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——Only the very optimistic
farmers expect to “get out of the)
mud” within the period of Pinchot's
term of office.
—Local tonsorial artists are hav-
ing a price cutting war. Hair cuts
that were fifty cents are down to
twenty-five. War is something to be |
deplored, but we don’t think the
~~ VOL. 76.
public will make any move to have
the League of Nations settle this
one.
—Mayor Jimmy Walker, of New |
York, certainly exuded a mouth-full |
when he in that “the coun- 3°08 far a growing opinion at the
has gone mad higher educa- | P vernor Pinchot's re-
ib However, Da needn't have CeBt activities are generally misin-
said that “pretty soon we'll have terpreted. The current belief is
men with two or three degrees glad ‘Nat he aspires to the Republican
to get jobs as plumbers or brick- nomination for President, next year,
layers.” We've got them right now. |and that his persistent agitation of
, the utility problem is a lure to
And we've got a lot of fancy. tch th
plumbers and bricklayers who would ow iy hes of the mid-western
be glad to find a job digging diten. {That Mrs Pinchot’ i ovens a
—A prophet is not without honcr the White House is beyond question,
save in his own country. On June and that Gifford hopes to gratify
1 Wijierock Quatsiés share holders | ner ambition some time is equally
rece their us per cent certain, But he realizes the im-
dividend checks. Local investors possibility of that achievement next
are just like a canny fishing camp . He knows that the renomi-
sogk once Sold Ls ua I ere] ‘nation of Herbert Hoover is a party
er we e utiful ' necessity.
Trout Ris ir Jront oe eamp | What Mr. Pinchot has in mind’at
y where, | this time is not the nomination for
said: “The reason our fellows don't president. The present Republi
get any fish is. because hey are Ji {oan organization is compelled to re-
ways running es away catch nominate Mr. Hoover. He has
what is lying right at their oWR come to be the embodiment of all
front door. it stands for and the nomination
__A note from Mr, H. P. Parker, Of any other candidate would in-
the gentleman who has been giving |Volve the stultifying of every a
the Watchman its very valuable and e
interesting weather reports, suggests Years. The leaders recognize his
the idea that we might be invited Weaknesses and appreciate
to go fishing with the party which See ro Somiue ling hd same cut
he implies he “pimps.” lo em wo prefer Sena-
tice a. the gentleman that while he | tor Morrow Bog their Sandidate Bul
has caste an almost irresistible bait they “see hand on the
before this old trout we shall not | wall” and interpret it to mean thal
rise to it until he assures us that no | the nomination of any other man
such butchers as mutilated Johnny than Hoover is equivalent to a dec
Nighthart on one of its recent ex- |laration of political bankruptcy.
cursions will be’ permitted to oper- | . Gifford Pinchot ‘is a peculiarly
ate on us if we get a hook in ou shrewd politician. He is as cau-
tious as a cat and as bold asa lion,
alternately, With the ambition of
army of College boys and | cgesar he ventu
1s is forming on the horizon for | pe ® ye ey WheR the
Pinchot for Vice President.
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body of water that no more belongs |the President is entirely responsible
to it than we do to the gentleman and deserving of condemnation. It
who put the atrocity over, is not unjust, but fair.
‘gossip, has been completely elimi-
‘pated from the political leadership
both in Philadelphia and the State.
At a meeting of the Republican City
committee in Philadelphia, the oth-
er day, Mr. Vare was not present
‘and his name was not mentioned
during the p . The Phila-
delphia Inquirer says, “William Scott
Vare is no longer the acknowledged
and accepted leader of the Repub-
lican organization of Philadelphia
The mantle of leadership has been
draped about the broad shoulders
‘of sheriff Thomas Wilbur Cunning-
‘ham. That is the sequel of a sad
story of ingratitude.
For many years the Vare family
has labored assidiously and spent
‘money freely to build up the ma-
‘chine that has not been an entirely
| unselfish service. First George.
then Ed. and finally Bill Vare en-
| joyed lucrative contracts and party
'honors fully equal to their merits.
But they made others rich and con-
'spicuous in the public life of the
‘city in expectation of reciprocal serv-
lice in the event of need. But when
physical disability overtook the man
the dan- who had thus befriended them, they
|abandoned him as
! sinking ship.’
Probably it is just as well, how-
(ever, that Mr. Vare be retired from
the office of supreme party boss.
| Physical infirmities have inpaired
‘his capacity to perform the arduous
labors of the office and existing con-
ditions require greater, rather than
less, energy in the performance of
|the duties, But it is not certain
| that enthroning Mr. Cunningham is
|exactly wise. The party boss, to
| secure the fuilest measure of effi-
ciency, must be on the job all the
time and it is quite possible that
Mr. Cunningham may be unable to
meet that requirement. He might
be detained, part of the time at
least, in the District of Columbia
“rats desert a
man Atterbury of perfidy
quotes from General Martin's cam-
paign speeches to prove his charges.
If, as he assumes, his personal
are the principles of the
party, his indictment is
commitments between the party
leaders and the utility corporations
the Governor undertook to reverse
the practices of the Public Service
Commission. No party had
ever been written to justify his ac-
It had the cordial approval
of the National platform as well
as the support of the State organi
zation and in supporting Hoover for
President Mr. Pinchot endorsed it.
In fact favors to utility corporations
there Was Republican gospel,
But we have no complaint against
Governor Pinchot for inaugurating
an war among the Re-
publicans of Pennsylvania évén
though it be predicated upon a false
pretense. There is a time honored
adage to the effect ‘‘when rogues
fall out honest men come by their
own.” The charges made by Mr.
Pinchot against Atterbury, Martin
and others and his vituperative at-
tacks upon Senators and Represen-
tatives in the General Assembly are
the beginning of such a conflict and
unless the signs are misleading ex-
press “the of the end” of
Republican control of Pennsylvania,
“a consummation devoutly to be
wished.”
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——The Governor is inviting a
factional war in his party next
year and it is a safe guess that
he'll get the worst of it when it
comes.
——A Chicago woman is accused
of having five husbands
and fourteen others in order to
collect insurance. Well five is too
many husbands for one woman.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
| Bill Vare, according to current
| There is a good deal of anxiety
‘and considerable speculation in po-
litical circles as to what disposition
| Governor Pinchot will make of the
| Congressional apportionment bill fi-
‘nally adopted at the last minute of
‘the recent session of the General
| Assembly. It is the measure written
‘for the Republican State Organiza-
tion and is particularly obnoxious
‘to the Governor who sat in the con-
ference in the expectation that his
presence would terrorize his ene-
mies, This hope was dissappointed
‘by the friends of Grundy on the
| committee. Two days previously
|the Governor had urged the passage
|of some legislation to which Grundy
‘was opposed. The yielding of Flynn
‘and Spangler, Grundy followers, de-
‘cided the matter.
| The bill is about as vicious a
'plece of leg.slation as could be
framed. It is neither equal in popu-
lation or contiguous in territory,
in the formation of districts, asthe
constitution requires, The main pur-
[pose of its authors was to prevent
‘the election of Democrats and the
side issue to disappoint Pinchot and |
| Grundy, who were in cordial sym-
pathy with the main purpose. But
‘Mr. Pinchot wanted a home dis- |
| trict which would elect his wife and |
|Grundy insisted on a district for
‘Bucks county which he could con-
trol. Both would have preferred no |
Bill to the one enacted. But Grundy |
felt that Pinchot had betrayed him
ile
fi
toration of prosperity.
an over-abundance of idle money
which yields nothing while unem-
ployed and a small return from such
investments is better than none. If
government policies gave promise
of better conditions in the near
future capital would not be so eager
to absorb low rate securities.
——After two days and
JUNE 12, 1931.
{the association meeting held at the of-
| fice of county agent Mitchell on Monday
; m—— night.
YEARS AGO | —The Pennsylvania Power & Light
IN CENTRE COUNTY
company brought in a 2,500,000 cubic-
| foot gas well on Tuesday morning on
ithe M. A. Burdette farm, Lawrence
township, Ticga county, by shooting it
with 40 quarts of nitroglycerine at a
{depth of 3840 feet. This is the eleventh
producer in the Tioga county fields.
—Claiming she had lost her ability to
sing due to injuries suffered in an auto-
Items taken from the Watchman issue
of June 17, 1881,
—We now have twelve candidates
for nomination as sheriff, six for
treasurer, one for prothonotary, four |
for register, three for Fecordes: Tout
for associate judge and me, tor mobile accident, Mrs. Helen 8S. Kelley,
county commissioner. | vocal soloist of Monongahela, is suing
—The Logan Hose company has Clara F. Staumn, of Pittsburgh, for $25.-
received an invitation to participate 000 damages. Mrs. Kelley lost two
in the Fourth of July celebration in teeth. Her face is scarred and she
Huntingdon. | claims her nervous system Is affected.
—Mr, John Noll, of Pleasant Gap. | —The Baltimore and Ohio railroad
is proud of his pretty children, two station at Rockwood, Somerset county,
of whom are handsome little ris | was badly damaged, on Friday, when
and to one of whom we are indebted two freight cars jumped the tracks and
for the gift of a rose. Many thanks, ' smashed into the station, tearing half of
little one. [it away. John Lafferty, the station
— The barn Ww. y | agent, was in the half of the building
farm, in Re en which was undamaged, and escaped in-
ri ra | jury.
and n ha —David P. Schrum was called for jury
eighbors ving been there 10! Guty in Dauphin county court on Mon-
assist with it. A couple of fingers I to. hls
were mashed during the erection, name deputy sheriff William Hoffman,
but otherwise it went off well. | found him in jail. Schrum, a for-
—Gottlieb Haag, of Pleasant , | mer city volunteer fireman, was sentenc-
celebrated his 52nd birthday - ed last March to serve from one to two
last, on which Years as a member of a gang that set
pleasure of fire to buildings for the thrill.
taking dinner with him. | —Lock Haven council may have to ad-
— Next winter the public schools vertise for a Pied Piper as complaint
will be obliged to receive colored has been made to council about rats in-
children, as well as white, under a fest! a part of the residential section
new law just signed by the Gover- | of thé city. These animals have be-
nor, abolishing all tion on ac- come so bold that they move about over
count of race or color. This will porches and lawns in daylight.
do away with the necessity of em- liceman sent to investigate said he had
a colored school teacher. as counted hundreds of the pests.
as maintaining a separate —The body of Leslie Weir, 67, an in-
building. From what we hear neith- mate of the Mifflin county home, was
er the colored, nor the white people | found Saturday - evening half a mile
are pleased with the new arrange- from the home near Kishacoquiilas creek.
ment. heart attack,
Dis-
raised on Tuesday; his many
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he was of the opinion that no ap-|jast Thursday evening, m the whose son, Richard, had told
Be Alomment. mould serve his personal | teack a mils west of Buch Creek of seeing the body in the bushes.
interests best. He imagined he could land both passenger coaches andthe | —During a scuffle early on Tuesday,
group the candidates so sa to’ give | baggage car luted over an em-|with two men he caught looting the re-
him a majority on a state-wide ent. teen WOR hoa: Philip Evans,
Hoot, But his advisers Wore 1008 | echs. he A or ae in ped.
y so. . The thieves
this wild his bruised; Near who has a bullet wound under
Moon valley, received |his heart, was unarmed and he was get-
wh ting the Jer of the fight when one of
about Jor- | the thieves drew a revolver and shot
what he would like to do dan, of State College, had his jaw him.
John —Two lives were lost in tragic acci-
back dents in Washington county. Raymond
Nickerson, 8, near Washington, Pa.
—Because her husband told her to sell
the furniture and that he did not want
to be bothered with a wife as he was
taken to the Ohio State penitentiary,
Mrs. Gladys M. Davis was granted a
divorce in Dauphin county court late on
Monday. She charged desertion by her
husband, William J. Davis, Akron, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Davis were married March
11, 1921. Four years later the husband
pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny
and robbery, his wife testified.
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men for
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—BEdward G. Strickler, former clerk of
the courts in Franklin county, on Satur-
was sentenced to from five to ten
in the eastern penitentiary after
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—Startling as it may seem one
out of every seven in Penn-
sylvania is receiving assistance, in
one form or another, from the State
ent of Welfare. In our
—Breaking the lock on the
of the Clinton county jail
forcing the door of the jail
ard Seyler, 22, and Albert Clark,
escaped Friday night. Sherift Irvin
Wenker, the Lock Haven detail of
State police and a posse of more than
50 men conducted a search within a ra-
dius of 30 miles without success. Clark
was arrested on forgery charges and
Seyler in a prohibition raid. Both were
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This means that every man, woman
and child in Pennsylvania is carry-
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