Bemorrico atom
—1It would be funny if Gifford Pin-
‘chot should run for Senator in Con-
‘gress and Cornelia for Representative
-at the same time.
—The first pretzels were made in
‘Pennsylvania and the industry seems
not to have languished much since
the law deprived it of its greatest li-
quid asset.
—It matters little to us how March
comes in or how it goes out. We
‘stopped fussing about the weather
long ago because we discovered that
‘the more we crabbed about it the
worse it appeared to be.
—Every time we see a picture of
Henry Ford or John D. Rockefeller
we study it most carefully to see
whether there is any expression that
might indicate that money brings
happiness. As yet we have discov-
ered none. Therefore, we have come
to the conclusion that happiness is
something that money can’t buy. In
‘fact we came to it before we ever
saw the phiz of either Hen or John.
—The bogus “Lord” Beaverbrook
has been given a title to a cell in Sing
‘Sing for fifteen years because so
many American women gave him ev-
erything they had for a half interest
in his bogus title. Inasmuch as “his
lordship” isn’t anything to look upon
with admiration we think the ladies
with so much money and so little
brains who fell for him are accessor-
ies before the fact and should be
placed in confinement too.
—Some years ago the pastor of a
local church made his first call on a
family that had lately been rescued
through the medium of the peniten-
tial bench. On entering the home he
was met by the oldest boy, a husky
lad. The minister greeted him by
saying: “Well, my young man you're
a fine looking fellow! I hope you're
working for the Lord.” “Nope,” re-
‘plied the hopeful of the family, “I'm
drivin’ bus for the Brockerhoff house.”
—Just what strained the relations
between our two former county treas-
urers is piquing our curiosity. We
didn’t know that Heverly and Mayes
were not political bed-fellows until
we heard the story that Jim only an-
nounced for the Legislature because
he couldn’t think of Frank’s getting
the nomination. That was nice in
Jim, wasn’t it. If that’s all he came
out for the logical thing for him to
do, now that Frank has taken him-
self out of the contest, is to do like-
wise. We don’t think, however, that
it was Heverly who scared Mayes off.
—The Miami, Florida, Daily News
«calls to mind a matter many of us
are prone to overlook. It suggests
‘that a special acknowledgment of
-some sort be made to Senator Walsh,
.of Montana, for the service he has
rendered his country in the reclama-
tion of the Teapot Dome and Elk
hills oil fields. Hundreds of millions of
dollars in property and twelve mil-
lions in cash were recaptured almost
solely through the persistent and in-
‘telligently directed efforts of the
Montana Senator. Had he been
‘serving a private client in that case
what would a fair fee have been?
‘Certainly it would have been not less
than a hundred times his salary as a
“United States Senator. Walsh is a
poor man, as wealth is counted today
.—giving his giant ability to his coun-
try for pure love of it. He would
spurn the suggestion of a bonus for
“this outstanding service. But were
cne sugegsted thousands of pygmies
on all sides would appear to oppose
.it for no other reason than that Sen-
ator Walsh is a Catholic.
—This paper will support the nomi-
nee of the Democratic party for Pres-
jdent. It will take no part in the
primary contest for that office, but in
order that there may be no misun-
derstanding as to where the writer is
personally, we want to tell you that
.he will vote for Smith delegates to
the national convention. As we have
often said in this column we have yet
to be brought to believe that a country
founded ' on religious tolerance will
proscribe a good man because of his
creed. We shall vote for Smith dele-
gates because Smith is wet and we
hope if he is nominated his opponent
will be dry because we want to see
-that question settled in a national
‘referendum. Neither one of them
are political issues and both are a
menace to the stability of our gov-
“ernment. We’re keen for a show-
down. It’s time our country discov-
ers what manner of men and women
comprise its citizenry. The issue we
weuld have raised would, to a de-
gree, answer that question. For all
the numbskulls who believe that if
Smith were elected President the
« Pope would move into the White
House and all ‘the silly folks who
think that a wet President could ir-
rigate a dry land would vote on the
one side. On the other side would be
the ballots of all Americans loyal
enough to support section III of ar-
ticle VII of our constitution which
says: “no religicus test shall ever be
required as qualification to any of-
fice or public trust under the United
States,” as well as those who believe,
with us, that prohibition is only a
banner under which fanatics and sen-
timentalists are herded by paid ag-
itators in an attempt to bring about
by law what the home, the church and
. society alone can accomplish. It’s
temperance, not prohibition that the
. country needs. And men can be in-
“temperate in many things besides the
use of beverages over one-half of one
per cent.
STATE RIGHTS AND
FEDERAL UNION.
rm —— ————
VOL. 73. BE
Denouncing a Pernicious Practice.
The practice of “packing” commit-
tees of Congress and commissions of
government, which has grown to dan-
gerous proportions in Washington in
recent years, got a rather rude jolt
the other day when Senator Reed, of
Missouri, denounced the decision of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
in the Lake cargo coal case. The dis-
cussion which followed recalled the
fact that a few years ago Senator
Dave Reed attempted to force the ap-
pointment of Cyrus Woods, of West-
moreland county, an attorney for and
shareholder in certain bituminous coal
companies of western Pennsylvania,
into membership of the Interstate
Commerce Commission when the
Lake cargo case was pending in that
body.
It is of reccrd that when the tariff
commission expressed an inclination
to reduce the tariff on sugar some
years ago President Coolidge pre-
vailed on one of the commissioners
to resign and put in his place a ram-
pant tariff monger who voted to in-
crease, rather than decrease the fax
rate. Later when the recounting of
the vote in the Wilson-Vare contest
was lodged in the Committee on Priv-
ileges and Elections Senator Goff; of
West Virginia, who, though a Repub-
lican, was known to favor Wilson, was
induced by some influence to resign
from the committee and Senator Mos-
es, of New Hampshire, a bigoted par-
tisan, was substituted in his place.
poses, were perversions of justice.
In his statement of the case Sen-
ator Reed, of Missouri, alleged that
just prior to the decision of the com-
mission in the Lake cargo coal case
Senator Dave Reed, of Pennsylvania,
approached two members of the body
whose terms of office were about to
end, and who had previously voted
against the decision, and notified
them that unless they reversed them-
selves they would not be re-appoint-
ed. Thus threatened they did “about
face” and made possible a decision
which it is charged, and not denied,
gives the bituminous coal operators
ir the Pittsburgh district an immense
advantage over the producers in West
Virginia, “Kentucky and Tennessee.
What the result will be remains to be
seen.
—Probably the experience of Harry
Sinclair and Tom Cunningham en-
couraged Colonel Stewart of the Inm-
diana Standard Oil company to show
contempt for the Senate.
Tracing a Corruption Fund.
The trail of the Teapot Dome oil
lease scandal has finally led up to the
Republican National committee. Jo-
seph P. McMahon testified before the
scandal that his firm, Potter & Co.,
New York brokers, “on November
Co., of New York, $75,000 in Liberty
bonds of the first 8% per cent issue
and forwarded a check for $74,718.-
87 to T. Coleman DuPont, chairman
of the board of the Empire Trust,
which held a note of the National
committee. Sinclair had previously
testified that he contributed $75,000
in Liberty bonds to the committee and
the serial numbers showed that they
had once been owned by the Conti-
nental Trading company, of Canada.
The Continental Trading company,
of Canada, was the mushroom con-
cern organized over night to purchase
several million barrels of oil at $1.50
a barrel. It was composed of Sin-
clair and Standard Oil corporations,
and without exchanging a dollar or
movement of the oil it was immediate-
ly resold to other companies controlled
by Sinclair, O’Neil, Stewart and the
few others, at $1.75 a barrel. Out of
the profit of several million dollars
$525,000 were paid to Secretary of
the Interiof Fall for making the lease
of the Teapot Dome oil reserve, and
the evidence of Mr. McMahon reveals
the fact that $75,000 of it was do-
nated to the Republican slush fund.
A diligent effort has been made to
trace the balance of the profits of
this sinister transaction but with only
partial success. One witness testified
that $800,000 had gone to O’Neil, who
at a time he thought he was going to
die, transferred it to the company of
which he was the head, and had been
a victim of the swindle. His spasm
of penitence ended when his health
was restored and for four years he
has been living in Eurcpe in order
tc dodge a subpoena to testify on the
subject. Stewart is in contempt of
the Senate because he refused to tell
what he knows about it and severai
others have sworn they know nothing.
But justice, though it may “travel
with a leaden heel,” will overtake
them in the end.
itis
—It costs ten years in the peni-
tentiary to pretend to be a lord in
New York, In some other cities it
is a profitable and pleasant employ-
ment.
These substitutions, for selfish pur-
Senate committee investigating the
30th, 1923, sold to the Empire Trust
LLEFONTE, PA
The determination
Hoover to contest with a “favorite
son” for the Ohio delegation in the
Republican National convention is not
only a surprise to many of his friends
but a source of alarm to his enemies.
It may be said in this instance that
the favorite son is not a strong fa-
vorite except in ultra prohibition cir-
cles, for Senator Willis is neither in-
tellectually strong nor politically pop-
ular, and the Harding administration
rather overfed the public on Ohio
Presidents. But the entrance of
Hoover into open competition with
Willis for the delegates is construed
as a trespass by the element which
favors Willis and is more than likely
to create a bitter fight.
The reason given by the friends of
Hoover for poaching on the Willis
preserve is that it was an actual ne-
cessity. The highest estimate that
could be obtained of his initial
strength in the convention is 350 del-
egates, whilst 545 are necessary to
nominate. With the strength of all
opposing candidates actively against
him in the early balloting it would ‘be
difficult to annex the nearly 200 votes
needed. It was reasoned, therefore,
that his initial strength must be in-
creased and the Ohio field was ap-
praised as the most promising bat-
tle ground. If he is able to carry a
majority, or even a considerable num-
ber, of the Ohio delegates it will have
‘an important influence on the con-
of ‘Herbert
In all these calculations it is as-
{ sumed that Mr. Hoover will have the
i favor of the Coolidge administration,
{and that is probably true so far as
| the President is concerned. But the
real dominant figure in the Coolidge
administration has not yet spoken.
| Andy Mellon is, and has been, as “si-
‘lent as a clam” and it is not certain
that he is without preference. Mr.
: Charles E. Hughes has said that he
: is too old to run for President but he
"is not too old to be “the whole cheese”
{in the Pan-American Congress, just
| closed, and to absorb all the glory
| of diplomacy, statesmanship and
achievement that has come out of that
generously advertised enterprise. .
|
| —Roland Morris, of Philadelphia,
| has been suggested as a suitable man
| to go to the Democratic convention as
i a delegate-at-large, and the party
{ might go farther and fare worse.
| vention.
Norris Asks Pertinent Questions.
During the discussion of the reso-
Iution proividing for a Congressional
investigation of the electric power
trust, the other day, Senator Norris.
of Nebraska, asked, “why is this lob-
by down here spending thousands of
dollars to prevent this investigation ?”’
That is easy. The lobby is there be-
cause those concerned in the creation
of the trust are opposed to a Con-
t gressional investigation and the ad-
| ministration is in sympathy with their
purpose. Only a few years ago, eas-
!ily within the memory of most of the
| Senators, Woodrow Wilson drove all
lobbies out of the capitol by simply
denouncing them as inimical to order-
ly public business. With the retire-
ment of Wilson the lobbies returned.
Samuel Insull, of Chicago, bought
a seat in the Senate for a servile
agent in order to strengthen the op-
tion.
declares such an inquiry “will ruin
the business.” He is perfectly will-
ing to have an investigation made by
the Federal Trade Commission. That
commission has been organized to
manufacture alibis for such enter-
prises as the electric power trust, and
in order to make’ its work easy the
Attorney General has put restraints
on its activities that make it impotent
as a corrective agent. Yet there are
Senators who plead for the amend-
ment of the resolution so as to lodge
the inquiry in the commission.
the natural resources belonging to the
people be exploited by a few million-
aires using the people’s money?”
That is also a problem easy of solu-
tion. It is because those millionaires
contribute vast sums out of their un-
earned profits to campaign commit-
tees with which to corrupt the ballot
and elect unfit men to high offices in
the government. They have deliber-
ately set out to absorb the wealth of
the country and reduce the people to
a state of peonage. It is the supreme
menace of the day and generation and
unless the people realize and resist
the danger it will prevail.
ab
—The bill providing for a pilgrim-
ege to Paris of the “War Mothers”
got through the House of Representa-
tives but what the Senate will do to
it is plenty.
me ———— el esas.
—The empty ballot boxes of the
“strip” in Pittsburgh caused no sur-
prise to the investigators in Wash-
ington. ;
position to a Congressional investiga- |
As a member of the group he
Senator Norris asks, “why should -
: An Unholy Alliance.
- Governor Jackson, of Indiana, has
been acquitted of the charge of at-
tempt to bribe, not because he is in-
nocent of the charge but for the rea-
son that a benevolent statute of lini-
itations interposed in his behalf. More
than four years ago he offered one
of his predecessors in office $10,000
for the appointment of a certtain
lawyer of Indianapolis to the office of
district attorney, the money having
been provided by the Ku Klux Klan.
The evidence was positive but came
too late. In Indiana, as in this State,
prosecution for such offenses must be
begun within two years after the per-
petration of the offense. More than
four years had elapsed before the
complaint was officially made
But the trial was wert
was a long drawn out affa
the taxpayers of the
siderable sum of money. ait
brought into public notice the shame-
ful condition that has come out of an
alliance of the Republican org
tion of Indiana and the Klan. Since
this combination has come into exist-
ence, and probably because of i
Governor of the State has sérvec
in the penitentiary for malfeasances in
office, one mayor of Indianapolis is
now serving time and the head of the
Klan is in prison under a life sentence.
The political morals of the State have
become completely bankrupt and one
of the conspicuous members of the
gang has had the temerity to an-
nounce that he is a candidate for
President. :
In instructing the jury to bring in
a verdict of acquittal the learned
judge took occasion to express his
opinion of political conditions in the
State. “How .any Governor of Indi-
ana could have believed for one mo-
ment that the Ku Klux Klan could
have controlled verdicts in the
courts,” he said, “I cannot possibly .
see. I am perfectly aware of the
slime and disgrace of that organiza-
tion and participation in politics of
the Ku Klux Klan. It has resulted in
dishonor to the State of Indiana.”
That is the literal truth, and the soon-
er it is impressed upon
Abe people the better...
—_————
—The grand jury for the February
term of court, which convened on
Monday morning, did not lose any
time in disposing of the work pre-
sented to them by the district attor-
ney. James L. Kerstetter was ap-
pointed foreman and of the nineteen
bills presented to them seventeen
were found true bills and two ignored.
The jury completed its work on Tues-
day afternoon after making the us-
ual inspection of the public buildings,
which included recommendations for
various repairs and suggestions as to
more sanitary conditions.
—The coal situation in a nutshell is
this: The miner wants so much for
mining it, the railroads want so much
for hauling it and the retailers want
so much for handling it that the con-
sumer hasn’t enough to buy it. It
isn’t the operator who is responsible
for the high price of coal. Today in
the soft coal fields of Pennsylvania
coal at the mines is little more ex-
pensive than it was twenty years zgo.
But to get it from the mines into
your cellar? That's Where the cost
piles up. : i
tremens.
—The groundhog is now getting
credit for the variable weather of the
past week, but whether it had: any-
thing to do with it or not, it has been
a real taste of winter. Snow and
rain Friday night and Saturday, with
a temperature above fifty degrees,
then a drop to four degrees
above zero on Sunday morning. More
snow Sunday night, high winds on
Monday and almost zero weather on
Tuesday morning was about as much
real winter as any weather of the
year.
—Congress is about to “renew as-
surances of distinguished considera-
tion” for President Coolidge by snub-
bing him on the navy building pro-
gramme.
—Some complaint has been made
because Pittsburgh is to get three of
the seven delegates-at-large to the
Republican convention.
—The Pan-American Congress op-
ened gorgeously and ended in mutual
admiration but acocmplished little.
—Joe Grundy may be snubbed with
impunity by the Mellon machine but
he will ever be true to the tariff.
—Jim Reed isn’t waiting for the
nomination to catch him. He is try-
ing to catch the nomination.
! —The Bellefonte High school bas-
ketball team defeated the Philipsburg
Hi, on the local floor, last Friday
evening, by the score of 34 to 23. It
was a fast, clean game,
FEBRUARY 24. 1928.
the minds of
A dE Ra ps
NO. 8.
HIGH SCHOOL GLEE CLUB
SCORES ARTISTIC SUCCESS.
When one stops to think of the
work it takes to train two hundred
children of varying ages and aptitude,
{ to costume and marshal them for such
[a performance as was given by the
| glee club of the Bellefonte High
i school, on Monday and Tuesday even-
ings, even more superlative praise
! than is generally being given the pro-
duction of “M’lle” Modiste” appears
merited. It was splendidly staged,
went off with almost professional
smoothness, and held two vast au-
diences charmed with the subtle com-
gn
edy of the play itself and the artistic
presentation of the interpolated num:
bers. 3
Because it was their play, their tri-
umph we refrain from further com-
ment on it and leave that to the dra-
matic critic of “The Bellefontian.” It
is the High’s own publication and this
week carries the following story of
the play: Sw
After playing to capacity houses
at matinee and two evening perform-
ances “M’lle. Modiste” added her
name to the long list of Glee Club
successes.
In perfecticn of technique and in
display of color, “M’le. Modiste” is
unrivaled. Never, in the history of
the High school plays, has such a
gorgeous array of rainbow hues
greeted the eyes of an audience.
As the curtain fell, there were lit-
tle murmuring sighs, both of admira-
tion for the performance and of re-
gret that it had ended. :
As the crowd passed along the
aisles, “Fifi! Wasn't she wonderful!
The character could not have been
portrayed with more ease,” was the
remark on every lip. And so it was.
. Demure yet vivacious, Louise Tanner
as “Fifi”, won the hearts of her au-
ionaire, was enabled to attain her
shed ambition—that of becom-
rima donna, we secretly felt, real-
Fred one of her own desires. 3
“As Hiram Bent, the millionaire,
r Meek had the suave manners,
indly air, and the poise of the
Peter deserves commendation. Hen-
rietta Hunter, as Mrs. Hiram Bent,
called forth numerous laughs as she
acted the part of the provincial wom-
an bewildered by the splendor of the
gay city.
William Brachbill, as the gouty
count, played his part in such a real-
istic manner that it was hard to be-
lieve that the groans were not genu-
ine.
Paul Crust, as Captain Etienne, had
a true military bearing. The title of
captain, we feel, was a just reward
for loyalty to country; none the less
just the well-deserved reward for loy-
ally in love—the hand and heart of
ifi.
Donald Conrad made a most roman-
tic looking French artist; Virginia
Kern, as a dancer was bewitching;
Kathryn Bullock as Madame Cecile
had all the haughtiness of the usual
French modiste; Louise Meyer, as
Captain Etienne's sister had all the
poise and charm of a real French
lady; Lenore Morgan, Dot Wilkinson
and Margaret Hassinger, as shop
girls, were French to the finger-tips;
Marie Martin made a most beguil-
ing Gypsy fortune-teller—but adjec-
tives fail us in setting forth the good .
points of the principals.
As for the choruses, the grade chil-
. dren certainly added to the play.
“Dew-Dew-Dewy-Days” was one of
the best choruses of the show, and
Farina and the Duncan Sisters
were the juvenile hits of the season.
Little Helen Olpsen as “Eva’ and
Druscilla’ Taylor as “Topsy” could
have held the stage all evening and
made the show themselves, and Lou-
ise Tramel was a “Farina” that even
Hal Roach® would do well to sign.
By far the most gorgeous was the
Glow-Worm chorus. The slow, melo-
dious music and the perfect rhythm
of the dancers, clad in irridescent
, hues, held the people spell bound dur-
i ing the best chorus in the play. Per-
haps, girls, George White has a place
for you in his famous “Scandals.”
Why don’t you try? We are sure
that you could rival the Foster girls.
The costumes worn by this chorus
were designed by Mrs. Krader. Nev-
‘er in any other High school play were
such beautiful and fitting costumes
worn.
The Colonial chorus in the stately
minuet, the “Ice-Cream” boys, the
officers and cadet girls—all the chor-
uses deserve the highest praise.
The school and the town wish to
thank Mrs. Krader for the entertain-
ment which they enjoyed for two
nights and for the great interest she
takes in school activities.
ea A} eters.
—Beginning next Sunday afternoon
at 3.30 and continuing about four
weeks the musical organizations of
the Pennsylvania State College will
broadcast an hour’s concert program.
The student orchestra will give the
first concert to be followed on sue-
ceeding Sundays by the men’s glee
club, the military band and the man-
dolin club. :
| railroad cars,
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Vineent Zeole, who “walked into jail”
when he called on a& Philadelphia police-
man te find out why a search was being
made for him, was sentenced to from
twenty to forty years in the eastern pen-
itentiary for holding up five taxicab drive
ers. He got $790.
—The Fort Pitt and William Penn
hotels, in Pittsburgh, will be managed
by the Eppley Hotel company, of which
Eugene C. Eppley, of Omaha, Neb., is
president, after March 31, it was an-
nounced on Tuesday by officials of the
Pittsburgh Hotels cempany, which con-
trols both enterprises.
—The loss of a woman's hand brought
a damage award of $100 by a jury verdict,
at Butler last week, while $609 damages
were awarded by the same jury to the
owner of an automobile which was dam-
aged in an accident. Louis Rott was
awarded the $609 for his damaged car and
his wife got $100 for the loss of her hand.
—Partly recovered from injuries suf-
fered in jumping from a window of a
train as it was traveling through the
yards at Harrisburg, James Tuttle, 20,
wanted in Altoona for robbing the branch
of the Altoona First National bank of
$3000 on December 28, was removed from
the Harrisburg hospital on Friday night
and taken to Altoona on a stretcher.
~The quarry plant of the Bethlehem
Steel company, at Naginey, broke ground
for inmiprovements that will cost in excess
of $200,000 and which will increase the
capacity for shipping broken limestone to
Bethlehem ‘furnaces: at Johnstown. The
entire plant will operate electric crushers,
cranes, breakers, and
screens, all to be built and in service in a
few weeks.
—Pleading guilty to charges of extor-
tion and conspiracy, Emlyn Evans, form.
er deputy internal revenue collector at
Johnstown, on Saturday, was sentenced, at
Pittsburgh, to serve a year and a day in
the Federal penitentiary. George Bondy
and Milan Savlovich, against whom Evans
testified on similar charges, received like
sentences. They were charged with ex-
torting $1775 from a Johnstown man as
Government taxes. W. A. Goll, former
deputy internal revenue collector ‘at Beav-
er Falls, was paroled for three years when
he pleaded guilty to embezzling $3150
collected in taxes.
—As the ice went out of the West
Branch of the Susquehanna river, at Lock
Haven, last Friday, it crushed both wat-
er mains of the Lock Haven Suburban
Water company, leaving the surrounding
villages without water for several hours,
until water superintendent C. 8. Harter
ordered the use of the emergency pump
owned by the company at Mill Hall. The
water hydrants of the ‘Suburban company
were attached to the Lock Haven water
system by means of a fire hose which was
stretched across a street in the extrem
western end of the city. $
—Damages in $10,000 are asked by Mary
S. Foutz, Philadelphia, in an action in
trespass instituted in the Franklin county
courts against John W. Garrett, Waynes-
boro. Mrs. Foutz’s statement sets forth
that on the morning of April 3, 1927, she
was riding with Garrett in his car on a
highway near Greencastle. He drove past
anothér car and struck an embankment.
She had her arm broken as the result of
which it has become permanently stiff and
“phe was ‘handicapped in ‘her work as dress.
maker. She incurred expense for medieal
attention and was unable to work for six
weeks, her statement sets forth.
—TFranklin 8. Searle, former Harrisburg
mail clerk who cashed checks said to
have been stolen from the government
mails in Altoona and Juniata, plead guilty
to possessing and forging crecks for war
veterans in federal court in Pittsburgh,
on Monday, and was sentenced to 15
months in the federal penitentiary at At-
| lanta, Georgia. Sentence was imposed by
Judge R. M. Gibson. It was said by
I Georve V. Craighead, postoffice inspector,
! that Iarle opened 37 bank accounts in
lA I'toona, Juniata, Bellwood, Scrantoa,
| Wilkes-Barre and York, using the names
of persons to whom the checks were made
{ payable.’ He forged the checks and. de-
! posited. them in the various banks. It
| was said that he obtained about $900 on
. the forged checks. ta
—Police arrested two shop . laborers at
York, on Monday, . for . counterfeiting,
charging them with the manufacture of
quarters. One man, Luther Arthur Wilt.
29. of York R. D. 10, admitted. the charges
upon cross examination and . pointed out
the spot, in the Condone creek , there,
where he threw the dies early that. morn-
ing when he learned police were on his
trail. His companion, Patsy, Meyers, 24,
denies knowledge of the manufacture or
passing of any bogus . money. Rolice
learned of the counterfeiting activities last
week when the two men are, said to have
passed several counterfeit quarters on a
West York groceryman. A citizen ob-
| tained the license number of the car the
men were traveling in at the time and
| they were traced by this means.
! —Charged with victimizing farmers in
| Lancaster county, Charles Steiner, 39, a
! huckster, Harrisburg,” was arrested on a
fyarrant issned by justice’ of the peace
| Charles Hicks, Maytown, charged with
{ obtaining goods by fraud and under false
| pretense. According to justice of the
foeacs Hicks, Steiner and another Harris-
! burg huckster, Charles Simpson, got pro-
| duce valued at $75 from Hiram Nissley,
| farmer, loaded it on a truck and then
jexplained that since they forgot their
i check book they would have to drive to
, their hotel for it. They explained they
| would return, but never did, Nissley said.
| Justice of the Peace Hicks said the two
Harrisburg men had operated for three
i months throughout Lancaster county and
vietimized three other farmers near May-
tewn. }
—Living at the foot of a mountain near
Fields Station, about ten miles from Wil-
liamsport, Mr. and Mrs. George Davis
combine the good work of providing food
for squirrels in the winter with furnishing
amusement for themselves. Mr. Davis al-
ways has on hand a large supply of pea-
nuts for the little animals, which visit his
property during the winter as well as
during the summer. From the house to a
tree about fifty feet away has been
stretched a rope, from which, at intervals
of two or three feet, dangle strings about
a foot long. Each string has a peanut
fastene on the end. To obtain the pea-
nuts, t 2 squirrels must walk upside down
on the stretched rope to one of the strings,
where they must hang by their hind legs
and reach dowa with their paws to gath-
er up the nuts. The Davis family enjoys
the entertainment from a window of the
house.