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Meanwhile, the Clermans continue to pour &
heavily mechanized prmy through Bulgaria toward
the Greek border, Correspondents estimate that more
than 300,000 German soldiers are in Bulgaria and
describe (he ceaseless flow of Nazis through Sofia.
The Bulgarian army is taking’ up positions on the
Turkish frontier and In Rumania nearly a million
Rumanian soldiers are lining up on the Russian
frontier.
This is a formidable line-up, Whether the
March 20, 1941.
THE CENTRE DEMOCRA'T, BELLEFONTE, PA.
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Is Relishiid by the Wisest
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“A Little 1 onsense Now and Then,
LOUISA’S
LETTER
Men” {letter is a little bit confusing
You
ask what to do If he rhould
pro-
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nswer Column
Query &:
To D. 8, Kingston, N. C.- Your |
PROBLEMA farmer owns a litter of pigs. One of them is a runt. He
feeds It separately from the others. One day he carried out a 3-galion pall
full of swill to this puny little fellow, and after
all of the swill he picked him up and placed him in
the swill the piggy had eaten, Yes sir-ee he did it
(Answer elsewhere In this department.)
little piggy had devoured
the pall that held
but how come?
Greeks, aided by British supplies, stand any chance
of holding off such a combination, even for a lew
weeks, 1s an question, However, there is a chance that
the Creeks can stop the initial German advance
and hold it up long enough for the British or the
Turks, or both, to come to her rescue. If they do,
there will be heavy fighting in the entire Balkan
area and Hitler will be engaged in a struggle on a
front that he hoped to keep quiet
en ee
- @| pose marriage and then you write
’ Ra ' ‘' {that he has sald he would marry
ao 1 " ¥ ie vou arry
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And oman op de vip imarsied, particularly as you have | the
wee axe 8 AX and go
known him such a short time
I'o hunt a ski nk polecat, LOUIEA
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Believe it or not, winter is about over; you can
begin to make your plans for spring.
What will happen in the world if the demnoc-
racies win their wars, is a puzzle Everybody knows
what will happen if Hitler wins
a As near as we can figure it oud Hitler and Mu: -
solini are ready for Japan to punish the United
States for passing the lease-lend bill
*
LfThe war industries will make money out of the
' 1 a share oO e
defense program: labor is demanding a sha
profits, Our farmers hope they will get some of it,
somehow, « iL or
: Defents savings bonds; stamps and certificates
will. go ori sdle about May 1st at postoffices, banks
and department stores- functioning as outlets lor
the new financing.
Passage of the lease-lend bill by the Congress
of the United States leads to an interesting threat,
which comes from Italy. Some “inspired” Italian
warns the United States that it will get a surprise
—in the Pacific ocean, It looks like Mussolini expec ts
the Mikado to do his dirty work
in income tax returns. It looks like Americans are
beginning to appreciate their form of government,
exhibitiing a willingness to pay for it and, perhaj
a hope that they won't have to fight for it
Our policy wili continue “short of war unless
Germany. Italy and Japan declare war upon the
United States and, even in this event, It is possibile
that so far as Germany and Italy are concerned, our
efforts will be confined to defensive action, inciud-
ing the possibility that our ships may be used to
carry supplies to Great Britain and our warships and
planes may be used to defend them. In regard to
Jspan, the situation is somewhat different. Undonbt-
ecly the action of the American COnNgress has pro-
duced a profound impression upon Tokyo statesmen
It is generally recognized that the Japanese are
afraid of the tremendous industrial strength of this
gountry and that Nipon shrinks from a war with us,
If. however, in compliance With Axis Treaty
Japan goes so far as tor declare War Against the
United States in the Pacific, there is a distinct pos-
sibility that offensive action against Japan will be
initiated In our ophdon, it is doubtful that Japan
will declare war upon the United States and if Ger
many and Italy provoke a clash by attacking us
Tokyo will likely avoid engagements under the Axis
by declaring her Axis partners the aggressors.
the
Daylight saving will soon become the subject of
conversation again. The annual dispute between city
and country folk on the relative merits of the idea
will be heard. some communities will again favor
and adopt daylight saving; others will continue to
object to it and refuse to co-operate. Back In 1918
daylight saving became the law of the land. It was
accepted because Federal law ordered it. After the
close of the war, April, 1919, the law was repealed.
Many communities, nevertheless, continued to alter
their tigying to suit the sun, Larger cities have come
to accept the time change as a matter of course and
regulate their affairs accordingly. A proposal has
been made In Congress that daylight saving again
be regulated on a Federal basis. It is argued that
the national emergency today is no different than
it was in 1918 In order to bring the least possible
degree of confusion in spring it is contended that a
uniform time basis be used throughout the country.
There is much to be sald in favor of the plan, Under
the present system there is endless confusion. Rail-
road schedules, complicated as they are, are in-
creasingly difficult to understand with two sets of
time. Nearly everyone runs into trouble at one time
of another during the summer months because of
the difference. Let's make the movement uniform
one way or the other,
TOTAL WAR IN THE BALKANS
When France fell last June, it was generally ace
oepted that Hitler could “take” the entire Balkan
area "by telephone.” if he desired.
. Two events, since last summer, however, have
conspired to change this situation. The first was the
heroie performance of the Greek army which de-
feated Italy and the second was Gen. Wavell's as-
tounding victories in Nerth Africa. Together, they
changed the complexion of the struggle In the Balk-
an area and made it inevitable that Germany would
take action to lock her back door.
Just now, it is very hard to forecast what will
happen in Greece, where these brave people, alter
an amazingly successful exhibition of military ex-
cellence, find themselves threatened by a more pow-
erful adversary, Plans made by the Creeks and Brit-
ish have been shrouded in the closest secrecy and
will become visible only in reply to Germany's next
move,
The road from Bulgaria to Salonics, which the
Nazis will have to use in advancing into Greece, is
described by Edmund Stevens, Cairo correspondent
of the Christian Science Monitor. He says that when
he drove over it last autumn it was little “more than
a muddy track for. long stretches.” At places “it sig
zagged up the mountainsides at a dizzy angle” and
he “had to ford eight streams.” At the time ii “was
in’ no condition for mechanized columns,”
Since Japan attacked China, several years ago,
the nations of the world have witnessed acts of ag~
gression by Italy, Germany and Russia
Neither the rights of other people or the sol-
emn obligations of these governments have restrain-
ed their attacks upon neighbor nations
It has been plainly evident that, so far ns these
four nations are concerned might is right, Nothing
in the world is safe unless |t is protected by super-
jor force
The world has also observed, since 1931, that the
acts of agxression of these four outlaw nations have
heen in close harmony and that assertion of lawless
gains by one has been the pretext imilar ac-
tivity by others
A Suspicion Is Confirmed
The democratic nations of the world suspected,
ome years ago, that the coordination of violence
was more than coincidental. The signing of the Axis
pact, not very long ago, proved that a certain unity
pinds the plunderbund which seeks to despoil the
world
Under the circumstances it is not surprising that
the lawless aggressors succeeded in their predatory
programs. It is more amazing that the free peoples
of the world did not quicker sense the necessity for
a combination of power to resist what was a com-
mon challenge to law and order throughout the
world
The United States, handicapped by prejudices
from our participation in the World War, found dif-
ficulty in adjusting public opinion to the new chal~
lenge of legalized freebooting under the guise of Da
tional ambition. For many months we were reluctant
to admit that lawlessness in Burope and Asia might
become a threat to this country.
The Truth Becomes Apparent
The fall of Prance, crushed ignhominiously by the
new German blitzkrieg, opened our eyes. Standing
between us and the brutal demands of a victorious
coalition of lawless dictators, we saw only the fight-
ing strength of a comparatively small British ems.
pire, under attack throughout the wide world
Immediately, the question arose in our minds,
what would we do if the British followed the ex-
ample of the French, give up their battle and pers
mitted Hitler, Mussolini and Japanese statesmen to
reorder the world? The victorious aggressors, we
knew, would have superior naval military and air
power and the temptation to ruthlessly apply that
strength against us
Reaction inn the United States was expressed in
conscription, with a vast army projected, a two-otean
navy, with bases and auxiliaries, and an air force
that would equal, if not surpass, any in the World.
The enactment of legislation, authorizing this ex-
rended defense force, was Congressional admission
that the United States was in danger
Danger Signals Not Enough!
Recognition of our peril, however. was not
enough to save the United States We would need
many months before the projected defense forces
were actually avallable to check aggression against
us. The time that we needed last summer, and still
need today, could be obtained only by prolonged war
n Burope, and to a lesser degree in Asia, so that
the dictator-coalition would not bave the opportun-
to attack a comparatively defenseless America
Our defense program js off to a good start, with
work laid and production of neces
just arour Time is still
require as
for
the ground vast
sary supplies corner.™
the essence of our need we
neh time as we did last summer The war situa-
tion abroad has improved but the next few months
may bring the engagement that will decide
the fate of Great Britain
If Great Britain is conquered
now in {raining
now under construction
the great air force, for which planes are slowly being
produced. In short, we will be in a critical, half-
prepared state and utlerly unable to meet a deter
mined thrust from the three partners of the Axis
alliance
do not
decisive
we will be Without
without the Wwo-
and without
the
OCeANn Navy
vast army
Action Versus Hesitation
Military and naval leaders of the United States,
almost without exception, support all-out assistance
to the British because they understand what this
ountry would be up against if the British go down
Ielr advocacy of aid to nations fighting aggressors
not hazed on sympathy ruggiing foreigners
but upon a calm appraisal of the international situa.
tion and realization that this is the only way to
cain the time that we must have in order to assure
our defense
In short, the Unied Slates today is doing what
the Netheriands, Denmark, Norway and Belgium
falled to do. We are taking the action that Rumania,
Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey have not
been able to implement despite thelr common une
derstanding of the perils that they faced,
We are not walling for a direct attack upon
this country; we are helping the nations that battle
the common enemies of civilization. We do so in
our own defense and for our own safety. We are
fortunate that there is enough ocean to prevent
intieciate retaliation by the powerful army of Herr
tier
for st
The public sale season throughout Centre and ads
Joining counties is at its height—an American institu
tion that finds its followers continuing. even though
generations come and go. The public sale is never
without its appeal and never fails to draw a crowd,
no matter what weather conditions may be. There
are many to whom March would be without much of
its charm did it not afford the opportunity for ate
tendance upon public sales, And through the yesrs
the auctioneers come to know the individuals who
can’t resist the temptation to pass up a bargain,
whether they have need for it or not. The larger the
sale the more the interest and the greater the crowd.
Up to this time Wendell L. Willkie has proven
himself one of the country’s greatest patriots in sup-
port of President Roosevelt. His latest gesture in this
direction is the threat to follow Senator Wheeler
throughout the country with counter-speeches if
Wheeler carries out his boast of talking down the
Administration's war policy.
Laws either ought to be enforced or they should
not be permitted to remain on the books, because if
they do remal nand are ignored we reach the point
where either the police decide which laws they will
enforce or the public decides which laws it will obey
or both; and either is fundamentally bad.
LETTER FROM OSCAR
Hon. Arthur H. James, i
Harrisburg, Pa.
Dear Governor:
I see by the papers that State College re-
ports “Many State Pupils Now Taking Greek.”
wot? that so they can understand your bud-
Love,
OBCAR.
I tell ma wife I get fur coat
Sometam I get} some meat
1 walk ‘bout tree, five, six mile
And den I feed strong smell
Tink maybe dat darn skunk she
An' fur coat (pone to hell,
By-me-hy 1 see dipl skunk
Close up by ois big tree;
I sneak up ver' clipe behind,
I tink he no (ke me
By-me-by I'm ver’ close
I ralse ma ax "up high
Dat son-of-agun, Ise up an'--plunk
T'row sometngd in ma eye
Sa-cre Blue, I ting. I blind;
Judas Priest, 1, cannot
I run ‘roun’ an ‘rgun
TH I bump he goldam tree
oe
an’ ‘roun’
By-me-by 1 drop my
An’ light out de shack
I tink bout a millon konk
He climb upmx ma back
nx
Ma wife, she meets me al de door, *
She sic on mey da dog,
She say, “You no sleep here tonite,
Go out an’ sheep wit hog.”
1 try to get in dat pig pen,
By cripes, now what you Unk?
Dat darn fool hog for dat
On ‘count of dwiul stink
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Ever Hear This One?
Once he had assembled two of eash breed in his great
up and made a speech. He toid ther that
| selves. they were in rather cramped Quarters
no stan
There was ;
jong It would keep up. So they couRint afford any increases in family
In conclusion, he
until the flood subsided and they wes on land again
appointed the giraffe, as the tallest of, them all, 0 stand on
that nothing untoward happened
Well, when the waters finally sutsided, and the Ark landed agal:
doors were flung open, and out mardied, as they had come
two dogs, Iwo tigers, two elephants, two mice, and in fact
other species except. one
The two cats came oul witli a litter of little Kitiens
passed by the giraffe one of them looked up, winked, and remarked: “IU
bet you thought we were quarreling then.”
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Nickel Snatcher
They tell of a curious sight on Broadway, New York, ihe other day
A Scotchman was observed, riding up and down the street, on a horse
Bat Sandy, instead of facing front had seated himself so
the horse's tall Careful questioning eficited the information
had droppet! a dime in the ouls that morning
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Certainly Not.
A farmer once wiole 0 Sears Roebuck & Company
price of toilet paper. He received an answer directing
page 307 of thelr catalogue
] “If 1 had your catalogue,” be wrote Lack
| price of toliet paper?”
would 1 as
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Modern Youth
In the ninth grade English ciass, the
quetie. When slice finished, she asked Bobby
| dance
Bobby replied
teacher was
how he would
“Come on, worm, Jet's wiggie
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Just Like Home
Bergeantl—"Did you give the prisoner Lhe third degree?
Constable Yes, we browbeat him
every question we could think of”
Sergeant "And what did he say?”
Constable "He merely dozed off. and sald
fectly right'™
badgered him
dear
Yes
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Right Soon, Teo
“The time will come,” shouted the speaker when w
men's wages.”
Yea" next Saturda
said the Jills man In the commer
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Pretty Far Gone
: Friend (visiting hospital patient) "Dn vou know
| swell looking nurse you've got?"
Patient—“T hadnt noticed
Friend "Good Lord
old
1 bad no ides
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On the Job
Motorist — "Bay, frend, my engine's stalled
| find out whats the matter with it?”
Constable Talltimber-—-“T can, but I won't just now
as they could see lor theme
him to
and
mnen will
y night™
you were Lhat sick.”
| Everyone should use a deodorant and
{If you do this regularly and are par-
ticular about your bathing you
should be able to keep sweet 1
Is true that very often perspiration
can be offensive to others and un-
noticed by persong themselve
so don’t take a chance
Try to wear clothes that ¢
tubbed wn Hen
pretiy
the
an be
smelly w can bx
bad
LOUISA
Dear
I am a
I have
Louisa
girl of filieen. Should
regular dates with bows?
Would it be better for me to go with
DOYs my own age or older boys. Ths
boys 1 go with y nteen
A.R 8
ANSWER
Personally, I think it is
a girl of your age not to «
on one boy | $1
the boys of
find iL more pleasant
thase who are nearer your own s
but, on the whole, I think it is be
ter for school girk
about th
AaDOUL seve
, Goldsboro C, N
are
wiser for
oncentrale
outgrown
yOu Have
' OWhH ag
to go with
er own age
LOUIBA
To V. B, Ala—1 have just gotten
lo your lelter., You certainly sound
unhappy which is easy to under-
stand after having read the account
of your home life { parents would
only think and try to stop quarrell-
ing they would do much for those
children’s later lives,
It seems to me that the best so-
lution of your problem is to get a
Job and go to work or to try to pres
pare yourself for some work. You
seein 0 be dissatisfied with all of
your relatives, as far as living with
them is concerned so probably you
are nol entirely without fault
However there is no excuse for
your father whipping a big girl like
you. Such a thing is inexcusable
Good Luck
Ark, Noah got
10 telling how
guard and see
in, two on
two of every
And as they
LOUILEA
Ky —You sent postage but as the
envelopes were not addressed and
I gid not know your resi names, I
answered vour letters
eEveTa.
that he laced
that the Scot
in Lhe column
weeks
cognised
ago. 1 hope
ANSWETS
i Tee
the
LOUISA
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AS | SEE IT
By HORACE SENTZ
for we
look on
y ask
kK you for the
A wise cle [eller said Lo me, when
I was jist a lad, there was No § 3
he could see in sendin
after bad. Now on the
things today, it looks lke
what wee a doin as we shell ou
again 0 save demokracy
from rooin IL aint but {twenty
years ago we [atiened up that post
war Kitty, we loaned oul ites U8
dough y fix them war torn lands
up pretiy. N as we figeer it oul
now, of the coin we fed that kitten
the biggest part was spent nhow,
fer fixing up Grate Britink Nthen
there come alobg a time, that kit
tenn shawed iis t00fs n'paws, N10
one’'d pay another dime, so Uncle
Sam turted Sandy Claws Right
now that killy's gettin thin, John
Bull is in another jam, Nhe figgiers
this here war io win, with dough
from Uncle 8am. Now if folks like
me goes 10 the bank, a litlle cash to
barry, n'they see our credit sheet is
blank why our chanoes sure is sor-
™ Thiz here new Lease-Loan
* law's O. K but most folks will
agree, fer all this dough we're gonna
may, we oughta gel security. Now
a mortgage on some jikely spots of
Johnny's big empire. would iron out
them credit knots, n'make this here
liscussing etli-
ack a girl Wo
“ ts
ay. to
asked him
YOu are per-
get
man. that's a
Think you can bielp me Johgn win, at his job as Axig bucker
Bug if 8am and John dont get his
1 can't pinch | tin, Sam aint no Shylock-—he's a
you for speedin’ bet in ten minutes I'l fix your engine, an’ then pinch | sucker,
| you for parking here too long.”
: * & 9 0
That Began It
Husband-"If a man steals, no matter what it is, he will live to re-
gret iL”
re (eoyly)—"You used 10 steal kisses from me before
r ed
Husband-"Well, you heard what 1 said”
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No, She Ain't
| sky, the old gray hair she ain't what she used to be
* 4 0 0
That's all, folks. Cheer up. Ii won't be long till you
detouring the country ~"SCAT."
RES SEA SR EE eis
Health Letter
war times—even in countries not en- | for other peopies.
gaged in war. {| Barly tuberculosis is
has decreased steadily
with the exception of 1088 and 1037.
That is twice as many
killed in highway accidents,
There are, at all times, some 40.
000 persons in this state ill with
tuberculosis. .
Tuberculosis is the chief cause of
death among those between 15 and
40 years of age.
tions in the body.
| economic plane, tuberculosis is five
always Inereases in! times more deadly for them than urally repair themselves,
The death rate from tuberculosis looked since, at first there are few
since 1925, signs’ or symptoms and ho pain.
A tuberculin test is simple, inex- |
24 are pensive, painless, harmless and,
above all, reveals tuberculous condi
An x-ray examination or picture
shows what damage, if any,
been done and where it is located.
Every child or adolescent showld
have oue or the other of these tests,
Ten Planes Downed
Tea private airplanes en route to!
{New Orleans from Lock Haven, were
ioroed down ot the airport al Em-
mitisburg, Md, Thursday by bad
we were mar- weather. One plane damaged a
wing in landing. 2opellers were
| brokun on two others.
The individual who accepls from |
| society what he hasn't carned is, at
We are told that the sale of hair dye is oni the increase. We might | heart, a rogue.
| Delay may permit the develop
can start out ment of an advanced stage of tuber-
culosis, gravely reducing the chance |
ns | OF TEODOVErY and spreading the dis- |
ease on to others
Fight tuberculosis with facts
DO YOU KNOW
Many persons without knowing it |
{may bave peptic uicers which nat- |
A total of 9950 persons were in. |
jured in industrial accidents during |
January of this year-104 of them |
resulting in death, i
often over-
has
+Duirng the most productive years
ol life—tuberculosis strikes its hard
. Every , throughout
vania, 11 n, women and
die of this preventable disease.
Tuberculosis is preventable,
It does not just happen.
Definitely it in caused hy a germ
passed from person to person,
Because
Lashart's Lasative
CONSTIPATION
ph Quickly Refteved
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gay until all of it was d
sin in the pail
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naming his
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will is
the Courts to establish the
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