Bewarif Wald,
INK SLINGS.
. ———The making of a Republican
ticket ought to be called a trading
post transaction.
——To say that Mr. Hoover's first
year as President was a failure would
be a charitable criticism,
— The friends of Governor Fish-
er are invited to eat crow but they
are not obliged to relish the feast.
— Speaking of contrasts the rec-
ords of Sedgwick Kistler and Joseph
R. Grundy, both manufacturers, is
striking.
——The meeting of the Democrat-
ic Executive committee last week
was largely attended and wisely con-
ducted.
The weather has looked threat-
ening enough since last Friday, but
up to this moment there have been
no lumber or plumbing showers.
A correspondent in San Diego,
California, has a new name for the
Watchman. She calls it her “weekly
astonisher” and we are at a loss to
know whether she is damning or
praising it.
—We always thought that Alex-
ander P. Moore was a pretty decent
fellow. Perhaps he was, but when
a man leaves one hundred thousand
dollars to the Queen of Spain and
doesn’t give his step-daughter
portrait of her own mother there is
reasonable ground for doubt.
W. Meyers, of Boalsburg,
that we can elect the next
gent if we nominate Wilson and
geep dissension out of our political
organization. We are inclined to
agree with our eighty year old proph-
et friend. We can elect the next
President, but will we? That's the
nub. We Democrats are always blow-
ing bubbles and then sticking pins in-
to them ourselves. When we get over
that habit we'll elect a President and
not before.
— Two weeks ago the grand in-
quisition into the house keeping of
Centre county revealed that cob-
webs are festooning the chandeliers |
in the Court House, that every-
thing is unkempt, so dirty about the
Temple of Justice that the only
thing that can save the Judicial Er-
mine from trailing in the mife is
the employment of a woman assist-
ant to the janitor.
What a commentary on the men
janitors and what a compliment to
woman.
We've never measured the Court
House but it can’t be more than
sixty by one-hundred feet. Relying
only on our conception of the interi-
or there are ten rooms and the
corridor on the ground floor and six
rooms, two corridors and the audi-
torium on the second floor. In addi-
tion to these there are about six
vaults. To keep this interior clean
men were employed at a cost to the
county of $1115.96 last year.
The average good woman in Cen-
tre county keeps a house of from
three to fourteen rooms at least
so clean that a catty neighbor,
dropping in for a call, doesn’t detect
cobwebs on the ceiling or filigreed
about the chandeliers. In addition
to doing that she cooks, mends and
darns for the old man and his get
and finds time on the side to do a
little church work, help the children
along with their lessons, remodel her
last spring’s dress and hat, cultivate
a few posies and a garden, have an
afternoon or so off for bridge and
an evening for the movies. Tripping
lightly under these trifling little
house-hold pleasantries she greets
the Lothario, who took her for bet-
ter or worse, when he arrives home,
as if he had actually created Uto-
her,
acts that way because the
e good woman doesn’t know
etter and God fend the day
she gets wise.
She doesn’t know how lightly her
idol tosses the blue chips she has
been saving for him into a pot so
that he can draw to an inside
straight. She doesn’t penetrate the
cunning of the subterfuge he uses to
assure her that the bills she has
been worrying about are all paid,
when they're not. She's just a pa-
tient, loving, creature deceiving her-
self into thinking that drudgery is a
pleasure and that her lot, no matter
how humble it may be, is to be en-
vied.
And what does she get for itall?
Including board, lodging, clothes and
pin money—if she gets any—we are
right here to bet that the average
good woman in Centre county doesn’t
cost her partner oue-half as much
as one of the janitors of the Court
House cost Centre county. And
we're right here to bet that one good
woman would keep the Temple of
Justice clean, In less than a week
she’d have every man occupant init
trained. One look would be notice
that feet have to be wiped before en-
tering its tiled portals, that ashes
have to be knocked in the trays in-
stead of on the floor and that waste
baskets are for scraps.
She’d not only do that, but she
would have time to sit out on the
Court House steps sunny afternoons
and tell the world everything that
goes on within.
And here we have devoted nearly
a column to a matter we intended to
dispose of in a paragraph. But why
should the grand jury worry about
cleaning the Court House? The vot-
ers will take care of that in 1931,
the
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Grundy Demands the Nomination
i of Lewis.
Out of the confusion of the Re-
publican party in Pennsylvania there
, seems to be one thing certain. That
is that Mr. Grundy will force the ac-
ceptance of Mr, Samuel S. Lewis as
the organization candidate for Gov-
ernor. It will be a “bitter pill” to
Governor Fisher and not an agree-
‘able dose for the Mellons. But itis
absolutely essential to the plans of
Mr. Grundy. He is not half as much
interested in the Senatorship as heis
in the executive control of the State.
| His appointment as Senator came to
| him as a surprise and without solici-
tation. It was ‘a flattering unction
. to his soul,” and may have given him
. momentary pleasure and a tempo-
‘rary thrill. But it doesn’t “click” in
his plans.
Mr. Grundy has one purpose in
‘life. That is to make money for the
| manufacturers of. Pennsylvania. He
sees only two ways to accomplish
| this result. One is through tariff
| taxation and the other is exemption
‘ from other forms of taxes. He real-
| izes that a seat in the Senate is not
much help in the tariff project and
| that control of the Governor is a
| commanding factor in the scheme of
| tax exemption. To secure this lev-
| erage four years ago he procured the
' nomination and election of John S.
Fisher. It cost him a large sum of
| money, but he feels that it was worth
| the price,
! only a willing but an ardent worker
in his vineyard. He wants to continue
! his control in that line.
Francis Shunk Brown is a ma-
| chine politician but uncertain as to
| his affiliations. James J. Davis has
always been ready to serve the ma-
| chine in emergencies but he carries
| the credentials of a labor union and
{ might not follow the Grundy lines
in labor or tax legislation. But Sam
| Lewis is certain and dependable. He
will be for anything that Grundy
wants. On the gas tax question
last year he stepped out, but Grundy
had no objections to his course in
that case. It put no burden on the
manufacturers and added nothing to
the cost of their operations. Support-
ing him for Governor may alienate |
some of Grundy’s friends and might |
even prevent his election as Senator.
But he will take the chance.
____After the tariff fight is ended
the administration Senators are go-
ing to “spruce up” and fight back.
Just now they are afraid of their
shadows.
Collidge’s Cabinet Accused
The lobby committee is not the
only source of sensation in Wash-
ington these days, though Senator
Caraway continues to dig up
startling surprises right along.
Senator Couzins, who is investigating
the operations of the Power trust,
brought out the fact the other day,
that three members of the last
Coolidge cabinet were responsible
for the deletion of important facts
in a report made to Congress con-
cerning the capital inflation of the
Niagara Falls Power company. The
officials so accused were Dwight W.
Davis, Secretary of War; William
M. Jardine, Secretary of Agricul-
ture, and Hubert Work, Secretary of
the Interior. They composed the
Federal Power Commission at that
time.
The witness who revealed this
scandal was O. C, Merrill, execu-
tive secretary of the commission.
In response to a resolution of Con-
gress Mr. Merrill testified that he
prepared a report which showed
that the capital account of the
Niagara Falls Power company had
been padded to the extent of $32,-
000,000, and that other power and
utility corporations had similarly
padded their capitalization. He added
that he submitted the report to the
commission and that the members
first asked him to suppress it,
which he refused to do. Then they
ordered him to cut out all reference
to inflated capital accounts “after
they had been approached by repre-
sentatives of the Niagara Falls
Power company.”
That this betrayal of faith was
not repugnant to the leaders and
managers of the Republican party
is shown by the subsequent treat-
ment of the delinquent officials. Mr.
Davis was continued in office until
the expiration of his term and was
then appointed to the important of-
fice of Governor-General of the
Philippines by President Hoover.
| Mr. Jardine was offered a re-ap-
| pointment as Secretary of Agricul-
ture by Hocver and Hubert Work
| was first made chairman of the Re-
' publican National committee and
subsequently invited by Hoover to
take his choice of the cabinet port-
folios. It is believed that both
Coolidge and Hoover knew what had
happened to the Merril report.
Mr. Fisher has been not !
STATE RIGHTS
| Log-rolling in Full Force.
The “log-rolling” on the tariff Js
| now in full force in the Senate
iat Washington. Those tariff-mon-
gers who want high rates on shoes
i are setting up a bargain counter
!for trading votes with those who
i want excessive rates on sugar, wool,
! oil and any other commodity men-
tory tariff bill, Senator Blaine, of
Wisconsin, in a speech on the
subject, the other day, exposed the
operations of the Senatorial trading
post completely. He showed that
the lobbyists for a tariff tax on oil
| had been negotiating with Senators
| who favored high duties on the sev-
eral other commodities and in
furthering their purpose had been
hobnobbing with the President.
Senator Blaine based his accusa-
tions on statements made br Wirt
Franklin, president of the Ameri-
tion. Mr. Franklin was free and
frank in his testimony. He
that a group of 225 men interesfed
the enterprise of selling their
scheme to the Senate; that ten or
| more of them held a conference
with the President and he, more
eon at the White House. He had
also had a conference with Rep-
resentative Tilson, Republican floor
leader of the House, who had
agreed to help him if he would
guarantee that certain Senators
But their
The oil tax was
peared on final passage.
efforts were futile.
defeated.
Mr. Franklin told the lobby com-
mittee that $50,000 had been raiseé
traveled in a special train, gave
dinners to Senators and Congress-
men and played golf with those in-
clined to indulge in that sport. But
they didn’t offer bribes other than
agreements to help those who help-
ed them. That being a well known
and long established custom in
it was all right.
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt be
employed “because she is a friend
of the President and influential in
Washington,”
for
probably her price, $5000 or $10,000,
was a trifle too high,
The regular Republicans in the
Senate are misnamed conservatives.
aries.
Pinchot Points a Way.
Whether Gifford Pinchot is a
candidate for Governor or not is a
subject of conjecture. But he has a
theory concerning the regulation of
corporations and public utilities
which appeals to reason and may
find a friendly contact with popular
opinion. In a speech delivered in
Philadelphia, the other evening, he
proposed that the people of Pennsyl-
vania “abolish the Public Service
Commission and all the present
commissioners.” To accomplish that
result he asks all voters “to re-
fuse to support any candidate for
the State Senate or State House of
Representatives who will not pledge
to replace the commission with an-
othr body that will give the people
a square deal.”
has certain exercised an evil in-
fluence in the affairs of the people
of Pennsylvania. It was created
for the purpose of conserving the
rights and interests of the people
against corporate greed, and for a
brief period of time it seemed to
serve the purpose. Then the corpo-
rations seem to have ‘got under”
the commissioners and of late years
the Pennsylvania Public Service
Commission appears to have degen-
erated into an agency to legalize the
robbery of the people by utility cor-
porations. As Mr. Pinchot stated,
“the Public Service Commission au-
thorizes such charges Wecause the
utilities and not the people are its
boss.” Every section of the State
has suffered from it.
Mr. Pinchot presents a live issue
for the people of Pennsylvania to
ponder but not a new one. The
Watchman has been sounding the
alarm for years and the Democratic
platforms, National, State and local,
have been protesting against these
evils from the moment that the
Commission was perverted into a
political machine. In the coming
campaign it will certainly be a
leading issue. In making Senator
Grundy the undisputed leader of the
Republican party this result is in-
evitable. He believes in the control
of wealth and the servitude of la-
bor, and in the event of the success
of his ticket will enforce that pol-
icy upon the people. It remains
to be seen what Mr. Pinchot will
do.
AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE. PA.. MARCH 7. 1930.
can Independent Petroleum associa- '
said |
in the oil industry were engaged in
favored than the others, had lunch-
would vote for the bill when it ap-
in Oklahoma and that the lobbyists
tariff-making they probably thought
A suggestion that |
was not acted upon
some reason unexplained but
The right name for them is reaction-
The Public Service Commission
Blame Properly Placed
* In a speech delivered in the Sen-
ate on Monday Senator Wagner
properly charged that President
Hoover is largely responsible for the
present industrial distress and un-
i employment. More than a year ago
the New York Senator introduced a
| bill to create a commission to ascer-
tioned in the pending and preda- |
tain the extent and, as nearly as
| possible, the cause of unemployment.
| But no action has been taken on the
| measure for the reason that the re-
| ports of prosperity “just around the
| corner,” emanating from the White |
i House and other agencies of the
| government have deceived Congress
| and the country into the belief that
| such legislation is unnecessary. This
' charge is literally true.
| Immediately following the Wall
‘street debacle of last fall President
Hoover called to Washington a
' group of so-called “Captains of In-
dustry” who under the influence of
his optimism promised industrial
activities which would guarantee the
restoration of prosperity. Subse-
quently, at intervals, the Secretary
' of Commerce and the Secretary of
Labor, presumably under instruc-
tions, published glowing accounts
of improvements in industrial con-
ditions and assurances of future
prosperity. But these promises have
not been fulfilled and as conditions
pass from bad to worse the President
goes fishing while millions of willing
workers travel the streets in search
of employment.
The truth is that the industrial
distress throughout the country at
this time is greater than it hxas been
| within a quarter of a century and the
tax upon the benevolence of the peo-
ple is proportionately heavier. There
‘are not as many soup houses in ope-
ration or bread lines in existence as
there were in some other periods,
but when soup houses and bread
lines were the available sources of
relief there were no charity organi-
: zations collecting and dispensing mil-
lions of dollars for the relief of dis-
| tress. An honest and searching sur-
vey of the charitable activities of the
country would show that more mon-
ey has been spent for relief this year
than in any previous year within the
“quatter century.
——Mr, Grundy has declared that
| “he wouldn't sit at a table with a
, man carrying a labor union card.” If
‘all voters carrying such cards would
vote against Grundy it would be too
bad for Joe.
Again in the Shadow of Scandal.
| President Hoover's name has
fagain been brought within the
, shadow of scandal by evidence
brought out by the Lobby investiga-
| ting committee the other day. No-
body wants to put an aspersion on
ithe character of the President of
{the United States and the Senate
: committee wisely as well as courte-
i ously “shies” away from the subject
| when his name is mentioned. But
it is unfortunate that he has chosen
| for his confidential relations men
{who are directly or indirectly con-
‘nected with sinister enterprises.
i First it was his secretary mixing in
| the sugar lobby activities and now
the chairman of the Republican
National committee, chosen by Mr.
Hoover, is involved in the Muscle
Shoals scandal.
The witness who ‘spilled the
beans,” in the last instance was E.
O. O'Neal, of the Alabama Farm
Bureau Federation, which had un-
dertaken, for a price, to defeat
Senator Norris’ resolution for gov-
ernment operation of the Muscle
Shoals plant in the interest of a
private power company. In one of
his reports Mr. O'Neal wrote that
he had sent a letter to the White
House to obtain a conference with
the President for the purpose of
discussing with him “the text of
the Muscle Shoals paragraph in his
message and whatever else I have
an opportunity to present.” In an-
other letter Mr. O'Neal gives assur-
ance that chairman Claudius Huston,
“is okey and is doing all that he |
dares to do in the position he oc-
cupies.”
The purpose of the activity of
Mr. O'Neal and his associates was
to turn the Muscle Shoals plant,
which had cost the government ap-
proximately $120,000,000, over to the
Cyanimid company, a power CcOrpo-
ration, “for a song.” The conspira-
tors behind this project had in-
fluenced President Coolidge to kill
the Norris measure by a ‘pocket
veto” and seemed to have acquired
more than an even chance of hook-
ing up Hoover in their toils. With
this purpose in mind they had en-
listed the services of chairman
Huston, but it may be hoped that
the exposure made. by the lobby
committee will work the defeat of
the enterprise. Meantime Mr. Hoov-
er ought to develop better judgment
in the selection of his confidants.
NO. 10.
Centre County Courts Stifled With
Petty Cases
| aid
i Every man and woman who at-
; tended the various court
: last week, was no doubt impressed
| with the number of trivial cases
called up for trial, cases that should
never have passed out of the office
of the justice of the peace before
, whom they were originally brought.
It is such cases that clog the wheels
i
i of justice and at the same time
| pile up costs to be paid for out of
| the taxpayer's pocket.
{ On the quarter sessions docket
i for the February term, 1930, were
a total of 162 entries. That doesn’t
mean that each entry was a case
for trial, as such was not the case.
Every appearance or action of any
kind in the quarter sessions court
is entered as a separate case on
the docket. But fifty per cent or
more of them were cases for a
hearing before the court. In a
number of the cases defendants
went into court and entered pleas
of guilty, a number were heard
and disposed of without jury trials,
while five cases were ignored by the
grand jury.
Out of the entire list of cases
there were 49 in which the costs,
totaling $1046.93, were put upon the
county, a larger sum than the
county will receive in the number
and amount of fines imposed.
These cases included fifteen viola-
tions of the vehicle code in which
the costs saddled onto the county
were $350.52. All of the above were
minor violations that should have
been settled without being brought
into court. In one or two cases
the bills were ignored by the grand
jury, but the county had to pay the
costs. In several cases the defend-
ant was either discharged or ac-
quitted while in others the defend-
ant went to jail for five or ten
days in preference to paying the
costs, but the county has to settle.
There were four violations of the
game laws, and in each case the
costs were put upon the county, a
total of $42.45.
One juvenile case added $27.28 to
the county’s bill of costs.
{ “There: were 28 cases of a mis-
' cellaneous character, such as assault
and battery, neglect, malicious mis-
| chief and various minor misdemean-
| ors, in which the county was mulct-
| ed for a total of $604.63 in costs.
There were two violations of the
liquor laws, one of which added
1 $21.95 to the county's bill and in
i the other case the costs, amounting
to $50.75 were ordered paid by the
| justice returning the case, but so
far they haven't been paid.
| The costs in dollars and cents
| tacked onto a case doesn’t cover
the entire cost by any means. While
a nominal charge of $4.00 as a
jury fee is entered against every
case that comes before a jury that
sum does not cover the actual cost
by any means, as the entire panel
of forty-eight jurymen are sitting
idle while twelve others are
yawning over the triviality of the
case they have been chosen to sit
on.
Zealousness in any official is to
be commended, no matter who he
is, but there ought to be a line of
demarkation in the character of the
cases brought into court for trial.
The same rule should apply to jus-
tices of the peace, some of whom
may be inspired to return cases
because by so doing they draw
down a larger fee than they are
entitled to if the case is disposed
of by themselves.
Abolishing “Hell Week.”
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
State College's Inter-Fraternity
Council is to be commended for its
movement to abolish what is
known to the students of the insti-
tution as “Hell Week.” During this
period the “pledges” of the various
fraternities are initiated with all
sorts of rough play and high jinks.
That the Council already has the
volunteer backing of fourteen of
these groups indicates the temper
of the students themselves.
Many of the initiations are ac-
companied by stunts designed mere-
ly to display the courage and re-
sourcefulness of the candidates, but
others are dangerous and approach
cruelty. Of course these are fol-
lowed by the real ceremonies of the
“frats,” most of them highly dig-
nified and some of them beautiful
of exercise and ritual,
The proposal of the State Col-
lege Council that the initiations
hereafter be designed entirely along
these latter lines, teaching the
spirit of the college and the high
ideals for which the fraternities
‘stand, no doubt will be followed by
concrete action on the part of the
several units that have not already
abandoned the old pra-tice. State
is leading in a really important re-
form.
— Anyway Vare keeps them all
guessing and to his mind that may
be worthwhile.
sessions, |
————————.
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Francis Winters, of Kingston, a la-
borer in Nottingham colliery at Ply-
mouth, Luzerne county, found a gold
nugget the size of a large marble. Win-
ters’ find caused other mine workers in
the Plymouth section to be on the look-
out for similar bits of gold.
—Stripping store racks of 300 suits
of clothing, thieves early on Monday es-
caped with wearing apparel valued at
more than $7000 from the store of
Abe Baron, at Plymouth, near Wilkes-
Barre. Loot also included overcoats,
shoes and other articles. No arrests
were made.
—A strike of natural gas estimated at
4,000,000 cubic feet daily and the largest
*in the area was brought in, on Saturday
on the C. W. Cox farm in Nicholson
township, Fayette county. Local operators
dispose of their product to the Victor
Pipe Line company, which turns it over
to the Monongahela West Penn com-
| pany.
—When Andrew Ziteli drove his
automobile into his garage at Pittsburgh
last Wednesday night, he was met bya
reception committee consisting of two
bandits. The men took Ziteli's car, rob-
bed him of $75 and a ring valued at
$350, and made their escape. The car
was found later abandoned in Home-
wood.
—Rev. Dr. U. Henry Heilman, a re-
tired Reformed minister, on Sunday
celebrated his ninety-second birthday by
preaching the sermon at the observance
of old folks’ day in Tabor Reformed
church at Lebanon. In the congrega-
tion were four members who have pass-
ed the 90-year mark and a score more
than 80 years old.
—State troopers on Sunday were
searching for two bandits who held up
and robbed Robert G. Fenstermacher,
, of Scranton, collector for a chain store,
of $2500, after he finished collecting for
the day on Saturday evening. He was
forced into an auto in South Scranton
and after being robbed was dumped out
of the car on East Mountain.
—What is believed to have been a stone
Indian battle axe was found recently by
Henry Bossinger while dredging sand
from the bed of the Juniata river a few
| miles west of Lewistown. The stone im-
plement weighs nearly eight pounds, and
has a handle nine inches long and three
inches wide with a fan shaped blade
measuring eleven inches along the edge.
—Twenty-five leg fractures in sixteen
years is the curious record held by
John Martinovich, 18-year old high school
student, at Tarentum, who is recovering
from the latest injury, received when a
spectator at a basketball game. Jonn
was only 18 months old when he suf-
fered the first fracture, and he has been
getting the ‘breaks’ ever since—but
they have all been against him. Twenty-
two of the fractures were of the right
leg. f
—Bess, a highly prized cow on the
farm of Norman E. Hershey, near
Marietta, is alive today and Nina, police
dog and pet of the Hershey family, has
taken a place among canine heroes.
Hershey, perplexed by Nina, who paced
the floor and barked vigorously, donned
his coat and followed the dog to the
barn, where he found Bess strangling to
death with her head eaught in a hay-
rack. He ripped loose the bars and lib-
erated the cow.
—Diamond, a registered Percheron,
said to be the largest horse in the
world, will be offered for sale at Willow
Brook farm, Lancaster county, on
March 12. Diamond was purcahsed by
late Colonel J. W. Fuller, of Catasau-
qua, on his western trip which ended in
his death at San Francico, Calif, Breed-
ing of Percherons will be discontinued
at Willow Brook farm. The horse is of
enormous size, weighing almost 3000
pounds. He has been at Willow Brook
farm, near Catasauqua, for a year.
—Planning an early start, inspectors
of the State Health Department expect
to complete inspection of sanitary condi-
tions at wayside stands, lunch counters
attached to tourist camps and tourist
lodging houses where meals are served.
Inspections of 7000 such places are to be
finished before the heavy tourist travel
starts at beginning of the vacation sea-
son. The investigation will start as
soon as tourist stands open in the spring.
During the winter the inspectors have
checked upon sanitary conditions of
restaurants in cities and towns.
—Robert Drake, 8 year old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Drake, who reside in
Allenport, a suburb of Mount Union, was
admitted to the J. C. Blair Memorial hos-
pital, at Huntingdon, last week, suffering
from the effects of a rifle shot in his left
| side. The little fellow was playing back
of his home in Allenport while a number
of men in the vicinity of the town were
shooting mark and it is believed he was
struck by a stray bullet. At the hospital
it was found that the bullet had not pene-
trated the abdomen but had lodged back
of the lower spine. The child is not
thought to be critically injured although
he has suffered much pain.
—The venerable Josiah V. Thompson, of
Uniontown, man of immense financial
ups and downs, has been granted fur-
ther time to make good on trust fund
deficits. The romantic old coal land
manipulator and one-time banker, who
is attempting to stage a comeback from
the crash that reduced him from a Mi-
das to a person of poverty, is not yet at
the end of his long financial rope. The
court on Monday granted him an ex-
tension of parole until July 7 from his
jail’ sentence, in order that he may pro-
duce the money he owes to the Princess
of Thurn and Taxis and to the Emma
Messmore estate. The claim of the
Princess is for $131,000.
—Work on the construction of the
Safe Harbor Water Power corporation's
$30,000,000 dam and hydro-electric power
generating plant in Manor township,
Lancaster county, and Chanceford town-
| ship, York county, cannot be started un-
i til the necessary endorsement is given
| by the Federal Power Commission and
{ Public Service Commission, according to
' George S. Beal, chief of the bureau of
| dams and encroachment of the Depart-
| ment of Forests and Waters. Firms and
| individuals from Lancaster and York are
| protesting against the construction ota
dam, asking the Public Service Com-
mission to withhold its approval until
the power corporation agrees to build a
road across the breast of the dam. The
Public Service Commission indicated it
will not act until further hearing.