Bowe fitdpn
- INK SLINGS.
~The Mellon family is not
making enough noise in this cam-
paign: to disturb the -peace of a
Quaker Sunday school.
___-Vote for Don Gingery for
Senator and help smash the combi-
nation that Scott and Holmes have
formed to keep each other in office
forever.
— Chairman Martin complains
that all the big campaign contrib-
utors are on the other side this
year. But che has the capital scrub
women to prey on.
Talking about gangsters and
boss rule what do you think of Mr.
Pinchot? Isn't he damning every-
body who thinks he ought not to be
the sole boss and the whole gang.
— Vote for John G. Miller, of
Ferguson township, for Assembly
and help smash the Holmes, Scott
combination that they have formed
to keep each other in office forever. |
— Better get .on the Hemphill
band wagon all you Democrats who
want to be on the winning side in
Pennsylvania once in your life. The
Republicans are going to push
Hemphill right into the gubernator-
ial mansion. There is no doubt about
it now and you might never have
another chance to say to them:
“Thanks for the Buggy Ride.” We
.expect to say it in our issue of
November 7th.
At Pottstown, Pennsylvania, on
November 1, 1912, Gifford Pinchot
said:“Four years from now there
will be just two parties in the field;
one will be the Progressive party
the other will be the Democratic
party. The Republican party will
be dead.” Two years later in Huron,
South Dakato, he said: “I am
through with the Republican party
for good and all.” Wasn't it nice
that the Republican party didn’t
die when Giff put the “evil eye” on
it in 1912. And hasn't he changed
his mind alot about being “through
with it.” If it had died he never
would have been Governor of Penn-
sylvania. If he was “through with
it for good and all” what kind of a
stepping stone is he attempting to
use it for now?
—
—We pause in the midst of a
campaign, to which we thought
every line in this column would be
devoted, to pay tribute to two men
whose memories we have reason to
revere.
Dr. William Day Crockett died
most tragically at State College on
Sunday morning. We did not know
Dr. Crocket. Our son has .been
under his tutelage, however, and if
any other man’s son speaks of us
as ours has of his preceptor we
shall feel that we have not lived
in vain. :
On Sunday evening Bellefonte had
her tragedy. A greater one than
that that shocked State College. C.
Edward Robb, assistant cashier of
the First National bank, wearied to
hopelesness by health that was
constantly waning gave up the fight.
He left a note to his chief saying
“my accounts are straight.” Poor
Ed. How little he must have known
that the question of his integrity
could never have had conception in the
minds of those who really knew
him. We wipe a welling tear as we
og sii “ am, Mats
ale
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Frank A. Jacobs, 54, of Allentown,
| was instantly killed when he fell head
| first into a roller at the American Steel
{and Wire company. His head was
crushed before the machine could be
stopped.
— Federal Judge R. M. Gibson, of
Pittsburgh, suppressed evidence against
a restaurant raided by prohibition agents
because the officers entered by the back
door, through the kitchen, instead of
the front entrance.
VOL. 75.
BELLEFONTE. PA.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Scott and Holmes vs. the Taxpayers.
going to be an awful yell
taxpayers
bushel where ten ought to be.
the regular five per cent one.
pairingly
the vanishing point.
ends meet.
taxation.
ridges of Centre county where t
there is going to be a worse one.
and Miller for Assemblyman and end the political careers
the two statesmen who also voted to put an extra penalty on
who can’t pay their taxes
crops large enough to pay their taxes with.
Farmers are husking their corn. They are finding only one
come up in Harrisburg that has raised taxes.
one of them to name a bill that they voted for that reduced
And both of them are trying,
Fisher of the glory that he deserves for doing for State College
what was done by the last Legislature.
the same thing had Don Gingery and John Miller been our
representatives while he was Governor. That was John Fisher's
monument, the greatest achievement of his administration and
the Watchman salutes him, not Scott or Holmes, for it.
Especially not Holmes, because while he has been telling
the people of Centre county that all he wants to go to Harris-
When the people who live along those proposed eighty foot
highways through Centre county that Scott and Holmes voted
for are called on to move their houses and barns back there is
But when the people back in the
here never will be any improved
highways are assessed for their share of the damages done then
Vote for Gingery for Senator
of
until nature gives them
Pigs must be fattened, cows
must be fed but what are they going to do it with? They must
pay their taxes or the bill Scott and Holmes voted for will put
an extra penalty on them when they are least able to pay even
Scott and Holmes are both rich. They have both probably
taken the five per cent discount on theirs by this time.
don’t think of their winter’s meat. They don’t have to look dis-
at the herd of cows that are growing thinner every
day for want of pasture and wonder what the milk check will
be in January when the scanty feed now in the barn wil] be near
They
Ah no! Both of those gentlemen are so well fixed that they
just naturally don’t think of the other fellow’s struggle to make
Both of them have voted for every bill that has
We defy” either
by inference, to rob John
He would have done
samt
OCTOBER 24. 1930.
John Hemphill,
. there for is to help “himself.
burg for is to help State College, what he really wants to go
the outskirts of that growing town. Every dollar that the State
pours into the Pennsylvania State College makes lots there a
few dollars more valuable and Mr. Holmes has lots and lots.
That's the real “low down” on the Hon. John L. Holmes’
solicitude for the Pennsylvania State College.
All the while he has been growing richer and richer the
farmers of Centre county have been growing poorer and poorer.
And in the face of that he voted for the Reed tax law that
makes them pay 1 per cent per month penalty because they just
can’t pay their taxeson the day the law says they must be paid.
It's time for a change. Send Don Gingery to the Senate.
Send John Miller to the Assembly. They are just as intelligent
as their opponents, but they are not as rich. And men who know
what a dollar means to themselves will know how to vote on
He has gotten rich selling lots in .}
pen this sincere tribute to the
memory of a friend who, tired out of
reason, sought rest.
bills that means dollars to their constituents.
REELS ST ERT TD ST ST ST
—Some weeks ago Senator Scott’s
publicity bureau caused to be pub-
lished in most of the papers of this
Senatorial District an editorial un-
der the caption. “The Mark of a
Statesman.” It was an apologetic
explanation of his vote for the
vicious Reed tax law and elogium
Pinchot Taxing State Employees
Colonel Matthew H. Taggart,
State Insurance Commissioner, is
the slush fund collector on Capitol
Hill, Harrisburg, this year and he is
a trifle more adroit than his prede-
cessor of two years ago. Mr. Ben-
son E. Taylor, who extracted about
of his mettle in admitting that he |$300,000 from State employees in
now sees flaws in it. That was a | 1928, was crude in his methods. He
very pretty gesture and might have |fixed three per cent of the annual
helped the Senator somebut he |salary as the tribute and made dis:
kicked over his own apple imissal from office the penalty for
cart when he stood on the failure to pay. Gifford Pinchot de-
court house steps here and nounced this as a great outrage up-
proclaimed that he subscribed to on the victims and a grave crime
everything that Pinchot had said against decency. In his primary
just before him. Right then Sen- | campaign, this year, he declared
ator Scott pledged himself to do | that no contributions from State
everything that Pinchot might want employees would be aceepted in the
him to do, if he is elected, regard- event of his nomination.
less of the wants of his constituency.| Last week Mr. Taggart addressed
Was that “The Mark of a States-,a letter to employees to make a
man” ? | “voluntary” contribution. He didn’t
i fix the amount or threaten reprisal
ion.
—If you didn’t read Kern Dodge's j; gefault of payment. But he asked
letter to former
you ought to.
Senator Grundy tnat checks be promptly made pay-
Both are big Union | gpje to the Treasurer of the State
Leaguers, but if you donw’t know | .,mmittee and forwarded through
what the Union League is
won't get the kick out of it that
we do. If Bishop Cannon were to
you Mr, Taggart, “so that I may be in-
| formed as to just what is being
done.” It is said that “a wink is
“pinch hit” for Father Downes in'gg good as a nod to a blind mule,”
the Catholic church here next Sun- and it may be assumed that no em-
day morning it would be no more ployee of the State is so stupid that
of a sensation than was
caused he won't understand that this means
when Wilhlam G. McAdoo, who hap- pay promptly the
usual amount,
pened to be Secretary of the Treas. | three per cent of your annual salary
urer, during the War, and a Democrat, or you lose your job.
The records
was asked to speak in the Union Lea- show that only two or three were
gue in Philadelphia.
mitted to do such a thing, and that
was only because we were at war.
That was supposed to be the great-
est war ever. But when .members
of the Union League come to writ-
ing such letters to one another as
Kern Dodge wrote to Joe Grundy
we know we've got a war on here
in Pennsylvania that even a super-
Woodrow Wilson couldn't conceive if he were nominated no such levy:
a court capable of -palliating.
He was the only punished in 1928.
Democrat who had ever been per-
It is a common understanding
that ordinary incidents are not news
and this levy upon the State em-
ployees might have escaped public
‘notice but for one thing. It is
‘done this year with the approval and
"probably at the suggestion of Gif-
‘ford Pinchot who had solicited the
support of the employees at the
' primary on the positive pledge that
would be made. Therefore it re-
veals the insincerity, the hypocrisy
and the damnable duplicity of a
political huckster. It shows the ab-
sence of conscience and character
and utter indifference to public opin-
Probably in the case of Pin-
chot that is not news, either. Near-
ly everybody has his measure.
— Chairman Shouse, of the
Democratic Executive committee, is
confident that his party will have a
safe majority in the next Congress.
Let us hope that Pennsylvania will
share in this glorious achievement.
——Vance McCormick’s Harris-
burg newspapers failed to welcome
Judge Bonniwell into the Prohibi-
tion-Pinchot party. Maybe Vance
thinks the wet jurist is not an
agreeable hed-fellow.
Vote for John G. Miller, of
Ferguson township, for Assembly
and help smash the Holmes, Scott
combination that they nave formed
to keep each other in office forever.
——The absurd claim of the rene.
gade York Gazette that the Legion-
aires are for Pinchot didn’tlast long.
The recreant organ has been com-
pelled to correct and apologize.
— Vote for Don Gingery for
Senator and help smash the combi-
nation that Scott and Holmes have
formed to keep each other in office
forever.
— Gifford Pinchot is now trying
to pose as a protector of public
utilities. It may be ‘a sober sec-
ond thought” but it is a defensive
gesture.
——Vote for Don Gingery for
Senator and help smash the combi-
nation that Scott and Holmes have
formed to keep each other in office
forever.
NO. 42.
John Hemphill, the man too modest to tell you that he was
the fellow who headed the little band of Co. K., 47th Inf, 4th
Div., U. S. Army that went out into the shell stormed battle
front at Sergy on August 1, 1918, to gather food from the
emergency kits of his dead comrades in order that his men who
hadn’t eaten for 72 hours might have a bite, is the same man
whom a lot of people right here in Centre county who were sit-
ting in comfort in their own homes at that trying moment are
trying to injure by saying: “I heard that he is a Catholic.”
John Hemphill is a member of the Episcopal church. Cath-
‘olics were fighting by his side. They weren't thinking of creeds
then. It was their country. And God forgive those who try
to shoot the arrow of religious bigotry into the back of anyone.
God give us understanding that will help to realize that, after
all, we are not so very far apart if we are really Christians and
good citizens. All of us want to get to Heaven. All of us
want good government.
John Bunyan had the dope right in his “Pilgrims Progress.”
Creeds and political parties are nothing more than labels of
the routes we take to attain the same goals.
High-Priced Economy
“During the campaign Mr. Pinchot has persistently claimed
that his former service as Governor of Pennsylvania made a
notable record for economy.
Since “it has been discovered that Mr. Pinchot’s statements
on the stump do not always square with the facts we publish
the figures of the Auditor General's Department on the expendi-
tures of the three administrations before he went into office, as
as those of his own so that our readers will know for
Pinchot's economy cost the
the Brumbaugh or the Sproul
well
themselves just how much more
State than did that of the Tener,
administrations.
During the four years John Tener was Gover-
nor it cost to run the State - - - $139,000,000.
During the four years Dr. Brumbaugh was
Governor it cost - - - - - 162,000,000.
During the four years William C. Sproul was
Rpvetnor ft cost. room a TS 284,000,000.
"During the four years Gifford Pinchot was
Governor, 1922 to 1920, it cost the State - 447,000,000.
As a matter of fact his was by far the most costly admin-
istration Pennsylvania had ever had up to that time. It is like-
ly that Governor Fisher's administration will cost more. Natu-
rally it ought to, because io it will be charged all the generous ap-
propriations that he made to hospitals, colleges, asylums and other
public institutions in order to restore the wrecks Pinchot’s “econ-
omy” made of them.
Figures are figures and won't lie, even though Mr. Pinchot
thinks they should. In 1926, when Pinchot was Governor the
Legislature called upon Auditor General Martin, who is now the
Republican State Chairman, and about the only man of political
prominence Pinchot has to lean on, for a statement as to the
cost of running the State for the first three years of the Pinchot
administration.
When Gen. Martin turned to the books and reported that it
had then cost $365,100,622, or 47,000,000 more than the whole
four years of Sproul's administration Pinchot called Martin's re-
port “a monumental Lie.”
In other words here was a Governor calling the books of his
own administration a liar.
He must have been “queer” even that far back.
When Gifford Pinchot was in Bellefonte on September 18, he
said: “I will appoint a committee next week to look into the
problem of unemployment.”
Last Friday at Johnstown, five weeks and one day later,
he said: “I will appoint a committee in a few days “to look into
the problem of unemployment.
Out of his own mouth Mr. Pinchot has convicted himself
of lying. :
THE PINCHOT VERSION OF “AMERICA.”
“PINCHOLV. »
1. My State, it is of me, Sweet land of mostly me,
Of me I yell;
Land that was made for me, My red-head wife and me,
For Governor, take me Or go to hee!
My adopted State, see, I am the promisee,
Your throne I crave;
I crave your business tills, I'll let you pay the bills,
I sure will bend your wills, I'll make you slave.
III. Let bolters now beware, I'll beard them in their lair,
When I have won;
Let wets or drys alike, Defy this man from Pike,
I'll show them what I'm like, When I have won.
IV. With promises from me, Tyrant of liberty,
To me you'll sing;
I'll Philadelphia trim, Tl fool the others in,
By hook or crook, I'll win, Then I'LL be KING.
“g"_gtate College, Oct. 13.
Soldier and Episcopalian
—Charles Witmer, army deserter who
‘stole a motorcycle in Washington to
speed his escape from Fort Washington,
Md., was captured, on Tuesday, on the
Shamokin Mt. Carmel highway by High-
way Patrolman Stroh. .
—Farmers in the upper end of Mifflin
county sare complaining of chicken steal-
ing. One farmer recently lost 100
chickens and another 40 pullets. Some
of the farmers are laying for the thieves
with loaded shotguns and they say that
‘if they catch a thief at their coops
they will use them.
—When an unmasked bandit
George Schultz, a Lebanon grocer,
held up
at
the point of a gun on the night of
October 4, relieving him of $84, he
promised to return in two weeks.
Schultz thought the bandit was bluffing,
but on Saturday morning, when he
opened his store for business, he discov-
ered the place had been ransacked.
—More than $200 in cash was stolen
from the nurses home adjoining the
Hanover General Hospital by what is
thought to have been a lone robber.
Although jewelry and expensive furs
were in the same six rooms that were
looted, only money was taken. The
nurses from whose rooms the money was
stolen were on duty at the time of the
robbery.
—A dispatch from Scranton
that the Highland Clay Products Co.,
with its principal operations at Win-
burne, filed a petition in bankruptcy in
the Federal court at Scranton on Wed-
nesday, October 15th. The company
lists liabilities of $400,612, and assets
of $281,161. The action of the company
was made necessary by depressed busi-
ness conditions.
—Testifying in the Washington county
court in his own defense, on Monday,
to acharge of desertion and nonsupport
brought by his 72-year-old wife, LL.M.
Scnaffer, 55, suddenly was seized with
a heart attack and fell dead into the
arms of assistant district attorney Ash-
ton Brownlee. Dr... J. H Cary, jail
physician, was summoned and said he
had died instantly. His wife collapsed.
—At the regular meeting of the New
Castle School Board a resolution was
passed naming two women teachers and
requesting them to resign within 30
days. The action was taken because
the teachers were married since being
elected, and were holding positions in
the schools at the present time against
the regulation which opposes married
teachers in New Castle schools as reg-
ular instructors.
—C. C. Wilson, proprietor of a meat
market in Lewistown, has received a
patent on a new invention in the way of
a sausage mixer and stuffer and will
start the distribution of the new ma-
chine on November 1 through the Wil-
son Mixer and Stuffer Company, a
Lewistown concern. The new machine is
said by the inventor to revolutionize the
methods of making sausage and saves.
much time and labor.
—Mayor Jacob E. Weaver, of York,
has struck upon. a new but effective
idea of curbing alleged drunkenness,
which nas increased there in recent
months, despite numerous raids on al-
leged speakeasies and moonshine plants.
Prisoners brought into police court for
intoxication and unable to pay fines
will hereafter be placed at work on
stone piles by the city father. This stone
pile is located at the city disposal plant.
—Trolley service at Warren, Pa., was
discontinued Saturday night at midnight
when the last car was run over the lines.
The Warren Trolley Co. was incorporat-
ed in 1892 and had served the people of
that community for a period of nearly
forty years. Busses will be substituted
in place of the cars, the service being
extended to other parts of the city.
The abandonment of the service is in
line with similar action taken in other
towns in recent years.
—The Lock Haven plant of the Sus-
quehanna silk mills, which closed in
August for a three-weeks’ suspension
and resumed operations on September
11, is working full time in all depart-
ments and 285 of the 313 employees of
the mills have returned to its employ.
The Susquehanna silk mill at Jersey
Shore, idle since August 20, resumed
operations Monday morning in the aux-
iliary departments, and weaving will be
started later, it was officially announced.
Mrs. Mamie E. Laudenslager, Sun-
bury, has brought suit in the Northum-
berland county courts, seeking $100,000
damages from the Pennsylvania Power
& Light Co., for the loss of her husband
who was electrocuted at Sunbury, last
summer. According to the plaintiff, the
man ran out in front of his house when
he saw a live wire break and drop over
the top of his automobile, burning it.
When he took hold of the wire, it near-
ly burned through his body, witnesses
said.
—The prisoners’ song, as warbled by
the inmates of the Adams county jail,
were suspiciously loud and merry to the
critical ears of sheriff George D. Morri-
son. The sheriff found that his charges
were fishing where there were no fish,
no water and no bait, but that they
were enjoying a successful ‘‘catch.” Loose
flooring in one cellroom permitted the
dropping of a fishing pole, consisting
of a broom handle and a twisted bed-
spring, to the cellar, where contraband
beverages seized in raids were stored,
and the prisoners were fishing up the
contraband for their own consumption.
—Whether the forests of the State
will be closed to hunters because of fire
hazards brought on by the drought
probably will be decided next week.
Ross L. Leffler, president of the board
of commissioners, annnounced today that
Governor Fisher had requested the
board to meet with him and the Secre-
tary of Forests and Waters, October 28
to discuss the situation. The meeting
will consider reports on forestry condi-
tions as learned from game protectors
and district foresters. The reports also
will deal with the results of the presence
in the forests of gunuers in pursuit of
the small gamp now in season.
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