____Senator Heflin still has three
months in which to worry a more
or less tired world.
—The new moon is far around to
the south and that usually means
mild weather, but it isn’t.
— Buy from your home merchants
and get a second chance at every!
dollar you spend with them, You ;
get no other chance at the dollar |
you send out of town.
__As the time for a new deal at
Harrisburg approaches we presume
that those who have been in favor
for the past four years are feeling
about as forlorn as an outdoor
Tom Thumb golf course looks these
wintry days.
—_The merchants who have over-
coats to sell are thankful for the
colder weather. Nature had that
business almost wrecked. And we're
hoping for some ankle deep slush
so that those who have stocked up
with rubbers and galoshes can get
a smile on their faces.
—Anyway, we are not suffering
from eating too much turkey yes-
terday, nor are Wwe anticipating
warmed up turkey for the
rest of the week and turkey hash as
a finale. You see, we didn’t have
turkey yesterday. The price of the
birds was down considerable, but
not down far enough.
— While we have no desire to
kill a doe we do think the State
Game Commission is guilty of some-
thing in the nature of class legisla-
tion in having limited the number
of licenses to be issued to those who
do want to kill one. One Pennsyl-
vanian has just as much right to
that privilege as another and no
government is good that doesn't |
offer equal opportunity to all.
While rain is one of the few
things he didn’t promise us we be-
lieve Mr. Pinchot would make him-
self immensely popular if he were
to concentrate on getting a little
precipitation for Pennsylvania in-
stead of devoting himself so ex-
clusively to enterprises the people
are not so much in need of relief
from as they are from the drought.
It will be just too bad if it freezes
up with springs, wells and creeks as
low as they are now.
“_We're against any kind of truce
in” politics to aid business. Against
it because truces in politics can't aid
business, Present conditions were
not brought on by the Republican
party. They came as a natural se-
quence of the folly of a people who
think that they can spend more
than they produce and get away,
with it. Every once in a while we
have to have lessons like the im-
provident are learning now. They're
good for everybody. They should be
wonderfully good for those Republi-
cans who think they have a man-
date from God to save the country.
Why don’t they save it now? They
can’t. And what are they yelling
for a truce from the Democrats for?
Just because they want a goat. It’s
ridiculous to think that Democrats
are not just as eager to have pros-
perous times as Republicans. But
since most of the Republicans we
know think otherwise we're for let-
ting them pull their own chestnuts
out of the fire. oe
—The Hon. Holmes has gone on
record as being fermist repeal of
the Blue Laws of Pennsylvania.
The Watchman commends his stand,
because it believes that the majority
of his constituents feel the same
way. While the Blue Laws are ob-
solete and work many inequities
they are, nevertheless, the last
anchor Pennsylvania has if we hope
to keep the Sabbath from being as
commercialized as Saturday or any
other day of the week. All this
talk of providing amusement for
those who have to work the six
work days of the week is only the
ballyhoo of those who have amuse-
ment to sell on Sunday. There are
a thousand and one ways in which
anyone can create amusement for him
or herself, amusement more whole-
some and less costly than any that
is for sale. And it stands to rea-
son that the man or woman who is
too poor to take time off during a
week day to get something he or she
craves is too poor to squander
money on Sunday.
—Really, we think we shall have
to volunteer to take charge of the
Prohibition party. We've been la-
borin’ for the Democrats for nigh
onto forty years and gotten no
where, either in prestige or pecuni-
ary profit. If we could just keep
our oft made resolution to be “hard
boiled,” like this woman, Mabel
Willebrandt, and Bishop Cannon and
that fellow Crabbe, we think we
could do something for the Prohibi-
tionists and probably outdo Jasper’'s
best efforts while he was manipulat-
ing the cash register in Amos and
Andy's new lunch room. For soldiers
of fortune we know of no more
elysian field than that fertilized
with the gold of misguided Phohibi-
tionists. It's better than being the
Wizard of the K. K. K. For the
moment one signs up with the
“Probeesh” outfit he or she becomes
sacrosanct in the eyes of its sup-
porters and they can getaway with
anything, And that’s what most of
them do; at least until they have
gotten publicity and pelf enough to
peddle their prominence in the pub-
lic markets.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 75. BELLEFONTE, PA..
Big and Hard Job for the Legislature
Under the new allotment of Con.
gressmen to the several States, in
pursuance of the census of 1930 and
the act of Congress continuing the
present membership of the House
of Represetatives, Pennsylvania will
lose two seats, and beginning with
the Seventy-third Congress our del-
egation will consists of thirty-four
instead of thirty-six members. Be-
cause of this fact the difficult duty
of reapportioning the State into
Congressional districts will devolve
upon the Legislature of 1931. The
practice heretofore has been to in-
crease the membership of the House
Extra Session May be Avoided.
Senator Norris, of Nebraska, cor-
dially concurs in the opinion ex-
pressed by Senator Walsh, of Mon-
tana, that an extra session of the '
new Congress may be averted if the
administration pursues the proper
course. There are important mea-
sures of legislation pending,
' sideration of which will require time
and assiduous effort. Among them
are the Muscle Shoals problem, the
Wagner labor bills, the anti.injunc-
tion bill, the adherence to the World
'Court and the resolution to abolish
| the lame duck sessions of Congress.
‘These meaures have all been con-
sufficiently to avoid decreases inthe
ratio to each State, But that
system made the body so large as
to make legislation increasingly dif-
ficult.
idered at great length, some have
passed both Houses and all of them
“have been generously supported by
The apportionment of the State
‘ment can’t function without money
into Congressional districts has al.
ways been a tedious job for the
Legislature. If, as is contemplated
by the law, the purpose was simply
to divide the several counties into
districts of about equal population
composed of ‘contiguous territory,”
it would be a simple job. But the
Republican party, having ample
majority in the Legislature to ger-
rymander the districts so as to give
that party as many and the Demo-
cratic party as few districts as
possible, the problem becomes com-
plicated. Besides another element
of discord creeps into the equation.
The party bosses strive to make
| things as easy as possible for fa-
| vorites and equally as hard for oth-
ers.
the press and public.
The annual supply bills must be
enacted, of course, for the govern-
to pay the expenses. But it ought
not to take a great deal of time to
dispose of them and if there are
no jokers or snakes concealed 1n
them there will be little opposi-
tion to their passage. The budget
system, if it is fairly expressed in
the text, will remove most excuses
for long drawn out discussion. In
view of these facts the period of
about 100 days of the session ought
to be ample time to dispose of the
calendar. And unless the friends of
the administration, in their zeal for
party advantage, will force contro-
versy on the other measures it will
be.
President Hoover has expressed
sympathy with the purpose to enter
The last apportionment was made
under the supervision of the late
Senator Penrose and his mastery of
the organization was SO complete
that no one dared question his
decisions. It was less difficult, more-
over, because the allotment to the
‘that majorities will
the World Court and it is estimated
be found in
both Houses of the same mind. The
' proposition to abolish the
short
sessions has passed the Senate four
times and the Norris resolution on
State was increased instead of de-
creased, and for a time it was only
necessary to let the old apportion-
ment stand and elect the additional
members “at large.” This time that
expedient will not serve the pur-
| pose and there is no boss big enough
to-exercise absolute centrol.. Gover-
nor Pinchot may be relied upon to
do his best to secure advantage but
he will have a good many hurdles
to jump in the pursuit. He is not
yet master of the situation.
ect eer promo eoies
— Pinchot can’t wait until his
inauguration to begin functioning as
Governor.
emer een ee Aree
Pinchot and Prohibition Enforcement.
If Gifford Pinchot is as zealous
for the enforcement of prohibition as
he was eight years ago his return
to the Executive Mansion in Harris-
purg will afford abundant opportu-
nity for service. It will be recalled
that following his inauguration in
1923 he talked of little else than de-
stroying the demon rum,
to the election he had promised to
“clean up the mess” and work vari-
ous other improvements in adminis-
tration. But after nis induction in-
to office he directed his energies ex-
clusively to prohibition enforcement
and the creation of a personal po-
litical machine by legislation known
respectively as the Snyder law and
the legislative code.
A good deal of time was neces
sarily expended in procuring the pas-
sage of these laws and some sacri-
fices of other pledgea ideals had to
be made. The Volstead act provid-
ed for optional local co-operation in
enforcement activities but the State
and municipal police forces of Penn-
sylvania had not been urged , and
were little inclined to mix in the
matter of prohibition enforcement.
But Mr. Pinchot will have no such
embarrassments to overcome on his
return to the office next year. The
machinery is all ready, thoroughly
trained to the work and it may be
said, even to like it. All the Gov-
ernor will have to do is order im-
mediate and energetic action and
the trick will be turned.
During the recent campaign sus-
picion ran rather wide throughout
the State that the Pinchot ardor for
prohibition enforcement had some-
what abated in the face of increas.
ing popular sentiment against it.
He deliberately and consistently re-
fused to discuss the subject and
tried in every way to divert the is-
sue into other channels. But events
which have since developed may re-
store his enthusiasm for enforce-
ment. The Wickersham committee
is about to report in favor of re-’
newed effort and that puts Pinchot,
if he is sympathetic enough, in the
lime light for the Republican nomi-
nation for President on a prohibi-
tion enforcement platform, And
Pinchot would sacrifice all else for
that. :
——Naming commissions seems
to be the engineering-mind method
of passing the buck.
the Muscle Shoals measure has
passed both branchesonce and the
Senate twice. President Hoover is
‘strongly opposed toit in its original
form but
if he really desires to
"avoid an extra session he may easily
‘tion on the subject we feel perfect-
Previous | which was
bring himself to a compromise that
will be satisfactory to all concerned.
If he. fails to do that a dead-leck fhe for-the -wiclation of
will become inevitable and an extra
session will be a necessity, but it
will be his fault.
— Without any inside
informa-
ly safe in predicting that Phil
Stahlnecker will be the ‘power be-
hind the throne” at Harrisburg dur-
ing the first half of Pinchot’s term.
Costly Tariff Legislation
Pyramiding tariff taxation has
been an expensive experiment to the
political groups that have practiced
it in the past, according to a press
correspondent who has given the
subject attention. It first occurred
in 1828 when the tariff of 1816,
abundantly high, was
supplanted by what became known
as “the tariff of abominations.”
Previous to 1816 a nominal tax was
levied upon certain imports for rev-
enue which incidentally afforded pro-
tection to industries then really in-
fants, The act of 1816 considerably
enlarged and increased the schedules
and when the act of 1828 was under
consideration Daniel Webster ques-
tioned its constitutionality but un-
der party pressure he voted for it.
The immediate result was the
election in 1829 of a Congress with
a substantial Democratic majority in
both branches and placing Andrew
Jackson in the White House which
he adorned eight years. In 1842 a
precisely similar experience was reg-
istered. “Tippecanoe” Harrison had
been elected President and carried
with him into power a House of
Representatives composed of 144
Whigs and 96 Democrats, which
promptly increased tariff rates enor--
mously. The Congress elected im.
mediately after was composed of
140 Democrats and 69 Whigs and
James K. Polk, Democrat, moved in-
to the White House. General Har-
rison died shortly after his inaug-
uration and his sucessor, John Tyler
was retired to private life.
Near the closing period of Grant's
second term the already high tariff
rates were increased. Rutherford
B. Hayes had just been inaugurated
as President but at the following
Congressional election a Democratic
majority was returned in the House
and Grover Cleveland was elected
President at the next national elec-
tion, In 1890 the McKinley tariff
increased the rates of the Dingley
law and the considerable Republican
majority was wiped out and a sub-
stantial Democratic majority substi-
tuted. During the Taft administra-
tion the same cause produced the
same effect and for the first time
since the Civil war the Democrats
controlled both branches of Con-
gress and the White House.
We all know what the Grundy
law brought about,
NOVEMBER 28.
con-
| © Motor Vehicle Accidents.
i
i
~ In an address delivered in Phila-
| delphia, the other evening, Benja- |
iF. G. Eynon, commissioner of
vehicles, gave timely and ap-
riate warning to careless mo-
torists which should result in im-
provement, Mr. Eynon has been
' automobile traffic for many years
and thoroughly understands the
subject of which he spoke. “The
motor vehicle code and all other
regulations for control of traffic,”
he said, “have come into being be-
cause of the absence of highway
gourtesy. It is because so many
‘motorists have lost that inherent
considerateness and civility by which
their other social relations and con.
tacts are governed that we need a
100-page book of restrictive laws.”
~ Even though we have these re-
‘strictive laws and regulations mo-
tor accidents continue to increase.
The increased number of motor ve-
hicles on the highways accounts in
part for the greater number of
accidents that are reported. But
carelessness and other forms of
recklessness on the part of the mo-
torists are the most prolific sources
of highway fatalities and property
damage, and according to the best
information attainable the greatest
offenders are young drivers who
take chances without reason. They
rush past other cars on the high-
way and around cars and other ve-
hicles on city streets as though
time were a matter of great im.
portance, when as a matter of fact
it is of no consequence,
‘Drunken drivers cause a great
number of accidents and the penal-
ties for that form of recklessness
cannot be made too severe. Of late
the courts of the State are coming
to'a better frame of mind with re-
spect to this evil and in most cases
the extreme penalty is imposed on
conviction. But for one reason or
another too many offenders are per-
"mitted to escape altogether. For
these reasons commissioner Eynon
should urge upon the Legislature
Additional laws and severer penal-
ready in the code. The motor ve-
hicle is no longer a luxury. It
has become a necessity alike in city
‘and country and should be made as
‘safe as it is useful.
__Mrs. Clara Grace Prophet, the
Philadelphia woman who conspired
with her brother to kill her husband,
is certainly a mental weakling. No
sane person, deliberately planning a
murder, would have made such a
bungling job of it as she did.
Walsh Favors an Extra Session.
re
Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Mon-
tana, one of the real Democratic
ileaders of the country, and fortu-
nately re-elected in spite of intensive
‘opposition organized by the admin-
istration, does not share the opinion
expressed by other leaders that an
early session of the mew Congress
would be inimical. On his arrival
in Washington the other day Mr.
Walsh called at the White House
and frankly expressed his views to
the President on the subject and
gave the reasons for his attitude.
Subsequently he said to the press
correspondents “I believe it to be
the duty of President Hoover to call
the extra session and I believe -in
leaving that responsibility with him.”
If the conditions are such as to
make an early session of Congress
a menace to the administration and
the Republican party, the President
and the leaders of his party are to
plame. They created the conditions
and the Democratic Senators and
Representatives in Congress are un-
der no obligation to organize either
a relief or rescue expedition. During
the last session of Congress necessary
‘legislation now pressing might have
been enacted. But the President
and the leaders of his party were so
set in their purpose to promote their
political estate that they had no
time to look after the interests of
the country. Now they appeal to
the magnanimity of the Democrats
to save them from just punishment,
The question of adherence to the
World Court, the disposal of the
Muscle Shoals problem, the Wagner
unemployment bills and various
other measures of legislation on the
calendar demand prompt consider-
ation. Unless they are considered
during the short session a special
session ‘will be necessary or they
will go over for a year or more.
The enactment of legislation to re-
lieve unemployment is important but
there is not likely to be serious op-
position to it and unless the Presi-
dent or his party leaders make un-
reasonable opposition to the other
important legislation the calendar
may be cleared within the limited
life of the short session and the ex-
tra session be thus averted.
1930.
————
NO. 47.
Prohibition and Parties.
From the New York Times.
From commercial, industrial and
agricultural depression the country
; may measurably recover by 1932.
i Can the Republican party recover
{ from prohibition? While there are
exceptions and confusions, and the
effect of this issue cannot be segre-
(is clear that the Democrats have
, the advantage,
enough to follow it, which their
| courage and their perception of !
. popular opinion have won them in
! several States.
| voters, who gave a majority of
i 284,000 for the repeal of the Eigh-
teenth Amendment in 1928, this
year smashed the State prohibition
(act and elected a Wet Democratic
| Senator and Governor.
The Bay State Democrats are
practically solid for repeal. The Re-
| publicans are divided. To face about
i on prohibition will still leave them
divided. In what was formerly Mr.
J. Henry Roraback’s Connecticut,
out of tenderness to the small town
voters they didn’t dare to proclaim
themselves as Wet as they are.
Straight-for-repeal Professor Cross
was chosen Governor. In Rhode Is-
‘land Senator Metcalf saved himself
by a belated declaration, and a
cunningly devised referendum was
carried by the repealers. In this
State, where the Republicans have
ridden two horses so long,
they vainly plucked up half a heart.
They will be confronted henceforth
by a powerful minority—it may be
by a minority party. Wet States,
the Republican apologists may say,
continued Wet. Exactly. They are
Wet States in which Wet Republi-
cans swallowed their convictions, as
'every one of them did who voted
{for Mr. Hoover. That game is
i over, and the Democrats have won.
~ Does anybody believe that Penn-
gylvania is Dry, or that Mr. Pin-
chot was made Governor because of
and not in spite of the fact that
he was Dry? But it is in Ohio,
birthplace of the Anti-Saloon
League, home of Senator Fess, who
. vows that prohibition is not a na-
tional issue, that the Dry-for-votes
Republicans had their sharpest sur-
prise. Beginning almost on his own
‘hook and making repeal his plat-
i form, Mr. Bulkley was carried into
office by Republican votes,
; gthering “disgust “with “the Re.
‘ publican subservience to the Anti-
Saloon League burst out at last.
In Illinois, where the Republicans
have long been deaf tothe expressed
will of the majority, their condi-
tional consent to repeal was among
the causes of a monumental defeat.
As nothing succeeds like success,
the Democrats of the Mid-Western,
Mountain and Pacific States, many
of them already sick of prohibition,
may be expected to go with the
stream. There remains the South,
clinging less fondly than once to its
old idol and stimulated by the pros-
pect of mirage of victory. With
all allowance for Dry enclaves here
and there, the outlook for Demo-
cratic unity on prohibition is of the
brighest.
i
smn .
What? Buckwheat, Too?
From the Harrisburg Telegram.
Somebody is always taking the
joy out of life. Here we went
and gave three rousing cheers for
turkey and cranberries, when the
news dispatches told us of bumper
crops of both, and in the midst of
our rejoicing we turn over to the
next page and find the buckwheat
eld is next door to afailure in
Pennsylvania.
You folks who have always got
your buckwheat in little boxes from
the grocer with baking powder al-
ready added and only the addition
of alittle water required for a hasty
batch of cakes cannot grasp the
extent of the catastrophie forecast
by the failure of the buckwheat
crop. For buckwheat, whether you
know it or not, is the standard
breakfast—and some times the sup-
per—of thousands upon thousands of
Pennylvanians scattered through the
length and breadth of the rural
regions, particularly the mountain-
ous sections, of this great Common-
wealth, all through the winter.
The writings of the pioneers con-
tain occasional references to work-
ers who complained that their em.
ployers fed them too much wild
turkey, but if there was a com-
plaint against buckwheat cakes it
never was set to paper.
Buckwheat cakes with maple
syrup or wild honey was a favorite
menu in the early daysof the State,
and it has come down to the pres-
ent with its popularity unimpaired.
Pleasing to the palate, warming to the
system of a cold morning, filling
where the need for filling is most
felt, and nourishing in the extreme,
buckwheat cakes are both toothsome
and wholesome.
When the mountain farmer, and
there are still many such in Penn-
sylvania, has no buckwheat to take
to mill he is indeed in a bad way,
and just now the rural millers are
importing this staple
States. Buckwheat grows where no
other food crop can profitably be
produced. The surplus above the
family’s domestic needs is always
saleable. = It is a blessing when it
is plentiful, as it usually is, andit's
absence will drive many a sorely
beset farmer’s wife to double-up on
cornmush and ponhaus,
if they are wise’
The Massachusetts |
The .
from other |
Be am ESE St ESSENCE A
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—While the Salvation Army conducted
religious services in. the bull pen of the
Fayette county jail' at Uniontown, on
Sunday, John Ghamak, 46, Masontown,’
an inmate, went to his cell and hanged
himself with a belt.
—When fire damaged the home of D.
E. Ott, at Wind Gap, Pa., early last
Thursday afternoon, Charles Smith, an
employee of Ott, lost his savings of
$355 which he had in bills concealed in a
mattress in his room on the third floor
of the house.
—John Blasko, of Throop, was killed
as a result of an unusual accident on
his brother's farm near Scranton. A
belt on a gasoline tractor became de-
tached and smashed a grindstone to
pieces. A piece of the stone struck
Blasko on the head and killed him.
—Charles Radka claims that the land-
ing of an airplane on his place in Butler
county just about ruined him as a farm-
‘er. He sued the Bernard Air Lines,
Ine:, of Youngstown, Ohio, for $500
damages, alleging that a plane forced
' down on his property struck two cows,
concerned with the regulation of gated definitely from the others, it ' decreasing their amount of milk three
! gallons daily; demolished a fence and
, destroyed 120 hills of corn and a - patch
| of potatoes. The landing occurred last
! July, and the papers in the case named
M. N. Graham as the pilot.
—Borough and State health officials
! last week joined forces in an effort to
prevent typhoid fever becoming epidemic
at Jonestown, Lebanon county. With
‘one death and® three cases of fever al-
, ready reported to Dr. Paul Reich, the
' borough health officer, steps were taken
for an immediate inspection of up-
wards of 100 wells from which resi-
dents secure their water supply for
domestic purposes. Two wells already
have been sealed because of the water
being found contaminated. The pro-
longed drought is given as the cause of
contamination.
—R. BE. Matthews, defaulting cashier
of the Dollar Title and Trust company,
of Sharon, has signed a plea of guilty . .
to the charges of embezzlement of the
bank funds amounting to $125,000. This
was the announcement of district attor-
ney Leo McKay following a meeting at-
tended by Frank Jackson and W. J.
Sweigart, of the State Banking De-
partment, and McKay, Matthews and
attorney T. J. Armstrong. Matthews
will not be sentenced until the investi-
gation now being conducted by the
Banking Department terminates, which
may be two months from now.
—As a host, Max Luthner, six-foot
Great Belt, Butler county butcher, is
hospitable, plus. He invited Albert
Leighner to take a drink of cider, ac-
cording to Leighner’s story to police,
and then asked him to dinner. After
being forced to eat for three hours,
Leighner said he rebelled when it came
to desert. Leighner ran away after be-
ing man-handled by the butcher and
called police, who black-jacked the burly
meat cutter before handcuffs could be
adjusted. Luthner was placed in the
county jail charged with assault and
battery. The cider was said to be
“hard.”
—The wheel mill of the Atlas Powder
“company’s plant at Horrell Station, on
the Petersburg branch of the P. Ri R.
near Flowing Spring, blew up Saturday
afternoon, the explosion destroying the
building and its contents, consisting
largely of machinery. Charles Mec-
Closkey, an employee, who was working
in the building, was painfully burned
about the face and hands. Another em-
ployee escaped injury. These men were
the only ones working in the building
at the time. One-half ton of powder in
the. mill .exploded, blowing the roof
high in the air and scattering fragments
of wood and metal over a large space.
The loss has not been estimated.
—Bids for constructing the new feder-
al penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., will
be opened .in the office of the supervising
| pchitect of the treasury at 3 P.M.
| December 30, it was announced on Mon-
day. According to present plans, the
bureau of prisons plans to make the
institution one of the most modern of its
kind in existence. The project will cost
$4,000,000 and will employ between 175
and 200 men the year 'round.” Tt will
house 1200 inmates. After the bids are
opened they will be taken under ~ad-
visement by the proper officials, - and, it
is believed, if they are found satisfactory
the contract will be awarded . within
three weeks. It is expected: . construc-
tion work will be started in the late win-
ter or early spring. : .
—A decision in the court of eommon
pleas in Huntingdon county has been
handed down by Judge Bailey which
may have a far reaching efféct’ in the
State. The water commission of the bor-
ough of Mount Union adopted rules that
water meters might be selected by the
commission and placed in buildings of
water consumers to be paid for by the
latter. Meters were installed and on
failure of consumers to pay for them
municipal liens were filed. On a test
case filed by the commission against
John C. Appleby, Judge Bailey held a
municipality has no authority to install
a water meter in a building without the
consent of the consumer and assess him
with expense accrued and that there is
no act of Assembly permitting the au-
thority of a municipal lien for failure of
consumer to pay.
—On Hallowe'en of 1928, Mr. and
Mrs John Neely returned to their home
at Clarion and found in their mail box
a cigar box containing a valuable watch
and a mesh bag of excellent quality.
They feared trouble would result if
they disclosed the articles were in their
possession they said, and put the gifts
away and said nothing. The farmer
and his wife again were away from home
Christmas day of 1928. When they re-
turned, another box was in the mail
box. Init were a man's ring set with
'a ruby and a diamond ring for a woman.
Also there was a note saying the
Neelys need not be afraid to wear the
| gifts because a friend whom Mrs. Neely
" befriended when she was young had
ileft them. It added that some day
| everyone would know from whom the
| gifts came. The third visitation of
| the unknown friend was made last week.
While the Neelys were away from home,
a man's diamond ring and a pendant
| cot with two large diamonds were left
in the mail box with a note explaining
that these were Christmas gifts. Neither
Mr. nor Mrs. Neely have any idea asto
the identity of the donors.