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CIRCULATION OVER 7,000 COPIES EACH WEEK
1un war off the front page.
Well, for one, we will be glad to welcome cool
weather—but we don't like it too cool.
There are plenty of fellows on the street cor-
ners of Bellefonte who can tell the French general
staff how to win the war in three weeks.
Hitler bas told five of Europe's ilttle nations
thet he will 1espect their neutrality. That makes
just five more countries that can start bullding ew
raid gefenses.
We mre loid that within the confines of the
United States are resoursés ample to supply gasoline
to Americsns for more than 2,000 years. Besides the
b.lions of tarrels of petroleum that now lie in the
known 1eserves of the United States, a still larger
supply is locked in shale reserves waiting to be de-
veloped. The nation’s coal deposits would provide,
say the experts, in addition to the regular uses of
coal, all the domestie requirements for petroleum
substances -for 2.000 years.
President Roosevelt's decision to move Thanks.
giving Day up a week has met with the approval of
the World Calendar Association, an international or-
ganization formed to improve and reform the cal
endir. However, they claim It should be celebrated
on Monday Instead of Thursday. The Association
believes that Turkey Day should be on Monday be-
cause the first Thanksgiving Day proclamation, is-
sued by William Bradford, governor of Plymouth In
1621, named a Monday--November 18th.
.» Recent news told of Polish troops retreating,
unabie to stem the German tide that moved into the
poll of the republic. That the German attack has
pren overwhelming is not to be doubted. Hitler's
first purpose was to smash the Poles. For this pur-
pose the German military machine has been pre-
paring for weeks. It is, of course, too early to imag-
fue that the Poles are out. Like trained boxers, who
fof 2 bit groggy in the first rounds, the Poles may
be able to rally and win later rounds. Unless press-
ure on the west relieves the situation in the east, by
foreing Germany to divert some troops, the position
of the Poles. in what traders call the long-term
siew, is not favorable.
There has been 50 much talk about the impos-
ability of any army breaking through the fortified
lines that have been built between Germany and
France th i one wonders whelher the French gfn-
eral staff Is engaged in a hopeless and costly effort.
I' has been gradually assumed that, If Italy entered
tie war at Hitler's side, the French wotlld start an
invasion of northern 1t:ly, with the idea of advanc-
ing into Germany through the back door of Aus-
tria. Upon Italian neutrality, this procedure had to
b> abandoned and there was nothing else for the
Franch army to do but to make an effort to go
through the Siegfried line. II the Prench ofn get
into Germany, the duration of the war will be
preatly shortened. Best military opinion is that the
Cerman army today is no match for the French
army. The Germans lack trained reserves of officers
snd men and, In spite of Hitler's boosting, the
French soldier ranks with the best in Burope.
BUSINESS MEN AND SPENDING
If government spending Is to be reduced at the
request of business, then business men must do
their share, they are told bv Howard Coonley, presi-
dent ‘of the National! Association of Manufacturers.
Commenting oh the work of the last Congress, Mr.
Coonley said:
“Busifiess men also should practice what they
preach on the subject of government spending.
Congress needs to be sustained In fact ag weil 2¢ In
theory on this question of governmental exirava-
gance. So when we ask for government thrift at the
front. door, let's not be gullty of petitioning Con-
gress at the back door for expenditures in our state,
our city. our district, Government economy, lke tax
raising. begins with less demands by the individual
for governmental spending.”
" TH:t i$ counsel not only for business men but
all ‘persons. One may be sure that much as Con.
gress Is fond of spending other people's money, they
never would have done as much of it. had there
not been pressure from home, There will be no gov-
ernment thrift until there is taxpayer thrift.
TRAGEDY TOO VAST TO UNDERSTAND
‘Words are inadequate to suggest the horrors of
warfare or the suffering of human beings In the
struggle. The human mind finds it difficult to real
fze that millions of men are involved in a death
grapple. that the ingenuity of civililed peoples is
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en and children will inevitably bear a burden of
pain that almost transcends belief.
In the United States our people are intensely
interested In the detalis of the battles, they wont to
khow what has happened and they, almost Inver.
ably, express the hope that the Germans have been
smitten,
Somehow, we seem not to comprehend that bat-
ties are fought by human beings, that victory me ‘ns
bloody corpses and blasted bodies of husbands, sons
and sweethearts.
In the welter of human suffering what difference
does It make If the individual is a misguided Ger-
man youth, a veteran of France, or » defender of
Polish soll? Mankind is once again at gps with
death, loosening emotions that blind the intellect
and sear the soul. What net profit fs there, regard-
less of what army captures wh t village, or what
general displays his strategy?
The answer to these questions emphasizes the
futility of warfare and the shoniing guns tell us of
the inability of men to solve the problems of their
wotld. Old hates, bitter enmities. present suspicions
and future fears combine to make beast
The element] rages take possession of human be.
ings, who become the victims of their own preju-
dices, ignorance and follies
Until human beings become more Intelligent,
until they become more spiritually-minded, there Is
little prospect of peace upon the earth. The davs of
so-called peace will be but the preliminary period
in which to prepare for new wars. In time, new
“vital” issues will prevent present new crises and
the youth of the world will be led to the slaughter-
house again
There Is nothing to be § in*d by name-calling
bv emotional denunelation of others, by flag-wav-
ing and hreast-beating
Soldiers across the waters are being killed;
women and children are boing blasted In their
s'eep; untold human beings are foretasting the mis-
ery of months to come
Human intelligence hs falled to control the
emtions of men; human fraflties have luted new
victims to death and the earth and Its people will
suffer.
Men and women on both sides accept thelr fate
bravely, They play their parts with some degree of
nobility, with a prayer on their lips to the God they
worship. and the conviction in their he ris that He
is with them in a fight for honor, truth and Justice!
nf men
ENLISTING GOD
The head of the German army ended his or-
ders at the beginning of hostilities with these
words: “Forward with God for Germany.” repe ting
the phrase used by the Kalser at the start of the
World War
The head of the Polish State, in a similar mani-
festo, urged his people to fight with assurance,
thinking of the “rightness of the cause” and “confi-
dent In the justice of God.”
The story is told of Abraham Lincoln that a
friend once asked him: “Do you think God is on our
side?” He replied, “I'm much more concerned to be
on God's side.”
Is there not here a key for every individual
who today secks a right course amid war's confu-
sions? When God's support Is claimed for conflict.
ing human aims, a clear and certain sense of right
will uphold him who seeks, not to enlist Deity, but
first to khow and to His will. His eternal purposes
are not turned aside by mortal designs. Unchanging
love is not Involved in hateful conflict. His children
can enlist His help only to achieve His purposes,
only as they express His nature. In whatever hu-
man course they take that must be thelr first con-
cern
WHAT IS OUR FOREIGN POLICY?
The foreign policy of the United States Is, atl
best, a vague, undefined mixture, composed of a de-
sire for peace and the hope that nobody will do us
wrong.
The government ein advance slowly in outlin-
ing now policies but still the people of the United
States develop a clearer preference, there Is little
that any official can do.
It Is very hard to aserriain exactly shat the peo-
ple of this nation stand for in fore: affatrs. The
m gazine Fortune recently sampled public opinion
by uring the method that enabled it to successfully
forecast the last presidential election.
According to the survey, completed before the
outbreak of war In Europe, an overwhelming ma-
jority of Americans wanted the United States to
continua its effort to preserve peace without neces
sarily stating what the nition would do If war be-
gan,
The people advocated a boyeolt of the dictator
piwers the minute they attack democracies but they
did not wish to Intervene with arms even to save
England or France, Strangely enough, the big ms.
jority would fight Japan if necessary to protect the
Philippines and use foree to protect American prop-
erty from confiscation by Latin-American governs
ments. g
If anybody can make heads or tails out of this
mixture of so-cslled public opinion and then steer
a foreign policy that will fit it like a glove, the
United States will certainly have found the world's
pre-eminent statesman.
NO WAR THREAT
The people of the Unlied States naturally won-
der what chance there may be that this country will
become embroiled in the war now going on In Bure
ope.
Our own opinion Is that there is not much
chance. Of course, if other nations come into the
fighting the situation will be different.
We do not believe the United States will get
It may be that German U-boals will create in-
cidents that will involve the loss of American lives
now being weed Jo oromote slaughter and that wom- | quate for whatever we adopt as 4 national policy.
THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA.
September 14, 1929,
THE
Orrice CAT!
“A Little Nonsense Now and Then.
I# Relished by the Wises! Men”
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Slips That Pass in the News
(From the Gardner, Wis, Reporter)
uBerved with a writ yesterd y afternoon, Mrs. 0. B. Niggens must
woduce children In court within twenty-four hours
. (From the Brooks, va, Messenger)
“Mr. Banks told the manager of the hotel that he put his nurse
purse) under his pillow when he went to bed, and when he woke up It
as gone.”
(Headline in the Palomar, AML. Gazette)
“Miss Hamper's Supporters Are Up In The Alr,
(From the Martin, Towa, Thmes)
Housekeeper, white, experienced, fiddie-aged (middie-
“Wanted
wed.)
From Bad to Worse
Mandy uncorked the capsule of quinine and sifted the dose well Into
| or mouth. Then she rushed a: fast as her fat legs would carry her 0 the
i ctor
“Doctah.” she panted, “dal med'cin’ yo' all give me has done give me
omethin’ else ag'in'”
“Well. whit seems to be the matter, now, Mandy?” asked the medico
“Ah dunno, sah, but IL sho tastes jak Ah done busted mah gail.”
Those Funny Kids
A little Bellefonte girl after looking intently at 3 fal woman remark-
d: “Mummy, when I've grown long enough, shall I start and grow side-
Jays, Wo?”
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asked the
His Reason
we remember once standing in front of a grocery
Entering we
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Bpeaking of signi,
tore and noticing the sign, “A Swindler,” on the window
proprietor if it wouldn't look better If, instead of
i he printed his full Christian name
{ “No.” he sald, "it would look worse, My first n Adam.”
me is
Step On "Em
She-—<+'What's the matter with your feet?”
He—"1've got corns.”
She—"Why don't you do something for them?”
He—"Why should 1? They've never done anything for me.’
Embarrassing Moments
It is related that while a couple of school marms were traveling in
| Canada, they stopped at a hotel one evening and the fussy one of the palr
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| cupted bathroom. To the man in the tub she exclaimed, “Oh, 1 beg your
| pardon. I'm looking for the fire escape”
eft her room to locate the means of escape in case of fire during the
night
In the corridor the pushed open a door and found herself in an 00-
She continued her search, when presently she heard someone coming
along behind her. On turning, she saw the bather clad in nothing but
a towel
That's Tellin’ "Em, Lizzie
(Ad In Upton, Texas, News)
PERSONAL-If this comes to the attention of Tate Peak it is 10 Ine
form him that he need not come back. IT am now living with the hired
| hand and he is not missed except by the livestock The horses ask, the
| cows ask and the pigs ask for him but that's all Lizzie Peak
Just Another Fallen Flask
(From the West Mansfield, Ark. Enterprise)
O. D. Jannes fell and broke her nip hip) Mondsy when she
Mra
| stumbled on the sidewilk while watching a parade
Good Trick If He Can Do It .
(Ad in Trinidad Ariz. Times)
TAXIDERMIST We mount anyhing, from a flea to an clephant —
William Bleecker. *
This Week's Drawing Account
The boss drew the cork. the stenographer drew the curtains and the
office boy drew his own conclusions
Game For Anything
First Ga’ “What did Fred do in that kissing game when you refused
get up and let him kiss you?”
Becond Gal-—"Why, he kissed me right where I 5:1, of course.”
Fooling Daddy
S8on—"Daddy, If you give me len cents, 17
sald to mamma.”
Dad (all excited) "0. K. son, here's your
Son--"He sald: 'Do you want any ioe toda)
Away Back When
Dalsy — “Have you known the boss very long?”
Maisie "Yes, I've known him since I 9:5 in high school ihe old |
harse’s neck.”
Dalsy—"Huh, I've known him further back than that”
tell you what the iceman |
dime ”
lady?”
According to the Office Cat style expert, the last
will be “good-night.” hy
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That's ail. folks
word in pajamas this fall
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"Health and Beauty |
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that it could not be done, That
the muscies were wasted and ihe
nerves injured past all help. But
Trudy longed to gel back on her!
feet again. To feel the thrili of
gliding through the waler as be-
fore. But she'd had a serious fall
and a bene was dislocated In her
back, Even an operation might
not relieve the pain or put the bong |
in place. The operation was suce
coasful. TU wag lorture Lo jake a
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“Paith is the substance of things
hoped for, the evidence of thinas
pot seen.” Doctor Alex Carrel, of
the Rockefeller Foun ation, says
that he has seen dieases that weve
incurable from a human standpoint
cured in answer to prayer. He
thinks thai doctors have occupied
themselves too much with the ma.
side of life and too litte with
the spiritual.
You all remember brave Gertrude
the channsl
body.” 1f she had only prayed and |
noi worked, she would probably!
have gotten ho beter. Her oid)
f hysician kept encouragng
sally D "and she did. |
Many months of effort passed be- |
| tore she could walk a block, then
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jegs to kick and my arms 10
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Louisa’s
Letter
| written me letlers
| Blue Eves.” T must say that I think
you are rather young to be engag-
| confine
| you are old enough to think of mar-
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| would eontinue
Alabama have
To "Lonesome
Two girls from
er and, particularly so, to a boy
who canno! be depended upon. He
| doesn't wany you to go with other
boys. but he glips off and goes with
other girls. Now even if you were
old enough to be engaged, you
would be taking a great chance by
bestowing your love on a boy who is
not only deceitful but selfish, Don"
yourself oo one boy until
ringe and then be sure that he 5
your love
To “Broken Heart"-—-It is a pe-
culiar fact, but a true one, that very
often we do not realize that we like
someone who likes us very mueh
until we think we have Jost “hem
Then we realize how very much
we care for them, but unfortunately
I = sometimes Loo lale to do any-
thing about it
But don't let him think that you
are pining away for him. Just be
nice and friendly but do not le:
him gee that you are feeling broken
hearted. Boys and men never like
to be pursued If they are aware of
it. A litle bit of indirect chasing
is very effective, however
Good Juck,
LOUISA.
Dear Loulsa
I have been married eigh' vears
and while my husband is good
me in a way, I am very
and dissatisfied
We live with his parents and he
seemns to have no desire in the
world for us to have anything of
ow own His fmher bosses the
house and I have nearl, all the
work to do. 1 think I would go
back home if it were not for my
little girl, although 1 do Jove my
husband
“Worried
Alabama.
RAR»
atl sfled
and Diss
ANSWER
Every man and woman should
have a home of their cen, even if
it consists of only iwo rooms
There 5 50 much more happiness
possible where there are no out.
riders to be In on everything that
happens between husbands and
wives. If it were possible for your
husband to keep on working with
his father, if that is what he wants
to do, but If he would rent a little
home for you two and your child, i
seems to me that your problem
woitid be simpler. Can your hus-
band make a living if he leaves his
father's home? Probably he
afraid that he may be a fallure if
he jeaves a sure job
1 don't know what the
Alabama is. bul in South Carolina,
in ease of a sepanation, the child
is placed with the parent who lhe
law in
| state thinks will take the best care
of her, regardless of whether it Is
the mother or father Only the
welfare of the child ig considered
Why don’t you go home for a
long visit and take your child with
You? That will give you both a
| chance to think things over and he
may be willing to gel you a home
of your own aller he misses you
| for a while?
LOUISA.
| SECRETARY WALLACE SEES
ABUNDANCE OF FOOD
Becretary Wallace says that there
is an abundance of all kinds of food
in this country, and that his ever-
normal granary program was in-
+*hat this happy situation
The agriculture secretary discuss-
(ed the food situstion on the radio
| breause, he sald some
frightened by the events in Europe,
and some housewives had been con-
| ducting “runs” on grocery stores.
“I am oconvinoei that farmers,
prooessors, wholesalers, grooery-
men and labor are going 10 do the
patriotic thing” he sald. “They
are going 10 stand for abundance
and a fair relationship between
prices and services of
sorts.”
TAKES THREE DAYS
TO CLEAN ONE WINDOW
In order {0 clean one window abl
New York City's first parking gar-
| WPA WORKER TO DIE AT ROCKYIEW
instantly.
| voluntarily went to the Northum-
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worried
had been!
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the crime and displayed no evidence
of remoree
Bechurtz, i» 40 years of age, and
, resided at Shamokin, ¥isher lived
at Bunbury and was aged 32 years,
He was married and the father of
four children. At the time of his
death Fisher wag a leulenant in
Troop E. 108rd Cavalry
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Pisher, shot in the forehead, died
Following the shooting, Schutz
ped out the revolver and fired
berland county jail and surrendered
He was reported to have admitted
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ANDREW SCHURTZ
+ « « Sentenced to Electric Chair For the Slaying of Road Project Boss
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Query and Answer Column
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square bottle? (Answer
PROBLEM:
elsewhere in this
How many
department
pavement ahead
spot we fing i
J. VWhy bb it that 3
looks wel and sh
perfectly dry?
Ans ~This is knos
may heat the alr next to it just as the ground
MIUrsges are
pavement jook as though 11
H. B-I1:
Ans Liquid wir is very cold 4
heft, It has no use except 10 produ ry K
of scientific research
ay the
; al lhe
& very hot day the pavement
does in a desery where
tiny mirage and makes he
frequent
quia
degrees below zero Fahliren-
w temperatures for purposes
$ tum red and yellow in the autumn?
G. C.—-Why ¢
Ans On Lh
smaller amount ; stop the manu!
leaves, When this ha ns, ih orophyil in
several different colored compounds, The lous of Lhe
the leaves to turn
temperature and the
ture of su green
the leaves changes into
chiorophyll causes
iowering
A sar fn 1H
SAI in ae
We receive 2 iri while greally excited
L. G~Why is it that sher
we do not feel iL Or l
Ans
hypnotist
burning building. Your whole thought is in
are making You hive no bran power to
moment,
M. D.—Where has been the greatest and most
Fair In the past? How does the SL Louis Fair rank?
ns ~The Chicago World's Fair in 1883 tops all the Fairs in attend
ance. The total admissions was 27.538.521 as a record atiendanoe
and took the Fair out red.” Paris nd, but was left in ihe
“red.” The 8. Louis Fair was a dismal failu
F. C.~Does anyone hold the world’s
hands only?
Ans. Yes Charles GG. Jeflerson without
1571% pounds dead weight on Dec. 10. 1880
of this performance has ever been equalled
T. 8.-~To an argument will yc
Great Britain once owned the Hawallan Islands?
Ans —8trictly speaking, they did not. However, during President
Pierce's administration Hawai was a kingdom, with Britain holding a
protectorate. Later they took possession of Honolulu and claimed the Is-
lands. On a vigorous: protest by the United Slates the British withdrew
thelr forces and claims This sas the stepping-stone that eventually led
to annexation of Hawail to the Uniled States
iil afleroard?
This & a for of hypnotism, in which you yourself Is both
and subject. Suppose you are climbing down a ladder out of a
escape and what progress you
notice anything else at the
successful World's
stands
of the WAL
re
we
trength in lifting *ith
harness, lifted
No record
the use of
al Clinton, Mass
seitie 1 please say whether or not
A. T~How can I remove far {rom an automobile body?
Ans. Rub the with sof grease and allow it to stand until the
grease prncirates the tar. Then remove the tar and grease with gaso-
ine, or by washing with hot suds
spnis
H. C~What is the color of a Palom’no horse?
Ans The Palomino is of a cream
tail of while or ivory
or golden color with mane and
¥F. B—Ha: the United Stales recognized Spain since Franco's victory?
Ans —The present Spanish government was recognized by the United
States on April 1, 1839
PF. C. M How many fourists visit Atl: nlc City, N. J.7
Ans.--In 1938, there were 16,000,000 persons who visited the resort
W. J. B—How is the meat of rattlesnake used as food?
Ans It is sometimes fried and in some localities the canned meal
is served as an hors d'oeuvre with cocktails
age within an office bufiding-—re.
cently opened in Rockefeller Cen-
ter-it takes a pair of window
cleaners more than three days. The |
window, 200 feet ltng and (wo
stories high, Is the largest one of
its kind in the couniry,
living alone on one of the 3
Galapagos Islands in the Pacific,
was taken to Ecuador by members
of the crew of the Bcuadoren cruis-
er President Alfaro and sent fo a
| cor ection school. The boy, an or-,
| two, then three. She says, “finally ‘phan, ran away from colonists who
and bad subsist
on oysters, or-
had picked him
ed for two mon
did.” Now she is anges, papayas and birds which he
E. I. J~In which National Park is the large tree througli which
there i= a funnel? oe
Ans. ~The most famous is the Wawona Tyee in the Mariposa Grove,
Yosemite National Park. This tree is 231 feet tall and has a maximum
diameter of twenty-seven and one-half feet The tunnel through #18
| eight feet wide and twenty-six feet long. Another Big Tree in the same
| grove is the California Tree, which also has a tunnel,
P. J. H~Please give the names of the flowers for each birth month.
Ans January, carnation: February, primrose; March, violet: April,
d:lsy: May. lily of the valley: June, rose: July. sweet pea; August, glad-
jola; September. acter: October, dahlia; November, chrysanthemum; De-
cember, poinsettia or holly
J. C. H~How does the Bible define pure religion?
Ans. According to James 1:27: “Pure religion and undefiled belore
| God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their
| affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
C. J. D~What i= a Bohemian ruby?
Ans This Is 2 jeweler's name for rose quartz cut as a gem,
K. G. H.—Is home work regulated by the Fair Labor Standards Act?
Ans.—The Administrator has issued a statement pointing out that
the act makes no mention of hofhe work and does nol prohibit it. Con.
sequently, provisions of the act apply to home workers if the employer is
| engaged in interstate commerce or the production of goods for interstate
K. T~What can be done to keep bees from stinging grapes?
G. E. M—How many dogs are there in the United States?
Ans. —An unofficial census shows that there are about 15.000,000,
8. C.—Are snakes stone deal and totally blind?
Ans—They are neither stone deaf por totally blind. Although
to a a wi
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sn a ea ih