The r that P. Gi Meek ediied and published for fifty-seven years and Bow published by his Estee at the Watchman Printing House, Bellefonte, Pa. Editors. CHARLES L. GATES GEORGE R. MEEK MARY GRAY Items tsken from the Watchman issue | of March 17, 1882. —The county auditors have com- | pleted their work and according: to their the Sheriff will be "Published weekly, every Friday morne Nom. To communications Surcharged with §1,612.90 and the ae a Belle- published ‘accompanied by the rea County Commissioners with $405.67. fonte, Pa., as second class matter, name of the writer. ' Both amounts represent fees col- In ordering of address always give the old as as the new address. It is important that the publisher be notified when a subscriber wishes the paper discontinued. In all the subscription must be paid up date of cancellation, MARCH 11, 1932 ea aL. IE a rat] further wotice at the f rates: Paid strictly in advance - - $1.50 Juid betore on of year - L175 d after expiration of year - 2.00 of the “Watchman will cost to applicants. A sam; to be sent Pe ony BELLEFONTE, PA. A DEMOCRATIC SENATOR, A POSSIBILITY, opened With a Pinchot ticket in the field to contest the slate propos- «ld by the Republican State organization it is not as foolish States Senator from Pennsylvania is a possibility. Those best informed do not think for a minute that the Gov- ernor has injected Gen. Senator Davis ‘has announced that he will run as a wet. Mr. Pin- chot isn't so fanatical about the dry cause as that. He has other objectives and advocacy of the dry cause is, as it has ever been! with him, only a means to an end. However that will be the issue in the primary contest. Without it the Governor can not hope to! rally the rural vote to his ticket. If he should lose in the primary he will practically be compelled to advocate an independent ticket in the general election. In fact he can scarcely do anything else without losing the chief source of his personal strength in Penn- sylvania-———those who regard him as the apostie of prohibition. A prohibition ticket in the fall election would split the Re- publican strength, especially if the Governor were to do, as he has invariably done, force the army of State employees to get behind the candidates he advocates. That strength, added to the known large prohibition vote in Pennsylvania, would cut the Davis vote to the point where a Democrat might slip through. The friends of Senator David Reed are none too well satisfied with the prospect of Senator Davis being re-elected. know that with the plan of having both Senators from Allegheny county. As Senator Reed hopes to succeed himself and very powerful business interests in the State are desirous that he shall, Senator Davis can scarcely expect very zealous support from that source. When these elements of weakness in the opposition are con- sidered, together with the restless temper of the electorate as evi- | denced by recent elections all over the country, it is not merely a wish that is father to the thought that there is a chance to elect a Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania in November. If such a desirable end should be attained it would be the first time this State has been represented by a Democrat in the upper house of Congress since William A. Wallace was elected in 1875. A GREAT ENGINEER, BUT? The attitude of the Republican party toward President Hoover can be explained only by resort to the same philosophy used by the fellow who had the bear by the tail. It can't let go. Doubtless the President is a very able man, but the three years of his administration of the affairs of the nation show nothing to indicate that his ability is along the line of governmental affairs. Engineering problems are exact science and the rules governing their solution are immutable. Economic, social, financial factors enter into them, if at all, only collaterally. Problems of a Democ-: racy, however, have no hard and fast rules by which they can be solved. Changing times and conditions must be met and administer- ed to by processes unknown yesterday. They require minds not! limited to mere mathematical calculation and because our President does not possess that sort of mentality he has failed. What more evidence need there be of that than the manner which he undertook to minimize the storm that broke eight months after he was inaugurated. When the entire industrial and financial structure of the country cracked over his head he said: “the fund- amental business of the country is on a sound and prosperous basis and there is no reason why it should not be carried on as usual.” When he discovered that it wasn’t being carried on as usual he suggested that the country start lifting itself out of the slough by its own boot straps. show man ever thought of hoodwinking the public with. Eight million unemployed men are walking the streets in the cities of the country today, thousands of banks have closed, billions of American dollars are locked up in foreign countries and our ex- ports in January were one hundred million dollars less than they were in the corresponding month last year. The country might not hold the President solely responsible for such a condition. Certainly it must be disappointed because he has not offered a single suggestion that has proven constructive in relieving it. The Great Engineer has made anything but a great President. He will be re-nominated, however, not because his party wants him re-elected, but because no one else in it would have the temerity to. lead such a forlorn hope. “The Curwensville National bank that closed its doors on November 28, last, hecause of depreciation in the value of its se- curities, reopened for business on Tuesday, March 1st. The reha- bilitation of the institution was due to the sane attitude its creditors took when it closed. Instead of listening to those who would have thrown it into bankruptcy courts to be bled white through legal fees and commissions they at once began to consider plans for conserv- ing what resources it had. National bank examiner R. Gordon Finney went there, made a study of the situation and worked out a program by which the stockholders and creditors could co-oper-| ate to the end that the institution is open and going on a sound foundation, It is, we believe, the first to reopen of the many banks in Pennsylvania that could not weather the deflation of security values brought on by the depression. It is an evidence of the wis- dom of listening to the voice of reason, rather than to the cry oi the rabble in times of stress. When Senator James J. Davis announced that he would run for re-election on a wet platform the Watchman made the state- ment that his stand might pave the way prohibition in Pennsylvania. The entry of Gen. Smedley D. Butler into the senatorial race has brought about just such a possibility. Gen. Butler is dry, and, he says, dry spelled with capital letters. | Between Davis and Butler the Republicans of the State will have an opportunity to settle the question as to just where their party does stand on the most disturbing issue before the American people to-| day. Also, their vote would be a finger board to President Hoover, | $500 who is apparently at the junction of the roads and waiting for signs as to whether the wet or the dry one will lead him to the White! House for a second term. ~The trouble with most of President Hoover's relief plans is that they are designed to help those who really don’t need help and are not comprehensive enough to reach those who do. such cases | Butler into the contest merely because! Well they | castern Pennsylvania is not likely to be long content| That failed, of course, and since then he has suggested more fake panaceas than any old time Indian medicine lected by the officers in question in | excess of what the auditors construe the law as having warranted them in taking. There was much quibble ‘about the Sheriff's having charged twenty-five cents a day for keeping | prisoners in the jail, but we can't 'see how he could have kept them ‘alive on much less than that. —John Proudfoot & Co. have 0 a new and very completely stocked furniture store in the Mec- Clain block, next door tothe Watch- man office. —J. C. Brachbill, of this place, is planning to locate in Curwens- ville where he will open a furniture store. ~-John Dawson's wife presented him with a ten-pound boy baby one night last week. Joan is consequent- ly in high spirits and feels interest- ed in the price of milk. Incidentally this boy is J. C. Daw- sou, now a resident of Philadelphia where he holds an important position with the Reading Railroad Co.- Editor's Note. —Strawberries are selling at $1.25 a box in Pittsburgh. Mrs. Rebecca Sankey, aged 80, of Spring Mills, fell down the stairs in her home, recently, and broke one of her arms. The funeral of the venerable George Durst was held in Centre Hall last Friday. He was 82 years old when he died. I —-George O. Boal is able to be on the streets again after having been confined to his bed for several days with a delightful companion neu- ralgia. Mr. Andrew Mott, who lived in the old French property above Roopsburg, died on Saturday last and was buried in tne Catholic cem- etery here on Monday. He had an unusually large funeral. ~—~Small pox has entirely disap- peared in Unionville. —Miss Ellen Woods left for Phila- delphia, on Tuesday, and expects to make that city her home in the future. Miss Kate Dubree is president, Miss Maggie Cross secretary and Miss Lillian Ickes treasurer, of a new society called “The Cheerful Givers” that has been organized to promote the cause of home and for- eign missions in the Philipsburg | Presbyterian church. —March has produced some very nasty weather, thus far. It has been cold, raw, snowy, windy and mean, generally. ~The Snow Shoe train ran over a horse at the Lamb street cross- as some might think to suggest the thought that a Democratic United ing yesterday noon and mangled it #0 badly that it had to be knocked in the . It belonged to a Mr. Rhone, from Pennsvalley. ~—There are one hundred veterans ‘of the Mexican war still living in Pennsylv if we are to believe the Lock Haven Express, but we don't. There are far more than that number living in the State. There are five or six right here in Centre county that we know and probably a number that we don't. ‘is ‘Maj. R. H. Forster, editor of the Centre Democrat and Capt. Austin | Snyder, both of Bellefonte, and Charley McGarvey, of Unionville, ‘and a number of others who don't come to mind as we write this, The Express is too low in its estimate. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. S. Francis Hall to J. Eugene Hall, ‘tract in Unionville, $1. ‘ Dicen B. Thomas, et al, to E. G. i Wasson, et ux, tract in College !Twp,: $2,000. William Gordon, et ux, to Orvis iV. Scholl, et ux, tract in Boggs | Twp,; $1 Agnes L. Luken to Ruth Luken, tract in Philipsburg; $1. Frank D. Gardner, et ux, to School District of Ferguson Twp. tract in Ferguson Twp,; $2,100. John M. Boob, sheriff, to A. Packer Clar, tract in Liberty Twp,; $120. John M. Boob, sheriff, to Citizens | Building and Loan Asso. tract in | Rush Twp,: $25. i John M. Boob, sheriff, to Federal | Land Bank, of Baltimore, tract in Union Twp,; $300. | William J. Ryan, et al, to Edward W. Midlam, et ux, tract in Burn- (side Twp,; $125. Arthur L. Loesch, et ux, to George | J. Bair, et ux, tract in State Col- lege; $1. | Penn Twp. School vistrict to Ray- | mond Wingard, tract in Penn Twp,; | John Suravits, et ux, to Agnes Shrawits, tract in Snow Shoe Twp,; ' $1. John Suravits, et ux, to Agnes Savi, tract in Snow Shoe Twp,; Caroline McClure Waite, et ~ bar, to Martha B. McClure, tract in | Bellefonte; $1,000. { Alice Naomi Poorman, et bar, to to a sort of referendum on | William H. Seckinger, tract in Fer- | Alcott; | guson Twp,; $700. | Ida Witmer, et al, to Jesse Peru- | ban, tract in Union Twp,; $500. John M. Boob, sheriff, to A. L. | A HODGE-PODGE OF NEWSY INCIDENTS Naturally the big news break of the past ten days was the kidnap- ‘ping of the Lindbergh baby. I chased the Japan-Chinese trouble |as leaders from the front pagesand ‘opened wide the doors for space writers in most every hamlet throughout the country to conjure 'a story on the possibility of the plot having been hatched in their vicinity or the likelihood of the ‘stolen child having been smuggled in- ‘to their neighborhood by swarthy men and a mysteriously beautiful woman in a high powered car. So far there have been no mystery cars in Bellefonte and the nearest connection any resident of the town has had with the tragedy, occurred last Thursday night when four very sedate Belle- | fonters returning from a business trip to Pittsburgh were stopped by State highway patrolmen and their car searched for the missing boy. Several months ago signs vere painted at the various entrances to the court room and on the doors inside so that all who approach may read and profit thereby by not get- ting into the wrong pew. On the door of the small room at the southeast corner of the court room is the sign: “Private. For attorneys and court officers only.” The sign has not been observed to the letter and His Honor, Judge Fleming, has in- structed the clerk of the court to see that it is more rigidly enforced. In other words the court states that the sign means just what it says, and that the room is for the con- venience of attorneys, the clerk of the court and other officers, and not for defendants, plaintiffs or the public at large. In this connection a little story right here will not be out of place. At a recent session of pleas of guity court a man was brought down from the jail who felt con- fident that his criminal record was not known here, ana as he had been arrested on a minor charge by ‘pleading guilty he hoped to get off easy. He was weil dressed and when the sheriff brought him into the court room he attempted to make himself at home by joining the crowd in the a:iorney's room. The sheriff, however, put him in his place by pushing him out of the room and pointing to the bull pen. Now it happened that the chairs had not been dusted for a day or two and the prisoner called a tip- ‘staff and demanded that he wipe the dust off the chair: “Oh, sit down and don't mind a little dust like that, as you'll find a great deal more of it where youre going,” re- plied the tipstaff. And we guess he has, as he was given several years in the penitentiary. : The overseers of the poor of Bellefonte have had their hands full this winter helping to care for those in need and now a new ques- tion is facing them. Some men and families have become so dependent “on the aid given them that - they have lost all incentive to help them- Selves, and with moving time draw- ing near, and changes in residence being imperative because of unpaid rent, the men are putting it up to the overseers to hunt a house for them. Last week a man was walking the - street looking for a job. A local ‘politician offered him five dollars to take one candidate's petition and ‘get it signed up. As the candidate in question has no opposition it would have been an easy matter to have gotten it filled in one day, but the man refused to take the job. It probably was too much like work for him. If there is any one set of men who canlook forward to the coming summer with assurance of a good business in view it is the artificial ice manufacturers. Up to the pres- ent time not a pound of natural ice has been cut and stored in Central Pennsylvania, because at no time has there been any sufficiently thick to cut. The absence of natural ice ought also stabilize the market for electric refrigerators. BOOKS WANTED FOR HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY Many persons have books which are no longer desired as part of the home library. The High school and | grade school libraries of the Belle- | fonte schools, would find many of these a welcome addition. able additions to avaflable reading material have been made this year, {but books donated will add much to library usefulness without ex- pense to the school. selected I All lib; books are | from ly (of the following would be welcome: | “Scaramouche” Sabatini; “The | Sea Hawk,” Sabatini; “Little Men,” “Little Women,” Alcott; | “Shadows on the Rock,” Cather; | “Death Comes to the Archbishop,” | Cather; “Penrod Jashber,” Tarking- ton; “Kim,” Kipling; | Stevenson; * and Sam,” Tar- n; heartbreaking LIST OF JURORS DRAWN Foliowing is the list of jurors | drawn, on Friday, for the session of quarter sessions court to be held the week beginning Monday, April 4th, i Lida Griffith, Hr... Boggs Twp. | Vera Hoffer, Hkr.............Philipsburg | H. J. Fakor, cobbler... Port Matilda | Van D. Meeker, farmer........Penn Twp. | Mrs. Catherine Smith, Hkr...Millheim {| William Kline, laborer.....Benner Twp. | A. M. Harter, lumberman.. Penn Twp. Samuel P. Orndorf, laborer... Miles Twp. Henry Meyer, laborer... Miles Twp. H. E. Ishler, butcher... State College. G. C. Stover, farmer... Haines Twp. C. C. Schnure, laborer... Millheim Robert C. Bulick, farmer.Halfmoon Twp Mahlon Wells, laborer... Philipsburg R. M. Custer, mine Eng. Philipsburg Mrs. Emma Snyder, Hkr,.. Rush Twp Edward Coakley, farmer...Boggs Twp. Mrs. Edna Johnson, Hr... Bellefonte Orlando Brooks, laborer...Spring Twp. James Hurvey, operator..Howard Boro Maude Miller, teacher... Ferguson Twp Paul J. Meyer, clerk. ...........Millheim Albert Carson, laborer... Snow Robert L. Smith, farmer... Potter Twp. Edward Dobson, laborer...Rush Twp. F. W. Waltz, farmer... Ferguson Twp. Geo. Dunkleberger, lab. College Twp. Lester Ruhl, laborer... Miles Twp. R. H. Breon, photog... State College. | W., C. Cassidy, printer... Bellefonte Christ Beezer, farmer... Benner Twp. John Gross, merchant... ..Spring Twp. Lynn McGinley, painter... Bellefonte 8S. E. Ishler, farmer............ Royal Kline, mechanic Boyd Williams, farmer... College Twp. Samuel Everhart, farmer... College Twp. J. D. Brubaker, storeman, State College. = hy . hing, at the 7:30 service, St. John's . Episcopal church, will be the Rev. George Ralston, farmer... Della Flegal, Stenog........ Earl McCloskey, salesman... Bellefonte J. E. Confer, farmer... Union Twp. P. P. Scholl, clerk Ira Benner, farmer........Benner Twp. Rosella Mark, HKr........ Philipsburg H. H. Fye, farmer Burnside Twp. Mrs. Bertha Foster, Hkr. State College. Mrs. Carrie Thomas, HKr.... Bellefonte, BOALSBURG. Mrs. John Kimport is among the sick. Miss Virginia Hess is visiting her sister, Mrs. Paul Coxey, at Indiana. L. Frank Mayes, of Lemont, trans- acted business in town on Saturday. Mrs. Gerald Rishel and baby have returned to their home near Mill- brook. Mrs. Edith Sankey Dale, of State College, was a caller in town on Thursday. Henry Dornsife, of Williamsport, visited his sister, Mrs. Henry Reitz, last week. Frederick Dale has returned to school after an absence of six weeks, due to illness. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Huprich are nding some time among friends in this vicinity. at State College. Thirty-four pu were absent from school, y, of last week, on account of mumps. Misses Mary Reish al ) Now Mil- ler are entertaining r- niece, ‘Miss Luma Reish, ‘of Altoona. Mrs. Ella Gingerich is having the appearance of her residence im- proved with a coat of white paint. Paul Brouse and son Billy, and Miss Blanche Rowe, of Harrisburg, spent the week-end with relatives in town. Miss Emma Eliza Stuart is assist- ing in the local post-office during: the absence of Walker. Henry Dornsife, of Williamsport, was a visitor at the home of his postmaster Leland | BARRYMORES TOGETHER FOR SPECIAL COURT Shoe : William Courter, laborer. Howard Twp. Jumes Halderman, laborer... Spring Twp Ferguson Twp woe. Bellefonte | : ‘field Counties, Mrs. Laura Struble has returned from a month's visit among friends We ' Bond IN NEW CATHAUM FILM | Yenm— John and Lionel Barrymore, fa- special | mous brothers of stage and screen, | play together for the first time in {pictures in “Arsene Lupin,” which comes to the Cathaum theatre, ‘State College, on Monday and Tues- | day, played (not once in the intervening years ‘have their dramatic paths crossed. | Even critics have been unable to ' decide which brother is the better ‘actor and now “Arsene Lupin” gives | the public a chance to make its {own decision. John Barrymore has the title role of the gentlemanly “Raffles” of Paris who robs only | the wealthy, while Lionel is the re- lentless police inspector constantly ‘on his brother's trail. | A special added short subject will 'be the official Washington Bi-cen- | tennial film, “Washington, the Man ‘and The Capitol.” IN BELLEFONTE CHURCHES ST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH 9:30 A. M., Church school. 10:45 A. M., The service and ser- mon: “The Glory of Christ's Pas- sion.” 6:30 P. M., Catechetical instruc- | tion. 7:30 P. M. The vesper service and sermon: “Justification by Faith.” Lenten service Wednesday night . at 7:30 o'clock. Clarence E. Arnold, Pastor. ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL The Guest Preacher Friday eve- Father Squire Schofiel'l, rector of St. James church, Muncy, and chairman of the field department of the dio- cese, of Harrisburg. This will be Father Schofield's first visi: tc the parish. METHODIST EPISCOPAL Church Bible school, (. . Shuey, Supt., 9:30, special event:. League, 6:30, has strong subject, opzned up by a prepared leader: inviting serv- ice for young people. who aitend in large numbers. Worship, 10:45, pert- inent preaching; at 7:30, evangelist- ic period, song service with hymns you like. Come, share this worship. Pastor responds to calls for h's serv- ices. rs and vis.tors welcome to this “House of Helpfulness." Horace Lincoln Jacobs, Pustor. SE ——— A ——————————— -—Get your job work done here. ——— A ——————. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS DEMOCRATIC TICKET FOR CONGRESS We are authorized to announce that Frederick B. Kerr, of 305 south Second St., Clearfield, Pa., is a candidate for nomination for Congress in the Twenty- third Congressional District, of Pennsyl- vania, a poding Dui, Centre and Clear- to the rules gov- erning the Democratic primaries to be held on April 26, 1932, — REPUBLICAN TICKET FOR CONGRESS We are authorized to announce the ‘name of Fl G. Hoenstine, of Holli- unmysburg, air county, Pa., as a candidate for nomination on the Re- publican ticket for from the Twenty-third District composed of | Blair, tre and leld counties, {Subject to the rules governing the Re- Jab ican party at the primary April 26, COUNTY CHAIRMAN ex; Primaries to os on 26, 1932, {DISTRICT DELEGATE TO NATIONAL CONVENTION We are authorized approved lists. Any “Kidnapped,” | Duck, tract in Gregg Twp,; $250. | kingto John M. Boob, sheriff, to John E.| “Swiss Family Robinson,” sister, Mrs. Henry Reitz, on Tues- to that day, of last week. | Chutes r. 1 L Spring Mills. is a Mr. and Mrs. H. T. McGirk and ©" . Messers. Forest and Millard McGirk, “U"fresionsl District to the of Altoona, were visitors in town rules governing the primary to .on Saturday, February 27 neld 26, 1982, Rev. W. J. Wagner has announced | services in the Lutheran church : : Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and } i Friday evenings, preceding Palm ' . Sunday, with communion services ‘on | Ja | 3 A § ‘Palm Sunday at 10:30. i Mrs. Mary Bohn, Mrs. Ethel Baird ahi and Kenneth Baird, of Oak Hall, | - were visitors at the home of Mr.! STATE COLLEGE and Mrs. Samuel Reitz, on Sunday. (Matinee st 1:30. Evenings at 6:00) Mrs. Charles Kuhn has returned === “= rm Mra, Ciara Stover and Men. Sanuej! FTIDAY—~ rs. Clara r & 3. | Ina Claire, Joan Blondel, Kimport, and other friends, in Al : n Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fisher, of “THE GREEKS HAD Danville, visited their son, Charles A WORD FOR THEM” Jr., at Penn State, on Saturday, and |g \pyRDAY— also spent some time with fri Fa Nison in in town. Mr. and Mrs. John Kimport and “AFTER TOMORROW” Mrs. George Fortney attended the a funeral of Mrs. Kimport's sister, MONDAY AND TUESDAY Mrs. Thomas Mallory, at Altoona, Johm and Lionel Barrymore in 08 Thurdy: | “ ARSENE LUPIN” M. and Mrs. George L. Homan and daughters, Marjorie and Jean, ¥ recently a week-end visi! | WEDNESDAY among friends in Sunbury i Chic Sale, Lois Wilson in ! Northumberland. Mrs. Elizabeth Whitekettle and! “Old Man Minnick”) son, of Newport, and Mrs. Richard (Edna Ferber's Goheen and son, of Indiana, visited THURSDAY their parents, Prof. and Mrs. E. H.! Fredric March, Kay Francis in Meyer, and also their grandfather, G IN LOVE William Meyer, who has been quite NITTANY THEATRE ill for several weeks. FRIDAY — a. Mr. and Mrs. EE M. Kuhn and Mrs. Margaret Kuhn drove to Wil- liamsport, Sunday morning, to spend the day with friends. En route home, Sunday evening, they were storm- “THE BROKEN LULLABY” I, Bressler, tract in Ferguson Twp,; John M. Boob, sheriff, to Isaac Holt, et ux, tract in Huston Twp,; $450 Samuel H. Horner, et al, trustee, College; $1. F. W. Frazier, et ux, to Charles A. Miller, tract in Potter Twp.; $1. Charles A, Miller, et ux, to ¥, W. Stickney; “Lad - A Dog,” Terhune. | Willis E. Williams to Samuel H. Horner, et al, trustee, tract in State et ux, tract in Potter Twp.; ‘to Algie M. McClellan, tract in “tate | College; #1. John ¥. Eboch, et ux, to E. O. Stohl, tract in Philipsburg; $1. E. O. Stohl to John F. Eboch, tract in Philipsburg; $1. ‘stayed at the home of Harry Smith, | near Zion, where they remained un- ‘til Tuesday. —Colony or individual hog houses | are easy and inexpensive to build. | They are warmer and more sanitary than most central farrowing houses. If such houses are not available, they can be built during the winter | 80 they will be ready for time, SATURDAY | “THE GREEKS HAD i A WORD FOR THEM" TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY-— A Sparkling French Farce “LE MILLION" (French dialogue but easily followed.) THURSDAY — “THE EXPERT”