used largely as a substitute for potatoes.
All of these goods are costing us more than formerly but we are doing our
best to Hold Down the Lid on high prices, hoping for a more favorable
market in the near future.
LET US HAVE YOUR ORDER
and we will give you FINE GROCERIES at reasonable prices and give
you good service.
SECHLER & COMPANY,
Bush House Block, vv 501 = =. « Bellefonte, Pa
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Shoes.
Shoes.
YEAGERS SHOE STORE
I HAVE A FULL LINE OF
LADIES SHOES
to sell at $3.00. Made of Gun
‘Metal and Cabaretta leather
(Cabaretta meaning sheep skin).
The styles are lace and button,
high and low heels. Many of them
are on the English walking shoe
style.
These shoes are not of a quality
that I can conscientiously recom-
ing $5.00 will not purchase a pair
of Ladies Shoes made to-day, that
is absolutely solid.
1 I have these shoes for the people
that do not have the money to
purchase a good pair.
Yours for a square deal,
YEAGER'S,
The Shoe Store for the Poor Man.
Bush Arcade Bldg. 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA.
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THE POTTER-HOY
HARDWARE COMPANY
Has Solved the Heating Problem in Bellefonte
Peerless Caloric Furnace
Agency for the
A Furnace that will heat your entire building at a minimum
cost, requires only one register and does away with all piping—
this reduces the cost in every way.
Churches and School Houses, as the temperature can be chang-
ed from zero to 70 degrees in one hour. It is revolutionizing the
heating system, and will be worth while, before you contract
for any other kind of heating plant to first consult The Potter-
Hoy Hardware Company of Bellefonte, who will furnish you
full particulars about this new solution of our heat problem.
It is especially suited for
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Positively No Money Asked for Until the Furnace
Has Proven Satisfactory. Write or call on
The Potter-Hoy Hardware Co.,
Bellefonte, Pa.
Centre County Must
Not be a Laggard.
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Centre County has a brilliant record for men sent to
the front in the cause of a World Democracy.
E must not permit this record to be denied
because of our failure to provide our share
of the funds to maintain them comfortably there.
THE SECOND LIBERTY LOAN
is now ready for subscription. Centre county sub-
scribed $600,000.00 of the First Loan and our
duty will be to subscribe for approximately $800,
000.00 of this Loan.
Will You be One of the Subscribers ?
A Government Bond is the safest investment you
can make.
We will receive your subscriptions now. Two
per cent. must be paid when application is made.
18 per cent. will be due about Nov. 15th and 40
per cent. on or about Dec. 14th and Jan. 15th.
This Bank Offers Safety for your
Savings and every possible service.
CENTRE COUNTY BANKING CO.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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