INK SLINGS.
—Is man mortal when he makes an
ass of himself?
And that separate peace with
Germany has gone Philanderin’ back
to committee.
— The Athletics are playing ball
like they actually meant to stage a
come-back for Connie.
—Pin yourself to no man’s coat-
tail, for the tailor never made one sO
strong that it wouldn't pull off.
—The only farmer who hasn’t been
on his corn ground this week is the
one who already had his crop in.
—A grief stricken family never re-
ally knows how many have sympa-
thized until it comes to eating the fun-
eral dinner.
__Evidently President Harding be-
lieves hindsight from the spring of
1921 to be better dope than was fore-
sight from the fall of 1920.
__At last we have all found out
what getting back to “normalcy”
means. It is taking Doctor Wilson's
nostrums in homeopathic instead of
allopathic doses.
—_The crowd at the circus Monday
was so large that it almost pushed the
big top off the lot and yet we have
heard people say that times are hard
in this vicinity and that money is
scarce.
— We haven’t much faith in that
conscience tax plan of raising money
for new fire apparatus for Bellefonte.
Too many people have their wires
from the conscience to the pocket
shorted. -
—_Common-sense heels are coming
into vogue for milady’s shoes. Oh
joy! Climb up ‘‘common sense” until
you are installed in your proper place
again at the other pole of the female
anatomy.
_ Maxim Gorky has sent out a call
to the world for food for the savants
of Russia who are starving. If, in-
deed, Russia’s intelligencia need suc-
cor it must be because places into
which fool Bolsheviki rush and wise
men fear to tread are the food stores.
_ Notwithstanding the fulminations
of some of the gentlemen on the con-
gressional investigation committee we
are of the opinion that bettering bus-
iness would have more to do with low-
ering railroad rates than low railroad
rates would have to do with bettering
‘business.
— Fake dry agents successfully
raided a private wine cellar down near
Philadelphia, on Tuesday, and got
away with seven barrels and one hun-
dred and ten cases of whiskey. Read-
ing the story of how easy it was al-
most we are. persua become a
fake dry agent. ¥
—In the “Watchman”
rR
issue of
March 25th there appeared in this col- |
umn the following paragraph: “If
President Harding leans a little more
to the League of Nations he’ll lose his
balance and fall into it.” We repeat
the paragraph now merely because the
President lent and fell.
Of thirty measures in which the
various groups of working men of the
State were personally interested not
one got through the last Legislature.
We refer to this matter not admitting
the merit of any of the bills in ques-
‘tion, but merely to show how conven-
iently the Republican organization
can forget promises after the polls
have closed.
— From the White House things
look very different to President Hard-
ing than they did from the Senate
chamber or the Marion “front porch.”
It is to his credit that he has finally
turned his back on the policy of par-
tisan advantage and taken a step to-
ward really constructive statesman-
ship. It is a bitter dose for the Sen-
ate and Harding will have a hard time
making it swallow it.
—_While there is little to prove
that Monday’s fatality at ‘the show
grounds was due to careless driving
on the part of the man at the wheel
in the car that killed thirteen year old
Helen Shuey, it certainly admonishes
us all to exercise every care and pre-
caution when driving, especially in
crowds. The accident might easily
have been averted, but it wasn’t and
for that reason it warns all who would
be free from the terrible consciousness
of having caused the death of another
to drive in crowds with their car in
complete control.
— Having read the report of fire mar-
shall John J. Bower to.the effect that
a plug on jail hill was broken when
the firemen ran to it in a recent emer-
gency our friend Harry Rumberger,
of Scranton, suggests what might be
called the Dunmore idea for consid-
eration by the Bellefonte council. The
firemen of Dunmore, Pa., having met
with about the same’ conditions that
those of Bellefonte report one of the
Solomons of the council of that burg
presented a resolution to the effect
that “hereafter the plugs be tested
three days before each fire.” Really,
we are not sure that we couldn’t match
the Dunmore nut here in Bellefonte,
but discussions of that possibility
aside, there was a time when such a
fool proposal would have been very
much to the point right here. Years
ago, when the local firemen first pro-
cured a hose carriage they couldn’t
wait for natural exigencies to produce
an opportunity to run out with it; so
they actually set a few fires them-
selves and no one would have been the
wiser had not the signals been mixed
on one occasion and the gallant boys
had the handsome new carriage at the
scene of the conflagration before the
advance agents had coaxed the shop to
conflag.
pe EE
¥ He ;
Track
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. -
_-§aid by the police to have been posi--
tively identified by David Lebovitz as the
man who held him up, robbed him of $800
and shot him three times John Speshock °
has been committed to the Fayette county
jail on charges made before Alderman
John Darby. E a
—When Julius Tevenstelf | a Chester
merchant, turned from a sh from which
he had taken some canned goods ordered
by two negroes, he looked into the barrel
of a revolver. Instead of holding his
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
hands up, Levenstein bounced a can of sal-
mon off the head of the man with the re- -
volver and hit the other fellow with a can
921.
of sauerkraut. The bandits fled.
—Bids for the construction of about
VOL. 66.
BELLEFON
Profligacy for Evil Purposes.
1t is estimated that the revenue leg-
islation enacted during the recent ses-
sion of the Legislature will increase
the income of the State by upward of
thirty million dollars. This is equiv-
alent to the levy of nearly four dol-
lars on every man, woman and child
in the State and the purpose of this
burden upon thrift and industry is to
create a vast and invincible political
machine to perpetuate in power the
politicians now in control of the Re-
publican party. The salaries of a
great many public officials, already
generously compensated for the serv-
ice they render, have been increased
and an unlimited number of new of-
fices created, that this sinister pur-
pose may be secured.
Commerce and industry are in bad
condition. Wages are being forced
down in every line of endeavor. Vast
numbers of willing workers are idle
because of the industrial depression
incident to the shifting from war to
peace levels. All these things admon-
ish us against waste and profligacy.
They clearly point to the necessity for
public and personal economy. But
the Republican machine in Pennsylva-
nia pursues the opposite course. For
sordid and selfish reasons it indulges
in an orgie of extravagance in order
that its tenure of power and opportu-
nity to plunder may be prolonged in-
definitely. It ruthlessly impoverishes
the people in order that its prosperity
may be guaranteed and its ambitions
fulfilled.
There was some reason for improv-
ing the educational facilities of the
State but no excuse for increasing the
appropriations for that useful service
to an extent that invites waste. There
may have been faults in the manage-
ment of the charities of the State but
they did not justify the creation of an
expensive machine with a vast army
of officials given unlimited power: to
harrass the people and sap the treas-
ury without restriction. In other
words the profligacy was not for the
public good but in the selfish interests
of a political conspiracy. But the tax
payers must pay the piper. Each per-
‘son must give up four dollars a year
that selfish politicians may wax fat.
Aas
_The color scheme is" making
progress throughout the world. On
Monday while London was lionizing
the yellow prince of Japan Philadel-
phia was royally entertaining the
black President of Liberia.
Senator Moses Reveals Facts.
The public is more or less under
obligation to Senator Moses, of New
Hampshire, for revealing the secrets
of tariff legislation. The New Eng-
land protectionist is not in favor of
the pending emergency tariff bill for
the reason, probably, that it affords no
pickings to what Senator Knox calls
the “Dolly Varden calico mills.” But
it provides picking for some special
interest, or else the Republican ma-
chine leaders would not be so anxious
to secure its passage at this time. The
as soon as possible which will give
paign slush fund a grab into the
treasury, and Senator Moses thinks
farmers and others ought to wait for
that.
In any event he told the truth about
tariff legislation on Monday when he
declared that the lobby supporting the
emergency bill “is the largest, most
highly organized, best paid and most
arrogant this capitol has ever seen.”
Of course that was an exaggeration,
for all tariff lobbies are alike, and the
quarter of a million dollars or so that
has been spent to put. this emergency
et,” so to speak. But it brings the re-
sults, and if ten times the amount
were required it would be provided.
The funds are invested with expecta-
tions of generous profits when the
measure goes into operation and the
ultimate consumer is reached, just as
campaign funds are investments.
Senator Moses seems to lie under a
misconception of the effects of the bill
on the business of calico making, how-
ever. He imagines that it will in-
crease the cost of raw materials used
in those factories, whereas it has been
shown that the calico mills are stock-
ed up with raw materials for a per-
iod considerably beyond the life of the
proposed bill. The cotton growers are
being fooled just as the wool growers
and the wheat producers are being de-
ceived. The emergency tariff bill is
intended solely for the benefit of the
speculators who have bought up the
cotton, wool and wheat at low prices
and will unload them on the consum-
ers at the enhanced values provided
for in the preposterous bill.
——————————r A ———
Mr. Edison’s statement doesn’t
prove that college graduates are in-
efficient or ignorant. All it really
proves that questionnaires are ab-
surd.
—————— ee —————
——Congress seams to imagine that
foreign commerce can be expanded by
keeping foreign goods ‘out and our
own products in." |
- po has
‘investigation will probably show th:
‘those carried over are the inefficient
plan is to enact a permanent measure !
most of the contributors to the cam-'
bill over is only “a drop in the buck-
Practical Economy in Office.
Auditor General Lewis has already
dropped twenty-four from the list of
employees in the department in which
he assumed control last week and an-
nounces that there will be others to
follow. This is practical economy.
The salaries of those stricken from the
pay roll ranged from $12,000.00 a
year down to $1800.00 and the saving
will amount to something like $75,
000.00 a year. A proportionate de-
crease in the expenses of the other
departments would greatly increase
the saving but it is not likely to occur
unless public sentiment is aroused
sufficiently to compel it. During the
term of Auditor General Snyder all
the employees allowed by law were
kept on the pay roll and several not
thus provided for. Mr. Snyder ex-
plained that supernumeraries were
necessary to get work done.
Mr. Snyder justifies the profligacy
in his office by claiming that collec-
tions made during his term exceeded
those of his predecessors by large
amounts. Probably that is true, for
during his term war prices prevailed
and war prosperity existed every-
where. Carrying companies, banks and
industrial corporations which contrib-
ute largely to the revenues were con-
ducting business at high tide and
everybody having plenty paid prompt--
ly and generously. But the collections
might have been made at much less
expense, as is shown by the reduction
in force and the saving in salaries by
Mr. Lewis. The laws enacted by the
last Legislature will vastly increase
the collections but Mr. Lewis promises
to administer the office with the de-
pleted force.
It is worthy of note that with
Mr. Snyder’s induction into the
office of State Treasurer the ap-
propriations for that office have
been nearly if not altogether
doubled. Is it possible that he in-
tends to make the Treasury Depart-
ment the asylum for political lame
ducks in the future as he made the
Auditor General’s Department during
the last four years? The indications
point that way. He has already taken
a number of his former associates in
the other office over with him, and an
men employed for partisan reasons
whose duties were performed by exira
employees appointed without authori-
ty of law.
—————— ——————
Senator Johnson, of California,
is trying to figure out what he got out
of the Republican victory last fall.
Probably Herbert Hoover, who is a
mathematician, might help him to
solve the problem. :
President Wilson Vindicated.
In deciding to send a representative
into the supreme council of the
League of Nations, President Harding
is not only within his rights but has
the approval of an overwhelming ma-
jority of the people of the country.
Most Americans would have preferred
to go into the council chamber by the
front door, which was open with a cor-
dial welcome sign on the mat. But
entrance by the back door is prefera-
ble to remaining on the outside. Itis
the American habit, moreover, to pay
‘a full share of the expenses of any
entertainment in which the people par-
, ticipate. But Mr. Harding prefers
another way, a more economical if less
“honorable method of getting in. And
the choice is his.
The determination to participate in
‘the proceedings of the supreme coun-
(cil is gratifying to Democrats, more-
| over, because it clearly implies an ac-
knowledgment of the wisdom of Pres-
ident Wilson, who was largely instru-
' mental in devising and framing the
plans of the League of which the su-
preme council is an important part.
President Wilson urged participation
in the council from the beginning and
actually designated a representative
“to sit for the United States. But the
| Republicans threw up their hands in
horror, declared it was an “entangling
“alliance,” and at the first opportunity
revoked the action of President Wil-
son. The present action is, therefore,
a vindication of the Wilson policy.
TE, PA., MAY 13, 1
Germany Accepts the Conditions.
As was to have been expected Ger-
many has finally accepted the terms
fixed by the Allies as to indemnities
and reparations of the great world
war. It was a. painful process, no
doubt, for Germany expected to re-
ceive rather than pay indemnities.
But it is a just result. Germany not
only made the war but caused as much
destruction and distress as was possi-
ble. In view of these facts a heavier
burden might have been imposed.
After the Franco-Prussian war the
levy of damages was much greater in
proportion. France was compelled to
pay for all property destroyed and all
the expenses Germany incurred in
prosecuting the war. A similar pen-
alty in this instance might have been
demanded and enforced.
Those charged with the administra-
tion of the German government pro-
tested strenuously against the condi-
tions imposed and pleaded eloquently
for a remission or reduction of the de-
mands. But the Allies held firmly to
the opinion that the claims were not
excessive and adhered as consistently.
They were fully justified in this atti-
tude. The destruction of life and
property had been both great and
wanton. It was a colossal crime
against civilization and deserved se-
vere punishment. As a matter of
fact, however, the punishment impos-
ed was not severe. The vast sum
which will be exacted will not nearly
cover the losses in property incurred.
It provides no indemnity for the sac-
rifice of human life. 1
There is no reason, therefore, for
sympathy for those who have to pay.
It does not express, as the LaFollette
resolution declares, “a crime born of
blind revenge and insatiable greed.”
On the contrary the demand is the
product of merciful consideration and
an obvious purpose to help the Ger-
man people to a restoration of the in-
dustrial and commercial life of their
Fatherland. If the Allies had pursued
the policies which the German autoc-
racy would have adopted, if they had
been successful, Germany would have
been wiped off the map of the world
as completely as Austria has been
Siginavd. And as a matter of fact
“he world would not have been much
the worse for the operation.-
— Still we are curious: to learn
what is the matter with Senator Pen-
rose. He is letting Sproul and Crow
push him off the stage. ;
Eastern Prisoners Brought to Rock-
view.
A car load of twenty-five pris-
oners from the eastern penitentiary
were brought to the Rockview institu-
tion on Tuesday, the first consignment
from the eastern section of the State.
The bill providing for the transfer was
passed by the last Legislature and be-
came effective at.once. Owing to’ the
crowded condition of the eastern pen-
itentiary the prisoners will be trans-
ferred as fast as they can be absorbed
by the Rockview institution, but only
. WO
The Situation at Harrisburg.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
The liberal Republicans of Penn-
sylvania will never be abl
e to make
eighty miles of state highway will be open-
ed by the State Highway Department this
week, including some projects on which
bids were asked last year, but considered
too high. This will be the third large let-
ting this year, and it is hoped at the de-
their force count until they join in
such numbers with the Democrats as
to crush the machine Republican sys-
tem that allowed the public school
work of the Keystone State to fall to
twenty-first place and left the people
with little protection against such
things as stock swindlers and rent
gougers. It lingers that Mr. Hard-
ing’s newspaper in 1912 found it ut-
terly impossible to take Pennsylva-
nia Progressives seriously. It scout-
ed the idea that they could be actu-
ated by anything like principles. It
could see them animated only by
thoughts of “pap and plunder.” This
is one of the commentaries on the
fact that no matter what show of
progressiveness they make in the pri-
maries, no matter. how bitterly they
denounce the machine leaders, most
of them are found later behind the
“boss” nominess with as much docil-
ity as other members of the flocks.
Their so-called fight for principles
against the machine ended in surren-
der to the boss of the dominant fac-
ion. ;
The only way to break machine
domination of Pennsylvania is to join
with the “unterrified Democrats,”
who know not what it is to surrender
in a fight for principle. Now is the
time for the Democrats and ether
progressives of the State to get to
organizing for a combined ef-
fort in the campaign for the govern-
the trustworthy ones will be brought :
here for the time being. .
Notwithstanding the fact that the
prisoners brought to Centre county on
Tuesday were all trusties seven guards
. were in charge of them on the trip up
from Philadelphia and in addition the
men were handcuffed together, which
But. for that matter about every-
. thing the Republicans have done since
‘the inauguration of President Hard-
ing is an expressed or implied vindi-
cation of the policies of President Wil-
‘son and a stultification of the cam-
was quite a contrast to the way the
prisoners have been brought here from
the western penitentiary at Pitts-
burgh. In not a single instance have
prisoners been handcuffed in bringing
ny a car load.
The new inmates, however, were
quickly given an , illustration of the
honor system in vogue at the Rock-
view institution. As soon as they
were turned over to the officials the
handcuffs were removed und accom-
panied by two guards they were taken
to the baseball field to see the very
exciting finish of a ball game between
two of the prison nines.
Another squad of twenty-six in-
mates will be brought up from Phila-
delphia today.
—Germany has accepted the Allied
demands and Dr. Wirth heads the new
Berlin government that has announc-
ed its intention of shutin’ up and put-
in’ up. Let us hope that the world
| will be spelling his name Worth before
paign statements of the “front porch” .
| and other political
stations. Of course the “bitter-end-
ers” will gnash their teeth and Borah,
Johnson and Lodge will throw fits as
soon as they get the opportunity to be
heard. But nobody minds them now.
The better reason of the party is as-
serting itself in the course which
Harding, with the help of Hughes and
Hoover, has chosen to adopt. It is the
better course for the country and the
wiser for the President.
rp —
—— President Harding continues to
son, but any other Republican Presi-
dent with a reasoning mind would do
the same thing.
“stump speech”
many years.
—The Germans evidently know they
have the resources with which to pay.
|
i
follow the lines laid by President Wil- |
Their hasty decision to accept the Al-
lied terms when danger of losing" the
Ruhr impended looks very much as if
it, alone, was worth the price.
—————————
——Thus far we have failed to hear
of any other department heads at
Harrisburg following the example of
Auditor General Lewis.
——Germany hated to do it but it
was a safe bet that she would sign.
The contortions were simply false
pretenses of suffering. :
orship next year. Have not the pro-
gressives who have sought orm
within the Republican party been fool-
ed often enough to realize that the
only hope for improvement in the po-
litical affairs of the State lies in build-
ing up the Democratic party ?
Do not make the mistake again of
waiting until just a few weeks before
he election to get such a campaign
sta. ot
Start organizing for it how and with
the recognition that those first in the
field, if they show the ability, will
: becomi
have the advantage. im
known throughout the ‘State. ca
is for big-minded, cour:
ership for forces
campaign not for any trifin
object, but with no other purpese than
to make a clean sweep from public
control of those responsible for the
reactionaryism in Pennsylvania.
Never was OPE
ty for real statesmanship.
LO
eee ree.
Acquittal of Ambler.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger,
A jury of his peers, after weighing
the evidence and the arguments, and
the court which tried him both have
decided that ex-Insurance Commis-
sioner Charles A. Ambler is not guilty
of the embezzlement and conversion
of funds intrusted to him in his official
capacity. His case, nevertheless, car-
ries with it a lesson that should be
pondered deeply by the people. It is
one that should call for legislative ac-
tion, to the end that it should never
again ‘be possible for an Attorney
General of the Commonwealth to ad-
vise an Insurance Commissioner, nor
‘that wil “enter “the
partment that the decline in prices will be
reflected in advantageous bids for the
State.
—Jacob Hoover, 70 years old, of Upper
Mifflin township, Cumberland county, was
found dead on Saturday along a creek
where he had gone fishing. His fishing
rod was found lying near the body when
discovered by a brother after relatives and
friends had searched for two days for the
old man. Following a coroner’s inquest it
was decided that death was due to a
stroke.
— Mrs. Bridget Rupple, of Wilkinsburg,
who was convicted in February of being a
common scold and at that time ordered to
pay the costs and move from the commu-
nity within three months, on Saturday told
the court, “I'll hang before I pay those
costs!” Mrs. Rupple had been brought in-
to criminal court at Pittsburgh on a war-
rant when she failed to carry out the
terms of her parole.
Mrs. Anna Guelich Heisey celebrated
the 105th anniversary of her birth at her
home in Lawrence township, Clearfield
county last week. She received a number
of persons at her home, but on account of
the recent death of her daughter there was
no attempt at “an elaborate celebration.
Mrs. Heisey is in good health and takes en-
tire care of herself. While the weather
conditions last fall were such that she was
prevented from voting, she hopes to be
able to visit the polls at the coming pri-
maries. \
— Curtis Sipple, alias Curtis Lucas, who
was arrested in Kentucky Saturday, after
being tracked through six States, has con-
fessed to the murder of Gabrial Perrachia
and James Critchlow, at Cly, York county,
on the morning of May 13, 1919. Sipple
was arrested by Trooper Leo Gratcofsky,
of the state police force, who posed as a
fisherman and placed the fugitive under
arrest at a little mountain town in Halan
county, Kentucky. The fugitive is being
taken to York by members of the state
police force.
— With faces and hands blackened, five
men, armed with revolvers, burst into a
boarding house in the mining town of Al-
lison, near Brownsville, early Saturday
morning and shot up the place, killing one
man and seriously wounding another.
Then they fled into the darkness, leaving
no clue to their identity. The motive for
the attack is a complete mystery, for ap-
parently no attempt at robbery was made.
| A peculiarly brutal feature of the tragedy
lies in the fact that both vietims of the
thugs had their hands raised when they
‘| were shot down.
—Five alleged bootleggers are in the
Union county jail at Lewisburg, arrested
at two o'clock Sunday morning by mem-
bers of the state constabulary while un-
loading six gallons of whiskey in front .
of the home of a well-known Lewisburg
resident. The men in jail, held for a hear-
ing, gave their names as William Galla-
gher, John McNellis, Daniel Moore, Chas.
Gallagher and Ray Berbeck, all giving
their residence as Freeland. The booze
was carried in copper-lined suitcases,
which, together with a big touring ear,
have been confiscated.
—_ Grant Hoover, of Williamsport, presi-
dent of the Lycoming Forest, Fish and.
any other public official intrusted with
the custody of trust funds, that it was
nobody’s business what use he made
of the moneys, provided he made a
proper accounting at the conclusion of
his trust. :
It was not denied that Mr. Ambler,
while Insurance Commissioner
: while the public custodian of the funds
of a corporation under his jurisdiction
used those funds in
as Commissioner,
his own personal
Had those business
had Ambler at the expiration of
business ventu
term of office been unable to replace
' the funds so converted to his own use,
i it is obvious that his position before
| the criminal law would have been very
different.
ot ! jori f instances
them in from Pittsburgh and ordinari- ai et majority of in g
ly but three or four guards accompa- | same way,
nt embezzler begins in
be able to make restitution. It is
cause he fails in this expectation that
he becomes guilty of gmbezzlement,
an
honorable business men that it is an
intolerable and indefensible situation
It will strike most high-minded
where a public official, placed as is
Insurance Commissioner, for exam
can, under the counsel
cer of the Commonwealth, use for
own personal profit the funds of
funct corporations over which he
assumed control in his official ca ci-
ty. Neither the Attorney General nor
any other public officer ought to be
and it is only
' by the strictest’ technicality of law and
of language that such conduct can be
given such a privilege;
condoned.
LL ei es
Paying for “Pin-Pricks.”
¥rom the New York World.
When Lord Northcliffe
goods delegates from
tates and
standings
the
told the
between
in the main.
leys; we have our
each
of aims and motives.
Hearsts. They
them.
nation must pay in the end for
windows broken by its press remains
unfortunately sound.
— Paris saluted Napoleon's birth
an hour too soon and as things look
in that section now Napoleon was born
about ene hundred years too soon.
ventures failed or
always hoping that he will
of the law offi-
the United
Canada that misunder-
Great Britain and
United States are due to “pin-
ricks” in the press he told the truth
England has its Bottom-
other in promoting a suspicion
Frankness and
co-operation would do much to heal
the hurts but could never quite cure
Bismarck’s saying that every
Game Protective Association, has been
making an investigation of chestnut tree
blight in this section of the State. He
owns a large forestry tract in Bald Eagle
valley on which there are a number of
chestunt trees. He had intended cutting
some of these this spring, but has decided
to delay operations on the discovery that
the trees are in more healthy condition
now than in some seasons past. Hoover
believes that the chestnut trees are gradu-
ally being equipped by nature to overcome
the blight.
— Inasmuch as trout fishermen have not
heeded the warning of Lock Haven officials
not to wade in McElhattan or Harvey's
runs, and even tore down caution notices
posted on trees by J. M. Shearer, superin-
tendent of parks and public property, and ’
as the State and local officials are deter-
mined to protect the streams and safe-
guard the water supply, both runs ‘have
been closed to fishermen. Beginning Sat-
urday two members of Troop K, first,
Pennsylvania cavalry, began patroling the
dams of McElhattan run and its tributa-
ries and Harvey's run and its tributaries,
some of the best trout streams in Clinton
county. : }
Suit was brought in the Lawrence
county court last Wednesday by Walter’
Allen, an aged Hickory township farmer,
against a number of New Castle men for
$25,000 damages, as a result of an applica-
tion of tar and grease which was applied
to his body in April, 1918. Allen, it is al-
leged, refused to buy Liberty bonds and
when a vigilance committee of local citi-
zens learned of the fact, they went to his
home in automobiles, beat him and then
stripped his clothes from his body, apply-
ing hot tar and grease. He was later tak-
en to New Castle and paraded through the
| streets. Allen claims his farm was heavily
encumbered and that he was unable to buy
bonds. He had two sons in the service.
and
res.
‘his
the
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the
ple,
his
de-
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dry
— Recently Mr. and Mrs. Aarcom Mora-
ri, of New Castle, arranged to make a vis-
it to the old country. They withdrew their
savings from the foreign department of a
local bank, totaling about $700, and took
the roll home. They were not to start for
a few days and put the money in an old
ice chest for safe keeping, until wanted.
Then they started to dispose of their
household goods. Forgetting that the ice
chest was the hiding place of their roll of
$700 they sold it to Arthur Johnston, a ne-
gro. He paid $5 for the chest and carted
it off. Later, they remembered that the roll
had been in the chest. But it took several
days’ search to find Arthur, and they have
not as yet recovered the money. They had
the negro arrested on a charge of larceny
before an alderman, and have postponed
their intended trip.
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