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Demon fawn
TA mas,
INK SLINGS
——The Republican leaders would
like to drop the Grundy tariff but
they're afraid.
King Carroll of Rumania will
now realize that “uneasy lies the
head that wears a crown.”
——1It looks as if Vice President
Curtis will be “the goat” in the
final vote on the tariff bill.
Senator Reed was really waiting
for Secretary Mellon to tell him
how to vote on the tariff bill.
——TUnseasonably cool and an
abundance of rain have characterized
the weather of the past week.
——Mr. Pinchot is just as free
with promises he never can fulfill as
he was before the nomination.
—Mr. Pinchot is fishing in Pike
county for two weeks. There is
likely to be a dearth of political
pyrotechnics in consequence.
——The New Jersey Senatorial
contest has become an uncertain
problem, though Mr. Morrow was a
long odds favorite at the start.
——If the tariff tax on glass and
other products of Mellon enterprises
had been increased Senator Reed
wouldn't have to study schedules.
Missouri Democrats still hope
to send Jim Reed to the White
House and a good many others
would like to see what would hap.
pen if he go" there.
If the wet Republicans put
an independent ticket into the run-
ning even the Philadelphia machine
couldn't defeat Pinchot, anxious as
it is to accomplish that result.
—Carol is on the throne in Ruma.
nia. If he has sown all his wild
oats he’ll probably stay there. If
he hasn't most any fascinating lady
is likely to induce him to chuck it
for an amour with her.
——The overwhelming defeat of
Senator Simmons, of North Carolina,
for renomination will serve to dis.
courage the hopes of President
Hoover that the break in the solid
South may be made permanent,
—Gangland in Chicago has been
murdering right and left within the
past week. So long as they were
putting only their own ‘on the
spot” there were few tears shed but
the killing of a noted newspaper
man is another thing, If racketeers
are starting to intimidate the press
a very grave situation confronts the
country.
—The Watchman has been great.
ly encouraged by the number of
Democrats who have expressed their
oelief that the Democratic state
sommittee did the wise thing in
wdopting: the. platform. it did. All
>f those who have talked to wus
about it seem to be of our mind
soncerning the matter of getting
jack to fundamentals, no matter
what collateral questions are in-
solved.
— What th: Democrats of North
Jarolina did to Senator Simmons
was aplenty. As an individual the
jenator had a perfect right to vote
\gainst Alfred E. Smith for Presi.
ient, but as the recognized leader
»f his party in that State his action
n openly fighting him was a most
-eprehensible betrayal of the faith
‘he party had placed in him. Sena-
.or Simmons is through. His fall,
\fter nearly forty years of acknowl.
sdged leadership, only proves that
10 matter how big the man he nev-
sr becomes bigger than his party.
—Senator Scott voted for Brown,
dinchot’s candidate for Republican
jtate Chairman. That was good
yolitical strategy on the part of the
jenator, if Pinchot should happen
o be elected Governor. But it
vasn’t Pinchot who got the Scott
rote. Grundy did that. As the
Natchman has always said, the
jenator and Grundy are very close
ind the exigencies of their party
yolitics are making it so that when
. Republican goes to bed tonight he
1as no idea of who is going to be
inder the covers with him when he
vakens up tomorrow morning.
—The completion of the census
vill show Bellefonte to have made
. very substantial gain in popula-
ion during the last decade. While
he total will doubtless be far under
he size of the town—if you get
vhat we mean—it is gratifying to
:now that we haven't either slipped
yackward or stood still. The cor.
orate limits of the borough are so
mall that the census figures never
\ave recorded the population of the
eal Bellefonte; which, if the exten-
ions into the townships on all four
ides, were enumerated, would prob-
bly prove to be nearly eight thous-
nd.
— Figures can be manipulated.
some slickers can add two and two
o that the sum appears to be five,
ut they can only deceive a dummy
vith such trick arithmetic. In order
o furnish employment for more
‘aen the plasters union of Pitts-
urgh threatens a strike unless em-
Jloyers agree to a six hour day at
he same wage that they are now
aying plasterers for eight hour's
sork. What a fallacy in economics?
ncreasing the cost of construction
sn’t going to help matters when
resent costs are so high as to
rake it next to financial suicide for
he average man to undertake the
uilding of even a hen coop.
VOL. ¢
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. JUNE 13, 1930.
NO. 24.
Grundy Tariff Assured.
The flexible provision of the tariff
bill having been re-written and
re-reported from the conference
committee of the Senate the Repub-
lican leaders confidently predict that
the measure will be in the hands |
of the President for approval by |
the first of July. They are equally |
confident that Mr. Hoover will ap- |
prove the measure, though accord-
ing to a poll made by the New
York Nation, a considerable ma-
jority of the Republican newspapers |
of the country would much prefer |
a veto on the ground that “it will!
increase the cost of living; that
the manufacturing situation doesn't
warrant such legislation; that it
will injure us economically and that
it will impair our international re-
lations.”
It required fifteen months for a
Republican Congress to prepare and
pass a piece of legislation which is
thus condemned by the voters of the
party, if we accept the press as a
barometer of public opinion. Even
in Pennsylvania a majority is |
shown against the bill, which prob- |
ably accounts for the overwhelm-
ing defeat of Grundy in the recent
primary. The newspapers of New
England are practically unanimous
on the subject and those of New
York, Ohio and Illinois oppose it in
nearly the same ratio. But, the con-
fidence of the leaders is justified.
The President is much too shrewd
in business matters to deliberately .
cut the source of supply of the war
chest.
That the Republican slush fund
will be the principal beneficiary of
the Grundy tariff bill is clear.
Senator McKellar, of Tennessee,
perfectly analyzed it, the other day,
when he said: “It is an industrial
intreests bill. It may be worth a
billion dollars to them. President
Hoover is never going to part com-
pany with the interests that con-
tributed so largely to his campaign
and brought about his nomination
and election.” He talks freely and
frequently on morals and ethics but
it is only lip service. What he
wants is a second election, and in
the Grundy tariff bill he has a
most powerful lever in the figxible | .
provision. It has magnetic force
enough to draw the last dollar out
of a corporation chest.
——The re-election of General
Martin to the chairmanship of the
Republican State committee may be
interpreted as notice to Mr. Pin.
chot that he isn't “the whole
cheese.”
Taking Joy Out of Life,
Somebody for some reason is con-
stantly trying to ‘take the joy out
of life.” Some years ago a more or
less prominent doctor, without any
apparent reason, issued an opinion
that kissing is a dangerous and
deathly evil responsible for a large
proportion of the microbes that
spread infection throughout the
world. For a brief period of time
this ominous prognostication spread
consternation throughout the world.
But it didn’t last long. Either the
good sense or the courage of the |
men and women and the boys and
girls of the world soon dissolved ,
the fear and osculatory enjoyment, |
if it had ever been abandoned, was
resumed and so far as the records
reveal, without great harm.
The other day, during a session of |
the Dauphin county medical society
at Harrisburg, Dr. Joseph Colt
Bloodgood, of Johns Hopkins Univer.
sity, Baltimore, declared that “the
most common cause of cancer of the
mouth is the long continued use of
tobacco.” In support of this start-
ling statement he said “it was
smoking of the short pipe in Ire-
land that first called attention to
cancer of the mouth and lip,” and
in order to make his theory im-
pressive he added that it makes
little difference whether “it is the
pipe, cigarettes, cigars, chewing to-
bacco or snuff.” The malady was
developed among the barbarous
tribes of Africa by chewing betal
nuts, whatever they are, he added. |
Cancer is a dread disease and its
cure an unsolved problem of many
years. But is is not likely that the
statement of Dr. Bloodgood will
exercise a deterrent influence on
tobacco users. The long experienced
tobacco chewer, the cigarette and
cigar smoker and the pipe adept is
firmly fixed in the habit and only
positive proof that it is destructive
of health would move him to give it
up. It has been the cause of the
fracture of more New Year resolu-
tions than any other agent, and
more bets have been lost on it than
on elections and horse races put
together. Maybe Dr. Bloodgood had
no purpose of curtailing the con.
sumption of tobacco in mind but if
he had he will be disappointed.
i its deliberations
| duties.
Uncle Sam i= After Us!
Please Help Us Face Him.
Last fall we told our readers that Uncle Sam had started investi-
gating the newspapers of the country.
He had then swooped down
on the publications in the New England States and we knew it was
only a matter of time until he would turn his attention to Pennsylvania.
Our time has come and we want to tell you right here that we're no
Harry Sinclair or. Bishop Cannon. We don’t want to go to jail, so
we're not going to “thumb our nose” and refuse to answer his ques.
tions. Like the late Gottleib Haag: “We can’t go to jail because no-
body knows our meat route.”
Uncle Sam wants us to tell him—and swear to its truthfulness—just
how much some of you owe on your subscriptions to the Watchman.
From our way of thinking its none of his business but, unhappily, he
and we don’t think alike.
We pay him postage on every
paper, whether it goes to a sub.
scriber who is a bit in arrears or one who is paid in advance and if
all those who are in arrears were
more in postage or carry our mail
in advance he wouldn't get a cent
a cent cheaper. Its hard to under-
stand just what the big idea is, but some one in the Post Office De-
partment has it and we're “on the carpet.”
What kind of a figure we are going to cut is entirely up to you,
if you are a Watchman reader who is not paid in advance.
We have
to tell Uncle Sam and we have to swear that we are telling the truth
as to just how long and how much you have been owing the Watch.
man.
We're willing to trust anyone of our readers.
done
it and hope always to be in a position to do
We always have
it. Uncle Sam
says on his coins “In God We Trust” but newspaper publishers are
something else again.
And being among those Methodist Bishops,
millionaire oil men, ex-Cabinet officers, rum runners, et cetera, upon
whom he looks with suspicion we are reduced to the humiliating posi-
tion of having to answer up.
We'd just love to report to Washington that the Watchman list is
one hundred per cent clean.
We've got to make a report within
thirty days and you can help a lot by looking at your label right
now to see whether you are paid in advance or arrears.
It is easy to understand. If
the label on this page or on the
wrapper in which this paper arrived appears like this
John Doe
Mar 1-29
it means that John Doe is paid up to March 1, 1929, To March 1st,
1930, he would owe $1.50. And to March 1st, 1931 he would owe
$1.50, or $3.00 for the two years and be paid in advance.
We know that business is slack and money
owes the Watchman an amount
venience to pay in full.
is scarce, but no one
that could cause any great incon.
If there are any such we earnestly wish
them to write us and we can arrange to tide them over the cramped
period so that they can still have their old friend, the Watchman
visit them regularly.
The government wants to know how many of our readers are in
arrears for even the trifling period of two months and there is no
way of evading answer to the question. It wants to know how many
owe for more than four, six,
nine and twelve months.
In fact it
wants to know all our secrets except how dirty the office towel {is
and we are sure
realize what it was all about.
Won't you please help us? Look at your label right now and if
you owe anything send a remittance at once.
if the Health Department got a glimpse of fit
quarantine notices would be tacked on the door before we could
TG ge «
Please don't put it off
until tomorrow. Uncle Sam won’t put off his demands on us.
The Watchman is proud of its readers.
It frequently boasts of the
high type of people who have it in their homes and, as we have said
before, we want to show Uncle Sam a list that will open
Won’t you help us do it?
his eyes.
High Cost of the Tariff Bill.
The conference committee on the
tariff
ment and submitted tne result of
to the House of
Representatives in a 122-page book.
The report covers all provisions of
the bill except sugar, lumber,
shingles, cement, ane silver which
are to receive further consideration
in each chamber. On every item
upon which there was disagreement
the higher rates have been adopted
and it is estimated that “the duties
which it levies on four major items,
shoes, wool, beef and sugar, will
raise the cost of living to the peo-
ple of America, more than $1,000,-
000,000, about $8.50 for every man,
woman and child in the United
States.”
Commenting upon the subject the
esteemed New York Nation says
“we are glad the conference com-
mittee on the tariff bill has run
the rates up all along the line,
agreeing invariably on the highest
We hope that this measure
will emerge just as bad as it pos-
ibly can be, for the worse it is the
quicker will come the punishment
and the reaction.” Considered on the
basis of past experience the expecta-
tionof our New York contemporary
is justified. But in view of the
cost to the people in the increased
expense of living during the two or
more years before the reaction can
set in, it is positively cruel to share
in the hope expressed, It would be
| more comforting to hope for defeat
of the report.
——7Jncluded among the officers
assigned for duty at the reserve
officers’ training camp at Fort
George B. Meade, Md., June 15th to
July 26th, are three from State Col-
lege, Capt. Winthrop Hollyer, Capt.
Raymond P. Cook, and Sergt. Jack
H. Weske.
Tomorrow will be flag day
and the big racing classic will be
on at the Altoona speedway. Nine.
teen _ of the world’s most noted
speed demons are entered and great
racing may be looked for in this
struggle for the national champion-
ship of gasoline alley,
—Read the Watchman and get all
the news worth reading.
bill has come to an agree-
| BELLEFONTE GAINING
IN POPULATION.
Bellefonte is gaining in population,
according to the preliminary fig.
ures of the 1930 census for the
South ward, made public a few
days ago by census supervisor W,
H. Freemyer, The enumeration as
of April 1st shows a population for
the ward of 1869, as compared with
1532 in 1920 and 1662 in 1910.
This is a gain of 337 in the past
ten years. Ten years ago the total
population of Bellefonte was 3996,
and if the returns from the North
and West wards show the same
ratio of gain as has been recorded
in the South ward the total popu-
lation will be in the neighborhood
of 4500. :
The largest increase in population
shown in any district in the county
is in College township, with a popu-
lation of 1610, against 1189 in 1920.
This increase is accounted for by
the building up of Lytle’s Addition,
just outside the limits of State
College borough. A total of 63 farms
were listed in the county and 12
men were out of work and looking
for something to do,
The population of State College
is given as 4384 and Philipsburg
3594, so that it is quite possible
that Bellefonte will show the larg.
est population of any town in the
county.
Miles township lost 48 in popula.
tion in the past decade, the 1930
census enumeration being 996 against
1044 in 1920. Farms listed in the
township numbered 105 and six
men were reported as out of work
and looking for jobs.
Curtin township has a population
of 715, against 809 in 1920. Farms
enumerated numbered 38 and 4
men were out of jobs.
——The monthly report of man-
ager William H. Brown, submitted
to the board of trustees of the Cen-
tre County hospital at their meeting
on Tuesday evening, showed a total
of 98 patients in the hospital dur-
ing the month of May for an ag-
gregate of 1022 days. The total re-
ceipts for the month were $4576.85,
which included $50 from the Wo.
man’s club, of State College, for the
upkeep of room, $2437.50 State ap-
propriation and $2089.85 received
from patients.
had “business at the bank.”
“Ifatter every day and we are pleas.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
IN CENTRE COUNTY.
| Items from the Watchman issue of
+ June 18, 1880.
| Children’s day in the Bellefonte
' Methodist church was celebrated last
| Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock with
{very impressive services. Rev.
{ Donahue and Sunday school super-
!intendent S. Durbin Gray were in
i charge. Miss Clara Lyon presided
{at the organ and D. M. Lieb and
| John G. Love made speeches. Thanks
are due to Misses Bella Bell, Nannie
and Sallie McGinley, Mary and
Clara Schrom, Miss Fisher, Ida and
Anna Green, Mrs. D. H. Hastings,
Mrs. Peebles Green, Mrs. Harry
Teats, Mrs. D. Z. Kline and others
for the lively interest manifested by
them in the work.
Foot Ball Challenge—11 or 22 of
State College challenge any 11 or
22 of Central Pennsylvania for a
football match on Wednesday,
June 30. Send challenge to John A.
McKee, manager, State College, Pa.
—Jack Hicklen, of Unionville, was
the only man of that town who had
the manliness to say, on Monday
last, that he was going to Bellefonte
to attend the circus. All the rest
—The Bellefonte school board
met last Saturday evening and
elected the following officers: Presi.
dent, John Hoffer; secretary, S. D.
Gray; treasurer, Jared Harper.
- —The storms this month have
been very severe, with the grandest
of thunder and the most vivid of
lightning. Last Saturday a partic-
ularly terrific one struck this sec.
tion. Rain fell in sheets of water
and some drops were big as acorns.
And lightning was hitting here, there
and everywhere. It struck half a
dozen houses and other buildings in
Bellefonte. Out at Coleville a
Sprankle boy was plowing corn
when the storm broke. Hurriedly he
unhitched his horse and turned it
loose to graze while he struck for
the house. He had just reached the
doorway when a blinding flash and
an awful crash caused him to look
back, only to see the poor horse
dead in the fence corner.
—Mr. Clayton Poorman, now of
Huntingdon county, where he is the
capable and trusted clerk of a large
firm, was in town last week looking
tip top. He gets handsorher and
—Charles M. Schwab, chairman of
board of directors of Bethlehem Steel
corporation, and Governor Fisher were
awarded honorary degrees at Alle
gheny college.
—Joseph E. Heath Jr., former clerk
in the Continental-Equitable Title and
Trust company, of Philadelphia, arrested
or charges of embezzling $17,000 from
the bank on Monday, pleaded guilty to
six indictments.
—Two persons are dead, two others
critically ill and at least 30 more res-
idents of Reading are sick as the result
of eating tainted meat, is the belief of
coroner W. S. Ammbarell, who is mak-
ing an investigation.
—Dewey Rupert, Danville, who was
arrested on a robbery charge when he
went to a hospital at Bloomsburg for
treatment of gunshot wounds, pleaded
guilty to breaking into four business
places in Berwick, last Thursday, and
was sentenced to 5 to 10 years in the
penitentiary.
—Forty acres of forest land, a saw-
mill, 60,000 feet of lumber and logs, and
two saw mills sets, including saw
dust and slab piles, were consumed in a
forest fire, near Mercersburg, Franklin
county, last Thursday. The sawmill was
owned by the Morris Lumber company,
of Everett.
—Dr. J. W. Brown, of Butler, gave
J. Xosienski, 15, Erie hitch-hiker, an
automobile ride and was robbed for his
accommodation. Kosienski, upon being
apprehended later by the State highway
patrol, admitted officers said, that he
held up Dr. Brown at the point of a
revolver and robbed him of $15.
—A jury in United States court at
Williamsport was discharged last Friday
morning after it had spent several hours
in futile effort to reach an agreement in
the suit of Fred Sholly, Mifflinburg
World War veteran, against the Veterans’
Bureau. Sholly claimed compensation, al-
leging total disability because of war
injuries.
—Officers enforcing the ninety-day dog
quarantine have killed 500 canines in
Schuylkill county to date. Forty-five
unmuzzled animals were killed in
Shenandoah recently and twenty-five in
Ashland. More unmuzzled dogs have
been killed in Minersville so far than in
any other county town. Several of the
dead animals were suffering from rabies.
—Mrs. William H. Shontz, Yeagertown,
was injured when a bee flew through
the open window of a car she was driv-
ing and stung her in the face. Three
of Mrs. Shontz’'s ribs were fractured
when she lost control of the car and
it crashed into a fence. Her companion
Miss Leah Snook, received minor in-
juries. The accident happened near Mont
Alto.
—In an effort to relieve unemployment
in Pennsylvania, Benson E. Taylor, Sec-
retary of Property and Supplies, has in-
structed outside firms engaged in con-
struction for the State to limit purchase
of material to Pennsylvania-made pro-
ducts. His action followed similar in-
structions by the Department of Labor
and Industry and the Highway Depart-
ment to contractors who were urged to
use Pennsylvania labor.
—An explosion, followed by fire, de-
stroyed the plant of the Lancaster Pipe
Moulding company at Lancaster, on
Monday. Two employees were injured
ed to know that he is getting on in
the world.
—In some places farmers are re- |
planting their corn. Much of it has:
been destroyed by worms. :
—Mr. Will Curtin has purchased |
the rights of the patent burglar,
alarm lock and will canvass the
county for it. |
—Robert McCalmont’s spirited
horse frightened at the circus camel
on show day and ran away. The
buggy was smashed all to pieces.
—Welsh and Sands circus, which
exhibited here on Tuesday, drew a
large crowd. There were three
thousand people in the big tent for
the afternoon performance. Of
course there were many more than
that, for some church members only
went to see the animals and they
stayed out in the menagerie tent.
The street parade in the morning
was large and entertaining, embrac.- !
ing - a big and little elephant, sev-
eral camels or dromedaries, a couple
of lions with a man in the cage
with them, a loose leopard on top
of a wagon, five or six noble red
men, two brass bands, a steam piano,
alot of actors and actresses on horse. '
back and clowns bowing and mak-'
ing funny faces, |
—D. F. Chandler, who keeps the
temperance house at Julian, called
on us on show day and told us a
good story on his town. He said a
tipsy fellow was going up the val.
ley on a train a few days ago and
when the conductor asked him where
he was going to, he replied: “I'm
goin’ to hell!” Just then the brake-'
man went to the end of the car
and yelled: “Julian.” Whereupon the
conductor shook his tipsy passenger
and said: “This is your station.”
|
——The official count of the |
Democratic vote cast at the prima.
ries in Clearfield county shows that
Don S. Gingery became the Dem. |
ocratic nominee for State Senator
in the Centre Clearfield district
through the votes he got in Cen- |
tre county. Clearfield county gave'
Clarence Keiser 39 more votes than |
were polled for Gingery, the official !
count showing 193 for Keiser, 154 |
for Gingery and 135 for Scott. Cen. |
tre county, however, gave Gingery
153, Scott 60 and not a vote to
Keiser, |
——J. L. Weideman, one of the |
strong men from Lytle’s addition, |
State College, came to Bellefonte, |
on Saturday evening, and backed up |
by a load of moonshine started out
to display his fighting qualities.
The result was he ended up in the
“cooler” where he raised cain all
night long, After spending the
night and Sunday in the lockup he
was released, Sunday evening, when
cality paid his fine and costs.
another resident of his home lo- |
in fleeing from the structure but thir-
teen others escaped unhurt. The. ex-
plosion, the cause of which was not de-
termined, weakened the walls of the
two and a half story brick structure and
they collapsed while firemen were fight-
ing the blaze which broke out after-
ward.
—Williamsport is mourning the death
of its oldest resident, Mrs. Catherine
English, who celebrated her one hun-
dred and seventh birthday anniversary
February of this year. She died Satur-
day afternoon at the home of a daughter
from infirmities of old age. Mrs. Eng-
lish, who was born in a log vabin at
Kettle Creek, Clinton county, was ac-
tive despite her advanced years. She
frequently enjoyed long automobile rides
and on her one hundredth birthday an-
niversary motored to DuBois, Pa., for a
family reunion.
Stating there is no legal basis for
the contention that Harold P. Watts and
Walter J. Lyster. convicted Pittsburgh
coal and iron police, had been placed in
double jeopardy, Judge William M.
Parker, of Venango county, on Monday
refused a new trial and ordered both
to report on Monday, June 23, for sen-
tence on their conviction of involuntary
manslaughter. The men were tried last
February for the death of John Bar-
coski, Tyre, Pa., miner. Judge Parker
said the testimony of the men them-
selves resulted in conviction.
—W. E. Paull, Shamokin, former Read-~
ing Railway passenger engineer, was
awarded $31,000 by a jury in the North-
umberland county court at Sunbury, on
Monday, for injuries he suffered when
an Atlantic Refining company truck
crashed into his locomotive near Muncy,
August 21, 1929, and exploded. The
defendant indicated it will seek a new
trial. He asked $78,000. Paull lost his
larynx and his voice. He cannot breathe
through his nose, and a silver tube is
inserted in his throat below the Adam’s
apple. Testimony was that Paull, after
the accident, stopped his train, a Wil-
liamsport-Philadelphia passenger express.
and, his clothing aflame, ran down intc
a field and rolled around until he extin-
guished the blaze. Paull gave hi-
testimony through his wife, who ha
learned to read his lips since the acci
dent.
Boyd R. Kear, 23, of 2003 north
Hobard street, West Philadelphia,
junior in Temple University dent:
school and a graduate of West Philade’-
phia High school, was killed on Monda:’
when an automobile he -was drivin
crashed into a telegraph pole near Sur -
bury, Pa. Police believe he fell aslec -
at the wheel. Miss Lois Smith, 25, =&
organist employed by a theatre i
Philadelphia, his fiancee, was sleepir ,
in the car when the accident occurre”.
She suffered severe shock and was ut -
able to give a coherent acount of who .
had happened. Her home is in Milto=
Pa. Kear died of a fractured sku
shortly after he was carried into th>
Mary M. Packer hospital, at Sunbury.
He was a member of the Blue Key Hon-
orary society and the Phi Kappa Tau
fraternity. He attended the University
of Pennsylvania two years, taking a pre-
dental course.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. .