INK SLINGS. —About all. there is in a vacation is change and the landlords and fakers in the place one takes it generally get that. —After all, what do the girls get who are attempting to swim the Eng- lish channel? Brief notoriety until some one does it in less time. : ——Senator Jim Reed, of Missouri, will make speeches for the Democrat- ic ticket in this State this year, and he will give the people some inside and interesting information. —These are the days that shake our faith in the Wisenhammers who were telling us, only a few months ago, that the earth is cooling off because of the many new spots they had discovered on the sun. —There was more money spent io secure Fisher’s nomination than there was to win a place on the Republican ticket for Vare, so why talk of Vare being ineligible should he be elected without including Fisher. —It seems to us that the Associated Business men do themselves injustice by advertising August 11 as “Oppor- tunity Day” in Bellefonte. To our mind every day ought to be an oppor- tunity day in a town blessed as ours is. —Buffalo Run gardeners think the army worm is marching on them. Something is devastating their vege- tables. Something that some one has told them is the army worm, but it isn’t; unless it is doing, as its name implies, moving in army formation. —Suzanne Lenglen, the French girl and world’s tennis champion, is to tour America as a professional in the fall. Charles Pyle, who engineered “Red” Grange’s professional football debut, is to be her conductor. The temperamental Suzanne will be a very difficult proposition for Pyle. She isn’t a “galloping ghost” by any means. —Anyway the women seem to know how to get onto the front pages and stay there. What else have you seen in the metropolitan papers the last few weeks besides the columns on the Hall murder trial, the supposed kid- napping of Aimee McPherson, the Cal- ifornia evangelist, and the defeat of “Ma” Ferguson, of Texas, for renom- ination for Governor of that State? ..—A Chicago cosmetician is authori- ty for the statement that women who : e bo g their hair will event- hair, like murder, n. Won't it be : moustache cups “and ment will have to be called out every time her cigarette falls into the old lady’s beard. —French and German savants are seriously discussing the relative chances of blondes and brunettes for matrimony. The French hold the idea that men prefer the latter while the German wise men insist that there’s nothing to it. For the first time since early in 1914 we're in accord with a German idea. We don’t think the av- erage man cares a whoop what color the aurora of “the girl” happens to be. It’s something more than hair that he falls for and when he falls he doesn’t know or care whether her hair is black, brown, taffy or green. —We were reading with much in- terest an article from the Pittsburgh Legal Journal on the murder of Don R. Mellet, editor of the Canton, Ohio, Daily News, when Dr. Edwin Twit- mire, of Seattle, Washington, dropped in. The article in question is a lengthy study of the responsibility of the modern newspaper to civilization. It views the Mellett tragedy in the light of retribution, not only for the Nation’s parental neglect of the chil- dren of a few years ago, but for the Fourth Estate in America. While Mellett was a crusader against vice and it is generally believed the under- world “got him” because of his activ- ities in uncovering their misdoings the Legal Journal suggests considera- tion of the thought that the victim’s own paper was unwittingly breaking down public morale at the same time it was hoping to build it up. This through publication in its news col- ‘umns of sensational stories and the supplemental highly colored comics that portray impossible incidents and leave an unrefined impression on the child mind. ‘We are inclined to agree with the Legal Journal in some of its premises. The “Watchman” has al- ways tried to keep above pandering to the sensational and scandal-monging element. It has tried, and succeeded fairly well, to be a clean paper that might inspire the confidence of its readers and lift their thoughts at times just a bit. Because of this ob- jective it knows it has influence with its readers. It always has had. We know that more than ever today be- cause Dr. Twitmyre told us, shortly after having interrupted our reading of the Legal Journal’s article, that the “Watchman” made a Democrat of him, though he was raised in an ex- ceedingly orthodox Republican home along the mountain back of Zion. That made us feel easier about the respon- sibility of the Fourth Estate to the world. - Sitting before us was a visi- ble, scintillating star for our diadem —and then came the eclipse—Dr. Twitmyer admitted that he had back- slidden in 1896. be. ing moustaches ‘and has gather- the the : fire ‘depart- VOL. 71. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Altering Democratic Rules. Mr. John W. Davis, of West Virgin- ia and New York, who was the worthy candidate of the Democratic party for President two years ago, has added his voice to that of a considerable group of party leaders in favor of the abolition of the “two-thirds” rule in nominating candidates for President. In an interview, the other day, Mr. Davis said: “I believe the time has come when the Democratic party should change this time-worn proced- ure, which, so far as I know, does not prevail in any other nominating con- vention, either § National or State. There is no reason why the Democrat- ic party should be unique in this re- spect, unless by so doing it promotes its own welfare or serves its own aims. Experience has demonstrated the present system does not do either.” Why the twe-thirds rule was orig- inally adopted will probably never be definitely known. Various reasons have been given by different persons but none of them seems convincing or even persuasive. For many years, when the area of the country was smaller and the population less, it worked neither good nor harm and during recent years it has been pre- served by party leaders for selfish or sectional reasons. But as Mr. Davis says it is not Democratic. Majority rule is a fundamental principle of the Democratic creed and insistence upon the. maintenance of the two-thirds rule works a subversion of that prin- ciple. In several national conventions it has threatened harm, and in New York, two years ago, it almost caused disruption. We are not so fully in accord with Mr. Davis on the subject of eliminat- ing the “unit” rule. “I think it would be a good thing,” Mr, Davis adds, “to eliminate both the unit and the two- thirds rule.” It is possible such ac- tion might do good but the objections to the unit rule are neither so numer- S 1 or so valid as those to the other. Fr gives that party the right to cast the vote of the State for its candidates and the unit rule in convention is sim- ply expressing the same principle. But the delegates in a convention may agree among themselves to vote sep- arately. If somebody would tell the pub- lic why a dirigible twice as big as the Shenandoah is needed it would be an , interesting story. Senator Norris Deserves Welcome. When Senator Norris, of Nebraska, comes into this State to advocate the election of William B. Wilson to the office of United States Senator, he | ought to be cordially welcomed and ' generously applauded by all the inde- pendent Republicans and all other self-respecting voters of that political i faith. He will come as a Republican ! pleading with Republicans, not to in- jure their party but to save it from shame. His mission will be to urge name of the political organization with which they are affiliated and to which they are attached. He sees the menace which the future holds against “a criminal conspiracy masquerading as the Republican party.” Senator George W. Norris is a pub- lie official of fine ability and high i ideals. - He has been a Republican all his life and as Representative and Senator in Congress has contributed j largely to what is creditable in the , achievements of that party during the { last quarter of a century. He under- i stands the political conditions in Penn- sylvania and abhors the records of , vice and crime which the Pennsylva- nia machine has created. He realizes that support and endorsement of the | Helket recently nominated by fraud is | threatening the success of the party i in other States, including his own, and : will ask the Republican voters here to | sacrifice a corrupt gang in order to save the party of the country. The Senate compnittee investigating | expenditures of primary elections this 1 year has shown that upward of three million dollars were spent in nominat- ing the Republican candidates in this State. He knows that no such sum could be spent legally and that the disbursement creates a precedent that eliminates from public life all citizens except millionaires. That precedent if ratified by the election of the ticket would, and should, destroy any party. Senator Norris will come to Pennsyl- vania to save his party from so igno- minious a death, He will ask Republi- can voters to oppose Vare and vote for William B. Wilson, and he can hardly ask them to vote for John 8. Fisher for Governor, who is equally ' culpable. within the last quarter of a century | majority for the electors of a party | Republicans to preserve the good | | Unreliable Political Gossip. { We place little confidence in the current Washington gossip to the ef- fect that Senator David A. Reed will withdraw from political life at the end of his present term of office and be- come chairman of the Board of the Steel trust, long held by Judge Gary. There are many reasons for believing that Senator Reed’s political exper- ience has been disappointing. He is a capable lawyer and even before the world war as the junior member of his father’s law firm his keen mind and legal learning commanded atten- tion. But as a politician he has prov- ed an absolute failure. As a Senator in Congress he has been a good deal of a joke. He has talked too much, said too little and achieved practically nothing. The office of chairman of the Board of the Steel trust is an important po- sition in the industrial life of the country. From the beginning it has been filled by Judge Gary, a man of high intellectual attainments and something like a genius for “big bus- iness.” He is growing old and mod- ern methods require young as well as able men in control. For that reason the veteran chairman may be thinking of retirement and there is probably no fitter for the succession than Senator Reed. He has been of counsel for the corporation from the beginning and . head of the legal force since the close of the war. But there may be other availables for that job while it might be impossible to find another for Sen- ator. | The Steel trust is a vast concern and its successful management re- | quires the energy, ability and indus- try of a number of big men. Possi- bly the most important office of the ; concern is chairman of the Board. But it is almost equally necessary to have a man of great capability in the office of Senator in Congress. To meet this i requirement the late Senator Knox | was drafted into the service, After i his death Senator Crow was selected and when he died Senator David A. Reed, of the legal staff of thé corpora- m; was assigned. It may not have a fii iif ‘for that reason Mr. Reed is likely to continue in service, ——Don’t wory about “Ma” Fergu- son, of Texas. She hasnt resigned vet but will get out in course of time. Relative Proportions of Crimes. Frank L. Smith, of Chicago, who was the successful bidder for the Re- publican nomination for United States : Senator in Illinois, is and has been for | .are now coming along fine and prom- i some time chairman of the Illinois | Commerce Commission and as such | exercises much power over the public utilities of that State. Mr. Samuel Insull, of Chicago, is widely known as head of the leading utilities of Chi- cago and throughout the State. Mr. | Insull contributed $125,000 to the slush fund with which Mr. Smith pue- | . chased the Senatorial nomination. The ! : purchase price, according to the evi- | dence brought out during the Senate | investigation, was a trifle over $250,- | 000. Most of the other contributors were associates of Mr. Insull in util- 'ity operations. : The Chicago Tribune, high Republi- can authority, denounces this trans- action in the severest terms. “In view of the relations between this Commission and Mr. Insull’s public utilities,” it declares, “Mr. Smith’s ac- most - callous and brazen offences against common decency and politic- al integrity in the history of Ameri- can politics. To the mind of every right thinking citizen it proves Mr. Smith unfit for the Senatorship, but also for the responsible office he now holds.” There is no party prejudice expressed in the declaration. The Chicago Tribune has been the leading Republican newspaper for many years in the west and is still firm in the faith. But the esteemed Tribune overesti- mates the enormity of the crime against decency and political integri- ty when it states that it is the most “callous and brazen” in the history of politics. It is true that Insull had been receiving favors from Smith and expected more. But compare the im- plied bargain between Joe" Grundy and John S. Fisher with that of In- sull and Smith. Grundy gave $400,- 000 with an understanding that Fish- er would discriminate in tax levies to the extent of $40,000,000 in favor of the industry in which Grundy is en- gaged. It was not only supplying a slush fund to corrupt the bafot box but conspiring to defraud the tax pay- ers of the State by discriminating levies. ——When another war breaks out in Europe the people of the United States will be less eager to help. asons above given, but it has proved satisfactory to the trust and ceptance of the cash gift is one of the | BELLEFONTE, PA.. AUGUST 6. 1926. Not a Verdict Against Women. The result of the primary election in Texas can hardly be interpreted as en for service in high public office. It is said that the successful candidate for Governor, commenting upon the incident, said the defeat of Mrs. Fer- guson “is a serious set back to women holding office in this State.” We ser- iously doubt the accuracy of that statement. The defeat of Mrs, Fergu- son is ascribable to other causes. The opposition to Mrs. Ferguson as ex- pressed in the vote was against her husband rather than against herself or any of the policies pursued by her as Governor. If “Pa” Ferguson had kept out of the administration “Ma” Ferguson might have won. Mr. Ferguson had been elected Gov- ernor of Texas and because of certain policies adopted and pursued by him was impeached and removed from of- fice. A very considerable portion of the voters of the State believed that he had been unjustly impeached and declared resentment in vigorous tones and terms. Among those of this frame of mind was Mrs. Ferguson, who became a candidate for the sue- cesion, not because she yearned for public life or notoriety, but as a vin- dication for her husband. She was nominated and elected by a large ma- jority and the element that fought her husband at once turned its batter- ies upon her. An intense fight was organized and kept up constantly through her administration. Among the leaders in this opposi- tion was Dan Moody, Attorney Gener- al of the State, who invoked all the expedients of the law and every re- source of his office to embarrass her. But she proceeded in her course re- gardless of consequences. The burden of the complaint was that “Pa” rath- er than “Ma” Ferguson was adminis- tering the office and whether that was true or not “Pa” Ferguson continued his activities in and about the execu- tive offices. The fact afforded the principal reason for the opposition to Mrs. Ferguson during the primary campaign and may be justly consid- | ged the prime reason for her defeat. it presents no evidence of her un- fitness for office or against the quali- ficaticns of women. Early in June a terrific rain storm swept over portions of Centre county and the downpour at the Rock- view penitentiary either washed away or covered with mud the larger por- tion of the gardens. At the time it was believed that they were complete- ly ruined and thousands of tomato plants were secured in Clearfield county and New Jersey and used to replace the washed out plants. These ‘ise a good crop. It was too late to re- ‘plant the peas and these were dug out of the mud and given extra cultiva- tion with the result that the crop was ‘almost up to former years, sufficient to keep the big cannery busy for some days. i ——The Holy Rollers, who held forth on the green near Mayer’s mill , during the month of July, have pulled up stakes, folded their tent and left for other fields of labor, but the Free | Methodist campmeeting down on the | old fair grounds is still in full swing. In the meantime this is the month ; When most of the ministers take their | vacation, but supplies in the various , churches will do their best to hold sa- i tan in check. | ——During his western trip Gover- nor Pinchot ought to have paid a friendly visit to Senator McKinley, of Illinois. Each financed his own cam- , paign, spent liberally and lost. ——With W. A. Gaston, the Demo- cratic candidate for Governor, and D. ‘I. Walsh, the nominee for Senator, + Massachusetts is likely to go into the ‘ Democratic column this year. { | ——Big Tom Cunningham received lan cvation on his return from Chica- ' go. Philadelphia is not only “corrupt | and contented” but delights to honor “defiance of law. | ——The death of Senator Cummins, 1 of Towa, so soon after his defeat will i be ascribed to disappointment not- , withstanding he revealed no signs of la broken heart. —————p esa ———— ——According to Washington gos- sip the President will “swing round the circle” next summer. term bee is busy buzzing. ——Poincaire is delaying consider- ation of the debt question as long as possible. He probably wants to re- main on the pay roll. 35 —Wheat is going up again and that is one thing the farmers won't kick about. td a popular denial of the fitness of wom- | The third : NO. 31. . | Tarred With the Same Stick. From the Philadelphia Record. A great many Pennsylvania Repub- licans disapprove of the attempted purchase of nominations for the Unit- ed States Senate and regard the ex- cessive primary campaign expendi- tures of William S. Vare as disquali- fying him for the office he seeks. Some of these Republicans, intend- ing to vote for John S. Fisher for Governor and believing he will be elected, console themselves with the reflection that Vare, if elected, would be rejected by the United States Sen- ate, and that Fisher, as Governor, would fill the vacancy by appointment. This they regard as an eminently sat- isfactory solution. We wonder if these Republicans consider it any less reprehensible to buy a seat in the Senate. We wonder if these Republicans know that the biggest campaign fund raised and spent in Pennsylvania last spring—far exceeding in size the fund collected and expended for the Vare eandidacy—was raised and spent for the nomination of John S. Fisher for Governor. : For the information of such Repub- licans we cite these facts: (1) That Joseph R. Grundy, or- iginator of the Fisher boom for Gov- ernor, director of the Fisher campaign in the eastern part of the State and principal fat-fryer, advanced $300,000 of his own money, borrowed $90,000 more on a joint note with W. H. Fol- well, and made an additional personal contribution of “slightly over $18,000” for the Pepper-Fisher campaign. (P. 234 of the official report of the Sen- ate committee’s hearings.) | (2) That Grundy made these ad- vances and contributions chiefly in the interest of Fisher. Mr. Grundy testi- fied, regarding the period preceding his espousal of the cause of Pepper as a means of getting votes for Fish- er: “I was not in favor of Mr. Pep- ‘per. * * * * Well I really was in- active on the Senate proposition; my rusyest was in Mr. Fisher.” ( P. + (3) When questioned as to the reasons which finally led him to sup- port Senator Pepper in preference to Vare, Mr. Grundy replied: “We do not view that, as I said before, as the principal issue in the campaign.” (P 23 And later on: “The Juestion of State taxation was primarily what interested US—what Interested me” (P 242.) 3 3 : There is other evidence Th abund- i ance that the Pepper-Fisher campaign | fund, three times the size of the Vare campaign fund, was expended chiefly in the interest of Mr. Fisher. If any- . body doubts that he need only consult ; the election returns. Senator Pepper | was defeated, but Fisher, running | with him, was nominated by a margin of some 18,000 votes. That margin of 18,000 votes was produced with the "sum of $1,600,000 or thereabouts. | Mr. Fisher is a very estimable gen- i tleman, but none the less his friends procured his nomination by the ex- cessive use of money; by the expen- diture of a sum, if we cut the Pepper- Fisher campaign fund in half and credit the Fisher element with but 50 per cent. of it, much larger than the Vare slush fund; by the use of a dough-bag at the least calculation more than four times as large as that | which led the Senate officially to con- demn and castigate Truman II. New- berry. 3 How can any Republican reconcile with his conscience a condemnation of Vare and a vote for Fisher? Why make flesh of one and fowl of the other? What sane man thinks that the ends of justice would be served by black- balling Vare and turning the choice of a Senator over to a Governor tarred with the same stick, only a little more generously ? Big Guns to Boom in Pennsylvania Campaign. | I'rom the Clearfield Republican. Judge Bonniwell, Democratic can- didate for Governor, gave out the in- formation first of the week that Unit- ed States Senator James Reed, of Mis- souri, will stump Pennsylvania the ‘coming campaign for Wilson and Bonniwell. Everybody will want to hear Senator Jim Reed or at least read what he says on the big question. He will by that time have a pretty fair understanding of Republican or- ganization methods in the Keystone Commonwealth plans, source of sup- ply and consideration given or expect. ed by producers. Many of the fore- most Senators now serving in Wash- ington will come into Pennsylvania during the 1926 campaign. Already Senator Norris, of Nebraska, Repub- lican, has announced such intention. Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin, is reported as willing to assist in pre- venting the question of William S. Vare’s right to the Pepper seat com- ing before the Senate at all. The perplexing question before Pennsyls | vania voters at present is, who will attempt to answer arguments of Sen- ators Jim Reed, Norris, LaFollette and men of their ‘type, save Davy Reed, whose interest is selfish? Bet- ter than - a guess no other Senator who has any ambitions after his pres- ent term will take the stump Tor Vare, School boys will be able to ‘answer and at the same time ridicule anything Davy Reed offers on the subject. ; —Subscribe for the “Watchman.” er — . SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —William Wiley, 11 years old, son of S. W. Wiley, of near Butler, is in a serious condition in the Butler county Memorial hospital, from injuries received when he was rammed through a board fence by a bull. His right lung was punctured and his colar bone broken. —The_electrification of the East-Broad Top railroad. for pasenger service will be put in practice September 1. The electric motor car will accommodate passengers, baggage, express and mail and will pro- vide the motive power for present steel passenger coaches which will be used as trailors. — Fractures of the skull and back suf- fered on Friday when he was knocked down by the bucket on a concrete mixer caused the death of Valentine J. Greiff, 40 years old, of Carrolltown, on Saturday in the Clearfield hospital. The victim was a road foreman for the Clark Brothers Con- struction company. —Edward Flory, Jr., sixteen years old, of Nashville, York county, died on Sun- day from injuries received on the farm of Wilmer Martin, a neighbor. He was on a wagon unloading wheat with a pitchfork, and when he attempted to vault from. the wagon the pitchfork caught in a belt of the machine and hit him in the stomach. —State Highway officials have estimated that more than 11,500 men now are engag- ed on State highway work under depart- mental direction, the largest number ever employed by the State. In this group 3,000 or more are paid on a monthly basis, the others being labor construction and maintenance. Contractors are estimated to have more than 10,000 men at work. —Automobile plates for next year will be blue background and yellow figures, the opposite of the pates in use this year. There will be at least 2,500,000 sets of plates next year, due to the rapidly grow- ing number of cars. The plates are manu- factured at the western penitentiary, the stamping and enameling plant having been moved there from the Pennsylvania reformatory at Huntingdon. —One of the most unusual hospital cases ever recorded in Pittston claimed the at- tention of surgeons at a private hospital when Mrs. William Patterson, of Moosic, was admitted to that institution suffering from concussion of the brain received when a spare tire fastened on the side of a truck on which she was riding, blew out. The concussion was caused by shock as there was no evidence of a blow on the head. —John L. Deardorff, 19 years old, died in the York hospital last Friday from lockjaw which developed from a scratch on the knee. Deardorff was riding his mo- torcycle a week previous and the machine skidded and threw him across the road, scraping his right knee. Next day he had the injury treated, and last Thursday went to work. He soon complained of a stiff neck, and it was discovered tetanus had set in. —The Highway Department has cam- pleted an alternate route on the William Penn highway between Lewistown and Huntingdon. The new section is slightly shorter than the present route and avoids many grade crossings. The new route is reached by turning left at the square in Lewistown and following the Juniata riv- er through Strodes Mills, McVeytown, Mount Uniott 4ute Mill Creek, where it re- joins the present William Penn highway. ——8ingled out from a group of four beys in a porch swing, George F. Everiq, aged 12 years, son of Herbert Everio, of Uniontown, was fatally struck by a bolt of lightning Saturday night. The other boys weré thrown on a heap on the floor, but escaped injury. The bolt first struck the roof of the house, then followed down the beams and the chain of the swing. While standing on the porch of his heme in Eastburn, the same night, Steve Shro- ian was knocked down by a lightning bolt. —An alleged plot against game wardens looking for illegal fishermen along Penn's creek, near Mifflinburg, is reported, but details including the name of a man who narrowly escaped death are not given. Ac- cording to the story, a small platform along the creek had been undermined and three sticks of dynamite placed under it. These were attached to a battery with a contact under one of the boards. When g board was found misplaced and an inves- tigation made, the explosive was discov- ered. § tne am etente mg —Not satisfied with stealing his wife, John G. Culshaw also stole his furniture, acording to Francis Cooley, of Duquesne, the plaintiff in an alienation suit filed on Monday in common pleas court of Alleghe- ny county against Culshaw. Cooley set the value of his wife's affections and his furniture at $20,000. He charges that Cul- shaw eloped with his wife, Agnes Cooley, August 29, 1925. The mother took their 3- year-old daughter, the plaintiff says. A month later Culshaw drove up to Cooley's home in an automobile, stripped the house of its furniture and hauled it away. The Cooleys were married August 13, 1919. —Not realizing he was fatally hurt, John S. Bender, aged 58 years, of Fishertown, Bedford county, attended Sunday school Sunday morning at the Pine Grove Hvan- gelical church, in session at Bethel Park camp grounds, read scriptural passages, sang hymns and officiated as treasurer of the class, after he had fractured his lar- ynx when he drove his automebile into a heavy hitching cable that struck him in the neck as he was parking his car on the grounds. He started for the doctor's of- flce in Bedford, after the service, driving his own car, and died from suffocation caused by internal swelling just before reaching town. His companion, Charlie Walters, of Cessna, finished the drive, ar- riving at the office of Dr. H. A. Shimer, just as the injured man died. —Preston Shirey, 19 years old, a High school student - of Punxsutawney, was drowned in the Monongahela river at Wi- ley ' station, near Clairton, last Friday afternoon after his brother, Frank Shirey, 21 years old, also of Punxsutawney, made a futile attempt to save him. The broth- ers had been working in the Clairton steel works during the summer months and boarded at 236 Broadway street, Clairton. The younger brother, not being a good swimmer, had attached a rubber tire in- ner tube around his chest as a precaution. In some manner the tube became punctur- ed and the air escaped while Preston was in midstream. Frank had almost reached the other side when he heard the screams of his brother. He turned and swam back to where Preston disapeared, but was teo late. The body was recovered four hours later.
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