—You can always count on the lib-
erality of the man who has more than
he wants. He’s a rare bird, however.
—Spring is scheduled for March
21st, but it evidently got mixed in its
dates for surely it arrived two weeks
ago.
—Help yourself along. The other
fellow is too busy getting on himself
to give you more than an occasional
boost, and, besides, he might forget
it entirely.
We notice that former Presi-
dent and Mrs. Wilson called at the
White House on Monday. It is just a
little incident, but it throws an inter-
esting side-light on the finesse of its
recent tenants.
—The ex-Kaiser having brought
forward his claim for having orig-
inated the idea of a League of Na-
tions Senators Lodge, Knox and oth-
ers will probably begin to see some
use in going in.
—The householder who uses soft
coal would be practically certain of
losing no money and have an excel-
lent chance to save quite a tidy sum
if he or she were to lay in next win- |
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ter's supply right now. There
scarcely a possibility of bituminous
going any lower than it is and if bus-
iness revives before mid-summer
there is likely to be an immediate ad-
‘vance.
Talaat Pasha, former grand viz-
ier of Turkey, was assassinated by an
Armenian student on the streets of
Berlin, on Tuesday. The world will
shed few tears over his taking off.
Openly he boasted of his fiendish plans
for extermination of the Armenians
and rather gloried in the unenviable
title of being “the strongest man be-
tween Berlin and hell.” Solomon
Teilirian is an avenger not a mur-
derer.
— 3uperintendent of Public Instruc-
tion Dr. Thomas Finegan is sponsor
for a new bill that has just been in-
troduced in the Legislature affecting
salaries to be paid public school teach- '
ers. He proposes very substantial
boosts all along the line. Most any
of the minimum salaries to be offered .
would look good to us if we could
only get that eight dollars and twenty
cents, that those railroad conductors
who run from New York to Philadel-
phia get for two hours and eleven
minutes work, out of your mind.
‘—_ Madame Marie Curie, the French
scientist who shares with her late
husband the distinction of having dis-
covered radium, is coming to this
country to personally accept some
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 18, 1921.
NO. 11.
VOL. 66.
An Unpleasant Side of Newspaper
Making.
With all the worry and stress and
‘necessity for punctuality that goes
with newspaper making few who have
ever had a real taste of it leave the
profession voluntarily. No matter
whether it is in the office of the big
city daily, the country weekly or that
of a monthly publication the same ir-
ritating, constantly reappearing, con-
ditions exist in a general sense.
The mechanical side of the business
is meeting all the time with the same
breakdowns that interrupt the pleas-
ant progress of any other industry
using machinery. The question of ef-
| ficient help is as acute in the printing
business, and even more so, than in
any other one we know of, for statis-
tics covering the last decade reveal
the fact that the number of apprentic-
es to the printing industry have been
practically nil. The business office,
especially during the past four years,
has shown such meagre profits as to
be discouraging to any who have not
been long enough in the game to know
that any at all are something to be
proud of. Then add to the difficulties
that are continually arising out of
these three departments the harrass-
ing work of editorial and news writing
and a combination is formed the like
| of which is unknown to any other bus-
iness.
The country weekly does not suffer |
| the grind that the city dailies do, but
its position of being in intimate rela-
tionship with most of the people of the
community it serves makes its posi-
tion far more difficult.
A paper, to be of any value, must
be a purveyor of news and news is
news, whether it is local or foreign.
A country weekly covers a con-
tracted field, but it covers it as care-
fully as a metropolitan journal covers
the world. The two are not in compe-
tition, for it will never be possible for
either one to infringe on the territory
of the other for reasons that must be
obvious. News is not made as fast in
a small field as in a larger one so that
honors the women of the United the person who reads his local paper
States purpose conferring on the not- frequently finds things that he never
able woman. Madal
ly set about to exple “old theo
that the earth is cooling off. Quite
the reverse, she says, is true. And
while we know that one swallow
doesn’t make a summer the abnormal
heat we have been having the past
few days almost persuades us to be-
lieve that the little French lady knows
what she is talking about.
—1In the readjustment of wages that
is now being undertaken all over the
country it should be borne in mind
that unskilled labor, prior to the war,
was compensated far too low to return
a decent living for the men who do the
rough work. They were advanced on
the basis of their pre-war pay so that
what they are receiving now is not as
much in excess of decent living re-
quirements as is the compensation of
skilled labor. The man who is getting
from six to ten dollars a day can take
a good cut without seriously reducing
his standard of living far more easily
than can the unskilled laborer who is
getting from threé to five dollars.
— Daylight saving died a bornin’ at
Harrisburg Monday night. There
were only fifty-six Members to sup-
port it and one hundred and forty-
two to oppose. The farmers of the
State were opposed to the bill and the
country Members had their ears to the
ground. While we are disappointed,
along with thousands of others who
live in the towns and cities, it is grat-
ifying to note that the country Mem-
bers of the Legislature can do some-
thing when they stand together. If
they were to take a lesson from this |
display of strength we would not hear
so much of Philadelphia, Allegheny, |
Luzerne and Lancaster counties con-
trolling Pennsylvania.
—Obsolescence affects most every-
thing. Men and machinery and count-
less other things grow old and out of
date and are replaced by younger and
more modern products, but literature,
real classics, lives on forever; reveal-
ing some new inspiration, inspiring
higher ideals each time they are read.
Like wine they grow mellower and
years give them more bouquet.
course it wasn’t a classic, but since
there is so much righteous indigna-
tion at the manner of my lady’s dress-
ing these days there comes to mind a
bit of jingle that once rattled off the
tongue of many who indulged in what
they then thought were things a trifle
risque, which runs like this:
Providence sends the wicked winds
That blow our skirts knee high,
But God is just and sends the dust
That blows in the bad man’s eye.
If, by any distortion of intellectual-
ity this can be called literature—at
one time we actually thought it a
classic— then obsolescence surely has
overtaken literature as well as men
and other things. This jingle was
fine stuff in the days of demi-trains,
but the fellow who wrote it didn’t
know that future femininity was go-
ing to do for herself regularly what
the March winds then only did on oc-
casion.
Of |
ty
daily and seizes the
what a mistake 1t i
trifling items. He hasn’t thought that
the one paper hasn’t space for them
and the other hasn’t real news for its
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space.
All of these trials are a thorn in the
side of those who are trying to make
a real local newspaper. The editor
knows them far better than those who
volunteer advice. He has ambition,
always, to make his paper better, but
often he gleans very barren ground.
It is a terribly exacting task and often
we wonder that any one undertakes it
but they do and they: stick to it.
With all of the troubles with which
the work is beset the hardest to meet
is the disassociation of the editor as
a member of the community in which
he lives from the editor as a gatherer
and purveyor of news. Our friend
Jones thinks the paper ought to give
Smith hell all the time and runs to us
with a story every time he sees Smith
even pleasantly bidding the time of
day to some other man’s wife. That’s
the kind of news he wants to see pub-
lished when it refers to some one he
doesn’t like. But when his boy gets
mixed up in an auto-wreck in which
two or three girls his daddy didn’t
know he frivoled with get hurt and a
real piece of news is made, the editor
is a dirty skunk and ought to be run
out of the community for publishing
‘ the story.
Nearly all of them overlook the fact
that the local newspaper is supposed
to hold the mirror up to life. It is
nothing more, nor less than a reflec-
i tion of the life of a community. It
' has a thousand and one tastes to cater
'to and can’t play favorites and live.
When the sordid, drab incident
breaks the editor knows the principals
to it quite as well as any other in the
{ community. He would far rather sup-
"press it. He doesn’t give it publicity
“with a thought of abetting gossip or
adding a bit of sorrow to the unfortu-
‘nates connected with it. He has had
| a surfeit of such things. But he knows
| that there are countless others who
have not and they must be satisfied.
Do you know that “the American
Standard,” the big Chicago daily,
started last December by the associat-
ed religious organizations of that city,
has suspended already because the
very people who urged it declined to
support it because it tried to be above
the plane of the ordinary paper. It
did just what we would like to do:
Publish only the pleasant, hopeful,
constructive news.
death.
— Surely it is amusing to Demo-
crats to be reading every day that this,
that and the other new official, whom
Mr. Harding has started on the job of
doing things better than their Demo-
cratic predecessors did, comes out
with the bald acknowledgment that
the best he can hope for is to leave the
place in as good shape as he found it.
And what's it all -lea
action of the authorities at
And Nero Fiddled.
| A recent issue of the “Presbyteri-
an” editorially discussed the modern
, dance question in what might be re-
garded as its favorable and unfavor-
able indulgence. “Dancing,” it says,
“js defined as the act of moving in
measured step to the rhytm of music
and there can be no objection to such
diversion by the individuals when the
rules of propriety are observed.
i The Alumni Quarterly, a publica-
tion of the Mercersburg Academy for
boys, is quoted as follows: The dan-
ces at Mercersburg have been discon-
tinued for the present. When the
craze for jazz music and cheek danc-
ing is over, when girls paint less and
dress more, dances will be resumed.”
When the bunny-hug and the turkey
trot first came into vogue and before
the girls began to drop their dresses
to the wish-bone in front and the hip
bones behind and paint their faces un-
til they look like German dolls the
“Watchman” inveighed against the
conversion of a graceful, harmless so-
cial practice into a riot of discordant,
sensual gyrations.
We had our fling in the days when
. the young lady who was held most pop-
ular at a party was the one on whose
card the most men had sought a place.
She and her sisters might have danced
once with a man with the taint of li-
, quor on his breath, but it was almost
i a certainty that she would decline his
{ second invitation as a polite reminder
{ that she would not play Terpsichore
to any Bacchus. She was just the
same bit of humanity as the girls of
today and she would probably have
been just the same as her younger
sisters had she reigned today instead
{of yesterday. Notwithstanding this
latter probability we look back on her
as a different order of woman, and
for that reason we are an “old fogey.”
Our opinion counts for nothing and
the mothers and fathers of the land
permit their pin-feathered offspring
to shed stays and petticoats so that
they can shake their torsos, fore and
aft, in a way that would have made
the first hootchey kootchey dancer
who came over here from Egypt in
1893 think that her skin was as tight 1
ercers-
as that of a hide-bound
burg Academy shows what’s in the
mind of some other old fogies.
All over the country churches, civic
clubs, the Y’s, and every organization
that has a care for the chastity of the
young is awakening to the dangers
ahead and unless there is a movement
back to the real dance of grace and
modesty dancing will have its Vol-
stead act also.
There is a limit to which impropri-
ety may go. A departed railroad
magnate once said: “The public be
damned.” Immediately the public
became interested in railroads and leg-
islation that was thought impossible
has been written into our statutes.
. There would have been no Prohibi-
tion agitation in this country if the
dealers had not disregarded every ad-
monition of moderation in the traffic.
It would not have been made un-
lawful to sell cigarettes to boys if to-
bacconists had realized the baneful
effect of smoking on those of tender
years.
All of these changes came about in
a most natural way and all because
of heedlessness on the part of those
most directly concerned.
So, again, we implore the young
folks to stop for a moment and con-
sider whither they are dancing while
Nero fiddles. Let the girls remember
that the restraint and attractive in-
fluence of woman upon man is her
purity and modesty. When these are
lacking to the normal man, then the
situation becomes repulsive, and
though sinful freedom may be exer-
_cised, it finally results in abhorrence.
i Our hope has been that girls would
listen to the appeals of those of their
sex who see the folly of it all and are
appealing to them from all quarters,
but if they will not then God give us
men who will stop the riot before all
the barriers of decency fall and
dancing degenerates into moral lep-
T0SY.
| EE
! ——Who would have thought it a
year ago when eggs were selling
around 70 cents the dozen that the
| price would get back to what it was
before the war, but now they are lit-
erally going a begging at 25 cents.
' Hay is also down to $15.00 and $17.00
per ton and no great demand for it at
that figure. Of course we humans
The Wilson Memorial. |
Already plans are well under way to |
establish a perpetual memorial in hon-
or of Woodrow Wilson, “the man who
projected into the world the idea of
the League of Nations.”
America might well be up and doing
in this respect. Mountain peaks,
islands of the sea and nearly every
foreign city of any consequence has
a street or park bearing the name that
posterity will honor with increasing
reverence. So that it is mete that the
country that gave Woodrow Wilson to
the world should do something in com-
memoration of his surpassing service
to it.
The plan of raising a minimum sum
of $500,000 which is to be placed in
trust to provide an annual award to
the person who, during the year, has
made the greatest contribution toward
international peace, is ideal, since it
is designed to perpetuate the great
ideal of the former President. The
achievements of the Wilson adminis-
trations were many and salutory, but
those having to do with our material
happiness will be remembered only
when changing conditions compel their
supersedence by regulations more in
conformity with the new order of
things. They will all fall into obso-
lescence with the march of progress.
But “peace on earth, good will to
man” will live in the hope of chris-
tian people until the end of time. That
was Woodrow Wilson’s ideal. That
was what urged him on to the point
where he almost laid down his life in
the struggle to attain it. That was
world altruism and international ami-
ty would be its realization.
The proposed Wilson memorial
would reward those who take up the
torch his withered hand laid down.
As John Drinkwater, the English
playwright said in New York on Tues-
day night, he “conceived beyond his
executive capacity—a thing that is
generally true of all great historical
figures.”
“Most men are prone to bow in sub-
mission at the first assault of expedi-
ency, It is the tragedy and the
glory of Woodrow Wilson that he
clung tenaciously to his ideals regard-
re by no means perfect. :
the strategy back of them made one of
the greatest contributions to modern
civilization.” iri
Bellefonte and the Y.
It is a pleasant announcement that
the Bellefonte” Y. M. C. A. building,
that has been undergoing repairs for
a period that has dragged discourag-
ingly over more than two years is
nearing the time when it will be ready
for service along’ the lines which the
rebuilding undertaking contemplated.
In size, facilities for recreation and
entertainment the local Y. is out of all
proportion to our community. It is
probably a fact that not another town
of the population of Bellefonte pos-
sesses Association facilities and com-
forts such as this remodeled building
will offer to the young men and wom-
en of this community. Bellefonte al-
ways has aspired and achieved in a
manner that would do credit to a
much more populous and resourceful
centre.
When the Y. is ready to function
again as an institution it will serve a
useful or indifferent purpose just as
our people are broad minded and help-
ful in its conduct, or bigoted and fault
finding. It can become the community
centre, the clearing house for all so-
cial, moral and civic welfare work and
fill an ideal place in our community
life or it can dawdle along as it did
before the rehabilitation was under-
taken.
There is a great field for its activi-
ties here and no one who views its ad-
mirable physical readaptation can fail
to be impressed with the possibilities
that lie in their proper use. It seems
to us that all the local civic organiza-
tions, the various church brotherhoods,
the ministerium, the Board of Trade,
the Business Men’s Association and
every group that in the larger sense la-
bors for the personal and general uplift
of the community should meet the re-
opening of the building with a deter-
mination to give it most cordial and
enthusiastic co-operation.
All ideas of creed, race, politics or
caste should be left behind when en-
tering the doors of the Y. It should
be the one place where we all meet on
'a common level to be just what our
Creator intended that we should be:
| Healthy, joyous, pure men and women.
| There should be a minimum of cant
' can’t eat hay, but there is also a very :
: / * y and a maximum of tolerance. The at-
noticeable increase in the hunk of | mosphere should be such as to leave
| thankful for, at least.
i ——If Queen Marie, of Rumania,
who is to visit this country next fall,
is as handsome as her photographs
represent her to be she will redeem
the ideals of royalty that were so se-
verely shaken when the Queen of Bel-
gium, our most recent royal visitor,
turned out to be just a plain looking
| tittle woman, 3
It didn’t feed the | meat that can now be purchased for a | Vig jo >
beast in the man and he starved it to | dollar, and that is one thing to be I10 Souk Shai 31 i913 Ce d
as well by refined brotherly service as
by psalm singing.
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—The chief of police of Sunbury
has issued an edict that no female
may parade the streets of that burg
| with skirts that are less than four
"inches below the knee.
What a job
he will have on his hands enforcing
such an order. And what a display
| of silken calves he’ll have to lamp.
All in the Head.
From an Exchange.
He saw the warm sun melt the snow;
Across the fields he heard the crow.
“Ah! Spring at last; and so,” he said,
“My winter underwear I'll shed.”
But soon an epizootic bug
Crawled up his nose,—Inflamed his mug;
His feet were cold, and hot his head,
And “dab the Sprig” was what he said.
The Day of Reckoning.
From the DuBois Express.
At last, after almost infinite pa-
tience—a patience which long has ex-
asperated many unsympathetic with
diplomatic procedure and delay—the
allies have moved on German soil. A
great stretch of the richest manufac-
turing territory in the Teuton empire
republic is under occupation. The ag-
gressor in the world war will at last
supinely suffer a vast invasion by the
forces of her conquerers.
That Germany’s representatives at
the conference in London should have
brought matters to this pass would
be incomprehensible without an un-
derstanding of home conditions. There
are still hundreds of thousands of
Germans who do not realize that their
country was beaten. No traces of war
ravages disfigures the face of Germa-
ny, no hint of the awful devastation
of victorious France and Belgium are
to be found in the smiling fields of the
authors of the world horror. Many
even recall how the beaten German
troops marched home with bands play-
ing and flags flying, amid the acclaim
of the populace. And even the cables
have carried German threats and Ger-
man boasts to intersperse German
whining.
All these things have created a con-
dition at home that has made the posi-
tion of the Ebert government a most
difficult one. To have yielded at Lon-
don to the demand that it keep its
pledges—a demand wholly at variance
with the sinister twist of German psy-
chology—threatened to provoke a
storm in which Ebert and his follow-
ers would be submerged. Finally
they seem to have decided that they
could more safely brave the higher
force and align themselves as victims
of the inevitable.
And the inevitable has overtaken
them. Now for the first time the full
ignominy of defeat will be borne in
upon the apostles of frightfulness.
Now must vainglory give way to pun-
PRCT be borie 10 tnd, fn that:
ural wave of pity for a prostrate na-
tion, that the punishment is not a pun-
_ ishment in kind. It involves no cruel
death of millions, no ruin of fair cities
and broad countrysides. It is nothing
“ more than an exaction from Germany
of pay, in so far as she can pay in
money and material things, for the
damage she did for civilization. There
is no grim debt held against her for
the millions of deaths she caused, for
the untold suffering and misery she
spread through the world. No attempt
has been made to compute human
blood in terms of dollars or of marks.
Germany is required only to pay the
material breakage bill.
Scarcely a human being breathes
anywhere on this globe today who has
not felt, nay, who is not at this very
moment feeling, the effect of the
world war, directly or indirectly. Yet
the Germans are whining that $58,-
000,000,000 of indemnity is going to
mean hardship and toil. So be it,
“Woe unto the nations by which of-
fenses come.”
Out of the occupation will come a
clearer knowledge of Germany’s abil-
ity to pay. It will end the riot of ex-
travagance in Berlin and, indeed,
throughout the empire. And if it
takes forty years of toil and tears to
clear the account with civilization, let
it be hoped that out of this very suf-
fering and- degredation may come the
regeneration of a people such as will
restore them to the Brotherhood of
Man and the Fatherhood of God.
Nothing Alarming.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
A considerable number of employ-
ers are in the glooms because the
workmen of the country decline to
meekly submit to wholesale slashing
of wages. But there is nothing un-
natural in the attitude of the wage-
earner in this respect. He is no dif-
ferent from the manufacturer or the
merchant. Both of them held on to
high prices for their products and
their wares as long as possible.
And why not? They were in bus-
iness primarily to make money and
prices having been advanced general-
ly they did not wish to let go of the
advantage they had gained.
Of course in the long run, they
suffered needless losses thereby, but
that does not alter the fact that they
held on as long as possible and are at
this moment getting the best prices
possible. .
There is nothing reprehensible in
that. It is every man’s business to
get a good price for his wares or his
services. Wage-earners are but fol-
lowing the natural and the general
trend. They, too, are simply trying
to hold onto as much as possible as
long as possible, and while this
course may not spell prosperity for
them in the long run and doubtless
will prolong the period of uncertain
employment, nobody can reasonably
blame them, since they are but doing
what their employers did before
them. The servant cannot be expect-
ed to be wiser than the master.
Labor, like everything else, must
readjust itself to new conditions, but
like manufacturing and selling it will
‘yield only to necessity.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—While playing hide and seek last Fri-
day, with school companions, Abram M.
Flora, 10 years old, son of Mr .and Mrs. M.
C. Flora, of Orrstown, near Chambersburg,
stepped on a string attached to the trig-
ger of a shotgun, set as a trap for grain
thieves in the barn of Norman Hoch, and
was killed almost instantly.
—Some burglars, even, .aave a heart. One
entered the home of Mrs: W. A. Kerr, of
New Castle, early Sa arday morning.
When confronted by the burglar, Mrs.
Kerr told him she had only $5 and that
her husband is sick, and she is caring for
him. The burglar said, “I guess you need
the money more than I do,” and left the
house without taking anything.
—Hissing sound and concussion caused
by a falling meteor last Thursday night
startled the population of Brockwayville.
Houses were shaken and persons feared
the meteor had fallen in the town. An in-
vestigation showed it had imbedded near
the W. I. tower on the Erie Railroad,
about a quarter of a mile from town.
Railroad men who saw the falling mass
say it was large and that it buried itself
eight or ten feet in the ground.
—Hundreds of men out of work at Potts-
ville are borrowing money to pay the in-
come tax on their last year’s wages. One
man who presented himself to the officials .
was required to pay $12, although he has
not worked a day this year yet. He bor-
rowed $3 to pay the first installment. The
miners are better situated than the steel
workers, as their work has continued stead-
ily and large amounts will be paid in all
the mining towns of that region next week.
—W. R. Monroe, president of the Monroe
Manufacturing company, of Bloomsburg,
has been held under $1000 for a further
hearing on a charge of issuing a check
without sufficient funds to meet it, and re-
ceivers were appointed for the company,
following a long conference. The claims
against the company are said to total
about $200,000. The receivers are C. W.
Singer, treasurer of the Columbia County
Trust company, and H. W. Frey, repre-
senting the Keystone Manufacturing com-
pany, of Elkins, W. Va.
—(Court messenger Thomas D. Hummell,
of Lewistown, suffered an attack of heart
disease while in attendance at a special
session of court presided over by Judge
Thomas F. Bailey on Monday, and was
dead before a physician could be called.
Humell was 82 years old and a veteran of
the Civil war, serving with Company H,
149th Pennsylvania volunteers, better
known as the “Penn Bucktails,” and was
wounded in the upper left thigh at the as-
sanlt on the Bloody Angle at Gettysburg
and mustered out at York.
—OQvercome by fumes from gasoline
while being taken home from school, two
Benton, Columbia county girls were reviv-
ed only after physicians had worked for
five hours. Eli McHenry called at the
school house for his sister Mabel and a
friend, Marie Fritz, as the distance to
their homes was too great to walk over the
muddy roads. The girls sat in the rear
seat of the inclosed car, and when they
reached the Fritz home, both were uncon-
scious. Doctors found they had been over-
come with gas while the machine was be-
ing driven on low gear through the mud.
Judge G. G. Sloan, at the opening of
court in Clarion, last week, caused a stir
by notifying Constable George Myers, of
‘Clarion, to return all dances at which
‘there’ was any rowdyism or at whigh any
“jazz” or ‘shimmy’ dances were allowed.
He also charged the constable to see that
the dances were closed at the proper hour
and were conducted in a manner of decen-
ey and propriety. Not only did the judge
go after the dances in a fitting manner,
but instructed Constable Myers to watch
for the gambling that has been going on
in Clarion. Judge Sloan is determined
that Clarion shall be cleansed of some of
its sins, and he will see that the laws are
obeyed.
-——Benjamin F. Chase, of Clearfield, will
leave this week for New York, from which
place he will sail for Trondhjem, Norway,
where he will serve as the American con-
sul. Mr. Chase has been spending a couple
of months at Clearfield following his re-
turn from Costa Rica, where he served as
consul. He was at that place during the
time the United States was having trouble
with a certain faction of the natives of
that place. His position at that time was
decidedly a precarious one, and he was in
constant danger of being killed. He - has
previously served as consul at Leeds, Eng-
land, and in Italy and Austria. Clearfield
is his home town, and his brother is may-
or of that place.
—_Rehabilitating rundown farms is a
field of exceptional money-making possi-
bilities as has been proven by the exper-
ience of J. G. Reitz, of Mifflin county. He
bought a parcel of land for $3000, two
vears ago, when labor shortage was so
acute on the farms. The place, like many
another, had run down through inatten- |
tion, for virtually all of the available peo-
ple who had not been in military service
were employed in the steel mills at Burn-
ham. Reitz invested in the place liberally
from his own store of brain and brawn,
and the tract came back so splendidly that
he sold it last week at a profit of $7000 on
the real estate alone, plus a gain of £3000
on the crops in the meantime.
_ The Lewistown Housing and Develop-
ment company received the final check of
$14,538.50 from the Pennsylvania Wire
Glass company of Dunbar, Pa., in payment
of their factory site of 20% acres located
on the Fleming and O'Meara tracts east of
Lewistown and adjacent to the Susquehan-
na silk mill, on which they will break
ground as soon as the weather permits for
a factory, the main building of which will
be 175 by 600 feet. The construction will
be principally of their own product, cor-
rugated wire glass, and inasmuch as the
factory employing about 600 men will be
run on three eight-hour shifts, the build-
ing will be a blaze of light all through the
night. They expect to put 200 men on the
job for construction as soon as the weather
will permit.
——With only a pocket knife to defend
himself against a savage bull, Burrell An-
derson, living near Delta, York county,
probably would have lost his life had not
two dogs come to his rescue. The bull, be-
longing to Joseph Dick, attacked Ander-
son in an open field and threw him to the
ground. The animal had been dehorned,
but it kneeled upon its victim and endeav-
ored to crush out his life while Anderson
vainly tried to cut the bull's throat with
his knife. The knife had been knocked
from his hand and he was fast losing
strength when a hired man on the farm
noticed the conflict and released two dogs.
They sprang to the rescue and while they
worried the bull = Anderson scrambled .
across the fence to safety. He was not .
badly hurt.