INK SLINGS.
—Speaking from a purely personal
view point the event that looms big-
gest in 1921 will happen on April
15th.
—At the present price of eggs and
chickens a four pound hen that is lay-
ing will pay for herself in two and
one half weeks.
— The thing that we desire most
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
— Michael Emig, 19 years old, was found
dead in the bed of a boy friend, Roy
Schroll, of New Haven, with whom he
slept Saturday night. The death of the
Emig boy did not become known until
Sunday noon when Schroll went to awaken
him. Heart failure is said fo have caused
his death.
—An unusual plea was made last Satur-
day by the American Car and Foundry
company, of Berwick, for the employees to
observe only one Christmas. Men of a
dozen or more nationalities are employed,
and each has his own Christmas, with the
result that the plant always is badly crip-
pled from December 25th to January 10th.
920. NO. 51.
Running True to G. O. P. Form.
from you is your good will and co-op-
eration in making the “Watchman”
better in 1921 than it has ever been
VOL. 65.
BELLEFONTE, PA. DECEMBER 24, 1 pi Mg
— - ——— snes _. —Waybright Rice, aged 0 gler-
ville, Adams county, was found dead along
before.
— Tuesday was the shortest day of
the year. The price of coal has been
falling so we don’t view with such
alarm that old saying that as the days
lengthen the cold strengthens.
— Among the new leaves that will
be turned over next Saturday the one
with the picture of the water-wagon
on it will not be pondered over so hes-
itantly as it has been in the past.
—If it were ours to give your
Christmas season would be the very
happiest you have ever known and
your New Year would make all the air
castles you have ever built turn real.
Make the little folks happy to-
morrow. Let them know why it is a
festal season. They will be the men
and women of the land two decades
hence and as the twig is bent so the
tree inclines.
—Maybe next year the price of pa-
per and other essentials will be down
to the point where the “Watchman”
can resume the issue of the Christ-
mas editions that featured this sea-
son regularly before the war.
— Brownsville, Texas, will vocifer-
ously swell the sob chorus that is com-
ing out of Villa’s new principality in
Mexico, because some one stole two
hundred of his horses. The old ban-
dit was probably walking in his sleep
and did it himself.
—The Altoona Times—Tribune re-
marks that “liquidating one’s debts to
society is a pleasant Holiday pas-
time.” Does this mean that president
Henry W. Shoemaker and treasurer
John D. Meyer have been invitin’ par-
agrapher Schwarz round for an occa-
sional “hot scotch.”
—A cute gentleman in a small com-
munity up in the northeastern part of
the State got the public endorsement
for postmaster of the village because
he promised to sell three postage
stamps for a nickel. He was appoint-
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ed and made good by giving his back-
ers two twos and a one.
—Keep your eyes open, everybody. |
The proposed new law for the relief |
of the farmers looks good in print and |
sounds good to the ear, but in opera- |
tion we fear neither the farmer nor,
the consumer will derive any of the
benefits. Such measures are usually |
for the relief of the speculator and the |
broker.
The first meeting of the League
of Nations has adjourned and all re-
ports from Geneva are to the effect
that more real constructive work was
accomplished than the most sanguine
of the delegates thought possible. As
a killer of such things our Uncle
Harding hasn’t proven. a great suc-
cess, thus far.
—During the war we were urged to
give until it hurt. We were giving of
material things then. Only foolish
persons would think of giving that
way at Christmas time, for there is no
need of it. The real Christmas gift is
your good will and you can give and
give and give of that and the more
you give the less it will hurt.
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__If there is a new congressional
apportionment made on the basis of
the census just completed Pennsylva-
nia will gain eight members in Con-
gress. As near as can be determined
the central part of the State will be
entitled to one of them, but just how
the new District will be carved out of
the one now existing is left to conjec-
ture.
And now Prof. Taft has made the
happy discovery that his party would
be willing to take the United States
into the League of Nations if we
Democrats will only refrain from re-
minding them that it is President Wil-
son’s League. Poor Taft! Once these
columns greeted him as a man who
had broken the shackles of partisan
politics and was finding his way into
the light of great statesmanship. He
must have wandered round in a circle.
—Our Christmas present to you is
this copy of the “Watchman.” This
year happened to have fifty-three Fri-
days in it and so we couldn’t very well
drop three issues in order to keep our
volume down to fifty numbers for the
year, so there was nothing left for
us to do but publish a gratuitous edi-
tion. As subscription and nearly all
of the advertising space in this paper
is sold on the basis of fifty numbers
in a year you will understand that the
extra Friday means that we publish a
paper this week for which we receive
practically no return.
— Tomorrow will be Christmas. It
is a day apart from all others of the
year, for it is the natal day of the
Christ. The world is troubled and full
of sorrow. Social, financial, business
cataclysms are flashing on the hori-
zon and, whether they prove real or
illusionary, what matters it so long
as hope remains to us. The babe of
Bethlehem is the world’s hope child.
When He came the lamp of the soul
was lighted. With it burning your
tomorrow will be joyous, no matter
what troubles lower. With it gone
out Christmas day and all others will
be black dispair.
Important Events Present and Future.
Governor Sproul and General At-
terbury, vice president of the Penn-
sylvania Railroad, were in Marion,
Ohio, on Monday, where they spent
three hours in conference with Sena-
tor Harding and enjoyed his hospital-
ity at luncheon. The incident was in
response to an invitation from the
President-to-be, in pursuance of his
plan to assemble the “best minds” of
the country to discuss administrative
policies. A day or two before Wil-
liam Jennings Bryan and Senator
Reed, recreant Democrat of Missouri,
were guests and simultaneously with
the visit of the distinguished Pennsyl-
vanians the perfidious Senator for
Tennessee, Mr. Shields was with him.
The association of these party trait-
ors with Governor Sproul is not in-
tended as an aspersion.
Governor Sproul and General At-
terbury were somewhat reticent upon
the purpose and effect of their visit to
Senator Harding upon their return to
Pennsylvania on Tuesday. They ad-
mitted however that the personnel of
the Harding cabinet as well as the
policies of the Harding administration
were discussed. It will be remember-
ed that Senator Penrose in one of his
recent Atlantic City interviews sug-
gested Mr. Atterbury as an available
for the office of Secretary of War. Mr.
Atterbury protests that he has no am-
bition in that direction. In fact he
knows comparatively little about cab-
inets but is an expert on railroads
and possibly his talk was in relation
to the federal administration of rail-
roads and wages of railroad em-
ployees, a subject to which he has
given much thought.
While Governor Sproul was equal-
ly “close-mouthed” upon the confer-
ence, upon his return to Harrisburg,
we learn from our esteemed Harris-
burg contemporary, The Telegraph,
that he dropped a hint of ominous
character among his capital city
chums. That is he intimated that he
has been made the bearer of a mes-
sage from Harding to Senator Pen-
rosé which he is to deliver in person.
Some of the recent Washington dis-
patches have contained comments up-
on Penrose’s frequent interviews to
the effect - that they have not been
pleasing to the party .managers. Pos- |
sibly the Harding message is along |
that line and in view of the recent
| harmony deal between Penrose and
Sproul, in that event it might become
a matter of considerable public inter-
est. We shall await developments
with some impatience.
—— The late Mr. Barnum must
have had Russia in mind when he said
“the people like to be fooled.”
Mr. Taft’s Baby Plea.
Our fat friend, William Howard
Taft, complains that the Democrats
of the country are making it impossi-
ble for the Republicans to put the
United States into the League of Na-
tions. Some Democratic newspapers
are insisting, he says, that no matter
what amendments are made to the
League, if the United States joins it,
President Wilson will get credit.
When the League was first formed
and the covenant presented to the
Senate for ratification, the former
President was very enthusiastically in
favor of it. But at that time President
Wilson seemed to be theidol of the
world and it looked as if he might
have an opportunity to name a Justice
of the Supreme court. Later party
prejudice changed public sentiment.
In a series of speeches made by Mr.
Taft while the treaty was under
consideration in the Senate, he said it
was the paramount duty of the Unit-
ed States, not only to our own people
but to the world, to enter the League.
At that time not only a few Demo-
cratic papers but the whole world
freely gave President Wilson credit
for creating the League and writing
the covenant. But that fact didn’t im-
pair its value in his mind then. He
wanted a seat on the Supreme bench
and Wilson might have had an oppor-
tunity to appoint a justice. Now he
knows President Wilson will never
have a chance to appoint a justice and
one opposed to Wilson and the League
will have. Therefore the name of
Wilson is anathema.
This sudden but complete change of
attitude creates a standard by which
William H. Taft may be justly and
accurately measured. He is a pro-
fessional office seeker. Almost from
the day he emerged from college he
has been on the pay roll, and having
accidentally slipped off when Wood-
row Wilson was elected President he
is ready and willing to sacrifice both
principle and conviction to get
back. But we hardly expected him to
put up the baby plea in justification
of his present absurd attitude, that
we can’t join the League of Nations
for the reason that President Wilson
would get credit by the act. Presi-
dent Wilson’s place is fixed and no
word from Taft can either take from
or add to it.
Wrong Policy of Steel Makers. First Session of League a Success.
: | From the Philadelphia Record.
The arguments which labor
have presented from time to time in
favor of what they call “the closed
shop,” have not been convincing. The
right of a man to work at whatever
price and in whatever place he can
find employment that suits him has
| never been shaken. Like those of
| “life, liberty and the pursuit of hap-
piness,” it is unalienable. Industrial
| agitators might argue until blue in
| the face to the contrary without mak-
ing an impression upon well-balanced
and rational minds. But the recent
action of the certain makers of struc-
tural steel will go a long way toward
justifying the policy for which the
labor organizations contend. The
monopolists have done for labor what
its friends couldn’t do.
Testifying before a committee in-
vestigating building conditions in
New York, the other day, Mr. Grace,
president of the Bethlehem Steel com-
pany, declared that his corporation
and the Steel trust had agreed upon
a purpose to refuse to sell structural
steel to any builders who employed
union labor. Modern building in cities
is practically impossible without
structural steel. There is an old ad-
age that bricks cannot be made with-
out straw. It is equally certain that
“sky-scrapers” and big business
blocks or buildings are impossible
without structural steel. A twenty or
thirty story building of stone or brick
without the reinforcement of structur-
al steel would be a menace to life.
Therefore the labor leaders may
justly argue that if the structural
steel makers may join in a policy such
| as that declared by Mr. Grace organ-
ized labor may unite in a purpose such
| as is employed by the “closed shop.”
| It is true that two wrongs fail to
make a right but reprisals are justi-
fied when self-preservation is the ob-
ject in view. It is safe to say that a
majority of wage earners throughout
the country are members of labor Un-
ions. It is probable that in the cities
in which structural steel is so impor-
tant an element in building operations,
two-thirds of the working men belong
to Unions. The policy announced by
the makers of this material is:there.
fare rankly and frankly wrong. ©
' ——Coal profiteering may be a na-
“tional disgrace, as an esteemed con-
temporary declares, but the profits in
i profiteering in coal go a long way to-
ward electing a President of the Unit-
“ed States.
ree peer ee ee.
Doubtful Economic Expedient.
| We very gravely doubt the wisdom
, of the pending legislation to levy a
{ heavy tariff tax on certain agricultur-
| al products, especially wheat, pota-
| toes and live stock, for a limited per-
iod of time. The purpose of the leg-
islation, according to those responsi-
ble for it, is “to shield agriculturists
from further price decline.” The
high cost of living has so endeared it-
self to certain Congressmen that they
have become alarmed at the first sign
of a break in prices. Naturally their
sympathies go out freely and effusive-
ly to the farmer.
We own to a deeply-seated and
earth” and the fountain of industrial
prosperity and social contentment.
pretty nifty time of it. To be sure he
has had to be content in a few instan-
ces with a Ford “fliver” which was
sometimes passed on the improved
highway by a Packard or other ex-
pensive car occupied by an acquain-
tance. But our probably too provin-
cial mind runs on lines limited to
Centre county and adjacent territory
and we are unable to see how a tariff
tax limited to one year will benefit
the farmers within that area while the
effect of naturally increased prices of
necessaries on the community is clear-
ly perceptible.
most of the western and southern
wheat of the last harvest is already
in the hands of speculators and the
live-stock securely penned up in the
corrals of the beef trust. If that be
true the grain speculators and the
beef trust stand to win more from a
tariff tax on agricultural products
within the next year than the very
considerable majority of the people
who stand in the relation of “ultimate
consumers.” Of course the Republi-
can machine owes a good deal to the
grain speculators and the beef trust
for generous campaign contributions
and gratitude is a fine virtue. But
paying debts with other people’s mon-
ey is not entirely commendable.
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—1If Lloyd George really wants to
settle the Irish question there are var-
ious ways but the most promising is
his retirement from public life.
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——Anyway so long as the Blue
laws are on the statute books there is
nob much danger of painting the town
red.
leaders |
broadly-bound sympathy for the far-
mer. He is easily “the salt of the
During recent years he has had a
While we have few if any of the |
statistics at hand it occurs to us that |
The League of Nations closed its
first session at Geneva on Saturday
! evening under most favorable condi-
! tions, according to the associated
| press dispatches. In farewell speech-
| es Paul Hymans, president of the As-
i sembly, and Dr. Guiseppi Mottay,
| president of Switzerland, the report
| declares “told the delegates that the
first assembly had proved the League
| as a living organism and a success.”
: The delegates who participated most
actively in the work of the assembly
concurred in this view and expressed
! the opinion “that it has done all that
could be expected of it, if not more.”
| This must have been unpleasant in-
, formation and unwelcome intelligence
‘to the Republican machine of the
United States.
io In fact the entire record of the ses-
sion must have been a sad disappoint-
! ment to those in the United States Sen-
ate and out of it, who hoped for the
! contrary results. If the assembly had
| failed Senators Knox and Lodge
: would have been ready with the tra-
ditional “I told you so.” When the
| Argentine delegates withdrew from
the body both those gentlemen
| promptly expressed their gratifica-
tion. The incident was interpreted by
them as a sign of disintegration. But
| nothing of the kind happened. In-
| stead every day and every act
strengthened the organization and
added to its stability. In fact among
| the closing events was the addition of
four nations to the roster bringing
the membership up to forty-six.
During the recent campaign former
Justice Hughes and other oppo-
nents of the League held up before
the eyes of the voters a bogie of six
votes for Great Britain against one
for the United States. As a matter
of fact throughout the proceedings
the representatives of the British do-
' minions asserted their independence
and on the closing day of the session
a controversy between the delegate
for England, Arthur J. Balfour, and
“those of Canada, C. J. Doherty, and of
' South Africa, Robert Cecil, tured
the proceedings and
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and fraudulent -and that President
Wilson was right.
ae]
——Up to the present time there
‘has not been enough snow in the
mountains and woodlands to cause any
! hardship to small game in the matter
| of getting enough to eat, and this is a
| good thing for the game. During the
| small game hunting season very few
. pheasants were killed hereabouts and
quite naturally hunters were of the
: opinion that the birds were very
scarce. But during the past week men
. who have been in nearby woods on the
hunt of Christmas trees aver that they
| saw more pheasants than ever before.
. Such being the case these birds should
: be looked after during the winter, es-
| pecially, if a deep snow falls. Sports-
| men should unite in putting out feed
for them so that they may survive un-
| til next year. If they are so plenti-
. ful now, with sufficient feed to keep
| them over ought to result in plenty of
birds and good shooting next fall.
i eee flee
No Paper Next Week.
For six months the employees of
this office have worked hard and faith-
fully to give the very best paper pos-
sible to produce to “Watchman” read-
ers. Now that the Christmas season
is here it is only right and proper that
they, too, shall have a holiday, and
for that reason no paper will be issued
from this office next week. Therefore
when you fail to get the “Watchman”
next Friday morning, don’t be disap-
pointed, but look for it on the morn-
ing of the Tth of January. The
“Watchman” office, however, will be
open to all its friends next week, just
as usual. In the meantime we wish
| for all a very Merry Christmas and a
Happy and Prosperous New Year.
——Probably the real reason the
Republicon = machine opposed the
League of Nations lies in the fact that
it requires members to raise the stan-
dard of labor up to the standard in
this country rather than dragging
that standard down.
——Congress is determined to keep
prices up even if it has to put a tar-
iff tax on every necessary of life. It
looks as if the Republican party wants
nothing to come down except wages.
——While exact figures are not at
hand the Christmas business at the
Bellefonte postoffice this year has ex-
ceeded any former year.
——Constantine may get on the
Greek throne but he will have a hard
time getting gasoline to run the ma-
chine.
—Two years ago at this season, we
were saying good-bye to the Central
Railroad of Pennsylvania.
ion was false
It is rather diverting to note that a
lot of Republican women, some of
whom before the eletion were ex-
tremely voluble and foolish in their
chatter about Providence being on the
side of the G. O. P. and its splendid
leaders, including Senator Penrose,
are now in a flutter of excitement lest
the gang should prove reactionary at
the coming session of the islature.
They fear that Grundy and his fellow-
manufacturers may attempt to repeal
or emasculate the legislation passed
for the protection of working women
and children, and they are ‘beg
Democratic women to stand with them
in opposing any such backward steps.
Having aided in flimflamming the vot-
ers by floods of twaddle about “Wil-
sonism,” whatever that may be, and
misrepresentation of the peace treaty
and the League of Nations, they are
now apprehensive lest they themselves
fall victims of the sweeping victory
secured by such unfair means, :
So long as Governor Sproul, who is
a liberal-minded man, remains in of -
fice it is not at all likely that he will
alow the Grundyites to tear to pieces
the laws that limit the hours of work
for women and that prevent the ex-
ploitation of child labor. The antag-
onism that exists between the two Re-
publican factions, the Sproul-Crow
and the enrose-Grundy, is a further
protection against retrogression in
this matter. But it is significant that
no sooner are the Republicans firmly
seated in the saddle than talk begins
of undoing all the beneficent work of
the past ten years. e other day the
United States Senate passed a bill in-
tended to prohibit strikes by railroad
men, sailors and others engaged in
the service of common carriers. The
New York investigation of abuses in
the building trade has brought out the
significant fact that that stinguish-
ed Republican, Charles M. Schwab, is
engaged, through the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation, in pushing a movement
intended to crush trade unions by de-
barring their members from work in-
valving material made by his compa-
ny and others associated with it. They
want an open shop for their products,
but when it comes to the employ
of labor they m
losed sh
are just waking up to it. Before long
the workers also will find that ‘the
tone of the incoming Harding Admin-
istration will be very different from
the eminently fair and sympathetic
stand of the Democratic party under
the Wilson Administration. If they
have to put up a fierce fight to main-
tain the rights already won they wil
have only themselves to blame by rea-
son of having taken any active part
in placing reactionaries in power
No Taxation Relief.
From the DuBois Express.
The business man might as well rec-
oncile himself to the present system
of federal taxation for at least one
more year. There is not the slightest
reason at this time to believe that the
present Congress or the incoming one
will be able to revise or reform ex-
isting taxes until late next summer
or autumn. Even after this job is fin-
ished, the Treasury must have a few
weeks in which to prepare the regu-
lations and organize the collection ma-
chinery before a new tax system can
be put into full operation. :
It is quite true that both political
parties by platform pledge and spe-
cific promises on the part of their can-
didates have held out the hope of an
early overhauling of the war taxes
which were imposed hurriedly to meet
an emergency. But pledges are one
thing and performance quite- another.
Political leaders might easily promise
quick relief from burdensome taxes
but parliamentary leaders know that
it is not so easy to carry those prom-
ises into effect.
‘As a matter of fact, members of
the Republican organization of the
House and Senate are totally at sea
upon the question of federal taxa-
tion. They are not sure, in the first
instance of the amount of money it
will be necessary to raise for the com-
ing fiscal year. Nor are they sure of
any means of exacting that revenue
from the American people. Some of
them talk blithely of a “billion dollar
tariff,” and yet most men who think
at all must realize that any tariff
which would net a billion dollars, on
paper, would be so high as to become
prohibitive, if put into operation.
Traffic will bear just so much duty
and no more. Imports will cease if
the tariff is so high as to make them
unmarketable in this country.
Again, the country has been told
over and over that the tax upon busi-
ness profits would be repealed, no
doubt, but not until the House and
Senate have found some substitute for
that levy. The revenue derived from
the profits tax is still needed and must
be raised from some source, but no
Congressional leader has yet appear-
ed with a workable scheme for abol-
ishing that tax and for the substitu-
tion of another as productive of fed-
eral income.
—If Harding doesn’t show better
judgment in seeking Republican sen-
timent than he did in searching for
Democratic opinion, his conferences
will have little value. Senator Reed
and Mr. Bryan are not what you
would call Tribunes of Democracy.
the road between his home town and
Arendtsville. He had started in his auto-
mobile for Gettysburg when his machine
stopped. He started to walk back home
for some gasoline and had gone about &
half mile when he fell. Several men from
Biglerville coming along the road found
him.
—The best industrial news that has
come to Reynoldsville, Jefferson county,
for some time came with the announce-
ment that the Pennsylvania Hide and
Leather company would start the tannery
there within the next few days with a full
crew of men. The tannery has been oper-
ating right along, but with only about
one-fourth of the regular number of em-
ployees. i
—Governor Sproul has issued death war-
rants fixing the date of electrocution of
Charles C. Collins and Charles C. Reineck-
er, of Adams county, for the week of Jan-
uary 31st. The week of February 7th has
been set for James Davis and Anton Web-
er, of Allegheny county, February 14th for
Frank Dombek, Allegheny county, and
Sydney A. Brown, Delaware county, and
February 21 for Antonio Insano, of Jeffer-
son county.
—Alleging that she sustained serious in-
jury at the hands of the defendant on ac-
count of the over-crowding condition of
the car in which she was a passenger,
Mrs. Nellie Murphy, in her own right, and
George W. Murphy her husband, have en-
tered a suit in trespass against the Altoo-
na and Logan Valley Electric Railway
company, through their attorney, R. A.
Henderson, to recover damages in the
sum of $20,000.
—Dr. M. R. Derk, of Jersey Shore, a vet-
erinarian, had an exciting experience the
other day when he was called to the farm
of T. B. Cotter, near Jersey Shore, tc take
a tuberculosis test on the cattle. Mr. Cot-
ter has a large Guernsey bull that he keeps
chained in a stall but in some manner the
chain was broken so when Dr. Derk went
into the stall the bull turned on him, strik-
ing him on the right leg, the force throw-
ing him across the stall. The doctor is
able to be about on crutches. ‘
_Alleging that his wife, Mary Covely
not only threw dishes and stove fixtures
at him, but attempted to poison him, John
Covely,-a mechanic of Lower Macungie
township, Lehigh county,
2a f y : oy - ou ; 1
with a butcher knife, causing him to flee,
Mrs. Covely is 23 years old.
— Mrs. George Georgel, the Elk county
woman who is charged with a variety of
crimes in connection with alleged mistreat-
ment of a girl taken by her from the Elk
county home, is having her own troubles
1 | in securing bail for her release from jail.
Mrs. Georgel was originally arrested on
two counts, for which bail was fixed at
$3000. The sum was secured and immedi-
ately a third count was lodged against her.
Then the fourth and fifth until bail was
boosted to $5000, and secured. A sixth
charge, alleging attempt to commit mur-
der, was made and thus far she has not
been able to secure the bail.
—By the giving away of the soft, rain-
soaked earth at the edge of the road, a for-
mer Clinton county treasurer, and occu-
pied by himself, his son and William Mox-
ley, all of Renovo, left the road between
Shintown and Renovo early Saturday
morning, while the party was returning
from their hunting camp. All were hurled
into the Susquehanna river, ten feet below.
The car was overturned and Fisher was
caught under it. The water at that point
is about five feet deep and he had a nar-
row escape from drowning. He was res-
cued by his son, who escaped injury. He
was badly cut and bruised on the head,
face and body, while Moxley suffered a dis-
located shoulder. S
__ With the decision of Judge Charles
Corbet, of Jefferson county, the case of
Winslow township against Amos Strouse
ends. During the last four years the case
has been before the court in a number of
forms. During the years 1913 and 1915,
Strouse was treasurer of the road fund
and upon the settlement of his accounts
the township auditors alleged that he was
indebted to the township in a sum upward
of $2000, He was under $10,000 bond, and
action was brought by Thomas Wood.
chairman of the township board of super-
visors, against Strouse and his bondsmen
to recover the alleged shortage. In his
decision, Judge Corbet declared: “The de-
fendants do not owe the plaintiff, viz,
Winslow township, anything and judg-
ment is therefore entered in their favor.”
— Thomas Tavro, of Denholm, is in the
Lewistown hospital suffering with paraly-
sis. During the eleven years that he has
been in America he has played the part of
the primitive man, subsisting chiefly on
roots, berries and fruit that he picked
from the waste land in that vicinity. His
companions say he has practieally lived on
frozen apples for the past month. He also
gathered up scraps that were thrown from
the dining cars of passing trains, claiming
that he was living against the time when
he could return to Italy and live like a
gentleman. - When section foreman Leon-
ard, under whom he is employed as a la-
borer, went through his effects at the
boarding shanty where he lived alone he
found cerificates of deposit aggregating
$20,000 in the bank of Rome and in addi-
tion to this he had $102 about his persom,
$50 on deposit in bank at Mifflintown and
it is known that he was a liberal pur-
chaser of Liebrty bonds during the war
which he sent to a safety deposit vault in
New York for safe keeping. Fellow coun-
trymen of Tavro say that he is the owner
of a large vineyard in Italy whichis work-
ed by his wife and sons who deposit the
money thus earned in the bank of Rome
and send the certificates to the husband
and father in this conntiry.