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"The Totem Pole”
Harrisburg, July 29—The tea party in Philadelphia over the week
end wherein assorted gentry, supporting the presidential candidacy
. of one Henry A. Wallace gathered for a clan-bake of sorts (and vari-
ously alluded to as the Third Party Convention), turned out to be a
fine fiizzle in most respects.
In actuality the Wallace Third
Party Convention seemed more like
a funeral procession than anything
else. In contrast to the preceding
robust and vigorous Republican and
Democratic Conventions, the Wal-
lace confab more resembled a sub-
Committee meeting.
Grampaw Pettibone, covering the
event for us, related how having
divested himself of his Wilkie and
Roosevelt buttons, he entered con-
vention hall to see the sights and
was immediately buttonholed by a
scowling lad in a flat hat who bel-
ligerently inquired as to his in-
tentions.
Pettibone informed the young
mastermind that he was merely an
observer whereupon ‘‘that guy with
the unshaven mug” (as the old
gent phrased it), called out to all
and sundry assembled nearby:
“Watch this character—he ain’t
one of us. He's an observer, what-
ever that is and which don’t sound
good to me.” .
Irked and amused at the same
time, Grampaw Pettibone, with his
bow tie flowing walked past the
belligerent soul, saying only:
“One side, son. I've no time
for prittle-prattle.”
But be that as it may there are
several points worth noting about
this Third Party Convention and
the party itself.
The selection of Wallace as the
Presidential candidate and Taylor
(U.S. Senator as the vice-presi-
dent’s running-mate was a foregone
conclusion and their nomination a
mere matter of form.
Pennsylvania’s part in the shin-
dig centered more around the fact
that one of its citizens—dJ. W. Gitt,
York publisher—was the = first
speaker on the program. Gitt has
also been serving as State Chair-
man for the boys.
Neither Republicans nor Demo-
crats in the Keystone State are
much worried over the drawing
power of this new party. GOPsters
point out that it is no skin off their
hide as their people wouldn't take
up with such people in the first
. place.
Democrats are shoulder-shrugging
too on the same basis, but at the
same time are’ slightly on the fret-
ted side for fear that some of their
a may swing over to the
4X lace calfp—in view of the fact
that Wallace ‘himself was at one
time an ardent Democrat.
While there is little liklihood of
any large-scale swing-over here in
Pennsylvania, the worrisome fact
is that each individual vote that is
lost counts seriously in view of
the comparatively low Democratic
registration.
Seriousness with which the Third
Party Convention was not taken
can be gathered from the fact that
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THE LOW DOWN FROM
HICKORY GROVE
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Just been reading a gas com-
pany ad, telling how our gas
bill is bucking inflation. And
you know, when you look at
chocolate bars, shaves and
haircuts, white shirts and 1000
others, it is time to stop and
sorta wonder if maybe our good
friends are not some of the
big outfits that we been kinda
kickin’ around. It has been
the fashion to take a poke at
the big guy. The big company
is a sort of non-personal set-
up, being more or less polite
and not inclined to mixing in
a brawl. And the little politic-
. al guy knowing same, has felt
free to throw out his chest
and threaten to whip the big-
ger fellow, good and plenty.
We been listening to too many
of these sassy pint-size per-
sons—and electing them.
I own no big gas companies,
or electric stations, or banks,
or oil gushers, but sisters and
brothers, I am powerful glad
that there are such outfits. If
it was not for a well managed
and big lay-out supplying us
with kilowatts, super-duper
gasoline, loans at ‘the bank,
etc., we most likely would be
delving deeper in our peans,
like one buck now for hair-
cuts versus the old 50 cents.
This coming November is
going to be a good time to
sort out the sheep from the
pint-size artists. Pretty snappy
epigram, says Henry. Well, I
says, my word, I thank you.
Yours. with the low down,
: JO SERRA
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Recovers From Burns
Arthur G. Parrish of Main road
is slowly improving at Mis home
after receiving second and third
degree burns on! hisfarm and leg
last Monday evening. Arthur was
filling “his gasoline lantern and in-
advertently spilled some gasoline
on his trousers As he struck a
match to light the lantern his
trousers burst into flames.
upwards of 2000. members of the
press and radio covered the Re-
publican and Democratic sessions—
while the Wallace party drew only
about 400 members of the “fourth
estate.”
THE POST, FRIDAY,
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ATOR AT SEA....HE ATTENDED ST. NICHOLAS
PAROCHIAL SCHOOL FIRST JOB-STORE.
CLERK FOR W-BARRE RAILWAY (O......IN
1917 HE JOINED U.S. NAVY « SERVED
ABOARD AN AMERICAN DESTROYER IN
THE NORTH SEA DURING 1418.
HE ESTABLISHED RADIO STATION WBAY IN MAY, 1922,
WITH POP STENGER, THE PIONEER RADIO VOICE OF WYOMING
VALLEY..c.IN 1923 HE BROADCAST FIRST AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION
PROGRAM FROM STAGE OF OLD SAVOY THEATRE ON PUBLIC
SQUARE.....TODAY IT IS DONE EXTENSIVELY....HE IS AN HONOR-
ARY LIFE MEMBER-RADIO SERVICEMEN OF WYOMING
VALLEY,
; ns
BOYHOOD AMBITION-TO BE A WIRELESS OPER-
EXPERIMENTER IN XRAY o WIRELESS
AS EARLY ASHI9IQAFITH FATHER, "POP™
STENGER:=:.THE STRANGE NEW GADGETS
LANGUAGE OF RADIO LED MANY PEOPLE
TO BELIEVE THEY WERE FANATICS. ...BUT
THEIR NEWS FLASH THAT AUSTRIA HAD
DECLARED WAR CHANGED MANY MINDS,
HIS HOBBY |S LISTENING TO PEOPLE ASK QUESTIONS
ABOUT ANYTHING FROM RADIO TO COSMIC RAYS, ETC...
MARRIED TO ANNA GORHAM OF LEAD, SOUTH DAKOTA.
THEY HAVE 3 CHILDREN: NANCY, DANIEL © JOHN.
John H.StengerJs
Jackson Firemen
Hold Fire School
Schuyler Kase of the State De-
partment of Public Instruction is
conducting a 16-week fire fighting
school at the Rome School every
Friday evening. New students may
enroll for the next three classes.
The first class dealt with centi-
lation of fire to keep it confined to
the smallest possible area. Second
class was on the ways of forceful
entrance to a burning building with
the least possible damage and the
third was on tying different knots
from the half-hitch to the life-sav-
ing knot. This Friday's class will
dwell on the use of fire extinguish-
ers. Classes, will continue each
Friday evening for the next thir-
teen weeks.
Regular fireman’s meeting will
be held Monday evening, August 9,
at the Rome School and every two
weeks there-after.
All members are asked to start
gathering articles for the fall rum-
age sale.
Johnstown is Cambria County's
only third class city.—PNS.
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Besides ranking near the top in
agricultural production, Kansas
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Each year, 25,000 children in
the United States develop diabetes.
Although the cause of diabetes
in children is unkonwn, heredity
is said to play a role in about one
third of cases.
Diabetes is due to a disorder in
certain cells in the pancreas, a
gland located in the upper part of}
the abdomen.
This gland secretes a substance
known as insulin directly into the
blood stream which enables the
starches and sugars in food to be
properly burned and stored in the
body.
If not enough insulin is secreted,
the blood sugar increases and sugar
is found in the urine.
Before 1922, diabetes meant in-
validism and death, but during
that year insulin was obtained from
the pancreas of animals and is now
injected in those who lack it.
Diabetics can live a practically
normal life if they follow the nec-
essary treatment.
Young people with diabetes now
play in competitive athletics,
women can safely go through child-
birth, and surgical operations which
used to be extremely dangerous
for the diabetic, are now done.
The diabetic child has a good
outlook for the future.
Treatment of diabetes in the
child is generally the same as in
adults.
Insulin is given to all diabetic
children as soon as the diagnosis
is made.
Without this vital hormone, life
would be impossible.
The difficulty in treating the dia-
betic child is to control his diet
and prevent him from “cheating”.
The diabetic child can be made
to grow up like other children and
become a useful citizen.
DO YOU KNOW ?
It takes one ounce of crystalline
insulin to provide 40 units per day
for 40 years for a diabetic. To
make one ounce of insulin, the
pancreatic glands from 7,500 hogs
or 1,500 cattle are needed.
Saint Vincent College in Latrobe,
Westmoreland County, founded . in
1846, is the pioneer Benedictine
institution in the United States.
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a) Burgard Notes §
The price of an auction is two full days of weeding in the garden.
There’s a right and wrong approach to weeding.
The rain Friday
night gave the assistance we needed and made the weeds come out
rather easily Saturday morning.
But the proper approach is to
have the right frame of mind. Never let yourself look at the whole
garden.
you with the second one.
Take one row at a time and let each weed you pull assist
The satisfaction of doing one row clean
will encourage you to tackle the second one and eventually the
whole garden.
It’s the same psychology that Alcoholics Anonymous
use when the members say they won’t drink for the next twenty-
four hours.
entire job.
Each day that pases makes them stronger to finish the
The Barn is getting back to normal, except for the record player
and hundred old records that are furnishing musical entertainment
for those who are training their horses for the Irem Show. Lil Abner
moved in Saturday night and Flicka and her colt, Thunder, are back
in their stall.
Ralph Rood is back on the job and both Flicka and
Lil Abner will represent the Barnyard this weekend with Faith
Elaine and Barry Edwards riding.
Looking at the birdbath Wednesday we saw a robin, a black bird
and a goldfinch, all bathing at the same time, while a humming bird
worked over the last delphinium blossoms a few feet away.
And
still there are some folks who think you have to spend .a lot of
money to get pleasure out of life.
Red, Brokenshire’s Irish Setter, paid us an unexpected visit Satur-
day night. He fairly smiled as he curled his lips above his teeth and
bounced all over our lawn enjoying his new-found freedom. He's a
beautiful dog and his reddish coat glistened above his sleek sides as
he panted from so much wasted energy and exercise.
He had ab-
solutely no regard for bright begonia blossoms, gladiola spikes or
tender young day lilies as he romped over the place. But we were
glad to see him and glad that he was glad to be back. The only sour
note was when Stripes our brood cat, resented his intrusion and
chased him out of the yard. That's the kind of dog he is—big en-
ough to kill a dozen cats, but as harmless as a rabbit. His pride was
hurt when we left him on the back stoop for the night; but he re-
fused to leave, and intermittantly protested all night long with
periods of barking between excursions to the front porch door, the
cellar door, the side door and the back door in an effort to find a way
into the house. It didn’t bother us, but the neighbors weren't too
pleased; so Sunday morning after he had given us a robust greeting,
we loaded him in the car and took him back up on the hill. The
folks were glad to see him.
It was his first lapse in good behavior
since he stopped following the kids to school.
There are still a lot of thoughtless people who drive too fast over
village streets—good neighbors in all respects except that they for-
get that forty miles is too fast on streets where children play and
are apt to dart from behind parked cars or out of patches of weeds
where they are playing cops and robbers.
The Borough has posted
twenty-five mile an hour warning signs but only the conscience and
good sense of the driver can enforce the law.
We'd like to know the name of the person who supplied the
Library Auction with a hand wrought, iron shoe scraper. We bought
it and it has done more to raise us in the esteem of our mother-in-
Jaw than anything we have done since we cleaned the trap under
the kitchen sink. Some of our weed pulling and gardening friends
who are not so popular with those who wax the kitchen linoleum
would also like to make the acquaintance of the person who donated
that scraper to the auction.
We never thought we’d admit it in public print, but we miss Joe
Peterson and Dougie Cooper. Joe's on vacation at his grandmother's
in Quincy, Mass., and Doug’s at the shore in Jersey. They must be
the king pins on our street for all the other youngsters have disap-
peared, too.
Dick Phillips is the envy of the neighborhood. His block of corn
waves arrogantly in the breeze, already in tassel and almost ready
to harvest while we enviously watch it up there on the hill as we «
pull weeds from the rows of our two foot crop. The neighbors may
not like it but we gave ours a shot in the arm with a little chicken
manure Saturday.
We wouldn’t know just what goes on in Ogden, Utah, but the
Standard-Examiner there recently published a headline r
FATHER OF 10 SHOT;
eading:
MISTAKEN FOR RABBIT
Country Flavor
PICNIC
There is nothing flambuoyantly
wrong with Mr. Webster's defini-
tion. He defines the word tersely
and succinctly: a pleasure party the
food for which is usually provided
by the members of the group and
is eaten in the open air. That
seems to cover the technicalities
and to a slight degree describes
the operations of what has come
to be a standardized, warm
weather, family expedition in pio-
neering.
A man with a growing family
learns to recognize realities early.
If on a Tuesday evening Sister or
Junior proposes a picnic for the
following Saturday afternoon, one
had best face frankly that he is in
for a rough week. It is a quixotic
but valid observation that if a
woman knows she has a picnic
coming up she feels she has to go
through a certain circuitous rou-
tine. There is something about a
picnic in the offing that generates
peculiar off-balance mental slants.
Mother decides to wash and iron
the curtains of the bedrooms; she
is likely to clean the attic and re-
organize the jungle in the hall
closet. Usually Father catches the
insidious fever. He prunes the
hedge; cleans out the accumulated
debris in the garage and puts new
screening on the cellar door.
By Saturday morning everything
is in a tangled dither. Mother
packs food enough for twice the
number of people; Father loads in
a few cantankerous-acting folding
chairs that no one uses. The dog
is. constantly underfoot and by
eleven o’clock the two weary adults
fervently wish picnics had never
been invented. However, the ride
to the country pond is reasonably
pleasant and the program proceeds
according to time-tested schedule.
The children have a wild, rambunc-
tious time; the'dog thoroughly en-
joys himself. The luncheon is good
and Mother's triple layer chocolate
cake seems even better than usual.
By four o'clock the young life is
satisfactorily worn out for a quiet
ride home. When a man reaches
his domicile, cleans out the car,
takes a shower and is comfortably
settled in his wicker rocker on the
porch, life is serene and comfort-
able again. After all, he thinks,
there is nothing like a picnic to
make one appreciate the comforts
of home.
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REFRIGERATORS—RANGES
Sales and Service
REBENNACK & COVERT
265-267 WYOMING AVENUE, KINGSTON
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Bronson
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
SWEET VALLEY, PA.
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