MEMORIAL.
In dedicating this column to th
memory of a talented sister we pay
tribute to one whose lovely thoughts
in verse have often gracedit. Wini-
fred Meek-Morris must surely be
known to every reader of the Watch-
man because for years she has been
singing songs of love, and faith and
encouragement through its columns.
They are ended now, for she is
gone—and all that is left is the
consolation that comes from the
thought that when she was singing
out her soul possibly it started
echoes in those of others. Echoes
that might have made life sweeter,
nobler for them.
Once she was a musician of sur-
r+—3sing skill and when her health,
broken by war work twelve years
ago, gave way to a virulent attack
of influenza, the hands that once
moved so rhythmically over the key
board of her piano became So
gnarled that they could no longer
give the soul expression she so loved.
Then it was that she started to
write verse. And, always, we could
read into her printed word the little
benedictions we felt as we sat, years
ago, in the darkened parlor at home
on Sunday evenings while Winifred
improvised at the piano.
It was her soul singing then, just
as it was singing to her mother
when she wrote
LIFE’'S GARDEN
Out in life’’s garden where sympathy
grew
You planted a soul, ‘twas the soul of
you
Life’s wonderful garden love, seeking,
went through
'Til it found a heart, 'twas the heart of
you.
I sought through life's garden of roses
and rue
And I found a sweet blossom all jeweled
with dew.
Love, sympathy, faith—all wondering and
true :
And the heart of my flower, dear mother,
tis you.
The hands are stilled now. The
songs to us are ended. Somewhere
in the garden of eternity she has
found the real flower whose image
she found ir her garden of life.
CHRIST LOVE
Charity—full, “free for each day.
Hope—to hearten us on our way
‘Reason—to balance right and wrong,
Xdeals—to ‘‘starr’” us through the throng.
Staunchness—for friend and foe, alike,
“Temptations—enough to prove our might.
Love—to- broaden our clouded sight,
Order—to place all thought aright.
Virtue—and deeds, and actions done,
Enough to gladden each day begun,
AWAKE
This morning, some time before day
break,
I heard a strange bird sing
And it seemed to me at that hour
To be an unusually lovely thing.
And then, just out of the silence
Of that quiet moment gone
Someone passed under my window
Whistling a quaint old song.
Softly he carried the familar theme
Sure of its beauty, rare,
I wondered if he, too, had heard the
tune
Flung out by the bird in the air.
And was carrying it on through the
dawning :
For each of us, waking, to hear
The songs of the souls on a city street
And the song of a bird in the air.
SUGGESTION.
When you stop for a chat of a moment
or two
With folks you meet on the street
Remember, they might have more troubles
than you
In their head and their bodies or feet.
Don’t pass on sad tales of some other
one's woes :
Or a trite bit of gossip you've heard
Just remember, that very same tale
might be their's
And might be their death song,
knows?
who
The world is so full of such beautiful
things
Just stars, alone, we each see
Are enough to gladdéen the day, as
comes,
To the souls of you or of me.
CONTENT
To keep on forever, going on
One must have courage in one’s heart
for joy and song.
Without start, or an ending
Or of bluster, or of pretending
Just enough to carry hope
To trek along.
To keep on forever, hoping on,
Make the song you started not so long,
For a day may space a life
In these times of stress and strife
And the night, perchance,
Might bring an endless dawn.
We republish these few bits of
her verse, taken at random from
the Watchman’s files, not so. much
as examples of her best We
to reveal the Godly naturé
woman we mourn. In every one
them nobility of thought speaks out
to us and the wells of love for her
fellow beings are running over.
God may it be that her days and
nights of suffering have brought her
into her ‘endless dawn.”
it
tives eliminated the appropriation,
-_.-—-——— Se mmESESSMS—————————
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
— Twelve days after birth, Joseph
Murrell, ‘son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E.
Murrell, of Sayre, was found to have
two molars in the lower jaw. Physicians
at the Packer hospital said the teeth
had been there for at least six days
before being noticed.
—Richard Yannee, of Hazleton, lost
$300 in checks cashed to oblige friends
when fire swept his home and those of
E. R. Evans and John Yarnell. Sixteen
persons were trapped in the blaze and
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. NOVEMBER 14, 1930.
slid down porch posts to the ground.
The fire; whecih started from a furnace,
did $16,000 damage.
—A campaign to raise $650,000 for
Susquehanna University was determined
NO. 45.
VOL. 75.
Result of the Election.
The exact figures that express
Gifford Pinchot’s plurality for Gov-
ernor are of little consequence.
His vote was not as big as he ex-
pected nor his preponderance in the
rural communities as universal as
he predicted. But it was enough
and it carries with it grave obliga-
tions and heavy burdens. What in-
fluenced the result is equally un-
important now that it is registered.
The Prohibitionists will claim, of
course, that they turned the trick
and to a considerable extent they
are right, for the policies they pro-
fess make strong appeal to the wo-
men voters and it is clear that they
contributed largely to the result. But
there were other and equally potent
influences at work.
From start to finish Mr, Pinchot’s
campaign was a false pretense. He
made promises which he knew were
impossible of fulfilment and he
made charges that he knew were
false and slanderous. But the voters
were credulous enough to accept his
promises and believe his charges.
For example, he promised that the
State will take over, construct and
maintain 20,000 miles of country
roads and at the same time de-
crease the cost of road maintenance.
He charged that Mr. Hemphill had
entered into an agreement with the
Philadelphia politicians to recom-
pense them for party service by of-
ficial patronage. This was not only
false but malicious, but it served
the purpose of influencing many
voters. ;
The election of Mr. Pinchot will
not abate the rapidly increasing op-
position to the Eighteenth amend-
ment but it will serve the purposes
of prohibition fanatics. It will pre-
vent the repeal of the Snyder act
for four years and guarantee the
continuance of the blue laws for
that period of time, for Mr. Pin-
chot stands pledged to veto any
legislation unfriendly to those meas-
ures. Mr. Pinchot can do nothing
to restrain utility corporations that
Mr. Hemphill would not have ~ac-
complished in better form, But the
people of Pennsylvania like to be
‘fooled and as a result of the elec-
tion of Mr. Pinchot they will get
what is coming to them in full
measure. i
eee ace |
— Jim Watson refrains from |
criticizing the generous statement of |
leading Democrats that there will be
no partisan fight on the administra-
tion in the next Congress. Jim is
trying to appear. a benevolent dem-
agogue,
Begin With the Wagner Labor Bill
1
Three years ago Senator Wagner, !
Democrat, of New York, introduced
three measures of legislation per- |
taining to unemployment. Near the !
end of the last session ome of these |
bills, after having been mutilated,
was passed, but died in the confer-
ence committee. This bill provided |
for the future planning of public
works and appropriated $100,000,000 |
as a “revolving fund” available” in |
times of unemployment stress.” It
passed the Senate in its original
form but the House of Representa-
thus robbing it of all force and
value, though an unemployment
stress was present at the time.
Another of Senator Wagner’s bills
proposed to set up machinery to
procure, by coordinating with State
bureaus, an accurate census of un-
employment with the view of rem-
edying the evil. Senator Wagner,
cordially supported by his Demo-
cratic colleagues, finally got this
measure through the Senate, But it
never got out of the House com-
mittee to which it was referred by
Speaker Longworth. The passage of
that bill would have made it impos-
sible to deceive the public by false
estimates of unemployment, as was
then being done nearly every day
by Secretary of Labor Davis and |
other members of the President's
cabinet.
In view of these facts the pro-
posed coordination of effort to re-
store industrial activity, between !
the Democrats and Republicans in |
Congress, upon reassembling next
month, might well begin by the unan- |
imous adoption of the Wagner
bills. The President has expressed a |
desire to act along the line laid down
by them. It would be entirely possible |
to restore that one now in confer- |
ence to its original form and thus |
make the revolving fund of $100,000,- |
000 available within a week from the |
opening of the session on December
1st. Ifthe Republicans refuse to
adopt this course they will write
themselves down as insincere. {
|
—— Charlie Johnson, commissioner |
of revenue, is slated for the first
decapitation by Pinchot. But Charlie |
has had fifty years in office and is
due for a vacation. 2
Democrats in Congress and Hoover.
The seven eminent Democrats who
have voluntarily given assurance to
the public that the party will not
misuse the power bestowed upon it
by the recent vote of the people
have correctly expressed the pur-
poses and interpreted the senti-
ments of the Democratic electorate.
The Seventy-second Congress, wheth-
er organized by the Democrats or
not, “will not be an obstructive
body.” But it will clearly disap-
point the expectations of the voters
who completely wiped out the big
Republican majorities in both cham-
bers if it deliberately assists Presi.
dent Hoover to restore his own
wasted political estate and recuper-
’
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Defeated but Still Admired.
No Pennsylvaniaa voter has rea-
son to regret his support of the
Democratic ticket this year. No
party in any State ever presented
to the voters a more worthy ticket."
John M. Hemphill, Sedgwick Kistler, '
Guy K. Bard, Lucy D. Winston,
Henry C. Niles, Aaron E. Reiber
‘and George F. Douglas, though they
failed in the purpose of their en-
deavor, made such an impression
upon the mind and conscience of the
electorate as will for all time re-
flect honor on the party and com-
‘mand respect for themselves. Mr.
‘Hemphill and Mr, Kistler were not
swidely known previous to their
nomination. But their conduct of
ate the Republican machine for ‘the campaign was on such a high
future incursions upon the rights of i plane that they are now recognized
upon, on Monday, at a conference of 200
Lutheran clergymen and laymen from
the institution’s field, following an ad-
dress by president G. Morris Smith. He
stressed the need of $150,000 for a new
classroom building and $500,000 addition-
al endownment.
—Believed to have fallen asleep while
driving alone in his car, Franklin C.
Harman, 28, of Clearfield, was killed, on
Monday, between Bigler and Woodland.
His car failed to make a turn on the
road and crashed into a telephone pole.
when | He was the son of W. D. Harman, of
you're sleeping on the floor. | Mill Hall, and represented his father's
The Master of the National firm at Clearfield.
Grange, L. J. Taber, says thefarm-| Fire believed to be the work of an
er's fix is so bad there is only one ' incendiary destroyed the large barn on
"change possible, and that would be the Richard Gregory farm in Shavers
a change for the better. | Creek valley, owned by Armour Eberle.
The farmer gets 1916 prices for Ten horses and mules, 37 registered
wheat, 1903 prices for cotton and Ayshire, Holstein and Guernsey cattle,
tobacco. He pays 1930 prices in 500 bushels of oats, 300 of wheat, 60
transportation and taxes and for tons of hay, 40 of straw and 11 acres of
, manufactured goods. { corn fodder were destroyed.
OYSTERS R IN SEASON.
An oyster met an oyster.
That makes them oysters two.
They fell into a bowl of milk.
That makes them oyster stew.
Authorship
The Only Way the Farmer Can Go |
is Up.
From the Philadelphia Record.
You can’t fall out of bed
‘patriotism promoted iniquity.
‘party to legislative control. It should
‘and salve the bruises of a weak and
,of the party.
{world as a typical leader of men
the people.
After the election of 1920, when |
the lamented , Woodrow Wilson, |
stricken in health and disappointed
in his most cherished hopes, the
Republican leaders in and out of
Congress expressed no sympathy
and offered no words of comfort.
They even pursued him to his death
chamber to express their cruel’
enmity. Of course we don’t want
the Democrats in their season of
triumph to imitate
this form of
brutality, But we do expect those
who have been delegated to act for |
the party in Congress to avail them-
selves of the opportunity to make |
the victory achieved an enduring’
triumph of the people over graft,
corruption and monopoly. This can
be achieved without obstruction to
proper legislation.
President Hoover has been in
office nearly two years and his par-
ty has had ostensible control of
both branches of Congress. From
the beginning of his administration
Democrats in both Senate and House
were willing to support any just
legislation he suggested. But he
took counsel with the political wolves
of his own party and professing
The
result has been the elimination of
his party power in Congress and
be, and will be, wisely exercised,
but to achieve this result it is not
necessary to set the broken bones
thoroughly discredited politician.
——The airmen are still making
records and incidentally inviting dis-
asters.
Picking Candidates for President,
There is plenty of time to pick
the Democratic candidate for Pres-
ident for the campaign of 1932, and
happily there is abundance of ma.
terial from which to make choice.
But picking candidates for President
is a fascinating mental exercise to a
vast number of people and the grati-
fying results of the recent election
in nearly every place outside of
Pennsylvania, makes the present an
auspicious time for such delightful
day dreaming. Naturally, therefore,
names of worthy party leaders are
being suggested as available candi-
dates and the firm belief that the
nomination will be equivalent to an
election then every suggestion be-
comes interesting to the electorate
Probably the most frequently sug-
gested name for the honor and favor
of the party thus far brought for-
ward is Franklin D, Roosevelt, re-
elected Governor of New York by a
record breaking majority. Even be-
fore the election there was a wide-
spread impression that in the event
of his re-election as Governor, by
any majority, he would be in the
first line for promotion. He has all
the qualifications for the office. An
accomplished statesman, a profound
scholar, an experienced executive and
a reputation for integrity that de-
fies even the finger of suspicion, he
stands before the country and the
and a just administrator of govern-
ment. His character inspires con-
fidence.
But as the phrase goes ‘there are
others,” and plenty of them. For
instance, there is ¢sovernor Ritchie,
of Maryland, re-elected by an in-
creased majority for the fourth time.
There is Senator Joseph T. Robin-
experienced in statecraft.
there are still others worthy and |
willing to serve the country, and!
there is a good deal of time be- |
tween the present and the assem- |
bling of the next nominating coven- |
tion for the development of suitable |
as well as available candidates. For |
these reasons there is no occasion
for haste in the picking of a leader
for the campaign of 1932, but there
is no harm in trotting them out for |
public consideration.
——A Honduras hurricane,
Saturday, seems to have said
we have no bananas to.day.”
last
“Yes,
party leaders.
It must be a pleasure to every
Democrat in the State to review
the incidents of the campaign and
feel that he or she was faithful to
the principles and traditions of
Jefferson, Cleveland and Wilson, and
did full service in an earnest effort
‘to restore to the country the poli-
cies which their eminent services ex-
pressed. It must be equally grati-
fying to them that their candidates
presented the issues of the cam-
paign candidly and courageously.
No false promises were made to
deceive the credulous, no slanders
were uttered to create animosities
and no vilification was employed to
provoke prejudices. It was an
earnest, clean and proper appeal to
the intelligence of the voters.
The Democratic candidates were
neither professional politicians nos
perennial office seekers. They were
called to the service which they so
voice
admirably performed by the
of the Democratic people. They
had no sinister purpose or selfish
ambition to subserve. If they had
been chosen they would have ful-
filled every moral and legal obliga-
tion that result would have imposed.
But even though defeated they are |, sent administration was put in | viaduct,
not without reward. They have ac-
ed the respect and ation
man © within or without the party
organization and a leadership among
the best element of the voters of
Pennsylvania which will endure as:
long as they live.
——The three days open season
for doe is likely to cause trouble
among hunters in Clinton county.
Both Porter and Lamar townships,
in that county, are included in the
territory in which doe can be killed
the last three days of November,
but when the men who own the
woodlands in those townships went
to the Game Commission, in Harris-
burg, to get a special doe license
they were told that the allotment
for Clinton county had been ex-
hausted, it is said, and they were
unable to get any. Considerably
peeved the land owners banded to-
gether and posted all the land, for.
bidding hunting thereon. What will
happen now remains to be seen.
——Justice has “traveled with a
leaden heel” in the case of Tom |
Cunningham, of Philadelphia, but a
‘control of the country, has the full
recent Supreme court decision prom-
ises a speeding up at least.
——Senator Watson, of Indiana,
imagines that the wiping out of
Republican majorities in both
branches of Congress is not a de-
feat of that party.
Franklin Roosevelt has wisely
determined to attend to his business
as Governor, of New York rather
than waste time in trying to be-
come President.
——The death roll of the present
hunting season is unusually heavy
which indicates an increasing meas-
ure of carelessness on the part of
gunners.
——The War Department
Washington approves Sunday foot-
ball whatever the other parts of
the administration think on the sub-
ject.
——=Senator McKellar, of Tennes-
see, interprets the election as “a
mandate to repeal the Hawley-
| son, of Arkansas, clean, capableand'gq, oot tariff bill” at once
An °
——The death of General Tasker
Howard Bliss removes one of the
real generals of the world war and
of the American army.
——Mr. Hoover has not yet in-
dicated even partial appreciation of
the generous offer of support made
by leading Democrats.
Amelia Earhart has winged
her way into the millionaire Putnam
family, of New York.
—Subcribe for the Watchman.
jer to act.
at |
{ His income is about 8 per cent
‘above the prewar level, says Mr.
Taber; but his costs are 50 per cent
higher.
Quite a few millions of city peo-
ple, white collar workers, not fac-
tory workers, are meeting 1930 costs
on 1916 pay, too.
They are a much less local class
than the farmers.
organization whatever, They suffer
in silence. If they were better off,
the farmers would be, too; both in
respect of active public sympathy
with their difficulties and in respect
of a ready market for their product
at 1930 prices.
Farm buildings ‘in need of paint-
ing. Farm fences to be repaired
after the time of cheeseparing econ- |
omy. These are part of the familiar
circle. When the farmers can sell,
the farmers can buy. When the
farmers buy, trade is good, and the
‘army of “city fellers” all along the
line of business can purchase more
farm products.
Congress, giving industry higher
and higher tariff protection, ob-
stinately refuses to give the farmer
the equalization fee or the export
| debenture. Subsidizing Big Business
{it shrinks with horror from the idea
| of giving agriculture any practical
help—and thus the party pledge of
economic equality on which the
power fades out of the picture, so
far as governmental measures are
20 e d. A eG 2 =
i From the high cost of govern-
ment, expressed in taxation, no re-
lief is in sight, for either urban
_communities or rural regions.
Mr. Taber is “darn tootin’” when
he says the immediate hope of im-
| provement for the farmers is in
better organization of marketing
, methods.
No Premature Recognition.
- From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Although the sudden overturn at
Rio de Janerio forecasts an end of
civil war, the State Department has
acted wisely in declining ‘to rec-
' ognize prematurely any new Gov-
ernment which may be established
‘there. It is clear that the Federal
‘troops are yielding to the rebels,
‘and that the inauguration of Senor
‘Prestes next month as the new
| President is in the highest degree
{ unlikely. Both he and President Luis
‘are prisoners with no apparent pow-
But there is as yet mo
Government which meets the require-
ments of legitimacy. The Depart.
ment holds that, whatever degree of
authority it exercises, it must fulfill
three conditions: show that it is in
support of the people and is pre-
pared to meet its national obliga-
tions. At present no assurance that
any of these conditions have been
met is possible.
That the civil war should be
brought to an end is, of course, de-
sirable.
Brazil, if they are such, have still
to show their capacity for orderly
administration. That they have not
yet done so is shown by the con-
tinued disorders in Sao Paulo, where
mobs have wrought great destruc-
tion. The most serious incident in-
ternationally which has so far
occurred is the shelling of the Ham-
burg-American steamship Baden in
the harbor of Rio, with injuries to
many of the passengers and the
loss of more than a score of lives,
The claim that the shelling was ac-
cidental and that the ship display-
ed no flag cannot satisfy the Ger-
man Government or the Spanish
of those killed were Spaniards.
An “accident” like this requires a
good deal of explanation. It might
be well if warships were sent to
demand it.
The Meanest Road Hog.
From the Ohio State Journal.
The experienced metorist finds
constant irritation from drivers who
disregard the American rule of
keeping to the right onthe highway.
The modern road is ample for safe
passing, if both drivers act fairly.
If they donot, no pavement is wide
enough to insure safety. . The driv-
er who uses the middle or left of the
road not only is the meanest hog
traveling, but causes accidents need-
lessly. He needs discipline. Unfor.
tunately the only method of dis-
ciplining is a suit for damages if
he becomes involved in an accident.
Alife may have to be sacrificed to
bring that about.
They have no |
But the new masters of
Government, either, since a number |
| —After scratching his hand on a
! sharp point protruding from his leg,
. between the knee and thigh, Clayton E.
| Moul, of Spring Grove, York county,
had X-ray photographs taken. The
| photos revealed the presence of a needle
an inch and a half long. Surgeons who
| removed it said Moul had prob: oly
| swallowed it when a child.
—The condition of Walter Shaffer, who
was shot by his wife in Frankstown
last Friday night, is reported as good
at Mercy hospital, Altoona. His wife,
! Mrs. Susanna Shaffer, who surrendered to
police shortly after the shooting, is
being held in Blair county jail and will
| be given a hearing just as soon as her
husband is able to be present.
| —Progress is being made in construc-
! tion of the new main building for the
i only Catholic Slovak girls’ Academy in
‘the United States, located at Danville.
{The new building will accommodate 200
, students. It will cost approximately
| $1,000,000. The main tower, 275 feet
i high, will be surmounted by a cross
‘and by an airplane beacon light.
| __At the place at which members of
| the Continental Congress crossed the
| Susquehanna river on a barge ferry to
| re-locate the capital of the country a $3,-
000,000 bridge was dedicated on Tues-
{ day as a memorial to the men and wo-
| men of Lancaster and York counties who
| served in America’s wars. The concrete
i 7,000 feet in length, carries the
! Lincoln highway over the river between
Lancaster and York counties.
I~ —Joseph Delaney, Plymouth confec-
tioner, had been in the habit of keep-
ing money in the firebox of a stove in
the rear of his store. The stove was
also used as a waste paper receptacle.
Saturday morning he ordered a clerk to
remove the paper and burn it in an in-
cinerator. A few moments after the
blaze was started Delaney though of his
money. The fire was extinguished, but
! not before it had consumed $156 in bills.
Mrs. Jennie Berry, 72, of Beech
Creek, was shot, last Friday, while
standing on the back porch of her
home. She was taken to the Lock Haven
hospital where it was said she would
recover. The shot lodged in her face,
chest and legs. It is not known who
fired the shot but a boy was seen to
run from a nearby clump of bushes and
it is believed he ran away when he saw
that his shot aimed at a rabbit or bird
had struck the aged woman.
—Joe Israel, 50, of Gallitzin, is sure
he knows the answer to the one about
how long it will take a man to get out
of a well if he slips back one foot
every time he climbs two feet. He fell
down a 50-foot well two times on Mon-
day. None the worse for the first fall
Joe had climbed to within a few inches
of the top of the well, when he lost
hold and fell to the bottom a second
time. Then neighbors called out the
fire department and he was rescued, with
only a few minor bruises.
—The first time George Peternel, 46,
, Wickhaven, Fayette county, took his
! new car out, it swerved from the Laura-
dale road and crashed into a fence.
Motorists who stopped to offer aid,
slapped him on the back and called him
‘a “lucky guy” when it was found
neither the driver nor the car was any
' the worse for the crash. And so they left
him. That was last Thursday. Friday
‘police identified the body of a man
| found dangling from the limb of a tree
{right where the car had crashed. The
dead man was George Peternel, who had
i hanged himself.
| —An important link in the Lewistown—
. Bellefonte highway, Route 53, will be
| thrown open to traffic within the next
ten days after having been concreted.
The new road starts at Reedsville and
joins the concrete laid two years ago
over the Seven Mountains, just north
| of Milroy, five miles in length. The
last concerete was poured early last
week and it is expected that the road
will be opened its entire length within
ten days. The Burkett Construction
company started operations the middle
of July and encountered considerable
difficulty in excavation due to the lime-
stone rock which is very plentiful in
that vicinity.
—John Stoffko, of Girardville, got an
added thrill out of becoming an Amer-
jcan citizen. He was in the courtroom
at Pottsville when naturalization court
was on, and Judge Koch informed a dep-
uty sheriff to place six prisoners who
wanted to enter pleas of guilty in the
courtroom cell until he was ready for
them. In the scuffle seven prisoners
instead of six were herded in to the
cell. Attorney Nowacoski, of Shenan-
doah, had a great time finding his client
when he was called for examination, and
when his voice was finally audible it
was found that he was the seventh man
in the cell. Stoffko said he thought
being locked up was part of the cere-
mony.