Centre Democrat. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, April 17, 1941, Image 12
Page Four THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. April 17, 1941. The Centre democrat, BELLEFONTE, PENNA. PAUL M. DUBBS JECIL A. WALKER..... _—_—m nm al 1LABRD Issued weekly, every Thursday morning. Entered In the postoffice at Bellefonte, Pa, as second- class matter. ps Ss TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 per year if paid in advance if not paid in advance "x ——————————— ERE —— a —— - - 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 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. CIRCULATION OVER 1,000 COPIES EACH WEEK NATIONAL €DITORIA 1 SSOCIATION ~Atioe Member EDITORIAL _ Nature is grand until the weeds begin to Brow Centre county might seek to save lives on {ts highways during the balance of 1941 Russia has an uncanny knack of timing its non- aggression pacts so that they will do the small country no good If you have settled all other problems, you might figure out what kind of a world we will have if Hit- ler, Mussolini, Stalin and a few Japs regulate every- thing These British are evidently bad people. We see where innocent Mr. Hitler has been assaulted again, this time through the destruction of his favorite opera house in Berlin Whenever labor. industry, finance, or any other sconomic group. becomes more powerful than the government, the people of United States need more government the We don't mind contributing ‘till it hurts to the cause of national defense and aid to Britain but it does seem like a silly idea that the United States is going to build ships, load them with supplies and send them into the Atlantic ocean for German U- boats to sink. We'd better help get rid of the rats that are depleting the granary. the young Lutheran minister into J Rev. John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, walked t his pulpit one Sunday morning. His congregation settled back to hear the usual Sabbath discourse But suddenly Pastor Muhlenberg riveted their atten- tion. “There is a time for all things,” he said. “There is a time to preach and a time to fight Now is the time to fight” Throwing back his clerical robes he stood before them in the uniform of a colonel of the Revolutionary Army. His distinguished services led to his promotion to Major-General and following the Revolution he served Pennsylvania as a member and vice-president of its Supreme Executive Council, and later as Congressman and Senator from Penn- sylvania at Washington, Last week Representative Albert 8. Readinger, Berks county Democrat, intro- duced a bill providing that the military reservation at Indiantown Gap be hereafter known as “Camp Muhlenberg” in honor of ohe of Pennsylvania's most distinguished sons. Back in 1776 a The birthday of Thomas Jefferson should not be overlooked by the friends of humau freedoin. The great proponent of the rights of man d2serves the ad- miration of Americans today. He adopted and pro- mulgated a political philosophy that was vot p.pu- lar with wealth and privilege in the early years of the republic, and I is safe to assume that he would not now belong to any conservative faciion. Jeffer- son has suffered a bit, in the opinion of syueamisn folks, because he was not popular with the organ- ized religion of his day. He advocated religious free- dom and was against an established church. He wrote the statute for religious freedom in Virginia and counted it an honor above the presidency of the United States. Asa matter of fact Jefferson nade an intensive study of the life of Christ. He selected the words of Jesus and compiled wha! is some- times referred to as the Jefferson Bible. In the Bmithsonian Institute, in Washington, one may see today the testaments purchased by Jefferson ia order to frame the words of Jesus in a logical pattern While the United States will make every effort to coordinate its economic policy with the British blockade, every effort will be made to avold forcing Japan or France into the war on the side of the Axis. To cut off all exports to Japan, it is believed, would result in aggressive Japanese action in the South Pacific. Likewise, it is feared, that if condi- tions in unoccupied France become “too bad” an angry and hungry population might overthrow Mar- shal Petain, replase his government with one friend- ly with the Axis, with the possibility that the French Fleet will be given to the Germans. This does not mean that the United States will encourage any ef- fort to “break” the British blockade in order to get food into France. The matter is being closely studied, with especial attention being paid to the disposition of food recently shipped into France, While putting no pressure upon the British to relax the blockade, American officials continue to seek a formula to re- Heve hunger in Europe and, al the same time, pre- vent food shipments from Facilitating increased de- livery of any supplies to Germany. It is interesting to read the military experts who have had much to say about the “two-front war.” Most of them seem to be under the impres- sion that Germany's attack upon Yugoslavia and Greece makes the present a “two-front” struggle. We think that this is a mistaken idea because the German army is not now engaged upon any front except that in the Balkans, Since the fall of France, the mighty military machine of Germany has been unable to come to grips with the army of Great Britain. Idieness makes it available for offensives in the Balkans and in North Africa, There is noth- ing to be gained by under-estimating the striking power of the Nazi machine, The German soldier is capable and courageous and the Oerman General Btaf! does its preparatory work in an unusually thor- ough manner, When the Nazi legions received the order to march in the Balkans, the world’s greatest military machine was ready for action, It was not ehgaghd in bathe | ih any other front, The Balkan ve affor er an opportunity to use his pre- .ponderant military forces, ITALY'S TEN MONTHS OF WAR Some ten months ago, when France was on her knees, Mussolini led his Fascists into war, confident that the struggle would be brief and that Italy would gain rich rewards The Italians were proud of thelr African em- pire and thelr newly-built navy, which was expect- td to make the Mediterranean an “‘Itallan lake." For many years popular morale had been boosted by Il Duce's spectacular dramatics and bombastic boast. Ings Italy's African empire is fast crumbling. A year ago it included 1,346,000 persons, with 12,100,000 lv- ing in Itallan East Africa, including Eritrea, Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia, Today the British have all but conquered the entire aren. Only in North Africa, where the British are apparently sacrificing some of their recent gains in order to use troops else- where, is there a gleam of hope for Italy When the war began the Italians boasted that their fleet and alr arm would drive the British from the Mediterranean and cut the life-line of the Brit- ish empire, Backing the boast was an unknown number of planes and six battleships, nineteen cruis- ers, 127 destroyers and 100 submarines, but no Ital- jan victory has been recorded in the Mediterranean The British warships have completely dominat- ed the “Italian lake” although, with rare excep- tions, they have been unable to bring the Italian ships into close contact for purposes of combat, The other day, however a major collision occurred and the gun-play lasted four minutes, with disastrous results for the Italians The Italian fleet of three battleships eleven ‘ruisers and fourteen destroyers was badly mauled by a British fleet of three battleships, four cruisers, an unknown number of destroyers and, significantly, me alreraft carrier. Planes attacked the newest Italian battleship, crippling the vessel, and then, without the vision that planes give to fleets, the [tallan cruisers ran into the British battleships Losses have not been finally determined but not less than three new cruisers and two destroyers were sunk by the British without loss of life or dam- age to warships. This was an amazing demonstra- tion of British naval skill in combat with inferior Italian tactics. In addition to these losses, the Ital. ians lost five additional destroyers in the Red Sea, 1,800 miles away, off the shores of Eritrea A SAFE SEA LANE The safe delivery of war materials to Great Britain is more important than the manufacture of the materials in the United States At present, ships are being sunk faster than they can be replaced. The fact is that the British have not enough destroyers to protect their trade routes They will be in the same fix when war materials from this country begin to go across the Atiantic in decisive volume It is not to be expected that the United States will grimly produce these supplies and placidly ac- quiesce in German plans to send them to the bot- tom of the ocean, The problem will not be solved by attempting to build ships faster than Germany an sink them. If it is solved successfully the United States will undoubtedly have to take some action It has been suggested that the neutrality zone, as set up at the outset of the war, be patrolled by American warships and planes, Any altempt by a belligerent to prevent lawful commerce in the area would be met by This would put American armed forces behind the neutrality zone proclama- tion and make it unhealthy for U-boats and raiding planes, The neutrality zone, as we gather is a tive area thrown around the Western Hemisphere. It is sald to area west of a line drawn north and south, from the middle point of a line be- tween Brazil and Africa at the narrowest part of the south Atlantic. This line, we are advised, runs bare- ly west of Iceland If neutrality zone is American warships and planes will attempt to protect a “safe” wea-lane between Newfoundland, Greenland and Ice. land. From Iceland. the job will be given to the British. Thus “the United States would safeguard about two-thirds of the distance between Newfound. land and the British Isles byt the British would have the most dangerous leg to defend fares foree protec- include the y the patrolled BRITISH NAVY HAS PROBLEM One of the disadvantages that the British face n their desperate efforts to protect the North At- lantic sea-lanes comes from the attitude of the Irish, who steadfastly decline to permit the British navy to use the anchorages :¢# Lough Swilly and Berehaven The possession of these bases which were used in the World War, would greatly extend the British convoy and airplane range Another disadvantage springs from the lack of destroyers. When the World War ended the British navy had 435 destroyers and. in addition, 229 Allied destroyers were in active service, Today the British have only 220 destroyers, of which fifty are over. age American destroyers recently acquired in the swap with the United States Many Americans overlook the advantages which Germany has in the possession of Norwegian and French ports on the Atlantic, which enable sub. marines to reach their staitons more quickly and safely than during the World War. Meanwhile, the British blockade patrol must spread out to cover the widely extended coastline and carry out similar duties in the Mediterranean, where it combats the Italian naval strength In the World War the German fleet was block- aded in the Baltic, from which it could emerge only through the North Sea and the Kiel Canal Against the Kaiser's fleet the British could throw their complete sea-power because the Italian, Rus- sian, French and Japanese navy was on the Allled side In the present war the British fleet, much re- duced in size, faces the job without the help of any other fleet and with the Italian fleet in opposition, the Japanese fleet threatening and the French fleet problematical. GOV. JAMES BEGS NEW HAND-OUT Governor James is back before the Legislature with his hat in hand begging $7,100,000 to carry re- Hef through May His February estimate of $14500000 needed to carry relief to the end of the biennium, criticized by Democratic Legislative leaders at the time as in- adequate, was only 68 per cent right. If the rest of tls Budget is as accurate as this estimate, Pennsyl- vania is facing a terrific financial headache for toe next two years with special sessions every three months in prospect James asks that the $7,100,000 be provided by lifting $4.150.000 from the Motor Fund, deferring payment of $2,150,000 to the sinking fand for the veteran compensation bonds, and using an $800,000 credit with the Pederal Government, Meredith Meyers, chairman of the Democratic State Committee, remarked that he had labeled the Governor's budget as “phony” when presented in February and now saw no reason to change his mind. “I think it would be appropriate,” he added, “to buy the Governor dark glasses, a cane and a tin cup and a ‘Please Help the Blind’ sign so that he may appear in proper character when he next addresses the General Assembly.” We see that a fearful of war.” The American people, are also fearful of war, but not because of any picion that their own government is anxious to be come #mbroiled In a conflict. We know that the ger of war to this country orl jinates in which are followed by Germany, Italy There are some Americans Who seek to idea that “secret manoeuvers behind Government” are drawing us nearer { with the following note § i | i Y ' time ago, so that I expect it will be divided between us; and | THE | OrriCcE CAT “A Little Nonsense Now and Then, Is Relished by the Wisest Men" yn | Tired Feet Ted—"My feet burn like the dickens! Do you think a mustard bath { would help?" Ned—"Sure! There's nothing better than mustard for hot dogs.” * oo 0 | Sure And He Would “Pat.” sald Mike, “how would you like to be buried in a protestant {graveyard?" | “Palth, Mike, an’ I'd die first.” PEE TE | (Personal Column, N, Y. Herald) | wpersonal: 1f the gentleman who keeps the shoe store with a red head [will return the umbrella of a young lady with whalebone riby and an {ivory handle to the slate-roofed grocers store, he will hear something to {his advantage, as the same Is the gift of a deceased mother, now no more, | with the name engraved upon IL" * 4 o 0 Troubles of a Recruit Drill Sergeant “Right turn! Left turn! Column Recrult—"Aw, I'm leaving.' Drill Sergeant—"Here, you! Where are you going?” Fecrult—"1've had enough. You don't know your own mind from one minute to the next” right!” e ¢ & Try This on Your Chimes Assuming that vou have three outside doors, you may be interested in the new motor-ope rated door chime that sounds eight notes for the front door. a high note for the side door, and a low note for the back door Oh. vou take the high note, and 11 take the low note, and I'll be in the kitchen before you ® & oo 9 Wasn't He Lucky? Yes, the bear jumped out at me and I raced for a tree 1 leaped for a limb 12 feet in the air” Harold As 1 went by Fair One (exciteCly) Harold But I missed IL." Falr One Oh, were you in the hospital afterwards?” Harold —“Nope, 1 caught the I'mb on the way down.” * & oo Sounds Like Barnacle Bill Navy Bill had breken with his girl friend Milly. After ignoring sev eral leiters requesting the return of her photograph, one came threal- ening to complain to the captain Deciding to squelch her for all time, he borrowed all the pictures of girls available on the ship, sending them to her in a large bundle “Pick yours out, I've forgotten what you look “Yes, yes, go on.” ike.” ® 6 oo 9 That Was a Big Help Mistress mail those letters I gave you, Norah?” Norah Yes'm, al the postoffice But 1 noticed that you'd pul the two-cent stamp on the Philadelphia letter and the three-cent stamp on the Bellefonte one.” Mistress—"Oh, dear Norah-—"But [ fixed it dresses on the envelopes.” Did you blunder.” ma'am what a all right, 1 just changed the ad- ® & oo 9 Couldn't Fool Him A darkey who worked as an extra at one of she Hollywood studios was called upon. Ww the filming of a scene purporting to show an Al- rican jungle, to enter a cage containing a performing lion. The pros- pect id not appeal 10 the candidate. He demurred “What's the matter ‘with; you?’ asked the director. “That lions not going 10 hurt you. That lion was brought up on milk.” “So wuz 1 Srough: up on milk.” said the unhappy darkey, “but | eats meat once in a while now ® ¢ 4 & 9 Slips Thal Pass in the News {Wisconsin Newspaper) t Judge Orton's funeral Was very fine and nearly as was the beautiful prayer of the Rev. Dr. Bwing The processio two miles in lengt f Chicago.” } (Ohio Daily) “A cow Was struck by lightning on Saturday belonging to Dr. Ham- mond who had a beautiful spotted call only four days old.” (New York Ad) “Run away—A hired man named John; his nose turned up five feet eight inches high. and had a pair of corduroy pants, much worn” * & 0 0 Big Bugs and Big Lies One day they were talking in Uncle Hank's grocery about large bed - bugs and tough bedbugs “t boiled a bedbug nine hours and it swam around on the top all the time.” said old Gifford “s put a bedbug in a kerosene lamp.” said Charley Campbell, “kept it there four years, and it hatched out twenty-seven litters of bedbugs right in the kerosene” Old Hank Allen. who had been listening as an outsider, broke into the conversation Said he: “Some time ago 1 took a bedbug to Wood's iron foundry, and drop- ped it Into a ladle where the melted iron was, and had it run into a skillet. Well my old woman used that skillet for six years and here the other day she broke it all to smash; and what do you think, gentlemen? That ‘ere insect just walked out of his hole where Hit'd been layin’ like a frog in a rock, anu made tracks for his old roost upstairs. But, by ginger. gentlemen, he looked mighty pale.” * ¢ 4 9 Bridget Writes From Ireland Parish of Ballyraggelt, County of Kilkenny, Ireland, March Ith My Dear Nephew: What with all the war going on, I haven't sent ‘ye a letter since the last time 1 wrote ye, bekase we have moved from our former place of livin’ and I didn't know where a letter would find ye. But 1 now wit pleasure take me pen to inform ye of the death of yer ownly livin’ uncle, Ne¢ Fitzpatrick, who died very suddenly a few days {ago after a lingerin’ iliness of six weeks The poor fellow was in violent convulsions the whole time of his sickness, lyin’ perfectly quiet and in- !tirely speechless—all the while talkin’ deliriously, and cryin’ for water. {1 had no opportunity of informin” ye of his death sooner, except I wrote {to ye by the last mail, which went off two days before he died; and then {ye would have have postage to pay. 1 am at a loss to tell what his death was occasioned by, but I fear iit was by his last sickness, for he was never well ten days together dur- | ing the whole of his confinement. And 1 believe his death was brought | about by his aitin’ too much of rabbit stuffed with peas and gravy, or | peas and gravy stuffed with rabbit. But be that as it may, when he breath- ed his last, his doctor gave up all hope of his recovery. 1 didn’t tell ye anything about his age, fer ye well know that in June | next he would have been just seventy-five years old lackin' ten months, land had he lived till that time, would have been just six months dead. | His property now devolves to his next of kin, which all died some | ye know his | property. which was very large, was sold to mainder he lost at a horse race, But it was the time he would have won the race, if the beast he run against hadnt | been too fast for him. i 1 never saw a man in all my life, and the doctors all observed directions or took medicine better id. He as leave drink bitter as sweet if {t had only as whiskey punch if it would only put him But, poor sowl! He will niver ate or a livin’ relation in the world except meself and P. 8~Don't write till ye receive this, N. B.When yez come fo this stop, and don't read. more un- til my next letier, a "ny \ ® 0 s folks. Progress always involves risks. You can't. steal all, second base and keep your foot on first. "BOAT." LETTER Dear Louisa: I have Just discovered that my husband has been having an affair | with another woman for about two | years, It seems that everybody In the town has known it but me. My | husband has asked me for a divorce { but I have refused to give him one One of my friends has told me | that she can't understand the posi. ton I take. 8Bhe thinks 1 should have too much pride to keep with a man who wants leave but this is the way I look at It, and 1 want you to tell me if you think 1 am doing righ Louisa ry this on 1 stopped school | boy my wishe In another ye have had my college could have gotten a teacher tion, buy John would walling. My father wa provoked and told me thi ried agains come home Now, we dren who need my tried Lo be I am con f DICE House Because have managed my children peopies against his wishe Have LWT a good wile dered nd A ali co a ad wiio ave have VAL LAR: that ale muc. My hus- BINA] BRIATY chludren better off than band makes a is only ampie I know that there sould be no and the children Of Course pride not (0 EO is Wa) we for one I i { he De abe but is this fal would mean that get some Ll my chidren while I w» pared for means that 1 standard “DISTRESSED ANBEWER 1 think yOu are act other womal was married v ing with fire, so shouldnt dis.urt Your hush might have Dasn’t : have ex fathers fare 10 wall 3 because hie ote, whom he wanis 0 th responsibil) ies and sires. He has brought two child into the world and promised 10 cher. ish sou untill deaih but JAS you ms can have what Well, “{alling in 1 eXOUS for dodging responsibilities. There are other things just as imporiant such as duty and honor are doing ihe glory in your spunk “allen in Jove 1 De & again Love Mm al LOUISA Fire Sweeps 5-Story Building At Altoona (Continued from page one) stand the odor of the tar fumes and returned to the first floor The furnace was reported to have exploded, spreading the streaking flames from the of the cellar to the front Considerable damage was rendered to the Lewis Lang fur shop and the Endicott-Johnson shoe store. both on the first floor Many years ago the Baptist church church. located on the same site as the Commerce building, was destroy- ed by fire CONSTIPATION Quickly Relieved Lushert's Lazative Tablets promptly produce bowel action without pain or depressing fect. Aute Intoxicstion, Bick Tear quickly relieved by the use of these mild | and safe tablets. Escr to take, coriain and | sure in action Try them. 25e 8 bon | FREE TRAIL OFFER. One . ¥ | 10¢ 5 cover mailing expenses, | A. GQ. Laebert, PD. Coatesville, Pa. | [ Lousa's | | because he | | [ Query & Ancier Column PROBLEM—-What well-known city in the United Blates is represent ed when a girl Is depicted as wearing a man's vest outdoors and carry- ing the coal draped over her arm? (Answer elsewhere In this depart ment.) R. J~When Halley's comet appeared here in away again, where dia tL go? Ans It 5s not known where it as yet that the come, Is aA second and takes sun. It will be 8. F~1 would like 0 Ans ~The Asam tea grows 30 to 40 feet, pnd leat Variely a comparatively 1910 and then salled has gone, The scientists only know traveling away at the rate of a thousand miles Just 76 years for it Lo make the round trip back Wo visible here again in May, 1088 and how the know where tea Is growm? on large trees which attain a height of from eight to ten inches long. The shrub eight 0 ten feet In long. These varieties, as well vion, However, farther south In shipped to this country from from the China inted » INCHhey in Ce and comm with each other? communicate with seems to verily special tasks stroking each this man- mication wai ants can house discharges its ween £ alony lal nu are eying nformation v niformation in fe wm of government of ireece about the year 1060 B. C. At Hellenes, This was the office of archan vas ily, he was completely re- 0 people, thus mak. HKe the other whik ame fam Fr 4 assemuiy 3 Le republic United Blates exist- Mt of the Inited has existed contin. and has been growing ever sinoe i] War that the otal indebled- ving this war the debt reached Blates Gibraltar is, and ny civilans, are they square HATGE miles, and has a civil- but all subjects of the and night fighter each wing, It and climbs to 11,000 feet gulls In try quoted by President Roose- following lines from Longfellow 's ! Sall on, O Union With all the hopes of y of Slate fears y Fate! which show the extent Lhe an government. of and monks have been jalled for have been beaten to death. In were closed, and in November, from Lhelir parishes. Of the only 100 were permitied 0 state officials. More camps are Christ. others and oconvenis re expelled 1039 examined by noeent Yere Crs ino ration reference io in- that a { originated he devoured Whe iegend ey ol id travelers over those B. 8 Y.—How meray docions are«dlicre in the United States? ' are 175382 prefticng physitiais # the present time H.—ls Jess Willard He is a resident There the pugilist, Living? of Glendale, California Pat fs £yi15 {amo regiment of Canada derive il: the Duke of Conaught was Governor Gen- of Light infantry of the Canadian Arm? was : Princess Patricia, and she was appointed Hs ing the World War this battalion distinguished i#t- (pres section and was practically decimated, Only but they returned with their colors un- Princess Patricia the approximate yield of production from 100 gallons ived reviewed by as follows: gasoline, forty-four gallons: fuel ofl thirty- coke, asphalt, wax, etc, eight gallons; kero- lubricants, three gallons: three gallons loss J. T. C~Are twin beds less in demand now than in former years? On contrary, their popularity is increasing. Whereas In fouble beds were sold for every one iwin size, the proportion was one twin bed to every four double beds. the W. M. S.—Pleage give the name and birth date of Dorothy Thomp- Ans 1930 C. C~Is it correct to fly the American flag when it is raining? Ans Unless there is some specific reason for doing so, the Flag should not be. flown in rainy or stormy weather Michael Levis was born on June 30 T. D~What is meant by the steel term skin pass? Ans —The final cold rolling operation which brightens and tempers sheets of steel is known as a skin pass G. E. G~When did Columbus reach the Bahamas? Ans Columbus reached the Bahama Islands on October 12, 1492 H. O-~What is the inscription over the entrance 'o the Supreme Headaches, Bllionsness and Indigestion are | Court Building in Washington, D. C.? Ans —"Equal Justice Under Law.” E. E. F~Has Rudy Vallee ever been in the Army or Navy? Ans —He served a: a seamen in the United States Navy in 1017 Answer to Problem--Gal-vest-on (Tex) STUDEBAKER MORE MILES PER GALLON, SAY OWNERS TORSELL & SPENCE MOTOR CO. ALLEGHENY ST. AND CHERRY ALLEY :