5 PERS
INK SLINGS.
. ——Hoover! Hoo, hoo, hi, hi, ho,
he. But it is to lament rather than to
laugh.
— Taking an optimistic view of it
there is some hope that William Jen-
nings Bryan will not last forever.
—A lot of cut-outs that were al-
ways open have been keeping closed
tight since the constabs came to town.
—Now the question arises: Who
was to have received the three barrels
of whiskey? These are times when
wise men don’t always claim their
own.
_We are still hoping that the San
Francisco convention will talk plain,
unequivocal English on all the great
issues to be considered in the platform
it will build.
— According to telegraphic informa-
tion from San Francisco the adminis-
tration forces are making strenuous
efforts to knock Mr. Bryan “into a
cocked hat” for sure this time.
— Unlike the late Andrew Carnegie
it isn’t the fear of dying rich that
kept Mr. McAdoo from accepting a
nomination for President. His con-
cern is lest he should die poor.
—The “jinx” is after Harding al-
ready. The same fellow who sent him
a good-luck horseshoe, in 1916, when
he was trying to get the Presidential
nomination, has sent him another..
— The Senate is an ornamental
body and may make itself useful at
intervals. But it never was really
necessary and if it cavorts too much
it may be dispensed with altogether.
—The ovation given the mention of
President Wilson’s name at San Fran-
cisco was spontaneous and sincere. It
was its genuineness, not its length,
that made it what it should have been.
_ —Centre will have the distinetica
of being the pioneer of the counties of
the Commonwealth in organizing for
conservation if the movement begun
at Boalsburg last Saturday gathers
the impetus it should.
__All the names presented to the
San Francisco convention sound good
to us, with the exception of one. The
delegates there can make only one
serious blunder in nomination, but
that is scarcely probable.
Next week all the people woh
contribute to the making of the best
country weekly paper published are
going to have a rest and those who
read the best weekly paper published
are going to have a rest also.
— The exigencies of politics bring
strange things to pass. Now who
would have ever. thought that Vance
McCormick would go on the resolu-
_tions committee at the Sa Francisco
rention with the expressed inten-
tion of fighting any effort William J.
Bryan might make to put a “dry”
plank in our platform?
—Only twenty-six days are left on
which you can legally fish for trout,
during this year. My, how time flies.
The next big event will be the Grang-
er's picnic at Centre Hall, then
Thanksgiving and Christmas. That
— d old job of trying to keep
warm without burning too much four-
teen dollar coal comes more and more
into mind as tempus fugits.
— Bellefonte never was as dry as it
was on Tuesday, yet there were three
barrels of good red likker reposing
within the shadow of the court house
most of the day. Old John Barley-
corn tried to sneak into town under a
few bags of Bermuda onions but: a
state cop smelled him out and truck,
drivers, whiskey, onions and all were
turned over to sheriff Dukeman.
How’d you like to be the sheriff ?
— Poor Judge Bonniwell journeyed
all the way to San Francisco and then
was refused a seat with the Pennsyl-
vania delegation because it had voted
not to recognize proxies. While the
Judge is more or less of a trouble
maker and his own chickens are only
coming home to roost we think that
the action of the leaders of the State
organization have needlessly piled up
more trouble for themselves and for
the party as well. Bonniwell helped
give them the places of power they
have because he thought the old
leaders were not fair enough. He is
beginning to find out that the old fel-
lows were mere pikers in “steam rol-
ler” management of the party’s af-
fairs.
—It is almost universally agreed
that the Eighteenth amendment
should not be repealed. It would be
next to impossible to repeal it, even
should there bea movement of any
proportion in that direction. There is,
however, considerable division of
opinion as to its manner of enforce-
ment. The Volstead law is a creation
of Congress, while the Amendment
it enforces is the action of three-
fourths of the sovereign States in the
Union. Under such circumstances we
have often wondered what relevancy,
more than a mere expression of opin-
ion, a “wet” or “dry” plank would
have in either party platform. If the
Volstead act is to be revised Congress
is the only agency through which it
can be done and as Congressional can-
didates run mostly on District issues
it seem so us the whole question could
very properly be taken out of nation-
al politics and threshed out where it
belongs—in the District Congression-
al elections. We do think, however,
that the convention at San Francisco
might well have gone on record as op-
posing all attempts at centralization
of government and abridgment of the
rights of the States as is particularly
reflected in the principle of the
Eighteenth amendment, for that is
fundamentally undemocratic.
‘have been disappointing. The radiant
Fo... 65.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA. JULY 2, 1920.
NO. 27.
Cummings’ Keynote Speech.
The Democrats of the country ex-
pected a good deal in chairman Ho-
mer Cummings’ keynote speech open-
ing the National convention in San
Francisco and the expectations were
not disappointed. Mr. Cummings isa
very able and eloquent man and his
theme gave him abundant opportuni-
ties. He reviewed the achievements
of the Wilson administration and con-
trasted the work of the Democratic
Congress with that of its Republican
successor and no Democrat will find
reason to blush at the comparison.
The Federal Reserve bank, the income
tax, the expulsion of the lobby from
Washington, the seaman’s law, child
labor legislation and other beneficent
legislation on one side and malignant
partisanship on the other.
That is the record revealed in elo-
quent periods by Mr. Cummings, who
justly appraised the League of Na-
tions as the “Monroe Doctrine of the
world,” and denounced the defeat of
its ratification as the “blackest crime
against civilization that has ever soil-
ed the pages of our history.” He de-
clared that eighty investigations, in-
spired by malice, which cost the coun-
try upward of $2,000,000,000, has
simply proved that the war “was the
cleanest war ever fought in the his-
tory of civilization.” The keynote
speech at the Republican National
convention was the antithesis of that
of Mr. Cummings. In language suit-
able to a bar room bully Senator
Lodge simply vilified the President
and traduced Democracy.
If Mr. Cummings had stopped there
his speech, eloquent as it was, would
record of the Democratic party is
justly a subject of pride, but no pai-
ty can live on past achievements.
Therefore Mr. Cummings was equally
eloquent in pointing to the future.
“We stand squarely for the same
ideals of peace,” he declared, “as
those for which the war was fought.
We support without flinching the only
feasible plan for peace and justice.
We will not submit to the repudiation
of the peace treaty or to any process
by which it is whittled down to the
vanishing point. We decline to com-
promise our principles or pawn our
immortal souls for selfish purposes.”
Thus the titular head of the Demo- |
cratic party of the country presents
the issues of the impending campaign.
A record of the past that challenges
the admiration of every right think-
ing man and woman and assurances
for the future which must command
popular favor. With candidates for
President and Vice President whose
character and achievements accord
with this record and these purposes,
there can be no such thing as failure.
The work of the convention had not
sufficiently advanced at this writing
to justify predictions as to the ticket,
but we have abiding faith in the wis-
dom and patriotism of the delegates
now in session at San Francisco and
believe that the completed work will
satisfy.
eee ple.
According to a story from San
Francisco it was left to the Depart-
ment of Justice to unearth the story
right on the eve of the Democratic
national convention at San Francisco
that Governor Cox, of Ohio, had
divorced his first wife. Of course the
head of the Department of Justice of
the United States denies that he or
his office had anything to do with
either unearthing or spreading the
story, and he might be telling the
truth, but judging from some of the
past acts of the present Attorney Gen-
eral of the United States there are a
good many people in this country who
will ask more than his simple denial
of the fact before they will believe his |
skirts clean, and the “Watchman” is
among the bunch. So far as the gen-
eral public knows Governor Cox has
never taken undue pains to smother
up the fact that he was a divorced
man, and judging on his reputation
as a vote getter in Ohio the fact never
| Secretary of Agriculture; A. Mitchell
Democrats Debating Platform Prin- |
ciples.
Up to late yesterday afternoon no
decisive news had been received from
the Democratic national convention
in session at San Francisco, the most
difficult problem being the framing of
a suitable platform. The principal
contention is over the “wet or dry”
plank and the Irish question and the
moist leaders seem to have just a lit-
tle the best of it, while there is a
strong sentiment in favor of recog-
nizing Ireland’s demands.
While no ballots will be taken until
after the platform has been completed
and adopted nominating speeches
were made on Wednesday and the fol-
lowing men placed before the conven-
tion as candidates: William G. Me-
Adoo, son-in-law of President Wilson;
Robert L. Owen, of Oklahoma; Ed-
ward I. Edwards, Governor of New
Jersey; Edwin T. Meredith, present
Palmer, of Pennsylvania; James M.
Cox, Governor of Ohio; Gilbert M.
Hitchcock, of Nebraska; Albert E.
Smith, Governor of New York; Homer
F. Cummings, of Connecticut, and
James W. Gerard, former Ambassa-
dor to Germany. Other nominations
will probably include John W. Davis,
present Ambassador to Great Britain;
Carter Glass, of Virginia; Bainbridge
Colby and the irrepressible Champ
Clark. The convention adjourned
Sproul’s Friends Resentful.
The friends of Governor Sproul are
cherishing a deep-seated resentment
against the Penrose political machine
because of the nomination of Senator
Chicago. Governor
Sproul might have been named and it
is said that he would have been infin- |
itely stronger as a candidate. But the |
expected, and some say solemnly |
promised word, failed to come from
the sick chamber on Spruce street,
Philadelphia, and for no other reason !
than that Joseph R. Grundy, of Bris-
tol, Bucks county, has a quarrel with
Senator Crow, chairman of the Re-
publican State committee and an in-
timate friend of the Governor. Grun-
dy stood between Penrose and Sproul
and “held the wire.”
Mr. Grundy, as president of the
Manufacturer’s club, has been for
some time the main source of supply
for the party slush fund. He has a
faculty or opportunity, or something,
for “frying the fat” out of the manu-
facturers of the State which no one
else possesses.
become arrogant and dictatorial to a
degree that has become intolerable to
some of the party managers who dis-
burse the funds. During the last ses-
sion of the Legislature he butted in
on some measure of legislation pend-
ing and Senator Crow, who was the
administration spokesman as well as
the titular head of the organization,
Because of this he has
Wednesday night to convene yester- resented his
day at 11 a. m. Inasmuch as that was
interference.
3 p. m. eastern time very little head- | in the turmoil of the convention
way, even with platform making had | broke.
A truce
had been arranged between them but
it
A good many active and earnest
militated against his popularity or his
ability as a statesman, and that is
what the party needs in a candidate
this fall.
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— If it is true that Turkey can-
not survive the signing of the peace |
treaty five years that instrument |
ought to have been brought forward
half a century ago.
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— Thomas R. Marshall may never |
be President of the United States but |
he is everlastingly right in his idea of |
the construction of the platform.
—Those Missouri statesmen who |
took Governor Lowden’s money ex-
pected to be “shown,” whereas they |
were “shown up.” |
J———— \
——Lloyd George appears to be
trying to make Great Britain live up
to its reputation as “perfidious Al-
bion.”
—1It is all right for the office to
seek the man but the man ought not
make it too hard for the office either.
involved, whilst the public is ground |
between them as between the upper |
' and nether millstones, and have no re-
| the brief period until the time for the
| over, but it was a good one while it
| good part of the home demand for
been accomplished when this issue
went to press.
As it looks now the work of thecon-
vention will not be completed until
late tomorrow and may run over into
next week. All told there are 1092
delegates in the convention and it re-
quires a two-thirds majority, or 728
to nominate. But of one thing the
party and the country can feel assur-
ed, and that is that the convention
will select a man who will be a winner
next November. There is plenty of
good material in the above list and
with the exercise of proper judgment
it should not be difficult to select the
right IOAN. ssi Tg Si es
Long Endured Patience.
Railroad employees have ample rea-
son for impatience at the delay in the
settlement of their wage claims. For
more than a year the question has
been pending and though the cost of
living has been constantly mounting,
the means of meeting it remains un-
changed. The delay may be to some
extent unavoidable but reasons ought
to be given for it. In any event it is
a just cause of complaint and the men
are suffering alike in pocket and in
spirit because of it. Some of them
have mistakenly resorted to strikes
and others to sulking. But transpor-
tation interests are suffering in con-
sequence and all industries are de-
pendent largely upon the prosperity
of transportation.
Some months ago under agreement
President Wilson appointed a Labor
board to investigate the subject and
decide upon an award. It was uni-
versally agreed that wages should be
increased and the question to be de-
termined was how much. If this
board had acted promptly or even
shown signs of activity, the existing
acute situation might have been
avoided. But the award was deferred
for one reason or another or for no
reason, until the patience of the men
became exhausted. Then they deter-
mined to strike whereupon the Presi-
dent urged the board to get on the
job. In response to this action the
board has announced that an award
will be declared on or before July 20.
The officers of the railroad Broth-
the party an
ministration at
bly the nomination of Sproul would
have had the same effect.
erhoods have asked the railroad em-
ployees to defer action until that time
and the public joins in this reasonable |
request. For after all the public is!
the real sufferer from all industrial
disturbances. The men suffer, of
course, and the corporations lose out
to some extent. But both of these
are directly concerned in the questions
dress or recompense. It is to be
hoped, therefore, that the patience
which has sustained the men during
the long period of waiting since the
controversy began, will endure for
award.
— The strawberry season is about
lasted. Good in both the quantity and
quality of berries, and especially good
for the growers who got better prices
this year than ever before. Centre
county growers this year supplied a
berries for canning and preserving
purposes, and during the past two
weeks large quantities have been
shipped to Baltimore and other city
‘markets, where they sold for 35 cents
the quart.
——Subscriba for the “Watchman.”
Republicans regard Mr. Grundy more
a party liability than an asset and an
even greater number believe he did
irreparable harm in
steering the trend of the delegates in
the Chicago convention toward Hard-
ing instead of in the direction of
The nomination of Harding
excited no enthusiasm in Pennsylva-
nia while that of Sproul would have
set the streams on fire. Besides that
it is believed that Sproul would have
been the fitter man for the office in
every respect and that the nomination
of Harding practically guarantees
more of a Democratic ad-
Washington. Proba-
—— While Republican papers and
orators are framing up charges of
profligacy during the war they ought
to take a census of those who direct-
ed the expenditures.
example, is not a “dyed in the wool”
Mr. Schwab, for
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One Point Made Plain.
The Republican platform is ambig-
uous in most things but upon one sub-
ject it leaves no room for doubt. It
means war with Mexico if the candi-
dates who stand upon it are elected.
The oil speculators who are concerned
in it may have preferred General
Wood as their figure head in the cru-
sade they contemplate but Senator
Harding may be relied on as a safe
He will serve the purpos-
es quite as well and their plans will
encounter less resistance because his
campaign fund was not traced so
closely to their bank balances. But
after all the interests rely upon the
Senatorial cabal which defeated the
ratification of the peace treaty and
nominated Harding for President.
In view of these facts no accurate
appraisement of the political future
of this country can be made without
taking into account the probable cost
of a war with Mexico.
when the atrocities of Huerta
made conditions critical on the Mex-
jcan border experts estimated that
the military conquest of that country
would require from three to four
years of actual war.
methods of waging war by Mexicans
and the shelter afforded in mountains
were given as the reasons for the long
period of time.
has revealed the enormous cost of a
comparatively short war in treasure
and no estimate can be placed on the
expense in life of such a conflict as
would follow.
The election of Senator Harding to
the office of President, therefore,
means war with Mexico and all the
attendant horrors of such a conflict, |
not for the purpose of acquiring terri-
tory or extending political control but
in order to satisfy the greed of Amer-
ican and English speculators in oil
ownership and traffic.
United States must keep these facts
constantly in mind. Except a few in-
dividuals in Pittsburgh and Philadel-
phia nobody in Pennsylvania will be
benefitted by this perversion of pow-
But the people of Pennsylvania
will be called upon to bear their full
share of the costs of such an enter-
prise and it is their duty to prevent
it if possible.
Some years
The guerilla
Recent experience
Voters of the
——The war cost a lot of money
but the vast sums spent in investiga-
tion have failed to reveal a single
case of graft traceable to the admin-
ADVERTISE.
By Winifred Meek Morris.
Of course one would think,
With a bottle of ink
Plus pencil, or pen and pad
And a hunch or two
As to what to do,
That it's a cinch to write an “ad.”
That you just sit down—
With nary a frown,
And less of rhyme or reason—
To scribble away,
Through a night or day,
Paying no heed to the season.
Well—it’s hard to think
With just paper and ink
And nothing to advertise—
To hold “All's” attention,
With nothing to mention,
One's got to be mighty wise.
War With Mexico?
Irom the New York World.
Dubious in most of its parts, the
Republican platform is lucid enough
so far as it relates to Mexico. &t
means war. It promises war. It com-
mits the new President and the new
Congress, if Republican, to war.
Beginning with a denunciation
against the acts of Mexican officials,
explained the following day by the
President himself as being meaning-
less and not intended to be consid-
ered seriously,” the resolution pledges
the party to “a consistent and effect-
ive policy toward Mexico that shall
enforce respect for the American
flag.” This expression is to be ac-
cepted as an endorsement of the re-
port of Senator Fall’s sub-committee,
which recently proposed an ultimatum
to the effect that if Mexico did not
amend its constitution and reform its
Government in other respects the
Urited States should occupy that
country from coast to coast.
Mr. Fall's policy was received with
favor in the Senate, which has be-
come the supreme council of reaction-
ary Republicanism, and by most of
the party newspapers. Its undisguis-
ed threat of force'is now repeated in
the national platform, coupled with
a false and irritating denunciation of
the forbearance of the present Ad-
ministration. Every aggressively
selfish interest north of the Rio
Grande is thus assured that the con-
quest long desired has been under-
witien at Chieage. a bi
is well to speak plainly on this
subject for something ai) than the
fate of Mexico is involved. There is
a great Latin America, always skepti-
cal of our professions which has been
convinced of our good faith in some
degree by President Wilson’s confi-
dence that eventually the Mexicans
would work out their domestic prob-
lems and become friendly and power-
ful neighbors. We cannot seize Mexi-
co without making enemies of all its
inhabitants and alienating forever the
peoples of Central and South Ameri-
ca, a fact which the San Francisco
convention must not be permitted to
ignore.
Paying the Fiddler.
From the Easton Argus.
The Secretary of the Treasury calls
public attention to certain leaks in the
family pocketbook. He tells where
money goes when it isn’t spent for
Decessiiies or put away for the rainy
ay. :
These figures were gathered by
treasury experts from tax returns
and other sources of information, and
cover the period of one year.
Here they are:
Chewing. gum, $50,000,000; candy,
$1,000,000,000; cigarettes, $800,000,-
000; soft drinks, including ice cream
and soda, $350,000,000; perfumery
and cosmetics, $750,000,000; tobacco
and snuff, $800,000,000; furs, $300,
000,000; carpets and luxurious cloth-
ing, $1,500,000,000; automobiles and
parts, $2,000,000,000; toilet soaps,
$400,000,000; pianos, organs and pho-
nographs, $250,000,000.
So went eight billion, seven hundred
and ten million dollars!
Averaging that up among some 25
million families in the United States
and you have a per-family expendi-
ture upon luxuries of $348, or nearly
$7 a week.
And, don’t forget this, the labor and
capital employed produing those lux-
uries might otherwise have been turn-
ing out necessities, clothes, fuel,
shoes, houses, food. In other words,
the nation might have had more bread
if it-had had less cake.
And, as is always the case, the
dancer is paying the fiddler. In this
instance the luxury-consumer 1s pay-
ing a higher price for his necessities
because he is abnormally consuming
luxuries.
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Crime Against Civilization.
From the Philadelphia Record.
“No blacker crime against civiliza-
tion has ever soiled the pages of our
history,” said Mr. Cummings of the
Senate’s treatment of the peace
treaty. It is true, and what intensi-
fies its blackness is that the treaty re-
alized the hopes of the American peo-
ple and met the demands of the most
distinguished members of the Repub-
lican party. Not till the Republicans
secured the control of Congress—with
the help of the Newberry Senatorial
election—and saw possibilities of a
war on a Democratic President did it
occur to any American of any party
that a League of Nations to prevent
war would not be the supreme justifi-
cation of our entrance into the war.
——The “Watchman” office is the
place to get the best job work.
%
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Millerton is receiving with open arms
a large cheese factory planned for that
village. A site has been selected and the
contract let for a concrete building.
—Despondent because of ill health, Paul
Hobbs, 22 years old, of LaPlume, near
Scranton, ended his life in a small creek
near his home. After laying down in the
creek, Hobbs pulled a large stone over his
body.
—Cloyd Shirk, of Milford township, Ju~
niata county, slipped from a load of hay,
the other day and went tumbling to the
ground some six feet below. When he was
picked up it was found that both his legs
had been broken in the short fall.
—Pennsylvania state policemen are be-
ing given special instruction in photogra-
phy to enable them to obtain first-hand
evidence in crimes for the new bureau of
criminal identification. This training wilk
not only be given in taking pictures of
scenes of crime, but of persons and of en-
largement of individuals in groups.
—More than 200 cattle herds in Pennsyl-
vania are tuberculosis free by tests and
500 more are awaiting examination. Ac-
credited hard work has been extended to
fifty-seven of the counties, and Pennsylva-
nia ranks third in the Union in this re-
spect. The breeders will not rest until
every herd can show a clean bill of health.
—Newton Heilman, of Williamsport,
while fishing in Tim Gray’s run last week,
had an unusual experience. His attention
was attracted by a bleating young fawn
not more than two days old, which step-
ped out of the brush and approached him.
It permitted him to stroke its head and
when he laid down on the bank of the
creek, the fawn laid down by him. In
about a half hour the mother appeared in
search of the ‘truant, and at “the last call
to dinner” the youngster hurried away.
—Prof. Edward Beyers, 45, principal
of the rural vocational training school,
at Martinsburg, and Blair Snyder, 19,
Martinsburg, were killed, and Fred Lyn-
inger, 28, Beavertown, was injured when
the automobile in which they were riding
was struck by a local passenger train
at a grade crossing near Martinsburg on
Thursday. Snyder met instant death; Bey-
ers died while being rushed to a hospital.
Beyers opened the school last fall. He
leaves a wife; Lyninger was a teacher in
the school.
—A baby was born recently to Mr. and
Mrs. H. M. Willard, of Sunbury, then an
engine tire fell on the father’s foot, injur-
ing a toe. ‘A boy hit his son with a brick,
partially crushing a toe. A four year old
daughter was hit in the face with half a
brick and suffered such a gash that a doc-
tor had to sew it. The next day the boy
with the injured foot stepped on a wire
nail with the other foot and it went
through the instep. Otherwise the course
of family life at the Willards has been
without incident.
—Judge Harry White, aged 86 years, a
general in the Union forces during the Civ=
il war, a State Senator, a delegate to the
constitutional convention of 1873 and for
two terms president judge of the Indiana
county courts, died at his home at India-
na last Wednesday, aged 86 years. During
his term as judge, he placed Indiana coun-
ty on the dry list refusing to grant any
liquor licenses for a number of years.
This action at that time was somewhat of
an innovation, and was probably the be-
ginning -of the end. of the liguor trafic in
Pennsylvania.
—Counsel for George C. Tompkins, of
Philadelphia, twice convicted of murder in
the first degree, in the Cambria county
courts, in connection with the killing of
Edmund I. Humphries, his wife and son
in 1917, have filed notice of an appeal from
a decision of the Cambria county courts
with Pier Dannals, Prothonotary of the
State Supreme court, in Pittsburgh. Tomp-
kins’ attorneys contend that public sym-
pathy in Cambria is against defendant and
that he will not be able to get i fair trial.
The appeal is taken from a decision of the
Cambria county court, which recently re-
fused a motion for a change of venue.
— Plans for a powder plant that will be
the largest in the world, to cost at least
$1,000,000, have been made by the Standard
Powder works in the vicinity of Horrell,
Blair county, where the company holds
large sections of land. They have abso-
lute control over two large valleys, which
gives sufficient ground for the expansion.
The company will also erect a plant for
the manufacture of kegs in which explo-
sives will be packed for shipment. The
kegs will be made of rolled steel and, in-
stead of buying them, as is now necessary.
all will be made at Horrell, adding great-
ly to that county's manufacturing plants.
—A martyr to science, Prof. Wilbur
Ross McConnell, head of the United States
Entomological Station at Carlisle, died in
that city last Thursday night after a six
months’ illness resulting from malignant
malaria contracted in entomological gov-
ernment work in Mississippi. Professor
McConnell was 40 years old. Graduated
from Indiana Normal and Pennsylvania
State College, and studying at Cornell,
he prepared for active work which took
him to Mississippi and New Mexico. He
is survived by his widow and two chil-
dren, and among many organizations was
a member of the Entomological Society
of France. {
_Col. and Mrs. H. W. Shoemaker, of
“Restless Oaks,” McElhattan, have return-
ed home after a three month's visit
through Bast Africa, Spain, Italy, France
and England in the interest of the Pennsyl-
vania Department of Forestry, making ex-
tensive study of forest conservation, forest
fire prevention, game conservation, and
methods of preventing pollution of
streams. Colonel Shoemaker is embody-
ing these facts in a report, to be submit
ted to chief Forester Pinchot at the July
meeting of forestry conservation, at Har-
risburg. Colonel Shoemaker visited the
battle fields of France and said they are
vet a barren waste, not a shrub or tree to
be seen as far as the eye can carry.
—Clemente Pistilli, who was recently
convicted of murder in the second degree
for the killing at Curwensville on Decem-
ber 6, 1919, of Temiscole Cavaterra, was
sentenced by Judge Bell, at Clearfield last
Thursday to pay $1.00 fine, the costs of
prosecution and undergo imprisonment in
the western penitentiary for a maximum
of 15 years and a minimum of 10 years.
Angelo Toucci, the boarding house keep-
er, who gave Pistilli the gun with which
Cavaterra was killed and who entered a
plea of guilty to voluntary manslaughter,
was also sentenced at the same time.
Touccei made a lengthy explanation of his
connection with the case, but the court
seemed to feel the evidence and the facts
warranted the degree and sentenced Toucci
to $1.00 fine and costs, and imprisonment
in the penitentiary for not more than 12
years nor less then 7.