Demon; alc
INK SLINGS.
—Henry Ford ought to be strong
with the ladies. All the Lizzies will
vote for him, at least.
—Why is it that rye is worth only
ninety cents a bushel and sells—on oc-
casion—at twelve dollars a quart?
—Well, so far as taking care of the
hospitals is concerned the Governor
has made good his promise to take all
of his troubles right back to the peo-
ple.
—Soft coal is as low as it can very
well get and if you use it you certain-
ly stand little chance to lose and a
very big one to gain if you put in
your winter supply now.
—Most of the wheat in Centre
county is in shock and the oats has
been slow in ripening so that farmers
will have time to get the one housed
before having to open the other.
—Radio broadcasting of sermons
may be a fine thing for the “shut-ins,”
but the excuse it gives others for not
going to church is certain to over-
balance all the good it does those who
are really physically unable to go.
—Believing in the principle of
blowing your own horn the business
men of State College swept through
here yesterday morning on a pilgrim-
age of some kind and they were blow-
ing for all they were worth.
—Dollar wheat is the quotation for
the local market this week. At that
price the farmer will scarcely get
enough out of it to pay for sowing
and harvesting it, for while its price
has steadily declined the cost of farm
labor has just as steadily increased.
—While the Governor couldn’t find
very much money with which to keep
building going at Rockview he did dis-
play good judgment in vetoing every
other bill designed as an entering
wedge for starting the erection of
costly prisons in other parts of the
State.
—Don’t waste your time abusing
the Governor for having made the
murderous cut he did in the appropri-
ation to the Bellefonte hospital. De-
vote it to serious thought as to how
you can help make up the four thous-
and dollars that the State won’t sup-
ply during 1924 and 1925.
—By action at least Charley Sny-
der, our State Treasurer, is plainly
telling Governor Pinchot that if he
doesn’t like the way a part of Penn-
sylvania is run he’d better move to
some other State. We fancy, how-
ever, that when it comes Charley’s
move his will be away from the pub-
lic crib.
—Instead of getting nine thousand
dollars a year from the State the
Bellefonte hospital will get only five
after January 1st, next. As the insti-
tution is now operating at a loss“ef
nearly two thousand dollars a year
there will be a big problem for the
community to solve between now and
the time it will have to go on short
State rations.
—All that was needed was a little
real hot weather to stop the clacking
of those scientists who were trying to
frighten us into a glacial period be-
cause some sun spots had disappeared.
As long as it was unseasonably cool
they had a wonderful audience, but the
seats are empty now and most people
are back to the old and real belief that
the earth is to burn up, not freeze—
when the appointed time comes.
—-Anyway the chase of the six ban-
dits who made a daylight escape from
the eastern penitentiary is exciting
reading. Hiding in the swamps of the
Pocomoke, out in the sea in a motor
boat to join a rum running crew
and blundering through the moun-
tains of Bedford county are three
places the fugitives are supposed to
be at the same time while a small
army of police and detectives are run-
ning round in a ring trying to re-cap-
ture them.
—The troubles of our friends, the
enemy, are multiplying. Since the
La Follette victory in Minnesota there
is much talk of Senator Hi Johnson,
of California, as a compromise candi-
date for President; the idea being that
Harding cannot be re-elected because
he is too conservative and La Follette
would be too radical. While all of
this is mere talk, yet it is the expres-
sion of real feeling among the disor-
ganized Republicans and anything is
ikely to happen.
—We would like to ask Gavernor
Pinchot to tell us what State College
s if it isn’t a State institution. His
sutting the . determination of that
juestion up to the Legislature is not
roing to fool any one or blind the pub-
ic to his own expression of spleen.
f the Legislature hadn’t regarded it
is a purely State institution it would
icarcely have voted it the right to
loat a two million dollar bond issue.
Che Legislature went on record as
‘ecognizing State College when it
rassed that bill. The Governor went
mn record as a peeved politician when
ie vetoed it.
—The first news that the President
as been fatigued by his long trans-
ontinental and Alaskan trip came
ignificantly close on the heels of the
esults of the Senatorial contest in
Tinnesota. Governor Preus ran on a
I favor Harding’s policies” platform
nd was decisively beaten by Magnus
ohnson, a Swedish farmer, who was
he farmer-labor nominee. Johnson
ays he’s against a world court or any
ther kind of foreign entanglement,
et he declares he is in favor of rec-
gnizing Soviet Russia at once. Such
vidence of inconsistency doesn’t as-
ire the country that the new Senator
rom Minnesota will do much more
1an trail along after La Follette.
“to
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 68.
Gary No Deadhead in the Enterprise.
Judge Gary, head of the Steel trust,
will be “no dead-head” in the enter-
prise of continuing the Harding ad-
ministration for “four years more.”
A couple of months ago he solemnly
declared that the elimination of the
twelve-hour day would utterly and ir-
retrievably destroy the Steel indus-
try. He hoped, probably, to thus jus-
tify the industrial slavery which the
trust had been practicing, contrary to
public opinion for years. But it was
discovered that the policy was work-
ing injury to the partnership between
the Republican party and the Steel
trust, and at the very polite request
of President Harding Mr. Gary agreed
to abate the evil “when there is a sur-
plus of labor available.”
This happy and soothing phrase was
invented by the President himself but
the result of it was disappointing. It
was too indefinite to satisfy even the
most credulous and Samuel Gompers,
as well as hundreds of newspapers
friendly to the cause of organized la-
bor, riddled it into shreds. Thereupon
Mr. Gary issued a statement to the
effect that the trust “shall probably
commence activity taking steps to re-
duce the number of twelve hour work-
ers within the next six weeks.” But
even that vague promise is qualified.
“It will require a considerable length
of time to complete the change,” he
added. “If I said I was going around
the world next week,” he continued, '
“it would mean that I was going
start around the world next
week. The actual trip would take a
longer time.”
The partners in the enterprise are
working in complete harmony. In the
course of six weeks the Steel trust
will “probably commence actively tak-
ing steps to reduce the number of
twelve hour workers.”
hold the over-worked puddlers and
rollers in a patient frame of mind for
a few months at least. Then the
signs that the active steps have begun
may serve the purpose, if the suffer-
ing laborers are credulous enough, for
an additional period of a few months
and thus may carry hope of improve- :
ment until after the election of next
vear, when the occasion for further
fooling will be passed. apd the policy
of human slavery in the mills and
furnaces of the Steel trust may be
restored.
The seventeen year locusts
which swarmed over Centre county
about a month ago but disappeared al-
most as quickly as they came, are just
now making their appearance in other | Those whose terms expire are Messrs.
sections of the State, particularly in
the Cumberland valley where they are A. Fauble and Harry Flack, of the
reported to be in great numbers.
No Reason for Surprise.
A good deal of surprise has been
expressed in various quarters that the
authorities in Washington have made
‘no protest against the boarding of our
pet passenger ship, the Leviathan, at
anchor in Southampton, by British of-
ficers for the purpose of arresting
British sailors alleged to be deserters
from British ships. It is recalled that
for a precisely similar act the war of
1812 was declared against England
and vast sums of money spent and
some lives sacrificed in resentment of
such an invasion of our marine rights.
But it is not really a matter of sur-
prise. Things are entirely different
now. : AS
For some time preceding the war cf
1812 there was sharp rivalry between
the rapidly developing marine service
of the United States and that of Eng-
land for the carrying of trade between
America and Europe. England was
justly alarmed at the progress of cur
infant merchant marine and interject-
ed all sorts of trouble for us. Among
ly the British began searching our
ships and arresting such sailors as
they accused of deserting. Our gov-
ernment protested vigorously but to
no purpose. The practice continued
until finally war was declared and a
victory won that guaranteed Ameri-
can ships from search.
That unwritten law continued in
force by common consent until recent-
ly when under a false pretense of en-
forcing the Volstead law against Brit-
ish ships. carrying booze our revenue
officers violated it. Great Britain
might have protested against the in-
vasion of her ships but remained si-
lent for the reason that her officials
saw in the matter an opportunity to
achieve a greater victory by renewing
the practice which aroused the Ameri-
cans of a century ago to the drastic
action of war. We had statesmen then
whose perception extended beyond the
bar-room and who were unwilling to
allow our territory to be outraged by
an invasion of our ships either in mid
ocean or in port,
——1In the interest of public peace
some arrangement ought to be made
to strangle that California photogra-
pher who claims to have invented a
process to photograph thought.
That ought to
BELLEFONTE, PA. JU
| Commissioner Wright’s Wise Rules.
| Every motorist in the State, wheth-
er on pleasure tour or business trip
bent, will cordially approve Highway
| Commissiones Wright's new rules for
|
parking on the public roads. Under
authority of law the Commissioner has
! issued an order forbidding the parking
: of cars on improved roads, a practice
i which has obstructed traffic in every
section of the State. Parking at the
foot or crest of a hill or on curves in
| the road is also forbidden. “Under no
i circumstances,” the Commissioner
‘adds, “may vehicles be congregated
' along public highways to such an ex-
tent that the regular and orderly pas-
sage of two-way traffic is hindered.”
Parking at any point with four wheels
on the improved section of the road is
forbidden.
The splendid highways of Pennsyl-
vania- are beginning to attract atten-
tion and hold out allurement to tour-
ists from all sections of the country.
It is to the interest of the people and
business of the State to encourage this
development. But the perils of con-
gested spots and the menace of reck-
less drivers on hills and curves work
the opposite results. Most motorists
have been frightened at one time or
another by dangers on the highways
thus presented, and if the rules pro-
mulgated by Commissioner Wright
"will eliminate the heart aches incident
a great and useful purpose will be
achieved. Of course, obedience to the
rules is essential to success, but obe-
dience must be enforced.
There are too many motor accidents
iin Pennsylvania, and most of them
may be attributed to carelessness. In
one or two recent incidents courts
have taken action which will be help-
ful in abating the evil. A drunken
motor driver is a menace as deplora-
ble as a pestilence and should be se-
verely punished. A reckless driver is
almost as great an evil and is equally
deserving of punishment. It is to
some extent the fault of these that
the evils to which Commissioner
Wright refers are dangerous. He is
' wise, therefore, in taking steps which
will avert danger on the highways as
well as decrease the inconveniences of
travel. We hope every motorist in the
State will give support in the enforce--
ment of the rules.
| ———Candidates for the various
county. and borough offices are now
circulating their nomination papers
for the requisite number of signers.
; In Bellefonte borough there will be
four councilmen to elect this year.
John S. Walker, of the North ward;
| South ward, and Darius Waite, in the
West ward. So far as now known all
i the above will be candidates for re-
l election. Dr. M. J. Locke’s term as
. school director will also expire with
, this year.
Pinchot as a Juggler.
According to the Harrisburg corres-
pondent to the Philadelphia Record,
, Governor Pinchot’s boast of saving the
people some $30,000,000 during the
current biennium is not only a mock-
ery of figures but a deliberate false
, representation of the facts. The total
appropriations approved by him
, amount to $123,000,000, which is $5,
000,000 more than the total approved
by Governor Sproul. Of the $118,-
000,000 approved by Mr. Sproul $29,-
000,000 were not expended during his
administration but are now available
for use of the Pinchot administration.
| This represents the saving Pinchot
claims almost to the dollar.
| But aside from this juggling of fig-
| ures obviously made to deceive the
i public the revenue records show a dis-
: : 12 | crepancy against the Pinchot admin- |
her complaints was that English sail- istration as compared with its prede- |
ors deserted her ships and served cessor. The last Legislature increas- |
aboard the American bottoms. Final- | ed the taxes to the extent of $18,000,- !
000, and the tax on anthracite coal im-
posed by a previous Legislature but
{ withheld from the treasury through
litigation will add to the resources of
the Pinchot period between $5,000,000
and $10,000,000, making a difference
in favor of the Pinchot biennium of
from $23,000,000 to $28,000,000. Then
the last Legislature provided fees for
State service to the people, which is a
tax, that did not exist during the
Sproul administration.
, Assuming, which is justified, that
the Pinchot administration for the
current biennium will have greater
revenue than its predecessor to the
extent of at least $23,000,000, what
excuse is there for cutting the appro-
priations for charities and education
; as the Pinchot vetoes have done? The
cuts in charity appropriations as com-
pared with those of the Sproul bien-
nium amount to nearly $2,000,000. It
| is not claimed that the cost of mainte-
i nance will be less or the necessity for
such institutions diminished. But as
one of the “insiders” said the unfor-
tunates can be fed on beans and black
| bread in order to glorify Pinchot.
——————————
| ——Those Minnesota farmers sim-
ply expressed their appreciation of the
tariff on wheat.
State Pay Vouchers Held Up.
State Treasurer Charley Snyder,
the only unit of the old Penrose ma-
chine with enough life to make a kick,
spread consternation among the job
holders at Harrisburg last week by re-
fusing to issue salary vouchers for the
i semi-monthly pay then due. It was a
. drastic as well as a cruel measure. A
! good many of the employees on “the
Hill” ‘need the money when pay day
comes around and the failure to get it
‘is not only a disappointment but a
hardship. It may be safely said that
it was not the purpose of the State
Treasurer to thus inconvenience ex-
pectant employees. “Charley” has his
faults but they are not in the form of
cruelty. His objective was something
higher up.
| Governor Pinchot and his Secretary
of State, Dr. King, have practically
assumed that all understanding of ad-
ministering the State government is
lodged in them. In framing the
“e they invested all power in
themselves and as the drastic action
of the State Treasurer shows made a
bungling job of it. Even in their own
department, that of the Executive,
they were unable to make statements
of their accounts according to the
“code” and the State Treasurer de-
clares he will issue no vouchers ex-
cept such as are clearly within the
law. The Governor can hardly com-
plain of that, for he professes the
greatest respect for the law. The
rouble is he doesn’t seem to know the
aw.
Of course the Treasurer’s purpose
was to humiliate the Governor and re-
buke his pretense of knowledge. How
far he will achieve this result remains
to be seen. So far as the employees in
the Governor’s office are concerned
there was no inconvenience, for Mr.
Pinchot gave his personal check for an
amount to cover their claims. But
employees in the Highway Depart-
ment, the Department of Public In-
struction and the Department of
Health were refised payment. Of
course the men will get their monay
in the end but not until the heads of
departments learnt how to make out
pay warrants, or ‘until the factional
onciled.
——President Harding may draw
one “crumb of comfort” from the
election result in Minnesota. It will
diminish the number of aspirants for
the Republican nomination for Presi-
dent next year. :
The Triumvirate of Good Reading.
Curt Thompson writest from his
home in Philipsburg that they regu-
late their family with the “Watch-
man,” the Philadelphia Record-and the
Christian Advocate.
Surely such a combination of good
i reading matter ought to contribute
I much toward creating a wholesome,
| uplifting, intelligent atmosphere in
any home and we know that is just
what is to be found within the Thomp-
son portals. On the side—any one
would guess that the Thompsons are
goat Democrats and great Metho-
ists. i
i
——The Lewistown city council, on
' a motor trip through Centre, Clinton,
Lycoming and Union counties, paid
, Bellefonte a visit on Tuesday morning
{and spent an hour fraternizing with
the Bellefonte borough dads. The
| Lewistown council is now facing the
proposition of trying to float ‘a big
bond issue for street paving and civie
improvements and Tuesday’s trip was
taken for the purpose of sizing up
. conditions in boroughs and cities along
their route.
rr ———(p ————————.
——-Jack Dempsey failed to knock
out his antagonist, Tommy Gibbons,
{in that Montana fisticuff but he seems
1 to have knocked out most of the Mon-
| tana banks.
i
| ——The Governor cut the State
| charity appropriations rather merci-
| lessly but he let every appropriation
| for the executive department ride as
written.
——————— tn ————.
—The shopmen’s strike of 1922 has
, been judicially declared off, but the
| striking shopmen on the Pennsylva-
nia railroad haven’t read the decision.
I —— A A i ——————
——A prominent physician says
' that ninety-eight per cent. of the peo-
| ple over eat. There is a basis for
another constitutional amendment.
——The news from Minnesota, on
Tuesday morning, would hardly thaw
the atmosphere of Alaska to its most
distinguished visitor.
——1If Mr. Ford can induce all the
owners of his cars to vote for him all
other candidates for President are
facing defeat.
A ————— I ————— a ———————
——Governor Pinchot spends more
time in apologizing for his vetoes than
it took to write the messages.
LY 20, 1923.
differences between fhe leaders of the
Repulifican art e State are rec
NO. 28.
Splitting Up of the Allies.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
. To get a proper perspective of two
items in the news recently we have to
turn back to the fears expressed in
the days before the armistice of the
world war that Germany might
through diplomacy, and through dif-
ferences of the allies, gain what she
could not on the battlefield.
One of the dispatches, from Lon-
don, said that the long-expected break
between Great Britain on the one hand
and France and Belgium on the other
over the Ruhr situation is again im-
minent. If France and Belgium per-
sist in pushing coercive measures
against Germany, it is set forth, Brit-
ain will adopt means of her own for b
negotiating with the Berlin govern-
ment. A
The other dispatch, from Lausanne,
contained a reminder that the Turk,
who was supposed to have been driv-
en from Europe forever, is back there,
and has a war settlement that is de-
scribed as containing a number of dip-
lomatic victories for him.
First Russia and Rumania were
beaten by Germany into making sep-
arate and negotiated peace treaties,
with Bolshevist treachery playing a
large part in the transaction.
Then the United States, which turn-
ed the tide of war against Germany,
and stated the terms for world peace,
was broken away from joint action
with her allies as the result of politics
in the American Senate, and the Hard-
ing administration made a separate
and negotiated peace with Berlin.
If Great Britain should break with
France and Belgium, then indeed
would the unity on the part of the al-
lied and associated nations, once de-
clared so vital to establishment of
world peace, be pretty well “shot to
pieces.”
Let it be hoped indeed that things
are not as dark as some who have
lately returned from Europe are pic-
turing them. But to guard against
the collapse some believe to be threat-
ening, it is well ‘to refer back to the
dangers we said during the war would
result from a lack of unity, and ask
ourselves whether some of the dangers
may not now be near because of dif-
ferences between the allies themselves.
Did the break in the unity of the al-
lied and associated nations come be-
fore the world was well out of the
woods of war?
Who doubts that if that unity had
continued there would be ;
States remained in co-operation with
her allies, would France have invad-
ed the Ruhr? Had unity of the allies
continued would the Turk have been
able to resume massacreing Christians
and return to Europe?
. The most distressing thing about it
is that the politicians who broke the
United States away from her allies
have proposed no system of their own
for world peace or done anything ef-
fective in that direction. It is as if
they had withdrawn this great Nation
at precisely the time when she was
needed most to help establish peace.
Before itis too late some attention
better be given to the restoration of
{ unity among those who won the war.
el n———
Tax-Free City Dwellers.
From the Philadelphia Record.
One of the women voters of an up-
State town, where they are preparing
to send to jail the women who refuse
to pay a $5 a year school tax levied
against all women as well as all men,
wants The Record to tell her why the
| leaders of women in public affairs, so
| many of whom live in Philadelphia
‘and Pittsburgh, are not making a fuss
over this threatened indignity to fe-
males.
Why should the women of Philadel-
phia and Pittsburgh who are leaders
make any fuss about it? Neither they
nor any of the men and women in
' Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are in
| danger of going to jail for not paying
| the tax. No such tax is even assessed
; against them. It is only the men and
| women beyond the two big cities,
where reside so many men and women
ready to tell them to be sure and vote
| the G. O. P. ticket “straight,” who
have to pay this school tax. Neither
the women nor the men of the big
cities pay any tax except one of 25
i cents a year to qualify as voters, ex-
, cept, of course, those who own taxa-
ble property.
We were told the other day that the
negro vote in Philadelphia now is al-
most 140,000. None of the negro
| women and men voters of Philadelphia
| are assessed this school tax, for the
i non-payment of which so many of the
Souniry women are threatened with
| Jail.
As we recall the figures, however,
many of the up-State women voted the
same ticket last November as the
white and colored brethren of Phila-
{ delphia and Pittsburgh who pay no
| school tax at all.
If Henry Ford Has Any Plans, What
| Are They?
From the New York World.
Some day Henry Ford must reach
a decision, or the opportunity to be a
| candidate for President will pass him
by. If he wants a railroad or a coal
mine or a new factory he goes out,
cash in hand, and buys it. But he
cannot go about being a candidate for
President in that simple way. Among
other things, he will need an intelligi-
ble platform which he is capable of
explaining to the satisfaction of the
voters. He might nominate himself,
but he could never elect himself. That
is one great difference between being
head of the Ford business and seeking
no such tr
bles as now threaten ? Had the vi i
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—A $2,500,000 bond issue for good roads
in Blair county is being fathered by the
public affairs committee of the Altoona
Kiwanis club. The county commissioners
will be asked to submit the proposition to
the voters next fall.
—~Gail Christine, of Reedsville, on Satur-
| day encountered fifteen rattlesnakes in one
bunch on the Seven mountains. Christine
is famous as a bee hunter, and with the
aid of his big dog “Bruno” and a hound
owned by Frank Kohler, he killed the en-
tire fifteen.
—While on his way to help fight the fire
in a barn in Heister valley during a thun-
der storm, the Rev. C. H. Bankes, of Nor-
thumberland county, was pinned to his au-
tomobile by a tree which was blown across
the road by the violence of the storm. The
car was disabled, but he was unhurt.
—Vernon Hill, aged 26 years, of Wil-
liamsport, was electrocuted in his home
last Thursday night while taking a bath.
He apparently stood up in the bath tub
and grasped hold of an electric light fix-
ture. Members of the family found him
dead. The fixture was torn from its fast-
ening. He leaves a wife and two children.
—Game protector Harry Wingart, of In-
gleby, is cutting a fire lane five miles long
around the game preserve of which he has
charge, in the mountains of Union county.
He has it well cleared of dead limbs and
rubbish. - The purpose is both to prevent
fires from spreading and to afford protec-
tion to deer and other game in the pre-
serve,
—=Seven year old Verna Chenney, of Os-
ceola Mills, will probably lose the use of
both hands as the result of being run over
by a freight train Tuesday of last week.
The girl was playing about the tracks
when struck by a draft of cars being push-
ed into the Osceola yards by a shifter. All
the fingers of her left hand were badly
mangled and several on the right hand.
—Suit for $25,000 has been entered in the
Blair county court by Mrs. Ada Crider,
of Altoona, against Hesser Hell and his
son, Fred Hell, both of Altoona, for per-
sonal injuries. She was+.run down by an
automobile owned by the former and driv-
en by the latter in Altoona, July 15th, 1921,
while crossing a street, receiving a broken
hip and a shock to her nervous system.
—An employee of a Johnstown delicates-
sen store, unpacking a shipment of ba-
nanas from South America, discovered, in
a bunch of bangnas a mother possum and
five young ones. The mother escaped, but
the young ones, believed to have been born
while the bananas were en route from the
south, were not strong enough to make a
get-away. The animals are of the so-called
“banana possum’ species, foe of the taran-
tula.
—Mrs, Mary Snyder, aged 6 years, died
at Pottstown, last Thursday from sur-
geons’ gauze that was left in the incision
twenty-five years ago, when she under-
went an operation at a hospital. Surgeons
‘had been unable to diagnose her ailment.
When she was operated on a short time
before her death, it was found that the
tissues. had grown around the gauze in
such a manner that it could not be re-
moved.
—More than 200 residents of Kane, who
invested their savings in stock of the
American Plate Glass company at the rate
of $100 per share, eighteen years ago, re-
| ceived checks at the rate of $750 per share
terests, which have taken over the plant.
“In addition to the checks, which totaled
$2,000,000 an additional sum in bonds and
liens against the James City plant of the
American Plate Glass company are to be
distributed in payment for the stock. :
—John J. Herr and Edward R. Patton,
of Lancaster, touring to San Francisco in a
canoe, reached Johnstown on Sunday and
launched their craft in the Conemaugh.
They shipped their 17 foot canoe from Hol-
lidaysburg to Johnstown by rail. They
will float down the Conemaugh, Kiskimin- .
etas, Allegheny, Ohio and Mississippi riv-<
ers to the gulf and there will hug the gulf
shores on the way to the Panama canal,
which will be traversed to the Pacific
coast. They estimate that thirty months
will be required in reaching San Fran-
cisco.
—While driving through Potter forests
a monster bear mounted the running board
of the automobile of Ward Casebeer, near
Hulls. The car came upon the mother
bear and cubs. The latter took one side
of the road and the mother the other. Sep-
arated from her cubs, she thought likely
they had been kidnapped and in the car,
and she got aboard to see about it. The
companion riding with Casebeer on the
front seat crowded the driver so getting
away from the proximity to the beast on
the fender that Casebeer nearly wrecked
the whole outfit getting away.
—Crazed by the heat, Mrs. Mary Show-
kus ran amuck at Minersville, on Satur-
day, and injured several persons with
heavy stones. Pedestrians were kept busy
for a time trying to dodge her missiles.
One stone aimed at a man missed the
mark and hit Maggie Stubble a seven year
old child, inflicting severe injury. The
police finally corraled the woman and she
was held by Justice Flynn in $600 bail for
injuring the child. Mrs. Emma Cabet and
Mrs. Vera Gerbousky, who were among the
vietims, brought prosecutions, and Mrs.
Showkus was held in bail in each case.
—Farmers throughout Columbia county
are solving the problem brought by .the
shortage of farm labor in recent years by
co-operation. Groups of four and five far-
mers have been helping each other get
their hay and grain in the barn, moving
from one farm to another until they have
made the rounds. The women also are
being pressed into service in the fields,
driving hay rakes and helping in the load-
ing. In some instances women have also
been driving three horses hitched to a
reaper. One farmer's wife complained that
she could not drive three horses in a bind-
er, so the farmer hooked his automobile
truck to the binder and his wife drove the
truck, while the farmer did the shocking.
—A hodecarrier is now working at Free-
land, Pa., who earns on an average of $100
a week. He is Citribone DeMonico whose
home is at Allentown, but who is employed
by contractor Joseph Durrin in the erec-
tion of a brick business block for Joseph
Mulhearn, at Freeland. He is regarded as
an all around handy worker, and his em-
‘ployer values him so highly that he pays
him $1.35 an hour. Citribone is on the
job at five o’clock in the morning, when
he begins to mix the mortar for the brick-
layers. During the day he carries mortar
and brick and can fill up any gap where
labor is needed. He generally works 12
hours a day, and this nets him a daily in-
come of $16.20. He is a simple liver and
retires regularly at 9 o'clock every night,
thus getting plenty of sleep for the next
promotion to the White House.
day’s activities.
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