in ° ——With Senator Nye as chair- man of the committee to watch the coming primary in this State Senator Grundy may learn the value of the last laugh. - _We've been moonin’ 'round here for nearly three score years and we cannot recall any such lovely spring weather as we had the latter part of last week. It is quite likely we'll pay for that later in tne season. __Senator Salus charges that Sen- ator Grundy is going to spend five hundred thousand dollars to get him- self nominated. Salus is worrying about that, perhaps, because he hasn't a Chinaman’s chance of get- ting a piece of it. —Charley Long’s retirement from the race for the Republican nomina- tion for Congress will probably never be truthfully explained. All we can do by way of clearing up the mystery is to express our belief that he wasn’t Chase—d off. —The sheriff of Highlands county, Florida, is going to attach the trains on the Atlantic Coast Line for taxes the company is supposed to owe the county. We remember the time when an over zealous Florida sheriff attached a circus elephant for debt and then found out thathe had a white elephant on his hands because there wasn’t enough hayin all of Florida to keep the critter from starving. A Mrs. Herbert S. Ward, who has been in the employ of the gov- ernment at Washington for twenty- three years, has been suspended for pelting her chief with eggs and then dousing him with a pitcher of ice water. Mrs. Ward declares he tampered with records of the Fed- eral Power Commission which have been in her charge for ten years. While we admit that Mrs. Ward acted very unlady-like we do hope she had sense enough to select over- ripe eggs for the bombardment. —What an anthem the choir must sing when terrestrial services are being conducted by messengers of Christ who have not sold their souls to modernism. The world is full of new things, of course. No one knows what might turn up tomorrow, but He who created it all is the same, yester- day, today and tomorrow. Society clamors for something new. But those who are “Singing in the Rain” today will be singing “Tell Me the Old, Old Story” tomorrow —We saw more garden being dug in and about Bellefonte last 1veek than we have ever seen in a similar period of time. Everybody, it seems, was in the back yard with a spade and many of them were women, Think of it, women digging garden. Of course in some cases it probably was a necessity, but shame on the three men we saw away off dig- ging for fishing worms shortly after we had passed their women slaving in the garden to get ground ready to grow potatoes and such to keep their family alive during the fish- ing season. —To those Republicans of Centre county who don’t approve of the Hon. Holmes’ action in voting to raise the gasoline tax, when the State didn’t need the money it has :aken from them, we would suggest hat they write the name of John 3. Miller on their primary ballots. Jf course there isn’t a chance of Mir. Miller's getting the Republican jomination, but every vote he would vet on the Republican ticket would iarder to defeat the statesman who roted to take two cents out of your socket every time you buy a gal- on of gasoline. —The further construction pro- ;resses on the new highway be- ween Bellefonte and Milesburg the nore apparent becomes the needless yroperty waste in consequence of t. If three or four home owners n the vicinity of “Red Roost” are lot given enough to raise their louses, their lawns, gardens and out- yildings above the menace that vork is leaving them threatened vith it will be a damnable outrage. n fact the rerouting that has aused all this property loss gains o little that it incites in the popular nind the thought that a lot of road uilding is planned more to make or the taxpayers who have to pay he damage done. — Rdmund B. Jermyn, millionaire nd a former Mayor of Scranton, as been convicted of conspiracy to rotect slot machines in that city. t is quite likely that Mr. Jermyn ever received a cent of the “hush ioney” that the slot machine king wore that he paid for protection, ut it’s just as likely that some of the eutenants who gratified Mr. ermyn’s ambition, by getting out se votes that made him Mayor, did. nd that, dear readers, is the cause ¢£ rotten politics all over this broad wd. No one ever thought for a \oment that the late Samuel W. angelic | ‘we are making tremendous eavy work for the contractors than , VOL. 75. BELLEFONTE, P A.. APRIL 18, 1930. NO. 16. Grundy Renews Attack on Atterbury. Senator Grundy seems determined to force General Atterbury to de- fend himself against charges of un- ethical conduct, both as president of a great corporation and as member of the Republican National commit- tee. Some time ago Mr. Grundy declared that General Atterbury is affiliated with, and largely respon- sible for, the crimes of the Vare machine. General Atterbury made no response to this grave aspersion upon his character. The other day, during a session of the Senate com- mittee on Privileges and Elections, in Washington, Senator Grundy ac- cused Mr. Atterbury of actually betraying the interests of the cor- poration of which he is president for selfish personal reasons. In addressing the Senate commit- tee Senator Grundy said: “I weuld call the committee’s attention to the fact that of his own efforts and connivance, W. W. Atterbury is now actual and admitted head of the corrupt Philadelphia machine, whose widespread and systematic registration and election frauds are matter of official record in the United States Senate, adduced in the long investigation which resulted in the Senate denying a seat to that organization’s candidate and erst- while boss, William S. Vare.” There is nothing ambiguous or uncertain about this language. It is a direct charge that General Atterbury is not only responsible for, but a par- ticipant in the frauds. This is bad enough in all con- science but not the worst, Senator Grundy further charged that Gen- eral Atterbury, as president of the Pennsylvania railroad, lets contracts for work for that corporation at exor- pitant prices to Thomas W. Cun- ningham, the Vare Construction company and Charles B. Hall, part of the excessive profits of which operations are used to finance the election fraud activities of the Vare machine. If these charges are bas- ed on facts they reveal a measure of perfidy that is almost unbeliev- able. If they are not so based Senator Grundy in making them commits a major crime, not only against the men accused but against every principle of honor and de- cency. ——“The mountain labored and | ‘election or stultify himself. A house brought forth a mouse.” Instead of a naval reduction as the result of the London conference we are to spend a billion dollars for increased equipment, Mud Slinging Campaign Started. The Republican primary cam- paign in this State is opening fine form for a disastrous finish, promises to be a “mud-slinging”’ event of more than ordinary viru- lence. “Right off the bat” Senator Salus, one of the Vare war board, charges that Thomas W. Phillips, the wet candidate for Governor, is “a plant of Senator Joseph R. :ncourage him to fight that much | Grundy.” The obvious purpose of this accusation was to alienate the wet candidate for Senator against his running mate and thus promote the interests of Mr. Brown, the Vare candidate for Governor. It is a shabby expedient as well as an absurd falsehood. But it indicates the ill-temper in which the campaign started and is likely to be conducted. As ought to have been expected by its inventor, this campaign canard enjoyed a short run. Prompt- ly Mr. Phillips, at his. home in Butler, declared that “there is not a scintilla of truth in what Salus says. I was never used as a stalking horse for any man or set of menin my life, and never will be. I never received any aid, financial or other- wise, from Grundy and am getting none now. This is a real fight and gains everywhere.” Randolph W. Childs, campaign manager ticket, said, “Salus is fighting with his back to the wall. Sensing de- feat for the Brown-Davis straddle- dry combination, he is forced to the desperate position of attacking the good faith of Mr. Phillips’ candi- dacy.” It is probably true that some of those who enticed Mr. Phillips into the contest have greater interest in the possible graft that might come to them from the nomination and election of the Vare ticket than in the principles for which the Phillips ticket stands. But it may be as- sumed that the majority of the sup- porters of the wet candidates are ennypacker profited a cent through | sincere, and it is certain that none se million dollar graft that Bill of them is sufficiently stupid to be erry discovered in the furnishing sntracts for the Capitol sburg. Samuel W. Pennypacker, swever, would never have overnor of Pennsylvania if the been | fooled by such preposterous stories as at Har- that set in motion by Senator Salus. It is not probable that the wet tick- et has a chance of success in the primary vote but it may develop for the wet; yuld pull that robbery off under his combination from winning on a | sieves hadn't been certain that they | enougn strength to prevent the Vare sry nose. ' palpable false pretense. | Press Secretary Stimson speaks of | the achievements of the naval i ference “with restrained enthusiasm.” in It , The time for strike-offs in advance ; since the Curious Attitude of the Mellons. After prolonged and careful con- sideration of the question the Mel- lon family, of Pittsburgh, has deter- mined to support Francis Shunk Brown and Joseph R. Grundy for Governor and United States Senator respectively, at the approaching Republican primary. By what process of reasoning the fam- ily arrived at this conclusion is a matter of conjecture. The politics of the Philadelphia “Neck which is expressed in the candidacy of Mr. Brown, and the methods of the Pittsburgh “Strip,” of which the Mellons are a large part, may ac- count for the preference revealed for Brown. On the other hand a deep-seated and long continued an- tipathy to Gifford Pinchot may have been the influencing element in the equation. But neither of these reasons ac- count for the preference for Grun- dy over their fellow-townsman, Secretary of Labor Davis, for the Senatorial nomination. It was widely believed that the most friendly relations existed between Davis and the Mellons, and general- | ly understood that “Uncle Andy” | brought Mr. Davis out of a cloister- | ed life at Moosehart and into | political activity as a member of | the Harding Cabinet. There is a | suspicion that the purpose is to! protect the franchise of Senator Reed, who aspires to succeed him- | self at the expiration of his present term, which would be difficult if a | Pittsburgh man occupied the other | seat, It is certain that interest in| the tariff had nothing to do with it. | Davis is quite as strong for tariff as | Grundy. Then the manifest incongruity of | a ticket composed of Brown and | Grundy defies explanation of the Mellon declaration on any theory based on reason. Grundy has openly denounced Brown as a servile tool ; of the Philadelphia machine, which having stripped the city of Phila- delphia to a skeleton now hopes to move on to Harrisburg for the pur- pose of looting the treasury of the State. If Brown is nominated fot Governor Grundy couldn’t possibly support him for election and if Grundy is nominated for Senator | Brown would have to oppose his | i i thus “divided against itself” cannot endure. Maybe the Mellons want to wreck the party. — According to the Associated con- Quite appropriate. —————— Registration Fraud in Philadelphia. On Friday last the Philadelphia Record contained this interesting piece of information: “Interest in clean elections in Philadelphia reach- ed unaccustomed heights yesterday when register of wills William F. Campbell sent to the registration commission a list of 717 names of the Twenty-fifth ward, of which he is Republican leader, with the re- quest that they be stricken from the registration lists. The request caught the commission by surprise. of the last registration day, April 16, had passed.” It was finally decided to enter the names on “blue strike-off sheets, which are emer- gency memoranda for use of divi- sion registrars,” who may strike them off. Mr. Campbell explained that his list represented the names of ‘those persons who have died or removed last registration.” The probabilities are that the list has been accumulating for several years and that it represents not only those who have died or removed, but some who have never existed at all, and that Mr. Campbell was not influenc- ed to ask that they be stricken from the voting list by conscience but by fear of exposure in the event that they were voted at the coming election as usual. The threatened Senatorial surveillance of the voting in Philadelphia is revealed in this act of Mr. Campbell, In one of his recent speeches Mr. Gifford Pinchot made the assertion that the registration lists of Phila- delphia contain more than 100,000 fraudulent names. Taking the Camp- bell list as an average it accounts for approximately 30,000 fraudulent votes. But as a matter of fact it is not to be taken. The Twenty- fifth ward is rated as one of the cleanest sections of the city. The Committee of Seventy didn’t think it worth while to canvass that ward for frauds and the Campbell list was quite as surprising to that or. ganization as to the registration commission. But it will go a long way toward corroborating the Pinchot statement that there are 100,000 i gress in the 23rd district. | withdrawing my name will not ap- fraudulent voters in the city. Charles P. Long Withdraws from the Congressional Race. ¢ Caught between the upper and nether millstones of Republican political chicanery Charles P. Long, of Spring Mills, has been forced out of the Congressional campaign in the Twenty-third district, leav- ing Centre county without a can- didate. Mr. Long's withdrawal was made at the eleventh hour, last week, and his official statement given the newspapers is as follows: To the Republican Electors of the 23rd Congressional District: In the hope of simplifying and further harmonizing conditions with- in the Republican ranks I desire to announce that I have withdrawn as a candidate for nomination for Con- By my pear on the primary ballot of May 120, 1930. 1 sincerely and earnestly want to thank my many friends who signed ‘my petitions and who were much interested that this was Centre county’s turn to be represented. Sincerely yours, CHARLES P. LONG. While he has been forced out of the Congressional race Mr. Long must not be considered a dead polit- ical hero. He is only hibernating and is liable to wake up most any time. He hasbeen all over the dis- trict and has made many warm friends. Had he been given the nomination and elected to Congress his constituents would have been sure of an honest, faithful repre- sentative. Probably no other one man has done as much for his home town as Mr. Long. He has been in business ! | there for forty-two years and the | success he has enjoyed is evidence of the confidence reposed in him by his friends and neighbors. Thirty years ago Mr. Long opened at his own expense a street in Spring Mills 2400 feet in length, through his persoal efforts new houses were built. Twenty years ago he furnished a building and water free of charge for the first milk station at Spring an twelve A%aé’s, and. the industry has grown So "that now there are two milk stations. Ten years ago, through his liberal inducement in offering a site, a silk mill was erected. Today he has, in addition to his business at Spring Mills, five dollar candy stores located at Uniontown, Waynesburg, Wheeling, W. Va., Newark and Portsmouth, Ohio. P— nd You can’t put all the blame for tariff tax extortion on Grundy. Recreant Democratic Senators con- tributed to the outrage. eee A ———— Senator Capper’s Curious Reasoning. Senator Capper, Of Kansas, has not discovered the long looked for “perpetual motion” but he has de- vised, in his own mind, a process by which one may “lift himself by his own boot-straps.” In commenting on the pending tariff bill, the other day, the Senator declared that if certain provisions are eliminated, meaning the tax on lumber and other products not produced in Kansas, “the country will be bene- fitted to the extent of $750,000,000 a year.” He arrives at this conclusion by a curious process of reasoning and a surprising system of com- putation. But it answers the pur- pose so far as he is concerned. The Kansas Senator admits that the measure, if trimmed to his no- tion of perfection, will increase the cost of living to the people of the United States to the extent of $750,- 000,000 a year. Most men would in- terpret that fact as a liability rath- er than an asset. spent in the United States.” In oth- er words, if Tom pays a dollar to Dick he adds to instead of taking from his capital but if he pays it to some one else the result is re- versed. Mr. Capper agrees that tariff tax on lumber, brick, cement and shingles will increase the cost of buildings, which is an element in the expense of living. Now if the Senator would be frank enough to say that with the tax on commodities not produced in Kansas eliminated the pending tar- iff bill would benefit a favored few in the country by approximately $750,000,000 a year, his language could be understood by the average man. That being about the amount it will add to the cost of living the fact that it will be spent in the United States is a guarantee that the monopolies, the big corporations and the mass producers will get it in the end. But this certainty con- veys little comfort to the wage earn- ers who pay the increased cost of living. ——Maybe Grundy imagines that he can bluff President Hoover and, for that matter, maybe he can. d | | “But,” he added, : lem. «these additional millions will be | Tn America and in Russia, over- AT EASTER TIME. Written by W. B. Meek-Morris for two little girls who, while Easter win- dow shopping, became mystified by the sight of a fluffy Chicken and a oco- late Bunnie ‘‘setting’’ in the same basket and laying the same kind of eggs. Said the sweet Chocolate Bunnie to the fluffy Chick; Now why do ou lay me this funny trick? y pay I'm laying dyed eggs in my nest of sweets And all you will tell me is: Tweet,” “Tweet,” “Tweet.” Though our names are quite different, the Chick did reply, Our eggs are same seems to my eye. Some fashioned by me and some are by you You, a hair Bunnie, tis true. shaped, so it me a Chicken, Now you look in the center and if gold there you see You will know that egg was fashion- ed by me, This the heart of everything gold is good And I'd lay mine all gold if I really could. Then the sweet Chocolate Bunnie to the Chick he made bold Your eggs on the outside are hard and cold. Just like folks, we judge, from their outside shell Covering hearts of gold. never can tell. So this strange Easter story comes its close, Ah! That to find the good, one must dig {| Farm Relief, Here and in Russia. | From the Philadelphia Record. | The Communist Government in | Russia is its own Federal Farm Re- | lief Board. Its problems are not so very dif- | ferent from ours, and its methods are somewhat similar but much more drastic. The collectives in which the Rus- ! sian Government seeks forcibly to | organize the peasants are compar- 'able to our own co-operatives. | The principal difference is that where we still encourage private initiative by making cooperation { voluntary instead of compulsory the One ! | daily Russian Government has tried to . squeeze the peasants into the co- | operative mold, willy-nilly. | "It had been reported that ‘“col- lectivization” had been accomplished {60 per cent. Now it is stated that {40 per cent. is nearer the truth. And 'it is a fact that 40 per cent, is ‘much better than was expected for this date in the five year plan. { But now word comes that the | Communist Government has adopted ‘a policy of increasing the profits of collectivism through granting of | credits and reduction of taxes. ! Our own farm relief program in- , cludes grant of credit, with a $500,- : 000,000 revolving fund to grease the . wheels. Russia will set aside 500,- 1 000,000 rubles for this purpose, or | just about half the American provi- | sion. | Uncle Sam, however, has made no ! move toward lightening the farmer's , taxes. | Stalin declares the Government is hot retreating from its original ' stand on collectivism or co-opera- | tives, but is solidifying its gains, ‘weeding out the weaker collectives, i.closing up the lines for the spring planting of wheat. The Russian Government and the i Federal Farm Board stand on exact- ly the same ground in one respect. In its own words, “The Federal , Farm Board” | theory that the production of farm ‘ products in excess of normal mar- | keting requirements is a waste. It injures the producer without benefit- ing the consumer. | And that is the core of the prob- | production causes glutted markets, low prices, distress. Hazards quite beyond human con- ' trol—hazards of flood and drought, | unseasonable heat or cold—affect the crops. | The output of good and bad years must somehow be evened up. | The farm plant must be kept | busy; if wheat planting is to be cut | down, the acres must be put to other profitable use. The farmer 'won’t sit and twiddle his thumbs ‘and watch the weeds grow on his | 1and just because he is told there is too much wheat being grown. | Express it in whatever way, the fact remains that equalization is the key word in farm relief problems. | Will Russia or America be the first to achieve success in equalizing {the food-producing industry’s re- | turns over good years and bad years, and among the producers whose output must be regulated? | —If Pinchot should happen to | grab off the Republican nomination for Governor and be elected former Judge Arthur C, Dale will be sitting so pretty that he can return the compliment to the Secretary of | Forests and Waters by reading him |out of the party. ‘are believed is working on the ' skeleton has C—O ERAT SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —The contract for the erection of the plant for the Viking Art Metal Produce: company in Ridgway, for which $284,000 was raised, was awarded Saturday to the Hyde-Murphy company, of Ridgway Work will begin Monday morning pre- paring the ground for the building. —A postal inspector and police went to the home of William Accoff, 838, of Kingston, last Friday, and recovered guns, watches and other valuables to the value of $1,000 or more, alleged to have been stolen from the mails, Accoff, a postal truck driver for nine years, was arrested. —Charles BE. Weikert, Gettysburg taxi driver, has reported to State police that a man who had engaged his car for a trip * to the country had robbed him of $100 and then had escaped in the cab. Before leaving the robber took Weikert's trousers to prevent him from starting in pursuit, according to the report of the police. — Rushing madly at her victim, a ferocious cow that had just been milked | attacked a 32-year-old mother of three | small children, Saturday evening, near i Ashville, and gored her fatally, then left her dying on the floor of the stall. Mrs. Clarence Settlemyer, the woman, died within a few minutes after neigh- bors had summoned Dr. P. J. Kelly, —Eleven men, convicted of various | crimes, were taken from Pittsburgh, on Monday, to the Atlanta federal prison. Among the number were Michael A. Ruscille, foreign department manager of the First National bank of Ellwood City, who will serve four years, and James V. Vozzola, also of Ellwood City, three | years. Both men were convicted of | counterfeiting. | When Scranton police arrested Joseph | Kilmartin, 67, of Taylor, Lackawanna i county, on a charge of drunkenness. | They found $1248.55 tucked away in a | pocket of his coat. Kilmartin is thought to have obtained the money from a | lawyer a few hours before his arrest, in | settlement of a lawsuit. The money was put away in the police headquarters | vault for safekeeping. —QGasgoline used by motor vehicles ir | to | Pennsylvania last year totaled 900,495,620 Why it was written, only two folks ! gallons, according to figures compiled 5 know, | by William S. Canning, engineerinz ust JES, 3 friend Bunnie and | director of the Keystone Automobile | club. The State tax on gasoline amount- under the shell, ied to $33,230,629, which, added to the : : | $29,160,690 obtained from registrations And ge Sr to matter just who | and operators’ licenses, brought a total Be it Bunnie, or Chicken, or Kooster, | of $62,441,319 in to the State Treasury. So they DIO ol and have rd i While using a telephone, last Thurs- their core gold at gay, at the Gilberton colliery of the The world cannot ask or demand Philadelphia and Reading Coal and one thing more. ‘Iron company, Mark Edwards, 35, an | employee fell dead. An investigation | revealed, county officers said, that a | wire carrying 23,000 volts of electricity, {had fallen over the telephone line in an- | other part of the colliery. Edwards "lived in Shenandoah. He is survived | by his widow and eight children. | — William Hoffman, of Mahaffey, who , believes that man can live without eat- ing, has abstained from all food for twenty six days and is walking around | in Hahaffey, apparently in his ordinary health. According to a Mahaf- fey physician. Hoffman conceived the idea that food ‘was not necessary to man ‘and is going to prove that water alone is all that is necessary to sustain life. , Hoffman is sticking rigidly to his diet of water. Dressed in black silk and lying on a silk coverlet and pillow, the body of Mrs. Guy Scott, of Lancaster, was | found in the kitchen of her home on Monday afternoon. The hands crossed on the chest and a hose leading from an open gas jet toa funnel over her face made deputy coroner J. S. Texler's verdict of suicide a mere formality. The woman was found by her husband when he returned home for luncheon. No motive was revealed. —The two pupils who comprise the public school of Haldeman’s Island in the Susquehanna river near Liverpool to constitute the smallest public school in Pennsylvania. The pupils are the children of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Peters who reside on a farm on the island which is an incor- porated borough and contains four farms. Mrs. Joseph Zimmerman, teacher of the school, makes her trip daily to and from the mainland in a rowboat. | —Geneva College's representative in in- tercollegiate debate is a junior who has been blind since his birth, 21 years ago. He is Roy H. Sumner, of Ellwood City, a student for the ministry in the Presbyterian church. Despite his handi- cap, he is well in the front as a scholar, and is a frequent contributor to college publications. Throughout recitations and lectures he keeps pace with other stu- dents, aided only by his mother who is his ‘eyes’ when he studies at home. State police have brought a charge of murder against Roy Rolsom, 22, in connection with the finding last Monday of a man’s skeleton in a cave near Shohala, Pike county. Mrs. Gertrude Rolsom, stepmother of Roy, was held without bail as a material witness. The not been identified. A medical examiner said the skeleton was that of a man about 45 years old, and that the person probably died of a fractured skull. He estimated the time of death as at least two years. william Smoker, of Columbia, has discovered a new method of ridding his premises of rats. Smoker had small can of carbide in a shed at the rear of his home. He saw two rodent: crawl up to the can and make a mea’ of the chemical. Then the rats scamp- ered into the yard, up to the hydrant. where a pool of water had collected. As they drank, white puffs of smoke emerg- ed from their mouths, followed by ¢ mufied report, which sent their bodie: into the air. They were dead when they fell. —Dependents of those killed and ir- jured in an explosion at the Pennsylvani- Fireworks Display company, Inc. Devon, two weeks ago, will receive be- tween $40,000 and $50,000, officials of tb State Workmen's Insurance Fund sai on Monday. The State Insurance Fun” is the compensation carrier for th" company. As soon as news of the ex- plosion reached the State Fund offices officials visited the scene and assured all those directly interested that com- pensation would be paid promptly to the dependents in fatal cases, and that all medical and hospital expenses with- in the limits of the compensation law would be assumed.
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