INK SLINGS. '
. —One after the other two para-
graphs appear in the County Corres-
pondence columns of this issue. One
tells of the purchase of a new auto-
mobile by one family. The other
records that a neighbor has purchas-
ed a cow. Neither is unusual, but
they started us to thinking. In this
instance we happen to know that the
purchaser of the automobile can very
well afford the luxury, but there are
thousands of others who might more
advantageously have bought cows in-
stead of the motors they race over
the country in.
—Last week we suggested that in-
stead of building the levees along the
Mississippi higher it might be better
to dredge the channel deeper. Hav-
ing since been informed that the old
Mississippi is two hundred and fifteen
feet deep, just opposite the city of
New Orleans, we hasten to beseech
the government not to follow our sug-
gestion. Were the channel scooped
out much more water might seep
through and make it necessary for
the Chinese to carry umbrellas every
time the Father of Waters goes on a
rampage.
—Just as we predicted months ago,
when we argued that Congress should
have reduced taxes further than it
did, a great surplus is piling up in the
treasury. Secretary Mellon, the fi-
nancial wizard of the age, told the
world that the government couldn’t
stand even the paltry reduction that
the Democratic minority in Congress
forced the Republican majority to
make. On Monday he announced that
at the end of the current fiscal year
more than half a billion will have
piled up as surplus in the treasury.
We call attention to this fact because
we believe that the country has been
wilfully, needlessly and exorbitantly
taxed so that the Administration”
can start in paying the public debt
and reducing taxation on the eve of
its bid for retention in power.
—Next week the drive for enroll-
ment for the local hospital will be
made. The call from each individual
is so small that very few will have
real reason for refusal to respond.
Some will be honest when they say
they don’t have the dollar to spare.
Others will conjure up varied excuses
for getting out of a contribution.
Mark this prediction: More evasion
will be based on the intimation that
“I don’t like the way the institution
is run” than any other cause. We've
had some experience in helping to run
a hospital. W know something of the
criticism that always was and always
will be heaped on the heads of those
who gratuitously try to do something
for the public. The present board,
some of the Jmeihers: of which
thought the preceeding board incom-
petent, have doubtless heard the same
thing said of themselves.. Humanity
would be very unhappy if there were
not something to kick around and,
naturally, the job that there’s noth-
ing in and few people want is the one
on which the anvil.chorus always har-
monizes. Let us get that spirit out of
our hearts and minds next week. Let
us remember that the person who
hasn’t made a mistake has never done
anything. Let us tell you that the hos-
pital, with the means at hand, always
was and is today being conducted just
as well as most and better than many
of the hospitals in the State. Let us
rise above the petty grievances of
self and rally to a movement in which
there is no proper place for selfish-
ness. :
—On Sunday a seventy-two year
old murderer died at Rockview. A
hapless old, colored man who had shot
another of his race to death, but slip-
ped away to the great bar of Justice
without knowing that in his cyanotic
fingers there laid a pardon. A belat-
ed forgiveness in the name of the
State for a crime that a just God
probably forgave the instant it was
committed.
Charles Newell was sent up for
having killed a drunken acquaint-
ance who was trying to rob him. He
had always been known as one of
those intensely = spiritual old negro
persons. One, per chance, who might
recall to some of us that mysteriously
inspired christian character Edward
“baber” Stevenson.
In the eyes of the law Newell was
a condemned convict of Rockview. In
the eyes of those who are authorized
to administer the law there he was a
saintly, simple child of God who had
wandered into a strange path and,
though bewildered, never forgot that
he was the good Samaritan and not
the Pharisee.
Scant ceremony is that of the bur-
ial of the dead in our penal institu-
tion. But the prison life of Charles
Newell made friends who demanded
that the dark casement of a white
soul be laid away in a shroud purged
of stripes by the esteem of his fellow
inmates.
Instead of being hurriedly buried
in the prison lot the body of the
righteous old character is resting in
a beautiful cemetery in Centre coun-
ty. Five hundred friends assembled
for the funeral service Monday even-
ing. There was a real casket, flowers
in tribute, women to sing and a chap-
lain to do more than read “the serv-
ice for the burial of the dead.” The
soul of the old Christian negro was
gone, but its lesson was vibrant
among those mourners and also in
the heart of the chaplain of the in-
stitution, so he took the very unusual
ceremony as his text to get across the
message that merit will always find
its reward.
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION,
PA.. MAY 6. 1927.
NO. 18.
VOL. 72.
identity of the Official Spokesman
Revealed.
The identity of the “Official Spokes-
man” at the White House has been
revealed. This mysterious and in-
teresting individual was born in Ver-
mont and in early life settled in Mas-
sachusetts. He promptly entered into ,
the political activities of that State
with the result that after receiving
several lesser favors he was elected
Governor. He is a rather small man,
dresses well and in good taste and has
a long and pointed nose. By good
luck he was elected Vice President
in 1920 and by accident advanced to
the office of President in 1922. He
punctually pays his political debts in
the currency of public patronage
unless the Senate refuses to ratify
his appointments, which happens fre-
quently.
Some months ago the administra-
tion at Washington began dispatch- |
ing troops of marines to Nicaragua
for the ostensible purpose of conserv-
ing the lives and property of Ameri-
can citizens who had gone there to
“get rich quick.” A great many
American. citizens who had not ven-
tured into such enterprises questioned
the propriety of the proceeding and a
vast majority of the leading news-
papers of the country, irrespective of
party affiliation, vigorously protested
against what seemed like an attempt
by force to control the politics and
policies of a friendly but weak sister
Republic. Thereupon the newspaper
correspondents of Washington were
summoned to the White House and
the Official Spokesman was born. He
lectured them freely on their lack of
patriotism.
The other evening, in New York, a
number of newspaper publishers and
editors were assembled and President
Coolidge addressed them. The prin-
cipal feature of his speech was a
plaintive plea to the public press of
the country to support the President’s
foreign policies, right or wrong, in
order to maintain the prestige of the
nation in the sight of the civilized
world. Curiously enough the burden
of the speech of the Official Spokes-
man on the occasion of the conference
at the White House some months ago
was the same plea in almost the
of all the President’s speeches are
taken from the sayings and writings
of others it can hardly be said that he : and fraudalent but is now being used
is a plagiarist, and the inevitable con-
clusion is that the Official Spokesman
is Mr. Coolidge. :
——Judge Gordon, of Philadelphia,
veveaied something of the mettle of partnership, for in eagerness for had one of the best curb markets of
his distinguished father in sentencing
a grafting magistrate.
Grafting in Public Life.
Last week the courts in three coun-
ties in Pennsylvania were occupied in
the investigation of charges of graft
against public officials, In Philadel-
phia voluminous testimony was given
BELLEFONTE,
af
rable part
Our Relations with Mexico.
| Charles Michelson, Washington
' correspondent of the New York
World, writes: “When President Cool-
idge made his announcement of the
! improvement in our relations with
Mexico, at a Press Association din-
ner in New York the other day, he
‘neglected to tell what brought it
i about. Senator Borah is more respon-
| sible for dispelling the war cloud than
| 2nvbody else. If it had not been for
{ him in all probability Ambassador
i Sheffield would have been withdrawn.
"The arms embargo would have been
lifted and Mexico would have been in
‘chaos again. He raised such a row
' when the extent of the administration
blustering was revealed that he woke
i the country to a realization of what
[lay ahead if the ship of state contin-
! ued on the course charted by the cap-
tain.”
| A group of mercenary American
| capitalists, who had by one means or
| another acquired valuable conces-
| sions, were operating some of them
'in violation of the laws of Mexico.
: The government of Mexico had de-
| clared a purpose to require strict
! observance of law in the exercise of
' these concessions, and while a con-
! siderable number of the concession-
: aires agreed to comply, a few protest-
ed and appealed to the administration
"at Washington to “protect their prop-
| erty rights.” Obviously without in-
i vestigation of the subject the Secre-
tary of State in Washington, in the
expectation of terrorizing our weak
sister Republic, issued threats of
severing relations, lifting the arms
embargo and even sending troops to
invade and devastate the country.
At this stage of the proceedings
Senator Borah, chairman of the Sen-
ate Committee on Foreign Relations,
arrived in Washington and promptly
| entered protest against this ruthless
'and inexcusable action. As Mr.
Michelson states, this timely inter-
ference aroused the country “to a re-
| alization of what lay ahead,” and
: stopped the blustering as well as the
preparations for war. Negotiations
were subsequently begun anid resulted
in the improvement in our relations
with Mexico, to which the President
credit for which he has somew
i feloniously taken. Like his profes-
sions of economy, this claim is false
ap
las a wasis for his claim for a third
term in the cflice of President.
It’s hard to tell which is the
“wicked” member of the Mellon-Vare
spoils they are alike.
A...
Governor Fisher Vetoes a Bad Bill.
In properly vetoing that vicious
piece of legislation enacted during
the closing hours of the recent session
"of the General Assembly, obviously
intended to prevent any organized
effort to expose graft, Governor
in his New York speech. the
Invisible Government in. Action.
The incident of absorbing interest
in political circles last week was the
resignation of William H. Connell, of
Philadelphia, chief engineer of the
| State Highway Department, and for
“some time acting as secretary of that
_Gepartment. Rumors that his resig-
nation was desired by the administra-
"tion had been current for some time
but were not confirmed by those in
“authority and his friends hoped that
his fitness for the office and efficiency
in the service would guarantee his
retention for “four years more,” not-
withstanding the clamor of Pitts-
burgh politicians for one of their
number to be put in the $12,000 a year
job. Mr. Connell had supported Gov-
ernor Pinchot for Senator and had no
claim for favor.
One of the newspaper correspond-
, ents at Harrisburg, and apparently a
close observer of the movements on
“Capitol Hill,” in summarizing the
strife for this fat job says that “for
some time Connell is said to have
disagreed with Stuart and Mellon or-
ganization leaders on requests for
rebuilding of reads in various parts
of the State. The situation became
more and more acute until these poli-
ticians went to W. L. Mellon and de-
manded the deputy’s dismissal.”
That settled the question. Mr. Mel-
lon promptly issued orders to have
Connell dismissed and to avoid the
humiliation of that process he resign-
ed. The Pittsburgh aspirant for the
job, Samuel Eckles, was immediately
appointed to the vacancy.
This is an exhibition of the power
of “invisible government” more fla-
grant than is usually shown. W. L.
Mellon is no part of the State admin-
istration. He has not been commis-
sioned by the people of Pennsylvania
to either appoint or remove public
servants. He is responsible to nobody
for the good or bad service rendered f,
by public officials in the employ of the
State. But he assumes and exercises
the power to employ or dismiss in
every department and those who are
responsible are compelled to submit
to his usurpations, meekly or other-
wise. He began with the assembling
of the General Assembly by dictating
seem
ly intends to continue indef-
initely. RE
——The season of the year will
soon be here for the opening of the
i Bellefonte curb market, and farmers
,and truck growers generally have
probably arranged their garden plots
accordingly. Last year Bellefonte
‘any of the surrounding towns, farm-
ers coming here from the lower end
'of Nittany and Bald Eagle valleys,
from as far down Pennsvalley as
Aaronsburg and from College and
ors of = both branches ‘and
Good Work by the Governor.
{ From the Philadelphia Record.
Governor Fisher has met public ex-
pectation in signing the so-called
election reform bills passed by the
recent Legislature. Indeed no other
action could have been reasonably
looked for, for the measures were
very largely of his own framing and
constituted an important part of the
program laid down in his inaugural
message. It is natural enough, there-
fore, that he is vastly pleased with
what has been accomplished and that
he expatiates at some length on the
benefits he expects to flow from these
bills, with some rather fulsome com-
mendation of the part played by the
Republican leaders in putting this
legislation through. Some advocates
of election reform may be disposed to
differ with the Governor on this
point, but will nonetheless welcome
the approval of the measures, on the
ground that half a loaf is better than
none. ,
Of greater significance is the Gov-
ernor’s veto of the bill intended to
bring about the division of the Twen-
ty-second ward by providing that all
wards of over 70,000 population
should be split up. This is a direct
slap at the Vare machine and can be
' construed in no other way. No one
in the Twenty-second ward wants it
i divided except a small group of gang
politicians headed by ex-City Treas-
urer Tom Watson, who represents it
‘in the Republican City Committee.
| Mr. Watson finds this burden so oner-
| ous, especially as the people of the
! ward are notoriously given to inde-
| pendent voting, that he wants it
‘lightened by the creation of a new
| ward, which would be assigned to
some other equally altruistic states-
man. The people of antown and
Chestnut Hill have defeated this prop-
| position several times, and it was to
| deprive them of all further voice in
the matter that this very objection-
able measure was jammed through
the Legislature. It was a direct blow
at self-government under the guise
‘ of seeking to advance the public wel-
are, .
| Governor Fisher gives excellent
reasons for his veto, which comes as
a bitter pill to William S. Vare and
his henchmen. It serves notice upon
them that purely factional measures
{of this kind will not find favor at
' Harrisburg. For this the people of
uel will:
wen ‘ward, will return
thanks to My." Fisher. He hats
(them from a particularly obnoxious
EE trick. : x 1,
1
|
What Will Calles Do?
+ From the Altoona Tribune.
i The horrible massacre of a train-
load of passengers on a Mexican
railroad will focus public attention
on conditions in Mexico as it has not
been focused heretofore. It matters
nothing whether the barbarians who
buined and shot the inoffensive trav-
elers are rebels or revolutionaries, if
‘there be any real distinction between
the two types of opponents of the
Calles administration. What is im-
+
.
especially of the |
‘saved’
|SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—A buck deer, wandering into the cen-
ter of Altoona, jumped through the wind--
shield of an automobile, injuring Mrs. J.
B. Krebbs, 42, a passenger. The deer was
so badly injured that it was shot by
police.
—Over fifty ‘deer grazng in one herd
were seen by motorists on the top of
Hyner mountain, between Lock Haven and
Renovo, on Monday morning early. Herds
of deer are grazing nightly on the moun-
tain tops along the Coudersport pike.
—Frank Hartzell, an Allentown brick-
layer, aged 56, last Thursday was the see-
ond man killed in the construction of the
new Pennsylvania Power and Light build-
ing, that city’s tallest skyscraper. Slip-
ping on the fourth floor, he fell sixty feet
down a hoist hatch and broke his neck.
—The belfry of the new John S. Bell
memorial chapel of the Masonic home at
Elizabethtown, Pa., is soon to be endowed
with a large bronze chime of bells, ship-
ment of which has been made by the Me-
neely Bell company, of Troy, N. Y., after
nearly a year was consumed in its manu-
facture.
—From $150,000 to $200,000 will be ex-
pended in the erection of a new Scottish
Rite cathedral at Coudersport, and the
ceremonies for breaking ground for the
new edifice will take place in June, when
hundreds of members of the organization
from all parts of the State will return to
Coudersport for the annual reunion.
—Twenty-seven years to the day from
the time he became a rural mail carrier
at the postoffice in Gettysburg, John H.
Eckhart will become postmaster, succeed-
ing R. C. Miller, who recently resigned.
Announcement of the appointment was
made by the Postoffice Department at
Washington. The appointment is tempor-
ary.
—While 14-year-old Johnny Fedder was
recovering in the Butler county Memorial
' hospital from an operation for the ampu-
tation of his leg, his parents moved out of
town and left him homeless, police re-
ported last week. Efforts to locate the
boy's parents have proved fruitless. He
will be taken care of in the Butler county
home.
—Two officials of the Moose Lodge in
Lewistown were fined $250 each on
charges of vielating the prohibition laws
by Judge Albert Johnson in Federal court
on Monday. They are J. H. Smith and
Roye E. Raker. Nine other lodge mem-
bers arrested at the same time were re-
leased later because of insufficient evi-
dence
—Two days after birth, the fourth son
of Mr. and Mrs. Antoro Intelicato, of
Wilks-Barre, was a barber shop customer.
The hair of the child, Jasper, was coal
black and nine inches long at birth. It
s0 disturbed the infant that he was unable
to sleep the first two nights following
birth, but since the hair cut, his disposi-
tion has improved greatly.
—William Hunsicker, an excentric but
highly successful farmer, who died last
week at his home at Hamlin, Lebanon
county, left an estate of nearly $100,000,
which is disposed of in a will probated at
Lebanon in 146 bequests of cash to neigh-
' bors and friends for miles around, rang-
ing from $50 to $500, and in about a doz-
en other bequests to churches and dispos-
ing of real estate.
~-At the request of the Lock Haven mo-
tor club, the New York Central Railroad
company has unofficially signitied its in-
tention to place an electric warning de-
vice at the King crossing, between Lock
Haven and Beech Creek, when the large
crew of men laying new rails at that point
have completed their work. The crew is
living in ten box cars while constructing
the road, which are on the siding near
Beech Creek.
—Because a little girl threw a stone af
him while he was at target practice on
| Monday, 12-year-old William Urich, son of
| W. J. Urich, Steelton’s assistant postmas-
ter, is being held at the Dauphin county
. house of detention on a charge of murder.
He is charged with killing 10-year-old
Norma Gray, a negress, daughter of Mr.
Ferguson townships. They came be- ! pressed upon the minds of people | and Mrs. Edward Gray, of Steelton, by
cause better prices were obtained in everywhere is that such a desperate shooting her through the head with a 22-
Bellefonte than anywhere else.
—————— mn rs ———
——The Vare machine managers in.
to prove that one of the magistrates ' Fisher said: “There are a number of Philadelphia are anxiously waiting
had been collecting money from de-
fendants charged with the violaticn
of the Volstead law for ten months to
the amount of $87,000. In Wilkes-
Barre the board of school directors of
Hanover township, Luzerne county,
had been in conspiracy with contract-
ors to loot the school treasury to the
extent of several thousand dollars,
which they divided among them-
selves. In Chester, Delaware county,
the members of the school board were
on trial for a similar offense.
In the
shown that Magistrate Rowland, Vare
ward leader, sitting in one of the
minor courts of that city, with the as-
sistance of his son and a clerk, levied
tribute upon every defendant brought
before him and either “discharged”
the case or suppressed the record in
consideration of payment. The clerk
turned “State’s = evidence,” and be-
came the star witness against him.
In Luzerne county the entire school
board entered into a conspiracy with
an architect and building contractor
and let contracts at an enormously
excessive price. Subsequently, for
some unexplained reason, one of them
“squealed.” In Delaware county the
charge was letting contracts without
competitive bidding.
This is certainly a shameful record
for one week of court activities for
Pennsylvania. There might have been
other cases of the kind in other coun-
ties if the authorities had been vigi-
lant or the reformers militant. But
“it is enough.” Yet it is not surpris-
ing. Malfeasances and misfeasances
are the logical consequences of the
machine methods of selecting public
officials, which is the rule in the domi-
nant party in this State. From the
highest to the lowest positions in the
public service the consideration is
not the fitness or integrity of the
aspirant, but his or her ability to get
votes for the party. Grafting is the
natural result of this system and will
always be.
ict amos
——The “Watchman” is the most
readable paper published. Try it.
Philadelphia case it was
! objections to this measure. The most
"important is that without any com-
' pensating advantage it would require
, organizations of -public-spirited eciti-
zens who have associated themselves
together for public purposes to incur
unnecessary expense in' preparing
. with scrupulous care, and in causing
‘to be registered in two public offices,
the names and addresses of all of
. their members.” That is surely a
! valid objection but not the most im-
portant.
The most important objection lies
An the fact that if that malignant
measure had become a law it would
have bestowed upon the political
pirates of Philadelphia and Pitts-
burgh a blanket license to loot indis-
criminately and stuff ballot boxes,
make false returns of elections and
utterly destroy every effort for civic
improvement. Organization is as es-
sential in a fight against the evils of
misgovernment as it is in setting an
army on the field of battle. No indi-
, vidual, however wealthy and strong,
could achieve success in a contest
against organized vice and crime as
it exists in the two great cities of
Pennsylvania. Even the united ef-
forts of many good men seem inade-
quate.
The inspiration for this atrocious
piece of legislation lies in the hatred
which the managers of the Vare ma-
chine hold against the Committee of
Seventy. That hatred has existed for
many years and was further inflamed
by the activity of the committee in
exposing the frauds perpetrated at
the last primary and general election
in that city. If the Committee of,
Seventy had been quiescent it might
have been possible that the “stolen
and purchased” majorities in the two
cities would have secured to Mr. Vare
a seat in the United States Senate.
Fortunately the committee asserted
its right to investigate with the result
that William B. Wilson will occupy
, the seat or it will remain vacant.
a
-——The Watchman publishes news
when it is news. Read it.
i
‘Jamison, Centre county, breaking and
{and inhuman deed could be provoked
‘only by intolerable wrongs inflicted
upon a people. Therefore President
, Calles is looked to for redress of the
grievances and the pacification of his
! caliber rifle in a field near the girl's home.
—Harvey Schlee, aged 54, of Renovo,
sustained injuries which necessitated the
"amputation of the left leg midway be-
: tween the knee and the ankle when he
for Mr. Grundy to make up the Gov- , country in manner to make, impossi- | was struck by a car in the Pennsylvania
ernor’s mind on the question of nam-
ing a successor to Magistrate Row-
land, row in jail.
i ——Senator Willis, of Ohio, is tell-
ing eastern audiences that the “corn
belt” is “solid” for Coolidge, but the
leading newspapers of that section
declare Willis doesn’t know what he
is talking about,
——Now that the Highway De-
partment is completely under control
of Pittsburgh politicians those want-
ing road improvements will find it to
their advantage to zee Mr. Mellon.
——The young man who shot him-
self because his “sweetie” refused to
marry him is hardly to be commend-
ed, but it is a better way than shoot-
ing the girl.
. ——1t is a safe bet that if Coolidge
is not nominated by the Republican
convention the favor will go fo
Hoover. Obviously they are working
together. ~
I
——Insurance rates on stored
liquors in New York have been in-
creased 150 per cent. because of the
activity of bootleggers in stealing
stocks.
——Former Magistrate Rowland
now knows how Wolsey felt on that
mournful occasion referred to by the
late William Shakespeare.
rsa Qt ae —
——The boys are having a “haleyon
and vociferous” time this week, and
so far as reports have been received
they have behaved becomingly.
+ ——Among the pardons granted at
Harrisburg, last Thursday, was that
of Harry Lutz, Centre county, charg-
ed with breaking and entering. Clare
escaping, and George Gables, also of
Centre county, impersonating an of-
ficer, were refused. ’
ble a repetition of the outrage.
| Already the administration at Mex- '
ico City has given earnest of its in-
tent to pursue the culprits and dis-
patch them without mercy when
caught. It has acted so in numerous
other instances of lesser gravity.
: Some scores of bandits, rebels or rev-
olutionaries, have paid with their
lives for the murders of foreign citi-
zens, Americans among them. It is
apparent that wholesale executions
j do not meet the need. The cause of
| the Juifage lies deep. It is not to be
| eradica by force. Experience over
a long series of years has demon-
‘strated that.
Conditions in Mexico steadily
worse. Conditions affecting the Mex-
‘ican millions, and not foreigners.
| This is the fact for President Calles
, and his advisers to consider. If they
; would have an orderly country they
, must provide conditions acceptable to
the Mexican people. They only can
do it. If they do not apply appropri-
ate correctives very soon they will be
unable to remedy a situation for the
continuance, if not the making, of
which they are largely responsible.
Tow
The Money Value of an Education.
From the New York Yorld. 3
Dean Lord of Boston University is
undertaking a new country-wide sur-
vey with a view to ascertaining the
effect of an education on one’s earn-
ing power. Some years ago he made
a similar study which indicated
that the average earning power of a
college-trained man, from graduation
until the age of sixty, was increased
$72,000 by his collegiate preparation.
By similar statistical methods the
average earning power of a high-
school education was gauged at $338,-
As compared with a grammar
school education, therefore, a college
education should be worth $105,000.
rn r————— atte
An Optimistic Thought.
From the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
If all laws were rigidly enforced
it would be necessary to build a fence
around America and call it a jail.
—————— re A ———————
railroad yards at Renovo. Mr. Schlee,
who is a Pennsylvania railroad brakeman
in the Renovo yards, was taking cars to
' the end of the yards to make up a train
Monday night about 9 o'clock, and was
"crossing the track to return, when a car
' coming from the opposite direction struclk
him, inflicting the injury.
—(Gieorge Birney, 22, of Athens, was still
; alive in the People’s hospital at Sayre on
Tuesday more than 48 hours after his neeix
| as broken in a niotereycle accident on
the Athens-Towanda stdte highway. The
"crash occurred Saturday afternoon when
Birney was starting out on a machine he
had had in his possession only about 20
| minutes. His attention was attracted to
; something at the side of the road and as
, he looked, the motoreycle ran into a tree.
; His right leg was broken and his skull
fractured besides his neck being broken.
—Walter Darlington, connected with the
Department of Welfare, has been dropped
by Mrs. E. 8S. H. McCauley, secretary, Mr. °
Darlington was former State editor of the
old Philadelphia North American and is
considered one of the best political
writers in the State. He has been with
the department since shortly after that
paper ceased publishing almost two years
ago. The position paid $5,000 a year
Mrs McCauley said to-day she did
not plan to fill the vacancy. Mr. Darling-
ton looked after welfare legislation in the
General Assembly and since adjournment
the new Secretary found little for him to
do, she said, so gave him thirty day's
notice of dismissal.
—Biddle Woed, 57, member of a prom-
inent Conshohocken family, lost in the
dense fastnesses of the mountains of Un-
fon county on Monday of last week, was
found late on Friday three miles west of
Buffalo Mills and about five miles from
the point where he became separated from
bis attendant. Mr. Wood, an invalid, was
found by Charles Sterling and Samuel
Barnitz, of Mifflinburg, who were fishing
along Buffalo creek. He appeared dazed
when they came upon him, the fishermen
said, and was unable to tell of his exper-
iences. Physicians were summoned to
care for him as he was very weak from
hunger and exposure. A reward of $500
was offered by the Wood family and many
farmers, woodsmen and forest rangers
were engaged in the search. The hunt
was directed by district fire warden Miles
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