INK SLINGS.
——President Hoover continues to
discuss the jobless problem with
those who don't need jobs.
—One pleasant
that the dear public will be
immediately conscious of is the
dimunition in the amount of “back-
slapping” it receives.
——We are glad the Democrats of
Centre county rebuked the effort of
Judge James B. Drew, a Republican,
to steal their endorsement for Su-
preme Court Judge away from
Charles F. Uhl, a Democrat.
—Well, the primary ‘3 over and,
of course, there are nm iny disap-
pointed. There should be some
consolation for the losers in the
thought that they don't have to go
on with the grind until next Novem-
ber 3rd.
— Before us is a picture of Mr.
N. R. Stiver and his fourteen chil-
dren. He was among those who
ran for nomination for the office of
Register of Centre county. While
we can't see what a man's family
has to do with his fitness for office
we admit very great admiration for
1 father and mother who could
oring fourteen as interesting look-
ng sons and daughters as they pre-
sent into the world. We don't know
Mr. Stiver but we believe he is an
jonest man. We are convinced of
‘hat by his admission that his
‘cares and responsibilites as a fath-
sr are greater than those of the
\wverage man.”
—Several weeks ago we happen-
«d to stop at the marble works of
“rank Mayes in Lemont. To us a
lisplay of tombstones has never had
\ny special appeal, but Frank in-
isted on our seeing his ‘presto
‘hango” manner of cutting epi-
aphs on them. It is a new proc-
8s by which sand is blown against
stencils fastened on the
ace of the granite or marble. In
n hour's time letters, clean and
harp, were cut into the hard gran-
te much more perfectly than
ould have been done by hand in
everal days. Then we thought it
sas the slickest thing in tomb-
tone making we had ever seen.
The world do move,” however.
m Tuesday Harry Keeler exhibited
machine that wrote the epitaph
n Frank's political tombstone far
licker than his own could have
one it.
—So far as our memory runs the
jan agsinst whom we made the
ost earnest and powerful political
waged was
e thought him to be, for he re-
.ained our friend when he came
iccessfully out of it. He knew
at we were fighting him purely
scause of our belief that he was
st the better qualified of the two
yntestants for the high office to
hich he was Be it said
sy our tribute to the memory of his
ife, for she saw it the same way
few women do—that there are
w as broad minded as she. The
ars that trickled over our cheeks
| we satin the presence of Augusta
Quigley, “Sleeping”, last Satur-
\y afternoon, welled from a heart
-ateful for the friendship of such
woman.
—We're skinned completely. Our
iticle, epidermis, hide or whatever
may be called is nailed on a barn
or in Lock Haven. If you don't
lieve it read what Mr. Owen K.
jams, of that city, has to say of
. His interesting communication
published under “Talks With the
litor” on page six of this edition.
ter we had read it we just
uldn't help thinking of the story
id of Judge Burnside and a young
intingdon lawyer of years ago.
. rather egotistic young attorney
\s trying a case before the Judge.
y didnt’ know what it was all
out, so he let go a barrage of
andiloquent “foolishment,” as
yy Cohen would say. The attor-
y on the other side besought the
urt to stop him. To which plea
s old Judge replied: “Let him go.
y reminds me of a bear climbing a
oli The further up he goes
+» Well, if Mr. Adams, has heard
» story he'll know what we mean.
—Inasmuch as we have heard
it the Honorable Court expects
to make some comment on his
pearance in official robes at the
of the sessions on Monday
might be haled before him for
the
ment we are at a loss to con-
e a plea that might not draw =
>» and a parole of two years in
itody of someone who would
nt us to be reporting to him at
very moment we might want to
fishing. The toga is all right
Anything that adds dig-
y and impressiveness to the maj-
y of the law, we're for, but if
Court handles it like we do our
rk apron we are going after him.
se we saw a Judge rushing intoa
rt room, struggling wildly to get
sleeves of his
His graceless antics so re-
ded us of a half dressed kid
hing to the breakfast table that
That was a
We laughed at the Court
that was something that the
jesty of the law should never
itempt if we don’t. For
h us.
arms into the
a.
laughed in court.
ne.
voke.
aftermath of the
VOL. 76.
As might have been expected in
a peaceful community like Centre
county the Primary election, on Tues-
day, passed off without any of the
| disorder that characterized many
| other polling places in the State.
There was considerable confusion
in many of the districts caused by
ballots that had been printed wrong.
Some fourteen or more districts had
to be reprinted before the primaries
| but at that there were a few others
|in which mistakes were found only
after the polls had been opened and
lit was too late to correct them. In
| addition to this the ballots were evi-
dently badly mixed up because in
several cases those for one pre-
cinct had been delivered to another.
The printers claim that they de-
livered the ballots as per copy re-
ceived by them and such mistakes
as were discovered were all charge-
able to the Commissioner's office.
Wherever the fault lies it cost the
County a pretty penny in the mat-
ter of reprinting incorrect ballots.
Considering the great number of
contestants for the various county
offices, as well as the fact that there
were bitter factional fights over
local offices in a number of the pre-
cincts, there was not as great a
vote out to the Primary as might
have been expected. The Demo-
crats had real contests for only two
of the places: Those of Sheriff and
County Commissioners. That might
account for their combined vote on
Sheriff on Tuesday having fallen off
453 under that cast four years ago.
There might be another reason for
it too. In the campaign last year
many Democrats registered as Re-
publicans in order to vote for
year in order tc help friends
running for County office in the Re-
publican Primary. Many did not
take the trouble to change back, so
that it is reported that in various
places in the county they were
denied Democratic ballots when they
called for them on Tuesday. There
is still another cause that had some
effect in it. Whether by design or
just accident Republican Assessors
are falling into the habit of regis-
tering Democrats as Republicans.
Unofficial Returns of Vote at
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
LLEFONTE, PA. SEPTEMBER 18. 1931.
This has been noticeable for several
years and is growing to
that suspicion of actual design is
justified.
While the Democrats fell off the
the Republicans gined 718 votes in
their combined poll for their five
candidates for Sheriff this year over
the combined vote of their two can-
didates for Prothonotary four years
ago. The gain was only a natural
consequence of accretions from Dem-
ocrats indicated above and the hard
fought contests they had for every
office.
There were no political upsets on
either side, for the scramble was so
terribly scrambled that none of the
leaders could unscramble it far
enough to pick out a slate that
might have had a chance of win-
ning. Keeler's smashing victory for
the Republican nomination for Sher-
iff was easily the feature of the
day's voting. A deperate last
minute effort to put Mayes over
was made but the juvenile politician
showed the older heads that he is
just as handy at pulling in votes as
he is at pulling down dress goods
for the iadies to mull over. He
had 3515 against 4650 the combined
votes of his four opponents, and a
majority of 1517 over Mayes.
On the Democratic the four aspir-
ants for Sheriff made a clean, ear-
nest fight in which John M. Boob,
the wounded Legionaire and meat
market man in Millhéim won more
handily than pre-primary symptoms
indicated. It was known that he
was a strong candidate, but there
were three very good men against
him and it was the general impres-
sion that.
iat
Democratic ticket it was generally
believed that Spearly would have a
run-a-way for one of the places,
notwithstanding he was out for a
third term which has never been re-
garded as a wise political venture
im Centre county. The other place
went to J. «. Brungart, of Miles
township, by only a small margin
over Womer, Huey and Houser. It
is surprising how close the totals of
the latter four are.
contest be ['t
il amt We I AL
For County Commissioner on the
Democratic Primaries, September 15, 1931
ee
Peaceful Primaries in Centre.
{
Everybody Was at Sea as to Results Until the Votes were Counted. Mistakes
in Ballot Printing and Distribution Caused Early Morning Confusion,
Keeler Runs Up Smashing Lead Over All Opponents for Sheriff.
The Republican contest for Coni<
the extent missioner must have gotten clear out character.
of hand, else Holaworth and Miles,
| who live almost within a stofie’s
throw of each other, would never
have been successful. The old
party convention system of picking
candidates would have considered
an allocation fatal to party
' success.
The political debacle of the entire
‘campaign was the Republican con-
test for Treasurer. Philipsburg or
Rush might have had that nomina-
tion had not three aspirants enter-
ed the race from that section. Had
“either Barnett, Womelsdorf or Demi
had only one half the votes cast for
the other two in Philipsburg and
|Rush one of them would have had
the doubtful prospect of defeating
Robert F. Hunter, the Democratic
aspirant for the office, instead of
Harry Jones. Jones figured all
| through the campaign that the split
up over there was his best chance
to slip through.
The contest for local offices in
Bellefonte was devoid of interest
other than that aroused by Tom
Fleming's successful effort to talk
himself out of achance to run again
for the office of Overseer of the
Poor. If Tom hadn't been so sure
that certain gentlemen were trying
to lick him he wouldn't be in the
embarrassing position today of hav-
ing to admit that they have more
influence in Bellefonte than he has
given them credit with having.
The contest for School Director
caused some excitement among
those who believe that the Ameri-
ime and Stone Co. is trying
| ponte what “it ‘is said
40 in Wilmingtor pn every-
thing—Be that as it may the two
women who were running to suc-
ceed Mrs. Brouse and Mrs. Gilmour
on the Board, nosed the very esti-
mable Mr. Hewitt out and he is
The unofficial returns of all pre-
cincts in the county for the Demo-
cratic balloting are published be-
low. ‘Those for the Republican bal-
loting will be found on page 4.
Bellefonte borough results will
also be found on page four.
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probably just as happy as they are.
From the Philadeiphia Inquirer.
world conference to solve the bitu-
minous coal problem should be held
in Pennsylvania; ana for that rea-
son there will be a wide interest in
the announcement that an inter-
| national convention to discuss the
| future of coal is to be held at the
Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh in
November. It is not necessary to
state that the industry is ig a bad
way and that the problem is of
vital importance to the Keystone
State. t the forth-co meet-
ing is to be more than local in its
There will be delegates
| from not less than seventeen coun-
| tries, and they will discuss every
|angle of the prevailing depression.
While mainly scientific, it will offer
‘an opportunity to deal with the
| prac and business side of the
| question. Indeed one section of the
| conference will be devoted to a con-
| sideration of the competition be-
| tween coal, petroleum, natural gas
and water power.
Many persons feel that the ills of
the industry are largely due tothe
mistakes and the lack of foresight
of those who are engaged in it
There was a time when coal as a
fuel was regarded as beyond the
reach of competition; but that day
has and the producers are
| now faced with the task of induc-
ing people to use their product. As
a matter of fact, one of the prob-
lems is to discover new uses for
coal. Those in charge of the ar-
rangements for the conference do
not count on finding any quick or
ready-made cure for troubles of the
bituminous business. But they are
satisfied that those who attend wilk
be able to furnish an accurate pic-
ture of the industry throughout the
world which will enable mine oper-
ators to plan more intelligently for
the future.
In any event, it is bound to be a
Righty interesting niee because.
it bring together e t min
ing engineers, chemsts, coal produc-
ers and business men from the
farthest corners of the earth.
Herbert and Oal
From the Philadelphia Record.
Unless Yankee psycho
changed radically, President
has
oover
al convention.
Indications are that Mr. Coolidge
really “does not choose to run,” but
what we know of him also indicates
quite convincingly that he would be
much more likely to change his
mind as a result of Hoover manipu-
lation than in response to a party
or popular demand that he acoepta
nomination.
The second term tradition is a
Hoover asset. It is quite unlikely
that even Coolidge could take the
nomination away from Hoover, if he
cared to try. But evidently the
President fears loss of prestige
through even an unsucc draft-
Coolidge outburst on the floor of the
convention.
Re; White House sub rosa
efforts to stall off all mention of
are bad strategy.
They emphasize the very thing
whose avoidance is sought. They
tend to make the drafting idea
more attractive to delegates. And
also to rouse Coolidge out of his
privately referred to the
Westerner as “the Wonder Boy,”
Herbert and Cal are not friends.
They just couldn't be—ever.
Coolidge thinks prosperity is
coming back 'round that much men-
tioned corner in ‘32, he may make
a bid for the nomination. If he
doesn't think so, he certainly won't
ask for four of trouble.
In either event, Hoover's counsel-
lors would for once be giving him
good advice if they said, “ Herbert,
> lay off that Coolidge boy; he’s
medicine for you; don't him
up.” Cn
Cost Accounting
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
Governor Pinchot dignified with
his presence the first meeting of the
Harrisburg Chapter of Cost Ac-
yesterday. Cost account-
ing has risen to the aguity of a
profession. The man rer or
the merchant who knows his costs,
to the last penny, is on the road to
success. More distress has been
caused by lack of knowledge in this
respect during the depression start-
ing in 1929 than probably could be
traced to any other fault in our in-
dustrial system. In times of great
prosperity when business is good
and profits are large wastes and
extravagances of all sorts are often
allowed to creep im, unless halted
by the cost accounting sentinel at
the door. Of course there are no
statistics on the subject, but it
would be interesting to know if it
is not true, as may be suspected,
that those industries which have
shown increases of business and
profits during the present dull per-
fod were generally those who knew
most about their costs.
——The “Afaletics” have cinched
their third successive pennant and
Connie Mack his ninth as a base-
ball manager.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Mandamus proceedings were brought
in court at Sunbury by the Pennsylvania
Power and Light company against the
borough of Mount Carmel, in which it
seeks to recover a light bill of $423,-
494.27, alleged to be due for several
years for light furnished at city hall
and several of the fire houses.
—George Heinman, 39, Catawissa, time-
keeper for the Great Lakes Construction
company, builders of the new federal
penitentiary at Lewisburg, committed
suicide in his apartment at Lewisburg
by cutting his throat with a pair of
| scissors. According to his wife, he had
been in ill health and despondent.
—Samuel Lewis, Secretary of Highways
It is highly appropriate that a
is going the wrong way about
shunting off the dreaded move for:
is » at the next nation-
for Pennsylvania, has reported construc-
| tion of 349 miles of new roads through
| Federal aid funds this season.
The de-
partment used $10,000,000 of United
States money, including emergency
| grants, and $2,000,000 of its own money
|in the program before September 1st.
| —The branch of Buffalo creek has
| been practically cleared of beavers ac-
| cording to a statement made by Miles
| Reeder, game warden. Sixty beavers
have been trapped thus far and trans-
ported to various parts of the State.
Reeder and the State men assisting in
| this work expect to go over the branch
|again and get the few stragglers, um
rn
~The Pennsylvania department of pub-
lic instruction has afinounced completion
of plans for organization of a uniform
safety patrol among school children of
the State as authorized by the 1981 Leg-
islature. The patrols will direct chil-
dren and not traffic in street crossings
near schools, according to the plan. Chil-
dren will be trained how and when to
cross streets and highways.
—Suit for $50,000 damages was filed
in federal court at Pittsburgh on Wed-
nesday, the 9th, by C, V. Brown, of
Cleveland against Virginia Krob, of
| Grampian, Clearfield county. Brown
avers he was injured April 12, 1930,
| when his automobile collided with one
| driven by the defendant. He further
| alleges the accident was caused by the
| carelessness of the Grampian woman.
| —N. R. Buller, former Commissioner
of Fisheries in Pennsylvania who was
dismissed by Governor Pinchot at the
| beginning of the preesnt administration,
| has been employed by the Pennsylvania
Power and Light company to make a
Statewide survey of the waters which
the company owns or controls with a
view of stocking them with fish and de-
velopment of other recreational facilities.
—The Board of Fish Commissioners is
| now busy with its fall distribution of
trout. Fish are being shipped from the
Pleasant Mount, Corry, Reynoldsdale,
Bellefonte and Tionesta hatcheries. The
fish, which are being distributed, are all
of a legal size and are being placed only
in those waters which have been survey-
ed by the Board and found suitable. A
number of streams which were stocked
in the spring are receiving another ship
ment of trout.
—A bill of indictment was returned
last Thursday by the federal grand jury
in Philadelphia against Miss Gwendolyn
8. Cameron, former cashier of the Bridge-
port National Bank, on charges of em-
13 last, and is at present at liberty un-
der bail. The Government charges the
peculations occurred during 1930 and that
Miss Cameron delved into the bank
funds on at least 10 occasions.
—More than 850 hatcheries and egg
opening plants operating in Pennsylvania
have been advised by the bureau of
foods and chemistry, Pennsylvania De.
partment of Agriculture, of the amend -
ment to the pure food laws which re-
| quires that all eggs incubated for eight
| days or more must be labeled “Incu-
bated’ when offered for sale. The
amendment also provides that all bakery
products in which incubated eggs are
used must be labeled ‘‘Incubated Eggs
Used.”
—The old joke about the amorous ice-
man is no joke at all to George E. Mc-
Glennon, of Sharon Hill McGlennon
obtained a divorce in Delaware county
court, last week, after citing his former
iceman, Harry Ayres, as the recipient of
Mrs. McGlennon's affections. ‘‘When I
told her I had ordered him to stop serv
ing us with ice she said she would slam
the door in the face of any other ice-
man,” McGlennon said, “And when I
suggested thai. we install electric re-
frigeration she threatend to leave me.”
—Products of what is believed to be
the largest truck garden in Pennsylva-
nia are being canned ts reed, 1,400 peo-
ple this winter. None of the products
will be sold because the garden is own-
ed by the Allegheny county work house.
Superintendent Robert A. Braun expects
to use every bit of the food for the work
house. Some of the products from the
650 acres are: 8,000 bushels cabbage;
4,500 bushels of potatoes; 17,000 quarts
of peas; 30,000 quarty of green beans;
9,000 gallons of tomatoes, and tons of
other truck, so that Centre countains
sent to the work house need have no
fear of not getting enough to eat, -
—Wayne Meyers, Jr., 16, son of Mr,
and Mrs. A, Wayne Myers, Dunstown, a
mile from Lock Haven, is entering the
junior class of the Lock Haven High
school with a perfect attendance record.
He was neither absent nor tardy from
school duriug the ten years he has at-
tended. During the several years that
he attended the training school at the
Lock Haven State Teachers’ college, the
highway along the Susquehanna river
frequently was piled with sonwdrifts so
that it was impossible for automobile or
horse to get through. Wayne pulled on
an extra sweater and heavy leggins and
waded through the drifts to the school,
more than two miles.
—James P. Dennerby, of Lock Haven,
has been named district deputy for the
Pennsylvania North Central district B.
P. O. E. The district mc'udes thirteen
other lodges in addition to the Lock
Haven lodge, The appointment was
made by grand exalted ruler John R.
Coen, Sterling, Colo. Mr. Dennerby
has gone through all chairs of his local
lodge and was exalted ruler for three
successive terms. At present time he is
serving a three year term as a trustee.
The North Central district is composed
of Williamsport, Sunbury, Kane, Re-
novo, Bloomsburg, St. Marys, Johnson-
burg, Danville, Ridgway, Milton, Jersey
Shore, Bellefonte and Berwick in addi-
tion to Lock Haven,
rested by bank examiners on. January. --