INK SLINGS.
——Former Secretary Fall would
probably offer no objection to a move-
ment to dispense with all courts.
—Centre county would probably
not have been in on-the Mothers As-
sistance fund if it had not been for the
far-sightedness of Wm. H. Noll.
——May be the New York bankers
are contributing a million dollars to
the Republican campaign fund in or-
der to make wage earners happy.
——The Clarksburg, West Virginia,
Exponent thinks “that Cal's “sap”
pail is one that Ballinger used when
he “tapped” the Alaska forests.”
——A West Virginia contemporary
says that Mr. Davis is having plenty
of fun in the campaign. Coolidge
looks like a child taking castor oil.
—With a twelve million dollar
“slush” fund promoting his candidacy
we presume the Republican managers
are relying on the ability of money to
talk, while Cal. can’t.
—William H. Noll rendered Centre
county a great service when he was a
member of the board of Commission-
ers. He will do the same thing when
he is sent to the Legislature.
—One of the unterrified, writing
from Bradford, says: “Let’s put Da-
vis in.” That's what we say. Let's
put Davis in and be sure of having a.
President who is something more than
a mollycoddle or a fire brand.
—If Holmes goes to Harrisburg
either Governor - Pinchot or Harry
Baker will carry the vote of Centre
county in his vest pocket. That’s cer-
tain. If Noll goes he’ll vote as he
thinks best for you, regardless of the
threats of Pinchot or Baker.
—A regular Republican has no ob-
ligation to Swoope, because he sup-
ported the President while in Con-
gress. If he has asked you to vote
for him because he has supported the
President, ask him where he gets the
big idea. We'll tell you, next week,
how Swoope turned yellow on Cool-
idge.
—If the Farm Bureau has been of
any value to agriculture in Centre
county thank William H. Noll for his
share in establishing it. We know
who was first to see that it would be
a boon to the farmers of the county
because we presented the appeal for
the first appropriation that was made
by a board of County Commissioners.
—Writing as to “Why I Shall Vote
for Davis” former Governor Black, of
Kentucky, says in a recent issue of the
Christian Advocate: “Ultra conserv-
atism and big business have their can-
lidate. Radicalism and socialistic dis-
sontent have their standard: bearer.
The rest of us are compelled to place
sur fealty elsewhere. In the person
of John W. Davis we will have a tow-
sring figure as the next President of
the United States.”
—Coolidge could act on his tariff |
:ommission’s recommendation that
aalf a cent be taken off sugar tomor-
row, if he would. But he won’t as
long as the sugar barons are dropping
zontributions of ten thousand dollars
at a crack into his campaign fund.
Half a cent on a pound of sugar would
save fifty million dollars in a year for
he house-keepers of the country, but
Coolidge wants to be President, so
what’s the use of hoping.
—In the 1920 election there were
jinety-six stay at homes for every
qwundred voters who actually went to
che polls and exercised their right of
‘ranchise. In that election Pennsyl-
vania was the most derelict of all the
States. Here there were one hundred
and thirty-three stay at homes for
>very hundred who voted. In this ap-
salling neglect of civic duty Centre
:ounty was outstanding. Especially
50 in the Pennsvalley section where
‘ew women go to the polls and many
nen stay at home to keep them com-
»any. . The consequences of such fail-
ire was never better illustrated in our
:ounty than it was last fall when Pot-
er and Penn townships, alone, could
1ave elected the entire Democratic
icket in the field if they had but poli-
:d eighty per cent. of their registered
rote. Let us hope that at the coming
slection Centre will show more inter-
st in the contest than she has for
rears. Let us have a great vote in the
ounty.
—Billy Swoope is scared stiff. The
district has discovered that he is not
f Congressional caliber and if the op-
yosition to his re-election is organized
1e’ll be overwhelmingly defeated. In
he face of outspoken disaffection in
iis own party Billy has grown frantic
nd has been reduced to the undigni-
ied practice of calling ladies on the
elephone to importune them to vote
or him. He’s made a miserable mess
f it in Washington and worse at
ome when he has tried to explain his
ctions. He went into the “bone head”
lass permanently when he appointed
n Allegheny county boy to West
’oint in the face of the fact that there
rere four boys in his own District
ho had filed applications for the hon-
r. When cornered in his treachery
2 the people who had elected him he
ried to squirm out by saying it was
one as a favor for Senator Reed.
enator Reed has a number of West
‘'oint scholarships at his disposal.
he Congressman of this District has
nly one, yet he gave that to Alleghe-
y county in preference to a boy from
entre, Clearfield, McKean or Camer-
n. Don’t you think Swoope ought to
o out to Allegheny and get votes if
2 wants to go back to Congress?
ote for Benson. He won’t be giving
ings that belong to his
way to others.
District !
iE ee...
BELLEFO
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 69.
The Republican Slush Fund.
In his testimony before the Senate
committee on campaign expenditures,
in Chicago the other day, chairman
Butler, of the Republican National
committee, declared that New York
State Republicans have been assessed
$1,000,000 and Pennsylvania Republi-
cans $600,000 to make up the slush
fund of the party for this campaign.
He gave no reason for the discrimina-
tion in assessments, for no levy at all
is made against some States and com-
paratively speaking Ohio and Illinois
are let off easy. Senator Caraway |
asked whether it was believed that
New York and Pennsylvania are easy |
marks, so to speak, but he failed to |
answer. Probably he had in mind the |
answer of Secretary Fall. He might
incriminate himself.
The reason for the heavy assess-
ments upon New York and Pennsyl-
vania is perfectly plain and is obvious
to Senator Caraway as to anybody
else. Calvin Coolidge is the candidate
of the beneficiaries of “special priv-
lege” and there are more of these in
New York and Pennsylvania than in all
the other States in the Union. Out-
side of the sugar growers, who steal
from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 a
year from the consumers, the bankers
and brokers of New York and the
manufacturers of Pennsylvania derive
the greatest advantage from the pol-
icies which Coolidge is under obliga-
tion to serve. The graft from the op-
eration of the present tariff law
amounts to about $4,000,000 a year,
and the bulk of it goes to New York
and Pennsylvania. .
The budget of the Republican Na-
tional committee, according to Mr.
Butler’s sworn testimony, is $3,000,-
000 and considerably more than half
of it will be drawn from New York
and Pennsylvania. But if Coolidge is
elected it will be a good investment |
for those who make it up. No “get-
rich-quick” enterprise ever known in
fact or fiction has yielded profits as
abundantly as the excessive tariff tax |
affords them. But the budget of the |
committee does not express the sum
total of the investment. The attorney
for the complainant submitted proof
that the slush fund
000, and that will not be enough to
buy Coolidge’s election.
Probably this is an invention to di-
vert other members of the Coolidge
cabinet from campaign work.
McAdoo Points the Way.
In a letter written in a hospital in
Baltimore, where he is convalescing !
after a serious surgical operation, and !
addressed to Senator Swanson, of Vir- |
ginia, Mr. William G. McAdoo lays
before the eyes of the progressive
voters an accurate statement of pres- |
“If the forces |
ent political conditions.
of reaction represented by the Cool-
idge administration succeed in Novem-
ber,” he writes, “it will be due solely
to division in the ranks of ‘the Pro-
gressive and Liberal forces in Amer-
ica. It is a great pity that the Pro-
gressives, led by LaFollette and
Wheeler, and the Democrats, led by
Davis and Bryan, cannot present a °
united front against the common en-
emy.” ‘
That being impossible, under exist-
ing circumstances, Mr. McAdoo pro-
ceeds to reason why all Democrats
and some Progressives ought to vote
for the Democratic candidates. Davis
and Bryan have an absolute certainty
of the one hundred and sixty-six votes
of the Southern States, and being
practically sure to carry the border
States of Kentucky, Delaware, Mary-
land and Missouri, they will have a
force greater than it is possible for
LaFollette to acquire. Kansas, Ne-
braska, Colorado and Wyoming are
doubtful as between the Democratic
and Republican tickets. Illinois is
fighting territory and late Republican °
estimates concede New York to the
Democrats as well as New Jersey.
The only hope Mr. LoFollette can in-
dulge is that he will prevent the elec-
tion of Coolidge this year and create
the nucleus of a party in the future.
his is a laudable ambition but it
might be indulged at too great a cost.
That is it might possibly alienate a
sufficient number of well meaning but
ill-informed voters from support of
Davis and Bryan to elect Coolidge,
thus surrendering the government to
the reactionaries, not only for the
present but for all time. For that rea-
son Democratic voters should adhere
to the candidates of their own party
in the doubtful States. Acknowledg-
ing all the Progressives claim for
their candidate he is neither safer nor
better than Davis.
——Republican chairman Butler is
willing to pay a generous reward for
a likely scheme to get rid of Senator
Brookhart.
——— a
There are 242 kinds of cheese
but they all look alike to a rat.
hat the slush fupd will amount to;
$12,000,000 dollars instead of $3,000;-
It is reported that a new oil’
field has been discovered in Louisiana. i
NTE, PA.. OCTOBER 24. 1924.
7
The Tide is Running Strong for Noll
A very careful survey of the political outlook in Centre county
within the past week reveals an unmistakable and doubtless an irre-
sistible swing toward William H. Noll for Representative in the Gen-
eral Assembly. In several precincts of the many from which we have
had reports the vote will be almost unanimous for him. In one of the
larger precincts of the county, one that is overwhelmingly Republican
in sentiment, it is predicted that he will receive ninety per cent. of the
entire vote cast on Tuesday, November 4th.
This latter report seemed so unusual that we took the time to check
up on it to ascertain just what justification there could be for the
statement that Mr. Noll would poll i, of per cent. of the vote of a
district in which the party he represents Is in decided minority. From:
Republicans, Democrats, Prohibitionists: and three voters, who said
they were Socialists, whom we interregated at random, came as many
replies as to their reasons for voting for Mr. Noll.
Others said: “I voted for him
Some merely said: “I know him.” :
both times he ran for County Com-
missioner and had no reason to regret it.”
i Two said:
lican, a Prohibitionst or anything
“I don’t care whether Noll is a Democrat, a Repub-
else. I'm for him because he is a
|
clean cut, well informed man who stands four-square with everybody
|
and isn’t running ’round trying to capitalize his membership in lodges
and the church in a contest in which such things should have no place.
i While these are only a few of the replies that have been turned in
or any other form of government.
partisanship, except the flimsy one
of the principles of their party.
| campaign to incite social, spiritual
Mr. Noll is not asking you to
in answer to our question as to why a candidate is strong enough in
one particular district to be reasonably certain of getting ninety per
cent. of its entire vote we want to dwell on the last one, for the reason
that it shows that others have looked at the situation in the big, broad
manner in which it should be viewed by évery voter.
In the first place a Member of the General Assembly of Pennsyl-
vania, or any other State, has nothing whatever to do with the funda-
mental principles of Democracy, Republicanism, Prohibition, Socialism
They are all prerogatives of the
Federal government and when the right of voting for a United States
Senator was taken away from the Legislature of Pennsylvania and
placed in. the hands of the voters, themselves, the last incentive of
of being regular and supporting the
organization, was taken out of State elections. ;
_If every Member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania were a Dem-
ocrat, or a Prohibitionist, or a Socialist, or a what-not they could, by
their votes, bring about no legislation in Pennsylvania in contrariety
Having disposed of the partisan aspect of the present contest let -
us take up the one that should have a re
tre county who wants a Representative in Harrisburg to represent him.
Because a man is a Presbyterian, a Mas
Moose, a P. O. S. of A., or a Red M
he is qualified to represent you in the be
erning your mode of living. “What is real)
square enough and fair enough to stand on what HE is and what HE
HAS DONE without leaning on props that are only brought into a
appeal to the voter in Cen-
, an Odd Fellow, an Elk, a
doesn’t guarantee that
akes the laws gov-
essential is a man who is
and creed hatred.
vote for him because he is a com-
municant member of the Reformed church. He is not asking you to
vote for him because he has been an Odd Fellow for thirty-five years.
He is not asking you to vote for him because he is an Elk or any other
of the Orders to which he belongs.
monds.
guess at.
Noll.
election is bunk.
It’s the man that counts and William H. Noll is the man.
He isn’t jumping onto every stump
he sees, kissing babies, and promising to change rhinestones into dia-
He is simply standing on his record as an official of Centre
county who had a part in doing a
reputation for being square with everybody, and on the fact that he
knows a lot about Centre county and its needs that the rest of us only
lot for you as a tax payer, on his °
The intelligent voter is quick to discern the difference between
flub-dub and reality and that is why the tide has turned so strong to
This thing of yelling support of the President, the church, lodges,
the tariff, the fundamental principles of any
party in a county or State
~
i
Treating the Wrong Organ.
Governor Pinchot ought to change
his doctors. His present physician
' certainly made a sad mistake in diag-
' nosing his malady. It isn’t his throat
that needs treatment. The trouble is
in his head. We are led to this opin-
ion by reading the speeches he has
“been delivering. In his first effort he
' declared that the Republican party of
: Pennsylvania is made up of crooks
"and corruptionists. But he asked the
“men and women in his audience to
vote to continue them in authority.
That is not inconsistency. It is in-
sanity. No man of healthy mind |
would make such a break. It not only
revealed absolute indifference to pub-
lic morals but expressed contempt for
popular intelligence.
, “unworthy of association with good
women and decent men and that they
deserve to be driven forever from any
contact with the affairs of the Com- |
monwealth they have betrayed,” his
request that the men and women in
his audience “support the Republican
ticket from President Coolidge down,”
was a crime perpetrated in the light
of knowledge and for a purpose of
evil. It'marks Mr. Pinchot as a po-
litical hypocrite if not a moral degen-
erate. No honorable man of sane
mind would so stultify himself. In
that act alone Mr. Pinchot has justi-
fied the contempt in which he is held
by thousands.
After fulsomely praising his own
work Mr. Pinchot added: “Only ore
thing could interfere to prevent me
from retiring from office with every
promise fulfilled. This would be the
success of the old gang in its desire
and effort to bring back the mess we
have cleaned up.” Then he brazenly
asked the voters of the State to re-
store the old gang by voting “the Re-
If Gifford Pinchot knows, as he de- |
clares he does, that the leaders of the
: Republican party of Pennsylvania are |
publican ticket from President Cool-
idge down.” Possibly he hopes that
{ restoring the old gang to power would
open up another opportunity for him
to buy a nomination and fool the peo-
ple as he did in 1922. But if he en-
tertains such expectations he will be
disappointed, for his misfeasances
{ have made the worst gang acts look
| respectable.
| ——Republican chairman Harry
Baker may have released his grip on
| Pinchot’s throat in order that the Gov- |
ernor might make a fool of himself.
A CALL TO WOMEN.
Women! You have a call to Duty
i on November 4. Will you ans-
wer?
No one has any respect for a
Slacker—an Excuse Maker.
A woman slacker is one who
fails to go to the polls to vote.
The welfare of your home and
children depends upon good Gov-
ernment.
. Can any weman say she is not
interested when Republican tariff
has doubled the cost of almost
everything you buy.
If you want good government—
vote for it and get it.
If you want lower prices, it’s
up to you—Vote for JOHN W.
DAVIS. J
If you do not vote, then don’t
complain about anything that
happens. oe ‘
To you progressive women who
do not need to be reminded to
vote, will you see to it that your
neighbor women vote?
Election Day—November 4
The man—JOHN W. DAVIS
; ee fee
——If the tendency continues the
penalty for murder will be no great-
er after a while than that for petty
larceny.
NO. 42.
i A Logical Decree.
From the Philadelphia Ledger. ‘ .
The decree that calls for the dis-
mantling of the Zeppelin factory that
could turn out so fine and beautiful a
airship, Los Angeles, seems, indeed,
hard. The Friedrichshafen plant rep-
resents the last word in technique,
equipment and personnel, and it does
appear that its breaking up would be
a slap in the face of progress.
The decree, however, is the logical
outcome of Germany’s defeat in the
war and the necessity of controlling in
that still uncertain country the urge
i to harness science to warfare for the
cannot countenance. The Germaj
that ran amuck once may TD
do so again. For her insanity she has
paid by the destruction of her navy
and the limitation of her army. She
must continue to be kept under con-
trol, and the decree for dismantling
the Zeppelin works is only a detail in
ihe system that has been laid upon
er. : Es
The nations that today are striving
to keep the world upon the straight
and narrow path are not unmindful of
German psychology. They may be
making a mistake in striving to con-
trol the military urge of a nation such
as Germany. But they can conceive
of no better method. They realize,
moreover, that, if Germany is allowed
to manufacture war Zeppelins for oth-
ers, she will soon be asking for per-
mission to make “peace” Zeppelins for
herself—and it may not be feasible to
deny her. Thus, a step toward mak-
ing the military control of the country
more lenient might have dangerous
consequences. ;
Germany must be—not destroyed,
but controlled. That she happens to
be equipped to make angels of the air,
however ‘beautiful, must not. blind the
eyes of the world with any false sen-
timentality about what use she would
make of Zeppelins if she could."
An Attack from the Bench.
From the New York Evening World.
The delectable Mr. Forbes, of ihe
famous company of “best minds,” who
squandered the money intended by an
appreciative nation for the care of!
crippled soldiers, on wine, women and
crooked contractors, will not be
until after the election,
e record of a national A 1
istration, there is none so repulsive as
that of a man who, with a bottle in
his hand, a woman on his arm, and a
deal with crooked contractors in his
scheme for self-enrichment, robbed the
broken soldiers for whom the nation
had thought to provide.
But United States Judge Carpenter
postpones the trial until after the
election because it has a “political as-
pect!” Does he mean to imply that
there is a political party in the coun-
try interested in saving this wretched
malefactor from punishment? He
does—and this is the way he puts it:
“The average Democrat * * * will
feel that there ought to be conviction
and the average Republican will feel
that there ought to be an acquittal.”
This; we submit, is the most serious
attack yet made in the course of the
.campaign on the party of President
Coolidge. It comes from a United
-States: Judge, who is a Republican,
appointed to his present position by
the present Administration on the rec-
ommendation of Mr. Daugherty.
The Game by Innings.
From the New York Times,
La Follette: “The Democratic par-
ty lost its last vestige of democracy.
The Republican party lost its last sem-
blance of freedom. Both the old par-
ties became private things, palsied
agencies of the popular will.” No
hits. No runs. Three errors.
Calder: “In New York it will be
Coolidge by a plurality of more than
a million. LaFollette will poll a large
vote in the industrial cities. Davis
will be third.” No hits. No runs,
| Two errors.
Borah: “I claim the right as your
‘Senator to oppose any measure by
whomsoever proposed which I believe
to be in the public good and in the in-
terest of sound. government.” One
hit. One run. Two grammatical er-
Tors.
Davis: “Never in all the history of
| the United States was its foreign pol-
| icy made the football of partisan pol-
ities as during those melancholy years
, and during the campaign whose result
elevated the Secretary of State to the
| position he now holds.” One hit. One
run. No errors.
The Teapct Dome in Politics.
| Sr —
i From the Philadelphia Record.
Chairman William M. Butler says
‘ he has heard little about the Teapot
Dome scandal, but if he will listen
carefully he will hear a good deal
about it in New York. A party of
Democratic women are going cam-
paigning in the “Singing Teapot.” It
is an automobile body shaped like a
kettle, and when the steam blows the
cover off a Democratic woman pops
her head out and makes a speech. If
Mr. Butler will come around and keep
quite still he may hear a plenty about
petroleum and other things that don’t
get much attention from the Republi-
can speakers.
If the absurd notion that Gov-
ernor Bryan may become President is
a méndcé what would you call. a
| that job.
chance that Hell ’an Maria might get
piece of work as our navy’s newest
; attainment of ends which the world |
3 aOR. Ratt DEER LYRE
Jjunlawful assembly and senten
{SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Arthur C. Dorman, convieted last May
of attempted burglary of the Lloyd apart-
ments at Northumberland, was sentenced
on Monday to from three to six years in
the eastern penitentiary and a fine of $100
and the costs. .
—Gundel Brothers, who operate dredges
on the Susquehanna river, at ' Columbia,
have taken out 1,800 tons of coal from the
river and have orders for at least 600 tons
more. They will continue dredging opera-
tions as long as the weather permits.
—Mrs. Elizabeth E. Jones, of Philadel
phia, aged 82 years, is the oldest applicant
to ask the State test prescribed: for motor
vehicle drivers, officials in the Department
of Highways have announced. They de-
clared she passed the examination with
“flying colors.”
—The only case listed for trial at the
November ‘term of Perry county court -is
that of Elmer E. Rice vs. F. H. Bernheisel,
an apeal from the docket of Frank H. Zinn,
justice of the peace of Newport. The case
grew out of the sale of a cow, by Rice to
Bernheisel, which died soon after bein
loaded for shipment. ;
<The Ambler home of the late Senator
Edwin H. Vare will be sold by his widow.
Last year the spacious mansion and
ground were offered to the government
for a veterans’ hospital site. Since the
death” of the late Senator Mrs. Vare has
contemplated selling his home. It is said
that the property is held at. about $300,-
—Complaint against five shop workers of
the Pennsylvania railroad for operating
automobiles as common carriers in Holli-
daysburg, Pa., was dismissed by the Pub-
lic Service Commission last Friday. Charles
A. Shaw, jitney driver, brought the com-
plaint. It was found the men operated the
car as a co-operative plan for going to and
from their work. :
| —A contract has been let for the erection
‘of a new building at the Williamsport hos-
pital which will add a hundred more beds
to its capacity. The new structure will be
185 by 45 feet and will face on Rural ave-
nue. It will be all steel and brick con-
struction and will be built, with the excep-
tion of the elevators, entirely by Williams-
port contractors. :
—A box of powder placed by an enemy
under the hood of his automobile resulted
in serious injury on Monday to Albert
Donavaskey, a coal miner, of Allegheny
county. Donavaskey was hurled through
the roof of his garage when he attempted
to crank his automobile. the ignition
throwing a spark into the powder. The
machine and garage were blown to pieces.
—Although a wrench he had carried in
his pocket was ground to bits by the car
wheels, his watch was found running by
workmen when they found the body: of
Antonio Memequino, aged 40 years, a track-
walker, in the Conway yards of the Penn-
sylvania Railroad, near Rochester, Pa., on
Monday afternoon. The man is believed to
have been killed by a fast train which
passed through the yards several hours
‘before. :
—Appeals in the Ku Klux Klan cases
from Cambria county, involving the arrest
of about 28 Klansmen after a Klan demon-
stration .on Pipers Hill, just outside Lilly,
1, were argued y | on: Honday | ¢
dof affray and
ced to pay
the costs of prosecution and undergo two
years’ imprisonment.
—Holiday dinners in Columbia county
this winter will find more guineas on the
menu than usual, for the delicacy of the
bird, and the ease with which they are
reared locally, has relegated to the back-
ground the turkey, with all its historic as-
sociations. Foxes which prey especially on
the young turkeys pay little attentian to
the guineas, and the noise they make when
disturbed is a good safeguard against
thefts from the flock.
2
—Informed by school teachers, at Potts-
ville, that the pupils had dynamite in theiz
possession, the police after an investiga-
tion, announced that three pupils all-un-
der 12 years of age, had confessed stealing
a box of dynamite from the Sherman Coal
company operation, and had used the
death-dealing sticks for kindling wood.
According to police the boys confessed
building a fire with forty of the sticks-be-
cause they made such “pretty blue flames.”
—George Brown, weather man of Phoe-
nixville, has predicted that the winter will
be milder than for many years. No rain
storms are in sight until after the next
anew moon, and the winter will bring only
seven snow storms, one a blizzard, he says’
Election day will see fine weather. Christ-
mas will be without snow or ice, and the
first heavy, killing frost will be about No-
vember 9. The first part of the winter will
be the hardest and spring will come late.
—At the time of the Civil war Frank J.
Stader and Henry B. Coshey, both resi-
dents of western Pennsylvania, entered in-
to an agreement by the terms of which the
one who died first was to be buried free of
charge by the other. Several years ago
Stader died and Coshey fulfilled his part
of the agreement, Coshey died last week
and he was buried on Monday at Grecns-
burg at the expense of John F. Stader,
who had assumed hig father’s part of the
agreement, A,
—Quarter-master Sergeant Rdward B.
Haas, of Troop B, state police, on Friday
accidentally shot and killed himself at the
Wyoming barracks: of the constabulary.
Haas was at work in the supplies depart-
ment of the barracks and was cleaning a
revolver. One of the bullets remained in
the chamber after he believed he had emp-
tied the weapon. The bullet entered: the
chin and penetrated the brain. Haas is
survived by a widow and two children,
both residents of Wyoming.
—Coming in contact with 11,000 volts at
the Reed substation, near Paxinos, Harold
Freas, 29 years of age, of Mount Carmel,
was severely burned on the arm and hands
and has deep lacerations of the back and
head. He is still in a dazed condition in
the State hospital at Shamokin. He was
sent to paint a. transformer and came in
contact with the wire, carrying 11,000 volts.
On the opposite side was a wire carrying
66,000 volts which he missed. He was toss-
ed eight feet to the ground.
.—Driving two officers and a woman clerk
“of the National Bank of Penbrook, Dai-
phin county, into the bank vault with re-
volvers, two youthful bandits on Monday
afternoon took $2,050. from the cash draw-
ers and left, thousands of dollars and se-
‘curities in the vault untouched. The whole
robbery: was over. in a few minutes and
conductéd so quietly that the pair were on
their way with their loot before -any one
knew what had happened and no one got
the number of their automobile.