—_Ida Tarbell, noted historian and
analist, has come out enthusiastically
for Smith. She is for him, she says,
‘because of his great service to wo-
men.
—Think of it! In just thirty-four
days fall will be here and we've had | 3
only three week’s wear out of the
“homberzine” suit we bought when
the hot wave hit town.
— Unless he is a very unusual col-
ored person we fear for the future of
Stephen Dorsey, the Columbia chaf-
feur, to whom a physician of that
city bequeathed his fine automobile
and five thousand dollars in cash. A
far less windfall has been the down-
fall of many a man.
—0dds on Hoover's election dropped
from three and one-half to one to
two and one-half to one, on Wall
street, last week. The gambling fra-
ternity evidently thought that when '
it becomes necessary to reassure a
Republican that he will carry Penrn-
sylvania it comes time to hedge a
little. :
—Oh gosh, Charles O’Connell, one
of the vice presidents of the Republi-
can League of Philadelphia, has re-
signed because he is going to support
Governor Smith for President. We
note the incident, not because
cause it forces us to reconstruct our
idea of the motives of Philadelphia
politicians. We salute, Mr. O’Connell,
as we would anyone who had his
“hooks in” and pulled them out for
conscience sake.
—We're still rooting for the “Afa-
letics,” but we don’t believe that Cor-
nelius McGillicudy knows as much
about the game as Col. Jake Rupert.
The tall tactician sits on the bench
and makes his ball players while the
obese owner of the Yankees sits at
his desk, presses a button, and sends
someone out to buy ‘em. We all
know that we are only kidding our-
selves when we think that “home
brew” is as good as the Molsen’s we
can go up into Canada and get.
for certain offices the law fails to dif-
ferentiate between the kinds of mon-
ey o spent. We are only guessing,
but we're reasonably sure we're stat-
ing a fact when we say that every
penny Mrs. Pinchot spent came out
of her own pocket. There were prob-
ably no contributions to her campaign
fund by those who hoped to profit by
the same thing then they can come
into a court of investigation with
clean hands.
—Dry laws in the United States
are being given credit for the success
of American contestants in the
Olympic games. At least Mr. Ernest
Cherrington, director of the depart-
ment of education of the Anti Saloon
League, would have us believe that.
We are not saying a word in contra-
vention of those who advocate temp-
erance, because we advocate it also, |
but Mr. Cherrington is a purveyor of
bunk. Long before the country went
Volstead athletes who hoped to get
anywhere voluntarily abstained from
alcoholic beverages, tobacco, indul-
gence in highly curried foods, and
short crusted pies.
—The preacher who dabbles in pol-
jtics, no matter who he is, forgets
that it is the Lord’s pulpit and not
his that he is occupying. In every
church there are men and women of
different political, social and business
convictions. One group is just as
sincere in its devotion to its ideals
as the other. The fact that they meet
at the altar of God for worhip is con-
fession that they have one ideal in
common. Why should the servant of
their Master drive a wedge between
them? It seems to us that the church
is teetering on the edge of acknowl-
edgement that it can’t save by grace
and wants to resort to law.
—You will recall, doubtless, that
Mrs. Pinchot ran for the Republican
nomination for Congress in the Fif-
teenth Pennsylvania District The re-
sult placed the interesting lady in the
class of the “also rans.” Not satis-
fied with having heaped such humilia-
tion on her someone has started an
investigation into her expenditures
in the campaign. It is said she spent
too much. We wouldn’t be a bit sur-
prised if she did, but it was her mon-
ey, she came by it honestly and we
haven’t a doubt that she thought she
was spending it honestly. While the
law says that so much money and no
more can be expended in a campaign
—Sports writers for the metropol-
itan newspapers are sore at Gene
Tunney, retired heavy-weight chan-
pion, because he declines to be inter-
viewed and won’t pose for camera
men. They take the ground that he
is “high hatting” them now that he
has harvested the fortune their bally-
hoo made for him. The newspaper boys
are all wrong. Tunney voluntarily
took himself out of an atmosphere he
doesn’t like and his desire for pri-
vacy ought to be respected. Besides,
the sports writers didn’t make Mr.
Tunney. He made himself and if he
hadn’t had the stuff te fight his way
to the top reporters wouldn't be
camping on his trail as they are. And
if he wasn’t “good news” when they
were ballyhooing for him, as they
claim to have done, were they honest
with their papers and their readers
when they were doing it.
it,
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Mr. Hoover's Speech of Acceptance.
The principal fault in Herbert
Hoover's speech of acceptance is that
he has been entirely too conservative
or too modest in praising the achieve-
. ments of the Republican party within
‘the last eight years. “Never has a
political party been able to look back
upon a similar period with more sat-
.isfaction. Never could it look for-
‘ward with more confidence that its
record would be approved by the elec-
torate,” he said. Within that period
. two members of the President’s cabi-
net have been indicted in criminal
courts for corruption in office and
in the high court of Public Opinion
‘convicted. Half a dozen other public
officials, favorites of the party, have
been tried, convicted and sentenced
for crimes.
Continuing in this vein of eulogy
Mr. Hoover declares his party has
‘made peace with the world, reduced
expenses of government by two bill-
ions of dollars, the national debt by
upward of six billion, taxes have been
reduced four times, commerce and in-
dustry been revived, faith in the fu-
| ture restored and “security, comfort
and opportunity brought to the aver-
age American family.” As a matter
of fact President Wilson laid the
foundations of peace and the Republi-
can administrations since have pre-
vented its completion. Nearly half
the reduction of debt was achieved by
the Wilson administration and the ex-
penses of government have not been
reduced at all. The tax reductions have
been mainly in the interest of monop-
olies and millionaires.
Mr. Hoover credits his party with
the increase in population, in fam-
ilies, in use of electricity, and instal-
lation of telephones and radio sets.
There have been 14,000,000 more au-
tomobiles put in service by the Re-
publican administration and our cities
made magnificent with beautiful
buildings, parks and play grounds
‘and the country knit together with
the gift in the event of her election. :
If her successful opponents can say :
splendid roads. These are grand
achievements but not the greatest.
The party has doubled the use of
electric power, increased the purchas-
ing power of wages, reduced the
hours of labor, multiplied the num-
ber..of children attending. the public
schools and abolished poverty. All.
these great things have been achieved
within the past eight years. If he
had been less modest he might have
claimed the party created the earth.
! In controversial questions
' Hooyer is not so “cock sure.” To the
' depressed farmers of the country he
| throws the sop of a renewed promise
to give relief and discredits the pledge
by adding “an adequate tariff is the
foundation of farm relief.” In other
words, he would put a tariff tax on
turnips and tomatoes equal to that
on farming utensils. The trouble
with that is that turnips and toma-
toes are never imported and tariff tax
on them would serve no purpose while
the tax on farming implements near-
ly doubles their cost and pyramids
the profits of the manufacturers. In
view of this fact there can be little
comfort for the suffering farmers in
his assurance that if elected he will
“use his office and influence to give
the farmer the full benefit of our
historic tariff.”
On prohibition enforcement he is
equally vague. He says “our coun-
try has deliberately undertaken a
great social and economic experiment,
noble in motive and far-reaching in
purpose. It must be worked out con-
structively.” He seems to be fond of
that bit of phrasing. It entranced
Senator Borah and reconciled him to
the iniquities of his party at a mo-
ment when he was searching in every
direction for an excuse to fall into
line. But to a reasoning mind 1t
doesn’t mean a thing. It might im-
ply a purpose to amend the Volstead
law or repeal it, and it might be con-
strued as a purpose to enforce it. But
it satisfies the prohibition fanatics
and probably that is all it was in-
tended to accomplish.
The setting of the affair was mag-
nificent, however, and the speech
sounded fine in the ears of those who
are deaf to reason and blinded by po-
litical prejudi . The Standford Uni-
versity stadiuia is an admirable thea-
tre for such an event and the elabor-
ation with which it was staged shows
that the Republican machine for the
coming campaign has been generous-
ly greased. No expense was spared
to make the event memorable in the
annals of party events. There were
75,000 in the audience and the speech
was as fine a specimen of political
persiflage as has ever been presented
for popular entertainment. It cost a
lot, of course, but the oil barons and
tariff pensioners “are rich enough ‘0
buy us all a farm.”
——Governor Fisher also assures
Mr. Hoover that Pennsylvania is safe
for the ticket this year. But the ne-
cessity for such assurances suggests
doubt.
Mr.
Decency in the Campaign.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. AUGUST 17
The semi-official announcement that
Herbert Hoover will not sanction
“mud-slinging” in the impending cam- |
paign will be unpleasant news for the
Rev. John Roach Straton, the irrev-
erent William Allen White and other
ecclesiastical and political buccaneers
who hoped to gain favor in the mind
of the Republican candidate for Presi-
dent by slandering Governor Smith."
As a matter of fact slander directed
against Governor Smith is a harm-
less weapon. His record in public
life and his conduct in private life
are alike beyond reach of the tongue
of scandal, and in administering
a rebuke to those who have under-
taken that method of warfare Mr.
Hoover was both wise and decent.
That both the major party candi-
dates for President this year are men
of exemplary character is a matter
worthy of popular felicitation. Any
attempt to besmirch the character of
Herbert Hoover would fail for the
reason that his life has been free from
scandal. The same is true of Alfred
E. Smith. It is true that Mr. Hoover
sat silently in cabinet council while
Fall, Daugherty and others were
looting the people of the country. It
is equally true that Mr. Smith sat
as a member of the Tammany Society
of New York while members of that
organization were robbing the city.
But neither of them participated in
the crimes nor derived profit from the
criminal operations.
There are differences between the
candidates which may properly be
brought to public attention in the
strife to enlist popular favor for each
of them. There are issues between
the parties that may justly be discus-
ed by the adherents of either. Bui
the religious affiliation of the candi-
date is not a legitimate subject of at-
tack, because freedom of religion is
not only sacred to the individual but
is guaranteed by the fundamental law
of the country, and the morals of both
candidates are above reproach. Gov-
ernor Smith had previously protest-
ed against “mud-slinging” in the
campaign. Now that Mr. Hoover has
sounded the same note it is to be
hoped we may have a decent cam-
Possibly Pennsylvania will cast
its electoral vote for Hoover, but if
Smith gets 200,000 votes in Philadel-
phia and carries Pittsburgh that ex-
| pectation may be disappointed.
Disposing of the Treasury Surplus.
' In all his long continued and fre-
i quently expressed anguish over the
constantly increasing treasury surplus
| State Treasurer Lewis has never giv-
| en a thought or uttered a word in fa-
‘ yor of the most feasible and effective |
. method of arresting the evil. He
| asks voters to oppose the several con-
stitutional amendments authorizing
loans for specific and admittedly need-
ed purposes for the reason that pres-
ent treasury resource and future rev-
enue propects will amply meet all re-
quirements. If there were any as-
surance that the funds would be ap-
propriated to the purposes desired by
the people there might be some merit
in his reasoning. But the action of
future Legislatures is uncertain.
As we have heretofore said it might
be safe to rely on legislative action
for highway construction and main-
tenance. But there is no certainty
that future Legislatures will be just to
other interests that require assistance.
The charitable and penal institutions
and the educational necessities are
quite as pressing, though the re-
sponse to their just demands is not as
freely given. The adoption of con-
stitutional amendments covering these
essentials will guarantee their safe-
ty and need not swell the interest ac-
count as much as Treasurer Lewis
estimates. The money may be bor-
rowed only as it is needed and if the
Legislature appropriates from the
surplus it needn’t be borrowed at all.
The proper way to reduce the sur-
plus is to reduce taxes. For several
years the fiscal officers of the Com-
monwealth have been working over-
time in discovering mew subjects of
taxation. The results of these efforts
have been a dangerous treasury sur-
plus. In other words, money has bean
taken from the people in excess of
the legitimate requirements of admin-
istering the business of the State,
which is nothing less than legalized
robbery. The remedy for this mis-
chievous evil is to abolish the exces-
sive taxation and thus cut the reve-
nues to the actual expenses of the
government. If State Treasurer Lew-
is would put his oratorical efforts to
this purpose he would render better
service to the people.
——Senator Dave Reed spent a
trifle over $5000 to secure his renom-
ination. Compared with what Vare
spent two years ago that was cheap
enough. :
Sensational Preacher Reb
The Rev. John Roach Straton, pas
tor of the Calvary Baptist church of
New York, in a recent sermon declar-
ed Governor Alfred E. Smith to be “the
deadliest foe in America today of the
forces of moral progress and true po-
litical wisdom.” Of course every fair-
minded man and woman in his con-
gregation promptly appraised this as
a deliberate and malicious slander.
Governor Smith’s fine record in pub-
lic life is a continuing refutation of
the statement which in itself con-
demns Dr. Straton as one of those
loose-tongued preachers who do the
church more harm than good and
strive more for personal notoriety
than to convert sinners from their
evil ways.
But Dr. Straton will not be permit-
ted to escape from the just penalty of
his malignancy by the silent censure
of a complacent public. Governor
Smith promptly challenged him to in-
vite the Governor to his church and
permit him to reply to the accusation
and leave the congregation to deter-
mine the issue between them. This
proposition gives the clergyman the
great advantage of a friendly jury.
But it puts upon him the responsibil-
ity of proving his charges after a full
exposure of all the facts in the case.
Dr. Straton prefers another stage.
He probably imagines he would have
greater opportunity to strut in a
theatrical environment.
There may be another reason why
Dr. Straton prefers another forum
than his own pulpit in which to de-
termine the question which he has
so wantonly raised. Justice William
Harlan Black, of New York, who is
chairman of the Board of Trustees of
Calvary church, has already adminis-
tered a stinging rebuke to his pastor.
Referring to the matter he said “I do
' know that I would not be so profound-
ly interested in Governor Smith’s suc-
cess if I had not known him intimate-
ly for thirty-five years, and if I did
fot know that he is the cleanest and
most loyal man in politics today. His
is easily the most progressive record
before the American electorate.”
._~—Mayor Mackey,
of. Philadel-
, is’ not.adverse €o a little graft-
‘ing by his friends. It is a part of
the game as taught in his political
school.
A Late Fall but Hard Winter, Says
Little Nittany Farmer.
Living down Little Nittany valley
is a farmer who claims we're going |
to have a late fall but very hard win-
ter. The man in question does not
claim to be an expert weather prog-
nosticator but bases his above predic-
tions on two things which, he avers,
he never saw fail.
Ordinarily, he says, the calling of
the whippoorwill is rarely heard af-
ter the first week in July, and crows
and robins nest early so as to give
the young birds ample opportunity to
mature in time for the migration
south. This summer, he states, the
whippoorwills are still calling and
crows and robins have hatched out a
second brood of young. This, he de-
clares, is a sure indication of a very
late fall, and a late fall is certain to
be followed by a severe writer.
— An unusually cool spell of
weather folowed last week’s extreme-
ly torrid wave. The cool wave arriv-
ed last Saturday evening and on Sun-
day morning the temperature was
down to 52 degrees above zero. Mon-
day morning it was 54 and Tuesday
morning 56.
— No adjourned meeting of bor-
ough council was held on Monday
evening, owing to the fact that bor-
ough solicitor Spangler had nothing
to present in connection with the set-
tlement of the purchase of the Gam-
ble mill property.
rl ———————
—1In 1866 hay was grown in Cen-
tre county at an average of 1.2 tons
per acre. Last year the highest yield
in the State was at the rate of 1.65
tons per acre. The highest price re-
corded was in 1919 when hay sold for
$24 a ton.
——1If provisions or rules of the
Highway Department could automat-
ically annul a driver’s liecnse when
he appeared on the highway drunk, it
would help some.
——An airplane may be catapulted
from a ship in motion has been dem-
onstrated but what’s the use. It only
gained a couple of hours time.
— In New Jersey you have to
touch bottom to be a trespasser even
in a private pool. But getting in and
out might be troublesome.
——When real farmers come in
direct contact with Governor Smith
they realize they have a genuine
friend with them.
NO. 32.
{ Why Not Wake Up.
From the Clearfield Republican.
Why do we get all het up every
four years over the election of a i-
dent and the proposed change in the
administration of Federal affairs?
Why not evince equal interest in
the administration of local public
business and the spending of our own
money ?
Down at Washington they spend
very little of our money, except what
is taken from us indirectly through
tariff taxes benefitting subsidized in-
terests.
We go along day after day and
year after year and pay little or no
attention to the ways and means sur-
rounding the hundreds and hundreds
of thousands of dollars we pay an-
nually in borough, school, county and
poor taxes.
Very few taxpayers ever read the
annual report of receipts and ex-
penditures of the county government
and still fewer reports of receipts and
expenditures of borough, township
and school district business.
How many of us have given any at-
tention to the inequalities, unfairness
and worse of our tax assessing and
collection methods? The tax system
in vogue in Pennsylvania today, the
method of valuation, assessing and
collecting, came down to us from
Clune and is over four thousand years
old.
Pennsylvania today works under
the most antequated, wornout, unrea-
sonable and unjust tax system in the
United States.
Efforts time and again to remedy
and get in line with other States have
met with defeat, overwhelming de-
feat, session after session of the Leg-
islature. :
And why? Because the people, the
tax-payers, pay no attention and go
on under the years borne burdens
without complaint, or at least with-
out intelligent protest, and seem con-
tented. :
When the taxpayers, and we mean
the home owners, farmers, and com-
mon people, wake up and get on their
toes things will be different.
The local and county officials we
elect are not to blame. They are
proceeding along the beaten path of
the old rut and will continue to do sc
until the laws are changed.
Governor Fisher in his inaugural
referred to the unjustness of the pres-
ent system of assessing and collecting
taxes, but the sufferers never paid any
attention and the old order. continues.
Might pay all of usto- ;
touch with the things that ‘concern
‘us directly, our pockets, the right to
_own a modest home and not be tax-
ed out of comfortable existence.
The Prohibition Issue Must be Met.
' From the Philadelphia Record
Pierre S. duPont is now free to give
‘all his attention to supporting Gover-
“nor Smith for President and to the
{advancing of his own campaign
‘against the Eighteenth amendment.
Both he and President Sloan, of the
General Motors Corporation, have
been at pains to make it clear that
' Mr. duPont’s temporary withdrawal
| from that organization was deemed
advisable so that the public might un-
derstand that Mr. duPont’s activities
in the Association Against the Eigh-
teenth Amendment in no way involve
the big industrial corporation. But
why this extreme caution?
Mr. Sloan appears anxious to con-
vey the impression that he disap-
proves of the entrance of Big Busi-
ness into politics. Very well, but
there is no reason why big business
men should not enter heartily into the
campaign and fight for those things
i which their individual consciences tell
them are for the best interests of the
country.
Mr. duPont deserves applause for
his stand, and in this instance he is
absolutely right. He is right in his
presidential preference and he is
right in declaring that the present
status of the prohibition question
calls for a prompt and effective read-
justment.
It is silly to quibble, evade or pus-
syfoot about it. The simple fact is
that the prohibition experiment in
this country has been proved a fail-
ure, and that conditions grow worse
instead of better. We may agree with
Mr. Hoover that it is “a noble experi-
ment,” and we have the utmost re-
spect for those honest and earnest
citizens who have hailed it as a great
moral blessing and who believe that
it may yet rise, phoenix-like, from
its own ruins.
But the Volstead act has filled the
land with hypocrisy, graft and crime.
Something has got to be done about
it. It is the duty of all honest citi-
zens who take this view to work
wholeheartedly to that end, while
conceding, at the same time, the right
of their dry neighbors to fight as
strenuously for what they conceive to
be the right.
The prohibition question cannot be
kept out of this campaign. It is in it,
whether we like it or not.
——Gene Tunney has fought his
last battle with his fists. His future
encounters will be “tongue lashings.”
——Jugo-Slavia politicians show
contempt of death by electing a dead
man to manage their campaign,
——Herbert Hoover's appeal for
| tolerance in religious beliefs does him
‘credit.
.in closer,
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
| —Believing he was suffering from an in-
{ curable disease, Clark Gross, 27, Easton
‘ policeman, went into a vacant lot, on
‘Monday, and shot himself.
| _william Brody, of Ambridge, aged 2T,
"was arrested and sentenced to six months
in the penitentiary for having in his pos-
! session a small revolver which he had
taken for security on $5 he had lent a
friend.
—A huge boxwood tree, said to be at
least 200 years old and valued at $2000, is
being dug up at the summer home of Ella
Ball, near Lancaster, preparatory to be-
ing transported to the duPont gardens at
Wilmington.
—While the family of Mr. and Mrs. Ir-
vin Fravel, of Beech Creek, were attend-
ing church, on Sunday, their home was
entered by way of the porch roof and a
front window and was thoroughly ran-
sacked. Nothing of value was secured.
—Mrs. James J. Hall, of Butler, woke
up just in time to see a man leaving her
bedroom carrying her husband’s trous-
ers. She woke her husband who chased
the thief. The trousers, minus a wallet
and a small amount of money, were found
in a nearby lane. z
—Augustus Wolf, aged 77, of Chambers-
burg, sought to demonstrate to a safety
inspector that a planing machine in his
mill did not need a safety guard. Now he
is in a hospital following an operation
for the amputation of his left hand. The
hand was caught in the machine during
the safety demonstration and almost sev-
ered.
—John W. Ferree, a farmer near Mill
Hall, had three fingers of his right hand
amputated at the Lock Haven hospital,
Thursday, following an injury sustained
when he fell among the knives of the bind-
er on his farm when the horses became
frightened at a bolt of lightning and
started to run away as he was trying to
draw a canvass cover over the machine to
protect it from the storm.
—When Walter Stump, of Glen Rock,
Yory county, pleaded guilty in court at
York, on Monday, to a charge of larceny,
he said he stole forty-three white Leghorn
hens from the coop of Harry Hildebrand,
farmer, near Glen Rock, because he need-
ed money to pay for an operation on his
little daughter, who has been sickly for a
long time. He was sentenced to eleven
months in the York county jail, a fine of
$11 and costs.
—A box of candy from Germany, some
clothing and $19, stolen from Governor
Fisher's cook, landed Alfred Offord, Negro
of Washington, in the Dauphin county jail
on Monday. Offord was imprisoned in
default of $500 bail. Mrs. Lizzie Page,
cook to the Governor, was entertaining
delegates to a Negro Baptist convention in
that city in her home. During the height
of the reception Offord is accused of hav-
ing entered through a window. Mrs. Page
told Alderman Windsor she mourned the
loss of the candy more than any of the
other stolen articles.
__The first case of small pox in Oil City
in more than five years was reported to
the city health department on Monday.
Ethel Menser, daughter of Mrs. William
Menser, of Clarion, who is visiting in Oil
City, is the victim. It is not known
where she contracted the disease, but all
known persons with whom she came in
contact have been vaccinated, and all
possible precautions taken. Authorities in
Clarion. were communicated with and the
health officer there managed to find some
60 persons in that city and vicinity who
were exposed, and they have also been
vaccinated. :
__An astonishing opinion was delivered
at Harrisburg, on Monday that an eye's
loss does not necessarily mean disfigure-
ment of the face. This stand was taken
by chairman Houck, of the Workmen's
Compensation Board, disallowing the ap-
peal of Nicholas Lehman, Reading, against
termination of his compensation agree-
ment. Lehman was injured while work-
ing for Mark Reimer, Wyoming. The
opinion upheld the referre’s decision that
the wound caused by removal of the eye
healed well and the loss of the eye is not
of such a character as to produce an un-
sightly appearance.
__A man’s home isn’t his castle any
more, at least not along the Susquehanna
Trail, acording to Abraham Ellenberger,
of Sandy Beach, a suburb of Sunbury.
He was seated in his little cottage along
the road, on Saturday, when Horace Jones
dozed at the wheel of his car. It side-
swiped three other autos and then ran
into Ellenberger's home, throwing it from
its foundation twenty feet to the bottom
of the old Pennsylvania canal bed, near-
by, carrying Ellenberger along. He was
picked up unconscious and taken to the
Mary M. Packer Hospital, where he was
found to have suffered severe lacerations.
_I11 health, aggravated by the exces-
sive heat, is given as the cause for the
suicide of B. H. Houseworth, prominent
Sunbury attorney, who died late Friday
night in a local hospital. Houseworth, a
former football star at Susquehanna Uni-
versity, fired three bullets into his head
and one into his chest Thursday after-
noon. In his office, where the shooting
took place, was found a note giving poor
health as his reason, and requesting that
«if the suicide is a success, give my body
to Undertaker Fred R. Dornsife, but do
not spend more than $400 for my funeral.”
He also asked to be buried in Selinsgrove.
—One of the largest bequests to a chauf-
feur in the history of Lancaster county
was made in the will of Dr. Harry B.
Roop, of Columbia, to Stephen Dorsey, al-
so of Columbia. By the provisions of *he
will, which was admitted to probate in
the Lancaster county court, the Negro
chauffeur will receive $5000 plus accrued
interest, the legacy to be paid at the rate
of $50 a month until exhausted. Dorsey
will also receive the automobile recently
purchased by the physician. The remaind-
er of the estate is bequeathed to the wid-
ow, Mrs. Martha Roop. Dorsey had been
in the doctor’s employ for almost thirty
years.
—Because there was no organized fire
department, either paid or volunteer, in
the borough of Mahaffey, Clearfield coun-
ty, dependents of Fred Patterson, electro-
cuted while fighting a fire in June, 1927,
connot obtain compensation. The Work-
men’s Compensation Board so ruled last
week. A referee had disallowed com-
pensation and the board sustained him.
An act of 1923 provides compensation shall
be paid dependents of volunteer firemen
killed while on duty. Patterson's widow
and daughter put in a claim, but the testi-
mony disclosed that there was no fire de-
partment in Mahaffey and that at a fire
citizens just volunteered their services.