BY P. GRAY MEEK. m— som— INK SLINGS. It has reached the point where | President Wilson says something and all of the civilized world shouts Amen! : — Centre county has done fine in the campaign to aid Y. M. C. A. war work and is going to do finer before the week is over. —Lord Northcliffe’s fine sayings about our country lost their force when he used them to attack his own, which is our ally. —Let us get unanimously and wholeheartedly into the spirit of sup- porting the government. The sooner we do that the sooner the war will be over. —The new plant of the Titan Met- al company is assuming proportions that give rise to the hope that Belle- fonte will regard that a lucky day ‘on which the industry was anchored here. —On and after December 15th no man between the ages of 21 and 31 will be permitted to voluntarily enlist. If you are on the conscript list you will have to take things as they come after that date. = —Talking about Christmas pres- ents why wouldn’t a dozen of eggs, a pound of bacpn or sugar or a bushel of potatoes be the real thing? They are more to be desired than diamonds or seal skins these days. —Troop L is going back to the bor- der again and will probably spend the winter watching that wily old bandit, Villa, who seems to be able to “come back” oftener than any other celeb- rity we have ever heard of. — The death of Senator James P. McNichol removes one of the best known of the Republican leaders of the Commonwealth and leaves Senator Penrose without the support of a most powerful ‘ally in Philadelphia. With “Sunny Jim” gone there is like- ly to be a realignment of the Repub- lican forces in Philadelphia. — While the men of Troop L will be keenly disappointed at the order that ‘sends them to the Border instead of to France they are all soldiers and will realize that they can serve their country just as efficiently in one place as another. Besides, what’s the dif- ference ‘Whether it’s bush Or “over the top” of a trench, ; Te give the Kaiser or Villa a push. Or cuss in Spanish or French. ; —At a conference of Republican leaders of Pennsylvania the other day, when possible candidates of their par- ty for Governor, were under discs- gion the name of Judge Henry C. Quigley, of Centre county, was includ- ed among the ones considered. It is becoming more and more apparent that Senator Sproul will not be the choice of the anti-administration fac- tion and while ‘it is remote there is nevertheless a possibility of the honor of leading the forlorn hope falling to the young Centre county jurist. —The trout editor of the “Watch- man” has a good little trout story on the local page of this issue that con- cludes as follows: “If that wasn’t trout play, what was it?” Speaking for most of those who read the story we imagine their answer to this ques- tion will be in three words, the first will be a; the second will begin with d and the third with 1. However ac- curate our guess may be with refer- ence to your conclusion in the matter we stand for the veracity of our trout editor because we must all pull to- gether when we try to put good ones over. —The very extraordinary series of articles on Bellefonte’s milk supply in particular and the use of milk in general, which have been running in the “Watchman” since August, are concluded with this issue. On this page you will find a summary of them. Tt will be especially interesting to those who have followed the series and carries much of general informa- tion to others who have not. It is quite within the range of propriety to claim that probably no other general weekly newspaper published has ever eriginated and treated a subject with such scientific accuracy as this one has been treated by the “Watchman.” Its preparation has involved much la- bor and considerable expense neither of which the “Watchman” regrets if the articles have served the purpose of arousing the interest of its readers to a matter that should seriously con- cern them. —Probably you smiled to yourself if you read the following paragraph in this column in our issue of Octo- ber 26th: It isn’t a far look into the fu- ture of this country to see the time when the two old parties will be driven together to main- tain the balance of power against the combination ef elements that will attempt to steal into control under the growing Socialistic movement. If you did read and did not re- gard the paragraph as a seriously prophetic statement let us call your attention to the fact that already the American Federation of Labor, at its meeting in Buffalo last week, for the first time in its history made the declaration that it proposes to enter politics next year as an organization. And that declaration means more to this country than we are able to fore- see mow. It is a beginning in the eventual fulfillment of the prophecy we have made. And it is not a mat- ter to be thought of lightly by any- ‘ene. “gver the top” of a cactus ‘many if not all such crimes in the fu- | bids “cruel and unusual punishment,” ‘protection of that mandate. But care _VOL. 62 &- | Punishment of Alien Enemies. | The proclamation of the President putting additional restraints on alien enemies was issued none too soon. The frequency of accidents in muni- tion plants, of fires in storage ware- houses and damage in property in- tended for war purposes forced the suspicion that these things were not the results of accident so much as they were fruits of the sinister work of alien enemies. A few weeks ago we referred to a group of calamities in which hundreds of automobiles were destroyed, thousands of food an- imals consumed and much property of: munition manufacturers demolished, not to mention the considerable loss of life, resultant. They could hardly have been accidental. Since a long period before this country became involved in the war the German government has had a vast army of fiendish agents operat- ing in various places. Under the di- rect supervision of the German Am- bassador and apparently with the full sanction of the German Emperor, these wolves in human form commit- ted depredations of the most atrocious character. It is true that the author- ities at Washington took steps in the direction of preventing these crimes, but they were not sufficiently drastic. There are reasons to believe that be- fore von Bernstorf left the country his participation in crime was known. Yet he was given protection on his homeward journey when he ought to have been tried for murder and exe- cuted. Theinew regulations now being for- mulated by the Department of Jus- tice at Washington, under the direc- tion of President Wilson, will prevent ture, if they are rightly enforced. And they should be rightly enforced. The fundamental law of the land for- and even such fiends are under the should be taken that the penalty is imposed whenever an alien enemy is caught in criminal action and the nearer the form approaches the cruel the better. “Most criminals are cow- ards and whea-it becomes known that punishment that fits will follow, there will be less crime of the sort. — Secretary of War Baker has been observing our troops, both at home and abroad closely, and is en- tirely satisfied. “They have shown themselves worthy of the best tradi- tions of our armies,” he writes, and nobody could express higher praise. Effect of Italian Advances. It would be difficult to exaggerate the importance of the reversal of con- ditions on the Italian front. As the result of nearly two years of heroic struggles General Codorna had made such progress as to justify expecta- tions of a march against Vienna ear- ly in the spring. But in a few weeks all these advantages have been lost and the important cities of Italy are menaced. But General Codorna is not to blame for this change of con- ditions nor is the courage of the Ital- ian troops to be questioned. If any- body is blamable it is the manage- ment of the English and French forces on the Western front or con- ditions which were unavoidable in the circumstances. It is the misfortune of the allies that Germany can shift an army from one front to another over night while weeks are required to accomplish a like result on the other side. When things got so far wrong on the Rus- sian front that there was no need for a great force there vast German le- gions were transferred to the Italian front. Three weeks have elapsed since then and the necessity for rein- forcement of the Italian army has been obvious but no French or Eng- lish troops have been moved or if they have the destination has net been reached. Why this is true has not been revealed. Probably it was im- possible and possibly it was because of disagreement as to the wisdom of the action. But in any event noth- ing has been done. A great many military experts be- lieve that the war must be won on what is now known as the Western front. A good many others have freely expressed the opinion that air craft will achieve the victory while still others contend that the German submersibles must be stopped in or- der to guarantee the defeat of the Germans. But as a matter of fact the continued successes of the Italian army would have contributed largely to the result for the reason that Aus- tria would have very soon applied for separate peace. It was the palpable duty of the allies to render such help to the Italian army as was possible and at least kept it supplied with arms and munitions of war. — The fellow who started the re- port that Secretary Tumulty had been arrested for treason is to be pitied. He’s not crazy, exactly. One must have brains to go crazy. But a fee- ‘pointed since August, 1914. ble mind can exist on nothing. Lord Northeliffe’s Discourtesy. Lord Northcliffe has declined a seat in the British Cabinet and con- sidering his ambitions and activities that is surprising. He is a very wealthy man and has acquired most if not all of his money by intelligent enterprise. But since the beginning of the world war he has been a good deal of a nuisance. An esteemed con- temporary says that “he is the Wil- liam Randolph Hearst of England.” That is hardly fair to him, however, for he is really a man of great abili- ty. It would be fitter to compare him with Theodore Roosevelt. He imagines that he knows it all and that to disagree with him is a crime against the country. he is like a bull in a china shop and everybody knows what that means. When the war first began North- cliffe attacked the Asquith ministry in his London Times and several oth- er great newspapers and forced the appointment of Sir Herbert Kitchen- er as Minister of War. But Kitchen- er had hardly gotten settled in the place when Northcliffe turned his bat- teries upon the hero of Kartoum and almost forced him to resign. Public sentiment was too strong for Kitch- ener, however, and the attacks failed until after his death. But he did force Asquith out of office ‘and he did force Sir Edward Carson in, though nothing could have been more harm- ful, and it may safely be said that Northcliffe was responsible for every cabinet minister who has been ap- Moreover Lord Northcliffe reveal ed a want of delicacy in his declina- tion of the office tendered to him. He mais it an occasion to attack the ad- ministration of the Premier chosen by himself and that was a discourtesy | of which nobody but Roosevelt woul be capable. In complimenting the United States and Canada for energy | and enthusiasm they have shown in getting ready for their part in the war, he might have omitted the com- parison which reflects on Great Brit- ain, particularly as criticism from such a source would hearten the ene- mies of the United States, England and Canada: ~All 31 all Northeliffe | vin hasn't hurt Lloyd George half as much as he has hurt himself by this uncalled for attack. Bill Hohenzollern will be lucky if he gets out of it as easily as Nick Romanoff escaped. Nick is in banishment but he has both ears in their usual place and everybody knows what might have happened to them. Important Movement in the South. Some of the progressive men of the South are about entering upon an en- terprise which may prove of the high- est value to the country whether the war ends soon or otherwise. meeting held in Savannah, Georgia, the other day, committees were ap- pointed to promote the development of the live stock industry. Land own- ers representing 18,000,000 of acres were present and they revealed the highest measure of enthusiasm. The plan is to werk “from the peninsula of Florida up through the South At- lantic States to Maryland and West Virginia,” and the process to organ- ize local associations in each State to work in harmony with each other to the common purpose. The South has not been noted for progress and this movement is there- fore the more significant. It means diversified interests in a section which has hitherto depended entirely too much upon a singe industry, that of cotton growing. It is true that there has never been a time when cot- ton growing offered as enticing pros- pects. The price is high and the mar- kets open with the promise of long continued prosperity. But the animal industry is equally alluring in every respect. In fact the vast area of idle land in the South practically guaran- tees success in such a line of endeav- In other words pursue their purpose of t and with sufficient vigor. At a STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. ~_ BELLEFONTE, PA.. NOVEMBER 23, 1917. 4 | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —One hundred thousand dollars is to be spent in the development of coal fields al- ready tapped in the Moshannon region. —Crushed ‘by a manipulator, Harry Mi- chaels, aged ‘thirty-seven rs, met: im- stant death in the wheel rolling mill at 3 the Standard steel ‘works, Lewistown, om : Friday. ary v . —Charged ‘with coHecting $500 in a 3 club scheme and not turning it over or making a return to her customers Mrs. Kate Hvilhock, of Shippensburg, has beem held for court. X —Rupturing an artery in trying to lift a heavy basket of cabbage, Calvin C. Mil- ler, aged sixty-seven, a retired Pennsylva- nia railroad engineer, is dead at Camp NO. 46, mn —— Philadelphia Has a Chance. It is conservatively estimated that -25,000 legal votes cast for the candi- dates of the Town Meeting party of Philadelphia at the recent election were thrown out in order to secure a ous Vare machine. If that be true it affords substantial proof that the people of Philadelphia are not as bad as they are reputed to be. In fact it 'is strong evidence that a majority of the voters have taken the first step in a movement to rescue the munici- pal government from the corrupt con- trol that has made that city a re- proach wherever its methods are known. It is now left for them to improvement completion. wie corrupt ballots carried the Republi- can candidate for Governor in. 1910 to an election. In demanding recom- pense for their services leaders of the Vare faction openly boasted of their iniquity. It is equally well known that at every election since that from fifty to a hundred thousand illegal votes were cast for the Republican candidates for State and municipal offices in what is known as “South Philadelphia.” But so long as both factions of the Republican machine shared on satisfactory terms the spoils of their corrupt victories, it was impossible to prevent the crimes or punish the criminals. Now that the rogues have fallen out honest pol- itics ha a chance. There comes from Philadelphia a Promise, that an investigation of the charges of fraud will be made now. 1at will be an important second step he movement for improvement. It an hardly be possible to conceal the facts if the inquiry is made earnestly 1 Time and ‘1abor will be necessary to compass the result and there will be a good deal of expense attending the enter- prise. . But if -the people of Philadel- phia really want clean government they will supply the needful in all di- rections and not only defeat the con- piracy but punish the conspirators. iladelphia has an opportunity to até herself. We sincerely hope she will not neglect it. The Literary Digest, Novem- ber 3, calls attention to the result of the investigations of Dr. Dickson, Stanford Medical School, on the dan- ger of poisoning from vegetables canned by the cold-pack methods and repeats this warning that all vegeta- bles and fruits thus canned, should be boiled before using. This same arti- cle was published in the “Watchman” October 12, and it is gratifying to have this assurance that‘ we have again struck the trail, earlier even than the distinguished editor of the Digest. County. President Wilson recently issued a proclamation which when put into ef- fect will virtually mean the rounding up of every enemy alien in this coun- try and either confine them to seggre- gated districts or put them in deten- tion camps. As a preliminary step toward carrying out the President’s proclamation all unnaturalized citi- zens will have to leave the District of Columbia, and will have to keep cer- tain distances away from big railroad shipping centres, munition plants, public utilities, ete. But this is not all, secret service agents either have done so or are now making a survey of the country and not only gathering information about enemy aliens but getting a line on all pro-German propagandists and sympathizers. In fact such agents have been in Bellefonte and Centre county quite recently and while no ac- tion has been taken in any way as a result of their visit it is strongly ru- mored that a number of people in Bellefonte and throughout the county are under suspicion and will be under or and the high prices of meat as well as the bi-products of live stock is as- | surance for the future. i This movement in the South is of | interest, moreover, to all sections of | the country and most parts of the world. The animal industry has been too long neglected, with the logical result that meat is becoming a luxu- ' ry too expensive for any, other than wealthy people, to indulge in. To most minds meat is an essential food for those engaged in manual labor and the long continued and continu- ing decrease in the supply has become a subject of wide spread alarm. Itis to be hoped, therefore, not only that the movement in the South will meet with abundant success but that it will spread in all sections of the country. There is not as. much idle land every- where as in the South but there is some everywhere. — The prison warden who threat- ens to spank the suffragettes who threaten to go on a hunger strike shows ‘a proper appreciation of things. No other punishment could so completely fit the crime. close surveillance in the future. While it is hardly thought that any | one in this section will commit an act | it is the! of violence or destruction spreading of such pro-German propa- ganda as the story circulated last week when the conservation train was here that its object was to find out what the housekeeper had in her cel- lar so that the government could con- fiscate part of it, that this same gov- ernment is determined to break up, and it is only right it should. ——Of course we want team work in conducting the war. But military experts should be chosen to work mil- itary problems. Nobody sends his watch to a blacksmith to be repaired and nobody has ever made a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. —Don’t be surprised if the scarcity |-of labor occasioned by the war precip- itates the tractor in many Centre county barns. Very few people can visualize the conditions that may con- front us a year hence. —The Italian back-bone seems to be stiffening again. majority for the candidates of the in- “It is widely and well known that ria in a cubic centimeter of and the conditions under which it has Hill, Harrisburg. —Ruth McGregor, the four year eld daughter of Robert McGregor, of Flem- ington, Clinton county, while handling a loaded revolver Friday morning, acciden- tally shot herself in the left arm, near the shoulder. —The Young Men’s Democratic club, of Williamsport, is preparing a service flag to be placed in the front of the club im honor of the members who are in the serv- ice of their country. The flag will contaim forty stars. —Four dusky, hold-up artists, two of them women, who stole $86 from David Ryall, of Greensburg, were sentenced te three years in the western penitentiary. ‘One got an extra term for carrying con- cealed weapons. _ —Miehael Cuneo, who for twenty-five years has conducted a fruit store at Greensburg, is proud of the fact that he has fourteen nephews fighting the Teu- ‘tons. Several are in France or Italy and the first article. The dairies ; the Others in camps in this country. named and no comment then made ex- —Street Inspector, William McCormick, Ne Aa : SEE of Connellsville, said he never saw se ce : 3: of. Lonne ; pt what could be construed fr : many turkeys in his life, following his re- A Final Word About Our Milk Supply. = In the “Watchman,” August 10th, it was announced that, beginning August 17th, a series of five arti- cles on the relation of bacteria to milk would be published. It was later found impossible to cov- er the subject satisfactorily, as local conditions demanded, in less than ten or twelve articles and these have been presented, with previous annhounce- ment, at intervals during the past three months. ue iad Last May, samples of milk were se- cured from the dairies supplying Bellefonte and the number of bacte- f each was determined in the laboratory of bae- teriology, The Pennsylvania | College, and the result pu EE aay a Lp ‘ the standard for milk Suggestel by turn from a hunting trip through Somer- the National Milk Commission Pub- | get county. He bought a flock of about lished in the same article. ‘You were ‘two dozen birds for twenty-five cents then told exactly what number of bac- | pound. : teria. were found in the. milks you are using and wha ber should be regarded as a ~~ —Roy M. Hanna, a farmer of Casta ‘| township, has discovered that unknown “individuals have visited his corn field om hs ne i the Milk mission, | different occasions and husked corn and ‘As the bacterial count: e mean- carried it away. An investigation shows woo y bs ‘of ‘| that more than fifty bushels have disap- | peared. y —Six néw cases of smallpox have de- veloped in Leidy township, Clinton coun- ty. ‘The officials of the State Board ef Health have taken charge of the situation. The schools have closed and all residents within .a radius of five miles have been vaccinated. : ing to the average person, the : these articles “has been ty first, to present the subject so ith: might instruct and interest a general public and yet not sacrifice scien- tific accuracy; second, to give ed information to those more closely concerned in the production of milk for while the term ‘dairyman” has, by courtesy, been applied to our pro- ducer, it does not mean that they are all professionally - qualified. The writer has visited these so-called “dairies” and finds a close relation be- tween the bacterial count of the milk —A number of Johnstown men narrow- ly escaped ‘being killed Saturday when their automobile overturned near Sipes- ville. The men were on a hunting trip and as the car was passing over a bridge one wheel was smashed by a broken plark in the floor of the bridge. —Inspector J. Wilbur Crotzer on Friday condemned a car load of grapes that were in bad condition, in Johnstown. Just how long the grapes had been on the road could not be learned but they had beea frosted. Between five and six tons of the fruit were consigned to the dump heap. been produced. By referring to the list given in the first article, the milk will be seen to fall into three classes—four dairies producing milk ranging from 13,000,000 to 8,000,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter, five producing milk varying from 1,500,- —A transfer of ten tracts of coal and 000 to 1,070,000 and two. . 500,- surface land from James H,Z Allport, of 000 PHS 4 oF under. 5 ? I'Barnesboro, formerly of Philipsburg, te The milk having the highest the Rich Hill Coal company has been re- corded at Ebensburg. The land is located in Elder township, Cambria county, and contains about 560 acres, 400 of which are underlaid with coal. number of bacteria, 13,000,000 is from a producer who has no cows of his own but buys from the surrounding farmers, brings the milk to town in cans and, if desired, bottles it en route. The second on the list, Dairy B, with milk containing 12,000,000, has gone out of business. The third, Dairy C., with milk having 8,500,000 has also no herd but purchases from farmers who deliver to him in cans. The milk is then bottled at his home and delivered to his customers. In the second group—those produc- ing milk having not over one anda half millions of bacteria per c.c.—are four dairies operated by men who have herds varying from nine to four- teen cows and who purchase occa- sionally from farmers. With the equipment and facilities found in, at least, three of these, it should be pos- sible to produce milk having a much lower count and it is, undoubtedly, ignorance of the principles of dairy bacteriology that prevents these pro- ducers from giving us cleaner milk. Not any of the dairies have facili- ties for sterilizing apparatus which accounts, in part, for the high count. Added to this is the fact that many patrons return the milk bottles un- washed, often with remains of soured and stale milk and no matter how carefully they may be ‘afterward washed, it is impossible, without ster- ilizing, to remove the bacteria that have developed through this careless habit. It is, too, an acknowledged practice with certain dairymen to bot- tle the milk, if needed, along the route and cap it with the paper caps carelessly carried in a dirty coat pocket and milk tickets have even been found by patrons in the bottom of the bottles after removal of the milk. If the fastidious housekeeper who so appetizingly serves her cream in dainty china, cut glass or silver pitchers could see what happens it before reaching her table, she would realize that her concern would be bet- ter directed to the source of its pro- duction. The people, of our community shy at drinking water from the reservoir when there is known to be a dead cat in it, yet will unconcernedly drink milk which contains much more of a menace. To the majority, good milk means milk with a proper fat con- tent; to the sanitarian, it means free- dom from disease germs. It is not from an esthetic point of view nor from decency, that we advocate a de- mand for clean milk but because of the ever-present danger of infection from carelessly produced milk and its products. That this is no longer a matter of conjecture but of proof was shown in the last article, “Rela- tion of Disease Bacteria to Milk.” In today’s article, “Preservation of Milk and significance of the Bacterial Count,” page 2, the opinion of ac- knowledged authorities, Park and (Continued or page 4 column 1) —QGray-haired men are attending the free night school being conducted in com- nection with the vocational school in Johnstown. They sit in classes with boys and girls who are sixteen years old. They are not taking up entirely new studies but receiving additional knowedge of the the work in which they are engaged. —Judge Johnson, of the Union-Snyder courts, is something of a farmer. From a ten-acre plat, personally, he raised 300 bushels of potatoes, 3,000 heads of cabbage and large quantities of sweet corn, beets, peas and turnips. In addition he found time to attend to the duties of his office and to follow his work as head of the Y. M. C. A. war relief association in five counties. —A remarkable instance of profit im ‘hogs is evidenced in the sale of nine hogs by Harry R. Oaks, of near McAlevy’s Fort, to Major George W. Friedly, who conducts a meat market in Huntingdon. The hogs dressed 1,853 pounds, which at $20 the hogs were all of one litter and were not more than nine months old. In all of Ma- jor Friedly's fifty five years of butchering he had never before heard of a brood sow bringing so much profit to the owner in a single litter, which is from one-half to one-third of her year’s work. —James Kline, alias Charles Kline, ali- as James Briggs, alias “Baltimore Black,” and Joseph Martin, alias Kelly, alias Hd- ward Wilson, two of the five burglars whe blew the safe at Roaring Spring postoffice on October 27, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to four years each in the feder- al prison Friday, in the United States court at Pittsburgh. Postal inspector W. M. Calvert, of Altoona, brought the charg- es against the pair, both of whom have no- table crime records. Indictments were found against the prisoners Friday morn- ing and the case was tried before Judge Chares P. Orr, with Daniel S. Horne, as- sistant United States district attorney, prosecuting. With three cempanions, now missing, Kline and Martin stole the Finn motor car at Hollidaysburg on the morn- ‘ing of the Roaring Spring robbery and then proceeded to that town. They se- cured mostly stamps and little cash at the cracked safe, before escaping. —A well-dressed, strange man of pleas- ing personality, pulled off a slick swind- ling game on an unsuspecting Gaysport housewife one day recently. He came to the house and represented himself to be a collector of jellies and jams for the sol- dier boys and asked the woman of the house if she would be kind enough to com- tribute to the good cause. She said she would be very glad to do so, and accord- ingly gave the man two jars of jam. He thanked her very profusely, saying that it was a pleasure to see her so cheerfully de her bit, and left the house with the jars. But imagine the surprise and chagrin the next day, when the woman went to the closet where she kept her preserves and discovered that it was empty. The man to whom she had given her donatien had visited her house in the night time, and stolen all the jams and jellies that the good housewife had labored so hard te make and spent so much money for sugar for the use of the family during the win- ter. 8 hundred, brought the owner $370,60. These
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