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Subscribers changing postoffice address, and not notifying us, are liable for sams. All subscriptions will be continued unless otherwise directed. CIRCULATION OVER 7,008 COPIES EACH WEEK THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. QUICK ACTION ON PLEA “Standing before the Indiana Republican convention a8 its keynote speaker, Representative Bruce Barton of New York told his party some of the things Republican politicians wake up in the night worrying about but which few will admit in broad daylight,” writes Raymond Clap. per in his syndicated columns. “Such facing of the situa. tion is so rare among Republicans that Barton's utterance of the obvious becomes a courageous outburst of common sense. He told the Republicans it was ‘blindness’ to ‘ig- nore the popular appeal of Roosevelt's popularity,” and said: ‘The answer is easy, Those men and women who have been neglected in our American life believe that they have found a friend. For the first time in the lives of many of them, there is the sense of security which friend- ship gives. In a job or out of a job, in funds or on relief, they say: “He cares. He is trying to do something about Democratic State and Local Ticket For United States Senator GEORGE H. EARLE, of Haverford For Governor CHARLES ALVIN JONES, of Edgewood For Lieutenant Governor LEO C. MUNDY, of Wilkes-Barre For Secretary of Maternal Affairs THOMAS A. LOGUE, of Philadelphia For Congress DON GINGERY, of Clearfield For State Semator EDW. JACKSON THOMPSON, of Philipsburg For the Legislature JOHN W. DECKER, of Spring Mills For State Committeeman DR. F. K. WHITE, of Philipsburg For County Chairman H K. BROCKERHOFF, of Belefonte For Vice Chalrman MAUDE E MILLER, of Pine Grove Mills EDITORIAL ~¢™ PEDESTRIANS RIGHTS Motorists in Pennsylvania now know positively that they have a special duty to perform toward the pedes- trians who use the highways in the absence of sidewalks. The State Supreme Court last week upheld a jury verdict in which the parents of two children who were killed by a truck had been awarded damages. In the decision of the court, Justice Edgar H. Barnes “A person walking along the right portion of a paved roadway is not required to turn and look for approaching traffic nor is he required to step off the highway to permit the automobile to pass. "Since it is not negligent to walk along the por- tion of a highway in the absence of sidewalks, it cannot be held that parents who permit their children to do so are at fault. “To hold otherwise would be to declare that it is negligent conduct to adopt the accepted and usual means of pedestrial travel along rural high- ways. The rights of children to walk on the Highways are no less than those of adults.” While it is probable that a large percentage of those persons who use the highways or sidewalks do not reach supreme court decisions, it is hoped that no undue ad- vantage will be taken of a situation such as this. Even though the pedestrian may be quite familiar with the operation of a motor car, he is prone to forget what a very slight acceleration may do in the way of propelling these powerful vehicles forward. The driver facing an on- coming car in the opposite direction, as well as pedes- trians, often has his hands full, especially if he is being pressed from the rear by some restive driver. One good solution to the problem would be building of pavements in all rural sections where people find it necessary to use the highways when walking. It is one way in which ptblic money could be spent to good ad- vantage. ' a] EFFECT OF FARE BOOST The Interstate Commerce Commission has granted for an eighteen-month trial period the Eastern railroads’ request for a boost in passenger coach fares from two to two and one-half cents a mile. Even the commission is not sure that the increase will be beneficial to the railroads. Many others have the same doubts, It is quite evident that the financial conditions in which the roads find themselves had much to do with the commission’s decision. There is no doubting that “times aré tough” with the railroads, but there is much doubt that it is the result of fare schedules which attract rather than alienate public patronage. To what extent potential coach passengers will use the automobile and the bus is not easy to determine. Some of them will do it without a doubt, partly out of resent. ment, partly out of the feeling that it is cheaper, espec- ially where a group pool the costs. As has been stated previously in these columns, it is the welfare of the railroads as well of the traveling public which inspires the proposal that the roads increase their business by mak their transportation attractive not only in streamlined equipment and faster and more fre- quent service, but in price as well. That formula generally works well in other lines of business. It would be odd if it proved an exception in the railroad business. SAGE OF EMPORIA UTTERS A WARNING “The Republicans today, aghast at the monu- ment of Roosevelt's aT ooking ayhast. at think that they will destroy it when they come to power. They ate fooling themselves. The lesson of the depression is found in this New Deal m. The Democrats as a party would not have ph pie iy it without Roosevelt's leadership and the Republicans as a party will not destroy it after Roosevelt is gone. The lesson has been learned. We reject the whole New Deal in the emotional burst of an election. But afterward the m will still stand.” William Allen White in the be Gazzette, oak 4 it” An hour and 20 minutes later, the convention nomin- ated for U. 8. Senator Raymond Willis, Angola publisher, who described himself as a “dyed-in-the-wool conserva- tive” and a 1007 Old Dealer.” SAFETY IN TRAVEL In almost every family, sooner or later, the conver. sation includes a discussion, debate or battle over the rela- tive safety of the various methods of travel that are avail- able to the elect in the year 1938. We cannot give you the answer for the present sea- son but the national accurate figures are available, In 1936 the number of passengers killed for every billion passenger miles travelled was as follows: Trains 1; Automobile 45 scheduled planes 1,622. In other words, the train was automobiles and 101 times as safe : scheduled planes 101; non. 45 times as safe as as the scheduled air- plane in transportation service. According to the law of averages you could ride, in 1936, a billion miles on a train before death was due to reach you. Even on a scheduled plane you would have been entitled to nearly 10,000,000 miles of journey before the fatal trip. ad Health and Beauty Ss The Slanghter of the Innocents “What shall I write about this week'?" inquired the writer of a group of doctors and nurses “Write about the dangers of leav- ing lye within the reach of children.” responded a physician The cases that are brought into this hospital, of little children who are the vietims of lye are appalling Some careless mother or servant leaves this deadly stuff within reach of small hands that seize upon It and immediately try to drink {5 Those who swallow some of it are burned and seared as though they had taken a dose of carbolic acid To some of the victims death comes is a merciful release. We succeed in saving the lives of others, but at what a fearful cost. Concentrated lye bung and sears the mucous membrances of the lips, the moulh the gullet, the stomach, or any other membrane that it touches. If the child does not die after swallowing a small pottion of (ye the mouth and esophagus (gullet) are raw and sore for months The scar tissue draws up the gullet 50 that the child cannot swallow food, for experiences such difficulty that instruments have to be pushed al frequent intervals down to dilate the tube that jeads from the mouth into the stomach, in order to permit the passage of food This process is most agonizing to the child and wry- ing to the physician. He does not always succeed in relieving the con- dition. He never does if the burns are too extensive and deep” Avoid the use of lye if possible. It certainly is very harmful to cloth- ing, because it actually destroys che fabrics. It should never be neces- sary to use it upon floors for goid dust will answer the same puipose If you have little children, keep It off your premises. You will then take no chances of having a careiess servant leaving it within reach of Mttle hands that grasp every object they see. The doctor sald "People are 50 terribly afraid of hydrophoblia Thal is not a common condition but the number of children that are sacii- ficed to lye are distressingly amazingly numerous™ Please heed the warning and Louisa’s Letter Bo Dear Louisa: I am a girl 17 years old. 1 am sill at home with my Dad and mother. They are real good to me but 1 want to get a job some® place. 1 think I would like clerking in a store or restaurant Mother and Dad dont think I can take care of myself. So you tell me what do you think about it MS Bart, Ky a ANSWER If you have finished school I see ino objection to your having a job {On the contrary, I think it 5 a wise thing for a gir] to know the value ‘of money and what it means to earn a living. I can understand, of course, why your parents would hate for you to. £0 to a strange city among strangers, but can you not find a Job nearer home-—perhaps in a place of busi’ ness that will be convenient for you | to work, but still live at home? It is! live at home fiers you pro- y from home | usually much | more economical than boarding somewhere else. ask him If he thinks he ig keeping his promise by acting the may he does LOUISA DO YOU KNOW 1. What is the status of Mexico's seizure of foreign oll properties’ 2. How many sgirikes occurred in 1987? 3. Is American shipbuilding in- creasing? 4. Has China officially severed diplomatic relations with Japan? §. Did any pitcher, before Johnny Vander Meer, pitch successive no- hit games? 6. How many nations paid the June installment on U. 8, war loans? 7. Has France recently increased the size of her Army? 8. Does the United States train private industry in the manufacture of war materials? § Who recently. married Lily Pons? 10. Who ig the Secretary General As for not being able to take care Of the League of Nations? of yourself while clerking in a store, | such an idea is absurd. | Cet something to do or take a A woman who signs herself nations. “Broken Hearted Wife,” says she is 6. 6. Pinland alone of thirteen 7. Yes; a standing army of 1.000.- {almost fifty years old and has eight 000 is planned for 1040. children. She says husband has | s 8 rl! B ; : BEE ! ETE : i 15ik | fi ge Bit H Bs 3 iil g 8. Yes §. Orchestia JULIAN Mrs. Charles Donley returned on Fourth of July from a motor trip | and northern part of west and Windsor, Canada. conductor Andre | July 14,1988. - THE OrFricE CAT “A Little Nonsense Now and Then, Is Relished by the Wisest Men” FROM BAD TO VERSE (Ode to a girl in a boat) Trim lines afloat (the girl, I mean) Too broad of beam (I mean the boat) She's not too slow, her paint is clean, Her bottom's flat (the boat's, 1 mean) Bo take her out, you'll like her If You want a prety little—skiff (Bong of the good little girD) To neck and pet Is very wrong 1 don't. Wild girls chase men and wine and song I don't 1 kiss no boys, not even one, I do not know how it bs done, You wouldn't think I have much fun 1 don't Good Advice, Anyway The story is told of one of our more Joud-mouthed citizens who with a party of friends, was retuming from Gettysburg the other night when he ran out of gas Just as he reached a lonely country gasoline station. He honked his horn until & lazy-looking boy appeared at the door “Hey, kid." sald our friend the motorist ‘1 need some gas, Get a move on you. You'll never get anywhere in the world unless you push Push Is what you need. When 1 was young, I pushed and that got me where I am.” “Well, Mister.” sald the boy, “I reckon as how you'll have Ww again, ‘cause we ain't got a drop of gas in the place.” push a 3 Bellefonte have A German claims 0 have invented a game that resembles golf Oh, yeah? That's nothing. Lots of fellows around been playing a game like that for years Not So Bad This one reaches us from State College. It is said that one of the professors at times likes to delve into the history of the lesser things about him The other day he was good-naturedly talking with one of the labor ers on the new buliding project “And what my man, is your vocation” inquired the Prof “I'm a Baptist, Mister,” was the reply “No, no,” parried the Penn Btate inguisitor, “that b want to know your vocation. For example, 1 am an educator Said the dirt shifter Naw that's your belief your belief A lady wrote 10 us last week calling our attention to a new; which stated that 11 per cent more men than women were crazy What of it. The question is who drove them crazy Liew ed cupping Not Ripe A well known farmer is to have brought some eggs 10 Bellefonte {ast week to sell Stopping st a certain house he asked the woman {if wished to buy a doen Looking them over she arent they?” Straight from the farm this said she finally exciaimed. “They're pretly small eggs morning. madam declared the huck- sirr You're farmers she you take them off the nest x That's the trouble with anxious to get the eggs solid you persisted . soon.” Did you hear about the girl who was realed by & doctor for drunk- enness? The more he treated her the drunker she got Bad Thing To Catch Btranger ‘walking along country road) Hey I've just been bit. ten by your dog and I've heard thal when a dog bites you whalever the dog has, you get’ Boy "Then you have a right to worry pups.” son That dog just had eleven Women's clothes weren't so much of a problem in the Garden of Eden. All you had to do was love ‘em and leaf ‘em Right Off the Cob Tramp-"Kin I cut your grass for a meal, Ma'am?” Lady of the House-—"Yes, my poor man. But you needn't hother cut- ting it; you may eat it right off the ground” A girl may learn a jot at her mother's knee, but she learns iot more on her boy friends lap Teaching the Young Teacher—"1 have went . . . that’s wrong Johnny--"Yes, ma'am” Teacher "Why is it wrong?’ Johnny--"Because you haven't went yet” isn't 1?’ Bigger and Beller They say that if you want to make good in Hollywood you have fo have something big For example: Clark Gable has big ears, Jimmy Durante has a big nose, and Joe E. Brown has a big mouth, Maes West is doing all right, too Does Sound Reasonable Dock—"What do they mean by ‘superfluous,’ Bill?” Bill-"Aw, somethin’ unnecessary. Like the ‘Will yer?’ in ‘Will yer have a drink'?” Wife Won't Let Him Friend-—-"You're not fit to drive your car home, why don’t you take the bus?” Drunk-—"Tt's no ushe, my wife won't let me keep it in the houshe.” That's all, folks. Marriage is different from fishing. because you hook your catch first and then get the license, wn "SCAT." Re — REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. {met A. Betts, et ux, of State College, tract in State College: $1. Gasoline Iron Explodes “ When a gasoline iron she was us- S kg : ing exploded, Miss Mary Simons, of lege iFirst National Bank of Sate College | satawiss, R. D. 3. suffered severe ‘burns, and only the presence of y. mind of members of the family saved her life. With her clothing i $8.18. et al, to Michael on the grass. All the contents of [o ox Bai 2<E > i | An : i : i | E ' -” — ; i 22 i i | - — : i fl is ? | Query and Answer Column PROBLEMA “Five Hundred” Club wag organized, and it was di- vided Into eight equal divisions. In the fourth division two-thirds of its members resigned for cause, and only one remained in that division Now then, how many members were in the Club originally? (Answer else- where in this department) P. W.-What is the chemical property of protein? Ans. Nitrogen: or the nitrogeneous material in vegetable or animal substances 8. G.~What President of the United Blales said to run” when he was sought for re-election? Ans ~That brief statement was made by refusing to run for re-election 1 do not choose Calvin Coolidge in flatly ‘we have to beat off all of them to- E. FI wish 0 ask the British penny? Ans means vou why Pence or penny.” penny | WwW, T.~What Ans ~The deer dred yards away means of defense anima; in the The deers if escape is } possib TT. FP. prehistoric Ans —Belence doe and nothing has been ern animals and those of § Are any of the modern animals? { y 0 ED. of the Where was week? kp 14 wi day An William 14, 1644 A.W. YOU AnNsw Ans JK known? An do P ize OF Lhe 1 T % o 4 ) ihe weight of U T. L~1 wis} Ls enter different 245604 pairs o hile 3.428.398 pairs E. H M-Are the Ans They Luci ingitis after eleven Godino died ut who died of pne { imonia dave W.I1B wer Bx K. HM done so Ans 85 per iB AIN0 IN What is mich for much fot the name of has delinquents? Judge Camille oent. record of success ir ted for her work in K. MR Ans pacity of 10000. It How large is is a natural 5 HF Ans Jameson County Wexford Of what nationality Marconi's the 3» mother was gest daughter of Ireland the letter “d Laken world It can detect the location ense of wild ar e Diood In per oe Biamese 1936. An operation failed because he cont How many heavyweigh ameiing Kelley of 1 re domes the amg The Red Rock amphitheatre theatre of Irish is Lhe abbreviation for from the Latin “denarius” which has the keenest sense of smell? of & human nearly a hun- smell and its fleetness are its only i” s descendants of so-called toric animals are extinet, inite link between mods the date and nat was Oct tablets sre made of Can and oxygen weigh, it is vanes according to t is blood lonjes mingle and if 5 Quickly exe- nstinct yellow mundice? yatem absorbs bile Into Joe Louls ight knock- { the Bpear Aud- ponsored by the Mary E levis 5 § wells? { depld { Texas oll Mid-Continent ng an average depth of 0.60 The deepest the Gulf Coast Ol and feet imporied were imported into ported the me? shoes were im living? separate Simplicimo from twins racted sluns. men- have ended in { championship bouts th Beavveeizht three sas 1 E Va ie 5 ended in the womaz nnessee Tho Juvenile Court has an offenders She ¥ “re mrad i af Memphis habilitating relations eT 3 TE a youthful Lic Denver. Colorado? that city has a seating ca- three enormous ook: shithealre near near formed was Marconi's mother? nations ity She was Anna Andrew Jameson of Daphne Oastie J. H~1s there any law compelling 8 doctor to treat a person who is injured? Ans Its a tion 3, of the Principles of Medical question of ethics rather than of law. Chapter 2 Bec. Ethics states that A physician should always respond 0 any request for his assistance in an emergency or whenever lemperate public opinion expects the service J. R~Does Germany have many Ans Answer {0 problem. There were division PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S unemployed persons? The unemployed in Germany now number 338 000 24 origina] members three in sarh SPEECH AT GETTYSBURG The text of President Roosevelt's address al Oetiysburg on Sunday July 3rd. follows Immortal deeds and immortal words have created here a ghrine of American patriotism compassed by “the jast full measure of devotion” of many men and by the words In which Abraham Lincoln expressed the simple faith for which they did. It seldom helps to wonder how & statesman of one generation would surmount the crisis of another. A statesman deals with concrete dif- ficulties—with things which must be done from day to day. Not often ¢an he frame conscious patterns for the far off future. FOR THE PEOPLE'S GOOD For the jssue which he restated on this spot geventiyfive years ago will be the continuing issue before this Naton s0 Jong as we cling to the purposes for which it was found- ed-40 preserve under the changing conditions of each generation a people's government for the people's The task assumes different shapes at different times. Sometimes the ‘threat to popular government comes from political interests, sometimes We are en-. fought upon this field; and the years have laid their balm upon ie wounds. Men who wore the Bioe and men who wore the Gray are here together, a fragment spared by time They are brought here by the mem- ories of old divided loyalties, but they meet here in united lopalty to a united cause which the unfolding years have made it easier (0 soe. All of them we honor, not asking under which flag they fought then thankfu) that they stand under one flag now. Lincoln was commander-in-chist in this battle; he wanted above all things to be commander-in-chief of the new peace. He understood that battle there must be; thet when a challenge 10 constituted government unity. For a democracy alive only if the settlement from economic interests, sometimes = gether, ‘mon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest good for the ‘greatest number which this govern ment of the people wag created Ww. MEET IN UNITED LOYALTY Lincoln spoke in solace for all who
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