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porters of these so-called Blue Laws
| J use 1930 devices to protect an MILE-A-MINUTE MARTY py Decker Chevrolet Co., Bellefonte, Pa
| eighteenth senfupy Sones hoi oe i ; :
& ber the Sabba ay to keep — = . : Er 5
‘ | It H ly.” They dominat iety b HOW DOES SHE N GOSH /- HOW DID Y-SAY, MOST OF J -SO DOES EVERYBODY THAT SEES \T./— THE
1 a soe that A LC RUN, JIM? 4 You EVER CL\ CK 3 pu esce MHIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE Uf 'O CARS
been relegated to the limbo of for- - en Ed You BuY AT
gotten lore.
Just how the repeal of this law
would cause “the breakdown of mor-
als in a community” is rather dif-|
ficult to determine. Morality is not
a thing that can be legislated either
into or out of an individual or
community. Rather it is social de-
velopment and individual education.
This column is to be an open forum.
Everybody is invited to make use of it to
express whatever opinion they may have
on any subject. Nothing libelous will be
published, though we will give the publie
the widest latitude in invective when the
subject is this paper or its editor. Con-
tributions will be signed or initialed. as
the contributor may desire.—ED.
ORVRLET CD. |
NEW CARS -!S THAT THESE USED
CARS HAVE THE ERPENSIVE
MILEAGE ALREADY —op>>
RUN OFF =
AND YOU
CAN (3uvY ‘Em
Thank You, Charley We must be insipidly bigoted and dE al
; provincial if we believe this law has ~ pe ny ) ODMEASY
Wadsworth, Onio, Dec. 13, '30.|made Pennsylvania communities I Ip TERMS
Dear Friend: morally better than communities in SSA =~ \Joo, eon)
The very best wishes one friend |Ohio, Michigan, or Kentucky. Cer. =.
gan Ee i Soerisl Jajnly hii politi! simply id 1924 . Ford Turing 1926 Chevrolet Truck open 250 1927 Buick Sedan Standard
they are all included in the cus-|man’s own party do not bear proof Li Fon coupe 2 . 1928 pas Coast a 00 1929 EL ot Golibe or i asog
tomary greetings of the season:|of cleaner moral standards in madt- 192 ord coupe . NS Bm Son Wen iE pe Ban .
“Merry Christmas! Happy New| ters of state =~ Rather strange © 1929 A CBR le $ 350.00 1025 Chevrolet Sedan .. DE $ 150.00
» s law is e wa 5 30 rogues , A -
Year! Voi amity. morals, ‘that Bi does 1929 pola 0 1st 2 1929 Chevrolet Coaches 1924 Oldsmobile Coupe ....... $ 125.00
C. S. DANNLEY | not notice higher individual morali- Tires hi. $ 325.00 GACH ..........coseeeeiioinie $ 390.00 1924 Oldsmobile Touring ...$ 50.00
oo ty and a finer political wholesome- 1926 Chevrolet Touring ....§ 60.00 1927 Chevrolet Sedan ........ $ 150.00 1926 Overland % Ton Panel
il Il ness in passing from Ohio to Penn- 1929 Model “A” Ford Ton 1925 Chevrolet Coupe .......... $ 125.00 body Truck only....... $ 40.00
The G : Sto as " sylvania. Funny, but the only Sun- Truck large steel 1927 Chevrolet Roadster ...$ 140.00 1929 Stewart Cattle rack
e as ve gen t ears from day difference between Cleveland Box ohn suawsereneus Sevencsaarass $ 325.00 1924 Chevrolet Roadster ...$ 25.00 Truek ..................- 150.00
3 Friend. and Pittsburgh—or Detroit and Phil- 1927 Chevrolet Coupe ........ $ 200.00 1026 Esagx Quach $n 1920 Vim 3 Ton Dump
Dear Watchiign! adelphia—is a longer walk to finda 2 1926 Chevrolet Sedans 1928 Posen o pe air g (automatic) Truck...§ 150.00
a. restauract and a greater opportuni- GEOR ie dea 50.00 1927 Essex Coa 1927 Pontiac Sport Road
Some weeks ago an article ap-|ty to break a law if one desires 1930 Chevrolet Coach 5 wire 1925 Buick Sedan Standard ster .................... $ 225.00 .
peared in your “Unionville Items” | healthy amusement. wheels... 500.00 SIX ieee $ .00 1926 Oakland Sport Road-
stating that T. M. Huey, of Fill.| The same man who is deprived of 1927 Chevrolet Touring .....$ 140.00 1924 Buick Roadster ........$ 60.00 ster $200.00
more, had purchased a new gas
stove saying that he believed in keep-
ing up with the world, as it moves
ahead. This was only a joke and
we took it as a joke. Lest others
might be caught by the same joker
we have decided to try to make
known to the good readers of the
oldest Democratic paper in Centre
county who he is. He is the son of
the late G. W. Rumberger (better
known as “Domino,””’) so you can
readily see he is a chip out of the
old block. :
Some time ago I was sitting c=
his “off Sunday” fish, hunt, or base-
ball game, may be compelled to
work the next Sunday. To the in-
dustry, since corporations have no
soul for Legislators to save—, Sun.
day is just the beginning of another
week. The president of the cor-
poration may slip off to his club
and enjoy his Sunday golf, but can
the employee slip off to his base-
ball? No. Why should not the man
who must work six days to support
his family be allowed to hunt, fish
or whatnot on his only day of op-
portunity for recreation? Just what
DECKER CHEVROLET CO.
Phone 405...... BELLEFONTE, PA.
men’s compensation, calls attention
to the fact that this impression is
erroneous and that the law applies to
all employers regardless of the num-
ber of persons employed, and states
that the only class of employees ex-
COMPENSATION IS A NECESSITY
In order that employees who are
injured during the course of their
employment may receive the benefits
my side porch taking my after di
ner rest when a flivver stopped at
the front gate, A very well dress-
ed gentleman came around and with-
out any introduction said he was
selling gas stoves and had stopped
to see if I would be interested in
one. But before he had time to
state his cash price or easy install-
ment plan we recognized him as one
of our old school mates of fifty five
years ago in Sellers school house in
Buffalo Run, in the days when
school teachers received the enor-
mous sum of twenty-five or thirty
dollars per month, and the term
was four or five months of school in
the year. The girls wore home
made hoods, shawls, calico dresses,
woolen stockings and calf skin shoes.
The boys wore hickory shirts, home
made trousers and cow hide boots,
and the teacher dusted our clothes
with a hickory stick.
As our mind goes back to those
early school days there comes to our
recollection some of the early traits
is the difference between golfing,
swimming, joy-riding, buying and
selling gasoline, ice cream and soft
drinks, and hunting, fishing, moving
pictures and baseball that one
should be allowed the enjoyment of
some and prohibited the enjoyment
of others? I believe the * Almighty
neither blessed the one nor cursed
the other. A golf ball flying through
the air is just as liable to crack
wide open the Sabbath as a base.
ball. The backfire or blowout of
an automobile makes as much noise
as a gun shot,
One may justly ask why modern
society should be dominated by a
law unjust in its application and un-
fair in its enforcement?
CHAS. M. EMERICK
On the much discussed question
we find ourselves in a rather para-
doxical position. We admit the
soundness of Mr. Emerick’s state-
ment, yet the fear of what the re-
peal of the laws in question might
to which thy may be entitled under
the workmen's compensation law and
that employers may fully cover their
liability under the law, the Bureau
of Compensation of the Department
of Labor and Industry is endeavoring
to impress upon all employers,
throughout the Commonwealth, the
necessity for carrying compensation
insurance. 3
The Legislature in 1929 amended
the Workmen's Compensation Law
by fixing a penalty of from $100 to
$500 fine and costs of prosecution
or imprisonment for a period of not
more than six months or both at
the discretion of the court for fail-
ure to carry compensation insurance.
In some localities the impression
seems to prevail that the employ-
ment of only one person does not
require the employer to carry com-
pensation insurance. W, H. Hor-
ner, director of the bureau of work-
cluded from the provisions of the
workmen’s compensation law are
agricultural workers or farmers,
domestic servants and persons who
are engaged to do certain work
which is not in the course of the
regular business of the employer and
is known as casual employment.
A check-up on persons employing
labor is being made by the bureau
of inspection of the Department of
Labor and Industry, and those found
to be violating the law will be
prosecuted.
Compensation insurance can be
secured from any stock or mutual
insurance company authorized by
the insurance department to write
compensation insurance in this State.
— An excellent quality Cogswell
chair and footstool for $27.50, at W.
R. Brachbill’s Furniture Store. 50-1t
than he had originally expected.
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Po for hogs were
high and a farmer with
two hundred choice animals planned to market
them. The evening before shipping, however, he
was visiting a neighbor who suggested that he
make sure of market conditions by telephone.
This he did and learned that the market had
broken badly. Two days later, he shipped the
hogs and received 14 cent more per pound
The Modern Farm Home
of the clever salesman. During one
of these school terms our teacher
took a leave of absence between two
days, so. we got a substitute. This
new teacher failed to have grown
any hair on the top of his head, the
place where the hair ought to grow,
and as we looked him oyer Ye de.
cided that he was not only deficient
in hair but other qualifications de- yea of What" i8
sirable in a school teacher. But one : ;
of his iron clad rules was that we I fl
should have a speech on a stated| We Are Not Competent to Criticise
time, and when the roll was called Poetry
we all responded except this joker.
The teacher told him he would give
him a few days grace. So on the
appointed day John was called on
bring makes us believe that such Has « TELEPHONE
action would be unwise. In the
last anaylsis the Fourth Command-|§
ment commands us to keep . the | g¥
Sabbath holy, so-that it would seem | 3
that it is another one of those prob- | §&
lems for the individual conscience. {gs
One that hinges wholly on his, our |
Has it financial strength ?
Has it intelligence and experience, with
competent legal advice?
To Ladies
The author of the poetry below
submits it for our criticism and says
that “I am a firm believer in your
Is it prompt and efficient in its service?
for his speech. Strolling up to the|judgment of poetry.” We fear that
Platform With Bisgiins Js JJoekets, he has given us credit for some- H heti dit de t Jib Looking for Gifts
head bowed, he moun e plat-| thing we can’t qualify for. All we it a sympathetic attituae towar ose
form made his bow facing upward |know about poetry YI that some as it ymp with which to please
and said:
“Lord of love look down from above
On us poor little scholars
We have hired a fool to teach our School
And pay him twenty eight dollars.”
thoughts seem to be more beauti-
fully expressed in verse than they
could be in prose, and beautiful
thoughts delight us so that it
doesn’t matter much to us what the
technique of real poetical expression
is.
it serves?
A Man
>
We think we can answer, yes,
That ended the speech making for to all these questions.
that term.
T. M. HUEY. I it lilts along with a lovely thought
i | And a fairly jingling rhyme
i I! { We think that poetry's been wrought
Something for the Hon. Holmes | And invariably judge it fine.
to Answer. We see lots of poetry in high class
magazines that says nothing—means
nothing more to us than a conglom-
eration of words, We suppose it is
high brow stuff, but most ofitis as
unintelligible as the Einstein theory. | Wi
To us a poem is a song and un- |;
less it sings of something in its
author's soul that is attuned to
something in our soul it just doesn’t
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Nittany, Pa., Dec. 10, 1930.
Mr, George Meek,
Editor Democratic Watchman.
My dear Sir:
Today we discussed in your office
the Sunday Pennsylvania Blue Laws.
On the following pages Iam send-
ing my ideas of them.
If you want to use them of course .
you are at liberty to do so. Our correspondent advises that his
Sincerely yours ‘verse is “one of my first ventures.”
CHAS. M. EMERICK. If that be so he should go on, for
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
sid BELLEFONTE, PA. T= Fauble Store’s 44th Anniversary
Sale presents an opportunity not only
to secure the newest and best things in
EE EE EE A A NS Men’s Wear, but the great price reduc
WE FIT THE FEET COMFORT GUARANTEED
ee?
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tions in force during this great sale will
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|he has done just what we have said | 55 :
h— ‘above; taken a lovely thought and | [Uc 4
oy am opposed to the repeal of | expressed it admirably. i ° make your dollar do double duty.
* the Blue Law or any change per- a0] B Sh St
mitting a community through its | DON'T SAY ‘‘CONVICT” Uo ane y fo oe ore Th 1 1 :
governing body to permit sports . nT i closin me
etc. Sunday sports and amusements | In the cold gray dawn of a winter day, | 5 WILBUR H. BANEY, Proprietor e sale continues up to clo g th
do not mean enjoyment of Sunday|On the way to our daily task, Ie ;
put the breakdown of morals in a The coach is stopped and a man gets on, | FHE 80 years in the Business Christmas Eve.
community.” Such was the state-| Who is he may I ask.” =i]
ent Te oulys i a “A convict,” answers one of my friends, | Sri BUSH ARCADE BLOCK cul
an, John L. Holmes, as published, As the man takes up his place. r= i v-
in the Philadelphia eRcord, Sunday, 1 chance a stare and to my surprise =I BELLEF ONTE, PA. . Come and share in the wonderful sa
Novembet fiirfieth ' ’ fw | See a pleasant looking face. = in S that ou 3 ill see here
a Mme whet he He's done his time, they've set him tree, | Uo SERVICE OUR SPECIALTY SPECIAL ORDERS SOLICITED ng you w :
Governor of Massachusetts consider- T¢ man he's paid his debt
ed it beneath his dignity to call But just as the lad on the bus has said,
He is a ‘‘convict” yet.
upon President Washington; when
the authority of the Federal against
the State government was very much He’s paid for all his sin.
doubted; when free and popular ed- Don’t let that stigma ruin the man
ucation was a half century away; Forget where the poor soul's been.
and when the voting population of
this infant Republic was limited to
from nine to fifteen per cent of the
malés over twenty one years of
age. The coonskin cap and long,
rifle were still full dress equipment We can’t be a bunch of quitters
along the Susquehanna and Alle- And scorn a man that’s licked
gheny rivers. | 'Cause we belong to another class
8
Get your Coupons here. We give
Give him a break, he’s human you know,
them with all cash purchases, regardless
of the Big Price Reductions.
YOUR CHRISTMAS TURKEY
This is to call your attention to
the fact that we have bought for
hundreds of Christmas dinners the
finest turkeys we could locate. We
have them—plump and tender—in
all weights, both gobblers and
hens. We ask that you let us have
your order as early as possible so
that we can reserve for you the
Give him a boost, if its only a word,
It'll help a lot they say
And maybe if your down and out
He'll welcome you that way.
A. Fauble
1 Sn the Hos of wis archgie | That fate just hasn’t picked. bird that will meet your needs
egislation stall e tate. 8 , “ " ' :
champions, however, travel from one pony Say Wavict: Yen they let =m Market on the Diamond
end to the other at sixty miles an g,, goodluck,” in a cherry way, Telephone 666
hour, on roads built with the latest And I'm certain ‘1 feel ¢ r
equipment and paid from taxes earn-'my,ughout that ee h ete
ed by the modern application of fa i 5
scientific ideas in agriculture and Henry Wadsworth
industry. They fanatically cling to
the past in one idea and ambitiously !
discard it in the qther. The sup-
Bellefonte, Penna.
P. L. Beezer Estate.....Meat Market
——Make The Watchman your
Christmas Gift to some friend.