ix Page Tog® "7 EE ET TTT EW A A Ses - The Centre Pomocrat, : BELLEFONTE, PENNA. i ‘ -_ A. C.DERR........... fssued weekly, every Thursday morning. Entered in the postoffice at Bellefonte, Fe class matter, OR ————e AT ME ——— od TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION S150 per year.......... if paid in advance $2.00 per year... \.........\f 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 TEE | WALKER BROTHERS. ................... Proprietors Pa., as second- | £ | ! 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 mn its chances, All reading notices marked (*) are advertisements. Legal notices and all real estate advertisements, 10 eents per line each issue. Bubscribers changing postoffice address, and not no- tifying us, are liable for same. All subscriptions will be continued unless otherwise directed. ERn—— = 4 = - mm— CIRCULATION OVER 7,000 COPIES EACH WEEK - ————— EI NATIONAL €DITORIAL. ll gi ASSOCIATION eS DEMOCRATIC TICKET For United States Senator JOSEPH F. GUFFEY For State Treasurer G»HAROLD WAGNER For Auditor General F. CLAIR ROSS For Representative in Congress WILLIAM M. AUKERMAN For Representative in General Assembly ! ’ . JOHN W. DECKER © EDITORIAL ee - . a .,. The trouble with most of these secret weapons that we read about is that they remain secret With war and a the truth is going summer. political campaign underway to take ap awful beating this The only difference between Mussolini and a burgiar is that the burglar wears a mask and waits on his victim in person Why doesn’t Mr. Landon try his pfopisition a bit farther and say that hefore he will co-operate with the President for national defense he wants to pick the 1940 Democratic candidate for the Presi. dency. *'y. Poison-pen wielders used to call Roosevelt an alarmist. Because thé fation’s Chief’ Executive wam- ed us long in advance that hell was going to break loose in Europe. Even persons who yoice intense dislike of Roosevelt's domestic policies have nothing but admiration for his achievements where our for- eign policy and preparedness program are concern- ed. al At last Bellefonte Council sees the necessity for installing “traffic ligh's on the streets While our town is not large, it possesses a number of hazard- our ‘traffic intersections that are puszling to strarigers, both motorists and pedestrians. The in- stallation of trafic signals may be the means of saving human life There are many Centre county citizens who.un- doubtedly ‘owe their lives to the knowledge and skill of the late Dr. Waterworth of Clearfield As a goitre specialist. he had few equals, and the place be occupied in medical science will be hard to fill The death last week of Dr. Waterworth is a dis- tinct loss to humanity Of the nation's 1824 civilian alrports only thirty-one, we are told, are capable of handling modern military aircraft. By contrast, Germany is believed to have used 60 first-clasg airports in her offensive upon the Western Front, The army and navy have about twenty alr bases in continental United States. With anything like 50,000 airplanes there wilh be needed hundreds of splendid airports It will take time to construct them and the work might as well begin immediately. * =a The appeal of the Red Cross for funds with which to assist the war refugees in France and other European countries is not meeting with the success in Centre ¢ounty that it should, we are in- formed. In ofr interest in the outcome of battles, We are prone to overlook the hardships which face +... Projection of the issue of national defense into the political campaign has made the indecision and discord as to drown the them are 50 upset that with themselves, At the same Sinn £ | o THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT; BELLEFONTE, PA, Those who believe that the United States Is rot concerned with the outcome ‘of the war In Eur. + ope should stand up, and be counted It was a narrow escape for Ambassador William Bullitt when that German bomb fell on the roof of A room in Paris during a recent air rald of that city. The fact that it falled to explode explaing his escape from death. We wonder what the reaction would have been in the United States had the bomb sexploded. The 35,000 ton battleship, Washington, first cap. ital ship to be launched in this country in nineteen years, slid down the ways at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on the first day of June, The ship, carrying nine 16-inch guns, eight anti-aireraft guns, and twelve 5-inch secondary guns, will have deck armor of ten Inches and side armor of Sixteen Inches depth. It will cost around $80,000,000 The German government has warned the United States, Mexico and Panama that it learned “from reliable sources” that the British have sent agents to Central America to commit acts of sabotage against the Panama Canal Berlin, it will be remem. bered, previously warned the American government that vessels would be attacked by the Allies In order to put the blame on the Germans. It looks like Ger- man propaganda to us Efforts to drum up nationwide interest jn Fath et’s Day, which is to be observed June 16, have been largely unavalling. Mother has long since gained An anniversary victory But poor old Dad cannot stem to get anywhere as an object of organized do. mestic solicitude. Maybe it's just as well These “aays” are a veritable nuisance. And besides. If any gifts are placed on Dad's altar, he'd probably have to pay for them. But, after all, the hard work, the bill paying and the lawn mowing are all part of his scheme in life, and he accepts it without grumbling The worst example of conceit thus far injected into the national political campaign is the self. balley-hooed candidacy of Arthur James the Break- er Boy (of promises) for President. Ye gods and little politicians. What a joke. Does he think voters have forgotten how he defied public opinion by his absolute contempt for the honor of the bar, by cam- paigning for himself for governor while drawing a salary as judge? Or that not one of his many prom- ises that elected him has been kept? Does he think he can pull the wool over the eyes of the:.publig all the time? If so, he's having a great time kidding h'mself Not that we'd deny former President Hoover the right to criticize Rooseyeil’s defense program which he delights to do because ths wells infligled during his defeat have never healed. But he is just a little cut of bounds when he says our preparedness can. Lot be assured or defenses built up “by boards or councils or conferences” That is, Mr. Hoover is getting away from his own record when he says that. Everybody remembers that no President ever created so many boards, councils, commissions, ete a: Mr. Hoover during his regime, Perhaps Mr. Hoo- ver wishes to gracefully admit that his. own admin- istration proved a dismal fallure that President Roosevelt's broadcasted address at the University of Virginia's exercises Monday evening held America’s atiention a5 never before. When he pledged that this nation would both prepare itself and “extend to the op- ponents of force the material resources of this na- tion.” the thundering applause of his atidience was but the echo of the shouting approval of all liberty. lcving Americans Again his fellow-countrymen were in agreement when the President injected the warranted and stinging declaration that Italy had thrust a dagger into the back of France, its neigh- bor. The United States cannot anticipate with camfort the triumph of murderous dictators It will be infinitely better for the Americas to pay the cheaper price of materials now than the bloody one of materials and men later, The time for quibbling over neutrality is ended It i8 safe In saying THE WAY TO SAVE AMERICAN YOUTH We are among those Americans who still hope, and pray, that war can be avoided by the United States but we do not belong to the tribe that be. lieves it can be done by cowardly shrinking from facing the hatred of Hitler and his people We fervently hope that American youth will rot have to fight in any war but, so far as we can see at this time, the only possibility of sparing them the ordeal of slaughter is to be found in the defeat of Germany by Great Britain and France ' This being the truth. in our judgment then it appears that the smart thing for the United States to do is to give every posiible assistance to the Allies, “short of war,” as quickly as possible, We would extend credit, ships, planes. tanks munitions and food stuffs as rapidly as possible to bolster the fighting forces of the nations now Al war, Certainly we would not sit idly by and see these two great democracies crushed under the weight of a mechanized army. Such a victory would strength- en Hitler for an attack upon this hemisphere. We would immediately rush planes to the Allies, even if we had to take some of them from the Army and Navy This would not be as foolish as it might seem Many of the planes now belonging to our fighting service will be obsolete before’ many months have pasted. They will help the hard-pressed Alles now They can be replaced in a short £ime when the ac- celerated production schedule gets underway There is a chance . that such a course might lead us to war. It is. in our opinion, a smaller risk than we take if we chance the defeat of the Allies 80 long as there are other nations fighting the po- tential foes of this republic, it is good policy for the United States to assist them with materials that may save the lives of our sons : ANOTHER BILLION FOR ARMS Less than a week after making a spirited fire- side talk to the American people, in which he called attention to the need for extraordinary action to prepare the defense of this nation, the President has requested additional sums to speed up the arm- aments of this country. Despite the fact that he has asked Congress for an appropriation of $1.200000000 for increased preparedness, and that this huge sum tops regular appropriation bills of more than $2.000000000 for the Army and Navy, Mr. svelt urges that ‘an- other billlon dollars be made available at onhoe New methods of warfare, based entirely upon the striking offensive of mechanized armies, coupled with knowledge that war comes suddenly, leads the Chief Executive to recommend new expenditures that will give the Army modern weapons for mod- ern warfare, ’ y : Even a month ago such requests would have been equivalent to the political annhiliation of the President, but so greatly shocked are the American people at the outcome of recent battles in Belgium and Prance that they not only support, almost unan- imously, the President's requests, but they wait eagerly for him, and his advisers, to call for addi- tional funds in order that there may be no doubt about the ability of this republic to wage war suc- cessfully against any possible combination of en- The transformation of public opinion in this country has been miraculous, ‘It is but a sign of what will happen in these United States if Hitler turns loose the full force of his aerial armada against the civilian populations of France and . Awakened to the: frightfulness of the public will demand! immediate action to | L THE Orrick CAr “A Little Nonsense Now and Then, Is Relished by the Wisest Men” Dopey Ditties Little Oscar, spry and fair, Tore Paw's pants from here to there; Momma laughed as he withdrew, Bald, "Dad's got an end In view" Girls are funny creatures, Take little Margie Green Bhe liked Quaker Oats when six But wild oats when sixteen Must Have Walked on His Hands An Australian, at the start of the war, tried to enlist at Sydney was refused because of bad feet more before the doctor “It's no use, I can't take you. You couldn't stand the marching,’ the medico. “But why are you so impatient?” “Well, Doe.” sald the other, “1 walked 187 hate to walk back.” He Next morning he presented himself once sald miles to get here, and 1 How It Started A sultan at odds with his harem Thought of a way he could scare He caught him a mouse Set it loose in the house, Thus starting the first harem-scarem Something to Work On Canvasser Madame, will pital?” you donate something to the new hos Mrs. Clancy (who had just finished an argument with her husband) “Well, ye might step In an’ take a look at Clan Maybe he'd de Yeah, We Know A great family tree 5 Just the ends of the branches like any other tree.the nuts develop at Her Legal Right Judge (to old maid) Do to be jury?” Old Maid ‘A Old Maid you wish What's jury Oh madam, consi I'll take Judge ts of twelve me! the jury Just a Rumor A blessed event had taken place in father was explaining to little Willie the Smit} You can’t ir mother has arrived and needs A litle stranger guy who was here las’ see YOu now.” he of her attention huh!" Willie we winter when said gently nll owled darkly yOu Were away Epitaph is Percy Hitler ¢ Re:ting here He called Mr On the Wa gon skey Is i Prohibitionist Wh o stuff often?” Rounder No, sir--1 on wh occasions in my Prohibitionist occasions ?™ Rounder bad for « vile ’ 4 $4 wish to stale fe” Good. Gilad to hear When 1 had turkey for dinner anc Some Biting Remarks (Overheard in our lifetime) 1 was squeezed out in the back stretch ‘T've had my ups id downs Tm wound You dirty Did I jet gg! hold I'm the original hard-boiled baby ” Bald the Girdle The Elevator The Clock The Tree Garter Shoe Fag Mirror Hove You il get a run for your money.” Brassiere up.” dog.” : ‘rm down” my tongue” I seidom get an even break I'm the only thing thal held up during the depres. sion.” He'd Surprise Her An old farmer brought some produce to town and sold it. Thinking that he would surprise his wife, he bought a new stil of clothes a hat and a pair of shoes and put them under the back seat of his wagon On his way home he stopped at the river and clothes, threw them in fit It was gone taking off his old Then he reached under the seat for his new oul. Finally he got into the wagon and said, prise her anyway.” Giddap, Maude, we'll sur- Colorful Romance During a community fund drive recently, a prominent woman ‘ook an active part in helping to relieve the poor people in distress One day she was sent to visit a portly woman, who Wag crying as if her heart would break ‘What's the trouble, my dear?” asked the solicitor “Its my new husband.” says the woman, “He is a coal truck driver and as good-hearted a bloke as you'd care to mee! Yesterday he gets run over by his truck and they dragged him to a hospital” “Poor man.” sald the sympathetic visitor, “but don't worry, he'll re- cover.” “It's meself I'm worryin' about” answered the grieving woman “At the hospital they washed and scrubbed him and darn if he didnt turn out to be a colored man.” She Went Stamp Shopping A woman shopper approached the postoffice clerk at the stamp win- dow, with “1 would like to look at your red 2-cent stamps ™ The clerk obligingly brought out a sheet of 100 stamps one of the stamps in the center of the sheet she sweetly said Pointing to 1 take | that one.” ! railroad employe of Beaver Falls, Pa. | ful he is for RUX Compound. With | Rheumatic Pains making it painful | for him to walk a great deal, he be- RHEUMATIC PAIN RELIEF | duced in this vicinity. is a pure, { Dawentul, liquid medicin nel « able, no : Tommy's Idea “Mom.” whimpered little Tommy, “do | have to wash my face again before supper?” “Certainly, dear.” replied mother “Aw, gee, why can't T just powder it over again like you do yours?” That's all. folks. A smart man is the one who hasn't lel a woman pin anything on him since he was a baby, ws BOAT." pm pi —— wt Prominent People Tell of Amazing Relief With RUX ! Mr. William Bollinger, well known wants his friends to know how grate. gan taking RUX Compound. He says RUX nd, recently intro- | | i NDOM NOTES (Continued from page one) | back to tell the officer, we continued lon to Bellefonte, where we (eles phoned Deputy Warden 5, Rhoads, About ten minutes after we called, the deputy received word that the prisoner had been picked up at Donation, a short distance from Me- Alevey's Port, And are we ever burned up? RAMBLINGS: If you haven't visited the Titan Metal plant Iately, be sure to take advantage of the “open house” which will continue until Tuesday June 18, with trips beginning at 10 m and 2 p m. We found the tour of the plant most interesting but even if you don’t like machinery and manufacturing processes, you'll like the souvenir garden hose nozzle given to each person who through the plant This seems to be a big week for news, including the advent of a birt for Miss Geraldine Biliger, deputy in Register Hagry A. Corman’s office When Karl E. Kusse, Chamber of Com merce secrelary, digs fishing bait he has Mrs. Kusse stand by to pick up the darned thing: Commisisone; Harry V. Keeler in his summer » recalls the when Cieorge ‘1 Jush announced the ar rival of the season by dor ning his palm beach suit Wonder if Harry has extra for all that material? " ROS day days the late vernal to pay TECHNICALITY: At the Monday night B. Bchad again brought t of the p $300 worth of fire required Bchool Pre Board sident meeling Franklin ip the mal more after irchase of than micros the without by apes sing for Schad matier aqavers law. Mr audible in the school bids as became quits and charged the he to break YE 1 ty Apparently ex - CONSPIracy code one generally chool only the Le State who was admitted Odie al Brose ws was Lhe cited Over fracture of the school theugh member WH some support to Bchads vie purchase of the microscopes 4 3 The Was nr emergency. The board wanted to get schon! open and classes res particularly exact 4d under th the action was Council hs conditions wasnt to the Ar glances we fox Bellefonte acts when and wre praciiéally everyones or other breaks {f some micre to make good reading no more of I hewing sehool onde fied similar ranted veniure 10 =a nt Totter Frankly WOODE DURITIONS the spirit © lews wer tired of this and » YEW yoy » heat ent Ms ——— PORT MATILDA R.D NOL Cowhes Mr sO and Hosband Levi Malvin iv Ridge vs Mr Mr. and Lewistown their brother and sister-in-law Mr and Mrs. C W_ Scott. Mrs, Thermon Wiser spent a day in Tyrone Mansy at it very ’ and oe vis with his par- ana Mrs. T P, Cowher Mrs. Homer tA attended Fireman’ Pore Matilda and much John Brightbill with relatives Mr. and Mrs. James Tyrone, spent Sunday Nannie Pranoes Lewis Mr. and Mrs Elwood Miller daughter Joyee spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs. Charles Mier Mise Kathryn Yeckiey Beil- wood. spent the weekend with her friend Miss Marguerite Kerin Mr. and Mrs. John Nearhos! and family visited with his brother Sherman in Tyrone Mrs, Arma Duey, Mr. and Mrs Joe Ruey and daughter Joan and Miss Fannie Oodin and Andrew Skvasick spent Sunday at the As. penwal] hospital, Pittsburgh visit- ing with Mr. Duey, who is a patient there, Mr. and Mrs Walter Challange? of Lewistown, spent Sunday with the iatter's cousin, Mrs M. A Kerin/ and Mrs. Kerin returned home with her to spend a few days with them Mrs Julia Corry of Pittsburgh, is visiting her mother Mrs, Veronica Urban. Blair Walk and wife of Tyrone spent Sunday with his brother Gor- don Walk of this piace, Sunday visitors at the home of Mr and Mrs, M. A. Kerin were Mrs Thomas Warg and Donald Ward and Mr. and Mrs Samuel Hipple of Cokeburg, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Paul I. Lego and family of Conemaugh, spent a few daye with his mother Mrs Lego Collett. Mrs. Mary Lego Collett, has been real sick for three weeks, her friends wish her a speedy recovery Miss Anna Buddish of Homestead is spending a few weeks with her aunt, Mrs Susie Skvasick, Miss Fannie Godin of Clearfield is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Arma Duey, | Mr. and Mrs. Harry Snyder and son of Comadore and Mr. and Mrs | the niay enjoyed spent Sunday in Altoona Weaver of with Miss and of | D. J. Snyder ang three children, of | | Osceola Mills and Mr, | | 3 and Mrs Rose Grubb of Port Matilda were Sunday visitors at the home of Mrs, | Elwilda Snyder. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Black and son’ ang Mr, and Mrs Bil] Bateman of Akron, Ohio, visited with their re- latives Mr. and Mrs. Fred Evans. | Mrz David Stine daughter Dolly and Mrs, Loretta Dively and | son Archie, of Claysburg, spent A few days with Mrs. Elwilda Snyder, Mrs. Elizabeth Dixon is very ill al this writing, — «The family's newspaper. Nerve Racking Aches a June 13, 1940, and wie Keepler of PROBLEM When a man chopped off a chicken's head, it was hoted that the act did not kill the chicken. How come? (Answer elsewhere In this department.) v ¢ G. F~What Is the “cat and mouse” act of England? Why was it so called? Ans. In campaign of violenes ing public meeting: 1012 a group of women suffragists in England started a smashing windows, defacing golf links, interrupt. cle. Por this they were sent to prison, where they went on a hunger strike, The government passed a law for the temporsry release of such prisoners on the grounds of “1l} health.” thus subject to re-arrest when recovered from their hunger effects. The public nicknamed JU the “cal and mouse” aet because it resembled the practice of cats in releasing mice only ‘o seize them Wain before they can make an encape F. MIs} that Henry Clay and John Randolph once fought a duel? If what about the duel, since both men lived to die a natural death? ‘ Ans fought the famou nader injured in {tr 0 Ye el, with wling grounds which ya ied pale thelr honor at stake. The scene near Washington Nejther shook hands and returned to AG VAS w ourg d We uel, alter they Yashingtos FEW An wor H iid Fiance” is larly good English of pronounced pronunciatior flance™ and “fiancee”? fed-an-say.” with masculine form but It 4s sel. it is betler to avoid Hs sy porrettly last sylial the to be a citizen of the United States 10 #n- nd marine corps, not a citizen ofthe United States is per- military seawice the American flag with gold fringe them with gold fringe. but never heard of the orale “nN decoration: sible ge 1s but flag etiquet de. and should not be ised on the end of a bul these are used in paratie: ain as Dos wed rir regiment lied Philippines” and the Filipinas.” after Filipe The hence we have Philippine ur se of or nade from chicle, a resinons th America I Reed B8moot offer 2 prayer in tion in April 1917. Sena- God bless and ap- Oh, Falher, preserye y will be enjoyed by all oliowing prayer the Benale this day when liber parentis? ig in the place of a parent: acting x parent actor's real name? Bchneider inglon’s fa‘her? very,” Booker T. Washington €ars ing 1 have been unsuccessful in se- row ight upon the history I know even loss Shan of aocurals ‘ faut yy i my ane name ne Le called the Bandwich Is- ho rediscovered the Hawalian Islands in patron the Earl of Sand. After the native Name came Islands after Yrs l parentage. and of Jewish he age of 12 and brought Up in spent the weekend with democracy of the dead, sll men are noid neither In the democracy of the dead al rank nor station por prerogative in nallest kind of nonge ¢ monkey? the pygmy marmoset of Brazil It es, about 25 Much as & mouse, and nd a long tail Ng rue that the Tast baflleship of the United States Navy 10719 - 4 twice 4 t Virginia last battleship of the United States hed November 19, 1921, and first commissioned Déesmiliér thre Navy wad . ” i : ng had Patrick Henry studied law when he was sdmil- x weeks, then applied for a license Tt was grant. tudy further before practicing - ances Perkins Secretary of Labor, of English desommt? is of English and Scotch shoestry y is used in making violins? varieties of wood are used in the construction of a vio- plane wood, fir or spruce, ebony or rosewood. The back bridge are made of maple or plane wood; the belly, the the molds, linings. and soundpost. are made of Spruce . pegs, tallpiece, and talipiece bution ebony or that he nf wood v Hn maple neck, ribs, and bar of the corners Por the finger-board, nuls rose wos used W. G.~What ecutive? Ans receives is is the salary of Wendel] Wilkie, the public ulilities #x- ) 8. As president of the Cofimonwealth & Southern Corporation, he 875000 a year Answer to problem: The head was chopped off after the chicken had died a ——— THE VERY FIRST MEAL 1 COOKED WITH AY ELECTRIC RANGE | FT, NEW ELECTRIC RANGES iy bz is
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