INK SLINGS.
Deport the radicals.
¢ =——Christmas is ‘just
days off.
« —At this time two years ago every-
thing was frozen up and there was
snow on the ground.
. —It is just one year today since the
first brick -was laid on the new pav-.
ing of south Water street.
* —_Public schools in many parts of
the county were closed at this time
last year because of the flu epidemic.
“Z_A lot of people who are riding
the progressive hobby these days
rieed not be surprised - if it carries
them into the camp of bolshevism.
/—The coal strike having been call-
ed off there is nothing to prevent
thirty-four
‘ mining coal in the Central Pennsyl-
= yania field but the disinclination of
the miners to go back to work.
¢Jf we would all make up our
minds to live within our means for a
period of six months or more we be-
lieve there would be no high cost of
living problem at the end of that time.
«The successful non-stop flight of
aviator Stevens, from Cleveland to
New York, on Saturday, presages
that Bellefonte will ultimately become
a mere flag station on the aerial mail
route.
-_The President declared that he
preferred the defeat of the peace
treaty to the kind of ratification the
Senate offered to give it. He insisted
that such ratification was really nul-
lification and we beileve he was right.
‘Very careful observation in this
community warrants the statement
that those whose pay envelopes have
been fattened the most are the ones
who make the most'ado about not be-
ing able to live on what they are re-
ceiving.
. —Parlor socialists, soap-box, pro-
gressives ‘and cart-tail = reformers
might well turn in alarm and beseech
the conservative element in the coun-
try to help stay the avalanche of un-
vest that their misguided theories has
started moving with such ominous
portent.
‘—Sad the lot of the 1919 foot ball
hero. “Breaking training” brings
with it no thought of clinking glasses
over a post-season banquet table. All
the “breaks” are gone from “break-
ing training” and, say what you will,
ginger. ale and coca-cola are misera-
ble substitutes. :
"Of course the Democratic Sena-
tors in Congress can afford to assume
the responsibility of the defeat of the
peace treaty. If Republican Senators
could emasculate it as they did,
out of pure partisan malice, without
fear of public condemnation there was
all the inore - reason why Democrats
should refuse to so accept it..
“~The ' “Watchman’s” advice to
lawmakers, educators, would-be phil-
anthropists, and all others engaged ir
giving impressions that the condition
of our people is not just as it should
be, is to can such stuff until the pub-
lic mind is tempered enough to grasp
what they are really driving at.
Everything is distorted now and over-
feeding the brain is sure to wreck it
entirely.
~The Prince of Wales is to leave
our shores tomorrow. He has had a
fine time touring the States and has
made a most favorable impression.
Being full of the enthusiasm of youth
and democratic enough to mix well he
has shattered the illusion of many a
mind that royalty is super-human.
In the last analysis, folks is folks.
Only some of them show the refining
influences of education and associa-
tion while others persist in refusing
to lift themselves out of the rough.
— Bellefonte no sooner begins to
consider the necessity of buying mod-
ern fire fighting apparatus than four
alarms are rung in in quick succes-
sion. We might think there was
some connection between the two
were it not for the perfectly natural
conflagrations that occurred. Years
ago we had to buy steam engines be-
cause the buildings grew too high for
the natural pressure of the water.
Now the steam engines are obsolete
because there are mo horses at hand
to pull them to the fires. And it is
almost a ten to one shot that the
chemical trucks that look like a ne-
cessity now will be in the discard ten
years hence.
—Having noticed a report from
Minneapolis to the effect that one
large brewer in that city had poured
thirty-four thousand gallons of beer
into the Mississippi when the federal
courts of Chicago made an adverse
“wet” ruling, we wondered what the
river looked like and ‘whether the fish
got a jag. The incident also recall-
ed a spring flood on Spring creck
some years ago. It was Sunday
afternoon and we had about two feet
of amber colored water in the press
rooms of this office. We have rarely
seen a flood so frothy on the surface
and so red from newly plowed fields.
An old friend, once a member of
Bellefonte’s “pooh, pooh” gang, hap-
péned along and was watching the
swollen stream from the bridge just
outside the window from which the
writer was viewing it. There were
very visible signs that he was carry-
ing a “hang-over” and having a sus-
picion that his “coppers. were hot” we
said: “Doesn’t it look like beer,
7” He glued his swollen eyes
on the stream for an instant and re-
marked, without looking K up: “By
gad, I wish it was. It wouldn’t be as
high as it is.” :
VOL. 64.
Judas Iscariot Outclassed.
The peace treaty, mutilated to sat- |
isfy the malice of Senator Lodge, of
Massachusetts, and the vicious mind |
of Senator Reed, of Missouri, was re-
jected by the Senate on Wednesday
by a vote of 38 to 53. - After thus dis-
posing of the treaty Senator’ Lodge
introduced ‘a resolution proposing
that Congress declare the war with
Germany at an end, but as such a res-
olution would require the concurrence
of the House, which had already ad-
journed, it was not acted upon. The
Senate finally adjourned sine die at
11:08 o'clock, and it is now a mooted
question as to whether the Senate’s
action is final on the treaty or wheth-
er it can be withdrawn and submitted
to the next Congress by the President
when it meets in December.
The failure of President Wilson's
great effort to crown the splendid
victory achieved on the bloody fields
of battle in France and Flanders by
the armies of the Allies with an
equally brilliant victory for peace is
aseribable to a few Senators, traitors
alike to their party and their country.
Senator Reed, of Missouri; Senator
Gore, of Oklahoma; Senator Walsh,
of Massachusetts, - and Senator
Shields, of Tennessee, voted with the
Republicans on every proposition, and
Senator Thomas, of Colorado; Sena-
tor Smith, of Georgia, and Senator
King, of Utah, all elected as Demo-
crats, were at the sinister service of .
the ‘conspirators whenever their votes
were needed to defeat the righteous
purpose of the President.
The Republican Senators who have
betrayed their obligations to justice
and civilization were probably influ-
enced by the mistaken belief that the
mutilation of the treaty would give
their party some tactical advantage in
the ‘approaching Presidential cam-
paigh and being scurvy politicians
were willing to make the sacrifice
But the Democratic traitors had no
such incentive to follow a false lead
and pursue a wrong course. In their
cases it was plain perversity of mind
and purpose and each of them should
be marked with a brand of infamy
that will endure to the end of their
worthless ‘lives. + Reed, Gore, Walsh,
ers are traitors to party and county.
——The statement that Senators in
Congress are suffering’ from over-
work excites little sympathy in well-
informed circles. They are welcome
to quit work any time and rest as long
as they like.
Railroad Legislation Lagging.
Though six months have been con-
sumed in tinkering the present ses-:
sion of Congress is likely to adjourn
without enacting any legislation for
the regulation of railroads after the
government relinquishes control on
the first of January next. At the be-
ginning of the session the President
gave notice of the intention of the
government to turn the railroads over
to the control of their private owners
on January 1st, 1920, and urged that
appropriate legislation be promptly
enacted in order that wage scales and
other essential matters be adjusted.
The government operation of the
roads had entailed vast expenses be-
yond the earnings and the purpose
was to make the change without re-
ducing wages.
But Congress has done nothing of
practical value though the time limit
is rapidly approaching. Several bills
have been introduced and much talk
indulged in, but to no purpose. On
Saturday last, however, a Republican
member of the House made a sugges-
tion from which an inference as to
the cause of delay may be drawn.
“Possible defeat of the peace treaty
in the Senate,” he said, “would re-
quire that the House join in the pas-
sage of a resolution declaring that the
war is at an end.” In other words,
important legislation in which the
whole country is vitally interested is
made an instrument for making a
separate peace with Germany, a thing
the country is pledged to not do but
the Republicans in Congress are de-
termined to do if possible.
But the tinkering operations during
the long drawn out period has made
one thing practically certain. It is
that the bill, whenever it is enacted,
will restore to the speculative rail-
road managers all the pooling ’ and
other privileges they enjoyed before
the Interstate Commerce law was en-
acted. An effort was made the other
day to write into the measure a rigid
rule to prevent this but when it was
declared “that such a rule would de-
stroy rate structures throughout the
country without benefitting. the in-
termountain country,” the effort was
abandoned. The Congress was made
Republican for just such legislation
as the speculators want and it may be
predicted that they will get what they
wan.
—DPrice boosting of all kinds has
come to the point where it is being
done on the principle of boost while
the boosting is good rather than be-
cause of any real necessity for it.
Virginia’s New Senator in Congress.
The appointment of Carter Glass to
the vacancy in the Senate caused by
the death of Senator Martin, of Vir-
ginia, will add considerably to the ef~
ficiency of the minority in that body.
Not that Senator Martin was a weak-
ling, for as a matter of fact he was a
tower of strength during the period
of the war. But during nearly all the
time since the cessation of hostilities
he has been suffering from infirmities
caused by overwork during that stren-
uous period. Both in committee and
upon the floor of the Senate he labor-,
ed assiduously and intelligently in
support of the administration and his
unanimous election to the important
post of floor leader of his party in the
last and present Congress shows he
was appreciated by his colleagues.
But the new Senator, Mr. Glass, is
younger, more vigorous and equally
gifted. For many years he stood
among the foremost in the House of
Representatives and as chairman of
the House committee on Banking and
Currency took a leading part in all
the splendid legislation that has giv-
en the United States the best finan- |
cial system in the civilized world.
Upon the retirement of Mr. McAdoo
as Secretary of the Treasury, a year.
President Wilson called Mr.
ago,
Gliss inte his Cabinet to administer
the laws he had practically prepared
and successfully championed. Fol- |
lowing McAdoo is a big man’s job. in
any event and it may be safely said
that Carter Glass measured up to the
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. NOVEMBER 31, 1919.
Lesnar mld El tbh
¢ Selecting Constitution Makers.
Word comes from Harrisburg that
Governor Sproul is busy at present
picking out suitable men for the
Commission “to study and recommend
révision of the constitution of Penn-
sylvania.” The Legislature during
its last session authorized a Commis-
sion of twenty-five for that purpose,
and the Governor has been giving the
subject considerable attention. It is
stated that Attorney General William
1. Schaffer will head the Commission
as the special representative of the
Governor. He is a neighbor of Gov-
ernor Sproul and enjoys his full con-
fidence. It may be added that he is
an able lawyer and entirely worthy of
the confidence reposed in him. Be-
sides he is a student of constitutional
law. ; i .
During his term of office Governor
Sproul will hardly have a more im-
portant service to discharge than that
of selecting this Commission. It is
true that the work of the Commission
will be subject to review but the rec-
‘ommendations of the Commission are
i likely to form the basis of the funda-
mental law which is contemplated. In
preparation. for the present constitu-
| tion the most distinguished gentlemen
of the State were chosen irrespective
lof politics. Nevertheless = some
cranky notions insinuated themselves
into the provisions of the instrument
| and before it was five years eld the
i
work of tinkering began and has been .
' kept up with little if any intermission
The Legion's Power.
From the Williamsport Sum. =
The American Legion has just come
, through the great Minneapolis con-
i vention firmly re-pledged to the sin-
| gle plank upon which the measure of
its influence in the United States is to
be determined, that it stands for pol-
icies, not polities. Legion and" post
ing home that point before all of their
fellow members, as from the moment
the great force of the Legion is swung
into politics, it begins to lose its true
influence. Not that the members of
the Legion are expected to hold them-
selves aloof = from politics. That
course would be foolish. The Legion
represents 4,000,000 virile American |
men upon whom the nation is’ now
placing a large responsibility for as-
sistance in operating. the government
and keeping national thought and ac-
tion in the right channels. As indi-
dividuals they must assume their du-
ties in American politics and at times
when causes, foreign to the principles
for which the American government
stands, are advanced by selfish or ig-
norant interests, they must strike at
them with all their might. It will tru-
ly be a difficult task to distinguish
just where the province of policies
runs into the boundary line of poli-
tics, but the country has sufficient
confidence in the wisdom and common
sense of the American Legion not to
attempt to map out a program or a
line of action for. the organization
which has already proved to the sat-
isfaction of the nation that it knows
| when to speak and when to. keep si-
lent, when to act and when to stop.
‘The Legion now holds the confi-
dence and respect of the American
requirement. . The Treasury Depart- ever since. : | people, The fact that such is the
ment has never had a more capable Governor Sproul has had large ex- | case should strengthen its influ-
manager. at | perience in public life and at one time | ence over the men. eligible for
In assuming his place in the Sen-
ate Mr. Glass will bring to the serv-
ice of the country in that important
branch of the government a wide ex-
perience in, parliamentary practice
and a superb equipment in intellectu-
al force. Robust and alert physical-
ly and mentally he will make the se-
nile Lodge and the lethargic Penrose
sit up and take notice from the begin-
ning and behave themselves better in
the end. The Governor of Virginia
has performed a valuable service to
the country in naming him to take
the seat of the lamented Martin. It
is a. sign that in Virginia, at least,
t 1 SK 1! | faults of the press
{ the Dentocratic party is not only har- | fat inserted at the in
monious but is wisely led and we in
the North may well hope that Senator ,
Glass will live long to adorn the of-
fice into which he so auspiciously en-
ters.
——1It is gratifying to learn that
“one-hal? of the known coal-reserves
are in the United States.” But if the
coal miners charge a dollar an hour !
for getting it out of the mine it will
not do the public much good.
Animus of Republican Senators.
The purpose of the Republican
Senators in voting reservations upon
the peaee treaty is revealed in the
texts of the reservations adopted. It
is a settled and for that matter a vie-
ious purpose to subvert the constitu-
tional powers of the President. To
what extent this purpose is attributa-
ble to hatred of President Wilson is
conjectural, of course. But it:may be
assumed as considerable for the rea-
son that the President’s re-election in
1916 practically wrote the epitaph on
the tomb of the Republican party.
Since the Civil war the Democrats
had been unable to make one Demo-
cratic administration succeed another
previously and therefore the capabil-
ity of the party to govern could not
be tested until now.
It may be assumed with equal cer-
tainty and reason that lust for power
influencing
The present
and patronage was an
agency to some extent.
Republican party was erected upon a
foundation of spoils and absence from !
the pay roll for a considerable period
has made the leaders desperate. Spe-
cial privilege and graft are essential
to Republican party prosperity and’
President Wilson has been from the
beginning of his service in the ‘White
House the inexorable and uncompro-
mising foe of special privilege and
graft. Therefore the element of ha-
tred of the President is concealed
even in the lust for spoils that is
plainly shown in every act of the Re-'
publican majority in the Senate with
respect to the peace treaty. .
Nearly every reservation vests In
Jongress or the Senate the power of |
determination. Under the constitu-
tion such power is lodged in the ex-
ecutive and from the beginning of the
government the President has exer- |
cised it. But if the pending treaty 1s
ratified with the reservations propos- |
ed by the packed Senate committee on
Foreign Relations and adopted by the | j
! snow the day after the election. The |
Senate on Saturday, the President
will have no authority in the matter
which will be determined in the im-
mediate future by such rattle brains
as Borah and such demagogues as |
Hungry Hi Johnson. This is a sub-
ject for the American people to con-
template. If perpetuated it will mark
the beginning of the end of constitu-
tional government in the country.
——Senator Lodge appears to think
that he is making the United States
safe for the Republican party.
jor another has come into personal
! contact with most of the leading men
‘of the State. For this reason he is
better qualified than most men to per-
form the duty which the Legislature
has imposed upon him. He is a
sting partisan and the only source
of doubt that he will meet the best
hopes of the public in the selection of
the personnel of the Commission has
its seat in that fact. Partisanship
should be excluded absolutely and fit-
ness made the only standard of
choice.
not be forgotten that
{ ;
t constitution
oh ran SE I re
1818.
| © — County _ Commissioners-elect
SE Hk
| George H. Yarnell and Harry P. Aus-
' tin held a meeting last Saturday and .
| selected Rash Irwin as their ehief
clerk and Harry C. Valentine as sec-
‘ ond clerk.
! ——There has been considerable
comment during the week on the ne-
; cessity of improved fire fighting ap-
' paratus for the Bellefonte firemen,
At the same time it should
most of the
1
i
| sons
‘ally themselves with it. In that atti-
tude they are losing more themselves
than they can ever hope to deprive
the Legion of. The events of recent
days, the open attacks on American-
ism perpetrated by foolish and vicious
radicals, that occurrence in the State
of Washington that . has ' served to
crystalize a dormant patriotism and
sentiment against the enemies within
our gates, ought to summon every
red-blooded American soldier and
sailor to the support of Legion.
No one organization or group of in-
dividuals stands as a brighter symbol
of = Americanism than the Legion
whose nbers: fought and suffered
F
Ry SO
2
, der or followed the American flag in-
-:40 ‘battle, ought now be enlisted.
; Forcing Germany to Pay.
‘ From the DuBois Kxprebs.
Whether with or without authori-
‘ty from the German government, its
agents have deliberately violated the
{terms of the armistice. ‘The most |
~, flagrant instance of this was the care-
, ful-schemed and skillfully executed
: sinking at Scapa Flow of more than
officers cannot be too forceful in driv-
_—
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—New picking machinery is being im-
stalled in the Fleetwood silk mills to im-
crease the output of the plant. 1
—After pleading guilty to twenty-eight
robberies, William C. Brown, of Lancas-
ter, . was sentenced to serve nineteen years
in the eastern penitentiary. Willian
Horn, who was his accomplice, was. sem~
tenced to sixteen months, and. sixteen yeax
old Joseph Schurter was sent to the Hunt-
; ingdorn reformatory. : 3
—An epidemic of measles is seriously,
interfering with school attendance in Alf«
toona. Principals in the elementary
schools report from 10 to 35 per cent. of
the enrollment ‘absent on account of the
malady, or are confined in homes quaraa-
tined. It is estimated that 500 students
are victims of the disease.
| "—As an evidence of how the Susquehan-
na trail booms business for the garage
proprietor on the route, E. W. Brion, of
Liberty, Lycoming county, one of the
smallest villages on the trail, has sold
nearly 60,000 gallons of gasoline since the
trail was established three years ago, and
his garage is one of three in the town. .
-—Chester. county sportsmen are lining
up solidly against the recent Act of the
Legislature in protection of the red fox im
Chester, Delaware and Montgomery coum-
ties and if any arrest is made of any per-
son for violating the new law the sports-.
i men will line up in his or her support iw
order to get a decision as to the constitu-_
tionality of ‘what they cali class legisia-~
tion.
—Mrs. ‘May Heck, of Harrisburg, com-.
| victed a year ago of being a commom
; scold, was sentenced to three months im
! jail, because she could. neither hold her
tongue at home, in court, nor in the Dis-.
trict Attorney’s office. District Attorney
M. KE. Stroup asked Judge J. M. McCar-
rell to impose sentence because he was |
worried continuously by the woman's
visits.
—Harry F. Thompson, of Armstrong
‘county, ‘is the owner of a sow, half Po-
land-China and half Chester White, that
gave birth to 24 pigs on September first .
last. This litter made seventy-two pigs
she had given birth to, and she is only twe ,
and one-half years old. The September .
first litter was her fourth litter. The first -
she had was 14 pigs; the second 18, and
the third 16.
~—~Hearing a commotion as he stepped up~
on the porch at his home in Williamsport,
Friday night; George Allen, finding the:
door - locked; peered = through a window
and was horrified to see his mother, Mrs.
Emma Allen, eighty-four years old, fight-
ing. off the family’s pet bull dog. Smash-
ing the window, Allen went .to her réscue (
and beat the dog off, but not before it had
badly lacerated her hands and arms and
broken: her right arm, with which she pre-
tected her throat. 3
. =:WWithin two blocks of the Altoona city |
hall, an ilMeit still was making moonshine .
whiskey untii ‘raided by the police. last
week, and Vaso Millicovic and his wife ar- |
rested. A barrel of whiskey was found in
the cellar; and jugs and bottles were filled -
with ‘the stuff, which was made from rai-
sift mash, four barrels and three tubs. of
which were in various stages of férmenta-
tion. More than 3000 pounds of unused -
raisins were in stock. The moonshine was
sold to miners near there, police say. :
Dr. J. Allen Jackson, chief resideat
physician at the Philadelphia hospital for
the insune, was. last week elected superin-
tendent of the Daiiville State hospital for -
| the’ insane at {meeting of the. board. of
i trustees held at the institution. He: will
lenter upen his duties’ on January 13th,
: and will succeed Dr. H. B. Meredith, who
: has been superintendent of the hospita
| for twenty-eight years, and who recently -
| resigned. John R. M. Curry, of Danville,
| was appointed treasurer to succeed Alex-
; ander Foster, of Danville.
| —Charles II. Mauk, one of the oldest
| undertakers in Harrisburg, was convicted
i
t
tin court. last Friday of fraud in not bury-
ing Howard H. McCracken, of Altoona, as
represented. MeCracken died last fall dur-
. caused, of course, by the disastrous a score of German war ships which | ing the influenza outbreak, and it is al-
fire at the aviation field and the sev-
eral other fires that followed in rapid
succession. * So far as the fire at the
| aviation field is concerned, it burned
: so quickly that from the time the
{ alarm was given until it was burned
| down was only a matter of minutes afloat they would have been a matter |
had been surrendered by the enemy
iand were in charge of German crews
| pending the final settlement of peace.
| The sinking of these vessels was a
i criminal act of bad faith. The loss
; of the ships does not matter so much
i to the allies. If they had remained
i leged .that Mauk charged for a
{ shroud and other expenses, including a
| minister. Instead, the body, when exum- °
| ed, at directions of Millard MeCracken. a
, brother, is said to. have shown burial in
“a pine box, in underwear. Investigation
established that no services were held.
coffin,
~—~Walter Headrick did exceedingly well
| and the best equipped fire department of dispute and perhaps ill feeling on | while confined in the Dauphin county jail,
‘in the world could not have gotten
. on the ground in time to save it. The
only other fire necessitating the aid of
| the firemen was the one ai the Acad-
emy on Monday morning, and Mr.
Hughes, himself, vouches for the
prompt response and efficient work of
| the firemen. But this is no reason, of
| course, why Bellefonte should not
. have the best equipment possible that
the town can afford, and the writer
knows that the borough council not
only feels that way about it, but is
. now working on a plan for the purch-
ase of such equipment at as early a
: date as possible.
— Mr. Lewis, acting president of
the United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca, made the mistake of his life when
' he handed out an ultimatum to the
government of the United States.
Russia is trying to find herself
according to an estimated contem-
porary and when she succeeds we
hope the principle of “finders keep-
ers” will be promptly applied.
Republican Congress peace would
‘have been restored months ago and
| prosperity would now be cavorting
about everywhere.
The Russian organization
which has for its motto: “Without
God, without master and free of au-
thority” will make little headway in
this country.
Centre county had its first
i the part of the governments which
would later have undertaken their
: division, But the fact that the Ger-
i man war fleet was a liability and not
{an asset from a purely international
| standpoint, in no sense mitigates the
| outrage which treacherous German
seamen committed.
| It may be impossible or inadvisa- |
{ ble to float the sunken ships. They
| are now only a mass of rusted steel
| and are perhaps beyond salvage from !
|
a maval standpoint, but Germany
{ should be made to pay for them and
should be made to understand before
| final peace with her is made and be-
| fore she is admitted to membership
‘in the league of nations, that she
‘must live up to her obligations if she
I. pay full value with interest. She
{is to live on terms of friendliness
| with the nations of the world.
| Already Great Britain is preparing
| to submit a bill to Germany with the
| consent of the allies. She will de-
| mand the delivery of several hundred
: thousand tons of docks, cranes, tugs
{ and dredges among other things in
| payment for the naval tonnage which
{ was wantonly wiped out by lawless
| crews aboard the enemy warships.
. She will demand merchant ships and
| other warships, and Germany will
| She should be made to understand
| once and for all that she cannot keep
| on committing offenses against de-
Soney without having to suffer for
: them.
How It Looks.
! From the Nebraska State Journal.
| Plenty of wheat, so much meat the
{ price slumps and corn to sell to Eu-
| rope. But there is a coal famine,
steel is unobtainable, clothing is
| scarce and railroads are unable to
move crops. Are the farmers the only
| second flurried around on Wednesday | people in the United States equal te
| but neither one was anything to wor- | their job?
ry about. . :
| Do Not Need Additions.
—__Bad as Bolshevism is in this |
i i 1 3 jolis News.
| country and elsewhere it ought not be | From the Indianapolis
‘made an excuse for the reorganiza- | Rea, uggestions het the Japtured
| tion of Know Nothingism. | be considered, as the Mexicans appear
| | very well satisfied with their own
brand of anarchy.
| ___Probably if the Anti-saloon
. League would expend some of its en- ee sree
| ergy on D’Annuncio things might be ——They are all good enough, but
"different. | the “Watchman” is always the best.
{ the police announced recently, when it was -
! learned through finger print Iidentifica-
{ tion that he is under arrest in Philadel-
{ phia for automobile thievery. Ileadrick
| made $700 while sérving his sentence by
| fleecing his fellow prisoners. He was sen-
y tenced for stealing automobiles and escap-
: ed through a coal chute. When taken back
to complete his sentence three years: later
he made the $700 profit by trading on his
escape among prisoners and telling them
that he could secure their release.
—@Governor Sproul has issued a state- [
ment in which he asks for the observance
of tuberculosis day in the schools on Fri-
day, December 5; in the synagogues, Sat-
‘urday, December 6, and in the churches
on Sunday, December 7. The observance
will be during the Christmas seal cam-
paign. Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, superin-
tendent of public instruction, has sent a
| Jotter to the 44,000 school teachers in the
| State, calling attention to the seal and tu-
| berculosis campaign, and asking that De-
cember 5 be set aside for observance im
i the schools. Pastors of the State are ask-
| ed to preach on the white plague on tu-
! bereulosis Sunday.
| ——A drive is under way at Hazleton for
| the raising of $50,000 to supplement an ap-
| propriation of $25,000 made by the State
| Legislature for the erection of a nurses’
—If the people had not elected a | have to pay just as she ought to pay. | home at the Hazleton hospital. About one-
i half of the amount has been subscribed
‘and it is hoped to get the rest before the
Holidays. Ever since the establishment of
the hospital, nearly twenty-five years ago,
| the nurses have been without suitable
! quarters and appeals to the assembly
| were futile until the last session and then
| only a small amount could be set aside for
| the project. Subscriptions are being re-
| ceived from the coal companies, other in-
| dustries and thousands of individuals.
, -——With 62,600 pies to her credit in the
{ last sixteen years, Susan Lisby, head cook
| of the Pennsylvania military college, Ches-
| ter, has a valid claim to the title of cham-
pion pie baker of the world. A student
with a statistically inclined mind has fig-
| ured that her pies, placed one yard apart,
! would reach from the Philadelphia City
Hall to the Doylestown public library.
For ten years Susan Lisby, stout, gener-
ous and good natured, baked pies in
Swarthmore College—-and plunged that in-
stitution into gloom when she resigned te
go to the Chester institution. ‘ She refused
to reconsider her decision, though meet-
ings were convened and resolutions passed
imploring her to remain in Swarthmore. _