* Everybody is getting a ride in
the stock market except the fellows
who are holding the oils and coppers.
— Soviet Russia’s professions of
peace gets a jolt in the brief time
given to China to “toe the mark” or
fight.
— Still Secretary Davis will have
some trouble in making the people
‘believe that he is being forced to run
for Governor.
— There seems to be unusual
mid-summer activity in politics in
‘this’ State. The Republican machine
“‘sees the handwriting on the wall.”
— Possibly it is because Presi-
dent Hoover isn’t a good fisherman
that he meets with so many disap-
-pointments on his week-end trips.
. ——MTr. Vare proposes to make a
political spectacle of the wedding of
his daughter next week but then
“Vare needs a good deal of boosting.
— The philanthropists of New
“York needn't worry. They couldnt
‘keep Mayor Walker out of the race
for re-election with a battering ram.
— What wonderful harvest weather
the farmers have had. Dry enough
to season the hay and grain well and
not too hot for comfort in the fields
-and in the mows. :
. —Endurance flight records scarcely
pay. Those Cleveland fliers suffered
terrible discomfort to establish a new
record and the very next week two
«Californians took to the air and stayed
up so long that it looked as though
they would never come down. Such
glory is too short lived to be worth
the hazard taken.
—The new Federal Farm Board
met and organized on Monday and,
presto, wheat shot up nine cents a
‘bushel. We can’t see why, but it did.
“There were no unfavorable crop re-
‘ports and no unusual foreign buying
So that the only reason for the bulgé
must have been that speculators fig-
wre that it is a good buy up to the
time the new Board announces its
plan for stabilizing the price.
—The party from Bigler, Clearfield
county, is advised that neither the
county commissioners, the trustees of
the Catholic church, nor the trustees
of the Union cemetery have set a
price on the properties they control
and which he or she last week made
an offer to buy. Why not make a bid
for the snow plow that the borough
didn’t buy or the exclusive franchise
to supply the meat to feed the fish in
‘Spring creek?
—We have heard that Herman
*: a
ward. Herman probably meant that
he would be a candidate for the nom-
ination. Be that as it may, West
ward politics is looking up. G. Wash-
ington Rees is a candidate for nom-
ination for assessor in the ward and
overseer of the poor Tom Fleming is
reported as fathering his son-in-law’s
candidacy for the same plum. If
these rumors are true Reynolds Ave
is likely to put off a lot of political
pyrotechnics before the September
primaries.
—We note that the government is
going to start at least six distil-
leries because the medicinal supply of
liquor is getting low. Sick people
are consuming the stuff at the rate
of a million and a half gallons a year.
Assuming that the population of the
country is now one hundred and
twenty-five million people; also as-
suming that one-twenty-fifth of that
number is constantly sick and going
far enough to assume that one-tenth
of the number that is constantly sick
is sick for hard liquor it would then
appear that they are getting about a
gallon a day. If that be so we admit
ioubt as to the efficacy of liquor. For
we know of no other panacea where
such dosage is prescribed.
—We have discovered a new use
‘or the radio. When the reception is
rood conditions are favorable for fish-
ng. That is, a thunder storm is not
ikely to come up and cause the trout
:0 stop jumping. Do you know that
rout sense an electrical storm long
yefore the fisherman who is whipping
\ stream has any idea that one is
yrewing ? Many years of observa-
ion convince us that they do. The
adio knows when a storm is brew-
ng, too. Electricity in the air causes
he static and when there is much
tatic in the early evening there is
ot likely to be favorable fishing con-
litions later. At least, that's the
vay we dope i On Tuesday after-
oon reception was fine. We had an
ngagement for a dinner on our fav-
rite trout stream that evening so we
ressed up and, at the last moment,
ecided to put the rod in its accus-
omed cradle, throw the boots and
asket into the tonneau. When we
rrived within hailing distance of our
xpected host and his party the rod
nd the boots began to talk to us;
alk so persuasively that we drove
ight past the turn in place and for-
ot all about the dinner until it was
oo late to return. We came home
ith thirteen beautiful trout, not one
f them under seven inches long and
1e largest eleven. We got them all
stween four-thirty and seven o'clock
nd everyone on a sixteen whirling
in and a sixteen royal coachman.
ur “bobber” was a cahill, but we
dn’t take a fish on it. Moral: When
u're invited to a party when radio
ception is good go fishing.
Cruse has announced that he will be
candidate. -for-council-inmthe West
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The Kittanning section is excited ov-
er the bringing in of a gas well with an in-
itial daily production of 2,000,000 cubic
feet. The well, drilled in on the Stouffer.
farm, at Walk Chalk, has been connected
with lines of the Columbia Natural Gas
company. : .
—Finding the kitchen fire out warden
-| John Reese, of the Schuylkill county jail,
investigated and discovered that Fred
Holtzer, the tender, also was out. Holtzer
picked the lock on the gate at one end
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
of the prison yard, it was said. He had
escaped once before, but was recaptured.
VOL. 74.
President Hoover’s Favorite Sport.
President Hoover is considering the
question of calling a conference or
creating a commission to study the
problem of unemployment. That
seems to be his favorite method of
“passing the buck.” In answer to
the demand for prohibition enforce-
ment he named a commission to in-
vestigate the entire system of judi-
cial procedure. In response to the
urge for farm relief he has created
a commission to devise means for
serving the purpose. Recently a cali
came from a labor organization in
Towa to do something for the unem-
ployed and he replied, “I believe itis
desirable that an exhaustive inquiry
should be made into the subject,” and
he expresses the hope that -it. will be
taken up in the future.
If conditions are favorable the em-
inent gentlemen who compose the law
enforcement. commission may be able
to come to some agreement and make
report within a period of ten or fif-
teen years. The appropriation for
this service is only $250,000, and
though the commissioners are not
salaried the operating machinery will
exhaust that sum within that time.
The farm relief commission will prob-
ably function more expeditiously. It
has the vast sum of half a billion dol-
lars at its disposal, but if it adopts
the method of buying and storing the
wheat surplus as a medium of stab-
ilization, the fund will be exhausted
in three or four years and the agri-
cultural distress will be quite as acute
as at present.
The Iowa Federation of Labor ap-
pealed to the President to
conference outstanding men and wo-
men conversant with the needs of
various groups to the end that the
growing army of unemployed, due
to the encroachments of the machine
age, may be given permanent relief.”
The President’s answer is character-
istic and significant. “I am in hopes,”
he writes, “that when some of the
momentarily pressing problems of
the administration are out of the
way we will be able to take it up.”
He leaves to conjecture what prob-
lems he appraises as of more im-
y 2 S
campaign pledge to put an end, not
only to unemployment, but to pover-
ty in all its hideous forms.
— The Senators who are trim-
ming up the tariff bill are having “a
hot time” in Washington.
A ——— Ameen
Protests that Should be Considered.
Twenty-five foreign governments,
among them some of the leading pow-
ers of the commercial world, have
filed protests against the proposed
preposterous increase of tariff tax
rates as expressed in the hill
now under consideration by the Sen-
ate Committee on Finance. Informa-
tion from Washington indicates that
President Hoover is considerably
worried over the matter, but sees no
way of averting what might develop
into trouble of very grave conse-
quences. Senator Smoot, of Utah,
chairman of the committee, pretends
to be indifferent concerning it. He
probably imagines that conserving
! the interests of the Mormon church
is the paramount duty of the hour
and increased sugar tax does that.
Possibly the intimation of reprisals
contained in some of these protests
would hardly be worth serious at-
tention for the superiority of Ameri:
can made products will command a
‘market in any event. But there are
other elements in ‘the equation of
greater significance. The most prolif-
ic source of danger in the relations
between nations lies in commerical
competition, and if prohibitive tariff
‘rates and insistence of settlement of
‘war debts should cause industria
prostration in some of the protesting
countries the chances of agreement
on naval limitation would be greatly
diminished. Our industrial adversar-
ies on the other side of the seas
might deem it advisable to retain
jany advantage they now enjoy.
The United States of America is 8
great and powerful nation but that
tloes not give us license to dispense
with the civilities which do, and
‘should, obtain among civilized peor
‘ples. A three cents a pound tax on
sugar might net a couple of million
dollars to the Mormon church
| through its sugar beet industry. Bul
that does not justify the impoverish-
ment of Cuba or the disturbing of
our friendly relations with the lead:
ing nations of Europe, and our neigh
bors north and south of uson this
hemisphere. The pending tariff bill, if
enacted into law, is quite likely to
work this result, and for that reason
our sense of justice, not to mention
our moral obligations, should give us
pause.
—————— a A ————————
———Aviation is making progress
but it is taking a big toll of life as
lit moves forward.
BE
“call in
\ Printing Scandal at Harrisburg.
Governor Fisher has been annoyed
recently, according to newspaper cor-
respondents in Harrisburg, because
of the “imminence of a printing scan-
dal.” The printing bill for the several |.
State institutions amounts to approx-
imately $150,000 for a biennium. For
many years this work has been let
‘by the institutions served. This year,
under a new law, it is awarded to the
lowest bidder by the director of the
printing department at Harrisburg.
Under a rule made by the director |
the State is divided into thirteen dis-
tricts ,and the award goes to the low-
est bidder in each district, and no
bidder can compete outside of his
own district. It was expected that
i would make it safe for the favorites. d
either be- fy
| cause they didn’t know of the ruling
| Some of the bidders,
| of the director or didn’t care, enter-
ed bids for the entire service. Among
| these was our esteemed contempor-
ary, the Altoona Times-Tribune com:
| ‘pany, which was $20,000 lower than
lithe aggregate of the several district
i bids. It was rejected, not because
it annulled the order of the director
of printing, John C. Dight, who sub-
| sequently offered that if the bid
of conflict with the law but because
| were withdrawn for the other eleven
districts the Altoona concern would
be given the contract for the eighth
|'and ninth districts. This proposition
'was rejected and an exposure of the
| facts in the case followed.
| Mr. Dight seems to be a practical
‘politician. His reason for dividing
the business was that it would pro-
mote party interests. Under the old
| system, he said, the printing con-
tracts “went to Republican newspa-
pers or Republican printing compa-
nies and helped to keep them inline
politically,” and he didn’t want to
disturb that system. It would pro-
vide a thirteenth part of $75,000 a
year for party propaganda and the
| fact that it would cost the tax pay-
ers $20,000 a year made no difference
to Mr. Dight. But to be caught up
in that sort of peanut politics makes
a difference to Governor Fisher, and
he is not only annoyed but werrie
be revoked.
——The four cent gas tax prom-
ises to produce a large amount of
revenue and it is equally certain to
create a vast volume of trouble for
the Mellon machine.
No Cause for Surprise.
Senator Waterman, of Colorado,
who is conducting the investigation
of frauds in Pittsburgh, at the Sena-
torial election of 1926, was surprised
at evidence brought out at a hearing,
held in that city, the other day. Some
weeks ago five men who had served
on an electon board were brought to
trial charged with perpetrating
frauds. Each of the five confessed
this guilt and was fined and given
short jail sentences. At the hearing,
the other day, they all appeared and
testified under oath that they had
committed no crimes. Naturally the
Senator was perplexed. He couldn't
understand why they offered no de-
fense a few weeks ago if they were
innocent. Grown men don’t usually
act that way.
As a matter of fact there is noth-
ing mysterious about the incident.
Three women who had served on elec-
tion boards in the same borough, at
the same election, and were also sen-
tenced on their plea of no defence,
have since testified before the court,
and before the Senate sub-committee,
that they were influenced to plead no
defense by the promise that the court
had been “fixed” to release them
without punishment, made to them
by the party boss of the community.
LLEFONTE. PA.. JULY 19. 1929.
Sh
Mr. Ford's Absurd Notion.
Henry Ford, who is becoming rath-
ér generous in dispensing advice of
doubtful value to the public, has
turned his attention to electric pow-
Wlectrical World, several weeks ago
he declares: “I only wish that there
actually were a power trust, a cen-
tral, directing organization for the
development and use of every power
yurce in the country, tied into one
tional power system for the service
of the whole country; that is, weld-
ed into one operating and business
unit, It has got to come as the one
necessary and economic method of
power production.” This is clearly an
i
sxpression of the philosophy of mass
ahiderstanding of the subject.
‘In his superlative appraisement of
‘the merits of monopoly Mr. Ford im-
Agines that a complete control of
slectrical production and distribution
would create a public service similar
to the postal system of the country.
Possibly that might be true if it were
a government monopoly, operated by
government agents without purpose
or expectation of profits, and the
right to draw upon the United States
treasury for any deficits in opera-
tion. But Mr. Samuel Insull and his
associates in the enterprise of creat-
ing the monopoly by devious, if not
eriminal methods, are not built that
way. They are not philanthropists
nor are they paying out vast sums of
money to bribe Legislatures and de-
bauch the public mind in order to
make life easy for the people.
. Senator Norris, of Nebraska, who
has had much wider experience in
such things, and it may be added a
vastly better understanding of them,
says, “human nature is everwhere the
same and when a man gets a monop-
oly on something he usesit for his
own profit without regard to public
benefit. Such would be the case in
the electric business or any business
already made up of a few large
groups exacting a huge toll from the
public pocketbook. Thus the average
rate of the United States is around
cen
"ultilities in Ontario can make
money for the public while they fur-
nish electrical energy at less than two
cents per kilowatt hour.” Mr. Ford
would help them to increase the ex-
tortion. >
——1Jt seems to us that as long as
Chairman Collins is performing ex-
cellent service for the Democratic
party he ought to be praised rather
than abused.
——— A em ———r—
The Farm Board in Action.
In starting the Farm Board on its
mission of helpfulness to the farmers
of the country President Hoover was
significantly brief and characteris-
tically cautious. “I have no extended
statement to make he said, but cal-
led the attention of the members
to the wide authority and the
splendid resources” at their disposal.
This is very much like “passing the
buck.” The Board has a difficult task
before it but it has an abundance of
material to work with and if it fails
in achievement is is not the Presi-
dent’s fault. He has done his part
according to his understanding of
the matter. It is up to the members
of the Board to produce results. It is
for them to “bring home the bacon.” |
It would be a strange thing in-
deed if a group of experts with, for
a while at least, unlimited resources
should be unable to provide some
help to an industry suffering from
inadequate capital. The half billion
dollar revolving fund will certainly
be able to absorb the crop surplus
for two or three years. But that will
be only temporary relief and of a
5, while = government ope-.
—Gabriel Lynmann, 8 years old, drown-
ed in Silver Lake, near Tarentum, on Sat-
urday, when he jumped feet-first into the
water and became fast in the muddy bot-
tom. His head was submerged with hands
barely above the surface. Companions
pulled him to shore, but their efforts to
revive him failed. :
—Lake Wallenpaupack, in the Poconos,
gave up the body of Frank Deerk, State
College student, who was drowned there
June 29. His father was advised at his
home at Treverton, Pa., that the body was
recovered. Degerk, with a college chum,
Samuel Curry, was crossing the lake in a
NO. 28.
$10,000,000,000 Wasted.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Not so much is heard of efficiency
engineers in these days. i
A little more than two decades ago.
they burst into the business world
with the announcement that industry
and commerce were to be revolution-
ized. A few stories—such as the one
of the expert who, while reorganizing
a publishing business destroyed a
number of old files, later to learn that | 3il-boat when it upset.
they contained letters from famous —Because one of their number chewed
authors whose autographs were off the tip of the ring finger of the left
worth thousands—were enough. The hand of Donald Nugent in a fight at Penn
boasting had been done by those who Park, York, Pa., four Italian youths, Or-
had a smattering of the new business lando Scaglone, Pete Alfano, Lewis Didio
theories. They sought other fields, ‘and Pete Scagione, are confined to the
their protests smothered by a gale of | York county jail on charges of felonious
laughter and scorn produced by their assault and battery and mayhem.
own inefficiency. —When a cabin holder from Lock Haven
But the real efficiency engineers entered his summer residence inthe Tan-
survived. And they have revolution- gus Scootac region recently, he spent the
ized many branches of industry. An afternoon killing five blacksnakes, all
example came to light recently in the over four feet in length, which were ten-
address of R. H. Ashton, president anting the premises. One was stretched
of the American Railway Association, ' out on the mantel in the living room
to the freight claims division of that | while another was draped over a doorway
organization. In 1920 damage claims in the cabin.
paid on freight shipments amounted | __yeonard Edwards, of Bloomsburg, pre-
to $119,833,127. Last year these (.rreq a fire company to his wife and left
Sams had been reduced to $37,146, per to live nearer the fire whistle, she
d ; testified in court when her husband was
gC, Sgures coula provide hy sstier up on charge of non-support. Hor testi-
ann | to the preference for a fire com-
efficiency has been replacing careless- | ing a by witnesses. The
ness Uitoughout ihe satire indugirist i Court ordered Edwards to pay $18 a month
pr = at ue Si har dling, ing. "to his wife, but he preferred to go to jail.
’
negligence in all departments contrib- | — Flora Carlson, 18, of Granville, died
uted to this 70 per cent reduction in ©°% Monday in the Brownsville General
waste ’ | hospital from injuries which police said
Scientific surveys have resulted in’ she received in a fight at a home where"
‘an estimate of ten biilion dollars as | she was employed as a domestic. Andris
the annual price of preventable care- | Mustast, formerly of Cokeburg, is under
lessness in this country. Much of ! arrest at California, Pa., and two other
‘ ; ‘men are held as witnesses. Police say
this tremendous waste can be stop- | Mustasa, formerly of Cokeburg, is under
Ie BS in Of ie hangs his open hand. She died, however, from
tems of handling products. " ja‘ fractured skull. Mustasa lived at the
The efficiency engineers have a. home of William Sheban, where the gifp
qt | was employed.
complished much in a quiet way. But * .
they are not satisfied. The field has “Thousands of dead fish, including sal-
scarcely been touched, they maintain. mon, bass, perch, trout, suckers, pike and
As long as they receive co-operation other varieties of fish, have been seen in
the nation as a whole will continue {Bald Eagle creek and the Susquehsua
to benefit from their efforts. =
river, between Lock Haven and Jersey
| Shore, and the matter has been reported
to the fish commission and the division
headquarters of the State sanitary board
at Harrisburg, with the result that the
From the Johnstown Democrat.
mm : State officials have ordered engineers and
Tne Cu issioners have le laboratories to be sent to Lock
made it. easy for the people.te.deeide {700 © Cowl a con
= le tay ior es veh to Re sme survey of the
tegrity of their elections by instal: °° oon 5 5
ling voting machines. The commis- J. R. Christner, of Maple Glenn, Pa.,
sioners by unanimous resolution de- killed a giant groundhog, which proved
cided to place the voting machines too much for his fox terrier. It tipped
proposition on the ballot issued for the scales at 23 pounds. Christner was
' the primary election If the commis- -recently walking over the mountain when
|e had not taken this step it he noticed something ahead of him which
would have been necessary for the Seta 58 large 22 2 a bear, 1 0%
citizens in the various municipalities | Eas it Nn aarters, UE
to initiate petitions requesting that ' SI
the grounhog, three times as big, took
{hey Ye ee declare |, gog, which held on, with it. Christ-
Commissioners Walker, = George | Por gaYe chase snd fnslly overtook the
’
and Cavanaugh are to be congratula- pair and dispatched the groundhog.
'ted upon their action. The honest | —‘Lucky” Marvin, a prominent citizen
i election issue is now squarely up to of Blossburg, sat on his porch, crutches
the people in the various municipal- ‘at his side, ruminating on Fate giving
ities. The modern voting machine him a stiff leg and halting gait. His son
assures an honest count. | was to be married on the morrow and he
“The machines cost money. But did not want to walk down the aisle: on
“what price an honest election?” props. A thundred shower burst on the
Doubtless the people of Cambria scene. Lightning struck the eavespout
county will become greatly interest- and hovered over the figure in the easy.
ed in the details of electing a couple chair. When he arose, still dazed, he
of judges, a sheriff and a member started to walk and to his amazement his
of the poor board. The voting ma- malady had been cured. He was good.
chine presents an issue more vital as new, the treatment being as effective.
than the candidacy of any man. The as terrifying, it is said. :
LO t naturally favor election | __A spark caused by a tire striking a
irpe tiey :‘dap > he expected 10 steel — is believed to have been respon-
find) variety of reasons why. ‘ma sible for the explosion of 2500 pounds of
chines are {oo expensive, or ate un- , powder which Peter Weir was hauling
agin i from one building to another at the mills
! of the DuPont Powder company at Moore,
near Pittston, on Monday. Weir was.
blown to bits as was the wagon he was
| driving. One of the horses was killed
and the other injured so badly it had to
be shot. The explosion was heard for
several miles and caused reports that the
powder plant had been blown up. Weir
had been employed by the company for
85 years and on Sunday celebrated his |
[ Aifty-eighth birthday.
—In a statement issued by Dr. George
State Geologist in the Pennsyl-
Internal Affairs, the
Voting Machines.
The Farm Board’s Task.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
| The interest aroused over the selec-
tion of the new Federal Farm Board,
whose membership may be announced
by President Hoover next week, is
fully justified. For the board has a
bigger and more important task than
that of most governmental commis-
sions. ' It will administer the revolv-
ing fund of $500,000,000 authorized to
aid the farmer in marketing his crop wm. Ashley,
surpluses. It will set up stabilizing . vania Department of
If the deecived women had quietly
“taken their medicine,” as they were
expected to, by the criminal boss,
there would have been no opportunity
for the prosecuting officer to place on
record the evidence of guilt he had
assembled. :
There is no system known to the
character that will leave scars worse
than the existing evil. The sugges-
tion to “adjust production to needs”
is equally falacious if not actually
absurd. The true remedy is to in-
crease consumption by enlarging the
markets rather than by restricting
carporations for each of the major
branches of agriculture, and it may
lend marketing organizations at its
‘own discretion. In general, the Farm
Board has virtually as far-reaching
powers in its own field as those of
‘the Interstate Commerce Commission jevel.
; lis 8,200 feet above tide.
over transportation.
' geologist tells something about Pennsyl-
vania’s high spots and how they are meas-
ured. As a rule mountain climbers are
“more interested in the height and steep-
‘ness of mountains measured from their
bases than they are in height above sea
Thus the highest point in the State
On the ground
professional party crook so effective
in shielding the “higher-ups,” the real
criminals, from just punishment as
that of inducing the unimportant in-
strument in the fraud to plead nolle
contendre. It shuts off all opportun-
‘ity to get the facts in the case before
the court and practically hands to the
‘conspirator responsible for the crime
a clean bill of health. No doubt the
men whose evidence, the other day,
surprised Senator Waterman had
been deceived as the women were,
but. being better informed with re-
they took the punishment without
spect to the rules in crooked politics
complaint. If the women had pur-
sued the same course it would have
been better for Vare.
st —— fps ——
For the first time “within the
memory of man” bumper crops are
causing mental distress in Washing-
ton.
production. But this didn’t occur to
the President and probably will not
appeal to the Board.
The purpose of the expedient, ac-
‘cording to the President, is to “es-
tablish to the farmer an equal oppor-
tunity in our economic system with
other industries.” But the revolving
fund however big it may be made
will not achieve this result. The oth-
er industries to which he refers get a
bonus on production by enlarging
their markets, by excluding foreign
competition, by tariff taxation on im-
ports. But tariff taxation on imports
increases the cost of commodities the
farmers have to buy and restricts the
the markets in which they sell. That | ernor Fisher is probably of the same
is not giving the farmer an equal op-
portunity. It is making him the help-
less victim of the greed of producers
of protected products.
—Read the Watchman for the news
There will be eight members, each nis is only a 150-foot knob that rises
| receiving $12,000 a year, besides the anove the general upland on the top of
Secretary ofAgriculture, who will be Negro Mountain in Somerset county.
a member ex-officio without voting measured to the nearest large stream—
power. More than 400 names have Casselman River, four miles away, the
been suggested to the President. MT. | height of this mountain is only 1,620 feet,
| Hoover’s task is to find the men skill- which is exceeded by many other moun-
‘ed in marketing, business and finance tains in Pennsylvania.
Yho can Bll thes Places: acogptably ‘| —Gas jets that dripped something illum- |
i Their choice is of the utmost impor- a
| . i inating but not gas, secret panels in 8
tance, for the ability of the Farm fond
| steps and a hidden wine cellar were foun
{ Board will largely determine the suc- | the
cess or failure of the ' farm-relief by Lewisburg prohibition agents at
' ’ ‘ home of Charles Feudale, Shamokin, ac-
gDrogTam. as cording to Colonel Wilbur Litsell Levi
hs, | burg enforcement chief. Feudale was
soretafyo lof Liabg Davis in $5000 bail for Federal court. According
| thinks “there is a wonderful Op- (, Leitsell, the agents had private inform-
! portunity for service in the position ation that it would pay them to visit the
iof Governor of Pennsylvania.” Gov- ! place. “I am a law-abiding citizen,”
| Feudale said. “Search . the house,” he
urged. This was done, and nothing was
; found. One of the agents stumbled on a
———-What is to be gained by pro- step, and it sprung up like the top of a
longed endurance in the air is a mat- | jack-in-the-box. Quarts of Ls, potent
ter of conjecture, but there is a good , fluid . were located. A private e cel-
, YL da : lar, decorated to look like the wall, was
deal of competition on the subject. behind secret panels.
opinion.