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Oh, for a lodge in some wilderness
That civilization can’t reach
Where all is quiet and peaceful
And hypocrites don’t preach.
Out where neighborhood babies
Cats and radios don’t squall
Out where the march of progress
Hasn't marched at all.
God give us surcease from motors
Deafen our ears to jazz
Give us a place to ponder
What's real and what's ‘Raz.’
The beggars are all a horse-back,
They'll ride to hell in time
But save us from their cachinnations
And give us a place to repine.
We don’t want anything like
A place in the glorious sun.
All we ask is somewhere to rest
When the day's work is done.
. —Lon Chaney died last week. He
was a remarkable exponent of the
histrionic art. The first character we
saw Chaney portray was “the Frog”
in “The Miracle Man.” To this day
that picture has haunted us and one
of the few interviews that he ever
granted, which happened to be just
before his death, has revealed just
what it was that created so lasting
an impression, In “The Miracle
Man” Lon was faking his belief in
the healing power of anything any-
super-natural, but it always
seemed to us that when he untwist-
ed his knotted and repulsive looking
body after he had wiggled it to the
healing fount he was trying to give
his audiences something more of a
lesson than was to be seen in superb
acting.
His last interview clears up that
haunting feeling. In it he leaves a
message to the world that always
he strove to show that in the black-
est heart there is some clean blood,
on the foulest tongue a sacred name
has been lisped, in the degenerate
mind there is a good thought and in
every human there is something to
encourage those who seek to salvage
a wreck. That was Lon Chaney's
philosophy. It is proven because it
is only now revealed that he was
one of the few of the noted screen
successes who devoted his idle hours
to practicing what he tried to preach
through his pictures.
It is a far jump from Hollywood,
California, to Bellefonte, Pennsylva-
nia. It might be difficult for some
of the readers of this column to see
the application of what we have
said of Chaney to a situation that
exists right here, now.
In the political life of our State
we recall no such actor as Gifford
Pinchot. There have ben lots who
have donned the tragic buskin and
strutted forth to the hustings only
to get “the hook” and be dragged
back into political oblivion. Mr.
Pinchot has been on the stage since
1922 and the spot-light is still on
him. Why?
Just because heis the most con-
summate faker who ever appeared
pefore a Pennsylvania audience,
Lon Chaney was that on the screen,
but Chaney's dying words were to
the effect that he was trying to get
a lesson across—the lesson we have
referred to above. And what is
motivating actor Pinchot?
We shall not answer this question
because we want to give opportuni-
ty for those voters in Centre county
who are minded to vote for the great
actor to answer it for themselves.
This column, or any other in the
paper, is open to any one who wants
to try to prove that Gifford Pinchot
has a message and is a Lon Chaney.
‘Mr. Pinchot wants to be Governor
of Pennsylvania again because he
figures that that will bea stepping
stone to his ambition to be President
of the United States.
But why should he ever have
been or why should he again be our
Governor. Pennsylvania is an indus-
trial State and he never did and
probably never will employ more men
than are necessary to keep the
grass green on his palatial estate up
in Milford, Pike county.
When he rides up here to hypno-
tize the electorate he comes in a
thirteen hundred dollar car, but
when he is not trying to foal the
common people and is hobnobbing
with the idle rich he uses his high
priced motor of foreign make.
He wilfully deceives the credulous
by promising things he knows he
can’t accomplish; Witness, the prom-
ise to reduce automobile licenses he
made on the court house steps here
last May.
He is now shouting from the house.
tops that if elected Governor he will
do away with the Public Service
Commission and in its stead appoint
a “Fair Rate Board.” He can’t do
that, either, unless the Legislature
passes enabling legislation. And
what if he could? In four years
time his fair rate board would be
kicked out, Besides, would it be any
fairer because he appointed it than
is the Public Service Commission?
Mr. Pinchot will get some Demo-
cratic votes in Centre county be-
cause he is posing as a “dry.” And
what a poser! The W. C. T. U, of
Centre county might discover some
sadly disconcerting facts were it to
investigate just how dry Mr. Pin.
chot was before he started acting
for votes.
His entire political career has been
nothing but acting and the only
message he has ever tried to get
across has been boost me.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 75.
BELLEFONTE. PA.
Our Superb Ticket,
The quiet canvass of the State |
which the Democratic candidates have
about completed has amply fulfilled
our most sanguine expectations. It
was said that John M. Hemphill,
Sedgwick Kistler and their associates
on the Democratic ticket were un-
known to voters. That was in some
measure true at the time they were
unanimously nominated. They are
comparatively young men though
each of them is rich in achievement
in his line of endeavor. Mr. Hemp-
hill stands well in front among the
leading lawyers of the State and Mr.
Kistler is widely known in.the busi-
ness world as a progressive and em-
inently successful business man and
employer of labor. Though he em-
ploys an army of men he has neved
had a labor dispute. He is just, as
well as fair to all.
Now that these gentlemen have
visited every section
and had personal contact with the
voters it can no longer be said that
they are unknown. As a matter of
fact they are not only widely known
but universally admired because of
their candor and courtesy. Well in-
formed on current topies and thor-
oughly familiar with the obligations.
of public life their conferences with
the voters have been entirely satis-
factory and enjoyable, As the time
for the actual campaign approaches
the outlook is most auspicious. Not
only is the rank and file of the party
loyal and enthusiastic in support
of the ticket but the party
managers are confident. We can
call to mind no campaign of recent
years in which the party morale
was so admirable.
There is an old time and justly
honored adage that “the office should
seek ‘the man rather than that the
man should seek the office.” Our
candidates for the State-wide offices
this year pay tribute to this policy.
They are not political hacks whose
names have become familiar to the
public by the frequency of their ap-
peal for support for this office or
that. They are men who have won
distinction among their neighbors by
ability in their lines of endeavor and
integrity in pursuit of their labors
Because of these commendable at-
tributes these gentlemen were chosen
by the party and urged to assume
the public service which we are now ,
confident will devolve upon them.
They meet the Jeffersonian stand-
ard. They are “capable, honest and
fit”
erme——— en —————
— The season for revolutions
seems to have opened in the Latin |
republics south of the Rio Grande.
Pinchot Takes in New Territory.
Mr. Pinchot is enlarging the |
scope of his reckless promises, In
a speech delivered at Altoona, on
Labor day, he said; “I here repeat
to you my pledge that if elected,
there will not be, on July 1, 1931, a
single coal and iron policeman left
in Pennsylvania.” In other words,
he promises to usurp the preroga-
tives of the General Assembly. The
law of 1929 provides that the Gov.
ernor may “refuse any or all ap-
pointments requested” without giv-
ing reason for his action. But “from
time out of mind” such matters are
within the province of the Legisla-
ture and refusal to sign commis.
sions where such officers are actual-
ly needed would be a dangerous
exercise of power.
There are many and strong rea-
sons for objection to the so-called
“Industrial Police” as provided for
in the act of 1929 which is little, if
any, improvement on the previous
law on the subject. As Mr. Pinchot
says, “no body of men has contrfb-
uted more to the disorder or the
danger of disorder than the coal and
iron police,” But that force was in
existence during the four years that
Mr. Pinchot served as Governor of
Pennsylvania and he never uttered
a word of protest against its iniq-
nities, though some of its greatest
outrages were perpetrated during
that period and the officers who
murdered a man in Allegheny coun-
ty later were first commissioned by
him.
It is gratifying to know that pub-
lic sentiment has turned against a
force which, though authorized by
law, has been guilty of such atroci-
ties as have been charged and prov-’
ed against the coal and iron police.
But Mr. Pinchot’s » present profes-
sion of opposition to the force is sim-
ply an expression of his hypocrisy,
and his statement that he will re.
fuse to commission fit men to per-
form needed service is preposterous.
His promises with respect to
old age pensions are equally ab-
surd because though all right they
are a trifle tardy. The Democratic
platform adopted, nearly three
months ago, committeed our can-
didates to “State.wide Old Age pen-
sions.”
of the State’
Mr. Pinchot’s Rash Promises, | The Appointment of Mr. Fletcher. |
In his speech at the Granger's
picnic, in Cumberland county, last
week, Mr Pinchot wisely modified
his method of spreading bunk.
his previous speeches
{promises that were impossible of ful.
'fillment without qualification. In
| the Granger picnic speech he con-
tinued that reckless habit in refer-
ence to several items. But upon the
main question, the theme of his dis.
course, he only promised to ‘recom-
mend to the Legislature the establish-
ment of a system of Pennsylvania
rural roads which the State . shall
maintain and on which, as rapidly
as possible, it shall construct an all-
weather surface which will permit
the country people of Pennsylvania
to get to their markets, their schools
and their churches with certainty,
safety and convenience any time of
the year.”
There is no great hope-inspiring
element in that promise to the
farmers of Pennsylvania. But Mr.
Pinchot imagines that he hasa plan
in mind to accomplish the result
without expense to the public. “Itis
unnecessary at this time to go into
detailed figures upon which this
recommendation is based,” he de-
clares, which must nave been com-
forting to himself though not com-
plimentary to his audience, for no
sane mind could accept or absorb
such bunk. For more than a quar-
ter of a century the policy of the
State has been along ‘the line indi-
cated and each year additional
mileage of by-roads have been taken
into the State programme but the
expense has prevented the consum-
mation of the plan. Mr. Pinchot
may think the people are boobs
enough to accept his pledge at par.
Mr. Pinchot’s promise to cut the
registration fees for automobiles and
for license to operate motor vehicles
without impairing the programme
for construction and repairing high-
ways is equally misleading and ab-
'surd. With the gas tax reduced to
‘three cents a gallon, and he promises
it will not go above that if he is
elected, it will strain the resources
‘of the Highway Department to main:
tain the present ratio of work at
the existing rate for registration and
license to operate. Last year the
gas tax was four cents a gallon
and there was small surplus of
revenue from the tax and service.
But the gas revenue will be ‘several
millions less this year and when
Mr. Pinchot makes such rash prom-
.ises he is simply but deliberately
fooling the people.
——Tom Thumb golf has been
officially declared a nuisance but
tree sitting is still a lawful diversion.
i
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1 Pinchot Responsible for Greatest Evil
| The pre-eminent evil of the public
| life of the country at present isthe
| excessive use of money in cam-
| paigning for nomination and elections.
| An essential to popular government
lies in the selection of honest and
| capable officials. Frequently the
most capable and fit candidates are
| siiher poor or only “well off.” Such
| men, even if they have the wisdom
|= Solomon and the integrity of the
| saints, are disqualified for political
, favor when less worthy men are able
and willing to pay a quarter of a
million or more for the office. The
average voter is neither venal nor
mercenary, But the fringe is broad
enough to create a balance in favor
of the vote buyer.
Previous to the campaign of 1896
vote buying was a negligible ele-
ment in political contests in this
country. Mark Hanna made it a dom-
inant force. Under his malign in-
structions floaters and vagabonds
were taught that votes are mer-
chantable commodities and in full
demand. For the first time a Presi-
dential election was controlled by
money. Like all other evils it
spread rapidly, though to the credit
of Pennsylvania voters, it made less
progress in this State than in other
industrial sections. Robert E. Patti-
son, without the aid of a slush
fund, was elected Governor in 1892
and subsequent elections for thirty
years were comparatively fair con-
tests.
But Gifford Pinchot changed the
system when he became a candidate
for the office of Governor. He spent
well on toa quarter of a million
dollars for his nomination and elec-
tion in 1922 and since that the
scale has been rising, the cost of
elections increasing. In 1926 the
group of Republicans supporting Mr.
Fisher and Mr, Pepper spent nearly
a million and a half dollars, and
that supporting Mr. Beidleman and
Mr. Vare nearly a million. That was
the high water mark up until this
year, but according to common
rumor a higher level is in sight.
Gifford Pinchot is responsible for the
iniquity and deserves popular exe-
cration rather than reward.
. SEPTEMBER 5. 1930. NO. 35.
| ‘There is a good deal of specula-
tion in Washington and among
| politicians generally as to the causes
'man of the new tariff board. As
‘usual the reason given from the
{ White House is that “Mr. Fletcher
iis an old and intimate friend.” But
‘that doesn’t mean a thing. President
i Hoover has only been a bonafide
| resident of the United States about
iten years, and that is too. short a
'time n which to create so many
“old and intimate” friendships.
There must have been some other
reason for selecting a trained diplo-
mat for a service which requires the
knowledge and understanding of an
experienced political economist.
A Washington correspondent of the
esteemed Philadelphia Record gives
a much more probable and plausible
reason for the somewhat surprising
appeintment. = He states that Mr.
Fletcher received his early training
in politics from the late Boies Pen-
i rose and since his retirement from
| diplomatic service has become a prime
favorite of Secretary of the Treasury
When Vare’s claim to a seat in the
Senate was finally turned down Sec-
retary Mellon expressed a preference
for Fletcher to fill the vacancy, and
it is believed he would have been
named but for the fact that Gov-
ernor Fisher had a grievance against
the “sons of wild jackasses” and
{gine that the appointment of
rundy would be offensive to them.
The Record correspondent reveals
another circumstance which might
have had influence in the matter.
While Mr. Fletcher was Ambassador
in Italy, in an interview, he eulogiz-
ed Mussolini for so regulating the
tariff as to “increase the production
and consumption of Italian goods.”
That is precisely what President
Hoover imagines he will accomplish
by the free exercise of the flexible
provision of the Grundy law. Mr.
Hoover believes that the fixing of
tariff rates should be a prerogative
of the executive rather than of Con-
‘Biess, and Mr. Fletcher ‘seems to be
in complete agreement with him on
that subject. It is safe to predict
that with Fletcher in control the in-
safe.
A A A So S———
——Henry Ford proposes a ten
month year as a remedy for unem-
ployment. If he means twelve
months pay there would be reason
in the plan, But a ten month year
with only ten months pay would ag-
gravate the evil.
—
Ambassador Dawes in a New Field.
Ambassador Dawes has embarked
upon a new and, comparatively
speaking, uncharted sea of endeavor.
During his brief but busy life Gen-
eral Dawes has undertaken many
adventures, achieved a number of
useful purposes and met with some
disappointments. But his past en-
deavors have been directed toward
what he conceived to be improve-
ments for the present and opening
up possibilities for the future. His
present air is to solve archaelogical
problems that have baffled experts in
that line of research for centuries.
With this praiseworthy purpose in
mind he has gone to France and
will visit Spain where “scientists be-
lieve will be found the earliest traces
of primitive man in Europe.”
Speaking on the subject Ambassa-
dor Dawes declared the enterprise is
solely for his own personal recrea-
tion and information. “Prehistoric
life and its remains,” he continued,
“have always interested me since
my youth when I witnessed the ex.
cavation of the mound at Marietta,
Ohio. Since then I have read about
primitive man and I have always
wanted to know more about him.
I'm taking this trip as an observer
without any preconceived ideas.”
Associated with him in the enter-
prise are Professor McCurdy, presi-
dent of the American School of Pre-
historic Research of Yale TUniver-
sity, and Professor Green, chair-
man of the board of that school.
Presumably General Dawes will foot
the bills. 3
This adventure of General Dawes
is an interesting episode of the
public life of this country. Those
who know the Ambassador and have
followed his activities since he en-
tered public life as Register of the
Treasury during the McKinley ad-
ministration may have expected much
from him but not in the field of
archaeology. His service in the
World war, his Hell-and-Maria bluff
toa Congressional committee, his
work in the settlement of Germany's
reparations, his activity in the
London naval parley and his under
slung pipe have commanded atten-
tion and even admiration. But those
things appealed to a different type
of mind and his turn to the study
of prehistoric man is surprising.
Mellon and Senator Joe Grundy.
terests of Mellon and Grundy are |
New Years Day.
‘ From the Philadelphia Record.
For as long as Labor day has
existed wags have been pointing out
that its name isa misnomer. Labor
In which influenced President Hoover : :
x day is apparently th in th
he issued to select Henry P. Fletcher as chair- S SPD i ZY ne gay .
{© Doubtless, as talk of calendar re-
form becomes more common, as the
{ 28-day month approaches the stage
jot a possibility, many of the old holi-
days will have to be renamed.
And it seems logical to point out
the fact, long known but little com.
mented upon, that Labor day is, in
all truth the real New Year's day
of this hectic modern age.
It is on Labor day ‘that theatres
re-open, that vacations close, that
the grindstone begins whirling once
more beneath the noses of the cit.
izenry. ]
' “The coming winter” is the time
for which business men plan; the
time of ‘school, of a new lease on
life for the cities, a lay-off for the
resort spots.
No one:gares much how the sum-
mer was. It is the winter for which
they plen, and it is the course of
the winter’s business which spells
success = or = failure. The modern
calendar will have to recognize the
fact that the arbitrary start of a
new year on January first means
little, 7
The real “year is starting now.
Labor day is New Year's day. It
divides the dull summer from the
promising winter; it is a real and
a significant break in time.
It is significant, too, ‘that the
i stock market crash of last year
‘came not a long time after Labor
day. That year is ending now.
We don’t expect any great flood
of Labor day resolutions, but it
would be a good thing if all of us
could get firmly into our minds the
fact that that year is over. Balance
and check the books; cast up ac-
counts to profit and loss. The psy-
chological effect of starting a new
year should be at least beneficial as,
say, a Presidential commission.
Buses, Trucks and ' Highways.
From the Altoona Tribune.
Although the highways of this
id other States are constructed
for the convenience and
easure of the private motorist, it
becoming evident that, unless some
ystem of control is speedily devised,
they are likely to become little more
{than channels of transportation.
{ This is entirely due to the in-
, creasing numbers and the methods
| of operation of passenger buses and
i trucks.
| These vehicles, roaring along the
,roads in utter disregard for the
i rights of the people for whom those
roads were constructed at a cost of
millions of dollars ,are fast becoming
a menace to public safety. Many
stories have been told of motorists
crowded from the road by lumber-
ing buses or thundering trucks.
Many other stories have been heard
concerning their excessive speed, and
their disregard of traffic laws,
The drivers are not wholly to
blame. They must drive fast to meet
their schedules, they must meet
those schedules or lose their jobs.
Many arrests have been made, and
many more will be made, but each
arrest will bea futile gesture unless
the operating companies themselves
are controlled by legislation.
The arrest of drivers as individ-
uals means little or nothing. The
companies which arrange the sched-
ules and which pay those drivers
should be the objects of anyre-
medial action.
There is a rising tide of protest
against the wholesale usurping of
the highways; the force of that pro-
test is bound to be felt in official
quarters. Immediate and effective
action to curb this abuse of public
Vigne fs an outstanding and vital
need.
BE
A Compliment to Bellefonte.
From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
If the Lindberghs could not avoid
a forced landing, they could not
have found a better spot than
Bellefonte.
——The Bellefonte public schools
opened on Tuesday with a full corps
of teachers and a total attendance
of 1118, which is just 21 more than
last year. The increase, however,
was in the grades as the High school
numbers four less than last year.
The registration in the High school
is 427, Allegheny street grades, 361,
and Bishop street grades 530. By
the end of the week all the schools
will have settled into their regular
routine of study and class work.
——During a rain and electric
storm, on Labor day, the Methodist
church school building at Osceola
Mills was struck by lightning and
damaged to the extent of $500.
Probably General Atterbury
could tell why the Liberal party
was not willing to put Judge Niles
on its ticket for Supreme court
judge.
——TIf what the claimants for the
Republican nomination for Governor
said of each other is true, neither
of them is fit for the office.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Eight horses burned to death as fire
destroyed a stable of the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit company.
—Plans are being completed for a ten-
county meeting of Odd Fellows in Sun-
bury September 12. More than 1000 past
grands from Central Pennsylvania are
expected. Judge Albert Lloyd, of North-
umberland county, will speak. Edward
Ellsworth, of Luzerne county, is presi-
dent of the joint committee.
—The Cambria county court has hand-
ed down an opinion refusing the applica-
tion for a parole made by Joseph Cauffiel,
former mayor of Johnstown, sentenced
to serve two years in jail. Cauffiel was
convicted in March, 1929, on charges of
extortion, perjury, conspiracy to violate
the gambling laws and misdeamor.
—Harry Snyder, of Tyrone, who re-
ceived a broken back while working in
the railroad yards last winter, celebrated
his sixtieth birthday Saturday by being
the ‘guest of honor at a family dinner
at the Gardner Rod and Gun club. He
was presented with a handsome wrist
watch by his family and friends. Despite
his physical condition, Mr. Snyder en-
joyed the occasion immensely.
—Raffael Castelli, 5, of Pittsburgh, is
dead from injuries received when he
tripped while running with an all day
sucker in his mouth. The child was dis-
charged from a hospital last Monday after
having his tonsils removed more than
four weeks ago. Tuesday he tripped
with the sucker in his mouth, tearing
open the wound in his throat. He died
the next day from hemorrhages.
—Swept under a train at Emlenton,
Franklin county, as he stood on a cross-
ing watching a Pennsylvania train go by
Francis A. Middleton, 82, was fatally in-
jured on Friday. Both legs and one arm
were cut off as the man’s clothing caught
on one of the cars and he was thrown
under the wheels. The aged man lived
an hour after he had been received at
a hospital in Franklin, which is 28 miles
from Emlenton.
—Harry S. Beverlin, Sunbury, Penn-
sylvania railroad locomotive engineer,
with 45 years and nine months’ service,
went on the retired list September 1.
For many years he ran on the Lewis-
burg and Tyrone branch between Sunbury
and Bellefnote. He applied for retirement
two years ago but was told he was too
good a man to take off after a physical
examination and has continued at work
since. He is only 68.
_rial of Alexander Foster, former dep-
uty auditor general of Pennsylvania
and former general manager of the Dan-
ville stove works, on embezzlement
charges has been set for September 15.
Motions to quash eight counts in three
of the five indictments were preesnted on
the ground that the statute of limita-
tions had expired. Argument bn the mo-
tion will be heard Monday. Judge Cul-
ver, of Bradford county, will preside at
the trial.
—Fears for the life of one of the state's
prize cows resulted recently in a success-
ful operation at the Selinsgrove State
colony of-epileptics where one of the best
cows of the institution’s dariy herd
showed indication of decided decline. A
veterinary surgeon was called and diag-
nosed the symptoms as pointing to for-
eign matter in the stomach. An operation
was performed and in addition
to nails and other pieces of metal a
a wire was found to have punctured the
stomach wall. The cow is rapidly re-
covering and shows every promise of
recovering entirely.
— Thomas Schuchman, of Chambersburg,
is too much of a gentleman to hit his
wife. Instead, he merely held her arms
while his pal, Paul Bailey, also of
Chambersburg, took aim and landed a
manly blow on the woman’s mouth.
Such was the tale of woe told to bor-
ough police by Mrs. Schuchman, whose
swollen mouth and a missing front tooth
substantiated her complaint. She, how-
ever, refused to prosecute the men for
assault and battery, so police arraigned
them before Magistrate Fred K. Henn-
inger on charges of drunkenness and
disorderly conduct. They were fined $5.00
each.
_Scranton’s fourth bank official to be
accused of embezzlement, within two
months is William Miller, prominent Re-
publican leader. A warrant for his ar-
rest was issued, on Saturday, at Harris-
burg by the State Department of Bank-
ing. He is accuesd of having embezzled
$30,000 or more from the Anthracite
Trust company. He had been assistant
treasurer for several years. He resigned
several months ago. Miller formerly was
collector of county taxes in Scranton and
also was president of the South Side
Republican Club. In addition to em-
bezzlement Miller is alleged to have
made false entries. The bank has suf-
fered no loss, it is announced.
—To live with a .22 calibre long rifle
bullet imbedded in her scalp for more
than two months and suffer no apparent
ill effects is the unique experience of
Betty Swartz, 8-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James Swartz, who reside
north of Mifflintown. The child was found
unconscious in the yard at her home by
her mother June 13. She was quickly
revived and a cursory examination re-
vealed a slight abrasion and scalp wound
thought to have been caused by a hoe
in the hands of another child with whom
she was playing. The wound healed and
the incident would probably have been
forgotten had the abrasion not remained
sensitive to the touch. The child was
taken to the office of Dr. Robert Banks
where the presence of the slug was dis-
covered and removed by the surgeon.
—The third bank barn fire within six
days at the Selinsgrove State epileptic
colony caused a loss of $7500 on the
pbuilding and $8000 on the contents, and
jumped the total loss in the fires to
$35,000. Dr. Chester A. Marsh, superin-
tendent of the institution, said, on Mon-
day, that he was, advised by Frederick
Swartzlander, of Beavertown, -that he saw
lightning strike the farm barn. Dr.
Marsh's questioning of the 152 patients
in search of a pyromaniac resulted in
six patients ‘confessing’ they had fired
the Ulsh barn Tuesday morning and the
Luck barn at the same hour Thursday.
Dr. Marsh say records of the institution
show no patients were outside the dor-
mitories when the Schoch barn burst
into flames. Investigators for the State
Welfare Department are endeavoring to
solve the mystery of the fires.