BY P. GRAY MEEK INK SLINGS. —The Germans are shooting their big wad now. Next week we will all be getting around in the morning. — March is showing every symptom of going out like a lion. —Don’t forget to turn your clock forward an hour on Sunday morning. Better do it before church time, too, or you’ll miss church. Authorities in New York city are training nurses and policemen in first aid work so as to be ready should Hun air raids be made over our coast cities. — The new Liberty Loan will be for three billion dollars and the interest rate is to be 4% per cent. That will be easy if we all make up our minds to do our part. —Anyway, if we didn’t capture 175,000 Germans and kill the Crown Prince, as the fake wires of Monday afternoon would have had us believe we did, we are going to do it sooner or later. — Don’t be discouraged by the won- derful drive the Germans are making in France. Just be a little more patri- otic and resolve to help in every way you can to defeat them before they drive onto the shores of our own be- loved country. — Germany now has a gun that is shelling Paris from a distance of six- ty miles. If they ever got a boat free in the Atlantic with one of those guns mounted on it they’d waken up a lot of people in this country who are act- ing as if there were no danger at all. — Our Republican friends in this Congressional district are going to have a lot of fun in selecting their nominee for Congress. Thus far they have a preacher, a physician and two lawyers in the field and others are said to be coming. Let them have all the fun they want in the primary, for at the election the voters are going to say that they want a man from this District who will really support the President and that man will be Mr. Tobias, of Clearfield county. —From someone at State College the “Watchman” has received a lengthy communication that is signed a “Stude.” The writer identifies him- self only insofar as to say that he is a “student of litterature.” You note we quote his spelling of literature, because this and most of the rest of the very interesting epistle arouses the suspicion in the single track mind of the editor of “this little country paper” that our correspondent is camouflaging his accomplishments. It is il-literature that he gives evidence of being “a student of.” —Among the prominent Democrats in Pennsylvania who might become aspirants for the nomination for Gov- ernor, without the suspicion that they have been put forward by any faction in the party, is Col. J. L. Spangler, of Centre county. Col. Spangler has all the qualifications necessary to mak- ing an enthusiastic and aggressive campaign and should it terminate in victory he would bring to the execu- tive department of the State govern- ment an administration that would re- flect great credit on his party and prove a welcome change from the me- diocre ability that has been governing the State in recent years. Col. Spang- ler, or some man of his type, who has not been embroiled in any of our fac- tional controversies is the kind of a standard bearer we will need if we expect to win next fall. Re —The sooner we people right here in Centre county realize that we are at war with the power that intends to fight to the death in its determination to do to this country just what it has already done to Belgium the sooner we will be showing signs of compre- hending the danger we are in. Wheth- er it is apathy, indifference or a lack of patriotism we are unable to deter- mine, but it is nevertheless a fact that many people in Centre county go on about their business as if they owed no service whatever to their country. The government asks them for infor- mation that can’t possibly injure them to give and they either flatly refuse or pay no attention to the request. It asks them to buy thrift stamps or Liberty bonds and they show the ava- riciousness of their nature by reply- ing: “I can get six per cent. for my money on a mortgage.” —We look upon the German suc- cesses of the past few days as the very best thing that could happen to this country. The tremendous power of the German military machine and the appalling losses in men it seems ready to submit to in order to break through the English line, should con- vince the least skeptic that all that stands between us and the iron heel of the Hun is France, already devas- tated and bled white, and England shattered to the last nerve. Should they be unable to hold then the Eng- lish, French, Russian and Italian na- vies, with the German fleet will sweep the seas clear and lock us up so tight that there will be no industrial life left in America. This would be the least that would happen. It is more likely that after a short period of re- cuperation the Kaiser would plan an invasion of our soil and we would feel what Belgium and northern France have already felt. Surely no Ameri- “can citizen who hopes to remain free and independent can look upon the cataclysm across the sea without re- alizing that our great and prosper- ous land is already the price that dan- gles before the Hohenzollern eye. } _— ¥ STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. 63. BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 29, 1918. gyoL. German Drive a Failure. For seven days the German drive | on the West front has been in prog- ress and it may be set down as a dead failure. The British line has been pressed backward it is true and the allied forces have lost some in pris- oners and considerable in equipment and munitions. But these results have been accomplished at frightful ex- pense in life. More than 200,000 Ger- man soldiers have been sacrificed to the vanity of the Kaiser and his heart- less Field Marshal von Hindenburg, who will bet a million lives that they can break a line said to be impregna-. ble. That would be a great achieve- ment no doubt in a military way and proof positive of vast power. But the attempt has gained them nothing thus far and is not likely to. When the army of General von Kluck was turned back at the Marne, in August, 1914, the purpose of the Kaiser to dominate the world was de- feated. The more than three years of slaughter which has elapsed since are simply sacrifices to the brutality and the vanity of the German Emperor. When the present drive failed to break the British line into rout and confu- sion within three days, it was doomed. The nature of such movements require expedition. A General who is losing three men to every one of his antag- onist must complete the job quickly or he will never finish it. He exhausts himself physically and worries him- self mentally until he becomes a help- less victim of his own insane passion. That’s what has happened to the Kai- ser in his enterprise which will soon be abandoned. The failure of this effort will not end the war, however. The absurd pride of the Kaiser will influence him to a renewal of the strife and a re- sumption of the slaughter somewhere else. He knows that the end of the war will be the end of his tenure and he will hold on as long as he can en- tice or coerce men to the cannon’s mouth. This may be a year or it may be more and so long as it lasts it will be an increasingly heavy burden up- on the people of this country. But it will be worth what it costs in the end. will make life easier and safer for people Latight : erican - Yess in conservation which will increase their wealth by millions and their health as much. — If Holland objects to the seiz- ure of ships by the United States she has her remedy. A declaration of war will open the way for a force to cross Holland and attack the Germans at Essen, the seat of the Krups, which would be “grist in our mill.” Because of this fact Holland will probably con- sent after reasonable protest. Penrose Declares War on Scott. Senator Penrose has finally declar- ed war on the Vares and his positive announcement that he will oppose the nomination of John R. K. Scott for Lieutenant Governor brings into view the shadow of what Sir Lucius O’Trig- ger would call “a very pretty fight.” Scott is somewhat of a campaigner and the bottom of the Vare “bar’l” is almost beyond reach. If they intend to keep up their methods of “politi- cating,” moreover, they must have a man on the Board of Pardons. It would be an awful thing to see the Senatorial toga yanked from the shoulders of brother Ed while he is being rushed off to jail by some emis- sary of the law. And that is precise- ly what they are up against unless the Pardon Board is fixed. Penrose is likewise a formidable fighter if he sets himself to the task and his tone of voice in announcing his present purpose indicates that he is in dead earnest. Then his candi- date for the office, Senator Beidleman, of Harrisburg, is a spell-binder from away back and will “pierce the am- bient air” in every hamlet and from every mountain top between the Del- aware and the Ohio. Of course the Governor will take a hand in the struggle and lieutenants without num- ber will give lip service to the respec- tive sides from this time until the close of the primary polls on the even- ing of the 21st of May. Nearly two months of this will be hard on the public but what’s the odds ? The pub- lic must play its part. Meantime it may be safely predict- ed that the Vares will be for Sproul for Governor which will alienate Den- ny O'Neil from the Vare interests. But even misfortune has its compen- gations and the failure of Denny to join the Vare forces will keep Sproul from aligning himself with the Pen- rose contingent. So there you are. You pay your money and take your choice. Sproul is entirely willing to have Scott on the ticket with him and O'Neil is equally ready to take Bei- dleman as his running mate. After all it is only a game of grab devoid of principle or honor, a “case of every fellow for himself and the devil take the hindmost.” meee ——Anyway the boldness of the Socialists of Russia has put the rest ‘of the world wise on Socialism. have Third Liberty Loan. The campaign for the third Liber- ty Loan will begin next week and re- cent incidents at the battle front ad- monish us to invest all our energy in an effort to make it successful. The Hun drive began last Thursday and still in progress shows that Germany is not yet exhausted. Of the ultimate result of the war there can be no doubt. The allies will triumph and -autocracy will be eliminated. But it depends upon the people of the Unit- ed States to make the struggle long or short. If all our available resourc- es are put into the struggle prompt- ly, the end will soon come. If we con- tinue to hold back or hesitate to do our share, the strife may continue a long time and at sacrifices appalling. It would be unjust to American citi- zenship to say that little or no prog- ress has been made in preparation to fulfill our obligations to civilization in the great war. We have worked wonders in organization and construc- tion and we have contributed with princely liberality to the expense fund. We have fed the allies on all sides and provided the armies with munitions and equipments. But we haven’t done all that we might have done and until we have we are delin- quent. France has been bled white, it is said and England has given un- til she is weak. But we have scarce- ly felt the burden of the war as yet. Foods and funds are still being hoard- ed in this country. It is time to change this. Centre county has always been in the front of every civic movement. In every emergency the people of this county have done their full share. Comparatively speaking this has been done with respect to the war expense fund. But we have not done all that is possible or nearly all. Therefore, the opening of the campaign for this third Liberty Loan affords us an op- portunity to do full justice to our- selves and our country. Let us all dig in to make a record. Let us not only get over the top but ahead of all others in a patriotic work which is at the same time a necessary defensive sible whether measure. Give as generously as pos-. ons fle : : i 0 Daniel C. Roper, commissioner of internal revenue, states that tax slackers will be prosecuted as vigor- ously and relentlessly under the war revenue act as draft slackers are be- ing prosecuted under the selective service act. April first is the last day for making returns and if there is anybody in Bellefonte who has not yet sent in his or her return they should do so at once and avoid any unpleas- ant legal entanglements with the United States government. Democrats Don’t Need Such Friends. The date of the Spring primary is approaching but no signs of prepara- tion for that important event on the part of the Democrats is discernible. The office holders in Washington have held several conferences, it may be in- ferred from current gossip, and a se- lected few assembled in Philadelphia two or three weeks ago, to discuss the subject. But no tangible result has been reported, thus far. The local leaders in various sections are pre- paring to put local candidates in the field but no suggestions come with re- spect to a State ticket. Yet the com- ing election is one of great signifi- cance. A Governor is to be elected and the chance of putting a Democrat in is bright. The managers of the Democratic party seem to have imbibed the notion that the candidate of the party must be a very rich man. The experience of the past doesn’t justify such an im- pression. Within a third of a century the Democrats have elected their can- didate for Governor twice and for State Treasurer once. In each in- stance the candidate chosen was finan- cially poor. Robert E. Pattison had never accumulated much money until after the close of his second term and he died poor. Mr. Berry, who was elected State Treasurer in 1905, was poor when he ran. But his friends, the then Democratic leaders, contrib- uted liberally to his campaign expens- es and he was elected by a large ma- jority. Four years ago the candidate for Governor spent money generously in the primary fight. When the antag- onist was another Democrat and the issue control of the organization the fund flowed freely. But in the cam- paign against the Republican candi- date for the election very little money | i with and self discipline to which the Amer- | was used on the Democratic side. The | candidate contributed $5000 to the | Washington party expense account and financed. Roosevelt’s tour of the Senator Sproul’s Platform. Senator Sproul has formally declar- ed the platform upon which he seeks the Republican nomination for Gov- ernor. His Delaware county friends tendered him a reception at Swarth- more last Saturday evening which gave him the opportunity to take the public into his confidence. It was a sort of Quaker affair and was natur- ally staged admirably. Dr. Swain, president of Swarthmore college, pre- sided. His respectability is unques- tioned but Dr. Russell H. Conwell, president of Temple University, pas- tor of Temple Baptist church, distin- guished lecturer and illustrious pub- licist, was among the speakers. Lieu- tenant Governor Frank McClain took care of the party machine interests and did it eloquently. Of course Senator Sproul protested that he is not a factional candidate. { They all do that and some probably with less reason. He is not even a selfish candidate, he assured those who came to greet him as their choice. But Senator Sproul has been in the Senate a good many years and has found out in some way that “the op- portunities for real service” which the office affords, “should be an inspi- ratien for any citizen.” Anybody will admit that that is fine. But it isn’t the finest. “Efficient public service shall be my whole spirit and purpose,” the Senator continued and ‘“co-opera- tion and not coercion,” shall be his at- | titude toward those who are working with him in the service of the people. Naturally the Senator recognizes that “winning the war” is the para- mount question of the day and feels that his election to the office of Gov- ernor would be helpful of that pur- pose. But he acknowledges that there are other questions and that Prohibi- tion and Woman’s Suffrage are among is a new convert to them. He this idea to be sure, but there is the best authority in the world for the efficacy of eleventh-hour conversions and the Senator certainly “burns the bridges behind him.” issue for more than a generation, he said, and he feels that “it is in line the spirit of sacrifice, self-denial ——A former resident of Belle- fonte who was called back this week on account of the death of a relative, told the writer on Wednesday even- ing that he had never seen Bellefonte look so neat and clean as it does now. The gentleman in question left Belle- fonte thirty years ago, but of course has been back on a visit every few years and the fact that the cleanliness of the town now has so impressed him is cause for just a little civic pride on the part of the residents of the town. Strangers have at various times commented upon the neat and trim appearance of the town and this leads to the fact that the time of year is now here when a general cleaning up of all the back-yard accumulations of the winter should be made. This is just as essential for the health of the town as the planting of the war ‘garden is necessary to increase the food supply. So don’t wait for the usual clean-up week, but get to work and clean up now. And if a coat or two of paint would freshen up your property, use the paint, too. — The insiders announce that Jo- seph Guffey, of Pittsburgh, is to be our candidate for Governor and that E. Lowry Humes, of Meadville, has been chased back into the tall timbers with his boom. Notwithstanding this mandate of those who name the candi- dates of the Democratic party Humes literature is flooding the State an- nouncing that he really is a candidate. A good deal depends upon Sen- ator Penrose’s vote on the Suffrage amendment. What Sproul says is not important unless it is backed by what Penrose does. If the Senator votes against the Suffrage amendment his gubernatorial candidate’s promises to support the amendment looks like camouflage. At the same time there isn’t much difference between Scott and Beidleman. Sessions lawyers and are equally anx- ious to save clients who have been convicted from the penalty imposed. — The Vares are making a grand stand play but they are not likely to fool the people. They took in too much territory when they extended operations from the Fifth ward, Phil- adelphia, to the whole State. — Denny O'Neil beat Sproul to it ‘in the matter of declaring for Prohi- the Colonel himself expressed it. But he gave sparingly to the fund to pro- | mote Democratic success in the State ocratic candidates don’t need much money. They ran better without it. ——The Kaiser is making his final effort to fool the German people but his failure will hardly satisfy. State to “rip Wilson up the back,” as | bition but the trouble is that the peo- ple understand that both are fooling. There may be guns of sixty- ‘five miles range but there are hardly or locally. As a matter of fact Dem- encugh of them to make trouble and ‘besides they cost too much. { — From the kind of weather we have had this week it would seem as if the Bush house storm doors were taken down too soon. It has been an They are both Quarter NO. 13. Not Sure of Their Ground. | From the Johnstown Democrat. Republicans are a bit slow in de- veloping their line of attack on Presi- dent Wilson and his administration. Perhaps no definite line will be devel- oped at all. The opposition may de- cide it the better tactics to wage a sort of guerilla warfare, hanging on the flank of the enemy and maintain- ing a harrassing fire from unexpected angles. : The other day Mr. Longworth, of Ohio, a son-in-law of ex-President Roosevelt made a bitter assault on the President and his administration, charging them with usurpation of power and with autocratic designs. The language of the Ohioan was unre- strained. He went at some length into the history of the last few months and undertook to show that no other executive on earth wields power equal to that already in the hands of the President and those he has called about him. Mr. Longworth professed alarm over the situation and he sounded a vigorous warning against further yielding by Congress to what he described as the autoeratic de- mands from the ‘White House. Minority leader Gillette, of Massa- chusetts, has followed with an assault on the President from another angle. He sharply criticises what he charac- terizes as “the reigning family,” the shafts of his wit being directed par- ticularly at Mr McAdoo, the Presi- dent’s son-in-law, and most trusted advisor. The minority leader evident- ly hopes to discredit the occupant of the White House by fixing upon him the stigma of nepotism. However, the Republicans are hav- e of it on the ppy in the sit- d themselves. A thousand things are going wrong which they would set right if they were given a free hand. But unfor- tunately for them (but we believe for- tunately for the country) they do not have a free hand and there is not much prospect * that the people will confer upon them the opportunity they so ardently crave. They would like mightily to run the Yi They are not much interested in making the jFord safe for democracy. The Pres- idential watchwords make Ho partic- ular appeal to their traditional tory- ism. Down deep in their Souls they are in revolt against the 3 ole pur- pose of the admi asuset forth time. They have so freely flung about charges of disloyalty that they dread a recoil from any word of theirs which might be seized upon by placing their own loyalty under suspicion. ~ A nagging plan of campaign is per- haps the one they will finally adopt. They have no constructive proposals to offer. All they are really in posi- tion to dois to find fault and to brag about how much better they would handle the present delicate situation were they in control. Perhaps the people will listen to their fault find- ing and their boasts.” And then per- haps they will do nothing of the sort. The Fighting American. From the Johnstown Leader. The Germans on the western front are face to face with a different type of fighting man from any they have ever encountered or even dreamed of. The American soldier who has been stalking their patrols on No Man's Land is an unknown quantity in the German scheme of things. Your German makes a good fighting machine. With all the cogs oiled and geared and the engineer on the job, the machine works smoothly enough. But smash any part of the machine, throw out the gears or disable the en- gineer and the machine stops. On the other hand, the American is a born fighting man, an instinctive soldier. He is a thinker and a doer; he has initiative, he has pluck, he has things the German lacks, things the German could never have, because of his environment, his system, his whole outlook upon life. The Germans will learn + many things from the men with whom they are fighting. They have already learned many things from the French, and from the English, from the Ital- ians, but in the American they are going to find the dash of the French- man, the buli-dog tenacity of the Brit- ish, the high courage of the Italian, the endurance and capacity for sacri- fice of all three, and in addition the initiative, the personal element that will take great risks to gain great ends, and a sense of responsibility that will make the American soldier the equal of the troops that are fight- ing on their own soil to defend their homes. The American realizes that he is on the battlefront to save the world. One Way to Gain Fame. From the New York Evening Post. | A mistaken idea of how to win fame | is trying to be the last man in one’s district to file an income-tax return. By a miscalculation of seconds, one might become famous as the first man fined for failing to make his return within the specified time. What Time Teaches Her. From the Detroit Free Press. After a woman has been married for a few years she realizes that it is just as hard for her husband to be good-natured all the time as it is for her to be good-looking every minute. a — They are all good enough, but SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Stephen Barto, a former resident of Philipsburg, but recently of Hawk Run, Clearfield county, is ill with smallpox at the home of his brother. —Mrs. S.,R. Peale, of Lock Haven, en- tertained at a family dinner at her home on North Fairview street, on Wednesday of last week, in honor of her 84th birthday anniversary. —One of the Harbison-Walker boarding houses at Woodland, Clearfield county, was quarantined for smallpox last week, three cases of the disease having been dis- covered among the sixteen inmates. —Overtaken by a stroke as he was walking upon the street with his wife, D. Armel Huffman, a well known resident of Latrobe, sank to the sidewalk on Main street, Tuesday night about 9 o'clock, and died instantly. Fire destroyed the large hay press at Souderton, Montgomery county, on Friday night, involving a loss of about $30,000. The fire was discovered about 6:45 o’clock and in a short time the building was a roaring furnace. — Fire which burned out the interior of the Anchor Motor company’s garage, im Indiana, Wednesday evening, seriously damaged sixteen automobiles in the build- ing and caused a loss of property estimat- ed at $10,000, covered by insurance. — Because there now are three holes im the face of the Presbyterian church clock at Huntingdon, evidently caused by bul- lets from a high powered gun, the bur- gess of the borough has offered $100 for the arrest of the clock marksman. —Considerable alarm has been occasiom- ed in Derry through the illness and death of Mary Crumity, a twelve-year-old color- ed girl, who died Thursday night from cerebro-spinal fever, otherwise known as “spotted fever,” of the most malignant type. —Paul Walton is in the Punxsutawney hospital with a badly gashed throat, sus- tained when he secured a razor Thursday and slashed his throat. He tried to bor- row a revolver but it was not given him; he then obtained a razor and cut his throat. 3 —@Gus Andrews, aged about 45 years, was killed at Keating Friday afternoom about two o'clock by being struck by a light engine. His remains were taken to Renovo to await instructions as to burial, the whereabouts of his relatives being um- known. —A youth arrested the latter part of last week in Pittsburgh on suspicion of being the thief who stole $86,000 from the Adams Express company in that eity, at- tracted attention by spending money lav- ishly in the form of diamonds for girls, dinner parties, $20 tips and taxi-cab rides from Pittsburgh to Wheeling. When ques- tioned by the police he said: “I won a thousand at a crap game and was just painting the town red.’ He was released. —Herman C. Meyers, a clerk in one of the Pittsburgh banks, had a sweetheart in Huntingdon. Then came the draft and Meyers was sent away to camp. By steady plugging he was advanced to corporal, but even the corporal’s pay, he decided, was not sufficient with which to start married life. All seemed dispair until the girl wrote that an uncle of hers had died in Philadelphia and willed her a heme and $250,000 provided she would wed before lay 18 next, The wedding followed. producer with offices in Butler has been sentenced by Judge Orr, in federal court at Erie to pay a fine of $500 and costs for coal profiteering. Hamilton's was the first of the coal investigation cases to come be- fore the Federal court. He was indicted last Thursday and Friday morning entered a plea of guilty. At the time Hamilton sold the coal, he contracted with a Mead- ville concern to sell them six cars of coal at $3.25 a ton, the government rate at that time being $2.45. —A man who registered as F. Ward, New York city, committed suicide Satur- day night in his room in the Old Corner hotel, Williamsport, by shooting himself through the head. That Ward was not -| his correct name and address is believed from the fact that he carefully destroyed everything which would identify him, even by pulling the name of the maker out of the case in which he carried his glasses. Clad only in his underwear, he stood in front of a mirror and fired a 32-calibre bullet into his mouth. —While Shamokin firemen were fighting for possession of a fire plug, a fire, which at its inception was of a trivial nature, was permitted to gain such headway as to burn out the tops of a row of four houses, rendering a like number of fami- lies homeless. The firemen were quarrel- ing as to which company had reached the plug first and for the right to connect the hose. The loss to the property reached $3,000, and to the tenants $1,000 in furni- ture and personal effects. The municipal authorities are investigating. —A verdict of $2,650 for the plaintiff was rendered in court at Ebensburg last Thursday evening in the suit of James Taylor against the city of Johnstown for damages for injuries alleged to have been suffered by a fall on Bedford street. Tay- lor contended the fall was caused by a de- fective sidewalk. His spine was perma- nently injured by the accident and as a result he is subject to fits. Taylor was overcome by such an attack shortly after the injured man was sworn and required medical attention in the courtroom. — The Huntingdon Monitor states that G. L. Hileman, a Mount Union merchant, on Monday instituted proceedings in the Huntingdon county court for $30,000 dam- ages against Lawrence N. Crum, George W. Radle, J. Donald Appleby, G. B. Os- walt, Guido Raduzzi, L. V. Wike and Alton Fields, all of Mount Union. He claims damages because of a handbill circulated, calling an unnamed merchant a “slacker, yellow dog, etc.’ As he was, it is said, the only man who refused to give to the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A, or take Liberty Bonds, he thought the circular referred te him. J. King McLanahan, Sr., the “Grand Old Man’ of Hollidaysburg, attained his 90th birthday on Monday and in accord- ance with his annual custom, celebrated the day by holding open house at his hos- pitable residence in that town. Although the aged gentleman recently underwent a critical operation at the Presbyterian hos- pital in Philadelphia, he has recovered. During the evening the faculty and stu- dents of Miss Cowles’ school for girls, of which Mr. McLanahan is owner, were pres- ent. Great crowds were present both afternoon and evening. The host received many beautiful gifts from friends in Hol- lidaysburg amd alse in Philadelphia and New York. the “Watchman” is always the best. ag sate Sate WE Ep % a RE, Ee —Harry Hamilton, of Grove City, coal
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