INK SLINGS.
— Senator Fisher's withdrawal
from the Republican Gubernatorial
race leaves only Alter and Pinchot in
the field.
—Farmers are just getting rightly
started at spring plowing, whereas
most of them were through and some
were sowing oats at this time last
year.
—Germany doesn’t blubber over
paying millions to her ex-ruler half
as much as she does over paying rep-
aration for the desolation his vanity
brought upon the world.
—If you are going fishing tomorrow
remember that you must have a li-
cense, if you are over age, that it is
illegal to take trout under six inches
in length and that anything on the
hip is very much to be desired but
very dangerous to be caught with.
— The Lord willing we are going
fishing tomorrow and such a thrill of
joyful anticipation flashes through us
that we would promise each and every
reader of the “Watchman” a mess of
trout for Sunday breakfast if it were
not for two things: The law will
permit us to take only twenty-five and
if we have our usual luck we won’t
take that many.
—The stage is set and the fight is
on. Our Republican friends are te
have a monopoly of the fun, for our
candidates are fixed now. The pri-
mary is a mere formality for them.
All they need do is sit back and load
up with the ammunition that Alter,
Pinchot and Fisher will supply during
their heated contest for the nomina-
tion on the Republican ticket.
— While General Alter is the best
of the two possible Republican can-
didates for Governor he is not what
Pennsylvania wants and needs at this
time. There is something big wrong
at Harrisburg. Something so big
that the most fearless, the most up-
right Republican ever born just
couldn’t permit the skeleton to be
dragged from his party’s closet in its
‘hideous entirety. It’s a vacuum clean-
er not a Bissell that Pennsylvania
needs. It’s a Democrat, not a Repub-
lican, however estimable he may be.
_ John F. Short is back at his desk
in the sanctum of the Clearfield Re-
publican, after three years and a half
of service as United States Marshal
for the western district of Pennsylva-
nia. While we have long been curi-
ous to know just how John ever got
that job as Marshal, for he never
wholly “went along” with any of the
plum dispensing factions in our party,
we do know that he filled it well. He
returns to his newspaper with the sat-
isfaction all men must feel who have
given the best they have in public
service.
— The more we think of it the more
convinced do we become that this
country needs a ten year legislative
holiday far more than it needs a ten
year naval holiday. Every new coun-
cil, every new Legislature, every new
Congress has its quota of cranks, fad-
ists, dreamers and shallow brains
who succeed in getting something in-
to the laws that add to the mental un-
rest and financial burden of govern-
ment without apparent compensation
in public weal. If we don’t stop soon
and take account of stock government
will govern itself clean out of exist-
ence.
— Two of the high lights in the
expenses of Centre county for the
year 1921 is the cost of assessing the
North and South wards of Bellefonte.
No wonder Herbie Auman wanted to
be tax collector. If he could take
down within $14.59 of as much for
merely assessing the North ward of
Bellefonte as the assessment of all
three wards of Philipsburg cost he
must have had millions in his mind
when he had himself elected to the po-
sition he now holds. Commissioners
Austin and Yarnell and Harter had
‘better move to Bellefonte and become
assessors. They work all year for a |
thousand while Herbie got $737.50 for
making the assessment.
— The auditor's statement of the
condition of Centre county, published
on another page of this issue, speaks
for itself. Read it carefully. Maybe
you’ll be able to get a grain of com-
fort out of it like we did. When we
discovered that the county was furth-
er in debt on January 1st, 1922, than
it was January 1st, 1921, we perked
up a lot for we realized that we had
company. And this reminds us to re-
mind you that if you owe the county
anything get busy and pay it. If you
owe us anything send the real iron
boys in now and don’t save them for
flowers after we have worried our-
selves into a premature grave trying
‘to make a paper run on hope.
— Probably there will be many Re-
‘publicans who will not vote to make
Attorney General Alter their nominee
for Governor because he is being
‘backed by the Vares, Magee, Leslie,
Eyre, Baker and other notorious ma-
chine politicians. As a rule a man is
known by the company he keeps, but
in this case General Alter is not keep-
ing company with the men ‘who have
combined to make him Governor. They
rallied to him not because they feared
him less, but because they hated Pin-
chot and Grundy, Fisher's backer,
most. We believe General Alter will
‘be the nominee, though the withdraw-
al of Fisher will make his fight a very
hard one unless the Grundy strength
finally goes to him because his candi-
dacy offers more hope to it than that
«of Pinchot.
Bewor fadn |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 67.
BELLEFON
TE, PA., APRIL 14. 1922.
NO. 15.
Senator Pepper’s Idea.
i
Mr. George Wharton Pepper for- |
mally opened his campaign for Sena-
tor in Congress on Saturday and it is
no exaggeration to say thatit was
“some opening.” The occasion was a
luncheon at the Bellevue-Stratford, |
and the audience was the elite of the ,
city and a few millionaires from out-
side.
Mr. Ira Jewell Williams was |
chairman, and he is a word painter |
from “away back.” In presenting Mr. |
Pepper he said: “Imagine all the '
qualities of wisdom and courage; add
a fervor of patriotism, a passion for
service and then crown all with erys- |
tal clearness of thought, the rare gift
and consummate power of convincing
speech and all the grace and charm of
a great-hearted, gallant gentleman,
yet this is not a moiety of what we
have learned to know and feel about
our friend and leader, George Whar-
ton Pepper.”
There is some oratorical and pane-
gyrical high stepping for you but
Pepper was equal to the emergency.
“As I have studied the problems that
come before the Senate,” he replied,
“] have come to the conclusion that
what is needed is a man who recog-
nizes that every question with which
government concerns itself resolves
itself in the iast analysis to a conflict
of interests, and what is needed is the |
man who, with something like the cer-
tainty of a worker in the laboratory,
can analyze the question for the pur-
pose of determining what interests
are concerned, can readily appraise
each of the interests in its relation to
the others and feels sure in himself
that he has really tried to take ac-
count of all the interests and fix them
in their proper perspective.” Can you
beat it? It is as clear as mud.
Then Mr. Pepper amplifies and elu-
cidates. You must have method and !
it must be a method “in which you be- |
gin with reverence in the presence of |
great problems.”
Of course George |
Wharton has methods and plenty of
them and he understands interests.
and their relations to others. It was
because of this that the corporations |
had him appointed to the Senate and
hope to keep them there. And he un-
derstands. perspective and can fix the |
relation between master and man |
“with one hand tied behind his back.”
He knows the value of party organi-
zation, too, but his information on |
that subject has been acquired since ;
the Vare-Sproul conspiracy began be-
stowing favors upon him. But he
learns fast, as his vote for Newberry
proves, and his fulsome eulogy of
bossism in Albany and Lancaster indi- |
cates. He is ready to go the limit in
anything now. |
The truth of the matter is that Mr. |
Pepper is a glutton for office. During
all his life he has been trying to break
into official position but the late Sen- |
ator Penrose, whose mental vision |
could penetrate the false pretense of
bogus reformers, wouldnt stand for |
his ambition. Then he denounced the |
organization of the Republican party |
as a monstrous conspiracy and the!
men managing it as outlaws. But a
change has come over the spirit of his |
dream and now Senator Vare typifies |
his highest ideal of statesmanship and |
the Newberry method of conducting |
campaigns represent his notion of po-
litical morality. He is a fraud and an
instrument of predatory corporations
and every working man in the State,
irrespective of party, should - vote
against him.
— Our friend John Todd writes
from Philipsburg to the effect that he
is ‘sending us enough money to pay
for his paper some time in advance
because he says if he has “another
year’s business like the last has been”
he “won’t have enough left to pay for
a- Dutch almanac.” Cheer up, John,
and forget the almanac. The end of
Harding’s . administration will slip
around far quicker if you don’t count:
the days.
——A special election was held in
the thirty-seventh New York Con-
gressional District on Tuesday and
the Republican candidate has appar-
ently squeezed through by the narrow-
est margin. In 1920 this District
gave the Republican candidate a plu-
rality of 29,750. It is a sign of the
reaction that is to bring Democracy
back into power.
ics and the Phillies won their openers.
Let us hope that their first victories
will not be the last for this season.
———————————
—— Harry Mackey declared his in-
dependence of Boss Vare very boldly
at long distance. But in close contact
he is quite servile.
—Let us hope that no kiiling frosts
come to blight the blossoming fruit
trees.
——We rise to inquire what the ju-
venile court officer gets $275.00 a year
for.
| tests will be futile.
‘did in his statement
| conditions.
——And to think both the Athlet- |
General Alter’s Handicap.
The real friends of Attorney Gener-
'al George E. Alter will regret be-
yond expression the fact that his can-
didacy for the Republican nomination
for Governor is handicapped by an un-
wholesome environment. His spon-
sors are said to be Senator Vare, of
Philadelphia; Senator Eyre, of West
Chester, and Senator Leslie, of Pitts- |
burgh, three active road building con-
tractors. In view of the other fact
that the Highway Department will
have $100,000,000 to disburse during
the tenure of the next administration
the activity of these contractors in the
selection of a candidate assumes a sin-
ister aspect. It will be difficult to
overcome the popular suspicion that
the favor is “a gift from the Greeks.”
Those who know Mr. Alter feel that |
he is impervious to sinister influences.
But they are forced to admit that
the tax measures which needlessly
multiplied the burdens of the peo-
ple had his approval, and the
riotous proceedings which disgraced
the closing period of the Legislature
last year may not have been condoned
but they were not condemned by
him. These incidents are certain to
be brought into the campaign to his
detriment. They will be paraded
everywhere as evidences of the servil-
ity to the machine and signs of moral
and mental weakness. His real
friends will know better but their pro-
Facts are stub-
born things.
All things considered at full value,
however, Mr. Alter is the fittest of
the two candidates named for the
favor. His integrity is beyond ques-
tion, his ability is universally. conced-
ed and his experience in public affairs
has been wide and varied. Pinchot
has been a part of the Sproul admin-
istration from its beginning. He ad-
mits its iniquities but exculpates all
participants in them from blame.
The reasoning which may be summon-
ed as evidence against Alter should
therefore work with equal force
against the other, but it won't be-
cause of the men who have vol-
untarily rallied to the Alter banner.
——Senator Vare was hardly can-
of his purpose in
working for party harmony. He says
it was for the promotion of the Hard-
ing policies. As a matter of fact it
was for the preservation of his own
liberty. If the Democrats carry
; Pennsylvania the chances are a num- :
ber of Republican statesmen will go ;
to the penitentiary.
United on One Subject.
The Republicans in Congress are
able to agree only upon one subject.
They are at daggers’ points on the
tariff, as widely separated as the
poles on the soldiers’ bonus and at
“loggerheads” upon most other ques-
tions. But on the question of conceal-
ment they are a unit. No inquiry con-
cerning administration purposes or
proceedings are allowed under any
The public must be kept
in the dark. The Ku Klux Klan is no
more secretive in its operations than
the Republican organization. Proba-
| bly there is a reason for this. Pub-
‘licity is a dangerous instrument to
| “monkey” with. It reacts.
When President Harding knocked
the merit system in the civil service
into the proverbial “cocked hat,” a
| Senator offered a resolution that he
inform the Senate and the country
, why a reform work of forty years’ ef-
i fort was scrapped in a moment. It
| was a reasonable inquiry. The Senate
in particular and the public on gener-
al principles have a right to know
what is going on in official life. But
| the Republicans of the Senate joined
| to a man in refusing to pass the reso-
lution. They unanimously declared
that it is none of the public’s business
and as for the minority in the Senate
it “can go hang.” ‘
The other day Senator Caraway, of
| Arkansas, introduced another resolu-
| tion on the subject of the President's
| violation of the civil service law. He
probably imagined that “the sober,
second thought” might have interpos-
ed and worked a change in the policy
of the majority. But he was mistak-
en. Bourbons learn nothing. An As-
sociated Press reporter states that
“Republicans in chorus objected to the
discussion of the resolution and it
went over.” The late Commodore
Vanderbilt epitomized a similar situa-
tion when he said “the public be
damned.” The Republicans of the
Senate are a unit on the same idea.
Sproul can claim vindication no
matter which of the Republican can-
didates for Governor is successful.
They are all in the official family.
Beidleman, Mackey and Snyder
must have meant some other year and
under different circumstances.
————l——
——1It looks as though the harmony
operation would fail to harmonize.
z
Henry C. Niles Knows How.
Mr. Henry C. Niles, of York, a vet-
eran worker in the cause of clean pol-
itics and honest government, in declin-
ing an invitation to support the can-
didacy of Gifford Pinchot, said: “In
my view reform of the Republican
party from within is impossible. The
. nomination of such a man as Mr. Pin-
chot would only be a paliative. He
would be the candidate of the Republi-
can party, which, as now controlled in
Pennsylvania, has degenerated into
nothing but an organization for sys-
tematic political corruption. If elect-
ed, whatever improvement his per-
sonal integrity might effect would be
‘capitalized by the gangsters for par-
‘ty credit to furnish them continued
i opportunity for further spoil.”
Mr. Niles is equally accurate in his
| prescription of a remedy. “The elec-
I tion of John A. McSparran, the Dem-
i ocratic candidate, by the votes of the
. independents and progressives,” he
| writes, “would do more for genuine
“and thorough reform than would be
| possible through any Governor elected
as a Republican. There is nothing
good which would be accomplished by
Mr. Pinchot which would not be done
more certainly and more effectively
by Governor McSparran.” And this
is equally true with respect to any
other Republican. The organization
is so completely saturated with fraud
that no individual, however capable,
courageous and honest, could change
the system which Mr. Pinchot him-
self condemns in severe terms.
To achieve any substantial and en-
during improvement in the govern-
ment of Pennsylvania there must be
not only a complete change in the per-
sonnel and politics of the administra-
tion but an actual destruction of the
nest of vice in which the corruption is
born and fostered. No Republican
‘could accomplish this. The struggle
now in progress in Washington be-
| tween the President and the spoilsmen
. proves this, and the history of poli-
'tics in Pennsylvania during the last
half century confirms it. If the vot-
‘ers want clean and honest government
| they must follow the suggestion of
| Xo. Niles and vote for the admirable
\e#ndidates of the Democratic party
from McSparran down. There is no
: other way. .
——Secretary Mellon had no trou-
ble in getting® Banking Commissioner
Fisher into the fight but he wasn’t
able to take him out. Vare and Harry
Baker are more expert in bossing.
Tariff and Ocean Transportation.
The Finance committee of the Sen-
ate in Washington is still hammering
away in an effort to whip the absurd
Fordney tariff bill into some shape
"that will make it acceptable to the
! leaders of the Republican party. The
| House of Representatives wrestled
| with it for nearly a year and finally
I passed it reluctantly. For several
‘ months it has been in the Senate com-
' mittee and on Saturday last by a vote
| of seven to three of the Republican
i members Mr. Fordney’s pet feature,
i the American valuation, was rejected,
| With this alteration in the text it is
likely to be reported to the Senate in
the near future. But it is not likely
| to be passed soon and it is practically.
' certain that Fordney will reject it.
It is universally agreed among im-
| porters of the country that the Ford-
ney tariff bill, even as amended in the
Senate committee, will greatly dimin-
ish if not actually destroy the busi-
ness of importing as well as export-
ing, for international commerce is an
exchange of commodities. The Ford-
ney bill as passed by the House with
the American valuation is certain. to
kill international commerce. Mr.
Fordney still cherishes the preposter-
ous idea that the importation of com-.
modities works harm to domestic pro-
ducers and his intentions are mot to
produce revenue but to prevent impor-
tations. In this purpose he appears
to have the sympathy of the Presi-
dent. He certainly has the support of
most manufacturers.
The logical inference to be drawn
from these facts is that the President
and a considerable number of Sena-
tors and Representatives in Congress
desire to shut off the importation of
goods. President McKinley, who was
a radical tariff advocate, declared be-
fore his death that unless we bought
from abroad we could not sell abroad.
That being the case the President de-
sires to cut out the business of ocean
transportation, for ship lines can’t
possibly be maintained if there are no
cargoes to carry. Yet the President
wants a ship subsidy of fifty millions
of dollars a year to be divided among
the owners of idle ships. What sort
of reasoning does he employ to get
himself into that frame of mind?
——The Attorney General says he
will act in the coal strike when the
public is pinched. The public has been
pinched every time a ton of coal has
been delivered within six years.
An Easter Prayer.
Charles Hanson Towne in the April De-
lineator.
Lord, now that spring is in the world,
And every tulip is a cup
Filled with the wine of Thy great love,
Lift Thou me up.
Raise Thou my heart as flowers arise
To greet the glory of Thy day,
With soul as clean as lilies are,
And white as they.
Show me that Thou art April, Lord,
And Thou the flowers and the grass; “.
Then, when awake the soft spring winds,
I'll hear The pass!
e———— ee ———
A Tariff Abomination,
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch. ©
The Senate Finance co
hopes to be able to report out tk
permanent tariff bill early in A
As it was received from the Hous
was an abomination, and if reports
to changes that will be written into
are true, it will be still more objec
tionable than when it left the Halse
The principle of a tariff to raise rev
nue apparently has been wholly: los
sight of by its framers. If the bil
anything like it is said to be, precious
little revenue will be derived from it.
Many of the duties are said to
higher than those in the Payne-Al-
drich bill, which was condemned and
repudiated by the people. Indeed,
some of the duties are said to be vir-
tually prohibitory. x
Aside from the great burden it will
saddle on the consumers of this coun-
try, the bill will offer no encourage-
ment whatever to the upbuilding of
our foreign trade. Our own industries
can never thrive until the world re-
construction is worked out ti h
trade revival, and yet the pending bill
proposes to interpose the most formi-
dable obstacles to trade. Just at the
time when Americans are reaching
out for more trade abroad and seeking
an entrance into foreign markets,
Congress is preparing to cut down ex-
ports by limiting imports with which
our exports must be paid for. It is
folly to talk about building up an
American merchant marine when we
pursue a policy which will render it
impossible for our ships to secure car-
goes both ways. 3
What the people need most of all is
a reduction of taxes, and yet it is pro-
posed in this bill to increase. them
enormously. ing the campaign of
During
1920 there was no deniand * worth
speaking of for tariff legislation, nor
has there since been any: popular de-
mand for it. Despite its inequitable
schedules, the people as a whole were
fairly well satisfied with the Under-
wood. tariff. It had the merit, at least,
of being revenue-producing at lower
rates than the tariff tinkers now seem
determined to impose. When the bill
is reported on the floor of the Senate
it is said that the East will be array-
ed against the West in its further con-
sideration. Each side will contend for
a tariff that “protects” its own pro-
ducts. That means they eventually
will compromise on a measure that
will impose rates high enough to sat-
isfy the exploiting interests of both
sections at the expense of the great
body of consumers.
emer fees
A Bonus Suggestion.
1
From the Chicago Evening Post. ’ :
We hope that the Senate will shelve
the “cashless” bonus as promptly as
possible. Then we should like to see
them initiate the necessary step to
Mrs.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
— Farmers along the Susquehanna, east
of Lock Haven, are complaining that wild
geese and ducks are feasting at their ex-
pense on their green wheat fields.
—The Riverview Manufacturing compa-
ny’s underwear mill at Lockport has been
leased by a New York firm that makes
men’s shirts and the idle machinery will
soon be humming. - >
— Somerset county has had one Republi-
can aspirant for Congressional nomination
removed by death—Lewis W. Fogg, of
Uniontown. He was just home from Flor-
ida and motored to Somerset, taking a
heavy cold and developing a fatal case of
pneumonia.
—Eight year old Helen Confer, of Flem-
ington, was taken to the Lock Haven hos-
pital a few days ago, likely to die of lock
jaw from an infected wound of her left
knee. She was sliding down a cellar door
and ran a splinter into the flesh, which her
father failed to get entirely out.
—Two young men driving near Philips-
burg, whose horse backed them into a res-
ervoir, where both men and animal nar
rowly escaped drowning, were rescued
from death and arrested by state constab-
ulary. They paid fines for being intox-
icated and for disorderly conduct.
—Deep mud probably saved the life of
McBride, of Hillsgrove, Sullivan
county, who fell from the seat of a heavy
truck wagon in such a way that the wheel
passed over her face. The soft mud kept
her skull from being broken and while
she is much disfigured it is belived she
has a chance for recovery.
__A team of horses owned by Robert Al-
| lison, a Nittany valley farmer, was fright-
ened by a Bald Eagle Valley freight train
while standing at the Mill Hall station
last Friday and dashed around the station,
running into the freight. One horse was
instantly killed and the other had to be
shot. The train was traveling forty miles
an hour.
—While driving in a race during the
county fair at Clearfield last year, Charles
8. Middagh, of Mifflin, was thrown and
sustained injuries which he claims have
resulted in permanent lamemess in his
right leg, and he now enters suit to recov-
er $15,000 damoges from E. Earl Sober,
of Johnstown, driver of another horse,
whom he charges with having caused the
accident.
—Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Brown, just a few
nights after moving from Williamsport to
Lock Haven were awakened by noises
down stairs. Their weapons hadn't been
unpacked and Mr. Brown feared to show
fight. Mrs. Brown threw up a window,
hailed a passing motor car which threw
its search light on the house. The intru-
ders left’ by a side entrance without get-
ting anything.
—Punxsutawney authorities are investi-
gating the deaths within an hour of each
other last Thursday night of Robert and
Theodore Heller, young sons of Mr. and
Mrs. James Heller, of Port Barnett, Jef-
ferson county. The children, according to
their mother, appeared to bein their nor-
mal health all day. Early in the evening
Robert became ill and died a few minutes
later. Theodore died within forty-five
‘minutes.
The Lancaster eounty court last Sat-
urday authorized the sale of the assets of"
the Agricultural Trust Company to the
Agricultural Title and Savings Company
for $950,000. The depositors in the institu-
tion, which was wrecked by the defalcation
of Charles D. Zell, will receive 90 cents on
the dollar, according to Banking Commis-
sioner Fisher. The directors of the re-
organized institution hope to open within
the next few weeks.
—There is a possibility that a maneuver
camp will be located on the Gettysburg
battlefield this summer. A captain of the
United States air service flew there on
Sunday afternoon from the marine camp at
Occoquan, Va., to look over possible sites.
The camp, wherever it is held, will last ten
days and will include 4000 marines, togeth-
er with a number of airplanes which will
take part in the maneuvering, and . will
likely give a mock air battle. The‘camp
will be held in June. a
—Robert W. Watt, of Kansas City,
has stasted suit in the United States court
at Scranton against his father-in-law, Hi-
ram S. Williams, prominent hotel man of
Berwick, Pa., charging that the defendant
alienated the affections of his wife, and
also took her away from him. Watt asks
ficient. This efficiency, if placed at
‘the: disposition of the veterans, would
call the draft boards back into -the
service and to have them make an
honest and impartial estimate of the
ex-service men’s needs. Some of the
“boys” need cash aid, some of them
need homes or farms, some need ed-
ucation; others need help in getting
fitted into suitable jobs, with cash to
keep them alive in the meantime. The
work of the draft boards has been
characterized as over 95 per cent. ef-
$25,000 damages. He. alleges that he and
his wife went to Kansas City to live a few
years ago and that they were living to-
gether happily when her father went to
visit them. Also, that the father turned
his wife against him.
—The State executive committee of the
American Legion, in session at Williams-
port on Saturday, voted to provide the
State commander's headquarters with a ra-
dio telephone equipment, so that he can
broadcast Legion information to the posts,
being urged to adopt that means of com-
munication. A resolution that the Legion
reaffirms its adherence to a ‘hands-off”
policy in politics was laid on the table,
following declarations by members that it
was not necessary for the Legion to de-
clare its support of its own constitution.
make an intelligent use of the bonus
far more likely.
Furthermore, the United States
needs to know in advance what the re-
lief of the veterans will cost. At
present it is all guess work, and no one
has pretended to figure accurately
how much money the government will
be called on to provide, nor when. Of-
ficials of the Treasury Department es-
timate that, under the House bill, it
will cost the nation $400,000,000 in
the next year or so to pay off the cash
claims of less than $50 each to finance
the bonus options of vocational edu-
cation, home-building aid, ete., with-
out providing a cent for the cashing of
certificates in 1925. But Congress ap-
parently regards the above as idle
guessing, and has not moved in any
way to raise the sum.
—Northumberland county commission-
ers have flatly refused to join with Union
county in building a bridge across the
Susquehanna river between Watsontown
and White Deer at an estimated cost of
$200,000. The matter has been in the
courts for five years, three successive
grand juries in both counties having rec-
ommended the structure. It has also been
peremptorily ordered built by writs of
mandamus in both courts, but because of
the high cost of material was not proceed-
ed with Union county officials will again
take the matter into the courts.
— Twelve jurors sauntered toward the
jury room in county court at Brookville,
last Thursday, after Judge Charles Cor-
bett had ordered that they test the evi-
dence in the case of Mrs. Anna Draelick,
of Sykesville, accused of violating the
lighor law. Several, unable to conceal
their elation at the prospects of having a
“wee drap,” made no effort to hide their
feelings, and one jigged several steps. But,
alas, the lightly colored moonshine, with
its high alcoholic content, was not immune
to the heat of the room, and exploded
while a constable was carrying it into the
jury room. The explosion did no injury
to the officer, but it rumpled the feelings
of that jury. They headed for the box and
brought in a verdict of “guilty” without
uttering ten preparatory and unnecessary
words.
Are Men so Fickle?
From the New York Herald.
Women members of the Republican
County committee were discussing
Assemblyman Steinberg’s bill provid-
ing that no marriages should be per-
formed until thirty-six hours after
the issue of the license. Miss Mary
Wood, prominent in politics, opposed
the measure. “It gives a man too
great a chance to change his mind.”
she said.
——The Senate doesn’t want to
know why Harding discharged em-
ployees of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing but the public may be
less indifferent.