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All subscriptions will be continued unless otherwise ee — Ee ——————— - - ’ ‘ wi = CIRCULATION OVER 7,000 COPIES EACH WEEK 2 -— AI NATIONAL EDITORIAL LR Sem DEMOCRATIC TICKET For President of the United States 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 PF. CLAIR ROSS For Representative in Congress WILLIAM M. AUKERMAN For Representative in General Assembly JOHN W. DECKER EDITORIAL ST —— - —— | io Sp o— With all the criticism of public officials most of them are doing a pretty good job for scant compen- sation. There are many people who find it hard to un- derstand that Hitler and Stalin have the same pur- pose in mind. They are working different sides of the street When you hear Candidate Willkie raving about his convictions, try to vision a surgeon's kit filled with instruments made for cutting pie, and You won't miss it far When the selective service act goes into effect and it comes to the time to determine priorities In the draft, War Department officials will use the same old-fashioned goldfish bowl that was used by Sec- 1etary Baker in 1917 for the same purpose Some talk is heard of a shame to permit officers of the United States to volunteer for service with the Royal Air Force of Great Britain in much the same manner the German and Italian airmen aided Gen- eral Pranco during the Spanish Civil War. The neu- trality act, however, is generally regarded as a bar- rier to any such participation King Carol has abdicated After putting up a wonderful exhibition of tight-rope walking in the four-ring circus that is performing in the Balkans, the King stumbled and fell to the ground Rumania was caught in the squeeze between conflicting big powers and there was practically nothing that the King could do except to buy off his antagonists as cheaply as possible. Apparently the people, now piy- ing for past shows, are disgruntled The recent crash of a commercial plane in Vir. ginia which resulted in the sudden death of twenty. five persons, was the first fatal passenger plane ac- cident since March, 1939. For more than seventeen months the airlines of the nation bad been carry- ing thousands of passengers without injury. Their record of safety passes public notice; it is only the fatalities that make the headlines Statistics show that the airlines carried 3.100,000 passengers 1,000.- 000 passenger miles without a fatality or injury to any person. An occasional accident, like those oc- curring to railroads and automobiles, is to be expect- ed and is nothing to get excited about, In the early twenties the United States and Great Britain gave the world an example of disarm- ament by agreement. Navies were reduced and con- struction restricted. The English-speaking people were slow to understand the challenge that other nations were preparing. They let others build new ships but they held off until it was almost too late. The United States is now engaged in building the greatest navy in its history at a tremendous cost The half-constructed battleships that were destroyed in the twenties would serve this cou well today and save the people many millions of . How- ever, let's not find fault with events of the past Rather let us learn the lesson well and refrain from similar foolishness in the future, Today, the world faces terror in Europe and in the Far East, where unnecessary wars rage. In the future, some concerted power of democratic peoples must. be available to restrain the aggressor and to restrict the lawless hand. No big nation should be permitted to wantonly assault defenseless people, anxiously striving to live at peace with all the world, It will take more than wishing to secure such a development in world affairs, It will take the strong arm of powerful nations, backed by resolute peoples, ever ready and willing to avenge the wrong ful assault upon a smaller people. The United States will have to make a contribution if it expects to enjoy that kind of a world and the parents of America, if they wish to save their sons, must learn to do 50 in cooperation with other peace-loving people. War must become unprofitable to any na- tion. There must be no gainful aggression, The saf- ety of civilization demands that all those who live in the modern world must abide the laws that permit all to live. The nation that to strike its peighbor must be smitten by the combined power of those who stand for rightecusness. The day of the neutral, in the face of outlawed strife, must van- ish forever. : . # TIAA i : § } the mind or the imagination, The rain of heavy bombs upon populous districts, with the great loss of life that the inhabitants of the British capital under- go, is abhorrent to most Americans, Naturally, the loss of life among German families is Just as repug- nant but the people of this country have placed upon Hitler and his regime the onus of causing the pres- ent war. Consequently, they look upon the British people as the Innocent victims and while deploring the death of German women and children, as all must do, the tendency is to regard their fate as the inevitable consequence of the resistance that a brave people are putting up to a ruthless foe, The bombs that lock the English capital leave in thelr wake death and destruction. Many innocent children suf- fer horrible torture. Adults face grief that ig worse than death in the suffering of loved ones. It is ap- palling and, as it continues, the reaction in this country will produce a greater determination to as- sist the British in their remarkable fight against an all but overwhelming enemy. A full generation has grown to manhood in Cen- tre county without the exquisite pleasure of gather- ing chestnuts on a frosty morning beneath a spread- ing chestnut tree. And all because a fungls disease, popularly known as blight, came over to us from the Orient, The chestnut tree was remarkably vigorous- It grew to fine proportions, frequently having a trunk five to seven feet in diameter, and a limb spread of upwards of a hundred feet, Such a size means long life and great hardiness. But the blight was something new, against which neither the Amer. ican nor the European chestnut had developed re- sistance; so within twenty years of its first appear- ance, there was left scarcely a living tree in the en- tire Appalachian region. The struggle which the tree made for survival is attested by the fact that even now, occasionally, the roots of some of these old trees continue to send up shoots which produce a few nuts. But there is hope that the chestnuts will be revived. Experimental stations and nurseries are developing varieties, through selection and hy- bridation, which are blight resistant, and which bear nuts of flavor and texture equal to the native chest. nus JAPS ARE A BIT WORRIED No nation ln the world is more interested in the startling acquisition of a string of strong bases in the Atlantic Ocean by the United States than the empire of Japan Naturally, the Japanese are not pleased with any development which Increases the likelihood that the American fleet will be able to remain in the Paelfic Ocean, With adequate bases off-shore, now happily acquired from the British, the Atlantic coast of the United States Is to become reasonably safe from sud- den regardless of what enemy threatens us assault This not what the Japs would have preferred They want a free hand in the Far East and they do not have full liberty of action as long as the United States maintaing a superior fleet in the Pacific If events in Europe move to threaten the security of this nation and we are forced lo bring our fleet into the Atlantic, the in Toyko will equal the jubilation on the east coast of this country, There i ihey rejoicing public 0€8 not represent every- thing tha! has been arranged. With practice if wily diplomacy the Japs know that behind many a public statement there lurks a secret understand- If there is any such joint agreement between the British and the Americans the Japanese want to know all about it as quickly as possible It may have been a coincidence but almost im- mediately upon the news that this country and Great Britain had concluded their mutually profit. able trade, the tension in Indo-China was lessened There was word that the Japanese had lightened up sn their demands upon the French who had been asked to permit the Japs to land soldiers in Indo- China and to use the Prench railroad for transport. ing them into positions where they could attack the Chinese To those who believe that the position of the Heavenly Bodles rule the destinies of men and na- tions, the following comment by a well known col- umnist may prove interesting: “The White House has received an astrologer’s forecast about the elec- tion. Unsolicited, this forecast gives "an Interpreta- tion of Mr. Roosevelt's horoscope” to the effect that “he cannot help but be elected” Also, “Mr. Willkie's horoscope is spotty, and not strong enough to hold up against Mr. Roosevelt's strong planet” The as- trolofer is Mrs. Julia 8 Hotchkiss, of Westport Conn. 8he throws in for good measure the prophecy that Germany will be defeated between January and April, 1041, by England. Turkey, Russia, the Balkans and indirectly the United States” their ing BERLIN EXPLAINS AN ATTACK As the month of August came ‘0 an end. British filers cor ed a prolonged raid upon Berlin, giving to the residents of the German capital “some Com- prehension of what modern warfare means with its sudden, explosive death from the skies’ The quotation is taken from a wireless news dis- patch by C. Brooks Peters to the New York Times. who says that the British airmen “have shattered the myths circulated in all strata of the population bere since the beginning of the war that Berlin was so well protected by anti-aircraft batteries that it would not be possible for an enemy raider to get within bomb-dropping distance of the city” The statements made are interesting in view of the news dispatch which was sent from Berlin al- most immediately, claiming that the British bomb- ing planes were painted with “a secret type of var- nish” that makes them “invisible under the glare of srarchlights” and that this made it Impossible for anti-aireraft gunners to turn their fire upon the enemy raiders, The raiders, it is related, were “completely in visible” when the full glare of searchlights was turn- ed upon them and, as a result, the anti-aircraft gun- ners were able to shoot only at the shadows that the raiders threw against the clouds” Of course, no one believes the Cerman story that the British planes were “invisible” This is merely Germany's method of explaining the attack to the people of Berlin, who had been led to believe that no such attack was possible. Naturally, the German Government either had to admit that the defense of its capital was vulner- able to air atlacks or to find some plausible explan- etion for the fact that British planes dropped bombs upon the German capital Like other so-called “secret weapons” there is little or nothing to the “secret varnish.” It is sur- prising, however, that the German officials who have loudly proclaimed their posesssion of a secret wea- pon that will end the war, have attributed to their enemies the possession of a secret which makes de- fense against air attacks almost impossible, WHAT CAN WE DO IN AMERICA? A New York manufacturer, Sidney Hollaender, thinks so much of the superior advantages of resid- ing in the United States that at his own expense, he has printed 10000000 labels for free distribution to spread the message of Americanism. “There's no Way like the American way,” he says, hecause I can go to any church 1 please. I read, see and hear what I choose, I tan express my opinions openly. My mail reaches me as it was sent—uncensored, My telephone is untapped. I can join any political party I wish, I can vote for what and whom I please, I have a Constitutional right to trial by jury, 1 am protected against unlawful search and seizure. Neither my life nor my property can be forfeit. ed without due process of law, These are thoughts common to many Ameri- cans, but not always fully realized or appreciated, This list of blessings ought to be a complete answer to the advocates of those various “isms” which seek to displace the American method for something alien or untried, - is Orrick CAT “A Little Nonsense Now and Then, Is Relished by the Wisest Men” hu | i THE WAR BIRD | Bennie Rosen, a Jew, and a Dominic hen Which layed soft-shelled eggs now and then; | The hen doctor sald, Your hen will be dead; | “Powdered charcoal you must feed her, Ben” | | | 80 the Jew went and got the black powder And mixed her a dose in her chowder But he didn't look close When he dealt out that dose What he gave her was really gunpowder Bhe seemed to be getiing along swell Which showed that you can never tell For the next day she layed A small hand grenade, And blew the henhouse all to h--l Too, Too High Rastus had been going around for some time with a “high yaller” gal. Taking her home one night, he asked her for a kiss “Dat’s all right wid me, Rastus, but it dollahs.” “Look hear, Lindy Johnsing, Ah's been goin’ wid you now fo’ two months. Ah's taken you to all de circuses an’ shows what come to town Ah's done buy you ail de peanuts an' de popcorn an’ ribbons, an’ per- fume, an’ now dat An wants a I'l goodnight kiss you demands two dol- ahs." “Lissen, Black Boy a high yaller girl.” “Yeah? Well wouldn't am EwWine cost you ‘zactly two sald Lindy. “Don't fo'get you am steppin’ out wid Lindy Johnsing it Ld in girafl wn Lo me to Kis her escort yo lis give two dollah rasped aat am de highest ‘Ah what an Star-Spangled Banners A painter who lived in Great Britain Interrupted two girls with their knittin He said with a sigh “That park bench-—well, I Just painted it right where you're sittin LETTER TO YE EDITOR September 12, 1940 Dear Office Cat Sometime ago 1 read an was lamenting the fact that hu I wish to take issue with this { for the past nine months, and out to suit my cle Whiskey Wife's Meat, Rent Mid-Week Whiskey Coal Life insurance Cigars Movies Lodge dues Dog food 8nuft Poker and pool in Your paper in which a reader could not live on less than §35 per week gentleman, I have made only $15 weekly am enclosing the budget I have worked articie $8 BO 165 Credit Pay next month 1.50 Barrowed from neighbor 50 70 60 50 £0 40 1.40 and beer beer fish, groceries (wiles) Total $16 65 P.8. 1 have found that thi cut my wife's beer means going into debt, 50 1 have si J MK SKUNK HOLLOW NEWS The ladies of Skunk Hollow church will serve a turkey dinner this j evening The turkey has been faltened on caterpillars and fishing | worms The dressing has been prepared from old crusts and stale bis- | cuits, The gravy is Mall Pounch brown and contains all the innards cut { into small pieces. Be sure lo be there ! The Parent-Teachers Association held their regular meeting Monday evening. A playlet and program was given by the children of the school | At the conclusion of the program the Association held a long debate upon the resolutign: “Resolved, That a flashlight is more useful on & {dark and stormy night to a gir] than a boy friend” It finally passed Miss Millie Crow has returned from where she went The church service on Sunday evening was well atlended The pas tor preached on “Why Reclaim the Waste?” and Herman Nichol bari- | tone, sang “Leave It There” Reports from the hospital tells us that an improvement in the con- { dition of Mr. John Peck continues. Mr. Peck has diabetes and is now being insulated twice a day } Mr. Smith, our implement dealer, is thinking of opening up a Lin- gerie and Gown Department in his store, which is something badly peeded in this community. There is not a place where a female can get ia gown to fit the figure. and with so many good figures around here this is a shame. Mr. Smith is not certain when he will begin this exclusive feature. In the meantime he will continue to sell plows and fertilizer Overwhelming Evidence f A man Was charged with shooting a number of pigeons, the prop- (erly of a farmer Counsel for the defense tried to frighten the farmer “Now,” he remarked, “are you prepared to swear that this man shot { your pigeons?” “1 didn’t say he did shoot em.” | him of doing it” “Ah. Now we're coming to it. What made You suspect this man?” “Well, firstly, I caught him on my land with a gun Secondly, 1 heard a gun go off and saw some pigeons fall. Thirdly, 1 found four of my pigeans in his pocket—and I don't think them birds flew there and { committed suicide was the reply. “I said I suspected Wrap Up a Dozen Car Balesman—"Caur cars no dozen.” Prospective Buyer—'I'm not surprised. How much are they a dozen?” Dippy Pome Hannibal crossed the Alps, Washington crossed the Delaware i And flappers cross thelr knees ————— | And Soda Bicarb Rastus—"Ef yo' says anything ter me Ah'll make yo' eat yo' words, Sambo—"Chicken dumplings, hot biscuits and watermelon.” Start Paving al cried Satan to the new arrival, “you act as if you owned this | Arrival—"1 do. My wife gave it to me.” This Censorship Mother--What did your father say when he saw his broken pipe?” Innocent—"8hall I leave out the swear words, mother?” Mother—"Certainly, my dear.” Innocent—"Oh, he didn't say anything.” Numb or Dumb? “At last” groaned the elderly diner, “total alysis of the left leg 1 hue feared it for years" bogs hy ill relieve your mind any,” whispered the young thing at his left, “through an error you've been patting my leg.” § 8 Try Ginnerell Judge—“What? Here again, eh? Don't you realize when you've reach. ed your capacity? After you've had so much whiskey you should order some soft arin, like sarsaparille.” Drunk—*1 tried that, Judge, when I m ldn't (hic) shay shashprerra” ho 4 ig Shs mug 1 gh Down and Out Indiganant Parmer" ; ik from them cows as ye wy WSR fre, Tov ajny gEfIng as muh 1 Hired Man—"Nope, sorter lost my pull” Daffy Definition fi marriage | 000. Webster crossed his T's, A skeleton is a man with his inside out and his outside off, = — LOUISA’S LETTER Dewr Louisa: I am engaged to a boy who is ten years younger than 1 am. He has been anxious to marry me for the past two years but I am undecided because of the difference in ow ages, We are very much in love with each other now--1 am thirty. five and he is twenty-five—but won. der if this will last when I am 55 and he 1s 45. I am the only girl he been seriously interested have had lots of beaus a few offers of marriage quiet person, interested In while 1 have always liked Do you think we will be a grea trisk of unhappiness tng married? | | | has ever in, but 1 and quite He 5 a books gayely running by get E. P. L-—-Penn Answer Well, suppose we tages and the disadvantages of disadvantages 1. A woman looks for her than does 2. A middle-aged man often thinks of himself as more youthful than he really and is at youth 3, You are al thirty 4 AL twenty-five a ideas not compiets list the ad such first usually older Rie tor forts Hge aller Ioriy a man os 1 tracted Ww probably at lest five are a rue On th 3 18 each good comparnio more for a ISNIp are neg CREATY ha age than looks are All in all, In w¢ 1 would take the chan Ppy mart Louisa woman 1! Dear The tell her that You ar you have some work her ¢ on she done. Give be ask her to sit you finish. If doesn” hint, I should not allow her to in- terfege With my other plans either Tell her that have promised 10 go such and such a place and she will have lo excuse you There is nothing quite as inex- cusable as an idle uninteresting woman claiming all of someone time you else's LOUISA ————— WHO KNOWS? 1. How does the population of Germany before Hitler, compare with soquisitions since 18337 2. What is the area of London 3. What was the basis of Bulgar- a's claim to southern Dobruja? 4 How many cantonmenis the U. 8 have in the World war? 5. How many airplanes are vided for in the $5000,000000 de- {fense bill? 6. How large is the ranch-hold- ings of Vice President Garner? 7. What is referred to as a “fSoat- ing elephant?” 8. What determines the number of votes a state has in the Electoral College? 9. In what year was the woman's suffrage amendment ratified? 10. How far is Bermuda did Dro- from Cape Hatteras, nearest point in the United States? good? Why, we're selling them by the The Answers 1. 67000000 in 1933: acquisitions, | including occupied France, 93.000, | 2. About 683 square miles. 3. It was a part of Bulgaria be- fore the Balkan War, 1913. 4. Sixteen. 5. 18,000 6. Between 40.000 and 50,000 acres 7. A balloon in the British bar- rage. | [| 8. Each state has as many voles i | {as it has senators and representa | 5 tives combined. 9. 1820, 10. 630 miles. lo Tsk, Tek! Investigating a complaint from | an irate householder that a neigh- | bor was playing his radio so loud | he couldn't sleep, police found the’ blaring radio in another room of the complaintant’s own house, i Tks Buin Jape According to medical authorities | i, 2 A ata SO EE A quite se fast to Reine and a ing, 80g $he and F120 ot § Lusbert, P.D, Coutesville, Pa, | fonte Chapter of the American Red | Cross due September 1, | European War Relief, | reached and in addition, $64.29, all September 19, 1940. — | Query and Answer Column PROBLEM: There is one word in all dictionaries which 4s spelled in correctly, and may be found between “H” and “L” inclusive, What is that word? (Answer elsewhere in this department) L. F~What is the population of Java and its size in area? Wha country owns the Island? Ans ~The populstion of Java is 36000000 Its area is 48503 squard miles, The island lg a part of the Dutch East Indies Before the curren European War the islands were owned by The Netherlands (Holland) but it will depend upon the outcome of this war as to what the status © these islands will be B. J~What Is the difference between the words “Jew,” “Hebrew” a “Israelite?” Or is there any difference? Ans ~Thepe Is not much difference: the three names are used inter changeably. Hebrew was originally applied to Abraham and his descend ants. Later the 12 trikes were called Israelites because they were descend ants of Israel, After the tribes became lost and what was Jeft of then became assimilated with the tribe of Judah in Palestine the country was called Judah, of wi Is a corrupt contradiction, Bome scholar maintain that Hebrew sh 1 with reference YW the race and re glon, Israelite with re Jews a people and nation Jew as a popular subst R. 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D-~Who was The ns term i 16 serve or pariak substituting grape juice IL. H~Pleaw Ans The bird among dried leaves or of the dead J. W.~What was {} Ans ~The aggregats SX GUNOes R. S~How many women are nro Ans. ~The British Women’s Auxiliary Alr Force is estimated to hav a membership of 11000, one thousand of whom are actively engaged |i flying M. 8~On how many islands is New York City bulit? Ans —It is buill on three islands, Manhattan Staten land, with a portion on the adjacent mainland, the Bronx G. A~Is Mayor LaGuardia a Protestant or Catholic? Ans Mayor LaGuardia is a member of the Episcopal church M. C—~Why does the expression, to bell the cat, mean to undertake dangerous mission? Ans~It is an allusion to La Fontaine's fable of an old mouse wha nippoorwill ? s flecked ees on the ground 5 almostly exactly the col d except’ by accident { the Dionne quintuplets at birth babies wag thirteen pound: and leaves and E45 gue flier: in England? it i Lone and Is | proposed that a bell should be hung on the cats neck to warp of § | coming. A young mouse inquired, “Who will bell the cat?” RED CROSS QUOTA |its quota of clothing due Septemb 2 1, ag follows; OVER SUBSCRIBED 5 men's sweaters with sleeves: women's sweaters with sleeves: | children's sweaters with sleeves: black circular shawls; 2 layet containing 2 outing flannel dresses 2 outing flannel nightgowns bands, 2 shirts, 2 blankets, 2 pai of hose, 1 dogen diapers, 1 hand knitted cap, 1 hand-knitted swea er, 1 pair hand-knitted bootees, wash cloth, and safety pins. The $1600 cash quota of the Belle 1940, for has been of which has or will be used for ald to the suffering nations. The Chap- ter has also completed and shipped to New York for shipment abroad, mee ER —— Safe Driving Saves Money
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