The Evening Standard from Uniontown, Pennsylvania • Page 31

iPMHyW JUNE 30, 1939 Opinions Editorial Daily News Standard Paper That Goes Into The Home" EsUbllsbed December 17, 1888 21-23 Bast Peon St, Unkmfcown, Pennsylvania KENNEDY Editor GEORGE GRAY City Editor Published toy UNIONTOWN NEWSPAPERS, INC. W. CALKINS President CHARLOTTE SMITH Secretary and Treasurer Published Daily Except Legal Holidays, Sundays SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Carrier 12 Cents per Week Daily, Except Saturday, 2c; Saturday Only, 3o By Stall (In Pennsylvania) $5 per Year By Mail (Outside Pennsylvania) $6 per Year Baiered at the Postoffice. Union town. Pennsylvania, as Second-Class Mail Matter, by Uniontown Newspapers, Inc.

MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS The Contrast Again The complete contrast between the European way and the American way Is evident once again in the news from Slovakia that the government has abolished co-education in the high schools and is urging that the girls marry instead of taking up careers. University enrollment by women is being severely discouraged, and only a comparatively few girl grade school graduates will be enabled to take up nursing and social service or similar allied activities. This is indeed turning the clock back- We in America believe that a woman should be educated, so that as a free human being a choice of the kind of life she wishes to lead. We believe that even if she marries, she is idl the better wife and mother for a high school or even a university education. And we believe that in.

any case she is a human being, entitled to get the best she can from life in the way that suits her, entitled to give what she may have to give to the common life. But Slovakia is now under German "protection." That means that the German idea dominates there. Just as Germany exported racial consciousness to Italy, and anti-Semitism to Czeeho-Slovakia, so it now exports to Slovakia its medieval ideas on the position of women. At about the time this news came out, Mrs. Paul Henry, national organizer of Pro America, Republican Women's organization, was giving an interview.

And what she sr.icl, without any attempt to comment on the Slovakian situation, makes nevertheless a perfect comment on it from the American point of place is no longer exclusively in the home," she said. "The only way a woman can protect her home is by building a firm foundation outside of it in civic, community, and church affail's." And there you have it. These homes, to which Slovakian are supposed to devote themselves so early and so exclusively, are subject to the kind of world in which they have their being. It is idle for such women to build such homes, only to see them torn asunder by forces in which they have had no voice, no influence, forces of which they have not even any knowledge. Often the world is perplexed to know just which path to choose in its effort to stumble forward on paths of progress.

There is just one path which seems to offer no hope at all. That is the path backward to the dark- ness and unenlightenment up which humanity has for so many centuries been painfully crawling. Drying Up Mexico Prohibition by presidential decree has been placed in effect in many industrial towns and areas in Mexico- Our natural interest in how well Hitler can make it work in Germany is now augmented by an interest in seeing how Cardenas can make it work in Mexico. The lands expropriated from their former owners and given to the peasants in ejidal communities are now dry as.far as alcoholic beverages are concerned, though improved irrigation remains a goal. Thu? the ejido peasants will have learned a lesson that the whole world is slowly--and sometimes painfully --learning: Governments do not give anything for nothing.

They take pay for their gifts in an increased measure of control over the gifts and the receivers of the gifts. This is not ungenerousness on the part of governments. It must be so. The Mexican government now has a direct interest in, and responsibility for, the communal farms of Mexico. It is the government's dance, and the government calls the tune--in this case a dry one.

The Parade Of Princes The news that England's Duke of Windsor may make a visit to this country no longer causes the ecstatic "a-a-a-hs" that it might have done a few years ago- The United States is getting royalty-broke. Such a succession of royal and near-royal personages has paraded across the country this year as never was seen before. We're getting used to it, and even the unprecedented visit of the Brtiish king and queen caused less stir, except in the stuffiest social circles, than might have been expected. They art, welcome. We hope they have a swell time.

We wish" them and their peoples all the best of lupk. But at kst the United States has grown up, and can take royalty in its stride, without ever missing a heartbeat or a regular breath. Even the propaganda value of royal been much overestimated. So welcome, Duke; come for a day or, for a year try to show you good time. New The Deliberative Mind In Low Gear By C'limr'ft B.

DriscoU NEW YORK, June 30--Thinking out loud: So passes another month, and a good one for our country, since we seem farther from being dragged into foreign wars than we were last month or the month before But a sad one for relatives and sweethearts of many brave men, lost at the bottom of the sea. Never do I see the long, gleaming back of one of those warships of the deep without remembering my one dive on one of them, at fleet maneuvers in the Carribean. The feeling of cold finality as green water closes out the bright day, and the bow slants sharply toward the bottom Daughters home from school, World's Pair traffic moving through the City. Fourth of July ahead, flowers blooming in the boulevards not a bad time of year. My old friend, Myra McHenry, of Wichita, would have exulted could she have visioned the prominent space given to her life and death the other day in York newspapers.

At old crusader put by her hatchet and went to sleep. The Herald-Tribune gave her most of a column, with picture. When, I was a small boy, Myra McHenry joined with Carry A. Nation she it Carry; not Carrie, though it's almost impossible to get that spelling past a copydesk) in smashing the saloons of Wichita. In later years, I was editor of a newspaper, the old warrior used to come around with her hatchet and offer to pose for pictures to go with' stories' of her activities.

She thrived on newsprint and ink as a cat flourishes on catnip and liver. She always designed and made her own clothes, and wore rouge even when many of her compatriots were denouncing such vanities. I once saw her kick a policeman's shins until the poor fellow almost cried. He did swear a little. Forty-fourth street, between the Hudson river and Sixth avenue, should be shunned by motorists who are not well acquainted with New York, particularly during rush hours of coming to and returning from work.

Half a dozen of the large bus stations, including the largest one in town, are situated on this stretch of mid-town street, many of them running through to 45th or 43d. When offices of mid-town empty their commuters into traffic lanes, thousands rush for bus stations, and 44th street is blocked for an and a half with the big vehicles, bound for the suburbs. The bus drivers are highly skilled, but they often expect the motorist with the private car to take care of himself. They have a dangerous habit of edging over, regardless of your protests, and if you get the side scraped off your car, you can sue. My wife and I had grand Central with General George Warburton Lewis imd his pretty Latin wife, Zoraida, last night.

Chicken with rice, marvelpusly prepared with sweet spices, was the chief dish. We were really ashamed because couldn't stop eating. The Lewises live in West 100th street, near West End avenue, a neighborhood which, they tell us, is absorbing crowds of incoming refugee families from Germany. In a year they have heard the language of their street change from a predominant Italian to an overwhelming German, with a mixture of Yiddish. General Lewis, soldier of fortune, fighter in many wars of small nations, veteran of two American wars, was born in Kansas.

He's six feet three and a. half inches tall, slim, white-haired, and sufficiently active to stand on his head or do setting-up exercises at the slightest suggestion. He's retired to a Manhattan apartment now to finish his life story. It ought to be a thriller. Sixth avenue is to be lined with trees on both sides, according to plans of the Sixth avenue association.

Since the elevated was torn down, property owners and merchants on this long-neglected thoroughfare have been wondering what they would do to tempt trade away from Fifth and Park avenues. The trees recently planted along the Fifth avenue side of Rockefeller Center furnished the suggestion. Those trees look well, despite predictions of many wiseacres (including the writer of this column!) that they would seem oui of place in the busy and crowded City. Sixth avenue will have to be rebuilt from end to end. with the exception of a very few buildings, before it can take its place as one of the leading marts of trade.

Already there is talk that the big Wanamaker store, now far downtown, may buy the Hippidrome block, wreck the big showhouse, and erect the largest department store in New York on the site. If that happens you may look for a trek Sixth avenueward by some of the larger retail shops that are now paying stupendous rentals on the well-established avenues. A tree-lined avenue, after the manner of Champs Elysees, in Paris might help bring the business. So They Say- The Fuehrer has proclaimed peace with guns. ---Joseph Buerckel, Reich Commissioner for Austria.

The Family Doctor --By Dr. Morris Fishbein-- Editor, American Medical Association Journal The number of old people is constantly increasing. Whereas less than 3 per cent were over 65 in 1890, almost 8 per cent are over 65 years of age today. The increasing number of the aged has raised many an economic and social problem, chiefly, of course, the economic problem. The question of who is to support them when they become unable to take care of themselves has given rise to the Townsend Plan, the Thirty-Dollars-Every-Thursday Plan and to some extent for the Social Security.

The doctor and the social worker are also seriously concerned with the special problems of the aged: First with trying to fit them suitably into the life of the home, and second, with taking care of their health. The problem of the health of the aged is a very special problem indeed. One social worker has asked why aged adults live with their chidlren. Certainly this is not only for financial reasons because they live with the children whether rich or poor. Of course, the tradition that the children shall take care of the aged has come down to us from many centuries.

Nevertheless in many instances parents and the children would be both much happier if they lived apart and if the responsibility of the child included financial provision without dictation, restlessness, disrespect or annoyance. The problems of the aged in the home depend on the fact that they are not, of course, fully efficient physically. Aged people slow up both mentally and physically. A few, however, cannot accustom themselves to age, and show constant activity, attempting to attend to all sorts of affairs. Because of their physical and mental incompetence they often bring about considerable damage.

Old people find it difficult to accustom themselves to new methods of living and to the freedom of modern society. Often their personal habits become negligent and careless. Furthermore they frequently become suspicious. The psychologists recognize that the child who has for years been dominated by a parent and repressed its antagonism may actually endeavor to revenge itself upon the parent when the parent becomes old and the child assumes the dominant position. In other Instances parents who (Continued on Page Seventeen) -From the Saturday, June 30, 1894.

All records for importation of coke workers were broken when 13 carloads were introduced. Over 2,000 more were to come the next week. McCormick's Amateurs played their first game and wiped up Mountain View Park with the Eclipse team, winning 18-0. Altman held the visitors to three hits and his homerun in the third drove in three men. Friday, June 30, 1899.

W. E. Crow and H. S. Dumbauld were chosen as county chairmen of the Republican and Democratic parties respectively.

No firecrackers were to be permitted during the Fourth of July celebration. Thursday, June 30, 1904. In a benefit game for the hospital the Fats beat the Leans 16 to 15. The West Penn was looking for a location for a waiting room and was about to select a West Main street site. Wednesday, June 30, 11MJ9.

June had produced 16 brides, a gain over 1908, leap year. Mrs. Sara B. McClelland was struck and knocked down by a Pennsylvania train in.West Fayette street. Side Glances COPH.

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t. PAT. Off. Tuesday, June 30, 1914. Roosevelt and Penrose were a menace.

Gary predicted good business. Coon Hollow was again in the limelight and Perryopolis was ready for its centennial. The Elks picnic at Cheat Haven had been a great success. Monday, June 30, 1919. Miss Mabel Connelly, graduate ol the 1919 class of the local high school, left for Grove City college to take a teacher's training course.

A fresh coat of tar was on the mountain side east of the Summit but was safe enough for travel. Comment Monday, June 30, 1924. Judge E. H. Reppert was to sit in sentence court at which time all convicted liquor violators at June term of court would receive their sentences.

James Davoli; 39, owner and operator of the Uniontown-Brbwnsville bus line, was found lying in the middle of a pool of blood in Middle street, South Brownsville, near his home. Foul play was suspected. "The nicest thing about being away at camp is the way it makes the boys back home suffer." Monday, June 30, It was announced from reliable sources that the pike be kept open during construction of the Summit stretch. Edward Keffer, son of Mr. nnd Mrs.

Henry Keffer of Fairchance, had joined the U. S. Navy. Robert Craft returned to Philadelphia after a several days' visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

S. C. Craft of Berkeley street. Saturday, June 30, 1934. Between 6,000 and Fayette county properties were to be sold at treasurer's sale for delinquent 1930, 1931 taxes on August 6.

District Attorney Wade K. Newell ordered investigation of the morn- Ing gun battle at Merritstown with the anticipated arrest of 50 persons. Maxie Baer, heaven's gift to women, was expected to register at the Summit hotel in the evening. Behind The Scenes In Washington --By Bruce Catton-- --News Standard Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 30 It a fairly goo A bet that the famous food stamp distribution plan will presently be applied to cotton. Not only is current thinking in the of Agriculture pointing that way, but the new agricultural appropriation bill makes available for the "cotton problem" a sum of monev which can't very well be used in any other way.

All in all, the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation will have $203,000,000 to work with next year. Under the law, not more than a fourth of this can be spent on any one commodity and only half of the money so spent can be devoted to an subsidy. The FSCC, thus, can spend around $50,000,000 on cotton next year, and at the most can put $25,000,000 of it into the cotton export subsidy program. Thus, it will have a lot of money left which must be spent, domestically. Research into finding new uses for cotton will take only a little of this; the balance would be used for promotion of domestic distribution of cotton, Which means that FSCC will, if it chooses, be able to finance very wide distribution of cotton through the stamp plan; which in turn, would mean that the stamp plan would move out of the grocery stores and into the department stores.

No decision has been made yet, but the chances are very'good'that exactly that will be done. GARNER LATE WITH IDEA Vice President John Gamer came out strongly the other day in favor of broadening the income tax base, urging a lowering of exemptions and a gentle upping of lower-bracket rates. Which makes it seem a pity he didn't get his idea 48 hours Ter TM he had he C0uld faeen Priding in the-Senate when the LaFoUette amendment to the tax bill came up. LaPollette was trying to do just what Gamer wanted, lower the exemptions and raise the rates. The LaFollette amendment lost on a tie vote, 38 to 38.

And Mr. Gamer, if he had been in the chair, could hav carried it bv mg his vote in favor of the amendment and breaking the tie" But.he wasn and he didn't. Recent reports to the contrary, the Postoffice Department stffi has plenty of horseback-riding mail carriers on its outlying star routes. There are various counties, particularly in Kentucky and Tennessee, which are so mountainous that no automobile or motorcycle could make the rounds, and the carriers there go on horseback just as they did half a century ago. The same is true of some of the mountainous areas in the.southwest.

It 11 be a long time say the department's experts, before motorization of the postal service is 100 per cent. SO--CONGRESS VOTES SUBSIDIES Why Congress keeps on voting subsidies, in one easy lesson- Senator Adams of Colorado has been an effective andV-consisten member of the economy at this session. But he arose the other day to speak for a bill which would have government pay 77 cents an ounce for silver, instead of 66 cents as heretofore. He urged, first, that this wasn't really a subsidy since the money didn't come out of the federal treasury but simply represented a cut in the "seniorage" which the mint charges the miner Dale Carnegie Says-- If you come to New York this summer and walk along Broadway at night, you will see a huge eJectric sign--the first one in the world to predict the weather. It was put there by a young man who arrived i New with less than in his picket.

His name is Douglas Leigh, and he was born in Anniston, Alabama, 20 year ago. He worked for a sign company in Atlanta, Georgia, and was doing very well. Then came the" itch to travel. New York was calling. But there was his salary.

He had a good job; he could play safe. Finally the itch grew so bad that he decided to throw up his job and take the chance. He came and he tramped the streets trying to get a job, but'he discovered that New York could get along quite wel), without him. At last, he found a job with a sign company in Brooklyn. Then came a salary cut; later another.

The future" looked black. He thought. He worried. He decided to act. He had taken a chance before and had won.

So he handed in his resignation. Without a job and without money, he decided to go into business for himself. The only business he knew was the sign business; so he determined to go into that. But here was the rub. The company he had worked for had eighteen million dollars.

He had only seventy-six dollars and a second hand car. How could he. without capital, compete with, an established eighteen million dollar concern? Only by getting a new idea. Finally he developed an idea that started him on the road to fortune. He took a camera and started out to find a location for a sign.

He found one in the Bronx, photographed it, got an option on it; then went to a hotel and convinced the manager he ought to put up a sign on that spot. Next he offered to exchange the space for a hotel room, adding a littla cash. The.deal made, he had some stationery engraved. He went into business in 1933 the very day the banks closed. Instead of being discouraged, he took it as a good omen.

Then he hit on the idea of something new the weather-telling sign. His office now telephones the "weather station four times a day. On his desk is a small dial'. He twists this and in about 20 seconds the sign swings over to the information' on the disc. He is now "the sign king of His signs along Broadway and in the Columbus Circle neighborhood are seen each night by a million people.

He did an- annual gross business last year of a million dollars? And he is not yet thirty years old. He rang the bell because he was not afraid to take a chance. That is what holds so many people back. Frequently people who take chances make outstanding successes. But not always.

The chance taken must have a sound idea, coupled with ability and determination to put it across. (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Inc.) Book A Day By Don Must Like a well done professional performer of a mediocre play, the "Post Stories of 1938" (Little Brown makes its appearance, to receive 22 one for each author. Justly deserved, even though some of the stories are noticably thin. It is anthology that will not be topped for some time to come.

Hollywood stories are about as numerous as boxoffice so in view of this stiff competition, Patterson McNutt's "Showman, 1 a study of a few'crowded hours in the life of a Hollywood tycoon, is to be honored as one of the finest flicker stories in existence. A certain Mr. Glencannon. who has been a Post star for years, runs a bit amuck in "The Yogi of West Ninth Street." To me, the story seems like a slow-motion picture, in which each laugh is so laboriously explained that all of its smash and punch, or reader's spontaneous is dissipated. Conan Doyle killet off Sherlock Holmes wrjen he wearied of him.

Can Mr. Gilpatric, the author, bo planning for Glencannon the same escapement? McKinley Kantor. always makes me think of "hominy grits and sowbelly." His story, "Validictory" is a sure fire narrative of heart- stings, wkich he clutches and plays carefully and skillfully one by one, much like a master musician. Perhaps the outstanding story in the series is the one written under the pseudo-name of Alex Hudson. An adventure story, not of the bone-crunching, blood-swigging type, but a vibrant, living talc of a naval encounter current Sino-Japanese war.

There are other goodLstories in this book, in fact they are all entertaining, expertly each showing the work of a master craftsman..