October 6, 1938. The Centre Bemocrat, BELLEFONTE, PENNSYLVANIA A OC DERR.......coorvvvnvnnrsnnsnnsssnnses Editor PAUL M. DUBBS.......covc0veeee. Amociate Editor CECIL A. WALKER............... Business Manager Issued weekly, every Thursday morning. Entered in the postoffice at Bellefonte, Pa., as second class matter, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $150 per year, if paid in advance $3.00 per year, if not paid in advance The date your subscription expires is plainly printed on the label bearing your name. All credits are given by a change on the date of label the first issue of each month. We send no receipts unless upon special request. Watch date on your label after you remit, Matters for publication, whether news or advertising, must reach the Centre Democrat office not later than Tuesday noon to insure publication that week. 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MILLER, of Pine Grove Mills EDITORIAL TEMPORARY PEACE IN EUROPE The leading statesmen of Europe got together last week in Munich and arranged the details of the transfer of the Sudetan area of Czechoslovakia to Germany, thus averting, for the present the threat of a great war. The people of Czechoslovakia were called upon to make a great sacrifice for peace. Their attitude through- out the entire disturbing crisis was excellent and the be- havior of government, soldiers and people aroused much admiration throughout the world. Just how great was the accomplishment at Munich remains to be seen. If it leads to something like general appeasement it will rank as a momentous achievement, with credit going to Prime Minister Chamberlain, Presi- dent Roosevelt and Italy's Benito Mussolini. If it is only a step in the acquisition of territory by Germany, to be fol- lowed by new crises as the German Hitler feels able to de- mand more, then the conference will not amount to much in history. Herr Hitler has scored a victory for Germany by se- curing the Sudeten area but he has done Germany greater harm by definitely aligning Great Britain on the side of France and Russia in any future warfare over central Europe. Moreover, his enlarged demands, submitted to Mr. Chamberlain at their second meeting after Czechoslovakia had accepted, in principle, the cession of the Sudeten area, definitely showed his hand and demonstrated that German aims were not confined to the acquisition of the people of German race in Czechoslovakia. It is probably too much to expect that the agreement in Munich will be followed by an easing of the tension in Europe, with the nations reducing their preparations for war. Such a step can only come when the future shows plainly an intention on the part of Germany and Italy to live in peace and to abandon their purpose to use military force to gain their national ends. As it is, the world is the gainer if war is postponed. There is the chance that it may be averted altogether. If it comes later it is safe to assert that Great Britain, at least, will be better prepared than she is today. NIGHT DRIVING DANGEROUS Automobile travel at night is increasing very fast in the United States. It is estimated that about one-quarter of the total highway traffic takes place after dark. Half of the personal injury accidents and more than half the deaths attributable to motor vehicles occur during hours of darkness. Traffic fatalities at night have in- creased about two and one-half times faster than during the day time. Experts say that night driving is from four to five times as dangerous per mile as driving in the day and, on heavier roads, the proportion may be as high as ten to one. With these facts in mind, highway engineers are giv- ing increasing study to the problem of preventing high- way accidents at night. The lighting of highways at a cost of from $3,000 to $4,000 per mile, is being considered in some states. A new type of reflector has been installed on a streteh of highway in Michigan at a cost of about $350 a mile. These reflector buttons outline the roadway ahead and the driver knows, when he fails to see the reflector ahead, that he is approaching a curve, a hill or that some- thing on the highway is blocking the way. One problem of night driving, is, of course, the glare from the approaching vehicles. Very often, it is almost impossible to see ahead when one meets an automobile with bright lights. We have found, under such circum- stances, that even painted lines in the center of the high- way are of considerable help in assisting the driver to e his motor vehicle. Night driving, even under the best of gondisions, in- volves something along the line of blind-driving. Even with the best of lights, the autoist approaching a curve, wheth- er vertical or horizontal is unable to see where his vehicle will be hurtling itself through space in a few seconds. Men and women who would hesitate to dash blindly through a fog in the daytime, speed along at high rates in the night knowing full well that their vision limited and often conscious that they could not possibly stop their automo- biles if danger THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, YOUNG PEOPLE TO PAY PENSIONS The drive for old-age pensions is continuing in the | United States. Despite the passage of the Social Security | Act, which provides that the Federal Government will | match the States’ dollar-for-dollar, up to $15 per month | for every destitute old person in the land, various candi- | dates, in a number of states, have advocated schemes to provide more money for the older people of the nation. | The original $200 a month, advocated by Dr. Town- send for those over 60 years of age, is being freely altered. In some states the amount of money is reduced and in others, the age limit is lowered to include more voters. The idea of securing every month a sum of money from the national or state treasuries is very appealing to those who expect to get it, It is so simple. All that the voters have to do is to cast their ballots in favor of candidates who will vote in favor of such payments. Intelligent persons, in the age group which will re- ceive the payments, occasionally raise the question as to where the funds are coming from. There is the 2-cent stamp a week idea, the two percent tax on gross incomes and various other schemes to get the cash. Briefly, all of them boil down to this, that the people of the United States, under the age at which pensions become effective, will have to dig up the money. They will have the bill to pay. It means that their standard of living will be lowered to the extent of their contribution in order that the standard of living for the favored class will be enhanced. Not only is there a widespread for those who are above 60 years of age, but plain indica- tions, as well, that the veterans of the World War have a general pension in mind. This general pension should not be confused with the care which the nation owes to those who suffered injury during their military or naval ser- vice. It is not based on injury, but, if successful, will give to all veterans of the great struggle a monthly sum from the Government. Such pensions are another American custom, deriving its political strength from the number of beneficiaries. Those who expect to get the money are gen- erally in favor of the payment. advocacy of pensions | Much of the burden for these pension payments, both those to older persons and veterans, will be made by young men and women who have come of age after the Great War ended. Few citizens of this country under the age of forty years will share in the beneficience. They will make the payments. At a time when their own obligations in life are greatest and their struggle to secure a compet. ence for themselves and their family probably the hardest, they will be asked to give of their income in order that favored classes will receive from the public treasury. If everybody else in the country organized to promote their demands, it seems that the time has arrived for the organization of a group of voters to protect the people in this country who are under the age of the prospective beneficiaries. BELITTLING PRESIDENT'S EFFORTS The fact that this is a campaign year explains a lot of things. Perhaps that is why Republican publicists are striving to minimize if not belittle President Roosevelt's appeals to Europe to keep the peace. They are all very polite about it, conceding a point here and one there, but they are very feverish lest the American people as well as those elsewhere in the world give the American President one degree of credit above what he deserves. The Philadelphia Inquirer thus says that “few persons would withhold from President Roosevelt the full need of credit to which he is entitled for his stirring appeals in be- half of world peace as it trembled on the brink of war. Yet ..." And again “The measure of indirect influence exert- ed by President Roosevelt's commendable and timely pleas for peace is difficult to appraise. But..." Is the Republican hate of the President so virulent and the desire for victory so violent that even when the world is teetering over a volcano, praise of the President's magnificient and, widely accepted, influential plea to the belligerant nations must be limited to the specifications of a political campaign? i Time was in the United States when political differ- ences ended at the seaboard. The moment a foreign ques- tion arose, the nation stood shoulder to shoulder behind its President. Is the hate of the President and the desperats effort to play polities at the point where even his efforts at world peace are belittled? Politics really can become cheaper than was thought posgible a few years back.—Pat- riot. HOW CAN WE USE OUR GOLD? The United States of America has more than half the gold supply of the world. Most of itis buried in the ground in a Kentucky vault, where the United States gov- ernment guards it very carefully. The huge gold supply is not needed by this country. It is considered something of a menace and, a year ago, in- coming metal was “sterilized” by the government in order to prevent dislocation of our domestic economy. Even now the people of the world are shipping gold into the United States at an unprecedented rate. During the war scare in Europe $100,000,000 arrived every week. We had no need of it. The puzzle was what to do with it. ~! Today the banks of the United States are loaded with | excess reserves and there is unlimited credit available for | domestic needs. There are areas in the world, however, that | have great need of capital which, through political unrest, is not available. If some method could be devised for the | gold in the United States to be used to facilitate the re- vival of international trade everybody would be better off. | Unfortunately, such a development depends upon con- fidence of the lender in the borrower. It so happens that | the nations that need capital worst are those that have | about forfeited the confidence of the rest of the world. | Hence, there is no disposition to help them. “POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION" In demanding that “positive identification” be made of applicants for hunting licenses this year the state game commission is moving to remove an evil that not only has i i i | i : | pirtely > BELLEFONTE, PA. THE Orrick CAT “A Little Nonsense Now and Then, Is Relished by the Wisest Men” O- ¢ THE GREAT OPEN SPACES Women are seeking the great open spaces, Blouses with eyelets and sheerest of laces, Stockings of mesh, a scandal that shows Through punctured partitions, sections of toes It goes very hard on sensitive souls To see them attired in nothing but holes Editors Just Grew Out of Something The Office Cat Is temporarily resigning its editorial desk and batter- ed typewriter in favor of the Kansas school boy who offers the follow ing comment “Editors must be born: 1 don't know how newspapers and magazines got Into the world, and 1 don't think God does, for He ain't got nothing to say about these in the Bible, I think the editor is the missing link we read of, and that he stayed in business until after the flood, came out and wrote things up, and has been busy ever since. If the editor makes a mistake, folks say he ought to be hung; but if the doctor makes a mis- take, he buries it and people don't say nothing because they can't read Latin. When the editor makes a mistake, there is a big lawsuit and swearing, and a big fuss, but if the doctor makes one, there is a funeral with flowers and perfect silence. A doctor can use a word a yard long without him or anyone else knowing what it means; but if the editor uses one, he has to spell it, If the doctor goes to see another man's wife, he charges for the visit; but if the editor gos he gets a charge of buck- shot. Any college can make doctors to order iitors have to be born.” Only When Necessary Minkter—"Do you say your ! Jimmy-—-"“Yes, sir.” Minister—"And do you always say Jimmy—"“No, sir. I aint prayers every night, little boy? | a or 1 3% them In the morning, wo? scared in the morning Keeping Pace, Anyway nd how is your church getting along?” { an old friend in a small village not very well, Brother Smith ylerians are not doing any bette asked the Methodist the Pre 30,000,000 women fellows? the census embraces would you like to be the Censw [ "T that Statistic EA And how PRETTY PUNK POEM You sing a little song And you have g You make a litle dy And then you take your hat ou hold her h As sweetly as you car int that a hell For a great big |} a public entertainment mers of Liemen, all A Just Complaint (Te hone “Hello. Is this fellow living in the apartment below you. Listen ng now, and your party has kept me awake all don't mind the shrieking and pou singing ar gt been poi sake pu gelling rings the Smith apartment? W d banging that's Plenty of Evidence He stood at the tavern bar, happy, not a care in totally fperhaps)—drunk on beer. Suddenly his changed from raptured bliss 10 a worried look Tuming to his eft he maid “Lady. did you spill “No sir, 1 did not’ He turned to his right, but no one himself “Tha's what I wag mumbled ’ 4 s fendi 4s ' afraid ofan inside job Wrong Name package belong to you? The name is be mine. My name is O'Bryan” Does this that can? obilterated No, Peculiar, Ain't They? These insurance fellows are certainly queer ducks. First come around and persuade you that you may die at any moment, to get you to apply for a policy, and then before they take ever; precaution to make sure that you won't 4 : they hew'll fasts theyll Issue it Coming Too Strong A colored preacher was hearing confession. In copped the young sinner, saying, s braggin'"” the middie of it, he “Young man, you ain't confessin’— Smart Guy The old chiseler limped painfully up to the bar and leaned against it in an attitude of dejection “What's the matier?” dent?” "No." replied the chiseler, “T've just The sympathetic guy scratched his "TT take straight whiskey, thanks” asked a sympathetic friend. “Have an acci- had a touch of yoors™ head. “What's yoors?” he asked Suspicious, Anyway Counsel (to the police withess)—"But {f a man is on his hands and knees in the middie of the streel, that does not prove he was drunk.” Policeman-—"No, il does not. But this one was trying 0 roll up the | white line.” When money tries to talk these days, those who have it say, “Shhh! Don’t you know the tax collector might hear you?” A “deficit” Is what you've got when you haven't as much as you had when you had nothing Bright Boy A third grade school boy was asked to wrile a sentence using the word “bewitches.” This is what be produced: “Go ahead-—-I'll bewitches in a minute.” Get oul your cane, here comes the old age pension "SCAT. The Household Scrapbook Knobs on Lids Window Shades The next time a knob comes off Window shades can be kept in a That's all, folks pector, the worid-—come- expression a lady " a I8GY on caused much annoyance but has, in a large measure, de- feated the purposes of the license act and deprived the commission of many dollars. There has been a lot of cheating by non-resident and even resident hunters, commission officers have found. Non-resident have come into the state to hunt and have obtained resident hunting licenses at $2 when the aver- age non-resident license costs $15.00, On the other hand some Pennsylvanians, to whom licenses should not have been available because of past infractions of the law, have obtained licenses under assumed names. This was brought out forcibly during the past sea. son when the commission sent out notices to the licensees of record who failed to send in their game kill report. Cards from the commission to these licensees were returned to the commission because they could not be delivered to the person and address originally listed on the license. Commission officers will conduct an intensive checking campaign. It seems here is something in which every could uable {the Iid of a kettle or pan, slip a screw | cleaner, better condition for a long | through the hole, with the head on time if they are taken from the {the inside of the lid. then screw & brackets about a month, unrolled and cork on the protruding end. Fis | vied cican en both éidss wit u sot, knob will not become and it can | ¢ sh, { Old Wall Paper | An excellent method for removing old wall paper is to put a cup of vine- {gar in a bucket of hot water and wet Place a large sponge at the bottom | the walls thoroughly with this solu- [o* the umbrella stand to absorb the gon! The paper will readily peel off. | The Trash Can the can out on the lawn and burn some papers In it. It will remove all odors from the can. sauces The trash can should be given a | good disinfecting oocasionally. Place | | Query and Answer Column A.D, L~What is the area of Los Angeles? New York City? Ans ~Los Angeles has an area of 451 square miles and New York has an area of 309 square miles D. G. C~Can a man who wears glasses become an alrplane pilot? Ans~An applicant for a pilot's license must have visual acuity of 2050 in each eye. If his vision is poorer than 2050 and can be brought up to 2030 with glasses, the applicant may be qualified for a license if he wears glasses while piloting a plane E. H R.~Who rang the Liberty dependence was signed? Ans ~Andrew McNair rang the the celebration of the signing of T. P. E~Please Ans ~The pictures In which follows: Stand Up and Cheer, Baby Tell, Change of Heart, Little Miss Marker, Now and Porever, Th Colonel, Our Little Girl, Curly Top, The Littlest Rebel, Captain Januar Poor Little Rich Dimples, Stowaway, Wee Willie Winkie becca of Bunnybrook Farm, Little Miss Broadway, ¢ J. J. L~Why was Bir Thomas Ans ~8ir Thomas More was the divorce obtained by Henry VIII from Cather rankled in the mind of Henry to attend the coronation of Anne Boleyn | supreme head of the church, but other head than and was consequent treason. He was { des] his eloquent ere Lie Ser Bell when the aration of In- Decl Liberty Bell upon the occasion of the Declaration of Independence give the names of rt ree PACAre 545 1p ” . v “ Bhuriey Temple's § Ae Bhirle Wilrley Temple ha appeared right Take a Bow, Bright Eyes, Now Girl More executed? a Catholic and a ich ine of Aragon » friar His afy and was furthe and ite The king alt E. WWha! wa March € to March of the tempor- ey Re 4 4c flowers vi of rr 1 F. H—Ho An The sits mmeroee miles long and or be more than 200 WwW. America? Ans Of the ships in which Columbus discovered the Americas Santa Maria was the largest. The length on deck was 86 feet. 3 inches. the tonnage, 252; the Pinta had a length deck of 82 feet, 8 inches, ton- nage, 161; while the Nina had a length deck of 79 feet and tonnage, 171. Tonnage figures are in terms of modern weight J. 8, R—What is the most Iv? Ans It is the Douglas tree 250.000 visitors. G~How largeswere the ships in which Columbus sailed to the valuable tree in the world commercial. fir which for this reason is called the king W. G. B—Please give the circumstances President Theodore Roosevell Ans President Roosevelt was wounded by John Schrank, a New York saloonkeeper, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Monday evening, October 14, 1012. The former President was in the midst of his can - paign for a third term in the White House. He was about to leave the Giipatrick Hote] to address a meeting in the auditorium. He was en- tering an automobile and was standing up when Schrank approached. drew a revolver and fired, striking Mr. Roosevelt in the right breast and only failing to inflict a fatal wound by the deflection of the bullet Saused by the eyeglass case and the manuscript of the speech pre- pared. 8S. F. B—Do football coaches receive higher salaries than profes | sors? Ans~—~According to a recent survey among one hundred colleges. the average salary paid to a head football coach is $6017 as compared with $5158 for the highest paid professor Reader—What does the red chop signify? Ans-The red and white barber sign is a relic of olden days when barbers were called upon to perform bleeding. At that time blood let- ting was considered a remedy for many bodily ailments, of ma yy of the stlemnt « ate seriously and white sign in front of a barber § esses gis isan a ri a on te —————— p—— SERESSNREEIRINNR BEZDEK WITHDRAWS AS 1 COACH OF CLEVELAND RAMS | Man, Sought ° . | tee Year Found In Jail | Hugo L. Beadek, probably the only man to pilot both a major league | baseball and football team, has been ‘relieved of his job as head coach of the Cleveland Rams. i The National Professional League {grid club asked for and received | {the resignation of Besdek, who ago. managed the Pittsburgh Pirates of | the National Baseball League from | | 1917 to 1918, and produced two Rose | | Bowl teams in a long coaching ca- } | reer at four major universities. Bez- | . % | dek was formerly coach at Penn er was jodped against him. {to Bellefonte, the man was | State. President Thomas Lipscomb of the in the county jail to await disposi When W. C. McHenry, of Yaudiey, | land has won but one league game. The victory was last year, Rams have dropped three not licensed ms general real and the rs straigh
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