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.