Bemorai itn |
INK SLINGS
Appropriately the = President
offers an apology to the country
for approving the Grundy tariff bill.
— Up to this writing nothing has
developed to prove that our old
friends the “Afaletics” are so hot.
And Mr. Al Simmons’ bat. basn’t
been making a noise that’ would
justify his spring hold-out.
— Now that the sweet girl gradu-
ates have had the spot-light shifted
from them they're out on the mad
chase for most anybody who has
money enough to pay for an oc-
casional five cent drink at a fizz
club.
—That Sharkey-Schmeling contest
for the heavy weight championship
had the aroma of over-ripe fish and
if you've ever been kissed by a
Siwash squaw after she has dined
on that Siwash delicatessen you'll
know exactly what we mean.
—The new tariff bill is passed,
the President has signed it and no-
body seems to be happy. Everyone
knew that Mr. Hoover was a good
engineer, but there are many who
are beginning to fear that good en-
gineers are not necessarily good
Presidents.
— Wednesday news from Harris-
burg was to the effect that the
east wall of the new State building
is eighteen inches out of plumb. In-
asmuch as none of the engineers
have offered an explanation as to
how it got that way we venture
one: Secretary Dorworth might have
used it as a leaning post while
pondering over his political future.
—Wheat is under a dollar a
bushel, grass is short and thin,
cut worms are in the corn, milk
prices are down thirty per cent
and receiving stations are grading
two milk as three and the pledge
of the St. Louis convention to do
something for the farmers—which
Mr. Hoover thinks he is keeping—
is being kept like the old woman
kept tavern out west.
—The mew tariff bill has passed
both the Senate and the House and
the people who think a tariff isany-
thing more than a local issue are
seeing things already. They are
seeing the farmer getting two dol-
lars for his wheat and they are see-
ing men greasing up the wheels of
industry and they are seeing a
helluva lot of things being done by
a tariff that only the natural law
of supply and demand can do.
_So far as we have heard the
Hon. Holmes has not started his
campaign for the Legislature yet.
When he does we'll bet he won't be
pinning any roses on himself for,
hoving ~ voted for the gasoline tax
pill. Everytime you take a ride in
your car just remember that the
gas that is making it go cost you
two cents a gallon more than there
was any necessity for it costing
you and the Hon. Holmes voted to
put the tax on you.
— Jean Millet has gone to jail
for a year for selling paintings as
his grandfather's, painter of the
“Angelus,” own work. Poor Jean!
It's just too bad. Especially so,
since the chances are great that
not one who bought the spurious
canvases knew or ever would have
known that they were not genuine
Millets. People who buy books by
the foot and paintings by the
square yard aren't worth sending
the person who sells them to jail a
minute for.
—The appeal we made last week
for all our readers to get paid in
advance has met with some re-
sponse. While it has not been near-
ly as general as we would like it
to be, we have hope that everyone
of our subscribers will take it as
seriously as it was intended and
get into the advanced class before
the thirty days have expired. We
know our readers. Uncle Sam
doesn’t. And we'd like to introduce
him to a subscription list that will
tell him on its face that it should
be the least of his worries.
. —Mr. Morrow's overwhelming ma-
jority in the New Jersey senatorial
primary is another straw that shows
which way the wind is blowing. He
was « the first Republican of any
eminence who had the courage to
stop trying to ride a “wet” and a
“dry” horse at the same time. His
victory means just two things: The
public is tired of pussey-footing
politicians and the public compre-
hends many people who are gaining
courage enough to vote their honest
convictions, regardless of political
expediency or ranting fanatics.
—The lady who wrote from State
College to tell us that she didn’t
want to see us have to go to jail
is as dear. During the eight years
that ended last June seventh so
many ladies thought jail was far
too good for us that we had lost
some faith in the gentler sex. The
idea of going to jail isn’t so horrible
after one becomes inured to it—the
idea we mean. Life has become
such a struggle and turmoil that
nine or twelve or eighteen months
surcease from fighting to get the
meal ticket each Saturday night
seems almost like basking in the
Elysian fields with nothing but a
«gun suit” on. Gosh, we must snap
out of this morbid frame of mind.
The first thing we know we'll be
batterin’ on Sheriff Dep’s big door
and be asking or our number.
RAR
VOL. 75.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Grundy Tariff Bill Passed.
The monstrous Grundy tariff bill
passed the Senate finally on Friday
of last week with forty-four votes
in the affirmative, five of which
were cast by Democrats, against
forty-two negatives. It carries a
burden of taxation much higher
than any previous legislation in the
history of the country. It has been
forced to passage in violation of the
Kansas City platform, and in con-
tempt of the wishes of the Presi-
dent and against the protest of
more than a thousand of the leading
political economists of the country
as well as a majority of the fore-
most manufacturers, farmers and
business men. What malign in-
fluence led to this result can only
be conjectured,
There was no excuse for increased
tariff taxation at this time. The
pretense that tariff taxing agricul-
tural products will benefit producers
is absurd. Products of the farm
have never been, are not now and
never will be imported in sufficient
quantity to make a tariff tax bene-
ficial to farmers. The statement
that manufacturing interests need
additional tariff taxation is deliber-
ately falsifying the facts. The only
purpose which the legislation
achieves is the fulfillment of the
pledges made by Joe Grundy that
contributors to the Republican cam-
paign fund would be reimbursed by
increased tariff taxation. This will
be accomplished at an expense of a
billion dollars a year to consumers
of the country.
The temporary triumph of the
tariff mongers in the passage of
this larcenous legislation will be
short-lived. Past history proves
that voters of the country resent
such crimes against justice and
reason. The tariff law which Presi-
dent Taft first denounced and sub-
sequently signed, not only defeated
his party in the following Congres-
sional election but made him a one-
term President. The Grundy law
will not be an exception. If it has
not already taken Mr. Grundy
of official life it will take his party
out of control of Congress next
November. And it will prevent for-
all time the establishment of an
organized trading post on the floor
of the Senate chamber.
— The President-elect of Brazil
is having a fine time in this country
but the new tariff bill is likely to
undo the friendships he is trying to
establish.
Chairman Huston’s Lame Defense.
Chairman Huston, of the Republi-
can National committee, shows scant
respect for the intelligence of the
members of that body in his recent |
letter justifying the misappropria-
tion of funds entrusted to him as a
lobbyist. In a form letter sent to
each member of the committee he
protests that (‘the charges against
him growing out of his activities
concerning Muscle Shoals legislation
are the result of a campaign direct-
ed by partisan opponents in the
hope of injuring the Republican Na-
tional organization, the National ad-
ministration and myself.” As a mat-
ter of fact the accusers of chair-
man Huston are mostly friends of
the National administration who are |
striving to shield the President.
The complaints against Mr. Hus-
ton are that he was a conspicuous
figure in a conspiracy to convert an
immensely valuable property of the
government to the ownership of the
power trust and thus defeat a laud-
able purpose to provide cheap fer-
tilization to the farmers of the
country, and that he had misused
funds contributed by a subsidiary
of the power trust to strengthening
his margin account in Wall Street
speculative operations. To both
charges he pl:ads guilty in his form
letter to the committeemen and then
trusts to their credulity to swallow
the statement that the charges are
based on malice.
On the day that chairman Hus-
ton’s limping defense was made
public the newspapers of this State
carried an account of the suicide
of a Wilkes-Barre banker who had
embezzled a large sum of money
from the bank in which he was
employed. His trial for the crime
was approaching and to escape the
certain penalty he took his own
life. In using money contributed to
Muscle Shoals lobby fund for an-
other purpose chairman Huston
committed the same crime and the
turpitude of one rests upon the
other. Instead of trying to injure
the National administration by mak-
ing the charges against Huston the
complainants are trying to save it.
It is Huston who is injuring the
President.
——TIt looks
profession of reform was a thinly
disguised false pretense.
out '
as if King Carol's |
Interesting But Useless Adventure.
i A new altitude record in aviation
has been set. On June 4th, at
| Anacostia Field, Washington, Lieu-
tenant Sousek, United States Navy.
drove his small plane to a level of
43,166 feet above the surface of the
earth. His ship is a Wright Apache,
BELLEFONTE, PA.. JUNE 20. 1930.
NO. 25.
The .Only Sure Remedy.
Both the major political parties |
of Pennsylvania have reorganized |
for the impending campaign. The
Democratic State committee
|
as-
sembled at Harrisburg and by unan. |
imous vote and with much enthusiasm |
"re-elected John R. Collins chariman, |
powered with a supercharged Pratt
& Whitney Wasp engine.
Lieuten-
ant Sousek had previously acquired
the world’s seaplane altitude record,’
having just a year previously, in
the same plane, fitted with pontoons,
made a record of 38,560 feet. The
previous record for all types was
41,829 feet and held by Will
Neuenhoffen, of Germany. The rules
required that that figure be exceeded
by 328 feet. Lieutenant Sousek had
more than 1000 feet to spare.
At the 43,000 feet altitude the
temperature was 89 degrees below
zero, an almost intolerable cold. “In
this blasting cold,” he says, “with
the air so thin that it held the plane
with difficulty, I remained twenty
minutes trying to force the machine
a little higher.” He felt like ly-
ing back against the side of the
cockpit “and letting everything go.”
But he didn’t do anything of the
kind. When the feeling of despond-
ency came upon him he “pressed
the valve of the oxygen tank tube
and gave himself a good shot of
the gas.” This restored his strength
and courage and he repeated it as
' often as necessary. But when he
returned to the earth he was very
much exhausted.
These daring and grueling ex-
periences are interesting to see or
read about but to the average mind
they are of little practical use.
They contribute little, if anything,
toward promoting the art or science
of aviation. They are of no value
, either in offensive or defensive war
, operations, being too high for en-
| counter with an enemy and too far
| from the target to drop bombs with
' efficiency. They may serve the pur-
pose of gratifying adventurous
spirits or flattering the vanity of
ambitious = operatives, careless of
ithe lives of themselves or others.
Of course Lieutenant Sousek showed
‘wonderful courage, splendid endur-
ance and much fortitude, and he
is welcome to all the glory of his
achievement.
——The Senate lobby committee
kept itself alive too long. In the
| beginning it rendered some valuable
service but in the end it degenerated
into a public nuisance.
rr ———————p A ————————
Interesting Problem to Politicians.
It may be assumed that the polit.
‘ical minded element of the public
| will await with intense interest for
further developments in the contro-
versy between the Lobby committee
of the Senate and Bishop James
Cannon Jr. The Bishop has been
treating the committee rather cav-
alierly since he appeared before it
as a voluntary witness and finally,
the other day, practically “thumbed
his nose” at those members who
were interrogating him. In other
words, instead of answering perti-
nent questions relative to the sub.
ject under investigation he declared
he would answer no more questions
and left the room in a manner
which led Senator Walsh to believe
was “for the purpose of defying the
committee.”
Since the general conference of
his church, in session at Dallas,
Texas, recently, exculpated Bishop
Cannon from charges of misconduct
in connection with political activi-
ties and speculative operations
of questionable character, he seems
to have grown bold. The evidence
of another witness revealed the
fact that he had received a consid.
erable sum of money for use inthe
campaign against Governor Smith
which had not been accounted for,
and the records of New York brok-
er's office indicated that he had
been engaged in some spurious
transactions in bucket.shop specula-
tions. But for some reason, against
the protest of many members of the
conference, that body gave him a
clean bill of moral health.
When the Bishop first defied the
committee by refusing to answer
relevant questions, the chairman,
Senator Caraway, justified his attl-
tude. But Mr. Caraway insisted
on answers to similar questions by
other witnesses, even to the extent
of threatening them with contempt
proceedings. Other committees of
jof the Senate charged with the
same service have sent witnesses,
including the multimillionaire, Harry
Sinclair, to jail for refusing to
| answer questions. In view of these
| facts what will be done in this case
isan interesting question. It is
‘true that Tom Cunningham, Phila.
| delphia politician, has escaped the
penalty for several years. Probably
. Bishop Cannon will be put in his
class.
‘Democratic meeting was
t
i
tr
‘and spiteful.
a quarter of a century. The Republi-
‘can party
‘Democratic ticket, chosen by unan-
imous consent, is composed of per-
‘machine, which Mr. Pinchot has de-
ing as his friends claim, but in the |
i
Senator Reed admits that the
The Republican State committee |
met in Philadelphia and after an
exceedingly vitriolic contest, re- ;
elected General Edward Martin, |
State Treasurer, chairman. The!
cordial, |
confident and harmonious. The Re-:
publican session was acrimonious |
Each convention ac- |
curately expressed the spirit and
temper of the party it represented. !
The Democratic party is in the
pest form for a successful battle in
Pennsylvania that it has been in for
is. in the worst. The!
sons of highest type. Bach meas-
ures up to the Jeffersonian standard
and commands not only the respect
but the admiration of all right.
minded men and women. The Re-
publican ticket, with the exception
of the candidate for Governor, is
the hand-picked product of the Vare
nounced as a band of thieves bent
on looting the treasury of the Com-
monwealth.
It is for the people of Penn-
sylvania to decide between these
two offerings. It will not do to
say that Mr. Pinchot’s election will
afford a guarantee, or even a prom-
ise, of integrity in the government
of the State.
He may be as deserv- |
event of the success of his party
the Legislature and all the fiscal
offices will be under control of the
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh political
pirates, and the looting which Mr.
Pinchot deplored will become inevi-
table. One man can’t check the
flood of corruption. The only way
to guarantee honest administration
of the government of Pennsylvania
is to elect the Democratic ticket.
Grundy tariff bill is bad, but The
voted for it for the reason that a
bad bill is better than no bill,
Hoover’s Lame Apology.
President Hoover's apology for ap-
proving the Grundy tariff bill wasa
lame performance. A measure with
the faults which he admits impair
that piece of legislation, ought to
have been vetoed. That it is so
burdened had been previously point- |
ed out both by Senator Reed and |
Senator Grundy, of Pennsylvania.
Even the Republican floor leader of
the Senate, Mr. Watson, of Indiana,
lamented its weaknesses. The Sen-
ators may offer the excuse of polit-
ical expediency. They are slaves
to partisanship. But the President
of the United States can present no
such alibi, Besides, Mr. Hoover's is
palpably insincere and deliberately
misleading.
At the outset of his apology
Mr. Hoover states in sub-
stance that the Grundy bill fulfills
the Kansas City platform promise
of tariff legislation that will benefit
the farmer equally with the manu-
facturer. He certainly knows that
is not true. As a matter of fact
it provides no benefit to the farmer
for the reason that farm products
are rarely imported. But the in-
crease in the tax on shoes, sugar,
implements and many other commod-
ities which the farmer has to buy
affects him adversely and multiplies
the burdens he has to bear. If
Mr. Hoover imagines he can fool the
farmer with such talk he is mis-
taken.
He will be equally disappointed
in his expectation that the general
public will be deceived by his plati-
tudes with respect to the operations
of the flexible provision. Before
that feature of the bill can be em-
ployed a tariff commission must be
appointed and the commission must
make investigations and reports.
These proceedings will consume SO
much time that both the patience
and the resources of the farmers
will be exhausted before relief can
come to them by that process. It
is a purely manufactures’ bill and
a complete fulfillment of Joe Grun-
dy’s promises to campaign contrib-
utors.
-——Anyway Joe Grundy is much
better equipped to adorn a seat in
the lobby than to occupy one in the
Senate.
A ———— i ———————"
——The smoke screen raised by
Senators Reed and Grundy was en-
tirely too transparent to fool any-
body.
—— A ———————
—Read the Watchman and get all
the news.
~
FIFTY
| out more than one mishap.
i was brought
YEARS AGO
IN CENTRE COUNYY.
Items from the Watchman issue of
June 25, 1880.
—The Democratic National Con-
vention held in Cincinnati last week
concluded its labors with the nomi-
nation of Gen. Winfield Scott Han-
cock for President. Only two bal-
lots were necessary. Hon. W. H.
English, of Indiana, was the unani-
mous choice for Vice President.
—Citizens of Spring Mills are en-
gaged in making a public picnic
ground among the lofty spruce trees
that cover the base of “Egg Hill”
just to the south of the rail-road
station in that place.
—The large addition to the barn of
Chaney and Thompson near Port
Matilda was raised last Saturday.
About seventy-five men turned out
to help and every thing moved with
That
occurred when a stick fell and slight-
ly injured Frank Foust.
—James Marks, of Port Matilda,
has in his possession a gun barrel
that was found on Muncy mountain
with nothing but the muzzle stick-
ing out of the ground. It is four
| feet, nine inches long and has large
! open sights.
Some think it must
have been the weapon of an Indian.
—They are cutting wheat on
some farms in Spring township.
—The new census gives Belle-
fonte a population of 3,005.
—W. F. Reber and Miss Gertie
Butts, both of this place, were mar-
ried on Wednesday the 23rd inst,
at the residence of the bride's
mother, by Rev. Wm. A. Laurie.
Miss Butts is the eldest daughter
of the late Jere Butts and is a
rather fine looking young lady.
Mr. Reber is the court reporter for
this judical district, a lawyer by
| profession and a very clever young
man.
—The new census gives the popu-
lation of the principal towns of the
county as follows: Bellefonte 3005,
Philipsburg 1780, College Twp. 1430,
Unionville 398.
—Words fall to express
the weather is.
— John Martin, a citizen of How-
ard, was killed at a barn raising on
the “farm of James Garner last
Tuesday. .
—A fire in the wood house of
Samuel Decker, below Zion, de-
stroyed the building, a lot of wood
and, some farm implements. Just
when the fire was at its height
a shower of rain came on, which
probably saved Mr. Decker’s house
and barn.
—Last Monday a stock of wine
rhubarb from the garden of G. W.
Lonberger, on Nittany mountain,
into this office. The
leaf measured thirteen feet in cir-
cumference, three feet across and
three feet and a half from butt of
how hot
.{ contest.
| stem to end of leaf.
—On Sunday night last, between
9 and 10 o'clock, quite a portion of
the main steeple on the Presbyter-
jan church here fell with a terrific
crash, startling residents about
Spring and Howard streets and
crushing the church steps and side
walk. For a long time some people
have been saying that the steeple
is unsafe while others insist it is
the strongest part of the church.
However that may be the Rankins
who live on the corner across the
street are uneasy and have a right
to be.—(This steeple blew down
during a windstorm in the after-
noon in the fall of 1915, and’ the
church was not damaged ED.)
—Mr. Frank P. Blair,
place, was burned badly in the face
and eyes by the explosion of a
large fire cracker with which he
was attempting to create conster-
nation in a crowd at the Brocker-
hoff house. He was standing on
the balcony dropping the crackers
to the pavement and while watch-
ing the effect of one he had just
dropped another still in his hand
went off with direful results to
him.
—The Logan Hose Co. sixty men
strong and accompanied by the band,
will go to Altoona to participate in
the big firemen’s parade there on
the 5th.
— Our citizens are all gratified to
learn that there is now a prospect
of getting a new rail-road station
in Bellefonte. Last Tuesday Supt.
Pugh of the main line and Supt.
Blair of the Tyrone Division, were
here. After they left some hemlock
seed and acorns were sown and
just as soon as they grow into lum-
ber we will have a new station.
— Ambassador Dawes has been
offered the job of cleaning up
Chicago, and if he accepts the offer
it will be his biggest undertaking.
——There is likely to be some-
thing doing in Washington now.
Bishop Cannon has ordered swift
action on the prohibition bills.
—-One source of present satis.
faction lies in the certainty that the
session of Congress will soon ad-
journ.
of this
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Coming in contact with an electric
wire in the Gautier mill of the Beth-
lehem Steel corporation at Johnstown,
on Sunday, Anthony Costlow, 27, electric
repair man, was killed. He was work-
ing alone when the accident occurred
and the body was found by a fellow
workman.
—The insurance department of the Lock
Haven Chamber of Commerce has been
instrumental in securing a 7-cent cut
in the fire insurance rates for mercan-
tile buildings in the city of Lock Hav-
en, because of the improvements to the
Lock Haven water system made cover-
ing a period of more than a year.
—While seated at his desk calling the
roll of officers a few minutes before
midnight, last Thursday night, Wesley
W. Guthall, 70, captain of the night
watch at Pennsylvania State Industrial
Reformatory, at Huntingdon, died in
his chair. He had a record of 30 years
continous service at the reformatory.
—Franklin J. Graham, of Philadelphia,
former assistant U. S. district attorney
of Pennsylvania, was indicted by the
special federal grand jury in Williams-
port on Friday, on a charge of con-
spiring to violate the national prohibi-
tion law. The indictment presented
against him was on one count. If con-
victed he faces a jail term of two years,
a fine of $10,000, or both.
—Several of 400 money orders stolen
from the Rennerdale, Pa., postoffice have
been cashed in different sections of the
State and warnings have been broadcast
to be on the watch for the forged or-
ders. The person who has been cashing
the stolen orders is described as follows:
Between 40 and 50 years old, dark com-
plexion, heavy, dark beard, stocky build,
about five feet, seven inches tall,
weight 175 to 190 pounds, and has the
appearance of a farmer.
—Alfred C. Marshall, Jr., of Warriors
Mark, and Camden W. McConnell, of
Punxsutawney, are listed among those
who have received commissions as sec-
ond lieutenants in the United States
army, having been graduated from the
United States Military Academy at West
Point this year. Both students were
active in scholarly and athletic lines.
Both have left the academy for Balti-
more, Md., from which point they will
proceed to a regular army post to re-
ceive further military training.
—Dr. T. C. Harter, former member of
the Legislature from Columbia county,
was arrested on Monday, charged with
the sale and possession of liquor, and
was released in $1000 bail to appear at
the October term of court. Seven gal-
lors of alleged whisky were found in a
raid on the doctor's office. A youth ar-
rested for drunkenness told police he
had obtained the liquor from the doctor.
Monday State trooper Unger visited the
doctor and bought half a pint for $1.
The raid by State and local police fol-
lowed.
—In the first year that graduates of
the landscape architecture course from
the Pennsylvania State oCllege were in-
vited to compete for the Rome Fellow-
ship, which provides $2500 annually for
three years to be expended in study in
Burope, H. Gordon Whiffen, a member
of this year’s class, was selected as one
of the six finalists from the preliminary
Whiffen, who came to Penn
State from the Selinsgrove High school,
will start on his final problem this week,
being given one month in which to
complete it.
__Radio station WNBO, of Washing-
ton, Pa., was off the air two days fol-
lowing the snapping of a 100-foot radio
mast three feet thick, after a family of
wood peckers drilled a hole through the
cedar pole. The station cancelled its
program from 8.30 o'clock Friday night
| and resumed under temporary arrange-
! ments Sunday afternoon. It is believed
the whining and singing caused by the
| tension of the antennae caused the birds
!to believe the pole was full of worms.
| Not only was the program interrupted,
| but hundreds of dollars of extra ex-
| pense was caused, as the big poles are
very expensive. ‘
Two bandits who held up and rob-
bed a Pittsburgh bank messenger of
$2,300 on Monday morning were captur-
ed shortly after by police who used
armed riot guns and tear gas bombs
when the bandits abandoned their auto
in which they were attempting to es-
cape and fled into the cellar of a house
at McKees Rocks. The men held up
Joseph Stauff, the bank messenger for
the South Hills Trust company, grabbed
the money in a satchel and fled. Stauff
was enroute to the Union Trust company
to deposit the money when the holdup
occurred. The officers were attracted to
the men in the cellar by the barking of
a dog. : 8
__A rail road telegrapher who set the
stop’’ signals on his block before he
dropped dead in his tower near Mt.
Carmel, last Thursday, was credited
with averting a collision of two trains
Stricken with a heart attack, Evan
Protheroe, operator at the Mount Carmel
junction tower of the Philadelphia and
Reading railroad, managed to flash the
fact that he was ill to the train dis-
patcher at Shamokin. The latter quickly
sent back word to set the signals. Sev-
eral minutes later a freight train pulled
to a stop at the tower in response to
signal and the crew found Protheroe dead
in the tower. Another freight pulied up
a few minutes later and railroad men said
had the signals not been set the two
trains would have collided.
—The biggest subterranean body of
water in the eastern part of the State
lies underneath Shamokin and Coal
township. One year ago the lower lev-
els of the old Cameron mine were
abandoned, pumps withdrawn, and the
sections permitted to fill up with water.
This week found the water up to thc
level of the present workings and al
pumps in the section working at to;
speed in an effort to hold it back. Of
ficials were confident this could be ac-
complished but if the force of the wate:
accumulated underground proves to:
great, a serious situation will develor.
A new double slope with electric hols’
is being sunk at the mine just beyond
the abandoned area. It is down 17C
feet and must go down 140 feet morc
before it reaches the basin, Here,
again, officials feel the huge subterra-
nean body of water will have no effect
on the progress of the work but should
the calculations prove amiss the new
slope will be ruined. :