INK SLINGS. __We've sent for the wagon be- cause we feel like we'll all take a ride. ____Senator Scott and the Hon. Holmes are not going back to Har- risburg. ____John Hemphill has four cita- tions for unusual bravery under fire in the world war. — Climbing on the Hemphill band-wagon is even more popular in Pennsylvania than Tom Thumb golf. — The married life of King Bor- is, of Bulgaria, had a stormy start but let us hope it will have a happy ending. Mr. Pinchot has sobbed all over Pennsylvania about the unem- ployed. Sobbed until he 1s “all wet” with his own sham tears. The arrest, in Pittsburgh, of the Socialist candidate for Governor proves that the Pinchot managers are both intollerant and stupid. —___Pinchot’s campaign is lagging. Gifford has run out of vile names to call his former friends and when he runs out of vituperation he is at his wit’s end. — My, but Gifford must have had a conniption when the Republi- can county chairman of his own county, Pike, swung over to the Hemphill banner. —_We're getting the roosters dust- ed off and every day we're becoming more convinced that there will be thousands of Republicans glad to see them who were never glad be- fore when we had occasion to drag them out. _ Democrats of Centre county, when so many Republicans are So eager to send you home happy next Tuesday night, turn out. God knows they don’t often do anything but hang crepe on us, SO don’t disap- point them. They're not inured to it like we are and maybe they might never do it again. ____Jf Mr. Pinchot is so broken- hearted over the jobless voters of Pennsylvania why doesn’t he give a few of them a job himself. He has millions. His wife has millions, Yet all they have ever contributed to the workers of Pennsylvania is employment for care-takers and ser- vants about their own summer palace up at Milforq, in Pike coun- ty. — Somebody's going to be in a hole! A lot of political promisers have gotten their signals mixed. When. Pinchot was here he said he is going to build twenty thousand miles of highways in Penpaylvanip when he RE Cayntr agath What do you think of that? Only twenty-thous- and. What are poor Senator Scott and the Hon. Holmes going to do? It will take more than twenty- thousand to make good the promises they have made for Centre county, alone. — According to. A. M. Holding, a former President of the Pennsylva- nia State Bar Association, seven generations of the Hemphills have lived honorable, useful and distin- guished lives in Chester county. They have been Judges, Congress- men and one of them Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. All Demo- erats and all elected to office in an overwhelming Republican county. Seven generations of Hemphills in Pennsylvania and seven years of Pinchots. Are we to have a Penn- sylvanian or a carpet-bagger for Governor? __Rumor has it that all the preachers in the county have been or are to be urged to use their pul- pits next Sunday for the Pinchot cause. Another is to the effect that the county chairman of the W, C. T. U. is to send a letter to every voter urging the election of “dear Mr. Pinchot.” And still another has Senator Scott dropping satchels full of money all over the county be- tween this and election day. We don’t know how true any of them are, but they all sound very prob- able. It's too late, however, to stem the Hemphill, Gingery, Miller tide. The people are tired of churches and W. C. T. U's in politics and tired of hearing Scott and Holmes promising roads they never get, __We are having a nice quiet laugh all to ourself. For half and hour we have been poring over the Watchman of fifty-years ago and something we saw in it hit our “funny bone” an awful wallop. Fifty years ago the Watchman wasn’t as used to political lckin’s as it is today. It just couldn’t stand up under them gracefully. And to prove it we want to quote from a paragraph we looked at and laughed, It reads as follows: ‘The Republicans thought they were play- ing smash on Tuesday night when they sent a wagon load of drunken hoodlums, supplied with horns, drums and cow bells, all around the town to turn the streets into pandemonium, disturbing sick and nervous people and making the night hideous.” We just love that ‘sick and nervous” people; because we know who probably wrote the para- graph. Our lamented father could always be depended on to be among «the sick and nervous” for a day or so after the Democrats * got a lacing, He just couldn’t rise above it. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 75. BELLEFONTE. PA.. OCTOBER 31. 1930. RE ORT NO. 43. “What John M. Hemphill Did For You. The following letter was written by Greene county, Pennsylvania. Waynesburg, of Greene county and served with Capt. 4th Div., U. S. Army in France. We publish it so that nominee for Governor was when under fire. moral courage that is needed at Har- Capt. McClellan writes: then was the kind of physical and risburg now. you may know just what kind Captain McClellan is sheriff John Hemphill, in the 47th Reg., of a man our The courage he displayed “Imagine my surprise a short time ago when I was introduced to the candidate for Governor on tickets to find that it was none mine, John M. Hemphill, the Democratic and Liberal party other than an old war comrade of He was a Captain in the same regiment with me and I will have to say that he was one of the finest men I had the honor to serve with during the war. in command of Company “K” of Captain Hemphill was the 47th Inf. 4th Division and I had Company “C” of the same regiment. Captain Hemphill made an excellent military record for himself during the war but he is too bashful to use his his personal interest in this campaign. I am sure if the this State were thoroughly acquainted with his military would be held in high esteem. which he displayed rare courage dangerous circumstances. war record to further voters, of record he I remember several occasions’ on and loyalty under very trying and While our regiment was engaged in and around Sergy, about August 1, 1918, in capturing, losing and retaking the town of Sergy several times, it was impossible to get rations up to the front lines; the kitchens had been desroyed by enemy artillery on the road near Chateau Thiery; our men had not ation was rapidly getting desperate; eaten for about 72 hours; the situ- Captain Hemphill saved the day for us by personally taking out a detail of men and collecting all the emergency rations carried by the men who had been killed in the six or seven days fighting around the town. In spite of the heavy ma- chine gun and shell fire be distributed these rations to the menat the front, making it possible to continue the attack with much success. One of Captain Hemphill’s most outstanding acts, that I recall, occurred during the Vesle River drive while he was regimental In- telligence Officer. Our men had ance, and our losses were terrible, advanced against a terrific resist- but in spite of the heavy artillery and machine gun fire our men had made substantial gains, but they were in a confused and dazed condition, grouped in shell holes and all means of communications broken off. Captain Hemphill was sent by the Regimental Commander to get a report on the situation. Upon his arrival at the front he realized that our men were in a desperate situation, A counter attack by the enemy would mean death or capture for all. to reorganize the remaining men, built up a very efficient defense sacrificed so much to capture. gains against all counter attacks under heavy shell and machine gun fire with continuous sniping by : the enemy snipers.: ; He did not go back, but immediately went to work establish outposts, and secure addi- tional men from scattered shell holes. Through his untiring efforts he on the ground that our men had He made it possible to hold our by the Germans. This was done The last account I had of Captain Hemphill up to our late meet- ing was the morning of September 26, 1918, shortly before the zero hour for the beginning of the famous Argonne Forests drive when his company jumped off from the famus Le Mort Homme on hill 304 and followed a rolling barrage that it would be impossible for me to describe. their way without the Advancing rapidly our troops were soon fighting aid of the barrage and in a fog so dense that they could not see 20 feet ahead. Finally the fog lifted and our men continued to overcome all resistance. Evening found them at their objective and with them was Captain Hemphill and his Com- pany. He had shown rare courage and ability in bringing his men through this battle with small losses. I could write much in behalf of Captain Hemphill. In closing will say he was ever mindful of the comforts of the men who served under him. His slogan was “The men first;” and he was always on the spot to see that they were first, The service men and women and their families of this State now have an opportunity to support a truly great soldier, one who fought in the late war, not for the sake of fighting but for an un- selfish love for his country. I wish I could do something to help bring him the support he so richly deserves. Yours in (Signed) Mr. Keiser is Talking Through His Hat. On another page of this issue isa political advertisement of Mr. Keiser, | who is an independent candidate for Senator. in this District. The gentle- man is so extravagant in his lan- guage that we feel it is our duty to call your attention to some of his misleading statements. He says the Clearfield Progress announced that the Democrats of Clearfield county want Keiser for Senator. Possibly it did. The Clear- field Progress, however, is a Re- publican paper and not in a position to know what the Democrats of that county want. He says that while in the Legis- lature in 1915 his Democratic op- ponent, Mr. Gingery, voted to in- crease the state police force. This is not true. Mr. Gingery voted against the bill. He says Mr. Gingery got a “ter- rible walloping” when he ran for treasurer of Clearfield county last year. Mr. Gingery was defeated, but by only 1700 votes, whereas other Democrats running on the same ticket with him were defeated by 6700. That, we should say, was anything but a “terrible walloping” and Mr, Gingery might easily have been elected had it not been that he was running against a very popu- lar man who lived in his home town of Clearfield and in conse- quence the vote of that place was divided. Mr. Gingery would other- wise have carried it by a large majority. Mr. Gingery’s record as a Legis. lator in 1915 is one to be envied. He voted for woman’s suffrage. He voted for the compensation law. comradeship ARNO S. McCLELLAN Captain Co. “C” 47th Inf. : If you want to stand in | With Boss Gifford Pinchot Go down in your pockets And hand out your ‘dough.” W. B. M. M. —Get on the band wagon, boys. All the Curtis papers: The Phila. delphia Ledger, the Evening Ledger and the Philadelphia Inquirer have come into the Hemphill camp. = We suppose poor John will be accused of having bought the Curtis papers. If the avalanche keeps rolling they'll have to measure the Hemphill votes in Pennsylvania in bushel baskets like they did Cleveland's one time in New York. There will be too many of them to count. ——Probably ‘“Puddler Jim” is holding on to his cabinet job so as to escape an enlistment in the army of unemployed after the election. ——It is suspected that every time chairman Martin speaks of voting a “straight,” ticket he puts his “tongue in his cheek.” — Pinchot has done his best to impair the value of Pennswlvania railroad shares, but old “Pennsy” will survive his attacks. — Pinchot is so enamored with the Pittsburgh gang that he pro- poses to spend another Sunday there before the election. —— The administration got by on the unemployment problem on the eve of the election. Too late. ——Pinchot will have plenty of time, next summer, to hunt bats in the South Sea Islands. | Stockholders and Employees Capt. Arno S. McClellan, of of Public utility Companies Might Suffer. If you own any stock in a public utility corporation operating in Pennsylvania. If you are an employee of any such corporation your fat is in the fire and it’s up to you to save it. Gifford Pinchot, candidate for Governor, has declared war on the ‘public utilities companies. That means nothing more nor less than, if he is elected, their stockholders must face possible lower dividends on their holdings and their employees must face possible lower wages for their services. Gifford doesn’t need to worry, He has millions, inherited them all. He never employed anybody except those necessary to make the going softer for himself and his wife. They have so much that they can’t spend it and don’t understand what a dollar means to most people in Pennsylvania today. It ought not to be necessary for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the American Tel. and Tel. Co. the Associated Gas and Electric, the West Penn Power, the Central Pennsylvania Gas Company, the State College, Philipsburg and other local Water Companies to be fearful of the election of any good man to be Governor of Pennsylvania. They all have reason to be fearful of Mr. Pinchot because he has ranted over the State that they are charging too much for the utilities they furnish and that when he is Governor he'll fix them. Not cne of these public utilities is paying more than a fair dividend to its stockholders, Not one of them is paying more than fair wages the pockets of those who earn their bread and butter by working for them. Don’t tell us that he didn’t mean it that way. He means just ex- actly what he said and, if elected, he’ll move Heaven and Earth in his efforts to persecute them by legislation. If you need proof that Mr. Pinchot is the narrowest, most egotistical and vindictive man ever in the public life of Pennsylvania all you need do is recall what he did to The Pennsylvania State College when he was Governor before. the nomination of the man who did more for The Pennsylvania State College than any other living soul when he wrote into the Records of Pennsylvania that it is the ONLY ward of the State, Pinchot starved a great institution to the point of bankruptcy and by so doing denied thousands of boys and girls in Pennnsylvania their right to an education at the State's college. He did it wilfully and maliciously. The institution didn’t belong to the trustees and alumni who were for George Alter in preference to Pin- chot. It belongs to the people of Pennsylvania, the fathers and mothers of the boys and girls who had to give up ambition for a higher education { because a little man had attained a great place. A man vindictive enough to do that is vindictive enough to be a threat over your dividends, if you own any stock in a public utility. .. -and when it’s hard going for a corporation. the first to. suffer are it's : ‘sApciholders. The next are it’s employees. Those 80ft. Roads and What They Mean Do you know that there is on record in the court house in Centre county the State's pre-emption of forty feet of land on each side of the center of the highways leading from Bellefonte, via Nittany valley to the Clinton county line and from Bellefonte to Pleasant Gap and State College. : Do you know what this means to the owners of property fronting on those highways? At present none of these highways are more than thirty-feet wide, from fence to fence, and since the State has pre-empt- ed fifty feet more for them there isn’t an owner of an inch of ground fronting on them between Bellefonte and Lamar and Bellefonte and State College who can safely give a warranty deed, if he should desire to sell any of his or her property. Should the State decide to make those highways eighty feet wide whole towns will have to be moved back. Among them Zion, Hublers-- burg, Snydertown, Huston, Pleasant Gap, Lemont and Millbrook For in none of those mentioned is there sufficient space, from building line to building line, to permit an eighty-foot road way to run between. We all want good roads and as many of them as we can get, but certainly we don’t want them at the expense of rebuilding whole towns, moving farm barns and houses and of depriving owners of the opportu- nity they might have to sell land along them. As an instance Thomas E, Jodon, of Pleasant Gap, had about closed a very satisfactory deal with the Central Pennsylvania Gas Co. for the plat on which its gas plant was to have been located. and accepted a good price but he never got it. Simply because the Gas Company’s attorney discovered that part of the desired plot was with- in the State’s eighty-foot pre-emption and it couldn’t take a chance on having to move its plant and Mr. Jodon very sensibly decided that he couldn’t give a warranty deed, which would have committed him to paying for the moving, if it had been necessary. To make a long story short every owner of frontage on the roads we have mentioned is in Mr. Jodon’s shoes today. Twenty-five feet of their’ land on each side of those roads hasn't a cent of sale vaiue to them, unless they guarantee that the roads will never be made eighty- feet wide or indemnify a possible purchaser against loss if he should build on the present frontage and later have to move back.e : Mr. Holmes voted for the bill that put property owners in Nittany and Penns Valleys in that position. - Mr. Holmes is now asking them to send him back to Harrisburg to represent them. It means nothing whatever to us whether Mr. Holmes or John G. Miller is selected next Tuesday. Mr. Holmes is a very genial gentleman. His only short coming is that he seems to be “asleep at the switch’ wheneve‘r the interests of his constituency are in jeopardy, but very alert when his own are in danger. He says he didn’t know what the bill really meant when he voted for it. We'll bet the only overcoat we own against a one-piece bathing suit that he would have been “on the jo » had the State tried to grab off any frontage from the lots he has to sell about State College. — According to a statement! filed with the Congressional elec- tions bureau, in Washington, Con- gressman J. Mitchell Chase's cam- paign expenses to date are only $85.00. — 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 inoffice forever. —Summarily throwing Pinchot’s Merely because some of its Alumni and a few of its trustees favored He was offered | 4 spot and crept unnoticed by —— Good may come out of Nazareth. The quarrel among Phil- adelphia Republicans may make elections in that city in the future | cleaner, petition out of court Judge Ferguson declared it “the most scandalous, impertinent and frivolous document that had ever been filed in that court. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE —Earl Swank, of Shamokin, has been awarded $10,750 damages for the death of his daughter, Mollie, aged 12, killed last winter when the sled on which she was riding crashed into the auto of Joseph Welker Jr., of Coal township, on the street in that place. Motorists are asked by the State Game Commission to be careful while driving through wooded sections of the State in order to protect deer. Reports from all sections indicate that many deer are being killed by motorists. Lack of water in the mountains, the commis- sion says, is driving the deer into the open country. —Two young men of Burnham and a girl from Philadelphia are in the Mifflin county jail after having pleaded guilty to stealing a number of chickens from a farmer near Burnham. They are Clifford McCartle and Roland Knepp, of Burn- ham, and Edna Craig, of Philadelphia, visiting in Burnham. It is said that they ate the chickens. —The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture reports that 654 more dogs have been licensed, 1120 more worthless dogs have been killed, 1678 fewer dog owners have been prosecuted, and $46627.27 less in damage claims have been received so far this year, com- pared with the corresponding period of 1929. —With the water supply in Marietta, Lancaster county, almost completely de- pleted due to the prolonged drought, residents of the borough are using wa- ter from a community well. Despite the fact that an additional supply has been piped from a large spring into the reser- voir the water company declared the situation is still serious and urged all users to conserve as much as possible. —Clarence A. Mohler, 28, former teller of the Citizens Trust company, Canons- burg, was sentenced to from two to four years in the county jail at Washington, Pa., on Monday, by Judge Howard M. Hughes, on his plea of guilty in embez- zling $7851.08 from the savings funds of school children which he handled. He absconded and was accompanied by Miss Erma L. Holmes, of Houston, whom he married in St. Paul. —Annoyed by a rat in her novelty store at Connelsville, Mrs. William Herz- ‘berg fired a tiny toy cap pistol to frighten it away. A spark from the pistol ignited a Hallowe'en costume on a rack. In a few minutes the store was ablaze. Mrs. Herzberg severely burned, was carried from the building by Virgil Feniello, a nearby barber, who heard her screams and dashed through the flames to aid her. —The will of Dr. Nathan C. Wallace, of Dover, York county, which has been filed for probate, creates a perpetual trust of $5000, the income from which is to be used annually by Dover bor- ough and Dover township for charity and benevolent purposes. There are al- go contingent bequests of the residue of the estate after other trusts are termi- nated that the principal shall go to the ‘Masonic home, at Elizabethtown, Pa. —Charles Kreiger, 70, former justice of the peace of Coal township and prominent in Northumberland county | political circles, died on Monday in the State Hospital at Shamokin of a. frac- tured skull. He had been missing from home for 24 hours before police found him unconscious last Thursday along ! the Shamokin-Sunbury State highway, | apparently the vietim of a hit-and-run | driver. He never regained conscious- ' ness. ‘ —Harry Parmer, 12 year old Lancas- j ter boy was rescued irom drowning in a bathtub filled with water by his mother after he had been shocked into unconsciousness when a lighted electric lamp dropped into the tub. Mrs. Ruth i Parmer, unable to see clearly because the | light in the bathroom was extinguished, reached into the tub to pull her son out. She was badly shocked when her hands came in contact with the charged "water. { —Not satisfied with the police theory that their son committed suicide several weeks ago, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen ' Molar, of Berwick, have offered $100 re- ' ward for the arrest and conviction of ‘the “murderer or murderers” of 23- year-old Gaza Molnar, whose body was found hanging to a tree, a gag in his mouth and his hands tied behind his back. A coroner's jury had returned an open verdict in the case, not accept- ‘ing either suicide or murder theories | definitely. | —A youthful. robber held up Mrs. y Harry Scheurmann in the box office of | the Stroud Theater at Stroudsburg, Sat- urday night, seized $500 and fled on foot. Mrs. Scheurmann, whose husband is part. owner of the theater, was alone ‘in the office = when the man appeared, ‘leveled a pistol at her and demanded she open the door. She did so, she told i police, and the robber stepped inside, gathered ‘up the money and - ran. One man started to follow the youth, but gave up the chase when the robbed fired at him. . When Maurice Kauffman, and Charles Small, both 16 years old, found a bed in a building of the Pennsylvania Gas & Electric company at Yerk, Pa., “on Sunday night they went into a sleep so deep it took a pulmotor to arouse them Monday morning. They wound up in the York hospital for treatment for gas poisoning. Kauffman and Small, leaving their homes without permission, decid- ed to ‘sleep out.” They sought a warm employees of the gas into a generator building company. They noticed the odor of gas, but thought it natural to a gas- house. Monday mormng employees found them unconscious. —The Miners & Merchants Bank of Nanty Glo was taken over by the Sec- cretary of Banking, on Monday, as the result of a slow run, the State Banking Department announced. Secretary of Banking Peter G. Cameron appointed George F. Taylor, Jr. of Pittsburgh, as agent and placed him in charge. The department said that many depositors of the bank have been compelled for some time past to resort to their savings to enable them to live because of the stagnation of the coal industry in that section. As a consequence of the lack of work and the necessity of depositors living on their savings, the affairs of the bank reached a condition which renders it the duty of the Secretary of Banking to take possession inorder that assets may be conserved and liquidated for the | benefit of all the depositors.
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