INK SLINGS.
—O0ld Jupe Pluvius and Dame Na-
‘ture seem to be the latest recruits to
the dry forces.
—Doubtless there was many a dry
eye in the League of Nations when it
"read of the death of Henry Cabot
Lodge.
—Aside from the slight shower on
Hallow-een Centre county hasn’t had
any rain-fall since October 7th. With
‘such a prolonged drouth it is surpris-
ing that the streams have not become
lower than they are.
—Most of the lambs who are jump-
ing in to have a “ride” on the present
boom in stocks will discover that they
have only been paying for the yacht
or the Rolls—Royce of the regular
manipulator, unless they jump out a
few points up and stay out until the
manipulation is over.
—Harking back to the unpleasant-
ness of the Tuesday before the last
«one our greatest disappointment came
when there wasn’t a leather-lung to
.careen up against the office window
and yell: “Hurrah for Coolidge!” By
the way, did any one hear any one
bust his throat with a cheer for any
one? When we opened the door to let
the ladies in it seems that all “the
kick” there was in politics sneaked
out. :
—If, against Penn tomorrow, every
man on State’s team should play like
that boy Watson did against Carnegie
Tech, last Saturday, the blue and
white will roll up points like the Phil-
adelphia Republicans do majorities.
Watson carried the ball like a fellow
who knew his destination and had
made up his mind that all hell wasn’t
going to keep him from it. And that’s
what makes football players and win-
ning teams. And success in every
other endeavor.
—While glancing over the proof of
a very alluring announcement of what
Richard Strauss has done by way of
putting Enoch Arden in a musical set-
ting which appears in another column
of this issue, we prematurely arrived
at the conclusion that it was only a
subtle way of leading us on to sepa-
ration from at least “an iron man.”
Imagine the shock we got when we
read the concluding lines that not even
a collection will be lifted for Dick’s
interpreter or Enoch’s delineator.
So far as Bellefonte and most fittest men in command of the forces. |
other towns are concerned in a busi-
ness way the year is no longer a per-
jod of twelve months. Merchants and
many of the industries must do
enough in nine and one-half months to
carry the over-head and salaries for
the two and one-half during which not
a sale is ming-up or.a wheel turned.
Counting Sundays, holidays and the
Thursday afternoons Bellefonte will
have actually produced on only 287 of
the 366 days in this year. We're for
all the holidays anybody wants to
take, so long as they can be afforded,
but when they begin to encroach on
production no one can afford them, for
they make the cost of necessaries of |
life higher.
—Some day we are going to make
a martyr of ourselves. We are going
to cross a street at the same gait, with
the same assurance of safety with
which we have approached the cross-
ing. We're going to be maimed, of
course. Possibly “bumped off” entire-
ly. If the latter should happen it
won’t matter much to us and the fam-
ily can recover more in damages than
we're worth hanging around here any-
way. The experiment will possibly
save posterity from evoluting into a
duckin’, dodgin’ genus homo that looks
more like it was totin’ moonshine or
had stolen someone’s lamb than the
properly poised individual it was cre-
ated to be. All we ask in return for
the great service we are thinking
about rendering pedestrian humanity
is that there may be some one to car-
ry on until motorists are made to un-
derstand that the man afoot has
some rights that the one on wheels
must respect.
—There’s two of us now. Up to
Sunday night the “Watchman” was
alone in its belief that Prohibition is
not, and never should have been, a po-
litical issue. We are glad to welcome
. : . 3 |
the recruit, especially so since he is a
minister of the gospel who is evident-
ly not afraid of his job. Prohibition,
used here as it should be, to mean
temperance, is a moral issue. One
that should be inculcated in the home,
but so long as sleek individuals can
draw fat salaries for being secretaries
of this, that and the other League and
various other persons can have their
expenses paid while they exploit
themselves over the country, the rum
question, which was definitely and
finally settled when the Eighteenth
amendment was ratified, will be kept
alive. If the government of the Unit-
ed States isn’t strong enough to en-
force its laws what justification for
existence does it have? It should
need no other support than the loyal-
ty of its subjects and that can only be
secured through the environment of
real Christian homes. If all the mon-
ey that is being contributed to pay
salaries and expense of junkets for
those who are at the head of these
non essential organizations — and
mighty few of them would be on the
job ten minutes after they found out
there is “nothing in it”—were dumped
into the churches of the land, there
would be provided the means to
get at the root of the question, the
wherewithall to do work in the homes
and not lobby in Harrisburg’ or Wash-
ington.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 69.
Democratic Reorganization Needed.
gestion made by an esteemed contem-
porary for starting a movement for
the recuperation of the Democratic
organization in Pennsylvania, and a
few speeches on the subject by such a
successful Democratic leader as Gov-
ernor Smith, of New York, might help
to have a much greater vote in the
State than was polled at the recent
election, and we ought to carry many
more local elections than we carried
on the 4th instant. The starting of
the movement ought not to be delay-
ed, either.
an easy undertaking, and if we hope
to show improvement at the next gu-
bernatorial election we must get busy
now.
Probably the greatest difficulty that
will be encountered will be to per-
suade Democrats throughout the State
that it is worthwhile to vote. We all
know that Pennsylvania is a Republi-
can State and too many of us feel
that it will be impossible to overcome
the vast majority of that party, how-
ever deserving our candidates are and
i however unworthy the candidates of
the Republican party. This is our
fundamental weakness, for nothing is
t impossible to those who go to their
| task with spirit and determination.
i Besides that, sooner or later the Re-
publican party will break under the
weight of its own corruption, and if
the Democrats are ready and alert
when the break comes, they will suc-
| ceed.
The first duty of Democrats in the
circumstances is to appeal to the civic
{ pride of the delinquent voters. Im-
| press upon them the glorious history
‘and the admirable traditions of the
; party and make them feel that their
indifference now is putting a slight
| upon their forefathers. Then put the
| Of late years the question of fitness
thas not entered into the selection of
high party officials. Men are favored
or fought, not because of their capaci-
ty or adaptability for the service, but
| for the reason that they are support-
ed by one faction and opposed by the
| other. Bury: these factional animosi-
| ties and work together and the result
! will be honorable anyway.
i
The Coolidge courage is in-
‘creasing. He is not afraid, now that
| the election is over, to say a good
word out loud for the Red Cross.
Apportioning the Prizes.
The prizes of politics in Pennsylva-
nia are now being apportioned by the
leaders and according to current gos-
sip the operation is likely to involve
some curious combinations.
one thing only there appears to be
universal agreement. That is that
George Wharton Pepper is a misfit in
the office of Senator in Congress and
will retire as soon as arrangements
can be made to transfer him either to
a seat in the Cabinet or on the Su-
preme court bench or in an Embassy.
It is hoped that after the inaugura-
tion of President Coolidge one of these
places will be available. Mr. Pepper
would prefer the bench, it is believed,
because the tenure is longer and more
certain.
In the event that Mr. Pepper is
thus disposed of it is understood that
former Governor William C. Sproul
will succeed him in the Senate. The
ex-Governor has long cherished an
ambition to sit in the “Millionaires
Club” in Washington but adverse con-
ditions have always arisen to prevent
- the fulfillment of his hope. When
Senator Knox died Mr. Sproul was
“almost persuaded” to resign the Gov-
ernorship and accept the appointment
as his successor. The death of Sen-
ator Penrose brought the temptation
again before him. Again when Sena-
tor Crow “was summoned to join the
majority” he might have carried out
the plan, but intimate friends advised
him to resist the impulse and “bide
his time.”
Now they believe the opportunity
is present if matters can be arranged
for a vacancy. The desire to get rid
of Pepper is unanimous and the cor-
porate interests would be more than
satisfied with Sproul. But there is
“a fly in the ointment.” Governor
Pinchot is anxious to side-step the
yawning jaws of oblivion and a va-
cancy in the Senate sort of points the
way of achievement. If Pepper re-
signs between sessions of the Legis-
lature the Governor would make the
appointment, and it would hardly be
Sproul, and without the advantage of
possession Sproul lacks the populari-
ty necessary to a successful contest
for the office. All in all the “best laid
plans of mice and men gang aft
aglee.”
nie
It is almost worth the sacrifice
involved to learn that Mr. Coolidge
can smile if things go his way.
The next day it snowed in the
West but the result of the election had
no influence on the weather.
considerably in the work. We ought
It is not a short job nor
Upon |
sa wanmsen
| Harvey Wants a Job.
| in the new Coolidge cabinet and the
| public will wait with what patience
| it may command the result of his de-
mand. Usually Colonel Harvey gets
| what he wants, “or else.” He signal-
ily failed in an effort to make Wood-
| row Wilson take his orders and imme-
‘ diately left the party into which he
had been born and bred and made
himself a willing sluiceway of vicious
vituperation. But Woodrow Wilson
‘was elected and re-elected notwith-
standing the slanderous tongue of a
‘ disappointed political “soldier of for-
tune.” But when Harding was elect-
ed Harvey had better luck. Either
because he was afraid to refuse or
wanted to avoid a fight he made Har-
vey Ambassador to London.
In the history of party patronage
there has never been a more egregious
blunder. In London Harvey became
an international joke. In his first
public appearance he outraged every
American at home and abroad by a
statement that the United States en-
tered the world war because the gov-
ernment was afraid to remain out
while every principle of civilization
was being trampled under the feet of
German autocracy. The President
publicly repudiated his statement but
hadn’t the courage to dismiss him
from office. Finally, after two or
three years of continuous offending, he
was called home and either asked to
{ resign or dismissed. His conduct had
become intolerable even to the Repub-
lican party leaders.
So far as the public is informed his
only part in the recent campaign was
the invention of the party slogan
“Coolidge or Chaos.” To the average
mind that wouldn’t seem to be a great
service but it is said by some, proba-
bly partisans of Harvey, that it
“turned the trick.” That conclusion
pays scant courtesy to the intelligence
of the voters, for to reasoning minds
it is an absurdity. Coolidge, with his
| record of listlessness while his asso-
| ciates in Washington were looting the
| government, offered no better assur-
| ance of law and order than John W.
| Davis gave, and the constitution was
| as safe in the hands of one party as
“the ‘other. But Harvey will get into
the cabinet or he will smash things. :
i Warren Worth Bailey, editor of
' the Johnstown Democrat, has finally
“been declared the winner for Congress
in the Twntieth district by a majori-
'ty of 14 votes over Anderson H. Wal-
ters, thus breaking the solid Republi-
can delegation and giving Pennsylva-
' nia one Democratic Congressman. The
total vote in the district was Bailey,
: 23,5624; Walters, 23,510.
|
|
|
Political Women Wrangling.
| When Mrs. Cornelia Pinchot pro-
{ jected the Pennsylvania Council of
| Women into the system of the State,
| two years ago, she planted seeds of
trouble. She meant all right, of
| course, but miscalculated. It was her
| purpose to help the Governor when he
| needed help. But instead of accom-
: plishing that result she stirred up an-
imosities among groups that were
friendly before. This was clearly re-
| vealed at the annual meeting a year
{ago when opposition was developed
against the Governor's hand-picked
candidate for President of the Coun-
cil who aspired to re-election. A com-
promise was effected, however, and
she was successful.
In preparation for the annual meet-
ing this year the sitting head of the
organization and Mrs. Pinchot quietly
slated Miss Gertrude McKinney, of
Butler county, who served a term in
the Legislature, as successor to the
throne. This aroused the opposition
of those sisters in the faith who are
known as “regulars.” It seems that
Miss McKinney is more or less active
in the W. C. T. U., and failed on one
or more occasions to approve the
methods and operations of the ma-
chine, as the Governor himself has
been known to do, so an open and vig-
orous protest was made against her
election.
Finally a compromise was reached.
Miss McKinney withdrew from the
contest and proposed Mrs. J. Willis
Martin, of Philadelphia. It cropped
out in the canvassing that the princi-
pal issue was wet and dry, Miss Mec-
Kinney is dry and the Republican or-
ganization is not willing to be tagged
that way. Incidentally the Pinchot
personality entered into the equation
and worked to the detriment of the
slated candidates. The result is sig-
nificant, moreover, in that it shows
how readily the women adapt them-
selves to machine methods, and serve
the interest of the party bosses.
a fA ts sse—
The mine owners in the far
west and the farmers in the near west
seem to have pooled their issues to
help the Republican machine.
Probably the Legioners have
been converted to the Wall Street no-
tion that the veto of the bonus legis-
lation was wise.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. NOVEMBER 14. 1924.
: Pinchot a Victim of Bad Method.
There is ample cause for the sug- | Colonel George Harvey wants a seat | Unless the signs are misleading
Governor Pinchot will have an un-
pleasant period during the next ses-
sion of the Legislature. He has in
mind a good deal of legislation along
the lines of his notion of reform which
he will urge for passage. During the
last session he was able to force
through most of the measures he de-
sired but he was beginning his season
(of power and patronage then. Now
{he has little patronage to trade for
i favors and his influence will be cor-
- respondingly diminished. Two years
! ago he not only dictated the choice of
: the Speakership but directed the as-
, signment of committees. He had the
whip hand then. Now he has the hot
end of the poker. But he made the
bed himself.
The Governor has himself to blame
for this reversal of conditions. Dur-
ing the last session, while advocating
reform legislation, he was constantly
trading with the corruptionists in the
Senate and House of Representatives
with the result that while gaining
some support for his measures he also
acquired a reputation as a political
huckster without either honesty of
purpose or sincerity. If he had, as he
beneficent legislation and demanded
acquiescence or a manly appeal to the
public conscience, he would now be in
position to complete his work and re-
tire at the expiration of his term with
his self-esteem preserved and the con-
fidence of the public assured.
But he preferred the easier course
of bargain and sale of patronage on
one hand and favors on the other, and
out of it he got some legislation and a
full measure of public contempt.
Even the reformers whom he pre-
tended to help were forced to object
to his methods and the slight put up-
on him when he was defeated for del-
egate to his party convention express-
ed the indifference to his fate on one
side and contempt for his person on
the other. Governor Brumbaugh re-
tired from office in bad odor. Gover-
nor Sproul took with him into retire-
ment neither good wishes nor popu-
lar opinion, but both stood higher in
public esteem than Pinchot will unless
conditions are vastly changed within
a year.
——Secretary Mellon will save
enough out of his income tax, if his
bill is passed by the next Congress, to
finance the next campaign in Pennsyl-
vania alone.
Election Returns Republished.
The table of election returns pub-
lished in last week’s “Watchman” is
reprinted on the second page of this
week’s paper because of an error in
the make-up last week which ran
through half the edition before it was
discovered. In some inexplicable way
the three districts of Bellefonte bor-
ough were placed at the foot of the
column while the figures were at the
top, thus throwing every district out
of order just three lines. The table
as published this week is correctly ar-
ranged. :
There is no question but that
the Decker Bros. have greatly improv-
ed the corner of High and Spring
streets by the erection of their new
garage but it seems an unwarranted
mistake to place their new gasoline
pump in on the pavement. Of course
they were granted permission to do
so by the properly constituted bor-
ough authorities on the assumption
that Spring street will be widened
about three feet from High to Bishop.
This will necessitate the removal of
all the trees on the west side of the
street, at least, and perhaps narrow-
ing the pavement. But this work wiil
probably not be done before next
spring and a gasoline pump in the
middle of a pavement for six months
or more is certain to become consid-
erable of a nuisance.
e————— ea eee.
——Governor Pinchot, on Wednes-
day, issued his edict declaring the en-
tire State open to hunting, giving as
his reason for so doing the various
rains in different sections of the State
and heavy dews in the mornings.
——Dr. John M. Thomas, president
of The Pennsylvania State College,
has accepted the chairmanship of the
1924 Christmas seal committee of
Pennsylvania.
~——Of course there were other rea-
sons for the Democratic defeat but the
association of the Bryan name with
the campaign didn’t help to avert the
disaster.
——Too many Centre county farm-
ers were busy with their work on elec-
tion day to harvest the victory they
might have had at the polls.
———— A ——————
——0Only two more weeks until
Thanksgiving, and turkeys scarce as
hen teeth in Centre county.
had promised, laid down the lines of -
NO. 45.
ThyDeflation Myth.
From the P.yaf pshia Record.
| The notion th Serity ean be
| created by lending wiioney freely at
i low rates, and that the Money Power
can gain wealth by driving a large
part of the community into bankrupt-
cy, is closely akin to the idea that
wealth can be increased by printing or
stamping a great number of cheap
dollars.
i But it is a tenacious notion, and it
is cropping up continually that the
Federal Reserve Board raised its dis-
count rate four years ago with the
purpose of paralyzing business and
causing prices to decline and bring ru-
in to the West and great losses to the
East. The story is not true and is ab-
surd. So far as the Federal Reserve
Board represents banking interests
and the Money Power that we hear so
much about, it would be interested in
keeping the country prosperous.
Banks don’t make money foreclosing
mortgages, and they can’t increase
their business with customers who are
insolvent.
The war—as usually, and perhaps
inevitably—created a great demand
for commodities and the prices rose,
and for labor and wages rose. All
sorts of operations expanded. Men
did big business and got great credits
to carry it. The government fixed the
price of wheat very high, and it help-
ed maintain hogs at $17.50, more than
twice the price just before the war.
| Everything was inflated to meet sud-
‘den and enormous demands in many
| directions. The currency increased;
"men carrying on great business,
whether for the war or subject to the
competition of war industries, had to
have large credits. ’
Then the war stopped. Liquidation
was not forced by the Federal Reserve
Beard. It came because peace ended
great industries. Prices of farm pro-
ducts declined because it was no long-
er necessary to feed the armies of Eu-
rope. ‘When the prices of products
came down the value of farm lands
came down. Men had bought farm
lands in the West in 1918,at prices
based upon the farm jroducts at war
prices. They bought on mortgages,
and five years later the mortgages
matured just at a moment when wheat
was exceptionally low, so that 1923
was a disastrous year for farmers who
had bought land on eredit at war
prices, and who raised little except
greatest. %
The effects were felt almost as much
in the East, but it was not due to a
policy of contraction and ruin con-
ducted by the Federal Reserve Board;
it was due to the deflation of industry
and credit incident to the sudden ces-
sation of war industries and employ-
ments. The Federal Reserve banks
didn’t bring about the condition, and
they did a good deal to mitigate it.
Deflation started late in 1919, or early
in 1920, and extended over the com-
mercial world; it was not an American
phenomenon. The Federal Reserve
system did not contract its loans. Its
loans expanded until they reached
their peak in November, 1920. Then
the discount rates began to rise in or-
der to protect the already depleted re-
serves of the banks. Indeed, it might
not unreasonably be charged that the
Federal Reserve system deferred in-
creasing its discount rates in order to
faciiiiats the floating of the Victory
oan.
The repeated charges that the Fed-
eral Reserve Board paralyzed business
and ruined the farmers by calling in
loans and raising their rates led to the
creation of the Joint Commission of
Agriculture Inquiry. One of the mem-
bers was Senator Capper, the leader
of the farm bloc in the last Congress.
This commission reported that the
charges against the Board were un-
true; that the deflation was due to
natural causes and not to official ac-
tion, that the discount rates should
have been raised sooner than they
were, and that if there was any dis-
crimination it was in favor of West-
ern agriculture; that discounts of ag-
ricultural and livestock paper were
greater than for all other paper and
they were liquidated less relatively
than other discounts, and that credit
was not absorbed by the financial cen-
bres at the expense of the rural dis-
ricts.
Have You a Little Mule Deer in Your
Home?
From the Independent.
The U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture is giving away mule deer. The
herd in the Kaibab national forest in
northern Arizona has so increased un-
der government protection that it is
now threatened with starvation.
Therefore, the Department, if the ex-
pense of crating and transportation is
paid, will give to any one who guar-
antees to provide it with a good home,
one or more young mule deer. “The
estimated weight of one animal crated
is 250 pounds.”
The time may come when no home
will be complete without its deer. One
foresees the happy domestic scene of
future years: Father, mother, grand-
ma and the kiddies gathered around
the fireless heater watching the ra-
dio pictures, while on the hearthrug,
wagging his tail sleepily, lies man’s
friend, Fido, the good old mule deer.
It is a safe bet that the Repub-
lican machine will keep faith with the
campaign contributors this year,
— The railroad Brotherhoods must
have been joking when they promised
a solid vote for LaFollette.
‘wheat, in which the decline was the
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
-—Stepping on a nail, Charles McCann,
of West Pittston, contracted blood poison-
ing and it was necessary to amputate the
leg at the knee.
—Joseph Ryan, a prominent insurance
and real estate man of Girardsville, died at
the State hospital, the result of falling
down stairs and fracturing his skull.
—Operations have been resumed at the
Mahoney Valley Coal company washery,
near Girardville, following an idleness of
three months due to slack demand for the
smaller sizes of fuel.
—Frank Breitenbach, aged 23 years, and
single, of Bloomsburg, was instantly killed
Saturday afternoon when he came in con-
tact with a high-tension line while em-
ployed by the Pennsylvania Power and
Light company.
—At the annual meeting of the board of
trustees of Wilson College on Saturday, it
was announced that the assets of the col-
lege have now passed the $1,000,000 mark.
The present endowment of the college is
now $424,000, represented by invested
funds.
—Falling from a third-story window of
a hotel at Sayre, on Sunday, Alfred Faga,
secretary of F. N. Hibbits, superintendent
of motive power of the Lehigh Valley rail-
road, received probably fatal injuries. He
is believed to have lost his balance in open-
ing the window.
—Charles 8S. Messenger, of Columbia
county, has brought suit against Jordon
township, Lycoming county, for $10,000 for
the death of his wife who died from in-
juries sustained in an automobile accident
when a truck in which he and his wife
were riding went into a ditch.
—Charged with arson, A. K. Drum, of
Sunbury, is in the Northumberland coun-
ty jail, following an alleged attempt made
by him to burn the building in which his
store and apartment are located. Evidence
brought in at the hearing before an alder-
man showed that oil had been noticed on
the floor of the store, where the fire start-
ed, and that oil soaked material had been
picked up by firemen.
—Mrs. Henrietta Shaner, 91 years of age,
a cigarmaker until she was 81 year old,
died at Boyertown, last Friday. Mrs. Sha-
ner made a yractice of smoking seven ci-
gars a day, first cutting them in half. A
year ago she started to smoke a pipe, but
always refused to smoke cigarettes. She
was active in church work and supported
her family for many years after becoming
a widow fifty years ago. Although urged
to vote, she always refused to go to the
polls.
—Some one got more than a bargain at
a rummage sale conducted for the benefit
of a Chester, Pa., church. A few days ago,
when church workers called at her home,
Mrs. Frank Bartholf gave them a coat be-
longing to her husband. On Saturday she
learned that in the pockets of the coat had
been hidden a pocket book containing some:
cash, old coins and a valuable collection of
old stamps. The coat was sold for ten
cents and Mrs. Bartholf would not have
parted with the coins and other articles
for $50.
—During the month of October Mrs.
Frank B. Swartz, of Spring Run, Mifilin
county, has the record of baking 90 loaves
of bread, 26 pies, 6 three-layer cakes, 232
baking powder biscuits and 73 buns. This
is quite a record, but in addition to 13
1 loaves of bakers’ bread were consumed by -
this family, which would prove that they
were all in good health even though there
were only eleven members in the family,
as well as visitors. It would also be cer-
tain proof of the culinary skill of Mrs.
Swartz.
—David Hill, colored, is in the Chester
county prison on the charge of stealing
diamonds and other jewelry, valued at
more than $31,000, from Charles Clements,
a meat dealer, of near Phoenixville. The
stolen property was found in the home of
Hill after his arrest when the police made
a search. Hill was employed by Ralph G.
Smith, of West Chester, to assist in mov-
ing the goods of Clements to a new resi-
dence near that place, and the jewelry was
taken from the drawers in the bureau,
where it had been placed for the moving.
—It cost Mike Skibo, of Sykesville, Jef-
ferson county, $480 to bite Luther Pifer’s
thumb, and it was not a serious bite at
that. Pifer is a watchman along a new
piece of concrete road being laid near that
town. While the concrete was green Ski-
bo came along and thought he was having
a lot of fun leaving his footprints in the
concrete. Pifer had to use force to get the
trespasser off the new roadway, and dur-
ing the scuffle Skibo bit Pifer’s thumb.
Besides paying the $480 Skibo was com-
pelled to furnish bond to keep. the peace
for five years to come.
—In an East Scranton bar-room on Mon-
day afternoon, Joseph Setoski, a powerful
man weighing more than 200 pounds look-
ed down upon Anthony Adams, weighing
140 pounds and called him a weakling.
Anthony resented this remark and made a
bet that he could lift the big man up and
set him on his shoulders. Setoski sat on
the floor and Adams took a good grip.
With every bit of strength and will power
Adams lifted with success. He swung the
big man above his head. But then he slip-
ped. Setoski came down with a crash and
died of a broken neck. Adams is in jail
charged with involuntary manslaughter.
—The wave of banditry that has kept
Indiana county on the alert for the last
few months had another chapter written
to it when Miss Mary Woodry was attack-
ed when she got off a street car at Joseph-
ine late one night recently. A bandit de-
scribed as “a foreigner,” struck her a
heavy blow over the arm, grabbed her
wristwatch and a handbag containing $70
in cash, and escaped. After Miss Woodry
had recovered sufficiently to summon help
she was taken to the office of a physician,
where it was discovered that the blow up-
on her arm had badly shattered one of the
bones. County police have taken up the
case, but have no clues.
—The State Game Commission has mail-
ed to all licensed fur dealers in Pennsylva-
nia a license card that is expected to aid
the State in protecting trappers from un-
scrupulous dealers. A statement says,
“Trappers in the past have been cheated
by fly-by-night dealers who disposed of
raw furs taken by the Pennsylvania trap-
pers and then refused to give the back-
woodsmen the amount of money really due
them.” At present there are about 800 li-
censed fur dealers in the State. All of
these will receive - the license card. The
trappers will then be asked to deal only
with. the dealers who have been licensed
and to require that the men who buy their
furs show the State license ecard. There
are a number of trappers in Centre county
and all of them should select licensed deal-
ers.