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VOL. XCIII.
LIEUT. KELLER'S TALK A
’ FEATURE OF THE DAY.
Welcome Home and Community Pic-
nic Enjoyed by Big Crowd.—
Many Ex-Service Men Present.
the day that -Centre
Hall and vicinity held its Community
Picnic and very informally welcomed
home its soldiers and sailors, was appar-
ently made to order, so fitling was the
weather for an outdoor gathering.
With the exception-of one or two boys
who have not returned from France or
who have left the community since their
arrival home, all the overseas and other
boys who were in the service were pres-
ent. Only at one time did they come
together in a group and t
they appeared on the stage in the anc
orium for the brief exercises just before
noon. The West Milton band rendered
several exce llent selections and then the
people who crowded th ave
a listening ear to Lieut, W, Ned Keller,
who gave an excellent talk on the
It was easily the feature of the day
the Reporter gives his talk in full
T. KELLER
more this i
Last Saturday,
hat was when
it.
it
1e auditorium ge
war,
and
here
Ligt
“by
Lil
How mu
son of 1919 han
those that have been experienced except
means tous a
possibly the very first when
JOT,
one
erican liberty was 1 Possibly
me
you
e days of
years
3
may expect to speak of the
one hundred and
of those heroes of
tory, « Henry and the men who
forty-three 4
our early national his-
f Patrick
» Declar
gio
ned the ation of Independence
at Yorktowr
Forge.
could appropriate,
you ex speak
soldiers of today or may I say of
and those who fought
N
No
Po
about
suffered at Valley
be more
pect that I will
yvester-
day. To reg heard
often
heroism,
reat the story you have
know
ir enthu
and
80
ishoess, t
danger,
win promi
powers
th
kood,
the face of ds and
yropriate,
might
nigh
i
ore A
bat I
ng to your ears.
will continue
could be
Nothing t
more pleasi
has written
as long as tree men inhabit the eart
’
an
these things on the imperishable
of time. Not g
itean Thi
Ypres, Verd
lue
could add
to you
in a plair
speak abou
bout Cha
woods, or a ato on land
iota to what is so
ne
mightiest
known--th
men, wom
people
e1
Sat
— 5
onder Fi ri
when
Cross the Seas toy
preparing to s ail peace came, a
part of which migh
souls fired with th
fathers who so well
foundation of liberty,
I and laid the
are here before me
this morning.
You have been telling us
these months what we have been
for yowand what you owe to us,
we have almost persuaded ourselves tha
we did do something worth while.
when the niltimate analysis has
made, events and achievements will have
been viewed in their proper light and
not through the spectrum of war, then
the true heroes will be discovered ; they
’ will loom high above those who carried
the rifle and bayonet ; they will be the
men, women and children at homie who
have toiled and denied themselves, wt
have suffered even physical want, not to
mention heartaches and loneliness un-
speakable, that some of us might sail a-
cross the seas, across to the east where
duty called us,
Time would fail me to simply enumer.
ate the things you have done, not to
metition analyzing them, but some stand
out so paramount that I must speak of
them, First of all you gave 4,000,000 of
America’s best men. Would that some
human genius might have invented
some contrivance which could have re.
ported on the dial the emotions of the
soldier as he marched away, knowing
full that he might pr might not return,
Then have the same instrument placed
over the hearts of you who remained be
hind, and see recorded on the same dial
what you mothers bore to see your boys
march away ; what you fathers suffered
as you heard the name of the one who
bore your name called; you wives endur.
ed as you saw the father of your child.
ren going to the front, what emotions
surged thru the hearts of you maidens
who kissed the red rose and watered it
with your tears, as you gaveit to the
departing lover ; then and then only
could the world have known who were
the true heroes,
You gave your prayers. Let no man
fall to give due credit to this factor in
the ultfnate victory. 1 speak reverent.
ly when I say that if ever in the world’s
history the God of Nations was placed
on trial before a human tribunal it has
been in these four years of war, Those
whose faith was strongest never doubted
the outcome, * It was only a question of
soldiers H
doing
Bu
been
1
ii
A.
when the right should trit cook. To us
it was inconceivable how the enemy of
all the highest and best could win, But
if by the wildest flight of imagination
you could have thot that the central
powers could have won ultimately, tell
me honestly, you, even whose belief is
strongest, would not your faith in all
that you have held most sacred be shak-
en to the very foundation ? x
Forget not, my friends, the heroes of
faith and prayer,who bowed hum bly be-
fore the throne altars, in camp and
the field of battle, when you come
search for the reason that victory finally
perched on our standard. You gave us
your always kind and
unselfish, It does without that others
may have, hundred chances
thru which it reaches those to whom it
The people of our allies gave
their men alse,
their 1
ely
y. one needed only to
1 day
fold more
AT'S on
to
11
love, Love is
It finds a
goes out,
love to t all that
poss ibl y
was in power, but lo. see how much
more larg gave
a
to yo ur
hi eyes open only a
Ri
which other people
keep
front.
than th
rm
at the
means so many at
0 | must be
of
which vou
Walch you
erican Red C
gave,
must speak those
sen
ove 10 ross,
A.,
AREO~
eifare
: its
Jewish Welfare
Arn
Cross !
board, & a es Salvation
Ty
The
there with flower of
ican ong
langu
» ™ ” Fest ¥% ey 311 & ir © ses
to even make a faint beg rinning in sound-
Was
Knights
wish Welfare t
vation Army,
which your
three other ¢
to us, those
regard to cre
tions primarly in respect
5, food and entertainment,
TF AE see Motion that | hao
You may notice that 1 have
of these « zations
left
the
0
rgan
that 1 could speak of it separately.
American Y. M., C. A. the Red Triangle.
We all k that the fi Byer O criticiam
has been pointed at it ; that fin rsh
have been spoken gbout it,
I am not here to defend it. It needs
no defense, If it did it could abunda
ly take care of itself. [I know there are
men and women in this fair land who
gave to this magnificent organization
until they felt i And after all, that is
the only kind of Riving worth while
isn't it? s are troubled an od
which they gave was
misdirected and
to last
he
now
words
Fut
¥
we
wortied lest that
wasied, was misspent,
failed of its mission ?
Is it to any such here this morning
that I ad dress these few remarks, beg-
ging the indulgence of those to whom
they may not be of the same interest
and moment. The chief complaints
about this work which you have heard
come, practically under one of the fol-
lowing heads, using almost the identical
wo.ds of those who lodged them :
*“They charged us for things that we
should have had for nothing.”
“They charged us more for cigarets
and cakes than the army commissary
did.”
“They were not up at the front where
they should have been.”
“They furnished us some very poor
entertainment,” and 1 have personally
and quietly heard that criticism,
And lastly, almost too trivial to notice,
comes a man (I hardly dare call him
that), who because ot some poor canteen
worker, too tired from long hours at
serving the line, or being handled to
dance, as | have seen them by scores of
soldiers in the course of the afternoon or
evening, when one or two of them have
tried to dance with a canteen full of sol.
diers—may have declined his invitation
to dance again, and then he begins to
cry wolf, snake, and vows to throw dis.
credit on her work and even assails her
chargcter,
F A
’ With those few words I pass that das-
tardly assault on American womanhood
and discuss the other articles of indict.
ment, About charging and over charg-
ing : Those of you who do not know it,
the quartermaster department establish
es commissaries where soldiers can buy
many articles a low The
trouble is, these are operated only
the larger centers and even there w ben
HAL L.
at price,
in
“just out But when you can secure
the price is low. The government pay
the freight, stands for the loss in short.
age, broken packages and spoiled
All that is necessary in the com
for the officer in charge to
a board is appointed to
investigate, report, and he is free of ob.
Y.-M. CC. A,
to men
art-
icles,
missaries is
ask for a survey,
ligation, Then comes the
which gets things ithe
when the government fails, and to cover
the freight, insurance, loss, shortage,
adds a few centimes to the and
then SOMe uns Tag ion
I'm tellis
M.
18 one starts to cry
“thief, what I know
A
thief,” 15
c
‘what some
it, an order
eral headquarters at
om gen
mont diree ti
arn
d run
and to sell everything without
DE each EADIE
3
tO take over an own
any
ust as they were run in the Stat
spite of an ord
ornty ¢
for w
they
any-
organ-
was of th
I m ny
4 ¥
neal
ana
FIMAD
there were
ese enlerprise
thew
1 "
G0 SO Was (ATU IH
ery, nor unwi (Hess.
sole and ent tirely because of
The next
the spirit of criticis
them
saem
iy.
. who $8 oun
anspa ALI00,
time
just ask about
h their
touch of home t
things they received
ts and shows provic
iE
ntertainmen
he
b baseball equipments and other
in almost
se the Y, M. C.
mention care taken
then ask him how he would have liked to
see every red triangle taken down
every hut closed as should bave been
done ifthe Y. M. C. A. was a failure a
be claims. If he doesn’t hang his head
in shame and say, Oh, I never saw it in
that light before; 1 was only talking
from what the other fellows said, he
isn't an honest American soldier,
Men and women, you have given gen-
erously, nobly. The Y. M. C. A. has al-
ways been well governed. The pames
of John R. Mote, Robert Wendensall,
Robert E. Speer and others, proved that,
Those same giants of organization were
and are still at the helm and do not Jet
some little misdirected, thoughtless re-
mark trouble you lest that all that you
gave was not well spent,
And your love gave itself in a hundred
other ways, not only to us, your army,
but to all mankind who bad such need
of it. You placed yourselves under
food control even when there was abund-
ance here order that others might
bave, something the central powers said
a democracy could never do,
There is one other division of this
great army of 96,000,000 who did not
bear arms, which must be mentioned.
They are the boys in blue and the equal.
ly brave and loyal boys in gray, whom
age and infirmity alone prevented from
repeating their valorous deeds of the 6o's,
The boys in blue and those in gray
who found their inspiration in the sword
of Bunker Hill, so the boys in khaki at
Chateau Thierry inherited the spirit of
those boys. My friends, can you realize,
what it means to a soldier to inherit such
a military legacy as did our army in the
great world war just ended, a glory that
never tasted defeat, that pray God may
never surrender, for our cause shall al-
ways be just. Butone word in a hasty’
endless amount
A. provid
men
good 8
ed,
of on leave ;
5
iy
i
AU GU ST
THE DEATH RECC RD.
Tare.~Death came suddenly upon
Frank Donthesus Tate, at his home at
the Red Mill, in Potter township, on
Sunday morning at 1.00 o'clock. In his
usual good health on Saturday afternoon
he assisted Maynard Barger in hauling
rye. Suddenly he felt a dizzy spell over
taking him and he v removed to his
h here it was discovered that
jeft side A few
eared qi
:
Was
lis
hours
well,
ome, w
was
11s
ovale
paralyzed.
later he rallied ite
ood health
~S
short time, however, he
x s#s 1
k into a state of coma and
retiring in apparent at 9.00
o'cloch _. In
A
5au never
re.
gained cousciousnes
Deceased was born
Anri]l o
April 9,
moved to Potter t«
Pleasant Gap,
Bmy nel £
1870, ang ago
member of the
who sn
vile, Wi
abeth A.
TViIvY
Vednes
say
madg at
Township Teachers
Schools.
Two Give
itp
Millheim Plans to Build More Houses
Ww enterpri
eim met in the Wood.
Real Estate
was chosen
pany and J. R
says the Journal
: is to buy,
the primary
shortage
Gramiey
wr COR
FF COR
of
were Conk
house to
4 ompany on the lot
street recently purchased by
sman, and the 1ikMhood is that
another will be built this fall,
ra
on
inued from previous column)
conclusion, What is the sum
stance of it all ? Simply this. If we do
not come out of this war a stronger,
better, nobler, less selfish and more mag.
nanimous nation, with higher ideals and
a clearer perceplion of the brotherhood
of pan, then these, our comrades, wil
have died in vain. Your sacrifices of
other things than life will have been use.
less, and your love has been mispent,
your prayers are still unanswered.
{Con
and sub.
Sivores Tris rus Margrien,
The single fellows outplayed the mar.
ried men in the baseball game in the
afternoon, the final score being 14 to 2.
There were only a few really bright
spots in the game, and chief among
them was the eatch by Floyd Jordan, for
the single men. Windom Gramley
laced one but to left center, labeled for
three bases, but Floyd, after a hard aad
fast run, speared the drive and took the
joy out of life for the married fellows,
The little center fielder also bad a home
run to his credit,
Megrine or Commirree,
The general committee held a meet
ing Monday e¢vening to settle up the fi-
nancial affairs. After paying all bills,
except otie which was placed ig the
hands of an adjusting committee, it was
found there remained a handsome cash
balance, which was ordered invested in
War Savings Stamps. A detailed report
of the finavces will be published as all
business is closed,
Before adjourning sine die, the secre-
thry was instrocted that May sth all
Sunday schools and lodges in the dis
trict be notified to appoint a committee
1919.
Auto Accidents.
red at the (
vi
Chas, Stoner farm at Tussey
accompanied by George Taylor, in
former's new Ford car, ran into a bugs
in which were seated Edgar Miller
Paul Mart
The car was speed
owner of the vehicle,
2 y ay
woyd Jordan,
one side of a hill and the drive
see the bu
late to
g£Ry over the crest
avoid a collision,
was badly wrecked
left side
, both wheels
being demo lished,
the
home
i}
were broker
and
1
tore loose and ran
jured, Of the youn
Nef —Bitner.
1 pars
¢ Woman.
i toward
hap
son of Mr.
yy hon
Ain wi
A. P. Krape Buys Property.
A.P K
ase, last
a
Cens——
rape made a real estate purch-
week, from C, D. Bartholomew
and now owns the second and lot
Allen
Sout
house
and Se street
dbs
h
whic
of the Logan house,
side
we will pu t
rat class condi
invite to ne nerget
Hag man to assist him in aor for ain ug
The price paid
Krape thinks decid.
Krag
the dwelling house into
tion and
yo
farming operations,
was $7350, which Mr.
edly reasonable,
fit
i
is
£0
A I PP BN SAIL. "
NG. W. Potter Buys Property.
George W. Potter, of Centre Hall
purchased the Mrs. Walters property on
Hoffer street, last week. The price
paid was $1050. Mr. Potter expects to
occupy the place ngxt spring.
salsa m——
School Opens September 15th,
Ata regular meeting of the Centre
Hall school board, on Monday evening,
the time for opening the fall term of
school was set for Monday, Septegpber
15th. School, therefore, does not begin
until the close of the Grange picnic,
————— a ————
What is a Billion’
The American people have become so
used to speaking 10 big terms that the
use of the word billion no longer excites
any amazement. One billion dollars is
our country's interest on the war debt.
What is a billion dollars ? Dr. Green,
the Chautauqua lecturer, last week,
said that since the birth of Christ, barely
one billion minutes of time have elapsed,
A dollar for every minute since Christ
was born equals the yearly interest on
our war debt. Can you grasp the mean-
ing of a billion any better now ? A few
minutes of your time and you can figure
that in 1918 years just 1,008,100,800 min-
ytes have elapsed. :
' % 4
Senator Borah s threat to quit the Re.
blican party if the
BC Pf Sha laagye of Nutiuns |
to meet and organize to arrange for the?
(Continued of ext column) :
¥
sing in 1920, ‘ |
ceceias NO.
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM Al’. PARTS
Frank M.
Chevrolet car, but
’ denials al
“4 Buick roa
Hall
Aas
nselves on the
Gr ange Park,
Keller's speech,
the audie
inn the forr
stage in
prepar-
Henry
and ack-
SImAar
iaeut.
got a hand from
wiledged it
ate,
ence
m of a 1 8a
L.. Rowe, of Atlantic C New
was at his home §
ny.
Centre Hall
for a few days the past week.
an ex-service man, having spent many
at Kelly Field, Texas, where he
ers’ mess sergeant, a posi.
ying with it much responsibility
and need for systematizing ones
ork that the greatest economy
ght result. John admits making er-
rors at the start, but the errors served to
him righ: aod soon he was winning
the praise of the officers, who, as a tok-
en of appreciation presented him at the
close of the war with a fine leather wal-
let with a five dollar bill enclosed,
*"
Jersey, a
John is
months
tion car
the
a]
set
Girl Attacked Along Roadway at
Uniontown,
Attacked and left unconscious along
the road, near Upiontown, Thursday
night. Goldie Grover, aged 17, daughter
of a well knows farmer of Walnut Hill,
is in a serious condition, A man who
gave his name as Paul Shotar has been
arrested on suspicion,
All Got Good Appropriations.
Institutions in Centre county and pear-
by counties fared well in appropriations
granted by the recent Legislature and
approved late last week by Governor
Sproul, State College received $1,981.
462. The Western Penitentiary receiv.
ed $1,103,088. Of this amount about
$500,000 will be applied to maintenance
of the Pittsburg iostitution and the bal-
ance devoted to maintenance and exten
sions at the Rockview penitentiary.
The Bellefonte hospital was awarded
$20,000, which 1s an increase of $5,800
over the amount allowed two years ago,
The Cottage State Hospital at PU.
{ay 1 mauy Republicats favor Tatifica-{ WD 0ap
en bowital recetved beaoon, will
Clearfield hospital wi