EE EET,
INK SLINGS.
—Fall is only fifty-two days off.
——If somebody will devise a plan
to eliminate politics from the equa-
tion a coal strike may be averted.
—When St. Peter passed Bryan
through the Gate we’ll bet his seat
check called for one beside Luther and
"Calvin and Wesley.
—Oats has matured so irregularly
in Centre county that some is already
in the barns, while a lot of it won't be
ready to cut for several weeks.
—By way of doing a little joy-kill-
ing let us remind the Bellefonte boys
and girls that they have only thirty
days more of vacation from school.
—After today we presume, the golf
sticks will be as persistent in keeping
us from concentrating on work as the
fishing rod has been since the fifteenth
of April.
—Having utterly failed in his role
as the Moses of the Senate Vice Pres-
ident Dawes has found directing a
jazz orchestra more encouraging to
his ambition to lead something.
—When Lord Gladstone called his
father’s defamer “a liar and a cow-
ard” he uttered fighting words, but it
appears that Mr. Peter-E. Wright, the
offending biographer, is a writer, not
a fighter.
—Seventy-five thousand dollar's
worth of rum was found in the cellar
of a house on Poplar street, Philadel-
phia, on Monday. With such a cache
that thoroughfare might better have
been named Popular street.
—We haven’t spoken to one of the
judicial candidates who isn’t absolute-
ly certain that he is going to be nom-
inated and elected. That is the right
spirit for an earnest candidate to ex-
ude. And we'll all have to wait until
September fifteenth to know which
ones have. gotten it by “hollerin’ in
the rain bar’l.”
—The decision of Mexico to take
some stand against the influx of com-
munists from Russia to that country
is a long step in the way of insuring
itself against more internal unrest
than it has alredy been having. Inci-
dentally, it is pleasant for us to think
that danger of the red flag being run
up along the Rio Grande is not so im-
minent.
—Great political leaders are not be-
ing made these days. The old ones
are dying and few give even promise
of taking their places at the head of
the political parties. We don’t quite
get the Republican worry over the
supposed dearth of material in our
party, however. Wasn’t it only last
fall that they told us that the Demo-
cratic party is dead? When we get
the army together competent and ca-
pable leaders will be found at its head.
—1If Senator Pepper has any idea of
succeeding himself as the Senator in
Congress for Pennsylvania he had bet-
ter employ more astute management
of his campaign than has beén shown
up to this writing. Pinchot has and
will probably hold the country dis-
tricts while Pepper has neither Phil-
adelphia nor Allegheny in such a cou-
dition of party harmony as to insure
him a vote large enough to overcome
what the Governor can reasonably
count on up-State.
—The Metropolitan journals that
are so worried over what is to happen
to the Democratic party since the
death of Mr. Bryan that they are at-
tempting to alienate the followers of
Woodrow Wilson by questioning the
propriety of burying “The Common-
er” in Arlington are hard pressed for
ammunition. What if Wilson is lying
at one side of the city and Bryan is
laid at the other? May not the meet-
ing place of their followers be at the
‘White House in the center?
—Whatever else may be said of Mr.
Bryan we recall no other American as
dominant as he in the public life of
our country for three decades. While
many of the theories he advocated
- were illogical and would never have
made the slightest impression on the
public mind had it not been for the
hypnotic witchery of his oratory he
lived to see some of his so called “her-
esies” accepted as sound governmental
doctrine. He never gained the goal
of his greatest ambition, but no one
of the great men who did died fighting
for a nobler cagse.
—Governor Pinchot might enlist
greater co-operation in Lis Giant-Pow-
er proposition were he to be more ex-
plicit in explaining how it is to oper-
ate. We all recognize the fact that,
sooner or later, the entire country will
be in control of an “electric monopo-
ly,” as he stated in his Philadelphia
speech of Tuesday, but what safe-
guards does the Governor’s “hobby”
offer to keep the country from falling
into the hands of a political monopoly.
Experience has taught the public that
business monopoly is bad, but that
political monopoly is far worse.
—The three rubber ladened ships
that are rushing across the oceans
from Singapore to New York to get
their cargoes delivered before August
first present an interesting phase of
the exactitude of business contracts.
On what the stokers in the holds of
those vessels can do by way of making
steam depends a fortune, no doubt, for
if the rubber is not landed here by to-
day the contract for July delivery has
been broken and the price falls. Fall-
ing rubber prices interest us not, how-
ever. We need two new tires, but we
haven’t the where-with-all to buy
them because most of our delinquent
subscribers have evidently been need-
ing them also.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 70.
William Jennings Bryan.
The “passing away” of any conspic-
uous leader of the moral forces of
the period is a distinct loss to civil-
ization. The sudden death of William
Jennings Bryan, at Dayton, Tennes-
see, on Sunday last, was a shock to
the public life of the country and a
bereavement to hundreds of thousands
of men and women who had learned
to not only admire but to love him.
He was a lovable man in many re-
spects. Scrupulously honest, abso-
lutely sincere, sociable, amiable and
earnest in whatever work he enlisted,
he had come to be regarded by a vast
number of sincere men and women as
the foremost citizen of his own coun-
try and of the world.
Mr. Bryan first commanded popular
admiration while he served as Repre-
sentative in Congress for Nebraska,
in a masterful speech against exces-
sive tariff taxation. But he really ar-
rived in 1896 when, as a delegate in
the Democratic National convention in
Chicago, he uttered the famous sen-
tence: “You shall not press down
upon the brow of labor this crown of
thorns; you shall not crucify mankind
upon a cross of gold.” That speech
electrified the convention and turned
the minds of a majority of the mem-
bership to him as the fittest of all the
great leaders of the party for the of-
fice of President.
The great campaign which followed
his nomination is familiar history to
most readers of newspapers. It was
a strenuous struggle for the mainte-
nance of the rights of the common
people, during which he won recogni-
tion as the master orator of his day
and generation. He spoke in nearly
every State of the Union and present-
ed his arguments with such force and
eloquence as to command the admira-
tion of his most ardent opponents. It
was in that campaign that the custom
of collecting and disbursing vast cam-
paign funds to influence results was
first introduced. It was the beginning
of a great public evil. :
Though defeated, neither Mr. Bryan
nor his party were dismayed, and the
convention of his party in 1900 again
nominated him, with like results. His
campaign was conducted with equal
vigor. gh hardly with equal® wis-
dom. The previous predictions of dis-
aster certain to follow the establish-
ment of the gold standard had not
been fulfilled yet he insisted on pre-
senting the free coinage of silver
question as a salient if not the domi-
nant issue involved. In 1908 he was
again nominated and again the silver
coinage bugaboo was raised with the
effect that the big business interests
of the country organized against him.
But notwithstanding his three de-
feats, and in the face of the disap-
pointments which followed, Mr. Bryan
retained his dominating influence in
the Democratic party and in the con-
vention of 1912, at Baltimore, by the
force of his eloquence and masterful
leadership, Woodrow Wilson was nom-
inated and subsequently elected. In
obedience to the custom of justly re-
warding party service President Wil-
son called Mr. Bryan to sit at the
head of his council board. For two
years Mr. Bryan, as Secretary of
State, directed his effcrts to guaran-
tee future peace of the world by nego-
tiating treaties with several powers
looking to that result.
Mr. Bryan was essentially a pacifist
though his voluntary service as Col-
onel in the Spanish-American war
proved that peace for him must be
“peace with honor.” The breaking
out of the world war in 1914 disturb-
ed his plans and defeated his hopes
for permanent peace. But he still
hoped to keep this country out of the
carnage until after the sinking of the
Lusitania when, in dispair of peace,
he resigned his office and retired to
private life and resummed private em-
ployment. Among his activities were
the editing of The Commoner and lec-
turing on the Chautauqua platform,
and to these services he gave increas-
ed attention.
During recent years Mr. Bryan has
given much time and energy to re-
ligious work, He was a member of
the Presbyterian church and besides
holding minor offices in that religious
body he has served as assistant mod-
erator of the General Assembly. He
has taken a leading part in the recent
controversy between the fundamental-
ists and modernists in which his and
other denominations have participat-
ed. Mr. Bryan believed in all the doc-
trines of his church with respect to
the history of the creation and the Di-
vine origin of the Bible, and his last
great activity was his prosecution of
Professor Scopes, at Dayton, Tennes-
gee, where he died.
———————r———————
——1It may be said that Mr. Bryan
put Dayton on the map and if the plan
to locate a Bryan memorial college
there is completed his name will keep
it on.
——————— A Se ———
——FEven a woman can’t be too
young to have old friends if she is
true to herself.
Philadelphia’s Shameful Plight.
For the second time within two
months the city of Philadelphia has
been obliged to borrow money to meet
the salary claims of its vast army of
public officials. Last week the mayor
of the city and other officials borrow-
ed $2,000,000 from a bank for the pur-
pose, as stated by one of the leading
newspapers of the city, of meeting
“the increased expenses of city and
county offices for the present year.”
The previous loan made in Juns was
$3,000,000 obtained by shift from the
sinking fund after the sinking fund
had sold Liberty bonds of the value of
that amount to provide the money.
There must be something gravely
wrong with a municipal government
driven to the necessity of shifting
funds from one department to another
and borrowing from banks in order to
pay its current obligations. In the
case in point the excuse is offered that
the city has been unable to collect
taxes due. It may be significant that
some of the delinquents are public
service . corporations and probably
most of them are big business con-
cerns which are favored for political
or other reasons more or less sinister.
In any event the condition existing re-
veals slovenliness in administration,
if nothing worse, which should carry
condemnation against those responsi-
ble for it.
But nothing else is to be expected.
Philadelphia “is corrupt and content-
ed.” The corporations “run the town”
and maintain incompetents in power
in exchange for favors bestowed at
public expense. It is a burning shame
that the metropolis of Pennsylvania is
thus managed because selfish bosses
need money to indulge expensive hab-
its. But the facts are beyond dis-
pute. Judges of the courts are em-
ployed as messengers, it is alleged, in
arranging shady agreements and even
the pulpits of the city are not immune
from censure. How long the people
will endure the shame remains to be
seen. There are probably enough well
meaning men and women there to cor-
rect the evil if they would.
The man who lights his cigar
while putting gasoline - in his auto
tank is evidently trying to take the
“fool-prize” away from the woman
who starts the fire by pouring gaso-
line in the stove.
Right But Not in Full.
The State Department of Banking
has wisely entered suit in the Alle-
gheny county common pleas court
against State Senator Max Leslie, a
Pittsburgh political boss, to recover on
a $75,000 note held by the defunct
Carnegie Trust company. The failure
of that bank, through which hundreds
of depositors stand to lose thousands
of dollars, is ascribed to misuse of the
funds by such loans as that expressed
in the Leslie note. These sufferers
are entitled to such relief as it is pos-
sible to give them, and it is the duty
of those in charge of the bankrupt
property to assemble whatever assets
are available to distribute among
them.
But in the fulfillment of this official
obligation the officials of the Banking
Department should play no favorites.
That is to say, it would not be quite
right to enforce payment by debtors
who are not on friendly terms with
the Governor and neglect to employ
the same compulsion upon those who
are. In the early statements of the
Bell bank failures some men who are
said to be supporters of the Governor,
or at least in political alliance with
him, were named as debtors of the
banks. In the later statements the
names of those who belong to the Gov-
ernor’s faction are withheld. This
may be an inadvertence but it is sus-
picious.
The real purpose of the action of
the authorities in the complicated af-
fairs of the Carnegie Trust company
and the other Bell banks should be,
first to recover as much out of the
wreck as possible, and next to make it
more difficult and more dangerous to
commit such frauds upon a confiding
public as seem to have been perpetrat-
ed in the case in question. Designing
and mercenary politicians all look
alike to the law and those attached to
one faction of the dominant party
have no more right to immunity from
punishment than those of another.
Suits should be entered against all the
Pittsburgh politicians who owe the
bank.
rss peers
——Twenty-five years ago Carroll
D. Wright, United States Commission-
er of Labor, warned the public against
dishonest officials of Building and
Loan associations.
——No doubt General Anderson
meant to be firm and thought he would
be firm but he underestimates the
force of the political machine.
President Lewis wants the
world to know that he is quite as big
a man as old Warriner.
More Luck for Pinchot.
Until the result of the week-end
conference between Governor Pinchot
and General Butler is revealed it will
be impossible to take an accurate
measurement of the Governor’s luck.
But things have been breaking in his
favor with surprising frequency of
late, and if it happens that he has en-
listed the rolicking marine into his
army of supporters it may be said
that he has the State of Pennsylvania
at his feet. The latest development
in the question is expressed in the an-
nouncement that the association of
anthracite coal operators will not ac-
ferences with the miners for the rea-
son that he is committed to the inter-
ests of the miners.
The operators object to the Gover-
nor in the capacity of arbitrator be-
cause of a speech made during a ses-
sion of the American Academy of Po-
litical and Social Science, held in Phil-
he denounces the anthracite coal op-
ious ways gouged the public.” In this
tlement of the mine troubles two
years ago, in which he, as arbitrator,
wanted in the expectation that the op-
erators would divide the benefits ac-
the product.
tation was disappointed and the odium
the Pinchot shoulders.
Nobody was able to understand at
the time how or why Governor Pin-
chot came to the decision he announc-
ed in the adjustment of that vexed la-
bor dispute. It provided for an in-
crease of wages as demanded by the
miners and for an increase of price
equal to the increase of wages. This
! necessarily saddled upon the consum- |
ers a burden equal to the increases.
: It appears now that the Governor ex-
pected that the mine owners would
“absorb one-half and the carrying com- !
. panies the other half of the increase.
But neither the operators nor the car-
riers absorbed any part and the op-
erators took additional toll by increas-
ing the price beyond the increase of
BELLEFONTE, PA.. JULY 31. 1925.
|
cept him as an arbitrator of their dif-
adelphia some months ago, in which |
allowed both sides about all they 'ge
~Aages. Mr. Pinchot was right in de-
~nouncing this operation.
| Of course the fault was hisina
If he expected the opera-.
i measure.
: tors and the carrying companies to be-
{ come philanthropists he ought to have
i had it written into the bond. Exper-,
ience ought to have taught him that |
, the practical gentlemen who manage
mining and carrying corporations are
‘not greatly interested in benevolence,
rand that they are not working for
health or pleasure. There is no evi-
they even implied a promise to absorb
a share of the burden of wage in-
crease and in failing to meet such ex-
pectation have violated no obligation,
moral or legal. Still the denunciation
of mine owners by the Governor will
meet with popular favor.
—It didn’t take Jack Dempsey long
to discover that two can’t live as
cheap as one. After declaring that
he was through in the ring it has tak-
en his bride only a few months to
start him fighting for money again.
——The President, according to
that there will be no anthracite coal
strike. That’s fine as far as. it goes,
but needs the support of a “bill of
particulars.”
——Governor Pinchot and Senator
Pepper may be trying to conceal
scalping knives under their “Dear
George” and “Dear Gifford’ epistolary
exchanges.
——Vice President Dawes seems to
have abandoned his campaign for new
rules in the Senate. Probably he
missed the train of thought in New
England.
——And if the machine plans of a
few years ago had not miscarried
John A. Bell, of the Pittsburgh bank
scandals, might be Governor or Sen-
ator.
-——Senator Norris, Republican,
wants the Federal Trade Commission
abolished because it has been packed
by the President.
———— i eee———
~<—The price of pearls has greatly
increased within recent years but just
as many of them are “cast before
swine” as ever.
er ——————— A ———
——The insurance company which
will underwrite good resolutions has
the wealth of the world within its
reach.
————— ttn
——The back of the hot wave ap-
pears to have been broken but the
“dog days” are still in the future.
pd a le
——Get the Watchman if you want
the local news.
dence so far as the records show that
John Hays Hammond, is confident '
NO. 30.
Highway Hospitality.
From the Altoona Tribune.
Are there any good Samaritans on
the highways of today?
Fear of robbery and assault have
whittled #he generosity of the motor-
ists until the tired wayfarers along
the national highways have about one
chance in forty of getting a “lift” on
their travels over the continent.
In the Saturday issue of the Tri-
bune a story appeared telling of the
adventures of a curious evangelist-
draftsman who walked from Newark,
N. J., to Cincinnati, Ohio, and back to
“determine what a penniless christian
wayfarer might expect from his fel-
low man.”
All generosity and philanthropy is
not clothed in broadcloth or silk ac-
cording to the deduction from the
transient evangelist’s experience, for
nineteen of every twenty clergymen
and church officials refused to aid him,
while three of the nine thugs who held
him up during the trip gave him mon-
ey when they found that he was
“broke.”
Over 1,100 motorists ignored the
plea of the “knight of the road,” as
erators as “monopolists who in var- he trudged from city to city, and of
the thirty-four cars in which he was
statement he has reference to the set- | given a “lift,” twenty-five were of the
cheaper variety. Merely another ex-
ample of plebiscite hospitality.
The vagrant-like and penniless wan-~
rer was given plenty of opportunity
| to study the enforcement or rather the
| Aencentoreement of the Volstead act.
cruing to them with the consumers of | Coffee is six times harder to get than
This benevolent expec- | liquor, according to his
J statistics
! which showed that many offers to a
of looting the public fell entirely on ' MiP 0’ hip hooch” were given but very
Eo to a “cup of Java.” Twelve boot-
leggers offered him employment in his
travels -and six of the men who tried
to hold him up later offered to take
him into partnership as a thief.
Would you, Mr. Modern Motorist,
! pass an injured man lying by the
roadside and far from other aid?
| Five times the inquisitive wanderer
‘dropped by the side of the highway
in pretense of serious injury, and
while 232 autos whizzed past him
without slowing their motors, fifty
. stopped to inquire of his injury.
Thus the adventuresome evangelist
judged christianity among motorists,
and his only proclamation was that it
was no better than in the days of the
Good Samaritan. Perhaps he judged
too harshly, and perhaps his appeat-
ance was that which might tirge cau-
tion among the drivers, but neverthe-
‘Tess, the wayfarer of toda 18kly
misses the heretofere proclaimed hos-
pitality of the South and West, or of
the North and East as well, and to the
American motorist, “to give is better
‘than to receive” means only “Give ‘er
the gas and give ’em the air.”
Federal Indemnity Reduced.
From the Pennsylvania Farmer.
The two hundred thousand dollars
of federal funds which became avail-
able on July 1, for paying bovine tu-
berculosis indemnities in Pennsylva-
nia, will not be sufficient to match the
State funds in the usual ratio. For-
maximum of $25 for each grade ani-
mal condemned. The amounts for
purebreds were $70 and $50. The fed-
eral fund for the current year would
have to be more than three times as
large as it is to permit payments to
be continued on this basis.
The authorities have debated wheth-
er to pay the full amount allowed by
law as long as the federal funds hold
out, or to pro rate the amount so that
those who test at the end of the year
will receive as much as those who fin-
ish while there is: still some money
i available from Washington. It has
been decided to reduce the amount of
payment per animal so that all will
receive a small share of the federal
fund. It has been estimated that the
$200,000 will be sufficient to provide a
payment of $7.25 for each grade and
$14.50 for each purebred that will be
condemned during the year. With the
State indemnity remaining unchanged
this means that dairymen will receive
a maximum of $47.25 for grades and
$84.50 for registered animals.
And When the Rents are Soaring.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
At a time when practically every
district of the country reports a hous-
ing shortage and when rents accord-
ingly are soaring, the National Board
of Fire Underwriters finds that fire is
destroying American homes at the
rate of 618 a day or one every three
minutes. Half of the 15,000 annual
death toll of the United States from
fire is taken in dwellings. The finan-
cial loss to the country from fire is
now placed at more than half a bil-
lion dollars annually.
That, in addition to the loss of price-
less lives, means simply property
waste, destruction. of wealth. Nearly
all such fires are due to carelessness;
in many instances the waste seems
practically wanton, with scarcely any
precaution taken against fire. Of
course, in a country having more than
100,000,000 population, the total con-
struction in a year necessarily is
large. Still destroying homes at the
rate of 618 a day is a serious handi-
cap of the efforts to overcome the
housing shortage. It is an ally of the
rent profiteer. Its destruction of
wealth has a bad effect in many direc-
tions. :
There is only one way to avoid the
, fire menace and that is through care-
fulness.
merly the State paid a maximum of |
$40 and the federal government a |
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Taking a map while sitting on a win-
dow sill of his bedroom, on the fourth
floor of a boarding house, at 219 Second
avenue, Johnstown, John Victor fell to the
sidewalk and was killed on Friday night.
—Farmers of northern and north-central
Pennsylvania counties will gather at the
State College experimental farm near Troy,
Bradford county, on the morning of Thurs-
day, August 13. It will be the annual field
day at the fertilizer, manure and limestone
experimental plots.
—Rev. J. L. Gilleogly, a Williamsport
clergyman, on Monday filed complaint with
the Public : Setvice Commission against
what he called an unreasonable delay by
the American Railway Express company in
delivery of palms. He says they came too
late for Palm Sunday services.
—The new Milton-West Milton bridge
across the Susquehanna river, has been
thrown open to traffic. There remains
some of the finishing up work to do, and
the installation of a lighting system. The
bridge was rebuilt at a cost of $225,000,
which will be shared by Northumberland
and Union counties.
—Interfering in family quarrels may re-
sult fatally for Anthony Senkewich, 42
vears old, of Mahanoy City, who received
a probable fracture of the skull, a broken
nose and internal injuries when he entered
the home of John Minefsky as a peace-
maker. Senewich is at the State hospital
at Fountain Springs and Minefsky is held
to await the outcome of his injuries.
—Mrs. Mary Willicki, of Green Ridge,
on Thursday last brought suit in the Nor-
thumberland county courts, seeking $30,-
000 damages against the Shamokin and
Mount Carmel Railway company. She al-
leges that her husband, after being forci-
bly ejected from a street car, was run over
by an auto and suffered injuries from
which he died. She has seven children.
—Striking down sheriff Fred R. Mitten
as he entered the corridor of the Bradford
county jail at Towanda, on Sunday morn-
ing, with breakfast for his prisoners,
Claude Harkness, held pending trial on a
charge of threats to kill some of his neigh-
bors, made a dash for liberty. The sheriff
quickly regained his feet and caught the
man with a football flying fackle just as he
left the front steps to tke jail.
—Scalded by falling into a tub of boil-
ing water, Savannah Wilkinson, three year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wilkin-
son, of Gearhartville, died at the Philips-
burg State hospital at 8 o'clock last Wed-
nesday night. The accident happened ear-
ly Wednesday afternoon and the child was
rushed immediately to the hospital. Her
back and arms were terribly burned and
she died a few hours after reaching the
hospital.
—Harrison G. Mazmore, 55 years old, of
Freeland, is in the West Side sanitarium,
at York, Pa. with serious injuries, which
resulted when his mule team bolted on
Monday, frightened by a falling tree. Maz-
more was driving the mules, which were
hitched to a grain binder, and he was
thrown beneath the machine and was
caught in the knives. The cuts cover his
legs and arms and there are serious bruis-
es all over his body.
—Although his father is president of a
bank, Milton Westerman, of Columbia, Pa.,
believed his money safer in the bedroom
of his home than in the bank’s strong box.
Milton had saved $120 toward his annual
fall gunning trip. He placed $100 in his
gun case, in his bedroom, and $20 under a
marble slab on his bureau. Saturday night
he told a friend where he had the money
secreted. When he went home several
hours later he found the money gone.
—Burglars entered the Weis Pure Food
store at Renovo some time during Wed-
nesday night and carried away a safe
weighing about 300 pounds. Entrance was
made through the rear door. The safe,
containing $75 in cash, was taken but.val-
uable papers were not touched. The sate
was discovered at East Renovo Saturday
! morning, about twenty-five feet above the
{ Paddy’s run bridge on the state road and
taken back to the store by James Bruno,
the manager.
—Clement Yankowski, a clerk in the Lib-
erty bank, at Reading, pleaded guilty on
Friday to the charge of embezzling funds
amounting to from $4500 to $5000. In view
of his previous good character and on rec-
ommendation of district attorney David F.
Mauger, the court sentenced him to ‘one
year in jail, to be paroled immediately in
care of the probation officer, to pay a fine
of $100 and costs, -and to make restitution
at the rate of $30 a month. It will ‘take
him over fifteen years to clean the slate at
that rate of payment. thoy a ey
—Awakened by the barking:of a’ pet dog
to find their home in flames,’ Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Marr, of Jersey Shore, aud’ their
four children were compelléd to seek safe-
ty in immediate escape, : without -hayiug
eyen time to secure any clothing except
what they had been sleeping in. The fam-
ily resides at the corner of Percy street
and Park avenue, and it is surmised that
the fire must have originated in a defective
flue, as the entire roof and part of the
walls were ablaze when the barking of the
dog awakened the family about 2:45
o'clock.
—Judge Chase, of Clearfield county,
handed down an opinion in the case of
Mrs. Anna Sinkovich vs. the Bell Telephone
company in which he dismissed the appli-
cation of the defendant’s attorneys for a
new trial and directs that judgment be en-
tered on the verdict rendered by the jury
in the trial of the case at May court. Suit
was brought by the woman to recover for
the death of her husband, who was killed
at his home in Sandy township, Clearfield
county, on July 11, 1921, by a stroke of
lightning, it being alleged the lightning
bolt followed an abandoned telephone wire
attached to the Sinkovich dwelling. The
jury made an award of $10,000.
—Pennsylvania’s school superintendents
have been requested to make preparations
for caring for physically and mentally
handicapped deficient children in their dis-
tricts, in a letter sent them this week by
Dr. Francis B. Haas, Superintendent of
Public Instruction. Provisions for the ed-
ucation of these classes of children were
made in a group of bills sponsored by
Senator Lanius, blind Senator from York,
in the 1925 Legislature. Under the School
Code, whenever there are ten or more pu-
pils requiring any particular type of ed-
ucation, the school board is required to
make special preparations for them, Dr.
Haas said. Where the number is smaller,
joint classes may be formed with adjacent
districts or special education obtained in
residential schools. Each school district
will receive $300 for each of these special
classes, in addition to the regular State
aid. =~
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