~wmotor..
Povo
INK SLINGS.
-——In nine cases out of ten borrow-
“ing money is borrowing trouble.
—Reading of the tragedies, sorrow
-and distress in consequence of the
Florida hurricane with memories of
the horrors of the California earth
quake disasters we are, more than
ever, content with our abode in rugged
. old Centre county.
—-Sykesville, the town we had never
heard of until it ran away with the
pennant in the Clearfield and Centre
* baseball league last year, has repeat-
ed. DuBois, Clearfield and Philips-
burg could probably park all of Sykes-
ville in their public squares, but they
dont seem to be able to develop
Hornsbys, Sislers and Ruths like they
«do up in the big little Jefferson county
town.
—The Hon. Holmes is long on
‘shoulder slapping and palaver, but its
going to take more than that to catch
the voters of Centre county this fall.
Two years ago every dry orator avail-
able was on the stump telling the
world what he would do if sent to
Harrisburg. And what did he do?
"The most notable thing we know of
was his vote for Bluett for speaker of
the House. And Bluett was Vare's
‘candidate and wringing wet. The
Hon. Holmes is going to have an awful
time laffing that off.
—Governor Pinchot said a mouth-
full when he told the Rev. Charles
Scanlon, of Pittsburgh, that “the na-
tions in which boys and men are in the
‘habit of doing their fighting with
their fists are precisely those in which
they are not in the habit of using the
knife or the bullet for that purpose.”
The Governor was explaining his re-
- fusal to attempt to stop the Demp-
-sey—Tunney match at the Sesqui last
* night. He couldn’t have stopped it if
he had willed to do so, because it is
legalized by the State and he is sworn
to uphold the law, rather than cirecum-
‘vent it. There is less possibility of
_ serious injury in a boxing match than
there is in a foot-ball game and there
are hundreds more killed or perma-
_.nently crippled in the latter exemplifi-
-cation of the co-ordination of brain and
. brawn than there are in the former.
Aside from that, the good Lord didn’t
make it possible for man to shape his
hand into a fist merely to shake it
under his adversary’s nose. It is our
belief it was intended to be planted
square thereon if the necessity so to
do presented.
—This is not an advertisement of or
for the manufacturers of whippet cars.
It is merely an expression of grati-
tude on the part of an humble tax
payer to the designer of the new
vehicle... Last Monday night
the State's highway department rep-
resentatives appeared before the local
council and partially lifted the veil
that obscures its program for the
future. The idea is in the minds of the
vast army of road builders that we
are paying taxes to maintain that the
time is approaching when Bellefonte
streets and those of all other nuncipal-
ities of the State—will have to be
widened to take care of the growing
motor traffic. Incidentally, that will
attach to the State’s payroll another
army of surveyors, appraisers, adjudi-
cators and “grease” men. The advent
-of the whippet car may forestall this,
For it is designed to carry just as
many passengers, go further on the
same gas and get there just as quickly
as the vehicle that takes up twice as
much room on the streets and high-
ways. Widening the streets and high-
ways mean more taxes. Inducing the
fellow who thinks his importance is
measured by the size of the car he
rolls about in to realize that his vanity
is only being paraded at the cost and
inconvenience of others and that he
might help by using a smaller car
would relieve the congestion a lot
and save millions in prospective new
tax burdens.
—When the Hon. Holmes was sent
to Harrisburg to represent us two
.years ago it was largely because the
borough of State College and vicinity
was obsessed with the idea of having
.a friend at Court. It was thought
that with him there the institutional
manna tree under which they all feed
would get appropriations beyond ex-
pectations. What happened? The
members from other counties of the
State were primed by their resident
alumni and knowledge of the useful-
ness of The Pennsylvania State Col-
lege to do anything for it possible.
The Hon. Holmes had nothing to do
with that. He knew, as all the rest of
the people who keep tab on things do,
that Governor Pinchot was “off” The
Pennsylvania State College. In con-
sequence his game was to play the
Governor. We have always thought
it an entirely unconstitutional prerog-
ative but in recent years Governors
have, unchallenged, assumed the right
to pare appropriations. In the face of
this condition the Hon. Holmes voted
to make Bluett Speaker of the House.
Bluett was the last Member the Gov-
ernor wanted in that position, and
Bluett was the last Member the Hon,
Holmes’ constituency thought he
would vote for. He did, however, and
the good Lord only knows how much
The Pennsylvania State College suf-
fered in consequence when Governor
Pinchot came to paring the appropria-
tion bills that were passed by Mem-
bers who tried to give State all she
needed. .
Demo
VOL. 71.
Plans of Campaign Outlined.
The Democratic candidates for State
offices met with the executive com-
mittee of the State organization, in
Philadelphia, last week, for the pur-
pose of outlining a campaign itinerary
and considering plans and methods of
conducting the campaign. It was ten-
tatively agreed that the State candi-
dates will speak in certain cities all
together and between those meetings
the candidates will travel separately
in order to cover more territory and
deliver the message of the party to a
greater number of voters. The first
meeting, a splendid success, was held
in Philadelphia on Monday evening
under the auspices of the City com-
mittee. A meeting will be held in
Pittsburgh October 1 and in Allen-
town on October 28.
This is a splendid beginning of a
campaign to rescue the government of
Pennsylvania from the political pi-
rates who have recently bought con-
trol of the Republican organization
for sinister purposes. It will afford
opportunity for all or some of the
candidates to come into contact with
the voters in every section of the Com-
monwealth. It will enable speakers
of the Democratic party, candidates
and others, to hold the mirror of Re-
publican partisan corruption before
the eyes of every man, woman and
child within the limits of the State.
It ought and will make a strong im-
pression on the minds of the voters.
It should and may result in the trium-
phant election of the entire Democrat-
ic ticket in November.
This auspicious opening of the cam-
paign should inspire the rank and file
of the Democratic party throughout
the State to increased activity. In the
last analysis the burden of the battle
is on the voters who march in the
ranks. However worthy the candi-
dates and however earnest and capa-
ble the managers the fight will be lost
unless the voters of the faith do their
part: We know that thousands of hon-
est Republicans will help us in this
vital contest. We know that the slush
fund has disgusted a majority of the
people of Pennsylvania. But there is
an old adage that “the Lord helps
those who help themselves” and unless
we Democrats: do our full duty we
have no right to expect others to help
us.
——Secretary of State Kellogg de;
mands that the bandits who killed Mr.
Rosenthal be captured. But suppose
they can’t be found. General Persh-
ing tried to capture a bunch of Mexi-
can bandits once and failed.
Where Tariff Benefits Go.
During last year, according to
statistics recently made public, in-
dustrial corporations in this country
earned $4,000,000,000. In commenting
upon this fact'the Wall Street Journal
states that “a flock of fifteen com-
panies presented their happy owners
with a clear billion.” Curiously
enough the Aluminum trust is not in-
cluded in the published list of cor-
porate money makers. Being com-
posed of a group of smaller corpora-
tions may account for this omission,
and the fact it is owned largely and
controlled entirely by the Mellon fam-
ily, of Pittsburgh, may have had some-
thing to do with it. These Mellons
are modest folk and not inclined to
boasting of their prosperity.
Based upon the returns of last year
and observation of present industrial
activities the same statisticians esti-
mate that the corporate earnings this
year will reach the vast total of $4,-
400,000,000, and presumably the ratio
of gains will run about as they did
last year, when seventy per cent of
the earnings went to one per cent of
the population. In other words, the
owners of these industrial enterprises
put into their pockets seventy dollars
for every dollar paid in wages to the
workers, who certainly contributed
more than that proportion toward the
creation of the fund. It is stated that
the profits of these concerns ranged
from fifty to a hundred per cent of
invested capital.
In the face of these facts it is small
wonder that the Republican party of
Pennsylvania, headed by the Mellons,
want to continue the high protective
tariff that yielded such profits and
hope to divert. the minds of voters
from the “slush fund” curruption of
the recent primary election. The prof-
its of from fifty to a hundred per
cent in the opération of these indus-
trial enterprises is ample evidence
that high protective tariff taxation is
without value to the working men,
those it falsely pretends to benefit. It
is a “decoy duck” to catch profits for
the manufacturers at all times, and
on this particular occasion to take the
minds of voters away from the crimi-
nal operations of “the gang.”
——China seems to be “hunting
trouble” and searchers of that sort
usually end in disaster.
BELLEF
[ Party Disintegration in Process.
—
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
Since Governor Pinchot flatly de-
clared that William S. Vare, who re-
cently purchased the Republican nomi-
nation for Senator in Congress, “rep-
resents all that is worst in politics”
and that “fraud and the protection of
criminals are the strength of the Vare
organization,” shafts have been hurled
at the candidate with increasing fre-
quency. Last week while the party
candidates were in Pittsburgh, the
local party officials were summoned
to meet them. In response one of the
township Chairmen declined to ap-
pear in a letter declaring that he can’t
stomach Vare and that he and all his
friends intend to work and vote for
William B. Wilson, the Democratic
nominee for Senator.
In Adams county, the other day, the
Vice Chairman of the Republican
county committee resigned her office
giving the reason that she couldn’t re-
concile her conscience to vote for
Vare. Since that incident the party
managers offered to hold the initial
meeting of the campaign in Scranton,
an honor greatly desired by local
party managers, but the Scranton
leaders declined the offer. During the
trip through the western section of
the State, Grundy’s man in Johnstown
arranged to give Vare a complimen-
tary dinner at a Country club near
that city. It was an elaborate affair
but about half those invited declined
to accept or failed to go and the
party is hopelessly split on account of
it.
All this is interesting because it
clearly reflects the reaction of the bet-
ter element of the party to the slush
fund purchase of a party favor by this
“representative of the worst in poli-
tics.” But why the discrimnation be-
tween Vare and Fisher in measuring
the iniquities of boodle campaigning ?
Fisher's nomination cost the corpora-
tons a million dollars more than
Vare’s cost the bootleggers and pro-
tected criminals and besides was
acquired by the manipulation of bal-
lots and the falsification of returns
after the polls had closed. If one of
these men is a greater menace to just
government and honest elections than
the other it is Mr. Fisher. He knows
¥ BE en —
———A graduate of Illinois Univer-
sity laments that young women in
co-educational colleges “drink. and
smoke and misbehave generally.”
Maybe some of them do. But the evil
is not limited to co-educational col-
leges.
er ——— A —————
Another Important Opponent.
Senator Lynn J. Frazier, Republi-
can, of North Dakota, is the latest
important recruit to the rapidly in-
creasing army of opponents to boodle
politics. He declares that “he is thor-
oughly disgusted with the efforts of
rich men to buy their way into the
United States Senate.” The three
milion dollar slush fund disbursed for
the nomination of Mr. Vare, of Penn-
sylvania, has disgusted a good many
others. But Senator Frazier adds that
“he and other independent Republi-
cans in the Senate will line up with
the Democrats in opposition to the
seating of Representative William S.
Vare, of Pennsylvania, and Colonel
Frank S. Smith, of Illinois, should
they be elected to the Senate in No-
vember.”
This is encouraging information to
those of the voters throughout the
country who believe in honest elec-
tions and favor clean and just govern-
ment. It indicates that the canker of
party bigotry is not so deeply laid or
so firmly set as the machine politi-
cians believe. The experience of New-
berry ought to have taught them this
lesson, but it appears to have failed of
this result. If Vare and Smith are re-
fused the seats they have thus pur-
chased it is not likely that money will
be wasted in that way ‘in the future.
Even easily acquired wealth will not
be thrown away in the face of a cer-
tainty that it is a futile investment.
“That is a consummation devoutly to
be wished.”
But it is not the sanest or safest
way to resent the outrage upon the
people of Pennsylvania perpetrated by
William 8. Vare or in his behalf. It
might retard the machine managers
of Pennsylvania from an impulse to
buy seats in the Senate, but it will
not restrain them from buying nomi-
nations for Governor or other offices
they or their servile tools may aspire
to hold. To get the best results of
an’ effort to rebuke the corrupt ma-
chine the candidates whose nomina-
tions were purchased at so vast a
price must be defeated at the polls in
November. Such a result will strtke at
the seat of the disease and put an end
to it forever. Elect William B. Wil-
son and Eugene C. Bonniwell.
—— A —————————
——Unless the signs are mislead-
ing Congressman Vare’s vote in No-
vember will be disappointing to him.
ONTE, PA.. SEPTEMBER 24. 1926.
Right Purpose but Dubious Plan.
| The State Chamber of Commerce is
' organizing a movement to secure, by
legislation, a decrease in local taxes,
according to information which comes
from Harrisburg. It is a laudable pur-
pose if it can be accomplished without
impairment of local municipal pro-
gress. “For every dollar saved in
| Washington since 1921,” one of the
leaders in the movement is reported to
have said, “State and local taxes have
increased two dollars.” The saving in
| Washington has been a natural and
necessary process. The ending of the
world war cut out the vast expenses
incident to the prosecution of such a
conflict and diminution of expenses
are measured by that circumstance.
«If local taxation may be reduced by
a similar process it would be a splen-
did achievement. Alike in the State,
most of the cities and some of the
boroughs and townships, there is a
redundency of officials whose salaries
eat up a good part of the revenues.
Cutting out all the paid sinecurists in
these municipal divisions would put
expenses on a much lower level and
justify a proportionate reduction in
taxes, But it is not certain that the
State Chamber of Commerce contem-
plates such a plan of achievement.
The tone of its propaganda points in
another direction. It conveys the im-
pression that the State, the cities, the
boroughs and townships are wasting
money on development projects.
The people of Pennsylvania have no
objection to paying taxes necessary
for good schools, good sanitation, good
roads and streets and good govern-
ment economically administered. If
the present rate of local taxation is
Necessary to guarantee those benefi-
, cences the people are content to pay
them. But they object to paying
taxes levied, not for public puiposes,
but to distribute unearned largesses
among certain favorites, those who
contribute liberally to the party slush
fund. This is the purpose and effect
of the protective tariff tax which is a
prime favorite of most of those who
compose the State Chamber of Com-
merce. That is the tax that ought to
be cut out first of all.
i —
| =A dahlia flower on exhibition
"inthe Watchman office window during
the past week has attracted consider-
able attention because of its unusual
size and beauty. It is six inches in
diameter and in color a blend of pink-
ish red and orange. The flower is
from a plant at the home of W. Harri-
son Walker, Esq., on east Linn street,
and is known as the “Judge Mary
Ann.” The flower grows as large as
eight inches in diameter and is very
prolific. Mr. Walker secured the bulb
last spring and so far this season he
has cut twenty-two fully developed
flowers from the stalk and it still con-
tains sixty-eight partially opened
flowers and buds.
—The Watchman has nothing to
say in its news columns about Man-
tell’s appearance here Monday night,
simply because Mantell’s art needs no
praise from us. © We are proud of
Bellefonte, however, and want to say
so. The gratifyingly large and intel-
ligently appreciative audience that
greeted the eminent tragedian assures
us that the culture of our beloved
town is something more than mere
tradition.
i pa eT
—With St. Louis almost certain of
winning the National league pennant
it would have made the base ball sea-
son perfect for us if Cleveland could
have nosed the Yanks. out in the
American race. We're not against the
eastern teams. Only we don’t believe
it is good for the game to have them
“hog” it.
rr
——The Susquehanna baseball
league season came to a premature
end after only one game had been
played to decide the league cham-
pionship between Jersey Shore and
Bellefonte.
——Secretary Mellon is home from
Europe and protests that he didn’t
talk politics or debts while abroad.
Those wicked reporters who said he
did ought to be “drawn and quarter-
ed.”
PR
——The Governor declares he is
still in the fight and supports his
statement by appointing his support-
ers to office whenever he can.
RE ————— ip —————————
—Billy Tilden held the tennis
championship for a long time and his
defeat the other day should admonish
Dempsey to “watch his step.”
——The Daugherty trial is making
slow progress but shows that the in-
dustry of stealing evidence has been
unusually active lately.
————————— lp ———————
——The Sesqui was wide open on
Sunday, notwithstanding the injunc-
tion of the Dauphin county court.
A Woman Speaks Her Mind.
An Open Letter from Mrs. Lillie D. Ber-
gey, Philadelphia, to the Democratic
Watchman.
At no time since their enfranchise-
ment has a greater responsibility of
citizenship confronted the women of
Pennsylvania than now, in this cam-
paign, when the determination rests
largely with them whether or not a
mockery of the ballot—the bulwark
of our free institutions—shall be
made by the wholesome purchase and
sale of votes and the filling of our ex-
{ ecutive and representative offices with
men staggering under heavy obliga-
tions to promoters of legislation for
predatory interests.
It is the imperative duty of women,
irrespective of party affiliations, to
fight honestly and courageously for
the preservation of faith in our rep- |
resentative form of government and
the purity of the ballot, because it
cannot be denied that recent primary °
and general elections have been con-
ducted in such high-handed manner
by corrupt machine politicians that
the confidence of thousands and tens
of thousands has been shaken in the
efficacy of our elective system to such
an extent that they are thoroughly
convinced it is absolutely useless to go
to the polls on election days.
It has been long a well-known fact
that comparatively few people work
for the Republican party in campaigns
without being paid for their services. |
From careful observation of the meth-
ods employed in the Republican pri-
maries last May it is quite evident the
Same mercenary spirit is prevalent
among a very large proportion of Re-'
publicans relative to voting. Why, it
is reliably reported, many in the city
| of Philadelphia are even demanding a
price to register. What a fine com-
| mentary upon the political conditions
i prevailing in this year of the Sesqui-
' Centennial celebration of American
i independence!
Every effort made by Governor Pin-
chot toward revision of the election
laws of Pennsylvania to insure honest
primary and general elections was
thwarted and defeated in the late ex-
tra session of the Legislature by the
same Republican influences responsi-
ble for the nominations of William S.
Vare for Senator and John S. Fisher
for Governor.
What shall be the stand taken on
the situation today by the women of
Pennsylvania? Are they goi to
stultify all their
professions .
politics ‘by: ting thes
dates? Ne En
We have in corruption of State and
national elections an issue in ‘this
campaign which transcends in impor-
(tance all other economic problems |
coming up for solution before the vot-
ers in November. And we have candi-
dates free from even a suspicion of
control by the exploiting agencies of
a ravenous plutocracy.
The excellence of the entire person-
nel of the Democratic State ticket has
never been surpassed in campaigns of
the past, and no man or woman in this
great Commonwealth who honestly
believes that the honor of Pennsyl-
vania should be redeemed from the
stigma placed upon her fair name by
the scandalous use of a $3,000,000
slush fund to corrupt the electorate
and buy legislation in advance for cer-
tain special interests ean conscien-
tiously refuse to vote for Wilson, Bon-
niwell, Hackett and Murphy. No
Democrat should be derelict in his or
her duty in this respect.
The clean personal characters and
honorable public careers of these can-
didates commend them to the Support
of every self-respecting Pennsylvani-
an.
Wild West in the East.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Wild West has moved East. In
Cheyenne, where bad men used to
shoot up the town, the speed cop now
distributes tags for wrong parking.
The pop-pop-pop that once notified
citizens of Leadville and Deadwood
that bandits were shooting it out with
the stage coach guards, now means
that a motorist passing through town
with his muffler open will have ga
chance to tell it to the Judge in the
morning. And where Black Bart
staged his melo-dramatic hold-ups the
most desperate offenders nowadays
are the motorists who stop by the
roadside to swipe a hatful of fruit
from an orchard.
But the seeker for thrills need not
go without them. It is only necessary
to look elsewhere. Chicago puts on
a shooting fest at more or less regular
intervals, and it is a poor match that
does not bag a prosecutor or a few
policemen. And in New York one
day’s record shows a detective shot
dead by a prisoner, a storekeeper
probably fatally wounded by a robber,
who in turn was killed by the police-
man. The only thing lacking to make
it a typical success was the lack of a
couple of innocent bystanders as’ vie-
tims. A
The Wild West in its palmfest days
could not outdo the present perform-
ances. The only difference is that the
bad men are found no longer in the
great open stretches, but now bask
in the bright light of the Great White
Ways.
——The registration in Philadel-
phia was larger on the second than on
the first day but is still considerably
short of other years.
oni
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—William Ritter, aged 38, a farmer near
Loysville, committed suicide by hanging
in a barn.
f
—The Lewistown & Reedsville Electric
Railway entertained 3000 children at Kish«
acoquillas Park. :
—McClure’s twenty-fifth annual . bean
soup and home coming celebration will be
held September 24 and 25.
—While attempting te pass another au-
tomobile, George Shellenberger, 22, of
Richfield, Juniata county, was thrown
from his motorcycle when it collided with
an automobile approaching from the op=
posite direction near Liverpool, on Sunday,
and was almost instantly killed. A
—To a lapse of memory Frank ‘White,
of Mount Carmel, believes he owes his life.
He forgot to set his alarm clock and as a
result he was not called in time for work,
On that day there was an explosion in the
shaft of the mine where he worked and
three men were killed, all fellow employes.
—E. L. Grubb, aged 25, of Danville, has
been held in default of $10,000 bail follow-
ing a hearing on Friday night, on a charge
of padding the payroll of the American-
Swedo Iron company. Officials of the com-
pany, which employed Grubb as a clerk,
said $9200 had been misappropriated in the
last three years.
—Robert Simons and Joseph O’Brien,
Patton youths, were convicted of second
degree murder, in court at Ebensburg, on
charges growing out of the death of Eliza-
beth Bogan, also of Patton. Frank Couter-
eaux, a companion, had previously been
convicted of manslaughter in connection
| with the girl's death.
—Roy Miner, former treasurer of the
B. N. Thayer carriage works, at Erie, on
| Tuesday pleaded guilty to the embezzle~
ment of about $14,000 of the firm's funds
rand was sentenced to from one and omne-
half years to three years in the Western
| penitentiary. Miner disappeared about a
| year ago and recently was arrested at the
Canadian border and taken back to Erie
for trial.
—And now comes the lowly crab apple
as an assistant for new honors, Mrs. Mar-
garet Myers, of Lock Haven, has a tree
of this variety which is producing fruit
more than three inches in diameter. The
average crab apple is small and usually
finds its way inte jelly, but the fruit on
the Myers tree is declared to be juicy and
tender. This year the tree produced its
first crop.
—Enraged when a jury imposed the
costs on him in a case in which he was
the prosecutor, John Stossel, of Spangler,
hurled two pocketbooks at the bench in
the Ebensburg court house, on Saturday,
nearly striking Judge S. L. Emmon Reed.
Stossel was © promptly arraigned before
Judge Reed and sentenced to pay a fine of
$10 and serve 10 days in jail as a result
of his conduct.
—Declaring that a defendant's constitu-
tional rights are violated when he is com-
i pelled to submit to a doctor's examination
after arrest on a charge of operating a
motor. vehicle while intoxicated, Judges
U. P. Rossiter and W. BE. Hirt, acting
jointly, at Erie last Thursday ruled that in
j the future the court will not hear testi-
{| mony from doctors. The court held that
forcing drivers to undergo such an exami-
“mation and then putting the doctors on the
stand is but another way of making a man
testify against himself.
"—The 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Floyd Boone, of Tylersville, died of
! tetanus at her parents’ home on Sunday,
the result of infection which developed
within the past ten days. The child was
playing in the barn at their home, and
bruised her scalp on the prong of a
pitchfork. The wound healed rapidly, and
it was not thought necessary to call a
physician until several days ago, when the
child became ill, and when a doctor was
summoned tetanus in an advanced stage
was found to have developed.
—Taking advantage of the noise made
by passing freight trains, burglars on Fri-
day night broke into the Hotel Laury at
Laury’s station, near Allentown, and stole
the 400-pound safe of Landlord Cassie
Snyder. The hotel is a popular road-
house doing a large business. By auto
the thieves transported the safe to Clear
Springs Dam, a lonely spot two miles
away, where they cracked -it with sledges
stolen from a tool house. It is estimated
they found about $300. The hotel's tele-
phone wires were cut and the tires of the
automobiles belonging to the landlord and
boarders deflated.
—At a meeting of the directors of the
Pennsylvania Railroad company at Phila-
delphia, Wednesday, the Mann’s Narrows
improvement project, costing $150,000 and
eliminating two railway crossings at
grade, two reverse curves and other ob-
jectionable features was decided upon. The
overhead crossing of the main line of the
railroad east of the Lewistown passenger
station, another very dangerous spot, es-
pecially since the Viscose campany has
built its model village on the opposite side
of the railroad from Lewistown will be
eliminated at a cost of $180,000. Both im-
provements will be started within the next
two weeks.
—Dynamite, placed against a door of
Frank P. Marino's plumbing and hard-
ware store, in Hazleton early on Sunday,
blew in the doors, broke the big show
windows, damaged plumbing and hard-
ware fixtures inside and smashed a num-
, ber of windows in nearby stores, The
Marino family live in apartments above
the store. No one was injured but several
. residents of the vicinity were thrown from
their beds. Marino is a member of the
Hazleton city school board. The police
were unable to learn any reason for the
, dynamiting and Marino has refrained from
talking of the occurrence. It was reported,
“however, that he had recently received
threatening letters.
—Computation of earning power in a
| compensation claim has been officially de-
clared difficult when the claimant is a
prisoner by an opinion of the State Com-
pensation Commission. The finding was
‘made in adjudicating the claim of James
Hancock, of Pittsburgh, who received com-
pensation for an injury some time ago, but
made claim of still feeling effects after re-
turning to work, The referee held Han-
cock was still partially disabled but that
his present earning power could not be
very well estimated, as since execution of
the agreement to pay compensation Han-
cock had been sent to the Western Penil-
tentiary on a sentence of from nine to
eighteen years and is now earning only
ten cents a day by waiting on tables.
.