Demon tc INK SLINGS. —Don’t fail to go to the primaries next Tuesday. —Gradually old John Barleycorn is being forgotten. It seems to be easier than a lot of folks thought. —Austria has signed the peace treaty and thereby agreed to quit the army business and give up her fleet. —The peace treaty will be ratified and there will be no reservations to it that will invalidate any of its articles. —The President’s western trip has revealed the fact that notwithstand- ing the propaganda of his enemies to create a revulsion of feeling he is still very popular with the masses. —For all his snub to those “smell- ing” Congressmen in Paris “Black Jack” Pershing doesn’t seem to be in bad with the plain people who are at home welcoming their heroes, Sy © —MThé miners of the Lackawanna valley are proposing to strike because the coal operators are putting in me- chanical loaders. It is to laugh! Such an attempt to sprag the wheels of progress. —Those Atlantic City parents who permitted the body of their baby to be carried to the cemetery in an air ship were seeking notoriety of course, but what manner of humans are they who exploit what others regard so sa- credly. —Anyway the embargo on ship- ments of limestone for road building won’t affect one of the big contracts in Centre county because all of the stone required for it is being trans- ported from quarries to the right of way in trucks. —Large credits being §6curdd mn this country now by Swedish and Swiss bankers are undoubtedly for the benefit of Germany, but what of it? Germany must pay the bill presented to Ler in the peace treaty and she can only do it by restoring her pre-war ins dustrial condition as rapidly ag pegsi- ble. earl TREC LL) et —With the streets a jam with pon- dorous motor trucks, the sky full of whirring air ships and the side yard a babel of all the neighborhood chil- dren surely we arc reminded that Bellefonte is an industrious place. But, oh, for a bit of solitude and quiet once in a while. The nerves of the strongest are racked with the inces- sant noise. ‘ —What fine weather the Grangers have been having for their picnic. Surely the farmers have been in luck for a few years past. Splendid crops and fancy prices can’t keep up for- ever. The fly will be back to the wheat, the cut-worm will find the corn and the clover won’t catch ere long because we're due for a few calamities just to remind us that it isn’t all sun- shine even on the farm. Te AE inEwee —If ever there was a four-flushing -Congress in Washington the one that is sitting there now is that one. Not a single bit of constructive legislation has it enacted, not an apparent move has it made to do anything more than dig for scandals that don’t exist. It speaks of sympathy for the distress of the country and takes no step, either directly or indirectly, to relieve it. It is a Republican Congress but many Republicans we know are at the point of repudiating it. —The west is telling the President very emphatically that it stands right behind him for the ratification of the peace treaty without amendment. The western idea is being heard of in Washington, too, and there is a no- ticeable change in the manner with which the Senate is viewing the treaty. When the “people back home” commence to make a noise like there would be trouble at the next election politicians sit up and take notice. And most of our Senators are politicians, not statesmen. Not one of those striking Phil- adelphia brick layers who refused to complete a foundation for a boiler, the immediate installation of which was neccessary to the continued work of the Polyclinic hospital in that city, should ever be admitted to a hospital that is supported by State or private bounty. When men use such an insti- tution as means to a selfish end they are devoid of all sense of manhood and should be held up to public exe- cration. Their action was no worse in spirit than that of the Hun when he bombed enemy hospi tals and bayonet- ed wounded soldiers. It is to the ever- lasting credit of those Master masons who donned overalls, themselves, and completed the work so that the suffer- ing patients in the hospital could be cared for. —We know some men who can scarcely read or write who are earning one hundred and fifty dol- lars a month doing work that requires no particular skill or intelligence. They own no property, are not taking care of their children any better than they were taken care of themselves, and are saving not a cent. Their spare moments are devoted mostly to damning everybody and everything and complaining because labor is not properly reimbursed. We know a different type. One that scarcely earns half as much as the first yet has | a comfortable home of his own, a family of promising children and is happy and helpful in the community. In the face of such contrasts, and they are to be found right here in Bellefonte, it is not to be wondered at that the masses have so little patience with the strike movements of men who are known to be already receiv- VOL. 64. Delay Impairs Business. Mr. Thomas J. Lamont, of New York, a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., who recently spent five months in Europe acting in an advisory relation to the Peace delega- tion and a Republican in politics, is out of patience with the Senators who are delaying the ratification of the treaty. “The whole world is crying for peace, for a chance to renew its normal life and work,” he declared in a statement issued in New York, the other day, “and this country, by con- tinued inaction, refuses to grant her consent to the settlements necessary.” An “alarming fall in the rates of for- eign exchange” has already occurred, he adds, and “for this no remedy can be had as long as the delay continues at Washington.” But that is precisely what the Re- publicans in Washington are striving for. They hope to win the next Pres- idential election by paralyzing indus- try and destroying commerce. No matter what the cause of business distress may be the party in power gets the blame and the Republican Senators who are delaying the ratifi- cation of the peace treaty are willing to sacrifice every material interest to socure the election of a Republican President in 1920. If the treaty were ratified there is every reason to be- lieve business would flourish in every line of endeavor. That would create Eontentmant and happiness ameng the people and encourage voters to con- tinue the dominant party in power. The Republican leaders in Congress are anxious to get in control of the government for various reasons. Among them is the fact that a great war was conducted without graft. That is setting a dangerous example, according to their notions. When a war favored politicians are made rich by grafting on the government and nothing like that happened during the recent world war. out of that war except those who earned it and as they hope for more wars they object to such a system of conducting a war. The spoils of office are also alluring to men like Lodge ? opposition to. the treaty. —~Next Tuesday the party nominees for township, borough and county of- fices will be chosen. Your duty, as a good citizen, is to vote for men whom you know are qualified to fill the places they seek. Don’t let personal feelings stand in the way of voting for the best man. These are times when capable, economical manage- ment of public business is needed to quiet the spirit of unrest and we should all bear in mind that putting a man in office merely because he’s a good fellow or needs it is neither good sense nor good business. Surprise in the Meat Inquiry. One of the surprises in the Senator- ial investigation of causes of the high cost of meats is that most of the stockmen protest vehemently against pending legislation providing for gov- ernment regulation of the packing in- dustry. The packers insist that the high price of cattle “on the hoof” is responsible for the high prices of meat and before the investigation be- gan the big cattle breeders complain- ed constantly of the oppression put upon them by the packers. But now that one of these elements in the equation is threatened with punish- ment for misdeeds the other prompt- ly comes forward in its defense. paid for their evidence but this is con- jecture. Among other things the Kenyon Kendrick act provides for the compet- itive use of refrigerator cars on the theory that the exclusive use of them by the packers discriminates against the small operators in that line. One of the stockmen testified the other day that such a regulation “would de- stroy efficiency in the industry with consequent danger to the producer.” Thus the producer and the distrubutor come together and argue in behalf of both but the consumer has no cham- i pion though oppressed on every side of the question. The license is obnox- | ious to all except those who have no | alternative except take what he gets i “and look pleasant.” Meantime the { high prices go higher with the sky ! the limit. A witness who lives at Somerset, | Pa., and raises cattle in the western ' States suggested to the committee the | other day that if it wished to lower | prices to the consumers it “should : pass laws requiring the packers to op- | erate markets in stores where they { have branch houses now.” He is sat- | isfied that such a policy “would re- | sult in making meat products to con- | sumers 25 to0'35 per cent. cheaper i than they are now.” He didn’t indi- { cate how this result would follow his | proposition but he is persuaded that | the proposed regulation of the packers | would be detrimental to packers and | consumers. Most of us can see how his scheme would freeze out local Republican administration conducts a | Nobody got money | and Knox and their associates in the | It is | alleged that the breeders have been | 2 STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE. PA.. SEPTEMBER 12, 191 9. Irishmen Injuring their Cause. { One might well question the hon- esty of Irishmen who are opposing | the ratification of the peace treaty on {the ground that it will strengthen . England’s power over the Emerald | Isle or prolong its control. They base , this absurd opinion upon the provis- j ion of Article 10, which pledges the signatories to defend each other If Ire- , against external aggression. land were an like France or Italy or even like Bel- gium, there might be some probabili- -ty of interference in the event she should make war on England without | just cause. But Ireland has not been _in the enjoyment of such independ- ence and was not at the beginning of . the great war. { On the contrary Ireland is subject | to the sovereignty of great Britain and what happens between them is | their own affair so long as both sides act fairly. If the people of Ireland | have reasons for complaint, and heav- jen knows they have, they can file | their complaint with the League of . | Nations through any of the signator- : | ies, and appeal for justice. With re- bellions or inswrrections or other do- i mestic troubles the League of Na- | tlons will have nothing to do. But it { will guarantee justice to every op- | pressed people and enforce, jn go far | as possible, the principle of self-de- i termination, | thua in any oily sansa that is 8pen; | That the people and the governme... + of the United States are in cordial | sympathy with the people of Ireland | in their laudable ambition to shape | their own destinies is beyond question. i That being true the League of Na- i tions affords the surest and quickest ‘medium of rendering the necessary help. But Irishmen who aided Ger- many during the war and are now * helping to prevent the return of peace , are making the purpose difficult of achievement as well as delaying the . consummation. Until the treaty be- + comes operative there is neither op- portuiity nor excuse for interference. : Until the treaty is ratified by the Sen- ate the government of the United « States cannot act in the matter. | ——In Philadelphia they are rais- "ing the question as to whether the Vares really have a voting residence in the city. While the contractor-pol- iticians have made a poor showing in . establishing the fact they have failed to call in evidence the country idea ' that “a voter votes where he gets his : washing done.” On this theory there i could be no doubt as to their right to : vote in Philadelphia for some of the | papers of that city are constantly ‘ washing the dirty political linen of : the Vares. } Luring Pershing Into Politics. There is a good deal of anxiety among Republican politicians in + Washington according to press dis- patches regarding the attitude of General Pershing in public affairs. . The General is home from his distin- : guished service abroad and great dem- | onstrations have marked his welcome. | Politics has nothing to do with this, | however, as it is intended to be a | spontaneous expression of apprecia- | tion of his splendid service. But it is i reasonably certain that soon efforts i will be made to entice him into parti- | san opposition to the administration and an offer of the Republican nomi- i nation for the Presidency may be the | lure which will be used. t It is certain that the Republicans | are in a sad plight to meet the ap- proaching Presidential campaign. i They have no candidate in view and | are utterly destitute of material from | which to make a candidate. Some i time ago General Leonard Wood, a ; military hero who never smelled the | smoke of battle, was talked about but : with the death of Roosevelt that fool- i ish notion was buried. Roosevelt him- : self might have served the purpose if | he had lived and Taft would cut a { very respectable figure but the domi- i nant faction of his party are against : him because of his attitude on the , peace treaty. Root is too old, Hughes ‘an unpleasant memory and all the ‘others are absurd. In the circum- ' stances’ Pershing would be a life- | saver. But “Black Jack” is not likely to give any encouragement to the flirta- , tious Republican politicians. In the i first place he was brought up in a | Democratic atmosphere and born of { Democratic parents. His long career {in the army separated him completely ' from political activity and possibly from party preference. But the mis- | chievous mixing of politics in the af- | fairs of the war during the past i couple of years would more than like- | ly prejudice him against the Republi- | can’ party under its present leader- { ship. His snub of the Congressional | committee in Paris the other day | may safely be taken as an expression | of his opinion of that party organiza- | tion. —The Altoona Tribune is one of | the leading Republican dailies of ing more money than they have | dealers and give the packers a great- | Pennsylvania that pleads “not guilty” brains to handle. * er monopoly than ever. to worshipping at the shrine of Knox. Demacralic’ { con independent country | In this there is greater ' hope for self-government of Ireland | own identity and work with its own | Te through its own machinery. wconsplete study of everything that is a — — Ee a SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE —=State forest reserves are to be stocked with beaver this fall. : —Juniata county has a new farm agent in the person of W. A. Fordye, of Green county. He succeeds D. I. Pheasant, re- signed, who will return to State College. —Secretary of Agriculture Rasmussen has announced the appointment of Dr, Thomas Edward DMunce, of Washington .tounty, as state veterinary to succeed Col. C. J. Marshall, who resigned to devote his time to the professorship of theory and | The Religious Survey of Centre County. \ T.. {rte Tn ‘ ty, as part of the world-wide surveys ! being made by the Interchurch World , Movement of North America, will be made 2 goon as the organization of a , county council and other preliminary : steps now under way have been com- pleted. been invited to co-operate in the work. tent investigators who are satisfacto- ry to all the churches. The object is to obtain an impartial and complete summary of all the facts relating to the condition of every church in the county as to its finances, its member- | achievements in “reconstruction;” for ship, whether growing, stationary or declining, whether it has a resident pastor, what families are included in | negative; chstrictive. role Tather than its ministry, how often its people are visited by pastors, what families in ' the county are without pastoral over- ! sight, ete. The county council will be expect- ,ed to assemble this information. It i will then be sent on for tabulation to the state council but, in the meantime, the facts will be laid before all the leaders in all the denominations of the county who will be invited to attend | conferéfives Where local programs to fit the ascertained Facts win ve WOK" ed gut by eammeyn agreement. What is being dene in Centre coun- [ty is being repeated in every one of he oon mural ounties of the United the see gimilar gtudies of religious | States. 1 ] conditions abroad are being made through the missionaries in the - ~evaly throcigh goveitimental forces, through privat agencies and through the headqua.™ters of the great American mission so.eties. The Interchurch World Movement . is a co-operative effort of the mission- ary boards, chuich extension societies, and similar benevolent agencies of all the evangelical churches to work out a unified Christian program. It is not , @ movement for organic church union. ! On the contrary, it expects each de- nominational society to preserve its The idea is to make a systematic and to be done and to have all the constit- uent bodies get together and agree upon which part of the work each is to undertake. The movement originated last fall with certain members of the Foreign Missionary Board of the Presbyterian church, South. Acting upon a sugges- tion from these men, 135 representa- tives of various missionary societies of many denominations met in New York city in December. This confer- ence decided that something of the kind could be done and appointed a committee of twenty leaders in var- ious churches to work out a plan. The committee of twenty worked out a system of co-operation it thought would be satisfactory. To consider it, a general conference was called at Cleveland, Ohio, in May. This conference was attended by 500 delegates representing 200 different religious agencies. ; It amplied and approved the plan and, from that moment, the Inter- church World Movement was an ac- complished fact. The general com- mittee includes such well known lead- ers as, Stephen Baker, Fred B. Smith, James M. Spears, Warren S. Stone, F. P. Haggard, Raymond Robins and John Willis Bair. S. Earl Taylor, ex- ecutive secretary of the Methodist Centenary organization, is general secretary. John R. Mott, internation- al head of the Y. M. C. A, is chair- man of the executive committee. Realizing that no adequate pro- gram of co-operation could be worked out until all the facts were known, the movement already has begun its surveys. The home surveys may be divided roughly into two parts, rural surveys and city surveys. After the county councils have com- pleted their work and forwarded the results to the state council, that body will make up a complete report and analysis for the entire State. This in turn will be forwarded to the Nation- al organization for final analysis, after which, it will be possible to get at the saliert points of information for any locality in the United States. The Interchurch World Movement is the first organization to undertake such a task on such a large scale. ——Every tax payer has an en- gagement, for next Tuesday which he should not fail to keep. It is to go to the primaries and vote to put capa- ble men on the ticket for local offices. ——Just 186 hunters’ licenses have been issued by County Treasurer Da- vid Chambers, but considering the fact that the only kinds of game that are now in season are raccoon, rails and blackbirds, it is not to be wondex- ed at that so few hunters have taken out licenses up to this time. Snipe and web-footed water fowl will come in season September 15th, but the ma- jority of hunters will not be attracted to the sport until the opening of the . the treaty in conference and in no way Every evangelical denomination has ! Ty gelica ' now, public opinion is to speak the fi- The survey is to be made by compe- . nal Word, the hour has struck for his practice of veterinary medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. —Pleading guilty in court at Allentown on a charge of stealing an automobile from a local merchant, for which he was NO. 36. ! arrested twenty minutes later at Bethle- The President’s Tour. hem, Edward Moore, of Philadelphia, was I — sentenced by Judge Clinton A. f From the Springfield Republican. ? 2 ion Gonna io The President’s choice of time for A general survey of the religious ! the tour, which he planned to make ditions and needs of Centre coun- | While still in Paris, is to be commend- ‘ed as sagacious, if a tour was to be pay a fine of $50 and undergo imprison- ment for on indeterminate term of from eighteen months to six years. —It cost Edward McCray, of Needmore, Franklin county, $60 for six gray squir- rels he shot on Saturday. McCray did not get to eat the squirrels as State Game Protector Dunkle, who detected the case, confiscated the unlawfully killed animals and took them to the local hospital. Me- Cray was also fined $20 for hunting with- out a state hunter's license. —The Sunbury council faces the present prospect of re-drafting and re-enacting all the borough ordinances as a result of the mysterious disappearance of the borough ordinance book, which was stolen some made at all. He has shown himself in Washington the past summer ready and willing to meet the opponents of has he disputed the right of the Sen- ate to exercise its full constitutional prerogative, after having exercised ‘his own, in the making of treaties. If, appeal to the people themselves. Since he came home from Europe the President has gained rather than ‘lost in strength The Republican months ago. The borough solicitor has : Congress has thas far been a failure informed council that they cannot enforce i in impressing the country by its | toy ordinance unless they are able to pro- duce a signed copy of the act. —Nine telephone companies have filed notice with the Public Service Commis- sion that they have increased their serv- ice rates most of them effective early in October. The advances range from $3 to $6 a year in the case of the smaller com- panies, but there is a doubling of the bus- iness rate in Johmstown, while in Potter county rates go up as high as $§, ¥ —When the water pipe leading into the home of James Peale, of Eagles Mere, stopped up, Peale took off the spigot to remove the obstruction, Xe drew from the pipe what seemed to be a wad of pa- per, but which proved to be a $20 bill Markings on the bill led to the discovery that L. G. Stevens, also of Eagles Mere, a month ago had dropped a $20 bill ~~ walking along a small moun, EY from which wat ris Pied tite Rr Bg PR AR LL it has done almost nothing after hav- ing been in session three and a half months. With Congress playing a | one distinguished by initiative and | achievement, the President has easily | held the centre of the stage, and in | taking the initiative as he did in the | campaign against the high cost of liv- i ing, he demonstrated his tactical su- | po-iority in leadership to an opposi- { "i... party which is virtually leader less, even if it has the support of a | majority of the PEODIR, cousin ium . The President has unquestionably increased his prestige of late by his facile success in preventing serious railroad strikes, and, if his October 1avo. conference bwings tangible re- sults of the least comsequence, he may still present the remarkable spectacle of a lent Phos own on had | suffered defeat In the Iast elections, 4.) continuing to afford the Rat a ly effective laadamebi~s= 3¥ 770 7 " Moca ay da nome as in foreign affairs. 1 Lape Ne afl ; I : wus institute against I. P. Yahne as well tomobile The plaintiff y SOI, James, Walt Mason Chirps Thrift. Some one asked Walt Mason what | he thought of the high cost of living. | Walt might have replied like the rest i of us, with every other word a ( ) { fracturing his leg and injuring him infer but he didn’t. He emitted 2a warble, | nay. and it has more punch to it than a —As a friend of Charles Campbell, of { whole string of (——)s. Here it is:! ea : : * : * , Jersey Shore, was driving CampbeH’'s au- BURNING MONEY. jersey 2 D . tomobile down Gravel hill, near Woolrich, “Life is gay and blithe and sunny | the brakes on the car shipped and the ma- since the peace dove hit the breeze; | chine went over a bank. The driver walk- every one is burning money just as!ea into Woolrich and secured a heavy mo- though It grew on trees. I insist on! tor truck to pull the machine back to the thrift and saving, but there’s none to | road, but when the truck attempted to heed my words? Jokunies sy het 1 move the other car its brakes, too, failed am raving, an row money {io the! te function, and it followed the ether car’ birds. Men are drawing prim dver the bank. A force of men working wages, and their breasts are filled | with another truck spent two hours in with mirth, and they jeer foreboding | lifting the two cars from the ditch. Jogey We predict a day of dearth; i —Cloyd A. Hazlett, of Huntingdon, while 2 gy Wi gome as surely as | returning from his summer camp along tomorrow’s sun will rise; things will | Yunkaid river. -was stoic bY. 4 five then be goin YIV With the giddy] are De dth £ g Doo yw ! e g Y | eastbound Pennsy freight train while fry= FH iL guvs, 3 Thingy Srewt boom ing to drive over : Eby’s crossing, three now, my friends: and the an ine | miles east of Huntingdon, last Wednesday > { morning. His body and parts of the mo- truly clever saves as. ably as . he torear were carried on the engine 1000 feet spends. It is patent fo the knowing, | efore the train stopped. He was 32 years Ih expensive limes like these. that the i old and leaves a widow and two children. kopecks won't be growing always On | Hig family, who were camping near the ig Ltn ha COME | coone of the accident, heard the crash 3 oom 1S : 5 = left behind, and the koperk and the when the locometive struck the car. ruble will be mighty hard to find;| -—Charles Herrold, of Milton, wanted by happy then the lads whose wages | Northumberland county authorities for es- have been safely placed in brine, who | cape from jail, was arrested at his home obey the seers and sages, when the in Milton last Thursday by Private Kurtz, saving graft was fine. And how sick | of the state police. Kurtz heard that Her- will be the mortals who like spend- | rold was in Milton and called at his home thrifts now behave, who reply with | to search for him. The search led to the jeers and chortles when we call on | attic, where Herrold was found covered by them to save.” a sheet. He was returned to jail. Her- . rold and another youth escaped from jail May 4th. They stole an automobile at Milton, in which to seek other scenes. The police later learned that both had enlist- ages as the result of an 2 { dent on September 1, 1017. { alleges that the defendant’ £5: > tae Tord au aged 18 years, was operating # i. aul tomobile and ran down his §6M; Ea. Houck, aged eight years at Our Do-Nothing Congress. ¥rom the New York Evening Post. Among objections urged against | ed in the United States service. Herrold the President’s speaking tour, it is | wore a uniform when captured. contended that he ought to stay in! Earl Ralston just wanted a trunk Washington “on the job.” Resolu- tions to this effect. have been intro- duced in Congress. Well, so far as Congress is concerned, there is. no reason why Mr. Wilson should cling to Washington. Congress is there, but it certainly is not on its job. It is not sending. any bills to the Presi- dent. The House now and then pass- es bills to place high duties on tung- sten ore or pearl buttons. which may not get through the Senate, and which, if they do, will be vetoed by the President. Both Houses take a turn at passing log-rolled private pension bills or bridge bills; but the main business of the session is at an absolute ‘standstill. . . . Senator Underwood stated the other day that the Senate might as well be in perpet- ual recess, for all the public business it was transacting. It is on the job, but the job is to talk.-and postpone and object and delay and resist the adoption of rules which would make he orderly dispatch of business pos- sible. Dr. David J. Hill’s Discovery. From the New York World. ; When Dr. David Jayne Hill made | when he entered a department store im Pittsburgh on Saturday evening, but he got two nights free lodging, besides the excitement. Becoming weary waiting for a salesman, Ralston dropped into a chair and he fell asleep. When he awoke the | store was locked up for the night and it was dark. Ralston went to the mattress department, stretched out on one and passed the rest of the night in comfort. But when he tried to leave the store he set off an alarm which brought private detectives, who took him to central police station. Sunday morning hearings were over, so Ralston was kept until Monday as a suspicious person. — While at work on a lawn at Fori