Demonic fal om
comms
INK SLINGS.
— Everybody except the contes-
ant has grown tired of airship con-
ests of various kinds.
—YLet ‘us hope: that : all . the
ain we ought to have had during the
ast six weeks is not being saved up
o douse the Grangers with when they
‘0 into their encampment at Centre
[all next week.
—The new moon is lying further
1 the southern heavens than we
ave seen it for many years. If
hat means continued warm weather,
rell and good. If it means continua-
ion of the drought—not so good.
—We’re only interested in the fight
Iayor Mackey and his gang are
waking on the Vare organization in
‘hiladelphia because we think the
layor ought to be given a chance to
how wherein his political wares dif-
sr from those of the boss who made
im.
—The latest announcement from
1e Hague is to the effect that ‘The
owers’” are to quit the Rhine by
hristmas time. What Christmas
me, the dispatches fail to designate.
robably its the Christmas time that
enry Ford's peace ship was going
) get the boys out of the trenches
I.
—_Wiliam Feather says ‘the hard-
it thing in the world is to find a ten
ousand dollar job for a forty-five
mdred dollar man,” William's philos-
>hy is usually very straight but
ys away off this time. Lots of
iirty cents an hour men can get
n thousand dollar jobs as long as
eir dads have enough money to fi-
wnce the corporation that gives them
them.
—When councilman Cunningham
:ard of the earthquake the first
ing he thought of was the Big
ring and away to the source of the
wn’s water supply he flew. His
ncern was fear lest while Earth
as reshuffling her limestone ribs
ie of them might have cracked and
ade an opening large enough to
1d our water in another direction.
ad just that could happen, but it
in't .
—Reports from the President's
sek-end fishing camp in the moun-
ins of Virginia are to the effect
at he rolls fifty-pound rocks around
handily as the average idler
othecates nostril pills. Making
ms for the trout is very commen-
ble occupation for the President on
turday, but he’d better get busy
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
ursdays and Fridays making rain
* the potatoes and corn or he won't
ve anything to fill his dams ex-
>t the damns of the gillies who
fen. Blesbert Hoover, or any
sM¥eW’ (> to the seismographs
3 the scientists Centre county was
» center of an earthquake on Mon-
y morning. Hurrah for Centre
inty ! Since 1800 she’s been the
iter of most everything, but we've
:n terribly handicapped because in
those years we have never had an
‘thquake to brag about. Earth-
ikes are not like Governors and
trout. We make the latter, but
've nothing to do with the intes-
al indigestion that old Mother
rth gets every once in a while;
ising the gases that start the in-
nal rumblings. If we had we
uld have had an earthquake to
nt with pride to years ago. It is
ather embarrassing situation, too.
ile the whole scientific world was
nting to Bellefonte as the home of
latest terrestrial upheaval our
ited Order of Town Boosters were
zing sheepish because they had
sed a trick. Only one man in
community admits that he felt a
nor. With all due respect to his
spicacity and veracity we believe
t he would never have thought
t he felt a tremor had there
n no announcement in the evening
ers, of Monday, of the fact that
re had been an earthquake. We
ve at this conclusion because of
gentleman’s reaction to the seis-
disturbance. As we have said,
. community had never had an
:hquake before and it seems to us
: when a man’s bed would get to
aging and the pictures on the
1 doing the “Varsity drag” he
ld come to one of two conclu-
s: Either, that was awful ‘“moon-
ie” I drank last night or some-
g is happening that never hap-
2d before and I'd better start
ying. We know that he didn’t
k “moonshine” the night before.
didn’t say anything about praying
n he told us of his experience
ng such an unnerving sensation
ne’s first earthquake, so we be-
> that he really didn’t know any-
e about the cataclysm than any
he rest of us did. However, we
all imagine we felt it and if we
ist in imagining hard enough it
't be long until we're all postive
we did feel it and: Then ! Gosh,
vill have added another to Centre
ity’s many claims to a large
tch on the map.
nd, talking about being on the
, nobody in this or any other
munity ever doubted that Centre
ity and Bellefonte were there
the bellls on until about ten
s ago. Then everyone who built a
> or less ornate gas station or
dog stand claimed a niche in the
of local immortals because he
he was only building it to put
'fonte on the map.
AR
NSE
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 74.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. AUGUST 16. 1929.
NO. 32.
Mrs. Willebrandt Reveals the Facts.
The purpose which influenced Mrs.
Willebrandt to expose the responsibil-
ty for injecting religious intolerance
into the campaign of last year is a
matter of conjecture. By many
thoughtful persons it is believed that
she would like to “alter the public's
conception of herself.” She is no
longer on the payroll of the govern-
ment and must look to popular favor
for maintenance. Her speeches dur-
ing the campaign plainly inviting the
union of church and state, provoked
widespread opposition and indigna-
tion and possibly she now believes
that it militates against her success
in her professional aspirations. Oth-
ers imagine that she is resentful at
the manner in which she was separat-
ed from office.
created a good deal of excitement
and some apprehension among the
politicians who profited by her
speeches. At the time of their de-
livery Mr. Hoover repeatedly declar-
Work,
National committee, openly professed
abhorrence of such campaign policy.
they inspired the policy of inflaming
religious prejudices to influence par-
tisan results and subsequently con-
cealed themselves behind Mrs. Wille-
brandt’s skirts.
Mrs. Willebrandt’s statement that
a large sum of money accumulated
through collusion between the Penn-
sylvania Republican machine and the
criminals engaged in violation of the
prohibition law was discovered after
the death of a political leader is com-
paratively unimportant. The fact
that a Republican Congressman and
a number of prosecuting officials
have been in league with the boot-
leggers is insignificant. But the fact
fully established by Mrs. Wille-
brandt’s “confession” that the Presi-
dent of the United States and the of-
ficial head of the Republican party,
Hubert, Work, chairman of the Na-
tional committee, not only tolerated
but encouraged the bigotry of the
last campaign, is a matter of grave
concern.
——It seems that the Federal Re-
serve Bank can start a panic in Wall
Street whenever it wants to. This
is a giant power which should be
used with great discretion.
Vare’s Vanishing Ambition.
The Republican leaders in Wash-
ington have become weary in bolster-
ing up the absurb claim that Wil-
liam S. Vare was honestly elected
Senator in Congress by the people of
Pennsylvania. No longer able to
impose upon popular credulity, on the
pretense of physical infirmity, and
realizing that the Senate is morally
bound to dispose of the case against
him, he recently asked Senator Reed
of Pittsburgh, and Senator Watson,
of Indiana, to join him in conference
to devise means for his defense.
Senator Watson is the floor leader
of his party in the Senate and Sena-
tor Reed is representative of the
party for Pennsylvania and has
stood the brunt of the battle for
Vare thus far.
Both of these influential Republi-
cans declined the invitation to “talk
things over.” They have taken the
measure of public sentiment in Penn-
sylvania and arrived at the opinion
that there is nothing to talk about
that can possibly justify further
contention that Vare is entitled to
the seat he purchased. It also ap-
pears that the President acknowl-
edges no obligation to Mr. Vare
that would require his intervention
in the Senatorial contest. His trick
on Mellon was an important gesture.
It didn’t contribute an atom to the
Hoover strength in the Kansas City
convention. It only added to Vare’s
self-conceit and arrogance and laid
lines of enmity in the mind of Andy
Mellon. :
With these developments in Wash-
ington and a formidable revolt or-
ganized against his machine in
Philadelphia the immediate future
of the whilom boss is not promising.
It is expected that soon after the as-
sembling of the Senate, next week, a
' motion to accept the report of the
| Slush Fund committee will be made
and carried by a substanital major-
ity. That report declared that Vare
was not legally elected and is not
entitled to a seat in the Senate. It
is a sad story but a just ending of a
preposterous ambition. It may also
serve as an admonition to others
who have no qualification for im-
portant public office, other than
great wealth, and there are many
| men of that type.
In any event her exposure has
|
Bishop Cannon Justly Defeated.
There is something more than po-
litical significance in the over-
whelming defeat of Bishop Cannon’s
bunch of mercenaries in the Virginia
primary election last week. It im-
plies a sharp and richly deserved re-
buke to an arrant religio-political
bigot who had endeavored to batray
the people who had honored him be-
yond his merits into the hands of
their political enemies for his own
profit and aggrandizement. In the
recent campaign he became the
mouth-piece of an intolerant group
which injected bigotry into the reck-
oning and deceived them by wilfull
and malicious falsehoods. Since then
he has been striving to perpetuate
his leadership of a faction by equally
unethical methods.
Recently Bishop Cannon formed a
‘sort of ‘“‘plunderbund” with Bascom
|
|
But Mrs. Willebrandt now plainly the
asserts that they were responsible | administration at Washington con-
for her actions and utterances and tributed both moral and material
not only edited but cordially approv- | support to this unholy alliance and
ed her manuscripts. In other words an unusually active campaign ensued.
Slemp, an office broker by profes-
sion and a Republican leader, in de-
fiance of every principle of decency.
Cannon engaged to secure the nomi-
ed he had no sympathy with that nation of a recreant as the Demo-
method of campaigning and Hubert cratic candidate for Governor and
chairman of the Republican Slemp
is said to have promised
that the Republican party would
endorse and support him at
election in November. The
The primary was held last week and
the plunderbund aggregation was Jz-
feated so badly that it has already
practically disintegrated. It is said
that Cannon has left the State.
But no matter where he finds a
habitation he will be shunned by all
men and women who have respect
for good citizenship. During the
World war the government found it
necessary to prohibit large accumu-
lations of food stuffs by individuals.
Ignoring this humane order Bishop
Cannon purchased and stored several
hundred barrels of flour and ap-
propriated the profits of his nefari-
ous enterprise to his own use.
Preaching against gambling in stocks
he secretly gambled in
shops,” and when his operations
were discovered by an insolvency he
tried to justify himself By declaring
that gambling in stocks is no greater
evil than buying and selling real es-
tate for profit. Out upon such hypoc-
risy.
—Professor Gregory, famous Lon-
don economist, says the Smoot tariff
bill wili “put a nail in the coffin of
European reconstruction.” In accom- |
plishing that it will put a knife in
the heart of American prosperity.
Tariff Bill to be Delayed.
It seems that the Republican ma-
jority in the Senate will not be
ready to begin consideration of the
tariff bill when that body reassem-
bles next Monday. The farmers of
the country are not willing to accept
a tax on sweet milk and a levy on
peanuts as fulfillment of the promise
to put agriculture on a parity with
manufactures in dispensing the ben-
efits of tariff legislation, and chair-
man Smoot, of the Senate Committee
on Finance, wants more time to
hypnotize them. Accordingly it has
been arranged to dilly-dally for sev-'!
eral weeks. This can be done by in-
terspersing two or three day reces-
ses between sessions.
The Republican members of the
Finance committee of the Senate
have been considering the measure
in secret sessions since the adjourn-
ment of Congress on the 4th of
March, under the supervision of Joe
Grundy and a few other tariff-mon-
gers. A majority of even the Repub-
lican Senators favor such legislation
as will guarantee moderate rate in-
creases. But the big contributors to
the campaign fund of last year de-
mand speedy reimbursement, and
prohibitive tariff taxation is the only
way of accomplishing that result.
The bill, as framed, is certain to be
defeated, and its sponsors are spar-
ring for time to reconcile the tariff-
mongers to their disappointment.
There is no need for increasing
the tariff tax rates at this time, and
there is no justification for organiz-
ing a trade-war with all the com-
mercial nations of the world at any
time. The administration and the
Republican leaders of the country
profess to want universal peace and
they are pursuing a course which
will make world-wide war practic-
ally inevitable. Nothing so directly
leads to war as unfair treatment in
commerce, and a tariff system which
excludes the products of other in-
dustrial and commercial nations
from fair competition in markets is
certain to provoke enmities that will
lead to war.
——The “sliding scale” on sugar
may serve as a toboggan for the
tariff bill for this season, at least.
i Vare Machine Tottering.
In utter contempt of Mayor Mack-
ey's protest Boss Vare has named
the candidates of the Republican
party in Philadelphia for all the
“row offices.” He has placed upon
the slate Mr. Hadley, for controller,
but not because of the Mayor's pref-
erence for that gentleman. He ac-
cepted Hadley because he knew that
failure to do so would wreck his ma-
chine and Mackey favored him for
the same reason. There is nothing in
common between these political pi-
rates and a man of Hadley’s type ex-
cept detestation on one side and fear
on the other. Hadley openly flouted
Vare and has frequently snubbed
Mackey. But the decent voters of all
parties admire him and they are
afraid to fight him.
The purpose of Mayor Mackey's
recent expression of independence
was to force Vare to put one of
Mackey’s cronies on the ticket
for an important and lucrative office.
If Vare had been in the least afraid
of the Mayor’s veiled threats of re-
volt, he would have yielded to that
demand, for like most political boss-
es he is a moral coward. But he
knew there is nothing to fear from
that source. Since Vare elevated
him to the office of Mayor of Phila-
delphia Mackey imagines that he is
a leader. The people have his meas-
ure, however, and he fools nobody,
least of all Vare. He is simply a ser-
vile follower of the machine masters
ready to promise anything and per-
form nothing.
The people of Philadelphia have a
great opportunity at this time to
perform a good service for the city.
The Vare machine is on the verge of
disintegration and a good, hard
shove would demolish it. There are
plenty of honest and fair-minded vot-
ers in the city to accomplish this re-
sult if they go about it in the right
way. But following the leadership
of disappointed political hacks is not
the rgiht way.
The Census Iaquisition.
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Personal questions of the type that
end friendships when asked in ordi-
nary life will feature the 1930 census,
although the advisory committee of
experts now at work in Washington
devising the queries have done no
little eliminating of proposals and
even of queries propounded in other
decennials. The information wanted
is pertinent and the compilations
when made will be decidedly useful.
The facts are those which people
wish to know about others, even if
they are backward about declaring
themselves. The coming census will
tell “Who's Who” and “What's
What” as well.
A main endeavor may be to clas-
sify families according to incomes,
but this will not reach the embarras-
sing stage. The bracket system will
be used, in the present form of the
proposal. It is suggested that per-
sons be grouped as to incomes over
$2,500: between $2,000 and $2,500;
between $1,500 and $2,000, grading
down to the group below $500. An-
other proposed question deals with
the rent paid. An old question elimi-
nated will be that of mother tongue
in the case of foreign born. Another
elimination is the year of naturaliza-
tion, although each foreign-born will
still declare whether he is natural-
ized, has taken out first papers or is
still an alien. A literacy question of
some type will be retained; it may
- merely indicate ability to read and
write.
The committee showed that extra- .jiam Blythe knocked
ordinary effort will be made to ob-
tain accurate information. A corre-
spondence school for supervisors and
enumerators will make certain that
those entrusted with the counting
will be versed in the work. A close |
economic view of the country is the
object and the study being made by
the experts insures that this will be
the result. To count and classify a
‘hundred and twenty millions requires
'a degree of system seldom attained
Mackey is no better |
in human affairs. This can be reach-
'SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Trapping instructors of the State
Game Commission, during the last month,
have removed beaver from Centre, Pot-
ter, Union, Clearfield, Columbia and
Snyder counties to localities where the
busy little animals will
ge.
—Since August 1, fifteen carloads of
apples have been shipped by the Frank-
lin county orchardists, most of them go-
ing to Nashville, Pittsburgh and Indian-
apolis, while others were sent to various
vicinities. According to the growers the
crop is of better quality and larger than
that of last year.
—Found on a pile of pig iron at the
Berks Foundry and Machine: company
plant, at Watsontown, on Friday, George
C. Gold, 52, of McEwensville, is believed
to have been electrocuted. He clutched
a piece of wire in his right hand and
there was a burn over the heart. The wire
led to a motor-operated trailer.
—The machinery of the North Bend
plant of the American Refractories com-
pany is being moved to the Lock Haven
plant where it will be installed to meet’
the needs of the company. The North
Bend plant has not been in operation
since August 1, and the brick on hand
when it was closed are being transported
to the Lock Haven plant.
—Enraged at the high cost of operating
his automobile, Hiram Mervine, 62, of
Ashland, Pa., used a saw to cut through
four tires on the machine in his garage.
He then took a sledge hammer, smashed
the radiator and dented the body. Fin-
ally he took a rope and hanged himself
from a rafter of the garage. When his
wife went to call him for supper she found
him dead, hanging beside the smashed ma-
chine.
—The Renovo-Snow Shoe road by way
of Hall's Run is now being used by mo-
torists. The road has been well graded
and is wide enough for comfortable trav-
el. Work on this route, which passes
through the Sproul Forest district, was
begun in August of last year, when $25,-
000 was allotted for the project. The road
is a short cut from Renovo to Snow Shoe,
Bellefonte and Clearfield and will prove a
great convenience to many motorists.
—Refused a purchase of a revolver,
with which he intended to take his life,
Otto Phillips, of Punxsutawney, entered
a store at Homer City, bought a box of
,lye, mixed it with a bottle of pop and
raised it to his mouth when Burgess Wil-
the mixture from
his hands. He is then said to have gone
‘to another store and proceeded to mix
a similar cocktail when constable A. I.
Campbell arrived on the scene and stop-
' ped the second attempt.
not cause dam-
©
i _After reading a fiction story about a
boy who killed himself by hanging in the
bathroom of his home, Patsy Marletto,
14, of Sharon, tried it himself last Friday,
with fatal result. The lad’s mother said
he told her two days ago about the boy
in the story, and added that he had a no-
tion to try it. The parent told him not
ed only by long and careful planning. i, ‘try anything like that,” and dismissed
Small or Large Farms.
than Vare and the defeat of Vare to ¥rom the Pittsburgh Press.
Select leaders who have character
,and wourage and vote for candidates
who will serve the city rather than
the machine. That will turn the
trick.
di ee ms rion
———Congress will be asked to pass
ships as a precaution against for-
est fires.
Limelight.
up towards the head of the class in
this respect. There is always some-
thing happening here to keep the
“Home of Governors” in the limelight
quake, which experts of the United
States government maintained ‘cen-
tered near Bellefonte” at an early
hour on Monday morning.
The quake, according to news dis-
patches, was perceptibly noticeable
by residents in towns through the
northern section of Pennsylvania
and southern New York. In fact
people living in Punxsutawney and
at Clearfield aver that they felt
the tremor of old Mother Earth. The
disturbance took place at 6:30
o'clock in the morning, and though
the writer of this article was up and
around he failed to notice anything
unusual. But James H. Potter, of
the Potter-Hoy Hardware company,
avers that he felt a ® very distinct
{ tremor of his bed at the time of the
reported quake. :
The operator on duty at the -wire-
less station at the Bellefonte avia-
tion field said that he didn’t notice
anything unusual on Monday morn-
ing, but stated that he heard a low,
rumbling sound at noon which he had
not been able to account for.
So there’s the situation in a nut-
shell. Experts say we had an earth-
quake and whether we knew it or not
makes little difference.
——Philadelphia is searching for
a “new spending plan.” If the vot-
ers would “turn the rascais out,”
they would discover an efficient new
efficient saving plan.
——Our esteemed friends, the
Athletics, are still in good position
but the activities of the Yankees
are warning to “mind your step.”
— Those capable and obliging
! newspaper correspondents who write
| Bill Vare’s public statements are
overworking the piety racket.
ei det remem
'——1It seems that Uncle Sam is
the leading junkman of the country.
Last year the army junk brought
| upward of $34,000,000.
_enthrone Mackey will be “jumping |
“bucket ' i
a law forbiddding airmen from drop-' 4
ing lighted cigarettes from their tg individual farms.
i
1
the incident. Friday, the father, Michael
! Marletto, found his som’s body hanging
‘by a towel in the bathroom. :
Charles C. Hartman, 56, who said he
Six million small manufacturing was a Greensburg (Pa.) minister, and a
out of the frying pan into the fire.” | plants competing against each other woman identified as Ethel Chapman,
42,
would probably solve some of their of Pittsburgh, were arrested on Tuesday
problems. by merging. “
The six million farms of the coun-
try cannot do that, says Secretary
of Agriculture Hyde, in a speech be-
fore the American Institute of Co-
operation.
“The one-family farm is a valuable
social unit. Its independence must be
maintained,” says Hyde. This is true,
Bellefonte Reported in Earthquake of course.
But here is something else in-
| teresting. Purely from a financial
The old saw that “you can’t keep ' viewpoint alone, the U. 8S. Chamber
a good man down,” evidently applies of Commerce has been making a sur-
to towns as well, and Bellefonte is Vey to see if large-scale farming is
more successful than small-scale.
The large-scale farm can make its
labor specialize more, can buy and
sell in larger quantities to financial
advantage, and if the weather would
and this week it was an earth-! just cooperate, it could make more
efficient use of machinery.
But the large-scale farm cannot |
meet the small-scale farm in what
may be called the human elements.
Its labor has no personal interests.
There is no heart in the work.
When everything is weighed and
analyzed, it is found that the small-
scale farm makes just as much
money as the large-scale, proportion-
ately.
Hence there would seem to be no
edequate reason for looking forward
to a time when we would do our
farming wholesale.
Farming calls for different organ-
ization methods than does industry.
The only type of merging being ad-
vanced by the leaders today narrows have
down to membership in co-operatives. for fifty
- Refuge in the Air.
From the Philadelphia Record.
When Red Jackson and Forrest
'Brine passed all former records for
keeping a plane aloft through aerial
refuelling and started blithely add-
ing hours, literally by the dozen, to
the old figures, the thrill of mark-
smashing lost its edge, and as the
marvel grew, for the professionals,
it was replaced in our minds with a
much simpler reaction.
It was cool up there. Domestic
troubles could not reach them. Bill
collectors had to cross them off the
list. Business worries ceased to be.
All those boys had to do was to sail
along through the air, keeping fel-
lowship with the clouds, while mun-
dane toilers, far below, continued to
be chained to the wheel of life’s dull
routine.
The flight has of course its scien-
tific and technical value. It contrib-
utes to the progress of man’s con-
quest of the air. But how it does ap-
peal to the imagination of those pa-
gan creatures who yearn for abso-
lute freedom !
Among the possibilities of avia.
tion’s development, count high the
refuge it may offer to the world-
weary who want for a while “to get
away from it all” and live in peace.
One reason why they cannot is be- weeks,
use the country wishes to preserve a ten weeks old cihld with them when ar-
lat a tourist camp near Erie. Hartman
was held in connection with
charges that he jssued a bad check.
Federal authorities were investigating re-
ports that the couple had traveled to-
gether in Ohio and Pennsylvania for six
according to the police. They had
‘ rested.
—Cow herds in Clearfield county, have
been attacked by a malady which has
resulted in the deaths of a number of
. valuable animals during the past week,
' and steps are being taken to prevent a
| well
general spread of the disease. Eleven of
the blooded Holsteins in the herd of W.
F. Moore, of Luthersburg, have already
died from the malady, which has been
identified by state experts as haemorrha-
gic septicaemia, the same disease that
played havoc among the deer herds of
that region a year ago. State authorities
will endeavor to stop the progress of the
insidious disease through the use of a
vaccine serum.
—When an oil derrick on the Pennsyl-
vania Gas company lease about four miles
from Kane caught fire, two leasemen nar-
rowly escaped cremation. The men are
Andrew Wilkinson, driller, and Ralph
Jones, tooldresser. The drill had reached
the depth of 1100 feet when it hit sand.
The men shot 60 quarts of nitro-glycerine
into the well, but it had no effect in
showing either gas or oil. They were
just about to pull the tools away when
oil and gas shot up in the air and shot up
in flames. The wooden parts about the
were completely destroyed, but the
| workmen were able to save most of the
| —Five
| reunion and picnic , yesterday,
|
|
|
—Read the Watchman for tlie news
tools about the fire zone.
thousand persons
in Montgomery county
comprising the
fifth annual
at Nor-
mandy farm, the estate of Ralph Beaver
Strassburger, in the Gwynedd valley.
This is the only organization of its kind
in Pennsylvania and the one qualification
to membership is the half century of res-
idence in that county Mr. Strassburger,
as host, provided an elaborate program of
entertainment, including musical and
vaudeville features and luncheon. The
business session, at which officers were
elected for the year, and the concerts,
were held under an immense circus tent.
Thomas V. Smith, of Norristown, presi-
dent of the club, died during the year.
The members range in age from 50 to 103
years.
—Worms in the apples or, bugs in the
lettuce had never occasioned any great
alarm for Charley Gutilla, fruit dealer, in
Pittsburgh, but when a baby boa con-
strictor shyly poked its head from a bunch
of bananas, he became very indignant and
left his store immediately to complain to
the police, the board of health or who-
ever it is that takes care of such matters.
Several customers accompanied him. In
the street they met : Dr. A. H. Jahn, a
student of snakes, who had long bemoan-
ed the fact that he had no little boa con-
strictor in his home. The doctor hastily
accompanied the men to the store, enticed
the little rascal into a cake box, and went
happily home with his new found pet. The
snake was four feet long and four inches
in circumference. If allowed to reach ma-
turity it will grow about a foot a year
resided
years or more, C
Fifty Year Club, held their
j until, it. weaches .a. length of 18 feet.