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NEW DISASTER RELIEF PLAN
—
Continuance of Heavy Work Abroad
Deemed Necessary to Protect
United States—$21,000,000
Less Than Last Year.
A program of rellef and service to-
ward which appropriations of $48,
200,000 have been made has been out-
lined for the American Red Cross for
the fiscal year, July 1, 1920, to July 1,
1821, according to official announce-
ment by national headquarters of the
organization at Washington, The fig-
ures for 1020-21 are $31,000,000 below
those of 1919-20, in which $69,400,000
was spent,
Important among the items of the
budget for the present year is the ap-
propriation of $81,500,000 fer rellef In
foreign lands, which Includes $11,000,
000 in purchased supplies en hand and
not distributed,
Must Protect United States.
This will enable the American Red
Cross te continue its humanitarian ef-
fort to ald stricken peoples to re-estab-
lish themselves, to fight the disease epl-
demics which threaten many countries
and to efface largely the remalning
traces of the blight left by the World
War. It Is regarded as social as well
us physical sanitation on a large scale
that will have a direct bearing on fu-
ture conditions in America.
Central Europe, the chlef sufferer
from the conflict, today is facing an-
other winter of famine, pestilence and
ruin. Typhus decreased much during
the summer months where last winter
it had Its greatest stronghold, but phy-
sicians who investigated the situation
at the behest of the League of Red
Cross Societies have glven their un
qualified opinion that this coming win
ter will see a recurrence on an un-
precedented scale. The Red Cross
feels It must continue preventive means.
ures abroad to keep this and other
deadly maladies from the United
States.
Millions for Work at Home,
When the disease was sweeping Cen-
tral Europe last winter the American
Red Cross, with the ald of the govern-
ments of afflicted nations, undertook the
fight against It. Hospitals were estab-
lished wherever possible and food and
clothing were distributed to the un-
dernourished populations, who by rea-
son of thelr undernourishment were
easy prey to the epidemics. Where
disorganization contributed last year
to the great inroads made by the dis-
ease, by virtue of its knowledge of the
disease and the presence of well es
tablished hospital centers, the Amerl-
can Red Cross this year will undertake
the work with a new confidence,
Including the total of $11,000,000 In
supplies left from the last fiscal year,
the $31,500,000 is $21,000,000 less than
the expenditures for 1919-20.
Apprapriations for domestic activi
tes total $18,700,000,
The largest item of this “home”
budget 1s $7,800,000 for civilian relief
work. This includes service and as
sistance for families of soldiers. sall-
ors and marines, and work Incidental
to disaster. Of the total appropria-
tion for civilian relief, $5,000,000 is
held In reserve for the carrying out of
actual disaster relief
Reduced Overhead Expense.
The Red Cross invariably is the first
thought of a community visited by ca-
lamity. With this In mind, It was de
termined by the Executive Committee
in preparing the budget of 1019-20 to
have a fixed reserve fund from which
to draw in these Instances,
For assistance to soldiers, sallors
and marines In hospitals and in camps
this year $1,900,000 has been set aside,
Four million two hundred thousand
dollars has been appropriated for Im-
provement of health and prevention
of disease throughout the United
States during the current twelve
months. The Red Cross is co-operat-
ing fully with the United States Health
Service in this work and through its
Junior Red Cross is doing much to
spread among children the principles
of sanitation. Ap appropriation of £1,-
000.000 has been made for developing
the peace time program the Red
Cross by service to its chapters in all
regions.
The appropriation of $48,200,000 1s
exclusive of the local expenditures of
the 3,000 or more chapters,
Administration expenses this year
will be $1800000, Last year they
were $2,300,000,
for workers te come and ask you
for a renewal of your member
ship. Send in your dollar to the
nearest local chapter of the
American Red Cross. Welcome
the opportunity and privilege of
repledging your fellowship by
promptly answering ‘he
Fourth Roll Call
November 11-25, 1920
Counterfeit half-dollars,
with 1920
date, are being circulated
in various
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
(From the New York World,
“The astounding majority won by the
Republican ticket has practically wiped
the Democratic Party out of existence
everywhere north of the Mason and Dix-
on's line”, says the Globe.
The Democratic Party has been prac-
tically wiped'out of existence so many
times during the last sixty years that an.
other obliteration can hardly be more
than an interesting incident in its ca-
reer,
The Democratic Party was practically
wiped out of existence in 1860 by the
slavery issue, which divided the party
and elected Lincoln President; but in
1864. in spite of the stupendous folly of
its Copperheall leadership, it polled
more votes in the North than Douglas
received throughout the whole country
in 1860, and Lincolon’s popular plurality
over McClellan was less than his popul-
ar plurality over Douglas. Four years
later Seymour polled s0 per cent. more
votes against Grant than McClellan poll
ed in 1864
Again 1n 1872, after the Greeley trage-
dy, the Democratic Party was practical-
ly wiped out of existence, but it carried
the House of Representatives in 1874
and it lost the Presidency in 1876 only
through Republican theft. Tilden's pop-
ular vote exceeded tHayes's bY 250.000.
The party was defeated in 1880 because
it failed to keep faith with Tilden, but
Hancock's popular vote fell only 10,000
below Garfield's and for the next three
Presidental elections it had a plurality
of the popular vote, having twice elected
Cleveland to the Presidency,
In 18g6 the popular reaction against
the Cleveland Administration was so
great that the Democratic National Con-
vention was captured by the forces of
free silver and populism and in 1904,
when the party attempted to return to
sanity, the Bryan element refused to
support the ticket, with the result that
the Democratic Party was again
cally wiped out of existence north of Ma-
lines. Parker's defeat
was even more overwhelming than Gree-
ley's ; but eight years later the Roose.
velt msurrection
Party gave to Wilson all but a handful
practi
son and Dixon's
within the Republican
of States, and in 1916 Wilson's popular
had the
Was mote
plurality over Hughes, who
united Republican support,
than 500,000,
A party that bas survived slavery and
secession and free silver and populism
and Bryanism is likely to have a strong
in considerable reserve
f vitality the
Par'y out of existence in the past has al-
ways been the prelude to new
lease of political life, and there
no reason to believe the present election
thea te . 3
constitnt ana
{ Wipiog Democratic
a
is
will prove an exception to the rule,
On the contrary, the Democratic Par-
ty has never lost an election in which it
had less to regret. By the irony of fate
it has been beaten when it was right,
and that is a defeat that any party can
stand no matter how sweeping the de-
feat may be. There is nothing for
which it apologizes. Its principles are
principles that are certain of wvindica-
tion, and its policies were never sounder
than they are to-day, Its organiza.
tion is weak and much of its State lead-
ership is discredited. but grea: parties
survive because of principles and polic-
ies, not because of bosses and machines.
The Democratic Party may be tempor-
arily bankrupt in majorities but it is
not bankrupt in assets. It has bad a
record of achievement during the last
eight years that is without parallel in
American history, The country will
have an infinitely higher opinion of that
record after it bas bad four vears of ex-
perience under the reactionary leader-
ship of the Republican Party as that
party is now constituted, It will have a
better understanding of the issues of
this campaign after it has seen the
actual results of the Republican
return to “normalcy.”
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Fourth-Class Postmaster Examina-
tion.
The United States Civil Service Com-
mission has announced an examination
to be held at State College, Nov. 27,
1920, as a result of which it is expected
to make certification to fill a contem-
plated vacancy in the position of fourth-
class postmaster at Linden Hall, unless
it shall be decided in the interests of the
service to fill any vacancy by reinstate-
ment, The compensation of the post.
master at this office was $203 for the last
fiscal year,
Applicants must have reached their
twenty-first birthday on the date of the
examination, with the exception that in
a State where women are declared by
statue to be at full age for all purposes
at eighteen years, women eighteen years
of age on the date of the examination
will be admitted,
Applicant must reside within the
territory supplied by the post office for
which the exam ination 1s announced,
The examination is open to all citi
zens of the United States who can come
ply with the requirements,
Application blanks, Form 1753, and
full information concerning the require
of Centre couuty. Be sure to
“sound” new half
your way. __g°e 2%,
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ments of the examination can be secured
(Continued on foot 4th columa.)
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NO. 44
TRIP TO MAGIC ISLE
Subscriber of California.
Los Angeles, Calif,
October 18, 1920.
To the Reporter,
Centre Hall, Pa,
We had the pleasure of spending our
vacation at Catalina Island, very often
called the Magic Isle.
We went over on the new flyer Ava-
lon, built especially to ply between Los
Angeles harbor and Catalina Island.
It is 300 feet in length with 42 foot
beam and has many fine state rooms ;
amidships are four de luxe cabins with
private baths and bot and cold running
water. Fine ball rooms in which many
of the 3600 on board danced their way
over, which was made jo three hours.
This Magic Isle is 22 miles long and
varies from one and a quarter to seven
miles in width. The trip was over with-
out incident except we frightened
schools of flying fish out of their watery
home aud met a line ot porpoise, plung-
ing and spouting in their haste to get
away from our beautiful flyer, "The
Avalon.”
As the island came into view it looked
like a great crouching lion ; as we drew
nearer great mountains came ioto view
of which the two highest are Black Jack,
2000 feet, and Orizaba, 2109 feet high,
The deep dark canyons that divided
many of them took form and we could
see the great waves dash up against
their steep sides and sink back disap-
pointed into their ocean home. Dis-
tances are very deceptive on the sea and
it full hour time we
sighted the island before we made fast
in Avalon Bay, We had
vation in Island Villa, so found our cot-
Was a from the
secured reser-
tage all ready for us. We had three for
This pleasant villa
i tents. Each
one is furnished with double bed, wash-
stand, rug, chairs, elc, all very comfort-
able and conducted along European
lines. These cottages are cared for
daily by maids. We took our meals at
Boos Brothers mammoth new cafateria.
They bought a lot about two hundred
feet square and paid $265,000.00 for the
ground. On Saturday evenings they
feed nearly three thiusand people
dinper, and they had everything you
could ask for except three things which
I, as an old Centre County native, cer.
tainly would have enjoyed, bat was not
disappointed as I'have never seen them
in California. They are Apple Butter,
Huckleberry and Elderberry pie. But I
gained four pounds without them, so |
am satisfied. Anyome visiting Santa
Catalina Island will find plenty of inter-
esting amusements. Bathing in this
sheltered bay is very inviting. There is
no pounding surf to fight against and
come out sore and tired, Those who
énjoy music, and many do, for any
night you can see thousands present at
the concerts given every night by the
Catalina Baud, every member of which
is a finished musician. 1 cannot pass
without trying to give you a pen picture
of the great Ampitheatre. Imagine a
great semi-circle dug out of dear old
Nittany mountain a little west of the
pike going to Bellefonte, terraced and
provided with seals to accommodate
thousands of music loving people. The
aisles and large plot of ground in front
of the beautiful shell shaped band stand
beautified with growing flowers and
shrubs of all kinds, longside of the
hundreds of steps leading up to it shelt-
ered with trees and vines. All this
ablaze with hundreds of different color-
ed electric lights, Another stretch of
imagination and you bave a powerful
search light near Old Fort shedding its
brilliant rays on old Nittany mountain,
then sweeping down over a vast audi
ence so bright that you cau pick out
your frienas who may be sitting on top-
most seats, theo swiftly withdrawn and
light up, as if by magic, your beautiful
littie city Centre Hall. This is your
penpicture, feebly drawn of the great
Awmpitheatre. But words fail me when
I would tell how wondrously satisfying,
the dear old hymn
**Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in christian love,”
sounded when played on Sabbath’ éven-
ing by this efficient and cultuied band,
The Submarine Gardens are very
wonderful, so much so they baffle the
most able writers. Looking through
glass bottomed boats you can view a
new world, pass over plants of un.
known species, feathery ferns, trees of
great beauty aod height, growing up
out of the floor of the ocean and great
mountains with moss covered rocks lin-
ing their steep sides, Fish of the most
grotesque shapes but of the most dagz-
ling colors. On the pebbly bed of the
ocean are horrible dull lazy repulsive
looking reptiles, You also pass Seal
Rocks and see these interestibg animals
in their native haunts,
Next in interest to me was our trip on
the steamer Empress to the Isthmus,
This trip of 42 miles was full of variety.
A halt mile from Avalon you pass the
palatial hotel, Santa Catharine, built in
a deep canyon. Millionaires summer
here ; the rates are from $6 go to $30.00
our party of five.
composed of eight hundres
at
a day. Many of their private. yachts
“
were riding at anchor. The ocean is on
our right while on our left is the ever
changing shore line, We keep close to
the Island until we reach Long Point,
There the ship puts farther out to sea,
as the rest of the way jis wild and deep-
ly indented with dark canyons, while
the shore lines run deeply into the sea.
After a health giving trip we soon anch-
ored in the deep bay where the Island is
only one fourth of a mile in width, As
the way across was tiresome, we took an
auto and soon were on the other side of
the Island. In a sheltered little bay the
old Chinese ship “Wing Po" rides at
ancchor. It was built in 1753, mostly of
Ironwood and Camphorwood, the latter
being proof against the Toredo, the lit-
tle boring worm so destructive to wood-
en ships, She atone time was a prison
ship of the Chinese Government at the
mouth of the Tetsieth river and on her
Chinese pirates and smugglers were con-
fined, It was bere that the blood-
iest chapter in her tragic history was en-
acted. Finding it inconvenient to feed
so many prisoners, the Chinese captain
ordered a wholesale execution and one
hundred and fifty eight pirates were be-
headed on ber decks. This big behead-
ing knife may be seen on the Ning Po
today. with many other objects of cruel-
ty. The Ning Po was bought by Amer-
icans last year and is now owned by the
Meteor Boat Company.
I had almost forgotten to mention the
spectacular searchlight trip which we
took on board the steamer Hermosa one
night before leaving this Magic Isle.
The boat is equipped with four gigantic
searchlights, thus almost turning night
into day. In this way myriads of flying
fish, scintillating like diamonds, are
brought up by the rays of the search
light out of the dark waters. Catapult-
ing through the air with the velocity of
30 miles an hour, some sparkling on the
surface of the smooth water in huge
“night” schools, some darting here and
there, others turning complete somer-
saults or rising to 15 feet out of the wa-
ter across the bow of the boat, makes a
sight interesting and instructive.
Flashing its pe-etrating rays against
the rugged cliffs, the searchlight reveals
the native mountain goats in their
haunts, the seals at play on their slip
pery rocks, the eagle on the nest at the
topmost crag. Sometimes a huge Sun.
fish is brought out of its watery home
by the rays of the searchligh, making on
the whole a varied and never to be for-
gotten sight,
We were much benefited by our trip
to the Magic Isle and will close by wish.
ing that every one on the Centre Re-
porter staff may sometime make it a vis-
it and a more lengthy one than we did,
and sce for themselves that the *‘half
has never been told, ™
Your sincere friend and well wisher,
Mzs. Davio B. Kung,
340 E. Jefferson
Los Angeles, Cal.
la" —, SF ] P
100 Bushels More Potatoes Per Acre.
That is what spraying has meant to
several farmers in Centre county this
fall. This is the first attempt of the
Farm Bureau to put on demonstration
work 10 potato spraying and the results
have exceeded expectations. Several
farmers cooperating wiih the farm Bu.
reau sprayed as directed apd left as a
check four rows unsprayed,
The purpose of the demoonstrarions is
to show the value of spraying as a con-
trol for late blight. It might be well to
state that we did not get perfect con-
trpl due to the fact that our last ship-
ment of spray material dideiot arrive in
time for the last two sprays, hence we
had to quit spraying too soon. How-
ever, the following results show an aver-
age increase of about 100 bushels per
acre at a cost of about $10.00.
(First figures represent yield sprayed ;
second, yield unsprayed ; third, increase
in bushels due to spraying.)
W. C. Smeltzer, 200; 135;
due to spraying. 74 bu.
Lloyd White, 340; 152; increase due
to spraying 168.
Milo Campbell, 278 ; 214; increase due
to spraying, 64. or
Harry Smitn, 324; 130; increase due
to spraying, 204. a
Harry Garbrick, 170; 118.3 increase
due to spraying, 51.7.
Clifford Close, 182.2; $0.6, increase
due to spraying, 132.3.
Earl Gentzel, 104.3; 066.6;
due to spraying. 37.7.
J. H. Bailey, 127; 58.7; increase due
to spraying, 68.4.
. If any farmer or group of [armers
desires to spray, his potatoes next year
the Farm Bureau will be very glad to
cooperate in any way possible, It has
been demoustrated many times that
spraying is a very profitable operation
even in years when late blight is not
serious, —County Agent.
(Continued from 2nd column.)
from the postmaster at the place of va
cancy or from the United States Civil
Service Commission, Washington, D. C,
Applications should be exe
cuted and filed with the Commission at
D. C,, at the earliest prac-
increase
increase
KILLED IN AIRPLANE CRASH.
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Father Intended Visiting His Son at
State College When Plane He
Was Riding in Falls.
Plunging to earth when the steering
gear became unmanageable, an airplane
carrying Lewis Platt, Sr., of Marysville,
to State College, was wrecked pear the
flying field at Harrisburg on Friday,
and Platt was killed, Chester Shaffer.
of Marysville, the pilot, was not reriously
hurt,
The machine had been io the air only
a short time when it plunged, turning
twice. Its fall was witnessed by scores
of people, wno saw it start from the fly-
ing field, The motor was jammed into
the earth two feet and Platt's body was
hurled against it,
Platt intended to fly to State College,
where his son is a student, to join his
wife and daughter in witnessing the
football game, last Saturday. The dead
man was proprietor of a pool room in
Marysville and was so years old, Shafi.
er has piloted a number of Harrisburg
State College students to the college.
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Celebrate Golden Wedding.
The Reporter has many good friends
in the far west, but possibly none has
expressed more kindly feeling toward
the old home paper than Mrs. Davin B.
Kline, of Los Angeles, California, who
on a number of occasions has contribut-
ed excellent articles to its columns, It
is a pleasure ‘for us, therefore, to note
that Mr, and Mrs. Kline recently very
happily celebrated their fiftieth wedding
anniversary.
Mrs. Kline is a native of Linden Hall,
and was formerly Miss Ellen E. Ross,
daughter of the late David Ross. At
their recent golden wedding 230 persons
were present, with “‘a shower of golden
gifts, from friends of pure gold,” as
Mrs. Kline puts it.
In another column will be found an in-
teresting article by Mrs. Kline, narrat-
ing a pleasure trip, by boat, to the Magic
Isle. Mrs, Kline would have us back
home draw upon our imagination for
appreciating with her the beauties of
some of the spots on that trip by making
comparisons with local landmarks, dear
to her memory. all of which makes her
article intensely interesting,
AM RIAN.
Church 100 Years Old.
Philipsburg residents, beginning to-
day (Thursday) will celebrate the one
hundredth anniversary of the founding
of the Union Church. It was built a
century ago by the first settibrs of Phil-
ipsburg and served the double purpose
of a church and school house,
Si ——— Ap APATITE
Take up Plans For Farm Produces
Show.
Pennsylvania's Fifth Anosual Farm
Products Show, which will surpass any-
thing of its kind ever before attempted
in this State, will be staged in Harris-
burg, January 24-28. With arrange-
ments for the exhibition halls practical
ly completed and with more than 6o,-
ooo square feet of floor space available,
the indications are that the show this
year will be almost fifty per cent. larger
than in 1919, when all records were
broken.
The show, which is held under the di-
rection of the Penusylvania Department
of Agriculture and the agricultural or-
ganization of the State, will bring to-
gether the choicest products of field and
orchard from every section of the State.
The prize winners will be entitled to the
highest honors the State can bestow for
agricultural achievement, for in compet-
ition will be the prize winning entries
from county fairs and farm shows held
throughout Penasylvania,
The premium lists have been enlarged
and made more attractive and with an
unusually abundant harvest this year
and with an unprecedented fruit crop,
the showings are expected to be far apd
away the best that have ever been
shown in Harrisburg,
The county farm agents in the various
counties of the State are actively co-op-
the agents are imter-
farmers and orchardists in
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
Ss.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS
Rev. D. 8, Kurtz, of Lancaster, was a
visitor in town over Sunday.
November 11 to 25—~Fourth Red Cross
Roll call. Your heart and a dollar is
still needed.
Rabbit hunters are npt finding the cot-
tontails as plentiful as pre-season re-
ports made them.
John W. Keller publishes letters testa-
mentary on the estate of James Gal-
braith, late of Harris township, deceas-
ed,
Mrs. W, Frank Bradford left this week
for Cleveland, Ohio, where she will visit
for a short time with her cousin, Mrs, J.
A. Aiken,
Grain fields throughout the valley
present a decidedly fine appearance, but
it is feared that the warm days of Oct.
ober gave the fly a chance to get
deadly work.
in its
William Jennings Bryan was in Cen-
tre county again this week, speaking in
the Auditorium at State on
Tuesday evening, under the auspices of
the Phi Kappa Phi.
Lollege
Only about half of the voters in State
College borough voted Tuesday of last
week on the proposed bond
school improvement,
470 voles cast 431 were
proposition.
issue for
However of the
in favor of the
Class No. 5s of the M, E,
School of Sprucetown are planning to
hold a box social at the home of Clayton
Wagner on Friday evening, Nov
We will appreciate any help any
kind enough to give us. —Kathyrn Wag
ner, Sec'y.
Sunday -
George H. Emerick, who recently pr
chased the D. R. Foreman farm, at Pot
ters Mills, bas already made extensiv
improvements to the
buildings, including re-roofing and
painting, all of which adds greatly to
both appearance and value,
W. L. Taylor, better known as
“Buck” Taylot, former circus man with
the origmal “Buffalo Bill”, bas decided
to sell his farm in the western part of
Centre county. and locate elsewhege in
the United States. Since becoming a
citizen here, a few years ago, he made
many friends through his jovial nature,
and stropg, rogged personality.
Last week was “Apple Week” ia
Pennsylvania, and a campaign was
waged to bave the state's entire crop
marketed, so that none went to waste,
Up at State College, on Saturday after-
noon, prior to the big football game, a
two-horse wagon load of Baldwins,
picked from the college's owns orchard,
were distributed to everyone who came
within throwing distance of the wagon,
It was a regular throw-and catch game
Mystery surrounds the death of seven-
teen large hares owned by John A Martz
and Curtis Reiber, neighbors. Mr.
Martz, ou Friday morning, discovered
ten out of a pen of eleven Belgian hares
dead, while Curtis Reiber found six of
bis white rabbits dead, another dying
later, There was nothing to indicate
that dogs had got into the pen, there
being no outward marks of injury. Did
some one poison the bunnies ?
Arnold Beichtol, 17 years old, whose
home 1s at Pine Glenn, near Snow Shoe,
while hunting, Thursday afternoon, sus.
tained a gunshot wound of a rather ser-
jous mature. While climbing a rock
Beichtol slipped, his gun falling from
his hands. It was discharged, the con-
tents striking him in the left thigh.
The accident happened about 1 o'clock,
but it was 6:30 before friends were able
to get him to the Cottage State hospital,
Philipsburg.
The Centre Hall and Spring Mills
Ministeriums held 4 joint session at the
Lutheran parsopage on Thursday after.
noon at two o'clock. The Reverend R.
R. Jones acted as temporary chairman,
until a new organization is effected at a
subsequent meeting. Plans were made
for the observation of Thanksgiving
services, both at Centre Hall and Spring
Mills. At Centre Hall the Reverend M,
C. Drumm will have charge of the ser-
vices in the Lutheran church and the
Rev. J. F. Bingman, of the Evaugelical
various farm