— — ay
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Lon Beach, aged 22 years, of Hawley,
Luzerne couny, was fatally wounded while
hunting on Monday afternoon by a trap
gun. The trap was set alongside a rum
near there and Beach exploded it when his
foot caught in the wire fastened to the
| trigger.
—After being out for more than five
hours, a jury returned a verdict in favor
of Mrs. Mary J. Bowden for $4000 against
the Citizen's Light, Heat and Power Co.,
of Salisbury. Mrs. Bowden's husband was
electrocuted several years ago when he
came in contact with a live wire while
working at the power plant.
—Yawning. during a lull in the even
ing’s conversation at the headquarters of
the Rittersville Fire company at Allen-
town, Mark Beitler, a member, felt a sharp
pain in one side. His suffering increased
in severity, until his return home, when he
fainted. A physician was called and made
an examination, finding a fractured rib.
—Earl E. Hewitt, an ex-football star of
State College, has been appointed post-
master at Dilltown, over in Indiana coun-
ty. This is not the first experience of Mr.
Hewitt as a postmaster, because years ago
he was assistant postmaster at Falls
Creek, Jefferson county, during the admin-
istration of his uncle, the late Captain W.
J. Leahy.
—Jacob Hait, aged 56 years, of Pine
Swamp, Carbon county, was killed last
week near his home by a bear which he
had brought down with a rifle shot. Hait,
under the impression that the animal was
dead, had started to draw the bear’s blood
when it struck him down with a forepaw
and sank its teeth into his face. The blow
broke his neck. The bear died a few min-
utes later.
Pewoevalc, Watdan,
INK SLINGS.
—This doesn’t seem to have been a
good year in politics for the Connol-
1ys. Joseph has just been defeated by |
a Republican for mayor of Portland,
Maine.
—How gracious and how tactful
was Mrs. Wilson when she invited
Mrs. Harding to tea at the White
House on the occasion of the latter’s
recent visit to Washington. VOL. 65.
<-Weo notice that ameng the con-y =~ ~~ = Tr. an
tributors to the last Republican state Congress in Session. A L ay P r e a ch men t
campaign fund appeared the names of Littl £ val ” be efpected ®
Charles H. Rowland, of Philipsburg, Aitls of Yalue may Bpocted | reer
2 from the last session of the Sixty-
and Charles E. Dorworth, of this sixth Congress which assembled in |
place; each for $100.00. Washington on Monday. The assem-
—Were the doors locked or were pine was a tame affair, according to
they not, threatened to become as the press dispatches, the only unusu-
much of a puzzle in Bellefonte as |; incident being an address by Pres-
“how old was Ann,” some years ago, | jjent-elect Harding, who appeared in
until the “Watchman” discovered that | 44 capacity of a Senator for Ohio.
they were not locked, merely barred. | The feature of the address was an ad- |
monition against wasting time in pur- |
suit of partisan advantage and
strangely enough Mr. Harding ad-
dressed himself to the Democrats of
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
DECEMBER
10, 1920.
NO. 49.
A New Tax Problem.
From the Philadelphia Record.
. | “The Record” has heretofore allud-
The wave of excitement over the proper Sabbath observance that ised to the fact that the granting of the
5 : i : : i hange in | franchise to women makes it necessa-
sweeping the country will probably subside without much, if Ang, ¢ is ET
our present customs. Some people are becoming hysterical over it. ers ‘tax problem that is likely to give
are interested, but the great majority view it merely as a passing incident and | trouble. A news dispatch from the
go on their way without giving it serious thought. Really it is a momentous |
| western part of the State calls atten-
mY fu : i tion to the fact that in a town near
question. So far reaching in its eventualities as to require the profoundest | Pittsburgh where a 35-mill tax rate is
thought. The “Watchman” has always been of the opinion that the love of in spe au where Scenpesiony aie
Christ can’t be legislated into the human heart. And, in the last analysis, the | Yamel d in Ag 28 each
| manner of our observance of the Sabbath day depends wholly upon how much ‘as men, will have to pay $14 a year
| of that love we have. Then, too, we must not lose sight of the fact that no tax for borough purposes, as well as
the body. After the delivery of his | two individuals find the fullest expression of their feelings through the same
1 $2.60 a year for county purposes, or
: Sa eh { $16.60 in all. In most of the boroughs
homily a committee was appointed to | channel. And in this dissimilarity in humanity is found the crux of the whole
notify the President that Congress question.
i and cities beyond Philadelphia this
| plan of taxation has long been in
was in session and the Senate ad- Does a man have no love of Christ, no concern as to his future merely | fotes Lovotofors oa being is only
journed for the day. . | because he doesn’t go into retreat on the Sabbath and spend the day in spirit-
in the House 0? epreseniatives, ual introspection? Most of you will naturally answer by saying that such an
amidst confusion, similar steps were | U3! p : y
i cept where women owned real estate
taken to let the President know that | inference should not be drawn. Yet those who are suffering with the present
—1In the light of some rather un-
pleasant incidents during the last
week we are inclined to believe a lot
of people who don’t take the “Watch-
man” because they don’t like it spend |
much of their valuable time poring |
over news that some-one else has paid
for.
—Congress is in session again and |
already “Manana” is being heard in |
Washington. Nothing is to be done
at this session but “clear the decks for
action for the next.” That wasn’t what
we were promised two months ago,
when prompt and drastic relief from
—Norwich, McKean county, is no more.
With the discontinuance of the postoffice
there this month, the town is officially
wiped off the map. It was once a hustling
lumber town of several hundred inhabit-
ants. The mill has completed the sawing
of all timber in that section, and has been
razed and removed. Numerous houses
formerly occupied by the mill hands have
been torn down and trucked to other
towns.
—The largest single check ever paid in-
to the State Treasury department for in-
heritance tax was received on December
first by State Treasurer Kephart, in par-
tial settlement for the estate of the late
Henry C. Frick. It was $2,090,000. With
the exception of $44,000, which represented
direct inheritance tax, the remainder was
transfer inheritance tax. The sum of $37,-
000,000, representing part of the estate, is
still in dispute.
—George W. Pheasant, a resident of Al-
lenport, a small village in Mifflin county,
met death Sunday evening by electrocution
when he attempted to put on an electric
light bulb at his home. Mr. Pheasant had
been sitting with his family in the living
room and had gone down to the cellar fo
get some apples from the bin. He discov-
ered the electric light bulb had burned out
and went up stairs, got a new one and
was serewing the bulb into the socket
when Le received the voltage.
-—~With his leg broken, his clothes al-
or securities taxed for State purposes.
Under our present laws, therefore,
the statesmen were in town for an an- | hysteria will say that it should.
women in Philadelphia will be obliged
nual talkfest and that body likewise We have long held the view that a man can be a christian and never go
to pay only 25 cents a year to qualify
a yoicrs wie 2 siher Joris of She
j ' : : : tate they will be obliged to pay the
] 2 gh dha Mn ew | near a church other than his own private place of-worship, be that where it ¥ x bay
all the country’s oppressions were the may, but we are also of the opinion that such an one should be affiliated with
same 15 28 men before they can ex-
: : ercise the franchise.
peb py pees; of dhe. Repviliomn spel a i pia | a church because it is the only organized exemplification of what he stands ker the Ninstemin shenimen:
— President elect Harding has made | jens were introduces: But noth- | for and what he must naturally be trying to impress his fellows with. the female sex who may think that
his much talked of visit to Washing- i ea Pafotones a Some I sige We inject this question of church attendance because we believe that ane vim Joo ne min
ton and the world is mo wiser as to | days for the new members to get ac- | down at the root of the present agitation, stripped of all its camouflage it wiil the question in that way. Under our
i 350 000 Invited inn wy go quainted with the old members but by | be found as actuating the movement of the Lord’s Day Alliance. But are | present laws they will be assessed the
a DE hg 3 Gia ey DY the middle of next week the legisla- | empty church pews wholly due to a slipping away from the tenets of our Jans J mn, hh Wh han
Harding would have made several tive mill will be grinding to full ca- | fathers? We think not. Bellefonte, for example, has a population of a frac- ,
gentlemen, at least, very happy had pacity. But the product will be polit- tion under four thousand. In the various places of worship in the town there
he merely dropped a hint that they are is comfortable seating capacity for thirty hundred and fifty people, or prac-
tically eighty per cent. of our entire population. At the last general election
the total vote, of men and women above the age of twenty-one in Bellefonte,
must be paid. In many of the bor-
ical chatter and buncombe of interest oughs of de Site where ure
only to the Senators and members
among the elect.
was only 1623, little more than half enough grown-ups to comfortably fill the
churches of our town.
refused or failed to pay the tax as-
a sessed against them the tax colletor
themselves. It will have no value.
There is much legislative work to
Looking at it in the light of these cold figures is it not creditable if our
churches are only half-filled on the Sabbath.
has been empowered to seize their
bodies and place them in jail. Many
do and some of it is of grave impor- tax collectors in various parts of the
tance. A year ago the President urg-
ed needed legislation to reduce taxes
Bellefonte is typical of the situation the country over and when we are
talking of it we know exactly what we are talking about. It has too many
churches. The result being discouragement and alarm for those most inter-
State are most anxious about the
problem of dealing with delinquent
and abate other evils resulting from
the war. But instead of doing that
ested in them as physical entities and because it is beyond the human resourc-
es of the town to fill them some people conclude that the world is going to the
women taxpayers, and the Legislature
Senators wasted their time in doing
devil and the only way to save it is to make laws that will make it a crime to
—While the Governors of many of
the States of the Union, who had been
in conference in Harrisburg, were vis-
iting Philadelphia last Friday, they
were given a trip on the Delaware. In
describing the entertainment in honor
of the distinguished visitors the North
American said: “Following the prof-
fer and acceptance of some very
agreeable and much appreciated hos-
pitality, especially appropriate be-
cause of the chilly day, etc.” Now
why didn’t our contemporary talk
plain English and say: The Governor
no doubt will be besieged to take ear-
the things which Senator Harding
ly action in an effort to relieve the
tax-gatherers from threatened trouble
now admonishes them not to do at
this session. Possibly they will be
with the female who refuses to pay
able to consider and pass the necessa-
her tax.
ry supply legislation to keep the gov-
Governor Sproul, at the recent con-
ference of Governors, had much to say
ernment machinery in motion but if
they do that much it is all that may
about the tax question, but we fail to
note any reference to the new feature
of it in our own State forced by the
. y pha De most torn from his body and suffering
of Pennsylvania said to all the other | be expected of them. If they fail in do anything else than go to church on Sunday. ai a from ugly bruises and lacerations, Gerald
: : Rte io Anat 3 trichan Be : ; wv i re: slvi iv f the § i ¥ $10 EL Krelizel, 11 years old, was found hort
: Governors just what the ‘Governor of | that ublic indignation will mim So much for hat we beligve tobe the et underlying motive of the |. fion. “It has not been helpful to the tree Eon sid a Re
{a “North ‘Carolina once said. this will be € tation. BALE La i cause of good government to have 25 | columbia county, last Friday morning,
a: CTE of South € yithin 0 Putting the guestion of church attendamesiutok.considosation, therefor, | ¢onts-a-year men in Philadelphia xi¥h:isotovtes un secident which ie virouded n
—Governor Sproul’s administration | the one of proper Sabbath observance is so multiplex that it seems futile for the same rignts on election day 8S |ystery. The boy had been hauling stone
$25-a year men in other parts of the
State. The situation will not be im-
proved if we are also to have 25-cents-
a-year women in Philadelphia as vot-
‘has been notable for the number of
good men he has called to his assist-
ance in the government of Pennsylva-
on a drag sled, and the horse hitched to
the sled, stood near where he was found.
The boy's father found him, but the boy
| the “Watchman” to attempt it.
——If the educational improvement rk :
A b If it is not wrong for me to take my family cut for a walk on Sunday
plans are carried out by the Legisla-
nia. Not always is the man of excep- | ture an appropriation of «ix million ! afternoon, is it wrong for my more fortunate neighbor to take his family out ers with the same rights as $25-a-year Tien to wu anything whatever about
tional ability the proper one to occupy | dollars will be none too much for: for a carriage or motor ride? women in other parts of Pennsylva-| AD. avorcont. bolohming 16. Pred. W
high public position. Besides that he | State College, for after all State Col- J . : ging e ;
If it is not wrong for him to take his family for a motor ride is it wrong LL |
for a man and his wife or his son or daughter to go to the golf links for a lit- a
tle recreation?
If it is not wrong for a man to find recreation in golf is it wrong for oth-
Disic iv L ers to seek it in a game of baseball?
Li a bb 2 If it is not wrong for the young man to play baseball on Sunday is it
the interpretation of Article X of the | Wrong for the one who doesn’t care anything about motor riding, golf or base-
Covenant was considered and a unan- | ball to arrange a horse-race with a party of his turf friends.
imous decision rendered and recorded The steps are gradual, logical but devilishly insidious. And they might
i Joma Soa ay : be argued along the above lines, with reason, out to the point where every-
ritorial integrity is against “external thing goes. So that the only thing that seems possible of placing a limitation
aggression” as President Wilson de- | somewhere is the individual conscience.
clared it to be. Ex-Justice Hughes We once heard the late Rev. Dr. McGarrah, one of the most profound the-
and our fat friend Taft, who are gov-! ¢logians, in the Methodist church, openly preach the doctrine that sin for one
erned more by prejudice than princi- re : : ; :
ple tnd Trow Were passion than 12, person is not necessarily sin for another. Of course his argumentation was
insisted during the campaign, that it predicated on the individual conscierce and loyalty to it.
pledged territorial integrity both in- The observance of the Sabbath in America will be exactly as is the de-
ternal and external and thus deceived | velopment of the American conscience and no man-made laws will have the
slightest impression on conscience. As a general thing a man doesn’t obey
law because of the dictates of his consicence. He does it through fear of tem-
poral punishment. He will respect and keep the Sabbath day holy for fear of
rant, a coal operator of Garrett, contain-
ing $2200, hung in a check booth at the
Yough House 2t Connellsville, for nearly
two weeks, and when called for last Fri-
day by the owner the wallet with the mon-
ey intact was found just as it was left
when he left the hotel. Mr. Brant offered
the hotel clerk a generous reward. It was
politely refused, with the statement that
the money could not have been safer in the
bank, and he was paid by the hotel to
guard its guests against loss.
should have moral and political char-
acter such as to command and retain
public respect and confidence. Rare-
ly has an Executive of Pennsylvania
surrounded himself with so many men
of this type as has Governor Sproul
and the wisdom of his choosing has
been reflected in the popular satisfac-
tion with his administration. The an-
nouncement, Wednesday, that he has
named the Hon. George E. Alter, of
Springdale, to succeed Hon. William
1. Schaeffer, elevated to the Supreme
bench, as Attorney General will be
particularly gratifying to the people
of Pennsylvania who know Mr. Alter
as a fine lawyer and a man of irre-
proachable character. He has heen
prominent in Republican politics in
Pennsylvania for years, but never a
politician, because his ideals have al-
ways been above the sordid things
lege is the hub of the State education-
al system.
tm mm ey mm sees
Democracy Achieved a Triumph.
Destiny Defies the Senate.
Iron the New York World.
Don’t the statesmen of Europe ever
read the newspapers? Don’t they
know that the League was scrapped a
month ago today? Can’t they under-
stand that the President was over-
whelmingly “repudiated” at the polls
by the electorate? Have they al-
together forgotten that the Senatorial
syndicates sabotaged the treaty and
that the people voted for the United
States to resign from the world?
Didn’t they hear the Republican traf-
fic policemen when they blew their
whistles for the stars to stop in their
courses ?
Apparently not. For yesterday
President Wilson’s note to the As-
sembly of the League, accepting the
proffer to mediate between the Turk-
ish nationalities and Armenia, was re-
ceived with unfeigned enthusiasm.
Among the delegates were heard such
expressions as “Wonderful news,”
“We have found the man” and “Poor
—Tfforts ave being made to secure a par-
don for A. Grant Richwine, who in Sep-
teraber, 1817, was sentenced to the peniten-
fiary for a term of from five to ten years
for embezzlement, Richwine was the lead-
ing figure in muleting the stockhelders of
the Punxsutawney and Lindsay Water
companies and of the Reynoldsvilie Water
company, in Jefferson county. Hearing on
his application for a pardon will be held
December 15th. It is not probable that
there will be opposition to {he granting of
the pardon from this part of the State.
ings | some well meaning voters friendly to
that are necessary to power in politics | Irish independence to vote for Sena-
in our State. | tor Harding for President.
— Just what did John A. McSparren, | Of course Justice Hughes and Mr.
~Leaping onio a train whose engine was
spouting ten feet of flame while passengers
Master of the State Grange, mean
when he said in Philadelphia, on Mon-
day, “Unless the State College of Ag-
riculture recognizes the Grange the
Grange will refuse te recognize the
college.” If his reference was to The
Pennsylvania State College, school of
agriculture, it is obvious that Mr. Me-
Sparren is determined to keep to the
fore that pre-historic contention of
the Grange that the great Centre
county institution should function
solely as a school for farmers. Years
ago, when the College began to give
some real attention to mechanic arts,
one of the purposes for which it was
founded, the Grangers, as an organi-
zation only, were unable to repress
their resentment, or might we call it
jealousy, and openly attempted to re-
strict the development of the institu-
tion. For years, if the State Grange
was not antagonistic, it was at least
apathetic. The College has grown,
notwithstanding, and it has very little
of that growth to thank the State
Grange for. All the while it has kept
its department of agriculture to the
fore and thousands of farmer’s sons
have been receiving the benefits of it.
At the annual meeting of delegates to
elect trustees county granges and ag-
ricultural societies and engineering
societies of the State name the dele-
gates and if this isn’t recognition of
the Grange by what name should we
call it. The people of Pennsylvania
maintain The Pennsylvania State Col-
lege for the young men and women of
the Commonwealth and if some of
them want an education along other
lines than that of agriculture the Col-
lege cannot justify its existence if it
does not give it to them,
Taft knew better but having been
bribed by the hope of seats on the
Supreme court bench they distorted
the facts and discredited their repu-
tation for integrity and intelligence.
They may get the rewards hoped for
but at a price which honorable men
would refuse to pay. No man govern-
ed by just principles can ever again
hold them as worthy of respect and
whether on the bench or off their
names will go down in history as
having failed when the real test came.
We regret this fact for we stood
among the admirers of William How-
ard Taft and would have preferred to |
continue that admiration to the end of
time.
The New York Times of Sunday !
commenting upon this fact says “if it
is better to be right than to be Presi-
dent, then the Democratic legions and
their leaders achieved a brilliant tri-
umph in the campaign that ended on
November 2nd, for they were eternal-
ly right and their Republican oppo-
nents hopelessly wrong in regard to
the meaning of Article X. The fierc-
est fight was over the interpretation of
that article. The unanimous declara-
tion of the League at Geneva settles
that dispute for all time, and settles
it by an express repudiation of the
construction put upon Article X by
the opponents of the treaty in the
Senate.” And it sets down Taft and
Hughes as merely politicians, not
statesmen at all.
a —————————
~The Secretary of the Democrat-
ic State committee, Mr. Warren Van
Dyke, has resigned and thus the par-
ty loses the only part of its organiza-
tion that was worth keeping.
spiritual punishment and his own ccnscience, if he have the love of Christ in
his heart, will set the limitations on what he may and may not do.
You can lock a man up in his heme or a church on Sunday but you can’t
thereby purge his mind of unclean thoughts or bend his knee in prayer. So
long as the niche in his heart, that only Christ can fill, is empty vou can write
the statute books full of blue laws and effect no result.
It is lobbying with the individual for his soul that is needed. Not lobby-
ing with the Legislatures and Congress for laws, that will make him rebel-
lious.
Notwithstanding all of the turmoil and crime of these post-war days the
“WwW atchman” is one that believes the werld is better today than it was yester-
day. It believes, especially, that the American conscience is awakened as it
: never has been before and it believes that in due time this awakening will
bring about the voluntary placing of limitations on what may and may not be
done on the Sabbath day.
—~Sitting in United States court for
the Middle district of Pennsylvania,
at Harrisburg, on Monday, Judge
Witmer fined four hotel keepers who
had been adjudged guilty of viola-
tion of the Volstead act $200 each and
let them go. Fines of those figures
will not worry such dealers much.
From what we have been able to learn
about the traffic $200 merely repre-
sents the profit on about thirty quarts
of whiskey and a fine of $200 is a
mere bagatelle in the profits of a few
month’s business.
rt ates fp Ae ee en
——The women vote of Pennsylva-
nia cost the Republican machine a lot
of money but the big majority may
have been worth the price.
——————— —————
——As a matter of fact Senator
Knox has always been more ornamen-
tal than useful to the Pennsylvania
Republican machine,
——With the expenditures of the
National committee, the Senatorial
committee, the Congressional com-
mittee, the several State, County,
Women’s, City and Ward committees
added together it appears to have
cost nearly as much money to elect
Harding as to win the world war.
—DMince pies, plum pudding and
other seasonable culinary tid bits are
not lawful with a kick of more than
one-half of one per cent. Yet without
it they will not appeal as of yore to
the folks who were accustomed to
beatin’ the devil round the stump
through such delicacies.
——It would be hard to imagine
anything worse for Greece than the
restoration of Constantine to the
throne, but if the people there want
that sort of a ruler the principle of
self-determination fixes it.
armaments.
armaments must be both univ
and simultaneous.
mously to admit Austria.
act as if the League were not
how can the Front Porch Peace
tion of nations?” Is it quite fai
going and for Destiny to defy
Senate ?
io) biblib\»k
Panama Canal Tolls.
From the Springfield Republican.
that we are “bound by the
in behalf of our own ships.”
opinion in it.
can’t wag the dog.”
old Europe will feel less abandoned.”
As if that were not enough, tI
Council unanimously voted to invite
us to appoint an advisory member to
sit on the commission which is draft-
ing proposals for the reduction of
Of course it should not require =
blackboard demonstration to show
that any considerable limitation of
And now, adding insult to injury,
the forty-one nations of the League
represented on the Assembly’s mem-
bership committee have voted unani-
If the Geneva statesmen continue to
ference at Marion hope to succeed in
organizing the promised “new associa-
the car of Progress to keep right on
As strongly Republican a paper as
The Chicago Tribune asserts that “It
is not good judgment, good diplomacy,
good economics, or good politics, to
free American ships from Panama Ca-
nal tolls.” The Boston Herald admits
Pauncefote treaty not to digerijngie
T.
Harding persists in carrying out his
plan, he will be opposed not merely
by the best opinion in the Republican
party but by the most Republican
——Those Argentine swell-heads in
Geneva understand now that “the tail
wore unaware it was running away, Wil-
liam Rider, of York, Ya, youngest son of
thc engineer, saved their lives by applying
the emergency brake and bringing the cars
to a stop. His father, Jacob Rider, togeth-
er with the fireman, had already been forec-
ed to jump from the blazing cab of the lo-
comotive, after being severely burned in
trying to shut off the throttle. The run-
away was caused when an explosion occur-
red as Fireman Roseburg was shoveling
coal into the firebox. -
—-Death last Saturday stayed a divorce
proceeding in the Northumberland county
courts when Ezra C. Keller, aged 54 years,
owner of a hotel at Weigh Scales, died in
a bath tub. IIis troubles with Mrs. Kel-
ler have been numerous and two months
ago, when she brought suit for a separa-
tion, Keller made no efforts to defend it.
Doctors said heart failure was the cause of
death. The Weigh Scales hotel was wide-
ly known during the days of the old Sha-
mokin fair, twenty years ago. Keller had
been a hotel man for many years, and was
well known throughout central Pennsylva-
nia.
—According to a Chicago news dispatch,
Joseph MeGrath, former postmaster at
Falls Creek, Clearfield county, on the line of
Jefferson county, has given himself up to
federal authorities, because he disappear-
ed from the Falls Creek postoffice, two
years ago, September, 1918, with §1000.
When Joe McGrath left Falls Creek there
was much apprehension, the belief gener-
ally being that he had suffered a relapsc
from an automobile accident at Brookville,
while he was a student at law there. That
belief is good to this day. Ever since the
disappearance of McGrath there has been
supposition of foul play. His relatives
have visited many scenes where murder
and suicide have been committed and in-
spected numerous bodies always to find
that the disappearance of Joe was still &
mystery. McGrath will likely be brought
back to Pennsylvania by the federal au-
thorities for trial,
the
ersal
dead
Con-
r for
the
Hay-