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‘yes, the Hon. Evan Jones.
Demonic Wd
INK SLINGS.
— The high cost of bidding was in
evidence at a public sale in this coun-
ty during the week when chickens
were run up to two dollars and a half
apiece.
—Wood’s Hole is the place at which
the President and his family will
spend the summer. No, dear reader,
it wasn’t named specially for Wood-
row Wilson.
— Why all this fuss and expense
over finding out whether the navy was
or was not prepared for the war?
Certainly it did all that could have
been expected of it.
__After his years of brilliant
achievement in food conservation it
shocks our sense of the proprieties to
see Herbert Hoover starting in to
spill the Republican presidential
beans all over the country.
—Early yesterday morning (April
first) a gentleman brought to this of-
fice one full dozen quarts of Three
Feathers and four bottles of Three
Star and presented them to the editor
with his compliments. Weather per-
mitting we are going fishing April
15th.
. —Grover Bergdoll, speed fiend
and draft dodger, has been sentenced
to a term of five years in a federal
prison, dishonorable discharge from
the army and loss of citizenship. How
lucky. If the public had had the sen-
tence to pronounce it would have been
fifty-five years.
— No one seems willing to prognos-
ticate. It feels like spring is here
and, naturally, we expect settled
weather after Easter, but there must
be a lot of snows to come, if we are to
yun through the misery and mud of
the saplin’ bender, the onion snow, the
poor man’s manure and all the other
varieties of late falls of “the beauti-
ful” that have to be endured before
we can settle down to real gardening,
farming, fishing and golf.
— Along with the many other symp-
toms of unrest that we are seeing in
the Republican political camp there is
a very pronounced agitation against
our present Congressman, the Hon.
let’s see, what’s his name? Oh
It appears
that some think that Jones isn’t mak-
ing noise enough in Washington and
that this would be as good a time as
any to start a movement to get the
District on the Congressional map.
— Just because the Democratic
county committee in his home county
of Dauphin wouldn't stand for Vance
McCormick as their candidate for Na-
tional delegate Vance has bolted the
reorganized organization and opened
headquarters with a committee of his
own. Talking about party wreckers,
as Vance and his Patriot have done.
until they are nearly blue in the face,
it would seem that Mr. Bonniwell
hasn’t anything on them in the effort
he has made to get them out of a po-
sition in which they are very evident-
ly not wanted.
— The “Watchman” today devotes
considerable space to the programs
for Easter services in the churches of
Bellefonte. Let us hope that those of
you who are within attending distance
will read them and be so interested
that you will be seen in one of the
places of public worship next Sunday.
Talking about saving the world for
democracy; it can’t be done with ar-
mies, or liberty bonds or food contri-
butions. Love and unselfishness are
the only instruments that will effect
that longed-for event and the world
will never come into possession of
them until it learns to spend more of
time on its knees at the shrine of the
Prince of Peace.
_= Melville Gillette, of Smethport,
spent part of the week in Centre
county in the interest of his candida-
cy for delegate from this District to
the Republican National convention.
We understand that Mr. Gillette is not
on the machine slate. He is, how-
ever, a mighty likable fellow, with a
brilliant record for fourteen months
in the air service on the other side
and is out with a pledge to vote for
that candidate for President whom the
majority of the people prefer, as ex-
pressed by their ballots at the prima-
ries. Such a pledge ought to appeal
strongly to the Republicans of the
District, especially when made by a
man of the character of Mr. Gillette,
but we fear that he, like our other sol-
dier friend, Major Terry Boal, who
would also like to go to Chicago, will
find out that Penrose tells the Repub-
licans of the Twenty-first who they
shall send and they send them.
—Somebody must have thrown a
few shovels of coal under the local po-
litical pot, for it has been boiling fu-
riously for the past few days. The
Hon. Harry B. Scott, of Philipsburg,
has made two mysterious visits to
Bellefonte within a week and now
Tom Beaver isa candidate for the
nomination for the Legislature against
the Hon. Ives Harvey. Such a se-
quence of events makes it look as if
our Republican friends have a notion
that the Hon. Ives, having cast his
vote for ratification of the Eighteenth
amendment, is needed now at home
more than in Harrisburg. Of course
Mr. Scott thought that two years ago
and rumor has it that he was think-
ing seriously of trying to put an end
to further legislative perigrinations
of our local county Sabbath school
factoum, but why he let the thought
perish we have not been able to learn.
We shall watch Tom’s candidacy with
much interest, for we know he is
going to have the time of his life run-
ning with the dry hares and chasing
with the wet foxes.
Teno
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE. PA.,
APRIL 2, 1920.
NO. 14.
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—H. L. Conroy, J. Walter Westland and
Delbert W. Lewis, of Warren, are arrang-
ing to leave May Ist, on a walk to the Pa-
cific coast. In a formal egreement each
pledges to forfeit to the other $100 in the
event of his failure to make the hike.
—Receipts from automobile licenses for
1920 have passed the $4,800,000 mark and
gone almost $1,500.000 above the revenue
at this time last year. Thus far 315,000 l-
censes have been issued for pneumatic
tired machines and almost 39,000 for solid
tired vehicles.
—Lewis Lott, a farmer living near
Troutville, Clearfield county, was found
in his barn Monday morning of last week
with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his
Sounding a True Note.
Those Democrats who assembled in
Philadelphia last Saturday for the
purpose of devising means to rehabili-
tate the party in Pennsylvania struck
the nail squarely on the head in the
declaration that “the Pennsylvania
Democracy ought to be the rallying
point for all patriotic citizens. This
enviable position can only be had by
the overthrow of those sinister influ-
ences which have kept it in the past
and recent years a dishonored auxil-
iary to the Republican machine. We
call upon all true Democrats to purge
their party of the selfish and treacher-
ous leadership, based solely upon the
management of patronage, which has
wilted and withered our great party.”
Following the inauguration of Pres-
ident Wilson in 1912, Mitchell Palmer
and Vance McCormick set up a polit-
ical trading post in Washington with
a branch office in Harrisburg to dis-
pense party favors on a purely com-
mercial basis. Party service and per-
sonal fitness were entirely eliminated
and servility to the bosses made the
basis of appointments. This destruc-
tive practice worked such havoc in the
party force that it soon ceased to be
even a respectable minority. Two
years ago a number of courageous
Democrats overthrew this sinister
combination at the primary election
and a corrupt partnership with the
Republican machine was formed, by
which the minority patronage of the
State Republican administration was
mortgaged to Palmer for Democratic
votes for his college chum.
There was more than an even
chance for the election of the Demo-
cratic candidates for State offices that
year until this traitorous compact
was publicly declared at the meeting
of the Democratic State committee for
organization. That incident made
Democratic success hopeless and. a
substantial element committed to the
support of our candidates withdrew.
But Palmer and McCormick exacted
their recompense for recreancy and
McCormick, who covets office as a
miser craves for gold, is now enjoy-
ing the fruits of a distinguished office
by appointment of Governor Sproul.
He is a member of the commission to
Revise the Constitution of the State
and in full sympathy with those who
favor capital, right or wrong, against
labor. It is an important if not a lu-
crative office.
Mr. Palmer is said to have selected
all the minority members of this Re-
vision commission, in pursuance of
his bargair. with the Republican ma-
chine, and had himself named at the
head of the list. But McCormick felt
that he was being neglected, and as
the “angel” of Palmer’s political am-
bitions, that created a menacing sit-
uation. So Palmer declined the hon-
or and McCormick was substituted.
The only difference is in the personnel.
Palmer does the thinking and McCor-
mick foots the bills, except such as
are paid out of the pockets of the of-
fice-holders, who are always under
tribute. It is small wonder that real
Democrats want to get away from
this condition.
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— We have now entered upon the
month of April, farmers have begun
their ploughing, a few early garden-
ers have gotten in their work and the
disciples of Izaak Walton are plan-
ning an invasion of the streams of
Centre county on the opening of the
trout fishing season which is now just
thirteen days away. Verily the first
catch this year ought to be a good one
as fishermen will be able to devote all
their time to the trout in the absence
of the “big inducement” that prompt-
ed many a man to take the day off.
—— That Washington clerk who
saved $100,000,000 by correcting er-
rors in a naval appropriation bill
earned the thousand dollars voted to
him by Congress and yet a capable
Congress ought to be able to write an
appropriation bill.
—_We'll just bet the hole ina
doughnut that a constitutional amend-
ment abolishing the United States
Senate would “run like wild fire” over
the country.
— The deported anarchists are
running along hard lines in Russia.
Most of the people they meet are as
lazy as themselves.
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— The center of population is
coming eastward, according to census
reports, but prices are still tending
toward the north.
— The first of the month being
her moving day Mrs. Hohenzollern
can be Queen of the May in her new
home anyway.
——Governor Sproul has issued the
regulation proclamation designating
April 16th and 23rd as spring Arbor
days.
—And March went out without
slamming the door.
“What is a Democrat.”
The esteemed New York World, a
high authority on political ethics, dis-
pairs of framing an answer to an in-
quiry by a woman correspondent as
to “what is a Democrat?” and “How
does he differ from a Republican?” A
fundamental difference existed in the
beginning in that “a Democrat in gov-
ernment is concerned primarily with
personal rights and a Republican . is
concerned primarily with property
rights,” our contemporary observes,
and adds: “The Democratic party is
essentially a party of decentraliza-
tion and the Republican party is a
party of centralization.” But neither
party has been true to its professions
in late years, and in the opinion of
The World both have ceased to exist
as “coherent organizations.”
On the question of prohibition, for
example, The World declares that “no
Democrat could believe in the Eigh-
teenth amendment because the Eigh-
teenth amendment is at war with the
whole Democratic theory of govern-
ment as it has come down from the
days of Jefferson. A Democrat can
believe in local option. He can believe
in State-wide prohibition, but he can-
not believe
Federal government the police pow-
ers of the States and in permitting
the Federal authority to tell the indi- |
vidual citizen what he may eat and
what he may drink.” The Jefferson
idea of Democratic government was
that such regulations, if tolerable at
all, were functions of local authority
or State control. :
The Southern States which profess
to be Democrats are mainly responsi-
ble for the Eighteenth amendment
and the South never did take consti-
tutional provisions seriously. The
Fifteenth amendment, for example,
has never been enforced South of the
Mason and Dixon line though it has
controlled important elections North
and Southern statesmen probably im-
agined that the Eighteenth amend-
ment, like the Fifteenth would serve
a sectional purpose and do little harm
elsewhere. Democrats of the North,
who are law-abiding, view the subject
through other lenses and are inclined
to resent the infraction of the princi-
ples of their party by methods abhor-
rent in the extreme.
—1It is confidently expected that
foreign travel will be greatly increas-
ed this year. The luxurious bars on
the ocean liners are said to be very
attractive to rich folk who neglected
to lay in stocks.
Work of a Conspiracy.
Senator Williams, of Mississippi, in
a speech before the Legislature of
that State denounced the defeat of the
peace treaty as the result of a con-
spiracy to discredit President Wilson.
In support of his statement he cited
the “Round Robin” circulated in
Washington by Senator Lodge, before
the treaty was completed. Before
that event practically all the Republi-
can Senators favored a League of Na-
tions as the only medium of prevent-
ing future wars. Senator Lodge him-
self had taken advanced ground on
this point and all the leading Repub-
licans concurred in that view. But
when the work on the treaty was ap-
proaching completion, for some rea-
son, they reversed themselves and the
conspiracy was formed.
The only purpose of the League of
Nations was to guarantee peace
throughout the world for all time. An
effort to create such a compact with
the leading nations of the world at
The Hague was defeated some years
ago, because Germany refused to join,
though the representatives of the
United States at that meeting unani-
mously and earnestly supported it.
At the conclusion of the world war
Germany was in no condition to resist
and it was confidently believed such a
league might be formed. But the mu-
nition makers and war profiteers of
the United States appear to have
meantime acquired control of the Re-
publican machine and induced their
representatives in the Senate to de-
feat it.
The proposition which was defeat-
ed in Holland some twenty years ago,
was in no material respect different
from that expressed in the Versailles
League of Nations. It required each
country signing to reduce armaments
to a peace basis and combine against
any attempt to make war by any na-
tion. The American delegates in that
convention were distinguished Repub-
lican statesmen and their action in
signing and supporting the proposi-
tion was unanimously approved in
this country. Before the organiza-
tion of the Lodge conspiracy the peo-
ple were equally unanimous in sup-
port of the treaty of Versailles. But
Senator Lodge, acting for the muni-
tion makers and profiteers, has de-
feated their purpose for the present.
— The suggestion that automobile
maps be given to Congressmen for
free distribution instead of garden
seeds is in line with Republican habit.
That party loves to feed the fat.
in surrendering to the
Senator Borah’s Persistent Charges.
The persistence with which Senator
Borah charges General Wood with
conducting a corrupt campaign for the
| Republican nomination for President
| almost compels belief. The General’s
| reply to the first accusation is not con-
vincing. He said the only purpose of
the charge was “to sway the voters of
Michigan.” A pointed denial would
have been better. Of course Mr. Bor-
ah might have produced proof and
that would have been embarrassing.
But the feeble statement quoted is a
sort of “confession and avoidance,”
and in the present frame of the pub-
lic mind, that won’t do. There has
been too much boodle politics lately
and the recent conviction of Senator
Newberry emphasises the fact.
In any event the Wood statement
has not silenced the Idaho Senator.
He admits that part of his purpose
was to sway voters of Michigan but
: adds there were other and higher rea-
sons for his charges. He alleged that
certain sinister influences, including
oil corporations looking for favors,
had created a vast corruption fund to
be wsed in buying. votes for Wood’s
| nomination and that the only way of
preventing evil results is to make a
frank statement of the money sub-
scribed to his campaign fund and give
the names of the contributors. Such
a statement, properly authenticated,
would settle the matter one way or
the other. Borah imagines, moreover,
that if the charge were false, the
statement would be made.
It is certainly true that the friends
of General Wood have been conduct-
ing a very expensive campaign in his
behalf. Now Wood has been in the
army many years and there is a tra-
dition that army officers don’t save
large fortunes out of their salaries.
It is also fairly well understood that
generous contributors to campaign
funds expect some sort of substantial
return from their investment and
everybody knows that half our Mexi-
can troubles are the result of disputes
over oil concessions. Senator Borah
believes that oil concessionaires in
this country and Europe are investing
in the Wood campaign fund with an
ae that they will get their
moftey back in oil and he demands
reckoning. *
— A Philadelphia thief was ap-
prehended through the miscarriage of
a letter he had forwarded to a friend
| urging him to come to that city be-
| cause “things are so easy there.” He
{ must have been on the Vare staff.
Expedient Well Worth Trying.
The Supreme court of Pennsylvania
is nonpartisan by law but partisan in
fact. That is to say candidates for
judges of the several courts may not
be placed on party ballots but they
are invariably voted for on account of
their party affiliations. This year the
pretense of nonpartisanship has been
more openly and flagrantly cast aside
than at any time since the nonparti-
san law was enacted. Every Republi-
can program offered for consideration
contains the name of Sylvester B.
Sadler, of Cumberland county. He is
the personal choice of Governor
' Sproul and no Republican has thus far
| dared to suggest an opponent for the
| office. Moreover his name is as close-
| ly intertwined with the machine as
! that of Penrose.
Recent experience has shown that
whoever is selected by the Republican
machine leaders for seats on either of
the appelate court benches is support-
ed by all the Republican voters under
control of the machine. Candor com-
pels the admission that Democratic
voters, as a rule, follow the same
course. For that reason the judicial
office is not, in fact, nonpartisan. But
it may be made so this year if the
Democratic voters will exercise wis-
dom in their action at the primary
election. In the event that Republi-
can voters as a rule support Sadler,
the exceptions voting for, say Judge
Kunkel, of Harrisburg, and the Dem-
ocrats voting for a Democrat, and
there are many available and worthy,
the minority will be split and Sadler
elected under the fifty-one per cent
law. That will settle it.
But suppose the Democrats of the
State offer no candidate of that party
faith and with practical unanimity
support Judge Kunkel, the chances
are more than equal that he would be
elected at the primary and the Repub-
lican machine would be as completely
defeated, as utterly flabbergasted, as
if a Democrat were chosen. Ever
since the capital graft convictions
Judge Kunkel has been anathema to
the Republican managers. Six years
ago all the force they could command,
including ballot box stuffing in Phila-
delphia and Pittsburgh, barely suc-
ceeded in defeating him, and he car-
ried more han two-thirds of the coun-
ties of the State. It is an expedient
worth trying and we suggest it for
what it is worth.
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— Mr. Palmer insists that the
price of meat is decreasing which
must be surprising to the butchers.
The Other Way.
From the New York Evening World.
_ Those who fight against the legisla-
tion to curb rent profiteers, those who
hold that prices must keep on rising,
those who believe that labor should
further increase its wage demands,
are, after all, on a well-travelled eco-
nomic path.
There is another solution for the
present problems forced upon the
country by a mounting cost of living.
_ What if rents are boosted without
limit? What if profiteers are given
full play with the prices of necessi-
ties? What if labor does demand
more and more pay for less and less
work ?
Sooner or later will come that oth-
er solution—grim but sure.
It came in 1907, with closing fac-
tories, paralyzed business, railroads
laying off their crews, while bread-
lines formed and lengthened, lodging
houses filled and the unemployed
grew to an army of 2,000,000.
It came in 1893, with 15,000 bank-
ruptcies and suspensions involving a
loss of $570,000,000 and forcing 3,-
000,000 workers into idleness.
It came in 1873, in the midst of an
era of inflated currency, excessive
railroad building and reckless land
speculation, and caused collapse and
failure to haunt American industry
and business for four years.
One mysterious touch to credit puts
this harsh solution to work. -Confi-
dence suddenly falters and shrinks.
Extravagance shudders and hides its
head. Spending ceases. Enterprise
and expansion put ‘up their shutters.
Capital seeks its vaults. The whole
structure of supposed prosperity
comes down with a crash. Fear and
want take charge.
Nor are the warnings manifest save
to the wise. :
_ Describing the state of the country
just before the panic of 1873, the his-
torian, James Ford Rhodes says:
“Prosperity was written all over the
face of things. Manufacturers were
busy, workmen in demand, streets and
shops were crowded.” * * *
“Prices of commodities were high,
demand pretty good; everybody seem-
ed to be making money and nobody
suspected for a moment that he was
living in a fool’s paradise.”
Few suspect it now when, after the
most destructive war in the history of
the world, they act on the theory that
production can be slackened and
wages and prices indefinitely increas-
The country is close to half a cen-
tury older than it was in 1873. Its
safeguards against panic are far
surer and more developed.
But can even the finest banking
system a modern nation has yet
evolved save the people of the Unit-
ed States from the consequences of
treating a post war inflation of their
national currency as if it were assur-
ance of perpetual prosperity based on
soaring prices, rising wages and
boosted rents—with production a
negligible factor in the background ?
Intelligence and self-restraint may
avert disaster, but they are not es-
sential to the discovery or rediscov-
ery of economic truths.
There is the other way of finding
gus thes stone walls are harder than
eads.
These Women Vote.
From the Williamsport Sun.
Irrespective of the ratification of
the federal suffrage amendment, there
are 17,500,000 women over voting age
who live in States that have already
qualified women to vote in the Presi-
dential elections in November. Rati-
fication will extend the privilege to
about 9,500,000.
The States where women will vote
for the next President include the fif-
teen full suffrage States: Arizona,
California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas,
Michigan, Nevada, New York, Okla-
homa, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah,
Washington, Wyoming; the thirteen
presidential, or presidential plus mu-
nicipal: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebras-
ka, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Ten-
nessee, Wisconsin, Ohio, Kentucky;
the two primary suffrage States, Ar-
kansas and Texas.
The total number of electoral votes
in the choosing of which women will
have a voice is 339, or nearly two-
thirds of the total number of elector-
al votes.
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Watching the South.
From the Philadelphia Record.
According to the New York Sun
“the eye of the campaign fund refor-
mer is on the South just mow,” and
they are “prepared to enter a prompt
protest against repetition of the 1912
incident,” when President Taft was
renominated by the help of _delega-
tions from Southern States where the
G. O. P. had not a ghost of a show.
Between the scandalous use of muney
by the Wood and Lowden campaign
managers and the prospective pur-
chase of impecunious delegates from
the territory below Mason & Dixon’s
line the approaching Republican Na-
tional convention seems likely to have
plenty of material for several first-
class rows. In that respect it will on-
ly be running true to form.
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A Very Old Woman.
From the Kansas City Star.
Nebraska's oldest resident—a wom-
an—is dead at ninety. She could re-
member when Mr. Bryan first ran for
President. ’
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forehead, from the effects of which he died
a few hours later. No reason for the ac-
tion is given. When the son made an ef-
fort to help the father he protested.
—Trapped in a fire that spread from a
pile of brush, William Brooks, seventy-five
years old, was burned to death last Thurs-
day on the farm of his daughter, near
Quarryville, Pa. He was found in the
midst of smouldering brush after neigh-
bors had worked for more than a half hour
fighting the rapidly spreading fire. Two
farms were burned over.
—An innocent prank played upon him
by a schoolmate, who tripped him in the
cloak room of the school four months ago,
has resulted in the death of Charles Erd-
man, aged fifteen years, of Berwick. Erd-
man suffered a severe attack of nosebleed
at the time of the accident, and frequent
recurrences of this trouble gradually sap-
ped his vitality until death ensued.
—Danner Nelson Good, 16 years old, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Good, of Glen Rock,
who said he was kidnapped by three
strange men in an auto, on Sunday, who
headed for the Maryland line, succeeded
in escaping by jumping from the machine
as it was going at a speed of forty miles
an hour. He walked into Hanover and no-
tified the police, who are now on the trail
of the men. :
—Jacob B. Showalter, of Akron, Lancas-
ter county, slaughtered 199 porkers for
108 different persons during the past sea-
son. The total weight of the hogs was
55,671 pounds, average weight 279%
pounds. The heaviest hog was 582 pounds,
owned by George K. Smith. He also
slaughtered a 1780 pound bull for Frank
Rettew. There were doubtless many met-
zel soups given out in that vicinity.
—As a testimonial of its appreciation
for the part played by York, Pa., in the
recent world war, the Italian government
has presented to the city a mountain can-
non which was used by the Italian army
during the world war campaigns. The
presentation was made to Ralph C. Busser,
of York, American consul at Triest, Italy.
All arrangements for the shipment of the
cannon to York have been completed.
' —One hundred and seven years old, yet
as hale and hearty as most persons of 60,
Mrs. Ann Eliza P. Hastings held a birth-
day reception last week at the home of her
daughter, ‘Mrs. Maurice R. Travilla. Mrs.
Hastings met her guests with a smile and
a pleasant word of welcome. Many prom-
inent residents of West Chester and other
places were among her ‘callers and she held
a reception for them all afternoon. There
were many floral gifts.
—With goods all packed ready to be
moved to Mount Union on Monday, the
families. of L. N. Richardson and J. C.
Summers, of Mapleton Depot, were arous-
ed at midnight Sunday night by alarms of
fire. ‘The Huntingdon fire department ar-
rived in time to stop the. flames from
sweeping to adjoining buildings. The be-
longings of the Richardson and Summers
families were almost totally destroyed.
The loss is about.$5000, partly insured. °
— The will of John C. Williams, of Pitts-
burgh, a soldier in the American expedi-
tionary force, was offered for probate in
Allegheny county Tuesday of last week.
The will was written on the eve of Wil-
liams’ departure for France, and said: “I
leave all I have to Fred Villella, of Punx-
sutawney.” Williams died in France,
March 22, 1919, and his estate is valued at
$10,000. Fred Villella is a tailor employed
at Punxsutawney, Jefferson county, a
brother of the dead soldier, who had tak-
en the name of Williams, early in life.
—J. B. Hanlon, registrar of vital statis-
tics at Freeland, Pa., advocates a tax on
men and women over 30 who remain un-
married. The birth rate in his district has
dropped from 600 in 1906, to 420 in 1919, a
decrease of 30 per cent. in thirteen years.
He wants bachelors taxed $1.00 a month,
and declares single women are growing
prone to short hair and shorter skirts,
while they want to start housekeeping
with $200 rugs and $1000 pianos, instead of
beginning married life with a rag carpet,
a few chairs, a bed and a kitchen stove.
— Walter Stringer, nine year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. William Stringer, of Burn-
ham, shot his little niece, Louise Snyder,
three years old, on Friday, while playing
with a 22 calibre rifle. The lad was visit-
ing at the home of his aunt, Mrs. Filson
Snyder, near Allensville, and during the
absence of the aunt went to the attic,
where he took the rifle from the hooks and
was playing with it when it was accident-
ally discharged. The bullet passed
through the shoulder and left lung of his
little playmate, who died at the Blair Me-
morial hospital, at Huntingdon, on Satur-
day.
—Men’s clothing made out of cow's hair
will soon rival the wool taken from the
sheep, declare agents of the packing com-
pany, who have been experimenting with
the product at Pottsville. One of the em-
ployees of the Gensmer tannery is now
wearing a suit made out of this material,
and it is proving of as great utility as
wool. The new cloth resembles cheviot in
appearance, but it is said to have better
wearing qualities. Cows cannot be clip-
ped like sheep, but the hair can be taken
from all cattle killed, which, it is said,
would make clothing for half the men in
America.
—Clinging by his fingerends to iron
framework beneath an idle locomotive that
he was cleaning when it ran away in the
railroad yards at Chester, Monday morn-
ing, Vincent Saponeri, 30 years old, was
carried several hundred feet and escaped
injury. The locomotive was brought to a
sudden stop when it bumped into another
engine. Railroad men who knew Saponeri
was under the locomotive when it started
to move were almost stunned with surprise
when they saw him wriggle out from be-
neath the big machine. The engine was
standing in the locomotive yards of the
Pennsylvania Railroad company, appar-
ently “lifeless,” when it began to move
down the siding. Saponeri was sponging
journals, and realizing his danger grasped
a bar of steel by which he dragged him-
gelf clear of the roadbed. A “leaky throt«
tle” 1s sald to have started the runaway.