"er enough to revise it few
on :
to uphold.
Bruin
INK SLINGS.
—1It is beginning to look like Her-
bert Hoover is in danger of being kid-
napped by both parties.
—March surely came in like a lamb.
Let us hope that she doesn’t slam the
door when she goes out.
—1In sixteen days spring will be
here; that is if it can get through the
snow in the country roads.
—The President was able to take a
motor ride on Wednesday and walked
from the car into the White House,
without assistance. That looks good.
—A ground thaw that would open
up the ice and let the water from
melting snow through would go far
toward removing the menace of a dis-
astrous flood should a warm rain
come soon.
—Germany’s curiosity is getting
the better of her and she wants to
find out what “American sentiment
toward her really is.” Surely this is
a case in which if ignorance is bliss
it is folly to be wise.
— Herbert Hoover says he is not
Mr. Penrose’s kind of Republican, nor
is he Mr. Bryan’s kind of a Democrat,
nor is he Mr. Hearst's kind of a patri-
ot. All of which goes to prove that
whatever he is Herb must be a rather
decent fellow.
—The “Watchman” is losing hope
that its repeated prediction that the
peace treaty would be ratified is to be
fulfilled soon. The imminence of the
national election has had the effect of
making Senators view it through the
glasses of politicians instead of those
of statesmanship.
—A contemporary announces that
the “New York prosecution is nation-
al hysteria against radicalism.” And
what is radicalism? It is the hyster-
ja of diseased minds against govern-
ment, so that it is time rational peo-
ple are getting hysterical in their de-
termination to save the government
from destruction.
— Fishermen who are looking rath-.
er dolefully toward the opening of a
season without the companionship of
a bottle with a kick in it, should cheer
up. The deprivation will be short
lived. By June grasshoppers will be
abroad in the land and an olive bottle
filled with them will be good bait and
full of kick, as well.
—If what now appears as a very
serious revulsion of sentiment against
the Volstead act crystalizes into pow-
people will
In a great
d act is need
greatly.
val
—The Democratic organization of
Philadelphia has repudiated the Mc-
Cormick-Palmer leadership in Penn-
sylvania, but if it was actuated by the
desire to identify our party with the
“wets” then the “Watchman” is not
in sympathy with the movement nor
will it lend itself to the dethronement
of these arrogant bosses for apy such
reason. McCormick and Palmer have
certainly reduced the Pennsylvania
Democracy to a sorry state and if it
cannot be restored without its advoca-
cy of the repeal of the Eighteenth
amendment it had far better remain
SO.
—The “Watchman” has received
from the new board of County Com-
missioners a statement setting forth
their estimate of the expenditures
they will be called upon to make dur-
ing 1920. It is interesting for several
reasons; the paramount one being the
announcement that our taxes are to
be increased by two mills additional
levy. This was announced as a prob-
ability by the “Watchman” six weeks
ago. We regret that conditions over
which we have had no control make it
impossible for us to publish the state-
ment in this issue, as well as our in-
ability to present the analysis of the
old Board’s record which we promised
to make this week, but we are hoping
that by next week labor conditions in
this office will have so improved as to
make publication of the two, together,
possible, for it seems to us that they
are so correlated as to be more thor-
oughly understood if read at the same
time.
— Otto H. Kahn, of New York,
whose occasional theses on current
topics have always commanded our
attention has just published another
While no one hopes ever to obtain a
perfectly equitable system of distrib-
uting the burdens of tax, Mr. Kahn's
suggestion that it be imposed on ex-
penditures rather than on savings
seems peculiarly a good one since it is
in entire harmony with fundamental
principles of economics. In a sense it
would be direct taxation and calculat- '
ed to excite more interest on the part
of the payer as to why and what for
he pays his taxes, an end greatly to be
desired, but it would be simple in its
application and put a penalty on ex-
travagance rather than on thrift as is
the case under the present system. In
brief, his idea is to pay all taxes
through stamps on articles we pur-
chase over a minimum value of two
dollars. A rate would be established
to provide for government needs that
could be raised or lowered instantly,
a great army of assessors, collectors
and accountants would be done away
with and those who have so much
money to throw away in extravagant
living would bear the greater burden.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
YOL. 65.
BELLEFONTE,
Palmer a Long Distance Favorite.
Mitchell Palmer has formally en-
nomination for President and bases
his claim on a false pretense. A pe-
tition having been filed in his behalf
in Georgia, Mr. Palmer telegraphed
his appreciation of the favor to the
secretary of the State committee, and
added: “I deem it highly important
that the Democrats of Georgia should
have the opportunity to directly pass
upon the record made by the present
administration.” The inference he
plainly hopes to convey is that he is
the choice of President Wilson for the
nomination. The language quite as
clearly asserts the claim that what-
ever good has been achieved by the
present administration is ascribable
to Palmer.
Mr. Palmer has been a member of
the administration for a trifle more
than a year. He entered the cabinet
with a flourish of trumpets proclaim-
ing that he would reduce the cost of
living to a normal basis. He has
since spent his time traveling over
the country like a “perigrinating pil-
grim” promising everything and ac-
complishing nothing. Within the
past fortnight he has made speeches
in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio
and New York, offering absurd sug-
gestions on every conceivable subject,
promoting his ambitions at the ex-
pense of the public treasury. But the
cost of living has soared as regularly
as he has roared assurances that he
would bring profiteers to their knees
and force prices down.
Mr. Palmer may be a prime favor-
ite among the Democrats of Georgia
but he doesn’t enjoy that distinction
in Pennsylvania. Georgia is a long
way from Pennsylvania and the Dem-
ocrats there may not know that Mr.
Palmer is ‘a party. wrecker who be-
trays. the party whenever such perfi-
dy advances his personal interests.
He bolted the Democratic nominee for
Governor of Pennsylvania two years
ago and has been rewarded by person-
al and political favors from the suc-
sful. Republican candidate whenev-
ere wag opportunity to do so.
¢ ats of
Georgia may choo
The doctor who says that the
city child has five times the chances
to reach maturity that a country child
enjoys has either great faith in the
efficacy of medicine or he wants to
fool the parents.
Return of the Railroads.
Since Sunday midnight the rail-
roads of the country have been under
the control of executives chosen by
their shareholders. The legislation
effecting this result enacted a week
previously, was signed by the Presi-
dent on Saturday, the law officers of
| the government having certified to its
, constitutionality during the interval.
| The effect of the change is, of course,
problematical. As we said last week
the measure is not entirely satisfac-
tory to any interest or anybody. But
| the change was inevitable. The Pres-
| ident gave warning more than a year
| ago of impending change and urged
| needed legislation. Congress dilly-
i dallied and finally agreed upon the
| bill.
It was unfair for the Railroad
' Brotherhoods to ask the President to
| veto the measure. There could be no
' excuse for the veto of a valid bill on
the subject. Public ownership of
railroads is repugnant to the minds of
"a vast majority of the people. Con-
trol of the properties had been assum-
ed veiuctantly by the administration
only as “a war measure.” The Presi-
dent had exhausted all his power to
secure the interests of employees in
making the transfer. But he is held
by the obligations of the law as firm-
ly as any other citizen and the meas-
ure being constitutional, he had no al-
ternative. To veto an act of Congress
abuse of power.
We hope the apprehensions of the
railroad employees as to the ill effect
of the private control will not be ful-
filled. President Wilson will do all he
can to prevent bad results and as a
contemporary has said the President
“has wide power” in winding up the
affairs of the railroad administration.
The interstate commerce commission
affords an additional safeguard for the
men. The law vests in that body con-
siderable power not hitherto enjoyed
by it. So there is nothing left for us
but to make the best of it. The coun-
try is not going to the dogs and men
earning seventy to eighty-five cents
an hour, with plenty of work, are
hardly heading for the poor house.
—— Thirteen is President Wilson's
lucky number. In view of that fact
he ought to have put his peace prop-
osition in thirteen instead of fourteen
points.
——Some Europeans seem to have
adopted the erronious impression that
Uncle Sam is a perpetual paymaster.
|
old.
Moving Along Right Lines.
Mr. Herbert Hoover has at last giv-
tered the race for the Democratic | en the public a line on his political af-
filiations. He declares emphatically
that he is not a Penrose Republican,
a Bryan Democrat or a Hearst patri-
ot. This terse statement of fact may
not commend the great Food Admin-
! istrator of the world to the favor of
the politicians of either party who
control conventions and make nomi-
nations. But it will go a long way to-
ward commending him to the admira-
tion of a vast number of voters who
have a just and natural aversion to
crooks, hypocrites and traitors. Mr.
Penrose has made himself obnoxious
to moral sentiment by a long life of
political iniquity and his enmity
against Hoover is a recommendation.
Mr. Hoover is equally wise in dis-
associating himself from the Bryan
Democracy. The hypocrisy of the
“Boy Orator” long since distressed if
not actually disgusted many of his
former friends and his desertion of
the President at a critical moment be-
cause he imagined it an auspicious
time to enter as a Presidential candi-
date in 1916, alienated many others.
Finally his entry on the pay roll of an
organization to dictate the platform
of the coming Democratic National
convention served as “the last straw
which broke the camel’s back,” and
left him a pitiable remnant of his
former political estate. There is no
evil greater than mercenary leader-
ship and Mr. Bryan has gone the lim-
it in that direction. :
As to William Randolph Hearst
even the thought of association with
him is repulsive to right thinking
minds. During the world war he ex-
hausted every expedient to help the
enemies of the country and though
there is doubt as to whether he was
influenced by enmity to President
Wilson or by pure perversity, the fact
is well established that he gave aid,
both in Mexico and in Europe, to the
German cause. Plainly, therefore,
Mr. Hoover is moving along right
lines when he publicly and positively
declares against Penrose, Bryan and
Hearst. It is a moral as well as a pa-
triotic duty to be against these self-
ish conspirators of evil and Mr. Hoov-
: fri by his declara-
=
"ig fi : Mi 7d ig nel BE
—=Mitchell Palmer told a New
York audience, the other night, that
the clothes he had on were five years
“Mitch” must imagine that Mr.
McAdoo made a strong point when he
said, a couple of years ago, that he
had patches on his pants.
Interesting Contest for the Bench.
The anxiety of the Republican ma-
chine of Pennsylvania to nominate
Judge Sadler, of Cumberland county,
for Justice of the Supreme court is
surprising in view of the facts. Six
years ago Judge George Kunkel, of
Harrisburg, was the candidate for that
bench against Judge Frasier, of
Pittsburg, on a non-partisan ticket.
Judge Kunkel carried forty-nine of
the sixty-seven counties of the State
and was defeated by only 8304 votes.
In Allegheny and Philadelphia coun-
ties Frazier had 103,834 which gave
him the election by the small margin
he received. The Republican machine
exerted all its power and invoked
every expedient to compass the result.
Even a cursory study of the returns
of that election would indicate that
the people favored the election of
Judge Kunkel. He had a long and
varied experience on the bench and
proved a jurist of fine ability and dis-
cretion. In his conduct of the trial
of the capitol grafters he established
a reputation second to that of no jur-
ist in the country. But the machine
didn’t want him on the bench of the
highest court. Those who manipulate
the politics of Pennsylvania are anx-
ious to keep the courts under control.
As the late Senator Quay once re-
marked it is some times necessary to
' catapult favorites on to the Supreme
bench but the work is accomplished
for no other reason than that it is un-
under the caption “Two Years of satisfactory to a group would be an
Faulty Taxation and the Results.”
in one way or another.
The anxiety of the machine leaders
to nominate Judge Sadler may be ac-
counted for, therefore, in the fact that
the friends of Judge Kunkel have been
urging him to again enter his name
for the nomination. We have no in-
‘ formation as to his intentions in the
matter but the activity of the machine
workers plainly infers that he may
consent. In that event we are likely
to have an interesting campaign.
Judge Kunkel is well and favorably
known in every section of the State
and the announcement of his candida-
cy will spur his admirers into an
earnest as well as a vigorous fight.
——President Underwood, of the
Erie railroad, thinks car fares ought
to be cut down to two cents a mile.
Maybe he is only kidding that portion
of the public that was opposed to the
return of the properties to private
ownership.
——The Newberry trial is still on
at Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the
public is still learning what an easy
mark Newberry was for the Michigan
boodlers.
Harding the Pennsylvania Favorite.
We can imagine nothing more
amusing than the confidence the
Pennsylvania Republican leaders have
in their ability to fool the voters of
that party. They have actually made
a considerable majority of the rank
and file believe that Governor Sproul’s
nomination for President is a possi-
bility, when it is apparent to any
close observer of events that his name
will never be mentioned in the ballot-
ing of the Chicago convention. Gov-
ernor Sproul is simply being used,
with his consent, of course, to prevent
the ‘election of any delegates in this
State who would vote for General
Wood. Senator Harding, of Ohio, will
be the Pennsylvania favorite when
the balloting is in progress.
Before Senator Penrose left home
for Florida last week Mr. Harding
visited him in Philadelphia. When he
reached Washington on his way South
Senator Watson, of Indiana, HMard-
ing’s Washington manager met him
and they held a prolonged conference.
Since he has been in Florida his most
frequent guest has been Mr. John T.
King, of Connecticut, who is the direc-
tor general of Harding’s campaign.
Mr. King is an expert political manip-
ulator, a political “soldier of fortune,”
who had been engaged to manage the
General Wood campaign. But when
the “old guard” determined to defeat
Wood, King abandoned him and
swore allegiance to the favorite. He
is now operating under the directions
of Senator Penrose.
But the Republican voters of Penn-
sylvania like to be fooled and they
will probably enjoy themselves be-
yond measure when they find out in
Chicago in June that the talk of Gov-
ernor Sproul for President was noth-
ing more or less than a camouflage
to conceal the plans and purposes of
Senator Penrose who hopes to dis-
pense the vast patronage of the
President in Pennsylvania during the
next four years. Of course the Sen-
ator will make wise use of the party
capital thus bestowed upon him by a
trusting constituency, if he gets a
chance. But he will be disappointed
in the results for the next President
will be a Democrat and one who has
the interests of the people, rather
Ahgn, those. of politicians at heart.
Learned agriculturists are now
throwing a scare into farmers by al-
leging that the wheat crop has been
smothered by the ice and snow, par-
ticularly the former. If the writer is
not mistaken last year about this
time they claimed the wheat had been
frozen out because of the lack of cov-
ering of snow, and yet last year’s
crop was one of the best harvested in
some years. Because of this fact far-
mers should not become worried
about their wheat crop until the snow
goes away and nature has time to
show what it can do. It might here
be added that up to this time nobody
has told us what the peach crop and
the apple crop will be the coming
year, but we are watching every day
to see some smart Aleck predict the
ruination of both by the long, cold
winter.
——A peculiar story comes from
Lewistown in connection with Mrs.
Samuel Myers, thirty years old, who
it is claimed, has recovered the sight
of her left eye which had been blind
for twenty-two years. According to
the story the eye was injured in a
coasting accident near Bellefonte
when she was eight years old and she
had no use of that eye until just re-
cently, when without an operation or
anything else being done, her sight
was restored and now her left eye is
| as good as her right.
So far as the general public
. could observe the passing of the rail-
| roads from government to private
control on Monday morning did not
cause even a ripple of excitement in
Bellefonte. Everything moved along
as systematically as of old; in fact,
, it might be added a little more so, as
the trains have been coming into
Bellefonte closer to schedule time this
week than they have done for some
time.
We feel like apologizing to our
readers this week for yielding to the
unusual demand for advertising in the
columns of the “Watchman,” but it so
happened and as a business proposi-
tion we had to make the best of it.
The result is that local matter will be
found on most every page of the pa-
per, so don’t fail to look for it. And
at the same time, read the advertise-
ments, they are all worth it.
Even the Senators have come
to realize that the peace treaty will
be a campaign issue.
It can hardly be said that the
woman vote will be the much talked
of “silent vote.”
The few days of warm weath-
er we had this week cut down the big
banks of snow along the streets very
appreciably.
— Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
PA., MARCH 5, 1920.
NO. 10.
Canada in the League.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The Governor General of Canada
has expressed to the Dominion Parlia-
ment his satisfaction that “the status
of Canada as a member of the League
of Nations has been definitely fixed.”
This means that Great Britain is firm-
ly committed to the representation of
the self-governing dependencies in the
League. As we have not ratified the
treaty, and are not a member of the
League, we are not in a position to ob-
ject to this, even if it were adverse to
our interests, which it is not.
The only reservation which Lord
Grey thought his government could
not accept was the one which would
have deprived the British dependen-
cies of membership in the League.
But this representation was not pro-
cured by Great Britain, and it was not
demanded by the dependencies in the
interest of the empire, but in their
own interest. The imperial control of
the dependencies is very slight, and
they are extremely jealous of their
practical independence. - At Paris the
dependencies demanded membership
in the League asa recognition of
their status as almost independent na-
tions. In the great war it rested with
the dependencies whether they would
go to the aid of Great Britain or not.
They went, and went enthusiastically;
but they went as more than semi-inde-
pendent States. The peace conference
conceded their right of membership,
not as a concession to Great Britain,
but as a concession to Canada, Aus-
tralia and the other dependencies.
Their interests are not always those
of the empire, and they would not be
certain always to vote with it. But
whether they would or not is imma-
terial, because the Council, which is
the executive body in distinction from
the Assembly, must be unanimous on
all matters of any importance. If we
were a member of the League, with,
of course, a representative in the
Council, we could not be out-voted.
The larger the number of members
the more difficult it might be to se-
cure unanimity, and if England con-
trolled the votes of the dependencies,
we could control the wotes of five
members of the League, as professor
mom
Albert Bushnell Hart has pointed out ,
—Cuba, Panama, Haiti, Santo Domin-
go and Nicaragua.
Identif; ying Mr. Hoover.
From the New York World. i
To many professional politicians
whose many professional pedbic all
summarized by a party label this
statement by Herbert C. Hoover
ought to be enlightening:
Mr. Penrose has declared that
I am not his kind of Republican.
Mr. Bryan has declared that I am
not his kind of Democrat. Mr. °
Hearst has declared I have not
his variety of patriotism. I at
once agree with these gentlemen.
Thus by the simple process of elim-
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—TFire presumably caused by crossed
electric wires damaged St. Peter's and
St. Paul’s Lithuanian Catholic churchs at
Tamauqua to the extent of $3000.
—Joseph Fecher, bandmaster, of Middle-
burg, now 82 years of age, played before
President Lincoln and Admiral Dahlgren
on their visit to Richmond during the Civ-
il war. He led his band in the grand ree
view at Washington in 1865.
—Reading city council has engaged
George F. Datesman, of Philadelphia, to
direct the sewer work in that city, at a
salary of $100 a day. Mr. Datesman is a
native of Northampton county. The work
on the sewers will be commenced as soon
as weather conditions will permit.
—Lewis G. Lindermuth, of Reading, is
suing for divorce on the ground: of deser-
tion. In his statement to the court he
says that when he returned from the ar-
my his wife told him he was in the army
too long and besides that he had lost his
good looks. They were married in 1917
and separated two years later.
—John Sauder has been carrying mail
between Farmersville and Brownstown
trolley station, making two trips daily,
for six and one-half years without miss-
ing a single trip. He carries the mail in
a one-herse conveyance and also hauls
passengers, charging a nickel for a one-
way trip over a mile. He is aged sixty-
five years.
—Suit for damage was instituted last
week at Clearfield by Mrs. Della Kelly,
widow, against the Pennsylvania Railroad
company as a result of the accident on
August 10, 1919, at Farley’s Crossing, near
Saybrook, Warren county, in which Game
Commissioner E. W. Kelly, of DuBois, and
Secretary Kalbfus, of the State Game Com-
mission lost their lives.
—The theory that a woman's stocking
offers a safe depository for her money got
an awful wallup Saturday night, when
Mrs. Anna Hayes, of Pittsburgh, was rob-
bed of $192, two $50 Liberty bonds and a
$10 check while she was having her shoes
polished in a downtown shop. When she
discovered her loss she notified the police,
who arrested the two negroes who had
worked on her shoes. They had her val-
uables.
—John Orlandez, of Beaver Falls, was
startled last week to find out that the
woman with whom he had been living for
ten years is not his wife, as he thought.
Orlandez got a license at Pottsville in 1910,
and he and his wife thought the formali-
ties at the courthouse meant their mar-
riage and no ceremony was performed.
When taunted recently that he had no
certificate to prove his marriage he decid-
ed to go to Pottsville and find out the
truth. He at once sent for his supposed
wife, and as soon as she arrived in Potts-
| ville they were legally married.
. —Bdward Warley, of Pottstown, recent-
| ly. observed his 95th birthday. He is con-
fined to his room, but has good hearing
and eyesight, reads and converses. He
was born. in a log cabin at Pottstown tem
years before the borough was incorporat-
ed. He is a Civil war veteran and fought
at Antietam and Gettysburg. He was a
cabinet maker and one of the first railroad
engineers on the Reading railway. He re-
| lates how wood was used as fuel for the
engines before the Civil war. At that
time 50. cents per day was considered fair
j
wages for ten hours. He remembers that
eggs sold for six cents a dozen. Chestnut
coal sold for $2 per ton and the best sir-
loin steaks sold for 6 cents per pound,’
—Information has been made against a
number of the employees of the Glass and
Tile company, of Brookville, Jeffersan
county, charging conspiracy, and it is
possible that other arrests will be made.
It is alleged that a number of dissatisfied
employees of the company threw chunks
of iron and other debris into the molten
glass in the tank of the plant. Fortunate-
ly, the foreign substances were discover-
ed before any material damage had been
‘survivors of the old partyism have
. point, but, considering past and pres-
ination Mr. Hoover identifies himself : done. Considerable excitement has been
in politics with much greater precis- caused at the plant because of this alleged
ion than the average public man is! attempt to handicap the company. Had
able or willing to do. Most of the | the foreign substances not been discover-
ed in time it would have resulted in great
i loss to the company, perhaps the destruc-
sible candidate for the Presidency has ' tion of the entire tank of glass and a shut-
hesitated to call himself either Demo- | down of the factory for several weeks.
crat or Republican, but in that they | _ pistrict Attorney Windle, of Chester
fail to realize that the same uncer- county, will invoke the aid of Maryland
tainty is to be found among millions | ,ythorities to have the marriage of Bran-
of voters. This is a time when com- : oo Black, a negro, 22 years old, and Hel-
paratively few people know where ., Robinson, white, 14 years old, of Ox-
hey stand so far as Darky is CONCEXN. | ford, annulled. The girl is the daughter
ed, and the organization hs 1C ISU| of Harry Robinson. It is alleged she was
Toop ie ye a Se Soong | enticed by the negro to Elkton, Md. on
or1 op 20 nn e light o al | November 1st, 1919. She lived with her
knowledge will be Q Sane | father and sisters, her mother being sepa-
LoS, BIS snongh AE The) | rated from the father. Following the cer-
0! e i
to elect the next a, Perhaps | smony, Black 008 BS ial Wie te 3
th ibe abled 120 of Ch | farm near Coatesville, and got a job in a
ey never will be able to ag € | steel mill there. When the state ,f affairs
rf i th u { was discovered, Black was arrested on the
ent performances of the men WhO. .ya;00 of enticing the girl to Maryland
have misled them long enough, we! 4 placed in jail. His wife is in charge
should say that all who can subscribe | of a probation officer. She declares she
to Mr. Hoover’s words are almost | has no desire to continue to live with him.
ready to accept true Democratic doc- |
trine, if not Democratic name. { —Furs and silks valued at more than
| $25,000 were carried away by thieves from
| the Levay Stont store in Wilkes-Barre
early last Friday morning. The store is
. !located on south Main street, the city’s
The United States Supreme court 1S main thoroughfare. The section is patrol-
competent, perhaps, to determine | jed by policemen, but despite this entrance
when the disability of the Executive ' as gained through the front door and the
to function begins and ends, as Mr. oot was carried out through the same
Fess suggests; but who is to deter- | goor. Several fur coats, ranging in price
mine when the disability of Congress, from $500 to $1000, were taken. Expensive
especially the Senate, to function be- | neckpieces were stolen, and the thieves
gins and ends? The Senate has had | ransacked the three floors of the building,
a peace treaty before it for more than | selecting the finest of silk garments. The
six months, and the Senate in the | goods were boxed and wrapped before
presence of it threatens to become ' they were taken from the store. Balls of
what the soldiers used to call a shell | twine and wrapping paper that were left
that wouldn't explode—a dud. | give proof of this. So carefully was the
{ job done that the interior of the store
professed astonishment because a pos-
A Pertinent Inquiry.
From the Springfield Republican.
Many Apexes of H. C. L.
From the Providence Journal.
“showed no signs of the robbery until in-
| vestigation was made.
Some of our eminent authorities as-
sure us that the high cost of living
has now reached the apex and must
descend. But recalling several simi- |
lar assurances during the last six
months, we are driven to the conclu-
sion that the H. C. and L. has a lot of
apexes.
More Significant.
From the Christian Science Monitor.
That 140,000 school teachers in the
United States have deserted the busi-
ness of teaching during the last year
is a significant statement. But per-
haps it would be more significant still
to tell where they have gone.
i a mn?
—The postponement of military
training legislation until after the
election shows how confident the Re-
publican leaders are of public credu-
lity.
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—Anthony Fritchey, proprietor of the
Arlington hotel, North Catasauqua, holds
the hard luck record of that section of Le-
high county. Two years ago, an eight-
year-old son fell through the Hokendau-
qua bridge into the Lehigh river and was
drowned, the body not being recovered for
ten days. Last summer another son was
accidentally shot in the head by a com-
panion and seriously wounded, and a few
days later still another of his boys was
nearly drowned while swimming in the
Lehigh river near his home. Saturday
evening two other sons, Berthold, aged
nine, and Leo, four years old, were ser-
jously injured when a heavy motor truck
struck their sled while coasting on a hill
near their home. The older of the injured
boys is not expected to recover. The fath-
er of the boys was taken home from the
hospital only a few days previous, after
having undergone a surgical operation,
Their mother has also been ill for some
time.