Page Four THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PX.’ July 30, 1942. The Centre Bemorrat, BELLEFONTE, PENNA, Proprietors Ed itor WALKER BROTHERS A C. DERR PAUL M. DUBBS JECIL A. WALKFR Issued weekly every Thursday morning. Entered in the nostoffice at Bellefonte, Pa, a8 seconu- class matter, TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION if pald in advance if not paid in advance $150 per year $2.00 per year | MERICAN /RESS | SSOCIATION| The date vour subscription expires is plainly printed on the label bearing vour 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. Adver- tising 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 conti directed. wed unless otherwise NATIONAL €DITORIAL SSOCIATION 0 Zive SNember_. CIRCULATION OVER 7,000 COPIES EACH WEEK Democratic State and District Ticket Judge of the Supreme Court GROVER C. LADNER, of Philadelphia County Judge of the Superior Court MICHAEL A. MUSMANNO, of Allegheny County Governor 3, of Butler Lieutenant Governor ELMER KILROY, of Philadelphls Secretary of Internal Affairs WARREN HESS, of Reading Congress-At-Large B. PEEL of County Allegheny Congress—23rd District BARRY E. DIEHL, of Blair County State Senator HOWARD J. THOMPSON, of Curwensville General Assembly JAMES R. RILEY, of Osceola Mills, R. D. State Commitieeman DR. FRANK K. WHITE, of Philipsburg County Chairman RUSSELL J. SPANGLER, of Blanchard Viee Chairman MAUDE FE. MILLER, of Penna. Furnace EDITORIAL scene of battle but War Bonds are ot- Centre county tf he the it is on the wa fered for sale, may no + front so long a: We set back might be a good for summer heat and it thermometers our watches Time idea for War to lower our What has become of the Corngress against fortifying Wake and junking our entire army and men who were Guam in favor of navy If the India, it won't brother will be Japanese overrun Gandhi's non-resistant be six months before the lion-cloth sorry that the British departed. In 1937 a man who intimated that there might be 2 World War wr denounced as a War monger and a munitions makers, promptly propagandist for There are Americans who believe that we are not going to be affected by what happens in the rest of the world. In other words, they haven't learned any- thing in the last three years The marriage rate in the United States in 1941 126 per population, the highest ever recorded There were an estimated 1.679.000 year, The estimate is based on re- tates which have central registration was in this country marriages last turns from 18 § systems. The great battle raging in Soviet Russia proper- ly occupies the attention of every responsible of- ficial of the United Nations. Upon its course depends the length of the present war and, of vital importance to us, the number of American casualties, If the German legions manage to cut the Red Army into isolated segments, to be slaughtered one by one, the duration of the conflict will be vastly extended. If the Russians manage to withstand the terrible on- slaught, retaining the coherency of their fighting forces, even at the expense of territorial losses, the outlook for the United Nations will brighten. We are concerned with debating the advisabil- ity of a second front in Burope, Whether it should be opened, and when, are matters for the high com- mand to solve. We are not in position to know what is best. We are confident that our leaders know the facts, have weighed all factors and are intelligent enough to take appropriate action. If American and British military leaders decide that a second front should be opened, we will certainly accept their ex- pert conclusion. If, on the other hand, they decide against such an extended operation at this time, for reasons which they may not publicly announce, we will just the samme accept thelr leadership and decision, MIDSUMMER OF 1941 One way of measuring with what great strides history has marched in the last year Is to recall that It was Just a vear ago today that President Roose- velt sent to Congress his special message urging an extension of the period of military service for the National Guard, the Reserve officers and the young men who had been called Into the Army under the Selective Service Act. This recommendation was ul- timately approved in the House of Representatives by the slender margin of one vote. The roll-call was 203 In favor to 202 against. Had a single vote been shifted on that occasion, the result would have been the complete disorganization of the American Army and the release from service of two-thirds of our trained soldiers and of three-fourths of our total officer personnel. Pearl Harbor, coming four months later, would have caught us with only a paper Army in existence. The rejection of the President's recom- mendation would have been, as he predicted it woulda be, In his message of a vear ago, “a ragic error In that message the President found it neces- ary to argue against the complacent opinion, so widely held in mid-summer of 1841, that since Hit- ler wos busy in Russia, and Japan was busy in China since both the Atlantic and the Pucific were wide pleces of water, our own country need fear no attack on its own territory or on the other nations of this hemisphere by aggressors Irom without.” This comfortable view, the President in- isted, was based upon a complete misconception ol the purposes and the power of the Axl “It is the unanimous opinion of those who are dally military and nay and as gov- nts in the fleld of international reia- chemes nations American ident that the 8t nd Americans are imperiled interest and very well-nigh ognizant, a 1] officers rroment Servi tions, that and plans of aggressor security are so ev the rest of the in thelr against United fefinitely It is not iotism thi Army But Fall idgments antes national ary to question the of the 202 members of the advice and voted to di in one of the most critic to the point to que ability to re good faith or House who band Am- nl moments of stion, und NeOess the overrode ericen his in pati the tory very much the ach POST MORTEM ABOUT GUAM In 1919. the Joint Arms and Navy Board ug vd that the United States construct a major eir gest i the island of Guam and submarine base on hy disre- B) am Japan and ymament Trea proposal was {i by Congress. In the development o DDOSed 1922, the base | denunci { Gu into a fe + the remained unwilling aredg vy expired, upon y of Jai Wn "Japan at ONnEress little more than ing dertaken recall the 1938 luded ths Again dertaking OM | CAriou m, if devel hostile nat Gua impede extensive naval bases in outlying $i, submarine rarliest prac urate neerned rs of Cong a Meet ¢ wer to U-boats festirover ariel onveyed we do snd ots fleet fact. we have fleet job. In -boat menace along the coast of this defeated by the use of by figures given out Service which show that voyed by the Brit- hundred ships has That the U country he the convoy system by the Britizh Information out of the thou ships conv ish Navy in been Jost can successfully is attested less than one two during this war “CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS” It is interesting to run across the statements of certain eclesiastics who seem to be greatly con- cerned with the fate of so-called “conscientious ob- jectors.” One hears of “freedom of conscience” and the defense of that right of “sincere conscientious ob- jectors.” There are hints that this right must not be allowed to perish The wise provision of law which takes notice of sincere conscientious objectors is possible solely because of the comparative scarcity of such individ- uals. Certainly, if any large percentage of our pop- ulation adopted the “conscientious objector” atti- tude, the nation, in a desperate fight for its life, would be justified in resorting to the harshest meth- od necessary to persuade men to fight for their coun- try and civilization, Conscientious objectors are of various types, in- cluding those who refuse to salute the flag, those who refuse to bear arms, those who are against all government and the acme of individualism, the man who objects to any form of restraint, whether in- stituted by God or man, This “conscientious objector” twaddle can be carried too far. The individual is entitled to his con- science and his objection, but the possession of them does not render him immune from the penalties provided by the lawg of his people. THE RU BBER ou TLOOK By the end of 1942, according to Jesse Jones, Secretary of Commerce, the nation will have a pro= duction capacity of about 100,000 tons of synthetic rubber, This figure will move up to 300000 tons by August, 1943. and 800.000 tons by the end of 1043. The reader should understand that this does not mean production of 100,000 tons in 1042 or 300,000 tons in 1943. The figures relate to the capacity of production. Just now, private industry is producing synthetic rubber at the rate of 25,000 tons per an- num, Two Government plants, with a capacity of 30,000 tons annually are in production, Bo far as the average citizen is concerned, there is little occasion to discuss the technical properties of the best known substitutes for rubber, It is enough to say that the present program, according to Mr. Jones, will produce sufficient rubber to meet the essential requirements of the armed forces and the war workers of the nation. This conclusion is predicated upon the conservative use of automo- biles, throughout the country, with unnecessary travel eliminated. Some candidate ought to do something about the weather, Maybe promise a law or regulation, thump fret and | along the road and sat there all | here's the blighier we've been digein’ Here's Mine, Where's Yours? BRITT ST : god | later If 5] & Orrick Cal “A Little Nonsense Now and Then, Is Relished by the Wisest Men” one Lime raliroad company eX Dress ANG JAI ang and ard « and throb jek all mgnt lo boom rattle slam i aly ana * 4 Suction Feeder YY "i was born?” “What did he “He milked * 4 Fair Question ¢ & Slightly Mixed men hearing the North io London As they were nearing the Three | deaf an old noisy city, one sald "Is this “No.* “So am 1.” were : in , and Was Wembly? replied the second third “Let's * 4 A Traffic Problem of known men about town got home he should have been In much, much put in the stop and have one.” 5 » We are told that one our well at daylight the other morning when earlier. It seems that he had driv up ohe too many Coming home or nearby, and lapped light at an excavation for it to change to green en to Lock Haven he saw a red night waiting f ® 4 0 Go Everywhere An American tourist was standing on the brink of the Premier mine | 1t was his first visit to South Africa, and he was being shown around the mines. He turned to the guide raid replied the guide “This place reminds me of hell,” he “Gee, but Americans do travel” * & 9 He Was Traveling argument about ghosts, One of . he passed the cemetery the night you colored were having an seen a ghost as Two boy: them claimed to have before “What was d's heah ghos' doubtful one “Jes fallin’ doin’ when you las’ seen him?” asked the fallin’ behin’ —— * & 0 A Soldier Yarn The Heutenant was going his rounds at breakfast and stopped at one table with the usual query, “any complaints?” “Yes, sir, behin', mistah; rapid.” One soldier sprang up and said: this tea tastes of chloride of lime” - The officer took the mug, “Nonsense,” he pronounced sniffed the contents, then sipped delicate- “That's carbolic acid.” * * Rescued The man had been watching a gang of men digging feverishly at ly. the ruins of an old house, for several days without saying a word. The foreman of the gang had his curiosity aroused. “Say.” he Said, | | “haven't you got anything better to do than watch ud work?” “Well, chum.” sald the man, removing his pipe from his mouth, | | “this 1s me old home. I'm kind of interested Ike.” “Pack up, you fellows. I'his for.” | ¢ & 9 | As She Remembered | Petunia Jackson remarked, when shown her new-born infant: “He looks lak his pappy, if Ah remembahs right.” | o 0 And Now They Match It Clerk—"What kind of ice cream would you like to have, little girl?” Little Oirl—"1 guess strawberry would look best on my dress.” ® & 0 That's all, folks. One girl told us she didn’t find much difference | tn married life. She said she used to walt up half the right for George! to go, and now she waits up hall the night for him to come home, we" SCAT.” “Holy mackerel,” shouted the foreman lof this LOUISA’S LETTER Answer to R. L Your letter was but I wil] try to help you been very wise behave as you have. A boy never respects a girl for lowering her standards no matter what he may In fact iI & boy loves a girl as he sh his best to protect her of trouble Texans Lo You have to the really Lo CONLrary and uu he Kay ily will do and kee ould p her let a fool you about mw more if vo 0 Wrong | but spect, Buch with you and ret ® a hun- meet hoy his respect you lose your own self re a memory will remain on you will reg fold if vou dred i you love ( man this boy 4 { N eq Of whi NOI + stalin 3 {| If rea obody bomb ake: There's eo "yr match there's fut that you'll They bid landlubbers Bismark and the whose ends made sorry Now landlubbers Who never even qualified prove you of Wales, naval tales like you and me, saw the sea, aint to judge a mite, which side here question's right: But ‘Battlewagon” if you rough, we wont forget the days hen you, onee ruled the waves Ons and se. rene, in ninety eight and seventeen AGRICULTURE COURSES OFFERED 10 FARMERS Improved form and dalry practices will be taught to farmers and dairy. men in two and four week courses at the Pennsylvania State College, according to A. L. Beam, professor dairy husbandry and director of Prince ro thro of | short courses in agriculture The short courses to be offered this fall and winter are: poultry husbandry, October 5-30; markel milk and milk control, December 7- 19; ice cream making, January 4 16; general agriculture, January 6 to February 3; animal husbandry, Feb- ruary 3 to March 3; dairy farming, February 3 to March 3; dairy herds. men, March 8-13. The dates for a course in fruit growing will be an- nounced later, Professor Beam said. —————— > Buying War Bonds is one way to help your fellow-Americans who are ion the fighting fronts. NEURALGIC RHEUMATIC PAIN 3 Are Usually Relieved With Luebert's Ka No Mor Capsules Rimple Paine, disappear quickly when you take one or | two eapautes’ sneord ing tionmry directions, Sold hy Druggists at 30, $6c and $1.00 per package, or by mail direct. long to print, | Headarhe, Neurstule and Nerve | wise Rheumatic twinges tend Wo to simply preoees A G. Luebert, P.D,, Costesville, Pa. | COMPENSATION AUTOMOBILE & FIRE INSURANCE * C olumn or AA lly v adh I a Query & ‘Answer gp J. DHow Ans 11 ha which make an al C. J. J-How is it river? Ans The anil of Hzards Inrge the Big Thicket In Tex an area of about 2,000,000 acres In we {ores with vines most impenetrable jungle ible for » BuUrface Prost certain dzarc of a known, the they have America feet moy ’ apia hat tropical only The time to sl water no immer ing year best sown No Jim © postage sues Of Mrs Alcott i me i upon me. ADpli- heen OD. M. R. F—Which i Pr lo » Point of Canada Ans mainland “Ill bring it back on Friday .- . f have threerother jobs out this way then” Of course, you appreciate the need for oop ing your appliances in good repair now that the 'must last for the duration. But do you kmow Show tu uy Fepals aervice ast Scemicully 1 Here are three suggestions: Since your ser vice dealer's costs consist of TIME, MATERIA : and OVERHEAD, you will save on repair bi | (1) by co-operating with your service dealer to, | eliminate special trips, (2) by having SEV [ERAL appliances i ted and repaired at the same time, (3) by ing repuir work in to the} 'shop whenever Goud repaiz work mors. Chai Fepays its’ coaty ‘An Advertisement of West Penn {Power Company in the interest of YOUR APPLIANCE SERVICE DEALER
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