iY INK SLINGS.
—At last poor Spring street is be-
ing succored by the borough repair
gang.
' —Don’t plant your corn until the
leaves on the white oak are as large
as a squirrel’s ear.
+ .—There are only two or three
things we’d rather do than fish, but
~work isn’t one of them.
—Ireland will have to be hunting
another St. Patrick. A snake was dis-
covered on the ould sod a few days
.ago.
——If the Athletics manage to
stage a real come-back Connie Mack
will be the lion of the Sesqui-centen-
nial.
——Von Hindenburg is now Presi-
dent of the German Republic and the
late Kaiser will continue to reside at
- Doorn. :
—The only excuse a lot of us have
in stickin’ round is to prove the wis-
dom of the writer of “the poor are
“with us always.”
. —May is half gone and the month
of roses, brides and sweet girl zrad-
.uates will be here all too soon for all
of us except those who hope to be
brides.
—After all, night flying won’t be a
new thing when it is launched over
"Bellefonte. Ever since we have known
“anything of the town there seems to
have been a lot of it done.
—The International Council of
Women in Washington seems to have
.done little but fight, but we’re a poor
-one to comment on that. What did
.our convention of Democrats do in
New York all last July?
-—The colony of grey squirrels that
has been established on the campus
of The Pennsylvania State College
certainly ought to wax and grow fat.
“There are always plenty of “nuts” to
“be found on a college campus.
* —Some of these fine days some Re-
publican leader will screw up enough
courage to advise his party to walk
right into the League of Nations with-
-out further attempts to discover a
‘back door through which it can sneak
in.
© ~—No, dear girl, the announcement
“that the Jersey Coast is going dry
doesn’t mean that there will be no
‘more bathing at ‘Atlantic City. The
ocean is still there. All the augment-
-ed dry navy is doing is taking a lot
of the “soak” from it. ,
—There was nothing in Von Hin-
-denburg’s inaugural address as Pres-
ident of Germany to give much com-
fort or hope to the exile of Doorn. If
“he meant what he said he has no in-
tention of pulling any chestnuts out
an
of the fire for Wilhelm. wil)
—This week the Johnston hat is
formally iu the judicial ring. So far
‘as campaigning is concerned our ob-
.servation is that all of the worthy
gentlemen who are desirous of making
votes will have to do some runnin’. to
keep step with the Walker in the race.
—Three years ago, Wednesday, the
‘Centre County bank closed its doors.
Since then a dozen banking institu-
tions in Pennsylvania have closed un-
der more discouraging outlooks, yet
all but one of them are open again
and well on the way to recovery of
their losses.
—-Senator Reed returned from a
three month’s trip abroad, on Monday,
and his first public utterance was in-
sistence that Senator Pepper announce
his candidacy for election at once.
Dave must have heard some of Gif-
ford’s plans while over in Europe and
hopes to help Pepper frustrate them.
—Cuba is going to spend one hun-
dred and fifty thousand dollars in
celebrating the inauguration of her
new President and take three days off
for a holiday. Sounds big, doesn’t it,
but the President has little guarantee
that the volatile Cubans won’t try a
corn cutter on his neck the moment
‘they get sobered up from the effects
of the inaugural orgie.
. —Last Monday Prof. Arthur H.
‘Holmes told the assembled Baptist
‘ministers of Philadelphia to get rich
.and thereby increase their influence.
‘The idea of a professor telling a
preacher or an editor to get rich re-
calls an old jingle that wonderfully
expresses such a fatuous fulmination:
He wrote a book on how to get rich
It really was a corker,
Next day I met him on the street
And he “touched” me for a quarter,
—We hear doleful tales of the
plight of some of the Centre countians
‘who departed for Florida last fall in
such high hopes of finding easy mon-
2y. Some of them are said to be out
of work and out of the price to get
back to good old Centre with. Exper-
ience is a dear but very valuable
teacher. It has never failed to show
those who acquire it that there isn’t
such a thing as easy money except in
a political job.
—Besides having learned to get all
the speed out of their motorized ap-
paratus without breaking their own or
any other person’s necks, the Belle-
fonte firemen are gaining a reputation
for getting furniture out of burning
homes without wrecking it worse than
the flames might have done. At a
Curtin street fire last Friday they
carried a china closet, full of fragile
dishes and glassware down two flights
of stairs to safety and only one cup
was cracked. There are lots of do-
mestics who would have done more
damage than that merely getting
enough dishes out on which to serve
supper.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 70.
Senatorial Campaign Will Soon Open.
The return of Senator Reed from
Europe, where he has been on person-
al and official business for several
weeks, is likely to mark the beginning
of the primary campaign for the Re-
publican nomination for Senator in
Congress. In fact before he had set
his foot on the shore of his native
land he expressed a purpose to urge
Senator Pepper to announce his can-
didacy and his belief that “his col-
league will have the full support of
the organization,” to quote from one
of the political writers who welcomed
him home. He appraised the gossip
of Congressman Vare’s aspirations as
unimportant and reckoned Governor
Pinchot as merely “a possibility” in
the equation, hardly worth serious
consideration. :
Obviously Senator Reed has not
been in close touch with recent devel-
opments in Pennsylvania politics. It
is/true that Governor Pinchot has not
given “definite declaration” of his am-
bition to succeed Pepper but “a wink
is as good as a nod to a blind mule,”
and Senator Reed’s associates in the
movement to re-elect Pepper are not
indulging in doubts on the subject.
They realize that he is a candidate for
the nomination and a very formidable
candidate at that. He has a substan-
tial organization of the official forces
of the State, a practically unanimous
support of the prohibition element and
through Vare, Grundy and Magee, of
Pittsburgh, is ' secretly reaching out
for a share of the “wet” vote.
It may be that Senator Pepper has
a shade the better of the situation.
He has the powerful influence of Sec-
retary Mellon, the equally substantial
support of the big corporations, the
experience and skill of State chairman
Baker and the moral help of President
Coolidge behind | him. But he will
need all he has to defeat a candidate
who has sufficient nerve and adroit-
ness to work both sides of the prohi-
bition question and maintain an equi-
librium. Senator Reed is wise, how-
ever, in urging an early opening of
the campaign. His candidate will
need an early start aud a steady pull.
The Pinchot methods are peculiar and
ing: romen voters gs well ag
that element of the electorate, the
“floater.”
——The conclusion of the Geneva
conference to control - the traffic in
‘arms and ammunition, refutes the
idea that the great powers would con-
trol the ‘work ‘of the’ League of Na-
tions.
Approval That Seems Incongruous.
The State Grange, according to the
Grange News, official organ of that
body, is fairly well pleased with the
work of the last session of the Gener-
al Assembly. Among the measures
adopted are the appropriation of
$100,000 to fight the Japanese beetle:
the game damage act; that requiring
stricter rugulation of places where
milk is bought; the amendment to the
fertilizer law; that imposing quaran-
tine on the European corn borer; the
act fixing the legal weight of a bushel
of apples at forty-five instead of
forty-eight pounds; the forestry bond
issue amendment, and it is grateful
for the defeat of the Ludlow bill reg-
ulating the assessment and collection
of taxes. All these are meritorious.
We can easily understand why the
State. Grange should be pleased with
the enactment of the several bills
enumerated by the Grange News. The
bill for cattle indemnities was espe-
cially needed and that for fighting
against the Japanese beetle accepta-
ble though the appropriation ought to
have been considerably greater. If it
is true that farmers suffer severely
from the depredations of game they
ought to be reimbursed and the for-
estry bond issue measure will be a
vast benefit to the people of today as
well as to posterity. But we cannot
understand why the members of the
State Grange should be gratified be-
cause of the defeat of the Ludlow bill.
The principal purposes of the Lud-
low bill were first to create substan-
tial equality in the assessment of
property for taxes and second to de-
crease the vastly excessive cost of
collecting the taxes. The farmers
have justly complained for years that
they have been discriminated against
in the assessment for tax purposes.
Farmers, merchants, mechanics,
bankers, manufacturers and every-
body else have justly complained
against the excessive cost of collect-
ing taxes. It costs $4,000,000 to col-
lect the tax in Pennsylvania while
it ought to cost less than one million.
The Ludlow bill would have cut out
this three million dollars of graft and
it is not easy to see why farmers
should rejoice at its defeat.
re e——— erent
——Senator Borah doesn’t enhance
his reputation for wisdom by such an
absurd statement as that we should
not join the world court until a code
of international laws has been en-
acted.
.cants is about to close. The smug--
BELLEFONTE, PA.. MAY 15. 1925.
Booze and Politics Responsible.
For some reason thus far unex-
plained the enforcement of prohibi-
tion laws has been vastly improved
within a few days. A couple of weeks
ago Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
issued a statement on the subject and
immediately signs of tightening the
lines revealed themselves. Last week
information was given out that the
coast guard had been increased and an
active movement against the rum.
fleet anchored outside the twelve mile
limit had been started. Now it is
said that the rum running flotilla is.
preparing for a retreat and that the:
foreign source of supply of intoxi-
glers were numerous and resourceful |
only because the enforcers were weak’
and willing. t
The result of last week’s activities!
in the matter of enforcement prac-:
tically proves that no. serious effort.
had been previously made to prevent
the smuggling operations. It makes it:
reasonably clear also that enforce-:
ment of the prohibition legislation in |
the interior of the country would be:
more effective if it were more honest-'
ly conducted. In fact it proves con-
clusively that Governor Pinchot’s
charge that the prohibition agents,
both State and national, have been
delinquent in the performance of
their duties was correct. If Secretary:
Mellon had taken the stand a year ago
that he assumed a few days since it
may be fairly said that the bootleg-
gers would havee been less successful
and their business less profitable.
The Eighteenth amendment is a
part of the constitution and the Vol-
stead law is on the statute books,
whether properly or not makes little
difference. The amendment to the
constitution and the - Volstead law
may be replaced or modified
some time but not soon. In
the meantime they are both in force
and entitled to respect. Officials upon
whom devolves the duty of enforcing
them have been recreant or else
greater progress would have been
made in their work. But the blame
is not on the individuals. It is on the
ing enforcement. Th partnership
between the Republican machine and
the booze interests is responsible.
In the absence of information
it is impossible to appraise the dam-
age of frosts but it is a safe guess
that the farmers are entitled to sym-
pathy.
Senator Borah’s False Idea.
In an address before the Unitarian
Laymen’s League, in Boston, on Mon-
day evening, Senator Borah, of Idaho,
declared that he is opposed to the In-
ternational Court of Justice because
under the conditions of its creation
and existence, it is an instrument of
the League of Nations. This is a
frank acknowledgement of a fact
which everybody who had given the
subject thought previously under-
stood. Senator Borah was among the
most bitter of the antagonists of the
League. He may not have been influ-
enced, as Senator Lodge certainly
was, by disappointed ambition and ha-
tred of President Wilson. On the con-
trary his action may have been the re-
sult of a desire for isolation. But
whatever it was it was intense.
The International Court of Justice
was created by the covenant of the
League of Nations as an instrument
through and by which its processes
might be served and enforced. The
Hague treaty was without value for
the reason that no provision had been
made for the enforcement of its man-
dates and the Congress of Versailles
proposed this court and equipped it
with power to accomplish results. Sen-
ator Borah would strip it of this nec-
essary force until by some process a
code of international law were creat-
ed. Of course, as former Attorney
General Wickersham observes, this
would be silly. Such a code is the
League of Nations.
Senator Lodge opposed the League
of Nations because President Wilson
declined to appoint him as a delegate
to the Versailles Congress. As chair-
man of the Senate committee on for-
eign relations he imagined he was en-
titled to a seat in that conference. In
the peace conference following the
Spanish war the chairman of that
committee sat. But President Wilson
preferred less ambitious and more de-
pendable men to perform the service
in Versailles. Borah had no such rea-
son for his opposition to the League.
He was opposed to it because he be-
lieves in absolute isolation and he is
opposed to the international court for
the reason that it was created by the
League and is an instrument of that
body.
re ree frescos.
—The Governor has the last say in
legislation and as might have been ex-
‘herself, and. that the government of
pected in the circumstances he has
frequently spoken with an ax.
Nothing New Under the ‘Sun.
The new American Ambassador at
the Court of St. James made a speech
at the Prilgrim’s dinner in London, the
other day, as all new American Am-
bassadors to that court have done for
fifty years or more. But this Am-
bassador took a different tack from
that of some of his predecessors. It
will be recalled that when George
Harvey, President Harding’s ap-
pointee, addressed the Pilgrims he
said we fought in the world war be-
cause we were afr id to run away. In
his hopeless stupidity he imagined
that line of talk would please Great
Britain and make him popular in Lon-
don. With any other administration
than that of Mr. Harding it would
have cost him his commission.
Ambassador Houghton was proba-
bly as anxious to please London as
Harvey but adopted a different pro-
cess of achieving that result. He said
in substance that the government of
the United States will not help Europe
until Europe shows signs of helping
the United States will not encourage
the extension of credits to other gov-
ernments until other governments
begin - to honor obligations already
due. * Both these statements were
right in line with the wishes of
“those present.” It was no menace
to Great Britain. It was a notice to
France, Germany and Russia, and ex-
pressed the views of Great Britain
quite as accurately as those of the
United States. .
But some of our Republican con-
temporaries are lauding the speech of
Ambassador Houghton as a new de-
parture in America foreign policy and
a promising indication of a higher
standard of diplomatic morals. - As a
matter of fact it marks no change in
the foreign policy of our government
that might be commended. It is the
same policy that influenced us to re-
main outside of the League of Nations
when our going in would have saved
civilization billions of dollars and
brought peace and prosperity to the
world more than five years ago. The
truth is that the Coolidge administra-
tion is as much at sea with reference
4 weigy affairs as the Harding ad- |
inistration was. :
The arrival in Centre Hall last
week of a car load of tile is material
evidence that the Reitz Bros., of Sun-
bury, will soon begin work on their
contract of building the state high-
way over Nittany mountain, from the
watering trough to Centre Hall. In
the meantime the contractors in
charge of the work over the mountain
to Snow Shoe and up Bald Eagle val-
ley are pushing their work with un-
usual vigor and residents along those
thoroughfares are living in high
hopes that the jobs will be completed
within the stipulated time, of four
months.
——Four starters are now in the
judicial race, W. Harrison Walker, N.
B. Spangler and J. Kennedy Johnston
courting the favor of the Democrats
for the nomination, and Harry Keller
the lone Republican aspirant. Judge
Dale seems to be on the fence as to
his political alignment, but it is re-
ported that immediately following the
conclusion of next week’s court he in-
tends jumping into the ring, but it is
still a toss up whether he will land on
the g. o. p. elephant or the Democrat-
ic donkey. ee
rm ————— fp eee sem.
The U. S. weather . bureau’s
prognostications on Monday slipped a
cog somewhere, for which we are all
thankful. Following the steady down-
pour of rain on Sunday night and
Monday morning the bureau issued a
warming of a “hard frost due Monday
night.” It didn’t materialize in this
section by any means and there wasn’t
any great amount of snap in the air
on Tuesday morning. All of which
leads us to hope that the danger of
frosts has passed for this season.
itm teencce fp freemen erm——
——According to yesterday’s Phila-
delphia Record the Public Ledger
company has secured control of the
Philadelphie North American and will
merge it with the Ledger. The last
issue of the North American will ap-
pear on Monday, May 18th.
——Nearly two weeks have elapsed
since Charlie Snyder was taken off
the State pay roll and nobody knows
how he is going to get on again.
——— A ———————
——What the effect on Russia of
the return of Trotzky to power may
be it will give little encouragement to
the hopes of people generally. :
————— i ——————
——The bootleggers have had pros-
perous business for some time but the
future view of the business is not en-
tirely enticing.
——It is gratifying to learn that
“informal - debt conversations are in
progress” between Paris and Wash-
ington,
NO. 20.
Law Among Nations.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The suggestion has been made that
President Coolidge sponsor a third
Hague conference to deal with recent
developments in the field of interna-
tional law. The idea will bear ex-
pounding and expansion. It is in the
current of present-day world thought.
With proper guidance and support, it
is full of momentous possibilities.
At present the movement has pro-
gressed no further than an attempt to
codify what now exists of the laws of
nations. Important as are the efforts
to bring into definite form the prac-
tices and customs of international pol-
itics, the idea of evolving and estab-
lishing a juridicial conception of in-
ternational relations, a conception
which will pass above and beyond pol-
itics, is and must be the ultimate aim
of the movement.
There is nothing impossible in a
break with the past which the substi-
tution of something else in place of
politics would involve. The concept of
national sovereignty which has serv-
ed the Western world since the erumb-
ling of the feudal system constituted
a break with the past. It is entirely
within the bounds of possibility that a
world which has seen and suffered the
faults of that doctrine may be ready
to turn to some broader conception.
That is a matter to which thinking
men today are devoting their minds.
Justice to all nations is.the ideal. . It
cannot be obtained through political
methods. This realization has brought
about a sort of dull despair. If is dif-
ficult, however, for men who have fol-
lowed the development of common law
and equity as applied to individuals to
admit that there are among nations
wrongs which have no remedy.
Codification of international law,
then, is not enough.’ The law must be
evolved under broad and general prin-
ciples to which all nations can agree.
Political ‘thinking must be subordinat-
ed to juridical thinking. With a world
tribunal based upon the broad princi-
ples of justice, the nations must be as-
sured that, as between then¥” there is
no wrong without a remedy. a !
This idea has made and is making
progress. Any international confer-
ence on the subject of international
law should be entered with the deter-
mination to give it support and impe-
tus. A constitution of the world may
today seem only a dream: It can and
zsh be made reality throu
with the past, through" ! on
of fhe ‘juridical concept for thé polit-
ical. ;
Hindering Helps.
From the Philadelphia North American.
At 89 “Uncle Joe” Cannon still has
a way of hitting the nail on the head
with his tongue. When the reporters
interviewed him on his birthday he
said, “The world is moving forward
so fast with new inventions for our
comfort and convenience that I find it
hard to keep pace.”
In other words, we are approaching
that place reached by the poor man’s
children who never had had enough
sugar and suddenly were given access
to a whole barrel—“where it ain't
sweet no more.”
The wise old Illinoisan gives voice
to what some of us have been wonder-
ing about. - We've been trying to fig-
ure out why all these marvelous first
aids to everything from toast to trous-
er creases haven’t done more for us in
the way of ease of living and added
time for certain things crude methods
used to crowd out. It would seem rea-
sonable to assume that such a flood of
them, covering every phase of every-
day needs, would calm and seothe us,
whereas the doctors are beginning to
say we'll end in the insane asylum if
we don’t lead less hectic lives.
This thing of trying to keep up with
modern conveniences and enjoy half-
miraculous comforts is getting on our
nerves. Progress is setting too swift
a pace. We have so many things to
use that we haven’t time to use them.
There are so many places to go, and
motors have made going so easy, that
we just can’t get to half of them. We
are all entangled in inventions. We're
cursed with conveniences. And com-
forts are so numerous that we wear
ourselves out testing them. One is re-
minded of Elbert Hubbard's favorite
saying—*“One horseshoe is good luck,
and a load of horseshoes is junk.”
What Hindenburg Means.
From the Villager. :
What changes will the election of
Hindenburg bring in? Better remark
what changes the Hindenburg elec-
tion demonstrates have mot been
brought in. There was never the
slightest warrant, either in history or
in contemporary events, for believing
that the German people chafed under
Germanism; there was every evidence
that Germanism was the true expres-
sion of the German people themselves,
of their deepest, most fervent beliefs,
hopes, predictions. The most unsub-
stantial of the many fictions which the
war brought into being was that
which sprang up, under the name of
“the German people,” in a land whose
citizens throughout the war marvelled
daily how ~ the German could be so
blind to the “psychology” of others.
rnp fm, :
——The race is not always to the
swift ‘nor the battle to the strong,”
and by’ the same’ token first starters
are not ‘always winners, ° .
Entities +
—1It is "said that one who says
‘nothing may be fairly safe even if he
doesn’t saw wood.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. -
—Fire originating in a defective flue de-
stroyed the residence of Mr. and Mrs Lin-
coln Kauffman, near Oaklind Mills, Juni-
ata county. Their little daughter Arlene,
18 months old, was overcome by smoke in
an upstairs room where she was sleeping
and died before she could be removed.
_—A mysterious light which has been
burning on the highest peak of the Blue
mountains at Lehigh Gap, overlooking
Palmerton and many other places, for some
time has been extinguished by the fire
warden of the district. It is not known
who placed the light there and who saw to
it that it kept burning.
. —United States Marshall Glass arrested
Mrs. Anna Long, of Marion Heights, Nor-
thumberland county, on Saturday morn-
ing on a charge of misappropriating $3500
of the Keiser postoffice funds while she
was postmistress there. Commissioner
Engle placed her under $1000 bond for a
hearing in Williamsport in June.
—Liquor hijackers rushed into the Allie
garage at Pittsburgh, last Thursday, over-
powered the watchman on duty and drove
away a truck loaded with twenty-seven
barrels of syrup for soda fountains. The
syrup was in barrels that closely resem-
bled whiskey kegs, and it is believed the
bandits thought they - were stealing a
truckload of whiskey worth a small for-
tune. :
—Galeton residents are delighted that
the tannery plant in that village is to re-
sume operations with between 200 and 300
hands, per announcement made after a
visit Tuesday of high officials of the United
States Leather company and the Elk Tan-
ning company. ' The tannery has been shut
down more than a year, and prior to that
time was running only about 25 per cent
capacity. .
—The “Red Men's League,” of Central
Pennsylvania has voted to acquire and
manage a home and hospital for the care
of the aged and infirm members of the Im-
proved Order of Red Men and the Degree
of Pocahontas, with Harry Rothrock, R. E.
Garrett and Roy M. Orr, of Lewistown;
Joseph Rodgers and W. J. Dick, of Sha-
‘mokin; D. P. Reeder, Sunbury, and M. O.
Bottorf, Lock Haven, as trustees.
Miss Naomi Alexander, of Lancaster, R.
F. D. No. 1, says her short skirt saved her
life last Wednesday morning. She was
hiking five miles to that city, where she
works, and was trapped in the middle of
a high trestle by a street car. Her short
skirt enabled her to lower herself over the
side of the bridge without becoming en-
tangled. The motorman observed her
plight, stopped the trolley and helped her
back.
—James Spurman, a taxicab driver, of
Philadelphia, dropped 635 feet to the bot-
tom of a drydock at the Philadelphia na-
vy yard on Saturday and was instantly
killed. Spurman had driven several naval
officials to the yard and was turning his
car around when the rear wheels slipped
over the edge of the drydock. - He leaped
from the car, but missed his hold on the
edge of the dock and plunged to the bot-
tom, landing on top of the wrecked cab.
—Saturday night means little to Joseph
Bender, of Middletown, Dauphin county,
but is much the same as any ocher night.
His wife testified on Friday in the Dau-
phin county court in her suit against him
for non-support that he hadn’t taken a
bath for two years. “Will you live with
your husband?” Judge Hargest ‘asked.
“No,” replied Mrs. Bender, ‘he hasn't
washed himself in two years.” The court
ordered Bender to pay his wife $5 a week.
—Miss Louise Hays, aged 58, was drown-
ed on Sunday morning in two feet of
water in the springhouse on her father’s
farm, one mile south of Shippensburg, Pa.
She was subject to fainting spells and it
is believed was overcome by an attack,
falling into the water and drowning be-
fore help could reach her. She was found
by her sister and brother, who went to
search for her when she did not return
after leaving the home for water about
7.30.
—Pulling his 5-year-old sister Helen
Louise from under the wheels of a freight
train on the Pennsylvania railroad, at
Washington, Pa., an Saturday, Bobby
Braner,11, son of Homer Braner, narrowly
escaped death himself. He lost a toe on his
right foot when it was caught by a wheel.
Bobby and his sister had been playing in
the railroad yards. Some of the boys
climbed up and over the cars. The little
girl started to crawl under them. Bobby
reached her just as the train started to
move.
—All the holdings of the Joseph T.
Thropp company, including the Everelt
and Saxton furnaces, four coal mines, 500
coke ovens and 5,000 acres of coal lands
have been sold under the direction of re-
ceiver Andrew S. Webb, of Philadelphia,
for $800,000. An equity suit a year ago
against the company resulted in the ap-
pointment of a receiver and a court order
for the sale. The purchaser’s name was
not announced and it is believed the prop-
erty was bought in the interests of Phila-
delphia creditors.
—Frederick Komora, a trucker, living
near Zieglerville, Montgomery county, was
awarded six cents damages by a jury in
civil court in a suit brought to recover
fram Charles Dice, a neighbor, for loss -
sustained through failure of crops, alleged
to be due to the fact that he could not cul-
tivate his potatoes or other truck by day
for fear of being stung by a swarm of bees
which the neighbor kept close to the line
dividing the properties. Komora said he
was obliged to plant his corn by night,
while the bees were not working.
—Picking. up a child in front of her
house when she saw him fall off a bakery
truck on which he was getting a ‘fender
ride” and telling him “not to cry” while
she wiped the mud from his face, Mrs.
Walter Mish, of Reading, was horrified to
find that the child was her own son, Joe,
8 years old, and that he was dead. He had
sustained a broken neck and fractured
skull. Eight or nine boys had climbed on
the truck. Andrew, a brother of the child,
said another boy pushed Joe off the truck.
Mrs. Mish, who saw the tragedy, exonerat-
ed the truck driver, Francis F. Wieland.
—Work has been started on the erection
of thirty new cottages at the Newton
Hamilton camp grounds of the Central
Pennsylvania conference of the Methodist
church, the buildings to be completed by
the latter part of June when the summer
schedule of outdoor meetings will be
opened. Dates for the various camps in-
clude: June 30 to July 7 and August 19
to August 26, Epworth League institutes:
July 18 to 28, eamp for girls; July 28 to
August 6, boys’ camp. A representative of
the Boy Scout organization from national
headquarters will be present on the latter
dates to participate ‘in ‘the boys’ tamp
period: