Jour & address and would do so if we
BY P. GRAY MEEK
INK SLINGS.
—Let’s all push together and put
the fourth loan “over the top” today |
and tomorrow.
—U. S. means Uncle Sam, of
course, but it also stands for uncondi-
tional surrender.
—Turkey’ s peace note plainly says
“me too.” But Turkey will get the
ax long enough before Thanksgiving.
—We all want peace, of course, but
only that kind of peace that will
guarantee what we have been fight-
ing for.
—Thus far all of the gold stars that
give lustre to the church service flags
in Bellefonte are on the one in St.
John’s Catholic church.
Let the third time be the charm
for Mr. Tobias. This is his third en-
try in the Congressional race and let
us return him a winner.
___If Senator Lodge had only
known half as much as he thinks he
knows he wouldn’t have made such a
blooming ass of himself.
— There are two million Ameri-
can troops on the firing line in France
and Flanders now and it’s small won-
der the Kaiser wants peace.
— Nobody misunderstands Presi-
dent Wilson’s last word to Germany
and only scurvy politicians misun-
derstood the one of a week ago.
—Don’t wait until it is too late.
The blue cross on your paper is the
warning and the government will per-
mit us to flash it to you only once
more.
—If Centre county doesn’t get |
“over the top in the new loan the in-
fluenza will be one of the reasons, but
it is not a good one. It is only an
excuse.
— Conditions were unfavorable
for the success of the fourth Liberty
loan but it will go “over the top” in
due time and others will follow as
long as the government “needs
the money.”
—Vote for Tobias for Congress.
Roosevelt and Harrison said, twenty
years ago, when we were at war with
Spain, that the President should have
a Congress of his own friends. If
their argument was sound then it is
more so today.
—The Huns are licked but holler'n
“Enough!” won’t do. We've got to
give them that “damned good lickin’ ”
that George Wharton Pepper, chair-
man of the State Council of National
Defense, declared was necessary away
back in November of last year.
—1If you have gotten the blue cross
signal again this week hurry along
your remittance. We are anxious to
continue sending the “Watchman” to
ad our own way, but the government’
has ruled against it and all our will-
ingness to extend you as much credit
as you want is of no avail. Send in
enough to bring your subscription up
to August 15th, 1918, at least.
VOL. 63.
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
18, 1918.
NO. 41.
dg i
Proper Terms of Peace. :
The reply of Germany to President |
Wilson’s note of inquiry in no re-
spect impairs the advantages that
have been gained in the recent mili-
tary operations. President Wilson
asked Prince Maximilian whether he
spoke for the German people or the
military autocracy and added that
no proposition for an armistice would
be considered while the armies of the
central powers occupied alien terri-
tory. The Chancellor answers that
he speaks for the German govern-
ment and people and accepts “the
terms laid down by President Wilson
in his address of January 8, and on
his subsequent addresses on the foun-
dation of a permanent peace of jus-
tice.” President Wilson's address of
January 8 and his subsequent ad-
dresses contemplated a dictated peace
after an unconditional surrender.
There is no occasion for going into
hysterics over this situation. It
doesn’t mean, as former President
Taft pretends to think, sitting down
at a council table to discuss what the
fourteen points of the President
mean, while Germany is recuperating
for past losses and preparing for fu-
ture operations. It simply means
that Germany and her allies in crime
and vice shall yield to terms dictated
by the allies of the United States in
a war for the extermination of autoc-
racy, for the maintenance of civil
liberty and the guarantee of the na-
tional and individual rights of weak
as well as strong nations and poor as
well as rich individuals. If Germany
consents to those conditions we can
see no valid cause of complaint. But
she will have to show President Wil-
son.
The President’s terms as expressed
in his address of January 8, and of
February 11, 1918, are “corkers.”
They embody about everything IMAE- | Ay A AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
inable to guarantee permanent peace
and leave no loop holes for escaping
or evading responsibilities. They re-
quire the evacuation of Russia, the
restoration of Belgium, the readjust-
ment of frontiers of France and Ita-
ly, the freest opportunity of autona-
mous development of Austria-Hun-
gary, Rumania, Serbia and Montene-
gro and absolute justice to the peo-
ples oppressed by Turkey, as well as
‘the permanent opening of the Darde-
nelles. An independent Polish State
is also demanded with free and secure
access to the sea and a League of
Nations under special covenants to
bind the bargain. The supplemental
conditions are merely strengthening.
—Only two weeks remain in which
you can make remittance to bring |
your subscription account up to the
time that the War Industries Board
has ruled that it must be, if we are to
be permitted to mail the “Watchman”
to you. We want to continue sending
the paper to you and believe that you
appreciate having it, but neither con-
dition has anything to do with it now
that the government has made a spe-
cific ruling that we must obey.
— Bellefonte will surely be a sweet
scented place if the influenza prevails
much longer. Up to this time one of
our druggists alone has sold over two
hundred prescriptions of camphor
and asafoetida. When a boy we
sometimes put asafoetida in our an-
gle worms when we went fishing and
the memory of the aroma of our fin-
gers for days afterwards raises a
doubt now as to whether we wouldn’t
rather have the flu than a bag of
camphor and that vile stuff hanging
about our neck.
—The President’s answer to Maxi-
millian’s peace overture has raised
considerable discussion. Some thought
he was planning to temporize with
Germany. Others were of the
opinion that: it was his cleverest
public document. We publish in
another column the estimate of
it by the New York Sun.
The Sun's opinion is peculiarly valu-
able testimony, not alone because it
is probably the strongest paper ed-
itorially in America, but because it is
a chronic scold and has been a caus-
tic critic of many of President Wil-
son’s acts.
—Lest you forget Jet us remind
you that men who know how are the
men who accomplish things for Cen-
tre county when they are sent to Har-
risburg. The Hon. Harry Scott had
experience there and when certain
Centre county institutions found their
appropriations threatened with cur-
tailment by the last Legislature he
not only had them restored, but in
two instances they were increased
through his personal and gratuitous
intercession. It was done because Mr.
Scott had been schooled in legislative
practices and had become known to
his fellow members. The Hon. John
Noll has been in the Legislature be-
fore and knows and is known. And
because of this he will be able to do
more for the county, far more than
his unknown opponent. Let other is-
sues be as they may The Pennsylva-
nia State College, the new peniten-
tiary, the Philipsburg and the Belle-
fonte hospitals have to be taken care
of and a man who knows the game
can do it better than one who doesn’t.
If Germany accepts these condi-
! tions there will be little danger of
| peace disturbance from that quarter.
The restoration of Belgium, France,
Serbia and Rumania, in which Ger-
man armies pillaged and ravaged like
the proverbial drunken sailor, will
cost so vast a sum that payment will
hold the Teutonic nose to the grind-
stone for a hundred years and a peo-
ple so impoverished is not likely to
get gay. In any event the Presi-
dent’s actions in the matter give no
cause for complaint or justification
for criticism. We all want peace but
it must be laid on just lines and be
enduring. And it is safe to say that
any peace to which Woodrow Wilson
assents will be of that sort. He will
not be either betrayed or dragooned
into foolish conventions and the peo-
ple may trust him implicitly.
His answer to Maxamilian’s reply
is sufficient evidence of that and has
finally set at rest the carping of polit-
ical critics who are vainly groping
for partisan advantage on the eve of
a Congressional election.
The President’s last word to Ger-
many has set the Hohenzollern dy-
nasty rocking on its throne. It can-
not be withheld from: the German peo-
ple and through it they will discover
that their wretched rulers have de-
ceived them to the point where they
can find no redress except by shaking
themselves free of the Kaiser, his six
sons and all their baby killing hire-
| lings, and then coming to.the peace
table as suppliants and not as domi-
neering victors intent upon imposing
their kultur on an SHER civilize-
tion: i" i pls
——Meantime the definite assur-
ance that “the ‘process of evacuation
and the conditions of an armistice are
matters which must be left to .the
judgment and advice of the military
advisers of the government of the
United States and the Allied govern-
ments, there is no occasion to worry.
With Foch, Pershing and Haig boss-
ing the job there isn’t much danger
of Ludendorf getting away with any-
thing that doesn’t belong to’ him.
— Too much faith must 0% >
placed in the humanity of the Ger-
man people. The barbarities attend-
ing the retreat of the German army
are the work of the rank and file and
they represent the people.
———The “Coinel” never will be sat-
isfied. His last impotent knock is on
the President’s fourteen “terms” of
settlement of the war but the admin-
istration has a habit of making the
road of the knocker rocky.
BELLEFONTE, PA. OCTOBER
What Are We Doing While They
Are Away?
ROY D. SCHOOLEY
I am the voice of your soldier boys
Who have left their homes and other joys
And taken up arms to make your fight
And free the world from the Kaiser's might;
But when we come home we are going to say:
“What were you doing while we were away?”
We have given up jobs and
x A mother, a sweetheart, a sister, or wife;
And life itself, if so it must be,
We'll give that, too, to bring victory.
But if we come home we are going to say:
“What were you giving while we were away?”
If death be our fate in the hell that we face,
We'll meet it like men because of our race;
But our spirits and those who have died for the right
Will crowd ’round your bed in the dead of the night
And harrow your slumbers
“What were you doing while we were away?”
And if you escape us in spirit or clay
We'll be waiting for slackers on God’s judgment day,
And before His bright throne the record will read
That they're writing now because of their greed;
“When humanity called,” to the Great King we ’1l say,
“These folks did nothing while we were away.’
For the sake of Old Glory we all love so well,
Whose bright stars are pointing the despots’ death knell,
Fight for our lives in the ranks in the rear
As we fight for yours on the battlefields here;
Then when we come home
“Thank God, you did everything while we were away.”
Are We Buying, Buying Bonds ?
what's best in life,
and groaningly say:
we will greet you and say:
False Pretemse Revealed.
Upon the conclusion of his speech
denouncing the President, in the Sen-
ate, the other day, all the Republican
Senators present gathered about the
Massachusetts Senator, Henry Cabot
Lodge, and warmly congratulated
him. Some of them lacked the “cour-
“age of their convictions,” and refrain. ’
ed from following his pernicious -ex-
ample. Some of them pretend to sup-
port the war policies and nearly all of
them vote for the war measures. But
their action in congratulating Sena-
tor Lodge when he openly attacked an
action that has been endorsed by the
leading statesmen of every belliger-
ent power allied with us in war, shows
that they are all opposed to the pros-
ecution of the war.
If all the Republican Representa-
tives in Congress had been present
when Senator Lodge delivered his sin- |
ister speech, they would have con-
gratulated him also.
he thinks on the subject and the only
reason that any Republican Senator
or Representative in Congress has
voted for any of the war measures is
that they hadn’t strength enough to
defeat them and hadn't courage
enough to oppose them as a minori-
ty. Moreover if the Republicans had
a majority in both branches of Con-
gress, the conscription bill would not
have been passed, the revenue bill
would have been defeated and every
other war measure which has worked
such splendid results would have been
voted down.
Yet Republican speakers and press
have the assurance to ask patriotic
voters to support Republican candi-
dates for Senators and Representa-
tives in Congress upon the false and
fraudulent pretense that such action
will promote the prosecution of the
war. It can have no other than the
opposite result. It will promote the
success of the German autocracy in
the war, and prolong the struggle in-
definitely and cost hundreds of thous-
ands of lives of American citizens.
No man who desires to see the war
speedily and successfully “conducted
will vote for a Republican candidate
for either branch of Congress. No
intelligent , man outside the ‘Central
powers desires a Republican majority
in Cn
On the 6th page of today’s
“Watchman” will be found an article
giving most explicit directions re-
garding the’ sending of Christmas
boxes to the soldiers in France. Any
reader of this paper who has a boy
over there and is arranging to send a
package should read the article and
then adhere closely to the directions
given. By so doing you can feel as-
sured that the package will arrive at
its destination on time and your boy
feel that he has been remembered by
the folks at home just as in olden
times.
Dr. H. P. Armsby, of State Col-
lege, on Wednesday was notified that
he had been appointed one of the four
American members of the interallied
scientific nutrition commission which
is to meet in London or Paris in De-
cember.
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
They think as |
“Cohesive Power of Public Plunder.”
It is announced on behalf of Sena-
tor Sproul that it will not be necessa-
ry for him to spend time, money and
energy campaigning in Philadelphia
for the bosses of both factions are for
him and will give him the full party
vote without effort on his part. There
age.no ‘differences between Penrose
and the Vares upon questions affect-
ed by the election of a Governor. Pen-
rose aspires to control the political
patronage of the State outside of
Philadelphia and the Vares want con-
trol of the patronage in the city. Sen-
ator Sproul enjoys intimate relations
with both and may be depended upon
to serve both in the event of his elec-
tion. The factions were equally anx-
ious to secure his nominaiton.
After the election of four years
ago the Vares undertook to extend
their control over the State. That
| created the very bitter controversy
which led to charges and counter
charges of all sorts of crimes on both
sides and threatened to destroy the
party organization. Last spring,
however, a compromise was effected
by which the status quo was to be re-
stored and both Penrose and the Vares
gave Senator Sproul enthusiastic
support with the understanding that
in the event of his election Penrose
should exploit the State and the Vares
the city. This corrupt agreement or
compounding of a felony affords the
reason why Mr. Sproul is relieved
from the labor and expense of a cam-
paign in the city.
But the people of the State are con-
cerned in the defeat of this unholy al-
liance. The government of Philadel-
phia is so rotten that it stinks to high
heaven and as the principal city of
the State the shame of such a govern-
ment in the city is a crime against
the people of every county in the
State. Moreover it entails other evils
which must be borne by the people of
the State. "By common consent the
deathly epidemic now taking a toll of
lives in every section of the State is
ascribable largely to the dirty streets
and bad government of Philadelphia.
That being true the restoration of the
status quo in the Republican factions
elects Sproul Governor.
T——
General Orders for Public Eating
‘Places.
For the purpose. se of the following
general orders public eating places
shall be defined to include all hotels,
restaurants, boarding houses, clubs,
dining cars, and steamships, and all
places where cooked food is sold to be
consumed on the premises.
The following general orders have
been issued by the United States
Food Administrator governing the
operations of all such pubiic eating-
places, these orders to be effective
October 21, 1918. It has been deem-
ed advisable or necessary at the pres-
ent time actually to license the oper-
ation of such public eating-places,
but in cases where the patriotic co-
operation of such public eating places
cannot be secured by other means,
the United States Food Administra-
tion will not hesitate to secure com-
| pliance with its orders through its
is hardly to be desired even though § it ;
control of the distribution of sugar,
flour and other food supplies.
A failure to conform to any of the
following orders will be regarded as
a wasteful practice forbidden by Sec-
tion four of the Food Control Act of
August 10, 1917.
General Order 1. No public-eating
place shall serve or permit to be serv-
ed any bread or other bakery pro-
duct which does not contain at least
twenty per cent. of wheat flour sub-
stitutes, nor shall it serve or permit
to be served more than 2 ounces of
this bread, known as Victory bread,
orif no Victory bread is served, more
than four ounces of other breads
(such as corn breads; muffins, Boston
i brown bread, etc.) Sandwiches or
bread served at boarding camps, and
rye bread containing fifty per cent.
o more of pure rye flour, are except-
General Order 2. No public eating-
place shall serve or permit to be serv-
ed, bread or toast as a garniture or
under meat.
General Order 3. No public eating
place shall allow any bread to be
brought to the table until after the
first course is served.
General Order 4. No public eating
place shall serve or permit to be serv-
ed to one person at any one meal more
than one kind of meat. For the pur-
pose of this rule meat shall be con-
sidered as including beef, mutton,
pork, poultry and any by-product
thereof.
General Order 5. No public eating
place shall serve or permit to be serv-
ed any bacon as a garniture.
General Order 6. No public eating
place shall serve or permit to be serv-
ed to any one person at any one meal
more than one-half ounce of butter.
General Order 7. No public eating
place shall serve or permit to be serv-
ed to any one person at any one meal
more than one-half ounce of Ched-
dar, commonly called American
cheese.
General Order 8. No public eating
place shall use or permit the use of
the sugar-bowl on the table or lunch
counter. Nor shall any public eating
place serve sugar or permit it to be
served unless the guest so requests
and in no event shall the amount
Senved to any one person at any one
meal exceed one ‘teaspoonful its
equivalent. ; 12
General Order 9. No public por
place shall use or permit the use of
sugar in excess of two pounds for
every ninety meals served, including
all uses of sugar on the table and in
cooking, excepting such sugar as may
be allotted for this special baking
purpose, shall be used for any other
| purpose.
General Order 10. No publie eat-
ing place shall burn any food or per-
mit any food to be burned and all
waste shall be saved to feed animals
or reduced to obtain fats.
General Order 11. No public eat-
ing place shall display or permit to
be displayed food on its premises in
any such manner as may cause its de-
terioration so that it cannot be used
for human consumption.
General Order 12. No public eat-
ing place shall serve or permit to be
served what is known as double cream
or cream de luxe; and in any event,
no-cream containing over twenty per
cent. of butter fat shall be served.
W. F. REYNOLDS,
Federal Food Administrater
of Centre County.
The President’s Answer.
From the New York Sun. :
Perhaps no document proceeding
from the President’s capable intel
lectuals has ever gone so swiftly to
the heart of the question or disposed
with such candid and yet subtle dia-
lectic skill of a dangerously plausi-
ble trick of the enemy’s diplomacy
as his reply, through Mr. Lansing, to
Prince Maxamillian’s peace prope.
Ten thousand words of amplifica-
tion could add naught to this incom-
‘parably ‘effective response. It argues
nothing, it promises nothing, but se-
renely and without the least bluster
of rhetorical phrase it hamsrtings
the Kaiser's stalking horse.
“We are ready to accept your well
known terms of peace as the basis of
negotiations;” said Prince Maxamil-
lian.” “Do. you mean that you accept
those well known terms?” replies the
President:
“We propose ' an armistice while
the negotiations are going on,” said
Prince Maximillian. “There can be
no armistice,” replies the President,
“while your troops are in the terri.
tory you have invaded.”
ian.
replies the President.
civilized world in this awful war
have remarked before,
thought in common.”
That is all, but it is enough;
tic simplicity
flag.
A———————
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The Susqquehanna Traction company,
operating im Lock Haven and vicinity has
filed notice of advance of fares from five
to seven and ten cents in certain cases and
establishment of new divisions.
—Governor Brumbaugh has approved a
requisition from the Governor of Colorado
for return to Denver of Charles A. Ward,
alias Clarence Allen, under arrest in Phil-
adelphia and accused of working a confi-
dence game for $1,035.
—On October 4th, the State Forestry
Commission. authorized the purchase of
the Paradise Furnace tract of 4700 acres in
the western part of Huntingdon county,
for an addition to the State forestry re-
serve. The tract is said to contain a farm.
—Sumner McCarthy, of Shunk, Lawrence
county, nearly lost his life coon hunting.
While skirting a ledge of rocks at night
with lantern and ax, piloting a party, he
fell over the edge and landed on his feet
in the creek bed thirty feet below, receiv-
ing serious injuries,
—The State Department of Fisheries
has been forced to discontinue the ship-
ment of fish from four of its hatcheries
because the employees are down with in-
fluenza. Many of the men at other hatch-
eries are sick and some of the wardens
have been affected by the epidemic.
—J. L. Reitz, of Lock Haven, who is
lumbering near Brockwayville, returned
home Monday to spend a few days with
his family, and took along 65 pounds of
honey which he secured when “bee trees’
were cut down by his men, one of whom
secured 8G pounds of the sweetness.
—When the Stroudsburg State Normal
school passes into control of the State
within the next few days, only two Nor-
mal schools of the thirteen will not be
wholly under State management. The
next Legislature will be asked to set aside
money to purchase the schools of Indiana
and Mansfield.
—Lewis Banks, of Lewisburg, who, by
reckless driving of his automobile during
the peace demonstration early Sunday
morning, caused the death of Peter B.
Stahl, has been held on the charge of vol-
untary manslaughter and placed under
$1000 bail for his appearance at the next
term of court.
—Mayor Adam J. Haag, of DuBois, re-
cently started an effective crusade against
work slackers in DuBois. The police force
has been instructed to round up all loaf-
ers on the streets who cannot give a good
account of their idleness. ¥or the second
offense, which is rare, the slackers are put
at work on the city stone pile.
—When George Pottsgrove died at Al-
toona twenty-five years ago, he had $187
due him in wages from the Pennsylvania
railroad. Neither the company nor the
family was aware of this until lately,
when the discovery was made by clerks
going over old records. A check for the
amount was made out and sent to the
widow.
—Clyde Lessell, wanted as an army de-
serter, was arrested in his father’s home,
at Williamsport, early Tuesday morning
by city police, after they had surrounded
the house and broken down a door to gain
an entrance. The man was discovered
hidden in a bureau in a bedroom. The
drawers had been removed and a fake
front placed in the bureau.
—Appearance of the oriental peach
moth, ome of the most destructive pests
which injure the fruit trees in eastern
States, has been discovered at several
points in the southern section of Pennsyl-
Vania and experts from the. State zoolo-
gist's office are moving to isolate it. The
pest is difficult to control and has an af-
finity for trees of fine variety.
—Middleburg borough council has com-
pleted negotiations with the Middleburg
Water company for the purchase of the
water plant at the fixed price of the com-
pany, $50,000. Every member of the coun-
cil was present and voted in the affirma-
tive on the purchase. Arrangements will
be made for the issue of bonds to run
thirty years for the payment of the plant.
—EBarly action is anticipated by the
Governor in naming the commissioners to
take the soldier vote after Adjutant Gen-
eral Beary gets replies from commanders
of camps who are expected to inform him
of the number of Pennsylvanians in their
commands. The Governor is said to in-
tend to mame men to go abroad in event
that any commissioners can be named for
France.
—Judges Endlich and Wagner, of Berks
county, have revoked the license of John
J. McHenry, a saloon-keeper for thirty-
five years, at Reading. McHenry kept- his
front door locked but the rear entrance
open for patrons, after influenza regula-
tions had been published. Mayor Filbert
took court action after other officials
found more than a dozen people at Mec-
Henry's bar. :
—Robbers broke into a DuBois printing
office the other night and store a quart” of
gin from the desk of the manager. DuBois,
like the rest of the State, has been “dry”
for a few days, and when the burglars
saw the big juicy quart through the win-
dow, the temptation was too great, so they
smashed in a window and made away with
the gin. The general sentiment is that
any printer who could hoard up a full
quart of gin belongs to the profiteering
class.
_Hdward Smith, a former professional
baseball player, who on Sunday robbed
the Farmer's State bank at Hallam, York
county, was arrested early on Monday at
his home in Windsor.. $2,900 has been re-
covered. Smith has confessed. After fore-
ing the cashier and his two. assistants in-
to the vault and telling -them to remain
there twenty minutes Smith jumped into
an automobile and hurried to his home.
The automobile furnished te clue which
led to his arrest.
—The Lehigh field has instituted a
search for the automobile ambulance giv-
en in 1917 to Battery A, 109th field artil-
lery, but ordered left behind by the War
Department when the home boys left Camp
“We are ready for parley with a
view to peace,” said Prince Maxamil-
“Of whom are you speaking?”
“It .is vital
that we should know whether we are
parleying with the German people or
with the criminals who involved the
With them, deveid of honor, as I
we have no
common language and can have no
and | b
it is as incontrovertible in its majes-
as the laws governing
the movements of the heavenly bod-
ies, and as beautiful as the American
Hancock, Ga. for France. The machin¢
was purchased with $2000 raised by the
district and it is needed now to aid In
fighting the flu epidemic. Colonel Asher
Miner, of the 109th, sent word heme be-
fore the regiment sailed in May’ that he
had shipped the vehicle but no’ one knows
what became of it. §#
—For ‘knocking down’?! fares, George
Holliday, employed by the Johnstown
Traction company, was plactd in custody,
being the sixteenth of the ¢onductors of
that company who have baen sentenced
by Alderman Will J. Lambe:t to spend
three months in the Cambria county jail.
Holliday pleaded guilty and advanced the
plea that he was encouraged by others to
steal, but the officers decided that Holli-
day had been doing some encouraging, ex-
plaining to other conductors how easy the
trick could be worked.
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