——Often when happiness is just
around the corner the seeker after it
is so stiff-necked that he crosses the
street without looking for it.
—On Wednesday the two-millionth
Ford, model A car, was turned out of
‘the factory in Detroit. Since Liz
‘has become Elizabeth she’s stepping |
fast.
—If you have ambition to serve
the public in the capacity of occu-
‘pant of any of the offices to be filled
at the November election remember
that you must file nomination papers
-on or before August 5th.
—Mr. William Feather, noted pub-
licist and philosopher, has asked us
this question: “Do business problems
‘worry you?” We answer the gentle-
‘man very truthfully when we say:
Not during the fishing season.
—The State Health Department re:
ports that snake bite casualties have
been more prevalent this season thar
for a number of years and anti-ven:
om serum has been in great demand.”
We imagine we know what “anti:
venom serum’” is, but they didn’t call
it by that name prior to 1918.
—Overseer of the poor Thomas
Fleming has informed us that the
report to the effect that his son-in-
law is a candidate for nomination as
assessor in the West ward of Belle-
fonte is not true. So that makes the
sailing relatively easy for G. Wash
ington Rees and the dove of peace
will probably fly back to roost on
Reynolds Ave. again.
—Howard Sargent is trying to get
18 circus minded again. His enclos-
ire of a clipping noting the death of
Charles Forepangh stirs us not a bit.
Charles might have founded the
Torepaugh shows in 1865, as his obit-
ary says, but it was old Adam who
:nthralled us. His was the “phys”
hat adorned the flaming sixteen
heet stands and smiled alluringly at
hrilled youth from the sides of the
hree bill cars that the enterprise
oasted.
—France has decided to pay her
ebt to us and now our financiers are
sorried for fear we will be worse off
! she does. That appears to be a
ather paradoxical situation but it is
uite -possible because France has
een piling up millions upon millions
f dollars in this country in antici-
ation of settlement day and when
1at is withdrawn from the banks to
o into the United States Treasury
sttlement day is likely to be one of
)nsiderable unsettlement among the
resent depositories of the immense
ind.
—The two-dollar bill, naturally,
as the.Jonah. in the new eurrency.
n it the only inaccuracy of design
\s thus far been discovered. On its
«ck is an engraving of “Monticello,”
e home of Thomas Jefferson and on
ch side of the veranda a lion is
sed. As a matter of fact there
ver were any lions on the Jeffer-
n estate and we can’t understand
'w the designer of the bill got a
mn into his head, anyway. If he had
bunted donkeys on the stoop of the
me of the father of Democracy it
ouldn’t have mattered so much
iether they actually were there or
t. Everybody would have caught
sir significance.
—A little girl clad in a bathing
it was playing on the lawn of her
me, in Chicago, last week. When
d by a policeman that it was a
lation of ordinance umpteen hun-
:d and umpteen to be in such attire
ywhere than on a bathing beach,
» little lady promptly took it off.
» don’t know" what ordinance she
lated then, but the incident leads
to inquire why many of her older
ters don’t do the same thing. We
them bathing in suits that
uldn’'t make a necktie for a hum-
ag bird, then they loll on the sand
h the straps pulled down off their
ulders so that their backs get the
ra-violet ray. we suppose, and
ir fronts get the evil eye; we
w. It seems so silly to bother
h them at all and we wonder why
y don’t follow the example of the
le Chicago girl and take them off
irely.
~The suggestion to annex portions
Spring township surrounding
lefonte is not a new proposal. It
omething that has been talked of
years, though it has never taken
nite shape. If it should be car-
| out in consequence of the pres-
agitation Bellefonte would gain
siderably in population but not
individual in buying power. She
ys the daily trade of those living
he suburbs just as fully as she
1d if the borough limits were ex-
led far enough to include all
je homes. It is a matter worthy
erious thought as to whether the
n would be better off if the cor-
ite limits were extended. Certain-
ve would have to provide more
le schools, go into costly exten-
s of water service and build and
atain streets in sections where
would be an herculean task. As
whether the acquisition to our
ssed valuation would be sufficient
arry such additional costs is a
ter that should be gone into thor-
ily before any one gets “het up”
it a “Greater Bellefonte.” KEs-
illy when a “Greater Bellefonte,”
e in this way, would mean ab-
‘ely nothing more than a more
ising array of figures in the
us report.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 74.
Intolerance in the South.
Governor Richards, of South Caro-
lina, has joined Senator Simmons,
of North Carolina, and others in the
South in feeding the flames of dis-
cord in the ranks of the Democratic
party. At the convention of Gover-
nors, held in Connecticut last week,
Governor Richards is quoted by an As-
sociated Press correspondent as say-
ing “that if the Democratic party ev-
er again nominates a man who is
against prohibition it will meet its
doom.” The correspondent adds, “he
did not mention former Governor
Smith by name but no one mistook
the reference to be other than to the
leader of the party in the last Presi-
dential campaign.” Governor Smith
has already practically taken himself
out ‘of the list of candidates.
The prohibition question was
brought into the conference by a let-
ter written by Mr. Wickersham,
chairman of the recently created
commission on law enforcement, ad-
dressed to Governor Roosevelt, of
New York. It suggested the expe-
diency of a division of the enforce-
ment machinery between the Federal
and State authorities ,and has been
variously interpreted as favoring
each side of the controversy. That
is to say, the wets construe it as a
recommendation for the modification
of the Volstead law and the drys in-
terpret it as a censure of the author-
ities in some of the States for fail-
ure of full-co-operation in the effort
to enforce the law. The Governors
talked freely on the subject but re-
fused to take any action.
The only significance of the inci-
dent, therefore, was that it gave
some of the southern Governors a
coveted opportunity to express their
religious intolerance on the first
pages of a few equally bigoted news-
papers throughout the country. A
few days ago the Democratic Na-
tional committee bestowed a courtesy
upon Senator Simmons, of North
Carolina, by broadcasting his very
able speech upon the tariff question.
Instead of manifesting appreciation
of a compliment he responded with a
bitter attack upon the chairman of
the committee. - Such-actions ‘create
bad feelings and trouble. If the
southern Democrats continue in
that frame of mind we will feel, as
Greeley said, “let our erring sisters
go in peace.”
——Fourteen murders in four years
is the record of a town of fifty fam-
ilies in Armstrong county, Pennsyl-
vania. That is going some in the
wrong direction.
——— etree.
Can Pinchot Come Back ?
Gossip in political circles turns
toward Gifford Pinchot. The ex-Gov-
ernor is somewhere in the mysterious
South seas looking for bats or bugs
or some other curiosities of nature,
but his friends in Pennsylvania, ac-
cording to current rumor, are scru-
tinizing the political map in search of
an opening through which he may
get back into the political life of the
State. “His eld agents are becom-
ing suspiciously active,” writes a cor-
respondent of the Philadelphia Rec-
ord, and “led by that affable foeman,
P. Stephen Stahlnecker, the laborers
in the Pinchot non-alcoholic grape
juice vineyard are diligently collect-
ing much valuable information for
use in political warfare.”
ter element of Republican men and
women throughout the State are dis-
cussing the question of entering Mr.
Pinchot in the race for Governor
next year is an undisputed fact. But
the means of accomplishing that re-
sult are not in view. He has the ine
clination and his antipathy to the
Mellon machine and its active agent,
Governor Fisher, is a strong incen-
tive. He has plenty of money and
the record shows that he is not nig-
gardly in dispensing it in furthering
his ambitions. But discretion is a
stronger force in his mind than cour-
age, and he hesitates to venture in
the absence of substantial assurance
of success. Recent reverses have
made him cautious. :
Gifford Pinchot was a good Gov-
ernor and achieved much for the
people - of Pennsylvania during his
term in office. But he might have
accomplished vastly more if his cour-
age had been equal to his informa-
tion. In the beginning of his service
he invested more energy to promot-
ing personal ambition than to con-
serving the interests of the public.
Instead of setting himself to ‘clean:
ing up the mess” he undertook to en=
list the allegiance of the corrupt po-
litical bosses. Later he discovered his
mistake and tried to correct the
faults. But it was too late. The
bosses had taken his measure and his
efforts for clean politics and to de-
feat electric monopoly failed. He
might do better if he had another
chance.
That a great many among the bet- |
BELLEFONTE, PA... JULY 26. 1
Corporate and Other Tax Payers.
The New York Times attempts to
prove by an analysis of the income
tax returns for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1929, that big business is a
positive beneficence to the people of
the United States. In what it calls
“the Rooseveltian era” the federal
income was composed mainly of cus
tom duties and internal taxes. Now
two-thirds of all the federal taxes
are derived from levies upon incomes
and are paid by the rich men and
women, and three-fifths of it from
corporations. The total income tax
collection for the period mentioned
was $2,331,000,000, and the appro
priations amounted to $3,675,000,000,
so that only thirty-five per cent of
the revenues were obtained from
other sources.
Assuming that three-fifths of the
income tax was paid by corporations,
the Times’ estimate, and a consider-
able part of the other two-fifths is
paid by men of six and seven fig-
ured incomes, it can hardly be
claimed that the medium and small
income wage earners escape payment.
consumers, in the form of rates and
rents and other expedients, nearly
enough to reimburse them. Of course
they pay, and possibly their share,
but they get from the government
service and protection in full ratio te
what they pay in taxes. The small
income wage earner doesn't need
much service from the government
and gets comparatively little.
We are not corporation haters nor
opposers of wealth legitimately ac-
quired and properly employed. Cor-
porations have contributed vastly to
the development and prosperity of
the country and in recent years have
conducted their operations in a
greatly improved manner. Neither do
we object to big business so long as
it treats it’s smaller competitors
| fairly and justly. But we are not
able to even imagine that they are
philanthropists giving their time and
ple or paying the expenses of the
be assumed that they do their part
more or less cheerfully and let it go
at that.
—Those who saw Spring creek on
Monday when all the water possible
was being diverted through the race
to the Gamble mill property got a
very fair idea of what would have
been an everyday eyesore had the
borough not bought the mill proper-
ty and thus come into control of all
the waterways through the town.
rr ——— A
Gas Tax Troubles in Sight.
The troubles of the Mellon man-
agement over the four cent gas tax
is about to begin. The independent
gasoline dealers from various sec-
tions of the State held a meeting in
Harrisburg, on Monday, and decided
to begin equity proceedings in the
Dauphin county court to test the
validity of the bonding feature of the
law. As interpreted by the Depart-
ment of Revenue this provision of the
law practically puts all the small
dealers out of business. It is impos-
sible for them to qualify under the
conditions laid down by the depart-
ment and their carefully nursed en-
terprises are destroyed.
The law provides that each dealer
must file a bond measured by the
volume of business transacted last
year. The Department of Revenue
has issued a ruling that only bonds
of incorporated bonding companies
will be accepted, and the bonding cor-
porations require an indemnifying
bond of two or three times the value
of the corporate bond. The result is
that small retail dealers in gas are
unable to procure the necessary
bonds. A survey made by an official
of the Pennsylvania Gasoline Ven-
ders’ Association shows that only
one out of twenty-eight dealers that
he interviewed was able to meet the
conditions laid down by the corpor-
ate bonding companies.
The same survey revealed the fact
that gasoline sales have materially
decreased since the increased tax has
been in operation, and along the bor-
der lines of the State gas stations have
been moved across the line, thus in a
measure defeating the revenue ex-
pectations of the law. But the prin-
cipal cause of complaint is in the
fact that the law gives a substantial
monopoly of the business to the big
dealers, such as the Gulf corporation,
owned by the Mellon family, the
Standard Oil company and the Sin-
clair concerns. The Mellon manage-
ment is a hard master and makes
Governor Fisher take orders that a
hungry hobo would refuse to obey.
————— ern ————
——Now that France has agreed
to settlement of war debts she can
continue to eat frogs instead of crow.
The corporations and big business |
operators levy upon the users and
energies to the service of the peo-.
government in order to make life
-easy for the less fortunate, ~ Let it
| Wise Suggestion to Motorists.
The Harrisburg motor club has
! adopted a plan which ought to con-
tribute materially to the solution of
ithe problem of safety on the public
‘highways of Pennsylvania. It urges
! all members to report to the club all
{ violations of the motor code which
j come under their observation on the
highways. Upon the receipt of these
j reports the club, in kindly terms,
jwarns the offender of his fault. If
the admonition fails of its purpose a
second letter is sent. If a third of-
fense is committed complaint and
proofs are forwarded to the Depart-
ment of Highways in order that suit-
able action may be taken and just
penalties imposed.
The fact of espionage involved in
this plan is repugnant to the average
American man and woman, but the
importance of the service should over-
.come the distaste of the process.
As an esteemed contemporary has
stated, “the motor laws are design-
ed, not to produce revenue, not to
harrass the motorist, but to safe-
guard him.” Most of the accidents
are caused by recklessness, and if the
drivers inclined to bad habits on the
road are brought to understand that
there is always a critical eye focused
on their movements, and severe
punishment “just around the corner,”
he will soon mend his manners and
change his methods of operating a
méAchine capable of inflicting much
+ harm.
The rapid increase in the number
of motor vehicles and the ever pres-
ent urge to greater speed add to the
hazards of motoring on the high-
ways, even if infinite care is exercis-
ed in operation. For that reason
every automobile operator ought to
be held to strict accountability while
at the wheel, and we have heard of
no more promising method of secur-
ing safety than that devised by the
Harrisburg organization. If every
motor club in the State, and every
motorist, whether afflliated with a
club or not, were to adopt it and
faithfully adhere to it the number of
motor accidents would soon decrease.
——Hon. J. Laird Holmes, of State
College, has a comfortable club house
in the Barrens near Hostler, between
Marengo and Pennsylvania Furnace.
At one time there was a large dam
there, used to store water for wash-
ing ore when the Hostler ore mines
fwere in operation. But a charge of
dynamite put off in the breast of the
dam several years ago ruined it asa
water basin. Last summer Mr.
Holmes had the dam repaired and
through the generosity of fish com-
missioner N. R. Buller liberally stock-
ed its waters with good sized trout.
having visions of the trout suppers
that were to come. But along came
a cloud-burst, which also caused a
dam-burst, and the trout were swept
down the stream and were gobbled
up by the natives living in that sec-
tion. Just what to do with the dam
now is rather perplexing to his Hon-
or. 1
——Dwight Morrow will probably
make a first rate Senator in Con-
gress, but the President is taking a
long chance when he undertakes to
select Senators for States other than
the one he lives in.
on prem ey pr —
,——Vice chairman Besse A. Miles,
of the Republican county committee,
entertained her district committee
women at a picnic supper, at the Snow
Shoe park, yesterday afternoon and
evening.
——Mr. Vare must be entirely re-
stored to health and nerve. He has
notified his party leaders that he in-
tends to name the candidates for of-
fice in Philadelphia himself.
———— eset
——1It has been discovered that
President Hoover comes from Swiss
ancestry. Well there’s nothing the
matter with Switzerland except the
holes in the cheese.
——Harry Sinclair has ended the
first three months of his prison sen-
tence and the tradition is that “the
first three months are the hardest.”
mn — A ————————
——1If the ocean steamers continue
to increase their speed there will soon
be no practical reason for crossing
the ocean by airships.
——38till a war with a foreign
enemy might unite the factions in
China and make a strong nation cap-
able of much good.
Seems ipiriamimm—
The Fogerty family seems de-
termined to get money out of ex-
champion Tunney, “coming and go-
ing.”
——————————— A ————
——Mr. Wickersham seems to have
opened his type writer and “put his
foot in it.”
929
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
The grim shadow of war hangs
over the Far East. Russia has pro-
ceeded to the breaking of ‘diplomatic
relations with China. Its representa-
tives in that country have been sum-
moned home. Soviet troops are be-
ing massed along the border. The
Red horde that has been under train-
ing of the most practical kind for
years is prepared to move at the
word of command—a force that
threatens to be most effective against
the army of China, which never has
made a very good showing in con-
flict with foreign forces .
The trouble grows out of the seiz-
ure of the Eastern Chinese railway
by Manchurian troops. Russia holds
its treaty rights have been violated.
China has decided to change its at-
titude.
Harbin is so far away that the
incident may seem to some as of
small interest to the United States,
which has no property, no treaty ob-
ligations nor anything else to gain
or lose directly. But England has
large interests in China. So has Ger-
many. Japan has most of all. For
years the Japanese have been ex-
tending their sphere of influence in
Manchuria.
War between Russia and China,
therefore, might have far-reaching
consequences. The spark that set off
the World War was of far lesser im-
portance than this railroad dispute.
In addition, there are those who have
suspected for a long time that the
Red army was being maintained and
drilled not only to keep order at
home, but to extend Soviet influence
and enlarge its prestige abroad. To
win a war over China would be to
strengthen the Bolshevistic govern-
ment at home, inspire respect for its
strength abroad and offer opportuni-
ties for the spread of Red doctrines
in the conquered territory.
On the other hand, it is apparent
that Manchurian officials have the
backing of the nationalist govern-
ment in China, and the Chinese in
turn seem to be acting in accordance
with a preconceived plan.
This state of affairs in the Far
East is as puzzling as it is danger-
ous. Perhaps the war clouds will
blow over. But one must be pre-
pared for dire consequences if they
do mot. A war between Russia an
: ‘become another
world conflict. Modern transporation,
increased international interest and
responsibilities and a new conscious-
ness of the interdependence of the
nations of the world make any se-
rious disagreements between any two
countries likely to involve the rest.
I ————e ly A —————————————
Farm Board Workings.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Because of widespread misappre-
hensions regarding the functions and
limitations of the Federal Farm
Board, Chairman Legge has had to
issue some explanations. Private
business enterprises, small unorgan-
ized groups or farmers and even in-
dividuals have applied to the board
for loans from the $150,000,000 fund
it has in hand. Loans can be made
only to co-operative associations,
which must be organized under State
laws. There is no rule as to the size
of these associations. The board is
not obliged to grant all applications
for loans made in due form. It will
use its discretion. Each case will be
judged on its merits.
A usually well-informed Washing-
ton correspondent recently stated
that the Farm Board would actively
promote the forming of co-operative
associations. Chairman Legge says
this will not be its policy. The farm-
ers themselves must take the initia-
tive. It is a good thing to have,
these points made clear as the Farm
Board buckles down to business. It
is estimated that about 2,000,000
farmers are now members of co-
operative associations. Evidently
millions more will have to join this
progressive movement if agriculture
is to receive full benefit from the
Government’s plan for farm relief.
Potatoes in Peck Sacks.
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Potato growers of Pennsylvania,
now established among the national
leaders, might lend a willing ear to
a marketing plan evolved by a coop-
operative exchange of Michigan. One
peck sacks are packed and shipped
to distant markets. They are plainly
marked with the name of the ex-
change and its address. Repeat or-
ders are said to come frequently.
Formerly the smallest sack weighed
100 pounds and frequently remained
at the dealers. Now the convenient-
ly-sized package is carried direct to
the home of the purchaser and the
marking sends pleased customers
back for more.
Preparation of goods for the mar-
ket is as much a part of modern ag-
riculture as plowing, harrowing and
harvesting. It has long been a sub-
ject of comment that Pennsylvania
farmers, as a whole, were lax in this
regard. Too little attention has
been paid to packing, sorting and, in
general, to making the package at-
tractive to a purchaser. With the
State advancing rapidly in produc-
tion~the rating of Pennsylvania in
potatoes is mow fifth in yield and sec-
ond in total value of the crop—
these matters of detail are of in-
hy.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—MTrs. Elsie T. Diltz, 45, wife of Dr. H.
C. Diltz, was drowned, on Monday, in a
bath-tub at the Wilkins hospital, Pitts-
burgh, a private institution. She had been
ill several months and was in the hospital
for psychiatric treatment.
—David Hall, 65, was crushed to death
at Bloomsburg, last Wednesday afternoon,
at the plant of the American Car and
Foundry company, when a chain slipped
permitting a mine car to fall on him. A
crane had raised the car so that Hall
could replace a bolt.
—Two men walked’ into the office of the
fashionable Pittsburgh Athletic Associa-
tion, at Pittsburgh, early on Monday, held
up the pight clerk, A. L. Cooper, and
fled with $548 and checks amounting to
$879. Two blocks away they were cap-
tured by a policeman.
—The Mexican bean beetle, an insect
that attacks all kinds of field and garden
beans, has attacked crops in and around
Jersey Shore in such numbers that a rep-
resentative of State College will visit
that section this week to make an investi-
gation and try to prevent the spread of
the insect.
—The Richfield Oil company, of New
York and California, has obtained con-
trol of the Peerless Gasoline company, of
Scranton. More than $350,000 figured in
the transcation, it is said. The Peerless
company controls twenty fuel stations in
Lackawanna county and supplies many in-
dependent stations.
—Harry O. Edler, 11, of Gleasonton,
died in the Williamsport hospital, Wednes-
day night, from tetanus which developed
from burns sustained in setting off Fourth
of July crackers. The tetanus set in
from lacerations of the palm of the left
hand, and the boy's condition became ser-
ious two hours before he died.
—The State industrial board of the De-
partment of Labor and Industry has adopt-
ed a regulation requiring all motion pic-
ture theatres, exclusive of those in Phila-
delphia, Pittsburgh and Scranton, to use
an approved fire-prevention device on
projectors. Pennsylvania is the first State
to promulgate such a regulation.
—~Claire Barber, 18, captain-elect of the
Bradford High School football team, res-
cued a small boy he found captive in a
burning barrel. The lad was placed in
the barrel by playmates, police were told.
The barrel was covered with burlap and
set afire. Barber heard the boy’s screams,
pulled him from the barrel and extin-
guished flames which were consuming his
clothing.
—Appearing in Lackawanna county
court in behalf of his request that the city
close down the Filmore avenue play-
ground, in Scranton, George Francis, rail-
road man, complained that the scanty at-
tire of young women and girls at the re-
sort is one of the causes of his action.
Another witness told the Court that ‘the
girls go about with hardly nothing on
them.” Court reserved action on the plea
for an injunction.
—Ben Hur without a chariot could
have felt no more lonesome than did John
Snyder, 38, stranded in a Pittsburgh sub-
urb in the wee small hours of Tuseday
morning. John opened a police box and
told the sergeant about his predicament
and the obliging policeman sent the black
maria. ‘Later, John trisd to explain be-
fore a magistrate that all he wanted was
a cab. “The wagon never makes a trip
for less than $10,"’ replied the magistrate.
—Private Harry G. Wagner of troop A,
state police, on Tuesday, rescued Miss
Jane Burns, 16, of Claysville, Washington
county, from drowning. Miss Burns and
a party of friends were swimming at
Sunsét beach near Washington, Pa., when
the girl, apparently seized with cramps,
disappeared under the water. Private
Wagner reached her after she had gone
‘down a second time. Reaching shore, the
policeman applied first aid and the girl
was revived.
—The Rev. A. J. Bachman, of Schaeffers-
town, who has been in the ministry for
more than half a century, finds in sum-
ming up his work that he has married 1323
couples. Last year he married 37. Other
statistics of the Rev. Bachman’s lengthy
pastorate follow: Infants baptized, 3488;
last year, 45; adults baptized, 506; last,
year, 15; privately communed, 3484; last
year 60; dismissed, 408; last year, 4; re-
ceived from other churches, 841; last year,
46; funerals attended, 2293; last year, 37.
—Independent gasoline retailers at a
meeting in Harrisburg, on Monday, decid-
ed to file equity proceedings in the Dau-
phin county court against the State De-
partment of Revenue to test the bonding
requirement of the four-cent gasoline tax
imposed by the Fisher administration.
Thousands of small gasoline dealers are
reported to be facing extinction as a re-
sult of the act which requires all retailers
to be bonded, because bonding companies
are refusing to bond the smaller dealers
unless they post collateral.
—Two bandits held up and robbed an
Atlantic Refining company gasoline serv-
ice station in the business section of Al-
toona early on Monday and escaped with
$400. The two robbers entered the serv-
ice station as S. S. Werkins, night atten-
dant, was placing the day's receipts in
the safe and preparing to lock the station
for the night. Werkins was tied and gag-
ged by the bandits, who left him lying
face downward on the floor. The two men
escaped in an automobile which they had
left standing near the station.
—A proposal to substitute motor busses
for Pennsylvania railroad trains between
Tyrone and Grampian, has been submit-
ted to the Public Service Commission by
the Pennsylvania General Transit com-
pany, subsidiary of the railroad. The bus
company asked permission to begin bus
service between the two points by way of.
Osceola, Philipsburg and Clearfield. Such
service, said the application, could be ‘‘co-
ordinated’”’ with existing train service--
along the route and if found feasible, ..
would replace trains entirely.
—@Given up for dead when she was taken -
unconscious from the water of Fishing
Creek, near Bloomsburg, on Friday, Mar-
garet Milroy, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Milroy, of Berwick, owes her life
to the persistence of John Albertson, a
15-year-old Boy Scout. The girl was
swimming at Forks when she went under.
Other swimmers thought she was pretend-
ing and by the time Donald Shingler got
to her she was unconscious. He dragged
her to the shore. Several women asserted
their belief she was dead. Albertson said
he would try to rostore her to life, and,
creasing importance.
after working for 156 minutes, his efforts
were rewarded. :