knew who said business couldn't get
better as long as that disturbing
body was in session.
—Anyway, the longer Governor
Pinchot and his opponents at Har-
risburg keep fighting the less time
there will be left to enact the usual
grist of damphool legislation.
—The Goveror is acting very
much like the dog in the manger
over the Senate's probe of the pub-
lic utility corporations. . But then
the Senate is stealing the Governor's
presidential thunder.
—~We'll bet that more people are
attending court in the U. 8. A.
right now than ever have been or
ever will beina two week's period.
And let us venture this prediction:
If “Madame Queen’ hadn't fainted
‘Andy's jig would have been up.
The beauty shop siren saw some-
thing in the court room that caused
her to swoon. The something might
have been one of her other hus-’
bands from whom she forgot to get
a divorce. However that may have
been the fainting episode is Andy's
ace in the hole, if Amos can dig it
out.
—The Hon. Holmes is reported as
being father of a bill that is likely
to send sports-mens associations of
the State turning handsprings. It
would permit an owner of land on.
both sides of a stream that hasn't
been publicly stocked for three years
to close it and fish it with nets or
other devices any time he wants to.
It sounds like a very vicous meas-
ure to us, unless the Hon. is put-|
ting the reverse English on his legis- |
lative procedure. Perhaps the bill
was designed to force the Depart-
ment of Fisheries to see to that all
streams in the State are stocked at
least once in three years.
—Having had occasion to know
the number of the Commandment
that admonishes us not to be covet-
ous we inquired of the Bible scholar
of the family. When she assured us
that it was “the Twelfth” our brain
went into a whirl out of which an
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old, old story was turned. It is so or more as a sugar lobbyist, Of
that we shall teli it: When
John Fow and Sam Joseph of Phil-
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each other's expense.
dollars with Sam that he didn't |
know what Vox populi, vox Dei,
with which all Acts of Assembly
then ended, meant, Sam was sure
he did, took the bet and translated
‘the Latin phrase into: “Lord, Lord,
why hast Thou forsaken us.”
Whereupon John said: “Take the
money! By god, I didn't know you
knew so much.” For a moment,
Wednesday night, we found ourself
almost as credulous as John.
—Dr. Einstein left our shores on
Wednesday. Before leaving the emi-
nent scientist said that the only
thing he felt the need of was sleep.
He had lost so much while here.
Possibly he did. He certainly
couldn't have lost much of his rela-
tivity, however, for that is some-
thing so exclusively his that no one
else seems to be able to get any'
of it at all, Talking about relativi-
iy, it really isn't a joke. Everything
is relative. For instance, in this
week's Watchman the latest recruit
to its reportorial staff does a fine
job in reporting the Krape arson
case. In it he refers to the task
the
ing order in the crowded court
‘while the case was being
Now if you think there is nothing
relative in that just imagine what
those worthy minions of the law
would have said of us had we re-
ferred to them as “aged”—and all
the decrepitude the word implies. yu We cannot further the restora- |
the | tion of
“The reporter being who he is
maligned gentlemen will look pleas-
ant and say nary a word. And tha
will be because of relativity.
~The announcement that the last Dot in need of the money.” As a with its own sworn duty. It has
of the Kinsloes has retired from
Lock Haven journalism is something |
some member of that family |
a force in moulding good
citizenship in our sister town. In-
th
of
When only a little boy |
tion |
camp meeting—several years in suc-
cession. The sojourns there made
a wonderful impression on us, but|
none stand out so cameo like as
the vision of an old gentleman in a
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everywhere to start the singing of |
“Beulah Land,” John Bannister was
on the station platform singing
“Beulah Land” when we arrived
and he was there leading the hymn |
when we left. We shall never for-|
get him and if memory serves us |
right he had whiskers just like those |
that have made the new Senator |
from Illinois famous.
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frock coat who was bobbing up fund to hold the income tax rate nel. As the Democratic platform of The Daggetts, last week, leased their for which it is rumored they paid wh
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Valley, insured it heavily and then
fire to it to coliect the insurance,
three Yeagertown men, Brown Walters,
Curtis Walters and Ray Price, are in
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of arson.
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Senator Davis in New Trouble.
To “Puddler Jim’ Davis life is just
one darned thing after another. Just
as he has emerged, with qualified
success, from an investigation of
his title to a seat in the Senate, he
has become involved in a new lobby
scandal. An enterprising newspa-
per correspondent in Washington, a by
few days ago, dug up a story that
while the Grundy tariff bill was
pending in the Senate, some one,
now a Senator, had received a large
sum of money for lobbying in the
interest of an increased tariff tax
on sugar. No name was given but
for one reason or another the finger
of public suspicion pointed toward
Senator Davis and he not only
promptly but somewhat precipitately
protested innocence.
“Puddler Jim" isan unique figure in
the public life of the conntry. With
no other capital than the “gift of
gab” he founded, or at an early
period of its existence, became an
active figure in a highly popular
and exceptionally meritorious benev-
olent organization. In his official
capacity he had the good fortune
to initiate into membership of the
fraternity Mr. Warren G. Harding.
Subsequently Mr. Harding was elect-
ed President and called Mr. Davis
into his cabinet as Secretary of
Labor. It was “Puddler Jim's” first
venture in politics and he clung to
it with a tenacity that carried him
through three administrations. Not
that he was enamored of the job.
He was constantly seeking another
job, preferably that of Governor of
Pennsylvania.
When the party disturbance of
last year developed he formed a
partnership with the Vare machine
and was nominated ror United States
This fact
suspicion that he is the person re-
ferred to by the press correspond-
ent as having been paid $100,000
course he vehemently denies “the
soft impeachment.” But he admits
that at about that time he acquired
a $100,000 interest in a sugar com-
Crossing his breast but not
(his - fingers, however, he
declares that he doesn’t know wheth-
er his company favored a high or
low tariff tax rate.
such situations that singular coinci-
dences are developed.
—Al Smith's contributions to the
public press are increasing in in-
Even now
terest with experience.
he might qualify as a first class re-
porter and that means a high stand-
ard of intelligence.
Hoover's Veto Overridden.
In his message vetoing the vet-
erans' bonus loan bill President
Hoover has established a new record
in the art of juggling words to con-
fuse the public mind, But he didn't
even fool Congress, for within three-
quarters of an hour from the time
the message was read the House
passed the measure, “his objections
to the contrary notwithstanding,”
and the Senate disposed of it with
equal celerity. He brought out
the bugaboo of increased lLaxes,
reiterated his belief that it would
rather than benefit the
“aged tipstaves” had in keep- yeterans, and employed all the
sophistries which Secretary Mellon
tried. poq worn threadbare to justify his in the matter of the sale of abunch pyrg, on Tuesday, by the
action.
“It ig argued that the distribution
of hundreds of millions of dollars
proposed by this bill” he writes,
“would stimulate business general-
loan to some of our people who are
matter of fact there is no reason
to believe that any veteran who is
'not urgently in need of the money
will offer his certificate for discount,
and the chances are that the total
amount which will be necessary to
apply will not
amount re-
ntly refunded to Mellon corpora-
ons on account of excess income
payments.
truth is that the President
only one real reason for oppos-
the veterans’ bonus loan meas-
and that is that it might force
increase of the income tax In
very high brackets. Hoover
Mellon are under implied obli-
gation to those who contributed so
liberally to the Republican slush
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of millionaires at a low level, and
they were afraid that after the vet-
erans’ loan bill became a law it will be
impossible to do that. But they
needn't worry on that account. There
will be plenty of money In the
treasury to meet that demand with-
out increasing taxes or borrowing.
—We do your job work right.
’ | Senate investigation was begun with- mote in payment, and later
—The Department of Public Instruc-
‘tion, In cooperation with the Farm
Mr. Pinchot's Strange Attit girls and boys in rural community vo-
a. x IN CENTRE COUNTY. cational schools. The prizes this year
The obvious purpose of Governor include six $100 scholarships as individ-
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Pinchot is to make the Senate vd The Centre county Farmers’ Items taken from the Watchman issue ual prizes and seven beautiful color-
vestigation of the Public Service operative Association, organized °f March 11. 1881. ed pictures as team prizes.
Commission a farce. The co about eleven years ago, decided to] + a | —Seeking to board up the opening of
was created to investigate charges | disband at a meeting held at SURe tage Sie wolored people of SHS place! an old air chamber in the American
of misfeasance in office, publicly | College last Thursday evening, The painted and fixed inside. They are | Window Glass campatiy at Arnold, last
made by the Governor. Sponsored association was spirited | Friday. to guard against someone fall
roachablé | purpose of
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a Senator of irrep making purchase of all protracted meeting. Brother Charles | : fatall :
character it had the appearance of kinds of farm implements, fertilizer, | Garner will preach to them next I Nu Safe and a Tem
good faith and laudable purposes etc., in large quantities and at whole- unday morning. dent of Jeannette, died of a fractured
The Governor's first reaction to it sale prices, then selling the same to —We notice that Edward Garman gull in a New Kensmgton hospital.
was an aspersion on its intention the farmers at just emough above, emiploy of IL. confronted by a Negro when he
i Guggenheimer & Co. is a good
and an insult. its GEIR) | cost lo pay: the runing: cxpasse salesman, a pleasant fellow and has opened. His meat market in Pisgbureh.
respo urteo RB Originally there were in neigh- 5 jot of friends. Daw HY Oring rn Jamin
to appear and support his chargeS borhood of 250 members, but some _ .) Garman now officiates as wartz, 26, a large e across
‘he renewed the charges and repeats of them have withdrawn from the cpjef commissary at Garman's ex- the oom at the trader, The tite
ed his expression of contempt for organization. egro in heart an
cellent hotel and the rations are fe] dead. Schwartz told police the
the committee but refused toeithef The association was financed finer than ever. “Pip” Redding, the Negro seized a meat ax and was about
give proofs or suggest where they | through a State College bank by prince of waiters, again bosses the i; attack him when he threw the knife.
might be found. each member giving a note for $200. room, while his wife “Sally’ | —Plans for the development ofa
The Governor of Pennsylvania 1 A recent audit showed the associa | presides over the ¢ oO Jopunt Slovak colony near Danville gained im-
entitled to respectful consideratioR tion behind some $14,000, ment. And there is a petus when a tract of land consisting of
a good | that can’t be beat
but he has no license to ou the eepers can en. 108 acres, ordered cut into bui
trage the | part, of which is outstanding, BULSs mc of the little children Of los ana. offered for sale to. the Slovak
amenities of good behavior. That nara make
collections are to at this jerre and Maggie A. Sharer, of TaY- residents of the United States. It is
the Publte Service Commission influne unt the sociation lacked lor township, ‘Sed of Spitherias al | pues 1s comter the colony around, co
BO a nq a tu Te capital to continue in business it month, Their deaths occurred with- million-dollar Catholic girls college which
ev! presumably e. was decided to disband. + in two weeks. | is nearing completion on the grounds of
Jack 1 Sets apis hoivy a When the association was organ- A little child of James McCaf- Sacred Heart Villa.
d aly on Bis ri bstan * ized a plot of ground was purchased ferty, who lives in the McCafferty industrial accidents in Pennsylvania
But the mere ‘block, of te the depot, was badly |
statement of fact, even though it peo. Lemont and 3 sod and nts burned Cog ma evening, Yin Juswery, M81, were the lowest Sum
made by the Governor, is not suffi- 4 roduce until the plein d be falling against a hot stove.
cient to work impeachment of the P A
bY | ber recorded for that month during 16
ulin ple Has buen. tak | years, the Department of Labor and In-
re m uer n en | dustry reported. Tne 158 fatal and
offender or the abolishment of the called for by the farmer members. into the partnership of S. and A. 10.614 nonfatal mishaps represented a
office. Having made the charges it! 0 ‘cP own XP regular | oop, decrease of 11 per cea: under the pre-
was the plain duty of the Governor to} B30 Was charge and whoever hap- —Capt. A. C. Mingle, late of Bau- vious low January mark reached in 1922,
give every moral and material sup- | Pened to be there, men and ofted 1504 and Newman's store, has pur- When 152 fatal and 11,951 nonfatal accl-
‘port at his com 2 or within his | DOYS: would open the warehouse chased an interest in the boot and dents were reported.
power to prove them. Instead of | when a farmer called for merchan: shoe business of Louis Doll. | —Pittsburgh police believe it was
Oe rv mloyed- every Mffort dise. The result was, it is claimed, George Wolf had his pocket | bandits who told them by phone of a
to make it a ‘dud” considerable stuff went without any picked while in Wasnington attend. ferious automobile accident, and tlru, a
BD ae of | Fecord Be ar at ha go | the Garfield ral cere- few minutes later, a riot, both in East
Governor t seems tobe one of | Lo 10 oni. I ies His pocket was cut out as End district. All available officers were
‘those strangely constituted creatures | | could be h rushed to the scenes given in the phone
as and he never no-
who imagine that every one
: it until he later put his hand | calls. They found nothing at each, but
with him is dishonest. No |Of some members taking out imple- i, jt and discovered he hole. while they were out two men held up
the | men a
employees of the Sons restaurant near
the police station, and escaped with
hen Mrs, Henry Yeager and $300,
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It is barely possible that
In addition to the original mem-
‘the intention was to forestall his
| programme for self aggrandizement. Of $200 each with the State College
But even if that were true he isnot bank as collateral to finance the
justified In the attitude he has as- Organization, there was an additional
sumed. If the investigation is membership fee and $8.00 a year aoa that Whe TR 5 painstalane
searching it will serve the public duh together and everybody is one of the first essentials in the
and that he has a just right to The association also fell down in it. | States effective effort toward the pre-
demand. Thus far no ulterior mo- matter of maxing purchases. __qne y | ven
secretary of the. ®t
has been. revealed. nti A poRRY
tive a8 - SC r — 3 Uae TW ‘ sg el
'sprag in the wheel of exposure has e of the buying and in a num- small buildings on Bishop street, TV
‘been thrust by Governor Pinchot.’ | ber of instances fertilizer and other | between Bunnell and Aiken's music |resu. -
i | stuff were bought rrom wholesalers store and Mrs. Howard's. They in-' _Arthur Jarvis. of New York city, has
—P phia’s 50,000 athletes are a price in excess of what the tend building a three story business purchased the Kishacoquillas Park, at
x Pht use * fur to et | StU could have been bought for Place on the lot. | Burnham, from the Lewistown and
| no ely ge enough g ‘from local dealers, and then proved | —L.ast Sunday evening a boy ac- | Reedsville Electric railway company, ac-
Pinchot to favor repeal of the Blue ‘to be of an inferior grade, A car- cidentally exploded a loaded pistol cording to an announcement made by J.
laws. load of clover seed bought a few in the Methodist church here and I. Quigley, president of the company.
. | years ago p + to'Ye 80 polluted | UTE Was some excitement befoye the ' which has operated the pleasure park
Work of the Committee Finished. with | congregation could settle down to for the past ten years. Mr. Jarvis has
cockel and other foreign |istening to an interrupted sermon, had twenty-five years experience in
seed that the farmers would = mp. gigh street bridge over managing some of the largest
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use it, and it is said that much the esate rt of the t d will
investigation of the Public Service ' Spring creek has been repaired so esatern part o country an
A were to show that some of it is still piled up in the ware- that trians can use it. An make a number of improvements to the
house. | effort 1 park before opening it for the season.
of the commission are recreant and tand s being made to have the,
unfit for tneir jobs it's work has al- As the situation now the County “ommissioners build a new —The New York Central railroad of-
Co-op is doomed as a going concern, iron bricge to replace it. flces at the Jersey Shore junction are
ready been completed. The evidence ,.; t, clear up the outstanding fi-'
of commissioner James S. Benn has p ; = —One of the deepest and heaviest undergoing extensive repairs and im-
definitel ttled th ti On | Nancial obligations will cost each snows we have had teil last Thurs- | provements and the rumor is to the ef-
ehnitey se e gues.om. member now in good standing from day night and continued pretty much fect that superintendent William A.
‘the occasion of his second appear- g5p00 to $75.00. |all’ day Friday. | Hamler and his entire office force will
‘ance on the witness stand he frank- | Jet: ' be transferred to Jersey Shore from
i While riding at the head of his
‘ly admitted that the Commission had inaugural e in Corning, N. Y., soon. If the rumors are
violated its obligation to enforceits go Scott Stands Dale Washington last Friaay Gen. Beaver correct, all train dispatching from the
own mandate against the Philadel- tor Pat on was thrown from his horse, but es- Beech Creek and Fall Brook districts
_phia Transit corporation in the Appointment. caped seuious jy reckless, wile ie Sofi Som. Jortey Sry, nd
‘case of the purchase of the Quaker Aq it looks mow Govermor Pin- peciieo® OO ON ueviRnd ap
City Cab company. The hots appointees to the Workmen's bumped the General's horse. | ralleond shops wud shopimelt {rom Do
sion had annulled the purchase Compensation Boaru, of which for- Corn: 15. 45¢; Unis i Zotw toes | FUL that place an TE nt center for
agreement and the Transit corpora- mer Judge Arthur C. Dale, of Belle- 50c, 8g Ave; butter 25c, 10¢, | is railroad.
08 Denes ry Sesion by continuing | fonte, was named chairman, will basoRaIve. | “yohm’ Ferris and Carman Desanti
{ to 0 roperty. | confirmed by the State Senate next ‘held up 20 members of an exclusive
Commissioner Benn had previously ' Monday evening. This belief is the Contract Awarded to Enlarge P. R.| ,), . pottsville early Monday and
‘revealed his unfitness for the office regult of the hearing held at R. Yard. robbed them of money and watches,
— ri and other valuables. While one
‘of practically worthless franchises nominations committee, at which The contract to enlarge the Penn- of the bandits lined the club men
‘and a quantity of junk, owned bY representatives of labor unions sylvania railroad classification yard, against the wall with a revolver, the
the Traction corporation, to the City throughout the anthracite district in Bellefonte, has been awarded to | other searched them. Fred Miller, a
‘of Philadelphia ata vastly excessive protested against confirmation of the the Andrews Construction company, victim, recognized Ferris and be wet tr
attbi case of Tyrone, and preliminary work on rested while on his wey to the police
‘valuation. But his in that appointments on the ground that pre 1m fon. . AY i sid the
was more plausible than in the | the appointees are all new men, have | same was started this week. Station to COMBSS.
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prosperity by borrowing other. He was caught in the “lie had no experience in pensation | Voile the bid of the Andrews com- TH Nol 0" Deenti was arrested at
‘from some of our people, pledging direct” and, as attorney Gray a satay yok TA, 1. to ben. made pubic te J Sow Po el
t the credit of all the people, to clared, “the Public Service Commis- | railroad company has allotted $100,- police. Ferris returned $60 and five
{ 'a hardship on accident victims
gion has not actes in accordanc
| throughout the State, 000, or as much thereof as is neces- watches to police.
Senator B. Sco mem. | S8FY; to do the work. At the ypu, A. Schnader, Attorney Gen-
[Showa decided favoritism and cannot per of oF Hurey 2. oth A rep- present time the yard has a maxXi- 4 of Pennsylvania, fom advised the
justify its failure to act” In Va- resentatives why they hadn't made mum capacity of about 150 Cars, Auditor General's department that the
' rious other instances the delinquen- their appeal to the Governor before 224 this number wml be almost salaries of judges in judicial districts
| cles are equally apparent. It has | the appointments were made. He doubled when the improvements are where payment is fixed by population
[been the “angel” of corporations for | also fold them that while the com- Wade: According to the BE CUS J, Il_not be affected by the population
| several years. mittee symphatized with them it was |Y2r? have tweive tracks at its, ".. current biennium. Attorney
| According to the evidence of the hel to do in the greatest width and will extend
pless anything absence General Schnader in his opinion held
counsel for the board Mr. Benn 1s of specific charges against the new | 9oWn to the point
of the mountain
that in the drafting of the revised coun-
| the dominant influence in its activities. | members. below the old nail works site. It is | y code in 1929, She State Legislature
| That being the case his faults are the the desire of the company to have made no provision nor showed any In-
faults of the Commission. But abolish- EN the work rushed as fast as pos- tention of providing for increased judi-
sible so that the yard will be ready | cial salaries in cases of population in-
ing the Commission is not the remedy. Tioga Co. Gas Gusher Near Daggett
|No wise man would burn down his Property.
barn because there were a few rats RN road Bsdigio
(in the grain bin. He would get | The big gas gusher drilled in in opens up in the spring. |w y are now.
rid of the rats. Properly manned Tioga county, two weeks ago,saidto, To get room for the yard con- —Appointment of Walter D. Ludwig,
ithe Public Service Commission be the biggest in the world, is within nections at the lower end the rail- of Chambersburg, as forester in the
| would be of great service to the half a mile of the Daggett property | road company had to purchase three State Department of Highways was an-
| State. What is needed, therefore, of which Mrs. Wells L. Daggett, of lots or parcels of land, one from the | Nounced on Tuesday by Governor Pin-
|is a complete change 1 the person- Bellefonte, is one of the owners. American Lime and Stone company, shot: udvig gueseets Io
i secretary of Forests and Waters. Lud-
‘last fall put it the Commission property to the Standard Oil com- $2000; another from Miss Elizabeth wig was graduated from the Mont Alto
“must be free from all coercion, | POY, of New Jersey, and drilling on | Hart, property willed her by the State forest school in 1910. He served
| even from a Governor, and subser- the first test well on the land will late Edgar Burnside, for which they as a forester with the Department of
| vient to no interest except the law be started some time this month. paid $4,000, and the Peter Kane Forests and Waters until 1916, when he
| impartially and equitably enforced.” The Daggetts will get a very fair | homestead at $6500. became a district forester with head-
rental for their land and in addition oases te ut Jon, Whee Be served
the Penpsylvania|f JOyally.if producing wells are; ..Apportioning for forester of Johnstown and aided in the -
Manufacturers’ club by. prohibition Struck. and the Watchman hopes for | districts will give the General organization of that city’s first shade
[agents might easily be interpreted them a well equal to the big gusher sembly an opportunity to do
As-
some | tree commission. He will assume his
as a free trade conspiracy. above referred to. lofty gerrymandering. new duties on March 16.
handle the anticipated shipments creases and that until further action by
stone work the Legislature the salaries will remain
——Raiding