Pemorvalic; tcp
INK SLINGS
——1In any event the Philadelphia
ang will not move its base to Har-
isburg, this year.
The President hurried home
n Sunday to find out that he
oesn’t know much about tariff
uilding.
—The “wet” party was an unknown
uantity in the equation. Hereafter
s strength may be estimated more
ccurately.
The navy men are opposed to
x inch guns at any price and a
illion dollars is a sum of at least
ight inch calibre.
— Senator Borah is rushing ac-
on on the London treaty. He doesn’t
ant public sentiment to develop
an the wrong side.
— The threat of an extra ses-
on of the Senate seems to have had
ore force than all the arguments
i favor of the London pact.
——The astronomical scientists
ave decided to call the new planet
luto in honor of “dark and distant
gions” through which it rides.
——Senators and Representatives
. Congress have now tackled a job
! their own size. They are holding
“horse shoe pitching tournament”
. Washington, to-day.
—When the Democratic State
entral committee meets at Har-
sburg, next Thursday, to select a
ate chairman for the coming year
should elect John R. Collins, if
3 can be persuaded to continue the
gnal service he has given the
arty since assuming that office. His
18 been a labor of love, but it
1s been a mighty creditable labor.
—Mr. Grundy admits that his
fort to get a chance to succeed
meself in the United States Senate
st him $291,000, Of this sum
rery cent but $40,000.00 came out
"his own pocket. Probably a
1arter of a million dollars means
thing to Mr. Grundy. When we
ink of that much money we can’t
mceive of any office we'd trade it
r.
—Parking conditions are becoming
» serious in the, central sections of
ellefonte that something will have
be done for the business houses
1d residences affected. By way of
solution we suggest to council that
pass an ordinance making it un-
wful for any one to park a car
rectly in front of the entrance to
business place, residence or garage
or in this borough. People living
syond the boundaries of Allegheny
shop, Spring and Howard streets
wve no conception of what park-
g means, on Wednesday and Sat-
‘day nights, to those who. live:
ithin those boundaries. There is
) more reason for a doctor or a
tel proprietor having a preempted
ace than there is for a grocer, a
inting office or a resident. In
ct the resident is most entitled
it because he or she is only ask-
g for a chance to get into his
vn home.
—Jf the Philadelphia Republicans
ant candidates who can beat Pin-
lot why don’t they impress “Amos
id Andy.” There's a team to
mjure with” The country is so
azy about them that they’d actual-
find a host of supporters were
ey injected into a presidential race.
nd why have they made countlesss
ymes in this broad land change
eir dinner hour since they start-
| their patter on daylight saving
me, We can tell you one rea-
n: No one has ever heard either
Amos” or “Andy” utter a blasphe-
ous word, no one has ever heard
ther one of them resort to a risque
ory or a shady insinuation. They
'e clean as hound’s teeth, their
iccadillos are just what everybody
se gets into and “Amos” vein of
udence and caution and “Andy’s”
niable thoughtlessness of the mor-
w are types of exactly what all
us see every day of our lives. To
ose who really get “Amos and
andy” it is easy to understand their
1d on the millions who make no
gagements for the period that
ey are on the air.
—In a speech in Philadelphia, on
onday, Mr. Pinchot took it for
anted that the fight for Governor
to be a “wet” and “dry” con-
st. How the gentleman gets that
3y only those who know how
xy he is understand. He is in-
ming the church people, bam-
ozling them into flocking to his
nner with statements that are
ly half truths. Mr. Hemphill is
candidate for Governor, also. He
Ss made no statement as to where
stands on the prohibition ques-
yn. Until he does that Mr. Pin-
ot is assuming a condition that does
t exist. Besides, it dcesn’t matter
iether the Governor of Pennsyl-
nia is “wet” or “dry.” He can’t
ange the Eighteenth amendment,
Smith, a “wet,” was Governor of
sw York when Pinchot, a “dry,”
1s Governor of Pennsylvania and
10 is there to say that conditions
sre any worse in New York city
an they were in Philadelphia or
ttsburgh? In the election of
United States Senator this ques-
n is important; for a Senator has
voice in manking enforcement
vs. As it happens Mr. Pinchot’s
nning mate, James J. Davis, is
“wet” at heart. And we would
e to know whether Mr. Pinchot
hoping that the church people
11 rally to Davis, also.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. MAY 30. 1930.
VOL. 75.
Bishop Cannon’s Operations Reviewed
The general conference of the
Methodist church, South, in session
at Dallas, Texas, has exonerated
Bishop Cannon from blame on ac-
count of his activities in the Presi-
dential campaign of 1928. The rec-
ords of the Senate Lobby commit-
tee, which were available to the
conference, show that he received
for use in that campaign some $48,-
000 more than he reported to Con-
gress under the provisions of the
Corrupt Practices law, so that he
must have committed perjury in fil-
ing his report. The constitution of
the church organization forbids such
political activity as he practiced in
that campaign. In view of these
facts it would seem that he ought
to have been censured, at least.
Such church dignitaries as Bishop
James Cannon Jr. bring reproach,
rather than honor, to organized
Christian religion and shielding
them vastly impairs the value of
church work. If Bishop Cannon used
the $48,000 in campaign work and
reported under oath that he receiv-
ed a much smaller sum, he is
guilty of perjury. If he appropriat-
ed the money to his own use or to
some other purpose than that for
which it was given him, he is
guilty of embezzlement. He has
certainly impaled himself on one
horn or the other of this dilemma.
Unless his fellow-Bishops are mental-
ly blind they must have seen this
fact and their white-washing report
exculpating him from blame is
absurd.
It is true that the general con-
ference has determined to put Bish-
op Cannon on trial on another
charge of conduct unbecoming a
Bishop of the church. The lobby
inquiry brought into public view
that Bishop Cannon was actively
engaged in the gambling orgie of
Wall street, during or just before
the distastrous panic of last fall,
and the conference has determined
to put him upon trial for “bucket
shop speculation.” Of course thatis
not as serious an offense as per-
jury or embezzlement, but it is suf-
ficiently obnoxious to moral ethics
to deserve punishment. It remains
to be seen what the conference will
do in the matter, but if it is just
to the great body which it repre-
sents it will be plenty.
——John J. Raskob’s expectation
that prohibition will end within two
years in this country is likely tobe
disappointed. The Anti-saloon Lea-
gue war chest will not be exhausted
that soon.
No Cause for Worry.
If the tariff bill should die in the
conference committee, as now seems
probable, the country would have
no great cause for regret. It would
prove that the Republican party is
incapable of governing. For more
than a year Congress has been
wrestling with this measure of leg-
islation with the result that the
Senate and the House of Repre-
sentatives are dead-locked on some
of its most important provisions. If
they are unable to come to an
agreement the present law will re-
main in force. It can hardly be
said that that would be a calamity.
The present law is bad but the
proposed measure is infinitely worse.
It satisfies nobody and defeats the
purpose it was intended to promote.
According to information from
Washington the ireconcilable dif-
ference between the chambers is on
the provision for the so-called deb-
enture on farm - products written
inte the bill by the Senate. The
debenture scheme is objectionable
on economic grounds but no more
so than the ship subsidy now in
operation or the Farm Board boun-
ty plan which has the cordial ap-
proval of President Hoover, The
flexible provision, adopted by the
House, is abhorrent to that provision
of the constitution which vests all
legislation in Congress, During the
campaign for President Mr. Hoover
denounced it as a dangerous usur-
pation of power by the President,
but which he as President now covets.
With the system of mass produc-
tion which now obtains. in the
country open markets are essential
to prosperity. Factories can’t en-
dure if there are no markets for
their products. There are already |
signs on all sides that if the pro- |
posed tariff act becomes a law the
best markets will be closed to our |
wares. France, Canada and Ar- |
gentina have already taken steps
in this direction and dozens of oth-
er customer countries are prepar-
ing to adopt the same policy. In
view of these facts we see no rea-
son to worry because there is a
prospect that the tariff bill will die
in the conference committee. A just
tariff bill might have been enacted
.months ago and would have served
‘a good purpose.
Democrats Nominated Pinchot.
Can They Elect Hemphill ?
So far as our memory carries the result of the recent primary |
has never had a parallel in the
Even a thought that the minority party in the State could nominate
the candidate for Governor of the majority party would have been
congeption prior to last Tuesday;
considered too ridiculous for
that is exactly what happened.
Democrats who had changed their registration in order to vote for |
him at the Primary. If you think this is not so, take Centre county
as a base for a bit of computation. The records in the County Com-
missioner’s office show that exactly 358 Democrats changed their
registration this spring. This is not guess work. It is fact, for each
one of their certifications is on file and can be seen by anyone.
addition to these personal certifications of change the assessors
changed the registration of many
ascertained by comparison
We have every reason to believe, for we
of a number of them, that ninety. per cent of those who changed
their registration did it for the Sole purpose of voting for Pinchot.
This changing of party affiliation was a matter of pre-primary
interest all over the State and it ig reasonably certain that it went
on, more or less, in every county in the State.
Leaders of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union urged it. They
were even so insistent upon its being done that they told officers of local
Unions that if they failed to do so they would be unfaithful to their
organization and should resign their offices.
With such an influence at work on those who visualize and
idealize Pinchot as a second Roosevelt isn’t it probable that fully as
large a percentage of the electorate changed in every county in
There are sixty seven counties
only four hundred Democrats in each of them professed to be Repub-
to vote for their idol in the primaries they would
least, twenty six
far in excess of his majority over Mr.
only be
the State as did in Centre.
licans in order
have given him, at the very
dred votes. This is a total
Brown.
Waiving discussion of the moral delinquency in such a practice
we are at a loss to understand the mental processes of Democrats
If elected Governor Mr. Pinchot will not do a thing
for Pennsylvania that Mr, Hemphill, the nominee of the Democratic
Mr. Pinchot promised to do a lot of things that
he knew he couldn’t do unless he had a favorable Legislature with
him and in those promises practiced deception on the credulous who
far enough to discover the deception.
who indulged it.
party will not do.
didn’t think
cannot reduce the tax on gasoline.
driver's license down a cent. Norcan he reduce the motor license fee
without the consent of the Legislature.
While not so pyrotchnical Mr.
honorable as the Sage of Milford and,
he could get more by way of beneficial
of the General Assembly than Mr.
Pinchot can if he finds himself in the executive mansion after next
Democrat and as Governor,
legislation from the next. session
November.
As Governor, Pattison did m
a
did, Refute that if you can.
As State Treasurer, William H. Berry did
Pennsylvania than Pinchot did as Governor. Refute that if you can.
We are not impugning Mr. Pinchot’s motives or his desires. We
are stating facts. Already the forces of the Republican organization
in the State are at work to circumvent his election. They might not
be able to accomplish that purpose, but they will make sure that
the Senate and the House are made up of enough Members who
can be depended upon to deny Pinchot any legislation that would
tend to exalt him into a national political figure.
the heart of Pennsylvania’s Republican organization than tohave a
Presidential nominee, but it will die fighting to keep that glory away
from Pinchot. And if heis elected Governor it will fight him in Har-
risburg from January 1931 until January 1935.
the first time
have a real chance to elect a Governor.
crats for? Surely it has not been for the political loaves and fishes. We
are Democrats because of a conviction that our ideals of government are
better than those of the opposition. We proved the truth of that con-
viction when Robert E. Pattison had a chance in the gubernatorial
chair. We proved it when Woodrow Wilson was in the White House.
Let us grasp this chance to prove it again by electing Hemphill
Aside from this, for
Governor of Pennsylvania.
Opportunity to show that the party we are affiliated with
is something more than a name is knocking at our door mow, but
we won't grasp it if too many of us are Pinchot minded and the
facts revealed by the recent primary indicate that many are.
us make no fusions, no deals with anyone.
Let
the campaign fairly and squarely
party
State, than anything
time to either.
And there will
fof the old and new registry lists.
org for Pennsylvania than Pinchot
eager to show Pennsylvania what we can do if the reins of
government are thrown into our hands next November.
A Democratic administration at Harrisburg would be better
for Pennsylvania, it would be better for the Republican party in the
else, politically, that could happen at this
’
be a Democratic administration at Harrisburg if
Democrats and the “wets” and the “drys” and the warring Repub-
lican factions join us in the offer of a truce
give them time to ponder whither they are drifting.
|
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political history of Pennsylvania. |
yet
Mr. Pinchot was nominated by
In |
emocrats. Just how many, can
have the personal statements
and if
thousand, eight hun-
Mr. Pinchot
He can’t put the cost of a motor
Hemphill is just as able and
it is our belief that as a
immeasurably more for
Nothing is nearer
in years, the Democrats
And what are we Demo-
Let us face
as Democrats, a cohesive, virile
long enough to
Morrow Surprises the Country.
Has Ambassador Dwight W. Mor-
row written a new political map of
the United States? = A week ago
Mr. Morrow was widely believed to
be the Hoover candidate for the
Republican nomination for United
States Senator for New Jersey. A
lot of machinery had been set in
motion to compass this = purpose.
He had somewhat distinguished him-
self as Ambassador in Mexico and
been favored by the President with
an appointment as delegate to the
London naval conference. Senator
Edge had been induced to resign the
toga to make room for Morrow and
to accommodate his convenience a
temporary appointment was made.
Finally he determined to defer en-
trance into = the Senatorial arena
until elected by the people.
Upon his return from London,
where he may have been a very
useful though an inconspicuous
member of the naval conference, he
was offered the Senatorial commis-
sion under the original agreement
supposed to have been approved by
the President, but declined the hon-
or. Last week, however, at a
meeting held in Newark, he not on-
ly announced his candidacy for the
Senate but phrased it in language
which has been interpreted by al-
most the entire press of the coun-
try as an invitation to nominate
him for the Presidency in 1932, The
scheme to put him into the Senate
was an expedient to guarantee the
renomination of Mr. Hoover. It is
more likely to defeat than promote
that purpose.
In his speech announcing his can-
didacy for the Senate Mr. Morrow
said a good many things that de-
serve and will receive popular favor.
He is not opposed to prohibition,
exactly, but he is opposed to the
processes which have failed to en-
force prohibition, and he is practi-:
cally in favor of the plan promul-
gated by Governor Smith during the
campaign of 1928 for the regula-
lation of the traffic in liquor and
the promotion of temperance. In
fact there is a good deal of the
spirit of Jeffersonian Democracy in
his plan of dealing with this vexed |
problem. It may not get Mr. Mor-
row into the Senate or promote an!
ambition to be President, but it,
marks him as a man of independ-
ence and courage. |
|
The rum runners may Solve
the prohibition problem if they keep
on killing each other.
NO. 22.
BORROWING FROM SMITH.
From the Boston Post.
Former Governor Smith's solu-
tion of the prohibition question, as
put forward by him the 1928 cam-
paign and sharply criticised by the
Republican campaign speakers, now
receives the formal endorsement of
Dwight W. Morrow, who makes it
the chief plank in his platform in
his quest for the Republican sena-
torial nomination in New Jersey.
Mr. Smith proposed the repeal of
the eighteenth amendment by the
substitution therefore of an amend-
ment restoring to the States the
power to determine their own
policy toward the liquor traffic.
This proposal has been adopted
by Mr. Morrow in its entirety.
The significance of the Morrow
stand on prohibition rests in the
close personal and political relation-
ship between Pres. Hoover and Mr.
Morrow. It would be very far
fetched to argue that Mr. Morrow's
stand commits the President in any
‘way, but at the same time, Mr.
Morrow would be hardly likely to
run on a platform which was dis-
tasteful to President Hoover,
Mr. Morrow goes the full dis-
tance as a wet. He evidently has
little sympathy with “modification”
ideas. He is for “repeal.” The
Literary Digest poll has shown that
repeal sentiment is vastly stronger
than modification sentiment among
the opponents of prohibition.
New Jersey is emphatically a wet
State. Mr. Morrow’s stand is cal-
culated to help him politically. Nev-
ertheless, so high-minded a man as
Dwight Morrow can hardly be
accused of shifting his position
from motives of expediency. ;
Just how far Mr. Morrow's views
will affect the Republican campaign
is a question. Candidates in dry
States will repudiate it with scorn.
But a number of Republican can-
didates who are at present on
“the fence” may be influenced to
take a position in favor of repeal.
Meanwhile, former Governor Smith
may contemplate the situation
with an amused smile. He has made
a convert of one of the most power-
ful (if not the most powerful) fig-
ures in the Hoover administration,
who appears to have rejected the
policy of his chief for
prohibition
that of the leader of the Demo-
| cartic Party.
Political Probing,
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
The Forbes magazine declares
that political probing has been run-
ning amuck and asks, “why not a
thorough-going probe of the prob-
ers?”
fluence of politicians on business
that a jury of American peuple,
conducting a probe of efficiency, the
business-like methods—rather the in-
efficiency, the unbusiness-like meth-
ods— of the United States Senators
would declare as thoroughly capable
the business executives who are the
victims of the Senate critics. Vari-
ous Washington politicians, it is as-
serted, are aching to inject the gov-
ernment still deeper into business.
What proof, asks this magazine,
have politicians given in the past
of their superlative capability for
running or directing the running of
business or other enterprises. Mus-
trating this point reference is made
to the government's attempt to run
the nation’s railroads during the
war, which required railway mana-
gers years to undo the colossal
blunders then perpetrated.
Then the government entered the
shipping business on a grand scale,
making another deplorable failure.
Even the politicians have become
reconciled to the entire necessity for
turning over shipping to those who
know it. Prison doors were opened
for punishment of those who inject-
ed politics into the administration
of the Veterans’ Bureau.
It is further argued that politi-
cally-appointed judges have favored
friends in alloting fat receiverships
and the losses suffered by creditors
have been staggering. So scandalous
did conditions become in New York
city that drastic action was finally
found necessary as a remedy. Serv-
ices of large banking institutions
were enlisted. Other flagrant abuses
resulting from the injection of poll-
tics into business are presented in
support of this stinging arraignment
as to the shortcomings of the so-
called statesmen who have made a
holy show of themselves at Wash-
inton in recent months.
John L. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers, who
lives in Illinois, seems to have
“granted, bargained, sold, aliened,
enfeoffed, released, conveyed and
confirmed” the votes of the min-
ers of Pennsylvania to the Vare
machine.
— If Mr. Curran, of New York,
president of the Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment, has good
sense he will keep his fingers and
mouth out of the Pennsylvania
campaign.
——The big vote for Pinchot in
Luzerne county is an appropriate
response to the order of President
Lewis, of the United Mine Workers’
organization, to vote for the other
fellow.
It is pointed out by the in-.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—James Maurer, of Reading, who
served for sixteen years as president of
the Pennsylvania State Federation of
Labor, advocated a four-day week anc
a four-hour day in an address at the or-
ganization’s twenty-ninth annual conven-
tion in Altoona this week.
—A separate judicial district for Mif-
flin county has been sought for several
years and is expected to be realized at
the next session of the Legislature. This
is due to the fact that in the census
just reecntly taken Mifflin county has
gone over the 40,000 mark.
—As the result of a dynamiting case
that ocurred in DuBois nine years ago
“Big Angello” Carmella, who was ar-
rested in Buffalo recently, must serve a
period of from 6 to 12 years in the
western penitentiary, in compliance with
a sentence passed out in Clearfield court
Monday by Judge A. R. Chase.
—In a desperate defense of his realm
against an invader a bald eagle perished
in Buffalo Valley, Perry county, last
week. Farmers saw him make a furious
swoop at an airplane as it appeared
over the mountains. He hit the propel-
ler head on. The farmers found the de-
capitated body. The wing spread was
six feet.
When a sliver from a large spike
which he was driving into a railroad tie
flew off and severed his jugular vein,
while at work on the Western Mary-
land Railroad in Franklin county,
Charles O. Nichols, 26, employed as a
section hand by the railroad company,
died in the Waynesboro hospital Friday
evening.
—Eleven persons were driven to the
street and damage estimated by fire-
men at $30,000 was caused by fire which
ate its way through the third floor
of the Journal building at Braddock
early on Monday. The fire was believed
to have originated from an overheated
water heater. Firemen from nearby
towns helped local firemen fight the
blaze.
—Pennsylvanian’s Associated, Inc., an
organization of men interested in at-
tracting visitors to this State, with
Governor John S. Fisher, as honorary
chairman of the administrative advisory
committee, is planning a gathering which
will be asked to formally endorse a
program. This meeting is to be ad-
dressed by men successful in gaining
business for their communites.
—A joint fee of $500,000 for services as
counsel of the Rodman Wanamaker es-
tate, of which $100,000 already has been
paid, will go to Owen J. Roberts, re-
cently appointed associate justice of the
United States Suprenie court, and
Maurice Bower Saul, Philadelphia at-
torney. The Wanamaker estate is ap-
praised at $53,434,907, and the income
tax on same, federal and State, will be
$2,800,000. 5
— When three of the four living grad
uates of the class of 1880 of the
Pennsylvania State College meet at the
College for their fiftieth commencement
anniversary this June, they will see a
class being graduated which will make
the year's graduation total more than
one hundred times as large as their
own. Seven were graduated in the class
while more than 700 will receive their
diplomas in 1830. Of these 620 will be
granted on June 10.
—A new menace to the conservation
of ruffed grouse has turned up in Mifflin
county. While driving his grocery
truck, R. S. Kauffman, of Lewistown,
sighted 10 young grouse stuck fast in
tar recently put on the new highway
near Three Springs. He rescued. the
birds, took them to Orbisonia, and noti-
fied deputy game warden S. H. Price,
who placed the birds with a chicken
hen, but the coat of tar on their feet
and exposure had so weakened them
that they all died.
_-State Librarian Frederic A. God-
charles is preparing to have conveyed
to the State museum at Harrisburg the
Indian collection of Jerald B. Fenste-
macher, well-known Lancaster county
authority on Indian life and habitat.
The collection embraces more than
30,000 pieces, running all the way from
beads up to Indian pots and pipes. The
collection was made, for the most part,
in Lancaster county. It is one of the
largest and most valuable in the country.
It represents a lifetime of work on the
part of Mr. Fenstemacher, and has been
bought by the State for a nominal sum.
More than $1000 in counterfeit money
was found by State policemen in the
home of Dominick Lardinelli, of Mocana-
qua, Columbia county after he was ar-
rested on a charge of passing counter-
feit money. He is held in the Columbia
county jail for further investigation be-
fore being turned over to Federal au-
thorities. His arrest followed the pass-
ing of counterfeit money at four gaso-
line stations between Bloomsburg al
fle. In his home Corporal ew-
Dard found 47 $10 bills and 17 $20
bills, all counterfeit Federal Reserve
notes. They are described as being
good imitations.
—The search for Anthony Celin, 50
years old, of North Fork, Elk county,
was brought to an end Monday after-
noon at 2 o'clock with the finding of
his body about 1,000 feet from a camp
in the mountains, hanging to the limb
of a tree. Celin disappeared from his
home two weeks ago last Saturday with-
out hat or coat, and his family feared
that he had been overcome by illness in
the woods. The body was found by
John Mullhaupt and a detail of St.
Mary's junior traffic police, after an in-
tensive 6-hour search of that section
where he was last seen. He leaves &
wife and four children.
—Many problems of vital importance
to boroughs of the State will come up
for discussion at Beaver Falls June 11,
12 and. 13, at the twentieth annua’
convention of the State Association o’
Boroughs. The matter of uniform traf-
fic ordinances will be one of the fore
most topics, and the speakers who wil
discuss the subject include Benjamin CG
Eynon, State Commissinor of Moto
vehicles. Stephen G. Rush, financial di-
rector of Cleveland, will talk on matter
pertinent to borough finances and Chas.
H. Young, State Public Service Com-
missioner, will speak on the topic, “The
Public Service Commission and Its Re-
| lation to Municipalities.” United States
Senator David A. Reed and Secretary of
Labor James J. Davis are expected to
address the annual banquet on the eve-
ning of the 1ith,