INK SLINGS. ——Former Secretary Fall would probably offer no objection to a move- ment to dispense with all courts. —Centre county would probably not have been in on-the Mothers As- sistance fund if it had not been for the far-sightedness of Wm. H. Noll. ——May be the New York bankers are contributing a million dollars to the Republican campaign fund in or- der to make wage earners happy. ——The Clarksburg, West Virginia, Exponent thinks “that Cal's “sap” pail is one that Ballinger used when he “tapped” the Alaska forests.” ——A West Virginia contemporary says that Mr. Davis is having plenty of fun in the campaign. Coolidge looks like a child taking castor oil. —With a twelve million dollar “slush” fund promoting his candidacy we presume the Republican managers are relying on the ability of money to talk, while Cal. can’t. —William H. Noll rendered Centre county a great service when he was a member of the board of Commission- ers. He will do the same thing when he is sent to the Legislature. —One of the unterrified, writing from Bradford, says: “Let’s put Da- vis in.” That's what we say. Let's put Davis in and be sure of having a. President who is something more than a mollycoddle or a fire brand. —If Holmes goes to Harrisburg either Governor - Pinchot or Harry Baker will carry the vote of Centre county in his vest pocket. That’s cer- tain. If Noll goes he’ll vote as he thinks best for you, regardless of the threats of Pinchot or Baker. —A regular Republican has no ob- ligation to Swoope, because he sup- ported the President while in Con- gress. If he has asked you to vote for him because he has supported the President, ask him where he gets the big idea. We'll tell you, next week, how Swoope turned yellow on Cool- idge. —If the Farm Bureau has been of any value to agriculture in Centre county thank William H. Noll for his share in establishing it. We know who was first to see that it would be a boon to the farmers of the county because we presented the appeal for the first appropriation that was made by a board of County Commissioners. —Writing as to “Why I Shall Vote for Davis” former Governor Black, of Kentucky, says in a recent issue of the Christian Advocate: “Ultra conserv- atism and big business have their can- lidate. Radicalism and socialistic dis- sontent have their standard: bearer. The rest of us are compelled to place sur fealty elsewhere. In the person of John W. Davis we will have a tow- sring figure as the next President of the United States.” —Coolidge could act on his tariff | :ommission’s recommendation that aalf a cent be taken off sugar tomor- row, if he would. But he won’t as long as the sugar barons are dropping zontributions of ten thousand dollars at a crack into his campaign fund. Half a cent on a pound of sugar would save fifty million dollars in a year for he house-keepers of the country, but Coolidge wants to be President, so what’s the use of hoping. —In the 1920 election there were jinety-six stay at homes for every qwundred voters who actually went to che polls and exercised their right of ‘ranchise. In that election Pennsyl- vania was the most derelict of all the States. Here there were one hundred and thirty-three stay at homes for >very hundred who voted. In this ap- salling neglect of civic duty Centre :ounty was outstanding. Especially 50 in the Pennsvalley section where ‘ew women go to the polls and many nen stay at home to keep them com- »any. . The consequences of such fail- ire was never better illustrated in our :ounty than it was last fall when Pot- er and Penn townships, alone, could 1ave elected the entire Democratic icket in the field if they had but poli- :d eighty per cent. of their registered rote. Let us hope that at the coming slection Centre will show more inter- st in the contest than she has for rears. Let us have a great vote in the ounty. —Billy Swoope is scared stiff. The district has discovered that he is not f Congressional caliber and if the op- yosition to his re-election is organized 1e’ll be overwhelmingly defeated. In he face of outspoken disaffection in iis own party Billy has grown frantic nd has been reduced to the undigni- ied practice of calling ladies on the elephone to importune them to vote or him. He’s made a miserable mess f it in Washington and worse at ome when he has tried to explain his ctions. He went into the “bone head” lass permanently when he appointed n Allegheny county boy to West ’oint in the face of the fact that there rere four boys in his own District ho had filed applications for the hon- r. When cornered in his treachery 2 the people who had elected him he ried to squirm out by saying it was one as a favor for Senator Reed. enator Reed has a number of West ‘'oint scholarships at his disposal. he Congressman of this District has nly one, yet he gave that to Alleghe- y county in preference to a boy from entre, Clearfield, McKean or Camer- n. Don’t you think Swoope ought to o out to Allegheny and get votes if 2 wants to go back to Congress? ote for Benson. He won’t be giving ings that belong to his way to others. District ! iE ee... BELLEFO STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 69. The Republican Slush Fund. In his testimony before the Senate committee on campaign expenditures, in Chicago the other day, chairman Butler, of the Republican National committee, declared that New York State Republicans have been assessed $1,000,000 and Pennsylvania Republi- cans $600,000 to make up the slush fund of the party for this campaign. He gave no reason for the discrimina- tion in assessments, for no levy at all is made against some States and com- paratively speaking Ohio and Illinois are let off easy. Senator Caraway | asked whether it was believed that New York and Pennsylvania are easy | marks, so to speak, but he failed to | answer. Probably he had in mind the | answer of Secretary Fall. He might incriminate himself. The reason for the heavy assess- ments upon New York and Pennsyl- vania is perfectly plain and is obvious to Senator Caraway as to anybody else. Calvin Coolidge is the candidate of the beneficiaries of “special priv- lege” and there are more of these in New York and Pennsylvania than in all the other States in the Union. Out- side of the sugar growers, who steal from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 a year from the consumers, the bankers and brokers of New York and the manufacturers of Pennsylvania derive the greatest advantage from the pol- icies which Coolidge is under obliga- tion to serve. The graft from the op- eration of the present tariff law amounts to about $4,000,000 a year, and the bulk of it goes to New York and Pennsylvania. . The budget of the Republican Na- tional committee, according to Mr. Butler’s sworn testimony, is $3,000,- 000 and considerably more than half of it will be drawn from New York and Pennsylvania. But if Coolidge is elected it will be a good investment | for those who make it up. No “get- rich-quick” enterprise ever known in fact or fiction has yielded profits as abundantly as the excessive tariff tax | affords them. But the budget of the | committee does not express the sum total of the investment. The attorney for the complainant submitted proof that the slush fund 000, and that will not be enough to buy Coolidge’s election. Probably this is an invention to di- vert other members of the Coolidge cabinet from campaign work. McAdoo Points the Way. In a letter written in a hospital in Baltimore, where he is convalescing ! after a serious surgical operation, and ! addressed to Senator Swanson, of Vir- | ginia, Mr. William G. McAdoo lays before the eyes of the progressive voters an accurate statement of pres- | “If the forces | ent political conditions. of reaction represented by the Cool- idge administration succeed in Novem- ber,” he writes, “it will be due solely to division in the ranks of ‘the Pro- gressive and Liberal forces in Amer- ica. It is a great pity that the Pro- gressives, led by LaFollette and Wheeler, and the Democrats, led by Davis and Bryan, cannot present a ° united front against the common en- emy.” ‘ That being impossible, under exist- ing circumstances, Mr. McAdoo pro- ceeds to reason why all Democrats and some Progressives ought to vote for the Democratic candidates. Davis and Bryan have an absolute certainty of the one hundred and sixty-six votes of the Southern States, and being practically sure to carry the border States of Kentucky, Delaware, Mary- land and Missouri, they will have a force greater than it is possible for LaFollette to acquire. Kansas, Ne- braska, Colorado and Wyoming are doubtful as between the Democratic and Republican tickets. Illinois is fighting territory and late Republican ° estimates concede New York to the Democrats as well as New Jersey. The only hope Mr. LoFollette can in- dulge is that he will prevent the elec- tion of Coolidge this year and create the nucleus of a party in the future. his is a laudable ambition but it might be indulged at too great a cost. That is it might possibly alienate a sufficient number of well meaning but ill-informed voters from support of Davis and Bryan to elect Coolidge, thus surrendering the government to the reactionaries, not only for the present but for all time. For that rea- son Democratic voters should adhere to the candidates of their own party in the doubtful States. Acknowledg- ing all the Progressives claim for their candidate he is neither safer nor better than Davis. ——Republican chairman Butler is willing to pay a generous reward for a likely scheme to get rid of Senator Brookhart. ——— a There are 242 kinds of cheese but they all look alike to a rat. hat the slush fupd will amount to; $12,000,000 dollars instead of $3,000;- It is reported that a new oil’ field has been discovered in Louisiana. i NTE, PA.. OCTOBER 24. 1924. 7 The Tide is Running Strong for Noll A very careful survey of the political outlook in Centre county within the past week reveals an unmistakable and doubtless an irre- sistible swing toward William H. Noll for Representative in the Gen- eral Assembly. In several precincts of the many from which we have had reports the vote will be almost unanimous for him. In one of the larger precincts of the county, one that is overwhelmingly Republican in sentiment, it is predicted that he will receive ninety per cent. of the entire vote cast on Tuesday, November 4th. This latter report seemed so unusual that we took the time to check up on it to ascertain just what justification there could be for the statement that Mr. Noll would poll i, of per cent. of the vote of a district in which the party he represents Is in decided minority. From: Republicans, Democrats, Prohibitionists: and three voters, who said they were Socialists, whom we interregated at random, came as many replies as to their reasons for voting for Mr. Noll. Others said: “I voted for him Some merely said: “I know him.” : both times he ran for County Com- missioner and had no reason to regret it.” i Two said: lican, a Prohibitionst or anything “I don’t care whether Noll is a Democrat, a Repub- else. I'm for him because he is a | clean cut, well informed man who stands four-square with everybody | and isn’t running ’round trying to capitalize his membership in lodges and the church in a contest in which such things should have no place. i While these are only a few of the replies that have been turned in or any other form of government. partisanship, except the flimsy one of the principles of their party. | campaign to incite social, spiritual Mr. Noll is not asking you to in answer to our question as to why a candidate is strong enough in one particular district to be reasonably certain of getting ninety per cent. of its entire vote we want to dwell on the last one, for the reason that it shows that others have looked at the situation in the big, broad manner in which it should be viewed by évery voter. In the first place a Member of the General Assembly of Pennsyl- vania, or any other State, has nothing whatever to do with the funda- mental principles of Democracy, Republicanism, Prohibition, Socialism They are all prerogatives of the Federal government and when the right of voting for a United States Senator was taken away from the Legislature of Pennsylvania and placed in. the hands of the voters, themselves, the last incentive of of being regular and supporting the organization, was taken out of State elections. ; _If every Member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania were a Dem- ocrat, or a Prohibitionist, or a Socialist, or a what-not they could, by their votes, bring about no legislation in Pennsylvania in contrariety Having disposed of the partisan aspect of the present contest let - us take up the one that should have a re tre county who wants a Representative in Harrisburg to represent him. Because a man is a Presbyterian, a Mas Moose, a P. O. S. of A., or a Red M he is qualified to represent you in the be erning your mode of living. “What is real) square enough and fair enough to stand on what HE is and what HE HAS DONE without leaning on props that are only brought into a appeal to the voter in Cen- , an Odd Fellow, an Elk, a doesn’t guarantee that akes the laws gov- essential is a man who is and creed hatred. vote for him because he is a com- municant member of the Reformed church. He is not asking you to vote for him because he has been an Odd Fellow for thirty-five years. He is not asking you to vote for him because he is an Elk or any other of the Orders to which he belongs. monds. guess at. Noll. election is bunk. It’s the man that counts and William H. Noll is the man. He isn’t jumping onto every stump he sees, kissing babies, and promising to change rhinestones into dia- He is simply standing on his record as an official of Centre county who had a part in doing a reputation for being square with everybody, and on the fact that he knows a lot about Centre county and its needs that the rest of us only lot for you as a tax payer, on his ° The intelligent voter is quick to discern the difference between flub-dub and reality and that is why the tide has turned so strong to This thing of yelling support of the President, the church, lodges, the tariff, the fundamental principles of any party in a county or State ~ i Treating the Wrong Organ. Governor Pinchot ought to change his doctors. His present physician ' certainly made a sad mistake in diag- ' nosing his malady. It isn’t his throat that needs treatment. The trouble is in his head. We are led to this opin- ion by reading the speeches he has “been delivering. In his first effort he ' declared that the Republican party of : Pennsylvania is made up of crooks "and corruptionists. But he asked the “men and women in his audience to vote to continue them in authority. That is not inconsistency. It is in- sanity. No man of healthy mind | would make such a break. It not only revealed absolute indifference to pub- lic morals but expressed contempt for popular intelligence. , “unworthy of association with good women and decent men and that they deserve to be driven forever from any contact with the affairs of the Com- | monwealth they have betrayed,” his request that the men and women in his audience “support the Republican ticket from President Coolidge down,” was a crime perpetrated in the light of knowledge and for a purpose of evil. It'marks Mr. Pinchot as a po- litical hypocrite if not a moral degen- erate. No honorable man of sane mind would so stultify himself. In that act alone Mr. Pinchot has justi- fied the contempt in which he is held by thousands. After fulsomely praising his own work Mr. Pinchot added: “Only ore thing could interfere to prevent me from retiring from office with every promise fulfilled. This would be the success of the old gang in its desire and effort to bring back the mess we have cleaned up.” Then he brazenly asked the voters of the State to re- store the old gang by voting “the Re- If Gifford Pinchot knows, as he de- | clares he does, that the leaders of the : Republican party of Pennsylvania are | publican ticket from President Cool- idge down.” Possibly he hopes that { restoring the old gang to power would open up another opportunity for him to buy a nomination and fool the peo- ple as he did in 1922. But if he en- tertains such expectations he will be disappointed, for his misfeasances { have made the worst gang acts look | respectable. | ——Republican chairman Harry Baker may have released his grip on | Pinchot’s throat in order that the Gov- | ernor might make a fool of himself. A CALL TO WOMEN. Women! You have a call to Duty i on November 4. Will you ans- wer? No one has any respect for a Slacker—an Excuse Maker. A woman slacker is one who fails to go to the polls to vote. The welfare of your home and children depends upon good Gov- ernment. . Can any weman say she is not interested when Republican tariff has doubled the cost of almost everything you buy. If you want good government— vote for it and get it. If you want lower prices, it’s up to you—Vote for JOHN W. DAVIS. J If you do not vote, then don’t complain about anything that happens. oe ‘ To you progressive women who do not need to be reminded to vote, will you see to it that your neighbor women vote? Election Day—November 4 The man—JOHN W. DAVIS ; ee fee ——If the tendency continues the penalty for murder will be no great- er after a while than that for petty larceny. NO. 42. i A Logical Decree. From the Philadelphia Ledger. ‘ . The decree that calls for the dis- mantling of the Zeppelin factory that could turn out so fine and beautiful a airship, Los Angeles, seems, indeed, hard. The Friedrichshafen plant rep- resents the last word in technique, equipment and personnel, and it does appear that its breaking up would be a slap in the face of progress. The decree, however, is the logical outcome of Germany’s defeat in the war and the necessity of controlling in that still uncertain country the urge i to harness science to warfare for the cannot countenance. The Germaj that ran amuck once may TD do so again. For her insanity she has paid by the destruction of her navy and the limitation of her army. She must continue to be kept under con- trol, and the decree for dismantling the Zeppelin works is only a detail in ihe system that has been laid upon er. : Es The nations that today are striving to keep the world upon the straight and narrow path are not unmindful of German psychology. They may be making a mistake in striving to con- trol the military urge of a nation such as Germany. But they can conceive of no better method. They realize, moreover, that, if Germany is allowed to manufacture war Zeppelins for oth- ers, she will soon be asking for per- mission to make “peace” Zeppelins for herself—and it may not be feasible to deny her. Thus, a step toward mak- ing the military control of the country more lenient might have dangerous consequences. ; Germany must be—not destroyed, but controlled. That she happens to be equipped to make angels of the air, however ‘beautiful, must not. blind the eyes of the world with any false sen- timentality about what use she would make of Zeppelins if she could." An Attack from the Bench. From the New York Evening World. The delectable Mr. Forbes, of ihe famous company of “best minds,” who squandered the money intended by an appreciative nation for the care of! crippled soldiers, on wine, women and crooked contractors, will not be until after the election, e record of a national A 1 istration, there is none so repulsive as that of a man who, with a bottle in his hand, a woman on his arm, and a deal with crooked contractors in his scheme for self-enrichment, robbed the broken soldiers for whom the nation had thought to provide. But United States Judge Carpenter postpones the trial until after the election because it has a “political as- pect!” Does he mean to imply that there is a political party in the coun- try interested in saving this wretched malefactor from punishment? He does—and this is the way he puts it: “The average Democrat * * * will feel that there ought to be conviction and the average Republican will feel that there ought to be an acquittal.” This; we submit, is the most serious attack yet made in the course of the .campaign on the party of President Coolidge. It comes from a United -States: Judge, who is a Republican, appointed to his present position by the present Administration on the rec- ommendation of Mr. Daugherty. The Game by Innings. From the New York Times, La Follette: “The Democratic par- ty lost its last vestige of democracy. The Republican party lost its last sem- blance of freedom. Both the old par- ties became private things, palsied agencies of the popular will.” No hits. No runs. Three errors. Calder: “In New York it will be Coolidge by a plurality of more than a million. LaFollette will poll a large vote in the industrial cities. Davis will be third.” No hits. No runs, | Two errors. Borah: “I claim the right as your ‘Senator to oppose any measure by whomsoever proposed which I believe to be in the public good and in the in- terest of sound. government.” One hit. One run. Two grammatical er- Tors. Davis: “Never in all the history of | the United States was its foreign pol- | icy made the football of partisan pol- ities as during those melancholy years , and during the campaign whose result elevated the Secretary of State to the | position he now holds.” One hit. One run. No errors. The Teapct Dome in Politics. | Sr — i From the Philadelphia Record. Chairman William M. Butler says ‘ he has heard little about the Teapot Dome scandal, but if he will listen carefully he will hear a good deal about it in New York. A party of Democratic women are going cam- paigning in the “Singing Teapot.” It is an automobile body shaped like a kettle, and when the steam blows the cover off a Democratic woman pops her head out and makes a speech. If Mr. Butler will come around and keep quite still he may hear a plenty about petroleum and other things that don’t get much attention from the Republi- can speakers. If the absurd notion that Gov- ernor Bryan may become President is a méndcé what would you call. a | that job. chance that Hell ’an Maria might get piece of work as our navy’s newest ; attainment of ends which the world | 3 aOR. Ratt DEER LYRE Jjunlawful assembly and senten {SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Arthur C. Dorman, convieted last May of attempted burglary of the Lloyd apart- ments at Northumberland, was sentenced on Monday to from three to six years in the eastern penitentiary and a fine of $100 and the costs. . —Gundel Brothers, who operate dredges on the Susquehanna river, at ' Columbia, have taken out 1,800 tons of coal from the river and have orders for at least 600 tons more. They will continue dredging opera- tions as long as the weather permits. —Mrs. Elizabeth E. Jones, of Philadel phia, aged 82 years, is the oldest applicant to ask the State test prescribed: for motor vehicle drivers, officials in the Department of Highways have announced. They de- clared she passed the examination with “flying colors.” —The only case listed for trial at the November ‘term of Perry county court -is that of Elmer E. Rice vs. F. H. Bernheisel, an apeal from the docket of Frank H. Zinn, justice of the peace of Newport. The case grew out of the sale of a cow, by Rice to Bernheisel, which died soon after bein loaded for shipment. ;