!
|
INK SLINGS |
__As long as there are any vacant |
lots along the public highways there |
will be opportunities to go ‘nto busi- |
ness. That is, you can build a filling |
station. |
——The Woodrow Wilson Foun-
dation has wisely awarded its $25,-
000 prize for the promotion of in- |
ternational peace to the League of
Nations. In the final analysis that’
is the foundation of world-wide |
peace. |
—Anyway, there isno one around
this neck of the woods who has a
kick coming over the amount of
snow he or she has had to shovel
thus far this winter. If memory
fails not there have been but two
falls that a broom would not easily
sweep off the sidewalks,
—Was it merely a coincidence
that Mr. Dempsey should begin to
make noises like a man desirous of
staging a comeback at the time Mr.
Tunney was undergoing an operation
that will probably make it perma-
nently impossible for him to change
his mind about never staging one
himself.
—~Cleanliness as a virtue is next
to Godliness, but some people become
just as fanatical with it as others
do with their religion. For instance
we never can see the reason for hav-
ing the ash trays that sit in handy
places in most homes so darn shiny
and clean that one feels like he is
committing a crime when he flicks
his ashes into them,
—Last week we made mention of
the thought that there must be a
few candidates for county offices,
Little did we know about the situa-
tion when we did. Since then we
have discovered that the woods are
full of them, There are no less
than eight Republican and four
Democrats who are perfectly will-
ing to succeed Sheriff “Dep.”
—Of course we know no more
about what the Mellons and Grun-
dys and Fishers are doing than we
do of the Einstein theory, but we
have a sort of feeling that neither
Benson Taylor, Francis Shunk
Brown nor Gen, Edward Martin
have a look in for the Republican
nomination for Governor. It seems
to us that if Sam Lewis knew his
political strategy as well as he does
the accounts in Harrisburg he
would be sitting pretty while all
these parleys are going on.
—The President’s Commission to
study crime, the law’s handling of it
and matters collateral thereto has
discovered that the country needs
bigger prisons. Who was is assured
us ‘only a few years ago in the Meth-
odist, here, that the prisons would
all be empty soon? Let's see.” We
think it was an advocate by the name
of Tope. We didn’t wait to meet the
gentleman because we just had to
“walk out on him” when he went so
far to intimate that he could do bet-
ter than President Wilson was then
doing in Washingtois,
The new boost in the millage
rate for Centre county taxes carries
them to the highest point they have
been since the county was erected.
And, take it from us; it hasn't all
peen made necessary by road im-
orovements. Creating new offices
with their attendant costs, dragging
ill manner of petty cases into
;ourt hirin’ and never firin’ and sun-
iry other incidental contributions to
he cost of running the county have
1ad a share in making the increasing
yurden that is ever being rolled on-
o the backs of the tax payers,
—Coalition government in the city
»f Lancaster seems to have ended its
sareer rather -discreditably. It was
Jl right in its conception because
t was organized to get rid of a
egime that had been too long in
ower in that city. It’s failure is
raceable to the very thing that
srought it into being. It stayed in
ower too long itself. Notwithstand- |
ng the high ideals we all prate
bout there is no party in the U.
i. A. and there never will be one
hat can continue in power for a
ong period without becoming cor-
upt. For that reason we believe
hat there ought to be-a third par-
y organized, called the House-
leaning party. Nobody should be
ligible to membership in it who
rill not pledge him or herself to
ote the Housecleaners ticket every
ighth year and we shall not or-
anize a Housecleaning party un-
sg seventy-five per cent of the
lectorate writes to us and prom-
ies to join.
—If the Bellefonte Board of
rade, the Business Men's Associa-
on or Kiwanis wants a project for
930 we suggest one, Let either
ne or all of these public welfare
rganizations watch the railroad
srvice to Bellefonte. We don’t think
ny further curtailment of passen-
er service in and out of Bellefonte
ill be attempted, but if it is then
ill be the time to make public
rotest, It will not be futile eith-
+, for the Public Service Com-
jssion his just ruled in the
1se of the Monongahela R. R, Co,
hat passenger service on its Char-
ers branch, though unprofitable,
wnnot be curtailed for the reason
iat the freight originating on the
-anch produces a handsome net
‘ofit on its operation, As we said
st week the Bald Eagle Valley is
.e best paying single track rail-
ad in the world and Bellefonte
iginates a lot of the freight that
akes it such, Keep these facts in
ind, you gentlemen who are work-
& to keep Bellefonte on the map,
(a
y
VOL. 75.
The House Turns Hoover Down
For the first time since his induc-
tion into office the big majority in
the House of Representatives has re-
pudiated President Hoover. The
Senate has frequently found pleasure
in humiliating him but until now
the House of Representatives has
been obedient. But the last Presi-
dential expedient for dodging the
prohibition enforcement question has
proved too much for speaker Nick
Longworth. Possibly the speaker
had other grievances against the ad.
ministration, He may be more or
less dissatisfied with the result of
the’ social disturbance in which his
wife and the sister of Vice President
Curtis were the opposing leaders, Or
he may have had other causes of
quarrel.
After Senator Borah had thrown
a monkey wrench into the enforca-
ment machinery during the Christ-
mas recess of Congress President
Hoover suggested the creation of a
joint committee to receive and con-
sider the promised report of the
crimes commission. The Senate
promptly, and with surprising unan-
imity, adopted the plan and appoint-
ed its share of the joint committee.
But the House positively refuses to
concur for the reason, as speaker
Longworth stated, that “he did not
believe in a joint committee which
would take preliminary jurisdiction
from the committees of the House.”
That is a fine legal point that the
President didn’t know about and the
lawyers of the Senate overlooked.
But it has thrown the subject into
confusion, The President didn’t in-
tend to violate the law or break the
rules of Congress. His purpose was
to dodge the issue. Senators had de-
manded a report from the crimes
commission, which was neither avail-
able nor possible, and the joint com-
mittee could have served as a smoke
screen to conceal the fact. The dry
Senators correctly interpreted the
suggestion and prepared the way for
it. But speaker Longworth refused
to join in the movement and he is
the boss of that important and in-
fluential branch of the government, it
expired, And Longworth isn’t an
idealist, As a famous Vermont
statesman once said “he could have
been made arrangements with.”
——Secretary of Labor Davis may
not run for anything. There are so
many desirable jobs beckoning him
that he is lost in confusion.
—————————— ere. |
Bulk Sale Project Abandoned
“The best laid schemes o’ mice
and men gang aft a-gley,” It
would be difficult to devise a more
cunning plan to fool the people of
Pennsylvania than that adopted by
the Vare war board, with or with-
out the approval of the boss, to
“pulk-sale” the vote of Philadelphia
to Senator Grundy at the coming
May primary. The scheme was to
induce the Mellon-Grundy machine
,to nominate Francis Shuilk Brown,
for Governor, and thus rehabilitate
the torn and tattered Vare machine.
Vare has been good to the Brown
family in the past. He made Fran-
cis Shunk Attorney General and
his son judge of Common Pleas
court. He has ample right, there-
fore, to expect reciprocity if the
chance presents itself,
But it appears “the jig is up.”
Mayor Mackey received the proposi-
tion with some signs of favor and
Governor Fisher listened to the ar-
guments in its support with symp-
toms of satisfaction, But when
the time arrived to put it before
Grundy and ‘Mellon they failed to
appear at ‘the meeting and the on-
ly explanation given was that the
Senator was busy with his official
duties at Washington. That was so
obvious a subterfuge that it didn’t
deceive anybody. It is said that
the war board immediately gave up
hope of merging the machines and
that Vare will be supported for
Senator against Grundy and that
Secretary of Labor Davis will be
offered the place of Governor on
the slate.
The fact of the matter is that
Grundy and Mellon and Fisher have
come to the opinion that the Phila-
delphia machine is a liability rather
than an asset, Mayor Mackey en-
courages this idea, though the re-
sult of the last election ought to
persuade him to the contrary. It
will be a long time before go formid-
able a force can be assembled again
to oppose the organization unless
the large business interests, which
have heretofore responded to the
call for help, can be alienated. Prob-
ably the expectation of such a tura-
over accounts for the attitude of
Grundy and Mellon. It would make
a vast difference in the vote of the
city. The rabble rendered much
service but big business helped great.
ly.
—Grundy imagines he has “a
cinch” and therefore doesn't need
harmony.
western Senator
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
“The Mountain Labored and Brought
Forth a Mouse,”
The preliminary report of the
National Crimes Commission was
presented to Congress by President
Hoover on Monday in a special mes-
sage. The report cites the “extent
and perplexities” of the problems in-
volved and the arduous labors per-
formed during the seven months of
its activities, whichis both interest-
ing and instructive. It calls to
mind that from the earliest period
of our history the enforcement of
laws has been resisted for one local
reason or another. “We must not
forget,” it declares, “the many his-
torical examples of large scale pub-
lic disregard of laws in our past.”
In other words, the commmission
concludes that violating unpopular
legislation is a national habit
long standing.
The report states that the en-
forcement problem is of vast propor-
tions and gives figures to. prove its
premises, The 80,000 cases have
clogged the courts to the. prejudice
of more important litigation and the
result has not been satisfactory. Re-
lief might be achieved by concen-
trating enforcement in the judicial
department, codifying the enforce-
ment laws, strengthening the in-
junction law and empowering Unit-
ed States commissioners to hear
petty cases. New legislation will
be required in each of these re-
forms and in the present temper of
Congress and public opinion it may
take a long time to effect these
changes, if it is possible to do so
at all. There is little comfort in
the suggestion.
The President’s message
ly innocuous. He advises Congress
to reorganize the federal court
structure so as to give relief from
congestion, concentrate responsibility
in detection and prosecution of prohi-
bition violations concentrate the va-
rious agencies engaged in preven-
vention of smuggling, provide ade-
quate court and prosecuting offi-
cials, expand federal prisons, reor-
ganize parole and other practices
and enact specific legislation for
the Pisirles of Columbia. No esti-
mate is
of the 23 ‘or consequence of the
propositions, But there can be no
doubt of the immediate result. They
will serve as a declaration of war
both in Congress and throughout
the country.
is equal-
——Strange things happen. If a
had not = blurted
out the truth about Governor Fish-
er’s nomination in 1926 Joe Grundy
might never have become a Senator
in Congress.
n——— a ms et etn pt mr gm
Treating the Senate Contemptuously.
* Since Mr, Grundy treated the lob-
by investigators cavalierly and was
generously rewarded hy the Republi-
can organization for his temerity,
other witnesses have attempted fo
follow his example. Mr. Pike, a New
York sugar broker, brazenly charg.
ed the Senators with responsibility
for “bandying the President's name”
in connection with lobby activities
and since that Mrs. Gladys Moon
Jones, “a good-looking young woman
publicity agent,” practically laughed
the committee out of court by “wise
cracks,” in her answers to what she
called “silly” questions some of
which she refused to answer,
Mrs. Jones’ lobby operations, like
those of Mr, Pike, were in the intar-
est of a low rate of tariff on sugar,
and her employer was the United
States. Chamber of Commerce for
Cuba. She employed various writ-
ers, generally persons related to or
closely associated with influential
men in government service, and re-
sented the fact that the committee
had some of her letters in violatinoa of
the constitution. She expressed a~d-
miration of the wisdom of a fellow
lobbyist who told her that he burn-
ed all his letters within twenty-four
hours of receipt and when asked to
name the cautious person replied
“would you tell something before an
investigating committee that a man
had told you after a cocktail.”
Harry Sinclair, millionaire oil mag.
nate, was sent to jail for a. precisely
similar contempt of the Senate but
Sheriff Cunningham, of Philadelphia,
“got away with it.” It remains to
be seen what will happen to Mrs.
Jones, If Congressional investiga-
tions are to be taken seriously re-
fusal to answer relevant questions by
a witness is contempt and the penal-
ty is imprisonment. In any event,
however, the incident has some val-
ue. It revealed the methods of the
lobby. Ome is to send the lobbyists
to Congress and another to pay them
liberally in cash. The first method
has been adopted in Pennsylvania.
———Of course the Senate Com-
mittee on Elections decided in favor
of seating Grundy. But the im-
portant decision on that subject
will be made at the election in
Pennsylvania next fall.
of
ven in either instrument. .
_ BELLEFONTE. PA... JANUARY 17. 1930.
The President and the Lobby.
No serious minded person would
impute to President Hoover mercen-
ary or even improper motives in
anything -that he did or said in con-
nection with the lobby activities in
Washington. Yet several of the pro-
fessional lobbyists have associated
his name with their operations as in
sympathy with their purpose. This
fact has been roundly condemned by
many leading newspapers as well as
some of the Senators conducting the
investigation as a grave injustice to
the President. The other day one of
the witnesses boldly charged _the
members of the investigating com-
mittee with responsibility in the
matter, It was a surprising accusa-
tion, for public opinion had fixed the
blame on the lobbyists.
The author of this strange theory
was H. H. Pike, a New York sugar
broker. During the examination
some of the letter files of his office
were offered in evidence in which
frequent references were made to
the actions of the President. In one
of them he spoke of one of his col-
ieagues in the work as having “a
personal method of appeal to Hoov-
er and is going to see that Hoover
gets full but concise data on the sug-
subject, It is his belief that Hoov-
ér will oppose the sugar matter and
see that it doesn’t get through in
view of the Latin-American compli-
cations that would most certainly
arise.” Mr. Pike imagines that the
committee injured the President by
making his letters public.
Whatever misrepresentation of the
President is implied in this instance
Mr, Pike is to blame for. His pur-
pose in writing it is a matter of con-
jecture but the presumption is
strong that it was to induce the con-
tributors to the lobby corruption
fund to greater liberality. But in
any event the Senators of the com-
mittee are not culpable. Mr, Hoov-
er’s habits of life and action may
have had some influence in the case.
His inclination is to hold the friend-
ship of everybody and offend no-
body. In this. way he conveys li-
cense to every adventurer who
worms a way into his presence to
e him as in accord on any sub-
ei i¥“an &asy road fo travel
but there are dangerous pitfalls
along the line.
—We had just started this para-
graph to get what ‘sour grapes” we
could out of thinking that those who
are fortunate enough to be spending
the winter in Florida are not having
so much on us by way of mild
weather when the radio bawled out
that it is to get much colder tonight
and be snowing tomorrow. We'll
wait until. morning before finishing
this one just to see what happens.
It is now 8:50 Wednesday night, The
temperature is 40 degrees and ‘a full
moon is riding in a sky that is just
a bit hazy. It is now 7:50 Thursday
morning. The temperature is 30 de-
grees and snowflakes are flying; so
the radio WES right. ere 4
County Commissioners Make Another
Tax Raise
Property owners in Centre county
will have to pay close to $34,000
more in county taxes this year than
they did last year because of a two
mill increase recently decided upon
by the county commissioners for the
year 1930. The last year the Demo-
cratic board was in office the tax
millage was six mills. Two years
ago, or the first year for the Repub-
lican board, the rate was raised to
eight mills, and now it has been in-
creased to ten. This is the highest
the county tax rate has ever been
in Centre county while it has been
as low as three mills, but that was
a good many years ago,
Of course improved State high-
ways is given as the excuse for
raising the millage at this time but
it is highly probable that the an-
nual statement of receipts. and ex
penditures of the county for 1929
which the county auditors are now
at work on, will show a number of
other extraordinary expenses which
have been saddled onto the taxpay-
ers for which the county commis-
sioners are not responsible, and
which will no doubt account for a
portion of the necessity of increasing
the millage.
——1If the comments made by var-
ious Republican workers in Centre
county can be taken as a criterion
the reaction to the announcement of
Charles P. Long, of Spring Mills, as
a candidate for Congress, is much
in his favor.
resem eee
—Attempting to make business
boom when there is no natural
stimulus. for it is a good bit like
attempting to lift yourself by your
own boot straps.
Probably Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon has hypnotized
Secretary of Labor Davis.
Those whe
tre county, under the
NO. 3.
Lamb Feeding Club to go to State
Show
Centre county is going to make
another strong bid for the State
championship by 4H lamb feeding
clubs, The county’s 4H club not on-
ly won the major portion of the
prizes, last year, at the State farm
products show, in Harrisburg, but
one of it’s members, Miss Alice
Foust, of Centre Hall, a daughter of
Mr, and Mrs. Charles Foust, and a
pupil in the grade schools, was ac-
claimed grand champion with her
pen of three Southdowns. Miss
Foust will be on hand with another
pen this year and they look perfect
specimens of the breed.
For the information of Centre
countians attending the State show,
next week, it can be said, the Centre |
county boys’ and girls’ exhibit will |
be located in the Rhoads building, '
corner of Forster and Cowden
streets. The same building wall house
the 4H club baby peef exhibit, swine
and wool in addition to the entire
4H club lamb exhibit, The lambs
will be judged on Wednesday, Jan-
uary 22nd, at 9 o'clock a, m.
The pens will be divided into var-
.ious classes according to breeds, Cen-
tre county boys and girls will be
represented by 2 pens of grade
Southdowns, 4 pens of grade Chev-
iots, 2 pens of grade Shropshires and |
6 pens of grade Hampshires, making
a total of 14 pens or 42 lambs.
The members of the club will at-
tend the show, as a group, from
Monday until Thursday. Complete
arrangements have been made by
the 4H club office at State Co:lege
for all 4H club members to 2at and
sleep at the same place. A very in-
teresting program of activities has’
been worked out for the club mem- |
bers while in Harrisburg, In addi-
tion to showing their exhibits, the
club members will be treated to
various sight-seeing trips throughout
the Capitol city. They will have an’
opportunity to visit Swift’s packing
plant to learn the difference between '
good meat and poor meat and how
it is slaughtered. Their time will
be completely taken up by educa-
tional and recreational featurers.
wwwill” attend from “Cen:
direction of
county agent R. C. Blaney and Geo,
Luse of Centre Hall local lamb club
leader, will be Alice Foust, William
Campbell, Margaret Ross, Richard
ner and Fred Luse, of Centre Hall;
Philip Smith, of Spring Mills; Clar-
ence Hoy and Floyd Weight, of Belle-
fonte; Charles Harter, of Nittany;
LeRoy Bechtol, of Howard; Harold
Homan and Lee Homan, of State
College.
All the members were in Belle-
fonte, last Saturday, in consultation
with county agent Blaney getting
last. minute pointers in the final
preparation of their exhibits for the
show.
RE
Centre Countians Won Seventeen
State Prizes,
The vocational division of the De-
partment of Public - Instruction on
Wednesday announced the winners
in the annual State Vocational Pro-
jéct Contest in Agriculture. Each
farm boy studying Vocational Agri-
culture in the State conducts an:
enterprise on his own farm, putting
into practice the theory of scientific
agriculture which he learns in ibe,
classroom. - |
In 1929 there were 1928 projects
in the State which met the min-
imum standard requirements in the
thirteen contests open for -om-
petition. On December 15, 440 re-
cord books representing the very
best of these- eligible projects. were
sent to Harrisburg to compete in
the final contest, The Centre coun- |
ty winners of the first ten places in|
each of these contests are as fol-
lows-
Truck Growing—Kenneth Johnson, |
Gregg township, 5th, a ribbon,
Corn—sStellard - Beightol, Gregg '
township, 2nd, silver medal. J. Eu-
gene Zerby, Gregg township, 5th, |
a ribbon. |
Smal grains—Nevin Stover, Gregg
township, 1st, a gold medal. Ellis
Rearick, Gregg township, 3rd, a
bronze medal, John Mercinger, |
Gregg township, 6th, a ribbon, Les- |
ter Rossman, Gregg township, 7th,
a ribbon, Rufus Hettinger Gregg,
township, 8th, a ribbon. George
Lohr, Gregg township, 9th 1rib-
bon,
—Winner’s Class—William Camp-
bell, Gregg township, 4th, a ribbou. |
Sheep—Ellis Rearick, Gregg town- |
ship, 2nd, a silver medal. Lewis |
Ilgen, Gregg township, 3rd, a bronze
medal.
Home Improvement—W, Vernon
Godshall, Gregg township, 2nd, a
silver medal. Samuel Hoy, Howard,
7th, a ribbon,
Swine—William Campbell, Gregg
township, 2nd, a silver medal.
Dairy—Bieber Rishel, Gregg town-
ship, 8rd, a bronze medal.
Poultry—Russel Mark,
township, 10th, a ribbon.
a
Gregg
| vealed
! $11,700.
formerly bondholders
in cases where the person arrested
' SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—A spoon handle and a knife blade
are in the stomach of Charles Schprley,
85, of Chicago, and police said Schprley
swallowed the articles in an attempt at
suicide while held in the Erie county jail.
—William Francis Lindsay, under ar-
rest as robber of the Farmers and Mer-
‘chants Bank at Hamilton, Va., has been
identified as the man who robbed the
| Abbottstown (Pa.) State bank last No-
| vember. Wilson Bream, cashier of the
: Pennsylvania institution, saw Lindsay in
|a cell at the Leesburg (Va.) jail and
i made the identification.
—Alice Hottenstein, who lived for
thirty-two years with Mrs. Kate Hun-
, sicker in South Lebanon township, Leb-
{anon county, and attended her in her
recent illness, is to inherit the estate of
$4000 left by Mrs. Hunsicker, who died
.on January 2, according to terms of
the will filed for probate on Saturday.
The will states that the bequest is ‘‘for
faithful service.”
—Albert L, Watson, former member of
the Lackawanna county court of com-
men pleas, has taken the oath as addi-
tional federal judge in the Middle dis-
trict of Pennsylvania. Federal Judge
Albert W. Johnson, of Lewisburg, admin-
istered the oath in the United States
court room at Scranton before a good-
sized crowd. Judge Watson sat on his
first case on Monday. His salary is $10,-
000.
—A dug-out canoe made in 1795 from
a solid stick of original white pine, has
been purchased by Col. Henry W. Shoe-
maker from Dudley Martin, of DuBois.
It will likely be displayed at Col Shoe-
maker's McElhattan park, The canoe,
which is 25 feet 10 inches in length, with
ja center width of 38 inches, is the larg-
,est of the dug-out canoes in Mr. Martin's
possession, and was displayed in 1895 at
the Williamsport centennial.
—Authority has been granted Adjutant
General Frank D. Beary by the War De-
partment to purchase sixty-nine horges for
assignment to the various cavalry units
in the Pennsylvania National Guard. Gen-
, eral Beary has made arrangements with
' Lieutenant Colonel William L. Hicks, in
charge of the Mt. Gretna military reser-
vation, for procuring the mounts. They
will be distributed as replacements among
those units which have been short of
horses.
—Former Ralph J.
city controller
' Boyd, of Lancaster, was arrested Satur-
| day on 10 warrants charging fraudulent
! conversion of city funds while in office.
The warrants, sought by district attor-
ney Sumner V. Hosterman, were sworn
to by detective chief William Sullenber-
ger. An audit following the discovery
of several thousand dollars shortage re-
the funds missing amount to
Boyd is held in $10,000 bail.
He admitted taking the funds, police
say.
—Mifflin county's new almshouse, after
nearly a year’s delay in completion, has
at last been officially aproved by the
State Welfare Department, the county
commissioners having received a letter
from Mrs. E. S. H. McCauley, Secretary
of Welfare, giving her full aproval of the
new institution and directing that it be
opened as a home for needy and indigent
persons. The commissioners have set
January 18 and 19 as the dates on which
the new building will be thrown open to
the public for inspection,
—Lawbreakers in Burnham borough
are going to have tough sledding, for
not only did the borough council elect a
full time police officer last week, for the
first time, but the officials took the first
three men arrested by him and- found
them guilty of drunken and disorderly
conduct and made them dig a ditch for
the street ocmmittee. The men were
given the’ alternative of twenty-one days
in the county jail, but decided that
ditch digging might be worse while it
lasted, but it would be over sooner.
—A deal involving $1,000,000 and 700
acres of coal- land has been closed at
Uniontown between the Clymer Na-
tional bank, of Clymer, Indiana county,
and the Springfield Coal and Coke com-
pany. Acording toa deed filed at Union-
town the coal land, in the Indian Creek
valley, passed inte the hands of the coal
concern. A mortgage for $160,000 was
entered. The Springfield company is
composed of Indiana. county capitalists
in the Saltlick
Coal and Coke company. The bank, as
trustee for the bondholders, - took over
the coal plant in foreclosure proceedings.
The bondholders are said to be prepar-
ing to renew operations.
—The poor department of Bradford was
enriched Técently because Lowell Osborne,
17, used profanity in addressing a wo-
man. Alderman Harry Collins, before
whom O&botme- was given a hearing on
thé’ charge, dug into the laws of the past
to unéowver-one State statute of 1794 which
covers jsuply cases. - The law provides that
ordinary ‘swear words are punishable at
the ‘rate of 40 Segts while mention of the
Deity costs 67 ceffts. Fines collected for
the offense are to be given to the city
poor department under the terms of
the old ruling. Alderman Collins decided
that Osborne had used up words worth
! $1.17. Osborne paid and the poor depart-
ment received the sum.
—Officers of the State Highway Pa-
trol were advised by Roscoe R. Koch,
deputy Attorney General, to seek co-
operation of district attorneys of the
various counties of the State to arrange
for payment of fees to physicians en-
gaged to examine motorists arrested for
driving while intoxicated. In case ofa
conviction, the deputy-held in an opin-
jon to Benjamin G. Eynon, Commis-
sioner of Motor Vehicles, the physicians’
' expenses could be made a part of the
| court costs to .be paid by the county.
A State law permits, Koch ruled, pay-
i ment of the fees out of the State funds
is
found after an examination to be sober
or in instances of nolle pros.
—Whether saxophone playing is music
or whether it is hawking was the prob-
lem Pottsville council has left to Mayor
John B. Dengler for his decision. The
problem originated New Year's eve. A
saxophone band from Minersville sere-
naded on city streets, and its leader was
arrested. Monday night council attempt-
ed to dispose of the matter, but a wide
divergence of opinion arose. Some coun-
cilmen thought saxophone playing should
be classified as art or music; but others
thought it should be placed in the same
class with peddling, hawking is necessary
for any activity in this latter classifica-
tion., Unable to reach ag decision, coun-
cil finally decided to give the matter to
the mayor for a solution. Mayor Dengler
' has indicated that if saxophone playing
is found to be music, he will ‘offer apolo-
gles to the Minersville band leader. ;