Bema Madan BY P. GRAY MEEK smn, INK SLINGS. — This nibbling game that the Al- lies are playing looks to us like good husky bites, for every day two or three thousand Huns are being chew- ed up. — This is the month that Uncle Sam is selling $5 bills at $4.19. It’s a bargain counter offering and if you haven’t bought yours you'd better get in for the rate goes up next month. —Get it into your head right now, and keep it there, that the most ef- fective way you can back up the Pres- ident will be by voting for Tobias for Congress; if you happen to be a voter in the Twenty-first Pennsylvania dis- trict. — Incidentally, the Basil Mott let- ters, which the “Watchman” has been fortunate enough to secure for pub- lication, are attracting wide attention, not only because of their descriptive * value but because of their charming style. —After all, the discouraging out- look for the proper housing of the oats crop proved to be only an out- look, for the weather cleared up beautifully last week, the grain in shock dried perfectly and is now all in the barns. —It was an American unit that captured Frapelle, in the St. Die re- gion, and, incidentally, that is only four miles from the German frontier. My, we can just see our lads vieing with one another to be first to plant a foot on German soil. —The Barbers’ Supply Dealers as- sociation, in convention in Chicago, has recommended that the price of a hair cut be raised to one dollar and that shaves be fifty cents. Lordy, Oh! It will be back to a crock and scissors at home for us, for every- thing we have to cut would hang be- low the rim of the crock and the fear of a few “cat-steps” here and there isn't going to separate us from along green bill. —On Wednesday Lord Reading, British Ambassador to the United States, who is in London on leave, said: “We never imagined America could take such a splendid part so quickly.” The European world for years has been under the impression that we are only “dollar chasers” over here, but be that as it may we are showing it that we have millions of all around chasers who can special- ize in a minute and just now their specialty is Hun chasing. —Congress is going to give Collec- tor Roper ten million dollars to be spent in running down tax slackers. The dodger, the hoarder and the slacker might as well make up his mind right now that the government is going to get him, no matter how long it takes. Honest people can have no respect for a government that is not fair. A government is not fair that takes the willing offerings of the honest and permits the dishon- est to shirk their share of the bur- dens, whatever they may be. —General Byng is in command of the new drive the English have start- ed. It will be recalled that it was the same officer who made the sensational break through the enemy lines at Cambria last year, but later had to yield the hard won ground because the other wings of the line were too weak to catch up with his. It is dif- ferent now. All the wings are strong- er and if General Byng repeats his remarkable achievement of last year the other sectors will be brought up to his and the ground consolidated. The time is past when the Allies will do any more retreating because of weakness. If they fall back now it will be for strategical reasons. —TIt matters not whether the Bel- gians held the line until France could mobilize. It matters not whether France stayed the Hun avalanche un- til England was prepared. It mat- ters not whether England bottled up the German navy and made the seas relatively safe for commerce. It matters not whether we finally sound- ed the death knell of Prussianism by throwing the balance of man-power against it. All have been wonderfully glorious achievements and all will be graven in the hearts of humanity as long as the world lasts. It matters only that we are fighting in a right- eous fight and when it is won there. will be no first honors wanted, for “there is no competition among gen- tlemen.” —Of course we are wonderfully proud of the glorious victories of our boys overseas but all the victories of war are not won on the battle field. Some of thea are won back at the base. At home where the supplies are being prepared for the men in the advanced lines. The croix de guere is a coveted honor en the other side but it carries no more honor relative- ly than the bronze medal little Clyde Love of Bellefonte has won and soon will be wearing. He is a midget in size, but a giant in spunk and deter- mination to do his part. When the Boys’ Working Reserve was enrolled in Centre county Clyde applied for enlistment but he was at first thought to be too young and too small. Fi- nally he was accepted and went to a farmer in Centre county where he worked like a Trojan for six weeks and earned the bronze medal which the government has authorized for those of the boys at home who being too young to meet the Huns face to face are yet willing to earnestly back up their older brothers in a way that counts. —— | ’ | STA TE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 63. BELLEFONTE, PA, AUGUST 23, 19 18. XO. 53. In his speech formaily opening the | campaign for Governor of Pennsylva- nia, delivered at Allentown on Satur- day, Judge Bonniwell clearly defined | the issues upon which he appeals to | the voters for support. First he asks | for the ratification of “the extraordi- | nary record of President Wilson, in | peace as well as in war.” “If the! achievements of the President in the ! arena of war are such as to defy crit- icism,” he said, “let us not forget that this Democratic administration has formulated and enacted into laws’ more beneficent civil legislation af- fecting the welfare of labor, of com- merce, of finance, of agriculture and of social welfare than all the preced- ing Republican administrations in forty years.” The Republicans make false pretense of supporting the war policies of the administration. But they do not even attempt to conceal their antagonism to the income tax,’ the trade commission, the eight hour day, the workmen's compensation ' act, the child labor law, the Federal Reserve act and the farm loan act. The election of Judge Bonniwell will express approval of all these benefi- cent measures. The Judge is equally clear upon what he terms the second issue in im- portance in this campaign. This is the ratification of the Sheppard amendment to the constitution of the United States commonly known as the Prohibition amendment. The Re- publican party is committed to the ratification of this measure by the pledge of its candidate for Governor, | Senator William C. Sproul. The question of temperance is scarcely in- volved. Senator Sproul is neither a teetotaler mor a Prohibitionist but | yielding to what he imagined was a popular demand he said in an address delivered at Swarthmore in March, that he favored the amendment “and 1 believe it my patriotic duty to aid in securing ratification by our State.” But it does involve a reversal of a century old Democratic tradition involve an infraction of t tionally nd it*does im of the rights of the citizen to regu- late his own affairs and it does de- stroy the principle of home rule. In other words it means a complete rev- olution against our system of govern- i ment. Since the adoption of the constitu- tion of the United States ten amend- | ments have been voted by Congress and ratified by the pople. But as Judge Bonniwell said on another oc- casion the Sheppard amendment is the first that has aimed to abridge the liberties or impair the rights of the citizen. It has always been the aim of our government to enlarge rather than curtail the personal lib- erty of the citizen and every amend- ment to the Federal constitution hitherto submitted to the people has expressed this principle. But this amendment not only strikes at the root of these basic principles of our government but subverts the charter of our structure for it destroys the principle of home rule. A few sparse- ly populated southern and western States may, under the provisions of this amendment dictate the domestic policy and make the police regula- tions for Pennsylvania, which is equally repugnant to our self respect and offensive to our sense of justice. For these sufficient reasons and not because of opposition to moral meas- ures Judge Bonniwell declares him- self against the ratification ef the Sheppard amendment. The third reason why Judge Bonni- well asks for the support of the peo- ple of Pennsylvania for the office of Governor is that he is the very em- bodiment of opposition to all that is expressed in the corrupt government of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. The Republican party is directly re- sponsible for all the crimes and mis- demeanors perpetrated in the admin- istration of the government of Penn- sylvania within a quarter of a centu- ry and the iniquities revealed in the government of Philadelphia. His op- ponent in the contest for Governor was chosen by those concerned in these crimes and though “bitter in| their recent denunciation of each oth- | er they laid aside for the moment their factional animosity to meet up- on a common ground—the retention of power to plunder and the repudia- tion of Woodrow Wilson.” The choice is between these men. Judge Bonniwell, the consistent, courageous and uncompromising champion of clean government and William C. Sproul, selected by the corruptionists to promote their selfish purposes to exploit the State and loot the public treasury. — It is said that on the day of his coronation the late Czar Nicholas said, “all around are treachery, de- ception and cowardice.” If he had had courage then to stifle treachery, throttle cowardice and strangle decep- tion he might be living now to rejoice Bonniwell Opens His Campaign. Continued Victories for the Allies. 1 , skillful management and stubborn re- maintain order though on several oc- | | break is likely to occur and if it ' then he struck with irresistible force. when the first drive for Paris failed . Neither will there be any further at- | tempts made to reach the Channel ‘out of France and Belgium. They ' must go sooner or later, though, and against sumptuary legislation; it does | d | the United States. at the coming extinction of autocracy. | The Allied forces have made prog- | ress every day on the western front, not rapid but certain. The fighting has been desperate at times and places and the fire on both sides destructive. But the Allies have moved forward and the enemies backward constantly since the Foch drive set in three weeks ago and indications are that there will be no reversal soon. By sistance the enemy has been able to casions a rout was narrowly averted. The danger of such a thing is not past, however. At any moment a comes it will bring disaster to the Kaiser. A good many earnest people had grown impatient of Foch’s delay in counter-attacking but recent develop- ments show that he was wise in his course. For a long time the Germans had the preponderance in force and while his strength was diminishing ours was increasing. General Foch waited, therefore, until something like an equality had been reached and And he wasn’t satisfied with a single blow. If he had been the value of his action would have been lost. He kept hammering away and is still hammering with the result that the enemy is almost exhausted and in spent strength hunting an avenue of escape. The war is not over but as we said the menace to that city is ended. ports. But it will take some time and cost many lives to drive the Hun the sooner they elect to cross the line into Germany the better it will be for them. We are not engaged in a war of conquest, and so far as the people: of the United States are concerned, there will be no rep 8. v Tih ——The woman suffragists who are nagging the President are like the Russian authorities who are fighting That is to say they are harming their best friend. Improvement in Soldiers’ Mail. The fathers and mothers and sis- ters and brothers as well as the sweethearts and wives of our soldiers abroad will be glad to learn that the mail service to the foreign camps has been greatly improved and deliv- ery expedited. For a long time de- lay in delivery and sometimes entire loss of letters have been a subject of complaint. Efforts at improvement were not wanting but the work was difficult and delays seemingly inevit- able. Now, however, General Persh- ing announces that complete arrange- ments have been made and hereafter mail to soldier boys in France and elsewhere in Europe will be as prompt and certain as it is in the United States. The cause of the fault was in a lack of understanding between mili- thry authorities in France and the postal authorities in France and the want of knowledge of units in the ar- my in France and absence of infor- mation essential to sorting of mail in New York. But an experienced mail man familiar with conditions abroad has now been detailed to sort the mails outward bound in New York and it is expected and believed that all troubles of that kind will end. In any event no pains will be spared to achieve that result. But the writers of letters to soldiers must do their part toward it. That is to say they must direct letters as accurately and legi- bly as possible. The authorities at Washington, civil as well as military, are anxious to minimize the troubles of soldiers wherever they happen to be. The deep debt of gratitude which those of us at home owe to the heroes who have gone abroad is as keenly felt in the high offices in Washington as in the homes of the men whose fathers and mothers are anxiously waiting for news from the front. President Wilson is particularly concerned for the welfare of the soldiers. To him they are all children of the nation and the anxious friends at home may be assured of his constant solicitude for their comfort and contentment. —Don’t waste time talking about what the other fellow is failing to do. It’s a bad habit to get into and one that might grow on you until you will get nothing done but talk. ——Never forget that the govern- ment needs money all the fime and that buying thrift stamps is one of the easiest ways of supplying that want. ——The Kaiser has changed his opinion of Yankee troops but he does not like them a bit better under the new name he applies to them. War Policies Vindicated. In the war policy recently outlined in Washington it is safe to say there | is economy both in life and treasure. | General Pershing has said that with | four million American soldiers on the ! battle line the German defences could be broken down at any time and at | any point. The recently outlined | plans contemplate four millions in| Europe by next spring and it may be | predicted that all German lines will | be smashed before the end of 1919. It will be a costly operation, no doubt, but less energetic plans would cost vastly more for the reason that they would require a much longer period of time. “If it were done when ’t is done, then ’t were well it were done quickly.” Of course Dblatherskites of the Roosevelt type will protest that it is the policy they demanded from the beginning and that there was griev- ous fault in the delay. But that is as untrue as it is unjust. Since the declaration of war troops have been enlisted and dispatched as rapidly as it was possible for human agency to accomplish the result without com- pletely paralyzing the industrial life of the country. There would have been no wisdom in sending troops to the battle front without food, cloth- ing and equipment to make them serviceable. If the original draft legislation had provided an age limit from eighteen years to forty-five, as is now proposed, the essentials for maintenance would have been absent and the enterprise futile. As a matter of fact the pending draft legislation is a complete vindi- cation of the war policies of the ad- ministration from the beginning. Regular troops and volunteer soldiers were sent in the first instance in suf- ficient number and at the psycholog- ical moment to hearten the French and British troops being pressed by superior force, while the full meas- ure of industrial vi e. nov. and. t sed forcements reach there in time to complete the job. —Philadelphia and Pittsburgh newspapers went up two cents on Sunday, the former selling at 9 cents and the latter 10. Increase of price to the local dealers was the cause of the raise. At that there wasn’t any appreciative falling off in the sales thereof. Speaking of newspapers, it hardly seems possible that in such times as these, when the whole world is at war and hundreds of the young men of Centre county are already on the firing line, that there could be found a community in Centre county wherein the daily paper is not in de- mand, and yet it is stated on reliable authority that only one daily paper is received at Port Matilda, all the oth- er residents of that whole section be- ing content with the meagre reports of the war contained in the weekly newspapers. And it is highly prob- able that Port Matilda is not the only section in the county that is without the news service of the daily papers. ——There have been frauds in sup- plying the army and navy with cloth- ing and materials but they don’t en- dure long. On that subject the pres- ent administration watches but doesn’t wait. ——Contemporaries who are re- gretting the fate of Austria are wast- ing sympathy which is a perfectly good thing to save. The worst possi- ble is about what is coming to Aus- tria. — Kaiser Bill wants Kaiser Karl to lend him a few divisions of troops which shows that Kaiser Bill is per- fectly willing to sacrifice his ally on the altar of selfishness. — Tt is hard to tell whether Spain has been patient or cowardly but her recent threat of reprisals expresses the only dope which will make Ger- many take notice. —~— How cheerfully the American people will applaud the just punish- ment of the profiteers. It will be al- most as enjoyable as hitting the Kai- ser with an ax. — The statement that we will have four million soldiers in Europe next spring will not cheer the Kaiser much, but no matter. — No business of any special im- portance was transacted at the regu- lar meeting of borough council on Monday evening. ——Young man, if you became of age since June 5th, 1918, don’t fail to register tomorrow at the sheriff's office, Bellefonte. ——Ludendorf is probably maneu- vering to get back to the Hindenburg line. ——Put your ad. in the “Watch- man.” i units and millions of tons of supplies Bread Cast Upon Waters. From the Altoona Mirror. There were times before the world war when the eyes of native Ameri- can citizens were somewhat blinded to the advantage of democracy and the virtues of cosmopolitan citizen- ship. In theory—and in oratory—we heartily endorsed the principle which made America the “melting pot” of the nations, and brought to our cities, our schools, our industries and our government men and women of in- finitely varied creeds and colors— and but one ideal—our own ideal of freedom, for all, forever. In theory—and in the sincerity of our secret hearts—we welcomed all men, but in practice we were not al- ways so cordial and appreciative in our manner toward these voluntary Americans. Most of us were slightly annoyed by their superficial differenc- es of dress, language, and manner, or by their material prosperity and amazingly large families, or by their poverty and the social and economic problems their very existence creat- ed for us. We jostled them a bit when they got in our conquering way, or when we could not jostle we ad- dressed them and teased them by in- venting for them half derisive names —Wwops, guineas, bohunks, greasers, hunkies, and a score of other tags de- signed to emphasize and remind them of their difference from ourselves. It is so long since our “first families” were immigrants too! Here in America we have sometimes regarded the political and religious liberty; the free education and the economic opportunities we bestowed upon these newest citizens as “bread cast upon the waters.” We were se- cretly dubious about its successful re- turn—but nevertheless we cast it forth, praying over it, laughing a lit- tle—and wondering much. And after many days—! Then came the war. The bread of freedom which this nation cast upon the waters— the waves and waves of foreign im- TE e , upon the very; eile sand creditable achievements of our army in the field of war, don’t forget the navy. The American navy has made good from the very beginning of the war by the efficiency of the prompt par- ticipation of our destroyer fleets in anti-submarine patrol of the war zones, by the safe convoy of about a million and a half of troops and engineers and other non-combatant and war material to Europe, and by the well-trained gun crews supplied to armed ships. This work of the navy has not been spectacular but it has been arduous and perilous and signalized by many gallant deeds. The navy has had but one or two sea fights of a minor sort with the elusive subs, and its ships of the battle line have not figured at all in the news— their very whereabouts being proper- ly obscured; but we know that the na- vy is ready and eager to make good upon the first opportunity, and it is not likely that the opportunity will be continuously lacking. We know that a strong fleet of our battleships is somewhere within striking range of the German naval basis, and we rest assured that it will allow no chance to slip. The recent development of German submarine attacks along our coast is manifestly planned in the hope that it may divert our lighter naval forces from their far more essential duties— the safe convoy of our transports and supply ships. It is spectacular and annoying; it intensifies the anxieties about transport and supply and wor- ries the unconvoyed shipping inter- ests. But it is not a grave matter. Nevertheless it calls attention to the one branch of our naval forces that manifestly needs to be jacked up to greater efficiency—the force of naval auxiliaries enlisted for coast patrol. That force should be sharply over- hauled and largely increased while we await the day when our main naval forces will hit the Huns where they live and exterminate the German sharks in their home bases. Liberty Loan Interest Rate. From the Williamsport Sun. Secretary McAdoo has definitely announced that the fourth Liberty loan bonds will bear 4% per cent. in- terest. The Secretary has been insistent that the government interest rate should be stabilized at 4% per cent. He points out that a raise in the rate of intrest of only one-fourth of one per cent. on $10,000,000,000 of gov- ernment bonds would mean an annual increase of $25,000,000 im interest charges, and that this money would have to be raised by increased taxa- tion and paid by the people of the country. It would not be paid by one class only, because there are consump- tion as well as other kinds of taxes, and the consumption taxes reach every class of people. Various instrumentalities are mentirned as war-winners but the farmers who furnish the food for the soldiers have the claim nailed down and clinched. Subscribe for the “Watchman.” SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Farmers of Beaver county in an ef- effort to assist the food administration are helping each other to thresh their grain. Several threshing outfits are en- gaged in the work which will continue for several weeks. | _Dennis McGee, aged eighty, one of the best known residents of Allentown, was : killed by an explosion which resulted when he lighted his pipe and threw the burning match into the sink, causing a terrific explosion of sewer gas. —A valuable cow, the property of Charles Hoefer, of Orwigsburg, was elec- trocuted in a dramatic manner in the pub- lic square. Seeing a wire dangling from the trolley line the cow placed its nose up to the point and 6600 volts went through her body. — Agents of the State Dairy Food Com- mission have started sampling butter sold in every county in the State to determine whether undue amounts of moisture are present. Some reports coming lately show as high as thirty-five per cent. of water. All butter will be analyzed at once. —A bursted air hose on extra train No. 3611, westbound, caused the derailment Saturday evening at 5:50 o'clock of four cars on the train and resulted in a traffic tie up near the Granville station on the Middle division. Forty-one trains were delayed. The wreck crew was at work for five hours. —About 400 chief clerks of local and district draft boards and medical adviso- ry boards in Pennsylvania will be affect- ed by the order from Washington that they be inducted into federal service either as privates or non-commissioned officers. No announcement has been made as to their remuneration under the new order. —J. H. Hostetter, a farmer near Millers- ville, has made a unique record in grow- ing tobacco. The present crop he is rais- ing is the sixty-seventh grown on his farm and every one of which he helped to cultivate and harvest. The highest prices realized for any of the sixty-seven crops are expected to be paid for the one now nearing maturity. —Meyersdale, a Somerset county village, has decided to refuse all amusement li- censes for the period of the war, in recog- nition of the sacrifice of young men from that place who have given their lives on the battle-fields of France. Many Mey- ersdale boys are members of Company C, 1i0th regiment, which took part in the Ju- ly offensive of the Allies. —Nine thousand three hundred and six- ty-nine volunteer State policemen have been commissioned at the State capitol under the Act of 1917. These policemen have in many cases assisted in the for- mation of home defense units and also in training drafted men. They have been or- ganized according to wards, boroughs and townships and some have been called out on trial summons this summer. —George I. Beers, the blind broom-mak- er of Clearfield, Clearfield county, is able to see a joke at least. The other day met Matt Savage, editor of the Dai- irit, on the street. “I owe you fora . 3 * J four others are suffering from the disease. Two paralysis cases are reported from Greencastle, one from Fayetteville, one from Waynesboro. The one death has been reported from Letterkenny town- ship. A strict quarantine has been esfab- lished in each case and a thorough inves- tigation will be started at once by acting health commissioner B. F. Royer. —The skeleton of an aged Pole was the gruesome discovery of George Wentz on his land between Weyant and Pavia, Bed- ford county, on Wednesday of last week while he was clearing the tract prepara- tory to erecting a bungalow. The body was identified by William Barefoot as that of a Polish coal miner about 70 years old, who had stopped at his house at the time of the deep snow and who gave his name as Coglow. A small testament and other papers found upon the body gave evi- dence that his name was Victor Coglow. —Dr. P. H. Harbold’s action in resign- ing the principalship of the Millersville State Normal school because of the differ- ences with the directing board, has been upheld by the State Department of Edu- cation and Dr. Harbold was offered the position of deputy Superintendent of Pub- lic Instruction in Pennsylvania. He an- nounced the fact, however, that he had de- clined the offer, and had been appointed director of education activities at Camp Meade. He will take up his new work August 27th and will operate under the direction of the Y. M. C. A. —A large bed of marl lime was recent- ly discovered by several farmers on the land of Thomas Hubbard at Jobs Cor- ners, Tioga county. Samples were sent to State College, where, after a careful anal- ysis, it was discovered that the deposit ranges from ninety-six to ninety-one per cent. calcium carbonate. Friday Dr. Wil- liam Frear, of the State Cellege experiment station, in company with Harry Webster and E. J. Perry, of the Tioga county farm bureau, made several borings which show- ed several thousand tons of the lime, which will be of a fine quality for agri- cultural purposes. —The ministers of Reynoldsville, Jef- ferson county, are doing their bit to help win the war during what would otherwise be their annual vacations. The Rev. Ger- berding is filling a position as clerk in the Reynoldsville postoffice. The Rev. MacPhail, of the Baptist church,” has a job working in the DuBois iron works, helping as a machinist. The Rev. Ghagen, of the Presbyterian church, is helping with the harvesting at his former home near Dayton, Armstrong county. These three ministers decided that a vacation was an unnecessary luxury this year so they are filling “jobs” instead of posi- tions. —The section of the Toby Valley, Elk county, around the vicinity of Crenshaw, has joimed in a hunt for Mrs. Joseph Cherneski, who has been missing from her home for several days. Mrs. Cherneski lived with her husband and children at the mining village of Walburn Run. She had been in the habit of visiting an aban- doned coal mine about a quarter of a mile from her home for the purpose of digging coal for use in her home. It was while she was thus visiting the mine, it is thought, that she disappeared. A search has beén made of the mine and the coun- try surrounding, but nothing to indicate her whereabouts has been discovered. It is thought that she became confused in the mine, wandered deep into the earth and perished from starvation.
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