Demonic fal om comms INK SLINGS. — Everybody except the contes- ant has grown tired of airship con- ests of various kinds. —YLet ‘us hope: that : all . the ain we ought to have had during the ast six weeks is not being saved up o douse the Grangers with when they ‘0 into their encampment at Centre [all next week. —The new moon is lying further 1 the southern heavens than we ave seen it for many years. If hat means continued warm weather, rell and good. If it means continua- ion of the drought—not so good. —We’re only interested in the fight Iayor Mackey and his gang are waking on the Vare organization in ‘hiladelphia because we think the layor ought to be given a chance to how wherein his political wares dif- sr from those of the boss who made im. —The latest announcement from 1e Hague is to the effect that ‘The owers’” are to quit the Rhine by hristmas time. What Christmas me, the dispatches fail to designate. robably its the Christmas time that enry Ford's peace ship was going ) get the boys out of the trenches I. —_Wiliam Feather says ‘the hard- it thing in the world is to find a ten ousand dollar job for a forty-five mdred dollar man,” William's philos- >hy is usually very straight but ys away off this time. Lots of iirty cents an hour men can get n thousand dollar jobs as long as eir dads have enough money to fi- wnce the corporation that gives them them. —When councilman Cunningham :ard of the earthquake the first ing he thought of was the Big ring and away to the source of the wn’s water supply he flew. His ncern was fear lest while Earth as reshuffling her limestone ribs ie of them might have cracked and ade an opening large enough to 1d our water in another direction. ad just that could happen, but it in't . —Reports from the President's sek-end fishing camp in the moun- ins of Virginia are to the effect at he rolls fifty-pound rocks around handily as the average idler othecates nostril pills. Making ms for the trout is very commen- ble occupation for the President on turday, but he’d better get busy Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, ursdays and Fridays making rain * the potatoes and corn or he won't ve anything to fill his dams ex- >t the damns of the gillies who fen. Blesbert Hoover, or any sM¥eW’ (> to the seismographs 3 the scientists Centre county was » center of an earthquake on Mon- y morning. Hurrah for Centre inty ! Since 1800 she’s been the iter of most everything, but we've :n terribly handicapped because in those years we have never had an ‘thquake to brag about. Earth- ikes are not like Governors and trout. We make the latter, but 've nothing to do with the intes- al indigestion that old Mother rth gets every once in a while; ising the gases that start the in- nal rumblings. If we had we uld have had an earthquake to nt with pride to years ago. It is ather embarrassing situation, too. ile the whole scientific world was nting to Bellefonte as the home of latest terrestrial upheaval our ited Order of Town Boosters were zing sheepish because they had sed a trick. Only one man in community admits that he felt a nor. With all due respect to his spicacity and veracity we believe t he would never have thought t he felt a tremor had there n no announcement in the evening ers, of Monday, of the fact that re had been an earthquake. We ve at this conclusion because of gentleman’s reaction to the seis- disturbance. As we have said, . community had never had an :hquake before and it seems to us : when a man’s bed would get to aging and the pictures on the 1 doing the “Varsity drag” he ld come to one of two conclu- s: Either, that was awful ‘“moon- ie” I drank last night or some- g is happening that never hap- 2d before and I'd better start ying. We know that he didn’t k “moonshine” the night before. didn’t say anything about praying n he told us of his experience ng such an unnerving sensation ne’s first earthquake, so we be- > that he really didn’t know any- e about the cataclysm than any he rest of us did. However, we all imagine we felt it and if we ist in imagining hard enough it 't be long until we're all postive we did feel it and: Then ! Gosh, vill have added another to Centre ity’s many claims to a large tch on the map. nd, talking about being on the , nobody in this or any other munity ever doubted that Centre ity and Bellefonte were there the bellls on until about ten s ago. Then everyone who built a > or less ornate gas station or dog stand claimed a niche in the of local immortals because he he was only building it to put 'fonte on the map. AR NSE STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 74. BELLEFONTE, PA.. AUGUST 16. 1929. NO. 32. Mrs. Willebrandt Reveals the Facts. The purpose which influenced Mrs. Willebrandt to expose the responsibil- ty for injecting religious intolerance into the campaign of last year is a matter of conjecture. By many thoughtful persons it is believed that she would like to “alter the public's conception of herself.” She is no longer on the payroll of the govern- ment and must look to popular favor for maintenance. Her speeches dur- ing the campaign plainly inviting the union of church and state, provoked widespread opposition and indigna- tion and possibly she now believes that it militates against her success in her professional aspirations. Oth- ers imagine that she is resentful at the manner in which she was separat- ed from office. created a good deal of excitement and some apprehension among the politicians who profited by her speeches. At the time of their de- livery Mr. Hoover repeatedly declar- Work, National committee, openly professed abhorrence of such campaign policy. they inspired the policy of inflaming religious prejudices to influence par- tisan results and subsequently con- cealed themselves behind Mrs. Wille- brandt’s skirts. Mrs. Willebrandt’s statement that a large sum of money accumulated through collusion between the Penn- sylvania Republican machine and the criminals engaged in violation of the prohibition law was discovered after the death of a political leader is com- paratively unimportant. The fact that a Republican Congressman and a number of prosecuting officials have been in league with the boot- leggers is insignificant. But the fact fully established by Mrs. Wille- brandt’s “confession” that the Presi- dent of the United States and the of- ficial head of the Republican party, Hubert, Work, chairman of the Na- tional committee, not only tolerated but encouraged the bigotry of the last campaign, is a matter of grave concern. ——It seems that the Federal Re- serve Bank can start a panic in Wall Street whenever it wants to. This is a giant power which should be used with great discretion. Vare’s Vanishing Ambition. The Republican leaders in Wash- ington have become weary in bolster- ing up the absurb claim that Wil- liam S. Vare was honestly elected Senator in Congress by the people of Pennsylvania. No longer able to impose upon popular credulity, on the pretense of physical infirmity, and realizing that the Senate is morally bound to dispose of the case against him, he recently asked Senator Reed of Pittsburgh, and Senator Watson, of Indiana, to join him in conference to devise means for his defense. Senator Watson is the floor leader of his party in the Senate and Sena- tor Reed is representative of the party for Pennsylvania and has stood the brunt of the battle for Vare thus far. Both of these influential Republi- cans declined the invitation to “talk things over.” They have taken the measure of public sentiment in Penn- sylvania and arrived at the opinion that there is nothing to talk about that can possibly justify further contention that Vare is entitled to the seat he purchased. It also ap- pears that the President acknowl- edges no obligation to Mr. Vare that would require his intervention in the Senatorial contest. His trick on Mellon was an important gesture. It didn’t contribute an atom to the Hoover strength in the Kansas City convention. It only added to Vare’s self-conceit and arrogance and laid lines of enmity in the mind of Andy Mellon. : With these developments in Wash- ington and a formidable revolt or- ganized against his machine in Philadelphia the immediate future of the whilom boss is not promising. It is expected that soon after the as- sembling of the Senate, next week, a ' motion to accept the report of the | Slush Fund committee will be made and carried by a substanital major- ity. That report declared that Vare was not legally elected and is not entitled to a seat in the Senate. It is a sad story but a just ending of a preposterous ambition. It may also serve as an admonition to others who have no qualification for im- portant public office, other than great wealth, and there are many | men of that type. In any event her exposure has | Bishop Cannon Justly Defeated. There is something more than po- litical significance in the over- whelming defeat of Bishop Cannon’s bunch of mercenaries in the Virginia primary election last week. It im- plies a sharp and richly deserved re- buke to an arrant religio-political bigot who had endeavored to batray the people who had honored him be- yond his merits into the hands of their political enemies for his own profit and aggrandizement. In the recent campaign he became the mouth-piece of an intolerant group which injected bigotry into the reck- oning and deceived them by wilfull and malicious falsehoods. Since then he has been striving to perpetuate his leadership of a faction by equally unethical methods. Recently Bishop Cannon formed a ‘sort of ‘“‘plunderbund” with Bascom | | But Mrs. Willebrandt now plainly the asserts that they were responsible | administration at Washington con- for her actions and utterances and tributed both moral and material not only edited but cordially approv- | support to this unholy alliance and ed her manuscripts. In other words an unusually active campaign ensued. Slemp, an office broker by profes- sion and a Republican leader, in de- fiance of every principle of decency. Cannon engaged to secure the nomi- ed he had no sympathy with that nation of a recreant as the Demo- method of campaigning and Hubert cratic candidate for Governor and chairman of the Republican Slemp is said to have promised that the Republican party would endorse and support him at election in November. The The primary was held last week and the plunderbund aggregation was Jz- feated so badly that it has already practically disintegrated. It is said that Cannon has left the State. But no matter where he finds a habitation he will be shunned by all men and women who have respect for good citizenship. During the World war the government found it necessary to prohibit large accumu- lations of food stuffs by individuals. Ignoring this humane order Bishop Cannon purchased and stored several hundred barrels of flour and ap- propriated the profits of his nefari- ous enterprise to his own use. Preaching against gambling in stocks he secretly gambled in shops,” and when his operations were discovered by an insolvency he tried to justify himself By declaring that gambling in stocks is no greater evil than buying and selling real es- tate for profit. Out upon such hypoc- risy. —Professor Gregory, famous Lon- don economist, says the Smoot tariff bill wili “put a nail in the coffin of European reconstruction.” In accom- | plishing that it will put a knife in the heart of American prosperity. Tariff Bill to be Delayed. It seems that the Republican ma- jority in the Senate will not be ready to begin consideration of the tariff bill when that body reassem- bles next Monday. The farmers of the country are not willing to accept a tax on sweet milk and a levy on peanuts as fulfillment of the promise to put agriculture on a parity with manufactures in dispensing the ben- efits of tariff legislation, and chair- man Smoot, of the Senate Committee on Finance, wants more time to hypnotize them. Accordingly it has been arranged to dilly-dally for sev-'! eral weeks. This can be done by in- terspersing two or three day reces- ses between sessions. The Republican members of the Finance committee of the Senate have been considering the measure in secret sessions since the adjourn- ment of Congress on the 4th of March, under the supervision of Joe Grundy and a few other tariff-mon- gers. A majority of even the Repub- lican Senators favor such legislation as will guarantee moderate rate in- creases. But the big contributors to the campaign fund of last year de- mand speedy reimbursement, and prohibitive tariff taxation is the only way of accomplishing that result. The bill, as framed, is certain to be defeated, and its sponsors are spar- ring for time to reconcile the tariff- mongers to their disappointment. There is no need for increasing the tariff tax rates at this time, and there is no justification for organiz- ing a trade-war with all the com- mercial nations of the world at any time. The administration and the Republican leaders of the country profess to want universal peace and they are pursuing a course which will make world-wide war practic- ally inevitable. Nothing so directly leads to war as unfair treatment in commerce, and a tariff system which excludes the products of other in- dustrial and commercial nations from fair competition in markets is certain to provoke enmities that will lead to war. ——The “sliding scale” on sugar may serve as a toboggan for the tariff bill for this season, at least. i Vare Machine Tottering. In utter contempt of Mayor Mack- ey's protest Boss Vare has named the candidates of the Republican party in Philadelphia for all the “row offices.” He has placed upon the slate Mr. Hadley, for controller, but not because of the Mayor's pref- erence for that gentleman. He ac- cepted Hadley because he knew that failure to do so would wreck his ma- chine and Mackey favored him for the same reason. There is nothing in common between these political pi- rates and a man of Hadley’s type ex- cept detestation on one side and fear on the other. Hadley openly flouted Vare and has frequently snubbed Mackey. But the decent voters of all parties admire him and they are afraid to fight him. The purpose of Mayor Mackey's recent expression of independence was to force Vare to put one of Mackey’s cronies on the ticket for an important and lucrative office. If Vare had been in the least afraid of the Mayor’s veiled threats of re- volt, he would have yielded to that demand, for like most political boss- es he is a moral coward. But he knew there is nothing to fear from that source. Since Vare elevated him to the office of Mayor of Phila- delphia Mackey imagines that he is a leader. The people have his meas- ure, however, and he fools nobody, least of all Vare. He is simply a ser- vile follower of the machine masters ready to promise anything and per- form nothing. The people of Philadelphia have a great opportunity at this time to perform a good service for the city. The Vare machine is on the verge of disintegration and a good, hard shove would demolish it. There are plenty of honest and fair-minded vot- ers in the city to accomplish this re- sult if they go about it in the right way. But following the leadership of disappointed political hacks is not the rgiht way. The Census Iaquisition. From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Personal questions of the type that end friendships when asked in ordi- nary life will feature the 1930 census, although the advisory committee of experts now at work in Washington devising the queries have done no little eliminating of proposals and even of queries propounded in other decennials. The information wanted is pertinent and the compilations when made will be decidedly useful. The facts are those which people wish to know about others, even if they are backward about declaring themselves. The coming census will tell “Who's Who” and “What's What” as well. A main endeavor may be to clas- sify families according to incomes, but this will not reach the embarras- sing stage. The bracket system will be used, in the present form of the proposal. It is suggested that per- sons be grouped as to incomes over $2,500: between $2,000 and $2,500; between $1,500 and $2,000, grading down to the group below $500. An- other proposed question deals with the rent paid. An old question elimi- nated will be that of mother tongue in the case of foreign born. Another elimination is the year of naturaliza- tion, although each foreign-born will still declare whether he is natural- ized, has taken out first papers or is still an alien. A literacy question of some type will be retained; it may - merely indicate ability to read and write. The committee showed that extra- .jiam Blythe knocked ordinary effort will be made to ob- tain accurate information. A corre- spondence school for supervisors and enumerators will make certain that those entrusted with the counting will be versed in the work. A close | economic view of the country is the object and the study being made by the experts insures that this will be the result. To count and classify a ‘hundred and twenty millions requires 'a degree of system seldom attained Mackey is no better | in human affairs. This can be reach- 'SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Trapping instructors of the State Game Commission, during the last month, have removed beaver from Centre, Pot- ter, Union, Clearfield, Columbia and Snyder counties to localities where the busy little animals will ge. —Since August 1, fifteen carloads of apples have been shipped by the Frank- lin county orchardists, most of them go- ing to Nashville, Pittsburgh and Indian- apolis, while others were sent to various vicinities. According to the growers the crop is of better quality and larger than that of last year. —Found on a pile of pig iron at the Berks Foundry and Machine: company plant, at Watsontown, on Friday, George C. Gold, 52, of McEwensville, is believed to have been electrocuted. He clutched a piece of wire in his right hand and there was a burn over the heart. The wire led to a motor-operated trailer. —The machinery of the North Bend plant of the American Refractories com- pany is being moved to the Lock Haven plant where it will be installed to meet’ the needs of the company. The North Bend plant has not been in operation since August 1, and the brick on hand when it was closed are being transported to the Lock Haven plant. —Enraged at the high cost of operating his automobile, Hiram Mervine, 62, of Ashland, Pa., used a saw to cut through four tires on the machine in his garage. He then took a sledge hammer, smashed the radiator and dented the body. Fin- ally he took a rope and hanged himself from a rafter of the garage. When his wife went to call him for supper she found him dead, hanging beside the smashed ma- chine. —The Renovo-Snow Shoe road by way of Hall's Run is now being used by mo- torists. The road has been well graded and is wide enough for comfortable trav- el. Work on this route, which passes through the Sproul Forest district, was begun in August of last year, when $25,- 000 was allotted for the project. The road is a short cut from Renovo to Snow Shoe, Bellefonte and Clearfield and will prove a great convenience to many motorists. —Refused a purchase of a revolver, with which he intended to take his life, Otto Phillips, of Punxsutawney, entered a store at Homer City, bought a box of ,lye, mixed it with a bottle of pop and raised it to his mouth when Burgess Wil- the mixture from his hands. He is then said to have gone ‘to another store and proceeded to mix a similar cocktail when constable A. I. Campbell arrived on the scene and stop- ' ped the second attempt. not cause dam- © i _After reading a fiction story about a boy who killed himself by hanging in the bathroom of his home, Patsy Marletto, 14, of Sharon, tried it himself last Friday, with fatal result. The lad’s mother said he told her two days ago about the boy in the story, and added that he had a no- tion to try it. The parent told him not ed only by long and careful planning. i, ‘try anything like that,” and dismissed Small or Large Farms. than Vare and the defeat of Vare to ¥rom the Pittsburgh Press. Select leaders who have character ,and wourage and vote for candidates who will serve the city rather than the machine. That will turn the trick. di ee ms rion ———Congress will be asked to pass ships as a precaution against for- est fires. Limelight. up towards the head of the class in this respect. There is always some- thing happening here to keep the “Home of Governors” in the limelight quake, which experts of the United States government maintained ‘cen- tered near Bellefonte” at an early hour on Monday morning. The quake, according to news dis- patches, was perceptibly noticeable by residents in towns through the northern section of Pennsylvania and southern New York. In fact people living in Punxsutawney and at Clearfield aver that they felt the tremor of old Mother Earth. The disturbance took place at 6:30 o'clock in the morning, and though the writer of this article was up and around he failed to notice anything unusual. But James H. Potter, of the Potter-Hoy Hardware company, avers that he felt a ® very distinct { tremor of his bed at the time of the reported quake. : The operator on duty at the -wire- less station at the Bellefonte avia- tion field said that he didn’t notice anything unusual on Monday morn- ing, but stated that he heard a low, rumbling sound at noon which he had not been able to account for. So there’s the situation in a nut- shell. Experts say we had an earth- quake and whether we knew it or not makes little difference. ——Philadelphia is searching for a “new spending plan.” If the vot- ers would “turn the rascais out,” they would discover an efficient new efficient saving plan. ——Our esteemed friends, the Athletics, are still in good position but the activities of the Yankees are warning to “mind your step.” — Those capable and obliging ! newspaper correspondents who write | Bill Vare’s public statements are overworking the piety racket. ei det remem '——1It seems that Uncle Sam is the leading junkman of the country. Last year the army junk brought | upward of $34,000,000. _enthrone Mackey will be “jumping | “bucket ' i a law forbiddding airmen from drop-' 4 ing lighted cigarettes from their tg individual farms. i 1 the incident. Friday, the father, Michael ! Marletto, found his som’s body hanging ‘by a towel in the bathroom. : Charles C. Hartman, 56, who said he Six million small manufacturing was a Greensburg (Pa.) minister, and a out of the frying pan into the fire.” | plants competing against each other woman identified as Ethel Chapman, 42, would probably solve some of their of Pittsburgh, were arrested on Tuesday problems. by merging. “ The six million farms of the coun- try cannot do that, says Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, in a speech be- fore the American Institute of Co- operation. “The one-family farm is a valuable social unit. Its independence must be maintained,” says Hyde. This is true, Bellefonte Reported in Earthquake of course. But here is something else in- | teresting. Purely from a financial The old saw that “you can’t keep ' viewpoint alone, the U. 8S. Chamber a good man down,” evidently applies of Commerce has been making a sur- to towns as well, and Bellefonte is Vey to see if large-scale farming is more successful than small-scale. The large-scale farm can make its labor specialize more, can buy and sell in larger quantities to financial advantage, and if the weather would and this week it was an earth-! just cooperate, it could make more efficient use of machinery. But the large-scale farm cannot | meet the small-scale farm in what may be called the human elements. Its labor has no personal interests. There is no heart in the work. When everything is weighed and analyzed, it is found that the small- scale farm makes just as much money as the large-scale, proportion- ately. Hence there would seem to be no edequate reason for looking forward to a time when we would do our farming wholesale. Farming calls for different organ- ization methods than does industry. The only type of merging being ad- vanced by the leaders today narrows have down to membership in co-operatives. for fifty - Refuge in the Air. From the Philadelphia Record. When Red Jackson and Forrest 'Brine passed all former records for keeping a plane aloft through aerial refuelling and started blithely add- ing hours, literally by the dozen, to the old figures, the thrill of mark- smashing lost its edge, and as the marvel grew, for the professionals, it was replaced in our minds with a much simpler reaction. It was cool up there. Domestic troubles could not reach them. Bill collectors had to cross them off the list. Business worries ceased to be. All those boys had to do was to sail along through the air, keeping fel- lowship with the clouds, while mun- dane toilers, far below, continued to be chained to the wheel of life’s dull routine. The flight has of course its scien- tific and technical value. It contrib- utes to the progress of man’s con- quest of the air. But how it does ap- peal to the imagination of those pa- gan creatures who yearn for abso- lute freedom ! Among the possibilities of avia. tion’s development, count high the refuge it may offer to the world- weary who want for a while “to get away from it all” and live in peace. One reason why they cannot is be- weeks, use the country wishes to preserve a ten weeks old cihld with them when ar- lat a tourist camp near Erie. Hartman was held in connection with charges that he jssued a bad check. Federal authorities were investigating re- ports that the couple had traveled to- gether in Ohio and Pennsylvania for six according to the police. They had ‘ rested. —Cow herds in Clearfield county, have been attacked by a malady which has resulted in the deaths of a number of . valuable animals during the past week, ' and steps are being taken to prevent a | well general spread of the disease. Eleven of the blooded Holsteins in the herd of W. F. Moore, of Luthersburg, have already died from the malady, which has been identified by state experts as haemorrha- gic septicaemia, the same disease that played havoc among the deer herds of that region a year ago. State authorities will endeavor to stop the progress of the insidious disease through the use of a vaccine serum. —When an oil derrick on the Pennsyl- vania Gas company lease about four miles from Kane caught fire, two leasemen nar- rowly escaped cremation. The men are Andrew Wilkinson, driller, and Ralph Jones, tooldresser. The drill had reached the depth of 1100 feet when it hit sand. The men shot 60 quarts of nitro-glycerine into the well, but it had no effect in showing either gas or oil. They were just about to pull the tools away when oil and gas shot up in the air and shot up in flames. The wooden parts about the were completely destroyed, but the | workmen were able to save most of the | —Five | reunion and picnic , yesterday, | | | —Read the Watchman for tlie news tools about the fire zone. thousand persons in Montgomery county comprising the fifth annual at Nor- mandy farm, the estate of Ralph Beaver Strassburger, in the Gwynedd valley. This is the only organization of its kind in Pennsylvania and the one qualification to membership is the half century of res- idence in that county Mr. Strassburger, as host, provided an elaborate program of entertainment, including musical and vaudeville features and luncheon. The business session, at which officers were elected for the year, and the concerts, were held under an immense circus tent. Thomas V. Smith, of Norristown, presi- dent of the club, died during the year. The members range in age from 50 to 103 years. —Worms in the apples or, bugs in the lettuce had never occasioned any great alarm for Charley Gutilla, fruit dealer, in Pittsburgh, but when a baby boa con- strictor shyly poked its head from a bunch of bananas, he became very indignant and left his store immediately to complain to the police, the board of health or who- ever it is that takes care of such matters. Several customers accompanied him. In the street they met : Dr. A. H. Jahn, a student of snakes, who had long bemoan- ed the fact that he had no little boa con- strictor in his home. The doctor hastily accompanied the men to the store, enticed the little rascal into a cake box, and went happily home with his new found pet. The snake was four feet long and four inches in circumference. If allowed to reach ma- turity it will grow about a foot a year resided years or more, C Fifty Year Club, held their j until, it. weaches .a. length of 18 feet.
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