Bema ican
INK SLINGS.
«~The hope that they have a “kick”
coming is the one that springs eternal
in the breast of the “wet”.
"—If they keep on cracking up the
ships and killing their pilots the New
York to Paris hop will be indefinitely
postponed.
——Senator Pepper may “sign up”
as president of one of the big
leagues. Well, he didn’t “make a hit”
in polities.
——President Green, of the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor, expresses
faith in China democracy. Mr. Green
is very optimistic.
——Herbert Hoover has been giv-
en another chance for a period on the
front page and it strengthens the ru-
mor that he is the legatee.
—The boys are not so much inter-
ested in amplifiers for the political
candidate’s voice as they are for am-
plifiers for his pocket book.
—One but needs look at the many
musical programs that are presented
in Bellefonte to realize that most of
them are founded on Bible.
—Talking about revivals, the Odd
Fellows band seems to be having one.
I¥ was on parade, Wednesday even-
ing, greatly augmented in numbers.
. —Come to think of it wouldn’t it be
cheaper in the end to dredge the
channel of the Mississippi deeper
than to build the levees higher and
stronger.
—-There is still time for the onion
snow, but we fear we'll have to
scratch the “saplin bender” as a pos-
sible spring entrant. It’s surely got-
ten lost, somewhere.
—All we have to say about the
Snyder-Gray case that is causing a
sensation over in Queens Village, N.
Y., is this: If Ruth Snyder had been
“straight” Judd Gray might not have
been “crooked.”
—The electric service to the rural
districts of Centre county ought to
be extended at once. So many can-
didates are getting into the race that
more poles on which to tack their
pictures are sorely needed.
—It is very easy for traveling pro-
ducers of amateur shows to order lit-
tle children to rehearsal at the mid-
night hour, but it isn’t conducive to
the peace of mind of their parents or
necessary, under any circumstances.
“Hampy,” Moore has entered
George B. Cortelyou, of New York,
into the Presidential race. Mr. Cort-
elyou has held lots of offices and is
rich in political experience, but Cool-
idge has “an edge” in the patronage.
—Bottom land along the Mississ-
ippi is wonderfully fertile. The cli-
mate of California is gloriously sal-
ubrious. Florida offers great oppor-
tunities in truck gardening and is a
lovely place to winter. There are flies
in all their ointments, however.
Floods, earthquakes and land sharks,
for instance.
—Gee, how the time flies. It seems
but yesterday that we were writing
our New Year’s greeting to you and
this is the seventeenth edition of the
Watchman since. Only eight more
and the year will be half through. In
boyhood it seemed a century from
‘Christmas to Christmas. _ Now we
scarcely get rid of the old tree be-
fore we have to start the hunt for the
new cne.
—The war in China is over tempor-
arily. All sides having run out of
ammunition a general order to cease
firing has gone out. China used to
have just as good a time carrying on
warfare with wooden guns as she is
having now with modern arms and
she never ran out of ammunition for
them, for they were used only as
clubs. Let’s see—who was the slick
chink who equipped the army with
wooden guns? His name has slipped
us.
—Boomers of Bellefonte should al-
ways have at their tongues end the
slogan that this is the best paying
station on the best paying single
tracked railroad in the world. Other
towns might have furnished their
State with as many Governors. We
know of at least one with a bigger
spring than we have: There are two
‘that we know of that can boast of the
fish in the brooks that flow through
them. But where is the town that
holds such a record for originating
freight.
—The Prince of Wales evidently
has a heart, notwithstanding the be-
lief to the contrary of all the dowa-
gers with eligible daughters. He has
declined to go to a bull fight that had
been arranged as part of the enter-
tainment for him during his visit in
Spain. It appears that Wales saw
one and that was enough. We have
never seen a bull fight, but from no
less authority than the lamented edi-
tor of this paper we have it that of
all brutal, heartless spectacles con-
jured up for public entertainment the
national sport of the Castilian is the
lowest.
—We had a bad spell, the other
evening. During a period of retros-
pection and self analysis the ghosts of
the days when we wrote all of the
obituaries for the Watchman ap-
peared in the dying embers of the fire
we were ensconsced before. Out of
the little wisps of blue grey smoke
that curled up as the logs broke and
fell into the embers below them came
the wraiths of hundreds. Not one
Pointed an accusing finger at us, for
Wwe had sent them all to Heaven. We
wondered, . afterwards, however,
‘whether we had been laying up treas-
ures there when we did it. :
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 72.
Governor’s Profession will be Tested.
The sincerity of Governor Fisher’s
expressed desire for honest elections
in Pennsylvania, now widely ques-
tioned, will be put to an acid test
when he appoints Registration Com-
missioners for Philadelphia and Pitts-
burgh. In an interesting article in
The Forum, for May, recently issued,
Mr. Thomas Raeburn White, a promi- ;
nent lawyer in Philadelphia and '
chairman of the Committee of Seven- :
ty, tells of an investigation of an
election in that city in 1925. “In one
division,” he says, “sixty-four false
names were registered. Some of
them were names of persons who had
once lived in the district and removed,
others of persons who had died and
others were fictitious. The record
showed that votes were falsely cast
in the names of fifty of these persons |
and that many names had been voted
two, three and four times. The total :
of illegal votes shown in this district |
was 101 out of 375 recorded.”
It is understood that William S.|
Vare is making a great fight to get |
men of his own selection. The law
provides for minority representation
on these boards and Mr. Vare pro-
poses to name the two Republican
members and one Democratic mem-
ber while Joe Grundy claims the right
to name the other Democrat. Of
course the purpose of this conspiracy
is to make the board unanimously
Republican and Mr. Vare the abso-
lute controller of their actions thus
perpetuating zero returns when need-
ed to overcome the honest vote of
the people of the State as was done in
the Senatorial election last fall. The
Democrats whom these two machine
bosses will select will be of the per-
fidious type who register as Demo-
crats for the purpose of betraying
that party. A precisely similar de-
mand has been made in Pittsburgh
by Senator Max Leslie and it is be-
lieved Chairman Mellon will support
them.
Governor Pinchot gave a good deal
of attention to this subject while he
was in office and organized a board
in Philadelphia which the Public
Ledger declares rendered faithful and
valuable service. Under th~ existing
system it was Smpessible to weed out
the fraudulent ‘names in the brief
time allowed by the law. But not-
withstanding this fact the names
were stricken from the list and a
great deal of fraud prevented. If
Governor Fisher will name for this
important service the men chosen by
Vare and Grundy in Philadelphia and
Leslie in Pittsburgh it will show that
he is in full sympathy with the politi-
cal pirates whose only aim is to steal
elections. The honest people of Phila-
delphia favor the retention of the
present board in that city. The mem-
bers have proved their integrity and
in so far as it was possible demon-
strated their efficiency. It is up to
the Governor to show his sincerity.
!
'
——The gathering of state news-
paper corespondents, politicians and
others at the estate of Col. Theodore
Davis Boal, at Boalsburg, last week,
was something more than merely one
of the Colonel’s many evidences of
hospitality. It is said that plans were
laid for a continuation of the effort
to have the State buy the immense
tract of land in “Barrens” of Pat-
ton and Halfmoon townships for use
as an encampment ground for the
National Guard. The project was up
before the last Legislature, but was
defeated by alobby from Lebanon
county which was interested in retain-
ing the site at Mt. Gretna. The latter
place is said to be too small and en-
tirely inadequate for use as a prov-
ing ground, especially for the modern
long range ordance.
——Aimee McPherson is threaten-
ed with the loss of her church. The
loss of her reputation didn’t bother
her much but the loss of her church
touches that tender spot, the pocket
book. :
——The Mississippi flood has beat-
en all records as a devastating agent,
and the relief of the sufferers in the
region covered makes a strong appeal
to the benevolence of the country.
SAE RRL
——Aviator Byrd, who is about to
make a non-stop flight to Paris, has
the nerve. The other day he broke his
wrist in an accident and set it him-
self.
———— ye te—
-——Governor Fisher is “patting
himself on the back” for his work in
favor of honest elections. His work
also greatly pleased Mr. Vare.
——O0ld King Coal appears to ‘be
“coming into his own” again. Ship-
ments on the Lehigh Valley last week
touched close to the record.
——DMint and eloves have served
their purpose fairly well for a long
time but a recent invention promises
Local Interest in Hospitals.
There may be some reason for the
complaint of Mrs. E. S. H. McCauley,
recently appointed State Secretary of
Welfare, expressed at a meeting of
the Hospital Association of Pennsyl-
vania, held in Philadelphia the other
day. Local communities in which
hospitals are located may not be as
liberal as formerly in contributing to
the support of this worthy form of
benevolence. The prosperity as well
as the efficiency of the local hospital
used to be a subject of great care
and pride to the charitably inclined
men and women of Pennsylvania, of |
to make contribu-
According to Mrs. McCauley
subsided. It has
mighty hard
sufficient means
tions.
this interest has
been getting some
knocks.
Within a few recent years the Sys-
tem of conducting these admirable
local enterprises has been greatly
changed. The spirit of beneficence
which created and subsequently to a
great extent maintained them has not
in the least abated. But the splendid
men and women who freely gave time,
money and labor to the work are no
longer allowed to exercise the meas-
ure of control to which they are en-
titled, and which is the only recom-
pense they ever received or desired
for the sacrifices necessarily made in
procuring the hospitals.
greedy hand of centralized authority
at Harrisburg has been stretched out
in every direction and set those most
interested aside in the management.
Under the system of administra-
tion devised by the authorities at
Harrisburg control of local hospitals
has gradually been centralized in the
Department of Public Welfare and
local management is really in name
only. Standards have been raised
The too.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. APRIL 29. 192%.
Ripping to Begin Shortly.
The new
has announced that the weeding out
process in that department “will be
begun shortly.” Several of the more
important officials have been “slated
for the toboggan.” Of course he will
not be influenced by factional politics
the public that the impending reor-
increasing efficiency “in the best pos-
sible manner.” Among those to go
are W. H. Connell, chief engineer,
for some time acting commissioier,
W. A. Vanduser, chief of mainten-
{ance work and Thomas Fry, fiscal
officer of the department. Benjamin
G. Eynon, register of motor vehicles
had been slated for sacrifice, but pow-
| erful friends rescued him.
According to the Harrisburg cor-
espondent of the Philadelphia Rec-
‘ord the three officials named above
(have “incurred the enmity of the
Grundy faction in State politics” and
it is easy to see that they are ineffi-
cient public officials. Besides that the
! Mellon machine in Pittsburgh is hav-
‘ing trouble and it is believed that the
. tender of the place held by Mr. Con-
‘nell, chief engineer, will go a long
way toward “calming the troubled
waters” in the boss’ home town. If
that be true and it seems to be, the
best possible way of increasing effi-
“ciency in the service will be in the ap-
pointment of Emanuel D. Foster, of
Pittsburgh, who is now an aspirant
{for County Commissioner and a dis-
| turber of Chairman Mellon’s peace of
mind.
Rumors have been running in polit-
{ ical circles for some time that the
Secretary of the Department, Mr.
| Stuart of Pittsburgh, has resigned or
!is about to resign in the near future,
Secretary of Highways !
in making these changes. He assures |
ganization will be for the purpose of '
and charges fixed without regard for | but he denies it. Admitting that he
the ability of the community to meet accepted the office somewhat relue-
them. This is done under threat that tantly he now says he has no inten-
appropriations from the State will tion “of his own accord of stepping
either be reduced or with-held entire- | out.” Mr. Stuart is not a practical
ly unless all such arbitrary rulings | politician and the orders to “rip up”
are complied with. | the department may have provoked
It’s small wonder that local phil- him to say things which were inter-
anthrophy grows cold. It is only the | preted as an intention to resign. But
things in which people feel that they ; if he had such an intention he has
have a voicg in directing that arouse his mind, and it-may be safe-
the earnest interest of the individual. |ly said that the good of the party
And Mrs. McCauley would do well to | rather than of the public service is
look to the insidious usurpations of the influencing reason for the
her own department if she would change.
oilly Sal the cause of the indiffer- |
ence she complains of it. tn
It is true not only of the hospitals, ———The West Chester Legionaires
but of the roads and the schools of the | appear to have started something
State. We elect supervisors and that’s hard to finish.
school directors, but they are so |
hedged about by political appointees |
at Harrisburg as to be little more |
| ‘
that rubber stamps. 2 i President Coolidge is wisely a si-
OE ——e——————
; lent man, for when he speaks he con-
—Well, the “Afaletics” got off to a fuses rather than informs the pub-
poor start, but may be that’s a good j lic mind. Only a short time ago he
omen. was practically threatening Mexico,
through the Secretary of State, with
invasion, because of alleged but un-
defined infringements upon the rights
. . s i ially properties,
At a hearing of a’ defendant in the “and Properties, oper! 8
office of one of the Aldermen of Har. | © Citizens of this country. So far
isburg, th . as the public has information the gov-
as 2 sine day, on a charge of ernment of Mexico has not receded in
reckless driving of an automobile on ;
a public highw G _ the least from its attitude on the
a us a ane sii v Tages | questions then in controversy, but in
by counsel forthe defendant why he 2 en the as ls Sher
3 }
ply was that he is the owner of ua Of newspaper publishers that the
automobile and in pursuit of his busi- | ove of Deurs Bs now gro
ness activities drives approximalely apne Tis Sw acre et. vou bel.”
80,000 miles a year, This fact vests re a. for EY hy, in our
indi a dosp Interest in safety on | a Mexico Ts to
the public highways, and the surest the! Predidert. lies 3 he fact ne a
way to secure safety is to prosecute , “© t Bl er : Jos In has: bee :
and punish those automobile drivers | a ors ~ ng ois A
who recklessly run their machines IA 2 Co es e oan
a jeopardize the lives and proper- Coolidge om aShington, ;
Automobile esents Bem eecome Hotu but Squaly sive. ang
: : mewhat mysterious. He abhors
$0 numerous and destructive of life se , t th h ficial
and property in recent years that the heyy s=rep PR bn oe
« 3 »
men tal, energy ok en and women, in telligence and the fairness of the peo-
0 oi authority, is constantly le. Th titution of Mexico
a pr I a Sr AA) 2 Meri
ga e evil, gislation, however “7 :
ar ie rn exo | 00 Seep] inte pin Sony
an e police power seems inade- bite : A
quate to the task. For that reason the i) apg the P jesiens wpe
witness in question declared that he | ba d 0 -. our a ms i d )
has resolved to do all he can to assist fale 1 e Syiden Y Jesoried to
the authorities in their beneficent Serre SD omass: hich it hoped
work, He is willing to appear and tes- the dh d e Syus w a as Ropes
tify against any reckless driver whose dil wa o mina derstandi
dangerous action imperils the lives of iD Macy 33 od en ib nn i
others, even though inconvenienced Se = EN Eran the add
In nin ii Dirposes if the case Sota of No Wilson 1
comes within his observation. 5 :
: i the event Gérmany was defeated in
It must appear to ‘any reflecting that struggle. But according to the
mind that this statement of a case in |. nfere tc be d fr th
point suggests the best preventive Pe, SEL Nem te
that has been offered. The vast ma- on Monday evening, as soon as he dis-
Jority of automobile users are ecare- covered that he couldn't terrify Mex-
ful and conservative on the highways. ico he entered into secret ne tian
But there is a considerable minority, with her Ambassador at Washi
composed largely of boys and men and. found din Agor angie
Secret Diplomacy Revived.
————— eens
Recklessness on the Highway. |
is not only proverbially:
| their © way.
to put them out of buisness.
¥
, ,|2nd women addicted to indulgencies
and joy riders, who plunge at high
rates of speed into perilous situations
and in trying to extricate themselves
smash into any obstacle in the road
and kill whoever happens to be in
If every‘ conservative
driver would adopt the policy of the
witness referred to above there would
be less recklessness on the road or
more penaltiés inflicted.
“cause of quarrel,” between the two
Republics, and that Mexico had no
intention of injuring any one or im-
| pairing any contract with Americans
or anybody else.
——The ‘ground was frozen fairly
stiff, last Saturday morning, and be-
tween six and séven in the evening
snowflakes were flying.
NO. 17.
| THE SOUL OF OUR HOSPITAL.
A vacant house is little more than
a pile of cold stone—it takes people
to make it a home. Likewise, a hos-
pital depends upon its personnel to
make it a live and effective institu-
tion. In proportion to the enthusias-
tic, forceful service to the people who
,man and operate an institution of
, this character, its vital influence and
power will be felt in the community.
, Those who visit the Centre County
hospital on Florence Nightingale
day, May 12th, which date has been
set apart as national hospital day.
will be surprised and pleased with the
dexterous activity and cheerful at-
mosphere of philanthropic service
displayed in every department. It is
a real pleasure to see the eighteen
attractive young ladies, arrayed in
neat uniform of white and blue, glid-
ing noiselessly, here and there,
throughout the various halls and
wards, intent on their errands of
mercy. These young ladies are under
the direction of Miss A. E. Eckert,
superintendent, and Miss Helen
Neese, night superintendent of
nurses. Whether you visit the hos-
pital in the day time or in the wee
hours of the night you will find the
same rythmic and silent activity to-
gether with the almost meticulous at-
tention necessary to render it an
efficient, life saving institution. It
operates twenty-four hours every day
with clock-work precision, and Miss
Eckert’s careful and systematic or-
ganization is very much in evidence
everywhere.
It must be remembered, also, that
' these young ladies are students in the
school of nursing and are pursuing
a course of scientific and technical
study under the direction of Miss V.
Jane Hartman, instructress of nurses.
They must find time somewhere in
the course of their busy hours to
delve into the intricacies of anatomy,
materia medica, bacteriology, thera-
peutics, gynaecology, obstetrics,
anaesthesia, surgery, and other
branches of medicine contiguous to
the art of practical nursing, so that
Me they have finished their course
ey are prepared to take their $laces
[in the most up, to date ep 5 in
the land, or to render the most effi-
cient service to the public in private
nursing. Miss Hartman is regarded
as one of the best instructresses of
‘nurses in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. She has a long list of
applicants who are anxious to take
her course of training and is extreme-
ly rigid in her selection of candidates
as to personal qualifications in ap-
pearance, health, mentality, education
and adaptation to the profession of
nursing. This largely accounts for
the high grade quality of nursing at
the Centre County hospital. Miss
Hartman has the assistance in this
splendid work of Miss Helen E.
Neese, night superintendent, Miss
Margaret Krape, private floor super-
intendent, and every person serving
the institution all of whom have the
single goal to make the Centre Coun-
ty hospital as nearly perfect as pos-
sible. Their patience and efficiency
constantly attest this fact.
One of the most important depart-
ments which has to do with the life
saving qualities of the hospital, also,
is that of dietetics, which is headed
by Miss Helen E. MacLean. The
physicians depend largely upon the
character and quality of food served
in the dietary department for the im-
provement of their patients. Their
surgery and medicine may arrest the
disease, but healthful metabolism and
convalescence depend upon proper
nourishment. This art has become
definitely scientific in its application
during recent years. A properly
balanced ration, studiously adapted to
the disease and condition of the body
“has been found to be the most es-
sential part of medical treatment.
Miss MacLean takes a personal in-
terest in each patient, providing a
suitable dietary, carefully observing
the case for improvement in health,
making out all menus and supervising
the preparation and serving of foods,
insisting that they be served in a
dainty and attractive manner, with
the result that the patients are
almost unanimous in their praise of
the dietary.
There are several other important
, members of this organization who
contribute incalculably to the success
of the hospital. There is the patho-
logical and X-ray technician whose
valuable services have been described
in these columns and which is so es-
sential in the diagnosis of disease.
There are the faithful physicians of
the medical staff, some of whom are
on hand practically all the time, pass-
ing in and out among the various
wards, with a word of medical wis-
dom here and the searching scrutiny
of a clinical chart there, making sure
that every patient is responding
properly to the treatment he has pre-
| scribed, and that every department
is operating as efficiently as possible.
Not least among this company of
busy people is' W. H. Brown, business
(Continued on page 4, Col. 2.)
i
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Professor Robert R. Abernathy, prin-
cipal of the Tyrone High school for five
years, tendered his resignation last week
to accept a similar position at Lebanon,
Pa. - He is the third Blair county high
school principal to change positions this
term.
—Trapped in his automobile when it
plunged 30 feet into the Cheat River, John
Bender, of Cheat Road, near Port Marion,
Pa., was drowned on Sunday. The ma-
chine landed, wheels upward, in 15 feet
of water. Bender was caught behind the
steering wheel, unable to free himself.
—Hazel Rudy, 20, of South Brown
street, Lewistown, pleaded guilty to
forgery at a hearing before Justice of the
Peace Charles W. Kase Tuesday after
noon and was held in the Mifflin county
jail in lieu of $500 bail for court. The
check she forged was drawn on the Rus-
sell bank.
—Jail confronts about 1,000 women of
Darby, a suburb of Philadelphia, unless
they pay a delinquent personal tax of
$4.05 by May 5. Albert Shaw, deputy tax
collector, said he had obtained commit-
ment papers and engaged a van to take
the women to the Media jail if the tax
payments are not forthcoming.
—Police at Reading are looking for a
man giving his name as F. S. Donohue,
Chicago, who obtained $250 from a local
girl, employed in an office, on a promise
of getting her a better position. The
money was to have been deposited in a
bank as a pledge. Then the man vanished
and the bank named has no deposit.
—Guy D. Bear has been relieved as post-
master at Rohrerstown, with irregulari-
ties in his accounts and abandonment of
the office, charged, it was reported last
Thursday. On the recommendation of
Congressman W. W. Griest, Herman C.
Starr is acting postmaster. The Civil
Service Commission has been requested
by the Postoffice Department to hold ex-
aminations to fill the position.
—Adopting the theory that Joseph A.
McClain, of Burnham, was killed by a
‘hit-and-run’ motorist, county and State
police have exonerated Alden Cor-
son, Burnham, of any connection with his
death. Carson is held in default of $500
bail on the charge of possession of intoxi-
cating liquor. Police believe MecClain’s
body was placed on the railroad tracks.
after being hit, to make it appear as if:
he was killed by a train. :
—The courts are to settle who is to pay
for the funeral of William Tackett, who
died last January 23 in the Westmoreland
county home. County Controller Weber
A. Arter refused to pay the bill on the
ground that no appropriation had been
made by the county commissioners for
the purpose. The county poor directors
contended no separate appropriation was
necessary. The undertaking firm now.
has appealed to the courts.
—Dr. ¥. R. Wise, a York, Pa., physician
was robbed of $1175 Saturday evening, and
Sunday his chauffeur, John Lewis, was in
custody in New York, charged with the
theft. Dr. Wise, on returning to his office,
found two bill folds in the top drawer of .
his dresser empty. His chauffeur had left
in the morning and had not returned,
causing suspicion to rest upon him. The
case was placed in the hands of Constable
Pickes, and Lewis was arrested in New
York. - in oC
—Augustus Knox, of the Owl's eamp on
Licking creek, Mifflin county, was caught .
in a bear trap, last week and painfully
injured. A dead deer was found and
traps set about the ecarcas in hopes of
catching vermin and noxious animals that
were feeding on the meat, Knox attempt-
ed to set a bear trap by standing on the
spring, but his rubber boots slipped and
the sharp jaws cut into the flesh of his |
wrist and gave him an uncomfortable hour
until released by ‘Paddy’ MeGarrah.,
—Leon Schovern, of Shamokin, escaped
from the Northumberland county jail, at
Sunbury, on Monday, by sealing a forty
foot wall and leaping to the side walk
below, less than a half hour after he had
been sentenced to the electric chair for the
slaying of his sweetheart's brother.
Schovern was returned to Jail after re-
ceiving sentence but instead of being
placed in a cell was permitted to roam
the corridors. He wandered into the Jail
yard unnoticed by jail attaches and with-,
out the aid of a rope or ladder mounted
the wall and jumped to freedom on the
other side. He was captured near Sha
mokin, on Tuesday, by state police and
returned to jail.
—-Damage to the extent of $23,000 wag
caused at Johnstown early Sunday morn-
ing when five bombs were exploded in the
Plaza billiard parlor, a second story Main
street establishment, The explosion
wrecked the interior of the billiard room
and damaged the Grant department store
over which it is located. The explosions
were some seconds apart and two mem-
bers of the Johnstown police force were
smashing their way into the Grant store
when the last two explosions occurred
and showered debris and material about
their heads. Practically all of the 19 pool
tables were torn to shreds. Police are
working on a number of clues, but as yet
have made no arrests.
—The Rev. D. J. Benjamin, aged 31,
pastor of the Flemington and Avis charges
of the Church of Christ, residing at Avis,
was placed under arrest, on Saturday, by
corporal Albert Davis and privates A. Gil-
bert and T. A. Buckley, of the State
police, on complaint made by the parents
of several girls of nine and ten years of
age, charging him with a serious crime.
The pastor was arrested as he was leaving
a house in Flemington before which his
car was parked. He was remanded to the
Clinton county jail as no alderman or
local justice of the peace could give bail:
for the offense of which he is charged.
He will be given a hearing some time this
week, The pastor has recently concluded
a series of successful evangelistic services
at Flemington.
—Walter N. Steel, aged 50, an Altoona
locomotive engineer, has been awarded
$35,000 against the Pennsylvania Railroad
company by a federal jury in Cleveland,
Ohio, after seven persons had testified
that injuries received in a wreck would
bar Steel from his cab forever. Steel,
whose testimony was corroborated by
physicians, said the erash had so unnerv-
ed him that he would be unable to put his
hand to the throttle again, that his back
was injured and that steam had burned
his throat so severely that he is unable to
eat certain foods. The wreck occurred in
February of last year when the Gotham
Limited was derailed near Altoona. Steel
was engineer of the second engine of the
train. The engineer and fireman. of the
first train were killed and Steel said his
fireman was seriously .injured.