Bruni lain.
INK SLINGS.
-—Stocks are on the toboggan and
sliding with them are the air castles
‘that a lot of amateur operators who
hadn’t sense enough to take profits
‘had builded.
—It must have been nice in the
‘Garden of Eden. There was no one
to drag us out of bed in the morning,
and no radio to keep us from going
‘back to it at night.
—The sweet girl graduate might
‘soon be upon us, but her seasonable
«companion, the blushing June bride.
is lost forever, we fear. Girls don’t
‘blush anymore. They’re too sophis-
ticated for that.
—If the Democratic party would
only get as fighting mad as its rep-
resentatives to the State convention
‘became last Saturday there would be
a scrap of some proportions in Penn-
sylvania next November.
‘Inasmuch as the new moon is ly-
ing far in the northern skies it is
reasonable to expect cool weather.
"That being what we have had nothing
-else but this spring the change will
not be specially noticeable.
—Another probiem for the street
committee of council to work on is
‘this. If we lay a half-inch of inde-
structible surface on our streets each
year how long will it be until they
:are all higher than the sidewalks?
—In the recent Pennsylvania pri-
maries Smith received only 25,445
votes less than Hoover. On the Re-
publican ballot he received a quarter
.as many votes as Hoover. Ponder
over this. It certainly is food for
“thought.
—That the Republicans are not
sure of electing Herbert Hoover is
beyond question. If they were why
should the higher-ups in the party
councils be clinging to the hope that
Coolidge will permit himself to be
drafted ?
—Before us lies an unsigned post-
-card which was mailed at Philipsburg
last Monday evening. On it is in-
‘scribed: “Mr. Editor, please remem-
ber that Barnum was right and Lin-
coln was wrong.” Just what our un-
known censor admonishes us for we
are utterly at a loss to know and are
only guessing when we suggest that
Barnum’s assertion that a sucker is
born every minute is set up to contro-
vert Lincoln’s famous epigram about
not being able to fool all of the peo-
ple all of the time. Not knowing
what application could be made of
this to anything that has recently ap-
peared in the Watchman we shall con-
tent ourselves by admitting that Bar-
num was right but disagreeing with
the assertion that “Lincoln was
wrong.”
~My, what a long tail the circus
-cat is growing. Several years ago the
featured lady performers began put-
ting on drawing room airs. We recall
how awed we were when we saw the
first of them enter for her act, trailed
by a trim personal maid who took the
gorgeous wrap from the shoulders of
the performer and posed statuesquely
until the act was over. On Tuesday
morning the press representative of
‘a circus that was exhibiting here that
day called to settle for advertising
we had done for the enterprise. As
has been customary in the past we
offered him the cuts that had been
used. They were wrapped up neatly
and made only a small bundle. The
gentleman, for gentleman he was,
looked at us rather pityingly when
he said: “Oh, those! My chauffeur
will drop in and get them later.”
—The general conference of the
Methodist church has assailed “mil-
itarism in American schools.” The
leaders of our church policy are
doubtlessly sincere, but they “don’t
“know their onions.” Writing from
personal experience and evaluating
fairly all we got out of a college
course we believe that the realization
of the meaning of and necessity for
«discipline has proven of as great val-
ue to us in life since as anything else
‘we learned. Our’ military training
‘was compulsory. If it hadn’t been so
‘we would never have profited from it.
We are not a swashbuckler. We are
‘against arms and armament. We are
for peace at any price that is honor-
able. We saw many slouchy, un-
‘kempt youths march away to war in
1917 who came back well set-up men
who had found out what it means to
obey and what health and vigor
counts for. Military training contam-
inated none of them with a mania for
war. Neither did it us.
—If the matter of whether a man
is “wet” or “dry” is a qualification,
‘in the minds of some, as to his eli-
-gibility for President we would like
‘to ask them: What of President Cool-
idge? Is he “wet” or is he “dry?”
If he is “dry” what single act during
his administration can be pointed to
‘as proving such a position? The
truth is that President Coolidge has
«done nothing; absolutely nothing to
further either the cause of the “wets”
or the “dvys.” He is impotent in the
matter. Just as impotent as any oth-
er President would be, simply because
the fate of the Volstead law lies in
Congress and Presidents rarely are
given the opportunity to usurp the
powers of that body. President Wil-
son couldn't cajole Congress into
joining the League of Nations. Pres-
ident. Coolidge hasn’t been able to
persuade Congress to take his advice
on a single one of the major measures
that have been before it since he
came into office and it has been a
«Congress of his own party at that.
"STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 73.
An Impudent Proposition.
The National Association of Manu-
facturers, according to reports in cir-
culation among politicians in Wash-
ington, has drafted what it calls “a
platform of American industry,”
which is to be offered to the Repub-
lican National convention at Kansas
City and the Democratic convention
at Houston. It will assume to be an
expression of the needs, requirements
and hopes of the industrial element
of the electorate. It will probably be
urged on both conventions by an ex-
tensive and expensive lobby and ac-
companied by a threat that unless it
is adopted in spirit, if not in lan-
guage, the country will “go to the
dogs.” The Republican leaders will
understand it as a bluff, and if the
Democrats are wise they will throw
it into the waste basket and kick the
lobbyists into the street.
The National Manufacturers’ Asso-
ciation is a conspiracy organized by
a group of political buccaneers to be-
stow upon Big Business all the pow-
ers of government. Its methods are
as corrupt as its purposes are re-
pugnant. Joe Grundy, who is the
head of the Pennsylvania branch of
the organization, exemplified its sys-
tem in his testimony before the Slush
Fund committee of the Senate a year
ago when he acknowledged that he
contributed four hundred thousand
dollars to the Republican campaign
fund in this State “in order to safe-
guard the interests of himself and his
associates in the organization.” The
election of a Senator willing to vote
for the higher tariff without respect
to its injurious effect upon the people
was worth that amount of money to
him.
The National Association of Manu-
facturers and the Joe Grundy branch
of that piratical organization has sin-
ister purposes other than protecting
and perpetuating the odious tariff
taxation. It aims to prevent legisla-
tion, National or State, that tends
toward improvement of labor condi-
tions, adequate wages or relief from
the industrial peonage its managers
hope to create in this country. For
many years Mr. Grundy has attend-
ed the sessions of the General Assem-
bly in Pensylvania lobbying against
every” proposition to improve the con-
ditions of the wage earners. In this
nefarious work he was fulfilling the
purposes of the National Association
of Manufacturers and an organization
with that object in mind has no right
to a voice in a Democratic convention.
—There are persons who think that
Mellon was forced to speak a kind
word for Hoover by Vare.
adelphia “neck” appears to have the
Pittsburgh “strip” terrorized.
Not a Certain Victory for Vare.
It is not surprising that the sub-
committee of the Senate committee
on privileges and elections has deter-
mined to report in favor of admit-
ting Mr. Vare to the seat in the Sen-
ate which he bought and paid for. It
was for the purpose of making such
a report that the investigation was
committed to a partisan committee.
The Republican organization needs
votes in the Senate very badly. Its
maojrity is scant and the leaders feel
humiliated when they have to appeal
to Borah, Shipstead and Brookhart to
secure partisan legislation. Besides,
the power trust is none too sure of
its control if conditions should arise
that required a majority. Vare’s
name on the roster would be re-as-
suring. &
When the question was referred to
the standing committee of the Senate
the Watchman expressed the opinion
that a report might possibly be re-
turned against Vare, but the chances
were against such a result. The
sympathies of the committee were
with Vare and the committee had the
power to fix the scope of the inquiry.
If it determined to simply recount
the votes cast in Philadelphia, Pitts-
burgh, Delaware, Lackwanna, Lu-
zerne and Schuylkill counties, as they
were put into the boxes, they would
have found discrepancies but not suf-
ficient to overcome the Vare majority.
But if they had, as they had a right
to, declared invalid the votes of dis-
tricts where much fraud was shown,
the result would have been reversed.
But even if the committee on priv-
ileges and elections does recommend
the seating of Vare, the report is not
likely to be adopted. The resolution
of Senator Norris, of Nebraska, pro-
posed to deny the seat to Vare, not
because he had failed to get a ma-
jority of the votes but for the reason
that he had violated the law by exces-
sive expenditures in securing a ma-
jority. That was why Frank Smith,
of Illinois, was refused a seat and
Newberry, of Michigan, was forced to
resign. The consideration of this
question is in the hands of the Slush
Fund committee of the Senate, and in
the light of the evidence of former
district attorney Fox, it is not likely
to report in favor of Vare.
The Phil-
The Work of the State Democrats.
The reorganization of the Demo-
cratic State committee, at Harrisburg
on Saturday, by the selection of John
R. Collins, of Potter county, as chair-
man, deserves the approval and will
receive the cordial endorsement of
the voters of that political faith
throughout the State. Mr. Collins is
a capable and experienced campaign-
er and a faithful and enthusiastic
Democrat. He has never been a fac-
tionist or laggard and will give the
party honest and efficient service. The
selection of Sedgwick Kistler, of Clin-
ton county, as member of the Demo-
' cratic National committee, is equal-
ly deserving of approval. That high-
ly prized party favor has been justly
bestowed upon a veteran worker of
the best type.
The proceedings of the committee
were not free from acrimony. Demo-
cratic meetings are not always har-
monious. But the more or less caus-
tic disputations served to clear the at-
mosphere rather than cause enduring
ennities. The attempt to register re-
pudiation of the Philadelphia organi-
zation will work good results, though
it failed of its purpose. It will serve
as an admonition to the gangsters of
that city that the Democratic people
of the State “have their number” and
will not much longer tolerate their
perfidy. But it was realized that the
drastic method proposed was not ex-
actly just. As Mrs. Bergey said,
there were honest Democrats in the
group and it would be unfair to pun-
ish them for the crimes of others.
The widely asserted statement that
one faction won over another in. the
scrimmage is hardly borne out by the
facts. . That there was a purpose in
the minds of some of the participants
to express hostility to one of the
prominent candidates for the Presi-
dential nomination was as plain as
pikestaff. This purpose was defeated
absolutely and properly. But it was
neither a personal nor factional vie-
tory for any man or group. It was
simply a proclamation that the Demo-
cratic party of Pennsylvania is true
to the traditions and faithful to the
Jackson, Cleveland and Wilson, and
‘will strive earnestly to give the can-
didate earnest support in the impend-
ing contest.
—General McCoy, who is home, be-
lieves that the work of pacifying
Nicaragua is progressing, In other
. words he thinks the American ma-
{ rines are too strong for the Nicar-
agua rebels.
‘Centre County Grangers to Hold
“Home Coming” Week.
Centre county Grangers have com-
pleted plans for the holding of a
“Home Coming” week, the first of its
kind to be held in the State, during
the week of June 4th to 9th. It will
be characterized by special rally
meetings in each Gange hall in the
county during the week with a final
home coming field day on Grange
park, Centre Hall, on Saturday, June
9th. A musical concert will follow
the field day program and at 8.15
o'clock in the evening interesting
talks will be made in the auditorium
by Senator David H. Agans, of New
Jersey, and E. B. Dorsett, Master of
the State Grange. Other special en-
tertainment features will be included
in the program.
J. Gross Shook, master of Centre
county Pomona Grange, has appoint-
ed a large group of committees to
conduct the home coming event. Wal-
ter C. Gumbel has been given the re-
sponsibile position of chairman and is
being supported in a most loyal man-
ner by all the Granges of the county.
The purpose of the Grange home
coming week as summarized is to
awaken a new Grange interest, a ten-
per-cent increase in membership, ev-
ery Grange to launch a community
project and to clear up general
Grange activities. Already State and
national Grange officials are eagerly
awaiting the results.
It is clearly evident that never be-
fore in the history of rural organiza-
tions has any order held a higher
place ir public estimation than the
Grange today. It is everywhere rec-
ognized as the spokesman for the
American farmer—the group agency
through which he can most effectively
voice his convictions and assert his
needs. The Grange is serving rural
people in every line of farm activity
and its vast contributions to agricul-
ture and better methods of rural liv-
ing are appreciated’ throughout the
county, State and nation.
Centre county Grangers should re-
member the date, June 4th to 9th.
Special programs will be furnished
covering the entire week’s program.
Be sure and get yours from the mas-
ter of your own Grange.
—With a keen, capable and coura-
geous State chairman in control the
tricks of party bandits will not go
far in the campaign this year.
policies of the party of Jefferson,
BELLEFONTE. PA.. MAY 25. 1928.
Kiwanis Hold Ladies’ Night Luncheon |
at Y. M. C. A. |
The committee in charge of the
ladies’ night dinner of the Bellefonte
Kiwanis club, of which Arthur Sloop
was chairman, sprung quite a sur-
prise on their guests when they as-
sembled at the Brockerhoff house at
6.30 o'clock on Tuesday evening of
| this week. Instead of pointing the
way to the hotel dining room each
one was furnished with a fancy paper
hat then escorted in marching order
to the Y. M. C. A. where long tables
systematically arranged in the big
gymnasium were lavishly spread
with an appetizing feast. Sammy
Bryant’s orchestra was on hand and
furnished delightful music during the
repast.
A number of interesting announce-
ments were made by president W.
Harrison Walker. Robert F. Hunter
introduced resolutions in honor of
Bent L. Weaver, and, following a few
appropriate remarks the resolutions
were read by Kiwanian Thena. Mr.
Weaver responded in his customary
happy manner. Mr. Sloop urged all
Kiwanians to attend the joint club
meeting to be held in Tyrone. Mrs.
James Craig was awarded the ladies’
prize and A. Miles Barr the gentle-
man’s.
Contracts Let for Addition to Pres-
byterian Home.
Contracts were awarded, last
Thursday, for the construction and
equipment of the new wing to the
Presbyterian home, at Hollidaysburg.
Joseph Drass, of Hollidaysburg,
was given the contract for erection of
the building; Mulch Bros. also of
Hollidaysburg, will place the heating
plant, and Frank Pressler and broth-
er the plumbing. *
The bidders were selected from a
large number and in each case the
home town man submitted the lowest
bid.
The total cost will approximate
$46,000. The addition will conform
in style to the present building and
will be of the same kind of brick, It
‘will be of sufficient size to house the
resent waiting list and others, and is
intended to meet the needs for some
years to come.
Work is to start at once and the
new wing is to be ready for occupan-
cy by fall.
Flowers Wanted for Graves of De-
parted Heroes.
The American Legion requests that
all those who have flowers suitable
for use in decorating the graves of
our soldier dead, on Memorial day,
send them to the Legion home on
Howard street late Tuesday after-
noon or early on Wednesday morning.
The Legion has taken up the torch
that the tottering arms of the Grand
Army of the Republic can no longer
bear. They will see that no graves are
missed which might be the case were
the work left to unorganized effort.
John T. Taylor, of State College,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
Federal Judge Albert W. Johnson,
of the United States court for the
Middle district of Pennsylvania, on
Tuesday, appointed John T. Taylor, a
young attorney of State College, ref-
eree in bankruptcy for Centre coun-
ty, as successor to M. Ward Fleming
who resigned when he became judge.
Mr. Taylor is a graduate of Alle-
gheny College and was admitted to
practice at the Centre county bar on
February 20th, 1928. The appoint-
ment is worth anywhere from $500 to
$1000. per year. .
Kiddies’ Day at Hecla Park will be
Thursday, June 14th.
The Bellefonte lodge of Elks’ an-
nual Kiddies’ Day picnic at Hecla
park will be held this year on Thurs-
day, June 14th.
All kiddies of Bellefonte and vicin-
ity between the ages of 6 and 12
years are eligible, and to be able to
go with the crowd must register at
the Elks club with George W. Rees.
The registration will open on Monday
morning, June 4th, and close on Sat-
urday, June 9th.
Busses will leave the Elks club on
the morning of the 14th at 8 o’clock,
and all little guests are requested to
be on hand promptly.
On the afternoon of the 14th Flag
day services will be held at the park
by the Lodge. Hon. M. Ward Flem-
ing will deliver the address and the
public is cordially invited to attend
these services.
—It looks as if the “Solid South”
may split in nearly equal parts on
the question of the availability of
Governor Smith as a candidate for
President.
~The Watchman gives all the
news while it is news.
|in the Union cemetery.
NO. 21.
NUTTY GRAY.
(One of the wise old grays that dwell
the great hickories at “Anawan.”)
0, little Nutty Gray
All through the livelong day
You watch dull care away.
You live with elf and fay,
Lighthearted, free as they.
in
Up with the early morn,
High above the hawthorn,
With your coat all untofn,
So handsome and unshorn,
~ You are never forlorn!
0, little Nutty Gray,
Tell me ever, I pray,
That with you I may play,
Where dwell the elf and fay,
Lighthearted, free as they.
. —Eddie Wieland.
American Legion Will Have Charge
on Memorial Day.
With the G. A. R. Vets so few in
number as to be a negligible quantity
the American Legion has assumed |
the work of carrying on the honored
custom of keeping green the graves
of all soldiers who fought in defense
of their country and its principles.
In Bellefonte the Brooks-Doll post
has assumed the responsibility and
the program they have arranged for
this year is as follows:
Memorial services in the Reformed
church on Sunday morning, at 10.30
o’clock. The American Legion, mem-
bers of Troop B and all old soldiers
are invited to attend.
On Sunday afternoon a detail of
the Post will visit Shiloh and the
Meyers’ cemeteries and hold exercises
as well as decorate the graves of all
soldiers. Rev. Homer C. Knox will
have charge of the religious part of
the program and Judge M. Ward
Fleming will be the patriotic speaker.
Next Wednesday memorial services
will be held in the Catholic cemetery
in the morning at ten o’clock. In the
‘afternoon the regular services will be
The parade
will form in the Diamond to move at
two o’clock, instead of 1.30, as in pre-
vious years. It will eonsist of Wetz-
ler’s Boys’ band, of Milesburg, Troop
B, G. A. R. veterans in autos, the
Brooks-Doll post led ‘by its ‘drum
corps in their new uniforms, P. O. S.
of A., fire companies and. school chil-
dren. The speaker for the day will
Dr. Carrol D. Champlin, of State Col-
lege.
At the completion of the services
in the Union cemetery the Post and
Troop B will go to Milesburg and hold
services there. :
As many flowers will be needed
school children and all who have a
supply are requested to send or take
them to the American Legion home,
on Howard street, early on Wednes-
day morning.
a——————— er ——
Unusually Honored.
It is seldom that a resident leaves
Bellefonte with so many public ex-
pressions of regret on the part of the
community as have been evidenced by
the numerous recent entertainments
in honor of Bent L. Weaver.
- There is a reason, of course. Mr.
Weaver came to Bellefonte only a
few years ago, but immediately took
his place among the most interested
workers for civic welfare. By nature
a modest gentleman he did not aspire
to leadership; preferring always to
stay in the ranks where his clean cut,
constructive, and broad minded intel-
lectuality inspired enthusiasm and
hope in his co-workers.
In everything pertaining to public
welfare he has been generous to a
fault with both his time and resources
so that it has been quite fitting that
Kiwanis, the Y. M. C. A, and indi-
viduals have taken cognizance of
what his intended departure means to
Bellefonte. .
It must be highly gratifying to Mr.
Weaver, these expressions of apprais-
al of his worth as a citizen, for they
are proof to him that his ambition to
be of service to his fellows is being
attained.
—Because of the fact that quite a
number of cases scheduled for trial at
the May term of court, which opened
on Monday, have been continued,
Judge Fleming has cancelled the third
week of court and all jurors sum-
moned for that week were notified
not to appear. On the list of cases
continued were the seven in which
an action in trespass had been
brought against the Pennsylvania
Railroad company by residents of
Centre and Huntingdon counties to
recover damage wrought by a forest
fire along the Fairbrook branch about
a year ago; and which, it is alleged,
was caused by a spark from one of
defendant company’s locomotives.
This is the - third time these cases
have been down for trial and con-
tinued.
a aL
—Big Tom Cunningham will not
need “a pass” when he goes from the
District of Columbia court to the
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Bill Cox, Penn State’s mile run and
cross country champion, was a member
of the United States Clympic team in
1924, while still a high school runner. He
is expected to repeat this year.
—State foresters all over the State are
now busy working on the roads and
trails in the State forests. There are ap-
proximately 22 miles of forest roads and
28 miles of trails in the Commonwealth.
—Miss Kathryn McGlaughlin, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McGlaughlin, of
Renovo, has arrived home from Venezuela,
South America, where she has been su-
perintendent of a hospital for the past
vear, and will spend the summer with her
parents.
—Aroused by the barking of her police
dog, Mrs. Vera - Bender, proprietor of
Shamokin Manor, a roadhouse, near Sun-
bury, escaped from her burning home on-
ly in her night clothing. . The building
and contents were destroyed. The loss is
placed at $10,000.
—Reuben Bantleton, 50, an employee of
the New York and Pennsylvania Paper
company plant, at Lock Haven, was badly
burned about the head and the entire up-
per part of his body when he was putting
caustic soda in a vat of liquor at the pa-
per mill plant. He will lose his sight,
physicians say.
—Watsontown’s burgess and town coun-
cil have announced plans for dedication of
a new $450,000 cement bridge being built
across the Susquehanna river between that
place and White Deer. It will take place
July 4, and will include a big parade with
prizes for floats. Harry 8S. Knight, Sun-
bury, a former president of the Pennsyl-
vania Branch of the American Bar associa-
tion, will make the address.
—An early morning fire at Clearfield,
last Friday, destroyed four stores and
contents and routed five families from
apartments over the stores entailing a loss
of $90,000. The origin of the fire is un-
determined. The blaze destroyed the Nev-
lin block, which housed the National meat
market, Reliable clothing store, the A.
and P. store and a candy store. Occu-
pants of the apartments were rescued by
the firemen who had to carry them from
third story windows.
—Three hundred hogs have been eating
in three eight-hour shifts to dispose of
Wilmerding’s garbage, and by a court de-
cision they will continue to do so. Tax-
payers of the borough sought an injunec-
tion to prevent thc borough council from
renewing a contract with David H. Cham-
bers, owner of the hogs, for garbage dis-
posal. They claimed Chambers was not
the lowest bidder. Common pleas judge
James H. Gray decided the councilmen
had not abused their discretion in award-
ing Chambers the contract. :
—The Rev. James H. Goss, son of Mr.
and Mrs. F. M. Goss, of Lewistown, R. D.
4, has resigned as pastor of St. Paul's
Lutheran church, of Johnson City, N. Y.,
to accept the pastorship of St. Peter's
Lutheran church, York, effective June 1.
The Rev. Goss is a graduate of Susque-
hanna University, Selinsgrove, with the de-
gree of Bachelor of Divinity in 1924, and
degree of Master of Arts from the same
University in ’25. During 1925-26 he con-
tinued post graduate studies in philos-
ophy and psychology at Bucknell Univer-
sity, Lewisburg,
_—In an effort to curb the devastation of
the Japanese beetle, the Jenkintown Im-
provement Association is sponsoring a
demonstration which involves spraying all
the trees and shrubs in the city. When
spraying starts, about the middle of June,
a large meeting will be held for all prop-
erty owners from neighboring places who
wish to learn how to protect their land-
scape materials from beetle destruction.
1 At tle end of the beetle activities another
meeting will be held to survey the results
obtained in the city-wide campaign
against the foreign invader.
—Sneaking from his house towards the
barn where he thought robbers were at
work, Arthur Davis, 40, Ennisville farm-
‘er, was instantly killed Thursday night
as he tripped and a gun in his hands dis-
charged a bullet into his skull. Several
| robberies have occurred in the vicinity, of
the Davis farm, with Davis the victim on
two occasions, and that night when he
heard noises in the barn he grabbed a gun
and went toward the outbuildings. A few
minutes later his wife heard the gun fired
and went out, thinking he had shot at
| them. Instead she found her husband, his
head lying in a pool of blood. He ap-
parently died instantly. i
—Because he was forced to serve a jail
sentence which he believed was due to the
| testimony of his former wife, Frank Radz-
‘ javich, of Shamokin, sought revenge by
! sneaking into the cellar of his estranged
wife's home and loading the coal bin with
| several sticks of dynamite. He then waited
“in a less dangerous territory to hear the
report of his wife's death. When Mrs.
Radzjavich put a bucket of coal in the
kitchen stove, a slight explosion of a
| Quatin cap gave sufficient warning to her
. to leave the premises. She fled to safety
before the dynamite wercked the kitchen
and its contents. The accused husband is
in jail awaiting a hearing.
—Frank Johns, drowned at Bend, Ore.
on Sunday, was 39 years old, a carpenter
by trade. He was born in Sunbury, Pa.
February 23, 1889, and educated in the
public schools there. His family moved
to the West and he attended high school
in Spokane, Wash. Johns became secre-
tary of Socialist-Labor party in 1920, hav-
ing cast his political fortunes with them
five years before and in 1924 was nomi-
nated for President of the United States.
Since his graduation from high school he
had been a farmer, postal clerk, letter
carrier, ship builder, shoemaker, day la-
borer and a carpenter, the trade in which
he was registered at his death.
—Awaiting action by the Water Power
and Resource Board is an application of
the Clarion River Power company filed in
1925 for the right to construct the largest
and highest dam in the State. This pro-
posed structure, to be known as Mill
Creek Dam, would be built across the
Clarion river about two miles above the
mouth of Mill Creek and about six miles
northeast of the town of Clarion in Clar-
ion county. It would be made of concrete
and would be 300 feet high and 2000 feet
wide, creating a reservoir with a capacity
of 284,000,000,000 gallons of water, If
this dam should be built it would ‘back up
the water of the Clarion river as far as
Ridgway, Elk county, a distance of forty-
eight ‘miles. There are no villages in the
valley that would be submerged, but it is
highly probable that part of Cook forest,
for the purchase of which the Legislature
recently made an appropriation, would be
jail.
permanently under water.