Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, November 25, 1921, Image 1
Dera aan INK SLINGS. -—How many of you measured your thankfulness yesterday by your tank- fullness ? : —We’'ll bet the girls won’t roll down the stockings they hang up for Santa Claus to fill. —England would probably love to have a disarmament conference in both Belfast and Bombay. —Here’s hoping that State will show Washington that the effeteness of the East is not in football anyway. —The new year isn’t very far off. Advise your friend to start it right by subscribing for a real newspaper. —If Mr. Newberry were any kind of a man at all he’d decline a seat in the Senate, go home and make a new fight for the place—a clean one. —The President has signed the an- ti-beer bill and immediately the pop- ular panacea for beeritis is wiped off the permissible prescription list. —The ladies who got the dollar hats are exuberant in their enthusiasm for Dollar Days in Bellefonte, and their husbands are secretly adding: Amen! —The temporary suspension of op- erations at the silk mill has turned a lot of would-be cooks and amateur general houseworkers loose on the community. —At the rate Marshal Foch is pick- ing them up he ought to have about three hundred and sixty degrees by the time he swings “around the cir- cle” in this country. —The oratorical pyrotechnics are about all over at the arms limitation conference and the delegates have set- tled down to the solution of the prob- lems that are presenting themselves. —The United States Senate has de- terviorated enough, the Lord knows, without having its honorable pres- tige further besmirched by the rattle of an empty wagon like Tom Watson. .—OQur consular agencies having been already reopened in many cities in Germany, we presume inter- course between the “Yankee Swine” and the “Hun” will be a trifle stilted for a time. If it could be arranged to scrap Lasker with the other nautical luxuries to be disposed of under Sec- retary Hughes’ plan of limiting arm- aments there would be real reasons for rejoicing. —The war having made ineligible a great horde of Princes who were el- igible before that unhappy event the Princess Mary, only daughter of King George of England has become so democratic as to betroth herself to a Viscount. —We certainly thought that most of Marion had had a ride on the May- flower. Evidently we have been un- der a wrong impression, for Marion went Democratic at the last election; * which indicates that the President hasn’t put sea legs under a majority of the Marionites at least. —Anybody contemplating sending us a mess of venison next month need not worry about the currant jelly and sherry. We can contribute that much. The jelly is in the cellar and our pri- vate bootlegger has been pining for something to do ever since the open- ing of the trout fishing season last spring. —The tax revision bill has passed Congress and gone to the President for his signature. Even Senator Pen- rose, chairman of the Senate commit- tee in charge of the bill, called it a “makeshift” when presenting it for final passage. And if Penrose couldn’t proclaim it as a Republican super- achievement it must be a pretty rot- ten measure. —Pittsburgh newspapers that are charging Killinger and Lightner, State’s two back-field stars with pro- fessionalism might better employ their muck-raking sleuths at home. We have a hazy recollection that we saw Tom Davies, Pitt’s premier back, playing ball with the professional team that represented Philipsburg, Centre county, during the last sum- mer. —Truly did Secretary Hughes say that M. Briand’s appeal for France would not fall on deaf ears in Amer- ica. We have always been the friend of France. The ties that bind the two peoples have little of consanguinity but much of sentiment and gratitude and our fidelity to the country that sent us a Lafayette will prove the great exception in the world old fact that blood is thicker than water. —President Harding’s avoidance of personal participation in the Arms conference is a very crafty bit of work. It reminds us a lot of a local lawyer who wanted to run for presi- dent judge of our courts some years ago. When his candid friends told him he didn’t know enough law to make a capable judge he replied: “A fellow doesn’t have to know it all to sit on the bench. Can’t he hire a good lawyer to keep him straight?” —Within thirty-one days we’ll need a lot of money. The end of the year is approaching and then we’ll have to pay a lot of bills that can’t be staved off any longer than that. Some of our subscribers really owe this mon- ey, not us, but we’re too mealy mouth- ed to tell them about it. If you hap- pen to know any of them who are back a year or two suggest that they send us one-fifty or three or what- ever they can right away. We need . it and if we don’t get it soon we'll have to get the “blue cross” to work- ing again. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 66. Versailles and Washington Con- ferences. In the beginning of his great speech delivered in the Limitations Conference in Washington, on Mon- day, Premier Briand, of France, drew a line which accurately defined the difference between the purposes of the present conference and that of the League of Nations. “To make peace,” he said, “it is not sufficient to reduce effectiveness and decrease war mater- ! ial. That is the physical side and physical aspect of things. There is another consideration which we have no right to neglect in such a prob- lem, that touches vital questions which are of the most serious char- acter for the country concerned. It is necessary that, besides this physic- al disarmament, there should be on those same circles, what I shall call a | general atmosphere of peace. In other words a moral disarmament is as necessary as the material one.” In the conference at Versailles this principle was distinctly expressed both in letter and spirit. Provision was clearly made for the present de- crease and future limitation of arm- aments and for the creation and main- tenance of “a general atmosphere of peace.” All the nations of the world were invited to join in the pledge, as- sume a moral obligation to advocate and strive for peace and failure to keep the pledge was penalized. The best that can be hoped for from the Washington conference is an agree- ment among three powerful nations to scrap their naval equipment in a ratio fixed by Secretary Hughes, to be adhered to absolutely. The war spirit will continue to exist in the fu- ture as in the past and each of the parties to the agreement will be as capable of waging war after as be- fore the agreement was arrived at or suggested. Of course that will reduce the ex- penses of each of the governments concerned considerably and to that, extent will be an improvement on ex- isting conditions. But it will not pre- vent future wars or even to a great extent delay the coming of the next war with its promise of greater cru- “elties and worse horrors than those of the recent cataclysm. The people of this country are deprived of the advantages of the League of Nations : because of the “envy, malice and un- charitableness” of the Republican leaders in the United States Senate. They now hope to deceive the people into the belief that a physical reduc- tion of the effectiveness and a de- crease of war material will “be equal- ly as good.” ‘But the public is not as credulous as it was before the educa- tional development of the last few years, as these political bigots will discover. Stultification Wisely Deferred. It is to the eredit of the Republican majority in the Senate at Washington that they are delaying as long as pos- sible the stultification which will re- sult in a vote that Senator Newberry retain his purchased seat. The evi- Bright Prospects of Democrats. i The official returns of the recent | election in this State have not been computed as yet but sufficient infor- mation on the subject has been ob- tained to spread alarm among the leaders of the Republican machine and inspire hope among the Demo- cratic voters. Nobody pretended to think that Judge Bonniwell would be elected Justice of the Supreme court. There were only six weeks time be- tween the nomination and the elec- tion and the Philadelphia jurist who received the unsolicited nomination of the Democratic party didn’t make up his mind to make a campaign un- til within three weeks of the election. But in the brief period left he made a campaign which stirred the people most profoundly. The result was that he carried sev- eral counties that have been giving substantial Republican majorities and restored to the Democratic column other districts that had strayed away’ during the campaign of a year ago. In fact the result of the election has inspired hope in the hearts of Demo- | crats in every section of the State, i and it may be expected that next year ‘the candidates of that party will go to the polls with such a determination | as will command success. Recent Re- publican majorities in Pennsylvania : have been obtained by default. The Democrats being without organization i were equally without hope. Next | year they will be encouraged by both, ‘and it may be expected, rewarded by ! success. It is up to the Democratic voters to | take full advantage of the improved i condition in Pennsylvania. What i happened in Schuylkill county this | year may be brought about in a doz- | en other counties, and the victory achieved by the candidate for sheriff in Cumberland county may be repeat- ed in other counties, if proper energy is put behind the party ticket. But to accomplish these results the work ! must be begun now. The first step i lies in securing an efficient organiza- ' tion. Capable and unselfish men must . be put in the places of the patronage | brokers who have been masquerading as the Democrati¢® organization for | the past several years. that is | accomplished the rest will be easy. f ——Mr. Schwab’s cordial support of ! disarmament would have made a more profound impression on the public | mind if he had declared it before an . enterprising “figger man” proved that only one per cent. of the product of his steel mills goes into armor plate. re ————— A ra eter. Judge Garman’s Just Decision. The refusal of Judge Garman, of | Wilkes-Barre, to drop the charges ! against State Senator Joyce is likely i to lead up to an interesting situation. i It appears that Senator Joyce has been concerned in a rather extensive ! bootlegging business in the coal re- ! gions. i their differences got into court and BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 25, 1921. Wall Street Slander Refuted. ir For some unexplained and proba- ' bly unexplainable reason former Unit- ed States Senator Beveridge, of In- ! diana, in an after dinner speech de- ;livered in New York, last week, de- clared that the assumption of control of the railroads by the government, NO. 46. ——— } i | Steel Men Unafraid. . From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. | . When two such figures in the steel industry of America as Charles M. ! Schwab, of the Bethlehem company, land Judge Elbert H. Gary, of the i United States Steel Corporation, unite in hailing the government’s program ‘for a naval holiday as marking the during the war, was followed by a opening of an “epoch of the gretaest “saturnalia of mismanagement which business prosperity, as well as the left those properties bound and gag- i largest measure of happiness, that the ged by agreements, regulations and | working rules.” Commenting on this false statement the Wall Street Jour- : nal added: “But suppose we went further and tried with all the enthu- siasm and thoroughness of a McAdoo to run the railroad system of the United States without brains?” The object of these slurs is to discredit’ Mr. McAdoo. The Springfield Republican, with a century of distinguished service to support its opinions answers both of ! these servile emissaries Street with a list of the railroad men whom Mr. McAdoo called to the di- rection and management of the trans- portation of the country during the period of government control. They are Robert S. Lovett, of the Union Pacific; Edward Chambers, of the Santa Fe; Carl R. Gray, of the West- ern Maryland, now president of the Union Pacific; A. H. Smith, of the New York Central; C. H. Markham, of the Iillinois Central; N. D. Maher, of the Norfolk & Western; B. L. Winchell, of the Union Pacific; R. H. | Aishton, of the Chicago & North- western; Hale Holden, of the Bur- lington, and B. F. Bush, of the Mis- souri Pacific. These distinguished railway execu- tives and operators are not politicians. But they are easily the most capable railway managers in the country to- day, as they were justly reckoned by the well informed public at the time. It was those men, not William G. Me- Adoo, who administered the opera- tion of the railroads and if any inef- ficiency appeared or mismanagement occurred, they, instead of Mr. McAdoo, of Wall world has ever witnessed,” the narrow i view that would measure the propos- i als by the extent to which they will “hurt business” is relegated properly . to oblivion. Before the members of the Ameri- can Iron and Steel Institute, in New York on Friday night, Mr. Gary de- clared unworthy even of passing no- tice the suggestion that the limitation ‘of armaments would result in the manufacture of less steel. He doubt- ed if there would be any reduction in product at all, but believed that it And Mr. Schwab, speaking as head of a ! great naval shipbuilding corporation, voiced the same doubt as to a loss fo the steel industry, but emphatically repudiated the thought that such a thing as financial loss could be con- sidered when compared with the ines- timable benefit to mankind that would be involved in the plan to stop the present ruinous competition in naval construction. ts It is profoundly gratifying to find these great captains of industry tak- ing their stand on the broad platform of statesmanship erected by the Pres- ident and Secretary Hughes, a plat- form upon which the representatives of the civilized Powers are hastening to take their places. But it is also reassuring that men whose position enables them to read the barometers of business can see in the Hughes program nothing but the opening door to a greater and more healthy pros- perity, a loosening of the burdens of a task which promises no return but waste and possible human misery and the transfer of vast reservoirs of hu- i man energy into the avenues of pro- t ductive industry. The cessation of steel manufacture for warships does not mean that less | steel will be made, but that the pro- i would be small in any event. were to blame. As a matter of fact, | ductive resources of the nations will however, Ey : in. | peace. Not only will the burder } oy ay mismanagement in, the adn Ellon be lightened, but vast Anan Shaken | cial resources will be directed _into down and the g i | other channels, trade will be stimulat- forts of Mr. McAdoo and his capable ed in all directions, credit and confis assistants above named, rescued them | dence restored and the whole human and saved the properties from bank- | race will share benefits which Mr. there was neither inefficien- | be available once more for the uses of | Because of a dispute in the | accounting profits between himself . and one of his partners in the traffic dence of the purchase of the seat was | some rather startling exposures fol- overwhelming. By his own admission | lowed. To avert greater trouble as a his campaign expenses totalled near- | result of publicity they concluded to ly $200,000 and testimony of unwil- | compromise and appealed to the court ling witnesses proved that they ran ito strike the case off the calendar. close to a million. In view of the | But Judge Garman didn’t take the laws, both of Congress and the Leg- | same view of the subject. islature of Michigan, such profligacy | When Senator William C. McCon- was a crime that disqualified him | nell resigned his comfortable seat in from serving as a Senator. But his vote | the upper chamber of the General As- was needed to give his party a major- | sembly of Pennsylvania we conjectur- ity in the last Congress and now that | ed that there was something more he can be spared his colleagues are | than the allurement of the salary or reluctant. | the pleasure of sleuthing after rum The gravest crime that can be per- | sellers. This incident goes a good petrated against the government of | way toward confirming this conjec- the United States is debauching the | ture. Senator Joyce was his colleague elections. Because that fact was ful- in the Senate and his personal and ly realized Congress some years ago, ' political friend. It may easily be even while the Republicans were in | imagined that he found much satis- the majority before, enacted legisla- | faction in issuing liquor permits to tion limiting the expenditures of a!his former associates when it meant candidate for Senator to $7,500. But “easy money” and little hazard or Newberry, whose family had become | capital to carry on the business. wealthy through questionable opera- |is not improbable that other Sena- tions in lumber, and who himself had ; torial chums of the prohibition com- become ambitious for public life be- | missioner may have enjoyed similar cause the late Mr. Roosevelt had | favors. appointed him temporarily Secretary : In any event it is reasonably cer- of the Navy, became a candidate for | tain that Senator Joyce has been con- Senator and made every voter who | ducting a most profitable if not a law- could be approached a criminal, by | ful business. Both he and his chaf- offering and paying bribes for sup-!feur have been accumulating bank port. 3 ! balances at a rate and with a regu- For more than two years the Re- | larity that taxes the imagination of publican majority in the Senate has | others engaged in the business which been fighting off a complete exposure A they pretended to transact. In view of this nasty scandal. Up until the | of these facts Judge Garman was election of last fall Newberry’s vote | right in refusing to end the legal was necessary to maintain the majori- | quarrel between them, for if they ty in the Senate. Without it the op- | have been violating the Volstead act position to the ratification of the and flouting the only feature of the Versailles treaty would have failed | constitution of the United States and probably the malady that almost | which is sacred, the matter ought to cost Woodrow Wilson his life would be taken up into the federal courts. have been averted. During that per- | There the source of the golden flow iod the question was not permitted to : may be investigated. be considered in . the open Senate. Since his vote is not so badly needed | ——Probably Mr. Charles Haps- his eligibility has been discussed in | burg will be just as happy in jail as public but the final vote has not been |in the Imperial Palace of Hungary. taken. It has now been decided to de- | He'll have plenty to eat, nothing to fer it until the regular session, do and fools are easily satisfied. ruptey. '! ——The State College football team has been much in demand for post- series games. Immediately following their game with Pitt yesterday they ! left last night for Seattle, Washing- ‘ ton, for their game with the Univer- sity of Washington on December 8rd. Centre college wanted a game on the same date to be played in Chi- cago and they were asked to play a benefit game with Notre Dame at the Polo grounds in New York on the same date. In addition the Universi- i ty of California asked for a game on New Year’s day, but all have of ne- cessity, been refused as coach Bez- ‘ dek considered it would not be fair to ' the members of the team to ask them to play more than the one post series game, ! i ——The name of Robert M. Smith | has been sent to the Senate for con- , Gary rightly says will be incalculable. i A Reverse for the President. ‘I'rom the Philadelphia Record. The emphatic repudiation by the House of President Harding’s sug- ' gested compromise on the surtax to be ‘levied on large incomes is interesting ‘not only as an assertion of political | independence, but also as an illustra- | tion of the President’s theory of how : legislation should be effected. In his {letter to Chairman Fordney Mr. Harding showed clearly that he | strongly favors the lower rate first i adopted by the House, but rather than i have a fight over the matter he was | willing to forego his convictions and ‘accept a higher figure. This did not : please western Representatives, who do not take kindly to this form of , compromise, and they reversed their : previous votes in order to line up with the rian bloc in the Senate. It is the view of the best informed economists that the present surtaxes firmation as postmaster at Centre | on large incomes, which, with the nor- It Hall to succeed S. W. Smith. Mr. Smith has been the Republican district chairman at Centre Hall for some time and closely identified with the party. —“Waxey” Straub suggests that if the government decides to scrap the battleships Bellefonte should get busy and try and secure the Pennsyl- vania to put alongside of that German gun. ——1If Secretary Hughes should be- come a candidate for the Republican nomination for President against i Harding would you call it a logical re- i sult of the Limitations Conference ——President Harding proposes to take no chances with the Senate. He i will call it an “agreement” instead of {a “treaty” and thus avoid the neces- i sity of confirmation. ——Governor Sproul wants us all {to give thanks for the Limitations | Conference, but most people will de- { fer that until after the adjournment. ————————————— ——In the end China may have to j deal with Japan in the transfer. of { that bit of real estate which she ced-, : ed to Germany some years ago. - i Sem—— ——— | — That super dreadnaught launch- ed the other day, the West Virginia, will make an interesting as well as an. expensive scrap pile. ——Happily the late Senator Knox i doesn’t know who is stalking around | under his Senatorial toga. a—————— i ———————— ——Even the late Kaiser celebrated ‘ Armistice day, probably ' because it was the day he escaped. | mal tax, aggregate as high as 73 per ; cent., defeat their own aims by driv- ing the very wealthy to tax-exempt securities in order to prevent virtual confiscation of their incomes. The | President, . therefore, was on solid ground in his opposition to the 50 per cent. surtax favored by the Senate and now indorsed by the House. By urging a compromise and then: sus- taining disastrous defeat he suffers distinctly in prestige as a party lead- er. It would have been better to stand ‘| by his convictions, even if that should lead to victory for his opponents. The episode is much like many that marked the Administration of the too Sasytone Taft. It will react on the President at a time when he needs all the strength he can command to op- pose the aggressive western elements of his party. These have now achiev- 1 ed a lead which they are not likely to surrender in further consideration of the tax revision and tariff bills. Gen. Diaz Advises Countrymen to be Good Americans. From the Lewistown Gazette. In his address to the Italian socie- ties in. Baltimore General Diaz told his hearers that their highest civic duty was to make themselves thor- ough-going Americans. If Germa- ny’s representatives in this country | had talked in this way there would have been much less reason for the Kaiser’s foolish persuasion that he could ‘depend on German-Americans to draw the sword for him in the event of war between him and the United States. One Thing Left Out. From the Ohio State Journal. Well Wwe guess every possible means of fighting the tax burden has receiv- ed the careful consideration of our statesmen now except not spending so SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. _ —Samuel M. Hoyer, three times mayor of Altoona, died at the U. of P. hospital, Philadelphia, Sunday morning. : | —Ray N. Shaak, of Avon, Lebanon | county, has been awarded $4930.50 for the loss of a leg and a fractured skull, the in- juries being sustained December 27th, 1919, when he was struck by a freight train on the Reading Railway. The colli- sion of two trains blocking the Avon grade crossing forced Shaak to attempt to cross the railroad a short distance beyond the scene of the wreck. —Vermont Gallagher, 30 years old, for- mer soldier, was electrocuted in front of his home in New Castle last Thursday night. He was cutting limbs from a tree. One fell and broke and arc light wire. He seized the wire to remove it from the side- walk and was instantly killed. His death is the fourth sudden death of the family. Two of his brothers were drowned and his father died as a result of exposure to cold last winter. —A check for $482.05 has been placed in the conscience found of the State Treas- ury as a contribution from an “unknown person.” This is the largest payment of the kind to be made in years, and the dis- posal of the check was ordered after con- siderable investigation. The check was sent through a Reading bank by & wom- an who stated that, owing to changes of residence in Pennsylvania, she had not paid taxes on some bonds and mortgages she had owned the last ten years. —Oscar Lawhead, aged 34 years, a plas- terer, of Hyde City, died in the Cottage State hospital, Philipsburg, last Wednes- day afternoon, of injuries received in a fall from a scaffold upon which he was working at the New Liberty theatre in Madera. Lawhead was working upon the ceiling when a chain broke, letting him down to the floor, a distance of forty feet. He struck a plank with his face and his jaw was crushed so badly that death fol- lowed a short time after he reached the hospital. -—John Huber, 40 years old, of Ridgway, is dead from a revolver wound said to have been inflicted several days ago by his brother Jacob, 28 years of age, following a quarrel in their home. The brothers, who were bachelors and lived alone, are said to have quarreled over the position of a lamp in their home. Jacob was caught by the police while he was at- tempting to escape in an auto, When lodg- ed in jail at Ridgway, he said that he was forced to shoot his brother twice to de- fend himself. —According to John Pipa, docket clerk of the Northumberland county court, Dis- trict Attorney Morganroth has dismissed the arson case against Dr. M. L. Emer- ick, wealthy Lancaster physician, on the condition that the doctor pay the costs. Fmerick was arrested several months ago on a charge of setting fire to the Alumi- num Paint company’s plant at Dalmatia. He was declared to be its owner, and was arrested after a wild chase through four- teen miles of territory in automobiles. His chauffeur, Jacob Stauffer, alsa was held in bail for court. —Peter Walters, of Spring Hill, was for- mally charged with first degree murder in the death of William E. Shoemaker, of pleaded not guilty and wa with 1 for court. Shoemaker is alleged to ‘have been fatally wounded by Walters after the latter had been arrested by the game warden on the night of August 25th. It is charged that Shoemaker was walking ahead of the prisoner when Walters pulled the warden’s gun out of his hip pocket and shot him in the neck. Shoemaker died September 22nd, in a Sayre hospital, —A box full of brass identification checks, evidently mistaken for the week's payroll, was all two would-be robbers se- cured for their trouble in holding up a 15 year old paymaster’s assistant at the varn mill of A. J. Cameron in Kensing- ton. As the boy was making his rounds with the checks, two men jumped from be- hind a door on a stairway, knocked him down, grabbed the box and escaped. At the time the paymaster was in a nearby office making up the payroll, amounting to about $4,000. Later two former employees at the mill, Otto Ratka and John Peanka, were arrested and charged with assault and attempted robbery. —Because he doesn’t want to be paid “double,” Arnold W. Bruner, of New York, architectural adviser of the State Board of Public Grounds and Buildings, has noti- fied the board that he will not accept the salary of $10,000 a year allowed him for the last two years. He will take only his commission of 6 per cent. on building, bridge and park improvement construc- tion at the capitol grounds in Harrisburg. For the next two years he will be paid $4,000 a year, at his own suggestion. It was explained the $10,000 salary is in the nature of a retaining fee. Mr. Brunner thus far has collected commissions on about $1,000,000 worth of work, which at 6 per cent. would amount to $60,000. —Bound, gagged and severely beaten by three hoboes who entered her home near Berwick, last Thursday, in search of mon- ey, Mrs. Joseph Spirits is in a serious con- dition and may not recover, The hoboes were noth masked and made a thoroug search of the house, even tearing carpets from the floor, expecting to find a large sum of money, which had just been depos- ited in bank the day previous. The men took all the clothing of the woman’s hus- band, who was at work, and when Mrs. Spirits produced bank books showing re- cent deposits of $27,000 the intruders, an- gered because they got only $10 for their trouble, kicked and beat her. She was left bound and gagged when the men fled, but managed, after nearly an hour, to free herself and call help from a neighbor. She was able to give the police a good description of the men. . —Struck by a bullet from his own rifle when . the weapon was accidentally dis- charged at Lewisburg, on Saturday, 15 year old John I. Coldren was instantly killed. The youth was leaving the kitchen of his home by the rear door to go spar- row shooting when he tripped and in fall- ing the rifle was discharged, sending the bullet : crashing into his head below the right eye. Dr. M. L, Focht said death was instantaneous. Coldren, who was a Sophomore at the Lewisburg High school and active in sports, was the son of Har- ry Coldren, of Sunbury, ‘but for many years has lived with his uncle and ‘aunt, Mr. ‘and Mrs! George Angstadt, in Lewis- burg.” The young man was a nephew. of Mrs. William = Bilger, of north Spring street, Bellefonte, and during the summer spent several weeks at the Bilger home. He was a bright, energetic lad and his much money. untimely death is cause for deep regret. “Laceyville, a state game warden. Walters .