Bema fiaina
INK SLINGS.
—The red men have been here
and gone and so far as we have heard
not even a “flapper” scalp is missing.
—~Centre county bull-dogs must
have been all penned up on Wednes-
day. At least we haven’t heard of
any canine lamps being doused by the
senatorial sputum of George Wharton
Pepper.
—And now the figures from the
Treasury Department make it appear
that the second year of this econom-
ical, tax reducing Harding adminis-
tration is to end with a greater defi-
cit than the first. The Lord only
knows what will be staring us in the
face when the fourth and last year of
it rolls round.
—It has just come to light that it
was the much maligned Josephus Dan-
iels, Secretary of the Navy, who
steadfastly stood out against the
Standard oil in its efforts to grab con-
trol of the last remnants of oil terri-
tory in the United States that were
reserved for the use of our navy. No
wonder the controlled press of the
country tried to make the world be-
lieve Josephus was a little peg in a
big hole.
—Democrats! When you go to the
primaries on May 16th remember to
vote for the candidates who were en-
dorsed by the state-wide conference
of our party. The conference was
called for the sake of harmony. It
suggested a good ticket and if we are
to have harmony we should support
it. Vote for Shull and Kerr for Unit-
ed States Senator, for McSparran for
Governor, for McAvoy for Lieutenant
Governor, and for Thompson for Sec-
retary of Internal Affairs.
—Pseudo-science has been absorb-
ing the attention of intellectuals a lot
of late. They say it is spreading the
philosophy of the easiest way and is
building round the world a broad
primrose path over which are troop-
ing thoughtless thousands. Generally
speaking the subject is too deep for
us to discuss in the midst of trout-fish-
ing season, but that primrose path
suggestion has a lure that would be
hard for us to fight off were not the
fate of the Persian kitty that went
that route not still one of our sad
memories.
—Yes, we have to hand it to Mr.
Director Dawes of the budget bureau.
He’s the real thing. He can make the
five inch trout look six inches long
when the fish warden meets up with
him on the stream. He has just an-
nounced that he is going to save the
government one hundred and thirty-
six million dollars this year in little
things and one of the little things is
an item of seventy-five hundred dol- ] :
lars which was voted to the widow. of |
Senator Proctor, who died in 1908 and
she died long before Dawes or his
“hell and Maria” were heard from.
—If the Altoona Tribune really
thinks that Geo. E. Alter did the hon-
est thing in appointing an eminent
Democrat and jurist to investigate
charges of irregularities in the depos-
it of State funds and if it really thinks
that Gif Pinchot timed his charges so
‘that they could not be refuted before
‘the primary, as it intimates in its
Tuesday edition, why doesn’t it de-
.clare for Alter? Henry W. stands for
the clean things in everything else.
Why doesn’t he see to it that his Tri-
bune does the same thing? It can’t
be possible that Pinchot has promised
to reforest the mountains he has dev-
.astated in climbing.
—The latest dope from the Alter
.campaign headquarters is to the effect
that he will carry Philadelphia and
Allegheny counties by one hundred
.and fifty and fifty thousand votes, re-
spectively. The claim is set forth that
he will carry twenty-one other coun-
ties of the State. While we are still
unable to see how Pinchot can win the
Republican nomination with the ma-
chine against him we fear the Alter
prognosticator doesn’t have his in-
struments adjusted just as fine as the
-exigencies of this campaign require.
“The tide has been noticeably changing
during the past ten days but it isn’t
going strong enough yet to warrant a
positive statement that Mr. Alter will
carry “twenty-one other counties in
the State.
— Centre surely has been a Repub-
lican battle ground this week. The
faithful and the heretics have been
busy from early morning ‘till late at
night with Scott, Pollum, Swoope,
Jones and Pepper cavalcades. In fact
it has been so conspicuous in country
districts of the county that some of
our Democrats, chaffing under the
wonderful harmony that has healed
the fights we have been having for ten
years or more, have telephoned in urg-
ing us to start something so they can
have some fun too. To them we would
say: Wait until after May 16th. Then
we can show the Republicans a fight
that is a fight. If Billy Swoope beats
the Hon. Evan Jones for Congress we
won’t be just slapping Billy on the
wrist like the Hon. Jones is doing.
We'll be kickin’ the stuffin’ clean out
of him. If the Hon. Harry Scott
| beats that Dr Pollum fellow we’ll
quote Tom Harter clear up to elec-
tion day. And if he doesn’t beat him
we'll tell you some things about Dr.
Pollum that his opponents don’t know
or are too polite to use against him.
And, oh boy! what we have laid up: for
either George Alter or Gif. Pinchot.
Don’t get fighting in ‘the dressing
room, you Pine Grove Democrats.
Wait till we get in the ring and the’
gong sounds.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 67.
Dawes the Swashbuckler Tamed.
Some months ago a rollicking
swashbuckler named Dawes came to
Washington “out of the west” and
swore himself first into popular ap-
proval and then into public office. He
had been with the army in France in
the capacity of disbursing or supply
officer and acquired the rank of Briga-
dier General. He was called to testi-
fy before one of the numerous com-
mittees created in the Sixty-sixth
Congress to prove profligacy in the
management of the war. He “swore
like a trooper” and cavorted around
the committee like “a drunken sailor.”
But he exposed the hypocrisy of those
who were trying to besmirch Presi-
dent Wilson and compelled the con-
spirators to abandon their plans. This
is why he was publicly applauded.
General Dawes’ testimony left the
Republican Congressional machine in
a state of panic. For some inexplica-
ble reason men and women admire a
man who swears in places where such
language is unexpected. A preacher
who utters the oath or indulges in
some glaring solecism in the pulpit
gets more popular applause for that
single incident than he would have
received in fifty years of eloquent and
capable sermonizing in the usual way.
Thus General Dawes literally swore
himself into distinction and in order
to square the party with an outraged
public opinion President Harding gave
him an office, newly created, and en-
titled Director of the Budget. It was
a “sop” to Cerberus” and quieted
Dawes. He eats out of the boss’ hand
now.
Since that Dawes has been the most
tractable and servile politician in
Washington. His entire time has been
spent and all his energies centered in
efforts to show that the Harding ad-
ministration has been the most eco-
nomical ever and that vast sums have
been saved to the people by the vigi-
lance, efficiency and industry of War-
ren Gamaliel. In pursuance of this
purpose he submitted to the President
the other day, and the President pass-
ed on to Congress, a report showing
that $136,000,000 had been saved dur-
ing the first six months of the Hag
Tg curl a aay kod
for a bill of particulars and it is shown
Shai the report is false from start to
nish. ¥
—On the local Republican calendar
May 16th will be the big day. We
should worry about that date. Our
troubles were all composed by the
committee of seventy-two. May 19th
is the big day for us. A circus will
be here then.
Both Delinquent and Unworthy.
Itis not surprising that Mr. Gifford
Pinchot should promptly avail him-
self of the opening for a blow at the
State Republican machine afforded by
the Auditor General’s recent expos-
ure of unlawful manipulation of pub-
lic funds by the late State Treasurer
and present deputy in that office, Har-
mon M. Gephart. For more than four
years the effort of the machine has
been to conceal from public view the
financial operations and standing of
the Commonwealth. Auditor General
Lewis has “let the cat out of the bag.”
He has shown that during all that
period the funds of the State have
been juggled in violation of law so as
to favor bankers and interests affiliat-
ed with the machine.
Commenting upon the exposure Mr.
Pinchot has appropriately declared:
“No one can deny that false state-
ments have been issued by the State
Treasurer. No one can deny that ap-
propriations have been made and are
now in effect far beyond the estimated
revenues.
State Treasury is able to tell us how:
much it pays out for salaries, how
‘much for expenses, how much under
contract, for we have their official
statement that they do not know. * *
* * As Governor I will turn on the
light and clean up the whole mess.”
Attorney General Alter, his competit-
or for the nomination, also enters
what might justly be termed a plea
of nolle contendre. He also says he
doesn’t know but will investigate and
punish any one found guilty.
Mr. Pinchot states that these jug-
gling operations have been in progress
for seven years. During the last three
years of this time he has been a part
and parcel of the administration that
has been flagrantly guilty of these
crimes against the State. For nearly
two years Mr. \lter has been asso-
ciated - intimately with the same
organization. Why is it, then, that
Mr. Pinchot has remained silent con-
cerning these grave matters? He
must have known. Mr. Alter admits
he didn’t know. He must have been
“asleep. at the switch.” Will voters
now, consider either ‘one a fit guardian
of the. interests of the looted public
and outraged people? The plain du-
ty of .the people is to elect John A.
MecSparran Governor. He knows and
; will act.
No one can assert that the.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 12. 1922.
| Admonition to Pepper.
The nomination of a blatherskite
like Alfred J. Beveredge, of Indiana,
for the great office of Senator in Con-
gress would be a cause for regret un-
der ordinary conditions. But strange-
ly enough his nomination by the Re-
publican party the other day for that
office has been hailed with approval.
There are reasons for this unexpected
development. It is reasonably certain
that he will be defeated at the elec-
tion by the Democratic nominee in No-
vember. Besides his nomination was
a rebuke to the present Senator, Har-
ry S. New. Mr. New was among the
most virulent of the opponents of
Woodrow Wilson, a leader in the op-
position to the covenant of the League
of Nations and a supporter of the in-
famous Newberry.
The defeat of the covenant of the
League of Nations was the result of
a vicious conspiracy to prolong the
evils of commercial and industrial
confusion in order to discredit the
Democratic administration of Wood-
row Wilson. The ratification of the
purchase of a seat in the Senate by
Truman H. Newberry, of Michigan,
was a feature of that conspiracy.
Every Senator who participated in
this crime against justice and the
peace of the world deserves popular
and permanent execration. Senator
New, of Indiana, is the first to pay the
proper penalty. One after another of
the Senators who supported the pre-
posterous claims of the infamous Lor-
imer, of Illinois, were relegated to
obscurity. New is the first of those
to pay the penalty in the Newberry
case.
In this gratifying result of the Re-
publican primary election in Indiana
there is a note of admonition to George
Wharton Pepper, of Pennsylvania. He
was not in position to participate in
the conspiracy against the League of
Nations. But his first vote as Sena-
of Newberry. It was his first attempt
at “spitting in the eye of a bull dog,”
for it was a public insult to every
principle of justice and every consid-
eration of decency. A Michigan ju-
ry, presumably Republican, had con-
: judge had: sentdpeed him- to prison.
Both of these acts had been approved
by public opinion. But George Whar-
ton Pepper voted a reward instead of
penalty. :
——Republicans may be ungrateful
but the present Republican President
is not guilty. Every delegate in the
National convention of 1920 who was
instructed for another and voted for
Harding has been rewarded by ap-
pointment to office. Perfidy as well
as virtue “is its own reward.”
Juggling the State Funds.
The loose, if not actually criminal,
juggling of the funds of the State un-
der the control of the Republican ma-
chine, now asking for a renewal of its
license to loot the public has been re-
vealed by Main & Co., certified ac-
countants, employed by Auditor Gen-
real Lewis to audit the accounts of the
State Treasury during the adminis-
tration of Harmon M. Kephart, now
deputy State Treasurer. The law for-
bids the deposit of more than $300,000
in any bank in non-active depositor-
ies. It also prohibits the deposit in
any bank in excess of a certain per
centage of its capital and surplus.
The audit shows that certain banks
were given funds in excess of the lim-
it, in both classes.
At the end of each month the State
Treasurer is required to publish a
statement of the deposits under oath.
In order to favor certain banks, or for
some other unexplained reasons,
Treasurer Kephart certified under
oath that they held less money than
was actually on deposit and other
banks held proportionately more. It
is not alleged that there was less mon-
ey in the treasury at any time than
ought to have been there, but the law
was violated nevertheless and the
statement was falsified. One bank,
for example, was said to have only
$200,000 when it actually had $400,-
000 and two other banks were said to
have each $100,000 more than they
actually held in order to balance the
total accounts.
The then State Treasurer protests
that the State lost no money by this
manipulation of accounts which is
probably true. But one bank was fa-
vored, and by a strange coincidence
the president of that bank had been
promised a seat in the United States
Senate and in turn is supposed
to have agreed to pay Sena-
tor Crow’s debts amounting to
more than a quarter of a million dol-
lars. Neither does the fact of no loss
to the State absolve the manipulating
treasurer of the penalty for swearing
falsely as to thé amount of the depos-
it, or for violating the provision’ of
the law -which forbids the deposit in
any bank’ of an amount in excess of
$200,000 -when as a matter of fact
$400,000 was deposited.
tor was an endorsement of the crime.
victed him of crime and a Republican}
mag
Democrats Vote at the Primary.
Because the admirable candidates
recommended to the Democratic vot-
ers of Pennsylvania by the committee
of Seventy-two are practically with-
out opposition is no reason why voters
of that party faith should refrain from
voting at the primary election next
Tuesday. On the contrary it is a
strong reason why every Democratic
man and woman should be interested
in polling the full vote of the party.
A full vote of the party at the prima-
ry election next Tuesday in Centre
county will encourage the voters of
the party in all other counties to
strive for victory at the general elec-
tion in November. It will indicate a
cordial approval of the harmony es-
tablished and a ratification of the
work of the committee.
It would be impossible to imagine
a more auspicious condition for the
Democracy of Pennsylvania. The op-
position is divided, demoralized and
engaged in a bitter war of factions.
Mud-slinging is the order of the day
in the Republican camp. The candi-
dates, influenced by the first law of
nature, self preservation, are plead-
ing for peace. One says that the oth-
er faction is creating an ammunition
factory for the Democrats and the
other declares it has no regard for
consequences. Both are making votes
for the Democratic ticket because a
conscientious and intelligent public is
repulsed and disgusted by the multi-
plying proofs of a “corrupt combina-
tion masquerading as the Republican
”
But these generous promises of the
future should not be converted into a
potion to put the Democrats to sleep.
“Eternal vigilance is the price of lib-
erty” and insistent and energetic work
is essential to victory. We have every
incentive to perform our full duty.
Pride of opinion, faith in our princi-
ples and confidence in our purposes
combine to influence us to effort. Be-
sides we have a duty to perform for
our families and neighbors, an obliga-
tion to posterity to fulfill. It is for
us to rescue the government of the
State from the political pirates who
have been despoiling us for years. We
e=v. fulfill these sacred obligations hy
will be nominated and the time to be-
gin is Tuesday.
——United States Senator George
Wharton Pepper visited Bellefonte on
Wednesday, coming here from Lock
Haven with Hon. Richard S. Quigley.
He was scheduled to arrive in Belle-
fonte at eleven o’clock but it was al-
most noontime when he arrived, con-
sequently his much heralded talk in
the court house was greatly abbrevi-
ated. But that didn’t mar the pleas-
ure of the local Republican luminar-
ies who took him in tow. They
brought him down to Spring creek,
near the “Watchman” office, and
showed him the big trout, then took
him to the Bush house for lunch. In
the afternoon he visited the public
schools and told the children that he
really ought to be in Washington at-
tending to his arduous duties as a na-
tional lawmaker but he couldn’t resist
the temptation of a trip through the
State. The Senator went to State
College where he talked to the stu-
dents in the evening.
———————— a ————
——The County Commissioners
have been busy this week distribut-
ing the ballots for next Tuesday’s pri-
maries. Inasmuch as the only real
contest of any importance is between
the two candidates for Governor on
the Republican ticket the probability
is for a light vote, especially if the
weather is favorable for farm work.
——The demand of Russia for rep-
aration of 50,000,000,000 gold rubles
from the allies in the late war is sim-
ply an echo of Senator . Lodge’s
speeches opposing the ratification of
the covenant of the League of Na-
tions.
——Senator Pepper certifies that he
has spent $14,979.11 in his campaign
for the Senatorial nomination. Like
his friend = Newberry he probably
doesn’t know how much the corpora-
tions have expended in his behalf.
——The only sure way to get a job
in the revenue service is to acquire a
criminal record. Nearly all the pro-
hibition enforcement officials have al-
ready qualified-in that way.
——Anything to put the discussion
of the juggling of public funds over
until after the primary election will
be satisfactory to the Republicans.
——Senator New has been properly
disposed of. Senator Pepper will be the
next to pay the penalty. of voting to
ratify Newberry’s purchase.
— A —————
——The real acid test of toughness
is to “spit in the eye of any bull dog
you meet.”
electing the admirable ticket ‘which:
NO. 19.
The Farmer’s Hide.
From the Washington, D. C., News.
Is the tariff an economic rather than
a political question? It is. Proof?
Why, even Republican Congression-
al leaders —“regulars,” not “insur-
gents,” if you please— are opposing
some of the principal schedules and
opposing them openly on the floor of
the House.
The Republican majority of the
Ways and Means committee, which
framed the bill, is split wide open on
the important schedule of a tariff on
hides, and the leader of the oppo-
sition is no less a member than Hon.
Willis C. Hawley, from the strictly
rural First district of Oregon.
Hawley spends mighty little time in
speeches, but the other day he tore
loose for five minutes and literally
nailed the tariff on hides to the fence.
Here’s what Hawley said:
“The American production of
hides is 850,000,000 pounds annual-
ly. The imports are 700,000,000
pounds annually. * * * The pro-
posed duty of 4 cents a pound is
supposed to be laid for the benefit
of the farmer. Then every pound
of hide taken off in this country
must be advanced 4 cents a pound.
One billion five hundred and fifty
million pounds at 4 cents the pound
would amount to $62,000,000, of
which the farmer, if he got every
cent of the benefit, would get $34,-
000,000.
“There are in this country 6,800,-
000 farm operators having a total
population of 30,600,000 persons.
Each person uses 2.5 pairs of shoes
per annum? That is 76,000,000
pairs of shoes bought by the far-
mers annually.
“Each cent a pound on hides, ac-
cording to our tariff commission,
means 10 cents additional on each
pair of shoes. Four cents on hides
means 40 cents on each pair of
shoes. Therefore, the farmers who
might get the $34,000,000 duty,
would pay back $30,600,000 addi-
tional for their shoes and $8,000,000
more than they could possibly get
from their hides.
“But there are 203,500,000 pairs
of shoes used by persons other than
farmers in the country, upon which
a tax of $81,000,000 additional
would be levied, for which there
Yond be no compensating advan-
above is enough.
| Hawley said a lot more, but #ia
¥
A Republican Monopoly.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It seems to be a cardinal point of
Republican doctrine that a Democrat
is congenitally incompetent to admin-
ister a political office, quite regardless
of whether or not its functions have
anything to do with the execution of
partisan policies. This amusing no-
tion was typically expressed by Sena-
tor Pepper the other night when he
said: “We are not out to poison Re-
publicans, but to smother Democrats.
The Democrats know little about gov-
ernment,” etc.
Now, everybody knows that the
Governor of Pennsylvania has no hand
in shaping the policies which guide
the nation, and that it does not make
a particle of difference in what goes
on at Washington whether he be a Re-
publican or a Democrat. There is no
Republicanism or Democracy in the.
administration of the Governorship of
Pennsylvania or of the Mayoralty of
Philadelphia, any more than there is
in the running of the Baldwin Loco-
motive works or the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation. Is there any real reason
why the most hidebound Republican
should regard a Democrat as neces-
sarily ignorant of the science of State
or cily government because he hap-
pens to differ with him concerning the
path that should be followed by the
nation?
What is required of the Governor of
this State is honesty, executive capac-
ity and business ability. To say that
Republicans have a monopoly of these
qualifications would be as foolish as to
claim that a man is incapable of run-
ning a big business because he hap-
pens to be a Methodist, or a Catholic,
or a Jew, or because he has red hair
or a large nose.
Senator Pepper is insincere when he
makes such statements; he is merely
endeavoring to win the support of
voters who are incapable of thinking.
If only Republicans know how to gov-
ern, how is it that a Republican ad-
ministration of this State, supported
by a Republican Legislature and a Re-
publican judiciary—and absolute Re-
publican monopoly—has got the busi-
ness affairs of Pennsylvania into such
an awful mess?
aegis
Good Campaign Provender.
From the Clearfield Republican.
Tom Harter, erstwhile Penrose fol-
lower and virile editor of the Key-
stone Gazette, Bellefonte, is out hard
and loud against Harry Scott for the
Republican State Senate nomination.
He gives plenty of reasons for his
stand .and will go the limit to boost
the Pollum vote over the mountains.
Should Scott take home the bacon at
the primaries some of Tom’s anti-
Scott deliverances will make good
reading during the coming campaign.
Vo ————r———
——How Senator Vare acquired the
admiration of George Wharton may
never be known but Senator Pepper
won the affection of Brother Ed by
“spitting in the eye of a bull dog.”
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Jury trial ‘to determine whether gro-
cers must pay for sugar bought from re-
finers at the peak prices but delivered after
the price had fallen, has been ordered by
Justice Simpson, of the State Supreme
court.
—Governor Sproul has appointed Samuel
T. Bodine, Villa Nova; Alfred M. Collins,
Philadelphia, and M. I. McCreight, DuBois,
to represent the state at the second nation-
al conference on state parks to be held at
New York May 22nd. :
—Stephen Popet, held a prisoner in the
Northumberland county jail, tore the wa-
ter pipes off the wall in his cell and lay
down in the spurting water, saying he
wanted to drown. After guards rescued
him he was caught trying to put himself
to death with his suspenders for a noose.
—When a steer driven by 8S. V. Manifold,
of Wrightsville, York county, became en-
raged it attacked several men. Clarence
Manning was internally injured and How-
ard McKinney’s left arm was fractured and
he was badly bruised. The bull jumped a
five foot wall in Stewart Brothers’ yard
and was captured after ruining the gar-
den.
—A company of the Pittsburgh fire de-
partment was instrumental last Friday in
preventing a hold-up in the Hill district.
Albert Pye, a tea company collector, was
attacked by three negro bandits. He was
badly beaten but kept hold of a satchel
containing about $2,000. A pedestrian
turned in a fire alarm and the clanging of
bells and roar of motors scared the rob-
bers away.
—State troopers rounded up several Ro-
meos who parked their cars along state
roads, near Hazleton, turned of the lights
and conducted sessions with their Juliets,
regardless of the rights of the traveling
public and the danger of accidents. Each
young man paid $10 fine and costs before
Alderman E. J. Fallon. The state police
declare the highways are not the place for
courting and announce they will keep up
the campaign.
—'Squire John E. Bertsch, of Mountain~
ville, Lehigh county, justice of the peace,
deputy clerk of the quarter sessions court
and county tax collector, returned home
late Friday night with $160 in collections
in his pockets. Too tired to put the mon-
ey in the safe, he hung his trousers on the
bed post and went to sleep. Saturday
morning they were missing, and about the
same time his wife found them under the
dining-room table. The money was gone.
—The whereabouts of the bandits who
held up the First National bank of Craf-
ton last January and killed Harold T.
Moss, assistant cashier, have just been
ascertained. Two are dead, two are dying
and the fifth member of the gang is serv-
ing sentence in the Stark county work-
house, near Canton, Ohio. The deaths and
woundings resulted from a battle last
‘Thursday between gunmen and a posse of
armed citizens on a road leading to Can-
ton.
—The May term grand jury at Blooms-
burg, the first in a year and half without
a woman member, last Thursday raided
confiscated liquor stocks held at the Co-
lumbia county jail and drank eight bot-
tles of contraband liquor before Mrs. How-
ard Gunther, the sheriff's wife, stopped
the party. The sheriff believes the jury-
men also sampled some of the whiskey
that is’ being held in barrels. The court
‘had discharged the grand jury
raid was reported. ~
—Recently re-appointed as tax collector
in Uniontown, Miss Alice Baer has issued
an appeal to all women voters to settle
their taxes in order that they may be eli-
gible to vote. Miss Baer is of the opinion
that women should pay their own tax bills
and not depend upon their fathers, hus-
bands or brothers to pay them. The col-
lector says that it gives a woman voter a
sense of responsibility, and that, if she
pays her own taxes, she will be more like-
ly to go to the polls on election days.
—After firing five shots at himself Dom-
inick Bomnerituo, of Philadelphia, finally
succeeded in slightly wounding himself
with the last bullet. He told the police he
was in love with a married woman, who
would have nothing to do with him and
he had intended to end it all. After buy-
ing a revolver he engaged a room in a ho-
tel on Market street, pointed the weapon
at himself and started firing. The first
shot shattered a mirror. The second and
third shots tore into an unsuspecting chair,
while the fourth hid itself in a bureau
drawer. The fifth managed to scratch his
hip. Bomnerituo was arrested but Magis-
trate Toughill discharged him with a
warning.
—Students of the Yeagertown High
school have won their strike for the re-
turn of school pennants which were re-
moved last Wednesday from the roof of
the High school by Professor H. W. Firgh
of the faculty, whose action precipitated a
strike at first among the boys of the Sen-
ior class and finally the entire student bo-
dy. At a big public mass meeting Mon-
day night at Yeagertown the Derry town-
ship board of education met with the par-
ents of the children and after a lengthy
discussion in which the case was aired
both pro and con, the board ordered that
the pennants be returned to the students
and that the pupils who had been out on
strike be reinstated.
—Harry Pritchard Sr., of Kingston, for
many years in charge of payrolls of the
East Boston Coal company, was arrested
last Friday charged with having forged
due bills and taken from the company
$5500 in the last two years, and $13,000 in
the last ten years. He is under $4000 bail.
The company charges that Pritchard took
the money in small sums, doctoring the
records each pay day to cover the short-
age. Recently company officials got trace
of the alleged crookedness, and had an au-
dit made, which resulted in the discharge
of Pritchard and caused his arrest. Pritch--
ard has been a member of a church at Ed-
wardsville, singing in the choir and serv-
ing on the board of trustees.
—TFoul play is feared in the sudden dis-
appearance Monday of the Rev. J. 8. Potts,
aged 54, pastor of the Methodist church at
New Alexandria, near Greensburg, friends
admitted, following a fruitless search
which led them into the mine districts.
The Rev. Potts left his home early Mon-
day morning to call on a parishioner who
lives several miles from New Alexandria.
Complaining that he was not feeling well,
the minister started for home. Later it
was learned that he went to the New Al-
exandria bank, withdrew his entire sav-
ings account including several Liberty
bonds, totalling, it was said, about $2,000.
Shortly afterwards 'the Rev. Potts was
seen driving in the direction of Crabtree;
a mining town.
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