. Arthur Vandenberg will not be nom-
' look like it was hog-killing time; if
SECOND THOUGHTS
— By javie aiche
Sam Grobar’s chief interest is in the sale of equipment by which
milady is either beautified or made so
that are a-kin to love.
things of monstrous mien, which, to
repellent as to arouse the emotions
You remember what the poet said about the
be pitied need but to be seen, but
if too often met with face to face—we first endure, then pity, then em-
brace.
It is a beautiful picture that has been painted for any one of four
candidates for the Presidential nomination of the Republican Party. That's
where Sam Grobar comes in. He comes in with a bag of money. He knocks
at your door by proxy and Samé
speaks to you in the mute but con-
vincing form of a letter handed you
by your postman or rural carrier.
Here's what Sam says: “I bet 20
to one that Arthur James will not be
nominated for President. I bet ten
to one that Tom Dewey will not be
nominated. I bet eight to one that
inated. I bet seven to one that Bob
Taft will not be nominated. And
Sam also bets ten to one that none
of the persons mentioned, if nom-
inated, will win.
To finally clinch the set-up Sam
Grobar bets even money that Frank-
lin Roosevelt will accept the nom-
ination, that it is his for the asking
further, that Roosevelt will win the
election and Sam Grobar his even-
money bets on that issue. All this is
bonafide, because every letter car-
ries Sam’s telephone number and
the envelopes bear the return ad-
dress of the company he operates in
Wilkes-Barre for the pulchritudinous
desires of the female population.
If you are married and want a
target at which to hurl anathema
for the cost of trying to keep the
wife a walking and posing denial of
her age; if you are single and are
revolted by red finger-nails that
for any other reason you are wroth
with the barbarity on the distaff
side, the shellacking of faces, the
destruction of hirsute contours and
all else that is mistaken for what
once was feminine beauty — well,
Sam is one of the several gentle-
men available to blame. He, and
they, sell the torture devices that
have made beauty-shops as plenti-
ful as saloons. You get the horrors
THE LOW DOWN FROM
HICKORY GROVE
Each year we been get-
ting a report on the State
Of The Nation. They have
been masterpieces. Each
report has been how to
try something mew and
novel—and cure what is
wrong. After each 100
million tossed away, we
dust off our vest and sort
of look sheepish, but stay
right there — with our
mouth open—waiting for
the next cure-all.
But now, with the thun-
der roaring across the
pond, we discover—out of
a clear sky that we are
in a terrible fix. Our army
18 a pee-wee—our navy 1s
run down at the heel. A
fine kettle of fish.
What they been doing
and mot doing down there
on the wordy Potomac is
just dawning on us. But in
England it was likewise,
and mow they have
Churchill and Eden — af-
ter the horse is gone.
But we do mot meed to
go plumb crazy, and stam-
pede. But we do need to
get going—also take on a
plot with some idea of
where we will land.
WHAT SEEMS TO
BE YOUR TROUBLE
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GIMME A MATCH
L ByFRED KIEFER
Some months ago while making devious researches in conjunction
with the Editor of this paper (which, due to the peculiarities of certain
publishers, came to naught) it became my particular duty to attempt to
ascertain the source of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River.
Realizing that practically everyone the least bit interested knew that |
| radi hudderi i
ours, or the North Branch rises in Otsego Lake, and that if one didn’t | 2 fo shuddering with fear and
You might have been wondering
our New Young Lady for some time.
stirring siege with final examinations,
of 50 miles or so which requires good
rolls around she gets very indignant
THE SENTIMENTAL SIDE]
By EDITH BLEZ—
why we have neglected to mention
It isn’t that she isn’t very much
in evidence. It is simply that we have been afraid to get started on the
subject of our fair daughter because we have been having a long and very
and a few other minor tragedies!
It seems that our high school is the only high school within a radius
students to take final examinations.
Our fair daughter is always in the honor roll, and when examination time
over the fact that she must take
examinations. Frankly, we thinkg
we suffer more than our fair daugh-
ter, because we have to listen to all
the fussing and fuming. She shuts
herself in a room for hours on end
to study. We can’t understand why
she must study so much for exam-
inations when her marks have been
so high all year, but as usual we
do not understand! It seems that
there might be just one little thing
she might not remember and she
simply cannot take a chance!
“Why, Mother, suppose I shouldn't
know one of the questions.”
“Several times we have said, “Oh
Phooey, what does it matter any-
how?” But our fair daughter
thinks our attitude is extremely in-
fantile and she can’t understand
how we got through school anyhow!
We try to tell her that she wears
herself out before she arrives to |
take the examination. But she in-|
sists that it isn’t the studying, and |
staying up late, and all the hours
of sitting over text books which up-
set her. Oh, my, no! But who are
we to tell a 15-year-old girl what |
upsets her!
In addition to examination trouble
we are having food trouble! Our
RICOCHETS
By RIVES MATTHEWS
All this war news is making
cravens and dullards of us all. We
waste plenty of time before our
waiting for a vibrant voice to lead
fair daughter has decided this spring
to eat nothing but fresh fruit and
| fresh vegetables. No bread, no po-
tatoes, in fact, she is dieting. It is
bad enough when an adult feels it
necessary to diet but a high school
with, because high school girls are
so definite about everything. They
always know and they can’t be per-
suaded they are ever wrong, at least
without a pitched battle!
girl on a diet is something te reckon |
WASHINGTON
SNAPSHOTS
—By James Preston—
In the months ahead, the Ameri-
can people apparently will expect
every man to do his bit so the land
of the free may resist any foreign
Oppressor.
That expectation already is lead-
ing Washington to do some thinking.
Newspaper readers throughout the
country might think the nation’s
capital is a hodge podge of confu-
tion: There is confusion. But amid
the hurly burly, many people have
time to watch for significant devel-
opments. ;
Numerous legislators, therefore,
were interested in reactions to the
President’s declaration that there
would be no new ‘‘war millionaires”
and that every group, including la-
bor, would be expected to cooperate.
One of the first yeactions was a
statement by the National Associa-
tion of Manufacturers, whose mem-
bers will produce national defense
material, pledged ‘continued oppo-
sition of ¥ndustry to profiteering”
and adding: “No man or group
i should use the national emergency
ta serve his or its selfish ends.”
This pledge, very obviously was
inot just words, for the President
himself reported to a press confer~
erence that he saw no need for the
government to control prices be-
cause prices are being held down to
reasonable levels. In other words, in-
$know a mere glance at any decent us into action. But where will this| So we are struggling with an al-
{0
on all sides.
Now, Sam plays it safe as a bet-
tor. He reserves the right to change
his mind without notice, after the
manner of the women with whom he
deals. For the present, if you doubt
Roosevelt or have faith in the Re-|
publicans, you can change faith and
doubt into good money. Friend
Grobar is a business man. The
number of beauty shops proves that.
Your correspondent has a bet of
his own to offer. It would be on
the proposition of a complete change
of front if there is a deadlock in
that Philadelphia convention. The
bet is that if the host Governor,
Pennsylvania's chieftain amd Lu-
zerne County's Number One Citizen
is catapulted to the speaking plat-
form while that deadlock is on, then
Arthur James will win the nomina-
tion by acclamation.
Unless your correspondent mis-
judges what is going on in the circles
to which Carl Estes is ‘tangent,
James will be given the chance to
speak. That's all he needs in that
kind of emergency.
Old-timers will tell you that’s
borrowing the strategy of William
Jennings Bryan and his speech on
“The Cross of Gold.”
Well, what of it? There's lots
of gold back of James; and Tom
Dewey can tell you that of crosses |
the Republicans have them double. !
In the voice of Governor James
there is more oil than Estes and
Pew ever dreamed of. And the
G. O. P. is in troubled waters.
We have had an over-
dose of theory and ora-
tory—we gotta get down
to business.
Yours with the low down,
JO SERRA.
BOOKS
”She’s Off To College” by
Guliema Fell Alsop, M. D., zmd
Mary McBride. The Vanguard
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“She’s Off To College” by Guliema
Fell Alsop and Mary McBride offers
no short cut to collegiate success;
nor ‘does it tell the freshman how
to make a sorority in ten easy les-
sons. It does, however, give practi-
cal suggestions on adjusting to that
all important first year of social
and academic liberty.
This Baedeker to college living be-
gins with the first days on the cam-
pus and takes in turn the problems
of health, study habits and social
life that confront the mew student.
“She’s Off To College” is extremely
readable and is by no means as dull
as this resume would make it ap-
pear.
The book is not stodgy because
the authors do not preach; they
merely offer suggestions. To them
the grind errs in planning her days
as much as the giddy prom-goer.
One might wish, however, that the
case histories used to illustrate the
points were not so numerous. The
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YOUTH, AHOY!
of others.
is, and knows
the faults of others.
By AUNT CAL ——
Occasionally one comes in con-
tact with a person who is extremely
unreasonable in what he expects
He may be unable to do
a good job himself—ten to one he
it—but he takes
particular delight in pointing out
An example at point occurred to
{ map would quickly show him, I ex-]
pected the beginning of the west
branch to be just as easily disclosed.
However, upon glancing—nay,
| studying—several maps it became
| apparent that the answer wasn’t go-
| ing to prove such a snap. Following
| this waterway back from Sunbury
| I found at ®bhout the Clinton-Lycom-
{ing line ‘two equally important
| streams merging, each coming, of
course, from a different direction.
One obviously started, if you had
the patience to follow its meander-
ings, up north in Potter County. The
other out in the western end of
Clinton is again augmented by a
stream of approximately the same
size which drives up from Indiana
County. Still another (and none
of these waters seem to be of great-
er importance than the other)
comes to life down south in Cambria
County.
I put the maps away and started
to read.
In a book called, “The Romance
of Rivers”, by one Mr. Faris, it be-
came true beyond any question of
doubt that the branch I was trac-
ing began in one of three springs
in Potter County. A second of the
three springs spouted forth the Gen-
essee River, which galloped to the
north and lost itself in the St. Law-
rence; the third spewed up nothing
less than the mighty Allegheny,
while the first, as I say, ‘became
Pine Creek and later on the West
Branch of the Susquehanna.
Having settled the question in the
first book I laid my hands on I felt
quite cheerful and continued to feel
voice lead us? When will it rise
above the babel of other voices and
silence them all. Already the pro-
fessional critics of mational politics
are pulling their punches, just dan-
cing about on the sidelines, ready to
jump on the right side.
WHAT we need is action, once we
have united in making up our minds,
and we think this country is big
enough and strong enough and will-
ing to sacrifice enough to keep out
of this war and to so arrange our
affairs on the home front that the
loss of foreign markets will not
seriously affect us.
RUSSIA is waiting on the side-
lines to sell the world communism
after it has exhausted itself fighting
this “capitalist war.” Why don’t
we continue to stay on thé sidelineg
and offer an exhausted world an ex-
ample of how democracy can work ?
Or are we, as Americans, now ready
to join with the English and admit
the dictatorship is preferable ?
fighting, it is sometimes better to
let them have it out. Then, when
both sides have bloody noses, a little
quiet adult ‘talk will do more than
force would have at the start.
WHEN the neighbors’ kids start
ways hungry child who refuses to
eat things which will fill up that
terrific hole she seems to possess
somewhere inside her. We know
we are in for a bad summer because
Lup until this year our fair daughter
has always gone to camp on the
Fourth of July and stayed there un-
til school began again. But this
year she wants to stay at home. She
made the decision while the weather
was still cool and the prospect of
the mountains didn’t seem so in-
viting. Every now and then we find
our fair daughter: gazing off into
space, and when we ask her what
the trouble is she says she is won-
dering how it will feel to have to
ride to a swimming hole, and who
will there be to go horseback riding
with, and what is there to do at
home all summer anyhow. We try
to tell her that we have managed
for quite a few years and had a
right good time, but she usually
looks at' us and comforts us with
the thought that we are old, and
doing nothing isn’t difficult for us!
We have planned a trip South and
when we first mentioned it our fair
daughter was delighted because she
said the South was filled with birds
she had always wanted to see. We
didn’t pay much attention but now
that our plans are definite our new
young lady is spending all her spare
time looking up bird sanctuaries.
BIG SHOT Republicans, on the ad-
vice of Miss Dorothy Thompson, are
now favoring a Third Term. In our
opinion this is a political gift horse
the New Dealers had better look
straight in the mouth.
She informed us last week that we
could do as we pleased on the trip,
she was going to spend her time in
the series of places she had mapped
out! Must we spend our vacation
looking at birds when we still can’t
dustry has pledged its best efforts.
to see that there shall be no profit-.
eering, and there is none. -. J
N
Other news, however, points up
a surprising contrast to this. In
Kearney, N. J., 5,000 shipyard work-
ers went on strike for higher wages.
They held up the construction of
or warships badly needed by the
eet.
Reports reaching Washington alsa
said that all machinists in the Se-
attle area except those employed by
the Boeing Aircraft Company were
out on strike. It was added that the
union machinists’ contract with Boe-.
ing expires soon and that unless
higher wages are granted there the
strike will extend soon into that na-
tional defense industry too. “u#gH
Some =~ Washington legislators,
stirred by these reports, are express-
ing this view: Labor unions have
been granted new privileges in re-
cent years. If they do not know how
to use these privileges, and if they
cannot accept the responsibilities
which go with the privileges, then
|perhaps the privileges should be
| withdrawn or the responsibilities
made mandatory by law.
In short, they say, if labor unions
don’t cooperate willingly, then they
should be forced to do so. Some of
them are talking about forbidding
strikes in national defense industry.
The reason for the appearance as
well as the existence of confusion
is that plans are agreed upon in
such a hurry and without consulta-
SCRAPBOOK
a young man I know recently, who
was given a rather complicated job
so until Ye Editor handed me Bulle- tell a wren from a song sparrow ? tion with everybody concerned.
constant references to Susan, Rhoda FDR’s next of kin don’t want a
i ET om i
TERE ees
x
—By “Bob” Sutton——
Hello!
Down memory lane for this week,
folks. Finding out what they read
in The Post a few years ago.
“The fellow who marries in Jan-
vary has to wait until the family
reunion in August to find out the
gang he has married into.”
“If you haven't been denounced
by somebody, you're not really pop-
ular yet.”
“Correct this sentence:
work; show me some more”.
“Peddlers who walk the streets
of Dallas are not concerned with
keeping our clerks employed.”
I love
Here's a little poem, written in
1931 by Miss Elsie Oney, then of
Lake Township:
I'M ALWAYS WONDERING
I'm always wondering
As time flies by,
If you do your duty
And I do mine.
Whether our duty
Be large or small,
Do we do it well
Or not at all?
Do we do it slowly,
The best we can,
If it’s hard to conquer
Do we fight like a man ?
We should do our duties well,
Be they large or small,
If you cannot do them well,
Then don’t do them at all.
Back a year for some. words of
wisdom of 1930:
“The man who says he never
makes a mistake probably doesn’t
know ome when he sees it.”
“Lives there a stout woman with
soul so dead who never to herself
and Hester recall faintly the girls
of the Pollyanna league. Aside from
this Dr. Alsop and Miss BcBride
have been firm in their refusal to
sentimentalize the subject. Most of
what they say is based on good
horse sense that could be applied to
any way of life.
“She’s Off To College” is no imag-
inative whimsey on the part of Dr.
Alsop, who is the college physician
at Barnard, and Miss McBride, who
was Freshman Advisor there.
These two know ' whereof they
speak and have had ample oppor-
tunity to observe the tribulations of
more than one class of bewildered
neophytes. This book undoubtedly
will be ignored by those who need it
most. It is a book however that
anyone contemplating college would
do well to read.
FRONT PARLOR
There is a room that I remember
where
It always was mysterious and dim,
Keeping all week a sort of Sunday
air, :
Too ‘elegant, for comfort and too
prim
For any child to think it ever could
Have been a place where people
really stayed.
A smell of rose leaves and of cedar
wood
Clung to those things that never
seemed to fade.
Now, looking down the arches of
the years,
That room is not so empty, not so
stern,
For all its plush and crystal chande-
liers.
Strange how it takes so long a time
to learn.
What heartbeat lingers—to a child
no more
Than dusty silence back of a closed
door.
has said, “I must reduce ?”’
Leslie Nelson Jennings
have done.it. Did he get any ap-
preciation of his work? Not at all.
Everything was wrong, according to
the one who gave him the job—
mostly because the directions of
how the work was to be done were
not adequate.
The super-critical person is usual-
ly one who has no confidence in
ground of knowledge or skill. His
chief satisfaction in criticizing oth-
ers come from his elevation in his
own mind over those whom he
drags down by his unfair criticism.
Sometimes ne thinks that he is
showing discrimination by finding
fault.
He is a dangerous person to deal
with, because he often implies more
than he says, and unsuspecting
listeners will get an impression con-
trary to fact.
Along with this tendency to crit-
icize other, especially any one who
is in the way of making a small
success, often goes extreme jeal-
ousy. The same feeling of inade-
quacy which is responsible for his
over-critical attitude prompts him
to be jealous of any one who may
have favorable qualities which
might eclipse his own. It is one
phase of never having attained
mental maturity. The person has
never outgrown the stage in child-
hood where jealousy is somewhat
natural.
If you are associated with a per-
son of this type, don’t trust him too
far. He may turn on you any
time if it suits his own purposes.
Keep his friendship if you can but
don’t expect too much in the way of
sincere appreciation, for you won’t
get it. 2
There is, however, another side
to the picture of this person. He is
to do in a hurry. He tackled the
work with a will, and did it ac-
cording to specifications as well as
many an experienced worker could
himself, and often has little back-| °
tin No. 24 of the Pennsylvania His-
tory series put out by some trifling
department of our great Common-
wealth.
Bulletin No. 24 states, “Do you
know that the two branches of the
Susquehanna have their sources ap-
proximately two hundred miles
apart?” No, I did not. Bulletin
No. 24 continues, “The North]
Branch . . . rises in Otsego Lake in|
the state of New York . . .”, ha! l
was ahead of Bulletin No. 24 there
. “and the West Branch has its
source at Cherry Tree in Indiana
County.” Well, either Bulletin No.
24 or Mr. Faris was all wet.
So I sat me down and wrote the
Department of Forests and Waters
at Harrisburg and in a short time
had the answer. Umm, hardly THE
answer but AN answer at any rate.
The engineer of this district says
in the letter, “The Water Resources
Inventory Report entitled, ’Gazetteer
of Streams’ states that the source
of the West Branch of the Susque-
hanna River is in Carroll Township:
Northwestern Cambria County, ele-
vation 1990.”
By God, somebody’s wrong and I
give up!
a pretty poor friend to himself.
Perhaps you, by understanding his
predicament, could help him into a
more sane attitude toward himself
and toward others. You will need
to be very objective in your own
attitude toward him, or it won't
work.
You must convey to him the
thoughts (1) that he will show
more nobility and fineness of nature
and gain more respect, by acknowl-
edging the good points of others
rather than searching for flaws and
(2) that it is extremely childish to
fear for one’s own security because
of the achievement of others. In-
stead of being jealous of success, we
should welcome the successful per-
LAS GRR SL
Third Term, so they say, but that
hasn’t kept the Madame from sign-
ing another long term contract to
‘| write “My Day.”
IF the Republicans are un-Amer-
ican enough to follow Miss Thomp-
son’s advice and nominate Roosevelt
at their convention next month,
then God help us Democrats and
this nation. We need critics and op-
position, because without them this
country would fast become the sort
of country Hitler has made.
SENATOR TYDINGS, we believe,
would make an excellent, vice-pres-
ident, in the event Mr. Roosevelt
does run and win again, because he
has demonstrated his ability to
stand up against the President. If
the Republicans aren’t going to fur-
nish a few critics, then it’s up to
the Democrats to provide them to
preserve the sdfety of our demo-
cratic principles.
GOV. STARK of Missouri, it is
said, has all the qualifications FDR
has, and would make an excellent
middle of the road Democratic pres-
ident. His World War I record is
impressive. A graduate of Annap-
olis, he became an Army officer and
saw action in France. As Governor
of Missouri he has combined admin-
istrative ability with greater talents
for prosecuting graft and corrup-
tion than Young Dewey ever show-
ed. .
WHEN foreign security holders get
through dumping their stocks on
Wall Street, watch out. The market
will zoom upward and lead us into
a terrific boom.
son as a kindred spirit and build
our satisfaction from knowing many
successful people.
So long until next week.
SpE
FDR says this war is not going to
make any millionaires. Does he
mean new millionaires? The big
money boys are making plenty
right now, and are going to make
more.
WAR preparedness and a declara-
tion of war will certainly clip the
claws of Mr. John L. Lewis and do
away with all the evils and some
of the good for which he’s been
responsible. Anything he’s likely
to do now will be termed a Fifth
Column move. So we won't be hear-
ing much from him from now on.
WHILE Europe is currently re-
pudiating its royalties all over the
map, we seem on the verge of mak-
ing the Roosevelts our first royal
family.
FLOODLIT
The forest, floodlit by a setting sun,
Gleams like the temple that was
built of old
Of cedar wood all overlaid with
gold
By the resplendent monarch, Solo-
mon.
For example, both Senate and
House leaders said on a Friday that
there would be no tax bill this ses-
sion of Congress. On the following
Monday morning, chairmen of the
Senate and House tax committees .
agreed with the Treasury to push a
tax bill through. Speaker Bankhead
and Majority Leader Rayburn of the
House did not know of this agree-
ment until reporters told them.
Furthermore, the tax bill's size
was agreed upon without any know-
ledge ‘that the President three days
later would ask another billion dol-
lars for national defense. An inter-
esting but important fact is that the
new tax bill, therefore, will fall far
short of even paying for national de-
fense, much less meeting the current
deficit in other fields.
This year’s defense bill will be
around five billion dollars. The ordi-
nary deficit is almost three and a
half billions. Yet the new tax bill
will raise less than 700 million a
year. Thus it would be five years
before the tax bill would raise
enough money to pay off this year’s
deficit much less the national de-
fense expenses.
It looks as though the current tax
bill is simply a stop gap. The really
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