but We must sell our surplus products
Sig
EE a At,
INK SLINGS.
—Vote for Naginey for Assembly-
man.
——Watch the finish of the Legisla-
tive fight in Centre county. Candidate
Naginey’s long hold is always on the
home stretch.
—This weather makes us feel that
neither side will have opportunity on
November 3rd to refer to that old
“and the next day it snowed” business.
—Every day we have been expect-
ing some bunk from the “front porch”
to the effect that President Wilson is
causing the potatoes to rot up here in
Centre county.
——1It may be true that prohibition
fails to prohibit, but nobody will deny
that it has forced prices up to a level
that makes beverages impossible to
all but the wealthy folk.
—The Republican county committee
has $4000.00 to use for Harding, Pen-
rose and Beaver. The Democrats
have only $400.00. Davy must have
said: Rash, get the money.
The DuPont family, of Dela-
ware, made a quarter of a billion dol-
lars out of powder mill products dur-
ing the war, and are bitterly opposed
to the League of Nations and the
election of a President who wants
permanent peace.
—Lest we forget. It was only
three years ago that we were burning
German books and refusing to buy
anything made in Germany. Are we
so soon going to vote for a man who
wants to make a separate peace with
those same Germans.
—Senator Harding has been yank-
ed off the road and put back on his
“front porch.” The Senator spills too
many beans when talking when none
of the bosses are around to tell him
what to say so he isto be kept at
home where his speeches can be
looked over by some one who knows
something of what he intends to talk
about before he gets them off.
—Vote for Naginey for Assembly-
man.
—The remnants of the German na-
vy undertook to start a new war the
other day when the American de-
stroyer Broome wanted to anchor in
the harbor at Kiel. The German Ad-
miral notified the commander of the
Broome that he must depart immedi-
ately or she would be fired on. The
war ended, however, when the Ameri-
can told the Hun what the commander
of our “Lost Battalion” told other
Huns in the Belleau Wood several
years ago.
—If we are to retain the place we
have just won, the foremost maritime
power on the earth, we must have
something for our ships to carry over
the seas. Of course we can and do
manufacture more than we can use
abroad before we requisition ships to
transport them. Can we sell our
goods to countries with whom we de-
cline to fraternize. By refusing to go
into the League of Nations we make a
cool market for our goods in every
country on the globe except bankrupt
Russia, Mexico and Germany. If we
can’t sell goods abroad look out for
American industries and American
shipping, for both will suffer disas-
trously.
—Vote for Naginey for Assembly-
man.
—Senator Harding is to be pitied.
Certainly a man who is “necessarily
conscious” of the fact that he is “the
nominee of the Republican party for
President of our Republic” does not
wilfully distort, dissemble and deceive
as he has been doing in his campaign
utterances. His many blunders must
be attributable to limited conception
of the issues he discusses and a lack
of command of proper English to
clearly express his thoughts. His re-
cent Greencastle, Indiana, speech, in
v'hich he most unhappily alluded to
conferences with “a citizen of France”
was so worded as to leave the infer-
ence that he had been in conference
with French officialdom concerning
the policies of our government, and it
may have been so intended, but the
prompt inquiry of President Wilson
as to just what he did mean compelled
the Senator to clear the point which
he did by making himself appear ri-
diculous.
—Vote for Naginey for Assembly-
man.
—The number of eminent Republi-
cans who have been publicly announc-
ing their intention of voting for Gov-
ernor Cox for President has caused
something akin to a panic among the
Harding campaign managers. These
men are neither political sore-heads
nor are they looking with thought of
personal advantage at the situation.
They have seen enough of the horrors
of war to hope for peace for coming
generations and they are convinced
that a League of Nations offers the
only plan through which this may be
achieved. Only Monday Morris L.
Cooke, former director of public works
of Philadelphia said: “I have never
voted any but the Republican ticket,
but I shall vote for Governor Cox, on
November 2nd. I base my decision on
the attitude he has assumed respect-
ing the League of Nations.” It is
scarcely within the range of probabil-
ity that Mr. Cooke’s vote will do Gov-
ernor Cox any good for it is a certain-
ty that Pennsylvania will go for Sen-
ator Harding. But it will do Mr.
Cooke good. He is a man who holds
a principle above partisan politics and
has the courage to support it. There
are thousands of others like him and
in close States their going over to Cox
' eyes but hold their noses.
is significant.
YOL: 6%.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 22, 1920.
NO. 42.
Harding Again Blunders. !
In the boastful spirit of a cheap |
demagogue Senator Harding alleged
in a recent speech that a representa-
tive of the French government had
approached him, since the opening of
the campaign, with a proposition to
“lead the way to an Association of
Nations.” Of course Senator Hard-
ing didn’t know that such a movement
on the part of the French government |
would be a grave violation of interna-
tional courtesy and diplomatic eti-
quette. Harding doesn’t know much
about such things and out of the |
depths of his ignorance he imagined
it would be safe to “throw a bluff into
the group of verdant as well as pro-
vincial Hoosiers, whom he was ad-
dressing. But there was a reporter
“among those present,” and he spilled
the beans.
The palpable purpose of Senator
Harding was to create an impression
in the public mind that the best minds
of Europe are looking forward to his
election as a medium of rescuing the
world from the League of Nations to
which France and forty other coun-
tries are committed by subscribing to
the covenant of the League. It would
have been a great card and probably
had a profound influence on those to
whom it was addressed. But unhap-
pily for Harding it was a plain and
unvarnished falsehood. The French
government never sent an emissary
to him to discuss that or any other
question of internationl policies or
anything else. The average high
French official, being intelligent,
would have sent its emissary to Sena-
tor Penrose or Senator Lodge on such
a mission.
Of course Harding promptly denied
that he had said what he was report-
ed as saying and laid the blame on
the stenographer. “Passing the
buck” is a favorite practice of the
Republican candidate. Governor Cox
clarifies the matter, however. He
tells the public that the correspond-
ent of a French newspaper, a profes-
sional humorist, has been with Hard-
ing for some days and probably in-
| dulged in the luxury of “kidding” the
candidate, who, taking the matter
seriously, fell for the joke. But it is
no joke at all. It has become a ser-
jous matter and the first result is that
‘Harding Has been taken off the circuit |
and sent home where on his front
porch his utterances may be more
carefully censored.
those who supported Roosevelt in 1912
are fighting President Wilson now is
that Wilson has done so many of the |
things Roosevelt wanted to do him-
self.
Sproul on Forbidden Ground.
Governor Sproul shows scant re-
spect for the adage, “a man who lives
in a glass house should throw no
stones.” He made a speech in Phila-
delphia, the other evening, the burden |
of which was denunciation of waste-
fulness during the war. “Computa-
tions carefully made,” he said, “show
that probably fifteen billions of dol-
lars might have been saved out of
thirty-five billions or more which has
been expended in the war.” Possibly
some money might have been saved if |
the Borah assertion, Mr. Taft, under |
the war operations had been conduct-
ed after the fashion of the Spanish
war under a Republican administra-
tion. Out of an army of about 300,-
000 men in that war seventy per cent.
were prostrated with epidemics and |
thirty per cent. died.
Rotten beef is much cheaper than
good beef, shoddy cloth cheaper than
woolen and paper soled shoes cost less
than leather.
creases under such conditions
greater ratio than the expenses dimin-
ish, and the policy of the administra-
tion which conducted our share in the
world war was to save the lives of
American troops rather than the mon-
ey of the profiteering slackers who
were coining millions out of the suf-
fering of the soldiers during the Span-
ish war. It was a question of men or
money in both cases. The Democrat-
ic administration elected to save lives
while the Republican administration |
aimed to increase the profits of polit-
ical favorites by giving bad service.
But even if there was wastefulness |
in the war, which no intelligent man
who is truthful will assert, Governor
Sproul is the last man on this green
earth who can lay claim to protest.
After the armistice was declared and
hostilities stopped the government at
Washington sent a million dollars or |
more worth of auto trucks into Penn-
sylvania for use in road construction
and repair.
without shelter during the entire win-
ter of 1919-1920 with the result that
in the spring it was absolutely worth-
less. Maybe the salvage of these ve-
hicles would have deprived some of
Governor Sproul’s friends of contracts
to supply other trucks.
— es
——Presumably women who vote
for Penrose will not only close their
Probably the reason some of |
But the mortality in-
in |
Governor Sproul allowed !
all this valuable property to stand
——
i
| From the Indianapolis News.
i
| is mother’s voice that reassures him.
|
The little child in fright or pain cries out “Mother, where are you
It is mother’s presence that makes him
bold in the dark. It is mother who wipes away the tears and “kisses the hurt
Mother, Where Are You?
| to make it well.” It is mother who saves him from all harm. It is mother
safe he feels in the arms of mother!
ahead a few years to the coming war.
ask?
est issue of the age. But beware!
i greater, sacrifices.
and deceive her.
Mother, where are you?
Roosevelt’s Appraisement Accurate.
William Howard Taft is writing
himself down an artless “dodger.” In
a speech at Des Moines, Iowa, deliv-
ered more than two weeks ago, Sena-
tor Harding frankly declared, refer-
ring to the League of Nations, “I do
not want any clarifying reservations.
I want to turn my back on these obli-
gations. I stand for rejection.” In a
| speech delivered in Chicago last week
| Senator Hiram Johnson, of Califor-
nia, denounced those who say that
association of nations to preserve
‘peace, as enemies of the Republican
candidate who are impairing rather
| than helping his cause. Senator Bor-
i ah, of Idaho, declares he is for Hard-
i
ing because of his pledge against any
kind of agreement.
Yet in the Philadelphia Public
Ledger of last Saturday, after he
must have known of the Des Moines
speech, the Johnson declaration and
his own signature, states that “Sena-
' tor Harding has promised the people
of the United States that if he is
elected he will devote his time from
the day of his election, with the aid of
| others, to an earnest and serious ef-
| tions to create and maintain an inter-
national court for the settlement of
disputes between nations.” It is
| Roosevelt entered his name in the An-
anias club and refused to have person-
al intercourse with him because of his
‘faithlessness to truth.
If by any process of reasoning or
contortion of language it could be
"shown that Mr. Taft has been deceiv-
ed into the impression that what he
says is true, he might be excused for
thus misrepresenting the facts. Heis
a bigoted partisan who has been on
the pay roll of the government or his
party organization from the day he
' reached the voting age, and probably
feels that a failure to support his par-
‘ty candidate would be ingratitude,
| the basest of human vices. But he
| might support the candidate without
| stultifying himself by falsehoods
plainly framed for the purpose of de-
ceiving the people who have honored
and trusted him. Roosevelt wasn’t al-
| ways a safe guide but his estimate of
, Taft seems accurate.
— The elements which are trying
to create trouble between this country
‘and Japan are striving to defeat the
| League of Nations, and they are all
identified with the manufacture of
war materials.
| Mr. Harding protests that he is
not a superman and nobody who has
read his campaign speeches will ask
for corroborative evidence.
Harding is in favor of some sort of an |
fort to secure an association of na-!
small wonder that the late Colonel |
How
But a new remedy has
It is inevitable under the old system.
Your son on battlefield, or in muddy trench, or in fever-stricken camp or hos-
pital, suffering from body wounds, or mutilated limbs, or struggling for the
breath of life through bleeding, poisoned lungs, cries out in his delirium, just
as he did as a child when no one else could save him, “Mother, where are |
you?” Can mother save him then? Will mother save him now? Need we
Mother that has just come out of the valley of the shadow of death with
the wee bit of helpless humanity; mother of the sweetest, dimpling, cooing !
babe that ever crowed for kisses; mother of the laughing, prattling, inquisi-
tive toddler; mother of the little man of six ready for school; mothers of the
boys ‘and youths of America; mothers of the men of the greatest nation on
earth; mother, “the holiest thing alive,” we thank God that you are to partic-
ipate in the settling of this great moral, life-saving question. It is the great-
\ The reactionaries and opponents of the
League are employing their cleverest brains to distort the meaning of the
covenant, to misrepresent its principles and belittle its importance. They are
telling you of its evils, mostly imaginary, and based on the absurd assumption
that nations will habitually violate their agreements. They never tell you of
the great good it will accomplish; nor that its defects can better be discovered
by a fair trial; nor that it can be amended; nor that we can withdraw it if we
don’t like it. Was there ever an attitude more depraved and uncompromising
that is determined, through misrepresentation to prevent the trial of a method
that promises to save to you in the future the lives of your sons?
Be not deceived. We had no league and more than 100,000 of our best
men have been sacrificed. The League is to prevent a repetition of this, and
f It is not believed that the mothers will be diverted from
the path of righteousness by the misrepresentations and efforts to confuse
Mothers see and know the right intuitively.
world, “the mother holds the key to the soul, and makes the being who would
be savage a christian man.” Through her prayers and her votes she will force
the nations to discard the age-old man-savage way of settling their disputes.
In its stead they will have the civilized, christian way of the covenant. Civil-
ization and other nations in despair are crying, “Mothers of America, where
are you?” The hope of the world lies in the motherhood of America. Mother
will keep the faith with the sons who have gone before and the sons of the
coming generation. Her influence through the vote will put civilization a
thousand years ahead. And “her children will rise up and call her blessed.”
Queen of the
Eons WARREN DANIEL:
Harding’s Lack of Information.
The esteemed New York World has
adopted the “Watchman’s” charitable
view of Harding’s treatment of the
League of Nations. In an editorial in
last Sunday’s issue our New York
contemporary says: “It has long
been evident that Senator Harding
never read any of the covenant of the
League of Nations except Article X,
and does not know what that means.”
He has said at one time or another
, that he is for the League and against
it. He has promised one set of men
to favor something like the League
and others that he will scrap it. These
various declarations would indicate
an infirmity of mind to be pitied rath-
er than condemned. But he goes
farther and makes things vastly
worse.
For example he says that if elected
he will call the wise men of the coun-
; try together to frame up some sort of
can association into which all other
civilized countries will gladly rush.
i There are forty-one of the forty-four
| or forty-five civilized nations already
| in what he calls the “Wilson League,”
| though Taft, Root and several other
| distinguished Americans and the lead-
| ing men of Europe, had a share inits
' construction. Article XX of this con-
vention provides that all these ‘“sol-
emnly undertake that they will not
hereafter enter into any engagements
inconsistent with the terms thereof.”
{ In other words they solemnly pledge
| themselves to enter into no other as-
i sociation or League.
| The nations not thus pledged and
| available for the organization of some
| other League are Turkey, Russia and
{ Mexico, besides the United States.
Qut of this material Mr. Harding
| might organize a sort of international
i club in which Lenine, Villa, one of the
murdering Pashas and himself or
Senator Lodge would be dominant
figures. But we can’t even imagine
that the people of the United States
| would find such company congenial.
| There is a good deal of similarity in
the lives of Villa and Hi Johnson and
the murdering Pasha might find
| Harding an agreeable companion. It
{ might be possible to make Senator
| Lodge comfortable in such environ-
| ment. But the idea is hardly worth
| serious consideration.
1
——1It will also be universally ad-
mitted by intelligent persons who
have read Senator Harding’s speeches
that he has “no constructive plan for
handling our foreign relations.” His
methods are all destructive.
It is practically certain that the
vote of German sympthizers will be
solid for Harding, but they are not as
numerous as they used to be nor as
influential in elections.
|
{
i
Where Responsibility: Rests.
Under the pressure of lust for of-
fice former President Taft has finally
joined in the false statement repeat-
?” It | edly uttered by Lodge and Borah that
the defeat of the League of Nations is
-ascribable to the stubbornness of
How long would you °
- were entered
who shares his joys and troubles. It is mother who'prays daily for his pro- President Wilson who insisted upon
: tection. Mother is the guard that never sleeps when he is in danger.
Home and God and Mother are all the
same to him. Would mother fail to do all possible to protect him from the
dread diseases of fever and plague and war? Will mother vote to continue a
system that some time—and it may be soon—will destroy his life, or blind
his eyes, or mangle his limbs, or eat up his lungs by poison gases? Mother,
where are you? Ask the little child. He will tell you.
Your son has reached manhood. He is stricken with a disease that under
the old method of treatment has always proved fatal.
been discovered that will cure in nine cases out of ten.
‘tolerate a physician that insisted on sticking to the old sure death methods
and refused to give the new life-saving remedy a trial? Mothers of America,
forty-one nations have adopted a remedy that will prevent the sacrifice of |
their sons in war. Are you unwilling that a trial be given this remedy to save
your sons? Let us assume that our country refuses to give the remedy a tri-
al. Without the League of Nations, the laws relating to the coming of wars
are as unchanging as were the laws of the Medes and Persians. Let us look
ratification precisely as it was pre-
sented. Nobody knows better than
Mr. Taft that such a statement is
false. At frequent intervals Presi-
dent Wilson declared his willingness
to accept any alterations of the text
which did not impair the value of the
instrument for the purposes for which
it was created. Several amendments
offered by Mr. Taft himself were ac-
cepted by the President and written
' into the covenant at his instance.
Pending “the consideration of the
measure in the Senate negotiations
" Hitchcock, of Nebraska, on the part of
the friends of the treaty and Senator |
: Lodge and others in behalf of its op-
ponents. This finally led to an agree-
ment upon certain reservations pro-
' posed by Lodge with a modification of
| Article X which provided that “the
' military forces of the United States
could only be used under the direct
: authority of Congress and that Con-
gress should be free to accept or re-
ject the advice of the League as to the
. enforcement of this article,” suggest-
i ed by Senator Hitchcock. This agree-
ment was approved by President Wil-
, son and for a time all parties were
confident that ratification would be
effected.
But Hi Johnson and Senator Borah
served notice on Senator Lodge that
unless the agreement was repudiated
by the Republican Senators concerned
in it, they and four er five other “bit-
ter enders” would bolt the Republican
party and break the party control of
the body. Thereupon Senator Lodge
served notice on Hitchcock and the
Democratic Senators that he would
not carry out his agreement and pro-
posed another conference looking to
adjustment of the differences. But no
other conference was held. The bitter
enders assumed control of the Repub-
lican majority and compelled Lodge to
yield to them. They are responsible
for the failure of ratification and
at
struction,
| Lodge gave them.the..power of de-
——Of course every one of us have
commented more or less during the
past several weeks on the delightful
weather we have had, and very likely
think it something unusual, when it
really isn’t. Yesterday morning the
Hon. John Noll informed us that on
Wednesday, while cleaning up in his
garden, he found ripe red and black
raspberries, a second crop, and got
enough of them to give him a taste at
dinner. While this also may seem un-
usual, it is not, for only last year
another well known Bellefonte gar-
dener brought to this office a sprig of
raspberry that had twenty-two berries
on it, some ripe, others ripening and a
number of green ones. Today one
year ago it was rainy and cold, and
while cool weather prevailed during
"the balance of October there were
plenty of days before winter set in in
earnest that the sun was quite hot
during the daytime.
——-On the sixth page of today’s
“Watchman” will be found the pic-
tures and brief sketches of the Demo-
cratic candidates for United States
Senator, Congressman-at-Large, State
Treasurer and Auditor General. Look
them over and we feel convinced that
you will promptly decide that they are
all worthy of your support. The rec-
ord of all of them is clean as a new
slate and any man or woman can vote
for them conscious of the fact that if
elected they will be true representa-
tives of the people.
— Everybody in Bellefonte and
‘surrounding community should boost
the big Hallowe’en demonstration
planned for Bellefonte on the evening
of November first, full particulars of
which are given elsewhere in this pa-
per. Bellefonte has never tried any-
thing of the kind before but with the
assistance of our neighbors from
nearby villages and the community at
large we ought to be able to pull off
something worthy the occasion.
— James D. Connelly, of Clear-
field, Democratic candidate for Con-
gress in the Twenty-eighth district,
spent most of the week traveling
through Centre county and if the fa-
vorable impression he made on the
voters at large can be taken as an n-
dication of the vote on November
2nd Jim will be our next Representa-
tive in Congress.
gr
—— With another week of good
weather contractor Frank T. Murphy
will complete the state highway on
Pine treet to the borough line, so far
as the roadway is concerned. The
completed street will be a big im-
provement to that part of the town
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Thieves during Sunday night stole
three barrels of whiskey and four barrels
of alcohol from the warehouse of the At-
las Chemical company at Hazleton, and
diligent search is now being made to lo-
cate the same.
{
i —Mrs. Mary Hess Fishol, of Tumbling
Run valley, near Pottsville, mother of
fourteen children, died on Monday. Near-
ly all of her numerous family are married,
and, like their parents, have large families.
She had sixty grand-children.
—The first market garden and vegetable
crop survey in Pennsylvania is to be start-
ed in rural sections on Noyember 3rd or
4th. State College experts will aid, and fE
is the idea to have the larger boroughs and
cities investigated in winter so market
conditions can be better observed.
—Commissioner of Fisheries N. R. Bul-
ler last week attended a family celebration
at Corry, where his brother, William Bul-
ler, is superintendent. The Buller family
contains half a dozen of the leading fish
culturists in the United States and Wil-
liam celebrated a quarter of a century in
charge of work at that hatchery.
—Just an hour before John Dorman, of
Montandon, died in the Geisinger hospital
at Danville last Thursday, his wife gave
birth to a son. Mrs. Dorman is in a ser-
ious condition and has not been told of
her husband’s death. Dorman’s death ree
sulted from burns received at the plant of
the Milton Manufacturing company.
—While talking to Mrs. Charles Fritz,
her hostess, on a visit to Kutztown, and
waiting for a car to take her back to Al-
lentown, her home, Miss Ellen J. Raben-
hold, forty-nine years old, suddenly col
lapsed at the Kutztown trolley station om
Monday and died on the sidewalk in a few
! minutes.
into - between Senator |
Heart disease caused her death.
—While the figures have not been made
public, it was learned on Tuesday that the
sentiment of the miners in the central
Pennsylvania bituminous coal field is
against striking to enforce their demand
for a 25 per cent. wage advance. Clearfield
county was evenly divided, but in Cambria
county the vote was heavily against a
strike, as it was in the Allegheny river
district.
—The Rev. Elmer E. Horner, assistant
pastor of Calvary Baptist church, Altoona,
inherits the income from an estate of more
than $60,000, left by Dr. John Feltwell, of
that city, for many years pastor of Calva-
ry. Doctor Feltwell, who died last spring,
bequeathed the income of his estate to his
wife, Mrs. Anna Feltwell, with the proviso
that at her death it was to go to the Rev.
Mr. Horner, and at his death to Calvary
church for religious work. Mrs. Feltwell
died recently.
—Mrs. Andrey Otto, living at Ferndale,
a suburb of Shamokin, found some old
shoes near an abandoned emergency hos-
pital last Friday and used them to help
along a slow kitchen fire. Several minutes
later she saw a stove lid raised “and a
blacksnake’s head protrude. She forced
the lid down with a broomstick, allowing
the blaze to consume the reptile. Mrs. Ot-
to believes the snake had made its home in
one of the shoes and was aroused from its
slumbers by the flames. 8
—A slight pin seratch on his right ‘hand
caused the death on Monday of Howard
Le¢ihou, 58 years old, a wealthy Point
township, Northumberland county, farmer.
The accident occurred last Friday, and it
being of a trivial nature, he paid no at-
tention to it. His arm began to swell,
“then he called in a doctor: ‘Leihou was
rushed to the Mary M. Packer hospital, at
Sunbury, where he sank rapidly until
death came. Leihou had never been sick a
day before in his life, according to friends.
—Gregorio C. Dimano, a Filipino, 29
years old, has been given permission by
the Reading Railway to serve as a fireman
on its engines on the main line for six
months. He has just completed a course
of training in overalls at the Baldwin
plant in Philadelphia. All that is supple-
mentary to six years Dimane spent in
various technical schools in this country
learning mechanical engineering. After
his coal shoveling course he will go to
Manila to take an advanced position in his
profession on a railway system.
—Miss Estella Granay, formerly of Chi-
cago, has been appointed superintendent of
nurses at the Roaring Spring hospital.
Miss Granay is a graduate of an Illinois
hospital and a post-graduate of Bellevue
hospital. She saw service as a Red Cross
nurse during the world war. Miss Lucille
Granay, also a graduate of an Illinois hos-
pital and a post-graduate of Bellevue hos-
pital, has been named supervisor of the
operating room, while Miss Mae Murray,
of Moneton, New Brunswick, a post-grad-
uate of Bellevue, has been appointed night
supervisor.
—Breaking all known murder trial rec-
ords in Allegheny county, the jury in the
Floyd Tendick murder case, which retired
Friday, October Sth, has not yet reached
a verdict. Tendick was killed in a shoot-
ing affair in Verona, a suburb, and four
men are charged jointly with murder—C.
H. Patterson, J. C. Gillespie and Frank
and Lionel Dampier. The longest service
given by any other murder jury in the last
sixty-five years was eleven days, from the
beginning of the trial until the finding of
a verdict, and it was broken last Friday
by the Tendick jury, which at that time
had been on the case twelve days.
Screams of a woman compelled a
couple of hold-up men to desert their vic-
tim, James Pappas, a Chester business
man, whom they had knocked out with
blackjacks early last Thursday morning,
and flee before they had time to rifle his
pockets and get a bag he carried and
which contained more than $1000, the mon-
ey being taken from the cash drawer when
Pappas closed his store. Pappas was lock-
ing the door of his store when he was at-
tacked and knocked insensible in the
street. Mrs. Laura Steward, who had got-
ten up from bed to attend a sick child,
glanced out of her bedroom window and
saw the highwaymen beating their victim.
—John Miller, of Mount Union, better
known as “Tiny Miller” in his home town,
is playing football with the University of
Pittsburgh squad. Young Miller is 18
years of age, weighs 273 pounds and is six
feet tall. He wears size 13 shoes and the
largest suit of clothes ever worn by a foot-
ball player on the University squad.
“Pop” Warner, the coach at the Universi-
ty, saw young Miller on the street ard
thought to himself “What a prospect fora
football player.” . Upon entering into con-
versation with him he learned that he was
a student at the University, a member of
the Sophomore class and eligible for foot-
ball, and induced him to report for prac-
tice. The young giant is a graduate of
the Mount Union High school, class of
1918, playing guard on the football team.
He is a student in dentistry at the Univer«
sity of Pittsburgh.
and will enhance the value of all the
properties in that section.