in
° ——With Senator Nye as chair-
man of the committee to watch the
coming primary in this State
Senator Grundy may learn the
value of the last laugh.
- _We've been moonin’ 'round here
for nearly three score years and we
cannot recall any such lovely spring
weather as we had the latter part
of last week. It is quite likely we'll
pay for that later in tne season.
__Senator Salus charges that Sen-
ator Grundy is going to spend five
hundred thousand dollars to get him-
self nominated. Salus is worrying
about that, perhaps, because he
hasn't a Chinaman’s chance of get-
ting a piece of it.
—Charley Long’s retirement from
the race for the Republican nomina-
tion for Congress will probably
never be truthfully explained. All
we can do by way of clearing up
the mystery is to express our belief
that he wasn’t Chase—d off.
—The sheriff of Highlands county,
Florida, is going to attach the
trains on the Atlantic Coast Line for
taxes the company is supposed to
owe the county. We remember the
time when an over zealous Florida
sheriff attached a circus elephant
for debt and then found out thathe
had a white elephant on his hands
because there wasn’t enough hayin
all of Florida to keep the critter
from starving.
A Mrs. Herbert S. Ward, who
has been in the employ of the gov-
ernment at Washington for twenty-
three years, has been suspended for
pelting her chief with eggs and then
dousing him with a pitcher of ice
water. Mrs. Ward declares he
tampered with records of the Fed-
eral Power Commission which have
been in her charge for ten years.
While we admit that Mrs. Ward
acted very unlady-like we do hope
she had sense enough to select over-
ripe eggs for the bombardment.
—What an anthem the
choir must sing when terrestrial
services are being conducted by
messengers of Christ who have not
sold their souls to modernism. The
world is full of new things, of
course. No one knows what might
turn up tomorrow, but He who
created it all is the same, yester-
day, today and tomorrow. Society
clamors for something new. But
those who are “Singing in the
Rain” today will be singing “Tell
Me the Old, Old Story” tomorrow
—We saw more garden being dug
in and about Bellefonte last 1veek
than we have ever seen in a similar
period of time. Everybody, it seems,
was in the back yard with a spade
and many of them were women,
Think of it, women digging garden.
Of course in some cases it probably
was a necessity, but shame on the
three men we saw away off dig-
ging for fishing worms shortly after
we had passed their women slaving
in the garden to get ground ready
to grow potatoes and such to keep
their family alive during the fish-
ing season.
—To those Republicans of Centre
county who don’t approve of the
Hon. Holmes’ action in voting to
raise the gasoline tax, when the
State didn’t need the money it has
:aken from them, we would suggest
hat they write the name of John
3. Miller on their primary ballots.
Jf course there isn’t a chance of
Mir. Miller's getting the Republican
jomination, but every vote he would
vet on the Republican ticket would
iarder to defeat the statesman who
roted to take two cents out of your
socket every time you buy a gal-
on of gasoline.
—The further construction pro-
;resses on the new highway be-
ween Bellefonte and Milesburg the
nore apparent becomes the needless
yroperty waste in consequence of
t. If three or four home owners
n the vicinity of “Red Roost” are
lot given enough to raise their
louses, their lawns, gardens and out-
yildings above the menace that
vork is leaving them threatened
vith it will be a damnable outrage.
n fact the rerouting that has
aused all this property loss gains
o little that it incites in the popular
nind the thought that a lot of road
uilding is planned more to make
or the taxpayers who have to pay
he damage done.
— Rdmund B. Jermyn, millionaire
nd a former Mayor of Scranton,
as been convicted of conspiracy to
rotect slot machines in that city.
t is quite likely that Mr. Jermyn
ever received a cent of the “hush
ioney” that the slot machine king
wore that he paid for protection,
ut it’s just as likely that some of the
eutenants who gratified Mr.
ermyn’s ambition, by getting out
se votes that made him Mayor, did.
nd that, dear readers, is the cause
¢£ rotten politics all over this broad
wd. No one ever thought for a
\oment that the late Samuel W.
angelic |
‘we are making tremendous
eavy work for the contractors than ,
VOL. 75.
BELLEFONTE, P
A.. APRIL 18, 1930.
NO. 16.
Grundy Renews Attack on Atterbury.
Senator Grundy seems determined
to force General Atterbury to de-
fend himself against charges of un-
ethical conduct, both as president of
a great corporation and as member
of the Republican National commit-
tee. Some time ago Mr. Grundy
declared that General Atterbury is
affiliated with, and largely respon-
sible for, the crimes of the Vare
machine. General Atterbury made
no response to this grave aspersion
upon his character. The other day,
during a session of the Senate com-
mittee on Privileges and Elections,
in Washington, Senator Grundy ac-
cused Mr. Atterbury of actually
betraying the interests of the cor-
poration of which he is president for
selfish personal reasons.
In addressing the Senate commit-
tee Senator Grundy said: “I weuld
call the committee’s attention to the
fact that of his own efforts and
connivance, W. W. Atterbury is
now actual and admitted head of
the corrupt Philadelphia machine,
whose widespread and systematic
registration and election frauds are
matter of official record in the
United States Senate, adduced in
the long investigation which resulted
in the Senate denying a seat to that
organization’s candidate and erst-
while boss, William S. Vare.” There
is nothing ambiguous or uncertain
about this language. It is a direct
charge that General Atterbury is
not only responsible for, but a par-
ticipant in the frauds.
This is bad enough in all con-
science but not the worst, Senator
Grundy further charged that Gen-
eral Atterbury, as president of the
Pennsylvania railroad, lets contracts
for work for that corporation at exor-
pitant prices to Thomas W. Cun-
ningham, the Vare Construction
company and Charles B. Hall, part
of the excessive profits of which
operations are used to finance the
election fraud activities of the Vare
machine. If these charges are bas-
ed on facts they reveal a measure
of perfidy that is almost unbeliev-
able. If they are not so based
Senator Grundy in making them
commits a major crime, not only
against the men accused but against
every principle of honor and de-
cency.
——“The mountain labored and
|
‘election or stultify himself. A house
brought forth a mouse.” Instead of
a naval reduction as the result of
the London conference we are to
spend a billion dollars for increased
equipment,
Mud Slinging Campaign Started.
The Republican primary cam-
paign in this State is opening
fine form for a disastrous finish,
promises to be a “mud-slinging”’
event of more than ordinary viru-
lence. “Right off the bat” Senator
Salus, one of the Vare war board,
charges that Thomas W. Phillips,
the wet candidate for Governor, is
“a plant of Senator Joseph R.
:ncourage him to fight that much | Grundy.” The obvious purpose of this
accusation was to alienate the wet
candidate for Senator against his
running mate and thus promote the
interests of Mr. Brown, the Vare
candidate for Governor. It is a
shabby expedient as well as an
absurd falsehood. But it indicates
the ill-temper in which the campaign
started and is likely to be conducted.
As ought to have been expected
by its inventor, this campaign
canard enjoyed a short run. Prompt-
ly Mr. Phillips, at his. home in
Butler, declared that “there is not
a scintilla of truth in what Salus
says. I was never used as a stalking
horse for any man or set of menin
my life, and never will be. I never
received any aid, financial or other-
wise, from Grundy and am getting
none now. This is a real fight and
gains
everywhere.” Randolph W. Childs,
campaign manager
ticket, said, “Salus is fighting with
his back to the wall. Sensing de-
feat for the Brown-Davis straddle-
dry combination, he is forced to the
desperate position of attacking the
good faith of Mr. Phillips’ candi-
dacy.”
It is probably true that some of
those who enticed Mr. Phillips into
the contest have greater interest in
the possible graft that might come
to them from the nomination and
election of the Vare ticket than in
the principles for which the Phillips
ticket stands. But it may be as-
sumed that the majority of the sup-
porters of the wet candidates are
ennypacker profited a cent through | sincere, and it is certain that none
se million dollar graft that Bill of them is sufficiently stupid to be
erry discovered in the furnishing
sntracts for the Capitol
sburg. Samuel W. Pennypacker,
swever, would never have
overnor of Pennsylvania if the
been |
fooled by such preposterous stories as
at Har-
that set in motion by Senator Salus.
It is not probable that the wet tick-
et has a chance of success in the
primary vote but it may develop
for the wet;
yuld pull that robbery off under his combination from winning on a
|
sieves hadn't been certain that they | enougn strength to prevent the Vare
sry nose. ' palpable false pretense.
| Press Secretary Stimson speaks of
| the achievements of the naval
i ference “with restrained enthusiasm.”
in
It
, The time for strike-offs in advance
; since the
Curious Attitude of the Mellons.
After prolonged and careful con-
sideration of the question the Mel-
lon family, of Pittsburgh, has deter-
mined to support Francis Shunk
Brown and Joseph R. Grundy for
Governor and United States Senator
respectively, at the approaching
Republican primary. By what
process of reasoning the fam-
ily arrived at this conclusion is a
matter of conjecture. The politics
of the Philadelphia “Neck which
is expressed in the candidacy of
Mr. Brown, and the methods of the
Pittsburgh “Strip,” of which the
Mellons are a large part, may ac-
count for the preference revealed
for Brown. On the other hand a
deep-seated and long continued an-
tipathy to Gifford Pinchot may have
been the influencing element in the
equation.
But neither of these reasons ac-
count for the preference for Grun-
dy over their fellow-townsman,
Secretary of Labor Davis, for the
Senatorial nomination. It was
widely believed that the most
friendly relations existed between
Davis and the Mellons, and general- |
ly understood that “Uncle Andy” |
brought Mr. Davis out of a cloister- |
ed life at Moosehart and into |
political activity as a member of |
the Harding Cabinet. There is a |
suspicion that the purpose is to!
protect the franchise of Senator
Reed, who aspires to succeed him- |
self at the expiration of his present
term, which would be difficult if a |
Pittsburgh man occupied the other |
seat, It is certain that interest in|
the tariff had nothing to do with it. |
Davis is quite as strong for tariff as |
Grundy.
Then the manifest incongruity of |
a ticket composed of Brown and |
Grundy defies explanation of the
Mellon declaration on any theory
based on reason. Grundy has openly
denounced Brown as a servile tool ;
of the Philadelphia machine, which
having stripped the city of Phila-
delphia to a skeleton now hopes to
move on to Harrisburg for the pur-
pose of looting the treasury of the
State. If Brown is nominated fot
Governor Grundy couldn’t possibly
support him for election and if
Grundy is nominated for Senator |
Brown would have to oppose his
|
i
i
thus “divided against itself” cannot
endure. Maybe the Mellons want to
wreck the party.
— According to the Associated
con-
Quite appropriate.
——————
Registration Fraud in Philadelphia.
On Friday last the Philadelphia
Record contained this interesting
piece of information: “Interest in
clean elections in Philadelphia reach-
ed unaccustomed heights yesterday
when register of wills William F.
Campbell sent to the registration
commission a list of 717 names of
the Twenty-fifth ward, of which he
is Republican leader, with the re-
quest that they be stricken from
the registration lists. The request
caught the commission by surprise.
of the last registration day, April
16, had passed.” It was finally
decided to enter the names on “blue
strike-off sheets, which are emer-
gency memoranda for use of divi-
sion registrars,” who may strike
them off.
Mr. Campbell explained that his
list represented the names of ‘those
persons who have died or removed
last registration.” The
probabilities are that the list has
been accumulating for several years
and that it represents not only those
who have died or removed, but some
who have never existed at all, and
that Mr. Campbell was not influenc-
ed to ask that they be stricken
from the voting list by conscience
but by fear of exposure in the event
that they were voted at the coming
election as usual. The threatened
Senatorial surveillance of the voting
in Philadelphia is revealed in this
act of Mr. Campbell,
In one of his recent speeches Mr.
Gifford Pinchot made the assertion
that the registration lists of Phila-
delphia contain more than 100,000
fraudulent names. Taking the Camp-
bell list as an average it accounts
for approximately 30,000 fraudulent
votes. But as a matter of fact it
is not to be taken. The Twenty-
fifth ward is rated as one of the
cleanest sections of the city. The
Committee of Seventy didn’t think
it worth while to canvass that ward
for frauds and the Campbell list
was quite as surprising to that or.
ganization as to the registration
commission. But it will go a long way
toward corroborating the Pinchot
statement that there are 100,000
i gress in the 23rd district.
| withdrawing my name will not ap-
fraudulent voters in the city.
Charles P. Long Withdraws from the
Congressional Race.
¢
Caught between the upper and
nether millstones of Republican
political chicanery Charles P. Long,
of Spring Mills, has been forced
out of the Congressional campaign
in the Twenty-third district, leav-
ing Centre county without a can-
didate. Mr. Long's withdrawal was
made at the eleventh hour, last
week, and his official statement
given the newspapers is as follows:
To the Republican Electors of the
23rd Congressional District:
In the hope of simplifying and
further harmonizing conditions with-
in the Republican ranks I desire to
announce that I have withdrawn as
a candidate for nomination for Con-
By my
pear on the primary ballot of May
120, 1930.
1 sincerely and earnestly want to
thank my many friends who signed
‘my petitions and who were
much
interested that this was Centre
county’s turn to be represented.
Sincerely yours,
CHARLES P. LONG.
While he has been forced out of
the Congressional race Mr. Long
must not be considered a dead polit-
ical hero. He is only hibernating
and is liable to wake up most any
time. He hasbeen all over the dis-
trict and has made many warm
friends. Had he been given the
nomination and elected to Congress
his constituents would have been
sure of an honest, faithful repre-
sentative.
Probably no other one man has
done as much for his home town as
Mr. Long. He has been in business !
| there for forty-two years and the |
success he has enjoyed is evidence
of the confidence reposed in him by
his friends and neighbors. Thirty
years ago Mr. Long opened at his
own expense a street in Spring
Mills 2400 feet in length,
through his persoal efforts
new houses were built.
Twenty years ago he furnished a
building and water free of charge
for the first milk station at Spring
an
twelve
A%aé’s, and. the industry has grown
So "that now there are two milk
stations. Ten years ago, through
his liberal inducement in offering a
site, a silk mill was erected.
Today he has, in addition to his
business at Spring Mills, five dollar
candy stores located at Uniontown,
Waynesburg, Wheeling, W. Va.,
Newark and Portsmouth, Ohio.
P— nd
You can’t put all the blame
for tariff tax extortion on Grundy.
Recreant Democratic Senators con-
tributed to the outrage.
eee A ————
Senator Capper’s Curious Reasoning.
Senator Capper, Of Kansas, has
not discovered the long looked for
“perpetual motion” but he has de-
vised, in his own mind, a process by
which one may “lift himself by his
own boot-straps.” In commenting on
the pending tariff bill, the other
day, the Senator declared that if
certain provisions are eliminated,
meaning the tax on lumber and
other products not produced in
Kansas, “the country will be bene-
fitted to the extent of $750,000,000 a
year.” He arrives at this conclusion
by a curious process of reasoning
and a surprising system of com-
putation. But it answers the pur-
pose so far as he is concerned.
The Kansas Senator admits that
the measure, if trimmed to his no-
tion of perfection, will increase the
cost of living to the people of the
United States to the extent of $750,-
000,000 a year. Most men would in-
terpret that fact as a liability rath-
er than an asset.
spent in the United States.” In oth-
er words, if Tom pays a dollar to
Dick he adds to instead of taking
from his capital but if he pays it
to some one else the result is re-
versed. Mr. Capper agrees that
tariff tax on lumber, brick, cement
and shingles will increase the cost
of buildings, which is an element in
the expense of living.
Now if the Senator would be
frank enough to say that with the
tax on commodities not produced in
Kansas eliminated the pending tar-
iff bill would benefit a favored few
in the country by approximately
$750,000,000 a year, his language
could be understood by the average
man. That being about the amount
it will add to the cost of living the
fact that it will be spent in the
United States is a guarantee that
the monopolies, the big corporations
and the mass producers will get it
in the end. But this certainty con-
veys little comfort to the wage earn-
ers who pay the increased cost of
living.
——Maybe Grundy imagines that
he can bluff President Hoover and,
for that matter, maybe he can.
d |
|
“But,” he added,
: lem.
«these additional millions will be | Tn America and in Russia, over-
AT EASTER TIME.
Written by W. B. Meek-Morris for
two little girls who, while Easter win-
dow shopping, became mystified by the
sight of a fluffy Chicken and a oco-
late Bunnie ‘‘setting’’ in the same
basket and laying the same kind of
eggs.
Said the sweet Chocolate Bunnie to the
fluffy Chick;
Now why do ou lay me this
funny trick? y pay
I'm laying dyed eggs in my nest of
sweets
And all you will tell me is:
Tweet,” “Tweet,” “Tweet.”
Though our names are quite different,
the Chick did reply,
Our eggs are same
seems to my eye.
Some fashioned by me and some are by
you
You, a hair Bunnie,
tis true.
shaped, so it
me a Chicken,
Now you look in the center and if gold
there you see
You will know that egg was fashion-
ed by me,
This the heart of everything
gold is
good
And I'd lay mine all gold if I really
could.
Then the sweet Chocolate Bunnie to the
Chick he made bold
Your eggs on the outside are hard
and cold.
Just like folks, we judge, from their
outside shell
Covering hearts of gold.
never can tell.
So this strange Easter story comes
its close,
Ah!
That to find the good, one must dig
{| Farm Relief, Here and in Russia.
| From the Philadelphia Record.
| The Communist Government in
| Russia is its own Federal Farm Re-
| lief Board.
Its problems are not so very dif-
| ferent from ours, and its methods
are somewhat similar but much
more drastic.
The collectives in which the Rus-
! sian Government seeks forcibly to
| organize the peasants are compar-
'able to our own co-operatives.
| The principal difference is that
where we still encourage private
initiative by making cooperation
{ voluntary instead of compulsory the
One !
| daily
Russian Government has tried to
. squeeze the peasants into the co-
| operative mold, willy-nilly.
| "It had been reported that ‘“col-
lectivization” had been accomplished
{60 per cent. Now it is stated that
{40 per cent. is nearer the truth. And
'it is a fact that 40 per cent, is
‘much better than was expected for
this date in the five year plan.
{ But now word comes that the
| Communist Government has adopted
‘a policy of increasing the profits of
collectivism through granting of
| credits and reduction of taxes.
! Our own farm relief program in-
, cludes grant of credit, with a $500,-
: 000,000 revolving fund to grease the
. wheels. Russia will set aside 500,-
1 000,000 rubles for this purpose, or
| just about half the American provi-
| sion.
| Uncle Sam, however, has made no
! move toward lightening the farmer's
, taxes.
| Stalin declares the Government is
hot retreating from its original
' stand on collectivism or co-opera-
| tives, but is solidifying its gains,
‘weeding out the weaker collectives,
i.closing up the lines for the spring
planting of wheat.
The Russian Government and the
i Federal Farm Board stand on exact-
ly the same ground in one respect.
In its own words, “The Federal
, Farm Board”
| theory that the production of farm
‘ products in excess of normal mar-
| keting requirements is a waste. It
injures the producer without benefit-
ing the consumer.
| And that is the core of the prob-
| production causes glutted markets,
low prices, distress.
Hazards quite beyond human con-
' trol—hazards of flood and drought,
| unseasonable heat or cold—affect the
crops.
| The output of good and bad years
must somehow be evened up.
| The farm plant must be kept
| busy; if wheat planting is to be cut
| down, the acres must be put to
other profitable use. The farmer
'won’t sit and twiddle his thumbs
‘and watch the weeds grow on his
| 1and just because he is told there is
too much wheat being grown.
| Express it in whatever way, the
fact remains that equalization is the
key word in farm relief problems.
| Will Russia or America be the
first to achieve success in equalizing
{the food-producing industry’s re-
| turns over good years and bad
years, and among the producers
whose output must be regulated?
| —If Pinchot should happen to
| grab off the Republican nomination
for Governor and be elected former
Judge Arthur C, Dale will be sitting
so pretty that he can return the
compliment to the Secretary of
| Forests and Waters by reading him
|out of the party.
‘are believed
is working on the
' skeleton has
C—O ERAT
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The contract for the erection of the
plant for the Viking Art Metal Produce:
company in Ridgway, for which $284,000
was raised, was awarded Saturday to the
Hyde-Murphy company, of Ridgway
Work will begin Monday morning pre-
paring the ground for the building.
—A postal inspector and police went
to the home of William Accoff, 838, of
Kingston, last Friday, and recovered
guns, watches and other valuables to
the value of $1,000 or more, alleged to
have been stolen from the mails, Accoff,
a postal truck driver for nine years,
was arrested.
—Charles BE. Weikert, Gettysburg taxi
driver, has reported to State police that
a man who had engaged his car for a
trip * to the country had robbed him of
$100 and then had escaped in the cab.
Before leaving the robber took Weikert's
trousers to prevent him from starting in
pursuit, according to the report of the
police.
— Rushing madly at her victim, a
ferocious cow that had just been milked
| attacked a 32-year-old mother of three
| small children, Saturday evening, near
i Ashville, and gored her fatally, then
left her dying on the floor of the stall.
Mrs. Clarence Settlemyer, the woman,
died within a few minutes after neigh-
bors had summoned Dr. P. J. Kelly,
—Eleven men, convicted of various
| crimes, were taken from Pittsburgh, on
Monday, to the Atlanta federal prison.
Among the number were Michael A.
Ruscille, foreign department manager of
the First National bank of Ellwood City,
who will serve four years, and James
V. Vozzola, also of Ellwood City, three
| years. Both men were convicted of
| counterfeiting.
| When Scranton police arrested Joseph
| Kilmartin, 67, of Taylor, Lackawanna
i county, on a charge of drunkenness.
| They found $1248.55 tucked away in a
| pocket of his coat. Kilmartin is thought
to have obtained the money from a
| lawyer a few hours before his arrest, in
| settlement of a lawsuit. The money
was put away in the police headquarters
| vault for safekeeping.
—QGasgoline used by motor vehicles ir
|
to | Pennsylvania last year totaled 900,495,620
Why it was written, only two folks ! gallons, according to figures compiled
5 know, | by William S. Canning, engineerinz
ust JES, 3 friend Bunnie and | director of the Keystone Automobile
| club. The State tax on gasoline amount-
under the shell, ied to $33,230,629, which, added to the
: : | $29,160,690 obtained from registrations
And ge Sr to matter just who | and operators’ licenses, brought a total
Be it Bunnie, or Chicken, or Kooster, | of $62,441,319 in to the State Treasury.
So they DIO ol and have rd i While using a telephone, last Thurs-
their core gold at gay, at the Gilberton colliery of the
The world cannot ask or demand Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
one thing more. ‘Iron company, Mark Edwards, 35, an
| employee fell dead. An investigation
| revealed, county officers said, that a
| wire carrying 23,000 volts of electricity,
{had fallen over the telephone line in an-
| other part of the colliery. Edwards
"lived in Shenandoah. He is survived
| by his widow and eight children.
| — William Hoffman, of Mahaffey, who
, believes that man can live without eat-
ing, has abstained from all food for
twenty six days and is walking around
| in Hahaffey, apparently in his
ordinary health. According to a Mahaf-
fey physician. Hoffman conceived the
idea that food ‘was not necessary to man
‘and is going to prove that water alone
is all that is necessary to sustain life.
, Hoffman is sticking rigidly to his diet
of water.
Dressed in black silk and lying on
a silk coverlet and pillow, the body of
Mrs. Guy Scott, of Lancaster, was
| found in the kitchen of her home on
Monday afternoon. The hands crossed
on the chest and a hose leading from
an open gas jet toa funnel over her
face made deputy coroner J. S. Texler's
verdict of suicide a mere formality. The
woman was found by her husband when
he returned home for luncheon. No
motive was revealed.
—The two pupils who comprise the
public school of Haldeman’s Island in
the Susquehanna river near Liverpool
to constitute the smallest
public school in Pennsylvania. The
pupils are the children of Mr. and Mrs.
George W. Peters who reside on a
farm on the island which is an incor-
porated borough and contains four
farms. Mrs. Joseph Zimmerman, teacher
of the school, makes her trip daily to
and from the mainland in a rowboat.
| —Geneva College's representative in in-
tercollegiate debate is a junior who has
been blind since his birth, 21 years ago.
He is Roy H. Sumner, of Ellwood City,
a student for the ministry in the
Presbyterian church. Despite his handi-
cap, he is well in the front as a scholar,
and is a frequent contributor to college
publications. Throughout recitations and
lectures he keeps pace with other stu-
dents, aided only by his mother who
is his ‘eyes’ when he studies at home.
State police have brought a charge
of murder against Roy Rolsom, 22, in
connection with the finding last Monday
of a man’s skeleton in a cave near
Shohala, Pike county. Mrs. Gertrude
Rolsom, stepmother of Roy, was held
without bail as a material witness. The
not been identified. A
medical examiner said the skeleton was
that of a man about 45 years old, and
that the person probably died of a
fractured skull. He estimated the
time of death as at least two years.
william Smoker, of Columbia, has
discovered a new method of ridding
his premises of rats. Smoker had
small can of carbide in a shed at the
rear of his home. He saw two rodent:
crawl up to the can and make a mea’
of the chemical. Then the rats scamp-
ered into the yard, up to the hydrant.
where a pool of water had collected. As
they drank, white puffs of smoke emerg-
ed from their mouths, followed by ¢
mufied report, which sent their bodie:
into the air. They were dead when
they fell.
—Dependents of those killed and ir-
jured in an explosion at the Pennsylvani-
Fireworks Display company, Inc.
Devon, two weeks ago, will receive be-
tween $40,000 and $50,000, officials of tb
State Workmen's Insurance Fund sai
on Monday. The State Insurance Fun”
is the compensation carrier for th"
company. As soon as news of the ex-
plosion reached the State Fund offices
officials visited the scene and assured
all those directly interested that com-
pensation would be paid promptly to
the dependents in fatal cases, and that
all medical and hospital expenses with-
in the limits of the compensation law
would be assumed.