Bellefonte, Pa., April 11, 1930. —————— A YEAR OF HOOVERISM. (By Dr. L. M. Colfelt.) Now that a year of President Hoover's administration has elapsed it is proper for the American people to reckon up some of the outstand- ing results, It must be confessed they are not so roseate as the peo- ple were led to expect from the pre- election claims made by big busi- ness and the Captains of Industry, Even Mr. Schwab will allow that, though he broke away from his life- long fealty to the Democratic Party, succumbed to the influence of his money bags and advocated the elec- tion of Mr. Hoover on the ground that he would prove 2a business di- rector of consummate ability and continue the prevailing prosperity of the nation. So said all the multi- millionaires. But how sadly have they been disillusioned. Suddenly out of a clear sky came the flash and roar of the most appalling and tremendous financial crash ever witnessed in the history of the world. The evaluation of securities has never been equalled, running in- to billions. Never such widespread ruin—never So many suicides from irreparable financial losses. But Mr. Hoover is a man of resource and to restore confidence he summoned 2a conference of famous financial doc- tors composed of the heads of the biggest corporations and he put to them this question, “How many mil- lions can you pledge to spend OR t works of utility and improve-. ment?” and with one accord they came to the rescue and vociferated loud enough for the country to hear that they would pledge the com- panies of which they were financial managers to spend hundreds of mil- lions—to be exact some four thous- and millions which has since been swolien to eight thousand millions. But where is this money to come from? Manifestly from the issue of fresh securities, from watering stock, or borrowing outright, the same vicious methods of financing which precipitated the late debacle so that reduced to plain sense Mr. Hoover's questionnaire Was simply “How much can you borrow ? What credits can you command?” Is not this but an attempt on the part of the business world to lift itself by its own suspenders. Would it not be poor policy for an individual busi- ness man waterlogged with the weight of financial obligations to at- ‘tempt to galvanize prosperity in a period of depression by extensive, fresh borrowings? Has any cure of financial crashes and consequent widespread business depression ever been devised other than that of Mr. Cleveland's “Work and Save.” Mr. Hoover is such a commanding genius in the business management of the pation that he is going to reverse the inexorable laws of political economy and revive prosperity with the slogan “Borrow and Spend.” One year of Mr. Hoover and no nearer relief for the farmer. The much depended upon special session of Congress for ithe passage of a Tariff Bill calculated to rescue him from his sad plight, after seven months bickering owing to the in- ction and comprehension of con- siderable manufacturing relief end- ed ina deplorable fiasco. The regular session is wrestling with a compre- hensive Tariff Revision but does not seem to be making much beadway. No one can forsee the outcome and it would surprise us if the hill should finally fail. Of one thing we Pennsylvanians may be assured, that the days of High Tariff are drawing to an end. The present producing capacity of this country because of its improved ‘machinery and efficient workmen can supply all home con- sumption in seven months of opera- tion. For the other five months production, foreign markets must be obtained. But foreigners simply will not submit longer to the denial of reciprocity on the part of Ameri- can manufacturers. They will not continue to throw their doors wide open to international trade while the United States has already taken re- prisal on American automobile im- portation. Coming events cast their shadows before. But it is not the foreign resentment that so much menaces High Tariff. It is the coall- tion of the Southern and Western Agricultural States which has al- ready established a working bloc in the Senate and arrested every at- tempt to increase tariffs in the present session. As for the attempt of the Hoover administration to bring financial re- lief to the farmer directly by shovel- ing out millions for the purpose of stabilizing and setting a fixed and remunerative price upon wheat and by interfering artificially in the functioning of the Chicago Board of Trade is about the absurdest bit of economical quackery ever devised and deserves the fate reserved for it in the not distant future. Uncle Sam will get his fingers well burnt. No nation on earth is big enough to control the wheat market. To fix the price above the world’s demand the United States must hold the bag while Canada, Australia, Argentina, India, Russia and all Europe liqui- date to their own advantage. Already ‘the collapse is asserting itself. When this pseudo-dictatorship was es- tablihed, wheat was ruling at $1.34 a bushel. It is now $1.08 a bushel. The average visible supply of the last ten years was 47,000,000 bushels. The present visible supply in the United States is 167,000,0000. The avalanche is piling up and is grow- ing more menacing. No nation at- tempting this method of relief has succeeded. The American bankers tried it in the loan of $50,000,000 to the sugar planters of Cuba to bol- ster the sugar market. The govern- ment of Brazil advanced $50,000,000 to purchase and hold the Coffee sur- plus for the planters of San Paola. Both attempts were complete fail- ures and the Sugar and Coffee mar- kets have not even yet recovered EE ————— from the demoralization that ensued. be defied even by ‘girls in Nature cannot Governments that presume to the role of omnipotence. The relief for the farmer is in the sec product by adjusting law of supply ducing acreage and sification of crops, calls on Governments by a wise is like the Man in of whom one devil was cast, seven other devils entered in the last state of that man was than the first. Though but one year in the light of Administration Mr. ventor of Government sion. The people have elected a body of Competent Senators Representatives Standing Committees charged the duty of seems to think this method is inefficient and obsolete. And any revolt and question is br to his attention he makes haste to Congress and appoints dispense with a Committee of Experts who scour the country, ascertain truth and report for Congressional action. This has produced a action and left a bad taste in the is not functions the roll of the “Rubber Unquestionably this progress in the wrong direction, an insensible revolution in the form of government, a decidedly reprehen- sible short cut doing away with the mouth of Congress, which disposed to abdicate its and play Stamp.” necessity for educating voters by public discussion and formation of which shall enforce by the choice of Representa- and charged with the duty of concreting the nation’s will public opinion, help tives equipped in suitable laws. This may slower method of ascertaining and securing action, but participation the fundament forcement of Prohibition it is venturing into an for all about you are signs vague strife. Rabid Prohibiti say unfortunately Enforcements has fallen into the hands of its enemies, is but half heart- be enforced as soon as the government commits it- | to the enter- prise and especially as soon as Mr. that Mr. Hoover ed, that the Law can self whole heartedly Mellon is superseded. The so- cause every man’s home is his own castle and every man's cellar own Laboratory and erty says at the Socials the pring flasks in their pockets and the their stockings. The women of the opposing camp say she consummate liar and so it mere assertions pro and con—a per- fect Babel all over the land of con- damnation of two indubi- Actuaries of | tention between, and each other. Meanwhile table facts stand out. satisfactory prices for himself to the and demand, by re- The farmer who to exercise the Devil of low prices for his grains the Scripture out Hoover has achieved immortality as the In- by Commis- and they have se- lected out of their number special “ggcertaining the Truth” about every question and phase of Government as they arise and re- port to the whole body and secure suitable legislation. But Mr. Hoover it secures by the people and of government of the people, by the people, for the people. When one essays to sum up the results of one year of Hoover En- enemy’s country can’t be invad- ed without a warrant, Mrs. Daugh- FARM NOTES. aes —Agricultural outlook reports state that apparently the high point in the expansion of sheep numbers in the United States has been reached. A new annual record slaughter of sheep and lambs is ex- pected within the next few years and it maintained at the high levels of the last three or four years. essay only wy of diver- —Depth of planting seeds depends on the seeds, soil, season, and seedbed preparation. In a clay soil the seedbed should be particularly well prepared to make shallow planting possible. As a gen- eral rule, small seeds like lettuce, onions, carrots, radish, and spinach are planted one-half to three- quarters of an inch deep, and large seeds like beans and corn are plant- ed one to three inches deep. Of the 35 important diseases 'known to afflict livestock some- where in the world, only 24 of them are known to be present in this country. Seventeen of these are but and worse lime- quite and with vegetable 71-16-tf LUMBER? Oh, Yes! Call Bellefonte 432 W.R. Shope Lumber Co. Lumber, Sash, Doors, Millwork and Roofing, —————————————— AMERICAN CHANGE THEIR EATING HABITS. In ten years the eating habits of the American people have undergone a radical change. We are eating more fruit, more green vegetables, more poultry, more milk and butter. We are eating less beef, less wheat, less corn, less meat generally. The only kind of meat in which there has been an increase in domes- tic consumption is pork, and that being effectively controlled or are fast approaching what is hoped may be complete eradication, the rest of the 24 being under partial control or study. slow, when ought —All grain and mash should be fed to the chicks in clean hoppers or troughs. This practice may re- duce the spread of coccidiosis, round shall the ‘ham. increase is mainly in the form of Figures compiled by the Bureau of Home economics of the United States Department of Agriculture, which reveal those facts, throw an interesting side-light on the change which is going on in American life. Not so many years ago the great re- | worms, tape worms, and other troubles which may be picked up by the chicks if their feed is scattered in dirty litter or on contaminated °T | ground. is i. __Artistic table lamps can be made from jars and vases and the shades can be made to match the furnishings by any homemaker with a taste of such work. __Recent findings have shown that the organism which causes black- head in turkeys lives in the soil. majority of Americans were engag- ed in heavy manual labor. Their work called for large meals of hed®- ty food. Now a large and growing proportion of factory workers and other laborers are machine- tenders, their work calling for comparatively slight muscular exertion. The work- ingman'’s dinnerpail is no longer the jnstitution which it once was. the larger cities and even in smaller communities the quick lunch coun- ter with ham sandwiches and cheese sandwiches as its principal staples, is far more popular with the aver- age young mechanic. Consequently if turkeys are raised on contaminated soil they can hard- ly escape the disease. The danger will to a large extent be averted if a three-year rotation is followed, Experimental findings have shown that the cecal worm found in chick- ens is a menace to the turkey. It is believed that if the young turkeys are affected with cecal worms the injury they do to the lining of the intestinal walls is sufficient to per- mit the entrance of blackhead or- ganisms into the blood stream, thus infecting the bird with the incurable disease and the one most dreaded by turkey breeders. The remedy, therefore, is to keep the young tur- keys on clean ground and entirely separate from chickens. — be a truth is like of a onists » called “wets” say it cannot be enforced be- Plans are now being made to start inspection of apiaries in various is his | .ounties of the State to curb costly i fattening foods. 'has gained in popularity. Between . that indicates another reason for the bee disease, the bureau of plant in. dustry, Pennsylvania Department of | Agriculture, announced. This work is being done in ac-/ cordance with the State Bee Law! effective since July 1, 1923, and en- | acted at the request of the beekeep- ers of the Commonwealth. This law specifically requires that bees be hived in modern movable frame | hives which permit free inspection i of each comb to determine the pres. boys is a goes, the Metropolitan Life covering one- os seventh of the population, 17,500,000, ence 7 Foeond sed OtRer beg id publish the fact that the actual al- hives, = common in the past, are | cholic deaths have hundred per mony before tee of Congress has attested arrests for drunkenness in the City of Cleveland, have increased thousand fold since Commitments to Farm from 300 these 53 per cent were from delirium tremens. much assertion upon the order to the formation than an ascertainment of the facts obtained before some of unquestioned authority. Judiciary whose presiding officer is Hon. S. Graham, a Philadelphian of manding legal and judicial experi- Both sides are afforded an Out of ence. impartial ‘hearing. welter of opinion, contention, peration, ignorant, emotional, terical, advocacy, truth may be sifted. Perhaps Night that envelopes this problem, deliver us from the lam of controversy thatis convulsing American clarify this situation Society and threatening Institutions, that is satisfactory to neither and bring about the triumph of Temperance over the whole land. AUTOMOBILE LAWS. Whatever we happen to become accustomed to always seems the fi- nal word in wisdom. In Pennsylvania we would consider a twenty-mile an hour speed limit absurdly slow and a fifty mile limit dangerously high. No speed limit at all we would regard as simply murderous. Yet a compilation show speed laws ranging from to fifty on up to no limit in at least forty miles as it is in seven States with twelve States consider- | year. If stunted during this time, ing forty-five miles per hour the |it will never fully recover. Good safety limit. bone and muscle are of prime im- There is an equal variety in line tax rates, Pennsylvania’s nineteen other States being cents, in contrast to a rate of two cents in six States, three cents in twelve States, five cents in States and six in three States.—Dan- ville Morning News. —— Encourage others to subscribe for the Watchman, increased six cent since 1920. Testi- the Judiciary Commit- tribunal This is a fair way of realization in the hearing which is now going forward of witnesses pro and con before the Committee of Congress some grains some Moses may be sent from Heaven to lead us out of this Egyptian of traffic laws in the forty-eight States of the Union ty miles an hour in Massachusetts miles an hour in Nevada and States. Pennsylvania's speed limit is declared by the law to be a public ! nuisance and meance to the com- | munity. Last year, over 19,000 clonies of , bees were inspected by representa ! one | tives of the State. In all cases where that - Prohibition, | gisease and unlawful hives were the Correctional . i ot to 11,000 and Of : found last summer a second inspec suffering There is both sides of question but few absolutely reliable facts. No greater service could be rendered the country in of an opinion ‘tion will be made, the work tostart about May 1 this year. Beekeepers | who are violating the law were in- | formed of the fact and requested to | transfer their bees into movable ! frame hives, and to notify the Bu- reau of Plant Industry at Harris- burg as soon as the work was done. The Department has been liberal in giving time for beekeepers to comply with the law by placing their bees in modern hives. However, as! a last recourse owners not comply- ing with the requirements will be prosecuted. This must be done as a protection to other beekeepers in the community. Last year approxi- mately 100 prosecutions were neces- sary in eight counties. real Geo. com- the vitu. — The best method of eliminating | P | the same hys- of even bedbugs from a hen house is to first thoroughly clean the entire house, getting out every little speck of both dust and straw. After this thoroughly cleaning, the walls and perches should be painted with car- bolineum, and the rest of the house sprayed with a 20 per cent solution of soluble stock dip. If this applica- tion is done thoroughly, it will elim- inate all of the live bugs, and probably will not affect the eggs. The second application is necessary. vexed bed- party —Good yields per animal are necessary to low cost production. —Qats or rye, either one, are feed that can be used with fair success in feeding hogs. —Nothing but pure bred sires are now being used by 17,345 live stock owners in the United States. —Dehorning calves should be done when a few days old, or as soon as the horns can be felt under the skin. twen- nine A foal makes more than half of other |its entire growth during the first gaso- and four portance with the horse and feeds which tend to produce these should be chosen. —Barley is a g hog feed. -It ig trifle bulky for the best results for fattening purposes when fea alone. When used on a 50-50 basis with corn and a 5 per cent tank- age ration, good results have been obtained with barley as a pork seven ‘as the statistics 'ing converted into pork probably | alling That is one reason why Wwe are changing from a nation of heavy eaters to a nation of moderate eat- ers. Another is the general desire to avoid fat, So much has been saidin print and otherwise about the physi- cal danger of overweight that even those who care little about how they look are deliberately avoiding the And as for girls— well, it is hardly necessary to point out that they can't keep those boyish figures and eat the old- fashioned three square meals a day. Lettuce is one item of food which 1920 and 1929 our national consump- tion of lettuce was multiplied by four from 13,000 carloads in 1920 to over 53,000 carloads in 1929. And change in our eating habits. Let- tuce is one of the chief sources of the nealth-preserving vitamins, un- heard of by the public ten years ago, now generally understood to be es- sential to the health of everybody ‘who does not spend most of his or her time out of doors. For the same reason, in 1929 we ate more than three times as much celery, more than six times as many carloads of carrots. These vege- tables stand high in the list of foods In| op any are more hazardous thai the grain crops when intelligently cultivated, that while the invest- ment per acre is higher in produc- tion cost, the profit per acre is vast- ly greater in good years and at least as great in average years. : Already the United States has that they some beef from South America, With the falling off in domestic con- sumption, there is no encouragement for the cattle farmer to expand his activities. Hogs offer a better out- look for the future, dairy farming looks like a stable and growing in- dustry in which to start one’s sons, put the agricultural prizes of ten years from now will go to the grow- ers of fruit and vegetables. If the present tendency in food habits c¢on- tinues they will be sitting on top of the world in 1940. —————————— pr ———————————— ____Officials and Federal biologists are investigating food conditions in the Pike county district where 31 dead fawns have been found. Preliminary investigations indi- cated that the young deer had starved to death due to a shortage of natural forage. No indications contagious or communicable disease was found. ETT NEW ADVERTISEMENTS XECUTOR'S NOTICE.—Letters testa- mentsry having been granted to the unde: tagacd upon the estate of Kl- of State College bor- knowing same are uest- te must ed to make prompt paymen and having Dy against said by resent them, duly autheniicated, for set- Executors, W. Harrison Walker, State College, Pa. Attorney fi11-6¢ DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.— Let- tion been ters of a having fate bted granted ig dersigned n o the unde the estate of Josephine Alexander, of the Borough of State College, deceased all persons owing themselves e to said estate are requested to make containing a high percentage of vitamins. And we are eating about twice as much grapefruit, cabbage, caulifiower, tomatoes and turnips as we did ten years ago. In 1917 we consumed about 42 gallons of milk per individual. In 1928 this had increased to 56 gal- lons. In the same period we in- creased our butter consumption by three pounds per head and our use of cheese by two pounds. That much of this increased use of dairy roducts can be traced to the “eat less meat” campaigns is hardly to be doubted, especially when we com- pare the figures showing the falling off in the use of meat. ! In 1920 the average American ate 63 pounds of beef in the course of the year. In 1929 this had fallen off to a shade over 51 pounds, In period we reduced our average consumption of veal from about 7 and one half pounds to about 6 and three fourth pounds. We continued to eat about the same average amount of lamb and mut- ton, but our consumption of pork’ ran up in those nine years from an’ average of 60 pounds to almost 74 pounds. Of all kinds of meat, we are eating almost 25 per cent less ! than we did twenty years ago. We have cut down on bread— : wheat bread and corn bread both— of flour and corn- meal shipments show. The falling off here in twenty years is nearly . 40 per cent. Out of figures like these we ob- | tain not only an index of the chang- | 'ing tastes and habit of the nation, but information of the greatest value to the forward looking producers of and dealers in foodstuffs. It seems to be apparent to wheat- growers, for example, that their market is getting smaller. That should make many farmers consider | trying to reduce the cost of produc- | tion, cut down wheat acreage, turn | part of the wheat land into some | other crop which promises a better market. The grower of corn is not af- | fected as is the wheat farmer, for | an increasing amount of corn is be- | about compensating ror fhe f off of human consumption of corn bread. There is every indication that the trend in food preference | will continue about as it is going now. That means there is an en- larging opportunity for the fruit and vegetable grower. Already fruits and vegetables total a higher value in annual production than any other money crop except corn. To the Western farmer accustomed toa single crop on large acreage, such as corn or wheat, or the Southern farmer whose sole staple has been cotton, such crops as celery, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, strawberries and other small fruits seem Hke kitchen garden. stuff, not worth while: both. ering with. But the experience of producer. specialists in such crops has ceased to become a beef-exporting country. In fact, we are importing ATTORNEYS.AT-LAW | courts. KLINE WOODRING.—Attorney ' Sy “paw, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices room 18 Crider’s Bellefonte, Pa. 1y G. RUNKLE.— Attorney-at-Law, Consultation and Ger man. Office in Crider's Exchange PHYSICIANS D C St. every the Court from 2 to 8 p. to 4:30 p. m. urgeon, county, Pa. Office at his R. R. L. CAPERS. OSTEOPATH. m. Bell S. GLENN, M. 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