tion but it continues a bugaboo
—At exactly this time last year
we told you that by the time “you
lamp this paragraph we will be in
Texas.” Oh, boy! how we'd like to
have that trip ahead of us now.
Here's another job for Kiwanis.
Bellefonte will have to be moved
and some one will have to find a
new site for the town. The Gazette
this week says the new post-office
building is to be six thousand feet
square and since Bellefonte is only a
little more than five thousand feet
square we'll have to move the whole
town out so we can get the new post-
office in.
— There are a few thousand pub-
lishers and printers in the U. 8. A,
who will defend President Hoover's
veto of the Muscle Shoals bill on
the ground that it registers his
stand against any attempt to put
the government in competition with
private business enterprises. A large
part of these same printers and pub-
lishers will be resolving at their next
convention that it's all wrong for
the government to print and deliver
envelopes in competition with them.
They'll organize a Ilobby—and all
that sort of thing--and run around
in circles until a candidate is to be
selected to represent their districtin
Congress. Then they won't have the
back bone to stand up and tell their
nominee that they won't support him
unless he votes to take the govern-
ment out of competition with them.
And a lot of them will be for Hoov-
er for a second term, even though
he thinks it's all wrong for the gov-
ernment to operate a plant it has
one hundred and eighty million dol-
lars in, can't sell or give away, be-
cause it would be in competition
with what Mr. Insull calls a regulat-
ed monopoly of power. Talk about
the power of the press?
Sampson untila smart trainer
taught the old Republican elephant
to manipulate Delilah’s scissors with
its trunk.
—The Watchman's hat is off to the
to i
Act.
Some weeks ago the Nye Slush
Fund committee of the Senate sub-
mitted a report of its activitiesin
which it was stated positively that
Robert H, Lucas, executive director
(of the Republican National commit-
| tee, violated the corrupt practices
law in opposing the re-election of
‘Senator Norris, of Nebraska,
(fall. The Act of Congress on the
subject provides that all money
spent for or against the election of
‘a Senator or Representative in Con-
gress shall be
to the clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives in Washington within thir- |
ty days after the election. The
penalty for failure to comply with
| this requirement is a fine of $10,000
‘and two years imprisonment.
Long after the time limit for the
‘report of expenditures in the Norris
campaign the Nye committee un-
' covered the fact that Mr. Lucas had
obtained and procured the distribu-
tion of a number of scurrilous car-
toons intended to arouse prejudice
| against Senator Norris, As Lucas
was at that time an official of the
| Republican National committee and
Norris was the candidate of that
| party, the perfidy of the act was so
| outrageous that it provoked condem-
‘nation from decent men and women
of all parties. On the floor of the
‘Senate it was denounced by Sena-
| tors of both parties and the decent
‘element of his own party publicly de-
'manded that Lucas be summarily
‘dismissed from the service of the
| National committee.
Mr. Lucas was chosen for the
last ators voted to enact the reso.ution, and prepare, present, prosecu
under oath,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
ELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 13, 193
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| The veto of the Muscle Shoals
legislation guarantees the fulfillment |
of President Hoover's obligations to ator McClure, of Delaware county,
(the Power trust during his first|a member of the committee, has in-
term in office. The trust exhausted troduced a bill to create within the
every resource at its command to | Department of Justice a bureau
| secure his election and he has gone Which, upon the request of the cor-
| the limit in the way of recompense. porate authorities of any municipal-
| A substantial majority of the Sen- ity, will “assist or have
As & result of the Senate probe of
| notwithstanding his objection, the try before the Commission any com-
record being forty-nine to thirty- | plaint made by any municipality
four. But the affirmative vote was against any schedule or proposed
‘less than two-thirds of the whole | Schedule of rates and tariffs or serv-
number voting and the objection was ice or lack of facilities of any
| sustained. For at least two years company furnishing public utility
more the opportunity to convey this Service within the Commonwealth,”
| valuable government property to Such a law would correct one of the
monopoly will remain open. | gravest faults of the present Public
Three times the Senate, after ma- Service Commission.
| ture deliberation, adopted a reso-
/lution providing for government op- Public Service Commission, if not
|eration of a plant which it alreedy actually under the law, a community
owns and is unable to dispose of Which has been or is being looted by
| either by sale or lease. Twice the excessive charges for utility service
House of Representatives has regis- has had no means of redress except
tered concurrence in this purpose. It at a practically prohibitive expense.
| costs $5,000,000 a year to maintain It was required to make the charge,
'it in idleness. By efficient opera- employ lawyers, dig up the evidence
tion it would be capable of yielding and prosecute before an unsympa-
to the government millions of dol-
{lars annually and save the farmers
and consumers of electric power
hundreds of millions. But for the rea-
son that Calvin Coolidge and Herbert
Hoover are under an implied pledge to lic Service Commission and for a
‘the Power trust the public has been Period of more than two years the
betrayed twice, this time under the corporation was collecting, or trying
false pretense that it would be put- to collect, the excessive
‘ting the government in competi- The proposed legislation, which
‘tion with individual enterprise. (has been recommended by the Sen-
| If the Norris resolution had pro- ate committee would lift this bur-
|vided fora government commission den from the suffering
‘Scranton water company it is of
(of dollars were necessarily expended
Under the practice of the present 4
thetic tribunal. In the case of the ,
From the Altoona Tribune.
military police force, Suliposeq © | ved around the
ure frOm | scared away after being bitten by the
to permit definite ny dog.
conclusions without intensive study.
plan also has obvious
bachelors, and maintained
State, is too radical a
| present
by
But the
virtues.
of General Butler's picture of “fat,
and puffy policemen who are just about
able to negotiate from one corner to
another” is a true one.
There certainly d be a contro-
versy over the number of officers to
be each town or city. And
it is doubtful if the force could be
made sufficiently mobile to care ade-
uately for local
would be
y-assigned detachment,
The idea in many ways coincides
with the present Pennsylvania state
police system. General Butler's idea
of a force com of singl
housed in barracks with few contacts
‘with the outside world, and operated
tary regulations, is
undoubtedly sound, it is the sort of |
under semi-mili
|a force needed to cope with modern
rime.
| But the complete abolishment of
t
a step. Perhaps more s
tringen
in getting the matter before the Pub- regulations and requirement, rigidly
It om | Loveless McStallsworth, 19, a member of
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es which |
the means of the
e men,
in relays,
(record that hundreds of thousands local police seems to be too radical |
enforced by city and borough au-|
thorities, would achieve the same re-
sult that Butler seeks.
Signs.
¥rom the Harrisburg Telegraph.
| juries on Sunday by
the Public Service Commission Sen- Smedley Butler's idea of a semi- jouled over the aged
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{The animal sprang at Minter, but
—Blood poison developing from an ap-
| parently harmless burn on the elbow,
| suffered when he fell and skidded along
! the floor during a game with
| port, caused the death on Tuesday in
| the Memorial hospital, Monongahela, of
the varsity floor team of Monongahela
High school. All further activities in
| basketball have been cancelled.
~Alleging that she lost the sight of
her eyes after Mrs. Helen Savakunas
threw red pepper into her face duringa
fight at Shenandoah, Mrs. Agnes Crosos,
of that place, entered suit for $5000
damages in court at Pottsville The
fight is alleged to have occurred two
| months ago in front of St. QCeorge's
church, Shenandoah. Mrs. Crosos declar-
ed she was totally blinded two weeks
after the pepper assault.
--For the fifth time this winter mem-
bers of the Citizens’ Volunteer fire de-
partment, engine company No. 1, of Ar-
nold, has saved the life of a child
pneumonia sufferer by pumping oxygen
into its lungs. After working 132 hours
Ronald Spagnol, 20 months
old, of Export, was pronounce out of
danger on Monday. One set of twins
and two other youngsters were saved by
other firemen in the same manner.
—Voluntary wage cuts of $1.00, $2.00
and $250 a day were announced at
Charleroi, last week, by plumbers, elec-
, triclans and metal workers, as their part
iin an attempt
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to stimulate business.
The reductions were: Electricians, $11
to §9.00; plumbers, $10.00 to 9.00 a day;
A wild goose honked over the and metal workers, $11.50 to 9.00 a day.
'high-salaried office in the party or- With authority to create hydroelec-
ganization he holds by President tric plants or to compete with the
consumers house on the hilltop Sunday night. | The schedule
‘and shift at least part of it to the A song sparrow sang in a bare tree March 1 and will continue until March
is to be effective as of
treasuries of the offending corpora- outside yesterday morning. A brave 1, 1982, officials of the organizations sald.
Hoover. The duty of enforcing the Power trust in purchasing, absorb- |
| penal code of Congress rests on the
| Department of Justice. But though
|
| recommended the criminal prosecu-
/tion of Lucas, and considerable time
It was a has elapsed since the report was utilities.”
| filed nothing has been done in the
| matter. a
| Press dispatch, published the other
Lucas “will remain at the helm of
the Republican National committee.”
day, the public is informed that
| proximately $180,000,000, and is a
ling, merging or consolidating such
‘plants the President might be justi-
the Nye committee of the Senate fied in saying that “this bill would is infinitely better than hunting
launch the government upon a policy
{of ownership and operation of
But it does nothing of
‘the kind. It simply authorizes the
And by an Associated government to utilize, in a way contemplates other remedial legisla- We may have more snow,
helpful to the public a property it
| already owns, which has cost ap-
‘heavy burden from which there is
eighty-three year old public official 1 other words the President, the no escape other than by the process
nn ate Sipe
ed of the impotence
of the Volstead Act.” And we reg-
ister this public rebuke to the young
writin’ hound who made our columns
give us a left handed slap last week
by suggesting that our playmates
ought to be in an—Gosh,
every way we turn we're stopped.
We were going to say an old ladies
home. If we had we know we'd
be hearing from Hollidaysburg,
where there is such a misnamed ref-
uge for a lot of girls who em-
barrass us every time we visit there
because we know the only wrinkles
visible are on our own map. All
the “aged” tipstaves in the Centre
going to have them because when
we resolve to be a “yes” man and
stop stirring up the animals along
comes a Greek—not with a wooden
a bag of chestnut burrs, and the
works are blown up. We
to the “aged” tipstaves
know that there is not
would love to be
somebody to
as much as we would
Mon-
paper was
any
| Department of Justice and the lead- provided in the resolution. The ob:
iers of the Republican party condone
| the most contemptible piece of party
| villainy on record.”
Mayor Mackey, of Philadel-
phia, is “between the devil and the
deep sea.” He isin controversy with
the heads of two departments and
seems to be getting the worst of it
in both cases,
Democratic Party in Fine Form.
The little tilt among Democratic
leaders at the meeting of the Dem-
ocratic National committee, in Wash-
|ington last week, will serve as a
wholesome tonic rather than a harm-
ful incident. Of course the only
‘tribunal which has authority to de-
clare the policies of the party is the
National convention, but every Dem-
ocrat has the right to opinions on
‘all questions and to express them
at any time and in any place he
happens to be. That is the reason
why the Democratic party has never
‘had any bosses like Quay and Pen-
‘rose in their days and Pinchot now.
The rank and file of the party never
‘would stand for, or submit to, or-
ders. Each voter thinks and acts
| for himself.
| Mr. John J. Raskob, chairman of
| the National committee, has beena
wise leader and an efficient party
| manager. At the recent meeting of
the committee he properly express-
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are in the amiable, | ed his opinion as to future activities But the testimony of Mr. Loveland restocked with trout
say to a Mr. of the organization. With some of
township, his ideas a great many Democratic sion, as wellas its chairman, “played
| voters will cordially concur. With
‘others there will be widespread dis-
| agreement. For example, his at-
on the question of prohibition
eet with popular favor in the
while his recommendations
with respect to corporations and
tariff legislation will not be so gen-
it was well
Q
|to public attention. It gives op-
| jection is simply absurd.
| gress district
tions. If the investigation accom- little shadfly, with more courage.
plishes nothing else this achieve. | than prudence, made ite sppearatice
ment will costs. ‘on e . ground
be Join all it eit lightly frozen, but re was a
freshness in the air and a warmth
{in the sun that had not been there
the day previous. All these
peied Susi the first signs of spring
appeared.
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winds, more low tempera-
t these will be merely set-
. The backbone of Old Man
Winter is in sore need of an osteo-
a mare's nest or chasing pelitical
rainbows, which seems to be the
paramount purpose of the Pinchot
proceedings. The Senate committee !
tion, according to information from 'how!
Harrisburg, and there is every rea- tures,
son to hope that the abuses which |
have been perpetrated in the recent’
th.
past will be brought to an end. P’go., ye baseball teams will be
ed wing ut mustering their
Players for the an-
e merchants will
———It seems that the 30th Con- nual trip south,
“went, hell bent” for | be advertising their spi fashions,
‘the money was
| ———Governor Pinchot is mot pro- Congressman Kent, but the other
viding places for his friends as fellow got the certificate of election.
rapidly as he might but he is A LANL
gradually weeding out those who ou Stat wr ls
voted against him for the nomina- Senn a Very Busy
tion. ie
Senator Harry B. Scott is one of
the busiest Senators in the upper
body this session. Being chairman
of the appropriation committee is
job enough for one man without
having any other demand on his
time. The chairman of that com-
mittee is likely sought and inter-
The Republican Machine Responsible.
As the double-barreled investiga-
tion in Harrisburg progresses the
evidence against the Public Service
Commission increases in force and
volume. The testimony of Mr. Farr,
of Scranton, to the effect that a
| Scranton banker told him that a
|New York banker had advance in- Agide from his own chairman-
formation as to action in the Scran- ship, he is a member of the bank-
ton water rate may have been cam- ing congressional apportionment,
‘paign fiction. But there can be NO corporations, executive nominations,
misunderstanding the language of C. education, finance, game and fish,
N. Loveland, of Scranton, who testi- insurance, mines and mining, public
fied that chairman Ainey, of the roads and highways and railroad
| Public Service Com. ission, had per- committees. These committees are
‘suaded him “to witadraw the origl- the most prominent and active in
‘nal complaint against the rates’ the Senate and demand much time
‘which the water company was try- from their members.
|ing to enforce.” | In addition to the above commit-
The transparent effort of Gover- tee work, Senator Scott is
‘nor Pinchot to arouse prejudice and ing legislation for disabled veterans
determine the issue in an atmosphere and some important bills for high-
(of resentment will deceive no reason- ways.
ing person. The parade of a thous-'
and witnesses who could give the _ Now we know why Hoover was
committee no information of value opnosed to an extra session
was an expedient of a demagogue. gregg, The Rapidan
mittee head.
was concrete proof that the Commis-
into the hands of the Scranton-Spring
| Brook water merger,” toemploy his
own language. The testimony of the farme
‘Roy Husselman, “noted engineer of s out ort,
| Cleveland,” was equally strong proof
|of culpability and official misfeas-
| ance.
| But Alney and oo fo. | Yih. HOOVER. Well, nobody: acedses
——An esteemed contemporary
sioner Benn and their associates on
ply carrying out the policies of the |
Now that itis known that
viewed more than any other com-
sponsor- |
jit will be time to buy a t over-
coat, study the flower seed catalogs
and think about next summer's
| vacation.
| the season? Indeed we
to be but a
are not. It's
i mighty little while until straw hat
weather looms over the horizon and
the golf liars will be thinking up
| stories ‘o outdo those of the trout
fishermen, And it can't come too
soon.
|
Pure Butter.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
The State Department of Agricul-
{ture is to be commended for the
| promptness with which it ran out of
| Pennsylvania those who were sell-
ing as ‘pure butter” a composition surgical treatment he was put on a train
having only a small percentage of
| butter as a base. To have t-
ted this fraud would have been to
‘cheat both the consumer and the
| farmer.
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have been so raised and
| Huntingdon, on Thursday of
--At an all day meeting of the direc-
tors and stockholders of the Sugar Val-
ley Mutual Fire Insurance company held
at Loganton last week, more than 500
votes were cast and it was unanimously
decided to change the by laws and
policies of the company to conform to
the Pennsylvania standard form for fire
insurance policies and to enlarge the
company's territory, which at present
embraces the counties of Union, Snyder,
Clinton, Centre and Lycoming.
~John Killeen, Pittsburgh printer,
won a verdict in common pleas court at
Lancaster, of $334 from Austin E. Mec-
Collough, former chairman of the Dem-
ocratic State committee. Killeen said
due him [for printing
literature for the 1922 Gubernatorial
campaign. The printing was said to
have been ordered, orally, by Mrs. Clara
Renshaw, vice chairman of the commit-
tee. McCollough maintained that he
was not responsible for the oral con-
tract.
~—Alfred McGraw, of Sunbury, being
returned from Salt Lake City to Phila-
delphia for violation of parole, leaped
from a Pennsylvania railroad train near
last week,
but was recaptured within several hours.
| McGraw jumped from a window as the
train was speeding between Tyrone and
Huntingdon. Two guards accompanying
{him left the train to searci for him. He
Under our laws the butter
that one buys butter now with
| the same confidence he purchases
life insurance. Furthermore,
pays a price that ought to guarantee
‘him a pure and wholesome product.
|
| finding a ready sale for his butter
{and the creamery market has suf-
| fered also as a result of restricted
due to many people being
out of work or apprehensive of that
| misfortune. When one buys butter
he has a right to expect just that.
and
| market, but these are properly la-
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| ——Mayor Mackey,
he | sorts ‘succeeded in driving a casing - to
was found along the highway near Ty-
rone with lacerations of the face and in-
jury to one knee. After being given
and sent to Philadelphia with the same
guards whom he eluded previously.
~The defiant Meeker gas well of the
Penn-United company, in Tioga county,
which has been releasing 100,000,000 cubic
feet of gas daily was capped last Tues-
day after experts had battled with the
flow for nearly one week. Twenty ex-
the bottom of the 4,197 foot hole and
then cement was forced into it under
‘tremendous pressure. The equipment
for the Capping was taken to Tioga coun-
ty from Oklahoma, passing through Belle-
fonte en route there. With the capping of
the well, it was reported that the flow
from the four wells now under control,
might be piped to New York and New
| England.
| the Lebanon
| ficers
phia, is willing to return tothe Vare alleged illegal
-~Ralph Carino, of Mt. Carmel, de-
clined to consent to his discharge from
county jail under bond.
Carino was the only one of 10 persons
of Philadel- | rested last Saturday when Federal of-
swooped down upon Mt. Carmel's
liquor dispensers, who
gang in consideration of a seat In gq to furnish bond and was commit-
| Congress, which
{on Congress.
| ~The Senate Slush Fund com-
| mittee has properly defined the na-
less onerous on those who are hold- portunity for analysis.
ing the bag than the Watchman | Senator Hull, of Tennessee, and
story indicated. Itisn't the province Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, were
or desire of a newspaper to perse- equally within their rights in stat-
cute or do injustice to anyone. We ing their views on the questions,
never heard of Mr. Grubb until he though Mr. Robinson took the mat- for years. But they have been con- |
| political machine they represent in
thus favoring corporate interests.
| Every well informed man and wo-
man in the Commonwealth has
| known of their prostitution of power |
came in—of course with the inten- ter entirely too seriously. He imagin- tinued in office and ‘encouraged in
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idea that brought him
| mistaken interpretation was cor-
of telling us where to get off— ed that there was a purpose to de- | their maladministrations because
when we told him where we had clare the opinions of Mr. Raskobas perty interests were conserved and
all our information he for- the policies of the party. After this party obligations fulfilled. That the
| public interests were sacrificed made
State loses millions on gasoline ture of the recent political activities
taxes the Legislature may take steps of Bob Lucas. The penalty is a
to stop the leak. |big fine and imprisonment.
~The first half o f President! The Woodward bill for a State
Hoover's term is ende] and every referendum on the liquor laws is
‘obligation to the Power trust has not likely to get very far, but it
| been fulfilled, may give the Prohibitionists a few
anxious moments, i
| ——The Philadelphians opposed to i
|the Blue Law hope to stampede the |
~The real reason why
may be all right ted to jail
wants to know what's the matter |for Mackey and Vare but it's tough Schools. At noon on Tuesday, four of
|
by U. 8. Commissioner
Carino's friends reached Lebanon, al-
most frozen after an 88-mile drive, pre-
pared to post the bond for his release.
Carino refused to sign the bail piece,
declaring he likes his new environment;
is without a job, and prefers to remain
in jail until his hearing on March 28,
~Former Chief Justice Robert von
Moschzisker, of the Pennsylvania Su-
preme court, was named by Chester
city council as associate counsel to ap-
pear before the United States Supreme
court and seek authority to intervene in
the Pennsylvania-New York-New Jersey
water case. John BEB. Hannum, Jr,
also was named associate counsel to co-
operate in the case with city solicitor
big
and departed in agreement rected a general discussion followed
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notes won't have to pay New York; Governor Cox, of Ohio,
for the merchandise others and other party leaders participated
Monday | and harmony was restored. Alto-
morning is a bad time for them that gether the session of the committee
shave Saturday night to come to|was a helpful as well as an inter-
beard the lion in his den. Good esting event. It proved that the
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bristles don’t develop in less than party organization is in fine form |
forty-eight hours. |and ready for action.
hope that the makers of in which former Governor Smith, of Republican party.
General Assembly, but that seldom
happens.
——IJt is a safe bet that the Mus-
cle Shoals problem will be an early
entrant in the next Congress.
(no difference to the leaders of the
By such meth-
ig they retained power.
| ——Justice Holmes, of the United
tates Supreme court, celebrated his
80th birthday, on Sunday, with char-
| acteristic modesty. Millions will
join in the hope that he may adorn
the bench for many years to come.
——Governor Pinchot is perfectly
willing to accuse, but unwilling to
tell why he accuses.
Banking
Commissioner Cameron resigned , A Cochran. The State and city of
would be interesting reading. But New York proposes to take from the
it will not be revealed unless some- | Delaware river some 440,000,000 gallons
one Icses his temper. |of water a day. New Jersey is object-
| ing. Chester is interested because, it is
Adopting | claimed, such a diversion of fresh water
the language of the "0, "5 ware river will result in
late Horace Greeley the Democratic , =... water from the Delaware bay
National committee might say to backing up beyond the city limits and
the South, “let the erring sisters g0 | making the river a salt water stream to
in peace.’ that point.