rid of that fishing
Beni fata.
INK SLINGS.
— Anyway, after tomorrow we’ll be
itch for eight
months at least.
—Durkin, the sheik gunman of Chi-
cargo, got thirty-five years in the pen,
but that won’t bring his victims back
to life. ;
——The National Guardsmen have
been having a hot season in camp but
they escape the cooties of the
trenches.
——Possibly the coming Presiden-
"tial contest has something to do with
General Wood’s return from the
Philippines.
—It takes more than a morning
bath and ten dollar an ounce perfume
to make the morally dirty smell sweet
as most of them think they do.
—France might have saved the
franc had she started in, years ago,
to do something more than set the
styles for the world of fashion.
The Sunday opening of the
Sesqui-Centennial being approved by
the court the base ball managers are
thinking of going up against the blue
law.
— If France would work half as
hard to pay what she owes as she is
working to dodge the just debt, her
greatest problem would soon be
solved.
——Since Tom Cunningham reccg-
nizes the authority of the United
States Senate it may be reassured
that “the government at Washington
still lives.”
—Do you suppose that the swat-
the-fly campaigns have been respon-
sible for the comparatively few flies
we have these days? If they have
been, let’s keep them up.
—Having gotten rid of most of the
land gamblers Florida is said to have
settled down to a hopeful, healthy de-
velopment. There is still money to be
made there, but not over night.
—A Philadelphia moonshiner bought
a goat and kept it in his yard so his
neighbors wouldn’t smell his still
when in operation. They did smell the
goat, however, and complained to the
police.
—And Senator McKinley, of Illinois,
appears to have had no ambition to
be in the piker class. He, personally,
gave three hundred and fifty thousand
dollars for a renomination that he
didn’t get.
—The season closes tomorrow but
Tuesday night made it for us. We got
one fourteen inches long and we hook-
ed him on a sixteen fly and landed him
with a three ounce rod. That, we
should say, was thrill enough to do
anyone until next April.
—Texas is evidently through with
“Ma” Ferguson. She was beaten in
the recent primaries by the youthful
Attorney General of the State—and
before the contest she said she would
resign as Governor unless she was re-
nominated. Whether she will or not
remains to be seen. “Ma,” of course,
has the woman’s prerogative, the
right to change her mind.
—Those European demonstrations
against American tourists are merely
gestures at cutting off one’s nose to
spite his face. Give the American
tourists a chance and they will give
Europe more money than she owes the
United States and, this, in spite of the
fact that not one-tenth of them has
seen one-tenth of the country that
gave them the money to fritter away
abroad.
—“Big Tom” Cunningham, Phila-
delphia ward leader, is in Chicago this
week testifying before the Senate in-
vestigating committee. The portly
politician gave fifty thousand dollars
to Vare’s campaign fund and said it
was his own business as to where it
came from. By the time Senator Reed
gets through quizzing him he’ll have a
very different idea about whose busi-
ness it is.
—The medical director of a leading
life insurance company is authority
for the statement that bachelors die
sooner and are more prone to insanity
than their married brothers. The
gentleman being an authority we shall
not question the statement; only grope
for an explanation. And the one that
comes to mind is that without =a
woman or offspring to make life worth
while they either want to die or be-
come goofy because they don’t.
—DMussolini has just issued a stern
order to members of his party in Italy.
He has directed that they cease quar-
reling among themselves. Musso
points a way to Joegrundy, of Penn-
sylvania. Joe has the Republicans of
this State just about where Musso has
the Faseiti, that is, he might soon con-
trol all the patronage and in that
event he can tell them to be good or
they won’t get anything. Will he?
He will, like the old woman kept
tavern out west.
—The Sesqui is in need of nearly
four million dollars with which to pay
construction bills already incurred
and as yet unprovided for. Had the
Sesqui been ready at the time it was
opened the gate receipts would have
helped along a lot. But the public
knows there is no exposition there
even yet and it is not going to spend
money to see a lot of carpenters,
stucco artists and painters at work.
Philadelphia has made a miserable
bungle of the show, but maybe it can
be gotten ready in time to save the big
financial loss that now seems almost
inevitable.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 71.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. JULY 3
“Big Tom” and His Little Troubles.
“Big” Tom Cunningham, of Phila-
delphia, a small fish of inferior qual-
ity away from home, had a tedious
time waiting to be called to testify
before the Senate committee investi-
gating primary election expenses now
sitting in Chicago. No notice was
taken of him at all as he entered the
federal court room in that midwestern
city and when chairman Reed was
asked when he might be called replied:
“I can’t say. Anyhow we will get him
for his testimony sooner than we got
him with our subpoena.” This was
unusual treatment for “Big Tom.” In
Philadelphia and certain sections of
Florida he usually gets obsequious at-
tentions: Maybe that is why he con-
fines himself to his home city and
adopted pleasure ground.
Mr. Cunningham, who holds a $15,-
000 a year job, contributed $50,000 to
the Vare slush fund and Senator Reed
expressed a curiosity to learn where
he got the money and how. With that
purpose in view a subpoena was issued
by the Senate committee for his ap-
pearance to testify. For several
weeks Big Tom had the sport of his
life dodging the subpoena server and
laughing at the futility of the Senate.
He probably imagined that the inves-
tigation would end before he was
served and the Senate committee
would thus be made the but of ridicule
of the Philadelphia gang for a long
time. But unfortunately for “Big
Tom” there is no time limit to the life
of the investigation and in despair of
perpetual escape he surrendered and
was subpoenaed to appear in Chicago
on Monday.
At this writing he had not been
called to testify and as we have said
before his evidence is not likely to be
of great value. He will say again, as
he did before, that it was his own
money and it will be hard to prove the
contrary. The members of the Senate
committee and everybody else who
gives the matter thought will think
that the money was collected from the
bootleggers and public officials of
Philadelphia and unless his income tax
return for last year is appealed to or
some of the real contributors will re-
veal the facts it is difficult to imagine
how the truth may be dug up. But
Senator Reed will give him some un-
happy moments while he has him
under cross examination, beyond
question.
—It is to be hoped that the charge
wnat liquor has been freely dispensed
on board the steamer Leviathan will
not be proved. It would be embarrass-
ing to padlock or confiscate a vehicle
owned by the government.
Republicans on Right: Lines.
Those independent Republicans in
Philadelphia who have preempted the
title of the “Patriotic Citizens’ Party,”
are proceeding upon the right lines.
Their avowed purpose is to prevent
the seating of William S. Vare as Sen-
ator in Congress for Pennsylvania.
Fisher as Unfit as Vare.
erations of a mind of man or woman
who condemns William S. Vare for
irregularities, not to say crimes, per-
petrated in. the recent primary elec-
tion and condones the part which John
S. Fisher took in the same proceed-
ings. Of course Mr. Vare is mentally
unfit for the office to which he aspires
and by habit, association and environ-
vania in the Senate of the United
go Mr. Fisher is culpable
greater degree than Vare in the ini-
quities revealed by the investigation
of the Senate committee. He not only
profited by the profligate expendi-
tures but through frauds in Pitts-
burgh.
John 8S. Fisher became the candi-
' date of the Republican party for Gov-
ernor under an implied agreement
, With Joseph R. Grundy, president of
.the Manufacturers’ association of
' Pennsylvania, that if elected he will
: defeat legislation to tax corporation
shares. Mr. Grundy admitted this
‘fact in his evidence before the Senate
. committee when he said that he con-
' tributed $400,000 to the Fisher cam-
‘paign fund because he believed that
Beidleman might favor such a tax.
i The Mellon contributions were mainly
"intended to help Pepper but under the
terms of their coalition were used for
the benefit of Fisher so that nearly
twice as much money was spent to
nominate Fisher as was disbursed for
the benefit of Vare.
The profligate use of money in nom-
inating candidates for office works a
subversion of the principles of the
government. It excludes from
competition for offices of honor
and emolument all but the very
rich men, or, as Senator Reed, of
Pittsburgh, stated it, “men whose
friends are willing to contribute the
necessary funds.” Mr. Fisher under-
stands this as well as any other man
but permits selfish persons to buy a
nomination for him on conditions
that obligate him to reimburse them
in the event of his election. Because
of these facts he is as unfit for Gov-
ernor as Vare is for Senator and both
ties as will prevent a recurrence of the
crime.
Poincaire may not be able to
restore the franc to its face value
immediately but he has certainly
made it take on an appearance of
self-respect.
Surprising Attitude of Farmers.
The farm organizations in session
‘at DesMoines, Iowa, last week, de-
!clared in resolution, that “we favor
' retaining the protective system that
“has developed in this country, but
only in case it is made equitable by
! extending it to the great surplus
crops of agriculture.” Such a code of
morals was hardly expected from such
a group of citizens. Tradition fixes
It is impossible to measure the op-
ment disqualified to represent Pennsyl-
States. But so far as political morals
in a far,
ought to be defeated by such majori-:
Judge Maxey Joins the Boodlers.
The defenders of boodle politics
have enlisted another more or less con-
spicuous recruit to their ranks. Sena-
tor Reed, of Pittsburgh, was the first
to justify the profligate expenditures
in the recent Republican primaries
and admitting the evil of it declared
it was necessary. Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon followed with a simi-
lar qualification and John S. Fisher,
the principal beneficiary of the orgie,
added substantially that “any ex-
penditure necessary to win is legiti-
mate.” Judge G. W. Maxey, of Scran-
| ton, supplements that sinister view
i with a statement that “it is the busi-
ness of nobody except the man who is
foolish enough to spend the money.”
! Judge Maxey, who is a politician of
“considerable activity and influence,
. overlooks the fact that “any candidate
or any friend of a candidate who
wishes to spend $500,000, or any other
large sum to have that candidate’s
portrait painted on every barn and
bill board in the State” deprives every
' candidate and the friends of any can-
; didate who is not able to meet such
expenses from equal opportunity to
| contest for political favor. The polit-
{ical contests in such circumstances
would degenrate into a public auc-
tion with the highest bidder practical-
ly certain to “bring home the bacon.”
: Neither fitness for the service nor
: merit of the aspirants would cut any
cials.
No candidate for office who is
“honest and fit” will spend more for
a nomination than he ordinarily will
receive as recompense for the
service and a. reasonable value of the
honor will afford. No man of means
will contribute more to procure the
nomination of a favorite than he may
hope to get back in one way or an-
other. In the recent primary one
group contributed to the nomination
i of Fisher because its members imag-
{ined they would be reimbursed in tax
| discrimination and another gave to
the Vare fund because they imagined
the money or its equivalent would be
iehgmed to them in some way, Fite
ter "¢andidates were defeated in both
cases because neither they nor their
friends were able to compete.
——Practically all the grain in Cen-
tre county is now on shock and farm-
ers generally aver that it will not be
| over a fifty to sixty per cent. crop.
Veils the wheat is well headed and
filled most of the fields were light on
the ground, likely the result of dry
weather at the time it was stooling
“fout. Oats and barley, however, prom-
ise good returns. Both the latter are
‘now beginning to turn and oats harv-
‘est will be next in order.
—“Ma” Ferguson ran for Governor
of Texas to vindicate her husband who
was impeached from that office. She
, won and the old man was vindicated,
| but she has lost her chance to succeed
| herself by being defeated in the re-
‘cent primaries and unless there are
The exorbitant “slush fund” disbursed the highest standard of human conduct ' some little Fergusons to come along
to procure his nomination is so sug-
gestive of fraud that they are per-
suaded of his unfitness for the high
office to which he aspires and rather
than trust to the exigencies of politics
in the event of his carrying the elec-
tion in November, they propose to
vote against him direct and reinforce
that action by organized efforts to in-
fluence others to the same purpose.
That is real good polities.
We have no doubt of the sincerity of
purpose of these Republican Senators
who have declared that they will vote
against the seating of Mr. Vare in the
event of his election. But there may
not be enough of them to compass the
result. The certificate of an election
to the Senate is a potent force in de-
terinining the title to the seat. It
represents both the sovereignty of
the State and the voice of the
people. In 1847 Simon Cameron
was awarded a seat notwithstanding
overwhelming evidence of bribery in
his election. The influence of the
las the rule amongst the sons of toil
who live and labor on and next the
soil. The proposition expressed in the
, resolution above quoted implies a re-
quest for participation on equal terms
lin the plundering operations of tariff
taxation. It means an endorsement of
"the robbery if the spoils are divided.
The primary purpose of protective
, tariff taxation is to levy tribute upon
| the consumer in order to pay unearned
bounties to the producer. Under the
| Republican system of levying this tax
only the manufacturers get the boun-
ties. Products of the farmer are rare.
ily if ever imported while everything
they use in production is heavily
! organized farmers at DesMoines they
| are willing to pay the unjust tax if a
i part of the unearned bounties is given
to them. In other words they will
‘condone the robbery of millions of
‘wage earners who are neither farmers
‘nor manufacturing owners if the
spoils of the criminal operation is
taxed. According to this declaration of |
; and vindicate “Ma” the family will
probably never be heard of again.
—“Big Tom” Cunningham may
i have had his fun with the Senate in-
| vestigation committee when he evaded
its summons to go to Washington and
testify, but the shoe is on the other
foot now that the committee has him
rin Chicago. “Tom” is the boss of the
10th ward, Philadelphia, but when it
you know, the Senator is from Mis-
souri. 2
—This Joyce Hawley girl who
thought she was gaining fame by en-
‘ tertaining Earl Carroll’s bath-tub
party, some months ago, has at last
discovered that it wasn’t fame but
shame she was plunging into when
she entered the tub of wine nude.
m———— ts
——The trouble with Governor Pin-
chot is that he is insincere. The Sun-
National administration, the power of , “equitably” divided between the two | day after he ordered proceedings to
patronage and the real or fancied obli-
gations of party regularity will be in-
voked in Vare’s favor if necessity re-
quires it.
These facts being plain the safe
course for those who feel as the gen-
tlemen in question feel that the honor
of the State is at stake are taking the
wise course in opposing Vare at the
election in November. If he is defeat-
ed there it will be final. He will no
longer be a menace to the political
morals of the Commonwealth. But
we are not quite able to see how the
well-meaning pre-emptors of the
Patriotic Citizens’ Party can support
John 8. Fisher for Governor. He is
certainly as culpable in the implied
frauds as Vare, In fact the “slush
fund” disbursed in his interest was
nearly double in amount that spent
for Vare and his corrupt bargain with
Grundy on the tax question is an
added reason against him.
. beneficiaries.
| The only possibly way to make the
operations of protective tariff taxation
equitable is to put it strictly on a
‘revenue basis. Tariff taxation for
: revenue is not only just but wise. It
levies upon the consumers in equal
i close the Sesqui-Centennial on Sun-
day it is said he played golf on his
‘estate in Pike county.
| —Judge Lewis,
|
0. 1926.
figure in the selection of public offi- -
comes to bossing Senator Reed—well, '
of Philadelphia, '
imagines the country needs a dictator |
' to stop automobile accidents. What is |
NO. 30.
f° The New Protection.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The Iowa Republican convention
was a love feast at which the Presi-
dent and Brookhart and Cummins
were heartly commended, and there
were no threats about deserting the
cause of protection, as there were in
the corn belt conference. But there
was a new theory of protection enun-
ciated which will bother the National
Republican convention, and if Presi-
dent Coolidge has further political
aspirations he may find it inconven-
ient to deal with. It is the following
paragraph in the platform:
The Republican party of Iowa
is united in its demands that the
Republican policy of economic
equality of agriculture with other
industries shall be carried into ef-
fect by the enactment of legisia-
tion which will permit the estab-
lishment of an American price
level for agricultural products
above the world price level, just
as the protective tariff accomp-
lishes that result for manufactur-
ed products. We rejoice in the
prosperity of industrial Amer-
ica and insist upon the justness of
our demand that equal opportun-
ity for prosperity shall be extend-
ed to agriculture. j
This is an entirely new thing in Re-
publican literature. The Republicans
have generally denied that the tariff
raised the price of protected articles;
their usual argument has been that it
simply kept the home market for do-
mestic producers and that the com-
petition between them kept prices
down. When American manufactures
began to be sold abroad the Republi-
cans at first “denied the allegation
and defied the allegator.” When the
proof became overwhelming they de-
fended the practice of a higher level
of American prices. Now it is de-
manded by Iowa that there shall be
a higher level of food as well as of
manufactured articles.
Small surpluses of manufactured
goods might be thrown on the foreign
markets at a loss lest the domestic
market should be broken, but the
amount of our manufactured exports |
is so vast that it can’t be explained on
this theory. We must be 1
turing for export, altho:
~tion-that we cannot do s¢
months ending with May ou
of fully manufactured
‘amounted to $1,526,385,000, ahd the
; partly manufactured articles amount-
red to $591,953,000 besides. In 11
months the wholly and partially man-
ufactured articles were a good deal
.more than two billions. Yet our
manufacturers protest that they can-
not meet foreign competition.
The Iowa farmers are making
money; the evidence from Towa is
conclusive of that. But they see the
manufacturers getting favors and
they demand a “divvy.” The origin-
al theory of protection was simple
and reasonable, and within limits jus-
tifiable. It was that this was an agri-
cultural country, that 97 per cent. of
the population was rural, and that
manufacturers couldn’t get started
without special help. Ours is now
the greatest manufacturing country
in the world, and its manufactured
products go out by billions to all quar-
ters of the globe. Yet the protective
tariff is not only in exigtence, but it
is raised every. few years.
Now there is a demand that agri-
culture shall be artificially elevated.
1 With the coming of peace Iowa land
“has gone down somewhat in value,
and food 1s to be cornered so that it
shall be as high as it was when all
the world was at war. The cost of
living is artificially enhanced now, and
it is proposed that it shall be arti-
cially enhanced a great deal more with
the special purpose of making food
more expensive.
On top of this comes a demand for
an American merchant marine, with
, payments from the Treasury. The
; argument is that Americans won’t do
"the carrying trade at the rates Euro-
peans will do it for, and therefore the
taxpayers’ money must be paid to
them to keep them in that business in-
stead of some other that would pay
them better, for nothing explains the
, American desertion of the sea except
the higher profits and wages to be
: made on land.
| Thus we are to make ourselves
prosperous by taxing ourselves for
manufacturers and farmers and ship-
owners, and we are to increase the
: cost of living still further—very much
further—and a fools’ paradise is to
be created by taxing everybody we
: can get hold of for the sake of every-
body who can get hold of Congress.
¥ ‘exports
Our Policy Toward Russia.
_ proportion a fair share of the burdens really needed is some force that will From the London Referee.
of government. But the moment it is
made to discriminate in favor of one
element and against other elements of
the population its fairness vanishes
and the provision of the organic law
"under which it is levied is violated. If i but little help for his ambition to re-'
the farmers of the country would
unite in a demand for a strictly
revenue tariff and express their de-
mand at the polls by voting against
protective tariff advocates, they would
soon acquire equitable results.
———————————————
| ——Anybody who wants to “circle
the world” in four weeks is in too
great a hurry.
stop ballot frauds in Philadelphia.
i ——Governor Pinchot may find
eager ears during his western trip
into which to pour his tales of woe,
main in the lime-light.
| ——The “flowing bowl” of this
- period may drown sorrow all right but
it is likely to produce mania that is
| much worse.
| —Think of it! In another week
, August will be here and with its sue-
cessor will come the oyster again.
| way endangering our frade.
i Refusal to recognize a government
. which does not observe the obligations
of all civilized States has had no in-
jurious effect upon American trade.
. The Russians buy American goods be-
cause they want them, and do not de-
ny themselves because the Govern-
| ment of the United States has the dig-
i nity and the courage to refuse to have
any dealings with a gang of thieves
"and cut-throats. Here is proof posi-
| tive that we can do what we ought to
do and withdraw our shameful and
dangerous recognition of the common
enemy of civilization without in any
As is
always the case, there is nothing to
be afraid of in doing right.
- articles’
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
~—Mrs. Orrie Kitchen, of Flemington,
suffered a badly burned left foot, on Mon-
day, when she caught her sleeve in the
bail of a canning kettle and pulled the
boiling fruit over on her foot. Screaming
with pain, she dropped a small pan of
boiling water on the same foot, inflicting a
serious burn.
—Happy with his first fishing rod.
Charles Dewalt. of Milton, aged twelve,
went to the Susquehanna river near that
town on Saturday to try it out. A fish
nibbled at the bait and he raised the rod
but the tip touched a 2500-volt electric
wire and the lad dropped dead, electro-
cuted.
—While the heads of the Luzerne and
Wilkes-Barre fire departments were una-
ble to agree as to who should take charge
of fighting a fire in the Freedman block,
at Luzerne, on Tuesday, the building and
contents were damaged to the extent of
more than $75,000. It took five hours te
finally extinguish the flames.
—Missing his 2-year-old daughter Helen,
whom he had left playing in the back
yard at his home in Huntingdon, last
Thursday, Carl D. Wilson, after a search,
found the child at the bottom of a 22-feot
well containing five feet of water. Slid-
ing down the pump stock, he rescued the
child, who was clinging to the side of the
well. She escaped without a scratch.
—Approval of the incorporation of the
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Federation, a
corporation not for profit, has been an-
nounced. at the State corporation bureau.
The organization was incorporated “to
promote, protect and represent the busi-
ness, economic, social and educational in-
terests of the farmers of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania and to develop its
agriculture.”
—There's a dancing judge in Philadel-
phia who will do a step or so in his court
if the occasion warrants. Magistrate
Carney waltzed with a girl witness when a
76-year-old defendant struck up an accord-
ion. Then the magistrate passed the hat
and collected $50 to send John McMullen,
who is blind, back home to Kirkwood, W.
Va. John was in court for failing to pay
a taxi driver.
Despite the fact that lightning hit his
home, tore a hole through the roof, knocked
plaster from the ceiling of his bed-room
and damaged a chimney, Joseph Ryder,
of Spring City, slept so soundly on Sunday
night during a thunder storm that he
knew nothing of the commotion. After
considerable effort he was aroused by
people on the street who thought that th
house was on fire. ,
—The body of a stunt aviator who fell
to his death from an airplane at Cannons-
burg on Sunday, has been identified as
Emory Chamer, of Johnstown, Pa. The
identification was made by a brother,
Joseph Chamer, who went to Cannonsburg
and arranged to send the body to Johns-
town for burial. Chamer had been flying
under the name of Earl Franz. An inquest
was held on Monday afternoon.
_ —William B. Kauffman, aged 65, a mem-
ber of the Blair county board of road
‘viewers, and a resident of Morrisons Cove,
drowned himself early on Sunday morning
in a water trough at the dairy farm of
f Zeamona Baumgardner, near Curryville.
EE -—
tragic death of a granddaughter, which
left him despondent and brooding, is sup-
posed to have prompted the act. Eh
—Police and detectives throughout the
State have been asked to assist in the
search for Ruth Cartwright, 14, daughter
of William B. Cartwright of 5201 Baum
boulevard, Pittsburgh, who disappeared
from her home Saturday, July 17. The
girl is said to have been enticed inte leav-
ing by two men who were cafivassing thé
neighborhood selling magazines and house-
hold utensils. With the men was a woman
about 45 years of age.
—Harvey Miller, 45, of Lewistown, gave
himself up on Friday and was committed
to the State Hospital for the Insane at
Harrisburg. Miller had been in ill health
for some time and Monday of last week
locked himself in a third floor room at his
home with a rifle and revolver, throwing
the door knobs away. He had neither
food nor drink until he climbed through
the transom on Friday and submitted to
the service of a writ in lunacy.
—Thomas Clayton, 34 years old, of Al-
toona, an employee of the Beidman and
Polli circus, was seriously injured near
Jeannette on Sunday afternoon when he
was jolted from one of the circus cars. He
was found unconscious beside the tracks
by Pennsylvania railroad employes and
taken to the Westmoreland hospital where
it was found that he was suffering from
fractures of the right leg and shoulder
and lacerations of the head and body.
About a week ago an employe of the same
show was killed in a similar accident near
Torrence.
—Norman C. Moore, recently assistant
paying teller in the Ardmore, Pa., National
Bank and Trust company, was arrested in
New York, on Monday, as a fugitive from
justice in connection with the disappear-
ance of $5,050 from the bank May 6. Police
suspicions were aroused by the liberal
spending in Broadway night clubs of a‘
man who lived in a furnished room on the
upper West Side. The man used an alias
and when arrested denied he was Moore
until he was told he would be held for
the arrival of department of justice agents
to identify him.
—M. M. Bricker, Daniel Brought and W.
A. McNitt, directors of the poor of Mif-
flin county, have made the first move in
complying with the order of Dr. Ellen Pot-
ter, secretary of the State Welfare Depart-
ment, which decrees that the Mifflin coun-
ty alms-house shall be closed and the fifty
inmates taken care of in other institutions
of Mifflin county, District Attorney John
T. Wilson has applied for lunacy commis-
sions in five cases which will have to be
sent to the State hospital for insane, be-
cause in their feeble condition of body and
mind no other institution is willing to
take them.
—Frederick E. Bedale, Greensburg, has
been appointed manager of the State
Workmen's Insurance Fund to succeed G.
H. Moyer, Lebanon, who resigned July 1,
according to an announcement on Monday
from the Governor's office. For several
years Mr. Bedale has represented the fund
on the executive committee of the Pennsyl-
vania Compensation Rating and Inspection
Bureau. The new manager is a graduate
of the Pennsylvania State College and be-
fore taking charge of the coal mine section
of the Workmen's Insurance Fund in 1917
was mine insurance inspector with asso-
ciated companies.