Bowral Watdwan
INK SLINGS.
—And this is the month of brides
and roses.
——An esteemed contemporary
says that beer “has made many an old
man feel young.” And by the same
token it has made many a young man
feel old “the morning after.”
—In Sumatra there is said to be a
race of people who will neither lie nor
steal. The best we can wish for them
is that they will be preserved from
contact with a lot of American poli-
ticians.
—Anyway the Academy fire has
demonstrated the lack of wisdom in
devoting all of our thoughts toward
procuring new fire apparatus and none
toward keeping what we do have in
working condition.
—Our prediction that the faculty of
Yale would have to be reduced in or-
der to find a successor for the lament-
ed Justice White has been fulfilled.
Mr. Harding has offered Prof. Taft a
seat on the Supreme court bench.
—For an obsolete piece of fire fight-
ing apparatus that little Logan steam-
er threw two streams of water over
the Academy building that would
have gone far toward saving the en-
tire northern end of the roof had the
firemen been able to see where to play
them.
—Governor Sproul signed bills to
increase salaries of state officials hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars and then
saved the munificent sum of two
thousand by reducing the appropria-
tion to the Bellefonte hospital that
much. Of course it is far more nec-
essary to keep his party workers in
good spirits than to furnish comfort
to the stricken in our hospitals.
— What is the Altoona Tribune com-
ing to? On Wednesday it ran amuck
entirely and handed its readers this
bit of vicious advice: “Whenever you
have an opportunity to deal any evil
blow embrace it.’ Have Henry V.
Shoemaker, A. D. Houck, John D.
Meyer and W. H. Schwartz all gone to
the bad? Surely Henry ought to drag
his associates to some new mountain
top where they may get another vis-
ion of what their calling demands.
— Between George Harvey and Ad-
miral Sims the American people will
begin to wonder what this country
was doing all the time from April
1917 until November 1918. Harvey
says we went over as laggards after
Britain had won the war and now
Sims says our navy did nothing; that
it was England’s fleet that made vic-
tory possible. The sycophants! Per-
sonal, petty, jealous minds loaded
with hatred with neither the will nor
the courage to pick up the hundred
thousand torches that withering hands
are flinging at them from Flander’s
fields.
—The first group of financiers
whom President Harding called into
conference last Thursday wasted no
words in expressing the opinion that
nothing can be done to help business
in this country that does not have for
its first objective some constructive
help for Europe. Every body who
knows anything has long realized that
the world has grown so small that
one part of it can’t suffer without
some of the distress being felt in oth-
ers. If other countries can’t trade
what they make and grow for what
we make and grow then stagnation
must continue.
Little Georgie Mayhew who, with
Eddie DuBois, another cute little pick-
aninny, did great team work with Jim
Harris and the writer, when we were
younger and aspirants for approbation
as black-face comedians, is dead.
Georgie went to France to serve his
country. His body was one of the
thousands among which President
Harding stood when he delivered his
memorable Hoboken address last
week. It is in his old home town now
and will be laid to rest in the Union
cemetery on Sunday. We think of him
as the little black boy who could sing
and dance and while there was little
in his own surroundings to make for
joy he was eager always to give his
childish talent for the joy of others.
It matters not whether he fell facing
a Big Bertha or by the unexpected ex-
plosion of an African golf stick—he
went when his country called and we
know he would have given his humble
life more cheerfully to the Hun than
to the member of his organization who
took it.
—The United States railroad labor
board has finally rendered its decision
on the matter of permission to reduce
wages, effective July 1st, and as is |
usually the case the men whose pay is
least are cut the most. In no cases
are the higher service men, such as
engineers. firemen. conductors or me-
chanics cut as much as they were in-
creased as recently as July, 1920, and
as they had all been given substantial
increases prior to that time the new
wage award is far in excess of pre-
war levels. The greatest injustice, as
we see it, lies in the maximum wage
of the track laborer who will get
$77.11 on which to support a family
for a month, whereas the eighteen
year old boy, usually with no one to
support but himself, goes into an office
and at the end of the first year is re-
ceiving $77.50. In all classes the men
who do the bone-labor are held under
$100.00 a month while most of the
skilled labor awards run from $140.00
to $270.00 a month. Always the cry
goes up that labor must have a wage
to insure decent living, but when it
comes to taking care of the real labor
the skilled men never go backward
while the unskilled never get any
further along. :
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 66.
BELLEFONTE,
PA. JUNE 3, 1921.
Sproul and the Constitution.
ernor Sproul frequently forecasts the
action of the proposed constitutional
convention. Admitting faults in the
statutes which the legislation he ve-
toed aims to correct, he says the mat-
ter can be fixed up in the new consti-
tution. This implies a sort of propri-
etary interest in the enterprise. The
Legislature needn’t bother its head
about such things, as he will see to it
that the constitutional convention will
do it and do it better than anybody
else can. The Governor has great con-
fidence in himself and seems to think
that the people of the State should
adopt his view, not only of his phil-
anthropic purposes but of his poten-
cy.
But the Governor is not far afield
in his estimate of the power he might
| usurp over the constitutional conven-
| tion assembled under the provisions
! of the act of the recent session of the
General Assembly. That act bestows
{ upon him authority to name nearly a
| third of the members of the conven-
i tion, and he feels, with reason, that
. the political machine of which he is
the head, will be able to secure at
| least another third, giving him an
| overwhelming majority of servile and
i not too conscientious followers in the
body. Thus entrenched in control of
the proceedings he will have power to
bind the people of Pennsylvania to any
policy or proposition he pleases. And
his manipulation of the late Legisla-
ture shows what is to be expected
from him, under such circumstances.
The people of Pennsylvania have
never bestowed upon the Governor
power to thus dictate their fundamen-
tal law. The people of no other State
in this Republic have at any time giv-
' en their Governor such power and no
Governor of this or any other State
| has. ever before asked such power.
| Why, then, should it be bestowed upon
. Governor Sproul? What has he done
"to merit a distinction that is as dan-
gerous as it is exceptional? He forc-
ed a servile Legislature during the
, recent session to absolutely trample
the constitution under foot, though he
, was under sworn obligation to “sup-
port, obéy and defend it.” Is this a
| recommendation to give him arbitra-
| ry power over the people not only for
| the present, but for all time?
i
———The published statement that
Grover Bergdoll is writing a book
suggests that the “worst is yet to
come.”
¢ Sproul’s Big Comedy Act.
The comedy enacted at Harrisburg
; last week in which Governor William
C. Sproul posed ponderously as the
great economizer afforded considera-
ble amusement to the people of Penn-
sylvania. The stage was admirably
set and the star actor splendily equip-
ped. The Legislature had purposely
appropriated millions of dollars in ex-
cess of the revenues and beyond the
requirements of the public service and
the Governor cut and slashed like a
Roman gladiator until, in the estima-
tion of experts, the receipts and ex-
| penditures could be brought within a
| few millions of a balance, and defi-
‘ciency bills at the next session of
the Legislature could easily do the
rest.
The program was carried out to the
letter. . The Governor didn’t appecr
in the arena in spiked sandals carry-
ing a meat ax in his hand and with a
cutlas at his side, as was the custom
of the Collosseum, but he had fountain
pens, quill pens, steel pens and gold
pens in abundance and every bill
which provided increased - compensa-
tion for poorly paid clerks and labor-
ers in the employ of the State was
slashed and slaughtered mercilessly.
But the high-salaried fellows who
were favored with increased pay by a
servile Legislature were taken care of
with fatherly tenderness and measures
of that kind to an average of $178,-
' 220 were promptly and cheerfully ap-
proved. The vetoed salary raisers
amounted to $81,060 and the rest of
the “razeeing” was performed on
charities located in districts represent-
ed by recalcitrant Legislators.
Of course there were some cuts
made in appropriations for institu-
tions in districts that would have been
favored if necessary to preserve the
were features in the program. On the
last day of the session Senators Vare,
Eyre and Leslie obligingly added
some ten millions to the appropria-
tions in order to give the Governor a
chance to perform his heroic economy
act. These additions were sort of
stage decorations for the big show of
last week and the Governor savagely
chopped them to the bone, or at least
to the proportions agreed upon in ad-
vance. Notwithstanding the elaborate
preparations, however, we fear the
show was disappointing. The public
saw through the farce.
: —Corn in some parts of the county
is far enough advanced for the first
| Working. :
In his several veto messages Gov-
political equilibrium. But such cuts
Emergency Tariff Law in Force.
The emergency tariff bill is now a
law, the President having formally
“approved it last Friday. It places a
tax of thirty-five cents a bushel on
wheat and consumers of flour may
have to pay that much more for the
"cereal. But the farmers will derive
‘no advantage from the increase for
‘the old crop is in the hands of specu-
lators and the measure will have ex-
pired by’ limitation before the new
‘crop is ready for market. The duty
“on cotton and wool will probably ar-
‘rest the decrease on clothing which
seems to have set in but the producers
will not share in the benefit. The
‘woolen and cotton mills have in stock
“sufficient to serve them until after the
! law is dead and buried.
| So far as it is possible to see at this
time the only substantial advantage
which will be derived from this ab-
' surd measure will accrue to the sugar
"trust, the beef trust, old offenders
| against the law forbidding profiteer-
ing, and dye stuff trust, a new enter-
prise of the DuPont interests. It is
estimated that the sugar trust will
take $350,000,000 in excess profits
from the people during the brief life
of the bill and the beef trust will pull
down about $550,000,000. The wool
000 out of it and the dye stuff trust
may secure half that amount. But
this trust is made up practically of a
single family and that is a good deal
of a donation.
Of course a good many other neces-
saries of life are taxed by this meas-
ure and the entire draft on the people
may amount to a billion dollars or
more, or it may fail of its purpose en-
tirely. It all depends upon the con-
sumers. Eggs and butter and pota-
toes and corn and barley may be in-
creased to the full amount of the tax
levy or they may not be increased at
all. Like wheat these products of the
soil go up or down according to the
law of supply and demand and with
increasingly abundant harvests in for-
eign countries the domestic demand
may diminish instead of increase. In
that event, however, the legislation
will fail of its purpose, which was to
esp prices of necessaries at a high
evel.
— Germany has made the first
payment and Mr. Briand is confident
that the future payments will be
promptly met. This gives ground for
the hope that payments to the United
States will begin in the course of
time.
Colonel Harvey’s London Speech.
In a Memorial address delivered at
Lansdowne, Delaware county, on Sun-
day, the Rev. S. Arthur Devan said:
“The hope as expressed in the hearts
of the men who died on Flanders fields
was very far from that expressed by
the Ambassador. This I know from
the lips of those who died and who ex-
pressed that what they fought for was
a war against further war and for the
peace and happiness of the world.”
Mr. Devan is pastor of the First Bap-
tist church of Lansdowne "and during
the war was chaplain of the Fifty-
eighth Artillery. He was in contact
with the heroes of the war in the
trenches and on the line of battle. He
knew their thoughts while in health
and in the agonies of the death bed.
An Ohioan writing in the New York
World declares that he resents “Har-
vey’s materialistic analysis of Amer-
ica’s motives in the war. Colonel
Harvey has tarried at the grocery
store,” he added. “He has not gone
on to the little church and seen the
service flag with its gold stars. There,
Sunday after Sunday, in the spot of
hallowed associations, sit sorrowing
parents, comforting themselves with
the memories of the high resolve of
1917. I have seen it and I know. I
have listened to their faltering, self-
fortifying words. And now, if this
bombastic Ambassador at London
speaks in fact for our government,
they are perplexedly wondering
wherefore they were tricked.”
After all, however, we may be tak-
ing this bogus Ambassador too ser-
iously. He may have been simply try-
of the British aristocrats with whom
he hopes to associate during the next
olina a few years ago he boasted of
the perfidy of his family during the
war of the rebellion with the view of
gaining the friendship of his audience
and really imagined he had “got away
with it.” As a matter of fact he se-
cured the contempt rather than the
admiration of the South, and the
chances are that his absurd apprecia-
tion of the part the United States
troops had in the world war will have
the same effect on the minds of Eng-
lishmen who are worth while.
——Admiral Sims also assures
Great Britain that our part in the
world was trifling. Admiral Sims
hates Woodrow Wilson as bad as Am-
bassador Harvey does and he is about
equally sycophantic. :
trust expects to get about $100,000,-
ing to ingratiate himself in the minds
four years. In a speech in South Car- '
Harding Playing the Hypocrite.
, President Harding pays scant trib-
ute to the intelligence of the people
in his platitudes of praise of the he-
roic dead. In his memorial address de-
livered at Arlington cemetery on Mon-
day he said: “For more than a cen-
tury our plighted word warned tyran-
ny from half the world; then, when
the guage was taken up by mad am-
bition, men felt the blow that arm
could strike when freedom answered
in its utmost might. Across the seas
we sent our hosts of liberty’s sons
commissioned to ‘redress the eternal
scales.’ ” Later in the same address
he said: “Mankind is fallen on times
when there is no hope for it if some
communities seek isolation while oth-
ers indulge unrestrained ambition for
empire.”
Yet the slur upon the soldiers of the
world war uttered by Ambassador
George Harvey, in his Pilgrim socie-
ty speech in London more than a week
before, is unrebuked and inferentially
approved. Harvey told British royal-
ty assembled about him that there
was no altruism in our intervention in
the world war. He said that because
we were afraid of losing our skins we
reluctantly, at the tail end of the war,
sent a force to help Great Britain to
maintain independence and promote
liberty. He added that the United
States would have nothing to do with
a league for peace; that it is set up-
on isolation “while others indulge in
_unrestraining ambition for empire.”
Can President Harding fool all the
people all the time? .
As we have said before President
Harding is a prolific as well as a mas-
terful phrase builder. But in prais-
ing the heroism of the soldiers and
condoning the slurs of Harvey he re-
veals an amazing measure of hypoc-
' risy which is surprising because so ob-
vious. What he says is of little con-
sequence so long as he does things
that express the opposite. If he be-
lieves what he uttered in Brooklyn a
' week ago and in Arlington on Mon-
day he will promptly recall George
Harvey and consign him to obscurity
and popular contempt. No man can
carry water on both shoulders and
away with it among intelligent
péople. Harding is trying to aeccom-
plish this impossibility and will fail
as he deserves to.
i
——A succession of unusually se-
vere thunder storms passed over Cen-
tre county last Friday night and Sat-
urday, being almost as terrific as the
storms of the summer of 1918. Rain
fell in torrents and was accompanied
by some hail, but not enough to do
any particular damage to garden
truck or farm crops. So far as can be
learned no damage was done by the
lightning. A report was current that
the barn on the C. S. Garbrick farm in
Marion township had been struck by
lightning and burned to the ground,
but this fortunately proved incorrect.
Cornfields, however, in some parts of
the county, especially on hilly ground,
were badly washed and will have to
be replanted.
— The proposition to lodge the
enforcement of prohibition in the De-
partment of Justice instead of in the
Internal Revenue bureau is looked up-
on with suspicion by the Anti-saloon
League. Senator Penrose is the au-
thor of the idea and hence the sus-
picion.
eee lp:
—Mryr. Schwab’s ten year old suit
may have been lost in the vast variety
of suits in his wardrobe or it may
have been an extra good suit when
purchased. There are various possi-
bilities with respect to Schwab’s
clothes.
—If the school children of today
don’t know more about their country’s
flag and patriots than their daddies do
certainly it isn’t because they haven’t
had it sung, marched and recited into
them. .
——Mrs. Bergdoll cordially endors-
. es the sentiments expressed by Am-
, bassador Harvey, but President Hard-
ing is less candid.
——Mitchell Palmer says he still
has the political bug. But he no long-
' er has control of the forces that make
the bug buzz.
Possibly Taft may be too old
, but if he isn’t appointed Chief Justice
it will be because Harding is too un-
grateful.
——Harding may swear like Jack-
son but he can show no other resem-
blance to Old Hickory.
+ ——The Seniors inthe forestry de-
partment of The Pennsylvania State
| College will complete their spring
, training trip to the woods near En-
deavor, Pa., this week and return to
the college for the commencement ex-
ercises. The undergraduate foresters,
about thirty in number, are preparing
for the opening of their summer camp
at Lamar, on June 16th.
Railway Co-operation.
From the Philadelphia Record.
A large part ofthe restlessness and
| discontent among-wage earners is not
| over the contents of their pay envel-
| opes. The brakeman does not expect
, the salary of the president of the com-
pany. But he goes to the polls and
, casts just as many votes as the presi-
" dent of the company, and then he goes
‘to work and finds that in regard to the
conditions of his employment he has
no influence whatever, unless he joins
a lot of other wage earners and strikes.
| Hence he is strongly disposed to strike
{in order to assert himself. As to the
| conditions under which he works, he
can take his job or leave it; he has no
voice in the management of the com-
pany, though he has in the manage-
ment of the United States.
This seems to him anomalous and
irritating. He’s a man and a brother in
politics, but in industry he is simply
a pair of hands, sometimes with the
addition of a head. But all the con-
ditions under which he works are de-
termined without consulting him, by a
lot of officials who are hired by a board
of directors, in the selection of which
he has no vote; but he can decide who
shall be President of the United
States.
For several years past the demand
that some measure of democracy shall
be introduced into the industrial world
has been growing more insistent. In
various ways a number of industrial
concerns have recognized it and ad-
mitted its validity, and provided some
means by which the worker can make
his interests and wishes known, and
can have some influence in determin-
ing conditions.
And now the Pennsylvania Railroad,
the premier railroad of the United
States, announces that its employees
will have an opportunity to elect mem-
bers of a board which will meet the
officers of the company and jointly de-
cide working conditions. It will min-
ister to the self-respect of the em-
ployee. It will make him more con-
tent to feel that he has elected mem-
bers of an administrative body which
will decide the conditions of his em-
ployment. The owners of the proper-
ty are going to consult him,
what he wants and takes his opinion.
For many years it has been recog-
nized that it was most injurious to the
railroads, the workers and the com-
munity to have the employers ranged
on one side and the employees ranged
on the other side, ane dire
of communication be
common interests ignored or minimiz-
ed, and each side with no means of in-
fluencing the other except by the
menace of force.
The present plan is to weld the com-
pany and its employees into a single
organization, with their common inter-
ests emphasized, their adverse inter-
ests reduced to their lowest terms, and
constant communication between the
two. It does not displace the wage
system; it does not displace capital-
ism; it simply introduces an element
of democracy into industry and ex-
tends the political equality of human
rights to the industrial world. The
general adoption of such system as
the Pennsylvania Railroad discloses
would obviate far the greater part of
the friction between capital and labor.
France Looks to the Future.
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
France’s attitude in the Silesian af-
fair is not difficult to understand.
French diplomacy throughout the
peace negotiations saw the necessity
of creating and maintaining a strong
buffer state between Germany and
Russia, formed of territory surren-
dered by Germany and Austria in the
peace treaty. France’s eye was on
the future, and she fully realized that
German military rehabilitation would
become possible in the future through
a working arrangement, so to speak,
certain in the course of time to be en-
tered into with Russia. To offset the
advantage that would come to Germa-
ny by such an arrangement, France
throughout these negotiations con-
tended for those things which would
intrench Poland as such buffer state.
It saved Poland when it was subse-
quently invaded by the hordes of Bol-
shevist Russia. That strengthened
Poland’s gratitude to France, and a
treaty was entered into between the
two countries that means united de-
fense against attacks.
France fully appreciates Germany’s
potential strength for economic recu-
peration and she also knows that with
economic recovery she will find a way
to set about military rehabilitation.
With a weak buffer state between
herself and Russia, this latter objec-
tive would become easier, especially
with increasing economic recovery.
France knows that sooner or later
Germany will repudiate her treaty en-
gagements—if she dare do so. This
opportunity France never intends she
shall have. Hence, French policy un-
deviatingly concerns itself with
strengthening French initiative so
that if the time comes when France
must strike again to safeguard all
that she won in the world war and
that is absolute security for all time
against her ancient enemy, she will
be able to strike from two fronts—
the east as well as the west.
pron
Political Primary Losing Caste.
Frome the Los Angeles Times. :
The Supreme court says that under
the Constitution there is no jurisdic-
tion over a State primary on the part
of Congress. The primary 1s just
something that runs wild and has
neither a home nor a destination.
Some day it won’t have any friends.
find out
i tween them, their
opposing interests emphasized, their
o
m— le
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
— Nine residents of Armstrong township,
Indiana county, have sold their coal land
to the Schlocta Coal company for a total
of $104,084.69, being the biggest coal deal
consummated in that part of Pennsylvania
in a long time. About 1274 acres figured
in the transaction.
—Fifty per cent. of the men remaining
in the employ of the Standard Steel works
at Lewistown, were furloughed Saturday.
This includes the office force and watch-
men who have been heretofore untoucled.
Men in supervising capacities who have,
been many years in the service could not
be accommodated with a’ job as laborers.
—Thomas W. Rhoads, aged 28 years, son
of Walton F. Rhoads, a Sunbury banker,
was found dead in bed last Thursday,
when his mother went to his room to call
him to breakfast. Doctors said heart trou-
ble was the cause. Mr. Rhoads was a
world war veteran and treasurer of Milton:
Jarrett Norman Post, 201, American Le-
gion, of Sunbury. .“
—The heavy downpour of rain early Sat-
urday morning caused the postponement
of the Alpine Club’s proposed ascent of
Paddy’s mountain, in Woodward Narrows,
Centre county. The climb has been post-
poned until Sunday, June 26th. The next
climb of the Alpine Club will be Wednes-
day, June 15th, when an ascent of North
mountain, in Sullivan county, will be made.
—Miss Esther Entrikin, supervising
nurse for Moshannon Chapter of the Red
Cross, Philipsburg, has resigned her place
to accept the position of field supervisor
in the Atlantic division, Red Cross, con-
sisting of eastern Pennsylvania and Mary-
land. She has a fine record for work done
on the battlefields of France, and during
her work in Philipsburg has won the ad-
miration of all.
—Sixty thousand barrels of oil and other
property worth in all $400,000, were burn-
ed in a fire that started Saturday at the
plant of the Valvoline Oil company, But-
ler, when lightning struck one of four
tanks containing the oil, all of which were
burned. The first tank, containing 15,000
barrels of the oil, burned till after noon,
when the second tank went up in flames.
The third and fourth tanks ignited during
the night.
—Miss Isabella Kulp, who lost her life
in an automobile accident near Hunting-
don early Saturday morning while hurry-
ing to that point to take the train for her
home in Harrisburg, following the annual
commencement exercises at Reedsville, had
been supervisor of music in Reedsville and
at Burnham schools during the past two
‘years and was unanimously elected by the
directors of both schools for another term.
She was held in high esteem by the pupils
and parents of both communities.
—Mr. and Mrs. George R. Phillips, of
Lewistown, are in receipt of a bronze plate
from the government bearing the citation
of their son, Lieutenant George R. Phil-
lips, who lost his life in Texas, January
| 20th, 1920, when the airplane in which he
was making a test flight burst into flames
{and crashed to earth. At the bottom of the
plate is engraved a tribute from his fellow
| officers at Kelly Field, who held the dead
hero in high esteem. The plate will be tak-
en to Elmira, N. Y., and placed on the he-
[ros grave in Woodlawn cemetery.
i —Out of 200 dozen pairs of silk hosiery,
| worth $1900, stolen from the Rosedale
tRmitting plant of William C. Bitting, of ,
Reading, several nights ago, 185 dozen
| pairs were recovered in a Philadelphia .
house by Reading police detectives. A
| woman in the place destroyed three dozen
pairs before the officers arrived, having
{ been “tipped off” in some way, but the po-
! lice saved the rest. Some of the missing
, goods are believed to have been kept in
| Reading. Albert Mittower, charged with
complicity in the theft and taking them to
| Philadelphia by auto, was sent to jail in
Reading in default of $2000 bail. :
—The Lewisburg detail of state police
early Saturday morning picked up two
bootleggers who had in their possession 20
cases, or 240 quarts of Pikesville whiskey:
and confiscated the roadster which they
were driving. The arrest was made in the
Seven Mile Narrows in the western end of
Union county. on the road leading from
Lewisburg to Bellefonte. ‘The prisoners,
who gave their names as Fred Seigel and
Edward Rexford, of Wilkes-Barre, were
locked up in the Union county jail to await
the action of federal authorities. The
whiskey was being brought this way, but
whether its destination was Bellefonte or
Clearfield county, is not known.
—The Supreme court of Pennsylvania,
sitting at Harrisburg last week, upheld
the verdict handed down at the September
term of Bradford county criminal court in
the case of Commonwealth vs. Floyd Smith,
charged with the murder of his wife’s ba-
by at South Waverly, in April, 1920.
Smith was convicted of the murder of the
child at the September term of Bradford
county eriminal eourt and in December was’
sentenced to die in the electric chair, by
Judge William Maxwell. In February, his
attorney, Stephen Smith, appealed the case
to the Supreme court. This week the cage
came before the higher court and the Brad-
ford county verdict was affirmed., The
date for his execution has not yet been set
by Governor Sproul. > ]
— Sawmills of the Harrisburg Lumber
company are located with a large crew ‘of
lumbermen on the General John P. Taylor
farm, at Church Hill, near Reedsville, Mif-
flin county, to cut the five tracts of virgin
timber, chiefly white oak and pine, aggre-
gating more than 100 acres and expected
to market 1,000,000 feet of the best lumber
to be found in the State. The old war-
horse of the First Pennsylvania cavalry
was exceedingly proud of this timber dur-
ing his life and never permitted a tree to
be touched. He even specified in his will
that it should never be devastated for
commercial purposes, but an order from
the court has stopped the wanton waste,
for the timber is far past its prime and
deteriorating rapidly, to the financial loss
of the estate. .
— The Lutherans of Central Pennsylva-
nia will meet in their annual reunion at
Lakemont park, Altoona, July 21st. A
strong program has already been prepar-
ed for the occasion. The committee on
speakers has been most successful in se-
curing men of national reputation to de-
liver the addresses of the day. They are
the Rev. I. Chantry Hoffman, D. D., Phil-
adelphia, general - superintendent of the
eastern district of Church Extension and
Home Missions, and the Rev. Henry C.
Roehner, D. D., of Mansfield, Ohio. Dr.
Roehner is the pastor of one of the largest
congregations of the United Lutheran
church. ‘The already famous boys’ band
of the Loysville orphans’ home will again
be present this season ‘to enliven the event
with their splendid music. Many Centre
county people will attend this reunion.