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THE POST, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1948
~ "The Totem Pole”
A ES sass,
Harrisburg, January 29—Politics
are having a hey-day bustling im-
portantly hither and yon over the land, cigars firmly clenched and hat
in hand—and some in the ring.
For a time there was considerable hoop-de-la and rumpus over the
question of State Treasurer and Auditor General. In fact in the Dem-
ecratic ranks, the question is still®
among the moot items, in view of
the fact that the State Committee
plans no action on the matter,
maintaining instead a “hands off”
policy.
In Republican ranks the picture
is entirely different. In fact, the
GOP picture has been very well
framed.
“It must be remembered,” quoth
Grampaw Pettibone assuming his
Napoleanic stance with hand tucked
in his ash-covered vest, “that these
are two juicy political plums, the
plucking of which cannot and must
not be overlooked.”
He recalled as he brushed from
his vest the heavy load of cigar
ashes that the two gents who now
occupy these pews here on Capitol
Hill - State Treasurer Ramsey S.
Black and Auditor General G. Har-
old Wagner - are staunch Demo-
crats. :
“If the Republicans are success-
ful in having their candidates elec-
ted to these offices, the GOP ma-
chine in Pennsylvania. will have
complete domination of our State
Government,” he warned with a
bent and quaking finger.
We asked him what was wrong
with that, whereupon he clamped
his false teeth firmly together, and
then peering over his bifocals at
us in abject pity, said:
“Son, we've got a two-party sys-
tem in this State. We .ought to
use it. The elephant-riders now in
control of the administration also
control the legislative branch, which
means there isn’t much left for
the donkey-backers.
“It’s high time. young whipper-
snappers like yourself take an in-
terest in what's happening. The
State Treasurer and Auditor General
act as a ‘check’ on operations of
the State's fiscal affairs, and no
Democrat is going to let a Repub-
lican get away with red cent if he
can help it - just as no Republican
is going to let a Democrat spend
anything he can stop. It’s just a
good check and balance system.”
After that speech the irate gent
sat down long enough to catch his
breath, Then, drawing his red muf-
fler a little tighter around his adams
apple, said with teeth a-chatter:
“Why son, if the GOP wins these!
two offices this year, there will be
so many Republicans on Capitol Hill
that the poor squirrels will have
to migrate to Washington to get-a
decent hand-out.”
Grampaw Pettibone recalled the
recent meeting in Philadelphia -of
GOP stalwarts when they endorsed
State Senator Weldon B. Heyburn,
of Delaware County as the candi-
date for Auditor General, and Char-
lie R. Barber, of Erie, Secretary of
Welfare, for State Treasurer, say-
ing:
“Harve Taylor, Republican State
Chairman, was beaming like a cat
that had just caught a mouse, in-
sisting that everything had been
harmonious, no opposition and all
that sort of thing. But son, behind
the scenes the story was different.!
At any rate, the leaders have now
spoken. The voters are next.”
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STATE POLICE SAY:
It is both dangerous and un-
lawful to overtake or pass an-
other vehicle traveling in the
same direction when approach-
ing the crest of a grade or
traveling on a curve where
there may be oncoming traffic
approaching. The law requires
that you have a clear and un-
obstructed view of the highway
ahead and free of oncoming
traffic for a distance of 500
feet before passing.
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The hemlock tree is the official
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~ Your Health _
When a young person graduates
from high school and college, he
is on his own in more ways than
one.
At this time of his life he as-
sumes the responsibility not only
for his choice of work and method
of living, but also for his continued
good health.
By “continued good health”, it
is denoted that during school years
it has been possible to eliminate
by education, vaccination and
periodic examination such diseases
as tuberculosis, typhoid, smallpox
and diphtheria. :
After leaving school or college,
a large majority of people fail to
apply the available method of pre-
venting disease and prolonging life.
The adult group should be educa-
ted to voluntarily carry out meas-
ures which prolong life and main-
tain good health.
Many diseases are recognizable
in their early stages at a time
when their progress may be cur-
tailed, proper treatment instituted,
and deaths prevented.
Ovid, the Roman poet, more than
1900 years ago said, “Too late is
the medicine prepared when the
disease has gained strength by long
delay.”
A periodic physical examination
by the family doctor is good pre-
ventive medicine.
Such examination may reveal
the presence of an irritable ap-
pendix, stones in the gall bladder
or an ulcer in the stomach.
Once these conditions are evident,
treatment should be started im-
mediately in order to avoid serious
consequences due to delay.
A periodic physical examination
good insurance for prolonging
is
life.
More persons who know how to
swim are drowned each year than
non-swimmers, due to the fact that
the nonswimmer doesn’t go near
the water, while the swimmer in-
dulges and is exposed to drowning.
The agriculture of the state of
Oklahoma is varied, combining the
| production of both the north and
Li . Corn, cotton and wheat are
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the largest among the many prod-
ucts of the farms of the state.
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3 Unions Block Labor Peace—Refuse Wage Boost
‘Already Accepted by 19 Other Railroad Unions!
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers, Brotherhood’ of Locomotive Fire-
men and Enginemen and the Switchmen’s
Union of North America, representin
125,000 railroad employes, have refuse
the President.
What Now?
The Unions having refused to arbitrate,
the Railway Labor Act provides for the
appointment of a fact-finding board by
eniployes, and those among the highest paid,
can successfully maintain the threat of a par-
alyzing strike against the interest of the en-
tire country—and against 90 per cent of their
fellow employes.
to accept the offer of the Railroads of a
wage increase of 15% cents an hour.
his. is the same increase awarded
1,000,000 non-operating employes by an
arbitration board in September, 1947.
This is the same increase accepted by
175,000 conductors, trainmen and switch-
men by agreement on November 14, 1947.
Agreements have been made with
1,175,000 employes, represented by nine-
teen unions.” But these three unions, rep-
resenting only 125,000 men, are trying to
get more. They are demanding also many
new working rules not embraced in the
settlement with the conductors and train-
men.
Incidentally, the Switchmen’s Union of
North America represents only about 7%
of all railroad switchmen, the other 93%
being represented by the Brotherhood of
. Railroad Trainmen and covered by the
settlement with that union.
Strike Threat
The leaders of these three unions spread a
strike ballot while negotiations were still
in progress. This is not a secret vote but is
taken by union leaders and votes are
signed by the employes in the presence
of union representatives.
When direct negotiations failed, the
leaders’ of these three unions refused to
join the railroads in asking the National
lediation Board to attempt to settle the
dispute, but the Board took jurisdiction
at the request of the carriers and has been
earnéstly attempting since November 24,
1947, to bring about a settlement. The
Board on January 15, 1948, announced
its inability to reach a mediation settle-
ment. The leaders of the unions rejected
the request of the Mediation Board to
arbitrate. The railroads accepted.
The railroads feel it is due shippers,
passengers, employes, stockholders, and
the general public to know that through-
out these negotiations and in mediation,
they have not only exerted every effort to
reach a fair and reasonable settlement,
but they have also met every requirement
of the Railway Labor Act respecting the
negotiation, mediation, and arbitration of
labor disputes.
Itseems unthinkable that these three unions,
i The threat of a strike cannot justify grant
ing more favorable conditions to 125,000 em-
ployes than have already been put in effect
for 1,175,000, nor will it alter the opposition
of the railroads to unwarranted wage in-
creases or to changes in working rules which
are not justified. ;
A glance at the box shows what employes
represented by the Engineers and Firemen
make. They are among the highest paid in
the ranks of labor in the United States, if not
representing less than 10 per cent of railroad the highest.
Compare these wages with what you make!
1939 Average 1947 A 7 varags ua)
Here is a comparison of Type of Employe Annual Poors Annual is — — dod
Zyorass annual earn- ENGINEERS
ings o :
Doe on Road Freight. ......... $3,966 $6,126 $6,757
war) and 1947. Also (Local and Way)
shown is what 1947 Road Passenger........ 3,632 © 5,399 6,025
earnings would have Road Freight (Through). 3,147 4,684 5,169
been if the 15% cents Yard 4 4,081 4,539
er hour increase, of- FIREMEN
ered by the railroads Road Freight. .... ans 2708 4,683 5,268
and rejected by the (Local and Way)
union leaders, had been Road Passenger. ....... 2,732 4,544 5,165
in effect throughout the Road Freight (Through). 2,069 3,460 3,891
entire year 1947. Yard: vec. santo, 1,962 3,136 3,653
Railroad wages computed from Interstate Commerce Commission Statement M-300.
Full year 1947 estimated on basis of actual figures for first eight months.
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State Wide News
Gathered through the facilities
of Pennsylvania News Service
Philadelphia, (PNS)—46-year-old
Michael Papaneri, former profes-
sional boxer, has been convicted by
a jury of second-degree murder in
connection with the slaying of his
87-year-old mother, Anna Papaneri.
Chester, (PNS)—An investigation
is under way into the cause of a
spectacular $750,000 fire which
swept through a bus company gar-
age, destroying 33 buses each valued
at around $18,000.
Pittsburgh, (PNS)— William
Moore, 17, and Mario Del Masto,
28, were seriously injured in a
gasoline explosion in a three-story
garage last week caused by an
acetylene torch being lighted too
near a gasoline tank.
Chester, . (PNS)—City Council
here dropped a plan to levy a tax
on newspapers and radio stations
within the city limits, which would
have cost these public services two
per cent tax on gross receipts. The
city has only one newspaper.
Lewisburg, (PNS)—Peter Jano=
wicz, 18-year-old prisoner who es-
caped from the Federal Penitentiary
“to go home for the Christmas hol-
idays” has been sentenced to serve
an additional two-and one-half
years for his action by the United
States District Court.
Scranton, (PNS)—A new one per
cent income tax for Scranton has
been voted into effect by City Coun-
cil on a three-to-one vote. The
tax becomes law after February 20.
Pittsburgh, (PNS)—Thanks to the
alertness of two Pennsylvania Rail-
road employes, nine-year-old Mat-
thew Cavanaugh is still walking
around like any other normal lad
these days. Last week he and his
brothers were sledding along thin
ice along a stream when suddenly
little Matthew disappeared. = The
railroad workers, hearing the
screams of the brothers, rushed
downstream about 100 feet, waded
through the thin ice and grabbed
the tot as he emereged from his
under-ice trip.
Erie, (PNS)—While playing the
ordinarily innocent and harmless
game of ‘cops and robbers” near
her home last week, seven-year-old
Betty E. Miles was accidently shot
in the eye by a small bore rifle
held by her brother.: She died
shortly after being taken to a hos-
pital.
Middleburg, (PNS)— «Firemen
from Middleburg and two nearby
communities fought desperately a
fire for four-and-a-half hours in an
effort to save the building housing
a large chain store. Only the brick
walls remained standing as officials
estimated damage to be in the
neighborhood of $40,000.
Philadelphia, (PNS)—George W.
Rookstool, 32-year-old butcher be-
lieves in helping his customers beat
the high price of living. By selling
membership in a “club” at $1.25
per person he is able to sell meat
wholesale. He now has 360 mem-
bers.
Home Economics Class
Home economics meeting will be
held at the Mountain Grange Hall,
Carverton, Wednesday night, Feb-
ruary 4, for the East Dallas, Carver-
ton, Orange, and other rural com-
munities of this section. A home
economics representative from the
State will be present.
Whether Your Home
Is Large or Small
It
should be kept in condi-
. . . it is your home.
tion.
We make F.H.A. Loans
to repair and modernize
homes . . . and for insui-
ation. The cost is $5.00
a year for each $100 bor-
rowed.
Your application will
be given immediate at-
tention.
THE KINGSTON
NATIONAL BANK
Kingston Corners
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3 Barnyard Notes
We're looking for the fellow who says, “We don’t have winters like
we did when I was a boy.
Of course science has proved the fallacy of that remark; but there
are still plenty of old-timers who persist that winters are not so cold,
and drifts are never so deep, as they were thirty, forty, or fifty odd years Cu
ago . . . and they might be right, too. There were no motorized snow-
plows in those blustery ‘days; few central heating plants, no stokers
and no oil burners. Few farm homes had modern plumbing or running
water. Transportation for most folks was confined to trains, horses
and Shank’s Mare.
no heaters; and those who were fortunate enough to own awtomobiles i
jacked them up in the garage for the winter. But snow wasn’t any 4
deeper then and the mercury dropped no lower than it does today. :
+ It’s the point of ‘view that makes the difference. But on the sur-
face we can see that fellow’s point. Girls today wear sheer nylons in- 1
stead of heavy cotton stockings, and kids wear none. Men have dis- Ei
carded long woolens in favor of year-round shorts and shirts.
ton and lace shoes have given way to oxfords.
buffalo robe are as dead as the dodo.
can stand more cold. Could be.
Ear-flap caps and the
Maybe we're getting tougher and
Our memories of real winters — and a glance at the calendar con-
vinces us that we are not so young — center around our grandfather’s
where our greatgrandfather, wearing a tall beaver hat, migrated from P
Connecticut to become one of the first settlers on the Meshoppen Creek.
The approach of a winter storm was the signal for me and my cousin
to fill the woodbox on the back stoop of that farm home from the neatly i
corded woodpile outnear the henhouse. Then the water pails were filled |
in preparation for the night and day ahead, and lined in a row on the
bench where the washbasins always stood. :
After my uncle had fed and bedded the stock, we’d close the hen-
house windows and pull for the house where over a hot wood fire in
the kitchen range my grandmother and aunt would have the evening
meal prepared. j
Dusting the snow from damp clothing, we’d line our rubber boots
and two smaller pairs of felt tops in the long dark closet off the kitchen
— a closet that always smelled of boots, stable, guns and men. It was
there that the bootjack that now holds the door open at the Barnyard :
once reposed. Cast in the iron form of a naked colored mammy it brought a, I
protests from a demure grandmother whenever two small boys were ® :
allowed by an indulgent uncle to use the “vuglar thing”. Clothing changed, : i
we were ready for supper.
There was always crumbled maple sugar in the blue milk glass dish
on my grandmother’s table, sugar cookies from the iron stone jar in
the cellarway, and thick cream skimmed from the flat milk pans that
rested on high racks in the damp earth-bottomed cellar; spare-ribs from
home-killed pork and maybe pancakes of the kind that required butter-
milk and a night to rise, in the batter crock, before they eould be
poured on the sizzling griddle.
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. and all the while the snow piled deeper out in the yard, down |
in the orchard, and out toward the barn, while the snarling wind swept
drifts over pasture and meadow.
Sometimes the oil lamp on the supper table (the same kind Myra
collects—circa 1900) would flicker and gasp from a sudden draft and
almost die. :
After the meal, while the women folk cleared the table and washed
the dishes (men folk didn’t wash dishes in those days) the men would
retire to the living room to talk about the weather and other big storms
— storms that really were something when they were boys — and my
cousin and I would listen in awe to tales of the winter when black diph-
theria killed a neighbor down the road; Ben Johnson's boy over the hill;
the miller’s daughter and a score of others about the countryside. There
was hardly a home without its dead, and the snow piled the roads so
high that Dr. Lathrop couldn’t get through and seyeral*days elapsed
before thoseswho rémairted could bury the dead® = « - = !
Then my grandmother would come in — none too soon for the wide-
eyed pair of us —and the conversation would change to more pleasant
things. From her rocker beside the paisley covered living room table,
her book aglow from the rays of an Alladin lamp, she'd read history
and tales of the north woods aloud to all of us until her voiee became i
hoarse or her eyes tired, even though she wore reading glasses over her |
regular spectacles. Wy 0 GE ry
After an hour or two, my uncle would coal up the hopper-type room
heater, resplendent with its glowing isinglass sides and ornate nickel
trimming. Then swinging the lantern that rested, always lighted, on
the back porch, he'd start out to take another look at the stock; to see
how deep the snow had fallen and to predict the weather for tomorrow.
There were no radioed weather forecasts — only the fallen snow, the
hidden stars, the howl of the wind and a man’s intuition to foretell what
the morrow would bring. } Frye z
Of course snows were deeper then, drifts higher and weather colder.
Then we’d pile up to bed in the unheated second floor; ehange into
flannel nightgowns and burrow into the straw tick on the cord bed while
the snow made little drifts inside the windowsill. That straw tick — was
there ever a bed like it—crisp, cold and picky; but it soon warmed up
under the heat of two small bodies and a hot soapstone wrapped in flannel
at the foot. aie
Heads covered with blankets we sank into the cold pillows with a
final prayer, “Gee, it would be awful if we ‘had to go’ tonight.” And
all the while the snow piled ‘higher against the frosted windowpsne. It |
was a great storm for youngsters but it had its drawbacks. Fh mead
Maybe in the middle of the night one of us would awaken with a
fearful pain, akin to Cholera Morbus. Stoically, the awakened one would
bear it for ten, fifteen, perhaps twenty minutes. But the persistent pain
would seldom. be suppressed. Then one or the other would nudge his
sleeping companion. A grunt from the dark and the two of us would
jump gingerly out of bed. Sleepily we'd loosely button on ‘our gar-
ments. “You fraid?” “Nope”, both of us remembering unburied dead
from black diphtheria and that ghosts recognize no weather. .Tiptoeing
down the creaking stairs, we’d make our way past the room heater,
through the darkened kitchen onto the back stoop. Sometimes we could
persuade the hound to leave his warm berth from behind the stove and
come with us for protection. Then from the back stoop where the wel-
come lantern threw its warm beams over the invading snow, we’d plunge 4
waist deep, where the path should have been. Out past the pump which §
was bedecked like a white scarecrow, down the hill beyond the grape
arbor and my grandmother's flower garden where in summer goldenglow
concealed the little white building that at all hours welcomed the rugged,
the sedate and the frivolous — and on this cold winter night, two young
cousins and an unwilling dog.
Yes, we're looking for the fellow who said winters were eolder then, |
— and how about seats, brother, do you remember them ? 7
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