1855 ' atclyuws, 1932
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BELLEFONTE, PA.
29, 1932.
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A DANGER TO BE AVOIDED.
So far as the Watchman is concerned it advocates the nomina-
tion of no one of the many possible candidates who might be called 'now enjoying I should think I ought
by the Democratic party to be its standard bearer in the coming
presidential campaign.
As Clinton W- Gilbert said in his “Daily Mirror of Washing-
ton,” published in the Philadelphia Public Ledger recently, our party
has a plethora of outstanding men who measure up to standards of
fitness seldom found available for leadership at a time when a candi-
date for President is to be chosen.
entially contrasted the richness of the Democratic party in that re-
spect with the poverty of his own.
With Roosevelt, Baker, Ritchie, Smith, Young, Traylor, Gar-
ner and Buckley, all to draw from, certainly there will be no dearth
of presidential timber when our party's national convention as-
sembles in Chicago in June.
The Democrats have a chance to elect a President.
will improve or diminish, directly in proportion to the squabbles set
up by advocates of the many excellent men who are available as its |
No one can foresee what might happen during the
next five months. Today it looks as if Governor Roosevelt, of New
York, is the man of the hour. Tomorrow the temper of the coun-
try might change. Those who know their politics will remember
how suddenly the Republicans dropped Gen. Wood and nominated
Harding. Also they will recall that after Champ Clark had muster-
ed an actual majority in our convention at Baltimore he was shelved
because judgment, at the moment of choice, decided that Woodrow
Wilson had the better chance of winning what the party, after all,
should be most concerned about: An opportunity to give the coun-
try government under Democratic principles.
The Watchman hopes that Pennsylvania will select delegates at
large and from its congressional districts who are committed to none
of the avowed or possible candidates for President. This hope is
inspired wholly because its interest in the success of Democracy is
above the ambition of any individual.
Pennsylvania Democrats can render their party a signal service
if they send unfettered men and women to Chicago; delegates wha
have the acumen to discern what candidate, in June, embodies the
elements most necessary to success. Men and women of sound
judgment free to step in and prevent a recurrence of what happen-
ed in our National Convention in 1920 and 1924.
It should be remembered that we are only to
It is for the convention to nominate a candidate.
standard bearer.
select delegates.
A GREAT PARTY IS MAKING GOOD.
The way the new Democratic Congress has stepped on the
and sent governmental machinery in Washington into high gear
fairly startled the country. €
ing to deaf ears for a chance to show what they could do. Given
it, they have done more than the most optomistic hoped for. And
they have done it at the sacrifice of the greatest opportunity any
party has ever had to take partisan advantage of its opposition.
President Hoover's administration could have been left to go
down in history as the most utterly incapable one the country has
ever known. In the face of a national calamity a great party has
elected to do for him what his own would not. Well might the
Democratic leaders in Congress do to President Hoover what the
Lodges and the Moseses of the Senate did to President Wilson, but
they have the broader vision that duty to their country comes be-
fore partisan party advantage.
It may be that their coming to the rescue of the President is
too late to save the country from the results of his own party's in-
eptitude during the first three years of his administration. In any
event they have inspired public confidence in Democracy’s sincerity
to a point where it will probably be given control of the Senate next
fall.
It will not require much of a change to accomplish that desir-
able end. At present there are forty-seven Democrats in that body.
Two more would give the party a working majority of two. In
the fall elections thirty-three senatorial seats will be filled. Eighteen
at present filled by Republicans and fifteen by Democrats. Most
of the Democratic seats are from southern States that are sure to
keep their political complexion as they are now, while many of the
Republican vacancies to be are in States where recent elections indi-
cate that Democrats have more than a fighting chance.
Even if there were not the unmistakable trend toward Democracy
that is everywhere evident the broad minded manner
new Democratic Congress has set it
legislation would have inspired such a trend:
gas
has
DISCOVERING THE PINCHOTS.
The Pennsylvania Threshermen and the Pennsylvania Sports
men’s League are the upper and nether mill stones that are just now
grinding the Pipchots exceeding fine. The
thought the Governor was a new Moses come to Pennsylvania to
lead the farmers of the State out of the wilderness. At their ban-
quet in 1930, he launched his second campaign for Governor and at
a later one was conceived in ecstasy the “get-the-farmers-out-of-the
mud” plan that is now being born in pain all over the State.
The Threshermen met at Harrisburg again last week. Having
no more flap doddle for the gudgeons the Governor was conspicuous
by his absence and the Threshermen came out of the hypnotic
“spell” he had held them under. Came out with a vengeance.
Unanimously, they passed a resolution condemning his administration
as “one of gross extravagance and devoid of accomplishment.”
In Pittsburgh, Saturday night, five hundred sportsmen met to
lambaste the Governor for putting personal politics into the Game
Commission and permitting his wife to hire and fire in furtherance
of her ambition to represent the Fifteenth Pennsylvania District in
Congress.
They produced documentary evidence to prove that the Gover-
nor thinks he has the right to use a department supported entirely by
the licenses paid by the hunters and fishermen of Pennsylvania to
chastise anyone “who actively opposes” him “politically.” Letters
from the Governor's personal secretary, McCallum revealed that
game protectors, refuge keepers and others are being dismissed for
no other reason than that their dismissal is “a special request of Mrs.
Pinchot and should be taken care of immediately.”
Never has such high handed assumption of power and such
peanut politics been played in Pennsylvania as has been the rule
since the Pinchots came into the political life of the State.
The awakening is coming, however. The Pennsylvania Thresh-
ermen and the Sportsmen's League have started the State to wonder-
ment as to whether all is gold that glitters.
t that the lisher be | the
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In all such cases
In the same article he infer-/
The chance |
For years Democrats have been plead-
Threshermen once
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the widest latitude in invective when the
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| tributions will
contributor may desire.—ED.
Eighty-five and Going Strong.
Atlantic City, N. J. Jan. 12, 1932.
: Democratic Watchman:
| I celebrated my 85th Christmas in
| Atlantic City. I was just two
months and thirteen days old when
'I celebrated my first one on my
mother's lap in Bellefonte in 1847.
If I continue in the health I am
|
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to be good for a few more Christ-
mas celebrations. At least I can
| truthfully say that I am very much
| stronger now than I was when lying
on my mother’s lap eighty-five years
Love to all
JAMES I. McCLURE
We are sure that all of his many
| friends will join us in the hope that
Mr. McClure will be spared to rival
that other remarkable Bellefonte
boy, T. B. Hamilton, who at the age
of ninety-four, started off alone for
New York city last week.
| Not a Bad Idea, at That.
| ——
New York City, Jan. 18, 1932.
The Bellefonte Watchman,
Bellefonte, Penna.
Dear Sir:—
Apropos your comment ina recent
Watchman as to Mills Bros. receiv-
ling a salary four times that of the
| President. Possibly it might be
| worth to the country, four times his
| present salary, if we could persuade
‘him to jump his present contract
‘and join the Columbia network.
| Not, however, that I would like to
{listen to his song, but still and all
|it might be worth that to the coun-
| try at large.
| Yours truly
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{ C. A. YARRINGTON
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| CANTWELL ADVANCES IN
| OHIO HIGHWAY DEPT.
| The following from an Ashland,
| Ohio, paper concerns a young man
lin whose success many Bellefonte
!friends are interested. Mr. Cant-
well is a son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs.
‘John Mignot, of east High street,
having married their only daughter,
the former Miss Margaret Mignot.
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FIFTY YEARS AGO
IN CENTRE COUNTY.
Items taken from the Watchman sue |
of February 3, 1882.
—Landlord McMillan, of the
Brockerhoff house, upset his mother-
lin-law while out sleighing on Wed-
have |
nay Lave nesday. Some fellows
give the public |
pert of n3 editor. Con- |
signed or initialed, as
might be!
mean enough to insinuate that he
‘did it on purpose.
| —Governor Curtin, our distinguish-
‘ed representative at W is
afflicted with a big carbuncle
on the back of his neck.
—One of the pleasantest events of
the season at Snydertown was the
marriage ceremony there, on Jan-
uary 25, by which Mr. Beck and
Miss Maggie Lutz were made man
and wife. The boys of the neigh-
borhood improved the occasion to
give the happy couple a rousing ser-
enade.
—For several months Lewis Zim-
merman has been prospecting for
iron ore on the farm of Shuman
Zimmerman in Walker township.
Thus far he has sunk eight shafts
and in every one has found good
deposits of the metal, the veins
running from three to twenty-feet
thick.
—At the concert in the Evangel-
ical church in Hublersburg, last Sat-
urday night, a little daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Aiken, of this
place, brought down the house with
her rendition of the “Bird Song.”
— There is splendid sleighing
this section now.
—The Centre county jail now holds
nine inmates and none of them are
in for long terms.
in
| —And still the Methodist revival
ninth or tenth week.
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| E. G. Cantwell, 203 Ferrell ave-/
| nue, assistant engineer in charge of
| bridges of No. 3 state highway di-
| vision, was named as assistant di-
vision engineer by Ivan R. Ault,
new division engineer of Division 3.
Cantwell fills the vacancy created
‘by Ault's promotion this week to
| the position of division snginegs:
| Ault was named earlier in the w
|to replace T. S. Brindle, appointed
| state director of public works by
| State Highway Director O. W. Mer-
rell. Cantwell assumed his new
duties today.
| No immediate successor will be
named for Cantwell, Ault stated.
|The State's winter relief bridge-
{building program of which Cantwell
|was in charge of activities in this
! division, is now well under way and
| will not require an engineer in charge
of bridges for the time being, the
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division states.
! A native of Bellefontaine, Logan
(county, Cantwell was graduated
from Notre Dame University in 1824.
He then became associated with the
| Pennsylvania state highway depart-
I ment, remaining there until 1927.
{Cantwell came to Division No. 3 of
the Ohio department in 1927 as as-
| sistant engineer, remaining here until
11929 when he became assistant en-
'gineer in the Akron Mgtway de-
partment. In April of 1931 he
| turned here as assistant engineer in
charge of bridges.
| IMPORTANT NOTICE ,
TO INCOME TAXPAYERS
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in which the, For the convenience of those who Bellefonte and DuBois.
self to the task of constructive are required by law to file federal! talked said
income tax returns, Toner A. Hugg,
|a deputy collector of internal reve-
{nue, will be at
| Philipsburg, February 26th, Mo-
shannon Bank A
Bellefonte, March 5, 14 and 15,
court house.
Milesburg, Febuary 27, revenue of-
fice.
State College, March 7, post office
building.
to assist taxpayers in preparing
their returns. No charge will be
made. for this service.
The matter of filing your income
tax return should be given imme-
diate attention in order to avoid
penalty and interest.
Form 1040A should be used if the
income is derived chiefly from sala-
ries and wages, and does not &xceed
| $5,000.
Form 1040 should be used for net
income of more than $5,000 or net
incomes regardless of amount if de-
(rived from a profession or business,
including farming, or frbm rents or
sales of property.
Your return for the calendar year
1931 should be filed not later than
March 15, 1982, with the collector of
internal revenue for the district in
which you reside or have your prin-
cipal place of business.
A penalty of not more than $10,-
000, or imprisonment for not more
than one year, or both, and in ad-
dition 25 per cent of the amount of
tax, is imposed by the statute for
willful failure to make return on
time.
‘near Spring Mills.
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‘nel of the abandoned canal through cash box. Looking over the
a place.
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| straw, commonly known asa “snake
This is the
It is truly
wonderful. Never in our recollection
has there been such an outpouring of
Spat upon any church in this sec-
on.
—While loading hogs to take to
Spring Mills Josiah, eighteen year
old son of Henry Zeigler, of Pleas-
ant Gap, was quite seriously injured
when his team started suddenly
and threw him from the wagon.
—The Republican county commit-
tee met in Hastings’ law office here
on Tuesday and selected delegates to
in Bellefonte goes on.
the Republican State convention, to
‘be held in Harrisburg in May. Col.
James P. Coburn, Col, James Milli-
ken and John B. Linn Esq. were
chosen. They were unanimously in-
structed to support General Beaver
for Governor.
--Mrs. Sarah Waltz died at her
home in Harrisonville, near Pleasant
Gap, last Friday at the age of 78.
She was the widow of John Waltz,
who died about ten years ago, and
had fought in the war of 1812 under
' Gen. Scott. She was the mother of |
twelve children. The Waltz family
came to Centre county from New
York State in 1822 and settled first
—The Milesburg Odd Fellows are!
erecting a new hall over the chan-
as a grand juror at court last
Thursday Ezra Fisher, who lives
near Snow Shoe Intersection, slip-|
ped on some ice and fell heavily to
something and he has been so dazed
since that he can remember nothing
about the accident.
Deitz, hostler at the
Pleasant Gap hotel, is suffering with |
a peculiar affliction. A piece of rye
bone,” ran into the palm of his
hand recently and infection devel-
oped so rapidly that it is feared
last week, unthinkingly,
'the people of the town were aroused by any means, for a man who does
A HODGE—PODGE OF DEPUTY SHERIFF HOY
NEWSY INCIDENTS. | WAS A BUSY MAN DURING
Don't take a friend out for an| PAST Four :
automobile ride late at night and Traveled 86,956 Miles on Official
fail to bring him back until the Business or Almost Three and a
next morning, if you don't relishthe Half Times Around the World.
limelight of sensational public ex- —
citement. A Bellefonte man did it! The position of deputy sheriff in
and half Centre county is not an easy berth,
from their slumbers shortly after the work thoroughly, as evidenced
| four o'clock in the morning to hunt by a summary of the activities of
‘for @ man who wus believed to have Sinie H. Hoy, deputy under Sheriff
wandered away and fallen down and Harry E. Dunlap during the past
hurt himself so he couldn't return, four years.
or committed suicide, or been ab-' In that period he served a total
ducted for a pay check he is said of 965 writs and citations, 190 in
to have received severai days prev- 1928 211 in 1929, 264 in 1930 and
ious, or murdered, or just vanished 300 in 1931.
inexplicably. Of course the man was | [evies made aggregated 497, which
not murdered or a suicide. He simply included 91 in 1928, 176 in 1929,
acompanied a friend on a drive to 3100 in 1930 and 130 in 1831.
Fishing creek and both spent the , 414) of 263 sheriff's sales were
night in camp there, entirely uncon- .,50q 57 in 1928, 69 in 1929, 74 in
scious of the turmoil in town until jga0 ang 63 in 1931. :
they returned home about 9.30 of the sales posted, however, only
o'clock the next morning. 192 were held, 44 in 1928, 53 in 1929,
48 in 1930 and 47 in 1931.
G. R. Spigelmyer has as a relica, A total of 351 warrants were
copy of the Farmers’ Almanac, pub- served and arrests made, which in-
lished in Lancaster in 1830. which cluded 120 in 1928, 92 in 1929, 77in
makes it 102 years old. It was 1930 and 62 in 1931.
the fifth volume of the almanac, Subpoenas in divorce served ag-
which has been published continu-
ously ever since, and is now in its
107th volume. Many farmers through-
out the State place great depend-
ence in the farm lore published in
the almanac, planting and harvest-
ing their crops according to it's dic-
tates and probably picking potate
bugs when the little book says they
are ripe for picking.
Major Lynn G. Adams, superin-
tendent of the State police, says
that fighting crime in Pennsylvania |
costs $20,000,000 annually and he
offers as a remedy an increase in
the State police force. We've got
a better remedy than that. Change
the laws so there will be no induce-
ment for petty officials to farm their
jobs. During the past year or so
the Watchman has repeatedly called
attention to the mounting of court
costs in Centre county. By this
we do not mean costs connected
with the trial of legitmate cases or
those connected with court officials,
but there is one law which we firm-
{ly believe is sadly abused, and that
is the one entitling justices of the
| peace
‘on most any kind of a complaint,
and after hearing the testimony |
to issue warrants for arrest
“discharge the defendant and place
the costs upon the county.” The
case is then returned to the clerk of
court, entered upon the quarter ses-
sions docket and the 'Squire, the
constable and all the petty officers
collect their fees from the county
quarter
returned by justices of the peace for
costs. Such costs in the 49 cases
amount to $724.20, or an average
yet until the date for the February
docket. From this it can be seen
‘that upwards of $3000 are paid out pring in a bootlegger.
every year as costs in cases
re- Year
amputation will be necessary to never should have been brought,
{save his life. ‘even before a justice of the peace.
| —Francis Hugeney, of n | —
‘township, Clearfield county, and al Next Tuesday will be February
veteran of the First Napoleonic wars, 2nd and naturally gro day.
| died last Thursday, at the age of 93. According to gro won Bw
He was a Grenadier and served in undhog ]
| the: campaign in Germany and Spain, |PTOPRelS the pesky little critter hasn't
y ‘been holed up all winter so there will
‘He came to America in 1832, arriv-
ing in Bellefonte on July 2 of that Dé DO use of watching for him to
and worked at the iron works come out of his hole and look for his
‘at Hecla furnace for three years. (shadow next Tuesday.
| —The old Franklin hotel, at Miles- and a week of the official winter sea-
‘burg, so long kept by sheriff T. M. son has passed, and inasmuch as we
Hall, is being converted into dwel- have had no real winter yet it can
lings. ‘hardly be expected that we'll go
—Last Sunday telephone commu- | through the next six weeks as easily.
nication was established Detwebn | But the days are growing longer
they could hear every
{ 1 1 whatever of winter we do get will
IT spokes NY wes eat the not be so long-drawn-out as if it
—Much excitement in Bellefonte 28d started when the almanac said
on Wednesday when it was reported it should.
that there was a case of small pox —
(in the Gordon house on Penn street, Our young friend, John M. Flem-
' between Derstine’s and Jacobs’. In- | ing, the alpha and omega of the re-
| vestigation proved it false. Mrs. portorial staff of the Philipsburg
Gordon is seriously ill with consump- journal, was in Lewisburg, last
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‘tion and had had another hemor- ohnson
Fhage, Which probable started the |: elping federal Jugge Johnsen
distorted story.
re ty Apes
-——There is still one Bellefonte chuck his job long enough to make
team of athletes who can bring back | the trip. So he had his name put
the bacon from Altoona. On Sat-|inthe district court jury wheel, but
urday night the Belefonte Hi-Y club when the first drawing was made it
went to that city and defeated the came out for Lewisburg, which is
Altoona Hi-Y players by the score of just as far from Scranton as Phil-
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only twice this season and both concerned.
times it has been Bellefonte that has |
turned the trick. In the last game
Yur boys: datenss gs so Lent that
their opponents couldn't break
| The large house on the old Eman-
through for a single basket.
'uel Musser farm, near Millbrook, in
College township, was completely de-
——On the desk before us lies a
{branch from a plum tree that is
a ie a |
22 to 11. Altoona has been beaten |ipsburg so far as John's desires are
growing in the garden at the Belle-
fonte borough home. It was brok-
en from the tree on Wednesday and
the blossoms on it are almost com-
pletely out.
MARRIAGE LICENSES,
Willis C. Duck, of Pleasant Gap,
and Sara M. McClellan, of Lewis-
town.
G. Richard Slack and Hazel Em-
ma Vonada, both of Spring Mills. }
stroyed by fire, with all its contents,
about two o'clock on Monday morn-
ing. The house was occupied by Lu-
ther Kline and family and so rapidly
did the flames spread that Mr. and
Mrs. Kline had barely time to get
their three children out safely, hence
were unable to save anything. The
State College fire company respond-
ed to a call for help but were handi-
capped by a lack of water. Mr.
Kline carried some insurance, but
not enough te cover his loss.
gregated 102, 27 in 1928, 22 in 1929,
32 in 1930 and 21 in 1931.
The number of prisoners taken
out of the county was 89, 14 in
1928, 24 in 1929, 23 in 1930 and 28
in 1931. :
The number of prisoners brought
into the county was 39, 8 in 1928,
14 in 1929, 11 in 1930 and 6 in 1931.
The total of miles traveled includ-
ed 20,729 in 1928, 22,480 in 1929, 20,-
(497 in 1930 and 23,268 in 1931, or
{a grand total of 86,956.
| While the work kept Mr. Hoy
| pretty busy most of the time he
avers that he enjoyed it and consid-
ers his term one of the most con-
genial four year periods of his life.
The work, of course, has it's un-
pleasant features, especially when it
came to selling a man out of house
and home by sheriff's sale, but he
always gave the man every possible
chance to effect a settlement of the
claims against him before the sale
(was held. This is proven by the
fact that while 263 sales were post-
{ed only 192 were actually held. In
one case a man had advertised his
farm stock and machinery for pub-
{lic sale before a sheriff's levy was
{made. When the legal papers were
{served he declared he would call off
(his pubic sale and let the Sheriff
(get what he could out of his prop-
erty. Mr. Hoy finally persuaded
{him not to do so, but to give him
a legal attachment on the proceeds
{of the sale to the amount of his
| claims and costs and go ahead with:
{the public sale which would undoubt-
i |edly bring in better returns than a
Hh doit ak 3 ahah sessions docket for the February |gnarifr
~—While oh his way here to act term of court we noticed that | E sie.
date there are exactly 161 entries. |
so and the result was that the pro-
ceeds of his public sale not only’
paid all his outstanding obligations
but left him a little over three thou-
|
His head struck on lack of evidence and county pay the gang dollars to the good.
| Of course a Sheriff always has
varied and peculiar experiences in
(of $14.78 a case. As it is a month | yayking arrests, serving summonses
‘and making levies, and Mr. Hoy had’
court it is quite certain a number pis share of them, but always came
‘more of such cases will appearonthe out 5 winner in the end. During
|the past year he was sent out to
He found
t his man at home and engaged in.
{work he couldn't very well afford to
leave. So he asked if there wasn't
‘some way he could fix things with-
|out going to jail. The Sheriff told
‘him he could give a bond. He did.
so and after the papers were exe-,
|cuted offered the sheriff a drink of
. moonshine, home brew or anything
he wanted. ~The Sheriff finally ac-
cepted’ sarsaparilla.
One 2 It was no unusual thing for both
a man and his wife to hide when
{the Sheriff would go to a place to
make a levy, instructing the chil.
(dren to say they were not at home.
But they were invariably found some
place in the house. On at least
(one occasion the Sheriff had reason
| to believe that a woman held a gun
| behind her when she confronted him
but she made no effert to use it.
Mr. Hoy's work as deputy sheriff
was principally with the civil busi-
{ness of the office while Sheriff Dun-
lap, himself, looked after the bulk
of the criminal or quarter sessions
stuff, and the fact that many more
cases have appeared on the docket
during the past four years than in
any former sheriff's term is evidence
that he was also a busy man.
METHODISTS START
REVIVAL MEETINGS
The wonderful evangelistic serv-
ices that have been attracting crowds
to the Evangelical church in this
place for several weeks are drawing
to a close and the Methodist people
are taking up the work of continu-
ing the effort to bring about a com-
munity spiritual awakening.
The Methodist meetings started on
Sunday and will be continued as long
as there is interest enough mani-
fested to justify holding them. “The
Galbraiths,” father and daughter,
are in charge of the music and have
succeeded in making that part of the
service exceedingly arousing. On
Monday night Dr. Geo. S. Womer, of
Philipsburg, was the preacher and
conducted the altar service with
such an appeal that three penitents
went forward.
Services will be held every eve-
ning, except Saturday, through next
| week and all are urged to attend.