-v
‘con, a bushel of potatoes or a sack of
Benoa atc
INK SLINGS.
— The Hon. Ives Harvey's “battle
song for next Tuesday will be “The
Camels are Coming.”
— Don’t fail to attend the primaries
next Tuesday and vote your choice for
all offices to be filled.
— Next Tuesday our Republican
friends will have to decide whether it
will be the Hon. Ives Harvey or Tom
Beaver that Naginey will have to “lay
out” in November.
—The Republicans of Centre coun-
ty will surely vote to sent Major The-
odore Davis Boal to Chicago as one of
their National delegates. His service
to the country has brought lustre to
“old Centre” and it would seem that
recognition could be given in no more
graceful way.
— Few Republicans in Centre coun-
ty know or ever heard of Augustus H.
Gaffney. They all know personally,
or have heard of the splendid char-
acteristics of Major Theodore Davis
Boal and surely they are not going to
vote to send Gaffney, whom they don’t
know, to Chicago as their National
delegate when Major Boal, whom they
do know, aspires to represent them
there.
— The Republican machine is bend-
ing every effort to nominate Sylves-
ter Sadler for Supreme court justice.
There is a reason! If there were no
other reason than that everybody op-
posed to machine domination of our
courts should vote to place Judge
Kunkel on the Supreme court bench.
He is a Republican, too, but the ma-
chine is against him because he was
the judge who gave the state capitol
plunderers the just punishment they
deserved.
— The. Hon. Harry B. Scott and
Theodore Davis Boal would be
a good ticket for Centre county
Republicans to vote, but a lot
of Harvey's friends wont vote
the Scott end of it because they blame
the Hon. Harry for bringing Tom
Beaver out to put a crimp in their pet
little blue-ribboner. Just <what Pro-
hibition has to do with the fight we
can’t see for William Jennings Bryan,
the man who has done more for that
cause than any other living soul, says:
«Tt is a settled question.”
Market reports this week have
shown a very decided fall in the price
of raw silk. In fact it dropped from
$18 to $10.40 a pound, and we are
anxiously watching the front pages
of the metropolitan papers to see of
Attorney General Mitch Palmer will
claim credit for this reduction in the
high cost of living. But we can’t eat
silk, even if it is raw, so that this fall
in price does not interest us nearly as
much as if the props were knocked
from under the cost of a slab of ba-
flour.
— In his advertisements soliciting
support of his candidacy for: district
delegate to the Republican National
convention Mellville Gillett, of Smeth-
port, promises to vote for Governor
Sproul first and General Wood as sec-
ond choice for President. Now, as it
happens, Mr. Gillett promises on the
ballot, that will be handed Republi-
cans next Tuesday, that he will vote
for the man whom the majority of the
voters of the district express a pref-
erence for. What's worrying us now
is what is Mr. Gillett going to do if
the voters express a preference for
some one other than either Sproul or
Wood.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania
have an opportunity to name the next
Justice of the Supreme court. If we
all vote for Judge Kunkel at the pri-
mary next Tuesday, our votes combin-
ed with those that he will receive from
Republican admirers, will give him
fifty-one per cent. of the total vote
polled and thus make him the nomi-
nee without opposition. While both
of the aspirants for this office are Re-
publicans we Democrats should con-
centrate on Judge Kunkel if for no
other reason than that the Republican
machine is concentrated against it.
It is almost always the wise thing,
for the good of Pennsylvania, to be
against anything the Republican ma-
chine is for.
__ Democrats! Remember that when
you go to the primaries next Tuesday
you do not have to’ vote for any name
that happens to be printed on the bal-
lot that will be given you. If you
wish to register a protest against the
organization that is in control of our
party in the State and do not care to
vote for the opposition ticket headed
by Judge Eugene Bonniwell you can
write in other names in the blank
spaces provided for that purpose or
refrain from voting at all. Either
way you would be recording a protest
and the “Watchman” believes that if
the Democratic party is to survive in
Pennsylvania as a militant one some
action to revive it must be taken
mighty soon.
—If you happened to receive one of
those letters that W. Harrison Walker
has sent out to friends over the coun-
ty advising them to vote for Sadler for
Supreme court justice, look at it this
way: Mr. Walker doubtless has very
personal reasons for advocating the
selection of the man for this high of-
fice whom the Republican machine in
the State wants to put over on it. 1
am a friend of Mr. Walker and if he
were a candidate I would be for him.
But I am a friend of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania and the Dem-
ocratic party also and I can’t see why
I should vote to help the Republican
state machine put a man on the Su-
preme court bench merely because my
friend Walker happened to go to
anal,
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The salaries of forty-three forest
rangers in the State have been increased
several hundred dollars a year by Gifford
Pinchot, commissioner of forestry.
—Ice fifteen inches thick, was clinging
to the banks of Pine creek, above Anso-
nia, Tioga county, Pa., on May 1st, accord-
ing to Paul H. Mulford, the forester in
charge of the Stone and Chatham state
forests in that county. i
—Lee Davis, of Millville, and J. H. Pack-
er, of Berwick, jurymen serving at the Co-
y&
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lumbia county common pleas court, were
VOL. 65.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE PA. MAY 14, 1920.
each fined $30 by President Judge Har-
man for failure to answer to their names
when called for duty last week. s
—Seven men were instantly killed as a
NO. 20.
The very important office of Justice
of the Supreme court of Pennsylva-
nia for a term of twenty-one years |
will be filled at the primary election
next Tuesday. There are but two can-
didates in the field and the one who
receives a majority of the votes will
be the only one on the ballot in No-
vember. The candidates are Judge
George Kunkel, of Dauphin county,
and Sylvester B. Sadler, of Cumber-
land county. Both are Republicans
but Sadler is the candidate of the Re-
publican machine and Kunkel is the
candidate of the people. Sadler is a
favorite of the corporations and Kun-
kel ought to be in popular favor. Sad-
ler has had four years experience on
the bench and Kunkel has served six-
teen years in the most important
court.
At the primary election on Tuesday
all so-called party officers will be
chosen. This list embraces the mem-
ber of the National committee, mem-
bers of the State committee, members
of the county committees and all par-
ty offices from top to bottom. On one
hand the organization that has reduc-
ed the party to the proportions of a
shadow, now under the immediate
control and direction of Charlie Don-
nelly and Billy Brennen, have a slate
headed by Joseph Guffey, of Pitts-
burgh, as the candidate for the Na-
tional committee and the element
which has been laboring assiduously
to rebuild the party and restore it to
respectability presents Judge Bonni-
well for the National committee. The
issues between them will be decided
at the primary election on Tuesday. |
For these reasons the primary
election in Pennsylvania, this year, is
of paramount importance. The dele-
gates to the National convention, the
men who will choose the candidate of
the party for President will be final-
ly determined at this primary which
gives it addition] significance and we |
hope a full party vote will be polled.
With at least eighty per cent. of the
Democratic voters opposed to Mitch-
ell Palmer as a candidate for Presi-
dent it would be a burning shame to!
send a delegation to the San Francisco
convention that he could trade and
traffic with amy candidate who might
‘be willing to“deal, for future favors.
Go to the polls on Tuesday and regis-
ter a protest against such commercial-
ism. : 1
Postmasters in some parts of
this State are asking voters to sup-
port Palmer delegates to the Nation-
al convention in order to promote the |
nomination of McAdoo. This sort of i
false pretense ought to get some body
into the police courts. :
Write in the Name of Your Favorite. i
The suggestion of the anti-Palmer |
State organization that the name of |
William G. McAdoo be written into |
the primary ballot next Tuesday is
both wise and timely. The friends of .
Mr. Palmer had his name printed on
the ballot in the expectation that no
other candidate would be voted for
and he would thus be made to appear
as the unanimous choice of the Demo- !
crats of the State for President. |
None of the other men talked of for |
the nomination would permit his name
to be used and under the law personal
assent is necessary. But any elector i
the ballot and ‘election boards are |
obliged to make record and return of
We hope every Democrat in Centre
day and write the name of the man he
lot.
Adoo, for the reason that he is best
the office and because he is the most
available. His great service to the
country as Secretary of the Treasury
from March, 1913, until after the
armistice was declared will serve as
a monument of his ability and patriot-
management of the railroads during
the crucial period of the war are
equally potential arguments in his fa-
vor. But there are other fit men and
each voter has an absolute right to
his choice.
The printing of Mr. Palmer’s naine
on the ballot under existing circum-
stances was probably the thought of
Charles P. Donnelly, of Philadelphia,
or William J. Brennen, of Pittsburgh,
both adepts in political chicane and
party trickery. A few years ago
these party recréants were roundly
condemned by Vance McCormick - and
Mitchell Palmer but now they are
trusted leaders and confidential advis-
ers in a campaign of hypocrisy ‘and
deceit. Writing the name of William
G. McAdoo or any other name in the
primary ballot on Tuesday will be a
fitting rebuke to these conspirators
and every fair minded Democrat in
the State should take it upon himself
to do his share in the matter.
— Washington drinkers are draw-
ing their supplies from Pennsylvania,
school awhile with his brother.
according to newspaper statements.
| vention.
all votes cast. | date, in his mind at least, for the nom-
|ination for President and while he
county will go to the polls next Tues-
' he is an expert in the art of “roping”
prefers for the nomination in his bal- | delegates.
Our own preference is Mr. Mc- | gar at
| the Louisiana sugar planters, he won
equipped mentally and physically for
ism for all time and his masterful |
Importance of the Primary Election. Duty of the Democratic Convention.
There can hardly be two opinions
concerning the duty of the next Dem-
ocratic National convention with re-
spect to the Versailles peace treaty.
It was adopted in good faith by a
Congress made up of the ablest states-
men of the civilized world and based
upon suggestions made by the Presi-
dent of the United States which had
been formally approved by Congress.
It clearly expresses the purpose for
which this country engaged in the
world war and sanctifies the sacrifices
of iife and treasure made in pursuance
of that exalted purpose. It has been
promptly and cordially ratified by all
our associates in that war and failed
of ratification
purely partisan reasons.
In reply to an inquiry on the sub-
ject President Wilson said the other
day the war was fought “not for the
advantage of any single nation or
group of nations, but for the salva-
tion of all.” That was the thought
that influenced four millions of our
bravest and best men to bear their
breasts to the bullets of the enemy
and one hundred thousand to lay down
their lives on the line of battle. The
fulfillment of that great purpose can
only be achieved by such a League of
Nations as the Versailles treaty pro-
posed to create. But because Senator
Knox believes it is too severe on Ger-
many and Senator Lodge imagines he
has an enmity against President Wil-
son, the treaty has not been ratified.
The San Francisco convention can
do nothing ‘else than publicly declare
that this failure was a crime against
civilization. In was an encourage-
ment to Germany to renew the atro-
cious attempt to conquer the world
I and force universal obedience to the
mandates of an autocracy buttressed
with bayonets. It was an invitation
to Turkey to renew her murderous
outrages in Armenia and a proclama-
tion to the Soviet butchers of Russia
to continue the slaughter of the help-
less. It is our duty to condemn that
partisan rancour which would sacri-
fice honor and every humanitarian im-
pulse to political advantage. Of
course the Democratic National con-
vention will do this. Anything else
would be recreancy. - = Tae
rey
— And to think that such a little
thing as a German sympathizer could
take all the wind out of ‘the Sproul
Presidential sails. But Penrose, like
Joey Bagstock, is “sly, devilish sly.”
Price Ratios and Policies.
The American Cotton Association
at a session held in Montgomery, Al-
abama, recently, decided to advance
the price of cotton from forty-five to
sixty cents a pound because “the
present price is out of ratio to the
manufactured product.” Some months
ago when refined sugar was selling
everywhere at eleven cents a pound,
an order was issued fixing the price
of the raw produce at about that rate
forcing dealers in the refined goods
_ to increase the price in order to pre-
serve the ratio. Thus prices go kit-
ing toward the clouds because of the
ratio and the public suffers on account
of the profiteers who fix the ratio in
their own minds.
The Southern States have a prac-
tical monopoly in the production of
both sugar and cotton and are almost
may write the name of any man into | equally potential in controlling dele-
gates in the Democratic National con-
Mitchell Palmer is a candi-
doesn’t know a great deal about law
In fixing the price of su-
a level hardly dreamed of by
| the warm friendship of the thrifty
| sons of toil who run the banks in New
Alabama free rein in establishing ra-
| tios, he has probably made himself
| solid in those sections.
But the people of the North who
+ also have a voice in the selection of
' candidates got none of the advantages
' of Mr. Palmer’s benevolence toward
th South. The Attorney General
may have reasoned that Northern con-
| stituencies are not likely to favor his
' nomination and therefore may go
| hang or naked or hungry because the
“influence of Northern delegates in the
| convention is vastly out of ratio with
| those of the South. The votes to elect
| must come largely from the Southern
! States and in making nominations
| that fact is certainly and maybe just-
‘ly considered. But a nomination ob-
| tained by such methods is not likely
| to be of great value, for the solid
| South can’t elect alone. 4
— If the price of negro delegates
to the Republican National convention
has increased in the ratio that pota-
toes have advanced even General
Wood’s bar’l may run short.
— Write your Presidential prefer-
ence into your primary ballot. You
will not find it printed there unless
you are an office holder.
Penrose Ditches Sproul’s Hopes.
If Senator Penrose expected to cre-
ate a loud noise and tumultuous ex-
_ citement by pitching Senator Knox's
'hat’into the Presidential ring, he has
harvested a large and worthless crop
of disappointment. But he has cer-
tainly accomplished another result
which may have been his main pur-
pose. He has shot a hole as big dsa
barn door into the Presidential pros-
pects of Governor William C. Sproul.
Even the employees on Capitol Hill,
according to the Harrisburg corres-
pondents of the Philadelphia papers,
have been thrown into a state of con-
‘fused uncertainty as to their allegi-
"ance. They don’t know which way to
in this country for
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look and hardly dare to speak at all.
There is an old adage that “when
the cat’s .away the mice will play,”
and it has been completely exempli-
fied in the recent movements of the
Republican political machine in Penn-
sylvania.
and very sick at that, Governor
Sproul undertook to take liberties
with the machinery and the machin-
ists. He took Gifford Pinchot into
his official family and laid lines to
form a combination with General
Leonard Wood, for future offensive
and defensive political operations.
Naturally Penrose resented the im-
plied unfriendliness of his former
party ward but was too weak physic-
ally to make protest. Now that he
has sufficiently recovered to make a
noise he adopted that mild expedient
of protesting against Sproul.
Of course the suggestion of Knox
failed to strike a responsive chord | support of delegates. Take, for ex-
and Penrose knew it would fail, for |ample, his statement in his controver-
whatever else may be said of tHe sy with Herbert Hoover,
senior Senator nobody accuses him ' position has been to Mr.
of stupidity. Knox's openly declared
sympathy with Germany has put him
far outside of the pale of possibility
as a Presidential candidate and his
absurd proposition to make peace by
resolution is suggestive of hopeless
mental infirmity. But the apparent-
ly languorous mention of his name in
that connection not only irreparably
|
‘General Wood nine of the State’s 48
Michigan,
While Penrose was sick, . g
has made the market price of dele-
' could afford to pay $72,222 for a sin-
‘ gle delegate to Chicago?
punctured the Sproul boom but it
completely demolished the scheme to
make General Wood the second. choice
of Pennsylvania for the empty honor
|'of a Presidential nomination.
— The cutting down of the big
shade trees at the Aiken’s corner on
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Bishop street on account of the build- |
ing of the state highway on that thor-
oughfare, has occasioned considerable
comment. The matter was brought
before borough council at a regular | fornia’s election precincts show that
meeting last week and as the easiest
way out of a peculiar situatien coun-
cil threw the burden of a decision in amounted to more than 544,000. This
| will be increased by many thousands
the matter by referring the question
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to the Street committee, borough man- |
ager and the tree commission.
ious conferences were held in which
the members of the commission pro-
tested vehemently against the remov- |
al of the trees, but notwithstanding
their united efforts to save them the
trees were cut down and removed.
There are cases on record where
property owners have recovered heavy
damages for the arbritary removal of
shade trees that had been planted and
nurtured in front of their properties,
but whether any action will be taken
in this case remains to be seen.
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——William P. Shope, who has been
local editor on the Centre Democrat | yqopted the intention was to transfer
the past eighteen months, has resign- party government from the bosses to
ed his position there and this week
went to work as local editor of the
Bellefonte Republican. He has been
succeeded on the Centre Democrat by
John Bower, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
J. Bower, who is now undergoing his
initial training as a news gatherer.
May he meet with success in the work
{ he has undertaken to do.
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‘Orleans and by giving the cotton have interfered with the work of
planters of Georgia, Arkansas and | some of the farmers who have been
delayed in getting their oats in, it
was just what was needed for the oats
now in the ground as well as the gar- |
dens, as the ground had become pret-
ty well dried out. It will also help
some toward putting the corn ground
in better shape.
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——One thing may be set down as
certain. The Republican National
convention will not “point with pride”
to the achievement of the present
Congress.
— There is nothing more import-
ant to the citizens than good govern-
ment and the way to secure itis by
voting for the right men at the pri-
maries.
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— The great profits of the woolen
manufacturers have not turned them
from the habit of asking for a tariff
tax on wool.
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— Most of the oats having been in
the ground the showers during the
early part of this week were most
timely.
— The overall craze didn’t last
long or go far, It's absurdity was too
palpable to fool any reasoning mind.
tury! No wonder, in view of the rec- |";
ordg Wood and Johnson ‘axe maldng: we
| that level-headed Republicans are:
| voted for Johnson or Hoover, and that
result of an explosion which occurred in
the gelatine mix house of the Aetna Explo-
sives company, at Emporium at three
o'clock Saturday afternoon. The exact
cause of the accident is not known as all
the workmen in the interior and vicinity
of the gelatine plant were victims.
—Sterling G. McNees, of Kittanning, an
attorney, has been named by Dr. Thomas
E. Finegan, State Superintendent of Pub-
lic Instruction, as assistant to the superin-
tendent in charge of legal matters. Charles
W. Hunt, of Lock Haven, has been ap-
pointed assistant director of the bureau
of school administration. He is an expert
in school accounting. ‘
—Three women want the job of chief of
police at New Eagle, Washington county,
which has gone begging since the resigna-
tion of the former chief, several months
ago. One candidate is Mrs. Eliza Lee, 48
vears of age,” a widow and the mother of
eight children. The others are “out-of-
towners,” one from Charleroi and the oth-
er from Cannonsburg.
—When a daughter of Joseph Love, of
New Castle, looked into their store Satur-
day night, she saw two men rifling the
cash register and a third standing over
her father with a knife. She seized a
broom and attacked the thieves so vigor-
ously that they fled. The robbers got a
few dollars from the cash register. Her
father was not injured.
— City Solicitor Wellington M. Bertolet,
of Reading, who was re-elected last week
for a four-year term at a salary of $3000,
declined to accept a yearly pay increase
of $600. Bertolet is the only Reading or
Berks county official to take such’ action
this year, which was marked by numer-
ous payroll increases at city hall and court
house, and his notice to the city council-
men created a stir. :
~The Central ® Pennsylvania Lumber
company has commenced the work of ex-
tending into the woods near Leetonia the
last line of railroad to reach the only re-
maining bit of matured timber yet stand-
ing in Elk township. There is about 5,-
000,000 feet to fell. This is to be peeled,
yielding approximately 25,000 cords of
bark. It is estimated that it will require
about a year to saw and market the tim-
ber. !
: —Harry B. Chapin, of Benton, and La-
' Rue Hess, of Waller, were last week ap-
pointed to guard the bonded warehouse of
the Rohr McHenry Distilling company, of
Benton, where more than $100,000 worth of
si T ten-year-old whiskey is stored. They will
£ Boodle and demagol sm] How per e receive $125 monthly from the government,
Re blen Perly of the last Yalf con according to their own statements, and
Boodle and Demagogism.
From the Philadelphia Record. :
According to that very orthodox Re-
publican authority, The New York
Sun, Senator Borah has secured infor-
mation that “Major General Wood's
campaign for delegates in Ohio cost
something like $650,000, as compared
with approximately $90,000 spent by
the supporters of Senator arding
(Ohio). This expenditure gave Major
delegates,” which would make their
average cost $72,222. This seems
high even for the Wood bar’l, but it
appears to be kept well filled, for we
have the authority of The Sun for say-
ing that “one single check passed in
the Ohio campaign for Wood amount-
ed to $200,000, payable to one individ-
ual. There is a record of other large
payments, it is said.”
This is not an altogether new plan
for securing a Republican Presidential
nomination, for it will be recalled that
the late General Russell Alger, of
McKinley’s Secretary of
War, who also cherished Presidential
aspirations, made rather a specialty
of buying up delegates to national
conventions. It has been supposed,
however, that in the present sanctified
state of the G. O. P. such raw methods
had been abandoned, and it is, there-
fore, saddening to the ordinary person
to learn that the high cost of living
gates so altitudinous. Who but a
simple old soldier like General Wood
It is a relief, therefore, to turn from
such crude tactics to the more refined
methods of Senator Johnson. “Hi”
says he has no well-filled pail, but he
has his own way of asking for the
that “my op-
Hoover's
English league, which did neither of
these things.” This use of the word
“English,” in speaking of the League
of Nations, is a direct appeal to the
prejudices of all pro-Germans, Sinn
Feiners and others who cherish a
grievance against the British govern-
ment. It is an effort to arouse racial
antipathies in order to help “Hi” to
reach the White House. :
it is said.
—Placing a value on physical suffering
she alleges she underwent as the result of
a beating from her husband, Mrs. John
Paska, a resident of Mount Carmel, has
brought a $10,000 civil suit to recover that
amount from her spouse. She also seeks
an absolute divorce, and has brought a
separate action for $5830 she says she loan-
ed her husband, who is a merchant there.
The couple were married in 1902, accord-
ing to the statement filed in the Northum-
berland county court.
—Despite his more than seventy years,
John Devardo, of Eddystone, surprised a
pickpocket who tried to steal his wallet,
containing $100 last Friday. Devardo felt
the man’s hand in his hip pocket, and
landed a blow on his jaw, the thief falling
with the wallet clutched in his hand.
Standing over the prostrate pickpocket,
Devardo compelled him to lie still until a
policeman came along and locked him up.
The man gave his name and address as
Harry Green, Tenth and Green streets,
Philadelphia. -
talking of shelving both in order to
securz a candidate who will stand for
common decency in politics.
Democrats Nominating Republicans.
From the New York World.
Returns from six-sevenths of Cali-
the combined vote for Johnson and
Hoover at the Republican primaries
on the full count. In 1916 the total
vote for Hughes was 462,516, and in
1918 the Republican vote for Governor
was 387,547. Women have voted in
California since 1912.
These figures are explained by the
law which allows a voter, irrespective
of past party affiliations, to partici-
pate in any primary that he might se-
lect. In this instance the Republican
contest was spirited, whereas on the
Democratic side it was purely formal.
It is evident, therefore, that tens of
thousands of Democrats must have | __wrea Schenck, of Clearfield, in compa-
ny with a number of other Clearfield citi-
zens, has spent a lot of money during the
last few months trying to locate a lower
vein of bituminous coal on the Levy farm
near that place. The search was not suc-
cessful and was given up. Now Schenck
is building a new home at Clearfield, and
in excavating for the cellar came upon an
outcropping of coal. The vein was dug to
its depth and was found to be four feet
thick, one of the highest remaining veins
and of a very fine quality.
the result, while impressive enough
as an expression of public opinion, is
not necessarily indicative of Republi-
can sentiment.
When the primary system was
the pzople, members of each party be-
ing supposed to confine themselves to
their own political household. In the
way it has worked out in most places
under laws loosely or crookedly drawn
there is nothing to prevent one party
from picking the candidates of anoth-
er. That will bring about a bigger re-
volt some day than bossism ever did.
—Their suspicions excited upon noting
that a woman, previously of normal phys-
ical build, had suddenly acquired a hump-
ed back, City Detectives John Morgan and
Louis Heff, of Pittsburgh, on Saturday
evening arrested Mrs. Mary Kolinsky,
aged forty four years, of Braddock, and
took her to the detective bureau. There
an examination disclosed that the defor-
mity had been produced by stuffing loot
from a downtown department store under
the upper part of her waist. There was
$120 worth of merchandise in Mrs. Kolin-
sky’s hump.
May Day and Mr. Palmer.
From the Baltimore Sun.
May day returns from all parts of
the country are now in, with the result
that it proves to have been one of the
quietest in recent history. There
were no assassinations, no bomb-
throwings, practically no strikes.
In the face of the event, what pos-
sible excuse can be offered for the
__One of the greatest gifts ever planned
by a graduating class at Penn State, to be
sensational announcement made by | left as a monument to their organization,
Attorney General Palmer on April | will be made by the class of 1920 in the
29? iL . Whether due to form of a $100,000 memorial endowment
fund. About June lst each of the 300
original members of the class now in col-
lege will be written for an iadividual life
insurance policy on the twenty-year en-
dowment plan. Minimum policies will be
taken for $300 and it is expected that many
will take more than that amount. The
Pennsylvania State College will be made
the beneficiary in each case.
nerves or politics or what not, this ex-
hibition on the part of a high public
official was inexcusable. If President
Wilson as a result of it were to de-
mand the resignation of Mr. Palmer
from the Cabinet, who could say that
he was acting unjustly ?
Senator Knox’s Lack of Humor.
From the Springfield Republican.
A Senator who favored the peace
treaty with the reservations could
criticise the President for “obstruct-
ing peace” with more effect than Sen-
ator Knox can. Putting him forward
to make an attack of that character
was a curious performance. He was
one of the dozen Republican Senators
who voted against the treaty even
with the reservations attached. Mr.
Knox has not humor enough, appar-
ently, to enable him to see imself as
an obstacle of peace.
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—Tweo Shenandoah boys, William Gre-
blick and Thomas Cooney, are in durance
vile in that city, awaiting a hearing on
the charge of the larceny of $2000, prefer-
red by Peter Alex, a butcher. It is charg-
ed that Greblick, who makes his home
with Afex, stole the money on last Friday
from a drawer in the house and he and
Cooney went to Philadelphia. Chief Feist
telegraphed the Police Department of that
city and on Saturday they were arrested
after they had bought two suits of
clothes, shoes, gold watches, rings and
other articles to the amount of almost
$800. They also mailed souvenir cards
from Philadelphia to friends in town,
which ‘led to their undoing.