Bemorrl)atcpm
INK SLINGS.
© —'The Soviets have asked Henry
‘Ford to build a plant in Russia. Don’t
do it, Henry. It’s just one of them
trial marriages they want to inveigle
Lizzie into.
~— Poor Lindy! To get a respite
From nerve-racking hero worshippers
he has been compelled to enter a hos-
pital for rest. To one of his nature
the land has far more terrors than the
air.
—A head line in a Sunday Phila-
delphia paper announced, “Smith’s
Col. House Bared as Woman.” In
that announcement, we should say,
“Mrs. Moskowitz has good ammunition
for a libel suit.
—Why jump at the conclusion that
‘the story that a horned toad lived in
‘the corner stone of a church down in
Eastland, Texas, for thirty-one years
is a hoax? Nothing so remarkable in
that. There are humans who have
lived in Bush Hollow for longer than
thirty-one years.
—The blonde hammer slayer of
Painesville, Ohio, is said to have
sobbed when she was sentenced to life
imprisonment. Certainly she couldn’t
“have been so demented as to think
that because Anita Loos says “gen-
tlemen prefer blondes” the judge
might have given her ninety days.
— Congressman Morin, of Pitts-
burgh, has withdrawn as a contestant
for the seat of Senator Dave Reed.
His retirement is not in the least sur-
prising to us. Morin is a politician.
And real politicians are too smart to
be seduced into leading the forlorn
hopes of the idealists or disgruntled.
—Always there's reduction in pric-
es of the things we never have pros-
pect of having use for. Bellefonte
can now talk to Europe for twenty-
five dollars less than the first price
established, but that means nothing to
ms. At the present moment we can
‘think of nobody in Europe we’d pay
twenty-five cents to“taik to.
.—Writing froin Berkeley, Califor-
‘nia, Charles Potter Miller expresses
‘wonderment that the Kluxers have not
taken our scalp. Charles went west
so long ago that he evidently doesn’t
know what that part of our anatomy
‘looks like now. Even though some of
the Klansmen might have the urge to
take it, certainly it wouldn’t be an
ornament if dangling at their belt.
— What if Herbert Hoover should
‘be the Republican nominee for Presi-
dent? What will the several farmer
gentlemen in Centre county who
‘turned Republican during the war be-
«cause they couldn’t get six dollars a
bushel for their wheat going to do
about it? Herbert was the lad who
“fixed the price of wheat. Now that
he’s jumped over the fence possibly
the gentlemen to whom we refer wiil
jump back again.
Scientists are divided in opinion
as to whether the radio is responsible
for the more or less vagarious weath-
.er we seem to be having. Whether it
be coincidence or not it is a matter
.of common observation that we have
“had more freakish weather since
“broadcasting has become so general
and continuous than anyone recalls
prior to the perfecting of the radio.
“While it might be absurd to say that
‘any one station could cause rain or
sunshine it would be equally absurd to
say that the launching of vast
amounts of electricity into the air by
wireless stations all over the country
~does not affect the atmosphere in
; some way.
—1If you would only mind your own
business” wrote a correspondent the
other day. Yes, what if we did?
“What a pale and anemic life ours
-would be, and, besides, the Watchman
would become just as mealy-mouthed
-and inane as all the rest of the pa-
pers of the country that haven’t an
‘ijdea to express or, having one, are
,afraid to emit it for fear of losing a
subscriber, a piece of advertising cr
a printing job. It would be a public
.-calamity if we were to follow the ad:
- vice of the thoughtless author of the
above ridiculous suggestion. The
..country would go to hades in no time
‘if we were to stop the business of
- gratuitous advice.
—For the past four years we have
“been intermittently pointing out the
folly of having a candidate for the
Legislature from State College. We
“have endeavored to make clear the
- possible reaction on the institution
located at that place in the event that
an unfriendly Governor were in of-
fice and the member couldn’t consci-
~entiously support his program. We
“have reason to believe that it was
public realization of this fact that
came so near eliminating the Hon.
Holmes two years ago. He is an as-
- pirant to succeed himself, but that
ambition will never be realized. There
.are three reasons why it won’t. One,
we have already given. Another is
that he witlessly antagonized the
service men and the third is the prej-
udice in Centre county against a third
term. We have no patience with the
anti-third term propaganda as applied
to legislative offices, however. The
prospect of having no member from
‘ State College pleased us mightily un-
til last Saturday night when the nec-
tar in the bowl was turned to gall by
the announcement {hat the heedless
- folks up there had trotted out another
candidate. Gosh, how we worried for
a day or so. Worried until we dis-
. covered that the new entrant is mere-
' ly a gesture likely to result in noth-
* ing more than minced Ham.
pv ——— vay,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION
NO. 10.
VOL. 73.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. MARCH 9. 1928.
Vare Heeler Thrown Out.
for the Senatorial candidates in this
State in 1926, found it necessary, on
Thursday last, to expel from the room
in which the work was proceeding,
one Ben Fields, a Vare heeler, for
creating a disturbance. The major-
ity of the committee is Republican
and in the nature of things Vare and
his supporters ought to be confident
that he will at least get fair play.
But they are constantly protesting
against the rulings of the chair, Sen-
ator Waterman, of Colorado, stalwart
Republican, and expressing suspicions
of every member of the committee.
Some weeks ago all the Vare watch-
ers deserted and for a time held up
the count.
The trouble is that the committee
wants to be fair to both sides in the
contest and the Vare managers not
only expected but are demanding fa-
vors which it would be impossible to
give. In rage at their disappoint-
ment they create disturbances that
not only delay the count but disgust
all fair-minded men in attendance. In
the expulsion of Fields from the room
the committee simply exercised a just
right and vindicated its dignity. If
an order committing him for contempt
had been issued and enforced the com-
mittee would have been within the
lines of right. No man should be al-
lowed to interfere with the orderly
proceedings of a committee of the
Senate. No fair man would try to do
$0.
The Senate committee is charged
with the performance of an arduous
and unpleasant duty. In meeting its
obligations to the Senate and the pub-
lie it is entitled to the respect of all
who are permitted to be in attendance.
The Vare heelers of Philadelphia as-
sume that the rules or lack of rules
which govern their ward meetings in
“the neck” are in order in Washing-
ton. It is gratifying to learn that
the members of the Senate committee
on Privileges and Elections hold op-
posite opinions on that subject, and
that partisan prejudice is not strong
enough to swerve them from their
line of duty or influence them to per-
petrate frawd. No doubt the com-
mittee will give Vare all that is com-
ing to him.
country endorsing Harry Sinclair's
contribution of $160,000 in tainted
currency it is small wonder that the
the $3,000,000 slush fund in this State
in 1926.
ee ee eee.
Italy Talking of Tariff Taxation.
The Facisti government of Italy is
preparing to levy a tariff tax upon
imports from this country. The low
priced automobiles, movie picture
films and iron products shipped from
this country have driven the manu-
hope only in taxing imports in those
lines. The high price of labor in this
country affords no help. Our mass
production, superior skill and greater
selling capacity are too much for
for them and they reason, justly or
unjustly, that their government is in
duty bound to intervene in their be-
half by taxing us out of the market
just as we have been doing with our
competitors in all parts of the world
for a half a century. .
Of course, this view of the question
is limited to the manufacturers of
Italy who are in direct contact with
the question. The economists and
statesmen there, as everywhere else
except the United States, realize that
tariff taxation puts a burden on the
many for the benefit of the few and
hesitate tc countenance such an in-
justice. But Mussolini is neither an
economist nor statésman and shows
signs of yielding to the importunities
of the capital class. They can help
him as the manufacturers of this
country help the Republican machine
and the burdened public can “go
hang”
for domestic commodities as the same
element is compelled to do here.
A few months ago our government
had a tilt with France on this subject
and emerged from the scrimmage
with a more or less damaged reputa-
tion for diplomatic finesse. More re-
cently the subject caused a good deal
of friction in the Pan-American Con-
gress, at Havana, which had the effect
of practically defeating the excellent
purposes of that conference and in-
clinations have recently been revealed
to introduce the system in England,
the reasons invariably assigned be-
ing that we have set the example,
which is true. If eventually the sys-
tem is generally adopted, in the spirit
of reprisals, our manufactured pro-
ducts will be limited to domestic
markets, which will soon mean over-
production.
—Glen Frank is trying to “tell the
world” that there is such an animal
as a “sensible radical.”
The Senate Committee on Elections,
engaged in recounting the votes cast
— With the Republicans of the!
Vare-Mellon machine hopes to justify
facturers to dispair and they can see
and pay the increased prices |
1
Republican Committee Got Sinclair
! Loot.
The trail of the Sinclair corruption
fund is leading directly to the Re-
publican National committee, though
the movement is as sinuous as that of
a venomous serpent. Four years ago
Will Hays, who was chairman of the
committee, testified before the Sen-
ate committee investigating the Tea-
pot Dome oil lease that Sinclair had
contributed $75,000, in Liberty bonds,
to a fund to liquidate the debts of the
11920 campaign. It was proved that
“those bonds were part of the lot ac-
quired from the Continental Trading
company in a villainous transaction
participated in by Sinclair, Blackmer,
. O’Neil and Stewart. Tuus tainted it
, served the evil purposes of electing
Warren G. Harding President.
The other day Mr. Hays testified
before the Senate committee en Pub-
lic Lands and raised the Sinclair con-
! tribution from $75,000 to $160,000.
The bonds were distributed among
| prominent Republican politicians and
| paid in in smaller amounts so as to
conceal the real source of supply, thus
| revealing full knowledge on the part
| of Hays, Upham, treasurer of the
| committee; John W. Weeks, Secre-
| tary of War in the Harding admin-
istration; John W. Pratt, of the Stan-
{dard Qil company, and T. Coleman
| DuPont, of Delaware, president of a
bank which had loar.2ad the committee
a large sum of money. The only oth-
ler big contributor to the fund was
| Daniel G. Reid, head qf the Tinplate
| trust, who gave $100,000.
This large sum of money, literally
i stolen from the people of the United
States, with the taint of corruption
plainly written on the face of each
bond, was accepted by these eminent-
ly respectable gentlemen, some of
them church officials, and employed in
the corruption of voters and pollut-
{ing the ballot. It is through this
method of controlling elections that
i the perpetuity of our government is
imperiled. No institution, however
meritorious, thus based on fraud can
endure, and it is the first duty of ev-
ery good citizen to put his or her
stamp of condemnation upon it. Prep-
|
arations are now in progress to com-P
| trol the election of this year by the
| same method. Will the people per-
; mit it to succeed?
—Now that the richest diamond
mine of record has been discovered
owners of precious stones arc afraid
they will become too common.
Monkey Wrench in the Machinery.
Congressman Robert Grey Bushong,
‘Republican of the Berks-Lehigh dis-
trict, has thrown a monkey wrench in-
to the Vare-Mellon machine that is
certain to do mach damage. In a
| statement, issued the other day, he
says: “Although I have been a fairly
consistent Republican since I first
voted in 1904, I am not willing to be
a member of that party in Pennsyl-
.vania with the present organization
in control. I am unwilling to co-op-
erate with the Vare organization in
Philadelphia or with any leadership
which deals or confers with them. I
regret exceedingly that Senator Reed
saw fit, in the last session of Con-
gress, to lead a filibuster which pre-
vented much legislation merely to
save Mr. Vare.”
This expression of Congressman
Bushong is simply an early symptom
of an aroused public conscience in
Pennsylvania. The excessive use of
money in the Republican primary
million dollars were expended by and
for three candidates for the office of
Senator in Congress, shocked the fair
minded men of all parties and admon-
ished all clear thinking voters of an
(impending danger that important
| party favors are bestowed, not upon
| merit, but upon the ability and will-
ingness to pay. The source of tha
corruption fund is a subject of equal
| concern. The largest amount came
| from predatory corporations and the
next from criminal combinations in
and about Philadelphia.
If the Republican party leaders!
had shown a spirit of regret at the |
exposure of these crimes against the |
public morals, there might have aris- !
en a hope of improvement, and under
the guidance of men of character and
conscience like Congressman Bushong
an organization based on justice and
patriotism created. But the opposite
result happened. The Republican ad- |
ministration and the Republican or-,
ganization not only justified the
crimes but approved the culprits.’
Under those conditions there is mnoth-
1
Bushong has done.
arate from a group of self-appointed
leaders with whom he does not care to
associate.
— A ————————
—1It begins to lock as if the Demo-
crats are preparing for another fiasco
like that held in New York four years
ago.
campaign of 1926, when nearly three
An Important but Misplaced Investi-
gation.
If the resolution introduced by Sen-
ator Wagner, Democrat, of New York, |
“to investigate and report on unem-
ployment throughout the country had
been committed to a special commit-
tee of Congress instead of the Secre-
tary of the Department of Labor,
higher appraisement of its value
might have been expected. As Sen-
ator Wagner stated in support of his
resolution, it was provoked “by ad-
ministration expressions as to pros-
perity.” In the preamble to the reso-
lution it is declared that “it is ap-
parent that the United States is now |
suffering from a decided growth of
unemployment and no nation-wide
statistics of unemployment in the
United States are anywhere avail-
able.”
value at all, must be searching, thor-
ough and completely free of politics.
For months a propaganda, directed by
the President and chorused by the
monopolists and six-figure income re-
ceivers, has been singing a song of
prosperity for the purpose of mis-
leading ill-informed voters. There
has been no healthful prosperity in
any section of the country within a
period of several years. Some of the
larger corporations have prospered
amazingly and stock manipulators
have been able to place fictitious val-
ues on speculative properties. But
the activities in stock speculations
and the operations in trade exchanges
are not signs of prosperity.
The Secretary of Labor in the Cool-
idge administration is a machine pol-
itician. While the Wagner resolution
was under discussion in the Senate
Mr. Smoot, of Utah, handed him the
official tip to make his investigation
helpful to the Republican party. He
said the talk of excessive unemploy-
ment is attributable “to the immi-
nence of the Presidential campaign.”
The false and fraudulent claims of
prosperity are due to the imminence
of the Presidential campaign and the
widespread and distressing unemploy-
ment is a lamentable fast, as a thor-
ough investigation will conclusively
prove. It is to be hoped that Secre-
tary Davis will make such an investi-
gation, but it is doubtful.
—If Orville Wright was only bluf-
fing when he threatened to send the
original Wright plane to England he
“took the pot.” The Smithsonian In-
stitution is recanting.
Over-Organization.
An effort is to be made to organ-
ize a post here of Veterans of For-
eign Wars of the United States. As
soldier organizations we already have
a machine gun troop, the G. A. R,,
Spanish American War Veterans As-
s’n, and the American Legion. While
we have no thought of throwing cold
water on the new proposal the mat-
ter of over-organization in everything
is a subject worthy serious thought.
It has come to such a pass that the
average man and woman has joined
so many lodges, auxiliaries, spiritual,
social and civic organizations that
were they to give all the time their
pledge obligated them for they would
have none left for the duties that pro-
vide their bread and butter.
The American people seem to have
a mania for organizing something and
joining everything that offers mem-
bership and a different kind of but-
ton.
| Due to overlapping of purposes
there is a colossal waste of time and
i energy and there is no estimating the
amount of money that is frittered
away in dues and contributions.
+ We think that we are not far from
the truth when we exnvess the be-
lief that over-organization would end
salaries or traveling expenses for the
organizers. In fact we will go so far
as to say that fifty per cent of the
' organizations now in existence would
lapse into desuetude if those at their
heads had to work for nothing more
than love and loyalty to the cause.
st ———— A
The decision of Senator Walsh, of
Montana, to permit the use of his
name in the presidential primaries of
our party will be pleasant news to
some Democrats. To those who have
been organizing against Al Smith be-
cause he is wet—when the real objec-
tion is because he is a Catholic—Sen-
ator Walsh offers the opportunity of
either proving their consistency or
revealing their hypocrisy. Senator
Walsh is a Catholic, but notoriously
dry, and one of the ablest men in the
ing for men and women of character i country.
{ and conscience to do except what Mr.
That is to sep-
————
—Marshall Diaz, head of the Ital-
ian army, left little property but plen-
ty of war relics and an illustrious
record in achievement.
———— A A —————
—Will Hays made a poor spectacle
in the oil investigation, the other day,
and now cuts a bad figure as a church
elder,
AHR
Such an investigation, to be of any
abruptly were there no provision for
A Word for the Old Stuff.
{ From an Exchange.
| Modern man has grown exceedingly
impatient of “old stuff.” It is so
‘stale, flat, commonplace, platitudin-
ous. Old creeds and charters and
constitutions, old truths, old ,view-
points, old days and ways—all so
lamed and crippled by the smashing
, impact of the new and up-to-date,
And yet there is something to be
said for the old stuff. I may be all
wrong, the junk and jumble and fum-
ble of old-time inferiorities and in-
competencies. But, after all, it has
‘come through and stood the wreck
and storms of time.
And then the new has such a wav
i of flashing in and flicking out. The
Rsurbon was long ago described as
the man who never learns anything
new nor forgets anything old ; and
there is a sort of solidity and depend-
ability about that, to say the least.
But the big fact that fortifies the
“old stuff” is that all the reliables are
so infinitely old and changeless. There
is the sun, for example, one of the
very oldest pieces of property we
have —such plodding regularity, such
a minute immensity of service and
beneficience, and yet so tame and com-
monplace that no one ever gives it a
second thought.
And the wind. What a has-been!
No one has to make an argument to
prove the wind. No party or sectar-
ian splits can be built upon the at-
mosphere. All any one has to do is
just to breathe and live. And the
rain—the very commonest and also
the most troublesome item in the list
of ancient and troublesome things.
And yet what a perfectly marvelous
svstem of condensation, pumpage,
haulage, cloud transportation, precip-
itation and distribution! One can
grow quite enthusiastic about the
rain when it is examined closely, al-
though one never takes the time to do
it.
Old
Sun-and-wind-rain . doctrine.
stuff enough for any one. It is the
habit nowadays to say that Thomas
Jefferson’s Declaration stuff is pretty
old and faded and decrepit; and it is.
But let any one propose to make a
retraction and delete the Declaration
of its “glittering generalities” and
‘“irridescent dream,” and how the fur
would fly! For, after all, there is
something in the “old stuff.”
Federal Contro¥-of Inteldiate ‘Motor’
| Traffic.
; From the Philadelphia Record.
In their determined resistance to
what they call unfair and confiscatory
competition by motor vehicles, the
railroads have appealed to the Inter-
state Commerce Commission. Seven
of them have presented a petition
urging that body to recommend con-
trol over the authorization and regu-
lation of interstate transportation by
motor bus and motor truck lines. The
demand is based especially upon de-
structive competition from motorized
traffic across the Delaware River at
Philadelphia and across the Hudson
between New York city and New Jer-
sey points, among the petitioners be-
ing the Pennsylvania and Reading
companies and their subsidiaries op-
erating to seashore points.
Admitting that the problem is com-
plex and has given rise to wide dif-
ferences of opinion, the railroads as-
sert there is general agreement upon
the need for some kind of regulation
of interstate motor traffic. Complain-
ing of heavy losses in revenue due to
the diversion of business, they con-
tend that the uncontrolled competi-
tion is inequitable, since the railroads
i have heavy investments in rights of
way and roadbeds, while the motor
vehicles use facilities provided at
public expense. The railroads are al-
so required to give adequate service,
and their earnings are limited by law,
while their competitors are unregu-
lated in both respects. The matter of
public conveniences is likewise of vi-
tal importance; indiscriminate devel-
opment of motor transportation re-
| sults in damaging curtailment of rail
facilities. Obviously the two systems
should be developed in harmony, if
not co-ordinated, and Federal regula-
tion of commericalized interstate mot-
or traffic would seem an urgently nec-
essary first step.
i A Well-Earned Rest.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
Friends of Colonel Lindbergh ev-
erywhere will hope that the long rest
from public activities he plans will
restore him to the full freshness and
vigor of health he has constantly en-
dangered since his momentous flight
to Europe.
Unknown a yeur ago, the world’s
best known and most generally ad-
mired citizen today; poor to the point
of subsisting from payday to payday
twelve months ago, today comfortably
well off; a humble private citizen last
spring, a distinguished public servant
now. Who has ever accomplished
more for himself and his country in
such a brief period?
The young man has won his rest.
But we have not heard the last of
him. An individual of his qualities
and dynamic possibilities simply can’t
be kept long in the background.
| —Chief Justice Von Moschzisker
seems to think that the judges and
district attorneys are partly respon-
sible for the too frequent miscarriage
of justice in criminal prosecutions.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—In an attempt to check the spread of
scarlet fever prevalent at Erie, city health
officer Dr. J. R. Smith, issued orders for-
bidding children under 16 years of age
to attend theatres, Sunday schools and
movies.
—The large bank barn on the farm of
Miss Sadie Shilling, near Mackeyville, was
destroyed by fire last Wednesday night,
the loss approximating $5,000. Her broth-
er, Ellis Shilling, was on the second floor
of the barn when his lantern upset and he
barely escaped through the burning hay.
—Evelyn Bennett, 11-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey Bennett, east
Church street, Lock Haven, was severely
scalded about both legs, when she tipped
a tea kettle of boiling water over her as
she was hanging a towel on a line above
the stove at her home, Thursday night.
She is expected to recover.
—A swimming pool for female patients
at the State hospital, at Danville, is under
construction for use as a part of the treat-
ment of mental cases, anc if the plan
works out as expected in accord with the
prevailing belief that sunshine and baths
do much to aid in recovery, a similar pool
will be constructed for the male patients.
—John (Shag) Hall, 63, a brickmason,
of Lewistown, is at the Lewistown hos-
pital with three ribs torn loose from his
backbone and other injuries. Hall was
found in the alley in the rear of the
Coleman hotel and taken to the hospital.
One of the fractured ribs had punctured
his left lung and his condition is critical.
~—Arrangements for the first commence-
ment exercises at the Patton industrial
school, Masonic homes, at Elizabethtown,
will be made at a meeting of trustees on
Saturday. Nine boys, seven of whom are
studying the course in carpentry work
and two bricklayers, will receive diplo-
mas. Graduaticn exercises will be held
April 5.
—Locomotive No. 6889 eastbound on the
main line of the Pennsylvania railroad
jumped the track, on Sunday, and wrecked
thirteen steel hoppers at Longfellow, Mif-
flin county. Three of the four tracks were
plocked and the tracks badly damaged.
Lewistown and Altoona wrecking crews
were called to clean away the debris and
repair the tracks.
—Clarence Emmet, Mifilinburg torger,
escaped from the Shamokin jail Saturday
morning. When Sheriff Flock went for
the prisoner he found a vacant cell, an
instrument used for picking locks and a
screen that had been removed from a cor-
ridor window. A search is being con-
ducted. Emmet's criminal career started
in January, when he found the right road
to the Lewisburg jail by check forgery.
—Howard Ward, of McVeytown, 40
years old, woke up in a snow storm late
Sunday night with his pockets rified of
«20 and some change, and an ugly bruise
on the back of his head. Ward drives the
bus between the Viscose plant and McVey-
town, which carries employees to and
from work. He had put away the bus and
was making his way homeward when
some one slugged him from behind and
relieved him of the cash taken in on the
trip, plus the change.
—Elwin Graybill, 16 years old, of Lan-
caster, pounded a .22 calibre rifle on the
floor of his bed-room Sunday morning as
a reminder that the playing of a phono.
graph in a room beneath was disturbing
his sleep atid the rifle discharged, wound- °
ing the boy in the face. The bullet lodged
in his cheek after tearing four teeth from
the upper jaw. Hospital attendants say
his condition is favorable. The boy's
! father, who returned home shortly after
6 a. m., was the one playing the phono-
graph.
—A family of ten persons living in a
one-roomed shack with seventeen goats,
fifty chickens and two horses was discov-
ered by G. Gessler, an agent of the Hu-
mane society. The almost unbelieveable
discovery wis made in Penn township,
near Grapeville, Westmoreland county, at
the one-room shack of Thomas Patrick, 45.
The family consisted of Patrick, his wife,
Anna, 44, and eight children ranging in
age from 1 {o 14 years. The ten persons
slept in a cot and one bed. They had lit-
tle clothing or food. Patrick was arrest-
ed. :
—The Americana Legion of Pennsylvania
at a departmental meeting in Philadelphia.
last Saturday, put its shoulder to the
wheel to bring about establishment in
every county of the State of a memorial
park of from 500 to 1,000 acres, to be used
by the community at large for a camping
site, picnics, athletics and the holding of
patriotic observances. These areas would
serve the further purpose of providing
opportunity for ex-service men who have
left hospitals as convalescents to find
wholesome outdoor occupation in refores.
tation work.
—His life savings swept away in the
failure of the Carnegie Trust company,
Willinm Pendleton, of Carnegie, decided
he in the future would bank his own mon-
ey, and he did so in a feather pillow.
Pendleton, a negro, employed by the bor-
ough for many years, had accumulated
$700 when fire destroyed his home. Think-
ing that his pillow bank had been burned,
he had little hope of finding his hoarded
wealth. When the embers had cooled suf-
ficiently he began a hunt and found the
pillow, untouched by fire, in the ruins. The
money was intact.
—Torrence G. Kelchner, 38,
ticket seller at the Nescopeck
the Pennsylvunia railroad, was arrested
on Monday charged with robbing the
mails. Police said he confessed, stating
that he had been stealing parcel post and
express packages for more than five years.
Three truck loads of loot, including auto
accessories and radio parts, were said to
have been found in his home. Kelchner
was held for a hearing before United
States Comimssioner Roscoe Smith at
Wilkes-Barre. The prisoner has been in
the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad
for 18 years. He is married and has four
children.
—William Wilbelm and C. F. Boley, two
defendants now in jail, at Pottsville,
charged with libel on Congressman Cyrus
Palmer, were heard by Judge Whitehouse
on Monday on an application for parole.
Palmer appeared as opposing the grant-
ing of the parole at this time, and asked
Wilhelm and Foley, who were placed on
the witness stand, several questions as to
their future conduct, if released. Petitions
from nearly 1200 citizens of Pottsville were
presented, asking for immediate parole,
which the Court agreed to take under con-
sideration. Meantime, action was deferred.
The defendants were sentenced to fifteen
months’ imprisonment and have been in
assistant
station of
jail two weeks.