I ——————— INK SLINGS - —Senator Scott's pictures are on all the poles, fence rails and barns along the public highways again. Not being a judge of masculine good looks we are mot prepared to say whether the motorists’ prospect has been enhanced or not. i " _Not much has been heard from ] far in the Evidently he is waiting for those whom the outrageous tax bill he voted for hit hardest to post before the Hon, Holmes thus campaign. “No Trespassing” notices he starts hunting for votes. — This week the Centre county courts has been disposing of such flood of liquor cases as would indi- cate that intoxicants can be found at every cross-roads in the county. prob- ably be standing on the court house steps telling those who want to hear such flap-doodle that the coun- Next week Mr. Pinchot will try is dry. Mr. Pinchot expects support the Grand Old Party, is, the duty of can except himself. stuff doesn‘t cut much figure. every Re- publican to vote for him because it is the duty of every Republican to that every Republi- His record is to the effect that he supports any- body and anything he likes and when it suits his purpose to do otherwise the Grand Old Party duty . VOL. 75. The Views of a Statesman. | If any intelligent man or woman ever entertained a doubt as to the a fitness of John M. Hemphill for the office of Governor of Pennsylvania, or any other office within the gift of the people, a careful reading of his recently published statement of his views on the subject of prohibi- tion enforcement will dispel it. The Philadelphia Record, of Sunday ‘last, contained expressions of the ‘views of both Gifford Pinchot and Mr. Hemphill on this subject, and presumably both gentlemen reveal- ed their real reasons for the atti- tudes they have taken. Mr. Pinchot talks in the language of a fanatic. The “end justifies the means,” ac- cording to his reasoning, even though the means express a great- er evil than the cause. ; At the outset Mr. Hemphill de- 'clares that “temperance is a laud- —_According to partially complet- able aim and prohibition enforce- ed census statistics there are 1632 farms in Centre county. The same statistics claim we had 2105 farms 2295 farms in trea. say that government but otherwise who is going to tell us where those Surely eaten up by grass-hoppers or gone to smut and here in 1925 and 1920. Of course it would be sonable to statistic are wrong, 663 farms have ' gone to. they haven't been blown away. —There is every the managers who have indication that | assumed ment might be justified if it were successful; that liquor must be the subject of either prohibitory or reg- ulatory laws; that the corner saloon is undesirable and its elimination a hoon to society. But plain as these islation that is impossible to en- force and the existence of which destroys the fundamental structure upon which our system of govern- {ment is based. The federal consti- ‘tution creates and provides for a government of three equal parts and forbids the encroachment of the job of having Mr, Hoover re-' ye. ypon the prerogatives of the elected President in 1932 are jockey- | jtparg The Eighteenth amendment ing for an ambigous “wet” or “dry” jestroys this equilibrium and nul- plank in his those who go so far as to say that Mr.' 1. defines the Hoover will moist” program. We don't believe: oq platform. There are jifeg the provision of the contract 2s : ; relative powers run on “a slightly, the National and State govern- that—not when there is a chance | Mr. Hemphill says: “If the local to fool the people like Pinchot is | power is to be appropriated by the fooling Pennsylvanians today. This thing of tion Amendment makes sailing too easy for question. running on a platform built by the Anti-Saloon League ac- cording to specifications designed by the Association Against the Prohibi- political either Mr. Hoover or Mr. Pinchot to take an honest stand on either side of the Federal entity there is a tendency toward empire and the delicate | balance between State and Nation that was so thoughtfully and care- fully built in 1789 begins to be com- pletely destroyed and in its place there begins to be set up that which the free people of America will never permit and that which in‘the The ‘finest crop “of potatoes’ we ‘Become the most discredited of all have seen thus far this season were forms of government, a bureau- being raised last Saturday on Earl cratic and autocratic empire. A Frantz’s farm in Sugar Valley, |people no longer are free if they Clinton county. They were Mich- |cannot make and change their laws igan Russets. raise. In our them were too mice, handy domestic use. ger the better. to answer that. big potatoes at all?. —If we don’t know or won't drive our automobile according to law our license is revoked, we are fined underfeed mal- treat our children some arm of the law grabs us. We can drink all the liquor we can get our hands on and we get nothing but envy, while the luckless accessory before the fact court and takes “the rap.” This shouldn’t be so. It The law should be more concerned with people who drink too much than with those who supply them with drink. That's Sweden on the drink problem and while we have imagine the If a person or put in jail. If we our horse, beat our wife or is dragged into isn’t even justice, the attitude of never been there we results are beneficial. doesn’t drink enough to nuisance or menace of what harm has been done? make ily ‘and his friends women right here in Centre one of the foremost business Pinchot is a political fortune and he thinks Earl didn’t treat his seed or spray. He just planted an acre and got back one hundred and twenty-five bushels of as nice po- tatoes as anyone could hope to opinion many of Too big for [oR But why bring that up in an age when the popular impression is that the big- We'd get nowhere if we stimulated argument between the people who pare potatoes and those who have seen the little ones in the pot go all to mush before the big ones are soft enough at the heart for a fork to slide easily into. We know how you are going You are going to say: Why not cut the big ones up before putting them into the pot. And then we want to answer: Why himself If he does, he needs attention. If his fam. can't persuade him to drink like a gentleman then the law should step in. And if there was a law like they havein Sweden to step in we know a lot of men and county who would be so busy carrying delica- cies upto Dep Dunlap's apartment house, for their sons and daughters, that they wouldn't have time to listen - totheir pet Pinchot telling how dry he is. In Port Matilda, on Monday, men of that community said to ms: “I don’t admire Pinchot, but I am dry and I intend to vote for him.” He was honest in his determination. We gave him that, but he was like too many others, he doesn't believe that soldier of that ‘man- made laws can do what only those made by God were expected to do. having to do with their local police questions from time to time.” This fact is so palpable that it needs no support. ——Maybe revolution has taken epidemic proportions in the Latin-American regions. a epier—— Difference in Method of Campaigning The wide difference in the methods of campaigning of the two major party candidates for Governor, John M. Hemphill and Gifford Pinchot, is challenging public attention. Mr, peals modestly to the intelligence of the voters, not as an individual but as the representative of a code of principles expressed in the platform of his party. He favors, andin the event of his election will endeavor to procure, local self-government, honest elections, decreased taxation, old age pensions, the abolition of the coal and iron police and just government economically administer- ed. As has been said in these columns he is winning both enthu- siastic support and admiration. On the other hand Mr. Pinchot, in imperial fashion, is traveling over the State promising impossible and absurd things, as though already in commission and invested with poten- tial powers to do anything that fancy or imagination may suggest. He has already ' appointed a fact- finding commission to report after the election and made tours of in- spection wherever he has heard of a grievance, thus trying to convey an impression that he will cure every a | past, present and future evil. This palpable insult to public intelligence is getting for him neither support nor admiration. As the chairman of the Liberal party has said, he isde- feating himself by his foolish prom- ises. In his previous term as Governor Mr. Pinchot never tried to procure reform ballot legislation until after he quarreled with Vare in the mid- dle of his tenure, He probably never thought of abolishing the coal and iron police and the adoption of an old age pension until he read of them in the Democratic platform, adopted by the party and accepted by the candidates three months ago, and now he is handing out a guaran- tee for the end of the evil and the creation of the virtue in the event of his election. He is silent on the real issue of the campaign, which is the right of communities to home government, including local police regulation. His appealis to ignorance and prejudice and it will fail. truths are the remedy is not inleg-- developing history of mankind has. Hemphill, a distinguished lawyer, ap- . a wo od | STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. : Organization Abandons its Ticket The Republican organization of Pennsylvania has either abdicated its functions as a political party or abandoned its candidates to their own resources. Our system of gov- ernment is one of party rather than individual, the purpose being to fix responsibility for the misuse of pow- er conferred. ' Almost from the be- ginning of the government two ma- jor parties have existed and each has made its appeal for popular sup- port by a statement of principles and purposes in the form of a plat- form. But the Republican party of Pennsylvania will have no platform this’ year. The leaders are not wil- ling to assume responsibility for the absurd promises Pinchot is making. As amatter of fact the leaders Republican of the Republican party in Pennsyl- vania are wise in thus shifting re- sponsibility for the actions of their candidates. No two of their candi- dates are in agreement on any sub- ject. Mr, Pinchot has promised to depose the Public Service Commis- sion, and all his associates on the ticket favor ihe continuance of that board. Judge Maxey is as emphati- cally opposed to the Pinchot idea of enforcement of prohibition as Mr. Pinchot isin favor of it, and as a Jus- tice of the Supreme court he would have much greater power in the matter. In any event the Mellons and other leaders of the party are not willing to underwrite the fool pledges of Pinchot. There are two ways of construing the policy of the Republican organi- zation as declared by General Mar- tin, chairman of the State commit- tee. It may be, as is widely sus- pected, that the organization wants to give free hand to the voters of the party to vote for John M. Hemp- hill for Governor and thus end for- ever the opportunity for Pinchot to pester them. Or it is possible that the organization proposes to let the candidates run wild, “every fel- low for himself and the devil take the hindmost.” In that way they might save part of the ticket with- part of it.’ There is cer A unrevealed reason for the unusual: action, — Senator Norris, of Nebraska, spent $200 for his nomination, Mrs. McCormick, of Hlinois, spent about $300,000. There’s a distinction. Pinchot Steeped in Party Prejudice. In the campaign of 1928 the ques- tion of power control between the people and the monopolists was clear- ly defined. The Democratic candidate for President openly declared in favor of the preservation in the hands of the people of the right to own and operate the water courses which produced power. and the Re- publican candidate avowed the oppo- site policy. Upon this issue Sena- tor Norris, of Nebraska, a Republi- can statesman of keen discernment, bolted his party and earnestly sup- ported Governor Smith, the Demo- cratic candidate. “It is the vital is- sue of the campaign,” he said, and in devotion to the interests of the “people as against those of monop- oly he made many speeches for Mr. Smith. |. The same question was put up to } Gifford Pinchot. His attention was called to the attitude of the candi- dates and to the importance of the subject. He had long professed a deep interest in, and grave appre- hension of, the danger to the public from the increasing force of the power monopoly. But he chose to support Mr. Hoover for the reason that the election of his opponent might endanger the ascendency of the Republican party. This action on the part of Gifford Pinchot clear- ly reveals the fact that he had greater concern for the party than for the people. He has freely and frequently given lip service in the crucial contest between monopoly and justice but under the acid test be- trayed his trust. Now that Mr. Pinchot wants the support of the people in his aspi- rations for office he promises val- iant services against the monopoly, which by his vote two years ago he helped to entrench in power almost, if not altogether, beyond recovery. It was not that he failed to under- stand the importance of his action. He had previously called ‘public at- tention to the danger that was im- minent. Mut he is so obsessed with partisan bigotry that he was willing to sacrifice the people in the inter- est of his party. Why should any Democrat vote for, or honor, a Re- publican steeped in partisan prej- udice as this episode in the life of Gifford Pinchot proves him to be? ————— A ——————_— ——The price of Mr. Hoover's book on fishing is $7 a copy. Luckily the edition is small. out assuming obligations for any. BELLEFONTE, PA.. SEPTEMBER 12. 1930. . Mass Attack on Raskob. The administration henchmen are stili moving in massed form . for the scalp of chairman Raskob, of the Democratic National committee. | First chairman Fess, of the Repub- lican organization. accused Mr. Ras- kob of slandering President Hoover. Then the $25,000 a year executive head of the organization, Mr. Lucus, took a turn and finally Mr. Tilson, floor leader of the party in the House of Representatives, has been drafted into the service. The sum and substance of their complaints is that the Publicity Bureau of the Democratic National committee has told part of the truth concerning Mr. Hoover's delinquencies. : ‘The fact of the matter is that in pursuance of a long established cus- tom of both parties the Democratic National committee, some months go, organized a publicity bureau and appointed a very capable news. paper man, Mr. Charles J. Michelson ta conduct it. Under his direction several prominent men, mainly Sen- ators and Representatives in Con- ' tess have pointed out the failings nd weaknesses of the administra- tion just as the Republican organi- zation bureau had assailed the ad- ministrations of Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson, that neither of the Democratic Presidents was so vulnerable to at- tack. There is one other difference. The ublicans lack the spirit of sports- manship. They run and cry when- ‘ever a successful thrust is made. Every charge made by the Demo- cratic bureau is supported by the rec- There has been no concealment of the authority under which they have been promulgated and no anonymity in the matter. And there was no slander unless interpreted under the common law principle, “the greater the truth the greater the libel.” Every charge made under the aus- pices of the Democratic committee is absolutely true and susceptible of proof. 5 ‘county, this summer, apparently did not affect the cows, as milk pro- duction was in excess of last year, .according to. shipments over the | Pennsylvania railroad. For the ‘month of August the revenue at the Bellefonte depot for milk ship- . | ments during the month of August .was over $2100 in excess of the - figures for August 1929. i ——The more or less esteemed Philadelphia Inquirer informs the public that General Martin and Gifford Pinchot are in complete ac- cord on the methods of the cam- paign. It might have added thatif Pinchot is elected he will be in full accord with the machine in dis- tributing the patronage. — Bids will be opened by the State Highway Department, Sep- tember 25th, for the construction of .42 of a mile of concrete high- way and a concrete bridge in Snow Shoe township, Centre county. i ie — Mayor Mackey, of Philadel- phia, is home from Europe long enough to tell who he favors for Governor. According to the vote last fall, however, it doesn’t make much difference. ——The Liberal party women of the State want to know how can- didates for the General Assembly feel on the Snyder law and have mailed 60,000 letters to find out. — The radical element of the British Labor party may set the cause back by insisting on too much haste There is danger in over-speeding.