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BELLEFONTE, P Lock Haven, Pa. Nov. 14, 1931.
| To: The Editor, “Democratic Watch-
OF DOUBTFUL WISDOM. | man,
I hereby give, bestow, grant, im-
| part, yield, concede, present and fur-
nish my full, complete and entire
‘consent and authorization to the
| Editor of the “Watchman” to tack,
glue, rivet, or otherwise secure in
any desired manner the adenoids,
‘appendix, toe-nails or other part or
parts of the anatomy of King Carol
‘to any S——e-er, smokehouse door
the above mentioned Editor may
deem advisable and worthy of such
decoration or usage; provided, the
said Editor of the “Watchman” can
do such a job without pounding,
while engaged in this commission,
the fingers of Mr. Konrad Bercovici,
myself, or those of other innocent
bystanders, if any, who read my
criticism several weeks ago with
A PRACTICE
Governor Parnell, of Arkansas, has appointed the widow of
the late Thaddeus H. Caraway, to serve her deceased husband’s un-
expired term in the United States Senate. She will be the second
woman in history to sit in that body and the first to function as an
actual participant in its proceedings.
Mrs. Rebecca Latimer Felton, of Georgia, was the first woman
Senator of the United States. Her appointment was merely a ges-
ture of gallantry on the part of the Governor of her State, for she
merely took the oath of office and retired to give her seat to Senator
George who was elected to fill the vacancy to which the eighty-seven
year old Mrs. Felton was appointed.
While Mrs. Felton served only for twenty-four hours and did
not cast a vote Mrs. Caraway will occupy her seat from December
», when the Senate reconvencs, until some time after January 12,
‘when Arkansas will hold a special election to elect her late hus-
band’s successor. She will serve through a part of what will be sufficient care and analytical acu-
one of the most crucial tests of our government's ability to legislate men to understand that I did not
constructively in an extreme crisis. seek to protect or excuse Carol or
the other victim of ye Editor's
Mrs. Caraway is reputed to be an unusually competent woman. wrath, but instead issued a plea for
During the eight years her husband was in Congress and the ten he better Sportsmanship and attempted
was in the Senate she probably absorbed much of the ways and 0 re 3 ger » L misapprehension
. : chman' played con- |
means by which the men who are sent to Washington to conduct the cerning Mr. Bercovici.
affairs of government accomplish their purpose, but that is mostly @ In witness hereof I have hereunto
matter of conjecture, since there is nothing of record to show that set my hand and seal this 14th day
in affairs of state she was outstanding among the women who have
been active in nation-wide movements.
of November, 1931.
OWEN K. ADAMS.
The tendency, of recent years, toward appointing women to serve it n
the unexpired terms of their deceased husbands is indubitably more Even Republicans Cheer the Watch-
of a polite gesture than anything else. It is a sentimental motive | man’s Roosters
and wholly out of keeping with the seriousness with which such |
steps should be taken. It is so much like the thought that this, that
or the other person should be elected to office because he needs it,
or has produced so large a family that only the government can
provide for it, that the wisdom of the practice 1s questionable.
Sentiment is a very beautiful attribute. It is an important’ gov- |
erning factor in the life of the individual who hasn't the blood of a
fish. It has no place, however, in the determination of who is fit
for office and who is not.
Warriors Mark, Pa. Nov. 16, 1931
Dear Editor
Hurrah, for the Dem-
ocratic roosters.
Yours,
F. K. MATTERN
Mr. Mattern is one of the many
Republicans who have exp
their happiness over the emancipa-
tion of the Watchman's roosters.
It is good for the country that there
'are citizens, men and women alike,
who do not take their politics so
seriously that they lose sight of the
INSINCERITY SAPPING PROHIBITION.
Fearing that adherence to Prohibition may prove disastrous tO leavening that an occasional injection
their party's welfare Republican leaders of national prominence are |of humor gives. The greatest surprise
trying to grope their way out of the dilemma they find themselves in. ‘that has come to the editor in con-
There is unmistakable evidence that Prohibition is losing ground sequence of the modest crowing the
: : ' | Watchman did on November 6 was
not so much because of what its sincere advocates support but be- | the discovery that some new resi-
cause of the discovery that its
inception as a movement for moral | dents of the county and many of the
uplift has been diverted to the ulterior purposes of politicians. younger generation had no ides‘of
: ‘ i h :
It might not be stretching the truth to say that more than nale [IE okmer » i SO
of the persons filling public office in this country today have been years gone by— Editor's Note.
elected because they have fooled Prohibition organizations into sup- | il I
porting them. This thing of voting dry and being personally wet Sam Got a Kick Out of the Roost.
has brought about a feeling of contempt for many of our public men | ers, Too.
and, in consequence, a suspicion as to the sincerity of the whole |
| Johnsonburg, Pa., Nov. 16, 1931.
movement. Dear Watchman:
No better proof of this situation is needed than the concern of | wen, George "ab Yast your roost-
those who are most interested in the re-election of President Hoov- | ers were rescued from oblivion. You
er. ‘They used the Prohibition party to put him into office and now | should have heard me laugh when 1|
that they have discovered that the power of the Prohibition move- opened the paper last week and saw
ment is waning they are in a huddle to conjure up some method of | them
straddling the issue. In other words the first concern of those wio/ I vag glad that the Democrats
mold the policies of the Republican party is to keep it in power. | Socially a ad ee
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I'o accomplish that purpose they are planning retreat from their | Hunter was elected. He was the
subterfuge of 1928 and getting ready to run with the hare and |only one of the candidates with
hunt with the hounds in 1932. whom I jada persont] acquaintance.
It is this apparent insincerity that He probably has forgotten about Ro,
: Dr but I have not forgotten him. Tell
in the ranks of the Prohibitionists. him to Stop—Look and Listen the
is causing the disintegration
Intelligent men and women
can be fooled part of the time but not always. Those who saw |next time he crosses the railroad
the virtue of temperance, eye to eye with Francis Murphy and Fran- Has x Je migut not live to serve
cis Willard, are beginning to see the folly of having injected a cause
that can only be promoted in the homes, the schools and the churches
of the land, into the realm of politics where, when the truth is told,
expediency is the controlling factor.
Argue as one may, Prohibition is nothing more than an effort to
supress gluttony In liquids of alcoholic content. As a matter of
personal right a government should have no more control over how
much one drinks than it has over what one eats.
It is temperance, not Prohibition, that all should preach and be-
cause temperance commissioned Prohibition to sit in the game of
politics where it is being double crossed every day itis losing ground. |
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When those ballots are all re-
counted I hope that Mr. Boob will
have a larger majority than he had
the first count.
The Watchman is as good as a
weekly letter from home to me.
Very truly yours,
S. E. BAISOR
LOCAL BOY SEEKS FAME
AS WRITER OF SONG HITS
Toney Jabco, who lives at the
Chemical Lime Company's operation,
three miles west of Bellefonte, has
written a song that he thinks is go-
ing to bring him fame and fortune.
He has given it the title: “How Life
Goes By" and is so convinced that
everybody will be whistling or sing-
ing it soon that he urges those who
want to be first to familiarize them-
selves with the air to write him,
box 392, Bellefonte.
Toney read an advertisement |
somewhere that urged everyone to |
join the ranks of song writers. He
is eighteen years old and ended his
schooling in the eighth grade. Af- |
ter he had completed his hit he took |
it to New York and there paid a
| fellow named Andino $24.00 to com- |
|pose the music for it. Andino as- |
ARE WE OVEREDUCATING ?
News from Georgetown University is to the effect that many
young women are turning from the over-crowded fields of typing
and stenography to the study of dental hygiene. Just how soon
the point of saturation in the dental hygienist field will be reached
depends entirely upon the number of young women who are turn
ing to it.
Education is a fine thing, but it is a debatable question as to
whether it might not be responsible for part of the distressful con-
dition in which the world finds itself today.
The only wealth the world has is in its soil, its rocks, its mines,
its forests and its waters. From no other source can the greatest
financier or economist conjure a cent.
Education is doing little more than giving seventy-five per cent
of the population of the world a shot in the arm that makes them be-
lieve that they can hope to be parasites on the twenty five per cent |
who till the soil, blast its rocks, toil in its mines, live the life of its sured him that he would then be)
woodsmen and go down to the sea in ships to net fish. They all | paid $3485.00 for the completed)
want to be lawyers and doctors and merchants and clerks and Great Work.
We haven't heard whether Toney |
has received his little fortune for his |
first song, but we do know that Mr. |
Andino has Toney's $24.00. i
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— The world Sunday School As-|
sociation will hold its next annual |
convention in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, |
July 25 to 31, next year. Pennsyl- |
vania has always had more dele- |
gates at these conventions than any |
State or Province. If you are]
thinking of going write H. C. Heck- |
erman, Bedford, Pa., for particulars |
as to the cost of the trip.
Engineers and draughtsmen, and school teachers and preachers and
journalists and typists and stenographers and dental hygienists and
not a one of them is being taught to understand that, in reality, they
are only leeches on the real producers of wealth.
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— Headlines in the metropolitan papers on Tuesday proclaimed |
that Attorney General Schnader has discovered that Governor Pin-
chot's relief program is constitutional. It is to be presumed that
Mr. Schnader was consulted as to the constitutionality of the Gover-
nor's plans before they were promulgated, so that it looks as though,
having given an opinion of doubtful value, his subsequent statement
is merely an expression of willingness to be an accessory after as
well as before the fact. |
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| FIFTY YEARS AGO
Governor
in Howard visiting her
‘Mrs. John A. Woodward.
port,
| C. Wolfe, of that city.
swallowed up by the trust.
noon,
(will be dressed in gorgeous
| tumes, just as they are described in
| by
IN CENTRE COUNTY.
Items taken from the Watchman issue
of November 25, 1881.
—Mr. Ed Garman is again clerk-
ing at Valentines.
— The new boiler at the water
works is giving good service.
Mrs. Packer, widow of the late
F. Packer, is now
daughter,
William V. Emery, of Williams-
one of the proprietors of the
new nail works, will close up his
business in that city in about two
weeks for the purpose of becoming
a resident of Bellefonte.
The Morning News states that
Mr. Weaver, of this place, is
now in Harrisburg and was to have
been married, yesterday, to Miss Sue
Miss Wolfe
having visit-
here several
will be remembered as
ed Miss Ada Weaver
years ago.
— William Snyder, of Crider’s box
factory, had the end of one of his
thumbs and forefinger sawed off
while at work recently. He got
them too close to the teeth of one
of those machines that, as the girl
said about the fan, goes “thus and
80.”
—The rumors that were flying last
week that the Bellefonte car works
were about to shut down were not
correct. There was a jam in the
erecting shop due to the lack of
wheels to move the cars out. The
company has received an order for
three hundred gondolas for the New
York and Erie R. R. and that, alone,
will keep the works going until
next April or May.
In 1825 William Mann, eldest
son of Robert Mann, of Montgomery
county, N. Y., came to Bellefonte
and with his brother Harvey es-
tablishd the first Mann axe factory
in Pennsylvania. In 1829 the en-
tire family came to this State. Wil-
liam Jr., went to Lewistown and
established the plant there. Willis
and Robert established the Mill Hall
factory in 1848. Harvey Mann con-
tinued the business at Boiling
Springs until his death in 1870 and
after that his nephew, J. Fearon
Mann, conducted it until it was
It was
during Fearon Mann's operations
that a post-office was located there
and Boiling Springs was changed to
Axe Mann.
It is said that the Presbyterian
wigwam, that unsightly building at
the corner of Spring and Lamb
streets is to be abandoned because
it has become too rickety for safe
occupation. The Sabbath school
will hereafter be held in the church
gue a new building can be erected
or it.
— The “Modoc” hunters of Boals-
burg last week captured seven fine
deer on the headwaters of Stone
creek.
—A match game of football was
played between a team of eleven
from State Collge and eleven from
Bucknell University, at Lewisburg,
one day last week and our College
boys returned home victors.
— George Smith, an employee of
Ardell's planing mill, had his hand
so badly lacerated by a saw last
Wednesday that it had to be ampu-
tated so that he has nothing left
but the thumb and part of the palm
of the injured member. He is a
‘son of 'Squire Smith, of Unionville.
SANTA CLAUS PARADE
IN ALTOONA NOV. 27TH
Santa has sent word that he ex-
pects to arrive in Altoona on Fri-
day, November 27th, the day after
Thanksgiving and has asked us to
extend an invitation to all boys and
girls, together with their fathers
and mothers, to go and greet him
on his arrival.
He is coming in response to an in-
vitation extended by the Altoona
booster association, which has ar-
ranged for a magnificent parade as
an escort to accompany him to
booster stores.
Santa Claus has informed the
Altoona booster merchants that he
will bring his own band with him to
lead the parade, which will start
promptly at 2 o'clock Friday after-
November 27, proceeding
through the business district.
The pageant that will accompany
Santa Claus will include such well
known fairy tale characters as
Humpty-Dumpty,
Ding Dong Bell, Mary and Her Lit-
tle Lamb and other equally popular
favorites with the young folks. All
of these characters and attendants
cos-
the story books.
Santa Claus, himself, will lead the
parade and he not only wants the
boys and girls to see him, but also
to take their Santa Claus letters
with them and he will arrange to
have his couriers gather them up | counting what ? cori
along the route of the parade.
The little folks will be interested
in this announcement as they will
thus be sure that their letters will
go direct to Santa Claus for his
personal attention.
The parade that is being arranged
the Altoona Booster Association
with which to welcome Santa Claus
will be just as elaborate and inter-
esting as those of former years and
will be of interest to mothers and
fathers as well as to the boys and
girls. All who can possibly do so
should arrange to visit Altoona to
see the colorful pageant and help
welcome Santa Claus.
The Altoona booster stores have
arranged to inaugurate the opening
of the Christmas shopping season
on Friday, November 27, the day
that Santa Claus will arrive in Al-
toona.
county.
Jack and Jill,
|plossoms on one of
{hives and next week will be Thanks- |
| giving.
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A HGDGE—PODGE OF PINE GROVE
NEWSY INCIDENTS. igs Ella F. Goss, of Pittsburgh,
Capt. E- H. Lederer, burgess gf {ie Vishing frieuts in town.
College, whose reputation for .. oo. go Ru ge B
misdemeanors in tany .
disposing of petty D. F. Kapp and C. G. Aikens are
the cellege town without enlisting 0; Fo trip
urts Cen- motor to Florida.
the ald of the high ob of | Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Shearer were
tre county has spread to the four
quarters Yl the pS tinent, is up recent visitors at Washington, D. C.
against a proposition now that ii Iie Frank Marth is seriously il
baffling His Honor’s ingenuity to the | go resul paraly-
sumoat, a some time past itin- Margaret vigited
(peddlers would prob- ds in A
ably be more exact) have swarmed | en Lewistown over the week
into State College selling various
kinds of merchandise and the
business men put up a kick.
peddler was arrested and on being | Miss Minnie Tate has gone to
taken before the burgess he Was pittsburgh to enter training as a
fined $100 and costs because he nurse.
could not produce a retailer's li-| Most of the fall butchering has
cense. The man appealed his case been done in this section of the
to court and when given a hearing county.
he presented a wholesaler's license F. R. Fry spent the latter end of
and the case against him was dis- the week with friends in the Moun-
missed. If they were local or tain city.
Centre county people who were in- Clayton Witmer, of Bellefonte,
vading the sacred precincts of State was a caller with friends here on
College, peddling their wares to the Saturday evening.
detriment of local merchants, the Paul Tate and wife, of Pittsburgh,
burgess wouldn't care so much, put spent the early part of the week
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visiting
John and Earl Porter are
local ?
doing jury duty in Bellefonte this
One week.
they are not. There is the man with relatives here.
from Persia who makes regular S. H. Tate and wife, of Lewis-
trips selling Persian rugs, probably town, were callers at the Mrs. Mary
made in the slums of New York Meyers home, on Sunday.
city. ‘The man who retailed neck- Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Dale motored
ties to students at a nominal price to Mifflinburg and spent Sunday
per dozen, was trac ed as a _ with their son Henry and family.
Paul Goss, of Northumberland
dent of New York city. A man " ’
with a truck load of spent Armistice day here, hunting
“home cured
oy for rabbits, and got his full share.
hams” who proved to be from Balti Reed and wife came over
a
more and the only home the hams gmp, Huntingdon, Sunday, to see
ever saw was the farm on which gather Reed, and found him improv-
they were grown, and a number of ing.
peddlers of other things at pricesto pred B. Goss and son Budd, of
catch the eye and ear of the un- pittsburgh, are here visiting "Mrs.
wary. Just what to do about it A. F. Goss and hunting for small
the burgess does not know as yet, game.
but he is giving the subject most J. H. Bailey and wife and Mrs.
careful consideration in the hope of Bailey Sr. motored to Milton, Sun-
stumbling onto some solution day, and spent the day with Dr.
through which he will be able to Frank Bailey.
curb the pernicious practice. Samuel Everhart, of the Branch,
will sell one hundred head of stock
The Watchman two weeks ago 3 Public sale. on the afternoon of
commented on the fact that the ovember .
November term of quarter Ses- The ladies mission band will hold
sions court was the smallest in a their annual festival and on
the Graysville church on the evening
number of years. This was borne of November 27th.
out by the fact that only 23 pre- Mrs. John Hess served a turkey
sentments were made to the grand Ainner at her home at Shingletown,
jury by the district attorney, and last Sunday, to which a number of
only 17 of them resulted in the find- friends were bidden.
ing of true bills of indictment. All Edward and Glenn Fry motored
told 66 entries were made on the to Lock Haven, Sunday, to visit
docket for the November sessions their brother Hugh, at the Lock
and in 21 cases the bills were ig- Haven teachers’ college.
nored, cases nol prossed or defendant Mr. and Mrs. H. A. McGirk, W. R.
discharged by the justice for insuf. Dale and Willard McGirk were din-
ficient evidence and the costs, ag- ner guests at the C. M. Dale home,
gregating $522.74, put upon the °0 the Branch, on Armistice day.
Mrs. Mahlon 3hank and two sons,
Michag) nd Harmon, and two lady
His honor, Judge Fleming, some e 0 sburg, were dinner
time ago, adopted a rule in imposing SUES Sunday, -at the J. L. Shank.
hat ddi 1
sentences t is adding shekels to rles Witmer through
the county treasury. Under vari-
: town, Monday, with a truck load of
ous acts of the Legislature fines im- ‘hogs for the ‘Altoona market, for
posed for certain misdemeanors re: which he paid $5.20 per hundred
vert to the State so the Judge very pounds.
rarely imposes a “fine.” He speci Among the hunters who bagged
fies that the defendant must pay turkeys on the last day of the sea-
the sum of $50, $100 or $300, what- son were Claude Aikens, Sam Hess,
ever it may be, “for the use of Cen- Harry Porter, Edward, John and
tre county,” and thus the money Harold Albright.
goes through regular channels right The venerable John T. Markle, of
into the treasury. It is one way Altoona, is visiting friends in town
of helping to pay the high cost of and noting the changes that have
the courts of Centre county but it’ taken place in the seventy years
doesn’t make it any easier on the A I ag a J) hate, Beil Fi
) 4 -
iy of the man who has t day night, for the pu of a days
huat, JF Satirday, Warren Salley
col another car. e sus-
Last week we called attention to .ineq slight injuries on his face
the large list of applicants for the and side and both cars were badly
various appointments the Democratic wrecked.
officers-elect will have at their com- a c
mand, and now we want to call at. a Las Shon Supper gorved 4
tention to the fact that the man hall, Saturday evening, Miss Sadie
who is selected by Sheriff-elect John
M. Boob as his deputy must not ' which drew the beautiful bed spread
think the job a sinecure, by any |The supper was well attended anda
means. In the almost four years | hice sum realized.
that Sinie H. Hoy has been deputy G. C. Corl and D. S. Peterson
under Sheriff Harry E. Dunlap he Spent Monday on a business trip to
has traveled about three times Bellefonte. They were making ar-
around the world, and his work Fangements for a special election to
was principally with the civil busi- [ 19th on the pn A
ness of the office. Of course we do ,¢ increasing the indebtedness $3,-
not mean that deputy Hoy made 500 for the of erecting a
three world tours, because he didn't. new school building.
But his travel by automobile, prin-
‘cipally in Centre county and en- |
tirely within the State, CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS
aggregated
INSTALL NEW OFFICERS.
between 18,000 and 20,000 miles »
year or for the four years betweel ,¢ 5 regular meeting, last Thurs-
evening, the Patrick McArdle
75,000 and 80,000 miles. As the cir- day
cumference of the earth at the .,,.4 No. 448, Catholic Daughters
equator is 25,000 miles it can be ¢ America, installed the following
Mr. Hoy's duties as dep | moors for the ensuing :
seen that
‘uty necessitated traveling a dis: | Grand regent, Miss Agnes Beezer:
| vice regent, Miss Cooney:
tance equal to three trips aro
There were days when | Mrs. W. W. Bickett; lec-
the world.
prophetess,
‘he traveled as high as 400 miles Mrs. Thomas Shaughnessy;
Mrs. Rose Pearl; historian,
‘while from 200 to 300 was nothing | Turcls
Naa. Dd ying Phone tows years | Mrs. H. E. Dunlap; financial secre-
ug Dunlap used BAT Miss Adaline Anderson; treas-
| urer, Mrs. G. Oscar Gray; sentinel,
in the work he did. So it will be : 3
"Mrs. John Garis; organist, Mrs. J.
seen that in these days a deputy | | .
sheriff must be a man with plenty ‘J. Robinson; trustees, Mrs. George
of stamina. Carpeneto and Mrs. A. G. Waite.
e— ‘Mrs. James Breth, of Altoona, was
While we were writing this col- the installing officer and following
umn a spider with legs an inch long the installation refreshments were
and rolly-polly as a print of butter | served.
walked sedately across our manu- |
script.
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The barn on the Clyde Mow-
‘this time of year and where thi® er farm, near Unionville, was burn-
one came from we know not, but | ed to the ground about seven o'clock
we take it as an indication of con- | 1agt Thursday evening. The stock
| tinued mild weather. In a walk OD | wag saved but all the season's Crops,
| Sunday afternoon two Bellefonte and most of the farm machinery
|1adies saw dandelions in bloom. Jo | were destroyed. The loss is partial-
| Messmer, who lives in the foothills |}y covered by insurance.
{of the Alleghenies, found a bunch of |
Spiders should be holed up |
of work for the
warm weather which means a big
saving on the slender coal pile in the
in reality by | cellar.
Honey bees are still |
to be seen flying around near their |
Thanksgiving