INK SLINGS.
" —Poor old Ed. Browning. He has
discovered, too late, that all “Peaches”
are not of the cling-stone variety.
~ —They certainly had a hot election
«down in Mexico. And the hottest part
of it was in the State of Tabasco.
—Senator Simpson, the peppery
prosecutor in the Halls-Mills murder
trial at New Brunswick, is springing
plenty of sensations, but the character
.of the witnesses who are furnishing
them seems to be something else
again.
—The new moon is lying further to
the south than we recall ever having
seen it. That is supposed to be a sign
©of warm weather and if the moon had
anything to do with Monday and Tues-
«day’s temperature it would seem that
the sign is holding good.
—They fired Ford’s representative
on Queen Marie's train because he
said that Henry was financing part
-of the trip. Evidently the fellow told
the truth, for what other reason could
there have been for his being on the
‘train at all?
—The late Eugene V. Debs, Social-
ist agitator, left an estate valued at
seventy-thousand dollars. That’s
‘Deb’s answer to the non-believers in
Socialism. It’s proof that somebody
‘was willing to divide with him, for he
«certainly didn’t get it by work.
—Nobody will hail the advance in
‘bituminous coal with greater earnest-
mess than the operators in the Central
Pennsylvania field. They've had
‘mighty lean years since 1921 and
many of them are down and nearer
cout than the public understands.
—That stuff, four paragraphs up,
:about the moon being so far around
‘to the south was written Tuesday
night and it was so warm that we had
«our coat off. This is written Wednes-
day night and we have an overcoat
on. We're off Moon signs now, for
‘keeps.
—A Cleveland young man answered
a.questionnaire, sent by his pastor, to
the effect that womanhood “should be
something to be looked up to, not
«down at.” Evidently here is a young
«<hur¢chman who doesn’t know that
most everybody looks up to, as far as
he can.
—Will Rogers evidently wrote his
latest letter “to His President” before
he heard the election returns from
Massachusetts. Cal. certainly is
“President of all them United States,”
‘but if he ever was “Emperor of Massa-
chusetts” he surely was “fired” on No-
-vember 2.
—Governor-elect Fisher is reported
as being occupied with the State’s
‘budget more than any other of the
problems that soon will be his. The
‘State’s budget 7—Isn’t that something
‘that never was heard of in Pennsylva-
mnia’s government until Gifford Pinchot
‘took charge of it?
—Anent the foot-ball game at State
College tomorrow we recall the days
‘when a victory over Bucknell made
the season for State. And, reminiscing
:a bit, we are of the opinion that the
Blue and White had more honest-to-
goodness fun out of her athletics in
those days than she has now.
——O0ld Lizzie will probably be in
‘the divorce courts next. Look at the
money she brought to Henry Ford and
now he’s spending it on entertainment
for a perigrinatin’ Queen. Isn’t it
awful, what these men will do? And
Liz is queen of more square miles of
highways than Marie is of square
‘miles of territory in Bulgaria.
—In denying that he intends to quit
.as a band leader Lieutenant Com-
mander John Philip Sousa, said:
“When a man retires he vegetates.
He dries up like a plucked flower and
then he blows away.” We like that
“blows away’ suggestion from Sousa.
It’s so perfectly expressive. He’s been
‘blowin’ away for the last fifty years.
—The federal Department of Agri-
«culture is trying to kid the house-wife
into thinking that the coming Thanks-
giving dinner will cost a mere song, 2s
compared with that of last year. This
is to come to pass because the cran-
berry crop is unusually large and they
will sell as low as ten cents a pound.
A pound of cranberries will feed an
entire family, but it’s what goes with
them that flattens cut the pocket-
book.
—They’re setting the stage for
Coolidge again. All this bunk about
reducing the taxes and refunding over
collections points to it unmistakably.
But it is politics, and nothing else.
When the Democrats in Congress in-
sisted that both the tariff and the in-
come tax were too high, the President
and the Secretary of the Treasury
insisted that they were not and grudg-
ingly yielded to such cuts as the
Democrats were able to make, with
the aid of Republican Congressmen
who were not under the Coolidge and
Mellon lash. After needlessly taking
millions from the people they are now
planning to either give them back or
reduce taxes and they expect the pub-
lic to believe that it is brought about
by the wisdom and frugality of the
‘Coolidge administration. We give our
boy twenty-five cents to buy a loaf
of bread and he brings us back thir-
teen cents change, because the bread
only cost twelve, but he doesn’t think
he ought to be made Captain General
«of the house-hold because he did it.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 71.
Effect of Fisher's Election.
The election returns indicate that
Mr. John S. Fisher, the Republican
nominee, has been elected by the
largest majority ever given to a Gov-
ernor of Pennsylvania. There are
various reasons for this unusual dis-
tinction, some of which might be just-
ly criticised and others properly
praised. Mr. Fisher is a gentleman of
high character, fine ability and wide
experience, which appealed to the
electorate forcefully. He was earnest-
ly supported by his party organiza-
tion and generously backed by corpor-
ate interests. The good as well as the
bad in his political house-hold gave
him every help available and it is only
natural that he should have acquired a
big vote.
The wisdom or folly of electing Mr.
Fisher to the office of Governor re-
mains to be seen. In his testimony be-
fore the Slush Fund committee of the
United States Senate Mr. Joseph R.
Grundy, president of the Pennsylva-
nia Manufacturers’ association, testi-
fied that he contributed $300,000 and
assumed responsibility for an addi-
tional $100,000 to be employed in the
interest of Mr. Fisher’s nomination,
and that he was influenced to such
liberality because he expected that
Mr. Fisher would oppose the increas-
ing demand for the taxation of manu-
facturing corporation stock. Such a
tax would yield to the State some $10,-
000,000 a year and make it possible to
reduce taxes on necessaries of life to
that extent.
During the last session of the Leg-
islature Mr. Grundy was instrumental
in the defeat of the Ludlow tax re-
form bill. The enactment of that
measure would have worked a saving
of many millions of dollars to the
people of the State. Therefore if Mr.
Fisher is under agreement to prevent
the taxation of corporate shares and
will follow the advice of Mr. Grundy
on tax reform measures certain to be
presented during the next session of
the General Assembly, the people
have made an exceedingly expensive
mistake in electing him Governor by
a record majority or any other kind of
a majority. This is problematical.
Time will tell, The Governor-elect
may justify himself. .. = ©
————————
The Philadelphia Rapid Transit
is thinking of asking for another in-
crease in rates, and it is a safe bet
that the Public Service Commission
will allow any rates it asks.
Regulating Automobile Traffic.
With the number of automobiles
multiplying the problems of operating
and parking become increasingly im-
portant. It is estimated that the num-
ber of automobiles in service in 1926
increased forty-four per cent. Of
course the hazard of operation in-
creased in the same ratio, but the
claim is made that the number of ac-
cidents was in considerable lesser pro-
portion. The number was great
enough, however, to challenge the best
minds of men to a study of preventive
methods. The parking problem is of
little consequence outside the centres
of population. The wide open spaces
of rural communities afford ample
parking facilities but the danger of
accidents is even greater in the coun-
try than in the city.
At what is called a congress of the
automobile industry, the other day,
Mr. Frederick J. Haynes, a director of
the National Automobile Chamber of
Commerce, suggested that “education
and courtesy are the chief ways of
preventing accidents. If every one
can be taught what to do and train
himself in courtesy.” he said, “ninety-
five per cent of the accidents would
not occur.” This is encouraging com-
ing from such a source, Mr. Haynes
being among the leading automobile
producers of the country. The elimi-
nation of drunken drivers ought to
dispense with the other five per cent,
but that element of danger is not so
easily disposed of, for they rarely
know anything about education or
courtesy.
As a further guide to safe motoring
Mr. Haynes suggests that operators
“never drive at a speed in which you
cannot stop in the clear space ahead.”
This would guarantee a sure preven-
tive of accidents caused by excessive
speed but it might cause congestion on
busy roads, which is sometimes as bad
as accidents. A few years ago speed
was the dominant menace in auto-
mobiling, and regulating speed by law
was a favorite pastime. Slow poking
along the highway led to passing by
swifter machines and that operation
caused many accidents. Possibly the
control implied in Mr. Haymes’ sug-
gestion might be possible without
BELL
Surprises of the Election.
The election returns carried a good
many surprises in Pennsylvania and
throughout the country, and as many
disappointments. In this State, for
example, Lackawanna, Luzerne and
Schuylkill counties registered sub-
stantial majorities for Mr. Vare, for
Senator, against a man who was
largely instrumental in organizing the
United Mine Workers and has spent
years in promoting the interests of
mine employes. Mr. Vare had no
claim on the gratitude of the miners.
{ They had been urged by their leaders
to support Mr. Wilson, who had a
' valid claim on their friendship, but
ignored the advice. Obviously they
prefer the beer mug to the full dinner
pail.
In the middle west the people have
been for years demanding subsidies
for the farmers to the equivalent of
the tariff tax subsidies given to the
manufacturers of the eastern States.
There is some reason in their demand,
for the tariff tax not only enriches the
eastern States but adds to the cost of
everything consumed and required by
the western farmers and their families
| and neighbors. In view of this fact
the Republican party ought to have
complied with their demand or re-
duced the subsidy to the eastern man-
ufacturers. As a matter of fact, how-
ever, they did neither and the election
returns indicate that the farmers of
the middle west and their neighbors
voted to retain that party in power.
It is possible that the influencing
cause of the surprise in the three
Pennsylvania counties named might
be found in a statement made a few
days before the election by the chair-
man of the Democratic State ecommit-
tee that brewers of those counties
were creating a fund of $100,000 to be
used in the purchase of votes for the
Republican candidates. It might be
worthwhile to investigate that state-
ment with a view to ascertaining
whether it be true or not. We have the
assurance of Senator Norris, of Ne-
braska, that no man will be admitted
to membership of the Senate whose
title is tainted with corruption and
mean: much, «seis iene
—In addition tc a lot of other good
ideas that Mussolini seems to have
had, another popped out of his head
on Monday. He ordered a ban put on
giving children ridiculous names and
denied the right of “nobodies” to tag
their progeny with the names of
| famous or illustrious persons. There
{ure so many George Washington,
Abraham Lincoln, U. S. Grant, Grover
i Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and
Woodrow Wilson “nobodies” in this
country that the names of our great
arc made laughable more often than
revered by those who bear them.
Governor Fisher's Biggest Problem.
Governor-elect Fisher has expressed
the opinion that the budget is the
most difficult problem that will con-
front him when he enters upon the
duties of his office. The budget may
be a perplexing problem but it is not
the most important matter to be con-
sidered. The first and highest duty
of the new Governor on assuming
office is to inaugurate a movement in
the interest of ballot reform. Gov-
ernor Pinchot has organized a system
that will conserve the public interests
in the matter of the budget fairly well
for a time. But the results of recent
elections, primary and general, show
that the electoral machinery of the
State is hopelessly defective.
Immediately after the inauguration
of Governor Pinchot his attention was
drawn to the great evil of fraudulent
elections. It may be remembered that
the late Senator William Flinn, of
Pittsburgh, had prepared, at consider-
able expense, a code of laws designed
to protect the ballot from pollution.
But the Governor was so interested in
budget and other legislation that he
could find no time to urge ballot re-
form legislation which he has since
admitted is the most important reform
of all. During the first session of the
General Assembly under his adminis-
tration Governor Pinchot could com-
mand unusual power but exercised
that power only to secure unimportant
improvements.
The force of public patronage is
| great in Pennsylvania. If Governor-
elect Fisher will bend his energies to
{the task in the beginning of his ad-
{ ministration he will be able to secure
the passage of ballot reform bills as
| nearly perfect as human reason can
! devise. But he must take up the sub-
| ject at the beginning of the first ses-
| sion after his inauguration. The ques-
i tion of making appointments will then
cluttering the highway with slow {be open and without even promising
moving vehicles, but it is a doubtful
proposition.
PERT Re
——As Mr. Vare reads the com-
ments on the election in his Florida re-
treat he probably envies Mussolini.
favors to the expectant Senators and
| Representatives in the Legislature he
| can get anything he wants. For this
' reason ballot reform legislation is the
{ most important problem which will
‘ confront our new Governor.
fraud. Possibly such an inquiry might | hi
: private life,
i The Third Term Apparition.
| A Washington correspondent of the
| New York Herald-Tribune writes: The
President has thick-and-thin admirers
who will not admit that the third-term
apparition has evaporated, and that if
he steers the ship of State successful-
ly to the next Republican convention it
will be imposéible to prevent him from
being the nominee.” There may be
such enthusiasts in Washington
among those enjoying special favors
of the administration, and it is barely
possible that a combination of the
office holders of the whole country
might force the renomination of the
President. That he hopes for a third
term is probably true. But it is not
true that there has ever been a prob-
ability of his attaining it.
General Grant wanted a third term
of the Presidency at a time when pub-
lic opinion almost unanimously recog-
nized that he had been instrumental in
saving the government from destruc-
tion, and failed.
coveted “a third cup of coffee” while
at the zenith of his vast power and
popularity and it was denied him by
an overwhelming vote. In negativing
the aspirations of these great men the
people were not influenced by per-
sonal considerations. They were con-
trolled by the example set by Wash-
ington and his admonition of the
great danger of a third term. That
wholesome force is as strong today as
it was during the periods when Grant
and Roosevelt undertook to set it
aside.
President Coolidge has done noth-
ing to earn the gratitude of the peo-
ple. He has revealed no qualities of
statesmanship to command popular
admiration. His only claim to popu-
larity is a false pretense of economy
and a bogus promise of prosperity.
lieve that a third term of the Presi-
dency could be built on such a founda-
tion. The result of the election may
have dampened the ardor of some of
the “fool friends” who are dreaming
of a third term for Coolidge but it
made no actual difference in the mat-
ter of his chances. He is secure in
whether nominated or
not.
——Centre county’s representative
on the Congressional district return
board, at Clearfield on Tuesday, was
Hugh N. Quigley, judge of election in
the North ward of Bellefonte, while
the representative on the Senatorial
Peters, judge of election in the 2nd
ward of Philipsburg. Both were ap-
jointed by Judge Keller under the Act
of 1921 which provides that election
return judges must be duly qualified
judges of election boards in the county
which they represent.
Armistice Day Observed in Bellefonte.
Armistice day, yesterday, was gen-
erally observed in Bellefonte. All
stores and business places were closed
the entire day. A public meeting was
held in the Diamond at eleven o’clock.
At two minutes of eleven whistles
were blown and bells pealed forth
their silvery tones. At eleven o’clock
one minute of silence was observed
after which members of the Brooks-
Doll post of the American Legion held
the regulation Armistice day services,
the address being made by Rev.
Homer C. Knox, of Bellefonte Meth-
odist church.
At two o’clock in the afternoon the
American Legion, led by the Odd Fel-
lows band, gave a short parade then
marched to Hughes field to witness
the football game between the Belle-
fonte High school and Huntingdon
High.
At 6.30 o’clock in the evening the
Legion held a banquet in their home
on Howard street. The speakers for
the evening were Col. H. S. Taylor,
Roy Wilkinson, burgess Hard P. Har-
ris, Rev. Father Downes, Prof. A. H.
Sloop, W. Harrison Walker and
others.
——This office was favored last
week with a copy of the Clearwater
Sun, of Clearwater, Fla., an eighty-
four page edition sent us by a form-
er Bellefonte resident, P. C. Barnhart.
Practically the entire edition of the
paper was devoted to boosting Florida
in general and Clearwater particular-
ly. Having looked through the ‘Sun
rather casually we are willing to ad-
mit that Florida is a great State but
it is only one of the forty-eight in
this wonderful country.
rr —————— A ——————
——Governor-elect Fisher thinks
the budget will be his most difficult
problem. He has never encountered a
hungry pack of Republican place
hunters.
——The recent election in Centre
county cost the taxpayers thirty-eight
cents for every vote cast.
There never was any reason to be-
EFONTE, PA.. NOVEMBER 12. 1926.
‘
1
Colonel Roosevelt
Mussolini Again Escapes Assassina-
: tion.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Mussolini’s fatalistic belief that he
bears a charmed life as an instrument
for the resurgence of the Italian peo-
ple will be mirrored more strongly
than ever in the public mind as a re-
sult of the dramatic attempt on his
life at Bologna. It was the sixth
direct attack from which he has es-
caped and the amazing factor in these
escapes is that nearly all have been
by a hair’s breadth. :
Whether one ascribes this to sheer
good fortune or to the excitability and
poor aim of wood-be assassins there
can be no doubt that II Duce has been
favored among governmental leaders
against whose lives plots have been
directed. One factor which undoubt-
edly adds to the confusion of his
murderous enemies is his utter lack of
fear and his complete confidence in
himself and his mission. He will die
when his time comes and not before,
and therefore there is no reason for
his worrying about these lurking gun-
men. That is his fatalistic attitude,
and the forces of the secret police who
surround him have had difficulty in
getting him to observe elementary
precautions.
The latest attempt on Mussolini's
life is particularly significant of the
swift and terrible elemental retribu-
. tion wrought upon his assailant by the
: multitude. There is no death penalty
that he will retire to |
for crime in Italy, and though the
Fascist Government has Sought to
enact a law punishing with death at-
tempts upon the life of the Royal
family and the Premier, the King has
refused to sign it. And he has taken
this stand despite the fact that his
own father was assassinated. The
throng which saw the shot fired sim-
ply exploded with furious resentment,
and stabbed and beat and trampled
the guilty youth to death. There can
be little doubt that a similar fate
awaits anyone making such attempt,
fur this sort of mob punishment is
centagious and great throngs sur-
rcund Mussolini wherever he goes.
Therein seemingly lies his greatest
protection as well as his greatest dan-
ger.
Not Seeing America.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Queen Marie may not appreciate it.
but although she. seems to be busy an
her days full of activity, she is eseap-
ing a good many attentions. She was
not held at Ellis Island, and in that she
missed something she might have tak-
en home in recollection as 100 per
cent. America. We learn, further-
more, that if she adds something to
the family income by writing while
here the income tax people of the
Treasury Department will not try to
take a slice off the honorarium. The
return board was Mrs. Margaret | Woman’s Christian Temperance Un-
i ion, in convention at Steubenville, O.,
stopped a resolution which would have
rebuked her on the cigarette question.
If Marie gets by Wayne B. Wheel-
er, Mr. Upshaw, the Lord’s Day Ob-
servance League, the Klux, the Soci-
ety for the Preventation of Whatever
You're Doing, the Sons and Daughters
of the Good Life, and other manifes-
tations of America in earnest, all she
will have will be a confused picture
of prominent citizens in spats and
general confusion, ladies patronizing
benefits, hotel-keepers standing on
their heads, Prince Nicholas losing
his dress pants, and policemen push-
ing the customers about.
It will be nice, but it won’t be
America.
——Postmaster General New has
issued an order that at least one com-
plete delivery of mail must be made
this year in the forenoon of Christ-
mas day. In issuing the order the
Postmaster General said that because
of the fact that Christmas falls on
Saturday, and offices will be closed on
Sunday, it will be necessary to clear
away some of the holiday congestion
on Christmas morning.
——Mr. James M. Beck has written
a book to express his abhorrence of
the violation of State Rights involved
in the refusal of the Senate to admit
Vare to membership. Mr. Beck was
an ardent supporter of the late Presi-
dent Roosevelt, who firmly believed
that the States have no rights which
the Federal government is obliged to
respect.
——1It has been discovered that
light travels at the rate of 229,796
Kilometers per second. Unless one is
in an awful hurry that’s fast enough.
——Of course Governor Fisher
could appoint Mr. Vare to fill the Sen-
ate seat likely to be vacant, but it
wouldn’t be a popular movement.
et tesa Ss
———America has already purchased
2000 pounds of plum pudding for
Christmas from one baker in London,
and the returns are not all in yet.
——Senator Borah objects to con-
fining the powers of the Senate in
election contests. The Senate is big
enough to tackle any problem.
——The zero is a new element in
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Quakertown’s new community hospital
financial campaign has now reached the
$168,000 mark.
‘—Falling down a flight of stairs at her
home in Lancaster, Mrs. Jeseph R. Burk-
| holder, 69 years of age, was instantly killed
Sunday night. She was bidding her
daughter good night when she toppled and
fell. Her neck was broken. E
~ —Attacked by vertigo, Salvatore Capone,
33, of Norristown, fell 15 feet from a porch
roof of a neighbor's house in Bridgeport
that he was painting and died a short time
afterward in the Norristown hospital from
2 fractured skull and other injuries.
—Profits of the 1926 Reading fair
amounted to more than $32,000, according
to the report made at the directors’ meet-
ing of the Agricultural and Horticultural
Association of Berks county. It was de-
cided to make a drive for 15,000 members
next year.
—-Mystery of the disappearance of $2,000
worth of furniture from a warehouse in
Pittsburgh more than two months ago is
expected by detectives to be solved by the
arrest of Lynn Sell, 22, of that city, al-
though Sell declares he has no knowledge
of the theft.
—Paul D. Bailey, of Lykens, engineer,
and L. G. Sees, trainman of Sunbury, were
killed at Millersburg early last Friday
when a Lykens Valley branch coal train
crashed into a freight train on the main
line of the Pennsylvania railroad. Three
others were slightly injured.
—Two army aviators, Lieutenant Kenyon
M. Hegardt and Lieutenant H. W. Down-
ing were killed on Monday when their De-
Haviland airplane crashed into a ridge on
the side of South mountain, fifteen
miles west of Gettysburg. They were re-
turning to McCook Field from Philadel-
phia.
—The death of Milton Bange, 36 years
old, of Hanover Saturday evening, resulted
in a peculiar manner. He was seized with
a spell of epilepsy while sorting potatoes
at the rear of his father’s barn, and fell
face downward, his neck catching on the
edge of a basket and strangling him to
death.
—The will of Wolf Daniels, of Greens-
burg, who came to America 46 years ago
from Russian Poland and began his career
as a peddler, distributed an estate of $300-
000 among members of his family. Dan-
iels later engaged in the scrap iron busi-
ness. The will was filed for probate on
Saturday.
—Michael Reilly, of Chester, Pa. is a
patient in a local hospital with severe
burns of both feet as the result of a prac-
tical joke. Reilly told physicians that he
fell asleep in a clubroom and some of the
members placed a burning paper at his
feet. His shoes caught fire, and before
he could remove them he suffered burns.
' —When Francis Garland, of Jeannette,
decided to desert his wife and elope with
Catherine Schmeltz, he took along Mrs.
Garland’s hat and coat and gave them to
the girl. The couple was arrested in Pitts-
burgh and taken to Greensburg by State
deteciives who vouch for the story. The
girl gave her age as 15 while Garland said
he was twice as old.
—His head coming in contact with an
electric saw while attempting to make
some repairs at his sawmill with the ma-
chinery in motion, Harry Deitle, 25 years
old, ,of Meyersdale, was instantly killed on
Friday night. The victim’s head was cut
in two, the saw passing through the neck
before his plight was discovered by a fel-
low workman who stopped the machinery.
—An endurance kissing contest which
the police say took place in an East Side
restaurant, at York, Pa., at an early hour
on Friday morning, led to the arrest of the
proprietor and eight patrons who are al-
leged to have indulged in the game. The
mayor said kissing is all right in its place,
but in a public restaurant, especially at
such an hour, it becomes disorderly con-
duct, and he therefore fined all the prison-
ers.
-—Edward Abell, serving a term in jail
at Meadville, has been granted a sixty-
day vacation by Judge Thomas J. Prather,
in order that he may go to Pittsburgh to
be fitted for an artificial leg. This is be-
lieved to be a precedent for courts in west-
ern Pennsylvania. Five years ago Abell
was fitted fer a leg by a Pittsburgh firm,
having lost his leg while with the Ameri-
can army in France. He is serving a term
in the Meadville jail for aiding a prisoner
to escape.
—Joseph Tromketi, 50, of Crabtree, a
coke oven inspector for the Keystone Coal
and Coke company, in Westmoreland coun-
ty, narrowly escaped being burned to death
when a coke oven under inspection early
on Monday gave way and threw him inte
the furnace. Tromketi was standing on
top and his weight caused it to cave in.
His plight was seen by Mrs. Jenny Massey,
of Crabtree, who gave the alarm, and he
was extricated after suffering burns on his
feet and legs.
—When the whistle blew at the monster
plant of the Interstate Window Glass com-
pany, at Kane, on Saturday morning the
first shift of three employing 320 men went
to work for the first time since April 2.
The huge factory, which has undergone
extensive repairs, is in excellent shape for
a long run, and with the installing of a
new tank of the most modern kind is pre-
pared for full operation. The fires were
lighted several weeks ago in preparation
for the new run of glass.
—W. E. Davis, a brakeman, was burned
on the right hand on Sunday while assist-
ing in extinguishing a fire which broke out
in a baggage car carrying newspapers on
Pennsylvania railroad train No. 81, near
Cresson. The car, a report from the local
offices of the company said, was cut from
the train at Cresson. Origin of the blaze
which charred bundles of Sunday newspa-
pers, was not determined, railroad officials
said. Davis, whose home is at Wilkins-
burg, was taken to Pittsburgh and given
medical attention.
—Two hundred women in one township
of Mifflin county refuse to pay their taxes,
and Walter Reed, collector, is unable to
obtain exonerations for them. There isn’t
room in the local jail for that many lady
guests and the collector is in a quandary
as to what to do. Locking up men is not
fraught with much seriousness in general
effect, but when it comes to locking up two
hundred women, five hundred men may go
hungry, two hundred homes may be dis-
ordered, scores of babies may need to he
considered, laundering, apple-butter boil-
ing, soap making, house-cleaning opera-
tions and the comforts of general house-
keeping may cease. With the gentle sex in
politics but it contains vast destrue- | that number behind prison bars mankind
tive force.
in Millin county weuld suffer.