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The great engineer, the great financiers, the great
all have their pet ideas as to how the industry of the country might
be lifted from the low estate into which it has fallen. Some of
them might command a modicum of respect if the public were not
conscious of the fact that these same great minds have been conjur-
ing ideas for more than two years and not one of them has had the
slightest palliative effect.
Public confidence in those who presume leadership is further
shattered by the fact that those who were assuring the country in
1929 that such a state as the present had passed into the limbo of
conditions never to be experienced again are the very ones who are
now running around in circles in a futile attempt to extricate them-
selves from a slough brought on by their own false prophesies.
As a matter of fact, there is nothing wrong with the country.
Our fields, our forests: our mines, our mi
terways are here, just as they were in 1919. Their intrinsic value
is just as great today as it was then, and the present trouble has all
come from the failure of the great financial experts of the country
to realize that paper values created by the exigencies of the World
war were not a sound foundation on which to establish a peace time
regimen.
The situation is unfortunate: ‘There is much distress in the
country, probably not more than there has been at many times be-
fore. It seems more terrible only because the present generation
was born with a gold spoon in its mouth and knowns or cares lit-
tle of the hardships its forbears endured that it might have all the
marvelous advantages it fell heir to.
There are bread lines everywhere, but
Valley Forge and shoeless feet leaving crimson imprints in the snow.
In Andersonville and Libby prisons bread lines often formed, but
there wasn't even bread for those who had fought to preserve ana-
tion that boasts of its greatness and whimpers because it has found
out that inflation was only a business Santa Claus.
As the Aposple Paul said, the country “groaneth and travailith,”
but out of it all will come the greatest good. It is learning the les-
son of common sense, beginning to understand that great engineers,
great financiers, great economists sometimes become so eager to get
there were bread lines at
their heads higher into the clouds that they forget to keep their feet
on the ground.
Until the people of these
out of the idea that they are
ducing at least as much as their liv
the road to national poverty.
Super financing corporations such as the President, in his sur-
prise message to Congress, suggested, giving away the Farm Board's
accumulated wheat, laying new taxes, tinkering with the tariff are not
going to help the situation.
good old United States of America get
entitled to have a living without pro-
ing costs there will be no turn in
What is needed is guts to lie in the bed that we made our-
selves, until our personal suffering forces us to get up and be doing
without the stimulus of a shot in the arm from the syringe of pater-
nalistic government.
DICTATING OFFICIAL DEPOSITORIES.
The security companies doing business in Pennsylvania no
conceived and lobbied the act through the Legislature that
it mandatory for county officials to furnish corporate bond
they can qualify for the offices they have been elected to.
in question also puts the cost of such bonds on the county.
Before that law was passed an official whose office happened to
be one for which a bond was required often offered personal bonds-
men and when that was not done he paid for the bond as an essen-
tial part of his personal qualification for the office.
The Act of 1929 has some merit, but no one had wisdom to
foresee a contingency because of it that could make the several se-
curity corporations doing business in Pennsylvania the dictators as to
the depositories of every county official in the State.
That situation is here now. County officers who have to be
bonded may go only to an incorporated bonding company for their
surety. Many of these companies refuse to issue such bonds unless
the depository in which the official proposes to carry his funds gives
a bond also or earmarks a stated percentage of its own securities as
collateral for the account. That would be making an official ac-
count preferred against all other depositors in the bank and, mani-
festly, would be unfair, and possibly illegal.
All over Pennsylvania men who took office this week were in
straits as to where to get bonds. Many banks declined to meet the
requirements of the bonding companies and the situation has brought
to public attention the danger that lurks in legislative enactments
that have such far reaching possibilities as the Act of 1929 seems to
have had vested in it.
doubt
makes
s before
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— Pennsylvania Republicans are sowing more seeds of discord.
Ever since “Puddler Jim” Davis busted into the Senate there has
been fear that he might horn Senator Davey Reed out of that body.
it is not probable that the city of Pittsburgh will long be permitted
to furnish both Senators for this great Commonwealth. So either
Davis or Reed must be stopped. “‘Puddler Jim” is more or less of
a political accident in Pennsylvania. He doesn’t fit into the big
business and high tariff schemes of the real rulers of the party in
the State: It is desirable to get rid of him and save Reed
movement has been launched to move James M- Beck, Congressman
from the First Philadelphia district, into the upper House. The
Mellon group is said to be back of it and Mr. Vare is reported as
having Amen'd the proposal before going off to Florida for the
winter. Congressman Beck is a militant wet, but as Senator Davis
is none too dry that question would not be so much of a factor in
their primary fight as would the factional alignments. Since the
death of Penrose Pennsylvania Republicanism has been unable to
find a boss and, lacking one, its troubles keep pyramiding.
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—We can't see eye to eye with those economists who insist that
reduction of wages would reduce the purchasing power of the coun-
try. It is our opinion that it would increase, rather than diminish.
Lower wages would bring lower prices for all commodities produced
by labor and if our economic system is right the relative value of its
dollar would be exactly the same as it is under the present scale.
A reduction in the cost of commodities would make the buying pow-
er of the great class of our people who have been living on fixed in-
comes commensurate with the reduction in their incomes. For the
most part they are the class that supplied the capital that has pro-
vided employment for labor. If they are to be deprived of any in-
come from their investments so that wages can be maintained at a
point where they are eating into the capital structure of such invest-
ments how long is it going to be before every industry in the coun-
try is bankrupt and capital frozen stiff?
economists, |
lls, and factories, and wa- |
A |from the balance of account in the
FIFTY YEARS AGO
i
—No sleighing in this section yet.
| There are at present 509 pupils
enrolled in the Bellefonte public
! schools, 30 of whom are negroes.
~ —The frame work of the bake-
oven at the James Sommerville home
‘on Spring street caught fire on Wed-
'nesday and both fire companies
were on the scene, though their
services were not needed.
| —The scourge of small pox is rag-
ling all over the east though Belle-
| fonte has not had a case of it yet.
Al Haupt's wife, who was Miss Em-
‘ma Hoover, of this place, died of it
in York on Wednesday.
| —A first class musical entertain-
‘ment will be given in the Evangel-
‘ical church, at Hublersburg, on the
‘night of January 28. All of the
artists have been under the instruc-
tion of W. F. Beck, of Bellefonte.
Among the feature numbers to be
offered will be “O, Restless Sea,” by
|e and Mrs. Aikens and Mrs.
k.
| —Charley Tripple has succeeded
Mr. Ballet as driver of the Adams
Express wagon.
—The stable belonging to the
Ramsdale house in Philipsburg was
destroyed by fire Thursday night of
last week. Two horses, one COW
‘and four pigs were cremated in it.
— There is a case of small pox in
| Unionville, one at Milesburg and
‘one up Buffalo Run.
| —Mr. and Mrs. Andy Lytle cele-
brated the fifteenth anniversary of
their marriage at their home near
State College on the evening of De-
cember 20, 1881.
Hiram Patterson, a resident of
| Unionville, is stricken with small |
‘pox. He had been working in
Pittsburgh, where the scourge is
‘raging, and came home to spend the
holidays with his’ family. The home
is under quarantine and so is Cook
Jones who went into it to shave the
victim before the nature of his ill-
ness was discovered. A. J. St
Clair is in charge of the house and
|Dr. J. M. Blair is the attending
| physician. The schools have been
| closed and the churches, as well.
— Two mad dogs ran amuck in!
| Unionville last Tuesday and scared
‘that town nearly to death. John
| Hicklin, Willard Van Valin, John
Gingery and Joe Bing all had a
hand in slaying them.
—The Brockerhoff Bros. retired as
managers of their own hotel on Jan- |
uary 1st. i
—The Bellefonte glass works are |
‘going full blast and are likely to!
continue going. A new company
has been formed to finance them. |
{In it are Hon. C. T. Alexander, C.|
'M. Bower, D. G. Bush, John Ardell, |
‘Hammon Sechler and Dr. R. L.|
| Dartt. i
— Typhoid fever is prevalent in|
the neighborhood of Zion. Pine
i rove Mills has been having ~«poth i
| typhoid and diphtheria, but they are
‘abating now.
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~ —Editor's Note—Of the 106 good in a quarter of a century when
‘men and true who were drawn to every one of the major office hold-
|ers is a Democrat the Watchman Glamorous, alluring Greta Garbo
| serve as jurors during the January
/'court, in 1882, we believe not one is |
living today. At least having scan- |
‘ned the names very y
failed to discover any that we know
(to be living. Strange.
| too, since a person could have serv-
The act!ed as a juror then and be only 71 ty.
years old today.
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PHILIPSBURG BANK WINS
LONG DRAWN-OUT CASE.
maneys held by the Altoona bank
| Which were claimed by the plaintiff.
The case grows out of the failure
of Callahan & Co., investment brok- |
ers, in March, 1928. The Philips-
the company stock for sale which |
had ybeen used as collateral instead.
The Philipsburg bank secured an in-
junction restraining the Altoona
i
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for it's own use. The decree of the
court makes the injunction perpe |
and authorizes and directs the First
National bank of Altoona to pay to
the First National bank of Philips-
burg; Mary E. Dugan and the Peo-
ples National bank of State College,
name of Calahanand Company, Inc.
to wit, $1,119.28, and the proceeds
of the sale of 40 shares of Dela-
ware, Lackawanna and Western
railroad, 40 shares of Baltimore and
Ohio railroad and 50 shares of
| Atchison, amounting to $31,012.40,
[to the full satisfaction of plaintiff's
claims.
The attorneys for the Philipsburg
bank were George W. Zeigler, = of
Philipsburg; Woodcock & Woodcock,
of Altoona, and John G. Love, of
bank from disposing of the stock S53Y
Bellefonte. |
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——Clyde Conkiin, who two weeks |
ago was sentenced by Judge Flem- |
ing to imprisonment in the Alle-|
for two to
he took in
robbing the Penzoil gasoline station,
at Philipsburg, is being held in the
Centre county jail until the Febru- |
case against William Cartwright,
now in the county jail awaiting trial
as an accomplice in the robbery. |
: | ANNUAL
A HODGE—PODGE OF
NEWSY INCIDENTS
Items taken from the Watchman issue | They're all in office now—the sev- |
‘en hundred or more men and wom-
‘en selected by the voters of Centre
in Novemebr
county at the election
to serve as county, borough and
township officials. While every man
is an important link in the chain of
home rule, local government by the
people for the people, the one set of
officials who will be looked to to
pear the brunt of whatever of good
or evil may come tu the populace of
the county as a whole during the
ensuing four years is the county of-
ficers. On their shoulders rests the
burden of the economic system of
financial reconstruction that may
lead to a reduction of the tax bur-
den bugaboo; but it is going to be
a hard hill to climb. So many and
varied are the demands on the coun-
ty cash box these days that the
life of a public official is not a bed
of roses. He is damned if he does
anc damned if he doesn’t, and the
man who cen strike a mean average
must keep a stiff upper lip and hew
to the line, let the chips fall where
they may.
Apropos of the induction of the
new county officials, Monday noon,
the outgoing officers had the work
in their various offices right up to
the minute. Every paper had been
executed and filed, every account
entered ani checked and in one of-
fice, at least, an enterprising deputy
took down the pictures and wiped
off the four years accumulation of
Republican dust so the incoming
Democrat would not have to snuff
it up his nose. That, we opine,
was remarkable foresight.
Of course every one of the new
officers will have troubles of his
own so don't go around burdening |
them with yours. One of them,
by the way, received an anonymous
letter, last week, from a correspond-
ent up Bald Eagle valley telling
him what to do and what not todo,
but the writer got mixed up a little
in the matter of officials and mailed | putting down of the well are very
his letter to the wrong man. Of
course it will probably get as much
attention from the man who receiv-
ed it as it would had it been sent
to the right official, as anonymous
communications invariably end up in
the waste basket.
For the first time in a number of
years skirts will not be rustling
around in the office of the County
Commissioners. It will be strictly
a man's office and if the situation
arises when any of the officials feels
like expressing himself emphatical-
ly he can do so without fear of of -
fending feminine sensibilities. The
same rule will apply to the Record-
er's office.
—
As this is probably the first time
just naturally extends sincere con-
gratulations to all of them. Every
one of them is worthy the high
trust which has been imposed upon
them by the voters of Centre coun-
They are all nonest, capable
and trustworthy, and we have enough
confidence and faith in them to
‘believe that the affairs of Centre tivating charms to gain secret in-
county will be handled in a business-
like manner during the next four
years and with an eye single to the
interests of the individual as well as
the public at large.
In taking the oath of office as a
councilman from the North ward,
Monday evening, John S. Walker be-
_| gins his twenty-first year as a mem-
ber of that official body. And his
re-election” as president of council
marks the start of his nineteenth
| year as the presiding officer, a rec-
ord never before attained by any
man in the history of Bellefonte. To
‘the credit of Mr. Walker it can be G
said that he makes a most efficient
and capable president. He never
burg bank claimed they had given | 108es his poise and his just and Triumph
equable rulings have frequently re-
sulted in tempering the situation
when members of council displayed
a little more belligerency than neces-
. That he will be equally suc-
cessful as a guiding hand during the
next four years is not to be ques-
tioned.
COUNTY THRESHERMEN
TO MEET JANUARY 16.
The annual meeting of Centre
county threshermen and farmers
protective association will meet in
the court house, Saturday Jan. 16th,
at 10 A. M. A representative of
the State organization will be pres-
ent.
The right of tractor engines,
autos and trucks on the highway
will be considered.
Delegates will be appointed toat-
tend the state convention in Harris-
burg, January 20th.
STORE ROBBERS TAKE
MONEY, SHOES AND EGGS
Robbers broke into the store of
Frank L. Wetzler, in Milesburg,
Sunday night, by prying open the
front door. So far as Mr. Wetzler
could ascertain the only things tak-
en were five dollars in cash, two
pair of shoes and a bucket of eggs.
The fact that eggs and shoes were
taken would indicate that the rob-
bery was a local job, as no man
from a distance would feel like ped-
dling around a bucket of eggs.
CLEARANCE SALE | AFRAID HE'D LOSE JOB
IN ALTOONA STORES. MUNSON MAN KILLS SELF.
January is always a time when Fearful that he might lose his job
stores make an effort to clear from as a telegraph operator with the
their stocks broken lines and re- New York Central Railroad com-
mainders left from the busy holiday pany, Simon Rader, 46 years old, of
selling. Munson, went to the begroom of his
In line with that policy, stores home, Sunday afternoon, and shot
connected with the Altoona Booster himself through the head with a .32
Association are going to have a caliber revolver, dying instantly. He
community clearance sale, starting had been “bumped” out of his job
Wednesday, January 13, announce- two weeks ago but it was said that
ment of which is made elsewhere in he had been ordered to report for
this issue. duty on Tuesday morning as a care-
There are so many lines of goods taker. He had been in the employ
handled by the Altoona Booster of the company for twenty-three
Stores that a clearance sale featur- years. He leaves a wife and nine-
ed by this group always offers op- year-old daughter. Burial was made
portunities for buying merchandise at Drifting on Wednesday morning.
of all kinds at attractive prices, re-
ductions being made in order to ~The well baby clinic will be
make a quick clearance. held this (Friday) afternoon, at 3
There will be opportunities offered o'clock, in Petrikin hall, and every
for securing personal needs, as well Friday hereafter, as usual.
as new furnishings for the home,
and while the reductions will apply HOWARD.
largely to odd lots and remainders
of lines, style and quality will be just phe Alice er By Zlilagel
as dependable and desirable aS ho, home here. %
though there were complete assort- Eugene Pletcher, of Philadelphia
ments from which to choose.
As noted, the clearance sale will Spent Severn) das Yim lis mother,
start on Wednesday, January 13, Miss Mae Orr, of Philadelphia
which will also be Suburban day and spent the holidays with her parents,
will continue throughout Wednesday, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Orr. :
Thursday, Friday and Saturday. J. C. Weirick, of Abington, spent
several days, last week, with his
GAS STRIKE AT HOWARD mother, Mrs. Jennie Weirick.
- Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dingler, of
ONLY A WINDY GAS STORY. Jersey Shore, were Sunday A
Mr. and Mrs. Girard Altenderfer.
On Wolneslty SoTming ory i. Philip Nei, who ip stiseding
| - school at Harrisburg, spent the
fonte that a big gas strike had been Christmas vacation paren
made the day previous at the well ‘Mr. and Mrs. C. un With bie is,
now being drilled in the mountains
north of Howard, but an investiga. Nou ha yh Ysited Syer
tion disclosed the fact that the story 'Pfaeffe, at West Chester, and Miss
was only one of windy gas. | Mary Rodgers, at Mexico.
The fact of the matter is that no The members of the Howard Com-
drilling has been done in the well munity Health Service met at the
for a week or ten days. The tools home of the president, Mrs. Ruth
are fast in a rock crevice and the | Wolfe, on Tuesday afternoon.
drillers have not yet been able to Mr. and Mrs. James Kane are
|get them loose. Both the drillers Spending several weeks with their
and the men who are financing the daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Jason Snyder and family, at
York.
Mr. and Mrs. Kline R. Wolf and
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| secretive about the work. They
' give out no information of any kind, famil tS th Re
‘not even in regard to how dee amily spent Sunday wi v. and
reg Pp the Je ’L. R. Husler, at West Milton.
| well has been drilled up to this time.
| But one thing is known, and that [JaMmes Wot is 2 2 USE, the Week
|is that there is gas there, the only
question is how much. At present Mis Virginia Bennison entertain-
oy oncugh of it to ignite apd|SL 8, number of friends at 8 New
| show a good-sized flame when | Year's party, on Friday night, at
a
lighted match is held over the to the hoiiw oF her parents, Me. wd
oF he well. And P Mrs. Robert Bennison. Those pres-
ell. nd the men who are ent were Myrtle Johnson, Nelle Wy-
financially responsible for the well land, Kathryn Cummings and Nan-
|being put down have an abundance CY Yearick, of State College, Clif-
lof confidence as to the success of ford Swope and Mac Bennison.
their undertaking. ‘They have not Miss Alma Pletcher entertained
| asked for any financial assistance the members of the Keystone Bible
(from anyone. In fact have declin- class of the M. E. church, at her
led to sell stock in the enterprise. home Wednesday evening. The
| members present were Mrs. Edyth
{ elitists — Ekdahl, Mrs. Fred Pletcher, Mrs.
“MATA HARI” BRINGS Sylvs Be Mrs. W. C. Thomp-
GARBO TO , son, Mrs. e Lauth, of Lock
CATRAUM “Miss Alma Pletcher and
Mrs. Willard McDowell. The fol-
comes to the Cathaum theatre, State 1OWing officers were elected for the
coming year: Teacher, Mrs. W. C.
| College, next Monday and Tuesday in a0 teache:
| “Mata Hari,” the picture that is be- ed oN (Saistan ay Mra.
|ing hailed as her greatest screen Thompson; secretary, Miss Alma
| triumph. The star of “Susan Le- Pletcher; treasurer, Mrs. Edyth
nox” has her greatest role as Mata Ekdahl.
‘Hari, Europe's most fascinating
woman spy who used all of her cap-
(Received too late for last week.)
Miss Esther Schenck, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, spent the holidays at her
home here.
Edwin R. Robb, of Philadelphia, is
visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
! formation for her country.
| The supporting cast is brilliant,
‘including Ramon Novarro, long a
‘star in his own right; Lionel Barry-
more, among the greatest of char- t wilhur Hall.
‘acter actors; and Lewis Stone, al- Mrs. Marion Pletcher and mother,
ways a smooth, polished actor. Yet ae, Tr mene spent last Friday
‘even in such company, Greta Garbo |
stands out in brilliant relief. | Miss Josephine Muffley, of New
| * ‘Paltz, N. Y., spent the holidays with
i = ‘her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. MM,
| IN BELLEFONTE CHURCHES, Muffley.
— | Mrs. Robert Bennison and daugh-
| ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH. | ters, Mrs. Joseph Diehl and Miss
9:30 A. M., church school. | Virginia Bennison, and Miss Cath-
10:45 A. M., The service and ser. 'erine Cummings, were Lock Haven
‘mon: “Simon-Peter; Transformed by | shoppers recently.
race.” Prof. and Mrs. Eugene Robb, of
7:30 P. M., Vesper service and! Bedford; Mrs. Clara Hicks and Mrs.
sermon: “The Christian Way of Cora Robb, of Altoona, called at the
Over Evil.” ‘home of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Me-
Clarence E. Arnold, Pastor. Dowell, last Monday.
| Christmas day guests at the home
|of Mrs. Clara .Butler were Mr. and
Mrs. Dean Bennett and daughter
| Kathleen, of Mill Hall; Mr. and Mrs.
Sermon Samuel Williams and Mrs. Corl
{DY Mice Palmer. oti | Swanson, of Renovo.
| :30, Christian eavor. . and Mrs. W
| 7:30, Evangelistic service. Sermon | tammy," of ES alter er sof
| by Miss Palmer, | Weber, of Somerset; Miss Lauretta
A. Ward Campbell, Pastor. weber, of Clearfield, and John Web.
a er, who is attending West Chester
PILGRIM HOLINESS CHURCH | Normal school, spent Christmas and
District Superintendent Rev. Wm. the week-end at their home here.
will preach at Highland, A special Christmas program was
| Satu evening, January 9, 8t|gu., at Sunday school at the M. E
17:30; at Beech Creek Sunday moOrn- |... Sunda December 20th
ling Jan. 10, at 10:30; at Coleville yo, Sora sale istmat
| Sunday evening Jan. 10 at 7:30. ‘were given by W. C. Thompson anc
| METHODIST CHURCH. 'C. M. Muffley. A short entertain
| ment on the “Life of Jesus” was
Ea Sean
eague, 6.30, with pertinent di | different departments of the school
sion under Prepare) tear, Popular | == "
young peoples mee . Worship— LEG VERTISEMENTS
110.45, preachment on supreme sub-{ AL AD TiS
TOCKHOLDERS' NG—The an
ject at 7.30, evangelistic service;
Good music. Mid-week, Wednesday, OC meeting of the stockholders o'
Whiterock Quarries will be held a!
7.30, forum, devotion, prayer, praise.
Intermediate and Junior leagues, the offices of the Company in Bellefonte
6.30. Protracted meeting, Jan. 24 Pa., on Monday, January 25, 1982, at ter
’ . o'clock a. m., for the election of direc
Feb. 7, with B. V. Galbraith and | tors for the ensuing year and to transac
daughter Miss Katherine V., in sa- wach Auer ustuess 3 . properly
song rograms and 0 .
ey Er hghod Dr. C. S. -2-3t RAY C. NOLL. Secretar)
‘to calls for his services. All wel-
i
EVANGELICAL CHURCH
| 9:15, Sunday school, Wm. M. Os-
man, Supt.
10:30, Morning worship.
|
| H. Joppy
Saturday
: DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.—
| Let:
come at this church, where stetinge ters of sdmbsstertion, having bes o
| ers and commercial travelers delight | granted to the unders ghed upoh
| estate of E. Miller, late of Belle
to worship. quale of Mary deceased, all
, person!
knowing themselves indebted to said es
tate are requested to make prompt pay
ment, and those having claims agains
the same must present them, duly au
Horace Lincoln Jacobs, Minister.
Revival meeting will start at Cole-
ville on Sunday evening and contin- | {henticated, for settlement.
ue through to January 24. Rev. MAURICE MILLER, Administrator
Robert H. Heckart will be in charge. |76-49-6t Bellefonte, Pa
|