——Nobody has heard of any torch-
light processions or other forms of
rejoicing over the election of Henry
Cabot Lodge.
—We have heard mighty few post-
mortems since the election. It’s
strange, too, since the ladies were so
much absorbed in the contest.
——1It may safely be said that Sec-
retary of State Hughes got the hard-
est jolt in the election. His endorse-
ment of Newberryism seems to have
worked the other way.
——A good many people are anx-
ious to see the sworn statement of Mr.
Pinchot’s campaign expenses. If
equal in liberality to those of the pri-
mary campaign he will have to find
sources of revenue other than salary
to reimburse himself.
—Mrs. Martha M. Allen, superin-
tendent of the department of medical
temperance of the Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union, has declared that
“whiskey isn’t good medicine.” We
are not here to take issue with the la-
dy on the question, but we are just
wondering whether she ever was, or
thought she was going to be, bitten by
a snake while out fishing.
—Anyway, the result of the recent
election ought to have lifted a great
burden off the shoulders of President
Harding. Now he won’t have to for-
mulate that constructive governmental
policy he has been promising the
country for the past two years. It
would be no use. The new Congress
won't be taking much advice from the
other end of Pennsylvania avenue.
—1It is quite evident that President
Harding is entertaining no thought of
being his party candidate in 1924. In
the face of what happened so recently,
his insistence on having a ship-subsi-
dy bill passed looks very much like he
intends to try to make good to the fel-
lows who grease the machine then
beat it back to the pleasant front
porch in Marion. All of Marion has
had a ride on the Mayflower, so what’s
the use stickin’ round Washington,
any how.
—If any of the teachers of the coun-
ty institute felt that they had missed
something by not having been around,
in 1866, to hear that lecture on psy-
chology that Col. Spangler told them
he had had the temerity to deliver
when he was sixteen, we can assure
them that those who heard that juve-
nile handling of a ponderous subject
would have nothing on them were they
to follow the Colonel to the golf course
and glimpse him in the act of teeing
up a ball.
— This is county institute week.
The town is full of earnest educators
who are here for a purpose and not
for a frolic. My, how times have
changed and teachers, too, in man-
ners, dress and equipment. Now the
lady who teaches the young idea how
to shoot away over in the small end
of George’s valley looks, acts and is
just as capable as her sister who pre-
sides in the High schools of Bellefonte
or Philipsburg. The newspapers, the
magazines, the telephone, the motor
car, have played a large part in the
transformation, as the means to an
end, but the vocation is becoming more
attractive every day so that it is now
taken up as a life work rather than
as a temporary expedient, as was the
case in years gone by.
— Whatever unpleasant is said of
Senator Newberry he must be credit-
ed with having a sense of the fitness
of things. Every Senator, but one,
who supported his claim for the seat
he bought in the Senate of the United
States was defeated at the recent elec-
tion. This result has brought the gen-
tleman from Michigan to the conclu-
sion that the country doesn’t approve
of his methods and he, therefor, in-
tends to resign. We have stated the
situation exactly as the Metropolitan
papers have presented it, but we don’t
believe a word of it. Senator New-
berry will resign, if he does, not be-
cause of any fine sense of respect for
public opinion as expressed at the
polls but because he is reasonably cer-
tain that the next Senate body won’t
have enough men who condone such
political crimes as his to save his seat
for him.
—The three big news items coming
out of State College this week have
been the announcement that the two
million dollar endowment drive has
reached the half-way mark; that An-
napolis will play football at State next
fall as the alumni home-coming at-
traction; that Hugo Bezdek is consid-
ering giving up his work as head of
the department of physical education
to become manager of the Philadel-
phia National league baseball team.
The success of the drive has already
exceeded our expectations, for we
opined that it would be mighty hard
to get individual contributions to aid
an institution that the State is pledg-
ed to support—and doesn’t. The fact
that the Naval Academy will make
the longest trip it has ever taken when
it comes to State College is an inci-
dent of more than passing interest. It
is incontrovertible proof that State is
recognized as a leading educational in-
stitution. As to Hugo Bezdek’s possi-
ble departure we are amazed. We
thought when Bez left Pittsburgh and |
came to State it was to have a hand
in greater work than professional
baseball and we still think so. If he
leaves we hope it will be because of
something else than the siren songs of
Cullen Cain or the dangling dollars of
president Baker.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 67.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,, NOVEMBER 17. 1922.
NO. 45.
Woodrow Wilson Speaks.
When Woodrow Wilson, addressing
a host of friends from his doorstep in
Washington, on Saturday, said
“America has always stood for justice,
and always will stand for it. Puny
persons who are now standing in the
way will presently find that their
weakness is no match for the strength
of a moving Providence,” he voiced
the sentiments of a vast majority of
the people of the United States in
condemnation of the malice that de-
feated the ratification of the cove-
nant of the League of Nations. That
betrayal of the moral obligations of
our government is largely responsi-
ble for the present disturbed indus-
trial conditions in Europe and the
threatened resumption of war in the
Near East.
The incident in Washington was one
which might well appeal to the best
impulses of the country. Assembled
to celebrate the anniversary of the
armistice which marked, not the be-
ginning of peace but the end of hos-
tilities, the vast crowd which assem-
bled at the former President’s home
felt it a fit time to pay the tribute of
their respect and affection to the man
who contributed most to bring the hos-
tilities to a close. Since his activities
in the conduct of the war, and per-
fecting the terms of what might have
been an honorable peace, Woodrow
Wilson has been a very sick man. But
he has survived the attacks of disease
as he has risen above the malignity of
his enemies, and his voice on Saturday
was almost like that of a man risen
from the grave.
Woodrow Wilson will probably
never again aspire to public office. He
has fulfilled his obligations to the peo-
ple of the United States. But the
event of Saturday proves that his
voice is still potent in the affairs, not
only of his party, but of his country,
and when he said “it is a very serious
reflection if the United States, the
great originative nation, should re-
main contented with a negation,” he
framed an ° indictment against the
Lodges and Hardings which will carry
conviction sooner or later. They de-
sired to humiliate Woodrow Wilson
but they betrayed the people and just
retribution is inevitable. The group
which “preferred personal, partisan
motives to the honor of their country”
will suffer.
— Legislatures in forty-three
States will be in session next year and
measures to regulate the use of motor
vehicles will be considered in all of
them. It is to be hoped that some-
thing for the safety of people not in
automobiles will be accomplished.
J A
The Biggest Fly in the Ointment.
The far reaching results of the re-
cent elections are just beginning to be
seen as the leaders of both parties
survey of the final results and analyze
their effect upon the legislation that
should be enacted during the
two years that intervene before
the next Presidential campaign.
While the trend has been a tre-
mendous one toward Democracy;
there having been no such tidal wave
since 1910, when the one that culmi-
nated in the election of Woodrow Wil-
son, in 1912, set in, one thing that was
generally hoped for, something that
the country could have been profound-
ly thankful for, dodged under the
storm and escaped it.
That creature composed of “envy,
malice and uncharitableness,” Henry
Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, dodg-
ed the tornado of popular reprobation
and slipped through to a re-election
by the meagre plurality of less than
nine thousand votes. Two years ago
the Republican majority in Massachu-
setts was considerably above 400,000.
But the malignity of such leaders as
Lodge has driven decent men and
women away from the party until this
year the candidates were able to
scrape through by the narrowest mar-
gins.
An analysis of the returns indicate
that there are various reasons for the
politizal revolution. The tariff law
which added materially to the high
cost of living helped some. The fail-
ure of the administration to fulfill
campaign promises contributed part
and Newberryism did a lot. Except in
Pennsylvania every Senator who vot-
ed to seat Newberry was penalized by
the voters. Here it made Pepper pop-
ular. The sordid politicians of this
State encourage that sort of politics
in hope of getting a share.
——Mr. Pinchot’s committee on
Fineganism is likely to report favora-
bly to Finegan now that the election
is over.
—_—
——If Pinchot had been able to put
his hand-picked chairman across
things might have been different.
—————— A ————————
——1It is now well settled that some
of the political prognosticators are
i prevaricators.
Touching Up the Yellow Peril.
The so-called “Yellow Peril” is more
likely to reveal its menacing head as
the result of the decision of the Su-
preme court of the United States in
the case of Takao Ozawa, handed
down by Justice Sutherland, on Mon-
day. Ozawa applied for naturaliza-
tion in Hawaii in 1914 and was refus-
ed because the naturalization laws
limit naturalization to “free white
persons or those of African birth or
descent.” An appeal has been pend-
ing in the Supreme court for a long
time. During the session of the arms
conference in Washington it was
reached on the calendar and postponed
for the reason that it was felt that an
adverse decision would interfere with
the work of the conference.
The justice took pains to state that
the court was in no respect influenced
by race prejudice and it was not in-
tended to reflect upon the character of
the applicant or the dignity of his na-
tive country. But the plain facts are
that a Japanese does not come within
the definition of the Act of Congress
as a “free white person” and the func-
tion of the court is to interpret the
laws rather than to make them. All
naturalization laws from the begin-
ning of the government have express-
ed the same limitation and the court,
according to Justice Sutherland, could
see no reason for changing the inter-
pretation which has always prevailed.
It would be fortunate if all courts
were equally conservative.
It appears, however, that two Jap-
anese have been naturalized in the
State of Washington. This happened
previous to the enactment of the pres-
ent naturalization law in 1906. But
Justice Sutherland points out the fact
that all previous laws on the subject,
the first of which was enacted in
1790, contained the same restrictions,
and it is impossible for the court to
rule that an Asiatic is a “free white
person,” while it is equally certain he
is not “of African birth or descent.”
The Japs may take offense at this
ruling and threaten dire consequences,
but now that the military spirit so
| Trouble for the Republican Machine.
The indications are that the “Agri-
cultural Bloc” which cut considerable
of a swath during the last sessions of
Congress will cease to exist with the
beginning of the next Congress. It
was composed of Senators from the
agricultural States of the middle west
and was organized for the ostensible
purpose of compelling legislation fa-
vorable to agriculture. There was
need for such an organization and it
might have accomplished much if it
cious. But as a matter of fact it
achieved absolutely nothing for the
farmers. It forced the tariff tinkers
to levy a protective tax on wheat
which is never imported and permit-
ted them to increase the tax on every-
thing farmers use.
When the Agricultural Bloc was
first organized Senator Kenyon, of
Iowa, was made the leader and his
activities made an impression on the
work of the Senate. But at the cru-
cial period of its efforts Mr. Kenyon
was bought off by an appointment to
the United States District court bench.
Then Capper, of Kansas, was made
the leader and when he got trouble-
some President Harding invited him to
dinner at the White House and put a
seal over his mouth. After that sur-
gical operation the Bloc became use-
less unless it be claimed that putting
a tariff tax on wheat is an important
achievement. As it is impossible to
convince anybody outside of an in-
sane asylum that that tax benefitted
farmers, it must be admitted that the
“Agricultural Bloc” was innocuous.
But the disappearance of the or-
ganization from the floor of the Sen-
ate is not likely to afford the admin-
istration much satisfaction for the
reason that it is practically certain to
be replaced by a more effective force.
The re-election of LaFollette and Hi-
ram Johnsen creates a nucleus for an
organization capable of making real
| trouble for the machine. Borah is
still on the rampage and the new Sen-
ator for Iowa is said to be more rad-
ical even than LaFollette. With the
rampant a few vears ago is somewhat | majority in the chamber cut down to
subdued it is not likely to result in a
declaration of war.
——If there are any farmers in
Centre county who have not finished
husking corn, they cannot blame it
on the weather; and there is just a
possibility that the good weather is
almost over. There was a two foot
fall of snow in Nebraska on Sunday
and the storm was reported as moving
eastward.
Newberry Case Will be Reopened.
Not the least important feature of
the great Democratic victory of the
recent election is the fact that it will
result in a reopening of the Newberry
case. For nearly four years Mr. New-
berry has occupied a seat in the Unit-
ed States Senate purchased at the
price of a princely ransom. Last Jan-
uary forty-six Republican Senators,
notwithstanding a judicial investiga-
tion, voted that he had a right to the
seat, though acquired in a way that
endangered political morals and public
interests. An appeal was properly
taken to the people and except in the
case of Pepper, of Pennsylvania, every
one of those voting for him who ran
for re-election this year was defeated.
On the test case in January there
were nine Republican Senators able to
rise above the low level of partisan
prejudice and vote with the Democrats
against the seating of Newberry. But
the Republican contingent was strong
enough to carry the vote by a majori-
ty of five. Twelve of the number
have been retired, however, and upon
the next test Newberry will be con-
demned and expelled unless he pre-
vents another test by resigning, which
is predicted. The people of every
State in which the issue was made,
except those of Pennsylvania, voted
condemnation. Vast majorities were
overcome in many localities to empha-
size the reprobation of commercial
politics. But Pennsylvanians like that
evil thing.
The lines on this issue were drawn
with particular sharpness in Michi-
gan, where Senator Townsend repre-
gented the people of the State. It as-
sumed the character of a direct chal-
lenge and was promptly accepted.
Both sides fought strenuously. Sen-
ator Townsend was very popular with
the people previous to the develop-
ment of the Newberry episode. His
party had more than half a million
majority two years ago. The odds
were all in his favor. But the people
of Michigan vindicated their political
integrity by electing former Governor
Ferris by a large majority, and Mr.
Ferris declares that his first official
service will be to demand a reconsid-
eration of the Newberry case.
——DBoth the wets and the drys ap-
pear to find comfort in the election re-
turns, which proves that they are
equally easy to please.
a skeleton these fighting opponents
will give the party bosses a ‘bad quar-
ter of an hour” during the next Con-
gress and will make much ammuni-
tion for the Democrats for use in
1924.
It may be predicted that the
ship subsidy bill will not be forced
through Congress at the coming spe-
cial session, though that is what the
special session was called for.
Bellefonte Had Its Own Money.
How many of the present genera-
tion know that there was a time when
the borough of Bellefonte floated an
issue of currency all its own? Real,
nicely engraved scrip, that passed at
face value in all kinds of business
transactions. A twenty-five cent piece
of this scrip was recently found
among the treasured mementoes of
the late P. Gray Meek, for many years
editor of the “Democratic Watchman.”
It is dated February 1st, 1843, and
numbered 734. It is for twenty-five
cents and on its face appears the fol-
lowing:
The Borough of Bellefonte is indebt-
ed Twenty-five Cents to the bearer,
payable on demand in current bank
notes when sums of Five Dollars are
presented at the Treasury.
T. HOFFMAN, Clerk.
As an historical relic of the Belle-
fonte of almost eighty years ago this
piece of scrip is quite valuable.
Though printed on flimsy paper it is
in a good state of preservation.
ret pen e———
——The very interesting report of
the teachers’ institute published in the
“Watchman” this week was furnish-
ed by one of the young lady teachers
whose efficiency in this direction is ex-
ceeded only by her modesty in declin-
ing to permit her name to be mention-
ed therewith. The fact that most, if
not all, her service as a teacher has
been given in one school is evidence
that she is just as efficient in the
school room as in everything she un-
dertakes to do.
remem fp per rt
——When Governor-elect Pinchot
issues orders to Vare’s bunch of leg-
islators to get into line for prohibi-
tion measures the real excitement of
the session will begin.
r—————— pee ———
——Tourists who have returned
from Russia paint rather gloomy pic-
tures of conditions there but the av-
erage man doesn’t have to encounter
them.
——Happily Gifford Pinchot doesn’t
expect a bed of roses in Harrisburg,
for if he does he will be gravely dis-
appointed. :
——The centenarian places no con-
fidence in the adage that “the good
die young.”
LE
had been as sincere as it was loqua-
The G. O. P. Gets a Wigging.
From the Boston Transcript, (Rep).
The best part about the wigging
which the people have given at the
polls in many parts of the country to
the party in power is that the wig-
ging was well deserved. Two years
ago the Republicans rode into power
in State and nation upon a tidal wave
of repudiation of their opponents.
Their seven million majority consti-
tuted not a vote of confidence in the
Republican party, but a vote of re-
buke to the Democratic party for its
surrender to one-man government and
its betrayal of our traditional policy
in foreign affdirs. Instead of embrac-
ing the opportunity thus offered, in-
stead of shouldering the obligation
thus imposed, instead of proceeding
with diligence and dispatch to obey
. the letter and the spirit of the man-
date which resulted from “the great
and solemn referendum” of November,
1920, the party in power has neglect-
ed its opportunity, faltered in the face
of grave and pressing problems, play-
ed fast and loose with the vetérans of
the great war, goose-stepped before
organized bands of noisy minorities,
honey-fugled the pacifists, enacted a
tariff bill that, as we have repeatedly
said, is “a disgrace to the Republican
party and a menace to the nation,” in-
sulted the intelligence and inflamed
the passion of the electorate in many
parts of the country by appointments
to office which are indefensible on any
score—for example, E. Mont Reily, as
Governor of Porto Rico, and a wholz
tribe of political swindlers south of
the Mason-Dixon line.
Instead of the leadership in the low-
er House of Congress the Republicans
have set up an oligarchy consisting of
Mondell, of Wyoming; Madden, of 1lI-
inois; Kelley, of Michigan, and Antho-
ny, of Kansas—the worst of the lot.
Instead of resisting the impudent and
insolent manner in which this oligar-
chy has invaded the constitutional
premises of the Executive, the Execu-
tive has in too many instances sa-
laamed before the invaders. In the
place of “one-man government” at
the executive end of the avenue, the
party in power has given the country
a taste of misgovernment at both ends
by a Congressional oligarchy as unfit
to administer as it was to legislate.
What is the penalty which the party
Eo ith
S
that Washington has seen in 20 years
and for the blunders in both of the
has paid for afflicting the cour
the worst House of Represen
elective branches of the government
during the last two years? The Re-
publican majority in the House has
been reduced to the danger point. The
Republican majority in the Senate has
also undergone a wholesome pruning.
A good Governor of New York has
been supplanted by the most popular
citizen in that State, who has rolled
up a majority so large as to give his
party the Senatorship as well, ete.
The Tragedy of Lodge.
From the Springfield Republican.
As the leader of the Republican par-
ty in this State Mr. Lodge can hardly
survive the staggering blow his pres-
tige has received. The recent State
campaign was shaped to please him.
He insisted on being agair a candi-
date for the Senate, although he was
aware of the widespread disaffection
against him in his own party. He
nursed the delusion that he was ex-
ceptionally popular among Democrats,
and his campaign theory was based
on his ability to attract Democratic
votes. That he had some evidence to
support this view is not to be denied,
vet the truth remains that he sought
re-election for a sixth term with the
knowledge that his candidacy would
probably split the Republican party.
Mr. Lodge led his party to a virtu-
al disaster by pressing his own claims
upon it. After such a blunder his po-
sition is more uncomfortable, even
more humiliating, than it would have
been had he been actually defeated.
He retains his office, but the substance
of power has left him. He has lost
tremendously in influence in Washing-
ton, both in the Senate and at the
White House. At home the politicians
will no longer yield unquestioning obe-
dience to him. They will all begin
promptly searching the horizon for
the new party leader. They will note
that Governor Cox had 56,045 plurali-
ty, while Mr. Lodge had 8425. The
last days of Mr. Lodge in the party
leadership promise to be as tragic, if
not more humiliating to his pride,
than were those of the late Senator
Penrose. For Mr. Penrose had never
suffered such a moral defeat at the
polls in his home State as Mr. Lodge
has suffered.
Opportunities for Giving.
From the Altoona Tribune.
These are days when we may all en-
joy the sensation called “giving until
it hurts.” According to the theorists
this is the only worth while method of
giving. To the wealthy it must be a
happy and an exhilarating experience.
To the poor man with generous im-
pulses it is a time of perplexity and
spiritual anguish. He sees so many
splendid opportunities for being useful
if he only had the spondulics. But if
he had may be he would be a bit fru-
gal and even penurious. Nobody can
ell.
——1It seems the ex-Kaiser is a tax
dodger too. He has withdrawn his
money from a Swiss bank because it
was proposed to levy a tax on depos-
its in Switzerland.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Robert Conn, beekeeper, of Roaring
Branch, Lycoming county, has obtained
more than eight tons of honey this year
from his 150 colonies of bees. He believes
this establishes a record.
—Two thousand dollars in cash and
$3000 in set diamonds were taken from a
safe in the store of Lorch Brothers, at
Franklin, Pa., early on Sunday. Burglars
got into the office by removing a heavy
grating.
—Wilson College has received a gift of
$75,000 from George H. Stewart, of Ship-
pensburg, Pa., president of the Valley Na-
tional bank of Chambersburg and treasur-
er of the college. The money will go to-
ward the erection of a memorial building
in honor of the late chief justice John L.
Stewart.
—Fifty members of St. Paul's Evangel-
ical church, of York, Pa., held a portest
meeting on Saturday at which they went
on record as opposed to the merger with
the Evangelical Association. They refused
to worship under the name of the Evan-
gelical church. The pastor, Rev. C. W.
Finkbinder, did not attend the meeting.
—Suit was started in the Chester coun-
ty court last Friday by attorneys repre-
senting Henry Filleaux, of Philadelphia,
against Miss Mary E. Passmore, of Ox-
ford, to recover $100,000 damages for the
death of his niece, Martha Hann, 5 years
old, who died of injuries after she had
been struck by an auto driven by Miss
Passmore.
-——When J. P. Coryell, of Shamokin Dam,
lifted his eel nets in the Susquehanna he
found a big silver tip fox caught in the
meshes. The fox apparently was fishing
for eels, became entangled in the net and
drowned. Hunters say the pelt is worth
$72 and the bounty $4. It has been many .
vears since a silver tip has been found in
that territory.
—The Highway Department the coming
winter will keep 1715 miles of State roads
clear of snow. This is a greater mileage
than ever before was attempted by the De-
partment and covers the State's most im-
portant roads. In its snow removal the
Department will employ 125 snow plows
65 road machines, 140 trucks, 14 tractors
and several hundred drags. Snow fences
will be placed at locations at which past
experience shows that drifts form.
—When Miss Mame Grace, of Pottsville,
inserted a lighted candle in the chimney of
her home on Saturday in order to remove
an obstruction the soot exploded, setting
fire to her clothes. Her screams brought
neighbors to the rescue, but before the
flames could be extinguished nearly all her
clothes were burned from her body. Her
face escaped injury, but her body is cov-
ered with deep-seated burns, and she is in
a serious condition at the Pottsville hos-
pital.
—The Arkwright Natural Gas company,
of Forestville, N. Y., struck a big oil well
on the Farrar lease in the Tidioute, Pa.,
gas and oil field at 1446 feet in the quick-
sand last Saturday. The oil is darker in
color than the Carnahan discovery, and
the gas from the well seems much heavier,
which is causing a great deal of comment
among oil critics. The well is expected to
flow at any time. As the hole is nearly
filled with oil at present, oil experts be-
lieve that 1t will produce 260 barrels daily.
—Dodging a woman he had slapped fol-
lowing a dispute over a board bill, Appa
Cooper, of Uniontown, narrowly missed
death as a bullet alleged to have been fired
by Mrs. Helen Poindexter pierced his
clothes. The bullet found a mark in the
body of Pauline Wineber, who died as a
result of the wound. Cooper says that
when he went to close the door on Mrs.
Poindexter she reached her hand around
the door and fired. Both Cooper and Mrs.
Poindexter are in the Fayette county jail.
—Ralph Letcar died on Saturday in the
Taylor hospital at Scranton. from bullet
wounds he received Tuesday at Old Forge,
the third victim of Pasqual Stallone’s gun,
the police say. On Tuesday Stallone is al-
leged to have fired shots that killed Lo-
renz Semenza, an Old Forge banker and
merchant, and John Millical, a storekeeper.
Other bullets entered Letear's body. The
shooting followed an argument about a
debt Stallone is alleged to have owed Se-
menza. Stallone fled and has not been cap-
tured.
— Flying dishes, pots, pans, silverware
and articles of furniture hurled by angry
customers and proprietors, greeted federal
prohibition agents and police when they
raided eighteen restaurants and two sa-
loons in the old tenderloin section of Phil-
adelphia on Monday. The raiding party
composed of more than fifty prohibition
agents and fifty policemen, confiscated
1,000 gallons of whiskey, 500 cases of beer
and arrested seven persons. The total val-
ue of the liquor confiscated is said to be
near $50,000.
—Thomas Bennetts and Thompson
Mitchell, residents of Milroy, were friends
for many years, but a skunk came between
them and now they turn their heads as
they pass. They were on a hunting trip
when Mitchell smelled a polecat and let-
ting go both barrels of his shotgun shat-
tered the radiator of the touring car be-
longing to his companion. Humiliating
explanations and liberal apologies availed
naught. The owner remarked: “Any one
who can’t"tell the odor of a Ford from that
of a skunk isn’t worthy of my associa-
tion.”
—Burglars who stole two boxes of
Christmas money from the home of Bish-
op Francis J. McConnell, of the Methodist
Episcopal church, in Pittsburgh, on Sun-
day afternoon, helped themselves to food in
the ice box before they escaped. The Bish-
ou was out of the city. Mrs. McConnell
returned home late in the afternoon and,
noticing the front door was open, she went
to the home of a neighbor and telephoned
to the police. As she returned to her
home, the men ran out of the back door.
The money was to have been distributed to
the poor, for Christmas.
Vincent Rainch, 19 years old, of Nor-
ristown, died last Friday in a local hos-
pital after having undergone a country
roadside operation four miles south of that
city on Thursday afternoon, when his mio-
torcycle collided with an automobile in
which were two Norristown physicians.
Using a pile of lumber for an operating ta-
ble, the two ph; sicians, Dr. John C. Simp-
son and Dr. John T. McDonald, made val-
iant efforts to staunch the flow of blood
and dress a compound fracture of the leg.
Rainch, who remained conscious, asked for
a cigarette and smoked as the physicians
administered to him while awaiting an
ambulance. A certificate of accidental
death was issued, exonerating the physi-
cians from all blame.