Page Four THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. July 11, 1940. The Centre @emocraf, BELLEFONTE, PENNA, fssued weekly, every Thursday morning. Entered in the postofice at Bellefonte, Pa., as second- class matter, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 per year +ovo Af paid In advance 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 re- quest. Watch date on your label after you remit, Matters for publication, whether news or advertising, reach The Centre Democrat office not later than y 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 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. CR TT i — ~ CIRCULATION OVER 17,000 COPIES EACH WEEK - — NATIONAL €DITORIAL ! a= ASSOCIATION | Aid lembor. J 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 a a —— I PETITE = = - eme— % % The republics of South America, for all their fear of Hitler, keep a wary watch upon the United States One trouble with America is that too many citizens think that patriotism is only a word, found in a book Freedom has about vanished from Europe It will vanish from this hemisphere too unless we are willing to live for it, as well as fight for it. The French may have saved their national hon- or, in making peace with Hitler, but it remains to be seen whether they saved anything else Governor Stassen's charge in his keynote speech before the Republican convention that Roosevelt had caused the country to be unprepared was hard- ly based upon fact Actually, Roosevelt has done a better job of building up the navy than any other peace-time president. During the first four years of Roosevelt, the army got about the same treatment #8 under Hoover, but in the last three years army appropriations shot up sky high. As a matter of fact, Roosevelt went even further than Congress and took nioney out of PWA funds for the army and navy, until Congress inserted a clause in the PWA bill preventing him from doing this. He was much more delense-minded than Congress, The American Institute of Public Opinion. in its latest test of sentiment within the Democratic party. reports that ninety-two per cent of the Dem- ocrats favor the renomination of Mr. Roosevelt Generally, his friends assert that the Chief Execu- tive prefers not to run and while it has been as- sumed, within recent weeks, that Mr. Roosevelt would seek a third term, the trend of thought las! week was one of doubt with some observers asserting that he is less inelined to run now than he was some weeks ago. The truth of the matter is that no- body knows what the President will do except the President himself and he will not make his atti- tude clear until the convention assembles There can be little question that the President's selection of Henry L. Stimson and Col. Frank Knox, as heads of the Army and Navy respectively, brings two of the ablest men in the Republican party to the aid of our Government. The appointments sig- nify a truce to partisanship. The two defense ser- vices ate confronted with gigantic tasks, for the successful performance of which driving force, single-minded purpose and a loyalty to something greater than party advantage are required. Both men possess those qualities. As long as the country can command the services of men as able, as honest, as patriotic and as hardworking as Stimson and Knox, the people will maintain their liberties and preserve their integrity as a nation. There should be no feeling of pity for the more than score of WPA workers in the State who were fired because they refused to take the oath of al- legiance to the nation which is giving them a bread. ticket. On the head of reports that WPA, relief and other government projects and the relief rolls were loaded with disloyalists, Congress recently ordained that every person receiving WPA and similar aid from the Federal government be required to sign an affidavit of loyalty. That requirement itself was most unusual bul how appropriate it is comes in the announcement by Colonel Philip Mathews, Penn. sylvania WPA Administrator, that twenty-three em- A few years ago one heard much about a man named Howard C. Hopson and because readers FCS Lal BEES TEE Bes A Re TRL SRA yey | i A ——— One can readily see the need for emergency na- tional defense measures when it comes out that the U. 8. has nearly all the money In the world and only a 10«cent lock on the vault John L. Lewis, C10 national! leader Is still be- rating the President. If only the Republicans will an- nex him, in toto as they did at the Philadelphia convention, the Democrats will be grateful Mr Lewis 1s too far to the Left for the true Democratic party, which always has been the liberal party a party for the average citizen In the syndicated column, “News Behind the News,” the author relates that the Republican plat. furm omits any mention or even a hint of one of the juclest pleces of back-room conniving to come out of the convention. It was a bald attempt to write a public utility plank into the report and knife Willkie before the first nomination. Convention in- siders who intercepted the drive were less surprised at its political absurdity than with the judgment of its backer, the usually shrewd Henry Cabot, It was stopped through the stock parliamentary trick of letting the backers talk themselves into a hole, The Republican party could hardly touch the topic with. out handing a bouquet to Jerome Frank and the New Deal To endorse private ownership was to write the platform for Willkie, to condemn It was to write it for Charlie Michelson. The answer to that one was not forthcoming, but for a while the Reso- lution committee was floored by ‘he thought that such strategy boners could have seriously backing Originating, circulating and signing petitions are familiar procedures in the American system, so familiar, in fact, that many of us sometimes partici- pate without giving due thought to our acts. This is {llustrated by the complaints and protests piling up in those cities where Communist party nominat- Ing petitions have been made public. People who signed the petitions offer a variety of excuses Some say that they did not know what they were signing, others that they thought they were helping to keep the United States out of war; others that they be- lieved they were petitioning for larger rellef grants In Harrisburg where a list of 209 signers was pub- lished, fifty-eight complainants turned up within a few days. In Pittsburgh, the matter took a more ser- lous turn. A grand jury was ordered to investigate charges of irregularities in the petitions after com- plaints had been received that the signers’ names had been forged or that certain people had been mis- led into signing them. Investigation and prosecution of irregularities in nominating petitions is a com- mendable and necessary procedure. Meanwhile, “read before you sign.” commends itself as a guiding prin- ciple FOR SHORTSIGHTEDNESS (Harrisburg Patriot) Apart from the tragedy which compels the United States to embark on billion dollar programs for preparedness against war is the tragedy of hav. ing to pay for our folly of not doing a generation ago the things which might not only have spared the people this gigantic expenditure but the ghastly wars now raging across the seas Twenty years ago the isolationists and the pecksniffian politicians had their way. They kept this country out of the League of Nations. By so do- ing. they nullified the plan of keeping aggressor na- tions at bay through the processes of collective se- curity. They stood In the way of those promising steps which the world then was ready to take to keep itself at peace The isolationists in this nation had thelr day of triumph. Today not only they but all the world is paying for it through the nose not only in money but in blood, suffering. devastation and the fearful prospect that by force of arms alone this nation will be able to keep out the invader In “Changing World" the League of Nations Association, referring to the preparedness budget SAYS: This large budget is the Inevitable result of the policy of isolation which the United States Senate and the isolationists forced upon this country at the close of the first World War. The cost of joining the League of Nations, and of participating in ef- forts to build collective security, would have been much less expensive finally and involved fewer risks than the policy of wishful thinking isolationism Now, with most of those nations destroyed who might have participated in collective security, we find that we must prepare for the possibility of be- ing the only nation left capable of opposing the force of Nazism and Fascism. A prominent citizen of one of our western cities said the other day a man who had opposed the League of Nations that he felt Hike bowing before Woodrow Wilson's grave in humility The militarization of the country, possible com- pulsory military training, sacrifice of social progress for our national defense, which are the things that the isolationists have feared. are Now upon us As the result of their policies. The policy of collective action to prevent aggression, which was opposed in the name of peace, now seems in retrospect the only thing which could have prevented the present calas- trophe The accuracy of these assertions cannot be dis- puted. If there was any doubt that coilective secur. ity could have kept the world at peace, there is no doubt certainly that the lack of it led the world directly into war. Doubtless throughout the nation there are other men who by misunderstanding or otherwise opposed United States membership in the League of Nations feel “like bowing before Wood- row Wilson's grave in humility.” There are isolationists still in the land, refusing tn give the slightest aid to those who are fighting the battle of freedom across the seas. Their advice is as dangerous today as that of the isolationists of a score of years ago PAYING ENGLAND TAKES THE FRENCH FLEET (Harrisburg Patriot) America’s heart is wrenched as is that oi Eng- land after the latter's necessity of using force to tuke over the French navy to save it from falling into Hitler's hands. Nothing in life is more distress. ing than the rift between old friends, such as France and England were. But through the weiter of sorrow and regret, reason in this country and abroad has no other place but in support of England's action. That na- tion, fighting for its life and properly skeptical of Germany's promise that the captured French fleet would not go into action, had no option in the ex- tremity of war but to seek to persuade and falling that to compel the French navy to surrender or suffer extinction. The magnificent thing is that in only some in- stances was force necessary, Many units of the French navy co-operated with England and did it enthusiastically. Unless the recalcitrant units were tinged with a pro-Nazi comp! they, too, faced a difficult crisis as between ng the home gov- ernment and the mandates of England. England's action is entirely defensible, Even if it were not, it is precisely what the Germans would have done. They did not surrender their fleet to the victors after the World War as promised. They scuttled it at Scapa Flow. Its recent promises to Prance that if surrendered the French fleet would not be used against England is precisely like the Scapa Flow promise. It was an extremely painful duty England was called upon to perform in atiacking the French. Premier Churchill had tears in his eyes when he re- ported to Parliament. That is understandable, Even the French who are loyal to liberty, must feel that England had no other course and time will prove it s0. This tragic breach between old allies is an- } THE N Orrick CAx “A Little Nonsense Now and Then, Is Relished by the Wisest Men” Skunk Hollow News (From Our Own Correspondent) Abner Hock will ralse pigs next spring regardless of who Is elect. he says. Abner is our most progressive citizen Little Lulu Lets has jumped from the 6th grade If it wasn't for her studies she could graduate from college next year teacher says William Beccum has already laid in his winter's Mr ed President, into high school her chewing tobacco Miss Eliza Peep says the younger generation is not only going to the dogs, but they have went G, Gill is 1 Simon Sunk Is sick Huddle The Ist Matthew Muddle has started to go with Miss Priscilla Muddle-Huddle nuptials will be announced about September Grandpappy Snow died last night at the age of eighty-seven, In his prime, from drinking too much whiskey, Jeb Tillers gave him a drink of bonded likker and Grandpappy just keeled over. He didn’t even kick He just up and dled. He'd drunk so much bad likker in his life that a drink of dyed-in-the-wool stuff just snapped his lights out, Grandpapp) never was much foree, but everybody liked him a terrible lot. He of belonged to several lodges but allowed he'd been cut out for soll tary drinking. so he never joined up with nobody And he never joined the church because he figured he had a lot of friends in every congre. gation, and he didn’t want to take sides. Everybody will miss grandpappy He was a hard-tobaceo chewing straight talking character that never bothered nobody. Still and all, he was a friend of man, and thal's more than can be sald of & lot of the more respectable citizens of this com- munity. 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(Ashley and Melanie in case you're getting confused ) This irritated Scarlet no in quick ried, for spite and cash respectively. a couple of fellers whose names didn’t Buti then, neither did Scarlett {or long The other major characters were Rhett Butler, Belle Watling and a colored lady exactly like the one on the flapjack box Rhett, who was somehow strangely reminiscent of Clark Gable, was a cross between Jesse James and Little Boy Blue Uncle Lum considered playing Rhett but turned it down when he found there wasn't anything but mint in the min juleps If Rhett had joined the Lost Cause in the second reel instead of after intermission, the Confederacy would have won the war And Belle. You'd have loved Belle Everybody did During the siege of Atlanta, only three things were running: Belles place, Prissy’s nose and the laundry that kept Rheti's while suits snowy white Melanie's baby arrived about the same time Sherman did. Both were equally welcome to Scarlet! It was, 80 far as our painstaking research has revealed ever born in technicolor Anyway, the South lost the war again in the pleture (What could yo’ | expect with a lot of Yankee producers?) and Scarlett married Rhett to | get even with him | Their married life was just like sitting in hell's fire and listening to | the heavenly choir Finally, after Melanie died Scarlett realized Ashley but Rhet! However, Rhett had enough of her foolishness our-hour sit d got off the following ¢ wiew and of cotton fields cavalier called The Old our A Winsome wench with a "et st she mar- we end and so sucorssion get the first baby that she didnt Scarlett was as changeable ag a baby's underwear and when she told him he says, “Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” | Neither, by this time, did the audience. They were giad to see the { end, their own having become number and somewhat harder than a land. | lady's stare love Sore at Each Other Rufus—"Am yo' wife cross-eyed?” Bambo--“1 dunno if dey is cross, but dey sho’ ighores each other” Getting Rid of It She-—Hey, Mister, do you ever have a squeak In the rear of your car?” Pop-—"No, 1 always leave my wife at home" As Bad as That? Englishman (eating a limburger sandwich for the first time—-"1 say, old chap, something has died in my biscuit.” That's all, folks. The intelligent girl is one who knows how to refuse | 8 kiss without being deprived of it. wen BOAT { H Rheumatic Pains Cut Like Knives Only those who have endured the torture of Rheumatic, Neuralgic, Neuritic Pains can uoderstand what such suff means. Sleep 1 Miserable days! t 4 joy wo Get RUX » wear Rives od is 1.00, $1.50, $6.00, STORE—~BELLEFONTE, Quick Sale fo Seffle an Estate STONE QUARRY Near Loganton, Pennsylvania. Plant includes two stone crushers, power unit, scales and other necessary equipment. Ready market in locality for crushed stone. JOHN W. FRANKENBERGER which hes of sufferers. If atic, Neuralgic, Neuritic A Three WHITE'S DRUG a SSS SE ES HISAR TR Pe ie aE Debi SON iw phy: ¢ | C..he Rand, Manager. - ——y | Query and Answer Column PROBLEM: A boy had a board from which he desired to saw a piece | five feet three inches long. The only thing he had to measure with was Dear Louisa I read your advice to other peo- ple and have learned many lessons from them. 1 have a question which | I wish you would answer When a boy asks a girl to marry him and she promises she will, should the hoy give her an engage- ment ring or Isn't it necessary? Of course, 1 am talking about a couple who are really thinking of getting married. I'm thanking vou in Vance It's this nd. Yours truly FAN Tex Answer It is customary boy to give his fiancee an engagement after accepn's him there aré circumsiances sometimes keep him this, It may be that such a small salary inadvisable invest in a It may be that I would pre fer that the money be put Int furniture or a home But, at any for the two of you u« ter over. A ring may you now than a suite will Inter on the matter should It would be go deeply In Am sure to appreciate a can afford will keep his for year: ring Howeve 4 which doing making Beem she from he is that it to ring or 1 Pe ie § It 15 a poo pinay alk the mat. rate mean tr of and your be oon very silly for . i > $ i0r § ing, bu more funiture desires dered debt YOU Aare sensi CNougn that tha » Aly simple than one one rather nose to the gris fr LOUISA trvinne ts aii 4 ying pa Dear Loulsa I am a Mexicar and 1 been going « of 23 who Is fond of times we have qu we back like for me to go with any | and as find fuss at me and say he Is ne boy and is other hoys go to the movies wit} How can 1 talk to my A Heari-Broker have vers t each ot gO together My don't soon as they poor. They tall Lon els Answer I certainly parents They Are doing your right ney protect are the LOUISA A letter from a girl In Tennessee asks what she can do about 2 man to whom engaged, but whe hasn't come her =Eince wedding date was she is to see the very time be ‘here COATES Lt i man he writes he says he will on Bunday but he Well, my ac mark dently gets onic beging thinking about ried, ance very shortly 1 would figure out that he was giving me the "run. around” and 1 should be on the jookout for a betler prospect. 1 hope I'm wrong never vic ¥ him books feet every f Te N bows, go if he didn’t put In of luck LOUISA Lota - People who enjoy privileges rarely believe that democracy has any right to curb their prerogatives | a plece of string which he knew was three feet long How did he measure the desired length without cutting or mutilating the string? (Answer eisewhere in this department.) 8. L~What is meant by pump priming? | Ans The term pump priming means putting money in productive | employment so that through the salaries gained by the wage earners there will be a demand for other goods which will in turn stimulate pro- duction H. blind? Ans —8he Jost her sight in Infancy, due to the Ignorance of a coun. physician who applied hot poultices 0 her inflamed eyes R. T~What Ans ~The martin M. F~Why was Madame Bechumann-Heink given a military funeral? Ans ~The famous singer was given ors by the American Legion Post 43 Hollywood, and the Holly- wood Post of Disabled Veterans of the World War because of her great the during the World War T. J. K~I RTOWS 8s 4 G~How did Fanny Crosby, the famous hymn writer, become bird | saint? named after a is named afler Bt. Martin a funeral with full military hon. No generosity to soldiers there any plant that much as a fool In one 45] bamboo fast as 2 fool and a half a day Ans Young C. Fl Ans SProuls grow A there any country iteracy? which ha Denmark Pe ie plendid educational system has eradicated (liter that eo M Ans D — Wi A" ! Cellophane kind of «¢ should be used on cellophane? r be cleaning fluids Articles made of cellophane are easily lukewarm. When clean, rinse by absorbent cloth treated wiy yr pastes, as the luster will clean with ging with D. J -Why is House of Representatives referred to n the floor as “the gentleman from New York" for example, instead of name? iil Ans It 1s the custom In all large deliberative bodiss 16 avoid the use of the personal name debate or procedure, The wiriginal purpose of possible of decorum snd fo separate the personal of each em wy e, doubleind three-quarters ge and Y with wiped 8 SORDY ROT clear, cold wa ar a member of the ir was 10 prevent any breach olitical from the character E. T~Please give the width of a sing heel 7 Ans u quarriers inches in A edd standard ngle bed ight inches Authorities wide A and a double bed is fifty-four mate thirty-nine inches of space mld be allowed to Induce urty-nine inches three. f $a SOriv-s wide on seen est in width As the minimum width which cach sleeper sh restful slumber J. ¥F~How many # Coolidge Dam? Ans The OC in Arizona have been irrigated by the Dam has 20 600 mude irrigable in Arizona 80.000 acres anditiomal acres = supplemental pump 17 4 A. L—~Were An They somme in 1016 P. G~How Ans Halr combs are of med during the World War? ntroduced by the British during the Battie of the P have combs been use specimens made of lake lings Among of boxwood and in Egypt greal antic fr ! been n Bwis dwe hey Were made { Mrs Franklin D. Roose- es ia and weighs between in the National league won the most consecutive 1929 to 16397 streak Ir National straight by the League between the Chicago Cubs in 1935 sapphires 1829 and R witl 1839 was R Please that be mpare iness of emeralds diamond The hardness of the emerald is d ruby is about 8 hardest of all materials L. M.—Why is New York called the Empire S'ate? New York is vast and ru- ties of the Ans approximately 75; that of the and of the diamond, 10 The diamond is the Bpphire an called the Empire State because of ils command- and the enterprise of iis people C. C. CD the Army and Navy offer medical training courses to who enlist wealth It ible to oMain medicine. Army {ici flian medical colleges is not poss the and Navy graduate: Army * A aegree In dociors are nized cis H. B—How was the Republican candidate for President of the United State: Democratic opponent in 1876. Samuel J Tilden, received a big majority of the popular vole and a majori'y of the eiec- toral vole? Ans The election al that the Civil War, was held with elected when his time, following so closely on the heels of bitder feeling in the South, and somewhat the North. By alleged irregularities in South Carolina and Florida these Slates were thrown out in the electoral college, resulling in a tie between Haves and Tilden Congress appointed a commission composed of 7 Republicans and § Democrats fo elect a President. By a strict party sole of 7 to 6 Haves was chosen as the President a ir R. L—What players in the major leagues lead in the fewest strike- in the past ten years? In other words who are the two surest hitters? (Continued on Page 5) oils : money right now than | Tying UST figure it out for yourself —what better use can you make of your something new, sturdy, big, useful and of known and unchallengeable value? In other words, why not take this moment to say good-bye to a car be- ginning to show signs of wear — and say hello to a brand-new 1940 Buick? 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