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"The Totem Pole”
Harrisburg, October 21—There
is considerable activity these days
around the old “wailing wall” erected some decades ago within the
confines of this one-time Indian village along the banks of the Sus-
juehanna River.
The pointing in the masonry is being touched up. Kneeling benches
are being refurbished, and the
overhead canopy is being refinished
just in case it rains or snows when
the activity about the wall reaches
its zenith.
The chieftains (political—not In-
dian, this time) are currently ab-
sorbed in walking around in circles,
puffing intently on their smoke-
laden cigars.
Hands are clenched and un-
clenched behind their backs as they
nervously carry on their pacing,
wondering whether they must
needs take a journey to the be-
loved wall come the November 7
elections.
On that fateful day it will be de-
cided by the powers that be, just
who will hold their hands out-
stretched to receive the plaudits of
the Citizenry, and who will slink
furtively to the wailing wall for
a few good wails and dropping of
political tears.
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Each political party is desperately
trying to whip itself into a happy
tizzy in an effort to shunt into the
background the war of nerves.
Leaders of both factions are now
grasping at any frantic straws that
blow from thé barnyard.
Only a short time ago some fig-
ures were released on voter regis-
tration gains by political parties.
The gents snapped up this informa-
tion with dispatch—each trying to
build something out of it all in
favor of their following.
Crowed balding M. Harvey Tay-
lor, Republican State Chairman,
sanctuary:
“These figures present over-
whelming evidence of the tremen-
dous Republican trend and demon-
strate that the citizens are not
going to suffer any more losses at
the hands of the confused and be-
wildered- New Dealers now in
power.”
Snapped Democratic State Chair-
man Philip Mathews with a minor
chest thump:
“The registration total reflects the
interest and activity of independent
citizens and labor groups in the
coming election and their determin-
ation to support the Truman-Bark-
ley ticket to preserve the gains
made by the average man in the
past 16 years.”
Growled Grampaw Pettibone
{ from the depths of his hen-coup
where there was considerable ac-
tivity:
“Harrrumpf!”’
But no matter what the political
| gentry has up its sleeves, the reg-
istration figures for the bull-fight
November 7 stand at 2,877,790 Re-
publicans, and 1,821,420 Democrats.
But with the election less than
two weeks in the future, the kettle
drums are beginning to be heard
in greater and greater intensity.
The mud-slinging has gotten un-
der way (strategically before the
ground freezes) and the big guns
have already limbered up. From
now until its is all over, the big
noise will keep many a chicken
from laying her egg.
A Few Lehman Cook
Books Are Available
| There are still available fifty
| copies of the now famous Lehman
i Cook: Book. Many local women
have sent the books to distant
friends as gifts from the Back
Mountain Region where good cooks
abound. If you haven’t a copy, you
should obtain one by calling Mrs.
Lewis Ide. The price is $1.
from the depths of his pine-paneled |
SOMEBODY
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- Health Topics
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Sudden death in an apparently
healthy individual is a spectacular
phenomenon.
A man falls dead over his work-
bench, another drops dead on the
sidewalk, while another is found
dead in bed.
Why did these persons die sud-
denly without warning ?
People do not die without cause.
It is a problem that frequently
tests the utmost skill of the phy-
sician at autopsy.
The question is easily answered
if sufficient changes in the body
tissue are found to justify a cause
for sudden death.
The most common anatomical
findings - at autopsy refer to the
heart, and hardening of the arteries
of the heart is a chief cause for
sudden death.
treme dilatation of the heart and
there are generally degenerative
changes noticeable in the heart
muscle. '
Next to the heart, the brain
is probably the most frequent site
of anatomical changes which pro-
duce sudden death.
Rupture of one of the main ar-
teries with hemorrhage in the
brain is not uncommon.
Between 10 and 15 per cent of
all deaths occur unexpectedly.
Most of them happen between
the ages of 35 and 65 and many
follow mental anxiety, lack of rest,
and overwork.
Some sudden deaths are due to
| pulmonary disturbances, and some
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result from shock, and in these
cases ‘there is usually a history of
previous disease.
Sudden death is always drama-
tic and sometimes difficult to ex-
plain. i
DO YOU KNOW ?
The word hormone is from the
Greek" “I stir up” or “I excite.”
Sullivan County has one railroad
system—The Lehigh Valley Rail-
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SAFETY VALVE
PROTEST WATER SERVICE
Editor The Post:
We, the undersigned have de-
cided to call upon the press to
help us in our demands for one of
the essentialities so necessary to
the maintenance of a normal
healthful way of living for our-
selves and our children. Plain,
ordinary water.
We will not say pure, as a piece
of gauze fastened over a cold water
tap will yield a surprising amount
of insects which are not conduc-
ive to purity. That happens when
we are fortunate enough to have
water.
Since the middle of August we
have had a supply of water only
in the middle of the night. Those
of us who start our work day early
enough, say 5 or 6 o'clock, draw
what water we need and are able
to keep. By 7 or 8 A. M,, there
just isn’t any water until 11 or 12
o'clock at night. Our children
more often than not go to bed
dirty. \
Right now sanitary conditions are
atrocious. At this writing we have
not had a drop of water since 8
A. M. Saturday, almost 36 hours. |
We have contacted the Trucksville
Water Company repeatedly in the
past 6 or 8 weeks only to receive
a variety of excuses, alibi’s and
promises. Contact with the Trucks-
ville Water Company is not always
possible. At this writing the
Trucksville Water Company has not
denied responsibility for the main-
tenance of this system. Please
can’t something be done?
Signed:
Mrs. Arthur Gramps, Mrs. A.
J. Weber, Arthur H. Gramps, A. J.
Weber, James Nixon Jr., Walter
L. Fish, Mrs. James Nixon Jr., Mrs.
Mildred Fish, Joseph F. Boyle, Mrs.
Joseph Boyle, Mrs. Wesley Belles,
Floyd Wells, Mrs. Lena Wells, Mrs.
Mary A. Schooley, Mrs. James
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Claude Johnson, Claude Johnson,
Harry Smith, Frank Carey, Mrs.
L. S. Guyette, Mrs. Franklin Hem-
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E. Post, Mrs. Harry E. Post, Mrs.
Leo Carey, Leo Carey, Mrs. W, D.
Clarke, William D. Clark, R. H.
Harding, Mrs. Cedric Griffiths, Ced-
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John Cowell, John Cowell.
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WOMEN DRINKING
Dear Editor—
Let us tell our neighbors, how
the wets made a claim that they
wanted Repeal to protect woman-
hood from intoxication. It would
be a laugh, if it were not so seri-
ous for since Repeal, drinking
among women has increased by
leaps and bounds, thanks to wet
propaganda.
In the old saloon days, women
and children were not allowed in
saloons. No woman could embrace
the brass rail and live down dis-
grace.
They have set up a vice in great
dignity and tried to give it great
responsibility, but liquor always be-
haves just the same cruel way.
We now have cocktail lounges,
really just Petticoat Saloons. In
one large hotel, the average daily
patronage of women is 3,000.
We have become Cocktail Amer-
ica with 20 million house-wives
regularly drinking cocktails. Liquor
has done its worst, we have had
400% increase in women drink-
ing, we now have 600,000 chronic
women alcoholics, one in every 4
drunks is a woman. God have
mercy on the posterity of America.
In 1945, D. B. Rotman reported
that one-third of the alcoholics
brought to Chicago Municipal Court
were women. The F. B. I states
that five times as many women
were arrested for drunkepness in
1944 as in 1932, the Prohibition
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a) Barnyard Notes § i
Nature in the raw is seldom
mild. For a long time we have
wondered why one of our little white Leghorn pullets mopes in the
chicken yard while other more brazen hens peck at her and drive
her to a place of refuge behind one of the fence posts.
Now we know. The little pullet grown thin, her comb no longer
a brilliant red, is blind; and the other hens, as stupid as humans,
peck at her because she stumbles and handles herself awkwardly.
It’s survival of the fittest in the henyard as it is in the woods where
the crippled rabbit or deer expects little from his fellows and only
sudden death from a swooping owl or preying wolf.
Maybe in the great scheme of things nature in the raw is right
and we who practice the Golden
wrong.
Rule by protecting the weak are
Wiggam in his New Decalogue of Science preached that
the nation that practices the Golden Rule is doomed. The imbecile
and the weak should be permitted to die before they and their
offspring weaken the race.
Wiggam’s logic to the contrary most of us still contribute to the
Red Feather agencies, and most of us flinch at mercy slayings.
Who could kill a blind pullet ?
even the impersonal executioner,
No one in the Barnyard. Not
Elizabeth, who wields the axe
with the skill of Madame De Forge before every chicken dinner.
Monday evening we spent an hour alone in the hen coop with
"the little blind pullet teaching her
how to drink from her own basin
and to peck kernals of corn heaped in an encircling pile. She learn-
ed quickly; but whether she'll ever lay another egg is doubtful. But
there are thirty-five other loafers
keep one more.
in the coop and we can afford to
We're not so practical that we think we ought to
kill this one—just because she’s blind.
The chickadees and nuthatches are back at the bird feeders along
with an assortment of sparrows and blue jays.
It’s an old man's
pleasure harvesting sunflower seeds, but that’s what we've been
doing spare moments these frosty evenings.
Two bushels at 35¢
per pound. That's a chore that’s really practical.
Don’t forget to order a bird feeder from Frank Jackson if you
really want some inexpensive fun this winter.
The frost Monday night clipped the last chrysanthemums. We're
glad we had an opportunity on Saturday morning to see the beauti-
ful display Grace Lee grew this year at Lee Acres. We envy her
hand with chrysanthemums.
There were millions of lavender
blooms, and all of them came, she said, from one plant which she
received a few years ago.
The grey squirrels are active now on Lehman Avenue.
Harris had to get up early to save his crop of black walnuts.
Floyd
He
gave us a bushel and a peck that we'll have pleasure cracking on
sunny winter mornings for a gathering of young friends, who last
season, we learned, were surprised to know that nut meats don't
grow with salt on them. Cracking nuts and popping corn seem
to be simple pleasures that many youngsters have never learned.
HOUSECLEANING
There are days of pleasure and days of pain,
Days of loss and days of gain,
Days of work and days of play,
But the last of these come not my way.
My back is bent and I heave great sighs,
I'm late to bed and early to rise,
My knees are sore, I'm full of woe, :
For these are housecleaning days, you know.
I take the carpets from dusty floors,
I wipe the walls and scrub the doors,
I clean the windows and shake the rugs,
Po ih
Towid the place of nesting bugs. we « ‘Wn
When evening comes, peace rules supreme,
I'm mighty tired, but the place is clean,
Yes tired and dirty, but through you bet!
What ?—Dad sings out—*‘Supper ready yet ?”’
—Mrs. B. M, Line
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Country Flavor
DESSERTS FIRST
The fact that people are funny
makes life interesting and unpre-
dictable. Guests stay too late in
the evening and one has to serve a
breakfast cereal for refreshment as
a hint that a man needs his night's
sleep. Many dogs are treated bet-
ter than many children and women
folks continue to believe that fish-
ing is no fun unless one catches
fish. Once in a while a weather
forecaster forgets himself and
makes a definite prediction without
half a dozen qualifying phrases
and clauses.
The countryman clings stub-
bornly to his belief that we can
expect little improvement in the
social, economic and cultural order
until we straighten out some of
the contemporary culinary cross-
currents. Men try to do a fore-
noon’s work on a smidgen of fuel;
the women don’t put a few small
pieces of sharp cheese under the
top crusts of apple pies; they don’t
use sweet potatoes in beef stew.
And when it comes to serving
desserts, a comprehensive poll in-
dicates that 99.99% per cent of all
families serve it as a conclusion to
a meal when it should be served
first.
Consider the situation objective-
ly. A man eats his meat, potatoes,
gravy, vegetables and perhaps a
salad if his helpmate thinks he
should set a helpful example for
the children. Then when he has
had all the calories and vitamins
he needs, in comes a triple-layer
chocolate cake,, a mouth-watering
pudding or a scrumptious pie. Is
a man going to pass up the best
part of the meal because it is
served at the wrong time? Des-
serts are the best part of a meal
and should be served first when
taste buds are keenest. It is proof
of the power of tradition that the
present procedure continues to ex-
ist. Desserts first would add great-
ly to the joy of eating; it would
help a man keep the circumference
around the equator under control.
Impersonal analysis of all factors
involved leads to the
conclusion that desserts first would
constitute a major step forward
in what one somewhat hesitatingly
labels modern civilization.
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