~ —That Sing Sing inmate who says
he would rather die in the electric
chair than serve his twenty y:ar sen-
tence knows now, if he didn’t before
he committed his crime, what retribu-
tion is.
—Talking about drives, we feel just
like you do—that we are about driven
to death. But don’t let us die until the
hospital has pulled off the one it has
scheduled for next February. There
is a worth while cause and Monday a
man over ninety braved the storm
of snow and slush and treacherous
sidewalks to come down to this office
to do his bit. It wasn’t a great sum,
as money is counted today, but it was
a great spirit that prompted the ven-
erable John P. Harris to do what he
did.
—If Senator David A. Reed was
saying what he really thought and
comprehended and not merely utter-
ing words at Harrisburg last week he
might turn out to be a real Senator
for Pennsylvania. From a partisan
Republican viewpoint he might have
been then and there reading himself
out of his party, but, be that as it may,
he did ad nce a lot of ideas so fun-
damentally sound that we were star-
tled when we read them. We hope
that Senator Reed will have the cour-
age to espouse such principles on the
floor of the Senate and if he does he
may lose caste with his party leaders
but certainly he will win favor with
the masses he was chosen to repre-
sent.
—The United States Supreme court
has decided that Pennsylvania has a
right to lay a tax on anthracite coal.
In 1913 and again in 1915 our State
courts declared such an act as uncon-
stitutional, but now that the court of
last appeal has legalized it the ques-
tion is settled. The consumer will pay
the tax, which was designed, primar-
ily, to finance the educational system
of the State, but by the time the var-
jous collectors and accountants are
paid how much of it will the schools
get? Talking about middlemen in
commercial enterprise. They are not
in it with the middlemen in govern-
ment—the inspectors, collectors, ac-
countants and auditors. Why wouldn’t
it be better to lay a direct tax for the
schools and everything else than to
continue this subterfuge of collecting
everything - indirectly? What's the
use of going ’way around the bush
‘about these things? Why should any-
‘thing be taxed but the individual?
Why would it not be better to pay for
government just like we pay for but-
ter and eggs and meat and bread?
—The very unusual demonstration
of their loyalty and desire to have Hu-
‘go Bezdek with them that was given
"by the students of The Pennsylvania
State College a few days ago must
have had a terrible heart-pull on the
head of the department of physical
education at that institution. Bezdek
was the manager of the Pittsburgh’
National league baseball team five
years ago. He was a successful man-
ager, of course, but he left there to
come to State because, as we thought
at the time and think now, he is a
man who measures a life-work in
something more than mere dollars, a
man with a love for character build-
ing, a man desirous to give to human-
ity the God-given inspiration that all
too few possess. The impress he has
made on thousands of the youth of
Pennsylvania is impossible of estima-
tion. Cleaner, stronger, fairer future
citizens of this great country of ours
is what this man is making in college
work today. He could do little of that
in commercialized baseball, and be-
cause we feel that Hugo Bezdek knows
where his great field is we believe his
answer in Pitsburgh last night was
that he will stay with “the boys.”
—Report has come from Milford,
Indiana, to the effect that duck hunt-
ers are having wonderful success out
there by soaking corn in “moonshine,”
then scattering it along the lake
shores for the ducks to get. When
they get it, of course, they promptly
get to that “I don’t care what becomes
of me now” state and then the hunt-
ers gather them up by the hundreds
without having to fire a shot. To
many this tale will listen like a lie.
We believe it. There comes a time in
the life of nearly every regular boy in
the country—at least there used to—-
when he just had to go into the pig-
eon business. We passed through that
period of watching our big blue “coax-
er” strutting over the barn roof, lur-
ing all our playmates’ pigeons to his
cote. Sometimes we’d have a great
flock and then, again, we’d have none.
When our “coaxer” failed to keep the
lady birds true to him and the barn
roof was deserted we'd fly to Phil Et-
tle. The Ettle boys lived on Bishop
street and had something to do with
the conduct of a feed store that Brock-
erhoff’s ran in the place that Hock-
man now occupies. Phil never raised
pigeons but he always had a pen full
of them. The birds knew the alley
where wheat and oats and corn filter-
ed through the cracks in the farm
wagons that were unloading at that
feed store and Phil, thirty-five years
ago, knew that pigeons would get
drunk on the same stuff that knocked
men’s legs out from under them. He
soaked corn in whiskey and scattered
it about the alley. Our pigeons ate it
and got so soused that they couldn’t
fly home. Then he gathered them up
and sold them back to us at a nickel
a piece. Personal experience tells us
that the Milford story is probably
true. ;
VOL. 67.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., DECEMBER 1. 1922.
NO. 4%.
Pennsylvania “Corrupt and Con-
tented.”
The official life and political career
of Truman H. Newberry ended with
his resignation but it did not end the
evil of Newberryism. That has be-
come an ulcer on the body politic
which will require time and heroic
treatment to cure. It didn’t begin
with Newberry four years ago. It has
been a menace to the political morals
of the country for more than a quar-
ter of a century. But the Newberry
episode presented it to public view in
a peculiarly flagrant form. There
was no concealment of the corrupt
practices in his case.
bought votes as openly as a house-
wife buys vegetables in a public mar-
ket. It was so glaring as to become a
challenge to public authority.
The retirement of Newberry shows
some deference to decent public opin-
ion as expressed in Michigan, Indiana
and other States in which supporters
had asked for a vote of confidence.
Every S~nator in that group except
Lodge, of Massachusetts, and Pepper,
of Pennsylvania, was defeated. The
reprobation of the crime will not be
fully or adequately expressed until it
touches the consciences of the voters
in those States. It is not enough that
six Senators were condemned by their
constituents for condoning the crime
of Newberry. All those guilty of that
offense against popular government
must be made to feel the lash of pub-
lic indignation as well as those who
practiced it must be punished.
Gifford Pinchot, the Governor-elect
of Pennsylvania, violated the integri-
ty of the ballot as certainly as New-
berry did. He bought the nomination
of his party by the expenditure of
nearly as great a sum as was spent to
nominate Newberry. Until he is re-
pudiated by the people of Pennsylva-
nia the voters of this State can claim
no part in the improvement of politic-
al morals which the resignation of
Newberry has set in motion. As it
appears now the people of Pennsylva-
nia have written approval of the
methods of campaigning which New-
berry adopted and Pinchot followed.
Pinchot and Pepper are twin evidenc-
es that Pennsylvania as well as Phila-
delphia “is corrupt and contented.”
—We're ready-to admit that there’s
nothing that can substitute for tur-
key on an occasion like yesterday, but
we're so mighty thankful that we
could even have duck that we just
can’t resist quackin’ a bit about it.
Subsidy Bill May Pass.
Pres‘dent Harding may be able to |
force tue subsidy bill through before
the expiration of the present Con-
gress. It is likely to be voted on in
the House before the end of the ex-
tra session and that will give the Sen-
ate three months to consider it. But
even at that it will be a disappointment
to some of those who expected to de-
rive the greatest advantages from it.
John D. Rockerfeller and his son each
contributed liberally to the campaign |
fund in 1920 and expected to be reim-
bursed through the operations of this
measure.
adopted defeats their hopes. It pro-
vides that no bonus shall be paid to
ships of owners carrying their own
products.
The Standard Oil company is easily
the most extensive ship master in this
country. Its vast fleet of tankers car-
ries millions of tons annually to the
markets of Europe and other foreign
ports. This subsidy bill would have
enabled this corporation and its sub-
sidiaries to collect a large proportion
of the fifty millions of dollars or more
to be paid annually to ship-owners. In
fact there is a rather widespread be-
lief that the major purpose of the leg-
islation was to put money in the
treasury of the Standard Oil compa-
ny. The amendment nullifying this
provision will prevent that result. The
Rockerfellers, father and son, will
have to recoup themselves in some
other way.
One of the present Congressmen
who was defeated at the recent elec-
tion warned his colleagues against the
passage of the measure in a speech
the other day. It was just such selfish
and vicious legislation as that, he de-
clared, that caused his defeat and if
the subsidy is forced through dozens
of other Republican representatives
will be retired to private life at the
next election. It requires no gift of
prophecy to discern this fact. The
tariff bill designed to reimburse part
of the contributors was responsible for
the slump in Republican strength in
Congress at the recent election, and
the passage of the subsidy bill will
have a precisely similar effect at the
next election.
———France has some reason to feel
puffed up over the. treatment of her
distinguished ex-Premier in this coun-
try. The Mayor of Chicago didn’t kick
Clemenceau out when he called at city
hall.
His friends
But an amendment already :
| Anthracite Coal Tax is Valid.
| The decision of the Supreme court
of the United States affirming the va-
lidity of the anthracite coal tax, hand-
ed down by Justice McKenna on Mon-
| day, is mainly a reassertion of the
i doctrine of State sovereignty. The
i law is declared valid because the Su-
: preme court of Pennsylvania had af-
{firmed its validity. Other questions
| entered into the equation, of course,
| but the language of the justice leaves
no doubt that if the State court had
decided the question adversely, as it .
did on two previous occasions, the ac-
tion would have been affirmed by the
tribunal of last resort. The difference
or distinction between anthracite and
bituminous coal is largely a matter of
imagination.
Another important influence on the
' court was an obvious purpose to steer
away from the trend to public owner-
| ship. “If the possibility or certainty
‘that an article produced in one State
| was destined for market in another
determined it to be in interstate com-
| merce before the beginning of
‘movement from the State,” the court
| declared, “it would seem to follow
i that it is in such commerce from the
!instant of its growth or production,
{ and in the case of coals, as they lie in
| the ground, such a ruling would na-
i tionalize all industries.” That doc-
i trine so affirmed set up a guarantee
| against the seizure and operation of
! coal mines as was once contemplated
by Roosevelt and discussed extensive-
i ly recently.
: In any event the decision. is both
| important and opportune for the
| State of Pennsylvania for we certain-
{ly “need the money” it will bring to
the treasury. It will help the move-
| ment to further increase the cost of
living but that appears to be the prin-
‘cipal purpose of the Republican ma-
| chine. It will guarantee the validity
ofthe tax on iron ores levied by the
Legislature of Minnesota which will be
paid by Pennsylvania and encourage
| other States to search for subjects of
taxation to add to the already oner-
ous burdens now being borne. The
| southern States may now tax cotton
| and the wool growers of the west add
{ a domestic tax to the tariff levy on the
products of theirflocks. . ...... .
| ——=Senator Caraway thinks that
| Congressmen defeated for re-election
ought not to claim the right to vote
during the remainder of their term.
That would be a happy solution of a
i vexed problem but the lame ducks are
likely to object.
|
Senator Hitchcock a Butter In.
Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, is
| building up for himself a somewhat
| unenviable reputation as a “butter in.”
i Some time before the recent election,
| when he was a candidate with a bright
' promise of success, he butted into a
controversy on a labor question. He
had no direct interest in the question
and might as well have left.it to the
consideration of those who were in-
terested. But he “butted in” with the
result that the labor organizations of
i the State turned solidly against him
and though he had a splendid reputa-
‘tion as a Senator he was snowed un-
der while the candidate of his party
for Governor had a substantial ma-
jority. If he had kept quiet he might
have been elected.
The other day, in the Senate, Sena-
tor Hitchcock again “butted in” on a
question upon which silence would
have been golden. Some of the re-
marks made by M. Clemenceau, in
his New York address, might have
justified an interpretation which re-
flected upon the intelligence and pa-
triotism of those Senators in Con-
gress who defeated the ratification of
the covenant of the Leage of Nations.
Senator Hitchcock was not a member
of that mischievous group. On the
contrary he led the force favorable to
ratification with great skill and dis-
tinguished ability. But he was the
first Senator to rise and voice a pro-
test against the language of Clemen-
ceau. He took upon himself the bur-
den of excusing Lodge.
As a matter of fact what Georges
Clemenceau said concerning the ac-
| tion of the government of the United
tates with respect to the Versailles
treaty is substantially true. Presi-
dent Wilson was largely responsible
.for the League of Nations as well as
the treaty which guaranteed protec-
tion to France against possible attacks
from Germany in the future. If the
covenant of the League and the treaty
of defense had been ratified by the
United States there would be no ne-
cessity now for Clemenceau or any
one else worrying about the future re-
lations between Germany and France.
But both conventions failed of ratifi-
cation through the malice and stupid-
ity of Republican Senators who de-
serve no defense.
Possibly Giff is holding that
| cabinet place promised to a woman
{ for his wife.
its.
| Senator Reed’s Heretical Language.
i Senator David A. Reed, of Pitts-
| burgh, speaks surprisingly like a
Democrat. Even before the election
{ he expressed an aversion to the med-
! dling of government in the affairs of
. men and since, in an address at Tren-
! ton the other day, he ascribed most of
the railroad troubles to the restraints
{ put upon the managements by the In-
i terstate Commerce Commission. He
believes in and urges the old fashion-
ed competitive system in railroads as
in other business. If the railroads
; were permitted to fix rates he thinks,
they could meet the demands for wag-
es and thus eliminate the causes that
produce and maintain strikes. In oth-
er words he would give the carrying
corporations power to go the limit in
rates.
In a speech delivered in Philadel-
phia last Saturday night, at a compli-
mentary dinner in his honor, he sound-
ed another discordant note. Refer-
ring to the enforcement of the prohi-
bition laws he said: “Enforcement is
deplorably bad because you and I do
not back up the law. As a matter of
fact it is not enforced against you and
me. It is only enforced against a few
unfortunates who cannot escape it.
We are all hypocrites on this question
and conditions have reached a serious
stage. We must back up this law to
the limit or wipe off the books the
hypocritical sham we are too coward-
ly to enforce.” That declaration can
be interpreted in no other way than a
rebuke of the administration.
But Senator Reed’s speeches are not
always to be taken at their face val-
ue, and while fair competition has al-
ways been the Democratic idea of bus-
iness policy, the unrestrained right to
regulate rates and wages is not a cer-
tain guarantee of fair competition.
The Standard Oil company, for ex-
ample, coined millions of dollars out
of an unrestrained right to crush com-
petition and it is not sure that Sena-
| tor Reed is not striving to give the
Steel trust a similar advantage over
competitors that are growing increas-
ingly troublesome. The Senator is
giving some, but not all, of his atten-
tion to politics and government. He
is still on the legal staff of the Steel
truss and has an eye to its interests.
—Our very honorable friend, Eli-
sha Kent Kane, of Kushequa, who was
an also ran in the recent Congression-
al race in this district, has sent us the
official vote of the counties with the
suggestion that possibly our “readers
might be interested in knowing how
thoroughly he was licked.” Mr. Kane
got four thousand out of a total of
approximately thirty-four thousand
votes. He didn’t do as bad as we ex-
pected, because he ran on the Prohi-
bition ticket and so many Prohibition-
ists have the habit of being Prohibs
every day in the year except the one
on which they have the chance to
vote their convictions. We published
the figures necessary to the political
obsequies over Mr. Kane several
weeks ago, but we're glad that he
doesn’t feel all cut up because, as he
says, his “campaign was a flat fail-
ure.”
——This week the “Watchman” has
generously donated a column space
to two scientific gentlemen for the
purpose of telling all of us how to
properly burn coal so as to economize
in the use of fuel. Next week we will
be equally liberal to any gentleman
who can tell us how to get the coal.
——The army football team did
fairly well in the contest with the Na-
vy eleven, on Saturday, but the real
victory of the occasion went to the
bootleggers, if current reports are
true.
——Why do the Philadelphia poli-
ticians imagine that parading in soft
hats is a concession to Pinchot? He
will probably wear a “topper” him-
self on that auspicious occasion.
— President Harding never had a
good opinion of the Federal Reserve
system and his effort to inject politics
into its organization indicates that he
intends to wreck it if possible.
——Governor Sproul “is solid” for
Commissioner Baldy, but the indica-
tions are that the Governor’s influ-
ence with the next administration will
be limited if not negligible.
——If Attorney General Daugherty
would follow the example of Senator
Newberry the Harding administration
would have easier sledding for a time.
fp
——Whether Major Warburton
wants Dr. Baldy’s job or not his crit-
icism of the department has created a
good deal of lively comment.
-——Pinchot’s first set back will
come on inauguration day. He can’t
prevent Bill Vare from heading the
parade.
Root of the Mexican Evil.
From the Philadelphia Record.
For more than ten years our rela-
tions with the Republic of Mexico
have been in a state of intermittent
turmoil. The bacic cause of friction
has been the insecurity of American
capitalistic interests in Mexican nat-
ural resources. This underlying diffi-
culty has been augmented by the ina-
bility of the Mexicans during a large
part of the time to maintain stable
and orderly government. America is
great and rich and powerful; Mexico
weak, but proud and arrogant. Our
capitalistic influences sustain a con-
stant urge toward forcible measures
for the protection of their rights—
property rights—in a foreign land,
and the Mexicans foment dissension
by their insistent effort to enrich their
country and themselves by measures
of taxation and restriction amounting
to confiscation of the property of their
wealthy exploiters. The bloodshed
that has occurred on both sides of the
border from time to time during re-
cent years is but an incident and out-
growth of these basic causes.
Now there are two points of view
regarding the fundamental questions
at issue, and there are plenty of people
who would like to have our own point
of view enforced and established by
war and conquest. These people are
principally the ones who would not
have to do the fighting. But pin-
pricks from Mexico, such as the high
language she holds concerning our in-
terference in her internal affairs, are
likely to augment the numbers of the
American fire-eaters. It may be ob-
served in passing that the other point
of view—the one held by Mexico—is
the one which we ourselves maintain-
ed a very short time ago when Cali-
fornia contemplated anti-Japanese
legislation to which Japan objected.
We want to call the attention of
the misguided voters who helped to
kill the League of Nations project as
a world-wide instrument for the per-
petuation of peace to these salient
facts: That the questions at issue be-
tween the United States and Mexico
are at bottom questions of internation-
al morality, capable of judicial untan-
glement and settlement; that such a
League of Nations as former Presi-
dent Wilson contemplated could have
taken jurisdiction of these questions
and settled them for all time, and
could have enforced the settlement;
and that by such means permanently
friendly relations might have been es-
‘tablished with our next-door (eizh-.
bors. Would not that be more profita-
ble to the United States than constant
bickering, with the ever-present pos-
sibility of resort to force, which never
really determines matters of right and
wrong ?
We are aware that the League is
regarded in some quarters as a dead
issue. We are not trying to revive it.
It will revive itself—it must revive
itself eventually, when the world has
grown old enough to discriminate be-
tween wisdom and folly, and to detect
spurious patriotism, inspired by dol-
lars, from the genuine, inspired by
iy of humanity as well as of coun-
ry.
Let Lenine Come.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Lenine and his wife, according to an
American interviewer, have a consum-
ing secret ambition to visit the United
States and study America at first
hand.
Of course, Lenine is bitterly oppos-
ed to America as the world’s strong-
est “capitalist” nation. But we are as-
sured that he has a secret admiration
for us, and he would like to know more
about the sources of our strength and
our methods and ways of doing things.
Trotzky, who spent some time in
this country, might be in a position to
give Lenine some information, and
perhaps Bill Haywood’s services would
also be available, in addition to those
of a few other Americans now in Rus-
sia, but this cannot take the place of
first-hand experience. Moreover, Le-
nine probably has a suspicion that all
these gentlemen are somewhat preju-
diced against the United States.
It is not likely that Lenine will get
an opportunity to visit our shores in
the near future, but if he is so ex-
tremely eager to study America, per-
haps our State Department could be
induced to waive immigration restrie-
tions. His desire to see the United
States must be largely prompted by
curiosity to find out how this country
contrived to grow and flourish and at-
tain its present position in the world
under what looks to Lenine as a most
obsolete and archaic form of govern-
ment. He admits America’s strength,
but is at a loss to account for it.
In that perplexed frame of mind, a
visit to this country might be profita-
ble to Lenine. He might find out how
a self-governing and free nation man-
ages its affairs, how public opinion
controls our governent, as has just
been demonstrated, and how individ-
ual enterprise in little more than a
century has conquered a continent,
while Russia, under Czarist and then
under Bolshevist despotism, has never
been able to develop its great resourc-
es.
Confronted with American condi-
tions, Lenine’s Communist theories
might get a severe shock. If he could
stay long enough, he might conclude
that America is a better country to
live in than Russia and might refuse
to return to the Communist paradise.
——The “Watchman” gives all the
news while it is news.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Police officials at Harrisburg are in-
vestigating the charge made by Cornella
Green that her armless husband, John
Green, had beaten her. She is in the hos-
pital with a pessible fracture of the skull
and lacerations. Green says she fell down-
stairs, but Mrs. Green claimis her husband
kicked her down.
—Director Horner, of the Workmen's
Compensation Bureau, announced on Sat-
urday that 27 widows and 80 dependent
children of the victims of the Spangler dis-
aster would receive approximately $100,-
000 compensation. Claims have been set-
tled by the bureau, compensation for de-
pendent children depending largely upon
their ages.
—Several hundred property owners in
Hazleton are well stocked with anthracite
coal for the winter, but can’t start to burn
it because heating plants ordered during
the summer and early fall haw not yet
been received, owing to the embargoes in
effect on some of the railroads against all
shipments except fuel, foodstuffs and per-
ishable goods.
—When John Robbins, a state policeman,
fell through a hole in the hay mow he
broke a leg, but he fell in the midst of a
gallon still, fifty gallons of mash and a
large quantity of automobile accessories,
supposed to have been stolen. The acci-
dent occurred in the barn of Edward
Hayes, of near Pottstown, Montgomery
county, who is in jail charged with the
theft of chickens.
—Representatives from twenty counties
in Pennsylvania met at Lancaster last Sat-
urday and organized the Pennsylvania
State Farm Bureau federation, and elected
John C. Brubaker, of Lititz, president. The
representatives were guests of the Lancas-
ter county farm bureau, which has taken
the lead in fostering the federation. Mr.
Brubaker was also elected to represent the
State body at the national meeting in Chi-
cago.
—The Standard American hosiery mill at
Mohnton, near Reading, was robbed of
$15,000 worth of silk hosiery early Friday
morning. The booty was taken away in a
truck which was seen making for Reading
and then speeding down the Philadelphia
turnpike, but the officers have no clue.
During the last few months Berks hosiery
mills have been robbed of $35,000 worth of
finished goods—all taken away in trucks
to an unknown destination.
—In a verdict rendered under the federal
law in the Schuylkill county court, Mrs.
Rose Buehler, of Tamaqua, was awarded
$8000 damages from the Philadelphia and
Reading Railway for the killing of her
husband while engaged in his duties as a
freight conductor two years age. The
woman was refused State compensation be-
cause the railroad company alleged the
husband was handling cars which contain-
ed goods of interstate commerce.
—John Magner, possessor of $80,000 to
$100,000, died last Friday in the McKean
county home in Smethport. He was near-
ly 70 years of age, and a fall several
weeks ago disabled him. Last Sunday he
applied for care at the home, saying he
“would pay his way until his health im-
proved.” Magner had lived alone for years
on a farm, denying himself the simplest
comforts, The authorities are making in-
quiries in central Pennsylvania for kin. .
—QGraydon Platt, of Ridgway, had a
thrilling encounter with an airplane while
‘motoring toward Puixsutawney when the ~
airship swooped down out of the sky and
settled in a field so close by that part of
the top of his automobile was ripped off by
the tail of the flying machine. Telling of
his experience, he declared he saw the air-
ship flying low, but paid little attention
to it until it settled almost upon him and
came to a stop in a field nearby. Neither
aviator nor chauffeur was injured.
—Losing his balance while painting on
the ledge of a three-story house in Sha-
mokin, last Tuesday, George Long, of Bear
Gap, toppled into space, and was making
a descent of 45 feet to a concrete pave-
ment when he fell into a network of tele-
phone and light wires. He was able to
hold the wires a sufficient period of time
to right himself and jump feet first to the
ground, where he landed without an in-
jury of any kind. Women who were
watching the man at work and saw him
fall fainted.
—The American Refractories company,
of Pittsburgh, closed a deal on Saturday
for the J. F. Stover farm of fifty-three
acres, and the John Bower tracts adjoin-
ing, comprising fifteen acres, located along
the Pennsylvania railroad east of IL.ewis-
town. It is generally said to be for the
erection of a large ganister brick factory,
with the possibility of red shale brick on
the side. The new plant will be located on
the south side of the main line track of
the Pennsylvania railroad, two miles east
of Lewistown.
—Curtis R. Smock, of Meadville, went to
Erie on Saturday and purchased an over-
coat, and went home without it. After he
bought the coat, he entered a refreshment
stand at Twentieth and Peach streets,
where a number of men expressed admira-
tion for the garment and engaged him in
conversation. ‘“That’s some overcoat you
have, stranger,” one remarked. Then after
a pause, he said: “I'd like to try it on.”
Smock consenting, the man tried it on. He
walked to the back of the place, paused
for a moment, then disappeared through a
doorway—and didn’t come back.
—Frank Hooper, of Charleroi, wants a
wife—one of those long, slender sylphs.
Frank doesn’t care for them built along
liberal lines. He wrote to Mayor Frank
Gilbert, of Sharon, asking aid in his quest.
‘Women, he says, are the only things he’s
afraid of. “I am 25 years old, he writes,
“and would like very much to get married,
but I never had the nerve to ask any girl.
Was with the army in France and am
afraid of nothing except women. I can
make a good home for a good girl, but she
must be a slender, tall girl. I am 25 years
old, good looking and don’t drink.”
—Resignation of Dr. W. A. Granville,
president of Gettysburg College, to take
effect March 1, next, was announced Sun-
day night. He has been president of the
institution known formerly as Pennsylva-
nia College, since 1910. He went there
from Yale University, where he was pro-
fessor of mathematics. Doctor Granville
will become president of the Insurance
Economics Society of America, and on
March first he plans to take up the work
of organizing a bureau of insurance edu-
cation in Chicago. He is known as the
author of a number of college mathemat-
ical textbooks and more recently of a
book on the fourth dimension of the Bi-
ble.