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GRAY MEEK J —_— INK SLINGS. —The rains on Monday and Tues- day spelled salvation to the corn and late potatoes in Centre county. —Judge Bonniwell stands a fair chance of being our next Governor if he is given a fair chance to launch a campaign. ~ —Here’s hoping that there will be no holes in that pocket hanging down between Rheims and Soissons through which the Hun can escape. —To bring our army up to the five million men mark, which now seems to be the aim of the War Department, a new draft of 1,125,000 will have to be made. — = Meantime is any friend of Rus- sia preparing to prove that helping the Russian government will not be strengthening the Bolsheviki to help Germany ? —OQur troops are reported leading the allied advance now and they are still maintaining that traditional American fighting spirit of holding on to everything they gain. — Another case of locking the stable after the horse is probably gone is the movement on foot to attempt to prevent the dissolution of the Central Railroad Company of Pennsylvania. —Unecle Sam has employed twenty- thousand women since February 1st. The ladies always did know how to beat men to it. Here they are getting the berths before they even have the vote. —This is August. Next month cool days and nights may be expect- ed. The month following you will probably need some heat in your house. Have you provided for it? If not, further delay will be costly. —The fourth Liberty Loan drive will open September 28th and close on October 19th. It will probably be to raise six billion dollars and the in- terest rate will probably be the same as that of the third Loan, four and one-half per cent. —Jeff McLemore thought we ought to stay off ocean going vessels because the Kaiser threatened to kill us if we didn’t. Jeff’s constituents down in Texas didn’t agree with him and have failed to renominate him to represent them in Congress. —Anyway, when the Hon. John Noll goes back to Harrisburg Centre county will have a representative there who will know how to get things done and who knows the people of Centre county well enough to know what they want done. —The Czecho-Slovaks and the Bol- sheviki forces in Russia are running a fine little side-show to the big war. Our sympathies are with the former and our prayers are that Germany won't get away with all there is of value in Russia before the Bolsheviki gets what's coming to it. __If it is true that Turkey has sev- ered relations with Germany it is probably out of a wholesome respect for what an American Thanksgiving day feast requires as the principal dish. Thanksgiving day is coming on apace and the American army in France is showing signs of getting what it goes after. —If the Huns expect any mercy to be shown them by America’s fighters they had better cease, once and for all, the practice of bayonetting our wounded boys, which they evidently did in the fighting at Sergy. We have always been accustomed to fighting fair, but if there is any danger of our methods being understood by German kultur we can do it the other way also. —Milwaukee is insisting in the use of English in public places. A very good move indeed, but why not in pri- vate places, as well. It is in the lat- ter that enemy aliens meet to plan their seditious undertakings and if the practice of speaking foreign lan- guages in this country is to be broken up among those who are permanently located here it must be stopped every- where. Its use in private places is far more dangerous than in public places. : —Labor is going to be conscripted. The government finds it necessary to see that all essential business is kept running at a maximum capacity and to that end has formulated a plan for the supply and employment of labor. The new regulation went into effect yesterday and so far as Centre coun- ty is concerned it will be controlled by two boards, one located at Belle- fonte, the other at Lock Haven. Full details will be published in the county papers next week. ‘ — You know the chief burgess of Milesburg has had some experience in inspection of the water-ways of Pennsylvania, because for some time he was in the employ of the State Water Commission as an inspector. Habit being hard to break up the lead- ing factotum of our nearby borough, with two companions, sallied forth, a few nights ago, to inspect the waters of the Bald Eagle with a scoop net. The net leaked of course, but one of the party must have leaked, too, for the state con-nabulary heard that the former state water inspector was keeping his hand in by a little night practice and was right on the job. The result was that the chief burgess, his two friends, scoop net, suckers, trout and all were landed in one haul of the legal net thrown about them. How conditions change. Once the State paid the chief burgess of Milesburg for inspecting waters. Now the tables are turned and the 3 Aen STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 63. BELLEFONTE, PA Judge Bonniwell’s Appeai. Judge Bonniwell’s appeal to the people is characteristic. ways been an uncompromising foe of political bossism and when the pa- tronage brokers, Mitchell Palmer and Charles P. Donnelly “double-crossed” him in the organization of the State committee, he met the issue precisely as he had met similar conditions in the past. In 1910 when he believed that William H. Berry had been cheated out of the nomination for Governor in the Allentown conven- tion, he appealed to the people for reparation, organized the Keystone party and overwhelmed the regular party organization. When organized and imported gunmen defeated jus- tice in the Philadelphia primary elec- tion of 1916, he appealed to the peo- ple and organized a political revolu- tion which actually carried the city though counted out by political pi- rates in control of the voting ma- chinery. ; With a vast majority of the Demo- cratic voters of the State behind him, as revealed in the primary election vote, Judge Bonniwell hoped that he would be treated fairly by the so-call- ed leaders in the organization of the campaign committee. It has been the custom of the past for many years to consult the nominee for Governor as to the chairman to conduct the cam- paign, as Judge Bonniwell states. But this year four gentlemen, only one of whom was a member of the State committee, in a secret meeting held in Philadelphia four days before the date of the organizing meeting, selected a chairman, not because of fitness, ability or experience, but as it has since developed for the rea- son that he would serve their sinister purpose, and the piratical operation committee framed up for the purpose. Judge Bonniwell did not refuse to avail himself of the assistance of the party organization. But he refused to acquiesce in a conspiracy which had for its palpable purpose the sac- rifice of the candidate to the selfish- ness of a group of patronage brokers. As he states “the organization of the party in Pennsylvania is impotent and inefficient. Members of the State committee meet but once in two years for which they are elected. They do nothing to forward the election of any Democratic ticket.” But they can con- tribute largely to the defeat of any candidate who is not servilely obedi- ent to the bosses and their juggling with the chairmanship this year proves the purpose to thus betray Judge Bonniwell. It is a most inig- uitous conspiracy, an infamous out- rage upon the party and should be condemned by every voter of the party. vor which the party has bestowed upon him by faithful and efficient service in the past. He has been an eloquent and willing advocate of the "principles of Democracy for many years. He zealously supported the late Governor Pattison in all his ef- forts to rescue the State from the pi- ratical Republican machine. been a capable supporter of President has been involved. He has been as fearless in opposing bossism in his own party as he has been courageous in attacking vice in the organization of the opposite party. If he is sup- ported as he ought to be in his pres- ent purpose to reorganize the party event will mark the end of political brigandage in Pennsylvania and the restoration of “government of, for and by the people.” ——Bellefonte has always been not- ed for the intelligence and discrimi- nation of its residents but the dis- crimination now being practiced by the ice dealers of Bellefonte, who all summer have refused to go only on certain streets of the town, is not the kind of discrimination that is extolled by the housekeepers on the tabooed streets. Last year federal food ad- ministrator Howard Heinz issued an order in effect that ice dealers must give equal service to all portions of the town, but so far this year Belle- fonte dealers are serving ice within zones prescribed by themselves with- out making any provision for resi- dents outside of their prescribed lim- its. It is just possible that the mat- ter will be taken up with the federal food administrator this year to secure a ruling in the matter. ——Probably the Crown Prince has changed his mind about war. He once had a notion to start one “just for the fun of it.” When the pincers began to pinch him on the Marne he couldn’t find where the fun came in. ——President Taft has practically secluded himself since his Saratoga speech. He is probably ashamed of the statement that a Republican Con- gress ought to be elected this year. ———Von Hindenburg isn’t dead. He occupied an advance position in the chief burgess does the paying. recent retreat from the Marne. He has al- | was subsequently ratified by a servile | Judge Bonniwell has earned the fa- | He has! Wilson in every contest in which he: he will be elected Governor and that | Elect Democrats to Congress. If there were any just causes of complaint against the management of | our end of the war or the progress in | preparations there would be reason | for striving for change in the politic- ‘al complexion of Congress. The work {thus far has been conducted by the i President with the support and con- ' sent of a friendly House of Represen- Itatives. The enlistment of a vast ar- 'my and its transportation over seas, the development of the navy and the mobilization of the industries of the country for war purposes have all been achieved under the policies of the President and a Democratic Con- ‘gress. If the results of these efforts had been disappointing, if these ef- forts had failed, demand for change might be justified. But the contrary is true. The whole world stands amazed at the splendid achievements of the administration in its war work. Summarizing the work of the four years of war an authority recently declared that “transcending the significance of any event in the actual theatres of the war, America’s full participation in the conflict, in- volving the transportation over seas | of more than a million men to engage ‘in it, must remain for all time the igreat outstanding feature of the fourth year of the struggle.” The | same expert adds: “It is upon Amer- 'ica that the entente is relying for ‘the men and resources to turn the tide.” But this will not be accom- | plished by changing the policies of 'the government. The expectation is based upon continuance of present i policies. The administration entered upon its herculean task under most adverse (conditions. The opposition in Con- i gress resorted to every expedient to retard its work and harrass its ener- gies. If the complexion of Congress is changed a reversal of the policies | which have achieved so much will fol- low and the end of the war be postpon- led indefinitely. Every advocate of such change understands this fact but lust for party success and political plunder urges him to strive for the change notwithstanding the consequence. It |18 the duty of every patriotic citizen to oppose such purposes.’ “The only: effective way of supporting the Presi- | dent at this time is to elect Democrats ito Congress. Representative McLemore, of | Texas, author of the resolution to for- | ‘bid Americans from traveling on | | European ships during the war, has . been defeated for re-nomination. His | purpose was to embarrass the Presi- | dent but he seems to have submerged i himself. Fourth Anniversary of the War. Four years ago last Sunday, July 128, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared | war on Serbia and Germany started a | vast army to devastate France. From ‘the beginning it was sensed as a world war but nobody imagined it ‘would last more than a year and the (idea of American participation in it | wasn’t even dreamed of. Within six ‘months, it was estimated, the expense ‘of such a war would bankrupt any power in the world and Germany in- dulged the vain delusion of world domination within a brief period. The fourth anniversary of this cruel tragedy was celebrated last Sunday by the rout of the imperial army of Germany from Marne and French and American troops in pursuit. The four years that have elapsed since that event in 1914 have been epochal in various ways. Minor dis- turbances in the Balkans had been settled and thoughtful people were encouraged to hope for a long period of peace and prosperity. But Germa- ny had been long cherishing an am- bition to extend her dominion and ex- pand her system of government and a minor and unimportant tragedy, the assassination of an Austrian arch- duke, was made the excuse for un- leashing her “dogs of war.” No oth- er nation was prepared to oppose her sinister purposes and the opportunity to take advantage of the military weakness of the others was strong in the minds of the military autocrats in control at Berlin. During the intervening time much has been accomplished in the interest of humanity. The mask has been torn from the face of German kultur and the beastliness behind it so plain- ly revealed that it will never in the hereafter deceive any intelligent peo- ple or individual. The process of achieving this result has been cruel and heart-rending but worth the su- preme sacrifices it has entailed for the beginning of the end is now in view and soon the world will be not only a safer but a better place in which to live. Autocracy will die the death of a suicide for its last repre- sentatives, Germany, Austria-Hunga- ry and Turkey will be wiped off the map when peace is declared. ——The estimate of the fighting qualities of American soldiers is said to have undergone a great change re- cently in the neighborhood of Berlin. its position on the, » AUGUST 2, 1918. War Conditions Satisfactory. | Fighting in France has gone on with unabated fierceness during the | past week and though little progress "has been made in forcing the enemy back vast improvement is shown in ‘the relative positions of the combat- ants. The hope of a week ago that a considerable portion of the German army would be bottled up in General Foch’s “pincers” seems to have been dispelled for the present by the sav- age counter attack of the Crown Prince’s troops, largely augmented by reinforcements, but the menace is not yet removed and escape will be an expensive process. Instead of mil- itary prison pens the German soldiers appear to be heading for hospitable grave yards. Since the allied offensive began the enemy has been driven back several miles and even the extraordinary counter attack on Tuesday afternoon failed to break or swerve the Ameri- can and French lines. It was proba- bly not intended as the beginning of a new offensive. Its purpose was to check the advance of Allied troops or hold them while valuable and vast stores were being shifted out of dan- ‘ger. But it didn’t entirely achieve this purpose for while American troops were combatting the movement at one point, the French contingent was moving in and drawing tighter the cordon at another. The Crown Prince’s army with its supplies may yet be captured in the pocket formed by Foch. The summary of the week’s opera- tions may therefore be regarded as fairly satisfactory. We have sustain- ed comparatively little loss in man power and none in morale while it is certain that the enemy has suffered ‘immensely in both. The German ma- | chine is shattered beyond reconstruc- !tion and though the “High Command” will persist in the sacrfice they are palpably without hope of reaching either Paris or the Channel ports. Our own gallant troops have perform- ed wonders and will continue their glorious work and it is for us to give them that moral and material support that is essential to the complete vic- tory now almost in sight. oe — + Another hopeful thought is that Democratic Senators who oppos- ed the war policies of the President during the last year will go into per- manent retirement about the time the | Kaiser loses his job. Paying the Penalty. The city of Philadelphia is now reaping the harvest and paying the penalty of corrupt and incompetent machine government. Within a week one section of the city, the Vare bali- wick, has been suffering from race riots. For more than two weeks the primary election crimes of the Fifth ward have been under judicial inves- tigation at West Chester and on Tuesday the grand jury of the Unit- ed States District court began an in- quiry into charges of frauds pervpe- trated by the draft boards. In the West Chester proceedings amazing crimes have been revealed. In the draft board inquiry the trail of the political serpent appears and in the race riots the hopeless imbecility of the municipal government is clearly shown. If these troubles and misdeeds in Philadelphia were purely local affairs the people of Pennsylvania might wisely pass them up as of no public importance. It might be justly rea- soned that the people of that city having shown themselves incapable of self government are getting precise- ly what they deserve, rotten govern- ment. But unhappily Philadelphia dominates the legislation and to a great extent controls the politics of the State and the corrupt government is the instrument with which they ac- quire the power of evil. Because of these facts the people of the State have an interest in the maladminis- tration of the government of the prin- cipal city of the State. And thus it becomes our affair. The evidence taken in West Ches- ter shows that a murderous conspira- cy was formed to carry the Fifth ward of the city for one vicious can- didate against another not much bet- ter. Of itself that is bad enough. But the evidence also shows that with the knowledge and consent of the Mayor of the city the police force was prostituted to this nefarious work. In that fact lies the great measure of turpitude. The agencies provided by law to preserve the peace are used to promote murder and the people are to blame because they have unwisely chosen their officials. For these rea- sons the people of Pennsylvania are humiliated beyond measure and sham- ed beyond expression by the events referred to. That new ‘“made-in-Germany” King of the Finns will soon know how “uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” — One egg a month is the Berlin ration, according to reports, and the chances are that it is a bad egg at that. NO. 30. Strikes in War. From the Philadelphia Press. It is reported that the War Depart- ment has a bill prepared for submis- sion to Congress when it reconvenes in August to stabilize labor condi- tions by preventing strikes. There is ‘nothing more incompatible with the ‘efficient conduct of a war by any na- | ‘tion than large and persistent labor’ disturbances. They kB industry ‘and halt the movement o armies and | navies by cutting off their necessary | supplies. | Strikes by coal miners, railroad ! men, and telegraph men are more im- { mediately disastrous in their effects than strikes in other occupations, but all strikes on a large scale are weak- ening and hurtful to the government when engaged in war. Is it helpless in their presence or is there a way to compel would-be strikers to set- tle their labor difficulties in some way that will not harm the government or else postpone them altogether? Everything else must yield to the exigencies of the situation in time of war then why should not labor bend and make concessions as well as the rest Personal liberty is suspend- ed in time of war. Men must leave their occupations and their homes to fight for their country. We are regu- lated and restricted in our food and our fuel and. lights, our clothes and our liberty of movement. Everything is secondary and subordinate to the supreme task of defeating the enemy. He who interferes with the accom- plishment of that great task is an enemy if abroad and a traitor if at home. Why then should an exception be made of the walking delegate whose orders stop the mines and the mills, the railroads and the shipyards to the infinite embarrassment of a na- tion in arms and the great joy of the armed foes that are seeking to de- stroy it. A government that is engaged in war abroad and permits itself to be impeded at home in this way shows it- self conscious of great inherent weak- ness. The right of self-defense is the supreme law of nations as well as of individuals and this nation must defend itself from strikes as well as 'from Huns. | necessity for such a law as is now proposed at Washington. The patriot- ism of the people should be sufficient to prevent a strike at this time. As it is evident that patriotism cannot be relied upon in all cases the gov- ernment should be given the power. to make a large concerted strike at home in time of war an impossible crime. Four Years of War. From the Altoona Mirror. Let us have peace! So spoke the master militarist of America two and fifty years ago. So say we, men and women of America, after viewing the desolation and destruction of four {years of the worst warfare the earth has ever known. Let us have peace— just as soon as the broken sword of Prussianism is tendered in UNCON- DITIONAL SURRENDER. Protesting war, we are forced to be- lieve in a war which became necessa- ry to regain peace for the world. Re- specting peace, we protest against a pseudo-peace which the enemies of mankind may use as a preparation for renewed war. ? Let us have peace! But let it be peace between peers. The only peer of democracy is democracy. When Prussianism flouted its own royal bonded word as “a scrap of paper,” it forever adjured all right to enter in- to another treaty with self-respecting people. When Prussianism speaks now, no matter how fair the words, neither its friends nor its enemies be- lieve itself! How can there be a par- ley between unfaith on its part and unbelief on ours? Prussianism’s only absolution is restitution. Its only symbol must be “surrender.” Either surrender to the forces of the world which it has out- raged or surrender to its subject peo- ples which it has oppressed and de- ceived. Getting the Ships. From the Williamsport Sun. America’s ship building program is going forward under the efficient and enthusiastic direction of Charles M. Schwab at a rate that a few months ago wasn’t thought possible. Mr. Schwab has just returned to Phila- delphia from a tour of the Pacific coast shipyards and he is more opti- mistic than ever as to America’s abil- ity to “deliver the goods” in the way of ships. “The United States alone delivered ships enough in June to make up for seventy-five per cent. of the total shipping sunk by the U-boats during that month,” he said. In a short time, he predicts, the ship ton- nage output will reach 500,000 or 600,000 tons a month, and when all the yards are going full speed they will turn out 10,000,000 tons a year. “Ships will win the war” and Ameri- ca is getting the ships. S—— Exit, Jeff McLemore. From the Altoona Mirror. Jeff McLemore, representing the Seventh Texas district in Congress, introduced the House resolution which, had it been adopted, would have denied Americans free and law- ful use of the ocean, in deference to Germany’s submarine decree. i At the primary election in Texas a day or two ago, McLemore ran a poor third, and did not carry a single coun- ty in his district. Texans evidently desire to be $ovesenind in Congress by men who will not restrict the right of an American to use the sea on a lawful and legitimate errand. There ought to be no. | - | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE —Owners of the Buffalo Valley fruit farm at Mifflinburg, Pa., who have an orchard of 15,000 peach and apple trees, report that they will have from five to seven thousamd bushels of peaches. —An order for twenty-four tons of hob- nails, to be used in a Pershing trench shoe for American soldiers, has been received by a Scranton company from the Endi- cott Johnson company, of Johnson City, N. Y. This is the largest order ever re- ceived by that company for shoe nails. —The Apostolic Holiness Association of Bethlehem has sold seven acres of park land between Bethlehem and Allentown to the Apostolic Holiness Council of Penn- sylvania, which association will use the site to establish a permanent Bible school and Theological Seminary. The price paid was $30,000. —So great is the number of cases to be heard in the Fayette county courts this fall that the jury commissioners were in- structed to draw jurers for ten weeks, be- ginning the first Monday in September and continuing until the third Monday of November. It is estimated that more than 200 criminal cases are set for trial. Within six weeks it is expected the new western Pennsylvania institution for the insane, near Blairsville, will be ready to receive patients, S. S. Reighard, of Altoo- na, announced after attending a conference of the trustees at Blairsville. The old buildings are being remodeled. Accom- modations will be provided for 250 pa- tients. — The heaviest man in the United States army, Vernon K. Flora, of Enola, Pa., has gained ten pounds since he entered the service by special induction six weeks ago, and he weighs 269 pounds. Flora had to be sent to Washington to have his uniform specially built for him. Serving with the 106th Engineers, he is on the shores of France. _In order to help out during the labor shortage, Miss Helen Lee Pardee, daugh- ter of 1. P. Pardee, president of the Ha- zleton First National bank, and grand- daughter of the late Ario Pardee, pioneer coal operator, took a position as clerk in her father’s banking house. Two of Miss Pardee’s brothers are with the colors, one being in France. Justice of the Peace J. H. Moody shows no mercy to loafers in Farrell, Mercer county. Every man who is brought before him and is proved to be an jdler in the strict sense of General Crowder’s “work or fight” order is given a sentence of sev- eral months in the workhouse. He has sent more than a score of loafers to the institution within the last. week. — When Dr. Frank Conahan left Morea, Luzerne county, on Saturday for New York to enter the medical corps as a sec- ond lieutenant, Morca had no other phy- sician upon whom to call. Despite the fact that 1000 of its men and boys follow the hazardous occupation of coal mining, doctors are so scarce that the operating company can’t get a practitioner to re- place Dr. Conahan. —The county food administrator has re- ceived notice that two men falsely repre- senting themselves as agents of the Unit- ed States Food Administration, have been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment in the Allegheny county jail and $100 fine. The penalty was imposed by the United States court for the western district of Pennsylvania. These convictions and dras- tic penalties are pointed to as serving to protect the public from further activity by such imposters. ; __Three tramps, two of whom were col- ored individuals serving a ten days’ sen- tence for train riding, escaped from the Clinton county jail Saturday night and are still at large. The men, who got into the yard by prying loose a bar from a window, managed to work their way to the top of the wall and the jail building and then let themselves down on the outside of the wall to the alley by means of a rope made by tearing a bed blanket into strips. The discovery was made Sunday morning, when the rope was seen dang- ling on the outside of the wall. —_To have been struck, rendered uncon- scious and partly paralyzed by a bolt of lightning while at work 500 feet from the surface, was the experience of Alex Shev- isheskie, a track repairman at the Excel- sior Coal company's Carbin colliery at Excelsior. The repairman was relaying a section of mine track in a drift during a terrific electrical storm. A bolt of light- ning struck the rail at the driftmouth, shot the 500 feet through the drift and sent the workman across the gangway ‘into a Aitch. Fellow-workmen were knocked down. Shevisheskie was removed to his home in an unconscious and paralyzed condition. —Bereft of a loved one and a home and fortune almost in the twinkling of an eye was the sad portion meted out by fate to Thomas and Sarah Conrad, an aged broth- er and sister, residing in the mountain- ous edge of Lebanon county’s divide from Schuylkill county—about three miles from Lickdale. A brother, Daniel Conrad, who lived with the other two for many years, died several days ago. To make the at- tendance of friends at the funeral easier, the body was removed to the home of another brother, at Outwood. The corpse had been removed culy two hours when lightning struck the hcuse and it burned. Consumed with the structure were over $300, which represented the savings of years. __The Potter county sealer of weights and measures has issued warning to all retailers, which warning is as good for every other county in the State where the law is enforced, that they will be prompt- ly prosecuted for weighing and selling with other commodities paper, paper plates, boxes or twine. A recent court ruling forbids selling wrapping material with other goods. The dealer says: “The law does not contemplate that a dealer should use a wooden dish or a dish of any kind in weighing a commodity. The pur- chaser must receive the full amount for which he pays and the law in any of its provisions does not permit the dealer to charge the weight of a container in which the article might be sold. Mrs. Charles Q. Hillegass, of Penns- burg, holds the record for knitting sweat- by the Upper Montgomery branch of the has just completed her twentieth sweater, and will start two more which are needed by the Upper Montgomery branch of the Red Cross, which furnishes each of the lo- cal boys enlisted and drafted, with a sweater. Mrs. Hillegass made these twen- ty sweaters within the last eight months, in addition to performing household du- ties. Added to this she devotes two even- ings and an afternoon each week to Red Cross work in the branch’s workroom, where hospital garments and surgical dressings are made, and one evening a week for charitable work for the Phoebe Deaconess Home at Allentown.
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