Benue Yim
INK SLINGS.
—This is the kind of weather that
makes the coal pile sick and its own-
er sicker.
—The days are growing noticeably
longer and as they lengthen the cold
strengthens.
—At the same time Pennsylvania’s
new Governor was pledging a drive on
the “wets” New Jersey’s new chief
executive was pledging a drive on the
“drys.”
—After our experience in shoveling
Sunday’s downfall we can assure you
that we have no memories that might
inspire us to essay a jingle on beau-
tiful snow.
—Isn’t it the fact that most of our
modern governmental processes are
conceived and forced into enactment
by those who can afford them and paid
for by those who can’t.
—The only committee assignment
we notice given to our new Senator
Betts is one on public roads and high-
ways. Mr. Beaver has landed as
chairman of the House committee on
game and is also on the appropria-
tions committee.
—Mr. Ford has promulgated the
idea that the extension of the use of
automobiles will gradually eliminate
the possibility of wars. Right, O.
When everybody owns a Liz. we'll all
be too busy tightening up the nuts to
give Big Bertha a thought.
—We certainly wish Governor Pin-
chot well, but at least imagining we
know some of the things he’s up
against we fear he will find that some
of the sheep who are following him
so submissively at the start off are
not sheep at all, but ravaging wolves.
—This Mr. Boyden, who is over on
the other side in the capacity of “ob-
server” for Uncle Sam, seems to be
causing as much commotion as if he
were part of the reparations machine-
ry. For an administration that will
have nothing to do with foreign affairs
he seems to be too much of a butter-
in to be a good “observer.”
—From the published accounts of
them the inaugural ceremonies were
carried through with about as much
pomp and circumstance as usual, not-
withstanding the advance announce-
ments that they were to be very sim-
ple and inexpensive. The inaugural
ball was some party, but as a ball it
wasn’t in it with the bawl that the
“outs” set up in Harrisburg that
night.
—Years ago Billy Scullin was wont
to advertise his sartorial creations in
the Tyrone Herald with a quotation
that ran “The apparel oft proclaims
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
JANUARY 19, 1923.
NO. 3.
Fair Promise to the People. |
The personnel of the incoming ad-
One Helpful Report.
It gives us unusual and it may be
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sacs ———
| First Blood for the Minority.
, The Democratic minority in the
ministration, in so far as it has been ' added unexpected pleasure to say that House of Representatives at Harris-
announced, promises the people of |
Pennsylvania an agreeable surprise. |
one of the committees appointed by
Mr. Pinchot during the recent cam-
burg scored a victory at the session on
| Monday evening. Under an agree-
Most of the officials announced are de- | paign to inquire into “the mess at ment, or at least with the sanction of
scribed as “old time friends” of the
new Governor which is hardly in it-
self an adequate recommendation, for
as a matter of fact they are simply
blind worshippers of the late Colonel
Roosevelt. But they have the unques-
tioned merit of being politically
“clean” and absolutely free of the
taint of the corrupt partisan machine
which has been exploiting the public
for personal gain and selfish aggrand-
izement for a quarter of a century.
Even the hold-overs, temporary or
permanent, with the probable excep-
tion of Dr. Finegan, are easily in this
class.
During the primary campaign Mr.
Pinchot most emphatically condemned
the leaders of the machine and by
plain implication pledged himself to
the elimination of this element from
the public life of the Commonwealth.
While the campaign for election was
pending he appeared equally earnest
in his efforts to enlist this sinister
force to his support and quite as
clearly implied a purpose to continue
its leaders in office. As Mr. Henry C.
Niles said in his first speech of the
campaign, the candidate was deceiv-
ing one or the other group of his sup-
porters. In common with thousands
of others we imagined that the less
sophisticated would be the victims;
that the .shrewd, calculating and un- |
conscionable party bosses would easi- |
ly worm the simple-minded altruist
into their schemes. 3
It is more than satisfactory, there-
fore, learn that appearances inspire
hope of the contrary result. Mr.
Woodruff, the new Attorney General,
may not be an eminent lawyer but he
is no politician at all. Dr. King, the
incoming Secretary of the Common- |
wealth, may not rate high as a states- .
man but he shows no symptoms of a
machine politician. Miss Potter, who
is to be Commissioner of Public Wel- |
fare, has not been conspicuous in |
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. methods.
' other
Harrisburg” has made a report that
may lead to the substantial improve-
ment of conditions and reform. in
We refer to the committee
“to make a survey of hospitals and
institutions receiving State
aid.” Mr. Kenneth M. L. Pray, to
whom this work was assigned, reports
that appropriations to such institu-
tions in recent years have been “hap-
hazard, unscientific and inequitable,
capable of serious political abuse, cal-
culated to bring constantly increasing
burdens upon the Commonwealth”
while preventing a proper system.
It has been commonly known for
years that the charity appropriations
made by the Legislature have been
based upon political rather than char-
itable service. In one case widely
commented upon at the time when the
vote of a member was needed to en-
act a piece of iniquitous legislation ten
thousand dollars were appropriated
for a hospital in his district that had
no exisence and was not even contem-
plated by the people or desired. But
it achieved the result and it may safe-
ly be said that one-third of the char-
ity appropriations made within the
last quarter of a century have been
predicated upon the same fraudulent
basis. They are simply used as cur-
rency in the purchase of votes for
vicious legislation.
Mr. Pray points out various other
evils in the existing system of making
| charity appropriations which ought to
be corrected but probably will not be.
Analyzing the work of the last ses-
sion, for example, he shows that elev-
en institutions were voted appropria-
tions “despite the Board’s refusal to
recommend anything.” The law pro-
vides that a recommendation of the
Board of Public Charities is essential
to securing an appropriation. But
the votes of members concerned in
the institution in question were need-
ed by the machine and the law was
the man.” We thought of that idea | public affajzs but. efficient and | violated to get them. -It-may be that
of Billy's when we read of the way | capable as a physician. Paul D. the exposure thus made will work. a
that Vare delegation, the Union club,
of Philadelphia, was dolled up in the
inaugural parade. Knowing some-
thing of some of those statesmen who
wore the two-quart lids, the oxford
coats and brown spats, we are won-
dering whether their apparel did pro-
claim the men. Our idea of it is that
the two-quart lid was only a camou-
flage. The pint on the hip would have
proclaimed that delegation better.
—Anent the discussion as to whether
the showing of Fatty Arbuckle films
should be permitted again we are
wondering just why they should be
prohibited. = The formerly popular
screen comedian is a moral monster,
but so long as he wasn’t found out
the public went into ecstacies of de-
light at his buffoonery. Tomorrow,
if showings of his acts should be re-
leased, we venture the assertion that
the movies showing them would be
crowded, notwithstanding the fact
that his trial revealed him to be a
character who ought to be shunned
into oblivion and reform. Believing
this to be the fact we rise to remark
that the public morals need jacking up
a bit. Wouldn’t we feel much finer
and cleaner if we could confidentially
say to the producers: Go ahead and
show 2s much of Fatty as you like.
He will bust you, for no one will go to
see such a character perform? Of
course we would, but we’re afraid to
say such a thing because while we
know the kettle’s very black we're un-
willing ‘to admit that there are a lot
of smudges on the pot also.
—We regret the lack of positive
assurance on the part of the Governor
that Mr. N. R. Buller will be retained
as Commissioner of Fisheries. So far
as certain phases of his work are con-
cerned we feel quite as competent to
speak as anybody in Pennsylvania for
we have had one out-of-door obsession
for forty years and that has been
trout fishing. We may be in error
but we have a hazy notion that we
rode with the first consignment of
hatchery trout that was planted in
Centre county. They came from Cory
and were placed in Benner run on top
of the Alleghenies. We have fished
the streams of Centre and adjoining
counties in the days when they were
so full of trout it was no trick to fill a
creel in a few hours. We have seen
these same streams go down and down
until a day’s hard work on a lot of
them wouldn't yield more than a doz-
en. And then we have seen many of
them start to come back through the
careful and studied attention of Mr.
Buller. He has had a great problem
to solve because with automobiles and
modern highways he has a hundred
fishermen ~pleting the streams where
there was but one years ago. We
speak because of great interest in
trout fishing and we want to say right
here that Nathan Buller ought to be
a fixture where he is so long as he
carries on as well as he has been do-
ing.
Wright, the Highway Commissioner, |
may never have built a road but he
never built a political machine either. |
The other officials named are men of |
experience and charagter and the ma- |
chine leaders are literally marooned
on a desert island without even a pros- |
pect of rescue.
It is true that 2 sop has been
thrown to Mr. Grundy in the an- |
nouncement that his faithful friend,
John 8S. Fisher, of Indiana, will be |
appointed Secretary of Commerce in |
the event such an office is created by |
the Legislature. This will be a great |
boon to Mr. Grundy if the expectation |
is fulfilled. The Secretary of Com- |
merce will function in matters of |
trade and industry and “the power be- |
hind the throne” of that functionary
will be a potent force in the consid-
eration of labor legislation and wel-
fare matters, It is Mr. Grundy’s
“long suit” and it may be assumed
that it will afford ample recompense
for the labor and expense he invested
in the fight to nominate Mr. Pinchot.
But it is far from realization: as yet.
The machine; may refuse to create the
opportunity.
—If we happened to be a member
of Governor Pinchot’s staff of advisers
we would tell him to get all his big
ideas across during this session of
the Legislature. Past experience has
fairly well established the fact that a
Governor's ability to do.things doesn’t
amount to much the last two years of
his term.
——That faithful animal, the horse,
has been more in evidence on the
streets of Bellefonte this week than
usual. Many farmers who live off of
the main highways have been compel-
led to resort to the sled and sleigh as
their means of travel since the deep
snowfall of Sunday.
——In the beginning Governor Pin-
chot should fix in his mind the fact
that an absurd ambition to be Presi-
dent wrecked his two immediate pred-
ecessors in office.
——Governor Pinchot is probably
treating Senator Bill Vare by the au-
tosuggestion process. He never could
have worked brother Ed that way.
The cost of living may have
dropped eleven per cent. in some other
place but in “this neck of woods” there
are no evidences of the fact.
Si
——Let us hope that the growing
custom of giving jail sentences to
reckless and drunken automobile driv-
ers will continue to increase.
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——We don’t suppose it has ever
occurred to you, but it is only 86 days
until the opening of the trout fishing
season.
correction of the methods of dispens-
ing State charities but there is no
certainty of it.
———Every right thinking citizen fa-
vors the rigid enforcement of the pro-
hibition legislation as well as other
laws, but some question the wisdom
of bankrupting the country in order to
make a false pretense of enforcement.
Budget the Only Sure Cure.
Dr. Clyde L. King, who is to be
Secretary of the Commonwealth as
well as budget director if such an of-
fice is created, in the new adminis-
tration, has just made his report as
chairman of the “Pinchot committee
on the finances of Pennsylvania,” and
it affords plenty of food for reflec-
tion on the part of the new Governor.
The most important feature of the
report is a statement that the State
is short in cash to the extent of $28,-
200,000, and that the only hope for a
correction of this evil lies in a bud-
get, the absence of which in the past
is responsible for the trouble. But it
has to be the right kind of a budget
to accomplish the needed result. It
must give the Governor control of in-
come as well as expenditures.
Auditor General Lewis estimated
the revenues for the next appropria-
tion period at $112,000,000, which Dr.
King believes may be increased to
$115,000,000. But of course that will
not make up the deficit now existing
unless the expenditures are greatly
cut down. To achieve this result he
suggests the limitation of appropria-
tions to $90,000,000 which would al-
low $25,000,000 to apply on the old
debts. The other three millions, he
intimates, may be provided by getting
rid of the sinecures in office, the sur-
plus. officials and “such employees as
put party service above public service,
or who work part time for full pay.”
But that will be a cruel operation.
As a matter of fact, under the ma-
chine system of dispensing party
spoils, those “who put party service
above public service” are most favor-
ed and working part time for full pay
is the general rule on Capitol Hill.
Possibly Mr. Pinchot will be able to
change this custom of long standing,
and there may be a remote chance
that he will enforce his declared rule
for a full time day in all the depart-
ments. But it will be a radical, even
a revolutionary change, and will drive
the machine managers to expedi-
ents that may work grave disappoint-
ments to the new Governor and his
well-meaning budget director that is
to be. We sincerely hope he may suc-
ceed, however.
———The intimate friends of Presi-
dent Harding declare that it will be
impossible to defeat him for the nom-
ination in 1924, which makes betting
on a Democratic victory that year like
tarine conde fom a baby.
Governor Pinchot, Representative Ed-
, monds, of Philadelphia, offered a reso-
‘lution providing for important chang-
es in the rules of the House. The os-
_ tensible purpose of the movement was
. to curb the power of the old machine
‘in controlling legislation in commit-
(tee. But the real effect of the altera-
tion would have been to minimize the
- power of the minority over legislation
‘alike in the committees and on the
‘floor. It was promptly opposed by
: Representative Rhodes, of Monroe,
i Democratic leader, and defeated.
The question was probably not of
. great importance but the result re-
| vealed the fact that even a minority of
' less than one-fifth of the membership
can accomplish results if it is united,
courageous and vigilant. Representa-
tive Edmonds, who is a bitter partisan,
making a pretense of reform purposes,
imagined his motion would go through
without opposition or resistance. Ac-
cording to the press reports of the in-
cident both the author of the resolu-
tion and the Speaker of the House
were greatly surprised that opposition
developed and as one of the corres-
pondents states “consternation over-
took Speaker Goodnough, Edmonds
and other Republican leaders when
they found the resolution was lost.”
Of course the resolution will be
adopted ultimately for the majority
will make the matter a “party ques-
tion” and dragoon most of the mem-
bers of the party into voting for it.
But the temporary victory was of
great value to the minority for it
proved that there is not only perfect
harmony among the Democrats in the
body but that they are intelligent and
alert. If that condition continues
throughout the session many a piece
of vicious legislation may be defeated,
not temporarily, but permanently.
Such incidents, moreover, hearten the
Democrats throughout the State and
1 put pep in the rank and file as
It was a splendid achievement.
——1It is now Governor Pinchot and
almost an entirely new set of cabinet
officers. Of course there is no good
reason why Centre county shouldn’t
get the same kind of treatment from
the new administration as any other
county in the State, but those who
claim to know are predicting that no
new state highway work will be done
in this county this year.
Governor Pinchot’s Inaugural.
In his inaugural address delivered
to a frigid audience in a freezing at-
mosphere, on Tuesday, Governor Pin-
chot devoted practically all of his time
and attention to prohibition. At the
outset he reiterated his primary cam-
paign platform and renewed his
pledge to fulfill it. He declared he
will appoint no one to public office
whom he knows to be unfit, and that
he will stay in Harrisburg and “be on
the job.” His first work will be the
readjustment of the finances, the sec-
ond the reorganization of the State
government and the third the enforce-
ment of prohibition. Manifestly the
greatest of these is prohibition.
By the readjustment of finances he
means the payment of overdue debts.
“Appropriations in Pennsylvania have
exceeded revenues in the last few
years,” he says, “therefore we have
accumulated liabilities amounting to
millions which must be paid off before
the State can meet its bills as they
fall due.” His remedy for this evil is
the budget and a determination to ap-
prove no appropriations in excess of
the revenues. Nothing could be sim-
pler.
the revenues, how will the govern-
ment function? He leaves this rath-
er difficult problem for the Legislature
to solve.
As a matter of fact, however, he
gives the old machine as little com-
fort in his inaugural declarations as
in his appointments to office. The
program he announces as expressing
his policies and purposes will simply
destroy the machine unless it defeats
and destroys him. ' Of course in such
a conflict of party interests the sym-
pathies of all good citizens will be
with the Governor, and we sincerely
hope that the public will promptly
give him asurances of earnest and
active support in order to strengthen
his determination to engage in the
fight. We shall watch the battle with
much interest.
—Just naturally Secretary Wood-
ward doesn’t relish being legislated
out of a job—so the fight is on at Har-
risburg at least’ twenty-four hours
ahead of the date we had set for its
announcement.
——The explorer who has discov
ered bread 2400 years old ought to
oven r hospite] for dyspentics.
Need of a “Brutal Friend.”
From the Philadelphia Record.
There is general unanimity in the
belief that the election results last No-
vember were an admonition to the
Harding Administration that the men
and women voters of the country were
not in accord with the President and
his advisers, constitutional and other-
wise, and they were intent upon lim-
iting his powers for carrying out pol-
icies disapproved by them. An analy-
sis of the returns reveals the fact that
what the voters set out to do they ac-
tually accomplish. Still, the President
had the old Congress at his beck and
. call, or at least so he believed, when
iin an evil hour he listened to the voice
But if the old bills absorb all | {in
Reed, of Missouri, b ote
6, commited the ‘country. to's
that compe
of chairman Lasker, of the Shipping
Board, who persuaded him to call the
special session in order to put through
the Ship Subsidy bill. The special
session ended without results, and in
the seven weeks that remain of the
regular short term there is almost no
possibility that Mr. Harding can hope
to have the subsidy bill, in any form,
reach his desk for signature.
Meanwhile it has been announced
semi-officially that a Federal Judge in
Tennessee is to be promoted to the
Supreme court, practically on the en-
dorsement of Chief Justice Taft, thus
enabling that worthy, but not progres-
sive, jurist to pick his own colleagues.
The actual appointment has not been
made—it seems to be held in abeyance
—but there is no indication of a
Change in the President’s determina-
ion.
He has yielded to the demands of
the farmers’ bloc in the Senate and
has refused to recognize the faithful
and efficient service of Governor Hard-
ing in the Federal Reserve Board by
reappointment, not only casting his
namesake out of the Board, but per-
mitting the farm bloc to make a selec-
tion of Harding’s successor, who hap-
pens to be Mr. Crissinger, Comptrol-
ler of the Currency and the President’s
old friend and neighbor. 1g
In the handling of our foreign rela-
tions it has been apparent for months
that President Harding has been all at
sea. Just to cite a single and recent
instance: Ambassador Harvey was
called from London for conference and
has been in Washington at the elbow
of Secretary Hughes, with the net re-
sult that the Senate, under the lead-
ership of the irreconcilable Senator
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led dential action a
later in ordering American
ome from German soil.
: hesitations and delays, the eva-
sions and compromises, the shortcom-
Ings and failures of the Harding Ad-
ministration up to date might have
been avoided or minimized if the
President had only adhered to his New
Year’s resolution of 1921, when he
wrote a letter to H. H. Kohlsaat, the
Chicago publisher, who has perform-
ed certain personal and confidential
services for every President from the
days of McKinley. On January 2 of
that year, before Mr. Harding became
President, he wrote to Mr. Kohlsaat
saying that he would be “very glad
to have you accept for a full term of
service the extremely important office
which you have so aptly suggested. I
have no doubt it is highly important
and extremely valuable to have a bru-
tal friend. I am sure it is exceeding-
ly Important to have some source of
unfailing truth.”
If Mr. Kohlsaat’s health will not
permit him to B® to Washington and
to the White House and proceed to
carry out his promise to act as the
President’s “brutal friend,” he should
make way for some other person com-
petent to tell Mr. Harding what’s
what, and especially what's wrong
with his Administration.
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The
The Mer Rouge Horror.
From the New York Evening World.
The extravagant imagination of Ed-
gar Allen Poe’s tales of horror is fair-
ly outdone in the matter-of-fact news
accounts of the Mer Rouge outrage in
Louisiana.
Even Poe could have learned some-
thing from the restraint exercised by
the investigating attorneys in develop-
ing the conclusions of the pathologists
who examined the bodies of the vie-
Ss.
But the terrible inhumanity of the
tragedy is there. The tendency is for
the imagination to exaggerate it, if
that is possible.
Perhaps it is too soon to lay this
definitely at the doer of the Ku Klux
Klan as an Sigahization. But, as the
Evening World has pointed out, it is
fair to blame the spirit of Ku-Klux-
ism which the Klan has raised and fos-
‘tered.
Ku Kluxism is a thing inexpress-
ibly horrible and terrible. It is the
unforeseen fruit of the seeds of hate,
intolerance, bigotry and secrecy by
the organizers of the Klan.
In Louisiana we are witnessing its
working out in deeds of sheer and in-
describable horror. The revulsion of
every well-intentioned but misguided
Klansman should result in his resig-
nation from the organization, not be-
cause the Atlanta organization has
been proved responsible for this medi-
eval nightmare revealed at Mer
Rouge, but rather because the Klan is
responsible for the mental atmosphere
in whieh such deeds thrive.
— Governor Pinchot declared in
his inaugural address that his “will
be a dry administration.” Does he im-
agine there will be no real stuff in the
committee ronms during the session
o” the Legislatuie?
i SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—A charter has been obtained for the
| Bankers’ Mortgage Company of Altoona,
| to be capitalized at $500,000.
| —Freeland fire companies have offered to
| motorize the apparatus at their own ex-
| Dense if council will grant permission.
| —The Lavino Furnace company gave
{ orders for the resumption of operation at
i its Lebanon Valley blast furnace at Leb-
anon.
—While his wife was momentarily ab-
sent from his room, Guy E. Johns, an Al-
toona store manager, killed himself with
a revolver.
—The closing of the estate of John Mul-
dering, of Berwick, whose death at the age
of 94 years occurred several months ago
and who worked most of his life as a day
laborer, shows he left an estate of $80,000.
—Just as he was about to board a train
for Washington, D. C., Arelius H. Cow-
an, of that city was arrested at Connells-
ville on a warrant charging embezzlement
of $30,000 from the Uniontown Grocery
company of that city, of which he was
manager.
—Wanted by federal officers on the
charge of stealing American Express com-
pany checks, valued at $600 at the Hotel
Sterling, at Wilkes-Barre, J. C. Williams
was arrested by captain of police Sim-
mers at Easton, on Saturday, after he
stepped off a train from Philadelphia.
—=Seven children were injured, three ser-
iously, when a ten year old pupil tried to
pry open a dynamite signal torpedo in one
of the rooms of the Adah school, near
Brownsville, last Wednesday. One boy
will probably lose the sight of his right
eye and two others suffered mutilated fin-
gers. The others were injured in the stam-
pede rushing for exits.
—The Adelaide silk mills, of Allentown,
as announced by Albert Tilt, general man-
ager of the plant, will manufacture 10,000,-
000 yards of silk dress goods. The mills of
the company in Allentown and Pottsville
will be put on full time at once. The or-
der, said to be the largest ever given at a
mill in tkis country, involves more than
$20,000,000, it is announced. Two thousand
operators will be affected.
—Sam Andraes, who was convicted last
June at criminal court in Hollidaysburg,
charged with dynamiting the home of
Joseph Aluise, of Williamsburg, and who
was denied a new trial by the Blair coun-
ty court, was on Monday morning sentenc-’
ed by Judge Baldridge to a term of im-
prisonment in the western penitentiary of
not less than three nor more than four
years, and to pay a fine of $100 and costs
of prosecution.
—Recovery of a gunny sack containing
1000 silver dollars, from the cellar of a
house in Bradford occupied by the late
Fred Smith, has brought the total amount
of cash found hidden about the premises
to $3500. Currency and bills amounting to
about $4500 had been previously found hid-
den in a clock. Smith was a widewer and
had lived alone since the death of his wife
four years ago. He had followed his oe-
cupation as a carpenter and ten days ago
was stricken with an attack of heart dis-
ease and died.
—John Cesario and Fred Yesula, twelve
year old boys of McAdoo, who took their
fathers’ dinner cans to them at the Dick
strippings, were buried under an ava-
ter, was hurt trying to save them. Both
| of the boys were squeezed badly and may
be internally hurt. Workmen shoveled the
salt off them in time to save them from
being suffocated. Salt is used by the car-
load at the daylight mines to keep tracks
free from snow.
—Westmoreland county authorities on
Saturday were advised by the Cleveland
police of the arrest in that city of Joseph
Torreno, wanted at Greensburg in connee-
tion with the death of Michael Misosla
four years ago. Traced throughout the
country since the killing, he was located
in Cleveland and the Westmoreland county
authorities asked the police to hold him.
An officer went to Cleveland on Saturday
to take the man back to Greensburg. Mis-
osla was stabbed to death in Torreno's
home at Scottdale in 1918. ;
—A titled waitress has been found in
Pittsburgh. She is the Baroness Rose Van
BorsKassay, formerly of the imperial court
of Austria, new of the William Penn hotel
staff. Papers in her possession indicate
she was born in Budapest and is 33 years
old. At the outbreak of the war she fled
to the United States and became Miss Rose
Von Bors-Kassay. Her fortune also was
swept away, and in an effort to earn a liv-
ing in this country she sang on the con-
cert stage. She became stranded in Pitts-
burgh recently and became a waitress.
-—Charged with conspiring, cheating and
defrauding John H. Thomas and William
Kanetsky, of Shamokin, out of $3025 and
$1500, respectively, the officers of the Pro-
gressive Cement and Tile Sales Corpora-
tion, operating at Pottsville, Shamokin,
Williamsport and Harrisburg, were ar-
raigned before a local justice, and held un-
der $5000 bail each. The money was paid
as the purchase price for building lots
and after repeated requests for deeds, suit
was brought. Other purchasers of lots and
stockholders in the corporation plan sim-
ilar action.
—Martin Burke, of Pittsburgh, sentenced
at Cleveland, recently, to serve thirteen
months in the Atlanta penitentiary for vio-
lating the prohibition laws, was murdered
at his home in the Smoky city on Satur-
day night by a man who escaped in an au-
tomobile bearing an Ohio license plate.
The city motorcycle squad is guarding all
roads leading into Ohio. Burke was seat-
ed in the parlor of his home in South
Fairmont avenue discussing a business
deal with a friend when the doorbell rang.
As he opened the door a man placed a pis-
tol against his stomach, said, “I've got you
now,’ ’and fired. Burke fell and the mur-
derer ran down the steps and jumped into
a waiting automobile.
—The riverside residence of Mrs. Lyman
D. Gilbert, 205 North Front street, Harris-
burg, will be the headquarters of the Penn-
sylvania League of Women Voters during
the session of the Legislature. Mrs. Gil-
bert, who left on Sunday for a trip to Aus-
tralia, has turned the house over to the
League, and it will be used as a place of
conference on League and legislative mat-
ters. Among those who moved into the
house on Monday were Mrs. J. O. Miller,
of Pittsburgh, president of the League;
Miss Martha G. Thomas, of Whitford.
Chester county, a member of the House
and treasurer of the League; Mrs. Harriet
Hubbs, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Lawrence
Lewis Smith, of Haverford, and possibly
Miss Alice M. RBentlay, of Moeadvilie, onoth-
er member of the lots,
the storage house. John Parry, a carpen-