T0 LIQUIDATE BANK ASSETS Secretary Cameron Makes the Announcement. FAILURE LAID TO BELL Interesting News Items, Briefly. Con. densed, From All Sections of the State. Harrisburg. —— Assets of the Carnegie Trust Company are to be liquidated and two appraisers will be appointed to make’ an inventory and appraise ment of these assets, Secretary of Banking Cameron announced, This appraisement, which probably will take several weeks to complete, will be filed in the office of the secretary of banking and a certified copy will be filed with the prothonotary of the Allegheny court of common pleas, “After giving careful consideration to all the facts and the findings of the representatives of the department of banking who are investigating the af- fairs of the Carnegie Trust Company,” a statement from the banking depart- ment sald, “Peter G. Cameron, secre- tary of banking, has determined to liquidate the trust company in accord- ance with the provisions of section 38 of the banking act, approved June 15, 19238." Charles H. Graff, first deputy gecre- tary of banking, In charge of the trust company, left for Pittsburgh to go ahead with the department's plans. Attorney General Woodruff said his department is conducting an Investiga- tion Into conditions which led to the failure of the Institution and in a pre- liminary report filled with Governor Pinchot the attorney general attribut- ed the trust company's fallure to “one man” control of its president, John A. Bell. Prosecution of the hunter who, while gunning for groundhogs, aeci- dentally shot and killed James L. Wickard, Jr, aged 7, of New Kings. ton, will be Instituted by the State Game Commission, Secretary Gordon announced. Ralph I. Shank aged 32, of Mechanicshurg, county officials in- vestigating the accident said, fired the shot. The boy a few minutes before he was shot had directed two hunters to a corn fleld on his fathers farm where groundhogs are numerous While the hunters were circling the field, James drove cows along a nar. row road skirting the field. One of the hunters, seeing the corn move, hut not seeing the boy, of his shotgun. The boy dropped with an outcry and by the time the hunters and the boy's father had carried him to the farm house he had died. PENNSYLVANIA NUGGETS Catawissa voters at a special elec tion defeated a $12,000 bond issue for fire equipment and toward a new town hall. Bert Curnow, of Mount announced that he was a candidate for register and recorder of Noarth- umberiand county an the Republican ticket. In compliance with a court order, more than S00 gallons of denatured alcohol and various brands of moon- shine seized by Chester police In raids from time to time was dumped into the Chester river by County Detec- tive Smith. Shortly afterwards river. men saw catfish leaping above the sur face of the river, Frackville council awarded a con- tract for paving nine squares with re- inforced concrete, Announcement was made of the gottiement of the strike of the Seran- ton union plumbers, in effect since April. Charred with embezzling $325 from a Bloonshurg firm by which he was emplyed, and with passing five worth- less checks, C. ID. Weaver, of Huges- ville, ‘vas arrested and committed to fall in default of 22000 ball. John Strusser and P. J. Hynes were prose cutors of the worthiess check charges Jesse Wilkinson, of Upland, jomping to escape being burned hy scalding steam from a broken steam pipe, struck a sharp spike, inflicting a deep gash in his back. He tripped and fell ng he was being helped to the dis- pensary of the plant where he Is em- ployed and dislocated a knee, A grist mill owned by Willlam H Chamberlain, at Kresgeville, was de. stroyed by fire, entailing a loss of £35,000, with only $15,000 msurance. The Palmerton Fire Department re. sponded to the call for ald but It was ton late to save the mill : Carmel, have been taken before Chief Burgess C. L. Snyder and fined for violating an ordinance which provides for metal garbage containers. The Hoard of Health Is going after every house owner who does not have the proper garbage can, as the ordinance pro vides, When an automatic punch machine exploded in the Pennsylvania rallroad shops at Altoona, fragments struck John L. Campbell, ag 1 48, a carpen- ter, fracturing his sk. il, several ribs and possibly his sphe, Taken ill, John, S-renthsold son of R. B. Chamberlain, of Hollidays- burg. vomited an open safety pin swallowed three months ago. Hubert Kerr, aged 70, a Titusville milk dealer, committed sulclde by hanging. : Krumvl Atanasoff, a 4-vear-old boy, was drowned In a brickyaord pond at Steelton, id ¥ — NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS German Note Gives Hope of | Restoration of Friendly Peace in Europe. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ERMANY'S reply to France on the | subject of the security pact, in the | opinion of official-Burope, roakes bright | the outlook for peace in the old world, | Foreign Minister Stresemann’s note, | delivered to the French foreign office, | was considered In general quite satis factory, though article 16 of the League of Nations covenant stil stands in the way of complete accord The German government says that al though it does not consider its en- | trance to the league as A nDecessary condition for the establishment of a | security pact, as France and England insist, it is willing to join the league, but with the that | article 16 does not apply to Germany. “In spite of the explanation brought | about by Germany's note to the league council on March 13 last, there Is danger that after its entrance into the League of Nations Germany, disarmed | and surrounded by powerfully neighbors, situated In the center Europe and having In the course history served as the theater of gre: wars, would be drawn into confi between third states,” continues the note In expressing the Germans’ fear of stirring the anger of Russia by | belping France to ald Poland, Article 16 theoretically gives France the right to send troops and supplies across Germany to the aid of Poland if the latter is attacked hy Russix, but in Paris it Is declared no French gov- ernment would think of sending tfoops through a hostile Germany. Germany says In the note that it | would not have equal rights as a mem- | ber of the league until its own dis armament is followed by general armament. It denles any intention of | trying to modify the treaties of peace, but adds: “At the same time It takes for | granted that one must not forever ex- clude the possibility of adapting exist. ing treaties to more friendly accords.” | The third question discussed in the note Is the right of France as a guar | antor of future arbitration treaties be- | tween Germany and Poland and | Czechoslovakia to have the privilege to decide who 1s the aggressor. The | note demands that this right be given | to a disinterested power, the Hague court, or the League of Nations, M. Briand, French foreign minister, said: "In my personal opinion there is absolutely nothing In the German note which stands in the way of a sat- | isfactory settlement.” Later he ap prised French diplomatic representa tives In other countries of numerous reservations which the note calls for on the part of France, especially con- | cerning the interpretation of article 16 | of the covenant. The Paris press on second thought did not like the Ger | man reply so well, noting that it opens | a debate on the revision of the pence | treaties. Addressing the reichstag, Herr Stresemann urged the nation and the allles to back the peace plan. He said, however, there were still some Im. portant points outstanding, especially with respect to arbitration treaties and the position Germany is to take within the League of Nations The minister was confident that fur. ther discussion would lead to positive results. lle expressed great satisfac. tion at the good will shown by both Francs and Belgium In completely evacuating the Rulr before August 16, and the French premier's declaration that Duesseldotf, Duisburg, and Rub. rort also shortly would be evacuated, within the time set by the treaty. France was doing her part, as Strese mann sald, by hastening the evacua- tion. Her troops were moving out of the German cities rapidly, at night so as to avold clashes with the citizens, An explunation of the Improved re lations between France and Germany, current in diplomatic clreles, was that express condition Bred dis- Benjamin Strong, president of the United States Federal Reserve Bank system, and Montagu Norman, ernor of the Bank of Engiand, been In Berlin, fuse further less It showed a the negotiations. had threatened to re credits to Germany une reasonable N AN Interview granted Premier Pal “France has Inst week leve sald: intention to United There will be a settlement be fore November 1, and, although it has not been finally decided, M. Calllaux will go to the United States to arrange the firmest with the that settlement if the American public desires him to do so” Henri Franklin-Boulllon already has been appointed chalrman of the French commission, The premier confirmed that France would seek a huge in the United States after the agreed upon. the report loan debt of violating the the was found gui forbidding evolution, state law teaching of s fined convie- No- and wa The foregone conclusion the theory of $100 by Judge tion Raulston was a be carried up to the Tennessee Supreme court. If tht tains the verdict, presumably the preme Court of the United States will be asked The fundamentalists are not filed with this Walter Dayton's school superintendent a tribunal sus to rule on the case. sats White victory witness in the that a bill wo introduced in support prosecuting Scopes case, announced up and COnETess wi i federal from stitutions in which the doctrine The Scopes defense at the star the week surprisingly put William J Bryan on the stand, and he and Clar- ence Darrow engaged In a lively duel of question and answer. Which had the better of It was a matter of indi vidual opinion. However, Bryan was seven days, the words of might not be accepted literally. Bible Adam and Eve, of the tower of Babel, of the Flood, of Jonah and the whale, of Joshua and the sun, he said he believes are literally true, Speaking generally, he asserted: “I belleve the Bible absolutely as it stories of Next day the court decided all this should be ruled out, and he refused to let Bryan put Darrow on the stand So the case went to the jury, which needed but a few minutes to agree on a verdict of guilty. OF AGRICULTURE JARDINE has been spending some agricultural situation as he There is a return of confidence, he said, and the farmers are getting out He thinks there will be no great demand for farther farm legislation and that the farmers themselves are competent to solve their own problems. Many of the farmers with whom he talked told him to “let it alone, as things were going along pretty well” Mr, Jardine continued: “Cattle and hog men are better off than they have been since 1920 and 1 didn’t see any sheep men down at the mouth. If the wheat men are careful in marketing their crops they will get good prices and they are learning not to flood the markets, “Conditions in the corn belt are re versed from what they were a year ago, when hogs were still cheap and corn u poor and expensive crop. Indi- catior« are for a large cotton crop and a fu. .orable income in the belt.” CCORDING to figures just made public by the Department of Ag riculture, the farmers of the United States received a gross Income of $12. 136,000,000 from agricultural produce tion for the year ending June 30 last, as compared with $11.285.000,000 for the previous year, In arriving at the gross Income the department deducts cost of feed, seed, and waste from the value of produc. tion. According to the department's experts, the increase over last year, amounting to about 7% per cent, was due almost entirely to higher returns - from grain and meat animals, larly wheat and hogs Exclusive of live stock and particu was $0.777,000.000, as compared 1924 Food and consumed on the gales produced and by the the RIM French lines VIOLENT attacks ans falled to break along the Ouerga river, ports the Moroccan tribesmen ently preparing to concentrate thelr towns of respectively the important Taza and Quezzan, about 60 riles east and northwest of Fez. Re. inforcements for the French, together with the arrival of General. #aulin, the commander in chief af the field forces, and of Marshal Petain, renewed confidence that Abd-el- defeated. The new have Krim will be terms that have been offered him by France and Spain. HINESE papers dicted last in Shanghal week that war gould within a Fengtien troops out hreak the amd those of near the city and miles The international and French concessions were being protect- with barbed ent and all foreigners were cal From were only ten Apart. edd wire i In from the GIDOStE ack on Canton. Mean- the foreign diplomats in the The up proposals for settles i nt most hn portant of Convocation of the Chinese customs revision with a minimum of delay and creation of a commission them are: conference at a date still to be fixed. Reference of the sponsibility for bloodshed in refit Shanghai with the re fal in- government riots to a jndi the Chinese participating and all bound to abide by the findings. —— visited last week by sections of the divided fleet people gathered from all parts of the country to witness the arrival of the gray warships, there he impressive aerial demonstrations. Ad- miral Robinson, commander of the sec- a salute of seventeen guns, made offi. cial calls and reviewed a fine parade of men from his vessels, Sir Dudley Dechair, governor of New South Wales, standing by his side. ENIY FORIYS bid for the fleet of un~erviceable vessels of the United States shipping board has been held up for the present, objections to it having Leen raised by unsuccessful bid- ders under the first advertisement. There is a chance that the sale of the ships for junking may be prevented entirely, for someone has raised the point that this may be a violation of the merchant marine act. It was an- nounced Chairman O'Connor had asked for a ruling by the attorney general HE Van Sweringen Nickel Plate railroad merger project was still before the interstate commerce com mission last week, and the most Inter esting incident was a hot exchange be tween O, P. Van Sweringen and H, W. Anderson, counsel for protesting mil nority stockholders, concerning pro spective profits for the promoters of the deal. Anderson presented a tabulation of original costs and potential values as a profit summarization, which Van Sweringen declared led to false con- clusions. EARINGS on postal rates were begun by the congressional com mission, and as a starter Postmaster General New told the body that postal revenues, under the new rates, which went into effect April 15, were only £4,131, or 0001 per cent greater in May of this year than in May, 1024, The postmaster general made it clear that insufficient time had elapsed to Judge accurately the result of the changes, COMMERCIAL Weekly Review of Trade an Market Reports. BALTIMORE. ~—Wheat—Bag lots of new wheat, by sample, as to quality and condition, sold at $1.25, $1.33, $1.35, $1.40 and $1.43 per bushel. Car. goes on grade sold on the following basis: For No. 2 garlicky, $1.45; No. 8 garlicky, $1.44; No. 4 garlicky, $1.40; No. b garlicky, $1.37. Corn—Track yellow corn, for mestic delivery, is quotable for No. 2 in car lots on spot. Oats—No. 2 white, bBc 2 white, 66 asked Rye—Good demand for lots of new nearby rye and sales were made at $1.1C per bushel Hay-—0Old hay (per ton) timothy, $18050@19; No. 2 $16@ 17.50; No. 1 light mixed, $17.50@ 18; No. 1 clover mixed, $17@ 17.50; No. 2 clover mixed, $14@15 Straw-—-No. 1 straight per ton, $15@ 158.50; No. 1 wheat $12.50 per ton, $12@13 Millfeed—Spring wheat bran, West ern, in 1001b. sacks, per ton 34; Western middling (brown), in 100-1b. per ton, $36 Western do- asked; No. bag No. 3 timothy, clover rye per ton sucks Egus no bids Butter — Creamery, fancy 4% Q 40% choice, 43@ 44; do, good, 40 G42; io prints 45% G47%; do, blocks, 44@46;: 340 35: Md. and West Virginia rolls. 31@ 32; Ohio rolls, 31@ 32 firsts offered 34c; ladies, store- packed Chickens hens, 4% ibs. and 28@29¢; medium, 3% to per lb, 28@27; smaller and poorer, per 1b, 21@G22; i roosters, over wer ih 4 Ibs, smooth 21@22; ol 15@16; spring be. and over 38. springers 1% to 2 do, smaller, 285@32 pekings, 3% lbs @ 25¢; puddle, mongrel, 20; old ducks per ib. per 1b. welghing 2 ibs , Ducks, and over, per per 1b. and per 1b. 22 14@ 20 Pig 9 25@30c; do, old, 2 & small eons, G30 Fish Crocus, 84@5 G20 Bass, native per Gray per 1b $8G 10 per per bri. large emall to medium, $5@12 ib, 20Q25¢; Perch yellow, barrel trout large per 1b, 20@ 12@ 15¢ black z @ 20c Mack. Flounders white large per ib. large per ib per 1b * € 10¢ per It 18 Pike rel, per Ib, 15@ 18c per 14 ir or ff per zen Snappers NEW YORK Wheat-—-Spot, weak: dark northern spring, c § New York, lake and rail, $1.76%: No winter, f. 0. b., lake and rail, £1.72¢ No. 2, mixed durum, do, 1.62%. No. 1, Manitoba, do, in bond, Corn No York, do 1.265% No. 2 white higher than {6 (52 Spot steady; New mixed easy No. 2 h ote . { {a Spot Butter 6c. ox gcore) {reamery, do. extras {8&8 43. do 42% Eggs firsts to 81 score). -Fresh gathered, firsts, 33% @ nearby hennery whites, close iy selected, extras, 47@49 extra ado. 35 PHILADELPHIA Wheat winter $1.54@156; No. 2 garlicky, No. 2 Oats-—-No. 2 Corn yellow, $1.26G 1.27% white, 594 @60%¢ Butter——Solid packed, bigher than 46@48c, the jatter for small lots; extras, 92 score, 44; 91 score, 43; PO score, 42; 88 score, 40%; 88 score 30%. 87 score, 39; 86 score, 38%. Eggs—extra firsts, 38c; firsts, in new cases, 34; in second hand cases, 33% @ Cheese—New York, flats, fresh, 23% -24c. Live Poultry--Fowls, mixed breeds, fancy, 35@ 3%¢; weighing 1 to 1% Ibs 27931; spring chickens, Rocks, broilers, 2% @3 lbs, 40642: 2 ibs, 35@3%; 1 to 1% Ibs, 30@34; mixed breeds, full fledged, 2 to 2% Ibe, 35@ 38; 1 to 1% Ibs, 27682; leg: horn broilers, 2 Ibs, 26628; 1 to 1% lbs, 23@G 25. LIVE STOCK PITTSEURGH. — Hogs «- Heavies, $14@14.25; heavy Yorkers, $14.40@ 14.45; light lights and pigs, $126 14.25. Sheep and Lambs—Clipped sheep, $8.50; clipped lambs, $12; spring lambs, $14. whole cream. ’ "Iymouth BALTIMORE -~Cattle—S8teers, good to choice, $10.50G11.25: medium to good, $9.25@ 9.75; common to medium; $7.560@ 8.50; common, $6@7. Heifers, good to choice, $8.50@G 9; fair to good, $7506 8.25; common to medium, $5.50 @7.25. Bulls, good to choice. $5.500 8; fair to good, $4.75@5.25; common to medium, $4@ 4.50. Cows, good to cholce, $6G650; fair to good, $5@ 5.55. Hogs—Lights, $14.98@G15; heavy, $14.90; medium, $15.10; pigs. $14.50; light pigs, $1260; roughs, $8.50@ 12.75, Calves, $4610.50. obs ln A soberly avi onde a EA ——— a Eos! Heh. a A oak “+ ALONG LIFE’S TRAIL TET Ey THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinois. ET (6, 1920, Western Newspaper Union. ) GROWTH OR DECAY E HAD been talking about the tiibsons, Nancy and I. They had been absent from a meeting which they were supposed to attend, and | bad re marked upon the fact—pot that thelr presence would terest or progress of the meeting, they slmoply hadn't been there “They're at Minml spending the winter” explained, “but It doesn’t matter much they are, for they don’t count wherever they are. They haven't developed any in forty years" And yet when they were young peo ple the Gibsons had been very active and very influential in nunity in which they lived. They both had a fair education snd normal brains They were church people and leaders in the church which attended Gibson was a good farmer when they were married, and she a careful house keeper, and when into town, he showea n i1 8&8 sOrewa business man. But that was a good many years ago. They didn't read any: changed their viewpoint on anything. As new social and economic conditions developed Gibsons did things in the same old way. They did not grow, snd. lke all things living. when they ceased to grow, decay set in Gibson Is still gs rigid in his re ligious views as is our famous Ne braska Democrat. He has prohably heard of the doctrine of evolu and he still believes in sll the have added to the In- but Nancy where the comer they they moved they never the tion, For him no develop he Is still there has been religious thought; The Watsons see nothing to com society. They are very oid be condemned excepting as it Watson stil] keeps his old farm, and he first went onto thing that is new in agriculture. Watson politically is a stand-patter since after the Civil war. He is emersed in political dark- Democrats in the Ten- said to be Just ness as those are $ standing still for any. We grow or we decay. worse ; we go for It isn’t enough There is no we grow better or ward or we step back ful. developing. death has We Just keep on stop growing, begun, OPTIMISM HINGS are seldom as bad as we think they will be. The crepehanger and the prophet of than they are. he case of a neighbor of mine when 1 was 2 boy In the country comes to my as 1 write. He was constantly and flood, of pestilence and famine, of He in- took the gloomy view. He dicted calamity, and he looked for ward with melancholy resignation to the time when be would be quartered on the county, his home and his friends Yet he regularly prospered, his crops always matured, prices were much higher than he had anticipated, the yield of grain was satisfactory and he got on well. He extended his pos sessions regularly, until he Is now one of the solid, substantial farmers in the community In which he lives. But he is not happy. Today he Is looking for trouble, though most of the things which have made his life miserable during his sixty years have never hap- pened, Yesterday morning 1 woke with the thought that I had two extremely dis agreeable tasks to perform during the day that Involved the saying of things that would not be pleasant to me vor to the person who had to listen. 1 feit like running, 1 shrank back from the disagreeable duty. 1 wished that | might shunt It upon some one else. But | found when I faced it courageous ly. when | went to it stralghtforwardly and kindly. that most of the disagree able part disappeared. 1 got through rather easily. : And so 1 have found that most of the objectionable and disagreeable and trying experiences of life are worse in anticipation than in realization. The trouble and privation and the sacri fices that we look forward to with dread either never come 10 us or prove far less trying than we anticipate. Even the dreaded specter of death, 1 have no doubt, when we come to meet him face to face, will have lost his terrors. Most people whom 1 have seen go have done so courageously, fear lessly, painlessly and often without regret. Who knows but that the here after. which we sometimes shrink from. may not hold for each of us Joy and greater opportunities than does the present? It may not he dull and monotonous In heaven as fear, even If we are given a harp to strom,
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