#0 far as he stays on the square. us the ids of Mash approach We fuse | of the ice man who would not when he ‘oould fill his ioe house—grows longer. _ . —There are eight thousand actors and igh tthousand lawyers iz New York aod probably fifty per cent. of them would make better motor-men ~The proposed new Code for the public schools of the State has a few snakes in it that the friends of The Pennsylvania State College should lose no time in killing. ~The election is over. Forget it. If any- one said unkind thiogs to you or abous you forgive him and forget them. Take it from us, you will be happier in the end. — After their experience yesterday morn- ing the state constabulary doubtless know the difference between going up against a horde of foreign coal miners and five hun- dred State College students. —Vioe-president FAIRBANKS is going to take a trip around the world. Every man to his taste so we will not be surprised to find Alaska, Greenland and Siberia figuring conspicuously in his itinerary. —Seven boroughs in Allegheny county voted ‘‘dry’’ on Tuesday. According to the ‘“‘floater’s’’ idea of it the principal borough in Centre county was very dry on Taesday without a vote being taken. ~The film of a soap bubble is estimated as being about two millionths of an inch in thickness. It would not do for a man with a soap babble skin to ran for a local office in the community in which be was born and raised. ~The Grand Dake VALDIMIE of Russia, died suddenly on Wednesday. Thus Providence has removed one more of the obstacles in the way of a more peaceful spirit among the oppressed people of that monarchy. —The President says a lock canal ie better than a sea lave! one for the Panama proposition. So it will probably be a lock enterprise in every way except in gettiog rid of the three handred and sixty million dollars it is estimated to cost. ~The Legislators having saved the State from disaster on Tuesday are now resting up preparatory to resuming their arduous task next week of making commissions to do the work the dear people are foolish enough to think they were elected to do, is being urged to appropriate fitty thousand dollars for war balloons. What for? We are not going to war with anybody and TEDDY will be in Africa and TAFT too ponderous to take up into the air on a government vessel ; so why spend the money ? — Representative CROW, of Kansas, has introduced a bill in the Legislatare of that State placing a tax of twenty-five dollars a year on all nnmarried men over forty-five years old. Thus Kansas goes on record as marking the age at which a man becomes a bachelor. —We notice that PETER KECH celebrated the hundreth anniversary of his birth by voting *‘the straight Republican ticket" in Bloomsburg on Tuesday. Aside from our telioitations with PETER on his remarkable longevity we are surprised that anyone could live to be one hundred without knowing better. —Poor old GEROMINO, tke famous war chief of the Apaches, has gone to the happy hunting ground. II reports be true GEROMINO proved an exception—at least in the later years of his life—to the old saying that ‘‘the only good Indian is the dead Indian,” for three years ago he be- came converted to ohristianity. He was eighty-six years old and bad bad eight wives. Thiok of this and you will not wonder that he was such a tough old warrior in bis youth. ~The election in Bellefonte on Tuesday was comparatively clean. The respective party chairmen bad entered into an agree- ment to try in £0 far as it was within their means to put an end to the purchase of votes, either with booze or boodle. The result was most gratifying to the workers in both parties, bat a sorry disappointment to the “‘foaters’’ who missed their usual big business day more than most people bave any idea ol. They floated here, they floated there They floated all around No smell nor sign of boose or coin Was even to be found. —To say the least the election in Belle- fonte, on Tuesday, had a very peculiar outoome ; being mixed up about as badly in its results as any we have knowledge of. The only direction in which there appears to bave been any oconsistenoy in the de- termination of the voter was in the defeat of councilmen HAMILTON snd WAGNER for re-election. Both are eminently good men and personal causes for their defeat are out of the question ; becanse they bave served faithfully and given offense to none. Can it be that the voters thought this a good opportunity to send a warning to connoil against being too hasty with that new eleotrio lighting and power proposition. It is the first obance the voter has had to be heard from sinoe the projected in councils and while we do not know that this was made a factor in Taesday's eleo- tion, we weald not be surprised to learn that it was. “STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 54 What Does 1 It Mean! In the proposed new new School code, with which the Legislatare is now wrestling, we fiod the following provisions which, without farther light on the sabject, looks amazingly like an effort so oripple, by a chaoge in the management, possibly io ite purpose and probably in its usefulness, the great college now so successfully con- ducted in this county. A college in which the State has millions of dollars invested and which ranks second to none in this broad country. Seotion 901 of this new measure provides for the appointment, by the Governor, of a “State Board of Edacation to coosist of six members, ‘‘three of whom shall be suc- cessful educators of high standing conneo- ted with the public school system of the Commonwealth,’’ in addition to the}'‘Sa- perintendent of Public Instruction, who shall be ex-officio a member of said board and president thereol.”” Among the du. ties and powers of this board, as set] forth in section 996, in addition to bossiug every- thing pertaining to the common and high schools of the State, is —*to require reports from and to SU- PERVISE the educational ‘‘work in institu. tions wholly or partly supported by the State. which are not supervised by she publie school aathorities.’’ As the State Normal schools are consid- ered and recognized as part of the publio school system and are specifically placed, by this act, nnder the Board of Education, this section can apply only to The Penn- sylvania State College, the Uciversity of Pennsylvania and she University of Pitte. burg—the only institutions of learning out- side of the Normal and public schools that are ‘wholly or partly sapported by the State.” Then we turn to section 2001 and find the following : Section 2001. There shall be established and maintained by the Commonwealth of Pennsylva- nia two Colleges of Education to be respectively located at and made a part of tna University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pittsburg, for the purpose of liberally educating and technical ly training persons to be high school and normal school teachers, principals and superintendents of schools, supervisors of the various schoo! grades, teachers and supervisors of special suaxcugs, and experts for service in such addi- tional higher rosrrions in the public school system of this wealth as may be created from time to Section 2002. The control of the financial axp ALL OTHER APPAIRS OF EACH OF THE SAID CoLLEGES OF Eovcariox, suans be permanently vested in a Board of Managers, to consist OF THE TRUSTEES OF TRE UNIVERSITY OF WHICH THE COLLEGE IS A PART, tO- gether with the State Board of Education. Section 2003. There shall be established and maintained in each of the said colleges, courses of study in the theory practice and development of educational thought, including adequate pro- vision for observing and practicing the art of teaching, together with such adlitional courses as the said Board of Managers may from time to time prescribe. Provided, however, That these cours- es of oived shall be of a higher order than those fort hie State Normal Schools of this Ie wil be neat that in the case of the two institutions, which it is proposed reo- ognizing as the State's *‘Colleges of Edaca- tion,’ the supervision of the financial, eda- cational, and all other affairs of these ool- leges shall be ‘‘permanensiy vested in a board of managers to consist of the trustees of these institutions,” along with the Board of Education. Inasmuch as the boards of trustees of each of the institu- tions named far outnumber the ‘‘Board of Education’ it can readily be understood how their management and supervision will still remain under their own control, potwithstanding the fact that they are partly or wholly supported by the State. And to cap the climax of this attempted public favoritism, section 2005 provides that the ‘‘tuition of any stadent regularly admitted to either of said onlleges of edu- cation, who is a regular graduate of a Penn- sylvania State Normal shall be paid by the State.” Thas in addition to the vast ap- propriations made to these colleges she State would be compelled to pay tu- ition for every Normal student npon their rolls, The unfairness of thia to the one great institution the State now owns and con- trols, is in the fact thas it is required to give free instruction iv every branch taught to all students entering, for any course, while these favored private intstitutions would be receiving full pay from the Com- monwealth for all students qualified to en- ter them. Bat even this proposed financial favorit- ism does not equal the wrong it would per- petrate upon the State College by the prop- osition to place the supervision of its edu- cational work in the bands of those more particularly interested in the work of the Normal and pablio schools of the State. For that is what the provision ofl section 901 means if it meavs anything. The Su. perintendent of Pablic Instruction and she three successful educators connected with the publio school system, would com- prise a majority of the Board of Edueca- tion, and would dictate the courses, direct the work and manage all the educational matters connected with the college. How long under such circumstances would the high standard now prevailing and maintained by this great institution, continue ? How soi notil its diplomas would be on a level in public estimation, and iv a business way, with those of the Normal and ordinary High school ? The Gigantic Fraud in the Public Lands Department Secretary GARFIELD, of the Interior De- partment, seems to be having a busy time trying to recover public lands stolen, by corporations, companies and individoeal land thieves, daring the past eight years. If Mr. GARFIELD is correct, over one hun- dred million dollars worth of the most val- uable lands belonging to the government have passed into the hands of corporation companies and individual speculators, with- out auy return to the government, and are now held in such manner and through such titles, that the recovery of this property to the people can only be secured through costly and interminable litigation. Snits have already been brought for the restoration of 350,000 acres, the value of which is placed at $15,000,000. Attorneys and government officials are investigating the titles to $49,500,000 worth of coal and other mineral lands throughout the west, that have, in some manner or other passed from the government owner- ship without remuneration or in the regu- lar way. Sixteen million’s worth of other public lands, up in Alaska, are said to be claimed by companies, corporations and in- dividuals, and all through the far western States, tract after tract belonging to the government, is being timbered, mined or is occupied and claimed by companies or persons, who, it is alleged, have secured such tisles as they claim to have to them, either through the favor of government of- ficials, or frands practiced npon the de- partments. How many attorneys, how many years of litigation, what an array of detectives or how great thie cost will be, to seoure to the people this vast amoant of stolen property, no one oan tell, nor is it possible to make even an Approximate estimate. When it is remembered that the interior department has its land, ite timber and its mineral,agents and supervisors in every seo- tion of the country in whioh public lands oan he found ; when it is known that of the twenty-three millions of dollars yearly expended for secret servioe agents, a good- ly portion of it was to pay men for patrol- ing and watching the more valuable eeo- tions of she public domain, and in addition that millions upon millions have gone as attorney fees to protect and preserve these same lands, the wonder as to how or why they were loat to us, will be all the greater. To think of the army of timber watchers, land agents, mineral protectors we have paid to watch this public property ; of the amount we bave expended on deteotives to watch these public officials, and the fees that have been given lawyers for profes- sional service in keeping detectives and watohers straight, and then to wakeon up to the fact that all public land, that is of value or worth taking oare of, has been stolen and is now the property of others, ouly as we can wrest it from them through costly litigation, leaves but one conclusion —and that is, that the negligence, careless. ness or rascality of those in charge of this government property has been such as should bring about the removal and pun- ishment of every mother's son of them at once. | There is no use of trying to exouse, ex- onorate or explain in this matter. The government has paid an ample force to oversee and protect its interest iu its pub- lic lands. The men who are responsible for the theiving and wrongs perpetrated, and which it is now proposed shall be righted through costly and endless litiga- tion, are the Repablican officials—who have failed to attend to the duties for which they were appointed. Aud the party primarily responsible for all is the Republican party. It appointed men to places who were anworthy of trast. It paid an army of office holders for work that was not done. It squandered millions on detectives who detected nothing. Is hired lawyers to give advice and help pro- tect its interests whose only work was to draw exoessive fees and shut their eyes to the robbery that was going on. What would the honest citizen do with a representative who had permitted him to be fleeced, as has the Republican party ai- lowed the American people to be, in this public land basiness ? «Most of the weather of the past two weeks has been very spring-like, in fact more like April weather than February, aud various Bellefonters are predioting that winter is about over because they have seen angle worms and snails crawling on the ground and there are some who declare they have heard blue birds singing ; and the final sign was told us on Monday morn- ing by Mike Hazel who said a neighbor of his the latter part of last week caught an eel thirty-two inches ia length just above his home in Spring creek. This isa very unusual thing as eels do not run in winter time and when is Nt yen Yiey Sue uh given BELLEFONTE, PA., FEBRUARY 19, 1909. Sound Without Siguificance, At the dinner of the Illinois Society in New York, the other day, Judge GARY, chairman of the hoard of she Steel trust, reminded those abous him of the daties of men such as they to the communities in which they live. He said thas what are call- ed personal interests mast give way at times to the larger interests of the community. He added thas it is the duty of sach men to give cordial sapport to the government and show n disposition to meet public seunti- | ment *‘instead of a policy of cunning eva- sions or circumventions of the law and a | defiance of law and public opinion until | the walls of the penitentiary loom into sight.” This is the same gentleman who, in com- pany with HENRY C. FRICK, visited the | White House in Oct. 1907, and influenced | President ROOSEVELT to promise that the viclation of the law by the absorption of the Tenvessee Coal and Iron company by the Steel trust would not be interfered with by the government. It was a conspiracy of the worst type. Those concerned were fully aware thas the law was being violated. They admitted to the President that such a merger was forbidden by law and that if she law was enforced the purpose would be defeated. This was not only a cunning evasion of the law bus it was essentially “a defiance of pablic opinion’’ which ought to bave brought the walle of the penitentiary into view. “Of coarse ROOSEVELT consented to thiz violation of the law not for the parposz of saviog an important trost company from impending failure, as he alleged in a letter to Attorney General BONAPARTE, but to pat the Steel trust magnates under obliga. tions to him so thas he could hold them up for campaign subsoriptions a year later. At that time ROOSEVELT expected to he the candidate of his party for President last year. For nearly three months later FRANK HITCHCOCK, then assistant Postmaster General, was canvassing the negroes of the south in his interest, and he wanted to be certain of a campaign fand. Bat the panic made his nomination impossible so that TAFT instead of himsell got the benefit of the conspiracy. We sincerely hope that Judge GARY will flactice the busivess policies be preaches, but have little faith. Sach talk from such men is intended to placate public senti- went or divers popular suspicion. Bat the conspirators go on [rom ove outrage to another in seizing oontrol of the forces of natare and the utilities which should be | Possi under the control of the ; people or at least managed in the interest of the people. Judge GARY aod his associates in the Steel trust made buodreds of millions by the operation in question and fettered the in- dustrial life of the country for ages to come. In view of that record his honied words are without significance. Stuart Will Not Intervene. The esteemed Harrisburg Patriot is earn- estly urging Governor STUART to intervene with the purpose of compelling the pab- lisher of the Legislative Record to disgorge the grat he has been enjoying during the last couple of years. STUART has the repn- tation of being an honest man and is justly entitled to that distinotion, our contempor- ary reascns, and he will suffer in popular estimation if scandals are permitted to grow out of his administration. That is unquestionably true bat Governor STUART will not bother himself shont it. Conscious of his own integrity he will pursue the even tenor of his way and trust to his past record to vindicate himself. The conspiracy which resulted in giviog a contract for the Legislative Record at $12 a page was the most reprehensible frand whioh has been perpetrated by the polisio- al machine in recent years. The grafting in the capitol construction involved larger sams of money hut the moral turpitude was no greater. The previous contract bad heen at less than $4 a page. That wasa small sam and probably oo low. It is reasonably certain, however, that the original bid of the contractor was only a trifle more than thas. But when discovered that there was no competitive bidder he ohaoged the figures. It may be fortunate, however, that he didn’t make the amount greater. He could have pulled off any amonaot. Bat the Governor will not iutervene. When he was Mayor of Philadelphia cor- ruption ran rampant ail about bim and he made no protest. Is was daring that period that the combine which has since developed into the present machine was organized. He might easily have prevented most of that if inclined. Bus he was content so long as the finger of suspicion was not pointed at him personally. The city was being robbed every day. The loot was being divided among those about him but no part of it got into his possession and that was all he cared for. He will be equally | oo complacent in the present instance. The graft can go on as long as there is a dollar in the treasury and be will offer no dbjte- tion. : ae] ~——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. The attention shas is paid she Coaestita- tion of the country by Republican officials is shown in the sorry sight that President- elect Tarr and United States Senator KNo0X have made of themselves in trying to make a cabinets for the vew administra- tion. Here is a case in which a former Judge of the United States cours, a former Governor of the Philippine Islands, a man who has cocupied many other high and im. portant positions in the governments of his country, and bas bus recently bees chosen to she highest office in the gift of she peo ple, who didu’t know the coustitational re- quirements for those who were to act as his advisors. And enother in which a United States Senator, noted for his abili- ty as a lawyer, aud paraded as a statesman with lew saperiors, who was unaware of his own disqualification for a cabinet po- sition in consequence of the position he holds. It is but fair to these men to say that they dido’t know the requirements of the constitution, for to think otherwise would be to consider them willful violaters of the instrament that both have sworn to obey and defend. And il they didn’t know, whas a com- wentary their ignorance is on the consider- ation given the fundamental law by those chosen to see that its requirements are car- ried ont and its provisions enforced. Fix it up as you may, however, this ex- hibition of a want of kvowledge of oconsti- tational demands, or this willingness to violate them is neither re-assuriog to the people nor does it give promise of a con- servative, faithful, and constitutional ad- ministration of the affairs of this govern. ment. The Coustitution and the Knox Case There is not such an excess of devotion to the Constitution that we care to animad- vert sharply on members of the House, Democrats and Repablicans, who opposed the enactment of the bill redacing the salary of the Secretary of State so that Sen. ator Knox could accept the office. Bas is may at least be oh without offense that voey Ssplayed superfluous scrupulosity. constitutional inbibition was aimed at an entirely possible form of Congression- al graft. It was not wildly improbabl that Senators or prooure the increase of salaries of offices to which they aspired, and, having made the positions thoroughly ble to them- selves, should then use influence with the President to obtain the SPURS; That process of sell-seekiog is made im- ble by constitationa! a It is sod that the bill introduced by Senator Hale is a device for getting around the Constitation. So is is, bus the vice which she inhibition was aimed at does not exist. Il Congress thought it did it could have 4 the bars up ; is did nos think so and it the bars down. All that the st aimed at is preserved by the very fact that an enabling act was neces. sary in the case of Senator Knox. If Con- gress thought that he had procured the in- crease of the salary of the Br of State, especially it he red it in rh hope of heuelivfiag thereby, , it was ol ene power gress So prevent og hy his excessive enterprise. If outs nothing of the kind it was entirely proper for it to get around a technical ob- stacle by a technical removal. It isn’t long since a large minority of the House—nearly a majority—voted itself mileage for a trip home never made daring a recess that never existed. Aod nowa large minority of the House has voted on constitutions glovuds against Senator Knox's assumption of the office of Seore- tary of State. Members of the House of Representatives who were ready to swal- low a camel complain pithy about swallowing a goat. Coercion Miscued, From the Pittsburg Post. Were it nos shat the President's term of office is about to expire, some good mighs come of the report of the Senate committee ona , which has been investi- gating she secret service. This committee be found thas the harrowing charge made by Mr. Roosevels, that Cougress was afraid being sleathed, and hance limited the operation of the secret rervice, ‘‘was abso. lutely wrong and erroneous, and never ought to havebeen made.’’ It has been found that the fand