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FIFTY YEARS AGO
1855 ¢ 1932 “ : IN CENTRE COUNTY.
Ch | Moms taken om the Watchman issue
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The that P. Gray Meek edited and published for fifty-seven years and |
now by his Estate at the pi » Priming Belletome, Pa. | —The Zion drum corps will please
MEEK _ This column is to be an open forum. accept our thanks for the honor of
GEORGE R. MEEK CHARLES L. GATES MARY GRAY Everybody is invited to go use of it to the serenade that organization re-
weekly Friday morn- T —No coramunications ' whatever 3 may have cently gave the Watchman omice.
tne ed at the” postofice, Belle: published uness accompanied by the Teal published: inough we will give the public —What would Bellefonte do if it
foute, ., as class mat name 3 on writer. of 4 fhe wi Ss Jatitude in Jhvettive shen the were not for the Pleasant Gap Sil-
Boat My nay tories give the i the new address. tributions will Pe signed or initialed, as Yor Conger Bay a: ‘Tusical Sigal
Paid strictly in advance - - It is important that the publisher be the contributor may desire.—ED. zation that no superior 8
Paid before expiration of year - 1.75 jn tified when a subscriber wishes the portion of the State.
Paid after expiration of = 200 paper discon . In all such cases —Jerome Yohey, who works at
A sample copy of the “Watcaman" will the subscription must be paid up to! His Conscience Need Not Duncan Hale & Co's mill, had two
be sent without cost to applicants, date of cancellation, i Smite Him of his rs caught in ‘a set of
RORY - - = cogs, on Monday, one was torn
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ROOSEVELT'S CHANCES LOOK GOOD. BUT
The National Convention of our party at which the next Presi-
dent of the United States will probably be nominated is just about
six weeks off.
When the delegates assemble in Chicago to build a platform and
select a standard bearer the slightest mistake might start a ground
swell that by November could grow into an avalanche that would
overwhelm the party.
While Franklin D. Roosevelt will have approximately 650 votes
on the first ballot he will have to have 120 more to insure him the
necessary majority of two-thirds of the convention. Only twice in|
the history of the party has a candidate who has gone into the con-
vention with a majority failed of nomination. In 1884 Martin Van
Buren had a majority on the first ballot, but James K. Polk was
nominated. . At Baltimore, in 1912, Champ Clark was given a ma-
jority on the tenth ballot, but then the late William Jennings Bryan
jected his personality into the contest and Clark's support desert-
ed him to make Woodrow Wilson the choice.
With only two such instances of record it would seem that
Gov. Roosevelt's chances of nomination are exceedingly good. And
so they are, except for unseen elements, invisible now, that might
reveal themselves at Chicago. Most serious of these, so far as Roose-
velt’s success is concerned, is the final attitude of his predecessor in
office, former Governor Alfred E. Smith.
No one regards Mr. Smith as a serious contender for the honor. |
Few believe the rumor lately set afloat to the effect that he will run
independently in the event of Roosevelt's nomination. He is the
titular head of our party and his strength in certain sections cannot
be discounted by such Roosevelt leaders as would try to have the
country believe that he has discredited himself by the stand he has!
taken with regard to his former political comrade in arms. No
matter what one’s personal feeling may be Smith's strength in the
Chicago convention, if it becomes definitely antagonistic, is going to
be a very hard hurdle for Roosevelt to take.
Then there is the Prohibition question. Contention as to wheth-
er the party will go dripping or mildly wet, merely favor a referen- |
dum or attempt to straddle the issue is sure to present complications
that will weigh heavily in the balance for or against Roosevelt's
chance of winning the 120 delegates that will be necessary to give
him the nomination.
He is credited with being in favor of modification of the Vol-
stead act, but in none of his recent speeches has he said anything
that would indicate what his real attitude on the question is. Doubt-
less it is a very annoying matter to him, for he must realize that
while he might be nominated because of his preponderance of
strength in the dry States of the South and West he can't be elected |
without the electoral vote of the wet eastern and middle western!
States.
The complexity of the problem is best revealed by what hap-,
pened in Pennsylvania last Thursday. His advocates in this State
stole the party organization by subterfuge. They exploited his per-|
sonal popularity to put themselves in control of the party, then de- |
clared for a dripping wet platform. While few think Mr. Roosevelt,
if nominated, might be given the electoral vote of Pennsylvania |
those who do must admit that the action of the State Committee,
last Thursday, added to his difficulties. For how are his delegates
from Pennsylvania who have committed themselves to knocking the
Volstead Act into a cocked hat going to work in harmony with a
dry South when it comes to “rushing” for the necessary 120.
Roosevelt would make a great President. His chances of nom-
ination are excellent, but he has some high hurdles to take.
BALANCING THE BUDGET
There is so much talk about balancing the federal budget that
merely pass tax bills sufficient to meet the governments bills for
1933 and 1934 and go home.
Since we have more laws now than we need that would seem
like the right course to pursue, but it can’t be done for these rea-
sons:
~~ First, every member of Congress knows that he will never sit
in that body again if he permits any tax bill to get through that
doesn’t favor the constituency that elected him.
Second, the government is now spending five million dollars a
day more than it is receiving from taxes, imposts and other sources.
As its income is progressively dwindling no one can tell how much
it might be in the red, daily,"in 1933 and 1934. There is only one
possible way to meet such a probable shrinkage of income and that
is by paring the cost of government to the bone.
Congress, being just as much afraid of the vast army of feder-
al office holders as it is of the fellows back home who want every-
body but themselves to be soaked, has a more serious problem on its
hands than the public understands.
Like Micawber, it is hoping that something will turn up. Be-
cause it knows if it passes such a fair tax bill as would have to be
assed to balance the budget and goes back home, it is likely to stay
there.
After all balancing the budget is a problem for a Republican
President and a Republican Senate. The new Democratic Congress
had nothing to do with contracting the bills that there is so much |
trouble in finding money to pay for.
——The wets in Congress finally succeeded in forcing a show-
down as to where each Member stands on the matter of modifying
the Volstead Act so as to permit the brewing of beer of alcoholic
content of at least 2.75 per cent. The measure was lost by a vote of
228 to 169. It was not expected that it would carry; the objective
being merely to definitely ascertain the attitude of the Congressmen
so that there can be no straddling by those who will be up for re-
election in the fall. It is apparent that the dry strength in Congress
is dwindling rapidly. In Monday's test a change of thirty votes
would have carried the day for the wets. Our one Member, the
Hon. J. Banks Kurtz, voted against the measure, while the Hon.
J. Mitchell Chase is not recorded as having voted at all.
~———Shades of 1917 and 1918 rise to rebuke the extravagances
of our government since 1922. When the boys were sleeping in the
same trenches with rats and cooties to make our country a safer
place to live in they certainly had no idea that their sacrifices were
being made so that seventeen million dollar palaces might be built
in which to house armies of departmental clerks.
Dear Sir:
Enclosed please find my check for
$1.50 for the good old Watchman.
I must have it and hereafter am
going to read my own paper, be-
cause this will pay for it in ad-
vance.
Thanks for your kindness in send-
ing it to me when I am in arrears.
Yours Respectfully
W. C. KREAMER
Since “Cook's” delinquency ran
back only to April 1 his idea of
being “in arrears” would bring a
smile to the face of the editor of
the average country newspaper, Al-
ways there are some who are as
many back as he was in
weeks, but we suppose he thinks
we're haranguing at him when we
occasionally beseech them to pay
up. Its funny how differently people
react. In church, when the minister
starts pounding the pulpit and declar-
ing that his congregation is threat-
ened with the sleeping sickness and
failing to shell out enough for the
support of missions and the local
budget we always get uncomfortable
and wonder whether he might mean
us. Be it said in our own defense
the shoe rarely fits, but we're eter-
nally trying to put it on. And a
feeling akin to that probably ac-
counts for Mr. Kreamer's apology
for being in arrears a paltry six
weeks— Editor's Note.
No Wonder The Gentleman Has
“Gone Broke”
Writing for the New York Times of
last Sunday, Mr. Lowry W. Cooper, of |
New York City, gives the following co-
gent reasons for the hopeless condiiion
of his finances. Since they apply to all
of us with the same striking force we
publish them for consideration of readers
of the Watchman,
Some correspondent has sent me
the following which I pass along to
you: i
“I wish to inform you that the,
present shattered condition of my
bank account makes it impossible
for me to send you a check in re-
sponse to your request.
“My present financial condition is
due to the Federal laws, State laws,
county laws, corporation laws, by-
laws, brothers-in-law, mothers-in-'
law and outlaws that have been
foisted upon an unsuspecting public, |
Through the various laws I have
been held down, held up, walked on,
sat upon, flattened out and squeezed
until I do not know where I am,
what I am or why I am.
“These laws compel me to pay a
merchant tax, capital tax, excise
tax, income tax, real estate tax,
school tax, syntax, carpet tax, auto
tax, gas tax, light tax, cigar tax and
street tax. i
“In addition I am required to!
contribute to every society and or-|
ganization that the inventive mind of |
man can organize, also to every nos- |
pital and charitable institution in
town.
i
“The government has so governed
ted, 3
prospected,
required and compelled until ali I
| know is that I am supposed to pro-
vide an inexhaustible supply of mon-
| ey for every known need, desire and
"hope of the human race. And be-
| cause I refuse to donate to all, nnd
!go out and beg, borrow or steal
! money to give away, I am cussed
‘and discussed, boycotted, talked to,
| talked about, lied to, lied about, held
‘up, held down and robbed,
i
| reason I am clinging to life is to
see what is coming next.”
it
bility for the foregoing, al
point of
does state the taxpayers
do most of the
taxation occupy so much space.”
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JOE BROWN HIT
AT CATHAUM MONDAY
Featuring the holiday program at
the Cathaum theatre, State College,
the inimitable Joe E. Brown in his
latest comedy riot, “The Tenderfoot,”
Matinee showings will be at 1:30 and
13:00 and the evening shows will
start at 6:00, 7:30 and 9:00. The
picture will also be shown at the
Nittany theatre on Tuesday evening.
“The Tenderfoot” is a hilarious
tale of a “rang-tang tarantula from
Texas” who heads for Broadway to
make the “Roaring Forties” howl.
And how! They have to call out a
riot squad, the fire department, and
the militia, but they can't stop the
fun! He plunges all his dough on a
Broadway cutie, just to hear her call
York gals are through with him, he
thinks he's been to the dry cleaner!
Ginger Rogers and Lew Cody head
the supporting cast.
~The Department of Labor and
Industry, at Harrisburg, reports that
the number of unemployed in Cen-
tre county during the month of
March was 4048.
u until I
am nearly ruined, so that the only
1
“Of course, I accept no responsi-
view much more appealingly than
“friends of the
| people” whose statements relative to!
on Monday (Memorial day) will be |
him “angel;" and when those New
-—A new postoffice called Guyer
has been established in Centre coun-
ty, with Charles W. Keith as post
master.
—Mr. Ed. Wood, farmer, school
teacher and Democratic leader in
Spring township, was married on
Tuesday evening last to Miss Sallie
Garber at the home of the bride's
parents near town. By and by we
expect to see a good many chips
from: this wood,
—*“We understand that “Christy”
Nolan, of this place, got into a fight
with a fellow in Philipsburg, one
night last week, and that the fellow
bit “Christy's” nose off, clear up to
the bone.
-—Miss Martha Hunter, sister of
B. F. Hunter Esq., of Benner town-
ship, is seriously ill. On Thursday
last her sister Bell, who is the wife
of Joseph Roller, and lives in Shel-
byville, Illinois, left that place to
hurry to the bedside of her stricken
sister. At 10:30 the next night she
| was at the Hunter home near Fil-
more. Before the time of railroads
Illinois was a far distant country
and it was an undertaking of great
magaitude to undertake to reach it
a .
twenty-four hours away from Belle-
fonte.— (Little did the writer of the
foregoing item think that just fifty
years later a successor on the
Watchman would be commenting on
his presentment of speed in travel
by saying that Bellefonte is now
just about six hours away from
Shelbyville—by air—Editor's Note.)
—While in town shopping last
Friday Mr. and Mrs, Daniel Neidigh,
Think of it now-—less than
of Coliege township, had an experi- |
ence they will never forget. With
them was their six year old son. All
were in Joseph Bros. store when
Mrs. Neidigh went upstairs to look
at some carpets and her husband
went to the basement to sce some
Sed stored there. Suddenly missing
s
they had left the store and wander-
ed out onto the street to find them.
Later the parents returned to the
main floor and finding their child
gone became very much alarmed.
When a hurried search on Allegheny
street revealed no trace of him a
general alarm was sounded and the
parents the little boy thought
whole town joined in the effort to’
locate the child. The day wore away
without fruit, Mrs. Neidigh was
frantic and her husband decided to
start home with the hope that he
might find his boy on the way or
actually there, but when he reached
the farm no one had seen or heard
of him, Then the frantic father drove
across “the barrens,” to the Buffalo
Run road, to return to Bellefonte by
that route, When about seven miles
from here he spied the lad coming
towards him in the road. It was then
nearly dark and Mr. Neidigh drove
at breakneck speed to return their
son to the arms of a mother who
was so happy that she cried for
joy. The boy said that when he miss-
ed his parents he thought they had
forgotten him and ‘gone to visit
dfather” who lived on the Buf-
alo Run road and so he headed for
there at once.
‘my business that I do not know who Memorial day was impressively
owns it. I am suspected, inspecled, observed in Bellefonte. The
parade
I bud, | disrespec was under the marshalship of Capt.
many think that Congress would serve the country best if it would re-examined, informed, investigated, Amos Mullen and Dr. Geo. F. Har-
ris. It was made u
Pleasant Gap band,
Co. B,, N.
as follows:
on drum corps,
. P., two lodges Ameri-
, can Mechanics, one from Altoona,
Logan Fire Co, Undine Fire Co.
Boy's Branch Y. M. C. A. The Hon.
John B. Linn delivered the address.
PATIENTS TREATED
AT COUNTY HOSPITAL
Grove Mills, a surgical patient, was
on Saturday after receiv-
ing treatment for three days.
‘for money to get something to ea
Miss Verna Flick, of Fleming, a
medical patient, was discharged last
Wednesday.
Gap,
Mrs. Guy Brooks and infant
daughter, of Centre Hall, were dis-
| charged Thursday.
Miss Edith Davidson, of Tyrone,
after receiving surgical treatment,
was discharged Thuraday.
Mrs. Margaret Holmes, of Belle-
charged Thursday.
Master William Woomer,
following day,
day.
was discharged Friday after under-
\ going surgical treatment.
day, after undergoing surgical treat-
ment.
Miss Virginia Beatty,
tient, was discharged Friday,
Mrs. Gilbert Sauers, of College
township, returned home Saturday.
She had been a surgical patient,
Mrs. Benjamin Heeman, of Pleas.
ant Gap, was discharged Saturday
after undergoing surgical treatment,
There were 34 patients in the hos-
| pital at the beginning of the week. all killed in Centre county.
fonte, a medical patient, was ais-
William Gunsallus, of Bellefonts, |
without tackling anybody else.
far as we can see there are no
Mrs. Juanita Miller, of Pleasant
was discharged last Wednes- this office, and if there are,
| day after receiving surgical treat- could he discern them two or three test, in
| ment,
i
i
i
|
Two weeks or so ago he drove some | Lydia Haller, who was
| ten miles or more to get tomato per girl”
i
Mrs. Hattie Woomer, of Axe Mann, after digging the holes he put in a
was admitted Friday for surgical handful of phosphate then the plant.
treatment and was discharged the Then he
John Morgan, of State College, fore, as the phosphate killed all the
became a medical patient last Thurs- | plants but one and the cut worm’s
|
Mrs. Sarah Everts returned to her riage license fee as one way of help-
home in Pine Grove Mills, on Fri- ing out the national treasury. Of
of Belle- | Of course such a fee would put an
fonte, who had been a surgical pa- end to many marriages, the boys
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A HODGE-PODGE OF
NEWSY INCIDENTS.
The world is made up of two
classes of individuals—pessimists
and optimists-—and it takes a finan-
cial depression like the one we are
now experiencing to line them all up
in their proper rank, and we've
come to the conclusion that the
great majority, at heart, are pessi-
mists. We can all smile and be mer-
ry during times of prosperity and
when everything is bright and rose-
colored within the narrow circle of
our everyday life, but how many of
us can be cheerful and happy under
adverse conditions? We never stop
to think that no matter how dreary
the outlook it might be a great deal
worse. Since there are thousands of
people in the world who are drink-
ing far deeper of the dregs of de-
pression than we are, why be a
pessimist? Why worry over things
we cannot help when being a little
more optimistic and a little mora
energetic, we might, at least, crack
the depression so far as we are con-
crned. We didn’t start out to preach
a sermon and we don't intend to
continue exhorting along this line
We simply wrote this as a proper
heading for the following epigram
handed us a few days ago by a
friend:
WHY WORRY?
“I often wonder why folks worry.
Why worry? There are only two
reasons for worry. Either you are
successful or you are unsuccessful. |
If you are successful there is noth-
ing to worry about, and if you are
not successful there are only two
things to worry about—your health
is either good or you are sick. If
your health is good there is nothing
to worry about, and if you are sick
there are only two things to worry |
about—you are either going to get
well or you are going to die. If you
are going to get well there is noth-
ing to worry about, and if you are
going to die there are only two things
to worry about—you are either go-
ing to heaven or you are not. If you
are going to heaven there is noth-
ing to worry about, and if you are
not going to heaven you'll be so
d——n busy shaking hands with a
lot of old friends in the other place
you won't have time to worry about |
anything.” i
i
So don't worry. Be an optimist.
Keep plugging away and don't be
put down and out by this or any
other depression.
It is 3 well known fact that the
genus hobo, in his travels through
the country, will place a mark on
the gate post at every house hie
passes which can be read with ease
by the man who follows in his foot- |
steps, It is only a cabalistic sign but |
it tells him whether there is a cross
dog at the house or no dog at all;
whether a hand-out can be had or
whether it is not worth the trying,
but we had a little experience, Sat-
urday morning, that still has us
guessing. Standing at the window cf |
the Watchman office we saw a man |
coming down the opposite side of
the street. We noticed him first as
he crossed Spring street and at that
distance we took him to be a well
known banker in town. It was only
a little after seven o'clock, and
comparatively few people on the.
street, and naturally our attention
was attracted to him. He never
stopped anywhere. Came down the
street to the Potter-Hoy hardware |
store then made a bee-line for this
office. Without hesitation he opened
the door, came in and asked for mon- |
ey to get something to eat. Having |
no small change in our pockets we
were obliged to refuse a hand-out
and the man left and started up the
south side of High street. We watch-
ed him and he never stopped any-|
where else to ask for money and final- |
ly passed out of sight around the!
corner at Beezer's butcher shop.
Now what we would like to know |
is why that man walked all the wa
down to the Watchman office to ask |
*rR<
then walked the entire way up town.
alistic signs near the front door t |
how |
blocks away?
There is a man living down Nit-|
| tany valley who dotes on his ability | girl members of the
as a gardener, and he has reason class
to, as he is generally quite successful. |
plants and along the way purchased
some acid phosphate. When he got
|
learned something about
phosphate that he never knew be-
finished that one. |
Out in Illinois lives a woman who |
is advocating a $500 federal mar-
course she's married—got her man
and wouldn't have to pay the price.
couldn't and the girls wouldn't pay
such a price for the best man living,
but wouldn't it be a boost for the
free love doctrinaires.
EE ——— r——
———PDuring last month bounties
were allowed on one wildca:, twelve
gray foxes and thirty-four weasles,
I
| Wing Area 319
WOMAN FLIES ATLANTIC,
ALONE, IN RECORD TIME
Amelia Earhart Putnam took off
from Harbor Grace, New Foundland,
last Friday afternoon, at 4:51, stand-
ard time, for a solo flight to Paris.
Flying on the fifth anniversary of
the successful conclusion of 1
Charles A. Lindbergh's New York-to-
Paris hop, she put her name just
under his on the roll of trans-Ai-
lantic honors, for Colonel Linibergn
is the other person in (ne
world who has made a solo traus-
Atlantic flight
It was 1:40 P. M. (8:10 A. M.
Philadelphia time) when her almost
fuelless ship came to rest in Mr.
Gallagher's field, near Londonderry,
in the North of Ireland. She bound-
ed cut of it and ran to the farm-
house, where she found a very sur-
prised Irishman.
Mr. Gallagher offered her tea, but
she was in too much of a nurry to
take it, So he motored her to Lon-
donderry, five miles away, and
there she put in a trans-Atiantic
call.
“I did it,” she exultantly told
her husband, publisher, who was
waiting anxiously in New York tor
news of her.
Mrs. Putnam made approximately
2000 miles in 14 hours and 54 min-
utes, giving her the best time rec-
ord of any of the trans-Atlantic
fliers.
She was headed for Paris when
she took off from Harbor Grace, but
she encountered too much trouble to
make it possible to go on any farth-
er—almost too much to get to Ire-
land.
“About four hours after leaving
Newfoundland,” she said, “I notic-
ed flames from the exhaust, ana be-
came very uneasy. But it would have
taken four hours to get back and I
| thought it safer to go ahead.”
Because of the storm conditions
that developed four hours after her
take-off she was compelled tc fly
most of the remaining distance at a
very low altitude, in fact, as she
said “almost on top of the water.’
She was he first woman to fly by
plane across the Atlantic,
She is the first woman to make a
solo flight across the Atlantic.
The first person, man Or woman,
to make two plane flights across
the ocean.
Also, she apparently set a trans-
Atlantic time record when she
brought her plane down in a field in
Ireland Saturday. She made the
crossing in 14 hours 54 minutes.
AlHough time comparisons with
other flights are not exactly fair be-
cause of different hopping-off and
lan places, the previous best
time was 16 hours 17 minutes, made
by Post and Gatty.
THE LOG OF HER FLIGHT
THURSDAY, MAY 19
2:16 P, M.—Left Teterboro Air-
port, Hasbrouck Heights, N. J.
46 P. M.—Landed at St. John,
New Brunswick.
Distance—515 miles.
Flying time-—3 hours 30 minutes.
FRIDAY, MAY 20
7:02 A. M.—Left St, John, Naw
Brunswick.
11:31 A. M.—Landed at Harbor
Grace, Newfoundland.
Distance—615 miles.
Flying time-—4 hours 29 minutes.
4:51 P. M.—Left Harbor Grace,
SATURDAY, MAY 21
7:45 A. M.—Landed at Culmore,
Northern reland.
Distance-—2026.5 miles.
Flying time—14 hours 54 min-
utes.
distance. Teterboro
Total flying
ar fois To, miles.
me—22 hours 53
minutes,
Total elapsed time—41 hours 29
minutes.
Average flying speed, Harbor
Grate to Culmore—203 miles per
ur.
Average fl Teterboro
to ae a ret: hour.
| HER PLANE AND LINDBERGH'S
The principal specifications of the
plane in which Colonel Lindbergh
flew to Paris five years ago and the
Earhart-Putnam landed
in an Irish field are given by the
Aero Digest as:
Wing span
Length
Engine
£2
fi
exposition
Three Centre county
gradua
received honors at the jdualing
their fellow students. They are M.
H. Louise ip
P . Marquardt,
mirror girl,” and Elizabeth Everett,
‘class donor.” All three of the
recently held.
son of home he planted the tomatoes and, | young women are residents of State
College.
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AT LAST! A GOOD WORD
FOR ENGLISH SPARROW
The much-maligned English spar-
row has at last had its day in court,
with a friendly judge and jury. Says
the magazine, Bird-Lore, official
publication of the National Associa-
tion of Audubon Societies:
“According to Dr. Thomas E.
Winecoff, in charge of research for
the Pennsylvania game commission,
this generally unpopular bird has
been found to be one of the few
which are destroyers of the obmnox-
ious Japanese beetle. Investigation of
field men in the southeastern part of
the State have shown that, in addi-
' tion to the English sparrow, the
ring-necked pheasant, the purple
grackle, the starling, and robin all
eat this greatly destructive bee-
tle.”
—We will do your job work right