Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, November 21, 1930, Image 1
—Monday night's rain was a fine one. The only criticism we have to offer is that it didn’t last long enough. —There are just two reasons for the poverty of most people: They don’t earn enough and they spend too much. We are wondering whether it will be a Cadillac or a Rolls_Royce that will be parked on the other end of Linn street after January 7. — Bellefonte is to have an air passenger service. At least we are about to be in the position of say- ing “Here she comes, there she goes.” —This Peabody lady who is going to move out of Massachusetts be- cause it went “wet” at the recent election might have a lot of mov- ings on her hands during the next four years. If we were running the Demo- cratic party we wouldn’t promise too much to our friends, the enemy. Everytime we play the good Sa- maritan they reciprocate by giving us a good licking. — The result of the Timothy J. Mara suit against Gene Tunney was a verdict for the former heavy weight champion. Mr, Tunney got his easy and, according to all accounts, he intends to hold on to it. —If the Republicans go “Wet” in 1932 there will be a third party in the field and its name will be Pro- hibition. We hope there is, for then we'd really discover which a lot of “dry” Republicans care most for, a principle or the offices, Fifty years ago at this time it was so cold in Centre county that out-door work had to be suspended. Tonight it is so warm that we think we could sleep on the bank of a trout stream and not yell for some. one to stir up the campfire, —There is much talk in the pa- pers now about the Republican par- ty being split over the repeal issue. Possibly it is and possibly we Demo- crats will elect the next President, if Mr. Pinchot doesn’t buffalo the Nation like he did Pennsylvania. —We notice that Congressman Tinkham, of Massachusetts, insists that Bishop Cannon be indicted un- der the Corrupt Practices Act, We're against that. We arrogate to ourselves the right to jump into the Methodist church. When any- body else undertakes to filch that prerogative we're a Methodist. «—Maybe we could get out of the depression by following the example of Soviet Russia. Over there they, are trying to stabilize things by go- ing hungry for five years, Of course our people wouldn't go that far, but we know some of them who go hungry for six days so they can buy enough gas to take the whole fam- ily out riding on Sunday. —Our former President, Calvin Coolidge, thinks that business in this country is “fundamentally soun > We are not a former President, we have never stopped (?) a Boston police strike nor do we photograph like a man who is sniffin’ smell. We are just as greatas Cal. in one respect, however. We have hollered down a rain bar’l. — The Bellefonte High school foot- ball team hasn't won a game this season or scored a point against an opponent. Not so good, you say. It’s probably a record, all the same. And the boys deserve far more credit than they will receive, for they have been in there doing their best from whistle to whistle in every game. In their case they had the will to win, but ‘just didn’t have the brawn. __We can’t see that Mayor Mackey, of Philadelphia, has anything on our local statesman who is doubt- less casting wistful eyes on the At. torney-Generalship. So far as point- with pride to what their re- spective home towns did at thelast election we should think Harry and Arthur could meet on the banks of the Schuylkill or Spring ¢reek, shake hands and agree that there is no competition among gentlemen. __Raskob and Smith, and Davis, and Cox and all the rest who sign- ed that “Round-Robin” of good-will to the slightly disfigured Republi- can Congress might have been a bit precipitate, but the Watchman is not climbing onto Carter Glass’ re- sentment band-wagon. There's a mighty large African concealed in the Virginia Senator's wood pile, so large that a blind man could see it. The condition of the country isn’t worrying him. Raskob and Smith have given him the prickly-heat and he is hunting a remedy for it. —Being a real sportsmen Bill Zimmerman thinks that the Gover- nor was all “wet” when he promul- gated that edict against smoking in the woods. We are with Bill on that. Real sportsmen are the best friends the woods and wild life has. In fact if it hadn't been for them there would have been no forestry conservation movements and no game protective associations any- where. The trouble is, however, the woods are just like liquor. And the sportsmen are just like the tem- perance folks were when they thought it would be easier to in- voke the law than continue to teach coming generations the difference between use and abuse. a bad | ND =» STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. 1930. VOL. 75. Senator Glass Enters a Protest. Senator Carter Glass, of Virginia, is everlastingly right in his protest against pledging Democratic Senators and Representatives in the present and the next Congress to support any legislation, even though its pur- pose be to restore prosperity, that the administration may suggest. The Democratic victory of November 4 was an indictment by the American people of the Hoover administration and the Republican party for in- compentency and inefficiency. The Democrats in Congress are under no obligation, legal or moral, to con- done the faults in administratin which have thus been condemned. This is especially true with respect to the Grundy tariff. The industrial conditions which aroused popular resentment and re- sulted in the recent Democratic vic- tory have been in existence for more than a year. But so long as Re- publican control of the government seemed secure the President was in- different. All the leading econ- omists of the country admonished him in ample time that the Grundy tariff would cause industrial and commercial paralysis, but President Hoover paid no attention to the warning. When his administration and his party were rebuked in every section of the country from Maine to California, he began to take notice. After an eleventh-hour con- version he came to realize that something must be done, not for the country, but for the party. After the Republican victory of 1920 there was no expression of magnanimity on the part of the Re- publican leaders. On the contrary a conspiracy was organized to force an extra session of Congress in order that power might be seized at the earliest moment. Hundreds of charges were preferred and in- vestigations ordered to prevent the recuperation of the defeated party. In view of these facts we can see no reason why Democrats in Con. gress should now volunteer . service to help the administration to re- cover it's lost ground. The Dem- has been, ready to serve the best interests of the country. But it 1s, not an asylum for treating and curing lame political ducks. —Talking about hunting. Sports- men tell us that the scarcity of birds and squirrel is due to the scarcity of nuts. Probably they know, put the pheasants and squirrel should be told to move in from the woods. “puts” in the towns, ir Ward Politics in Washington. On the eve of the Congressional campaign, last fall, a rumor emana. ting from the Treasury Department at Washington and at the time at- tributed to Secretary Mellon, indi- cating a probable treasury deficit at the end of the fiscal year appeared in the press dispatches. A day or two later it was denied from the White House, the President having meantime sent for and held con- ference with the Secretary. The other day Senator Reed, of Pennsyl- vania, in an interview, renewed the statement and Senator Smoot, chair- man of the Senate Finance committee, supplemented it with a statement that in all probability it will be necessary to increase the income tax to the schedule of 1928, to pre. vent the deficit. The significance of these facts is in the proof that not only President Hoover but Secretary Mellon pros- tituted their powers in office to de- ceive the public for political effect. A certainty or even probability of an increase of taxes to avert a revenue deficiency before the elec- tion would be certain to exercise an adverse influence on the voters in the Congressional elections from the administration angle, Therefore President Hoover promptly denied the rumor and likely influenced credulous voters in various sections of the country to support Republi- can candidates for Congress, and in some measure “saved the face” of the party. This sort of political campaigning might be excused ina ward ‘“heeler,” but it is unbecoming in the Pres- ident of the United States. But 1t seems to be a favorite method of Herbert Hoover. Ever since the industrial stagnation set in he has been issuing bulletins that conceal the facts and aggravating the evil in- stead of improving conditions. If he had told the whole truth in the begin- ning and adopted corrective meas. ures the bad effects might have been mitigated. But he adopted the devious methods of a group of party pirates with the result of a trend in the wrong direction and in the end an exposure of his incapaci- ty for the service required from his office. BELLEFONTE er There is no blight on the Linn Street Residents Don’t Want | Milk Station. 54 = Some twelve or fifteen residents "of east Linn and east Curtin streets appeared before borough council, on Monday evening, to protest against. the establishment of a milk station at his home, on east Linn, by Ray- mond Brooks. The delegation sup- ported a lengthy petition signed by ninety per cent of the residents of that locality in which it- was claim- ed that a milk station there would be a detriment to the entire com-_ munity and would result in a de- preciation of all the residential properties. The petition also claim- ed that the noise of unioading and loading milk cans would disturb the peace and quiet of the neighbor- hood. Mr, Brooks, it appears, has con- verted what was formerly a garage , into a milk station and, although. he had been notified by the chief fire marshal and one or two mem- bers of council that he would have to secure a permit to erect a milk station, he failed to do so. A. C. Hewitt was spokesman for the dele- gation of protesting citizens and he appealed to council to forbid the operation of the plant. | Mr. Brooks was present and in’ defense of his actions stated that he was ignorant of the fact that he would have to secure a permit until he had his new work more than half completed, machinery or- dered, etc. He also stated that the plant was to be only temporary; | that he has secured a location on, north Water street and will erect -an up-to-date plant there in the ‘spring, and he only wants to use his Linn street plant until that ‘time. The matter was finally re- ferred to the Fire and Police com- mittee to do what they can to | straighten out the trouble. A brief communication was re- ceived from the Bellefonte s&Hool board stating that they are angious situation and if council will grat them the right to close Lamb stre work on construction of the pro- posed new athletic grounds. No ac- tion was taken, The Street committee reported minor repairs and a general cleanup of streets. Also that in the work of digging a cess pool on east How- ard street they are down sixteen . PA.. NOVEMBER 21. - Er —— RE — ME ———————— -a financial ‘ Centre county. officers for the coming year. to help out with the unemplojnént. 2 | cet and have blasted through twelve | feet of solid rock without finding a | fissure. They were instructed to continue the work. The commit-: tee also reported that Lester Musser | had given a check for $30 for a sewer tap, but to reach his new house, on east Lamb street, it will be necessary to lay 165 feet of 6- inch soil pipe. The matter was re- ferred back to the committee to see if other residents in that locality will be wiling to join in and thus help out with the expense of put- ting down the sewer. The water committee reported continued progress on the new wa- ter line and the collection of $1400 on water taxes. : The Finance committee reported a balance in the borough fund of $3139.64 and water fund $2464.34. | Also that the Bellefonte Trust com- pany had credited the water de. partment with $3857.00 from the sale of bonds and that there are still $2500 worth of bonds to be sold. Borough notes amounting to $20,000 have been paid off with money re- received from the tax collector and re- newal of $2800 in borough notes and $4000 of water notes were author- ized. The Fire and Police committee reported that C. G, Decker has ap- plied for a permit to erect a dwell- ing on east Linn street but had not yet submitted his plans. The mat- ter was referred to the committee with power. Burgess Harris was present and suggested to council the advisability of giving employment to men out of work in cleaning out Spring creek, cleaning up ash dumps and the sev- eral approaches to town. The var- ious committees were instructed to give the suggestion due considera- tion. Mr. Cobb called the attention of council to the fact that the Water committee had sold the old water wheels at the Gamble mill for junk at $11.50 per ton, and had sold two belts in the mill for $75.00, and he had been told that. the committee has been criticised for so doing. And what he desired was council to sustain the actions of the committee, or if they had acted without authority then he would have the belts re- turned and money refunded. The matter was referred back to the committee to find out if the criti- cism came from the Bellefonte Realty company. Mr. Cobb also wanted to know when Bellefonte would benefit by an Annual Meeting of Agricultural Extension Association. : The annual meeting of the Agri- cultural Extension Association of Centre county will be held in the court house tomorrow (Saturday) with sessions both in the morning and afternoon. Clarence E. Peters, of Stormstown, president of the ai. sociation, will preside, ; ! The morning session will convene in the court room at 10 a. m.sharp. This will be a joint meeting, in- cluding men and women. The gen- | eral order of business will include report, report of the. during the past | year by county agent, R. C. Blaney, and the report of the home econom- | ics work to be given by Miss Jean, Alexon, home economics worker for : A short talk will be given by Paul Edinger, assistant | director of extension at State Col- lege, on “Agricultural Extension Work.” The president of the as-' sociation will also be prepared to give some interesting figures on the results of the dairy improvement work accomplished during the past few years. The morning session will close with the annual election of work done The afternoon session will con- vene at 1.30 in the court room, and the program will feature boys and girls work. All 4H Club members in Centre county, numbering 173 in all, have been invited to attend this meeting. A number of club members will participate inthe pro- gram by telling what the activities of their club has been. A group of: girls from Howard will present a play, “The Nutrition Wedding.” | Following this a representative of the State Club office will make a few remarks, after which W. R. Gordon,, of the extension depart | ment at State College, will discuss Mann who went buggy riding last |him, today sued the ‘Communi- | Sunday afternoon can have the lit- | of its instructors “Future Life in the Rur ties.” = Mt: Gordon is speaker and his subject will be pre- ed with the idea of showing to the young folks; as well as the old, fie possibilities of country life. very able | [held this year due to the fact that it is impossible to find a banquet room to accommodate the anticipat- ed crowd. | Membership in the Agricultural Extension Association includes any- one in Centre county interested in agriculture. | { This will be a real opportunity to meet and see what the future farm-' ers of Centre county are doing through their 4H Club work, and Mr. Peters urges that you set this day aside and help by your presence ' in promoting ‘ the agriculture of Centre county. { | — Senator Smoot thinks the Grundy tariff isn’t high enough. | Viewed from one angle he is right, If it had been a trifle higher there wouldn’t have been any Republicans elected to the Seventy-second Con- gress. — It is predicted that Mayor Mackey of Philadelphia and Sen- | ator-elect Davis will be candidates for Senator next time which will give Republican voters a chance to choose between cupidity and stupid- ity. i 1 ee —— —The Wickersham committeee has ' agreed on a report in favor of con. | tinued efforts to enforce the Vol- stead law but there will be stren- uous opposition in Congress to the necessary appropriation. —Our school board has put our ' town council in somewhat of a hole. If it doesn’t close that portion of Lamb street now some will imagine it is standing in the way of relief to the unemployed. | = m————— i ——— — Congressman James M. Beck | refuses to agree either with Dwight Morrow of New Jersey or the wets | of New York because they aren't wet enough. | ——Senator- Borah serves notice | on the administration that he will. neither be bull-dozed nor beguiled | during the short session. adjustment of insurance rates, but no one was able toanswer the ques- tion. Ward Krape headed a delegation of five Nittany valley farmers who ‘are anxious to establish a milk shipping station here by placing two cars on the siding at the Phoenix mill, The matter was referred to the Water committee to go on the ground with the men and see it a plan can be worked out to accom- | modate them. ; Borough bills totaling $1179.50! and water bills $1413.06 were ap- proved for payment, after which council adjourned. « their ‘buggy . Sunday, NO. 46. FIFTY YEARS AGO IN CENTRE COUNTY. Items taken from the Watchman issue of November 26, 1880. —1It is said that work on the new Reformed church building in this place is to be abandoned for the, time being because of the extreme- ly cold weather. —It is said that Maj. W. F. Reynolds intends to erect the boss residence in Bellefonte next sum- mer. (This is the home at the cor- ner of Allegheny and Linn streets now occupied by Maj. Reynolds, nephew, W. F. Reynolds.) —Mrs. Brew, the venerable moth- er of S. A, Brew, Mrs. Hamilton and Mrs. Nolan, of this place, and relict of the late Thaddeus Brew, is quite ill at the home of her daugh- ter, Mrs. Hamilton, on Howard street. Mrs. Brew is away up in- the nineties, nearly one hundred years old. —John Irvin with his piccolo, Bill Derstine, with his bass horn, Scott Lose with his tenor horn and violin * Fred Smith with his make splendid music. bass There is no rubbing that out. —Mr. Frank Steinkirchner, of , of Newton, Harvey county, Kansas, { formerly of this place, surprised his friends here by an unexpected re- turn on Friday morning last, after an absence of several years. Frank! says the western country suits him first rate and he thinks he will not . ‘come back to Bellefonte to live. He will ‘make a stay of about a month before returning to his western home. He is looking fine and re- ports all his folks as well and i good spirits. —From Pleasant Gap comes the news that Robert Barnes has open- | ed a store in the post-office build- ing there, He has a wonderfully fine line of groceries. —The young ladies from Axe | ter of kittens they dropped out of by calling at Mr. Jerre Eckenroth’s. | Ho, 2 ’S he has cats enough, , without -having others wish more on him. .. = ° literary * society. It has twenty-five members, meets every Wednesday evening at the Pike school house gad Jon Griffith is its capable pres- ent. —A beautiful stained glass win- dow has just been placed in St. John’s Episcopal church here in memory of Mrs. Adaline Miles Har. ris, who for a long time was a de- voted member and faithful worker in that church. —The newly erected Evangelical church near Howard will be dedi- cated, the Lord willing, on Decem- ber 5. Bishop Bowman will be present and officiate. —Wheat is going right up. It’s $1.05 now. BE P —The planing mill dam at this place is frozen over with ice thick enough for good skating and soon the work of filling ice houses in the town will be begun. —~Colonel Dorsey Green, of Patton township, one of the pleasant gentle- men and best farmers in the county, gave us a call on Monday. The Col: is a Rep-ub-li-can, but a fine : fellow, for all that. —The first snow of the season fell on Wednesday night and yester- day morning. Earth was covered with a deep blanket of white. —Death of an Old Mare—The old mare familiarly known as “Sal” be- longing to Dr. E. W. Hale, of Bellefonte, died on Oct 26 at the age of 36. She had been such a wonderful animal that the doctor would not permit her to be shot. He sent her out to his farm to be kept until she died a natural death. She lived in luxury and idleness there for ten years, then gave up the ghost, The farmer in charge happens to be Mr. L. C. Rerick and as a little bit of memorial to “Sal” he has sent us the following: Old ‘‘Sal” is dead, that good old mare, We ne'er shall see her more. With limb so sleek and smooth of hair She was a splendid goer. She walked and paced oe'r hill and vale, To gather dollars for E. W. Hale, He pitied her too much, he said, To have her shot with gold or lead. So now, no more, she speeds away To earn her fodder, oats and hay But lies buried in Nittany Vale, To be remembered by Dr. Hale. —At Pennsylvania Furnace, last the air receiver in the en- | gine room was being repaired when "an explosion occurred which almost demolished the three story building. The concussion was so great thatin a church a quarter of a mile away the chandeliers were rattled so that the congregation rushed from the edifice in a panic. W. H. Wike, Mr. Prusy, the chemist, and two firemen were in the building at the time, but not one was injured. It is a safe bet that at least two members of Pinchot's former cabinet will sit at the council table of his new administration. 'SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —A building program of $300,000 has { been completed at the Danville state hospital for mental diseases, according to reports received by the trustees. family dog received were things she could not stand, Mrs. Hannah G. Fin- ry H. Rowand. Her divorce from Ro- bert F, Finney was granted. > —Angered because his wife refused to let him sell the family automobile for $16, Harmon Reddrick, a farmer near Erie, shot and probably fatally wound- ed the woman and then killed himself when cornered by State police. Mrs. Heddrick, 45, is the mother of eight children. . —Construction of two overhead bridges to carry the new and relocated Perry highway between Pittsburgh and Erie over railroad tracks in Crawford coun- ty as well as the abolition of several ' township grade crossings in the same vicinity was ordered Saturday by the Public Service Commission. —Albert and Guy Bowman and Henry Coble, of near Mill Hall; Oscar Shope and Zeplin Lee, of Fairpoint, near Flem- ington, were arrested by privates Eisen- hower and Spotts of the State police, as- sisted by detective D. L. Probst, charg- ed with the theft of forty bushels of po- tatoes from Walter Pifer, a Nittany farmer. —Northumberland county commission- ers will shortly award the contract for the demolition of twenty-nine homes at { the eastern end of Northumberland, so that the work can be done during the . winter months in order that there will be no holdup on thé new State high- way in the spring. The work will also { be done to employ as many men as pos- - gible during winter months. —Siphoning of gasoline from parked cars is a new source of revenue to Sun- bury men who don't like to work, ac- cording to the chief of police. He de- . nied that it was due to unemployment ‘ but rather to some crooks who want a new way to make money. Car owners . have been complaining for some time about the gas being stolen from their cars while they are parked. —John A. Gallagher, of Shickshinny, ! former State trooper, has brought suit for $50,000 damages against Ross Pen- nington, of Benton, for injuries sustain- ed almost two years ago in an automo- : bile accident. He was in a hospital for | five months confined to bed He was a { hardware salesman at the time of the | accident. The damages asked are largest ever sought in Co- lumbia county courts. "among the | —A young Temple University student | who lost an eye and whose face was | disfigured when a chemical testing tube | with which he was experimenting in the laboratory burst, spattering ‘acid over university and two for $50,000 in . the * United States district court. The plain-? ! tiff is William . ©: Nelson, ‘a Hative of Viriginia. His father, J. F.“Néfson; Jr." also claims $5,000 for medical expenses. —The Manufacturer's Gas company, of "Pittsburgh, has applied to the Public Service Commission at Harrisburg for permission to extend its right to -im-- clude eleven additional counties. = The . company now has its production system in Jefferson, Elk, Warren and Mckean and asks amendment of its charter to permit prospecting in Bradford, Tioga, Sullivan, Lycoming, Clinton, Potter, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Indiana and Cambria counties. > —Captain Thomas J. McLaughlin, for- mer head of Troop A, Pennsylvania State Police, was indicted on a charge of attempting to evade payment of in- come taxes on $133,689.19 by the federal grand jury at Pittsburgh, last Friday. The evasion was alleged to have eccur- red from 1924 to 1929, inclusive. Cap- tain McLaughlin left the service April 7 after more than 25 years as a State po- liceman. The source of his income was not disclosed in the bill. — Twenty-seven of Shamokin’s largest business houses on Independence street, will have to spend thousands of dollars for new plate glass windows for their store fronts. Early Monday morning a vandal walked along the street and us- ing a glass cutter or other sharp in- strument, cut all the panes. Some were scratched so badly that replacement is necessary and some were cut so that when business men went to work in the morning they found them hanging. Nothing was stolen. —The United States Department of Justice announced last Saturday that the Civil Service Commission will hold an examination some time after December 10 to fill the positions of warden and deputy warden of the Northwest Peni- tentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. Applications must be received by the commission not later than December 1. The salary is $6000 a year and of the deputy $5600. In the case of the warden $2100 is deducted to cover quarters and subsistence and $1600 for the deputy warden. —The attack on behalf of Franklin J. Graham, Philadelphia lawyer, on an in- dictment charging conspiracy in the Mountainside brewery case at Lock Ha- ven, was rejected by Judge Watson, in federal court at Scranton, last week, Graham will have to stand trial. Fed- ! eral court also rejected attacks by five ‘ other defendants, four Scranton men, on ; legality of the indictments. Eight rea- sons had been advanced by lawyers in ' attacking the indictments. One held that persons without legal authority were in | the Grand Jury room when the indict- ments were voted. —Walter A. Snyder, for twenty-five ! years a trusted employee of the Hunt- ingdon postoffice, who confessed Wed- nesday to postmaster Fred Etnier that he had taken $8000 from a registered mail sack consigned by a local bank to the Federal Bank, Philadelphia, on October 21, and disappeared mysterious- ly a few hours later, returned home on Sunday and was surrendered by his son to postoffice inspectors Kennedy and Getchell. He had wandered for five days on the ridges north of Huntingdon, with no food but fallen apples and wild grapes, and was so exhausted mentally and physically he could not be question- ed further. He is now in a’ hospital and no visitors are allowed to see him. Six thousand eight hundred and thirty- five dollars of the $3000 taken was ro- turned from Altoona by mail, board of —No kisses from her husband in five ’ years and treatment worse than the . ney, 52, of Pittsburgh, told Judge Har-