PENNSYLVANIA
NEWSJN BRIEF
Interesting Items From All Sec
tions ot the State.
GULLED FOB QUICK READING
News of All Kindt Gathered From
Various Point® Throughout the
Keystone State.
The price of bread In New Caatls
has boon advanced to twelve cents.
Reading City employes will be in
aured with the atate compensation
board.
Carlisle Indians gave an entertain
ment and raised $55 for the relief of
Armenians.
Charles Forsburg, of McKeesport,
has been appointed a clerk In the coast
guard service.
A 950-pound hog haa been fattened
by Farmer Blair Kauffman, near Mex
ico, Mifflin county.
Rev. Robert Bair, six years paatof
of Trinity Reformed church, at Mount
ville, has resigned.
To exclude itinerant peddlem and
hawkers, Hazfleton has raised their
license fee to $25 a day.
Struck by an autobus as he alighted
from another, Michael McGroskey w«
killed at Beaver Meadow.
Nine hundred and thirty-three stu
dents are enrolled in the school of
agriculture at State college.
Rev. W. H. McPeak, of the United
Presbyterian church, will accept a
pastorate in Brad dock, Pa.
Thomas Koske, a sixteen-year-old
boy, of Cranberry, was crushed to
death in breaker machinery.
Joe De Bell has been arrested at
Carlisle, accused of furnishing liquor
to inmates of the Indian school.
Captain John M. Rudy, command
ing the Carlisle company of the Eighth
Infantry, has been reappointed.
Hunters' licenses in Venango coun
ty this season total 3700. This is au
increase over the number of 1915.
For driving an auto while intoxicat
ed, Luther Defenderfer was fined $lOO
by Mayor Reichenbach, of Allentown.
Price of fuel oil at the refineries in
northwestern Pennsylvania has ad
vanced from 3 x /4 to 5% cents a gallcn
District Attorney Lloyd has been
raiding turkey raffles along the Sus
quehanna in lower Cumberland coun
ty.
Surgical and medical clinics were
witnessed at the -Hazleton State hos
pital by fifty doctors from that vicin
ity.
Robbers on the farm of G. L.
Strock, near Mechanicsburg, entered
his chicken house and killed thirty
fowls.
Morris Miller, a banker and ware
house man, has been appointed a mem
ber of the Cumberland county poor
board.
Former Carbon County Commission
er John K. Lentz, of Weissport, has
made an assignment for the benefit of
creditors.
Mrs. Hattie Rhoda has sued Mary
W. Wlaler, of Reading, for $5OOO for
alleged alienation of the affections of
her husband.
A voluntary Increase of ten per cent
has been given the 900 local employes
of the Standard Steel Car company,
at New Castle.
Solomon Palmer, aged fifty-nine, a
business man, of Connellsvllle for
forty-one years, died after an iMness
of two months.
Girls at the Moravian college, Beth
lehem, will forego ice cream at meals
and give their savings to relieve war
prisoners in Burope.
Emanuel C. Hegley, aged twenty
nine, an engineer, of Klttannlng, was
killed when he fell from the running
board of his engine.
The state's aphthous fever quaran
tine against Nebraska live stock may
be extended to include shipments from
Kansas and Missouri.
Relatives in Butler have received
word of the death of James McGarvey,
aged forty-two, an oil well driller of
Peru, South America.
Cumberland countians'excluded from
the will of their aunt, Mrs. Rebecca
Wheeler, of South Bend, Ind., will
sue for shares in her $65,000 estate.
A 200-pound bear was shot by Alfred
Sipple. aged fifteen, of Bear Creek,
near White Haven, at Shade Creek,
where they are reported numerous.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad will
erect a building to be used as a gym
nasium by its hundreds of employes
working out of New Castle Junction.
Lawrence Dolan, a Reading conduc
tor for more than twenty-five years,
failed to notice a train of approaching
cars at Mahanoy Plane, and was kill
ed.
Several does are roaming the fields
and mountains near Shartlesville. They
are rather tame, and are supposed to
have escaped from a pen at Werners
rille.
H. P. Smith has resigned as a mem
ber of the faculty of Lehigh Univer
sity, and has been succeeded by
Charles H. Bender, of South Bethle
hem.
Rural mail carriers appointed in
clude Fay R. Kreitz, at Cambridge
Springs, Pa., on route No. 6, and S.
Emory Kuntz, at Clearfield, on Route
No. 3.
Mercer has filed complaint against
the Pennsylvania company for main
taining three crossings in that town
without gates or other protective
measures.
Ira Robinson, aged twenty-eight,
Pittsburgh and Lake Brie breakman,
was instantly killed at Ellwood City
when his head was caught between
two cars.
Rev. E. H. Kellogg, thirty years pas
tor, has tendered his resignation to
the Second Presbyterian congregation,
Carlisle, and will take up special work
at Harvard.
Edgar, four-year-old son of Mrs. Ber
tha Read, Lancaster, has died of in
fantile paralysis—the thirty second
case for Lancaster county and the
fourth death.
Butler county's banner potato crop
this year was raised by H. C. Flem
ing, of Penn township, who harvested
638 bushels on three acres and sold
them for $1052.
Palmerton teachers have organized
a glee club among their pupils, with
Miss Beatrice Roth president: Miss E.
Moyer, secretary, and Miss M. Wil
liams, treasurer.
E. W. Cauffman, of H5l\ in
an effort to solve the lack o r farm
laborers, purchased a tractor co*"n har
vester and husking machine, w'afch
proved successful.
Employes at No. 3 blast furnace of:
the E. & G. Brooke Iron company.
Birdsboro, were given an increase of
twenty-five cents a day, dating from
Thanksgiving day.
Many industrial concerns in the Le
high Valley are working short-handed
these days, as Austro-Hungarian work
men are laying off in memory of Em
peror Francis Joseph.
Announcements have been made by
the two Hamburg banks that $53,000
will be released on and after Decem
ber 11, in the Christmas funds saved
during the past year.
Picking coal from the huge culm
banks in the anthracite region, these
days, means arrest, as teamsters were
found selling what they took under
pretense for home use.
When Thomas O'Connor's automo
bile smashed into a telegraph pole
near Stanton colliery, he, Edward
Donahue and M. J. O'Boyle, of Shenan
doah had narrow escapes.
W. O. Downing, who shot up the
Curwensville bank, at Clearfield, 'last
July, has been sentenced to not more
than five nor less than three years
in the western penitentiary.
"Chased by a big bear," as they
averred, Herman Weidaw and Horace
Hoagen, of Lehighton, ran into Parry
ville at night, all out of breath, but
the supposed bear was a calf.
Harry Alexander, of Allentown.
bought two old autos for $9O, and
when he found they would not run.
stopped payment on the check. He
was arrested and forced to pay.
Trappers in Berks county were sur
prised by New York furriers, who re
fuse to pay them as high price? f" I
furs as last year, and fur-bearing ;ni
mals are quite scarce in Be ics cru*i
ty.
Boyertown banking institutions hold
Christmas club accounts amounting to
$50,000. $19,871.30 of which will be
paid out to 610 subscribers and put
into immediate circulation for holiday
gifts.
One of the worst epidemics of apple
blotch is gaining headway through
Montgomery, Bucks and Berks coun
ties, with the disease rapidly spread
ing toward the central part of the
state.
After a run of thirty-two months,
during which time it made 457,b00
tons of pig iron, No. 1 blast furnace,
of the Eastern Steel company, at
Pottstown. went out of blast for re
pairs.
• Brlckyayers are so scarce in the
hard coal fields that Phlladelphiens
hired at eighty cents an hour were
imported by the contractor who is
building the Freeland Presbyterian
church.
Senator-elect P. C. Knot, with 77,-
728 votes, led all candidates at the
Allegheny county polls, and was 40,-
093 above his rival, Bails L. Orrie,
while President Wilson's vote was 21,-
416 greater than four years ago.
A bullet carelessly fired by someone
in a passing automobile crashed
through the windshield of a machine
occupied by Rev. R. S. Snyder, oi
Schwenkville, and several other per
sons, narrowly missing the preacher's
head.
A score of Mexicans and southern
negroes, who worked on the labor
gangs of railroads, In and near Read
lng, are beginning to go south tc
warmer climes, and the former would
rather face conditions In Mexico than
the cold, raw weather of the north.
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE BEGINS
RAILWAY INQUIRY
Proposed by President to Bet
ter Condition of Carriers.
MAY CHANGE PRESENT SYSTEM
Officials of Reads Prepared to Advocate
Federel Incorporation, Supervision of
Securitiea and Extension of Authority
of Intsretate Commerce Commission.
Washington, Nov. 20. —Ten members
of Congress, five Senators and five
members of the House of Representa-'
tives, began here today an inquiry Into
the subject of public control and su
pervision of railroads that may lead to
the revolutionizing of the whole scheme
of governmental regulation of the coun
try's transportation lines. Incidentally
the committee is to look into the ques
tion of government ownership of rail
ways, telephone and telegraph lines
and express companies.
The members of the committee
which will conduct this Important in
vestigation are Senator Newlands of
Nevada, chairman; Senators Robinson
of Arkansas, Underwood of Alabama,
Cummins of lowa and Brandegee of
Connecticut, and Representatives Ad
amson of Georgia, Sims of Tennessee,
Cullop of Indiana, Esch of Wisconsin
anl Hamilton of Michigan. The in
quiry was recommended by President
Wilson in his message to Congress in
December of last year. He described
as its purpose to determine what could
be done "for bettering the conditions
under which the railroads are operated
and for making them more useful serv
ants of the country as a whole."
Prominent Men as Witnesses.
In order to obtain the views of all
interests affected by the operations of
the transportation lines the committee
has invited prominent shippers, bank
ers, representatives of commercial or
ganizations, railway executives, econo
mists and others to appear before them.
The first to be heard are railroad
commissioners of various states who
began their evidence today. Their
testimony is directed chiefly to oppos
ing any enlargement of the federal
authority over commerce that would
detract from the powers now exercised
by state bodies. They will be followed
shortly by officials of railway labor
organizations who are expected to reg
ister their opposition to the increase
of governmental authority over wages
and conditions of labor.
Chief interest in the hearings cen
ters in the proposals that will be put
forward by representatives of the rail
roads, for it is reported that they will
advocate an extension of federal au
thority over rates and securities to the
practical exclusion of state control of
these matters. It is understood also that
they will go on record *n favor of fed
eral incorporation of all railroad lines.
Legislative Program of Railroads.
From an authoritative source is ob
tained the following outline of the leg
islative program which the railroads
will ask the committee to consider in
gymmiM. —>i«.in.niiTFn: =3Fimf.)mH
I Facts Versus f
I Fallacies
FACT is a real state of things. FALLACY is an appar
ently genuine but rcuUj illogical statement or argument.
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TfVAILY c~z FALLACIES reiterated by illy-informed
O Prohibitionists about the effect of alcohol upon those ?' IN Or
■ \ wno use it, and in this connection it is interesting to turn
; to some scientific FACTS that were presented in a lecture -v
! I before the New York Academy of Medicine on April 6ta Jo
i I last, men the phychological effects of moderate doses of
! ; -Icohol cn man, by Dr. Francis G. Benedict. The context
i wi this lecture was printed as a leading article in that repre- j/ •.
; sentative publication "Science" on June 30, signed by
Duncan S. Johnson of Johns Hopkins University. The "sf 'fljjp*
salient point made was this:
A ICOHOL in not too large doses, taken by the J
v /SSjS mouth, is undoubtedly burned in the body, and in 7
FE this burning gives off heat which replaces equivalent s?
E] —energy ordinarily derived from food or body substance. 5
fcEi absolutcl y demonstrated by Profc- sor At- jj?J
V water and his associates with the respiration ca trimeter
0 at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. Tuxa scien- rr
vwfflff t^c P ro °* °* * m P° rtant ro^c that moderate doses of
-*»■, yfj B *J| alcohol may play in the human energy economy finds veri-
fication in the masterly, statistical studies of Armand
Gautier in Paris, who has shown that there are certainly
several million people who regularly receive in their daily I
diet somewhat more energy in the form of alcohol than I
they d* in the form of protein. What has been demon
strated of the French is probably true of many others. ~ k i,»
Thus we see that a psychological study of alcohol is, on - I
abstract scientific grounds, essential to a complete under- l-l nJ*-~
standing of the materials regularly ingested which serve J
as the sources of energy to the body." "
INTERPRETATIONS of the results of alcohol upon the
human system have been confusing and misleading be- s'-'?/■ ft
cause of the preconceived FALLACIES of Prohibitionists J
and other "dry" agitators who imparted their foolish no- Jr~ _ jraSffeu i ||
tions to the public. But when the scientific investigations 1 I'
of medical experts come as authoritative FACT", t':2 tern- j"j
™ perate use of alcohol is shown to be beneficial. ~
= Pennsylvania State Br eivcrc 9 Association sf
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its investigation: TEey wflT enJeavor
to demonstrate to the commission that
one of the principal defects In the pres
ent system of railroad regulation is
the lack of coordination resulting from
the simultaneous and conflicting regu
lation by the federal government and
by the 4S states. They will, therefore,
ask that entire governmental control
of the rates and practices of interstate
carriers, except purely local matters,
be placed in the hands of a federal
body so that interstate traffic may be
regulated without reference to state
lines, leaving to the state commissions
jurisdiction only over local matters and
local public utilities. As a part of this
plan, a compulsory system of federal
incorporation is to be recommended,
accompanied by federal supervision of
railroad stock and bond Issues.
A reorganization of the Interstate
Commerce Commission will be asked.
In order to enable the commission prop
erly to exercise its Increased powers.
It is also proposed that the preparation
and prosecution of cases against the
railroads shall be delegated to some
other agency of the government possi
bly of Justice, so that
the commission may devote Its ener
gies to its administrative functions.
With the commission thus relieved
of some of its present duties and equip
ped to handle its business more prompt
ly, the railroads will urge that the pe
riod during which the commission may
now suspend proposed increases In
rates be reduced from ten months to
90 days, with provision for reparation
to be paid to the shippers if the ad
vance shall be declared unreasonable.
They will also ask that the commis
sion be given the power to prescribe
minimum as well as maximum rates
so that in meeting complaints of dis
crimination the commission may order
the advance ef a rate which it consid
ers too low.
One of the most important recom
mendations for which the railroads
will ask favorable consideration is
that the commission be specifically
authorized to take into account in
rate regulation the effect of rates
upon total earnings in the light of ex
penses.
While the Newlands Committee is
required, under the resolution creat
ing it, to submit a report by January
2 next, it is not anticipated that the
Committee will have come anywhere
near completing its labors then.
Mosquitoes Don't Like Yellow.
People who wish to avoid the bite of
the mosquito should wear yellow. Of
all colors the mosquito is most partial
to red, especially deep blood red, al
though the fact has nothing to do witlj
its fondness for blood. For yellow it
shows the deepest aversion and shuns
it on all occasions. It is said that the
seeing power of the mosquito is so
keen that it is susceptible to color even
in the ordinary darkness of night;
hence nightdresses or bed coverings of
a yellow color will aid In keeping mos
quitoes at a respectful distance.
And So It Goes.
"How is it you are always short
handed at your place?"
"Well, somebody Is generally sick or
something. We seldom have all the
clerks report."
"Go on."
"And when they do happen to all re
port everybody thinks that's a good
excuse to get a day off."—Louisville
Courier-Journal.
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DUTY. I
Duty It a power which rises
♦♦ with us in the morning and goes : X
~ with us at night. It is coexten- H
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~ sive with the action of our in- ;±
H telligence. It is the shadow <|
~ which cleaves to us, go where ws :£
« will, and which only leavea us ix
8 when we leave the light of life.- x
8 Gladstone. |
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Edison Forgot Science.
The summer before his marriage Edi
son and a party of. friends visited
Mount Washington. Among the party
was Edisons fiancee, Miss Mina Miller.
At the end of the visit the editor of
Among the Clouds, which is printe«
there daily, asked Edison If he would
be kind enough to give him an item for
his paper. Naturally all in the party
looked for some scientific thought caus
ed by the high altitude. But Edison'*
thoughts had evidently been elsewhere;
as his friends discovered when he took
the offered pencil and wrote, to the edi
tor's surprise, "Miss Mina Miller of
Akron, the most beautiful woman in
Ohio, is today a guest of Mount Wash
ington/'—Woman's Home Companion.
Objected te the Publioity.
Mail's instinctive and perfectly rea
sonable preference for reprimand de
livered In private la Illustrated by *
story told by Lieutenant General Sir
William Butler. O. C. 8., in his au
tobiography.
A general commanding at Aldersbei
had been forcibly reprimanded by m
royal commander In chief. He opener
rebelled.
M I don't mind being called a fool/*"
he said, "If it pleases your royal Ugli
ness to call me so, but I do mind being
called a fool before your royal high
ness' other fools;" sweeping his hand
toward the commander in chief's large
and brilliant staff.
Andrew Harrison Cummins, aged
twenty-eight, was killed by the acci
dental discharge of a revolver in his
home at Canonsburg.
Jacob Frederick, aged sixty-five, of
Butler, was badly burned when an en
gine house near one of his gas wells
was destroyed by fire.
Confronted by a thug who demand
ed money, Edmund Franke, aged
seventeen, of Erie, put up a fight and
was knocked unconscious.
Annie Romanofsky, twenty-four, of
Mahanoy City, while visiting Soranton
friends, fired a bullet into her brain,,
dyiig shortly afterward.
Berne H. Evans, of Pittsburgh, has
been appointed counsel of the public
service commission, succeeding Wil
liam N. Trlnkle, resigned.
Burrowing into the side of a mine
breach at Girardville, Ella Sherman,
ten, was caught and smothered when
the top collapsed upon her.
The Thomas Iron Company, at Hsfl
ertown, has been able to start up af
ter being closed down for several
weeks, due to inability to get coke.
George Hatfield, aged forty-five, di
rector In the Royal Brick company, af
Connellsville, was killed in the cflay
mine when caught under a cave-in.
City and county officials at New
Castle have announced their willing
ness to provide a site for an armory
ehould the state appropriate funds. I Scacciate il Fumo Dalla I
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