—This is April 1. If you want to fool us completely sit right down and write a check for whatever back sub- | scription you owe. cia —If the Governor would only stop. claring his * intention to fight and rit he might get further 0a i . —Happily the great coal mine trag edy: out at Ehrenfeld, Pa, turned out. to be greatly exaggerated, The | . thes hundred mien who wore reported dead all came to life but five. - the -Legislature and the | great coal mine trag- | I _—.——" sd on Si A One Source of Fraud. Under the law it will become the duty of the Governor of the Common- ~ “The supposed attempt on the life } Wealth to appoint. four registration of Henry Ford was just another of’ those misguided efforts that are so frequent and so incomprehensible. Tt would seem that anyone, no matter what his or her station, could see the value of Mr. Ford to the social and industrial life of the country. —With the author and producers of “The Virgin Man” serving ten days in a New York work house and Earl Carroll on his way to serve a year in. a federal prison theatrical folks will begin to realize that while “justice is blind” it can still see the difference be- tween right and wrong. — “Peaches” Browning and Ma Hee- nan are to go into vaudeville. That is, if the plastic surgeons can reduce the piano legs on which “Peaches” is ex- pected to do a dance act. Every sec- tion of the country would do well to follow the New England intention to bar the hussies from exhibiting themselves up there. ~The man who has charge of the morgue in the office of the Philadel phia Inquirer dug up a picture of Hard P. Harris, Bellefonte’s active burgess, and ran it on the political page over the name of “W. Harrison Walker, ¢andidate for Judge of Centre county.” And now both men are trying to figure out which one the joke is on. —We'd like to write something about the trouble in China, but as we don’t know what it’s all about we're afraid to attempt anything further than to remark that if China wants to chase the foreigners out of the coun- try the foreigners must have been doing something she doesn’t like. And that, we'll bet comes about as near explaining the root of the trouble as an y else has been able to do. —Just at present the excitement over the pending judicial contest seems to have abated a bit. It can’t be for long, however. Too many of the aspirants have the idea that their | chances are too good. The present calm is only a lull before the storm that is certain to break long before one of the most interesting political fights ever witnessed in this section. — Governor Fisher has been forced to compromise on his ballot reform bills. Possibly it was better for him to take half a loaf than get no bread at all, but he could not have been as sincere as he professed to be in his effort for purification of elections. The State would have admired him more had he stuck for his program as originally presented, then veto any measures that might have been passed in an emasculated form. —Having refused to pay six dol- lars and nineteen cents taxes assessed against him in 1925 Nathan Rora- baugh was committed to the Clinton county jail nearly nine months ago. He relented, on Monday, paid the amount and four dollars cost because he wants to go fishing. It cost Clin- ton county one hundred and twenty- five dollars for his board while in jail and the Lord only knows how much more it would have been had Nathan not been a sufferer with our malady— fishitch. —Ford’s Detroit stores retail gro- ceries, dry goods, clothing, etcetera, cheaper than the wholesalers of that city can buy the commodities. His “mass sales” idea has beaten even the “Chain stores” in prices and there is great indignation among the retailers of Detroit. We have an analogous situation in Bellefonte. “Chain stores” are making it very difficult for merchants who have tied themselves up with property investments here. They are” handicapped by taxes and other obligations of a social nature and must eventually lose out in what seems to be unfair competition. The business of the country is being revolutionized, just as are the habits, the manners and the character of our people. Who can say that it is for the better or the worse. We can’t. Yom completely flabbergasted at it all. —Today the soft coal miners are to go on stirke. What for? Higher wages and better living conditions. With knowledge only of the Central Pennsylvania fields we wonder at the folly of it. Half the mines in the Cambria—Clearfield field have been closed for several years because they can’t produce coal in competition with West Virginia, even though the oper- ator would be satisfied if he could make a margin of only fifteen cents a ton on his coal. Coal in the seam is as cheap today as it ever was. Labor is all that has added to its cost and if labor wants to add more, is it unreasonable to suggest that labor go out and sell it. It won't until it has milked invested capital white and then will come the panic that this country needs more than it needs anything else that we can con- | unanimous voice, protest against the “any SAE 4 commissioners for Philadelphia. ‘With- in a given time these commissioners will appoint four registrars for each election district. Both the commis- sioners and = registrars - are to be bi- partisan. That is to say, there are to be two men or women of each party. According to a reliable cor- respondent of the Philadelphia Record William S. Vare has chosen one of the Democrats on the board of commis- sioners and Joseph Grundy another. These bogus Democrats, if appointed, will join with their Republican col- ‘leagues on the board in appointing Republican registrars wherever pos- sible. : There are in the ring-ridden sections of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh mis- creants who register as Democrats in order that they may the more success- fully steal votes from that party. This is the way zero districts are created. If the Governor shall accept the recommendations of Vare and Grundy for seats on the board of registration commissioners for Phila- delphia, we may look for a multiplica- tion of zero returns at the next elee- tion in which Vare is concerned. This will probably ‘be the next Senatorial election, when Vare will try to cancel his obligation to Senator Dave Reed, who delayed for a time an exposure that is inevitable, That was the only achievement of the filibuster. = It is true that the Democrats of frauds possible. Under the law, if the minority party fails to present can- party may supply the need by naming Republicans, thus making the board tnanimously Republican. But if the board of registration cc ssioners is two members of the same party,” it uds. The Democrats of phia ought to, with one acc rd and Zl dorsed by Vare and Grundy. ——How did Senator Davis, of Scranton, chairman of the Senate Committee on Elections, get the idea that Governor Fisher was willing to have his compulsory ballot box open- ing bill emasculated ? Bad Advice to Farmers. It would seem to the reasoning mind that the advice of the Agricultural Department at Washington to the farmers of the country to “hold erops down” is economically unsound. The farmer who produces a hundred bush- els of grain, whether he cultivates four acres of ground or tem, is better off than a neighbor who only produced eighty bushels, no matter what the market price of the grain happens to be.- If the price is high he can hope “for the: full value of his crop and if low he has the advantage of the twenty bushels. Even under the most unfavorable condition he is gainer by getting the most possible out of the soil. There is probably no “bogie” that has worked more mischief in recent vears than that of “overproduction.” It might be possible to produce more than can be consumed but it would be a rare incident. Excessive prices fre- quently make it impossible for con- sumers to procure all they would like. But that is not on account of over- production. It is simply the result of inability to get the producer and con- sumer together. “So long as there are hungry men and women in the country there is no overproduction of food stuffs, and everybody knows that hun- dreds are suffering from hunger in every city of considerable size. Holding the crops down is a first- class expedient for holding prices up, and has little value for any other pur- pose. For the favored, not only in agriculture but in commerce, the high cost of living promotes prosperity, but as a general rule it operates the other way. With a scale of prices that will enable every sober and industrious man to supply his family with abun- dance of wholesome fcod, the overpro- duction bogie will disappear and bet- ter work, greater contentment and a better feeling among employer and employee and a closer friendship be- tween the rich man and poor will be created. ES PRR Hampy Moore imagines that a higher rate of tariff tax would help the crippled industries of Philadelphia. Lower taxes of all kinds would have a more helpful influence. —— cons ——The Chinest trouble serves one purpose. It is drawing public atten- tion away from the Nicaraguan and ceive of. Mexican muddles, EE ——————— ——— Philadelphia are somewhat to blame for a condition that makes such didates for registrars the majority | legally organized with “not more than | be difficult to perpetrate such “STATE RIGHTS A. BELLEFONTE. PA.. The Governor has finally prevailed upon chairman Mellon and other per- sorts not connected with the Legisla- tute to enact measures which he be- liéves “will greatly improve our election laws.” That will not be going atrocious. But it seems the Governor might have accomplished more if he had been firm in his purpose to achieve reform legislation. When Mellon began to yield, pressure ought way the bill for the compulsory open- ing of ballot boxes might have been made effective. As it is the bailot boxes in ‘the Vare district of Phila- delphia will be as secure as if they were hermetically sealed. tection proposed by the Governor, with the exception of that eliminating dis- semination of information as a legal expense, are of little value, and we haven’t even a promise that the sev- eral actually meritorious bills intro- duced by Senator Harris, of Pitts- burgh, and now in “pickle,” will be even considered. The six vicious measures introduced by Senator Hom- sher, of Lancaster, will be cordially approved by a practically unanimous measure recommended by the Gover- nor and six machine made monstrosi- ties conceived in the minds of Vare, of Philadelphia, and Greist, of Lancaster. The Governor might easily have controlled the legislation of the ses- sion on ballot reform. He knows that glections. vast majortt of ublicans: feel that there is nothing gained bs election frauds , except sus- picion and contempt. The Governor didn’t need the fraudulent votes that were cast for him -and-now hang upon his title in the form of a reproach. Sars and the -Leslies need But the Vare them, and the new chairman of the | Republican State committee ars to have joined them in their crusade Tor oil ‘The Governor ought to have stopped it; he could have stopped. di, could hay a ——The Philadelphia grand jury has declared the streets of that city unsale. It might have condemned a good many other things in connection with the government of that town. nr —— a ———— Hopeful for Democrats, Josephus Daniels, of North Carolina, who was Secretary of the Navy during the full period of President Wilson's administration of the government, has always been faithful to, and is still hopeful for Democracy. In an inter- view given out at Atlantic City, the other day, Mr. Daniels makes some suggestions to the party leaders which deserve careful consideration and some advice of the highest value. He was speaking from an entirely unselfish viewpoint, for he is not an aspirant for public favor or political office. In the first place he expressed the hope that there will be no recurrence of the long drawn out and disastrous battle in the convention of three years ago. Party opinion will unanimously agree with him on that point. His mind is equally well set on the prop- osition that there shall be no “wet and dry” question injected into the campaign. Party opinion may not be so unanimous on that point but a ma- jority will concur. He says “no one is alive today who will see the prohibi- tion amendment repealed,” and that must be apparent to any thoughtful person. The hope of the party, according to Mr. Daniels, lies in strict adherence to fundamental principles. “A Demo- cratic victory next year will be easy,” Mr. Daniels continues, “if the leaders are wise enough to concentrate on the major issues and not on short-sighted men who would be diverted to the rabid path of liquor. They are insult- ing the American people if they think for a moment they can make the issue an appetite for or against liquor.” Republican corruption in its various forms is the issue that will make Democratic victory certain next year. The Jersey Legislature has defeated the “open Sunday” bill and amusements and other things prohib- ited on Sunday will have to be done in secret, as heretofore. State Chairman Mellon seems anxious to acquire the sort of repu- tation that influenced fifty-five coun- ties of the State to vote against Bill Vare, for Senator. lf Mr. Vare is as confident of vindication as he professes to be he'is taking a lot of useless trouble to suppress the e vidence. ——The Watchman publishes riews when it is news. Read it. The other measures for ballot pro-| ye : ¥ Strange Political Partnership. ‘What influence draws W. L. Mel- lon, of Pittsburgh, chairman of the Republican State committee, and Wil- liam S. Vare, of Philadelphia, munici- pal contractor and machine politician, : together, is a mystery. They are as very far, for our election laws are unlike in their lives as they have |yajue of the daily press as a medium { hitherto been wildly different in their | 4 lk and conversation.” Before the i deton: election, last May, Mr. Mellon ' denounced Mr. Vare as a disreputable politician unfit for important public to have been increased, and in that se¥vice. His nomination by fraudulent | methods over eminently fitter men certainly worked no change in the man. Yet Mr. Mellon has apparently fofmed a political partnership with hi in which the evil methods of the | Vare machine are the principal assets. | Myr. Mellon, late in life, turned his fancy in the direction of politics. A ‘very rich man, he has always had , things pretty much his own way, but until his richer uncle was called into . the public service as Secretary of the | Treasury in 1923, neither of them gave . much thought to politics. Whether the “glamour of public life has a fascina- tion for him or the pride in power an enticement is of little consequence. , He got in and apparently liked it, and ,finglly induced his favorite nephew to ake the plunge” with him. The ew began as a bitter opponent of liam 8. Vare for United States Senator and was defeated because of the corrupt methods of Mr. Vare. | In view of these facts it is surpris- ing to learn that Mr. Mellon and Mr. Vare have joined in a political combi- nation, not to preseive the Republican | preponderance in Pennsylvania, but to {continue the corrupt methods which have made William S. Vare an outlaw in the Senate at Washington. Presum- ably Mr. Mellon imagined such a part- nership would prove advantageous to hind personally. As chairman of the State committee of his party he wants ‘big majorities. But association with Vare will not promote that result. After Vare is thrown out of the Senate next December with the brand of fraud stamped indelibly on his fore- head he will be of little value to any poly organization. gi 1s | rs te lp lpr —————— ——There are simple minded people still trying to swim the Catalini chan- 1nel, though the reward for that achievement was withdrawn some time ago. ; sme lpi en An Unsightly Dump. One of the most unsightly places in Bellefonte is the dumping ground down at the big fill where north Water street goes up onto the State highway. The fill necessary to open the street naturally made a high and dangerous ‘embankment at the west side, which was a constant menace to automobil- ists. The only way to get rid of the danger was to fill up the old canal and this could best be done by making it a dumping ground for ashes, stones, dirt, ete. But from the looks of it it would seem as if there were more old tin cans, broken glass, bed springs, old automobile fenders and worn out cush- ions, tree trimming and a conglomer- ate mass of about everything but money and hooch. From the number of empty vegeta- ble and fruit cans it is easily seen how much the average family in Bellefonte depends for their daily subsistence on canned goods pur- chased from the stores instead of the good old-fashioned kind that “mother used to make.” But getting back to the dump: The battery of lime kilns that was in active operation there for many years have been partially dismantled and the brick and stone work is crumbling down, and there is lots of space there vet to fill, but it ought to be with ashes and earth, and not rubbish. rm — ar fp rt ——Centre county sportsmen gen- erally approve the action of the Leg- islature in defeating the bill to in- crease the cost of hunting licenses and also the Salus bill making it obliga- tory to take out a license to purchase or own fire arms. So far as the license is concerned, the fees at present are sufficient to create a fund equal to all the necessities of the Game Com- mission, and there should be no need of diverting money from this fund to other uses. As to the Salus bill re- quiring a license to own or purchase fire arms, it would not right the wrongs for which it was intended but instead place an additional burden on the hunter and man who has need of a gun for legitimate purposes. The ban- dit will get his gun by hook or by crook, regardless of a license, and the innocent, harmless individual would be more at the mercy of the profes- sional gunman than ever. —— fe e————— ——The Chinese problem might be very interesting if anybody could un- derstand’ it: : : | Newspaper Advertising is the Most | xd i Effective. { From the Pittsburgh Post. 8 | The decision reached by the West- | inghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company to depend principally for its { advertising on the newspapers is fur- | ther important testimony to the great { for bringing buyer and seller togeth- er. ¥ The company has heretofore: used the newspapers to advertise eléetric ! products used in the home. The jour- nal of general circulation read by all members of the family, and read as "a matter of course, as part of the | daily schedule, even by those pressed for time, is obviously the appropriate ! agency with which to direct attention ‘to radio apparatus, electric fans, i electric irons and the other household { appliances used by everybody. : The | significant part of the company’s an- | nouncement is that hereafter if will employ newspaper space with which to advertise monster electric locgmo- tives, huge generating station units, street lighting equipment, industrial | motors, transportation apparatug for trolley lines and steam railroads, farm lighting equipment, electric meters and other measuring devices, and to diffuse information dealing with the public relations of the utilities, factor- ‘ies and personnel. Purchasers of locomotives and giant motors are necessarily few, as com- pared with the number of potential buyers of lamps or electric heaters for bathrooms, yet the Westinghouse Company has concluded after careful study that the newspapers are the best medium with which to reach the form- er as well as the latter. The execu- tives and purchasing agents of the corporations that use such heavy and expensive equipment do not fail to read the newspapers, while other ad- vertising mediums may escape their notice. In judicious use of the daily press, the Westinghouse interests have concluded, there is less likely to be waste of the. advertising - appropria- tion than in employing it in other forms of advertising. But it is the superior flexibility of the newspaper medium that most eom- mends it to the company. One of the points stressed by J. C, MeQuiston, manager of publicity, in SAROHCI the change of polioy, is that the daily ress enables the advertiser. i "to meet newly = ATION" BY using newspapers it is possible for the advertiser on the shortest of no- | tice to vary his plans to conform io such factors as weather conditions and peculiarities in the economic situation with respect to any particular district of the country. “Newspapers,” says Mr. McQuiston, “seem to offer the only medium by which we can both ‘nationalize’ and ‘localize’ our various sales campaigns, thus permitting us to conduct a na- tion-wide campaign on products and at the same time vary our program to fit the needs of specific districts. “Certain cities,” he adds, “present a greater industrial market opportun- ity than others. Others are outstand- ing in the chavacter and extent of their new building operations. In still others a greater market is offered for certain products in our merchandising lines than others. The flexibility of newspaper space will permit us to cover all such points with -advertis- ing of a specific character.” . The Westinghouse Company has been advertising its products since 1886. Among manufacturing com- panies it was one of the pioneers in the adoption of this plan for increas- ing its sales. Advertising is an art, a science, and a business, constantly developing, constantly requiring study, constantly offering new methods. That it may be employed to full advantage advertisers must be bold, alert, quick to adapt themselves to new conditions. The Westinghouse decision to concen- trate on newspaper advertising will not escape the attention of other pro- gressive manufacturers. . amr————p A —————— A Call for Prudent Liberality. From the Philadelphia Record. The Mothers’ Assistance Fund is a businesslike State philanthropy which contributes to the support of father- less children of needy mothers. It makes periodical payments to such mothers in order that they may keep in the home, under their own cars children who would otherwise have to be supported in institutions. It costs the State less to support these children in their homes than it would cost to maintain them in in- stitutions run at public expense. Last year the Mothers’ Assistance Fund, with a biennial appropriation of $1,750,000, gave help to 3500 families. There are 2400 families equally en- titled to State aid on the same terms, but no funds are available for them. The Mothers’ Assistance Fund asks for $4,000,000 from this Legislature. Bills are pending to give it various sums ranging downward from the above-named maximum to $2,500,000. The Legislature should bear in mind these two facts, both susceptible of convincing proof: That the Mothers’ Assistance Fund is economically, wise- ly and honestly administered, and that it represents the cheapest as. well as the most humane, intelligent and bene- ficial way of taking care of the wards of the State. i ———What the Governor needs is a vigorous course of treatment for a ——_———_—_— TT. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —At the point of a gun Paul J. Hess, night operator at”the Reading ‘passenger station, at Hershey, was forced te. open. the safe by a masked bandit who obtained $130 in cash. . — Washington, Pajwpolice are cond a search_to_ solve. the theft of three over- coats “from a lobby of the First Christian church” on Sunday night while services were ip psogress. = de —Michael Mailie, 56, near the Progress schoolhouse in Dauphin county, ended his life on Monday by hanging himself in ‘the cellar of his home with a wash line, The suicide came following a night of domestic differences with his wife. Pd Lily —A 1,600-pound safe containing {wo dia- mond rings, each valued at $375, was stolen from the saloon of Mary Shaffer at Forty- third and Willow streets, Pittsburgh, ac- cording to a report made to city detectives Sunday. The safe was valued at $35, 7 —Paul Collins, of Cleveland, Ohio, car- rying United States mail from New York to Cleveland, was forced down near Brook- ville late Sunday by plane trouble. With the aid of a powerful flare he landed un- injured on an emergency field. The plane was not damaged. —Forty Altoona motorists have been ar- rested by State, city and railroad police on traffic violation charges, drivers failing to stop their cars in running past trolley cars in front of the railroad shop gates. The arrests follow several accidents to trolley passengers and railroad workers. —Tive days’ notice of intention of ob- taining a marriage license would be re- quired to be filed with the clerks of the orphans court under the provisions of the Daix bill passed finally by the Senate on Monday night and sent to the House. In cases of emergency, extraordinary ecir- cumstances, the judge of the orphans court may waive this regulation. —Morris M. Levy, senior member of M. M. Levy, stock brokers, of Pittsburgh, was found dead in his garage early Sunday, a victim of carbon monoxide fumes. The Levy chauffeur was given Saturday night off and Levy left his home late in the even- ing to put the family car in the garage. Several hours later, when he had failed to return, a search was conducted and he was found dead. go —Joseph Cauffiel, former mayor of Johns- town, was in court in Ebensburg last Thursday defending an action against him for the recovery of $2,500,000 with interest. The suit was brought by Dr. A. J. Miller, of Mt. Pleasant, and George C. Knox, of Johnstown, who seek the money for shares representing a half interest in the mining rights of a copper tungsten company in Arizona, promoted by Cauffiel. —Sought in connection with a store rob- bery at Juniata, Blair @ county, Oscar L. Guthrow, 22, of Richmond, Va. and Her- bert Fitzgerald, 22, of Buena Vista, "Va, alleged escaped convicts, were arrested on a farm near Export, Pa, by state police late on Monday. Their arrest followed in- formation given by an Export constable, whose suspicions were aroused by the care with which he said the two men were at- tempting to cover up the marks in a road to a farm house left by their machine. —Karl Bechtel, Buffalo salesman, who is charged wilh the murder of Virginia Gib- Several ayy ago, was™ relensed bail in a special order handed down in county court early Monday afternoon by Judge U. P. Rossiter, Attorney Robert J. Firman, one of the defense counsel for Bechtel, was permitted to sign the bail pond. Bechtel was held for the May term of criminal court on last Friday when he appeared before Alderman Moser for a preliminary fearing, - . : —George Dallas Dixon, of Philadelphia, assistant to the president of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad and for many years vice president in charge of traffic, including lines west of Pittsburgh. celebrated -his 70th birthday on Monday, and yesterday retired from active service under “the: pen- sion regulations of the company. Mr. Dix- on, who is regarded as ‘the dean of Aaneri- can railroad traffic officers, entered the rail- road service in 1883, and by successive pro- motions reached his present position in Au- gust, 1925. He is well known in Bell>fonte through his frequent visits here. Han —Fire on Friday destroyed the home: ol Alexander McIntosh, of Baughman avenue, High Park, néar Jeannette. Mrs. Meln- tosh, who is recovering from a reecnt oper- ation, and her two children were rescued. The woman fainted wnd was: carried from the burning structure. ~The loss is placed at $5,000. Mrs. McIntosh was awakened by the smoke and aroused her husband. Me- Intosh carried his two children, ‘Robert, aged 13 years, and Thomas, aged 11 yedrs, to safety. When his wife did not appear he made his way through the smoke-filled structure and found that she had fainted. —Tire in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Specter at Mount Carmel, early on Monday, resulted in the suffocation from smoke of Miss Julia Rushack, a domestic, and nearly caused the death of David Specter, a high school junior, who is in a serious condition. Two small children of Mr. and Mrs. L. August, in their home adjoining were rescued by firemen when smoke threatened their lives. Mr. and Mrs. Specter were on a visit to New York when fire started in the cellar of their home, which was destroyed. The flames spread to the August home, ‘which was partly damaged. i —The Tyrone Kiwanis club has decided to erect a dining hall for the Boy Scouts at their camp along -Van Scoyoc. The building will cost approximately $2,900 and will be built by the members of the Kiwan- is club working in groups. The new struc- ture will be adequate in every detail for the purpose for which it is intended. At the one end will bea large stone fire-place and to the one side of the building will be a poreh ten feet in width and extending the length of the building. It is planned to start the work just as soon as weather permits, so that it will be in readiness for the annual scout camp this summer. —Two gas wells, each reported to have an open flow of 5,000,000 feet, which were brought in near Punxsutawney early last week have turned the attention of western Pennsylvania gas and oil operaters to that section. Both wells are in the Walston fields. Walston fields are comparatively new districts. There are now eight wells in the district, seven of them are produe- ing. ‘Five of this number - show an open flow ‘of better than a’ ‘million feet each. Reports that the strikes have heen made in deep sand, each .going down 2,700 feet, has been ‘hailed ' with ‘satisfaction by gas operators. This to the trained person in- the spine. dicates a well of large flow. ney, aged 82, chorus girl, at Erie, Pa. ie “on 38,000
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