— INK SLINGS. ——Now that the “celebrated case” is ended the “pig woman” may go to the dogs. : —At the rate bucks are falling be- fore the hunters it won’t be long until every home . in Pennsylvania has a mounted deer head in its hall-way or over a mantel piece. —New Brunswick, N. J., has some- thing on Dayton, Tenn. Both have passed from the front pages of met- ropolitan papers but New Brunswick still has its Hall of fame. —The President says that a per- manent cut in federal taxes would be “a risk.” Possibly it would, but most every tax payer would be willing to run it long enough to find out. Those scientists up at State College who have cut a window in the side of a heifer, so that investigators may see her innerds at work making fat and milk, declare that she suffers not at all from it. Possibly she doesn’t, but she’s got a pane in her side all the same. —Since the days of the “big wind in Ireland,” the wet Spring of ’37 and tha Johnstown flood we don’t remem- ber any weather condition quite as disheartening as Sunday, December 5, 1926. We needed the rest of “the Seventh day,” but we didn’t get it. By seven o'clock in the evening we had succeeded in clearing the walks of snow and sank, exhausted, into an easy chair. At eight a howling wind started to undo all of our work of the .day and Monday morning the whole darned job had to be done over again. —Not having fully recovered from the effects of playing the role of the man behind the snow shovel last Sun- .day and because there has been so little in the “old bean” since the Halls and Carpenders got out of jail and Aimee McPherson has dropped off the front pages and Christmas is drawing so nigh that we don’t need to remind you how nigh it is we think we shall tell you a story. One that really should be preserved: Some years ago, it probably was very many, but time flies so fast now -that it seems as though it happened only yesterday, Jerome K. Jerome, English, and author of “Three Men in a Boat” and Charles K. Loomis made -a lecturing tour of “the Stoits.” Statp College was just then becoming am- bitious to emerge from the pupa stage of “agriculture and the mechanic arts” and soar into realms, cultural. The distinguished, perigrinating literati were offered good money—probably as much as the Moose takes in on Satur- .day nights, nowadays, when it shows “Tony” and the man who, gives him his oats, to spout their stuff at State. The engagement caused a furore in Bellefonte—the old Bellefonte that .Joe Wilson—grand young man of “the road”’—talked to us about only a few days ago. We consulted the late “Pop” Thomas and contracted for a “boat,” via Buffalo Run—otherwise the Bellefonte Central, to take the local lterati—of whom there are few left in town—to State College to hear this Jerome and Lewis combination. No need for saying anything about the _joys of the ride up on “the rattler.” “This story has only to do with the trip home. Being in charge of the “special” we hustled down to the sta- tion without waiting to tell Prof. Pattee what we had heard of Jerome's comment or the way a steak should be broiled. Seated in the smoker, next to the stove—for then there was seg- regation for those who used the weed—was someone, in a “great coat” whom we thought to be Tommy Eadon, who used to make a parade, once a week, of Col. Reynolds’ stallion “Pride of the North.” We took the seat directly behind him. Then Linn VOL. 71 How Vare’s Machines Does it. A Philadelphia correspondent of the New York World gives an interesting description of the processes by which Boss Vare builds up majorities gener- ally and the extraordinary majority in that city against Mr. William B. Wilson at the recent election. “Your average Philadelphian greets with racuous laughter,” he says, “any as- Labor William B. Wilson was counted out and William S. Vare counted in as United States Senator November 2. It wasn’t necessary to count him out. The job was done beginning with the votes were all in. “Some” Wilson got all he wouldn’t have enough. The real job was to see the votes were not gotten in for him.” The Republican organization of Philadelphia is made up of city job holders. mitteemen each responsible for the trol are 1500 division leaders who are “kept on their toes” by promises of promotion if they fulfill expectations. The foundation of the structure of fraud is laid when the assessment is made. City Treasurer Harry Mackey revealed the secret when he told the Slush Fund committee of the Senate: “If I have a man in my ward who does not know every man in it by his first name; if he does not know when that man is in trouble; who does not know where there is want and priva- tion in a household; when one man moves out and another moves in, he is no good to me.” With this system of control and ap- peal the organization virtually bribes some voters, dragoons others and de- ceives the illiterates. On election day the designated agents of the machine go to the polls early and remain late and as each voter approaches he is buttonholed and requested to ask for assistance in the booth. If he refuses this he is a marked man and all help in times of trouble is withdrawn. The petty criminals, the mendicants, the bootleggers,the habitual drunkards and all other el > are helpless in the hands of these pro- fessional politicians who thus build up The forty-eight committeemen meet a day or two before the election and declare the result. ——According to evidence in the oil conspiracy case the Harding adminis- tration hadn’t much faith in its arms conference. The oil leases seem to have been given to Doheney to avert a war with Japan. \ a Only Millionaires Need Apply. Big business certainly cut a con- manding figure in the politics of Penn- sylvania this year. The revealed $3,- 000,000 cost of the Republican pri- mary, only part of the price of nomi- nating Vare and Fisher, astounded the country but it seems to have failed to arouse the public conscience. Since that the Republican candidate for United States Senator in Maine is said to have spent, through his friends, $100,000 and “got away with it,” sertion that former Secretary of registration and ending when the votes have been overlooked but if he . There are forty-eight com- | vote of his ward. Under their con- STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION, BELLEFONTE, PA.. DECEMBER 10. 1926. Important Improvements Started. The purpose of the leading Demo- What purpose Senator Walsh, of crats in Congress to strive for tax re- | Montana, had in mind when, on Mon- duction along certain lines is to be | day, he introduced a resolution to in- highly commended. The surplus of | vestigate charges against Senator this year is troublesome to dispose of. | Gould, of Maine, is left to conjecture The President wants to donate it in | but it clearly indicates a policy o the form of a rebate to the corpora- | watchfulness in the future. Senator tions which have already reimbursed ; Gould is charged with having obtained themselves by the ordinary processes | favors and franchises in Canada by of trade, while some others believe a | bribery. So far as the records reveal i better way would be to pay it on the | he hasn’t denied the charge but justi- public debt, thus reducing the volume { fies the act on the ground that the of public obligations and the amount | money, $100,000, “was forced from of the interest account. It is almost him.” Senator Walsh’s resolution unanimously agreed, however, that provides for an investigation by the there should be no more surplusses to | Senate committee on privileges and { worry about, and the Democrats in elections, and a report of the result Congress want to make sure of it by | of the inquiry to the Senate with such ‘cutting the taxes. | recoinmendations as may seem war- | So far as current gossip on the sub- : ranted.” ject goes nobody seems inclined to| The first thought of the Senators ‘sponser a system of tax reduction present when Senator Walsh’s reso- Important Phase of Taxation. ] ! which could directly benefit the peo- | lution was read was that it was the ple. Nobody objects much to paying | beginning of a movement to prevent ‘a reasonable rate of taxes if the reve- | the seating of Vare as Senator for nues go directly toward the support of | Pennsylvania in the Seventieth Con- the government. The income tax, for ‘gress. But Mr. Walsh promptly pro- example, is levied on those who can |tested against such an interpretation. | afford to pay, and properly managed | The offenses charged against Mr. can be collected without great ex- Gould are different from those alleged pense. A man who has an income of | against Vare. The bribery of a high ten or twenty thousand dollars a year | official in Canada involves moral tur- {can pay the income at present rates | pitude, and if proved against Mr. {| without much trouble, while the man | Gould disqualifies him from member- of family whose income is less than | ship of the Senate. The charge three thousand need not pay because ‘against Vare is that his election was he cannot afford the expense without invalid because of an excessive and depriving his family. misuse of money in the primary and { © The onerous tax burdens and those | fraudulent voting and false returns which should be reduced are levies | at the general election. upon food, clothing, medicines and | But an inference may be drawn | other necessaries of life, which are from the Gould incident that will ex- ‘ collected at public expense but never | tend to the Vare case. The Senate ‘reach the public treasury. The tariff | hag not always been punctilious with : taxes which add fifteen or twenty dol- | lars to every suit of clothes purchased, ago 2 Senator for Pennsylvania had | two or three dollars to every pair of lonly a short time before escaped con- respect to its membership. Some years nts. of -the underworld - shoes worn and in equal ratio reaches the pocket of every poor man in the country on other necessaries, contri- butes nothing to the public treasury. All the money thus obtained is unearn- ed bounty to the corporations and man- ufacturers who spend millions to keep the Republican party in power. Some of the Democratic leaders might give this phase of the tax question atten- _viction of a crime involving moral i turpitude by pleading the statute of | limitations and subsequently he be- i came a potential leader in the cham- ber. The Walsh resolution is notice to the world that conditions have changed. The character of applicants for.seats in the Senate as well as the ‘methods of their election will be sub- jects of inquiry hereafter, and Mr. the majorities that decide elections however unfair and unjust it may be. ! tion. | Vare will be among the first to “run | the gauntlet.” ncn —— res ——— ——Former city treasurer Watson, of Philadelphia, admits that he violat- ed the law while in office. Republican officials in Philadelphia don’t have to obey the law. ——1It’s a good thing the people didn’t know that we were on the verge i of war with Japan in 1923. Some of us might have gotten mad about it. Pinchot Lectures Philadelphia. Thousands of Bushels of Apples Went to Waste in Centre County. Governor Pinchot was impressive as well as pathetic in his address in Phil- | Thousands of bushels of prime adelphia on the occasion of the as-' sembling of Liberty bells in Independ- ence hall. These bells, venerated short: of Hel tale s p : p at picking time, there properties of Allentown, Easton, it Reading, Lancaster, Chester and York, | as > Dion mathe 2 Hr i had been on exhibition at the Sesqui- ' 4} rdine i Centennial and were assembled in In- | fhe Sea 5 dependence ball, preparatory to ship | wet and cold weather interfer very iM i ith picking the fruit, but a was made ceremonial, everything in } ne ia Paioiip Bind who has an Pallajeignia Bee made eaomoniel if orchard gathered all he could use or Passn oe i a Ie te sell, either as whole fruit or made into ; ney) J cider. They also picked all of the Sam Gd Hove been a. 2 Sie Serious : winter variety that they could place in rame of mind and delivered his mes- ' the limited storage capacity of their apples went to waste in Centre county this year because the farmers were : sage in caustic language. And he told cellars, and the rest were allowed to Harris came into the car and took the | though a candidate’s legal expendi- seat directly opposite ours. Follow- ; tures in that State are limited by iaw ing Linn came Francis Speer, who sat to the sum of $1500. But the Repub «down in the next seat. After the lican party and the administration in others had all gotten aboard and the | Washington needs votes in the next train had started backing out to the | session of the Senate and the question Y at Struble’s Francie asked us what | of validity was decided by a Republi- we thought of the lecture. We | can official. answered him by asking what he | It was hoped by many thoughtful thought of it, and this was his reply: | citizens, and believed by some, that Shouting loud enough to be heard | the exposure of profligacy in the pri- above the roar of the train Francie said mary campaign in this State would “Jerome might be all right sittin’ in a | provoke public sentiment to such a chair writin’ books but he ain’t worth | measure of indignation as to prevent a continental damn standin’ up and evtravagance in political expenditures talkin”. Just then the late Ross in the future. But the expense ac- Parker, “Admiral of the Boat” came | counts filed at the State Department into the car and whispered in our ear: iin Harrisburg, on Wednesday and “that’s Jerome right in front of you.” Thursday of last week for the election Talking about denouements. That on November 2, show that such ex- the everlasting truth. : rot on the trees or hang until they “These are the stilled voices of froze and dropped off. America’s fathers—stilled in tone but | Centre county is not in the commer- speaking eloquently in silent appeal,” cial apple growing belt, hence don’t he said, “To-day, in the hallowed have the advantage of a community shrine here, their message rises above cold storage plant, and because of this the noise and hubbub of the city, clear | fact thousands of dollars have been and compelling. To me that message 14st to the farmers through their in- is a call and a warning that we have ability to gather their entire apple failed in our duty as citizens, and a crop. call to rise up and down the forces While many farmers complained of that in the very birthplace of liberty I wet weather interfering with the rais- are stealing that liberty away from ing of their potato crop Mr. Blaney us. The foremost thing for which our | states that practically all the potatoes forefathers fought was the right to grown were raised and either sold govern themselves, the right to vote. | from the field or placed in storage. He The appealing call in the bright morn- | admitted that there might be a few ing of our country’s birth was taxa- scattered small patches but not enough tion without representation is tyran- to amount to any great loss. ; ny, and to-day it leaves Philadelphia | NO. 49. Price of Vareism. i From the Pittsburgh Post. | Looking over the fatal political | swath cut by Newberryism among the { Republican ' Senators who voted to give ! the Michigan man the seat that cost | admittedly $190,000, those who arc i planning to seat William S. Vare at a cost of $800,000 in the primary | and a suspicious-appearing vote in the ' election, may be forced to think again. In the first election following the seat- {ing of Newberry, twelve of the Re- ! publican Senators who upheld him ap- peared as candidates. Nine of them were defeated, some of them in the primaries. The others ran far behind their tickets. Forty-six Senators voted for Newberry. More than thirty of them are now missing from the Sen- ate roll. Death took a few, but in the main the others were defeated on . the issue of Newberryism. Newberry himself resigned when he saw how piblie sentiment was running against im, Thus Newberryism defeated not only its beneficiary, but something like twenty other Republican Senators. When a $190,000 campaign expendi- ture could do that, one of $800,000, with charges of election frauds in ad- dition, might naturally be expected to have a still more sweeping effect against those who attempt to support it. Approval of it would give the Re publican party considerable of a bur- den to carry in the 1928 Presidential campaign. The Republican Senators may in- deed ask themselves: “What is this man Vare to the Republican party that from twenty to thirty or more Republican Senators should be expect- . ed to risk their own seats to seat him? | What is he to the party that it should allow him to embarrass it in the Pres- idential election? Seating him would be at a cost too great to consider.” In short, not a few of the Republi- can Senators may ask the Vare outfit if it takes them for “a bunch of dun- derheads ?” Sa Arbitration Pays. From the Philadelphia Record. Immediately upon announcement of the arbitration award of a 7% per cent. wage increase to the conductors and trainmen of the Eastern lines there was -an ~upward - spurt iw ; stocks of from one to three points. Foreshadowing similar decisions af- fecting these and other classes of labor on all the roads of the country, the action makes probable an ulti- mate addition of $60,000,000 annually to the national railroad payroll. Yet this prospect has caused, or has been accompanied by, a sharp advance in the quotations for railroad securities. For this phenomenon, agreeably surprising to investors, there are logical reasons. A few misguided speculators took a pessimistic view because they saw only an increase in : the burden of operating costs; but the majority perceived a more than com- pensating factor in the assurance of a i long period of industrial peace. Trans- lating “the arbitration award into terms of its lasting effects, they cal- culated that the $15,000,000 represents only a fraction of the loss that would be involved if a settlement of the Eastern wage dispute were sought through a contest of force, with con- sequent stoppage of transportation. Furthermore, they estimate that the cost will ultimately be absorbed by more economical and efficient meth-ds of management and operation, and by greater productiveness on the part of labor. Obviously there is a point beyond which wage scales cannot be raised without upsetting the balance in the industry. But it has been demonstrat- ed that arbitration, conducted by a body in which the contesting groups and the public are equally represent- ed, is the soundest method of adjust- ment yet devised. Sr ———— fr ——— Is a New Hell Needed? From the Pittsburgh Press. Modern orthodoxy is seeking a new “outline of hell,” a picture applicable to present day understandings which will be as arresting as was the ter- rible picture drawn by Dante, with the wicked suffering the most tortuous and searing punishments. That is the meaning of the “repudi- ] was one. And we had thrust upon us the best story ever. It was too good to keep. So we rushed to the back car, where all the ladies of the party { were except one solitary gentleman whom we shall not identify—and started to spill the joke. The roar of “the rattler” could not drown the stentorian tones we conjured to tell! the story of “the smoker.” = As we progressed we noticed two ladies rise at the rear end of the car and gesticu- | _late frantically at us. We had some- thing to tell and didn’t heed them. After we got all the good news out of our system, we careened back along the aisle to our attempted interrupters and benefactresses to apologize for not having given the floor to them. Then came the deluge. They said: “Why George, that is Mrs. Jerome, sitting right beside you, when you were telling of Francie’s faux pas. And there we were, covered with con- fusion, because we had made Francie’s “break” look trifling when compared to the one we had just spilled. pectations have been grossly disap- { pointed. It seems to have cost well onto a million dollars to elect the Re- ' publican State tickel, thirty-five Con- ' gressmen and a majority in the Gen- eral Assembly. Maybe the achieve- iment will be worth that much money . to the interests that paid it. As a philisopher of a former gener- ation would say, “whither are we drifting 2?” Political leaders formerly appealed to the consciences of the voters. Arguments were employed to show the merits of candidates and the value of principles. A candidate for Governor was liberal if he paid an as- sessment of a few hundred dollars and his friends generous if they raised a few thousands. But then the office yielded only the salary provided by law and the contributors got nothing but “a vote of thanks.” Now there ! cold and indifferent.” | The Governor’s remarks were listen- ' ed to with deep interest. He wasin a solemn but militant mood as he. warmed up to his subject. “The citi- | zens of Philadelphia or of any com- | munity,” he continued, “that suffer: thieves to steal votes, are victims of tyranny, gang tyranny; they are dominated and their politics controlled by a mere handful of politicians who ! have the presumpton and the cunning to override the will of the masses.” After describing the suffering of the Continental army at Valley Forge the | Governor declared “to-day the de- | scendants of these men in Philadelphia have lost the right to vote, not through lack of spirit, but through | | indifference.” ——If the people of Philadelphia had given the Sesqui the support it deserved the deficit they must pay would be much less. ——Probably King Ferdinand, of Rumania, was only love-sick, caused by the prolonged absence of his “sweetie.” ——George Wharton Pepper has just three months in which to show why he thought he was a statesman. ——Most of the street railway owners would be glad if busses were kept underground altogether. ——President Coolidge “has Con- gress on his hands” and the whole are pickings on the side for the offi-| - — President Coolidge reverts to country is nervous about it. cials and favors worth more than they cost for the liberal contributors. But the old custom of having his message | read by the clerks. It’s probably just | ———p {em —— ——“Rugby” is a foreign product the ultimate result is menacing. Only as well. Mr. Coolidge is not an Which fails to win the favor of foot- millionaires can hope for office. orator. ball stars on this side. ation of the doctrine of hell,” by cer- tain English ecclesiastics. Very Rev. Howard Chandler Robbins, dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, explains that his Eng- lish fellow-churchmen are done with the teaching of a literal fire and brim- stone hell, a doctrine he stamps as “obsolete as the pearly gates and gold- en streets and eternal harpings on harps which still bulk largely in our hymns about heaven.” Outlining a new and all-embracing hell in this age of developing thought and serious thinking about the future is practically an impossibility. A new Dante would be compelled to portray an individual hell to fit our differing natures and our varying ideas of what is punitive. There are hells of lone- liness, despair, prodding conscience, remorseful memories and stabbing pains of the soul. The little devils who punish with their instruments a pricking con- science are more to be feared—be- cause more real and possible of com- prehending—than the red-bodied evil spirits so frequently : pictured with long and three-pronged toasting forks, SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ‘—When George P. Rickabaugh, 38 years old, a plumber, of Altoona, failed to ap- pear at his home, neighbors broke inte his garage and found him dead in his car, sup- posedly from deadly gas generated while running the engine. —Charles E. Ross, 37 years old, died on Friday night in the Memorial hospital, Mt. Pleasant, of burns suffered when showered by molten metal at the plant of the United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry company, Scottdale. A ladle tipped on him as he walked under a crane. —Mrs. Stanley Fultz, 28, of Burnham, is at Dr. Black's hospital in Lewistown, suf- fering from poisoning. According to the statement of Dr. Black she swallowed forty-five grains of a drug, but has made no statement as to whether it was taken by suicidal intent or in error for some other drug. —Forty-six years ago Robert W. Blum, now 67 years old, of York, Pa., was shot in the right leg while watching a political parade in that city. The bullet was re- moved from the flesh on Saturday. It never caused him any trouble until about a year ago when pains began to shoot through the leg. He says he was shot by someone who discharged a revolver in a noisy Re- publican parade in the Hancock-Garfield campaign. —Disappearance in January of 1916 of Miss Cora Hewitt, a trained nurse, of Adams county, then 32 years of age, was the subject of a hearing before Judge D. P. McPherson in the Adams county courts on Monday morning. Miss Hewitt, whose parents lived in Huntingdon township at the time of her disappearance, is presumed to be dead, and an effort is being made by the woman's mother to secure letters of ad- ministration for her daughter's estate of $1141. —Postoffice inspectors arrested Charles Green, aged 47, of Harrisburg, a Pennsyl- vania railroad passenger conductor, on his arrival in Altoona last Thursday with his train, Pacific Express, from Harrisburg, on the charge of robbing a mail storage car. Green was held in $1,000 bail by United States Commissioner Walter B. Bartram, for his appearance at court in Erie, Post- office inspectors recovered five umbrellas, silverware, jewelry and clothing which he is alleged to have taken. —Posing as plumbers and working in full view of 50 guests at a hotel across a narrow alley, thieves looted the store of Stauffer & Co., in Lancaster, at 8 o'clock Sunday morning and disapperaed with 59 fur coats, worth $17,000. Arriving in an automobile bearing a Maryland license, three men extinguished the oil lamps used as danger signals at an excavation in the rear, told bystanders that they were plumbers and commented on the low tem- perature under which to start work. —Rufus Lowe, who lives with his daugh- ter, Mrs. Rebecca Fulton, 322 East Locust street, York, Pa., last Friday celebrated his 100dth birthday anniversary. He has seven children, twelve grandchildren and one great-grandchild, who assisted in help- ing him observe the occasion and there was a family reunion and open house. Lowe has been a resident of York about twenty- five years. Hels in fine henlth and spirits. He attributes his long life to hard work and sensible living. He was a farmer and carpenter. —Members of the Rothrock Memorial Commission including Major Robert Y. Stuart, Senator Fred A. Culbertson, George H. Wirt, Paul Kauffman and the chairman, BE. J. Stackpole, Sr., made an inspection of the large boulder and bronze tablet at the public square at MecVeytown, Saturday. Certain final treatment was authorized and some planting will be done around the base next spring. James Facklin, of Me- Veytown, has been requested to act in an advisory capacity with Mr. Kauffman, the resident member of the commission. —Ralph Taylor, of Milroy, has been paroled from the Mifflin county jail by President Judge Thomas F. Bailey and Judges Daniel Hartzog and Lawrence Fultz, in chambers, after serving 45 days of his six months’ sentence and paying fifty per cent. of his $500 fine. Taylor was sentenced on October 16 after Judge Bailey had turned a deaf ear to several hundred petitioners of the Kishacoquillas Valley, who wanted the jail sentence suspended. Taylor pleaded guilty to misapplication of funds and falsifying the accounts of the Milroy Banking company after discovery of a £15,000 shortage. —Aroused from slumber by smoke in his room at 5 o'clock Monday morning, Henry C. Corl, a wealthy retired merchant of Myerstown, went to the first floor to find the kitchen in flames and his wife Cecelia, aged 78, dead on the floor with her clothing burned off and parts of the limbs charred. The cause of the accident is a complete mystery, the only tenable theory being that while getting breakfast she became ill and fell over the stove. The body was lying in a position suggesting that she ‘was trying to get to the outside door in her struggle with the flames. Neighbors responded to an alarm and saved the house from destruction. —Arthur Jones, 33, Piteairn, a fireman on the Pennsylvania railroad, was in the cab of his engine eastbound near Trafford City when he thought he saw another engine also eastbound directly ahead of his engine. His own train was rapidly bear- ing down on the one ahead. There was no engine ahead of his train on the same track. There was a switch engine on a track parallel to the track Jones’ train was on. There was no crash, no wreck, but it cost Jones his life. Jones, just as he was certain there was to be a crash, jumped. He fractured his skull when his head hit a steel rail. He died on Sunday in the Columbia hospital, in Pittsburgh. —Whether or not Lock Haven city will receive the sum of $4,394.26 for water rent from the American Aniline Products Com- pany, Incorporated, for water used by the company from December, 1924, to date, depends on the decision handed down by the State Supreme Court, to which the case was taken after Judge E. H. Baird, of Ridgway, dissolved an injunction restrain- ing the city from shutting off the water supply from the company, and requiring the plaintiff to pay the costs. Several years ago the city council gave the newly estab- lished plant free water for one year, and made a verbal recommendation to future councils to do likewise, when the plant was taken over by a new firm at the close of the year. Later eouncils decided to install a meter and charge for the water at the rate of 4 cents per 1,000 gallons.
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