Bera aidan.
INK SLINGS.
Well, nobody ever accused the Ital-
ians of being too modest.
—This and next week Centre coun-
ty’s corn crop will be planted.
—Anyway the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature does less harm the more it
loafs.
—If Holland refuses to give up the
- Kaiser why all we can do is take Hol-
land too.
—A man never finds himself com-
pletely tied fip until he gets to the end
of his string.
—Rains are essential of course, but
they do add a lot to the miseries of a
man who has to mow his own lawn.
—May is half gone, June will soon
be here and, come to think of it, it is
only two hundred and twenty-three
days until Christmas.
—The North ward team having got-
ten away to a victorious start in the
Red Cross baseball league we are con-
strained to remark that the fight is
on.
—The new fad of the girls, that
makes a sweater worn without a waist
under it quite the swagger thing, may
be chic but it looks more like “chick-
en.”
—The Salvation Army is asking
Centre county to give it seven thous-
and dollars next week and it is up to
us to see the doughnut, not the hole
in it.
——Don’t waste too much sympa-
thy on. those who are assessed under
the luxury tax. There are a good
many others less able to pay taxes on
necessaries. :
—Germany threatens to cease to
exist if forced to accept the peace
terms offered her. What a calamity
it would be to lose the source of so
much kultur.
—Germany yelled “enough!” before
she got a taste of what Belgium and
northern France suffered. The peace
terms are, therefor, so much the hard-
er to accept.
—The new Congress has convened
and the country may expect fulfill-
ment of the many promises that
it has been cajoled with during the
past eight years.
—The problem of the unemployed
is being solved by the city of Wil-
liamsport through a movement to
place more benches around the court
house in that place.
—The price of beer has fallen three
dollars a barrel on the Hazleton mar-
ket. Brewers in that section have
doubtless made up their minds to sell
while the sellin’s good.
—After Austria complies with the
peace terms she could mobilize her
entire navy on the smallest pond at
the Bellefonte fish hatchery and still
they wouldn’t keep much sunshine off
of the embryo trout.
—Centre county’s welcome home
celebration for her soldiers and sail-
ors is to be quite up to the high stan-
dard we have maintained in giving
lavishly and doing splendidly ever
since we entered the war.
—Because the women elect to wear
tight skirts the council of Youngs-
town, Ohio, is considering compelling
the street car companies of that city
to lower the steps on their cars. What
a useless waste to gratify a whim of
fashion.
—What are we going to do for par-
agraphs when peace has finally come,
the army is home and the country has
gone dry? We should worry. Life
surely is just “one d——d thing after
another,” so something will turn up
to furnish food for our pencil.
—Mme Eleanor de Cisneros, who of-
fered to kiss every man who subscrib-
ed one million dollars to the Victory
loan and got twenty-three takers at
one meeting in Brooklyn, has gone
broke. Pity the poor lady, who can’t
turn her osculatory charms to her per-
sonal benefit.
—The Salvation Army is modest-
It wants only thirteen million dollars
and it wants it next week. Well, git-
tin’s good now-a-days and the lassies
of Sally’s Army deserve and will
make good use of every penny of it,
so let your contributions be both gen-
erous and cheerful.
—It was the prodigious prepara-
tion we made for war that brought
the war to such an early end after our
entrance. Prodigious preparation ne-
cessitated prodigious expenditures.
Some call it waste, but then they don’t
stop to calculate what the cost might
have been had the war gone for a
year longer.
—As days pass Italy is seeing
things with a broader vision. Her
delegates are now actually proposing
that they make certain concessions of
their demands for territory. Italy al-
ways was all right, yet she wasn’t
just prepared for such a new order of
things as the Peace Conference has
endeavored to bring about.
—The German delegates at Ver-
sailles are occupying most of their
time writing notes to the “Big Four.”
They are not the kind of notes that
are wanted just now. What the Al-
lies want is one of those “shirt tail”
fellows that will guarantee all the
payments the Huns are asked to pay
for the destruction they have
wrought.
—The contract for the new highway
from Bellefonte to Nittany mountain
having been let the summer promises
nearly a quarter of a million dollar’s
worth of new business for this sec-
tion. Aside from the utilitarian val-
ue the good roads movement has oth-
er compensations and Centre county
has no kick on the share she is get-
ting of all of them,
{ SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—The Bethlehem Steel company has
planted 60,000 pine trees at Cornwall, to
beautify a neighborhood.
—Earl Jeardon and Guy Calkins were
arrested in McKean county for fishing out
of season and on Sunday. The fines and
costs, for these early sportsme
Sa n footed
—Modern machinery has its disadvan
tages. Edmund Whitelaw, of Crosby, is
in the Bradford hospital recovering from
injuries received when his clothing caught
STATE RIGHTS
AND FEDERAL UNION.
in the revolving shaft of a farm tractor.
—Despondent over recent illness, Mrs.
Ida Blecker, of Danville, committed sui-
cide by hanging. Her lifeless body was
found suspended from a joist in the cel-
VOL. 64.
Peace Terms Just But Not Hard.
The war seems to have ended too |
soon. The attitude of the German
people with respect to the peace |
terms indicate that they are not!
aware they were licked. They suffer-
ed none of the horrors of war which |
were so ruthlessly inflicted on other
participants in the conflict. And they
appear to believe that they have a
right to a voice in fixing the condi-
tions of the future. If the armistice
had been delayed a few months they
might have obtained a different con-
ception of the result. If the forces of
the United States and the Allies had
moved on to Berlin and the ravages
of even an humanitarian war had been
inflicted upon the people of the terri-
tory invaded they would have a bet-
ter understanding.
. The German people protest that the
peace terms laid down by the Paris
Conference are hard. As a matter of
fact the terms are, relatively speak-
ing, mild. In the Franco-Prussian
war no damage was done in Germany
and comparatively few German sol-
diers were killed. Yet Germany im-
posed conditions upon the conquered
their cruelties. In the treaty forced
upon Russia during the recent war
the conditions were brutally severe
and that which Rumania was compel-
led to =zccept, equally destructive.
But now that Germany is to suffer the
just penalties of her numerous atroci-
ties, her people squeal like stuck pigs,
and plead for mercy. Let them have
exact justice.
The German people cannot escape
just punishment on the pretext that
the war was brought on by the mili-
tary authorities and the atrocities
perpetrated by the army. The busi-
ness element of the German popula-
tion and the land owners of Germany
encouraged the military authorities to
force the war on the world and every
atrocity committed during the war
was applauded by the German press
and public. The sinking of the Lusi-
tania and all its horrible consequences
were jouously celebrated by the Ger-
man people and when the fiends oper-
ating submarine craft were decorated
for some especially cruel performance
the entire people rejoiced. The peace
terms are not too hard. Any fault is
on the other . ide,
——The refusal of the court to ac-
cept “straw bail” for Bill Haywood,
the I. W. W. leader, is not really a
great source of regret. It may be
disappointing to Bill but the country
will get along without him.
Two of a Bad Kind.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,
has at least one supporter in his claim
that Italy is entitled to the port of
Fiume. Prince von Buelow, who was
a member of the German cabinet dur-
ing the early part of the war, de-
clares that the “title of Italy to Fiume
is good. Everything in Fiume,” he
says “is Italian. Most of the Hun-
garians living in Fiume are more fa-
vorable to Italian than to Jugo-Slav
rule.” That is substantially the way
Senator Lodge expressed it. These
two distinguished advocates of autoc-
racy may have been influenced to
their views by different reasons. But
the result is just the same. Their
purpose is to make the work of the
peace makers more difficult.
Prince von Buelow is probably look-
ing for a safe asylum in which to
hide himself when that feature of the
peace treaty that provides fit punish-
ment for those responsible for the war
and its inhuman cruelties and imag-
ines that taking the side of Italy in
its controversy with the United
States, Great Britain and France up-
on the Fiume problem, will provide a
zone of safety. His wife is an Italian
and her relatives may take care of
him if he “behaves.” Besides he
hasn’t much interest in treaties as he
was at the beginning of the war con-
spicuous among those who believed
that treaties are simply “scraps of
paper.” Therefore he has strong rea-
sons for siding with Italy.
But Lodge has no reason other than
partisan bigotry. He imagines that
the success of the peace conference
will add vastly to the influence and
popularity of Woodrow Wilson and he
{is willing to sacrifice half the man-
‘hood of the country to prevent that.
. He believed that the quarrel between
| Italy and the other powers concerned
{ in making the treaty, would defeat it.
| He probably knew that the defeat of
| the treaty would mean a resumption
| of the war and the killing of other
{ thousands of American soldiers. But
| it would also discredit President Wil-
i son and that has become the purpose
of Henry Cabot Lodge’s worthless
| life. But he is welcome to his com-
: panion in thought, Prince von Buelow.
——There is probably no founda-
{ tion for the published statement that
| Holland will refuse to give up the
Kaiser for trial. The chances are ten
to one that Holland would willingly
give trading stamps to anybedy who
will take him out of that country.
——1If you want to help the Belle-
fonte hospital go to the Academy
minstrel show next Thursday night.
French that appalled civilization by
minded men.
BELLEFONTE. PA., MAY 16, 1919.
Opinions of Two Public Men.
In the esteemed Philadelphia Rec-
ord of last Saturday there are ex-
pressions of two conspicuous public
men on topics of present popular con-
cern which are interesting mainly be-
cause of contrast. Former President
Taft is quoted as saying: “The fact
that we had 2,000,000 men in Ameri-
ca ready to cross, just as good as
those who were across; the fact that
we had more airplanes building, rifles
and shells and ammunition coming
faster, a deadlier gas ready, were de-
ciding factors in ending the war. The
fact that all these things were ready
shows that the money spent for them
was not wasted.” Having declared
these pertinent truths he sharply up-
braided those “foolish enough to say
there was no use for expense after
the war ended.” They are necessary
to restore peace and bring men home.
On another page of the same issue
Senator Penrose is quoted as saying:
“] favor a proper investigation of war
expenditures and activities. I do not
believe the investigations should be
conducted in any spirit of partisan-
ship and full allowance ought to be
made for the peculiar conditions pre-
vailing in the crisis of the great war.
I would feel rather that the inquiries
ought to be conducted on broad lines
so that we may know what mistakes,
if any, have been made in economical
matters, incuding price-fixing and
other regulations, as well as the
methods of making contracts and the
wisdom of such projects as the hous-
ing scheme.” The only broad lines
which ever appear to Senator Pen-
rose’s mind are such as may be used
for partisan purposes and the inves-
tigations he contemplates will have
the partisan aim of discrediting the
administration.
The voice of Mr. Taft expresses
the impulses of a patriotic heart, in-
fluenced by intelligent understanding
of great questions. The voice of Sen-
ator Penrose expresses the pernicious
hope of a scurvy politician bent upon
the promotion of selfish partisan in-
terest at any price. Mr. Taft can see
no reason for even complaint. Sena-
tor Penrose sees a hope that parti-
sans with the instinct of a ferret may
discover some error of judgment or
carelessness in execution that will jus-
tify criticism. It is- admitted that
mistakes have been made and in his
bigoted mind they have already been
magnified into crimes. But he is wel-
come to his false opinions. They be-
come his small mind and meantime
the administration will proceed se-
renely in the full confidence of fair
——Germany was warned long ago
that it would be a “dictated peace,”
and negotiations are barred. !
Senator Vare is Happy.
The Legislative mill at Harrisburg :
has not been making much progress
this week. “Absence from the capital
of United States Senator Penrose, a '
dinner to the Governor on Monday
night, a base ball game on Wednes- |
day afternoon and the journey of
State officials and members of the
General Assembly early Thursday
morning to Philadelphia to join in the
welcome to the 28th division,” writes
one of the Philadelphia newspaper
correspondents, “are among the many
reasons for marking time in both
branches this week.” The other rea-
sons are left to conjecture. Probably
among them might be found that tra-
ditional adage that “when the cat’s
away the mice will play.”
As has been indicated in these col-
umns before the Legislature was aim-
lessly dilly dallying until Senator
Penrose butted in three or four weeks
ago and forced something like activi-
ty into the indolent membership. He
had an axe to grind, of course, and
the only available instrument for ac-
complishing the purpose was the leg-
islative grindstone. Senator Vare
was becoming increasingly trouble-
some and the only remedy is destruc-
tion. Accordingly Penrose went to
Harrisburg and entered upon the task.
The Governor thrust a sprag into his
wheel here and threw a monkey
wrench into his machinery there. But
in three weeks of strenuous endeavor
he achieved much. Then his energies
were diverted to another source of an-
noyance. His political fences in
Washington were set on fire and he
had to go there to extinguish the
flames. ;
But his absence from Harrisburg
played havoc with his plans in Penn-
sylvania for the Legislature has re-
lapsed into the state of lethargy from
which he had retrieved it. All his
friends appear to have laid down and
the Governor has ordered a complete
review of his work and a possible re-
versal of the legislative policy.
Meantime the country Members are
becoming restive over the prolonga-
tion of the session. Under the law
after the hundred days have expired
they get no recompense for remaining
in session and as a rule they believe
that “the laborer is worthy of his
hire” whether his services are of val-
ue or not. This is the outstanding ,
situation at present. And Vare isen- |
joying it to the limit. i
Big Fight Impending.
At the assembling of Congress next From the Philadelphia Record.
week there is likely to be staged in
Washington the most cruel war of
modern times. Senator Borah, a
blatherskite from Idaho, declares that | {ory In 1871, with its iron-shod boots
he will not consent to the election of | trampling the third of its victims in
Senator Penrose to the chairmanship
of the committee on Finance, tradi-
tionally the highest office in the body.
Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, and Sena-
tor Norris, of Nebraska, are said to
entertain the same views on the sub-
ject and Senator Johnson, of Califor-
nia; Senator McNary, of Oregon;
Senator Jones, of Washington, and
Senator Cummins, of Iowa, are in
sympathy but not willing to go the
limit. Senator Penrose is entitled to
the office by rules in force “since time
out of mind.”
Senator Simmons is the present ca-
pable chairman of the committee. Be-
ing a South Carolinian and a Demo-
crat he naturally expects to be de-
moted upon the reorganization next
week but is probably willing to, con-
tinue in the event of the failure of the
opposition to muster strength enough
to oust him. If Borah, Kenyon and
Norris vote against him or withhold
their votes, Penrose will not be elect-
ed for one absent Republican Senator
with those Senators not voting will
leave the Republican candidate with
less than a majority. On the other
hand Penrose is said to have declared
that rather than let these recalci-
trants control the election he will vote
for Simmons and thus secure his re-
election.
The importance of this contest,
however, is not in the persons imme-
diately concerned. It lies between
the predatory corporations and spe-
cial interests on one side and the low
tariff and anti-corporation Republi-
cans on the other. The corporations
want Penrose for the reason that with
him in the office there would be a
hope for the restoration of all the
sources of graft which excessive tar-
iff legislation promotes. They freely
offer any amount of slush funds which
the Republican organization requires
for the ensuing Presidential campaign
and threaten to withhold their contri-
butions if this expectation is defeat-
ed. That is the significant feature of
the fight and lines the machine with
10o8e. « id - .
Senator Cummins is already
exercising the functions of chairman
of the committee on Intrestate Com-
merce though he hasn’t been commis-
sioned as yet and if he continues to
monkey with Penrose may never be.
Considerable curiosity was
manifested on Wednesday by a sight
of burgess W. Harrison Walker and
chief of police Harry Dukeman meas-
. uring the principal streets of the town
. with a tape line.
manifest.
The object is very
Last week the “Watch-
man” told of Burgess Walker’s deter-
mination to break up the speeding
habit within the borough and in or-
der to do so council has granted him
the right to import a stranger as traf-
fic officer, whose special duty it will
be to catch violators of the automo-
bile laws of the State and borough.
The very fact that the burgess him-
self assisted in measuring off the
speed traps may be taken as a hint
that if his special officer is not al-
ready in Bellefonte he will be pretty
soon, and this is a hint to automobil-
ists to keep within the rules and reg-
ulations or some of these days they
are liable to get a little notice to ap-
pear before His Honor and settle.
Naturally Senator LaFollette
is opposed to the League of Nations.
We have every reason to believe that
General Hindenberg is of the same
mind on that subject. It is a pro-
German weakness.
Col. J. L. Spangler left on Mon-
day afternoon for Chicago where as
a member of the United States com-
mission to adjudicate labor troubles
between employers and employees he
went to meet with the other members
to arrange a scale for the big pack-
ing concerns and their two hundred
thousand workmen. Just about a year
ago the commission was appealed to
to settle the labor trouble that threat-
ened to interfere with the packers
making good on their contract to fur-
nish one thousand car loads of meat,
ete.,, a day to the government, and
the arrangement they made at that
time proved so satisfactory to both
sides that the commission has been
asked to lend its assistance in com-
pleting arrangements for another
year.
“Tt is said that the German del-
egates at Versailles are standing on
President Wilson’s Fourteen Points.
But if they refuse to sign they will be
standing on their heads in the near
future.
Those whe won the war will
make the peace and neither the Ger-
man delegates in Versailles nor the
Republican Senators in Washington
had anything to do with winning the
war.
—For high class Job Work come
to the “Watchman” Office.
i
‘ much of what it took from Denmark
and Poland, is restored to its victims
i their consecrated head.
tes
. We doubt if there ever was in this
. unanimous worshipers of their com-
NO. 20.
- lar of her home by neighbors who made a
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.
search for her.
—Thieves forced an entrance to a To-
wanda meat market last week, took sever-
al pieces of jewelry from the safe, 32.50
from the cash register and overlooked
$500 in bills in the safe drawer, this latter
likely paid in.by some belated customer.
—Announcement was made last week by
the Susquehanna silk mills, with general
offices in New York, that it will build a
$200.000 plant at Milton, to replace the
plant now there, which employs 200 hands.
The new plant when in operation will em-
ploy from 400 to 600 hands.
—The R. & H. Simon Silk company is
about to begin extensive improvements on
its mill in Easton, which will entail, itis
said, the expenditure of about $300,000. It
is planned to erect two additional one-
story brick buildings, one to be 125 by 230
feet, and the other 115 by 170 feet.
—Montandon wants a postmaster,
Frederick G. Garber, who held the Sue
tion for six years, resigned, the place has
gone-a-begging. No one seems to want it,
although the place pays $600, approxi.
mately. An examination was held on Sat-
urday but no appointment has vet been
made.
—A suit for $50,000 damages has been
filed for Arpad Kaneso, aged five, by
Charles Kancso, his father, of Bethlehem,
against the Bell Telephone company of
Pennsylvania, for injuries caused to Ar-
pad Kancso, when knocked down and run
over by a vehicle belonging to the defend-
ant company,
—Woods Rich, of Woolrich, had a nar-
row escape from death in the flooded Sus-
quehanna Sunday night when lights from
another car blinded him, causing him to
lose control of the machine which he was
driving. The car jumped the bank above
McElhattan and plunged partly into the
stream. He was bruised and suffered
strains in the neck. The car was badly
damaged.
—Twenty years ago, Falls Creek, Du-
Bois’ interesting suburban village, was an
interesting town. Two big glass factories
were being built. car shops were contem-
plated, steel mills were looked for, big
stores were being built and things were
humming. As soon as the town lots were
sold, however, and building enterprises
ceased, the town went on the blink, where
it has remained since.
—Mrs. Anna Guelich Heisey. Clearfield
county's oldest resident, quietly celebrat-
ed her 103rd birthday, on Monday of last
week at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
George XI. Hall, near Clearfield. Among
those seated at dinner with her were her
brother, Henry Guelich. aged over ninety
years; her son-in-law, George Hall, past
ninety-one years of age, and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Hall, aged eighty-one years.
—Peter Smollak, of Kulpmont, Nor-
thumberland county, found guilty of the
first degree murder of his wife and sen-
tenced to die in the electric chair at the
Rockview penitentiary, has evidently been
overlooked by Governor Sproul’s secreta-
ry in fixing the dates for the electrocu-
tion of murderers. Smollak was found
guilty last September and refused a new
trial, but as yet he does not know when
his turn to die will come.
—When Joseph Munster, assistant mine
foreman at the Phoenix Park colliery,
Minersville, was married in November,
1905, a gypsy fortune teller who read his
hand predicted his bride would present
him with eighteen children. During the
week the tenth child was born and Mun-
ster is beginning to believe the gypsy was
conservative. He is very proud of his big
family, though admitting it is a great re-
Less than fifty years spans the per-
iod between the greatest glory of Ger-
many and a humiliation deeper than
that of any considerable nation in his-
seven years, Prussia erected itself in-
to the German Empire and placed the
imperial crown upon its brutal fore-
head. In 1919 it listens to a decree of
dissolution, disarmament and dis-
grace.
What it took from France, and
in wars that turned its head and made
it the bandit of the world. Its army
and navy are to be reduced to the di-
mensions of a modest police force. Its
western front is to be left without de-
fenses. Its colonial empire has disap-
peared. The greater part of its mer-
chant marine will be taken to pay in
kind as far as it goes the damages
wrought by its submarines. It will be
hedged in on the east by Poland and
on the south by Czecho-Slavokia.
The most remorseless enemy of
Germany, the most revengeful of its
victims, could hardly ask for more,
for in addition to all these penalties it
must toil for a generation, perhaps
for a century, to pay a pecuniary pen-
alty the full dimensions of which are
not stated, but must be accepted in
blank, and the first installment of
which is four times as great as the
unprecedented ransom it extorted
from prostrate France.
Its former Kaiser, now a fugitive
from his country, which has disowned
him, must stand trial for crimes
against civilization, and his subordi-
nates must go before the bar of alien
courts on charges of specific viola-
tions of international law.
Yet the peace treaty is not one of
vengeance, but of justice. It is notan
expression of hatred, but the stern
judgment of the civilized world upon
the nation which precipitated the
greatest of all wars for the least of
all reasons, for the gratification of
the most criminal of all ambitions.
Will the German plenipotentiaries
sign? They must. There is nothing
else for them to do. Germany cannot
live without imported food and ma-
terials, and if it does not sign an ab-
solute interdict will be issued against
it. The Allies and America have the
means of closing every port and
guarding every frontier. It was able
to import a good deal during the war,
yet not enough to maintain perma-
nently its physical existenge:: or “its
industrial activity. dt will be imvos- |’
sible to import anything if it shall re-
fuse to submit to the penalties, which,
appalling as they are, fall short of
those with which it threatened its
neighbors for years before this war
broke out, and for the imposition of
which it rejected all overtures of ne-
gotiation and conciliation and launch-
ed its bolts against France, Belgium
and Russia.
Yet, not as a matter of justice, but
as a matter of expediency, it is open
to question whether it is wise to keep
Germany struggling for a generation
or half a century to pay what it owes.
But Germany has no right to object.
It cannot undo the wanton harm it
has done. It can never pay for the
suffering it has caused. The nation
as well as the Kaiser made this war,
25 cher or in, penany 1 sponsibility for one man to take upon him-
1 ;
not greater than Germany deserves. Sef in those rimes
= —Amos 8. Fishel, a widely known Ad-
ams county farmer, is dead at his home
near Arendtsville as the result of injuries
received Sunday afternoon, when he was
attacked by a bull. He was tossed by the
animal for some minutes before his wife
and son were attracted by the noise and
beat off the bull with shovels. Mr. Fishel
suffered great loss of blood through the
main artery in his right leg being torn.
Tirst aid given by his son. Emory Fishel,
formerly in the medical corps of the ar-
my, prolonged his life many hours.
3
Napoleon and the Kaiser.
From the Hartford Courant.
On the bleak and altogether unin-
teresting island of St. Helena 98
years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte, the
great military genius of France, was
passing the last days of his life upon
this earth. May 5, 1821, he died. His
body is now in his beloved France,
and descendants of the people whom
he misguided during his ambitious
and graphic career go to his tomb and
pay due and willing reverence. Nine-
ty-eight years after the death of this
great Frenchman, the leader of
another great nation is in exile, not
far from the land of the people whom
he also misguided, misused and false-
ly led in the blind and futile role of
In his self-
appointed exile, William Hohenzol-
lern cannot be compared to the great
Napoleon. The only comparison that
can rightfully be made is that each of
these rulers of a great people became
obsessed with the mad desire to ex-
tend his rule to the uttermost ends of
the earth. But this modern blood-
thirsty ruler of the German Empire,
who wrecked his kingdom and him-
self, is, in a sense, just as much an
exile today as ever Napolean was.
Anent the Soldier Vote.
¥rom the Philadelphia Record.
One of General Wood’s most enthu-
siastic boomers makes the prediction
that he “will have the solid soldier
vote.” “There ain’t no sech animile!”
—The Ferguson Packing company of
Johnstown, Pa. is a new organization
capitalized at $250,000. At the head of it
is C. L. Ferguson, one of the city’s leading
financiers and church men. The company,
which will employ fifty men in the pack-
ing business has bought the Germania
brewery, which formerly employed twelve
men. In transforming the brewery into a
packing house the boilers, generators,
compressors, etc.. have been left intact.
The other machinery has been changed
and an additional building is being erect-
ed.
—That western Pennsylvania may have
another tuberculosis sanitarium has been
intimated by Colonel Edward Martin,
State Commissioner of Health. The sani-
tarium at Markleton, Somerset county,
which was used by the government during
the war and which was returned recently
to private ownership may be taken over
by the State for use in caring for tuber-
culosis patients. Colonel Martin made an
inspection of the hospital lately and ad-
mitted that there was some ground for the
reports that the institution would be taken
over by the State. The State now controls
three tuberculosis sanitariums, Mont Al-
to, Cresson and Hamburg.
country a “solid soldier vote,” even
among those early fighters for our
liberties whom we like to believe
—Pennsylvania state constabulary, de-
tectives of Allegheny and Beaver counties
and Pittsburgh police are searching for
the persons who late Sunday brought
down a balloon containing two United
States naval officers with high power ri-
fles near Baden, Pa. The bag was pilot-
ed by Lieutenant Robert Howarth and En-
sign Wm. White, of the Akron, Ohio, na-
val reserve training station and was one
of seven balloons which started from Ak-
ron Sunday in a race to the Atlantic coast.
According to the police ,the shooting oc-
curred near Beaver, Pa. The first bullet
struck Ensign White's cap. Then a fusil-
mander-in-chief and the Father of
His Country. It is certain that the
soldiers coming back from overseas
now show no wild fervor at mention
of the name of any high officer who
happens to be considered for the Pres-
idency. So far as Pershing is con-
cerned, politics seems not to have
touched him, and his record as a fight-
er is not likely to affect the individu-
al political faith of any of the fight-
ers under him. Most of our men
were voters—or prospective voters
following in their fathers’ footsteps— | lade of bullets tore the gas bag but the
before they became fighters, and | pilots opened the safety vaives and sue-
when they put on their “civies” again ceeded in landing near Baden without ac-
they’ll be the same sort of voters. cident. :