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“The Totem Pole”
Harrisburg, Dec. 2—The thunder of dissent is growing louder in the
Republican camp here in Pennsylvania while on the other side of “no-
man’s land” in the Democratic village where victory celebrations are
being carried on, silence and harmony prevails for the most part.
Many a disgruntled Republican, afraid
attempt of Governor Duff to usurp
and worried by the obvious
control of the party, are out scalp-
hunting. :
The recent shindig at the Hotel
Hershey, wherein the 35 Repub-
lican members’ of the State Senate
gathered around the festive board
to select their next President Pro
Tempore, is a perfect example.
At this Hershey pow-wow there
was many a GOP big wig in add-
ition to the Senators, including the
good Governor himself. Very few of
the assembled gentry . actually
wanted M. Harvey Taylor for an-
other term as their Senate leader—
yet bull dozing Jim Duff rammed
him down their throats—told them
bluntly he was the man he wanted,
and with his control of patronage
on Capitol Hill, that was that.
As to the festivities: on that
jovial | occasion: before the men
got down to the job of tearing
their meat and vittles in shreds;
drinks were in the offing—and con-
sumed with a dash of hilarity here
and there.
Then when the boys were well
wined the order came through: ‘To
the Teed tables, gentlemen’”.—and
off they went to the dining room
where many a portly Senator found
to his disgust that, alas, the beauti-
ful dinner set before him was too
much .
The simmered pheasant breast,
the broiled frog eardrums and
creamed hummingbird tonsils were
too much for the average liquid-
filled tummy. As a result the fine-
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THE POST, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3,
1948
"YOUR HEALTH
The police officer led the doctor
into the room where the murdered
man was lying.
“How long has this man been
dead?” asked the policeman.
“He has been dead a little less
than three hours,” replied the doc-
tor after a brief examination.
How did the doctor do it—with
mirrors ?
Physicians determine how long
a person has been dead by a knowl-
edge of the principles of rigor
mortis.
Rigor mortis is the rigidity or
stiffness which occurs after death.
This is due to the coagulation of
the muscle plasma or fluid part
of the blood.
Rigor mortis usually starts be-
tween three and six hours after
death.
It appears first in the muscles
of the head, face, and jaws.
Then it extends to the chest and
: | legs.
It requires about two hours, from
the first evidence of rigor mortis,
until it is complete all over the
body.
This stiffness of the body dis-
appears after about 24 to 72
hours.
Rigor mortis develops more slow-
ly in persons with powerfully devel-
oped muscles and in them it is re-
tained for a longer period.
In the case mentioned above, the
murdered man’s head, face, and
jaw muscles were stiff,
the body was still warm.
Sufficient time had not yet
elapsed for the trunk and lower
extremities to become affected by
rigor mortis.
DO YOU KNOW ?
When 200 autopsies were done
recently in a general hospital which
does not admit tuberculosis pati-
ents, 41 were found to have had
the disease.
Football Dinner
Kingston = Township Football
mothers will entertain at dinner
the football boys at the Shavertown
Fire Hall, Wednesday, December 8.
: ~ that you live in a State where
inspection helps keep your car—and all the
cars you may meet on the highway—in safe
mechanical condition.
Compulsory inspection has reduced Pennsyl-
vania’s rate of accidents caused by mechanical
defects to only 3%. The national average
is 17%.
Take your car now to your nearest official State
inspection station. Avoid the last-minute rush.
You cannot drive legally after January 31 with-
out a safety sticker. There will be no extension
of this period.
SAFETY BEGINS WITH
YOUR CAR
RE GET RIIE)
EET IGIT E
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
Department of Revenue
[ We JAMES H. DUFF, Governer
CAL a Bi Sipe ini
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Associate Editor
MYRA ZEISER RISLEY
* Contributing Editor
MRS. T. M. B. HICKS
The Book Worm
Yankee King Of Spain
by Mildred B. Kear
“Few of us would be likely to
point to murder as a road to suc-
cess but there is at least one in-
stance on record in which a man
shot down his enemy in cold blood,
and then stepped across his dead
body straight into the arms of
fame.”
This gentleman, a member of
congress at the time of the mur-
der, proceeded in five years to be
a Major General in the United
States Army, and within ten years
became the American Minister to
Spain.
In America he was known as the
Hero of Gettysburg and in Europe
as the Yankee King of Spain—
his name, Dan Sickles.
Dan Sickles’ lusty life is an al-
most incredible combination of
superlatives and paradoxes.
On his own at sixteen, he became
a brilliant lawyer, a connoisseur of
art and an, accomplished linguist.
He made several fortunes, yet he
died poor.
He had innumerable affairs with
women, yet his wife was unfaith-
ful to him and he killed her lover.
Historians acknowledge he saved
the Battle of Gettysburg for the
Union Army, and it was there he
lost his leg.
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SAFETY VALVE
Center Hill Road
Dallas, Penna.
November 22, 1948
Mr. Howard Risley, Editor
The Dallas Post
Dallas Pennsylvania.
Dear Mr. Editor:
The Dallas Post is known as a
| champion of good causes in the
Back Mountain area and I there-
fore call your attention to the
following:
Continuing expansion of this
area is a welcome sign of its ac-
ceptance as a commercial and resi-
dential potential. However, Dallas
Township residents,
that expansion can bring mixed
blessings, have initiated action to-
ward a zoning ordinance and prop-
erly appointed representatives are
at this moment at work to com-
plete the ordinance so that it may
duly become law.
The zoning ordinance action is
well known to all residents read-
ing the Post and should be well
known to newcomer contractors
erecting or planning to erect build-
ing of any type. Most of these con-
tractors will never become resi-
dents but they should neverthe-
less be bound by the ideals as well
as law of the area.
Regardless of these facts, the
commercial possibilities of defin-
itely residential areas have led
some residents and contractors to
contemplate getting under the-wire
of the zoning ordinance and erect-
ing neighborhood stores. I have
definite evidence of such proposed
places for the Center Hill road
area of the rapidly expanding sec-
tions “C” and “D” of the Goss
Manor Plot.
I ask for support of residents
in maintaining the “status quo”
of this purely residential neighbor-
hood. Also, by this plea, I call at-
tention of Township officials to the
proposed violations of the zoning
ordinance which will without a
doubt become law in less than
one year. . :
Very truly yours,
R. G. Dickinson
* % % HF %
Applauds Flack
To The Editor:
LE legislator’s voice very neces-
sarily is heard crying out of the
| iene of demands upon the
i people of Pennsylvania. It was in
| Wetting with the trend and with
obedience to the lobbies that the
press recently gave all of its re-
view of a service club session to
that Hazleton gentleman who said
what so often has been said be-
fore: “The teachers must have more
pay, very much more pay, even a
high minimum of salary.” As with
others, the gentleman made no
distinction as to abilities, which,
I assure you, varies widely among
teachers. A good teacher and a
good nurse are the rarest Jewels
below heaven.
So, in only one newspaper that I
have read have I seen a small hid-
den-away item in which is recalled
that Mr. Harold E. Flack of Dallas,
also spoke at that service club ses-
sion under Chamber of Commerce
auspices. A good selection that.
Teachers in a district that abuts
Dallas recently took their pupils out
of service because it was incon-
venient for any one of their num-
ber to stop by once a week for the
books the children might want. And
at that badly reported meeting,
Mr. Flack said a bookful in Digest
style:
“It is fine that men such as you
gather in discussion of possible
trends. If you can conform needs
to Lability to pay, you will have
done a public service without par-
allel in the history of legislation.
It is very easy to demand approp-
riations, even to pledge legislators
to a project. It is more commend-
able if you will indicate how pro-
jects can be acquired without
smashing yours and the people's
economy.”
That, it seemed to me, was the
most important, certainly the most
necessary statement made at the
recent forum.
|
| November 26, 1948
—Family Man
SIDEWALK A DISGRACE
Dear Editor;
Will you answer a question for
ELLIS BLOCH
649 Wyoming Ave., Kingston
just below Union St,
Artists Materials
Antiques
Wall Paper and Paint
Fabrics and Carpets
Christmas Wrappings
Children’s Gifts
different sets and books
in new and
»*
Greeting Cards
recognizing |
A Barnyard Notes
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
In 1923, a very important meeting was held at the Edgewater
Beach’ Hotel in Chicago.
Attending this meeting were ten of the
world’s most successful financiers. Those present were:
The president of the largest independent steel company;
The president of the National City Bank;
The president of the largest utility company;
The president of the largest gas company;
The greatest wheat speculator;
The president of the New York Stock Exchange;
A member of the president’s cabinet;
The greatest ‘bear’ on Wall Street;
Head of the world’s greatest monopoly;*
President of the Bank of International Settlements.
Certainly we must admit that here were gathered a group of the
world’s most successful men.
secret of ‘“‘making money”.
these men are:
At least, men who had found the
Twenty-five years later let’s see where
The president of the largest independent steel company—Charles
Schwab—died a bankrupt and lived on borrowed money for five
years before his death.
The president of the largest utility company—Samuel fasulle
died a fugitive from justice and penniless in a foreign land.
The president of the largest gas company—Howard Hopson—is
now insane.
The greatest wheat speculator—Arthur Cutten—died abroad, in-
solvent.
The president of the New York Stock Exchange—Richard Whit-
ney—was recently released from Sing Sing Penitentiary.
The member of the president's cabinet—Albert Fall— was par-
doned from prison so he could die at home.
The greatest ‘bear’
suicide.
on Wall Street—Jesse Livermore—died a
The head of the greatest monopoly—Ivar Krueger—died a suicide.
The president of the Bank of International Settlements—Leon
Frazer—died a suicide.
ALL OF THESE MEN LEARNED WELL THE ART OF MAKING
MONEY; BUT NOT ONE OF THEM LEARNED HOW TO LIVE.
Bert Hill, is sending out a beautifully illustrated booklet on Chris-
mas plants which gives the history of most of the popular holiday
greens and flowers.
advertising than this.
Bert for a copy.
We've never received a nicer bit of direct mail =
If you didn’t receive one, you'd better ask
Cultural note: Last year our poinsettias bloomed two weeks after
Christmas.
Christmas.
bought at the Library Auction,
hundred buds.
This year they are blooming three weeks ahead of
Probably next year they won’t bloom at all.
The Christmas cactus given by Mae Townend,
and which we
is loaded with more than one
Country Flavor
BANKING THE HOUSE
It will be a step forward when ; sawdust, canny farmers knew its
all homes have little metal gadgets | worth. Of course some casual folks
on the wall to provide heat. Per- | piled hemlock and spruce branches
haps in 2000 A.D. a tiny box of around the foundations.
Once in
atomic material in each room will|a while a man banked his house
give a person just the degree of
warmth he prefers; or maybe he
will tap the thermal résources a
few miles beneath Earth’s crust.
However, there are still many
homes where heat is provided by
stoves. Oil is gradually supplanting
coal and wood although the country-
man is occasionally cheered when
a gentlewoman of the older school
declares she still thinks her best
wood fire in a gleaming iron range.
A generation ago a 14-year older
looked ahead to banking the house
on a Saturday in November. The
oak stakes and wide boards were
taken down from the cross tim-
with strawy horse manure.
It gave lad a feeling of impor-
tance to hold the reins over the
high-lifed, sleek Morgans. Neigh-
bor farmers lifted hands in greeting
‘amd gravely discussed weather and
livestock in man to man fashion
when one stopped at a dooryard. At
the mill it was an easy task to fill
the wagon body with the tangy,
| nostril-tingling
baking was done with a good hard '
sawdust. It took
several loads to fill the trough
around the house. Father insisted
that it be tramped down solidly.
Naturally, in mid-forenpon and
again in the afternoon, a fellow
| went into the kitchen to see if a
| chunk of hot
bers over the barn floor. A trough '
was made around the house and
ell, about a foot wide and two-
feet high. This was merely essen- !
tial preliminary work. The real fun
was hitching the Morgan mares to
the big blue farm wagon with the
high board sides and going to
Johnson’s sawmill for the saw-
dust. Long before scientists had
discovered the insulating value of
|
gingerbread or a
thick slice of homemade bread cov-
ered with plenty of butter and
molasses were available. When day
was done and the last load emptied
a future farmer felt a glow of satis-
faction as he looked at the bank of
sawdust around the house. Solid
husbandmen feel good when their
homesteads are ready for the long,
cold months ahead.
363-R-4
Alfred D. Bronson
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
SWEET VALLEY, PA.
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