Penni dan. BY P. GRAY MEEK INK SLINGS. —And this is spring. —Have you any onions in yet? — Plowing has begun in many parts of the county. —Let’s all plant more potatoes than we did last year and then let’s a lot of us sell them sooner. — Seldom has this community ex- perienced such delightful spring weather as we have had during this week. It is to laugh. On one of their recent air raids over Paris the Huns bombed their own embassy building in that city. Now they want France to pay the damage. Tt is costing a lot of money to win the war but to lose it will cost vastly more. For that reason every- body should cheerfully chip in to pay the price of winning. A Hun shell exploded within for- ty feet of Secretary Baker in France and he wasn’t hurt. That’s Yankee luck. And Yankee luck and Yankee pluck are going to win the war. __A test vote in the upper house of the New York Legislature shows that up to this time the dry forces have not mustered enough strength to rat- ify the Prohibition amendment in that State. If the hoarders of potatoes and wheat lose nothing other than the dif- ference in price they are lucky. A sentence that a quart of blood be tak- en from each one would about fit their crime. —If you don’t get home until five o'clock on the morning of April 1st then set your watch on one hour it will be six o’clock and you'll have to turn around and start the work of a new day. Some say ships will end the war and others declare that food conser- vation will accomplish the result. But nobody has undertaken to predict that talk will turn the trick. and Congress might take a hint. — Wisconsin has finally and deci- sively repudiated La Follette. Len- root has been nominated for United States Senator over Thompson, the man whom the present seditious Sen- ator from that Commonwealth was supporting. —Just now when the call is going out to every one to raise a chicken and help save the meat we are Te- minded of the fact that there are a lot of “chickens” racing around the streets of Bellefonte that show no signs of having had any raisin’ at all. Fon: 5. signed the of March 31st we will all have to set our clocks forward just one hour. ‘When we get up next morning at six o'clock we will all have our first and real April fooling, because it will act- ually be five o’clock. A Pleasant Gap boy stole a pole- cat skin from a neighbor and it didn’t take a very keen scented sleuth to get the culprit into the toils. But Judge Quigley evidently thought the propri- etor of a polecat skin suffers enough without being slapped by hard fisted justice, for he let him go. — Talking about profiteering, it isn’t all done by the traffickers in foods. We are told that carpenters at Hog ~ Island are paid $9.00 a day for week days and $13.50 for Sunday work. Many of them work Sundays and take down the $13.50, then lay off on Mon- day when the rest costs only $9.00. — Don’t talk in your sleep. Samp- son Mayfield did it and he is now in jail where he will have three month’s time in which to get over the habit. He stole a box of candy from a fel- . low workman, then went to sleep and talked about the goodies until some one heard him and caused his arrest. — The women are keeping Centre - county in the very front rank of effi- cient service in Red Cross work. Shame on us, men, if we can’t hold the same rank in our activities. Let us make the enrollment of men and boys for farm labor so great that Cen- tre can prove to her sister counties of Pennsylvania that her sons are made of the same self sacrificing, patriotic stuff that her daughters are made of. —The Rev. John Richelsen, of Brad- ford, aspires to be the Republican nominee for Congress in this, the Twenty-first district. Mr. Richelsen’ has made a very good impression on some of the Republicans in this com- munity who seem to scent a bar’l that might be tapped very easily. Preachers are not often accused of having funds to play with in the polit- ical game, but there are those who are sure that if the Rev. John doesn’t have a bar’l himself he knows some- one who does. —If a few of the really leading and capable Democrats of Pennsylvania would publicly announce their willing- ness to lead the party in the next gu- bernatorial campaign the problem now confronting the party would be solved. Such men are needed now as will not have the taint of having been select- ed or put forward by any particular faction or coterie of bosses. Men, and there are plenty of them, with known capacity for the high office in question; men who, though they may have no personal ambition to become Governor, are capable of command- ing the confident and united support of the Democracy as well as of those Republicans who are unwilling to see their State offices made the pawn of contending party plunde:icrs. VOL. 63. Desperate Expedients Adopted. which the Republican factions are resorting The desperate expedients to in the hope of restoring harmony re- veal the utter hopelessness of their future. The latest information from the seat of their activities indicate | that the Penrose faction has offered to take W. A. Magee, of Pittsburgh, on the Sproul ticket for Lieutenant | Governor. Of course this is a dernier resort to prevent the nomination of J. | R. K. Scott for the office. But if there | were any other avenue of escape this | plan would not have been thought of. Magee has long been known as an | arch-enemy of the Senior Senator and if the Brumbaugh faction had taken any other candidate than Denny O'Neil Magee would have been fore- most in the fight. Sproul will be nominated easily over O'Neil as the Republican candidate for Governor, but his defeat is inevit- | able unless the Republicans are unit- | ed in his support. Pennsylvania has | long been a Republican State and un- | der normal conditions is so now. But | conditions are not normal and there are thousands of Republicans in the State who will vote the Democratic ticket for the reason that they want to sustain the President and under- stand that that is the only way to do so. With the remaining thousands di- vided and waging a war of extermina- | tion against each other, the Demo- | cratic candidate will be elected if he! be a fit man and has the support of the Democratic voters. And that sort of a man will be nom- inated by the Democrats this year. The four or five mercenary office holders in Washington will not be al- lowed to pick the candidate and plas- ter him with a label of their owner- ship. They tried that the other day and after making the selection invit- ed a few dependent friends from va- rious sections of the State to ratify their action. But they were disap- pointed even by those they trusted. Their suggestions fell flat on the con- ference and the Democratic people of the State promptly condemned their insolent bossism. There is plenty of gubernatorial timber in Pennsylvania 0€ | ond the best specimen of it will be taken to defeat the candidate of the Republican factions. Experience has made one point clear. The old notion that fire isthe most effective element to fight the devil with has been verified, and re- prisals must be employed to fight the Kaiser. When a few spies are stood in front of a firing line and a few bombs are dropped into German cities the militarists of Berlin will find out that civilized methods must prevail. The Keystone Division. The welcome news comes from Camp Hancock that the Pennsylvania troops when they go to the trenches “over there” will remain together and be known as the “Keystone Division.” Of course under whatever circumstan- ces these gallant Americans appear in front of the enemy they will be- have themselves well. But there was an unpleasant apprehension current in army circles that they would be di- vided into small units and absorbed in other larger commands, thus de- priving the State of the glory of their achievements. But an official order issued by the Commanding General on Monday removed these apprehen- sions. They will preserve the pleas- ant relationships throughout the war. This is another proof of the thoughtful consideration for the com- fort and welfare of the soldiers on the part of those who are charged with the direction of affairs. Every Penn- sylvanian in uniform will meet every obligation under any circumstances and the heartless Hun will have fre- quent opportunity to learn the prow- ess of our representatives on the bat- tle front. But their duties might have been made more burdensome if they had been separated. At least their service in the camp would have been less pleasant. And the authori- ties fully realized that fact. Men eat better and sleep better and fight bet- ter when their environment is agree- able. The new order indicates, moreover, that preparations are being made to send the Keystone Division to the trenches in France or Flanders in the near future. Recent inspections have revealed their preparedness and Camp Hancock has become a “show” can- tonment. It was a visit to that camp and an observation of the skill and equipment of the Pennsylvania troops which converted Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, into an enthusiastic ad- mirer of the War Department’s work. A couple of weeks ago he was sup- porting the slanderous statements of Senator Chamberlain but now he is both emphatic and enthusiastic in praise of the methods employed and the results achieved by the govern- ment. — The experiment of Socialist government in Russia ought to put the idea of Socialism in America out BELL Has Penrose Cold Feet? Is Senator Penrose developing cold feet? Last week his political friends in all sections of the State assembled in Philadelphia in the expectation that he would meet them, praise them for their fidelity, and give them words of encouragement and advice for the future. ‘He had invited them to come and promised to meet them, but failed. Other engagements, he telegraphed to his office clerk, occu- pied his time. What sort of engage- ments was left to conjecture. Some said it was public business which held him to his seat in the Senate. Others | alleged that he was detained by Wil- lie Hays, chairman of the Republican National committee who kept him to plan for harmony elsewhere. Harmony is a great thing in poli- ties but its value is qualified by geo- graphical lines. For example, har- mony in Illinois or Indiana is a neg- ligible entity if the absence of it in Pennsylvania threatens the party prosperity of faithful henchmen and it must be admitted that Denny | O'Neil is tossing the alfalfa on both sides of the highway with reckless disregard of consequences. In these circumstances Senator Penrose ought to have kept his engagement with his | followers. They need encouragement. | They have been out in the cold for some time and coal is high, the tem- perature has been low and the future looks gloomy. Human nature is weak at best and temptation hits hard on a yearning mind. Moreover, it seems that Senator Penrose had another important en- gagement in Philadelphia which he failed to keep. He had promised to meet a party of suffragists to dis- cuss his proposed action on the pend- ing suffrage amendment to the con- stitution. The suffragists came but the Senator was absent and naturally there was more or less indignation ex- pressed. This type of cold feet is most deplorable. If the Senator is afraid to meet the ladies he ought to say so for militant women hate a cow- ard and “faint heart ne’er won fair lady.” They have no vote as yet but they have powerful influence and are likely to exercise it if they imagine | they are being trifled with. 2 wr And Roosevelt hasn’t uttered a word of apology for his mischievous falsehood that “for the first eleven months of this war the inefficiency at vital points in our government, nota- bly in the matter of shipping and in the management of the War Depart- ment, was worse than anything Rus- sia herself has ever seen.” Senator Reed and Mr. Hoover. A great many causes of wonder have arisen in Washington since the opening of the present session of Congress. The outbreak of Senator Chamberlain has never been account- ed for though the environment of a New York banquet was suspected. The absurdities of Senator Hitch- cock’s attack on the administration has not been explained though the in- fluence of Bryan with the President at the beginning of his life in Wash- ington might be a reason. The fail- ure of the Senate to take action in re- sentment of LaFollette’s perfidy re- mains a mystery though his vanity and ambition may have convinced his colleagues that he is not responsible and finally Senator Reed’s hostility to Hoover is unaccountable. So far as information is available it appears that Senator Reed, of Mis- souri, is a second rate quarter ses- sions lawyer who resides in Kansas City. That is one of the homes of the Beef trust. All the piratical meat packers have extensive plants in that city and from their offices there di- rect the predatory operations in price fixing and corrupt legislation. Pos- sibly, therefore, Senator Reed has been retained as one of the agents in Washington of these conspirators. They blame Mr. Hoover with interfer- ing with their plans to loot the gov- ernment by selling bad meat and charging exorbitant prices for their products and are using Reed to un- dermine public confidence in his work for the government. During the Spanish war it will be remembered, these piratical meat packers sold ship loads of rotten meat to the government for the use of the soldiers and when a state of war with Germany was declared they imagin- ed it was the beginning of a new era of graft for them. But President Wilson, who has no sympathy with such enterprises suggested the ap- pointment of an agent of the gov- ernment who could prevent such trea- sonable frauds. Of course the disap- pointed meat pirates set all the agents and lobbyists to barking at the heels of Hoover and Reed is heard more than the rest only because he has bet- ter opportunities to obtrude himself into the activities of the gang. If Greece is still paying tribute to King Constantine somebody ought to go hungry there and it is a safe bet that no real Greek is responsible STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. EFONTE, PA.,, MARCH 22, 1918. of mind for all time. for it. 2 | Time for Some One to Act. ! Unless the “Watchman” has been misinformed there is one person at State College who has been far see- ing enough to discern the ultimate in- jury that might be done that commu- nity if the student body of the insti- tution is to be further encouraged in the spirit of boycotting. Surprising as it may seem the one person who has had the temerity to speak out in tones of sanity and reason is the ed- itor of the student’s own publication “The State. Collegian.” It has been a month or more now since the students of The Pennsylva- nia State College inaugurated a boy- cott against a moving picture show in that place. It has not only been vig- orously enforced, but it has been ex- tended to the mercantile establish- ment in which the management is af- filiated with that of the picture show. There is no need at this time to dis- cuss the causes leading up to the boy- cott. We know them and know that there are two sides to the question. The serious phase of it; the one that makes it of greatest gravity to the great institution itself is the spirit of the young men who are at the bottom of it. The evidence is there that it is not a spontaneous movement at all, that it has a focal point and that a sub-rosa organization has been main- tained to keep student - sentiment chrystalized. All the while the col- lege authorities look on, we presume, with the idea that to the Student Council has been delegated the duty of student government. Meanwhile the news gradually per- colates through the State and the pub- lic frankly wonders whether its one great educational institution is en- couraging student thought and stu- dent activities along the lines of an- archy. They may think it socialism, but socialism, in the last analysis is too altruistic to comprehend the spir- it of the boycott in its tenets. Three times within recent years the students of State have resorted to this cowardly method of attack. It is be- neath them. It is beneath the spirit of the institution. It is the weapon of a mentality much lower than the plane on which young men upon whom ‘the future of our country must de- pend should occupy. If this spirit is to be encouraged by tolerance now we shudder at the thought of its capabilities of develop- ment in the future. We do not, we cannot believe that it is the spirit of the real Penn State man. We are rather inclined to the belief that it is the thoughtless effort of a clique with whom the clearer thinking students do not care to make an issue. Because of this belief the “Watchman” con- gratulates the editor of the Collegian, whoever he may be; the one person at State College who up to this time seems to have had the courage of his convictions and spoken them. We forsee the time when, if this® spirit is permitted to grow, invested capital at State College may be at the mercy of the whim of any group of boys yet in their teens. Capital shrinks from uncertainties and what could be more uncertain than an in- vestment in a place where covert as- saults are made upon it and condoned as “a college boys’ prank.” If the students won’t it seems to us it’s time that the college authorities take a sight along the trail the Col- legian so courageously blazed for them. What Centre County Has Done. The citizens of Centre county are proving their patriotism by deeds, not words as the following will show: CASH CONTRIBUTED. Fitst Tiberty Loalleo.siv-srans $ 512,150.00 Second Liberty Loan... ... 1,026,300,00 Y. M. C. A. War Work. 5,720.61 Red CrosS.....eceeeccossescnece 19,792.43 Thrift Stamps to date......... 69,940.00 Total. .s.vecavasviniss $1,663,903.04 THE RED CROSS. Mem. Cash Bellefonte Chapter.......... 5527 $7,711.23 Philipsburg Chapter........ 5000 6,923.95 State College Chapter....... 2976 5,157.25 Total.....ovoerees. 13548 $19,792.43 MEN IN SERVICE............ veianeioe 705 Turn Your Clock Ahead One Hour. On Tuesday President Wilson sign- ed the Daylight bill passed by Con- gress which provides that on the night of March 31st all clocks shall be set ahead one hour, and on the night of the last Sunday of October they are to be turned back one hour. This, it is argued will conserve daylight and save fuel and artificial light. Wheth- er it will or whether it won’, is be- yond argument now. The bill is now the law, and the only thing to do is to turn your clock ahead one hour the night of March 31st. —— — Col. H. S. Taylor was at Spring Mills last Thursday evening where he delivered a patriotic address to the home defense company organized by Robert Musser. The Colonel is also busy organizing the boys’ working reserve and thus doing his bit to help along in these strenuous times. ee — They are all good enough, but NO. 12. The Brighter Side. From the Philadelphia Press. Out of the war and our participa- tion in it there is coming a wealth of idea and an awakening to facts that nothing less serious could have brought about. As a people we have been spendthrifts, not greatly given to saving. Our resources have been great and subsistence easy for the great bulk of the people. But un- der the urgent necessities of war we, as a nation, are learning to save and loan and give and restrain and sacri- fice in large ways that were heretofore thought impossible. We now find that we can stint for a great cause. We now realize that money alone will not win the war, but that things, many things must be grown, made and saved. That spirit of sacrifice is strong among all, rich and poor alike. We are learning that if we are to be a physically fit people for peace or war, the preparation must begin 1m the early years of life. Such prep- aration must be both compulsory and universal. There must be general physical development for all, not the mere training for the athletic event of school or college. The war has taught us, too, patriotism of effec- tive action in contrast. to loud and meaningless profession. We have found that mere sentiment, however finely phrased in words, gets us no- where, unless reduced to concrete per- formance. The fruits of this discov- ery are seen. We are using our time and resources freely. We are finding that the big values of life and coun- try are not expressed either in the sign of the dollar or in terms that are commercial. We are being unified and absorbed in our thinking. Questions as to mat- ters that are worth while are now getting a proper hearing. We are be- ginning to get a true perspective of what real Americanism means. We realize the obligations as well as the privileges of citizenship. Too many men on coming to this land have fail- ed to pay in fealty for the gift of cit- izenship bestowed upon them.’ That fault will not continue. Mental alle- giance to another land will not be per- mitted in the future. The conflict has revived our national spirit. It has brought the country face to face with vast neglected opportunities, and has taught us lessons which will not soon be neglected or forgotten. Taxes in Installments.’ From the New York Analyst. ° The suggestion in Congress that the income tax be made payable in in- stallments instead of in a single pay- ment comes at an opportune time. Many persons who have never before paid an income tax, and many others who have paid but never in any such amounts as they are called upon to pay this year, are now engaged in the task of making government, and the amounts which they will be called upon to turn into the National Treasury will be incon- veniently large in many cases. It would cost the government nothing, and would add to the ease with which the tax could be paid were the privi- lege granted to pay in installments instead of all at one time. The dates could be fixed at the convenience of the treasury with due regard to its own financial transactions, but that done the additional work imposed upon the government would be slight compared with the advantage which taxpayers would gain. A Change that Should Be Made. Fron the New York Herald. Thére should be no delay on the part of Cengress in enacting into law the bill introduced by Representative Flood, of Virginia, providing that “no person not a citizen of the United States shall be permitted to vote at any election to be held for President and Vice President or for Senators of the United States or members of the House of Representatives, who is a subject of any State or Nation with which the United States is at war.” It will surprise many Americans to know that such legislation is needed, but it is. In 10 States alien residents are given the right of the franchise. Some day the country will have a Federal election law under which all such dangers and all inequalities will be done away with. An act of Con- gress barring enemy aliens from the polls would be a beginning in that di- vection. It is needed as a measure of national defense. — The Echo in His Heart. From the New York Sun. «Your words have found a lively echo in my heart,” answered the Kai- ser to the despairing cry of the Esth- onians, and his general, hearing the echo, plundered the Esthonians of what the Red Guard had not taken from them, and then plundered the Reds of what they had taken. And They Fell Down. From the Memphis News Scimitar. We are disappointed. We thought surely when Russia gave the women the right to vote all her troubles were over, and now it seems that the Rus- sian women are as unreliable as the men. — _There’s nothing in a name. Russian Soviets and Bolsheviki are equally poltroons and one is quite as unworthy of sympathy as the other. — The householder’s flour report blank will be found on the third page the “Watchman” is always the best. of today’s paper. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —The week of April 8 was named last Thursday as the time for the electrocu- tion of Mike Uptic, of Westmoreland coun- ty, convicted of murder in the first de- gree. —Garry Hoover, of Curwensville, is an 82 year old young man. Last fall he tramped through the woods on a deer hunting expedition, and the other day climbed up a ladder to the roof of the pub- lic building in that town, up another lad- der on the roof to the belfry, where he leisurely made needed repairs. —A company has taken over an eld tan- nery in Pittsburgh with the intention of operating it hereafter exclusively for the handling of fish skins. The company ad- vises the bureau of fisheries that at the outset it will be able to handle 150 skins daily and that it is in the market for any shark skins two feet or more in length. x —Joseph Liscritski, of Scranton, wants to fight for Uncle Sam, even though he has both legs missing. He applied at the local recruiting station and was rejected. Liscritski was surprised upon the officers’ refusing to accept him, remarking that with his artificial legs he can get about better than many men with sound limbs. —Run over by a handcar on the Penn- sylvania railroad, Lewis Hoffman, a sec- tion hand, of Middleburg, was pickeu up apparently dead, and his associates were figuring upon calling the coroner when he suddenly regained consciousness and declared he was not hurt. He resumed his work in a few minutes and finished the day out. —J. Ira Thomas, of Philipsburg, has been appointed Mine Inspector of District 6, in the DuBois territory, to take the place of the late Elias Phillips, who died recently. Mr. Thomas’ father was the first mine inspector of the district many years ago. The appointee has been em- ployed as a mining engineer by Cambria Steel company. —Mrs. Abby Trauger, aged cighty-five years, was found dead in her home in West Second street, Greensburg, when a neighbor went to investigate when the old lady did not make her appearance for sev- eral days. In the house with the women were seventeen cats. One of them was asleep on its mistress’ breast. Mrs. Trau- ger had no relatives. —The Public Service Commission has ordered the St. Mary’s Gas company, which serves Emporium and other towns in Elk county to supply gas to applicants in its territory and dismissed the objections of the company, which had raised the inter- esting question whether the general state of supply gas was any reason for refus- ing to add new consumers. —Dr. and Mrs. 8. 8S. Koser, of Williams- port, have leased their hospital to the doe- tors associated with the private hospital recently destroyed by fire, and will take an extended vacation. They expect to spend two years in California and Alaska. They had intended to journey to Japan, but on account of the war conditions will not likely visit that country now. ° —John C. Troutman, twenty-nine years old, of Sunbury, employed as a brakeman on the Shamokin division of the Pennsyl- vania railroad met a terrible death Sun- day morning when, after completing a night’s work, on that division, he stepped their return to the| from the caboose of his train to a main . line track, was struck by a light yard en- gine and so terribly crushed that he died within a short time. —Domineck Demigone, aged 23 years, had his left arm almost ground off while working at the Vanadium-Alloys Steel plant, Latrobe, Saturday morning. He was employed on the rolls and in some way got his hand caught in the cogs of the mill, his arm was drawn in and crush- ed and mangled all the way to the shoul- der. The arm was amputated at the shoul- der, at the Latrobe hospital. —County detective Samuel L. Minser, aged 45, died in the Indiana hospital on Tuesday as the result of injuries sustain- ed when he was assaulted by foreigners at Lucerne mines, Indiana county, two weeks ago while securing information relative te speakeasies. The attack occurred at night, and Minser lay unconscious in a field for several hours before being found by a pe- destrian. He leayes his widow and several children. —Governor Brumbaugh has announced his intentions of accepting an invitation to speak at Selinsgrove on May 14, when a tablet will be unveiled at the mansion built by Simon Snyder, who was Governor of Pennsylvania during 1812. The State Historical society has charge of the prep- arations. The home is now owned and oc- cupied by Harry A. Coryell, who was re- cently elected district attorney of Snyder county. Private Spencer C. Heiges, of Harris- burg, Pa., attached to the quartermaster’s department at Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., was on Monday sentenced to eight years at hard labor in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., on charges of selling army stores. Heiges was formerly a public school teacher at Harrisburg. Before the court martial’ it was charged that in ci- vilian clothing he visited a grocery store in that village and represented that he was a salesman for a Boston commission house. Later it was charged Heiges hired a team- ster to call at the quartermaster’s stores at Camp Devens and turned over to him 1,300 pounds of sugar and four tubs of butter for delivery to the local merchant. —A cast iron pot containing $115,000 in gold coins was hurled into the air on the old Isaac Shaffer farm, near Hillsville, Lawrence county, last week, when a charge of dynamite was used to loosen deposits of limestone. Employees of the Carbon Limestone company rubbed their eyes when the shower of gold fell with the fragments of limestone. A lively scram- ble for the scattered money disclosed the kettle, shattered, but still containing the bulk of the hidden gold. The kettle had been sealed and buried under a huge boul- der in an old well. The money goes to the heirs of Isaac Shaffer, who for twenty-five years had conducted an intermittent search for the treasure. Thirty years ago Isaac Shaffer, a close-fisted cattle dealer, died suddenly of apoplexy. Before he expired he uttered the single word “gold” and pointed to the farm. As he left no will, the heirs were convinced a fortune had been secreted. The farm was bought by a cousin, John Shaffer, who died nineteen years ago after a fruitless labor to find the fortune. When the limestone rights were sold to the Carbon Limestone com- pany, however, the heirs supervised the turning over of every yard of soil. Wed- nesday the site of the old well was reach- ed and on being dynamited the gold was unearthed. ~
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