Dowraifitinan —_ Telephoning from a rapidly moving train is the latest achieve- ment. If there were less time wast- ed in trying to fool the public con- cerning prosperity there would be more time available to do things which would promote prosperity. — The expectation that Congress will adjourn about the first of June is likely to be disappointed. The tariff bill will not be through by that time unless the “alliance” lays down on the job. “Ole” Howard Sargent just won't let us alone. Several weeks ago he offered to send us a can opener for our camp shower. An- other friend tendered a cork screw. It isn’t can openers and corkscrews that we need so much as what they will put our gustatorial organs in sympathy with—accent on the do- ings of the corkscrew. Yesterday we received from Los Angeles a copy of the “Times” of that city. Attached to it was the comic sec- tion with “Winnie Winkle” the breadwinner, at the circus, the program of the Al G. Barnes show and the stubs for four grand stand seats. The latter means that How- ard has beaten us to the exquisite agony of encouraging callouses on the eastern end of us, if we were headed for a visit to him at his present home in Hollywood. —In answer to the several letters we have daring us to reveal what happened on the 15th of April we admit almost utter failure. Four little ones that if a warden had looked in our basket after they had dried would have caused us some embarrassing moments and, maybe, a few smackers. But we've got the feather in our fishing hat now. Last Saturday afternoon we ambled along our favorite stream for only two hours and took fourteen beauties on a red quill and royal coachman. We are not boasting over this. It is not at all unusual for us to make such catches. We only mention it because we know our friend Cunningham will work his old gray head off every time we go out together to get that feather out of our hat and the net result will be that there will always be fish in camp for those who honor us with a visit. Incidentally, we'll be sport enough to tell you when he gets it. —It is our guess that both the Scott—Fleming and the Dorworth wings of the Republican party in Centre county will be flapping to- gether for Grundy and Brown be- fore primary day. And a Grundy- Brown victory will mean more to the Scott-Fleming crowd than it will to the Dorworth faction, You ask why. We'll tell you. Governor Fisher is sore at Grundy, but he 1s for him to save his own face in having appointed him to the United States Senate. He is sore at Brown, too, but he can’t be for Pinchot, nor can he go over to Phillips, so he'll come out for Brown. When he does that Dorworth’s lieutenants will talk Brown. In fact they're doing that now. Scott always was a Grundy man. He wouldn't have had any standing with the present ad- ministration at all had not the Grundy will to be obeyed permeated the executive mansion at Harrisburg. Scott has never been out of political touch or sympathy with the Vare organization in Philadelphia so that it is just natural for him to be with them. And somebody who is just naturally with the winning crowd is always closer to it than somebody who just happens to be there be- cause there is no place else to be. —According to some stories that are going the rounds sheriff “Dep” Dunlap is getting rich up on the hill. We hope he is, The sheriff's a good fellow. He was good when he was poor and he’d be a helluva- sight gooder if he were rich enough to do all the things his big heart busts to do. But he didn't get! $22,220.60 out of his office last year as some think the auditor's statement said he did. $7,851.31 of that amount was due and unpaid | for 1928 and should come off the $22,229.60 before calculation of what ' he got in 1929 is made. The differ- ence is $14,378.29 and that is what he got in 1929. Out of that he paid his deputy and for all other service about the jail, paid his transportation every time he had to! take prisoners to other institutions | and furnished twenty-eight thous. and two hundred and twenty-seven meals to prisoners in the county | jail. Inasmuch as there are mo riots up on the hill it is to be as- sumed that the sheriff is feeding them fairly well. To do that takes money. We know, because we have never talked to a College or Prep. school boy who didn’t start “crab-, bing” about the grub before the con- versation had gone more than fifty words. And we know what at least one college boy pays for the grub he ‘“crabs” about. Taking one case with another, since there is no “crabbing” in the jail we imagine those who think sheriff “Dep” is getting rich have another think coming, Again, however, we want to say: Whatif he is? Every- body ought to be glad when some- one succeeds honorably. AT ald, STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE. PA.. MAY 2. 1930. NO. 18. Work of Senate Lobby Committee. In suppressing the “confidential reports on members collected for the association against the prohibition amendment,” the Senate Lobby committee, the other day relinquished a great oppor- tunity to “add to the gayety of na- tions.” The reports by Carter Fields, a special investigator, pur- ported to be a survey of the habits or proclivities of Congressmen in Washington and elsewhere. The purpose of the survey was, it may be assumed, to expose the fact that a good many of the Senators and Representatives in Congress who regularly vote to continue and even strengthen the Eighteenth amend- ment and the Volstead law are not teetotalers in fact. Many of them are arrant hypocrites. These reports were obtained by the committee by processes which are denounced as in violation of the Fourth amendment to the constitu- tion which guarantees citizens “against unreasonable searches and seizures,” of ‘persons, houses, pa- pers and effects.” Under a subpoena of the committee the office of the association against the prohibition amendment was forcibly entered and the papers seized. During a session of the committee, with less than a quorum present, Mr. Robinson, the Ku Klux Senator from Indiana, in- sisted that the one on the habits of Congress be made public. Senator Blaine, of Wisconsin, objected and the question was held for the full committee, which decided to sup- press it. This lobby committee has afforded considerable amusement to Wash- ington and the country and a good deal of valuable information, since it began operations several months ago. The sinister methods by which tariff laws and other legislation has been enacted has been made clear to every man and woman who takes the trouble to observe current events. This is cer- tainly worth-while information and if the activities of the coramittee had been limited to inquiries along these lines it would have rendered a useful public service. But in spreading its functions afield, prejudices developed which detract from the value of its work.’ Still a complete exposure of hypoc- risy would be interesting. — Anyone in need of a good safe will find one advertised in another column of this paper. It is a Hall safe and can be bought cheap. The Judge Parker Case. There are fifty-six Republicans in ! Of this the United States Senate, number eighteen, including the floor leader, have urgently requested President Hoover to withdraw the nomination of Judge John SS. Parker, of North Carolina, to fill an existing vacancy on the Supreme court bench. The reason for this action on the part of that consider- able number of Republican Senators is that each of them believes that: of i voting for the confirmation Judge Parker will be resented by his constituents and cause his de- feat for re-election. It is said that the President flatly refuses to with- draw the nomination. He will take a chance of rebuke at the hands of his party in the Senate. The reasons given for the opposi- tion to Judge Parker are that he is’ a reactionary in thought and that his elevation to the Supreme court bench will further increase what is politely called “conservatism” of the court, already too dominant. Judge Parker, in a case in the Federal District court some time ago, handed down a decision affirm- ing the validity of “yellow dog” contracts which is resented by or- ganized labor. He is also accused of discriminating against negroes in some of his political activities be- fore he went on the bench. The Re- publican Senators who are protest- ing against his confirmation believe that for these reasons his confirma- tion will wreck the party in several States. Both these reasons are valid. The “yellow dog” decision was an ex- pression of favor to property rights, as against human rights, and is as unjust as it is a dangerous policy of government. The race discrimina- tion is unwise and unfair to an ele- ment of the population which has kept his party in power for a quar- ter of a century. But there is a greater reason why the Senate should refuse to confirm the nomina- tion of Judge Parker. It was fre- quently, but not quite frankly, ex- pressed several times during the consideration of the nomination of Judge Hughes to be Chief Justice of the court of last resort. It is that even the President has no right to pack the court in the interest of monopoly. ‘ too far: | Pinchot and Grundy Alliance. | Rumors of Trading Candidates. i The signs point plainly to an al- |. The increasingly current rumors ' candidate for Senator, and Gifford ! Pinchot, candidate for Governor, in the primary campaign. There is a ' striking incongruity in such an af- 'filiation, but present time politics ' consists largely of incongruities and absurdities, and after all, a com- , bination of Grundy and Pinchot would be no more surprising than ' that between Shunk Brown, Vare’s legal and political “guide, philoso- _pher and friend,” and Jim Davis, the : whilom labor advocate and _profes- , sor of political morality. Yet this "alliance is in active operation and {in open pretense of sincerity. It | may develop some artistic “double- | crossing,” before primary day, how- | ever. | There is a good deal of senti- ' ment in common between Grundy "and Pinchot. They are in complete | agreement on the question of tariff taxation and not very wide aparton ‘the subject of money in politics. The ! difference between them in that re- spect is, as we pointed out some ! weeks ago, that Pinchot spends his ‘own money and Grundy disburses that of others. They are in com- | plete agreement on the subject of | prohibition enforcement, though the articulate | ex-Governor is the more on the subject, and they share alike lin detestation of the Vare machine | in Philadelphia and the Mellon ma- ' chine in Pittsburgh, but are always | willing to accept their help in emer- ! gencies. In other words they are | practical politicians. | But there are other things in | their recent experiences which ' might exercise a more potent in- | fluence in bringing them together. For example, Grundy is obliged by | the nature of things to make choice | between Pinchot and Shunk Brown. There are Phillips, the ultra wet ; candidate, and another ‘also ran” ‘entrant, Buc Grundy could hardly | stultify himself by suppporting i Brown, whom he has denounced asa | crook and corruptionist, and Pinchot 50.y are acquiescent has no alternative from Brown ex- | cept Davis, who is the favorite of the Pittsburgh “strip,” and the "antithesis of all that Pinchot ad- mires in politics. Besides, the Pinchot bankroll and the Grundy ability to collect slush funds would create a formidable “war chest.” Sl ——Nobody can say that the wet ; candidate for Governor lacks confi. ‘dence. He not only expects to be elected but thinks the new Legisla- ture will be wet. Hoover's “Shadow-Boxing.” President Hoover appears to be again “shadow-boxing” with a defi- ciency ghost. It will be remember- "ed that some weeks ago he ad- “monished Congress against over ap- ' propriating funds and an investiga- tion revealed the fact that he was simply casting aspersions on the Senate in resentment of the insur- gent alliance on the tariff bill. The other day he wrote letters chairman of the committees on ap- . propriation of both branches of Con- gress protesting that too generous appropriations threaten a treasury deficit of considerable proportions. He did not indicate which appropriations were excessive or where the scalpel might be most safely applied. But "he wants some cutting done. Senator Jones, chairman of the Senate committee, commenting upon the letter, said: “I have followed closely all the measures that we have passed. So far as general ap- , propriations are concerned the ap- propriations committee has held of Congress, liance between Joseph R. Grundy, i to the them, in the aggregate at any rate, ' below the budget estimate.” Rep- resentative Wood, chairman of the House committee, said: “In draft- ing the supply bills the House kept within the budget brackets and the Senate has fallen in line with this programme in compliance with President Hoover's wishes,” and add- ed, “the budget estimate upon which the appropriations for the new year are based, were cut about $145,000,- 000 below the current appropria- tions.” As the budget is made by an of- ficer of the executive department and has the President's approval before it is considered by Congress, it is not easy tosee why he should blame Congress for any excesses that may result from the legislation. Am in- vestigation of the subject might lead to interesting revelations, how- ever. Gossip in the corridors ascribe it to an unfriendly attitude of the White House toward pending legisla- tion for relief of world war veter- ans. There seems to be a disposi- tion among the Congressmen to con- siderably increase the amount pro- vided in the pending measure on that subject and the President seems to think it is amply liberal at present. among the supporters of the Brown- Davis slate has forced chairman Bernard Myers, manager of the combination, to protest. In a state- ment, issued the other day, Mr. Myers complains that “propaganda is being sent over the State that in certain counties our leaders are car- rying none but Secretary Davis, and in order to complete these wild tales of dissaffection, reports have spread that men close to General Brown are willing to make trades with opposing candidates. No Re- publican with common political sense will give attention to such stories and loose talk.” As a matter of fact no propaganda has been cir- culated in that form. ! Stories have been circulated wide- ly but not wildly that a consider- able number of Mr. Brown's in- fluential supporters are striving with all their energies to nominate Mr. Grundy for Senator against Davis, and though Mr. Brown has been in conference with them he has made no protest. It has also been al- leged that intimate friends of Mr. Davis are earnestly working for tue nomination of Mr. Pinchot for Gov- ernor. Another rather well authen- ticated report runs to the effect that a number of Vare’s adherents, including members of the War Board are actively trading the Brown-Davis candidate for Secretary of Infernal Affairs, Philip H. Dewey, in favor of James F. Woodward. With the Mellons openly advocat- ing the nomination of Brown for Governor and Grundy for Senator, and Governor Fisher openly for Grundy and secretly for Brown, there is substantial grounds for suspicion of trading operations. There is nothing in common be- tween Brown and Grundy to in- fluence thought in their direction.’ Grundy anathematizes Brown as a corruptionist and Brown, though more discreet in speech, abhors Grundy with equal earnestness. Yet in an effort to nominate candidates who despise each other. “No Republican with common political sense” can ignore the rumors of perfidy. They are so obvious “that a wayfaring man though blind” must take notice. —As there has been mo dead cat found in the Bellefonte reservoir for twenty years and Mr. Cobb did not pour any chlorine into the Big Spring folks who pay heed to the prattle of children will have to be- lieve that the epidemic that has been plaguing Bellefonte during the past two weeks is what the physi- cians say itis: Intestinal fly, brought on by unusual weather con- ditions. If the public school chil- dren were as good at their lessons as they are at conjuring wild and wierd tales there would be no use of having : fb”. “c,” and: ; “a columns on their quarterly report cards. « ——Announcement was made at Pittsburgh, on Monday, that Ne- braska will be Pitt’s turkey day at-. traction in 1931, This does not mean a severance of athletic rela-. tions with State College as Pitt will come to State College for the an- nual game which will be played late in October. State has been the' Thanksgiving day attraction in Pittsburgh every year since 1903, and will play the same date there this year. Next year Pitt will play at State and in 1932 State will again go to Pittsburgh for the final game of the season. | i rss nn mms lp nm pn : ——The Brown-Davis aggregation of Republican spell binders are book- | ed for a visit to Bellefonte next Wednesday morning, and it will be | interesting to see which faction of the party will be most in evidence in the welcoming crowd. : eater eric nseeesss | ——The wet organization is plunging into the fight with great energy and may poll enough votes to surprise the Anti-Saloon League. ————————— Aare. The increased revenues will make more impression on the Con-' gressional mind than Hoover's ad- monition against big appropriations. ' | i ——Even the D. A. R.,, supposed | to be imperious to fear, side-steps | the prohibition enforcement ques- tion. | i —— A ——— a —— ——Aviation is taking a rather heavy toll in human life but all new ventures cost heavily at first. ——Attorney General Mitchell is | getting ready to starta real crusade against liquor law violators, A FRIEND. An anonymous contribution postmarked Bellefonte, Pa. They say the world is a dreary place; To me, it is always Spring. We find what we look for, Hate, But this is the song I sing. of Love or Be loyal, be brave, be true, my dear, And search to your journey’s end, For the heart that is kind, for the open mind, And the soul you call a Friend. Like a hidden spring, rare, Like a haven of rest in storm, And a light to brighten the darkest night That brings you again to the morn. like a perfume Your burden will lighten, will sing, your heart | With joy, to your journey’s end. Go, seek while you may-you may find it today— God’s wonderful gift, a Friend. (Admitting, without argument, questionable taste of anonymous offer- ings, we submit the above jumble of words,—claiming ne merit—from one who burns, always, on the Altar of Memory, a candle to a faithful friend. the FIFTY YEARS AGO IN CENTRE COUNTY. Items taken from the Watchman issue of May 7, 1880. Died—Pennington. On the 29th of April, 1880, at her home near Fillmore, Centre county, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Pennington, wife of Thom- as Pennington, aged 48 years, 7 months and 17 days. Mattern. On the 29th ult. Mrs. Samuel Mattern, of Half Moon town- ship, of inflammation of the bowels, aged about 45 years. Mattern. On the 29th ult, Mr. George Mattern Sr., of Stormstown. Aged 79 years and 29 days. —Straw hats are the streets. — Squire Rumberger, of Unionville, appearing on ‘came down to town on Monday looking for a cool place. He wanted to get in out of the hot sun and found the Watchman lounge the most comfortable place he had met with. —At Providence, Rhode Island, last Saturday, the Providence base ball team defeated Boston in the opening game of the League season. . The score was 8 to 0 and our own Monte Ward pitched for Providence. — Mr. Joseph Green died at his home in Milesburg, last Saturday, at the age of 80 years. He was the father of our townsman, F.! Potts Green, —John Musser, of Benner ship, died very suddenly last Friday. He had gone up stairs to take his daily nap and when members of the family went to awaken him, later, he was found to be dead. He was a very aged man. —J. M. Kepler Esq., formerly of this county, but now editor and proprietor of the ‘National Demo- crat” in Tionesta, Forest county, was in Bellefonte on Tuesday. Mr. Kepler, though new in the business, puts vim and spirit into his paper and it is bound to become a force in the party State. —Mr. John Wagner one of the three fish wardens who recently is- sued an order to all people com- manding them not to fish with nets was detected, bright and early, the! other morning, fishing with a net himself. And he had a goodly num- ber of fish, too. One of the other wardens, Geo. C. Miller, swore out a warrant before Justice Rankin and now the law is after John, just ! as he warned others that it would be after them. —R. E. Cambridge, of Unionville, opened a select school at Julian ‘last Monday. Twenty of the young damage possibly might ladies and gentlemen of that place are in attendance. —Eggs are only 10cts a dozen. * 000 —Mr. John Wolf, who fell from a ggtim building last week and broke his left arm, is able to be out again. Decoration Day.—Having been ap- pointed Marshal by Gregg Post, No. 95, G. A. R, and as it has been de- cided to decorate the graves of our deceased soldiers in a fitting man- ner, the Marshal respectively re- ' quests all organizations and citizens in general to assemble in the Dia- mond on Saturday ° afternoon, May 29, at four o'clock where the line of parade will be formed. JOHN I. CURTIN, Marshal. — Mr. Shunk Brown will find that persuading the public that the | Vare machine is a philanthropic or-' ganization is a big, hard job. If the new Senate Slush Fund committee goes deep enough | into Pennsylvania politics it will ac- quire a lot of information. ——1It is said that Colonel Lind- bergh has a one-track mind. May- town- | in that part of the SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE —The Rev. Frederick C. Fowler, of Marietta, has accepted a call to become the pastor of the First Presbyterian church, of Mount Union. —J. Hurst Nelson, former tax col- lector in Carroll township, York county, who pleaded guilty to embezzling $3,500, was sentenced on Monday to serve two years and six months in the county jail. The funds alleged to have been embezzled by Nelson were taxes collect- ed for 1926, 1927 and 1928. —Edson Sofford, a resident New Jersey, has brought suit for $25,000 damages against two Pennsylvania game wardens who arrested him and held him over night, in spite of the fact that he carried a licehse to fish with him when the officers found him follow- ing his favorite sport on a stream in Lackawanna county. —An attempt to rob the Gallia silk mill at Bethlehem early on Monday failed when the robbers were scared away after perojaring fourteen bales of silk, valued at $14,000, for removal. The watchman, Miles Vandoren, was over- powered by four or five men, shortly after midnight, and the silk was car- ried from one part of the building to another before the intruders were frightened off. A— —Warren J. Bauman, of Lock Haven, has constructed an electric roadster in miniature for his children, which runs as well as the largest 1930 models. It is dark maroon in color with all the mod- ern improvements in equipment, fenders, bumpers, running boards, rubber tires, rubber floor covering, and has a storage battery to furnish the power to run the car, and the storage battery may be re- charged at night from an electric switch. —William Collins, aged 67 years, of of I.ewistown, had his left arm torn off at the shoulder when the sleeve of a heavy sheepskin coat, which he was wearing, caught in a cinder crusher at the block plant of James L. Shreffler at which he was working with Robert Pennebaker. He was rushed to Dr. F. W. Black’s hospital and it is believed that he willl recover. He is unmarried and lives with his brother, Charles Col- lins. —H. H. Styers, of Bennage Heights. Lock Haven, was held for court by Alderman Allen Sterner, following 2 hearing before that official Thursday afternoon, when Styers was formally charged with arson. Witnesses alleged that he set fire to his wife’s house on February 17, and when the prompt ac- tion of the Lock Haven fire department saved the building, again set fire to it the following morning, when the structure was burned to the ground. —Stanley Sibusky, chief of police of Exeter borough, near Scranton, has a warrant to serve on Lieutnant Com- mander Vincent A. Clarke, Jr., who commanded the naval dirigible Los An- geles on her recent flight over that sec- tion. The warrant, issued on orders of Burgess Louis A. N. Jacobs, charged the dirigible paid no heed to stop signals and passed two red lights on the main thoroughfare of the town. The action of the burgess is a puzzle to Sibulsky, who asked: . “What ’cha goin’ to do about it?” —Twenty-three boys from the Cooper township, Clearfield county, High school assisted in planting 1,700 fruit trees at the planting demonstration conducted by | the Agricultural Extension Association at the farm of Oscar Gustafson near Kyler- town, Monday afternoon, April 14. The boys are to be congratulated on the splendid interest which they took in the | work, Mr. Gustafson has also secured 11,500 white pine and 500 pitch pine seedlings for plantiing an acre and a | half of waste land lying adjacent to i the Kylertown-Snow Shoe road. —DMiss Marie Nolan, pretty road house , hostess, was fined $500. and sentenced | to from one to two years in the North- { umberland county jail at Sunbury, on { Monday, by Judge Lloyd after she | pleaded guilty to a technical jail break- | ing. : The young woman, who is said to ‘come of a prominent Northumberland | family, was convicted at the May term of breaking the law at the Out-of-Town Inn, near Shamokin. ° An application was made for a new trial. Before her bail could be renewed Miss Nolan dis- appeared. Two weeks ago she was caught at Lancaster. ) —It takes all kinds of jobs to make a police department, two officers of the Wilmerding force have learned. Town Council recently ousted James B. Ma- giire as chief and promoted H.L. Sny- der to head man of the department. But Maguire gets $242 a month and Chief Snyder only $175. Maguire was reinstated as a patrolman after Council passed a bill to increase patrolmen’s salary to $192 per month, They forgot, perhaps, to boost the wages for chiefs. Maguire also earns $50 a month as health officer, and woul rather be a cop than a chief. ; —Fire destroyed a section of the Buf- ; falo, Rochester and Pittsburgh railroad roundhouse and one locomotive and the total $250,000. , Thirteen locomotives were in the sec- ; tion of the roundhouse that was burned. 1 The one destroyed was valued at $80,- and the value of the others was ated at between $25,000 and $75,- , 000 each. Hoisting apparatus in the shops also were destroyed. The fire ap- parently started on the roof. The ' emergency fire crew at the shops wac unable to cope with it and the DuBoi: department was called out. The nort! half of the building was burned befor: . the flames were controlled. The entire: loss is placed at a quartermillion dol: lars. —A woman who becomes a bigamis! forfeits her right to support from thc first husband, even though the secon” mate dies, Judge E. C. Newcomb rule in the case of Margaret Morrison again: Elvin Morrison, of Scranton. While th Morrisons were living in Hamburg, Su:- N. J., the wife separate’ from the defendant and went to Ne: York city. In 1921 she married Jame W. Bailey without having obtained - divorce from her first husband, th court records show. A year and a hal ago Bailey died. Two weeks ago th woman caused the arrest of Morrison on a charge of non-support and deser- tion. An Alderman’s ruling in her fav- or was appealed, and Judge Newcoml handed down a decision that she had | sex county, —Read the Watchman and getall be so, but ome track is as good &8 forfeited all claims against her first the news. | a dozen above the clouds. mate.