INK SLINGS.
ren,
AWAKE
“This' morning, some time before day break,
I heard a strange bird sing
And it seemed to me at that hour
To be an unusually lovely thing.
And then, just out of the silence
Of that quiet moment gone,
‘Someone passed under my window
Whistling a quaint old song.
Softly he carried the familiar theme,
Sure of its beauty, rare,
1 wondered if he, too, had heard the tune
Flung out by the bird in the air.
And was carrying it on through the
dawnin,
4
For each of us, waking, to hear
“The songs of the souls on a city street
And the song of a bird in the air.
WINIFRED B. MEEK-MORRI®
July 24, 1929.
— Tt will soon be that an annual
family reunion will be essential to
family pride.
—_ It will be hardly worth while
for Mussolini to try on a cloak of
modesty. It won't fit.
It may be set down as a safe
bet that there will be no great treas-
ury surplus in Harrisburg at the end
.of the present biennium.
High hopes are being built on
the prospective visit of Premier Mac-
Donald, and we sincerely hope they
will not be disappointed.
— Crickets began to chirp last
‘week and that means that it will be
.only six weeks until fall sets in. Do
you know where your summer has
gone? ;
—We were in error last week when
‘we said that the last day for filing
nomination papers for borough apd
township offices is August 6. No-
“body called us to account for the in-
accuracy. We just discovered, our-
selves, that August 13 is the dead
line.
—The boot-leggers who bought an
entire ship load of Canadian liquors
and paid for it in counterfeit money
are probably laughing their heads
off, but think of what the captain of
the ship thought when got back to
Halifax and discovered how he had
been duped.
—Of course it was only a mistake,
but the gentleman from State Col-
lege who drove out of Bellefonte,
Wednesday night, in another man’s
car, which he mistook for his own,
must be as absent minded as we are.
Often at breakfast we put salt in our
coffee and sugar in the egg cup, but
if we were to drive off a car with
a lawn-mower, a sprinkler and a
lady's pocket-book all piled in it,
thinking it to be our own, we'd cer-
tainly beat it for a psychopathic
ward when we discovered our mis-
take.
—Notwithstanding the fact = that
the Pinchots are luffing along, some-
where in the south seas, their names
are being brought up often where fu-
ture political line-ups in Pennsylva-
nia are discussed. There is no use of
minimizing the following they have
in this State and since they are out-
side the breast-works of their party’s
organization we think our chairman,
John R. Collins, would be well ad-
vised if he were to consider some
some sort of a fusion with the Pin-
chot element in the next election in
Pennsylvania.
—We have a hazy recollection that
we made the suggestion that resulted
in the election of our present burgess.
If anybody wants to challenge that
they may. Whether we did or didn’t
is of no consequence. If we did it
was certainly without the knowledge
of the distinguished gentleman who
officiates over us and he will tell you
that no matter what the other thir-
ty nine hundred and ninety-five resi-
ients of Bellefonte might have im-
portuned him to do the thirty nine
aundred and ninety-sixth has not
asked him for a single favor. We
say this because our interest in the
natter of who is to succeed him is
antirely impersonal. As burgesses go
we think Mr. Harris has been
in exceptionally good one. It
s true that he turned tail when we
wanted him to fly to Bill Thompson’s
ronference in Chicago, but inasmuch
s we would have done the same
hing it is not for us to hold that
\gainst him. Therefore, we think he
wught to be re-elected—if he wants
0 be—without opposition.
—It is now nine-fifty-five Wed-
iesday night and we're just home
rom what we believe will be the last
ishing expediton in 1929. In some
vays we're darned glad the trout
eason is over. In others we are
onsumed with regret. We are glad
recause three big fellows that we
:ave been pestering for about four
veeks will have a season of rest from
ur futile but persistent lure. We
re regretful because now we sup-
ose we'll have to make good to the
1dy who pours our coffee. You see,
7e’ve been promising to do so many
dd jobs about her house and yard,
just as soon as the fishing season is
ver,” that we're going to be busier
han a hen with one chicken if we
re to get half of them done before
he snow flies. We often hear the
romen say: “Men are all alike.”
'ossibly they are, but if any of our
rothers are in a worse hole than we
re tonight—so far as having work
aat one doesn’t want to do staring
1em in the face—they are poor fish,
deed. We sympathize with them
nd we know they will understand
ur regret at the ending of tHe trout
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 74.
President Hoover's Strange Notion.
In the engineering mind of President
Hoover Christian civilization began
the day he qualified as a member of
the President’s cabinet in Washing-
ton. In his speech of acceptance
and in several of his subequent cam-
paign addresses he stated that Amer-
ican prosperity and worth-while
achievement set in with that, to him,
auspicious event; and in his speech,
the other day, proclaiming the Kel-
logg-Briand treaty he said it was “a
proposal to the conscience and ideal-
ism of civilized nations. It suggested
a new step in international law, rich
with meaning, pregnant with new
ideas in the conduct of world rela-
tions. It represented a platform in
which there is instant appeal to the
public opinion of the world as to spe-
cific acts and deeds.”
So long as all the peoples of the
several signatories of the multilater-
al treaty are faithful to a voluntary
obligation it will serve a great pur-
pose. They are under pledge that
“the settlement or solution of all
disputes or conflicts, of whatever
nature or of whatever origin they
may be, which may arise among
‘them shall never be sought except
by pacific means.” But whenever
any nation, big or little, among them
construes a treaty as ‘“a scrap of pa-
per,” as was done by Germany in
1914 and was about to be done by
both Russia and China, both signers
of the pact, within a fortnight the
agreement is off and there is no way
of enforcing its benevolent provis-
ions. Possibly the public conscience
has been sufficiently aroused by
events of recent years to guarantee
fulfillment of this agreement.
But even at that it wasn’t an en-
tirely new “proposal to the conscience
and idealism of civilized nations.” Al-
most coincident with the beginning
of the Woodrow Wilson administra-
tion the negotiation of treaties of
tinued until the opening of the World
War. Since that the Covenent of the
League of Nations containing an in-
finitely better method of accomplish-
ing the purpose was adopted by up-
ward of fifty nations, but rejected by
the United States Senate” Tor the
reason that it reflected honor on
Woodrow Wilson. Then the World
Court was organized to achieve the
same result and rejected by the Sen-
ate for the same reason. But Presi-
dent Hoover is oblivious of all these
things and sees only what has occur-
red since 1921. :
Wyoming Valley’s Water War.
Far several days the Wyoming
valley, in this State, has been dis-
turbed by what has been locally cal-
led a “water war.” For many years
that populous section of Pennsylva-
nia had been supplied with water by
local utility corporations with entire
satisfaction to the public and fairly
generous profits to the owners of the
plants. A few years ago the merg-
er mania broke out, however, and
by purchase, merger and consolida-
tion the several local corporations
were absorbed by a holding company
with headquarters in New York and
absolutely no interest in the welfare
of the consumers. The new corpora-
tion assumed the euphonious title of
the “Scranton Spring Brook Water
company.”
The enticement offered to the local
corporations to surrender their fran-
chises to the holding company was
better, more economical and there-
fore cheaper service. But instead of
fulfilling these promises, some
months ago the rates of service were
increased ten per cent.and the nat-
against this betrayal of faith was a
threat to cut off the supply to those
who refused to pay. An appeal to
the authorities proved as futile as
an appeal to reason was impotent.
The consumers almost unanimously
refused to pay and employees of the
corporation were sent in to execute
the threat. Thus far it has not been
accomplished and the ultimate result
is in doubt.
This incident is prophetic of what
monopoly will do to the people of the
dency to consolidation is checked. The
people of the Wyoming valley might
obtain redress by appealing to the
Public Service Commission. But un-
der the rules of the Commission
complaint must be made by the vic-
tims of the evil and the process is
so costly as to be practically prohibi-
tive. Besides the records of the
Pennsylvania Public Service Com-
mission forbid hope of fair treatment
of the people against any corpora-
tion. We sincerely hope that . the
people of the Wyoming valley will
find a way to win the war into. which
they have been forced by corporate
cupidity.
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shing season.
~—Subscribe for the Watchman.
similar import was begun and cont
and fair-minded Demotra
ural and entirely proper protest
country unless the wide-spread ten- |.
‘covers the difference and there is
BELLEFONTE. PA.. AUGUST 2.
Wise Work of Chairman Collins. |
The largest vote ever cast for a |
Democratic candidate for any office
in Pennsylvania was that received by
Albert E. Smith last year. The per-
sonality of Governor Smith had a
good deal to do with this result of
the balloting. His record of achieve-
ment as Governor of New York made
a marked impression on the minds of
thoughtful voters and the hope of
transferring his activities from Al-
bany to Washington enlisted their
support. But the personal popular-
ity of a candidate is not sufficiently
appealing in a State-wide contest to
materially strengthen his party.
There must be other agencies at
work, other influences in action to
enlist the interest of the voters.
In the campaign of last year there
were several elements contributing
to the large vote of the Democratic
candidate for President and each did
its part well. But it is not invidious
to say that the dominant influence in
raising the party vote to the million
mark was the masterful work of
chairman John Collins, of the State
committee. His energy and indus-
try inspired not only hope but con-
fidence and brought into active effort
thousands of voters who had growh
indifferent or dispairing in recent
years. No previous campaign man-
ager had ever encountered a more
stubborn opposition. Religious in-
tolerance and a combination of tem-
perance fanatics and bootleggers
made a formidable foe.
Chairman Collins deserves the
highest praise for his splendid work
in the campaign of 1928, and an
equal measure of approval for his
subsequent efforts to preserve and
strengthen the party for future ef-
fort against the common enemy. His
recent summons of a number of lead-
ing Democrats, not officially affiliated
with the organization, has been
sharply criticised. As a matter of
fact it was one of the wisest expedi-
ents he could have invoked to in-
crease interest in the party. It was
not an aspersion upon the regular
committeemen but an offer of help
ogthem in their arduous and mea-
erly appreciated labor. No, sincere,
it can justly
complain of that act.
——1It may not be significant at all
but it is nevertheless true that Sec-
retary Davis is the only active
candidate for Governor who was a
guest at the Vare wedding the other
day.
i fp ————
Mayor Mackey as a Censor.
Mayor Mackey, of Philadelphia,
who owes his official life to long con-
tinued servility to Bill Vare, has be-
come a self-appointed censor of the
group of middlewest Republican Sen-
ators in Congress who are support-
ing President Hoover in his effort to
fulfill the obligations of the Kansas
City platform and the pledges made
in his campaign speeches. Mr. Mack-
ey’s complaint is based on the fact
that “there are more farms in Penn-
sylvania than in either Nebraska,
Kansas, Oklahoma, Idaho or Mon-
tana,” and that the “farm population
of Pennsylvaria exceeds that of eith-
er of those Statrs.” In other words,
he would have the lone Senator of!
Pennsylvania, who represents the
Steel trust on the floor, speak for
the farmers of the country.
On the radio, at whose expense has
not yet been revealed, Mr. Mackey
declared the other evening that ‘‘un-
fair and unjust propaganda is being
disseminated by ' certain Senators
from the West. Theirs is obviously
an attempt to limit tariff protection
to agricultural products, on the
grounds that Pennsylvania and oth-
er eastern States are seeking to
share in tariff benefits largely or ex-
clusively industrial. They have ad-
vanced the specious argument that
agriculture is entitled to a subsidy
or bounty, because industry, they
claim, had received a subsidy or
bounty, under the “protective tariff.”
Well, where is the injustice in ac-
cording to one industry that which
has for a long time been given to an-
other?
Mayor Mackey evidently imagines
that farming is a sort of diversion
like golf or tennis and has no rela-
tion to industry. There may be the
discrepancy he speaks of in wages
in this country and Belgium or Ger-
many in iron and glass products, but
the existing tariff tax more than
neither justice nor reason in robbing
millions of consumers in order that
hundreds of producers may increase
profits already ample, if not excessive.
Mr. Mackey feels deeply outraged be-
cause Philadelphia buys Belgium ce-
ment, ‘just as good as Pennsylvania
cement,” which is cheaper. The tax-
payers who foot the expense bills of
the city are not likely to take that
view of it.
Lamentable Indifference of Voters. .
There seems to be a surprising in-
difference in the public mind with re-
spect to the use of voting machines
in Pennsylvania since the adoption
of the constitutional amendment ' on
the subject. The 400,000 majority
in favor of the amendment conveyed
‘the idea that it was an issue of su-
preme importance to the voters. But
three-quarters of a year have elaps-
ed since the vote and comparatively
little has been done toward provid-
ing for putting the machines into
use. It is true that a few counties
have taken the preliminary steps for
a referendum at the November elec-
tion this year, and party leaders in
others have expressed a purpose to
do so, but enthusiasm on the sub-
ject appears to be lacking.
* Voting machines are not needed in
many of the counties and the ex-
pense of introducing them is ample
reason for careful consideration of
the matter by the commissioners of
such counties. ‘But they are greatly
needed in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
and other counties containing cities
and large population centers, and the
citizens of those counties are
strangely lethargic on the subject.
It has been announced that Mr. Vare
favors the adoption of the machines
which, if true, would guarantee their
adoption in Philadelphia, but there
are no visible signs of preparation
to submit the question to vote this
year, and it will take time as well as
money to accomplish that result. !
Voting machines cost a good deal
at the beginning but according to
experts they are a valuable asset and
a wise investment in the end. They |
do not guarantee an honest election
for a packed registry list will de-'
bauch the ballot in any event. But
computing the vote has been the pro-
lific source of fraud in recent years
and the voting machines will make
false counting and fraudulent returns
practically impossible in the future.
This will be worth all the machines
cost if they were installed in every
voting district in the State. Honest
elections are essential to just govern-
ment and voters ought to see to it
every necessary provision is |
——The Republican factional fight
in Schuylkill county is being watch-
ed with interest from all sections of
the State, not because there is a
choice between them but for the rea-
son that they are equally bad.
mem pf or ———
Commissioners Forgot to Advertise
Primaries.
A peculiar political situation
might develop = in Centre county be-
cause the county commissioners for-
got to advertise the forthcoming
primaries at the time specified by
law. The Uniform Primaries act of
1913 states that “Beginning not ear-
lier than nine weeks, nor later than
eight weeks before the primaries, the
county commissioners shall publish
the names of all offices for which
nominations are to be made, with the
date of the primaries, for three suc-
cessive weeks, in at least two news-
papers, etc.”
To have complied with the act pub-
lication should have been made at the
very latest two weeks ago. Omis-
sion to do so, of course, was not wil-
ful on the part of the county com-
missioners or any one connected with
the office. It was simply a case of
forgetfulness on the part of all the
officials. The advertisement has been
published this week and the proba-
bility is that not one voter out of a
hundred will know the difference.
But the principal point is will the
Centre county primaries be legally
held. There is no precedent to go
by, as there is no case on record in
the entire State of a similar nature.
Of course it won't stop the holding
of the primaries. They will be held
on the regular date as specified in the
primaries act, which is the third
Tuesday in September (the 17th.)
But it leaves a Ioophole for any can-
didate defeated at the primaries to
institute a contest on the grounds
that the primaries were not legally
advertised according to law. Then it
would be up to the courts for a deci-
sion.
————————,
——The peach crop may have
dodged the frost this year but the
hot and dry weather. has got the
huckleberry crop in a strangle hold.
—TIt will be “too bad” if Gover-
nor Fisher is unable to justify the
increased. gasoline tax by an equally
increased revenue return. :
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——The X-ray is being put to:in-
creasingly hard tasks. It is now be-
ing used to detect flaws in steel.
A ————— A —————
—-—Maybe those ‘New York con-
victs in Auburn were “crazy with the
1929
NO. 30.
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Utilizing the Census to Attack Un-
employment.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
The latest and most practical step
[toward the solution of a great na-
tional problem was taken during the
past week, when Secretary of Com-
merce Lamont appointed a represen-
tative committee of citizens to co-
operate in enumerating the unem-
ployed in connection with next year’s
regular census of the population. Of-
ficials of the Department of Com-
merce and Labor had previously met
with employers, economic and socio-
logical experts and others directly in-
terested in this subject.
The necessity for having full and
accurate - data regarding unemploy-
ment before effective remedial meas-
ures can be applied was brought in-
to clear relief a year ago last spring,
. when so many persons were out of
work and the Senate called for the
figures. These Secretary of Labor
Davis was able to furnish only ap-
proximately on the basis of reports
made to his department. He placed
the total number of unemployed at
that time at 1,874,000. It was later
explained that this represented the
number of persons gainfully employ-
ed on January 1, 1925, and those at
work on the corresponding date for
1928.
Since Mr. Davis did not include the
so-called ‘‘normal” amount of unem-
ployment, which has been roughly es-
timated at 1,000,000, and no exact
figures relating to agriculture, min-
ing, clerical workers and domestic
service, and took no account of such
factors as growth of population, im-
migration and the drift from the
farms to the cities, his statement was
sharply criticized and, unfortunately,
the situation, then so serious, became
the football of partisan debate.
Senator Wagner produced figures
purporting to show 5,796,000 persons
out of work. Other estimates ran as
high as 8,000,000. These were ex-
aggerations. All that developed from
tne discussion was that nobody knew
the numerical extent of unemploy-
ment. 35
But the new idea is not merely to
ascertain with a fair degree of accur-
acy the number of idle in this coun-
try in April next. It is planned to
ask questions showing the number
having jobs but temporarily laid off
without pay, the number on strike or
on makeshift jobs, being unable to
find work at their usual occupation.
Unless otherwise directed and pro-
vided with a list of questions on this
subject, the enumerator would report
all these classes as unemployed. It
is hoped that the statistics to be ob-
tained under the new plan will afford
a measure of the effects of changes in
the technique of production, of the in-
troduction of improved lavor-saving
machinery of the movement toward
corporate mergers and of increased
efficiency in management. To what
extent are these and other fac-
tors affecting employment? How
many without regular employment
are physically and mentally able to
earn their livelihood?
Valuable as have been the sugges-
tions arising from President Hard-
ing’s unemployment conference of
1921, which has just been praised by
Mr. Hoover's committee on recent
economic changes for making a real-
ly constructive contribution to the
discussion, and promising as is Mr.
Hoover's plan for a huge State and
Federal “construction reserve fund” to
provide employment on public works
in time of adversity, they merely em-
phasize the necessity for the scien-
tific approach to the problem through
the medium of next year’s census.
For until we know the extent and—
equally important—the many “kinds”
of unemployment and their relation
to the main problem, the proper rem-
edies cannot be effectively applied.
re AeA
Wheat and the Price of It.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Wheat prices have been jacked up
in the markets. Why? Because of a
threatened shortage of production in
Canada and sections of the north-
west United States. Too much fierce
sunshine. Too little rain. There may
be trouble in Argentina as well
The estimated surplus of stored
wheat in this country on July 1 was
about 40 million mushels, twice that
on hand in July of last year. Sur-
pluses have to be exported. When
there are crop failures elsewhere
much of our surplus has a chance to
be sold abroad. When crops do well
elsewhere our surplus is disposed of
only in part. It piles up.
That is the whole story of wheat.
We grow too much of it, and a glut
means low prices to the farmer and a
‘loss of profit. Could output be gaug-
ed to approximate requirements all
would be well. Cooperative market-
ing would protect the farmer. It is
the surplus that will be the bane of
the Federal Farm Board, for there is
no way of making consumers buy
more than they have need for.
The law of supply and demand ap-
plies to wheat precisely as it applies
to all other products. It can’t be
beaten.
— When the Philadelphia police
ernor Pennypacker as an anarchist
heat.”
they monkeyed with a hornet’s nest.
arrested a daughter of former Gov-’
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Russell Jackson, 28, a patient in the
Blair county hospital, near Hollidaysburg,
drowned in a five gallon barrel of water
on Saturday. Sent to feed a flock of
chickens, the patient fell head-first in the
barrel, which was used to catch rain wa-
ter. He was dead when found by hospital
attaches. : :
—Anthony Wasko's week-long search
for his missing horse ended on Saturday
when he found the animal, alive and un-
injured, in an abandoned mine shaft near
his home at Bernice, Bradford county.
The horse had been grazing when the
ground caved in, dropping him abou
twenty-five feet into. the mine. :
—Shamokin borough has been made de-
fendant in a $20,000 suit by Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Mirarch, residents of the town.
Mrs. Mirarch fell in front of a home and
will be permanently lame, she contends,
and claims the borough is at fault for
not compelling the property owner to
have his pavement in good shape.
—While operation of the Williamsport
post office will be temporarily in the
hands of an employee designated by the,
Postmaster-General, it will not be. long
before Congressman Kiess will present, a,
name for confirmation to succeed the late.
Postmaster W. S. Hill, who committed
suicide by shooting last week, owing to
an allegel shortage in his accounts.
—When a team of horses drawing a
wagon loaded with oats arrived at the’
barn without a driver, Signor Ruhl, of
Mount Joy, investigated and found his’
father-in-law, Milton Miller, lying in the
fleld dead. Miller, 60 years old, is be-"
lieved to have been overcome by the heat’
and to have fallen from the wagon. The
wheels passed over his body and killed
him.
—A baby asleep in a crib was covered
with plaster knocked from the ceiling,
when the home of William Fink, near
New Oxford, Adams county, was struck
by lightning. After hitting the roof, the
bolt ran down the side of the house,
breaking windows, knocking off weather
boarding and loosening plaster on the
walls. Although covered by the plaster,
the baby was not injured.
—Kenneth, 18 year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. R. Cole, of the Peoples Planing
Mill Co., of Punxsutawney, had his right
arm almost severed between the wrist
and forearm, late on Monday, when a.
huge piece of plate glass he was helping
unload from a truck broke and pinioned
his arm against the truck bed. The ten-
dons, arteries and muscles of the arm
were completely severed by the glass.
—Augustus Beshore, 66, of Manchester,
York county, was killed Friday afternoon
when he fell into a hay baler on a farm
at Mt. Wolf. He had been standing on
top of the baler when he suddenly disap-
peared. The accident was not discovered
until a few moments later, when other”
workers noted that the baler was not op-
erating properly. When the machine was
stopped, the body was found with nearly '
all the bones crushed.
—Two bandits last Saturday held up
two employees of the Tech Food Products
company in front of the Pennsylvania Na-
tional Bank, in Pittsburgh, and took $10,-
000 in week-end receipts which the men
were taking to the bank. The employees
‘of the company, Henry Koch and George.
Mitsskors
“were stopped ‘at the steps of
‘the bank. The bandits escaped in an au-
tomobile. Pedestrians who witnessed the
holdup, failed to comprehend its signifi-
cance for the first few minutes as the
bandits worked so smoothly in their ac-
tions.
—A big steam shovel, weighing thirty-
five tons, which is being used to make-
excavations for the new Y. M. C. A. build-
ing, at Coatesville, is in danger of being
swallowed by quicksand, which has de-
veloped at the bottom of the pit. The
steam shovel fell into the quicksand as
the crew were trying to move it. Efforts
that have been made so far, have only
moved the shovel deeper . in the mire.
Citizens, who have made similar excava-
tions assert that a swamp exists in that
section of the town, and the quicksand is
virtually bottomless and swallows up
anything heavy that gets into it.
—Wading in the shallow Schuylkill riv- ,
er at Blackrock Dam, just north of Phoe-
nixville, Monday afternoon, Anthony
Koch, 12 years old, stumbled over an ob-
struction. He called other playmates to
‘assist in removing it and the boys were
horrified as they lifted to the surface the
body of Peter Koch, 9 years old, brother -
of Anthony. There were eight boys in the
group that set out for the swimming hole
shortly after noon. Peter Koch, a good
swimmer, was among them and was play-
ing around in water with his mates. None-
noticed his disappearance. It is thought.
he was seized with cramps. John Koch,
a Reading railway track walker, was hur-
riedly summoned and with a physician
and five of the older boys worked over
the body for an hour, but failed to revive
him.
— Announcement was made this week by
Ralph E. Irwin, chief of the milk section
of the Pennsylvania State Health Depart-
ment, that in conformity to the Act pass-
ed by the last Legislature relative to milk
control, printed copies of which are now
being forwarded to all dairymen and milk
dealers in the State, application blanks
will be available on and after January ..
1930, and permits will be required on and
after Septembr 1, 1930. Irwin said that
the intervening time would be necessary
to develop the required machinery proper- -
ly to enforce the law. The milk section .
will however, as in the past, continue to
make thorough inspections of all dairies
and milk plants for the purpose of main-
taining the present standards of hygiene
and cleanliness now general in this Com-
monwealth.
—Her clothes ablaze, Mrs. Jennie Haus-
er, 29 years old, dashed onto the highway
at her home at Linden, Lycoming county,
last Thursday, and stood screaming from
pain, while scores of motorists gathered
helplessly around her. She died several
hours later at the Williamsport hospital.
An explosion of kerosene which she was
using to start a fire in the kitchen stove
set fire to the house, which was burned to
the ground. She was the mother . of
three children ranging in age from four
to ten years. The fire occurred = while-
Mrs. Hauser was preparing dinner. The
fire was slow and she threw kerosene up-
on it. There was a burst of flames en-
veloping her and spreading to the kitch-
en. The entire house was soon a seeth-
ing inferno and the woman and her chil-
dren ran onto the highway.
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