avanti December 15, 1938. : = | OBITUARY | GEORGE W. UPDIKE. Washington Updike, a brother of Mrs. Margaret Justice, of Bellefonte, died at his home at Ty- rone Forge last Friday morning, fol- lowing a year's illness with compli- cations. He was a son of George W. and Jane (Hopkins) Updike and was born at Petersburg, Huntingdon | cotnty, on July 9, 1863. On August 14, 1886 he was united in marriage | with Margaret Reed, who survives, together with three children. MRS. MARGARET B. L. JEPSON Mrs. Margaret B. Lund Jepson died at her home in State College at 1:50 o'clock Friday afternoon at the age of 83 years, 2 months and 21 days. She was born 19, 1845, and had lived in State College since 1928. The following children survive: H. P. Jepson, of Wilkinsburg: Mrs. Anna E. Spang- ler, of Bellefonte, and Miss Emelia at home. Also surviving are 10 grandchildren and four great. grandchildren. Funeral services were held from her late home Sunday morning. Interment will be made in the Union cemetery at St. Boni- face. WILLIAM FP. HEVERLY. William Park Heverly, 37, died Saturday morning at the Lock Haven Hospital, Private services were con- ducted at 2:30 p. m. Monday at the | residence by the Rev, EL B. David- | son. Interment was made in Clark’ cemetery, Beech Creek. Mr, Heverly | is survived by his parents, Mr. and | Mrs. Harry Heverly of Beech Creek, his wife, and the following children: Russell, Mary Hazel, Park Jr., Cath- alene, Jack, Willard, Kenneth and Ethel, all at home. He also leaves the following brothers and sisters: Leroy, Harold and Miss Jane Hev- erly of Beech Creek, Mrs. Franklin Bowman of Mill Hall. Mrs. Lawrence Sig of Benton and Devester, Lock Haven, LEVI COWHER. levi Cowher, who died suddenly at his home at Sandy Ridge on Tues- day, December 6, had been a resi- dent of that place for forty year: He was born at Port Matilda 68 years ago, the son of Joseph and Lucy (Reese) Cowher. He had been engaged in the retail meat and gro- sinesss atl & Ridge for the past 32 years. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ella Brown Cowher and these children: Jesse Cowher at home; Joseph Cowher, Sandy Ridge; Mrs. gh wo 2 $e ory SAnay Beulah Tarman and Mrs. James Gunsallus of Clarence, and Mrs. Elzabeth Williams, of Clearfleld. He is also survived by one brother, Sylvester Cowher, of Sandy Ridge, and these sisters: Mrs, James Stine and Prances Cowher, and Mrs. Thomas Ryder, of Tyrone; 80 seven grandchildren. REV. JAMES E. DEITTERICH Rev. James Eugene Deitterich, D D., father of Dr. Charles D. Deit-| terich, of State College, died at his | son's home at 6:30 o'clock last Wed- nesday night. He had been a min- ister in the Lutheran church over 52 years, and was 80 years old al the time of his death. He had been with his son six weeks. Born December 4, 1858, at Fowlerville, Pa. he was a son of Harry A. and Tamma Evans Dietlerich. On Sep- tember 22, 1887, he was united In for marriage to Margaret Dimm, who! survives with two children, the son | at State College, and a daughter, Margaret E.. of Philadelphia. Also surviving are a brother and sister: William, of New Jersey, and Tillie Dill, of Washington, D. C. The Rev Mr. Deitterich served Lutheran ¢hurches in the Philadelphia area for apprxoimately 25 years and then moved to the Pittsburgh district His last charge was at ago. During the past year he had served as supply pastor at stead. Puneral services were held by Rev. J. F. Harkins of State Col- lege, at the Koch Funeral Home, State College, Friday night, and the following morning was taken to the Zion Lutheran church at White Marsh, Philadelphia, where further services were held. Interment was made in the White Marsh cemetery. MRS. ANNA BELLE SHUEY Mrs. Anna Belle Shuey, wife of George C. Bhuey, of State College, died at 7 o'clock Saturday night at her home following an iliness of tvo years’ duration. Mrs. Shuey was 83 years old at the time of her death. Her husband and one sister, Yor oa » pp ¥, wa f na [WAR » Pe 1 Music stands, many styles—{rom hn 3 Harmonicas from 20c—Ilargest selection at cut prices i 12 Bass Piano Accordion MUSICAL NOVELTIES, BAND We Have Them may rest between from front WARNER 14 W. Bishop St., September | Donors, | from which he retired four years] Home- | Gold Lacq. Trumpet in case $16.95—0OtNers in stock Clarinets, metal case, from $35.00, Made in U. S. A. SUPPLIES MAKE APPRECIATED GIFTS. Ludwiz, Snare Drum with Sticks .................... $11.50 WE GIVE XMAS CHEER-$600.00 PRIZE COUPONS Please visit our Store. Large Band Hall with chairs where you periods, or you may leave your par- cels with us, we've lots of room. H Electric Singing Guitar Broadcasting Carols EACH NIGHT F3 | PIFER’S MUSIC SHOP Bellefonte—Phone 272 Mrs. Mollie Davis, of Avis, sur-| | vive, Funeral services were held | from the Koch Funeral Home, | State College, at 2 o'clock Tuesday | | afternoon with Rev. J. W, Zang of- | { ficlating. Interment was made at) Houserville, MRS. FLORENCE L. KINNEY | Those who recall the early resi-| dence here of the lsaac Longacre | [family will regret to learn of the death of Mrs. Samuel G. Kinney, | formerly Miss Florence Longacre, | which occurred at the Bethel Hos | pital, Newton, Kansas, November | 20th. Besides her husband she is! survived by three sisters, Mrs Jen- | nie Blumberg, Mrs. Vidlet Davis, and Mrs. Myrtle Freeman, all Detroit, Mich,; and three brothers, Clarence Longacre, of Williamsport; | Charles Longacre, of Sandusky, O,, and Paul Longacre, of Los Angeles, | Calif. At the time of her death Mrs. Kinney was 63 years of age, being born July 30, 1875, in Philadelphia. | She was the daughter of Isaac Longacre and Ella (Furlong), both | originally from Pottstown. Her mar- riage with Samuel G. Kinney took place in Bellefonte, December 4, 1896, during the period the family resided here. Mrs. Kinney with her | husband had made Newton her home ever since they were married She was a member of the Episcopal church and an outstanding member of St. Cecilia Guild. The funeral was held at her late home on Fri- day, December 2nd, and burial made in Greenwood Abbey, Newton. Fire Damages House at Gap (Continued from page one) {dining room and kitchen were badly damaged, while the second floor rooms escaped with slight damage from smoke The fire was discovered by Mrs Jodon as she opened her bedroom door to go downstairs. The hallway was filled with smoke and choking gas. Warning her husband, and arousing Miss Bertha Rimmey, and John Meyer, roomers in the home, Mr. and Mrs. Jodon and the others descended the stabrway and got safely outside, although considerably affected by the fumes they had in- haled. At that time the fire seemed to be confined to the first floor, di- rectly over the furnace. There some doubt as to whether the blaze originated from the furnace, or from defective wiring in the refrigerator, which was located on the first floor directly above the furnace, The Pleasant Gap Fire Company responded te an alarm, and it was through their effective work that the flames were soon under control. A survey of the damage revealed that 16 of the floor joists were burned through, and the living and dining rooins will require virtual rebuild. add ling and refinishing. Repairs to the home are scheduled to get under way this week, and mast of the loss Is coversd by insurance, Miss Rimmey, Red Cross Nurse for this area, was rooming tempor- arily at the Jodon home because gov. eral children at the Roush home nearby, where she makes her per manent residence, are quarantined for scarlet fever. Mr. Meyer, other roomer, is employed as a chem- ist at Whiterock Quarries. the Ordained Into Ministry. At a meeting of the Ordination Council at the Clearfield Baptist church last Tuesday evening, Gerald Goss, sOn Mrs. Mabel Goss, of Philipsburg. was ordained as a Bap- tist minister. The Rev. Mr. Goss is a graduate of the Practical Bibie In- stitute of Binghamton, N. Y.. and Is ipastor of the Brisbon, Mountaindale and Ginter Baptist churches. of Sees Father Killed. Helpless to ald him, Mrs. Rosalie | Steurer saw her father killed by a subway train in New York after he had fallen from the platform onto the tracks below. The 34-year-old man, Charles Abbott, was stunne by the fall and was unable to remove himself from the tracks before the { approaching train struck and killed him, £5,000,000.000 From Tourists Tourists spent $5,000.000000 in the United States last year, according to an estimate of the National Park Service. New York received the largest share of the total, $846,800, - 1000, while Mississippi's $1090 per capita expenditure was the smallest. | A A oma i WLP LPN, | J & Popular Sheet Music... 2% Special Folios Guitars, new, from $2.95 up All Metal, National $20.50 79¢ up $29.500Others in stock AND STRING INSTRUMENT at Low Prices. of store. Open Nights Seine A of | sands of children happy. EE ue er a — Santa Claus Really Has a Post Office sr my AOA) ™H 5 ih gree = | Centre County Council This is the doorway to Santa Clans land, a real village resting in the Indiana hills which has become world-famous because of its Christ masy name and also because Abra ham Lincoln lived there from his seventh to twenty-first years. Sania Claus is an unincorporated village but its post office does a land-office business each December because thousands of people send their let ters there to be cancelled with the famous Santa Claus postal stamp. For 28 years James F. Martin was postmaster at Sania Clans, taking H easy cach summer and working like a fiend during the Christmas rush Finally the pressure grew so great that his office was rated as a third. class post office, a ranking usually enjoyed only by much larger com- munities. Above is the Santa Claus post office and general store. Succeeding James Martin when he died was the present postmaster, Oscar Phillips, forty-one. To him has fallen the duty of making thou- Each day he receives hundreds of letters con- taining enclosures which are to he cancelled carefully with the Santa Claus stamp and sent on {eo all paris of the world. Ea 1 | year in a litle park, atiracting vis- | Hors from all paris of the country. | ¥es, Santa Claus does have a post office! Blown To Death Cieorge H. Tilbury, 61, of Ken- newick, Washington, escaped unin- jured when his sutomobile collided with another on the Columbia River Highway, only to be blown to his death by a heavy wind which caught and blew him over a 350- {oot cliff i | Asks Aid For | State’s Industry (Continued from page ohe) | trialists, Chamber of Commerce | members and political leaders from | Centre and Clearfield counties at- { tended the dinner, which was one of many being held throughout | Pennsylvania by the State Chamber [in an effort to enlist the ald of | business In the battle for reduced taxes, W. W. Bleg, acting as chalrman of | the meeting, introduced Kenneth Gi. Halnes, recently elected to the | Legislature from this county; A. H. Letzler, Btate Senator-elect; James {E. Van Zant, Congressman-eglect; and E. L. Plumb, president of the | Bellefonte Chamber of Commerce. Following the general meeting, the met and { elected these officers for the ensu- ing year: Ray C. Noll, chairman; J. C. 8hoemaker, State College, 1st vice president; Theodore Jackson, Philipsburg, 2nd vice president, and Karl Kusse, secretary. Retiring of - ficers are W. W. Sieg, chairman, (and C, M. Thompson, seeretary. The partial text of Mr. Riddle's address at the meeting follows: “Pennsylvania rightly conserves its forests and waters, its game and fish, Its scenic beauty and historic | shrines. But what has Pennsylvania done in recent years to conserve its nost productive resource—Industry? “While our state administrators and legislators expect industry to pay most of the wages and the bulk of the industry at times has been, to say the least, less than friendly, break. ing out in a regular epidemic of anti-industrial bills, many of which have been enacted Ww the detriment of the Commonwealth. Yet exper fence that cooperation of government with industry means more than just operating on it, and that it is more profitable for gov. shows ernment to foster industry than | throttle it “Time was Pennsylvania communities, upon holding their existing industries or attract- ing new ones, could fortify their re- cital or local advantages with the fact that in Pennsylvania, state were more favorable when intent taxes to in- dustry than were those in any other comparable industrial state “But today this situation is pain- fully reversed. Now Pennsylvania apparently believes handicap- ping the employer with a more se- vere state tax burden than is car- ried by his competitors in other tax jurisdictions. Actually, isn't Penn- sylvania blind its own self-inter- és2 In the matist? Excessive Taxes on Industry ince the adoption of the stale’ ram, the tained that taxes it: gher than states. Denial fréquently been made of the program 80, to supply the answer (0 the con flicting statements as to the rejative severity of state taxes in Pennsyls vania and elsewhere, the State Chamber commissioned Clarence L Turnet’, a certified public sccount- ant of Philadelphia, and a past dent of the Pennsyivdiia in. te of Certified Public Acoount- ant to make an impartial “com- parative study of corporale taxes in fifteen industrial tates,” such as would be made for a firm contem- plating a location thersiii “Belected because of thelr cone tigious position or their competitive relationship to Pennsylvania, the fourteen other stiles are: Connecti- Delaware, Illnods, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetls, New Jere sey, New York, North Caroline Ohio, Rhode laland. Tennessee, Vir ginia and West Virginia “Briefly. the study revealed that with a few exceplions, corporations generally, under the tax Jaws in ef- fect at December 31, 1837, pay high- er taxes in Pennsylvania than In any other of the fourteen states In the study "In the of the Domesti Manufacturing Corporation doing both an inter-state and intra-siale business, the corporate taxes In Pennsylvania were. 388 per oent higher than in Connecticut: 1091 per cent over Delaware; 5588 per in iD 0 present emergency lax t State Chamber has nv Pennsyivania generally rporations 1} rdtict industr ADEN Ct other has by the proponents do ial af this i US pre bis ' cut. case cent over Illinois; 310 per cent over | Indiana; 1857 per cent over Mary- | land; 115 per cent over Massachus- etts: 15 per cent over New York. 146 per cent over Ohio; 200 per cent over Rhode Island; 85 per cent over | Tennessee, and 26 per cent over Virginia. Pennsylvania's taxes are 4 per cent lower than in North Carolina and 22 per cent lower than in West Virginia. 4 . Effect Upon Industry “Because of the present situation, Pennsylvania has become the happy hunting ground for outside promo. tional agencies that have long been 'waiting on opportunity to lure this state's industries away, or pe them to shift their production to existing or newly established branches in other states. “That Industries are leaving Pennsylvania is indisputable. To what extent such migration is caus- ed by the state tax situation is much of a controversial question. | But if adverse state taxes drive in- dustry out of the state, or halt its | expansion, the opportunities for em- i ployment in Pennsylvania are | gened, causing more unemployment ‘and still higher taxes, and finally {completing a vicious circle which {can only spell economic coliapse | The immediate effect of heavy tax- | ation upon industry are to be found not 50 much in the migration of plants from the state, as in (1) the refusal of new Industries 0 locate in Pennsylvania; (2) the haited expansion of Pennsylvania estab- | Hshments; (3) the shifting of pro- {duction from Pennsylvania plants to existing branches of the parent company in other states, and 4) the establishment of branches by Pennsylvania corporations in other states, “There Is cause for real alarm in the fact that only a small number of the new industries coming into the state occupy new structures {Most of the new Industries took over idle or abandoned factory buildings in the community. In other words, the new Industries were mainly replacements, in an oyment sense--taking the place, to an undetermined extent, of the industries which for ope rea~ - taxes, thelr attitude toward | 80n or another had ceased to oper (ate In the copnmunity, Buch si of economic stalemate or ve, op | must challenge the attention of [those responsible for shaping the [policy of the Commonwealth toward [ industry, | Relief and High State Taxes 5 "Unemployment relief is the ma- {Jor cause of the high state {now found in Pennsylvania, To THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. | | | | | taxes | | provide revenue, the 1837 Legislature | {continued for an additional two- | year period certain | taxes first levied in 1935 and 1036 | “We realize that [imitations upon the incurring of jstate debt compelled the Common- {wealth of Pennsylvania to finance | (unemployment relief on a pay-as- YOu-go basis, except for one $25,000,- | 000 bond issue, and that this plan {in turn necessitated the imposition lof emergency state taxes. “In the long run, Pennsylvania's | pay-as-you-go policy for f{ihancing unemployment relief should be ben- |eficial to taxpayers because the emergency | constitutional | He atAn chrome fin olltl* oved bY U* or Ada . Labora yo wetts: gh) 89° | Commonwealth need not be saddled | tfor twenty or thirty years with debt service charges for huge relief bond | issues. On the other hand, Pennsyl- jvania will forfeit most or all of the | prospective advantage of the pay [as=you-go financing, unless the | Commonwealth beging easing this | energy ney tax burden. “Industry well understands | extra taxes are currently needed to care for the unemployed, but also feontends that such additional taxes should be held to a minimum by (1) economies in the non-relief ex- penditures of the State govern- ment, thus releasing large funds for emergency relief and (2) making certain that relief funds go only Ww bona-fide cases, in amounts con- sistent with subsistance standards Buch procedure should make pos sible a start in the downward re- vision of state taxes to a level ap- that proaching that found in competing | industrial states Workmen's Compensation “Not alone harassed by adverse state taxes, the Pennsylvania em- ployer was additionally burdened by nereased costs of workmen's com- pensation "The Workmen's Compensation Act was entirely reenacted and ma- terially revised by the 1837 General Assembly Aside from Increased week benefits, extensions of per- fods of payment of these benefits were included in the provisions of the new law, some of the exten- slons being presently impossible of actuarial computation. Also, the cost of administering the Woark- Compensation Acts herealter charged to employers, or insurance carriers. And the compensation Eyslem extended $0 cover eertain oceu- pational diseases, principal among them being silloosis. of the in mer will Ix thelr workmen's a Adverse effools nereaved under these aw evi- seed by the fact that hundreds nioyers Bave rejected the act, farticularly In the mining industry Generally, such 07ers are pay- ing benefits under the provisions of (he law as iL existed prior to the { 1837 revision i The question of the constitution. ality of the 1837 Workmen's Com- pensation Act and the 1937 Occu- pational Disease Compensation Act is now pending in the cows “Almed particularly at plover who rejects the Act, mendment 10 the Workmen’ pensation Act of 1915 ‘was iby the 1838 Bpecial Besson impos ing the presumption of negligence upon: employers, providing for the admission of certain evidence, and providing for double damages where the injury was caused or contrib- uted to by the employer's violation or fallure to obeerve any safcty law or regulation Regulatory Legislation “Abo, the enactment of the 1837 Auti-S8tream Pollution Act was a matter of most serious concern those industrialists affected there- by “And, as amended by the 1837 General Assembly, Pennsylvania, at the close of that session, had a | Woman's Law with the lowest gen- eral maximum of hours and days “In addition, the Pennsylvania | Labor Relations Act, the Labor Anti-Injunction Act, end the Dep- {uty Sheriff's Law certainly were not enacted with equal oonsidera- tion having been given to employ. ers Ale 0 emp the em- Ri W~ Com- passed | tons Act as finally passed by the 11937 Legislature was generally made {to conform with the Federal Wag- | | ner Act. The Chamber believes that {under any labor relations legisla- | tion, individual employes should { possess full freedom of association {and actual liberty of contract, but { without coercion | Also, employers should have equal | rights with employes In demanding {that governmental | promptly hold elections in emergen- | Clea to determine the employes’ col- lective bargaining representatives | And the present one-sided features of the law and its administration | should be changed to safeguard the | basic rights of both employers and employes, Economy and Tax Reduction “How can reductoin of state tax- 05 on business be achieved? “Appropriations % all depart. ments, the Legislature and the Ju- diciary, not including grants to public assistance, amounted to $200, 000000 for the biennium 1937-1939, By eliminating non-recurring items, and enforcing rigorous economy, it amount by 12 per cent, to a pew to- tal of $176,000,000 for 1839-41. “With the continued pick-up in private employment, the state's re- lief Joad should materially decline during the next biennium, again averaging $4.000.000 per month, in- stead of 84000000 as in recent months. Allocating $06.000000 for relief grants, $15,000,000 for admin- istration, and $40,000,000 for special phases of public assistance, would necessitate a total appropriation of $151,000,000 for these purposes in the coming biennium. Thus the normal appropriation item of $176.- “The Pennsylvania Labor Rela- | from any source. | authorities | should be possible to reduce this | DeHAAS ELECTRIC COMPANY West Bishop Street EV 13 RY WOES : Page Seven A —_— ON THESE SMART, DEPENDABLE gieatiots PECIAL $413 aut 161 rt 3-piece $ 05 TC 134 chrome 4 er; warps proof walnut tra BE SL 0% “THE WESTINGHOUSE STORF Ei ent tax set- $22,000,000 io 1a Te » whole fis og A ARNT the exodus of plan atiracting 1 tax from and cutling the cor franchise mills to four Wwiate net income tax {rom seven per cent tol six per cen 8uch reduced would mean a tax saving of $17.- 200000 ($11.000000 in capital stock and franchise and $6200.00 in cor- porate net income) in the next bi- ennium period lo Pennsylvania bus. iness. While this Is insufficient to wipe out the adverse state tax diff- erential, it Is a » in the right direction and would go far, in con junction with other measures, to regain the favor with which Penn- evivania was bs { industry generally “An alternate plan of tax reduce tion would be to cut two mille from the capital stock and franchise tax, which would absorb the whole $22.- 000,000 in a biennium, “In this connection, you will re- call that it is the combination of | our high rates on capital stock and carporale net income which makes the state lax burden on industry in Pennsylvania heavier than in any other industrial state, with neglig- | | ible exceptions. Local Share in Relief Costs “Aside from encouraging indus | try to create jobs and thus redufe unemployment, we believe sound { policy requires that Jocal govern-| iments should participate directly | {in the cost and administration of | {unemployment relief. There is good i | preocdent in other states, because | {int the year 1937 local governments | iin the United Btates contributed | about 44 per cent of the cost of re- lief cases. while Pennsylvania was | {going to the other extreme of con | centrating the burden on the Com- | {monwealth. Such Jocal fluancial | contribution in Pennsylvania should | not exceed 20 per cent of the an | nual cost of relief and should car- | ry with it definite representation ! on the county assistance boards. | Unless local taxpayers constantly | realize that it is their money that | is helping to sustain relief measures, | there is little incentive for the close | community scrutiny of public relief | which makes for economy in ex- | penditures. Jobs For the Unemployed | “However, through governmental | economy, tax relief, and other rem- edial legislation, the Commonwealth | can do its share to encourage Penn | sylvania industry to expand its op- erations at a profit and thus pro- vide the only lasting cure for un-| employment, pamely, jobs.” rates ecogiod step so long regarded = R516 INCH {. +) DRESSED - Christmas Gifls’ 7 FOR ALL THE FAMILY “= FS a S » Fa hi \ Bellefonte, Pa. 1° [SALE STRRTS TODAY: ENDS SAT. of 100m] SYMAS TREE LAMPS POLORS 4 4 eS ea TO PLETE WITH 8 LAMP LHAI5THAS TREE LIGHTING ~ Sh & COORD BULES H J Lx Rapiarc | ALCOHOL {88 PRODF ? AT “1 MSALECRS HOT WATER ERS. rRaPPcRs Look! *15TEEL TRAPS DRRTTY Lin TED HICH JAWS RES. I Lotwins’ povsp 33 (ELECTRIC) SEemns rhooww | CHAINS Quirk ow or Ber AlLSTIES ov suit CHAINS | BIXE HORNS oF i = 8 4.75x10 te 7 B 5.50x17 th $1.98 WOOD BURNING -METAL TAPP and ELECTRIC ETCHING OUTFITS wood oo. BB METAL TAPPING .. REGULAR #100 vase! 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