Dewoiaidn
—The old liver hasn't been func-
tioning well for a few days. We're
seeing ‘double. Little black disks are
flying before our eyes like clay
pigeons. We're in no mood to say
nice things to .anyone or about any-
thing. So this shall be crab week.
— Maybe the same fellow who
stole Charley Ross let out that diplo-
matic secret at Washington the other
day.
—Filling stations are rising up like
mush-rooms all along the highways
and we poor dubs neglect our work,
cheat our stomachs and strip our
backs to fill them.
—One of fhe big garages in town
would look bigger if enough electric
lamps were put in the sign that sur-
mounts it to let the night world know
what the five letters that precede the
final E are.
-—The first day of spring certainly
was a “pet,” but we want few more
of that kind at this season. They'd
start the sap flowing and the buds
swelling and then along will come an
April freeze and all the fruit will be
Dblooey again.
——To those who think there’s an-
‘other town of its size in Pennsylva-
‘nia, or any other State, that has any-
thing on Bellefonte we want to say
that there are three rail routes and
four splendid highways leading di-
rectly out of here.
—Yesterday was another of those
grand days. It was all right, but far
too warm. We're goin’ to kick the
stuffin out of the weather man if he
‘doesn’t leave the arctic door open far
enough to keep things cool enough to
‘hold the fruit back.
—Qur Bellefonte Episcopalian
friends are still without a rector. We
just can’t see red enough tonight to
say that they need one bad enough,
so we'll let this ride, with the admis-
sion that they want one the worst
kind of a way, and the prophesy that
‘they won’t get any until they immu-
‘nize themselves against Bellefonte’s
chronic malady of champagne tastes
.and beer pocket-books.
—Opportunity is knocking at the
door of the Democratic party in Cen-
tre county. If there ever was a time
for it to be up and doing that time is
right now. Three factions of Repub-]
licans are at each others throats and
two of them are certain to be sore
enough, after the primaries, to be
hunting balm for their wounds. Let
us provide it for them. Let us put a
strong, clean ticket in the field, both
it with genuine determination.
—The socalled plight of the Amer-
ican farmer is mostly bunk, conjured
up by traveling lecturers, secretaries
and office forces of organizations that
depend or exploitation of agriculture
for their salaries. Many of these
agitators bear the same relation to
the farmer that the “walking dele-
gate” does to labor. Most of them
are nothing more than parasites on
industry. The farmer isn’t in a plight.
He has his ups and downs like every-
body else and, if let alone, will work
out his own problems just the same as
the rest of us do.
—Feeling that the Hon. Holmes, of
State College, won’t be happy unless
we make some fuss over him about
this time of the year we are going to
build a big Holmes bonfire. We want
all the Pinchot, Pepper and Vare Re-
publicans in the county to gather
round. And just when the glare prop-
erly illumines our Representative and
he is aglow with its warmth we're
going to douse it with a bucket of
‘water and smoke the statesman out.
It makes no difference to us, but we're
just mean enough tonight to want
to know whether he is going to try
to ride three horses at once.
—When we stated, in January, that
‘John S. Fisher would not be endorsed
as a candidate for Governor until Mr.
Atterbury had been shifted from his
“thumbs down” position on John a
pseudo-wise Republican remarked:
“Its a lot you know about it.” If you
read last Sunday’s metropolitan
papers you probably noticed that
about everybody in Pennsylvania who
thinks he’s a Governor maker started
for New York on Saturday to talk it
over with Bill and that was after it
was announced that the Mellons had
ordered a special train and a clear
track to Harrisburg for the gentle-
man from Indiana.
—Salacious books, pornographic
art, jazz and synthetic gin are under-
mining the moral and physical stam-
ina of the country because of the in-
difference and fanatical intolerance of
the very people who lament it most.
If decent folks would buy enough of
the good books to make them “best
sellers” the other kind wouldn’t be
written. If the pulpits and the pews
were to endorse and patronize decent
theatrical productions they would be
on the road today instead of lewd
productions that are. If parental in-
terest in children were such as to
make homes something more than a
place to stop while hunting some
place else to go there'd be fewer road
houses, night clubs and less sorrow
in the world.
—The thought that really started
the crabbing column is the fact that
the opening of the trout season is only
“VOL. 71.
Encouraging - Signs for the
Democracy.
County
Events within the week give hope
of a revival in the Democratic party
in the county. As the time for the
primaries approaches there seems to
be encouraging indications of an
awakening interest, especially on the
part of formerly active Democrats
who now feel it time for them to get
back into the harness again.
Certainly conditions are ripe and
opportunities are aplenty for a mili-
tant Democratic organization. Coun-
ty chairman G. Oscar Gray expects to
retire after long and conscientious
service and selecting a capable
successor is the first and most import-
ant work of reconstruction. Charles
Freeman, young, very popular and a
go-getter Democrat, of Philipsburg,
is being talked of as Mr. Gray's suc-
cessor. The party would be very well
advised to try him for leader in the
county. With Philipsburg only a
little over an hour away from Belle-
fonte now there is no longer any real
reason why the chairman should be
located at the county seat.
We understand that Mr. Freeman,
should he be chosen chairman, has a
very, comprehensive plan for year-
round organization and activity in
the county, a thing much to be de-
sired, for the: party to live at all must
be building continually. :
In this connection we want to sug-
gest that our entire ticket be filled.
The opposition may be sadly demor-
alized by the internal fight it is hav-
ing and disappointed factions of it
will certainly come over to us.
Up to the moment we have no can-
didate for the Legislature.
this office ought not to go by default
and we want to suggest that Randall
Miller, sterling young Democrat of
Millheim, might be persuaded to stand
for it. Mr. Miller is a college man, a
banker and both by personality and
ability’ is, to our mind, the type of
man who ought to be sent to Harris-
burg and kept there.
, _——One of the jtrange things is
that while every Republican profes-
ses to idolize President Coolidge near-
ly every wish he expresses is refused.
The State’s Memorial Bridge.
Long delayed work on the soldiers’
and sailors’ memorial bridge at Har-
risburg will be started in the near
future, according to information from
the State capitol. This project is a
part of a plan adopted by the Legis-
lature some years ago in connection
with the enlistment and beautifica-
tion of Capitol Park as a suitable set-
ting for the capitol building. From
the rear entrance of the building to
the right of way of the Pennsylvania
railroad there is a dip and east of the
tracks to Thirteenth and State streets
an incline to the level of the building.
The centre of this dip is an unattrac-
tive spectacle and the memorial
bridge was proposed to make it at-
tractive. ; .
The Legislature of 1919 made an
appropriation of some three or four
hundred thousand dollars as the
nucleus of a fund to pay the cost of
the enterprise. Bids were asked and
a contract awarded for the work with
the understanding that subsequent
Legislatures would provide the addi-
tional funds as required. But the
administrations which have been in
control since found so many other
places to invest the funds and so
lightly appraised the value of a me-
morial to the soldiers and sailors of
the world war that the contract to
build the bridge was revoked and it
was believed the original appropria-
tion had lapsed, A recent investiga-
tion, however, revealed the fact that
the money is still available and Gov-
ernor Pinchot announces that the
work will be begun this year.
Arnold W. Brunner, a famous land-
scape architect, made the plans for the
structure and it has been pronounced
by capable scientists as one of the
greatest engineering and architectur-
al achievements of the world. It will
not only perfect the scheme for the
setting and adornment of the capitol
building but admirably fulfill the pur-
fitly honoring the men and women of
Pennsylvania who participated in and
made sacrifices for the world war.
That its construction after the years
of delay is now possible is substantial
served the financial interests of the
State, as he claims, rather than
squandered them as charged by his
enemies.
—Every once in a while a pot rises
to call the kettle black. It happened
catch the measles until he was away
twenty days off and our “private
bootlegger” is two thousand miles |
away.
on his wedding trip told his auditors
that Bellefonte isn’t a progressive
town.
Certainly’
pose for which it was conceived, of '
proof that Governor Pinchot has con- |
at the Kiwanis luncheon last week, |
when a gentleman who couldn’t even !
_ STATE RIGHTS AN
BELLEFONTE, PA.. MARCI
Pinchot’s Political Rating.
The esteemed Philadelphia Public
Ledger protests that “the Keystone
State cannot afford to send Gifford
Pinchot to the Senate” for the reason
that “he is a Republican in name
only.” Coming from that source this
is a rather surprising statement. Mr.
Pinchot is a consistent supporter of
the political philosophy expressed by
Lincoln. He was an enthusiastic sup-
porter of the policies of the late
Theodore Roosevelt and unequivocally
declares his adherence to the national
Republican platform and the purposes
of President Coolidge as expressed in
his inaugural address. He has always
voted the Republican ticket and for
many years enjoyed the.favors of the
' party.
Nevertheless the esteemed Public
' Ledger may be correct in its analysis.
' It is a question of interpretation. Gov-
ernor Pinchot boldly proclaims him-
self “an enemy of the gang” for the
reason that it is “not on the level
‘ with the people” and is “for every-
' thing that is bad in Pennsylvania pol-
itics.” He adds that the gang “has
thrown its whole strength against
clean elections, against taking proper
‘care of the school children, against
' protection of depositors in banks and
: Building and Loan associations.” He
' promises cordial support of “every
{ forward step for world peace, the
' reduction of armaments and the safe-
| guarding of the United States, the
protection of American industries and
| justice to the American farmer,” as
well as economy and efficiency in
government and enforcement of law.
But those things do not constitute
fidelity to the Republican party in
fact, as interpreted by the “gang” and
the esteemed Public Ledger. A Re-
publican in fact must be a miscreant
who favors fraudulent elections and
predatory corporations under the
euphonism of business. To qualify
under the popular construction of ma-
chine politicians a candidate must be
ready and willing to “spit in the eye
of a bull dog,” stuff a ballot box,
substitute a servile tool for a dying
candidate by fraululent methads, pro-
tect crime as a reward for perpetrat-
ing their crimes and yield obedience to
the party bosses rather than serve the
people. Governor Pinchot can well
afford to accept this rating of his Re-
publicanism. :
e———————————
——If Pepper can induce three or
four hundred thousand independent
voters in Philadelphia to register
Vare’s hope of an overwhelming ma-
jority in that city may miscarry.
Ae———— eens pr——
Atterbury Objects to Fisher.
At a conference held in Pittsburgh,
last week, the corporate interests
which are supporting Senator: Pepper
for re-election decided to support
former State Senator and Banking
Commissioner John 8. Fisher, of In-
diana, as their candidate for Gover-
nor. The conference was held in the
office of W. L, Mellon and was attend-
ed by Joseph R. Grundy, president of
the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ as-
sociation, Mr. Fisher and a group of
Pittsburgh politicians. As part of the
deal Mr. Grundy agreed to support
Pepper for Senator, though hereto-
fore they have been bitter enemies.
!' This combination exemplifies the
adage: “Politics makes strange bed
fellows.”
But there is a “fly in the ointment.”
General Atterbury, president of the
Pennsylvania railroad, and a very im-
portant cog in the political machine,
is not willing to accept Fisher as his
candidate. There are two reasons for
Mr. Atterbury’s attitude. Four years
ago Fisher promised to support
George E. Alter for the gubernator-
ial nomination but under the persua-
sion of Grundy turned his influence to
Pinchot. This perfidy so incensed
Atterbury that he has not forgiven it
yet. Besides Mr. Fisher has long
been counsel in Pennsylvania for the
New York Central railroad, and there
are grave differences present and
| prospective between that corporation
; and the Pennsylvania railroad.
Emissaries have been at work ever
i since the conference at Pittsburgh
i trying to persuade General Atterbury
to take a seat on the Mellon band
. wagon but the result of their efforts
is not known as yet. It is known that
the Pennsylvania presidentis greatly
attached to Pepper. In fact Mr. At-
terbury procured the appointment of
Pepper after the death of Penrose
and attended his installation in office.
But the projection of Fisher into the
fight creates an issue between Fisher
' and Beidleman. The Harrisburg man
is known as a friend of the Pennsyl-
| vania corporation and “a bird in hand
is worth two in the bush.”
——General Atterbury has a deep
interest in Senator Pepper but a New |
York Central attorney in the office of |
Governor of Pennsylvania is a serious '
matter.
DP FEDERAL UNION.
Real Victims of the Confusion.
¥
"The real victims of the present Re-
publican confusion are not the candi-
d for Governor and Senator. The
indidates for Senator are having a
fine time throwing verbal brickbats
at each other and the candidates for
Governor are so absorbed in the work
of “feathering their own nests” that
they have no time to measure the
troubles of their friends. In the case
of State chairman Baker, for ex-
ample, there is a pathetic situation.
For nearly a year he has been prac-
tically managing the campaign of
Senator Pepper. Now he is confronted
with the alternative of abandoning
Pepper or sacrificing his life time
friend, E. E. Beidleman, who has been
tendered the Vare support for Gov-
ernor in consideration of Baker’s sup-
port of Vare for Senator.
The Vare support for Governor,
with the machinery for fraudulent
voting in Philadlephia in working
condition, would afford a vast lever-
age toward the fulfillment of a long
and fondly cherished hope. Baker
and Beidleman were schoolboys to-
gether and advanced in politics hand-
in-hand. When Baker became chair-
man of the party the opportunity to
promote Beidleman to the office of
Governor dawned. Four years ago
the hope almost developed into full
bloom. But a confusion similar to
that now causing trouble intervened
and to prevent the nomination of Gif-
ford Pinchot Beidleman was with-
drawn from the contest. It was in-
ferentially agreed, however, that
chairman Baker’s friend would be re-
warded for his self-immolation this
year. But the fates are unkind.
State Senator Max Leslie, boss of
the Pittsburgh “strip” and controller
of the alleged bogus voting machines
of that city, is said to be under finan-
cial as well as political obligations to
the Mellons. He is congenitally at-
tached to Vare
pathies of his followers flow in
that direction. But the Mellons are
for Pepper and insist on Max’s co-
operation. If he yields to the Mellons
~he- forfeits his control of the “strip”
political life of the city and State.
If he fails to yield the consequences
are equally disastrous. He is literally
“between the devil and the deep sea,”
and with chairman Baker is a real
sufferer from the political demorali-
zation that threatens the Republican
machine with deserved destruction.
——————— re ————
——1It is rather gratifying to feel
that Senator Sites will be disappoint-
ed in his expectation of reward for
going over to the machine in the extra
session of the Legislature.
A Misleading Resolution.
Those Philadelphia Methodist
clergymen who appealed by resolution
to either Pepper or Pinchot to with-
draw from the contest for the Sena-
torial nomination in order that the
dry vote might be centered against
Vare reveal a meager understanding
of the subject. The resolution says,
“it is a regrettable fact that our dry
forces are represented by two can-
didates thus dividing our strength,
lending aid ta the enemy and bringing
possible defeat in Pennsylvaia to our
cause.” The obvious purpose of the
resolution is to create the impression
that Pepper and Pinchot are equally
deserving of the favor of the dry
voters, which is not only unjust but
absurd.
Governor Pinchot is and has been a
militant, consistent and aggressive
advocate of prohibition all his life,
Since the adoption of the Eighteenth
amendment and the passage of the
Volstead law he has been an earnest
and practical worker for law enforce-
ment. During the recen” extra ses-
sion of the Legislature he kept the
subject constantly before the law
makers and the people while Senator
Pepper remained silent. Previous to
his entrance into the Senate Mr. Pep-
per never even pretended to be a pro-
hibitionist. Since that time he has
declared abstinence but done nothing
toward promoting the cause or influ-
encing others to adopt it. On this
question there is no analogy between
them.
To please the Prohibitionists Sena-
tor Pepper some time ago declared
that he is now a teetotaler, just as he
had previously offered to “spit in the
eye of a bull dog” to please the rough-
necks in South Philadelphia. Such
statements signify nothing. They are
meaningless figures of speech em-
ployed to serve a purpose, sometimes
harmless and sometimes sinister. In
the case in point, however, Mr. Pepper
put the prohibition voters under no
obligation to support him as against
Pinchot, who has been an active advo-
cate of the cause for years. No Pro-
hibitionist can find valid reason for
supporting Pepper against Pinchot in
the record Pepper has made in or out
of office.
[ 26. 1926.
and the sym-
and automatically fades out of the
The Farmer and His: Corn.
From the Philadelphia Record. :
A few months ago a large number
of friends of the farmer, especially
the Western farmer, persons who de-
pended on his votes and his subsecrip-
tions, were making the welkin ring
with their lamentations over the ruin
that had befallen him im a huge corn
crop. Iowa was the State niost
mourned over, because that State had
the biggest corn crop it ever put in
the crib. The Iowa farmers were not
making a noise; they were buying
more stock and turning cheap corn
jus relatively high-priced por k_and
eer. g Ta
But the Co en and Senators
from farm States did not relax their
demand for Governmental assi: J
for the farmers who were ruined by
cheap corn. After they had shouted
loud and long the editor of a faym
paper in Iowa, who was eo erated
in his general facts by a p sSor in
the State Agricultural College, ‘point-
ed out that Iowa farmers sold only
about 15 per cent. of their corn; 85
per cent. they fed to stock, and on the
basis of the values of pork and beef
the huge and cheap corn crop of 1925
was worth $101,000,000 more than the
Seaniy and high-priced corn crop of
1924. £2
Now the Department of Agricul-
ture has been asking the farmers
how much of each crop they inf
to sow or plant, and has learned
their intentions on March 1° were to
plant almost identically 1 he sam
with corn that they p
In other words, they know nothing
about their own business and need a
guatdian, or they did very well with
that ruinous crop of 1925 corn and are
willing to take their chances on an-
other bumper crop. 2 fi
The Department gives them a word
of warning. They are proposing to
raise as much corn as last year and
more oats and barley. In these three
feed grains they intend to plant and
‘sow 1.6 per cent. more than last year.
The Department is justified
in cautioning them not to increase
their stock unduly, because the prices
of pork and beef may eome down.
It must arouse the ¢itizenship of
the big cities and counties of Philadel-
phit and Allegheny to hear itself dis-
cussed as if it were below the stand-
ard of voters in the other counties of
the State. In Philadelphia and Pitts-
burgh are the main educational in-
stitutions of the State, great libraries
and a multiplicity of civic bodies to
aid in jnstructing the public in polit-
ical affairs. Yet independent candi-
dates of all parties have frequently
sighed over the abnormal voting con-
ditions in Philadelphia and Allegheny
counties. Not only is the voting rate
in the two big city communities be-
low that of some other countiés, but
it also usually submits to an amazing
.| degree to machine control. Voters in
the other counties may divide almost
equally in their views on the public
questions and in the support of candi-
dates. Party alignments may change.
The candidates in State-wide con-
tests may reach Philadelphia and Al-
legheny county closely matched. Then
the Republican machine pours out its
vote upon a quantity basis to its can-
didates and abnormal majorities are
piled up for them,
‘Who will say that the intelligence
standard of Philadelphia and Al-
legheny counties is below that of the
other counties? The fact is that the
people of the big city counties are
well to the front educationally. Nev-
ertheless they do not as a rule show
their independence in voting or their
recognition of the two-party system
as do the citizens of the other com-
munities of the State.
The need in Philadelphia and Al-
legheny counties is to build up the
minority party in them as in the other
sections. A strong minority party
not only would assure contests that
would promote independence -in vot-
ing. Likewise it would furnish a
check for the Republican factional-
ism nuisance.
The End of Forbes. .
From The St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Charles R. Forbes, former Direc-
tor of the Veterans’ Bureau, has
gone to prison. John W. Thompson,
St. Louis contractor, convicted with
Forbes of conspiracy in connection
with hospital contracts, must also
go to prison, unless he procures a
stay because of his physical condi-
tion. As regards Thompson, public
opinion is not especially concerned.
He was but an unsavory episode in
the wretched story of Forbes.
Public opinion may feel that, in
the case of Forbes, the punishment of
two years in the penitentiary by no
means fits the crime. Indeed it is
difficult to say just what punishment
would be adequate for Forbes’ be-
trayal of his trust as guardian of the
wounded soldiers. Here was an obli-
gation that challenged the very best
of head and heart that a man could
bring to the task. Instead of meet-
ing it Forbes failed loathsomely. His
administration of the office was a
round of carousal and corruption.
But for Forbes the verdict is the
the senterice of death. It silences a
risly echo of Harding's tragical
residency. It reasserts the truth
that influence and position cannot
save the transgressor from justice.
rg FE
SPAWLS: FROM THE KEYSTONE.
. —Thieves. broke the window of Jolin H.
Senzig’'s. jewelry store at New Holland,
and’ stole diamonds valued at $200.
—Grant Miller, of Annville, was sen-
tenced to from tliree to six years in the
Eastern Penitentiary for stealing an au-
tomoble and meat.
~ —Chovcolate and: eocoa: valued at $20,000
were lost when fire last Wednesday des-
troyed: the mixing: room: of the Ideal Cocoa
and: Chocolate Company at Litébz.
—-A fall of three stories from one of the
dormitory windews of the Allentown Prep
School a weelt ago proved fatal to Joseph
Williams, Jr:, of Philadelphia, who died ut
the Allentown hespital on Sumday from a
broken back
—Thirty to sixty years im the Eastern
penitentiary was the sentenee imposed
last week on Robert Anderson, 23, of
Philadelphia, whe confessed te a number
of banditry acts. He smiled when sen-
tence was pronounced on him.
—The unification of the Penn State Tele-
‘phone lines with the Bell Telephone Com-
pany, in the vicinity of Pettsville, was
started on Monday and will be completed
by June 1. The merger will affect the
boroughs ef St. Clair and Tamaqua.
—Surprised in the act of chiseling the
hinges off the doors of the safe at the
office of the Keystone Storage company, at
Lancaster, James ‘“Red” Evans, 37, and
Lewis Smith, 42, both of that city, were
arrested on Sunday by Chief of Police
Eckman and four deteetives.
~The will of Dr. David Reiter of Phila-
delphia just probated, leaves $1 of his
$15,000 estate to his wife with the recom-
mendation “#hat she hang herself. The
will, found {fii Reiter's effects a year after
his death, 1 his wife had nagged
him for the twenty years of their married
life,
—The accumulator at the rolled steel
‘wheel department of the Standard Steel
works, at Burnham, collapsed on Satur-
day. The debris included 925,000 tons of
scrap iran and steel used as a balance to
the hydraulic power used to stamp a solid
steel car wheel out of a billet of cherry
red steel :
—The Postoffice Department has issued
warning to banks and merchants of Penn-
splvania to be on the lookout for bogus
postal money orders, the forms for which
are reported to have been stolen from the
Baltimore postoffice. There are eighty-six
of them, the forms numbering from 33,114
te 98,200, inclusive. - :
~-Northumberland county justice speed-
ed rapidly recently when Quentin Tarr
was found guilty of murder in the sec-
‘ond degree just a month to the day after
‘his alleged victim died. The shooting oc-
curred eight days before the victim's
death, and Tarr was sentenced a week
after his conviction. id ’
— Cambria county physicians are after
that class of patients who “shop around”
for medical service as a means of avoid-
ing payment of doctor bills. They have
established a Physicians’ Credit Bureau
TT —— to which each doctor will report monthly
Philadelphia and Allegheny County | the names of delinquent patients of others
Vote. oa who cannot be relied upon to pay bills.
y ¥ 1 3
Si TT al Reet ov | ~The largest mortgage ever filed in
From the Pittsburgh Post: WE Ga ic woumty was entered of record last
‘Thursday when a 126-pagé mortgage of the
Philadelphia Electric Power company and
the Susquehanna Power company with the
Fidelity Trust company of Philadelphia
was left with the recorder of deeds. The
amount of the mortgage is $60,000,000,
—Quentin Bollis, aged two, was drowned
in French creek, near Franklin, on Meon-
day afternoon when he fell into the water
while trying to escape from his mother
who sought to keep him away from the
eércek where he had been playing. Owing
to the high water for the past few days
grappling hooks could not be used and
efforts to recover the body were abandoned
at darkness.
—Temporary receivers appointed March
13 for the Huntingdon and Broad Top
Mountain Railroad and Coal company were
dismissed on Monday by Judge Bailey
after a hearing on a bondholders bill in
equity which alleged that the semi-annual
interest on certain bonds was in default.
"The court fixed April 16 for a hearing to
determine whether permanent receivers
shall be appointed. The company denied
the necessity for receivers.
—gale of the United States Refractories,
| corporation, operating brick plants at Mt.
Union and at Barrett, to a new controlling
company, headed by Thomas N. Kurtz,
was announced in Altoona a few days ago.
The sale was made Wednesday of last
week. The Mt. Union plant has a capa-
city of 140,000 fire brick. Other properties
of the company are deposits of ganister
on Jack's Mountain near Mt. Union, and
fire clay and coal deposits near Barrett,
Clearfield county.
—Announcement has been made of the
purchase of the Gazette and Bulletin,
Williamsport’s morning newspaper, by the
Sun snd News Publishing company, which
will publish the morning paper from its
own plant, in addition to its present even-
ing caper, the Williamsport Sun. There
will be no change in the personnel of the
editorial force of the morning paper and
no change in the paper’s policy. The Gaz-
ette and Bulletin is one of the oldest pa-
pers in the country, having been estab-
lished in 1801.
—Herman Opawski, 19 years old, of
Pittsburgh, Northside, died Sunday short-
ly after 6 o'clock in the Allegheny Gener-
al hospital, from injuries suffered in a
terrific blast that occurred in the rear of
his home, Saturday, while he was experi-
menting with chemicals. The youth's
body was terribly mangled in the explo-
sion, wihch wrecked a concrete wall and
broke a score of windows in the neighbor-
hood. What chemicals he was using when
the blast occurred could not be determin-
ed. He was reputed a brilliant student
in the chemical and electrical sciences at
Carnegie Institute of Technology.
—The gift to the State of twenty acres
of virgin white pine, comprising what is
known as “Heart's Content” tract in War-
ren county, was announced on Tuesday by
the State Forestry Department. Donors
of the tract are Wheeler and Dusenberry,
of Endeavor, Forest county. The twenty
acres of virgin timber comprise one of the
few remaining stands of the original tim-
berlands which made up Penn's Woods.
N. P. Wheeler, Jr.,, a member of the State
Forest Commission, is manager of the firm,
which made the donation to the State.
He is assisted in the management by his
brother, Capt. Alexander R. Wheeler, who
is the Forest county member In the Legis
lature,