Bement
————
INK SLINGS.
—A New Jersey jury acquitted
man charged with stealing two pigs
because he claimed they were his
own and identified them by their
squeal. What do you think of that?
It’s usually the “squeal” that convicts
a fellow.
—According to the Supreme court
of the District of Columbia, a lie
isn’t a lie unless one tells it to a suf-
ficiently large number of people. Re-
member this, liars, your reputation
is at stake and youd better use a
Mike the next time you want to tell
one or you can’t claim any credit for
it at all.
—We have a special concern for
the recovery of King George of Eng-
land. We have long believed that his
oldest son would far rather remain
what he is than have to ascend the
throne of the British Empire and it
would be right mean of George V to
croak and force Wales to give up
what he so evidently prefers to the
King business.
—Yesterday was Thanksgiving day
and while acquaintances might have
thought we didn’t have much to be
grateful for we know, better than
they, that we did. And one of the
things that we gave thanks for is the
endowment of courage that keeps us
true to our conscience and true to
the ideals of this old paper. During
this year more people, than in any
other year of the Watchman’s history,
have discovered that it can’t be
bought, bullied or cajoled into any
other course than the one it believes
to be right.
—The foot-ball season being over
what in the world will there be for
the school children and the college
boys to do until the basket ball sea-
son opens ? We know their parents
will enjoy the respite from continu-
ous importunities for contributions to
the support of the team and for fares
so that the kids can accompany it on
trips and thereby escape the unfair
accusation that they are not loyal,
but what do the parents amount to
these days ? Youth must have its
fling. And it doesn’t give a hang
about how the old folks have to
Scrape and pinch as a consequence.
—Centre county bankers are dis-
cussing the advisability of making a
service charge to those of their pa-
trons who do not maintain an average
~monthly balance of one hundred dol-
lars. Of course they are only discus-
sing it, but you know what that
means. Whether it is done now or
some time in the future, it is bound
to come, for it has long been known
that banks have been handling small’
‘open accounts at a loss for years.
And sixty per cent. of the average
bank accounts come under this class-
ification. Gosh, what a kick there’ll
be when the charge is made. We'll
not join the chorus, however. We're
too puffed up at learning that there
are so many others in our own class
that we’ll pay without shootin’ even
a dirty look across the counter. Think
of the satisfaction of being with the
crowd for once. We rarely get with
it politically, but figures prove that
we’fe right in the thick of it finan-
cially.
—Years ago, in a little church up
in Ferguson township, we went to
Sunday school during the summer
months we spent on the ancestral
farm. A saintly, rugged old gentle-
man named Pennington taught the
class we were in and dispensed pink
tickets and blue tickets to those of
the boys who could recite the “Gold-
en Text” and designated verses from
the Bible. So many blue tickets got
a pink ticket and so many pink tick-
ets got a Testament. We never heard
of anybody getting a Testament. Pos-
sibly there were no boys good enough
to get enough pink tickets. Possibly
we left the neighborhood before the
Testaments were awarded. However
that may have been the whole scheme
had the appearance of a three-shell
game to us and we never entered the
competition with much fervor. If
memory isn’t playing tricks with us
we never became proprietor of more
than one pink ticket. We got some-
thing else out of that class, however.
It was a pet phrase of dear old Mr.
Pennington to the effect that: “the
devil finds work for idle hands to do.”
Years have gone since then and we've
been so busy all of the intervening
time that we've never been in posi-
tion, personally, to prove the truth
or fallacy of our early day teacher's
epigram. There might be something
in it. Almost we have reached the
conclusion that there is. For last
Friday a gentleman from Centre Hall
who recently sold out his business,
after years of continuous application
to it, dropped in for a little chat with
us. He hasn’t a thing in the world
to do—lucky dog—has plenty to live
on all the rest of his life—whole pack
of lucky dogs—so he just stood look-
ing from our office window at the big
trout in Spring creek. He looked and
looked. There was no thought of
how to meet a note in bank or scrape
up enough for the monthly pay roll
to detract from the wonder of the
sight he was seeing. His mind was
unperturbed and his hands idle. Then
he turned to us and said : “How easy
it would be to throw a line in there
any night and pull out a mess of those
big fellows.” After that can you
wonder why we have thought there
might have been something in Mr.
Pennington’s “the devil finds work for
idle hands to do?”
VOL. 73.
Mayor Mackey Defies Boss Vare.
Mayor Mackey, of Philadelphia,
has finally defied boss Vare. After
a long period of dickering and dodg-
ing he dismissed Harry C. Davis from
his office of Director of Public: Safe-
ty on Friday last, and appointed as-
sistant district attorney Lemuel B.
Schofield to fill the vacancy. During
his campaign for election Mr. Mack-
ey publicly declared his purpose to
organize an administration of practi-
cal politicians. In pursuance of that
pledge he named Mr. Davis head of
the police force and created police
districts that vested in the ward
bosses absolute control of police ac-
tivities. As might have been expect-
ed, an orgie of graft set in and con-
tinued until an honest judge demand-
ed a check and an honest district at-
torney began a crusade against vice
and crime.
As the work of district attorney
Monahan exposed a partnership be-
tween the ward bosses, the police of-
ficials and the criminal gangs, Mayor
Mackey became alarmed, not for the
city but for himself, and after sus-
pending a few accused police captains
appealed to director Davis to resign.
At this stage of the proceedings Boss
Vare intervened. Davis is his polit-
ical and personal friend and must
not be sacrificed, he declared. “I am
still the boss,” he said, and thus
created a dilemma. The Mayor se-
cretly visited him in Atlantic City and
argued the matter, but the boss was
obdurate. Finally the Mayor, driven
aroused public sentiment, “took the
bit in his teeth” and “accepted Davis’
resignation.”
Altogether it is a curious mix up of
crime, fear and friendship. The jur-
ist who has repeatedly stated that
“Davis is unfit to hold any public of-
fice” qualifies his arraignment by as-
surances, as. the late Mr. Dana would
put it, of “his distinguished consides-
ation.” The Mayor cheerfully testi-
fies to his integrity, ability and fidel-
ity. The district attorney reveals a
bleeding heart because of his separa-
tion, officially, from so honest and
capable a fellow worker in the cause
of righteousness. Only boss. Vare
protests against the cruelty involved
and is willing to face popular indig-
nation to prove his friendship. The
interests of the organization are im-
portant to him as well as to the oth-
ers, but friendship is a deeper and
finer emotion.
A ————— <r ce—
——DMr. Vare may still be boss of
Philadelphia but since the-ousting of
director Davis his power is less pon-
derous than it used to be.
Surprising Interpretation of Liar.
It is small wonder that public con-
fidence in the courts of the country
is vanishing. The other day a judge
of the Supreme court of the District
of Columbia practically ordered the
acquittal of a wealthy defendant
charged with perjury on an absurd
technicality. The perjury was sub-
stantially confessed and absolutely
proved by the testimony of witnesses
and the records of a committee of the
Senate. But the court held, because
the false statement was made before
physical quorum, it wasn’t perjury
at all. In other words, a lie without
legal trimmings is simply a harmless
indulgence in fancy.
In the United States Circuit court,
in Philadelphia, on Monday last, a
warrant for the arrest of Thomas W.
Cunningham, issued by authority of
the United States Senate, was de-
clared invalid. Mr. Cunningham had
refused to give the source from which
he obtained a large sum of money
he had contributed to the Vare slush
fund in the Senatorial campaign of
1926. There was a widespread belief,
which has been greatly strengthened
by recent developments, that the
money was contributed by protect-
ed criminals and municipal officials,
in violation of statute and moral law.
But the court held that the Senate
committee had no right to ask where
the money came from and therefore
its warrant was illegal.
For more than a hundred years
committees of the United States Sen-
ate have exercised the right to func-
tion without a physical quorum, and
for an equal period of time answers
have been exacted from witnesses
relative to the violation of law in
connection with elections. In the case
of Frank Smith, of Illinois, only a
year ago, such evidence was made
the basis of refusing him a seat in
the Senate fraudulently acquired by
purchase with funds improperly ob-
tained. But political conditions were
different then. Now it is assumed
that the people have given the ad-
ministration a mandate to foster big
business and the courts are helping
along.
——Mayor Mackey is for any mea-
ure of reform now. “When-the devil
was sick, the devil a monk would be.”
to desperation by the insistence of an ;
a tribunal composed of less than a |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. NOVEMBER 30. 1928S.
{ Another Miscarriage of Justice.
Robert W. Stewart, chairman of
the Board of the Standard Oil com-
pany of Indiana, has been acquitted
of perjury by a jury in the Supreme
court of the District of Columbia,
practically by the direct order of the
presiding judge. Mr. Stewart was
one of the participants in a crooked
oil transaction with the Continental
Trading company, of Canada, and
shared in the tainted profits of the
operation. In the Teapot Dome in-
vestigation he testified under oath
that no part of the profits, amount-
ing to $3,000,000, had come to him
and that he had no knowledge of the
distribution of the fund. Subsequent-
ly one-fourth was traced to him and
at a second appearance before the
Senate committee he acknowledged
the fact and alleged that he had
jcreated a trust for use of his com-
pany.
At the instance of the Senate com-
mittee, before which he had sworn
falsely in one statement or the other,
he was indicted for perjury. He get
up the defense that because there was
not a quorum of the committee pres-
ent when he testified to his first state-
ment no perjury was committed. He
gubstantially acknowledged that he
had sworn to a lie and his confes-
sion was abundantly supported by the
records of the investigation and by
other witnesses. But the judge in-
structed the jury that if it were not
proved that eight of the fifteen mem-
bers of he committee were present !
“when Stewart gave the alleged false
testimony” then “its questioning and
.actions were invalid as far as per-
| jury proceeding was concerned,’ and
the jury returned a verdict of ac-
, quittal.
| It was clearly proved that the Sen-
ate committee had authorized a sub-
. committee of less than a physical
; quorum to act in the premises and
{that it has long been customary for
such sub-committees to act. But the
| judge, for some unexplained reason,
| recognized the technicality as valid.
| senator Norris, author of the resolu-
tion to investigate the transaction,
promptly took exception to the ver-
{ diet and declared “such techricalities’
make our judicial system a laughing
'stock.” They do much worse than
‘that. They create a shelter for crim-
linals and make a mockery of justice.
| To give comic effect to the incident
some of the jurors “patted the broad-
shouldered defendant on the back and
commended him after he was formal-
ly discharged from custody.
EE — ly e——————
——All the administration needs
now is to give Senator Borah the wink
to secure his support of any measure.
A ————e ly ———————
Bright Future for Democracy.
It is a hopeful sign of the times
i that notwithstanding the recent over-
| whelming defeat of the Democratic
National ticket the potential leaders,
as well as the rank and file of the
party, are courageous and confident
.of the future. In his statement that
| “the Democratic party is a live, a
| vigorous and forceful major minor-
1ity,” Governor Smith expressed the
| feelings of the nearly fifteen millions
lof voters who cast ballots for him on
| the sixth of November. We were de-
feated but neither conquered nor dis-
mayed. We are a cohesive and cour-
ageous force ready and anxious for
another battle. The principles of the
Democratic party are immortal and
will prevail.
A correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Record writes “during the cam-
paign the Democratic party has been
purged of the last vestige of intoler-
ance. All that it has ever contained
has gone over to the Republican par-
ty and has been welcomed there where
every good Democrat hopes it will re-
main permanently. The Democratic
party stands forth, as the result of
this campaign, as the Liberal party of
America and the true interpreter of
the spirit of our institutions . . . The
Democratic party thus comes square-
ly onto its historic ground and be-
comes the voice of the great, inartic-
ulate mass of American manhood and
womanhood and the champion of their
interests against the encroachments
of the gigantic, cohesive combina-
tions of wealth fostered by the Re-
publican party.”
“Intolerance, bigotry and fanati-
cism are fading out of American life
as certainly as education, culture and
the true spirit of Christian religion
are advancing to a higher level and
surer footing, and when the combina-
tion of these vices and greed and
monopoly now in process of formation
is completed, the people of the coun-
try will turn to the Democratic party
as the only harbor of safety. And
it will not be long to wait. The ele-
ments are already moving. The
monopolists are eager to realize on
their expectations and the inevitable
crash will soon follow. If the Demo-
crats maintain their courage and
steadfastly adhere to their principles
the recent defeat will be converted
into an enduring victory.”
Borah’s Right About Face.
When Senator Borah, of Idaho,
stultified himself by fulsomely eulo-
gizing Herbert Hoover during the
recent campaign, many were surpris-
ed and some amazed. His bitter de-
Bpsiation of Mr. Hoover, on the floor
of the Senate a few years ago, was
a classic in vituperation, But that
is ‘no greater cause for amazement
than his more recent conversion to
the support of the administration’s
naval programme and the World
Court, which enterprise President
Coolidge has declared his purpose to
revive during the coming session of
Congress. Heretofore Senator Borah
has been vehemently opposed to any
form of naval construction that im-
plied competition with other powers,
.and as bitterly against the World
Court.
So far as it is possible to go, even
by conjecture, there has been no
‘change in conditions with respect to
naval construction since Congress
flatly condemned the administration
| Programme a year ago. Then Sena-
tor Borah eloquently and forcefully
| opposed the construction plan on the
| ground, among other reasons, that it
indicated a competitive situation,
| provoked ill will and caused irritation
{ among friendly peoples. He opposed
| entrance into the World Court for
the reason that that tribunal is a
| creature of the League of Nations,
| his pet abomination, and was, in facet,
| something in the nature of a conspir-
acy to inveigle the government and
people of the United States into some
sort of a trap.
But a change seems to have come
over the dreams, or rather the night-
mare, which formerly disturbed his
peace of mind. In New York, the
other evening, at what was called a
“Good Will Conference,” he publicly
announced that he will “do nothing
to block the passage of the bill for
fifteen additional cruisers but will
vate for it.” In Washington, at the
| President's breakfast table, the other
providing for entrance into the World
Ggurt. His own explanation is that
‘ic! desires-to- promete the ratification
of the Kellogg peace pact, but pub-
lic opinion believes that his purpose
is to acquire the favor of the party
machine in the future.
——Be a Bellefonte booster and
use the special envelope and cachet
celebrating the tenth anniversary of
the inauguration of the air mail, in
sending out your Christmas greet-
ings and announcements. The extra
cost will be only three cents and it
will be a good advertisement for
town. The special envelopes, bearing
a five cent airmail stamp, have been
prepared and are being put out by
the Kiwanis club. They are sold
four for a quarter and can be pur-
chased at Montgomery & Co's.
—After all we honestly believe that
Al is happier playing golf down in
Biloxi, Mississippi, than Herb is
riding a government vessel around
South America to shake hands with
a lot of people he doesn’t care a
whoop about.
—On the stage and screen John
Barrymore is just wonderful in the
eyes of the ladies. Now that they
know his real name is John Blythe
we wonder whether the spell he seems
to hold most of them under will be
dispelled.
——The next Legislature will like-
ly have to wrestle with a new charter
for Philadelphia which will provide
for a city manager. The Committee
of Seventy favors such a movement.
——It may be comforting to some
curious minded folk to know that
John Barrymore was really and truly
divorced from his last wife before
he married his present spouse.
——Centre county experienced sev-
eral days of real winter weather ear-
ly in the week, but as this is the last
day of November we can’t expect
much more summer.
——The Ford tax case suit having
been abandoned by the government it
may be assumed that Senator Couz-
ens will have the laugh on Uncle
Andy Mellon. ;
———DMayor Mackey is for any meas-
mind will hope for the speedy recov-
ery of King George, of Great Brit-
ain. He is a “good sort,” as Kings
go.
——Hope also goes freely to the
sick bed of General Booth, the widely
known militant evangelist, who is
seriously ill at his London home.
——1It has been estimated that up
to last Thursday 74,302 special licens-
es to shoot doe deer had been issued
in Pennsylvania,
Ss
morning, he announced his willing- !
ness to favor the pending measure |
NO. 47.
Thomas F. Ryan, ‘the Great Oppor-'
tunist,” Passes.
From the Philadelphia Record.
' The story of Thomas Fortune Ryan
belongs to the Horatio Alger, Jr.,
school of romance. The barefoot boy,
orphaned when 5 years old, rose to a
1
position of tremendous financial pow-
er through the development of native
abilities. Hard work, foresight, op-
portunism, daring and acumen all en-
tered into the accumulation of the
many millions which he leaves behind.
It is the kind of story that we like
to think of as being typically Ameri-
can, as being impossible in any other
country. ;
But the opportunities which Thom-
as F. Ryan seized were more circum- |
scribed than that. They belonged to
a particular period of America. There
are today as magnificent careers open
in this country, but the scene is
changed. Many doors through which
passed the men who rose with Ryan
are closed. New ones have been cut.
The qualities that brought this fi-
nancial giant to the front, however,
would have achieved success for him
in any country and in any age. At
the height of his career he was known
among his associates and rivals as
the “great opportunist.” Time after
time he stepped in, when some or-
ganization was on the verge of de-
struction, and straigtened things out.
He had a genius for bringing order
out of disorder, for getting immedi-
ately to the heart of things. “He is
the most adroit, suave and noiseless
man I have ever known,” his first
partner Willam C. Whitney, once
said.
In politics he was a Democrat,
though he took little interest in par-
ty affairs until his meeting wth Grov-
er Cleveland, for whom he had great
admiration. He was a Tammany man,
and fought the nomination of Wilson
so bitterly at Baltimore that Bryan,
it will be remembered, endeavored to
have him and Mr. Belmont ejected
from the list of delegates. He con-
tributed $60,000 to the Smith cam-
paign fund in the recent election.
Those who knew him best, however, |
' state that politics was merely one of
his few forms of recreation, and it is
i not of record that he ever sought of-
fice or favor from national politicians.
He had his hand in practically ev-
‘ery great branch of American busi-
ness. For instance, he entered the
Philadelphia field after the electrifi-
: cation of the horse car lines. He had
‘organized the Metropolitan Traction
Company, of New Jersey. It united
with the Philadelphia traction syndi-
| cate headed by P. A. B. Widener and
{ William L. Elkins.
‘ganization invaded city after city ac-
quiring street railways lines, gas and
electric companies and developing
them on an enormous scale.
| The man was typical of his times,
‘times of enormous development when
this country awoke to its own tre-
mendous resources. He visioned those
the developments and reaped his harvest. :
| State Building Program.
1
' From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
| The assurance from Governor Fish-
1% that the biggest building program
ever contemplated in Pennsylvania
: will be submitted to the coming ses-
sion of the Legislature naturally will
be received with particular satisfac-
tion by the proponents of the con-
struction bond proposals that were
defeated in the recent referendum. It
is in accordance with the statement of
the fiscal authorities of the Common-
wealth that the State is now in a po-
sition financially to meet the building
‘needs upon a pay-as-you-go basis.
Of course the appropriations for
the single biennium may not in them-
selves suggest the largest building
program ever contemplated for the
State but wise planning for such pur-
poses looks far ahead, furnishing a
system to be followed toward the ul-
timate realization of a great construe-
tion scheme through year by year
building. Governor Fisher early in
his administration obtained a survey
of the building needs and the 1927
Legislature made what he considered
liberal appropriations for the start
toward meeting them. The policy of
the Executive is to keep this program
moving as rapidly as possible. For
instance, he is represented as read
to include in the 1929-31 budget a
recommendation for an appropriation
of more than $10,000,000 for welfare
building purposes alone. State Col-
le and armory projects also are
scheduled for liberal treatment.
It is to be borne in mind by Penn-
sylvanians that their State govern-
ment as emphasized by Governor
Fisher in his inaugural address has
grown into one of the greatest busi-
ness organizations in the United
States and that meeting its needs even
upon the most economical basis in-
volves the use of large figures. Its
population is now estimeted at more
than 10,000,000 and its wealth at
around $30,000,000,000,
Such a State is well able to carry
out whatever building program it re-
quires.
——A false report that Lindy and
his airship had been wrecked near
Brownsville, Texas, became a world-
wide sensation last Sunday. Happily
it was a false report and America’s
greatest aviator is safe and sound.
——George Bernard Shaw looks
forward “to the time when the world
will cease to use coal.” Maybe he is
thinking of his future “after death.”
The unified or-
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Three persons were injured and much
property was damaged at New Castle om
Friday afternoon when an acetylene tank,
being used by Pennsylvania Railroad
workers blew up near the Pennsylvania
Ingine Works. Those hurt will recover,
doctors said. Damage was estimated at
$350,000.
—Awakened early Monday morning by
the noise of the crash when the kitchen
stove fell through the floor into the ecel-
lar, Mr. and Mrs. George Noll, of Easton,
just had enough time to escape from their
burning home to save their lives, being
forced to jump from the second-story
porch roof to safety. Mrs. Noll was in-
jured in the jump. ;
—A verdict of $10,000 damages was re-
turned by a jury in common pleas court
in Philadelphia last week, in an aliena-
tion of affection suit, after a deliberation
of less than a half hour. The suit was
brought by Mrs. Ella Schnitzer, mother
of two girls, against Mrs. Rita Levy, who
was accused of alienating the affections of
Mrs. Schnitzer’s husband.
—Thieves, who evidently craved only “a
roof over their heads,” stole one from a
picnic and dance pavilion on Ridge pike,
‘Barren Hill, Montgomery county, the
property of Thomas Barnhill, who lives
a short distance away from the building.
The roof was of tarpaulin and comprised
about 1000 square feet. It was carefully
taken off and the only trace of the thieves
is a ladder which they left leaning against
the building.
—While Mrs. Carrie Hauger and her
daughter, of Williamsport, screamed for
help, a burglar who entered their room
calmly scanned their faces in the rays of
his flash light before turning and drop-
ping through a first floor window with
8 pocketbook which he had picked up
from a stand in the house. The pocket-
book was emptied and thrown away a
short distance from their home. It coen-
tained only a few dollars.
—Any automobile driver invelved in a
fatal accident from now on will immedi-
ately have his license suspended, accord-
ing to announcement of James I. Stuart,
State Highway Commissioner, yesterday.
The law provides that in all accident cases
including fatal accidents the drivers li-
cense may be suspended and the driver
may then be given a hearing on request,
and if he is found to be not responsible
for the accident, his driver's license will
be restored.
‘,»—The New York Central railroad filed an
application with the Public Service Com-
mission on Monday for the right to aban-
don service on trains Numbers 8 and 9 on
its branch line between Clearfield, Clear-
field couty, and Heilwood, Indiana coun-
ty. This service, according to the applica-
tion, would be furnished by a daily train,
except Sunday, from Arcadia and Dowler
junction. A second application was
made to discontinue service between Mun-
son, Clearfield county, and Philipsburg,
Centre county.
—The western end of Mount Carmel was.
shaken Monday morning when the steam
‘boiler in tbe plant of the Home Baking
company exploded. Indications are that
the safety valve failed to function. The
boiler was blown through the roof and
landed in a nearby garage. Workmen
in the bakery escaped without injury.
Windows in nearby homes were broken,
while all the furniture on the south side
of the home of Russell Mazzari was blown
to the north side of the rooms. The loss
is estimated at $8000,
—Stanley Yarsavage, a miner of Wilkes-
Barre, was taken from a box car after hav-
ing been sealed in it without food or wa-
ter for more than seven days. He was
able to go to his home. Yarsavage told
“railroad police he had been in Detroit, but
lost his job there and wanted to return ro
his family. Being without funds, he
boarded a freight car. Last Friday, as the
train was standing on the Susquehanna
; and New York Railroad, near Newberry
! Junction, trainmen heard him call. Police
| bought Yarsavage a meal and sent him
: home,
! —The Bloomsburg and Sullivan Rail-
road, a short line road between Blooms-
burg and Benton, Columbia county, pur-
chased by the Reading company at a pub-
lic sale October 23, will be operated by the
Reading branch line under an application
filed with the Public Service Commission.
The Bloomsburg and Sullivan company
encountered financial difficulties the first
of this year and as a result the railroad
was bought by the Reading for $70,000
The Reading company’s application said
that it believed the road could be operated
“economically and advantageously” as a
branch line to its system.
—A large building in the heart of Her-
shey, housing a hospital, several auditor-
iums, a theatre and libraries is to be the
newest gift of Milton S. Hershey, choco-
late manufacturer, to the community which
he founded and which bears his name. W.
F. R. Murrie, general manager of the Her-
shey Chocolate company, said Mr. Hershey
planned to spend approximately $2,000,-
000 on this civic improvement. This is his
second $2,000,000 gift to the community
this year, the other was two eighteen hole
golf courses now under construction, with
the Hershey home as the club house. The
projected community centre is to be built
on the square in the centre of the town.
Y It will be four stories high, with the hos-
pital on the roof. Building is to be start-
ed in the spring and structures on the site
already are being torn down. The latest
benefactions have on connection with the
Hershey industrial school for orphan boys
to which Mr. Hershey gave the bulk of his
fortune at the time of the gifts.
—Four orphanage and two religious be-
quests feature the will of Joseph H. Cas-
sel, owner of a chain of 31 grocery stores
in Reading, who died several days ago.
Cassel’s personality was listed at $50,000.
The bulk of his estate, which may reach
$500,000, is in realty. After bequests of
one-third to his widow, $10,000 to a son,
Amos M. Cassel, and $30,000 to a daughter.
Emily C. Smith, are paid, numerous other
bequests go to relatives, but the bulk goes
to charity. George H. McCandless and
Edward Harshaw, of Philadelphia, are
given realty in Los Angeles, Calif., to con-
vert into cash and “use in the Lord’s work
in any manner they see fit.” the will
states, Plymouth Brethren church, West
Reading, is given $1000. After three years,
two of his employees, Howard Rentz and
Asa Erb, are given the privilege of buying
his stores. The residue of his estate, Cas-
sel gives - to the Mennonite Childrens’
Home, Millersville, Lancaster county; the
Home for Crippled Children, Allentown:
Bethany Orphans’ Home, Womelsdorf, and:
Lutheran Orphans Home at Topton, in
equal shares,