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VOL. XCVIII
THE PEACE PLAN,
The Bok Prize of $100,000 Awarded—
Name of Winner Not Yet Divulged
Keeping Close to League of Na.
tions.
Woodrow Wilson, was the principal
author of thee ovenant of the Leagne
of Nations. He alone secured its re-
insertion in the peace treaty -after the
other leading members of the
ence had taken advantage of his brief
Washington to cut it out
was substantially the
confer-
absence In
The plan
same as Chief Jutice Taft's League to
Enforce Theodore Roose-
vet's "posse comitatus of nations,” and
peace
Peace and
it offered the only road to ns
Henry Cabot Lodge told Union College
in June 1915. It embodied the
of all Americans untfl Republican
conspiracy by Lodge
decided to make war on it bectiuse Mr.
peace,
hopes
a
headed Senator
Wilson was a Democrat.
The plan
unanimously the
22.160 submitted to it In competition for
the Bok atvard simply proposes that
the United States has refused to enter
shail
directions
selected
of
ACE which was
i
by committee out
98
the league of Nations it COP -
all
the responsibilities of
erate with it in without
assuming any of
The
recognizeg that peace can be promoted
membership, author of the plan
only by the organized co-operation of
the The League
form of co-operation. He
found at the Washington conference of
1921-2 that the 50-odd which
had joined the League would not leave
it and join
Harding admitted
such a
it
nations. is
says was
nations
something else. President
by
spring that it had been found
implication ast
impossi-
as he
ble to form such association
had talked so much
an
about during the
campaign of 1920.
then,
co-operation of nations be used to avert
war. But the United States has refus-
the
Only through the League, can
ed to join the League Hence. in
of the author the adcepted
peace plan, the the
States can work for peace is by co-op-
the He
a considerable number of
we
of
Way
opinion
only United
erating with League. points
out interna-
tional agencies in which are now
acting with other nations, and he sees
no reason why we should not take part
in additional agencies.
Therefore his plan for averting war
is that we shal get to
League ag the Republican animosity to
Mr. Wilson will permit. He
that the League has already
impossible to use the force contemplat-
ed by the
political
integrity of its members under
as near the
takes note
found it
covenant to guarantee the
territorial
Article
X. and the use of the economic boycott
under Article XVI.
have been dropped or modified.
the League must
ment. persuasion and public opinion.
The plan, then. urges that the United
States immediately
nent Court of International Justice un-
der the conditions stated by President
Harding and Secretary Hughes last
February; that #t offer extend its
present co-operation with the League
and participate in its work ag a body
of mutual coursed
which shall substitute moral force and
public opinion for the military or eco-
nomic force contemphated by Articles
X and XVI, safeguard the Monroe Doe.
trine, assume no obligations under the
treaty of Vermailleg except by act of
Congress offer membership in the Lea-
gue ty al nations, and provide for con-
tinuing the development of interna
tional law.
This is all that can be done without
encountering partisan objection. But if
the League has less power than it wos
intended to have. It ig due chieflly to
the fact that the most powerful na-
tions in the world refused to enter the
League. In regard to Articles X and
XVI. our opinion that that are not
open to the objections that have been
made to them fs supported by the opin-
dons of two Republican ex Presidents
in favor of the use of economic or even
military force ft, restmin one nation
from attacking another until all means
of a peaceful settlement have been ex-
hausted. But as the Republican party
has rejected the opinions of not less
than five of its most eminent members,
the plan proposes ag near an approxi-
mation of the United States to the
League, as near an approach to the
plan of President Wihson, as it at
present practicable, and therefore it js
the best plan available,
I ————— QA SSAA
Farmers and Poultry Raisers:
you getting your share of eggs? Are
you getting highest prices for your
epga? Our purchasing system enables
us to sdll HIGH GRADE Laying Mash
at ROCK BOTTOM prices and our
breeding system assures you ADOVE
MARKET PRICES for the right kind
of eggs. let us serve fyou-—A. RB.
KERLIN AND BON,
y ————— Mn.
and Spark Plug” are
and will be at the
independence and
In practice these
Hence
depend upon argu-
enter the Perma-
to
under conditions
Are
STATE SECRETARY S. 8, REPORT.
Secretary Myers Makes Monthly Re.
port to Board of Directors of Penn,
State Sabbath School Assockation,
The dirty -faced urchin
ran in front of us. %0 close as tO neces
sitate a sudden stop to avold a collis-
Holding up he said:
“Merry Christmas, Mister. by a Bulle-
tin." Now, and I
did not wang the Bulletin but I bought
it furthermore, | what
sort of a Christmas he would have. He
1,160,000 like him
who have no Sunday
for
that
he $id not go to either Sunday School
We to think
we and
other day a
on. i Riper
it wasn't Christmas,
and, wondered
was just one of the
in our own state
School or other religious influence.
I was interested enough to learn
or church. are of the
work
apt
great are doing forget
the great outreach of the untouched
wig with Marion Law-
New
Last month 1
rence, attending the Jersey Sun-
Nehool Assoc Convention
New
day ition in
Paterson, Jersey, and heard him
say that while America the Sunday
Schoo]
in
does furnish seventy percent of
the church members, vet it losex sev-
enty percent of those wh, have come
influence I not
Mr.
under its suit
that
am
pris.
ed Marvin 8 concerned. |}
wonder the complacency
and 1
Vo ¢
iy concerned about creating in
h
réasched,
it that «har
acterizes most of us. am serious
i
our state |
genuine anxiety (oo reach the un
enlarging our enrollment sad
attendance, and increasing our effi.
the
school
With
sent a
and
effort
this its primary
ciency, so stimulating
Hitec that every
tusk
view I have just letter to
n
our county and
it.
Blackall
for
He felt this to be our
presidenty SeECTelares,
Urging
Dr.
last
was much concerned |
of « Work
With
year the morale « ar
great peril
the adoption of ew plan of oper
ition, namely: Mina
tional leaders th principal owe in
building our educational he.
of
been greatly
Dror
Prog
LI.
and all us, recognize that peri] has
lessened, if not eliminated
There is now facing us the peril of
inertin and apathy. of fdlure
erly evaluate our infly
Nee
enough emphnsie development
growth. There ia a VE perl
i
gress as well, a progress which
eal and viddates established
there is no danger
placency.,
Josh Billings. 1 beleve, once said
“Most of my troubles never happen-
el” Too much of thas timent will
20
make our Association anaemic and in-
effective,
The
the
of tndav
of the yom
extiravagance
h
ineest
love of the disre-
gard for the Sabbath and for law
fretting at restraint. the Joss of
terest In Church. «theses noms if
syn
L changing youth challenge us as nev.
er before renewed and enlarged
io a
effort t, make the Sunday School meet
a worlds need
Only one-fourth of the church is In
Sundiny School Only two cents of evs
dollar the
the
ery ohurch budget
$24.24
Year per capita
city
This $= an added challenge.
Now
such visits to other
staff
but a
in goea
to Sunday School; for the
for
of
church and 46c per
the Sunday School
50.000,
in a typical
My experience in Jersey leads
me to believe that
states by our occasionally can
have effect.
“The the
better I tke my own” as the boy said
It
to thank God for our sudcess and take
eta ff had
quarterly meeting for the vear, and all
the field
10 meet scoring bills
nothing wholesome
more 1 see of other states,
about his dog certainly causes us
courage! Our has ite Ine
report a splendid condition iy
Enough money
has come in thus far, but we shall need
tc collect
meet
on personal subscription to
the vouchers, The
Herald shows gratifying growth in
subscriptions. with a continued good in-
come from Unless there
should be an uwniooked for slump, we
shall be mfely self-supporting "this
year,
Mr. secretary are
planning=to reach at least a few cone
ters with a financial nppeal. I hope
this will in no way lessen the activity
on the part of the members of this
board to augment our budget. The di.
vigional superintendents’ reports tell
their own story, and for once I have Ny
new requests, except general ones. to
make,
The report of fleld activities, as
shown by the reports from the coun-
ties, ja:
District Conventiong .......
District Institutes A
Special Rallies. or Institutes. ......
County Conventions ..............
Annual County Tours ........
Older Boy® and Older Oils Cone
ferences
Association
February
L
advertising
Jndis and your
45
10
65
00
30
Fears
Res eunn Feehan
“wee
46
7
EE
Officer’ Conferences. ,
Executive Commitice
County Executive Committee
Mootingw" L......... 0.00.0 ivin
La
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DEATHS,
Scholl
noon
SOHOLIL.—~Mrs. Rebecen
very suddenly Saturday at the
tly noon meal, when she
with paralysis and death ensued
mediately. The body was brought
William died
years ago.
ducted by Rev. M. C. Drumm.
Mra. Scholl was the daughter of Hen-
husband, Scholl, who
twenty
ry Gephart and was reared in the
oinity of Zion. Two children survive —
daughter, Mra. Samuel 8.
death occurred, und
of Altoona. There
sisters;
a
where the
Ca
her three
John also sur-
vive namely,
Julia Mrs.
Kine, Bellefonte, and Mrs.
Stover, Kansas: Sarah
Wagner, Lemont.
Mrs. Beaoll had not been in good
heatth for a period of about six vears.
before death
distress. Had she
but Immediately her
showed no signs of
ittained her seventy-fifth year,
——
SLABIG—Howard Slabig died on Fi
afternoon the home of his
Mrs,
Hat
the
at
Daniel Caliahan,
Linglen Funeml services were
held
the
from Callahan home,
deceased made his home during
Monday
ide
attpr years of his life. on
fOr TIOOn. wing
M C
WHS
interment
Hall, Re%
Mr. Sinbig
Years, seven
He wh
wis a
ia Siabig.
Centre Drumm
ating aged venty
months and fifteen
of Jacoby
Lheee
and AL
Valley
dava won
Penns
The
and came to
Mifflin
abxwe
of
from
daughts
Mrs
SUrvYive
county
and a sister, Emma
leedeville
named
Devinney, the
deceased,
a
ROTE well k
vil
ad
ing
John C. Rote, a nowy
wir veteran of Spring township
at his home nt Axe Mann foliow
an finess consequent upon a stroke
of paralysis he suffered early in the
morning of November 25th
at Aarvmubirg seventy-nine
Born
years ago he was a son of Simon and
Hote the Civili war he
ID. 145th
company of
Pennsyivania
Susan During
gerved in Company regiment
116th
and in the the
bestand on, Heseor ves
Misa Bertha
the
of
Meeoan
ond
He
Urry
married Boalick
“ ives following children
BH Chestertown,
E.E of
E.. of Greensburg
brother, Thomas H.
Win
with
Harry Hote,
Mrs Pitcairn, and Bi
man
fe Rote, of Lady
srivith,
ded
daugh-
:
in
RAMER
Utiem, N
Mra Mary Ramer
XX. the home of
She was aged sixty-five
at a
ter
DS i914. Bhe was a native of Cen-
tre county where her
forty -oligght years
maiden name was Mary Rote
in
took
ago. Her
Most of
marriage
place
Dollings' Viee President Sentenced.
The sentencing of Dwight Marrieson
to the Ohi, penitentiary; for a period
Har-
RL
who invested in Dollings stocks
rison wae vice president of the
Dollings Company of Ohio,
He was found guilty by a jury sev.
eral weeks ago of making false state-
ments concerning the holdings of the
Phoenix Portland Cement Company of
Ohio, which stock was being sold by
the Dollinge Company.
Neither Harrison nor his counsel
made any comment as the sentence.
which climaxed one of the bitterest
legag fighte in the history of Franklin
county courts, in Columbus, ©O. Ap-
peal will be immediately taken. Har
rison is facing trisd in the Federal
Coury there on an indictment charging
misuse of them mails In connection
with the sale of Dollings stock. This
triad I» scheduled to start the middle of
January. : ’
AI MAASAI
Why Gets the Mellon?
A person with $100,000 income
saves under the Mellon plan $251.-
784.00,
Fifty heads of families. each having
an income of $20,000-—total $1,000,000
One hundred heads of families, each
having an income of $10.000-total
$1.000,000-gave under the Mellon plan
$22,200,
Two hundred heads of families, each
having an Income of $5,000--total $1.-
000,000—-mave under the Mellon plan
$56.960,
Four hundred heads of families, each
having an income of $2,600-—total $1.-
000,000-mmve under the Mellon plan-—
nothing.
The propagandists of the Mellon tax
plan continually refer to percentages
of reduction taxpayers will receive, It
is not a question of percentages, but &
Guestion of dollars and cents .
APPROPRIATION FOR WORK
AT ROCKVIEW LAPSED,
SAYS LEWIS,
|
Auditor General Hold Balances of 1921
Appropriation Not Avallable for
Payment of Bills Incurred by Abol- |
ished Board.
The abolition of the board of Inspec-!
of the western penitentiary by
reorganization code |
"necessarily lapsed” the balances of the
appropriation for
at the
Bamue;
construction ®
3
ek view Auditor
=
prison,
Lewis holds in ad
Samson, Pittsburgh. ie
of trustees, The |
by Mr.
status of the 1821 |
the payment :
abolished board
Harry G
of
to
meaner the board
letter wag In answer to one
Samsom, asking the
redative
to
of bills Incurred by the
wii result In Heght ace!
it Rockview during the coming |,
“I find
the
that he 1921 appropriation
construction and equipment
new pentts Was made Spe
cifically 10 the board of wpectors of
westery
Mr
penitentinry if Penney
Deciaris
Cline of
rd. Mr
Ole
Lewin continued
NL)
be made
IM A ——
Zer, Saturday Night,
=
——————
In Jall for Arson.
tz. of Port Mati 13.
oouniy afl charged
ine
with |
wh
Aram
Centre
I: appears some tine ago al
Teh were several horses
both and horses belonging
wns destroyed by ire TS
property was insured, but the insur. |
ance companies r
fire :
character.
being suspicious iy
Martz was taken in custody and is now
the beginning of this article
Martz is a brother of the elderly gen-
ago,
murdered
who a year or more wns
\
in}
kK of
death
have been
the mountains ba
The
elder Martz
in
Port Matilda
of the
cleared up.
Gif for Bucknell Univesity.
Bucknell university bas received a
gifs of 2560 of Virginia
land, valued conservatively “at $30,000.
from J. Loftus. of London, it
wns announced few days ago by
This land which bord-
hundred
mysterious
has never been
acres choice
Henry
td |
President Hunt
ors the several
upon acre |
tract recently conveyed to the univers
sity by Dr. James 8 Swartz, of New
York. for forty years chairman of the
board of trustees, is situated In Faire
fax Virginia, between Wash- |,
ington. D. C,, and Washington's home
at Mt. Vernon,
The yeidr just passed has been an i
“era of gifts” for Bucknell university. |,
A $500,000 stadium, $400,000 increased
endowment from the alumni, a pledge «
of $260.00 from the Hockefaller General
whucation board, and these two tracts
of land have all come within a year.
i I HPA BHAI
After Bonnlwell's Scalp,
Independent Democrats in Philadel-
phin are taking measures to break up
the M-partiean Democratic machine in
that city. Democrats are asocused of
delivering votes to the Republican pare
ty in exchange for local offices
While no reference was made at the
meeting to Judge Bonndwell, of the Mu-
nicipal Court, there were reportg that
one of the plirposes of the organisation
wil be to deliver a blow at the jurist's
candidacy for National Committeeman
from Pennsylvania. The new outfit. it
was indicated, will take the “dry” side
of the liquor le and to that eXtent,
it was stated, will probably lend its aid
to the MeAdoo boom. In line with thig
action: the “independents” will likely
support Bruce ¥. Stertong for National
Committeeman,
county,
1924,
Sheep Prove Profitable,
not kept
farms in Penns Valley and most farm-
Sheep are generally on
ers who do so only care for very small
A.
of Centre Hall,
He
ewes and a
Heckman, #iving west
of
flocks, John
this clasg of
of
buck during last vear., and
of
$242.95,
is one
farmers took care seventeen
these
$392.
brought bim a gross return
Sixteen lambs sold for
He sill has the eighteen sheep.
nt 2 A A A504
Toll Gates Nulsanees,
Petitions will be presented to the
f Bpang-
and Walker to condemn the spurs
of
Miles town-
toil
Penn ands
ao
The
am,
turnpikes
thus
in
and away with the
nufsanoces. pikes both lead
nt Miithe one to Cobur and
n
other through the Millheim Nar-
where it intersects with the
leading from Centre Hall
Dese 1onas
Centre ocounty.
to forget they ever ¢
se A
Jackson Day Banquet,
Democs
National K. K. K. Congress,
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
Hooda Park was sold by Wham C,
Frank Hockman, of Mingo-
for $18400,
wwe to
ville,
Bquire Ed. Jamison, of Spring Mills
was a visitor dn town on Fray and
wus a caller at this office.
Runkle Frazier has leased the George
H. Emerick farm, near Potters Mills,
the present tenant on which is Roland
Zettie,
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Fortney, after a
short residence at Bellwood, are again
ine Grove Mills, their former
town.
back to
home
The radio station at Penn State has
resumed broadcasting programs each
Monday, Wednesday and Friday night,
eight o'clock.
Hight passenger ooaches hung to the
Wednesday evening of last
ail were filled with students
sang after knowledge at Penn State.
engine on
week and
Clinton now has a woman
commissioned a justice of the peace.
Her name is Nan Olive Lowe. Bhe is
foonted and succeeds
county
in Lock Haven
Mildred Swabb, who is attend.
at Bunbury. was of
of the Misses McKinney, at the
Mins
ing High school
Jeet
Former Penns
dent.
House Mountains re-
to sch the iatter part of last
in Seveq
JOH
P. Bible
Fldr .
and daughter,
of Belefonte. the
wy the local ladies of Belle-
the benefit of the Bellefonte
ivde G. Gray and hig father, Irvin
were Yoing time in
Penitentiary, have beep par-
They
rs
who the
were found gulity sbout
of having converted in-
belonging
their consent.
ag
of some oattle to
neighbors without
A radio was installed in the George
JOHN PP, WILLIAMSB
- tt
Philipsburg State Hospitals
Philipsburg State He spita
patients
dressings.
3
nurses gradunted
and ten othery
hood,
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Tips for Taxpayers—No. L
1924,
riod for filing Income-tax
1823. The period
March 15, 1524
provided by
willful
the
January 1. marked the begin.
for the
midnight
year
of
at
act for fallure or
1 make a return and pay tax
Mm Ume
Form 1940A heretofore used for re. |
fncomes of $5,000 and less,
whatever source derived. has been
the
taxpayers-——wauge earners
Reduced
interests of the largest
of and
las
from six
140A
& to be used for reporting net income
W $5000 and gesy derived chiefly from
Peresong any part
# whose income f& derived from a bud.
mle of
Persons,
orm
profession, or other taxable
»
It being impossible to determine at
4 a SO 1 AI 350 Bh
COAL—ALL KINDS,
Chestnut, pea, egg: connel and soft
WM. McCLENAHAN,
wer home, near Centre Hall, one day
“listening In” has been
of the family
in the middie
as in Georgia and the
England states. have been heard
programs have been
intssesting
wok
and
favorite pasttime
Stations
since
vest, as well
ang the
reghly
Th oncrete bridge over the Junia-
Lewistown is to be a mem-
the Bpanish-American and
rid War The commission-
MifMiin authorised the
expenditure of §5600g for a memorial to
This will ne-
in the plans
now being worked
~
Raisers: Are
geiting your share of eggs? Are
geiting highest prices for your
eggs? Our purchasing system enables
us i, sell HIGH GRADE Laying Mash
at ROCK BOTTOM Prices and our
breeding system assures you ABOVE
MARKET PRICES for the right kind
of eggs. Let us weerve
KERILIN AND SON.
At a recent ceremony at the French
Embassy in Washington, Colonel Theo
dore Davie Bon] was made an officer of
the Legion of Honor. This high honor
from the French government was in
recognition of services rendered Pefore
this country entered the war on ac-
of distinguished service ren
dered on the French front during the
participation of this government.
A post office buliding is finally to be
erected in State Oolege to ald in better
handling the large quantity of mall
out and received. Bids for the
onstruction of a one-story brick bulld-
ing, 62x64 fool, are being asked for
through an advertisement i; the State
College Times. The structure wil} be
located on a site purchased some years
ago. The sum of $75.000 was apppro-
priated for the construction work.
Just as #he approach to Nittany
Mountain was reached, the Chevrolet
sian driven by Edward Balley, skid.
ded over a slippery road and upsét
close to the J. G. Dauberman home, last
Wednesday evening. The car toppled
over, striking a fire-plug which tore a
huge hole in the left side of the oar.
The sedan was set on its wheels and
continued on its own power. With the
owner of the oar was his youngest
mon. Muth, aged eight years Neither
one ‘was hurt,
The movement initiated by Port Mas.
tilda residents to have the Bald Bagle
road between Snow Shoes
and Bald Eagle made a modern thor.
oughfare by the laying of a concrete
Ww veterans
ore of oounty
i be ereclied on
the bridge
cositate slight changes
the bridge as
upon.
Farmers and Poultry
you
you
ment
route to Alttbna and 0
Penn Highway for a large
Centre Hall,