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INK SLINGS
—Tomorrow will be circus day and
since the streams are too muddy for
fishing there won't be a single fly in
cates of Sunday base kall have got-
the House legal-
sport in communities that
vote to permit
on that day. Of course
to pass the Senate and
by the Governor—which
—-—The blow that killed father
fell on Wednesday when the winners
“ in that cigarette contest were an-
nounced, We had already spent |
about half of the twenty-five thous- |
and dollars when we learned that a tion but according to current gossip, voters
Massachusetts milk man wrote a in
better story than a fellow who has
been specializing in that art for for-|
ty years.
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workhouse at request of Muncy authori-
| ties who said she escaped twice from
VOL. 76.
An almost incredible story comes
from Harrisburg by way of the
Philadelphia Public Ledger. It is to
the effect that Governor Pinchot close with his meeting in Bellefonte |
“will veto any Congressional re-
not probable—before it becomes a apportionment bill that may be pass- pose of this
ed by the Legislature,” There are
two bills on the calendar, one of
which was introduced by the Gover-
his sanction, The other was prepared
by the Republican State organiza-
Harrisburg, would be altered to
meet any objections from the execu-
tive, rather than incur the necessity
|of electing the entire delegation “at
large.” Such an emergency would
An Ambitious Political Adventure. |
The Governor Takes the Stump.
Governor Pinchot is on his last
‘lap of a “whirlwind speaking tour
! throughout the State” which will
tomorrow night. The ostensible pur-
enterprise was “to pre-
sent his version of the utility fight
in plain words,” His real purpose,
however, is to intimidate the Sena-
inor's friends and presumably had tors and Representatives of the Gen-
eral Assembly, and he imagines that
'by arousing the prejudices of the
he may accomplish that re-
, sult.
gogue and as dangerous as it is repre-
hensible. An appeal to passion isa
dangerous form of agitation.
The functions of the Executive
——Senator Chapman, of Warren ,.+ only cause much confusion in and the Legislative departments of
county, has introduced a bill in e |
both parties but heart-breaking dis-
‘the State government are entirely
Legislature that would make it nec- |, ointment in various sections of separate and distinct and each is
essary to procure a license for com-
mon house cats. We are paying for |
six licenses now, so a seventh would |
be only another one of those petty
governmental irritations that are
constantly being enacted to annoy
people. If we have to kill or pay li-
the State.
The Federal constitution knows
nothing about the Congressional dis-
tricts and the apportionment act of
is equally oblivious of such
| dividing lines. Under the provisions
|of these instruments Pennsylvania is
| forbidden to encroach upon the pre-
| rogatives of the other. From the
beginning of his present term Gov-
ernor Pinchot has been trying to ex-
|ercise the functions of the Legisla-
ture. He practically appointed the
Speaker of the House and demanded
cense for our cats we're for making . ued to thirty-four representa- the right to select the president pro
Senator Chapman kill or pay license
for the rats.
—One need possess no special eru-
dition to get the lesson that the
sage of the First National Bank,
Bellefonte, teaches in the advertise-
ment of that fdtiotion ich 3
pears on page seven
“The peregrinating politician who will
visit Bellefonte tomorrow would prob-
ably call it “bunk,” but those who
think in terms of other advantages
than personal ambition will call it
administrations’ new Motor Code, in
House of Representatives, Mon-
ty smoked Pinchot out,
‘plenty. The amendment
by 150 to 42. Pin-
House, root, stump
says thumbs up or
as he tells it to
to the proposal to re-
censes and drivers fees
so that it's boss have a goat on
which to pack his broken promises.
—Ninety per cent of the people
who attend the Pinchot meeting to-
morrow night will be those who be-
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'—Bellefonte’s seeming
was advantageous.
has been dispelled, just like a lot of
others. We remember the time when
Bellefonte actually encouraged the
telephone companies and electric
lighting company to string as many
wires as possible on the main streets
so that our town would look busier
and more metropolitan than Tyrone,
Philipsburg, Lock Haven and other
nearby places which we thought we
would be outstripping, Those were
Jue days when we didn't know any
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tives in the next Congress and it is
up to the General Assembly to deter-
mine how they shall be chosen. Resi-
dence in the State and constitutional
age are the only qualifications and if
all of them resided in one county
that fact would be no bar to their
admission. According to the Phila-
delphia newspaper story the scheme
is to cut the ratio for that city from
seven to three or four corresponding-
ly increase the tion in
sections of the State which are in
—— An esteemed contemporary
professes to be in doubt as to Sena-
tor Borah's attitude in the next Pres-
idential campaign, That's an easy
one. He'll vote the Republican ticket
no matter who is the candidate.
———— pp pss
Pertinent Point Raised.
Senator McClure raised a t
- | point, the other day, when he said
that “neither the nor the
public should pay any attention to
the testimony of these seven ex-
perts employed by the Governor
to testify in proof of his own
form.” He had reference
nesses who had been employed
the Governor, and liberally
the State, to testify in behalf
Goveronr's contention in the investi-
gation of the Public Service Com-
mission before the committee of the
testimony which is inexplicable to
the lay mind. It is almost tradi-
tional that any proposition can be
proved by a cunning and versatile
expert, and many a criminal has es-
just punishment by hiring ex-
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rpose | Superior court and the other by
' tempore of the Senate. Because the
| Senate asserted its constitutional
(right to choose it's own officers he
{has deliberately and repeatedly re-
|viled it since.
| There is little or no difference of
| opinion in the public mind concern-
ing the Public Service Commisson
‘and its relations with the utility
| corporations. The Senate commit-
tee and the House committee, which
have been investigating the matter,
agree that the Public Service Com-
mission has been delinquent, but
neither charges venality. Both rec-
‘ommend that all the Commissioners
be dismissed, But one suggests
their successors be named by the
the
| Governor and that the name be
changed. It's the difference be-
twixt tweedledum and tweedledee and
the Governor has been trying to ex-
plain it in his own plain words.
mild to
have taken up the pastimes of Rus-
sia and the Central American Re-
publics.
Election Reform Legislation.
| The administration election code
|as resurrected by the House Elec-
tions’ committee, on Monday night
of last week, is less objectionable
than in its original form, though it
still needs considerable . The
provision in the Secretary
the Commonweal*h absolute control
of election machinery in first, second,
third and fourth class counties has
doubling election frauds in Philadel-
phia and Pittsburgh within the per-
fod it has been in force in those
cities.
|are a good many meritorious features
in the bill. As a law, if enforced, it
would eliminate some of the forms
of fraud and make others more
ficult and dangerous. But the
effect of centralizing control of
tion machinery in Harrisburg
be more harmful tothe people
State than the good features
be helpful. The aim of the
lican leaders seems to be to
every element of home government,
and upon this purpose the Pinchot
faction is quite as zealous as the oth-
er, ‘The provision of the election
code would work the consummation
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pear to have been framed for the
purpose of promoting rather than
prohibiting election frauds. But the
faults can be corrected by other
means than the adoption of a code
which centralizes control in Harris-
burg and degrades the voters to the
level of slaves to the party bosses.
Such legislation might be enacted
——Birth control is gaining rapid-
ly, beyond question, but the report
of the commission on marriage, di-
vorce and will find a
high hurdle at the General Assembly
of the Presbyterian church in May.
——Leaders of the American Fed-
eration of Labor predict the legal
sale of beer ard wines next year.
Blow off the froth.
—President Hoover still thinks
the depression is sociological and can
. | be laughed off.
It is the method of a dema- |
! ceedings in federal court at Williamsport.
| He lists liabilities of $56,253.58 and assets
lof only $51.33. Among the debts he
named were notes amounting to $31,584.
| —Governor Pinchot has signed the bill
CURIOSITY KILLED A CAT
AND FOUND A RADIO SINGER
All because someone up in White A. B. Crawford, of the Postoffice of Representative Manuel Feisher, Phila-
Plains, N. Y., saw an item in a New Department, and C. P. Cornwell, delphia, increasing the registration fee
York paper a Watchman news re- of the Treasury Department, for master plumbers from $5 to $25, re-
porter got busy and discovered a were in Bellefonte last Thursday quiring a $350 bond as a voucher for
story to the effect that Bellefonte is and Friday investigating the various their compliance with existing laws and
the home of a husband of a woman |sites offered for Bellefonte’s new fed- | rauirements and increasing =the pay of
who has charmed millions with her eral postoffice building. {Panhers ig 2 the=bogtd of examin.
voice over the radio. | For many years business men of =, unsuccessful u day:
f — pt was made,
The article in question was merely | Bellefonte have been clamoring for .,.|y one morning last week, to burn the
a reference to Olive Palmer's inten- a federal building and recently, Eik Tanning company's plant at Curwens-
tion of spending a week-end in Belle- through the efforts of Congressman | ville. ‘The attempt was frustrated by
fonte. Miss Palmer, as a radio lis- J. Mitchell Chase, the De- timely discovery and prompt action of
teners well know, is star of the partment allocated $125,000 for the the night watchman, who extinguished
Palm-Olive weekly program broad- | purchase of a site and the erection the flames. The plant was about ready
cast by the N, B. C. Company. |of a building in Bellefonte to house '0 resume operations after a shut down
| So far as our investigation was con- | the postoffice and also furnish offices | °f Several weeks.
cerned we were unable to discover for the internal revenue bureau. TC eReY amounting to more tub
that Miss Palmer actually had been Proposals for sites were invited and EL SS nga in ue, ga
here, as intimated by the New York rumors were current that some eight ; charles Mitchell, of Hamarsville, Al-
paper. It was discovered, however, |or ten offerings had been sent in. | jegheny county. The loss of the bulld-
that Mrs. Etheal Hurrington Mills, | But when the representatives of ing itself was set at $2,000. Both Mitchell
of Piqua, Ohio, wife of John Mills the Treasury Department came here, and a housekeeper were away at the
now carrying on for his father in the last week, they had oniy four offers. time. The currency was in a trunk in
Mills barber shop on High Street, One was the old site of the Bellefonte | the house. The fire gained rapid head-
this place, is given credit by some steam heat and gas works, offered ay in the bullding, built of logs %
for being the regular substitute for by Charles F. Cook for the Belle- Y*4* 6°
Miss Palmer and sings many of the |fonte school board, for $8,000. The | —One of the largest rock-crushers ever
i - built has been completed at an Allen-
Balm Olive programs under her | Chrysler garage property, corner of | plant and shipped to Russia for use
Allegheny and Howard streets, of-
Mrs. Mills is a daughter of the Rev. fered for $25,000. The Meek prop- Rae lio Wg
Hurrington who was pastor of the A. |erty, on west High street, offered has a feed opening of five by seven feet.
M, E. church in this place about 1906. | for $30,000, and a location on the It required five railway cars to transfer
In 1907 she and John Mills, son of (corner of Allegheny and Bishop it to the shipping port. Stones can be
William Mills, of this place, went to | streets, to take in the Brant house, broken in the crusher at the rate of
London, Ohio, and were married. the Caldwell and D, Paul Fortney | 100.000 pounds every three minutes. A
Then they located in Columbus, later | properties, offered for approximate. three hundred horsepower motor drives
going to Piqua, which is their pres-
ly $41,000. Several other locations
ent home. Both, having good natural [had been offered but as nome of , ~ or twenty years Mrs. Alice Collins,
voices, went in for concert singing
61, of Olyphant, could not talk above a
them came anyways near being
and traveled iderably with vari- | whisper. Today she can talk out loud,
ous Jubilee organizations.
large enough they were not even ging and even shout thanks to a little
considered or investigated. bee. Mrs. Collins, a medical patient at
About a year ago Mrs. Mills is| As the department has tentatively a Scranton hospital, was taking a sun
said to have secured the Palm Olive fixed $25,000 as the maximum figure bath on Wednesday afternoon when a bee
engagement and has been singing on to pay for a site the Brant house her
it ever since.
Another revelation was
corner was eliminated because of
the discovery that John, Herbert,
Harvey and Donald, the four sons of
Mr. and Mrs, Mills, are said to be
the children’s quartette that is prov-
ing so popular on the Tasty Yeast and
Ohio Oll programs broadcast by W.
L. W,, Cincinnati, every Saturday
on
of
proceedings,
partment is adverse to resorting to,
and in addition there are legal tech-
W.E AF
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and received the following telegraphic
reply:
New York City, May 14, 1931.
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Messrs, Crawford and Cornwell will stroyed the Martin Realty company build-
be submitted to the Treasury Depart- ing, at Portage, on Monday morning, with
ment in Washington and just what damage estimated at $60,000. The Mar-
Nobody ever substitutes for
the next step will be remains to be b® building, a three-story structure,
Olive that we know of.
He. at. a0
cently en program but no
one was substituted for her. |
WALTER C. STONE
When asked about the matter Mr.
Mills was very reticent. He did say,
however, that the story to the effect
that Olive Palmer is his wife is un-
true, but that Mrs. Mills has been
her substitute for a long period.
by the Commonwealth of Pennsyiva. und Shat Theodore Reeder:
Pennsyl Ia "State | 708% of Mill Hall, ad beet working at
TYRONE COMPANY FIGHTS
IT'S ALCOHOL PERMIT.
An interesting hearing was held
before Judges Victor B. Woolley, J.
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store, all within half an hour recently.
After purchasing the shoes, the shopper
went to another establishment to make
other purchases and laid the shoes down
on the counter. While doing so
disappeared from the counter.
returned to the shoe store to
loss. To his astonishment, the
handed him the shoes in the
package. A young man had
have the shoes exchanged for a
size and they were recognized
pair sold to the shopper.
—With the reopening of the Bellefonte
Lime company at Salona, of which J.
Linn Harris, of Lock Haven, is manager,
and the engaging of sixty-five men for
the summer season, and with negotiations
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