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THURSDAY, NOV. 10, 1955 THE BROOKVILLE AMERICAN. BROOKVILLE, PA. PAGE TWO LISTEN, KIDS I ft rfV A Bit Of Iii This Corner frl iff iStv 'If IS 'f7t'' a gton By Ed Koterba By i RETURN" tmr )K IMfi- 'X WASHINGTON Unrelated bits of Washington life Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson revealed he has the greatest collection of bird-dog tales in the world Said he got them from admirers (3,000 letters in all) after he made that bird-dog, houn'-dog slip in the Midwest last Fall. Wilson made this little disclosure at the White House Press Correspondents' reception the other night when he stayed up until 3 a.

telling bird-dog stories. H1 When Texas' Lyndon Johnson made a return trip to the Mayo Clinic following his kidney operation, he learned that one of his troubles was too much calcium. So he had to cut out drinking milk. Incidentally, close associates say his physical condition is worse than is generally known The security guard around President Eisenhower is apparently getting tighter, for last week one of the guards intercepted a White House reporter strolling into the Statler the night Ike was'there. The T-man ordered the reporter to open up the portable typewriter case the newsman was carrying.

What makes this so peculiar is that the reporter is one of Washington's most highly-respected veteran White House men, Ed Folliard of the Washington Post, whom all the guards know a mile away. Explanation of the week: Sen. Richard Neuberger, irked by the constant demands by his new Washington friends that he explained why he doesn't drink, came out with this public statement "I am a teetotaler. But I am not a prohibitionist." What's the difference? According to the Oregon Democrat, "A teetotaler just doesn't drink. A prohibitionist doesn't drink and doesn't want other people to drink.

said Neuberger, "don't drink. What other people do is their business." NOT INDISPENSABLE? 1 here is a ioi oi ncivuus Peonle are worrying about their jobs, mak.ng more money, saving more money, the Atom bomb, Russia, ad infinitum. Ita good idea to blow off the steam of pent-up emotions once in a while and we can't think of a more sat.sfac-tory way of doing it than giving the newspaper editor h-1. Vf Down in this office is seated an aging old codger am, ng whose duties it is to hear complaints. He the guy who is Sponsible for the multitude of mistakes, oversights poor news coverage and anything else that raises the of the gen- tlS This1, fellas hide is as tough as the soles of a barefoot boy in midsummer, so don't be bashful when you dump your resentment on him.

He has, however, a sympathetic ear and an understanding heart and will promise anything short Sring up an advertising account. Then he 11 promptly forget He needs someone to put a burr under his tail occasionally. He needs something to make him forget his heaves blind staggers and spavins the tidings of encroaching years that beset him more each year. Mebbe you can spur him into action SthTour reprimands and jibes. By getting it off your chest you'll feel better and mebbe he'll feel better knowing you feel erust wanted our readers to know we offer this special service without obligation.

You're entitled to it as a subscriber and you'd be surprised how many people take advantage 'Vs good practice, because when the readers don't raise a ruckus once in a while the old guy at the desk here begins to feel that the object of his staff's efforts isn being read. rf- Mrs. H. J. Webster, of Egypt, was in this office a couple of weeks ago and during the conversation mentioned that most superficial burns can be treated and given immediate rebel with the application of grated raw potato.

Next time you get a bad burn, try several poultices of raw potato it works! Out in Chicago recently Mrs. Matilda Abraham came forth with an idea that all you gals ought to catch onto quick like -to assure a long, happy life. Mrs. Abraham, celebrating her 11 5tn birthday, said the solution for longevity is Don let things fret you none and have yourself a man-sized chaw of chew-terbacco every day." Sounds like a right smart idea. The man was indignant at having been arrested and he .1 1" 1: 4- iilm cr "Wliat I The Low Down from Hickory Grove mm staggered up to cne ponce ucuicuom wanna know," he shouted while weaving around in front ot the desk, "is why was I arrested?" "You were brought in for drinking," replied the officer and the guy said, ''Oh, that's different.

That's swell when do we get started?" The doctor put down his instruments and looked severely at the patient. "You're extremely run down," he said, shaking his head sadly. "I prescribe less golf and a few more hours spent in your office each day." There is blustering up and down and across the land by a little group of chronic blusterers who can always find something needing fixing, and especially if it will put wampum in their own jeans. Wampum in this essay meaning getting elected via bluster to a job for which they are not sufficiently fitted. America since Geo.

Washington has been a competitive and free to work, loaf, prosper or what have you, nation. That is why it has made circles around many foreign lands. But the blusterers tell us, 'taint so, we need nenovating, overhauling, the Govt, should be the Big Smoke jn business. Yours with the low down, JO SERRA. News from our Files 50, 25, 10 Years Ago While President Eisenhower took a day off from official business and relaxed with his paints at Fitzsimons Army Hospital, his economic advisors reported an all-time high for the 0.

S. economy in the third quarter of a year that may total close to four hundred billion dollars in goods and services compared with 35 7 billions for 1954. Night before, Vice President Nixxon told investment bankers in New York that, under Administration policies that are "progressive and humanitarian without being socialistic," the nation's workers are better off than "at any time in history." In Washington, about the same time, Joe Martin, Republican lea'der of the House, was assuring reporters that another term in the White House would be no more threat to the President's health than four years on the Gettysburg farm. He said he had no inside information, but hoped the President would run again. Campaigning, he said, would be "no strain at all because of his'popularity.

As we said, President Eisenhower was resting perhaps for the visit next day of Attorney General Herbert Brownell, on "business." We somehow seem to recall that Mr. Brownell held the job of campaigning manager in 1952. And politics can be mighty serious "business" especially when there's a good chance the champ may retire. NO GENEVA SPIRIT FOR THE MIDDLE EAST The Geneva Spirit has rapidly evaporated in the Middle East. With characteristic malevolence, the Kremlin has turned its attention to an area which is in the words of Secretary of State Dulles torn with strife and bitterness." Where the United States has offered technical and financial aid to restore the barren region to its ancient fertility, the Soviet Union has dispatched all manner of heavy armaments, jet planes, submarines, tanks and heavy artillery.

Ignoring the real and urgent need of his people for improved living standards, Col. Nasser, the Egyptian dictator, prefers to accept Russian arms in what must appear to be an attempt to settle outstanding scores with Israel. The American aim in maintaining the security of the Middle East was laid down by Secretary Dulles in a speech on August 26, when he said: "It was clear that effective defense depended upon collective measures and that such measures to be dependable needed to be a natural drawing together of those who felt the sense of common destiny in the face of what could be a common danger." The words of Secretary of State Dulles have acquired added significance in the light of the present Russian penetration of the Middle East. It is quite clear that "in the face of the common danger" only the State of Israel shares with the United States "a sense of common destiny." "In the face of the common danger" the United States must make it abundantly clear that she is determined to stand by her friends in the Middle East as elsewhere. The Tripartite Declaration of 1950 must now be strengthened by a security pact which will formally bind Israel and the United States.

"QUITE A COMBINATION" Sylvia Porter, the syndicated financial columnist, forecasts "with little far of error" that Christmas retail sales this year will run well ahead of last year for another all-time record. She cites various economic forces rising employment, big paychicks, and so on which she feels makes this inevitable. She says the retailers are "determined to use every device and promotion they can dream up to pull us into the stores." She then adds: "Eager customers, lots of cash around, alert merchandisers it's quite a combination of bullish forces indeed." We have here one more instance of the amazing vigor of the American economy. And we have something more a testimonial to how competition at the retail level makes that system click. If, for example, a retailer had a nice tight little monopoly, he wouldn't have to worry about advertising and promoting trade.

The buying public would have to come to him, for want of any other place to go. And the situation would be much the same under a system where government rationed and fixed the prices of goods there would be no effective way for one retailer to offer greater attractions than another. Under free competition, on the other hand, every retailer is at liberty to offer any inducement he can think of, and the one who does the best job gets the most trade. This, of course, has a great bearing on profits and prices. Competition forces merchants to pare prices to the limit in order to make a reasonable over-all profit through big volume at very small unit profits.

Actually, competition is so stiff that many merchants find that their net profits are less now than in days when their total sales were nowhere near as big. umv nikviii ltrill. WKLU By Franklin T. Melno Americans must have good appetites. They spent more than 16 billion dollars tor "eating out" last year.

There was one restaurant for every 704 persons in the United States, and more than 60 million meals served In public eating places each day. Ants In Ice cubes are about as scarce as purple cows. If you do see one, don't be too alarmedl Ants are extremely cosmopolitan insects, equally at home In the Irctic as well as the tropical re- jions. Ants, like human beings, Uve In communities and have a 1 highly complex social life. Ant colonies range in population from two dozen contemporaries to half-a-million busy workers.

Sausage continues to be one of the most popular snacks and meals for Americans. In 1954, sausage production under federal inspection totaled almost 1 billion pounds an increase of more than 43 million pounds over the previous year. This is about 10 pounds of sausage for every person in the U. S. If you are disturbed about the rapid growth of your home town, and the hemmed in feeling that it may give you, consider the case Df New York City.

Its population In 1790 was 33,000. Today it has about 8,000,000 residents. It's the astest growing city In the world's tiistory. EGBERT SEZ- "Everybody has a right to be stupid, but we can't understand why so many people abuse the privilege." Do-it-yourself enthusiasts last year bought more than $200,000,000 worth of power tools, against a mere $25,000,000 worth in 1947. The Sudan comprises nearly square miles, an area one-third the size of the United States, yet its population is only 8,820,000, about the same as Ohio's.

November 8, 1945 10 years ago this week Borough nominees for office had easy sailing Tuesday as scarcely 700 voters turned out to cast their ballots in the quietest election Brookville has had for a score of years. Dr. Ralph Matson, internationally known lung specialist in lung diseases, died Friday, Oct. 26, in Portland, Oregon, where he was a surgeon and chief medical director of Portland Open Air Sanatorium where he had gone for rest and treatment. Last week 232 Junior Red Cross boxes were shipped to the National Headquarters Export Depot at Sea Girt, N.

from the Junior Red Cross of the Brookville Chapter. These boxes will go to children of war torn lands and contained simple school supplies, health gifts and toys and games. They were well packed and displayed choice and thought on the part of the packers. Funeral services were held yesterday at 2 o'clock for Frank Boyd, of Walnut Street, well known gas and oil worker, who died Monday morning in the Brookville hospital at the age of 7 1 years and 7 months. Mr.

Boyd had been associated with the Hanley and Bird Gas Company for the past 2 1 years. A group of teachers from our schools last Friday visited the Clarion State Teachers College in the interest of better reading. They observed the methods used by Mrs. Graff and Miss Hepler who are training teachers for the first and second grades. John (Herk) Mayes, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Clyde Mayes, of Hazen, will appear in "The Torch Bearers" to be presented by the College Players of State Teachers" College, California, Pa. f'7 2 Slumps REV. ROBERT II. HARPER Evidence of Jesus's Power.

Lesson tor November 20: Luke 7l 11-23. Golden Texli Luke 22. The raising of the widow's son to life was blessed relief in the most distressing bereavement of which we can conceive that of a widowed mother following her only son to the grave. What joy he must have brought to the sorrowing mother's heart when he restored her only son to life? The fame of Jesus going abroad because of his mighty works, even of raising the dead to life, multitudes gathered to see and hear Jesus. Then came a message from a gloomy dungeon in a castle of Herod beyond the Dead Sea, where John the Baptist was imprisoned.

As he languished in his dungeon, John's thoughts turned to Jesus and he wondered if he were really the long-promised Messiah. His high regard for Jesus led him to turn to him for an answer, and he sent two of his disciples to Jesus to ask, "Art thou he that should come, or look we for another?" In substance, the answer of Tesus was that his works of heal-ng and of might were ample proof if his divinity. The messengers iame at a time when Jesus was irorking miracles of healing, and 'esus unto them, "Go your way, ind tell John what things ye have leen and heard He cited his niraculous works. In an ascending scale of importance, showing that the final purpose of them all was to bring the gospel to bear upon the hearts of men "the poor have the gospel preached unto them." May we find the marvelous works of our Lord assurance ol his divinity and incentive to enlarge our service for him. I REMEMBER' BY THE OID TIMERS From Emily Blayton Major, Ruthville, Virginia: I remember the kerosene lantern, which over forty years ago, my dad carried on his nocturnal visits up and down and across our country community.

My heart would thump with excitement when after supper on dark nights, he'd light the lantern and signify that I might accompany him on his friendly jaunts. One of them, frequently made, took us two miles through the woods to grandmother's house. to me.) I would trudge along behind daddy sticking so close to his heels that now and then I'd brush against one of his big shoes And until I die 1 shall "see" and "feel" the shadow-patterns which the lantern light threw across the pine-needled path ahead. What panic engulfed me. too.

when untrodden softness beneath my feet warned me that I'd lost my way; and dad, all unsuspecting, had walked on a piece without me. I'd scream, and dad quickly would back-track. What glorious relief to see his tall form coming toward me swinging his lantern until once more I was within its arc of brilliance; Perhaps there is no such thing as true security in this world, but for those previous moments 1 had a satisfying facsimile thereof. I also had a trick of becoming exhausted as I followed daddy and his lantern, and at such times he'd pick me up and swing me onto his shoulders. After scores of these piggy-back rides, he would tell me before each trip: "Now, if you can't walk both ways, you stay at home with your mammy." (Send contributions to this column to The Old Timer, Community Press Serv-Ue, Fcankleri.

Kentucky.) KEEP YOU RENTAL PROPERTY FILLED WITH AN AD IN THIS ANYTHING FROM RENTING A BEDROOM TO SELLING A CLASSY RESI DENCE CALL US NOW FOR SALE McCulloch Chain Saws NEW and USED CHAIN SAWS from $125.00 up Brookville Equipment Phone 206 Brookville Everytime the government gets into the business of trying to distribute the milk of human kindness, the milk turns sour. There is no substitute for individual responsibility. Auve OR year; Outside of Pennsylvania Bill Carlton toJr.n crnitio around these days. Nov. 13, 1930 25 years ago this week The Sunday section of the Pittsburgh paper carried a chapter from the life of Earl Sandt this week which brought back to the minds of many folks the escapades and adventures of Brookville' pioneer aviator.

The article to which reference is made, concerned the career of Jackie Somers, the daring Chute Jumper whose 22 years experience included the first drop, from the box-kite plane of Earl Sandt in Ohio in 1913. The annual kite tournament, sponsored by the Y. M. C. A.

will be held a week from Saturday, November 22. The boys will be divided into two classes: Cadets 9 to 1 1 and Juniors 12 to 14. The kites must be made by the boys and the next ten days will see many youngsters busy making their entry. Among the local women who teended the bridge luncheon given by Mrs. Wilson Ferguson of Pittsburgh Tuesday were: Mrs.

S. S. Henderson, Mrs. L. V.

Deemer, Mrs. J. B. Mc-Knight, Mrs. William T.

Darr, Mrs. L. G. Brocious, Mrs. A.

R. Day, Mrs. F. C. Deemer, Mrs.

Ella Marlin and Mrs. Nell Clark. Mrs. Ward Huey entertained a number of friends at a shower last Wednesday evening at her home in Barnett Street, in honor of her sister, Mrs. Frank Wilson, who was formerly Miss Martha Ewing, of Brookville.

Miss Aldean Hawk has returned to her home at Walnut Street here after spending last week-end in Williamsport where she visited with Mrs. S. B. Winfart. Bill North, Bob and Alec Deemer, and James Park spent last Friday evening in DuBois, where they attended the Knights of Columbus Bazaar and dance which was being held there.

A checker team composed of ten players and four substitutes journeyed to Franklin last Wednesday evening thru rain and snow to engage the "pride" of the city in a match contes. The going to and from contest. The going to and from much harder than the going after thed got there. Brookville nosed out a scant victory by one game. 1.

The manatee la (a) a small bird; (b) sea cow; (c) parrot. 2. Obstreperous means (a) boisterous; (b) rudimentary; (c) child-like. 3. Spectral means (a) star-like; (b) ghostly; (e) showy.

ANSWERS snoja)sog aob sag 'i LINOL November 9, 1905 50 years ago this week C. Replogle is the new landlord of the well-known Central Hotel in this place. He comes well recommended, having had successful business experience elsewhere, and will strive to maintain the high standard of excellence his predecessors have established lor this popular stopping place as the best hotel in the state for the price. The entire interior has been refurnished. Clarion Republican The football team showed much improvement in their play last Saturday.

The game with Brookville was a pretty contest. The Brookville boys played a clean, hard, fast game and deserve credit for the plucky contest they put up. The Normal boys, however, were superior in several phases of the game and came out the winners. After a great deal of effort and correspondence, George L. Sandt, the popular druggist has succeeded in getting the Dr.

Howard Company to make a special half price introductory offer on the regular fifty cent size of their celebrated specific for the cure of dyspepsia. The Humphrey Brick and Tile Company suffered a severe loss on Thursday evening of last week when the extensive buildings of their plant in Port Barnett were destroyed by fire. The company has already taken steps to rebuild the buildings using substantial tile. Report of a unique social event as made by one of the children: Deer Sur: There wuz a child's party at Ida Finner-cy's last Friday night and 20 girls wuz thair. They all had bringed their dolls and other things to play with and jist when everybuddy wuz havin the mostest fun 2 bad boize, Amur Deemer and Arch Neal, what wuz not invited, butted in and bout broke up the party.

Nobuddy nose how they gott in as the dors wus all lokt, and Ida says she will pay a reword of one ham sanwich with mustard on for the name of the one what let them in. Some of the costooms worn by the boize and girls wus funny and one poor little girl who wored her bruvvers sock catched cold in her knee. Certainly now, with the merger of CIO and AFL with all the unions except John Lewis' UMW and a few independents rolled into one super labor combine we have as dangerous a trust as this nation has ever seen. Th Bi lVJ Published by GOING BAD ON YOUR SINK TOP? Then Try ii 1 (I The Sink-Top of Life Time Service and Beauty Let us show you the 46 different patterns of this top-quality high-pressure Plastic Material. It is unharmed by fruit juices, alcohol or boiling water.

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