Page Four THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. August 29, 1940. | The Centre Democrat, | BELLEFONTE, PENNA. | —— RR WALKER BROTHERS Issued weekly, every Thursday morning. Entered In the postoffice at Bellefonte, Pa., as second- class matter, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $150 per year...............1f paid In advance if not paid in advance -—TIIT 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, | 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, Bubscribers changing postoffice address, and not no- tifying us, are liable for same. All subscriptions will be continued unless otherwise directed. oe ——— — —— i ——— CIRCULATION OVER 7,000 COPIES EACH WEEK —— pe] TIONAL EDITORIAL Nano SSOCIATION limber i 7! Eee enn ee —— DEMOCRATIC TICKET For President of the United Stales FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT For Vice President HENRY W. WALLACE 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 eee SCI AR —— War communiques remind us of pre-election comment The isolation of the United States is expensive and can last only as long as no other nation at- tacks us. The only way to have the respect of the totali- tartan powers is to keep them afraid of your means of defense. One trouble with the United Stales that svery Federal legislator represents a restricted area und is responsive only to the will of the voters in his district. It is apparent that the young men of Pennsyl. vania like Uncle Sam's army. In a recent report to congress by the war department information Was furnished concerning the number of recruits throughout the United States that have joined the regular army from January 1, 1940, to June 30, 1940, and it was noted that Pennsylvania leads the nation with 7.411 recruits, representing 7 per cent of ens listments for every 10.000 of population. These young Pennsylvanians enlisted for practically every branch of the army. The newspapers, to the extent of 85 per cent, were opposed to Mr. Roosevelt in 1936, but their in- fluence amounted to about as much as Prime Min- ister Chamberlain with Adolf Hitler. The same news- papers are opposed to the President again, and they are doing their damnest to build up Willkie as the people's choice. But, the American people have learn- ed to distinguish between newspapers that are corp- oration organs and those that are free of corpora- tion influence. They know that Mr. Willkie is not the people's choice, but the hand-picked candidate of the money power Germany controls most of western Europe but Great Britain, through blockade, has cut off sup- plies. There is available for western Euro only a certain amount of food. Naturally, the rman woldiers will take what they need first, what their people need next and leave to the populations of the conquered areas what surplus there may be. Every pound of food that gets into the conquered areas, regardless of what individual consumes it makes available another pound for utilization by Germany Consequently, there ig every reason why the British should keep their blockade as tight as possible and there is no reason, that we know of, why Americans should conspire to ship food fhrough the blockade. Governor Arthur H. James is dismissing liquor board employes who were supposed to be under Civil Service, With one exception these employes were named under Gifford Pinchot, and, therefore, pre. sumably Republicans. While news stories are being carried about, there has been very feeble, If any. protest from the Republican newspapers. The point is, either we have civil service among liquor board employes or we do not, Apparently the Governor feels we do not. It looks as if the removals were made to make wav for some hungry office seekers. It is, indeed, unfortunate that the liquor board sys- tem of the Sta'e which has worked so well is going to be honeycombed with politics, and, if and When it is. it will become a sorry spectacle of scandal and worse. The British, up to this time, seem to continue confident that they will manage to win a long war. This strikes us as worthy of notice, because it Is not to the interest of Britain to encourage the belief in the United States that Great Britain can win. When the British optimism flared the American people were being told that the transfer of fifty over-age destroyers wag vital to British success. The obvious strategy for British propaganda, regardless of actual conditions, would indicate a play to con- vince the Americans that upon their prompt assist. ance depended the fate of the Batlle for England. London attempted no such course, It asserted that the aerial blitzkrieg was failing, forces were planning counter-attacks u and that in a year or two, a great launched against the enemy. This people who are anxious to persuade great, sympa » rals to send them assistance on bo BL SE EE sms a Ne hy Jeel to ) 890d ab W od —_ I — " " It may be an Interesting diversion, but we still don't want the job of counting the German planes as they fly over London, Prime Minister Churchill warns the House of Commons that the danger to Britain has not yet passed and If they don't believe it, they can just look out the window The German government last week notified all naticns that the Reich was proclaiming “total blockade” of waters around the British Isles. In brief, Berlin now proclaims what the German War office has been asserting as a fact for the last few months, We are almost forced to believe those Seneca Indians up at Warren have a sense of humor when they conferred the title of “Sunshine” on Governor James during his “adoption” ceremonies by the tribe lust week. To most of us the Governor has shown himself to be more of an eclipse, Willkie enthusiasts have started chain letters asking donations of $1 from each recipient of a let. ter for Willkie's eampaign fund, That $1 is not a a very large donation but under Hoover a farmer would have had to sell 10 bushels of corn 'o raise it, while under Roosevelt he would have to sell only 1'4 bushels. It is surprising to learn to what lengths ex- President Hoover and his associates have gone In his demands to send food to the German-occupled areas of Belgium, Holland and Poland. According to a prominent news commentator Hugh Gibson, ex. Ambassador to Belgium, actually has engaged in conversations with officials of the stricken countries regarding food to be sent, This action, it is sald, runs exactly counter to the State Department's pol- icy and also to the Neutrality Act which bars Am- erican ships from the war zone, it is well known that no food can be sent to Belgium, Holland and Poland except on American ships, which would have to tra- verse the war zone in violation of the British block- ade. This country Is in favor of cooperating with Great Britain and not of violating the blockade Furthermore, U. 8. Army and Navy executives view the feeding of Nazi dominated Europe as exactly similar to feeding an enemy of the United States They contend that one of the most potent weapons against Hitler Is hunger, and that for the United States to feed his occupied areas wolld be playing directly into his hands. As a result it {s alleged that some administration Senators propose an investiga- tion by the Foreign Relations Committee of the food. relief activities of Hoover and his associates. They point to the Logan bill, which makes it a criminal offense for any American citizen to conduct diplo. matic negotiations with a foreign government hese Senators, iL is sald, would also like to Investigate the fact that Ambassador Gibson's wife Is a gian, and that both are on close terms with Leopold, who surrendered to the Nazis, 1 I= King FINDS GERMAN REPORT © ALSE The right of belligerents ¢-, readily acknowledged and to some extent a recognition granted to rxaggerated claims as losses inflicted upon the enemy Whether the policies involved are wise or fool- ish depends upon subsequent results. It often hap- pens that the people of a nation respond better to the truth and longer retain fan in the statements of their governments The British government eral reputation for truth in that enjoyed by Germany fusing to Americans, who have and experts give almost equal credence to the con. tending war offices, to seek accurate information from the welter of claims and denials Some weeks British reported extensive damage to the docks and shipping facilities Iamburg. The report was devied in Berlin and Ger. man officials took newspaper representatives upon an extended tour to demonstira'e the falsity of the British claims. It was notable, however, that the correspondents were kept in a gitoup and taken to special areas, without being allowed to investigate ‘on their own.” Not many days ago Germany im- portant coastal areas in England had ven tually festroyed. that shipping was halted and tie useful- ness of the ports had disappeared as a react successive bombing attacks Mallory Browne, staff correspondent Christian Science Monitor, takes up this report and says that he has “just returned from a trip” in an area which Germany has claimed to have bombed with “complete success.” and after a “thorough and unrestricted inspection of the docks” he finds that nothing could be further from the truth” “This visit” he concludes, “proving beyond juestion that in one instance at least German claims bore almost no revelation to the truth, throws re- vealing light on the worth of their claims generally It also tends to confirm that the British claims of slight damage done seems to be reliable.” SAVING MONEY BY AIDING ENGLAND From the standpoint of dollars and cents it will pay the United States to take any measures that may be necessary to continue the British battle fleet in being Before the threat that Hitler might conguer Great Britain, the United States relied upon a one- ocean Navy. Now. facing uncertainty, we are con. structing a two-ocean Navy Forget the cost of the new Navy, What will it cost to operate a two-ocean Navy, compared to one half that size. An estimate fixes the comparative maintenance and operation costs at about $1500. 000000 a year, compared with about $500,000000 a few years ago. We understand that it costs around $2.000.000 a year to keep a battleship ready to fight Instead of fifteen, we will have thirty-five when the bigger Navy is completed. Cruisers cost more than a mil. lion a year to operate and we now plan to have seveniy-eight where we have had fifteen. It should also be clearly understood that the need for a larger Army springs from having a Navy, at present inadequate for complete defense against a possible enemy combination. Until the Navy can se built, a matter of four or five years, we must have a modern Army, ready to fish This expense is due to the changed world situation and the un- certainty as to the continued exisience of the Brit- ish fleet, Consequently, from a dollars and cents stand. point, the cheapest investment the United States can make, at this time is to provide whatever is necessary to insure the availability of the British Navy as a fighting force in the Atlantic ocean, losses 14 similar to conceal is has a much better gen- its war reports than Nanetheless it is cCon- wen press services ago the of replied th of of the vast THE LOWLY STOCKHOLDER A reader of The Centre Democrat took the edi tor into his confidence the other day by admitting that since the SEC got into operation, he was get. ting some interesting information in the notices he received from the great corporations in which he has invested his savings. Baid he: “One floated in today from a company that wants a proxy. In accordance with the law, the eleven candidates for directorship are listed and op- posite their names appear the shares of stock each owns in the corporation “The company has 585,000 common shares out- standing. Of these the candidates confess ownership to 816. Just at this time the price per share is $3, which makes the combined stake of the eleven men in the common issue, $2,448. “Four men own 2.755 the 64.000 outstanding preference shares, worth $44,080, at $16 a share. One man's share of this is 2,450 shares, or $30,200. “The total stake of ten directors, both common and erred, is $7328, One receives a salary of 1 and another $12,800. “My interest in the company is $150 and 1 don't Ena % - THE Orrice CAx “A Little Nonsense Now and Then, Is Relished by the Wisest Men” | ’ | | | | & By Kablegram Here's to the road hog Who ran me in the ditch May his bristles fall out With the seven-year Itch; May his hams be walloped With a 12-pound hammer “I'll his pork chops whistle The Star-8pangled Banner Might Need Several Doctor You should take a bath before you Patient retire.” But, doctor, 1 don't expect to retire for another five years Simple Method Mrs. O'Dooley had twins, They were very much alike; casual observer they were identical “Faith, Mrs. O'Dooley.” said a neighbor out how it is you can tell them apart “Sure and it's ailsy teeth and the other he bites 1 know in fact to the to her one day, “1 can't make the answer sticks my Ye finger enough,” wa hasn't. So 1 it's Dennis Me One into Pat’; has got his mouth and if The Last Roundup It is who headed for that the [ellows the aisle of a church ald drive with one hand are generally Some of them will walk down {it and some will be carried All Cleaned Up How Customer about it food?” Waitress I hardly night who sprinkle: Wwwurant) any think so You see We hin powder around and kills them ™ Af Man come No Superior The hen considered 4 We package bow our head in product humble respect use and convenience Lots of Variety family Your macam/ d man And the politics Mixed: I'm a cow's dry, and the Il Get Him Yet ifleu He' Doctor ve got to get 1 four times." Wile Hh, give him another cl my cha nee Something For Nothing Mir How much for this dog?” asked Brown “Five dollars replied the owner For this Ten dollar For this tiny smaller one? . lar Fifteen dolla; "How will it buy much Rare Impudence Her car te unlocked the door had been parked de I i got In firor ane a policeman who { heer remarked Wha Her # 5 vou. You look like a nice boy your size and very jealou waill culprit to sppear, sauntered over and I been waiting a long time for yo She smiled her sweelest and as foot on the slarier lied pi It wouldn't do any good if 1 told my husband is about twice Daily Grind was giving a vivid weeping and gnashing A Negro evangelist descr Dere will be of teeth ; me ou in‘t got no teeth creamed the dusky mir Sistah Jackson the management” ‘ " " Hey! Hey! Yank Her Tail! From Port Matlida, R. D1. Flash! hauling in hay recently found it neocessa pairs for his wagon. Jumping into his “giddap.” nreacher for one tile Teeth ix g% charge by A farmer of that vicinity while to make a quick trip for re- he absent-mindedly yelled oy iy Car His friends to start his car are now anxious {0 learn what kind of FE 2 with a yell, in place of gasoline a gadget he Still a Little Off Asylum Warden So you think you are sane your freedom, will you leave liquor and women alone?” Inmate-—"1 sure will." Warden—"You'd now? better stay here. You're stil] crazy He Had Seen It I've got a freak on my farm 1 know First Farmer Second Farmer night" a Ltwo-legaed calf He came over to call on my daughter jJast Getting Even The husband drew up a chair beside his’ wife's her day and remarked “Don't you think It's running too fast? Look out, youll sew | wrong seam. Slow down, or you'll stick that needle in your finger.” “Why, whats the matter with you ten years” “Oh. IT was merely trying to assist you, drive the car” sewing machine the the I've been running this machine for just as you try to help me He's Safe Now The doctor examined him twice a yeas { rained. He slept with his window Gpen. He stuck to a diet with plenty of | fresh vegetables, He got at least eight hours’ sleep every night, He never smoked, drank, or lost his temper. He did his daily dozen. He was all set to live to be a hundred. The funeral took place yesterday. He had forgotten about motor cars Name, Please Patient (in waiting room of doctor's office) —" How do you do?” Becond Patient-—"80, s0. I'm aching from neuritis” First Patient—"Glad to meet you, I'm Mendlebaum from Chicago.” Whatyu Mean, Look? The Sideswiping reporter of the Lock Haven Express would have us know that an old “Pennsylvania Dutchman” from the vicinity of Hublers- {burg points out that things ain't like they was once, They used to have | backhouses and make the sauerkraut in the house. Now look. SKUNK HOLLOW NEWS i The correspondent of this column wishes to announce that he will {take vegetables and garden truck in payment for favorable mention in | this column. Retail grocers prices will be allowed. Potatoes and roasting ears, or any vegetables or fruit, will be taken in season. i Harry Hodges Is confined to the local bastile, He will be there for | the next week. He is in, 50 he says, for driving too slow. When interview- ‘ed in his cell, and asked how in the name of all that's holy, he could get placed in the hoosegow for driving too slow, he said, mournfully: “The cop caught up with me” Little Jack Small is one of the cutest youngsters in our neighbor: hood. Several weeks ago his father took him to a nearby town to see a circus. He had never seen an elephant before, and when he got home he ran up to his mother and said: “Mom, there was a great big funny look. ing animal and it was picking up hay with its tail.” “Well, well, said his mother, “and what did he do then?” “Never mind,” replied little Jack, “you wouldn't believe me if 1 told you” Mrs. Bamantha High is seriously ill at her home on the ridge. and all persons are requested by her sons to stop coming to see the big hog un- til she improves. That's all, folks. Dumb Dottie thinks a from eating green apples. 3 diary is something you get wes "BOAT.” | 1 i { L} LOUISA’S LETTER Dear Louisa Don's you think that children ol today are too protected to develop properly In my childhood, Wwe went through the woods whenever we felt like it, and nowadays chil dren are not allowed away from home unless someone ls looking {alter them do you think? INDEPENDENT What Ala ANSWER He wore galoshes when it | Well these columns, t We hear of 50 many pening to children unheard of my they happer then we did not hear admit that 00k after initia prolecied ut he al risks Bo as 1 keep repealing through changed! nap- were mes Nave evil thing: that Perhaps Lt if 50 1 will as 1o more now in youth ed bu them who h aeve Hops 100 about child If the over.y greater ive 1 the one who |i O ruts handicapped circumstance marked these For ANXTOUS MOTHER ANSWER DAN otherwi However dps virago you busi-~ woman rie her leaching sc who is not no ness hoi in should her Te conduct § — " MW m— YOU KNOW? hat is the difference AWeen a vaccine and 2 What unteered 3 Of mobile 4 How added be a serum? percentage of men vol the World War? what are synthetic tires made? many people have beet the Soviet through an- past year? auln. in nexations in 5 What is ihe U 8 Army? 6. How many oconferences has Secretagy Hull allended In South America? 7 Who is the new the Democratic tee? 8B What Southern for Hoover in 1028? 9. How many American cities have populations of over 500.0007 100 What is the Britizh the the authorized size of chairman of National Commit Slates voted the Isles? ANSWERS 1. A vaccine prevents ing a disease; a gerum treatment of the disease 2. Less than one-third 3. Petroleum 4. About 23000000 5 375.000 men 6. Three. Montevideo in 1933; Buenos Aires in 1026, ang Lima ip | 1938 7 Edward J population oj contract. is used in Fiynn, of New | York 8 Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee 10. Excepting Ireland. but in. cluding North Ireland. 46.213.000 | North Caroline and Virginia. i 9. Fourteen —— MD miniai— As we see the situation the nation has any quantity of men ready i save it, if you jet them have their way. | LFRANK MAYES I Real Estate Sales : A SPECIALTY! CALL STATE COLLEGE, 28342 ® Why not have the benefit of com- petitive bidding in the sale of your property. Past experiences have proven that Query and Answer Column | come but cannot in a domestic animal that has this department.) PROBIM: How (Answer elsewhere eyes, woe? the day of the week that Capt A says it on Baturday John Bmith was cap. bul B says It was on T. D~Wha! wa tured by the Indians? Bunday. Thank Ans A Is correct John Bmih Hh, 1608. As that was a leap year concerning the day of the week H. E~Was the West Point Military Academy Mexican War? Or was it during the Civil War? Ans Neither one. This military academy Graduates tnis institution served in in the Civil War War you was captured on Saturday, January may account for B being confused Vear founded during the on March 18, War, as dlso founded Mexican War the 1802 on both of sides wild monkeys In the United Btates? monkeys in America north of inhabit Mexico, Central Amer: GG. 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The letting down members? 0.058 member: of certain (ype: than ng is said 0 OFS more the fir races at Cleveland will not be held this year there in Congress? were 233 1 the House of Rep- Senate both her voluine ann ou rd be written on the face the face as one on the Day's trib The world of books t he bulids ever lasts late Clarence to book most remarkable tha Monuments fall ions grow old and die out, and after an ers of uild others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on, still young. still as fresh the day they were written. still telling men’s hearig of the hearts of men centuries dead.” oo P. PPlease give the amount of head tax on visitors to Canada {rom the United Slates a. Ans-—No head tax Is imposed on a United States citizen vigiting Can- ada either as a visitor or for permanent residence A : G. L~How many divisions of the United States Army were sent lo France in the World War? Ans — There were ninely-seven participation in the World War, of France 8. G. C~Did President Roosevell ever vote Republican? Ans.—In 1804, when he cast his first vole for a President he voted for the Republican candidate, Theodore Roosevelt 8. S~Under what circumstances can the President call out the Na. tiomal Guard? Ans he statutes provide that whenever the United States is in- vaded or in danger of invasion from any foreign nation. or of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States. or the President is unable, with the regular forces at his command to execule the laws of the Union, it shall be lawful for the President to call forth the militia of the states ule is the 150 new as divisions which during the period of our only forty-three crossed to J. D~Why is an opal regarded as unlucky? Ans —The superstition regarding the opal's bad Juck began In the fourteenth century at the time of the Black Death, particularly in Ven. ice. At that time the opal was a favorite of the Italian jewelers, but #8 was said that opals worn by those stricken with the disease became sud- denly brilliant and that their luster departed upon the death of the own- er. Thus the opal became associated with death and an object of dread. Answer to Problem: It is a dead animal, of course. Tr ——— ra AT _ Knock “10 Years” Without a Here is one of the fleet of low-priced stock sedans that tra 100,000 miles each, In the Florida Road Test, on new Atlantic W! PLUS. The carbon was not cleaned during those “10 years”
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