Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, February 28, 1930, Image 1

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    __Advice to those who expect to
attend the spring farm sales that
will take up all of the month of
March: Be sure of whose note you
go on.
—The war in the Republican par-
ty in Pennsylvania isn’t to give the
State better government. It is to
get the jobs for others than them
that have them.
Five Lyons, Nebraska, youth
died because they drank an anti-
freeze olution thinking it to be home
made wine. We don’t know how old
or how large a place Lyons is, but
we would like to know whether five
other persons ever drank themselves
to death there in the whole history
of the town.
— Since Easter won't get here un-
til April twentieth most of the new
spring bonnets then will be looking
like the hat that the Dean of Men at
The Pennsylvania State College
wrote an elegy about last fall. If
what we mean is not quite clear to
you it is evident that you never saw
the Dean’s hat. It looked like the
thing Tom Heflin always raises when |
the Pope looks cross-eyed at the
United States. :
— We are advised by an anony-
mous correspondent to watch Cal.
Our informant calls him a “cutie.”
She says he is “visiting around
among his friends, after shunting the
inevitable onto the shoulders of
Hoover, merely to get ready for
1932.” Being a guest every where
he goes costs Cal nothing. She even
suggests that the butt of a cigar he
threw to the mob of sycophants in
California would never have reach-
ed them had not the original been
given to him.
If Kiwanis sponsored the debate
that was held in the court house here
last Friday night then Kiwanis ought
to be ashamed of itself. We don‘t
know yet whether that young man
from Asbury college who got up and
opened his address with a very grace-
ful expression of gratitude for the
splendidly cordial reception Pennsyl-
vania was greeting him and his co'-
league with was being satirical or
nierely repeating something that nad
be-n memorized in anticipalion of
something that didn’t materia’ize. If
there had been Texas hot weiners
strewn along the bar rail we'll bet
all of the Kiwanians would have been
after the attendance prize.
—Zaro Agha, a Turk who says he
is one hundred and fifty-six years
old, is to be brought to this country
and exhibited by the Anti-Saloon
League. He says he never took a
drink in his life. This might be so.
But if we are to believe what’ our
Near East Relief friends—and our
Near East Relief friends are nearly
all Anti-Saloon Leaguers—have to
say about what the Turks do tothe
Armenians we should think they
ought to be knocking old Zaro Agha
in the head. Giving him such a nice
long trip won't convince many Amer-
jcans that total abstinence would in-
sure their matching his longevity.
Besides, it might encourage more
Turks to refrain from the cup that
cheers and thereby give them a few
more years to knock off a few more
Armenians,
—We want advice. The fifteenth
of April is approaching and we must
have a cabin in which to rally all
our expert piscatorial friends. If we
don’t have sucha rendezous we don’t
have much luck on opening day. Be-
cause, left to our own resources, we
become prone to reminiscence of how
easy it was to get them thirty years
ago and discouragement over how
hard it is to get them now. We have
a new cabin all planned witha per-
fectly appointed kitchen. We know
it will not be lacking in a single
utensil because we are going to do
what most everyone else just start-
ing to house-keeping does. We are
going to have a kitchen shower. All
that is needed to complete the cabin
is for some one to tell us how we
can pull a lumber shower, a carpen-
ter shower and a plumber shower.
The latter is especially desirable be-
cause we prefer to be singin’ in a
bath tub to singing in the rain.
—The report of the last meeting
of the Woman’s Club of Bellefonte
encourages the thought that the
women of the town are con-
cerned for the welfare of the chil-
dren who are permitted to roam our
streets at night. At least they dis-
cussed ways and means of keeping
them off the streets and we add a
fervent amen to any endeavor to
that end. However, in the light of
what happened in the Centre county
Court, on Wednesday, we think the
Club ought to be just as concerned
about keeping young girls and boys
out of the Temple of Justice when
such filthy cases as were up for trial
that day are being argued. While it
is probable that “flaming youth”
knows all and more of the degrada-
tion that was dragged out of the
pitiable girl who was on the stand
it seems to us that common decency
should aim to shun rather than per-
mit such exposes in the presence of
those of tender years. If what has
reached our ears is true it was so
hot that some of the old “attending
court” fans would have taken off
their coats had they not been afraid
of being invited to leave and conse-
quently missed something.
VOL. 75.
BELLEFONTE. P
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
A.. FEBRUARY 28. 1930.
NO. 9.
A Ticket for Democrats to Consider !
The meeting of the Democratic
state Executive Committee in Harris-
burg, on Tuesday, stimulates hope
that the party will present a solid
front with a strong ticket for the
coming campaign in the State,
While the hold-backs—and there
are always a few abroad—will justi-
fy their political lethargy by charg-
ing that the Executive Committee
was trying to cram a ticket down
the party’s throat, such an attitude
will stand on an exceedingly flimsy
basis.
The Committee attempted nothing
of the sort. In fact it went back to
a plan that nearly brings back to
life the old and satisfactory conven-
tion system of making nominations.
It merely canvassed the field of pos-
sible nominees and selected from
them those who would be willing to
run and, at the same time, have
character and personality strong
enough to encourage hope that they
could rally votes. These names have
been placed on a tentative ticket and |
forwarded to the committeemen of
the party in every county in the |
State for consideration and report. |
If the advice of the county commit- |
teemen is adverse to anyone of them
nomination papers will not be filed. :
On the other hand the State Com- |
mittee will interpose no obstacle in
the way of anyone else who might |
aspire to a place on the ticket.
It seems to us that chairman Col-'
lins has handled a delicate situation '
most tactfully.
Some one has to plan for and lead |
the party in order to make it a co- |
hesive, militant force in the State. |
He has done a fine job thus far and |
it will ill become any Democrat to
try to distort a merely suggested
ticket into a boss-made one.
Mr. Collins doesn’t want to be a
boss. He is an old fashioned Demo-
crat and is only trying to rally
enough of that spirit into the party
to get it to stand up and discover
how strong it really is in Pennsyl-
vania.
The suggestions of the Executive
Committee include the following.
Lawrence H. Rupp, who is recom-
mended for the gubernatorial nom-
ination, is a lawyer in Allentown. He
is widely known throughout the
State, As a speaker he has few |
equals. His ability as a lawyer is
outstanding.
He has been a leading figure inthe
party for many years and hasbeena |.
1
humanitarian |
strong advocate for
and welfare legislation.
Sedgwick Kistler, recommended |
for United States Senator, is the
member of the Democratic National |
Committee from Pennsylvania.
i
He comes of an old and well- |
known Pennsylvania family. His |
home is in Lock Haven, where he
has large leather manufacturing in-
terests. He is regarded as a wealthy
man with strong charitable instincts
and has made large contributions to
numerous institutions,
Colonel W. C. Bambrick, for Lieu-
tenant Governor, was former super-
intendent og the Orphans’ Home at
Scotland, Pa. He also served as
county treasurer of Franklin county.
Mrs. Lucy D. Kinston is the first
woman ever nominated for a major
State office in Pennsylvania. Her
home is in Mechanicsburg. She is
president of the State Federation of
Women’s Clubs.
Judge Henry C, Niles, of York, for
the Supreme Court, is one of the most
prominent jurists of the State. He
has taxen a strong stand against
the Volstead law. Both Aaron E.
Reiber, of Butler, and George F.
Douglas, of Philadelphia, for the Su-
perior Court nominations, are out-
standing lawyers.
—1In these modern times:
A statesman is one with a bar’l
large enough to make it worth while
for politicians to exploit him.
A politician is one who makes and
operates political machinery that
will grind the largest grist for him,
A lieutenant is one who rounds up
the voters in the hope that the poli-
tician will throw a small political job
his way.
A voter—on the average—is one
who thinks he is saving his country
and is really only saving jobs for
whichever gang he falls in with,
—On January 17 we said that if
Sam Lewis knew his political strate-
gy as well as he knew figures in the
fiscal affairs of Pennsylvania he
could force the Republican organiza-
tion to make him its candidate for
Governor. Sam evidently knew what
we thought he should for Grundy has
declared for him; Fisher has swallow-
ed him and all their satellites are
yellin’ for him.
——1Tt is estimated that each per-
son in the United States is worth |
$3000. May be that is true but the
, confirm the impression
: tial
stand to gain several
distribution is sadly uneven.
The Grundy-Lewis Petitions.
The fact that the Grundy and
Lewis nomination petitions are be-
ing distributed from the office of
State Chairman Edward Martin,
in Harrisburg, would seem to
that they
have been adopted as the can-
didates of the Grundy - Mellon
organization and that the cam-
paign expenses of the candidates
are to be “cut to the bone.” Over
700 of the petitions were mailed to
county chairmen and other influen-
Republicans on Thursday of
last week, the labor having been
performed by the employees of the
Auditor General, who are paid for
their time by the State Treasurer.
A considerable saving was effected
‘by that shift of expenses from the
candidates to the Commonwealth.
Mr. Grundy is a very wealthy man
and in the nature of things his re-
sources will be vastly increased
when the new tariff bill goes into
operation. It has been estimated
that Pennsylvania industries will
millions of
dollars annually by the increased
duties. That being true it might
be presumed that Grundy would
be able to pay all the expenses of
his campaign for Senator out of his
own pocket. It is not likely that
campaigning will be as expensive
in Pennsylvania this year as it was
four years ago, when Mr. Grundy
contributed about $400,000 to the
nearly $2,000,000 fund spent to
nominate Pepper and Fisher for
Senator and Governor, respectively.
Possibly the resolution introduced
| by Senator Norris, the other day,
to create a “Senatorial watch dog”
on campaign expenses had some-
thing to do in the matter. But
even if such a committee is author-
ized it is not likely to scrutinize
the source of the slush fund ds
closely as the disbursement. There
is no law on the statute books
which forbids public officials from
giving their time to promoting the
political ambitions of a candidate.
But there is an unwritten law which
requires public officials to give their
time to the State, and diverting
them from their routine service to
, dispatching nominating petitions for
' machine candidates might be con-
strued as a sort of moral
quency.
——The Wilkins South Pole expe-
dition has discovered 300 miles of
hitherto unknown Antarctic coast.
But it hasn’t discovered any practi-
cal way of using it.
Rotten System of Government.
According to evidence submitted
to the Senate Committee on Inter-
state Commerce, the other day,
three Pennsylvania public service
corporations padded their capital
accounts to a total of $9,200,000
for the purpose of fixing the rates
of service to consumers. One of
these companies put in a charge
of $700,000 paid for lobbying. The
others were less specfic as to the
cost of organization and simply
dumped in lump sums, one of $§9,-
000,000, which was $3,000,000 in ex-
cess of actual investment and the
other $11,000,000, which was exactly
double the actual investment. The
presumption is that every corpora-
tion of considerable proportions in
the State padded in about the same
ratio.
The rates for service of these
corporations are fixed by State and
Federal Public Service Commissions
upon the basis of capitalization.
That is, each corporation is allowed
to charge consumers a rate which
will yield a fair profit on the
capital investment. In one impor-
tant case, recently decided by the
Supreme court of the United States,
the rate fixed as reasonable was
eight per cent and the corporation
was allowed to enter as capital an
item of $5,000,000 for a franchise
which had been given by the city
free of charge. Thus the corpora-
tion was handed a license to rob
the community of approximately
$400,000 a year perpetually.
This system of looting the public
is what Senator Joseph R. Grundy
appraises as progressiveness. The
“backward” States of the West and
South have not adopted these
methods of development and be-
cause of their failure to take ad-
vantage of opportunities he would
deny them an equal voice with
Pennsylvania in framing the laws of
the country. As a matter of fact,
however, the people of Pennsylvania
are boobs for permitting corporate
bandits to thus despoil them of
their resources. The election of
Grundy to the Senate will be a
popular approval of a policy which
Senator Couzens, of Michigan, de-
nounced as “one of the rottenmest
exhibitions of government” he has
ever seen.
er =r
delin- {
| Blaming the Wrong Persons.
President Hoover may havea just
cause of complaint against some-
body because of the failure of the
Senate to enact a tariff bill within
a reasonable time. It is a certain
sign of delinquency on the part of
the leadership of his party. But
in his recent statement he, by infer-
ence at least, blamed the wrong
persons. The so-called insurgent
Republicans in the Senate are not
responsible for the failure to legis-
late. The Democratic Senators are
under no obligations to serve ris
partisan purposes. Those Senators
who set out to impose upon the
country an unjust burden of tariff
taxation, for a sinister purpose,
areto blame, and President Hoover
ought to tell them so.
The call for a special session of
Congress was to meet to enact
legislation that would assure to
farmers equal benefits of tariff
protection with manufacturers and
incidentally bolster up languishing in-
dustries. But the leaders of his
party prepared, and tried to force
to passage, a measure which would
guarantee to campaign contributors
such unearned bonuses as would
reimburse them and convert their
‘ contributions into profitable invest-
ments. This deliberate purpose to
loot the treasury was resented, not
only by the Democratic Senators
put © by every Republican in the
‘chamber who is influenced in his
official action by conscience. They
had no other course to pursue.
A tariff bill such as was pledged
by the Republican National conven-
tion and was recommended by the
President in his call of the special
session might, and probably would,
have been enacted by both branches
of Congress and approved by the
President within sixty days from
the beginning of the session. But
Joseph R. Grundy and other malign
influences appealed to the cupidity
of tariff-mongers and the wishes of
the President were sacrificed to
the avarice of political piracy. What
the President ought to have done
on hig return from his fishing trip
was to call the leaders of his party
4in- the Senate to the White House
and inform them they are wrecking
his administration.
{
| Senatorial togas are all right
| for exhibition purposes but they have
' no influence on the question of tax-
ing manufacturers
. That is why Grundy is so
| about the Governorship.,
|
Properly Pruning the Tariff Bills
When Senator Norris proposed to
amend the tariff bill by inserting a
suspended on any commodities on
which a monopoly in the domestic
field might be shown to exist” he
ate proceedings in the customs court
“on evidence that there is interfer-
ence with the free conditions of com-
petition with respect to the produc-
tion, sale or distribution of any article
given tariff protection.” In other
words, it is not the purpose of tar-
iff legislation to foster monopoly un-
| der the pretense of promoting indus-
try.
It was this idea which Senator
Walsh, of Montana, had in mind
when he proposed to cut the Finance
committee’s levy on aluminum ap-
proximately two-thirds. That propo-
sition rather shocked the tariff
mongers in charge of the bill but the
Montana Senator justified it by sub-
mitting evidence indicating that “the
Aluminum trust has violated the con-
sent decree of 1912 at which time
there were accusations of monopo-
listic practices.” The Aluminum trust
is composed largely of the Mellon
family, of Pittsburgh, and is one of
the units of the great wealth of that
family. Uncle Andy is greatly con-
cerned in the matter of protection
for this industrial infant, which only
earned a trifle less than one hundred
per cent. on its capital last year.
Senator Watson, Republican floor
leader, is in dispair over the tariff
pill. After a disappointing session,
the other day, he expressed the be-
lief that the measure will pass the
Senate on or soon after the 1st, of
March. “But,” he added dolefully,
“jt will not be a good Republican
bill.” For that the country may be
grateful. A good Republican tariff
bill would give the monopolies, trusts
and giant corporations unlimited H-
cense to loot the consumers of the
country in order to guarantee more
liberal contributions to the campaign
slush fund in the election of 1932.
The country has had enough of such
legislation and is fed up on the cor-
ruption which follows.
——The Philadelphia police depart-
ment seems to be “electioneerin’ for
a lickin’,
, support volunteered by the monop-
in Pennsylvania.
anxious |
‘being delivered to New England
! ports
| Pennsylvania mines can put it there
‘for. The explanation lies in the fact
provision that “gall duties would be
touched a tender point in the armor,
of the protectionists, The amendment
would authorize any citizen to initi-
Futile Fight but Worth While.
The somewhat prolonged discus-
sion of the qualifications of Charles
Evans Hughes for the office of
Chief Justice of the Supreme court
failed of its purpose but it was
worth while. The object which
Senators Norris and Borah and
Walsh and other high-minded and
well-meaning Senators had in mind
in opposing the confirmation of the
nomination of Mr. Hughes was to
secure in the court of last resort
a preference for human rights, rath-
er than property rights. The ten-
dency during recent years, not only
in the courts but in the legislation
of the country, has been in the di--
rection of exalting property rights.
Charles Evans Hughes has become
easily the most conspicuous advo-
cate of that philosophy.
When Chief Justice Taft resigned
his seat on the bench President
Hoover, an apostle of the property
rights ° cult, without consulting the
bench, the bar or the public, named
Mr. Hughes as his successor in such
haste as to arouse suspicion that he
was afraid to submit the question
to calm consideration. This suspi- |
cion was strengthened by the prompt
olies, trusts and corporations which !
have interests in litigation before
the court and their representatives
on the floor of the Senate. The
Senators who opposed confirmation
had no selfish interests to promote
or no personal prejudice against the
nominee. But they raised their
voices to protect the people from
a grave danger.
The discussion, if a one-sided de-
bate can be so called, was calm,
dignified and free from vitupera-
tion. It is significant that the sup-
porters of the nominee remained
silent while the opposition was ex-
pressed in forceful and eloquent
language. But the new philosophy,
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Driving over the Seven Mountains
from Centre county to Lewistown, Frank
M. Hines ran over a small animal on the
roadway. He found it was a porcupine,
a rare animal in that section.
—The Dauphin county court on Friday
sentenced George Parker, of Harrisburg,
to serve six months in jail for selling his
mother’s furniture to secure funds for a
trip to New York. Parker admitted he
disposed of the goods while his mother
was away from home at work.
—The body of Mrs. Castner, 32, was
found last Friday, in the cellar of her
home at Avoca, near Scranton. Her hus-
band, Gervis Castner, who the police said
had been drinking, was arrested on sus-
picion. State troopers and detectives said
the body was cut in half with a saw and
placed in two bags. The woman, it was
said, was not outside her home for a
week. A niece found the body.
—Harry A. Miller, 43, postmaster at
Rockwood, Somerset county, has been
paroled after the court was informed he
had returned the $1438 in postal funds he
admitted embezzling while ‘on a spree.”
Miller pleaded guilty to the charge re-
cently. Federal Judge F. P. Schoomak-
er paroled him for two years, ruling,
however, that Miller must go to jail if
he drinks intoxicants during his parole.
—Uncontrolled dogs in 1929 killed 3338
sheep and 5438 chickens and caused a to-
tal damage to every class of livestock
and poultry amounting to $72,162, accord-
ing to a report from the bureau of ani-
mal industry, Department of Agriculture.
The number of animals killed by dogs
follows: Hogs, 144; cattle, 25; goats, 13;
horses, 3: ducks, 583; turkeys, 460; geese,
160; guineas, 56; domesticated rabbits,
762. .
—Officials of the State Game Commis-
sion expect a record output from the
farm in Juniata county where wild tur-
keys will be raised during the coming
summer. The entire 500 acre farm will
be enclosed with an eight foot fence to
permit the birds to be raised under con-
ditions similar to those which surround’
their totally wild mates, so that when
they are released they will be able to
care for themselves.
—Prompt action on the part of the
| health authorities has apparently succeed-
ed in stamping out the smallpox epidem-
ic, at Smethport, as no, new cases have
developed and the contagion period end-
ed last week. A rigid quarantine had
been enforced at the homes of those ill
with the disease, and also exposed per-
sons. As the result of these wise pre-
cautions, the disease has had no chance
to spread. Smethport physicians vaccin-
ated over three hundred persons during
the first few days of the epidemic.
—Northumberland county court clerk’s
office employees opened their eyes on
Tuesday when a $10,000 Liberty bond,’
something they had never seen before,
was offered as bail for Irving A. Freed-
man, Shamokin merchant, convicted of
arson. It will be held pending disposal
the philosophy of Grundy and Bing-
ham and Hoover, had the power and |
exercised it. = The nomination was'
confirmed by a two-to-one vote and
was confimed byneo. Vv 0 shrfdwdll |
the doctrine of property rights
against human rights is made more
secure than ever in the highest !
court of the country. But in the
process of achieving this result the
mighty force of public opinion has
been aroused as it has never been |
before and the victory of monopoly |
may be brief. i
__Anthracite coal from Russia is
at a dollar less a ton than
that Soviet Russia pays miners sev-
enteen cents a day and forces them |
to work for that or to do without
food tickets. The anthracite regions
of Pennsylvania are full of miners
who are trying to Sovietize America,
yet they would dynamite everything
in Luzerne and Schuylkill counties if |
anyone were to try to make them
work for less than seven dollars a|
day. |
____Most of the past week has
range of temperature higher than |
has been experienced here in many
years. Wild geese have been flying
north, spring birds are making their
appearance. On Sunday the writer
saw a wasp in flight through the |
air, tulips are pushing through the ,
ground, lilac buds are swelling and
the grass is showing quite green.
But remember, this is only the last
day of February and we have all of |
blustery March ahead of us. Then
Easter is unusually late this year,
the 20th day of April.
— Secretary of Labor Davis wise-
ly reminds the world that he is still
a candidate for Governor. But his
statement of the fact lacks corrob-
oration.
i git
___Jt is said that Mr. Grundy is
more concerned about who shall be
Governor than as to who shall serve
the balance of Vare's term in the
Senate.
p———————— A ———————————
___ President Hoover has called
on Secretary Mellon to force the
Senators to action and if Uncle Andy
can’t turn the trick it’s hopeless.
It is a safe guess that the
most interested spectator of the
present political confusion in Penn-
sylvania is one Gifford Pinchot.
Maybe Governor Fisher is
drawing comfort while listening to
“what are the wild waves saying.”
——“Dummy” Mahon, boxer, has
found out that parachute jumping is
no cure for deafness.
, —Mr, Vare’'s conduct may not
be a bluff but it is certainly a good
imitation of one.
of an application for a new trial. The
bond is the property of B. A. Freedman,
Mt. Carmel, the accused’s father, whose
name and that of M. H. Markley, Sun-
bury, as bondsmen for Freedman, had
been objected to and a surety bond de-
manded by the District Attorney’s office.
—Two men escaped last Friday after
taking $200 from the M’'Gara Brothers’
hardware store at Trafford. One robber
entered the store and asked to have a bill
changed. J. F. M’Gara, one of the own-
ers, made the change from money kept in
the safe and the man left. Soon a sec-
ond man entered and asked for a pane of
glass, which request sent M’'Gara to the
basement. The first man then came back
and robbed the safe, and as McGara came
upstairs he was forced to return to the
cellar at the point of a revolver, and af-
ter rifling the safe the men made their
escape.
— Three Shamokin young men, charged
with robbing a Reading freight car were
sentenced in county court at Sunbury, on
Tuesday. Alfred, Bowman a pugilist,
known as ‘‘Tiger Al’, was sentenced to
from two to four years in the Sunbury jail
and Joseph Strauser and Howard Heck to
from one to four years. Each must pay $25
fines and costs. All are married and un-
der 20. Bowmans and Strauser’s wives,
| each 17, pleaded guilty to receiving the
stolen goods, because they wore slippers
from the loot. The court said: ‘‘You are
mere children. Your husbands got you
| peen unusually spring-like, with a po this. I am going to send you home.”
_ Because she had her fingers crossed
dring her marriage ceremony, Mrs. Mary
Frances Wilson, of Connellsville, told her
husband that she had a right to break
her marriage VOWS, according to testi-
mony given by David Wilson, a railroad
conductor who formerly resided at New-
ell, but who now lives in Uniontown.
The husband, who was granted a divorce
i said that when he objected to his wife's
| conduct she gave him the cross-finger ali-
bi. Wilson declared that his wife's good-
by each morning when he left home for
work was the hope that he would be
ground to pieces before the day's work
ended.
— Mrs. Maria Tilotta, 38 of Bristol, was
sentenced on Monday, by Judge Samuel
E. Shull, of Stroudsburg, sitting in Bucks
county criminal court, to life imprison-
ment for her part in the killing of her
husband, John Tilotta. On December 29,
1928, Tilotta was beaten by three men in
the outskirts of Bristol. He died two
days later after implicating his wife and
Joseph Guido in the attack. The woman
and Guido confessed plotting to hire the
electrocuted at
attackers. Guido was
Rockview penitentiary, February 3. A
friend of Guido, Giaccomo Guicciardo, of
Brooklyn, N. Y., accused as the man who
arranged the attack on Tilotta, was sen-
tenced to life imprisonment.
— Forest ranger John Zeigler, of the
Rothrock forest district, recently trapped
a golden eagle in the mountains near
East Waterford, Wind's Gap, Jackson
township, Perry county. During the
hunting season a deer was shot on the
mountain and its carcass was left in the
woods. Zeigler noticed that a large bird
was feeding on the body of the animal
and he set several fox traps nearby in an
effort to ensnare it. Recently he sent
Charles V. Long to visit the traps and
he found a golden eagle trapped by one
foot. After much trouble he succeeded in
tying the bird. He took it to East Wa-
terford and from there sent it to the
State Game Commission office in Harris-
burg. It is about the size of a turkey
and measures 6 feet 4 inches from tip to
tip. .