Demooralics alco
INK SLINGS.
—There’ll be no pointing with pride
from Republican stumps next fall.
There is nothing to point to.
—The Senator from Massachusetts
might be regarded as the sighed for
Lodge in some vast wilderness.
—June brides are love, not season-
al, affairs and that is the reason that
there are more of them than June
roses.
—— Mr. Lowden was willing to pay
half a million dollars for a Presiden-
tial nomination four years ago but re-
fuses to accept a nomination for Vice
President this year as a free gift.
—All the edge was taken off the
junket of the Pennsylvania Republi-
can delegation to Cleveland because,
at the last moment, Gif and Cornelia
decided not to go and put off the fire-
works.
—The Journal says “Philipsburg is
now beginning to look pretty, as it
usually does about this time of the
year,” from which we gather that the
heme town of brother Bair doesn’t
look good to him at any other.
—According to Matt Osborne,who
was studying penology when Ellen
Potter had pink ribbons in her hair,
the lady who has so many remedies
and so few cures for Pennsylvania’s
prison system, doesn’t know what she
is talking about.
—Sunday schools are still holding
their own, we believe, but time was
when a whole train of cars were call-
ed into use to transport the Metho-
dists to their annual outing and now
three busses will haul all who turn
out for that once eventful day.
— It tickles us sick, the way Cool-
idge rode over the Senatorial oligar-
chy. They are the little band of holier
than thou’s that, failing in “ridin”
Wilson turned around and killed him,
and what Wilson did to them was as
a slap on the wrist to the punch in
the face that Coolidge gave them.
—Cleveland had nothing to offer the
farmers but promises of more legis-
lation like the Fordney-McCumber
bill. And what that piece of vote
baiting legislation did to them was
enough to make the densest of them
stop, look and listen before he puts
another X in the Republican square.
—Boiled down to the nth degree
all that can be gleaned, either from
the keynote speech that opened or the
platform that was adopted by the Re-
publican national convention, is an
admission that we haven’t done very
well this term, but give us another
chance and we'll double cross you
again.
—Down in York county the Ku
Klux Klan has started in to bust up
“petting parties.” And that’s another
matter that the Klan has no business
to meddle in. Why doesn’t it go after
the mothers and the fathers of the
poor deluded youth who think lasciv-
iousness is going to get them some-
where.
—France, having made the exalted
office of President a plaything for her
Senate and Chamber of Deputies, may
gain a temporamental victory of the
moment, but God alone knows what is
in store for the future of our sister
Republic. Greater dangers beset
France today than were those when
the Germans threatened Verdun.
—1If, as “Dave” Lane says: Penn-
sylvania will be a doubtful State if
the Democrats nominate Al Smith,”
the same reasoning would put New
York, Massachusetts, Indiana and
Illinois in the foregone conclusion
class. The veteran Philadelphia pol-
itician is a wise old bird and his pre-
diction might be accepted by some,
while others will believe that he was
only “spoofing” when he made it.
—Talking about being on the map:
Every time the government has any-
thing to show about the air mail serv-
ice there sits Bellefonte, right be-
tween New York and Cleveland, all
dolled up in the same size type as
any of the other fifteen big towns that
mark the air line course clear across
the continent. Who says the money
the old Board of Trade raised to pro-
cure a field here wasn’t good advertis-
ing?
—From the looks of things the
American Olympic team isn’t Ameri-
can at all. Willie Ritola, Molla Mal-
lory, Carl Christiernso, Mike Pekete,
Max Grob, “Leino” and Leo Nunes
sound so foreign that we are wonder-
ing why good money was spent for
their passage abroad before the mat-
ter of their citizenship was definitely
determined. Now, there’s a job for
the Ku Klux. Instead of fiddling
’round about petting parties down in
York county, exciting social political
and business discord over religious be-
lief in a government that was found-
ed almost solely to insure tolerance
in that—and Jew baiting—why doesn’t
it do some real constructive work by
saying a kind word and lending a hand
toward Americanizing the foreign
element that is settling everywhere
among them. Right here in Belle-
fonte are Greeks, Italians, Slavs,
Poles, = Croatians, and what not of
foreign birth, eager, anxious and
hopeful of becoming part of the com-
munity. They are the stock from
which Bellefonte will take much of its
color a generation from now and they
are the stock most easily moulded by
a spirit that would look ‘on them as
future citizens rather than as guin-
eas. Let the Ku Kluxers take off their
hoods and a lot of the blue bloods re-
member that it is red-blood that
counts and get to the work of making
AMERICANS of the class that is not
too busy with clubs and card parties
to bear the future Americans.
‘ment of Senator LaFollette’s demands
So
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VOL. 69.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
LaFollette’s Reasonable |
Demand.
Senator LaFollette, through the me-
dium of the Wisconsin delegates in
the Cleveland convention has asked
for a platform declaration of con-
demnation against “the official acts of
Harry M. Daugherty as Attorney
General and Albert B. Fall as Secre-
tary of the Interior.” This was not
an unreasonable demand. Mr. Daugh-
erty’s official acts as Attorney Gen-
eral brought disgrace upon the coun-
try and have been officially condemn-
ed by the President. Albert B. Fall’s
official acts have driven him out of
Senator
the public service and forced him to
acknowledge his malfeasance before
the Senate committee investigating
the subject. There is no good reason
for refusing to comply with this de-
mand of the Wisconsin Senator.
Senator LaFollette also asks the
Cleveland convention to make a plat-
form declaration commending the Re-
publican Senators and Representa-
tives for “their courage and independ-
ence in voting for the tax bill enact-
ed into law by both Houses of Con-
gress and signed by the President, as
a substitute for the Mellon plan.” It
is a Democratic measure and was bit-
terly fought by the special interests.
But it affords relief to the overbur-
dened wage earners of the country
and to a considerable extent equaliz-
es the tax system as between rich and
poor tax payers. The request to com-
mend those Republican Senators and
Representatives in Congress who
helped to achieve this result is not un-
reasonable.
Senator LaFollette further demands
that the Cleveland convention by
platform declaration approve those
Republican Senators in Congress who
helped to expose the iniquities of
Secretary Fall, Attorney General
Daugherty and those responsible for
the graft and corruption of the Vet-
erans’ Bureau. This is not an unrea-
sonable demand of a Republican lead-
er of the convention of his party as-
sembled to nominate a candidate for
President he will be asked to support.
At this writing the platform commit-
tee of the convention has not made
its report and therefore the treat-
is left to conjecture. But we venture
to predict that none of them will be
granted.
It must be admitted that Sen-
ator LaFollette is the champion op-
timist. He imagined that the Repub-
lican National convention would re-
pudiate the Ohio pirates known as the
“Columbus crowd.”
Defending Criminals a Policy.
The attitude of the Republican par-
ty is plainly expressed in the action
of five Republican members of the
Senate committee which made the in-
vestigation of the oil leases to Dohe-
ny and Sinclair. Senator Walsh made
a report of the activities of the com-
mittee a week ago. It was singular-
ly conservative in language and judi-
cial in tone. It completely exculpat-
ed Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Roosevelt and accused Secretary of
the Navy Denby with no graver of-
fense than “abnormal stupidity.” But
it recited the testimony in detail and
characterized the financial transac-
tions between Secretary of the Inter-
ior Albert E. Fall and the beneficiar-
ies of fraud, as reprehensible, to say
the least.
On the closing day of the session
Senator Walsh moved the adoption of
the report. Senator Spencer, of Mis-
souri, who had assumed the office of
attorney for all the culprits during
the progress of the investigation, had
stated that he would make a minority
report, but no one expected that there
would be serious opposition to the
adoption of the Walsh report. Two
of the Republican members of the
committee and all the Democrats had
signed it. When it came to a vote,
however, all the Old Guard Republi-
cans joined in opposition and by fili-
bustering for hours prevented its
adoption. Spencer and Smoot, of
Utah, led the fight and Lodge, of Mas-
sachusetts, gave such feeble help as a
bigoted mind could render.
Thus the Republican Senators have
committed themselves and their par-
ty to the policy of concealing crime
and protecting criminals. On the eve
of the presidential campaign they ask
the electorate of the country to con-
tinue their party in power in the face
of a record of corruption in office un-
equalled in the history of this coun-
try and unsurpassed in the history of
the world. If they had even made a
false pretense of contrition it wouldn’t
look so bad. But with a candidate
who had either guilty knowledge of
the condition or mental paralysis,
they go to the country boldly defend-
ing their infamy. This shows either
contempt for public opinion or de-
pendence upon party prejudice.
——1It is said that Charles B. War-
ren is a skillful phrase maker, and
writing the Republican platform was
an “acid test.”
BELLEFONTE, PA.. J
Cause of Joy Revealed.
The Pennsylvania delegation to the
Cleveland convention left Philadel-
phia on Sunday morning at nine
o’clock and after a joy ride of excep-
tional charms, arrived at the conven-
tion city at nine in the evening. The
journey through the State was like a
royal pageant with Bill Vare, as mas-
ter of ceremonies, and looking the
part. Stops were made at the prin-
cipal cities between Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh and contentment and con-
fidence fairly radiated from the pala-
tial Pullmans. A greater measure of :
harmony never was seen in a group
of politicians and the big and little
| bosses bowed alike to the batton of
the “peerless leader” who had in his
inside pocket a mandate from the
White House.
It must be said, however, that all
the good feeling so freely expressed |
in the smiles of the great chief was
not ascribable to admiration for the
candidate for President. The inti-
mate relationship between Mr. Cool-
idge and the Philadelphia “guide,
philosopher and friend” is inspiring
and the evidence of the President’s
appreciation of his merits is gratify-
ing to the Congressman. Senator
Pepper, in mood to “spit in the eye of
a bull dog,” laid his tribute of defer-
ence at the feet of the master mind
and chairman Baker, sauve and com-
plaisant, accepted the conditions as
necessary if not exactly agreeable.
All in all it was a happy bunch of po-
litical buccaneers that journeyed from
Philadelphia to Cleveland on Sunday.
As indicated there was another and
potent reason for the happiness that
pervaded the travelers. It had just
been learned that Governor Pinchot
had given up his purpose to attend
the convention and possibly throw a
monkey wrench into the machinery of
the Pennsylvania delegation. For
some reason the party leaders of the
State are in dread of what our Chief
Magistrate may do or say at any mo-
ment and it had been widely rumored
that both Gifford and Cornelia intend-
ed to be in Cleveland during the con-
vention, elaborately decorated with
war paint. An announcement had
come from Pike county, just as the |
bunch was assembled to entrain, that !
Gif had given up the trip and hence
the joy.
——With Pat Harrison as tempo-
rary chairman of the New York con-
vention and Senator Walsh in the
chair during the permanent sessions
no Democrat need fear of foolish talk
on any subject.
“A Fly in the Ointment.”
The friends of President Coolidge
in Pennsylvania who invested so much
enthusiasm in the contest between
Governor Pinchot and Ralph Beaver
Strassburger, for delegate-at-large in
the National convention, have discov-
ered “a fly in the ointment.” Of
course they averted the danger of any-
thing Mr: Pinchot might have done in
the convention by defeating him and
electing Strassburger. But they ex-
pected that the Norristown millionaire
would quietly accept the favor be-
stowed upon him and behave himself
as a dutiful beneficiary of largess
should. It looks now as if this rea-
sonable expectation is to be disap-
pointed. Mr. Strassburger is threat-
ening to “kick over the traces” so to
speak.
Mr. Coolidge and those who are
managing his campaign now and ex-
pect to direct his activities later, fond-
ly hoped that no such disturbing ele-
ment as the prohibition enforcement
question would be injected into the
campaign. Mr. Coolidge is a gentle-
man of the most exemplary habits.
He probably never took a drink,
smoked a cigar, chewed a quid or
swore an oath in his life. He and his
managers justly expected that such a
record of abstemiousness would guar-
antee the prohibition vote as a unit
and with equal confidence they hoped
that Mr. Mellon’s association with
liquor interests would enlist the sup-
port of the other side, if nothing were
said on the subject in the platform.
But Strassburger has made up his
mind to assume the role of stormy
petrel and disturb the well laid plans
of the machine managers. Having
paid more than $60,000 in good money
for a seat in the convention he prob-
ably imagines he has some right to a
voice in the proceedings other than a
silent assent to an agreement of the
bosses. Therefore he intends to de-
mand a platform declaration in favor
of a modification of the Volstead law,
and of course that will alienate either
the wets or drys accordingly as his
proposition is approved or defeated.
Governor Pinchot might have done
something worse than this if he had
been elected instead of Strassburger,
but that is a matter of conjecture.
———p fp —————
——Only one Republican in the
broad land was willing to run for
President this year, and it was diffi-
cult to find even one willing to take
second place on the ticket.
| party
Senator Burton’s “Key Note.”
“Except for the fulsome eulogy of
President Coolidge the “keynote”
speech’ of Senator Burton, temporary
chairman of the Cleveland convention,
might have been delivered in sign lan-
guage.’ He paid generous tribute to
the:memory of the late President
Harding ‘and threw a few harpoons
into the bodies of his associates in
Congress. “By far the greater share
of our citizenship,” he declared, “looks
to President Coolidge rather than to
Congress for leadership,” and not only
justified that alignment but urged the
“to take its stand with Mr.
Coolidge on all the controversial is-
sues which have arisen between the
executive and some members of the
Republican majority in Congress.”
And Mr. Burton sets an example in
his “solemn protest against the im-
pression that there is widespread coi-
ruption in the government at Wash-
ington.” This idea was probably bet-
ter expressed by President Coolidge
in his message of April 11th, when he
said “under a procedure of this kind,
(meaning the proposition to investi-
gate the prohibition enforcement ac-
tivities of the Treasury Department),
insté®d “of a government of law we
have a government of lawlessness,”
and against it he entered a ‘solemn
protest.” The procedure against
which he protested had revealed the
iniquities of Fall, Daugherty and
Fowpes and the stupidity of Denby
and was leading up to the exposure
of additional crimes.
Senator Theodore E. Burton, of
Ohio, is a man of considerable ability
and in a good cause is capable of pre-
senting a strong argument. But in
this instance he was up against a hard
proposition. It was his duty to justi-
fy the practices of his party in the
past in order to recommend it to the
favor of the voters in the future. He
did the best he could but acquitted
himself badly. The recent record of
his party in Washington, under the
auspices he was pleading for continu-
ance, is so monstrously bad that it
cannot be earnestly approved, and
Mr. Burton is an earnest man. He
represents big business and corporate
eupidity and in the light of late de-
velopments those interests are inde-
fensible.
——Chancellor Marks, of Germany,
says “the Dawes report will save Ger-
many.” Possibly that is true but even
so “Hell-an’-Maria” can’t save the
Republican ticket this year.
No Developments in Move to Abandon
Bellefonte Central Railroad.
No developments have taken place
in the past two weeks in the move to
abandon the Bellefonte Central rail-
road. In fact the only move made so
far as the public has been informed
was contained in the instructions to
James C. Furst Esq., from Robert
Frazier to proceed at once with the
preparation of a petition to the Pub-
lic Service Commission for permission
to abandon the road. When asked this
week if any further action had been
taken Mr. Furst ‘said there had not.
Naturally the announcement of the j
proposed abandonment of the road
caused considerable speculation both
here and at State College, particular-
ly the latter place which is entirely
dependent on that line for all its
freight haulage. This traffic, how-
ever, according to officials of the road,
is not sufficient to pay the upkeep of
the track and the cost of operation.
One thought was that possibly the
Pennsylvania might be induced to
take over the line, but it is hardly like-
ly they would consider it a worth-
while financial undertaking.
On the other hand State College is
a good sized town and is growing
every year, hence is entitled to some
consideration. Years ago a survey
was made from Hunter’s Park right
across the Barrens to the College, a
much shorter distance than the pres-
ent line of the Bellefonte Central.
That portion of the latter road from
Bellefonte to Hunter's Park would
take in all the limestone operations in
Buffalo Run valley, and an extension
of the road from that point to the Col-
lege would make a short line that
would not only give the College am-
ple freight service but would then be
in a position to enter competition for
a good share of the passenger traffic.
There is a fortune in a screen
picture of Senator Lodge voting fora
plank in the Republican platform en-
dorsing the Harding world court.
——1It may be observed that Harry
M. Daugherty, late Attorney General,
is also performing his last political
service at Cleveland this week.
That astronomer who saw fol-
iage on the moon may have been in-
dulging too freely in moonshine.
——Senator Lodge, at the Republi-
can convention, must feel like a man
attending his own funeral.
—Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
UNE 13. 1924.
NO. 24.
The French Presidency.
From the Philadelphia Record.
As the majority in the Chamber of
Deputies determines the Premiership
and the Cabinet, there is no reason
why it should attack the Constitution
and attempt to get the Presidency al-
so. The Constitution gives the Presi-
dent a term of seven years. Probably
he has some influence in legislation,
but he cannot have very much with a
Ministry and a Chamber against him.
The republic has been in existence
half a century, and this is the first
effort made to alter its structure by
political methods and bully the Presi-
: dent into resigning when the majority
i in the Chamber is opposed to him. If
he is a check on the extremes to which
the Left is eager to go, he will justify
his constitutional existence. If M.
Herriot plans to do a lot of things
that President Millerand will not con-
sent to, it will be better for France to
have the work done slowly. Progress
is essential, but revolution is not, and
revolution is the besetting sin of rad-
icals. They have no time. They ean-
not wait. They want to do everything
instantly.
We have the same impatient ele-
ment here. With four constitutional
amendments adopted within the last
few years, and a fifth sent to the
States by Congress, it would seem
that the facilities for amending the
fundamental law were ample. But
they are not enough for the radicals,
who want their ideas not only enacted
immediately, but firmly imbedded in
the Constitution. They want easier
ways of amending the Constitution.
They want the courts deprived of the
right to declare a law a violation of
the Constitution.
Of course, there would be no Con-
stitution at all under this arrange-
ment. If a majority in Congress can
at any time change the substance of
the government, the whole Constitu-
tion is a dead letter. LaFollette would
get rid of the Constitution so that
there should be no restraint upon Con-
gress, no protection for minorities, no
safety for the other branches of the
government. And Herriot insists on
tearing up the Constitution of his own
country so that he can do anything
his majority in the Chamber takes a
notion to. The right of the people to
govern themselves is not abridged; it
is safeguarded, by restraints upon
revolutionary activities of a scratch
majority, which is likely enough to be.
reversed at the next election. Presi-
dent Millerand will serve his country
well if he will defend his constitution-
al right to hold his office till his term
shall expire.
Thumbs Up in Germany.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
It seems not improbable that the
Germans who have been howling over
the Dawes reparations plan only do it
to annoy, because they know it teases.
At any rate, the Nationalist opposi-
tion in the Reichstag is carefully re-
fraining from moving heaven and
earth to defeat: the proposed settle-
ment measures.
It is hard for the old-regimers to
swallow Gustav Stresemann. The For-
eign Minister refuses to mince words
with them. His continual reiteration
of the fact that Germany lost the war
touches them in their tenderest spot.
They are thoroughly disgusted with
the entire Socialist outfit, which has
so unreservedly accepted the Dawes
program.
They do not carry their resentment
and their prejudice to the length of
not recognizing which side the Ger-
man bread is buttered on, There were
many that were not moved to tears
when the government on Friday ob-
tained a majority in the initial vote
on the matter. In fact, some of them
voluntarily absented themselves from
the Reichstag to make sure of it.
The Nationalists realize that the
Dawes plan is the best thing in sight
for Germany. Of course, if anything
happens in France to change the sit-
uation, they will be ready to step in
and take advantage of it. But they
are willing to accept certainties today
rather than fly off on a long chance.
He Learned From Wilson.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Power, which attaches to an office,
depends a great deal upon the man
who holds a job. In the past, various
Presidents of the French republic
have been merely the government’s
official social front. They kept out of
politics—have been forced to keep out,
in fact. The theory is that the Pres-
ident of France does not have a great
deal of political power. That theory
held until Millerand entered the ex-
ecutive mansion. Then it was discov-
ered that the President, of he desired,
could make himself quite as powerful
as his Premier.
The French Socialists are trying to
force Millerand out of office. They
threaten to inaugurate a legislative
strike. President Grevy was forced
to resign as a result of strike tactics.
Millerand, however, is apparently a
better fighter than Grevy; and it is
not at all certain that he will not suc-
ceed in blocking the program of the
Socialists in case Herriot, Briand and
Painleve all refuse to head up a gov-
ernment under him.
Not popularly supposed to be par-
ticularly powerful officials, French
Presidents are elected for a long term.
If Millerand succeeds in investing the
Presidency with political authority,
France will be compelled either to
change its ° form of government or
change its President. Evidently Mil-
lerand learned a lot about executives
while Woodrow Wilson was in Paris.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—EstHer Shadle, 7 year old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Shadle, of Jersey
Shore; sustained a broken leg, between the
knee and the hip, and other cuts and
bruises when she walked in her sleep
through an open window and fell to the
ground, a distance of fourteen feet.
—The Mill Hall church of Christ was
destroyed by fire last Thursday morning.
The origin of the firt is unknown. The
congregation had been planning for a new
church and have the foundation laid and
money pledged for most of the construc-
tion. It will be rushed to completion.
—Suit for $30,000 damages was started
in civil court at Sunbury, last Thursday,
by Abe L.. Snyder, Shamokin attorney
against the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad company for injuries received
when a passenger train on which he was
riding figured in a collision in July, 1922.
—Orders have been issued by chief of
police J. N. Tillard, of Altoona, banning
calithumpian serenades at weddings in that
city, so June brides are to have a compar-
atively quiet time of it. Tillard says that,
besides the disorder, participants leave
their necise-making paraphernalia lying in
the streets, creating a nuisance.
—The ice melted and the milk turned
sour because his wife lay abed until noon,
according to the testimony of Charles P.
Geyer, of Norristown, before the master in
his action for divorce from his wife, Ruth
H. Geyer. The divorce was granted. When
he remonstrated with her she threw fur-
niture and other things at him, he said.
—Mrs. Amelia Polsgrove, of Lock Haven,
was 84 years old recently and the anniver-
sary was celebrated by the Colonel Moses
Wiliiamson Chapter, National Society
Daughters of 1812, at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. J. Lynn Harris, regent of
the Chapter. Mrs. Polsgrove is a grand-
daughter of Col. Moses Williamson, in
whose honor the Chapter was named.
—Pittsburgh police are making an effort
to get three robbers who held up A. R.
Kramer, ‘proprietor of a meat market in
Wilkinsburg, and, locking him in a refrig-
erator, stole $1030 in cash and a number of
checks from him and $157 from the cash
register in the store. After remaining in
the refrigerator for some time he broke
the glass with his foot and crawled into
the store.
—Physicians of all municipal, county
and State prisons in Pennsylvania have
been invited to a conference at the eastern
penitentiary, Philadelphia, June 17th, at
which time it is planned to formulate a
uniform medical policy for the States pen-
al system, Dr. Ellen Potter, secretary of
welfare, announced on Friday. Physical
and mental care of prisoners will be dis-
cussed. The medical staff of the eastern
penitentiary is sponsoring the meeting.
—Salvatore Battaglia, a western peniten-
tiary convict, found guilty of second de-
gree murder on two counts in connection
with the recent prison riot in which two
guards were killed, was sentenced on Mon-
day to serve from 20 to 40 years. The sen-
tence will become effective at the expira-
tion of a term of from 19 to 20 years im-
posed on Battaglia in a second degree
murder case four years ago. Battaglia
was identified at the trial as the convict
who shot John T. Coax, a guard.
—Marion Willis, a Clearfield county ne-
gro, ended his life on Monday by jumping
into a revolving brick pan, which severed
his head and both arms before the ma-
chinery could be stopped. He was em-
ployed by the United States Refractories
company, at Barrett, as a pan tender. To
save steps he laid a board across the re-
volving pan. After shaking hands with
fellow workers he walked deliberately on
the plank and jumped head first into the
machinery. Before leaving his boarding
house to report for work he instructed his
landlady what to do with his personal
property.
—An estate estimated at between $300,-
000 and $400,000 of Mrs. Elizabeth E. Hay-
wood, widow of the former State Treasur-
er Benjamin J. Haywood, who died at
fiharon last week, is devised to charitable
iiirposes. The will, drawn in November,
1020, was offered for probate at Mercer.
The will provides a gift of $25,000 to the
American Sunday School Union, an unde-
nominational society. The spacious Hay-
wood home in Sharon, together with its
furnishings, is devised to the Presbyterian
Board of Ministerial Relief and Sustenta-
tion as a home for superannuated minis-
ters, and all of the remainder of the estate"
is given to support and maintain the insti-
tution.
—More than 80,000 tons of rock were dis-
lodged with one blast of dynamite at the
quarries of the American Steel Wire com-
pany at Wertz, Blair county, when a new
method of blasting was demonstrated to
the quarrymen by a representative of the
Atlas Powder company. For the blast 22,-
000 pounds of dynamite were used, the ex-
plosive being placed in nine eight-inch
holes dug about sixteen feet apart and for-
ty feet from the face of the quarry. The
holes were 160 feet deep. The blast was a
demonstration of the new method used in
blasting and which is supposed to be much
less dangerous than the old method of
drilling the holes into the face of the
quarry.
—Mystery surrounds the death on Sat-
urday evening of Miss Ida May Sutton, 14
years old, at the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Sutton, in Windsor town-
ship, York county, and the critical illness
of another sister, 11 years old. District
attorney Van Baman has requested a post
mortem on the body of the dead girl, who
was in a meadow with an infant sister in
her arms when she suddenly became ill.
The girl went to her home and complain-
ed to her father, who advised her to lie
down for a while. When her condition be-
came worse she went to the front porch
for some fresh air and was overcome by
convulsions. She collapsed, her body turn«
ed blue and she died a few minutes after
the arrival of a physician.
—The Paradise Valley Lutheran Asso-
ciation has been formed to accept a grant
of land in the Henlyville section of Mon-
roe county and has purchased and added
300 more acres of land to be developed as
a resort for Lutherans, of no matter what
synodical connection. The original land
was donated by a Philadelphian, whose
identity is not disclosed, in appreciation of
regaining his health in that region. He
then decided to make the gift if the Luth-
érans would accept. It is expected that
the various boards of the church will erect
buildings for homes and alse that mem-
bers will build bungalows and cottages.
There is a spring which will be dammed
and form a 23-acre lake, to assure water
for the buildings. The altitude is from
000 to 1600 feet and the scenic beauty is un-
equalled in the county. The contemplated —*
resort is hot far from Stroudsburg.