INK SLINGS.
In a panic of despair last week we
turned to rambling, pointless com-
ment on “hexing” in order to get this
column filled up. When we read the
stuff in the proof it seemed so inept
that we were minded to delete it all,
but since there was nothing to take
its place it had to “ride.” As is often
the case paragraphs with the least
punch seem to command the most
reader interest.
From many persons, locally and
abroad, we have heard so much about
it that we infer that there are more
readers with a well developed curios-
ity about the subject than we had any
idea of.
Why is it? Just why should any-
one be interested in fortune telling,
looking in the Almanac to see the
right sign to do gardening, knocking
on wood when they want to ward off
ill luck, or thousands of the other
little hocus pocuses we all indulge in
occasionally. They say it’s a sign of
superstition and only the illiterate
and ignorant are superstitious.
Call it what you may there’s a bit
of it in the nature of every human
being, rich or poor, high or low, in-
tellectual or moron.
It dates back so far that we shall
not attempt to find its genesis. That
would be of little interest anyway.
However, civilization—which is en-
lightenment—has advanced by leaps
and bounds since they burned witches
at the stake upin New England, yet
witchcraft, or belief in it, is still in-
herent in the human mind. That fact
was proven beyond question at the
trial of the “hex” murderers down
in York county only last week. And
we call them “poor benighted souls”
when as a matter of fact they suffer
violently from what affects us only
mildly. In other words there are few
of us who don’t have a sneaking be-
lief of some sort that is pretty near-
ly a half brother to hexing. If we
don’t—
Why did the boys of our genera-
tion wear a string of red woolen
yarn around the neck to prevent nose
bleed ?
Why did so may men tie a piece of
cel skin arund their wrist to keep
their muscles from becoming strain-
ed?
Why couldn’t a hotel keeper, once
well known in Bellefonte, sleep if
someone accidentally kicked his shoes
off a certain spot at the side of his
bed where he always placed them be-
for retiring?
Why did a certain young farmer
we know grease a wagon tongue
with goose grease and pointed it in
the direction of a neighbor’s barn so
that the rats that were eating up
everything in his grainary would go
to board with his more opulent neigh-
bor for a while ?—they did do it, too.
We could keep on whying clear
down to the end of the column but
what’s the need. If you are honest
with yourself—and we don’t care who
you are—you’ll admit that in some
form or other you have some pet sup-
erstition. If you won't we'd like to
be in a room with you at the time
some person start to hoist an um-
brella.
To this point we have treated the
subject as the offspring of supersti-
tion. In the degree in which it is
believed in we are inclined to think
it is, yet there are so many collateral
sides to it that we own to a certain
mystification.
We talk about the devil and one
of his imps appear. We sit in the
rear of a large audience and concen- |
trate on some one sitting in front of
us. Invariably he or she will turn and !
look back in a very short time. That
is mental telepathy, you say. Per-
haps it is. If it is, what is “hexing ?”
Hypnotisin is accepted by science as
a reality. We know its not a fake
because once we submitted to the will
of a “professor” just far enough to
discover that in another moment he
might have had us doing all sorts of
fool things had we not snapped out
of it. And what, if you please, is the
difference between the hypnotic sug-
gestion and the “hex” suggestion? If
we're ready to swallow hypnotism
why strain at “hexing?” Hypotism
or “hexing” isn’t in it for results with
pow-wowing or fire blowing. Hpy-
notism only makes you believe that
the big wart on your nose isn’t there.
An honest to goodness pow wower
will give that old wart such a dose
of marasmus that it will fade com-
pletely in two weeks. Hypnotism on-
ly makes you believe that the burn
on your skin isn’t painful, but a “fire
blower” will make two passes and
three puffs at the sore and at once it
becomes the most comfortable spot
on your epidermis.
Knowing all we have said to be
true—which you probably do not—
what is your idea of it all?
Laugh your head off at “hexing” if
you want to, but if you won’t move on
Friday because “a Friday flit is a
short sit” or if you feel just a little
eerie when a black cat runs across the
road ahead of you we're right here to
say that you laugh only to eonceal
your own little superstitions.
We've all got a bit of it and the
fact that it sticks at all in the mind
of the highly educated person is what
puzzles us.
We think there isn’t, but we are
not going to say that there is not
something back of it that might
someday be revealed.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
° 4.
Ls mm——
Vare’s Evasion Coming to an End.
In a letter, dated January 14, and
addressed to William S. Vare, Sena-
tor Reed, of Missouri, briefly sum-
marizes the results of the investiga-
tion of the Senatorial election in
Pennsylvania in 1926 and gives Mr.
Vare ten days in which to prepare
and present his defense. The Slush
fund committee found, according to
this summary, that in less than half
of the election divisions 21,572 tax
receipts had been illegally issued;
in 167 divisions the names of 2018
voters were forged; that fraudulent
registrations had been made in 1111
ly counted in only 181 of the 1500
divisions; that in 141 divisions “in-
tentional fraudulent returns” were re-
vealed and that in every ward people
not registered voted.
These facts are sufficient to nulli-
fy the returns of all the divisions in
which the frauds occurred. But they
do not complete the case against Mr.
Vare. The evidence shows that “in
136 divisions individuals voted two
or more times.” That in 341 divisions
“more than 2000 votes were return-
ed as’ cast in excess of the number
of voters listed and in 527 divisions
4064 more were returned as cast than
were checked in the registers.” That
in 395 divisions the number of ballots
cast exceeded the number of voters
listed and in 699 divisions ballots cast
exceeded the number of votes checked;
in 38 divisions large groups of names
were recored as voting in alphabet-
ical order and more than 5000 names
in the voters’ lists were erased and
altered.
In more than 100 boxes ballots were
and in 36 divisions “groups of five
or more ballots were found where it
was apparent that the lawful mark
of the voter had been erased and an-
other mark inserted” and that “in
eight divisions the ballot boxes con-
tained no valid ballots whatever.”
In the face of these and other proofs
of fraud the Committee of the Senate
has been allowing William S Vare to
evade the just consequences of crimes
perpetrated in his behalf and under
his sanction for more than two years.
But such things cannot continue for-
ever. A time limit has been set and
on Thursday next Mr Vare will have
opportunity to plead and after that he
will be sent to join Smith of Illinois.
——Coolidge’s breakfasts appear to
have lost in appealing power. Sen-
ator Bingham enjoyed the meal but
refused to change his mind.
Extra Session of Congress Certain.
There will be an extra session of
Congrss next spring, probably in
April. President-elect Hoover has
reluctantly agreed to this, not as the
i farm bloc imagine to enact a relief
| measure, but to satisfy the demands
of the tariff mongers.
was given to Senator McNary, late
' sponsor of the McNary-Haugen bill,
because yielding to the farmers looks
better than surrendering to the tariff
mongers. But the purpose of the
President-elect is to serve the inter-
ests of those who contributed most
liberally to the campaign fund. They
are less credulous and more urgent.
The farmers may be more vociferous
in their demands but they are less
dangerous. They only threaten while
the others act.
The revised McNary-Haugen bill
could have been passed easily dur-
ing the present session. Mr. Hoover
had agreed to approve it with the
“fee” provision eliminated. The farm
bloc Senators had practically agreed
to cut out the objectionable feature
and the new bill had already been
placed upon the calendar.
tariff mongers realized that the pas-
only valid reason for calling an extra
session and that they would be oblig-
ed to wait nearly a year for any Con-
gressional action for their benefit.
Under the circumstances McNary
obligingly agreed to postpone farm
relief until the next Congress could
of tariff taxation.
President-elect Hoover has had lit-
tle experience with practical politics
but he is learning “the tricks of the
trade” rapidly. He already realizes
that money is the potent influence in
{ organizing victories and that those
| who supply the sinews of war must
| be recognized in dispensing the spoils.
| There are various interests to be tak-
en care of. The chemical manufac-
| turers are first in the field and their
demands are not what might be called
i modest. The textile fellows are on
, the waiting list and they are prepar-
led to “go the limit” And so on all
the way down the line. Paid law-
vers and high-priced specialists have
specious arguments ready to present
and it may be added that the extra
| session is for them.
divisions; that the vote was correct-'
found which had never been folded |
The promise
be assembled. It may postone farm
relief but it will hasten the increase
Logical Successor to Fall and Work.
The appointment of Bascom Slemp,
of Virginia, to the office of Secretary
of the Interior, now under consider-
ation, would be logical. Since the
restoration of the Republican party
to control of the government at
Washington, in 1921, that depart-
ment has been an unfailing fountain
of competition and graft. Albert B.
Fall established a trading post for the
disposal of oil leases, not exactly to
the highest bidders, but to favorite
campaign contributors and he was
succeeded in office by Hubert Work,
who continued to dispense favors
along the same lines. Upon his vol-
_untary retirement Roy West was in-
| stalled in the office. He was expect-
ed to take care of the interests of the
“power trust and other utility corpor-
| ations.
Bascom Slemp would be a fit suc-
cessor to this trio of emissaries of
greed and graft. For more than a
| quarter of a century he has been an
i office broker in Washington and ex-
cept during the period of the Wilson
administration, he was the recognized
| instrument between the administra-
ition and the southern office seekers.
: Long continued service in this work
| gave him vast influence in the selec-
| ton of delegates to the National con-
| ventions of his party and correspond-
| ing power with the administrations he
| thus helped to create. So far as
available records show the only elec-
tive office he ever held was that of
Representative in Congress for his
home district, his constituency being
largely negroes. .
dent he surprised most of the lead-
ers of his party by appointing Bas-
com Slemp secretary, which office he
i held for some time. During the early
stages of the investigation of the
Fall-Sinclair oil scandal it was re-
vealed that Mr. Slemp had acted as
“go-between” in the negotiation be-
tween Fall and McLean. . Whether
this association was repugnant to
Coolidge is not known but soon after-
ward Slemp resigned the important
office of secretary to the President.
Kansas City convention Slemp was an
enthusiastic supporter of Hoover and
the southern delegates were herded
as usual. Taking one consideration
with another he is a fit successor to
Fall, Work and West.
———There may be fifty or a hun-
dred people outside of the Philadel-
phia Municipal court interested in
the Presidency of that body, but no
more.
Senator Reed Wasted Time.
Senator Reed, of Missouri, takes
the Kellogg peace pact much too ser-
iously. But Missourians are proverb-
ially curious. They always want to
see everything and in this instance
| there is nothing to see. Senator Reed
likens the Kellogg treaty to a Trojan
‘horse. That is an impossible inter-
pretation. The celebrated Trojan
{horse had something inside of it, and
| this treaty is empty. Mr. Kellogg
‘and Senator Borah have both admit-
ted that fact. That being true it
i made little if any difference wheth-
er the treaty was ratified with reser-
| vations or without. Most of the signa-
tories made reservations. But Borah
declares they don’t mean a thing. In
| fact that may be truly said of the
treaty itself.
We take it that Senator Reed is
| ment that the ratification of the
Kellogg pact may ultimately lead us
into the League of Nations. The
| original purpose of the enterprise was
'tions. It was intended as a nostrum
| bitef that it is “something just as
' good” for purposes for which
the League was
lic
ing in the direction of m e m-
bership in the League and some of the
equally wide of the mark in his state-
|
BELLEFONTE, PA.. JANUARY 18. 1929.
Important Legislation in Danger.
There is a current of
sweeping over the State that the po-
litical machine intends to defeat the
legislation necessary to give force to
the recently adopted constitutional
amendment providing for the optional
use of voting machines. That amend-
ment was adopted by an overwhelm-
ing majority and under adverse con-
ditions. That is to say, the central-
ization of interest in the presidential
conitest diverted the minds of many
voters from the importance of ballot
reform, and many who favored the
amendment neglected to vote for its
adeption. Besides some of those op-
posd to it, but afraid to declare the
fact, reasoned that it could be de-
feated by failure to enact the ena-
bling legislation.
In his message to the General As-
sembly Governor Fisher urges the
necessary legislation with apparent
sincerity. But it may be recalled that
at the beginning of the session of
1927 he demanded adequate ballot re-
form legislation with equal earnest-
ness and had prepared a number of
measures which, if enacted into law,
would have gone a long way toward
securing honest elections. But be-
fore his bills had progressed far, un-
der pressure of the party bosses, he
permitted them to be emasculated to
such an extent as to rob them of all
potency. The signs indicate that an
effort to similarly hamstring the pro-
posed legislation with respect to the
voting machines will be made.
|
The first step in this sinister en-
i terprise will be directed toward the
When Mr. Coolidge became Presi-
In the campaign for delegates to the”
alienation of the rural Legislators.
They will be told that the voting ma-
chines will cost immensely and put
onerous burdens upon taxpayers in
communities where election frauds
are never attempted and could not
succeed. Such communities need not
adopt the machine method of voting
and consequently will not be burden-
ed with the expense. But in the com-
munities which habitually debauch the
ballot, the machines give promise of
correcting this great evil and the op-
portunity to accomplish this result
should not be wasted on any account.
The expense should not be considered
for it is a false pretense.
——The water situation in Centre
county is one of extreme seriousness
at the present time. Not only are
‘many wells and cisterns throughout
But the | to keep us out of the League of Na-
sage of the bill would remove the | which might fool the world into the
the county absolutely dry but the
supply of water for many of the vil-
lages in the county is lower than ever
before. The Milesburg water supply
is frozen dry, and the same condi-
tion prevails at Clarence.” Other
towns that depend on small moun-
tains streams are either dry or have
a very limited supply. While it rain-
ed and snowed yesterday there is no
indication of enough of it to improve
the water supply.
In addition to being named
chairman if the committee on mines
and mining State Senator Harry B.
Scott drew a place on the following
committees: Appropriations, educa-
tion, finance: forestry, game and fish-
eries, insurance,
public grounds and buildings, public
health and sanitation, public roads
and highways, and railroads. Rep-
resentative J. Laird Holmes’ com-
mittee appointments includes appro-
priations, federal relations, fisheries,
judiciary local, law and order and
military.
ap ibe
——John Pierpont Morgan is in-
creasing his sphere of operations. As
member of the German reparations
Commission he will be able to control
the finance of two or three other
countries.
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——The longest tunnel in the world
has been suitably dedicated but the
suspicion !
municipal affairs,
NO. 3.
| Rockefeller, Stewart and the Ethics
of Big Business.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The effort of John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., to dislodge Robert W. Stewart as
chairman of the Standard Oil Com-
pany of Indiana signifies much more
than an encounter between two indi-
viduals.
As such it is not of great moment.
If Mr. Rockefeller succeeds he will
gain neither in wealth nor power; if
Stewart holds his place the company
will continue to prosper. Yet the con-
test is of far-reaching significance
and importance, because the funda-
mental issue is the honor of the oil
industry, of big business, of the in-
vestment system. It is not Stewart,
but these institutions, that are on
trial.
The record makes this plain. It
shows that Stewart was one of four
corporation executives who secretly
divided $3,000,000 of illicit profits on
the sale of oil to their own compa-
nies. Called as a witness in the Sen-
ate investigation of the Fall-Sinclair
oil lease scandal he denied, under
oath, that he had participated in this
shabby deal. He swore that he knew
nothing about the division, had re-
veived no share, had never made a
dollar out of the transaction.
Forced to take the witness stand
again, after the truth had been es-
tablished, he admitted that in fact he
had collected $759,500 in bonds out of
what Senator Walsh called “the ill-
gotten gains of a contemptible private
steal, the peculations of trusted offic-
ers of great industrial corporations,
pilfering from their own stockhold-
ers.
He exhibited no contrition and lit-
tle embarrassment. He insisted that
he had not used any of the dirty mon-
ey. But he arregantly refused to ex-
plain why he had furtively accepted
a vast sum to which he admiited he
had no honest title; why he had con-
cealed the hoard from its rightful
owners, his stockholders, for six
years; why he had clung to it until
his possession of it had been exposed;
why he had given false testimony un-
. der oath as to his connection with the
odious affair.
It was upon these facts that Mr.
Rockefeller, as a stockholder, de-
manded that Stewart resign a posi-
tion in which he had gravely impair-
ed the repute of the oil industry and
of the “whole structure of business.”
Stewart contemptuously refused to
quit. And last March he was re-
elected.
It is entirely possible that at the
approaching annual meeting he will
win again. There are reports, in-
deed, that he already holds pledges
representing more than 50 per cent.
of the stock. Mr. Rockfeller, never-
theless, has performed a courageous
public service in seeking proxies to
be voted against an executive who for
six years held three-quarters of a
million dollars of the stockholders’
money, pouched in an illegitimate
deal.
In these days of wide investment,
when corporations strive to encour-
age customer ownership and employee
ownership, it is vital that the public
be assured of good faith and probity
in corporation management. Yet
Stewart’s conduct has been condoned,
his continuance in office privately in-
dorsed, by business men, by financiers
and by many of the stockholders he
wronged.
Their reason is that his manage-
, ment had been shrewd and efficient—
that he is too useful to be dismissed
merely because of involvement in a
scheme of business graft.
What Mr. Rockefeller seeks to dis-
cover, and what the public will be in-
| terested to learn, is this: How many
‘of these investors and industrial
leaders support the curious doctrine
, that if an executive earns good divi-
i dends for his company he may safe-
{ly intercept a modest percentage of
its earnings?
| Not Welcome News.
From the Clearfield Republican.
During the week word comes from
Washington that Mr. Hoover and Sec-
retary of the Treasury Mellon were in
conference for more than two hours at
' underground means of communication ' the Hoover headquarters in the May-
|
“bitter-enders” set their minds to the
task of checking this trend. The
multilateral treaty is the product of
their efforts and it has already fail-
ed. The League is prospering.
In view of the facts opposing the
' ratification of the treaty was a willful
and useless waste of time.
ervations are made or not prepara-
tions for war alike in this and other
countries which have adhered to the
pact will go forward. The same Sen-
ate that ratifie it will direct the
construction of fifteen 10,000 ton
cruisers so as to be ready to meet
any war which any of the other sign-
ers of the pact may choose fo start.
Senator Reed meant well but he was
wasting not only his own time but
that of Congress, which is expensive.
Let Coolidge and Kellogg get all the
glory they can out of it. They may
need it.
Whether
it was ratified or not and whether res-
created. Pub- | between Wall street and Washington
sentiment was rapidly flow- | beats it by a couple of hundred miles.
——After all the Mellons are not
the “whole cheese” in Pittsburgh.
Max Leslie put a crimp in their pow-
er in the organization of the Legis-
i lature.
——The fight against Mellon is as
futile as was the fight against the
multilateral treaty. Mellon has a
“cinch” on the treasury portfolio.
——Joe Grundy having declared
opposition to the repeal of the an- |
thracite coal tax the advocates of that
improvement may as well quit.
——The Senate seems to believe
that refund payments of large sums
may be all right but insists on a bill
of particulars in each case.
——The Mayor of Philadelphia ap-
pears to be trying to show how many
kinds of a fool he can make of him-
| self.
flower hotel. The natural inference
among Washington scribes is that
| Mr. Mellon has been asked to con-
i tinue at his present post under the
| new administration. This will not be
.weleccme news to the Anti-Saloon
League. That organization has been
“after Mellon for several years. They
| have tried their dirtiest to get his
i scalp time and again, only to meet
‘with failure every time. Already
there are signs that the dominating
influences so powerful in Hoover’s be-
half during the late campaign wiil
{ not be as close to the throne as some
people were prone to believe after
the returns were all in. 3
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When Learning Counts.
| From E. W. Howe's Monthly.
! What you learn today, or this
month, isn’t apt to amount to much.
It is what happened last year, ten
, years ago, a century ago, that counts,
{ because it has been tried out. I pre-
dicted the result of the last election
exactly months in advance, not by
what the men were saying this sum-
mer, but by what men had done years
before in election.
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—A hog which dressed 11091 pounds
was butchered by James Loughner, a
farmer of near Jeannette, last week. The
live weight of the animal was 1225 pounds.
—A warrant was served Monday night
on Mayor Joseph Cauffiel, of Johnstown,
charging him with extortion, failure to
file election expense accounts and perjury,
Bail was fixed at $8000.
—A jury in common pleas court at Pitts-
burgh, awarded $150,000 damages to Mi-
chael Papson. Homestead, who sued the
American Bridge compauy for injuries
suffered while working on a consruction
job. A steel window sash he averred, fell
on him afte having been loosened by
bridge company workmen employed on tha
same project.
—A few minutes after R. T. Dunnard
and his family had left their home at
Harrisburg Run, near Bradford, on Tues-
day night, to visit neighbors, the house
was wrecked by an explosion. Gas was
believed to have accumulated from a brok-
en pipe. The house, a frame structure,
and the furniture were blown to pieces.
Loss was estimated at between $3000 and
$4000.
—F. W. Gowland, of Burnham, is the
owner of a $4 bill of Continential currency,
printed by Holt and Seller's July 22, 1776,
authorized by a resolution of Congress
and calling for four Spanish milled dol-
lars, either gold or silevr. It is of the
size of the ordinary “shinplaster” curren-
cy, but different as it is printed on paper
in which flaked silver has been impressed
instead of the usual water lines of silk
threads of the present currency.
—James Robertson, aged 89, an em-
ployee of the New York Central railroad
shops at Avis, ended his life at his home
in Lock Haven on Friday by means of
gas. He attached a crock to the wall of
his room, placed a hose attached to a gas
jet in the crock, them thrust his head
into the crock and turned on the gas.
His body was found by his daughter-in-
law, who noticed a diminution of the gas
pressure and made an investigation.
—John Honus Wagner, famous baseball
player of two decades ago, has been nam-
ed an assistant sergeant at arms in the
House of Representatives at Harrisburg.
The great Pittsburgh shortstop, now a
resident of Canegie, will help keep order
on the floor of the house in the 1929 ses-
sion at a salary of $7 per day. Wagner
for years held the National league batting
championship in addition to being rated
as the best shortstop in the league.
—Announcement has been made at
Washington, Pa., of the raising of the
sum of $1,000 for the equipping of a mem-
orial room in the new women’s dormitory
at Pennsylvania State College. The funds
were raised by the Pennsylvania Grange,
as a testimonial to the late Mrs. Louise
Taylor Rodgers of near Monongahela.
Mrs. Rodgers was particularly active in
the campaign to raise money for the
dormitory now being built and was a
prominent leader in the Grange.
—As restitution for a beating suffered
at the hands of two young Kulpmont men,
Walter Polack and Alek Demansk, $1001
has been awarded Sofia and John Pitcos-
kie, husband and wife, by the Northum-
berland county court. On June 17, the
wife asserted, the two young men came to
the Pitcoskie homestead and engaged in
an argumnt with her husband. Finally,
they began to, beat him and, when she
tred to interfere, even though she was ill
the visitors beat her, too. The wife was
awarded $700, while the husband was giv-
en $301.
—The Treverton Times prints a story
of a family in Northumberland county
subsisting on acorns during last summer
and up to the present time. The father
has been out of work and had been idle
because of the shutting down of the North
Franklin mines, the only industry in the
town. He worked only eighteen days of
last year. The name of the amily was
not given. The acorns were cooked and
also eaten raw. The children would go
to the hills to gather them and bring
them home in large baskets.
—With the arrival of 125 machines and
a corps of experts to install them, Sha-
mokin’s new shirt factory, over which
Superintendent I. Bernstein will preside,
is preparing to begin operations within the
next ten days. Over 150 persons have
been employed by the company to engage
in the process of shirt-making. The pro-
duct, after being run through a complete
laundry and pressing outfit, will be load-
ed onto trucks and delivered at New York
city. An enlargement of the plant and an
increase in the number of employees are
anticipated within six months.
—In the home of J. F. Fagan, Juniata
county game protector, is drying one of
the most valuable furs to be found in
Pennsylvania, at least in a wild State, a
beaver pelt. The animal was killed by
Brooks L. Kennedy, Port Royal, while
driving near Woodward, Mifflin county,
where there is a large colony of the ani-
mals a short distance from the public
road. He picked the beaver up as soon as
he was able to stop his car and turned
it over at once to the local game protector.
When put on the scales the much pro-
tected beaver weighed 18% pounds.
—Robert Michael a former State high-
way motor patrolman, was convicted by
a jury in court at York, Pa. for posses-
sion and sale of liquor. His arrest fol-
lowed the expulson of three students by
the Hanover High school authorities be-
cause they drank moonshine from pocket
flasks at a social function. The jury rec-
ommended leniency in Michael's case,
Judge Niles made the statement from the
bench that the court was impressed that
there was something suspicious about the
whole case, but on Monday he sentenced
Michael to pay a fine of $500 and two
years in jail.
—Every county treasurer in the Com-
monwealth now has been furnished with
both the resident and non-resident fisher-
man’s license for the year 1920. The cost
of the resident license will remain the
same as in 1928—$1.50, plus 10 cents for
for the county treasurer's fee. The non-
resident license is reciprocal, but in no
instance is the fee to be less than $2.50.
The board urges all fishermen to secure
their licenses at as early a date as possi-
ble, so that the board will have sufficient
funds available for continuing its con-
struction work at the sites for the two
new hatcheries, at Tionesta and Reynolds-
dale. The total receipts from the sale
of licenses for the year 1927 amounted to
$203,397, and for the year 1928, $382,014.