NOVEMBER BALLOT ” : - Motto All Right, but NOTED CLERIC : Portlisl Wa) 2 godly Works WILL BE BLANKET SIZED. | Kine Job Printnig Densorrakicc atc, Staff Went Too Far “Curare is the deadly poison that Wii Yoisr wi Jake 8 belor en A SPECIALTY Samuel Grindstone was a hustler of the modern school, He believed ip the gospel of speeding up. Over every desk in his office he placed a large printed notice, read- ing: “Do It Now!” But a week later, with tired fingers and exhausted air, he tore them al’ down. “Hello,” said a friend, dashing in and seeing the ceremony of destruc- | tion. “What's up? Doesn’t hustling tips the arrows of the South American Indians,” the explorer sald. “A pin- prick from one of their tiny and slow-! moving blow-pipe arrows tipped with’ curare will kill a peccary, a jaguar o~ 4 man, “On the Amazon one day my Tu- canos killed a monkey. The piece of monkey that was served to me after- ward happened to contain the wound. There it was, the ragged curare-filled: wound made by the blow-pipe arrow. inches long into the booth with him on November 6. This is 385 square inches larger than two pages of the i Watchman. It will be the largest ballot in the history of the State and has been made so large by the fourteen con- stitutional amendments to be voted ton by the electorate this year. Seven parties will be represented with presi- dential tickets and in addition to the long lists of presidential electors and at the WATCHMAN OFFICE FLAYS BIGOTRY Or. Henry Van Dyke Declares Defeat of Smith Would Be “National Calamity.” ASSAILS SECRET PROPAGANDA Bellefonte, Pa., September 28, 1928. There is mo style of work, from the cheapest “Dodger” to the finest BOOK WORK that we can not do in the most sat- isfactory manner, and at Prices consistent with the class of work. Call on or communicate with this office. SWEDEN SOLVES DRY PROBLEM. Experiment Most Successful in His- tory of Whole World. Nation Seeks to Lead, Rather Than Drive Citizens to Abstinence. Stockholm, Sweden.—Commencing with the idea that the liquor prob- lem and that you can’t change hu- man nature merely by passing a law, Sweden is now working out the world’s most successful experiment in temperance and public morals. I came to Sweden frankly scepti- cal. Swedes, I knew, have always liked their liquor. that around the 1850’s they were among the world’s champion drink- ers. Their national tipple was aqua vit, as they call it, schnaps, liquid fire distilled from potatoes. They av- eraged something like 200 quarts a year of this stuff per family, which meant that the head of the house was generally a pretty hard drinker. If the Swedes could find a way to regulate booze and become a tem- perate people, I thought, there is some hope for America. Well, they’ve done it. They've abolished the saloon, the blind pig, the bootlegger and the moonshiner. In a few years they have cut down liquor consumption to half, lessened all kinds of crime by more than half, reduced drunkenness among the youth of the land to comparatively megligible figures, until today Swe- den seems the very picture of social health and economic expansion. The Bratt system of liquor control is what has done it. The system gets its name from Dr. Irvin Bratt, the young physician, social reformer and temperance advocate who worked it out. The most popular drink in Sweden ‘today is a sort of near-beer, a brew with only a trifle more alcohol in it than is to be found in ours. That is to say, about 2 per cent. It is :l- legal to have it run above 3.2 per cent. alcohol by weight, but the aver- age is much lower. This beer and light wines with a small and strictly rationed amount of spirits, obtainable on a carefully worked out card Sys- tem, represent the spiritous bever- ages of present-day Sweden. Bratt system was tried out tentative in Stockholm in 1913. But, as there were no national laws to back it up, it was naturally greatly handicapped. Nevertheless, so ex- cellent were the results of the “Stock- holm experiment,” as it was called, that in 1919—the year prohibition ‘went into effect in America—the Sys- tem became nation-wide. Even then it was several years be- fore the necessary enforcement laws could be passed. Thus, it may be said that the Swedish system has been in vogue nationally only four or five years. Yet remarkable prog- ress in the direction of temperance law and order has been made. The total amount of spirits con- sumed in all Sweden has fallen abo 1t 40 per cent. and in Stockholm about 50 per cent. Crimes of violence have fallen off from an index of 100 to 52 in the nation as a whole and to 40 here in the capital and largest city. Arrests for drunkenness have slump- ed from 100 to 48 for all Sweden and to 30 in Stockholm, the best results being achieved among the young folks —from 15 to 20 years of age. These figures “show a reduction from 100 to 17, no less! Sweden is not attempting to drive her citizens into sobriety. She is leading them. That seems to be the secret of the whole thing. Sweden does not make it z crime to have a limited amount of alcohol, but she does say that making a hog of one’s self is a social crime punishable in various ways, from arrest and im- Prisonment to not being allowed to have anything more to drink. Here you may have ga little, but you may not have much, the opposite of practice in prohibition countries, where you can generally get a lot easier than you can get a little. Today Sweden has absolute con- having to do wit the masses. And so, by ras as citizens down to g point beyond which there would be a popular demand for more, resulting in bootleggers and the vast underworld of the rum trade s0 als as to amaze present-da i ze vy Ameri- <cans.—By William Philip Simms, Poem Editor, Scripps-Howard Pa- : ; Air Mail Takes Jump as Rates are Reduced to 5 Cents Per Ounce. Uncle Sam has adopted the Tate” method in hig on mail Va The adage about the merchant who explains his wares are cheap “because he sells so many” uns true to the Daina] business, nder the ten-cent rate busines ‘Was good but the facilities could ity dle considerable more poundage. ‘parently Postmaster Harry S. New § me rate frightened the ‘public and in Augus i I niki Ih 2 gust he reduced it to usiness for the month exceed all expectations, New declared, Too Planes carried ' 418,821 pounds while in July, under the ten cent rate, only 214,654 pounds were transport- ed. The ‘increase for August over July was 95 per cent. | The Chicago-San Francisco route continues to lead in poundage, car- rying 110,965, in August and 60,951 in July. The New York-Chicago route was second with 103,304 pounds while the Salt Lake City-Los Angeles run was third with 39,781 pounds. ——The Watchman gives all the newr while it is news. History relates. pay? Going back to the old leisurely methods?” “Yes, 1 am,” snorted Grindstone. “Hustling doesn’t pay. I ‘gave ten cents each for these notices, thinking they'd spur my staff to hard work.” “Well 2 “Well, the net result is that they've all acted on the motto. The ecnief cashier has bolted with the contents of the safe, my typist has eloped with my youngest son, four juniors came in yesterday to ask for a raise, and the ofiice boy got a better job and has gone off to it.” = Someone Else Would Wear Nether Garment The henpecked man came into a de- partment store, majestically led by his wife. Their errand, if you want to use the plural form instead of the feminine singular, was to buy Mr Henpeck a suit of clothes. About 118, different suits of clothes were taken off the racks, and the coats, at least, tried on Henpeck. He said not a word and although his legs got trembly and wobbled, when he looked at his spouse out of the corner of his eye he saw he must stand up under the ordeal until unconscious- ness gave him rest and relief. The clothing salesman was getting nore frazzled and worn down than any of the three. He had a boiler-factory perspiration and his temper was be- ginning to say, “I don't want to be good much longer.” So finally he blurted out to Hen Jeck, “Say, friend, why don’t you buy this suit. You can wear the coat of it, anyhow ?”—Exchange, Wise Man Wasn't Talking “Sleep,” said the pessimist, “is but a foretaste of death—that divine ne- penthe for which we poor mortals yearn.” “Sleep,” said the chemist, "is -aused by such an accumulation of toxins that all organic activity must .be suspended or minimized pending their elimination through chemical change.” “Sleep!” said the poet, fervently. “Ah, poppy and mandragora and all the drowsy sirups—” “Sleep,” said the business man, *it i can get a good solid eight hours of it, makes me show up at the old desk fesling like a—er—fighting cock!” “Sleep,” said the philosopher, “is = i ohenomenon which—" The wise man sat in the corner ana «aid nothing. He was taking a little nap. Fish Easily Gathered In It may be a slander that the ostrich buries its head in the sand when frightened, but a correspondent of the Sydney Bulletin swears there is a fish that does that and more. The black- spotted sea perch, Lutianus fulviflam- na, when approached stands on his head and wags his tail so violently that he is driven clear out of sight into the sand. The Australian fisher- men, however, just wade in and mark the spot with a piece of white shell where each fish has buried himself and then make the rounds with a long sharp spear, jabbing the sand around each sign post, quickly gathering them in. The Doctor’s Ruse The doctor of a lunatic asylum was in the bathroom one day watching a number of his patients, when one of them called out suddenly: “Let's duck the doctor!” Seeing his danger, the doctor, with sreat promptitude, said: “All right, boys, but suppose, now, you give the doctor a cheer before ducking him.” This reasonable proposition was au once acceded to, and a ringing cheer resounded through the building, which at once brouglfit the keepers, as the doctor expected, and he was saved.— Yorkshire Post. When Washington Relaxed Irving says that Washington on rare / occasions was “surprised into: hearty fits of laughter.” One such instance occurred at the return of peace, when he was sailing in a boat on the Hud- son, and was So overcome by the drollery of a story told by Major Fair- lie of New York that he fell back in the boat in a paroxysm of laughter. “In that fit of laughter,” remurks Irving, “it was sagely presumed that he threw off the burthen of cares which had been weighing down his spirits throughout the war.”—Gas Logic. Blame the Women! “Poor George!” “What's his latest hard luck?” “After saving tobacco coupons for seven years he figured that in a cou- ple more years he'd have enough to get a fishing rod he coveted.” “What happened?” “His wife and daughter started smoking, and in three months they all had enough coupons—" “To get the fishing rod?” “No; to get a hand-carved incense ourner® | | Warning American voters that sin- | ister and secret forces are threaten- ing the very foundation upon which cur Government is built, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, eminent educator, Preshy- terian clergyman, author and diplo- mat has issued, from his home at Seal Harbor, Me., a ringing appeal for re- ! ligious tolerance. Dr. Van Dyke who holds dezrees from Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Penn- sylvania University, Union Colleges and Oxford University is perhaps one of the best-known of living writers and clergymen. In a formal state ment, he said: “At the present moment there is on foot in these United States a wide- spread cabal to keep one of the c¢an- didates for the Presidency from elec- tion because he is a member of the Catholic Church. The other candi- date has handsomely disavowed any personal share in the sentiments or arguments which characterize this sabal. This is much to his credit. “But unfortunately he can not, or at least he does not, restrain and check the pernicious activity of his supporters, who are convinced that the end of a victory for their party justifies any means which they em vloy to secure it. “Hence, if their candidate should be elected, he would owe his election in part to the religious prejudice and anti-Catholic enmity which the cabal- ists have stirred up and marshalled to the polls. This would be a mis- fortune for him, and a calamity for our country as the home and citadel of religious liberty. Most Important Issue “The mere prospect of such a ca- amity ought to move the hearts of true Americans and honest Christians with dismay, and awaken their minds to serious thought and earnest acuon in defense of that real freedom of conscience which is the hard-won crowning glory of America and the dearest jewel of Christianity. “That seems to me far and away the most important question before the country today,—a question not to be answered by heated appeals to partisan allegiance,—a question not raised, thank God, by either of the honorable candidates for the Presi- dency, but a burning question thrust upon the conscience of every Amer- ican voter by the overt fulminations and covert whisperings of those who | seek to defeat one of the candidates because he is a Catholic. “My Protestantism is obedient to flim who said, ‘Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's. My Protestantism, which is hereditary from the school of William of Orange, tells me that ‘conscience ig God’s province.’ My Americanism, which is a stout growth of eight native-born generations, tells me that to vote against a man because of hig church- membership is to be untrue to the central faith of the Republic. “Freedom of conscience is the greatest thing at stake in this cam- paign. Hundreds of thousands of vot- ers fail to realize it. It is time to blow a trumpet to awaken the sleepers. The Palladium of the Republic is attacked by secret and open foes. It is in danger, trem- bling in its marble hal. The spiritual call to arms goes out to every mad and woman. Defend the reliz‘ong Liberty of America!” ee ——— BLAINE ADVISES BOLT Republican Senator in Wisconsin De. clares Voters Must End Corruption; Says Friends Are for Smith. MILWAUKEE, WIS. — Republican 1eaders, disheartened by the tremen- dous reaction to the recent speech of United States Senator John J. Blaine, in which he bitterly criticized the last two Republican administrations and lauded Governor Smith, have practi- cally given up all hope of swinging Wisconsin to Hoover. Senator Blaine, a former Governom of Wisconsin, and one of the State's popular Republican leaders, declared in an address at Burlington: “I have no doubt that my friends and supporters are going to vote for Governor Smith. We must condemn Republican silence on the scandals of the Harding Administration as an ac- cessory after the fact. The thing to do is to end corruption by voting for Governor Smith.” CALIFORNIA WOMAN ON NATIONAL COMMITT=E SAN MATEO, Cal.—Mrs. Cecilia C. Casserly of San Mateo, a candidate for Congress in this District, has been appointed to the Women's Advisory Committee of the Democratic National Committee. in RAIL HEAD ON COMMITTEE CHICAGO.—W. G. Bierd, President ) the Chicago and Alton Railroad, 1a8 been appointed financial director ‘or Illinois for the Democratic Na- donal Campaign Committea, the amendments are listed the names ‘poison that must be injected directly I cut that bit away, you bet, but a Tucano snatched it up, swallowed fit and laughed in my face. “‘How is It,’ I asked him, ‘that you can eat without harm the poison-load- ed flesh of the birds and animals that you kill with your curare-tipped ar rows?” “For answer—and a very good an- swer it seemed to me—the Tucano took a pinch of curare from his pouch; enough to kill a dozen per- sons; and rolling it into a ball he of to HS en a pan pe meat and manioc. “Then 1 understood. Curare is a th into the blood. It can be eaten and digested with impunity.”—Springfield. Union. } last! Tuesday at the George D. Thorn, Bureau of elections, and will be sent ; field. Penn State year, winning 27 to 0. i teams are handicapped to some extent by Charlie Gelbert, noted athlete for four years, was lost from this year’s candidates for State-wide offices and Congress and the Legislature. The first sample ballot was printed instance of chief of the State the County Commissioners of all parties as a guide. a Foot Ball at State Begins Tomorrow. Lebanon Valley and Penn State football teams will open their respec- tive schedul = swallowed it down with his monkey lege or fomartow Bk State Col ville eleven meets e State College on the latter’s home was victorious last oth loss of veterans. Lebanon Valley’s squad with several TE others, while Penn State has lost Many References to valuable players, notably Captain Cucumber in History Bogples, Lungren, Mahoney and esko. All the world seems to have a “hankering” for cucumbers. About 10,» 000 carloads are shipped to market annually. This is in addition to those grown in greenhouses and small truck patches and marketed locally, also those grown for home consumption. There are historical references to the cucumber 8,000 years before Christ. It is generally supposed to be a native of India, and was taken to China in 868 B. C. Cucumbers were known to the ancient Greeks and Ro- mans. Pliny mentions their forced culture. They were grown by (olum- bus in Haiti In 1494. There is a rec- ord of their production by the Indians in the sections now occupied by Mon- treal, Canada, and by Indians in Flor- ida. Capt. John Smith speaks of growing them in Virginia." Rev. Fran- cis Higginson tells of seeing them in Massachusetts in 1629.—Peter R. Ster- ling in Natural Republic Magazine. til ar th Lucky Child Coach predictions as to the outcome urday’s hand to lan, ends; Ricker, Zeising and Zorella, tackles; Panac- cion, guards. Centers drews, Eschbach field men who have been playing on ing period are quarterbacks; Wolff, Diedrich, Evans and Weber, and Collins, coll The Lions have conducted pre-sea- son training since Labor Day, devot- ing two 0 practices a day to football un- registration started September 17. Hugo Bezdek has offered no of Sat- encounter, Among the men Bezdek will have at use against Lebanon Valley e Delp, Stahley, Edwards and Kap- Shawley, Pearce, Martin, Wells and Duvall, available are McAn- and Parana. Back- e A squad during most of the train- iller and French, halfbacks; and Hamas l fullbacks. Captain Donn Grenshields, who was taken ill shortly before the opening of be active in | football workouts until next month. ege, is not expected to eel ee——— Reduce Death Toll Of Infant Diseases. Some people are born lucky, even in Dr. Emlyn Jones chief of the swall things. The child had asked for | bureau of vital statistics, reports that money for gum, “No,” said mother. “For candy, then?” “No,” said mother, “I shall not give you any money today to spend on such things.” And she went on brushing the grownup daughter's spring coat which was hanging on the line. She quickly turned a pocket inside out to get rid of the accumulated dust—and then dumped a package of gum and a fudge bar. “0-0-0-0!” said the child in delight —and with one pounce she scooped up gum and candy. “And you can keen your old money !” “It seems absolutely impossible to discipline some children,” murmured mother, “for the gods are always on their side.”—Springfield Union. of is th th Sa Ta there were 2234 deaths sylvania last year from diarrhea and enteritis in children under considerably less sections of the country. in Penn- two years age. It was pointed out that this equivalent to a rate of only twenty- ree per 100,000 The report said that the heaviest infant mortality in Pennsylvania is in January, February and March, al- ough the death rates for diarrhea and enteritis are greatest, under two Jonze, in August, September and Oec- to er. Concluding his report Dr. Jones id: “In this State the death rate from diarrheal diseases has been re- duced so low that it is no longer chief determining factor mortality rate as it was years ago. in the infant slept. —Subscribe for the Watchman. population, which is | than that in most | p $ BY $ Dry Cleaned? The only difference between a brand new suit and one that has been dry cleaned by us is the difference be- tween $1.75 and whatever you usually pay for a new suit. Try Us and See Phone 362-R Stickler & Koons 8 West Bishop St. Cleaners - - Dyers - - Tailors Hat Renovators Take no other. Buy of Druggist. Ask for ©) DIAMOND BRAND PILLS, for years known as Best, Safzst, Always Reliable SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE Sat Right Down Patrons of a local theater, seated behind a young woman who mislaid her purse one evening, missed a part of the photography, because the wom- an stood up to conduct her search for the lost article. but then enjoyed a Iit- tle unintentional comedy which other patrons missed. . It was during a court scene put on +y the Vitaphone, and the court was hearing parties in a separate support action. Those seated behind the young woman searching for her property were getting fidgety when the judge rapped his gavel, and ordered, “Order in the court, sit down!” The woman was so surprised that «he sank back into her seat, and there she discovered the missing purse, where it had fallen, — Springfield Union. Fought Slaveholding The antislavery agitation com- menced in the United States at a very early period of its history. The Na- tional Antislavery association was formed in 1833. In 1831 William Lloyd Garrison founded the Liberator, a weekly periodical. which continued its publication until 1866. and which was devoted entirely to the propagation of antislavery sentiment. Associated with Mr. Garrison previous to the Civil war were such men as Wendell Phillips. Charles Sumner. Gerritt Smith. and a woman, Lucretia Mott. Giraffe a Tight Fit fhe entire staff ot Harvard univer sity paused in its duties for four hours while professors, instructors and ord: nary help gave advice on the prob. lem of getting a giraffe, 15 feet and 6 inches tall, into the institution via a door that was only 6 feer high and 4 feet wide. The giraffe. being dead and stuffed. could give no as. sistance by bending his neck. Afte many maneuvers failed he was placed on his side and see-sawed in with the aid of 18 stout dead-game bearers Specialized Farming “The only thing that Jim Jenks. the laziest farmer in twelve counties, ever raises,’ sez his neighbor Nat Nolun “is a hue and cry when advised to go te work."—Farm and Fireside,
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