i _—1t is safe to predict that May- or Mackey, who managed the Vare primary campaign in 1926, will not | be invited to that service for the! impending campaign. i —The hunter who sat on a deer ICT EO that he had knocked down must | have decided that he wasn't much of a heavy weight after the -deer sumped from under him and escap- ed. | VOL. 74. BELLEFONTE. PA. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. . DECEMBER 13. 1929. —When one drags a deer, single- handed, through a mile of mountain brush and loads it on his automo- bile it is not surprising that he should think the butcher, who griday, on the resolution denying weighed it for him and made it william S. Vare's claim to a seat in only one hundred and ten pounds,'that body, was that of Senator Pitt- yas oy uae the game Sates that 8, of Nevada. He protested against e weighs the meat he sells on. | the denial of the disputed seat to —The Supreme Court of Colorado, William B. Wilson with a force and has disbarred former Judge Ben B. logic that deserved greater consid- Lindsey from the practice of law in | eration than it received, His conten- that State. It appears that the tion was that the adoption of the Judge took money for doing some- Norris resolution did not dispose of thing he ought not to have done. the Wilson-Vare contest, It simply That's bad, of course, but is it as | eliminated Vare from the equation bad as taking money for doing noth- "and left for the Senate to decide ing, as So many are prone to do. | which of the other candidates voted — One thing is certain, now that | for at the election received a major- Jovernor Fisher has appointed Mr. | ity of the legal vote polled. Of a Srundy to Pennsylvania's vacant | total of 1,470,867 votes returned Vare seat in the U. S. Senate, Mr. Vare | had 922,187, Wilson 648,680 and all aust either be persuaded to retire other candidates 100,000. rom his intention to run again or| When Vare was eliminated from ‘here is going to be a whale of a | the contest by the adoption of the ight at the primary next year. If | Norris resolution it became the duty he Senate admits Mr. Grundy he of the Senate committee to deter- will like his job and want to be re- mine which of the other candidates urned and he can’t go back unless had a plurality of the legal votes. 1e gets the nomination and Mr. Vare ! Nobody questioned the legality of vants it too. | the 648,680 votes polled for Wilson, __An effort is being made td in- | and as these votes constituted a luce former President Coolidge to | majority of the legal votes cast for un for the Senate as successor Of | Senator he was entitled to the seat. omator Gillett, of Massachusetts. | Said Mr. Pitman, here is a man alvin apparently smells some | WhO received 648,680 votes out of a ireeks bearing gifts in the proposi- | total of 1,470,867. Here is a candi- ion. And, as we have often told | date before the people who carried ou, his pictures indicate that a |out of 67 counties every one except 00d smeller is his most alert organ. three; and what are you going to ie Knows that if he is buried at | do to him? I tell you you are go- he Senate end of Pennsylvania | ing to penalize him because of the .ve., he will never see the White frauds of his opponent. You say louse end again. that Vare’'s vote was tainted with : fraud and corruption; that his votes rh = 5 a a ait were obtained through intimidation rill show the lowest birth rate on and bribery, and dough the Bm. scord in Pennsylvania. In fact it dreds of thousands of votes obiam- ow looks as if it will fall lower ed by Wilson were obtained fairly aan twenty for every thousand of and honestly, you will ignore those opulation. What, with the automo- votes just exactly the same as you ; ignore the votes of Vare.” i Se onsisnly Gi In that statement the Senator A _ {from Nevada expressed the question oS 48 That me sor, of se in. issue. The partisan committee \lled to discuss ways and means which pretended ‘to investigate the : stimulating human replacements vote acknowledged that Lins Vare Pennsylvania vote was saturated with fraud. Bu ih : ident: oF | I failed to disclose the full extent —Miss Gertrude Ely, predijen of | f the fraud. It recounted the votes e Pennsylvania League of Women | the ballot boxes of the two cities ier; was Le pine Ls Which showed. 2 majority for Jere. 8- reo | places the burden where it belongs, lections: We'd have nothing 104.4 4g on shoulders most capable t about. of carrying it. As Mr. Thomas _The official demise of “Jack” |puts it “income and inheritance ss, U. S. Marshall for the mid- | taxes could be used, among other district of Pennsylvania is a | things, to provide funds for valu- gedy in his life, of course, but if | able public works, for the relief of s true that he was thrown down | old age and unemployment*and for ause he refused to desert his | otherwise increasing the social and nd Eddie Beidleman and go into | individual incomes of the masses of Fisher camp three years Seu the workers.” That would be areal ck” has nothing to feel y public service, ut. He has lost a desirable pub- Whether the proposed tax reduc- office, but he has shown that tion is the idea of Mr, Hoover Or ndship means something to red- | Mr. Mellon is of little consequence. yded men, We know a man in| Whichever of them initiated it, it tre county who took exactly the works for the direct advantage of ie stand that Glass did. When he | the wealthy at a time and under , approached by Eric Fisher Wood, | conditions when public concern -e was “nothing doing” so far should be centered on benefitting jropping Beidleman was concern- the less fortunate. A tax of thirty He owed Beidleman nothing to forty per cent on the. income of yugh friendship, but he felt that |a million dollars or more is less! jer had been responsible for burdensome than a levy of one per | -hot’s election and he was—and cent on that of the income of the | that reason Col. Wood's bland- | head of a family who earns less| aents fell on deaf ears, We love that two thousand dollars a year. , with the guts to stand up for | But the tax cut which Congress is t they believe to be right. That's | showing such eagerness to make, | . we dedicate this paragraph to obviously for partisan reasons will xk” Glass and an unnamed Cen- | afford no practical relief to the countian. families in greatest need of help. The strongest argument presented i that An Unpopular Agreement, The agreement by which the Re- publican Senators denied to William S. Vare the seat in the Senate to which he made claim and the Dem- ocratic Senators consented to aban- don the claim of William B, Wilson will not appeal to the public as a correct ' solution of a somewhat vexed proolem. It was entirely within the power of the Senate to refuse the seat to Vare. It had been clearly proved that too much money had been spent in getting the nomination for him, and under a precedent established in the case of Newberry, of Michigan, it was made a cause of disqualification. But there was no reason for refus- ing the seat to Mr. Wilson. No charge had been made against him of that kind. The Senate Committee on Privi- leges and Elections, a majority of which are Republicans, unanimously reported to the Senate that the majority returned for Vare was tainted with fraud, It was evep stated by the chairman of that committee, a Republican, that there was so much fraud in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh that it was impossible to ascertain which votes were legal and which were fraudulent. There was no question of the legality of the vote in the sixty-five counties that returned majorities for Wilson. In those sixty-five counties his ma- jority totaled approximately 50,- 000, and they represented the free offerings of confidence in and friendship for Mr. Wilson. It is a well established principle of law and morals that fraud viti- ates everything it touches. If the frauds in Philadelphia and Pitts- purgh had been limited to a few voting districts in each city, the re- turns from such districts could have been thrown out and those of the balance of the cities counted. But in the case in point the frauds were so widely distributed and so universal over the cities that the only expedient would have been to throw out the entire returns. This would have been more or less of a hardship upon the honest voters but a just punishment to a com- munity which not only toleratesbut 3 3 illiam been encourages” such crimes. B. Wilson ought to have awarded the seat. — Reports from Haiti indicate that President Hoover's late good will mission was only a temporary success., ses mime astp fl si Vare Case Sets a Precedent. Fisher, super-patriots Senator Reed within Governor and other Pennsylvania and outside the boun- daries of this great State, are lit- erally heart-broken because in exer-- right the cising a constitutional Senate has violated a principle of State sovereignty by refusing to allow Wilson S. Vare to occupy 2 seat which he had bought and paid for in part with his own money and in part with money obtained from sources they are ashamed or j afraid to acknowledge. The State | has been deprived of its constitu-'gtreets of our cities and towns. * | tional representation in the Senate, | they lament, and thus “set a pre- cedent that is dangerous and should give every thoughtful American oc- casion to pause and think.” Section 3, of the constitution of the United States, declares that “the Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators | from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years, and each Senator shall have one vote,” If there were no other conditions governing the membership express- ed in the constitution any buc- caneer who had acquired sufficient money to buy an election might legally claim the right to a seat in the chamber. But fortunately Sec- tion 5, of the constitution, provides “each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members.” The obvious purpose of that pro- vision was to prevent such raids as Mr. Vare contemplated. There can be no doubt that the action of the Senate in the Vare case has set a precedent which “should give every thoughtful Amer- ican occasion to pause and think.” For the first time it has officially served notice on too ambitious rich { men that they can’t occupy seats in that body that have been acquir- ed by fraud. It has also served notice on the people of the several States that men chosen to that high office must be qualified men- tally and morally to maintain the character as well as the dignity of the office. The primary and general election in Pennsylvania in 1926 expressed an orgie of scandal and debauchery without parallel in the history of the country. ——The appointment of Grundy will not promote the spirit of amity between Pennsylvania and the corn belt States. & Coal Fights for a Market From the Pittsburgh Press. ‘A survey by the United Press of heating methods throughout the na- tion indicates that the coal industry is abandoning its old “take it or leave it” policy, and has come to a realization that it must fight to éx- pand, or even maintain, its markets. Gone is the day when the mine op- erator could sit on his pile of coal and serenely wait for the country, bucket in hand, to come to him for its fuel. : : Oil is the reasom. Oil and some past shortsighted policies of both operators and miners, who grew so engrossed in their battles among themselves that they were forced to forego some of the thought which . should have been taken for the con- sumer. In the last protracted anthracite strike New England and Atlantic Coast domestic consumers turned to oil burners, tiring of the uncertain- ties of anthracite supply which had become so irregular. When peace fi- nally came some coal markets had Christmas Lights Will Make Christ. mas Bright “The snow has come early this ‘year and the first white flakes al- ‘ways bring thoughts of Christmas. ‘Only two short weeks separate us ‘from the happiest of days and now the stores are one by one assuming their holiday attire, It will not be long before the homes of the community too are taking recognition of this festive season. Shortly more and more wreaths and holly will begin to peep from windows and doorways and ‘hard on its heels will follow the lighting that somehow makes Christ- ‘mas such a distinctive holiday in its recognition. ~The sight of a home with its col- ored bulbs winking across the snow from window and doorway—with perhaps a cheery Christmas tree on the snow covered lawn—diffusing radiance on a little world has some- thing heart-warming about it. disappeared. Operat pe "The st ; rators and miners e Stranger passing up the. street both became concerned, appreciating says to himself, “There is a home ; ! } that victory for either in their wage and a family—one would be welcome 5r5 was empty if buyers were lost. there, They want to share their The State of Pennsylvania helped Christmas.” This is the spirit of : z = by agreeing to gradually eliminate Christmas that is expressed by light the tax on anthracite, thus assisting better than perhaps in any other way, in a price reduction. The men en- Light has always been associated gaged in mining came to a realiza- with this day and somehow light tion—for the time at least—that seems the most appropriate of all they had a joint interest, and pro- decorations. ceeded in their agreements on Hore. and thi assumption. This year anthracite more this is coming to expects a production only about one- be recognized and more and more third of one per cent less than last homes each year are being decorated year, indicting the slide has been with light, for the candle which was ofice so dangerous is now cheaply, arrested. ; ~ Bituminous looks for a production easily and more beautifully replaced increase of better than seven per by electricity. So this year each cent. This has been brought about own through stimulating the use of gas : and city in this section will heaters, bituminous being used for find itself illuminated as never be- iyo manufacture of the artificial fore. “It wouldn't be Chrstmas without light, would it?” said eleven year old Jimmie, as he talked with his mother about the Christmas tree that soon will be placed on the lawn in the front of his house. Who can imagine a dark Christmas. Surely every kiddie in Bellefonte agrees with Jimmie, and it is safe to pre- sume that the fathers and mothers of all the Jimmies and Marys in town are of the same opinion, 2 MAfter all, was" it not ‘a light that guided those Eastern pilgrims to- ward the little town of Bethlehem on that first Christmas day. Had it not been for the shining of that star they might never have reached that long-looked for place of des- tiny. How eager'y they scanned the evening sky night by night as, upon their camels, they crossed the desert wastes. Their names have come down to us in story, Caspar, Melchoir and Baltshazar, and as they followed the leadership of the light they came with their gifts to present them to the Christ Child. As the world of children and grown-ups looks toward Christmas every year it seems most natural that the high road to the day it- self should be made as bright as possible. So it is that increasingly Christmas light with its accompani- ment of cheer and good will is be- ing used inside and outside of homes and along the highways and fuel used in them. Also, blowers small enough for private dwellings have been perfected, so lower grades of coal have gone out to have its market, finally realizing the menace of oil. The latter is expanding its service, but it will not constitute a real threat to coal production and consumption unless the mining in- dustry forgets the lessons just taught. This thought should be pondered by union officials and mine operators. Their salvation lies in realizing the unity of their ‘interest, and not in the determination of either to put on the screws whenever economic con- ditions give it the upper hand. That system has been tried and found al- most suicidal. Black Walnut Trees Getting Scarce. From the Altoona Tribune. Dr. Illick, chief forester of Penn- sylvania, tells us that the supply of black walnut trees in this State is greatly depleted. The wonder is that these trees have lasted so long, with the steady inroads of buyers who have combed the State for them. Dr. Illick says that there is prob- ably less black walnut in Pennsyl- vania today than any other com- mercially important timber tree. It still occurs locally throughout the State, but is extremely rare in the northern part, where it is often absent over large areas. During the past month walnut buyers have been particularly ac- tive in the valleys adjacent to the Juniata river, and as far north as Nittany valley in Centre and Clin- ton counties, These buyers seem only to use the straight stem or trunk of the trees, and also grub out the stumps. They leave behind the tops and branches. These buy- ers are said to be paying record prices for the timber. While most —We thank the neighbor who (sent in the nice mess of venison {and hope we won't be accused of ' looking the gift horse in the mouth by calling his attention to the fact ‘that he forgot send alo! th t orgot to a id . of them are evasive, some of them sherry. We have the currant jelly. to,se org that the wood is being ; sent to Barcelona, Spain, to i ____Vare's announcement of his made into “Spanish antiques,” for ; intention to run for Senator again re-shipment to the United States. has created a good deal of conmster- | Before the World war the desti | pation in the Republican machine nation of most black walnut timber ‘camp. It is not quite certain wheth- © Pennsylvania was Germany, ! ; where it was used for gunstocks. er his purpose is vindication or re- yp, i4y,5e days stumps, trunks, tops ; venge. and branches were used. 8 | prices were paid, but farmers were often Slad to, get ready money by , the e o ese rable trees. come the shortest day in the year.'n .,. the World war black walnut Then, as the days lengthen we may vers terrorized Pennsylvania expect the cold to strengthen. There 'garmers by threatening to report ,won’t be considerable demand for them as “German sympathizers” if that, however. ; they did not part with roadside or front yard walnut trees at cheap prices, Path Valley, in Franklin : county, was denuded of black wal- ‘nut trees at that time but the Ar- | mistice coming on, few of the logs were removed or paid for, and sev- eral years ago many superb black walnut logs were to be observed rotting along the roadside of histor- ic Path Valley. eee eet ___Jt is officially reported that $126,595,318 have been refunded to income tax payers this year, and that $339,528941 have been over- paid. Those figures would indicate slovenly book-keeping somewhere. __A week from tomorrow will — The most regrettable feature of the affair is that Senator Nye’s appraisement of the Mellon- Grundy-Fisher machine is generally accepted throughout the country as accurate. —State-aid highway funds for the improvement of township roads was received by three Centre county townships this week, Potter town- ship, $1309; Union, $606 and Huston, $746. | | __The new Premier of France, M, Tardieu, will endeavor to make over the customs and policies of that country. It will be a difficult enter- prise. | ——JIt was hardly necessary for Mayor Mackey, of Philadelphia, to — The reports are not all in but enough have been received to justi- fy an estimate that this year’s hunt- ing season has been successful. ——Jt seems likely that we will say that he doesn’t want to be get into the world court at last and Governor. Nobody else wants him to that may let us into the League of | Nations by “the back door.” i ‘locked the | | tion of Rev. Charles G. Jordan, ‘secretary SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONR —Charged by a bull elk he had wound- ed, Senor A. Rameriz, a rancher of Son- ora, Mexico, had a narrow escape from death. With a party hunting in the Sev- en mountains, he shot and wounded the elk at a distance of 15 feet. It charged him and he took refuge behind a big tree which the enraged animal rammed, then made off into the woods. i —Struck on the head when the shaft of a circular saw broke while he was cutting wood on his farm at Roamsville, Lancaster county, Emmor R. Way, 61 years old, was killed. The Way farm gained prominence several months ago when Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh made a landing there when forced down by a heavy fog while flying from New York to Washington. i —Three Perry county girls were elect- ed to membership in the Ellen H. Rich- ards Club at the Pennsylvania State Col- lege in the fall elections to this society held last week. The girls are Miss Anne A. D’Olier and Miss Mary K. Rissinger, of Newport, and Miss Hilda V. Bitting, Andersonburg. The organization is an honorary home economics society for wo- men students at Penn State. —Paul Griffe, three years old, died in a hospital at Lebanon, on Friday, fol- home of his parents, Sheridan, route 1, on Thursday afternoon. He fell in a kettle of hot grease during home-lard rendering. His entire body except an arm and leg was burned to a crisp. The father, Isaac Griffe, was treated for burns of hands sustained in dragg- ing the youngster from the steaming lard. | —Tragedy stalked in the family of Ernest Gouker, seven miles south of Gettysburg, on. Monday, when Goufier and his wife were burned to death in a fire that destroyed their home. Two children had gone to school that morn- ing, and said they and their father had eaten breakfast together, but that the mother had not eaten with them. They denied their parents had quarreled hefore they left. —John Lutsea, 17, is in St. Luke’s hos- pital, Bethlehem, with buckshot wounds in both palms, his chest and right leg, the result of an odd accident. He found a brass shell, about 2 inches long and % inch in diameter, lying in the road. While reading a paper, Lutsea says, he laid the shell on the floor and later, with- out looking, threw away a cigarette he was smoking. It fell on the shell, and an explosion followed. —Harry Blaine, who in 1914 was con- victed at Uniontown, Pa., of killing his wife, on Monday was sentenced to six months in the York county jail for steal- ing three ducks. He served seven months for the Unjontown crime. He told the court on Monday he had never before been charged with a crime. When the district attorney informed the court of the prisoner's criminal record, his sen- tence was increased from four to six months. , —Fed by oil and ammunition stored in the building, fire on Monday destroyed the two-story frame garage of Troop B, Motor highway patrol, at Greensburg, and slightly injured one man. Damage was estimated at $40,000. Walker Adams, a patrolman who discovered the blaze, was slightly burned and suffered from shock when he attempted to save equip- ment in the structure. He succeeded in wheeling five motorcycles out. of the flam- ing garage. Fifteen other motorcycles and five automobiles were destroyed. —With a .38 calibre revolver clutched in his right hand, the body of Harry Krom, aged about 65, for the last five years gardener at Altoona hospital, was found at 5 p. m. last Friday lying ina wheel barrow in the tool room adjoining the garage with a bullet wound in the heart. He was last seen walking about the grounds about 1:30 p. m. and itis the belidf of Chester C. Rothrock, cor- oner, that he took his life shortly af- ter. He made his home in Pleasant vul- ley. One brother is said to survive.’ —Joseph Kopec, 20, one of four youths who escaped from the Morganza Home for Boys, was shot in the abdomen and seriously wounded by Constable Ben W. Smith, of Allegheny county, on Fri- day, after they had attempted to hold up a barbecue stand near Brightwood. They escaped from the reformatory after intimidating a guard. All but one of the boys were captured. The boys had one pair of shoes among them when they fled the reformatory. Kopec was wearing the shoes. They walked all night they said, in their bare feet until near Pittsburgh. —For nearly a week a collie dog kept vigil over the grave of its former owner, William Ebert, in Prospect Hill cemetery, at York, Pa. Mr. Ebert died in Wilming- ton, Del.,, and was buried in the York cemetery on November 25. The day fol- lowing burial the dog was seen lying across the grave. It would flee at the approach of any one, but would later re- turn to take up its watch. Dr. E. O. Glatfelter, veterinarian, tried to capture the animal. Failing in his efforts, and fearing that the animal would freeze to death, he fired a shot at it. The bullet grazed the dog's head, and though it was not seriously hurt it has not returned to its master’s grave. Their father killed by a Reading company train Sunday night, their mother seriously ill for several months, seven dependent children of the family of John Camilli, of Berks county, ap- pealed to police to find 92 chickens and two turkeys which disappeared from the family poultry house in Temple Wednesday morning. The children told State troopers and county detectives they fed the fowls Tuesday night and poultry house as usual. Wednesday morning they found the place bare. A neighbor lost 10 chickens the same night. The father, a track walker, was struck by a train Sunday {and died early Monday morning. —Dismissal of Dr. Samuel E. Brunner, of Camp Hill, who has been made ‘the goat” in the $129,000 cattle indemnity scandal in the State Department of Agri- culture, was announced, on Tuesday, by Governor Fisher. The Governor said he had dismissed Bruner, for 12 years chief of the tuberculosis eradication division of the department. Dr. Jordan, in a of the department. Dr. Jordan, in a | statement a week ago, admitted that six | of the tampered vouchers in the $129,000 cattle indemnity fraud had been discov- ered by employees of the department last June. He blamed Dr. Brunner for per- mitting the fraud to run four months longer by not reporting the finding of the doctored vouchers to his superiors at : that time.