p—
INK SLINGS.
© —MecSparran wants to be Governor
for your sake. Fisher, Beidleman or
Snyder want to be Governor either for
their own or some machine’s sake.
—The peripatetic Mr. Bryan has a
drawing power equalled only by that
of an Uncle Tom Cabin show in this
neck of the woods. Both always play
to crowded houses.
—In the light of very intimate
knowledged gained during the last
thirty years we believe that there is
one church in Bellefonte where the
good Lord, Himself, would have to
turn the other cheek many a time if
he hoped to serve a five year pastor-
ate.
—There isn’t a chance in the world
of Pennsylvania’s becoming a Demo-
cratic State. But there is a chance of
Pennsylvania’s becoming a great,
clean, honestly administered Common-
wealth if capable Democrats are occa-
sionally put in offices where they can
check up on what their Republican
predecessors have done.
— Since Sunday we have been sure
that «spring is here. Flitting before
our vision were many ladies with
straw hats, then we saw a real blue-
bird. All of these harbingers have
heen known to force the season, but
not our old friend Henry Taylor. He
stuck his onions on Monday and that
ceremony having been performed we
hesitate not to declare that spring is
here.
_ —The three shell men are abroad
again. Fisher, Snyder, Beidleman and
Mackey are out for the “come-ons”
early. Every one of them is prom-
ising economy in state government
and reduced taxation as the bait to
get into the gubernatorial chair, but
not one of them expects his hearers to
inquire why he wasn’t for economy
and reduced taxation when he sat in
the legislative halls of the State.
© —Eddie Beidleman has a new one.
‘He knows of “a widow who scrimps
and saves with her husband.” In the
very nature of things that knowledge
is exclusively Eddie’s own. Some of
the rest of us know, however, that Ed-
die was in the Legislature four years
and in the Senate six and in all that
time he didn’t scrimp or save anything
for the tax payers of Pennsylvania
so we don’t believe he wants to be
Governor to scrimp and save for us
now,
"—At State College, Wednesday
night, William Jennings Bryan asked
why he had to give up thirty cents on
a railroad dining car for two soft-
‘boiled eggs, when farmers are receiv-
ing only twenty cents the dozen for
the fruit of the hen. At the “Watch-
man” office, Thursday noon, we want
to know why the Phi Kappa Phi soci-
ety had to give up $350.00 to get
Mr. Bryan to talk, when most any-
body can get us to do it by merely
starting something. It wasn’t the
eggs Mr, Bryan paid for. It wasn’t
what Mr. Bryan said that the Phi
Kappa Phi paid for. It was the style
in which a very common article of
food was served, just as it was the
style with which Mr. Bryan put over
some very common ideas that cost the
money in both instances.
—The State College Times has
thrown an interesting side-light on the
case of the former student, Baweic,
who was recently sentenced by the
Centre county court for bootlegging.
Instead of its being his first offense,
as many of us had been led to believe,
the Times is of the opinion that he
had been carrying on the illicit busi-
ness for some time and for that rea-
son was a regular bootlegger, deserv-
ing all the punishment he received.
We are not dsiposed to question the
accuracy of the Times as to the fr:-
quency of Baweic’s visits to State Col-
lege, but we do contend that he was
not a regular boot-legger for the rea-
son that he voluntarily opened his
satchel to the inspection of a state po-
liceman while any regular boot-legger
knows that a satchel is legally invio-
late unless the officer has a search
warrant, which was not the case in
‘this instance. Catch our private boot-
legger doing anything so unethical.
—If you're tired of being regulated,
licensed and permitted all the way
from the cradle to the grave. If you
are weary with making out reports
for some department or other of
everything you do in your business.
If you feel like ‘you are staggering
around with a couple of fat salaried
state clerks perched on your shoul-
ders. If your mind in its misery vis-
ualizes good old days when you could
jump into your car and hie away for
rest and solitude at the ole fishin’ hole
without first paying some one for a
tag giving the color of your eyes and
then being stopped by sundry state
policemen who want to see proof of
your right to be on roads that you
paid the taxes to build. If you are
disgusted with this practice of some-
body juggling your money so that your
schools and hospitals are on the verge
of bankruptcy while the fellows who
license and examine and spy on you
get their’s the day its due. If you're
just plumb tired of the whole damn
thing, join us for a while. If you are
not g Democrat you don’t have to be
one if you don’t wan. to. Let us all
be just Pennsylvanians long enough
to get rid of the ticks, jiggers, para-
sites and leeches that are pesterin’ the
sap out of us and stand up on our hind
legs and rebel against a system that
is milking us white and treating us as
imbeciles. ;
VOL. 67.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 17, 1922.
The Democratic ‘Ticket.
The committee of seventy-two, ap- |
pointed by the Democratic conference
of February 24th, to recommend can- |
didates for nomination to the various
State offices to be filled at the coming |
election, splendidly completed its work |
at a final meeting in Harrisburg on
the 9th instant. At the first meeting
of the committee on the 2nd instant,
John A. McSparran, of Lancaster
county, was unanimous.y recommend-
ed as the candidate for Governor. The
selection was universally and cordial-
ly endorsed by the voters of the State.
At the subsequent meeting Charles D.
McAvoy, of Norristown, was recom-
mended for Lieutenant Governor;
Judge Samuel E. Shull, of Strouds-
burg, and Colonel Fred Kerr, of Clear-
field, for Senators in Congress, and A.
Marshall Thompson, of Pittsburgh,
for Secretary of Internal Affairs.
It would be impossible to form a
more admirable ticket. Mr. McSpar-
ran, the suggestion for Governor, has
been at the head of the State Grange
for a number of years and has devel-
oped that helpful civic organization
to a high standard of efficiency and
usefulness. Mr. McAvoy has long
been among the foremost lawyers of
Montgomery county and during the
closing period of the Wilson adminis-
tration was United States district at-
torney for the Philadelphia district,
where ‘his services were so efficient as
to command universal admiration.
The candidates for Senator were se-
lected with equal wisdom. Judge
Shull, now on the bench, stands among
the foremost of the State and Colonel
Kerr served with great distinction in
France during the world war. Mr.
Thompson is dean of the law school of
the Western Pennsylvania University
of Pittsburgh.
Each of these men is a tower of
strength within himself and together
they will form a ticket that ought to
be invincible. Their purpose and the
purpose of those they represent is to
correct the evils and check the corrup-
tion which have become entrenched at
the State capital. They have the
ability to discover and the courage to
attack any fo¥m of corruption and if
they are elected by the people in No-
vember we may safely predict such a
house cleaning as will secure honest
and capable government for many
years to come. These results will be
generous recompense for the time and
labor spent in bringing the factions
of the Democratic party together in
an aggressive force pledged to honest
government and civic. improvement. |
It should be a pleasure for Democrats .
of Pennsylvania to give their earnest
support to it.
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* — Congress is determined to wipe
out the army and navy. Prepared- |
ness is no longer a popular idea in
Washington.
Commissioner Fisher’s Announcement.
Banking Commissioner Fisher has
also indulged in some surprising fig-
ures of speech in announcing himself ;
as a candidate for the Republican
nomination for Governor of Pennsyl-
vania. A ‘member of the present |
State government, he might have been |
expected to be silent on the subject |
of official delinquency. But he prac-'
tically censures Governor Sproul in his
statement that if successful in the
contest for ‘Governor he will devote
his entire time to the duties of the of-
fice. Governor Sproul has been in his
office at Harrisburg less than half the
time. He is constantly absent for |
purposes of recreation or private bus- |
iness and the pledge of Fisher in view
of the facts seems like a censure.
If reports which come from Harris-
burg are accurate the statement of
Mr. Fisher above quoted is surpris-
ing for another reason. It not only
sounds like a reflection upon the Gov-
ernor but conveys a rather direct as-
persion upon the Banking Commis-
sioner himself. The stories which
persist in coming out of Harrisburg
are to the effect that the Banking
Commissioner never enjoyed so lucra-
tive a law practice as he has had since
he entered upon the duties of his pres-
ent office. It seems that the corpora-
tions of the State have always had a
friendly feeling for Mr. Fisher, and a
good many of them have employed
him to resist the tax claims of the
Commonwealth against them.
The State press, with considerable
unanimity, has condemned the pres-
ent Lieutenant Governor for accept-
ing generous fees for professional
service for the Commonwealth. It is
generally held that his salary is all
the compensation a public official may
ask. But if it is unethical for a pub-
lic official to accept fees for legal
services in behalf of the State it must
be infinitely worse for an official of the
State to take fees for fighting the
State. If the reports current in Har-
risburg and leaking out constantly are
true, Commissioner of Banking Fisher
has been indulging in that practice, |
which is a poor recommendation for a |
reform candidate for Governor. i
Mr. Beidleman’s Change of Heart.
Lieutenant Governor Beidleman has
not only trown his hat into the ring
but he has jumped with both feet up-
on every cherished tradition of his
party. In a speech delivered before
the Pennsylvania League of Women
Voters, at a luncheon in Philadelphia
. last Friday, he declared himself in fa-
vor of a tax on manufacturers’ real
property. “The value of the manufac-
turers’ property in Pennsylvania,” he
said, “is $6,000,000,000. On this vast
sum they pay not a penny of State
tax. The widow who scrimps and
saves with her husband to lay aside
something for a rainy day finds when
that rainy day comes that the State
takes two per cent. of their savings
in its inheritance tax. At the same
time the $6,000,000,000 of manufac-
turers’ property goes scot free.”
Aside from the spectacle of a wid-
ow scrimping with her husband, an
extraordinary proceeding certainly,
the implied assault upon the funda-
mental policy of the Republican party
to foster manufacturing enterprises
for the benefit of labor by a Republi-
can leader who aspires to the highest
office in the gift of the “organization,”
is startling. The Republican party
came into power in the beginning by
pledging immunity from taxation to
manufacturers. Its greatest boast
from the earliest period of its control
is that it has kept faith with these
employers of labor, not only by ex-
empting them from taxation but by
levying tribute upon consumers
through the medium of tariff taxa-
tion, in order to hand them unearned
largesses for protection.
We have never felt sympathy for
this policy of “robbing Peter to pay
Paul,” and cordially welcome Mr.
Beidleman as a convert to a juster
and fairer system of taxation but own
to some curiosity as to what influenced
him to this result. He has served four
years in the House of Representative, |
six in the Senate of the General As-
sembly and four as presiding officer of
the Senate. During all this period of
his official life, when
time and opportunity to correct.
oh haan silent 2. nx.
might have introduced legislation to
equalize taxation and he might have
prevented the enactment of the inher-
itance tax of which he complains. But
he did neither. He smothered his in-
dignation until he became a candidate
for Governor. :
Chairman Fordney still imag-
ines that he can fool the soldiers with
a bonus bill without provision for pay-
ment of the bonus. Some of the war
veterans are rather credulous but
“you can’t fool all the people all the
time,” and soldiers are just people.
;
Concerning Senator Crow.
The future of Senator William E.
Crow continues to be a subject of
earnest if not anxious speculation
among politicians. Three or four
months ago he was taken or went to
a hospital in Pittsburgh for the osten-
sible purpose of resting. For more
than a year before that he had been
reported variously as critically ill, un-
der the weather, convalescing and per-
fectly well. Since he has been in the
hospital the reports of his condition
have been quite as conflicting. Every
statement contains an expression of
hope and a note of dispair. But he
doesn’t get about and the inference is
plain that he is a very sick man.
. Why this mystery concerning the
health of Senator Crow should be per-
sisted in has not been revealed. It
can hardly be on his own account, for
except that he was for many years a
faithful messenger for Senator Pen-
rose, he has nothing to commend him.
Upon the death of Senator Knox he
was appointed to the vacancy but no-
body has ever been able to find out
why. He is not a foremost lawyer or
a citizen distinguished for any civic
service. But in the face of the fact
that he was then physically unable to
perform the duties of the office, he
was commissioned. He has only been
in Washington once since and never
in the Senate chamber since he took
the oath of office.
Various theories have been advanc-
ed to account for his attitude and that
of his party. The latest and most
likely to be correct is that the place is
on the auction block and will be dis-
posed of in the near future to the
highest bidder. Of course any one
aspiring to the favor must be satis-
factory to the corporations of the
State and especially agreeable to
Brigadier General Atterbury. But
most any of the millionaires will be
able to meet that condition quite as
well as Crow, and it is not reckless to
add that many of them might do it
better, for they would bring a larger
measure of ability to the work.
Great Britain is willing to give
this country credit for helping to win
the war and the privilege of paying
most of the expenses.
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the 3
An Unproductive Meeting.
What might justly be called a “se-
ance” of Republican candidates was
held at the Bellevue Stratford, Phila-
delphia, the other day, under the au-
spices of the Pennsylvania League of
Women Voters, which claims to be a
non-partisan organization. Mrs. John
O. Miller, president of the organiza-
tion, presided and she did her best to
pervert the meeting into a Republican
convention. Besides Senator Pepper,
who is a candidate for the Republican
nomination to fill the Penrose vacan-
cy, all the Republican candidates for
Governor thus far named were pres-
ent and addressed the meeting, and
when Banking Cimmissioner Fisher
was sharply called down for making
a partisan speech, Mrs. Miller ad-
journed the session.
Senator Pepper was the first speak-
er and he said that he is a candidate
because he imagines he has been call-
ed to public service. He did not indi-
cate whence the call came but left that
to conjecture. It hardly came from
the ex-service men or those who are
opposed to buying party favors, for
his first vote in the Senate was in fa-
vor of ratifying Senator Newberry’s
purchase of a seat in the Senate, and
his first public declaration of policy
the soldiers” bonus. He might have
said that the call came from General
Atterbury and other corporation man-
agers, but that would have sounded
harshly on the ears of wage earners
of the State. The candidates for Gov-
ernor unanimously declared in favor
of “the old flag and an appropria-
tion.” 2
The League of Women Voters of
Pennsylvania is a partisan organiza-
tion doing business under the false
pretense of non-partisanship. Some
Democratic women have affiliated
themselves with it but the proceed-
ings of the Bellevue-Stratford re-
vealed to them that Democrats have
no rights there, not even the right of
courteous treatment, for when Mrs.
Brown, of West Cheste
dr it Pu
to her complaint. ‘But even at that
the meeting afforded little comfort to
the followers of the Republican ma-
chine. The bulk of the applause went
to Gifford Pinchot, whose name is
anathema to the bosses.
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—That Philadelphia jury that drank
up the evidence against a man charg-
ed with selling liquor disagreed after
the libation. Supplementing your
own experience with the effects of
liquor with this fact what would you
say as to the quality of the evidence
this Philadelphia jury drank. Was it
good or bad? If you answer at all
everybody will know that you are now
or have been wet.
r—
—Lots of fellows to whom a dollar
looks as big as a cart wheel now will
be driving golf balls into the rough,
within a month or so, and then put-
ting out another with as much non-
! chalance as though they grew on this-
tle bushes.
—Justice can’t be too swift and
sure in its punishment of the perpe-
trators of that bombing crime in Snow
Shoe. Centre county isn’t. accustom-
ed to this manner of vengeance and
doesn’t propose to tolerate it.
espa eg is
———The Sproul administration ap-
pears to be a sort of gubernatorial
kindergarten. Four members of the
cabinet and the understudy are candi-
dates for the office this year.
— There seems to be a dispute as
to whether the bride’s gown or Am-
bassador Harvey’s knee breeches at-
tracted most notice at the royal wed-
ding in London recently.
——The ultra Republican New York
Herald says that Congressman Ford-
ney is wrecking the party. If that be
true Mr. Fordney may take rank as a
public benefactor.
————————ere—————
——Fruit growers who have exam-
ined the buds on their trees aver that
they have not been damaged so far by
the cold weather, and let us all hope
they will not be.
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——The authorship of “Beautiful
Snow” has been definitely fixed but
nobody is able to find out who wrete
the treaties adopted by the Washing-
ton conference.
ee —— A obese
The women laughed at Charlie
Snyder at the League dinner in Phil-
adelphia, the other day. Well, as a
candidate for Governor Charlie is cer-
tainly a joke.
The soldiers of Pennsylvania
are likely to make it hot for Pepper.
Sort of making it of the red variety.
—————— i e—————
——The surprising frequency of
President Harding’s “rest periods” is
beginning to make the people tired.
The Treaty Fight.
From the Philadelphia Record.
__If the Republicans are having trou-
ble over the conference treaties and
agreements they are alone responsi-
ble. The treaty of Versailles was
never beaten on its merits or its de-
merits. It was beaten solely to dis-
credit a Democratic President. There
was no demur in the Republican par-
ty prior to the Congressional elections
in 1918 to the purposes of Chief Jus-
tice Taft's League to Enforce Peace,
or Mr. Roosevelt’s arguments for a
“posse comitatus of nations,” or the
only road to peace expounded at Un-
ion College by Senator Lodge. Every-
body expected and longed for an as-
sociation of nations to prevent one na-
tion from attacking another.
But the Republican victory in the
elections of November, 1918, created
a possibility of a partisan attack on
President Wilson, and Mr. Lodge and
the rest of the Republican Senators
made the most of it, and won. “But,
of course, they could not say .frank-
ly that there was nothing in their
course but partisanship, agit ‘Mr.
Lodge touched on the truth when he
said: “We are fighting President
Wilson.” What they said publicly
was that they objected to the cove-
nant of the League of Nations becauge
it bound the United States to do some-
thing in a specified contingency. It
did not bind the United States to do a
specific thing, except the application
of the economic boycott, but it did
pledge the United States to do some-
thing to prevent war, If that were
contrary to the Constitution and to
public policy, all previous treaties
looking to the future were obnoxious,
and the treaties prepared in the Wash-
ington conference are obnoxious.
What the American delegates in the
conference tried to do, and what the
majority of Republican Senators are
now trying to do, is to frame an
agreement that isn’t binding, and yet
which will accomplish results we di
sire. The thing is impossible. If i
President was strictly. correct in tell-
ing Congress that the conferent
impos; neith .]
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apo any nation, and are Wi
out value. ;
If the Republican opposition to th
treaty of Versailles was justifiable,
the opposition to the present treaties
is justifiable. Mr. Harding admitted
to Congress that in those agreements
we ceded something of our sovereign-
ty in consideration of other nations
doing the same and of the reciprocal
cession by the other signatories. That
is all that the treaty of Versailles
did. We do not expect much of the
Republican Senators. Inconsistency
is a very common frailty. But the
Republicans are in trouble now be-
cause they committed a political crime
two years ago. They cannot keep
their record straight and ratify the
Four Power treaty.
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DAC se mnie fp pe ST AEST
Chaste as Ice; Pure as Snow.
From the New York World.
“To the pure almost everything's
rotten,” sang Mr. James Montgomery
Flagg, and that is the burden of Sec-
retary Hughes’ note to the Italian
Ambassador declining, in the name of
the United States government, the in-
vitation to attend the Economic Con-
ference in Genoa.
The last word in self-righteousness
has now been said by the State De-
partment. We can have nothing to do
with the Genoa Conference because it
is to be “a conference of a political
character.” Wherein it is to be a con-
ference of a political character Mr.
Hughes does not say. One might
think that a government which had
been discussing political and economic
questions relating to Asia with the
governments of Great Britain, France
and Italy might with reasonable se-
curity discuss political and economic
questions relating to Europe with
Great Britain, France and Italy; but
they order those things otherwise in
Washington. The fact that our real
interests in Europe are a - hundred
times greater than our interests in
Asia has nothing to do with the case
either. :
To the United States the Genoa
Conference is socially impossible. For
-{ one thing, Russia is to be there, and
Washington is not on speaking terms
with Russia. If Russia is invited we
must stay home, although we are most
deeply and piously concerned about
Russian rehabilitation and Mr. Hughes
expresses the beautiful thought that
none of the nations at Genoa will try
to take advantage of Russia’s extrem-
ity and rob her. But if anything of
that sort should take place, it must
be understood at the outset that the
United States shall have an even
chance. There must be “fair and
equal economic opportunity,” which
means that nobody will be permitted
to grab first and the Unitea States is
not to be penalized for its superior
purity.
As for the rest, Mr. Hughes hopes
that even in our absence “progress
may be made in preparing the way for
the eventual discussion 4nd settlement
of the fundamental economic and finan-
cial questions relating to European
recuperation,” but just how this is to
come about if the conference is to be
Pdlitieal and not economic is not quite
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
— Decision to build a new road at a cost
of $50,000 between Fisher's Ferry and
Herndon was made by the Northumber-
land county commissioners.
—Pine Street, Williamsport, Methodists
are taking time by the forelock and will
‘| extend an invitation to the Central Penn-
sylvania conference to be their guests in
1924, when the lay electoral conference will
be held.
—Somerset is to have a new industry.
Stock to the amount of $100,000 is being
subscribed in the Martin Tractor Shovel
company by local people and the concern
will have a Delaware charter. The invent-
or is a Somerset county native.
—Margaret McClintic Treaster, two year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H.
Treaster, of Locks Mills, Mifflin county, is
dead after days of suffering following the
swallowing of a whole peanut which lodg-
ed in her throat and working down finally
embedded itself in her lungs.
—The warden of the Erie county jail
seems to have solved the high cost of eat-
ing at least. A report submitted by him
to the county commissioners shows that in
February he fed his prisoners at an aver-
age cost of 19 cents a day, and there is no
record that any were underfed.
—Mrs. Oliver Leasure, of Greensburg,
Pa., who sought damages from the road
supervisors of East Huntingdon township
for an accident in which her husband was
killed, was awarded $500 by a jury. The
automobile broke through a guard rail and
turned turtle in the stream below.
—Boliver, New Florence and Cramer are
considerably’ excited over the operations
of robbers supposed to be two young men
who have their headquarters near Cramer
and ride on freights to the scene they se-
lect for their operations. Vigorous meas-
ures are being taken to apprehend them.
—A score of girls charged with loitering
in Hazleton railway stations and meeting
men have been committed to the Luzerne
county jail as a result of arrests made by
detectives D. T. McKelvey and James Mec-
Dermott, acting, respectively, for the
Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton Railway and
the Lehigh Valley Railroad company.
—Charging that his wife attends meet-
ings of the Holy Rollers and then threat-
ens to put poison in his apple dumplings,
Henry C. Morningstar, a 78 year old Civil
war veteran, of York county, has asked for
a divorce. Morningstar claims that his
wife had a mania for the Holy Rollers and
that she stays away from him far into the
night, neglecting him and her household.
—A barking dog at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Bell, of Wyano, Westmore-
land county, last week, saved the family
from being burned to death. Awakened
by the dog, Mr. Bell found the house filled
with smoke. Snatching their children, Mr.
and Mrs. Bell managed to fight their way
through the smoke and release the dog be-
‘fore the house was a roaring furnace.
—William Provo, negro, 39 years , old,
ective. Wilbur Myers, of York, Pa.,
Dos aed iy Fone, seniuing
~~ sunimoned when ped
plained that Provo was insulting women
along the street.
—J. P. Haugawaut, a farmer pear Sun-
bury, was saved from being crushed to
death under an avalanche of rocks as he
was driving along the road because his
horses, scenting something wrong, plung-
ed ahead and got out of the way, just as
several rocks hit the back part of the wag-
on. Mr. Haugawaut’s brother Harry a few
weeks before, had his wagon go over the
edge and drop sixty feet. The wagon
was denwlished, but the driver jumped
and escaped serious injury.
—The Pennsylvania section, Society of.
American Foresters, was organized at Har-
rigburg on Friday at a meeting held in the
Senate caucus room in the state capitol.
Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot was elected
chairman; John Foley, chief forester of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, vice chairman,
aiid Prof. John Ferguson, of State Cols
lege, secretary. Virtually every tethnical-
ly trained forester in the State attended
the meeting. The object of the association
is to conduct studies in technical forestry
subjects.’ : 2
—Health hoards, physicians and sur-
geons from Huntingdon, Centre, Bedford,
Fulton and Blair counties will convene in
Altoona today in a sectional convention to
devise ways and means for better co-op-
eration between the various local health
boards, the doctors, the State Department
of Health and others interested in better
health. The sectional conference has been
authorized by the State Dpartment of
Health, and will be in keeping with simi-
lar conferences held in different sections of
the State.
—Dr. Abraham Owaroff, formerly a prac-
ticing physician of Jeannette and New
Kensington, Pa., was arrested last Friday
at the City of Pittsburgh Home and Asy-
lum, on a charge of violating the Harri-
son narcotic act. When arraigned before
a United States commissioner he was una-
ble to furnish bail and was held for a
hearing next Tuesday. The complaint
charges that Dr. Owaroff used regular gov-
ernment forms to obtain morphine tablets
without having: registered with the col-
lector of internal revenue.
—Isaac and Casper Kassab, of Philips-
burg, brothers, are being congratulated
on the advent of their first babies, who ar-
rived within three hours of each other.
The young men about the same time de-
cided to woo and wed. They became en-
gaged on the same day, had their engage-
ments announced on the same day, and
had a double wedding, the brides being
cousins, on October 20, 1920. One of the
babies is a girl and the other a boy, but
it is said the boy came where the girl was
wanted and vice versa. However, neither
would trade and there will be a double
christening.
—Starving to death, but surrounded with
food, a man who gave his name as John
Smith, of Virginia, was found buried up
to his neck in a carload of potatoes when
the door was opened by Palmisano & Co.,
fruit dealers at Sunbury, on Monday. The
man’s arms were pinioned by the tubers,
Palmisano said, and he declared he could
not move his head. Shifting of the load by
car jolting, the stranger said, was the
cause of his predicament, and he asserted
he had been there for three days. Smith
was ravenous with hunger, but had no
chance of even biting into a potato, so
tightly was his head pinioned, he said.
oth wounded 'by a bullet said to