ns BL eR IST PU Th, rm remem ema meme omg ment ee eee It is Thanksgiving evening. A man who had worked overtime all the fore part of the week so that he might have half the day off is won- dering whether his long nourished contention that anticipation holds more real joy than realization is true. * The house was <oid and bleak when he arose in the morning. The ‘furnace did not respond as usual when he stoked it, so that he might at least have the cheer of hearing the cold air hissing out of the vent in the bathroom radiator while he was shaving. From the window he saw drab skies and fitful flurries of snow swirling around the backs of the dead garages and business blocks that form the usually active vista that he sees first each morning when he arises. True, he had a favorite breakfast: grape fruit, fillet of salt mackerel, broiled, fried potatoes, toast and coffee. He never thought of that in his hurry to get away to work, Work, so that those of his young employees might have at least half ja day, also. He was not thinking solely of them. Candor forced him to admit that before him, while he worked, marched the phantoms of years when he was their age and mem- ory ran a fever, hot with the fer- vor of youth, then chilled by the thought that such days for him were forever gone. At twelve-thirty the work was done end he went home through streets as deserted and cheerless looking as they probably are at 2 a. m. on a Sunday morning in the dark of the moon. Hometoa lunch of puree of tomatoes and saltines. The afternoon he had worked for was before him. The problem of what he would do with it was also before him, It was Thanksgiving day and something ought to invite. Thousands of things would have had “their lure forty years ago, but only one of them appealed to him and it was to get away off somewhere, alone. He wanted solitude, his cabin in the woods where he holds com- munion with the spirits of friends and days that are gone, communion that quickens memories of the past into fantasies of present realities. It was too cold to fare forth on such a venture, too cold to go to a football game in a nearby town. What was he to do with the after- noon he had saved by working over- time for three days. Nervously, he paced back and forth through his home until it seemed he had worn paths in the rugson the floor. Each time he reached a front window he looked out hopefully, but saw noth- 1 i i VOL. 75. DbB&u vicious Form of Propaganda. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times, of political conditions, writes: is a definite inclination on the part of some Democratic Senators to join administration Republicans in dis- couraging any attempt to force an extra session. such a sitting might retard economic recovery, and the impression might be given to the electorate that the Democrats in Congress were respon- sible for that state of affairs.” That is absurd enough but not the worst. Continuing he adds, “with- out doubt a definite effort will be made by the party leaders to create the impression that the business in- terests of the country have nothing to fear from Democratic control of the government,” This statement expresses the prin- cipal feature of a scheme to re. cuperate the vanishing fortunes of the Hoover administration. In the trough of the wyrst industrial and commercial slump which the country has ever experienced, brought on by the vicious policies and stupid prac- tices of the Republican leaders, skill- ful phrase-makers of the press are employed to deceive the people by such misrepresentation of facts. In the first place no Democrats, in or out of Congress, are trying to force an extra session of Congress and no extra session will be necessary, un- less the administration, in the in- terest of monopoly, prevents the pas- sage of meritorious legislation, now pending, during the short session which assembled on Monday. And there is no necessity, present or prospective, for impressing upon the electorate that “business inter- ests have nothing to fear from Democratic control of the govern- ment,” There have been two Demo- cratic Presidents since the Civil war and impartial historians have begun to extol, rather than condemn, their administrations for wisdom and ef- ficiency. More constructive legisla- tion was enacted during the brief period of Democratic control of the government during the Wilson ad- ministration than during the sixty years of Republican control. « There may be a few persons who still imagine that the purpose of Demo- _ing but a wind-swept, deserted street. | , io statesmanship is to wreck He tuned in on KDKA. He heard |, country and starve themselves a lot about Syracuse and Columbia ‘and cold winds sweeping a stadium, but- nothing about State and Pitt. Then he exhausted his nervous energy for a full half an hour twisting that old dial to locate whatever station might be broad- ‘casting the game he had reconciled himself to believe would make the holiday he had anticipated. Finally he gave that up, put on "his hat and coat and started for the | “office to look over whatever mail might have accumulated on his desk. On the way there the solitary per- son he met was a friend with head bowed and chin tucked inside the turned up collar of his overcoat. The friend looked up and such a dour, crabbed visage the half-holi- day seeker had never seen on his face before. All he said was: “Ain’t it a hell of a note that KDKA isn’t broadcasting the State game?” Then the man who had worked over time to gain half-a.day off looked down into Spring creek and said to himself: “Shall I jump?” He didn’t. He went on into his office. A rather sizeable stack of mail was on his desk, but there was only one envelope with a two-cent stamp on it. He threw all but it into the waste paper basket and feverishly slid the paper knife un- der the flap of the real letter. And there on the single sheet, “Please discontinue my subscription” stared him in the face. It was nearly five o'clock then. _There’s nothing as gloomy as a dy- ing holiday, unless it might have been . that fellow. He went home again. A . ight was burning in the window when he turned the corner into his home street. Bright things had probably been all about him during the day, but that was the first one he had noticed. It gave him an jdea. He would pile some logs in the fire place, snuggle in his easy chair and read his favorite maga- zine. On the way for the logs he had to go through the kitchen. There the savor of roasting duck filled his nostrils and started him thinking in other channels. He got to thinking of his home . —the place where the only light on the street had been burning, his family that had brought nothing of sorrow and so much of joy and when, after dinner, he sat watching the witching flames curl up the fire place chimney all thought of meas- uring the joy of anticipation against that of realization fled. It wasn't an academic question then. It was only one of thanking God for what he had. And he thanked Him, | | but they live in insane asylums and are not responsible. ——We hope Pinchot’s promises will be more nearly fulfilled’ than those made by Hoover two years ago, : oe A em mmm Hoover Head of a Filibuster. prolonged filibuster of recent years has not “een in the Senate where filibusters are commonly believed to occur. 'The one to which he refers is in the House of Representatives and has been directed against cer- tain popular legislation from the White House. The conspirators in this filibuster are the President, the Speaker of the House, the chairman of the House Committee on Rules and the majority floor leader of the House. These gentlemen do not ob- struct legislation by long talks on the floor and other open parliamen- tary devices. They simply “pickle” such measures as they are opposed to in the committees. The incident that led to this statement was the recent declaration by chairman Snell, of the House Committee on Rules, that he is wil. ling to permit a vote on the Nor- ris Muscles Shoals bill. Following this Representative Treadway, of Massachusetts, after a conference with the President, declared ‘un- qualified opposition to any action permitting public operation at Mus- cle Shoals as provided by the Nor- ris bill,” and Mr. Snell promptly qualified his previous statement by asserting that “his offer does not mean that he will support the meas- ure.” The plain inference is that the White House filibuster will be continued against the measure. The President is not willing to assume responsibility of a veto, Senator McKellar President Hoover was the cause of the refusal of the House to consider the lame duck bill, the Wagnor la- bor bills and the Norris Muscle Shoals bill and adds, “as long as the President and his three House lead- ers are engaged in filibusters it seems to me that it comes with ill- grace for them or any of them to talk about a Senate filibuster.” As a matter of fact there will be no filibuster in the Senate if the lead. ers of the House permit reasonably fair treatment to popular and proper legislation which is favored by a vast majority of the people and ap- parently by a majority of the mem- bers of the House of Representa- tives. in a review 'ously reve “There | country as it has They contend that charges that | Generous Work of Charity. Charity has never been so gener- aled in this or any other | States this year. On Thanksgiving | day, in New York and other Ameri- gry men, women and children were fed bountifully by charity organiza- tions and other benevolent groups ‘and it may safely be estimated that within two or three months thous. ands have been saved from death by starvation by the same agencies. It is true that there has never before been so urgent a call upon the humanitarian impulses of the people, but it is nevertheless a just cause for civic pride that the emer- gency when presented was so prompt- ly and liberally met. | While no party nor individual can be justly charged with responsibility for the condition that brought out so generous an expression of good will and helpfulness ooth the Presi- dent and the Republican party may be blamed for default and inertia which megnified it. When the Wall Street panic came last fall, Presi- dent Hoover imagined that calling conferences and exacting promises from rich men was the only avail- able remedy, and the Republican party in Congress assumed that in- creasing tariff rates, and incidental. ly the cost of living, would serve the purpose of alleviation. That was an error of judgment of the type Napoleon had in mind when he said “some mistakes are worse than crimes.” . Possibly the Wall Street panic _couldn’t have been prevented either by legislation or executive action. . But it could have been modified: by President Coolidge and tempered by ‘legislation which was introduced by Senator Wagner nearly a year ago. | President Hoover seemed as helpless as a child in the emergency and made matters worse by issuing . statements of returning prosperity i with the apparent purpose of de- {ceiving the public. The remedies ‘which be proposes now might quite as well have been adopted a year | ago. himself: by his official advisors i “the leaders of the party. But that . does not exculpate him from blame or put the Democrats under obliga- "tion to help him. . ——Everybody in Philadelphia, .and a good many others,” are ‘curious to know what sort of a job has been offered to Mayor Mackey ‘that made him think of resigning, . while some think it was a dream. 1 eee ree eet mar: ‘Mahomet Will Go to the Mountain. . Senator McKellar, of Tennessee, | ! declares that the most effective and On “sober second thought” the ‘Republican leaders in Congress have {come to the opinion that it is wiser ‘to be fair and reasonable rather than stubborn and partisan. For more ‘than a year all the energies of the . Republican machine have been in- vested in an effort to bolster up the waning popularity of Herbert Hoov- of the party. Since the recent election the tide against that pur- , pose has been rising and the im- pression that an early sessionof the new Congress would destroy it al- . together was growing. But under | the guidance of selfish monopolists i they seemed determined to force an . extra session by refusing to consider { important legislation during the ‘short session. | The legislation to which they ob- jected has long been pending and j Slaboratsly discussed in both | branches. It can easily be disposed | of in Congress but the President is on record as irrevocably opposed to some of the measures and is believed to be against others. All of them . are immensely popular with the pub- {lic and either a veto or a surrender | would be disastrous for Hoover. { The party leaders hoped to avert , such an issue of the matter by in- ‘ducing Democrats and Independents to consent to passing consideration of them over until the regular ses- 'sion next year, thus guaranteeing the supply bills from the short Session and immunity from contro- ! versial questions for another year. But neither the Democrats nor the Independent Republicans in Congress would consent to such a sacrifice of opportunity, and like Mahomet and . the mountain, the Republicans have | decided to take up the legislation in order. Representative Snell, of New York, chairman of the House Com- mittee on Rules, has announced his . willingness to consider the Muscle Shoals bill and Senator, Watson, {floor leader in that chamber, de- i clares that he will do anything to ravoid an extra session. In other : words he will yield to the necessity j of being good. But it is not a cor. | dial concession to justice and fair- , ness or a patriotic gesture. It is | influenced by dread of popular ex- ecration. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA.. DECE in the United’ can cities, literally millions of hun-° He may have been deceived an unders er as the only hope for the future Hoover's Conversion to State Rights. President Hoover's recent state- ment with respect to federal enforce- ment of State laws would be fine and encouraging if it meant any- thing. “Any suggestion of increas- ing the federal criminal laws in gen- eral,” he writes, “is a reflection on the sovereignty and stamina of State governments.” That is admirable ‘and as an esteemed contempory sug- gests, “might have been written by Thomas Jefferson.” But the trouble is that it is not consistent with the ‘actions of the President in other things. In the matter of prohibition “enforcement, for example, he is not only willing to usurp the functions of the State governments but to vio- late provisions of the federal con- { stitution. But it is ungracious to “look a gift horse in the mouth” and some good may come from the President's conversion to the doctrine of State sovereignty, even though it is an eleventh-hour mental operation. It may inspire some of the State gov- ernments to assert their authority and resent the usurpations of the federal government in local affairs. The exercise of police powers by the federal government, which has had both the sanction and support of President Hoover as well as most of the leaders of his party, has incited rather than repressed the evils of which he complains, and if his admoni- tion shall effect an improvement in this respect it will be worth some. thing, It is absolutely true that single State has ample cover such criminality” as racketeer- ing, corruption and other crimes of violence that are raging in vari- ous sections. It may be equally true that “what is needed isthe enforce- ‘ment of those laws and not more laws.” But the intrusion of the federal government into the field of ‘local administration, which originat- ‘ed with the President’s party and ‘has been increasing rapidly under his sanction, is largely if not alto- ‘ gether responsible for this condition. Possibly Mr. Hoover has come to tanding of the fact and a “every " subject, in which event a better sys- tem may be expected. An Unnecessary Agreement. According to Washington gossip President Hoover and Senator -Rob- inson, Democratic floor leader of the Senate, have arrived at a working agreement with respect to legisla- tion during the short session. The programme is to enact unemploy- ment bills, additional appropriations for public buildings and roads, re- lief for drought sufferers and a bill for the further improvement of wa- terways. It is further agreed that “some of the relief measures will be "offered by Republicans and others “will come from the Democratic side.” It 1s rather significant that Senator Robinson who never filibustered, ‘agrees to discourage rlibustering. ' “Nothing is said about the Muscle “Shoals problem, the lame duck ses- ‘sion question, the world court mat- , ter, the Wagner unemployment leg- .islation or either of the other meas. ures for which the Democrats and | independent Republicans in both chambers have been striving for many years. Nothing was said, either, concerning the White House filibuster and no promise was exact- ed that it be abandoned. This dis- crimination puts a suspicion on the patriotism of the Democratic Sena- tors and Representatives in Con- gress that is hardly justified. They have not shown a purpose to wreck and destroy the country in the past. The fact of the matter is that the Republican party has gone bankrupt and President Hoover, the principal Democrats in Congress to rescue it and save him. There is no need for conferences to get the Democrats to support helpful and proper legisla- tion, and there is certainly great need for = that form of legislation now. . Some measures of this type have been on the calendar for years and have been opposed by the Re- publican leaders. They have oOp- portunity now to correct their faults continue, as in the past, to legislate in the interest of the people. — If all the Luzerne county of- ficials accused of crime are convict- ed there will be along list of offices to fill at the next election. ———TUnless Gifford Pinchot betrays his record the impending fight for the repeal of the Blue Laws will be a waste of energy: ——Al Smith is to become a columnist andit isa safe bet he will give the public some interesting stuff. MBER 5. 1930. laws that’ sufferer, is now trying to induce the and meantime the Democrats should | American Prize Winners. From the Altoona Mirror. It is announced that Frank B. Kellogg, former American Secretary of State, now a judge of the world court, has been awarded the Nobel peace prize for 1929. In addition to the distinguished honor conferred upon the winner of this annual award, it is accompanied by a con- siderable sum of money. There is little reason to surmise that Mr. Kellogg needs the latter; still it is apt to come in quite handy from, time to time. i It is also interesting to observe that the award for distinguished lit. erary achievements was given to an American, Sinclair Lewis, and that the prize in medicine went to Karl | Landsteiner of the Rockefeller insti- tute. Thus three of the great prizes come to America. It is very grati- fying to learn that American pro- fessional men are successfully com-' peting with their brethren of other countries and conferring distinction upon their country as well as ben- efitting mankind by their really praiseworthy services to the world at large. For many years the Old World paid little attention to the achieve- ments of Americans or to the rapid progress of our country in the vari. ous fields of distinguished service. The average KEuropean, if he ever entertained any thought of the United States, was convinced that Americans were barbarians and their country little better than a howling wilderness. Our neighbors are rapid- ly achieving enlightenment and ar- riving at a better understanding of the value of this country as a ver- itable world force. The successful work performed by American citizens in the various ‘fields of human endeavor has long been known to the more enlightened inhabitants of other lands. Our rapid development into a command- ing position in the field of real achievement could no longer be ig- nored. The outside world is grad- ually becoming better acquainted with us. As we grow in population “and wealth our opportunities as well as our responsibilities increase in , importance. Already our country is well up among world leaders; i seems probable that our pre-eminence | over all others will be established eventually. = We should prepare for the task of intelligent leadership. | The Referendum Idea. From the Philadelphia Ledger. | Leading Wets and Drys are again discussing the proposal for a nation- ‘al referendum on prohibition, but it is not clear what either side could hope to gain from such a proceed- ing. There is no way of course, short of a constitutional amendment, by which such a referendum could be made legally effective. Con- gress cannot even order such an ex- pression of sentiment, It might suggest it through a joint tion. But the election machinery is in the hands of the States. At the recent election Illinois, Massa- chusetts and Rhode Island held ref- erendums on phases of the prohibi- oh tion question. In Illinois the voters: declared by a large majority for repeal of the Eighteenth Amend- “ment, modification or the Volstead "act and repeal of the State enforce- ' ‘ment law. In Massachusetts they | voted for repeal of a similar statute. In Rhode Island there was a popu- -lar majority of three to one for constitutional repeal. Since there are wide differences of opinion among both Wets and Drys as to the advisability of a national , referendum, it is apparent that even 'if a majority of the States agreed .to the plan, many would not. So it could hardly be considered a na- tional referendum. Since Federal _ constitutional amendments are not adopted by popular vote, it has , been proposed that this referendum . be conducted through the medium of forty_eight conventions, one in each State. If thirteen of the States re- fused to join in the plan, it would be useless for the others to pursue it, since there could be no chance of getting through a new consti- tutional amendment. It is generally admitted that neither the present Congress nor its successor would pass a resolution submitting the question of repeal to ‘the States. The only way to re- peal consists in electing a Congress .and a sufficient number of Legis- latures committed to the change. , The best way for the people to ex- press their opinion on prohibition is i by their votes on election day. * Powerful Stuff. From the Texas Ranger. They tell a story about a tiny ant who gazed longingly but helplessly at the body of a dead horse. Just then a bootlegger’s truck rattled by and a case of stuff fell over the endgate and crashed to the ground. (A puddle formed and the ant, thirsty, took a sip. Then he seized the { dead horse by the tail and shouted. | “Come on, big boy, we're going home.” | ——Speculation as to the person- nel of the Pinchot cabinet is run- ‘ning strong but Giff isn't saying a - thing on the subject. | —Subscribe for the Watchman. it, resolu- ' SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. | ~Norman Kuhn, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Kuhn, of Greencastle, a freshman at Juniata College, enroute with three other students to the college, | was killed on Monday morning when , their car skidded on the icy road near _Orbisonia and crashed into a bank.. | —Guided by a premonition that he ; might be robbed while en route to a , Teal estate office to pay his rent re- ' cently, Calvin S. Perrin of Pittsburgh, ‘hid the rent money, $45, in his hat. He | was encountered by two bandits who ; searched him but found nothing. They ‘ failed to look in his hat. ; | —Levi Reinecker, 71, one of the old- "est millers in Adams county, died from "a heart attack while trying to catch a | chicken with his son, Howard, of Al- “toona. He was one of the oldest millers in the county, starting to work at that trade in 1876. He is survived by a widow, daughter and two sons. | —Dr. Henry Wilkins, of Tyrone, Pa., and Baltimore, Md., has been awarded the knighthood order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus by King victor Emmanel, of Ktaly. He is already commander of the Crown of Italy and was decorated twice with the war cross and silver medal for military valor for work with the Italian Red Cross during the World war. —Mrs. Anzonetti L. Walthour, 88, for- merly a railroad telegwapher at Greens- burg, was fatally burned at her home at Kittanning, on Saturday, when her dress caught fire from an open stove. Mrs. Walthour was taught telegraphy by Stephen C. Foster, famous song writer. The night that Lincoln was shot she worked many hours receiving the details over the wires. —Two persons were injured, one critic- ally, last Wednesday night, when a coal stove burst in the kitchen of the home of Thomas Ford, along the Lincoln Highway near Coatesville. The injured are Mrs. Thomas Ford, 50, and her daughter, Mrs. Mabel Keech, 25. Both are in a hospital and the condition of the daughter is serious. The explosion wrecked a large portion of the home. —Inspection trips by seniors in en- ginnering at the Pennsylvania State Col- lege will not take place this year, Dean R. L. Sackett, head of the school, announced on Monday. Although the trips are of considerable value,” Dean Sackett said. ‘‘we feel that the expense involved is not justified this year.” The inspection tours will be resumed next year if conditions in the industrial plants warrant them. —Missing since October, 1917, Frank H. Hibberd, former Malvern man, was declared legally dead by the Chester county courts on Monday. Hibberd’s wife told the court she has not seen or heard from her husband since the day he went to Coatesville to go to work. Hibberd still has twelve weeks’ time in which to prove himself alive, before a final decree will be granted in the case. He left a small estats. and H. C. named | —Samuel Wilson, Altoona, ‘ McClellan, alderman, have been ! defendants in two $50,000 damage suits filed in federal court at Pittsburgh, by Samuel W. Lubow, New York. Lubow charged that the Wilson machine ‘was driven in a reckless manner resulting in "a collision of cars last February 5, near | White City, Fla. Lubow’s wife, accord- ing to the statement, suffered fatal in- ! juries, and Lubow also was hurt. : | W. Blair Roberts, Sufragan Bishop of South Dakota, in a telegram to a Harrisburg newspaper from his home in Sioux Falls, S. D., said he had declined to accept his election November 18, as Bishop of the Harrisburg Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal church. The re- fusal will probably result in another election at the regular diocesan conven- tion at York, January 27 next. Bishop Roberts was elected at a special dioc- esan convention in Harrisburg. Novem- ber 18. —As a memorial to her son Lester, Mrs. Lillian Freedman, of Sunbury, has es- tablished a trust fund from which to provide. prizes each year for the Penn- sylvania State College senior man and woman who make the greatest contribu- tions to the dramatic work of the col- lege. Lester Freedman, a member of the class of 1926 at Penn State, was particularly interested in dramatics, hav- ing taken part in a number of produc- tions by the Penn State Players. He was drowned during vacation at the end of his Sophomore year. } —Eleven warrants were served on Monday on Alfred E. Breen, former Shamokin bank official, by constable E. A, Fleming. Breen appeared before Alderman W. H. Engle, at Sunbury, and furnished bail. The warrants charge | embezzlement, forgery, fraudulent con- version and making false entries. The ' charges were laid by W. R. Reigle, a State bank examiner. Breen will be tried this week on a previous charge of " embezzlement of $60,000 from the Guar- | antee Trust -& Safe Deposit company, - Shamokin, while one of its vice presi- ' dents. ~ { —Burglars who blasted two safes in the office of Mitzel Brothers coal yards, York, Pa., early last Friday got nothing save a revolver in one of the ruined strong boxes. A vagary of the explod- ing nitro-glycerine, which wedged an { inner door of the interior of one safe, kept $350 from falling into the hands of the thieves. The offices were wrecked, windows blown out on three sides of the building, and the interior riddled with flying fragments of steel and con- crete from the safes. Damage to the safes and to the interior of the office was estimated by the owners at $300. wo —The income from a $1,000,000 fund left as a ‘‘foundation for the education of females in or adjacent to Philadel- phia” by Dr. Wililam Curran, who died fifty years ago, is to be given to Beaver College, Jenkintown, Pa., it has been an- nounced. Beaver was chosen beneficiary over two other institurttons, Wilson Col- lege, Chambersburg, and the Philadel- phia School for Christian Workers. It was decided after months of study by Francis B. Biddle, auartor for the or- phans’ court, that the Jenkintown insti- tution adhered more closely to the stip- lations set forth in the will than the other schools. The award represented the accumulation of principal and in- come on $50,000 left in trust by Dr. Curran at his death in 1880. The will specified that the fund should be used to establish a foundation for a college when the annual income should amount to $85,000.
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