INK SLINGS.
he new Congress was elected to
‘the country and it adjourned
making good.
ecent rains have stretched the
out wonderfully, made the corn
‘oats jump, and shot the wheat in-
ead.
William Jennings Bryan is at
cago, merely as a looker on, how-
1 ver. At San Francisco he will ap-
~ pear in a different role, we think.
5 Politics has ruined many a man
within the last half century but it
oa
never made as complete a wreck as it
Has in the case of Herbert Hoover.
—So Senator Penrose really was
too ill to risk going to Chicago. His
bed room is connected up with the
convention hall, however, by private
telephone so that he may be able, to
give a little “absent treatment” and
long distance wire pulling exhibition.
—Two beautiful “buns” rolled into
this office Monday evening and offered
to lead us to the source where it can
be had at ten dollars a quart. But as
both of them were in too mellow a
mood to even .discuss a possible
“touch” for the ten they rolled on
their rolling way and we completed an
eighteen hour day.
—General Pershing wangs to quit
the army in order “to engage in some-
thing more active.” Those two years
in France evidently stirred “J ack” up
to the point where he looks with hor-
ror on the peace time occupation of an
army officer. This thing of steering
a bevy of tea-hounds around Wash-
ington evidently doesn’t appeal to the
man who led two millions of Ameri-
ca’s bravest boys in the biggest scrap
there ever was.
— One gentleman in Bellefonte is
right up to a decision as to whether
he will drive his many little admirers
away or give up the practice of wear-
ing ice cream trousers. It dppears
that the kiddies are so fond of him
that every time he passes they run
from their play and climb all over
him and, unfortunately for the ice-
cream trousers, the play is very often
the delightful but more or less slimy
pastime of making mud pies.
Before Henry Lane Wilson can’
expect the people of this country to
have any respect for him or give cre-
dence to the guff he gave to the Chi-
cago convention about Mexico he
should explain why the late Theodore
Roosevelt didn’t settle the difficulties
south of the Rio Grande when he was
~~ President and why President Taft ob-
Si a “hands off” policy all
igh his administration, The sit-
‘was as alarming then as it is
resident Wilson’s answer to the
Railroad Brotherhoods, as to why leg-
“islation solving the problems that they
have asked the government to settle
for them, has not heen passed, was
right to the point. He laid the blame
at the door of Congress and there is
where it belongs. Had Congress ser-
jously tried to enact remedial legisla-
tion for only a few of the troubles
that have arisen out of the war there
would be much less unrest than there
is. Instead it has done absolutely
nothing but play politics with the
. hope of bettering the chances of the
election of a Republican President
next fall.
If a story that was told in Belle-
fonte on Saturday about the profit
there is in paper manufacturing is
true surely there are a lot of boss lit-
tle profiteers who seem determined to
take the very hides off the country
publishers now handling the news-
print mills in this country. Our in-
formant named a Pittsburgh man,
who is largely interested in paper
mills, who closed a contract in Cleve-
land a few days ago for paper at fif-
teen cents a pound that he later de-
clared he could manufacture at six.
And the contract was large enough to
give him a profit of something over
two million dollars. That’s going
some, isn’t it?
—The Republican national conven-
tion is under way in Chicago but signs
point to an open rupture over a plat-
form plank on the League of Nations.
The irreconcilables declare they will
leave the party if a plank favoring the
League in any form is adopted and
the mild reservationists insist that
some cognizance of it be taken. Thus
far pians for harmony have been in
vain and even the candidates for nom-
ination are receiving secondary con-
sideration. ~The whole gathering
seems to be up in the air, without an
outsanding figure in control and we
would not be surprised if it were to
blow up and split the party wide open,
thus paving the way sure to the elec-
tion of a Democratic President in the
fall.
—The decision of the Supreme
court ruling that the Eighteenth
amendment is constitutional was not
surprising. It was only disappoint-
ing—to some. Now that every shad-
ow of doubt as to its validity has been
cleared away it is the fundamental
law of the land and should be enfore-
ed. The amendment,
ably never be repealed but the Vol-
stead enforcement act might be
changed from time to time, but that
depends on whether the law that now
stands is properly enforced. It has
always been our opinion that the use
of alcoholic drinks is a matter of hab-
it and not of necessity. The sooner
they are put beyond the reach of the
individual the sooner his habit of us-
ing them will be broken and with that
gone the demand for a revision of the
Volstead enforcement act will die a
bornin’,
itself, will prob-
Door
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
OL: 6B
BELLEFONTE. PA., J
UNE 11, 1920.
Potent Reason Plainly Expressed.
One of the reasons for the refusal of
the Senate to ratify the peace treaty
is probably expressed in the report of
a sub committee of the Senate com-
mittee on Foreign Relations which has
been investigating Mexican affairs for
some months. Senator Fall, of New
Mexico, is chairman of the sub com-
mittee and an aggressive jingo. The
report recommends armed interven-
tion in the affairs of that Southern
neighbor in the event that she refuses
or fails to adopt such governmental
policies as this country may suggest.
Such a course would be subversive of
every tradition of our country and in
direct conflict with all our previous
professions of unselfishness in for-
eign relations.
The peace treaty would forbid all
such exploitation in the direction of
conquest. One of its principal purpos-
es is to protect weak nations in their
right to self-determination in govern-
ment. That purpose is expressed in
Article 10 and that fact probably ac-
counts for the bitter opposition to that
feature of the treaty by the Republi-
can Senators who are covetous of our
neighbors’ territory. For several
years evidences of a secret purpose to
invade and conquer Mexico have been
unfolding themselves in the secret
councils of the Republican party, but
have never, heretofore, shown so
plainly. Senator Fall has “let the cat
out of the bag,” and it is up to the
public to act accordingly.
Another influencing reason for op-
position to the peace treaty is in the
aversion of the munition makers and
war profiteers to give up the “good
thing” they have in war. Hundreds
of millionaires were made out of very
crude material during the world war
and a good many have been made
since by profiteering in foods and fab-
rics. The Senators in Congress who
are dependent upon these classes of
men to keep them in public life are
opposed to peace treaties of all kinds
and especially to one which might
take the United States out of the list
of belligerents in the event of war.
The happiness, prosperity and con-
tentment of the people are nothing to
them so long as their “angels” pros-
per.
¢ on
— Any Republican who reads
President Wilson’s reply to the Rail-
road Brotherhood’s complaint of the
failure of Congress to enact necessary
legislation will be convinced that the
peace treaty will be a feature of the
coming Presidential campaign.
Grave Indictment of Congress.
President Wilson’s reply to a tele-
gram from the Railroad Brotherhoods
the other day, protesting against the
adjournment of Congress without ac-
tion on measures affecting the cost of
living is a just rebuke of that parti-
san conspiracy, which for nine months
has been striving, not to prevent, but
to prolong the evil of which the
Brotherhoods complain. At the be-
ginning of the special session in Au-
gust last, the President appealed to
Congress to enact neccessary legisla-
tion of the kind. But nothing has
been done. The time has been frit-
tered away in partisan movements of
one sort or another until the end has
come and all hope for relief has van-
ished.
There are many expedients availa-
ble to treat the subject successfully if
the President had constitutional au-
thority to apply them. Attention to
this fact was called by the President
at the opening of the session and the
nature of the legislation was clearly
defined. But the legislation has not
been enacted and the President had no
power to act without it. He has no
more right to act outside of the law
than an individual has to take the law
into his own hands to redress wrongs,
real or imaginary. In fact he is more
firmly bound to obedience to the law
than the individual because in addition
to his normal obligation he has taken
a solemn oath to “preserve, protect
and defend the constitution.”
The Brotherhoods had asked the
President to prevent the adjournment
of Congress until its work along the
lines of relief was completed. In re-
ply he says: “In the light of the rec-
ord of the present Congress I have no
reason whatever to hope that its con-
tinuance in session would result in
constructive measures for the relief of
the economic conditions to which you
call attention. It must be evident to
all that the dominant motive which
has acutated this Congress is political
expediency rather than lofty purpose
to serve the public welfare.” That is
a grave charge, a serious indictment,
but no man who has closely observ-
ed the operations of the body will dis-
pute it.
JE—
— The earnestness with which
certain Pennsylvania Republicans la-
ment the absence of Senator Penrose
from the national convention would
be tragic if it were not amusing.
——————
— Probably old John Barleycorn
will now admit that he is dead.
Power of the Senate in Treaties.
Article 2, section 2 and paragraph
| 2 of the constitution of the United
States, defining the powers of the
| President, provides that “He shall
| have power, by and with the advice
t and consent of the Senate, to make
| treaties, provided two-thirds of the | States.
' Senators present concur;
' nominate, and by and with the advice
‘ and consent of the Senate, shall ap-
“point Ambassadors, other public min-
isters and consuls, Judges of the Su-
| preme court, and all other officers of
| the United States, whose appoint-
| ments are not herein otherwise pro-
| vided for, and which shall be estab-
lished by law.” The authority of the
| Senate to ratify or reject is precisely
| the same with respect to a treaty as in
relation to an appointment to any of-
fice.
Would Senator Lodge, or any other
| man, outside of an insane asylum,
hold that when the nomination of a
candidate for postmaster of Belle-
fonte or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia is
presented to the Senate for confirma-
tion, it would be legal or in order to
strike out the name of that candidate
and insert that of another? Yet the
Senate has precisely the same right
| to do that as it has to alter or amend
i the provisions of a treaty. The Sen-
ate has an undoubted constitutional
right to reject the nominee of the
President for postmaster or any other
| public office. But it has no right to
| alter or substitute a name for that of
the nominee of the President. It had
the equal right to reject the peace
treaty but not to alter or amend it.
The peace treaty was rejected by
the Senate because certain Republi-
can leaders imagined that such treat-
ment of it would militate to the ad-
vantage of the Republican party in
the impending contest for President.
Industrial paralysis and commercial
stagnation under a Democratic Pres-
ident is the greatest available asset
of the Republican machine and the
most certain means of creating those
conditions was by prolonging the in-
dustrial and commercial uncertainty
incident to a state of war. The high
cost of living is ascribable mainly to
the failure to ratify the peace treaty.
If ratification had followed promptly
the work of restoration would have
been begun immediately and complet-
ed by now and the country would have
been saved all the suffering of the past
year.
|
eee
— Whoever is made chairman of
| the Pennsylvania delegation in the
Chicago convention is unimportant,
now that Penrose is unable to attend,
| but Charlie Donnelly must get that
honor in San Francisco to maintain
the civic standard of the present Dem-
ocratic machine in this State.
“The Power of Money.”
The highly esteemed Philadelphia
Record seems to be considerably per-
turbed concerning “the power of mon-
ey,” as revealed in the escape of
Grover Bergdoll, a millionaire slack-
er, from a military prison on Gover-
nor’s Island, New York. And there
is some reason for its anxiety. Some
time has elapsed since the event and
though responsibility has been fairly
well fixed, no arrests have been made.
“The Department of Justice,” our es-
teemed contemporary complains,
“manned by sworn officers and paid
to enforce the law, does not act, and
every day it fails,” continues The
Record, “adds to the growing impres-
sion that the Bergdoll money is more
powerful than the law.”
This is rather a startling proof of
the sinister use of money but rot the
gravest case on record. The escape
| of Bergdoll is a public scandal which
| reflects upon the efficiency as well as
| the integrity of the Department of
| Justice at Washington. But itis a
| trifling affair compared with the pow-
| er of money as used in politics not on-
|ly in this State but throughout the
| country. An investigation by a com-
| mittee of the Senate now in progress
| shows that upwards of a million dol-
| lars has been spent to promote the
|
|
| islatures of three-fourths
Every requirement of the in- |
and he shall | strument for amendment had been
complied with and that fact left noth- .
!
|
i
|
|
|
|
| ambitions of one man to be a party |
nominee for President, nearly half a
million in the interest of another and
a competence, as estates are measur-
| ed in rural communities, has been ex-
Department of Justice himself.
But the perilous power of money
can be traced to a point closer to the
people of Pennsylvania in the opera-
tions of the friends of Attorney Gen-
eral Palmer in the primary election
campaign in this State. A considera-
ble sum of money was extracted from
the federal officials within the State
and used by expert political “trades-
men” in his behalf, in violation of the
law, and Mr. Joe Guffey spent money
so freely in behalf of Palmer and him-
self that he is afraid or ashamed to
make the statement of his expenses
in the campaign which the law re-
quires. The Bergdoll matter may be
serious and a reflection on the Attor-
ney General, but we submit that this
debauchery of the ballot is an infin-
itely graver matter.
pended in behalf of the head of the |
|
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The Prohibition Amendment.
There never was the slightest rea-
son for questioning the validity of |
the Eighteenth amendment to the
constitution of the United States
after it had been ratified by the Leg-
ing to conjecture. The manner of
achieving the result may be open to
complaint and the effect of the action
subject to differences of opinion. But:
the main point is beyond disbute. The |
constitution is constitutional and an
amendment, so adopted, declaring
black to be white, though absurd,
would be constitutional. It is made
part of the instrument.
The resolution proposing the Eight-
eenth amendment was adopted by a
two-thirds majority by both Houses of
Congress and ratified by the Legisla-
tures of three-fourths of the States.
The Senators and Representatives
who voted affirmatively on the meas-
ure may have been mistaken in their
notion that such an amendment was
“necessary,” or they may have been
insincere in their belief. A considera-
ble number of them may have yielded
to cowardice or been coerced by big-
otry into voting for the amendment.
But that is neither here nor there.
The records show that a sufficient
number voted that way, and that is
the end of it. The ratification by the
Legislatures of two-thirds of the
States completed the work.
That being the case the prohibition
as defined in the Eighteenth amend-
ment will be the law of the land until
the amendment is repealed, which is
not likely to occur ever. The enforce-
ment act is susceptible of repeal or
amendment, however, and therefore
the question is not entirely taken out
of politics. Neither can it be said
that the amendment guarantees pro-
hibition. In the South little or no at-
tention is paid to the Fifteenth
amendment and so long as the appe-
tie for alcoholic beverages continues
and there are men willing to violate
law for gain, indulgence in liquor will
continue. Permission to sell light
es and beer may become the real
method of temperance in the end.
— Various people throughout Cen-
tre county are under the impression
that a good part of the county is un-
der quarantine owing to the potato 1
wart disease last fall and that no po-
tatoes can be planted without a per-
mit. This is a mistake. There are
only two places in Centre county
where a quarantine was laid, out near
Clarence, in Snow Shoe township, and
near Osceola Mills in Rush township.
All other portions of the county are
exempt of quarantine regulations, and
Clarence people can secure a permit
at 0. J. Harm’s store. It is not too
late to plant late potatoes and the
«Watchman’s” advice to everybody is
to plant as many as.possible. Indi-
cations are they will be worth good |
money next fall and winter.
What it Cost to be Nominated.
The Hon. Harry B. Scott was not
elected a delegate to the national Re-
publican convention from this district
but it did not cost him anyways near
as much to stay at home as it cost
both Col. Theodore Davis Boal and
Mellville Gillet to go to Chicago and
mingle among the mob that has been
swarming the Windy city this week
in an endeavor to select 2a man whom
they feel will be satisfactory to their
party and the voters at large. Ac-
cording to the accounts filed in the
prothonotary’s office of Centre county
Mr. Scott spent $302.15; Col. Theo-
dore Davis Boal $1259.96; Melville
Gillett $1625.24, with bills totalling
$467.11 still unpaid.
In the Democratic household it cost
J. L. Spangler only $91.70 to be elect-
ed delegate.
Tor his nomination for Assembly-
man Thomas B. Beaver spent $547.20,
while so far the Hon. Ives Harvey has
filed no account of his expenses. F.
E. Naginey, nominated on the Demo-
cratic ticket, spent less than fifty dol-
lars.
— Senator Knox might have sim-
plified matters by introducing a res-
olution that he be the next President
of the United States. It would have
gotten him about as far as his reso-
lution declaring war with Germany
over.
— If Mitch Palmer's “college
chum” should be nominated for Pres-
ident what would Mitch do to the
Democratic nominee? We offer a
leather medal for the most accurate
answer to that quesbion.
——1f General Wood had been sent
to France instead of Pershing the war
might have ended in a scandal as his
campaign for the Presidency has.
e——— er ——
——The “twenty per cent. off”
movement is gratifying but eighty
per cent. off would put prices nearer
to a just level.
of the
| erings of our
delegation of
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION AT
STATE COLLEGE STAM-
PEDED.
| Mere Mention of the Name of the
Peerless One Started a Frenzy
of Acclaim Among the
Delegates.
Always State College has had a
hobby. Years and years ago it was
“the habit of gathering on the three
corners of the one and a half streets
in the town to await the semi-week-
‘ly visit of old Phaz Aston and stand
| in gaping admiration while he told of
having many a time danced with
Queen Victoria. In later years it saw
some occult power in our old friend
Andy Lytle and made up its mind that
Andy could mascot anything he lamp-
ed. And Andy did, but he built a
skating pond up there also and be-
cause he couldn’t make the spring
water freeze his glory waned.
Now it appears that they have fall-
en for a new idol. Mayor John Laird
Holmes, the boy orator who once made
the walls of the old “polecat misery”
school house fairly tremble with his
thunderous declamation, has evidently
pointed the thought of that enlighten-
ed community toward higher ideals
and it has fallen at the feet of the
big noise of the Platte.
It appears that they have a federa-
tion of men’s organized Bible classes
up there. It is composed of the Bi-
ble classes of all the churches in the
town and once a month they have a
social. From what we can learn they
haven’t developed far enough yet to
take a chance on five dishes of ice
cream and twelve pieces of cake prov-
ing ample to feed the multitude that
gathers at these socials, but be that
as it may, they have good times. :
Last Tuesday night the entertain-
ment feature was a mock Republican
National convention. Programs had
been sent out delegating to each mem-
ber some part in the program. All
the candidates who are aspiring and
perspiring at Chicago today were rep-
resented. All the officers of the con-
vention were named, the men who
were to make the nominating speech-
es tipped off and even to make it
right up to the minute of such gath-
Republican friends, a
dusky contestants Trom
the South was in its place.
Everything went smooth as if Pen-
rose had not been sick in bed until all
the nominees were placed before the
convention. Then arose a young man,
by name John Taylor, who represent-
ed some district over about Shingle-
town Gap, and such a flood of oratory.
It rolled and avalanched in oodling,
unctious verbiage. It swept, in its
forensic fury, from the mucky level
of the “frog pond” to the clear blue
heights of Old Nittany. It sucked
“Frenchy” Foster and Mayor Holmes
into the swirl of its tornadic force and
when they regained composure it was
to find that William Jennings Bryan,
the man who stretched the “three mile
limit” that has surrounded State Col-
lege since the wet spring of ’37 until
it includes everything from Alaska to
Tom Harter’s busted Bellefonte on
fis uttermost point of sand in Flor-
ida.
The convention was in a state of
hypnotic desuetude. A few Lowdens
and Hardings and Lodges ran hither
and thither trying to break the spell
but a ballot was taken before the
beans were gathered up and Bryan
got 22 votes, Sproul 14 and all the
others were among the also rans.
Of course, beng a federation of Bi-
ble classes, the convention did not
break up in a fight but we fancy they
need study the 13th chapter of Corin-
thians a lot before they can take on
enough brotherly love for another so-
cial of the good old kind they had be-
fore this man Taylor tried oratory,
psychology and experimental politics
on them.
— The strike situation and inci-
dent labor troubles are still proving
very annoying to railroad officials in
the western part of the State and
southwestern New York. Much of the
Pennsylvania system and other roads
are handicapped with labor troubles
and manufacturing plants at Pitts-
burgh, Meadville and Buffalo, N. Y,,
are also having trouble. But so far
the Allegheny division of the Penn-
sylvania railroad, running from Pitts-
burgh to Buffalo ,and of which Joseph
J. Rhoads, a native Bellefonter, is su-
perintendent, has been free of labor
trouble, notwithstanding the fact that
forty-five hundred men are employed
on the division. Naturally it is very
gratifying to the superintendent and
his subordinate officials to know that
their men are so loyal and steadfast.
ini
—The Chicago platform has not yet
been adopted but it is a safe bet that
boiled down it will say nothing more
than to charge the Democrats with
more kinds of inefficiency than have
ever been heard of before.
————————————————————
— Watch your hogs. Cholera is
prevalent in Bellefonte and vicinity
and yours may be next to go.
— S———
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
— Prohibition enforcement officers have
heard vague reports that a hearse is being
employed between Hazelton and Weath-
erly in hauling liquor to Weatherly saloom
dealers at night. An investigation is be-
ing made.
__Mrs. Elizabeth Grove, the oldest womt=
an in Bast Donegal township, Lancaster
county, residing on the Eshelman farm, is
95. She is in the best of health, can read
without glasses and says she hopes tor
reach the century mark.
— The Lewistown-Reedsville Water com
pany has filed new tariffs with the Publie
Service Commission entailing increases for
ordinary residence rates, without bath or
toilets, from $13.50 to $18 a year; fierplugs
from $5 to $50 a year, and other rates im
proportion.
A train consisting of thirty-three cars
of crude rubber en route to Akron, Ohio,
passed over the main line of the P. R. R.
on Monday, hauled by two passenger lo-~
comotives, and enjoying first-class passen-
ger privileges. The employees who came
in contact with the train dubbed it the
million dollar special.
Ralph Lilley, aged 25 years, of Lewis-
burg, is alive today after a plunge of 100
feet over an embankment to a railroad
track in his automobile. The car was de-
molished, but Lilley suffered only a few
bruises. He was driving along a road near
Milton, when the steering gear broke, and
the car crashed into a guard rail, held on
a tninute and then went hurtling to the
bottom as the flimsy railing gave way.
__Commencement week at the Blooms-
burg State Normal school opened on Mon-
day with the announcement by Dr. David
J. Waller Jr., of his retirement with the
close of this term as principal of the
school. For twenty-five years its head, he
has played a big part in its success. He
also preceded the late Dr. N. C. Schaeffer as
State Superintendent of Public Instruction,
and was for some years principal of the
Indiana, Pa., State Normal school.
—Joseph MacNamee, of Berwick, one
night last week dreamed he had been
caught in a bees hive and that the bees
were swarming around him. He jumped
from bed and out of the second story win-
dow to a porch roof and tobogganed to
the ground. The jar did not fully awaken
him and his screams of ‘They're after
me” aroused the neighborhood. Harold
Eshleman and others went to his aid to
find him with a wrenched knee and bruis-
es.
__An action in trespass has been insti-
tuted in the Cambria county court at Eb-
ensburg by Jessie Palmer, of Emeigh,
Cambria county, against the Penn Central
Light & Power company to recover the
sum of $25,000 damages for the death of
her husband, the late Andrew Palmer,
proprietor of the Emeigh hotel. It is al-
leged that Mr. Palmer caught hold of a
high tension wire, which was installed in
‘a careless manner by the defendant com-
pany in the garage in the basement of the
hotel and was electrocuted.
—Dragged 400 yards through a plowed
field near Northumberland on Tuesday,
Joseph Bateman, aged 40 years, was in-
stantly killed. No one saw the accident,
but he evidently fell off the seat of a cul-
tivator he was driving and his trousers
caught firmly in the back of the machine.
Face downward he was dragged in the -
soft earth by the horses, and probably
was suffocated. He had left home at 7:30
and a half an hour later when it was no-
‘ticed that his team stood idle in the field,
his employer, G. W. Miller, found the body.
__Matt Herzig, of St. Mary’s, Elk coun-
ty, was awarded the prize of $250 offered
by Colonel William Kaul for the greatest
number of vermin killed in the county dur-
ing October, 1919, and May, 1920. The con-
test was determined on points, each ver-
min counting a stated number of points.
Herzig killed four wildcats, two foxes,
three mink, thirteen weasels, making a to-
tal of 51 points. It developed that the con-
test was won by one point, as E. J. Shriv-
er, of Johnsonburg, had 50 points, as fol-
lows: Five wildecats, one fox, three mink,
twelve weasels.
—In the interest of public economy, the
Blair county commissioners recently had
the court house renovated and repainted
by a working force of jail prisoners. The
Commissioners received a rude jolt last
week when restaurant proprietors present=
ed bills for $1186.05 for feeding the prison-
ers and $75.30 for cigarettes while the work
was in progress. The jail warden also
claims his regular compensation on the
ground that he was keeping the jail open
for the lodging and feeding of the prison-
ers while they were being entertained at
the restaurants.
— Jake stock brokers have sold more
than $90,000 worth of stocks in Pottsville
and vicinity, the transactions occurring
during the last three weeks. Warned by a
recent exposure, the men at the head of the
selling agencies made their escape, taking
with them automobiles, Liberty bonds and
other property in exchange for stocks. In
the majority of cases, however, the swind-
lers got cash, and their hurry to cash
checks thus secured was among the cir-
cumstances which led to the discovery of
the extent’ of the swindle. Many gave up
their Liberty bonds for stocks alleged to
be drawing 20 per cent. interest, notwith-
standing warnings only recently issued
as to the danger of such transactions.
A fortune of $1,250,000 is said to be
awaiting Thomas Neville, of Connellsville,
at one time foreman of a work train on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad; Mrs. Ma-
ry Connelly, of Duquesne, and Mrs. Isabel
la Dougherty, of McKeesport. The infor-
mation comes through a barrister from
London; who went to Connellsville to lo-
cate the heirs to the money, which is in-
herited through their mother, and which
has been accumulating since 1902. The
codicil in the will directed that, in case
the heirs could not be located, the money
to be used for the erection of a home in
Pennsylvania for fallen women. The bar-
rister visited the Neville home in Connells-
ville Saturday and all necessary papers
were signed by Mr. Neville and Mrs. Con-
nelly.
— United States army general hospital,
at Carlisle, which was formerly the Car-
lisle Indian school, will be closed as a
hospital, according to orders issued from
the War Department, on June 30th, and
reopened as a medical school for the Unit-
ed States army. It is understood that the
army medical department has decided to
give adequate training to the army in hy-
giene and that the institutional plant
which is capable of being made one of the
best educational institutions in the coun-
try, will be given over to training Ameri-
ca’s soldiers along medical lines. Colonel
Frank R. Keefer, whose administration of
the army general hospital has produced
such good results for the army convales-
cents, may be selected to take charge of
the new medical school.