Chicago, has been licked at last,
Governor Roosevelt has won a which would cut off
great victory in his fight with the
Republican Senate of New York over
the St. Lawrence river water power
project.
but Franklin D. adopted it and has
finally succeeded in getting it legal
recognition.
The Auditor's Statement of the
financial condition of Centre county
on page six of this edition.
payers of Centre county,
and weep. If you don't
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—Having reformed (?) everything
else in Pennsylvania Governor Pin-
chot has set himself to the task of
Stenogs. to do with the time they
save by eliding the polite old phrases
of yester-year's correspondence?
Does he expect to “dock” them for
that so as to create a fund to make
good his own archaic promises to
reduce automobile and drivers li-
censes ?
~The optimism of some financial
writers leads them to strange con-'
clusions. In March there were
seventy-six more business failures in|
the United States than there were in
February. But because March has
three more days than February the
daily average was a trifle less and
that decrease in the average only
was occasion for a big head announc-
ing that ‘March Failures Were Be-
low Those of the Previous Month”
over an article in the financial sec-
tion of a metropolitan paper on Wed-
nesday. A lot of whistling to keep
up courage is being done these days.
—For the life of us, we can't see
anything wrong with Mr. Raskob's
idea of permitting the States to
decide for themselves whether they
want to be Dry or Wet. In fact,
any Democrat who disagrees with
such a proposal is not a Democrat
in principle. The trouble with both
the major parties is that not five
per cent of their members know just
what being a Democrat or a Repub-
lican should mean. Most of them
are one or the other because of
heredity, acquisitiveness or a desire
to be with the winning crowd. And
because of that incontrovertible fact
the fundamental principles on tvhich
both the Democratic and Republican
parties are founded appear as heresy
when called to the sitention of
pseudo party men and women. One
is not necessarily “wet” because he
believes that Kansas and Maine have
no right to control the personal
habits of the people in New York
and New Jersey. He is merely a
Democrat who knows why he is a
Democrat and our advice to all who
disagree with such a premise
get another party.
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Department. On March 15, a half which has elapsed since the | centralization on
“the biggest day the United States White House conference of indus- that “elections in the smaller
has have their effect on every
these statements, besides other trans- vigorously opposed every effort to in the State and nation.”
\actions of enormous proportions, “$1,- relieve unemployment and maintain say, in a Statewide contest a
1100,000,000 3'; per cent notes were the high standard of wages. The siderable majority on one
|Tutired qhis Wea at | White House conference seems to in Centre county, offsets to
sympton of financial health. But on have exhausted his resources. The tent the majority for the
| the same day “new government issues paper promises, though never in Clearfield county, But tha
‘amounting to $1,518,261.000 were filled, satisfied him and justified doesn’t justify Clearfield coun
{put out,” showing a balance of $418,- periodical boasts that the high
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ler, out of which $30,000,000 was withstanding the industrial :
‘paid on account of interest on the sion, Recently, however, official rec-
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From the Philadephia Inquirer.
Nicaragua's devasting
which ruined its capital cit
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| elaborate programme for the im-
|drawn their last pay until adjourn- hi has been operating a “steam rol-
{ment and that makes them anxious ler” in his effort to control the All-
‘imitating Nick Longworth, so to
| Pinchot's Real speak.
Purpose Revealed | the meat in the cocoanut. As dictators
Pinchot fair rate bill to eliminate Iwo Famous Jusovations: ‘densation he has appointed a com-
‘the elective features, George W. The principal innovation of the mittee of five departmental employees
'deputy Attorney General in charge ficial Spokesman.” His job was to mittee is Miss H. Marilla
(of utility legislation,” stated that meet the newspaper correspondents chief of the stenographic service in
| “what the Governor is interested in and other inquisitive persons who the State Highway Department. Miss
‘the Public Service Commission.” In search of information and take the hood and educated in Bellefonte, but |
‘other words, the real purpose of the
| pending measure is to flatter the lar reaction. Nobody was ever Harrisburg for a number of years.
| Pinchot vanity, promote the Pinchot able to find out exactly who the of-
Eliminating the elective feature robs
'it of all significance. Changing the
‘sion to Fair Rate Board can have
no corrective or remedial influence
The present Public Service Com-
‘mission is rotten because it has been
Republican machine, a result made
| possible by the language of the law
TE A HN
mediate future. The members have | ——It seems that Mahatma Gand-
India National Congress. Sort of
| In proposing an amendment to the |of correct English and proper con- |
| Woodruff, “the Governor's special Coolidge administration was the “Of- and heading the list of the Cone |
‘is having a Fair Rate Board replace appeared at the White House in Williams was born, grew to woman-
blame in the event of adverse popu- has been a government employee in
‘ambitions and save the Pinchot face. ficial spokesman was and there was
iname from Public Service Commis-
[upon its deliberation or its decrees. |
perverted to the base uses of the
(creating it. The Senate committee
investigation it's operation has re- support any absurd statement which one of the windows reads
vealed these facts to public view the President may find it expedient Heverly,
a good deal of mental speculation
on the subject, Our own opinion
at the time was that it was Mr.
Coolidge, himself, and that the pur-
pose was to shield the administra-
tion from criticism when unpopular
policies were announced. But it
was a shrewd Yankey trick.
The startling innovation of the
Hoover administration is the “Offi-
cial Liar.” His job is to supply
bogus statistics and juggle figures to
‘ence the saving of time and mater-
/ial and it's really to be regretted
| that the inspiration didn't hit him
{last summer when he deluged the
the newspaper offices throughout the
| State with his fulsome, longwinded
campaign literature.
—J. O. Heverly has fixed up one
of the basement rooms in his busi-
ness block into a fitting style for a
comfortable office and a new signon
“wy, 0.
Real Estate” Evidently
and has prepared or is preparing to make concerning the operations the ex-county treasurer is getting
effective remedial legislation. The
of the government. For the first
tired waiting for Pinchot to give
‘House committee, on the other hand, half of Mr. Hoover's term Secretary him an appointive office.
has staged a couple of circus pa-
‘rades, delayed and confused legisla- |
‘toin, created an alibi for Pinchot's
broken pledges and accomplished
nothing else. The plain and para-
mount duty of the General Assembly
is to make the law available for
necessary improvements and let it fooled, and actually reflected credit
go at that.
The Fair Rate bill is simply an
appeal to public credulity
for the purpose of fooling voters in- |
|to the belief that it invested them | venturescme in his statements and
| with some measure of control in the maybe more careless as to facts,
| selection of the Board, though as a
| matter of fact it created a certain
of Labor, James J. Davis, performed
this service. Sometimes it was a
stupid performance, because the fals-
ity of the figures were too obvious
Rut it was performed boldly and in
an atmosphere of confidence which
deceived anybody who wanted to be
on Mr. Davis as a prevaricator.
The present official liar of the
and a administration is Secretary of Labor
trap to catch votes or deceive voters. Doak, and in some respects he is an
The elective feature was introduced improvement on his predecessor in
office. That is, he is a trifle more
The other day, in a radio
Mr. Doak declared that
speech,
“employ-
| ~The Senate committee to in-
| vestigate the Public Service Commis-
‘sion is preparing its report, which
will probably disappoint the Govern-
or but may satisfy the public,
——It's increasing taxes or bor-
rowing money to finance the govern-
'ment. In other words, the admin-
istration is between the devil and
the deep sea.
—1Jt will be remembered that in
1898 a practically bankrupt govern-
ment was turned over to President
Cleveland. Will history repeat |
| method of placing this power in the ment conditions are improving daily” | self in 1933?
{hands of politicians. Most of the
| other features are equally abortive
| for reformatory purposes and can be |
much better achieved by amend-
‘ments to the Public Service Commis- |
‘sion law, already proposed or to be the only inference to be drawn from |
proposed by Senator Earnest’s com- them is that the Hoover policy of |
and that “the federal employment
service has been instrumental in ob-
taining jobs for 1,300,000 workers,”
As a matter of fact neither of these
statements has any foundation, and
| ———There will be no increase of
| taxation before November, 1932, and | tary
|after that time unpopular legislation
can be blamed on the Democrats.
‘mittee, Still the Pinchot proposition deceiving the public will be contin- | owuship. is the latest entrant as a
| helps some as an alibi, |
| |
| ——1t is now an open secret that |
|the Republican State organization is |
| preparing to prevent Governor Pin- |
| tional convention next year,
ued.
——Russia is buying machinery
extensively in Germany, according to
newspaper reports. Maybe this is
is to chot's election as delegate tothe Na- | propaganda to make countries rec-
ognize the Soviet government.
candidate for county commissioner
on the Republican ticket.
| ~The Pinchot fair rate board
will survive or perish in the House
of Representatives, as Grundy sup-
| ports or opposes it.
—Mahlon R. Hagerty, of Rush gi
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' the fact would have
upon the
to know, y were
untouched by last week's disturbance.
"An Oil Fraud Sentence Upheld.
| From the Philadephia Record,
| Albert B. Fall must serve a year
and pay a fine of $100,000—
the amount he took from Edward L.
| Doheny for conveying to him unlaw-
| fully valuable public oil lands.
| So rules the District of Columbia
Court of Appeals, afiirming the ver-
‘dict of the trial court.
No cause, surely, for vindictive
elation. Broken in health and for-
tune, branded with dishonor, depriv-
ed of another hope of escaping the
ordeal of imprisonment, this former
Cabinet officer is a tragic and piti-
able figure.
| But the decision, final except for
|a possible appeal to the Supreme
| Court of the United States, must be
| welcomed as evidence that rich and
| Fosoureeful sriminali ity cannot al-
| ways yze Ww.
| More than nine years have passed
| since Fall and Sinclair and Doheny
| conspired to exploit the naval
| reserves. Long ago their transac-
tions were canceled by the courts as
| fraudulent and corrupt, and restitu-
| tion forced of millions in
| But Sinclair served time
contempt of the Senate and espion-
age ofa , Doheny was acquitted
of bribing . The former Secre-
of Interior alone has been con-
victed of participation in the origi-
{nal crime.
| So eccentric are the processes of
criminal procedure that the bribe-
ver was the bribe-
taker found guilty!
Yet it is well that at least one of
the ' plotters pays the penalty.
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law undermines faith in the admin-
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—Following an arugment Sunday night
over the breaking of three strings on a
guitar, Andy Sweatlock, aged 35, was
killed, and Joe Caruso, age 56, employed
as a watchman at ‘the Jefferson street
! crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company at Mt. Union, is being held in
the Huntingdon county jail as his slayer.
| The fatal shooting took place about 9:50
|p. m., when the two men met on Water
| street, Mt. Union. According to witness-
'es they began a heated argument, which
and fired
y. He fell to the side walk mortal-
wounded and died within a few mo-
ments. One ball entered the right chest
and the other the right loin.
—~Another specimen of the world’s
meanest man lives in Phoenixville. More
than 1500 boys and girls started to look
for him Saturday after the utter collapse
of Easter festivities, which included an
egg hunt in a field. Twelve hundred
eggs had been hidden in the field
| Friday night for the children’s frolic,
but when they arrived, on Saturday,
| the best the 1500 youngsters could
'find was two eggs. Someone had slipped
in during the night and robbed the hid-
ing places. Burgess Hackett answered
the children's disappointment with a
promise that the field would be prepared
again this week tnd that policemen with
sawed-off shotguns would guard the hid-
den treasures until the children arrived.
—According to a report made by Paul
H. Russell, of Milroy, assistant forester
of the Penn State forest, there have been
550 cords of fuel wood taken from his
district by unemployed men the past
winter, most of this amount being cut
and distributed under the direction of
the Mifflin county Welfare Society. The
Society had an average of 49 men work-
ing during January and 350 cords of
wood were removed by them and by in-
dividuals under the special free fuei per-
mits issued by the State. All this cutting
was done under the supervision of For-
estry Department men and more than 50
acres of forest land, much of it along
State highways, was improved by the re-
moval of the dead and less desirable
| timber.
—A six week's course in matrimony,
including a lesson in how to become en-
gaged in six weeks, scheduled to begin
Sunday night in Mt. Pleasant Congrega-
tional church, near Washington, Pa., has
| been postponed until next Sunday. ‘Too
much publicity,” according to the pastor,
| Rev. Russell J. Clinchy, caused the post-
| ponement. Clinchy referred in the week-
[ly church bulletin to “misleading head-
{lines in the press,” and announced a
| poetry reading for Sunday night instead.
| It was sald the young people's forum of
the church, intrigued by the a3uccess
| stories of four young married members,
| decided recently to devote six of their
| meetings to an informal discussion of the
| technique of happy marriage. Barring
| further postponement, the course will
| begin Sunday night, April 12.