'—Congress will convene in special
session next week and then we'll see
what we'll see:
or party conventions for making
vy nominations and everybody ex-
~ —Laborers are being paid from
$3.00 to $3.25 for a nine hour day in
and about Bellefonte and while many
men are without employment it is re-
ally right difficult to secure one for
odd jobs of a day or so.
- —With the city in the greatest in-
dustrial slough it has ever experienc-
ed and its immediate future impene-
trable Altoona taxpayers are in a pan-
ic because their school millage will
have to be raised to seventeen mills.
They should worry. Bellefonte has
been paying twenty-one so long that
it doesn’t know any better.
—There is a bill before the Legisla-
ture that, if passed, would make it
necessary for boys who sell newspa-
pers on the streets to take out a li-
cense. Grand old Commonwealth,
this! Land of liberty and opportuni-
ty—if you pay a license first to sup-
port a lot of law-makers who have no
license to be where they are.
—It does seem strange that there
should be so much trouble in Harris-
burg finding enough revenue to sup-
ply the needs of the schools and hos-
pitals and so little in finding enough
to raise the salaries of hundreds of
state officials. And they slipped all
the salary grabs through before they
permitted any of the State’s institu-
tions to have a peep into the bag.
—Next week we will start our new
serial “Bull Dog Drummond” and if
you want some really thrilling read-
ing start it and then lend your paper
to your neighbor. If he starts:it too
you will be sure of having a call from
him every week it continues. “Buil
Dog Drummond” hasn’t been publish-
ed in book form yet nor has it been
filmed, but when it is it will be won-
derfully popular.
—The Lewisburg Journal is happy
because a squad of the state constab-
ulary has been detailed for duty in
that place. Lewisburg has been in-
fested with notorious street charac-
ters, African golfers and huggers and
the one lone policeman of the town is
unable to halt the naughty things that
are going on down there, hence the
«call for state aid. My, what a trans-
formation. Years ago Lewisburg had
a rep. for just two things: Sunday
dinners at the Baker house and bevies
of really nice girls.
—If you have any bouquets or
bricks to throw at the fellow who ti-
dies up this office, sets some type,
feeds a press now and then, hustles for
the mazuma with which to pay his fel-
low workers and then writes this stuff
and some other on the side, don’t come |
We don’t expect to
in next Friday.
be here. We have expectations of
spending that day along some good
trout stream, far from the worries of
a country print shop and near to the
joys of meetin’ up with a friend who
thinks Mr. Volstead didn’t mean it— |
so far as fishermen are concerned:
—It is worthy of note that those
foreign princes, princesses, generals
and admirals whose parasitic life has
been ended by the overthrow of gov-
ernments that supported them, have
been forced to go to work. That they
are actually working is remarkable
in itself; but the significant feature of
the incident is the occupations they
have evidently found themselves best
fitted for. Porters, peddlers, waiters,
flower venders, newsies and boot-
blacks is what many of them are to-
day. And it is probably because they
are not fitted for more ambitious oc-
cupations that they were such a bum
lot of princes, princesses, generals and
admirals that their people raised up
and threw them all out.
—Canada buys $300,000,000 more in
goods from us than we do from her
each year. Naturally she is getting
riled up at the prospect of our passing
a tariff bill that will make the sale of
some of her products in the Statesim-
possible and threatens retaliation. If
all countries follow Canada’s proposal
there’ll be a fine world’s market for
our goods. As Col. House says: Our
first constructive work should be to
help the rest of the world back to nor-
mal, so that it can produce something
with which to barter for our products.
This country can’t prosper if the rest
of the world is bankrupt any more
than the stores of Bellefonte would if
no one within trading radius of the
town had money or credit with which
to purchase their wares.
—Sure it was right that President
Harding should not receive a pay
check for all of the month of March.
He didn’t work the first three and a
half days of the month, so why should
he have been paid for them. It isn’t
the matter of the few dollars involved.
It is the principle that should be up-
held and the example set by the high-
est hired man of the nation. Salaries
and wages are paid for services ren-
dered and where there is no service
there should be no expectation of
either. President Harding made no
comment on the shortage in his March
pay envelope, but a lot of thoughtless
news writers did and very likely a lot
of readers of their items also thought
it a pecksniffian practice. It is proba-
ble that they didn’t stop to think,
either, that when our President ac-
cepts pay for work he doesn’t do the
slacker in more humble positions
might justify the pointing to very ex-
alted precedents for his dishonest
practices.
Hema
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 66.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL S, 1921.
NO. 14.
False Hope of Improvement.
Late information from Harrisburg
indicates an awakening of the Sena-
tors and Representatives in the Gen-
eral Assembly, not only to their duty
but to their rights. “Members of
ing from the folks at home,” writes
the correspondent of the esteemed
Philadelphia Record, “and not a few
lawmakers are beginning to realize
that the time has arrived for showing
some signs of life.” These signs are
expressed in protests againsiw the
practical refusal of the fiscal agents
of the State to reveal the actual finan-
cial condition of the Commonwealth.
The flippant reply of State Treasurer
Gephart to the resolution of Represen-
tative Alexander appears to be the
traditional “last straw.”
Strangely enough and somewhat om-
inously the spokesman for the protes-
tants is the Speaker of the House and
protege of Penrose and Grundy. “It
is an outrage,” declares the Sneaker,
“to have the House going into the
final weeks of the session without an
adequate and comprehensive knowl-
There is no excuse for it.” In this
There is an excuse, though it may be
a lame one. It lies in the ambition of
the Governor to make his administra-
tion “illustrious for achievement.” If
the Legislators knew the exact state
of the finances they would speedily call
a halt on the increases of salaries, the
creation of new offices and other ex-
travagances.
But we look for no improvement on
account of the signs of an awakened
conscience, or shall we call it an
aroused fear, on the part of the law-
makers. © From the source of this
pleasing information and simultane-
ously, we get the news that Senator
, Penrose has withdrawn his opposition
to the Governor’s program of increas-
, ing taxes and during the closing days
. of the session we may expect the pas-
sage of legislation adding to the bur-
dens of the people thirty million dol-
I lars or so in order to make the “mag-
' nificent achievement” certain. Sena-
"tor Crow, on his return from Wash-
"ington, announced on Monday even-
‘ing that “Senator Penrose will not op-
"pose the tax bills or any part of the
program of Governor Sproul.”
——The Pennsylvania railroad
i shopmen will accept ‘a reasonable
| cut” in wages and we are curious to
| learn how much of a cut General At-
terbury estimates as reasonable.
Sound Ideas on Immigration.
|
|
|
i
{
| Commissioner of Immigration, in an
‘interview published in the New York
| World last Sunday, reflect the opin-
lions of the new administration on im-
| migration problems, the country may
hope to score vast improvements in
| the future. “Our present manner of
| handling the entire immigration
i question is simply barbarous,” he said.
“We have managed to pass laws bear-
ling no relationship to our needs, such
i as the literacy test, and then, to
{ make matters still worse, their appli-
| cation is made as inhuman and cruel
"as it is possible to imagine.” Then he
adds: “The trouble with our immi-
| gration policy is that it is unintelli-
gent.”
i Of all the absurd things which have
been written into our immigration
laws within a few years the literary
test is the most preposterous. The
pretense is that it will keep out crim-
| inals, anarchists and other undesira-
bles. As a matter of fact more of the
criminal immigrants are college grad-
uates than illiterates. The anarchists
and agitators who come to destroy
| highly educated, while most of the il-
literates come with the single purpose
of improving their social and finan-
cial conditions by honest industry.
But these willing workers are refused
| the asylum they desire by the law
i while the scholarly criminals are wel-
comed with open arms to perpetuate
crime.
“What we need in America,” says
Commissioner Wallis, “are men and
| women strong in body and sound in
i mind.” And he seems to have well-
matured plans to get that sort of men
and women from the old world. The
examinations would be made at the
port of departure rather than at the
point of arrival and those found fit
would be directed to points in this
country where the work to which they
are adapted is wanted. That policy
would avoid the congestion in cities
and centres which is the cause of com-
honest immigrant as helpful as he or
she would be welcome in the commu-
nity. “Assimilation would be a sim-
ple matter,” writes Mr. Wallis, “if
immigration were distributed.”
——Potatoes would not have fallen
to the low price level now quoted in
some sections if they had been sold at
the fair prices offered some months
' ago.
both the Senate and House are hear-
edge of the State’s financial condition.
last statement the Speaker is wrong.
i If the ideas expressed by Mr. Fred-
erick Wallis, the recently appointed
and sow the seeds of discontent are
plaint and make the industrious and :
Act of 1919 a Fence for Profligacy.
Representative Alexander, of Dela-
ware county, may have been mistaken
in his opinion that he has a legal right
to demand a report of the operations
of the State Treasury. He unques-
tionably had that right until two years
ago, when the General Assembly cut
it off. Just why it was cut off is left
to conjecture. But there are clues, as
the detectives say. The plan to make
the Sproul administration illustrious
for achievement is probably at the
bottom of it. The eight or ten million
dollar deficiency bills put through the
present session may be logical conse-
quences. In any event Mr. Alexander
is morally and everlastingly right.
The people have a right to know what
is being done with their money.
Thus far the present session of the
General Assembly has done little ex-
cept create new offices and increase
the salary of others. At the opening
of the session the Governor announc-
ed his magnificent purposes but Pen-
rose vetoed his plans because they in-
volved a vast increase of taxation.
Now the signs indicate a diminution
of the Penrose power and a resump-
tion of the Governor’s program. But
publicity is a formidable foe to de-
vious enterprises and the demand of
Representative Alexander for infor-
mation as to the conditions of the
finances might ruin the prospects of
concealing unwarranted expenditures
in future deficiency bills, if complied
~with. The act of 1919 is therefore a
' convenient fence.
That there is something rotten at
“the capitol in Harrisburg admits of no
, doubt. The act of 1919 was not in-
tended to save the expense of publi-
, cation of reports. The Sproul admin-
istration is not striving for a record
in economy. Enough money has been
voted by the present session of the
Legislature for needless increases in
salaries of officials to pay for the pub-
lication of all the reports that could
possibly be made in fifty years, and
the Governor has approved every bill
passed. Therefore some other reason
must be found for the act of 1919 and
the use to which State Treasurer
Kephart has put it is the most plaus-
ible. It keeps the facts from the pub-
lic with the help of a subservient As-
sembly.
——Auditor General Snyder is more
diplomatic as well as a better dresser
than State Treasurer Kephart. Mr.
Snyder has given the Legislature,
without being asked for it, the infor-
mation which Mr. Kephart refused,
though asked to give it.
Evil of the Emergency Tariff Bill.
The European governments allied
in the late world war owe the United
States upward of fifteen billions of
"dollars. The only possible way to dis-
! charge this vast debt is to send the
' products of the mills, factories, mines
cand soils of the debtor governments
to this country in the form of mer-'
chandise.
Such debts are never paid
lin coin or substitute currency of any
! description. To withdraw such a sum '
| from the industry and commerce of
the debtor countries would cause in-
| dustrial and commercial paralysis.
{ To dump such a quantity of gold into
' this country within a limited period
"would demoralize the industrial and
| commercial life of the United States.
| During the war and as a necessary
incident to the conditions then exist-
Many
! age had not been enrolled, so that the
ing an immense commercial marine
| was created by the government of the |
| United States at a vast expense.’
Thousands of ships were built in the
expectation that after their use as
transports and supply ships for the
| war was ended they could be used to
advantage as carriers in the exporta-
| tion of products to foreign markets
, dise consigned to this country in the
' eign debts. Unless they are so em-
{ ployed the great cost of their con- :
| struction will be lost inevitably, and
‘added to the loss of the war debt will
(sum up an aggregate of waste that
will stagger the world.
{ In the face of these facts the Re-
Mr. Hughes Right but Not Frank.
It is a pity that Secetary of State
Hughes was not more candid in his
reply to the memorandum of Dr. Si-
mons with respect to reparations and
indemnities for damages incurred dur-
ing the war. It is true that he prac-
tically reiterated the statements made
on the same subject by his predeces-
sor in office, Mr. Colby. But he was |
obviously insincere in his statement
that the memorandum of Dr. Simons
is “an unequivocal expression on the
part of the German government of its
desire to afford reparation up to the
limit of German: ability to pay.” As
a matter of fact the German govern-
ment has shown no desire to pay at
all. Its mental and diplomatic efforts
have all been toward avoiding pay-
ment.
Germany has been, and with good
reason, expecting comfort if not ma-
terial help from the Harding admin-
istration. The efforts of Dr. Vierick
and his associate hyphenated voters
in behalf of the candidate of the Re-
publican party were not given with-
out promise, expressed or implied, of
recompense. The brief note of Mr.
Hughes in reply to the memorandum
of Dr. Simons’ statement that “it is
German expectations in that respect.
But it would have sounded better in
the 100 per cent. American ear if he
had frankly challenged the sincerity
of Dr. Simon’s statement that “it is
the earnest desire of the government
of Germany to reach an accord with
the allied and associated powers, and
it is sincere in its purpose to meet
their requirements as far as possible.”
As Secretary Hughes states, “this
government stands with the govern-
ments of the allies in holding Germa-
ny responsible for the war.” It was
ruthlessly undertaken with the view
of coining money out of the blood and
miseries of civilization. If German
expectations had been fulfilled every
community in Great Britain, France,
Italy and the United States would
have been crushed as the cities of Bel- i
gium were devastated. Mainly be-
cause of the intervention of the Unit-
ed States, German expectations were
disappointed and since the close of
hostilities German energy has been
diligently. employed in efforts to
evade just claims for reparation.
Such purposes ought not to be abet-
ted by this country.
eereeeet—— reese eee.
Governor Sproul has approved
the Phipps bill which repeals the
county military enrollment bill pass-
ed in 1899. The bill was passed at the
close of the Spanish-American war
and was designed to keep on hand cor-
rect data as to the military strength
of this country. Had the enrollment
been accurate and complete the act
might have served the purpose intend-
ed, but unfortunately the roll was
never kept up to date. This fact was
demonstrated early in 1917, after the
United States declared war on Germa-
ny. When the selective draft law was
passed and a call was made for all
men of military age to enroll the
“Watchman” published the list of eli-
gibles as they appeared on the mili- |
tary enrollment of Centre county, and
the result was that this office was be-
, sieged by many inquiries as to why |
| “so-and-so’s” name was on the list,
as he was years past the military age.
others who were of military
list was woefully inaccurate. Asses-
sors were allowed three cents each for
making the military enrollment and
the repeal of the law will mean a re-
duction in expense to every county in
the State.
Mayor Moore, of Philadelphia,
announces that he will revoke the li-
cense of any theatre in that city that
puts a wanton, recently acquitted of
and the importation of the merchan- ! murder,
; ould i ]
‘ discharge of the war loans and for- » phalte an admirable sensor
on its stage. “Hampy”
——Grover Bergdoll, slacker and
draft dodger, says he expects a good
deal from the Harding administration.
German sympathizers have a right to
indulge in bright expectations from
! that source.
. publican leaders in Congress, and ap-
' parently with the assent of the Pres-
ident, are preparing to create an em-
‘bargo which will not only scrap the
| merchant marine fleets but will make
"it impossible for Europe to pay the
| war debts to this country. The Ford-
' ney emergency tariff bill will not only
| rob the ships of opportunity but it
will prevent our European debtors
| from paying the billions of dollars
they owe and are willing to pay. If
there were any chance that the meas-
ure might relieve the existing distress
of the farming industry, there might
! be some excuse for it. But as a mat-
ter of fact it will add to rather than
relieve their burdens.
ginning of the war are making wry
faces at having to take the low prices
for the high cost crops now that the
| war is over. Viewed in this light they
are having no actual loss.
——Of course Senator Penrose un-
derstands that a middle-aged Gover-
nor of “magnificent achievement” and
a lot of ambition will be a formidable
figure in future party rivalries.
—The April showers we will proba-
bly have, but the May flowers will de-
pend more on what Jack Frost did to
the buds last week than on the precip-
itation this month.
——~Colone! Harvey is now assured
of his reward, but Hearst and Veirick
are still on the anxious bench.
——If Germany is as poor as her
statesmen pretend it’s hardly worth
i s
—Farmers who caught the high While to bother about her.
prices with low cost crops at the be- |
reenter eens
——It remains to be seen whether
or not Joe Grundy will also capitulate
to the Governor.
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
Suppose the Fish Don’t Bite at Fust.
Suppose the fish don’t bite at fust,
What be yew goin’ tur dew?
Chuck down yewr pole, throw
bait,
An’ say yewr fishin’s threw?
Uv course yew hain’t; yew’re goin’ tur fish
An’ fish an’ fish an’ wait
Until yew’ve ketched yewr basket full,
An’ used up all yewr bait.
out yewr
Suppose success don’t come at fust,
What be yew goin’ to dew?
Throw up the sponge an’ kick yewrself,
An’ go tur feelin’ blew ?
Uv course yew hain’t, yew’'re goin’ to fish
An’ bait an’ bait again;
Bimeby success will bite yewr hook,
An’ you will pull him in.
Supporting Part of the Constitution.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Governor Sproul has returned to the
Pennsylvania Constitution, which, un-
der his oath of office, he has sworn to
enforce and defend. He has vetoed
the bill passed by the Legislature
seeking to amend the Philadelphia
charter so as to make it mandatory
upon the Civil Service Commissioners
of the city to give preference to men
and women who served in the world
‘war who apply for public positions,
! whether or not their names rank first
‘or second on the civil service examina-
tion lists. The Governor says the bill
is class legislation, and obnoxious to
| the provisions of the Constitution.
| In this the Governor is undoubtedly
correct. The Constitution prohibits
| legislation of this character, and the
Governor having taken an oath to de-
. fend and support the Constitution, did
' no more than his duty in the veto not-
‘ed. It is most unfortunate, however,
| that only a few days ago the Gover-
| nor signed a bill increasing the sala-
| ries of the Judges of the Supreme and
, Superior courts in face of the fact that
the Constitution, now invoked to jus-
tify his veto of the measure designed
to give world war veterans an advan-
tage over other applicants for city
jobs, also prohibits the increasing of
+ the salaries of all State officers dur-
ing the terms for which they may
have been appointed or elected.
The justification of the latter action
, will, we do not doubt, be the decision
of the late Justice Thompson, the lone
' Judge of the Supreme court who was
not affected by a similar violation of
the Constitution some years ago. But
' the unfortunate fact remains that all
disinterested citizens, while recogniz-
.ing the obligation of the State Treas-
.urer to pay increased salaries to
' Judges under that opinion, have never
I believed it represented an unprejudic-
"ed interpretation of the Constitution,
and had hoped that no Legislature and
ino Governor would ever again offer
it as an excuse for a raid on the pub-
lic treasury.
The apparently just veto of the bill
intended to give the veterans of the
' world war first consideration in filling
! public jobs for which they are appli-
i cants merits the commendation of all
! who believe in the enforcement of all
i of the provisions of the Constitution;
1 but it is unfortunately true that there
. will be many who will seize upon the
veto to contrast it with the action of
, the Governor in his approval of the
bill raising the salaries of the Judges
"of the two highest courts of the Com-
“ monwealth.
|
| The Anomaly of Aristocracy.
|
|
From the Dearborn Independent.
Much wonder and surprise is exeit-
"ed by the spectacle of a scion of roy-
!alty in overalls doing a useful job of
work. Even in this land of the free
in which honest work is no disgrace to
any man or woman, much is made in
the papers of the fact that, in various
capitals of Europe, former princes
and princesses, generals and admirals
are now earning their bread as por-
ters, peddlers, waiters,
flower sellers and newspaper venders
and even as bootblacks and teachers
of languages.
For the most part, we seem to look
upon an aristocrat obliged to share the
lot of common humanity by earning
his bread in the sweat of his own
brow, rather than that of other men’s
brows, as an anomaly—stranger and
more incredible than was the circus
giraffe to the farmer in the old story.
From an enlightened American
point of view, the aristocrat satisfied
to live a life without useful work and
to fritter away his God-given birth-
right of brain and brawn in wasteful,
frivolous and inane loafing; spending
his time and his energies on the fash-
ionable routine of balls, dances, din-
ners and jazz generally, should be the
anomaly—the freak. And the freak-
ishness is increased when the pseudo-
aristocrat who so separates himself
from share in the common human life,
choosing to become a parasite instead
of a producer, lays the flattering unc-
tion to his soul that, because of inher-
ited title or wealth, he is somehow en-
titled to regard himself as superior to
other people. He labors under the in-
sane delusion that idleness, not indus-
try, is honorable. ;
Of course, the only real aristocracy
is the aristocracy of worth proven in
service. If these “nobles” whose hard
fate the world is asked to pity, have
found out how little do blood and ti-
tles count when it comes down to the
realities of life, their experience will
be worth all it cost them. They may
at last develop through useful work
into “nature’s noblemen.”
And perhaps the lesson should not
be lost on those foolish Americans
the height of whose ambition is to
marry off their daughters to European
title-holders.
waitresses, !
EG —————————————————————————— ———————— A ——————————— A
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Wellsboro council has fixed 30 cents
an hour as pay for municipal labor and
60 cents for man and team.
—Allegheny county detectives, looking
for a set of stolen harness, discovered be-
hind the organ of a Croatian Sunday school
an illicit still and John Trubak, sexton,
industriously engaged in drawing off sev-
eral gallons of liquor. John :ost his still
and paid $100 costs.
—Apples are said to be so plentiful im
eastern counties that the farmers are
crushing those for cooking purposes into
cider, an unknown precedent being there-
by established. Some sections of Lycom-
ing county are following the same course
and cider mills are working over time. The
large crop of 1920, the warm winter and
early spring are the cause for this unusu-
al condition.
—“It pays to advertise” has been fully
proven by Sheriff Martz, of Northumber-
land county. More than six months ago
Mrs. Sophia Dark died at Montandon,
leaving an $S000 estate. She was believed
to have died without any legal heirs, and
it became the duty of the sheriff to adver-
tise in the newspapers in an effort to lo-
cate some. Just 140 have turned up in the
interim, according to the sheriff.
—Dr. W. W. Longacre, of Mount Pleas-
ant Mills, was last week appointed Demo-
cratic member of the board of Snyder
county commissioners, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of his brother, Isaae
W. Longacre. Doctor Longacre sought
the three-year post on the grounds that he
would give to his brother's widow all his
salary. Doctor Longacre resigned the
postmastership at Mount Pleasant Mills to
become eligible to the commissioner ap-
pointment,
—In marrying William E. Romig and
Miss Elizabeth Kahler, of Bloomsburg, the
Rev. F. K. Hunsinger, Lutheran pastor of
that town, has made one of the most re-
markable records of any minister in the
State. He married the parents of the
bridegroom, all of the brothers and sisters
of the bridegroom’s mother, and has offi-
ciated at the wedding of all of the nieces,
nephews and children of Mrs. Romig, who
have been married, a total of sixteen wed-
dings in the one family.
—A jury in the Northumberland county
court has awarded $5000 damages to Mr.
and Mrs. George W. Chamberlain, of Sha-
mokin, for the loss of their son, Leon
Chamberlain's life. Chamberlain was kill-
ed at a Philadelphia and Reading railway
crossing last. December. The train on
which he was a passenger was stopped at
a crossing other than the regular passen-
ger station, in order to save time for knit-
ting mill employees. The morning was
dark and Chamberlain stepped in front of
a fast freight train and was killed.
—The issue of the Carlisle Herald last
Thursday announced the sale of its circu-
lation of about 2500 to the Harrisburg Tel-
egraph, effective immediately. No more
Herald copies will be printed. The Her-
ald only six months ago was purchased
from several stockholders by Dr. G. C.
Lee, head of the National Society for
Broader Education, with residence at Car-
lisle. He remodeled an old hotel, installed
new machinery costing $50,000 and moved
into new quarters recently, built up a large
circulation and added many new features.
-—Many Indiana county farmers are hav-
ing their cows examined for tuberculosis.
The State veterinarian has killed five Hol-
stein cows for John Pounds, whose farm
adjoins the county home, and which were
thought to be suffering from tuberculosis.
One of the cows killed cost Pounds $500,
and another $250. John Malcolm, another
farmer, after having his cows examined,
found that it was necessary to have one of
them killed because she was suffering from
tuberculosis. His herd was almost clear of
the disease, although some herds have
many afflicted cows.
—TForty farmers in the vicinity of Gar-
land, Warren county, have formed a co-op-
erative purchasing association for supply-
ing themselves with lime, feed, fertilizer
and possibly other supplies. Under pres-
ent plans the farmers are handicapped by
heavy freight charges in shipments made
from either Youngsville or Spring Creek
or are obliged to haul their own supplies
over bad roads. Under the new arrangeé-
ment the farmers will erect a storage
warehouse at Garland to care for all ship-
ments of goods to the association. This
will make for large economies in prices as
well as give more efficient and satisfactory
service.
—Adolph Schwartz, 45 years old, a prom-
inent merchant of Frederickstown, Wash-
ington county, was shot fatally on a coun-
try road last Thursday. Just before he
died he pointed to a woman and said she
had shot him. She was arrested and gave
the name of Mrs. Martin Meleno, residing
about one mile north of Frederickstown.
She denied shooting Schwartz, and the po-
lice are looking for another woman, said
to have been a witness to the shooting.
Schwartz, who conducted a grocery store
and meat market, was driving a delivery
wagon about a mile north of Fredericks-
town, when he met two men walking in the
road. He told them he had been shot, but
the men thought he was joking.
—Because they were $80 in arrears with
their rent to Posa Fiencic, Ike ¥ongratz
and Gus Maretic, of Steelton, were advised
by Fiencic to go out and hold up some-
body and rob him of money, Maretic told
the police of Harrisburg. As a result of
taking this advice, Maretic and officer
James Trombino, of the Steelton police
force, are in the Harrisburg hospital with
bullet wounds and Fongratz is under ar-
rest. The two men said they held up
Fred Castiglias, a poolroom operator, for
several hundred dollars, fleeing over near-
by fields when help arrived. A running
pistol fight followed, with Trombino and
Maretic receiving wounds and the second
highwayman being placed under arrest.
Fiencic, the landlord, has declined to dis-
cuss the matter with the police.
—From early morning until noon on
April first a rain-soaked wallet lay in the
street at Chester, Pa., while scores of pe-
destrians passed it with a sneer. “That
joke is played out; it’s been wearing whis-
kers a foot long since the time when Co-
lumbus discovered America,” declared a
florid-faced man as he stepped into a jit-
ney to go down town. “They can’t April
fool us so easy as that,” remarked a smart-
ly dressed woman when her attention was
directed to the wallet. Finally, Albert
Phillips, a jitney driver, espied the wallet
and made a grab for it. “April fool!”
shouted an urchin, but Phillips paid no at-
tention to the chorus of gibes and remarks
about Barnum being right. He opened the
wallet and found it contained $150. Phil-
lips gave his auditors the laugh and said
he intended to make an effort to locate the
owner.