INK SLINGS.
—1If it is true that Japan is
steadily moving eastward Hiram
Johnson is likely to throw a fit any
time.
——The usual fatalities among
hunters are being reported but the
real killings will not begin until the
deer season opens.
——Colonel Harvey, who exhausted
the vocabulary of denunciation in
“fighting Wilson,” is now protesting
against criticism of Coolidge.
—The demonstration in Washington
on Sunday evidenced the place for-
mer President Wilson holds in the
‘hearts of the American people.
—If the Allies permit the ex-Kai-
ser to return to Germany they might
just as well begin equipping the com-
ing generation of their youth for war.
—My, but we’re glad the election is
over! It’s always easy to get out
copy in a political campaign but the
ease of the work is more than offset
by its unpleasantness.
—Next Monday night the problem
of the Bellefonte hospital will be up
for solution and whether its solution
be worked out by addition, subtraction
or division you ought to be there to
do some figuring.
——Senator Pepper and Governor
Pinchot spoke at the same meeting in
Harrisburg, on Monday, but no prom-
ises were exchanged to “drink out of
the same canteen” at the Republican
National convention.
—Madame Galli-Curci has declined
to sing with the Chicago Opera com-
pany. She became peeved because
the managers of the company were
simple enough to think that they had
any right to select what operas should
be sung.
—Governor Pinchot is going to
have the Governors of thirty-one
States come in to Pennsylvania to
help him settle the coal problem. If
they succeed in making the mess thir-
ty-one times as bad as Gif. made it
the Lord help the people to keep
warm,
—Mr. Mellon’s tax reduction is
supposed to have a strong appeal to
the common people because it takes
care of even those with an income so
low as four thousand a year. We
often wonder why it is that so many
otherwise well informed men know so
little about the common people,
—If you can spare the dollar at all
you should be a member of the Red
Cross. Read the intimate story of its
activities in this community, publish-
ed in another column on this page and
if you can figure out a way that your
dollar can de a better work than is
there revealed write and tell us about:
it.
—Right here let us announce that
we are going to publish the picture
of and crown the hunter who sends us
the first saddle of venison as the
mightiest nimrod since Daniel Boone
stood on top of Pikes Peak in Kan-
sas and viewed the silvery waters of
the Susquehanna as they wound their
sinuous way through the blue grass
of Kentucky.
—The American farmer, as a class,
is paying twenty per cent. of all taxes
collected by Federal, State and local
governments. His ratio of taxes to
income is 16.6 whereas that of the
rest of us is 11.9 per cent. Of course
this disproportion is due largely to the
low price of the farmer’s product and,
strange as it may seem, “the vultures
of Wall street,” whom the farmer has
always regarded as his greatest ene-
my, are starting a movement to open
up foreign markets so that the prod-
ucts of American farms will come in-
to their own again.
—The Pennsylvania Public Service
Commission has just announced the
results of recent investigation of the
cost of producing power by water as
compared with its generation through
steam by coal. Eight tons of coal are
saved each year by each electric horse
power developed by water. This be-
ing fact, not guess work, we are won-
dering how many tons of coal might
be saved annually were Spring creek
again to be harnessed in the old car
works dam instead of being permit-
ted to flow on indolently and unpro-
ductive to the Bald Eagle.
—We are not surprised at the reve-
lations that were made at a union
service in Philadelphia last Sunday
when many pastors of churches stood
up and told that attempts had been
made to bribe them into letting up on
their insistence of enforcement of the
‘Eighteenth amendment. Some of
those pastors must have been wrong,
however, when they stated that “boot-
leggers” had approached them. The
“hootleggers” are for the Eighteenth
amendment. In the effort to have it
enforced they are the driest of the
«dries. It is their meal ticket.
—We note in the report of the Na-
“tional Bureau for the advancement of
music that Christmas caroling was
“taken up last year by eleven hundred
and fifty-four cities and towns in the
United States. In the list Bellefonte
-is credited with having taken up this
beautiful custom for the first time in
1922. This is not the case. Belle-
fonte is one of the country’s pioneers.
The writer happens to have been the
person who organized the first group
of carolers here and that was more
shan a decade ago. Every year since
-#hat time a splendid male chorus has
sung on the streets of Bellefonte
from four o'clock until daylight
Christmas morning and it has been a
joy to our little world that we hope
will never be denied it.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 68.
To a group of hand-picked partisan
ladies assembled in Harrisburg, on
Monday, Governor Pinchot gave a fine
exhibition of self-praise. His theme
was “Ten Months in Office—a Report
of Progress,” and he exhausted the
possibilities in “blowing his own
horn.” He admitted failure to fulfill
the first promise of his campaign
platform but placed the blame on the
Legislature. “The Legislature under
pressure of the administration passed
a law which outlawed the saloon in
Pennsylvania,” he said. “Under pres-
sure from the brewing, distilling and
bootlegging interests,” he added, “it
later refused to pass two laws for
which the administration asked, one
to give control of the breweries, the
other to give control of the distil-
leries.” :
It is a well-known fact that from
the beginning to the end of the recent
session of the Legislature Governor
Pinchot exercised absolute control of
the proceedings. The abnormal lust
for the patronage which the Governor
had to bestow developed among the
Senators and Representatives in the
General Assembly a degree of servil-
.ity which had never previously been
known in this or any other State. At
the outset of the session there was
some show of resistance to his auto-
cratic demands but his inferentially
declared purpose to punish “disloyal-
ty to his person,” soon disrupted and
dispelled it. After the first week of
the session it was so plain that “he
who runs might read” that the Gov-
ernor’s will was the only law or rule
of action in either chamber. :
In view of these facts if the “brew-
ing, distilling and bootlegging inter-
ests” brought pressure on the Legisla-
ture they applied it through the Gov-
acting. His boasting of his present
efforts to enforce prohibition, his re-
duction of public expenditure and the
increased efficiency in the public serv-
ice may be dismissed as the foolish |
vaporing of an egotist. The only
practical work that has been done for
prohibition enforcement is ascribable
to federal officials, and according to.
the fiscal officers of the State the ex-
penises of the State government have
been increased rather than diminish-
ed during the ten months covered in
the “Report of Progress.” In his
false pretense of improvement Gov-
ernor Pinchot pays seant respect for
public intelligence.
——It is to be hoped that the big
majority for the “Road Loan” will
not be interpreted as an endorsement
of extravagance which has marked
some of the work of the Highway De-
partment in the past.
Election Results Not Bad.
While the results of the elections
throughout the country last week are
not such as to cause Democrats to
jubilate over much they have given
no reason for despondency. Outside
of Pennsylvania the best expectations
of the party leaders have been ful-
filled and in Pennsylvania, with the
exception of Philadelphia and Pitts-
burgh, gratifying returns are shown.
Of twenty-five - third-class cities in
Pennsylvania which elected Mayors
fourteen. returned Democratic victo-
ries and the Republicans only secured
nine, the other two being Prohibition-
ists or Socialists. Besides that the
per centage of gains in the total vote
in the various counties is considerably
in favor of the Democrats.
In some counties the vote reveals a
lamentable absence of organization as
well as interest among the Democrats.
As is frequently the case in “off-
year” elections voters of the minority
party in many of the counties assume
the position that it isn’t worth while
to vote for the reason that the ma-
jority party is certain to win any-
way. This mistaken interpretation of
duty caused the Democrats to lose in
several counties. Take Dauphin
county, for example. According to
statements made by Democrats since
the election less than half the total
vote of the county was brought out.
The Republicans failed to vote be-
cause their ticket was insufferably
bad and Democrats failed because they
had no hope.
There is no election as important
to the people of a community as those
which determine the local officers. It
doesn’t make ‘much difference to the
average man who is judge of the Su-
preme court but it makes a great dif-
ference who is judge of the election
in his district, Yet little interest is
taken in these local elections and the
majority party managers feel perfect-
ly safe in putting up servile toois
without character or fitness for the
duties of the offices because they know
the minority will not avail themselves
of the opportunity to serve them-
selves and their communities by cast-
ing their ballots for fitter and better
candidates of their own party.
——Most of us will defer analysis
of the condition in Germany until
after the football season is over.
ernor, who was omnipotent and ex- |
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 16. 1923.
Pinchot’s Report of Progress. |
L,
WHAT BECOMES OF YOUR RED CROSS MONEY ?
One of the willing volunteers seeking, this week, to enroll mem-
bers in the American Red Cross had a door unceremoniously closed
upon her with the remark, “We are not interested in the Red Cross
since the war is over; besides we don’t know what becomes of our
money.”
What becomes of our money? The money is divided between the
National Red Cross and our community, the amount depending upon
the membership, as fifty cents out of each membership, whether $1,
$5, $10 or $25, goes to National work; the remainder staying in the
community where it is collected. The Junior Red Cross membership
of twenty-five cents remains, entire, in the community.
The money sent to National headquarters, Washington, D. C., is
used (1) In maintaining an organization that can quickly and effect-
ively administer relief where needed; as was rendered in September
when, within ten working days, by request of President Coolidge,
$5,000,000 were raised for the Japanese Relief and another $5,250,000
within a month.
. Apart from the cost of maintenance of the National organization,
only one of the many avenues of disbursement will be cited: “In six
years there have been spent more than $163,000,000 in service to Ameri-
cas disabled veterans of the world war and their families. During the
last fiscal year $7,000,000 were spent in this work and for the current
fiscal year $2,065,854 have been set aside under the heading “Assist-
ance to disabled ex-service men and women.”
How has the money kept in our community been spent? At the
close of the war there was a surplus in our treasury which was used
to purchase a car and start the Red Cross Public Health Nursing
service which has operated continually for three and one-half years in
Bellefonte and vicinity. Monthy reports of the work have been pub-
lished in the town papers; three weeks ago the annual report with ex-
penditures was published, and two weeks ago the itinerary of the nurse
for one day. Cost of maintenance of the service was shown to be be-
tween $1500 and $1600 yearly. Since a record of so many nursing vis-
its, so many social welfare visits, ete., conveys little meaning to the
reader, a few specific instances will help to show in what diverse ways
the Red Cross nurse serves our community:
One. The district attorney had reported to him a family in
need, three miles from Bellefonte. He calls the nurse, asks her to in-
vestigate. She finds house in squalid condition, husband earning small
wage as incompetent farm hand, wife too shiftless to make best use
«of even the small wage, children rag and dirty. Nurse furnishes
soap, instructs woman how to clean; also how to bathe and care for
baby, then goes to poor overseer of township to get aid, if possible.
Reports case to Needlework Guild and secures clothing for children.
Returns to home with clothing and sees children bathed and clothed.
Several days later she carries them Christmas dinner and toys provid-
ed out of Elk’s donation. “Supervision of this family. continued at in-
tervals for over a year, and mother cared for when sick.
Two. Telephone call to visit patient living near Curtin. Finds
her paralyzed from stroke. Visits her three times a week, bathes and
does everything possible for her comfort until her death several
months later.
Three. Receives anonymous letter telling that an orphaned child
is ill-treated by family. Nurse reports case to president of Children’s
Aid, who sends her to investigate. Story found true and child is
removed and placed in good family who treat him kindly, finally adopi-
ing him.
Four. Visits school. Teacher calls attention to pupil whom she
thinks looks sick. Nurse examines- child, finds pulse is 120, lips and
_ fingers blue, and other evidence of serious illness; learns she had only
fried potatoes and coffee for breakfast. Takes child home, discovers
father has been killed in accident, leaving seven children and no source
of income. Nurse instructs mother how to. care for child and departs
to start agencies operating for relief of family. Will continue to vis-
it and aid family in every way possible.
Five. Wednesday afternoons, every mother who wishes her baby
weighed, measured and looked over by a physician is welcomed to the
well-baby clinic. Eighty-three babies are now being brought and
nurse keeps record of all, supplies literature, makes home visits to
sick ones when desired.
Six. In one year the nurse assisted in the medical examination
of eighteen hundred school children and followed up many cases, that
is, visited the home to consult and advise parents, made arrangements
for removal of tonsils and adenoids, accompanied children to oculist
and dentist. Where tuberculosis was suspected, took children to State
clinic in Lock Haven for treatment and, when necessary, to Cresson.
Took several bone cases to Philadelphia for operation.
School medical examination is futile unless cases are followed
into homes by nurse and an effort made to have defects remedied.
If rural communities, that have ceased to function as Red Cross units
since the war, would resume the annual roll call for membership, funds
could be thus secured for follow-up work by the nurse—a service of
inestimable value in the future health of a community.
Irrespective of creed, race, color, social conditions, the nursing
service “carries on.” If this community thinks the membership mon-
ey isnot properly administered, select a new committee, as its mem-
bers, who serve without salary, are elected by popular vote in Decem-
ber. If it does not like the nurse, see that another takes her place,
but don’t give up the nursing service.
Our babies, our school children, our aged, forlorn and sick need it.
Be interested in it to the extent of becoming a regular contributor
and helping to make it increasingly successful by constructive criti-
cism!
——All the excitement incident to |
the election has subsided and most |
L > Out of fourteen women who were
everybody has settled back into their | qh gidates for office at the election
normal grooves. * Sheriff-elect Dick last week nine were elected, as fol-
Taylor went to work on Tuesday at ||,cc. Mps. W ; + y
his old trade as a plumber for Cald- | f 5 Noung, Julge o f Sloe:
Women Elected to Office.
{tion in th
well & Son; John Spearly has been | i
clerking sales and looking after the | Inspectors, Sara Goodhart; Centre
work about his home as usual while | ga). yu1ia Parsons, Unionville: Fan-
James W. Swabb must. have been niet: Dumbleton :
: tit i , north precinct of
overcome with his majority for Coun | Rua township, and Mos. Bowes, west
| precinct of Rush.
seen in Bellefonte since the election. | + >
Lloyd Stover, the Recorder-elect, was | donno firester, Emma W. Womels-
y ’ :
in the ditch at Coleville, on Monday, | = A. 3: Alig 310
but he had a perfect right to be there | Auditor; Minnie OS nanuile:
because it was the ditch of that vil- | : : :
Tages new Water lie which he Wet) lan, Harris township, and Elizabeth
working on. All the other officers- | Hrees, Patton,
elect have settled down in their regu- | ’
lar occupations where they. will re- It begins to look as if Premier
main until sworn into office the first | Poneaire is cooking up a sad mess for
Monday in January, which will be on | the ‘people of France to dispose of in
the Tth of the month. . some way.
NO. 45.
Armistice Day.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It is rather a remarkable coinci-
dence that the fifth anniversary of
Armistice day comes at the very me-
ment when Europe seems to have
reached an impasse in its efforts to
find a way out of the difficulties cre-
ated by the world war. The stubborn
attitude of France on the question of
reparations has chilled the desire of
Washington to be of some aid in the
crisis, and unless Poincare withdraws
his proposed restrictions and shows
a more receptive spirit our govern-
ment will decline to be represented in
the commission that has been propos-
ed to investigate the capacity of Ger-
many to pay the stipu indemni-
ty. At the same time Germany,
threatened by revolution and harassed
by financial, industrial and political
troubles, seems to be rapidly falling
into a condition of chaos that may
threaten the peace of the world.
. It is impossible to contrast this ver-
itable devil’s broth with the high
hopes of peace and progress that were
entertained on November 11, 1918,
when the war was brought to a close,
and not to feel that there has been a
sad decline from the fine spirit that
gave the moral as well as the physical
victory to the Allies five years ago.
In seeking to place the responsibility
for this condition of affairs no little
share of the blame must be placed
upon the United States. Under the
inspiring leadership of Woodrow Wil-
son” this country réached a pinnacle
of moral grandeur never previously
achieved by it. Without any thought
of selfish gain it placed ‘ over 4,000,
000 soldiers and sailors in the field
and on the sea, thanks to their hero-
ism and self-sacrifice, it proved the
decisive factor in the winning of the
war. The splendid story of our youth-
ful warriors at Belleau Wood, Cha-
teau-Thierry, the St. Mihiel salient
and in the Argonne has been told a
thousand times and makes a magnifi-
cent chapter in. American history,
When the end came there were. more
American than English soldiers on
French soil, and the morale of France,
which had sunk almost to the point of
acknowledging defeat, had been mi-
racylously restored and a
ed. os
That November 11, 1918, was a
glorious day for the people of this
country. Since then it has been im-
possible to look with equa ;
tion upon the divided cou
bined to destroy much of the influ-
ence for good wielded by this nation
five years ago. This policy of provin-
cial isolation and aloofness, replacing
that of hearty and generous co-opera-
tion that made our participation in |
the war so effective, has reacted upon
Europe and has done much to nerve
France in the ruthless policy it has
adopted toward Germanv. All Eu-
rope has thus suffered through fail-
ure to agree upon a feasible course of
rehabilitation, and November 11, 1923,
sees the world still torn by the pas-
sions and hatred that helped to pre-
cipitate war in 1914. The immediate
prospect is not bright, but it is im-
possible to believe that mankind has
learned nothing from the long agony
it endured. If civilization is to en-
dure there must be a return to the
high idealism and fine spirit of five
vears ago, and it will be the hope of
all good Americans that their coun-
try shall display some of that moral
leadership which was once hers.
What Meddlers Do. .
From Howe's Monthly.
There lives in Kansas City a man
named Grubb, who had a job paying
$19 a week. The meddlers got after
him, and he was discharged. First
committees of women complained be-
zanse certain of his children remain-
ed away from school on certain days,
to help their mother. He was com-
pelled to leave his work, and appear
before the Court of Correction. An-
other committee dragged him into
court because his premises were not
sanitary; various pastors’ assistants
heckled him because his wife did not
go to church, nor his children to Sun-
day school. Women from the school
branch of the civic league filed com-
plaint against him because he did not
send his children to a dentist, to
have their teeth fixed; a medical
branch of another society warned
him that his children had adenoids.
and that they must be cut out. The
judge who tried the man last was a
bold one; he said: “This man has
been hounded by meddlers until he is
discouraged and ruined.” .
The Farmer and Wall Street.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
The farmer who denounces Wall
street is slowly wakening up to a real-
ization of the fact that the people who
are trying hardest to secure a market
for the farmer are the leaders in the
Wall street crew of financial devils.
No man is more anxious to secure a
world market for the farmer than the
international banker. The banker
may be a tough customer at home,
but he plays on the same side with the
farmer when the two travel abroad.
In his speech before the Repub-
lican women at Harrisburg, the other
day, the Governor made no mention
of the coal strike achievement.
——It is a safe bet that Senator
Lodge is no fonder of Woodrow Wil-
son now than he was on the day that
famous “fight” was begun.
Sy e
| bitter partisanship, the feeblenéss and
timidity in high places that have com- |
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The body of John Nesselhauf, a far-
‘| mer, was found in Peck road, near Erie,
early on Tuesday. He had been shot three
times by some one unknown.
—Visitors to the farm of William Har-
man, of Maple Hill, near Milton, are sur-
prised to see a dog mothering a pig. The
dog has four babies of her own, but when
she saw the owner trying to feed the pig-
gie from a bottle, the dog picked it up
and took it to a box with the puppies.
—Mrs. Ada J. Miller, of Camp Hill, near
Harrisburg, has been pronounced cured
by Dr. L. Guy Baugher, osteopathic phy-
sician, after she had suffered from paraly-
sis, resulting from a broken neck, received
in an automobile accident fourteen weeks
ago. Mrs. Miller's neck had been broken
in two places, an X-ray examination reveal-
‘| ed, but the spinal cord was not injured.
'—The State Banking Department has
made public a letter sent by Secretary Pe-
ter D. Cameron to all county prosecutors
in Pennsylvania asking co-operation in en-
forcing certain provisions of the State se-
curities act. The letter declared a New
York concern, through its agent, has been
offering certain bonds for sale in Pean-
sylvania without complying with the law.
—The identity of Smull's Legislative
Hand Book will not be lost through the
purchase of the copyright by the State,
Director of Publications Dietrich has an-
nounced. Although the reorganization
code provided that in the event of the pur-
chase of the copyright, the name was to
be changed to the Pennsylvania State Man-
ual, Governor Pinchot approved the reten-
tion of the former name.
—Traveling game warden C. B. Baum, of
Penbrook, was fined $200 and ordered to
pay costs amounting to $137.46 for wan-
tonly pointing a gun at J. Edward Hall,
one of Adams county's poor directors.
Baum apealed from a verdict convicting
him, but was overruled. Judge Donald P.
McPherson pronounced sentence on Mon-
day of this week. The act was committed
during the game season last fall.
—Michael Jescho was killed, another
man is missing, and a third was injured
seriously late last Thursday night when
they were caught under a stream of mol-
ten metal at the Clairton plant of the Car-
negie Steel company. The victims were in
the ladle pit when the hot metal showered
down on them. Pescho died in a hespital
Friday morning. John Cook, a laborer, is
missing and it is feared that he was cre-
mated. Norton Zelten, laborer, was burn-
ed and is not expected to recover.
—Robert Treese, of Blair county, was
given a hearing in the office of Samuel I.
Stoner, of Altoona, United States’ commis-
sioner of the Western district, on Tuesday
of last week and in default of $5,000 bail
was taken to the Allegheny county jail for
a hearing before the United States court
at Pittsburgh on November 12. Treese
was arrested by Harry L. Getchell, post-
office inspector, earlier in the week on a
charge of breaking into the postoffice at
Cove Forge and'stealing $20. The robbery
was ‘committed ‘on October 22nd of this
year.
—Fire when a gas flow ignited, threat-
ed for a time to completely destroy all
Fork done, attending the bringing in of a -
50-barrel well of oil on the Osgood .and
Jamison tract in Forest county. The well
was drilled five feet into the third sand
when the rich strike was made. It is con-
sidered that it will held up as the best
gan well recently drilled in at 50 barrels
near Plumer, Venango county, having set-
tled to a 40-barrel a day production. The
fire at the Forest county well was. only ex-
tinguished after a hard fight by volunteer
fire fighters.
—A motor transport survey on all im=-
portant Pennsylvania roads was started
under the direction of the department of
highways, last Friday. The United States
road department will join in the work, ac-
cording to William H. Connell, deputy
secretary of highways. The survey will be
the most extensive ever undertaken by any
State or foreign country, and information
gained is to be used in determining the
width and thickness of the pavements to
be put down, department officials state.
There will be 78 truck weighing stations
and more than 300 recording stations dis-
tributed over the State's primary and sec-
ondary highway systems.
—More than a billion dollars in money
and securities was transported through
several streets in Pittsburgh on Sunday
when the Union Trust Company moved
the contents of its safe deposit vault to
the recently completed vault in the new
Union Trust building, which the bank
purchased a year ago from the Henry C.
Frick estate. Officers of the bank, sup-
ported by a score of heavily armed pri-
vate detectives and police, closely guarded
the trucks in the most notable transfer of
funds in the history of Pittsburgh. Few
knew of the scheduled transfer, and the
guarded trucks attracted little attention
as they moved through the downtown dis-
trict. - aa
—James H. Rhoads, of Castaned,” saved
the small daughter of Mr. and Mrs.’ Clyde
Shaffer from death when he snatched the
child from the trolley track in Lock Ha-
ven, on Saturday, just as a car bore down
upon her. Rhoads was riding his bicycle
in Henderson street with the street car
just behind him. The child ran from be-
hind several cars parked by the side of the
street and collided with the bicycle. She
was thrown across the track in front of
the trolley. Rhoads, in attempting to
avoid striking the child, had his tire
caught in the street car track and was
thrown to the ground and fractured two
bones of his right hand. In spite of his
injuries he caught the child by the skirt
and pulled her out of the way of the car
which could not have stopped in time to
miss running over the little girl. The
child sustained minor cuts and bruises,
but escaped serious injury.
—One of the most costly fires occurring
in Mifflin county in some years partially
destroyed the Burnham school building
early Monday morning, entailing a loss of
nearly $100,000. The blaze, attributed to
a defective flue, started in the western end
of the structure, which contained quarters
for both the grade and high school pupils.
In spite of the efforts of the Burnham vol-
unteer fire department and that of the
Standard Steel works, the grade school
quarters burned to the ground. An ap-
peal for aid in checking the blaze was sent
to Lewistown and Lewistown Junction and
four companies responded. The combined
efforts’ of these six fire companies pre-
vented the fire from reaching the high
school building. Unless temporary quar-
ters can be secured, the grade schools will
be discontinued for the rest of the year
but the high school pupils returned to
their studies on Tuesday, as usual. The
fire loss is fully covered by insurance.
well of the year in that territory, the Fog- . ..