INK SLINGS.
—Gen. Smed Butler is still in high
in his crusade against vice in Phila-
delphia, but the peak of the hill is yet
to be made. When he gets up near
the big fellows, then, we fancy the
real sniping will begin.
—January and February are the
months consecrated by the average
business man to the damnable nui-
sance of making State and Federal
reports designed principally to mak-
ing jobs for other fellows.
—Any way the introduction of stag
sleepers on the Pennsylvania will have
a tendency toward keeping some
men’s minds more concentrated on the
arms of Morpheus than on the other
appendages of some one else.
—There’s no use asking the ques-
tion: “Are the seasons changing?”
They have changed. When it gets
down to 18 degrees below zero in
Bellefonte on the morning of Febru-
ary 24th only a simp would contend
that something hasn’t happened.
—We know not who he is, but we
want to say that the fellow who did
the press work on the last edition of
the Tyrone Times is an artist. That's
what he is. And when the “Watch-
man” comes to the point of envying
anything in the execution of any oth-
er country newspaper published we
believe it the compliment supreme.
—Of course we sympathize with
our State chairman, but we can’t re-
sist the “I told you so!” Evidently
Austin didn’t know of his dual identi-
ty. Mr. McCullough had a right to
have a personal preference, but chair-
man McCullough should have had
none if he hoped to continue his state
organization as a cohesive, fighting
force.
—The Hon. William I. Swoope was
in this section last week, just visiting
round a hit in preparation for his
coming campaign for re-election. The
talked of effort of the Hon. Evan
Jones to stage a comeback appears to
have been all talk so that the Hon.
William I. sees the road back to Wash-
ington through rose glasses. While
here he relieved our mind on a matter
that has perturbed it much. He's
been too busy on committee assign-
ments to start any of the oratorical
effervescence that we thought he went
to Congress to uncork, but he prom-
ised some soon.
—The collapse of the McAdoo boom
in Pennsylvania rather confirms the
“Watchman’s” statement of two weeks
ago to the effect that most of those
who had attached themselves to his
banners were only there because they
thought his candidacy offered the
surest route back to the public crib
for .them. As. we havé stated fre-
quently we are not for McAdoo or
any one else. We are for the man
who has the best chance to win. Had
we been for McAdoo, however, against
the field, we wou d have stuck to him
until the New York convention either
bowled him out or named him. Me-
Adoo has done nothing that a political
friend should desert him for. A real
friend would not desert him, no mat-
ter what he does.
—If ever we should so far forget a
resolution, . passed long, long ago,
never to run for a legislative office,
that we should be cajoled into a con-
test for one, our platform would be:
Agin every new law presented for en-
actment. On such a platform we
think any candidate could go before
the all suffering public and win. The
country is being lawed into soveitism.
Mr. Private Citizen can’t turn around
without facing some inspector, inquis-
itor or regulator of this or that. His
mail is nearly all forms to fill out
within thirty days or be fined or go to
prison. He is robbed of initiative and
taxed out of hope. Yes sir. From
this date on we are never going to
give voice to that pet obsession of
every one. “We ought to have a law
passed, etc.” That’s what’s brought
all the trouble on us.
—Some years ago a certain distin-
guished gentleman represented the
North precinct of Spring township in
the Republican county convention.
He had been head of a great indus-
trial enterprise in our midst for sev-
eral years, but this was his first es-
say into local politics. When the sec-
retary of the convention called the
roll of delegates he came down to
Spring township; faltered a moment
and then called: Noah H. Swayne,
2nd precinct of Spring. Then every-
body laughed. Because everybody
knew there was no such district as the
2nd precinct of Spring and those who
enjoyed the joke most knew that be-
cause Mr. Swayne always signed him-
self Noah H. Swayne II the unsophis-
ticated secretary thought the two II's
after his name applied to the precinct
rather than that he had been the
namesake of the second generation re-
moved from his distinguished grand-
father, who was a Justice of the Unit-
ed States Supreme court. All this is
only the prologue to the announce-
ment that Noah is again in politics.
He is being groomed for legislative
honors in Delaware county. We
haven’t been advised as to whether he
is an accessory before the fact, but if
he is our greatest regret is that John
Fow isn’t about to tell the Delaware
folks his pet Andy Jackson story: .It
was in point; after two Irishmen
viewing a painting of the translation
of Elijah and neither one of them
knowing what it symbolized, one did
decide that it was Andy Jackson goin’
to Heaven and the other one agreed,
because as he remarked: “If Andy
made up his mind to go there all hell
wouldn’t keep him out,”
VOL. 69.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,, FEBRUARY 29, 1924.
NO. 9.
Mr. Vanderlip’s Excuse.
Mr. Frank Vanderlip has somewhat
impaired the value of his opinion on
public questions by his recent care-
less statement with respect to the
sale of former President Harding’s
newspaper. But in commenting upon
the suit which the present owners of
that property have instituted against
him he expresses some facts that de-
serve consideration. “Twenty-two
months ago, in April, 1923, the Sen-
ate, by unanimous resolution called
for the facts in the Teapot Dome
lease,” he said. “That resolution was
so framed that the red flag of suspi-
cion was run up. For weeks no ans-
wer at all was received and none was
pressed for and thereafter, until quite
recently, the search for the facts was
made without vigor.”
That is literally true, and there
must have been a reasen for it. In
any event Mr. Vanderlip continues:
“Nor have there been, so far as I am
aware, any court proceedings :insti-
tuted as a result of the criminal mis-
management of the Veterans’ Bureau.
The wholesale dishonesty there is not
a matter of rumor; it is a matter of
official record in the committee pro-
ceedings and the proceedings of Con-
gress, and Mr. Forbes and his friends
have as yet encountered no court pro-
ceedings. There have been no pro-
ceedings nor even a thorough inves-
tigation of the alien property admin-
istration. There are other directions
in which court proceedings would be
admirable. My attitude hides no mo-
tive of partnership. I have been a
life-long Republican,” he adds.
But the statement of Mr. Vanderlip
is an arraignment of the Republican
party. During all the period of inac-
tivity complained of that party has
been in complete control of the gov-
ernment. In discussing the Teapot
Dome inquiry, the other day, a dis-
tinguished Senator declared that not-
withstanding that the Department of
Justice controls a great secret service
force nots a scintilla of evidence has
been furnished the committee from
the Attorney General's office, and
another Senator declared with equal
emphasis and accuracy that the head
of the secret service is now engaged
in an effort ta prevent witnesses from
giving incriminating testimony. These
are facts that ought to be brought
out. The public has a right to know
and the remedy will never come un-
til the people do know.
That is the excuse Mr. Vanderlip
gives for the speech that brought up- |
on him the popular condemnation and
a $600,000 libel suit. It may not be
adequate but he is willing to take the
“If this country were |
invaded by an alien foe,” he declares, |
“and I were a young man, I believe I
consequences.
would offer myself for its defense. It
has been attacked by something more
dangerous than a military invasion
by a foreign foe. Corruption has at-
tacked the government at its heart.
believe that I am a patriotic citizen
and I propose to offer the same serv-
ice in fighting this danger that a
young man should offer in fighting a
military invasion. I-am really en-
listed in this matter because of pro-
found conviction.”
——The law of compensation works
out in everything under the sun. All
winter season we have literally been
patting ourselves on the back over the
nice weather we were having and
practically no snow to shovel when
last week we got a regular allopathic
dose of about fifteen inches, and on
Sunday morning the mercury ran
down to 15 and 18 degrees below ze-
ro in Bellefonte. Pleasant Gap and
Potters Mills reported 20 below with
Linden Hall 22, so we have had a
pretty good touch of real winter.
—Mr. Denby has gone, but Secre-
tary Daugherty still lingers. What-
ever the latter may be, guilty or inno-
cent, of any moral or legal dereliction
of his duty to his country President
Coolidge is solely responsible for his
holding on to a position where he can
sprag the wheels of justice. Mr.
Daugherty couldn’t remain Attorney
General of the United States a day if
the President desired otherwise.
—It seems inevitable. Mr. Secre-
tary Daugherty is going. But when
he has been finally offered up as a
sacrifice by the Grand Old Party it
will have to be written into his polit-
ical obituary that he died with his
boots on.
——It’s lucky that Secretary Fall
did return Mr. McLean's $100,000
check. It seehs that McLean had
only a couple of thousand in the bank.
——If developments continue it
may occur to President Coolidge to
make Governor McCray, of Indiana,
successor to Secretary Denby.
————lire ef ra————
-——The purchasing power of a dol-
lar may not be up to the standard but
if you have enough of them you can
get by.
. Dealing With Vare Pinchot “Stays
Put.”
| However much those Republicans
who supported Gifford Pinchot, for
nomination in 1922, may complain of
his ingratitude, it must be admitted
that in his dealings with the Vare ma-
chine, of Philadelphia, the Governor
“stays put.” After chairman Baker,
in consideration of favors assured to
the Baker-Beidleman machine, of
Harrisburg, had placed the Governor’s
name on the slate for delegate-at-
large to the Cleveland convention a
rather formidable protest was made
by the Vare machine. In order to
appease that threatened opposition
the Governor appointed the discredit-
ed former Mayor of Philadelphia,
Tom Smith, to the chairmanship of
the Delaware river bridge joint com-
mission, a very important office.
As soon as Smith was safetly seat-
ed in this office he had issued circu-
lars to prospective or expectant ap-
plicants for contracts on the vastly
expensive enterprise inviting them to
apply to his bonding company to bond
them. This was plain inference that
those who thus favored him would be
favored in return. Rival bonding
companies protested and the Attor-
ney General of New Jersey, who has
a voice in the matter, declared it was
unfair if not actually illegal. But
Mr. Pinchot refuses to remove Smith
from the office he has prostituted,
though he did admonish him against
the practice in the future and sug-
gested that bonds already executed
“by his company be shifted to other
{ companies.
Governor Pinchot realizes that
Tom Smith is an important figure in
the Vare machine. He sought the of-
fice on the bridge commission for the
advantage it would afford him in
drumming up business for his bond-
ing company. While he was Mayor
pelled all city contractors to patron-
ize his business venture and it is said
made more money out of the bonding
of city contractors than he received in
salary as Mayor. Mr. Pinchot was
aware of this at the time he named
Tom Smith but probably overlooked
the fact because the * appointment
helped to break up the opposition to
him as a candidate for delegate-at-
large to the Republican National con-
vention where he hopes to shine.
Probably Attorney General
Daugherty wasn’t consulted about the
the reason that nobody places a high
value on Daugherty’s legal opinion.
Pinchot Refutes a Falsehood.
In an address delivered before a
New York audience, on Monday even-
ing, Governor Pinchot refuted the ma-
licious falsehood of the Republican
i National committee that the Wilson
; administration initiated the movement
| to rob the government of its valuable
i oil reserves. After stating that “the
effort to get the Navy’s oil away from
the government has been in progress
i for years,” the Governor added: “It
! was vigorously put forward in Con-
| gress during the Wilson administra-
| tion but was defeated by the efforts
‘ of friends of conservation. * * * *
' Having failed in Congress the grab-
| bers took another tack and this time
| through the faithlessness of execu-
. tive officers to their public duty they
won and the Navy lost.”
In this frank statement of the truth
Governor Pinchot will probably incur
increased enmity of the Republican
machine but he will win the approval
of his own conscience and the confi-
dence and respect of all fair-minded
men and women. In order to divert
attention from the perfidy of Repub-
lican officials inculpated in the crime
of betraying the government, the Re-
publican National committee has been
inventing and publishing falsehoods
to the effect that the Wilson admin-
istration favored the lease of the oil
reserves; that Secretary Daniels
wrote the act making the oil leases
possible and that Senator Walsh ad-
vocated its passage. The records re-
fute these statements, of course, but
only a few have access to the records.
The Governor also corroborated in
direct terms the statement previously
whispered that Secretary Fall had
planned to dispose of the forestry re-
serves of the country in the same
fashion, and that the late President
Harding had consented to the scheme.
This is surprising in view of the fact
that both Harding and Fall must
have been familiar with the Ballinger
scandal during the Taft administra-
tion. But cupidity is so great a force
that it obliterates the lessons of his-
tory and experience. “The universal
execration now heaped on the men of
the Harding-Coolidge administration,”
the Governor declared, “is compara-
ble in many respects to the feelings
which wrecked the Taft administra-
tion.” :
The United States has 83 per
cent. of the automobiles in the world
and maintains the ratio in automobile
accidents. ’
of Philadelphia he practically com- .
validity of the Teapot oil leases for
Daugherty Rebukes Pepper.
Attorney General Daugherty was
entirely justified in rebuking Senator
George Wharton Pepper for his ac-
tivity in the movement to force Mr.
Daugherty out of the cabinet. Mr.
Daugherty never ought to have been
in the cabinet. He has neither the
ability nor the distinction as a lawyer
for the office, and his administration
of the office has been inefficient and
scandalous from the beginning. But
why should Senator Pepper assume
the role of censor? His first vote in
the Senate was in favor of retaining
in his seat Truman H. Newberry, who
had been convicted by a jury and sen-
tenced to prison by a court of a crime
against the purity of the ballot, and
whose every act since has been in the
interest of corruption.
. Professing to be an active and even
zealous churchman George Wharton
Pepper has contributed in every way
possible to debauching the public mor-
als. Since, in order to win the friend- '
ship of a bunch of south Philadel-
phia “rough-necks” he declared his
willingness to “spit in the face of a
bull dog,” he has been aiding and
abetting every political iniquity pro-
posed by the Vare machine, in Phila-
delphia, the Baker-Beidleman machine
in Pennsylvania, and the congression-
al machine in Washington. What
right had a man with such a record to!
assume the character of moral guide
to Daugherty or any other profession-
al politician who is in public life for
what he can get out of it by hook or
crook ?
| Of course the resignation of Attor-
‘ney General Daugherty would inure
to the advantage of the Republican
party now on the verge of moral
bankruptcy. But George Wharton
Pepper has no right to speak for the
moral element of the party if there
is a moral element left. For that
reason Daugherty was justified in re-
| senting his suggestion and threaten-
ing to appeal to the public. Such an
appeal would be futile, as both Pepper
and Daugherty know. But there was
a terror in it for the reason that
Pepper knows that Daugherty could
uncover greater iniquities t
“he refrained ¥rom challenging the At-
torney General to proceed with his ap-
i peal to the public.
——The Scranton Times needn’t
i worry about a market for “steam
: size” anthracite. Coal dealers have
been selling it for “nut size” all over
the country for months. '
Mellon Bill in Grave Danger.
If the insurgent Republicans in
Congress are consistent the Mellon
millionaire tax bill will be defeated.
On every point of difference between
that measure and the bill introduced
by Representative Garner, of Texas,
the Garner bill has won out. But
there is no certainty that the insur-
gents will hold out. The Republican
machine has its heart set on the pas-
sage of the Mellon bill. The campaign
slush fund will be large or small ac-
cordingly as the final vote on this
question results. It has been estimat-
ed that the saving to multi-million-
aires, profiteers, and corporations will
amount to hundreds of millions of
dollars if the Mellon bill becomes a
law.
It has been clearly proved that a
I large majority of the Senators and
Representatives in Congress are op-
posed to the Mellon bill. But the
force of patronage is potent and the
capacity for trading of the Republi-
can leaders proverbial. Representa-
tive Longworth, Republican floor
leader, has been disappointed in one
vote. after another but has not given
up hope. He believes that in the final
roll call the hungry insurgents will
yield to the temptation for spoils
which will be held up before their
eyes. The President is behind him as
stake holder and it may safely be said
that wonderful inducements will be
Stored for affirmative votes on the
ill.
No measure considered in Congress
within a generation has been pressed
with the force that has been behind
this pet of the millionaires. No meas-
| ure considered within that period has
been so essentially class legislation.
Every available influence, and in some
! cases the most = sinister imaginable,
has been invoked to entice, compel
{ or deceive voters into petitioning for
{its passage. It is not because of its
merit that these unusual efforts were
made for it. It is because it prom-
ises to decrease the taxes of wealthy
men and open up a flood of contribu-
tions for the Republican campaign.
It is an instrument to benefit the rich
at the expense of the poor.
———The next war will be a hummer.
Scientists have already given warn-
ing “that the destructive products of
the laboratories threaten to wipe man
from the face of the earth.”
——Premier - Poincaire is ‘against
lotteries yet he has taken a: good
many chances in ‘his political life.
than have
ng this
Hungary’s Rehabilitation.
From the Philadelphia Record.
So greatly has Washington absorb-
ed public attention during the past
few weeks that there is danger that
the American people may lose the
proper perspective of foreign events
which are also of the first importance.
Such is the announcement from Paris
that the League of Nations, having
put Austria squarely on her feet, is
now about to perform an equally val-
uable service for Hungary through
the flotation of a loan which will
place its finances on a saving basis.
All details have been arranged by the
Reparations Commission, and an
American, Governor W. G. P. Hard-
ing, of the Boston Federal Bank, for-
merly head of the Federal Reserve
Board, is to be the benevolent dicta-
tor who will assume at Budapest the
i role taken in Vienna by Herr Zimmer-
! mann.
Ever since the break-up of the Aus-
"trian Empire Hungary has been the
weak spot of Southeastern Europe.
.Indignant at the dismemberment of
their country, parts of which have
been given to Czecho-Slovakia, Ru-
mania and Jugo-Slavia, the Magyars
have never accepted their fate with
resignation, as the Austrians have
done, but have maintained a be'liger-
ent attitude which has been provoca-
tive of international trouble. While
Czecho-Slovakia, under the wise di-
rection of President Masyryk, has
been going ahead at a remarkable
pace, Hungary has been falling far-
ther behind because of the reluctance
of her people to acquiesce in the out-
come of the war and substitute a con-
stitutional government for the dicta-
toral rule of Admiral Horthy.
Clearly such a state of affairs could
not continue indefinitely, and the
League of Nations is going to put an
end to it by rehabilitating Hungary
through a proposed loan of 250,000,-
000 gold crowns, which will be guar-
anteed by other nations. It is a large
undertaking, because Hungary has
been deprived of much of her richest
agricultural territory, which was giv-
en to Czecho-Slovakia and Rumania,
but she contains great natural resour-
ces, and the development of these will
help to restore her old prosperity.
There would be greater sympathy
for the Hungarians in their present
straits if they had not been so op-
1e
their present troubles are a sort of
poetic retribution for past” wrongs
committed by them. Naturally the
Hungarians do not admit this, but it
is the point of view generally taken
in other countries. - Now that the old
resentments are dying out there will
be a general hope that the League of
Nations may be as successful in this
new move as it was in rehabilitating
Austria, settling the differences be-
tween Poland and Germany over Sile-
sia, bringing Italy to terms in its ar-
rogant attitude toward Greece, and
in other ways maintaining the peace
of Europe. The League is doing a
wonderful work, in which unfortu-
nately the United States can claim no
part of the credit. It is a bit of his-
toric justice that the political party
which killed the Versailles peace
treaty in the Senate, and kept us out
of the League, is now being pilloried
in public estimation because of its cor-
rupt betrayal of the national defense.
Teapot Dome, with all its attendant
rottenness, is a poor substitute for
the honorable and beneficent labors of
the League of Nations.
Britain and Russia.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
It is a simple formula that Ram-
say Macdonald is about to apply to
Russia. The idea is to shake hands
first and talk things over afterward.
The course has its advantages. The
Bolshevist Government will, for a time
at least, be grateful to the British
Prime Minister. Even though the
masters of Moscow have shown them-
selves worthy of no man’s trust, they
would scarcely refuse certain conces-
sions regarding war debts, private
claims and such matters. They might
even see the necessity of behaving
themselves for a while, so that other
nations might be induced to follow
Britain’s lead.
. Just how long an era of good feel-
ing can be maintained is a question
that depends upon how long the Bol-
shevists find it profitable to behave.
Great Britain surrenders the consid-
erable advantage of exacting pledges
beforehand.
But the main point is that Great
Britain is recognizing a revolutionary
government that may or may not
prove permanent. In the past such
minorities as the - Bolshevist party
have exercised comparatively ephe-
meral sway. Many nations, including
the’ United States, prefer to wait a
while yet. Perhaps there may arise
in Russia a group more representative
of the country that will form a gov-
ernment more likely to play the game
of international relations according to
recognized rules.
i —— fn i
An Office-Holding Record.
From the St. Louis Star.
Cabinets may come and Cabinets
may go, but none of them can last
shorter time than the Venizoles mifi=
istry, which resigned before all of its
members were comfortably seated.
—— Without actual authority to ex-
press his views on any public ques-
tion we feel safe in saying that the
former Crown Prince will not be a
candidate for President of Germany
in thé near future.
pressive of subject nationalities in the |
—
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Roy Levan lost $40, C. E. Marsteller
$30 and another man lost $30 by having
their pockets picked in crowds at Read-
ing, Saturday night. James F. Moyer
was robbed of his purse and a yearly
railroad pass.
—Harold Goldsworthy, of Hazleton, a
lineman of the Pennsylvania Power and
Light company, died on Sunday at a Wil-
liamsport hospital from burns received
when he came in contact with a high-ten-
sion wire after falling thirty feet from a
pole.
—Reading police have asked Philadel-
phia officials to find Marie Stahlnecker, 15
years old, who disappeared on Saturday
after getting her pay at a local office and
told her girl friend she was going to the
State metropolis. The girl could pass as
being several years older, a description
shows.
—A post-mortem examination conducted
on a cow owned by Charles Shearer, a
Cumberland county farmer, showed that
death was caused by the bovine eating an
old shoe. In addition to the mangled
pieces of leather in the cow’s stomach, the
veterinarian found three large nails and
twenty small ones.
—Fred Feisler, of Erie, 8 years of age,
was shot to death in the accidental dis-
charge of a rifle held by his chum, Ralph
Leopold, aged 16. The latter boy had been
shooting at a squirrel and the rifle was
discharged while he was loading it for
another shot, he told police. The bullet
struck Feisler’s head.
—The entire student body of the Allen-
town preparatory school and members of
the faculty who live at that institution
have been quarantined because of a case of
scarlet fever contracted by a Senior,
Charles Howard, of Bedminster, N. J. The
isolation will continue for a period of ten
days. It is the first time in the institu-
tion’s history of twenty-one years that the
school has been quarantined.
—The Lewistown school board, at its
meeting Thursday evening, instructed Z.
T. Stine, the city tax collector, to proceed
to collect by law the school tax of 1,600
women in the city, who have refused to
pay their taxes for the year 1923. The
school officials declared that they would
hold the collector and his bondsmen re-
sponsible for the collection of the tax of
$3 from each of the 1,600 women,
—Joseph Loopo, 35 years old, an em-
ployee, was smothered to death in several
tons of crushed limestone at the Carbon
plant west of New Castle, on Saturday.
He was working in a bin unloading the
limestone and was at one of the exits
where the limestone had become blocked.
When it loosened it came down so fast
that he was completely covered and before
fellow workmen could get him out he was
smothered to death.
—Conrad Paulus, 76 years old, who was
three times a widower, was buried last
Saturday in a Steelton graveyard at the
foot of the graves of his three wives. Pau-
lus died Thursday night in his home in
Steelton, but before his death arranged
all the details of his funeral. His friends
explained he loved all three wives equally
and did not desire to show partiality even
in death by having his grave beside the
grave of one of his wives and not the oth-
ers.
—An estate valued at $10,500,000 was dis-
posed of in the will of the late State Sen-
dtor William Flinn, of Pittsburgh, which
was filed for probate on Monday. The
bulk of the estate was left to his children,
share and share alike after liberal annu-
ities were made to certain of his collateral
heirs and liberal provisions made for the
widow, The West Penn hospital, with
which Senator Flinn was closely associat-
ed, was bequeathed a portion of his resi-
duary estate.
—Three bandits attired in golf suits held
up the Grossman department store in
Washington, Pa., early last Friday and
obtained $1000 to $1500 in merchandise.
They escaped in an automobile in which
several sets of golf clubs 2 exposed in
the rear seat. Passersby hurrying
through the storm gave little thought to
the supposed golfers’ car beside the store
until the hold-up was reported. Washing-
ton was isolated by the storm and the only
means of communication was by amateur
broadcasting stations.
—Crime waves that may sweep other
sections of the country seldom descend
upon Forest county, the smallest in pop-
ulation in the State. Judge D. U. Arird,
of Warren, went to Tionesta the county
seat, last week, to preside at the February
term of criminal court, and returned home
the same day, spending the time between
trains hearing a divorce suit argument by
two lawyers who accompanied him from
Warren. There was no criminal business
to attend to, and the grand jury that had
been summoned was discharged without
convening. "
—Believing that he was caught in a fire
trap, John Johnson, colored, jumpéd from
the third story of the home of - Samuel
Barket, in Pottsville, on Saturday after-
noon and while spectators turned away
their heads, expecting him to be crushed
to death, he was not even seriously injur-
ed. Johnson crashed to the sidewalk on
his head, rose to his feet, and muttering,
“Mighty close call that,” walked away
beaming with satisfaction because of his
escape. If he had remained in his room
he would not have been scorched, as the
firemen conquered the flames without much
damage to the house.
—Lynn Sedgwick, of Elk county, and his
brother, Olaf, of Hornell, N. Y., who were
recently united at St. Marys after being
separated for seventeen years, are unable
to talk to each other. Lynn was born in
Sweden, but speaks only the English lan-
guage, while Olaf, born in Chicago, can
talk only Swedish. After Lynn was born,
his parents moved with him to Chicago,
where Olaf was born. Later, the parents
returned to Sweden, taking Olaf with
them, but leaving Lynn with relatvies in
Chicago. Each learned to talk the lam
guage of his home, which accounts for
their present inability to converse with
each other.
—REven a tale of pressure on his brain
as the result of a fall did not save from
an ignominious end the blithesome career
of a 19 year old Chester youth, Frank H.
Galvin, who divided his time between the
roles of a sheik and a robber. He asked
for an operation on his skull. He received
a sentence to the penitentiary of from
three to six years for burglary last week.
Judge Robert A. Stotz, of Easton, substi-
tuting in quarter sessions court, rang
down the curtain, for the time being at
least, upon the debonair young man’s ex-
istence as both welcomed guest of many
girls of well-known Chester families and
as a thief, guilty of numerous burglaries
or attempted burglaries.