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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—Local option has been lost in the
Pennsylvania Assembly. It was defeated
on Wednesday by a vote of 128 to 78.
—So far as weather making is con-
cerned we know that last Sunday was
God's handiwork, but it was also one of
His masterpieces.
—Old Home Week should bring thous.
ands of Centre countains back to their
_native heath from all parts of the coun-
_ try. It will if the invitation is made in-
sistently enough.
—Chances of being struck by lightning
are said to be four times as great in the
country as they are in a city. The
‘ chances of surviving the shock are the
same in both places.
——Unless something of a drastic
. character is invoked in the near future
to check the rising tide of industry and
. commerce the Republican party will have
no issue for the campaign of next year.
—A camera small enough to be
swallowed, to photograph the interior of
the stomach, has been invented by a
‘Danish surgeon. What next, will suffer- |
ing humanity have to endure in order to
accommodate science?
—Begin to get ready now for “Old
Home Week.” Write your friends,
wherever they may be, that your latch
string will be hanging out and that there
will be plenty doing to make them all
-have the time of their lives.
—At a base-ball game at Sing Sing
“prison last week the prisoners won prin-
cipally through their expertness at steal-
ing bases. When it comes to purloining
things we should imagine that inmates of
such an institution would have it all
over most any class of opponents.
—The ups and downs in Mexico are
indeed many. VILLA is apparently on
the toboggan now. His army has re-
cently been defeated with a loss of six
thousand men and the inevitable is fol-
lowing: He is threatened with desertions
on all sides. The Mexicans are the boys
who set the example for the rats that
flee a sinking ship.
—The more articles our law makers
find to fasten taxes on the nearer they
.are bringing us to the day when a taxed-
poor public will be clamoring for direct
taxation. It is ridiculous, some of the
things the State now proposes to tax and
unless there is an end made soon to the
growing evil there is certain to be a pub-
lic revolt that will revolutionize the tax"
ing system.
|
of Bellefonte on Wednesday and while
‘there were a great many persons curious
to know why they were not at home
fighting for the fatherland they didn’t
seem to be worrving about the matter at
all and played “It’s a Long Way to Tip-
perary” without any more discord than
was noted in their rendition of “Wacht
dem Rhine.”
—The real news of the week has been
coming out of Syracuse. There Republi-
can Boss BARNES, of New York State, is
pressing his suit for libel against THEO-
DORE ROOSEVELT and what they are tell-
ing about one another is plenty. Both
the litigants are politicians and both
have gone the limit in playing the game.
Our sympathies are with BARNES for he,
at least, is not a hypocrite.
—The mayor, the sheriff, the judges
the director of public works and about
every other official of any consequence
in Terre Haute, Ind., six months ago is
now in the federal prison at Leavenworth,
Kansas, for election frauds. Judged from
the standing and number of the culprits
it looks as though social functions in
Terre Haute will have to be called off
until some of the notables get out of
prison.
—Governor BRUMBAUGH has lost his
fight for local option, but he fulfilled his
pre-election promises to do everything in
his power to bring about favorable action
on the issue. He went further than some
of us think a Governor should go in his
endeavor to get votes for the measure,
but be that as it may the results show
that those who favor local option must
vote for it when the opportunity presents
itself. The time to insure the success of
this matter is when we are electing Mem-
bers of the Assembly, not after they have
been chosen.
—The majority of sixty-seven votes
with which the full crew law repealer
finally passed the House, on Monday,
was a great surprise. While both sides
to the controversy had made claims of
ultimate success, among the railroad
officials themselves there was doubt as
to what the outcome really would be.
While the WATCHMAN has not entered
into a discussion of the merits of this
case it will be glad to see the repealer
pass the Senate and be signed by the
Governor, for the reason that we believe
that there is entirely too much legisla-
tion, both State and Federal, regulating
business. The burdens upon business
enterprise that are imposed by the
numerous reports that now have to be
made to both the State and Federal gov-
ernments are becoming almost intoler-
able and when added to these.is a dis-
position to legislate compulsory methods
for carrying on business in its every de-
tail the initiative: in business. is lost and
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 60.
Pennsylvania and the Presidency. |
We learn through the medium of our
esteemed Republican contemporary, the °
Philadelphia Public Ledger, which has as- :
sumed or usurped the office of spokes- :
man for Hon. A. MITCHELL PALMER, that
Mr. PALMER will not enter upon his judi-
cial service for the present for the reason
that he wants to make sure, “before he
takes. himself out. of politics,” that Penn-
sylvania will be for the renomination of
President WILSON next year. This is
gratifying for various reasons. In the
first place it refutes, confutes and con-
founds that cynical interpretation of lan-
guage which declared that “gratitude is
an appreciation of favors expected.” Mr.
PALMER expects no further favors from |
the President. He has been appointed
to alife office of dignity and affluence '
and most of his friends have been pro- |
vided for. His gratitude is of a better
type.
But there is no necessity for Mr. PAL- |
MER to delay his entrance upon the Fed- i
eral bench for the reason stated. Every |
Democrat in Pennsylvania favors the ;
renomination and re-election of Woob-
ROW WILSON in 1916 and the delegation '
which represents the State in the next
National Convention will vote for him
regardless of Mr. PALMER'S wishes in the |
premises. Pennsylvania Democrats are |
a unit in support of his Mexican policy, |
unanimous in approval of his foreign
policy and cordial in agreement with him
in his tariff, financial and social problems.
He has fulfilled every promise made dur-
ing his first campaign for election and
Democrats ask no more than that
from any public official. Because he has |
made such a record in his first term :
Pennsylvania Democrats are for him :
again. If anybody has informed him :
otherwise he has deceived him.
As a matter of fact Mr. PALMER would |
promote President WILSON’S political es- |
tate in Pennsylvania by taking himself !
out of politics at once. There is no op- |
position to his nomination either here or .
elsewhere and a united and harmonious
party in Pennsylvania might give him the |
-electoral wote.of Pennsylvania in the gen- !
eral election of next year. But there can
be no united and harmonious party in
Pennsylvania while Mr. PALMER contin- |
ues his policy of reprisals and his cam-
paigns of spite and hate. In 1912 the
electoral vote of Pennsylvania would |
have gone to WILSON except for the in-
competency of the Democratic manage-
ment of the campaign. In 1916 it will |
be lost to him for the same reason unless
Mr. PALMER takes himself out of politics
and permits the party to get together
and poll its full strength.
Good Use of the Veto Power.
In his very frequent exercise of the i
veto power Governor BRUMBAUGH has !
done nothing better than his veto of the |
bill increasing the expenses of adminis- |
tering the game department from $97,-
400 for two years, to upward of $300,000. |
No more mischievous piece of legislation
has been enacted in recent years. It had |
no merit in any direction. It simply
legalized the looting of the treasury for |
the benefit of a group of hungry political |
pensioners, some of whom are burdened
with shady reputations.
When the resident hunters’ license law
was pending in the Legislatures of 1911
and 1913, we predicted that its purpose
was to impose a tax upon hunters for the
benefit of favorites in the employ of the
department. Tis result was to be
achieved under the false pretense that half
the money acquired should be appropri-
ated to the progagation of game and the
other half to the payment of bounties for
the destruction of noxious animals and
birds. The department officials inter-
preted this to mean $300,000 for salaries
of game protectors and wardens.
Under the license law $600,000 have been
collected during the two years since it
went into operation. Accordingly the
game department officials prepared a bill
providing by the increase of salaries for
those already in commission and the
creation of new offices, for the payment
of $300,000 in salaries every two years.
The Governor promptly and properly
vetoed this iniquity, for the reason, as he
stated, that it is not just to levy a special
tax upon the hunters of the State for
such a purpose. And he was exactly and
everlastingly right. :
The hunters of Pennsylvania have no
obiection to contributing to a fund to
propagate and protect game and fish. |
They get ample recompense in the sport
of hunting and fishing. But they do ob-
ject most strenuously to a tax for the
purpose of providing fat salaries for
officials who may be efficient or other-
wise but are generously paid for their
services under existing law. The im-
plied rebuke to the Legislature for pass-
ing such a bill ought to have a whole-'
some influence.
itis burdened with entirely unwarranted |
expenses. ?
——Have your’ Job, Work ‘done here.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. APRIL 23, 1915.
Our Weekly Summary of Legislative Activities.
Feeling that the people of Centre county have a personal interest in what is
being done by the Legislators at Harrisburg and that laws that may affect the
future of every individual more directly than ever before are under consideration
now and may be written into the statutes of the Commonwealth, the WATCHMAN
has arranged to publish a weekly summary of what has been done at Harrisburg.
It is not the purpose to go into detail of the various Acts proposed and furnish
you with a burdensome account of them. Merely to set them, and whatever else
is deemed of interest to the people of this community, before you in a general,
unbiased statement that will keep you informed of the progress that is being
made. The contributor of this Summary is one of the most capable and best
informed of Harrisburg’s newspaper men and the WATCHMAN has been very for-
tunate in enlisting his service for this work.—ED.
rn sane,
HARRISBURG, PA., April 21, 1915.
The local option bill was defeated in the House of Representatives, this after-
noon, by a vote of 128 nays to 78 ayes. Every member of the body was present,
a rare circumstance, one declining to vote. The event had been widely advertised
and brought a vast crowd to the capitol. It had been arranged that the bill would
be taken up as a special order at 11 o'clock this morning and after two hours’
debate, divided equally between those favoring the bill and those opposed, put to
a vote. But you can’t stop a flood tide of talk in such a brief period of time and
the talk continued until 4 o'clock p. m., when the vote was ordered. The speak-
ers were frequently applauded and some of them were forceful and really elo-
quent.
The consideration of this measure has developed new methods, not to say
startling innovations, in legislation in Pennsylvania. Of course the Governor felt
keenly on the subject and equally certain his purpose was righteous. He had
solemnly pledged himself to local option and believes that the people have a right
to such legislation as they want. So they have but the expedients invoked by the
Governor to achieve the result may be questioned. Legislation that is the fruit of
frenzy, however commendable its purpose, may be more harmful than helpful.
During his campaign to fulfill his local option pledge Governor BRUMBAUGH has
infringed upon the prerogatives of a co-ordinate branch of the State government
and invoked a mob spirit to strangle deliberation. Possibly “the end justifies the
means,” but that is questionable and the means are hazardous.
The veto of the game bill has done as much as anything thus far to inspire
popular confidence in Governor BRUMBAUGH. That was a deliberate scheme to
loot the treasury for the benefit of a few political favorites. It created a number
of snug berths for party henchmen and vastly increased the salaries of a few
“nature fakirs” who imagine that they are ‘divinely appointed game protectors.
Another bill will be passed, of course, in order to put the money obtained from
gunners’ licenses into use, and additional wardens will be provided for.
When the Governor's message recalling TENER’S Public Service nominees was
read in the Senate last Thursday morning, Senator Crow, Chairman of the Re-
publican State Committee was “Stunned.” Nobody could say what it meant but
everybody was ready with a conjecture. Anyway it created consternation. As
has been indicated in this correspondence; fisre is ‘a fight between the Governor
and the machine impending but the machine has not been ready to take the
initiative and the Governor doesn’t have to. The recall was interpreted, by the
machine leaders, as a declaration of war and they immediately took to the trench-
es. That is to say they adjourned the session without acting upon the message.
The generally accepted solution of the problem is that the Governor wanted
to use the patronage in his local option campaign. Of course nobody imagines
that he intended to offer seven fat jobs for a bunch of votes. That would be
“corrupt practice” under an interpretation of the courts. But it is believed that
he was willing to have the impression current that he had the patronage in hand
and votes for local option would incline him to a friendly interest in the welfare
and ambitions of those who had votes to dispose of in bulk or otherwise. As a
matter of fact hope for the passage of the local option bill jumped perceptibly
when information of the recall spread about.
Outside of that there have been no shocks since my last letter and few sur-
prises. The first page of the charity appropriation programe was exposed on
Thursday when 238 bills carrying appropriations for hospitals and homes were
reported from the House Committee. The Bellefonte hospital will get $12,500.
Like all other things appropriations go by favor. For example the Lock Haven
hospital gets $31,000, the Altoona hospital $60,000 and the Reading hospital only
$30,000. The population of Altoona, according to the last census was 51,613 and
that of Reading 96,071. But the people of Berks county never would vote to suit
the Republican machine and State charity in Pennsylvania is measured on a par-
tisan standard. *
The search for new subjects of taxation or what amounts to the same thing,
opportunities to increase the taxes on things already under levy, still continues.
The other day the Governor, the “Joint Legislative Committee of the General
Assembly” and the Chairmen of the two appropriation Committees, held a con-
ference on this subject. As a result of this conference it is estimated that a new
and increased tax on anthracite coal might yield $4,500,000; a fifty per cent. in-
crease on automobile licenses $600,000; a tax on stock transfers, $500,000 and
shifting the expense of primary elections from the State to the county treasuries
would save $800,000, making a net gain of $6,400,000. There was talk of a real
estate tax and it may safely be predicted that unless the Republican machine is
voted out such a tax will be voted in before long.
The Legislature has been working industriously, if not assiduously, during
the past week and the volume of laws is increasing notwithstanding the liberal
use of the veto axe. On Thursday of last week the Governor approved the bill
providing for the commitment to a new State institution persons addicted to the
use of alcohol and drugs; requiring the posting of primary election returns as re-
turns of general elections are posted; providing for payment of judgments, mort-
gages and other claims which are leins on property affected by public improve-
ments or taken by the exercise of eminent domain; to quiet title to realty held or
formerly held by corporations not authorized ‘to do so and defining powers of
boards of health in boroughs and first class townships.
This week has been a “hummer” on the Hill. When the House met on Mon- |
day evening every member except one was in his seat and the chamber was
charged with an atmosphere of industry. Soon after the session opened Mr.
HABGOOD, of McKean, moved to amend the local option bill which was on second
reading under agreement, by making the unit townships in. the rural districts and
wards in the cities and large boroughs. HABGOOD is more or less entranced by the
music of his own throat and probably made the motion in order to make a speech.
He made his speech and his amendment was voted ‘down by something like 200
to three. After that incident the BALDWIN bill for the repeal of the Full Crew
law was taken up as a special order. It was debated at length and with a good
deal of earnestness and passed by a vote of 135 ayes to 68 nays. .
The trainmen talk of continuing the fight in the Senate but they may as well
abandon that purpose. . “That hosses’ eyes is sot,” and the vote in the Senate
will be more emphatic than that in the House. As a matter of fact the ‘present
Legislature is more completely under the domination of corporate and machine
influences than any of its predecessors since 1905. The probable change in the
personnel of the Public Service Commission, as giving promise of fair treatment
in that body, promotes the prospect of prompt passage. In any event. it is cer-
tain that the matter will be brought up to the Commission and the repeal may
turn out to be a Trainmen’s “blessing in disguise.” :
Saad [Continued on page 4, Col. 2.]
NO. 17.
| PASS A LAW.
| Are your neighbors very bad?
Pass a law!
Do they smoke? Do they chew?
Pass a law!
Are they always bothering you?
Don’t they do as you would do?
Pass a law!
Are your wages awful low?
Pass a law!
Are the prices much to high?
Do the wife and babies cry
"Cause the turkeys all roost high?
Pass a law!
When M. D. finds new diseases,
Pass a law!
Got the mumps and enfermesis,
Measles, croup or “‘expertisis?”’
Lest we all should fly to pieces,
Pass a law!
Are the lights aburning red?
Pass a law!
Paint ‘em green or paint ’em white!
Close up all them places tight!
My! Our town is such a sight!
Pass a law!
No matter what the trouble is,
Pass a law!
Goodness sakes, but ain’t it awful!
My! What are we going to do?
Almost anything ain’t lawful,
And the judge is human, too!
Pass a law!
—Public.
Why Not Tax Baby Carriages?
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Why has the genius who is devising a
tax pregram for the present state admin-
istration overlooked the baby carriage,
‘the rolling pin, the knitting needle and
the garden rake? People must have such
implements. Taxes would not cause
them to go into hiding. Moreover, taxing
such articles would follow out the policy
outlined. It would bear heaviest upon
the common people, it is the common
people Who run most to baby carriages,
rolling pins, knitting needles and garden
rakes. And, after all, what is the differ-
ence between putting a tax on a baby
carriage and on a life insurance policy
or a savings bank account? If there is a
baby in the household the life insurance
policy and the savings bank account are
viewed by the parents from the angle of
the child’s future needs. And think of
the beauties of a tax on baby carriages!
It could be ordered that each one have
tacked to it somewhere a license tag. An
unlicensed baby carriage could be carted
to the police station. Father would pay
4. in order to get the baby out.of hock.
All very simple. And all a proper sort of
a tax program that contemplates taxing
savings accounts, life insurance, hard
coal and automobiles.
The proposition to tax hard coal sug-
: gests the thought that stoves and fur-
| naces should be added to the list of
i things included in the list of the tax
gatherer. There is quite as much sense
in taxing stoves as there is in taxing
coal. The man who uses the stove or
the furnace would pay the tax. The man
who burns the coal would pay the tax.
If it is proper to soak the coal user, it is
right to soak the stove owner.
And there is the proposed increase
in the auto tax. The Brumbaugh tax
experts may imagine that boosting that
tax on autos is a way of boosting the tax
on the leisure class. Nothing to that.
There are more autos used in industries
and in business than there are autos
used simply for pleasure. Goods are de-
trucks by the thousand. It must be ap-
parent that an auto tax is a wheel tax
and that a wheel tax carried to its logic-
al conclusion would bring back the day
of the pack horse and the flat boat
The Brumbaugh administration would
seem to be going out of its way in order
to devise new taxes by means of which
to soak Mr. Common People. Every idea
proposed is an attack upon industry and
upon thrift. The consumer in every in-
stance foots the bill. And all the while
the great reservoir of natural resources,
: the natural storehouse of the State, re-
mains in the hands of private individuals
to be tapped when private convenience
dictates.
An increased tax on anthracite coal
means an increase in the price of coal.
A tax on idle anthracite coal lands
means a decreased price of coal.
The Brumbaugh adminstration seems
bent upon taxing as many things as pos-
sible out of use, while studiously side-
stepping every plan to tax anything into
use. :
Men Grafting Fortunes Through War.
From the Harrisburg Star-Independent.
There are certain persons in England,
and no doubt in the other belligerent
countries, too, if the facts were known,
who are making fortunes out of the war.
They are war grafters,—contractors for
i army supplies who are providing inferior
| goods and reaping large profits. For
them, the longer the war lasts the better.
i Soldiers are leaving London these days
.in splendid khaki uniforms, but after
| some slight wear and tear on their cloth-
tractors, it is said, are making the uni-
| forms of the cheapest material obtain.
| able, while basing their charges on goods
' of the'best quality. Not only uniforms,
| but also boots have been found to be
very poorly made.
| It is revolting, not so’ much to think
that the contractors have been so’ dis-
| honest in furnishing army supplies, as
[that they have been so heartless as to
|
endanger the lives of the soldiers and
even the cause of their country by pro-
| viding the men at the front with faulty
| wearing ipparel.. Not only are the sol-
| diers ‘subjected to injurious exposure
| when their uniforms wear out, but also
- | to rheumatism when their cheaply made
| boots are filled with water while they are
| on the march or living in the trenches.
There could, perhaps, be no better ex-
| ample'of an unpatriotic citizen than a
contractor who would deliberately weak-
en his country’s hzhting forces for his
own financial gain.
—
livered by automoblie. There are auto |
| upon she poured
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
i
|
| —Waiter Williams, of Lock Haven, who was
| injured in a fall from a motor cycle, died in the
! Lock Haven hospital, as a result of his injuries.
| He was 21 years old.
{ —At the recent special election in Clearfield
| the voters decided by a majority of 123 that the
| school directors of the town shall have authority
to issue bonds for the erection of a new High
school building.
—An option has been secured on the John Neal
farm, a short distance south of Indiana, for the
encampment of the Second brigade, National
Guard of Pennsylvania, which is likely to be held
there August 7-14;
—John Jones, 99 years old, the oldest resident
of Oliver township, Jefferson county, died the
other day. He was born within a few miles of
the farm on which he died and lived in that im-
mediate vicinity all his life.
—Daniel Thomas, a well known resident of Jef-
ferson county, was thrown against a circular saw
in.a saw mill near his home. Hisleft leg was cut
off at the knee and he died soon after from the
shock. He was 52 years old. foe
—Johnstown has a ten-year-old girl who suc-
ceeded in knocking out a masculine brute who
attacked her, inflicting such serious injuries that
| a surgeon had to be called to attend the fellow
after he had been locked up.
—When Mrs. J. W. Eicher, of Indiana, return-
ed home from church last Sunday morning she
.| found her husband dead in the cellar. He had
put a bullet in his head killing himself almost in-
stantly. He was 50 years old and in ill health.
—The barn on the farm of Perry Wertman,
near Allenwood, Lycoming county, together with
the hog pen and other buildings, was destroyed
by fire the other evening. Six horses, 14 head of
cattle and 26 hogs were burned to death in the
fire.
"—M. E. Dunn, a Williamsport plumber, had
the end of his nose bitten off by a small dog.
Dunn had been called toa home to inspect the
plumbing and as he leaned over the gate to un- -
latch it the dog attacked him, inflicting the in-
jury.
—A deal has been closed by which Mahlon W.
Keim, of Johnstown, sold a coal tract in Paint
township, Somerset county, to the Scalp Level
Coal company, the consideration being $140,000.
Mr. Keim obtained control of the tract by option
| some months ago.
—According to officials of the Johnstown Water
company the Flood city every twenty-four hours
consumes 9,500,000 gallons of water. Anticipat-
ing a larger consumption in the future the com-
pany has made plans for the construction of a
billion gallon reservoir on Laurel Run.
—About 300 chickens have been separated from
their owners in DuBois during the last few weeks
and chicken owners in that town are profoundly
| interested in the consequences following the ar-
. rest of Joe Bailey and Leonard Mortar, two lads
who are believed to have been the chief thieves,
—Two young men from Hastings went into
Clearfield county the other day on a fishing trip,
using dynamite to kill the fish. Their operations
were observed by a constable, who placed them
under arrest and at a hearing each was fined
$105 and the costs. The thirty fish they secured
cost them $7 apiece.
—Ropert Dunlap, a well known resident of An-
sonville, Clearfield county, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the neck with a shot-
gun. Dunlap, who was addicted to the use of
morphine found it extremely difficult to get the
drug since the passage of the Harrison law, and
this is given as his reason for killing himself.
—The town of Maysville, seven miles north of
Altoona, was almost wiped out by fire late Mon-
day afternoon. Damage to the amount of $30,-
000 was done. Starting from a defective flue in
the home of George Goodrich it spread and part-
ly destroyed Spigelmyer’s hotel and nine other
{ dwellings and a Polish club house. Cresson and
Gallitzin fire companies saved the town by mak-
ing overland runs with their apparatus.
—William G. Kenaga, of Alexandria, who had
! driven to Huntingdon last Sunday in his automo-
bile, with three other persons, on the return trip
was crowded into the guard rail at the top of
| Charlie’s Hill by a car said to hail from Altoona.
The rail broke but the car fortunately caught on
a post and was thus prevented from falling a dis-
tance of 150 feet over the precipice and into the
Juniata river at Vuille’s. It was a narrow es-
cape. Kenaga is quite well known in Bellefonte.
—The celebrated Clark’s Ferry bridge, span-
ning the Susquehanna river about a mile north
of Duncannon, has been sold at public sale, the
purchaser being Christian W. Lynch, of Harris
burg. The consideration was $4,500. It is one of
the longest wooden covered bridges in the world,
; being 2,000 feet in length. For many years dur-
i ing canal days it contained a towing path along
its west side for the use of the teams that drew
| the boats across Clark’s Ferry dam in the pas-
| sage between the Susquehanna and Juniata di-
[fm of the canal. :
1
—A. Grant Richwine, former president of the
| defunct Jersey Shore Water company; W. Dale
| Shaeffer, Charles S. Boll and J. N. Deeter, direc-
i tors of the company, waived a hearing at Wil-
| liamsport Monday afternoon on a charge of con-
| spiracy to defraud the Jersey Shore Water com-
. Dany out of $30,000 by means of a bond issue for
| worthless land in the mountains. All the men
i reside at Harrisburg and gave bail before a Har-
risburg alderman for their appearance at the
! next term of court. They will probably be tried
1
! at the June term. * :
—*T have fourteen children and I need work,”
| said Frank Czapski, of Pittsburgh, to Director
Robert Swan, of the Department of Public
Works, on Monday morning, “and what’s more,
I must have it.” “Any man who is brave enough
to have fourteen children in this twentieth cen-
tury,” replied the director. “should certainly be
rewarded with a job.” Czapski was given a job
in the city asphalt-making plant. His youngest
child is three months old and his oldest is twenty-
one years. Czapski has been out of work all
winter, so were his oldest children. Heowns the
house in which he resides, and until the mills
closed down he always made good wages.
—Dr. C. T. S. Shaffer, aged about 38 years,
druggist and surgeon for the Berwind-White
Coal company of Windber, Somerset county, was
almost instantly killed in an automobile accident
two miles north of Tyrone Sunday evening. The
physician, in company with his brother-in-law
and sister, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. McMurray, of Al,
toona; his brother, W. E. Shaffer, and a. Mr.
| Hill, of Windber, were driving towards Tyrone
| ing they are garbed in tatters. The con- |
from a visit to Philipsburg. | When near Vail sta-
tion Dr. Shaffer, who was driving the car, seem-
ed to lose control of it. He made an effort to
skirt another car on the narrow road, and in do-
ing so drove his machine into a deep ditch, the
car overturned three times and was completely
demolished. Dr. Shaffer was picked up in an
unconscious condition and died within a few
minutes.
—Up in Blair county is a man named Hoover
who has regained his faith in banks. Several
months ago he sold acow to a drover, receiving
$65 in cash for the animal. Having no immedi-
ate use for the money, and his faith in banks hav-
ing been shattered by recent newspaper reports
of absconding cashiers, he placed the coin of the
realm ina sack containg a quantity of beans in
the attic. When his wife be; the house clean-
ing process a few days shesaw that the beans
rie id wormy and unfit for food, where-
them, money and all, into an
iron kettle, and boiled the entire mess into a
huge soup for the hogs. Mr. Hoover.
bank account on Tuesday.. “I've had ough,
rience with bean bag banks,” he declared.
Feeding hogs $65 banquets I fear would have a
| tendency on gthe price of pork.” -