Bema tne ] INK SLINGS. — President Hoover wants it dis- tinctly understood that “all laws look alike to him.” This attitude may compel the Anti-Saloon League tc dislike him. President Atterbury, of the Pennsylvania railroad, still believe Vare is a potent force in Philadel- phia though he is careful to express the opinion in secret. —Anyway, we got to give Mr. Ras- kob credit for being consistent. Af- ter putting the spark of life into the Democratic organization he has start- ed in to provide a business pie-count- er at which his followers can feast, even if the public should hang up a «Verboten” sign to those who are for him. If you don’t have any garden made, if all your plowing isn’t done yet, don’t worry! After all, there is only one thing—just one—in which you can place confident and eternal belief and that is the teaching of the Bible. In it we are promised that seed time and harvest will come, so waiting’ will reveal your faith better than worrying. — Having been a Democrat, origin- ally, President Hoover is trying to do just what any other Democrat would have tried to do for the country—the best as he sees it. His great handi- cap is political expediency. And if Mr. Hoover fails as President it will be because he has been seduced into the idea that it matters more that a candidate of the Republican party be elected in 1932 than if our people are prosperous and contented. —Now they are trying to make us selieve that old Gen. Ku Min of the Chinese army had an airplane from which he threw bombs away back in he third century A. D. My, what 3 time we're having trying to con- vince ourselves that modern civili- -ation has developed anything new at ill. We just won't fall for this Gen. Min story unless the historians qual- fy it by admitting that Min was the ‘ellow who loaned the ship that the row must have used wheh she jump- >d over the moon. — Alfred E. Smith has been given ‘he Laetare medal by the University »f Notre Dame. Some will think with 1s that that is a very distinguished ind advisedly conferred honor. Oth- srs will think that there ought to 1ave been a law passed that would 1ave prevented our latest’ candidate ‘rom getting it. Al will probably hink: Well, that’s something I cer- ainly never expected and don’t de- serve, but I'll just give my brown lerby a bit more of a tilt and keep mn being the same old: Al y —Presiding in the Federal district ourt in Harrisburg on Monday Judge Albert W. Johnson gave two convict- :d violators of the Volstead act. six- y days in jail. Under the Jones law ie might have given them five years nd fines of ten thousand dollars. ‘udge Johnson claims discretionary yowers are delegated to the bench be- .ause of the wording of the act. We ope his interpretation of the law is ustained, that is, if always such com- aendable judgment is shown by pre- iding judges as was Judge Johnson's n the particular cases at bar. —Pittsburgh, Reading, Altoona, *hiladelphia and DuBois are the lead- ag cities in the State in municipal ree planting. Many towns of the tate are turning to this method of eautification. In fact forty-eight of hem last year planted more than one housand trees each. We note this 1atter here with the hope that when ome newcomer arrives in Bellefonte nd immediately starts destruction cf ome of the remaining beautiful ma- les we have in town there will be ome one with guts enough to stand p and tell him that if he doesn’t like ellefonte’s trees he'd better hunt a >wn that doesn’t have any. —Many Democrats were resentful ‘hen John Raskob crawled in under 1e side-walls of our big top last sea- »n and straightway started in te ut our donkey through new tricks. hey wanted to bust him on the head ith a tent pin and throw him out. ohn didn’t do so well, we'll admit, ut it’s hard to teach an old donkey ew tricks. He’s got the dope now, owever, he’s going to provide the its to keep our animal in better ‘orking condition than if he were rerely turned out to browse on the raw-stack until 1932. We don’t now John, but we were and are for im because we feel that what the emocratic party needs most is ap ingel” and a Phineas T. Barnum. —-Not having heard anything to the )ntrary we have been under the apression that the editor of the Re- iblican is proving as capable as scretary of Forests and Waters as 1y of his predecessors in that im- yrtant State office were. Because ' this surmise we advise the Sec- tary to worry no more about the ct that he was hanged in effigy and irned, last Friday night, by the udents at the Mont Alto school of restry, than we did when, about a sar ago, he held us up to what he 1agined would be public contempt. ich incidents are invariably adjudg- | as merely futile expressions of mporary mental excitement. And ily those whose friendship is as fit- 1 as a light cloud in a March gale 'e impressed by them. — i Be » y" enracratic , SRO) abelpman STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION, BELLEFONTE. PA.. MAY 10, 1929. NO. 19. All reports coming from Washing- ton indicate that the debenture pro- vision of the Senate farm relief bill will be defeated. It has been an- athamatized as a “bonus,” and the party which has lived on bonuses all its life and advocated bonuses when- ever it had opportunity, is literally outraged at the suggestion of a bonus for farmers. If the proposed bonus were to go to a ship-building corpora- tion or a transporation company it would be different. It would then be serving a useful purpose, according to the philosophy of the Republican or- ganization. But a bonus to help a group of farmers out of a “slough of despond” is intolerable. It might en- tice them into the bad habit of ex- pecting too much in the future. It can hardly be said that this new- ly developed aversion to bonuses on the part of the Republican leaders in Congress is to be regretted. The ec- onomic value of such relief expe- dients is doubtful, and as President Hoover intimates, this one might ulti- mately do the farmers more harm than good. That is to say, the pro- posed debenture scheme might lead to abuses which in the end would cost the farmers more than it bene- fitted them. But there is not a great deal of difference between the deben- ture plan and the “revolving fund” scheme. The debenture plan would take money out of the national treas- ury but it is fairly certain that the half-billion revolving fund will not be picked off the corn belt apple trees. Under the debenture plan the ex: porters of farm products would re- ceive a bonus equal to one-half the tariff tax that would be levied on im: ports of the same value. For example, the tariff tax on wheat is 42 cents a bushel. For each bushel exported the farmer would receive a certificate of the value of 21 cents, which would be accepted by the government in payment of tariff duties on imports. This would be conferring on the farmers the same benefits of the tariff system which it bestows on manufacturers of plate glass or steel! or other products of foreign industry The Republican platform and candi- dates promised this equality to the farmer and it is difficult to imagine why it is so abhorrent to the party now. — Harry Sinclair's present en- vironment may not be as luxurious as he was accustomed to but it’s more appropriate for men of his type. Hoover Betrays Pledges. In his speech delivered before the members of the Associated Press, in New York recently, President Hoover stressed the subject of law enforce- ment with special reference to pro- hibition clearly indicated. “The dom- inant issue before the American peo- ple,” he declared, “is enforcement of and obedience to the laws of the United States, both Federal and State.” There is no hint of “noble experiment” in this language. It ex- presses the purpose of a crusader who has set out to achieve results by de- termined efforts in the right direc- tion. “We are confronted,” he con- tinued, with a national necessity of the first degree; that we are not suf- fering from an ephemeral crime wave but from a subsidence of our founda- tions.” If the President were sincere in these expressions of purpose the country might look forward with hope to a fulfillment of the aim of the Eighteenth amendment and the enforcement legislation. “It is the purpose of the Federal administra- tion,” he added, “by steady pressure, steady weeding out of all incapable and negligent officials, no matter what their status; by encourage- ment, promotion and recognition for those who do their duty, and by the most rigid scrutiny of the records and attitude of all persons suggested for appointment to official posts in our entire law enforcement machin- ery.” There is no uncertainty in these pledges, no ambiguity in this language. At the time this promise of fidelity to. duty was made there was a listed vacancy in the office of United States district attorney for the eastern dis- trict of Pennsylvania. The delinquent official had resigned rather than face charges of failure to enforce the laws and a successor was to be appointed. The Vare machine put forward for the. favor Mr. Vare’s personal at- torney and those sincerely in favor of enforcement, headed by Colonel Wynne, the capable and efficient pro- hibition administrator, offered anoth- er name. The late nominee was too raw. and another servile Vare hench- man was substituted, and the infor-. mation comes from Washington that he is to be appointed. That looks like a betrayal of faith. Revolving Fund. | Two Bigots Sharply Rebuked. By a vote of seventy to fourteen, ‘the Senate in Washington voted down ‘a resolution providing for the inves- 'tigation of an incident which occur ‘red at Brocton, Massachusetts, re cently, to Senator Heflin, of Alabama. The Senator was delivering one of his $250 harangues and somebody threw a milk bottle or some similar missile at him. He wanted the Senate toin- terpret this as an insult to the gov: ernment of the United States, inspir ed by the Pope of Rome. Very proper: fy the Senate refused to oblige him by the practically unanimous vote above indicated. Thereupon he flew into a rage and denounced the Sena- tors who voted in the negative ar emissaries of the Catholic hierarchy. Senator Heflin, always skite, has lately degenerated into a common scold or public nuisance. He sees red every time the Catholic ‘church is mentioned in his presence and while rangue, he threatened Senator Ty- dings, of Maryland, when that gentle: man interrupted him. The Senator from Maryland broadly intimated that the Heflin head is out of joint | and “the galleries broke into ap- plause.” This evidence of popular opinion of his mental equipment sup- plemented by a sharp rebuke from the presiding officer, Senator Moses. of New Hampshire, served to subdue the Alabaman and he took his seat figuratively ‘laughed out of court.” It was a just penalty properly ex pressed. The other day Senator Copeland of New York, felt constrained to pro: test against the political activities of | some of the agencies of his own | church. In a letter addressed to Dr. | Clarence True Wilson, chairman of | the board of temperance, prohibition and public morals of the Methodist church, he charges that that body has maintained a lobby in Washington te influence legislation and that it in other ways improperly meddles ip politics. “A decent self-respect” im: pels him to protest such perversion of the church and he has performed the service in a masterful manner. Dr. Wilson, like Senator Heflin, fails "to understand that religious liberty is a basic principle of our governnient and teaching bigotry a crime. { —In any event the fawning newspapers can’t make it appear that Mr. Hoover solved the reparations problem. | Reasons for Opposing General Tariff. It has been learned through de- pendable sources in Washington that President Hoover's objection to a general upward revision of tariff schedules is based on consideration of the preservation of existing export business. While serving in the office of Secretary of Commerce Mr. Hoover ascertained that American exports to Europe have been paid for mainly from the proceeds of American loans, and investments in Europe have been gradually but greatly diminishing. He reasons, therefore, that in order to preserve our export trade it will be necessary in the future to create a system of exchanging products, and prohibitive tariff will not be helpful. The late President McKinley, in his last speech, delivered at Buffalo, ad- monished the tariff-mongers of the ‘country that they could not forever ‘expect to sell products abroad unless they. bought products abroad. Mr. McKinley had been, during all hig long service in public, the chief apostle of high tariff taxation. But the experience of one term as Pres- ident had broadened his mind on the subject and upon entering upon his second term he indicated in the Buf- falo speech the purpose of recom- mending a policy of reciprocity as es- rapidly multiplying products of Am- erican enterprises. His untimely death prevented the fulfillment of his ‘plans to modify the tariff rates. Basil Manly, a widely known Wash- ington correspondent, writes that “during the first three months of 1929 foreign financing in American mar- kets was $353,890,000. This compares with: $602,511,000 for the correspond- ing period of 1928. At this rate of decrease the vanishing point is nota great way off and when it is reached or nearly reached the foreign markets will be practically closed to our pro: ducts. - International trading is nota cash in hand transaction. The bal- ances are settled either by an ex- change of commodities or by ex- changes of credits by the banks. Wil- liam McKinley saw the approach of a crisis in his time and Herbert Hoover sees it now. If the tariff-mongers fail to see it they are stupid. President Hoover now realizes that “uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,” ‘or words to that effect. a blather | in the midst of his ha- | Aviation was Discussed at Kiwanis Luncheon. | ‘hotel Penn-Belle, on Tuesday, was ‘largely attended. i’resident Harri- 'son Walker made some interesting announcements. Secretary Bingaman read the minutes of the directors’ meeting held last Friday at the Nit- jtany Country club, reporting that the house committee was instructed to purchase a flag apd shield for the renn-Belle hotel, and that a motion {was carried to make a subscription jof $100.00 to the Centre County hos- ipital, from the general fund. The minutes were approved. Guests present were Captain {Stephen McMasters, superintending lagent for the Middle division of the Pennsylvania railroad, with head- |quarters at Altoona; C. L. Grove, Ty- irone, superintending agent of the jcompany; William T. Kelly, Belle- ifonte, local freight agent; Jacob Sharer and son, Ray Sharer, of | Centre Hall; George W. Eaton, Blan- {chard; Forest Tanner, Bellefonte; W. |H. Vansant, Williamsport, represent- ing Eastern States Farmers’ Ex- change, Springfield, Mass.; and Ki- |wanian William C. Stemfly, Philips- burg, successor to Frank West in the ‘furniture business. | President Walker introduced Cap- tain McMasters as the speaker of ithe hour. He proceeded to give a Ithrillingly interesting and education- ial talk on aviation as it affects the | Pennsylvania railroad, in which he {said, aviation has been handicapped 1d its publicity. He stressed the val- ue of the airplane as a transport agency. Air lines must show certain definite advantage as to speed, safe- ty, rules on time, regardless of weather conditions. He described in a masterful manner the technical points in aviation. He mentioned three leading fields—Hadley, Cleve- land and Bellefonte, where radio beacons function with absolute ac- curacy day and night in all kinds of weather. There are 260 fields along the P. R. R. lines and there is an in- ‘the démand, the P. R. R. company ;has been compelled to carry passen- gers along with the air mails. The company has gone into the aviation enterprise because it feels the time is ripe for the transportation of pas- ;sengers in air planes. This conclu- sion is the result of many years of ‘searching study. - Aviation is a proved thing. The president of the company, the speak- jer quoted as saying, “We have dedi- cated ourselves to the business of passenger carrying by air and whai- ever we do will be done right.” The jaddress of Captain McMasters was well received. ees eee eter Hospital Drive will be Started on Mother’s Day. The annual membership drive for .the Centre County hospital will open ‘on Sunday, Mother’s day. The coun- ty has been well organized and a {corps of solicitors will endeavor to make a personal call upon everybody to receive their membership fee, which is one dollar a year. But it is only jnatural that some people will be miss- ied. To all such apologies are offered in advance, and they are kindly ask- led to mail their fee to the hospital ‘and their name will appear on the iroll of honor in next year’s report. Larger sums than the annual fee of {one dollar will be gratefully accepted. | Last year quite a number of Cen- 'tre countians now living in other places voluntarily contributed to the {membership roll, and to all those it ‘can be said, a renewal of their mem- ‘bership will mean a continued pledge ‘of faith in the home institution. One {dollar is a small amount to the av- {erage citizen but many of them help sential to providing a market for the |to ease the bed of pain of those in | i-health. | To those who have never contribut- 'ed to the membership roll this per- 'sonal appeal is made. Won't you do ‘your bit for suffering humanity? The hospital stands ready to serve you and no one knows how soon that need ‘may come. ——There may be uncertainty as to the form farm relief will take in Congress but whatever happens lots of people will be disappointed. ——Of course President Hoover will win the debenture fight in Con- { gress but he will lose the confidence of the corn belt farmers. ———The reform movement in Phil- 'adelphia seems to have collapsed "The trouble with it is that like beauty ‘it was “only skin deep.” ——If Vare selects the district at- ‘torney for Philadelphia Hoover's plea for law enforcement will not mean 'much in’ that eity. The Kiwanis luncheon held at the crease of 75 fields monthly. To meet | County Commissioners Visit Highway Officials. County Commissioners Howard M. Miles, Newton E. Wilson and John S. | Spearly attended a conference of county commissioners from other sec- tions of the State with State highway officials in Harrisburg, on Tuesday. The object was to arrive at a definite understanding regarding the new highway laws passed by the last Legislature. One of these laws provides for the J State taking over and maintaining all bridges on highway routes. This, in itself, will mean a big saving to Centre county taxpayers. During the ‘past three years Centre county has paid for repairs on bridges almost $19,000, or over $6,000 a year. Of lcourse all of this amount was not on bridges on State highway routes, | but a large per cent. of it was. At the present time the bridge at Port Ma- tilda is considerably run down and will soon need some costly repairs. While the State Highway has until July 1st, 1930, to take over all the bridges in the State the burden of their upkeep is upon the department as soon as the bill becomes effective. One of the new highway bills pro- vides for the expenditure of $23,000,- 000 in the construction of secondary highways, the fund to be divided among the various counties of the State according to the total miles of such roadways. Just what portion of this sum will be allottelto Centre will be between $200,000 and $300,000. This will be sufficient to do consider- able work on what has been classed as secondary highways in this coun- ty. ————— egal Sl Odd Fellows Field Day at Hunting- don Tomorrow. The annual field day of the Alle- gheny region. Odd Fellows auniver- sary association will be held at Hunt- ington tomorrow (Saturday). The as- sociation is composed of all subordin- ate ‘lodges, encampments, patriarchs militant and Rebekahs in the central and western part of the State. At former meetings of this nature from eight to ten thousand people were in attendance. Huntingdon has made elaborate preparation for the proper entertainment of this host of visitors. Fully a dozen committees, aided by the wide-awake Chamber of Commerce, have arranged for five bands for the day, to providz free parking space and proper refresh- ment accommodations, and special features almost every hour of the day. In connection with this gathering the Odd Fellows of Huntingdon will dedicate their new hall. The street parade is announced for one thirty o'clock and will be followed by the public inspection of the uniformed companies of Odd Fellows who will be present from several parts of the State. Highly trained degree teams from Milroy, Lewistown and Clear- field will exemplify degres work in the American Legion home and the Grand theatre. The men’s glee club, of Juniata college, will give a ful hour’s concert in the First Methodist church, free to the public. All de gree work, band concerts, the glee club, and the grand ball, are announc: ed to begin after the evening meal Huntingdon being easy of access, both by auto and train, Odd Fellows and their friends all over tne district should attend this great field day Rev. Omer B. Poulson, general chair- man, announces that the Pennsylvan- ia. Railroad offers special rates of one and one-half fare for the round trip. Big Picnic Scheduled for Hecla Park. May 2nd with representatives from the New York Central athletic as- sociation of Jersey Shore and the Beech Creek veteran's association of joint picnic of New York Central employees, sponsored by the New York Central athletic association of Jersey Shore and the Beech Creek veteran's association at Clearfield, will be held at Hecla Park, June 15th. Committees were named and action will start at once. Everything pos- sible will be done to provide a big day of entertainment and amuse- ments, including baseball game and other athletic events, boating, swim- ming and other amusements. Mr. E. D. Donovan, of Jersey Shore, was made general chairman. An automobile of a popular make will be given away on that date. Sn — As ——The Pennsylvania Republicans in. Congress are to caucus to deter- mine whether or not they shall sup- port the administration. It is a safe guess that so long as’ the patronage mill 'is operating they will support. county is not definitely known, but it | 1929 | Clearfield and decided that the 1929 Pe wil: on few ‘days Of a | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Charles’ W. Sheats, aged 62 years, of ! Lock Haven, was injured fatally when struck by a passenger train on the Penn- i sylvania railroad on Sunday afternoon and died ten minutes after reaching the hospital. He was deaf and failed to hear ithe train approaching. i —Helen C. Millheim, 14-year-old Mon- | tandon school girl, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart C. Millheim, has been miss- 'ing a week. She is five feet, three inches i tall, has light brown hair ‘and blue eyes and a scar on the right side of the neck, due to suffering from a boil recently. | —Married women will not be employed as public school teachers in Upper Augusta township, Northumberland county, ac- cording to a ruling of the board. The board believes that ‘‘woman’s place is in the home.” The township includes within its confines the fashionable Island Park territory and employs many teachers. ! —Miss Anna Fox, who retires at the end | of the present school year after 44 years of service as a teacher at Bloomsburg, has the remarkable record of being tardy only once in that long period. On that occasion, she waited for a trolley when there was a deep snow which had stopped service, and as a consequence was three i . or four minutes late. —Elizabethtown lost its ‘‘biggest’”” Ma- son when T. G. Horne, 63, died there last week. Horne, who weighed 430 pounds, was said to have been the largest person ever admitted to the Masonic home. He had been a patient in the hospital there for three years. A thirty-second degree Mason, he for many years had been an ‘engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio rail- road. —Fred Jackson, Renovo, father of ten children, and his oldest son, George, 19, ‘unable to pay fines and costs of $630 each ‘on charges of illegal fishing, have already ‘started serving their time at the rate of $1 a day. At this rate they will serve 630 days, a little short of two years, for catching a string of fish. The men were fined by a justice of the peace and Judge Baird refused an appeal. —A stay of sentence was granted Guy W. Brown, sentenced to three years im- prisonment in Atlanta penitentiary by Federal court at Pittsburgh, on Tuesday, and he is free on $10,000 bonds pending ‘outcome of an appeal. Brown was convict: ed February 16 on 26 counts involving missapplication of $132,000 from the funds of the Fayette City National bank of which he was vice president. | —Miss Mary Hayes, 21, a clerk in the office of the city treasurer, at Bethlehem, !was arrested on Tuesday, charged with embezzling $2,100 from the city treasury. The charges were made by Robert K. Rit- ter, who recently succeeded Robert Hinkle as the city treasurer. She was accused ‘of false entry in the books and of con- version of funds. Miss Hayes waived a hearing and entered bail for $3,000. —World’s champion leg-breaker is the I title claimed by John Martenky, 18, of Creighton, whose latest fracture, received in a baseball game on Monday brings his total to twenty-four. Martenky suf- ‘fered his first fracture when a year old, his mother said, and since. then his right leg has been broken twenty-one times. ‘and his left three times. He suffered a broken arm at the age of three, his moth- er said. —Although it was generally believed that he depended upon odd jobs for a liv- ing, Michael Breagan, 70, had nearly $ii,- 1000 in his clothing when he was found dead in an Athens hotel, according to coroner R. H. Person. A large part of his wealth was in cash. The remainder was in Liberty bonds and checks. Coming from the West, Breagan lived in Athens for years in the cheapest hotel room. No one knew the intimate details of his life. —An 18-year old girl spent Sunday in jail at Bedford, charged by federal officers with passing counterfeit $20 gold certifi- cates while dressed in male attire. The girl, Laura - Deane, alias “Johnny’" of Schellburg, was taken to Pittsburgh for hearing. The girl was arrested at Bed- ford Saturday with Clyde Claar, 31, and Roy E. Davenport, 45, both of Allen Bank. Secret service operatives said the two had passed spurious bills in Mt. Pleasant, Windber, Somerset, Central City, Export and other places. i —Hamilton Klingensmith, of Manor- ville, was the victim of a peculiar accident Saturady morning and the full nature of his injuries are not as yet known. He is employed at the George pottery, near Kittanning, and was ovt along the Penn- sylvania railroad tracks near the plant when a southbound train passed at a high rate of speed. As the train passed a sheet of steel used between the engine and ten- der fell from the locomotive and struck Mr. Klingensmith on the legs. He has . one wooden leg and that was badly ®rush- ed and undoubtedly broke the force of the blow on the other leg. This however was badly gashed by the sharp edge of steel. , —Rita Doran, the pretty Iowa farm girl sentenced to serve from eight to sixteen | years in prison, at Lancaster, Pa., for her part in the kidnaping of a state highway patrolmen, has been transferred from jail i there to the Muncy Industrial prison for | women. A meeting was held at Clearfield |i; nfer of the girl, who at the time of her Great secrecy surrounded the conviction threatened to ‘‘get some one.” It is believed authorities also feared an ‘attempted jail delivery and three auto- ‘mobiles loaded with armed guards, accom- panied the girl to the Muncy prison. The statement by members of the last grand jury who declared that Miss Doran’s cell was fitted as luxuriously ‘as a parlor.” It was said the girl had beautiful cush- ions, cut flowers and other luxuries in her cell. ? Students of the State Forestry School at Mont Alto will be granted the same standing in State College, which takes ov- er the school at the end of this term, as they would have earned by a like period in college. The transfer of the school was made because the State could no longer take care of more than three or four of the twelve graduated there each year, and for the reason that the work of the school and the college were in a measure dupli- cated at needless expense. The school at Mont Alto will not be scrapped. It is likely that it will be used by the Depart. ment of Forests and Waters. for research work and by State College for such prac- tical work as it may desire to give its students during the school year. But there will be no, more regular classes there after graduation in June.