INK SLINGS.
—The higher-ups in the ship-build-
ing concerns are making their man
Shearer the “goat.” He should wor-
ry. We'd play most anybody's “goat”
for the money he got.
—Judge Fleming is holding court
in Pittsburgh this week. Dan Grove
and Bill Zimmerman ought to be out
there, for then they could walkinin
their shirt sleeves without fear of a
tipstaff looking ' at them with that
sort of a “you git” look.
‘—_We have been urged to take a
crack at the Court for allowing his
tipstaves eight days for a five day
court week. We're fair. We have
never wilfully made an unfair attack
on anyone and as there were three
night sessions of court during the
week we think the Court was justi-
fied in making the order he did.
— Having plead guilty to highway
robbery, bank robbery, larceny of an
automobile and several other offenses
Mr. H. M. Kline and Raymond A.
Shope have saved Clinton county a
lot of court costs and insured them-
selves a meal ticket for about as
many years, We imagine, as the law
allowed Judge Baird to give them.
—Shope and Kline must have
zained a very high appreciation of
the work of the state police as they
sat up in the woods near the Furl
olace and watched the force running
wround in circles. Our uncommon
sounty detective was on the job, too,
jut maybe he was only there as a
spectator. You know he’s “no common
yoliceman.”
—Evidently Mr. Eugene Tunney
1as grown peeved at the lack of at-
-ention the press has been paying to
1im. He has sued Mr. Fogarty, hus-
>and of the lady who says Gene
yromised to marry her, for one hun-
ired grand, but the news only made
he inside pages of the metropolitan
»apers. Tunney was a front page
'eature for sometime but he boored
iimself off of them.
—1It appears from the record that
senator Howell, of Nebraska, has the
>resident backed
"farmers, tariff mongers, ship-build-
rs and peace advocates might as
vell give up hope of getting relief
rom the government soon. Senator
Jowell has given the President oth-
r fish to fry and Herbert's got to
mow a lot about handling hot pans
r he is going to get his fingers burn.
d.
—It was hard luck for Carson who
aign, Ill, on Wednseday. He escap-
d from Rockview in 1923 and had
een free ever since. Hard luck for
‘arson but what a victory for the
ww? It is such evidences of persis-
ant determination on the part of law
nforcement officers that will finally
onvince society that some how, some
ime, the day of settlement will come.
‘here should be no escaping that.
-—Gosh, in a few years there’ll be
othing at all for men to brag about.
:altimore physicians have compiled
tatistics that prove that drinking
mong women has increased twenty
er cent. within the last ten years;
‘hereas the best men can show is
yme ten or twelve per cent. less. If
1is keeps up it won't be long until
-e males of the genus homo won't
gure any more in what's going to
appen than a drone bee does when
1e queen tells her affinities: He's no
ood. Kill him.
—There has been much ado over
1e wedding of John Coolidge and
lorence Trumbull. The fact that
> is a former President’s son and
1e the daughter of the Governor of
onnecticut possibly makes their
ings “big news.” But why should
? John and Florence probably ab-
or their radiated notoriety, but they
in outstrip their illustrious fathers
, after six months, they can prove
» the world that they are actually
ving on nothing more than John
ill then be earning.
—We own to having quite a sur-
ise on Wednesday. The “watch-
)g” of the Watchman’'s treasury
:alled” wus for having devoted so
uch time and spent so mu®h money
getting a true story of the chase
‘the Beech Creek bank robbers.
'e were surprised at the idea that
ere is anyone sticking around the
op who imagines that the Watch-
an has anything approaching a
easury. Also at the inference that
»ssibly things don’t go as well here
hen we are out as they do when
are in.
—If you disagree with our belief
at the Watchman’s story of the
ndit chase is a pretty thorough
id accurate record of the facts, you
» and interview the principals in it
id see what kind of a story you
11 come back with. We spent the
eater part of three days talking to
ople who were there, or said they
re, and checking and rechecking
eir stories and we know how, un-
r the stress of excitement, no two
servers get the same impressions
m the same incident. Why, there
re nearly a dozen people swore to
that they had taken the money
! Delaney’s body. Three of them
+ found out later, hadn't even been
the scene of the tragedy.
into a corner.’
ot
VOL. 74. BELLEFONTE. PA.. SE
The “Rich Man’s Delight.”
There is no cause for surprise in
the announcement that the new is-
sue of $500,000,000 treasury certifi-
cates was vastly oversubscribed
within the period of three days. It
has been appropriately called the
“Rich Man’s Delight.” It exempts
holders from income tax, sur or com-
mon. It provides a source of invest-
ment the proceeds of which are “all”
velvet.” It was authorized by Con-
gress on the recommendation of Sec-
retary of the Treasury Andrew Mel-
lon, whose family and friends prob-
ably absorbed a large part of the is-
sue. The only source of surprise in
relation to it is that it is a short
term loan. With Congress and the
White House under control of Uncle
Andy it might have been made to
cover a long period.
When Secretary Mellon was urg-
ing a material decrease in the tax
rates on big incomes he descanted
freely upon the evil of driving rich
men into the bad habit of investing
their money in tax-free securities,
such as State and municipal bonds,
to the great detriment of industrial
and commercial prosperity. In fact
he discoursed on his theme so elo-
quently and forcefully that Senators
and Representatives in Congress
were persuaded to cut the tax on
big incomes to an extent that saved’
him upward of a million dollars a
year on his personal income. This
new tax-free offer of the government
will enable him to invest that consid-
erable saving without in the least’
measure impairing his capital. In
fact it is a real boon to the million-
aires. >
One of the well-established princi-
ples of fihance is that tax-free secur-
ities are inimical to business inter-
ests. Commenting upon this loan
the New :York Nation observes that
“even in the enormous stress of fi-
nancing the World war the govern-
ment was most reluctant to exempt
federal obligations from any but nor-
mal taxes, and as a matter of fact
only a small portion of some $25.-
ties issued in that period was so
favored.” But Wall Street had less
influence on operations of the Treas-
ury Department then than now, and
Mr. McAdoo was less concerned
about profitable investment for his
surplus funds than Uncle Andy. Pub-
lic rather than personal interests
controlled then.
my Ap ———
— It is encouraging to learn that
the ticket scalpers haven't got hold
of the world series pasteboards as
yet.
Shearer Chalked For the Goat.
The shipbuilders have abandoned
William B. Shearer to his fate. His
work in Washington and Geneva
seems to have disappointed them and
they are calling him hard names. Mr.
Grace, president of the Bethlehem
Steel ' company, has written to the
President repudiating him and Mr.
Schwab is free in denouncing him as
a fraud. But they admit that he
was on the pay-roll of their corpora-
tion and was sent to Geneva as a
sort of “watcher.” It remained for Mr.
Bardo, president of the New York
Shipbuilding corporation, however, to
fix him in his place. Testifying before
the Senate investigating committee
Mr. Bardo stigmatized him as a
skunk. Grace and Schwab were less
candid or more polite.
Maybe Mr. Shearer does emit an
unpleasant odor but he served the
purpose of the shipbuilders for a
time, and the purpose didn’t look
like a lilly or smell like a rose. He
was their representative in Washing-
ton while the Jones-White ship sub-
sidy bill was pending and he disburs-
ed $143,000 to promote the passage
of that measure. He was sent by
them to California to enlist William
Randolph Hearst in an ambitious
shipping enterprise and they employ-
ed him .in various other matters.
How he spent the vast sum in fur-
thering the ship subsidy bill has not
been revealed but it is certain that
his methods in that case met with
their approval for they continued to
pay him for some time afterward.
We have no desire to defend Wil-
liam B. Shearer and even less to ex-
cuse propaganda employed for selfish
or sordid purposes. But it is impos-
sible to condemn one form of an evil
and silently acquiesce in another, in-
finitely more mischievous. The Pow-
er trust lobby has been more insid-
ious and damaging than anything
Mr. Shearer has done or tried to ‘do,
and President Hoover has not spok-
en a word or sounded an alarm
against it. In the matter in mind the
ship builders are more culpable than
their agent, but it is a safe predic-
tion that he will be condemned while
they will escape even a censure. The
failure to find out who got the ship
subsidy boodle is evidence of that.
The result of the primary election
in Philadelphia confirms the impres-
sion that that city is “corrupt and
contented.” The result in Pittsburgh
justifies the belief that the Republi-
cans of that city prefer vice to virtue.
In Philadelphia a well-meaning group
manacled good intentions by blun-
dering management. In permitting
Mayor Mackey to appear in the role
of leadership it assumed a burden
that no organization has strength
enough to carry. The name of Vare
is anathema to thousands of good
citizens but that of Mackey is even
more abhorrent. Every plea he ut-
tered, every speech he made for the
League ticket, made scores of vojes
for the Vare political banditti.
With alignments thus formed there
was little difference except in the
character of the candidates. The
Vare ticket, hand-picked by the boss |
and Tom Cunningham was made up
of servile followers of the machine.
The League ticket was constructed
of better material. With a single
exception it was composed of men
widely known in business life for
civic virtues and unselfish effort in
public interests. In these circum-
stances they ought to have been pre-
ferred by an overwhelming majority.
But the activities of Mackey in their
behalf cast a doubt upon theinteg-
rity of their purposes and influenced
thousands to “rather bear the ills we
have than fly to others that we know
not of.” / :
But conditions were different in
Pittsburgh. There the voters had
full opportunity to choose between
| vice and virtue in public life and
they not only selected the evil but
adopted the greater. offender against
virtue. Mayor Kline has not only en-
couraged political corruption but is
charged with having defied the laws
and official decency in planning bal-
lot frauds. ‘One of his competi-
tors, Malone, is said to be little
better, but Judge Martin is
not only a fine lawyer but dan
excellent citizen who has long been
active in efforts for clean politics.
3
and just government. He defeated
the Mellon machine when he was
elected Judge and his election as
Mayor would have guaranteed honest
government.
——According to current gossip in
Harrisburg, the employees of the
State are secretly circulating propa-
ganda against the voting machines.
The Senatorial Trading Post.
The Hawley-Smoot tariff bill is
likely to debase the United States
Senate to the low level of a trading
post for commerce in legislation.
Already several blocs have been or-
ganized with a view of “log-rolling”
in the interest of one =roduct or an-
other. The latest development along
this line is the lumber bloc, the os-
tensible purpose of which is to ex-
act from the Republican machine a
tariff tax on logs and shingles. These
products of the forest are on the
free list in the administration
programme, though Senator Pitman, |
of Nevada, was promised a tax rate
in consideration of his vote against
the motion to limit increases to
agricultural products. He will prob-
ably figure in the organization.
The Senators thus far active in
the new movement are all Republi-
cans. At the organization meeting
McNary, Oregon; Jones, Washington;
Steiwer, Oregon; Oddie, Nevada;
Thomas, Idaho, and Johnson, Cali-
fornia, were present. They claim to
have sufficient strength to hold “the
balance of power” between the ad-
ministration followers on one side
and the Democrats on the other, and
thus be able to exact favors from
either or both elements in the con-
tention. In a game of grab, suchas
is contemplated, the only considera-
tion which enters into the matter is
“everybody for himself and the devil
take the hindmost.” The effect upon
the interests of the public is of no
consequence in commercial states-
manship.
Of all the tariff iniquities this is
easily the greatest. So far as public
interest is concerned the wisest thing
that could be done would be to en-
courage the importation of forest
products in all its various forms.
The time is coming, and it isnot far
distant, when the scarcity of Amer-
ican timber will become a national
evil. Already the scarcity, and in-
evitably the high price of lumber,
is retarding building operations of
the country and checking the pro-
gress of industrial life. To avert
this danger would be an infinitely
greater service to the country than
reimbursing slush fund contributors
with tariff favors.
——The Shearer , episode merely
shows what fools some big business
managers are.
"STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
_ | Corruption Wins in Two Cities. | Hoover Chargea with Delinquency. |
‘When Senator Howell, of Ne-
braska, declared the other day that
prohibition law . enforcement in
Washington is not quite up to the
highest standard of efficiency he pro-
voked the resentment or aroused the
conscience of the President. The
| Senator inferentially saddled the
blame for this
' President. That is, he declared that
‘ the President has power to hire and
fire: the enforcement agents and that
if he served notice that the delin-
| quents would be fired there would be
' no further deliquency. This occurred
on Saturday. On Sunday the President
issued a statement asking the Sen-
"ator to produce proof of laxity and
promising to make “Washington a
model for the country.”
When a conflagration is properly
started it moves rapidly. On Monday
Senator Cole Blease, of South Caro-
lina, in a speech discussing the How-
ell episode, stated that he “is reli-
ably informed that within two
squares of the peace monument. on
Pennsylvania avenue, four narcotic
. joints are being run and it is known
to the people who are supposed to
‘stop it.” The Narcotic law is a Fed-
eral statute and the obligation for
its enforcement is upon the same
, agencies as are required to enforce
‘the Volstead law. Therefore if the
President has been remiss in one he
“is equally culpable in the other. The
only important difference in the
matter is that Howell is a Republi-
‘can and Blease a “pseudo” Demo-
crat. . ;
It is possible, of course, that Presi-
dent Hoover has adopted the idea of
Clarence True Wilson, Bishop Can-
non and others more or less respon-
‘sible for his election, that there is
only one article in the constitution,
the Eighteenth, and a single act of
Congress, the Volstead law, that are
deserving of enforcement, and that
he will not think it worth while to
answer the indictment of Blease.
But the public mind will focus it
the Bhs that Mr. Hoover 1s so
absorbed in problems of engineering
that he is overlooking many impor-
| tant obligations of his office. His in-
experience in public life may account
for delinquencies but will hardly ex-
cuse them. ‘ :
—We opine that President Hoover
was only talking big when he ex-
pressed the determination to made
Washington the model American
city. It seems to us that he is in a
position to make it as dry as a piece
of Fourth of July punk if he wants
to. If he isn’t, the President of the
United States isn’t the potentate in
the District of Columbia we have al-
ways imagined him to be. *
-——According to figures compiled
by the United States Department of
Commerce, in Washington, Centre
county had 260 marriages and 21 di-
vorces in 1928, against 293 marriag;
and 24 divorces in 1927. :
——Harry Sinclair complains that
he has not been fairly treated by
Washington courts, and we agree
with him. He ought to have gotten
nine years instead of nine months in
jail.
——Maybe Wakeman, vice presi-
dent of the Bethlehem Steel com-
pany, will be the goat, but Shearer
will be tagged the “evil genius.”
——The proposed tariff on sugar
will cost the consumers $50,000,000
a year, but Senator Smoot needs
money for the Mormon church. .
——Senator Caraway is a maste
magnet but he can’t draw an opinion
of the pending tariff bill out of
President Hoover.
——Clarence True Wilson has’
and he is setting himself to a hard
job. < I wad] r
——————— A —————
——Lindy is earning his salary as
an air mail carrier and preserving his
reputation as a first class citizen.
tie popstar inein,
What Is Men’s Work.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
There is much discussion. about the
invasion of men’s field of work by
women. There are almost no exclu-
sively masculine occupations left.
Perhaps the shoe is about to be
put on the other foot. A news item
from: New York says a German
young man has been serving as a
maid in various New York homes for
the past four years. The young man
has now put -on his male attire and
returns to - Germany with money
ahead. ;
If women can take over-all of
men’s jobs, perhaps men can make
a successful invasion of the feminine
domain
EMBER 27. 1929.
condition on the
a different angle and come to
will market any surplus,
started a crusade against cigarettes.
NO. 38.
WHAT WE GIVE AWAY.
Lewis Ginsberg in the American Hebrew.
Love that is hoarded moulds at last
Until we know some day
The only thing we ever have
Is what we give away.
And kindness that is never used,
But hidden all alone,
Will slowly harden till it is
As hard as any stone.
It is he e things we always hold
we will lose some day;
The only things we ever keep
Are what we give away.
To Form a New Politieal
From the Rhiladelphia Inquirer.
Third party movements
Party.
in this
country have never met with any
considerable success; but, undeter-
red by past experience, a group of
enthusiasts have determined to or-
ganize a new national political party
in opposition to the two existing
major organizations. In its present
state it is called The League for In-
dependent Political Action. Profassor
John Dewey of Columbia Universily
is the chairman. He is to be assisted
by a committee of one hundred to
be selected from the various States
of the Union.
The purposes of the new party are
rather sweeping. In the initial an-
nouncement it is said that it stands
for “public ownership of public utili-
ties, unemployment and health in-
surance, old age pensions, relief for
the farmer on virtually a free-trade
basis, high progressive taxes on in-
comes, inheritances and the increase
in land values; the independence of
the Philippines, non-restriction of
negro and immigrant labor suffrage
and a sincere and determined effort
to eliminate the economic, psycholog-
ical and political causes of war.”
Some of these things will have tobe
elucidated before they can be fully
understood. The rest seem to be a
hodge-podge of the principles of the
Single Tax and Socialistic parties.
The seceretary of the new organi-
zation declares that the greatest
need of our Nation politically is crit-
ical opposition. One might think that
this was already furnished by the
Democratic party, but he does not
concede the facts. “The Democrats,”
he declares, “have not one funda-
mental issue that distinguishes them
from the Republicans. The only
hope of liberals in this country lies
in slowly building up a new party
which will compare with the British
Labor Party.” The idea is to con-
struct from the bottom. In pursu-
ance of this plan it is proposed to
“send a battery of nationaily known
speakers” to take part in municipal
campaigns.
All this is rather vague; so much
so that it will surely be a long while
before the new party can make any
impression upon the politics of the
Nation. Indeed, it is far more like-
ly to die in early infancy.
“The Farmer Shifts the Burden.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Observers state that the officials of
the Department of Agriculture in
Wi n are beginning to wear a
worried look.
There are evidences that what
they have feared is coming to pass.
Winter wheat acreage is to be in-
creased 1.2 per cent. over last year.
according to their own surveys.
This despite the warning broa
cast by the department that the
world wheat outlook for next year
does not promise a continuance of
high prices.
It may be that the short world
crop of the present year has en-
couraged the farmers to sow more
wheat, but the department is be-
ginning to wonder.
They fear that the wheat farmers
have come to the conclusion that
with the formation of the Farm
Board all of their troubles are over.
They fear that the impression has
gone abroad that the Farm Board
3, no matter
how large, at prices that. will repay
the individual agriculturists well for
their season’s work. :
The department's “intention to
plant” survey has been made annual-
ly for several years past. Whenever
such surveys showed that acreage
was increasing to such an extent
that a price collapse mig!
pected the department has broadcast
a warning. There is little evidence
that such
warnings have had much
effect. Every farmer, it would seem,
decides that the other fellow will cut
down his acreage and then goes
ahead as he planned.
How different would be the effect
of such a warning from the Depart-
ment of Agricuture if the McNary-
Haugen law were in effect.
Then the warning of too great
acreage would carry with it the
threat of an equally great equaliza-
tion tax on every bushel of wheat
The farmers would pay for their own
folly. ! :
—— Mayor Mackey announces that
he will support the Vare ticket and
it may be predicted that in the near
future he will be begging favors
from Vare.
——President Hoover understands
the art of “passing the buck,” but in
trying to make & police sleuth out of
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONR.
—Auto license tags in Pennsylvania next
|
| year will ‘be orange and blue numerals
- jand they will
be three inches shorter
| than the present tags. A report that the
colors would be red and grey is erroneous
State officials said. ~~
—Members of the State highway patrol
are continuing their inspection of garages
and repair shops which have asked to be
1 designated as official stations during the
, compulsory period of automobile inspec-
tion October 1 to November 15.
—Jealous of its competitor, a vicious
African monkey caused a riot among the
animals in the game exhibit building at
the opening of the seventh annual Doyles-
town fair, when it bit off three inches of
the tail of a mokey in an adjoining cage.
—High school girls of Carmichaels High
school, in Greene county, who have adopt-
ed the stockingless fad are indignant over
the action of the Cumberland township
school board, which has decreed that
girls who appeared with bare legs would
be barred from the school. :
—Married life was just one black ey:
after another, Mrs. Esther F. Palermo,
21, of Pittsburgh, told Judge Richard W.
Martin in common pleas court, last week,
in asking for a divorce. ‘When one
black eye he gave me would clear up, I
would get another,” she said.
—H. R. Smith, 50, former cashier of
the Citizens’ National bank, Slippery
Rock, has been held in default of $150,000
bail by a United States commissioner for
trial on charges of embezzling $3,060 from
the bank. Bank examiners said they ex-
pected a check would reveal Smith's de-
falcations as approximately $35,000.
—Adjutant General Beary announced on
Monday that examinations will be held
November 13 and 14 for guardsmen who
seek appointment to West Point. Gov-
ernor Fisher will select five guardsmen to
enter the military school in July, 1930.
Candidates between 19 and 22 years old
with one year’s service are eligible.
—Paul Olinick, 63, Forestville, Schuyl-
kill county, choked to death on Sunday
while eating a ham sandwich. The man
had stopped at a Minersville hotel on his
way home from church, and was eating
the sandwich when a piece became lodged
in his throat. A physician was summoned
but Olinick was dead when he arrived.
—A lead slug the size of a quarter was
removed from the esophagus of 3-year-old
Lois Horn, of Pottsville, with the aid of
a bronchoscope by Dr. R. D. Spencer. The
child swallowed the slug nine days ago
and her parents became alarmed when
she was unable to eat solid food. An
X-ray revealed the obstacle at the en-
trance to the stomach. :
—Suit for $75,000 damages against the
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad has
been instituted at Pittsburgh, by the
Waverly Oil Works company, charging
destruction by fire of refinery buildings
in Coraopolis last October as the result
of hot coals dropped from a locomotive.
Tank cars of the plaintiff also were dam-
aged, the action alleges.
—Helen, 4-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Clayton Bidlack, of Ghent, near
Towanda, fell into the farm well, which
is 26 feet deep and half full of water.
‘When she slipped in her playmates spread .
the alarm. : Her father ' found the child
clinging to a small ledge. Her 6-year- °
old brother was lowered into the well and
held her while both were pulled up in the
bucket.
—A hearing was held, last Friday, be-
fore Judge Watson R. Davison, in Frank-
lin county courts, to declare Samuel Rus-
sel Statler legally to be dead in order to
settle an estate. Statler, a graduate in
civil engineering at State College in 1911,
left his home at Marion, Franklin coun-
ty, two weeks after graduation to seek
out-door work in the west and has never
been heard of since.
—Citizens of Clearfield, where the busi-
ness slump and industrial depression, due
to conditions in the central Pennsylvania
bituminous coal field, has been felt more
keenly, are in high spirits over the pros-
pect of having a manufacturing plant of
considerable magnitude locate there.
Clearfield now has 25 or more small in-
dustrial plants, which proved the town’s
salvation since the slump in the
mining industry set in: i
Because Charles Lewis, Beaver Falls,
charged with taking two Pittsburgh girls
to Beaver Falls for improper purposes,
signalled to witnesses during his trial he
will have to serve out his sentence of four
years in the penitentiary. Judge W. A.
McConnell, in sentencing Lewis, said the
court had been inclined to parole Lewis
until he learned from a juror that Lewis
had been making signs to witnesses, ap-
parently in order to influence their testi-
mony.
—A note, pinned to the door of his
shack and reading, ‘Have killed myself,
you'll find me in bed,” led to the discov-
ery, last Thursday, of the body of Alonzo
Hinton, 35, in the building beside the
railroad tracks near Youngdale, Clinton
county. Death had been caused by a bul-
let and a rifle lay by the body on the bed.
He had lived alone. Hinton was believed
to have been brooding over domestic dif-
ficulties which resulted in his wife taking
their children: and moving to Lock Haven
about a year ago.
—Three private policemen of the Pitts-
burgh Coal company soon will be put on
trial for the murder last winter of John
Bercoveskie, a miner, after arresting him
on a minor charge. The miner's death is
said to have resulted chiefly from the ter-
rific beating given him by Lieutenant W.
J. Lyster, a discharged former State
trooper. Frank Slapika and H. P. Watts,
coal and iron policemen were also charg-
ed with aiding Lyster ip the pummeling
of Bercoveskie. Lyster was formerly a
member of the State police and. several
years ago was located in Bellefonte.
—Investigation of alleged election ir-
regularities in Clearfield county is to be
made by district attorney A. Lee Hd-
wards, who has been directed by the
Court to submit all testimony to the
December grand jury. Judge A. R. Chase,
stirred to action by news stories and ed-
itorials in a Clearfield newspaper, which
referred to the existence of affidavits
charging fraud and irregularities in the
Republican primary election of two years
ago, advised the district attorney to pro-
ceed, in a long statement read in open
court. Mr. Edwards replied that he had
made repeated efforts to have the Sep-
tember grand jury launch an investigation,
but had been balked by the attitude of
the foreman,
a Senator he goes too far.