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BY P. GRAY MEEK
INK SLINGS.
—Good morning! Were you fortu-
nate enough to be young enough to
register yesterday?
—For goodness sake, buy all the
W. S. stamps you can. Chairman
Walker is worrying himself sick with
fear that Centre county won't get
over the top.
—Well, the Huns have gotten one
of our transports at last, but thanks
be to God, they didn’t get one of the
boys who were on it. Every last one
of the lads were saved.
—We are honestly glad to note the
appointment of John F. Short, editor
of the Clearfield Republican, as Unit-
ed States Marshall for the western
district of Pennsylvania, but we are
all muddled up trying to figure out
how John camouflaged his strenuous
independence enough to deceive the
Pennsylvania bosses into believing
him to be the kind of man who would
“go along” on any and all occasions.
—Scandals in the big leagues are
always to be expected but that our
Red Cross baseball league should
wind up the season with charges of
“jockeying” flying thick and fast
were beyond conception up until re-
cently. And “jockeying” isn't all.
Our own beloved West ward team is
accused of having voted almost unan-
imously to let the South ward beat
them the two games scheduled for
yesterday if the South would present
them with a keg of beer. It’s a lie.
It must be a lie. In the language of
Jim Schofield, the West ward denies
the allegation and can lick the allega-
tor.
—According to Congressman Nich-
olas Longworth the new ruling short-
ening the life of liquors and beer will
cut the government’s revenues $2,-
000,000,000 and thus reduce the in-
come of the new revenue bill from
$8,000,000,000 to $6,000,000.000. To
make up the deficit he suggested a
tax of seven cents a pound on coffee,
twenty-five cents on tea, twenty per
cent. on woolens and fifteen per cent.
on leather. Should Nick’s sugges-
tions be accepted the “wets” would
have the edge on the “drys,” for they
would be saving enough through the
loss of their daily nip to make up all
of the proposed tax on necessities,
while the “drys” would have no com-
pulsory savings to meet the new high
cost of living plan.
—What a pretty mess our party is
in in the State. At the primaries a
majority of the Democrats of the
State voted to make Judge Bonniwell
their candidate for Governor. They
selected him in preference to Mr.
Guffey who was put forward as the
candidate of the State organization.
Now the State organization has de-
clared its intention of repudiating
Judge Bonniwell and substituting
another candidate. No matter what
one’s feelings as to the factions in
our party may be no fair mind can
fail to come to the conclusion that if
Judge Bonniwell is repudiated it will
be a case of the State organization
over-riding the expressed preference
of a majority of the Democrats.
—In revealing the part that A.
Mitchell Palmer played in the betray-
al of Hon. C. Larue Munson, at Al-
lentown, in 1910, Judge Bonniwell
might have gone a bit further and
thrown a very interesting side-light
on the cross-purposes at which the
leaders of our party were working at
that time. It is not generally known
but it is none-the-less the fact that
Col. James M. Guffey was earnestly
for Mr. Munson, while the late Sena-
tor Hall was opposed to him. Col.
Guffey and Senator Hall were fast
friends and when the latter, because
of a purely personal opposition to
Mr. Munson, succeeded in circumvent-
ing his nomination, through a few
tools like A. Mitchell Palmer, Col.
Guffey remained silent under the ma-
licious and undeserved charges that
he had been a party to the Allentown
affair. He was disappointed because
he believed, with many others of us,
that Mr. Munson could have been
elected and would have made a splen-
did Governor for Pennsylvania, but
his plans were thwarted in the house
of his friends and he accepted the
consequences without comment.
—The government has ordered us
to discontinue sending the “Watch-
man” to any person who is three
months or more in arrears in his sub-
scription. In other words the pub-
lishers of the United States are told
that they cannot extend credit to their
patrons for a longer period than
three months. “It is the war,” as the
French say, and we will refrain from
inquiry as to why your clothier, your
grocer, your butcher and every other
merchant or manufacturer is permit-
ted to trust you as long as their re-
sources permit while your newspaper
publisher is told that he may not trust
you for a longer period than three
months. If we should attempt to
evade the order, which we certainly
do not contemplate, the War Indus-
tries Board could refuse to permit
the shipment of any more paper to
us while the postoffice authorities
could throw the “Watchman” out of
the mails. On November 1st we will
be called upon to make oath that you
do not owe us for more than three
month’s subscription. We have never
perjured ourselves and with God's
help we never will. This being so
and regretting more than we will
ever be able to explain to you we will
discontinue sending the “Watchman”
to you on October 25th next if at that
time you are more than three months
in arrears with your subscription.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL 63.
BELLEFONTE, PA. SEPTEMBER 13,
1918.
NO. 36.
Palmer Must Resign.
The chairman of the Democratic
Mr. Vance C..
McCormick, and the member of that
National committee,
committee for this State, Mitchell
Palmer, having publicly declared their
opposition to the Democratic candi-
date for Governor, a demand has been
made in various sections of the State
that they resign their respective of-
fices. There is reason in this demand.
The candidate for Governor was fair-
ly nominated by a large majority
after a campaign in which his oppo-
nent had all the advantages.
party organization exhausted every
resource at its command to prevent
the nomination of Judge Bonniwell.
It levied tribute on every postmaster
and revenue officer in the State and
paid a large lump sum to Charlie
Donnelly’s Philadelphia political brok-
erage firm to fight him. But he was
nominated.
The chairman of the National
Democratic committee and the mem-
ber of that committee for Pennsylva-
nia are party officials. It is as much
their duty to support the candidates |
of the party as it is the duty of the
Major Generals and Brigadier Gen-
erals in the American army in France ,
to support General Pershing in his:
effort to defeat the forces of the Ger-
man Kaiser. If any one or two of
those subordinate war officials should .
refuse to support General Pershing
he would be court martialed and shot.
If either of them disagreed with the
head of the force he could resign and |
escape the just penalty of recreancy.
But so long as he remains in com-
mission he is morally and legally
bound to fulfill his obligation to sup-
port the commander.
But Mitchell Palmer is not amen- |
able to the obligations of henor or pa-
triotism. Not long ago he was pub- |
licly charged with hiring himself out
to German emissaries to pump secrets
out of the President he was pursuing
in his own way his plans to get mon-
ey. And it is not yet forgotten by
some of us that when he certified his
expense account as a candidate for
Congress in 1910 he was accused of
swearing falsely to contributions re-
ceived. Now that he trumps up
a false charge against the Dem-
ocratic candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, he is helping his
personal friend and political op-
ponent, in his peculiar way, to win
people all the time.” His attitude as
expressed in his statement before the
Democratic State committee last
week brands him a traitor and he
must resign. :
—General Crowder has announced
that men between the ages of thirty-
two and thirty-six, inclusive, and
those nineteen and twenty years old
will be the first of the new men reg-
istrants called for service. Of these,
of course, the single men without de-
pendents will be the first called.
Director General McAdoo’s Report.
The report of Director General Mec-
Adoo upon his administration of the
railroad service of the country eov-
ering the period of seven months is
most encouraging. It will not great-
ly strengthen sentiment in favor of
government ownership for the rea-
son that the draft upon the public
treasury is vast but it amply justifies
temporary government control for
the reason that a splendid measure
of efficiency has been obtained. The
purpose of taking over the service
has been achieved. There is little
congestion now at shipping centres
and the movement of freight has been
immensely expedited. These improve-
ments cost money but “taking one
consideration with another” they are
worth the price.
Therefore if no other good had been
accomplished by the Federal adminis-
tration of the railroads this result
would have been generous recompense
to a suffering public. But other ad-
vantages have been obtained through
the capable management of Mr. Mec-
Adoo. The equalization of compensa-
tion for services is well worthy of
consideration in this estimate. There
are no longer $100,000 salaries for of-
ficers and starvation wages for in-
dustrious working men under present
control. The result of this is a heart-
ening of the workers and a larger
measure of contentment in their homes
and the greater productiveness of
their labor may to a considerable ex-
tent be ascribed to this cause.
But Mr. McAdoo is not an exper-
ienced and practical railroad manager
and in the course of time he will learn
things which will be of advantage
both to the railroad owners and the
public. For example, he will soon
find out that unless many railroaders
are mistaken there is a lot of extrav-
agance in the management of the
properties that might be avoided.
There are useless subordinate officers
such as foremen, yardmasters and
other soft jobs that might be cut out
; with the result of much saving in ex-
pense and the elimination to a consid-
erable extent of the deficiency in prof-
its of which he takes notice. And-he
may be depended upon to gét the
facts. He is that kind of a man.
The |
Facts for the Kaiser to Ponder.
News dispatches convey the infor-
mation that German authorities are
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Moving Toward the End. !
The German resistance has stif- |
fened considerably within a week but |
Head Master Hughes Takes Issue
With Some in the Y. M. C. A.
The “Watchman” is not informed
dissatisfied because their undersea | the Allied forces are still moving | as to the cause of an evident misun-
| pirate craft have not destroyed more | forward slowly but surely toward the ! derstanding between the directorate
This fact ;
troop ships and that U-boat com- | Hindenburg line which has been pen- | of the Y. M. C. A. and the manage-
manders have been ordered to correct | etrated in several places.
this fault. As a matter of fact the | indicates that General Foch’s purpose ' as both institutions are of public in-
ment of the Bellefonte Academy, but
' troop ships have been so completely | is to prevent the establishment of a | terest and public concern we gladly
who have any sort of desire to live
and on the principle that “discretion
is the better part of valor,” they have
been permitted to pass unharmed.
But the Kaiser, who is concerned only
in the preservation of his own life
and that of his family, is not in sym-
pathy with that policy. He wants U-
boat commanders to take more
chances.
We have been striving in all sorts
of ways ever since the inauguration
of the policy of frightfulness to in-
vent or procure some method of get-
ting rid of the U-boats. We are send-
ing troops across the sea at the rate
month and the U-boats have been a
constant menace. But the business of
guarded that attacking them is much | new line there or elsewhere. Digging | give this space to Head Master James
too hazardous for U-boat operators | trenches and equipping defences re- R. Hughes of the Academy who states
| quire time and so long as retreating | his position in the following:
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men in his contingent and half that
of three or four hundred thousand a
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across and so long as the U-boats
confined their operations to sinking
| fishing smacks here and there and oc-
. United States are doing their part in
that our drive is started we will be
casionally an oil tanker or a freight-
er, it was hardly worth while to di-
vert energies from the work of dis-
patching troops to the business of
sinking U-boats and drowning the
beastly pirates who are operating
them.
| But when they go to attacking
| troop ships it will be different. We
are greatly concerned in the safety
of ships laden with soldiers who are
crossing the sea to fight for democ-
racy and against autocracy and our
government will not only multiply
safety facilities but will increase in
equal ratio the efforts to put the U-
boats out of business by sending them
to the bottom of the sea. The mo-
ment a U-boat attacks one of our
troop ships its fate will be sealed.
And besides that for every life taken
in this new method of frightfulness a
hundred German souls will be sent to
that final place of punishment in
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ty. The Kaiser ought to give thought
to these facts.
——No wonder Senator Chamber-
lain and some other Senatorial mis-
fits in Washington objected to the
raid for slackers in New York. “A
fellow feeling makes us wondrous
kind.”
What Coal Mines May Do.
During the week ending August
31st, 2,259,716 net tons of anthracite
coal were mined which was an in-
crease over the previous week of 125,
016 tons. We cite this fact simply to
show what it is possible to do in the
matter of coal supply. From all sec-
tions of the country there comes com-
plaint of a shortage of coal. In many
places industrial life is crippled be-
cause of the scarcity of coal and in
most of the big cities the gravest ap-
prehensions are felt that coal short-
age will. cause suffering during the
coming winter. Last winter the suf-
fering in some sections was little
short of acute. It is believed that
lives were lost because of essential
heat.
So far as we have been able to as-
certain there was no extraordinary
drive in the anthracite coal mines
during the last week of August. Most
of the mines were in operation but
none of them was being rushed with
the view of making a big showing. It
may be assumed, therefore, that the
output every week might be kept
equal to that of the week in question
and that justifies the belief that ex-
tra effort might result in a consider-
able increase above that total. In
other words it would seem that the
mines haven’t been doing all that they
might and in existing circumstances
the failure to do the best possible is
falling below the full obligations of
patriotism.
While every effort should be made
to provide the soldiers in the trench-
es and the sailors on the sea with
every comfort they require it is al-
most equally important that their
kindred and friends at home should
be as well taken care of as possible.
Nothing is more heartening to the
soldier than confidence that those
whom he loves at home are in the en-
joyment of the necessities of life. We
feel certain that there is coal enough
in the hills of Pennsylvania to supply
heat for everybody, if sufficient effort
is made to bring it to the surface and
we hope no one will suffer during the
coming winter because of slackers
either in the mines or in the offices of
the owners.
—Russian Bolshevicks pretend to
think it is a crime to be an American
but they have nothing on us at that.
We know that it is a crime to be a
Bolshevic in Russia.
——The Kaiser is “cherishing up
wrath against the day of wrath,” and
everybody knows what that means in
; the end.
which water is the scarcest commodi-
the end.
. adopted the muck method in order to
tions are impossible. And the Allies |
are constantly pressing along the en-
tire line. Night and day the activi-
ties are being maintained and each re-
curring sunset marks a new and im-
portant gain in territory and tactic-
al advantage.
The American army started its ex-
pected drive yesterday morning at
five o’clock. General Pershing is in
personal command and cheering news
may be expected from the St. Mihiel
sector. He has more than a million
many American troops are distribut-
ed through other divisions of the Al-
lied forces in France, Belgium, Italy
and Siberia, so that the people of the
the world war for democracy. Now
doing vastly greater service for there
will Le no stop until the Huns are
driven out of the territory they have
so ruthlessly devastated. It will be
a reckoning that will never be for-
gotten.
Mental speculation as to the end of
the war is now a popular diversion
and there are those who confidently
predict that before the close of the
present year the Germans will lay
down their arms and appeal for peace
on any terms. This opinion is based
upon the rapid development of dis-
content among the people of Ger-
many, Austria and Turkey. There is
certainly an increasing disposition to
question the divine inspiration of the
Kaiser and when that absurd super-
stition is entirely removed his sway
will crumble. But his military ma-
chine will endure for some time yet
and fighting will continue as long as
it prevails. But next year will bring
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Many Men Registered Yesterday.
When the “Watchman” went to
press last night it was utterly impos-
sible to even hazard a guess as to the
number of men who registered under
the man power bill. The fact that
the cards were not numbered and
everybody at the registration places
was too busy to count them made it
impossible to get an estimate. It was
figured out beforehand, however, that
the registration in Centre county
ought to figure up close to five thous-
and, and it is quite likely it will do so.
In Bellefonte the registration was
made at the court house. Two to
three people were in every office
downstairs with the exception of the
commissioner’s office, and they were
kept busy all day, most of them up to
nine o’clock, and the final result in
the county will hardly be known until
noon today. District attorney James
Furst also acted as a registrar.
At noontime all the public school
children, almost eight hundred in
number, massed on the court house
steps and with the Harmonic club
leading sang a number of patriotic
songs. In the latter part of the after-
noon and again in the evening the
women of the town gathered in the
Diamond while George Glenn’s drum
corps furnished martial music during
the afternoon. Down at Milesburg
the Girls band was much in evidence.
While the fact may not be general-
ly known, yet it is true, nevertheless,
that every man in the western peni-
tentiary at Rockview who is within
the prescribed age limit, had to regis-
ter yesterday. Their registration was
made by the officials and guards at
the institution and the return sent di-
rect to Harrisburg. Another fact
that may not be generally known is
that today there are about ten or a
dozen prisoners who have been pa-
roled in the service and one of them
has won his commission.
——Judas Iscariot committed sui-
cide and Benedict Arnold went over
to the enemy but Mitchell Palmer
holds on to his job as National com-
mitteeman in the party he has be-
trayed.
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— There is one important element
of the population that thoroughly
understands President Wilson. The
hearts of the working men of the
country go out to him as a kindred
spirit.
—Of course there never was a time
when the plumber wasn’t coming into
his own but just now is the time when
he and the coal man are wading into
about everything anybody else owns.
— Probably Mitchell Palmer has |
prevent the re-election of Congress-
men Dewalt and Steele, who were
nominated in spite of him.
—Next week, the Granger picnic.
| with that organization.
I desire through your columns to
present the truth and real facts con-
cerning the attitude of the Bellefonte
Academy towards the Y. M. C. A. and
the business dealings of the Academy
Some fool-
ish people have been indulging in
statements that are not warranted by
the facts and tend to give those who
are credulous a very unfair view of
the Academy’s status in this matter.
In the first place the older citizens of
this community know that the Acade-
my has always been one of the Asso-
ciation’s strongest and most enthusi-
astic supporters; that its representa-
tives for years in company with a
very few Bellefonte workers, raised
the necessary financial budget in the
town, that one of the Academy teach-
ers and a local friend of the Y. M. C.
A. spent five weeks in the hardest
kind of effort, working up a public
entertainment called “The Business
Mens’ Jubilee,” clearing nearly five
hundred dollars, most of which was
applied to indebtedness and removing
a sheriff’s notice from the Y. M. C.
A. property. It is also known that
when the new gymnasium was built
most of the apparatus installed was
loaned to the Association by the Acad-
emy, the same having been presented
to the latter institution by a strong
personal friend of the Academy. This
apparatus was loaned until the Acad-
emy would provide a room where it
could be installed. For years when
the Academy tuition was lower than
it is today, and the number of stu-
dents smaller, a special fee of $5.00
was charged on every bill sent home
to parents for Y. M. C. A. privileges.
All of this money was turned over
promptly to the Y. M. C. A. treasurer
—a matter of considerable financial
aid without the turn of a hand on the
par of the directors of the Associa-
ion.
Later on, when food prices spared
and other expenses multiplied, the
Academy increased its tuition, but de-
cided to dispense with the extra
charge of $5.00 for the Y. M. C. A.
fee, because parents were objecting to
extras. As a substitute measure, it
was decided to make an annual sub-
scription to the Y. M. C. A., which
would more than cover the fees of the
boys who would actually avail them-
selves of the swimming pool and bas-
ketball floor privileges, and still pro-
vide for the subscription made each
year by the Academy management.
It must be remembered that many
students who attend the Academy are
indifferent to the Y. M. C. A. privi-
leges, and are never seen in the build-
ing except when a basketball game is
being played. The Academy manage-
ment is satisfied that the Association
by this method of subscription which
provided a revenue for it of $300.00 a
year, fared better financially than it
would have done had it solicited mem-
berships from the student body, for
many of these students would not take
tickets and others would have trans-
ferable tickets from their home Y.
M. C. A’s. Last year owing to the
fact that the efforts of the Academy
to have the swimming pool prepared
for use were utterly ignored, one-
third of the annual subscription was
withdrawn. The Academy catalogue
advertises the Y. M. C. A. pool as ac-
cessible to the Academy students, and
no boy ever enters the Academy with-
out being thoroughly informed that
the swimming pool is the property of
the Y. M. C. A.
There are a few citizens in the com-
munity, it appears, who are so limit-
ed in their mental horizon as to fail
to realize that the hard work requir-
ed of the Academy representatives to
bring $60,000.00 worth of business to
Bellefonte that would otherwise go to
other school towns, very materially
benefits the Young Men's Christian
Association.
Finally, if every individual or col-
lection of individuals in Bellefonte
would do their part in helping the Y.
M. C. A, as the Academy has ever
done its part, the affairs of the As-
sociation would be in a flourishing
condition today.
Very respectfully yours,
J. R. HUGHES.
—Let us resolve now to send a man
to Congress from this District who
will be heard from. We have had so
many Congressmen who have been
very pleasing Members socially, have
been careful not to spill the beans and
all that, but what we need is a con-
structive Representative. Some one
with an idea and forensic ability to
present it in a fashion that will com-
pel the country to sit up and take no-
tice that there is such a place as the
Twenty-first Pennsylvania. Let us
send Mr. Tobias down to Washington
to represent us.
— If somebody would take the
| postmasters and revenue officials out
of politics certain party bosses would
lose their principal assets.
——The request to save gasoline
by cutting out joy-riding on Sunday
serves a double purpose. It conserves
gasoline and morals both.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Frederick Stein, of Mount Joy, had
his shoulder dislocated on Monday, while
handling tobacco.
—Infantile paralysis has made its ap-
pearance again in the lower end of Lan-
caster county. The three-year-old son of
Jere Hollinger has been affected. The
schools have been closed and the build-
ings fumigated.
—It took a Reading jury only fifteen
minutes to convict Mrs. Florence Groff,
twenty-nine years old, of shooting in the
head Joel H. Krick, county detective,
causing a nearly fatal wound, some weeks
ago when Krick tried to arrest her at
McKnight’s Gap, on a minor charge.
—There are forty vacancies in the State
police force, and with the new draft the
State may lose more of its trained men.
Able-bodied married men will not enlist
in the service because the pay is but $85
a month. Men in the force prior to May
18 last, according to an agreement reach-
ed with Washington, will not be touched
by the draft.
—Saying that he had never seen a rail-
road wreck and that he would like to see
one, John Dudash, aged six years, of
Frackville, placed spikes on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad tracks, last Friday, just
before the approach of the flyer from
Pottsville to Shenandoah, via a steep
mountain. Pennsylvania police discover-
ed the obstruction in time to avert a
wreck. The boy was paroled.
—Mrs. W. E. Smith, wife of a Hazleton
business man, died of heart trouble be-
lieved to have been brought on by con-
tact with an electric light switch while
in the bath room at her home preparing
to proceed to the railroad station to meet
her mother, coming on a visit from Scran-
ton. A similar fatality occurred several
years ago and the victim was also named
Smith. Three years ago another Simth
met death from a live wire on a city
street.
—Dr. 8S. 0. Brumbaugh, of Huntingdon,
who received his commission as captain
in the United States medical service a few
days ago and committed suicide in the of-
fice of Dr. George Wright, in Baltimore,
Md., last Friday, was a second cousin of
Governor Brumbaugh. He was a first
cousin of Prof. I. Harvey Brumbaugh,
president of Juniata College. Doctor
Brumbaugh was an expert surgeon and
had been anxious to get into the service.
It is believed an attack of nervousness, to
which he was subject, caused his action.
—Frank Davis, aged twenty-three, of
Patton, a naval recruit enroute from his
home to Philadelphia to report for duty,
was found dead in a Pennsy passenger
coach attached to train No. 4 on Sunday
morning: It is presumed that he took his
own life. His body was found after the
train left Marysville on the Middle divi-
sion, at 3:05 o'clock. There was an odor
of some drug in the toilet room where his
body was found. His body was taken to
Harrisburg for an autopsy and for prep-
aration for burial. Davis boarded the
train at Cresson.
—The State will send at least 125 vote
commissioners to the camps in the United
States to get the Pennsylvania soldier
vote in November. By that time it is es-
timated there will be 150,000 Pennsylvania
men in training camps in this country.
The question of taking the vote of Penn-
sylvania men in European camps is still
unsettled. Because of the army regula-
tions regarding the matter, the Secretary
of the Commonwealth and the Adjutant
Genepal have requested Attorney General
Brown to render a decision on the matter.
It will be impossible to get the vote at
the front and may be impracticable to get
the vote even in camps back of the line.
—The J. E. Dayton company, of Wil-
liamsport, has been awarded a contract by
the government for 30,000 pairs of march-
ing shoes, the firm being the lowest bid-
der of any manufacturer in the United
States by a dollar a pair. This order is
part of a contract for several million pairs
of shoes recently ordered by the Quarter-
master General's department and the shoe
and leather committee at Washington.
The Dayton company has been engaged in
making shoes for the government for the
past year, this being the third contract
received and when this order is completed
it will make a total of 80,000 pairs of shoes
delivered to the government. To fill the
order will keep the firm working full time
and over-time until the first of next April.
—With men rapidly arriving and
changes begun at the various buildings,
the work of transforming the Carlisle In-
dian school into the new War Department
hospital for the reconstruction and reha-
bilitation of crippled soldiers is well un-
der way. All of the old buildings are be-
ing changed to provide accommodations
for sick and the men in charge. Officers
with families have been instructed fo
house the latter in the town and civil em-
ployees who have resided on the grounds
have been given thirty days to seek qwar-
ters in town. Many of the old Indian
school employees have been retained. It
was announced on Tuesday that the first
of the wounded men will begin to arrive
in about two weeks. The new construc-
tion work is expected to be begun in a
short time.
—Fearing that he would be apprehend-
ed as an idler if he made his appearance
in Altoona, Harry Young, aged twenty, of
Pittsburgh, spent a week in Calvary cem-
etery, in Pleasant valley, Blair county,
dodging the work or fight order, until ear-
ly Saturday morning when he was taken
in custody in the cemetery on the charge
of being dangerous and suspicious. Young
had been loitering around about the cem-
etery since August 31st. People living in
the vicinity saw him in nearby orchards
and when Lieutenant B. F. Miller and Ser-
geant Frank MacPherson went to the
scene they found him sleeping in the rest
house. He had four dollars cash in his
pockets, a watch and cooking utensils,
while near him lay half a can of baked
beans, part of a loaf of bread, a can open-
er and spoon. He is being held for inves-
tigation.
—The year of 1918 will go down in his-
tory as one of the hardest on the forests
in Elk, McKean, Warren, Forest and Pot-
ter counties. Thousands and thousands
of cords of hemlock bark, pulp and chem-
jcal wood were cut this summer. In addi-
tion hundreds and hundreds of the giant
trees in the Bear Creek region of Elk
county were cut and shipped to the mills
of the Central Pennsylvania Lumber com-
pany. In the latter region the largest
timber tract in Northwestern Pennsylva-
nia is located. The wood and bark was
cut this summer at an enormous cost to
the different manufacturers as the woods-
men received almost double the wages of
past years. The "value of the chemical
wood cut in the forests of Elk, McKean,
Warren, Forest and Potter counties this
summer is estimated to be in excess of
$1,000,000.