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FEBRUARY 19, 1932. |
PA.
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ARE WE BUILDING ON SAND? |
Itisnot the desire nor the intention of the Watchman to question |
the motives of those who hope to restore the business of the country
through legislative enactment. It admits little faith in the efficacy
of the methods they would employ, however.
Since itis impossible for anyone to foresee what the future holds, |
piling up prodigious debts in order to keep the wheels of industry
turning at a time when there is no demand for what they may pro-
duce seems to be little else than pyramiding our difficulties. To say
the least, it is not a sound structure on which to base hope of a
permanent business revival.
It is a plan that bids fair to operate just as the Hawley-Smoot
tariff bill has since its passage in 1930. This Act made eight hun-
dred and ninety increases in rates that affected two thirds of our
dutiable imports under the Fordney-McCumber bill of 1922. The
latter imposed enormous tariff burdens upon consumers and restrict-
ed imports even of articles that did not enter into serious competi-
tion with American products. After its passage imports fell off
steadily and with their decrease there was a corresponding falling off
in our exports. Without stopping to consider the effect of our
economic relations abroad upon our business conditions at home
Congress sought to stimulate business and passed the Hawley-Smoot
bill.
No sooner was it done than economists all over the country pro-
claimed that it would ruin American industry. The truth of these
statements became evident almost at once and last month our exports
reached the lowest figure that has been recorded in eighteen years.
Foreign countries being unable to ship any of their products here
were unable to buy anything from us and as there was no outlet for
our surplus manufactures business here threatened to come to a
stand-still. To avert such a calamity American bankers began
lending enormous sums of money abroad, the condition being that
the loans should be used to buy American made goods.
The result was far from satisfactory, however, because the bor-
rowing countries spent the money and since their own goods were
barred by the Hawley-Smoot tariff they had no way to repay the
loans. Billions of American dollars are locked up in Europe and
South America for no other reason than that our great financiers
thought that a national economic crisis was only a transient business
disorder.
The country has paid an awful price for that blunder. And
with that in mind one is justified in looking with alarm on the pre-
sent riot of mortgaging it’s future for present needs.
UNFORTUNATE.
The fight in the Democratic party in Pennsylvania is most de-
plorable, coming as it does at the time when harmony all along the,
line is the thing most needed, if we are to be successful in the fall.
Always, however, there are those who put selfish, personal am- |
bitions ahead of the broad principles for which political parties con-
tend.
It seems to us that thete was no reason for that meeting spon-
sored by Mr. Joseph Guffey, in Harrisburg, last Friday, other than
to snatch from the regularly constituted organization of our party
in the Stat. any littie glory that might come to it if we should elect
a President in the fall.
So far as we have heard neither National Committeeman Kistler
nor State Chairman Collins has spoken a word for or against any of
our many possible nominees. Yet the Harrisburg meeting would
have the State believe that they are out to “stop Roosevelt.” Itis.
true they did suggest that the Pennsylvania delegation go to Chicago |
uninstructed. The Republicans of Pennsylvania, notwithstanding |
they have only one candidate, are going to their convention unin- |
structed. The Democrats of New York, Governor Roosevelt's own
State, are going uninstructed.
In neither case is lack of binding
obligation evidence that Pennsylvania Republicans will oppose Hoov- if you furnish me with a forge and | because
er's renomination or that the New York delegation will fight the
nomination of Governor Roosevelt. |
Had Vance McCormick, Mitch Palmer, Jim Blakeslie—he who |
smoked a cigarette and thought (?) and John McSparran, been there |
with Jimmie Magee, the editor of the Perry county Democrat, and |
Warren VanDyke and E. B. Zimmerman the meeting couldn't have
been more of a replica of what happened in 1912. :
They were the gentlemen who then “re-organized” our party
when they sensed the election of Democratic President and the |
possibility of jobs. And the same reason motivated the meeting
that Mr. Guffey engineered last Friday. He wants to make Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt believe, in the event he is nominated and elected, |
that he controls the Democracy of Pennsylvania.
That's all there is to the turmoil in our party in the State.
It's unfortunate, but it can’t be helped as long as there are
Democrats who think more of themselves than they do of Democ-
|
racy. :
—Congress has passed the so called “lame duck” bill and since
the changes in it are only minor the Senate will likely concur, so
that an improbable veto is the only thing that stands in the way of
its progress toward abolishing the short session of Congress and
changing the date of the inauguration of future Presidents. It
will require a constitutional amendment, however, before it can be-
come operative. If it is not approved by three-fourths of the for-
ty-eight States within seven years it will automatically become in-
operative. If it meets such approval future sessions of Congress
will convene on January 4, and the President will be inaugurated on
January 24. As the custom now is a Congressman elected last No-
vember will not take his seat until the session that will convene next
December. This feature of the present law has made it possible for
Congressmen who havebeen defeated for re-election to represent
their Districts for a full year after their repudiation. Such Congress- 3
men have been dubbed “lame ducks,” hence the name given to the
bill that would end them.
—President Hoover has appointed Benjamin N. Cardozo, Jew
and Democrat, to a seat on the Supreme court of the United States.
Judge Cordozo owes his opportunity of a chance to the much de-
famed Tammany organization of the Metropolis. He is recognized
as without a peer in concept of law in the United States and he is
the second of his race to occupy a seat on the bench of the govern-
ment’s highest tribunal.
—The United States and England have joined in another “vig-
orous protest” to Japan. Always, it seems, a boy is being sent to
| Jacksonville.
try slopes gently down
Spruce Creek, Hun
do a man’s work.
Florida. i
St. Petersburg, Fla, 2-1-32
| Dear Folks at Home:
“We had a delightful trip, 1390
miles from my house to this apart-
ment. The first night we stayed
in Gettysburg, the second in Rich-
mond, the third in Fayettesville, N.
C., the fourth in Waterboro, S. C,,
and the next night, Saturday, in
We then drove to St.
Augustine and spent the day sight-
seeing; saw many interesting and
| historical places. Savannah, Georgia,
I think was the prettiest place
| through which we passed--wonder-
i ful
| flowers everywhere. Arrived in Lake
homes, beautiful streets and
Wales on Monday afternoon and
stayed with Miss McCauley until
Wednesday. She drove us around
the country about there and a lovely |
country it is. The orange, grape-
fruit and tangerine groves are at
their height and we have been thor-
oughly enjoying them. While there
we went out to the Bok or Singing
Tower and never saw anything quite
so beautiful. Itis built of white, pink
and grey variegated Georgia marble
and a native buff or yellow stone
and such wonderful shrubbery and
flowers everywhere. It stands on
the top of a small hill and the coun-
from all
sides; so that it is lovely beyond de-
scription. The carillions are beauti-
ful and the carillionneur, Mr. Anton
Brees, a Belgian who has taken out
his first naturalization papers, lives
at the Seminole Inn, where we stay-
ed with Miss McCauley.
I wish you could see the abun-
dance of fruit down here! We pur-
chase both grapefruit and oranges
for twenty-five cents a half bushel;
fresh green peas are five cents a
pound and all green groceries and
staple groceries cost in proportion.
There are many apartments for rent
at very reasonable figures.
The loveliest roads down here you
have ever seen. So smooth and for
so many, many miles, it's a great
pleasure to travel on them. We revel
in the sunshine and it is warm
enough to go without coats. We
were out to the beaches yesterday
where there were many in swim-
ming and we expect to go soon.
Wish our friends could be with us
for am sure they would all enjoy
it”
HELENE A. WILLIAMS
Miss Williams and her aunt, Mrs.
Mary Williams, of Beech Creek, left,
Bellefonte on January 17 to motor,
to Florida where they will spend the
rest of the winter, having taken an
apartment at St. Petersburg. The
Miss McCauley referred to in the let-
ter above is Miss Anna McCauley,
who was the Red Cross nurse here
several years ago.—Editor's Note.
Frank Nelson Bids for Position as
Street Commissioner
Bellefonte, Pa., Jan. 7, 1932
The Town Council of Bellefonte: :
Gentlemen: |
I hereby make application for the
position of Street Commissioner of
Bellefonte Borough. :
I agree to do the necessary work
of the Borough that would come
under my jurisdiction and also do
the blacksmithing for the Borough!
place to do it. i
I offer to render this service for
$100.00 per month.
Now gentlemen, please let this
have your strict attention.
Respectfull
Y FRANK NELSON |
P.S.—8ix hundred dollars and!
about fifty dollars worth of black- |
smithing would be a saving to the |
taxpayers. :
A SPLENDID CANDIDATE
YEARS AGO
IN CENTRE COUNTY.
—Tuesday was election day and
it was an exceedingly wet and dis-
agreeable one. John Powers was
re-elected burgess, over John Sour-
beck, by a mojority of 210, Robert
McKnight won out in his fight for
in the North ward, L. O
—The ball of the Undine fire
company on the night of the 7th
was a success. Prior to that night
the boys were somewhat afraid that
there would not be ladies enough,
at the recent revivals, they said,
but the event proved that either the
girls had not all
else a lot of them who had had gone
to the ball anyway.
—At the election last Tuesday
Mrs. John P. Harris, Democrat, came
within 36 votes of beating her hus-
band, John P. Harris, Republican,
for school director in the North
ward. The normal Republican ma-
jority there is about 100 and while
Mr. Harris was acting very nervous
about the polls all day his good
wife sat serenely at home. No tell-
ing what might have happened had
she been out electioneering like he
was.
—At a very interesting spelling
bee held in the Harrisonville school
house a few evenings ago master
George Hile, a lad of eleven years,
spelled everybody down and among
them were quite a few teachers and
other expert spellers.
—Quite a number of mechanics
from Pleasant Gap have gone to
Cresson to work on the big summer
resort hotel that is being built there.
Married. February 16th, at the
home of Mr. Joseph Marshall, Buf-
falo Run, at one o'clock, p. m., by the
Rev. W. O. Wrigat,' Mr. D. H.
Shivery and Miss Mary Etta Mar-
shall, all of Buffalo Run, Centre
County, Pa. There were about
forty guests present.
—Wheat is 1.25, corn .75,
00, potatoes 1.25, eggs .25,
.35, ham .12 and bacon .10.
~During the absence of Maj. R.
H. Forster in Washington, D. C,, J.
Rees Van Ormer will act as local
editor of the Centre Democrat.
—The proprietor of the Lock
Haven “Republican” is threatening
to start an evening daily to be call-
ed the “Express.”
-—~County Treasurer D. C. Keller
oats
butter
‘moved to Bellefonte from Centre
Hall last week and he and his fam-
{ily are now ensconced in the Baney '
‘house, on north Allegheny
| —Editor's Note.—The Baney house
street.
stood where the house now occupied
by Horatio S. Moore stands.
~The Philipsburg “Journal” has
been enlarged to eight columns to
the page and last week installeda
new Campbell power press.
—Mrs. Dorman, of Nittany valley,
was badly injured a few nights ago.
She was in attendance at a concert
and while the crowd was assembling
two boys engaged in a foot race.
One of them ran into her, knocking
her down with such force as to in-
jure her seriously. In fact she has
been confined to bed ever since and
is not getting better fast.
—John J. Lejeal, piano tuner,
will be here to see his customers
about March 1st.
Because of unhappiness at home
a man named Whitney, of Penn Hall,
tried to commit suicide on Wednes-
day of last week. He shot him-
gelf both in the forehead and inthe
chest. He was still living on Sat-
urday but doesn't want to get well,
he says he will only do it
The tragedy occurred at a
small store midway between Penn
Hall and Spring Mills. He rode
to the spot with William Krape and
told him what he was going to do,
but Mr. Krape
the statement and drove on onl
be shocked by the reports ofa p
before he had gotten one hundred
yards away.
-—-—Notwithstanding that attend-
‘ance at chapel at State College is goods.
“the girls had all got religion”
“got religion” or
put no credence in
to
DEATHS.
HALE.—Mrs. Sophia A. Hale, for
many years one of the bést known
A HODGE—PODGGE OF
NEWSY INCIDENTS.
| During 1931 exactly 191 Centre
| countians were patients at the Geis-
!inger hospital, Danville.
‘was represented with 9 patients,
| Bellefonte 55, Blanchard 1, Boals-
'burg 1, Centre Hall 6, Coburn 4,
‘Curtin 1, Fleming 2, Madisonburg 2, _ She was a daughter of Richard and
| Millheim 16, Nittany 1, Orviston 3, M8ry Ann Atherton and was born
| Philipsburg 2, Pleasant Gap 2, Re-
lege 66, Woodward 4 and 4 whose 92 Years and 8 days. In 1860 she
post office address was not given. Married Elias W. Hale who passed
From the above it will be seen that 2Way in 1881. Two children were
State College led in the number of the result of this union, James P.
patients but Bellefonte, with a hos- Fitle and Mrs. Snow, both of Youngs-
pital of its own, was a close second. |!°Wn Ohio. Mrs. Hale made her
home at “Halehurst,” Philipsburg,
And speaking of hospitals, the until fourteen years ago when she
Centre County hospital has been disposed of the home and went to
made beneficiary of bequests, during Youngstown to make her home with
the past year, of $7,300, with a pos- her daughter.
sibility of more in the final settle- _ She was a daughter of Richard and
ment of several estates. As plan- Episcopal church, of Philipsburg,
ned by the board of managers all 2d a woman of most pleasing per-
bequests received will be placed in Sonality. The remains were taken
an endowment fund and where spe- © Philipsburg where funeral serv-
cific uses are provided for the in- ices were held in the Episcopal
come, it will be so applied, but church, last Saturday afternoon, by
where the bequest is general and to Rev. Franklin T. Eastment, burial
be used at the discretion of the Peing made in the Philipsburg cem-
board of managers it will be car- tery.
ried as a general endowment with
the hope that some day, through
gifts and bequests, the fund will be
large enough so that the income
therefrom will make it possible to
it 1]
PEACE.—John W. Peace died at
his home at Milesburg, last Friday
morning, following a lingering ill-
ness with diseases incident to his
forego the annual drives fo ,|advanced age. He was born at
8 n ¥ support Curtin 83 years ago, at a time when
Of
ccurse this will be some yearsin it was the location of ome of the
the future and must not be regard- !
ed as an excuse to withhold contri- Pusiest iron manufacturing plants in
butions when the hospital drive is the county. The result was when
put on this spring. he grew to manhood he learned the
trade of a puddler and worked in
Next Tuesday the entire country the rolling mill at that place until
will celebrate the 200dth anniversary it Was dismantled. Of late years
of George Washington, and yet, as ‘he had lived in Milesburg.
a matter of fact, it isn't the real He is survived by his wife and
anniversary of his birth. George seven children, Mrs. Lyman Heaton,
was born on February 11, 1732, put °f Palmer; Mrs. Theodore Boone, of
at the time of the revision of the East Liverpool, Ohio; Mrs. Lee
calendar in 1752, when the Julian Smith, of Altoona; Mrs. Etta Gear-
calendar was adopted, ten days were hart, of Baltimore; Mrs. Roy L. Hall,
suppressed and leap year accounted of Milesburg; William Peace, of
for another day which shoved Bellefonte, and Lester, of Lock Hav-
George's anniversary ahead eleven en. A sister, Mrs. Sarah Simcox,
days, or on February 22nd, and that of Woolrich, was a nurse in the
is the day we now celebrate. Civil war, and another sister lives
in Williamsport.
Though it might be a little late Funeral services were held at his
we just now happened to recall the ate home, at two o'clock on Sun-
fact that when Sheriff Dunlap went 9aY afternoon, by Rev. M. C. Piper,
out of office he left Sheriff Boob a Purial being made in the Treziyulny
‘whole jail full of prisoners but he ¢emetery.
didn’ I I
n't leave him any of that stuff) oon Wh, 5.00: 5 Eder
he kept under lock and key in the fe of Samuel Y. Elder, died at her
cellar. And he didn’t take any of |
it with him, either. All the stuff home at Millbrook, College township,
was taken out and dumped, late in °0 Wednesday moruiig of dusk week,
' December, on order of court. There 2° the result of heart trouble.
was one time during Mr. Dunlap's She was a daughter of Simon and
term as sheriff that he had stored Mary Baird and was born on April
in his cellar nineteen 50-gallon bar- | 18th, 1864, at her death being 67
i 9 months and 22 days old.
rels of illicit whiskey, and while so Y*&™ ©
far as we know no official examina- [She is survived by her husband and
four children, Mrs. Ralph Walker
tion or test was made of it, it was
reported to have been a fairly good 2nd Mrs. R. R. Rossman, of State
College, R. F. D.; Miss Sadie and
‘brand, but it was all dumped where
it would do the least harm. George, at home. She had been a
‘member of the Lutheran church at
According to the calendar Sunday Pine Grove Mills’ for many years.
was Valentine day and we've got a Funeral services were held at her
Chinese coin with a square hole in late home, at 10 o'clock Saturday
the centre which we will pay for morning, by Rev. Grubb, of Juniata
information as to the sender of one burial being made in the new ceme-
‘we received. It is a libel on our tery at Pie Grove pr
looks and poetically untruthful asto
our tastes and inclinations. ot GEIS Atiss Elsie Geiss died at
course the handwriting was dis- the Woman's hospital, Philadelphia,
'guised but we incline to the belief last Friday night, following several
that the sender was a woman, and year's illness with heart trouble.
we have our suspicions as to her She was a daughter of David and
‘identity. ‘Sarah Geiss and was born at Centre
ren Hall about 64 years ago. She lived
A bit of news that escaped us last ;¢ Centre Hall until going to Phila-
week had to do with a big explosion | gelphia twenty-one years ago. Her
on south Thomas street. An ex- g,ryiyors include her father, who is
office holder over there was feeding ' go years old, one brother and a sis-
his chickens “Lay or Bust.” The ..°', wagner Geiss, of Bellefonte,
rooster ate some of it—and he and Mrs. Virginia Miller, of Phila-
| couldn’t lay. | delphia. The remains were taken to
Centre Hall, on Monday, where fu-
ejal-autvi Soy iwieti Tui 1 BY Bay $
‘court house, last Saturday morning, F. Greenhoe, assisted by Rev. W. J.
‘and the offerings consisted of fresh Wagner, burial being made in the
beef and pork, chickens, eggs, ap- | Centre Hall cemetery.
| ples, dried corn and a few canned | SCHENCK. cl 1e8 'F.
There has been only One| “yoo. township, died at the
Three market wagons were back-
'ed up at the curb in front ‘of ithe;
FOR THE SUPERIOR COURT not compulsory on Sunday an aver- Saturday during the winter, so far , o. po wo yoepital, Saturday night,
Robert A. Henderson, Democratic
tingdon y
Pennsylvania, November 2, 1870. He
was reared on a farm and received
education in the pub-
a brilliant legal scholarship that has
ripened and matured as the years
Aside from his interest in the law,
Mr. Henderson: hes slways Man Ge
tics. To re party and its princi-
haa slways Given o 3isatifast
foe he
unwavering tion Forty. Dem:
clared
. | margin
| age of more than seven hundred as the writer recalls, that there was
students attend the morning service.
Of course only ministers and divin-
ity school heads who are outstand-
ing in their calling are invited to
officiate at these services.
ocratic party has brought him a de- |
recognition as one of its lead-
ers of State wide prominence and
prestige.
In 1921 he was nominated by the
Democratic party for the office of
President Judge of Blair county and
was jed in that contest by the
one
of everyone when
counted after days of disputed com-
putation, Judge Baldridge was de-
the winner by the narrow
of 242 votes.
Ey os Sogtis aL
y as a
n, acting in this
its most recent conven-
tion in Houston, Texas, in 1628. At
the prescat time he is chairman of
the tic committee in Blair
county.
The party's choice of Mr. Hender-
son as its nominee for the office of
Judge of the Superior Court is one
that meets with the unanimous ap-
proval of Democrats throughout the
State. Friends and admirers every-
where, regardless of political affilia-
tions have been profuse in their
wishes of success and in the expres-
sion of their opinion that a minority
interest as substantial as that repre-
sented by the Democratic party in
Pennsylvania should be recognized
by his election.
of |
mo curb market, a most unusual roo. {°F Weed Jouning, pe Tl a
jou. a | sustained in a fall from a tree which
A little boy passed away at the | he bad been trimming two weeks
| Centre County hospital last week. previous. He was a son of Michael
| During the few days he was so and Susan Schenck and was 70
| critically ill in that institution a years, 6 months and 6 days old. His
young nurse was especially kind and | wife died several years ago and his
| attentive to his every want and need, | only survivor is one brother, A. A.
but her faithful ministrations could | Schenck, of Howard. Funeral serv-
not save the child's life. Several ices were held on Tuesday evening
‘days after the little body had been and on Wednesday the remains were
| laid away in it's final resting place taken to Philadelphia for burial.
the father of the child appeared at
the home of the nurse's mother with
load of coal which he presented to
of her daughter.
| A certain Bellefonte woman has
‘been serving on the grand jury this
week and it has been a novel experi-
ence for her, as she never before
had been inside the court house to
| hear or observe court proceedings | tibule. While she suffered no brok-
of any kind; and when she reads | en bones the right side of her face
this item it will probably be her was badly bruised and she was al-
| first intimation of how near she
| came to being appointed forewoman
of the jury.
vived sufficiently in a few minutes
to leave the postoffice unaided and
disappeared without disclosing her
identity.
———Councilman Thomas Beaver is
wondering what will happen to the
big trout when the Street commit-
——Betty Spicer, five-year-old
tee of the borough council lays that
proposed sewer down Spring creek.
Why should Tem worry now? The
big trout might all be dead by the
time the committee secures permis-
sion from the State to lay the sew-
ar, y
a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Spicer, of Pleasant Gap, suffered a
fracture of the left arm, near the
shoulder, Saturday evening, when
she was hit and knocked down by a
hit and run driver. Her condition,
however, is not serious.