Donor ite
INK SLINGS.
—The new moon is lying away
round to the north; indicative of cool
weather.
—Probably the revolution in Hun-
gary is only a bluff, but if it is it is
one of the kind that should be called
at once.
—Even if you did happen to stick
those onions in the up-sign of the
moon you needn’t worry. They can’t
get out of the ground because they
are frozen fast.
— It cost New York $927,000 to ten-
der the welcome home to the 27th Di-
vision. We merely refer to the mat-
ter because Centre county will soon
organize to perfect plans for a prop-
er welcome home celebration for her
sons.
—A little premature was our com-
ment last week about spring. Scarce-
ly was the “Watchman” off the press
when it jumped back into the lap of
winter and has been lingering there
with a tenacity that doesn’t augur
well for the vegetation that had been
forced out by the warm weather of
the early part of the month.
—The hotel keepers of Atlantic
City and other shore resorts are sob-
bing their eyes out because the fed-
eral railroad commission has not re-
duced passenger rates and promoted
excursions for their benefit. It is
very pertinent to inquire as to wheth-
er these wailing sharks have reduced
boarding rates at their hotels.
—The movement to organize for
the propagation and conservation of
game and fish in the woods and
streams of Centre county should have
a strong appeal to all lovers of nature.
Tt will result in much good if there is
genuine interest taken in it and, if
not, it will add one more to the lot of
dead organizations we have started,
only to be killed on the rocks of in-
difference.
—Schools for instruction in and
dissemination of Bolshevik propagan-
da have been discovered at Macana-
qua, in the Wilkes-Barre field. Sev-
enty-five organizers have been identi-
fied there, The Legislature should
look upon this menace as a stimulus
to hasten the passage of a sedition
law with teeth in it sharp enough to
drive every foreigner out of the coun-
try who undertakes in any way to un-
dermine its institutions.
—The “Watchman,, has gone to
considerable trouble and some ex-
pense in reproducing Walter Camp’s
primer of physical culture in this is-
sue. We have done it for the public
welfare, which means you and all per-
sons in whom you are interested.
Public health, after all, is the great-
est public asset and if we are to have
that we must have individual health.
Preserve this primer, put its advice
into daily practice and we guarantee
that you will discover that nature de-
signed you to be a far happier, more
vigorous being than you are now.
—The manner in which the adher-
ents of Knox, Lodge and Sherman are
scrambling to get onto the League of
Nation’s band wagon is a credit to
their ability to sense the popular feel-
. ing. These reactionaries have discov-
ered that popular feeling is with the
President and they are using every
pretext to get to cover. The amend-
ments suggested by Elihu Root have
proven a veritable life line to a lot of
them and the way they are grabbing
it is evidence that all their opposition
to the League was “bunk,” conceived
and spread for political purposes.
—We regret that the series of very
interesting letters that the “Watch-
man” has been publishing over the
signature of A. C. Wolf is concluded
in this issue. Seldom in our long ex-
perience in publishing a newspaper
have we read letters so full of news
meat. Our readers who have miss-
ed the previous instalments need
but read the last one in this issue
to fully understand our meaning when
we say that Mr. Wolf has given the
“Watchman” readers a glimpse into
phases of life in California such as
many of them have never had before.
—The Chicago city election on
Tuesday quite upset the popular idea
as to what women will do to liquor
when they all get the franchise. Vot-
ing on the general proposition “Shall
Chicago be dry territory,” the propos-
al was overwhelmingly defeated. The
men voted wet four to one; that was
not so surprising, but the fact that
the women also voted wet, and nearly
two to one, is really surprising. Of
course the contest was merely an ex-
pression of public opinion and in no
way could invalidate the enforcement
of the dry amendment on January 1st
next.
— We note, with sympathy, that one
of the last visitors our distinguished
Congressman, the Hon. Charles Row-
land, had before he shed the mantle
of official life in Washington to re-
turn to his home in Philipsburg, car-
ried away with him six quarts of
whiskey, six quarts of champagne and
three silk hats. Knowing that the
Hon. Charles voted to give the country
a chance to go bone dry there is noth-
ing startling in the news that he had
so much good liquor lying around
loose. Because he had lived in Wash-
ington long enough to know what a
dry place means and likewise to know
the charm of an occasional oasis in
the desert. But the three silk hats?
They've got us guessing. Surely the
dignity of the Twenty-first district
must have been upheld as it never
was before in Washington when its
Congressman had his hall rack so
loaded that he could make a grab in
Be dark and never miss a statesman’s
id.
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_VOL. 64.
Republican Congressional Program. !
The plans of the Republican lead- |
ers for the next Congress are ambi- |
tious but not promising. According
to the program of the Steering com-
mittee the first work will be the pas- |
sage of the appropriation bills defeat- |
ed at the end of the last session by a |
filibuster engineered by these same |
leaders. The next action will be the :
passage of a tariff bill. Recently |
British manufacturers of steel rails
yielded to American manufacturers
a French order for 750,000 tons for
the reason that they could not com-
pete with American makers. But the
Republican statesmen will put a heavy
tariff on rails so that American man-
ufacturers may advance prices to
home consumers and contribute the
difference to the Republican slush
fund for the campaign of 1920.
Having thus restored the tariff
graft to the manufacturers of steel
and iron and made certain of a pro-
lific source of campaign money to the
Republican machine, the leaders in
the next Congress propose to revise
and amplify the currency laws and
turn back the railroads to private
ownership. The currency legislation
enacted by the Democratic Congress
four years ago has been pronounced
by the ablest financiers of the world
the perfection of scientific monetary
legislation. It has made financial
panics absolutely impossible and car-
ried the country through a crisis such
as has never been experienced before.
But it deprived the money sharks of
Wall Street of the opportunity to
manipulate the currency supply so as
to rob the commercial world at will,
and the old system will be restored so
that Wall Street may again contrib-
ute millions to the party slush fund.
Of course the restoration of the
railroads to the control of private
owners will receive prompt attention.
Since the control of railroad proper-
ty has been in the hands of the gov-
ernment speculation in railroad secu-
rities, shares, bonds and mortgages,
has been completely cut out. This
fact deprived the Wall Street specu-
lators of their greatest source of
tainted revenue. It also cut out from
the Republican campaign committee
a generous flow of corruption funds
as recompense for the liberty to loot
the public. It will work a reduction
of the wages of railroad employees,
also, and rob the transportation facil-
ities of the country of much of their
efficiency. But it will vastly benefit
the Republican machine and that is
why a Republican Congress was chos-
en.
——A headline over a Washington
dispatch in an esteemed contempora-
ry reads: “Republicans Frantic in
Hunt for Candidate.” Senator Boral
is equally frantic in hunt for the
nomination but even a lack of mater-
ial would hardly justify the nomina-
tion of Borah.
One Promising Bud Nipped.
One of the promising buds fatally
nipped by the recent cold spell was
that of an early adjournment of the
Legislature. From the beginning of
the session gossip in the lobbies has
fixed the date for final adjournment
not later than the middle of May.
Now it is regarded as practically cer-
tain that the session will run long in-
to the month of June and may extend
to July. The reasons for the change
in plans are new and unexpected de-
velopments in the factional quarrels
between the Penrose and Vare forces
of Philadelphia: The time of the Leg-
islators and the money of the people
must be wasted because these politic-
al pirates are unable to agree upon
the division of the spoils.
The legislation upon which the lines
of contention are drawn is various
and some of it important. Residents
of the city who favor good govern-
ment want a new charter and
for one reason or another Sen-
ator Penrose is supporting their
demand. The reformers ask for a
measure to rip up the Board of Regis-
tration, a notoriously corrupt group
of party bandits and Penrose is sup-
porting that demand. They also de-
mand a complete reorganization of
the police service, substituting the
metropolitan system, and Penrose is
in accord with them on that proposi-
tion. ‘If the electorate of the State
had faith in Penrose the reforms in
question might be easily and quickly
accomplished.
But there is the rub. A vast ma-
jority of the people are persuaded
that the Vares are selfish and sordid
in their political activities and public
safety as well as political integrity
require a complete ripping out of all
their refuges for party rogues. But
there is hesitation for the reason that
it is apprehended that ripping out
Vares and putting in Penrose would
be “jumping from the frying pan in-
to the fire” and afford little if any im-
provement. There is ample reason
for this apprehension, moreover: The
recent actions of our Senior Senator
gives little promise of pure purpose.
But it is certain that no change could
be for the worse. Conditions are as
bad as possible.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL
Germany Will Sign the Treaty.
There is no reason to worry over
current rumors that Germany will re- |
fuse to sign the peace pact. One or
|
two German blatherskites have been
asserting that only an entirely satis-
factory pact will be accepted by the
German government and others have
been setting up conditions that must
be met in order to get Germany's as-
sent to permanent peace. But they
are consulting their imaginations.
Germany will sign any terms of peace
promulgated by the Paris conference
or else Germany will be licked into
such a state of helplessness that she
will be glad to sign anything offered |
in the shape of a peace protocol.
There will be no fooling with Germa-
ny in the future. She must toe the
mark.
Less than a week before the Kaiser
sneaked into Holland for safety he ve-
hemently declared that Germany
would consent to nothing except “an
honorable peace.” Now he would
probably agree to lead a little Ger-
man band in Hoboken in consideration
of a guarantee for the safety of his
worthless person. Those German
statesmen who are now “talking
through their hats” about terms of
peace are as far from base as the Kai-
ser was when he was boasting. When
the Peace Conference completes its
work Germany will be invited to sign
the convention and she will respond
with the alacrity that a tramp might
answer the call to a sumptuous din-
ner. It will simply be a case of sign
or suffer.
1t is not in the spirit of cruelty that
these facts are set forth. The people
of this country and those of Europe
might justly hold resentment against
Germany because of the atrocities
perpetrated during the war with the
full assent of the German people. But
no resentments will be written into
the peace treaty. That great instru-
ment, in the preparation of which the
best talent in the world is being em-
ployed, will simply make a just inven-
tory of the crimes of Germany, mer-
cifully assess the damages and indi-
cate the place for signing. Germany
will do the rest and do it “with neat-
ness and dispatch,” or else. And it
will hardly be necessary to say what |
will be the consequence of failure.
—Ttaly will not withdraw from
the peace conference because of trif-
ling disappointments. Italians are
strong bluffers but they are game los-
ers and will not destroy the hopes of
a peace loving world by petulance.
Patriotism or Politics.
The question of loyalty to the gov-
ernment or fidelity to the Vare ma-
chine is pending in the Legislature at
Harrisburg. Early in the session
Representative Bolard, of Crawford
county, introduced a bill requiring all
legal advertising to be published in
English language newspapers. It
was defeated on final passage in the
House through the Vare influence a
couple of weeks ago but on a motion
to reconsider was replaced on the cal-
lendar and passed. Now it is pending
in the Senate and the Vare influence
is being expended in an effort to de-
feat it. The result is in doubt at this
writing but Senator Vare hopes to sti-
fle it finally. He has already held it
up for a considerable time.
Outside of Philadelphia there is lit-
tle interest in the foreign language
publications. In the anthracite coal
regions there are a few weekly pa-
pers of meagre circulation printed in
German and Yiddish, but they are
necessarily self-sustaining, though
the German issues are helped more or
less by official advertising. In Phila-
delphia, however, there are a number
of Italian and Yiddish publications
which could not endure a month with-
out the generous advertising patron-
age given to them by the Vare con-
trolled public officials. The publish-
ers of these papers are servile follow-
ers of the Vares and the public pa-
tronage paid out of the city treasury
is their recompense.
It is freely admitted that without
this public patronage most of these
foreign language papers would have
to suspend. It is generally believed
that the suspension of these papers
would deplete the strength of the
Vare machine by several thousand
votes. It has been proved by the ac-
tion of the House that if those who
know these facts would vote for the
Bolard bill it would be adopted by the
Senate. But the Penrose Senators
Stop Talking and Saw Wood.
the Peace Conference on Monday
President Wilson told his colleagues
At the close of a long session of |
NO. 14
Fresh Air.
From the Paris (France) Daily Mail
The Germans, who are bad psychol-
ogists, are asking for “a Wilson
peace.” The Allies and the United
that the time for talk is ended and : :
: X y States, if they keep their heads and
that for action has arrived. The job | work well iT will give them a
‘is a big one and of vast importance. | peace based on President Wilson's
. But a good deal of time has been con-
i sumed in the consideration of the var-
ident Wilson stated, the people are
| growing impatient. The most difficult
| feature of the work, the covenant of
| the League of Nations, was practical-
'ly agreed upon six weeks ago. The
| intervening time has been consumed
in the discussion of questions that
! might have been settled in less time.
| This is the substance of the Presi-
| dent’s complaint and it is justified.
It is universally agreed that Ger-
many must make reparation for the
property ruthlessly destroyed in
France and Belgium. It was settled
at the signing of the armistice that
Alsace and Loraine should be restor-
ed to France and that the Italian
provinces which had been purloined
by Austria at various times within a
century should be restored. Differ-
ences have recently arisen concerning
the boundaries of other States or Col-
onies but they are not vital and ought
not to require much time in settle-
ment. That being true the only ques-
tion is one of mathematics. The
thing is to figure up the damages and
give judgment for the amount. Let
the future take care of the payments
but see that they are made.
As we have already stated expedi-
tion is of the greatest importance.
The signing of the protocol with the
covenant of the League of Nations at-
tached, will mark the beginning of
the end of disorders in Europe.
Whether it be Bolshevicks, Soviets,
Sparticans or Socialists the public no-
tice that the League of Nations pro-
poses to stop all sorts of lawlessness
by force will admonish the leaders to
behave. For the reason that they will
not behave until such admonition is
given there ought to be no delay
This country wants to “resume busi-
ness at the old stand” and that will
not be possible until order has been
restored in Europe. Therefore, stop
#+alking and saw wood.
Senator Borah declared he
wouldn’t support the League of Na-
tions even if the Saviour asked him
to. But when Elihu Root expressed
a favorable opinion of the plan Bor-
ah changed his mind which shows
that the Saviour is not in the favor of
the Republican leaders.
Are You Physically Fit and Do You
Want to Be?
When we tackled the job of war,
the man that was physically fit for
that job was a rare exception. Twen-
ty-nine per cent. of the men between
twenty-one and thirty-one who were
examined by draft boards were reject-
ed. If the war had continued, so that
men over thirty-one would have come
up for examination, the proposition
would have been still greater. Phys-
ically, a man passes his zenith be-
tween thirty-one and thirty-five and
this is to be regretted because he then
knows more and can get bigger re-
sults with a smaller effort.
According to Walter Camp, it is not
necessary that a man should be phys-
ically unfit before he is seventy and
we all know that, for a generation,
on questions of athletics, Walter
Camp has been an authority; and we
also know that he was the big man in
Yale athletics. Athletics and physic-
al training were a hobby with him
until the war. Then the government
sent for him to overlook the physical
training in fifteen naval stations.
Now letters are pouring into his office
from people who want to be physical-
ly fit. The National Security League
is printing pamphlets containing his
exercises. The attention of Congress
has been called to the notable results
he has achieved.
It is for the above reasons that we
are devoting four columns to Walter
Camp’s “Daily Dozen Set Up” illus-
trated by eleven figures and hope that
you will avail yourself of this oppor-
tunity to learn how to be physically
fit by devoting a half hour a day to
the purpose.
It is important at this time to
remember in the future that during
the war the Republican leaders did
everything in their power to defeat
the plans of the government of the
are averse to taking the action for the |
reason that votes lost to the Vare ma- |
chine are lost to the Republican party |
and they are afraid of the result in|
the future. Strangely enough the Re-
publicans are not as confident of the
future as the results in the past
would justify.
Mr. Eugene Debs threatens a
general strike throughout the country
in the event the Supreme court refus-
es to obey his orders. Coincident
with the strike Mr. Debs ought to be
committed to prison for life.
In Budapest the Soviet author-
ities kill looters and in Russia the
United States.
Old Dame Nature sprung a
real April fool on us on Tuesday
morning in the shape of a little more
snow and a genuine freeze. Let us
hope it will be the last.
— Somebody ought to give Dr.
Dernburg a hint that pro-Germanism
is no longer a controlling force in the
world.
Of course we are opposed to
assassination but Lenine ought to be
removed in some way.
—How do you like your new home,
Soviet authorities loot everybody.
or didn’t you move on April 1st?
|
‘ious problems involved and as Presi- |
|
|
i
principles. The Germans will not
like it.
The reason why the Germans ask
for “a Wilson peace” is because they
hope thus to prevent the governments
of the Associated peoples from mak-
ing a peace on the basis of the Presi-
dent’s principles. Some Allied writ-
ers whose nerves are shakier than
their vision is long, seem inclined to
help the Germans by argung that,
since they ask for “a Wilson peace,”
the Allies must beware of President
Wilson.
When too many people, concentrat-
ed in one place, work too hard at too
many difficult questions, their tempers
grow short and they become flurried.
In such cases, a little fresh air isan
excellent sedative. Let us open the
window. :
It is President Wilson's chief glory
to have formulated, in principle, the
kind of peace which the Associated
peoples want. His points were not
altogether new. Many of them had
been, at least, adumbrated by Allied
statesmen hefore he laid them down,
Others were concordantly proclaimed
by Allied governments at the very be-
ginning of the war as the objects for
which they were fighting, What
President Wilson did was to interpret,
more fully and more accurately than
any of his statesmen-colleagues had
done, the minds of the Allied peoples.
Consequently he became, almost over-
night, the leader of the best Allied
public opinion.
WHY MR. WILSON WAS ACCLAIMED,
When he was acclaimed in Paris,
in England and in Italy as few men
have ever been acclaimed before, it
was not because he is President of the
United States, nor for his “beautiful
eyes,” nor even, as an Ailled poet
might put it, for his thirty-two teeth,
nor yet on account of his bewitching
smile.
It was because—in the estimation
of the people who have suffered,
whose sons have fought and whose
men and women, boys and gitls, have
worked—the ideas he enunciated rep-
resent, on the whole, their views of
the enduring peace they mean to have.
He was hailed as the symbol of a new
era. AT
When he came to Europe hedid not
bring with him a peace treaty ready
made in his pocket. He came to help
and he helped in making the peace of
the peoples, to learn how it could best
be made, to counsel and be counselled,
and to see that the permanent contri-
bution of the United States to the
new order of things be made on lines
that would, in the long run, commend
themselves to the sound idealism of
the American nation.
Some experts in Transatlantic pol-
itics would have us believe that the
people of the United States care little
for “a Wilson peace.” They tell us
gleefully that the United States Sen-
ate will put many a spoke in the Pres-
ident’s wheel. Whether these things
be true or false—and they are certain-
ly not wholly true—they do not con-
cern us Europeans. We have no bus-
iness to go behind the Head of the
United States Executive, who repre-
sents, as long as he is President, the
whole people of the United States in
their political dealings with us. How
far they agree or disagree with their
President is their business, not ours.
We did not accept thirteen out of
fourteen of President Wilson's prin-
ciples as the foundation of the peace
merely because they had been formu-
lated by an American President. We
accepted them chiefly because they
were, in the main, our own principles.
And we welcomed them the more
heartily because the fact that our
principles had been formulated by
the American President—who with all
his virtues and failings is acknowl-
edged to be an excellent judge of pub-
lic feeling in his own country—proved
that the main currents of public feel-
ing in Europe and in America were
substantially identical. This identity
seemed to be, and is, of the happiest
augury for the success of true and
longsighted peacemakers.
SHORTSIGHTED PEACEMAKERS.
There are, however, shortsighted
peacemakers who take other views.
They think that if one Allied country
insists upon this or that demand which
its experts have framed, it may gain
greater security or greater wealth or
fuller compensation for its sacifices.
There are well meaning people who, in.
all good faith, would, for instance, ru-
in Franco-British concord over ques-
tions like those of Syria or Arabia,
who would undermine the ancient love
between France and the United States
because French peasants are notor-
iously greedy, or who think that noth-
ing much matters provided that the
Commonwealth of British nations and
the United States of America stand
firmly together as a world-embracings
League of Anglo-Saxondon.
The minds of all these people are
out of focus or, at least, they work in
an atmosphere so hazy as to impede
their mental vision. They need a dose
of clear, fresh air.
No issue, great or small, can be al-
/ lowed to stand in the way of the re-
ciprocal and positive good-will with
which the Associated peoples fought
the war and with which they will in-
sist that their representatives shall
make the peace. They all stand ox
fall together—and they do not intend
to fall. If their delegates waver ox
grow short-tempered, there is one
consideration that may impart to all
(Continued on page 4, Col. 6.)
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
— Mrs. Annie Bubned, of Pottsville, who
was sent to jail for one year after convic+
tion of selling her daughter, Edith, in mar-
ringe to Elke Arden for $1300 must stayin
the penitentiary indefinitely until she pays
back the money. according to a court rul-
ing.
— The Industrial uel Co. composed of
Shamokin capitalists has sold an import-
ant coal washery operation located at
Keefer's Station to a Milton industry for
$30.000. The tract of coal land is 200 feet
long and § feet in width. The local bed
is about 6 feet deep and is estimated to
contain one million tons of coal.
— After being out over twenty-four
hours a jury at Sunbury, in the case of J.
R. Smith, of Milton, versus the borough
of Shamokin, awarded the plaintiff dam-
ages to the extent of $1,850. Smith, an
aged man, sued for $10,000 for injuries re
ceived in a fall on a brick pavement in
Shamokin. He was permaently crippled
by the fall.
—The American Car and Foundry Co.
of Berwick, is making plans to take care
of all returned soldiers by weeding out
those who came to secure the high war-
time wages and did not intend to become
permanent residents. The plan is to make
a gradual survey of the forces and when
the soldiers come home, there will be jobs
awaiting them.
Extensive use of lime for fertilizer in
the older agricultural regions of the State
has been reported by the agents of the
State Department of Agriculture who have
started out on the spring sampling of fer-
tilizers to determine whether they are
complying with Pennsylvania standards.
In some sections abandoned quarries and
lime kilns have been revived and there is
a brisk demand for the product.
——While walking along the railroad
tracks near the number six colliery of
the @. B. Markle Coal company at Jeddo,
Elwood Troll and Joseph Murrin detected
a large ball that had a tendency to move
and on getting closer discovered a squirm-
ing mass of snakes in a dormant stage.
They dispatched the entire lot and on un-
ravelling the reptiles counted twenty-
three, among them several blacksnakes
that measured six feet and over.
— When the ringing of a telephone bell
aroused him suddenly from a deep sleep
one night last week, Guy Ewing, of South
Williamsport, leaped from his bed. As he
jumped he twisted his head in a peculiar
manner, so that he dislocated the third
vertebra in his neck. Before many min-
utes passed his head was drawn to the
side so far that his face lay on his shoul-
der. Mr. Ewing suffered intense pain un-
til the dislocation could be reduced by a
physician.
— The celebrated Windsor case of Brad-
ford, on trial in thc courts of Cattaragus
county, N. Y., has been settled by the
Pennsylvania Railroad paying the heirs
£20,000. On July 4, 1917, Mrs. Windsor,
her son Samuel, and two daughters, Gail
and Katherine, while riding in an auto,
were run down at a railroad crossing near
Xrvine, N. Y., by a gasoline car owned by
the Pennsylvania Railroad, and all four of
them were killed. The suit was brought
to recover damages.
—Racing 3000 miles from the Panama
Canal Zone to Sunbury, in the hopes of
finding his dying mother alive, Walton F.
Sensenbach arrived on Sunday a few hours
before she passed away, but in time to
say words of farewell. Young Sensebach
is a government employee at Panama, and
when he got the telegraphic word he rush-
ed to Sunbury as fast as steam could car-
ry him. Mrs. Ada F. Sensebach, his moth-
er, was 65 years old, and she was the wid-
ow of Charles Sensebach, for many years
a blacksmith shop foreman for the Penn-
sylvania Railroad at Sunbury.
—The proposition of the Bayless Pulp
and Paper company, which has a large
mill at Austin, Pa., which was almost wip-
ed out by a flood a few years ago, to give
dollar for dollar for the purpose of estab-
lishing in the wvillage a $50,000 community
club house, with theatre, banquet rooms,
ball room, gymnasium, swimming pool,
bowling alleys, billiard and smoking
rooms, has been accepted by the towns-
folk who have subscribed $25.000, and the
company has added $25,000 more. The
corporation guarantees to the town sub-
scribers 5 per cent. interest annually on
the money which they have invested, to
say nothing of the great benefits to be de-
rived from this institution by the commu-
nity at large.
—Orders have been issued for the State
Armory Board to overhaul the forty-eight
armories owned by the Commonwealth, so
that they shall be in first-class condition
for the returning units of the Keystone
Division, if needed, and form headquarters
for the new National Guard. A survey
was recently made of each of the buildings
and at the meeting of the board, at which
contracts were let for three buildings and
for repairs for two, it was ordered all oth-
ers be put into good condition. Some of
the armories have been used by units of
the reserve militia and others have prac-
tically been idle since the guardsmen left
for Camp Hancock in the summer of 1917.
One of the armories referred to is located
in Bellefonte.
—%Send up to our house for a baby or a
bomb,” was the startling message which
came to the Pottsville police department.
A woman residing near Eighth and Laurel
streets declared a burlap bag had been
brought into her cellar by persons un-
known, The bag contained a box, and on
opening the latter, the police were almost
convinced there was a bomb inside, as wad
after wad of cotton was removed. When
still more cotton was removed, the police
were sure it was a bomb, as insulating tape
came to light and the contents were han-
dled very gingerly. Finally the package
in the center of the cotton was uncovered
and opening it up the policemen found a
bottle of whiskey. Investigation showed
a brother of the mistress of the house had
put the liquid away as an oasis after
July 1.
_ Mansfield is going to have a com-
munity auction on April 16th, under the
auspices of the local Business Men's asso-
ciation. The sale will begin promptly at
10 a. m., on the pavement between Wells-
boro and Sherwood streets. The fees will
be § per cent. on all sums under $20, goods
from $20 to $40, auction fee of $1 each and
above $40, 3 per cent. of selling price. All
goods must be in hands of the committee
before the opening of the sale, Most every-
body has something they do not want that
some one else does and this will be a gala
occasion. T.adies of the Grange will serve
dinner at the Grange hall at the noon
hour for the accommodation of out-of-
town guests, and there will be sports on
the pavement for the amusement of the
public. Bellefonte citizens might try out
the above.