Bewort fatcn
—Two more flighty girls are pre-
paring for an air trip across the At-
‘lantic or to Davy Jones’ locker.
—It begins to look as though the
‘“Southern Cross” might make the
farthest point south without “going
west.”
~—Premier Mussolini has extended
‘the olive branch to the Slavs, but
‘they are fearful that he took it from
‘a persimmon tree.
—Col. Mitchell thinks that the Los
Angeles ought to be sent to hunt for
‘Nobile and the Italia, lost somewhere
in the arctic regions. We're for that
if William takes the balloon and goes
himself.
—Recent rains started the garden
things to growing. That is a very
gratifying result, indeed, if the ama-
teur gardener only fails to note that
‘the weeds are even doing better than
the vegetables.
—Various theories have been ad-
vanced as to the purpose which in-
fluenced the appointment of Newton
D. Baker to the bench of the Hague
court. But everybody agrees that it
was a first class selection.
—For the information of a lot of
readers who we know are interested
‘we make this confession: Since the
fifteenth of April to the present mo-
ment we haven’t landed a trout large
enough to keep. And we want to tell
you that that’s some confession for
one who has been building at a pisca-
torial reputation for forty-one years.
. —If we were a candidate for nomi-
mation for President on either the
Democratic or Republican tickets we
‘would answer the clamor as to what
we would do by way of enforcement
of the Volstead act by unequivocally
declaring that we would do equally as
much, and probably more, than Pres-
ident Coolidge has done. Ever stop
to look at it in that way, you people
‘who are so awfully concerned as to
‘what Smith or Hoover might do
:should either one be nominated and
«elected ?
—We hear many things through
the office window. Idlers gather on
‘the pavement not two feet from where
we sit at work and carry on conversa-
tion utterly regardless of the fact
‘that there is nothing to prevent our
hearing but a pane of glass. A few
evenings ago two rather tough gen-
tlemen got into a heated argument
over a beating up that had been given
a young lady the night before. Im-
agine our surprise when one of them
emitted this bit of philosophy: “Well,
she dresses like a man, she swears
like a man, she drinks like a man and
why in the —— shouldn’t she take a
‘beatin’ like a man.
=A. pernsal of the auditors’ state-
ment of the financial condition of
Bellefonte borough and a comparison
with that of three or four years ago
will reveal that notwithstanding an
increase in the valuation of assessable
property and a great jump in the
millage rate it is costing about four
‘thousand dollars a year more now to
run the borough than it did four
years ago. This is not a protest. It
‘is only a reminder to those who are
constantly insisting that we have this
-and that and the other thing that
‘someone has to foot the bills and
the property owners are the ones who
"have to do it. To some of them in-
«creased taxation means nothing. To
-others, however, it means such sacri-
fices that the rich would bawl their
eyes out if they had to make.
—Because we know many of you
will be interested by it we urge you
to read Florence Parry’s story on
‘page seven of this issue. It is an
unusual word picture of President
“Coolidge as she saw him recently in
-a Washington theatre. We have no
doubt of its being a deadly accurate
“likeness. You will recall that when
the President sent his famous “do not
choose to run” message out from the
‘Black Hills last summer this column
-stated its belief that the terse sen-
‘tence was charged with sincerity. We
expressed the belief that Calvin Cool-
idge was tired, tired of a life with
which his nature has nothing in com-
mon. Miss Parry diagnoses the case
in the same way but goes farther.
:She warns that danger signals are
flashing and that we must not forget
the price men pay for prominence.
* There is but one living ex-President.
—Next week our friends, the Re-
publicans, will select their standard
bearer. No matter who is chosen at
Kansas City he’ll be the only man
- alive capable of salvaging a country
where the unemployed are wandering
on the highways like flies and boot-
leggers sit in the places of the
mighty. Of course no one is expect-
ed to inquire as to what party is in
power now and what party should
shoulder the blame for the business
depression and lawlessness that ex-
ists under its administration. Those
timid Republicans who penetrate the
smoke screen far encugh to ask such
a question will be told: If the house
needs cleaning let us clean it our-
selves, and they’ll join in the same
old bally-hoo about the country going
to the devil if a Democratic President
should be elected. That’s a state of
mind we never could understand. We
know hordes of them, however, per-
fectly sane in all of their other men-
tal reactions, who become positively
loony when someone suggests the
idea that a Democrat might have just
as much at stake in good government
. as a Republican.
A
enor
RO
elmang
STATE RIGHTS AND
FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 73.
Mr. Coolidge’s Gettysburg Speech.
The Memorial day speech of Presi-
dent Coolidge, at Gettysburg, was lit-
erally characteristic. In more or less
ornate phrases he acknowledged that
the country owes to the memory of
the heroic dead a sentiment of grati-
tude but protested that the account is
balanced by generous gifts to the sur-
vivors. His only standard of measure-
ment is dollars and cents and accord-
ing to his reasoning the millions paid
in pensions to the Civil war veterans
and the billions to the survivors of
the World war are liberal recompense
for the sacrifices made by the living
and the dead. He expresses the same
idea in referring to the evils of war.
“Our investment and trade relations
are such,” he says, “that any conflict
anywhere would affect us injurious-
Iv.”
It is difficult to imagine how this
train of thought should dominate a
Memorial day oration designed to cel-
ebrate “a great battle between the
Union and Confederate forces, and
with one of the greatest addresses ev-
er delivered by one of the greatest
BELLEFONTE, PA.. JUNE
Cost of Political Campaigns.
A good many esteemed contempor-
aries throughout the country find
pleasure in “poking fun” at the new
Slush Fund committee of the Senate
because it has failed to uncover any
excessive expenditures by or on be-
half of the candidates for President
this year. But its inquisitions have
not been a joke by any means, and it
is certain that much good may come
from them in the end. Most of the
candidates for President in both the
major parties spent little money and
the cost of the campaign for Mr.
Hoover, though considerably in ex-
cess of that of any of the others, was
trifling compared with that of the
primary campaign of 1920 or the
Senatorial campaign in Pennsylvania
in 1926.
The expense problem of political
campaigns has come to be one of
grave importance. Measured by the
expenditures for Vare on one side |
and Pepper on the other in the con- |
test for the Republican nomination
for Senator in Congress for Pennsyl-
vania, in 1926, the money cost of a |
men ever in the world, Abraham Lin- |
coln.” With Coolidge it seems to be
an obsession. “Though we have at'
this time some of our forces in Haiti, |
Nicaragua and China,” he says, “they |
are in none of these places for the
purposes of making war but for the!
purpose of insuring peaceful condi- |
tions under which the rights of our |
nationals and their property may re- !
ceive that protection to which they |
are entitled under the terms of in- |
ternational law.” But in Nicaragua, |
at least, the rights they claim is to!
exploit the natives.
With the effort to renounce war as
an instrument of national policy, |
which the President eulogizes with
great enthusiasm, all fair and healthy |
minds are in sympathy. But even that |
laudable enterprise is under suspicion. .
The League of Nations offered the’
surest and speediest medium of out-
lawing war and establishing perma- |
nent peace but partisan malice creat- |
ed an opposition to the ratification of i
that treaty which was subsequently |
endorsed through a false pretense. Mr. |
Hughes, Mr. Taft and other distin- '
guished supporters of the League, per-
suaded thousands that the election of
Harding “was the Surest way to get |
into the League. Ever since that
fraud was perpetrated Republican
leaders have been trying to devise a!
substitute and justify their action.
—Mr. Lincoln gave the engineer of
his Gettysburg train a gold watch but
there is no evidence that Mr. Coolidge
has “come across” with anything.
§
More Practical than Idealistic.
Late evidence developed by the new |
Slush Fund committee of the Senate
indicates that Mr. Herbert Hoover is
quite practical for a professional
idealist. Ben J. Davis and Perry W.
Howard, negro National committee-
men for Georgia and Mississippi, re-
spectively, testified that they spent
$15,750 in those States in the inter-
est of Hoover delegates. Even at that
they are not sure the delegates whose
election they secured will vote for
Hoover in the Kansas City convention.
organized in Georgia with the cer-
ble-crossed he may not vote his dele-
gation for Hoover.”
When the negro politicians of the
South were lining up in favor of
Hoover it was interpreted as a sign
that the administration is friendly to
the Secretary of Commerce. The re-
gro politicians are invariably with the
administration. The leaders being of-
fice holders they hope to continue in
office if the administration candidate
is nominated and elected. But they
are not willing to work without rec-
ompense in advance as well as the
hope of reward subsequently. This
accounts for the draft on the Hoover
treasury in the primary campaign, an
unusual incident. Heretofore a prom-
ise in advance and a settlement in
cash or equivalent at the convention
served the purpose.
Of the $15,750 disbursed in these
two States for negro support $11,300
had gone into Mississippi, leaving on-
ly $3,950 for Georgia. The reason for
this discrimination has not been re-
vealed but it probably accounts for
the impending contest in Georgia.
Rush 1. Holland, assistant attorney
general under Harry Daugherty’s ad-
ministration of the Law Department
of the government, was the paymast-
er, and he is an expert in measuring
values. But he failed to get the mea-
sure of the man in that case. It is
charged that Committeeman Davis
kept all the money himself and his
disappointed followers are responsi-
ble for the “lilly white” organization
and the threatened loss of delegates.
—Herbert Hoover seems to believe
that he can fool all the farmers all
the time.
|
A “lilly white” party has since been
y Dariy . Republican party managers have op-
tainty of a contest, according to Da-
vis, and if his candidates are “dou- |
campaign for any important office in
this State completely eliminated from
the competition all except million-
aires or the servile tools of predatory
corporations. Even some sincere
reformers were beginning to believe
that a million dollars or more might
be legally expended in presenting the
claims of a candidate for a State-wide
office. The new Senate Slush Fund
committee has clearly proved that
any man fit for the office may make
a camaign covering the entire coun-
try for much less. i
It is estimated by Herbert Hoover's
campaign manager that the expense
of his campaign for the Republican
nomination for President will not ex-
ceed $300,000. This is probably an un-
derestimate, but Hoover’s managers
were needlessly profligate. For ex-
ample, they made expensive contests
in Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia and
several southern States which might
have becn avoided without material
impairment of his chances. Not-
withstanding these extravagances it
is safe to predict that his disburse-
ments will be less than half a million,
while that of one candidate in 1920
was more than twice that much. The.
cost of Governor Smith’s campaign
for the Democratic nomination will be
less than $200,000.
—Two wrongs never make a right. !
Tariff taxing agricultural products
simply gives the farmers a small
share of the plunder taken from the
public.
Support the New Voting Machine
Amendment.
At a recent election held in War-
ren, Pennsylvania, to determine some
local question, voting machines were
used and the people of that progres-
sive little city were well pleased with
the result. The process was found
simple and easily understood, the ac-
tion expeditious and the count prompt
and accurate. It has been predicted
that all opposition to the adoption of
that system of voting has vanished in
that community. In Pittsburgh, where
the system has been fully tested, the
enly expressed themselves in favor of
the voting machines. Recent court
activities may have convinced them
that the machines are safer for elec-
tion officers.
These incidents show that the trend
of popular opinion is in favor of the
adoption of the pending amendment
to the State constitution authorizing
the use of the machines. They indi-
cate that the objection in the matter
of expense is futile. Even if the cost
| of elections were considerably in-
creased the guarantee of the integrity
of the ballot and the honesty of the
return would afford liberal recom-
pense for the added expense. But as
a matter of fact the use of voting
i machines will decrease, rather than
| increase, the expenses of elections to
the extent that within a period of
four or five years the original cost of
the machines will be absorbed. |
But the encouraging reports of sen- |
timent in favor of voting machines
should not be allowed to lull the sup- |
porters of the proposed constitutional |
amendment into a condition of over- |
confidence. There will be strong op-
position to the adoption of the amend-
ment in sections where fraudulent
voting has been developed to a high
point of efficiency. The Vare machine
in Philadelphia and the Mellon-Leslie
organization of Pittsburgh will not
relinquish their opportunity to con-
trol elections by traud without a
struggle, and it is fncumbent on all ,
who favor honest elections to give ;
their best efforts in support of the
amendment. Don’t be fooled by false
pretenses of crafty politicians.
|
—Andy Mellon still holds the Penn-
sylvania delegation to the Kansas
City convention in his vest pocket.
S. 1928
Pepper’s Proxy a Perplexing Problem.
——
- There is a good deal of mental spec-
ulation among politicians as to what
influence moved former Senator Pep-
rer to appoint Senator Moses, of New
Hampshire, to represent Pennsylva-
nia in the Republican National com-
mittee at Kansas City. It is certain-
ly unusual for a member of that im-
portant committee to give a proxy to
a representative of another State. In
this instance it may have peculiar sig-
nificance. Senator Moses has been
among the most enthusiastic support-
ers of Herbert Hoover and as the
proxy carried with it the chairman-
ship of the preliminary committee on
contested seats it conveyed a decided
advantage to the Hoover interests.
It is not certain that the Mellon ma-
chine had such a purpose.
Mr. Pepper might have found in
the Pennsylvania delegation to the
convention a man fully capable of
performing his duties both as member
of the committee and chairman of
the special committee. Governor
Fisher, State chairman W. L. Mellon
or Secretary of Labor Davis might
have been depended upon to carry out
the plans of the Mellon organization
with “neatness and dispatch.” Or
General Atterbury, who will succeed
Pepper after the close of the conven-
tion, could have been relied upon to
perform the service acceptably, and
his appointment would have been a
courtesy to a distinguished fellow
townsman. But he overlooked these
opportunities to cultivate harmony
and good feeling in the party leader-
ship.
Some of those who are concerned
in the matter express the opinion
that Mr. Pepper is dissatisfied with
recent party activities and that the
slight of his colleagues in the delega-
tion is in the form of resentment.
The cordial support of Vare in his as-
pirations and the continuing honors
bestowed upon him could hardly he
other than offensive to a man of Mr.
Pepper’s professional and social
standing, and that he named Senator
Moses as his substitute with the pur-
pose of thus contributing to the con-
fusion of the plans of the Mellon ma-
chine. It may be the straw which
will break the back of the opposition
to Hoover and the lever that will
hoist Mellon. Viewed from any angle
it is a perplexing problem.
—During the fiscal year ending May
31 Centre county trappers collected
from the State $4,314 in bounties on
902 claims for capturing and killing
noxious animals. As the pelts of the
animals killed were worth from three
to four times the amount of bounty
received the total revenue accruing to
the trappers was upwards of twenty
thousand doilars.
—While eighty-eight per cent of the
farmers in Centre county are credited
. with using commercial fertilizers on-
ly twenty-four per cent used lime
during 1927, according to figures com-
piled in the bureau of statistics
Pennsylvania Department of Agricul-
ture. The total amount of tons used
is given as 3,720 and the cost $26,-
410.
—The Massachusetts Legislature
has instituted impeachment proceed-
ings against the Attorney General of
that State for alleged official miscon-
duct. How shocking! Official mis-
feasance is to be expected in uncul-
tured Commonwealths, but who could
have dreamed of such a thing in
Massachusetts.
—Reports have it that Senator Cur-
tis, of Kansas, is cock-sure that he
will be made the Republican nominee
at Kansas City next week. While it
is our idea that the Senator is only
kidding himself we would welcome
him as leader of the opposition. Our
fight would be half won before it is
begun.
—The slush fund investigation has
brought out the fact that George
Washington was once a sachem in the
Tammany Society. This fact prob-
ably caused a shock to a good many
political scandal mongers.
—It is alleged that the story of the
killing of an American mine manager
by Sandina’s rebels was a piece of
propaganda to influence the vote in
the Senate on the proposition to with-
draw the marines.
—It is amusing to hear certain del-
egates to the Kansas City convention
expressing preference for this or that
candidate. Mr. Mellon’s preference is
the only one that will be considered
in Kansas City.
—The proposition of the farm bloc
to raise the tariff tax on agricultural
products is absurd. The only way to
help the farmers by tariff taxation is
to put all products used by farmers
on the free list.
NO. 23.
What a Keen Pennsylvania Farmer
Can Accomplish.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It is not customary to think of
Pennsylvania as a great agricultural
State, because of the large import-
ance attached to its manufacturing
and mining interests, but still it may
claim that when it comes to farmers
it is no small Commonwealth. In-
deed, if we may believe Allentown’s
proud boast, General Harry C. Trex-
ler, of that city, is the boss farmer of
the whole United States, as “it is be-
lieved he has more acres in cultiva-
tion than any other man in the coun-
try.” He has 8000 acres in Lehigh
county alone, and not far from 40,-
000 in the entire United States. Be-
sides his Pennsylvania holdings,
which include thousands of acres in
the Western part of the State, near
Newcastle, he conducts big farming
enterprises in connection with his in-
dustrial plants in Maryland, Virginia,
Florida, Alabama, Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa and the State of Washington.
These interesting facts are inen-
tioned, not from any desire to boost
General Trexler, but as cvidence of
what may be accomplished when a
captain of industry brings to farming
problems that same high inteiligence
he devotes to other questions. The
general is a big figure in the cement
trade, and it is because he gives to
his widely scattered farms the same
care and concentration of attention
that he gives to the cement industry
he is able to command such success.
To his beautiful orchards, his hun-
dreds of acres planted to potatoes, his
2000 acres of pasturage, his wheat
fields, his great private game pre-
serve of 10,000 acres, and his numer-
ous other undertakings he devotes the
best thought that is in him.
These results, which contrast so
strongly with those attained by many
other farmers in Pennsylvania and
other Eastern States, give force to
the theory held by many that in the
not far distant future farming will
be conducted on much the same prin-
ciples as manufacturing, with a high-
ly specialized intelligence directing
ample capital to the best ends of
which the soil is capable.
Pennsylvania Memorials in France.
From the Fhiladelphia Inquirer.
Mayor Mackey was: the orator of
the day at the dedication of the World
War memorial to the State of Penn-
sylvania in the Romagne .cemetéry of
the Argonne, France, Wednesday. In
that spot are the remains of 14,000
American soldiers who gave up their
lives for their country and for hu-
manity. It was an impressive occa-
sion in every way. Ou the previous
day Pennsylvanians under the leader-
ship of General Price dedicated a
memorial bridge at Fismes, also in:
honor of the deeds of the boys from
the Keystone State. * *
dieu paid the visitors the compliment
of speaking in English, and told our
representatives that the bridge was
not only an imperishable monument
which would ever recall their combats
but assured them that the French
would guard it as a gift of the most
precious friendship they had ever
known.
Among the men who participated
in the dedication of the bridges were
many who had been wounded in the
action which took place at that point.
But wherever our men were they gave
a good account of themselves. In the
midst of tangled wires, in the marsh-
es, always fighting, the soldiers of the
Twenty-eighth Division weie given
what a French commander called “the
high seat of honor.” Many of those
present at the ceremonies must have
recalled the day when, facing Fismes,
they completed the capture of the
town.
It was no idie compliment when it
was officially announced that “this
division—the Twenty-eighth—is sec-
ond to none in the entire American
Expeditionary Force.” It is fitting
that it should be embalmed in the
memory of future generations by the
memorial in the Argonne cemetery
and by the bridge at Fismes.
When Wild Game Was Cheap.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
The late Oliver Curwood in his re-
markable novel, “The Plains of Abra-
ham,” makes frequent reference to
the Pennsylvania wilds and the period
preceding the Revolutionary war.
Among other things he writes of the
abundance of wild life, the squirrels
being so numerous in 1749 that Penn-
sylvania paid three pence a head for
600,000 that were killed as pests. At
that time wild turkeys sold for a shil-
ling apiece and pigeons brought a
penny a dozen. It was then that the
frightful slaughter of wild life by
white people began. As many as a
thousand deer were killed in a single
drive by the merciless system of fire-
hunting, the carcasses being left to
rot. Hides were worth from ten to
forty cents each. Stags were sold for
a cheap jack-knife or a few iron nails.
While this was true of the whites in
the forest days the Indians were then
and have always been conservation-
ists, not killing for the love of killing,
pu in order that they might obtain
ood.
ese seanse fp f a———
—The price of votes in the Kansas
City convention will be governed by
the laws of supply and demand.” The
South will furnish the supply.
M. Tar- |
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONK
—Approximately 2,000,000 people attend-
ed county fairs in the Commonwealth last
year, according to L. H. Wible, director,
bureau of statistics, Pennsylvania Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
—Lieutenant-Governor Arthur James, of
Wilkes-Barre, has been a patient in the
University of Pennsylvania hospital for a
week. He is recovering after an operation
on his right eye to correct a muscular dis-
order which had affected his sight.
—The Milliron Construction company, of
DuBois, lowest bidders for the construe-
tion of the new steel and concrete bridge
to replace the old covered wooden struc
ture over Bald Eagle creek, west of Mill
Hall, were awarded the contract by Clin-
ton county commissioners at the low bid
of $40,449.70.
—Zacharias Bamberger, a Civil war vet-
eran and member of the company of
mounted infantrymen that escorted the
body of President Lincoln from the rail-
road station in Harrisburg to the State
capitol, where it lay in state, died at 11.30
o'clock Saturday night, nine days past his
ninetieth birthday. He had been ill sev-
eral weeks.
—Announcement was made on Monday,
of the purchase of the Juniata Tribune,
a weekly nespaper published by the late
I. T. Mitchell, at Mifflintown, by the Sen-
tinel Publishing company, of Lewistown.
This is the first step toward the forma-
tion of a chain of weekly amd daily news-
papers to be published by the Sentinel,
Lewistewn’s only daily.
—George Idell, Philadelphia architect,
and Wilbur Steinbach, of Steinbach and
Soms company, Lewistown, have reported
that the Mifflin county almshouse is not
beyond repair, and that an expenditure
of $50,000 would put the institution in
good shape. Mifflin county commissioners
have allowed the building to remain idle
for a considerable time after it was elosed
by the State Department of Welfare.
—Two Petrolia, Butler county, Boy
Scouts have perfected a radio receiving
and sending outfit which they can operate
in an automobile traveling forty-five miles
am our. G. O. Yough, scout master, and
John Naylor, his assistant, reported test-
ing the apparatus and said they were able
to transmit messages to each other for a
distance of five miles. They said also that
they picked up other amateur stations om
the automobile set. The experiment was
made at eighty meters.
—John H. Hilliard, of Pennsylvania
Furnace, has been retired by the Penn-
sylvania Railroad company after serving
as a traeckman for nearly 50 years. Mr.
Hilliaré was first employed in the con-
struction of the Clearfield and Cambria
branch of the Tyrone division and later
on the Fairbrook branch. In his entire
50 years of service, he never suffered a
persenal injury of any kind, was never
disciplined and did not miss a day’s work
in the last eleven years on account of ill-
ness.
—Acting on the order of the chief bur-
gess to stamp out gambling, police raided
a poolreom, at Shamokin, Saturday night,
arresting two proprietors and twelve pa-
trons. Steel bars and locks employed as
a guard against raids by the owners be-
came a trap when police broke in the
front door and the gamblers could not
get the bars down from the back door in
time to make a getaway. One man, desig-
nated to keep watch at the front door,
failed to Keep his trust. Police were tipped:
off by a man who lost $98. :
—The Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh
Railway company is arranging to plant
its watershed areas located near Johnson-
burg, Punxsutawney, Indiana and DuBois
with forest tree seedlings next spring.
The seedlings. will be supplied from the
State forest tree nurseries of the Penn-
| S¥lvania Department of Forests and Wat-
ers. Railroad companies throughout the
State are planting large numbers of forest
| tree seedlings each year for water-shed
| protection and the elimination of fires
; along their rights of way.
i —An intensive search has been in pro-
| gress the past week for a clue to the
Whereahouts of John J. Green, assistant
cashier of the McDowell National bank at
Sharon, who disappeared about May 20
while en route to a convention of the
Knights of Columbus at York. The last
seen of Green, it was learned, was when
he left Sharon, supposedly for Pittsburgh.
to join other men going to the convention.
Officials of the Sharon bank said Green's
accounts were in good order. They could
assign ne reason for his absence.
—The United States government, on
Monday sold the property of the new Hal-
lam Distilling company, near Hallam,
York county, for $425 at a public sale.
The property, which was the scene of
several spectacular raids and a fire since
the national prohibition law went into
effect, had an appraised value of $10,000 to
$15,000. The sale was ordered by the in-
ternal revenue department to satisfy a
lien for a sum approximating $17,000 for
the non-payment of Federal taxes for the
withdrawal of whiskey from the com-
pany’s bonded warehouse. The property
was sold to Menotti Gohn, of Hallam.
—Attorney J. Kintner, of Johnstown,
formerly district attorney of Clinton coun-
ty, will make formal application to the
State board of pardons at its meeting on
June 20, for the pardon of Raimondo Val-
entino, of Avis, young Italian who was
sentenced to life imprisonment several
years ago after a jury had found him
guilty of first degree murder of Howard
Wagner, of Jersey Shore. Urged by his
attorney to enter a plea of guilty to man-
slaughter, Valentino refused, maintaining
his innocence throughout the trial, which
resulted in his conviction of first degree
murder with a jury recommendation of
life imprisonment.
—To cater to the desire for something
new, Morgan B. Emig, of Hallam, York
county, has built a three-room bungalow
in a large buttonwood tree on his ances-
tral acres. It is surrounded by a screened
porch and overhangs a placid creek. One
can lie in a hammock and see the fish in
the stream below when the water is clear.
It is furnished, heated and lighted. He
also has installed colored electric lights
on top of an 85-foot flag-pole that attracts
the attention of travelers on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad nearby and on the Lincoln
highway, a mile away. A power unit in
the top of the tree gives such volume to
a loud speaker of the radio set that it
can be heard far away on a calm evening,
It was planned especially for honey-moon-
ers, but also is used for small parties.
A flight of steps on the trunk of the tree
leads up to the cottage.