—Just for the advancement of
science Capt. Bert White jumped
from an airplane that was five miles
up. If we ever get that near Heav-
en science and parachutes can go to
the devil. We'll pull the rip cord on
our wings—and more power to them
—when we make .our jump from
such an altitude.
—Conditions must be worse in
Bellefonte than surface indications |
reveal. We are told that out on
Linn street, where the rich folks |
live, even ham bones have to do!
double and triple duty by being
passed around among as many fam-
beans with them.
| been laid
ilies as care to cook their string cpot’
i
{other day State Treasurer Edward
King George of England has | Martin, who is chairman of the Re-
asked Parliament to cut his salary a publican State committee, had a
'politan contemporary plans have
s Presidential ambitions.”
quarter of a million dollars a year. conference with William S. Vare at
As the grants to Great Britain's his seashore home, after which “he
King amount to only two million, hurried back to Philadelphia and
three hundred and fifty-thousand an- met former
Mayor J. Hampton
nually we imagine poor George will Moore at a luncheon in the Union
have to go back to wearing patched League.”
Neither Mr. Vare nor
trousers, as he did as a gesture of | General Martin would reveal the
economy during the war.
purpose or result of their confer-
—Up to this moment our three ence, but as in other things “when
column plea of last week has result- two or three are gathered together,” |
ed in a reduction of exactly twenty- there
two in the list of our delinquents. own Senator
their | Baldwin, of Potter county,
lachrymal glands into flowing copi- Present at and participated in the |
Evidently we can't excite
is something doing. Our
Scott and Senator
were
ously enough to loosen their purse luncheon.
3 eh 2 The inference has been drawn by tinued, “Why governmental expen- | for nomination and election with-
strings. When we blubber again it
will be on the shoulder of John|our Philadelphia contemporary that | ditures should not be reduced from out violating
Occasionally he John | our subject of discussion at both the | $5,000,000,000 to $3,000,000,000, es- justice and a good many of the
conference and the luncheon was the pecially if we expect, during the provisions of the
Rockerfeller.
give someone a nickel.
—President Hoover has announc-
ed that by January first one hun-
dred thousand men will get jobs on
buildings the government is going
to erect. That would be something
if it were not for the fact that
sand will be paid will have to come
out of the pockets of others who are
probably as hard up as those who
are to get the jobs. Robbing Pete:
to pay Paul isn't a fundamentally
sound economic procedure.
—As the primary election ap-
proaches all manner of rumors are
afloat as to eleventh hour re-
alignments and combinations. One
is to the effect that Keeler, who
seemed sure of the Republican nomi.
nation for Sheriff three weeks ago,
8 slipping. Harry's eight reasons
for having the position on the ticket
aave been totally eclipsed by a mil-
jon or more reasons why he should
sot have it. The significant ons of
the latter is that Senator Scott
wants the place for Mr. Mayes.
Mayes can put up a lot of money
‘or the campaign, Harry can't and
che Senator won't unless he has
ome say as to whom it is to be
gy ha
ind we are inclined to put some
:redence in the story to the effect
hat even the Pinchot crowd ia
iropping some of their favorites be-
:ause they realize that in politics,
18 in everything else, bricks can't
e made without straw.
——Democrats who go to the pri-
naries next Tuesday should keep in
nind that there is to be a candi-
late for Supreme Court Judge
amed. Charles F. Uhl, of Somerset
ounty, is the only Democrat seek-
ng the nomination of his party.
‘udge James B. Drew, a Republican,
as filed on the Democratic ticket,
iowever, and is trying to capture
wth party nominations. Judge Drew
as no claim, whatever, to a place
n a Democratic ticket and his at-
empt to grab our party's nomina-
ion seems rather unworthy one
eeking such an exalted position as
. seat on the Supreme court bench.
‘his is the first time that any candi-
ate of any party in Pennsylvania
as undertaken such a thing in a
itate-wide primary and especially
ince our party has no representa-
ion at all on the Supreme court is
t an assumption of arrogance that
hould be rebuked by every Demo-
art. It is all right for Judge Drew
o run in his own party's primary,
ut his attempt to choke off any
pposition that the Democrats might
lect to present to his candidacy is
n exceedingly high-handed proce-
ure.
—When you go to the primary
ext Tuesday don't vote to put
omeone on your party's ticket mere-
y because he is a good fellow, or
ecause you like him or because he
eeds the job. No such reasons
hould guide a citizen who is voting
or the best interests of himself and
is fellows. He should select can-
idates for local offices with the ut-
10st care as to their fitness, their
ourage to stand out against parti-
an attempts to exploit the people
sho pay the taxes and who realize
nat the most rigid economy in
overnment is the thing most to be
esired now. Oftentimes a most
opular man is the extravagant one
nd just as often the most parsi-
1onious turns out to be penny-wise
nd poun( foolish. Especially for
1e offices of Assessor, Road Super-
isors, School Directors, Poor Over-
sers and County Commissioners se-
ict candidates whom you know will
pend your money so that you get
2¢ most for the dollar you pay in
ixes. There is so much dissatis-
iction abroad in the land now that
1e very foundation of our govern-
ient is trembling. In a large
ieasure it is due to the devil-may-
are way in which we vote or fail
) take interest enough to go to the
rimaries.
{
1
i
Pinchot Presidential ambitions.
and energy thus employed was
wasted. Governor Pinchot knows
that the Republican nomination for
| President next year is now securely
. penny that the hundred thou. |StoWed away in the White House has given thoughtful
refrigerator. But it may be recall-
ed that the late lamented Sancho
Panzo spent considerable time and
invested a good deal of endeavor in
a hopelessly futile conflict with a
wind-mill, and our aspiring and
self-appointed guardian of the rights
of the people may consider it worth-
while to keep on the front page,
anyway.
There is reason, however, in the
anxiety which the regular Republi-
can organization managers are mani-
festing concerning the activities of
the Governor. He is a master in
political maneuvering and an expert
in all the devices of demagogy. He
has set his heart to the task of de-
stroying the present leadership of
his party in Pennsylvania from
Uncle Andy Mellon down to the
most humble adherent of the Vare
machine. He can't prevent the
nomination of Hoover next year but
he thinks he can relegate to the
palitical..sorap-pile-al sthe leaders
and near-leaders of the force which
defeated his selfish scheme to con.
trol the operations of the General
Assembly during its recent session.
——The Prince of Wales also
shows real sympathy for the peo-
ple.
— A ——————
Psychology of Governor Pinchot.
The esteemed New York Times
doesn’t understand the psychology
of Governor Pinchot. The Gover-
nor's insistence upon outside help in
the work of relieving distress dur-
ing the coming winter surprises our
contemporay. It says “his attitude
is the more remarkable because in
the long run a wealthy manufactur-
ing State like Pennsylvania would
probably pay more than it received
for the assistance thus rendered.”
Governor Pinchot is not greatly
concerned about the receipts and
expenditures of the State in con-
nection with the relief of industrial
or economic distress. But he is
vastly interested in political condi-
tions at present and in the near
future, and firmly believes that dem-
agogic appeals to popular cupidity
will promote his ambitions, absurd
or otherwise. There is a good deal
of distress in the industrial life of
the State, at present, and strong
indications of suffering in the fu-
ture. The Governor probably be.
lieves that an insistent demand for
outside help under the circumstances
will meet with popular favor and
redound to his political advantage.
But in his demand for the early
assembling of Congress Mr. Pinchot
is everlastingly right. There are
questions pending that must be
solved by Congress and which ought
to be solved promptly. For example,
the moratorium is not valid until
ratified by Congress and yet Mr.
Hoover is proceeding with all the
assurance of a Mussolini or Stalin
to administer it. The autocratic
idea has taken too firm a hold on
his mind, not too rugged, at best.
The moratorium was an excellent
temporary expedient. Mr. Young
would not have suggested it if it
had been without sterling merit. But
80 long as it remains without the
declared sanction of it
may be perverted into an evil rath-
er than a blessing.
The docility of the people of Italy
and the experience of the Soviet
government of Russia have created
a sentiment in favor of government
by a dictator in many minds, main-
ly of the feeble type. It has com-
pletely enveloped the brain of Presi-
dent Hoover. He imagines he can
run the government without better
than with the help of Congress. It
is an experiment more dangerous
than noble.
The |
him.
STATE RIGHTS AN
| picked Representative in Congress,
“to fight Governor Pin- is persuaded that what the country has expressed
| ganization of Congress.
| dications point to Democratic con- |
‘trol of the legislative machinery and |
!incidentally to a correction of some |
(of the abuses in that direction, Mr.
Beck thinks it would be just too
bad for the credit to go where it
belongs. To avert that result he
favors “the formation of a party |
coalition and the election of a fair-
minded man as Speaker, as the
| practical way to cut public expen-
|ditures to the bone.”
‘There are no reasons whatever
Most |
| persons who have given thought to |
(the subject will cordially concur in
| this opinion. But what reason can
| Mr. Beck, or any other person who
consideration
[to the matter, give as to why the
process of economy had not bean
adopted long before. The Republi-
can party has had control of both the
executive and legislative branches
lof the government for a quarter of
a century and more and there has
been ample time in which to in-
augurate such economies.
While the Democratic party had
opportunity and inclination to put
James M. Beck into lucrative and
important offices he was an enthusi-
|astic. Democrat. When that, to
| him, auspicious period ended he be-
came a Republican. Since his con-
| version to that political faith most
|of the profiigacy of which he now
complains was developed. Now that
he sees a change for the better im-
pending he suggests a scheme
which might divide the honors
the improvement and obliterate
from the public mind all memory
responsibility for an evil y s
a et om
his hopes in the matter will be
appointed. will
the future legislation and
for the improvement.
EE — RP ———
—Dopesters on national - politics
lead us to believe that President
Hoover will wear his fishing boots
in his next campaign. They say
he wants to keep dry while angling
for votes in Four Per Cent Beer
Creek and Light Wine Run.
R
Hoover Inclined Toward the Wets,
Some of the well-informed Wash-
ington political news writers are
predicting that President Hoover is
inclined to change his mind on the
question of modifying the Volstead
law. For some months it has been
apparent that the influential leaders
of the party are drifting away from
the policies of the Anti-Saloon
League. But Mr. Hoover has thus
far continued adherence to the Bish-
op Cannon faith, though he has
never professed to be an out-and-
out Prohibitionist. But such party
leaders as control in the eastern
States are persuaded that the Bish-
op Cannon type of Prohibition not
only invites but compels disaster.
These writers imagine that Mr.
Hoover is coming to that opinion.
President Hoover has never had
what is commonly known and just-
ly esteemed “pride of opinion.” He
never hesitates to express one daya
view on an important subject which
he condemned the day before. He
is controlled by emotions of self-
interest which habit of mind led
Senator Watson to remark that, “a
man has to have St. Vitus’ dance to
stand behind this President.” In
wet States he supports wet candi-
dates like Senator Morrow, in New
Jersey, while he is equally attached
to Senator Fess, of Ohio, a bigoted
Prohibitionist. His last public ut-
terance on the subject was an em-
phatic declaration of fidelity to the
Anti-Saloon League's system of pro-
hibition enforcement but nobody
knows what's next.
Elliott Thurston writes the Phila-
delphia Record that “New York Re-
publicans, organization leaders in
New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connec-
ticut, Rhode Island and other east-
ern, as well as western, States have
warned Hoover that his chances of
re-election, none too bright at best
in times of depression, are close to
hopeless unless he heeds the public
clamor for reform,” meaning, of
course, the modification of the Vol-
stead law. The concensus of opin-
fon among the well-informed in
Washington is that he will yield in
this as in so many other matters to
expediency, and in the end pursue
the course chosen for, and not by,
1
D FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 76. BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 11, 1931.
What Pinchot May be Able to Do. Mr. Beck Would Shield His Party. Judge Strauss Rebukes Corruption.
According to an esteemed metro. Mr. James M. Beck, Vare's oe]
Judge Frank H. Strauss, president
of the Northumberland county courts,
courage and con-
needs at this time is a coalition or- science in refusing to submit to the
The coun-
try has been indulging in what | politicians.
might be called a criminal orgie of |
extravagance and now that the in-
demands of hungry and corrupt
Judge Strauss is one
of the outstanding jurists of the
State. He is completing a full
term of honorable service on the
bench and had announced his candi-
dacy for re-election. But the ex-
actions of the politicians have been
so great that he was compelled to
withdraw from the contest. He has
announced, according to newspaper
reports, “that he could not see the
bargain in paying from $30,000 to
$40,000 to the county's Democratic
shylocks for a $10,000 a year job.”
Campaign expenses have become
| 80 enormous in Pennsylvania that
| except party politics,” Mr. Beck con- no map, however wealthy, can hope
every principle of
election laws.
It period of this crisis, further pay- The result is that in many sections
{may be safely said that the time ments to the sinking fund.”
of the State the official life has be-
come a pool of corruption. When a
| candidate pays as much, or nearly
as much, for the election as he will
receive in salary the only means of
reimbursement is the practice of
fraud, and that method is usually
adopted. In the nature of things
this system becomes a rule in the
community until the entire official
life is debauched and the people
acquiesce without complaint.
It may be worth-while to recall
the fact that the first offender in
this grave evil of politics in Penn-
sylvania was Gifford Pinchot, who
pretends to repreesnt the righteous-
ness of official life. In 1922 he,
and other memebrs of his family,
spent upward of a quarter of a mil-
lion dollars for the nomination for
Governor. It was an unheard of
figure up to that time. No candi-
date had ever dreamed of such prof-
ligacy before that year. But since
then such figures have become the
rule rather than the exception, and
nobody is able to devise a plan to
stop it. But Judge Strauss, of the
county courts, has
the way. If other
/ pursue the same course that
evil will soon end.
——Senator Borah says “if the
public dole system is established in
this country it will be forced by
those who, having the means, refuse
to do their part in feeding the hun-
gry.”
Demagogues in Disagreement.
There never was much love ex-
changed between Governor Pinchot
and Senator Dave Reed, of Pennsyl-
vania. They only come together
when the exigencies of politics re-
quires the complete repression of
every element of honesty. It is not
surprising, therefore, that Senator
Reed should take issue with Gover-
nor Pinchot on his plan to relieve
the unemployment paralysis. The
Governor's appeal to President Hoov-
er gave the Senator an excellent op-
portunity to denounce flagrant dem-
agogy and he just naturally avail-
ed himself of it at the expense of
Pinchot.
Of course Mr. Pinchot's purpose In
asking the President to assemble
Congress in extra session was not
to provide employment to labor or
relieve economic depression. It was
to embarrass Hoover by organizing
labor against him for selfish inter-
ests. Mr. Pinchot is free with lip
service to labor but parsimonious in
rendering any more substantial as.
sistance. He has already repudiat-
ed most of the promises made dur-
ing his campaign for Governor, last
year, and is trying to divert public
attention from his delinquency by
putting Hoover in a hole.
But Senator Reed is no more sin-
cere in his plan for industrial relief.
He knows that the General Assem-
bly of Pennsylvania has no power to
appropriate money to provide em-
ployment for idle but willing work-
ers, and that even if it had such au-
thority it would be impossible to ex-
ercise it in time to avert the suffer-
ing already casting its shadow over
the State. As a matter of fact
both these Republican office holders
are trying to fool the people, one
by besmirching the President and
the other “to save his face.”
——King George, of England,
shows that his heart is in the right
place by voluntarily surrendering
a big slice of his salary as a help
to solve the industrial depression.
———New York's Mayor's sojourn
abroad may be restful to him but
the newspaper stories of it make
the rest of us Americans tired.
~The farm board is
of its wheat in sizable job lots but
the transactions are not helping the
farmers a great deal.
NO. 36.
Hoover Philosophy—Roosevelt Action
From the Philadelphia Record.
While President Hoover co-ordi-
nates, Governor Roosevelt initiates.
Mr. Hoover gives the distressed
public philosophy. Mr. Roosevelt
gives it action.
The New York Governor's plan
may not be perfect. It may not
even be the best possible. But it
is a plan, it promises to start the
machinery of real relief—and it
{bucks us up to know that someone
in high office is in earnest and not
afraid to take a chance.
The Governor proposes a State
tax on incomes to provide funds for | —Elsie Devine, arrested on a charge of
That | disorderly conduct,
State help to the unemployed.
“Socialistic. Paternalistic.”
will be the cry from those who
place property rights above human
ghts.
But Goveronr Roosevelt thinks in
terms of human welfare.
What he proposes is an emergency
measure disre, conventional
restrictions for the sake of safe-
Soaring the public against disor-
ers threatened by another winter of
distress.
For single persons the tax would
start at incomes of $3000, whose
possessors would pay $2.50. For
‘heads of families, with two children
or other dependents, it would begin
at $5000 with a tax of $1.
In practical effect, the suggested
legislation would simply put State
|authority back of the appeal to the
money to help those who have none. |
The tax would equalize the burden |
—and all the great social and eco-|
nomic problems of America toda,
pivot on the idea of equalization.
For New York State the Governor
boldly proposes a course which Pres-
ident Hoover has rejected for the
nation.
Two political philosophies in dra-
matic contrast. Hoover preaches
’ individualism,” dreads the
dole and says relief must come
through private agencies. Roosevelt
recognizes the duty of Government
to protect the people, and translates
his conviction into definite, positive
action.
If ovat Roosevelt's plan is ac.
cepted—and y partisan on
is to be expected—a $20,000,000. 2
propriation will start the ball -
ing. An emergency relief board to
be appointed by the Governor will
the fund.
a will be
for em on State or munic-
i works. Cities and counties
will’ be authorized to raise relief
funds through bond issues. i
The Governor steps out boldly with |
resentation of the contrast between
action and that of the Federal
Administration. “It is idle to spec-
ulate on actions the Federal Gov-|
ernment may take,” he says. And: |
“The time for platitudes has ."
Hoover leadership is increasingly |
under challenge klin D. Roose- |
velt’s leadership in his party be-
comes constantly more conspicuous. |
He stands foremost among govern-
mental executives as one ready, will-
ing and able to inaugurate practical
methods of relief. |
He recognizes and faces realities.
i ——— A —————
Fordian Philosophy
From the Danville Morning News,
Henry Ford has blossomed into
print with a typically Fordian pro-
nouncement. All employees in his
automobile factories must furnish
food for their tables from their own
back yard or lose their jobs.
oo on Mo td
the depression by every
man to help himself. Eventually,
he thinks, other manufacturers will
promuigate similar requirements un-
til the movement has spread to every |
part of the country.
It really is a splendid idea. If
every e earner his own
produce the farmers in the
country will be impo
everybody knows what a thing
that would be for industry. Doubt-
less it would have a splendid effect
upon the sale of Ford automobiles if
the farmers were to lose their mark-
et for their crops.
Mr. Ford should go farther and
make a similar suggestion to farm-
ers. There is really no reason why
they shouldn't help themselves, as
the Ford employees are about to do.
If they had any gumption, they
would use their spare time to build
their own automobiles. That, too,
would help the depression. It would
create so much more spare time for
the Ford employees to devote to
their gardens.
Besides, it all gets us back to
those good old days which Mr. Ford
admires so much, the days when
every family raised its own food,
spun its own clothes, built its own
houses, and made its own tools.
Pretty soon we won't need any Ford
factories or any farms at all and
depressions will be at an end.
t's really marvelous how simply
the great economic piublens can be
solved if somebody like Mr. Ford
gets around to attending to them.
~——Just like other people Lindy
finds that an earthquake offers a
“rather odd, queer sensation.” To
some victims it is even worse than
that,
~—Judging by the Philadelphia
papers that city lost its most distin-
guished citizen when Mickey Duffey
“passed away.”
| public—the appeal to those who have |
Y of a happy cruise to
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Thicves breaking into the William
Kightlinger residence in Pleasantville,
Crawford county, carried away a safe
weighing 150 pounds, end took it into
Warren county where they rifled it of
its contents, Valuable papers and jew-
eiry were stolen.
—A ton of sugar has been received by
police chief H. 8S. Byers, at police head-
quarters in Chambersburg, from a bene-
factor whose name was withheld at his
request. The sugar will be distributed
among needy families and a portion will
be given to welfare workers preserving
| peaches for winter consumption.
—The Crawfod county School Direc
| tor's association has asked school boards
{of the county to refuse employment to
Imen and women teachers who smoke
| cigarettes, The Rev. J. Alvin Hazlett,
| United Presbyterian minister of West
| Fallowfield township, introduced a reso-
lution at the annual meeting condemn-
ling the use of cigarettes by teachers.
| —When honor certificates are awarded
at the National Dairy Exposition in St,
| Louis, October 10 to 14, the names of
1037 Pennsylvania dairymen will be ane
nounced, E. B. Fitts, in charge of dairy
extension work at Pennsylvania State Col-
| lege, has announced. The awards will
| be made to members of dairy herd im-
| provement associations who obtained an
average of 300 or more pounds of butter-
| fat per cow for the year ending June 30.
attempted suicide
three times on Monday in a cell at the
| city hall, in Pottstown. First she open-
|ed a vein in her left wrist with a nail,
{then swallowed the nail, and finally
| ground up an electric bulb and swallow-
‘ed the glass. Chief of police Sheets,
| who found her in the cell, took her to
| Pottstown hospital. She was arrested
| early in the evening when she was found
| asleep in a parked car.
—Within 2 few minutes after he had
| the gasoline tank of his machine filled
and traveled only a short distance on
(the highway, an automobile, owned and
driven by Henry Reister, of Chicago,
and occupied by his wife and two oth-
| er women, was destroyed by fire. The
| accident occurred a short distance west
|of Water Street at 6:30 p. m. Monday.
The occupants had a narow escape from
injury. As the climax traffic on the
highway was tied up for a considerable
period of time.
—A weary, aged coal miner, his visions
Italy shattered,
plodded through Pittsburgh offices last
Thursday in a futile search of an enve-
lope containing his life savings. Thir-
ty-five years ago Lawrence Covi, now 80,
began working in mines at Herminie,
near Irwin. He saved $14,500. The
coal strike threw him out of work, so
he planned to go to his native land. He
went to Pittsburgh, got his savings, $14,-
500, and went to the federal building for
necessary papers to sail. When Covi
returned home the envelope containing
the $14,500 in $50 bills was gone.
—A stranger, well dressed and drunk,
entered the City hotel, at Sunbury, at
7:30 o'clock Sunday morning and after
loitering in the lobby for a few minutes,
walked to the cigar lighter and held a
twenty dollar bill over the flame until
the “yellow back” was entirely consum-
ed. He then reached in
the clerk,
James Coutts, the bell boy, recovered
from their astonishment, grabbed his
arm and pulled him away from the light-
er. After grumbling a few words he
returned the dollar to his pocket and
left the hotel.
—Final plans have been completed for
the dedicaticn on September 16, of the
new Milton armory, erected to the mem-
killed in an accident several months ago.
Company L and Headquarters company
under the command of Captain Morris
Snyder and Lieutenant Clyde Campbel]
will have charge. Invitations have gone
out to high officials of the National
| Guard. Auditor General Martin, com-
mander of the Fifty-fifth infantry bri.
gade, has announced his desire to attend
and is expected. Battalion commander,
Major BE. L. Davis, Berwick, and Colonel
Robert Vail, regimental commander, of
Scranton, will probably attend.
—A baffling mystery confronted Leb-
anon police, on Tuesday, in determin-
ing the circumstances of the death of
Vincent Williams, 14, Chester, Pa., found
fatally wounded in a farm house near
Lebanon where he spent the summer,
Albert Hamilton, Chester, found the
body in an upstairs hallway. A phy-
sician decided that death was due to a
hemorrhage. He shipped the body to
Chester for burial. There an undertak-
er found a wound over the heart. He
shipped the body back to Lebanon for
examination. Authorities reported find-
ing a 22 caliber rifle near the spot where
the body lay. They said it was not
within ‘‘reaching distance” of the boy,
thereby discounting a suicide theory.
—Punished by his father, John Dito,
for staying out all night, Irvin Dito, 10
years old, of Reading, shot and killed
himself Monday evening because of
pique. A policeman found him sleeping
in a hallaway Monday morning and
took him home, where the elder Dito
gave the boy a severe whipping. That
afternoon the boy went to a movie, but
refused to take supper when he went
home in the evening. Later members
of the family found the boy unconscious
in his bedroom, a revolver clasped in his
hand and a wound over the heart. He
died soon after being admitted to a
hospital. The parents said they did not
know how the boy came to have the
weapon, as it did not belong to his
father.
~The number of deer killed by Penn-
sylvania farmers to protect crops was
eighty-five fewer during August, 1931,
than during the same period last year,
Charles G, Stone, executive secretary of
the Game Commission announced on Mon-
day. Eighty-two deer were killed dur-
ing the month of August, 1931, as com
pared with 167 during August, 1930. The
principal damage was to oats and buck-
wheat, with Jess damage to potatoes and
garden produce. Practically all of the
deer were retained for food. There has
been little bear damage so far this year,
due principally to the abundance of nat-
ural food. Sometimes a bear will form
an individual flesh eating habit, Stone
sald. The Game Commission received
two claims for bear damage during the
month of August, one from Elk county,
covering two cattle and another from
Lycoming, covering two lambs,