INK SLINGS.
—Anyway we never did believe that
the ground-hog was a serious contend-
“er as a weather prophet.
—This is the all important month
to some of us if for no other reason
than that it brings two legal holidays.
—The peace treaty is to be brought
back into the open Senate next week
“and there it will probably Lodge
awhile.
—The appeal for Armenian relief
is not to your patriotism but to your
faith in the doctrine that you are your
brother’s keeper.
—Ten thousand new oil wells are
being drilled in this country today
and, almost we would be persuaded to
hope for lower priced gas if we could
only shut our eyes to the manufacture
of ten thousand new automobiles
every day.
—Viscount Gray’s statement of the
American attitude with regard to the
peace treaty was so clear and so com-
prehensive that it has left a profound
impression on the mind of the world.
It can not fail to change the temper
of our allies toward us nor can it fail
- to bring us to a fuller realization that
- something must be done, and speedi-
ly done if world chaos is to be avert-
ed.
—Chicago is all het up over a rul-
ing that a man’s trousers are a vehi-
cle in the eyes of the law when he is
carrying a half-pint in his hip pocket.
Of course the Volstead enforcement
act says that the vehicle may be
seized, therefor the alarm among men
* lest they be caught in public and their
trouser-vehicle seized as evidence
with not even a friendly barrel in
sight.
—OQur new Secretary of Agricul-
ture has started right in to tell us how
to reduce the high cost of living. But
by only telling us how and not declar-
ing that he intends to do it he has
averted riding for a fall like some
other statesmen have recently done.
When we read this kind of dope we
always recall a little jingle that runs
like this:
He wrote a book on how to get rich,
It surely was a corker
. Next day he met me on the street
And wanted to borrow a quarter.
—Japan’s new naval program in-
. cludes sixteen super-dreadnaughts.
Forty-five per cent. of all of Nippon’s
‘revenues is to be devoted to naval
‘ preparedness and land fortifications.
‘Is it possible that the Japanese peo-
ple are so wholly under the domina-
"tion of the militaristic class that they
“cannot prevent the imposition of such
-a burden? They have not yet recov-
ered from the effects of their war
with Russia, yet they go forward with
. such a stupendous armament, taxing
themselves into continued poverty and
what for? Either they expect to at-
tack some other power or that some
other power will attack them. What
power could it be? !
—Gen. Leonard Wood’s play for
some delegates from Pennsylvania
may develop an interesting situation
in this Congressional District. Gen.
Wood and Maj. Theodore Davis Boal
are warm personal friends. Only a
few years ago the General visited at
Boalsburg and the whole county turn-
ed out to hear him talk preparedness.
Major Boal has frequently been talk-
ed of as a Congressional possibility of
the Republicans of the District. Since
then he has added to his popularity by
a military record that is teeming with
achievement so that if he should in-
terest himself enough to ask that the
delegates to Chicago from the Twen-
ty-first be instructed for his friend
Gen. Wood there would likely be em-
barrassment in no small degree in the
local Penrose organization, as the
Senator is for most any one else than
Gen. Wood.
—We believe that Rev. Dr. Robert
Westley Peach, of the Reformed
Episcopal church of Newark, has for-
cibly brought to public attention a
matter that, more than any other, lies
at the bottom of the increasing
troubles of protestant churches. His
statement that “if not a single church
had been built in the past thirteen
years those standing in 1906 would
accommodate at a single service in the
year 1919 every Protestant and Ro-
man Catholic communicant, baptized
infants included, in this country and
besides every man, woman and child
in Canada, Cuba and Porto Rico,”
seems startling but it is founded on
records that are irrefutable. We need
but look about us in Bellefonte to see
the effects of an over-churched town.
And in the county we find them con-
gested in small villages, whereas a
distribution that would make them
more readily accessible would serve a
better purpose. The result of it all
is that we Protestants instead of just
simply seeking Christ and the estab-
lishment of his kingdom on earth are
wasting half of our energy and half
of our means on maintaining a lot of
ritually different vehicles that we
hope are carrying us all to the very
same point. Good business and good
sense are recognizing the value of
standardization and never was the
time more urgent for standardizing
the Gospel chariot. Strip it of its de-
nominational colors and it will roll to
the consummation of what the christ-
ian most devoutly prays for. Do you
think for a moment that the “water
wagon” would ever have crushed the
life out of old John Barleycorn had it
been painted up so that none but
Methodists, or Presbyterians, or Re-
formeds, or Catholics, or Lutherans,
or United Brethren, or Evangelicals,
or Episcopals could ride on it?
| because it deprived him of the privi-
thing, it means that the Lodge reser-
ie
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NO. 6.
_VOL. 65.
Lodge Betrays His Malice.
In refusing to accept the compro-
mise on Article X of the covenant of |
the League of Nations proposed by
former President William H. Taft,
Senator Lodge betrayed the vicious
purpose of his prolonged opposition
to the peace treaty. In the first place
there was no need for any reserva-
tions. The treaty was drawn with in-
finite care by the ablest minds in the
world and conserved every just right
of every nation which might become |
a member of the League. But Sena- |
tor Lodge’s personal animosity to
President Wilson influenced him to
opposition, not in the interest of pub- |
lic safety or national security, but in |
pursuance of envy and malice. To |
placate Lodge Mr. Taft proposed a
substitute that ought to have been |
satisfactory.
Mr. Taft's substitute provided that
“the United States declined to assume
any legal or binding obligations to
preserve the territorial integrity or
political independence of any other
country under the provisions of Arti-
cle X, or to employ the military or
naval forces of the United States un-
der any article of the treaty for any
purpose; but the Congress, which un-
der the constitution has the sole pow-
er in the premises, will consider and
decide what moral obligation, if any,
under the circumstances of any par-
ticular case, when it arises, should
move the United States in the inter-
est of world peace and justice, to
take action therein, and will provide
accordingly.” What hazard are we
taking as a nation in that proposi-
tion?
But Senator Lodge would not con-
sent and the twenty or thirty jump-
ing jacks who are serving as Repub-
lican Senators, being bound by parti-
san pledges, supported him in his ob-
dutracy. The substitute was quite as
effective as the Lodge reservation in
detracting from the achievement of
President Wilson, yet the friends of
the President were willing to adopt it. |
But it wounded the vanity of Lodge
lege: of boasting that he had control-
led the Senate, and he refused to as-
gent. ‘Failure to ratify the treaty de-
tracts immeasureably from the glory
of the United States but that makes
no difference to the vain old popinjay
of Massachusetts. It is his own glory
that he regards as paramount.
——Admiral Sims writes as well as
talks too much. It has been discover-
ed that he favored giving a medal to
a British sea fighter who had lost his
ship and objected to one for an Amer-
ican naval officer under precisely sim-
ilar circumstances. :
Lord Grey's Letter.
If the Lord Grey letter, which
seems to have pleased the Republican
Senators beyond measure, means any-
vations to the peace treaty are simply
bunk. It is a plain‘ declaration of
opinion by an eminent British states-
man that the Versailles treaty so
completely guarantees the rights of
all parties concerned in it that the
quibbles of small minds are of no im-
portance. In other words Lord Grey
inferentially states that the reserva-
tions mean nothing for the reason
that they are irrelevant. The obliga-
tions expressed in the covenant of the
League of Nations will be fulfilled
whether the reservations are adopted
or not, because the people of the
United States are honest.
The treaty fully safeguards the
Monroe Doctrine in all its functions
and the Lodge reservation on that
point neither weakens nor adds to its
force. Lord Grey understands this
fact and while he sees no necessity |
for qualifying the language used in |
the covenant, he realizes that no great |
harm can come from it. The cove- |
nant requires a unanimous vote in the
Council and Lord Grey knows that 1t |
makes no difference whether Great |
Britain has six votes in the Assembly
to our one or we have one hundred
votes to their one, the final result is
the same. Each has one vote in the |
Council and neither can pass upon a |
question in which it is directly con- |
cerned, so that there is no discrimina- |
tion.
President Wilson naturally felt a |
pride in the work of the peace confer- |
ence and would have been glad if it |
had been ratified promptly in this
country as it was in England, France,
Italy and Japan. The Democratic
Senators and people and the patriot-
ic people of all parties wanted an ear-
ly ratification in order that peace con-
ditions and prosperity might have
heen restored promptly. But the
vanity of Lodge interposed to prevent
that consummation and now that
Lord Grey publicly writes him down
a stupid fool, he pretends to be grati-
fied and expresses a willingness to
make some small concessions and let
the treaty go through. He is wel-
come to all the satisfaction he can ex-
tract from it.
—That snow of Wednesday was a
regular flood maker.
Costly and Futile Investigations.
Sixty-one investigations have been
authorized since the organization of
the present Congress, less than a year
ago, at an expense to the government
of two billion dollars. These inqui-
ries have extended in various direc-
tions and cover a variety of subjects
but are aimed at a single purpose, the
manufacture of partisan capital for
use in the approaching campaign for
President. The results thus far have
been disappointing to the Republican
managers but apparently not discour-
aging, for according to published in-
formation, requests have been made
for more than one hundred others.
They serve a double purpose, of
course, for the failure to develop
scandal is recompensed by the pleas-
ures of junketing.
Among the investigations is an in-
quiry into the cost of conducting the
war. The expenses of enlisting and
equipping an army of four million
men are enormous and it was fondly
hoped that some evidences of graft
would be uncovered. But nothing of
the kind happened. In the hurry of
operations there was some extrava-
gance but no venality. Then atten-
tion was turned to the Shipping
Board activities. That was a prom-
ising field but disappointing. Not a
single crooked movement could be
found. The military camps were next
tackled, with the same heart break-
ing consequences. It was a feverish-
ly hasty work but “clean as a hound’s
tooth.” Nothing like the rottenness
of the Spanish-American war could
be found. .
It is conceded that the high cost of
living is the high cost of government.
So long as profligacy runs riot in the
operations of the government extrav-
agance will be the order among the
people. The two billion dollars wast-
‘ed in malicious endeavors to involve
the administration in scandal have
contributed more to the high cost of
living than all the pernicious activi-
ties of the profiteers throughout the
country during and since the war. If
there had been any reason for these
expenditures of public money, the evil
of it~ might have been overlookéd.
But as a matter of fact there were
not even grounds for-suspicion: The
greatest achievements of history
were conducted absolutely free of
graft. ?
—Somebody is always dragging a
herring over the trail to tranquility.
Congress has sixty-one investigations
keeping it off the railroad track and
science is ‘gone plumb crazy. over
spiritualism and signals from Mars
or Venus while the world needs its
concentration on problems calculated
to get it somewhere.
Chairman Hays’ Visit.
Willie Hays, chairman of the Re-
publican National committee, paid a
friendly visit to his party associates
in Philadelphia, the other day. Mr.
Hays has a good deal of trouble on
his mind these days and is a very busy
man. But he found time to call on
Senator Penrose in his sick room and
to take dinner, subsequently, with
Mayor Moors, District Attorney Ro-
tan and several other Penrose follow-
ers. The Vare brothers, Ed. and Will,
were not invited and didn’t participate !
in the conference, which was a most
harmonious affair. Willie probably
assented to every proposition made.
Dave Lane and Dave Martin were al-
so conspicuously absent, so that there
was no opposition to anything.
The real reason for the visit is left
to conjecture but not hard to guess.
It was stated that the object was to
bring the Republican organization of
Pennsylvania into closer relations
with the National organization of
which Mr. Hays is the head. But
there was no need of such a visit for
such a purpose. The two organiza-
tions have always been as intimate as
Siamese twins and Senator Penrose
had Mr. Hays elected chairman of the
National committee in order that
nothing might happen to separate
them. The existing fissure in the
party is not between the National and
Pennsylvania state organization. It
is between the Republican voters of
the country and both those organiza-
tions.
The real cause of the visit, however,
was to head off an incipient movement
to organize a Wood force in Pennsyl-
vania. Among the friends of Roose-
velt, and they are legion, there is a
strong inclination to support General
Wood for the nomination, and the or- |
ganization realizes that it would be
an absurd joke which would inevita-
bly doom the party to defeat. Chair-
man Hays believes that it is up to
Pennsylvania to prevent that disaster
and the means at hand is to make the
people here think that thereis a
chance for Governor Sproul’s nomi-
nation. With such an impression cur-
rent it would be easy to secure a del-
egation that would be against Wood
first, last and all the time and that is
the meaning of Hays’ visit.
—They are all good enough, but
the “Watchman” is always the best.
BELLEFONTE. PA.. FEBRUARY 6, 1920.
| Governor Sproul’s Fine Attitude.
We are moved to commend Gover-
nor Sproul for his frank statement
| recently delivered to his banqueting |
' friends that he is unalterably opposed
i to the “favorite son” business in con-
! nection with the nomination for Pres-
ident. The favorite son dodge was a
favorite device of the late Senator
Quay to get a delegation to the re-
curring National conventions that he
could use as “stock in trade” in his
dealings with real candidates for per-
sonal aggrandizement. At various
‘times he used various names of Penn-
gylvania Republicans in this way
ranging in importance from the late
‘Mayor Fitler, of Philadelphia, to the
late General John F. Hartranft. On
one occasion he even used his own
name.
Governor Sproul modestly admits
that he would accept the Republican
nomination for President and feels
grateful to those of his fellow citizens
who believe that he is fit for the great |
office. But he doesn’t want to ask for
it under false pretense that he is the
“favorite son” candidate of the Re-
publicans of Pennsylvania. He occu-
pies a fairly safe position in the esti-
mation of the people of the State now
which has been acquired without any
false or fraudulent representations
and is satisfied with what he has un-
less he can get other favors and great
honors in the same way. It is really
a creditable attitude to assume and
we feel like congratulating him on
assuming it.
It is a great pity that Governor
Sproul can’t or won’t infuse some of
that manly and honorable spirit into
the system of his college chum, per-
sonal friend and some time political
helper, A. Mitchell Palmer, who is at,
this blessed moment employing every |
available resource to acquire the du-
bious title which the Governor rejects.
Mr. Palmer has successfully “farm-
ed” a false pretence of influence ex-
“ ercised at the Baltimore convention
eight years ago and imagines that if
he could go to Sar Francisco with a
delegation in control absolutely, his
political fortune would be assured.
But the Democrats of Pennsylvania
3 age not likely to indulge him in this
plea
sant pipe dream. -He is net a fa-
wvorite son. 2
——Early in the week we were in-
clined to scorn the ground-hog as a
- weather prophet and talked rather
flippantly of his vaunted ability to
predict the kind of weather in store
“for us simply by coming out of his
hole and seeing his shadow, but when |
we got out of bed yesterday morning
and were confronted with ten inches
of snow on about eight hundred
, square feet of pavement we were con-
! strained to say “Darn thes ground-
hog!” Not that the:poor hog could
have made the fall of snow any more
or any less, but it was a relief to darn
something so we just darned the hog.
But at that, wasn’t the snow a regu-
lar old-time record-breaker, the big-
. gest bulk of purity let fall to earth
since “total prohibition struck us on
January 16th, and we naturally won-
dered if it might be symbolical of
how white this old world is going to
‘be now that strong drink has been |
relegated to the dark ages.
| ——Herbert Hoover appears to be
getting into the Grover Cleveland
class who was dearly loved because
of the enemies he had made. Jim
Reed and Senator Gronna make a
strong force for the fellow they op-
pose.
If the leaders of the Irish Re-
“public had been less friendly to Ger-
many while the fight for the democ-
‘racy of the world was in progress the
people of the American Republic
would be more sympathetic now.
—Judge Harman, sitting in Mon-
tour county, refused seventeen appli-
cations for license on the ground that
the eighteenth amendment and the
Volstead enforcement act make void
the Brooks high license act.
General Wood misinterprets
the lessons of history. It is true that
every war in which the country has
engaged thus far developed a Presi-
dent. But it was fighting soldiers
who were thus favored.
—Secretary Daniels told the Senate
on Tuesday just what the “Watchman”
told its readers three weeks ago when
it said that Admiral Sims was suffer-
ing with exaggerated ego.
Probably if Attorney General
Palmer would keep quiet for a few
days the high cost of living would
give up the fight he is exploiting.
——At the same time it’s a safe bet
that the Queen of Holland would
willingly give one of her crown jewels
to get rid of Mr. Hohenzollern.
——So long as the constitution re-
mains constitutional the Eighteenth
amendment will continue to be valid.
1
i
——Mr. Bryan is’ still chattering
but he excites ‘no enthusiasm. He
has lost his place on the first page.
Standards for. Growth.
From the Journal American Medical As-
sociation. : g
The period of physical development
i of each individual is an era of the
. highest significance for his entire life.
It represents a time when all manner
of formative influences are brought to
bear on a receptive organism: the
years when the bodily de for
future potentialities is being, created.
The forces that direct this develop-
ment and make its progress possible
are at least twofold: hereditary and
environmental. The environmental
forces include nutrition, work and
play, and are in some measure con-
trollable. If they cannot always alter
the limitations set by inherited fac-
tors, they can nevertheless frequently
prevent deteriorating influences: from
making any inroad on the growing in-
dividual or interfering with the best
! attainment of his developmental pos-
sibilities.
If we are to assist in any degree in
facilitating a proper environment for
the young, it obviously becomes essen-
tial to have some standards by which
to judge the success of the undertak-
ing. What shall be the index of suc-
| cessful or satisfactory nutrition and
growth? In everyday life, primary
emphasis is at present accorded to the
, body weight, for this is something
measurable with accuracy, whereas
the judgments formed by the appear-
ance of the person under investiga-
| tion have psychologic limitations. Di-
. agnosis almost always gains in accu-
racy when exact quantitative meas-
‘urement can be substituted for the
. guesswork of subjective impressions.
i Ascertained facts thus supplant hap-
l hazard assumptions which vary with
the experience and dependability of
the observer. To know that.a patient
' has actually lost or gained 15 pounds
|in- weight is decided
than to suspect that he
somewhat thin,” ii :
Is body weight the best measure of
is “looking
is the determination -of growth in
, height a better index? Can either or |
. both of these factors be related to age-
8
in such a manner as to answer
question, What is. the normal? These
queries have frequently been raised
and discussed. . A recent critical re-
view of selected data bearing on the
. subject has been prepared by Holt, of
the Columbia University College ‘of
Physicians and Surgeons. His. statis-
tics.show a wide variation’ the rela-
tion of weight to age—the « weight-
‘age curve—among, the European na-
tions, all of which are represented in
our present American . population.
With such wide variations as those
noted both in foreign and in Ameri-
can boys, it is evident, Holt says, that
, weight for age is not of great impor-
. tance in determining the nutrition of
a child. yi
Holt’s study shows, further, that
; the curves for height and age in a
‘general way correspond to those of
| weight and age among the different
. groups in the United States and also
among the foreign boys in their rela-
| tion to each other, but the variations
iin the height-age curves are consider-
i ably narrower. As the growth im-
' pulse is essentially a hereditary fac-
tor, it can be understood why varia-
tions in height are so great. The ten-
: dency to grow often exerts: itself even
in the absence of adequate nutrition,
: so that increase in size may occur
: with stationary weight at times. It
! appears from Holt’s data that a much
more important relationship than
{ weight to age or height to age as an
indication of the state of the child’s
nutrition is that of the weight to
height. This index of nutrition ap-
pears to be far more independent of
nationality; but of course there must
be actual incremen in size as well as
a proper proportionality between
height and weight. The weight-
height index fixes the child’s status
in nutrition; the annual increase in
size indicates his progress. Devia-
tions from the average may still be
regarded as normal. For practical
purposes Holt puts the permissible
deviation at 10 per cent. The careful
inspection by a good observer is by no
means to be dispensed with in form-
ing an estimate of good nutrition and
growth; but it may advantageously
be supplemented by the facts secured
through anthropometry.
Universal Training On Its Way.
From the Williamsport Sun.
Universal military training is mak-
ing its way slowly through the uncer-
tain channels of Congress. It now
has a committee endorsement which
is a long step toward the adoption of
a practical system of training for the
country’s youth.
One of the few remaining obstruc-
tionists is Republican House leader
Mondell, who is frightened over what
he estimated to be the cost of the
plan in the United States. Mondell’s
pencil and pad, we say pencil and pad
because we can’t believe he used much
brain power. in arriving at his calcu-
lation, say that aniversal military
training would cost the country one
billion dollars annually. Well what if
it does, the war cost that sum every
month, and universal training is a
war preventive.
Meaningless Now.
From the Columbus Dispatch.
The full dinner pail will not do for
a campaign slogan this year, for itis
an institution that has passed, and the
employee either takes his course din-
ner at a restaurant or patronizes a
cafeteria. a. a
~———8ubscribe for the “Watchman.”
ly more helpful.
satisfactory growth in children? Or.
‘death, the faithful still nearby
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—While the family of Charles Koffel, of
Lansdale, were eating dinner on Sunday a
sneakthief ‘entered the house, and stole
$117 and a gold watch. {
—Thieves broke, into a farm: house im
| Jefferson county and stole a barrel of el-
| derberry and a half barrel of blackberry
wine. In their thirst and wickedness they
ignored hams, silverware and Liberty
bonds.
—Hiram Bomberger, of Lancaster coum=-
ty, who is using electric lights in his pen,
is gathering thirteen dozen of eggs a
week from thirty-two hens. One hen laid
nineteen eggs in November, the same num-
ber in December, and up to Tuesday eof
last week, twenty-two eggs for January.
—The Susquehanna river is frozen from
shore to shore at Liverpool, Pa., and the
ferrymen are using horse and sleigh te
transport mail and passengers. Ferrymem
Long and Miller are hauling thousands of
railroad ties which formerly were ferried
across the river in flats, across in sleds,
and bringing back coal on their returm
trips.
—The Blair county court granted thir
ty-seven hotel and three brewery license
applications at Hollidaysburg on Monday.
Judge Thomas J. Baldridge condenmed
the practice of grocers and fruit dealers
in selling near-beer as unlawful, and de-
clared that the sales of all beverages con-
taining less than one-half of 1 per cent.
alcohol must be licensed under the law of
Pennsylvania.
—The Eagle fire brick plant of the East-
ern Refractories company, at Mill Hall,
which was burned some time ago, will be
replaced by a structure which will have
double the capacity of the destroyed plant.
The old plant required between forty and
fifty men to operate. The new plant will
require nearly one hundred and will ture
out 50,000 machine made bricks and 20,000
hand made bricks daily.
—The Ideal chocolate factory, of Lititz,
now has sugar on hand for its needs with-
out curtailment, as had been the case for
some months previous to January. Four
hundred thousand pounds of Braziliam
sugar was received in the early part of
January, and five carloads of American
sugar were unloaded since then. Fifteen
cents a pound is being paid. Fifty bar-
rels a day are required.
—At a special session of court held at
Lock Haven on Saturday, Aaron Bartges
entered a plea of guilty to the charge of
unlawfully selling, dispensing and distrib-
uting sulphate of morphine. He was sen-
tenced to pay $1 fine and to undergo im-
prisonment in the county jail for a term
of one year. Bartges is up in the seven-
.ties and his health is not good, hence the
court imposed a jail sentence instead of
sending him to the penitentiary.
—Altoona firemen discovered a funny
| one some weeks ago, when called to a fire.
Upon entering a room where the seat of
fire was located the firemen fell over
| something. Turning on the search: light,
it was found to be a home still at work.
Funnier yet, a short time ago, was the ex-
perience of an undertaker of that city whe
was called to the home of a recluse whe
died, and while the body was cold im
was rup-
ning full blast. BE BLS I
—Having just a short time ago subscrib-
ed $10,000 within one hour to help finance
a tap, die and reamer works, citizens of-
Newport eclipsed their own good record
last week by raising $25,000 in one hour
to secure a branch of a knitting factory.
With the trade reports showing hosiery
jobbers ‘sold up” for May, June and Ju-
ly, Newport looks quite reasonably upom
its latest acquisition as being another
good one for that lively, co-operating Ju-
niata river town.
—Clover seed is selling in Lancaster
county at $35 a bushel, the highest price
ever known. This will bring the price of
a bag to $100. Last year on account of the
high price of clover seed many farmers
mixed alsike with it. This year alsike is
selling at the same price as clover, an ad-
vance of $10 a bushel. Last year the high
price of clover was said to be caused by
dry weather. No reason has been given
this year and many believe it is specula-
tion pure and simple. Many farmers are
contemplating sowing alfalfa with their
clover. : : i
—Dr. Walter H. Parcels, 72 years old, is
dead at Lewistown. Deceased enlisted in
the army of the Potomac when only 15
years old and saw hard service in the Wil-
derness and at Appomattox. He was in
active practice as a physician for forty-
four years. He was a Democrat in poli-
ties, and represented Mifflin county in the
State Legislature in 1893, 1894, 1895 and
1896. He took up his residence at the
Mifflin county pest house during the small-
pox epidemic of 1894 and adimnistered to
his patients, including the burial of the
dead. Doctcr Parcels was known as a po-
et and orator and made three trips to Hu-
rope in search of health.
—A bullet, lodged in the brain of Lydia
Jackson, a negress, of Chester, who was
shot by Hillman Mitchell, on Christmas,
when she declined his invitation to attend
a moving picture show, does not now
cause her serious inconvenience. She was
sent to the Chester hospital, but the doc-
tor who gave her first aid said it would be
little use, as she could not live an hour.
Now she is out of the hospital, and ex-
pects soon to be able to return to work.
She says the bullet in her brain does not
bother her, except at intervals, and the
trouble is growing less all the time. The
woman's case has puzzled physicians, who
say it is the only case on record where a
person has lived with a bullet in the brain.
An attempt was made to probe for the
bullet, but when the surgeons ascertained
| its location they said to remove it would
mean death at once.
—The Lewistown housing proposition
went over the top with a clear margin of
$29,300 over and above the $300,000 requir-
ed and the event was celebrated by a
luncheon held at the Coleman hotel. This
means that 250 modern dwellings wiil be
erected along south Main street in the
eastern part of that city at once to be
sold to working men under conditions
that they can be paid for without too much
sacrifice. As soon as these are disposed
of others will be built and financiers now
say that the future of Lewistown is assur-
ed. The Lewistown Housing and Develop-
ing company has 275 acres of the best land
in the Juniata valley for home sites which
will be utilized for the promotion of the
good of the community. The Viscose Silk
company has established local offices in
Lewistown for their engineers and the
work of building their $3,000,000 plant will
be hurried through as rapidly as possi.
ble. ‘Their plans include a modern village
of 275 dwelling houses to front on Belle
avenue. Ed