. Bowral tdn. INK SLINGS. - —Why not Wagner Geiss for Reg- ister? He is accurate, methodical, a good penman and in every way qual- ified to make a splendid official. —Quite a little building boom is be- ing launched in Bellefonte. It is none too soon for the housing ques- tion here is a very serious one. —Anyway we've all saved two weeks winter coal consumption by the warm weather. Last fall most fur- nace fires in the homes in this section were lighted the latter part of Sep- tember. —On page two of this issue is a worth-while article under the head “Let’s All Strike.” Read it and you will be impressed with the vein of reason that crops out all through the fine humor in it. —If you are buying and laying away more sugar than your immedi- ate need requires you are keeping your neighbor from getting his or her share of the commodity and doing your best to help boost the price of it. Senator Penrose has discovered another “mare’s nest.” His state- ment that President and Mrs. Wilson had accumulated a million dollars’ worth of presents during their recent sojourn in Europe has brought out the fact that they received a few to- kens of practically no intrinsic value. —By publishing the list of the presents they received during their stay abroad the President and Mrs. Wilson have shown Senator Penrose up in a rather unenviable light, but they have rather disappointed the rest of us by disclosing that the gifts were far simpler than we had imag- ined them to be. —Bill Brown has occupied the Re- corder’s office seven years and he wants four years more of it. Of course no one will blame Bill for wanting all he can get, but if all county officials held on that long a very few men of either party would have any of the plums during an or- dinary life time. —James E. Harter, of Penn town- ship, should be the next Treasurer of Centre county because he is just the substantial, thoroughgoing, conserva- tive type of man who would fill the office to perfection. He’d be on the job all the time and we fancy that Mr. Mayes would be so busy crying sales in the spring and handling his big marble business in the summer ‘and fall that he would only be found in the office at such times as his com- missions were to be figured out. . —The candidacy of John J. Bower for District Attorney has excited considerable comment that is very fa- vorable to the success of his aspira- “tions. He is so well known through- out Centre county, so Democratic in his manner and has been so unselfish with his time in doing kindly things for others that he is just naturally popular and, being a very capable lawyer, he has all the requisites that go to make up the kind of a District Attorney many people want to vote for. — Wonder how Senator Henry Cab- | ot Lodge felt while sitting in the con- vention of his own party and in his home State, last week, when he heard it pass a resolution demanding the immediate ratification of the peace treaty without amendments? Lodge has been the most obnoxious and ob- stinate of the Senators who have been holding up legislation at Washington and this rebuke by his own party in Massachusetts mu urely have stung him to t “but it was deserved. do Bgino a ‘doesn’t deserve ‘meaning of grat- “Capt. Dick Taylor was so kee ‘answer his country’s ‘call that he Went with a broken leg net entirely healed. Many another would have seized that as a very proper excuse for staying at home, “but not Capt. Dick. He went to fight “for your fireside and for ours and he left a fireside just as dear to him as “ours is to us to do it. He would like “to be the next sheriff of Centre coun- ty and it seems to us that a grateful people ought to rebuke anyone who would deny him that reward. —Now, if never before, do we need .men, not politicians in the commis- sioner’s office. With state roads being built in all directions and new surveys ‘damaging = properties along their ‘routes we must have good, level-head- “ed men in'the office where such mat- ‘ters are adjudicated. Men who will be fair to the property owner who has suffered as well as to the rest of the tax payers who will have to make up the damages. A man who “can be reached” isn’t safe in any office, but he can be especially costly in the commissioner’s office. Take no chances by electing a County Commissioner who can be bossed by some politician who wants to “put something over.” —For years Centre county has had most efficient Prothonotaries. They have been men invariably schooled in the duties of the office through serv- ice as assistants in the court house." The office is one that can be a great comfort to attorneys especially or it can be a serious handicap to them in the prompt and accurate handling of the business of their clients. It needs a man conversant with court rules | and forms and for. that reason, and many others that might be mentioned, Harry N. Meyer is the logical man. He has been commissioner’s clerk long enough to be well acquainted with the work in the Prothonotary’s office and starts in the race with this distinct advantage over his opponent. ena SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —By the will of Mist ~~ »y E. Smith, of Milton, who died last . mer, that bor- ough will get her estate suid to be worth upward of $25,000, for a hospital fund. Milton is the only town of any size in that part of the State that does not have such STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION VOL. 64. Vares Have Adopted Hampy. The Vares, of Philadelphia, accord- nation of Mr. Moore as the Republi- can candidate for Mayor. They ex- hausted every expedient before the primaries and caused the expenditure of thousands of dollars of public mon- ey since, to prevent that result. But it was an impossible undertaking. A majority of votes had been cast and counted for him and there was no es- cape from the consequences. If the Vares had refused to acknowledge the fact they would have been the los- ers. Moore will be elected in Novem- | ber and be inducted into office in Jan- uary in any event and the Vares are wise enough to make the best of a bad situation. But though Moore has been nomi- nated and will be elected it can hard- ly be said that the Vares have been defeated. Their candidate for the; nomination against Moore has been BELLEFONTE. PA., OCTOBER 10, 1919. NO. 40. Significant and Promising. The most significant as well as | stantial majorities, of the thirty-six amendments to the peace treaty, pro- | posed by Senator Fall, of New Mexi- co, and approved by the Senate com- mittee on Foreign Relations. The amendments were puerile but the pur- pose of them was vicious. Senator Fall, just previous to our declaration of war against Germany, tried in every way to ‘embroil the country in war with Mexico in order to keep us out of the European conflict, thus proving his sympathy with the plans of the Kaiser and the militarists who controlled his actions. In his efforts to mutilate the treaty he is following the same lines. The Fall amendments would not have defeated the treaty, even if they had been adopted, or greatly impair- ed its force. But they would have de- | layed the restoration of peace and Plain Hint to Senator Lodge. Unless Senator Lodge is more stu- ing to the newspapers of that city, promising incident of the week in ' Pid than he looks the action of the have at last acknowledged the nomi- | Washington was the defeat, by sub- | Massachusetts Republican State con- vention on Saturday admonishes him to change his course. That convention for which Lodge pretends to stand in the Senate declared for “the prompt ratification of the treaty of peace without amendments.” Senator Lodge has been working over time for three months to prevent prompt ratification and to amend the instrument. It would seem, therefore, that he is not in harmony with his party in the State he represents and is leading for a defeat. The convention added an expression of pride in Senator Lodge because of “his efforts to bring about prompt action on the treaty.” This sort of Pickwickian endorse- -ment must make the Senator feel that it is about time to back-pedal on the Johnson-Borah stuff. The egging of Senator Reed, in Oklahoma, may not show Reed the trend of public senti- A Word to Voters. From the DuBois Express. No citizen, man or woman, worker or employer, can fairly answer the . question, “What has the special ses- sion of Congress done for me?” with- out a sense of regret at having voted last autumn to supplant the Demo- cratic majority. More than two months have elapsed since President Wilson recommended to the special session the passage of certain stat- utes which were intended and requir- ed to curb profiteering, to reduce or at least stabilize the cost of living, and to restore business to the normal status of peace. Not one of the President’s recommendations has be- come law; no substantial progress has been made toward their serious consideration. In the House of Representatives the Republican majority is a compos- ite of factions which are a unit upon only one policy—that of opposing the President. In every question of con- structive legislation they are an in- | coherent aggregation of cabals and coteries, unable and unwilling to co- an institution, although it is an industria center. : —Struck by a Lackawanna express train near Northumberland, five Jersey cows owned by Ira Churm were killed. They were valued at $1500. The animals were being driven across the tracks by a boy, and when the train came into view they became frightened and huddled together on the tracks. —Airplane advertising doesn’t go in Al- toona. A realty dealer in that place is $20 poorer as a result of a fine imposed by Mayor Charles E. Rhodes. The real es- tate man flew over Altoona and scattered circulars in the streets against an ordi- nance of the city which requires that they be placed under the doors of homes. —Furs which cost at wholesale nearly $5000 were stolen from Meyer Jonasson & Co’s store, in Altoona, last Thursday night. Police say the robbery was com- mitted by professionals, who evidently carried off the goods in an automobile. The store was ransacked. All the cash registers were smashed, but yielded only ‘about $25. —John Rockewell, aged thirteen years, of near Selinsgrove, was near death last Thursday, when attacked by a big bull on his father’s farm. The boy rode into the field where the animal stood grazing. The bull attacked and killed the youngster’s pony. While its attention was directed toward goring the pony the youth sue- ceeded in getting outside the fence and making his escape. —The vicinity of Crosby, Tioga county, is gaining an unenviable reputation for holdups. While Mrs. William Carr and daughters were driving near there a man . operate either with President Wilson stepped from the bushes and attempted to thrown on the political scrap heap. He will be remembered for a brief period as the servile instrument thé Vares employed to renew their fran- chise to loot, and then forgotten. But | the Vares will not be disposed of in | that way. They will simply adopt | Moore as their own and move and | manipulate him precisely as they would have used Mr. Patterson if he had been nominated. The late Mr. Corrigan, in his time boss of Kansas City, pointed the way for them. “If. you can’t lick ’im jine ’im,” expressed his political philosophy and it is theirs. : continued the uncertain condition of | industry and commerce until after { the next Presidential election, thus | giving the Republican party the ad- vantage which invariably follows pop- ular discontent. It was a vicious po- litical enterprise for it involved the sacrifice of the industrial life of the country on the altar of party spoils. Fortunately there are not enough Senators so perfidious as to perpe- trate the crime but to the shame of Pennsylvania it must be said that both of our Senators were willing to share the infamy. The Johnson amendment reversing ment or teach Senator Gore the plain lesson it implies, but it ought to strike Senator Lodge as indicating the desires of the people and taken in or their own punitive leaders. The Senate’s record of inaction and re- celeitrance is known to all the world. it Las become notorious under its re- connection with the declaration of the convention of his party in the State in which he lives, influence him to justify the statement that he has en- deavored “to bring about prompt ac- tion on the treaty.” He knows that the praise bestowed upon him in that way was not deserved and he may make up his mind to justify it in fu- ture. As President Wilson said in one of actionary Republican control, not for what it has done, right or wrong, but for all that it has refused to do. Opposing peace under whatever - guise of patriotism its partisan direc- tors have chosen to assume, it has perpetrated every condition of war save that of certainty. ! What do the Republican masses i think of their representatives in Con- gress? What do they propose doing | to correct the evils which they voted his western speeches, ninety per cent. | upon the country—though perhaps of the people of the country favor the | unwittingly? They cannot escape re- The same issues of the Philadelphia | the action of the Peace Conference on papers that convey the information | the Shantung proposition remains a of the Vare’s acknowledgement that | source of danger but the decisive de- Moore has been nominated also let the | feat of the Fall amendments justifies confiding public into the secret of | the hope that it will be disposed of in Vares’ purpose. They couldn’t lick | the same way. The adoption of that Moore but they can jine him and ap- . amendment means war is certain as parently on their own terms. Thatis fate. It is above all things what the they intend to let Moore join them | military autocrats of Germany desire and have already issued the invita- ' for it will solidify Japan and Germa- tion which he has promptly accepted. | ny in a purpose to punish the people The event will be staged in the rooms | of the United States. Of course their of the Vare City committee in the efforts would be futile but they would near future and it is expected that the | cost millions of lives and billions of ceremonies will be interesting if not | treasure and set a standard of atroc- exactly impressive. The traditional | ity never eyen dreamed of by the bru- entertainment of the innocent fly by tal Huns. Senators Fall and John-. the voracious spider will be surpass- son are serving this evil end. « i: ed with the sweet music of Moore’s | rrr throat added. | ——It’s rather a mean thought but J REE (an- esteemed contemporary suggests ——Having been practically shoved | that D’Annuncio is simply working a off the front page Attorney General | rather daring advertising scheme. Palmer has come to the sensible con- | ——— clusion that public’ opinion is the in- | Hope-Inspiring Amendment. strument which must be depended up- | on to bring down prices. | At a meeting of the Democratic “2 National committee held in Atlantic ie : + City last Friday an announcement . 5 British Strike Settled. was made that “the committee realiz- | ~The peaceful settlement of the rail- | es that its function is to elect and not way strike in London removes a nominate, and that there would be no grave menace to the. peace and pros- ! Presidential candidates discussed or perity of Great Britain. For a con- groomed during the meeting.” This siderable period the business life of .is easily the most hope-inspiring dec- the city and all the industrial sec- | laration that has come from that tions of England was disordered by - source in recent years. Of late a per- the enforced idleness of transporta- : nicious practice has come into vogue, tion facilities. But the danger has in both parties, of the organization been averted by an agreement among | spending its force and exhausting its those concerned upon a basis that sat- | energies in the primary contests for isfies both and gives victory to neith- | candidates. Naturally this developed er. Premier Lloyd George adopted factional enmities among the voters. the plan suggested by President Wil- | It is gratifying to find that the Dem- son for the adjustment of the Steel | ocratic National committee has set workers’ strike in this country. It |its face against the evil. remains to be seen whether the same In Pennsylvania the Democratic methods will achieve the same result | party has suffered especially from in this country. It is a problem which | this political crime. Two years ago, puts intelligence to the test. | after the so-called State organization There is no just reason for the had misappropriated thousands of Steel workers’ strike in this country | dollars collected from voters to put at this time. There are many reasons | across a favorite who was particular- for believing that it is the result of a | ly obnoxious, the member of the Na- mischievous agitation on the part of tional committee for the State repu- selfish men for ulterior purposes. | diated the nominee, thus making cer- But they are There is a vast difference between the attitude of Judge Gary, head of the Steel corporation, and Lloyd George, head of the British cabinet. Judge Gary imagines that an appeal to force is the remedy while Lloyd George knows that an appeal to rea- son is the gurer remedy. On the oth- er hand, however, the British strikers were under the guidance of conserva- tive and capable men while the dis- contented steel workers here have been listening to the sophisms of ad- vocates off anarchy. . A conference similar to that in i which the British labor troubles were settled on Sunday is now in progress "in Washington and it may yet be | hoped that it will prove equally suc- cessful. Unfortunately the Presi-- dent’s illness will prevent his partic- ipation in the work, though it is the product of his mind, but with Gomp- ers on one side and the constructive leaders of capital on the other, it is possible to reach a wise conclusion and an enduring settlement of differ- ences. But the anarchists as well as the slave-drivers will have to be kept out of the conference. They are equally destructive of peace and tran- quility. ——Now don’t lose sight of Will Hays, the Republican National chair- man, Like Artemus Ward's kanga- roo, Will is “an amusin’ little cuss.” em iin — The Vare machine in Philadel- _phia dies hard but it lived badly and ought to suffer. tain the election of the Republican candidate who happened to be a per- sonal friend and college chum of the perfideous committeeman. Other in- stances of the evil effects of organi- zation activities in primary contests might be cited but what’s the use. If it is stopped they may be forgotten. In that event “let the dead past bury its dead.” But there are reasons to apprehend that the good resolution of the Na- tional committee as expressed in the Atlantic City announcement is not to apply to Pennsylvania. The Penn- sylvania member of the committee was not present when the announce- ment was made and he is likely to as- sume that it is not binding upon him. In fact it has been alleged that his State committee is already levying assessments upon and collecting trib- ute from Federal office-holders to be used in electing delegates favorable to him as a candidate for the Presi- dential nomination and securing State committeemen who will obey him, right or wrong, after the nominations are made. A Mitchell Palmer re- gards neither honor nor morals in public. ——Don’t wait until the last mo- ment to urge voters to go to the elec- tion. Like Christmas shopping that ought to be attended to early. ——When the world series ball players count up their earnings for the week Mr. Rockerfeller will have reason to turn green with envy. speedy ratification of the treaty and the covenant of the League of Na- tions. It is within the limit of reason to say that eighty per cent. of them : sponsibility for their party save by Istorming or repudiating its leader- ship. | Why It is a Power. favor the prompt endorsement of : both without amendments or reserva- tions. The fight against such action is the result of personal enmity against the President. His splendid administration of the high office has embittered the Lodges and others who have aspirations or ambitions to gucceed him for they feel that his in- fluence will prevent the election of a Republican President while he lives. / injuring . themselves rather than him. Coston Oy ——1It is not likely that Herbert Hoover will run for President at all but it is a safe bet that in the event he should develop that ambition he wouldn’t tie up with Jim Reed and Hi Johnson, who are now shaping the policies of the Republican party. No Railroad Legislation Likely. There seems to be little hope of railroad regulation legislation during the special session of Congress. At the evening of the last session the Presi- dent stated his purpose to relinquish government control at the expiration of the present year and urged the enactment of such legislation as would secure the public and the cor- porations from disaster. Months have passed since and the Republican majority of the House of Representa- | tives has been holding public hear- ings and otherwise fooling away time, but nothing looking toward a solu- tion of the problem has been accom- plished. If the railroads are restored to the owners at the close of the year trouble is certain. When the government assumed con- trol of the railroads they were com- | pletely submerged in debt and other difficulties. At vast expense in mon- ey and labor they were rescued, or at least saved from collapse, by the in- telligent and courageous management | of the administration which operated under the greatest disadvantages. ! Railroad officials for selfish reasons threw every available obstacle in the way of success and finally forced Di- rector General McAdoo to resign. Since that time matters of the railroads have been going from bad to worse notwithstanding the splendid efforts of Mr. Hines to avoid calamity. Now Congress has practically determined to “let things slide,” so to speak. The Republican majority in Con- gress was bought and paid for by the railroad officials who want to renew their franchise to exploit and the stock brokers who desire to speculate in transportation securities and in re- fusing to enact needed legislation on the subject the Republicans are keep- ing faith with the railroad officials and stock jobbers at the expense of the public and the share holders. But the result will be disappointing even to those who bargained for it. Wreck- ing the railroads will stimulate spec- ulation, no doubt, but it will be fol- lowed by such industrial disaster as will be appalling. Those who voted in a Republican majority will be to blame, however. ——At the same time the recently developed love of Chinamen among Republican leaders is more or less surprising. —————————————————————— ——Even rotten eggs thrown at Senator Reed, of Missouri, are wast- ed. He isn’t worth the trouble of as- sembling the eggs. From the Doylestown Democrat, The average man can live in a big city all his life and never see his name in the paper, but the farmer and the average man and woman in any small town will see their names in their local country newspaper at least ten times a year, and always some faithful service, something that connected with some worthy cause, brings joy all through life. The coun- try newspaper is the paper that ‘spreads happiness. nten§; “Don’t you . always "about the ball game you saw the day before? If you witness a fire you read the details of that fire with double interest. If you hadn't seen the blaze perhaps you would not read’ the story at all. Why is this? asks the Oelwein (Ia.) Iowan. It is be- cause the things you know about are : the things you like to read about. { That is why country newspapers have | such a tremendous hold on their read- ers. They tell them about the com- ings and goings of their friends and | neighbors, the people they know. ! Nothing on earth is as interesting to | the farmers and people living in town ! as the news of their babies, the mar- i riage of their girls and boys, their so- ‘ cial and church events, the illness and deaths among their friends. Year after year the country newspaper records the history of its community. i Is it any wonder the country news- paper is the most powerful advertis- ing medium on earth? Just as its : power is great in holding its readers’ interest, so is it helpful in shaping : thought and powerful as an advertis- ing medium. It turns the printed i word almost into the spoken word. i No metropolitan daily, no maga- zine, no bill board, no farm journal— | good as they all are—rings the bell | with farmers and small town people as does their home newspaper. It is an integral part of the community | that cannot be filled by any other ! medium. Twice Repudiated. want to read | | Berks County. “K grab the horses bridle. Mrs. Carr laid the whip to the beast, who quickly took them out of danger, nearly running over the highwayman. This is the second attempt made in a few days in that neighborhood. —Elias Badey, an Altoona shopkeeper, was fined $100 and costs by Judge Bald- ridge on Monday, for selling cigarettes to minors, following the entering of a plea of guilty. The prosecution was brought by John R. Bratton, truant officer, for the school board. The offense charged is fur- nishing the ‘coffin nails” to school boys. Warning was given to dealers to careful- ly guard against the practice of selling this species of smoker to persons under 21 years of age. —When the state police swooped down on a farm at Mount Zion, Reading, on Monday, they confiscated a considerable quantity of illicit whiskey, enough ingre- dients to manufacture several barrels of liquor, together with a modern up-to-date still. James Bariele was placed under ar- rest charged with operating the still. Moonshine whiskey has been finding its way into the mining towns of that valley for some time but previous efforts to lo- cate the manufactory did not meet with much success. —After a long illness due to shock pro- duced by circus and vaudeville exhibitions, in which he used to catch heavy cannon balls on his neck and back, Elmer K. Krumbine, a professional acrobat, died on Saturday at his home in Womelsdorf, , “who was 57 years of age, toured America, Europe and Asia for nearly forty years, becoming a circus performer at the age of 17 years, using the name “Rixford.” The cannon ball trick was genuine and caused a spinal and nerve ailment which eventually ended his life. —Believing that relatives were trying to get her money, Mrs. Mary Fell, an aged Doylestown woman, tied herself rather se- curely by a long rope to a guard rail near the Lumberton quarries, Bucks county, on Wednesday afternoon and waded into the canal in an attempt to drown herself, but was rescued by W. C. Young, of Lumber- ville, a canal foreman, and his men. Mrs. Fell in a perfectly calm manner pleaded with the men to allow her to die, but they took her to the shore and took her to Mr. Young’s home, where her clothing was dried, and she was cared for until a friend arrived to take her home. —You can’t tell F. A. Ackley, of West- field, anything about choking to death on a piece of meat. He has all but accom- plished it himself, having passed into in- sensibility, his pulse disappearing entire- ly, so that the real suffering was proba- bly over, though he was revived. It was at the supper table, one evening recent- ly, when the accident occurred. The frightened family thumped him on the back, but his wind was being gradually shut off. A physician was summoned, but before he got there Ackley was uncon- scious. Relatives worked his arms and punched him until the meat was expelled. and though his heart had ceased to beat, | to all appearances, they continued to work | his arms and used artificial respiration . ! » d. From the Philadelphia Record. jel he Tecovers It is not given to every politician | that Ulster may. be- —The possibility ‘to achieve the distinction of being | come a gold mining center in Bradford twice repudiated by his own party | county looms large in the sight of citi- within three days, but Senator Lodge zens of that place since the find which has made that record and seems proud | Gordon Grant and Joseph Campbell made of it. The Senate committee on For- | While working on the state road recently. eign Relations, of which he is chair- | man, had made through him a favor- | able report on thirty-six amendments | to the peace treaty proposed by Sen- | ator Fall. Senator Lodge made a long speech in support of these! amendments of which he expressed - his strong approval. By majorities ! ranging from 15 to 28 the Senate on Thursday last contemptuously tossed Be whole bunch into the waste bas- et. Smarting under this reverse, the Massachusetts Senator hurried away to his home State, whose Republicans beld their convention on Saturday. There, after making a bitter fight to secure a complete indorsement of his course, he had the mortification of having to listen to the reading of a platform favoring “prompt ratifica- tion of the treaty of peace without | amendment, but with such equivocal ' and effective reservations,” ete. To | save his face the great Henry had to | insist that he would continue his pol- | icy unchanged, and such is his obsti- | nacy that he will probably do so. He | now knows, however, what a very | large majority of his Senatorial col- , leagues and of the people of his own | State think of his brand of partisan- ‘ship. Such defeats would make a | deep dent on an ordinary mind, but ! on a Lodge—! — Everybody strikes except the ‘Chicago ball players. Near the Vandyke farm about one half a mile below the town, the two men found some pieces of ore in the dirt which they lifted out of the road bed. As the sub- stance looked very much like gold it was taken to the Riffert jewelry store where it is now on exhibition. So positive are Grant and Campbell that they have found gold that they are going to send the pieces away for a test. The result will be as eagerly awaited by people in that vi- cinity as the outcome of the alleged big discovery of potash deposits in Tioga county is being watched by the people of that section of the State. —Deer in the Hoagland Run mountains of Anthony township, Lycoming county, have proved very destructive to the apple crop of Stephen Elder, of Stony Gap. Re- ports state that the deer ate fifty bushels of apples belonging to Mr. Elder and that they have destroyed other crops of the farmers in that vicinity. The Elder farm is located on the public road leading from Cogan Station to Salladasburg and his ap- ple orchard adjoins the Hoagland Run mountains. Recently the deer came into the orchard and, not satisfied with eating the apples on the ground, got away with a quantity of winter apples lying on piles | besides many that were pulled from the lower branches of the trees in the orchard. The farm of Frank Fisher was also visit- ed recently by deer and there they ate a large quantity of buckwheat before leav- ing. Three Jeer were seen at that time. | The Fisher farm is within a mile of the Elder farm.