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T WITH COMMON SENSE.
the United States has handed down a
decision that invalidates a Texas law which barred negroes from
voting in the Democratic primaries in that State. The Court was
divided on the question; Justice McReynolds, supported by Justices
Van Devanter, Sutherland and Butler filed a dissenting opinion. |
The majority opinion was written by Mr. Justice Cardozo and
was based on the theory of law that since political parties derive
their power from the States “they are then the governmental instru-
ments whereby parties are organized and regulated.” |
Such an argument may have sound basis in the law, but it
seems rather far fetched to predicate it on presumptive violation of
the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution. The Texas
Democrats certainly have the right to establish the qualifications of
those who may vote in their party's primary. If such rights are not
inherent in a party organization of what value can it be?
There was no attempt in this act to deprive the negro of any of
the rights vouchsafed to the citizens of the United States by the
Fourteenth Amendment, nor could it be construed as violation of
the Fifteenth, which holds that the right of citizens to vote “shall
not be denied or abridged.”
The primary and the election are susceptible of very different
interpretations when it comes to the application of the fundamental
law to them. The framers of the Constitution had in mind only
elections when that instrument was written and, in 1869, when the
Fifteenth Amendment was submitted for ratification by the States,
primaries were unknown.
The common sense view of political parties places them in ex-
actly the same relation to the governmental structure as fraternal |
organizations are to the social order or the various church denomi-
nations are to the spiritual development of the country. Each has
the right to prescribe the qualifications of its members, but none
can deny ineligibles the right to organize themselves. Just so with
the primary. While political parties might deny membership to cer-
tain citizens such an act in no wise deprives them of the right of
franchise, for that is guaranteed and at the election everyone who
has qualified under the law can vote.
It is true that some of the southern States have made qualifica- |
tions such as to defranchise the great mass of the negro vote. That
is purely a local problem, and has no bearing on this question, be-
cause it is applicable to elections and not primaries.
Notwithstanding the five to four determination of the question
by the country’s highest tribunal the reasonable lay mind will come
to the conclusion that in this decision the law is at decided variance
with the common sense idea that there is “a general right of polit-
ical parties to prescribe qualifications for membership.”
The Supreme Court of
DEFLATING THE DOLLAR.
Congress has passed a bill to deflate the dollar. The purchasing
power of our unit of value is now $1.60 and in order to bring it |
back io where it was between 1921 and 1929 it is to be shorn of
its premium.
To the public this juggling will be as intelligible as the Einstein
theory or the potential energy recoverable through the recent split-
ting of the atom. To the average possessor a dollar is a dollar. He
or she doesn’t stop to think that the yardstick of value is really a
very flexible unit. There are many ways in which its variation might
be illustrated. One that comes to mind and will be easily understood
by most of the Watchman's readers is this. Nearly two years ago Mr.
A. bought one hundred bushels of oats from Mr. B. At that time
the grain was selling for sixty cents a bushel. Mr. A. was paying
for a radio and some electrical devices on the installment plan. All
of his monthly milk check was consumed in saving the chattel mort-
gage on those purchases from being foreclosed. As a result he plead
for indulgence of Mr. B. until the latter met up with the effects of
deflation and demanded his pay. Mr. A. offered to return the oats
in kind/ but oats at thirty cents a bushel is not worth as much as’
oats were at sixty cents and in accepting such a proposition Mr. B.
would be taking fifty cents on the dollar for his bill,
To some a return in kind should be regarded as fair, but they
havent thought of the injustice such a settlement would work on
Mr. B. When he sold his oats at sixty cents he was paying for every-
thing he had to buy on the basis of that price level for his grain.
At one-sixty the dollar might have had a fictitious value, but
deflating it by legislation is only another fake panacea. Because it
will take more cheap dollars to pay bills contracted when dollars
were dear.
——Two young Cambridge physicists are
discovered a method for splitting the :
very remarkable one, since science, generally, believed it would |
never be accomplished. In fact some very eminent men have advanc- |
ed the theory that when the atom was finally split some unknown |
disturbance would be set up that would cause the destruction of the
world. It the Cambridge students really did do what is claimed for
them the fears of their more timorous co-workers have not been |
realized for the world is still going around on her axis and there
has been no climatic abnormality. So little is known of the atom |
that breaking it up was more or less a work prompted by curiosity, |
and as it is reported that more energy was expended in doing it!
than vas released hope of a new source of power through such al
process has not been encouraged by the results of the experiment,
———
reported as having
atom. The achievement is a
COUNTY CHILDREN’S AID
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
I wish to extend my appreciation _ The annual meeting of the Chil-
to the many friends Ye Ea dren's Aid Society of Centre county
in Bellefonte and Centre county for Was held in the W. C. T, U. room,
their many kindnesses as expressed | in Petrikin hall, Bellefonte, last
in the recent primary. Monday. After completing the rou-
I appealed to the rank and file of tine business the following officers
the Republican party for their sup- | Were elected to serve for the year
1932-33. President, Mrs. M H.
DO al SRY yield 10 theie Brouse; vice president, Mrs. J. R.
Bartlett; corresponding secretary,
I had promised a fair and clean Mrs. S. M. Shallcross; recording sec-
campaign, free from any so called
retary, Mrs. D. E, Washburn; treas-
“mud-slinging” and I have kept the |, or “Migg Daise Keichline; auditor,
promise.
Mrs. Roy Wilkinson.
I congratulate the winner and ——————
shall work for a Republican victory ———All beds, springs, mattresses
in November, and pillows at reduced prices
Sincerely yours, “National Invest in Rest Week,” at
EUGENE H. LEDERER | Brachbill's furniture store. 19-1t
Maj, LEDERER THANKS
FRIENDS FOR SUPPORT
—
The official count of the vote cast |
at the primaries, on Tuesday of last |
week, was made by Commissioner's | vention in
Clerk Boyd Vonada and Miss Virginia | 38%, our townsman,
Healy, and most every candidate on
the Democratic ticket showed a
ficial count, is as follows:
For President:
Lawrence H Rupp -. 1185
State Treasurer
L. B. Shannon ween 153
Auditor General
Wilson CG, Sarig .............._: 1484
Jud of Supreme Court:
ward C, Higbes ........... 1531
Judge of Superior Court
Robert A. Henderson ...._____ 1514
Douglas .... 1291 |
James J, :
Henry C. Niles ..
Robert Gilmore
Guy K. Bard .
Warren Van Dyke
Michael Donohoe
John R. Collins
Samuel E. Shull _
Lewis C. Cassidy
John F, Short
Roland 8. Morris
Sedgwick Kistler
John J.
Mary H. Doran
Anne Ewing Cort
Isabelie F. Crosby __
Emily W. Roosevelt
B Meek oii
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les Alvin ea
Arthur B. Clark __
Mary A. Mackin
Clara S. Philips
Marion C. Stone
Winston
Lucy D.
Kathryn M. Strine
Helen Sutton
Ingrid
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Frederick B. Kerr
Representative in
vert J. Miller
A.
Bernard J. Clark ..
Edward J, Thompson .... —
Dist. Alt. to National Con :
Katherine C, Henderson Hos:
Helen C. Shaeffer ..
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Dr. Frank K. White ‘tee
County Chairman:
John J. Bower ...
Charles E. Freeman ..
County Viee-Chai man:
Mrs, Eben B, San seivmainpionn
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For t:
Joseph Irwin France -
Herbert Hoover
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Jud of Supreme Court:
Iliam B. Linn sesrsrsrrernsissmsesssnsssnenes $008
Jud of Superior Court:
illiam M. Parker
EAWard Harts ... or... Convention:
Marion Margery Scranton a
William 8. Vare ... 2115
David B. Reed ...
Jay Cooke .......
Bward C. Shannon ...
Robert Gray Taylor
John J. McClure
~ 165 }ister, of Martha Fu
of May 12, 1882,
Republican State Con- |
Harrisburg, last Wednes-
Gen. James A.
—At the
the asking, but when the time came |
for the departure of the train there
were only fourteen persons to occupy
the two extra cars.
—The Bellefonte car works will
be offered at public auction on the
17th inst. Mr. Tiffin, the manager,
will act as auctioneer.
—Rain, rain, rain. It does seem
that the heavens have resolved
themselves into a shower-bath, Fol-
lowing the heavy snow of last Sat-
urday morning there has been inces-
sant rain.
—Because the recent loss of his
arm has incapacitated him for any
697 other railroad work William Reasner
has been made night watchman at
the passenger and freight station
here.
—Mr. Edwin Tyson, of his place,
has opened a butchering establish-
ment in Philipsburg, in connection
with John Clinedents. The latter has
already moved his household goods
to that thriving burg.
The corner stone for the new
Lutheran church at Zion will be laid
on Sunday, May 21.
—The new hotel at Spring Mills,
will be opened on the evening of the
18th inst, with George B. Nash, as
manager.
—Under the new plan for number-
ing the houses of Bellefonte number |
1 will begin at High street and run
consecutively both north and south.
Allegheny will be the east and west
starting street,
~ Thirty-five homes in Houtzdale
dre quarantined for smallpox. There
have been five or six deaths thus
far and conditions are becoming
rather alarming over there.
—Dr, Harshbarger, a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania, has
located in Port Matilda, where he
expects to practice his profession, as
well as open a drug store.
—Rev. Ague, of Port Matilda, was |
awakened from his slumbers last
Saturday night by loud and persist- |
ent rapping on his front door. When |
he went to investigate the cause of |
the commotion he found a young |
lady and a young genleman stand-
‘ing on his porch. Tk2y were shiver-
ing with cold. To his
look they replied: “We came to get
married” The good man was.
pretty mad at being aroused from
questioning
his slumbers, but not too mad to be
accommodating. He invited the cou-
ple in, tied the nuptial knot and Miss
Kate Gingery and Wharton M, Cron-
happy man and wife.
Incidentally the groom of fifty
, years ago was none other than the
popular former sheriff of Centre
| county who is now living in Altoona.
—(Editor's Note.)
—The Rev. Pennypacker stood up
in the Methodist church, last Sunday,
| and said that the Watchman's state-
ment to the effect that many of
| Bellefonte’ best people attended the
798 Bacheller and Doris circus, that ex-
hibited here last Monday a week,
was an “infamous lie.” We saw
members of all Bellefonte churches
there and they were reputed good
people long before Rev. Pennypack-
er came into the community to judge
them, The mildew of natural inanity
‘or the dry rot of a feeble intellect
is generally announced from the
pulpit in tirades against the stage |
2985 and the circus, It is usually the last
3157 | device of a minister who realizes
3031 that he has made a mistake in his
Dist. Del. to National
Convention:
David Kaufman ... row
Bond C. White .......
County Vice-Chairman:
Benge Ar MOB en irrenen renee 4180
NEW GREEK RESTAURANT
IN HEVERLY BUILDING
TO OPEN ABOUT MAY 18.
Some decided changes are being |
made in the J. O. Heverly block, on |
the northeast corner of the Diamond.
| Walter Cohen har closed or wip |
furniture annex there and Cameron
deverly has moved his sporting
goods and auto accessories store
from the large rocm, on the corner,
into the smaller room vacated by |
Cohen, The corner room is now
being divided into two rooms, the
larger of which has been leased by
a Mr. Poppas, of Lock Haven, who |
has already purchased the restau- |
rant conducted by Mrs. Levica Mar- |
tin, in one of the basement rooms
of the building, and will move it
into the first floor room on the
corner. It is understood that Mrs. |
Martin will continue in charge.
i
blinds in the windows of the
(age when the parade was
' through the streets. He called that
pageant
in Gen. Assembl |
| Lye gu Sen. Awemtlys
| Caskey will be replaced by Lieuten- |
| year, Col. Venable is expected to re- |
{offer beds, springs,
calling.
Rev. Pennypacker drew all the
parson- |
passing
“the devil and his flying
banners.” Unwritten history has it
that the Reverend was the slickest
horse trader ever in this community
and some stories even go so far as
to give the impression that he was
, the early day David Harum.—(Edi-
tor's Note.
Having completed a four-year |
3125 detail with the Penn State military
department, Colonel Walter B. Mec- |
ant Colonel Russel V. Venable at |
the close of the present academic!
port at Pennsylvania State College
as professor of military science and! vy only about half an inch of its hostess,
.| The George P, Brown family, Mr.
be relieved from duty with the |
organized reserves at Grand Rapids, |
Michigan. He is a graduate of the |
United States military academy at
West Point and of the command and |
general staff school of the army,
National “Invest in Rest” Week.—
Over a thousand furniture dealers
mattresses
and pillows at reduced prices during
“National Invest in Rest Week.” We!
are including in this sale the na-
tionally advertised lines of Rome Co.,
Simmons & Foster.—W. R. Brach- |
bill's Furniture store, 19-1t |
S———————————————
—Penn State's new $500,000 |
dairy building will be dedicated |
August 25 and 26. It is planned to.
A HODGE-PODGE OF
NEWSY. INCIDENTS
Junk—the world is full of it. Tray-
eling along most any highway in the
State one can see junkyard after
junkyard
Junk that at
in
to it with a resolve
get rid of it,” but as the sorting
process proceeds she hesitates and
is lost. It may be an old broken
chair, some discarded china, a “what
not’ or most any old thing, but asso- |
ciated with it is a memory of some
incident in the past and the dust is
wiped off, the article stored away in
another corner and when the work
of cleaning out is completed about
the only junk gotten rid of is a lot
of old dirty newspapers and the attic
looks clean and nice but as full of
junk as ever.
So it is with some stores and busi-
ness enterprises. Shelves are full of
junk goods—goods purchased years
ago and sadly out of date today, but
which represents now only so much
dezd stock. That is where the chain
stores have the advantage over the
old-time merchant. They refuse to
handle anything that there is any
doubt about its salability. Every
article must be staple and it is the
quick turnover that
itable results,
Watching the various election
boards in Centre county bring in
their returns, last week, we were
impressed with the big packages of
unused ballots returned to the Coun-
ty Commissioner's office, every bal-
lot of which represented a stay-at.
home voter but which at that time
was only junk, The law requires the
printing of ballots sufficient for
every enrolled voter in each precinct
in the county plus a small allowance
for emergencies. They are never all
used and the leftovers must be re-
turned to the Commissioners office.
The ballots would make good scrap
paper but they cannot be used for
that purpose. The law requires that
they be burned and thus several
hundred dollars worth of the tax-
payers money is converted into
ash heap.
And so, as we said at the begin-
ning, the world is full of jurnk-—junk
automobiles, junk in the attic, junk
in business and junk politicians.
There were quite a number of the
latter throughout the State this
spring who clogged the blanket bal-
rnace, are a very lot and will probably never be heard |
of again.
Why is it that about ninety men
out of a hundred have no hesitation
in picking up a lead pencil from a
business man’s desk and sticking it
in his pocket?
minute then when he js through
writing putting it in his pocket and
walking away. We have seen men
with half a dozen or more pencils in
their pocket and no two alike,
evidence that they were among the
thoughtless ones who appropriated
a pencil wherever they had a chance.
Of course a pencil is only a little
thing, not big enough to put avpro-
priating one in the class of s
but it is mighty inconvenient at times
to have some one borrow your only
pencil and walk off with it and then
find yourself without one when you
need it real badly.
At last we have discovered how to
keep the big nighterawlers from
pulling (or pushing, as we never
caught them at it) up the little
‘onions. Don't plant the onions for at
least forty-eight hours after the bed
has been dug, The crawlers will not
stay long in the newly spaded earth
(but will go down into more solid |
ground and when they have done
that they will not bother the onions.
And speaking of night crawlers,
while digging garden, a few days
ago, we dug up a goodly portion of a
decayed root of a plum tree that had
been cut down several years ago.
The root was about two and a half
inches thick and burrowed in it
and found the
worm to be about five inches in
length and thicker than a lead pen-
cil. But the thing that puzzled us
had bored its way into
The Walker township schools
closed on Friday and in one of
that at Mingoville,
prizes, one for deportment, one for
not missing a day in the two years
not missing a word in spelling in
the two years he has been in school. |
| The boy is Earl Gates, son of Mr. |
and Mrs. Charles E. Gates.
-—The contract for erecting a new
The smaller of the two rooms will have an extensive educational pro- | inter-county bridge on route 322, at
be for rent. In the event an avaii- |
able tenant cannot be secured in a
reasonable time Mr, Heverly might |
decide to move his loan office into |
it from it's present location in the |
basement.
gram at that time, The new building |
is
fill a long-felt need at the college.
Provision has been made for all the
teaching and experimental activities
Osceola Mills, has been awarded by
modern in every respect and will | the State Highway Department to |
the Bailey Construction company, of
Philipsburg, at its bid of $27,111.
The bridge will be a pony truss
| in dairy production and manufacture. | structure.
of decrepit automobiles
the attic of her
the “darned old stuff and
makes the prof. |
. Md, were week-end visitors at
J
| the
| wife,
| Earl Neidigh and fami] are
| snugly fixed up y
Main
Sunday, and
were entertained at the WwW. Brooks
| Fry home.
~The Samuel Everhart and Isaac
, Harpster families were guests for
dinner, on Sunday, at the R WwW
Reed home.
a number of our families
are considering purchasing new
silos before feed storing time rolls
around again,
Aunt Ella Gardner has entirely
Fecoversd for an injury to her hip
rece a week ago, and is visit
friends at Unionville, Rg
Interest in the si class
being conducted here is steadily in-
creasing, there being about forty
members enrolled now.
Some of our enterprising farmers
have their corn al in the ground
and will now have ga few days to
‘ devote to trout fishing,
| Ewel Harpster ang Glenn Frank
were Marengo visitors, last week-
end, where there seems to be a spe-
cial attraction for them,
J. Fred
mer consulted an eye ialist,
H. I. McWilliams oy oliet, of
Altoona, are Spending a week among
friends in the valley. Isaac is put-
ting in the time fishing for trout.
Charles Gates, of the Gulf filling
station, Tyrone, with his family,
Spent the week-end here with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gates,
ed
county hospital, Sunday. They found
her so much improved that she ex-
pects to be disc soon.
George Brannan, who gave up his
business as a coal dealer here to
| 80 to farming in Liberty township,
| was here, this week, and purchased
4 span of mules from WwW. C. Frank,
on the Branch.
Miss Mary McCracken has return-
ed to her home in the Glades from
care of an eye spe-
clalist. Her sight is much improved
at this writing, ny
W. F. Hill, pastmaster of
State Grange, was at the Wh M4
ers held a Baileyville, - Friday,
ss the tiaras of o a new
range, an are
Yonge things now looking
Mrs. Isabelle Musser, M,
Pearson and Miss BD
visited Mrs. G, H.
| riorsmark,
| Serious operation,
Twenty-nine of our young Ameri-
cans took the ninth grade examina-
tion on Saturday for
Superintendent L. R.
B. Corl.
| Prof. A.
| gia L. B. Miller,
man, Miss Mary Lemon
Miss Nancy Beard, of
{home of Rev. and Mrs. S.
lish. The pastor and his
former residents of that
Boyd Gardner,
Mrs. W, G. Gardner, of the
| Co., of is
‘down at Houston, Texas, superin-
| tending the rebuilding of thirty-five
| rice binders. y
A
terian
at th Br S. .
‘ua special program
was put on, Rev. and Mrs, J. Max
Kirkpatrick and Mrs. Nancy Potter
being Present io help out with the
| music.
| Mrs. R. G, Goheen and daugh
: Betty entertained the I. W. T. band
Thursday evening, 35 old members
| being present and several new ones
added to the roll. Miss Gertrude
| Miller and Mrs. Mabel Harman gave
| very interesting reports of the con-
| vention held
| Refreshments
| and Mrs. Oscar Bowersox, Mrs. M.
‘A. Dreibelbis and daughter Dorothy,
(of State College, were among those
who attended the funeral of the
| late Edward M. Beers,
‘at Mount Union, last week. Mrs.
| Beers, by the way, was a daughter
{of the late ‘Squire Ewing, at one
| time a well known merchant a" Rai-
| leyville.
| After a very successful term Miss
Mary Burwell closed her p
| school here last Friday. Among the
| scholars who had perfect attendance
‘he has gone to school and one for for the term were Miriam Fortney,
| Shirley Kline, Buddy and Ross Cox,
| Junior Wieland Bobby Louck,
with Ivan Dodd absent ha) 2 Say.
The grade leaders were as v
1st grade, Eugene Kanarr, 2nd,
| Robert Parsons; 3rd grade, Shirley
Kline; 4th grade, Miriam Fortney.
| In addition to their regular school
| work a number of pupils built a
| pioneer cabin out of corn stalks,
complete even down to bed clothes.
It is 16x18x20 inches in size, and
will be housed and kept for exhibi-
tion at the Grange picnic the latter
j part of August.