Boca Yim
INK SLINGS.
—Anyway, Philadelphia may be
corrupt, but since Smed Butler took
up his residence in that burg it can’t
be said that she is contented.
Mr. Strassburger’s petition has
been filed in the State Department at
Harrisburg, which is about the only
remaining evidence of his boom.
—If, as we hear, Kiwanis is going
to get behind the drive for one hun-
dred thousand dollars for the hospi-
tal we're ready to put the last white
chip in to say that the hospital will
get the money it needs to put it in
shape.
—We get the news from the Clear-
field section that Edward R. Benson
is asking the Democrats of this Dis-
trict for the nomination for Congress
in order to enter the lists with the
Hon. William I. Swoope who seems to
have the Republican opportunity
sewed up.
—We are doing our dangdest to
write a column without mentioning
the three gentlemen who are most in
the limelight today. Inferentially,
therefor, any person about whom a
paragraph might be woven today will
know that he isn’t charged with the
responsibility of governing a great
Commonwealth, or suspicioned of
dabbling in Teapots.
—Years ago they told us that a
phrenologist “is one who examines
heads.” The real meaning escaped
the most of us little fellows and be-
cause of our mothers’ frequent exam-
inations with the aid of a fine tooth
comb we thought them phrenologists.
Recently startling revelations in the
lower grades of the public schools of
Bellefonte reveal that the modern
mother hasn’t been carrying on in
phrenology.
—There are practically no worth
while bids being made on horses, cat-
tle or pigs at the farm sales now be-
ing held in the county, but there are
hundreds of prospects crowding the
annual automobile show and many of
them will pay more for one car than
would buy the entire stock and equip-
ment for a farm. An anomalous sit-
uation, isn’t it? in a county so depend-
ent on agricultural development as is
Centre. Of course it is far more to
the liking of most people to roll over
the country in a high powered ma-
chine than to have their ribs kicked
by the handles of a plow.
—And now it has come to pass that
the various broad casting stations are
going to law to determine who con-
trols the air. If WEAF wins its con-
tention WHN will be in contempt of
court every time it comes up for air.
Isn’t it awful? It used to be we said: |
“Free as the air we breathe” when we
wanted to express in the nth degree
something that no one else could de-
ny us. Now the destruction of that
liberty is apparently in the making.
The pure food' commission controls
our eats, Mr. Volstead controls our
drinks and, before long, some radio-
fanatic will be permitting us breath
only in short pants.
—There would be no joy in life at
all for us if it were not for the stimu-
lating thought that there are one or
two people still permitted to ramble
about who know less than we do. One
of them is the friend who is always
seeking knowledge as to “what snow
is this?” In this instance the other
member of our limited society of
Ivory Domes raised the question as to
Tuesdays’ downfall of the beautiful.
He wanted us to tell him that it was
the “saplin bender,” but caution for-
bade positive commission to such a
statement. We might have another
“saplin bender” before spring really
gets here so we played safe by declar-
ing it to be “Nature’s pruning hook.”
Never heard of “Nature’s pruning
hook?” Well, it’s the snow that
hangs so heavy on the trees that it
snaps off all the dead and useless
limbs so that they are all shaped up
for their new spring clothes.
—Up to this minute—and it is only
2 short time until the papers will have
to be filed—there seems to be no as-
pirant for either county chairman or
State committeeman of our party. We
learned, on Monday, that Robert F.
Hunter is a possibility for county
chairman and that the present chair-
man, Mr. Gray, may file papers for
State committeeman. If there should
be any such plans in the making we
want to ask the question as to why
there should be a division or separa-
tion of the two positions. Always the
“Watchman” has been of the opinion
that the county chairman and State
Committeeman should be one and
the same person. The county chair-
man is held responsible for the fail-
ures of the organization, should have
the most intimate knowledge of con-
ditions in the county and is, therefor,
the proper person to sit intelligently
in the councils of the State organiza-
tion. He ought to, better than any
one else, be equipped to tell his fel-
lows from other parts of the Com-
monwealth, in State conference, just
what may be expected from Centre
county and he ought to be the man
who, in the event of victory, either
State or national, to say where its
spoils should be placed. It is our
opinion that we can have no effective
organization in the county until one
man is supremely at its head. So su-
premely that he is given every oppor-
tunity to build it into militancy and
so supremely that if he fails in this he
will have no chance to “pass the
buck.” In other words the leader of
the Centre county Democracy should
be the leader, both in the county and
in the State councils.
Ka
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VOL. 69.
New Trouble for Pinchot.
One of Governor Pinchot’s absurd
rules has got him into a peck of
new trouble. For a great many years
Mr. John M. Phillips, of Pittsburgh,
has been a member of the State Game
Commission. Mr. Phillips is a
wealthy gentleman devoted to out-
door sports. He has been free with
money and generous in attention to
the interests of game propagation and
preservation and has won the confi-
dence of all hunters and fishermen.
His term of office having recently ex-
pired the Governor tendered him a re-
appointment but attached a “string”
to his commission. That is, he ex-
acted a written pledge that the ap-
pointee would not “touch, taste or
handle” liquor as a beverage during
his tenure in office.
Mr. Philips is a man of exemplary
life and unimpeachable habits. His
numerous friends among the hunters
of the State as well as in the business
life of the community in which he
lives have the most profound confi-
dence in his integrity and honor. The
oath he is required to take in qualify-
ing for the service is that he will
“support, obey and defend the consti-
tution of the United States and the
constitution and laws of Pennsylva-
nia.” He interpreted that obligation
as sufficient guarantee of fidelity to
duty and obedience to the law. For
that reason he declined to “take the
personal pledge,” and for the reason
that an absurd rule required it the
Governor refused to issue the com-
mission.
There was a good deal of feeling
against the Governor in Pittsburgh
and western Pennsylvania for other
reasons and this surprising action has
greatly intensified it there and widely
extended it in other sections of the
State. The revenues which support
and maintain the Game Commission
are drawn entirely from the sports-
men under special laws and they just-
ly hold. that the commission should be
made up of men who are familiar with
the subject. John M. Phillips has ac-
quired this knowledge in a measure
that peculiarly fits him for the work
and has the confidence of the hunt-
ers so eompletely that the: refusal to
reappoint him on a question so palpa-
bly irrelevant, has greatly outraged
them.
——If Highway Commissioner
Wright gets the results his declared
policies promise he will find the pub-
lic more ready to praise than blame.
Mr. McLean and His Hired Hands.
The examination of Mr.
numerous hired hands by the Senate
committee investigating the oil scan-
dals was more or less interesting in
the beginning but has grown stale.
The testimony of these witnesses has
revealed what a consummate ass a
very rich fool may make of himself
when his ambitions take the form of a
desire to pose as an important figure
in public affairs. McLean probably
got nothing in the shape of pecuniary
profit out of his relationship with the
Secretary of the Interior, the Attor-
ney General and intimacy with the do-
mestic servants in the White House.
But he assumed an air of importance
and that was about all he cared for
and paid for. :
The testimony of Mr. Bennet and
Mr. Major, employees of McLean, and
Mr. Rochester, handy man of the At-
torney General,
their purpose in the beginning was to
curry favor with a rich man who was
as free with his money as he was
careless with his morals. It is equal-
ly clear that in the end their interest
al facts and shield some “higher up”
from culpability. In this enterprise
they were as careless of the reputa-
tion of others as Mr. McLean was
with his money. There may have been
good reasons for concealing the iden-
tity of the person called “principal” in
the cypher dispatches but none for
fastening it upon Senator Curtis, of
Kansas.
Of course Senator Walsh knows
what he is about and no intelligent
observer of the proceedings will ques-
tion his method of conducting the in-
quiry. But there is a good deal of
anxiety to hear the evidence of Mr.
McLean. He may adopt the course
taken by Mr. Fall and refuse to testi-
fy on the ground that his evidence
would incriminate him. But even
that would be an interesting develop-
ment. It is widely hoped, therefore,
that McLean will be put on the wit-
ness stand in the near future. He
might tell whether his frequent vis-
its to the White House were to see the
chauffeur or the President. Thus far
the matter is left to conjecture and
conjecture leads to confusion.
——Denby is out and Daugherty is
only hanging on by sufferance. It
begins to look like a house cleaning.
“Oil is well.”
el
——The bonus bill is now before
Congress but the machine will try
shows plainly that.
was to divert attention from the actu- |
McLean’s |
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Machine Slate Rewritten.
The slate for delegates-at-large to
the Republican convention has been
rewritten and Mayor Kendrick, of
Philadelphia, has been shunted off.
The reason given to the public for this
unexpected action is that some pro-
vision in the charter of Philadelphia
makes the Mayor ineligible to such
service in politics. A cursory exam-
ination of the charter fails to show
any such provision and if it exists it
is surprising that some of the pro-
verbially alert Philadelphia lawyers
didn’t discover it earlier. The ma-
chine was sorely troubled a few weeks
ago in finding a place for Governor
Pinchot on the slate and the ineligi-
bility of Kendrick would have given
an easy solution to that problem.
‘In view of these facts the reasons
given for taking Kendrick out of the
fight may not be entirely accurate or
altogether candid. There have been
grave differences among the machine
leaders in Philadelphia recently with
respect to the policies of the adminis-
tration in the conduct of the Depart-
ment of Public Safety. The director
of that department has been rather
uncivil in his language and drastic in
his ‘actions in his contacts with more
or less powerful party leaders and an
appeal to Mayor Kendrick has not
brought the expected solace to the
wounded feelings of the men who
have been accustomed to different
treatment. It is suspected that the
shunting of Kendrick from the slate
is ascribable to this fact rather than:
to any provision of the city charter.
~: Having made up its mind to cut
Kendrick out, however, it must be ad-
mitted that the machine managers
wisely selected his successor. Of
course Mr. W. Harry Baker, chairman
of the State committee, could and
would have gone to the convention
whether elected a delegate or not.
But he can be vastly more serviceable
as a delegate and the amateur poli-
ticians who are in control when he is
absent might have made some serious
blunders. - Senators Pepper and Reed
and Secretary of the Treasury Mel-
lon are fine party ornaments but of
little practical value in an emergency,
and the air is full of indications of"
emergencies during the sessions of
the coming Cleveland convention.
DO —
——A confidential tip to anxious
Republican managers: - There will be
no serious quarrel among the Demo-
crats of Pennsylvania this year on the
question of membership in the Na-
tional committee or anything else.
President Coolidge’s Faults.
The high officials of Massachusetts
are greatly concerned in preserving
the reputation of Calvin Coolidge. A
few days ago Senator Lodge, who was
the most vicious assailant of the late
President Wilson while in office, made
a most earnest protest against infer-
ential aspersions of President Cool-
idge and more recently Governor Cox,
of Massachusetts, has entered a blan-
ket protest against any intimations
against Coolidge, which was address-
ed to Senator Walsh, of Montana. As
a matter of fact no effort has been
made to inculpate the President in the
charges under investigation by the
Senate committee, though as Senator
Heflin, of Alabama, declared in a
speech, there are just reasons for sus-
picion.
President Coolidge inherited the of-
ficial family of the late President
Harding and adopted the policies of
his predecessor. There were neither
harm nor cause of censure in this fact
and in doing so the practice of all its
predecessors who had come to the of-
fice in the same way, was followed.
But there was no obligation upon Mr.
Coolidge to retain the officials after
they had proved unfit or to continue
the policies after they had ceased to
be worthy. In defending Denby and
Daugherty in the face of the record
of official delinquencies and the pro-
test of leaders of both parties Mr.
Coolidge revealed a lack of judgment
and an indifference to public opinion
which was highly reprehensible.
It may be said, moreover, that
President Coolidge inherited the re-
lationship which his predecessor held
with Mr. McLean, but that doesn’t
justify the intimacy which was open-
ly or clandestinely maintained after
it was shown that McLean was head-
over-heels involved in the oil scandals.
Yet the evidence brought out in the
investigation shows that such intimate
relations were maintained and that
the offending millionaire had ‘easy
access to the White House” as well as
unimpaired influence on the mind of
the President up until the moment the
exposures were made. There can be
no just complaint against the censure
of his conduct in this matter. In fact
the condemnation might have been
made stronger.
rr————— ener
Senator Owen, of Oklahoma,
wants to investigate the cause of the
world war. It would be a futile en-
deavor. The late Kaiser would refuse
to testify on the ground that he might
every available expedient to cripple it. incriminate himself.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 14. 1
to form the opinion that a teapot is
dangerous if it has a dome.
Shall the Red Cross Community Nurs-
ing Service be Abandoned?
It’s Up to You!
A survey of the town is being made
in an effort to get a general opinion
on the advisability of continuing or
discontinuing the Red Cross nursing
service. The public has been inform-
ed through the newspapers that the ;
money received from the annual Red |
Cross enrollment of members is not !
sufficient to keep the nursing service
operating and that it will have to be
discontinued shortly unless sufficient
pledges from annual contributors can
be secured.
The questionnaire now being put to
the community is, (1) “Do you ap-
prove of the Red Cross community
nursing service?” (2) “If so, how
much will you contribute annually.”
(8) “If you do not approve, what are
your objections?” If one of these
questionnaires is not brought to your
door, will you not express your opin-
ion either to a member of the Red
Cross committee, of which Rev. M.
DePui ‘Maynard is chairman, or
Uitongh 12 communication to any of
the local newspapers.
The Red Cross nurse has been in
continual service for four years, quiet- :
ly accomplishing service of inestima- |
ble value and a medium of carrying to
a finish cases of the district attorney, |
children’s aid, and juvenile court as
well as many hundreds of follow-up
visits in the interest of the beard of
education not only in the borough but
in surrounding townships. Just one
illustratior of how she functions:
This week a teacher in one of the
grade schools was suspicious of pe- |
diculosis among her pupils and called |
in the nurse. Mrs. Hagan examined '
the heads of all pupils in the school !
and found, to her amazement, lice on
the heads of several pupils heretofore |
beyond suspicion since they were clean
and well-cared for at home. She |
finally located the source of infesta- |
tion as a pupil, filthy always and who
has been a spreader of pediculosis in
every grade he goes into. The nurse,
of course, by the State law, debarred
these infested pupils from school, fol-
move lice and nits and goes every
morning into the school room to ex- !
amine heads before pupils are re-ad- !
mitted to school.
" Now who will perform these un-.
pleasant yet necessary duties if the
nursing service is dropped? The
nurse is the only agent we have to
protect our children sent from clean
homes from infection and infestation
carried to school by the dirty, indif- :
ferent and careless. What effort are
you, parents, going to make to help
your children, their teachers and the
school superintendent? |
Pleasant Words Make Light Work.
The workers in this office have many
gratifying expressions reach their
ears. It is not often that harsh or
caustic criticism of their part in mak-
ing a real newspaper comes to spoil
the day for them.
Always the nice things are -encour-
aging. Coming as frequently as they
do each one of them is appreciated
just as greatly as if it were the only
ray of sunshine in a drab and dreary
day.
Two letters that have reached this
desk within the week are outstanding
because they express so earnestly the
value of the “Watchman” to its read-
ers.
Somerset, Pa., March 3, 1924.
Dear “Watchman:”
I enclose $1.50 for another year of
my big letter from home. Long live
the dear friends who make it.
With much love and good wishes
Mrs. MARY M. SWARTZ.
Gettysburg, Pa., March 10, 1924.
To my dear Old “Watchman” and all
its Staff:
Enclosed find check for which cred-
it me for your good paper, which I
have read, I think, for sixty-eight
years. I cannot do without such a
friend in my old days.
Wishing you abundant success,
financially and politically, I am ever
a true friend of all the workers and
editors connected with my dear, old
paper.
Very truly yours
JACOB B. SOLT.
We are hoping that Mr. Solt will
send us his photograph and a bit of
biography. While not quite as long a
reader of the “Watchman” as George
W. Rumberger has been he is certain-
ly entitled to a place in our gallery
of pioneers and we want to have the
honor of hanging his picture there.
———————
——An appropriate doxology at the
dissolution of a cabinet meeting would
be “There is a time for disappearing.
Take a header, down you go.”
: ——There seems to be a way to dis-
cipline even a Mayor of a first class
city. Only the Governor is immune.
——A good many people are likely
924.
TS R———
NO. 11.
A Disloyal Sentry.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The Senate investigating committee
is laying bare, day by day, the details
of a conspiracy to thwart justice. The
national resources have been plunder-
ed through the use of bribery of at
least one man intrusted with their
protection. It is in evidence that
powerful interests have been at work
to conceal the facts and prevent, if
possible, the punishment of the guil-
ty.
In this situation the people should
have the aid of the Department of
Justice, the agency designated by law
for the prosecution of criminals,
whether looters or bribe-takers. They
" should be able to rely upon the activi-
ty of the Secret Service Bureau in fer-
reting out the evidence which is be-
ing concealed, and on the energetic
employment of the powers of the At-
torney General of the United States
for the direction of vigorous investi-
gation and prosecution.
The evidence amply shows, how-
ever, that the powers of the Depart-
ment of Justice have been employed
not to protect the public property, but
to protect those who have pillaged it
and those who are aiding and abetting
the pillagers. The head of the Secret
Service Bureau offers, it is true, to in-
' vestigate this conspiracy, but it has
been shown by witnesses under oath
that he is, or has been, hand in glove
with the conspirators. The Attorney
General of the Uuited States, who
should be hot on the trail of the crim-
i inals, is exposed as conniving with
those who are endeavoring to save
, them. He is not only self-confessedly
an improper person to represent the
interests of the United States in this
| grave crisis, but he is sending reas-’
suring messages to the head of the
projective conspiracy, informing the
latter that he (the Attorney General)
is “standing at the guns;” that the
conspirators “know what to depend
on;” that “all that is possible to be
done by us will be done, so you should
worry.”
When President Coolidge found it
necessary to employ special counsel to
prosecute the oil gkafters:because of
the known affiliations of the Attorney
General with them, it was time for
him to dismiss Harry M. Daugherty
in disgrace from his Cabinet. Now he
has evidence, furnished by one of the
| horde of spies who was working
lowed them into their homes, gave di- against the government that Duugh--
! rections for treatment of scalp to re-
erty was sending comforting messag-
es to a protector of the guilty, which
can be construed only as a promise of
such protection as his ability and
powers could afford.
Senators have declared in debate
that confidence in the probity of the
government is being shaken by the oil
disclosures. Nothing is doing more
to threaten the upsetting of the boat
which “principal” declared would not
be rocked than the retention of
Daugherty in a post where he com-
mands extraordinary resources for
the protection and concealment of
crime.
The President’s duty is imperative.
A sentry disloyal to the cause of jus-
tice is stationed at the post which is
the key to the whole position of hon-
est government. Out with him! “Put
none but Americans on guard to-
night!”
Mexicans Want Six Year Term for
Presidents.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Intelligent Mexicans in search of a
panacea have fallen upon the six-year
term for Presidents. The complaint
is that the time is too short between
revolutions. A President takes his
first year in office to learn the ins and
cuts of his task, and his last year is
consumed in efforts to make the situa-
tion as stable as possible for his suc-
cessor; under the four-year term, that
leaves him but two years to accustom
the Mexican people to orderly govern-
ment and to educate them to appreci-
ate its advantages. Twice as long
might help considerably; revolutions
every six years instead of every four
would certainly be an improvement.
But it is to be doubted whether the
six-year term for Presidents would,
in the long run, have any appreciable
effect in changing the customs and
traditions of Mexico. And a longer
term would bring the risk of a well-
intrenched dictatorship. There is no
panacea. When revolutions do not
pay successful revolutionists, we may
look for a change; but that will not
be until there is a change in the Mex-
ican character and outlook on life,
A ————— rr e———————
The Hearings Should be Public.
From the Scranton Republic.
While there should be no shielding
of any transgressor against the law,
it will strike all fair-minded persons
that thé Senate’s investigation of the
charges preferred against govern-
ment officials should be as open as the
allegations, to the end that full jus-
tice may be done. The public has a
right to know all the facts, and for
this reason the meetings of the inves-
tigating committee should be open to
press and public.
Probable Solution of Mystery.
From the Detroit Free Press.
A Purdue University scientist has
demonstrated that heart-beats may be
amplified and broadcast by radio. The
strange sounds that often come in
over the receiving sets may be the
heart-beats of the politicians who
have been dabbling in oil.
A ——————— A ————
—If it really happened you will find
it in the “Watchman.”
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Rev. William H. Russell, pastor of St.
John's Protestant Methodist church, of
Hazleton, for 23 years, was unanimously
re-elected by the congregation for another
year.
—When Andrew Augestine, of Auden-
ried, returned home from work in the
mines, he found his wife gone with their
two children and all their household fur-
niture.
—Pleading guilty to the theft of a sack
of flour valued at $1.65, Wm. Glenn, a Un-
iontown negro, was sentenced by Judge
Work to serve 214 to 3 years in the west-
ern penitentiary.
—Sanderson Rohrbach, 32 years old, was
found dead Monday morning sitting on a
couch in the lobby of the Morton hotel at
Berwick. Rohrbach lived at the hotel and
was believed to have been asleep. A doc-
tor said he had been dead at least eight
hours.
—Tired of waiting for a trolley car to
take him to his home, James Cully, of Gi-
rardville, sat on the rail and fell asleep.
Later a car knocked him from the track.
Cully received a probable fracture of the
skull, deep lacerations of the head and a
fracture of the left shoulder blade.
—The executive board at Harrisburg no-
tified the board of trustees of the western
penitentiary that the guards are not en-
titled to extra pay for over-time as a
State law prohibits them from being on
duty longer than eight hours. The de-
cision had been requested by the trustees.
—The Snyder county commissioners
have offered a reward of $1000 for the ar-
rest and conviction of the slayer or slay-
ers of Harvey C. Willow, Penns Creek far-
mer, who was found shot to death more
than two months ago. The top of his
head was blown off with a charge of shot.
—Mrs. Catherine Hepburn Thompson
celebrated her one hundredth birthday at
her home in Curwensville, in which the
town joined in obedience to a proclama-
tion of the burgess. She is well preserved,
possessess all her faculties and keeps
abreast of the times by reading and young
associates.
—For the loss of a part of his left ear
which he alleges was chewed off during a
fight several months ago, Charles Plaseok,
of Plainsville, near Wilkes-Barre, was
awarded $500 by a jury in the Luzerne
county court last week. The verdict was
against John Nizolek, poolroom proprie«
tor, also of Plainsville,
—J. Guy Stewart, a retired merchant of
Huntingdon, has brought an action of di-
vorce against his wife, Isaphine, on the
ground of cruel and barbarous treatment
and personal indignities. Stewart says
they were married December 28, 1914, and
lived together until recently, and that his
wife tried to poison him several times.
—Martin Carlson, of Smethport, Mec-
Kean county, was badly burned about the
hands and arms last Friday in extinguish-
ing the fire which was burning the cloth-
ing from bis wife's body. Mrs, Carlson
was preparing breakfast when her dress
caught fire from a gas range. She scream-
ed and her husband rushed to her aid and
succeeded in saving her from injury.
—Although Homer Zeigler, a Northum-
berland county undertaker, resides direct-
ly across the Susquehanna river from un-
dertaker Jerre G. Snyder, at Port Trever-
ton, a distance of three-fourths of a mile,
he found it necessary to travel a distance
of twenty-seven miles to borrow undertak-
er Snyder's hearse for use at a funeral re-
cently. The trip was made by the way of
Sunbury.
—George Schlegal, 14 years old, of Sun<
bury, sent to jail by his father, was re-
leased last Thursday by the court. War-
den Reitz refused to put him in a cell, but
kept him in his home during the month he
was there. State Welfare Department offi-
cers investigated and urged his release.
The father accused the boy of theft, but
the boy said it was because he wouldn't
“keep house’ after his mother died.
—In the Bridge street Presbyterian Sun-
day school at Catasauqua, where he had
been superintendent for fifty-three years,
William Weisley dropped dedd on Sunday.
He was 75 years old. Death was due to
heart failure. Mr. Weisley was a veteran
Catasauqua and Allentown merchant and
was one of the most prominent laymen in
the Presbytery of Lehigh, which he had
served as a delegate to the general assem-
bly.
—JFor the reported price of $25,000 Mrs.
Ada M. Haggerty, of Altoona, has sold to
A. L. Baker, of State College, the famous
Arch Spring property, in Sinking Valley,
fifteen miles east of Altoona. The place
gets its name from a large spring, which
flows under a stone arch, one of nature's
wonders, which hundreds of people visit
every year. Some distance away the water
disappears among the rocks and forms an
underground river.
—A. A. Drake, owner of a garage at Fac-
toryville, Lackawanna county, fell an easy
victim to two highwaymen in an automo-
bile one night last week. The pair drove
to Drake's place, invited him to take a
ride and test the transmission of their ma-
chine. When Drake entered the car the
men took him for a 15 mile ride, poked a
revolver under his nose, took $100 and a
watch from him and made the garage man
get out and walk home.
—Prosperity has struck the coal region
to such an extent that no one wants to be-
come a policeman in Allentown at a sal-
ary of $125 a month. Only an easy civil
service examination is required. City
council authorized the civil service board
to examine applicants for three new posi-
tions on the force, but after prolonged
waiting not enough men presented them-
selves of the eligible age to add the re-
quired number to the force even If all
passed the examination,
— Besides furnishing certificates of com-
petency to inmates of the State's penal in-
stitutions who have attended prison trades
schools, the State Department of Welfare
is planning to find positions for all dis-
charged convicts. Under the proposed
plan the prisoners, especially long term-
ers, are to fill out employment application
blanks three weeks prior to their release
and the bureau of restoration will endeav-
or to have positions awaiting the convicts
when they are liberated.
—The courage of Louise Snyder, cashier,
saved $500 of the Acme chain store receipts
late Saturday night, at Reading, when two
youths, masked and brandishing revol-
vers, ordered her to “fork over the money.”
With quick presence of mind she jerked
out a coin drawer, covering the open draw-
er beneath in which greenbacks were piled
high, and replied, “help yourself.” When
one bandit reached for the coin the girl
started to scream for Kintzer, store man-
ager, who was in the rear room. When
the latter entered the store, both baudits,
empty-handed, turned and fled.
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