INK SLINGS.
—Girls let it
hair is passe.
—Wouldn’t it be fine if spring were
to spread her knees and let winter
fall out of her lap. :
—Pinchot’s attempts to get compa-
ny in the misery of his mud-slinging
campaign have failed utterly.
——Every member of the Genoa con-
ference is willing to let Russia have a
loan if the other members furnish the
money. :
——Well, the destruction of the
fruit crop was certain to come any-
way, and it is just as well now as at
another time.
——Governor Sproul and Senator
Vare may be all right as sponsors but
we wouldn’t recommend them to any
friend as spokesman.
—With the cherry and plum crops
killed for the second year in succes-
sion the preserves of the thrifty
house-wife have had a jar indeed.
—Council could save a lot of per-
fectly good paving brick by having
those sunken at the approaches to the
High street bridge brought up to
grade.
——Germany has always been an
industrious and thrifty nation and her
present attempt to pose as a pauper
makes a poor impression on the pub-
lic mind.
— As long as General Atterbury
is opposed to the soldiers’ bonus Sen-
ator Pepper will vote against it. As
a Senator he is simply the echo of
General Atterbury.
—More power to the court that has
ruled that Grover Bergdoll, deserter,
can’t have his seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars back. Why not dis-
tribute it among the boys who didn’t
desert?
—We presume it never dawned on
Mr. Pinchot that the more he tells of
the rottenness at Harrisburg the eas-
jer it will be for us to lick him, should
he happen to get the Republican nom-
ination for Governor.
—Washington news is to the effect
that the government is moving to end
the coal strike. Inasmuch as we have
seen so many similar moves in Wash-
ington we are not very hopeful of ear-
ly results from this one.
—Yes, Lady Astor has a husband.
His name is not Henry Peck either.
Lord Astor is said to be a very capa-
ble fellow, but his Lady has piquan-
cy, wit and an American way about
her that is irresistible. That is the
reason she is always in the spot while
he is up stage.
—Anyway, it makes little difference
to us just how or why Gen. Alter de-
cided to run for Governor. He has
rendered a signal service to all the
grow again. Bobbed
near leaders of his party by giving
them somebody to be for. Two weeks
ago not one of them knew who he was
for. Now they are all for Alter.
— At last the Senate has tackled the
‘tariff problem and there will be weeks,
and perhaps months, of backing and
filling and then will come the en-
actment of an emasculated Fordney
bill that will serve no other purpose
than to raise the cost of things we
buy and reduce the sales of things we
have to sell.
— While in Bellefonte last Friday
Senator Fisher told some friends that
he intended keeping hands off in the
gubernatorial fight and letting Alter
and Pinchot fight it out. The Phila-
delphia Ledger on Monday announced
that Fisher has gone to the help of
Pinchot. Now what do you suppose
made the Senator change his mind in
twenty-four hours? If he did.
—Russia doesn’t want much. She
will be all right, she thinks, if all her
war debts are wiped out, interest on
her pre-war debts relinquished and
enough money supplied with which to
set her house in order. In the next
revision of her demands she will prob-
ably be asking for new uniforms for
the gigantic army she has encamped
on the Polish frontier.
—An advertisement of a screen
production of the Queen of Sheba
informs us that the Jane, who is the
‘Queen on the screen, will wear one
hundred and fifty pounds of beads.
Why advertise the beads. Why not
‘tell them the number of ounces of
cheese cloth that will make the rest
of her covering? It’s the least cheese
.cloth not the most beads that counts
with the movie fan.
—Mary Garden has resigned as
manager of the Chicago grand opera
«company and Muratore, the French
‘tenor, is very happy, of course. At one
moment she called him “pretty boy”
and the next “pig,” and he was so un-
«certain as to which he really was that
he led a very unhappy life in Mary’s
company, but not so unhappy as to
resign and forget the awful stipend he
«drew for being a punching bag for
Mary and singing a little on the side.
—Just as soon as the Primaries are
over and it is known who the Republi-
can nominee for Governor will be the
machine will begin talking about
cleaning house at Harrisburg, as it
always does. It will be suggesting to
the vast army of outraged Republi-
cans in the State that, if the house is
«dirty it will be better to clean it with
their own broom than to take a new
one of another brand. Don’t fall for
that kind .of stuff. The house must
‘be cleaned and a broom like Pattison
and Berry used is the kind that’s
needed. This is no time for piffling
‘with a feather duster.
Bema fc.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 67.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 28, 1922.
NO. 17.
Vare Attacks Pinchot.
What Senator Vare says of a polit-.
ical opponent is of little consequence
as a rule but what he said of Gifford
Pinchot, the other day, is so clearly in
the line of probability as to command
attention. It is certainly true that
the forester has been a part of the
Sproul administration for three years
and that he remained silent while an
orgie of profligacy was rioting about
him. It is equally certain that his
salary was increased during the per-
iod of his incumbency and that he re-
sorted to a subterfuge to avail himself
of the advantage and evade the con-
stitutional inhibition. These things
are not consistent with his present
pretense of abhorrence to the tricks
and iniquities of the Republican ma-
chine.
By inference Senator Vare asserts
that Mr. Pinchot solicited his support
and promised to relieve him of his
share of the burden of financing the
impending expensive campaign as a
consideration for the favor. Unless
he supports this statement with proof
the average voter is not likely to
place much confidence in it. In reply-
ing to Mr. Pinchot’s allegation that
the agreement of the machine to sup-
port General Alter for Governor was
made “in the back room of a hotel”
Senator Vare quibbles. It might have
been made in the front room of Sen-
ator Vare’s office or in the vestibule
of some politician’s headquarters. The
main fact as charged is that Mr.
Vare’s candidate is hand-picked by the
machine politicians and that the Re-
publican voters had no voice in the
matter. What if they hadn’t? Did
they have any choice in the matter of
Pinchot’s candidacy? Their time will
come on the day of the Primary.
The average voter is also likely to
accept with a mental reservation the
statement of Senator Vare that “I
have never bid on a State contract in
all my career as a contractor.” It is
lieved that a number of contracts have
been let by the State Highway De-
partment to corporations or groups
acting for Senator Vare and that the
profits of the operations have gone to
him. ‘This charge has been made fre-
quently in the mewspapers of the
‘State and have+gone uncontradicted.
Taking one consideration with anoth-
er, therefore, it would be safe to as-
sume that most of the things said
about Pinchot are true and in the same
ratio those said about Vare are equal-
ly accurate.
The Anti-Saloon League may
succeed in suppressing the boot-leg-
gers after the public has been taxed
into such poverty that nobody will
have money enough to buy the stuff
they sell.
Two of a Kind and Weak.
No aspersion can be cast upon the
personal character of either of the
candidates for the Republican nomi-
nation for Governor. Mr. Gifford
Pinchot is “a gentleman and a schol-
ar,” influenced by lofty motives and
possessed of high ideals. It is true,
as Senator Vare states, that he has
been a part of the Sproul! administra-
tion and remained silent ‘while profli-
gacy was running riot and iniquity
stalking about. He might have check-
ed the extravagance and saved the
people millions of dollars by a vigor-
ous protest courageously uttered and
consistently pressed. But he held his
tongue in order to conserve the inter-
ests of the party rather than those of
the people of the State. He became
a creature of the machine.
Attorey General George E. Alter is
equally deserving of public confidence,
measured by the records of his public
and private life. He is a gentleman
of the highest attainments, a lawyer
of distinguished ability and a citizen
of the best type. Left to his own im-
pulses he could be relied upon in every
respect. But when the political ma-
chine required it he looked the other
way during the outrageous proceed-
ings at the close of the last session of
the Legislature during which millions
of dollars were appropriated for ques-
tionable purposes by unlawful! pro-
cesses for the benefit of a corrupt par-
ty machine and at the expense of the
tax payers of the Commonwealth.
What we want to convey by these
statements of fact is that no man affil-
iated with the Republican machine of
Pennsylvania can correct the evils un-
der which the people are suffering.
Mr. Pinchot is personally honest but
he remained quiet while his party or-
ganization was looting the treasury
and despoiling the people. Mr. Alter
is personally honest but rather than
call the manipulators of his party and
the despoilers of the State to account
for their recreancy he also refrained
from protest. The only way to cure
these evils is to turn the Republican
party out and put in control a man
who has both inclination and courage
to do the work. John A. McSparran
{is that man.
generally understood and widely be- |
Now Pull Together.
At the instance of the Democratic
State committee a “harmony meet-
ing” of Democrats of Pennsylvania
was held in Harrisburg some weeks
ago. At that meeting, as the result
of a full and free discussion of the
subject, a committee was named by
the chairman to select a committee of
two from each Congressional district
“to canvass the subject and recommend
fit candidates for the several offices to
be filled at the ensuing election.” This
is not the exact language of the res-
olution but substantially conveys the
idea. The committee of seventy-two
recommended the nomination of John
A. McSparran, for Governor; Mr. Mc-
Avoy, for Lieutenant Governor; Sam-
uel E. Shull and Colonel Kerr, for
Senators in Congress, and Mr. Thomp-
son, for Secretary of Internal Affairs.
This was a novel method of proced-
ure but an absolutely fair one. All
factions of the party participated in
the original meeting and in the work
of the committees. The result was
accepted by a practically unanimous
voice of the Democratic voters. There
was nothing of the “star chamber”
method in it at any stage. There was
no bossing, no trickery, no under-
hand proceeding. In fact the sugges-
tions of the committee of seventy-two
were cordially received and enthusias-
tically accepted by the press and vot-
ers of the party throughout the State
with much unanimity. Not only that
but the wisdom of the recommenda-
tions inspired hope in the rank and file
of the party such as had not been
present for many years. It created
confidence among the voters.
It is now up to the voters of the
Democratic party of Pennsylvania to
complete the work of harmonizing the
party so auspiciously begun. If
every man and woman who believes in
the principles of Jefferson and the pol-
icies of Woodrow Wilson does his or
her part on election day, the admira-
ble candidates recommended by the
committee will be triumphantly elect-
ed. There are enough Democrats in
the State to make a hopeful fight even
if the enemy is united. With the
present divided and demoralized force
against us we may easily win this
year by a large majority. Every vot-
erin the State is concerned in-this re-
sult. It will mean a restoration of the
government of the State to the peo-
ple of the State. It will spell the end
of profligacy in Harrisburg.
It can hardly be said that Gov-
ernor Sproul’s administration has
been an entire failure. It has per-
formed the seemingly impossible re-
sult of making the Brumbaugh admin-
istration comparatively respectable.
Representatives or Lobbyists, Which?
It is both natural and proper that
interest should be centered upon the
election of Governor. As Mr. Gif-
ford Pinchot said in a recent speech,
“the Governor has the power to limit
expenditures so that they will be
within the income of the State.” With
a practically empty treasury and a de-
ficiency of upward of $40,000,000 to
meet, it is important that a man who
can and will put restrictions upon the
profligacy which has worked this re-
sult be elected Governor. No doubt
the deficit can and will be met but un-
less it is properly handled the people
will be taxed into poverty. The elec-
tion of John A. McSparran will guar-
antee a proper treatment of the sub-
ject and the voters have a right to
feel deeply concerned in the matter.
But the importance of electing fit
men to represent the people of Penn-
sylvania in the United States Senate
is equally plain. The Republican ma-
chine has given its approval to the se-
lection of one man for this important
service by the Pennsylvania railroad
and another by the Steel trust. If
George Wharton Pepper and David A.
Reed are chosen these great corpora-
tions will have capable lobbyists on
the floor of the Senate and the people
of the State will be without represen-
tation. The constitution never con-
templated such a condition of affairs.
That fundamental instrument pro-
vides for representation of the peo-
ple instead of corporation lobbyists in
the Senate. It is up to the people to
decide.
At the May primary election the
Democrats of Pennsylvania will nom-
inate for this service two distinguish-
ed gentlemen who have no affiliation
with corporate interests, no obliga-
tions to predatory trusts. Samuel E.
Shull, of Monroe county, and Colonel
Keer, of Clearfield county, are “of the
people and for the people.” Both of
them have already rendered valuable
service to the Commonwealth and the
country and are now offering them-
selves to this service unselfishly and
for the public good. Voters. should
keep these facts in mind. The selec-
tion of the right man for. Governor is
important but the selection of real
representatives of the people to the
United States Senate is equally a
bounden duty.
The Fordney Tariff Bill.
In presenting the amended Fordney
bill for consideration in the Senate
Chairman McCumber wisely admon-
ished his Republican colleagues
against expecting too much from it.
No tariff bill, he said, substantially
will restore prosperity until commod-
ity prices are reduced and tlie openly
declared purpose of this particular
tariff is to increase the cost of com-
modities. Mr. Fordney admits this
much and the New York Journal of
Commerce, an organ of business with
strong Republican leanings, construes
it as “a bill to raise living costs and |
hamper trade.” The New York Tri-
bune declares it a sign of “tariff mad-
ness” and the New York Herald, in-
tensely Republican, predicts that “it
will completely shut America out of
foreign markets.”
The principal purpose of both Ford-
ney and McCumber in framing and
‘amending the bill was to entice the
farmers into support of the protec-
tive policy. Previous tariff measures
had taken care of all sorts of manu-
facturing industries and given no pro-
tection to the products of agriculture.
The agricultural bloc in the Senate
early gave notice that its members
would oppose any tariff legislation this
year unless provision were made for
ample protection for farm products.
To satisfy these political farmers a
tariff tax of thirty cents a bushel was
placed on corn imported and a trifle
more than that on wheat. It is not
likely that within half a century there
will be a bushel of corn imported and
the importation of wheat in large
quantity is about equally improbable.
But the political farmers in Con-
gress were delighted with this conces-
sion to agriculture and have promised
cordial support of the measure,
though it inceases the tariff tax on
everything the farmer buys by about
one hundred per cent. and guarantees
him no increase in the price of the
commodities he sells, for the price of
corn and wheat is fixed in the foreign
market in which the wares are sold.
Moreover, as the New York Herald |'h
indicates, it will “completely shut
America out of foreign markets” for
the reason that foreign purchasers
| hye no money to buy and the tariff
tax will prevent them from purchas-
ing by the exchange of commodities.
The logical and inevitable consequence
will be that farmers may continue in-
definitely to use their corn for fuel.
Candidate George E.. Alter Visited :
Bellefonte on Saturday.
Attorney General George E. Alter,
candidate for the Republican nomina-
tion for Governor, spent an hour or so
at the Bush house, Bellefonte, on Sat-
urday afternoon where he was greet-
ed by quite a number of Republicans.
Mr. Alter spent Friday night as a
guest of warden John Francies, at the
western penitentiary, and on Saturday
morning went to State College where
he was entertained at luncheon and
also made a speech in the auditorium.
In his talk Mr. Alter confined himself
entirely to matters pertaining to the
College, making no direct reference to
the political campaign.
Mr. Alter had as an escort to Belle-
fonte Hon. A. G. Morris, whose guest
he was on the "trip down; war-
den John Francies, Republican county
chairman L. Frank Mayes, Judge Hen-
ry C. Quigley, Representative Thom-
as Beaver and County Commissioners
Harry P. Austin and George H. Yar-
nell. The party arrived in Bellefonte
a few minutes after three o'clock
and Mr. Alter held an informal recep-
tion in the lobby of the Bush house
for one hour. In the neighborhood of
two dozen women voters also greeted
the candidate, while a sprinkling of
Democrats called to pay their respects.
Shortly after Mr. Alter arrived at
the Bush house Dr. J. J. Kilpatrick
created a diversion by appearing be-
fore him with a sixteen inch trout
which he had just caught in Spring
creek and laying it down on the tiled
floor told Mr. Alter it was his. The
Attorney General looked at the fish
and with a twinkle in his eye said,
“almost would I trade my chances of
the nomination for the thrill of catch-
ing a trout like that.” He spent
Saturday night and until Sunday
afternoon with Mr. Francies at the
penitentiary.
——Destruction works faster than
construction. In one order President
Harding tore down the civil service
structure which his predecessors in
office spent forty years in building.
nse fp lp s—
If President Harding is ambi-
tious to make a record for absenteeism
he is likely to achieve his purpose. He
has every other President except Taft
shoved off the map already.
——The House and Senate commit-
tees at Washington have agreed upon
an appropriation of $1,900,000 for the
continuation of the airmail service.
The Lid is Coming Off.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It is evident that the gang is fright-
ened. It is still struggling to avert
its fate, but every day it is increasing-
ly clear that it cannot maintain its
policy of concealment and evasion.
The people of Pennsylvania are going
to have the lid at Harrisburg lifted
and what has been going on there for
years exposed. <i
Two aspirants for the nomination
for Governor have promised the peo-
ple that they shall know what is the
reason for that deficit of $24,000,000,
and a great many other things that
have been done under cover. Mr. Pin-
-chot believes that he will be able, if
elected, to stop the raiding of the State
treasury and to punish the raiders.
We have no doubt about his good in-
tenticns, but all his associates and
subordinates will be Republicans, very
susceptible to party pressure, and
most of them under more or less ob-
ligations to the gang. We are not over-
confident of what Mr. Pinchot would
be able to do if he were elected.
But the only chance the gangsters
have of saving anything is to jettison
one more Republican aspirant for the
nomination and join in supporting Mr.
Pinchot. They might, in a measure,
thwart him in his reformatory work.
For the Democrats will nominate
Mr. McSparran, and there will be
nothing to stay his hand if he shall be
elected. No obstacles will be put in
his way. The whole truth will come
out, as it did in the case of the capitol
grafting when a Democrat was elect-
ed treasurer. The gang has got to
take its choice between a Republican
reformer, over whom they might have
some control, and a Democratic re-
former, over whom they will have
none. :
The people of = Pennsylvania are
going to have one of these two men.
The Republicans are in a large major-
ity in the State, and they are very
strong partisans, and they would
much rather vote for a Republican
than a Democrat. But they want a
house-cleaning, and if the gang pre-
vents the nomination of Mr. Pinchot
they will vote for Mr. MeSparran.
The only certain and effective way
of getting a house-cleaning in this
State is to elect Mr. McSparran. He
as courage, and he would be unfet-
tered. He will let the people of Penn-
sylvania know what the gang has
been doing with their money. Hide-
bound Republicans may hate to vote
for a Democrat, but it has been dome
sometimes. They are not going to
vote this time for any tool of the
gang. If they want to find out what
has been done with their money they
must have a new broom. The only
perfectly reliable one is McSparran.
EE — .
Even as We Thought in 1914.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
A dispatch from Washington says
that the American ee 5
wholly untouched by the excitement
that has arisen at Genoa over the an-
nouncement of the Russo-German
pact that virtually brings 250,000,000
persons into alliance. One of the
spokesmen for the administration is
quoted as saying: “The principal
thing the trouble emphasizes is that
the United States is fortunate indeed
to have remained 3,000 miles from
Genoa.” . Unquestionably at this mo-
ment it is much more comfortable
than if we were in the thick of the dis-
pute. Nor does it seem unnatural—
although suggestive of a harking
back, as in the case of the four-power
pact in which we are a member, to the
old balance-of-power idea—that two
nations looking upon themselves as
sovereign should negotiate a treaty.
Just the same, when we reflect on
how our dream of isolation in 1914
eventually was broken by the world
war, there may arise a question as to
whether we are so secure, after all,
through remaining away from great
international conferences. Of course
we should not attempt “to meddle.”
But have not our statesmen when put
to the test shown some conciliatory
power? Did they not have a treaty
between Great Britain and Japan su-
perseded by one of a wider character?
Aloofness may work occasionally or
for a time in our favor, but it may ap-
pear eventually that it would be less
dangerous for us to enter such world
conferences as that of Genoa, doing
our part to promote world settlement,
than to remain away, trusting merely
to luck to guard us against any bad
effects.
Ir en fp pss —
Gompers and Labor Abuses,
From the Altoona Tribune.
As reported by the New York
Times, Samuel Gompers, head of the
American Federation of Labor, admit-
ted that some labor leaders were cor-
rupt, but he blamed all the rascality
of men like Sam Parks and Brindell
upon the employers, who, he said, put
temptation in the way of men who
had always been hard up. Even
though officers of unions stole the
funds, Mr, Gompers is opposed to legis-
lation by the State, compelling unions
to instal accounting systems. He ex-
pressed the opinion that Legislatures
should not “interfere” in any way with
the unions. He thought that in course
of time matters would right them-
selves. The abuses that are brought
to light every now and then by cour’.
trials or in other ways are the product
of capitalism, according to his notion
In short, he holds that the sin of a
faithless union treasurer or other offi-
cial is the fault of the employers.
+
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Industrial conditions are rapidly im-
proving at ‘Berwick, and within a few
weeks more than 4000 men will be employ-
ed by the American Car and Foundry com-
| pany,
—The mystery surrounding the disap.
pearance five weeks ago of Aaron Moyer,
Wapawallopen hotel man, was solved on
Saturday when his body was found in the
Susquehanna river near Berwick. He was
73 years old and his death is believed to
have been accidental.
—William Mack, twenty years old, of
Farrell, Mercer county, a letter carrier,
went into the cellar of the postoffice on
Friday to shoot rats. His revolver acci-.
dentally discharged, the bullet striking
him in the left side and passing through.
his body. His condition is serious.
—Edward Stover, a policeman who has
been active in running down bootleggers
at Elkland, Tioga county, was fatally shot
early on Sunday by an unidentified man.
He died six hours later. Stover’s assail-
ant came upon him from the front and
fired at point blank range, then escaped.
—Preparations are being made by the
Pennsylvania Society, Daughters of the
Revolution, for the thirty-first annual con-
vention, which wil! take place at the Belle-
vue-Stratford, Philadelphia, during the
week beginning Tuesday, May 9th. Thea-
tre parties, receptions and various enter-
tainments are being arranged by the com~
mittee.
—William Doty, 16 years old, escaped
from the Mifflin county jail by working his
way through on 8x12 inch hole in his cell
door, known as the “pie hole,” and passing
through the jail office to liberty. Doty
was charged with malicious mischief on
the property of the Pennsylvania railroad
and was kept in the women’s department
of the jail.
—Ellis Irwin Miller, daylight track-
walker and for twenty-five years a trusted
employee of the Pennsylvania railroad at
Ardenheim station and vicinity, was in-
stantly killed Saturday morning about
three miles east of Huntingdon. Avoiding
one approaching freight train, Miller step-
ped in front of another. He was 44 years
old and leaves a family.
—Federal Judge Orr, of Pittsburgh, on
Tuesday named Horace F. Baker and
James R. Wardrop receivers of the Stand-
ard Scale and Supply company, with of-
fices in Pittsburgh, Chicago, Clevelaand,
New York and Philadelphia. In answer to
the suit asking the appointment of receiv-
ers, F. R. Dravo, president, declared that
the concern was unable to pay liabilities
amounting to more than $400,000. ;
—Fully 8000 persons from Elk and ad-
joining counties inspected the new Ane
drew Kaul Memorial hospital at Kane,
last week, the occasion being its formal
opening. Joseph H. Reilley, of Philadel-
phia, son-in-law of the man whose mem-
ory the institution perpetuates, delivered
possession of the building to the commu-
nity, in a brief address, and it was accept-
ed by Mayor James H. Thompson, of St.
Marys.
—Sentenced to die in the electric chair,
on Saturday, for slaying his wife last Au-
gust, Silas Gipson, of Bridgewater, Beaver
county, thanked the court. He said, “I
am sorry I have brought disgrace on Bea-
ver county and my family. I can’t realize
it is true, but if you say it is, it must be
true”! Judge Reader said: “May God in
His infinite goodness have mercy upon
you.” Gipson replied, “And upon you, too,
judge.” 2
—Coroner Thompson, of Brockwayville,
Jefferson county, has been advised by of-
ficials of the University of Pittsburgh
that chemical analysis of the stomachs of
Robert and Theodore Heller, of Port Bar-
nett, failed to disclose the cause of death.
The boys died within a short time of each
other and, when an autopsy did not show
the cause, the stomachs were sent to Pitts- :
burgh. On the day they died . the lads
played around their home in the morning,
were taken ill in the afternoon and suc
cumbed in a few minutes. PR
—While digging post holes on his“ moth: |
er's farm, near Auburn, Schuylkill county, .
Daniel Stefly on Tuesday unearthed a met-
al box which contained several thousand
dollars in old bank notes, believed to-have: .
grandfather. The notes were in such ‘an’ -
advanced state of decomposition that when
handled they crumbled to pieces. .The box
has been handed over to the Auburn Na- ',
tional bank, which will forward it'to the
United States Treasury, which may be able
to identify the notes before disintegration.
There long has been a story ‘that a for-
tune was buried on the Stefly farm.
—~Studies of every car load of wheat
shipped out of Pennsylvania, together with -
data about the county where the grain
originated, are being made at the Depart-
ment of Agriculture in following out plans
for grading wheat, similar projects in re
gard to apples and potatoes having proved
very successful. It is believed with prop-
er grading $1,000,000 or more can be added
to the incomes of the farmers of the State,
and instances have been found where re-
fusal to pay $5 or $6 for fumigation of a
car have caused it to be graded so low
that the owner lost twice what might be
laid out for the insect-destroying process.
—Denouncing as sacrilegious plans for
the erection of a stadium by Bucknell Uni-
versity adjoining the Lewisburg cemetery,
Mrs. Aida Myers Houston, a wealthy wid-
ow of Lewisburg and New York, protested
to Dr. Emery W. Hunt, president of the
institution. When asked to comment on
her letter, Dr. Hunt said: “I told Mrs.
Houston in my reply that the site was
chosen by a committee of the board of di-
rectors, on which there are a number of
Lewisburg residents. I had no part in the
choice of the grounds where the stadium
is to be built, and I have referred her let-
ter to one of the members of this commit-
tee, who is our mutual friend.”
—Declaring that mothers-in-law cause 75
per cent, of matrimonial disasters and that
they are “out-laws” instead of “in-laws,”
Rev. Dr. Clayton Albert Smucker, pastor
of St. Paul’s Methodist church at Hazle-
ton, opened a series of four sermons on
love, on Sunday, by advocating the organ-
ization of a university for the education
of the mothers of brides and bridegrooms.
Dr. Smucker also attacked the bachelors,
stating they are as vain as peacocks and
all that is necessary to make them such is
to stick on wings and tail feathers, since
the average unmarried man of middle age
thinks every woman in the world is in love
with him, One of the most interesting
sights encountered in life, he said, is to”
see one of these individuals “get his feath«
ers pulled out.”
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