BY P. GRAY MEEK
INK SLINGS.
« —Talking about reversion to type;
in six months the town pump will
come into its own again.
—Europe will starve while Congress
debates the question as to whether it
should be fed and who should feed it.
—If Governor Sproul’s administra-
tion proves as perfect as was his in-
augural day Pennsylvania will be the
best governed State in the Union.
—If every fog we have had thus
far in January is to bring a frost in
May we may well then sing with feel-
ing that “December’s as pleasant as
May.”
—It’s lovely weather we've been
having, of course, but what a howl
will go up about it should it be found
that it is forcing buds ahead to be
killed by later freezing weather.
—Governor Sproul advocated some
splendid reforms in his inaugural and
we look forward with hope to the day
when the Legislature will provide the
enabling legislation to put them into
practice.
—In less than a month the spring
farm sales will begin in the county.
And the high cost of buying isn’t
going to worry any of the bidders
who expect to do the paying with a
slow note.
—Think it over hard; this thing of
making the local “Y” what it ought
to be or closing it entirely. The
drive will be on in ten days and it
needs the co-operation of every man,
woman and child in Bellefonte.
—If feeding the world will pacify
it and since we have the food to spare,
would it not be better to do it this way
at once than to later have to sacrifice
thousands more precious lives in do-
ing it with the bayonet.
—Even the Governor of such a Gib-
raltar of Republicanism as Pennsyl-
vania sees some good in the taxing of
imcomes. In fact he has suggested
that the new Legislature look to this
method as a means to raising neces-
sary revenues for the Commonwealth.
—A1! honor and more power to the
judges of the courts of this country
who are imposing severe penalties on
those who ridicule our soldiers and
sailors and public cfficials. It is Bol-
shevism ready to break out at the first
opportunity and our courts do well to
place it where it can’t break out.
—Probably it can be viewed as a
hopeful sign that there was general
fighting throughout Germany on the
first election day. She seems quick to
adapt the methods of the country she
baited into the war and may be
paying a delicate compliment to Phil-
by the manner in which she |
pulls off elections.
—Which man has done most for hu-
manity: Senator Penrose or Herbert
Hoover? Their works will find them
out and it is probably quite within the
realm of truth to say that today a
thousand persons call the name of
Hoover blessed to everyone who re-.
calls a benefaction at the hands of the
carping Pennsylvania politician.
—Lest it be forgotten let us remind
you that of all the eminent men of
his time William Jennings Bryan was
foremost in his advocacy of Prohibi-
tion. It has come, but Mr. Bryan is
credited with none of the glory of the
victory. Many men start things they
cannot finish. He was first among
the country’s great men to advocate
an income tax. His was the first pub-
lic proposal to elect United States
Senators by popular vote and did he
not suggest the idea of a League of
Nations when he proposed an inter-
national police force with which to
keep recalcitrant peoples from going
to war. Thus we see “Bryan’s here-
sies” of earlier days become the pan-
aceas of today and the man, himself,
almost forgotten.
—With a dry United States grow-
ing daily nearer a reality the tem-
perance folks are beginning to consid-
er many phases of the situation that
have not heretofore impressed them-
selves seriously on them. The bar-
room and the cheap cafe have long
been the poor man’s club and it is gen-
erally admitted that some substitute
must be found for it, but will any sub-
stitute without the opportunity to
serve a stimulating drink prove satis-
factory. To this end there is already
begun a hunt for a beverage that will
be exhilerating without being intoxi-
cating. If this should be concocted
probably social centres for the poor
man of the city tenements can still
have something that will lure him and
cater to his longing for the compan-
jonship of his fellows without sending
him back to his family in a state of
intoxication.
—Governor Sproul’s suggestion that
we have “a better and more up-to-date
school organization” can only be real-
ized when Pennsylvania does what
many of her western sisters have al-
ready done; that is, organize all of
the State’s agencies for public educa-
tion into one system made up of The
Pennsylvania State College, the Nor-
mal schools and the common schools
and provide funds for their proper
maintenance and development without
making it necessary for them to bien-
nially appear at Harrisburg as beg-
gars for the wherewithal to keep their
work going. If the Legislature of
Pennsylvania wants to keep the
schools out of politics it should, once
and for all, withdraw its support from
private and semi-private institutions
and set aside an ample fund for the
uninterrupted support and growth of
the public institutions and organize
them so they operate from primary to
collegiate work as one system.
| mends the principle expressed in the
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE. PA., JANUARY 24,19
19.
VOL. 64.
Governor Sproul’s Inaugural. |
Governor Sproul’s first public ex-
presson of purposes and policies will
make a favorable impression upon
popular opinion. At the outset of his
inaugural address he admonishes
against the menace of Bolshevism.
He recegnizes the urgent need of a
new constitution but recommends a
postponement of action and he re- |
veals a settled purpose to take care
of the soldiers returning from the
war. He is fully alive to the finan-
cial problems which will be encounter-
ed in the near future and wisely com-
income tax. He regards education as
a “great and pressing problem” and
justly estimates generous recompense
of teachers as important in the solu-
tion of it.
It is to be regretted that there is an
undercurrent of prejudice against the
federal government running through
this otherwise admirable paper from
start to finish. Possibly it is the fed-
eral administration rather than the
government against which his insinu-
ations are directed, however. “The
government at Washington must be
alert,” he says, “in protecting us
against an invasion through our ports
of those who would seek to destroy
this nation.” The government at
Washington has not been remiss on
that point in recent years, so far as
the records show. In another para-
graph he adds: “It was never intend-
ed that the political power of the ex-
ecutive should be used to control leg-
islation.” * * * the exercise of such
power in the State or nation is dan-
gerous,” which sounds like an extract
from a Penrose speech in the Senate.
In reference to financial problems
he reproaches the federal government
for “encroaching so deeply into fields
hitherto reserved for State revenues” !
and adds that “last year this State !
contributed in federal taxes almost |
six hundred million dollars. * * *
But with our share so large in na- |
tional undertakings, we may be par-
doned in having a care that our funds
contributed without stint to the federal |
purse should not be wasted in incom-
petent : administration nor scattered |
over the world. in chimerical ente
anthropic operations in which the!
federal government has recently in-|
dulged or held in contemplation. Be-
nevolence is all right in its way but
it makes a vast difference “whose ox |
is gored.” Like the Republicans in
Washington those in Harrisburg want
a hand in dispensing charities.
But the Governor ascends to his
own proper level in reference to the
prohibition amendment and female
suffrage. He stood pledged to the dry |
amendment and his “hope that prompt
affirmative action may be taken by
the Legislature that Pennsylvania
may not be out of line with the practic-
ally unanimous sentiment of the State
in the greatest and most far reaching |
self-disciplinary measure ever taken
by any nation in all history,” is an
honorable fulfillment of a moral ob-
ligation. He rings equally true on
the suffrage question. “The wonder-
ful devotion, superb efficiency an no-
ble patriotism of the women of Penn-
sylvania should bring them prompt
recognition of their claim for and in-
herent right to full citizenship.” So
say we, all of us.
——Last year at this time we were
eating victory bread and biscuit made
out of breakfast food. Sugar was
measured out in stated quantities and
no one knew one week where they
would get the coal to keep them warm
the next. We had two feet of snow
with zero weather almost every day
and on top of it all in the deepest
throes of the world war. But how dif-
ferent things are today.
—DMany a man was against suffrage
because he was fearful that it would
bring total prohibition in its wake.
We are of the opinion, therefor, that
suffrage is stronger today than it was
before the amendment was ratified.
In other words a lot of tipplers who
fought the proposal before will say:
I don’t care what becomes of it now.
——Really we can see no reason to
worry because some parts of the peace
conference proceedings will be with-
held from the public. When the work
is completed the public will have a
chance to find out all.
——They call him “lucky” Sproul.
But according to the information of
common report there is something
more than luck in his prosperity.
There is a good deal of merit in his
make-up.
——As a matter of fact it makes
no difference whether General Persh-
ing is a Democrat or a Republican
so long as he remains a soldier and
he shows no inclination to relinquish
his job.
——So long as the Hun agitators
keep on killing each other there can
be little cause of complaint. They
are not much use to the world alive.
It’s when they are killing others that
wo! and the surprise is
prises. without practical purposes.” | ment.
Obviously this'#s a thrust at the phil-|
the kick is coming.
Brumbaugh’s Administration.
The administration of Governor
Brumbaugh which ended at noon on
Tuesday was in some respects event-
ful. It was more than usually full in
political enterprise and activity and
somewhat unfortunate from its be-
ginning. The claim of ownership set
up by the Vares immediately after
his election was supported by the ap-
pointment of Francis Shunk Brown '
to the office of Attorney General and :
created a friction in the party which
was never removed. The Olivers, of
Pittsburgh, aligning themselves with
Penrose declared war and inaugurat-
ed a barrage of scandal that has never
entirely subsided. The Governor's
absurd ambition to become the party
candidate for President augmented
the trouble.
Notwithstanding these drawbacks
the four years of Governor Brum-
baugh’s tenure of the office was a per-
iod of considerable achievement. Dur-
ing the two sessions of the Legisla-
ture 870 laws were placed on the stat-
ute books, exclusive of appropriations
and a considerable number of bills
passed were vetoed. The appropria-
tions made during the period amount-
ed to the vast total of $149,757,304.-
65, and the disbursement of this sum
in conformity with law was an her-
culean task. Being a school man leg-
islation along educational lines pre-
dominated and the creation of an effi-
cient system of vocational schools
was probably the crowning service of
his term. In that work he was real-
ly in earnest.
As this was his crowning achieve-
ment his attempt to build up a person-
al party leadership was his principal
blunder. This folly led to the most
preposterous abuse of the appointing
power and the blunder of Shunk
Brown was supplemented by many
others equally disastrous to his pur-
pose of organizing a political dynas-
ty. Men were chosen and commis-
sioned to service for which they were
entirely unfit and others were dis-
missed not for the good of the serv-
ice but for the advantage of selfish- |
ness. It could hardly be expected
that such practices would be popular
baugh has as many devoted friends
as he has.
back” has been identified. He is
James R. Mann, Chicago Congressman
and candidate for Speaker of the
House, and the horse was presented
i to him by the Meat trust for valua-
ble services rendered.
The Peace Congress in Session.
The Peace Conference is mow in
progress and the signs point to a har-
monious session and comparatively
speedy conclusion. The Vienna Con-
gress held a trifle more than a hun-
dred years ago, the only analagous
body which history records, sat for
nine months. But it was composed
mostly of Emperors and Kings and
its problems were to satisfy the lust
for land and power of each partici-
pant. The aim of the present confer-
ence is entirely unselfish. There may
be some desire to acquire territory
and promote selfish purposes. But
that will be the exception rather than
the rule. The principal participants
in this convention will strive for the
‘common good not only of the people
they represent but of the world.
There has been a persistent effort
on the part of trouble breeders to cre-
ate factional differences but they have
fallen flat. It has been alleged that
President Wilson and Premier Clem-
enceau, of France, entertain widely
separated ideas upon one of the most
important questions to be considered.
But this falsehood has already been
refuted. President Wilson named the
French Premier as permanent presi-
dent of the conference in a speech as
complimentary as it was eloquent and
in periods which radiated perfect har-
mony between them. In seconding
the nomination Lloyd George was
equally forceful in the expressions of
complete agreement upon the princi-
pal points to be considered.
The conference has a vast work to
! perform and it will require consider-
able time to fulfill all its obligations.
But it will not consume time as the
Vienna Congress did and a conclusion
within three or four months will not
be surprising. The work is momen-
tous and the participants are deep
thinkers and cautious operators. But
they will have only the highest ideals
to guide them and the loftiest aims
to achieve. Men thus constituted and
influenced are not likely to be divert-
ed from their tasks by trifles and for
that reason we look for speedy though
fully matured results. It is certain
that Woodrow Wilson will be the
dominant figure in the deliberations
and that is a sign’ of safety.
——It is certain that the Kaiser
will have to stand trial but it remains
to be seen how he will stand punish-
ment.
——It can’t be said that the Gover-
nor is “a cheap skate.” It cost $50,-
000.00 to inaugurate him.
that in his retire-.
——The proverbial “man on horse- !
Republican Senators Endorse Treason,
| The vote of the Senate on the ques- |
tion of the disloyalty of Senator La-
Follette, of Wisconsin, revealed the
exact sentiment of that body with re-
| spect to the support of the govern-
ment in the war. Only one Republi- |
{ can Senator voted for censure, Mr.
' Smith, of Michigan, whose term of of-
| fice is drawing to a close. Everyoth-
er Republican Senator who voted at
all declared him free from blame
though he was openly in opposition to
every measure which made for prep-
aration for war first and for prosecu-
tion afterward. In a public speech
he declared that the United States
had entered into the conflict, not for
humanity or democracy, but to pro-
tect the Morgan interests.
With the instinet of the demagogue
LaFollette imagined that such a state-
ment would dampen enthusiasm and
discourage enlistments in the army
and he expressed the sentiment with
that hope in his heart. He even did
more than that. He said that the
“United States went to war and sac-
rificed our children in order that rich
Americans might ride on munition
boats.” This had reference to the
sinking of the Lusitania and implied
that because Germany had entered
upon its. crusade of atrocity by the
; employment of U-boats, American
citizens had no right to the freedom
. of the seas in pursuance of commerce
' or pleasure. That was precisely the
| attitude of the Kaiser and encourag-
| ing him in his cruelty. I
{ The Republican Senators who vot-
ed to exculpate him from blame for
i ressing such sentiments openly
| thus gave their approval to his ac-
tion. They virtually gave their en-
dorsements to his efforts to discour-
age enlistments and create prejudice
against the policies of the govern-
ment. Each of them would have tak-
: en the same course if he had had the
courage to do so. But they knew it
was treason against the country and
, refrained because of fear of the con-
| sequences. They entertained the same
views but were less reckless in ex-
préssion and now that the war is over
they come to his aid in dodging the
epalty. His dominating influence in
utory cause.
Manifestly a False Alarm,
Mr. Frank Morrison, secretary of
the American Federation of Labor,
appears to be “worked up” over an
imaginary danger. In urging legis- :
lation to restrict immigration he told
the House committee on Immigration |
in Washington, the other day, that |
“there will be bread lines in every in-
dusrial centre of the country, before
May 1.” In support of his lugubrious
tale of woe he read reports from thir- |
ty cities showing vast armies of un- |
employed. Obviously this is the re- |
sult of a propaganda. In any event
it may be assumed that idleness in
many instances is voluntary, or at
least the result of local causes. The
labor conditions which have prevailed
for several years are mot entirely re-
versed.
It was expected that the restora-
tion of the millions of men who had
enlisted in the army and navy to their
former places in the industrial life of
the country would relieve the labor
famine which during the last three or
four years had driven farmers to
dispair. But the return movement
has not been sufficiently extensive
thus far to create a well founded im- |
pression of an over-supplied labor
market in the near future, Labor
disputes might create idleness on an
extensive scale and bread lines are a
possible consequence of such a condi-
tion. But there can be no over sup-
ply of labor as long as there is an
abundance of employment at a fair
rate of wages.
Much of the wealth that has been
created and diffused by labor in this
country is ascribable to the industry
and intelligent effort of immigrants
who have come to us with the purpose
of accepting our conditions, becoming
citizens and adopting our ideals, Re-
strictive legislation which would pre-
| vent or seriously impair agencies of
: helpfulness is to be discouraged rath-
er than promoted and needless alarms
issued for the purpose of securing
such legislation are to be deprecated.
Criminals and paupers ought to be
kept out but industrious men who
come with the view of increasing our
resources are assets which deserve
encouragement of every proper kind.
——State Senator S. J. Miller, of
the Centre-Clearfield district, has
been made chairman of the Senate
committee on public health and san-
itation. :
——The friends of ex-President
Taft have been indulging in hopes
since the death of Roosevelt but they
won’t stand close scrutiny.
——Clemenceau has been a poet
and playwright but he also seems to
have some understanding of politics
and statecraft.
—With the country gone dry the
ext Congress was -only.a conbribe -
capacity of many a municipal water
plant will have to be increased.
NO. 4.
WHO WON THE WAR?
By Woodbury Pulsifer
‘Who won the war?
"T'was Little Belgium stemmed the tide
Of ruthless hordes who thought to ride
Her borders through, and prostrate France
Ere yet she'd time to raise her lance.
Plucky Belgium!
‘Who won the war?
Italia broke the galling chain
Which bound her to the guilty twain;
Then fought ’gainst odds till one of these
Lay prone and shattered at her knees.
Gallant Italy! ‘
Who won the war?
Old England's watchdogs of the main
Their vigil kept, and not in vain;
For scarce a ship her wrath dared brave
Save those which skulked beneath the
wave, x
Mighty England!
‘Who won the war? pS
"T'was France who wrote, in noble rage,
The grandest words on history's ge;
‘““I'hey shall not pass!” The driven Hun
Surged on to death, but not Verdum,
Brave, sturdy France! wl
‘Who won the war? FE
In darkest hour there rose a cry: .
“Sweet Liberty, thou shalt not die!
‘We come! we come! across the sea,
Thy stalwart sons and victory!”
Americal
‘Who won the war?
No one of these; no one, bat all
Who answered Freedom's clarien call,
Each humble man who did his bit -
In God's own book of fame is writ.:
These won the war. k
—Washington Evening
Praise from Foch. -
From the Philadelphia Press. &
There is probably no man in he
Won whose Preise eodid be oe
ying our xpeditionary
orces than the praise of Marshal
Foch. His unstinted approval of the
work of our troops, his tribute to
their bravery and his frank acknowl-
edgement of the important part they
played in Siniing ihe war cannot fail
to please the A. E. F. as it has pleas-
ed the nation at large. i
The Generalissimo of all the Allied
and American armies has placed the
official seal upon the common belief
that the Germans surrendered just in
time to avert a colossal disaster. He
tells how General Pershing desire
have his forces as f po!
Argonne and the Meuse Heights si
tor was assigned to him. “It was a
hard sector to tackle,” commented
Marshal Foch; “there were consider-
able obstacles there.” The Amerieans
attacked and broke through, thus ad-
ministering the crushing disaster to
the enemy which led to his surrender.
And if this defeat had not sufficed
to make the Germans surrender, Mar-
shal Foch had in preparation still an-
other drive in the Lorraine sector, a
| drive that was to have begun on No-
vember 14, and in which six American
e part. This was to have been the
finishing blow, but before it could be
administered the enemy capitulated.
The Marshal makes it clear that the
German High Command knew that it
faced disaster and surrendered for
that reason alone. :
America concurs heartily with
Foch’s conclusion that “we must have
a peace as absolute as was our suc-
cess and which will guard us against
future aggressions.” America real-
izes, too, that France must live per-
petually on the edge of the danger
zone and that the Rhine is the fron-
tier which must ever be watched and
guarded. Not a single American voice
will be raised in opposition to the pru-
dent demand of Foch that Germany |
shall be kept behind the Rhine.
Prices Must Come Down.
-Star. |
: main with her mother, saying that she
From the New York Journal of Commerce. |
Reduction of prices in the United
States is inevitable if we expect to |
keep our machinery at work and our |
export trade up to normal level. In-
deed, it will be hard to sell goods free-
ly even at home so long as the pres- |
ent schedule of prices is sustained. |
The prospects of a quick and easy con- |
quest of foreign markets are not like-
1w to be realized. The present scale of
values is far too high and must be,
lowered. Such readjustments will, of |
course, bring about a condition of dis- |
turbance and may involve some suf- |
fering. They are, however, a neces- |
sary part of the process of returning |
to normal conditions. No one wants |
to see any sudden changes in outlook, |
but it must be recognized that the
sooner the transition is over the more |
solid will be our prosperity under the '
new peace conditions.
Legislative Civilities.
¥'rom the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
When the Prince of Monaca writes
his cousin, the ex-Kaiser, accusing
him of every crime and proving them
on him, but continues to address him
as “Sire” it suggests that tradition-
al ceremonious passage in American
legislative debate—“The Honorable
Gentleman who has just resumed his
stolen seat is an infamous and shame-
less liar”
To Be Read by Title.
From the San Fra ncisco Chronicle. :
Having received King George’s his-
RE of Windsor Castle, President
‘Wilson is almost sure to read it as a
matter of duty, but official histories
are dull and tedious affairs, and the,
President will be readily forgiven if
he skips many pages.
——For high class Job Work come
to the “Watchman” Office.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Private Blair C. McFeaters, who was
called home to Alexandria, Pa., from Pan-
ama, to attend the funeral of his mother,
died at the home of his father a few days
ago. He was taken ill a few days after
reaching home.
—The death of Howard Frazier makes
the fifth fatality from influenza in one
Walnut Grove, Cambria county, family
within two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. John
Frazier, his parents, died the same day
and two sisters succumbed to the dread
disease the following day.
—William F. Foust, a rural mail carrier,
who for the last eighteen years has been
connected with the Milton postoffice, has
resigned to go into business. During his
service, Foust traveled 140,000 miles by
buggy. In that distance he could have en-
circled the globe six times.
—At Portland Mills, Elk county, Peter
Martin, aged 64 years, and employed at the
tannery, accidentally stepped into a large
vat of hot liquor, and was so badly scald-
ed that death followed shortly afterward.
The temperature of the liquor was 210 de-
grees when he stepped into it. :
—Stated meetings of the executive com-
mittee of the Juniata valley Red Cross
have been called off for the present. Twen-
ty thousand dollars remains in the treas-
ury of the Chapter and this money will be
invested for the best interest of the Chap-
ter and the community that subscribed it.
—John F. Bennett, caretaker of Hunt-
er’'s Lake, Muncy valley, trapped eighteen
foxes this fall, and last week he sold the
pelts, receiving fifteen dollars a piece for
them. He also received two dollars each
as bounty, and this added to one dollar
each on seven weasles, amounted to over
—A position as High school teacher,
with only five pupils and paying $70.8
month, is going a begging in Beaver town-
ship, Columbia county, Miss Bessie Ash
was secured to fill the vacancy some time
ago, and now she has changed her name
to Mrs, Albert Nunas and announces her
resignation,
—Dr. Horace Lincoln Jacobs, district
superintendent of the Central Pennsylva-
nia conference, has named the Rev. G. H.
Ketterer, 2 member of the Newark con-
ference, as pastor of the Market Street
Methodist church, Williamsport. Ketterer
has just returned to the pastorate after
being discharged as a chaplain in the Unit-
| ed States army.
. —Charging that his wife chose to re-
only had one mother but could get a new
husband any time, Reuben L. Keibach, ap-
pearing in court at Reading, was granted
a divorce Saturday. Keibach said that he
was good to his wife, taking her out Sat-
urday evenings and “buying her peanuts
and other things.”
+ —J. Clyde Fosnot, a Watsontown chick-
en fancier, recently sent to Pittsburgh a
pen of the fine-bred birds with which he
expected to carry off the prizes at a poul-
try show. When he reached the Smoky
city he found that the crate containing his
valuable poultry had been placed too near
to steam pipes in the baggage car and the
birds were killed by the heat.
—The Howard munition plant, which
had been located at Emporium, Cameron
county, for four years, closed down last
to | week, and. the 2000 employees were dis-
‘charged. During these four years this
E ;.plant employed an-average of 2000 men
= (and several hundred skilled and profes-
sional packers. The work of dismantling
! the big plant will begin at once.
—Mining operations that will ruin the
palatial home and grounds of John Mar-
: kle, Jeddo coal magnate, in Luzerne coun-
ty, eventually, have been started to recov-
er the anthracite that is imbedded under
the Markle mansion. Shafts and airways
are being sunk and all the mineral that
can be recovered will be removed this
year. Mr, Markle has a home on Fifth Av-
' enue, New York.
divisions and twenty French were to
—One of the largest damage verdicts by
a Berks county jury in years was return-
ed last week when Richard F. Fenster-
maker, aged nineteen years, was awarded
$10,870.48 for the loss of his left arm, and
other bodily injuries suffered through al-
leged negligence and violation of railroad
rules of a shifting crew on the P. & R.
Railway. His father, Jacob Fenstermak-
er, was awarded $347.50 for the loss of the
son’s service.
—When Dr. William W. Serrill, a well
known Kellettville, Forest county, phpsi-
cian, did not return from a trip to patients
in nearby rural sections a search was
started, and he was found pinned under
his overturned machine on a lonely road.
He had been held helpless for twenty-four
hours and was in a serious condition from
exposure and injuries. His leg was brok-
en, and he had suffered burns from escap-
ing gasoline, the fumes of which he had
breathed.
—For sixty years O. E. Fleck, retired
farmer, living in Hollidaysburg, has been
attending church and Sunday school, and
in all that time he has missed only six
services. He was in his place as usual on
Sunday. Mr. Fleck began attending Sun-
day school at ten years of age and became
a member of the Lutheran church at four-
teen. The weather, blizzard or sizzard,
never provided him with an excuse to stay
home. For a period of sixteen consecu-
tive years he never missed a single serv-
ice of the church or Bible school.
— With two convictions of murder in the
first degree hanging over him, what should
George Tompkins, of Philadelphia, now a
prisoner in the jail at Ebensburg, care for
a little civil suit instituted against him to
get hold of some of the property which
eventually will figure in ‘the estate of
George Tompkins, deceased?” The action
is brought by the Thornton-Fuller com-
: pany, of Philadelphia, former employer of
i Tompkins, which holds a claim against
the man convicted of murdering Harry
! Humphries, wife and son. The action was
started in Philadelphia, but transferred to
Cambria county on account of the fact
that Tompkins had property interests at
Carrolltown. Briefs will be submitted
within ten days.
—Lieutenant M. R. Yarrison, of Logan-
ton, who has recently been discharged
from the United States army, did not
waste much time in getting a position
after leaving his camp. Yarrison was
passing through Williamsport one day
last week en route to his home, when he
learned of a vacancy in the teaching staff
of the South Williamsport borough
schools. The vacancy was caused by the
death of Donald C. Ungard, principal of
a grammar school. Upon inquiry, the ar-
my officer discovered that the borough
school board was scheduled to meet that
evening to consider applications for the
position. He decided to wait until the fol-
lowing day to continue his journey home
and attended the school meeting, at which
he was elected to the empty principalship.