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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
VOL. 72. BELLEFONTE, PA.. FEBRUARY 4, 1927.
Wilson in the Fight to Win. |
In addressing a Jackson day ban-
quet, in Philadelphia last week, Wil-
liam B. Wilson gave some of the rea-
sons why he is contesting the right
to a seat in the United States Senate
with William S. Vare, who holds a
“certificate of doubt.” Mr. Wilson
carried the State of Pennsylvania out-
side of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
by 98,000 majority. Notwithstanding
the corrupt vote in Pittsburgh Mr.
Wilson came to the Philadelphia city
line with 60,000 majority. This sub-
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—~Charles I. Wert, 20, of Blanchard, sus-
tained a fracture of the right leg below
the knee when the wagon he was driving
loaded with logs, near Castanea, upset last
Friday, pinning him underneath the load.
Ella Maxino, 22 months old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank T. Anderson, of
Cambridge Springs, knows her alphabet, it
is said, and though she cannot talk much
beyond saying “daddy” or “mamma” she
can point out and pronounce the 26 let-
ters.
—Rose A. Murphy, of Pittsburgh, who
sued the Pennsylvania Railroad company,
charging that her career as a concert sing-
er and music teacher had been ruined fol-
lowing the wreck of a train on which she
was a passenger, was given a verdict of
$35,000 against the railroad company in
common pleas court in that city last
Thursday.
—Because the State Highway Depart-
ment built a new road through his farm
of 185 acres, Harvey A. Strubbauer, of
Schuylkill county, asked the county view-
ers to award him $8,000 damages. The
road was put through the farm in such a
way that the rear of the house now faces
the main road, while the front of the house
is to the rear.
—The Rev. H, H. Weber, Lutheran cler-
gyman of Reading, and for many years
general secretary of the Lutheran board
of Church Extension of the United States,
INK SLINGS.
——Dr. Bacon’s “Elixir of Life,”
is too complicated and probably too
expensive.
—Over in Japan they use bulls to
haul their dead Emporers to the
grave. That is one way of giving the
evil spirits “bull”.
The Legislature promises to get
industrious. Sessions are to be held
on Monday nights and Tuesdays and
Wednesdays hereafter.
That Clearfield county Assem-
blyman who has discovered a steam
roller in the Legislature may turn his
information to good use.
——A Mercer county Assemblyman
wants to increase the marriage license
fees one hundred per cent. Marrying
must be a popular sport out there.
——LEverybody is in favor of enact-
ing legislation to reduce the cost of
collecting taxes, but the chances are
no such legislation will be enacted.
In allotting $3,343,833 to State
‘College in his budget, Governor Fisher
NO. 5.
smn
Hard Fight On for Elimination of Tax
Collectors.
A hard fight will be made at the
present session of the Legislature for
Ballot Reform in the Legislature. The Worst Prohibition Scandal.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It is publicly acknowledged by Gen-
jexel Andrews shat She United States
I; Sess1 ‘ Government, through its nts act-
the elimination of the fee system and ing in an official Boh Se bought
the present method of borough and liquor in Canada, smuggled it into this
township tax collection. A bill has : country and sold it to civilians as dis-
been introduced in the Senate by Sen- | Jinouished; Soom, governmental oot:
ator Schantz, of Lehigh county, which | 1€BEETS, 1s In evidence that the
provides that at the end of their pres- | Vaiad aie Government obo Sl
ent term of office local tax collectors ! J : . :
be succeeded by a “salaried county tax | and a speakeasy in conjunction with
collector, who would be the then serv-
In his inaugural address Governor
Fisher said: “The ballot is the most
sacred privilege of Democracy.
Through it is expressed the final will of
the people. It should be guarded as
something priceless to our perpetuity.
I favor the enactment and enforce-
ment of such laws as will insure the
free use and fair count of the ballot
of every qualified voter.” That was a
genuine and earnest promise of ballot
reform legislation. But events since
have not supported the hope of such
1a low dive in Norfolk, Va., where
liquor was retailed to the Negro trade.
Each county
reveals a proper appreciation of Penn-
sylvania’s greatest educational asset.
—Woe is me! say “Bunny” Brown-
ing and Charley Chaplin. But they
ought to have said whoa! when they
were racing after girls young enough
‘to be their daughters.
—>Senator Scott owns much of the
Philipsburg Ledger and Secretary
Dorworth owns all of the Bellefonte
Republican, but that needn’t deceive
anybody into the belief that they are
merely paper bosses in Centre county.
—From what we hear of the prob-
able number of candidates for Com-
missioner on the Republican ticket it
appears to us that the coming primary
is to result in a scramble that’s going
to puzzle some one a lot to unscram-
ble.
—We have been laboring under the
delusion that the Centre county forests
were about denuded. There must be
a lot more timber land about than we
knew was in existence. Candidates
are coming out of the woods every
where.
—The final and knock-out blow to
those who won’t believe that times
are changing is the announcement that
down in Goldsboro, North Carolina,
three white men have been sent to jail
for robbing the hen-roosts of their
«colored neighbors. ;
—The Reds of Russia are demand-
ing a world uprising to crush Uncle
Sam’s imperialistic policies. What a
futile request. The world is having a
happy time in night clubs these days
and uprising is the last word it wants
to hear anything of.
—If the ground hog didn’t see his
stantial majority was overcome by
fraudulent votes in Philadelphia,
mainly in what are known as “the
River wards,” of which the Vare man-
ager in testifying before the Senate
Slush Fund committee, said, “the
voters vote as they are told.”
A significant development of the
investigation thus far is the fact
that there were 97,000 more votes cast
for United States Senator in Philadel-
phia in 1926 than in 1922. The can-
didate of the party in 1922 was a
reputable and popular member of the
party and he received in Philadelphia
the usual party majority. But in the
exigency which occurred in 1926 it was
deemed necessary to vastly increase
the vote of the Republican candidate
and some 97,000 votes were dug out of
the slums in order to overcome the
60,000 majority which the people of
the State had given to Mr. Wilson.
That excess vote, made up of ballot
box stuffers and other criminals, will
be isolated by the Senate committee.
The vote on the motion to deny
Smith, of Illinois, the right to be
sworn in in advance of investigation
indicates the views of the Senators on
the question of tainted titles. There
were more reasons in favor of Smith
than Vare. A larger amount of money
was spent for Vare than for Smith and
the Smith supporters had candidly re-
vealed the source of the supply. Then
there was no charge of fraudulent
son believes that enough fraudulent
votes were cast for Vare to make up
his majority, and he is a conservative
man not given to exaggeration. All in
all he has assumed an attitude in sup-
port of right-and deserves the encour-
agement of hd public.
voting in the case of Smith. Mr. Wil-
a consummation. Much of the
time allotted for the session has pass- |
ed and the Governor has not taken a
step or made a motion that would
indicate his continued interest in bal-
lot reform.
It is true that some signs of pro- |
gress are shown in the General As-
sembly. The resolution providing for
a constitutional amendment to per-
mit the use of voting machines has
been reintroduced, it having passed
both houses during the session of 1925.
The original resolution provided for
machines in all parts of the State.
This is interpreted by friends of the
measure as a hostile gesture. It is
felt that the expense of voting ma-
chines might drive country members
in to opposition. As voting machines
are plainly in the interest of honest |
elections the Governor might appro-
priately intervene to iron out this
difference of opinion.
Senator Homsher has introduced
some election bills that are palpably
in the interest of electoral crime and
the Governor might issue a protest
against them. One of these is intend-
ed to make it difficult, if not impos-
sible, to organize an independent
movement. Another increases the num-
ber of signers required to a petition to
get on the ballot and the third pro-
hibits any candidate from appearing
on two party tickets. These several
measures express the ideas of the real
dyed-in-the-wool machine politician
who is kept in favor by the boss he
serves faithfully. It is the plain duty
of every Senator and Representative
in the Legislature to jump on these
machine measures and. kick them off.
the calendar.
el resem.
a
ing county treasurers.
| treasurer, in addition to the salary and
fees he now receives, would receiv an
additional salary as county tax col-
lector.” In Centre county the addition-
al amount would be $1000.
With the consent of the county com-
missioners, the county tax collectors
would employ necessary clerks, whose
salaries would be fixed by the salary
boards or the commissioners. One-
half of the entire cost of tax collection
would be paid by each county and the
other half by the various other taxing
districts in the proportion that the
valuation of the assessment of the
particular district would bear to the
| total valuation of all the districts in
the county.
The county tax collector would
have authority to appoint any of his
clerks as deputy collectors without ad-
ditional compensation other than for
expenses. Taxes also could be paid
order or by certified check. Delin-
quent taxes would incur a penalty of
1 per cent. a month as the first due
date.
As no limit is placed on the number
of clerks to be employed or salaries
to be paid them, there is no way’ of
figuring out just how much cheaper
| way than it is under the present fee
, System. In faet it is an easy matter
| to calculate the cost under the fee Sys-
tem, as the collector gets a certain
per cent. on every dollar collected.
| Bug there is no way of computing in
| advance what the collection would cost
| under a salary system. For this rea-
! sor. Tv
| acted into a law,
through registered mail, by money-
it would be to collect the taxes that |
efo to a hilder atti | Chi
notwithstanding the the steady sweep of the forces of the
various Cantonese government. Not only has
It is of record that the United States
Government set up and operated
moonshine stills in Virginia and North
Carolina.
These are strange enterprises for
Uncle Sam. Their purpose was to en-
trap illicit dealers in alcoholic bever-
ages. The detection and punishment
of such dealers is Uncle Sam’s busi-
ness. But the means he employed in
these cases strike us as contemptible
and disgraceful.
by public opinion at home and abroad
before Uncle Sam was borne.
They were outlawed
The employment of agents to par-
ticipate in crime, to tempt suspected
criminals, to incite to lawlessness, is
a sorry enterprise for an enlightened
nation in this twentieth century.
it were deliberately authorized for the
purpose of discrediting prohibition we
could understand
For not only the enemies but the
friends of the prohibition theory must
be shocked and scandalized by this de-
basing method of attempting to en-
snare lawbreakers.
If
it; not otherwise.
Exposure should suffice to put an
end to the activities above referred
to. There is enough cerruption in the
prohibition enforcement service with-
out the Government officially making
itself a party to profitable bootlegging
and using the proceeds to send its
partners and fellow-conspirators to
jail.
The United States and China.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
The liberal tone and good will of
the statement issued by Secretary of
State Kellogg in defining the Ameri-
can attitude toward China in connec-
tion with the demand for equality in
treaty relations is backed by a long
Bring of deeds. It could never be
hina b
de toward
v|P
last week made a gift of $75,000 to Get-
tysburg College as a memorial to his wife,
who died recently. The proceeds of the
gift will be used to ereet a library build-
ing on the college campus.
—Stepping in front of several sleds load-
ed with coasters near the school house at
Salona, Lois McKibbin, 6-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. William McKibben, of
Salona, was struck and knocked down and
sustained a fracture of both bones of the
leg near the knee. She was removed to the
Lock Haven hospital where she is in a
critical condition due to the severing of an
artery which prevented setting of the
bones.
—While listening to a hymn “There's a
Land That is Fairer Than Day,” over the
radio Saturday night, E. P. Barr, a Pine
Grove, Schuylkill county, druggist, aged
52, dropped dead. He apparently had been
in perfect health amd the first indication
of anything wrong eame when Mrs. Barr,
who was operating the radio set, saw his
head drop to one side. A physieian was
summoned, but Mr. Barr was dead when
he arrived.
Harry Butler, 18-year-old student of Mt.
St. Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, who has
been a patient in the Warner hospital in
Gettysburg since Nevember, was dis-
charged and went to his home in Pitts-
burgh on Saturday merning. He was hurt
in a football game, suffering a broken neck,
in a contest between the Mount Academy
team, of which he was a guard, and the
Gonzaga team from Baltimore. He was in
the hospital exactly ten weeks, his mother
being with him the entire time:
—A large collection of rare ehinaware,
old quilts and several score of guns and
firearms, some almest 200 years old and
priceless, were destroyed when fire eon-
sumed the beautiful country home of W.
R. Moore on the western edge of Wash-
inton county, Pa. Flames originating, ap-
had gained such headway when diseov-
ered that no attempt was made to quench
, Iroft a defeetive ehimmey flue,
shadow Wednesday the best advice we
can give him is to call on one or the
other of the two very good optome-
trists whose location is given in an-
other column of this paper. Certainly
his eyes need attention.
fact that it is being backed by
——There is always something Organizations in the State.
worse to come. The most disgusting |
scandal of recent years is the “Peaches |
Browning,” case on trial at White
Plains, New York.
sets seers wem—
them. Practically nothing was saved. The
loss, in addition to the heirlooms and rel-
ies, is about $25,000.
—Overjoyed at locating her daughter,
from whom she had not heard in eight
years, Mrs. Mary Fisher, of Pottsville,
broke her leg in the same place for the
third time and again is in the Pottsville
ithe United States never sought con-
; cessions in China, but frequently, as
'in cancelling indemnity awarded it in
“settlement of the troubles growing out
i of the Boxer uprising. it has shown
special friendship for the Chinese. At
the Washington conference it was the
leader in efforts to pave the way for
——1It was the Women’s Democratic
club which influenced W. B. Wilson to
contest the eléction of William S.
Vare, which is one of the best things
women have done in politics.
| ——Another Vare man turned down
i by Fisher. M. J. McEnery aspired to
!a seat on the compensation board, but
! the ticket has been handed to a Scran-
—Another of our old friends has
fallen into a nice berth. Sam Walker,
of Butler, has been given a place un Value of Good Roads. ton man. China to a position of equality and hospital. A previous fracture oeceurred
the Public Service Commission by Governor Fisher’s Hot Talk. stability. Its declaration now that as | While she was visiting in Philadelphia sev-
Governor Fisher and Sam is just such The value of good roads te the : : soon as it can be shown which is the | ©fal months ago. Six week ago she broke
At this distance from the scene it ! farmers of the country has been made Mellon Methods in the Legislature. : her leg and, before the bone was fully
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a person as will give the Commission
very devoted and intelligent service.
responsible government in China with
which to negotiate it will be ready,
on assurance of protection of Ameri-
would seem that Governor Fisher was !
the subject of investigation by the
unduly “het up” at a dinner of the !
knit, she placed her entire weight on the
American Road Builders’ association
The Mellon machine has run strictly leg when told that her daughter had been
—Senator Jim Reed, of Missouri,
told some Philadelphians, on Saturday
night, that Senator Dave Reed, of
Pennsylvania, is a fine fellow. And
then he admitted that they both
sprang from the same great grand
father. Who would have thought it.
—While some of the people up at
State College will think that the Gov-
ernor hasn't allotted our big educa-
tional institution all it needs they will
all be very happy over his evident in-
tention to take care of it in as generous
a manner as the State’s revenues will
permit.
—A suggestion to council: Get a
grass cutter attachment for the snow
scraper and use it next summer to
mow the lawns in the public parks. No,
that won’t do either. Since it hasn’t
snowed since the scraper was bought,
perhaps the grass wouldn't grow
after a cutting attachment was added.
—Dr. Edwin Hubble, of Mt. Wilson
observatory, announces that he has
studied some of the “extra-galactic
nebulae of the island universes beyond
of Columbia, at Washington, the other
evening. Among other less startling
things he said “the United States Sen-
of Democracy.” Whether the attitude
of the Senate in respect to the seating
of Mr. Smith, of Illinois, or the re-
fusal to ratify the appointment of Mr.
Cyrus E. Woods to a seat on the In-
terstate Commerce Commission, in-
fluenced him to this radical expression,
is left to conjecture. But it is certain
that no fault was found with Woods
personally or politically. The com-
plaint was against his supporters.
The Governor is all right in public
standing “upon our rights as one of
the great Commonwealths of the
Union,” and on equally safe ground
in his statement that “we propose to
make ourselves heard in the halls of
Congress.” © He will be sustained by
popular approval in his statement
that “we do not propose to submit
silently to attempts to humiliate Penn-
sylvania on the part of our sister Com-
monwealths.”
Pennsylvania Society of the District |
ate is becoming a misfit in our scheme
with a result that must be surprising
to all who read the figures produced.
After observing that “good roads have
opened up a new avenue of marketing
to the farmer and given him a quick
and inexpensive means for selling his
products,” the report shows that
“roadside markets in the rural dis-
tricts sell produce to the value of more
than $2,116,000 a month direct to mo-
torists.” This total includes only sales
from small stands operated along the
highway, usually by the small truck
farmer, and consists of fruits and
vegetables.
The same authority estimates that
the sale of fresh eggs, milk, butter
and poultry by farmers to motorists
direct amounts to $50,000,000 a year,
making a total of $75,000,000 of busi-
ness for the farmers. Of course this
is not all profit but the difference be-
tween the present cost of marketing
and that of previous times is gain, and
ascribable to the improved highways
which are apparent everywhere and
| conspicuously so in Pennsylvania. The
This spirit sounds fine | various
and if there were occasion for it would | roads are
other advantages of good
to form in disposing of the small
favors in the Legislative organization.
It has been the custom to apportion
, the small clerkships, the sargeants-at
arms, door keepers, pasters and fold-
ers and other subordinate officials
among the Senators and Representa- | 1
find the movement now in China re-
ferred to as national instead of a mere
bolshevistic disturbance.
ernment of the United States has
i watched with sympathetic interest
the nationalist awakening of China,
and welcomes every advance made by
the Chinese people toward reorganiz-
ing their system of government.”
There is a statement that says con-
siderable.
tives, to give those favored some pres-
‘tige in the community in which they
live. This year, however, under the
Mellon regime, the local representa-
tives are ignored and the patronage,
as it is called, has been taken over by
the State organization, to which the
, obligation is due and which ex-
pects fidelity. In the event of shifting
party affiliations the machine is thus
i entrenched.
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| There are three or four hundred of |
' these minor officers in both branches
lof the Legislature, and the salaries |
run from five to eight dollars a day
during the session. The session is
supposed to last for a hundred days
and the eight dollars a day men would
draw in the neighborhood of eight
i hundred dollars while the lesser priced
‘men would get proportionately less.
can interests, to enter into whatever
modified treaty arrangements may be
justified should have the effect of pro-
moting good will for us among the
forces striving to establish a new
rule.
It is significant and refreshing to
“The Gov-
We Taught Them.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
A Harrisburg minister in an address
on conditions in China yesterday spoke
with regret of the shabby treatment
the Chinese are giving the medical
missionaries and others who have done
so much to teach the people of that
land better ways of living. This, as
: Dr. Speer points out, is not the fault
“of Christian Chinese.
, But for the entire group of three or
And it is regrettable, for the mis-
found. The daughter who left Pottsvile
with a theatrical troupe, is a moving piec-
ture actress in California.
—E. T. Norton, 60 years old, of Connells-
ville, Pa., died at 7.30 o'clock Monday
morning in Mercer hospital, Trenten, N. J.,
of injuries received in the rear-emd col-
lission of a Baltimore and Ohio express
and a Reading Company train at Penning-
ton Saturday night. The wreek was also
indirectly responsible for another fatality.
Louis W. Steeble, 55 years old, of Elkins
Park, Pa., secretary of the Penn Mutual
Life Insurance company, was stricken with
heart attack while walking past the
wrecked cars to transfer to a Philadelphia
bound train. He dropped dead alongside
the tracks. .
—The State Department of Health has
ordered a thorough investigation of Mauch
Chunk’s epidemic of aeute intestinal afflic-
tion, of which 250 people were victims. The
Department believes the town’s water sup-
ply is the cause of the epidemic, and sent
department engineers there to take the nec-
essary steps to prevent spread of the dis-
ease, The State engineers visited the reser-
voirs and surrounding territory in the hope
of finding the cause of the prevailing ill-
ness. It is expected it will take them
several days to make a complete investiga-
tion, and in the meantime the people are
fully extolled by the statis- ! 3
be admirable. But we are able to . ticians of the American Road Builders’ | four hundred it affords Tecompense
conjure up no recent incidents that | association, and not without reason, | °F, PATty service and party activity
would justify such talk on the part of | The farmer's trucks conveying the pro- and under the Mellon ‘method the
the Governor, especially at a banquet | ducts of the farm to market are com. | Seve is not to an individual but to
conducted under the operations if not . mon in every community. j the machine, and Mr. Mellon is the ma-
the auspices of the Volstead law. | While all these statements with i chine, It 3 carrying out @ "sys.
If the Governor had in mind what | respect to the value of good roads and | Jom acing is publ ray the Mel. Natives ino the dust and robbed them
is likely to happen to his recent col- | the advantage they yield are true it | i : {at every tub: :
league on the eR a ticket, Mr. : is equally certain that it is unjust to | The distribution of these favors for i The missionaries taught the Chi-
the stellar system.” He says they are
five quintillion miles away. If that be
so the doctor can tell the world any-
thing he likes about them because no
body will undertake the journey out
there just to disprove his deductions.
sionaries have taught the Chinese the
; truth that eventually will make them
free. Unfortunately they have been
followed by the exploiting agents of
; Europe and Japan, who have counted
| themselves superior to Chinese legal
| restraint and have ground the poor
being advised to boil their water.
—An experiment in store-keeping at
Franklin and Marshall College has proved
that the 600 students are practically 100 per
cent, honest. Two weeks ago the campus
house, a recreational centre in the old gym-
nasium, was opened and Harold J. Budd,
president of the student senate, thought it
necessary to provide candies, chewing gum
and tobacco for the students. It was im-
—Suzanne Lenglen, the French net
star, played tennis all her life and
amassed nothing more than a show
/
case full of medals and loving William A. Va ast js 1 : (the present session was made last nese American ideals, and American }
! . Vare, he may justify his levy taxes on motor vehicles, and | : : t try a fire. The | PoSsible to always have a clerk present and
cups. Then . she . became. praeti-]y,no nage in his cn mind, though be- means of operating them, and apply Week: It is the custom to make the Reals hove Se ae counity. id of the | Budd decided to institute the “serve your-
cal, gave up her amateur status and
signed up with Charley Pyle. He
showed her off to the “suckers” in this
country for only four months and she
is going home with a hundred thous-
and dollars. Lenglen knows more
games than tennis.
—We can’t see that William Gibbs
McAdoo made such a mess of it by his
alleged insult of New York and
Maryland in his Toledo speech. The
former Secretary of the Treasury
wasn’t just exactly polite in his refer-
ence to the two great Commonwealths
but he had nothing to lose. He knew
he has about as much chance of get-
ting a vote from either the New York
or Maryland delegations in the next
Democratic National convention as a
celluloid rat has when an asbestos cat
chases it through hades.
fore the primary in May he said some
rather uncomplimentary things about
Mr. Vare. If he expects Pennsylvania
to “be heard in the halls of Congress”
through the voice of Mr. Vare, he is
likely to be disappointed, for the
Senate action on the case of Smith, of
Illinois, practically precludes Vare
from a voice in the Senate. Any other
humiliations that are put on Pennsyl-
vania “on the part of our sister Com-
monwealths” will probably be ascrib-
able to other causes than the treat-
ment of Vare by the Senate.
meme nid , L IEE
——Auditor General Samuel 8.
Lewis on Monday sent out checks
for the appropriation to public schools
in fourth class districts. Centre coun-
ty schools received a total of $82,829.-
80. :
the proceeds to other uses than that of
road building and road repairs. What-
ever money is acquired by license fees
for motor vehicles and gasoline should
be used exclusively for highway con-
struction and repairs and to supply the
sinking fund to pay the bonds issued
for highway purposes. The farmers
of Pennsylvania will have much keener
enjoyment of the advantages of good
roads when they have assurances that
they are getting a square deal in the
matter of payment.
————— et e——
| ——The disappearance of the last
of the snow on Sunday reminded us
that most of it had been on the
ground since the first week in Decem-
ber. It is not often that the weather
is continuously cold enough to hold
a fall of snow for two months.
‘appointments about the first week of
he session, and it is said Mr. Mellon
was responsible for the delay this.
year. He wasn’t familiar with the
| processes and wanted time to study
| them out. The result shows that he is
| prepared for anything in the future
i Vare henchmen got
jin Philadelphia.
very few of the favors and if it should
| seem expedient to throw Vare over-
board, a not improbable contingency,
the Mellon machine will have the
nucleus of an organization to make a
{ fight. The senate investigation of
Philadelphia ballot boxes may have
important results.
ES ———— er ————————
———The Senate appears to be form-
ling a habit of rejecting Coolidge’s ap-
i pointinents, Tilson, of Georgia, named
| for federal judge, is the last victim.
foreigner, and anti-foreign sentiment
unfortunately fails to discriminate, so
the source of the new inspiration for
national liberty and independence is
. suffering along with those whose mis-
conduct has brought about the present
threatening situation. :
The future is dark with uncertainty,
Only this much seems clear—that the
Chinest eventually will work out their
own salvation and Europe and the
United States will have to take just
what China desires to give—no more
and no less.
Among the awards of scholar-
ship announced at State College this
| week was a $100 Carnegie award to F.
W. Warner, a Sophomore, and a son
of Frank W. Warner, assistant cashier
of the Moshannon National bank,
Philipsburg.
self and pay cash” system. After two
weeks of operation, the store not only
shows a profit but a check on the total
amount of business revealed that only one
piece of merchandise was taken that was
not paid for.
—Federal Judge Johnson handed down
an opinion at Scranton, on Saturday,
awarding Mrs. Helen A. Wright, widow
of Thomas A. Wright, former general man-
ager of the Wilkes-Barre Railroad com-
pany, $19,766. The Aetna Life Insurance
company was the defendant. Wright was
killed in an automobile accident six years
ago and the insurance company offered
payment of $7500. Mrs. Wright, the bene-
ficiary, held a clause in the policy was for
$15,000 in case of death by automobile ac-
cident. The case was started in the Lu-
zerne county courts, later transferred to
the Federal Court, carried to the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals, and order-
ed back to the lower Federal court.