A ns
Bem
INK SLINGS.
— Almost we would have forgotten
‘that the Hon. Holmes is running for
his third term in the Legislature had
not a friend called attention to the
fact that we have been neglecting him |
of late. Cheer up, Honorable, but
don’t be encouraged! Well get
around to you in a week or two.
— Another one of the reasons why
‘Smith should not be elected President
is “because he’ll fill all the offices with
Catholics and then we can never get
him out.” That’s the “Sheriff” Shear-
er line of reasoning. Smith has been
Governor of New York for four terms
and Catholics have found out that
there is no plum tree in that State
that creed can shake. But aren’t all
the offices filled with Republicaus
now? And how many of them, do
you suppose, are going to vote against
Mr. Hoover?
—Florence Knapp, former Secre-
tary of State of New York, is in jail
in Albany because she was convicted
of appropriating public funds to her
own use. Florence had probably been
in the habit of rifling the “old man’s”
trousers without being “called” for it
so she probably thought she could do
the same with the public pants. She
is a Republican, too. One doesn’t of-
ten hear of a Democrat being caught
for crookedness in office. It’s always
Republicans. And yet there are
those who think that the minute some
poor Democrat happens to get himself
elected to something dooms day is at
hand.
—A project is on to give the coun-
ty a library. How much need there
might be for such a public service is
a matter of opinion, of course. If the
books were going to keep themselves
in order and walk about over the
county to those who want to read
them the tax payers might be ca-
joled into voting a little millage for
the purpose of founding such a li-
brary. But since there will have to
be a librarian and a book distributor
that would mean two more on the
payroll in Centre county. Once on
we never are able to pry them off and.
it is our belief that the tax payeis
will take to this proposal about as
fast as an oyster would climb a tree.
—A woman of our acquaintance, a
Republican by the way, is going to
vote for Smith for a reason that
might sound very funny to some of
you. She is curious to “see just what
will hapepn if he is elected.” Hor
idea, we should say, is a very god
one. She is a woman of more than
average intellectuality, gets about a
lot and knows why, how and what
government is. She is not opposed to
Mr. Hoover but she does admire the
candor of Al Smith. And she’s go-
ing to vote for Al because she wants
“to ‘see just what will happen.” In
other words, she believes that the only
way to find what a man of such ap-
parent force as Smith possesses will
do is to give him a chance. She knows
that if he doesn’t deliver he can be
turned out four years hence.
We're not kidding ourselves into
hoping so strongly that Pennsylvania
will go for Smith that we're going
to be disappointed if it doesn’t.
Stranger things than that have hap-
pened, however. Last Saturday we
motored to Pittsburgh via the Wm.
Penn highway and returned on the
Lincoln route. We made frequent
stops at filling stations for man and
motor. At every one of them we ask-
ed this question: “Whom do the folks
around here seem to be for for Presi-
dent.” Notwithstanding the fact that
every bit of the territory traversed is
normally, solidly Republican we got
the same answer, in substance, to ev-
ery inquiry. It was this. “Most of the
people round here seem to be for
Smith.” We know that we made
more than a dozen inquiries and not
one of them resulted in the mention
of Hoover’s name. Such casual feel-
ing of the public pulse might not re-
veal that there is anything funda-
mentally wrong, but it does indicate
that the political heart of Pennsyl-
vania is getting a bit nervous.
—Dr. Millikan, physicist of the Cal-
ifornia Institute of Technology, as-
sures us that the Earth is “fool proof”
and will be tearing around in space,
a usual, a billion years from now.
The learned gentleman is a comforter.
Night before last, after a dinner
largely composed of green corn, cu-
cumbers and apple pie, alamode, we
had a horrible dream. Vivid as if he
had actually been there we saw the
Angel Gabriel standing tootin’ his
horn on the promontory at Grand
View on the Lincoln Highway. Away
off to the south and east the glow
of a fire illumined the horizon. En-
thralled and quaking we watched it
come nearer, nearer, until we could
discern the outlines of men and
beasts fleeing in panic before it. We
tried to turn and run but we couldn’t
and our bewilderment became agony
when we caught “The End of the
World Has Come” out of the Babel
of sounds that rose like the roar of a
tornado. Gosh! How relieved we
felt when we woke up. Not especial-
ly because we think our chance isn’t
as good as a lot who think there’s is
better, but because this old world
isn’t so bad and we hope it lasts long
enough for Republicans to discover
that the chief aim of Democrats isn't |
to wreck it. Incidentally, we hate to
name a lot of saints we recognized
in the panic stricken mob that looked
more terrified than we felt.
A
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 73.
BELLEFONTE. PA..
SEPTEMBER
1928S.
NO. 35.
Two Very Important Amendments.
In the anxiety of voters to elect
their favorite candidates for Presi
dent other matters of great import-
ance should not be overlooked. For
example, the constitutional amiend-
ment providing for the voluntary
adoption of voting machines is a mat-
ter of great significance. Recent in-
vestigations have sbown that ballot
frauds have become so common in the
large cities of Pennsylvania that an
honest expression of public opinion
through the ballot box is an excep-
tion. This is a menacing situation.
No popular government can endure if
the popular will is habitually defeat-
ed by fraud, as ithasbeen in recent
elections. The voting machine affords
the only reasonable hope of correcting
this vital evil.
However much men and women dif-
fer on political principles and party
policies all honest voters agree that
elections should be conducted honest-
ly, in complete conformity with the
law, and that the returns should be
accurate and just. In case these ex-
pectations are fulfilled there will be
disappointments with the result but
no animosities or resentments. Good
citizens are fair-minded and “majority
rule” is a fundamental principle of
good citizenship. If voting machines
will promote this result, and it is ful-
ly and widely believed they will, they
will be worth all they cost many tim=s
over. And as a matter of fact they
will materially decrease rather than
add to the expense of elections.
It appears, and has been publicly
announced, that upward of two thou-
sand applications for admission to
State College had to be turned away
this year Hecause of inadequancy of
equipment of that splendid institution
to accommodate them. If this condi-
tion continues it will be an inefface-
able shame to the honor and an in-
dellible insult to the intelligence of
the people of the State. Approval of
the constitutional amendment providi-
ing for eight million dollars for State
College will avert this disgraceful
danger. Joint Resolution No. 13 re-
fers to the voting machines and Joint
Resolution No. 3 to the State College
equipment. Both should receive the
cordial approval of the voters of the
Stale si.
iN
—— Senator Robinson, of Arkansas,
calls the whispering scandal mongers
“political serpents hissing in the
dark,” and it would be hard to find a
more appropriate name for them
Coolidge Fiction Exposed.
In his speech at the Grangers’ pic-
nic at Williams’ Grove, Cumberland
county, last week, Thomas Pryor
Gore, formerly Senator in Congress
from Oklahoma, totally blind but
wonderfully eloquent, presented some
interesting facts and figures on the
subject of Coolidge prosperity. Mr.
Gore served fourteen years in the
Senate and during six years of that
period was chairman of the Senate
Committee on Agriculture. Because
of this service he is peculiarly fitted
to discuss agricultural problems with
farmers. He very clearly proved that
the farmers of the country have re-
ceived no part of the prosperity and
showed exactly why they got none.
“Prosperity based on special priv-
ileges,” he said, “can never be uni-
versal. Apart from the limited sort
of prosperity for the special classes
there has been no prosperity under the
Republican regime.”
cept those favored, have not prosper-
ed. During the eight years of the
Wilson administration there were 578
bank failures in the United States.
During the seven years covered by
the adminstrations of Harding and
Coolidge there were 4890 bank fail-
ures. Commercial and industrial
failures have increased in nearly the
same ratio since the Republican par- |
ty assumed control. But farmers
suffered in even greater ratio. Bank-
ruptcy among farmers has increased
1000 per cent.
The figures quoted to prove these |
statements are not guesses or esti-
mates. They are statistics taken
from the records of the government
at Washington. They expose the
falsity of the claim of prosperity as
completely as Governor Smith reveal-
ed the falsity of the Coolidge pre-
tense of economy. As Senator Gore
says, “Coolidge is the greatest nov-
elist we have ever had in the White
House. His prosperity and his econ-
omy are alike fiction.” A few indus-
tries like the automobiles and a few
bankg of very large capital have been
prosperous, but at the expense of oth-
ers less favored, as the four or five
million army of unemployed plainty
shows.
——Rev. John Roach Straton con-
tinues to vilify Governor Smith
though decent people everywhere have |
condemned him as a “clerical mounte-
bank.” :
The banks, ex-
Smith and Hoover Methods Compared.
Of course the Anti-Saloon League
would have supported the Republican
candidate for President whether he
were as wet as the ocean or as dry as
the desert. From the date of its or-
ganization it has been an annex to
the Republican machine and there is
a strong suspicion that a considerable
part of the funds to meet the high
salaries of its officers came from the
treasury of the Republican National
committee. It is not surprising, there-
fore, that the Anti-Saloon League is
supporting Mr. Hoover, though it is
not easy to figure out why it is doing
so. Herbert Hoover is not a prohibi-
tionist in practice and he has not giv-
en a pledge to support the Volstead
law.
In his speech of acceptance Mr.
Hoover said the question of prohibi-
tion enforcement is an experiment
which ought to be treated progres-
sively. He admitted that the Vol-
stead law had not achieved the de-
sired result. That being true he must
have in mind some other expedient
the nature of which he has not re-
vealed. He favors the Eighteenth
amendment but without enabling leg-
islation by Congress it is a dead let-
ter. The plain inference is that he
would amend the Volstead law but
hadn’t the courage to say so. He has
acquired the gum-shoe habit and im-
agines he can fool the people by pus-
sy-footing on the subject. Only the
fanatics will be deceived by such
methods.
Governor Smith, who is candid and
courageous, pledges himself to sup-
port the Eighteenth amendment, and
declares himself unalterably opposed
to a restoration of the saloon. But
he, too, realizes the inadequacy of the
Volstead law and the necessity of a
more efficient measure. His aim will
be to promote temperance. He will
recommend such legislation to Con-
gress, if elected President, and will
enforce it without resort to criminal
and other vicious methods. He will
eliminate the bootleggers, the speak-
easies and the highjackers. To the ra-
tional minded temperance advocate
this policy ought to make a strong
appeal. To the sincere temperance
men and women it will be persuasive.
Williams’ Grove last week, every em-
ployee of the State at Harrisburg,
willing to hear him, was given a holi-
day: :
Different View of Issue.
Both the major party candidates
for Vice President delivered address-
es on Thursday of last week. Mr.
Curtis, the Republican nominee, spoke
at the Grangers’ picnic, Cumberland
county, and Mr. Robinson at Hot
Springs, Arkansas. Mr. Curtis stress-
ed tariff as the paramount issue of
the campaign. He said the Democrats
want “to let down the bars protect-
ing American agricultural products.”
Eggs are his pet farm product. Out
in Kansas, he says, “they call him
Egg Charlie.” Anyway he aspires to
he the champion of the egg and he
is immeasurably elated because there
‘were only 80,000,000 dozen of eggs
imported last year against £3,000,000
during a Democratic tariff period.
On the other hand Mr. Robinson
| appraises farm relief as the biggest
issue of the campaign though prohibi-
tion, merchant marine and political
corruption are matters of importance.
Both party platforms recognize the
urgency of farm relief, but after eight
years of effort to solve the problem
the Republican party has failed. Tt
| offers to renew the promise made four
' years ago and presents Herbert Hoov-
er as surety. In 1925 Mr. Hoover
promulgated the theory “that agri-
cultural production should be limited
to the demands of our domestic mar-
kets.” In other words, this expert
mining engineer would forbid the
| selling of agricultural products in
foreign markets as a remedy for do-
mestic surplusses.
Most folks like eggs for breakfast.
| They are no longer needed for egg-
nog, but as a matter of fact the pro-
duction of eggs has become a work of
| specialists and is no longer a feature
of farm activity. Maybe that is the
reason Senator Curtis takes so deep
lan interest in eggs. He is a hard-
boiled partisan and his party has be-
| come so completely committed to
specialties that he imagines protect-
ing eggs is a personal obligation. Be-
sides if he could shift public atten-
tion from the delinquencies of his
party in other directions and the cor-
ruption in office during the adminis-
trations of Harding and Coolidge by
pleading for protection for eggs, he
would be performing a great service
to Hoover.
——The Kellogg peace pact is
gaining force every day and the prep-
aration for war is moving forward in
about the same ratio.
When Senator Curtis spoke ‘at’
Traitor John O’Donnell EI
ated.
In summarily dismissing = John
O'Donnell from leadership of the
Democratic party in Philadelphia
State chairman Collins not only =x-
pressed good judgment but high
courage. For many years this polit-
jcal traitor has “held up” the State
organization against the wishes of
the real party leaders and the wel-
fare of the party and the public. At
the recent session of the Democratic
State committee an attempt was made
to unload him. But for the reason
that many regarded the time inaus-
picious and others were influenced by
timidity, it failed. After chairman
Collins entered upon his duties he
diplomatically urged O’Donnell to ve-
sign. After some equivocation he re-
fused.
As chairman of the Philadelphia
City committee O’Donnell has been
operating a political “trading post”
for many years. In consideration of
certain patronage he has been making
it possible for the Vare machine to
disfranchise thousands of Democra-
tic voters and create zero returns
whenever it was deemed desirable to
do so. Because of his perfidy thou-
ands of earnest Democrats in Phila-
delphia have refrained from partici-
pation in political activities. And nis
malign influence has extened beyond
the limits of that city. Thousands
of up-State Democrats have become
discouraged for the reason that the
frauds in Philadelphia nullified the
efforts for party success elsewhere.
An opportunity was offered to Mr.
O'Donnell to retire gracefully and he
But, presumably after conference with
the leaders of the Vare machine, he
conluded that he could work greater
ing a fight and refused to resign. This
aroused the spirit of national chair-
man Raskob, national committeeman
Kistler and State chairman Collins
and they set about to reform the
Philadelphia organization with O’Don-
nell eliminated. It was a bold move
right and just and will have the cor-
dial support of Democrats through-
out the State. There is no room for
traitors in the ranks this year.
More Foreign Than Home Hunters
After Doe Licenses.
Up to Monday of this week county
treasurer Lyman L. Smith had receiv-
ed approximately five times as many
requests for the special doe licenses
from hunters outside of Centre coun-
ty as he had from hunters within the
county. The special doe licenses were
only received last week and to be ex-
act up to Monday about one thousand
had been issued to hunters within the
county while in the neighborhood of
five thousand applications from hunt-
ers outside the county were on file
and waiting to be filled.
And right here we want to add that
on the way out of the court house af-
ter obtaining the above information
we passed two hunters discussing the
license question. Both of them were
evidently opposed to the killing of doe
but they decided to go back to the
treasurer’s office and buy a doe li-
cense just to keep hunters from out
of the county getting them.
If the Game Commission, in its rul-
ing permitting the killing of antler-
less deer only, had proclaimed that
licenses to kill doe could be obtained
only by hunters resident in the coun-
ty, it is quite possible that the de-
mand would not have been as great
in Centre county as for the regular
license in former years. But under
the ruling as it now stands Centre
county woodlands will be overrun by
a horde of hunters from all parts of
the State and the probability is that
deer hunting will be spoiled for years
to come.
Many private landowners on the
various mountains are threatening to
post no trespass signs, but whether
this will have any restraint on the
foreign hunters who invade Centre
county remains to be seen.
—We quote no less authority than
the New York Times when we state
that Republican managers in New
York rushed to Washington and pro-
tested against the raids of federal of-
ficers on the night clubs of that city.
Mr. Hoover was in Washington at the
time. Strange as it may seem the
raids either stopped at once or be-
came mere perfunctory visitations of
officers who did nothing. It doesn’t
look good to us. And it convinces us
all the more that the dry element is
leaning on a weak reed when it places
‘reliance on Herbert. When the word
gets out to Hollywood that night
clubs in New York will be safe until
after the election, and maybe then
some, Tex Guinan will probably come
back and announce for Hoover.
——The Watchman gives all the
news while it is news.
apparently assented to that course. |
harm to the Democratic party by mak- .
and may cause litigation but it was |
Women’s Clubs of County Backing
a County Library.
The Centre county federation of
Women’s clubs are backing ‘the
movement for a county library and
bespeak the thoughtful interest and
consideration of every citizen in che
undertaking. To establish a county
library will naturally mean the ac-
cumulation of money in some way to
bear the expense.
Under the law the county commis-
sioners can assess a tax for this pur-.
pose, not to exceed two mills, provid-
ing the question be submitted to the
voters of the county and approved by
them. Consequently the matter will
be up for consideration at the Ne-
vember election, as the county comn-
missioners have agreed to have it
printed on the ballots.
As the women now figure it will
require about a one mill tax to es-
tablish the library and keep it in
proper circulation. The headquar-
ters would be in Bellefonte. One good
sized storage room would be needed,
and one person to handle the books.
There will also have to be an exper-
ienced librarian and a man with a
truck to put the books in circulation
throughout the county, and also gath-
er them up after they have been read
No charge would be made for the use
of the books.
In this connection it might be stat-
ed that a library is no longer neces-
sarily an imposing building with mar-
ble columns housing books. Rather
it is a service through which people
are furnished books. The organiza-
tion of this service varies.
In Pittsburgh there is a main Ji-
brary located way out from the center
of the city available to only the few
who have the time to make the long
trip out through the crowded city.
So the city has taken the library to
the people. There are branches in ali
parts of the city. Some are in large
reading rooms, many in play centers,
while in the summer time stores are
the repositories. The readers apply
for the books in adanvce and three
times a week a truck arrives bringing
‘ the case of books required at the par-
ticular station.
A county library is organized in the
same way. The job is not more dif-
are spread ‘over an arei“equal to a
county, while the population: served
would be greater. :
There must be, in organizing a
county library, one large center or
clearing house. This clearing house
| would not be open to the public but
| merely the ware room where books
| are kept. The books would be taken
out to the various stations or reposi-
tories by means of a truck. The sta-
tions would vary in size with the
number of readers served. The large
boroughs might have reading rooms,
other sections might use the rural
schools, the Sunday school rooms, the
Grange hall, and even the corner gro-
cery might be called upon to furnish
room. ¢
The ware room or main center
would be in charge of a trained li-
brarian whose job it would be to se-
lect the books wanted, distribute them
and keep the records.
Here's a Money-Making Scheme for
the Borough.
Walking out south Water street, on
Monday morning, the writer was ac-
costed by a gentleman who was look-
ing at the trout and asked if he would
be permitted to take a handful of the
water moss growing on the bed of the
stream above the falls. On being
assured that no one would interfere
with him taking what he wanted the
man climbed down over the wall,
gathered a handful of the moss, then
climbed back to the pavement.
In explanation he stated that he
lived in Pittsburg and wanted the
moss for his goldfish aquarium. He
stated that he could buy it out there
but they charged 25 cents for a root
of the moss about the size of a man’s
thumb, and the handful he gathered
would cost from $1.50 to $2.00.
And to think that only about three
weeks ago the borough paid out good
money to clean the moss out of the
creek and carted away to a dump
some five or six tons of it. At the
price they charge in Pittsburg it
would probably have been worth sev-
eral hundred dollars wholesale. So
why not sell the moss in the future.
——The Anti-Saloon League seems
to be afraid that a plan will be de-
vised to enforce the Eighteenth
amendment, thus cutting them off the
——Mr. Hoover spoke eloquently in
favor of tolerance but the National
committee of his party seems to be a
fountain of whispering intolerance.
——Mayor Mackey, of Philadal-
phia, resented the charge that he had
lied, which put his accuser under the
necessity of proving it.
ficult than in the city, for many citiss
SS PR ERT SR Ry,
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
Walter Leathers, aged 26 years, of
Salona, an employe of the Bellefonte
Limestone company there, suffered a com-
pound fracture of the right leg when a
rock rolled against a truck. He was using
an iron bar to pry the large pieces of rock
loose for loading on the tru*k when the
accident occurred.
—Ralph Rupert, 19, of Beech creek, an
| employe of the Horne Construction com-
pany on the State highway west of Lock
Haven, narrowly escaped serious injury
when the truck he was driving went over
a forty foot embankment. He injured bis
left knee and suffered numerous bruises
and contusions over the entire body.
| —Ten thousand acres of cut over forest
‘land in Cherry, Colley, and Laporte town-
ships, Sullivan county, have been acquir-
ed by Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll, of Phila-
delphia, who has had plans and specifica-
tions prepared for a $40,000 summer home
to be erected at a point of eminence on
the tract. An elaborate landscaping pro-
ject to provide a fitting setting for the
mansion also is planned.
i —Henry A. Dapper, of Carrick, has of-
fered $1,000 reward for the arrest and con-
vietion of the murderer of his son, or.
Harry R. Dapper. Dr. Dapper, youthful
i physician, was taken on a mysterious call
‘in his own car two weeks ago and shot to
death by a stranger. His father rode in
| the back seat of the car at the time of the
| slaying, and was beaten severely in his
| attempt to overpower the slayer.
! Thieves forced an entrance into the
! warehouse of the Booth Tobacco company,
i at Columbia, Pa. early on Sunday, and
i stole cigars, tobaccos, cigarettes and other
| goods said to be valued at $1,000. They
took the loot away in an automobile bear-
ing Pennsylvania license number 730-187,
the car having been stolen from Norman
H Stevenson who had parked the machine
in front of his home a half square from
the scene of the robbery.
—In default of bail, three boys ranging
in age from 13 to 15 years, have been put
in jail, in Armstrong county, awaiting ar-
raignment on the charge of causing ma-
licious mischief in the granary of the
Gates company, on North Grant avenue,
Gallitzin. Officers say the boys have al-
ready admitted gaining entrance to the
place and slashing bags of flour with a
knife, and then taking a can of disinfec-
tant and pouring it over books and papers.
Frank Penic, of Manifold, Washington
county, got a holiday grouch, police say,
and swung an axe threateningly. A trifle
careless, however, the axe slipped and the
blade almost cut off his nose and other-
wise severely injured him. When his ia-
juries had been treated, he refused to sub-
mit to arrest, Deputy Sheriff Harry Welsh
charges. Welsh says Penic was joined im
his resistance by his wife and a boarder,
Joseph Diemetz, Welsh finally conquered
the trio and all were lodged in jail.
—(Conditions have reached such a stage
in Windsor, York county, that sidewalks
are not safe for pedestrians, it is claim-
ed, nor can churchgoers worship in peace.
Because of these conditions, chief burgess
H. F. Gohn has issued a warning that all
boys using “scooters” and riding on the
sidewalks are an annoyance to pedestrians
and that the practice must be stopped.
He also requests Main street residents
to refrain from washing automobiles on
Sunday. This practice, it is claimed, has
become an annoyance to those attending
ligious services.
—More than six tons of dynamite were
used in a blast at the quarries of the
Stowe Trap Rock company in Montgomery
county, on Friday. It is estimated that
85,000 tons of stone were dislodged by the
blast, but so well calculated was the ex-
plosion that spectators stood at points of
danger from flying fragments. When the
blast was set off masses of stone were
lifted in the air and then fell to the
bottom of the quarry, which in places is
100 feet in depth. Sixteen holes, each con-
taining about 750 pounds of dynamite,
were exploded together.
Clifford P. Graham has been elected a
director and treasurer of the Lewistown
Trust Company to succed Karl Bergey
who resigned six weeks ago, and is await-
ing trial to account for a shortage of
$28,000. The shortage was largely traced
to the manipulations of Thomas Ayers and
his peculiar methods of financing auto-
mobiles. Ayers is now in the Altoona hos-
pital seriously injured in an automobile
accident Tuesday night of last week. He
js also under $4,000 bail charged with
uttering and passing drafts in the amount
of $10,000 without funds in bank.
—Captain David B. Miller, state high-
way patrolman of Greensburg, has been
sentenced to four months in the Butler
county jail and fined $1,200 by Judge John
R. Henninger, for malfeasance in office.
Miller was found guilty at the June term
of court of ordering a member of the But-
ler patrol to change charges against an
automobile driver from driving while in-
toxicated to driving in a reckless manner.
Judge Henninger indicated that the jail
sentence will be suspended, if Miller goes
into court and promises not to show fa-
voritism in the discharge of his duties.
Miller will appeal the sentence, according
to his attorneys.
__Members of the Pennsylvania State
police have been sent to Summit Hill,
Carbon county, at the request of angry
citizens because of an outrage committed
in St. Joseph’s Catholic cemetery, where
eighty-three tombstones were dabbed with
black paint, and the wording of which
aims at a political allusion. The larger
stones were smeared in perpendicular
style with the wording “Who-ver”, and
across the width of the crosses on many
of the smaller stones is the same wording.
The oily substances of the paint on the
rough-faced stones make it almost im-
possible to have them restored. Some of
the stones may have to be replaced.
After serving seven weeks of a mini-
mum sentence of six months in Luzerne
county jail, Roger 8. Williams, former
treasurer of the South Side Bank, Wilkes-
Barre, was paroled by Judge Fine. Wil-
liams pleaded guilty several months ago
to a charge of embezzlement and threw
himself on the mercy of the court. At the
time of his arrest it was stated the total
of his defalcations was approximately
$64,000 and that full restitution had been
made by relatives. The board of directors
said the bank had not suffered financially
and asked olemency for Williams. ‘When
Judge Fine sentenced Williams to a term
of from six months to two years imprison-
ment in the county jail he said that he
would entertain a motion for a parole at
an early date. Williams asserted the
money was lost in the stock market.