INK SLINGS.
.—Vote for Benson for Congress.
.—Vote for Noll for the Legislature.
— When the W. C. T. U. forces meet,
Monday afternoon, for their hour of
prayer for guidance as voters they
might do a little penance for having
let their endorsement for Congress
fall where it did in this District.
— William H. Noll rendered a great
service to Centre county when he was
2 Commissioner. He had a large part
in pulling the county out of debt and
reducing the taxes. Send him to the
Legislature. He can do a lot for us
there.
— Vote for Edward R. Benson for
Congress. Vote for a man who is a
man. One who doesn’t wabble and
wiggle and squirm on any question.
When he was in the Legislature his
every vote was for the people. If he
is sent to Congress his votes will be
the same way.
—Now, honestly, what has Billy
Swoope done for you since going to
Congress? Name one thing that he
has done that has had any beneficial
effect on the District that he repre-
sents and we’d vote for his re-election,
if it were not that he appointed a boy
from Allegheny county to West Point,
when four boys from the District he
is asking to re-elect him wanted the
opportunity.
—Really Coolidge might have been
laughed out of the Presidential race.
Partisanship aside, the situation is
laughable. Here is Cal. pleading for
votes because through him the Con-
stitution can best be protected, yet in
every important legal disputation of
the constitution, of record, since he
hung out his shingle as a practitioner
Uncle Sam never thought of retaining
Coolidge, the lawyer. He always
hunted up lawyer John W. Davis.
—_We don’t want to believe it and
we can’t, notwithstanding the fact
that he hasn’t undertaken to deny the
charge. A Vice President of the Unit-
ed States charging for a memorial
speech is unthinkable. Yet the Amer-
ican Legion of Bridgeport, Conn., in-
sists that he was paid $200.00 and ex-
penses for delivering a memorial
speech there on a Sunday. And the
then Vice President, now President
and aspirant to succeed himself, hasn’t
denied the statement.
— Last week we promised to tell the
old line Republicans how their Willy-
nilly Congressman had turned yel-
low on their President. Here we make
good. Swoope voted to over-ride a
veto of the President. We're not say-
ing that he didn’t do the right thing.
We're only showing up his inconsist-
ency in playing for votes. He can’t
ride two horses at the same time. He
can’t ask the dyed-in-the-woolers to
stand by him because he stood by the
President and grab off independent
votes because he turned on the Presi-
dent. 2
— We're after information. Short-
ly after midnight, Saturday, a party
of young fellows picked the shade of
our domicile as a likely place to park
while the moonshine in them waned to
the point where it was safe for them
to start home. The laughing jags
amused us out of the wrath we should
have felt at being wakened from se-
rene slumber, but the “sob sister”
among them piqued our curiosity.
We'd like to know the boy who was
crying. We know what he was cry-
ing about. But we want to know him,
because we'd like to have his nose
rubbed in something like the regrets
he left on our neighbor's pavement.
—To others the editor of the Ga-
zette may have the appearance of be-
ing jealous. Last week he gave voice
to such a spirit by saying that we have
so frequently boasted of having a
“private boot-legger that some people
are really inclined to believe we have.”
While we don’t recall ever having act-
ually boasted we do admit that on sev-
eral occasions, we blabbed on ourself
and told the public we had such a cov-
eted factotum in our entourage. We
don’t care a hang whether “some peo-
ple are inclined to believe it” or not.
We're certain our friend Tom doesn’t,
for if he did he’d have been stickin’
around a little closer than he has of
late. :
— Advertising the sheet a bit, par-
don us while we say that last week we
published three simple little notices.
One was that a tourist through Cen-
tre county had lost a lot of golf sticks
while befuddled as to the way from
Bellefonte to State College.
was to the effect that the Children’s
Aid society *has five boys to place in
good homes. The third fold of a
kitchen range that a lady was offer-
ing at a bargain.” On Sunday morning:
the golf sticks were in this office. On
Monday morning homes were offered
for two of the five boys and by Tues-
day morning the owner of the kitch-
en range had so many inquiries that
she is thinking of starting a stove
store in town.
—No, dear Gazette, we didn’t work
strenuously to get opposition to
Holmes for the Legislature. His
friends got it for him, when they un-
dertook to induce certain Democrats
to sell their heritage for the $500 that
they said Holmes would contribute to
the hospital-drive if he had no oppo-
sition for the Legislature. That’s
where the “boner” was pulled. Wheth-
er he was a party to it or not it put
Mr. Holmes in the position of playing
“a heads I win, tails you lose game.”
It was trying to get the glory of mak-
ing a handsome contribution to a wor-
thy charity for him and then getting
it all back through saving in cam-
paign expenses.
Another
VOL. 69.
Dangerous Dabbling in Politics.
Frequently, of late, the rumor has
reached us that State College is “going
unanimously for Holmes for the Leg-
islature.” While we believe nothing
of the sort the fact that such rumors
are afloat indicates that some thought-
less persons in that community are
working to consummate such an
eventuality.
State College as a voting unit, is a
borough. State College as a great
educational institution is something
entirely different. In the old days the
differentiation was “the Village” and
“the Campus.” The line was clearly
drawn and we might add that the feel-
ing between the two was not as it
should have been.
Of a sudden Pandora’s box was
pried open a bit by “the Campus” and
great extension programs were car-
ried to completion. The result was
increased values everywhere in “the
Village.” “The Campus” grew and
with it, “the Village,” until it became
a borough and the third town in pop-
ulation of the county.
If our Commonwealth had not
awakened, at least partially, to its ob-
ligation to The Pennsylvania State
College, State College, today, would
be the village of one street and a half
that it was thirty years ago.
We think no one will refute this as-
sertion. We have made it solely to
bring home to that borough the
thought that all it is and can ever hope
to be is dependent entirely on what
happens on “the Campus.”
From a long and fairly intimate
knowledge of what has been going on
up there we feel justified in saying
that “the Campus” has never actually
organized in support of any particu-
lar candidacy for public office. It has
been charged with doing so. In fact,
Governor Pinchot, after he had
been inaugurated, with impudent
inference, charged Dr. Thomas
with just such an undertaking.
Why? Because State College, as
it naturally should have been,
was strong for Gen. Alter for nomi-
nation for Governor in preference to
Pinchot and later gave McSparran a
generous vote. “The Campus” had
little to do, with. either result. The
borough did it and both have suffered
in consequence.
Governor Pinchot was so mad that
it will be recalled that when on his
itinerary through Centre county after
he had left the Granger’s picnic, two
years ago, he sped through State Col-
lege so fast that the crowds who had
gathered on the streets to welcome his
anticipated stop scarcely recognized
him.
All of this is recited merely to sug-
gest the danger there is to a commu-
nity like State College in dabbling in
politics in a contest where it has so
much at stake.
Mr. Holmes is a very reputable cit-
izen of that borough. He has acquir-
ed somewhat of a reputation as a
soap-box orator. We are told that he
has become comfortably affluent
through real estate transactions made
possible only because of what has hap-
pened on “the Campus.” The Repub-
lican, last week, undertook to make
the public - believe that the county
hoped there would be no opposition to
his candidacy for the Legislature. The
county hoped nothing of the sort.
Outside of three townships, not five
voters in a hundred knew or ever had |
heard of Mr. Holmes.
The truth is that his contribution of
$500 to the Centre County hospital
was exploited for the purpose of stop-
ping any nomination against him and
the milk in that cocoa-nut was that if
he had no opposition he would haye
no campaign expenses and would be
saving money by making such a coa-
tribution.
Now what is going to happen if by |
any chance, Mr. Holmes should be sent
to Harrisburg to represent Centre
county? : :
Either he must be for Pinchot or
Harry Baker, as exemplifying the old
organization of the Republican party,
the one that under Tener and Sproul,
did more, relatively, for State Col-
lege, than Pinchot did or: will, Bak-
er’s is also the organization that will
have the appropriations to make two
years from now. In the face of these
facts, what is Holmes going to do?
And who is going to suffer, either im-
mediately or in the future? The only
sane answer to these questions is:
“The Campus” and when “the Cam-
pus” suffers State College borough
suffers. :
We have too much confidence in the
judgment of the voters of that dis-
trict to put any credence in the ru-
mors that “State College will be unan-
imously for Holmes.” Their own wel-
fare will warn them of the danger of
sending a man to Harrisburg who if
he tries to pull them away from the
jaws of Scylla will throw them in-
to those of Charybdis.
The real advantage to State College
lies in the election of Wm. H. Noll.
Neither Governor Pinchot, nor Harry
Baker would advance a claim on him.
His vote would be free of future con-
sequences, because he is a Democrat
(Continued on page 4, Col. 1.)
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE. PA.. OCTOBER 31.
1924.
NO. 43.
* Noll Should be Your Choice
William H. Noll is a candidate to represent you in the General As-
sembly of Pennsylvania. Next Tuesday, if you go to the polls, you will
be face to face with the question as to whether he could do more for you
in the Legislature of the State than his opponent.
Neither one of them have been tried there, so all the guide you will
have is as to what the two candidates have done for you when opportunity
of service has presented itself in the past. Mr. Noll has something more
than promises of what he will do to support his request for your vote.
He has had eight years’ experience
in the very office of the county
through which moves the business that directly effects the taxes. The
business of assessment, taxes, poor accounts, road inmprovement, bridges
and all the other avenues through which the Legislature works to effect
the fortunes of the tax payer.
We have previously published a resume of what was done by way of
paying off debts, reducing the tax millage and general progress while he
was a Commissioner of Centre county. All of this was very gratifying.
But the experiences there by way of coming in personal touch with every
class of business, industry and society in the county was the very thing
that fits him so specially for the office he now seeks.
Who could help with legislation that may affect Centre county very
directly most intelligently? A man who knows the county’s needs or one
who merely offers to try to find them out. Mr. Noll knows because he has
had opportunity to learn. He is splendidly equipped for the Legislature
and will make a record of service for Centre county in Harrisburg just as
he did in the court house from 1913 to 1920.
Who Will You Send to Congress?
Next Tuesday the voters of the Twenty-first Congressional District
will have the opportunity to put their seal of approbation on their pres-
ent Member, or recall his commission to longer represent them in the
highest legislative body in the land.
Two years ago they accepted William I. Swoope, of Cleariield, at his
own and the'word of his advocates, that he had the ability, the back-bone
and he will go to Washington and serve the District in a manner that
would reflect credit on it. Mr. Swoope is pleading that he be returned for
another term.
|
On Tuesday you will have to answer his plea with your ballot. Nat-
urally you should ask yourself:
in voting to have him represent me in Congress for two
iy i i a Sage
come the only answer that is
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truthful: Nothing.
What has this man done to justify me
years more,
“else,” a
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Mr. Swoope has been a district disappointment. He is a well dressed,
well mannered and pleasant spoken gentleman and that’s all. His polish
isn’t merely veneer. It’s real.
But there’s little else than the polish.
Search his record through the last session of Congress and you won’t find
one constructive utterance. You will find, however, the signs of a wob-
bling trimmer who was thinking more of getting back for another term
than he was of the good of his country or the party that sent him there.
No one knows this better than some of the men who were behind him two °
years ago with their influence and their money.
He is running as a Republican, a Socialist and a Prohibitionist. A
powerful Republican in the District, told us a few weeks ago that he did
not believe Swoope knew anything about being a Republican, and proved
it from a purely party standpoint. Is he a Socialist? If not, what kind
of promises did he make to get the endorsement of that party? He is not
a Prohibitionist, we know that, so how did he get the endorsement of the
good people who are called to pray for guidance next Monday after-
noon as to how they shall vote?
Why did they fix their choice before
they started to pray for-the wisdom that would tell them what it should
be. He would be on the Labor ticket too if John Brophy, president of the
Miners Union of the Central Pennsylvania fields hadn’t known him bet-
ter than the Republicans, the Socialists or the Prohibitionists. Mr.
Swoope went to Mr. Brophy’s office and plead for the Labor endorsement.
However, the voter should not be so much concerned about his pres-
ent equilibristic attempts to carry the Republican elephant, the red flag
of Socialism and the water wagon of Prohibition, all on the same shoul-
der as. it should be as to what he did during the last session of Congress.
He did nothing. Absolutely nothing but betray the President by voting
to over-ride one of his vetoes and appoint a boy from Allegheny county
to West Point when two boys from Clearfield and two from McKean
county had asked to have a chance in a competitive examination for the
great opportunity.
You will find the name of Edward R. Benson, of McKean county, as a
candidate for Congress, next Tuesday. Naturally, you will wonder who
he is. Let us answer that question for you. Mr, Benson is a Democrat.
He is of Swedish ancestry, but a four-square, red blooded American citi-
zen who doesn’t temporize with anything. So square and fair and sensi-
ble that McKean, where Democrats are few and far between, sent him to
the Legislature in 1913 and while there he voted “Yes” on such important
bills as equalization of taxation, minimum wages for women and children,
Woman’s suffrage, local option, workmen’s compensation, and “No” on
Bigelow’s plan to Bigelowize township roads.
Mr. Benson has the endorsement of the Labor party, not because he
plead for it like Mr. Swoope, but because Labor recognized in him a man
who is something moré than polish and froth. A real man who is think-
ing and working for the good of his fellows and it endorsed his candidacy
without his solicitation or knowledge of it.
Comparatively speaking, Mr. Benson is the man who represents an
honest purpose to sérve; whereas Mr. Swoope kepresents nothing more
than personal ambition.
Which: of the two aré you going to vote for when you go to the polls
next Tuesday?
If Gaston B. Méans had not
been so intimate with high public of-
ficials he wouldn’t have so many se-
crets to tell,
——1It would be worth something,
even to an optimist, to know how Re-
publican managers keep up hope of
the election of Coolidge.
——Thé€ President. charged $250.00
for addressing ex-service men, but he
vetoed the bonus bill to oblige Wall
Street for nothing.
,~——A vote for LaFollette is a vote
thrown away, yet the Wisconsin war
horse served a good purpose in split-
ting the Republican party.
| Yankee Coolidge.
0 Yankee Coolidge came to town,
Upon a load of ice, sir
He didn’t find it cold at all,
But very warm and nice, sir.
And when he rose to highest place
The gang stepped in behind, sir,
And shouted: ‘“He’s the boy for us—
He's deaf and dumb and blind, sir!”
CHORUS
Yankee Coolidge, ha, ha, ha,
He would never tell on
Forbes and Burns and Albert Fall
And Daugherty and Mellon.
Then Fall he took his job one day
And started in to sell, sir;
He made a hundred thousand bucks,
A simple bagatelle, sir.
But Coolidge said: “So long I've seen
Great mountains ‘round my home, sir,
I cannot condescend to note
This puny Teapot Dome, sir.”
Chorus.
And Daugherty, with taking ways
He breezed into the town, sir,
He jimmied everything in sight,
Including things nailed down, sir.
But Coolidge said: “Oh, let him stay!
"Twill help remove the smudges,
And he can use his office force
To frame-up all his judges.”
Yankee Coolidge, ha, ha, ha,
He would never tell on
Forbes and Burns and Albert Fall
And Daugherty and Mellon.
—G. W. Putnam.
—Vote for Noll for the Legislature.
Mr. Coolidge as a Good Claimer.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
Reading President Coolidge’s ad-~
dress before the Chamber of Com-
merce of the United States one might
get the impression that it was his ad-
ministration that settled the.repara-
tions question and his leadership that
produced the tax reduction measure.
No one, of course, questions the sin-
cerity of the President’s own belief as
to the importance of his acts or would
withhold from him any credit that
may be due him. The whole trouble
is that he and his friends appear to
put a vastly higher appraisal upon his
performances than the average eiti-
zen. It is a matter of regret that he
does not appear to have a clear title
to any of the acts of greatness attrib-
like the credit given him in the ending
of the police strike in Boston. Yet it
was the impression created of him at
that time, that he was the chief fac-
tor in the restoration of order, that
brought him prominently before the
country and led to his being placed in
the exalted position he now holds.
Lately his partisan supporters have
attempted to usurp for him the credit
for the settlement of the reparations
question after his administration had
refused to have anything officially to
do with it. Similarly they are now
seeking to usurp for him credit for
the tax reduction measure put through
by Democrats and progressive Repub-
licans, and which he signed reluct-
antly.
What the President looks upon as
action on the part of the administra-
tion others consider either as non-par-
‘| tisan accomplishments or “unofficial
observing.” The Washington confer-
ence came about as the result of Dem-
ocratic agitation rather than Repub-
lican, and Democrats in the Senate,
, showing an infinitely broader spirit
| than the Republican Senators did to-
ward the peace work of the Democrat-
ic President, joined promptly in the
ratification of the treaties of the
Washington conference. The Repub-
lican administration has no monopoly
| of ‘credit for that Washington meet-
ing. ‘It is difficult to see where the
Coolidge administration can claim any
credit at all in connection with the
settling of the reparations question.
The commission of experts was form-
ed in accordance with provisions of the
reparations commission and it was the
latter that selected and appointed the
American members of the body. All
that President Coolidge did was to
signify that his administration had no
objections to the Americans named by
the reparations commission, He made
it clear when the American members
left for Europe that his administra-
tion accepted no responsibility for
them. They were to act wholly in an
unofficial capacity. General Dawes
and his associates so understood their
position.
When it comes to defense of the
Constitution or American independ-
ence, it is absurd on the part of any
one to seek to give the impression that
these vital principles would be safer
with Calvin Coolidge in the White
House than with John W. Davis there.
John W. Davis was defending the
courts against radicals before the
counsry ever heard Calvin Coolidge or
General Dawes on the subject. The
eminence of John W. Davis in the law
and in statesmanship is unchallenged.
There is no dispute over his title to
important accomplishments.
The American people “owe it to
themselves and to their country to
vote for the candidate best qualified
for leadership—and John W. Davis is
clearly the best. E
—Vote for Noll for the Legislature.
—If the Republicans had been
half as anxious to save the valuable
assets of the country as they. profess
to be to save the constitution the na-
val oil would never have been leased.
: BR A ————
~—Vote for Benson for Congress.
iat he. was. entitled to, any=iRing |
re red s
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—George L. Lowe, of Bloomsburg, has
been named temporary receiver of the Sus-
quehanna Shoe company, at Catawissa, at
the first meeting of the creditors, last Fri-
day. The assets of the company were re-
ported as $46,000 and the: liabilities $50,«
000. 4
—An epidemic of hog cholera is reported
by farmers in the Roaring Creek valley,
Columbia county, and losses of more than
$3,000 have been sustained. Quarantines
are being established and everything pos-
sible done to prevent the spread of the dis-
ease, which is the worst in a number of
years. i
—A jury in the Northumberland Com-
mon Pleas court on Friday found for the
defendant in the damage suit of Mr. and
Mrs. J. J. Conley, of Rock Glen, against
Dr. George A. Dieterick, of Sunbury, and
¢. Robert Fertig, of Jersey Shore. They
sought $35,000 damages for injuries Mrs.
Fertig suffered in an automobile wreck at
that place last summer, i
—Swooplng down upon the little tailor
shop of Charles Levin, in Erie, last Fri-
day, five men in a truck knocked Leviil to
the floor and while he was unconscious
made away with his newly invented com-
bination gas and electric clothes-pressing
machine. Levin values the machine, which
he has patented, at several thousand dol-
lars. No trace of the machine has been
found.
—Two Venango county doctors—Dr.
Mayo Robb, of Senca, and Dr. E, L. Dick-
ey, of Oil City, have just been sued for
$25,000 by Fred Sutley, of Cranberry, who
alleges that they reduced the fracture of
his leg in a fashion that left it three inch-
es shorter than the other. In his bill of
complaint Sutley declares that the phy-
sicians did what he claims was a “bung-
ling job.”
—At work on an oil lease, two miles
from Franklin, last Thursday afternoon,
Frank M. Davis, 53 years old, father of ten
children, had his right hand ground off
when it became eaught in the gears of a
gasoline engine, Davis, with rare presence
of mind and despite terrific pain, threw off
the engine, stopped the cogs, pulled out
his arm and ran a quarter of a mile for
help. Then he endured an automobile ride
of two miles to a doctor's office. He will
recover.
—William M. Seward, colored, aged 47
years, of Altoona, was burned to death, his
daughter, Margaret, aged 10, was perhaps
fatally injured and six others narrowly es-
caped injuries on Monday morning when
the automobile in which they were riding
turned over on the Catfish road, one mile
west of Hollidaysburg and was totally de-
stroyed by fire. The party was returning
from Bedford, where they had spent Sun-
day evening. The accident occurred about
1:40 o'clock.” !
—Accepting a dare of several compan-
ions to climb to the top of a steel tower
carrying high-tension wires of the Penn-
sylvania Power and Light company, on
the mountain south of Shamokin, Matthew
Zarick, 14 years old, was electrocuted
when he came in contact with a wire car-
rying 20,000 volts of electricity. His
clothes were set on fire by the electric cur-
rent - and he dropped fifty feet to the
ground, a flaming torch. The boy was
dead when companions reached his side.
His body was badly burned, »
“Taking with him the shoes of his
guard and the coat and vest and $35 be-
longing to a United States deputy marshal,
Eugene Warren, 17 year old postoffice rob-
ber, who was being taken from Kansas
City to a reform school near Washington,
D. C., made his escape from the officers
early .on Monday morning when the train
on which they were riding slowed down to.
enter the Gallitzin tunnel. Warren eluded
the officers by leaving the train through a
window and as yet no trace has been found
of him, although railroad and state police
have been notified of his escape.
—Officials of the Penbrook National bank
in Dauphin county on Saturday identified
Albert Best, of Middletown, as one of the
..'0 men vho held up the institution last
Monday and escaped with approximately
$2270, of which $715 was mutilated money.
Louis Lauitus, of Philadelphia, also is be-
ing held as a suspect in connection with
the robbery. Best was arrested when he
attempted to pass two mutilated $20 bills
at a Middletown bank. He claimed he had
won the money in a dice game. ' At a
hearing on Monday he was discharged be-
cause of lack of sufficient evidence con-
necting him with the crime.
—Oscar Young, 22 years old, is in the
Bloomsburg hospital with a probable frac-
ture of the. skull and his father, Michael,
and brother, Melvin, are in the Columbia
county jail, following a fight on Monday
on their Franklin township farm, in which
Jerry Oberdorf and son, of Bloomsburg,
were also hurt. The two men in jail are
also seriously hurt and are said by the
police to have been severely beaten after
they attacked the Oberdorfs, striking them
with an automobile piston rod. The rod
was taken from them and used by the
Oberdorfs before the fight ended. Police
said the fight grew out of a dispute be-
tween the Oberdorfs, owners of the farm
on which the Youngs are tenants. =
—Turned back at the pier in New York
city because he had no passport when he’
tried to board ship to return to his native
Poland, Michael Krovak, a coal miner of
Portage, Pa., shot himself through the
neck in Broad Street station, Philadelphia,
on Saturday, rather than return to the
mining town. He was taken to the Hahn-
emann hospital, where physicians said he
probably would recover. Krovak shot
himself while seated in the waiting room.
Scores of persons saw him draw the re-
volver from his pocket and place the muz-
zle under his chin. Krovak said he had
worked as a miner for ten years, saved
$500 and decided to return to Poland. He
was turned back at New York for lack of
a passport. “The thought of going back
into the mines was too much,” he said.
—Turning from the deathbed of his
young wife, Charles F. Snyder, 39 years
old, walked from the Lenhart hospital at
Selinsgrove, on Saturday, to a store, can-
celed an order for week-end groceries and
explained he was determined to carry out
his part of the love pact with his wife,
that life to either of them was unbearable
without the other. On his way to his big
farm adjoining the borough he stopped at
thie village undertaker’s parlors, where he
told attendants they should hurry and
bring his wife's body out there to prepare
for burial, as they would find more work
than they expected. The prediction proved
true, for in the childless home.the under-
taker an hour later found the body of Sny-
der. He had used a rifle, Téaving a note,
“I said I would be with her again today
and I am.