Demorralic Wald
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
Surely this is growing weather.
— Part of Russia has fallen off the
water wagon and is again being en-
slaved by vodka.
—Have you bo * a Liberty Bond
yet? The safest mn, estment you can
make is in government bonds.
— Those Russian miners who de-
mand $175 a month for work don’t
seem to know the difference between
compensation and confiscation.
—The poet Shelley was an immor-
tal and he died at the age of thirty,
but the anvil chorus wasn’t sung in
Shelley’s time and knockers were un-
heard of. :
_ Fifteen carloads of potatoes
found rotting on a siding outside of
Chicago looks like someone preferred
to see them going to waste rather
than sell them to the needy at a fair
price.
John Barrett, who knows Cen-
tral and South America better than
any other living man predicts that
within a year all of the Republics
south of us will be united in the war
against Germany.
— The American commission, with
Elihu Root at its head, has safely
landed in Russia. Next of importance
will be the landing of a stable gov-
ernment in that distracted country.
The American commission should go
a long way toward accomplishing that
end.
—On Monday a young man tried
out the fishing from the Water street
sidewalk prohibition. He spent the
rest of the day in the lockup. Officer
Dukeman was on the job and nabbed
him so promptly that he and a lot of
others will have more respect for the
borough ordinances in the future.
— Tuesday was the anniversary of
the terrible “black frost” of 1859,
when all wheat, corn and vegetables
in this country were frozen black. The
only thing that could be done to meet
the extremity was to sow buckwheat
in the grain fields and it served as a
substitute for wheat and corn during
the following winter.
— Five thousand young men of con-
seription age paraded in Scranton on
Sunday and as they marched they
sang:
Tramp, tcamp, tramp, the boys are march-
ing!
Cheer up, comrades, we will come.
We will go and get a gun
And we'll make the Kaiser run
And there won't be any Kaiser anymore.
— Twenty dollars a bushel tax on
all grain used in distilled liquors is
one of the new proposals. This would
be equivalent to an extra tax of from
five to nine dollars per gallon. My,
wouldn’t this have struck consterna-
tion in the camp of the Pooh-Poos,
back of the old ice house, had it been
proposed when it was such a baccha-
nalian rendezvous some years ago.
—The “Watchman’s” list of eligi-
bles to: enrollment, published last
week, proved a great help to the reg-
istrars in nearly every precinct in the
county. While it was not strictly au-
thentic yet it formed a very good ba-
sis upon which many of them worked,
who have since expressed their grati-
tude to the “Watchman” for its great
contribution to the work that was so
creditably completed on Tuesday.
__If the draft that will follow Tues-
day’s registration is made on the ba-
sis of population Centre county will
have to supply about 200 men for the
first army of 500,000. If it is made
on the basis of the number of men el-
igible to conscription we will have to
supply about 150. If the plan to cred-
it each county with the men already
enlisted in the Federal service is act-
ed upon then Centre has already sup-
plied more than her quota.
__It is certain that many unpleas-
ant situations will be met with before
the war is over. Our personal liber-
ties may be considerably curtailed,
our physical cemforts interfered with
and otherwise we may have to suffer
much all of which will be so new to
most of us as to cause us to chafe un-
der the restraints that the exigencies
of war have made necessary. Now is
the time to begin the cultivation of a
frame of mind that will accept what-
ever comes without grumbling. The
die is cast and there can be no back-
ward step until the purposes for
which we have invoked war have been
accomplished. It will be only ex-
hausting the individual nervous force
to worry about this, that or the other
thing and ‘twill be far better to ac-
cept everything as it comes, believing
that it is for our ultimate good.
—Troop L needs one hundred and
three sweaters. The ladies will knit
them if the yarn to cost $1.50 each is
provided. The young men of our
community will be called upon to
make the kind of sacrifices that we
who are too old can never render the
equivalent of. It is up to us more
than to any other class of men to re-
spond to this call for sweaters. Are
there ninety-eight who read this par-
agraph, who are forty-five years of
age or over, who will send their
checks to the “Watchman” at once to
provide the yarn for these sweaters ?
The “Watchman” will start the list
by providing for five of them. Every-
body has many calls of this character
and everybody can expect many more
and at that we will be giving so little
as compared with the younger men
who are called to give their lives for
: VOL. 62.
Good Tidings in the Future.
The safe arrival of the Root mis- |
sion in Russia inspires hope for the
restoration of order and the estab-
lishment of sane government in that
country. The personnel of the com-
mission guarantees the wisest action.
Besides Mr. Root the party consists
of John R. Mott, Cyrus H. McCor-
mick, Samuel R. Bertron, James Dun-
can, Charles Edward Russell, General
Hugh L. Scott, Chief-of-Staff of the
army and Rear Admiral James H.
Glennon of the navy. The announce-
ment of the landing neglects to state
at what port or point entry to Russia
was effected. But it is said that with-
in a week the commission will be in
Petrograd ready for whatever work
is found to do.
There is much work to be done and
it must be done quickly. Ever since
the revolution German conspirators
have been busy planting the seeds of
discontent among the peasantry and
striving in every conceivable way to
embarrass the provisional govern-
ment. That they made a vast amount
of trouble is not surprising for there
was little effort made to counteract
their efforts. But the strong men who
had assumed control of the empire
performed wonders in holding up as
well as they did in the circumstances.
Now that they will have the moral
and material support of the govern-
ment of the United States through
the medium of the Root commission
the chances are for a victory for the
right.
The trouble in Russia has been a
vast advantage to the German opera-
tions in France and Belgium. It
practically removed the Russian con-
tingent from the firing line and re-
leased the troops which had been held
there by Germany for service on the
other front. If it had not occurred
the chances are that the English and
French drives against the Hinden-
burg lines in France would have been
completely successful and the thea-
tre of war changed before the sum-
mer is over from French to German
soil. If Root and his associates are
able to resuscitate the Russian spirit
and revive Russian patriotism, as
there are reasons to hope they may,
the near future will be full of good
tidings.
This is notime to strike. The
railroads and industrial plants must
be kept in operation to supply the
government with materials to prose-
cute the war. But neither isit a
time to abrogate legislation for the
benefit of labor.
Steel or Wooden Ships.
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It is to be hoped that the differenc-
es between Chairman Denman, of the
Federal Shipping Board, and Gener-
al Goethals, who has been selected by
the President to superintend the con-
struction of ships will be adjusted ami-
cably. Mr. Denman, it appears, fa-
vors the construction of wooden ships,
for the reason, probably, that less
time is required on the unit. Gener-
al Goethals, on the other hand, favors
steel ships for the reason that the ma-
terials for the number of ships need-
ed, if wood, are not available. The
country has sublime faith in the pa-
triotism and efficiency of both gentle-
men. A sane and safe compromise
would be to build both types as rap-
idly as possible.
It was unfortunate that General
Goethals expressed his opinion on the
subject at a dinner given by the
president of the Steel trust. The
Steel trust wants the government to
build steel ships because that would
create an abnormal demand for
structural steel. The lumber mag-
nates, and they compose a hungry
horde, prefer wooden ships because
it would cause a vastly inflated de-
mand for timber. Prices of both ma-
terials are high now but under the
stress of increased consumption would
go much higher. The situation,
therefore, resolves itself into a com-
petition between the steel and the
lumber producers. It would be a
great pity to jeopardize the interests
of the country because of such a
quarrel.
But publicly exploiting opinions
and ostentatiously airing personal
grievances will inevitably work that
result. In Mr. Denman’s fling at
General Goethals there are volumes
of comfort for the enemy. It implies
a question of the integrity of the
great canal builder that should not
have been uttered and the publication
of such implications is most regretta-
ble. Let us hope it will go no further.
Big men do not quarrel about trifles
and those in this controversy are gi-
ants in intellect. Meantime press
forward the building of ships, steel
and wood. The men in the trenches
must be fed and unless ships are pro-
vided to send them food stuffs they
will go hungry before long.
— The Liberty Bond seems to be
reestablishing in the popular mind
the thought that “a National debt is
the great cause for which we are
fighting. Won't you be one of the
ninety-eight ?
a National blessing.” Anyway noth-
ing has gone so far toward arousing
enthusiasm as the Liberty Bond.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., J UNE 8, 1917.
| German Confidence Misplaced.
The Germans openly boast that they
| have no fear of the effect of the en-
| trance of the United States into the
| war for the rcason that the conquest
| of England, France and Italy will be
! achieved before our help can be made
| effective. Like the expectation that
| the Kaiser would eat his Christmas
| dinner in 1915, in Paris, this is a men-
ital delusion. United States torpedo
| boat destroyers are already operating
! within the zone of U-boat activities
struments of barbarism has been ma-
| terially lessened because of it. With-
|in a few
| Pershing with a considerable force
| will be on the firing line and we as-
| sure the Kaiser they will be effective.
It is more than likely, moreover,
that within a few months the entire
and the destructiveness of those in- |
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End of the War Distant.
When the world war began, in Au-
gust, 1914, few persons believed it
would last more than six months.
Sir Herbert Kitchener estimated that
it might continue three years and was
laughed at as a hopeless pessimist.
Now, thirty-three months later no
student of military science will ven-
ture a prediction as to the end. There
are optimists who hope that within a
year the last battle will be fought
and a lasting, if not a perpetual
peace established. But those with
better opportunities to know are less
hopeful and on both sides of the sea
weeks at most General | arrangements for mustering men and
providing munitions three years hence
are being made. Much depends upon
the kind of peace that is to be obtain-
ed.
With the forces of the Central pow-
National Guard of the country will be | ers receding, slowly but surely, both
on European soil. These have had
the immeasurable benefit of several | a
months’ training on the Mexican bor-
der and are equal in every respect to
the highest trained soldiers of Ger-
many with the advantage that they
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on the French and Austrian fronts,
temporary peace might be secured
within a few months. The moment
it dawns upon the mind of the Kaiser
that a victory against autocracy is
inevitable, he will be willing and anx-
are fresh, zealous and intelligent sol- | ious to stop the fight on terms that
diers, which cannot be said of the
{ rank and file of the German army. ! ly, his autocratic power.
| Then, before the snow flies in the fall, | not relinquish his power until his last
| lion men obtained through the selec-
| tive conscription now in progress will
be available to reenforce their com-
trenches.
But the impudent boast of the Ger-
fied. We have been moving “at a
snail’s pace” in one or two directions
and the slur upon our tardiness
should stimulate celerity. Congress
has been wasting time on every
measure that has come before it and
bills which ought to have been passed,
signed and in operation weeks ago are
still under discussion. From this out,
however, there will be little to com-
plain of. Not only men but muni-
tions, materials and instruments of
war will be sent forward with en-
hanced rapidity. Our navy, the pride
of the world, will be on the job and
undersea and overhead ships be so
plentiful as to change German confi-
| dence into consternation.
A great many things have gone
| wrong in Russia since the reveiution
but all things considered there is hope
| for the future of that unhappy coun-
try. It was there autocracy had
reached its worst form and illiteracy
had its widest field. But there are ca-
pable and patriotic men in Russia and
they may be able to find a way to na-
tional salvation.
Abhorrent Title but Necessary.
There is a good deal of hazard in
| vesting in any individual the authori-
ty of a “food dictator.” In ordinary
times the thought of it would be in-
tolerable. But these are not ordina-
ry times and there is for the present
infinitely more danger in food specu-
lation than in any other menace in
view. A food dictator might impair
the purpose of a few conscienceless
operators to rob. But food specula-
tion will deprive millions of the neces-
saries of life and starve countless wo-
men and children. Obviously, there-
fore, a food dictator is the lesser of
two evils and the sooner the necessary
legislation creating such a functiona-
ry is enacted the better for the pub-
lic.
Of course the tenure of a food dic-
tator will terminate “vith the necessi-
ty which brought him into office If
the war ends in six months the au-
thority will automatically cease. There
have been food speculators in times
of peace and the moment the food dic-
tator abdicates they will resume bus-
iness at the old stand. But less dras-
tic remedies than dictatorship car be
invoked against them. It is an ab-
horrent title and the American people
want as little of it as possible. They
want mighty few food speculators
either and whan the foed dictator ab-
dicates the food speculator will be tak-
en hold of by the people, who will then
have the leisure to look after him, and
be dealt with becomingly.
At this time, however, a food dicta-
tor is the only instrument competent
to properly handle the food speculator
and happily we have a man at the
head of the government, and he has at
his command a man, who may be de-
pended upon to exercise but not abuse
the authority which he will have.
Woocrow Wilson has no selfish pur-
poses to subserve and Herbert Hoov-
er has no sinister interests to promote
and both may, therefore, be relied up-
on to use the vast authority bestowed
upon them for the henefit of the peo-
ple. The armies must be fed and the
non-combatants prevented from star-
vation and those results can be guar-
anteed only by the creation of the of-
fice of food dictator.
— In some of the towns in this
State there are persons mean enough
to steal from the war garden plots
being cultivated by women and chil-
dren. Nothing of that kind is likely
to happen in Bellefonte.
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man officers is to some extent justi- |
will guarantee him, even temporari-
But he will
| it may be expected that the half mil- | available resources are exhausted and
that means a considerable time in the
future. The United States is in the
fight for the purpose of completely
rades who have preceded them to the eliminating autocracy from the gov-
erning agencies of the world, which,
on the other hand, means a long
struggle.
The most hopeful sign in recent
events is in the steady progress of the
Italians on the Austrian front. The
apparent determination of the provis-
ional government of Russia to stand
firmly to its obligations to her allies
and press forward in its fight against
Germany is encouraging, of course.
But the immediate necessity of pit-
ting the full strength of Austria
against the advancing and increasing
force of Italy will weaken the German
line at every point and make ultimate
victory certain. Within a few weeks
an American contingent will be op-
erating on the French front with char-
acteristic energy and efficiency, but
even under these auspicious condi-
tions we may have years of battling
yet.
Centre county’s registration
did not size up to the number it was
rated at by war experts, 4,500, but
that was because said experts did not
know Centre county. When it is to
be considered that the military en-
rollment for last year was less than
2,500 a gain of practically seven hun-
dred or more than twenty-five per
cent. over that figure is a very cred-
itable showing. It not only speaks
well for the solidarity of the young
manhood of the county but demon-
strates their patriotism as well. Not
a single man so far as known made
any effort to evade the registration.
And a casual glance at the registra-
tion cards leads the writer to believe
that mot over ten per cent. of those
registered gave reasons for exemp-
tion from conscription. Whatever
may happen in the future, the time
will come when citizens of the county
will be able to point with pride to the
part her brave sons took in the war
for the democracy of the world.
The three day camp of five
troops of the First Pennsylvania cav-
alry with the Boal gun troop, as
guests of Capt. Theodore Davis Boal,
will begin at his home at Boalsburg
today and continue until Sunday.
Just how many of Troop L will go up
has not been given out, but it is pret-
ty certain to have a good representa-
tion. It is very likely that many
Bellefonters will motor to Boalsburg
tomorrow and Sunday to see the sol-
dier boys in camp and at drill.
— Wtiile it hardly seems possible
yet the annual commencement at The
Pennsylvania State College will be
held next week. While the graduat-
ing class this year is a large one so
many of the young men have alreacy
left college to go. into the United
States service that the commence-
ment exercises will not be as elabo-
rate this year as formerly.
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Will Bellefonte have a safe and
sane Fourth of July, without the care-
less waste of explosives? While the
question has not yet been agitated
we feel certain that Bellefonte people
will be a unit in conserving every-
thing that will in any way aid in the
successful prosecution of the war in
which we have become embroiled. _
Germany is said to be prepar-
ing some fresh surprises. Probably
having found brutality a failure the
Kaiser proposes to introduce some
decent methods.
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Old Jupiter Pluvius has been
working overtime this week and the
rainfall has been above normal. But
it is making all kinds of crops grow
as if by magic.
——If you find it in the “Watch-
man” it’s true.
NO. 25.
ENTIRE GUARD TO GO.
No Intention to Split Pennsylvania
Division for Service in France.
May Drop Some Officers.
Washington, D. C., June 6.—When
the Pennsylvania National Guard is
sent to the battlefields of France it
will go as a division. There is no in-
tention upon the part of the War De-
partment to send the First, Third,
Thirteenth and Eighteenth Infantry
ahead of the rest of the division, as
has been reported. Unqualified deni-
al of the report, which came. from
Philadelphia, was made by Brig. Gen.
William A. Mann, Chief of the Divis-
jon of Militia Affairs, and Rrig. Gen.
H. P. McCain, Adjutant General of
the Army.
“We intend to adhere to our plan
not to break up divisions,” said Gen-
eral Mann. “That means that all the
Pennsylvania troops will go together.
The entire country has been divided
into divisions and our plans have
been worked out along that live. If
we should take individual regiments
from the divisions all our plans
would be shifted.”
General Mann said that for two
weeks after the Pennsylvania guards-
men are mustered into the Federal
service on July 15th they will be
quartered in their armories and not
sent to the State mobilization camps
as originally intended. The reason
for keeping them in their armories is
that it will facilitate iecruiting the
companies to full war strength, be-
cause the troops can parade in the
cities and towns and do active re-
cruiting work. Furthermore, the can-
tonments will not be ready to receive
them then, and there will be many
routine matters to dispose of before
training in the field begins.
MAY DROP SOME OFFICERS.
It is altogether probable that a
number of men now holding commis-
sions in the Pennsylvania National
Guard will not be given corresponding
ranks in the Federal service. Gener-
al Mann said that the Adjutant Gen-
eral of each State has been requested
to supply a list of the officers he con-
siders inefficient. The report General
Stewart submits will be checked up
with the records of the officers. As
all officers down to second lieutenant
must be recommissioned by the Pres-
ident when they enter the Federal
service, it will be easy to drop any of-
ficer who is not qualified. All officers
above the rank of colonel must be
confirmed by the Senate.
In denying the report that individ-
ual militia regiments are to be select-
ed for early service abroad, General
Mann said that if there are any
changes in the plans for handling a
division at a time they will be made
after the troops reach France if Maj.
Gen. John J. Pershing concludes that
his troops can be handled to better
advantage there by changing the plan.
General Mann denied that there had
even been a suggestion sent from the
War Department that certain regi-
ments might be chosen to go ahead of
the others from the Pennsylvania
Guard. He said that when the
guardsmen now engaged in guarding
bridges are called into the Federal
service this work will be handed over
to the home guard composed of men
too old for field military service.
American Flotilla Protects Commerce.
_ The British Port Base of the Amer-
ican Flotilla, Via London, June 6.—
The American destroyers have com-
pleted their first month of active serv-
ice in the great war. They have been
favored with excellent weather, which
is a big factor in anti-submarine war-
fare. Most of the time they have had
sunny skies and smooth seas, with just
enough squall and ‘storm to put their
seamanship to test. The favorable
weather conditions made their task of
learning the tecnique of anti-subma-
rine warfare much simpler and easier.
The American boats are assigned
to work hand in hand with the Brit-
ish squadrons being virtually assimi-
lated into the British naval machinery
here. A destroyer is usually out for
four or flve days, and then returns to
port for two or three days while coal-
ing and loading supplies.
Thus every American sailor gets at
least half a day shore leave practic-
ally every week.
The Americans take their turn with
the British boats in all routine work
of patrol and convoy. The work, al-
though largely routine, is interesting
and the Americans have never yet
found time hanging heavy on their
hands. The lookout must be constant
and eyes must be trained to amr unbe-
lievable degree of keenness. The
young Americans take zealously to
the business of finding the periscopic
needle in the nautical haystack, ard
daily reports of submarines sighted,
of observations made, of wireless and
signal warnings sent broadcast show
that the American boats are already
making an average of results almost
as satisfactory as the long experienc-
ed British boats with which they are
operating.
There has been no actual battle as
yet between an American destroyer
and the enemy, althopgh several re-
ports show that U boats have been
sighted and have been compelled to
beat a hasty retreat to the depths of
the sea.
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——OQOyster Bay is a fairly good
sized town but there is no recruiting
station there to oblige men anxious
to enlist.
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— They are all good enough, but
the “Watchman” is always the best.
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Chasing chickens out of his cornfield
proved too much exertion for L. P. Mont-
| gomery, aged 59 years, of Rayne town-
ship, Indiana county, on Sunday, and he
dropped dead from heart failure at his
home near Washington church. :
Governor Brumbaugh has signed the
bill recently passed by the Legisla ure
which imposes a fine of $500 on a year’s
imprisonment, or both, on any autédmobil-
ist who runs over and injures a wpevrosn
and who" does not stop his car and rejurn
and render assistance to the injured per-
son.
—A meeting of the directors of the New-
ton Hamilton Camp Association wes held
at Tyrone on Friday night to complete
arrangements for the coming camp meet-
ing and Bible institute which begins July
26th, and lasts until August 7th. John D.
Gill, of Philipsburg. one of the directors,
attended the meeting and says the pro-
gram will be completed very shortly.
—A new electric locomotive has been
completed by the Pennsylvania Railroad
company and will be placed in serivee,
hauling heavy trains around the Horse-
shoe Curve as soon as the main line be-
tween Conemaugh and Altoona is electri-
fied. The new machine is provided with
four motors and will develop 4,800 horse
power. The locomotive was constructed
in the Altoona shops of the P. R. R.
—_Four head of cattle, a horse, a colt and
several pigs were burned to death Sunday
night when fire caused by lightning de-
stroyed a barn on the Charles Reimard
farm near Bloomsburg. Ten tons. of baled
hay, 500 bushels of oats, 600 bushels of
corn and all the farming implements were
also destroyed. Owing to injuries, the
tenant, Roy Werkheimer, was unable to
fight the fire and help came too late.
— The machines have arrived for the
West Branch knitting mill branch facto-
ry, in Williamsport, and they will be in-
stalled in the Getz building, Church and
Corning streets. It is expected to have
the plant in operation within the next two
weeks. Another United States government
contract of good size has just been receiv-
ed and the new plant will. begin opera-
tions with orders sufficient to keep it
going at full capacity.
— When the hunters’ licenses start in the
fall the men who wish to search for the
wily cottontails and other game will find
a new proviso tacked on the hunting law,
according to the commissioners’ office.
That is, that the applicant must show his
tax receipt for the last year. If a woman,
of course, no tax receipt will be needed,
as well as in the case of a minor. This
will serve to reduce the number of hunt-
ers’ licenses, but will also aid in keeping
the taxes paid up.
— Falling a distance of about 35 feet
through a skylight, 11-year-old Mabel
Gocher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Gocher, of Johnstown, is not only still
alive, but will recover. No bones were
broken, although the little girl was badly
cut by jagged glass in the skylight and
severely bruised by the fall. The child was
endeavoring to gain admission to the home
of a playmate in the Phoenix apartments
on Franklin street by climbing through a
window. She stepped on the skylight,
which gave way beneath her weight.
—The State Forestry commission has or-
dered surveys and examinations of 40,000
acres of land in Clearfield, Elk, Cameron
and adjoining counties, which have been
offered for sale to the State for extension
of its forest reserves. These properties
were offered last week at the meeting of
the Board and form the largest amount
presented for consideration at one meet-
ing. Most of the State's purchases for re-
serves and its taking over of properties
under the auxiliary act are being carried
out with an idea of protecting water sup-
plies.
— Congressman Charles W. Rowland, of
Philipsburg, recently had completed a new
$150,000 theatre which is the last word in
architectural beauty and Manager A. J.
Fleckenstein has selected the Johnstown
Moose production ‘The Man Who Owns
Broadway” for the formal opening attrac-
tion on Monday of next week, June 11th.
The comedy, under direction of George C.
Pound, when produced in Johnstown made
a hit, and Philipsburg people are looking
forward to a treat and the Moose members
of the cast and their friends are earnestly
rehearsing that the audience may not be
disappointed. :
—The plant of the Indiana Bent Rung
Ladder company, at Indiana, Pa., is busy
working on “war” orders and to fill the
rush orders the local concern is compel-
led to work three nights each week. Or-
ders for several carloads of cots for the
army have been received and shipments
are being made each week to the training
camps established in different parts of
the country. With requisitions for the
various products of the plant in addition
to this standing order for cots for the ar-
my the company is assured of one of the
busiest seasons in its history and in all
probability it will be necessary to work
extra time continuously for months to
come to insure prompt shipments.
—A syndieate composed of Howard T.
Janney, James B. Graham and Murray C.
Leinbach, of Williamsport; James H. All-
port, of Barnesboro, and J. M. McKinley,
of Curwensville, has just purchased and
taken over the George S. Good Fire Brick
company operating at Lumber City. The
consideration paid was something over
$360,000. The new officers of the company
are: Howard T. Janney, president ;
James H. Allport, vice president; James
B. Graham, secretary and treasurer; J. M.
McKinley, general manager, and Murray
C. Leimbach, general sales manager. The
plant of the company is to be greatly im-
proved amd the eutput considerably in-
creased. The refractories’ interests, head-
ed by Mr. Janmey, now control the output
of some fifty millions of standard nine-
jmch or standard nine-inch equivalent fire
brick yearly.
— Thomas F. Garrett, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John M. Garrett, of Wimndber, who
was burned to death at the Edgar Thomp-
son steel plant, Braddock, Thursday morn-
ing, lost his life in making an effort to de-
velop his body in order that he might
meet the physical requirements of the re-
cruiting officers for the T. S. army. The
young man was graduated last year from
the University of Pennsylvania. He had
been rejected by the recruiting officers at
Pittsburgh about two months ago. Not-
withstanding this disappointment, he de-
termined to realize his desire and went te
work im the mills te build himself up to
meet the requirements. In his letters
home to his father the young man exulted
in the hardening of his muscles and stat-
ed that he expected to leave the mills with-
in a few days to enlist. The remains were
taken te Windber for burial.