(Pinch-Hitting For Fred M. Kiefer)
ACVEIGH
(While Mr. Kiefer, the regular conductor of “Gimme A
Match” is chasing grizzlies in the Canadian Rockies, guest col-
“umnists will keep his department going. This week Councilman
MacVeigh takes time out from running the Last Chance Trading
Post, to discuss some pertinent
issues.)
Captain Chris Rice, National Chairman,
f Buckskin Party,
“Blue Skunk Holler, Penna.
My Dear Cap:
me I had been elected a Delegate, or
skin party, digging you up from the grave to revive, if possible, the ole |
spirit of 1776.
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iy A few weeks ago one of the traders stopped in the store and tole Y
Committeeman-at-large, of the Buck-
Rite there at that moment I accepted, but up to the present time I
hev been to busy to notify you of my acceptance. Business ain’t been so
‘hot this summer, ’till all of a sudden Edna and Fred Kiefer decided to
- go up in the wiles of Canada to hunt big bears or suthin, so. I have been
busy as a bee, outfitting them with a list that includes everything from
needles to red underwear.
If I missed selling them anything
I have either lost my art as a sales-
man, or jes gitting durn careless.
_ Sold him thet old bear trap that we
~ had around the store sinst your
time and a hard number to move,
sinst the boys around here have
been going after smaller game and
doing more fooling.
Then too, the Dallas Rotary Club
~ erected a sign along the -main
~ road, using your pitcher, standing
there telling the folks about the ad-
~ vantages of the back mountain re-
gion. Along side of you Captain,
‘they is an Indian and the wagon
drivers tells me thet the pitcher of
you is good, but thet the Indian is
"there for no good purpose. I posed
for the pitcher of the Indian, the
hole thing being a‘ clever adver-
stising ruse of Howell Rees.
I jes locked up the store for the
nite when they come a knock at
the door and who comes in but
“Lumpy” Lapp, one of our National
Committeemen, who had jes come
back from a Tri-State School Pres-
* idents’ meeting, which is held an-
nually at the Jacktown Fair in West
: Virginia.
Well, Lump set down, gets out |
his knife and starts whittling and
I notice the cracker barrel is sorter
handy.
Lump has been going to this Fair
for many years and in the West Vir-
ginia hills is considered a smart
trader and in years gone by held the
record for swapping. Once, years
ago, Lump went to the fair with a
blind horse and a jack-knife, stayed
three days and came back with four
good horses, a wagon, a barrel of
cider, ten bushel of apples and two
black eyes—and not a dime changed
hands.
~ Up to this time Lumpy had sed
nuthin but I knew he wuz doing a
powerful lot of thinking.
Well, he finally whittles a long
thin sliver and puts it in his mouth
~ and then I new thet the time had
come, so I settles back in my chair
to listen to a man who speaks words
of wisdom. “Joe,” he sez, ‘“the folks
down in West Virginia are doing lit-
tle talking, but a lot of thinking.
You know they kinder like the good
ole U. S. A. like we do, but they
are gettin’ awful sick and tired let-
ting a bunch of guys run this coun-
try of ours who are in it for only
what they kin get out of it. They
doan even take time to look aroun’
and see the wonderful things we
have here and try and make it nicer
and easier for folks, but, jes plan
and scheme to see how much they
kin get without workin’ for it, at
the expense of the fellows who work
and pay the taxes. The boys down
there no this can’t last forever and
~ feel that it’s durn near time we
put a halt to this raid on Goverment
and put men in office who are hon-
est, regardless of the party.”
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“Lumpy,” I sez, “I have been do- |
ing a lot of thinking too and I fig-
gered it this way. If you kin keep
things clean and honest in a small
town and the right sort of red-
blooded men get behind the move-
ment all over the country, it would-
n’t be long before the six outen
every 10 men who are working for
the goverment, would be replaced
by six men who were helping the
goverment and the people and thet
every dollar spent would be for a
good and worth-while purpose.
~ “Folks come in the store and I
talk to them and they are all in
sympathy with us and the principles
of the Buckskin party. Take fer
instance your ole district, Cap. It
votes all one way and the big boys
are sure of it, so they don’t get
nuthin’. But take another district
- where they ain’t so sure, they go
in and select a man who can get
votes. Meybe he can’t read or
write, but thet makes no difference.
All they wants is votes and to thet
district go all the gravy and the
boys in the district thet are loyal
jes set and twirl their thumbs. No,
it’s all rong and rotten to the core
and iffen we doan do suthin about
it soon, they woan be anything left
to do suthin with.”
Lump jes set and nodded his head
in approval and we were jest sorter
hoping someone would come in
when Burgess Smith come in the
door, kinder tired after a hard day
at a Sunday school picnic, shaking
hands and kissing all the babies.
Bert is goan to run agin for Bur-
gess without opposition, but he ain't
taking no chances and don’t have
time to take a vacation, although
he would love to go to the shore.
Well, Bert lit his old pipe and set
down and we tole him about what
we wuz discussing.
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THE LOW DOWN FROM
HICKORY GROVE
The very latest is to
investigate the SEC. SEC
is the Security Exchange
Commission.
It is ome of the bureaus
that was gonna make it
safe to invest. And they
have done so. They have
made it so safe and sure
that there is mothing left
to invest in execpt a
horse-race. And I just
been reading about Santa
Anita, a race-track in Cal-
ifornia, and boy is money
changing hands there!
But betting on a horse-
race where you have one
chance maybe mm a hun-
dred, and you can lose
| your shirt on either the
i 1 favorite or a long-shot, it
is O. K. with the Govt.
: is mo SEC on
| horse-races, but if you
have .a share of stock in
an electric company the
SEC will show up and
make a rule that it is a
holding company and un-
“desirable and should be
eliminated. You, also, are
eliminated.
Congress is getting sus-
picious. The horse is gone,
so it is time to investigate
i There
Yours with the low down,
JO SERRA.
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“Yep,” he sez, “You boys are
right. Suthing has to be done and
{done in a hurry. There jes ain’t no
sence to the whole thing. The peo-
ple want reform, but they doan
know how to get it, so it’s up to all
he men who place country before
self to get behind the Buckskin
party and the principles for which
it stands.” “Joe,” he sez, “before
I forget I want to tell you thet you
have been elected a director of the
Old Hickory Club Gun.”
“What does thet mean,” I sez.
“It means’, sez Bert, “thet you
pay five dollars a year instead of
members pay.”
Well, I sorter let thet sink in,
but it dint make no cents, but as
we had other things to talk about
I went over to the till and got a five
spot and paid in full. Fred Kiefer
had paid me and for the time be-
ing I wuz in the dough.
“Suthing got to be done and done
(in a hurry,” sed Bert. “Take ferin-
stance. our efficient police depart-
ment. Well, they arrests a guy for
violation of the law—meybe one,
or meybe 10, it doan make no dif-
ference—and what happens? They’
two dollars a year thet the regular |
all go scot free, jes cuz they no
someone or have an uncle or aunt
thet knows someone an if you fine |
them they appeal it, and the durn
I thing is lost in the scuffle before it
gets to court. So what kin I do?”
Well, we couldn’t tell him, so I
seen the hole thing wuz gettin’ sort-
er complicated, so I set up a lunch
for the boys.
One thing, Cap'n Chris, we got
a good man running for President
this fall, who is honest and a red
blooded American and I no thet the
Buckskin party will be 100 per cent
behind this man Wilkie. Maybe
some of the other candidates ain’t
so hot and meybe we wont have
time to weed them out on such
short notice, but you woan hate us
for trying and we will do the best
we can to try and select the kind
of men we want and the kind you
depended on in your day.
Maybe we woan elect our men
Inow, but if we keep on trying and
fighting with fire in our eye, an’
talking good government to the
plain folks—the real Americans—
meybe we will get a foothold, or at
least get a change by throwing a
scare into the gang who are now
in the saddle, but who sure as
shooting are riding to a fall.
Bert, Lumpy and I decided to call
a special meeting of all National
Committeemen jes as soon as Fred
gits back from Canada and I will
keep you informed as to our pro-
gram.
Sincerely,
Joe MacVeigh,
National Committeeman,
Buckskin Party.
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SECOND THOUGHTS
The children played in the city
| street
| Where death and injury dogged
| their feet, ]
|The children challenged the traffic
| fleet /
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In the right-of-way of peace
| And no one bade them to hie away
|To great green lands that were
| made for play
' And no one offered the price to pay
| For the summertime release.
i The laissez faire of the human hive
| Decrees that only the fit survive,
{ The wary flourish, the cunning
thrive,
For peace has the pride of|
pelf
And each man’s castle is that man’s
home
| Be it walls of logs, its roof of loam,
{Or porticoed and with lofty dome,
And it’s each man for him-
self. 3
Let them romp and run
In their childhood games,
In the wind and sun,
Let them have their fun.
If it be that one
Meets mishap that maims
i Or mischance that lames,
© What is done is done.
| With laissez faire as’ the law of
peace
The kith and kin of the poor in-
crease.
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But wartime’s children know better
fates,
They're bidden out through the city
gates
To share the shelter of great es-
tates
Away from the strife of arms,
The world discloses the world’s
great heart
With each man ready to play his
part
And brotherhood of the mill and
mart
Points children off to the
farms. :
They're treasured there as the
flowers they are,
Secure from dangers that blight and
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That nature is kind as allowed to
be,
That happiness is simplicity
And making most’ of what's given
free
Leaves nothing to envy kings.
Let them claim the land,
It is theirs by right,
Lend the guiding hand
And the kind command,
Keep them contraband
From the fear and fright
Of the lustful fight.
While the ‘children stand
In peace at par with neglected
weeds
War knows them as man’s immor-
tal seeds
AS YE SOW, SO SHALL YE REAP
This is the harvest, these the smil-
ing fields,
Here are the laden boughs of mel-
low fruit,
Ours are the husbandmen claiming
their yields,
Pickers and sorters gather at the
trees,
Sun-ripened succulence, treasures
of grains,
Triumphs of labor's sweaty vic-
tories
Fill up the granaries, burden the
bins,
Thus earth surrenders, counting
not a loss,
Rests from fruition ’till the Spring
begins
Seasonal cycles all the year
across. ?
Heigh ho, the harvest days,
Mowing and reaping,
High be the nation’s praise,
Safe be its keeping,
Give us to understand
Blessings we're knowing:
All yielded by the land
Rests with the sowing.
There is the gleaning, there the
holocaust,
Grim desolation, misery and woe,
Sowed was the hurricane,
tempest-tossed
Europe is grieving, wrongly did
it sow,
now
Hate was the seedling, planted was
distrust,
Envy and jealousy reared side by
side, !
Might spreads its branches, brutal
and unjust,
Watered by weeping, tears that
are a tide,
Fields were parade grounds for the
boots of Mars,
Trampled were freedom and the
love of God,
Dust is the harvest, dust torn deep
by scars,
Dust of despair where refugees
have trod.
God speed the dawn of peace,
Teach men its meaning:
Sow love for love's increase,
Blest then be gleaning.
mar, : Let pass the harvest dire
Peace blest by plenty in honest SE
They So ii above them moon Di Moding and weeping!
Shine not on the death-bird’sy Tractors on catwalks plod the gold- They who have nurtured ire
wings, en lanes, Tire of the reaping.
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THE OLD |
SCRAPBOOK
—DBy "Bob" Sutton —
Greetings:
True love cannot die. Although
efforts may be made to suppress it,
oppose it, persecute it, it will, under
all manifest itself. Regardless of
what may oppose it, it will blossom
forth and spring from the ground
in greater beauty than ever before.
Like the rose, its fragrance is sweet-
est when crushed.
——
What we miss in life we should
not deny to others.
Shifting responsibility is no sign
of intelligence.
pss
Do you hear anyone say: ‘No-
body wants me”? It's a most pit-
iful condition. Oh, say some word
of comfort to that heart; tell them
that God wants and loves them;
tell them you love them; let them
know life is worth living because
someone cares.
es
FACE THE SUN
Don’t hunt after trouble, but look
for success;
You'll find what you look for, don’t
look for distress.
If you see but your shadow, re-
member I pray,
FREEDOM
The columnists and con-
tributors on this page are
allowed great latitude in
expressing their own opin-,
ions, even when their
opinions are at variance
with those of The Post
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That the sun is still shining, but
you're in the way.
Don’t grumble, don’t bluster, don’t
dream, and don’t shirk;
‘Don’t think of your worries, but
think of your work.
The worries will vanish, the work
will be done;
No man sees the shadow who faces
the sun.
bos
We're told that a kiss in the
movies costs $3,000. But that’s a
small amount compared to some
kisses. The sorrow and heartache
that has resulted from many a ro-
mance could never be paid with
money. That first kiss can either
spell happiness or ruin. Which it
may be depends upon each one of
the loving pair.
—_——
Have you noticed? Jesus always
liked to heal the hardest cases. The
more hopeless, the greater the heal-
THE SAFETY
VALVE
This column is open to
everyone. Letters should be
plainly written and signed.
A Park For Dallas ?.
Editor:
With completion of the new high-
way leading into Dallas this com-
munity will have a beautiful ap-
proach through a wooded area just
at the town’s outskirts. The other
day I walked down over the new
grade and was impressed with the|
beauty of this spot near where the |
old car barn stood.
I make a suggestion that Dallas
borough council look over this spot |
with an idea of converting it into a
public park. It may be too late
even now for such a move. But I
would seem to me almost a crime to
let those beautiful trees become the
background for hot dog stands and
filling stations.
opeay
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ing. He's still in the same business.
The more sinful soul, the more glor- |
ious the redemption. None need|
despair. There is life and hope for
all,
nO
Remember: “Life Can Be Beauti-
reading of each and every book! It
doing or what part of the house we
The new young lady in our house is spending her summer reading!
[ore would really be delighted with such a splendid activity if it didn’t
mean that we must answer a million questions during the course of the
doesn’t seem to matter what we are
are in at the moment. We are shout-
ed at at the most unexpected times.
We must know the meaning of all the words our fair daughter doesn’t
know the meaning of, and this past week we have suffered more than
usual,” because our fair daughter is
reading the life of Thoreau, and
Thoreau, if you can remember, was
a contemporary of Emerson and
Longfellow and Bronson Alcott.
Just as we begin to believe that
our new young lady has decided to
call a halt on the never ending
questions we are greeted with
“Mother, what does it mean when
it says Emerson was inhibited?
i Who was Bronson Alcott? Mother,
did you know that all Thoreau’s
sisters were old maids, and all his
brothers bachelors? Gee, wouldn't
it be wonderful to live like the Con-
cord people did, Mother? Mother,
who was Carlyle ?”
Usually by that time we are out
of hearing, wishing most violently
that the man who wrote the life
of Thoreau had choked before he
got to the first chapter! -
Before our fair daughter got
around to reading about Thoreau
she read his book: “Walden.” “Wal-
den,” if you remember, was the
account Thoreau wrote of the life
he lived in the wilderness alone. He
tried it as an experiment, to prove
to himself and his friends that he
could live alone and like it. That
| sounds rather familiar! :
| We think it was a fine idea but
iwe wish our fair daughter had
| never discovered “Walden” because
now she has found proof that living
[out in the open alone is truly fas-
; cinating.
| Before our new young lady dis-
| covered Walden she had often talk-
|ed of the time when she would be
‘able to live in the wide open spaces
'and now that she has discovered
‘Thoreau you can imagine what we
are up against! We are face to face
{with the proof that someone else
(wanted to live alone in the wide
' open spaces.
Frankly, we wish Thoreau had
inever come to our household. We
could have gotten along very nicely
i without him. :
. Now we eat breakfast, lunch and
‘dinner with Thoreau. We have him
before we go to bed and all our
‘conversation seems to begin and
end with the author of Walden. )
| Our new young lady gets quite
| disgusted with us because we don’t
“enthuse more about the books she
reads. She insists on ready pas-
{sages aloud and when she comes
across something which is a little
beyond her comprehension we are
i always called upon for an explana-
tion. We have tried several times
| registering indifference but it sim-'
"ply doesn’t work!
| If we can’t quite understand from
our fair daughter’s reading of the
' difficult passage she insists on hand-
ing over the book and permitting
us to read for ourself.
If we say that we do not under-
stand, either we are told we are
just trying to evade the issue, and
we are being mean, and what kind
of a mother are we that we can’t
explain a line or two.
We are always told we should
know simply because we are old; SPC
and didn’t we teach school once? built up carefully by a group of the
| smartest publicity experts
After all what did we go to school
for if we can’t understand Thoreau ?
We often wonder, too, what we
really did go to school for, but we
are sorely afraid our fair daughter
{wouldn’t think that answer was
very funny. She would just think
we were being silly again, and our
fair daughter doesn’t quite under-
I stand us when we make a brave at-
| tempt to be humorous.
|
ORCHARD IN THE MOONLIGHT
Who would believe by day
that out of a crab-apple root
this ebony tree could tower,
burdened with silver fruit ?
—Dorothy Hope McCroden
RICOCHETS |
— By Rives Matthews—
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Of Wendell Willkie’s sudden rise
to G. O. P. leadership, the New
Republic has this to say:
“The official theory about Wen-
dell Willkie is that nobody wanted
him to be the Republican candidate
except the plain people. The ma-
chine politicians, when they came
to Philadelphia, were all set to
choose a machine politician like
themselves, but the spontaneous and
unrehearsed enthusiasm of the
grass roots forced them into panic-
stricken retreat.
“That is the theory, but we doubt
water much longer. People are be-
ginning to realize that the Willkie
campaign was one of the most skill-
ful professional publicity jobs the
country has ever seen.
“The current issue of Tide lists
some of the experts who have work-
ed and are working with Mr. Will-
kie. There is Russell Davenport, re-
cently managing editor of Fortune,
an able journalist. There is Rob-
ert L. Johnson, publisher of Prom-
enade, a founder of Time, and an-
other expert in promotional activi-
ties. There is Fred Smith of Sel-
vage & Smith, the publicity man
who did the extremely clever job
of putting Bruce Barton into Con-
gress. There is Harry M. Shackel-
ford, advertising manager of the
Johns-Manville Corp. There is Steve
Hannagan, another crack publicity
man. There are Ned Stevenson and
associates, councillors on radio re-
lations, who looked after the radio
end. There is Stanley Resor, presi-
dent of the big advertising agency,
the J. Walter Thompson Company
now treasurer of the United Re-
publican Finance Committee of New
York.
|
; “Tide says that the New York
| experts did their best to discourage
| the avalanche of telegrams address-
(ed to delegates at Philadelphia, re-
| membering previous scandals about
| telegrams on behalf of the public
| utilities, many of which turned out
to be fakes. If this is true, some
1of the local clubs were both per-
i sistent and skillful; not only were
many thousands of telegrams re-
| ceived, but large numbers of them
[went to the individual delegate
{with his hotel and room number
correctly given. The New York ex-
perts also prevented the use of
big newspaper advertising space on
| Willkie’s behalf, on the ground that
lit would smell of too much money.
“All this is not to say that there
was no genuine demand for Willkie
throughout the country. He has an
attractive personality; his appo-
inents were pretty colorless, and
Americans love new faces. This
spontaneous demand, however, was
in the
country, and we hate to see their
beautiful professional job g0 un-
| recognized.”
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