pT
INK SLINGS.
— At present prices of pork there
would be no economy in making a
silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
—If everybody would be as frugal
now as they were while the war was
on there would be little in this h. c. L
howl.
Probably Carranza is hunting
trouble and nobody ever failed to find
all he wants of that unmarketable
commodity.
— The daylight saving law has been
repealed. The Senate has sustained
the House in passing it over the Pres-
ident’s veto.
—Of course we like the person who
says nice things to us, but the one
who does nice things for us has the
shade in our favor.
_ Strikes seem to be about as much
of a fad as appendicitis once was.
They could be cured the same way
too, by cutting them out.
—TIt may be said that some of
those associated with the Brumbaugh
administration have not yet come un-
dér suspicion but not many.
— Philadelphia ought not to be as
much concerned about where Hampy
Moore stands now as where he will
stand after being elected Mayor.
— Recent rains have put the finish-
ing touch to the corn and late pota-
toes in Centre county and made the
old sod easy to plow. Surely the far-
mer is in luck.
— Read the story of conditions in
Armenia, sent by Aimee Vanneman
Higdon, on another page of this issue
and if there is any heart in you you'll
do something to help this work.
—Why not ratify the peace treaty
at once and amend it, if necessary,
later. That is the way the Constitu-
tion of the United States was adopt-
ed and no one thinks it isn’t a very
satisfactory instrument.
—Williamsport’s chief of police wiil
not arrest persons for selling two and
three-quarter beer in that city be-
cause he claims to have no instruc-
tions to do so. Chief Tepel evidently
isn’t next of kin to that official who
“geen his duty and done it.”
—Can anyone explain why nearly
all the candidates for office in Centre
county take such poor pictures? It
is just possible they don’t, but a
stranger looking over the collection
of cards to be found most anywhere
would be justified in thinking they do.
—The high cost of living evidently
hasn’t struck Mexico else those ban-
dits would not have been so reasona-
ble in the ransom demanded for the
release of the two American officers
whom they captured. They might as
‘well have had fifty as fifteen thous-
-and dollars, -
_s-Those striking New York trac-
tio! en got a twenty-five per cent.
raise in wages. None of the New
York traction stocks have been par-
‘ticularly profitable investments so
that this increase must result in in-
creased fares else the properties will
become insolvent. If fares are in-
creased New Yorkers will kick more
‘than ever about the h. 1. ¢. and de-
mand more investigations from Wash-
ington without a thought of the real
cause.
—They tell us that the soft coal
miners are getting ready to make de-
mands that might send many men to
sawing wood this winter. A dollar
and a half a ton for mining, five days
work a week, eight dollars a mini-
mum wage per day for day men, min-
ers to be hauled to and from their
work in separate cars from their tools
and a lot more fancy things that will
boost the cost of coal are being talked
of. Apparently there are more soft
things than coal being thought of in
the bituminous regions.
—The trouble with Congress is that
it spends all its time diagnosing the
country’s case and none of it in find-
ing a remedy. Surely the people
must be weary of investigations that
reveal nothing until so long after
their institution that other troubles
have entirely superceded them. It
seems as though nearly every Con-
gressman beats it up a blind alley the
moment his constituents call upon
him to do something. Now a lot of
them think that cold storage is the
cause of the high cost of living and
want to make the packers and cold
storage houses disgorge. It is a
doubtful panacea. The records of the
meat packers prove beyond question
that they are carrying in cold storage
only the normal supply of meat pro-
ducts against the regular season
when consumption exceeds produc-
tion. And as to eggs. Everybody
with a grain of sense knows that eggs
are stored in the spring when hens
are laying well to be brought out in
the fall and winter months when the
old hens are moulting and before the
pullets have begun to lay. All the
far sighted housewives in Bellefonte
have from ten to thirty dozen of eggs
down in water glass now and big re-
frigerating plants are only doing for
city folks what country people are
able to do for themselves in this way.
If all these eggs had been consumed
when produced eggs would be a dol-
lar a dozen in December and possibly
more. To our minds cold and other
storage stabilizes prices and never in-
flates them unless a “corner” is at:
tempted in some commodity. The
high cost of living is due much to the
fact that luxuries of yesterday are
regarded as necessities teday in most
American families and to our grow-
ing disposition to be all dressed up
and looking for some place to go. In
other words we would all be better off
if we were to. relaunch.that.old.cam-
“paign of “back to simple life for me.”
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
SOL. 41
BELLEFONTE. PA., AUGUST 22, 1919.
Government Control or Ownership.
The question of government owner-
ship of railroads in this country is be-
coming so acute that it would seem to
be impossible to evade or side-step it.
The approach of the time fixed by law
for the restoration of the properties
to their private owners admonishes
railroad employees of an impending
danger. To avert what they appre-
hend will result in a return of low
wages and a renewal of the irrepres-
sible fight against organized labor,
they are insisting on government
ownership of the properties. With a
force of upwards of two million men,
mostly voters, behind them, their de-
mands command attention from the
politicians. Whether the movement
will result in what they ask remains
to be seen. ;
Government ownership of the rail-
roads of the country is a serious prop-
osition. It is true that government
control has materially improved both
the properties and the interests of the
employees. But the good has been
achieved at great expense to the pub-
lic treasury and the burden of replen-
ishing the treasury is upon the peo-
ple and mostly on the wage earners.
Besides government ownership would
involve an immense outlay of public
money in the beginning and a vast
expense in ultimately taking over all
other enterprises of a semi-public
character, for it is a step in the direc-
tion of socialism which could not be
stopped, if once begun, until it is
completed. In other words it is a
grave experiment.
To return to the old methods which
prevailed under private ownership is
hardly to be thought of. But dread of
that ought not to confuse the minds
of railroad employees into the mis-
taken notion that government control
is the same as government ownership.
Since sometime during the winter of
1917-718, the railroads have been un-
der government control but in private
ownership. To our mind it would be
better and safer for railroad em-
ployees to strive for a continuance of
the existing condition rather than to
demand the more radical measure of
government ownership. Probably too
much consideration to rewards of cap-
ital was given in taking over the
properties, but that could be changed
in the new deal. Gi
© Shortly before he retired from the
office of Director. General Mr. Me-
Adoo suggested an extension of the
iod of five years under the belief that
within that time the efficiency of gov-
ernment control could be demonstrat-
ed. But the railroads had taken pre-
cautions against such an extension by
electing a Congress adverse to the
policies of the present administration.
Railroad managers rather than rail-
road owners want absolute control of
the properties for the purpose of ma-
nipulating markets instead of helping
stock holders. Yet with the full force
of the railroad employees behind the
movement the present Congress might
be forced to continue the present ar-
rangement.
That would serve the purposes of
the railroad employees quite as well
as government ownership and it
wouldn’t be as expensive or nearly as
dangerous to our system of govern-
ment. Government ownership of
railroads followed by the inevitable
government ownership of all utilities,
public and private, would destroy in-
dividual initiative and take away
every incentive to effort and desire
for improvement. That would be a
public misfortune greater than can be
imagined by right minded men. But
it is the dernier resort and unless rea-
son prevails and compromise is effect-
ed it may come and with it the calam-
ities of present Russian demoraliza-
tion.
——————
—— The various political
dates in Centre county will be kept
on the go tomorrow if they cover all
the big gatherings. Up Bald Eagle
will be the Williams’ family reunion
and Centre county veteran club picnic
in the John Q. Miles grove at Martha.
Down Bald Eagle will be the big wel-
come home celebration at Howard
and arrangements have been made
there for a big crowd. In addition to
the Howard band the Middle division
P. R. R. band, of Altoona, will be
present and help along with the music
for the occasion. In addition to the
above two gatherings citizens of Col-
lege and Ferguson townships will
hold a community picnic at Pine Hall.
— Tuesday was the last day for
the filing of candidates petitions to
have their names appear upon the
ballots at the September primaries,
but there were no late hour surprises.
On the Democratic side of the house
John J. Bower filed a petition as a
candidate for district attorney, while
the other petitions were those of can-
didates who have been before the
public for weeks.. The same was ‘the
case in the Republican ranks. About
570 different petitions were filed by
those: who are candidates for nomina-
tion fo the various borough and town-
ship offices in the county.
——For high ciass_ job work come
Hi the Watchman” of.”
time of government control for a per-,
candi- |
{
| In his conference with the Senate
| committee on Foreign Relations on
Tuesday President Wilson added lit-
tle, if anything, concerning the peace
President and Senate Committee. | Wholesome Advice to Republicans.
| treaty, not already in possession of :
the intelligent public.
dent was one of great interest. It
| was the first time in the history of
| the country that a President was
| catechized by a Congressional com-
{ mittee. It was upon his own sugges-
| tion, to be sure, and after he had ex-
: pressed a readiness to respond to a
subpoena to appear as a witness. It
| was likewise the first time in the his-
tory of the government that any
group of citizens, with an unfriendly
purpose in mind, assembled to inter-
rogate the President on any subject.
In his preliminary statement to the
committee President Wilson covered
every point that could be made. He
justified himself in the beginning in
the statement, obvious to all thought-
ful minds, that “action of the Senate
be taken at the earliest practicable
moment because the problems with
which we are face to face in the re-
adjustment of our national life are of
the most pressing and critical charac-
ter, will require for their proper so-
lution the most intimate and disinter-
ested co-operation of all parties and
all interests, and cannot be postponed
without manifest peril to our people
and to all the national advantages
we hold dear.” Of course that was
lost on the bigoted bone heads who
came to quarrel.
The President then pointed out
some of the interests that are suffer-
ing through the delay in coming to a
peace basis and then reverted to the
absurd objections which have been
set up against the ratification of the
instrument. The Monroe Doctrine,
he said, is expressly protected in the
covenant of the League of Nations.
Other domestic questions are equally
well taken care of. The right to with-
draw from the League after fair no-
| tice is fully expressed and the exclu-
| sive right of Congress to declare war
is recognized. In fact it is shown
that every objection is based on falla-
cy and influenced by prejudice and
because of this fact the extraordinary
event in Washington was worth
while.
who endorsed Colonel Roosevelt’s
Shantung affair.
Bill Vare for Senator.
of Philadelphia factional politics the
people of Pennsylvania are to fish a
Senator in Congress. In his resent-
ment against Senator Penrose’s activ-
ity in the interest of decent munici-
pal government, Mr. Dave Lane who is
variously termed “the sage” and “the
seer” has determined to nominate and
elect William S. Vare to the office of
United States Senator for Pennsylva-
nia. Brother Bill is the business
partner of Brother Ed. in the contract-
ing business and was given a seat in
the House of Representatives in
Washington several years ago, to con-
sole him for a disappointment of his
ambition to be Mayor. Now the sage
proposes to advance him to a higher
plane.
Nearly a quarter of a century ago
Mr. Boies Penrose was seized with an
ambition to be mayor of Philadelphia
and because he was defeated for the
nomination through what the late
Senator Quay denounced as the perfi-
dy of Dave Martin, Quay consoled
him with the nomination of his party
and subsequent election to the great
office of Senator in Congress. Dave
Lane, who like the Bourbons of Spain
neither learns nor forgets anything,
! now proposes to follow the same
| course and transfer the Senatorial to-
| ga from the shoulders of Penrose to
| those of Brother Bill Vare. It would
| be an insult to the intelligence and an
| outrage upon the conscience of the
| State but that would make no differ-
ence to Mr. Lane. o
| ‘But a disappointment will come in
| this case to Dave Lane. The sugges-
| tion is absurd but the people are like-
ily to take it seriously and will see
| that no such thing ever happens. The
| Vares have grown rich by looting the
treasury of Philadelphia through con-
tracts and have increased in arro-
| gance as their wealth has been multi-
' plied. But they have reached the lim-
| it of power and the moment either of
them presume to go outside of the
| city for favors, political or otherwise,
he will get a rebuke that will adhere
| for a long time. Moreover the peo-
| ple of Pennsylvania are not likely to
| vest in Dave Lane the power of se-
lecting their important officers.
!
A little sober reflection would
| show that under-supply is the basic
| cause of high prices and that labor
strikes are among the leading causes
{ of under-supply.
Ee rei
| ——Henry Ford didn't get a very
| big verdict but any verdict that car-
seizure of the Panama Canal Zone.
going into conniption’ fits over the.
It seems that out of the dirty pool |
Yet the inci-
There is no occasion for a man.
| ries the costs in his million dollar li- |
| bel suit is a burden to the other side.
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.” der hearted people.
Mr. George W. Wickersham, of New
York, who was Attorney General of |
the United States in the cabinet of
President Taft and is now actively |
participating in the work of the
League to enforce peace gave the
Republican Senators some wholesome
advice the other day. “Critics of the
constitution,” he said, “opposed it be-
cause it did not contain a bill of
rights protecting the liberties of the
States and the people and the con-:
currence of some States, notably’
New York and Massachusetts, was
secured only by promises that steps’
would be taken for early amendments
to remove the objections most strong-
ly urged. The first Congress redeem- |
ed these promises by submitting the!
first ten amendments.”
Mr. Wickersham urges that the |
same course be pursued with respect |
to the covenant of the League of Na-.
tions. “Let the Senate ratify the |
treaty,” he says,
)
i
“and thus avert
from America the reproach of depriv-
ing the world of the great hope, the
radiant promise of a world allied for
the preservation of peace. Then let
those measures for the improvement
of the instrument, for the better safe- |
guarding of the national traditions
and institutions of America, be for-
mulated by the Senate or by both
houses of Congress and transmitted |
to the American representatives in|
the Assembly and in the council of |
the League of Nations with instruc- |
tions to present them for adoption as
amendments to the covenant.”
That is the advice of a great law--
yer and experienced statesman, a Re-
publican who is influenced by patrio
ism rather than partisanship. If
adopted it will guarantee the ratifica- |
tion of the peace treaty within a few |
days and within a. fortnight start the :
country on” a career of commercial .
and industrial prosperity unparallel- |
led in the history of the country. !
Everything is ripe and ready for such
an era and enterprise is impatiently |
waiting for the word that peace is re- |
stored. The Republican Senators who |
are holding up the treaty are stand- |
ing in the way of this great hope of
the future. Possibly they are doing !
it under a mistaken notion of duty |
but it looks more like pernicious par-
tisanship. i
——1If the Republican leaders were
both honest irate .~they * would !
confess regrets that they forced an.
extra session of Congress by filibus-
tering at the close of the last session.
Charles A. Ambler Arrested.
The arrest of Charles A. Ambler
for his share in the looting of the
North Penn bank of Philadelphia, is a
rather tardy but entirely just expres-
sion of outraged public sentiment.
The bank was closed more than a
month ago and from the first it was
known = that Ambler was impli-
cated in its failure. - But those
concerned in the work of adjustment
of its affairs refrained from taking |
the important step necessary to vin- |
dicate justice as long as the public |
would stand for it. Finally a warrant |
was sworn out and the culprit was
politely requested to appear for a
hearing. It is believed that he will af-
ford considerable assistance in fast-
ening responsibility for the wrecking
of the bank.
Charles A. Ambler is a Republican
leader in Montgomery county and has
served several terms in the Legisla-
ture, having been speaker during the
session of 1915. Subsequently he as-
sumed to participate in State leader-
ship and became the Brumbaugh fac-
tion candidate for Auditor General.
After his defeat for that office he was
appointed Insurance Commissioner
and given control of the considerable
revenues which come to the State
through that medium. According to |
the published statements he at Ser
began “farming” the office for his!
personal benefit and deposited a large
sum of State money in the North
Penn bank in return for accommoda-
tions for himself and business associ-
ates.
The North Penn bank may have
been rotten enough before Ambler
got into relationship with it, for evi-
dence since obtained shows that it
was conducted in a slovenly manner
for some time. But it is certain that
Mr. Ambler entered into its affairs at
a critical time and made it possible to
entice a good many depositors after
its insolvency was known to those on
the inside. This was a grave offense
against those who were thus victim-
ized as well as a crime against the
laws of the State and all those re-
sponsible should have been appre-
hended promptly. Former Banking
Commissioner Lafean also improper-
ly .favored the concern and drew fa-
vors from it and he ought to he the
next to be taken.
en ecaieie
— Lloyd George declares that he
has a plan to settle the Irish question
which is gratifying information for if
it isn’t settled soon the Irish are like-
ly to appeal to the black thorn stick.
——Londoners shout “prisons for
profiteers” which proves them a ten-
_NO. 33.
| The one thing that Congress has
the Anti-Saloon
is paying the penalty for permitting
Where the Blame Lies.
From the New York World.
Three months ago the Republican
leaders in Congress were calling up-
on heaven and earth to witness that
nothing stood in the way of the im-
mediate enactment of all necessary
reconstruction legislation except the
obstinate refusal of President Wil-
son to convene Congress in special
session.
Thereupon the President convened
Congress. It met May 19, and has
been in session ever since. The coun-
try has practically nothing to show
in the way of reconstruction except
the return of the telephone and tele-
graph systems, which was forced by
the President himself. :
Nothing has been done to meet the
critical situation created by the
steadily increased cost of living.
Nothing has been done in the way of
legislation to return the railroads.
Nothing has been done in the way of
army reorganization, and the avia-
tion service has been wrecked. The
Shipping bill is still in committee.
Every problem that has come out
of the war is still unsolved, and only
the insistence of the President him-
self has kept the House in session to
deal with the demands of the rail
rond brotherhoods that they must
lave new wage increases in the fall
unless the cost of living is reduced.
been eager to do and the only thing,
is to pass the legislation framed by
League lobby for the
enforcement of Prohibition.
Yet the blame does not rest pri-
marily upon the Republican leaders
of the House but upon the Republi-
can leaders of the Senate, who have
blocked everything in the way of re-
construction while they tried to play
1920 politics with the treaty of peace.
The Senate has had the treaty
since June 10, and the committee on
Foreign Relations is still dawdling
along with “hearings.” Nobody
knows when the treaty will be re-
ported out; nobody knows how it
will be reported out; nobody knows
when the debate will end. :
The first thing: to be done in the
way of Heuideting the war and be-
ginning the wor of reconstruction
is to ratify this treaty. That is ele-
mental. 0
away from war conditions while the
Senate persists in keeping it in a
state of war. There can be neither
stability nor certainty anywhere
while Senators are threatening so to
mutilate the treaty that new nego-
tiations may be necessary Or «the
United States compelled. to a
separate treaty with Germany. alli
In the crisis that has developed
over the cost of living, the country
a little band of partisan Senators to
play politics with the question of
peace. These men have been allow-
ed to make a football of the legiti-
mate interests of 100,000,000 Ameri-
cans while they were seeking a politi-
cal issue that they hoped to capital-
ize in the Presidential campaign nex?
year. :
That is the origin of the trouble
and that is where the responsibility
lies. The sooner the American peo-
ple realize it and demand the ratifi-
cation of the treaty the sooner they
may hope for such adequate relief as
Congress is capable of giving.
When Thieves Fall Out.
From the Williamsport Sun.
The honest men remaining in Rus-
sia seem to be on the point of getting
their just dues, as the thieves aré
falling out. Realizing that Bolshe-
vism is a. failure, Lenine, the high
and mighty apostle of that form of
government, is calling a council of
Russian business men to advise him
how to lift Russia out of its desperate
situation with commerce and trade
murdered, social life demoralized,
moral life choked to death and polit-
ical life prostrated. It is indeed a
sorry and revolting state of affairs
and now, having degraded this once
great and rich country, Lenine is con-
sidering the advisibility of retiring.
He is, according to more or less au-
thentic reports, willing to agree to
“denationalizing” of industry and
calling of a constituent assembly.
This is the first evidence of sanity the
world has seen in the Bolshevik vre-
mier. His ally, Trotsky, however, is
hopelessly lost in his crazy dreams of
Bolshevist hegemony throughout the
world and continues to spread his di-
abolical propaganda as he travels
wherever Russian railroad lines are
operating in a private car of the for-
mer imperial train. The situation
gives ample opportunity for the use
The country cannot get |
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Prohibition has reduced the number
of prisoners in the Berks county jail to 57.
—A weasel killed thirteen hens, valued
at §10 each, belonging to John Musselman
an ‘East Allentown farmer, and was in
turn slain by the owner of the chickens.
The County Commissioners paid $2 for the
weasel’s pelt.
—Fenwick McCloud, of Clearfield, has
received a check for $15 from the govern=
ment, and an accompanying letter explain-
ing that the amount was due his father
for services rendered 53 years ago while a
chaplain in the army. The father has
been dead 47 years.
—By the will of John E. Ker
n, Wyn-
Lote, probated at Norristown on Saturday,
$2000 is bequeathed to Ellen Dreisbach,
housekeeper, and she is to have $100 a year
bonus for every year she continues
20 esp house for Kern's wife or his three
sisters. s relatives share i 5
Siyters in his $115,000
—Quentin, Lebanon county, which
changed its name from Bismarck, in hon-
or of Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt, who
lost his life while serving as an aviator
with the American forces in France, is to
be remembered by Lieutenant Roosevelt's
mother with a silver loving cup, which is
to be placed in a prominent place in the
Quentin High school building, where all
public meetings are held.
—A score of persons narrowly escaped
death or serious injury when a bull, es-
caped from a field, charged a Harmony
route inter-urban car at Eckert stop be-
tween Ellwood City and Zelienople, Bea-
ver county, last week, derailing the ear
which was brought to a stop on the edge
of a 60 foot embankment. None of the
persons aboard the car were injured but
the bull was killed by the collision.
—In addition to returning with a large
mess of fish, James Schildt Sr., of Read-
ing, who spent several days along the Per-
kiomen creek, is the proud possessor of a
$20 gold piece which he found in the stom-
ach of a frog he captured. The frog made
an unusual noise when caught and this at-
tracted the angler. Schildt is sixty, is a
veteran angler and says the finding of the
gold piece is his strangest catch of all.
—Howard Benchoff, residing on the Ba-
ker farm, Franklin county, had to call in
a physician as the result of a sting re-
ceived from a bumble bee. Mr. Benchoff
was ‘at work in the field when the bee
struck him a stiff blow on the temple with |
its stinger. Shortly afterward his face
and body began to swell and his lips
reached the bursting point. It was several
days before Mr. Benchoff got rid of the
poison injected in his system.
—A long, hard winter is in store for the
people of Pennsylvania, sccording to a
number of well-known sharps of the Hicks
and Goosebone clans, who have been fore-
casting during the past few days. They
declare the first four months of the winter
will break records for severity. They base
their predictions upon the fact that scarce-
ly any caterpillars are in evidence this
summer, and that mosquitoes and ants
haven't appeared in their usual strength.
—Oscar Brumbaugh’s distillery at New
Enterprise, Bedford county, was entered
by burglars several nights ago and all the
whiskey Brumbaugh had out ‘of. bond,
amounting to about a barrel, was carried
away. The whiskey was taken away in
smaller vessels and the barrel left there.
The bonded wareroom in which all the
‘whiskey upon which the revenue was not
paid was also entered, but Brumbaugh is
not certain whether or not any of th
Tguor in that room was taken. a
—Roy L. Miller, of Woolrich, where he
is employed in the Rich woolen mills, was
badly injured by an explosion of the tire
of his automobile, which he was pumping
up. The tire burst with such force that
he was thrown against a stone wall and
sustained a gash above the right eye and
several teeth knocked out and cut and
bruised on the body by being struck with
the pump. He was unconscious for over
an hour. This is the second accident of
this nature to occur in that immediate vi-
cinity within a week, inflicting serious in-
juries in both instances.
__Title for 3000 acres of mountain land
in Lewis and Cogan House townships, Ly-
coming county, passing from the Central
Pennsylvania Lumber company to the
trustees of the Cornwall Mountain Club,
last week, makes the second large transfer
of property in that section of the county
within a single month. A Pittsburgh club
of sportsmen recently purchased a tract of
nearly 3000 acres, including the head-
waters of Gray's run, for a hunting pre-
serve. The Cornwall club will use its
new holdings for the same purpose. This
is in the heart of the famous Trout Rum
deer district.
__John S. Myers, Huntingdon county's
oldest citizen, will be one hundred years
old next January. His ancestors came
from France. He was born in St. Louis,
January 20, 1820. His home is at Birming-
ham and his third wife and three daugh-
ters to his first wife live with him. He has
a war record -probably not equalled by
another American citizen. He spent three
years in frontier Indian warfare, and is a
veteran of the Mexican war, having served
five years. He enlisted twice in the Civil
war, first at Sunbury in Company F, 11th
Pennsylvania Regiment, and served three
months after which he re-enlisted in
Company C, 131st Regiment. He has visit-
ed France and Germany.
A burglar entered the home of Joseph
Flynn, of East Bradford, Chester county,
through a window, stole Mr. Flynn's
trousers containing $70 in a pocket, went
into the room of a daughter, where he se-
cured $4 in cash and some jewelry. In the
lower rooms of the house he removed
much table linen, dishes, a shotgun, thirty
of the expression “I told you so” by
those people of the allied countries :
who ma ntained from the first that if |
not interfered with the Bolshevists |
would soon hang enough people and |
cut enough throats to endanger their
own lives through exhaustion of the
supply of those whom they termed
enemies to their interpretation of so-
ciety. Present day events seem to
justify their beliefs.
High Rank in Political Machinery.
Irom the Charleston Evening Post.
Philadelphia is preparing for its
quadrennial election, which is to say
that the people will once again strug-
gle to free themselves from the fet-
ters of a machine that has no equal in
this country.
So ——————————
Saw It Coming.
From the Albany Journal.
One is inclined to think that Mr.
McAdoo saw something coming when
he resigned from the position of di-
rector of railroads.
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pounds of sugar just purchased for pre-
serving, two gold watches and other prop-
erty. The loot amounted to over $200, in
addition to a check for $240, the proceeds
of a sale of calves made by Mr. Flynn. As
a pleasant reminder of the visit the bur-
glar left a blue handkerchief, in which
holes had been cut for the eyes of a mask
and a new blackjack upon the bed occu-
pied by Mr. Flynn and his wife.
__According to the Rev. Dr. J. 8. Souser,
superintendent of the Sunbury district of
the Central Pennsylvania Methodist con-
ference, the proposition advanced to buy:
the $50,000 C. K. Sober paragon chestnut
farm at Irish Valley, near Shamokin, for
a home for orphans and aged Methodists
has been abandoned. This was considered
at the meeting of the yearly conference in
Sunbury in March, but owing to inacces-
sibility of train and trolley service it will
have to be given up. A site near Harris-
burg, is said to be regarded very favora-
bly by the committee. Dr. Souser also
gays that the conference district, which ex-
tends from Hazleton to Bellefonte, will
goon take up the matter of increasing the
old age pension fund for ministers from:
$200,000 to $400,600. This will allow a pen~
sion of about $400 a year.
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