-
ci
Bema itm
INK SLINGS.
* ——Chicken influenza hasn’t brok-
&n out in Bellefonte, as yet. We no-
tice them all running the streets as
usual.
Remember that if you are at
your wits end, at the last moment,
over what to send that friend who has
an interest in Centre county, the
“Watchman” might be the very thing
they’d appreciate most.
. ——Talking of the possible passage
of the child labor amendment we are of
the opinion that it'll never get
through. There are some good points
in the proposal, but they will weigh
lightly in the mind of a public that is
convinced that government has al-
ready gone too far in its regulation of
the lives of the individual.
We fear that we are going to be
disappointed. We had hoped that ere
the New Year every reader of the
“Watchman” would have the label on
his paper reading into 25 at least.
We can’t say that everybody’s doing
it and because of that we are planning
for nothing more luxurious than sau-
sage for the Chirstmas dinner.
. —The Philipsburg Ledger last week
published a long dissertation, by Ed-
ward Nelson Dingley, on “What con-
stitutes a Republican.” To make Mr.
Dingley’s long story short his idea of
a Republican is one who would vote
for the devil if he were running on
the Republican ticket. This suggests
a query as to how many Republicans
or how many Democrats know just
why they are members of one party
or the other. We venture the asser-
tion that not one per cent. of the vot-
ers of this country can give a funda-
mental reason for his political belief.
— This is the last time we’ll have a
word with you until January 2nd.
Christmas will come in the meanwhile.
And when you wake that morning, if
there be nothing in your stocking, no
elfin voice calling “Merry Christmas”
in your chamber, nothing to indicate
that it is a day apart from all the oth-
er three hundred and sixty-four in a
drab year of discouragement, remem-
ber that every one who has had to do
with making the “Watchman” will
wake with the hope in their hearts
and the prayer on their lips that the
day will be one of great joy to you
and that the New Year will bring the
fulfillment of all the dreams you may
have had.
' —Samuel Gompers, for forty-three
years president of the American Fed-
eration of Labor, is dead. Though
little understood and often condemned
he must have been a yery siaong char-
se he could never have remain-
at sgpirit-of fitful Ameri-
can labor for four decades and more:
His dying words were: “God bless
our American institutions. May they
grow better day by day.” Organized
labor might well adopt the dying plea
of the man who conceived it and use it
as its motto. If it were to sincerely
help to make American institutions
“grow better day by day” there would
be an end of discord between capital
and labor.
—The Presbyterian, the Protest-
ant Episcopal and the Baptist church-
es are torn with the theological con-
troversy between the fundamentalists
and modernists. Bishop Berry, of the
Methodist church, is alarmed for fear
that his church is sliding into modern-
ism without having a fight. Accord-
ingly he has sounded the alarm, called
the defenders of orthodoxy to arms
and is preparing to show these pre-
liminary entertainers what a real fight
is. When the Methodists get at it
they don’t waste time on academic
discussions of what constitutes here-
sy and then hail the heretics into con-
ference for a solemn trial. The side
with the best wallop just knocks the
other down and drags it out.
—American, English and French
statesmen are trying to make a moun-
tain out of a mole hill. They are us-
ing columns in the press of their re-
spective countries over a simple lit-
tle business arrangement that France
is trying to make with us in the pay-
ment of the war debt. Because Eng-
land butted in a bit our jingoes start-
ed an awful howl. They want to know
why John Bull is nosing into some-
thing that is none of his business. They
lose sight entirely of the fact that
England isn’t “nebbin’” in to any set-
tlement we may make with France.
She is only reminding France that she
owes England more than she does us
and when she starts to paying off her
debts there must be no preferred cred-
itors.
—There isn’t much pay, but there’s
an awful lot of satisfaction in news-
paper work. Two years ago the me-
ter relentlessly recorded every kilo-
wat of current we used in lighting our
nightly way while inditing pleas to
the people to vote for John A. Mec-
Sparran for Governor. We knew Pin-
chot. We could have said a lot of
mean things about him. But if we
had said one-half as many as those
who disregarded our pleas have pour-
ed into our ears since last Thursday
Gif. would have been so busy prepar-
ing libel suits that he wouldn’t have
had time to think of skinning hos-
pitals to bolster up his claim of sav-
ing forty thousand a day. Why, one
gentleman, who didn’t know that we
knew he had said in a political speech,
two years ago: “Don’t believe a word
of politics you see in the “Watch-
man,” whispered in our ear, on Sat-
urday, “I wouldn't vote for Pinchot
for hor constable of Bellefonte.”
pages and, 0
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
i
Why is the Publisher—Printer the |
Goat?
If there is anything else than news-
paper publicity that the United States
government gets free we invite some
one to call the matter to our atten-
tion.
From the President down to the
window cleaner in a rural postoffice a |
salary or wage commensurate with |
the service rendered is provided. Be-
sides this there is the honor confer-
red, the “pickings” possible and the
opportunity of personal exploitation. |
Never, since the foundation of the |
government, has there been a dearth |
of those desirous to fill any vacant
governmental job and the probabili-
ties are that there never will be. In
some instances a government job grat-
ifies vanity, in others it means a sine-
cure and in others assures a pay en-
velope about..the regularity of which
there can be no doubt.
Few turn down an opportunity to
get on Uncle Sam’s payroll. Some
sacrifice better present return for
their service, but they do it only with
the thought of personal exploitation.
And how is this to be secured?
There is but one medium through
which it can be accomplished: The,
newspapers of the country.
Congressman Fox works a bill
through that gets a public building
for a “Main street” town and when he
returns home he is met at the station
by a sycophantic mass of constitu-
ents ready to go on his note at the bank
or erect a monument in the - public
square declaring him the greatest
statesman of all time. The local
newspapers play the demonstration up
and Mr. Fox is made.
Senator Fox sits tight, looks wise,
assures the organization that put him
in his seat that he’ll see that its ap-
pointees for place are confirmed and
jumps in with a speech at the moment
that the constituent’s mind is so be-
fogged that it can’t differentiate be- |
tween “wind jamming” and construc- |
tive statesmanship. With columns to
fill and no bigger news breaking Sen-
ator Fox gets scare heads on front
great states bo harm 2
Secretary Fox has to do with la-
bor, agriculture,. postal regulations, .
finance, diplomacy, what-not. He has
his eye on the White. House, so he
starts the multigraphs in his Depart-
ment working to broadcast the won-
derful suggestions he has to offer on
everything from making the laborer |
and the farmer happy to assuring the
peepul that he has turned T. N. T. in-
to doves of peace and persuaded every |
other government that it is to their
best interest to take everything we
have to sell and not ask us to buy any-
thing from them. It’s a big idea. The
newspapers take it up and Secretary
Fox is among those considered as
available Presidential timber for the
next campaign.
President Fox is an accidental occu-
pant of the White House. He knows
it’s a big job and there is a danger of
the public discovering that it is too
big. He calls the Washington corres-
pondents into stated conferences dur-
ing which he plays the “still water
runs deep” part, perfunctorily ans-
wers a few questions and the army of
newspaper men go out to write col-
umns on the constructive plans this
strong, silent man has in mind for the
country. He is the President, and as
the position must be exalted, profits
by the respect every newspaper holds
for it. President Fox becomes a great
man in the public eye and a second
term is his reward.
As it is in government so is it in
arts, science and business. Exploita-
tion by newspapers makes most of the
leaders, gets them the best positions
and often keeps them in them after
their mediocrity has been discovered.
There isn’t an order from any De-
partment, whether it be promulgated
specifically for those in the service or
take the form of a plea to the people
to subscribe for bonds or help facili-
tate the mails by better directions on
letters, that isn’t paid for every step
of the way from the brain of its orig-
inator to the door of the newspaper
office which is expected to publish it.
There the cost to the government ends
and becomes the burden of the pub-
lisher.
What does he get in return for giv-
ing space, the only thing he has to
sell?
Only a few weeks ago the govern-
ment contracted for twelve billion
stamped envelopes. It will print these
up and retail them at a trifle more
than the cost of the stamps. It isn’t
retailing soap, or shoes, or drugs or
structural steel. It is underselling
only the printers of the country.
The manufacturer of any other com-
modity than printing can wrap a few
ounces of his product in a package
and mail it anywhere at the parcel
post rate. The printer must pay half
a cent an ounce on most of his manu-
|
factures. He isn't given the advan-
(Crnclnded at bottom of next column),
Lay
' doodle when it said that.
Another Hat in the Ring.
In our discussion of the possible
entries in the coming judicial race, in
these columns last week, we thought
we had covered the entire field of
those who have their ear to the
ground.
Of course we did not then consider
the new status of Judge Dale. He was
then district attorney of the county !
with no thought of becoming a candi-
date for Judge, either voluntarily or
involuntarily. Governor Pinchot has'
put him in a position where the entire
prospect is changed. He has relin-
quished a position that has three
years to run and faces the fact that
on December 31, next, he must go
back to gather up the practice that
has been scattered during his year on
the bench and make a new start in his
profession. At present Judge Dale
has no thought of what he will do. He
is so overwhelmed with the sudden-
ness of it all that the reactions have
not set in. As the court moves on,
if he should make no serious blunders
and conclude that he could successful-
ly defend a desire to succeed himself,
we feel that he will be in the race.
Some might say he would have noth-
ing to lose and everything to gain. |
We don’t view it that way, however.
Judge Dale would be in a much morg '
dignified position were he to make no
attempt for election than to do so and
take the chance of defeat. A repulse
by the electorate would be disastrous
to the honor that the Governor has
conferred on him.
As we have said above the exigen-
cies of the situation might make an
involuntary candidate of him. If that
should eventuate he would have to
contest the nomination in the Repub-
lican primaries with Mr. Keller, cer-
tainly, and possibly Mr. Furst. Judge
Dale’s following is largely among
what are known as ultra-drys, but as
Mr. Keller is known to be dry as the
Sahara might he not seriously cut
into Judge Dale’s support.
Should Judge Dale decide to enter
the Democratic primaries he would
have to contest it with the very man
or the position for years, Mr. John-
ston. The possibilities of such a split
up of the dry forces in the Demo-
cratic primaries would give Mr.
Spangler, Mr. Gettig, Mr. Runkle or
Mr. W. Harrison Walker a run-a-way
victory. We add Mr. Walker’s name
to the list of possible candidates au-
thoritatively. He has not announced,
but we know that he is seriously con-
sidering the matter and it will be no
surprise if he should toss his hat into
the ring before long.
In the light of these later develop-
ments we see an even more involved
contest in the offing than we thought
could be possible last week. But, as
we said then, it will be a fair field
with a plum quite worth an earnest,
dignified effort to get.
—The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
becomes facetious when it expresses
the thought that the fourteen Demo-
cratic Members who will sit in the
next session of the Legislature, ought
to label themselves in order to be con-
spicuous among their one hundred and ,
ninety-four Republican colleagues.
The Times was only dishing out flap-
It knows
better than its gullible readers that
there will be one Democrat sitting on
“the Hill” who will have more to do |
with shaping the legislation that |
Pennsylvania will enact in 1925 than i
all of the hundred and ninety-four Re- |
publicans it boasts of put together.
—Congress paid solemn tribute to
the memory of Woodrow Wilson on!
Monday. As a ceremonial it was im-
pressive, no doubt. But if the Con-
gress had paid heed to President Wil- :
son’s advice its tribute to his memory
would not have appeared so tainted |
with hypocrisy. [
—The plot thickens. There are two
others whom we had not thought of
who are thinking they would look !
good with the judicial ermine draped |
about their shoulders.
|
tage of parcel post rates until his par- |
cel reaches at least four pounds and
unless he is smart enough to load it
with a stone very few of his shipments
of printed matter weigh enough to
get them through the mails as cheap
as soap, shoes and everything else
goes.
Isn’t it strange that the very men
who are where they are because the
newspapers have thrown a glamour
of greatness about them don’t see the |
injustice of the situation that puts a
government in competition with one |
class of its people and not with any |
other? Isn’t it strange that a mer-
chant in Centre Hall can mail us two
pounds of blank paper for five cents |
and if we convert it into a herald
“mostly printed matter” we will have
to pay sixteen to mail it back to him?
VOL. 69. BELLEFONTE, PA.. DECEMBER 19. 1924.
Do You Know Why Yeu Are What
You Are?
In a paragraph sandwiched some-
where in this issue we expressed the
belief that not one per cent. of the
voters of the United States can give
a fundamental reason for his political
affiliation.
Since writing it we have pondered
over the thought until convinced that
: the subject was too vital to be dis-
missed lightly with a few lines.
#Do you know why you are a Demo-
crat?
Do you know why you are a Repub-
lican?
Heredity plays the largest part in
determining the political affiliations
of the voter. The young man or
young woman casting the first ballot
is guided more by what would please
father or mother most than anything
else. The first ballot is the declara-
tion of faith and nearly always con-
trols the vote through life.
Environment is the second agency
in potentially fixing the new voter’s
party allignment. If a boy or girl find
themselves surrounded with friends
who are largely of opposite political
faith than that of the home they were
brought up in or if the community in
which they live is dominated by the
opposite party they often ignore the
parental wish and go with the crowd.
A third element in the making of a
Democrat or Republican is ambition.
The man or woman who aspires to of-
fice, either elective or appointive,
trims his sails so as to catch the wind
| that’s most likely to blow them into
the port they hope to reach.
The courts, through the issuance of
naturalization papers, make Demo-
crats or Republicans out of the alien,
according as they are able to convince
him that he wouldn’t have secured his
papers if it had not been for the be-
neficence of this party or that.
In addition to these, the principal
ones, there are numerous channels
through which voters drift to a defi-
nite party haven. In none of them do
we find a fundamental reason for their
pine so. That is, in all these devi-
om the drys have been grooming .ofs courses to Democracy or Republi=ly
or
canism: there is not a single finger
borad explaining what either is.
As a matter of fact we have two
great political parties in the country
today, fighting bitterly every fall, os-
tensibly for the supremacy of their
principles, and yet not knowing what
their principles are or even sure that
they have any.
Do they have any? Is there any
real, fundamental difference between
a Democrat and a Republican today ?
Do they not fight more for the zest of
winning or the hope of office than a
deep seated conviction that the prin-
ciples they think they espouse are in
danger of violation.
Since the birth of the Republican
party there have been only two tra-
dition] differences between it and the
Democratic party. They were the tar-
iff and States’ rights. While Repub-
lican spellbinders have tried frantic-
ally to keep the tariff alive as a bogy
to frighten voters into their camp it
has long since been placed where it
belongs, among the local economic is-
sues that are not political. States’
rights, through the modern trend to-
ward centralization, has come to have
almost as many strong defenders in
the Republican camp as it does in the
one in which the issue was born.
Is there then anything in the poli-
tics of the country upon which the
people really divide other than expe-
iency? There are great issues that
might kindle historic differences, but
because there are so few who actual-
ly know why they are what they are,
politically, there is no demand, no
concert of effort to revive parties of
principle.
——And now the federal prison at
Atlanta is feeding the governmental
scandal mill at Washington. That is
another of the places in which Harry
Daugherty found a fat berth for a
friend. :
He Likes Classical Reading.
“Yes,” said a very interesting call-
er at this office, a few days ago, “I'm
goin’ to subscribe for this paper next
year. I'm goin’ to send it to my son
because he likes classical reading.”
We've been wondering ever since
whether the gentleman intended it for
a compliment or a crack at our aim to
keep scandal and gossip out of the
| “Watchman” and good English and
truth in it.
——Let us hope that those who
gather about the community Christ-
mas tree next Sunday night will try
to understand that it is designed to be
a service, not an orgie,
——Sunday will be the shortest day
in the year and will usher in the be-
ginning of winter, according to the
calendar, at 9:46 o’clock p. m.
N 0. 50. :
Sound Advice from Mr. Young.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
When General Dawes as head of the
‘commission of economic experts that
devised the German reparations plan
that has won approval in every test!
was asked for information on many of
the important phases of the scheme,
he was wont to say: “See Young.”
When Owen D. Young, one of the out-:
standing members of the commission
from the outset and the first agent
general of reparations - payments,
speaks on the subject he delegates
chief credit for the transformation
that is taking place in Europe to
Dawes. It isfine to see such brother-
ly feeling existing between the gentle-
men as an example of co-operation to
all. Mr. Young, a Democrat, would
put the idea into practice by establish-
ing a non-partisan foreign policy for
the United States; one based upon the
proposition that whether we desire it
or not we will have to co-operate with
other nations. “We may debate po-
litical participation in the affairs of
the world as we will,” Mr. Young de-
clared, in an address to a group of
New York business men, “but we must
participate in its business, and busi-
ness, like science, knows no: political
boundaries and in its dictionary there
is no such word as isolation.” i
That being beyond dispute; i
seer to be only common sg
the time has about arrived for the
members of the different political par-
ties to leave their shooting irons on
the outside when they assémble for
the discussion of matters &
with a foreign policy. Witl
Dawes, the other member of .
mon and Pythias team, about to be
come the presiding officer of the Sen-
ate, and, in his characteristic manner
denouncing as “pee wees” those who
would obtrude politics where the de-
mand is simply for horse-sense co-op-
eration, some progress may be made
toward getting the discussion of for-
eign affairs upon a broader basis. .
Mr. Young, in his way, also ig a
plain speaker. What some would by.
resent as the quintessence of patriot-
ism in the discussion OF ‘matiars of
foreign policy, he consi
the horse play of domestic
character that is purely partisan must
be divorced from fore olicy. There
must be an attitude foward foreign
affairs that will, “10 il é, consid-
er the League of Nations'free of any
small partisan prejudice, ready to join
in making use of it under any reason-
able circumstances. Development of
the nonpartisan spirit in the discus-
sion of foreign affairs would make it
possible for a citizen to show his in-
dividual judgment on the subject with-
out running a risk of incurring the
charge of being a traitor to his party.
Such a spirit would speedily put the
United States into membership in the
Permanent court of International Jus-
tice and hasten arms reduction, pro-
mote trade and humanitarian activ-
ities.
Advocated by a man of world re-
nown for his business judgment, the
proposition cannot be dismissed as a
mere dream. Application of it should
be possible right now. Democrats of
the Senate have shown their readiness
to support the recommendations of
two Republican Presidents of mem-
bership for the United States in the
World court. Lately the Republican
administration has been showing a
broader attitude toward the League of
Nations. Encourage this spirit and it
should not be long until the foreign
policy is freed of the horse play of do-
mestiz politics.
Since it has been demonstrated re-
peatedly that we cannot stay out of
world affairs—the spirit of humanity
and business alike knowing no bound-
ary lines—we should lose no time in
adjusting ourselves to them in the
most practical manner.
Giving and Misgiving.
From the Philadelphia North American.
Of the 538,867,928 Christmas gifts
now in process of thought, selection,
or packaging it is safe to say at least
the 23 will be misfits, and reasonable
to assume a still larger percentage of
undesirables. For this matter of
Yuletide bestowals has reached a
point where a good many of us go at
it blindly, without due consideration
of the consequences of giving. One
starts in at the wrong end by listing
“useful” things they need for persons
whose very lack of needfuls stirs in
them a longing for just one little lapse
into luxury. We fancy this is one rea-
son why certain types used to get
drunk on Christmas day—they could
not stand the pressure of strictly util-
itarian remembrances.
A woman who scrubs floors cannot
be expected to rejoice and give thanks
for a new pair of knee pads, nor is it
fair to expect a man who hauls ashes
to glow with joy at sight of a shovel.
For the one we would suggest some
airy trifle for personal adornment—
smile if you choose, but there’s horse-
sense in this—and for the other per-
haps a necktie for too choice to be
worn save on festive occasions which
are as rare as hen’s teeth.
Christmas is a fine time to distrib-
ute food for dreams, even though they
be of a kind unapt to come true, and
to gratify desires which are as dim
and distant as a star of the second
magnitude on a misty night.
2 A ——— A ——————
—When you see it in the “Watch-
man’ you know it’s true.
‘| over to tie his shoe lace.
. | darted out and bit him.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
WPT REE oh Hi —— BAY
,—Fourteen hours after overpowering 8
guard in the Lebanon county jail and es-
caping, William J. Bishop, convicted slay-
_ér of Enos Robb, of Palmyra, was captur-
ed on Sunday evening by state police at
- | the home of his wife at Hershey.
—A legal fight over a fortune of more
than $35,000 said to have been amassed by
the late Ellen Clark, of Philadelphia, dur-
ing a lifetime over wash tubs, and in
which Cardinal Daugherty is named as a
‘| defendant, is pending in the orphan’s court
of that city before Judge Thompson.
—LeRoy Berger, of Pocono Lake, was
shot and killed on Monday at the close of
the deer hunting season by the accidental
discharge of his own gun when he stooped
H was twenty
years old. It was the third fatality of the
‘| Monroe-Pike district during the hunting
season. i
—1It cost Altoona $60,000 to eliminate the
mine drainage from the municipal water
supply at the Horseshoe Curve and now
the councilmen plan to bring suit against
the mine owners to recover that amount.
Recently the Pennsylvania Supreme court
decided a coal company has no right to
drain its waters into a creek used by the
publie.
—The closing of a deal on Monday trans-
ferred the ownership of a valuable piece of
coal land to Dr. John P. Haag, of Wil-
liamsport. He purchased seventy acres in
Kathaus township, Clearfield county, un-
derlaid with three veins of coal, varying
in size from three to six feet. The land is
covered with timber. The property ad-
joins that of the Snow Shoe Coal compa-
ny, of which Mr. Haag is president.
—Mrs. J. B. Kendig, 69 years old, of Lan-
caster, was burned to death in front of
the furnace in the cellar of her home on
Thursday afternoon. She was found by
her husband. The woman was cleaning
house and is believed to have gone to the
cellar to attend to the furnace fire. She
was not absent long. Her body was found
lying in front of the furnace door all sear-
ed and all the clothes burned from her
body. i
—Pellagra, a disease rarely encountered
in this climate, caused the death of George
Setree, 64 years old, one of the leading cit-
izens of Rossiter, after a six weeks’ illness.
It is not known where Mr. Setree contract-
ed the disease. It is common in warmer
climates, but it is not regarded as serious,
according to physicians, but the attack
sustained by Mr. Setree was of such a na-
ture that best efforts to treat it were of no
avail. 2 :
- —Suit against Mr. and Mrs. Constantine
H. Contos, of Reading, Pa., was filed in
Philadelphia, last Thursday, for $10,000
dowery or $3,000 in wages by Mrs. /Ellen
Backas Christopoulos, their niece, of Ath-
ens, Greece, who claims she was brought
to this country by ‘the couple who prom-
ised to “treat her as a daughter,” but in-
stead used her as a domestic servant and
failed to find her a husband as they had
agreed to do.
—Joseph Winterer, 35 years of age, of
i Mechanicsville, a suburb of Pottsville, is
dead from the effect of a spider's bite. One
day last week Winterer brushed aside a
spider web and spied a small spider, which
It was a black
spider and Winteréer felt no alarm over the
‘tiny wound, but blood poisoning developed
and he died. Physicians said the case is
very rare, and as a rule the average house
spider need not be feared.
—Jonathan Hooley, an Amish farmer, re-
siding near Cold Water in the Kishaco-
quillas valley, played safe on Saturday
afternoon when he found a spike buck en-
tangled and helpless in a barbed wire
fence. Mr. Hooley said the horns looked a
little short and leaving the buck impris-
oned he walked across the field to the
house where he procured a ruler and meas-
uring the spikes found them just a quar-
ter of an inch short above the hair and re-
leased it.
—A minor injury suffered two months
ago in alighting from his automobile
caused the death on Friday of Dr. Charles
A. Haines, burgess of Sayre and one of the
best known surgeons in that section of the
State. A nerve snapped in his right leg as
he was leaving his machine, which stop-
ped the blood circulation in the lower part
of the limb, and despite efforts of special-
ists the blood poison spread through his
system. Dr. Haines was attached to the
Packer hospital staff at Sayre, and also
was physician for the Lehigh Valley rail-
road in that place.
—Finding 700 turkeys and chickens that
had died over night in one wholesale poul-
try house in Wilkes-Barre, and hundreds
in other markets, Dr. Emery Lutes, meat
inspector, of that city, has placed an em-
barge on shipments of live fowl. All
healthy poultry on hand was ordered kill-
ed at once and all sick and dead chickens
and crates and coops were burned. The
action was taken on the advice of Dr. BE. T.
Munce, of the State Health Department,
who pronounced the disease the European
plague, for which no cure is known. All
local railroads and express companies were
notified not to accept or handle any ship-
ments of live poultry destined for Wilkes-
Barre.
—One family will receive compensation
from the same employer for twenty-four
years by a unique compensation agreement
which the Workmen's Compensation Bu-
reau disclosed on Saturday. Ordinary
compensation payments in fatal cases do
not cover more than sixteen years, but in
the case just decided a woman was twice
married and both husbands died from in-
juries. The first husband was Paul Le-
gant, of Ernest, and the second Joe Bacco.
Both men were killed while working for
the Jeffersan & Clearfield Coal and Iron
company. Total compensation payable to
the widow and her four children is $8407,
not including the $100 allowed in each case
for funeral expenses. :
—More than $500 worth of Federal prop-
erty was stolen from the armory of Troop
D, 103rd Cavalry, at Lewisburg, by thieves
who forced an entrance to the building.
The loot included twelve 48 caliber auto-
matic pistols, six prismatic field glasses,
and thirty leather belts of the type more
commonly used by regular army soldiers.
The automatic pistols comprise the most
valuable part of the loss. Since the theft
was first discovered a thorough investiga-
tion has been made. It was found that
entrance had been forced by removing a
panel in a rear door, enabling the intrud-
ers to lift a heavy wooden bar from the
stays. Inside the arm chests were pried
open and the pistols removed. Other prop-
erty compartments were forced open and
ransacked,