Broaifitip.
ANS LSM,
INK SLINGS.
—Just five years ago the old Cen-
tral R. R. of Pa., was singing its swan
song.
—Today is the shortest one of 1923.
And as the days lengthen the cold is
supposed to strengthen.
—Don’t be an eleventh hour shop-
per. Do it now and get something
more than the left-overs.
—The outlook is good for a green
Christmas. Let us hope that it will
not mean a fat grave yard.
—Don’t give anything that you
can’t afford to give. It is the spirit,
not the intrinsic value of the gift that
counts.
—1It is only natural to suppose that
Harry Wilson doesn’t think Walter
Camp knows half as much about what
goes to make an all American foot-
baller as Joe Bedenk does.
—Don’t accuse your mail man of
falling down on his job if you don’t
receive a copy of the “Watchman”
next week. We're going to take the
week off and give you a rest as well
as ourselves.
——1In defense of the man who kill-
ed an officer in the Ku Klux Klan in
Atlanta, Georgia, the claim of insan-
ity has been set up. He must have
been crazy. The proper punishment
of Ku Klux officials is a swift kick.
——Mr. Coolidge having carried
South Dakota at the primary elec-
tion, Senator Johnson declares he will
file in the independent column. As
has been frequently remarked,
“straws show how the wind is blow-
ing.”
—We note that turkeys have drop-
ped somewhat in price, but not enough
to come within our grasp. We have
become so accustomed to turkeyless
Christmases that a matter of a few
cents decline in the price per pound
interests us not at all.
—May the spirit of peace on earth
and good will to men so fill your
hearts and minds as to make this the
happiest Christmas you have ever
known. Forget that there is selfish-
ness. Remember, only, that there is
sorrow and want in the world and do
your part, however small, to alleviate
them both.
—The Secretary of State, Charles
Evans Hughes, has told Soviet Russia
that the only way to recognition by
the United States is for it to restore
American prosperity and abandon its
propaganda to overthrow our govern-
ment. As long as the Secretary will
stick to those sane and very vital con-
ditions we'll use our influence to keep
him right where he is, no matter who
becomes the next President.
—Of course we have no desire to be
drawn into the controversy that is
likely to become rather sensational
between the modernists and funda-
mentalist factions of the Protestant
Episcopal church, but we waive conse-
quences far enough to state that when
eminent men of the cloth encourage
the lay mind to marvel at these things
they are shattering faith and boring
from within at the foundation of
christian citizenship. These Ingersols
of the pulpit are more dangerous than
the Lenines of Russia and the sooner
they are all unfrocked the better it
will be for the world.
—This is the time of year when the
fool killer ought to be working over-
time on the joy killers who try to
make the little folks believe that there
isn’t a Santa Claus. Take the fairies,
Santa, and the various imaginary be-
ings out of the child life and there is
nothing left but the drab realities of
the years that come all too soon to all
of us. Ever has the moment that we
found out been harbored in our mind
as one of the most distressing we
have experienced and always there
has welled up in us gratitude for the
two who encouraged us to dream of
the “miniature sleigh and eight tiny
reindeer.” cE hr)
—The fellow who told us to “cheer
up, the worst is yet to come,” said a
mouthful. After devoting nearly half
a column last week to falling down in
hero worship before Samuel McWil-
liams Hess because we thought it was
he who sent us the fine roast of veni-
son and the rasher of bear meat we
find that it wasn’t Sam at all. We're
not going to recall any of the grand
things we said about Sam, except that
stuff about being a mighty hunter.
He didn’t get a deer. It was his un-
cle John Hess, who comes down from
Altoona every season to join the Mo-
docs and put his mark on a buck for
them to hang up. He shot a dandy
last year and repeated this, so its
John, not Sam, that we've got up on
the pedestal we spent so much time
in building last week.
—To the lady who wrote to know
what a real cook put her pie dough in
the refrigerator for we might say |
something nasty, but we're not going |
to. She isn’t a cook herself or she'd
know that pie dough is always much
more flaky if left standing in a very | Georgia, for example, from about ;
cool place at least twenty-four hours
before using. Even we know that
much, if we don’t know the difference
between pie dough and cold mashed
potatoes. Experts in every line make
bulls occasionally. It was not so long
ago that the mind of man runneth not
to the contrary that Dr. Waters, then
the last word in dairy products at The .
Pennsylvania State College, and later
dean of the school of Agriculture at
the University of Missouri, at Colum-
bia, gave the blue ribbon to a print of
oleomargarine, that our old friend A.
J. Palm, of Erie, stuck in among the
exhibits of dairy butter at the Penn-
sylvania dairy show.
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CHLICT
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STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 68.
BELLEFONTE
Gifford’s Funny Stunts.
Gifford Pinchot
amusing Governor.
stitution of the State “the supreme
executive power” is invested in the
Governor and he is required “to take
care that the laws are faithfully exe-
cuted.” Yet it may be doubted if he
has ever read that instrument. At
any rate it is certain that he has nev-
er understood any of its provisions.
Two months before he was inaugurat-
is certainly an
ed he began functioning, and in near-
ly everything he did he violated one
or more of the provisions of the con-
stitution. In the administrative code
half a dozen fundamentals were tram-
pled under foot. But that was his pet
measure, and as Tim Campbell said
to President Cleveland, “what’s the
constitution between friends.”
Recent developments show, more-
over, that he has as little respect for
the Acts of Assembly as for the or-
ganic law. One of the provisions of
the administrative code vests in the
Superintendent of Public Instruction
the authority to appoint or remove
the State Librarian. The other day
the Governor, in one of his abera-
tions, discharged the State Librarian
and appointed his successor. After-
ward it was discovered that he had no
autherity to take such action. The
result is that there are now two State
Librarians, one of each sex. Proba-
bly he wants to introduce the “co-ed”
system in the bureau.
he has gotten things seriously mixed
up and if Dr. Becht declines to help
him out he is in a muddle.
The trouble with Pinchot is that
ambition has driven him mad. Ever
since his wife inherited an immense
fortune he has been obsessed with a
lust for office. His first attempt in
the field of politics was for the Sen-
ate, when he ran against Penrose and
was badly beaten. He had previous-
ly held a subordinate position in the
federal Department of Forestry and
was content with that. But he only
enjoyed his own inheritance of two or
three millions then. When five or ten
millions came to his wife, however, he
began to see visions of power and
bought the nomination for Governor
by an unheard-of expenditure of mon-
ey. Now he imagines he may be
President and has gone “daffy” over
it.
——The value of the country’s
principal farm crops are officially es-
timated at $8,322,695,000 for this
year. Maybe things have been
“breaking bad” for the farmers late-
ly but it must be admitted they have
some assets.
Scandalous Methods Restored.
The southern representation in Re-
publican National conventions has
been a subject of scandal for many
years. As long ago as 1896 the late
General Alger, of Michigan, opened a
booth at the Chicago convention to
buy the votes of the colored brothers
from the southern States. But Mark
Hanna was too strong an antagonist
and the enterprise failed. At each re-
curring convention, however, the at-
tempt was made and usually the long-
est purse brought home the bacon. In
the convention of 1912 it was univer-
sally admitted that the nomination of
Taft was brought about in that way
and Roosevelt’s revolt was largely
based on that ground. A movement
was then inaugurated to correct the
evil.
In the convention of 1920 the traffic
in negro votes became so bold and fla-
grant that the better element of the
party determined to stop it. Candor
requires the statement that the
friends of the late President Harding
were not the offenders. The support-
ers of General Wood had brought to
the convention an immense corruption
fund and Governor Lowden, of Illi-
nois, an aspirant for the nomination,
with the vast fortune of the Pullman
family behind him, was the principal
competitor. At any rate the condi-
tion became so bad that it was deter-
mined to end it and with that object
in mind a rule to cut down the repre-
sentation of the southern States was
adopted.
Naturally the southern negro poli-
ticians objected to thus curtailing
their sources of graft. The price of
votes in a Republican national con-
vention is variously estimated, but
never below a thousand dollars, so
that reducing the representation of
twenty-eight to say five or six seem-
ed like “taking bread out of the
mouths” of a number of “worthy Re-
publicans.” The other southern con-
stituencies were similarly penalized
and the sufferers reasoned out that
the machine supporting Coolidge for
For !
the nomination was responsible.
that reason even the office holders in
the South were not responsive to de-
mands for support and the old order
is restored.
keeping company with that of Mr.
Underwood. Thus far Mr. Bryan has
been able to keep his on his head.
Mr. McAdoo’s hat is in the ring
Senator Bruce a Judas.
Senator Bruce, of Maryland, has a
Under the con-! greatly exaggerated idea of the dan-
bloc in the |
ger of the progressive
i United States Senate. On a vote for
| shaisman of the committee on Com-
i
merce, the other day, he bolted his
| party nominee in order to avert the
| “calamity” of a victory for the pro-
| gressives. What he really prevented
| was a most humiliating and disas-
| trous defeat of the Republican ma-
chine. The defeat of the Republican
nominee for an office in the face of a
Republican majority of at least sev-
en, could have had no other effect
than the complete demoralization of
the organization, and in preventing it
by perfidy Senator Bruce simply
wrote himself down as a Judas.
Probably Senator Smith, of South
Carolina, the Democratic nominee for
the chairmanship of the committee on
Commerce, didn’t want the office, and
it may be equally certain that his
party associates were indifferent on
the subject. But it is absolutely cer-
tain that the Republican machine
didn’t want him to get it, and that the
| railroads which have a legislative pro-
gram to put through were very much
‘opposed to his election. In betraying
“his party obligation, therefore, Sen.
ator Bruce averted the defeat of the
{ Republican machine and the success
' of the railroad program, and that
achievement of a man professing to
the people was more perfidious than
heroic. .
Senator Bruce is said to be a cor-
. poration lawyer and probably imag-
ines that he was sent to the Senate to
represent the corporations instead of
the people. Other Senators and Rep-
resentatives in Congress and other
legislative bodies have made the same
mistake. But they don’t get far with
it. Their public life rarely survives
a single term. Unfortunately Sena-
tor Bruce is in the beginning of a six
year term, but even at that his first
important betrayal will cut down his
opportunities to do harm in the fu-
ture. But he has no right to set up
a claim of superior virtue. He served
the Republican machine and the rail-
road corporations at the expense of
political honor and integrity -and that
is all.
——The former Kaiser, having won
a libel suit against a newspaper, it
may now be said that the impossible
has been achieved. If anybody can
say anything that libels the ex-Kai-
ser he must have written in an un-
known language.
Both Sides are Wrong.
Any attempt to make prohibition
enforcement an issue in the campaign
for delegates to the coming Demo-
cratic National convention for Penn-
sylvania, will fail as it ought to. It
is intimated in various ways that such
a project is contemplated. Those op-
posed to enforcement are said to be
organizing to promote the selection
of “wet” delegates. On the other
hand it is charged that the activities
of those who favor enforcement, with
gation, are responsible.
these statements expresses the facts
we are not able to determine. What
is entirely plain is that both are
wrong.
| The Eighteenth amendment to the
constitution of the United States is a
permanent fixture. Under the pro-
visions of that amendment to the con-
stitution Congress is empowered to
enact such legislation as the Volstead
law. We have never sympathized
with or approved of the methods by
which the Eighteenth amendment was
adopted. We have never believed that
it was wise to authorize Congress to
enact such legislation as the Volstead
law. But the Eighteenth amendment
is there and will stay there until the
end of time if the government contin-
ues so long and the Volstead act will
remain until it is repealed in an or-
derly way.
Any candidate for President nomi-
nated by “wet” delegates on a “wet”
platform by either party would be
overwhelmingly defeated. A candi-
| date nominated by “dry” delegates on
a “dry” platform might be defeated.
But it is not the part of wisdom to
take chances on such an issue at this
time or at any time in the near fu-
ture.
proper issue because it is not a polit-
ical problem. Lessons in morality
should be taught in the homes and in
the churches and not in political con-
claves or conventions. To those who
are embarking on a campaign on
either side of the question we recom-
mend caution.
The new head of the Work-
men’s compensation board serves no-
tice that the law will be enforced. It
may be possible that that is what it
was created for.
The Jay Gould estate is about
to be settled up finally, but the scan-
dals of the Gould family will proba-
bly go on forever.
the purpose of securing a “dry” dele- '
Which of .
In the first place it is not a |
| Political Gossip Plenty but Invaluable
There is a good deal of gossip in
the newspapers and in the political
centres concerning the future move-
ments of the Republican leaders in
! Pennsylvania but little of it is of val-
ue. In Pittsburgh there is a major
‘row on between the Leslie and Magee
' factions, and the reports indicate that ' committee took the action it did. It
‘Senator Max Leslie has “come back” |is absolutely essential to Republican
| and is likely to control the selection
| of delegates to the Republican nation-
Lal convention. But the Magees have
| frequently shown vast recuperative
i power, and as Mr. Leslie is bitterly
! opposed to Governor Pinchot the May-
jor of the “Smoky city” will probably
‘ take the Pinchot side of the issue. A
may prevent such an issue, however.
In Philadelphia the new Mayor has
! disappointed the expectations of those
who supported him by going outside
the city limits for the most important
member of the cabinet. Brigadier
General Smedley Darlington Butler,
of West Chester, has been borrowed
from the Marine Corps, in which he
has acquired considerable distinction,
to become Director of Public Safety.
' Congressman Vare had hoped to place
, his servile henchman, Harry Mackey,
| into that place, thus creating an in-
! vulnerable trench for his machine.
| But Mayor Kendrick has won the ap-
i plause of the better element of the
| citizens by naming the marine. He
In any event be a Democrat and representative of Hhas not announced his other appoint-
i ments but if they are of the type of
Butler the people will profit.
Everybody is persuaded that Mr.
Pinchot is a candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for President and
some apparently well-informed per-
sons believe that he has entered into
an alliance with Senator Johnson, of
California. Such a combination might
make a formidable force in this State
and give the Old Guard under its new
management considerable trouble. But
it will not effect the result of the con-
vention. The office-holders will nom-
inate Coolidge in spite of the elo-
quence of Johnson and the money of
Pinchot. The decision of the Nation-
al committee, the other day, to give
the South its full representation set-
tled the matter for this year at least.
“This is not official but it is true.
——Bills have been introduced in
i Congress by Congressman W. L
Swoope providing for appropriations
‘for $136,000 for a public building at
DuBois; $125,000 each for public
i buildings at Clearfield, Philipsburg
and Bellefonte, and an increase from
| $75,000 to $85,000 for the public
| building at State College. Verily the
Honorable William believes in getting
jan early start at the pork barrel and
| his efforts will undoubtedly lead some
of his constituents to believe that he
is going to cut a wide swath in Con-
| gress, but they don’t want to overlook
‘the fact that there is always a lapse
' of many years between the passing of
such appropriation bills and the erec-
i tion of the public buildings.
| ——Sixty-seven men in Pennsylva-
! nia found in their stocking, last Fri-
day morning, a Christmas remem-
brance from Auditor General Samuel
!D. Lewis in the shape of their ap-
‘ pointment as mercantile appraiser in
man respectiv counties. The lucky
man in Centre county is Mr. W. H.
| Stuart, of Boalsburg. Mr. Stuart is
‘a well known farmer of Harris town-
| ship and we know of no one more de-
serving of the appointment, or better
: equipped to do the work than he is.
r———— fp —————
——Mail cars on all the main line
‘railroads have been overwhelmed
with the holiday trade, which is the
greatest in the history of the country.
To assist in relieving the congestion
a mail car was placed on the Penn-
sylvania-Lehigh express on Monday,
running direct from New York
through to Altoona. It will bein serv-
ice, however, only until Christmas.
rn ——— A ———.
——When he retires as district at-
torney on the first Monday in Janu-
ary James C. Furst will go out with
practically a clean sheet. Virtually
all the Commonwealth cases in his
hands were cleaned up at last week’s
session of court, with the exception of
a very few in which arrests have not
yet been made.
——Several carloads of hard coal
‘reached Bellefonte during the week
and lake shipments having been com-
pleted there is promise of a more gen- |
eral supply throughout Pennsylvania.
Bellefonte people, however, are as
much interested in an improvement in
the quality of the coal and a reduc-
tion in price as they are in an increase
in quantity.
——Hearing in the contest of the
seat of Senator Mayfield, of Texas, is
about to begin but nobody seems to
know exactly what it is about.
—————— eee—e————
——An Towa boy stole an airplane
for a joy ride and broke his leg. It
ought to have been his neck.
local candidate for Auditor General |
; PA.,, DECEMBER 21. 1923.
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NO. 50.
No Reforms Just Now.
From the Philadelphia Record.
“Hi” Johnson may spout statistics
to his heart’s content and thunder in-
terminably about the injustice done to
Republican States by giving to the
South its old basis of representation
in G. O. P. National conventions, but
everybody knows why the National
success that the negro, who has shown
many signs of increasing independ-
ence, shall not be alienated further
and that everything shall be done to
keep him within the fold. The result
in Delaware in 1922, where the Re-
publicans lost a Senator and a Con-
gressman, was due to the defection of
the colorad vote, and Kentucky and
Maryland emphasized this lesson last
month, when great Democratic major-
ities were rolled up. Without negro
support the Republicans would have
little chance of carrying such States
as West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and
Missouri.
Practical political considerations,
therefore, demanded that nothing
should be done to affront the colored
voter by cutting down the representa-
tion of Southern States in Republican
National conventions and making it
appear that he is not wanted. As a
matter of fact he is wanted very bad-
ly, particularly in Presidential years.
If he were to turn against the G. O.
P. it would have no chance whatever
in 1924. Appreciating this fact, the
politicians of the Republican Nation-.
al committee preferred to run the
risk of the scandals of delegate-buy-
ing, a common practice for the past
40 years, to standing up valiantly for
the reforms ordered by the convention
of 1920.
It is not surprising that our own
Senator Pepper, hailing from the Sev-
enth ward, was in the front ranks bat-
tling for his neighbors. He realizes
that possibly even Pennsylvania might
turn against the G. O. P. if the ne-
gro, offended by discrimination
against him, should take to voting
like an independent, rational human
being. So reform goes by the board,
and the Republican party is itself
again, with all the possibilities of its
nominations being dictated by dele-
gates who cannot deliver the goods.
And private secretary Slemp will see
that in the South the many virtues of
President Coolidge will not be hidden
under a bushel, but will shine forth
refulgently up to the very fur of the
nominations to be made al’ Cleveland
next June.
Russia’s $3,000,000 Propaganda Fund.
From the Kansas City Star.
The information that the Russian
soviet has sent $3,000,000 to this
country to finance the campaign for
American recognition of that govern-
ment furnishes a typical example of
mischievous internationalism. This is
a practice we may expect to see wide-.
ly developed if internationalism su-
persedes nationalism in the world.
The domestic policy of the United
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| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
States would be a matter of concern
to any government that chose to make |
an international issue of it.
It is scarcely necessary to point out
that any kind of foreign influence in .
American political affairs would be a |
very great evil. Americans could not
tolerate it. President Cleveland re-
quested the recall of a British minis-
ter who had been indiscreet enough to
write a letter bearing on an American
political issue. President Washington
sent a French agent out of the coun-
try when he became too active in pro-
moting the interests of his own gov-
ernment.
But it is exactly this kind of inter-
ference that the new theory of inter-
nationalism contemplates. It proposes
to plant its seed in every domestic soil
and to choke out by this process every
native and patriotic growth. Soviet-
ism is not alone in the propagation of
this doctrine. It has industrious sup-
porters among the so-called intellec-
tuals who tell us that nationalism, pa-
triotism, allegiance to country are
outworn and childish fetishes that a
grown-up world ought to discard.
This doctrine, it ought to be noted,
is European and is being propagated
in America because America has the
best and richest and most abundant
fruits of nationalism the world can!
show. Internationalism wants those :
fruits. It wants to break down the
walls that guard them—those ram-
parts of nationalism that are the
greatest obstacle to the spread of the :
new forces loosed in Europe that they
have encountered. America should
make unmistakable its warning that
those walls will be defended, that its
domestic affairs are its own concern |
and that no foreign influence, under
whatever name, will be tolerated in’
‘ the shaping of its policies or the con-
duct of its government.
After Federal Tax.
From the Altoona Tribune.
Organized motorists of Pennsylva-
nia have determined to wage an act-
ive, aggressive campaign to induce
Congress to repeal the b per cent. fed-
eral excise tax on automobiles and au-
tomobile accessories. The fight will
be waged in conjunction with a na- |
. tion-wide effort by the American Au- |
tomobile association. In Pennsylva-
nia the fight will be carried by the:
| Pennsylvania Motor Federation, which
i
comprises over sixty large motor
clubs. The tax has been classed as
discriminatory, unfair and unjust in
that it enabled the Federal govern-
{ ment to collect from the motor vehi-
‘cle owners and drivers an amount
double that which the government is
said to have spent on highways, in-
cluding forest road construction.
| sistance fund.
ere
—Wage increases averaging 10 per cent.
were voted by Williamsport council for all
members of the police and fire depart-
ments.
—Miss Florence L. Merks, chief operator
at the Lewistown telephone exchange, will
retire January 1 after nearly 41 years of
service.
—Just as he was starting work at the
Pennsylvania Railroad repair yard in Al-
toona, Saturday morning, Harry McCur-
dy, aged 51 years, dropped dead from
heart disease.
—The postoffice at Shickshinny, Pa., is
declared by postal inspectors to have the
most unusual record of any office in the
entire country. The postmistress and all
of the town’s mail carriers are women.
—Mr. and Mrs. Arlington Ramaly, of
Fireline, Carbon county. are the proud
parents of an eight-pound baby boy who
has six grandfathers, four great-grand-
fathers, three grandmothers and one
great-grandmother.
—Placing a single-barrel shotgun
against his breast and using his great toe
to pull the trigger, Newton J. Drake, 3%
years old, of North Tell township, Hunt-
ingdon county, ended his life Friday om
the ridge back of Blair's Mills. His body
was not found until Saturday night.
—The new gas well brought in on Kettle
Creek last week near Cross Fork makes a
total of ten producing gas wells the Clin-
ton Natural Gas & Oil company now have
on their field twelve miles in length and
about a mile wide. The new well is expect-
cd to produce half a million cubic feet of
gas a day.
—Mrs. John C. Frederick, 70 years old,
who lived with her daughter, Mrs. Clar-
ence Moyer, at Lewisburg, was found
hanging in the cellar on Sunday morning
and had been dead several hours. A light-
ed lamp was on a stand with a note read-
ing, “I am lonesome and want to be ia
heaven with my husband.”
—Relatives have identified the woman
who died suddenly in a hospital at Oma-
ha, Neb., last Thursday, with $5500 in $100
bills in a belt around her waist as Mrs.
Mary Seaman, 54 years old widow of
George H. Seaman, of Hamburg, Berks
county. She was on her way to Califor-
nia for the winter when taken ill. John
I. Smith, of Schylkill Haven, is her
brother.
—While he was sitting in the Methodist
church at Saxton, on Sunday evening list-
ening to a sermon, somebody ransacked
the automobile of Leonard Sweet, of East
Saxton. The machine, a large touring car,
was parked outside the church almost di-
rectly under the arc light. The thieves
stole several robes, some tools and a flash-
light. The subject under discussion in the
church at the time was “Law Enforce-
ment.”
—The University of Pennsylvania on
Monday received offers of two gifts ag-
gregating half a million dollars—$250,000
each from the Rockefeller Foundation and
the General Education Board—on condi-
tion that it raise a like amount. The of-
fer was accepted, and as soon as the uni-
versity raises its share there will be
available $1,000,000 for the building and
equipping of a laboratory ef anatomy and
chemistry.
—Mrs. Ella A. Parsons, of Williamsport,
in her will provided that $12,000 be left to
Allegheny College, at Meadville, to estab-
lsh three scholarship foundations in the
college in memory of Professor Ross Crow,
of the class of 1840, who later was an in-
structor in the school, and Seneco Free-
man and John F. Parsons. The benefits
of the foundation are to be accorded, at
the discretion of the college authorities, to
three students from Emporium.
—A verdict declaring five members of
the election board of the Sixteenth ward of
Johnstown guilty of fraud in connection
with the recent election was returned at 5
o'clock last Friday afternoon. A similar
verdict was returned in the morning
against the five members of the Twelfth
ward board and two township officials
have also been convicted. All have posted
$3,000 each as security and arrest of judg-
ment obtained pending the disposition of
a motion for a new trial.
—Last Wednesday night while prepar-
ing her husband’s supper Mrs. Robert Ri-
der, of Chester, Pa., tripped and fell down
stairs at her apartment. She went on with
the supper, and apparently, with the excep-
tion of some bruises, was not injured. Re-
turning home from his employment Thurs-
day forenoon, Mr. Rider found his wife in
an apparently sleeping condition, but when
he failed to arouse her found she was
dead. The fall of Wednesday night killed
her, according to a physician called in.
Ney
—Announcement was made on Sur
night that at the recent meeting ofl
trustees of Bucknell University Dr. J
Howard Harris, for thirty years presi=*" ie.
dent of that institution—1889 to 1919—no-
tified the board of his purpose to termin-
ate at the end of the present school year
his service as professor of philosophy,
completing at that time thirty-five years
in that department. After August 1 Doc-
tor Harris will make his home in Scran-
ton, where two of his sons are engaged in
the practice of law.
—Miss M. Constance Erdman, of Allen
town, has announced her declination of
Governor Pinchot's appointment as Le-
high county member of the women’s as-
Her rejection of the hon-
or, it is said, was based on her refusal to
take the prohibition pledge, as demanded
by the Governor from all appointees. Miss
Erdman, when asked, did not deny that
‘ was her reason for declining the appoint
ment. She is a daughter of the late C. J.
Erdman, one-time representative, and is
active in Democratic politics.
—John McMurray and Harry Kamm,
both of Altoona, charged with false pre
tense and impersonating state police,
pleaded guilty in criminal court at Eb-
.l ensburg last Thursday after their case had
been on trial several hours. McMurray
was given the costs and from eighteen
months to three years in the county jail.
Sentence was deferred in Kamm's case up-
on petition from the district attorney of
Blair county. Kamm posted $5000 bail for
his appearance on the third Monday of
January, when he will be sentenced.
—In applying to the Public Service
Commission for permission to discontinue
train service on the Springfield branch,
between Canister and Ormenia, and on the
branch between New Portage Junction and
Duncansville, the Pennsylvania Railroad
alleges the receipts on the Springfield
branch were only $10.36 a day for passen-
ger and $6.99 for freight service, and on
the Duncansville branch the check showed
an average of one passenger a day. It is
set forth that it cost the company $3690 a
month to maintain the service, twice as
much as received.