VOL. XOV. | WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER | SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE While Congress has been in recess and business has been under the strain of a month's additional delay in waiting for the tax revision bill, three matters of ad- ministration policy have been developed definitely for action when the extra ses- sion reconvenes on September 21, The measures to which the President has given his approval, insisting that they be passed, are : Repeal of the excess profits tax and higher surtaxes to be made retroactive January 1, 1921, instead of January 1, 1922, as passed by the House, Passage of hill appropriating $5 000,000 to aid the railroads. Passage of Penrose Bill for refunding 00, war loans. The tax bill as originally vided that fit tax and the higher retroactive as of January 1, 1921, but f from WO drawn pr the repeal of the excess pro- surt made axes be the injustice of lifting these taxes the big corporations, war profiteers and multi-millionaires for the current year, benefit to any with no one else was so apparent.that the House corresponding + 0 Republican caucus refused sanction it This change was referred to by Rep sentative Garner (Dem., Texas.), of Ways and Means Committee, when bill “How could you man living who can defend, the propo was under discussion, as follows defend, is there a th sition of repealing the excess-profits taxes for this calender of 1921 Nearly eight gone ten of them will be gone before this bill Re- are! anda year the year months of are (nine months nos and probably i J the Ways Means Committee reported to your con- finally becomes a law, and vet er . F he members of the publican ference a bill which would have repealed the excess-profits tax as of January 1, 192 To do this, after these COTDOTrR~ corpora tions who will pay the tax have already made the profits, would have been so manifestly unjust that I ima that ¥ J ine gin »11 cul some i who has some lingering masses of the people, called atte and nlellig Republican, regard it in your conference, because is still left a portion of your membershi who believes in some semblance of tice, you defeated the proposition to re- peal the taxes as of January 1, 1921, and repealed tnem as of Janu The same proposition holds wit] ence to the reduction of the surtaxes. pr President Big business, however, had been mised this Harding's reported decision that the repeal of these taxes be retroactive is an eff part t Senate shall submit t ation and | » which heretofore have yielded $450.000 ooo from those most able to bear them. there is nothing yet to indicate that th House will agree to it. And if recede from its former attitude are taxes come from good ‘the loss fron higher surtaxes of approximately three- quarters of a billion dollars ? O- Yrreot is awed \ reducti ana n to at least 0 keep his party's pledge. y executive domin ift these excesr-profits taxes, e it shall where to make the to excess profits and Shall One Man Do What He Pleases With $11,000,000,000 War Loans ? That our war loans to foreign govern ments cught to be funded no one dis- putes. That the transactions ought to be in the open and above board and that the refunding plan have the sanction of Congress is put in operation or before the deals are con sumated ought not to be a matter of dis- should sfore it pute, as Democratic leaders of the Sen- ate see it, . But the funding of this enormous debt of $11,000,000,000, as approved by Presi dent Harding, in the bill sponsored by Senator Penrose, coufers upon the Sec- retary of the Treasury blanket power to fund this indebtedness in ways be may deem best, to accept such securities and to substitute bonds and secur 8 for other bonds and securities without other approval than his own ; in other words. Mr. Mellon is to be the sole person to the transactions on behalf of the United States and the sole judge of what shall be done and how it shall be done. Every time he has been before the Senate Finance Committee in connec. tion with this measure, Mr. Mellon has insisted upon having this authority, but not once bas he submitted a plan; on the contrary, he has admitted having no definite plan, further than to meet situ. ations as they arise, The question asked by Democratic Senators, and (it is one for the people themselves to answer, is : Should one man be given. absolute power to deal with this $11,000,000.000 indebtedness as he sees fit without revealing what he plans to do and without being subject to the authority of Congress, which grant. ed these loans ; which is the only power that could grant them and is the only power that has supreme control of the finances of the government A A AANA The most expensive hunting is chasing chickens, A new telescope brings Mars within two miles of the earth. Try it on rents, Jurors for September Court. and traverse—drawn for service September term of court, at Bellefonte, which convenes next Monday: GRAND JURORS. Albert S: Allen, laborer, Potter Carl Brown, book-keeper, Curtin John M. Bullock, merchant, Bellefonte Frank Dietrich, painter, Bellefonte Geo. Eminhizer, minister, Spring George Glenn, mail clerk, State College D. W. Holter, freight agt., Howard boro E. R. Hancock, clerk, Philipsburg Wm. T. Hoover, merchant, Worth Harry Ishler, farmer, Harris *hilip Jones, miller, Worth Mrs. Thos. Jodon, housekeeper, Spring Mrs, Calvin Jones, Philipsburg Miss Blanche Kunes, housekeeper, Lib- erly L. D. Kyler, laborer, Houston George Long, Mrs. John H. H. Royer, foreman, Miles Wm ler, Rush Mrs, Geo. Stover, miller, Howard Twp. Lane, Bellefonte fe Reece mi housekeeper, i Marion James Smith, merchant, State College, Aaron Thomas, mechanic, Centre Hall John L n, CentreHall Theodore Adams, farmer, armer, Haines M. Alexander, {; r Harry Bair, printer, | James Ard, f K. Armer, * tlie ag arles Bennett, laborer, Tay! arles Bilger, lum srry 8. Confer, . RR, Cow Henry Call, laborer, State Coll eg >. Clevenstine, farmer. Walker 1 C, Dietz, shopkeeper, , farmer, Rush . Decker, clerk. State College George H. En S. Centre Ha carpenter, Rush D. Wagner Geiss, ick, dealer, R. Frank n, Bellefonte Miles Ralph Gramley, teacher, Miles salesma Clark Gramley, salesman. Lewis Heverly, farmer, Cu Mrs. Hull Herrin I'. C, Hubler, farm Wallace rtin usekeeper, Gregg er, Miles Huntingdon, laborer, Snow Shoe Er +H nest Hess, farmer, Harris Fr ¥ lrevin lak rE Yrank Irvin, laborer, Spring hasonbaugt Charles J J. K. Krape, merchaht, Haines Orin Kline, Wade Lytle, farmer carpenter Spring clerk, Bellefonte Boro Half Moon Harry E. Mauch, farmer, Walker Patrick Martin, Thomas Morgan, 30 Teer aK of P« plumber, St Overseer Bellefonte Boro Henry Mowery, farmer, Haines Jacob Marks, clerk, Bellefonts Boro Ww L. K. Metzgar, merchant, William Markie, laborer, Ferguson “ C. Myers, gentleman, State Colleg State Coll Joseph Mitchell, fac mer, U J. 8. McCarger, agent. Bellefonte E. L. Markle, laborer, Walker oon Boro Elmer Moore, teamster, Philipsburg ug Ferguson Howard Oliger, squire, Spri D. S. Peterson, farmer Virgil Ridge. laborer, Liberty Mrs. Harry Rothrock Worth Richard, laborer, Reynold, loro housekeeper, S now Shoe loam ar gentleman, Bellefonte Clayton Rider, farmer. Sprin~ Boyd Sampsel, farmer, Spring Mrs. H. B. Shattuck h College gr William Switzer, laborer. Snow Shoe cusckeeper, State Charles Stitzer, merchant, Spring Twp mers, housekeeper, Rush A. Sayder, gentleman, State Colle ze oyd L. Smith, Miles. burg Miss Mary Shelton, housekeeper, Mill- es erm cretia Sum stock remover, i Charles Thomas, clerk, State College Isaac Underwood, agent Bellefonte Boro John D. Wagner, farmer, Gregg Janes Wilson, farmer, Liberty UNMARRED BY PLOW’S TOUCH Rolling Plains a Scene of Great Beauty Before the Advent of the Agricuiturist, Seventy years ago . . . Indians were Indians, and the plains were the plains Indeed. Those plains stretched out in limit. less rolling swells of prairie until they met the blue sky that on every hand bent down to touch them, In spring brightly green, and spangled with wild flowers, by midsummer this prairie had grown sere and yellow, Clumps of dark-green cottonwoods marked the courses of the Infrequent streams for most of the year the only note of color in the landscape, except the bril- liant sky. On the wide, level river bottoms, sheltered by the enclosing hills, the Indians pitched their conieal skin lodges and lived their simple lives. If the camp were large the lodges stood in a wide cirele, but if only a few families were together, they were scattered along the stream, In the spring and early summer the rivers, swollen by the melting snows, were often deep and rapid, but a little later they shrank to a few narrow trickles running over a bed of sand, and sometimes the water sank wholly out of sight.-~George Bird Grinnell, RE HALL. PA. NEW HOSPITAL AT MONT ALTO. Care Of. The aromatic scent of crushed winter- greeu and the pungent breath of balsam ‘chance to live” on the top of South mountain, five miles up-hill from Mont Alto, Pennsylvania, The recently created Veterans’ Bu- reau has taken over the large hospital building and staff house located the driveway about one mile from the main camp of the Mont Alto sanatorium. This hospital will be under the direction of the State Department of Health and the Commissioner of Health says *‘the unit will be in full operation by Novem- ber sth, The hospital building had been thor- onghly renovated, repainted inside and along out, preparatory to using it as a child. home, the U. 8. Publi Health Service and the American Leg. ren's when ion of Pennsylvania asked the Depart- of Health to assist the of disabled arrangements ment in care soldiers, Other were promptly made for the children so taken, for, built as it is, on the sunny top of Sout that the veterans could be mountain, this hospital is an ideal in which to get well, The boys will enjoy the recreation hs and grounds near the hospital, and will use the model craftshop the tion where minds, as well 1s bodies. are 1 i + 5 rH 1 - - sve 1 healed. There is ample room for small truck patches or flower gardens if a man likes to see things grow, and on all sides are woodlands where birds, mosses. trees ana flowers lure the feliow whose that About hut yards from the hospital is a dense leans way. a copse and the **deer field" et the lord of ae fot est aud cabbe Health seek the farmers’ corn commissioner of boys by n this opening of the Mont and treat ine { ot ed ¥ whose lungs re sated aR OF ituwndAmd were seared gas or invade disease, A 3 HI ASA ANSI Birthday Surprise Party. hursday evening of last week was held at the surprise party Mr, and Mrs of Mr. Weaver's Music Bloomer Weaver birthday a awl dancin § ee ) 1 "4 4h Ganong furnished en) crowd which Refreshm indance. The Mr. and Mrs Mr. Brown Foster Frazier, Mrs. Earl Frazier, Mr. and Mrs. Hackett, Mr. and Mrs. William Ripka Mr.and Mrs. T. E. effer a chil- fren, Mrs. D Mr and Mrs, James Guisewite and children, Mr. and Mrs. George Condo, Mr. and Mrs. John Condo, Mrs. P. K. Detwiler. Mrs, Belle Hettinger, Mr. and Mrs. Rob. ert Meeker, Edna Hettinger, Lottie Het Verna Hetti nd Mr, and Decker, tinger, anger, Alice Detwiler, ! Florence Hackett, Al Fleck, Harry Hettinger, John Lingle, Clyde Lingle, Charles Lingle, John Arm- agast, Adam Kimport, Paul Close, Ted Wagner, John Harter, Solomon Lingle, Bartges, Master Reed Hackett, Nellie Hackett ce Brown Shank, C. C. Brown Hackett, Master Master Garman Motter, World War Hero's Body Brought to Pleasa nt Gap. The body of Edward B. Brooks, killed in action in France on September 22, 1918, was brought home on Tuesday of jast week and buried on Sunday. It was a military funeral and members of American Legion proceeded to the Brooks home at Pleasant Gap and took the body (to the Lutheran church in Bellefonte where funeral services were held at two o'clock by Rev. R. P. Ard. Burial was made in the Advent ceme- tery in Bogg township Edward B. Brooks was a son of Mr and Mre, Orlin Brooks and was one of the original members of Troop L. In Frauce, however, he served as a wagon- er in the supply company of the ro8th field artillery. Both he and Charles Doll were killed by the same exploding shell, and it was in hovor of their mem- ory that the American Legion named th ae HER LABORS ENDED. Miss Minnie Kline, A Zealous Worker in God's Vineyard, Answers Final Summons After Term of Great Suffering. Thursday. September 15, 1921, marks the coronation day for Miss Minnie Mae Kline, preacher, evangelist, saint. At 1:10 p. m she was trapslated into that immortal company ot the Redeemed Her going was significant. The golden sun, past the zenith of the graceful journey thru the heavens, was shining brilliantly upon harvests Sister Minnie, as she was more intimate ly and affectionately known, hb to the noon-tide of gathered ad come ber life and labor In the quiet, peaceful light of this new day she seemed to see others who were beckoning for the light, b 14 ul God was calling, and willingly. she answered the summons, Her parting words the family, uttered in were, ‘*Meet me in heaven.” final words were a fitting of Divine grace that poured like a mighty current into her to all gravity, These 1 £3 nil tribute to her co dent faith, born Mionie Mae Kline, daug ghter of Mr. and Mrs, John Kline, ot Centre Mills. oeptember 4, 1875, and died age, 40 years and ring her earlier life she was attacks was born September 15, 11 days. Du tected to At became helpless with spinal trouble, 1904 she was marvelously restored 1921 nt viole of various diseases the age of eighteen she God to such a degree as to permit he assume a course of study at Philadelphia and Pittsburg in prepar. ation for Christian work, After secur ing ing the necessary credentials she began an intensely aggressive work for God She held many evangelistic services for various desominations. In defatigable effort and tremendous faith marked her labor. She preached eighty consecutiv Wherever she labored migh- were apparent In At Forest Hill several years ago, she conducted a Sermons. ty visitations of God the conversion of souls. Pa. revival that kindled Pentecostal fires in the conversion of more than a hundred Minnie Mae Kline knew the reality of Master, ye shall have tribulations, bt those words of her world beer : 1 have Thi verso $ was true, not onl standpoint, —she suffered bodily afflictions ; it was true from a n of her labor went pioneer of sections this and border states. Many times she was bitterly persecuted for righteous. In good cheer victory, The father, John Kiine, Centre Mills ; sisters—Mrs., Prof. W, V, Godshall, of Madison, Wis. ; Mrs. J. W. L.ann, ber life was threatened. of nessa’ sake ; every instance she was th the Lord gave | and her the of two brothers, George, of Jersey Shore, and Arthur, of Altoona, survive ber, of Conemaugh ; two be fuberal was conducted from the home of her father on Sunday, September 18, at 9:30 a. m., conducted by her pastor, Reverend C.F. Cathermas, of the Methodist chur hb. A ——— Former Penns Valley Pastor Dead. The Rev. Owen Hicks, who from 1889 to 1890 served the PennsValley Metho- dist charge, died at his home in Wil- liamsport oun Wednesday night of last week. Rev. Hicks, for fifty-five years was a minister of the gospel in the Methodist Episcopal church, and a well known vet- eran of the Civil war, He had been an invalid for a year and six months ago lost his sight, but the end came more suddenly than had been expected. The Rev. Hicks served his last charge at Nuboistown and had been retired in 1916 by conference action, but he contin- ned to labor at his calling wherever and whenever his strength would permit, un. til his health failed. Mr. Hicks was born in England and came to America with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hicks, when he was a child, ———— A ——————— Trespass notices, printed on heavy cardboard, for sale at the feporter of fice. their organization the Brooks-Doll Post, ——————— os STATA Mrs, Henney Announces Dates for Fall Millinery. Mrs. Lucy Henney, of Centre Hall, went to Philadelphia on Monday morn. ing to purchase fall and winter millinery, and she will return in a few days with a stylish assortment, moderately priced Opening days are Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week-—Sept. 27, 28 and 29, Rubin and Rubin Coming. If your eyes are} giving you any trouble see Rubin and Rubin on their visit at Centre Hall Hotel on Wednes- day, Sept, 28th, Guarantee satisfaction Eyes examined free and no drops used. Good glasses fitted as low as $2 oo at Don't speak twice before you think, Disarmament will decrease warships but increase friendships. * “THE MODERN DANCE-- WHAT SHALL TAKE ITS PLAGE 7” Something useful and necessary to all citizens in Centre Hall, What is it ? 1991, FINE SPEAKERS FOR CONVEN- TION AT STATE COLLEGE. 36th Annual Convention ef Centre Co. .W. C. T. U.—Dr. Hill, Famous Lecturer, Will Speak Friday Even- ing. This week, Thursday and Friday, September 22nd and 23rd, the Centre ounty Woman's Christian Temperance Union holds its thirty sixth An vention in the State College, sual Con- Presbyterian Church, The program promises a very live meetirg, featuring Miss Amanda Lan. lis of State W Dr Penna, Wesley Hill, 1 City, vice-president C.T.U State C Pennsylvania Thomas Pres. Dr. John of New Ye and DD 1 “Lr. lege lL rk Miss Landis and Dr. Thomas need a Centre Miss Landis, no intr oduction ence, to county audi of of the S a sister State Superintendent Landis inday Schools, who delighted her hearers at a go i TTT: , 1" recent Sunda convention, will y School be present both days and give the main address Thursday evening. Dr. Thomas, who has already won n an enviable reputation with his excellént addresses wi Thursday afternoon. ur people by il speak at 3:3¢ On Friday evening. at 8:1¢, John Wes ley Hill, L. L. D., of New York Cit orm and Chautauqua lecturer, wi v li the tf pla be the speaker, R arely do we have opportunity of listening to one We find in “Who's Dr. Hill, born 3, 18 an alumnus and of such sual distinction, Who" 1920-21 Ohio in 1% that of two uni- ver sities, soston Theological Nemin man ‘3 the and ang ary, though as a Methodist minister, he bas filled many prominent pulpits of the country, as Metho- Temple, New York City. Jaynes b, Brooklyn, N. Y., Grace Churgh and he made going, swith took Active Such y 3 fo go 5 olbers, that appearance campai ames G, Blain part io the McKiz resentative to the rention in his west- He is, therefore, a ¢ ree i " ompanied Mr, ft on ern campaign. ivic, industrial and patriotic speaker, as weil. Une summer he supplied the Presbyter in Marlebone, london, Eog- ed the Fowler Memorial in Helena, Montana. Washington o pulpit filled of died char, in State Was Chancellor of University, versity be, later in Of 1918-19 raised an en. dol lars. un. Senate and is now Grand Chaplain ot the Masons Ao wInan cowment m muon one Was chaplain of Pen in New York State, mn Probably his most notable achieve. ments have been of more recent years, for in 1914 he organized the World Court League in the U.S. : in 1911 he wisited the Orient and established the Asiatic Branch of the International Peace For. um of which he was president for Japan and China. He is pow a member of Federal Prohibition Commissioner Hay- ne's Flying Squadron of live wire lec. turers for the enforcement of the 18th Amendment, The W.C. TU. 1s to be congratul at- ed upon securing this unique and inter- esting as well as very distinguished man to speak at its convention, and there should be a record breaking attendance from all over the county, ENR State College Minister Heads Dickin son Seminary. The hoard of directors ‘of William- sport Dickinson seminary, at its session late Wednesday afternoon, unanimously elected the Rev. John W, Long, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal churen at State College. to succeed the late Dr, Benjamin C. Conner as president of the institution. This eléction of course is subject to the action of the managers of the Preachers’ Aid society of the Cent- ral Pennsylvania Methodist conference and the bishop of the Washington area. Since joining the Central conference the Rev. Mr, Long has successfully fill. ed Methodists pulpits at Dillsburg, Wellsville, West Side church, and Clear. field, and his present charge at State College, having been at the last named place since 1917. Mr. Long, who has a pleasing personality, 1s noted as a fine preacher as well as a successful pastor, Bellefonte Children Find Stolen Liquor. Liquor said to have been valued at several thousand dollars, stolen from the cellar of the postoffice at Bellefonte Monday night of last week, was discov: ered Tuesday by school children playing about an old boiler at the steamheating How shall we get it ? Come to the LUTHERAN CHURCH SUNDAY EVENING 7:30, and hear this sermon By the Pastor, Rev M. C, Drumm ea, BIG SONG SERVICE. 4 plant nearby. The liquor originally had been confiscated by revenue agents and placed in the postoffice cellar for safe Ifiquor there was a stampede of unidenti- fied persons to the heating plant and now revenue agents are hard at work at- tempting to recover any that may have been taken, AI MSS AAA C. P. Long, of Spring Mills, publishes letters of administration on the estate of J. D. Long, late of Gregg township, de ceased, in this issue, TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. Do your Christmas hinting early. Arbuckle's ‘latest pict ure’ in the Rogue's Gallery. can be seen Tanlac, that wonderful medicine, sold in Centre macy, Hall by Centre Hall Phar- If you paid your Reporter subscrip- tion lately, the pink label should show credit this week. Don’t fail to look at it, LR days among relatives ir Mr. Royer H C of Altoona Centre Hall and Royer, spent a few Potter township Pp. brother of Hall. Fran ® T Ker A Mr , the proprietor of City Steam Laundry, Bellefonte, was pleasant caller at the Reporter office on Friday, and before le a subscriber, Mrs. J. G. Dauberman i riving new Dodge runabout, purchased from Ford Mrs, Decker: a the Boozer-Smith agency. The roadster Ore studs byur several Mrs Years to a: cording to word re day, was taken critically journing in Atlantic City Even Millheim is not sat first class postmaster ju Democrat. An sition of a examin ut $a atl thu postmaster rith his parents, ?. Shook, and als wife's parents, near Sprin the latter Case was quite critical ropes Harvey Flink and Erpe began term year, while the latter gradu the State College High Sci - Their friends wish ti A deal was consummated on Wednes- day evening whereby the A. H. bome, better known as the D. home, passed into the bands of W. Kerlin, Mr. Kerlin gets of the property next spring, th ia Spayd Luse liam PF Wil possession the new home, Dow in course of construction, a e street, when Spayds will move into ie th ated diagonally across th Just received a large shipment of the wonderful remedy, Tanlac. Th great medicine you have been hearing much about. The remedy that's made such a wonderful reputation and which has accomplished such remark- able results all over the United States and Canada. Get your bottle now at the Centre Hall Pharmacy. 1s 18 the SO This is September 22, and in going over the country one finds quite a bit of early sown wheat up and apparently do- ing nicely. Other fields show later sow- ing. with the green sprouts just coming through the soil, and yet other fields in the course of preparation for seeding. Whether the early, medium or later sow. ing will prove best, yet remains to be seen. Lee Hoffman, president of the State College Hotel Company, was in State College one day last week. and in an interview stated that his company would take over the Nittany Inn the later part of the month. Mr, Hoffman also stated that the contract for the erection of the four additional stories 10 the hotel had been let to P. H. Turnbull, of Philadel phia, who is a State graduate, class of 1912. Roth & Jackson, architects of Philadelphia, both State College gradu. ates, have already drawn the plans for the new building. All subscribers to the Reporter who are not paid up, or in advance, are earnestly urged to do so at once, and not wait for a statement to be mailed. Statements are really unpecessary, for every week you are reminded just how you stand with the publisher. The fig- ures opposite your name tell you at a glance to what month and year your paper is paid. For instance : “Jan. 20” means your paper expired om January 1st, 1920 ; only for July is there no month shown on the label, so that just plain 20 or 21 means that your paper was paid up to July 1920, or July get. In looking over our list, we find a num. ber who should make remittances. We know itis easy to put it off, and we have the utmost confidence in the hon: esty of our patrons, but unfortunately it takes hard cash to meet our bills every month, and just now it is proving a bard think to do. This is really a 8S. O. 8, call, and we are trusting it will be heard far and near, A
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