INK SLINGS. —The “Afaletics” are ctiil out in front in the American League race and if Connie’s tribe only knew that we have a cigar wagered that they’ll stay there, we know they'd do it. —That the surest way to kill a thing is to stop talking about it has been made all the more certain by the death of Mr. Bryan. Since he was laid to rest in Arlington only two weeks ago evolution has been as little heard of as A. Mitchell Palmer. —A gentleman, by name Jarvis, has made a statement that is likely to rob Governor Pinchot of all the thunder he expected to start reverberating over Pennsylvania because of the Bell bank scandals in the Pittsburgh dis- trict. In effect he asks why the Gov- . ernor’s bank examiners didn’t report the conditions long before the blow- up. The inquiry is quite natural, and Pinchot can’t convincingly answer it.- —The preliminaries are almost over. In less than a month we’ll know who was qualified for the finals in the judicial race. Watching the runners, as they come into the home-stretch, unless one of them casts a shoe or “breaks,” we are inclined to believe that there will be three candidates to vote for when the ballots are printed. And one will be a Democrat, one a Re- publican and one a Prohibition offer- ing to the voters. —-Samuel P. Rotan, for eighteen years District Attorney of the city of Philadelphia, has withdrawn as a can- didate for re-election. He is not tired of the office. Boss Vare is tired of making concessions to the remnants of the old Penrose organization. He has the city so firmly in his grip now that there is no longer expediency in doing it. That such is the fact one needs no more positive proof than Mr. Rotan’s declination to run against Vare’s hand-picked candidate. —To the Scott Nearings who, un- fortunately, have been called into po- sition where they are privileged to use the stationery of The Pennsylvania State College, let us say this: Letters that you write to Governor Pinchot are sheer waste of typist’s time and postage stamps. Pinchot is too smart to monkey with the College. He hates it like the devil hates Holy water, but if he were to start reorganizing it, like he has done every other public institution in Pennsylvania, he would be admitting that it really is Penn- sylvania’s only institution of higher education and thereby would turn both the University of Pennsylvania' and Pittsburgh against him. The Gover- nor is thinking too much of Gifford Pinchot to give heed to their asinine and—disgustingly disloyal, communi- cations. en : ~ TFSKTter many years of mealy- mouthed modesty we have come to the conclusion that it doesn’t pay. We never liked the blowhard, but every day we see him getting the white meat of the chicken, while we have consid- ered ourselves fortunate to have the back and neck to pick. So, for the nine hundred and ninety-ninth time, we have resolved to become hard- boiled and before we get time to break the revived resolution let us teil you that on last Friday the “Watchman” was paid a compliment such as prob- ably no other newspaper in America ever received. From a reader in Port- land, Oregon, came this telegram: “Received no paper last week, kindly mail me a copy.” Whad ’ya think of that? More than the price of a year’s subscription spent on a request for one copy. To some it might look like extravagance, but to the Portland reader the “Watchman” is viewed as a necessity and failure to receive a single edition takes too much out of the home life to be measured in dol- lars or cents. In unusual compliments we thought we had reached the furthest point North last Christmas Eve, when a lady in Detroit, Mich., telephoned us to send the “Watchman” to a friend as a Christmas present, but the telegram from Portland is indexed so indelibly in the old bean that at eighty-five— if it is given to us to pester you that long—we presume we'll be doddering about it. And on Tuesday we received a card from a reader in Unionville saying how much she enjoyed Edna Ferber’s story, “So Big,” that we concluded last week. Of course she was disap- pointed because “Dirk De Jong didn’t get married, or engaged at least.” Un- doubtedly he would have made a des- perate effort in that direction had our charming correspondent been a resi- dent in the vicinity of Chicago instead of hibernating in Unionville, but that would have spoiled the story. And now that we have gotten into high in the matter of blowing let us get lips that are calloused to the mouth-piece of Dave Kelly’s horn. Dave, as you know, is down at Greer, Greer is a God-forsaken, hopeless niche in the limestone rocks of West Virginia, but it appears that the Belle- fonte, Centre county, Pennsylvanian has outdone Joshua by commanding the sun, moon and stars, all, to stand- still over Greer. We get this idea from the “Observations of the Ramb- ler” in the Morgantown, W. Va, Post. He used two columns to tell the world that Dave has spread sunshine and prosperity dll over Monogalia county and is THE man on a job that is attracting the attention of engi- neering and production experts all over the country, STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. 8 VOL. 70. BELLEFONTE, PA.. AUGUST 14.19 <5. NO. 32. Work Which Deserves Encouragement On Monday Representative Oldfield, of Kentucky, chairman of the Demo- cratic Congressional committee, start- ed upon a tour of the middle western States for the purpose of urging Dem- ocrats in that section of the country to organize and invest new energy and additional effort to strengthen the party. On the eve of his departure from Washington Mr. Oldfield said, “Democratic leaders in all of the States have written me that the west is ripe for a great Democratic move- ment. They tell me that the western farmers are disgusted with’ this ad- ministration, with its protective tariff, which protects only the rich, with its unfilled promises of agricultural and general prosperity, with its false claim of economy and its flat declara- tion to the farmers to work out their own salvation.” The paramount need of the country at this time is a Democratic: majority in Congress. The Coolidge adminis- tration is irretrievably committed to the sinister interest of predatory forces and unless restrained by a Democratic majority in the next Con- gress the rights as well as the prop- erty of the people will be sacrificed to the cupidity of the big business. Plans have been laid to perpetuate the odious tariff law and supplement this medium of robbery by the adoption of the Mellon tax scheme, which will shift additional burdens from the wealthy to those less able to pay .the tax collector. The only hope of pre- venting the consummation of these crimes against the people lies in the reanimation of the Democratic party and the revival of a militant spirit among Democrats. ~ Chairman Oldfield deserves the most cordial as well as the most help- ful encouragement of the Democracy throughout the country in the work he has undertaken. If he succeeds in re- storing the party in the States, through which he proposes to cam- paign, the plain people of all sections of the country will be greatly benefit- ted. And there are various ways of expressing this encouragement. The easiest and best way, however, is to supplement his work in the west by equally earnest and energetic effort to rejuvenate Zhe party .at home.. The present Pennsylvania delegation in Congress is unanimously Republican. That unanimity was obtained by fraud, but it is none the less effective on that account. Let us see to it that at least twelve Democrats be elected next year. If the State Highway Depart- ment is looking for popular approval it will proceed against glaring head- lights instead of talking about them. Dawes Hopelessly Beaten. When Vice President Dawes failed to stampede the Senate into changing its rules on the Fourth of March, he declared he would appeal to the pub- lic. In pursuance of this statement he has since made several speeches in various sections of the country. The result of his labor was succinctly ex- pressed by Senator George H. Moses, Republican, of New Hampshire, at Swampscott, on Monday. After emerging from a conference with President Coolidge the New Hamp- shire Senator, who is President pro tem of the Senate, said: “Vice Pres- ident Dawes is hopelessly beaten in his fight to amend the Senate rules.” Mr. Dawes, who is a swashbuckler in manners and a plunger in method, imagined that he would dominate the Senate as he and the late Senator Lorimer had run the banking opera- tions of the packing-house section of Chicago while he was building up his considerable fortune. He proposed to prevent discussion of pending legisla- tion by invoking party prejudice and forcing a vote of cloture, thus giving the minority no opportunity to state its case to the Senate and the country. This drastic form of procedure was repulsive to the older Senators of both parties and they very sharply rebuked the Vice President for his temerity. The time and place of Senator Mo- ses’ announcement of the hopeless de- feat of the Dawes enterprise is sug- gestive of a conversion to the opposi- tion of great significance. In the be- ginning Mr. Dawes had every reason to expect the support of the President in his crusade. Mr. Coolidge had stressed the value of party team work and Senator Butler was among his supporters. But coming direct from the President’s home, Senator Moses declared in unequivocal language that the scheme is dead, and the presump- tion is that he expressed the opinion of the President as well as his own. i Lee ns Sr The Athletics have held the lead long enough to justify a hope of winning the pennant, butybaseball is as uncertain ag horse racing. rr ———————r Ae ————————————_ ——Silence is golden - and some- times has an additional value of con- cealing ignorance. Philadelphia Surrenders to Vare. Unless appearances are misleading the people of Philadelphia are about to surrender to Boss Vare the only place of power which has hitherto withstood his assaults. The district attorney’s office has been able thus far to defy his power, though for at least eight years he has worked assid- uously to bring it within his net. The district attorney is a powerful agent in local administration. His preroga- tives are wide and potential. Boss Vare has coveted control of the office for this reason. It would give him ab- solute mastery of the city. In view of the coming Sesquicentennial control of that office during the next year would make Bill Vare the most potent figure in the public life of the country. We have little interest in the af- fairs of Philadelphia, “corrupt and contented.” But in the light of the testimony of the only Democratic newspaper and the leading Republican organ of the city that the present in- cumbent, Samuel P. Rotan, is an ef- ficient and capable public servant we can see no reason why the office should be taken away from him and given over to a hand-picked emissary of Boss Vare. Mr. Rotan has held the office for eighteen years. During all that time the malign influence of Vareism has been kept out. The ad- ministration of the office has been sat- isfactory to everybody other than the Vare henchmen. They have been un- able to grant immunity to criminals that come within the purview of that office. - The people of Philadelphia “are pe- culiar.,” Mr, Vare is able to prostitute the judges to base uses. He seems to be able to command the political ac- tions of the Mayor. He has proved that he is able to cast the votes of certain sections for any candidate he selects for any office. “Upon what meat hath this Caesar fed, that he has grown so great?” Or is it for the reason that the people of that city are destitute of civic virtue and willing to exchange all their rights for immuni- ty for their criminals? The surrender of the office of district attorney to the sinister purposes of Boss Vare means that, if it means anything, and the present indications are that it will be done. i mn re pA see ere. It is estimated that 400,000,000 gallons of gasoline are wasted in a year by failing to shut off the motor when the car is not in use. But im- agine the trouble in starting the mo- tor of some machines. aaa Prohibition Hope Destroyed. The hope raised high in the public mind when General Anderson, new head of prohibition enforcement, an- nounced that politics would be elim- inated in the selection of enforcement agents, has been rudely shattered. The Treasury Department, fountain of authority in that service, has sum- marily reversed General Anderson by announcing that “Senators will have a veto power over tentative selections of district administrators.” In other words politics “will resume business at the old stand” when General An- derson announces his selections and only those will be commissioned who are endorsed by the Senators in the several districts. That seems to work a reversal of the President as well as General Anderson. The boot-legging industry has be- come too important a part of the po- litical machinery of the Republican party to be relegated to the control of one man, who is neither familiar with nor interested in politics. Senator Pepper, who stood to lose in the dis- trict in which he lives, visited the President over Sunday and the Treas- ury order was issued on Monday. Pre- sumably he got the Presidential ear after church services and persuaded the silent Chief Magistrate that po- litical exigencies are of greater con- sequence at this time than throttling the rum demon, and as the Treasury building in Washington is a long way from the summer White House at Swampscott it would be easy to build up an alibi. It is easy to imagine the ultimate result of this change in the policy of enforcing prohibition. The concensus of opinion among those who have giv- en the subject close study is that the failure to enforce the prohibition law is ascribable to politics. The enforce- ment agents appointed on the recom- mendation of Senators and Represen- tatives in Congress have almost invar- iably turned out to be crooks, ready and willing to betray their trust to the advantage of distillers, brewers and bootleggers. The determined purpose of General Anderson to stop this evil by eliminating politics in the selection of agents aroused hope of immediate improvement, but the Treasury order destroys the hope. r———— i ttre ——It isn’t necessary to worry over the danger of “packing” the Public Service Commission. Pinchot is only trying to unpack it. Germany Moving in Right Direction. For the first time since the close of the world war Germany is now pre- senting to the world signs of a sincere purpose to meet her just obligations. The Reichstag has voted a tax levy of 7,000,000,000 of gold marks, which is equivalent to $2,000,000,000 in Amer- ican money. During the war Germany refused to increase taxes to meet the increased expense of government. It was easier and less hazardous to raise funds by issuing bonds and selling them whenever possible to outsiders. By adopting that policy the German people felt none of the burdens of war and seemed happy in the illusion that they .would ultimately annex the whole world without paying a cent for the property. After the war closed and the bill for reparations was made out the au- thorities in Germany imagined they could escape payment by pleading poverty. This policy led to the inva- sion of the Ruhr Valley by French troops and an irritation throughout Europe that threatened to open up another war. To avert that calamity all sorts of expedients were invoked which led to nowhere and accomplish- ed nothing. A reparations commis- sion was finally created out of which came the celebrated “Dawes Plan,” but achieved little in the way of rais- ing funds to pay the vast but just debt. Since the inauguration of Pres- ident Hindenburg more rational ideas have been considered with a = result which promises success. : A tax levy of $2,000,000,000 a year will impose a heavy burden on the about 75,000,000 people of Germany, but other countries have borne equal burdens and Germany deserves severe punishment for allowing their wild- eyed and storm-brained authorities to precipitate a war which cost the world so vast an amount in life and treas- ury and it can be collected and should be. France and Belgium suffered in property destroyed and the United States and England paid in greater ratio without expectation of gain in any form. Therefore there is no great hardship in compelling Germany to pay her meagre share of the expense of her own folly, and it is encourag- ing to see her moving in the right di- OR, ~via rio : ‘ —Governor Pinchot is on tour in the State, ostensibly visiting public institutions, but secretly booming Pin- chot for any old office that might be lying around after he gets through in Harrisburg. Don’t Criticise but Commend. There is a probability that there is going to be some criticism over the action of borough council, at a special meeting on Wednesday evening, in being unanimously in favor of pur- chasing from the Bellefonte Lumber company a plot of ground on the south side of the big spring for the sum of $3,000, just as there has been criti- cism over the remodeling of the pump house at the spring. If every man or woman who has been criticising council, or may feel in a mood to do so, would stop and consider the ques- tion seriously, we feel certain that every one will approve instead of crit- icise. Bellefonte is noted for various things. It is called the “home of Gov- ernors;” it is on the route of the U. S. government airmail; it is known for its big trout in Spring creek; it has an abundance of the purest air to be found anywhere in the State, but more than all is it known for its big spring, the fame of which has been heralded far and wide. Most Bellefonters take the spring as a matter of course. They have all the water they want to use for every purpose whatsoever. They know it comes from the spring, hat it is delivered to their homes in pipes and that’s all they think about. But suppose some morning when they got out of bed they found no wa- ter in the faucet, and a hurried call to Mr. Cunningham, or whoever might be in charge of the water should bring the astounding information that the water in the spring had disappeared because the feeders had been cut off, or been contaminated from surround- ing conditions, and there would be no water for anybody until another source of supply could be abtained, what would you think then? Then you would have just cause for criti- cism because the men in charge had not foreseen such an eventuality and prepared against it. And that is what the borough councilmen are doing to- day. Therefore we’ say, don’t, criti- cise, but commend them for their fore- sight and judgment. ——The correspondence between Lewis and Warriner, on the coal con- ference, reveals the wide difference be- tween John A. Lewis and John Mitch- ell. ———————p exer ——. ——The worst thing about a bad temper is - that you're no better off when you lose it. Pay of Patriots in Peace-Time. From the Pittsburgh Post. The old question of the basis of re- ward for public service and the extent to which patriotism can be expected to make sacrifices for the good of the country in peace-time is brought up again in a remark attributed to Gen- ereal Andrews, commander in chief of the prohibition enforcement unit, that he is looking for $100,000 a year men to serve for something like $7,500 each. It reminds us that while the la- borer is supposed to be worthy of his hire in the public service the same as in private activities—that the public servant and his family have to live as others—there are some emoluments of glory, of distinction, in his case in ad- dition to salary in the ordinary sense. Men of wealth whose family expenses may be far beyond the average gov- ernmental salary, clearly make sacri- fices when they give up their private business to serve the public. While some men of means may seek public office simply for the honor or the love ‘of the “political game,” others make the sacrifice: of private business much , as the young man who gives up a good : paying position to offer his very life { as a soldier at possibly a dollar a day and keep. What is expected of the soldier up- on the basis of patriotism in war gives some idea of what the country has the right to expect; on occasion, of patri- otism in time of peace. There are sit- uations in which the country has to be saved in time of peace same as in war, and the citizenship usually responds. Take the situation in Chicago today. Many of the ablest lawyers of the city have offered their services free to aid the public authorities in combating crime. Through civic activities there are men of wealth in practically every community contributing freely to the public good. : The trouble is that .there are not enough such able patriots in the pub- lic service. While some may not be receiying, so far as dollars and cents are concerned, anything like what they are worth there are others upon the public payroll—mere hack poli- ticians—who are paid far beyond the value of their public service.” Where- as some men may sacrifice big in- comes from private business to: accept public office there are others upon the public payroll whose salaries are much beyond what they could earn in a pri- vate capacity. Who in private busi- ness would pay some of the political henchmen upon the public payroll what they. are drawing from ‘the gov~ ernment ? It may be too idealistic to expect i the public payroll throughout to be i filled by individuals who could earn i much more in private capacities, look- ing upon the extra value they give as a patriotic offering. Still while some of the public officers are doing that very thing a1! while many private citizens are contributing much in a civic way, the public at least has the right to expect that all on its payroll shall earn what they receive. It ma be impossible to get many $100,000 a year men to serve the government for $7,500 under ordinary conditions, but if every one engaged at $7,500 is in fact a $7,500 man it will help consid- erably. The public undoubtedly would be content if every individual upon its payroll were to give it a dollar’s worth of service for a dollar of pay. Wouldn’t Let George Do It. From the Portland, Oregon, Journal. . Richard T. Harriss got a habit down in Waco, Tex. He was a newsboy then, selling papers on a street corner. The habit he contracted was, when he found that something should be done, “do it.” He kept on doing things that way. He made himself a motto of two words. They were, “Do it.” As a newsboy Harriss “did it.” He passed on and upward, always “doing it.” Whatever he undertook, he never hes- itated, he never delayed, he never postponed, he never quit. He always “did it.” He was recently elected president of the New York Cotton Ex- change. There are always reasons why men rise from the job of news- boy to heads of corporations and other distinguished positions. There was one very good reason why Harriss rose. He always “did it.” Ruling Passion. From the Brooklyn Citizen. And now the Senate committee on Public Lands which exposed the Tea- pot Dome and Elk Hills naval reserve leases is going to investigate the ad- ministration of the public domain, the forestry bureau and the national parks. It is asserted that the admin- istration of the public domain and the forest reserve has worked great inju- ry to the stock raising business. Dis- position of mineral and oil lands will be inquired into as well as homestead- ing features. It is charged that thous- ands of prospectors have been driven to Canada by regulations put into force by the Department of the Inter- ior. Sensational developments are ex- pected. Ns ——After all it can’t be said that the convic#ion of Professor Scopes has lessened the number of believers in evolution or diminished their earnest- ness. . ——————— A —————— ——Belgium is willing to pay us when Germany pays her, and though that is an indefinite promise it reveals the right spirit. UT e—— ae v3 —Agnew Wharton, 20 years old, the list girl who essayed the role of girl bandit in Philadelphia, was sentenced on Monday to from seven and a half to fifteen years in the county prison for her part in the hold- up of the Trocadero theatre office, July 11. —Burglars with discriminating taste in women’s wear looted the store of Myer Johnnassen, in Altoona, Saturday night of garments worth $10,000. Entrance was gained through a fire escape and more than one hundred fine gowns and fur coats were packed in trunks and removed by au- tomobile. g —Robert J. Bressler, of Sunbury, State highway inspector, died last Friday even- ing of pneumonia resulting from. injuries suffered two weeks ago. He was on the platform of an agremeter plant when a cable of a steam shovel broke, causing the dipper to ram the mixer, hurling the in- spector to the ground. £2 —State authorities have decided to defer asking for bids on the second instalment of $20,000,000 ‘State highway bonds until October. The act provided for an August sale unless it was determined the money was not needed. The Highway. Depart- ment will get along on what it has on hand for a while, it is stated. —A large cabinet safe in the office of Mead and Goodrich, Inc, of Williamsport, was burglarized Wednesday night of last week and money and jewelry to the value of about $500 removed. The thieves made a more successful night of it than on pre- vious occasions when several lumber and coal offices in that city were entered. —The most unique will filed for probate in the Luzerne county court in some time was that of Albert G. Groblewski Sr. ‘wealthy patent medicine manufacturer, of Plymouth. One clause directed the execu- tors to spend $2000 on his monument in the Edge Hill cemetery. On the monument is to be carved a hunter spearing a rattle- snake. —Bitten by a tarantula while handling bananas at Sunbury, on Saturday, Clark Rupp applied heroje first-aid measures. He took a sharp knife and cut a deep slit each way across the bite and allowed it to bleed profusely. Then he applied antisep- tics. Despite these, the arm is swollen to almost twice its size, but doctors say his prompt action will save his life. —When teachers in the Kingston schooi return to’ their duties next fall, they will cease any indulgence in flap jacks and sausage, if they heed the advice of Dr. W. F. Davidson, medical inspector of the bor- ough schools. He has issued a warning to the members of the teaching staff that these foods are injurious to the health of the instructors since their work is mental and not physical. —Mrs. James Foster, of Graham town- ship, Clearfield county, ended her life with a shotgun and the same charge seriously wounded her husband, on Wednesday night of last week. Investigators said that the woman, while in bed, placed the muz- zle of the gun near her head and pulied the trigger with her toe. The shot Killed her and also wounded Foster. No motive was assigned for the act! —A horseshoe above his door, a cricket on the hearth, a rabbit's foot in his pock- et and a horseshoe nail carried continual- ly in a hand failed to stave off the police and bad luck for Louis Campbell, a negro, who was arrested at Pittsburgh Saturday night and held for court on a charge of vi- olating the Snyder act. Campbell's home, when raided, produced six quarts of alco- hol and several bottles of juniper berry extract. : —Edward Murray, aged 23 years, of Archibald, Lackawanna county, was killed on Monday when struck on the head by a piece of steel thorwn from a window in the Gravity Slope colliery breaker of the Hudson Coal company at Archibald. The name of the person who threw the object from the breaker was not known, but it Y | was said that the killing of Murray was an accident. An investigation is being con- ducted by coal company officials. —Suit for $25,000 on behalf of a widow and her four children living in Italy, was brought in the Northumberland county courts on Saturday by Stephén Perna, of Kulpmont, brother of Mike Perna, against Alexander Savitskie, of Kulpmont, whose automobile ran down and killed Perna last fall. The suit is the first in that part of the State to be brought by foreign persons as the result of an automobile accident 5000 miles away. The defendant is wealthy. —Orville William Albright, aged 20 years; of Roaring Spring, was instantly killed by a fall of rock at 2:30 Monday afternoon at the stone quarry operated by M. A. Showalter, just below that town. The young man was standing on a ledge of rocks, twenty feet above the ground, pry- ing loose some rocks a blast had failed to dislodge. Suddenly the rock on which he was standing slipped and he jumped. Just as he landed a three ton rock fell on him, crushing him to death. —Albert Murray, of St. Marys, has been a patient in the Elk county general hos- pital four years. On August 4, 1921, he sustained a broken back while at work on a lumber operation near Beechwoods, Cam- eron . county. He was taken to the Elk county general hospital and his condition was such that it was feared he could not long survive. While Murray's physicians are loth to hold out hope of permanent re- covery he is cheerful at all times and put- ting up a game fight for his life. — Forbidden to hunt in Pennsylvania by a decree of the State Game Commission, Michael Pinnin, of Altoona, will take a trip to Greece to gratify his love of the sport. He will leave the first of next month on his long hunting trip, which is scheduled to last five or six months. Pinnirn’s license was recently revoked by the Game Com- mission because of a violation of the hunt- ing laws, along with the licenses of a num- ber of others. However, this decree will make no difference in his plans to indulge in this sport as he has decided to go where he will be allowed to hunt. —Pennsylvania Railroad officers are try- ing to unravel the mystery “of a stone thrown through the window of a passen- ger coach near Sunbury, Wednesday after- noon, resulting in the injury of Mrs. An- drew J. Musser and little son, of Harris- burg, on their way to visit friends in Lew- isburg. While the train was speeding along the passengers were startled by a crash of glass and the screams of the ba- by. Somebody had hurled a stone through the window, cutting both Mrs. Musser and the child. The conductor stopped the train immediately but trainmen who went back were unable to find anybody in the vicin- ity.
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