ns BL eR IST PU Th,
rm remem ema meme omg ment ee eee
It is Thanksgiving evening. A man
who had worked overtime all the
fore part of the week so that he
might have half the day off is won-
dering whether his long nourished
contention that anticipation holds
more real joy than realization is
true.
* The house was <oid and bleak
when he arose in the morning. The
‘furnace did not respond as usual
when he stoked it, so that he might
at least have the cheer of hearing
the cold air hissing out of the vent
in the bathroom radiator while he
was shaving. From the window he
saw drab skies and fitful flurries of
snow swirling around the backs of
the dead garages and business blocks
that form the usually active vista
that he sees first each morning when
he arises.
True, he had a favorite breakfast:
grape fruit, fillet of salt mackerel,
broiled, fried potatoes, toast and
coffee. He never thought of that
in his hurry to get away to work,
Work, so that those of his young
employees might have at least half
ja day, also.
He was not thinking solely of them.
Candor forced him to admit that
before him, while he worked,
marched the phantoms of years
when he was their age and mem-
ory ran a fever, hot with the fer-
vor of youth, then chilled by the
thought that such days for him were
forever gone.
At twelve-thirty the work was
done end he went home through
streets as deserted and cheerless
looking as they probably are at 2
a. m. on a Sunday morning in the
dark of the moon. Hometoa lunch
of puree of tomatoes and saltines.
The afternoon he had worked for
was before him. The problem of
what he would do with it was also
before him, It was Thanksgiving
day and something ought to invite.
Thousands of things would have had
“their lure forty years ago, but only
one of them appealed to him and
it was to get away off somewhere,
alone. He wanted solitude, his cabin
in the woods where he holds com-
munion with the spirits of friends
and days that are gone, communion
that quickens memories of the past
into fantasies of present realities.
It was too cold to fare forth on
such a venture, too cold to go to
a football game in a nearby town.
What was he to do with the after-
noon he had saved by working over-
time for three days. Nervously, he
paced back and forth through his
home until it seemed he had worn
paths in the rugson the floor. Each
time he reached a front window he
looked out hopefully, but saw noth-
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vicious Form of Propaganda.
The Washington correspondent of
the New York Times,
of political conditions, writes:
is a definite inclination on the part
of some Democratic Senators to join
administration Republicans in dis-
couraging any attempt to force an
extra session.
such a sitting might retard economic
recovery, and the impression might
be given to the electorate that the
Democrats in Congress were respon-
sible for that state of affairs.”
That is absurd enough but not the
worst. Continuing he adds, “with-
out doubt a definite effort will be
made by the party leaders to create
the impression that the business in-
terests of the country have nothing
to fear from Democratic control of
the government,”
This statement expresses the prin-
cipal feature of a scheme to re.
cuperate the vanishing fortunes of
the Hoover administration. In the
trough of the wyrst industrial and
commercial slump which the country
has ever experienced, brought on by
the vicious policies and stupid prac-
tices of the Republican leaders, skill-
ful phrase-makers of the press are
employed to deceive the people by
such misrepresentation of facts. In
the first place no Democrats, in or
out of Congress, are trying to force
an extra session of Congress and no
extra session will be necessary, un-
less the administration, in the in-
terest of monopoly, prevents the pas-
sage of meritorious legislation, now
pending, during the short session
which assembled on Monday.
And there is no necessity, present
or prospective, for impressing upon
the electorate that “business inter-
ests have nothing to fear from
Democratic control of the govern-
ment,” There have been two Demo-
cratic Presidents since the Civil war
and impartial historians have begun
to extol, rather than condemn, their
administrations for wisdom and ef-
ficiency. More constructive legisla-
tion was enacted during the brief
period of Democratic control of the
government during the Wilson ad-
ministration than during the sixty
years of Republican control. « There
may be a few persons who still
imagine that the purpose of Demo-
_ing but a wind-swept, deserted street. | , io statesmanship is to wreck
He tuned in on KDKA. He heard |, country and starve themselves
a lot about Syracuse and Columbia
‘and cold winds sweeping a stadium,
but- nothing about State and Pitt.
Then he exhausted his nervous
energy for a full half an hour
twisting that old dial to locate
whatever station might be broad-
‘casting the game he had reconciled
himself to believe would make the
holiday he had anticipated.
Finally he gave that up, put on
"his hat and coat and started for the |
“office to look over whatever mail
might have accumulated on his desk.
On the way there the solitary per-
son he met was a friend with head
bowed and chin tucked inside the
turned up collar of his overcoat.
The friend looked up and such a
dour, crabbed visage the half-holi-
day seeker had never seen on his
face before. All he said was:
“Ain’t it a hell of a note that
KDKA isn’t broadcasting the State
game?”
Then the man who had worked
over time to gain half-a.day off
looked down into Spring creek and
said to himself: “Shall I jump?”
He didn’t. He went on into his
office. A rather sizeable stack of
mail was on his desk, but there was
only one envelope with a two-cent
stamp on it. He threw all but it
into the waste paper basket and
feverishly slid the paper knife un-
der the flap of the real letter.
And there on the single sheet,
“Please discontinue my subscription”
stared him in the face.
It was nearly five o'clock then.
_There’s nothing as gloomy as a dy-
ing holiday, unless it might have been
. that fellow. He went home again. A
. ight was burning in the window
when he turned the corner into his
home street. Bright things had
probably been all about him during
the day, but that was the first one
he had noticed. It gave him an
jdea. He would pile some logs in
the fire place, snuggle in his easy
chair and read his favorite maga-
zine. On the way for the logs he
had to go through the kitchen.
There the savor of roasting duck
filled his nostrils and started him
thinking in other channels.
He got to thinking of his home
. —the place where the only light
on the street had been burning, his
family that had brought nothing of
sorrow and so much of joy and
when, after dinner, he sat watching
the witching flames curl up the fire
place chimney all thought of meas-
uring the joy of anticipation against
that of realization fled.
It wasn't an academic question
then. It was only one of thanking
God for what he had.
And he thanked Him,
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but they live in insane asylums and
are not responsible.
——We hope Pinchot’s promises
will be more nearly fulfilled’ than
those made by Hoover two years
ago, :
oe A em mmm
Hoover Head of a Filibuster.
prolonged filibuster of recent years
has not “een in the Senate where
filibusters are commonly believed to
occur. 'The one to which he refers
is in the House of Representatives
and has been directed against cer-
tain popular legislation from the
White House. The conspirators in
this filibuster are the President, the
Speaker of the House, the chairman
of the House Committee on Rules
and the majority floor leader of the
House. These gentlemen do not ob-
struct legislation by long talks on
the floor and other open parliamen-
tary devices. They simply “pickle”
such measures as they are opposed
to in the committees.
The incident that led to this
statement was the recent declaration
by chairman Snell, of the House
Committee on Rules, that he is wil.
ling to permit a vote on the Nor-
ris Muscles Shoals bill. Following
this Representative Treadway, of
Massachusetts, after a conference
with the President, declared ‘un-
qualified opposition to any action
permitting public operation at Mus-
cle Shoals as provided by the Nor-
ris bill,” and Mr. Snell promptly
qualified his previous statement by
asserting that “his offer does not
mean that he will support the meas-
ure.” The plain inference is that
the White House filibuster will be
continued against the measure. The
President is not willing to assume
responsibility of a veto,
Senator McKellar
President Hoover was the cause of
the refusal of the House to consider
the lame duck bill, the Wagnor la-
bor bills and the Norris Muscle
Shoals bill and adds, “as long as the
President and his three House lead-
ers are engaged in filibusters it
seems to me that it comes with ill-
grace for them or any of them to
talk about a Senate filibuster.” As
a matter of fact there will be no
filibuster in the Senate if the lead.
ers of the House permit reasonably
fair treatment to popular and proper
legislation which is favored by a
vast majority of the people and ap-
parently by a majority of the mem-
bers of the House of Representa-
tives.
in a review 'ously reve
“There | country as it has
They contend that
charges that |
Generous Work of Charity.
Charity has never been so gener-
aled in this or any other
| States this year. On Thanksgiving
| day, in New York and other Ameri-
gry men, women and children were
fed bountifully by charity organiza-
tions and other benevolent groups
‘and it may safely be estimated that
within two or three months thous.
ands have been saved from death by
starvation by the same agencies. It
is true that there has never before
been so urgent a call upon the
humanitarian impulses of the
people, but it is nevertheless a just
cause for civic pride that the emer-
gency when presented was so prompt-
ly and liberally met.
| While no party nor individual can
be justly charged with responsibility
for the condition that brought out
so generous an expression of good
will and helpfulness ooth the Presi-
dent and the Republican party may
be blamed for default and inertia
which megnified it. When the Wall
Street panic came last fall, Presi-
dent Hoover imagined that calling
conferences and exacting promises
from rich men was the only avail-
able remedy, and the Republican
party in Congress assumed that in-
creasing tariff rates, and incidental.
ly the cost of living, would serve
the purpose of alleviation. That
was an error of judgment of the
type Napoleon had in mind when he
said “some mistakes are worse than
crimes.”
. Possibly the Wall Street panic
_couldn’t have been prevented either
by legislation or executive action.
. But it could have been modified: by
President Coolidge and tempered by
‘legislation which was introduced by
Senator Wagner nearly a year ago.
| President Hoover seemed as helpless
as a child in the emergency and
made matters worse by issuing
. statements of returning prosperity
i with the apparent purpose of de-
{ceiving the public. The remedies
‘which be proposes now might quite
as well have been adopted a year
| ago.
himself: by his official advisors i
“the leaders of the party. But that
. does not exculpate him from blame
or put the Democrats under obliga-
"tion to help him.
. ——Everybody in Philadelphia,
.and a good many others,” are
‘curious to know what sort of a job
has been offered to Mayor Mackey
‘that made him think of resigning,
. while some think it was a dream.
1 eee ree eet mar:
‘Mahomet Will Go to the Mountain. .
Senator McKellar, of Tennessee, |
! declares that the most effective and
On “sober second thought” the
‘Republican leaders in Congress have
{come to the opinion that it is wiser
‘to be fair and reasonable rather than
stubborn and partisan. For more
‘than a year all the energies of the
. Republican machine have been in-
vested in an effort to bolster up the
waning popularity of Herbert Hoov-
of the party. Since the recent
election the tide against that pur-
, pose has been rising and the im-
pression that an early sessionof the
new Congress would destroy it al-
. together was growing. But under
| the guidance of selfish monopolists
i they seemed determined to force an
. extra session by refusing to consider
{ important legislation during the
‘short session.
| The legislation to which they ob-
jected has long been pending and
j Slaboratsly discussed in both
| branches. It can easily be disposed
| of in Congress but the President is
on record as irrevocably opposed to
some of the measures and is believed
to be against others. All of them
. are immensely popular with the pub-
{lic and either a veto or a surrender
| would be disastrous for Hoover.
{ The party leaders hoped to avert
, such an issue of the matter by in-
‘ducing Democrats and Independents
to consent to passing consideration
of them over until the regular ses-
'sion next year, thus guaranteeing
the supply bills from the short
Session and immunity from contro-
! versial questions for another year.
But neither the Democrats nor the
Independent Republicans in Congress
would consent to such a sacrifice of
opportunity, and like Mahomet and
. the mountain, the Republicans have
| decided to take up the legislation in
order. Representative Snell, of New
York, chairman of the House Com-
mittee on Rules, has announced his
. willingness to consider the Muscle
Shoals bill and Senator, Watson,
{floor leader in that chamber, de-
i clares that he will do anything to
ravoid an extra session. In other
: words he will yield to the necessity
j of being good. But it is not a cor.
| dial concession to justice and fair-
, ness or a patriotic gesture. It is
| influenced by dread of popular ex-
ecration.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. DECE
in the United’
can cities, literally millions of hun-°
He may have been deceived an unders
er as the only hope for the future
Hoover's Conversion to State Rights.
President Hoover's recent state-
ment with respect to federal enforce-
ment of State laws would be fine
and encouraging if it meant any-
thing. “Any suggestion of increas-
ing the federal criminal laws in gen-
eral,” he writes, “is a reflection on the
sovereignty and stamina of State
governments.” That is admirable
‘and as an esteemed contempory sug-
gests, “might have been written by
Thomas Jefferson.” But the trouble
is that it is not consistent with the
‘actions of the President in other
things. In the matter of prohibition
“enforcement, for example, he is not
only willing to usurp the functions
of the State governments but to vio-
late provisions of the federal con-
{ stitution.
But it is ungracious to “look a
gift horse in the mouth” and some
good may come from the President's
conversion to the doctrine of State
sovereignty, even though it is an
eleventh-hour mental operation. It
may inspire some of the State gov-
ernments to assert their authority
and resent the usurpations of the
federal government in local affairs.
The exercise of police powers by the
federal government, which has had
both the sanction and support of
President Hoover as well as most of
the leaders of his party, has incited
rather than repressed the evils of
which he complains, and if his admoni-
tion shall effect an improvement in
this respect it will be worth some.
thing,
It is absolutely true that
single State has ample
cover such criminality” as racketeer-
ing, corruption and other crimes
of violence that are raging in vari-
ous sections. It may be equally true
that “what is needed isthe enforce-
‘ment of those laws and not more
laws.” But the intrusion of the
federal government into the field of
‘local administration, which originat-
‘ed with the President’s party and
‘has been increasing rapidly under
his sanction, is largely if not alto-
‘ gether responsible for this condition.
Possibly Mr. Hoover has come to
tanding of the fact and a
“every
" subject, in which event a better sys-
tem may be expected.
An Unnecessary Agreement.
According to Washington gossip
President Hoover and Senator -Rob-
inson, Democratic floor leader of the
Senate, have arrived at a working
agreement with respect to legisla-
tion during the short session. The
programme is to enact unemploy-
ment bills, additional appropriations
for public buildings and roads, re-
lief for drought sufferers and a bill
for the further improvement of wa-
terways. It is further agreed that
“some of the relief measures will be
"offered by Republicans and others
“will come from the Democratic side.”
It 1s rather significant that Senator
Robinson who never filibustered,
‘agrees to discourage rlibustering.
' “Nothing is said about the Muscle
“Shoals problem, the lame duck ses-
‘sion question, the world court mat-
, ter, the Wagner unemployment leg-
.islation or either of the other meas.
ures for which the Democrats and
| independent Republicans in both
chambers have been striving for
many years. Nothing was said,
either, concerning the White House
filibuster and no promise was exact-
ed that it be abandoned. This dis-
crimination puts a suspicion on the
patriotism of the Democratic Sena-
tors and Representatives in Con-
gress that is hardly justified. They
have not shown a purpose to wreck
and destroy the country in the past.
The fact of the matter is that the
Republican party has gone bankrupt
and President Hoover, the principal
Democrats in Congress to rescue it
and save him. There is no need for
conferences to get the Democrats to
support helpful and proper legisla-
tion, and there is certainly great
need for = that form of legislation
now. . Some measures of this type
have been on the calendar for years
and have been opposed by the Re-
publican leaders. They have oOp-
portunity now to correct their faults
continue, as in the past, to legislate
in the interest of the people.
— If all the Luzerne county of-
ficials accused of crime are convict-
ed there will be along list of offices
to fill at the next election.
———TUnless Gifford Pinchot betrays
his record the impending fight for
the repeal of the Blue Laws will be
a waste of energy:
——Al Smith is to become a
columnist andit isa safe bet he will
give the public some interesting
stuff.
MBER 5. 1930.
laws that’
sufferer, is now trying to induce the
and meantime the Democrats should |
American Prize Winners.
From the Altoona Mirror.
It is announced that Frank B.
Kellogg, former American Secretary
of State, now a judge of the world
court, has been awarded the Nobel
peace prize for 1929. In addition to
the distinguished honor conferred
upon the winner of this annual
award, it is accompanied by a con-
siderable sum of money. There
is little reason to surmise that Mr.
Kellogg needs the latter; still it is
apt to come in quite handy from,
time to time.
i It is also interesting to observe
that the award for distinguished lit.
erary achievements was given to an
American, Sinclair Lewis, and that
the prize in medicine went to Karl |
Landsteiner of the Rockefeller insti-
tute. Thus three of the great prizes
come to America. It is very grati-
fying to learn that American pro-
fessional men are successfully com-'
peting with their brethren of other
countries and conferring distinction
upon their country as well as ben-
efitting mankind by their really
praiseworthy services to the world
at large.
For many years the Old World
paid little attention to the achieve-
ments of Americans or to the rapid
progress of our country in the vari.
ous fields of distinguished service.
The average KEuropean, if he ever
entertained any thought of the
United States, was convinced that
Americans were barbarians and their
country little better than a howling
wilderness. Our neighbors are rapid-
ly achieving enlightenment and ar-
riving at a better understanding of
the value of this country as a ver-
itable world force.
The successful work performed by
American citizens in the various
‘fields of human endeavor has long
been known to the more enlightened
inhabitants of other lands. Our
rapid development into a command-
ing position in the field of real
achievement could no longer be ig-
nored. The outside world is grad-
ually becoming better acquainted
with us. As we grow in population
“and wealth our opportunities as well
as our responsibilities increase in
, importance. Already our country is
well up among world leaders;
i seems probable that our pre-eminence
| over all others will be established
eventually. = We should prepare for
the task of intelligent leadership.
|
The Referendum Idea.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
| Leading Wets and Drys are again
discussing the proposal for a nation-
‘al referendum on prohibition, but it
is not clear what either side could
hope to gain from such a proceed-
ing. There is no way of course,
short of a constitutional amendment,
by which such a referendum could
be made legally effective. Con-
gress cannot even order such an ex-
pression of sentiment, It might
suggest it through a joint
tion. But the election machinery
is in the hands of the States. At
the recent election Illinois, Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island held ref-
erendums on phases of the prohibi-
oh
tion question. In Illinois the voters:
declared by a large majority for
repeal of the Eighteenth Amend-
“ment, modification or the Volstead
"act and repeal of the State enforce- '
‘ment law. In Massachusetts they
| voted for repeal of a similar statute.
In Rhode Island there was a popu-
-lar majority of three to one for
constitutional repeal.
Since there are wide differences of
opinion among both Wets and Drys
as to the advisability of a national
, referendum, it is apparent that even
'if a majority of the States agreed
.to the plan, many would not. So
it could hardly be considered a na-
tional referendum. Since Federal
_ constitutional amendments are not
adopted by popular vote, it has
, been proposed that this referendum
. be conducted through the medium of
forty_eight conventions, one in each
State. If thirteen of the States re-
fused to join in the plan, it would
be useless for the others to pursue
it, since there could be no chance
of getting through a new consti-
tutional amendment.
It is generally admitted that
neither the present Congress nor its
successor would pass a resolution
submitting the question of repeal to
‘the States. The only way to re-
peal consists in electing a Congress
.and a sufficient number of Legis-
latures committed to the change.
, The best way for the people to ex-
press their opinion on prohibition is
i by their votes on election day.
* Powerful Stuff.
From the Texas Ranger.
They tell a story about a tiny ant
who gazed longingly but helplessly
at the body of a dead horse. Just
then a bootlegger’s truck rattled by
and a case of stuff fell over the
endgate and crashed to the ground.
(A puddle formed and the ant, thirsty,
took a sip. Then he seized the
{ dead horse by the tail and shouted.
| “Come on, big boy, we're going
home.”
|
——Speculation as to the person-
nel of the Pinchot cabinet is run-
‘ning strong but Giff isn't saying a
- thing on the subject.
| —Subscribe for the Watchman.
it,
resolu-
' SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
| ~Norman Kuhn, 17, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Norman Kuhn, of Greencastle, a
freshman at Juniata College, enroute
with three other students to the college,
| was killed on Monday morning when
, their car skidded on the icy road near
_Orbisonia and crashed into a bank..
| —Guided by a premonition that he
; might be robbed while en route to a
, Teal estate office to pay his rent re-
' cently, Calvin S. Perrin of Pittsburgh,
‘hid the rent money, $45, in his hat. He
| was encountered by two bandits who
; searched him but found nothing. They
‘ failed to look in his hat. ;
| —Levi Reinecker, 71, one of the old-
"est millers in Adams county, died from
"a heart attack while trying to catch a
| chicken with his son, Howard, of Al-
“toona. He was one of the oldest millers
in the county, starting to work at that
trade in 1876. He is survived by a
widow, daughter and two sons.
| —Dr. Henry Wilkins, of Tyrone, Pa.,
and Baltimore, Md., has been awarded
the knighthood order of Saints Maurice
and Lazarus by King victor Emmanel, of
Ktaly. He is already commander of the
Crown of Italy and was decorated twice
with the war cross and silver medal for
military valor for work with the Italian
Red Cross during the World war.
—Mrs. Anzonetti L. Walthour, 88, for-
merly a railroad telegwapher at Greens-
burg, was fatally burned at her home
at Kittanning, on Saturday, when her
dress caught fire from an open stove.
Mrs. Walthour was taught telegraphy
by Stephen C. Foster, famous song
writer. The night that Lincoln was shot
she worked many hours receiving the
details over the wires.
—Two persons were injured, one critic-
ally, last Wednesday night, when a coal
stove burst in the kitchen of the home
of Thomas Ford, along the Lincoln
Highway near Coatesville. The injured
are Mrs. Thomas Ford, 50, and her
daughter, Mrs. Mabel Keech, 25. Both
are in a hospital and the condition of
the daughter is serious. The explosion
wrecked a large portion of the home.
—Inspection trips by seniors in en-
ginnering at the Pennsylvania State Col-
lege will not take place this year,
Dean R. L. Sackett, head of the school,
announced on Monday. Although the
trips are of considerable value,” Dean
Sackett said. ‘‘we feel that the expense
involved is not justified this year.” The
inspection tours will be resumed next
year if conditions in the industrial plants
warrant them.
—Missing since October, 1917, Frank
H. Hibberd, former Malvern man, was
declared legally dead by the Chester
county courts on Monday. Hibberd’s
wife told the court she has not seen or
heard from her husband since the day
he went to Coatesville to go to work.
Hibberd still has twelve weeks’ time in
which to prove himself alive, before a
final decree will be granted in the case.
He left a small estats.
and H. C.
named
| —Samuel Wilson, Altoona,
‘ McClellan, alderman, have been
! defendants in two $50,000 damage suits
filed in federal court at Pittsburgh, by
Samuel W. Lubow, New York. Lubow
charged that the Wilson machine ‘was
driven in a reckless manner resulting in
"a collision of cars last February 5, near
| White City, Fla. Lubow’s wife, accord-
ing to the statement, suffered fatal in-
! juries, and Lubow also was hurt. :
| W. Blair Roberts, Sufragan Bishop
of South Dakota, in a telegram to a
Harrisburg newspaper from his home in
Sioux Falls, S. D., said he had declined
to accept his election November 18, as
Bishop of the Harrisburg Diocese of the
Protestant Episcopal church. The re-
fusal will probably result in another
election at the regular diocesan conven-
tion at York, January 27 next. Bishop
Roberts was elected at a special dioc-
esan convention in Harrisburg. Novem-
ber 18.
—As a memorial to her son Lester, Mrs.
Lillian Freedman, of Sunbury, has es-
tablished a trust fund from which to
provide. prizes each year for the Penn-
sylvania State College senior man and
woman who make the greatest contribu-
tions to the dramatic work of the col-
lege. Lester Freedman, a member of
the class of 1926 at Penn State, was
particularly interested in dramatics, hav-
ing taken part in a number of produc-
tions by the Penn State Players. He
was drowned during vacation at the end
of his Sophomore year. }
—Eleven warrants were served on
Monday on Alfred E. Breen, former
Shamokin bank official, by constable E.
A, Fleming. Breen appeared before
Alderman W. H. Engle, at Sunbury, and
furnished bail. The warrants charge
| embezzlement, forgery, fraudulent con-
version and making false entries. The
' charges were laid by W. R. Reigle, a
State bank examiner. Breen will be
tried this week on a previous charge of
" embezzlement of $60,000 from the Guar-
| antee Trust -& Safe Deposit company,
- Shamokin, while one of its vice presi-
' dents.
~
{ —Burglars who blasted two safes in
the office of Mitzel Brothers coal yards,
York, Pa., early last Friday got nothing
save a revolver in one of the ruined
strong boxes. A vagary of the explod-
ing nitro-glycerine, which wedged an
{ inner door of the interior of one safe,
kept $350 from falling into the hands of
the thieves. The offices were wrecked,
windows blown out on three sides of
the building, and the interior riddled
with flying fragments of steel and con-
crete from the safes. Damage to the
safes and to the interior of the office
was estimated by the owners at $300.
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—The income from a $1,000,000 fund
left as a ‘‘foundation for the education
of females in or adjacent to Philadel-
phia” by Dr. Wililam Curran, who died
fifty years ago, is to be given to Beaver
College, Jenkintown, Pa., it has been an-
nounced. Beaver was chosen beneficiary
over two other institurttons, Wilson Col-
lege, Chambersburg, and the Philadel-
phia School for Christian Workers. It
was decided after months of study by
Francis B. Biddle, auartor for the or-
phans’ court, that the Jenkintown insti-
tution adhered more closely to the stip-
lations set forth in the will than the
other schools. The award represented
the accumulation of principal and in-
come on $50,000 left in trust by Dr.
Curran at his death in 1880. The will
specified that the fund should be used
to establish a foundation for a college
when the annual income should amount
to $85,000.