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INK SLINGS.
—1It sounds to us like Gif Pinchot
is promising too much. And we've
heard some of Gif’s promises before.
—How about saving daylight? Are
we really gcing to do it or are we just
talking about it to make conversation.
- —The most convincing way to find
out how much building costs have
come down is to start a little building.
—Costs can never come down until
we pay men for the work they do in-
stead of the time they put in doing it.
—Well, we spent the opening day
of the season along our favorite trout
stream and came home with an empty
creel and a cold in the noodle.
—If there was any lingering doubt
as to where he stood in Woodrow Wil-
son’s estimation Senator Jim Reed, of
Missouri, is surely harboring it no
longer.
——Senator Pepper expects strong
support from the women voters. His
survey of the subject has obviously
not been among the wives of the world
war veterans.
—The Republican Senate caucus
has voted to pass a soldier’s bonus bill
at this session. Senator Pepper ran
true to form and voted against report-
ing the bill cut.
—Has anybody any real dope on the
fight for Republican Congressional
honors between Billy Swoope and the
Hon. Evan Jones? Weare not inter-
ested further than a slight desire to
know in advance whose scalp Mr. Sny-
der is to get.
—Debt is supposed to make cow-
ards of us all, but we want to tell you
right here that we have our fingers
crossed and gradually we're being
goaded to tell the truth about every-
body who owes the “Watchman” even
so much as one year’s subscription.
—Pinchot is leading a lot of Repub-
licans into the woods so far that
many of them will never get out again.
He knows the woods. He has taken
to the tall timber often and found his
way out. But those who are taking
their first trip into the Pinchot forest
are not familiar with the trails.
—Miss Meek and Mr. Naginey evi-
dently intend making it an intensive
fight for nomination for Assembly.
Neither one of them has appeared on
the hustings as yet and we are great-
ly disappointed. We have been look-
ing for some new stuff in politics to
come out of this lady and gentleman
affair.
—The miners picked the wrong date
for their strike. There is so much big
news breaking in the Republican
camps in the State and everybody else
is so intent on earning three or four
dollars a day that nobody has time to
listen to the wail of the miners be-
cause they can’t have steady work at
eight and ten.
—The recent death of “Pop” Anson
has given opportunity to a lot of
sports writers to vent their ideas of
the great men in the national game
and many of them are linking that of
“Babe” Ruth, the home-run king, with
that of the late Adrian C. Only ivory
prevents these young men from eval-
uating the soubriquets of “Pop” and
“Babe.” :
—Russia and Germany could for-
give one another’s debts without either
making much of a sacrifice. The
mark and the ruble are presently
valueless. Had there been a worth-
while disparity in their values we fan-
cy Dr. Rathenau and Mr. Chicherin
would not have made the pyrotech-
nical display of wiping off the slates
that created the sensation of Genoa.
—A bit of news, with curiously lo-
«cal flavor, appeared in some of the
city papers Wednesday. It was an an-
nouncement that “Thomas H. Harter,
editor and owner of the Keystone Ga-
zette and Republican leader of Centre
county predicts the election of Gifford
Pinchot.” Knowing Mr. Harter as we
do we have little interest in his pre-
dictions. It’s his predicaments that
pique our curiosity on occasion. And
he’s in an awful one now for there are
a lot of other fellows who have owned
up to being “the Republican leader of
Centre county.”
—Anent the commotion over the
erection of a garage on Howard street,
Bellefonte, Mr. Cunningham asked his
fellow councilmen a very pertinent
question when he inquired as to the
use of an ordinance if it is not to be
enforced. And what bunk our friend
John Bower Esq. pulled when he re-
vealed the failure of the ordinance
drafters to specifically state “fire
proof” buildings within the zone. But
then John is a lawyer and lawyers
thrive on technically proving that
white is black. There wouldn’t be so
many of them if that wasn’t possible
on occasion.
Attorney General Geo. E. Alter,
now candidate for Republican guber-
natorial honors, will spend tomorrow
in Centre county. As General Alter
was a law partner of Judge H. Walton
Mitchell, president of the board of
trustees of The Pennsylvania State
College, and framed and introduced in
the Legislature the bill that created
the new western penitentiary that is
now building in this county and
spends much of his recreation leisure
hunting and fishing here, we feel that
he certainly can’t have any fences to
fix up in this section so he must be
coming just as he has been for years
to visit with his friend Warden John
Francies and to catch a trout—may-
be. We say maybe because we have
fished with him.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NO. 16.
VOL. 67.
The Way Clearly Marked.
In commenting on the withdrawal
of Mr. Fisher from the contest for the
Republican nomination for Governor
the Philadelphia Inquirer says: “The
nomination of Alter would be a dis-
aster. The batteries which the Dem-
ocrats could concentrate upon him
would be exceedingly dangerous to
Republican success in the November
election. Indeed it is not unlikely
that the Democrats with McSparran
could demolish the Vare-Leslie-Ma-
gee combination of contractor bosses
with their machine standard bearer.
Alter.” The Philadelphia Inquirer is
the only real, blown-in-the-bottle, stal-
wart, Penrose Republican organ in
Philadelphia. No party boss cares
what the other Republican papers in
that city say or think.
On the other hand the Pittsburgh
Gazette-Times, the equally orthodox
though not quite as decidedly Penrose
Republican organ of western Pennsyl-
vania, regards the nomination of Al-
ter as an essential to Republican suc-
cess in Pennsylvania this year. The
Gazette-Times is the property as well
as the mouth-piece of the Oliver fam-
ily and the organ of protectionists
everywhere. It was Mr. Oliver and
his friends, including the Mellons and
Grundy, that enticed Mz. Fisher into
the fight. The subsequent withdraw-
al of their support by Oliver and the
Mellons was probably the real reason
for the withdrawal of Fisher from the
contest. That was influenced by pres-
sure from Washington. The Harding
administration is panic stricken.
But these conflicting and confusing
statements of the accredited party or-
gans of the east and west of Pennsyl-
vania clearly point the way to Demo-
cratic success in the State and the
restoration of the government to the
people. The nomination of John A.
McSparran is the first essential to
that result but not a full guarantee.
Every Democratic voter in the State,
male and female, must do a part and
an organization that has something
besides trading in party spoils in
mind must be secured at the May pri-
maries to make the result certain.
The enemy is hopelessly divided and
conipletely” demoralized. «~ But® our
own forces must be perfectly mobil-
ized as well as militant, courageous
and intelligent.
——Upon the question of obeying
the President or forfeiting spoils the
House of Representatives made quick
decision on the navy personnel.
Pepper’s Strange Indifference.
Senator Pepper refuses to express
a preference between the two candi-
dates for the nomination of his party
for Governor, which proves that he is
a “wise guy” as well as “hot stuff.”
He says he is not interested in the
election of a Governor. He is run-
ning for Senator and is anxious to
win. But the questions of economy
and efficiency in the State is a matter
of no consequence to him. In public
speeches delivered at various places
since he entered upon the duties of his
present office he has professed a good
deal of concern for the interests of
the people and a whole lot for party.
success and prosperity. But he prob-
ably reasons that if he is elected the
country will be safe regardless of the
Governor. :
It seems to us that an aspirant for
so important an office as Senator in
Congress ought to be concerned for
the good name of the State he aspires
to represent in the national Legisla-
ture. .A Senator’s influence in the
body is measured, to a considerable
extent, by the character and standing
of his constituents. Pennsylvania has
recently been represented in the up-
per branch of Congress by very able
men in the persons of Boies Penrose
and Philander C. Knox. But they
have not been able to exert much in-
fluence in the shaping of legislation.
Is it because they were indifferent as
to who was Governor or how the af-
fairs of the State are conducted? If
that be the reason the election of Pep-
per promises no improvement.
But at that Senator Pepper has
nothing on the candidates for Gover-
nor. Mr. Pinchot has declared that
he has no interest in the contest for
Senator and Mr. Alter declares that
he is quite unconcerned on the sub-
ject. The inference is that the Re-
publican organization in the State has
degenerated into a mob in which the
rule is “everybody for himself and the
devil take the hindmost.” The only
man who has expressed any feeling
on the subject is Senator Vare, and
his concern is not for the government
at Harrisburg, but the government at
Washington. To guarantee the safe-
ty of the government at Washington
he is for Alter. As an aspirant for
Senator in Congress Senator Pepper
ought to share in this concern.
En——————————— re a—————
Lenine and Trotsky are too
modest. They only ask twenty-five
billion dollars as damages for what
has been done to them.
BEL
‘Obligations of His Four Power Pact.
The four power pact recently adopt-
ed by the Washington conference and
ratified by the Senate promises to be
a perennial source of misunderstand-
ing and confusion. While the ques-
tion of ratification was pending in the
Senate President Harding declared
with much positiveness that the pact
was not an alliance and committed
the government to nothing on earth
or sea. Secretary Hughes confirmed
this statement and Senator Lodge
turned his eyes upward and “crossed
his breast” every time the assertion
was uttered by anybody. Naturally
eveybody who gave the subject any
thought concluded that it was an ut-
terly harmless instrument and most
of the Senators voted for it.
The other day the question of fixing
the naval force of the country came
up in the House of Representatives.
Some of the Republican Congressmen,
influenced probably by the campaign
promise of economizing in expenses
of government, endeavored to reduce
the personnel of the navy to 76,000
men while others, including the lead-
ers, insisted that 86,000 is a small
enough number. It appears that both
the President and Secretary Hughes
are of this opinion and in conveying
the fact to the members of Congress
Secretary Hughes declared that the
four power pact which fixed the ratio
of the navies of Great Britain, Japan
and the United States on a 5-5-3 ba-
sis bound the United States to a na-
val personnel of not less than 86,000
enlisted men and a corresponding
number of officers.
There has been a tradition current
in Congress and out from the begin-
ning of the government that one Con-
gress could not bind another, to fol-
low, to anything and during the con-
sideration of the covenant of the
League of Nations a couple of years
ago this fact was uttered, reiterated
and emphasized a thousand times.
But now that emergency requires it
Secretary Hughes contradicts his own
former statement on the subject and
boldly alleges that the four power
pact is not only binding but that it
has Congress completely. tied up to. a
naval foree of 86,000 men and the
necessary number of ‘officers to direct
them. Maybe that is true and in the
future we may discover that we are
bound to a lot of other things.
——It oughtn’t to cost as much to
run the government now as when we
had four million soldiers to pay and
half a million men in the navy, but
the administration claims credit for
the difference.
Equal Taxes the Policy.
In his address at the Jefferson Day
dinner in Philadelphia, on Monday
evening, Mr. John A. McSparran, who
will be the next Governor of Pennsyl-
vania, made a suggestion that is like-
ly to meet with popular favor. It had
in view an equalization of taxes which
would afford much relief to the tax
payers. The equalization of taxes has
always been the policy of the Demo-
cratic party. It has been prevented
by the preponderance of Republicans
in the Legislature. But if McSparran
is elected Governor this year Demo-
cratic gains in the next and the sub-
sequent Legislature may compass the
result.
Mr. McSparran’s suggestion was
that a tax be laid on property of man-
. ufacturing corporations and concerns.
Lieutenant Governor Beidleman, dur-
ing the brief period in which he im-
agined he was a candidate for Gover-
nor, adopted the idea suggested by
r. McSparran and declared that un-
der the unfair provisions of the reve-
nue laws of Pennsylvania, five billion
dollars’ worth of property, owned and
used by people amply able to pay ‘a
just share of the taxes, was entirely
exempt from levy and tax. Mr. Bei-
dleman intimated that in the event of
his “election this injustice would be
remedied.
As a matter of fact most of this
property is taxed but the proceeds of
the operation doesn’t get to the pub-
lic treasuries. It is paid to the Re-
publican campaign committees and
used to buy votes and in other ways
debauch the electorate. The proposi-
tion of Mr. MeSparran will correct the
evil. The taxes will be paid as other
taxes are paid and the addition to the
revenues thus secured will greatly re-
duce the millage on all the people. It
is not a new doctrine. It has been the
expressed policy of the Democratic
party from the beginning. It is an
expression of the principle of equal-
ization of public burdens.
——Without authority to speak of-
ficially for the ladies we take the lib-
erty to suggest that skirts will be
lengthened when leaders of fashion
have spindly ankles.
A———— te ————
——Manifestly the present Con-
gress is not in favor. of investigations.
There is safety in silence and danger
in publicity.
LEFONTE, PA., APRIL 21. 1922.
Effect of Fisher's Withdrawal.
The withdrawal of Banking Com-
missioner Fisher from the contest for
the Republican nomination for Gov-
ernor has opened up a wide range of
conjecture as to the effect upon the
prospects of the candidates remaining
in the field. Mr. Fisher expressed no
preference openly as between Alter
and Pinchot though his reference to
“the danger of dictation of intriguing
politicians” implies a slant toward
Pinchot. But he is lacking in candor,
to say the least. “I must not add to
that menace,” ‘he said, “by making the
situation complex and confusing.”
Yet that is precisely what he has done.
Both the other candidates were at the
time associated with him in the Sproul
administration.
Presumably the manner of project-
ing Alter into the contest influenced
Fisher to withdraw and his simulta-
neous resignation from the cabinet in-
dicates the trend of his sympathies
between those remaining in the con-
test. Mr. Pinchot’s subsequent resig-
nation could have had nothing to do
with the matter unless Fisher had
been informed in advance of Pinchot's
purpose which has not been revealed.
Up to that time the two candidates
stood on a common level. They were
alike responsible for the evils of the
administration. And naturally the
friends of both think or profess to
think that the withdrawal of Fisher
will inure to the benefit of their fa-
vorite.
In justice to both of the remaining
candidates it must be said that they
are clean and honest men. Neither,
however, will be able to purge the
government at Harrisburg of the in-
iquities which have been produced by
a long period of uninterrupted mis-
rule, profligacy and corruption. It is
not invidious to say that Alter is the
more capable of the two and might
strive for the result with the greater
degree of intelligence. But both are
completely tied up in the thongs of
political expediency and would be as
helpless as Governor as they have
been as members of the cabinet.
Nothing but the election of a Demo-
want -as. Governor and the complete ex-
tinction of the corrupt machine will
do the work.
——One of Bellefonte’s policemen
has been granted a three month’s va-
cation by borough council at his own
request. When ‘a’ reporter of the
“Watchman”
why he wanted a vacation he said that
the work was becoming so monoton-
ous that he wanted to get out and do
something else to keep from becom-
ing stagnant. Back in the old days
‘| when Capt. Henry Montgomery and
Joshua Folk were the police officers
in Bellefonte there was plenty to do
to keep them occupied. Fights were
of frequent occurrence and drunks
only an episode of their daily life.
Now conditions in Bellefonte are so
changed that it is a rare thing to see
even a dog fight, and the policemen
have to take a vacation to break the
' monotony of their existence.
ppc —
—The arms limitation conference
held in Washington is just beginning
to let loose the shakes that were con-
cealed behind the smoke screens of
praise and glorification of its accom-
plishments. President Harding has
told Congress that it has to increase
the army and navy because we are
bound to do it by the Conference.
Diogenes, get the lamp. We want to
search for an honest man. :
ames een eres.
——The County Commissiones have
decided not to appoint at present a
second clerk to take the place of the
late H. C. Valentine. The routine bus-
iness will be done by chief clerk H. W.
Irwin and his assistant, Mrs. Harriet
Ray Smith, and extra clerical help
will be employed only when needed.
np —— roe
——Evidently the purpose of the
Republicans in Congress is not to en-
act tariff legislation until after the
election. The passage of the Fordney
bill will cause the defeat of the par-
ty and delay may hold the tariff
mongers as well as the others by
hopes for the future.
—Almost we have revised our opin-
ion of the Irish in Ireland. When we
survey the Republican turmoil in
Pennsylvania we have more patience
with the Collins-de Valera episode on
the other side.
——If the Genoa conference accom-
plishes any good results the adminis-
tration at Washington will have a fit.
The administration at Washington
wants no achievement outside of
itself,
——The recent agreement between
the government and the Standard Oil
in relation to the: Wyoming oil re-
serves proves that a Republican ad-
ministration is not ungrateful.
asked the policeman |
E The Great Sproul Theory.
| From the Philadelphia Record.
Governor Sproul’s recent appeal to
Republican women, and through them
to all Republicans, not to allow them-
selves to be influenced by personal an-
imosities, “for if Pennsylvania gives
aid and comfort to the enemy it will
be a blow to the great Administration,”
etc., receives the warm commendation
of The Harrisburg Telegraph, which
adds this bright thought of its own:
Republicans should not forget
in the primary campaign that any
comfort given the natural polit-
ical enemy through criticism of
Republican candidates is bound to
complicate the main campaign
when the primary maneuvering
is over.
Here we see a fundamental weak-
ness of Pennsylvania Republicanism,
which goes far to explain its record
for political knavery and moral flab-
biness. If some crook, absolutely des-
titute of all principle, and who calls
himself a Republican only because he
expects the more readily to accom-
plish his corrupt aims by joining the
party dominant in the State, becomes
a candidate for office, he is to be treat-
ed with great consideration. If he is
a thief, or a drunkard, or a wife-beat-
er, that unpleasant fact is to be gloss-
ed over because, if publicity is given
to it, that will be, in the soft-soap lan-
guage of Governor Sproul, affording
“aid and comfort to the enemy” and
striking a terrible blow at the Hard-
ing Administration.
. That is a pusillanimous way of look-
ing at public candidacies, from our
viewpoint. Here in Philadelphia
everybody knows that the Republican
organization is dominated by men
many of whom would be behind the
bars if absolute justice prevailed, and
who call themselves Republicans, not.
because of any adherence to the prin-
ciples of that party, but because they
want a share in the spoils that go to
the majority. In New York they
would be affiliated with Tammany
Hall for the same reason.
This fact is familiar to all; but un-
der the Sproul theory of politics noth-
ing must be whispered against these
rascals for fear that the Democrats
might hear it and use it to the disad-
vantage of the G. O. P. Fortunately
for Pennsylvania, all its voters are
not such spineless creatures as the
Governor would ‘have them. Let us
have the truth about all candidates,
Republican, Democratic or Socialist,
no matter who may be hurt. That is
the only safe course in a democracy.
The Embarrassing Borah.
From the New York Globe (Rep).
That was a sad scene in the Senate
on Tuesday, when Mr. McCormick’s
carefully prepared reply to ex-Gover-
nor Cox was interrupted at its perihe-
lion by the candid and irreverent Bor-
ah. “Can the Senator,” asked Borah,
“tell m. how many Senators on this,
the Republican, side of the chamber
would vote for the League of Nations
if it was sent to the Senate at this
time?” Mr. McCormick couldn’t, or
at least didn’t. A little later Senator
Borah renewed his attack, and the
leading Administration Senators had
to listen while he declared that “the
most powerful influences in the Ad-
ministration, outside of the President
himself, are for entering the League
| of Nations, and, if they are correctly
reported to their pro-League friends,
they are doing all they can to take the
country into the League of Nations.”
Senator Borah furthermore declared
it to be his humble judgment that the
“fundamental principle upon which
the fight was made” against the
League has already been surrendered.
Of course, Senator Borah is against
all this. He has not changed his mind
since his first startled glance into the
voluminous pages of the Versailles
treaty. His attitude becomes absurd
only when his logic is confronted by
the actual facts. The actual facts are
that the League is the most harmless
political organization now existing in
the world. Membership in it, no more
constitutes an alliance than does
membership in a postal union. The
disarmament agreement which Sena-
tor Borah suggested and voted for is
quite as great an “infringement of
sovereignty” as anything in the
League constitution. Neither the one
nor the other has any present danger
except that of futility.
The great question now is not
whether the nations will get together
to suppress liberty and destroy inde-
pendence, but whether they can be
prevailed upon to act in common for
the common good. And the chief in-
terest in Senator Borah’s forensic ef-
forts is not that they have anything
to do with the . world’s situation at
present, but that they show how in-
consistent the Administration forces
are in halting half way between isola-
tion and a whole-hearted participation
in an international movement to pre-
serve the peace. ;
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A Gambler’s Offer.
From the Altoona Times.
It is reported by the Pittsburgh Ga-
zette-Times that a professional gamb-
ler has offered to pay the salaries of
the police force of the city of Youngs-
town, Ohio, if the mayor of that flour-
ishing city will permit him to open
and conduct four gambling resorts
there. It is a rather novel propesi-
tion, as the usual method is to
the officials. This proposition ought te
lead to some straight thinking by the
victims of gambling operations.
ribe:
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Although living but thirty-one miles
from each other, Miss Mary Bixler, of
Hanover, Pa., and her brother, John Bix-
ler, of Columbia, had not seen each other
l.for forty years. The sister is now visiting
her brother. IND
—Lester Anderson, of Altoona, stepped on
a nail while helping to tear down the old
First Lutheran church, erected nearly
three-quarters of a century ago. A few
days later he became ill with lock jaw. He
is now able to eat and talk and has recov-
ered sufficiently to leave the Mercy hos-
pital.
—D. 8. Mitchell, aged 67 years, a watch-
man employed at the export mine of the
Westmoreland Coal and Coke company,
was shot through the breast while on pa-
trol duty near the mine early on Satur-
day. Ferdinand Cicerello was arrested.
Mitchell fired three shots at his assailants
‘after he had fallen.
—Harry Markowitz, a merchant of Fred-
erickstown, Fayette county, was found un-
conscious in a road near that place late
Friday night, his pockets turned inside out
and $1400 missing. He told police that he
had been attacked by four men who beat
him with heavy clubs and robbed him. He
recently bought the store of Harry Swartz,
| who was murdered for his money.
—Thieves took a complete camping out-
fit from the cabin of W. E. Ritter, of Wil-
liamsport, along Lycoming creek, and stole
an auto and accessories from a nearby
garage to haul away the loot, They left
lights burning at the cottage, but when
passersby went to investigate the thieves
had gone. They were trailed as far as
Lock Haven but had made good their es-
cape.
—John Klocek, aged 11 years, riding on
the running board of a truck of the Penn-
sylvania Central Brewing company, at Ha-"
zleton, without the knowledge of the driv-
er, was instantly killed on Saturday when
he fell off the machine as it struck a rut in
the road, one of the rear wheels passing
over his head. The driver, Bert Russell,
did not know of the accident until passers-
by told him ef it.
—Ed. L. Shirey and son, Clearfield lum-
bermen, have just closed a deal for a very
valuable tract of timber land in Clinton
county, near Renovo. The timber was
purchased from Renovo business men. The
tract is estimated to cut 2,500,000 feet of
the finest kind of saw timber and 50,000
railroad ties, Shirey & Son will locate a
mill on the tract at once but have eight
years in which to take the timber off.
—Persons having surplus gladioli, can-
na or dahlia roots and other flowering
plants have been asked by Department of
Health officials to give them to the pa-
tients at the State's sanitaria so that out-
door work for the patients may be extend-
ed. The request has been made especially
in regard to perennials. State appropria-
tions do not permit of expenditures for
such things at the sanitaria and the re-
quest for the plants is the first of the kind
to be made.
—Rufus Costner and Harry D. Brooks,
found guilty of complicity in the holdup
and killing of a department store bank
messenger, a former resident of Philips-
burg, at Pittsburgh on June 10th last,
were sentenced at Pittsburgh last Thurs-
day to serve not less than nineteen years
and eleven months and not more than
twenty years in the penitentiary. Marga-
ret Brooks, wife of Harry Brooks, was
sentenced to not less than five years and
not more than six years.
—State troopers investigating the attack
made upon Mr. and Mrs. Peter Zerinsky,
of Beaver Brook, near Hazleton, were giv-
en a jolt when they found $8370 in bank
notes in a lard can which the thieves had
overlooked after torturing Zerinsky to
learn where he kept his money. The lard
can had failed to attract the attention of
the bandits, who stabbed Zerinsky, so se-
verely in a fight that two of the fingers of
his left hand had to be amputated. The
money was taken to a bank for safe keep-
ing. . u
—Renovo’s youthful bandits, Arthur, An- -
son’ and Alvin Brookens and Leslie Par-
ker, received heavy sentences when they
pleaded guilty before Judge Quigley at
Emporium last week. Arthur Brookens,
aged about 21, and Leslie Parker, aged
about 18, were sentenced to the western
penitentiary to serve terms of not less
than fifteen and not more than sixteen
years, The two younger Brookens boys
were committed to the reformatory for in-
definite terms. . The boys plead guilty to
committing a series of daring robberies in
Clinton, Clearfield and Cameron counties,
covering a period of six months.
—Doylestown has a “farming bishop.”
He is the Rev. Abram O. Histand, who was
recently elected bishop of the eastern dis-
trict of the Franconio Conference of Men-
nonite churches of Pennsylvania. Bishop
Histand operates a small farm near
Doylestown. He has a family of twelve
children. Besides taking care of his farm
Bishop Histand will have charge of a con-
ference of 4000 members. He will have di-
rect charge of the district of 1200 mem-
bers, with churches in Doylestown, Bloom-
ing Glen, Deep Run, Parkasie and Grove-
land. Bishop Histand has been ordained:
minister of the church for twenty-six
years.
—The Board of county commissioners of
Mifilin county, H. Laub, Jr., J. T. McCart-
ney and R. E. Goss, turned down petitions
at their meeting on Saturday for a dona-
tion to the erection of Victory park, at
Lewistown, a memorial to the soldiers and
sailors of the world war, and the erection
of a bridge across the Juniata river near
Granville on the grounds that they had
already exceeded the 1922 budget and bor-
rowed $35,500 to meet current expenses.
The demands of the poor board for out-
door relief alone, will aggregate $25,000 for
the year if present conditions continue,
the average thus far expended for this
work has been $2,500 per month.
—Ninety-four years old Andrew Keck, of
Allentown, after a thirty-four year “vaca-
tion” is back in the lumber business. On
Saturday at an executor’s sale he bought
the lumber yard which he established in
1851 and conducted for thirty-seven years
before retiring. His sons, William G., and
8S. Henry Keck, then became the owners.
The latter died in 1903 and William then
became the sole owner, He died within ,
the past year and in settling up the estate
the lumber yard was sold to his father,
who plans to resume his business career.
Although: but ‘six ‘years removed from the
century mark, Mr, Keck is one of the most
active and well known figures in that city.
Hardly a day of the year finds him miss-
ing from the principal business section of
the town.