Brora Hen
Bellefonte, Pa., October 29, 1920.
GREAT MORAL FORCES STIRRED,
TURN TO COX.
Church and Mission Workers Active
for League—Peace and Prog-
ress Will Win.
The accretions to the ranks that are
fighting for Democratic success in No-
vember are becoming larger every
day. As the issue becomes more clear-
ly defined, as the Covenant of the
League is itself seen and read and
opinions are formed from the docu-
ment itself and not from assertions of
“pitter-enders” and partisan interpre-
ters of, the conscience of the nation
seems to be aroused.
Not less striking than the numbers
who have come over to Democratic
support is the character, standing and
the affiliations of these recruits and
their announced reasons for their sup-
port of Cox.
The Des Moines speech of Senator
Harding, which was a complete sar-
render to Borah, Johnson and the oth-
er “bitter-enders,” has clarified the
situation in the minds of millions of
Americans. No longer, it seems, can
their old associations blind them to
the fact that the League of Nations is
a great moral issue to be decided by
the American conscience, and that by
supporting Harding in the hope of his
finally favoring the League is palter-
ing with the right and breaking faith
with our soldiers who fought and died
in France.
Expressive of the almost universal
sentiment among foreign missionaries
and mission boards, W. W. Pinson,
General Secretary of the Board of
Missions of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, writes under date of
August 20:
“J have just returned from a trip to
Belgium, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia.
Many times I was compelled to bow in
shame in the midst of the trials
through which those new republics are
passing, because of the absence of my
own country from the counsels and in-
fluences working to shape or destroy
the national life of these people.
returned with the determination to do
whatever might be possible to put our
flag and our name back in the place of
honor that it occupied and only re-
signed 2 few months ago. Frankly I
do not believe the United States ever
faced a greater peril than she is fac-
ing at this moment. The issue so far
from being a partisan one is funda-
mental. It is nothing less than the
choice between reaction and progress,
isolation of the past and international
fellowship of the future. You may,
therefore, command me and such
channels as I influence in this mat-
ter.”
Along the same line is the state-
ment of Rev. A. W. Smith, Executive
Secretary of the Executive committee
of Foreign Missions of the Presbyter-
jan church, who says:
«I have read the platform of the two
great parties and the acceptance
speeches of the two nominees for the
Presidency. I am also- familiar, in
view of my position a3 Executive Sec-
retary of the Foreign Mission Board
of the Presbyterian church in the
United States, with the international
situation. I am satisfied that our
country should enter the League of
Nations as advocated by Governor
Cox and the Democratic platform, and
that only in this way can our people
rise to their full stature as a christian
nation.”
At the Universalist State conven-
tion of Indiana, Rev. John Clifford,
president of the convention, said that
the League of Nations is a great mor-
al issue worthy of the support of the
American nation, and that the whole
system of religion is based on the
principles it embodies—namely, the
brotherhood of man and the father-
hood of God.
Other ministers on the program
supported the world-union idea, and a
missionary asserted that there is gen-
eral recognition of the fact that there
must be universal co-operation and if
the people of the United States fail to
do their part the nation is disgraced.
Herbert Parsons, of New York, long
a power in the Republican party and
representative of the very best ele-
ment of that party, has resigned his
office in the Republican organization
and announced his support of Gover-
nor Cox. In his letter of resignation
he says:
«It is my intention to vote for Cox.
I am for the League of Nations. Cox
is for ‘going in; Harding is for ‘not
going in,” though in the Senate he
voted for going in.
“The League of Nations offers the
one practical opportunity for this gen-
eration to unite the nations in an ef-
fort to prevent war and effect disarm-
ament. * #* To me it is mon-
strously immoral not to go into the
League at all and let slip this one op-
portunity to join in a great effort to
prevent future wars.”
Hamilton Holt, editor of The Inde-
pendent, long one of the national lead-
ers of the Progressives, announced his
support of Governor Cox and says,
“The League of Nations is the great-
est moral issue since slavery.”
Another and perhaps the most per-
suasive force in the nation that is aid-
ing the Democratic candidate is the
mothers of the land, especially those
whose sons now sleep on French soil.
Their support of Governor Cox is in-
spired by the holiest feeling in which
partisanship or selfishness have no
part. They are for the League of Na-
tions because they believe that the
League will prevent future wars and
that they and other mothers will nev-
er again have to suffer and make the
sacrifices they have made. And being
for the League of Nations they do not
palter with the situation; they do not
propose to vote for a candidate who
palters with it. They are supporting
Cox for the sake of their sons; for the
sake of our heroic dead in France.
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No Separate peace!
—Land that refuses to grow red
clover may be put into a state of fer-
tility by cow peas.
FARM NOTES.
— The farmers of Pennsylvania sus-
tain a loss that amounts to many
thousands of dollars each year from
{ the use of imported clover seed, ac-
cording to the Bureau of Plant Indus-
try, Pennsylvania Department of Ag-
riculture. The bureau urges that the
farmers of this State either raise
their own clover seed or purchase do-
mestic seed, in an effort to stop this
heavy loss.
During the past year about 9,000,-
000 pounds of clover seed were im-
ported from Italy and the bulk of this
was used in the eastern States. It is
estimated that between 1,000,000 and
2,000,000 pounds of this seed were
used in Pennsylvania.
The Italian seed is good seed and
can be distinguished from that grown
in America only by the impurities
found in it. The yield from this seed
is only about 50 per cent. of that se-
cured from the American seed. This
is shown by experiments conducted by
the federal government at Washing-
ton.
The cause for the low yield from the
foreign seed is probably due to the
fact that the condition of climate and
soil are different in America from
conditions in Europe. It has also
been found that the imported seeds
are more susceptible to disease than
clover grown in this country.
While the federal experiments were
conducted on government farms near
Washington and the soil and climate
there are somewhat different from
Pennsylvania, yet this difference is
not believed to be great enough to
make any material change in the gen-
eral results obtained.
Tor further information on seeds
write the Bureau of Plant Industry,
Pennsylvania Department of Agricul-
ture, Harrisburg, Pa.
— Farmers in Pennsylvania
contemplate cutting down apple trees
for one reason or another, during the
fall and winter, should carefully pre-
serve the wood, as there is an unusual
demand for it at this time.
Apple wood is used largely for the
making of saw handles by tool manu-
facturers and is also used as a substi-
tute for sweet-briar in the manufac-
ture of smoking pipes. So scarce is
the supply at this time that one large
tool manufacturer is planning to send
a force of woodsmen through the
State in an effort to secure worn out
apple trees or trees that are bearing
fruit for which there is no demand.
— The Bureau of Plant Industry of
the Pennsylvania Department of Ag-
riculture is being flooded with inqui-
ries regarding the rotting of the pota-
to crop this year. The prevalent rot
is in no wise different from epidemics
of the same trouble in years gone by,
except that the recent very warm
weather has caused the rot to devel-
op so rapidly as to appear unusually
serious. It is the well known late
blight rot which is doing the damage,
a potato disease which occurs with
more or less severity every year, an
which has always been the bugbear of
the potato grower even back to the
days of our grandfathers.
The bureau advises buyers of pota-
toes to examine them carefully. The
late blight, which started rather late
in the potato tops in the field, had in
many cases just begun to attack the
tubers at digging time. Any potatoes
who
the skin looking somewhat like a
bruise on one’s flesh have
dition.
in storage the sooner
and dried the better.
at a temperature below
Fahr., and while it will
40 degrees
be some time
will be lowered enough to guarantee
this condition in storage it will come
eventually.
—To protect the beans from the
weevil, bisulphide of carbon should
used in fumigation. Another method
of preventing the weevil from work-
ing is to heat the beans in an ovento a
temperature of 125 degrees ahr. The
heat treatment should not be used on
beans kept for seed purposes.
For details of the control of this
pest write to the Bureau of Plant In-
dustry, Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture.
— Investigations indicate that liquid
from China, are of a uniformly higher
men in this country.
These liquid canned eggs are used
largely by bakers, and when used as
soon as the cans are opened, comply
with all the food law requirements
and are wholesome in every respect.
The fact that in China eggs are a
drug on the market and that only
port, accounts for the higher grade of
the imported eggs, while in this coun-
try the poultrymen in the South and
Middle West, who furnish the bulk of
the canned egg supply, find markets
for their strictly fresh. eggs, in the
shell, while the eggs. that are not
quite so fresh, but are still wholesome,
are used for canning.
These canned eggs are kept largely
in the cold storage plants, which come
under the supervision of the Pennsyl-
vania Bureau of Foods.
—A deep loamy soil is easily made
suitable for sowing a lawn, since it
already possesses a good texture. If
lacking in fertility it can be enriched
by the addition of barnyard manure
or, if this is not available, an applica-
tion of 20 pounds of bone meal for
an area of a thousand square feet may
be substituted. In either case the ma-
terial should be well incorporated with
the soil.
Stiff clay soils require both sand
and vegetable matter before they are
really suitable for the production of 2
good turf. There is little danger of
using too much of either of these ma-
terials. A quantity of sand equiva-
lent to a surface layer of 1 inch in
depth, if worked into the clay, produc-
es a permanent improvement in its
texture. Even a smaller quantity is
helpful, while much more can be used
advantageously. On the average
sized lawn it is entirely feasible to
use sand for the purpose of improving
stiff clay soils. It is also both practi-
cable and desirable to use clay for
improving light, sandy soils.
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FALL PLANTING OF WALNUT
AND HICKORY SEEDS.
As Suggested by I Pennsylvania De-
partment of Forestry.
The walnut family, which compris-
es the walnuts and hickories, contains
some of the most important trees na-
tive to Pennsylvania. Two species of
walnut and six species of hickory are
native to Pennsylvania. All reach a
large size, are attractive ornamental-
ly, produce valuable wood, and yield
delicious nuts which are used by man,
and furnish food to many wild ani-
mals, especially squirrels. Because of
their lumber value they have been cut
so extensively that nature’s supply of
them is now waning rapidly. Hence,
it is imperative that vigorous efforts
be put forth to propagate these valu-
able timber and nut-bearing trees, by
planting their seeds on a large scale
and by methods which will insure suc-
SS.
The black walnut is one of the most
valuable timber trees native to Penn-
sylvania. It yields delicious nuts
which are produced in large quanti-
ties annually. Black walnut is a very
exacting tree as to soil and location,
preferring rich, moist soil, and rather
warm and low situations. It requires
plenty of light, but will endure some
shade while young. It does not thrive
in the colder part of Pennsylvania,
nor on dry situations. Hence, great
care should be exercised in selecting a
suitable site for planting the seeds.
The butternut does not attain so
large a size, nor. produce so valuable
timber as the black walnut, but bears
nuts which contain delicious, sweet,
and oily kernels. The nuts are fre-
quently preferred to black walnut by
man, and by animals of the field and
forest. It is found locally through-
out the State in rich bottom lands,
and on moist, fertile hillsides, and will
thrive better than the black walnut
at higher elevation, and in the north-
ern part of the State.
The shellbark hickory attains the
largest size of the native hickories
and produces the delicious nuts of
commerce. It prefers rich, moist soil
such as is found along streams and
about borders of swamps, but also
flourishes on relatively dry, fertile
soil. It is light demanding and will
not thrive in dense stands unless it
dominates the neighboring trees. This
tree is a prolific seeder and may be
propagated extensively, but should
not be planted in the cooler moun-
tainous part of the State.
The mockernut hickory is a medi-
um-sized tree which produces 2 fruit
similar in appearance to the shellbark
hickory, but upon opening the nut one
always finds a small kernel. It is rare
or absent in the northern part of the
State and should only be planted in
rather low, fertile situations in the
valleys and about the foothills of the
mountains. The fruit is practically
valueless to man, but furnishes satis-
factory food for animals of the forest.
The pignut hickory is the only im-
portant species of the native hickories
which thrives on dry ridges, hillsides,
and mountain slopes. It will grow in
all parts of the State on a great vari-
ety of soils. The fruit is variable in
form, small in size, and the nuts con-
tain small, bitter kernels. This spe-
cies may be planted-in-the mountains
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where no other hickories or walnuts
which now show a discoloration under | will thrive.
The best time to plant the seeds of
the incip- | the walnuts and hickories is in the au-
jent stages, and are almost sure to |tumn as soon as the fruit is ripe and
rot very quickly if kept in warm con- | falls.
For those who have potatoes !' once,
The seed should be planted at
for their vitality is impaired or
are allowed to dry.
not possible or not
to possible dam-
age by squirrels or nut-eating ani-
mals, the seeds may be stratified in
sand and kept until spring when
they may be planted.
Seeds should always be planted
are expected to re-
and walnuts
account
If fall planting 1s
main, for both hickories
difficult to transplant on
of the long tap-roots which they de-
velop during the first year. Even if
great care is exercised in transplant-
ing, the growth of the tree is exceed-
ingly impaired. The hulls of the
| seeds should be broken open or entire-
ly removed.
The best places to plant walnuts
and hickories is in old abandoned
fields, along fences, about camping
sites, in by-places, and open spots in
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o—A SPECIALTY—o0
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WATCHMAN OFFICE
—
There is no style of work, from the
cheapest podger” to the finest
BOOK WORK,
that we can not do in the most satis-
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ent with the class of work. Call on or
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If HUNT'S Salve Bie de the
RINGWORM, TE TTER or
other itching skin diseases.’
Try a 75 cent box at our risk,
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.” ¢5.26 ¢. M. PARRISH, Druggist, Bellefonte
[the forest. It is recommendable to
| select moist, fertile, and open sites.
| The latter condition is imperative.
| By means of a pick or similar im-
| plement, make a hole in the ground 2
to 4 inches deep. Space holes about
4x4 feet; drop one seed in each hole,
and cover dropped nuts with about 2
inches of soil, tramping it down with
the foot.
Last year we had more than 400,-
000 resident hunters in Pennsylvania
with probably 200,000 farmers and
their sons hunting legitimately with-
out licenses. If each of the 600,000
hunters had planted just ten nuts that
would have grown into permanent
A Chastened Statesman.
“You made a great many promises
befors you were elected to office.”
“That’s true,” said the Hon. Thom-
as Jefferson Wapples.
“Some of your constituents say you
haven’t kept a single one of your pre-
election pledges.”
“It’s this way. When I went to
Washington as a member of Congress
I thought the eyes of the nation were
upon me and I could put through some
constructive legislation that would
hand my name down to posterity. I've
been there four years now and one
half the tonsorial artists in a barber
trees, we would have had 6,000,000
nut trees growing now. Let all of us
who reap from nature’s bountiful sup-
ply bear this in mind when going
afield this year and see the vast good
that can be accomplished. Present
indications are that we will have fully
as many sportsmen afield this season,
and if the Boy Scouts and others in-
terested in the out-doors will again
put their shoulder to the wheel the re-
sult will be surprising.
shop I patronize every day don’t know
who 1 am.”—Birmingham Age-Her-
ald.
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Fire and Automobile Insurance at 2
reduced rate.
62-38-1y. J. M. KEICHLINE, Agent.
or
BE TF os
Purina Scratch Feed
Combined Ration
elements to balance up
hens lay so heavily
of the yolks being abs
the hen’s systern
Instead
orbed by
whites to cor
and they are
can absolutely guarante
more cggs or
money back
1
en Chowder if
on Purina Chi
fed with Purina Scratch Feed
asdirected, You take no risk.
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Purina Chicken Chowder 132.65 yolks
These Purina feeds not only make
of whites and yolks but more of both than ordinary
Note that Purina Chicken Chowder contains the necessary white-forming
gram ration.
the yolk-making
The feed elements that make whites
of cggs are entirely different from
those that make yolks. When hens
aren't fed both the white and yolk
making elements, they can’t lay.
Missouri Experiment Station tests
prove that 100 Ibs. of wheat, corn,
oats, barley and kaffir corn make
(above bodily maintenance) an average
IER of 224 yolks to 154 whites.
data from the same cxperiments,
(above bodily maintenance), as follows:
Based on
Purina formulas produce,
247.42 yolks 142.11 whites
282.55 whites
a:
424.66 whites
a practically equal number
feeds.
LL ded
429.54 yolks
That’s why it makes
feel that
WE
to serve you.
we are equipped
for any business relating
to banking. Long experience has
given us confidence in our ability
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BELLEFONTE, PA.
Practice makes
everyday
help. We
is easily learned
practice.
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Teaching You Thrift
School-
masters of today as well as yesterday
constantly repeat that truth. Pupils
learn by applying it.
Application of that principle to our
habits proves its practical
learn by practicing, wheth-
er to be a good habit or a bad habit.
This bank teaches you thrift by
leading you to practice
once it is begun. To
become perfect in it requires constant
A savings account is the
most consistent method of practicing
thrift. Try it by starting an account
with us and see how easy and profita-
ble the habit becomes.
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BELLEFONTE, PA. ’
perfect.
it. The lesson
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treatment of cH,
RINGWORM, TET TER or
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other itching senses. J :
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65-26 C.M. PARRISH, Druggist, Bellefonte
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ATTORNEY’S-AT-LAW.
KLINE WOODRING — Attorney-ate
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices im
Office, room 18 Crider’s
51-1y
S all courts.
Exchange.
BD. SPANGLER — Attorney-at-La
Practices in all the pss Moy Come
sultation in English or Germam.
Office in Crider’
Of rider's Exchange, Belletouts
KENNEDY JOHNSTON—Atto: -ate
J Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Pron ao
tention given all legal business em
trusted to his care. Offices—No. §
Hight street.
M. KEICHLINE — Attorney-at Law
and Justice of the Peace. All pre-
fessional business will recejve
Prompt attention. Office on second Soo
emple Court.
W sultation in English and Germam,
Ioate Fomine in Crider’s Exchange, Belles
vy. 2a.
G. RUNKLE—Attorney-at-Law. Coms
soma
PHYSICIANS.
S. GLENN,
Surgeon,
county,
M.
State
Pa.
D., Physician am@
College, Centre
Office at his
dence.
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Employers,
This Interests You
The Workmans’ Compensation
Law goes into effect Jan. 1, 1916.
It makes Insurance Compulsory.
We specialize in placing such in-
surance. We Inspect Plants and
recommend Accident Prevention
Safe Guards which Reduce In-
surance rates.
It will be to your interest to con-
sult us before placing your In-
surance.
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Bellefonte 43-18-1y State College
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You save nothing by buyin poor,
thin or gristly meats. I use only the
LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
and supply my customers with the
freshest, choicest, best blood and mus-
cle mak Steaks and Roasts. My
ing
prices are no higher than the poorer
meats are elsewhere.
I always have
—DRESSED POULTRY—
Game in season, and any kinds of good
meats you want.
TRY MY SHOP.
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