INK SLINGS.
—If it really was Senator Penrose
who blew Harding off his front porch
the sick man of Spruce street isn’t
as sick as he has been reported.
—Senator Harding is against any
kind of a League and all of his ut-
erances up to this moment lead to the
conviction that he is against every-
thing that our grand-fathers didn’t
have.
—The rains have put the oats
ground in fine condition for plowing
but the rains have also made it im-
possible to either cut or haul in oats;
so there you are. The farmer is al-
ways in trouble.
—T favor going in,” says Governor
Cox, and as we can only hope for
permanent peace through the opera-
tion of some sort of League of Na-
tions all those who favor peace will,
naturally, favor Governor Cox with
their votes.
—Boston and Philadelphia papers
are playing up Ponzi and Pasquale al-
most to the point where Governor
Cox and Senator Harding might stop
to inquire: “Who are supposed to be
in the limelight, anyhow, just three
months ahead of November?
—The Cincinnati Inquirer wants
to know how those Burlington officers
found that whiskey that was hidden
in the bustles of a lot of Canadian
girls. Why raise a question that is
likely to involve the officials in divorce
proceedings should any of them hap-
pen to be married.
—Governor Cox fulfilled all the ex-
pectations of his admirers in his
speech of acceptance. It was a clear
and convincing statement of his atti-
tude toward questions uppermost in
the public mind today. He left noth-
ing to conjecture. His plain spoken
pledges can be understood by a child
while Senator Harding’s ambiguous
dissertations are calculated only to
befog, if possible, mature minds.
—They say that Philipsburg has
been making so awful much money
out of fourteen dollar coal that they
actually don’t know what to do with
it. If this is true it was a mighty
nice thing in those baseballs fans of
ours who journeyed over to the fu-
ture home of “the Philips,” last
Thursday, and eased them off to the
amount of about two truck loads of
“kale” that they had hauled out to
the baseball grounds to dazzle our
fellows with.
—Early Senator Harding announc-
ed that his would be a dignified
“front porch campaign.” But Sena-
tor Harding really isn’t a candidate
for President. He is merely repre-
senting some “higher-ups” and has to
take orders. Accordingly he is going
“to leave the front porch for the hust-
ings and, incidentally, prove to the
country that either he doesn’t mean
what he says or he isn’t his own mas-
ter. And in either case he should
never be President of these United
States.
—Our government’s note to Italy
on the Russian-Poland crisis, is some-
thing of which we may all be proud.
It reveals an inflexible opposition to
the constituted government of Russia
but the profoundest sympathy for the
people of that distressed empire. And
to prove the genuineness of the latter
refers to several hitherto unpublished
references to what took place in the
supreme council at Paris. It shows
that there our country stood for the
territorial and political integrity of
Russia and never wavered in the in-
sistence that she should not be dis-
membered. Secretary Colby’s note is
quite in line with the friendly spirit
we have always manifested for
Russia. For if our country were to
recognize the usurpers now in control
it would be recognizing their right to
despoil and dismember a country that
is crying for nothing more than rest.
—The Saturday Evening Post re-
cently published what might be re-
garded as documentary evidence to
the effect that Czar Nicholas II, to-
gether with all the members of his
family, were actually murdered in
cold blood by the Reds. The state-
ment seems to put the seal of authen-
ticity on rumors that have been cur-
rent for a year or more as to this
tragedy of the imperial family of
Russia. History will probably never
record a more dastardly incident and
to us this confirmation of a story that
seemed too horrible to be credited, a
grave warning is carried. Men who
can conceive and carry to execution
such a plot are the men who are rul-
ing Russia today but their fanaticism
is not satiated with the blood of those
who “dare to wear white collars”
in their own ill-fated land. It is
reaching out for world conquest. It
is spreading its doctrine of non-be-
lief and immorality broad-cast and if
it conquers Poland it is one step near-
er to Germany. If it wins Germany,
France and England must succumb—
unless: Unless what? Unless we go to
their aid. If France and England fall
to the Red vampire how long can our
peaceful christian states survive.
That is the thing men who are look-
ing grave over the future have upper-
most in their minds. There was more
than politics in the treaty of Ver-
sailles, in the covenant entered into
there. What should we care whether
a Democrat or Republican represented
us there? Is the political complex-
ion of who shall be the next Presi-
dent of the United States more im-
portant to you than the sanctity of
your home. And yet it would appear
so if you do not favor some sort of
a world alliance that will crush out
the Red demon of Russia.
By
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
"BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 13, 192
Governor Cox’s Acceptance.
In his speech of acceptance Gover-
nor James M. Cox, of Ohio, has com-
pletely vindicated his claim to the
party favor ‘bestowed upon him by the
Democrats of the country at the San
Francisco convention.
and mastered every question involv-
ed in the campaign. More than that,
he has proved his fitness for the office
to which he laudably aspires. His
speech is forceful, eloquent and per-
suasive. He evades nothing and
dodges no responsibility. No reason-
ing mind can misconstrue his lan-
guage, no intelligent man misinterpret
his purpose. He has not only shown
the clearest understanding of the is-
He has met |
Either a Fool or a Knave.
| If anything were needed to show
the meagre mental equipment of Sen-
|
i
Mr. Roosevelt’s Speech.
Governor Cox simply expresses the
sentiments of the Democrats of the
ator Harding it is supplied in what | country in his note of appreciation of
has been given out in Marion, Ohio, | the acceptance speech of his colleague
| on Sunday, as an answer to Governor | on the ticket, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Cox’s speech of acceptance.
“The | “It is a hopeful, sensible view of con-
i speech,” this absurd statement de- | ditions, full of hope as to our future
‘ clares, “is a curious mixture of er- | and radiant of the happiness of the
| rors and misstatements as to facts so
‘well known that mere utterance can
i Congress has reduced taxes in a little
| more than a year to the extent of
$2,414,115,144.13. This, in the face
: of the fact that the records are acces-
. individual,”
writes the Governor.
- “The West will like this splendid type
| cause nothing less than amazement.” |
+ In support of this confused expression .
[it proceeds to claim that the present |
can leaders,” he adds, “it will be a
of progressive statesman. Following
the two years of gloom and carping,
captious criticism from the Republi-
genuine refreshment in the great land
Roosevelt now enters, for the people
to meet a representative of govern-
sues, but he has expressed his views | sible, is most amazing. The present ment whose soul is possessed of the
in the most lucid
manner. In every respect he has
done well. :
The paramount issue of the cam-
paign is the League of Nations, and
Governor Cox leaves no one in doubt
as to his attitude on that question.
“The question is whether we shall or
shall not join in this practical and
humane movement. Senator Hard-
ing, as the Republican candidate for
the Presidency, proposes that we re-
main out of it. As the Democratic
candidate, I favor going in,” he de-
clares. There is no
sounds or equivocation in that state-
ment. The League of Nations is a
practical and humane movement. It
is the only expedient to avoid future
wars and obviate the horrors of na-
tional conflicts. It is the only feas-
ible plan of evading the vast expense
of great armies and navies.
Senator Harding has announced
that in the event of his election he
will favor a separate peace with Ger-
many. That is practically what we
agreed not to do when we entered the
war. To do so now would be a vio-
lation of a solemn pledge made to our
associates in the war. Besides,
Governor Cox says, it would be “the
most disheartening event in civiliza-
tion since the Russians made their
separate peace with Germany.” It
would be precisely the offence against
honor and justice which Germany
perpetrated when she invaded Bel-
gium in violation of her pledge
against such an outrage. That act
was condemned by all the civilized
nations of the world. = Why should
an equally dastardly fault on cur part
be regarded differently?
Governor Cox covered all
questions involved in the campaign
in equally emphatic terms. He
pledges enforcement of the laws on
all subjects which includes, of course, :
the Volstead act, and favors woman ,
suffrage, not as a political expedient
but as an act of justice. He ex-
presses full appreciation of public ob-
ligations to the soldiers of the great
war and pledges such measures in
legislation and executive policy as
will in some measure recompense
them for their sacrifices. He reveal-
ed full sympathy with the wage earn-
ers in their strife for fair wages and
better conditions, and is mindful of
the interests of agriculture and the
great body of men and women con-
cerned in that important industry.
There are many problems of gov-
ernment which may be solved in the
interest of the people against the pred- |
atory agencies which have, until
President Wilson put on brakes, de-
spoiled the public and Governor Cox
shows in his speech of acceptance that
he is alive and alert to all of them.
He handles the transportation ques-
tion in a masterly manner and touch-
es with keen intelligence the various
other matters of public interest. But
the paramount question, that which
sinks deepest into the hearts of the
people, is the guarantee of permanent
peace and the assurance that with the
Democratic victory that is certain, the
horrors of war will be banished from
our homes and firesides for all time.
——The unusually hard rains we
have had the past week have kept
the farmers back with their oats har-
vest. While the oats is fit to cut the
ground is now so thoroughly water-
soaked that it is impossible to har-
vest the crop, and it will be several
days, even with favorable weather, |
before any cutting can be done.
San det Sh
We haven’t noticed any great
number of people in any part of the
country lamenting the defeat of Sen-
ator Gore, of Oklahoma, for re-elec-
tion. It means the retirement of as
cheap a demagogue as ever polluted
the atmosphere of public life in this
country.
——Possibly the terms of settle-
ment with Villa are all right, but at
this distance from the scene the price
seems outrageously high.
ei
——That big red automobile in a
Philadelphia park, the other day, ap-
pears to have inspired mixed feelings
of hope and terror.
— idk
——Governor Coolidge says certain
language in the Republican platform
is purposely broad, ahd all of it is stu-
diously ambiguous.
confusion of |
as |
other
‘calibre are not of the size that we |
penny, though urged to do so.
A week before the armistice every
intelligent man, woman and child in
the United States,
in session, was considering appropria-
tions to meet the expense of such a
condition. The armistice, of course,
changed everything along these lines
and as the appropriation bills were
not passed during that session, were
revised and greatly reduced at the
extra session of the present Congress.
These reductions amounted to about
' the sum that Harding says the taxes
i were reduced. The fact is, however,
that he doesn’t know the difference
. between an appropriation and a tax
bill, or else he imagines the public
doesn’t and he tries to deceive it by a
| false statement.
When the appropriation bills for
| 1919 were drawn we had move than
‘two million soldiers abroad, and as
‘many in training camps at home. We
! were humping ourselves from one end
of the country to the other in supply-
ling food, clothing and equipment for
| this vast force. The appropriations
| were made with these facts in mind.
| After the Republican Congress came
| into session they were reduced to
meet the changed conditions. But
| there has been no change in the tax
i laws, though President Wilson earn-
estly urged Congress to make reduc-
tions, and the Democratic leaders in
Congress pressed the matter at ev
ery opportunity. The fact
Harding has already shown his un-
fitness for the office of President by
an effort at deception. Men of such
should make Presidents of.
It was hardly necessary for
. Mitchell Palmer to assure the public
| that he has no intention to resign.
{ Those who know Mitch understand
. that he is not one of the few who re-
| sign a good thing.
Campaign Plans Altered.
“The best laid schemes o’ mice and
i men gang aft a-gley,” wrote Bobby
. Burns before political organizations
. were formed in this country or party
candidates dreamed of. But it is true
now as then and has been verified in
i a most peculiar way recently. It will
'be remembered that immediately
| after his nomination at Chicago Sena-
! tor Harding announced his purpose of
‘ making a “front porch campaign.” He
probably had various reasons for this,
the principal one being that it revived
the memory of the McKinley - cam-
paign of 1896. It is a pleasant memo-
ry for Republicans. Mr. McKinley
was a charming gentleman, courteous,
capable and magnetic, and he was
elected by a large majority.
But conditions are vastly different
now and “circumstances alter cases.”
Mark Hanna was head of the organi-
zation and he had more money, or
could command more, than the most
prosperous farmers had hay, and
there was nobody to question the
source of the supply or the methods
of disbursement. The Republican
committee could easily finance any en-
terprise in the way of pilgrimage
then, however expensive, and the ex-
! cursions to the McKinley front porch
| were a delight at the time and a pleas-
‘ant dream for weeks afterward.
! Crowds came from the remotest sec-
tions of the North, South, East and
West, and their expenses were freely
paid, while some of them were liberal-
ly recompensed for their time.
Without a thought of these impor-
tant details Senator Harding planned
a recurrence of these happy holiday
incidents and the amateur managers
of his campaign cordially acquiesced
in his scheme. But when the time
came to arrange for the excursions
the question of funds arose. The spe-
cial interests are just as willing as
were those of a quarter of a century
ago, but the danger of prosecution for
excessive expenditures confronted
them and gave them pause. Finally
Mr. Daugherty, Harding’s personal
campaign manager, called on Senator
Penrose and that astute politician,
upon emerging from the sick room on
Spruce street, Philadelphia, gave no-
tice that the candidate will campaign
in the usual way.
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
is that!
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I maximum, wheat
and courageous | Congress has not reduced taxes a | philosophy of joy.”
In fact Mr. Roosevelt’s speech is a
pronouncement of principles which
mark him as a statesman of the first
England, France | rank. He is quite as enthusiastic as
and Italy believed there would be | Governor Cox in support of the
another year of intense war and the ; League of Nations and as clear and
Congress of the United States, then | convincing in his expressions upon the
minor issues of the campaign, for the
League of Nations is the paramount
question. He favors the bettering of
our citizenship by improving educa-
tional facilities and strengthening our
immigration laws, not upon the liter-
acy basis but by the exclusion of
criminals and those physically unfit
for citizenship. He demands further
development of our natural resources
in methodical rather than spasmodic
manner. In fact he is abreast with
Governor Cox in all essential respects.
The Democrats of the country have
every reason to view the approach of
the contest with confidence. Our can-
didates measure up to the highest
standard, morally and intellectually,
! and our purposes are progressive and
inspiring. We will not have the slush
fund which special privileges are
ready to offer to our antagonists in
anticipation of rewards at the expense
of the people, but the time for such
forms of campaigning is past. The
recent conviction of Senator Newber-
ry, of Michigan, and the more recent
defeat of General Wood and Governor
Lowden for the Republican nomina-
tion are admonitions against the cor-
rupt use of money for the purchase of
palslical power. The public con-
seience is aroused.
——If some spiritual medium
would tell us what Bismarck would
say under existing conditions on the
subject of mercy toward conquered
foes, he would contribute something
to the gayety of nations.
Then and Now.
More ink has been spilled the past
vear writing of high prices and in
trying to assign equitable reasons
therefore than in discussing any oth-
er subject, and as yet no man has
been able to explain the whys and
the wherefores to the satisfaction of
the consuming public, that always
foots the bills. Political economists
excuse the high prices on the ground
that they are the after the war ad-
justment and refer to conditions and
prices that prevailed after our own
Civil war. But there is not even a
comparison with the prices paid
then and those that prevail now, with
the single exception of wheat.
In May, 1866, one year after the
Civil war came to a close and just
when prices had about reached their
brought $2.25 a
bushel, but corn sold at 60 cents. Rye
was 55 and oats 40 cents. Potatoes
brought $1.50 a bushel and they were
considered beyond a poor man’s reach
unless he raised them himself, but
butter was 35 cents a pound and eggs
15 cents a dozen. Pork sold for 17
cents a pound, bacon 18 and lard 16.
A bushel of clover seed could be
bought for $4.50 and hay from $15.00
to $20.00 a ton. And nobody was
getting the wages in those days that
the workmen are getting now, and to
earn what they did get they worked
from early morning until late at
night.
Of course in those days we didn’t
have telephones and electric light, and
nobody rode around in automobiles.
The farmer had his horses to ride
behind and everybody else walked.
There were probably men in those
days who went after the almighty
dollar just as hard as they do now,
but they couldn’t go quite as fast as
the man in his high-powered car gets
there now, and yet we all wonder
why prices are so high.
re ———
——Senator Harding seems to im-
agine that the votes of the women of
the country are to be disposed of on
the auction block, and he is trying to
be the highest bidder.
eA ———
——Don’t worry about Public Serv-
ice Commissioner Benn’s lost salary.
He'll get all that is coming to him.
Cupidity as well as love “points the
way” when necessary.
nmr ————————
——Germany is trying to sell pa-
per ‘clothes as a novelty, but the shoe
manufacturers of this country “beat
them to it.”
0.
SB ————
* Governor Cox Accepts.
¥rom the Philadelphia Record.
Day after day Senator Harding,
who juggled words over the League
of Nations so that he could get the
support of William Howard Taft and
Hiram Johnson, has been demanding
that Governor Cox express himself
explicitly on the subject. We trust
he is satisfied. We wish we could be-
lieve that the example of the Demo-
cratic candidate would encourage can-
dor on the part of the Republican
candidate.
Governor Cox has made a fine,
strong, clear and comprehensible ad-
dress. He promised an offensive cam-
paign. He has begun it. There is
not a particle of evasion or double-
dealing or apology and weakness in
his address, from beginning to end.
He takes up the fight for the League
of Nations, for the peace. of the world
and for the honorable dicharge of our
obligations to mankind, in a firm and
confident tone; and men holding dia-
metrically opposing opinions will not
support him as they are trying to
support Senator Harding.
The question, says the Governor,
“is whether we shall or shall not join
in this practical and humane move-
ment. President Wilson, as our rep-
resentative at the peace table, enter-
ed the League in our name so far as
the executive authority permitted.
Senator Harding, as the Republican
candidate for the Presidency, propos-
es in plain words that we remain out
of it. As the Democratic candidate
I favor going in.”
Is that explicit enough? Does
that leave any doubt about where the
Governor stands? Declaratory and
explanatory statements may be at-
tached to the instrument of ratifica-
tion on account of the scruples of the
timid, but no amendment or reserva-
tion that affects the vital principle
of the covenant.
Senator Harding has promised that
if he shall have the oppo ity he
will sign such a peace resolution as
that of Senator Knox. ,The Governor
points out that “This means but one
thing—a separate peace with Ger-
many. This would be the most dis-
heartening event in civilization since
the Russians made their™ separate
peace with Germany. The Republi-
can proposal means dishopor, wogld
confusion and delay. It wo keep
us in permanent company with Ger-
many, Russia, Turkey and Mexico.”
s any American proud to be in that
company ?... “The first-duty of the
new Administration,” says the Gov-
ernor, “clearly will be ratification of
the treaty.”
If Germany did not assent to the
terms of the separate peace that we
should propose under Mr. Harding,
would he send an army to Germany to
enforce our demands? And in this
League there is nothing unprecedent-
ed. Under President McKinley the
country went outside its own bound-
aries to free Cuba. For nearly a
century it has warned all Govern-
ments that it would go outside of our
own limits to protect any State on
the Western Hemisphere.” And only
three years ago we put two million
soldiers in Europe to stay the advance
of German militarism. Why falter in
peace when we were bold in war?
The address covers the whole
ground of pending political questions,
the railroads, capital and labor, the
revision of taxation, the cost of liv-
ing, child labor, Ameri:anization of
the foreign-born, the remedy of il-
literacy, the promotion of agriculture
and commerce. All that the Gover-
nor says will commend itself to the
impartial reader by its intelligence,
its sound judgment, and its perfect
fairness, without the least appearance
of evasion or juggling of words. He
urges the ratification of the woman
suffrage amendment and his only al-
lusion to the Eighteenth Amendment
is a pledge to enforce all laws. In
view of the silence of both national
platforms, and the fact that the Presi-
dent does not make, but enforces
laws, this expression is sufficient.
Governor Cox’s address will com-
mend him strongly to all fair and
thinking persons. It is the speech of
a strong, candid and broadly intelli-
gent man. It represents the highest
and best type of Americanism—an
Americanism equal not only to partie-
ipation in the world’s war, but to
participation in the world’s efforts to
prevent wars, and make this a better
world to live in.
A Strange Crusade.
From the New York Evening Post.
It’s going to be a crusade rather
than a campaign, says the gentle
voice of Mr. Will Hays. Unlucky
choice of words, Will. For a crusade
was always a rather unselfish pro-
ceeding, involving affairs overseas
and the joining of hands with other
nations. A crusade was certainly an
entangling alliance. Well, well! And
in this crusade what part does the Lu-
bricating Leader play—Peter the
Hermit? or Urbane the Second? or
Godfrey of Cold Bouillon. =
But we perceive Will Hays is right.
A crusade, obviously, for the purpose
of double-crossing the League. The
object of all crusades, one rumembers,
was a sepulchre. In this case the
sepulchre of American idealism.
Why is This Thus?
From the New York Evening Post.
As for Senator Harding—what a
position for the candidate of a great
party to find himself in, with a Re-
publican ex-President compelled to
explain why he is compelled to vote
with a heavy heart for the Republican
candidate.
a
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE,
—Thrown through the windshield of a
baker's truck when it collided with a bus
near Martinsburg, on Friday, Stiles I. Mil-
ler, 15 years old, of Altoona, had an artery
in his neck severed by glass and bled to
death before the flow could be stopped.
—When 8S. M. Weisberger, of Scrantom,
went to bed last Thursday night he threw
his trousers, containing about $900 over
the foot of the bed. When he got up Fri-
day morning, the trousers were in place,
but the money was gone, he told the po-
lice.
—Albert Rinkenbauch, 60 years old, of
Mauch Chunk, was struck by lightning
on his farm in Penn Forest township,
10 miles from Mauch Chunk on Monday
afternoon and instantly killed. When §€
began to rain, Rinkenbauch and two other
men took shelter in a shed which later
was struck by lightning.
—Miss Mary E. Crocker, who has been
assistant librarian of the James V. Brown
library, Williamsport, since 1906, will next
month take charge of the Annie Halen-
bake Rose Library at Lock Haven as li-
brarian. Miss Crocker is a former secre-
tary and treasurer of the state library
to leading periodicals and magazines.
—R. 8. Hartman, chauffeur for Freder-
ick Rasmussen, Pennsylvania Secretary of
Agriculture, in Altoona on a vacation, was
robbed last Wednesday night while sleep-
ing in a hotel. His pocketbook, containing
papers and cash, was stolen, but the thief
overlooked valuable state papers in his
possession and a roll of bills under his pil-
low.
—From now on it is going to cost more
to get arrested for drunkenness in War-
ren. At a regular meeting of council the
ordinance covering this form of ‘“‘celebrat-
ing” was amended so that it empowers
the burgess to assess a fine of not less
than $2 nor more than $25 or 30 days in
jail. Burgess Gregory declares that from
now on all offenders brought before him
are going to get the limit.
—Alex Beers, said to be from DuBois,
who was arrested in Ridgway early last
week on a charge of stealing $700 from
a fellow woodsman with whom he had
been working in the Elk county woods,
has confessed to the crime and is now
awaiting sentence in the Elk county jail.
Nearly $600 of the missing $700 was found
upon Beers when he was captured by the
Ridgway police on Wednesday.
"—To assist in furnishing ‘accommoda-
tions for a few of the homeless families in
Lock Haven five discarded trolley cars of
the Susquehanna Traction company, will
become dwelling places. The cars have
been purchased by George Hale, a former
local policeman, demounted from the
wheels and are being taken to Tie foot of
Bald Eagle street and set up. They will
be provided with water and electric lights.
—Several Burnham housewives are look-
ing for a sleek stranger who made great
ingpads in their weekly expense allowance
in the pur¢lfase of country butter. The
butter looked good, it sold for sixty-five
cents a pound, which is the recognized
market price, but when they took it home
and cut it they found, the center of the big
rolls had been removed and the space fill-
ed with smear-case or, cottage cheese,
which is made from sour milk.
A bolt in the lock of the lock-box vault
door at the Citizens National bank, at
Indiapa, became loose and*the lock did
not work. An expert Iocksmith vas se-
cured from Philadelphia, but he could not
make the lock work. A hole was dug
through a three-foot wall of brick and
cement large enough for the entry of a
small man. The large glass shield on the
inside of the door was removed, permit-
ting the bolt to be slipped back, thus
opening the door.
—After falling twenty-one feet from the
top of a building to a brick pavement, Da-
vid Worrell, a Washington borough, (York
county) painter, picked himself up, climb-
ed a ladder to where he had fallen from
and started to work. Suddenly he became
ill, and had to be carried from the roof.
He was attended by a physician, who
found several ribs broken. In his descent,
Worrell struck the top edge of an open
door and broke it from its hinges. Con-
tact with the door broke his ribs and
probably saved his life.
—H. 8. Fleck, of Tyrone, assistant su-
perintendent of Blair county schools, is 60.
He was born on July 30, 1860, in Sinking
Valley, on the farm where his great-grand-
father settled shortly after the Revolution-
ary War. He has resided in Blair county
all his life and was affiliated with the
Tyrone schools for many years. In 1891
he was elected superintendent of the
borough schools. Prior to that time he
had been a teacher. At present he is a
member of the Board of Education. When
the law was enacted creating the office
of assistant county superintendent, Super-
intendent T. 8. Davis chose Mr. Fleck for
the place.
—A row over the division of the $1,000,-
000 estate of James C. Packer, Sunbury
horseman and lawyer, who died more than
a year ago, has resulted in the appoint-
ment of I. A. DeWitt, a lawyer, as auditor.
Some of the heirs object to fees of George
B. Reimensnyder, bank vice president and
attorney, and I. Clinton Kline, brother of
J. Simpson Kline, executor of the estate,
for $10,000 each for legal services. The
heirs also contend that the fees of Kline,
the executor, are excessive. Kline has em-
ployed Reimensnyder as his counsel in
settling of the Packer estate. Interested
persons are Mrs. Nellie C. Slate and John
B. Packer, Philadelphia; William C. Hill,
Sunbury; Mrs. Nellie H. Thomas, Lewis-
burg, and the widow, who has since mar-
ried David Ireland, a New York broker's
clerk, of about half her age.
—Seth E. Gordon, secretary of the State
Game Commission, may have done some
poor shooting when he missed the bear
that ran into the road in Cameron county,
but he thinks equally poor markesmanship
was displayed by Squire Judd, of Empor-
ium, when the latter fired the sentence of
a $25 fine at him last week on the charge
of trying to kill the bear on a state game
preserve. The state game secretary will
appeal to the courts from the Squire's
decision, and when the case comes to an
end, he believes he will be able to show
an unwounded bank account. Gordon was
impressed by the chilliness of the atmos-
phere when he stood before the magistrate
at Emporium. He endeavored to establish
the truth of his contention that the bear
was headed across the road for the game
preserve, but had not reached it when
he let go with his trusty gun and missed.
The Squire didn’t see it that way, and de-
creed the $25 fine, much to the delight of
some of the Cameron county residents,
and others throughout the State who feel
that if there is any one man who should
obey the game laws it is Mr. Gordon.