LL The Centre Demoerat, BELLEFONTE, PENNA. EEE Tee Sr WALKER BROTHERS PAUL M. DUBBS CECIL A. WALKER EIR SAS -r i - i , Issued weekly, every Thursday morning. Entered in the postoffice at Bellefonte, Pa., as second- class matter. RE —— - — ——— : ; TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 per year if paid in advance $2.00 per year if not paid in advance =. - . The date your subscription expires is plainly printed | All credits are given | by a change on the date of label the first issue of each | on the label bearing your name. month. We send no receipts unless upon special re- quest. 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. Ad- vertising copy received after Tuesday morning must | run its chances. All reading notices marked (*) are advertisements. Legal notices and all real estate advertisements, 10 cents per line each issue. | Subscribers changing postoffice address, and not no- | tifying us, are liable for same. All subscriptions will be continued unless otherwise directed. ER —— ——— - - - - CIRCULATION OVER 7,000 COPIES EACH WEEK -_ _— - — - - = LTiIve Ee ——— Some © think of the man who remarked that he was going home and if his wife didn't have dinner ready he was going to raise hell, and if she did he didn't intend to eat a damn bite The old fable told how the mice agreed that the cat should wear a bell, bui no mouse Was found willing to put it on the cat. So now it appears clear that the war making nations are crazy, but no one is volunteering to lock them up in the insane asylum continue its rapid of Christmas seals is even more successful than it has been in the past. The annual sale opened Thanksgiving day and will continue until Christmas. By decorating Christmas cards, letters and packages with the attractive seals, citizens will have a part in the large program of preventative and corrective work being done to er- adicate the dreaded disease. Control of tuberculosis can strides only if the annual sale With the British and French blockade of Ger. many becoming tighter than ever, steps have been taken in this country to provide that shipments from the United Siates will be supervised by agents of the Allied Governments. By having shipments that they make to neutral countries supervised in this country. the shippers will get a certificate pass- ing their goods through the blockade without visit. ing a control port More than 1.000 innovations, including dances, parties and entertainments, are expected to feature the celebration of the President's fifty-eighth birth- day, on January 30, 1940, which will be used as the occasion to collect funds to combat infantile paraly- sis. The funds raised will be divided equally between the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and local organizations expending the money under the direction of permanent chapters of the organiza- tion. The declaration of Senator Harrison, chalrman of the Senate Finance Committee, that the nation may be able to get along without a new tax bil! at the next session of Congress, coupled with the views that tax collections of the Federal Government are encouraging, is good news to business interests gen- erally throughout the nation. Mr. Harrison says that it is too early to decide whether there will be tax re- visions. but he points out that if receipts continue to come in as they are pow, and some government expenses are kept down, there may be 10 necessity for a new tax bill The rumor that American pilots will be used to fly airplanes from this country across the Atlantic, to Great Britain and France will amount to nothing in view of the informal ruling of the Secretary of State's office, calling attention to an old law which prohibits the navigation of aircraft belonging to any foreign nation in the United States, This means that planes designed for European service, must be transported by ships unless they can be pushed across an international boundary, such as Canada, and then make their hop-offs. As a war economy order, Great Britain and France have barred imports of fresh apples and pears from this country. During the last season, ap- ples valued at more than $8.000.000 were exported to the two countries and the sale of pears was almost as much. While recognizing the necessity which forces these nationg to cut their purchases in this country in order to concentrate on war materials, the Department of State has requested both nations to keep un as normal a volume of trade as possible in the purchase of farm and other products from this country. The case for the Democratic National Adminis- tration is well stated by a writer in the Yale Review. Answering individuals who spend all their time and efforts denouncing Democratic policies, he asked: “Will any political party dare propose that the Fed- eral Government repudiate ultimate responsibility for keeping people from starving? Will any party dare to announce to the farmers that hereafter they will hoe their own row, without assistance from the government in time of direct need? Will any party SS fu ABOUT “KANGAROO COURTS” Not every reader of The Centre Democrat Is fa- miliar with what is known as a “kangaroo court.” The term describes the praclice, common In many jalls and prisons in this country, wherein pris. eners set up tribunals to try newcomers, who are fined for alleged failures and, sometimes, punished {or fallure to pay their fines, The practice ls entirely reprehensible ahd no penal official worthy of his job will tolerate it. Very often prisoners are mistreated by other inmates of the prison to which they are assigned. Somelimes they are seriously injured. The other day, In Sutton, W, Va, Judge Jake Fisher met a prisoner on the street. His face bore evidence of rough handling. Inquiries by the Judge established the fact that he had been beaten al the jail while confined for a hunting offense, The Judge took the man Into court, swore him as a witness and put him before the Grand Jury As a result, seventeen prisoners and the turnkey of the county jail are under indictment on charges ranging from robbery to conspiracy to kill. Similar action all over the nation will break up the practice, In calling public attention to the Incident in West Virginia, The Centre Democrat does not intend Lo convey the impression that such “kangaroo courts” exist In the penal institutions of Centre county. In fact, we know of nothing of the sort, but. In Lhe vears that have passed there have been occasional stories Intimating that such things have happened within five hundred miles of this town The reason for this article is to eall public at- tention to a practice which is general throughout the United States, We think that the public should know that such things sometimes happen in jalls and as a result of having such information, public opinion in this area will demand that responsible officials make it thelr business to see that such practices are not tolerated here IT'S UP TO JAMES When Governor James was campaigning for of- fice he ceaselessly attacked the Earle administration for what he termed ruinous taxes—taxes so high that they were driving business out of the state, forcing firms to the wall and increasing unemploy- ment. His whole campaign was lower taxes But this week an official representative of the James administration came to Pittsburgh and told a gathering of business men that unless they give more jobs they are threatened with another hun rdred million dollars of new taxation. They are al- ready giving far more jobs than under the Earle sdministralion, and not one of the taxes which Gov- crnor James criticized so vigorously in his campaign has been eliminated or reduced In short, the Governor has falled to make good on his campaign pledges; he has retained the entire burden of taxation which he claimed was ruining business, and now he threatens more taxation unless business comes to his ald, It is time that he did something to keep his end of the bargain What this state needs is assurance that taxes will not be increased, and some definite progress to- vard cutting them, as the first means of helping business. Business whicly is already bearing the back- breaking load which Governor James retained is In no position to give increased work under the threat of further tax burdens In his speech, Charles Penrose, vice chairman of the Job Mobilization Committee, declared that the State is approaching a crisis, That crisis, in our cpinion, is already here--and the way to tackle it is not with a ballyhoo campaign, but by a sincere effort on the part of businessmen to bring about uch reform in taxation as will enable Industry to give jobs because there is work to be done rather than because it is threatened with further punish. ment if It [ails to do so based on a plea for TIME FOR A SHOW DOWN (Harrisburg Patriot) Constant battering of Commander John D Peanington, superintendent of the Huntingdon In- dustrial School, by the newspaper owned by a mem- ber of the board recently named by Governor James has prompled the Pittsburgh Press to say that “an intolerable situation has developed.” Indeed it has, Ever since he took office, Com. mander Pennington has been under the fire of the same political interests in Huntingdon County. Com- mander Pennington scotched the moment he took office. The superintendent made it plain that by virtue of his office and responsibility, he and not the midget politicians of the county would run the school with its inmates, From the moment of the ultimatum until now that decision made him a target for political at- tack. These verbal assaults came mainly from a Huntingdon publisher. When Governor James ripped out the old board the explanation was that he want. ed a board to pass impartially on the Penninglon mecord. To the amazement of many, Governor James named Pennington’s severest critic, the Huntingdon pubiisher. From the columns of that paper contin. ues to come such ill-tempered and biased comment that anything like Impartial appraisement of the Huniingdon school Is sheer folly to expect Unquestionably a “show-down™ is in order. Gov- enor James ought to help bring it about, Either Commander Pennington has done a good job or he has not. In one event he should be retained and his Sitter superior silenced or in the other he should be dismissed and the reaction of public sentiment, whatever it In, acoepted. Under the circumstances no man can do a good job of administration unless it be toe hard-hitting Prohibition administrator and World War veteran, Commander Pennington himself, GERMANY'S BLUNDER Reikichi Kita, member of the Japanese House of Representatives, is back in Tokyo after a trip to Germany, where he went to present gifls to Herr Hitler Unfortunately for the purposes of the trip, the promotion of friendship between the two countries, Kita reached Berlin just about the time the Ger. mans made their treaty with Soviet Russia. He de- cided to keep his gifts, Interesting is the statement made by this Jap- enese citizen in regards to Hitler's ideas about the war. He says that Germany cannot stand a long war, that Hitler even on Seplember 1st thought that the British would not fight and assured a visitor that there would be no war, “There is no doubt that Hitler believed he could bluff Chamberlain.” says Mr. Kita, who adds, “that Is where Germany made her great blunder.” MINES SINK SHIPS News from the war zone tells us of the sinking of a number of ships after striking a mine, This Is The former Kaiser of Germany, now living in Holland, oceuples quite a different position from the | THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PK. November 30, 1939. THE | Louisa’s | | OrriICE CAT ll Letter | Dear Loulsa: | Would you please help me? 1! | Am on a diet and would like to los | al least ten pounds. Could you | | tell me what food 1 should eat that | does not contain so much starch "and I would also like some reduc- ["ing exercise? Sounds Suspicious | Could ycu tell me how to get rid | of warts? An ambitious druggist had invented a new hair restorer, and had sent a large number of sample bottles out to various well-known people | n hope of securing some testimonials for advertising purposes, “1 don't | “A Little Nonsense Now and Then, Is Relighed by the Wisest Men" sa —— WE THINK SO If flies are flies because they fy, And fleas are fleas because they fice, Then bees are bees because they be, ————— MAROBLLA-11. | ANSWER | who was calling upon him as he wa | restorer 1 had three bald patche ing { here you'll have Lo clear out, for you kaow whether to publish this testimonial or not” he sald to a friend opening the letter “What does It say." inquired the other. “Well, it says’ Although this fs a little bit ou | of my province, 1 can give you some | general Information which ma said the proud inventor: ‘Before 1 used your hair! belp you, Marcella, The starchy Now I have only one | foods are bread, potatoes and rice —— | There ss also some starch in pea | and beans, limas, not string beans I think that if you cut down yow starchy foods by half that it will b | better than to do without them al- together as starch Is a great source of energy and you are liable to feel very weak and irritable if you d | without them entirely. Eat plenty of fresh Trulls, green vegetables and | lean meat, Cut Hown on the rich | pastries, fats and starches Bending, stretching and jumping | exercises are good, but be sure your 85K | heart is all right before you exer- | else 100 hand. Walking several | miles a day is a fine reducer. Walk | & mile the first day and gradually | Increase your distance. Cross Examination A seemingly stupld young fellow was being bullied b ross examination, “Do you ever work?” demeg:nded the attorne “Not much,” the witness agreed “Have You ever earned a “Ten dollars? Yeah, A “Is your father regularly “Mo.” “Isn't It true that be's a vorthless good for nothing, too?” “1 don't know about that aid the witness, “but you might him. He's sitting there on the jury.” a lawyer In a much as ten dollars In one week?" of times.” employed?’ COUDle A CROOKED POME There was a csooked man and he had a crooked smile He found a crooked partner, who had walked a crooked mile, They stole a crooked car, left it on a crooked trail, Now they both live together in a little crooked jall LOUISA Dear louisar: 1 am in Jove with a bey nineteen years old and I am nineteen my- self, 1 have promised to marr him and my mother was willing until a woman who lives near hum told my mother that the boy didn | have good sense and didn't known how to take care of a wife, 1 really Jove the Boy and wan to marry him. Do you think we are oo Young? 1. B B-N Go Wan! Go Wan! Having had considerable trouble with his three roomer: man decided to tell them to get out when he saw an Irishe them In the morn- “You three are a nice pair.” he began ‘If you're going stop didnt Ome hume again last night io until this morning.” Not Crowded, That's Sure | “Say, Mom, was our baby sent down from Leaven?” asked little | Bobby | A “Yes, “1 guess they like to have things quiet up there, huh, Mom?” C NSWER What caused the bovs' neighbor think he did not have good i sense? Did she give your mother wea— { any reason for her remark? It Won't Be Long Now | Bear in mind that {t Is much 3 easier to get married than it &s 10 Patient—"1 believe 1m a little betler, doclor, but be free again and it is well re know | meath.” a5 much as possible about the man Dr. Killyum—"1 can stop that vou intend to Uve the rest of yous | ments.” itfe with. Has he a job, is he de. | EE pendabie, and does he make enough i ‘ money 10 support you? 1 those : Call the Roll ; | things should be taken in consid- possible excuse did you jurymen Lave for acquitting | eration as well as your love lor him Nineteen rather young for man to take on the responsibility of a family, Few of them at that | age are able to support a wife and | possible children. Good Juck. LOUISA son,” was the repi ! to I'm still short of compietely aller a few more treat- | Judge-—-"What murderer?” Jury Foreman-"Insanit: Judge—-"What, } | that the whole twelve of you? Professional Errors A lawyer was examining a doctor witines “Doctors make mistakes sometimes, don't they?” i “Just as lawyers do sometimes” was the reply. “But doctors’ mistakes are buted six feet under ground, | the lawyer, i “Yes.” agreed the doctor, “and irwyers’ {six feet in the air” A boy from Virginia wants persisted | know how 10 talk to girls and keep | them interested. i Well, PF. girls are always inter. ested if the conversation ix abou | themselves, They always like 10 { hear how pretty, attractive or ciev- ler they are. However, this line can't go on forever and there comes | a Ume when another subject has 10 | be brought cut. If she is a girl who | 8 Interested in sports. she will like to talk aboul football. baseball eir If she ls a movie fan she migin {to talk about the different actors ] “Mary.” sald the mistress, “just go and see if that large plum cake | 8nd actresses | in the oven is baked yet Blick a knife in it and see If it comes ont clean | The best advier I can give you In a few minutes Mary returned. “The knife came out wonderful | 16 10 read the newspapers and in- j clean, ma'am.” she said, beaming, “so I've stuck all the other dirty knives teresting books and you will al- in, Wo” | slam wavs have something to talk about | se — - | But in a tight spot just fall back The Right Word on sublle flattery, for that always | goes over big. Teacher asked Johnnie to make a senithoe sith the word panther in | LOUISA lit. Johnnie wrote: “Bobby last & bullon—now his panther coming down.” Checking Him Mike -"How old are you, Pat?” Pat—"Thirty-sivin next month.” Mike—"Yer must be older than thal. When were Jez born? Pat-"In 1861." Mike-—"T have yez now. ago.” mistakes oflentimes swing Figuratively Speaking A reader wants to know what is meant by “untold wealth” We presume if is that which is not revealed to the Income Tax man — Plumb Crazy . It was baking day ahd the new maid and her mistress were Laving 2 | very busy Ume : tm —— ——— . Recent Weddings | Lose—Kessling. | Chales Homer 1o0e, son of Mr | and Mrs, Charles loee of E Howard | Street, Bellefonte, and Miss Eliza- | beth Kessling, daughter of Mr, ana Bure, yez told me the same date tin Yours | Mrs, Pred Kessling of Yamell, were married Friday November 17. Oy i Rev. M. C. Piper at his home In Milesburg. The bridegroom's par- | ents attended them. A reception {| for about 30 guests was held at the | Lose home {ollowing ihe ceremony, Mr. Lose, who is a part-lime em- | ploye of the state highway depart | ment in Cemire County, and his | bride will make their home for the | present with the bridegroom's par- ents. They expect to go to house- keeping in the early spring. ! Conrter—Clark The Church of Christ at Blanch. | ard sas the scene of a brillant social event Thanksgiving moming | when Miss’ Dorothy Jane Clark. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry H.| Clark. of Beech Creek. became the bride of Prankiin T. Courter, of | Blanchard. The ofremony Was s0l- | emnized in the presence of a large; Home Novelties Fi prin TH bet we have something ut our house you don't Linve We have a new baby.” Huberta—"Aw, gee; we have more than that at our house, We have a new daddy” Looking For Himsel( Carler & the most absent-minded fellow I ever met” | clubman to a fellow member. : “What's he been doing now?” inquired the other, “Why, this morning he thought he'd left his watch al home, and tien took it out to see if he had time to go back and get it.” “That Isn't as bad.” said the second man, “as the time when he left is office and put out a card saying he'd be back at 3 o'clock. Pinding he'd forgotien something, he went back to his office. read the notice on the door, and sat down on the stairs to wait until 3 o'clock.” remarked a That's all, folks. Green gives you the right of way—especiaily the long green. mee SCAT.” RECRUITING STATION - s3 3 g ; E | : il £3 % | while capitalist and raliroad magnate like | y 1. How large ig Scapa Flow? Query and Answer Column | PROBLEM: Two [armers had a given number of pigs. First farmer seid to the second: “If you give me four of your pigs 17 have just as many as you have.” “Yeah,” sald the second farmer, “if you give me only four pigs I'll have three times as many as you have.” How many pigs did cach farmer have at the beghiunng of this tle Wto-a-tete? (Answer elie. where In this department.) P. L~Who was it that said: “The public be damned?” Ans. This expression Is attribuled to Willlam H. Vanderbilt, the erst. It Is sald that in about 1883 Van- derbilt was asked by a newspaper correspondent whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains. The magnate replied tersely : “The pub- He be damned’ Y. F~Was “Mother Goose” in her rhymes a real character who once | Hved In Boston?” Ans. There Is story that Boston or any other place secure, The best theory lore. Queen CGooselool special patron of children nothing to the Mother (Goo onee lived in The origin of "Mother Goose” Is rather oOb- seems to be that it gol its origin in French folk. the mother of Charlemagne, wis regarded as the and her festival is stil] erlebrated in France It gradually found ite way into England and then to America. (in Amer- Ica "Queen Goosefool” became “Mother Goose”) H. E.~To settle an argument the week was it that the Great Chicago Fire Ans ~The Great Chicago Pire which Bunday moming, Ocober §. 1850 J. S~Will you kindly answer about in this European War? Ans ‘Plll-boxes” are dome-shaped, round miniature and concrete, holding men and a number of machine guns, and acingly destructive of will you please state on what das slarted? Abo the date? wiped oul the city began on whal "pill-boxes” are read whieh we fort slee] of are men- 85. W.Was George Washington born in England or America? Ans Washinglon was nia. His grandfather came from Creek, Va. on the Potomac river capital J. BI West Virginia wa arate? Ans —West Virginia was a part Virginia until the latter Blate pass. ed the ordinance of secession from the United States on April 17, 186) The people of the western and northwestern part of the State of Vir- ginia called a convention at Wheeling and formed a new State which they called Kanawha, Finally this new State was admitted 0 the Union ur June 19, 1863 8. C~Why are German dirigibie called “Zeppelins™? Ans They are 50 named alter the inventor, Count Von Zeppelin was the first Lo employ engines of considerable size to propel balloons 1908 he made a memorable flight of #00 niles at 40 miles per hour M. H.~What is the origin of the expression Ans —The British had a homely but edible dish made of the umbies (from Latin, jumbulus, little loins), the heart liver, and entrails of stag. The fact that the umbie ple was served to the less important mem- Lers of the household led to the use of “lo eal humble pie” as an alliElon 10 a humiliating drop in the social H. C. R~What sere the thirteen original States? Ans.—The Thirteen Original Colonies were: New Hampshire, Massa - husetis. Connecticut. Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jer- sey. Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia J. A. WWhat is Ans —-Ochlophobia i E. H. J~What State produces the largest supply of milk? Ans —Wisconsin 1838 with 5.517.000.0000 quart Ww. R. H—-Hos Ans —Antelopes an hour J. K. G~How man; Ans - 10000 extras average number employed daily J.T. W.--What ler? Ans —Traveller was originally iron gray, but by the time the war wa: over had turned almost milk while WwW. C. G—~Will an alligator eat a man? Ane —Avcording to W, T. Hornaday, there is no authenlic record of (reorge born In England in near Lhe Westmoreland county 1657 and settled site of our Vir- al Bridge present nationsl once & part of Virginia why did they sep- of balloon: He In 10 eat humble ple? the Lcale the word that describes a dread of crowds? the scientific name for a fear of crowd 0 In fast can an antelope run? have been known lo stlain esiimated at a speed Ixly miles wood oblaln work? 1838, the Holl: registered for emplo; was B44 Robert E. Lee's Fh _ rns $e) of the movie exiras in ment in Of the color was Gen famous horse, Travel. {the loss of a hitman life by an alligalor P. S. H~What are the lightest organs in the body? Ans ~The lungs are the lightest organs and, except when diseased, will float when plsced in waler J. G. HAre Fritz Krelsler's hands insured? Ans. —The famous violinist's hands are insured for $1,000,000 J. 8S. H—Is there a tree with more than one trunk? An: The banvan tree of India and tropical Africa sends dosn from ts branches great numbers of shoots which take root and become new trunks W. H. G—~What king sent his heart to batlie? Ans In Robert Bruce's last years he wished to join a military ex- pedition to the Holy Land. Knowing that he would die before fulfilling his desire, he requested his fend, Lord James Douglas, 10 take his heart alter death and carry it into battle. Douglas placed the heart in a silver casket and carried it into the battle in which he perished. One of his knighis recovered Bruce's heart and 100k jt back to Scotlang where it is Luried in Melrose Abbey C. M. L—Would a bullet held in the hand and dropped poinl down- ward from a height of four feet above the ground, reach the ground at the rame time a similar bullet fired horizontally from a gun held at the same height? Ans. Theoretically ves. Practically, however, the bullet that is drop- pod probably would reach the ground first, owing to the buoyant effect that the alr might exert on the bullet fired from the gun, If both bulleis are spherical, this buoyant effect would be absent, and bolh would reach the ground at the same time Mrs. C. B—Does the United States Housing Authority buy any land for ts construction projects? Ans No; the agency neither buys land, constructs projects, nor as- sists private builders. It provides financial assistance to legally consti- tuted public housing agencies ‘usually local housing authorities) to assist in development of Jow-rent housing and slum-clearance projects, which the local authorities design, build and operate on a rental basis. Answer to problem: At the ginning, end the second farmer had 20 pigs DO YOU KNOW the first farmer had 12 pigs, . queror of Normandy. 6. Madrid. 7. A Polish nobleman, killed in the American Revolution. ‘! 8 PExclusive of tankers our ocean-going ships aggregate 2,160.- 000 tons 8. They fear that buying power { is weak and thal goods will pile up, | leading to factory lay-offs. 10. Washington or New York 2. Bow mary submarines did Germbany have in the last war? 3. Which Scandinavian Kings are brothers? 4. When did Turkey abandon Constantinople as fts capital? 5. When was England last in- vaded by a Continental army? 6. What is the capital of Spain? 7. Who was Pulaski? ! 8. How large is the American merchant marine? 9. Why do some experts fear that the presemt industrial produc- tion may be IGliowed by a reces- | sion? 10. What™is the financial capital 4 ps fie > 2
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