Demonic
INK SLINGS.
——Albert Ladner declares he
didn’t ask for appointment as Regis-
tration Commissioner. He didn’t
have to. Mr. Vare attended to that.
—From the office window we ob-
serve that Spring creek is red with
mud from many corn fields. So red, in
fact, that the season of 1927 for the
fly-caster on that stream is practical-
ly over.
—Council has adopted a zoning or-
dinance for Bellefonte and none too
soon, though the desirability of such
action might never have appealed to
some of its members had their proper-
ties not been threatened with depre-
ciation by proposed cheap adjacent
construction.
—Since Henry Ford has discovered
that the Jews are not as bad as his
Dearborn Independent tried to make
the world believe them to be, and has
made retraction of and apology for
his accusations, we would suggest
that he name his new fliv. model “The
Israelite.”
—Only four parties will have a
place on the ballot to be voted at the
primaries in September. They are
the Democratic, Republican, Labor
and Prohibition. The last day on
which you can register for the elec-
tion is September 17 and you must
pay your tax by October 8 in order to
qualify.
—All of his many friends in Centre
county will be interested to know that
the Hon. John Francies has been se-
lected by the warring factions of Pitts-
burgh as the one candidate upon
whom they can unite for the office of
city treasurer. It is a very much
more desirable position than his pres-
ent one as clerk of the courts of Alle-
gheny county.
—Lindbergh and Byrd are sitting
a top of the world these days. There
seems to be no honor too exalted, no
gift too lavish, to confer upon these
valiant pioneers in aviation. Over in
New York twelve year old Joseph
Bode nursed a mother stricken with a
fatal malady and cared for the hum-
ble home and a three year old brother
for months without a whimper. When
Gotham found that out the streets
were not knee deep with confetti and
ticker tape, but the courageous little
boy had done quite as fine a thing as
either of the nation’s present idols.
—The Coolidge bally-hoo announc-
ed, on Tuesday, that the “Black Hills
natives praise famous neighbors for
simple hospitality and friendliness.”
We commend the President and Mrs.
Coolidge for attempting to be nothing
more than they are—just folks—and
condemn their press agents for trying
to make political capital out of some-
thing that the Coolidges would make
themselves ridiculous for if they
were to attempt to be anything else
but. “High hatting” isn’t indulged in
by those who have earned their hon-
ors or wealth. That nauseous gesture
is the sole asset of the accidents in
public life and society.
—Hastings H. Hart, who is consult-
ant in penology fer the Russell Sage
Foundation, has taken a crack at
those who were responsible for as
well as those who are continuing the
work of building the new Western
penitentiary in this county. Mr.
Hart says there has been woeful
waste, needless delay and bad plan-
ning at the big institution and that it
probably won’t be completed for forty
years and then the total cost will be
twenty million dollars. We accord
every man the right to his own opin-
ion and reserve the same to ourselves.
‘Therefor we express ours to the effect
that Mr. Hart probably doesn’t know
as much about penology or more about
prison planning than the gentlemen
who had to do with the beginnings of
Rockview. Like as not he is a second
Ellie Potter. The best evidence of his
superficiality is seen in his failure
‘to even hint at the real cause of any
waste or delay there might be in this
great enterprise of the State. Had
the successive Legislatures since
1916, when the work was started, ap-
propriated the necesssary funds with
which to carry out the plans the in-
stitution would have been completed
by this time.
—Democrats of Centre county are in
nowise discouraged by what the reg-
istration shows. The records reveal
that there are many more Republi-
cans in Centre county than there are
Democrats, but the Democrats who
know don’t believe the records. In
every precinct in the county there are
dozens of voters who are actually
Democrats whom Republican assessors
‘have either wilfully or carelessly
registered as Republicans. This prac-
tice has been going on for years. We
have known of it, but have been con-
tent with the opposition’s desire to
build paper castles that are so often
blown down by November's storm of
ballots. Everywhere in the county
the Furst and Fleming force have
been busy persuading Democrats to
register as Republicans so that they
might vote at the primaries for one
or the other of these gentlemen. In
one precinct we know of fifty-two
who have complied with whatever
of persuasion or pressure was brought
to bear on them and of the fifty-two
only three will vote part of the Re-
publican ticket in November. No, the
Democrats, and the Republicans who
have no sympathy with such manipu-
lation of the franchise, know all about
‘this registration “build up” and are
‘not at all discouraged.
Demat
VOL. 72.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE. PA. JULY 22. 192
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NO. 28.
Senator Dave Reed’s Smoke Screen.
Senator Dave Reed, of Pittsburgh,
attorney in fact if not at law for
William S. Vare, has erected another
smoke screen to deceive the public in
relation to the Senatorial contest in
which Mr. Vare is concerned. Mr.Reed
announced in Washington, the other
day, that he is preparing to have the
Senate committee on Privileges and
Elections impound all the ballot boxes
used in the general election of 1926
in Pennsylvania and recount the
votes. He knows that such a pro-
ceeding would be a physical impossi-
bility within the period of time to
make the result available as evidence
in the pending contest. But he im-
agines that other persons less famil-
iar with the tricks of politicians may
be deceived by such a gesture. Polit-
ical crooks are proverbially optimis-
tic.
There has been no change, there
has not been even a suspicion, of cor-
ruption in the vote or the returns of
the elections in the several interior
counties of the State where safe and
substantial Republican majorities
were reversed in the vote for Senator
in Congress last year. The change
which gave William B. Wilson a ma-
jority of more than 50,000 in the
State, outside of Philadelphia, was
the natural and proper revolt of
thousands of conscientious Republicans
against the methods by which Mr.
Vare had acquired the nomination of
his party, and the aversion of other
thousands to the thought of putting a
man of Vare’s reputation and equip-
ment in high office as the representa-
tive of the moral and mental stand-
ards of Pennsylvania.
Senator Dave Reed believes, or at
least hopes, that because of the effect,
in a partisan sense, of rejecting Vare
and admitting Wilson to a seat in the
Senate at the opening of the Seven-
tieth Congress enough members of
the Senate Standing committee might
be enticed or dragooned into pervert-
ing the evidence, as was done in the
case of Newberry, of Michigan, a few
years ago. That shameful prostitu-
tion of power and opportunity sent
several Senators into a rather dis-
graceful oblivion, but the memory of
it fails to deter Senator Dave Reed
from striving for a repetition of it in
order to secure for his party control
of the Senate for another brief period
of time. But he will be no more suc-
cessful in his enterprises than Vare
was in fooling the people.
——— {ttt eet.
The Boston man who left his
wife stranded in a distant city and
ran away with her clothes and money
may not be the meanest individual
in the world but he is trying to quali-
fy for that title.
Has the Governor Violated the Law?
In creating a new registration com-
mission for Philadelphia Governor
Fisher has not only sadly disappoint-
ed the friends and supporters of hon-
est elections but he seems to have
violated the law under which he act-
ed. The law authorizes the Gover-
nor to appoint a registration com-
mission consisting of “five duly qual-
ified electors, not more than three of
whom shall belong to the same polit-
ical party.” In pursuance of this
mandate he named George J. Bren-
nan, Sarah McNeil and William
Walsh, Republicans, and Benjamin H.
Renshaw and Albert H. Ladner as |
Democrats. But the records show
that for several years past Mr. Lad-
ner has been registering as a Repub-
lican and voting that ticket.
As a matter of fact during the past
several years Mr. Ladner has been a
willing and servile instrument in the
hands of William S. Vares to betray
the Democrats of Philadelphia. At
the instance of Vare he was appointed
chairman of the registration com-
mission by Governor Brumbaugh and
was largely responsible for the fraud-
ulent registrations during the period
of his incumbency of the office. When
Governor Sproul reorganized the com-
mission in 1919 he dropped Ladner in
order to give the Democrats of Phila-
delphia just and legal representation.
In the Republican primary campaign
of 1926 Ladner not only spoke but
voted for Vare and was among his
most active campaigners.
In reply to criticism of the appoint-
ment of Ladner Governor Fisher de-
clares that he might have named one
commissioner from each of five par-
ties and remained within the law.
That is true. But he cannot, within
the law, appoint four men of the
same political party. If Ladner had
been registerd as a Prohibitionist, or
socialist, his appointment would be
within the law. But the records show
that he is quite as fullfledged a Re-
publican as Vare or Harry Mackey,
and it is generally understood that he
was appointed at the request of Vare.
A movement has been started to have
the appointment revoked but whether
that result will be achieved remains
to be seen.
Technicalities of the Law.
In quashing fourteen indictments
against a group of officers and em-
ployees who had robbed one of the
Harrisburg banks of nearly a million
dollars Judge William M. Hargest,
president of the Dauphin courts, ex-
pressed regret at the technicalities
of the law compelling such action.
| “The reason for technicalities have dis-
appeared,” he said, “but the tech-
nicalities themselves remain imbedded
in the law. The day of the special
pleader is past. The courts no longer
look with favor on technical objec-
tions. Lawyers and courts are the
constant subjects of criticism for the
delays of criminal justice. The courts
are bound to decide according to the
law, antiquated though it is. The
remedy is with the Legislature.”
The technicality which temporarily
at least released these bank robbers
from just punishment was in the fact
that the information made before the
committing magistrate and the indict-
ment presented by the grand jury
were not literally in accord. The in-
formation was in the form and lan-
guage of a charge of embezzlement
under the common law and the indict-
ment in the form and language of an
Act of Assembly. “A defendant,”
the judge said, has a right “to de-
mand the nature and cause of the ac-
cusation against him,” and that must
be expressed in the information. “Be-
fore the trial,” he continued, “he
should know what action he is to meet
in order that he may prepare for it.”
His source of knowledge is the trans-
cript.
Probably not more than two out of
ten committing magistrates are
“learned in the law” or sufficiently
versed in the language of the law to
discriminate between a common law
and statutory offence. In the case in
point the Alderman before whom the
information was made knew that a
crime had been perpetrated in the na-
ture of an embezzlement and clearly
expressed that fact in his transcrint.
But the District Attorney who framed
the indictment understood the dif-
ference and realized the distinction
and made the presentment conform
to the requirements of the law he “ims
[tended to proceed under. Probably
the court had no alternative in the
found to punish palpable guilt.
——Grundy seems to have failed in
| his effort to put a horse doctor in
‘control of a State institution for
feeble minded children.
Decision Will Not Stop Inquiry.
i The decision of the federal court
; in Philadelphia that it had no jurisdie-
{ tion in the case brought before it to
i impound the ballot boxes of Delaware
‘county for use in a contest for a seat
!in the United States Senate delays
ut it does not defeat a compiete ex-
| posure of the frauds perpetrated, in
i the interest of Mr. Vare, at the elec-
!tion last fall. On the announcement
{ of the decision Senator King, of Utah,
a member of the Slush Fund commit-
i tee, promptly directed counsel for the
| committee to enter an appeal and
| steps were immediately taken to pre-
{ vent the destruction of the ballots be-
fore they become available as evi-
‘dence in the contest. This was the
i real purpose of the action.
| In view of these facts the adverse
“decision of the court is of no impor-
tance so far as interference with the
‘investigation is concerned. The mem-
{bers of the committee will probably
: postpone their work until the sultry
season has passed and the proposed :
injunction against destroying the
ballots will guarantee presence of the
evidence when wanted. Viewed from
another angle, however the decision of
. the court is regrettable. It indicates
that all the machinery of government
in Pennsylvania, at least, is employed
to protect rather than punish ballot
crimes. Every expression of this la-
'mentable fact gives encouragement
to those who commit or are benefited
by fraudulent votes.
The gist of Judge Thompson’s de-
cision is that the question of the
‘rights of the Slush Fund committee
is for the Senate to decide and not
| for the courts to determine. But the
: Senate had already expressed its opin-
!ion on the question. When the Slush
Fund committee, an official and fully
! credited organ of the Senate, asked
; the court to direct the surrender of
the ballot boxes, it inferentially de-
'clared its right to impound and take
| possession of the boxes. Mr. Vare’s at-
| torneys claim that with the adjourn-
ment of the Sixty-ninth Congress the
committee created during that Con-
gress, died. While there has been no
| direct ruling on that point the cus-
{tom of the Senate in the past refutes
i the claim,
——1If Mussolini is not “spoiling
for a fight” he must be heading for a
| “bug house.”
Fair Field for Tax Slashing.
Our esteemed contemporary, Labor,
published in Washington and dedi-
cated to the interests of wage earn-
ers, says “if Congress wants to
slash taxes there is a fair field for
such action. Customs receipts for
the fiscal year just ended were $605,-
500,000, as compared to $2,225,000,-
000 from income and corporation
taxes. At the most conservative es-
timate the tariff, as it stands now,
adds $5 to the cost of living for every
dollar that it puts into the public
treasury. If Congress can pare the
tariff enough to reduce revenue re-
ceipts from that source, say $200,000,-
000, it will save a billion dollars to
the country. If the reductions are
made witha view to relieving agri-
culture of the tribute which the farm
now pays to the factory, better yet.”
We see no just cause of complaint
against the income tax in its present
form. Single men or wemen who
earn less than $1500 are exempt from
payment and married persons with in-
comes of less than $3500 are equally
favored. Those in either class whose
incomes are above those figures can
easily pay the small amounts assess-
ed against them if their incomes are
less than $10,000. Where the income
reaches the level that involves a high
rate of per centage and sur tax the
victim will have plenty left after pay-
ment to recompense him for his la-
bor and “keep the wolf from the
door.” During the World war in-
come taxes in England ran as high
as eighty per cent, and there was lit-
tle complaint. Government must be
maintained and it costs money to keep
the machinery in order.
But there is no such measure of
equality in the levy of tariff taxes.
The laborer who earns $3 a day is
required to pay the same tax on a
given article as the milionaire who
gathers
i amount.
| tariff tax are not as justly distribut-
!ed. Out of every hundred dollars col-
| lected through the custom houses
{ probably ten dollars goes into the
| treasury and ninety dollars goes as
unearned bounties to the corporation
yor monopoly that produces and mar-
kets ‘similar and frequently inferior
! merchandise.
| that Congress has a fair field for tax
! slashing. The present tariff is a crime
| 2gainst the people.
—It was a short lived strike, that
of the miners of the American Lime
i and Stone Co., but it was long enough
{to prove our cft repeated belief that
it is much easier to push wages up
than to pull them down.
——Anybody who has the price may
get a view of the magnificence of
Judy Gray’s mansion before it is de-
molished. A good many people would
prefer a view of the processes of “how
"he got it.”
——It may be unimportant but the
Geneva naval conference has proved
that the Washington conference was
not the perfect piece of diplomacy it
was “cracked up” to be.
——The Ku Kux Klan cantributed
, $10,000 to the Republican campaign
fund in Indiana, last year, which ac-
counts for Senator Watson’s tender
feeling for the Klan.
——Henry Ford may have saved a
good deal of money and vastly in-
creased his business by apologizing to
he Sows. But it was the right thing
o do.
——The man who objects to Gov-
ernor Smith and Mr. McAdoo on the
ground that they are politicians must
have a curious idea of Mr. Coolidge.
———The death of John Drew re-
moves from the stage an attractive
figure. He represented the highest
ideals of the amusement world.
——— ee m—
——The Irish gunmen also seek
i “shining marks.” The assassination
of Kevin O'Higgins, on Sunday, in-
flicted a great loss on Ireland.
——The most difficult task the
State administration has encountered
thus far is finding a congenial job for
Eric Fisher Wood.
——The number of aerial heroes is
multiplying but there is no abate-
ment in the enthusiasm with which
they are applauded.
ms m—— meena ————
——The Soviet government of Rus-
sia is preparing for war. It may also
be said that pernicious conspiracy is
“riding for a fall.”
mr —— A r——————
——Maybe if Mr. Coolidge would
appear in a clown’s costume he might
win the support of a few very credu-
lous people.
in a hundred times that!
Besides the proceeds of the
|
Value of Education in Farming.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
That “book learning” pays, even in
farming, has been strikingly demon-
strated by surveys just completed by
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture. Comparing the incomes of
tillers of the woil in various States,
the department’s investigators have
proved beyond the shadow of a doubt
that education brings a handsome
pecuniary return. Thus there has
been added another vocation to the
already long list of those in which
profits will be larger if one has gone
to school.
Numerous examples may be cited
of successful men who did not go to
college. Some of our multi-million-
aires had only the most rudimentary
schooling. But it cannot be too
strongly emphasized that their cases
are extremely unusual. So far as the
generality of mankind is concerned
lack of education is a severe handicap.
Uneducated men who have succeeded
in spite of their want of instruction
are the first to admit that “book
learning” is an advantage.
If there were any important occu-
pation in which it would seem that
there was no imperious demand for
high school or college instruction it
would appear to the uninitiated to be
farming. The cultivation of the soil
cne might suppose, could be learned
without recourse to books. But an
examination of farming problems
shows otherwise. f
The man who hopes to win success
in farming must be fairly well ac-
quainted with half a dozen sciences.
He must understand something about
the chemistry of the soil, so as to
know how to use fertilizers to best
advantage; he must know something
about botany, so as to get the biggest
possible yield of grains, fruits, and
vegetables; he must know something
about dietetics and veterinary science,
so as to get the best results from his
chickens and livestock. All these
things and kindred subjects of inter-
est to the farmer are now taught at
colleges.
How valuable such instruction may
be to the agriculturist is indicated by
the government figures. It has been
found that every day at school in-
creases a farmer’s earnings. The
soil tiller who has gone through high
school earns more than the one who
has not advanced above the grade
school. The college graduate has a
larger. income from his farm than his
neighbor who went no farther than
For this reason our | the high school. The Department of
circumstances but to the laymen it esteemed Washington contemporary | Agriculture has found that each day
looks as if a way might have been | is everlastingly right in its statement | of Schooling is worth $9.25 to the
farmer.
If it were out of the question for
any large proportion of the farm
boys and girls to obtain an education,
it would be cause for regret that they
‘should be so handicapped. But as it
happens there is opportunity for all
to receive the instruction which has
heen shown to be so valuable. Every
youth of intelligence and grit can go
through college if he will. Where
there’s a will there’s a way.
Further Liberty Restriction.
From the Pittsburgh Times.
The leisurely driver has no secure
place on modern highways. He may
not want to drive fast, he may pre-
fer to go a moderate pace and look
over the country. It he does so,
pretty soon a line forms behind him
and he is made aware of his slow
speed by persistent honking behind
him, unless the road be wide enough
and the traffic in the opposite direc-
tion be slight enough to permit those
in a hurry to run around. In practice
it seems to be the demand that every-
body shall drive as fast as anybody
wishes to go. The situation is such
that the slow driver obstructs traffic
on crowded thoroughfares. There-
fore personal predilection must yield
to those who want to go as fast as
the law allows, perrhaps even faster if
there be no traffic officer in sight, and
in this traffic officers are siding with
the cause of the fast driver.
Where the traffic is light the situa-
tion is not so acute but since even
the slow driver prefers the best roads
and the best roads attract the most
drivers there are not many places
where leisurely driving may be in-
dulged without causing somebody in
a hurry to berate the driver ahead
for his failure to speed up or to give
road room for passing. It is sa condi-
tion which has come with the motor
car. Formerly one’s speed on the
highway could be regulated by one’s
own desire but that privilege is pass-
ing rapidly and we are at the thresh-
old of punishing drivers for going
too slowly as well as too fast. An-
other restriction of personal liberty
is in the making.
ie at gig wise
——The third term enterprise is
not prospering as well as might be
expected. Republicans of one corn-
belt State have formally asked Gov-
ernor Lowden to enter the fight and
a convention of farmers has demand-
ed the repassage of the McNary bill.
The naval parley at Geneva is
not making much progress in the di-
rection of decreasing navies. Great
Britain appears to want to increase
rather than decrease naval strength.
It is said that the ultra dry
politicians are not satisfied with Pres-
ident Coolidge’s attitude on the ques-
tion. Wonder how they found out how
Cautious Cal. feels on the subject.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYTSONE.
—With his left hand almost severed
from his arm as a result of being caught
in a circular saw while working on his
farm near Lewistown Saturday morning.
John Lindsay, 21, is a patient in Lewis-
town hospital.
"—Joseph Naughton, 25, a Pennsylvania
Railroad brakeman, died in the hospital at
Berwick, on Monday, from a broken back
and severed foot suffered when he fell
under his train at the Pond Hill water
tank while looking for a hot box on one
of the cars.
—The burned body of George Vohl, of
Williamsport, aged 40, known to the police
as “Jiddy”’ Vohl, was found in the ruins of
a burned shack on Sunday, by a fireman
who loaned him a knife on Saturday to
repair a pair of shoes. The origin of the
fire is not known.
—Albert E. Daugherty, aged 36, of Clear
Run, until two months ago head machin-
ist of the Milliron Construction company
on the State road west of Renovo, died at
DuBois of internal injuries sustained a
week ago when the motorcycle he was rid-
ing collided with a sedan.
—Leopola Curti, of Mount Union, is in
the Huntingdon county jail charged with
the killing of his wife and the wounding
of George Prevo, a former boarder in
their home. According to the police au-
thorities, Curti, who is 46, signed a con-
fession that jealousy caused the shooting
Five children survive the slain woman.
—Suffering injuries received when he
fell from a scaffolding on which he was
working in front of the National theatre
operations at Lewistown, last Friday
morning, Frank Campbell, negro, 51, is a
patient in the Dr. ¥. W. Black private
hospital. Campbell lost his balance and
toppled 25 feet from the scaffold to the
brick pavement, landing on his head.
Lewis has notified
various banks in which state deposits
have been made that he will withdraw
about $7,000,000 August 1 for the payment
of semi-annual appropriations to fourth-
class school districts and the semi-annual
payments to counties of their share of
gasoline tax collections. The amounts are
approximately $5,250,000 and $1,750,000
respectively.
—Albert Solt, 35, of Williamsport, is be-
lieved to have drowned in the Susque-
hanna river at Homets Ferry, near To-
wanda. He disappeared during the severe
storm of Friday night and later frends
found his boat overturned and his straw
hat floating near shore. Crews have been
dragging the river, but no further truce
of him has been found. Solt was the
father of five children.
—Necessary expansion in the facilities
at the Clearfield hospital will result in the
expenditure of about $80,000 for new
buildings and additions to present build-
ings at that institution during 1927. This
expenditure will include the new power
plant and laundry which is complete and
in use, the construction of the Cora Arnold
Swoope maternity unit, and an addition
or annex to the nurses’ home.
—Threatened with death at the hands of
Thad Hillard, aged 31, following a quar-
rel at Allison, near Brownsville, about
noon on Saturday, George Taylor, 29, fired
the contents of a shotgun into the face of
Hillard, killing him... Taylor escaped after
throwing the shotgun on the back perch
of the house where both he and Hillard
boarded. A posse of county officers was
rushed to Allison in search of the slayer.
—State Treasurer
—Lewistown police are searching for a
thief from whose shoes emanates the odor
of sauer kraut. The Brelinger & Leach
grocery was broken into and robbed for
the second time this year at the week-end.
One hundred pennies and a carton of
cigarettes were all that are missing, but
the thief in entering the building step-
ped into a barrel of sauer kraut made last
year and spoiled. He tracked the kraut
all over the floor.
—Patrick McGarrah, a moulder at the
Standard steel works, returned home on
Sunday from a visit to the “Owl's Club,”
near the Licking Creek game refuge, and
reported finding the carcass of a dead
beaver. There is a large colony of
beavers there and five weeks ago another
full-grown one was found dead. The
refuge keeper says they die from old age.
MecGarrah also reports finding many deer
bones in the creek, all of which have been
cleaned of flesh, indicating dogs or some
other animals are playing havoc with the
deer.
—Knock-out drops in a glass of wine
are alleged to have placed John Kapinski,
of Lancaster, and $130 at the mercy of
his supposed good friends and John
Pritchard. He is in the Mifflin county
jail awaiting a hearing. Kapinski was a
boarder in the home of John Pritchard.
He was offered a drink of wine and when
he fell off into a sleep he had $130 in his
possession and upon coming to his
senses he had only $70, he claims. Police
traced Pritchard’s movements and found
that he had purchased gas for his car in
Yeagertown with a $50 bill which Kapin-
ski claims was his property.
—~Charges and counter charges of a sen-
sational nature bringing into. the spotlight
once more the Bradford county ‘divorce
mill” which was exposed by the late Judge
William Maxwell shortly before his death,
were aired in court at Towanda, on Tues-
day, when Mrs. Elizabeth Willetts brought
action seeking to have set aside her di-
vorce from Major Frank Willetts, New
York millionaire contractor. Mrs. Wil-
letts alleges the proceedings were “faked”
throughout and that she never resided in
Pennsylvania. Mrs. Willetts declares she
married Willetts when he was a brick-
layer in 1914 and loaned him $27,000 with
which he got his start. His fortune quick-
ly turned to millions, the testimony show-
ing that in one year alone he made about
279,000.
—A rooster that crows sixty-four times
an hour at dawn of day in an otherwise
quiet suburban community is a public
nuisance, according to Bert Herbert of
Forty Fort, Luzerne county, who appeal-
ed to police of that borough for relief
from the alarm clock tactics of a rooster
belonging to Adam 4lahn, a neighbor.
Herbert produced a tally sheet showing
the rooster had crowed sixty-four times
an hour each morning for seven days,
starting exactly at 3.42 o'clock. Glahn
was ordered to appear before Burgess
Roselle. He explained that the rooster
serves the purpose of an alarm clock and
is much more reliable. Herbert was ad-
vised to confer with Mr. Glahn, and be-
tween them devise a method for silencing
the rooster.