DALLAS
‘SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, |
929
SHERIFF'S SALE
Satay, Nov. 30, 1929, ai 10 A. il
By virtne of | hae + writs of Fi Fa
Nos. 25, 26 and 27, December Terms,
issued out of/ the Court of.
1929,
Common Pleas of Luzerne County,
to me directed, there will be ex-
posed to public sale by vendue to
the highest and best bidders, for
cash, at the Sheriff’s Sales Room,
Court House, in the City of Wilkes
Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania,
on Saturday, the 30th day of Novem-
ber, 1929, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon
of the said day, all the right, title and
interest of the defendant in and to
the following described lot, piece or
parcel of land, viz:
‘ALY, that’ certain piece of land
situate in the Borough of Kingston,
County of Luzerne and State of Penn-
sylvania, bounded and described as
follows:
BEGINNING at a point on the
westerly side of Wyoming avenue,
said point being the dividing line be-
tween the properties of James H.
Franck and the Spring Brook Water
& Supply ‘Company; thence north
thirty-nine (39 deg.) degrees one
(1 min.) west one hundred fifty-two
., and eight-tenths (152.8) feet to a cor-
ww
ner; thence south fifty-eight (58 deg.)
degrees west thirty-nine (39) feet,
more or less, to a corner on line of
Samuel Hoyt Estate; thence south
thirty-two (32 deg.) degrees east along
the line of the Samuel Hoyt Estate
one hundred and twenty-eight (128)
. feet more or less, to a corner; thence
south forty-five - and one-half (45%
deg.) degrees east forty (40) feet to
the westerly side of Wyoming avenue;
thence along the same north forty-
four (44 deg.) degrees fifteen (15 min.)
minutes east, forty-seven (47) feet to
a ‘corner on the line of the Spring
Brook Water Company to the place of
beginning.
BEING the same premises con-
veyed to Fred J. Markle and Della
Markle, his wife, by deed of James
HH. Franck and wife, bearing
August 23, 1922, and recorded in the
Recorder's Office in and, for Luzerne
County in Deed Book No. 569, at page
444.
ALL improved with a large two-
story with basement, flat roofed, con-
crete block building in rear, two and
one-half story frame building in front,
occupied as a barber shop, office and
dwelling, sidewalks, etc.
Seized and taken into execution at
the suits of Kingston Bank and Trust
Company vs. Fred J. Markle and! Della
Markle ,and will be sold by
JOHN MacLUSKIE,
Sheriff.
B. W. DAVIS, Attorney.
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SHERIFF'S SALE
Saturday, Nov. 30, 1929, at 10 A. M.
By virtue of a writ of ‘Fi Fa
No. 95, December Term, 1929, issued
No. 127, December Term, 1929, issued
out of the Court of Common Pleas of
Luzerne County, to me directed, there
will be exposed to public sale by ven-
due to the highest and best bidders,
for cash, at the Sheriff's Sales Room,
Court House, in the City of Wilkes-
Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania,
on Saturday, the 30th day of Novem-
ber, 1929, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon
of the said day, all the right, title and
interest of the defendant in and to
the following described lots, pieces or
parcels of land, viz:
~ 1. All that lot and piece of land in
Township of Union, Luzerne County,
Pa., beginning at a corner in the State
road (formerly Turnpike) south of
former location of a grain house,
thence along said State road south
80 degrees twenty-two perches to a
eorner in said road, thence by land
late of William Devens south 87% de-
‘grees east twenty perches to line of
James McNeal tract, thence along the
McNeal tract north twenty-one and
8.10 perches to a corner, thence by
part of William Devens tract north
87% degrees west twenty-four perches
to the beginning, containing two acres
and one hundred forty-eight perches
‘of improved land, having thereon two
wood dwelling houses, outbuildings
“and ‘fruit trees and being same land
‘conveyed by William Koons to Hattie
M. Koons by deed dated 20th April,
1884, and recorded in deed book 252,
page 496. Hattie M. Koons being
seized of said land died 26th Septem-
ber, 1923, intestate, leaving as her sole
heir at law S. B. Koons.
2. All that lot and piece of land in
Borough of Shickshinny, Luzerne
County, Pa., bounded on the west by
land now or late of Conrad Haas, on
the east by land now or late of G. B.
Crump, on the north by a public road,
and on the south by land now or late
of Sheridan Kester and being fifty
feet wide on said public road and
about one hundred twenty-five feet in
depth, improved with a dwelling house
and being same land conveyed to Hat-
tie by Koons by A. H. Hendricks and
wife by deed dated 3d June, 1918, arG
recorded in. deed book 523, page 203.
Said Hattie M. Koons being seized of
land died 26th September, 1923, intes-
tate, having as her sole heir at law S.
B. Koons.
Seized and taken into execution at
the suit of The First National Bank
of Shickshinny, Pa., vs. S. B. Koons,
and will be sold by
JOHN MacLUSKIE,
Sheriff.
G. J. CLARK, Attorney.
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SHERIFF'S SALE
Saturday, Nov. 30, 1929, at 10 A. M.
By. virtue of a write of Levari Fa-
cias-sur Mortgage, No. 359, issued out
of the Court of Common Please of
out, of the Court of Common Pleas of
Luzerne County, to me directed, there
will be exposed to public sale by ven-
due to the highest and best bidders,
for cash, at the Sheriff's Sales Room,
‘Court House, in the City of Wilkes-
Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania,
on Saturday, the 30th day of Novem-~
ber, 1929, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon
of the said day, all the right, title and
interest of the defendant in and to
the following described lot, piece or
parcel of land, viz:
veAdl that certain piece or parcel of
land situate in the City of Wilkes-
) Frei
| man,
date’
tairre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania,
bounded and described as follows, to-
wit:
BEGINNING at a point on
Dougher’s Lane and intersection of
line of land of S. Salsburg;
thence northwesterly along said Sals-
burg land ninety-five (95) feet to land
of M. A. Gaughan; thence north-
easterly along said Gaughan’s land
twenty-five (25) feet to lands now or
formerly of B. Gottliff; thence south-
easterly along said Gottliff’s land
ninety-five (95) feet to Dougher’s
Lane; thence southwesterly along
said Dougher’s Lane twenty-five (25)
feet to the place of beginning. Being
one-fourth of lat No. 12, Book “2” in
A. C. Laning Plot. Being the same
land conveyed to George H. Williams
by Sarah Perman and Nathan Ber-
her husband, by deed dated
March 22nd, 1920, and recorded in the
proper office in and for Luzerne
County in Deed Book No. 532, page
593.
Seized and taken into execution at
the suit of Jacob E. Ney vs. George
H. Williams, and will be sold by
JOHN MacLUSKIE,
Sheriff.
NATHANIEL JACOBS, Sheriff.
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SHERIFF'S SALE
Saturday, Nov. 30, 1929, at 10 A. M.
By virtue of a writ of Fi Fa
No. 136, December Term, 1929, issued
out of the Court of Common Pleas of
Luzerne County, to me directed, there
will be exposed to public sale by ven-
due to the highest and best bidders,
for cash, at the Sheriff's Sales Room,
Court House, in the City of Wilkes-
Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania,
on Saturday, the 30th day of Novem-
ber, 1929, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon
of the said day, all the right, title and
interest of the defendant in and to
the following described lot, piece or
parcel of land, viz:
All that surface or
in and to the following lot; piece or
parcel of land, situate, lying and be-
ing in the Borough of /Dorranceton
(now. Kingston), Luzerne County,
Pennsylvania, bounded and described
as follows:
BEGINNING at a corner of the
northeasterly side of east Park Place,
the same being also corner of lot No.
64' on plot; thence along the line of
said lot No. 64 north 60 degrees 30
minutes east 139.2 feet to a corner on
Harris street; thence along the line
of Harris street north 29 degrees 14
minutes west, 50 feet to line of lot
No. 62; thence south 60 degrees 30
minutes west 139.5 feet to the line of
East Park Place aforesaid; thence
along Hast Park Place south 29 de-
grees 30 minutes east 50 feet to the
place /of beginning. Same being lot
No. 63 as designated on the plot of
lots /of the Anthracite Land Company,
recorded in Luzerne County in Map
Book No. 1, page 35.
EXCEPTING coal
minerals.
TOGETHER with the improvements
erected thereon.
Seized and taken into execution at
the suit of Dime Bank Title and Trust
Company vs. Sterling E. W. Eyer, and
will be sold by
JOHN MacLUSKIE,
Sheriff.
JOHN R. HESSEIL, Attorney.
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SHERIFF'S SALE
Saturday, Nov. 30, 1929, at 10 A. M.
By virtue of a writ of Fi Fa
No. 401, October Term, 1929, issue.l
out of the Court of Common Pleas of
Luzerne County, to me directed, there
will be exposed to public sale by ven-
due to the highest and best bidders,
for cash, at the Sheriff's Sales Room,
Court House, in the City of Wilkes-
Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania,
on Saturday, the 30th day of Novem-
ber, 1929, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon
of the said day, all the right, title and
interest of the defendant in and to
the following described lot, piece or
parcel of land, viz:
ALL that certain piece of land sit-
uate in the Borough of White Haven,
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, bound-
ed and described as follows, to-wit:
BEGINNING at a point on the
southeast corner of Lehigh street and
Church street, extended, said point
being the northwest corner of lot
Number Fifty (50), formerly owned
by the John J. Baker, Ja. et. al;
thence along said Lehigh street north
eighty-four degree thirty-five minutes
east (84 deg. 35 min. E.) eighty (80)
feet to the northeast corner of lot
Number forty-eight (48) on plot heres
inafter mentioned; thence. at right
angles to Lehigh street south five de-
grees twenty-five minutes east (S. 5
deg. 25 min. E.) about one hundred
fifty (150) feet to the southeast cor-
ner of lot Number forty-eight (48);
thence south eighty-four degrees
thirty-five minutes: west (E. 84 des.
35 min. W.) in a line parallel with
Lehigh street eighty (80) feet to said
Church street extended; thence along
said Church street, extended, north
five degrees twenty-five minutes west
(N. 5 deg. 256 min. W.) about one hun-
dred fifty (150) feet, the place of be-
ginning. Being Lots Numbers Forty-
eight (48) and Fifty (50) on the plot
of lots laid out in the Borough of
White Haven by A. F. Peters et. al.
SUBJECT to all the reservations,
conditions, covenants and stiplations
contained in the prior deeds constitut-
ing the chain of title of the above
described land.
BEING the same premises granted
and conveyed to the said John A.
Moser by John J. Baker, Jr., by deed
dated the 6th day of January, A. D.,
1925, and duly recorded in Luzerne
County in Deed Book 596 at page 27.
Seized and taken into execution at
the suit of John H. Krumanocker as-
signed to David Spruks Company vs.
John Moser or John A. Moser and
Moser and will be sold by
JOHN MacL.USKIE,
Sheriff.
right of soil: of,
and other
Mame
CORNELIUS B. COMEGYS, Attorney. |
SHERIFF'S SALE
Saturday, Nov. 30, 1929, at 10 A. M.
By virtue of a writ of Fi Fa
No. 92, December Term, 1929, issued
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out of the Court of Common Pleas of
Luzerne County, to me directed, there
will be exposed to public sale by ven-
due to the highest and best bidders,
for cash, ut the Sheriff’s Sales Room,
Court House, in the City of Wilkes-
Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania,
on Saturday, the 30th day of Novem-
ber, 1929, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon
of the said day, all the right, title and
interest of the defendant in and to
the following described lot, piece or
parcel of-land, viz:
All that lot and piece of land in Vil
lage of Trucksville, Kingston Town-
ship, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania,
on easterly side of the county road
bounded on the north by Ela
Roushey, on the east by Lehigh Val-
ley Railroad, on the south by Hill-
.side Realty Co., and on the west by
the old turnpike now [State road; and
being about two hundred and fifty
feet in front on said road and about
ninety-five feet deep, improved with
a dwelling house and barn.
Seized and taken into execution.at
the suit of Granville J. Clark vs. Wil-
liam C. Roushey, and will be sold by
JOHN MacLUSKIE,
Sheriff.
G. J. CLARK, Attorney.
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* SHERIFF'S SALE
Saturday, Nov. 30, 1929, at 16 A. M.
By virtue of a writ of Fi Fa
No. 127, December Term, 1929, issued
out, of the Court of Common Pleas of
Luzerne County, to me directed, there
will be exposed to public sale by ven-
due’ to the highest and best bidders,
for cash, at the Sheriff's Sales Room,
Court House, in the City: of Wilkes
Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania,
on Saturday, the 30th day of Novem-
ber, 1929, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon
of the said day, all the right, title and
interest of the defendant in and to
the following described lots, pieces or
parcels of land, viz: ’
All those certain pieces -of land
situate in the Borough and Township
of Dallas, and Kingston Township,
County of Luzerne, State of Pennsyl-
vania, bounded and described as fol-
lows, to-wit:
THE FIRST' THEREOF, IN THE
BOROUGH OF DALLAS: BEGIN-
NING at a corner in the land of; lots
of the Wilkes-Barre and Harvey's
Lake Railroad Company’s land’ where
the line of street leading from the
Cemetery to the Village intersects the
said Company's land on the south side
of said road; thence North fifty-six
(56) degrees East sixty (60) feet to a
corner; thence forty-four (44) degrees
twenty-five (25) minutes east one
hundred (100) feet to a corner; thence
South fifty-six (56) degrees West
sixty (60) feet to a corner: thence
along said Railroad Company’s land
north forty-four (44) degrees twenty-
five (25) minutes west to a corner and
parallel with said railroad to the place
of beginning. Containing about six
thousand (6000) square feet of land,
be the same more or less.
THE SECOND THEREOF, IN THE
BOROUGH OF DALLAS: BEGIN-
NING at a corner of land of Gregory
and Heitzman, on the South side of
Rice street; thence along the same
north fifty-six (56) degrees east
forty-nine (49) feet eight (8) inches
to a post corner of a picket fence;
thence south thirty-four (34) degrees
thirty (30) minutes east one
hundred forty-five and seven-twelfths
(145 7-12) feet to a post corner;
thence south forty-six (46) degrees
west twenty-three (23) feet six (6)
inches to a corner; thence ‘south fifty-
six (56) degrees west sixty (60) feet
to a corner in line of land of the
Wilkes-Barre and (Harvey's Lake
Railroad Company's land; thence
along their land north forty-four (44)
degrees twenty-five (25) minutes west
sixty (60) feet to a corner of land of
said Gregory and Heitzman; thence
along their land north fifty-six (56)
degrees east sixty (60) feet to another
corner of said Gregory and Heitzman
land; thence along their land north
forty-four (44) degrees twenty-five
(25) minutes east one hundred (100)
feet to ‘the place of beginning. Con-
taining about nine thousand six hun-
dred and one (9601) square feet of
land, more or less.
Subject to the same exceptions and
reservations as in line of title.
THE THIRD THEREOF, IN THE
BOROUGH OF DALLAS: BEGIN-
NING at an iron corner of land of the
Borough of Dallas on the north side
of Rice street; thence along said Rice
street south sixty-two (62) degrees
five (5) minutes west sixty-eight and
three-tenths (68.3) feet to an iron post
corner in line of right-of-way ci the
Lehigh Valley Railroad; thence along
said right-of-way with a curve to the
left twenty-eight (28) feet to a cor-
ner; thence along land of said Lehigh
Valley Railroad north twenty-nine (29)
degrees thirty (30) minutes west one
hundred twenty (120) feet to the cen-
ter of the Creek; thence down said
Creek and land formerly of John
Frantz eighty-five and five-tenths
(85.5) feet to an iron post corner and
corner of land of the Borough of Dal-
las; thence along the same south
twenty-eight (28) degrees west
twenty-six (26) feet to the place of
beginning. Containing eleven thou-
sand one hundred thirty (11,130)
square feet,
THE POURTH THEREOF, IN THE
TOWNSHIP OF DALLAS AND
KINGSTON: BEGINNING at a point
in the Dallas and Kingston Township
line and land of Sam Hodge Estate;
thence north thirty-four (34) degrees
west seventy-four and four-tenths
(74.4) perches to a point in the center
of the road leading from Huntsville to
Shaveritown; thence along said road
north seventy-eight (78) degrees east
fifteen and eight-tenthes (15.8)
perches to a corner; thence north
twenty (20) degrees thirty (30)
minutes west twenty-three (23)
perches to a corner; thence south
seventy-five (75) degrees west one and
six-tenths (1.6) perchaes to a corner;
thence north thirty-four (34) degrees
west fifty-seven and eight-tenths
(57.8) perches to a corner in line of
land of J. M. Shaver; thence olong
same north seventy-five (75) degrees
east fourteen and one-tenth (14.1)
perches to a corner; thence south
thirty-four (34) degrees east fifty-
seven and eight-tenths (57.8) perches
to a corner; thence north seventy-five
(75) degrees east six (6) perches to a
corner; thence south thirteen (13) de-
grees ten (10) minutes east twenty-
fourth and one-tenth (24.1) perches to
a point in center of Huntsville and
Shavertown road; ‘thence along same
north seventy-eight (78) degrees east
eight (8) perches to a corner; thence
along ‘line of J. M. Shaver south
thirty-four (34) degrees east sixty-
two and five-tenths (62.5) perches to
a corner of Henry Calkin; thence
along same south fifty-eight (58) de-
grees west twenty-three (23 perches te
a post and stone corner; thence south
twenty-two (22) degrees five (5)
minutes east thirty-one and two-
tenths (31.2) perches to a corner;
thence south fifty-six (56) degrees
west ninety-six (96) perches to a cor-
ner in line of lands of Robert Holly
Estate; thence along same north
thirty-four (34) degrees west thirty.
two (32) perches-to a corner in Dal-
las and Kingston Township line, and
thence along said line and lands of
Robert Holly Estate and Sam. Hodge
Estate, north fifty-six (56) degrees
east eighty-siven (87) perches to the
place of beginning.
EXCEPTING AND RESERVING,
however, about twelve (12) square
perches of land now occupied vy the
Shavertown Cemetery.
SUBJECT to adjustment of bound-
ary lines on the above mentioned
Fourth parcel, as established by deed
of Claude T, Isaacs and wife to John
F. Brodhun, dated April 27, 1921, re-
corded in Deed Book No. 574, page
540, and by deed of John F. Brodhun
and wife to Claude T. Isaacs, dated
April 27, 1921, recorded in Deed Book
No. 565, page 86.
TOGETHER with all improvements
erected thereon. :
Seized and taken into execution at
the suit of Dime Bank Title and Trust |
Company vs. Claude T. and
will be sold by
JOHN MacLCSKIE,
Sheriff.
R. VE upnY Attorney.
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WOMEN KAT AND SEW
FOR RED GROSS RELIEF
Volunteers Aid Through Motor
and Canteen Corps—Send
Gifts to Service Men.
Recalling the days of the World
War, many women still make pajamas
and other hospital garments, many
knit sweaters, and more than 2,500,
000 surgical dtessings were rolled by
volunteer workers for the American
Red Cross Chapters all over the na-
tion, in the year just closed.
The hospital garments are given to
veterans and the surgical dressings go
to civilian or Veterans” Bureau hos
pitals, or wherever needed Many
Chapters also maintain well stocked
closets of surgical dressings and gar-
ments, in order to be prepared should
a disaster strike their communities.
Volunteer workers make children’s
clothing and layettes which are dis:
tributed in time of ‘major catas-
trophes. The Motor Corps of Red
Cross women and the Canteen Serv-
ice, also first created during the World
War,
Red Cross Chapters. Last year, the
various Motor Corps, some with am-
Isaacs,
JOHN
bulances, answered about 30,000 calls,
and the Canteens served more than
20,000 persons. They were especially
active where floods or forest fires or
other catastrophes called for feeding
refugees or firemen engaged in active
work fighting disaster.
Another activity of women volun-
teers is that of filling Christmas bags
—small cretonne ditty bags—to send
to soldiers and sailors who are sta-
tioned at posts or ports abroad. More
than 40,000 of these are sent each
year for distribution to the Americans
at Christmas time.
CHURCHMEN ASK SUPPORT
OF RED CROSS ROLL CALL
Leading churchmen of the na-
tion have joined in asking public
support of the annual Roll Call of
the American Red Cross. Two dis-
tinguished leaders who have sent
messages to their congregations
all over the country are quoted, as
follows:
“I plead for an extension of our
Red Cross membership until we
can call a roll of every adult Amer-
ican,” stated the Most Reverend
Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of
Baltimore. “I would like to see
the children listed in the organiza-
tion by their parents. [ plead for
it because of the spiritual reaction
[ visualize in our millions of con-
tributing members.”
“As president of the Federal
Council of the Churches of Christ
in America, I bespeak for the Roll
Call of the American Red Cross the
fullest cooperation of all the
churches in the constituency of the
Council,” writes Francis J. Me-
Connell, president of the Federal
Council. “I cannot imagine that
there is any minister who will not
be grateful for the opportunity to
call the attention of his people to
the work of the Red Cross and to
urge them to enroll in its member-
ship.”
The American Red Cross expended
$8,669,627.24 in disaster relief work in
the United States and its insular pos
sessions and in eleven other countries
during the year ending June 30, 1929
still are maintained by many |
MR. GRUNDY EXPLAINS
his TAREE FCSITD
Telis Senate Commit.ce enna.
is Agricultura. as well as ndus-
trial State. Justifies activilies.
Washington.—Brieily summarized,
the following embodies the principal
points made by Joseph R. Grundy in
his statement submitted to the Senate
Lobby Investigating Committee in
Washington when he was called upon
to testify.
Mr. Grundy’s opening statement
was that there was “nothing new or
strange” about his being in Washing-
ton during a tariff revision, inasmuch
as he has been coming here in such
periods for the past 32 or 33 years.
He reminded the Committee that no
member thereof was in Congress when
he first came to. Washington in con-
nection with tariff legislation, in 1897,
and that, as a matter of fact, there is
but one man now in Congress—Sena-
tor Warren, of Wyoming-—who was a
member that long ago.
Referring to his own position as a
protectionist, he said:
“Some of the members of this Com-
mittee may not like to admit it, but
there are few left who will attempt
to deny that the entire industrial and
financial structure of the United
States - has been erected upon the
principle of tariff protection.”
As a preliminary to his categorical
statement of the reasons why he has
been in Washington for the past ten
months, Mr. Grundy offered the Com-
mittee a copy of a tariff resolution
which he had prepared and which was
unanimously adopted by the 76 Penn-
sylvania delegates to the Republican
National Convention in 1928. It was
then sent to the Resolutions Commit-
tee, of which Senator Borah was a
member, he said, and, according to
his information, was the basis of the
Republican tariff plank in the 1928
campaign.
He also told of his Pennsylvania
activities in that campaign, at the
request of the Republican National
Committee, and then referred to the
notice of tariff hearings sent out by
the Ways and Means Committee last
December, - emphasizing that these
notices were to the effect that there
was to be a “general” tariff revision.
“I received one of those invitations
and it was in response thereto that I
came here,” he said. “Very probably,
however, I should have come anyway.
I merely mention the fact that I was
invited. The complaint seems to be
that I have stayed. There have
seemed to me to be no reasons why I
shouldn’t, and several why I should.
“First, it was merely consistent
with an active interest in tariff revi-
sion which, as I have said, has ex-
tended over a period of some 32 or
33 years and considerably antedates
the tenure of office of any member of
this Committee.
“Second, I felt a certain pride of
indirect authorship in the Republican
Party’s pledge of tariff revision
wherever needed.
“Third, I had responded to the
Republican National Committee’s re-
quest to help win the election in order
that the policies of the Republican
Party, as expressed in its platform,
might be carried into effect, and it
seemed to me that in carrying for-
ward that work I had assumed a sort
of moral responsibility to the Penn-
sylvania eitizenship to give whatever
assistance I could to the fruition of |
the foremost economic pledge made by
the Party in that campaign.
“Fourth, I was not here seeking any
‘special privilege, or exercising any
improper influence, or in support of
any particular rate or schedule, or
in behalf of any particular industry,
or as the representative of any par-
ticular organization. My primary in=
terest has been in seeing the basis of
our ad valorem rates changed from
the foreign valuation, which prac-
tically permits the foreigner to name
‘the duty he shall pay, to some do-
mestic basis, which would bring that
phase of our tariff law under the ad-
ministration of our own customs au-
thorities.
“Fifth, in common with many
others, I have the firm conviction
that members of Congress, elected as
the servants of the people, can learn
a great deal more about the actual
tariff requirements of American in-
dustry from men who have invested
their money and spent their lives in
it, than they can from some of the
so-calied ‘experts’ of the Tariff Com-
mission, many of whom are swivel-
chair economists who never have
spent an hour in an industrial plant
and never have had first-hand con-
tact with any of the practical prob-
lems which are the very essence of
that upon which they assume to speak
with authority.
“Sixth, I have for many years taken
some part in the public affairs and
Republican activities in
vania, and I think I fairly well know
the State’s economic requirements. I
know, too, therefore, that the needs
of Pennsylvania, representing as it
does practically every agricultural
crop and every industrial activity in
the country as a whole, are an index
to, and a cross-section of, the eco-
nomic requirements of the entire na-
tion. Anyone, therefore, acquainted:
with, and seeking to procure, the
Pennsyl- |
broad tariff heeds of Pe
could not be working for any!
other than the best interests of
country as a whole.”
The witnoss then hit squarely at
four of the five members of the Com- 3
mittee—Senators Caraway, of Arkan-
sas, chairman; Bort
Walsh, of Moxt- -
Harrison, of Miss
Arizona, and
Dakota.
Referring to the manner in whith
Senators from the mid-West an
West dwell upon the “agricultur
interset of their States, in their
pos’tion to revision of the industr
schedules of the tariff law, M
Grundy produced a table showing tha
while Pennsylvania is the second in
dustrial State in the Union, it al
has “77,000 more farms .and some
four hundred millions of dollars mor
of farm investments than the average
for these seven so-called ‘agricultural
States.”
This line of attack by the witness
was carried even further when, in an-
other tabular presentation, he took the
same seven States, added fifteen
others to them, and then showed tha
the total income tax paid by the en:
tire 22 was $5,000,000 less than tha
of Pennsylvania.
“Perusal of these figures,” he s
“justifies the statement that i
ume of voice in the: United Stat
upkeep, some of host States w
are now most vocal would need a
fiers to make their whispers hear
The truth of the matter is that su
States as Arizona, South Dako
Idaho, Mississippi, ete., do not p
enough toward the upkeep of the
Government to cover the costs of co!
lection, and. States. like Pennsylvania,
hamstrung as they are by adverse
legislation, support these backward
Commonwealths and provide them
with their good roéads, their post-
offices, their river’ improvements and
other Federal aid, figuratively on a
golden platter.”
The climax of the witness’ statis-
tical presentation was in a table in
which the same seven States were
compared with the seven industrial
States of Connecticut, Illinois, Mas-
sachusetts, New Jersey, New York,
Ohio and Pennsylvania. The thd
trial comparison was crushing, and as
to income tax it was shown that the
seven industrial States pay in excess
of 64% of the country’s total, while
the whole seven “so-called ‘agricul-
tural’ States” pay only slightly more
than 21% %.
Mr. Grundy also presented a table
showing 25 States whose total indus-
trial importance, measured by value
of output, is equalled by Pennsylvania.
alone.
The witness went directly after
Senator Borah, of Idaho, one.of the
shembers of the Committee and author
of one of the movements in the Senate
to have the tariff revision limited to
agricultural producys. He not only
emphasized Borah’s membership on
the Resolutions Committee which
drew the Republican tariff plank
promising “revision wherever nsces-
sary,” but quoted the following from
the Senator’s campaign speech in the
Boston Arena, November 2, 1928:
“Now, my friends, there is
nothing more vital in the closing
hours of this campaign than the
preservation of the policy upon
which the industries of this coun-
try have been built up and the
standard of wages has been built
up. Let us keep it in the hands
of those who have believed in it
from the beginning. Let us entrust
it to those who are not in danger i LG
of having any lapse of mind after
the election. What we want, my
friends, in the next four years, is
a policy which will undoubtedly
effectively protect American lab
and American industries against
the inroads which may come from
Europe both in manufactured ‘goods.
and in labor.” faire ia
“This,” said Mr. Grundy, “is Sen-
ator Borah—mnot in 1929, standing in
the United: States S2nate, doing his
utmost to limit tariff revision. to ag-
ricultural products, but Senator
Borah on November 2nd, 1928, stand-
ing on the platform of the Arena in
Boston, interpreting and proclaiming
to the industrialists and the indus-
trial workers of Massachusetts ‘and
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the country at large, the Republican
Party’s pledge, and. his own pledge, of
adequate and effective tariff protee-
tion for American labor and American
industries.
“What influences have caused the
esteemed Senator from Idaho to com-
pletely reverse himself within a
period of a few -months; what
changes of mind have prompted him
to regard the Republican Platform as
a ‘mere scrap of -paper,’ I do not
pretend to say., But I do say that he
is the embodiment of one of the many
reasons why I or any other Repub-
lican and industrialist who has the
courage to fight for his
should be here in Washington te do
whatever he legitimately can to offset
the determined efforts of one ‘who, in
the campaign, publicly proclaimed
himself and his Party to be for one
thing, and when the campaign is over,
and the people haye voted for the
pledges made, stands for quite an-
other thing.
“The Senator from Idaho, who
speaks so’ eloquently for agriculture,
represents a State which has only oz
fifth the number of farms that are in
Pennsylvania, only two-fifths of the
farm value, of Pennsylvania,
than one-fifteenth of the in 3
rights,