Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, February 20, 1931, Image 1

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    road is
, because no
pr march on abreas
for Mr. Pinchot to
with any man.
—In another room the radio is
going strong: Graham McNamee
just said something about “the
heart of our national prosperity.
We didn't catch what it was, bu
ing again.
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na- | At that time
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Chairman Raskob, of the Demo-
cratic National committee, has call-
ed a meeting of the committee to
‘be held in Washington on March
for consultation concerning the
t future activities of the organization.
all the Democratic
| members of the present Congress
'and most of those who have been
elected to the new Congress will be
—We've had ten years of PrOBID 4¢ ype capital and it will be wise
tion, ten years of woman
ten years of high pressure on every
the Democratic party
thing we've got.
—+“Sandy” McDowell,
of unfulfilled
promises. Let's turn to
for relief be-
fore the sheriff relieves us of every-
of Axe
Mann, has announced for nomination |
* for them to ‘get their heads to-
gether” and formulate plans, or at
least suggest, and consider expedi-
ents for continuing the splendid work
that has been in progress fora year.
“In the multitude of counsellors
there is wisdom” and the old and
new members of the Congress will
be able to help the committeemen in
for the office of Recorder of Centre
county.
for
“nay”
the nominations close.
The Board of Pardons has re-
commutation of sentence to
“the trigger womaa,’
Governor Pinchot acts
to the chair at Rock-
morning. Since
refused to interfere to.
of Ruth Snyder over
in New York justice has gotten over
about making wo-
price as men for
fused
Irene Schroeder,
and unless
she will go
view next Monday
their crimes.
-—Now that Congress
millions to save the
southwest we'd like
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stands on the back
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comic valentine we found on our
desk last Saturday. Two weeks ago
we told the story of Johnny Doble-
bower's going to get a license fo
his airdale dog. In describing that
incident we made the
say “Aint.”
youngste
A few evening
later we were called to the tele- |
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other end of the line. He said: “Is
that Mr, Geo. Meek?” When we as-
sured him that it was, he piped out.
and
phone. A little boy was at
“I don't use the word aint”
hung up the receiver.
Since no other candidates
the office have announced Wwe
presume “Sandy” would not vote
if someone were to move that
starving farm-
to the capitol.
the Mr. Raskob, who is not
Recon- chairman, indulged in an
year ago when he opened perma- ers of his party in Penzusylvania are
‘nent headquarters in Washington and striving to impose the
had merely been prevailed on Mr. Shouse to direct | icy.
work of the committee during legislation which took
recent Congressional campaign. | ple
result of the election fully vin- schools and now
dicated his judgment. It represent- from them
3 It was! direction of bring- ways and election
seemed |
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The assembling of the National
committee in the middle of a term
is an innovation. The practice has
been to defer a meeting until the
time for fixing the date and place
rived. Under the old-fashioned sys-
tem of managing politics this may
have been all right. But conditions
are different now.
ment is a profession or occupation
that exacts the full time and all the
energy and ingenuity of those who
‘undertake it, It is more or less of
'a thankless job and altogether a
party. But it must be performed in
has voted order to prevent the Republican
machine from running away with
manager but an
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ing the party managers and voters
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‘better understanding between them.
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war except his own.
Real Relief in Sight.
| The Senate, having approved
$20,000,000 appropriation for the re-
lief of the drought sufferers, it may
be assumed that the beginning of
the end of the acute distress in Ar-
'kanas and Oklahoma has been reach-
ed, and President Hoover's ‘“victo
over the Senate” is complete.
was a long drawn out contest, ab-
'solutely devoid of merit and equally
without excuse, Before Ne. Ymew
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In that event it may be hoped that
real relief work will be set in motion
within a few days and the spectre
| of starvation will be removed from
the mental vision of thousands of
men and women. But there is no
certainty of this desirable result, The
equivocal language in which Mr.
Hoover accepted the compromise in-
dicates that he hopes to evade the
obligation assumed, and his record
in the recent past makes suspicion
of his sincerity in anything inevit-
able.
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—And still they come! The woods
must have been full of them-—can-
didates, we mean.
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wide enough | © Mr. Raskob’s Wise Innovation. State’ Rights and Home Rule are
‘coln sought to build.”
of the national convention has ar-
Party manage-
| gratuitous service in the Democratic
‘as President there can be no doubt
for a proper
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——1It appears that General Persh- ,0¢ compromise lies in the fact that
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‘the work of any one in the world tye money and those who need
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Synonomous.
In his Lincoln Day speech, spoken
in the room of the White House in
which the martyred Lincoln signed
the emancipation proclamation and
performed his great Civil war serv-
ice, president Hoover stressed the
Democratic doctrine of Home Rule.
“In Lincoln's day,” he said, “the
dominant problem in our form of
turned upon the issue
of States’ Rights,” and picturing the
evils of centralization of power im
capital of State ana Nation, which
“can lead but to the super-state
where every man becomes the ser-
vant of the State and real liberty
is lost” he significantly added, “such
wis not the government which Lin-
Of course in assuming this atti-
tude on the subject Mr. Hoover was
simply setting up a defense of his
present contention with respect to
relief for the drought sufferers. But
we can see no reason why he should
attempt to associate Lincoln with ¢
such a policy. It may be true that}
Mr. Lincoln was an advocate of
States’ rights and in ordinary condi-
tions paid full respect to Article
of the constitution. But in emer- |
gencies he did not hesitate to BO
outside, not only that provision but |
of any other part of the constitu-
tion, even in the face of protest. If
he were now in the White House
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that he would do as he did
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But while Mr, Hoover is so ear-
only a | nestly pleading for the preservation |
efficient of a fundamental Democratic prinei-
innovation ple the
head and most of the lead-
opposite pol-
Some years ago
control of
lodge such power
administration
States’ rights is simply an
——The trick in the drought re-
it,
most will be unable to give securi-
ty.
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the | Governor Pinchot Wrong as Usual.
has acquired a reputation for delin-
quency. The first witness examined
by the Senate committee, the chief
counsel of the Commission, justified
the suspicion. He said the Commis-
sion is not sufficiently alert in in-
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where cases are
corporations, and thatitis wrong in
allowing increased rates to begin
before the question has been ad-
judicated. But he denied that the
Commission has ever been influenc-
ed by improper corporation domina-
tion. He said “I do not know of
one single instance of ‘behind the
curtain work.’ "”
If the Senate committtee had re-
vealed a sign of unfairness in its
preliminary the Gover-
nor would have been justified in
broadcasting his opinion that it “is
being set up not to investigate but
to whitewash the public utilities.”
Senator Earnest is a gentleman of
high standing in his community. His
itegrity has never been questioned
or his purposes impugned. The
statement of the Governor Is a
wanton and willfut slander and
justifies the expression of an inter-
ested observer that it is “a dog In
the manger” method of dodging an
issue and deceiving the public. But
it will not serve the purpose.
——The Methodist Board of Tem-
perance, Prohibition and Public
Morals has discovered that Mrs,
Hillebrandt’s grape juice is an im-
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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majority in the House
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quarter of a century has stood con-
period as long as possible.
not that the people are afraid of
Congress. Most of the people of the
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restraint of corporate cupidity, Will gr.city in speech
be absent when the new Congress Concentration
assembles and the administration is Calmness in temper
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have gotten the finances of the coun-
in the worst muddle since Hamil-
ton’s time.
—1It is a comfort to learn that
President Hoover approves of Wash-
ington. He also speaks fairly well
of Lincoln.
-.—The copious rains in some sec-
tions of the country would be more
beneficial if they were more widely
distributed.
——King Alfonso seems to be
suffering with headache and he is a
good sort, as Kings go.
—— Ghandi is out of jail, all right,
but he is electioneering for another
commitment.
The Republicans of Pennsyl-
vania are cultivating harmony with
battle axes.
proper beverage.
——We do your job work right.
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'the widening of south Water street |
at the point just south of the Bush
an article in a re-
cent issue of the Christian Advo-
cate attem
ideal and attempting to live up
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with a black cross.
No sarcasm
No faultfinding
Optimism
Perseverance
Physical exercise
Punctuality
Patience
Politeness
Reverence (Divine)
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Another has
| business
| been devised by Mr, C. M. Rusk, by.
which each year is divided
twelve months as usual and
weeks,
into
each
with
Leap day
first of July. This ar-
meets some of
objections to the thirteen months
year scheme and confers some of
benefits of ty
ih begining every month with Mon-
day and ending it with Saturday.
five weeks to every third
not te satisfy those
advantages of mechani-
it is
as Mr.
the person who achieves success in
propagating ruffed grouse on a large
e,” writes Leo A. Luttringer,
Jr., of the Pennsylvania State Game
Commission in an article in the cur-
rent issue of The Game Breeder
is true. While artificial prop-
agation of this t
bird has been accomplished on a
small scale, as Mr. Lu r sets
forth at the Rolling Rock Club and
elsewhere, nobody has yet been able
to produce them on a large scale in
captivity. It is to be hoped
successes in limited
ten in the d life
State. Every contribution to the
Jncwledge at hand is well worth
e.
pts to show that having |
what built the character
usion that if |
astually violated each day I Game Commission covering 47 wild cats,
"sons visited the well on Sunday.
nacht day by eating approximately 480,-
000 crullers, or doughnuts,
—Hunters' licenses for 1931 will be
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| Sloan, of Cambria county, were patroling
Public Opinion, of Lon-| 0 the McGeorge Road. Attempts will
|be made to secure some
| pictures of the herd.
—A woodpile where men may saw
wood for $56 a day, half of which is to
| be paid in wood and half in groceries,
{has been established in Butler by the
Salvation Army unit as a means to re-
good motion
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| piles are to be established there, it is
| said. Slabs are furnished free by Clay-
| ton T. Holmes, saw mill operator.
i —February 26 has been set as a ten-
| tative date for the dedication of the
| new $100,000 wing of the Lewistown
to have
gray foxes and 13,010 weasels, en-
tailing an expenditure of $21,272. Dur-
from day |
to compare my °* {ing the same month last year, 8570
day and
and whites” from month to month claims were received covering 39 wild
and year to . I was glad to|cats, 1992 gray foxes, 22,597 weasels and
notice an improvement as I grew |11 goshawks, entailing an expenditure of
er. | $31,205.
Altruism Moderateness | —Mrs. Clara Hox, who lives on the
Ambition Modesty | Susquehanna Trail, a few miles north of
Neat appearance | Williamsport, reported to Robert B.
No argument Burns, of the Lycoming county detec-
| tive's office, that while she was absent
| from home for several weeks, someone
| visited the premises and carried away
| the timber in the front porch, some of
| the window sash and otherwise damaged
| her house.
—Three more violators are spending
around 500 days in the Union county
jail as a result of smotlighting deer. The
men, who were .,rehended by Miles
Reeder, of Mifflinburg, game protector for
the Union-Snyder county distriet, are
William Strickler, Millmont, who is serv-
ing 524 days; John Bikle, Laurelton,
serving 506 days,
also of Millmont, serving 506 days.
sentences were imposed in lieu
—With a roar
| mile distant the
ty,
lion cubic feet a day and is expected to
steadily do better.
45 miles in a straight line from Wil-
liamsport.
—One of the five victims of her hus-
band's pistol, Mrs, Nancy Stirling Play-
ford, wife of R. W. Playford, a lawyer,
‘of Uniontown, who killed himself after
| shooting to death his wife and three
‘children, left an estate of $25,359.43, ac-
| cording to an appraisement filed in the
register's office. Previous appraisements
show Playford's estate aggregated $150,-
000 and the total estates of the three
murdered children between $8000 and
| $9000. Friends of the Playfords say he
slew members of his family to keep
‘them out of the poor house.
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is completed there will be over twenty
separate buildings erected, all of them
of steel and brick and of gothic archi-
tecture. The contractors have 435 work-
ing days to complete the job, but they
will make every effort to complete the
work ahead of time.