INK SLINGS
——Mr. Pinchot is trying to dodge
the Prohibition question, as an is-
sue.
—The Liberal party of Pennsyl-
vania and the Women’s Association
for Prot nition reform have both
endorsed the candidacy of John M.
Hemphill for Governor. Mr, Hemp-
hill is thus assured a good chance
of election and if the Democrats of
Pennsylvania really want to show:
the State what a Democratic Gov-
ernor can do they should stick to
Hemphill.
—Let them who want to believe
that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is
sending. psychic messages to his
wife. When they prove to us that
there is any kind of communication
between a departed spirit and a
living soul then we will be ready
to believe that all preachers and
priests are fakes and that the gospel
is just a lovly fantasy like “The
Night Before Christmas.”
—The President has a new en-
gineering problem on his hands.
Smart tailors are of the opinion
that Warren D. Robbins, social sec-
retary at the White House, doesn’t
know what clothes to wear for cer-
tain functions. Mr. Robbins is
probably aiming to be anything else
than a tailor-made man. He is in
an engineering atmosphere and if he
wants to wear a fireman's hat, a
Prince Albert coat and B.V. Ds
we presume that the President would
approve on the ground of efficiency.
—One of “The Specialists” one-
holers that has long been part of
the scencry at the rear of a Belle-
fonte business place has had to be
removed to make room for a minia-
ture golf course that is being lo-
cated there. Lovers of the town,
who start railing whenever another
land-mark goes, should be consoled,
however, by the optimism of a
modern young woman who voiced
her reaction to the passing by re-
marking: “Well, what if they are
tearing it down. Aren't we going
to get an eighteen holer instead?”
—The corridors of the Centre
county court house are plastered
with notices of tax sales. Next
Monday the Commissioners will sell
several hundred properties for taxes,
all because a drastic and wholly
unnecessary law was passed by
the last Legislature. It gives the
tax payer no chance atall and both
Senator Scott and the Hon. Holmes
voted for it. People should pay
their taxes, of course, but there
comes times to everyone when he
or she can’t do it right on the dot
and under such circumstances they
should be carried along a bit, not
posted as delinquents and sold un-
der the hammer so ruthlessly.
—“Ma” Ferguson has captured]
Texas again. RR
her man Jim down there she stepped
in and had herself elected Governor
of the Lone Star State. Then Dan
Moody rooted her out of the office.
Dan went willy-nilly in the Smith
for President campaign, but had
enough sense left to decline to run
to succeed himself. There were nine
Democrats running for Governor in
the Texas primary and “Ma” led
them all, “Ma” is wet. If she
isn’t she ought to be because Jim
slobbered enough about her. Be
that as it may, from this distance
it looks as though “Ma” is both the
Alamo and Davey Crocket of Texas.
—The big news on Tuesday was
the announcement that Mr. Pinchot
had defied the Supreme court of
Pennsylvania. Gifford is the boss
defier. He’s a boss promiser, too.
When he was in Bellefonte some
months ago he promised to cut the
automobile license in two, if he
should be elected Governor. He
knew he was only talking big when
he made that statement, yet a
number of nit-wits fell for it. If
he should be elected Governor and
have a Legislature entirely subser-
vient to him—which is highly im-
probable—he will not cut the auto-
mobile license in two. Paste this
paragraph in your hat and should
Gif go back to Harrisburg again
see whether he does what he said
here he would do or whether he
wasn’t doing what he has always
been doing! Fishing for suckers.
—The Watkins and the Bamber-
gers, whose new babies got mixed
up in a Chicago hospital, are still
making a fuss about it. The
Watkins are going to sue the hos-
pital for a hundred thousand dol-
lars damages because they think
the Bambergers have their baby. Of
course there might be ground for
mental perturbation in such a
situation, but with most people a
baby is a baby and the cause of
pop's getting one that is not really
his own is not always institutional.
—QGertrude Ederle is squawking.
She is the young lady who swam
the English channel one day and
the next found herself a heroine—
like Butch McDivitt was a million-
aire—for a day. She is now giving
swimming lessons at Rye, N,Y. and
“crabbing” on the side. Sheis mad
because she got only fifty grand out
of all the money that was made out
of exploitation of her feat. How
much more would Gertie have got-
ten if she hadn't negotiated the
channel? We fancy she would have
been ironing bathing suits instead
of giving swimming lessons at the
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
em
BELLEFONTE. PA.. AUG
Why Niles Should be Elected.
court of Pennsylvania have materi-
ally impaired public confidence in
that tribunal.
freely expressed and widely diffused
opinion that in shifting ‘the dates
of the hearing of the Luzerne coun-
ty primary election dispute there
was a sinister purpose. But a great
many fair-minded men and women
were persuaded that partisan in-
terests influenced the judges in fix-
ing the date so late as to work
prejudice to one side or the other
of the controversy,
ful. Full confidence in the
is essential to ‘the complete ad-
ministration of justice.
There are seven justices of the
Supreme court of Pennsylvania. In
framing the present constitution of
the State the distinguished gentle-
men who composed the convention
unanimously agreed upon a non-
partisan Supreme court and so
worded the instrument that there
would always be minority represen-
tation on the appellate bench. But
subsequent amendments, influenced
by a different type of party leader-
ship, have changed the conditions
and for some years all the judges
have been of the same political faith
and some of them have not been chos-
en because of conspicuous fitness. Le-
gal learning, personal integrity and
judicial temperament have had lit-
tle consideration in the selection,
It is fair to assume that if there
had been one able lawyer inclined
to the political philosophy of the
minority party on the bench the
action of the court in the Luzerne
county case would have been ac-
cepted without complaint. In order
to create such confidence in the
court for the future the Democratic
party has nominated one of the
outstanding jurists of the State,
Hon. Henry C. Niles, of York, for
Justice of the Supreme court. He
is not only an experienced jurist
but a lawyer of the highest standard
in ability and integrity. If there
were no other reasons for his elec-
tion the fact that it would restore
confidence in the court should in-
fluence voters in his favor.
m————— pe ———————.
4
this declaration: “Resolved, That
the Pennsylvania Division of the
Women’s Organization for National
Prohibition Reform and its member-
ship, acting in the interest of the
State and Nation, give aid and co-
operation to help toward the elec-
tion of John M. Hemphill, candi-
date for the Governorship of Penn-
sylvania.”
London Naval Treaty Ratified
Taking into consideration the
opinions of the naval experts and
the stubborn resistance set up in
the Senate by the opponents of the
London naval treaty, the vote by
which it was ratified on Monday of
last week was surprising.. Fifty-
eight to nineis a big majortiy, even
if the measure possessed all the
merits claimed for it, which it
didn’t. But as was stated in this
paper at the time of the signing of
the instrument, ratification was nec-
esssary to save the face of the ad-
ministration and every method of
compulsion was employed to force a
favorable vote. The result is a
substantial victory for the President,
acquired at the expense of the dig-
nity of the Senate.
Of the Senators voting for rati-
fication eighteen were Democrats.
During the long drawn out consider-
ation of the subject the President
never called in a Democratic Sen-
ator for consultation. He had the
wisdom, or cunning, to appoint the
floor leader of the minority as one
of the delegates to the convention
and seemed to think that was suf-
ficient courtesy to the party. Yet
the Democratic Senators might eas-
ily have prevented the ratification
by voting in the negative or break-
ing the quorum. Itis well that they
refrained from adopting either ex-
pedient. As one of them expressed
it a bad treaty is better than no
treaty and the instrument is not
entirely bad.
In discussing the question at the
final day of consideration Senator
Wagner, Democrat, of New York,
said: “It is a feeble treaty, a weak
and insufficient instrument; but it
is better than competitive building.
If it does not carry us forward far
toward the goal of disarmament, at
least it applies the brakes against
the rapid backsliding which had al-
ready begun.” In other wards ft
prevents, for a period of five years,
competitive building which would
have impoverished all the nations
concerned without reason. That is
the only excuse for the treaty and
the only good reason for ratifying it.
Rye pool.
—We will do your job work right.
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| An Obviously Natural Alliance. Hoover Content While
We do not sharethe
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Recent actions of the Supreme! It was perfectly natural. that
Mayor Mackey, of Philadelphia,
should attach himself to the Pin-
chot faction in the confusing con-
flict now in progress in the Repub-
lican party. It is equally logical
‘that Mr. Vare shall allign himself
with that contingent. Mr. Pinchot
has told a lot of truth about
Mackey and Vare. He has called
them crooks and thieves and ap-
plied to them other opprobrious and
appropriate
and justly or ed contempt of Pinchot
unjustly such impressions are harm- form their feeble minds could con-
courts ceive.
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t
epithets, And Mr.
Mackey and Mr. Vare have express-
in every
But they are a good deal
alike for all that. They are oppor-
tunists always looking for “the
main chance.”
Probably the hardest bump Fran-
cis Shunk Brown got during his
campaign for the Republican fiomi-
nation for Governor was the an-
nouncement that he had the earnest
support of Mayor Mackey. His inti-
mate relation with Vareand his cor-
dial endorsement by the Philadelphia
machine was bad enough. But the
announcement that Mackey favored
his nomination identified him with
all that is vile and corrupt in poli-
tics. Mackey’s testimony before the
Senate Slush Fund committee did
more to keep Vare out of the Sen-
ate than all the other reasons com-
bined. He not only boasted of the
inquities of Philadelphia politics but
expressed pride inthe infamy which
attached to it. It was an unparal-
leled exhibition of moral degeneracy.
There is not and cannot be any per-
sonal advantage to Mayor Mackey
and William S. Vare in the election
of John M. Hemphill the Democratic
nominee for Governor. The defeat
of Sedgwick Kistler, for Senator,
might convey an advantage to Vare.
It would allocate two Senators to
Pittsburgh and with the helpof Pin-
chot enable Vare to defeat Senator
Reed for the nomination in 1934. But
that is a remote chance which only
an abnormal opportunist would con-
sider. Yet it is safe to assume that
some sort of bargain has been made
between Pinchot and men so dia-
metrically opposed to the civic vir-
tues which he professes to cherish
and represent, In any event it is
certain that there is a
quid pro quo involved.
——It seems that the people of
Canada want higher tariff rates
than the Liberal government fixed
in retaliation to our Grundy atrocity.
In the election on Monday the Con-
servatives won on that issue.
Penalty of Being Found Out.
Claudius H. Huston, President
Hoover’s hand picked chairman of
the Republican National committee,
has finally made a definite promise
to resign “for the good of the
party.” It was a reluctant promise
to the President in person after all
efforts on the part of the party
leaders to coerce him had failed.
His lobbying record was too raw
for public contemplation. Mr.
Hoover knew all about it before
Huston was elevated to the highest
place in the party organization.
But he confidently expected that it
would remain a secret from the pub-
licc, The Senate committee disap-
pointed this expectation when it
drew from the culprit a complete
record of his affiliation with the
power trust.
It is hard to create in reasoning
minds a sentiment of sympathy for
Huston. For purely selfish consid-
erations he employed his considera-
ble influence as an active and effi-
cient party leader to betray the
public by sacrificing an immensely
valuable property. The President
was fully - informed of this fact
when he picked him for National
Chairman, and it may be presumed
that the purpose of the promotion
was to increase his opportunities
to do harm. But when the tide of
popular indignation turned, not
against Huston but against the
perfidy of his conduct, the support
which might have shielded him was
withheld. He was betrayed ashe
had tried to betray the people.
Thrown “as a tub to the whale”
Mr. Huston will, on the 7th day
of August, plunge into oblivion asa
delinquent. He has served the
purpose of his political associates
“to the best of his ability,” and
with all the zeal he could command.
But he committed the fatal error
of being found out. He was caught
with the goods on his person. That
is not unfortunate but unprofessional,
in the opinion of his party associ-
ates, and his forced resignation is
the consequence. The “good of the
party” is impaired by such things.
If there had been no exposure the
party might have prospered under
his administration of the chairman-
ship. His conduct was harmless as
long as it was secret.
| Threatens.
“Nero fiddled while Rome burn-
ed,” but at that he had nothing on
Président Hoover. The other day,
after a conference on the subject
with the President, Senator Smoot
issued a statement through the Re-
publican National committee in
which he ridiculed the complaints
of foreign governments against the
excessive rates of the Grundy tariff
bill. We buy considerable merchan-
dise from the complaining countries,
he said in substance, and besides
our tourists spend a great deal of
money traveling abroad. Moreover
it is customary for these countries
to complain against our tariff sched-
ules but it doesn’t mean a thing.
They keep on buying our wares and
we get the benefit of increased du-
ties.
Replying to this expression of
contentment Senator Harrison, of
Mississippi, says ‘Whether Senator
Smoot and President Hoover look
upon this inexcusable increase in our
tariff rates as serious or not the
American people must know that
it has caused a tremendous shrink-
UST 1. 1930.
Distress
| From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
‘that are in from these Common-
- tent.
age in our exports. The actual facts
are the best answers to the Senator’s
assertions.
ed through increasing her tariff
rates on scores of items against us,
Canada has already act-
; second, Illinois third, Ohio fourth
Similar action has already been
taken against us by .Spain, by
Francg, by Switzerland. There are
other countries now laying plans to
mpose retaliatory rates against us
as well as the formulation of cartels '
and boycots against our goods.”
, + One of the last public statements
of the late President McKinley was
an admonition against excessive
the percentage of increase,
which is placed at 64.6.
Curiously enough, the one that
‘comes next in rapid growth is
tariff taxes. A protectionist of the
most radical .type his experience as
President led him ito declare that
we cannot expect foreign markets
to open freely to our wares unless
we show a willingness to at least | tractive tax laws.
tolerate their products in our mar- provides that no inheritance or in-
kets. Our increasing production un- ‘come tax shall be levied. The cen-
!der the mass system which has sus figures at hand also. show con-
require a corre- | siderable growth in population in a
become the rule
, Spondingly increasing consumption,
‘and with foreign markets closed to
our products surplusses are inevi-
‘table and closing down the ultimate
result. This means increasing unem-
but Smoot and Hoover don’t worry.
——Senator Borah will take a
month’s rest in Maine and let us
hope he'll give the rest of us a
rest wherever we may be during
that period.
President Hoover to Blame.
The troubles of Alexander Legge,
chairman of the Federal Farm
Board, are multiplying and largely
because of his careless use of lan-
guage. In reply to some of the
complaints of farmers Mr. Legge
said it was “political bunk.” This
brought chairman Shouse, of the
Democratic executive committee, in-
to the picture and what he said
was plenty. He charged the Farm
Board with “dabbling in the wheat
market with the result that no in-
considerable portion of its invest-
ment went to fatten the gains of
the Chicago grain speculators who
knew more about rigging the mar-
ket than Mr. Legge and his con-
freres.” In other words the attempt
to stabilize the market wasa stupid
and expensive experiment.
This is literally true but it is
hardly fair to lay the blame on
Legge and his colleagues of the
Farm Board. With the absurd idea
of checking an alarming decline in
the price of wheat the Board bought
some 67,000,000 bushels at $1.25 a
bushel. But the gesture failed of
its purpose. The decline continued
and the government stands to lose
approximately $3,500,000 on the in-
vestment, If it had been made on
Mr. Legge’s initiative he might be
justly held responsible for the blun-
der. As a matter of fact, how-
ever, the transaction was made at
the suggestion of President Hoover
and is a natural child of his engi-
neering mind. The considerable
loan to California grape growers al-
so had his approval.
The Farm Board enterprise is
solely a Hoover conception and is
based on the Hoover idea that the
average farmer has little, if any,
understanding of business principles
and commercial methods. Senator
Norris and other representatives of
the wheat growing section of the
country proposed the debenture plan
and Senator Borah insisted that it
was no more repugnant to business
principles than the stabilization
plan offered by Mr. Hoover. But the
President protested with such em-
phasis as to frighten timid parti-
sans into support of his measure.
Now ‘that it has proved not only a
signal failure but a collossal fraud
the blame should be placed on him,
where it belongs. :
‘and multiplying - distress,
Florida also boasts of
' atmosphere;
that considerable of the gain in the
bases Jorasing Party Lines.
' people
‘April first at midnight at 122,597,-
: Mercer county, reports that party
| paign.
Supreme issue of personal freedom
NO. 30.
Latest Population Figures.
Basing its calculation on the re-
turns from forty-one States and the
District of Columbia, the Associat-
ed Press estimates that we have a
total population in the United States | they changed clothes at the home of a
of 122,975,000. This falls short by
only a small number of the 123,-'
000,000 which was predicted.
a growth in the decade of 17,000,-
000; and the rate of increase is
16.33 per cent; as compared with
14.9 per cent. in the preceding dec-
ade. It willbe interestingto see
whether the final official figures will
vary much from this carefully com-
puted estimate.
In the meantime the population es-
timating machine which ticks the in-
crease in population as calculated
by experts from immigration statis-
tics, births and deaths has vindicat-
ed itself, It placed the number of
in the United States on
000. This is so close to the Asso-
ciated Press estimate that there is
not much room left for controversy.
Seven States are still to be heard
from; but from the partial returns
wealths the figures should not
change the totals to any serious ex-
It is significant that the rank of
the leading States remains the
same. New York continues to head
the procession, with Pennsylvania
and Texas fifth. But California is
giving both Texas and Ohio a close
race. The Golden State outdoes
every other one in the Union in
its
rival, Florida, with a percentage of
51.6. Most of this, of course, isat
the expense of other States.
California counts on its climate
to attract residents from elsewhere;
its balmy
but it is safe to say
Southern State comes from its at-
Its Constitution
number of the Southern States, not-
ably North Carolina and Tennessee.
That section, as Mr. Coolidge says,
is at last coming into its own,
From the Philadelphia Record.
A staff correspondent of this
newspaper, after traveling ‘round in
lines are wiped out in this cam-
The eraser is resentment against
prohibition and its enforcement.
Mercer leads in rigor of enforce-
ment; and Mercer is convinced that
the price is too much to pay for
the results obtained.
As the Democratic party pledges
itself to repeal, Mercer county Re-
publicans are said to be ready, in
large numbers, to vote the Hemphill
Kistler-Niles ticket.
Such dominance by a single issue
became inevitable when the 18th
amendment, the Volstead enforce-
ment law and the Snyder act went
into effect. :
Nothing should be permitted to
prevent the election standing as a
decisive referendum on prohibition,
There will be no peace in this Com-
monwealth until we have a full and
honest expression of the people’s
will on this question.
The Hemphill ticket, opposing the
Quasi-Liberalism of Pinchot, which
fades out in presence of the now
to rule one’s own habits of living,
can bring about if it will strike
out more boldly, expand its program
to include all the liberal issues.
—Thank the Lord the trout fish-
ing season is over. Not that we
wore ourself out luggin’ home the
fish, but we haven't been able to
concentrate on anything since April
fifteenth because of fear that some
one else was luggin’ them home while
we should have been concentrating.
—The ratification of the London
treaty is desirable because it will
hasten the adjournment of the Sen-
ate and the resignation of chair-
man Huston.
er ——————— pt es ———
——It was hardly necessary to
embargo Russian ships in order to
decrease foreign commerce. The
Grundy tariff law will accomplish
that result.
—————— er ————
——The political ‘“sneak-thieves”
who attempted an age-worn trick to
defeat Senator Norris, of Nebraska,
for renomination have been foiled.
——1It's bad enough here but in
Paris they arrest the victims of au-
tomobile accidents for “getting in
the way of the automobile,”
—— ly ———————
——The Vare war board has ren-
dered valuable service to Pinchot
by its futile attack on the Luzerne
It is!
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Asserting that he broke his teeth om
a nail embedded in a loaf of rasin bread,
Thomas Shields, of Port Perry, near
Pittsburgh, has filed suit for $20,000
damages against the Ward Baking com-
pany.
—As he was preparing to retire early
, last Friday, Howard Riddle, 38, Wilkins-
burg, a suburb, thought he heard a
shot fired beneath his bedroom win-
dow. He rushed to the window, lost
his balance and fell to the street. He
died an hour later.
—Harry Luders, of Strasburg, an em-
ploye of the Edison Electric company,
was electrocuted on Monday while work-
ing on overhead wires of the company
near Reddigs cemetery, about a half-
mile from Reamstown, Lancaster county.
He leaves a wife and four children.
—John E. Kuhns, a motorman, of
Lancaster, claims the record fish story
for the season. Kuhns and his family
| went swimming in Mill Creek at Bell
i Bank, near Union. Following their swim
i
i friend. When Kuhns, who weighs over
; 200 pounds, took off his swimming suit
a six-inch bass jumped out onto the floor.
| —As the result of a fractured skull
and shock caused by a fall down a flight
| of stairs Mrs. Sarah Jane Gemmill, the
! oldest resident of the lower end of
| York county, died at her home near
New Freedom. She was 99 years, nine
months and 25 days old. The aged wo-
man fell down 12 steps and then struck
her head against a door. Death occurred
about two hours after the accident,
—To quiet mothers alarmed over the
possibility of their babies being mixed
at the maternity wards of two Hazleton
hospitals, announcement is made by the
two institutions of their methods to
identify newly born infants. They are
‘‘foot-printed’’ at birth and again at
discharge to check on their identities, as
well as checked up with necklaces which
bear numbers carried in the medical
records of the cases.
—Christ Bacusis, of Greece, charged by
immigration authorities with illegally en-
tering the country at Niagara Falls ina
rowboat after paying $150 to smugglers
of aliens, is being held in the Allegheny
‘county jail awaiting deportation pro-
ceedings, following his arrest in Johns-
town in a mill of the Bethlehem Steel
corporation. He was one of a group of
nine taken to Pittsburgh from Johns-
town on similar charges
—A skeleton, apparently that of a
human being, was uncovered by James
Noila and Thomas Arkins, of Minersville,
on a coal bank near Pottsville, on Mon-
day while the youths were riddling coal.
An investigation was started by county
detectives, who expressed the opinion
that the find might lead to the solution
of a murder years ago. Dr Valibus,
county coroner, said the skeleton might
have been buried by a medical student.
—A double funeral was held for Miss
Violet M. Durr, 23, and Robert L. Book-
hammer, 23, both of Altoona, an engag-
ed couple drowned while canoeing in
Lake Mokoma, near Eaglesmere. They
were taking John Prutzman, Altoona
aviator, to the center of the lake for a
swim. Prutzman, attired in a bathing
suit, was rescued. The victime were
members of a party of eight camping at
the lake, arriving there a few hours
prior to the accident.
—Because she cannot pay her taxes,
Mrs. Sophie Gurka is confined in the
Carbon county prison while her seven
children go uncared for at their home
in Summit Hill, near Tamaqua. Her
taxes amount to $30, and as a result of
the hearing which sent her to prison
she owes $8 more in costs. Her hus-
band has paid his taxes and gives no
attention to the obligation which has
lodged his wife behind prison bars. The
eldest of the seven children at home is
a girl of 13. 2
—A cat measuring 32 inches from the
tip of its tail to its neck and believed
to have been a wild cat, on Monday
attacked J. O. Jacobs, of Espy, near
Bloomsburg. It bit Jacobs on the knee,
inflicting a small wound. Jacobs freed
himself and as the cat was attempting
to spring a second time Jacobs’ dog
attacked the animal, which was later
killed Fearing it might have been a
mad cat, the head has been sent to the’
State Department of Health for exami-
nation. Harry Miller, State game warden,
said the animal had the marks of a wild
cat.
—Belief that James Bunt, arrested by
sheriff Lester Crabb, of Union county,
on a charge of vagrancy at Hartleton,
was a Chicago gangster, was lessened
when the prisoner was interviewed by
corporal Walter Powell, of the State
police, at Lewisburg, on Sunday. Powell
found the man had been arrested by
the Pennsylvania railroad police for il-
legal train riding several weeks ago. He
had served a term of 10 days in the
Northumberland county jail and was re-
leased a day previous to his arrest by
Crabb. The man has passports and bank
books showing large deposits in Chicago
banks.
—Laura, the ‘Wonder Mother,”” world
record pure bred Jersey cow, owned by
the McManus Brothers’ Farm at Towanda,
died Friday. She was 27 years old and
had given birth to 21 calves, 19 of which
were heifers. In 1926 she equalled the
world record of King’s Financial Inter-
est, of Greystone Farms, West Chester,
Pa., and surpassed it the following year.
King’s Financial Interest died at the age
of 21. She had a butter fat production
record of 400 pounds,while Laura's rec-
ord was 408 pounds. McManus Brothers
have about 50 head of cattle in their
herd, all direct descendants of Laura.
They have never had to buy a cow.
—Sticking to his post in the face of
inevitable collision with a seventy-car
freight train, Lewis Hartman, of Tam-
aqua, engineer of a Reading Railway
passenger train, running between Wil-
liamsport and Tamaqua, averted a
tragedy at Shamokin, on Sunday. The
passenger train had been flagged to
permit the freight to cross over to an-
other track, and the freight engineer,
thinking the switch had been thrown
gent his train smashing into the pas-
gsenger cars. Although he knew the
crash was inevitable, Hartman succeeded
in starting his train in reverse just be-
fore the collision, thus lessening the
force of the impact. George McDonald
negro, a pullman attendant, was badly
gealded when a pail of hot water spilled
over him in the kitchen of the diner.
county returms.
No one else was injured.