Democratic; atom
—
INK SLINGS.
—If Germany has no army and no
pe of ever having one again why
e eight spies who were recently
ught with the French forces?
—The real old dude is coming back.
1glish fashions for men include cor-
ts that they wore years ago when
e fop and dandy swaggered about
e places where the man in knickers
is since lounged.
—The former Kaiser has confirmed
e report that he is going to marry
rain. The lady is probably one of
s own ilk and the marriage is prob-
sly designed to give misery com-
ny.
—If Mr. Pinchot is so sure of being
ie next Governor of Pennsylvania
hy does he think it necessary to
ake the most strenuous campaign
ay candidate of his party has ever
ade. Governor Sproul didn’t claim
) be half as good a man as Giff.
1inks he is and he didn’t make a tour
t all.
—At Pottstown, in 1912, Pinchot,
1en a Progressive, said: “The Re-
ublican party is dead.” At Huron,
outh Dakota, in 1914, he said: “I
m through with the Republican par-
g for good and all.” That's the
ind of a Republican who is now ask-
1g the Republicans to make him their
fOVernor.
—Ohio is to vote on a State consti-
ational amendment legalizing the
aanufacture of light wines and beers.
Vhat for, we'd like to know? Ohio
ssigned her rights of self govern-
nent in this respect when she ratified
he Eighteenth amendment so what's
he use of her trying to get something
yack that she knows she can’t have.
—The Kemalist Turks may set all
Surope aflame if they are not sup-
yressed at once. Feeling that way we
are not what England’s ulterior mo-
ives may be she is taking up the
world’s battle when she hastens to
he defense of Constantinople. And
et us say right here that when Eu-
rope is aflame again our fat will be in
‘he fire.
—So the Philadelphia Public Ledger
thinks that the rural element looks
apon its youth solely in terms of po-
tential farm labor. Well, well! We
wonder how many men who are real-
ly doing things in Philadelphia today
would be left if all those who can
trace their ancestry back to rural ele-
ments who did not think of them sole-
ly in terms of potential farm labor
should be called back to the farms.
—The Episcopal church has nomi-
nated Rt. Rev. Paul Jones to be mis-
sionary Bishop of eastern Oregon.
The interesting aspect of the selection
lies in the fact that Bishop Jones is a
Socialist and a radical among those
leaders of the advanced movement in
the church. We have only commen-
dation for the work of any prelate
who is really working for good, but
we have lots of sympathy for those
who sit in the pews and have to ac-
cept fanaticism and trappings in lieu
of the simple, homely gospel of Christ.
—Archbishop Curley, of Baltimore,
and Bishop Turner, of Buffalo, have
just returned from Ireland convinced
that DeValera represents less than
five per cent. of the people of that
stricken land, that he has completely
lost his head and should be suppressed.
We pass this information on to the
Irish friend who told us where to get
off after we had paid our respects to
‘Mr. DeValera’s fanaticism. If it had
not been for the money misguided pa-
triots in this country sent to DeVale-
ra Collins would not be dead and Ire-
land would be a Free State enjoying
peace and plenty.
—Quoting the report of council pro-
ceedings, published in another column
of this issue, “the boys only make fun
of the policemen.” The remark was
made by a member of council while
Mr. Emerick’s inquiry as to what had
been done toward abating the beg-
ging-boy nuisance in front of the
Scenic. It’s the real live policeman
wearing blue uniforms and carrying
billies that “the boys only make fun
of.” Get that! Not the dummies that
stand at the street intersections and
the boys range in age from six to
fourteen. If the policemen are only a
joke to the kids and the lock-up is to
continue a hang-out for nothing but
cob-webs we suggest that council arm
some good woman with a paddle and
put her on the Scenic beat for a few
nights. She'd solve the problem.
— President Harding has vetoed the
soldier's bonus bill and it hasn’t
enough supporters in Congress to car-
ry it over the veto. Thus endeth, as
predicted, the great play that a lot of
scared Senators and Congressmen
have been making for the votes of the
soldiers. They knew that the govern-
ment has no funds with which to pay
bonuses and they frittered a whole
year away without devising any prac-
tical means for raising the funds, then,
with elections drawing near, they
thought to fool the friends of the bill
by passing it in the full knowledge
that there would be nothing left for
the President to do but send it back
to them. While they tried to make
President Harding the goat, and prob-
ably some of those who think little
will treat him as such, we admire the
courageous stand he has taken. With
his party’s strength in Congress al-
ready certain of being materially
weakened in the fall elections it re-
quired more than ordinary courage to
take the responsibility of an act that
will almost as certainly pull more
props from under his administration.
: doned the absurd idea that
| guarantee peace.
{ now alone in that belief.
qe
Tens
VOL. 67.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Auditor General Lewis a Bogus | Bright Prospects for Democrats.
Reformer.
The insincerity of the investigation
of frauds in the administration of the
State Treasury is revealed in the an-
nounccment made by Auditor Gener-
al Lewis the other day. The final re-
port of Main and Company, expert ac-
countants, having shown that the
Kephart methods had been used by
State Treasurer Snyder, the Auditor
General announced that “the practices
disclosed can be corrected through the
administrative functions of the Treas-
ury Department. For this purpose I
will take up with the State Treasurer,
Charles A. Snyder, such matters as
are contained in he report of the ac-
countants and in previous reports with
respect to the accounting and internal
check of the Treasury Department.”
In recommending the criminal pros-
ecution of Kephart for his misfea-
sances of office the Attorney General
expressed the belief that the statute
of limitations would shield him from
punishment on all criminal acts ex-
cept one and that the law provides no
penalty for that one. Commenting up-
on this statement the “Watchman” of
last week said, “it was entirely safe,
therefore, to investigate and expose
Kephart for the reason that the time
limit had expired within which he
might be punished. If Treasurer Sny-
der had been investigated it would
have been different.” Since then a
subsequent report has inculpated Sny-
der and the Auditor General practical-
ly condones the crime to shield the
party.
As a matter of fact every depart-
ment in the State government at Har-
risburg is honeycombed with fraud
and corruption and both wings of the
Republican party have come together
to prevent a complete exposure. The
investigation of Kephart was started
to help Gifford Pinchot to get the
nomination. Kephart was affiliated
with the Sproul-Crow machine which
had inaugurated a fight to extermin-
ate Joseph R. Grundy. Auditor Gen-
eral Lewis being an adherent of Grun-
dy struck the Sproul force through
the investigation of Kephart and now
that it threatens to involve interests:
with which he isin sympathy, he tries
to smother it. Thus the bogus charac-
ter of Lewis’ reform professions are
clearly exposed.
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— Now if Attorney General
Daugherty would enjoin the coal bar-
ons from increasing the price of coal
he would be doing something worth
while for the people.
Concerning Lobbyists in Washington.
Since it is an established custom of
special interests to maintain a lobby
in Washington there can be no just
complaint against the Pennsylvania
railroad and the United States Steel
trust following the custom. The Anti-
Saloon League, the Standard Oil com-
pany, Wall Street and other institu-
tions organized for good and bad pur-
poses have men on the floors or in the
lobbies of the Senate and House of
Representatives, and the greatest
railroad corporation in the country, as
well as the largest steel making con-
cern in the world, have the same right
as other corporations, good and bad,
to watch and conserve their interests.
But the Pennsylvania railroad and
the Steel trust ought to pay the ex-
penses of their lobby out of their own
treasuries.
paid by those employing and using
them, while it has become an estab-
lished custom for the Pennsylvania
railroad and the United States Steel
corporation to shift the cost of their
lobbies to the shoulders or the pock-
ets of the people. This is an unjust
discrimination against the Standard
0il and other corporations that enjoy
or imagine they need a lobby in Wash-
ington. It will be remembered that
soon after Woodrow Wilson became
President all the lobbies were driven
away from Congress except those of
the Pennsylvania railroad and the
Steel trust. Their lobbyists were
members of the Senate and could not
be forced away.
At that time the late Boies Penrose
was the lobbyist of the Pennsylvania
railroad and the late Philander C.
Knox performed that service for the
Steel trust. Now George Wharton
Pepper is the lobbyist for the railroad
and David A. Reed serves in that ca-
pacity for the Steel trust. They
may draw salaries from the cor-
porations employing them but they
also draw salaries from the govern-
ment for services as Senator. They
are now asking the people of Pern-
sylvania to renew their commissions.
If the people of the State want to so
favor these corporations they can do
no better than elect Pepper and Reed.
But if they want Senators to repre-
sent the people they will vote for Kerr
and Shull.
Even the late Kaiser has aban-
big armies
Senator Lodge is
The other lobbyists are
The Democratic State-wide candi-
dates are about completing the sec-
ond week of their tour of the State
and their journey has been a contin-
uous ovation. It is not alone that
large crowds attend the meetings ad-
dressed hy the candidates, but the au-
highest respect and his associates on
the ticket, though less artful in ora-
tory, are earning and receiving the
confidence of all thoughtful persons
who come in contact with them. It is
an encouraging sign of victory.
The great success of this tour in-
spires confidence in the favorable re-
sult of the campaign. It shows con-
clusively that the voters of Pennsyl-
vania have come to a full apprecia-
tion of the importance of correcting
the evils of administration at Har-
risburg. The civic obligation of the
voters have been too long neglected
and the result is that slovenliness has
combined with corruption and profli-
gacy to waste the substance of the
public in excessive taxation to main-
tain .corrupt government. The poli-
ticians reap the benefits or rather the
profits of corrupt administration but
the people are largely to blame for
permitting it.
The reports from the campaign
committee in Harrisburg and the pub-
lished statements of the meetings held
wherever the candidates have appear-
ed encourage the hope that voters will
perform their duties this year. Dur-
ing recent years the farmers have
been derelict in this respect.
this year and for the candidates who
stand for honesty.
says that if it had not been for Wil-
liam Randolph Hearst this country
would not now be a Republic. Now
if somebody will tell what Hearst did
to create or maintain the Republic
everybody else will be satisfied.
——————— pees —
Pinchot Got the Money.
In a speech delivered at Sunbury
the other day Gifford Pinchot admit-
ted that by means of a conspiracy
with the Governor he got his salary
as Commissioner of Forester increas-
ed in spite of the constitution which
he had solemnly sworn to “support,
obey and defend.” But he was influ-
enced in the matter, he gravely de-
claves, by a philanthropic purpose to
help his associates in the work of
holding down swivel chairs in Harris-
burg. Every man of them was will-
ing to hold on to his job at the old sal-
ary and even ready to perform any
menial or sinister service to secure the
money. But Giff. imagined that they
ought to have morz and agreed to ask
more for himself in order to make the
demand in their behalf appear more
plausible.
If Mr. Pinchot wanted to increase
the salaries of subordinate officials he
might have asked the Legislature to
enact the necessary legislation with-
out including himself and the request
would have had infinitely greater
force because of the absence of self-
ishness. But as a matter of fact his
principal purpose was to get his own
salary increased and he included his
subordinates in his bill in order to-en-
list the friends in the Legislature of
the others affected, to the support of
the scheme. In making the claim of
sympathy for his subordinates he sim-
ply adds the voice of hypocrisy to that
of cupidity and supplements both with
the crime of perjury, for he was vio-
lating his oath to defend the consti-
tution.
Upon Mr. Pinchot’s statement both
he and Governor Sproul might be con-
victed of conspiracy. Senator Pep-
per’s digest of the laws of Pennsylva-
nia, defines conspiracy as an agree-
ment of any two or more persons “to
! do any unlawful act to the prejudice
of another.” Violating an oath is cer-
tainly an unlawful act, and in secur-
ing an increase of salary by even
evading the constitution, he prejudic-
ed all the tax payers and violated his
oath to “obey, support and defend”
that fundamental law. But he got the
three thousand dollars a year and it
came to him almost as easy as the in-
herited millions out of which he drew
an eighth of a million dollars to buy
the nomination for Governor of Penn-
sylvania over a better and fitter man.
—If the United States had gone
into the League of Nations all the
European and near Eastern questions
would have been amicably settled long
Iago and the war clouds now menacing
| the world would be absent.
_w=—Mayor Hylan; of New York,
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTE
Rm
mms
Pinchot’s Confidence a False Pretense.
Gifford Pinchot appears to be of the
| «Bill” Chandler type of politician.
Mr. Chandler instructed the local
managers of his party everywhere to
“claim everything.” His purpose was
to lay the foundation for frauds in
doubtful districts. His subsequent ex-
diences reveal an earnestness and en- | posure so outraged the moral senti-
thusiasm which indicates an aroused | ment of the country that he was lit-
public sentiment. Mr. McSparran’s ! erally driven out of public life, though
earnest manner and eloquent speech he had capacity for service. The vast
command the closest attention and | majority of the people of all parties
are fair and honest. Republicans, not
in office or in expectation of office,
who support the party, may be as sin-
cere in their action as it is possible to
be. But they are being deceived by
i selfish advisers or are immersed in
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ithe church to
foolish prejudice.
Mr. Pinchot is not certain of elec-
tion and he knows it as well as any
other observer of events in the Com-
monwealth. The intensely active cam-
paign he is making is plain proof of
that fact. No Republican candidate
in recent years has found it necessary
to travel over the territory and per-
sonally solicit voters. Two years ago
not a single meeting was held or a
speech made in behalf of the Republi-
can ticket. Its success was certain,
the atmosphere was charged with Re-
publican victory. The Democrats did
their best to check the tide but their
work was futile. This year the con-
trary is true. The Republican party
has disappointed the people every-
where and every student of politics
understands.
Mr. Pinchot tells the people what
he will do when he goes to Harrisburg
as Governor. He began functioning
as Governor as soon as he was nomi-
They | nated. But it was not for the reason
have been influenced by the belief | that he is confident of election.
that getting in the corn crop is of | was to fool the people and to keep his
greater importance than working for | own courage up. He knows the voters
good government in Harrisburg. But | of Pennsylvania are utterly disgusted
they have now come to a realization | with his party. He understands that
of the fact that honest government is | he must deceive the supporters of the
of first importance to the citizens and | machine or the men of his party who
acting upon that idea they will vote | favor good government and there are
It
many of them. He realizes that he
has a difficult undertaking on his
hands and is trying to evade the con-
sequences by making a false pretense
“of “dbilidence: ~He is a fraud and the
people will not elect him.
——The granite watering trough
which has stood on the pavement in
front of the Curtin monument for over
a year was removed on Monday and
hauled to a point on the Snow Shoe
mountain, above the Reese settlement,
where it will be connected up to fur-
nish water for the thirsty horse as
well as the overheated automobile.
The trough in question was purchased
by the late General James A. Beaver
to present to the borough of Belle-
fonte but borough council and citizens
never could agree on a place to put it,
so it was finally donated by Hon.
Thomas Beaver to the State Highway
Department to erect along the road
to Snow Shoe. As the trough weighs
over a ton there is no danger of any
person stealing it, even though it is
located in the wilds of the Alleghe-
nies.
—The funeral services of the Rev.
Edgar Wheeler Hall, at New Bruns-
wick, N. J., on Tuesday, were attend-
ed by twenty-eight ministers, a Bish-
op and enough other persons to crowd
overflowing. Her
daughter, her husband and a dozen
others were all who paid a last tribute
to Mrs. James Mills when her body
was laid in the grave. Rev. Hall and
Mrs. Mills, both married, were found
murdered at a deserted farm house
near New Brunswick. What they
were murdered for God knows but if
it was because they had sinned He
will mete out their purishment and
not judge that of the minister as less
than that of the choir singer, as the
people of New Brunswick evidently
did.
— Senator Pepper has had good
sense enough to disclaim unearned
credit for settling the coal strike.
The facts were about to be revealed
and he didn’t want to take the respon-
sibility of a palpable fraud.
— After all what Rudyard Kip-
ling said isn’ half as bad as what
Ambassador Harvey said a year and
a half ago, so why object to Kipling.
—Did you know. that besides being
a college graduate and a real dirt far-
mer Mr. McSparran is a licensed
preacher in the Methotiist church.
————— pe ————————
—It is said that the “social set”
is now influencing legislation in Wash-
ington and recent events make the
statement look probable.
———————— —————————————
— We are rather in favor of en-
couraging pugilism in Congress. A
few broken jaws in the Senate might
do a world of good.
The “Watchman” gives all the
news while it is news.
MBER 22. 1922.
Promi se of Rail Peace. :
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The railway skies of this country
are being flooded with the light of a
promised labor peace such as they
have not known at any time for seven
yeasr. Except for the enforced peace
period of the war, the Nation has been
living under the threat of a general
rail tie-up since 1915. It came dan-|
gerously near in October, 1921, This
year again, the shopmen’s strike drag-
ged us close to the ragged edge of
transportation chaos.
Seven years of threat and maneu-
vering finds roads and unions in a
mood for a truce. They have meas-
ured each other’s strength. Watching
the rising anger of the Nation, they
have seen the country’s first clumsy
attempts to insure itself against strike
threats. The unions dread any fur-
ther step toward compulsory arbitra-
tion. The roads have plumbed and
known the depths of Federal regula-
tion for a generation. They fear what
may be coming.
There is a turning back on the part
of both men and roads to the old ways
of settling their troubles between
themselves. This may end the great-
er part of the United States Rail
Board’s usefulness or it may not.
That will depend upon the good will
and honesty of intention on the part
of both sides. It will require the re-
ceding of unionism from its recent
stand that all rail-wage and working-
condition problems shall be settled on
a nation-wide basis.
That seems to be coming to pass.
The Pennsylvania Railroad and the
New York Central are making agree-
ments with the Rail Brotherhoods di-
rect instead of taking their troubles to
a national body for adjustment. The
partial settlement of the shopmen’s
strike was reached in the same way
and is being extended. Before the}
war. rail systems dealt with their own
men and were not entangled in settle-
ments that covered all of the 202 Class
1 railways of the United States. The
settlements were regional at most and
not national.
That older system worked better
than that in effect in recent years.
Whether it is workable now under the
changed conditions left by the war re-
mains to be seen. It can hardly be
worse. W. G. Lee, of the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen, undoubtedly
voices the sober second thought of la-
bor and the heartfelt feeling of most
rail executives when he says:
We are trying to get our wage
problems and working conditions
out of the hands of politicians.
More power to them, if this means
that the rail industry is able and mind-
ed to cease from its troublings and
threatenings, smooth out its own
rows, clean its own house and get
down to its real business of giving
this country the maximum of rail
service and the minimum of quarrels
and casts. Its threats and its peren-
nial wars were what brought it into
the “hands of politicians.”
rn ———— fp ——
Plenty of Material for State Prose-
cutions.
From the Philadelphia Record.
A correspondent of one of the or-
gans of Pinchot, traveling with the
Republican candidate for Governor,
quotes the ex-Forester as saying that
he has a report containing a remarka-
ble body of information regarding the
business of the State of Pennsylvania,
and that he will have exact knowledge
of the various departments of the
State government if he shall be elect-
ed Governor. To this the correspond-
ent adds:
Whether or not the “thorough
and illuminating” knowledge. of
which Mr Pinchot speaks includes
material upon which to base civil
suits and criminal prosecutions he
declines to say.
This is all very interesting, but no
reports of the business of the State of
Pennsylvania are available to the pub-
lic. None have been printed during
the past three or four years. Why
keep the facts a secret if Mr. Pinchot
has them, as he claims?
_ In the meantime regarding mater-
ial for prosecutions, Mr. Pinchot him-
self, according to The Evening Bulle-
tin, of this city, has offered evidence
for a prosecution by the present At-
torney General of others besides ex-
Treasurer Kephart. The Bulletin the
other day quoted Mr. Pinchot as ad-
mitting that he had conspired with
Governor Sproul to violate the Consti-
tution of Pennsylvania in order to
grab an increase in salary of $3000 a
year. What better evidence does At-
torney General Alter want to begin a
real prosecution? He has apparently
been furnished a confession of one of
the parties to a criminal violation of
the law.
Why confine the prosecution to
Kephart, with Pinchot and Sproul
available ?
mmr fp A een em
Advice Not to be Buncoed.
From’ the Pennsylvania Farmer.
Already the coal operators are say-
ing that the settlement of the anthra-
cite coal strike on the basis of last
year’s wage scale will necessitate a
raise in price of hard coal. This sounds
like the veriest bunk.
— see
Real Fun to Comes
From the Boston Transcript.
And to think that all the politics
fr which we have been suffering
fo weeks was only preparatory!
EE rere
'SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Because accidents have become so nu-
‘| merous on the new state highway near
Mahanoy City, Pa., physicians are urging
the State Highway Department to compel
motorists to carry first-aid kits. :
—A Somerset county farmer awoke one
morning to find that thirty of his finest
chickens had been carried off by an indi-
vidual, who left behind him a pocket book
‘containing $900. The fellow returned and
made himself known to the farmer, who
has compromised with him.
—Calvin Moyer, a miller at Sassamans-
ville, Montgomery county, who was con.
vieted of assault and battery because his
wife was injured when he drove an auto-
mobile at a 30-mile clip over a rough road,
was required by Judge Swartz to pay to
her $50 for pain and suffering and a $50
| fine and costs.
—Joe Bushel, a miner of the No. 1 shaft
of the Buffalo & Susquehanna Coal Co., in
Clearfield county, suffered the loss of his
| only remaining good leg, when he was
caught under a fall of roof rock while at
work. The leg was taken off above the
knee. Two years ago Bushel lost his oth-
er leg in an accident of a similar nature.
Mrs. Grace Baker has been designated
acting postmistress of Claysburg, Blair
county, pending the appointment of a suc-
cessor to her husband, the late William B.
Baker, who died several weeks after taking
office. As the office comes under civil serv-
jce regulations, an examination will be
held to give applicants an opportunity to
‘qualify.
—Alleging that a quarrel over the way
the chicken should be cooked for the
‘Sunday dinner, Oliver Lynch, of West-
moreland county, is in the Latrobe hos-
pital with shot wounds in his legs, and his
wife is in the county jail charged by her
husband with having yanked the family
shotgun from the wall and peppered him
{when he disagreed.
3: —Barr Spangler, who was 100 years old
last January 13th, died at his home at
‘Marietta Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock.
‘He had been in failing health during the
‘last several weeks, and death resulted from
the infirmities of his years. He remained
| president of the First National bank, of
Marietta, until his death, and was active in
(his store business until about six weeks
ago.
| —Irvin Homer Wayland, who enlisted in
‘the United States army from Munson,
| Clearfield county, in 1918, and who after
his discharge was found to be insane and
lodged in the Danville asylum, has been
awarded compensation to the amount of
$80 per month, dating from January 26th,
1921, and his guardian has received a
‘check from the government for $1,537.33,
iow due. :
__After being in continuous operation
‘for more than a quarter eof a century, the
hig mill of Kaul & Hall, at St. Mary’s, Elk
county, has been closed down. permanently.
The operations at the mill opened in Jan-
uary, 1897, with a force of 100 men, and
several hundred more were employed in
cutting and bringing in the logs. For a
number of years the daily output averaged
$5,000,000 feet per year.
— Two white men and a negro pleaded
guilty to second degree murder in court at
Ebensburg on Monday, in connection with
three separate killings in Cambria county.
Mareellina Naba, who killed Louis Ortego,
at Jonhstown, got seventeen to nineteen
“I'years in-the western penitentiary. Joe
Bellevic received a similar sentence for
killing August Palo, at Colver. Robert
Brown shot James Ryan, both Negroes, at
Johnstown, and will do from nineteen and
a half to twenty years.
— Residents of Newton Hamilton have
protested against council enacting a cur-
few law which would entail the ringing of
a bell to designate the extreme hour at
which children would be allowed on the
streets. The protestants asserted such a
plan is along the lines of centralized gov-
ernment and would take away from the
parents the authority to control the ac-
tions of their own children. They declare
it puts the child in the criminal class and
that the young people of Newton Hamilton
have not yet reached that stage.
__Glenn W. Kisor, a Stroudsburg under-
taker, had a narrow escape from serious
injury last week when returning from
Karamac near Delaware Water Gap. While
passing through the golf links near Kar-
amac camp he was struck in the face by a
golf ball and crashing glass of the wind-
shield of his machine, suffering numerous
cuts. Kisor asked that he be taken to Dr.
william R. Levering for treatment. The
doctor is a golfer. Kisor is reported to
have said he regards golf as antagonistic
to his profession, because it keeps a lot of
men alive.
—In the Springbrook Valley, nine miles
east of Scranton, the Springbrook Water
Supply company is preparing to erect a
great lake in which 1,800,000,000 gallons of
water will be impounded. The reservoir
will draw its water supply from 15 square
miles of territory. The dam will be be-
tween 600 and 700 feet wide at its base and
20 feet wide at the top, and will be 125 feet
high. Its length will be 1490 feet. Behind
the dam the water in the deepest part will
be 110 feet. It is expected the work will
be completed by November, 1923. The
Springbrook company suplies 44 munici-
palities in the Lackawanna and Wyoming
valleys.
—Charles Scandalis, formerly a saloon-
keeper, of Harrisburg, then a garage own-
er and finally a prohibition agent, left an
estate of $250,000 in his will, made public
at Harrisburg on Saturday. Scandalis died
at Red Bank, N. J., last Sunday from
wounds incurred in a brawl. His name
has figured several times in bootlegging
cases in Harrisburg, in New York and in
Baltimore. He leaves $50,000 worth of
stock in a cigarette company, of which he
was president, to his private secretary,
Miss Alice J. Boyle, of Harrisburg. One-
third of the estate goes to his widow, who
is made executrix, and the balance to his
children, Christ, George and Jane.
—Appointment of Margaret R. Sidler, of
Danville, as register and recorder of Mon-
tour county, makes the fourth woman to
be named by Governor William C. Sproul
to county office, although two others who
were elected were commissioned by him
under State laws. The three other women
appointed to county offices were: Miss
Ella Stewart, register and recorder of Ded-
ford county; Miss Annette Young, clerk of
Quarter Sessions and Owner and Terminer
courts of Erie county, and Mrs. Margaret
B. Zuber, recorder and clerk of Orphans’
court of Lycoming county. Those elected
were: Mary V. Reimensnyder, prothono-
tary, ete., Northumberland county, and
Daniela RE. Wilder, register, recorder and
clerk of the Orphans’ court, Warren.