, one”. in politics.
Hage L. King, of the United ‘States: )
Dig of Agriculture, has found
an oriental wasp that will pre on
and destroy the Japanese beetle that th
has recently been threatening destruc-
tion of our vegetation. More ‘power |;
to the wasp, but who is to find the |
exterminator for it, after it has com- |
pleted its job of “minting the | puil
pestiferous beetle?
“The Cleveland, Ohio, Plain. Deal.
eh in an editorial
Bi th he scandalous’ “slush
fund”primary in Pennsylvania last
. spring. Very often a man is known by
the company he keeps, ‘but there are.
exceptions and Cyrus E Woods: is one
‘of them. Because of his high char-
“acter he was called into the campaign
to do things through “his personality
and ability that couldn’t have been
accomplished had the, “slush fund”
been twice as big as it was. i
—The local ©lergyinan Who reronily
: summed up the Short comings of his
congregation By deploring the fact |
that none ¢ sm would go Jo “an
- the fact that all
ve.. “The old fash-
ciable” | has gone. the
joned on ogre, goers who are left to |g:
rave about, them while
io and brethren
live in the"
Times ar: when the really good
‘people devoted two, and often Sree,
JRE mon V)
prepared, all gos the ooking, on the
Saturday before.
role: ‘were iy that in Centre
ih ne own tat ve
long enough for revi and “old
fashioned ‘sociable e into vogue
so that « 1d get acquaint-
ed wi body else. However it
money to keep the. basement of
“the church warm enough to make a
sociable sociable and there’s where the
satebv pets’ schemes! of the chureh—
b bag, the oysterless stew and
en-and-awful supper came to
Shes the ip: ‘minded souls
Yi y've all gotten acquaitol.
Everybody "has found out just who and
what everybody else is and the revela-
tion has ‘been disastrous to the a
ness, i A i nor; a
ssountsy It’s. ‘who's Zot ‘the ‘most. dol-
the
the AS raat calf,. ne matter how they
. got it, those who have the money to-
day are Ay whom dose “Who don’t
haye it worship.
are gone. Gone beyond rec d .
right
" Thompson might as well kno
now, for he is the clergy
raised the question.
A third generation is in the saddle,
It has an entirely different and per-
fectly logical view point. It can’t see
through his glasses because it didn’t
have the same occulist. He need have
little concern abeut it, however, be-
cause it will all work out in the end.
- The mothers and fathers of today who
- have been too busy with their own
pleasures to attempt guidance of the
mothers and fathers of tomorrow, are
part and parcel of the cyclic evolution
that is casting off the husks of a civi-
lization that was nurtured in a period
so benighted that it never dreamed of
present day developments.
Yes, “the old fashioned chursh socia-
+ ble” is gone. Gone for the same rea-
son that so many who attended it are
lying in the ‘cemeteries today. It’s
+ course is run.
> capitalists, 3
a rai ; organi sing
recti ga Tovolgtion in that friendly
| but feeble country and the adminis-
achieving their sult. hereto as he
admitted ‘before. a Congressional com-
& d authority, violated.
fal “passed the |
inted. money into the
pockets of - a ministration favorites.
Under a. ‘treaty previously signed and
ratified, ‘the government of the United
J pled ged to refrain from
appened. But for the
pretender named Cha-
who ie his ‘claim . to the
Po on a'revolution not yet
successful, hopes to sell Nicaragua's
railroads to group of New York
e ‘administration has
alleged government,
ines on the soil of Nicara-
] pied the seat of govern-
ment, to. promote his purpose, thus
supplying. substantial’ though’ sinister
support to a usurper.
Senator Borah,’ ‘chairman of the
‘Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions, has issued a protest against the
Proceeding and may be able to avert
sig _ eonsequences. Secretary of
tate Kellogg states that the move-
ment was a measure of neutrality, but
| ter a ‘conference with him the Idaho
enator decl that “the revolution
in Nicaragua i is being instigated and
| directed: by eight or ten persons in
Washington who are not Nicarau-
gans.” In ier words, a lobby repre-
senting a Ney ork Syndicate Which
tration is supporting them in the
‘vicious enterprise.
GoVerior Pinchot’s swan song
was characteristic. Defiant and vitri-
olic to the last against special privi-
lege in government he told the world
what he thinks of those who are gath-
ering to take up the reins he will lay
‘down on the eighteenth of January.
And, withal, we believe that most of
the message was truth.
Senator Blease Hits the Bull’s Eye.
- Sane minds rarely have opportunity
to concur in the opinion of Senator
Cole Blease, of South Carolina. That
somewhat erratic fire-eater appears to
be possessed of a slovenly mind that
gives expression to absurdities nearly
always repugnant to reason. ' But
candor compels. the admission that
his ‘solution of the slush fund problem
is not only wise but just. Mr. Blease
insists that if the excessive and cor-
rupt use of money to buy a Senatorial
nomination disqualifies the purchaser
of the prize from entering the Senate
an equal or greater profligacy in ex-
; penditure on the part of a man al-
ready in, seeking a renomination,
| should be punished by expulsion from
the Senate.
The idea of Senator Blease was ex-
, | pressed during a discussion of the
Vare slush fund in the primary of
Pennsylvania in May of this year. He
| offered no defense of Vare, for there is
‘none possible. But he cited the fact
| that while Mr, Vare and his friends,
‘palpably for a sinister purpose, spent
$800,000 for the nomination, Mr.
George. Wharton Pepper, and his
friends, for an equally evil purpose,
spent $1,800,000, If the disqualifying
element in the equation is the exces-
sive and corrupt. use of money, and
presumably it is, Senator Pepper is
as culpable as Mr. Vare, and the fact
that he is already in affords him
neither absolution nor exemption from
a just penalty.
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew
W. Mellon didn’t acquire his vast
wealth by broadeasting gold coins or
practicing philanthropy among am-
bitious political friends. When he
and other members of his family con-
tributed so liberally to the Pepper
slush fund it may be assumed that
emotion or fraternal impulses was re-
sponsible. An understanding, express-
ed or implied, that reimbursement
might come through friendly legisla-
tion, as seems t¢ have been the case
between Mr, Grundy and Senator Pep-
per’s associate on the Primary ticket,
there would be involved a measure of
turpitude that would ei rtainly unfit
him to represent a State in Congress.
i! ‘merce. The last of these meetings was
{held 'in the . Manufacturers’ club,
| Phildelphia, - at which the proposed re- :
| “revising and completing the report,” |
some influence other than patriotic
nm, he “under
ces of the Department of Com- |
port, was outlined and the first re-
commendation was a tax of two per |
cent. on the net profits of all manu-
facturing corporations. This proposi- |
tion was promptly hjected to and an-
other meeting called.
This meeting, for the purpose of
was held yesterday but the result has |
not been officially announced as yet.
‘Those on the inside say, however, that
the revision is drastic gnd the first
alteration consists in the striking out
of the provision for the two per cent.
tax on profits of manufacturing cor-
porations. No doubt the members of
the Commission imagined they were
kind enough to the Grundy interests
in fixing the tax at so low a figure and
placing ‘the levy on net profits. The
proposition two years ago was a tax
of four per cent. on manufacturing
corporation capital. That would have
placed a considerable expense on
such corporations, but most men
think not an inequitable share of the
burdens of government.
Of course the report of the Commis-
sion will not become a law unless a
majority of the Senators and ‘Repre-
‘sentatives in the General Assembly
give it approval, and equally of course
eighty per cent. of the people of the
State feel that a tax either on capital
or profits of manufacturing corpora-
tions is both expedient and just. But
Mr. Grundy is a close bargainer and
when he gave up $400,000 to the slush
fund used for the nomination and
election of Mr, Fisher he probably
Lehine:.:
of the Tax Commission in yielding
to his demands on the corporation tax
matter indicates that he is safe.
——————— A ———————.
Nobody in Bellefonte is worry-
ing much over Governor-elect Fish- |
er’s cabinet appoinments, for the rea-
son that no one here is claiming title |
to a seat. .
Chairman Mellon as a Humorist.
Chairman Mellon of the Republican
State Committee is not without a
sense of humor, whatever else he may
be delinquent in. In assuming con-
trol of the General Assembly at Har-
risburg on Monday evening he said
“it is a testimonial to the Republican
party that the House should have so
many Republican members.” This, of
course, was a joke to amuse or flat-
ter the Senators and Representatives
he was addressing. The records show
that the Republican primary election
in Pennsylvania last May cost Mr.
Mellon and a few of his friends some
$3,000,000 and it is believed double
that amount was spent. Electing the
ticket in November cost Mr. Mellon |
tand his friends half a million.
That there are so many Republican
members in the Legislature may be a
testimonial to the efficacy of money as
an instrument in political warfare but
hardly a tribute to the merits of the
Republican organization as a govern-
ing agency. In fact Mr. Mellon
usurped every function of the Legisla-
ture. Quay and Penrose in their time.
were more or less bossy at intervals,
but neither of them ever assumed to
take control of a legislative caucus,
policy of the bodies for the entire’
session as Mr. Mellon did on Monday.
night. Nobody else “had a look-in.”
Even the most boastful of the country
members wilted when Mellon frowned.
The proceedings at’ the organiza-
tion of the General Assembly prove
that as a matter of faet there is no
Republican . party in Pennsylvania.
There are overwhelming majorities in
both branches ‘of the Legislature of
men who call themselves Republicans
but they are nothing more or less
than servile slaves of W. L. Mellon.
Dozens of Senators openly declared
that they would like to vote for a candi-
date for clerk whom they had promis-
ed to support but were afraid to do so
because Mr. Mellon had ordered the
election of another. This is not Re-
publicanism or even manliness. It is
simply slavish obedience to a pur-
chased power, cowardly yielding to
“invisible government.”
Br
Following two weeks of fairly.
nice winter weather it blew up colder
yesterday, and the indications are we
are due for another cold snap before.
the predicted January “thaw arrives.
bound up the entire Republisn ma. |:
his parpose, fact the seedy’ ation]
home, Now that “the shoe is on the
other foot” .they are acting like “cry
select the officials and dictate the {on 10 acres.
inches.
i Sat the newspapers
stration. The attitude: of our
nt toward the - contending
i ns in Nicaragua ‘has ‘not met
The lame defense of the
ognition of the government of
lamorro has not persuaded any-
‘bax ly and conditions in Mexico are not
‘any more satisfactory. But the Presi-
dént thinks the newspapers ought to
, close their eyes and ears to these con-
ditions in order that the people may:
| never know what has happened. Thus
in {ignorance of the facts the public
mind might be satisfied.
A year and a half ago an usurper
ed Chamorro, with a military force
y vind him, took control of the gov-
ernment of Nicaragua as director.
ake all members of the real gov-
raiment had been killed or exiled and
tg Present resigned, Chamorro as-
ed governing. power under the
title of “First Designate.” Without
funds to conduct an administration he
thén substituted a man named Diaz as
President.
money for he has been keeping up the
prétense of a government ever since
notwithstanding the Vice President
under the administration which had
been forced out of existence by the
usurper returned and as legal succes-
sor ‘became President. This bogus
government has been “recognized” and
is being supported by the administra-
tion at Washington.
This is a specimen of the foreign
policy which the official spokesman of
the President, in sobbing voice, asked
the newspapers of the country to ac-
cept and approve for the reason that
criticism impairs the influence of the
administration abroad. When Presi-
dent Wilson was working his life away
in efforts to establish and maintain
in this country a beneficent foreign
policy the Republican newspapers and
th fishers of that party in and out
: SS Re broad Tr ob
babies” destitute of pride.
What is the Apocrypha?
The gentleman who asks himself
questions and then answers them, as a
department in one of the town papers,
shouldn’t be relied upon too implicitly
by its readers.
Several weeks ago he told them
that “G. H.” had asked him to settle
an argument as to “what is the Apoc-
rypha.”
We have our doubt as to whether
there is a “G, H.” at all. We also
have the same doubt as to whether
he asked any such a question. How-
ever that may be we have no doubt
whatever that the editor of the “Query
and Answer” column didn’t know what
‘he was talking about when he answer-
ed the “G. H.” question by saying
that the Apocrypha “is simply another
nanie for the book of Revelations.”
They are anything but that. So far
from. it that Protestants reject them
both as inspired sources of doctrine
and as reliable history. In general
they are writings of doubtful author-
ship and authority and in early Bibles
were given a place between the two
Testaments.
r We are indebted to Thomas J.
Smull, executive secretary of Ohio
Northern University at Ada, Ohio,
and formerly of Mackeyville, for a
copy of the story how Ira Marshall
won the world’s championship as a
corh grower in 1925 and 1926. The
first year he harvested 1600.1 bushels
In 1926 his yield was
1686.6 . on the same acreage. He
‘plowed in: March to a depth of 9
Let the land lie idle a few
days then double-disced and harrowed
with a spike tooth. On May 8 he ap-
plied fertilizer broadcast. On the 11th
he planted 4 or 5 grains to the hill,
the rows being 32 inches apart. He
worked; his corn five times, starting
just as soon as the stalks were
strong enough to withstand close cul- |.
tivation.
The new Legislature is all set
for ‘the coming session and “wets”
have been chosen to preside over both
the House and Senate. Verily, in
Pennsylvania Prohibition is the para-
mount issue on every day in the year
except the one in November that
counts,
——Quite a number of Bellefonte
and Centre county people are making
their plans to attend the inauguration
of Governor John S. Fisher, on Janu-
ary 18th. The most of them will go
as members of the Harry B, Scott
club, of Philipsburg.
+ Spokes
‘the : ‘country are too 'severely: eriti-.
ng the foreign policy of ‘the ad-
Presumably Diaz had’
support a policy so obscure t 1%
jurious dissension? It is Sore
{ihe nature of either. de Coo
know you'll enjoy. it.
Prom the onde het
President Cootidge’s hal
municating with the Shap 8 le
through the medium of th en
House Spokesman, whose u
must not be directly quoted, may
be paraphrased by 50 or more news- |
paper correspondents, makes it. 2 little
difficult to understand the “to
be press of the country issued from
hington in the closing Hours of
Has old year.
From a careful study of the re-
marks of the White House kes-
man, as interpreted by various of his
auditors, we draw the following in-
ferences:
That the President is extremely ap-
prehensive of the outcome of foreign
developments, particularly on this con-
tinent;
That he contemplates the possibil-
ity of some step the taking. of which
will lay him open to criticism—cap-
tious criticism, perhaps, but still a
manifestation of dissent;
That he feels that his
action would be more effe
protection of American ey
terests if foreigners should
from American press reports
sumption that American ublie Senti-
ment was unanimously behind
In these circumstances Hie
rospective
in the
nd in-
derive
House Spokesman appeals to the press’
of the country for (1) correct pre-
sentation of the President’s foreign
policy, and (2) united support of it.
“The Record” ungualifiedly pledges
itself on Point No. 1. This 1 newspaper
will correctly present the President’s
foreign policy whenever he Sees. fit to
divulge it.
As to the second point, no self- -re-
specting newspaper can sign al ‘blank
check. No representative of j
body knows what it is.
“The Record” is 100 per. cenit. in
fayor of the protection of ‘the Fights
of American citizens, and of a Vigor-
ous diplomacy ‘in that be benals. the
world over. It does not imagine that
there could be any division of Amer-
ican sentiment on such a proposition.
What is the policy, or what are the
Policies, which suggest to. the
ouse Spokesman the da
Opposition to Woods.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
Opposition to the confirmation of
Cyrus E. Woods as a member of the
Interstate Commerce Commission is
not selfish at any point. Reconstruc-
tion of the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission, with a view to impartial con-
sideration of the great questions from
time to time, seems to be necessary.
It is all very well for those who
keep in the background to talk about
factionalism and politics and all that |
sort of thing, but these same inter-
ests forget that they draw attention
to their own peculiar and selfish in-
terests when they point out these ob-
jections to Mr. Woods.
Great economic interests are un-
doubtedly in the hands of the Com-
mission, but there is nothing in the
career of Mr. Woods to justify any
conclusion other than that he would
bring to his duties a fair and intelli-
gent mind and the recognition. of in-
terests of all the people, rather than
| those of the few. :
Of course, Pennsylvania will h Jaze A
se
the usual deluge of criticism be
of the envy and the political attittde
of other States, but President Coolidge
will not be dra Tagosned. into any unfair
attitude, nor will he submit to the dic-
tation of those who would place him
in a false position before the eounizy.
Senator Capper Advocates Baseball
] Investigation.
From the Williamsport Sun.
The public has become aceustonied
to senatorial investigations but if
one proposed by Senator Capper, of.
Kansas, is launched it will offer
something entirely new in that line.
The Kansas Senator has announced |
himself in favor of an inquiry into
the charges against Ty Cobb and Tris
Speaker. If this proposed Senate
baseball investigation’ should be
started it will attract more attention
than a world series contest. It is.
proboble, however, that a majority of
the Senators will decide that they have
enough work mapped out for a short
session without getting into a baseball
game,
_ Both are * Disqualified.
From the Cleveland Pl: Plain Dealer.
Both Frank L. Smith, of Illinois,
and William' S. Vare, of Pennsylvania,
are disqualified by the character of
their campaign from sitting in the na-
tional assembly. It is no answer to say
that Pennsylvania elected Vare and.
Illinois elected Smith, knowing in each
case the influences ‘at work in the
campaign. Neither in the Smith nor
the Vare case is there any need for
drawing a party line. Both these
Senators-elect, if rejected, will be sue-.
ceeded by Republicans. The sole ques-.
tion is that of fitness. Politics end
adjourn. :
—Try reading the “Watchman” You-
ularly during the new year and we
the as-1{
‘firemen that he always had
re ee Stirrers er ———————e
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Jack Burger, of Alto Altoona, who was run
over by his own automobile while he was
putting on a new license plate "Friday
night, died from injuries on Monday. It
is supposed that while working at the
‘| ear hé turned the starting crank. He was
aged 45 and lived. in Juniata,
»
—The Collins Company, manufacturer of
axes and edge tools, will move its Lower
Mann plant ‘rom Yeagertown, Pa., to
Collinsville, Conn. in the near future. The
plant employs about 200 and its loss will
-| make a big hole in the population of Yea-
gertown until some other industry ¢ takes its
| place,
—Three unmasked bandits Sir st
| Wednesday held up the gasoline station
of Peter Riizo at Heistersburg, Fayette
~{ county, and got away with $200. While
| the two men covered Ritzo with revolvers
the third ransacked the place. The three
men road in a large sedan, in which they
escaped.
«—Frank A, Boswell, alderman and col-
Viector of county taxes for the Fourth ward
of Meadville, who killed himself Monday
‘night, was short $6,600 in his accounts, ac-
cording to county officials. Boswell’'s check
for $0,462.03 for taxes was returned from
the bank marked insufficient funds when
presented for payment.
—A lone highwayman early last Friday
shot and probably fatally wounded Byron
Walters, aged 32, Wilkes-Barre, and fled
after robbing him of $7. Walters, before
lapsing unconscious; told police he was on
his way home when the bandit held him
up. As he was about to obey the latter's
demands, he said, he was shot through his
body.
—The First National Bank of Elysburg
was robbed on Monday by two men who
handcuffed the cashier to a teller’s cage.
They scooped up all the cash in sight and
fled in a closed automobile. The wife of
the cashier, who lives in the second floor
apartment of the bank building, heard her
husband’s cry for help and shot at the
fleeing bandits.
A mother ‘asked Pittsburgh police, last
Thursday, to arrest her son whom she
‘accused of the theft of $300 which she had
hidden in a stocking. The mother, Mrs.
| Jeannetta Rice, reported that her son,
William A. Rice, came home after mid-
night, packed a suit case and left shortly
afterwards. She discovered the money was
missing after his disappearance.
—A. W. Lee, Esq., of Clearfield, who
had previously contributed $350,000 to
Trinity M. E. church, Clearfield, for the
erection of a new parish house, remember-
ed the Clearfield West Side Methodist
church on Christmas by presenting its
building committee with a- check for
$16,000 to apply on the debt against the
splendid new edifice now being erected.
—Fire on Saturday destroyed a small
‘barn owned by. Robert Purdy, one mile
south of West Chester. Three cows, ‘one
horse and Purdy’s life savings, tliought to
amount to more than $1000, ie
in the blaze. Purdy, who
in a ‘wagon shed attached:
under the mattress of his be
felt that banks were mof st
—Searching for a
| Golis and Campbell, of New ©
and Wounded, Fear
mand to halt. The ‘Shooting.
the Baltimore and Ohio ra
.| where: the officers went in their hunt for
‘| the robber whe had obtained $90 in a
‘restaurant holdup a short time previously.
They claimed Shevitz was stealing coal
and ran at their approach. He will re-
cover. *
=—Roy E. Baker and Herbert Smith,
stewards of the Moose Lodge of Lewis-
town, were held under $1,000 bail each for
the grand jury on charges of violating
the prohibition laws at a hearing on Tues-
day before United States Commissioner
Samuel Lewin. Prohibition agent C. D.
Lindley testified that 164 cases of unlabel-
ed beer, three 30-gallon crocks of ferment-
ing beer, and a small quantity of moon-
shine and bottling apparatus were seized
in the raid.
—Although 2300 volts of electricity
passed through his body, Charles Weikert,
a lineman for the Metropolitan Edison
Electric company, at Gettysburg, was able
to continue work on Saturday, none the
worse for his experience. On Friday, in
replacing a new line between Seven Stars
and McKnightstowt, he mounted a pole
and his body came ‘fn contact with the
line carrying ‘the high voltage. He was
“rendered unconscious, but was saved from
death by his safety belt, which held him
on the top of the pole until some of the
other men went to his rescue.
—Blythe Bullian, aged 50; Edward Sy-
phert, aged 50, and William Aiken, aged 22,
all of Brookville, suffered burns of the
arms and face while at work in the pump
house of the United Natural Gas company,
at that place, last Wednesday, when an
explosion blew out the walls of the build-
ing, causing an estimated loss of $60,000.
The victims were picked up many feet
from the building and taken to the Brook-
ville hospital. It ‘was thought at first that
the men had been burned fatally but hos-
pital attaches say they will recover. They
were changing the pressure of the gas
‘when the explosion occurred.
—Kenneth Caldwell, 20 years old, of
Harmony, near Punxsutawney, had the big
toe of his left foot. shot off early last Fri-
day when he interrupted the visit of a
burglar in his home. Awakened by a
noise, he arose to investigate. At a side
window downstairs, he saw a man enter-
ing. He started for the intruder, The
latter drew a pistol and fired a bullet into
Caldwell’'s foot. The shooting was pre-
matpre, or Caldwell likely would have
been mortally wounded. At the Punxsu-
tawney hospital a surgeon found the bul-
let lodged in the ball of the youth's foot,
and the big toe mangled so that it. will
have to be amputated.
—“Squire Henry Miller, venerable jus-
tice of the peace of Swoyerville, Luzerne
county, and erstwhile candidate for the
Legislature, jumped into ‘the ' limelight
again, when, in his court, he sent Paul
Benock, high constable, to Luzerne county
jail in default of $51,000 bail. It is said
there has been bad blood between the
justice of the peace and the high con.
stable for some time over the settlement
of a $60 hill which Miller says is due him
in settlement of a former civil suit. Benock
was committed to jail in lieu. of a bond.
After reviewing the commitment papers
and inquiring of Benock as to “how many
men he had killed,” Warden Charles Boldt
made an investigation and ordered Ben-
2 ock’s release to appear when wanted.