Bevo dan. BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —In the race for Judgeship of Centre county HENRY FORD has four entries and | Mr. BUICK one. i —Centre county farmers have much to | ETT be thankful for when they think of the] ~— STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. havoc played with York county crops by i _ —Take the kiddies to the circus today. | OI ory BELL EFONTE, PA. AUGUST 27, 1915. NO. 34. —— Remember that vou were a little one yourself and that their days of childhood will soon be over. : Saturday’s storm.’ Governor Brumbaugh and the Vares. Governor BRUMBAUGH protests that his | — There are just one hundred working appointment of Tom SMITH of Philadel- | days until Christmas. Have you paid phia to a seat in the Public Service Com- : the final installment on the presents you mission had nothing to do with Phila- | | delphia machine politics. Then what : | id d by the ti this i dt ill be safely in San F; isco, sharing hon- —The female of the species is already | under the sun influenced him to make Ing and by the time this is read they wi ely In San Francisco, sharing hon gave last Christmas? figuring in the judicial race in Centre ! the appointment? It is true that Senator county. Four “tin Lizzies” are trying to | PENROSE once had him appointed post- | get the one BUICK in a pocket. master in Philadelphia and that he drew —Many travelers are of the opinion the salary of the office for a considerable that Centre county has more beautiful i time. But that fact didn’t demonstrate and more diversified scenery and asgood | his fitness for any office. It simply gave roads as any county in the State. { him the opportunity to draw a salary. | —The Centre county corn crop, that has looked so promising up to the last | few weeks, is showing signs of improper | development of the ears, due to the cool weather. | . —When you are working your head off and afraid to stop for a day or so of play once in a while for fear some one will think you are lazy and neglectful : remember that the bee, the insect that is synonomous for the word busy, works | only three months in the year and loafs | nine. —Though reporting the fact that HAR- RY M. WALKER, of Haines township, threshed 450 bushels of oats as the crop off of a six acre field, our Wolfe's Store correspondent insinuates a doubt as to the truth of the statement. We might also add that there are some doubting THOMASES at this end, too. —The appointment of ROBERT A. ZENTMYER, of Tyrone, to a place on the Pennsylvania Water Commission sends a glimmering the hopes one or two Belle- | fonters had of picking up that $3,000 plum; and also demonstrates the fact that a ride on the water wagon is no surety of a job on the Water Commis- sion. —Mixed up with “the Wolf of Wall Street,” interceding for the International Lumber swindlers and charged with be- traying State secrets to agents of the German government A MITCHELL PAL- MER finds himself in a very unenviable position today. It has been announced that the President will not appoint him counsellor to the State Department and it is very probable that the star of this egotistical young hypocrite has set. —After all, if Americans could avert the danger of precipitating a clash be- tween their own country and Germany by not traveling in the war zone wouldn’t they have more to be proud of than they will if by persisting in doing it they be- come the willful cause of carnage such as is now wiping out families and homes on the other side. International law, high ideals of government, the rights of citizenship, etc., are all right, and we all stand for them, but there is just a possi- bility that a lot of people are exposing themselves when there is no absolute ne- cessity for it. —We notice with a degree of interest- ed curiosity that one of the WATCHMAN’S local writers announces, in this issue, that CLEMENT DALE Esq. has purchased a Ford car and that he “had it equipped with shock absorbers in order to reduce the jolt to a minimum.” Inasmuch as it is not our function to censor the local news appearing in this paper we can at least raise the question of propriety as to the use of that word “jolt.” Mr. DALE is a candidate for judge and there are those mean enough to imagine that our local editor might have referred to other “jolts” than the many recurring varieties handed out by the Ford car. ——On Friday the old time Lock Ha- ven Daily Democrat came out under the heading of the Clinton Dispatch. The change in’ name evidently signifies a change in heart of the present owners who have now begun to realize that the niission of any well conducted paper is far broader than that of being a mere creature of factional politics. The Clin- ton Dispatch is an ably edited and very much alive newspaper and it can be an agent of much good in Lock Haven and Clinton county with its pen wielded in the right direction, and its convictions not on the market table as they were only a short time ago when it was still the Daily Democrat. A —The baby and doll parade that wa part of the Lock Haven Old Home week celebration, on Wednesday night, was a charmingly interesting feature, but the mothers and children of that city who evidently went to much trouble in prep- aration for it were met with scant enthu- siasm, as they paraded for the pleasure of the onlookers. Just why the lack of enthusiasm we were at a loss to under- stand but the crowds stood stolidly by when prolonged applause was certainly merited by the efforts of the mothers and their daintily dressed offspring. Lock Haven should catch the Old Home week spirit if she hopes to have her cel- ebration linger as a pleasant memory in the minds of those who have contributed “!'“party to a'deal in ‘the Mayoralty situa" to its success. He didn’t even discharge the duties of the office. He gave most of his time to the management of a bonding company and compelled every employee of the post- | office, who required a bond, to patronize his concern. The Public Service Commission is eas- ily the most important governing agency in the State. Each member receives in salary an amount equal to that paid the Governor. , His power over the industria] life of the Commonwealth is even greater than that of the Chief Magistrate. The salary was fixed by the Legislature in order to entice the ablest men into the service. How does Tom SMITH measure up to the requirements of such an office? He may have attained the rank of ward leader by favor, but never rose above that. He is conspicuous in no direction. He isexpert in nothing except politics and his efforts in politics have been mainly in. the submerged field. No other man who has ever served as Governor would have dreamed of naming him for Commissioner. \ But the Governor's actions and state- ment are not consistent. In his letter tendering Tom SMITH a seat in the Com- mission he states that the suggestion came from the VARES, “BILL” and “Eb,” and that the conditions are that he, Tom SMITH, is not to accept any other office without the Governor's consent. The only other office for which SMITH’S name was under consideration was that of Mayor of Philadelphia as a compromise candidate to defeat the ambition of BILL VARE. Possibly there are men obtuse enough to be deceived by the subsequent statement that the suggestion that he is tion in Philadelphia is too absurd to merit consideration,” but under an in- telligence test they couldn’t vote. ——Only one more week until the re- opening of the public schools of Belle- fonte for the ensuing school year; and the next week will mark the opening of the Bellefonte Academy and The Penn- sylvania State College. Failure of the Commission. The Industrial Relations Commission will submit nine reports, according to the press dispatches. There are nine members and no two of them can agree upon any question. They have been taking testimony for nearly two years and have piled up nearly a million pages of evidence. They have also wasted more than a million dollars in paying ex- penses, and all this comes to nothing. A contemporary suggests that better results might have been obtained if another than Mr. WALSH had been chairman. “His abusive methods of dealing with witness- es,” it adds, “was well calculated to dis- credit the findings.” Possibly there is some truth in this. Mr. WALSH treated princes and paupers precisely alike. But the method of dealing with wit- nesses is not the only or even the princi- pal cause of the failure of the Industrial Relations Commission to accomplish re- sults. The fault lies far deeper. It fail- ed for the same reason that a tariff com- mission would fail and that monetary commissions and tax law commissions and every other form of commissions have failed. Commissions are never in- tended to achieve results. They are sim- ply expedients to delay action that would accomplish something. When an inter- est, entrenched in the form of law, dis- cerns a movement toward legislation’ that might interfere with its graft, it in- vokes a commission. It is the easiest way to avert impending disaster. The constitution of the United States and the fundamental laws of the several States provide means for correcting evils by legislation, National or State. The Congress and the Legislatures are the vehicles for the achievement of the leg- islative reforms. If the Legislators, State and National, are too stupid or too venal to enact the proper legislation the remedy is in the selection of more intel- ligent and honest men for the service. There are plenty of men capable and willing to serve the public in this way and the crooks and ignoramuses who are incapable or unwilling should be kept out of the public service. The people can se- cure good government if they go about it in the right way. ——Put your ad. in the WATCHMAN. An Interesting Write-up of Happenings at Harrisburg. HARRISBURG, PA., August 25th, 1915. “They're off.” Not the race horses or the motorcycles but the Governor’s junketers. They started from Philadelphia on a special train on Monday morn- ors with the Liberty Bell, the “diving beauties,” trained animals and other attrac- tions at the Pan-American show. And it is some junket. Only eleven of the twenty-one “Commissioners” were in the party but most of the members of the Governor's staff were present, a few Senators and Representatives in the i Legislature answered to roll call and enough of the Governor's personal friends to make up a total of 125 persons responded to the cheerful “all aboard” of the train official in charge. Of course all the expenses of this enterprise will be paid out of the treasury of the State and it will be a good deal of money. But possibly it will be worth all it costs to the people of Pennsylvania. It will certainly advertise the State for the Governor is a handsome man and his “staff” in full .uniform is “a spectacle for the gods.” The industrial life of the Commonwealth might have been sufficiently proclaimed in the exhibits and the agricultaral resources revealed in the products shown. But those things don’t measure the merits of a community. It is the man that counts, the sturdy, courageous, resourceful men make the standard of excellence. In view of these facts what could the newspapers have ‘meant when they said it was “an all-steel train” that carried the party to its Western destina- tion. : The people of the State will be glad to learn, moreover, that during the ab- sence of the Governor Attorney General FRANCIS SHUNK BROWN will exercise whatever executive authority that is dispensed. Mr. BROWN is the gentleman who made the deal which placed Mr. SMITH, of Philadelphia, on the Board of Public Service Commissioners and wrote the letter informing Mr. SMITH of his everlasting obligation to the VARE Brothers, “BILL” and “Ep.” That letter fairly exuded the spirit of statesmanship and proved beyond question Mr. BROWN'S fidelity to the contractor bosses, by whom he was formerly employed, Old fash- ioned folk might imagine that the interests of the people are paramount, but what have old-fashioned folk to do with public questions? The County Commissioners of Berks county in particular and County Com- missioners generally were given a strong hint as to “where to get off” by the State Highway Commissioner, yesterday. The people of Birdsboro, Berks county, have been trying for some time to get the County Commissioners to join with the State Department to construct a' road but without success for the reason that the county officials refused to co-operate. Finally the people of the borough appeal- ed direct to the State Highway Department and offered to pay half the expense with the result that an engineer has been directed to proceed with the work. Heretofore the County Commissioners have had “the last word” in such matters and this innovation means much. 2 - A delegation of citizens of Philipsburg, Centre county, headed by Congressman- elect ROWLAND was heard by the Highway Commissioner, yesterday, in relation to the improvement of State highways leading into that borough. The indications are that there will be something doing. therein the near future, It is safe to say ‘that"wherever there is an opportunity to improve the highways the Department will give it a boost. The time limit for filing petitions for Judical nominations expired yesterday. Altogether 163 petitions have been filed of which seven are for seats on the Su- perior court bench, one hundred and eleven for the various common pleas bench- es, nine for orphans’ court, eight for the municipal court, eight for the municipaj court of Philadelphia and twenty-eight for associate judges, not learned in the law. The aspirants for the Superior court are JouN B. HEAD, of Westmoreland county; STEPHEN H. HUSELTON, Allegheny county; GEORGE B. ORLADY, of Hunting- don county; CHARLES PALMER, of Delaware county; WiLLIAM D. WALLACE, of Law- rence county and J. HENRY WILLIAMS and WiLLiaM C. WILSON, of Philadelphia. Mr. HEAD and Mr. ORLADY are at present in commission and are widely support- ed by lawyers throughout the State. It is said that the Republican machine fa- vors J. H. WILLIAMS, of Philadelphia. The Department of Agriculture is still “on the job,” and reports a consider- able deficiency in the apple crop, in some counties as much as seventy per cent Seven counties, Philadelphia, Beaver, Lawrence, Lancaster, Lebanon, Montgomery and Snyder counties will produce about ninety per cent. of the average yield for ten years, and the others will show a much greater falling off. The total crop this year will be about 14,000,000 bushels as against 23,000,000 last year, a de- crease of a trifle mere than one-third. Later reports on the potato crop are less encouraging, moreover, than that of a week ago. Potato bugs have been sur- prisingly active of late. In York county it is reported that they have attacked the tomato and pepper plants with damaging results. In the present frame of the public mind the rifie tournament of the National Guard now in progress at Mt. Gretna is invested with considerable popular inter- est. Thisis, in the last analysis, the supreme test of military efficiency and it is a subject of pride that the Pennsylvania militiamen are well up to the high stand- ard. Battles aren’t fought at close range these days and the soldier worth while must be a marksman. The ranges are 300, 500 and 600 yards. There are various trophies contested for annually among them the HERSHMAN cup, the WIGGINS cup, the POTTER tablet, the Colonel KAUL cup, the State cup, the BRADLEY cup and several others. Some of the scores were high and all of them above the average. The Game Department has been forced to an important modification of the law enacted during the recent session of the Legislature with respect to dogs owned by unnaturalized residents. Dr. KALBFUS, Secretary of the Commission, has issued a bulletin in which he says: “This act was not intended to authorize a constable or other officers to go into a foreigner’s home and take a lap dog or a child’s puppy and arrest the owner of the house.” But by what authority does Dr. KALBFUS assume the right to interpret laws? Who commissioned him to usurp the powers of the Supreme court? The truth is that this law is an abomi- nation from whatever angle it is viewed and like most of the other laws prepared by the Game Commission is oppressive, absurd and obnoxious. It simply express- es the prejudices of a certain element against foreigners. Bills amounting to thousands of dollars have been sent in to cover .damages to crops by protected game animals. Farmers say they can’t protect themselves without violating the game laws which is an expensive operation. The Game Commission demands proof, however, that the damage was done by protected game and as nobody can sue the State Dr.-KALBFUS becomes the autocrat of the question. GEORGE H. WIRT, of Franklin county, has been appointed chief of the new bureau of Forestry Protection. The salary is $2300 a year and the job a “snit.” ——Work was started on Monday on depressions thereon. While the work is resurfacing the state road on Allegheny | being done the street will be roped off, a : block or two at a time, until the asphalt : treet. All holes will be dug out and re- ' ’ “i $ = ae has become thoroughly set. The work . filled with broken stone, rolled, and a top is being done jointly by the State and dressing of asphalt and crushed stone | borough. put on. This top dressing will be ap-| =~ = : plied to the entire street to level up all! ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. MYSTERIOUS PRISCILLA. | QUESTION Mysterious Priscilla of wonderful fame | Oh where do you live and what is your name? | Are you playing opossum or hide and go seek? | We've been trying to find you for many a week. { Do you dress like a boy or wear clothes like a girl? * Is your hair long and ropy or done up in curl? Pray tell us the story in verse or in prose At present your nature—the Lord only knows. ANSWER. Merilla Priscilla she lived on a hill And if She’s not gone She lives there still. Her name may be Maggie. or Bunay or Dick But one thing is sure she is playing a trick ° 5 She is never in hiding—always happy and free On the streets of Bellefonte any day you may see. She is handy with paper and handy with pen, Is making a living—independent of men. Her name and Her nature is worthy a guess If you leave it to Her She will never confess. —By Priscilla. Satisfied With ‘the Man at the Wheel. en From the Harrisburg Star Independent. There is nothing to be gained by Amer- icans becoming excited over the sinking of the Arabic. This is no occasion for pre- cipitately shouting for harsh measures against Germany if it shall be shown that several citizens of the United States were among those who lost their lives when the White Star liner was torpedoed yes- terday off the Irish coast. Cie The details of the attack on the vessel, at this writing, have not been officially received in this country. Even if, on their arrival, they show that Germany has re- peated the offense which she committed when she sent the Lusitania to the bot- tom with Americans on board, notwith- standing this country’s last warning that a repetition of the offense would be re- garded as a distinctly unfriendly act re- . gardless of whether Germany contends she is justified in such act,—even then there need be no headlong excitement among Americans. The thinking people of this country ' have got beyond the stage of becoming . unreasonably wrought up over apparent- ly “unfriendly” acts of Germany toward , the United States, and there is a good reason for their self-restraint. This rea- son is that they know that the marin the White House is level headed, wise and | intensely earnest in his desire to keep ! this nation out of war if it can be done | with honor— honor in the highest sense.’ | They know they can trust President Wil- son to do what is best for the physical and moral welfare of this country in such crises as these, and they are content to abide by his decision and judgment. ! If President Wilson says “War,” war it will be and the nation will back him to a ing its head in these troublous times nor trying to tear the wheel out of the helms- i man’s hand every time a new cloud ap- "pears in the sky, no matter how forbid- ding the aspect of that cloud may be. The Russian Retreat. ! From the Springfield Republican. As the Russian retirement proceeds it | becomes increasingly plain that it was ; long premeditated and carefully prepared for. When the colossal German move- ment, the biggest in history, began at the end of April, the ground plan of the great design was roughly visible even to out- , siders. But the outsider could not know . what was probably known both at Berlin . and at Petrograd, that the German plan | was based upon certainty of succeeding , at every step. Remote as was the attack in Galicia from the invasion of the ‘Baltic provinces, which superficial commenta- tors took for a mere raid, the two were part of one plan, and the Russian Gen- eral Staff, aware of the impossibility of holding the line in the South, must have | foreseen the development of the general | plan and determined to frustrate it by a | sweeping sacrifice of territory. At Kov- no 400 guns have been taken, but noth- ing is said of prisoners, and apparently the evacuation of the untenable region has been effected with remarkably small losses. The second line of defense is gone like the first, and the German ar- my can make further great seizures of Russian territory if it is thought worth , while. But whether the Russian army can be cornered and forced to fight is not ' so certain, and its position behind the Pripet marshes, as big as Ireland, will now give it protection from the South. Perhaps the Russian commanders have hopes of finding a Marne; if not it will . be a question of how far they can re- treat and how far the Germans will care to follow. i | Those Bandit Raids. ' From the San Francisco Star. | Small bands of Mexican bandits have crossed into Texas and made trouble. « There is nothing to show that Carranza, Villa or any other Mexican leader is re- sponsible for such raids. may be responsible for the raids, but we have no proof—not even evidence. American land-grabbers and concession- grabbers have made more trouble in Mexico than any number of Mexican bandit bands can make in Texas or any other State on the border. Feared for Ingenuitv. From the Chicago Daily News. Simon Lake, who perfected the mod- ern submarine, including the American submersible that can cruise 6,000 miles without refueling, predicts that if the war lasts two years longer submarin freighters will be carrying supplies t Europe. If we cannot be respected for our neutrality we may be feared for our ingenuity. Looks That Way. From the Boston Record. Gov. Whitman orders the Austrians and Slavs of Little Falls to be disarmed: By and by no one in New York State will be armed except the gunmen of the me- ‘ tropolis. Some of them’ : —ae | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. { —Wilmerding is enjoying a silver jubilee this week and has a good many of its first settlers there to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary. —Ralph McWilliams, aged 35, was crushed to death when a part of the concrete wall of a build- ing in Montgomery, Lycoming county, fell. He was working nearby and was buried in the ruins. —Western Pennsylvania capitalists have pur_ chased land around an old shot factory, an his. toric building near Buckstown and will have a game preserve. The old edifice will be undis- turbed. —The Latrobe Bulletin states that garden truck valued at $186,585.70 was raised by employees of the H. C. Frick Coke company during the pres- ent year. This was raised on 6,819 lots at fifty- “six plants. a —William Charles Lewis, who is known as Johnstown’s Grand Old Man,” celebrated the 9th anniversary of his birth Monday. He is treasurer of the Johnstown Savings bank and is on duty from day to day. : —Seven men and four women are now confined in the Cambria county jail at Ebensburg charged with conspiracy to rob a paymaster some days ago. All the members of the party reside in Barnesboro or in its vicinity. —From 3% acresot ground on the Jefferson county poor farm 280 bushels of oats were cut one day last week. The Punxsutawney Spirit says the commissioners are “much belated” over the affair, but we suspect they are elated. : ' —The entire council of the borcugh of Vinton- dale, Cambria county, has resigned. The mem- bers are all employees of the Vinton Colliery company, and feel that they cannot legally serve since the borough is a patron of the company. —John Ottino, a resident of Westmoreland county, stood upon the bank of the Yough and shot himself through the mouth, the bullet: lodg- ing in the brain and causing instant death, He was 40 yéars old and was worried about his friends in Italy. Indolent boys who have been loafing about the streets of Clearfield for some time ard be. lieved to have entered the restaurant of Orin C. Barger early the other morning and appropriated $5 in money and cigars, cigarettes and candy worth about $8. —Captain and Mrs, William Kemple, of Cham- betsville, Indiana county, have just celebrated their golden wedding. . They were the parents of 18 children and one of their sons, twice married, is said to have been highly pleased when his family contained 19 children. —Annie Hydose, aged 3 years, was drowned in a reservoir near Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland county, a few days ago. The child fell into the water while playing and she was not missed by her mother until an hour later when the body was found in the water partly submerged. —Paul Maguire, Jr., of Morrisdale, while out picking berries found the skeleton of a man who had evidently committed suicidea year or more ago. The lad hastily reported his ghastly find and state constabulary guarded the spot from the morbidly curious crowd until county authorities could take charge. : —Next Tuesday the citizens of Reynoldsville will have the opportunity of voting on the bond. ing of the borough to the amount of $100,000 for the purpose of purchasing the present water works or of building or securing new municipal water works. There is no doubt but that the question will carry by a large majority. ; Six youthful bandits in the vicinity of La- trobe practicing on a 9-year-old lad of that town, threw him into Loyalhanna creek and left him to get our or drown. They went through his pockets first. Hegot a good view of all his assailants and was able to describe them when he had | made his way home. Developments are ex- pected. : unit, but'meantime the nation is t5e | —Deputy Attorney General Horace W. Davis has rendered an opinion for Dr. Joseph H. Kalbfus, secretary of the State Game Commission to the effect that the act prohibiting unnaturaliz- ed foreigners from owning dogs does not apply to household pets and puppies. He points out that the intent of the act is to protect the game of the State. —Mrs. Mahalsh Kelly, of Milton, is minus $145 in bills and some small change and a boarder in her house missed a suit case containing clothing and a motor car license tag because she didn’t listen to her little girl who told her the new boarder was in a room that didn’tibelong to him. After the damage was done she remembered the child’s remark. —One night last week in Clearfield, an auto- mobile driven by Emory Shaw plunged into a buggy occupied by Clair Kline, aged 20, and Miss Ellen Cook. The horse was killed, the buggy de- molished and Kline's skull fractured. Itis said that Shaw was under the influence of liquor and the district attorney of Clearfield county has brought criminal charges againt him. —A quarrel over the way to cook beans result- ed in the shooting of two men. John Beighley and two sons had been keeping house since the death of his wife near Cavittshurg. Ralph plan- ned tc cook beans and during his absence his father put them on. Ralph promptly shot him in the back and his brother in the leg. The injured men are in the Wilkinsburg hospital and Ralph is under arrest. —Charles Fochler and Henry Hasse, two pris. oners in the Blair county jail, made a successful getaway early Sunday morning, with the aid of a saw and a rope made of their blankets. News of their sensational escape was telegraphed to the heads of the police departments of all the cities and towns in this section of the State. Jail warden John B. Riddle offers $100 reward for the return of the prisoners to the jail. The men es- caped from the same cell that Frank Hohl got out of about sixteen months ago. —Two unknown men entered the home of Jacob Plummer, at Derry, the other night, dur- ing his absence at his work, bound and gagged Mrs. Plummer and ransacked the house, getting about $13 in money. They left the woman bound when they departed. Two children were asleep inthe house but they did not get awake for sev- eral hours and Mrs. Plummer, clad only in a thin night dress, was almost frozen when one of.the children finally awoke, saw her mother’s state ° and called in a neighbor who released her. Two suspects have been arrested. —The annual reunion of the survivors of the Fifty-fifth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers was held in Indiana on Wednesday. A big din- ner was served the veterans at the home of Mrs. S. J. Telford, wife of the Judge of Indiana coun- ty, and a business session and camp fire was held in the municipal building in the afternoon. Mrs. Telford and Mrs. C. M. Watson, of Indiana, are daughters of the late Col. Dick White, com- mander of the regiment, and they also take an active interest in the affairs of the regiment, en-. tertaining the members at each annual gather, ng. . —The Munson Lumber company, the leading stockholders of which are three brothers named Knepper, has purchased a large timber area near the Kretchman place, seven miles from Meyers- dale, and will soon be ready to operate. The tramway, which will run from the saw mill to the Grassy run extension of the Salisbury branch of the B. & O., is about constructed. The firm states that there is sufficient timber to engage their plant for a period of eight years. The company has contracted with the Economy Tele: phone company for the installation of service for a period of five years. As the annual rental of this service extends way up into the hundreds of dollars, the in. ication is that the company wil be doing business on a large scale.
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