—Edwin Gould, New York financier,
he Se ne <M
the Central Pennsyl
Orphanage, east of Danville, Pa., that
he has placed the institution -on the list
| of orphanages that will be supported in
| part by him.
® —In view of scores of persons waiting
on the 68rd street “L™ platform, -
| adelphia, Myron Pembrookjian. 38, leap-
“RO led to his death, on Monday, beneath
Sh 3: the wheels of an eastbound train. Sev-
me z — ——— mm {eral women fainted. Relatives said
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Peden Sut Soest for four years
— SA } announcements
i > & | have been made Cy the of the
VOL. 76. _ BELLEFONTE, PA. MARCH 20, 1931. NO, 1D, | [gr se mecsty cw umivesuen oft
semm————— - ET EE ————=——— | that the name has been changed and that
Purpose of Pinchot’'s Crusade. Progressive Alms and Tactics the publication will uppear under ‘“The
hy ca— } mt Morrison's Cove Herald." The publica-
take the “kick’ ou Wilson G. Sarig, of Berks county, From the Pa ol the | on is printed by the Herald Printing
and make it unhappy again. keen minds city politi- | Of the House of Representatives at | Democratic floor leader of the House Wha , of Martinsburg, of which Elmer
--We know Governor Pinchot's ay have Suse ® Ne Bo | Harrisburg, ex-Representative im of Representatives at Harrisburg, Prog ussive Soulercuce just held inc Ake is president.
game. He's waiting for the land to administration election code which | Congress and all-around political ad- | addressing the student body of Buck- og is obvious, the prac- —Police are seeking a thief who cut
dry up so there won't be any mud discriminates materially & ainst venturer, publicly charged in cam. nell University, the other evening, ou) gbjective clear. a hole through the window “ofa” com.
ard Ih peed to build those twenty- | communities of large pasion and | correctly analyzed the political cOn- Representatives of that bipartisan fectionery store, at Franklin Pa, wih
102 | ditions and confusions at the State group already hold the balance a glass cutter and removed $10 and $20
thousand miles of roads that he infavor of what are known | . | bills attached to children’s dolls prepar-
promised rural Pennsylvania last as rural units. If there is such a had informed him that a New capital. He said the “Pinchotites power in the When thelr. an suction designed to beip food
fall | fault in: the. measure the eyi- banker on Wall Street had have gone on a holy crusade” and new Congress meets in December =. ... unemployed. The thief was
: | dence seems to be in the afirmative, information 8 “just as the crusaders of the mid- they will hold also the balance Of yrigniened away before securing $47 in
—Monday morning's snow WASWL |, "er and of course unjust. Of the Public # | dle ages rode roughshod over Europe, POREF If CYe RUSE oo |colns and a number of checks given by
quite heavy enough to have ! | g sparing the rights of neither friend us P | prominent citizens.
. : ’ » have | Section 803 of the code provides for | Si 'edentedly s position. If they
‘the saplin’ bender.” It might Ve an equal number of men and women | nor foe, so the Pinchot crusadersare oo oC Toy Sh easures | —Mrs. Emma Anthony, DuBois, asks
been tt Joos man's Hiauule it on the State co ittee of each par- held Filing ‘over the Pumnayivania Legis | t they are pretty sure td get | 0.000 damages for the Suuth of het
it was the poor man, as usual, 18, ipa in Senatorial districtsof the lature today, sparing neither consti- gone of them, and in nearly all im- PASTS MARS 18
out of luk, because there was so = = T00 one count the voters Paign tutional, legal nor minority rights.” t controversies to put the filed. Thursday, in common pleas court
little of it. y Gifford Pinchot's ambition is the Hoove 'at Pittsburg, against the Pennsylvania
may elect a man and woman from A county oover administration, which they Rullrosd company. Mrs. Anthony claims
~The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. each county, giving them greater hill, the It} moving spirit in every step 3aken- | frankly oppose, on the defensive. |...) hand was injured fatally Oct. 1,
hasn't sent for our picture yet, but representation on the State body than Governor, fit is the motive of every movement. They insist that their purpose Is|gw, wien his automobile was struck by
we are not going to claim that the Senate districts composedofa single accepted And for what purpose is this ve, not Dolitical. nt of * Shifting engine at the Seventh street
Ou Commissioner ~ hectic activity? Mr. Sarig tells us y disclaim any thought of .. ... in New Kensington.
judges in. that Camel contest were county oF part of 3 SCAHLY, it is not in the interest of the forming a new party. They want “7° ne
packed against us until it is an- For example, with a These i ple of It is tc procure laws, promote policies; Damages of $399,000, said to be the
pe pa Ee ten aera hs fo Govern rue o Tumng conor 0 the Hugi, 0 Be er, J Co LT tn
e - , A - ’
y tte of each party while the largely resposible for the unusually Republican organization as an in- tial nominations, the gain will be Were given by the jury, last Saturday,
—It wasn't Congress, after all, 26th district, Clarion, Elk, big majority he received in that sec- Strument to promote Mr. Pinchot’s in furthering these aims. in the case of former sheriff George F.
that the country needed a restfrom. =o "4 Clinton a, popu. tion of the State. But when Mr. ambition to become President of the So their first undertaking is to Buss, of West Pittston, and the mem-
It was the President. No soomer =o. =" ocsns will have ten. In| Farr was asked for particulars in United States. Let us say, for the draft a statement of principles, g{ vs of his Savily against the Lehigh &
did he leave the country than busi-| ©" Lota "in that rural district |the matter, he refused to give the sake of argument, that it is prima- platform which is not to be a pre-| Wilks por tre Coll SOMPRY ho
gan io pick =» ils post. ‘there would be a member of the details. Asked for the name of rily a contest between Gifford Pin- ast for candidacies; but. a prog mobile in which the Buss family were
Why 4 new cpbbiii sip anda " committeee for about 17,850 of pop- the Scranton banker who had given chot and the Mellon machine. In| he have undertaken to adopt a riding and a truck owned by the defend-
og Tactory have started already | ulation and Philadelphia one for each ‘him the information he replied that the interest of public morals, prob- der chart of purposes rly ant company.
B wt Waid Of course. we have all “to do so would ruin the banker and ably we ought to sympathize With|ghgl) be a guide to their group and pearl Ida Ferguson, %, former tel-
‘wreck the bank.” He was threaten- Pinchot. He pretends to be the an appeal for public support.
ed with imprisonment for contempt personification of the “up-nft" the one of the organizers put it: | company, is in the Pittsburgh jail in de-
what has become of the Irish. same ratio all along. the line. In Of the Senate, but remained obdurate. Symbol of righteousness, if measur- “Let us come back here, if pos-| fault of $10,000 bail pending a hearing
There are always more Dutch and our own district, with a population Finally he was forcibly removed ed by his own standard, But he sible, next December with a well- on charges of embezzlement of $6,000
Swedes and Poles and French and of about 150,000, we will get a mem- from the witness chair but held un- is disappointing. He promises profii- | organized public opinion behind our from the bank. Miss Ferguson, an em-
Italians and Scotts hanging onto per for 36,000 people, whereas our rogram chica. anyway ployee of the bank for six years, was
the coat tails of the good old Saint hbors t one for a trifle less’ traightforward y yway. arrested on a warrant sworn out by J.
neig ge Cam- | D. Swigert, of the State Bankers’ As-
250,000.
—Every time we go to a St. «got it in” for Philadelphia, but the
AS ler in the Dormont Savings and Trust
Patrick's day celebration we wonder | giscrimination runs in about the
than there are real sons of the sod. than half that number. ‘to
It seems to us that some of Discrimination against one ele-
those Southern Democrats might be ment of the population or ome sec-
promoting the cause for which they tion of the State, is as odious
claim to stand with far more ope | fait. uided men
if they were to devote more thought ano .
to getting Mr. Hoover out of the not the worse feature of the 80- |
White House and less to getting called
Mr. Raskob out of the national
committee. | communities to Harrisburg is
|of centralization which will ultimate-
ably refused to answer the pertinent
to question because he couldn't, for the
and women as to reason that there is no such per-
But bad as it is this is Son. The Scranton banker was an
invention of the rather erratic mind
was enough for him. He was in
‘the fight to win by fair means or
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that, too, is candid-
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sociation. She was preparing to start
‘on a tour of southern States when ar-
rested, it was said.
~—State and city police officers are
looking for the robbers who broke into
the cellar of the Mifflin county welfare
Society headquarters in Lewistown, and
stole ten bushels of potatoes and a
quantity of other kinds of vegetables
which were to be distributed to the
needy of the county. David Thomas,
executive of the society, was unable to
estimate the exact amount of foodstuffs
taken but the officers found that at
least men were implicated and that
two
‘a car was used to haul off the loot.
‘! —J. Randolph Simpson, 89 years of
| age, oldest practicing attorney in Penn-
wron g | "yivania, died at his residence in Hunt-
done about \ngdon on Friday. He would have
been 9 in December. As a member of
ve Company C, 125th Pennsylvania volun-
teers, he was shot through the lungs at
the Battle of Antietam. After the war
:
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county institution. There are
college
for themselves? |
—Well, “Little Pun” Womelsdorf's
tion it ought to be defeated. Some- °dually without foundation in fact. 8
Huitg ough to bl tie i Jue dul ed mind of a community which had | a
not a prom. | Sy and was prejudiced against
Mr. Benn. Legislature is
question of the abolishment of capi- healthy function of a party of criti-
hat is in the political ring again.’
He has tossed it right in among
the four others who are in that scrap
for the Republican nomination for
‘County Treasurer. Time was when
Phil was a picturesque character in
Centre county politics and if he has
retained only some of his old-time
“zip” we look for some interesting ylar belief thatthe President's veto
action before the ides of September. of the Muscle Shoals resolution was
—Our prediction is that if the] THO Jiu in the Presidential
resent Legislature does anything at | campaign 0 ."
an it will not tamper with the Blue in dispairing mood, said:
Laws, it will not enact the propos- | President has
ed election code, it will not reduce
motor license fees and it will not across the road of human progress
appropriate money for building | you'll find this octopus. That's
twenty-thousand miles of rural roads what the President has brought
in Pennsylvania, Notwithstanding about by his wicked, cruel, his un-/
Brother Pinchot it will probably do | fair, his unmerciful veto.” The con-
just what selfish political expediency ference in Washington, last week,
prompts it to do, adjourn and go Was the first reaction of popular
home.
opinion in the matter. And it was |
|an imposing demonstration. It re-
or Tr oan. Promris| tied 2 desprsueted resentment of
bo Eovaone, a a friend of |an impo t element of the elector-
standing, recently sent us a sample
| ——There is just a chance that
| the public may find out how abso-
lutely hollow Mr. Pinchot's promises
are.
First Gun in the Campaign.
“The
resist. i
There was no talk of anew party, |
no reference to favorite candidates,
‘no discussion of prohibition during
| the deliberations of these influential
and progressive statesmen.
there was a clearly expressed and
determined purpose to rescue the]
people of the country from the web |
of monopoly into which they have
been enticed by the perfidy of
Republican Presidents. No consider-
able body of intelligent people will
be deceived by the sophistry em-
ployed in the veto message. “I am
firmly opposed,” Mr. Hoover writes, |
“to the government entering into!
any business, the major purpose of |
which is competition with our citi-
first winter in years that
It's just our luck. If
we'd had one we suppose Harry's gift
would have been something for in-
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i
ren] his more or less hectic tal punishment and making life im- |
campaign Gifford Pinchot promised prisonment without a possibility of | tact
to “get the farmers out of the mud,” pardon the penalty for murder. A |
cut in half the automobile fees and bill to this effect is now being con-
do several other things which he sidered intheHouse and a public demands into legislation.
has not attempted to do thus far, hearingin supportof it was held on.
~emmu | Tuesday.
There is a widely expressed pop- Acknowledges Service but Refuses
to Approve.
In his last radio speech Governor
Senator Norris, Pinchot declares that the preliminary
report of the Senate committee
killed the bill and the vestigating the Public Service Com-
Power trustisin high jubilee. Right mission “isnothing in the world but
‘a confirmation of what I have been
Yet the evi-
was |
saying right along.”
dence upon which that report
ate and a determined purpose to for his previous calumnies, sets up
it is constituted now,
exceptions,
Those rich men concerned in
operation of these monopolies kept
| the Republican machine in power in
such
unjust favors. Mr. Pinchot render-
material aid to this criminal
| conspiracy by supporting Herbert
and for the consideration of
ed
has been
But Builty of grave faults. With a few
which prove the fact, it
has served the interests of corporate
cupidity and ruthlessly trampled
{upon the rights of the public. But
three it was organized by the Republican
| machine for precisely that purpose.
cism, of dissent, of protest.
that it is equi
| more—to wield a
{in the direction of translating
Considerable opposition |
to capital punishment developed at Dr. Pearson's Experiment.
‘the hearing while not a voice was From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
But its real importance lies in the
to do much |
'ormidable power
its | o
‘he was elected clerk of courts of Hunt-
ingdon county and practiced law, only
ceasing activities a few weeks ago. At
the time of his death he was president
of the Huntingdon county Bar Associa-
on.
| —Bernard Dougherty died on Sunday,
twelve hours after he had touched a
| wire carrying 66,0000 volts of electricity.
| Dougherty, a 15 year old Danville boy,
raised in opposition to the bill The departure of Dr. Paul M, while ona hike with several companions
“which would abolish it. The recent
| electrocution of Irene Schroeder has
doubtless had a lot to do in crys-
| talizing sentiment against capital
| punishment and it would not be sur-
prising if the bill is enacted into a
W
Pearson, of Swarthmore, and
Virgin
step in transfi the e
rule to civilian
native
will detract from its beauty, and if
they set the pace others will like-
ly do likewise.
have a of about
——The Soviet government has Eight per cent of the
changed its mind on the subject of
recompense for labor. Rewards will
be in the ratio of service instead of
ost ind ,
equality for efficiency and stupidity. -
tue Dr. Pearson hopes,
~The President will spend his oF American Bermuda and
vacation in works of mercy in Porto
Rico. His heart bleeds for the dis-
tressed, if they don't live within the
dozen assistants last week, outbound
to take over the Government of the
Islands, marked the first | a short time he was neid fast while his
erring in clothing burned, then dropped
the islands from United States Navy
control even-
| tually to popular government by the
population. Dr. Pearson is
ed by naval officers. The most
eastern outriders of the West Indies,
their combincd area is only 132
Square miles, about twice the area
the district of Columbia. They
22,000.
people are
white. English is the predo! inant
and agriculture the fore-
because of the
islands location, to make them into
plans
to inaugurate this project with im-
mediate construction of a large
tourist hotel and two golf courses,
with other improvements to follow.
climbed a steel tower to
locate a forest fire. As he was descend-
ing, he brushed against the wire. For
a on Saturday,
twenty
| feet to the ground. His companions
| beat out his burning clothing and took
him to the Geisinger nospital, Danville,
| where he died.
based was not only obtained with- ——Borough employees spent two the first civilian Governor appointed | __poging as one of the extra workmen
lout assistance Bo the Governor days, this week, cleaning the rub- Bo 2L Sands, and he is Laking employed at the Children's Home In
‘but in spite of his efforts to defeat bish out of Spring creek from the, ng San hr Say. Sivilias Lancaster, a thief looted the rooms of
and discredit it. He charged that falls to the Lamb street bridge, the are college-trained, none is either Miss Ella Eaby, superintendent, and =
the committee was organized to Second time within six weeks. Just | politician or professional oficehOlder | oieen Mi any reported that $90
shield rather than expose the inig- Why it is that so many people con- | and nearly all were engaged inedu- |, ihe money way. from an iron
uities of the Public Service Com- sider a stream of water a dumping cational or welfare work prior 10 poy in which institution funds were
| mission and now, without apologies place for all kinds of refuse is hard | their a; tments. kept and that the remaining $45 was
to explain, but it is an incontro- The Islands, three in num-| per personal funds taken from her
the claim that he is vindicated by |vertible fact. It would seem as if Pel tute the latest addition to ,ocketbook. While looting the room, the
its report. residents of the town should have American {EOS oY, gure Ur- | man was interrupted by a maid who ttt
n ues the - ’ him alone when he told her was in-
hoy lic A oie enough civic pride to refrain from | wpich time they have been GOVern- ,j.cting the electric wiring in the room.
—National hospital day, May 12, has
been selected by the building committee
of the board of trustees of the Lewis-
town hospital for the dedication of the
recently completed wing of that institution,
Cornwall, superintendent.
have Governor Pinchot there for the
dedication. Of the 197 patients treated
in the hospital during the month of
February 96 were free patients, 81 were
full pay and 20 were part pay patients,
the free work done by the institution
that month amounting to $3464, dis-
bursements exceeding receipts for the
| limits of the United States. month by $2137.
—An attempt to take the life of John
Berger, Columbia county, night watch-
man at the Danville Stove Manufacturing
plant, as he sat at hts desk in the ship-
ping department of tne plant, Saturday
morning, failed when the bullet missed
him by a few Inches. Mr. Berger and
police are baffled by the attempt made
on his life. The nignt watchman had
completed his rounds of the plants about
5:20 a. m., and after sweeping the office
on the first floor sat down at a desk to
read a newspaper while awaiting the
arrival of the workmen. Shortly after
seating himself a window in the office
was shattered and a bullet struck a
steel spectacle cese of Mr. Berger, pass-
ed through a blotter on the desk and
glanced off into space. The night watch-
man took his revolver from the desk
and made an Immediate search of the
premises but failed to see any one. Fresh
| zens.” The Muscle Shoals propo- ! Hoover for President in 1928.
sition couldn't be tortured into such _ Though the Senate committee has
an attitude. revealed many of the iniquities of
Nobody assumes that the post- | the Public Service Commission, and
office service of the country is in | in some measure supported some of
competition with our citizens. It |the wild charges made by Governor
performs an important service for Finchot during his campaign for
the people in conveying and distrib GOVernor, it has not escaped his
uting mail which previous to jts malice, In the same speech in
establishment was performed by in- | Which its service is acknowledged he
dividuals. It carries packages in continues to cast aspersions upon
its parcels post service that were | the Integrity of purpose of the
previously carried by other agen- | Senate committee. If his purpose
cles and in its money order service | In this “dog in the manger” policy
is to invite a contrast with the work
takes business from banks. The
express companies did protest of the impotent investigators spon-
sored by himself he will reap a
against the parcel post in the be-
per Marsh Creek announced that ginning but the opposition soon harvest of regrets.
there would be no such libation at | ceased because it was absurd. The
his party, whereat afl his Presby- proposed service of the government
terian barn raisers marched off, He | owned Muscle Shoals plant would
re are lots of places we'd
like to
but one of them isn't
aboard submarine Nautilis that
is going to go diving around under
the Arctic ice flows.
be,
that
———The Progressive conference at
Washington may not have ac-
complished much but it laid lines
for future activities that may make
history.
a great social as well as structural
event. It appears that about Gettys-
burg it was the custom to give
a dole of whiskey along with the
big dinner that always features barn
raisin’'s. The good parson of Up-
The climate is warm and equable
and the islands are suly forty miles
east of Porto Rico, 1 miles south-
east of New York,
Dr. Pearson, is, to all practical
purposes, intrusted with an -
ment. Crop failures have brought
depression to the islands. -
tion of male laborers has 1 a
twenty per cent excess of female
pulation. The e have had
little experience in -government.
Dr. Pearson will to mold pros-
perity and workable democracy.
Since Dr. Pearson and at least six
: Puiladeiphi of his staff come from the
hiladelphia areas, vania
———Maybe $10,000,000,000 is not watch experiment wi particu-
too much to run the government a jar interest.
year, but we question the wisdom
of expensive roving commissions.
—The General Assembly has
been in session nearly three months
but has sent only two bills to the
———8till the people of Pennsylva-
—JIf the Progressive .onference
achieved nothing else of merit Sen-
tracks In the mud, however, indicated
didn’t get them back, either, until |be no more in competition with citi- ator Norris’ pen portrait of Jim |nbia be able to worry through | Governor for approval. But it has iat a man had walked around the cor-
he repealed his premature Eighteenth zens. Mr. Hoover seems to be Watson, of Indiana, was worth the & of years without any new given Governor Pinchot plenty of Op- ner of the building to the window from
amendment. quite as stupid as he is stubborn. |cost. portunities to hoodwink the people. | where he fired the shot.