INK SLINGS. ; ' —A Memorial day. without a thun- der ‘storm was unusual. ~~ —TIt is June. Brides, roses and sweet girl graduates have come into their own. ~~ —The coming hatch of moths will have an awful time digesting some of the things the ladies called furs last _ winter. . ~—The big reason that a dollar + doesn’t go as far now as it once did is because it has so many more roads to travel. ; Boycotting sugar is a poor remedy for a national evil but it serv- ed its purpose of diverting the at- tention from the tariff tax as the real cause. —If President Harding does half of what he says he is going to do for Alaska he’ll have no time for the May- flower or the golf sticks during the rest of his term. — Almost we're afraid to refer to the delightfully seasonable weather we have been having for fear Old Probs gets mad again and sends along a few more frosts. —G@Give an eighteen year old boy a Ford, a flapper and a night out and you have placed in jeopardy the lives of all the other persons who happen to travel the same road. —The head of an average sized family spends as much in maintenance of his car, furnishing fares for the movies and buying new phonograph records, as his pap spent in paying for the old homestead and rearing the whole flock. The government is still under obligations, under the Pittman law, to buy 5000 ounces of silver bullion at one dollar an ounce, but as the mar- ket price is considerably less there is not likely to be much trouble in getting the goods. —The Governor has signed the Wil- liams bill which will require the State to reimburse certain, school districts for the cost of transportation of such pupils as are required to attend schools in other districts for the pur- pose of better classification. —The correspondence war that is now being waged by the national chairmen of the Democratic and Re- publican parties may not meet with the approval of the rank and file of the latter army but it can’t fail to im- press them with the fact that their generals are all out of harmony on the matter of strategy for the next cam- paign. r. “Russell H. Conwell has told tist convention that the world reached the peak of its ‘civiliza- _tién. Certainly the mad scramble for “money, the predominanc nical in modern education and the popular indifference to the fine arts and literature would indicate that we are laying a poor foundation on which future generations are to build. —A great lamentation comes from London because American tourists are returning home before the season is over. Probably they are, but they are doing so only because of the extortion- ate prices charged Americans on the other side. We are the geese that lay the golden eggs, all right enough, and Europe shouldn’t register a wail be- cause of the results of her foolish at- tempts to kill us. — Secretary of Labor Davis told the graduating class of the Sharon High school “that the man with the flannel shirt is the man who is getting the money.” We all know who the Secre- tary means, of course, but he isn’t “the man with the flannel shirt.” There ain’t no such animal any more. He started gettin’ the money away back in 1916 and’s been wearing silk shirts ever since. : —Judged from the long list of fatal accidents reported in yesterday’s met- ropolitan papers a lot of people did their best to make Memorial day memorable for friends of the depart- ed. We know we're a bit behind the times in our conception of the spirit of Memorial day. To us it has always seemed one set apart for reverential observance. The modern idea of ball games, dancing, and joy riding is run- ning rampant and death grins at the mad orgies of jazz crazed humanity for he knows that with each holiday excess more graves will be on the hill- sides for the next Memorial day. —_Ttalian ships are required by law to carry liquors for their crews and passengers, but as they are not now allowed to bring it inside the three mile limit while touching at the ports of this country international compli- cations are likely to arise unless there is some modification of our own ruling with regard to ships. The prohibition question aside, our right to take such a position as would either require Ttaly to change her law in this regard or keep her ships out of our ports is very questionable. If the shoe were on the other foot we fancy Uncle Sam would make an awful fuss about it. —Henry Ford is just now very much talked of as a Presidential pos- sibility and, to say the least, the lead- ers of both parties are viewing it with alarm. Nobody knows just what Henry's politics are and we doubt if he does himself. However that may be, he is a potential figure in the bus- iness world, owes nothing to the “big interests” and at his present rate of. production will have a Ford for every voter in the land by 1924. He doesn’t deny being a receptive candidate and if the West and the South should per- suade him to run there will be more Lizzies ‘at the polls than there ever have been before. e of the tech-| = Democrali gr T TE es ily fo - " VOL. 6S. Cost of Schools in Centre. In its Sunday issue the Philadelphia Public Ledger boastfully compares the cost of public school education of that city with that of other cities, in- cluding New York, Chicago and small- er towns. The educational standard in Philadelphia is on a high plane, our | esteemed contemporary justly de- | clares, and the cost is much less per pupil, than that in other towns. In Philadelphia, for example, it costs ninety-seven dollars and thirty cents a year for each pupil, while in New York, Chicago and the other cities mentioned the expense is considerably above a hundred dollars for the serv- ice. In the city of Harrisburg, this State, the cost amounts to one hun- dred and four dollars, nearly seven dollars more. In ordinary circumstances this would afford a proper reason for con- gratulating the city of Philadelphia. The cost of education per pupil in a community is measured by the amount of taxes paid for school purposes by the people in addition to the bonus paid out of the State treasury, as com- pared with the school population. In Philadelphia the taxation for school purposes is by levy on the real estate, the millage being fixed by the school | authorities, and may not exceed six mills on the dollar. Outside of Phila- | delphia and Pittsburgh the tax levy for schools may run to twenty mills in second class districts and twenty- five in third class districts. And in addition there may be levied and col- lected a personal tax of not less than | one nor more than five dollars. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. The Tax Mess Still Muddled. The Legislature having taken a re- cess of ten days or more on Thursday of last week the work of cleaning up the tax mess has made no progress since our last issue. During the pre- vious week-end Governor Pinchot got hold of the noses of the Representa- tives and temporarily forced them to relinquish their purpose to prevent additional taxation. In accordance with his plan the votes defeating sev- ‘eral tax schemes were reconsidered and measures placed on the calendar ‘capable of producing the twenty mil- lions of dollars which Pinchot imag- | ines will put him into the Presidential race. But the recess falsely ascribed to respect for war heroes was taken to give further opportunity for forcing. Auditor General Lewis has shown by actual figures that no additional taxes are needed to meet the obliga- tions of the State if taken in a busi- ness way. There are “lapsed” appro- priations sufficient to meet all de- mands, if proper retrenchments are made in administration and proper methods are adopted in the collections. That being true the levy of additional taxes is a crime against the people of Pennsylvania. The administrators of the government have a right to levy sufficient taxes to meet the actual ex- penses. The levy of burdens to pay ‘for joy riding or ambitious projects is robbery, plain and simple. Every Senator and Representative should be held to strict account for his part in it. The Democrats in the General As- BELLEFONTE, PA. JUNE 1. 1923. Mr. Ford’s Ambitions Unimportant. over Mr. Henry Ford’s ambitions. It is said that he is already the rich- est man in the world and itis al- together probable that he will contin- ue to accumulate funds and acquire that. He gains his wealth honestly. Nobody accuses him of cheating and he neither boosts prices nor cuts wag- es to increase profits. just cause of complaint against wealth ‘ so acquired. It gratifies the pos- sessor and injures no one. ter of fact Mr. Ford’s vast and rapid ; accumulations have helped rather than money wisely and to good purpose. Whether Mr. Ford is a candidate for President of the United States or not is a matter of little importance. No- body knows much about his party af- filiations. He had been a Republican ! for many years but it is not likely that | he will be considered by the conven- tion of that party next year. Mr. Harding has a mortgage on that nom- | ination at that time, and he is certain i to foreclose. The party is controlled | by special interests which are not (friendly to Mr. Ford. For that rea- | son, with all his money, he could not | buy the Republican nomination away | from Harding who has served the in- | terests to the full measure of his op- portunities. Besides. Mr. Ford quit ~that party a few years ago. + It may be added with absolute con- | fidence that Mr. Ford is even less like- | sembly have fully met their obliga- ly to be nominated by the Democratic In view of the facts the low cost of tions to the people thus far in this | National convention next year. Dem- education in Philadelphia is more a | matter. If John A. MecSparran had | ocratic nominations for President have cause of shame than pride. In Belle- | fonte the millage is twenty-one and | the personal tax two dollars and fifty cents on every man and woman resi- dent in the borough. In other words, | owing to the stupidity or something worse of the Representatives in the Legislature for the second and third class school districts the citizens and residents outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are taxed to pay the edu- cational expenses of those cities. Per- sonal tax would come out of the pockets of politicians, as the poll taxes are drawn, to qualify the illiterates to vote. { = Ste i — Meantime aged persons should | not place much hope in the pension bill recently approved by the Govern- or. It will take every cent of the $25,000 appropriation to organize the bureau and maintain it two years. Moving Cause of the Trip. Tomorrow or some other day in the near future Senator Pepper and Sen- ator Reed will set out on their pro- posed and much talked about pilgrim- age through Pennsylvania. The actu- al purpose of this trip has not yet been fully revealed, though it has been the subject of considerable specula- tion. The Senators declare it is for the purpose of “getting acquainted with the people,” but that has only excited credulity. One element of their party ventures the opinion that their purpose is to organize opposition to the renomination of Harding, which sounds sensible, and another group is persuaded that the object is to shake Pinchot’s strangle hold on the confi- dence of the farmers in the State. Either of these reasons might justi- fy the expense and labor of an auto- mobile trip throughout the State if it were not for the intruding proclivities of the others. Senators Pepper and Reed were not widely known in Penn- sylvania before Sproul catapulted them into the lime light, and if they hope to continue in public life it may be necessary for them to worm their way into the affections of a wider cir- cle. 3ut considerable time will elapse befo. 2 their terms expire and it is not usual for politicians to “gush” before they have to. It is also true that President Harding gave them ample cause for a vigorous kick in some of the appointments he has made since their elevation to the Senate. But he has since reconciled them on this point, according to gossip. As to the third reason for their ex- tended, and let us hope enjoyable, journey over the fair and fertile sur- face of the State, there is wisdom as well as plausibility in the conjecture. Governor Pinchot has certainly got the old machine “in chancery,” and un- less he is shaken off or knocked out in the near future he will clean up that festering mess in much shorter time and better shape than he has done with the other evils he promised dur- ing the campaign of last fall to dis- pose of. Taking one consideration with another, and analyzing the three reasons for the approaching Senator- ial trip, we are inclined to believe that the extinction of Pinchot is re- ally and truly the moving cause. A — A ——————— ——Dr. Finnegan’s term of office has expired but the people are not informed as to whether or not that ends Finneganism in the State. sare not levied in those | The question will be up for considera- he OE that ‘paym enti tion nextiwe ek. w adhe Ae he the ed, and we hope there will be no rec- been elected Governor last fall the mess would have been far advanced in the process of «cleaning up and there would have been no demand for in- creased taxation. No will-o-the-wisp in the form of ambition for higher honors would have beguiled him from his promise to retrench and improve the public service. No Democratic Senator or Representative should aid the present Governor to burden the people for his own aggrandizement. reancy on the Democratic side. The Governor's visit to the Eastern penitentiary, after the ex- posure, didn’t contribute much to the cause of reform but it got the front page all right. Misdirected Indignation. Senator Fess, of Ohio, is highly in- ! dignant because General Hines, the new director of the Veterans’ bureau of the government, recently declared that “the bureau will no longer be run under the dictation of political pull, and that cases fathered by Congress- men will hereafter have the same stat- us as any other cases, on their mer- its.” Senator Fess, who was for some time chairman of the Republican Con- gressional campaign committee, im- agines that is the worst form of here- sy. “Bureaucratic government has reached the limit,” he writes. “Any suggestion that the decrees of Con- | gress will be ignored will have but one * result. This government is not owned by the bureaus.” There is nothing in the statement of Director Hines to justify the inter- pretation of Senator Fess. Director Hines didn’t even insinuate that “the decrees of Congress will be ignored.” But the decrees of Congress are not expressed by Congressional spoils- mongers speaking through the depart- ments of the government. They are declared through the regular channels of legislation, by means of bills or resolutions considered and adopted. Spoilsmongers simply prevent the pur- poses o’ Congress by corrupting the bureaus and other executive agencies in order to procure favors for de- pendent followers. Senator Fess is a past master in this nefarious and de- moralizing work. Obviously Director Hines has spok- en on the subject in the interest of the veterans. Senator Fess has re- plied in the language of the “scurvy politician.” But he has not terrorized the director of the Veteran’s bureau or the veterans. According to a Wash- ington correspondent an organ of the soldiers has. informed Senator Fess that the Veterans’ bureau “is not own- ed by politicians. We have had one political administration under Colonel Forbes, and the abuses which grew up, the millions which were squander- ed, the thousands of worthy veterans that were mishandled, is scandal enough of that kind.” It is the pur- pose of General Hines to correct that evil and threats will not divert him from that purpose. The radio craze may work harm here and there, but the fact that it keeps men, women and children at home nights is no cause of complaint. ——What France really needs in the Ruhr Valley is a few strike break- ers and plenty of patience. | never been, and are not now, subjects of barter and trade. The possession | of wealth is a negligible element in | the selection of Democratic candidates for President. Fitness is the first consideration and will continue to be in the future. Neither Grover Cleve- land nor Woodrow Wilson was rich but they were marvelously fit. Mas- ters of the science of government they were capable of solving foreign or domestic problems promptly and just- he Democratic candidate next § Barbi ! ——Because of the recent uncover- .ing of scandalous conditions in the eastern penitentiary at Philadelphia one of the leading papers of that city proceeded to knock every penal insti- tution in the State, and particularly the new western penitentiary at Rock- ! view, principally because ample cell { blocks have not been completed there i to house all the vicious and degener- ate inmates who were responsible for the scandal in the eastern institution. The editor of the paper in question overlooks the fact that while the ulti- mate aim of the Rockview penitentia- ry is an institution to take care of all offenders in the State, its primary ob- ject at its inception was a model pris- on farm where men who have not fall- en into the last stages of dishonor and disrepute could be given an opportu- nity to serve their sentence at manu- al labor in the open air and sunlight, and not in steel and concrete cell blocks. ——It has been many years since the Bellefonte postoffice was closed as tight on a legal holiday as it was on Wednesday; and it was not in accord- ance with the wish of postmaster ' John L. Knisely but because of orders from the department in the interest | of economy. Heretofore there has al- ways been a morning delivery by car- riers and a later delivery of mail { through the carrier’s window. But on | Wednesday the carriers did not re- port for duty because the department desired to economize to the extent of | the half day’s pay allowed carriers | for part time on legal holidays. Tru- ly there's a “mess” in Washington that ' needs cleaning up as bad as the | “mess” in Harrisburg. ——Farmers and market men will be interested in learing that the Leg- i islature has passed a bill, which has been signed by the Governor, chang- ling the weight of the standard bush- ' el measurements of the following arti- ‘cles of wvroduce: Tomatoes, 56 i pounds instead of 60; apples 48 in- | stead of 45; turnips, 56 instead of 60; { peas in the pod, 28 instead of 56; | cranberries, 32 instead of 40; barley, 48 instead of 47, and cucumbers, 48 ! instead of 50. ——Prime Minister Baldwin, of Great Britain, is managing three offices and his predecessor in office broke down trying to run one. ——The new law requiring motor owners to acquire a “title” to their machines is a sly process of extract- ing money from their pockets. I —————— i ——— ——Even cold weather in Spring has its compensations. It delayed the coming of the flies. A A A Pr pS saline. ——All the stores and business places in Bellefonte observed Memor- ial day. There is no | There is no necessity for worrying Irom the New York World. | Ford's Presidential Prospects. Senator Harrison, of Mississippi, believes that if Henry Ford entered the primaries as a Democratic candi- date for President he would sweep | nearly all the Southern States, Alaba- ma excepted. “Mr. Ford is strong in other forms of wealth as long as he | the South,” continues Senator Harri- lives. But there is no great harm in | son, “because of his espousal of Mus- cle Shoals, and this has given him much strength among the farmers of the country.” : This seems a strange reason to nominate a man for Presidemt—that | if the government will spend millions of dollars in developing a great wa- As a mat- | ter power he will take it off the gov- | ernment’s hands for a hundred years. Nevertheless, we are not disposed to harmed the world. He has used his quarrel with Senator Harrison's con- | clusions. There is unquestionably a great deal of Henry Ford Presidential semtiment throughout the South and Middle West. Mr. Ford is economically un- sound in all the different ways that appeal to the American farmer who is in debt, and he is industriallyi efficient in all the different ways in which the average man thinks that government could be managed. Wealth is no po- litical handicap in Mr. Ford’s. case. Although he has more money than anybody else, the fact that none of it has been tainted by Wall Stfeet is a certificate of purity. The West would never dream of describing Henry Ford as a “plute,” to use its own eXpressive abbreviation, although he could buy and sell half of the Wall Street “plutes” whose money is regarded be- yond the Mississippi as the fountain- head of all iniquity. Back of the Ford political myth is a notion too, that somehow he would manage, if he were President, to run the government in the same way that he runs the Ford factory, with quan- tity production, big wages for every- body, large profits to be invested in further production, and steadily re- duced prices to the consumer. How Mr. Ford would overcome the various obstacles of a Constitution framed by men who knew nothing about quanti- ty production and were highly suspi- cious of centralized power is aot clear to his political admirers, but in such matters of detail they are ready to re- ly on faith. I: is Jot ya to ask for a bill of particulars in discussin Benry Ford as Presidential Bai rion orilie. shp- porters are not concer#iéd Hs a ulars. They know he is very success- ful in material achievement and that he has been the architect of his own enormous fortune. They know that he quarrels with banks and dislikes Wall Street. They know that he has no affiliation with the mill-run of American millionaires and that he is not a partisan in the sense in which that term is commonly used. He is not identified with the organization of either party and has only contempt for politics as a game. They look up- on him as the economic apothesis of the comomn man, and they would be glad to see him make over the govern- ment of the United States in his im- age. After he had tried it, the picture might not seem so alluring, but hope springs eternal in the breast of the farmer who cannot pay his debts; oth- erwise the American people might starve. Although the World would consider Mr. Ford’s nomination and election to the Presidency as a national calamity, it is one of those calamities that are always within the range of possibility. It is not wise to treat his tentative candidacy contemptuously; and the East, which is prone to political mis- takes, could make no greater blunder. There is a state of mind in the coun- try which has to be reckoned with, and among its possibilities is Henry Ford as a candidate for President. To be sure Mr. Ford stoutly insists that he is not seeking the nomination, but that means nothing. A Methodist pastor from Detroit, writing in the Outlook, reports that “if America wants Henry Ford it will have to draft him,” but there is no hint that Mr. Ford is the kind of man who would try to evade the draft on the pretext that he was engaged in essential industry. A Step Backward. From the Harrisburg Patriot. The attempt to abolish personal reg- istration in Harrisburg and other third class cities, as Senator Schantzs’ bill proposes to do, can be regarded only as a step backward in election procedure. It is difficult to interpret any such legislation as anything but an encouragement to loose and evil elections. In a city the size of Harrisburg and many other cities of its classification, the need for identifying the voters through personal registration is ob- vious. In smaller communities where every voter in the precinct is known by every other voter, the likelihood of impersonation to vote is not so strong, but in the congested districts that can- not be said. Personal registration was invoked to prevent “repeating,” the voting of an ineligible on the name of a bona fide voter. This method perhaps has not been a hundred per cent. effective, but it has helped and it ought not be abandoned, unless something better is proposed and guaranteed. When the Russian Wolf Will Howl. From the Altoona Tribune. Wait till the Russians and Armen- ians hear that Americans gave $30,- 000,000 to home charities last year. — A ———————— —Subscribe for the “Watchman,” » SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. - —James D. Larrimer, aged 43 years, was shot and killed at Charleroi .bout midnight Saturday night when he was discovered in the Furman Ray grocery store by Marion Ray, son of the owner. —Franklin P. Van Horn, who drove an ax into his foot forty years ago, died at Sunbury on Saturday, from blood poison- ing as the result of the accident. He was sixty-seven years old and is survived by a widow and four daughters. —Learning to ride a bicycle on the edge of a slate quarry at Slatedale, near Allen- -{ town, on Saturday, Stuart, 16 year old son of James A. Weiss, of that place, lost con- trol of the wheel and plunged 100 feet to his death. His father looked on, unable to save his boy. 3 —Miss Maggie Welsh, Pottstown school teacher, was amazed to discover that dur- ing Saturday night some thief had dug up three big grape vines at her home. The thief took roots, branches and all, not leav- ing a trace behind. He was evidently pre- paring for a good supply of grapes next fall. —Loys Frabel, the 6 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Frabel, of Lock Haven, died at the Lock Haven hospital Sunday night from burns which she received when she upset a can of heating mixture over her dress. She was enveloped in’ flames and was seriously burned before aid could reach her. Uh. dee. gr : —Considerable © mystery “surroufids the finding of Orville Spiker, 38" years old, of Pottsville, unconscioils, floating ina tank about two-thirds filled With ‘Water dn’ Sat urday night at the Standard ‘steel works at Burnham. It is believed that he got in- to the tank to take a nap before water was turned in. i —A cntract was let last week, to cA: Eis | Anderson & Bros., Ine., of Altoona, iby thés Pennsylvania Railroad compaty, for the building of a new reservoir on Tipton ran, ten miles east of Altoona. It will have a capacity of 250,000,000 gallons, cost upward of $1,000,000 and the breast of the dam will be 475 feet long and sixty-eight feet high. —~Charles Donnelly, aged 50 years, for- mer chief of Allegheny county detectives, was found dead on Sunday afternoon in the doorway of a business building in low- er Fifth avenue, Pittsburgh. His identity was not discovered until the body had been removed to the morgue. Mr. Donnelly was a graduate of Princeton University and starred on the football team. The cause of his sudden death has not been determin- ed and an autopsy will be performed. —A Harrisburg firm dealing in burglar alarms displayed prominently in its win- dow an advertising sign containing the warning, “Stop Thief.” A thief obeyed the warning literally last Wednesday and did stop. When he resumed his stroll, the firm was minus about $2000 worth of foun- tain pens and other merchandise, and the thief has probably not stoped since, as no trace of him has been obtained. —Police chief J. H. Conway, of Malvern, must stand trial at eriminal court, in Ches- ter county on a charge of first-degree mur- der in the death of William Mitchell, a ne- gro school boy, last April 29th, on the street, while he was on his way to a rails road station to meet his mother, because of a verdict of a jury Deputy Coroner Pat- rick, of ‘West Chester, which investigated the death and rendered a verdict accusing the officer of doing the shooting. —A jury in the Blair county court last week returned a verdict in favor of Charles C. Bowers against the First National Bank of Claysburg, in Blair county, to recover $600 in United States bonds and $100 in United States saving stamps stolen from his box when the bank was burglarized on December 9th, 1921. The jury awarded him the full amount of his claim with in- terest. It is said that approximately $18,- 000 worth of bonds and other securities were stolen from the safety deposit boxes at the time that have never been recover- ed. » —Christ Kelley, of Oaks, Pa., was taken from a box car in a Pennsylvania freight train at Lewistown last Wednesday, hys- terical and almost dead from exhaustion. The car was loaded with “dry” hides and sealed in Philadelphia the Saturday afternoon previous and the seals were broken to liberate him. Kelley says he was drinking with friends and crawled in- to the car to take a nap. He awoke to find the car moving, The crew heard his cries, but lacked authority to break the seals until reaching Lewistown. He was sentenced to twenty days. —School boards in Easton and vicinity seem to be having trouble with their tax- es. At a recent meeting of the Easton board action was taken increasing the school tax rate on property from 13 mills to 15 mills and doubling the per capita tax on individuals, making it $2. At a meeting of the Bangor board announce- ment was made that fully 1500 women in that town had not paid their per capita tax, and it was decided that suits should be started against them by the school so- licitor. Their names will be placed on the minutes of the board and published once a week for three weeks. —Lloyd Buckwalter, 20 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Buckwalter, of Inter- course, Lancaster county, was electrocuted on Monday morning at the substation of the Intercourse Electric company at Para- dise. Buckwalter was installing lightning arresters. He was standing on the ground reaching up with a screwdriver when one hand came in contact with a switch carry- ing 2300 volts. He was hurled back into the arms of fellow-workmen, Enos Hos- tetter and William Citzman, of Inter- course. He lived twenty minutes, drawing his last breath just as the physician, Dr. L. M. Bryson, of Paradise, arrived. Dr. G. W. H. Frew, of Paradise, deputy coroner, conducted an investigation, declaring death was accidental. —Fishing without permission in the Great Ceasetown dam of the Spring Brook Water company, near Wilkes-Barre, three men became trapped in the mud and drowned early Sunday morning. The dead men are: August Walters, aged 43; William Walters, 18, a son, and Andrew Yoscavite ager 39 years, a boarder in the Walters’ family. The three men and Al- bert Walters, aged 14, were fishing with a forty-foot seine. The elder Walters wad- ed out in the big reservoir and suddenly disappeared. The other two waded in to rescue him and they, too, disappeared. Al- bert Walters then ran for aid and met a patrol of the water company, who rushed to the scene and after several hours’ search found the bodies of the three men standing upright in the water about six feet apart. All had been trapped in a mass of sticky mud which held them a foot under the sur- face.
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