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Germany to Get Grain if She Can
Raise Price.
New York.—Under the general
food program outlined by the Allies,
Germany will be allowed about 6,000,-
000 bushels of breadstuffs a month
mostly from the United States, if she
can find the money to pay for it, ac-
cording to a detailed statement of for-
eign grain requirements cabled by
Herbert C. Hoover to Julius H.
Barnes, president of the United States
Grain Corporation, and made public
here a few days ago.
Between now and July 1, the state-
ment said, France and Italy will take
80,000,000 bushels of wheat and flour
from the Grain Corporation, while
the Allied governments will take also
about 75,000,000 bushels of oats. If
restrictions are removed on cereal im-
ports to European neutrals, they will
require about 60,000,000 bushels of
wheat, rye, or barley, in grain or flour,
to bring their bread consumption to
normal, mostly from the United
States.
“As we have already shipped from
the United States over 160,000,000
bushels of wheat or flour, the Grain
Corporation will easily dispose of all
wheat, with perhaps a small carry-
over, if any, at the next harvest,” the
cable said. The basis of price of all
these wheat sales included not only
the basic price paid to the farmer, but
handling and storage expenses of the
Grain Corporation. The Grain Cor-
poration is, therefore, in a strong po-
sition because of firm sales about
equal to its stock on hand, and with
its available $150,000,000 capital, the
corporation will emphatically main-
tain the 1918 guaranty for which pur-
pose it was created.
“The Supreme Food Council, under
military advice, has granted Germany
the right to import 150,000,000 pounds
of pork products per month as soon
as she arranges payment and ship-
ping. This and neutral demand
should overtake any surplus of these
products in two months after being
started; in fact, by peace there will
be a shortage in pork production.
“The re-establishment of new mar-
kets and normal trading during arm-
istice is slow and difficult. In order
to get over many of the difficulties of
trading in flours and wheat during the
period of the armistice, the Grain
Corporation is establishing stocks for
sale at Rotterdam, Trieste, Constan-
tinople and other points as to as large
an extent as the Shipping Board can
furnish tonnage.”
Farmer to Get His $2.26.
Washington, D. C.—While the far-
mer would be paid the $2.26 govern-
ment guarantee for the 1919 wheat
crop, the wheat would be sold to the
consumer at a price to be dictated by
the law of supply and demand, under
legislation approved by the House
Agriculture committee. The govern-
ment would lose the difference between
the purchase and sale prices.
With the government given abso-
lute control of the wheat market in
the United States, members of the
committee said it would be difficult to
determine what would be the price if
the usual law of supply and demand
were in operation, but they thought it
would-be based largely on the world {
market price. Some witnesses who
have testified at hearings before the
committee have predicted a world
price of $1.25 a bushel.
On the basis of such a price the
government would stand a loss of
about $1 a bushel, but committee
members would not venture a predic-
tion as to what the total loss might
be, as forecasts of the 1919 crop de-
pend upon many factors. The crop is
estimated now at about 1,000,000,000
bushels.
The bill approved by the committee
is a substitute for that presented hy
the Food Administration and Depart-
ment of Agriculture. It gives the
President discretionary powers to
continue the present agency for hand-
ling the wheat crop, or to create a
new one, and appropriates $1,000,000-
000 as a revolving fund to carry out
the guarantee.
The Americans absolutely re-
fused to discuss with the Germans
their frantic plea for raw materials,
such as cotton, steel, ete., and declin-
ed proffers of German potash, there
being an ample supply of the home
product in America. We get about
350,000 tons of shipping, half of the
available German passenger ships,
with a capacity for 70,000 homebound
soldiers. The British get the other
half of the passenger tonnage, the
smaller passenger ships needed to
move the Australians through the
Suez Canal, which the Bismarck and
Imperator could not pass. The re-
muneration to Germany at the cur-
rent market rate for the used passen-
er ships will be its credit against the
ood they get from us. Two million
tons of German cargo ships to be us-
ed for food shipments will be divided
among the Allies. All enemy ships
are taken “without prejudice as to
their final disposition,” in which dip-
lomatic phrase the Germans find small
comfort.—Ex.
Mercy for Flies.
A French doctor, famous for his ef-
forts to protect animals from cruelty,
was one day annoyed by a big blue fly
which buzzed uninterruptedly on a
window pane. The doctor called his
man servant.
“Do me the kindness,” said he, ‘to
open the window and put that fly care-
fully outside.”
“But sir,” said the servant, who
thought of the drenching the room
might get through an open casement,
“jt is raining hard outside.”
“Qh, is it?” exclaimed the doctor.
“Then please put the little creature
in the waiting room and let him stay
there till the weather clears.”
Fancy Title.
“What would you suggest as a title
for my book of philosophical say-
ings?” :
“Let’s see! How would ‘Shavings
from a High Plane of Thought’ do?”
A School of Thedas.
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shoe workers is to the vampires, who
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every young man:
“My Dear Herbert:—You are now
for the first time really launched into
life for yourself. You go from your
father’s house and from all the fam-
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of whose evil you have had exper-
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of which you have found so damaging.
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and haste are two devils that destroy
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Please, mother says she’s much bet-
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quinin for, but she’s awful ill of the
disease wot’s cured by port wine and
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Your cousin’s medical practice, I
suppose, doesn’t amount to much yet.”
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but of course we can’t be sick all the
time.”
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Wetzel, Bellefonte.
Nevin R. Smith and Nellie R. Mil-
ler, Bellefonte.
Looked That Way.
“Tdith, that young man has been
calling on you now for over a year.
Isn’t it about time he was breaking
the ice?”
«1 don’t believe he intends to break
the ice—he’s going to wear it out.”
Dan ger of “Explosion.
“Was Maude’s make-up as obvious
2s usual at the party last night?”
“Was it? Mercy! Whenever her
face lit up I was afraid it would set
off the powder.”
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As Applied to Influenza.
An Arab fable has it that a travel-
er met the Plague going to pay a vis-
it to Cairo, and out of curiosity asked
this distinguished personage how
many he was going to kill. The
answer was to the point—3,000.
The same traveler met the same
personage on his return and remon-
strated that he had slaughtered 30,-
000 instead of the stipulated number.
Farm in College Township
for Sale.
The farm known as the Thompson
“Hollow Farm,” situate in College town-
ship, Centre county, Pa., bounded and de-
scribed as follows: On the North by Wil-
liam Brennan, East by J. J. Osman, South
by Robert Brennan and West by E. C.
Strohm and Willis Johnstonbaugh.
CONTAINING 150 ACRES MORE OR
LESS.
It has good buildings, orchard, three
cisterns, rural mail delivery and about
30 ACRES WHITE PINE AND OAK
TIMBER.
Possession could not be given before |
April 1st, 1920. Write or phone
CHARLES M. THOMPSON,
63-5-3t Lemont, Pa.
“I only killed 3,000,” was the re-
ply; “all the rest died from fright of
my name.”—London Saturday Ke-
view.
New Advertisements.
IRL WANTED.—Good girl for gener-
al housework, in small family at
State College.
64-7-3t*
Call or write
Mrs. GROVER C. GLENN,
State College, Pa.
XECUTOR'S NOTICE.—Estate of Mi-
chael Segner, deceased: Letters
testamentary upon the estate of
Michael Segner, late of Harris township,
Centre county, Pennsylvania, deceased,
have been granted to C. D. Moore, resid-
ing at 910 east Washington street, Wil-
iamsport, Pa., to whom all persons irdebt-
ed to said estate are requested to make
payment, and those having claims or de-
mands will make known the same without
delay. . :
C. D. MOORE.
Ciement Dale, Executor,
Attorney, 910 E. Washington St.
64-7-6t Bellefonte, Pa Williamsport, Pa.
OTICE.—Notice, is hereby given that
by a resolution of the Board of
Directors of the Superior Silica
Brick company, passed January 8, 1919,
a meeting of the stockholders of the com-
pany will be held at the office of the com-
any in Port Matilda, Pa., on Thursday,
pose of voting in favor of, or against a
proposed increase of the capital stock
One Million Dollars.
| : : Fv
| ar.0-at (Signed) J. E. HARVEY,
Secretary. |
New Advertisements.
OTICE.—The annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Bellefonte
Lumber company will be held at
the office of the company, Bellefonte, Pa.,
February 17th, 1919, at 10:30 a. m., for the
election of directors for the ensuing year
and to transact such other business as
may properly come before such meeting.
D. BUCK, Secretary.
64-5-3t
Bellefonte, Pa.,
January 29, 1919.
IRA D. GARMAN
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Garman Opera House... Wed. February 19
THE SEASON’S BIGGEST HIT
“My Irish Cinderella”
with Daisy Carlton, Berkley Haswell
and an Excellent Company of Players
Guaranteed to be a First Class Attraction
As this attraction is playing to capacity houses every-
where, you are advised to reserve seats early.
SALE OPENS AT PARKRISH’S ON WEDNESDAY
Prices, '.. 20
25¢c., 35¢., 50c¢., 75¢c., $1.00
Pastime Theatre . . . . State College
‘Wednesday and Thursday, February 19th and 20th
MATINEE DAILY, 2:15—EVENING 8:00
D. W. Griffith’s Supreme Triumph
1,000,000 Fighting Men
50,000 Plunging Horses
Myriads
of Belching Cannon
Swarms of Aeroplanes
Fleets of Dirigibles
The Wonder-Production
of the Age
Greater than his
“Birth of a Nation”
No Painting, No Work—
Nothing in the World
has Ever Spoken Like it
A Sweet Love Romance of the Late War
Accompanied by Their Own Special Symphony Orchestra
Admission: Matinee 25c. to 75¢.; Evening 50c. to $1.00—and War Tax.
Clothier.
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ADVANCE SALE OF SEATS
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AT STATE COLLEGE—Thursday, Friday, Saturday afternoons, 2 to 4.30, at store of Sim The
each presentation.
SPECIAL TRANSPORTATION
Emerick Motor Bus Line will run Special Cars from Bellefonte and return for
of modern historians.”
Mary Pickford
soul good.
handkerchiefs, too.
close.”
Charlie Chaplin
ovation passing in fervor
“Great!
and in which one million
Think of It
David Lloyd-George
“This is the greatest and most wonderful task you have ever
attempted. God speed you in your great work.”
Sarah Bernhardt
“It is the great work of a great artist.
George M. Cohan
“The greatest two and one-half hours I ever spent in a theatre.
The more I think about it the more I want to see it again.”
Board of Historians
“Your production of ‘Hearts of the World’ is the most notable
on record, and we feel privileged in greeting you as the greatest
“Life is better after seeing ‘Hearts of the World.’
_ “I laughed! Isobbed! the tears were in my eyes!
tiful story, with a magnificent climax. I clapped my hands!
shouted until I was hoarse!”
Monroe Lathrop
“A work of genius. The vast audience was literally swept out
of their seats by the enthusiasm and excitement to which they
had been carried, giving D. W. Griffith, the wizard of drama, an
PUAN ANNAN
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It will live forever.”
It did my
I had some wonderful laughs ard I spoiled several
And I shouted just as loud as anyone at the
It’s a beau-
I
and sound anything known in our
theatre annals.”’—Los Angeles Tribune.
Douglas Fairbanks
b No painting, no word, nothing in the world ever has
spoken like that. I didn’t know where I was until everybody was
shouting and I was yelling with them.”
Hearts of the World
The production that required eighteen months in the making,
men and women, and fifty thousand
horses, appear, will be presented at the
Pastime Theatre—State College
Wednesday and Thursday, February 19 and 20
MATINEE AND EVENING i
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ONEY TO LOAN.—From $1,000 to
$3,000, on good security and for
any length of time. Apply to
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N HARTER NOTICE.—Notice is hereby
( given that an application will be
made to the Court of Common
Pleas of Centre county, on Monday, the
3rd day of March, A. D. 1919, at ten o'clock
a. m., under the provisions of the Corpor-
ation Act of 1874, and its supplements and
amendments for a Charter for an tend-
ed corporation to be called the ‘‘Citizens
Club,” the character and object of which
are educational, social and the promotion
of good fellowship, and for these purpos-
es to have, possess and enjoy all the
rights, benefits and privileges conferred
by said Act and the supplements and
amendments thereto.
W. HARRISON WALKER,
Solicitor.
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ENANT WANTED.—On six-horse
farm, three miles west of State
College. Apply to
JOHN SNYDER, Sr.,
63-50-tf State College, Pa.
XECUTOR’S NOTICE.—Estate of Mar-
tin L. Smith, late of the borough
of Centre Hall, Centre Co., Pa., de-
ceased. Notice is hereby given that letters
testamentary upon the estate of said de-
cedent have been granted to the under-
signed. All persons indebted to said es-
tate are requested to make payment, and
those having claims or demands against
the same will make them known without
delay to,
HARRY DOERR,
Alma Hall, Johnstown, Pa.
THE JOHNSTOWN TRUST CO.,
Johnstown, Pa.,
64-2-6t Executors.