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SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH. SHAMOKIN. THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1940 PAGE FOUR in which he was buried alive last ivuuuiau id ajMi uscu Wiuriv ill i 700 Suffer Losses In Mine Subsidence The Story of Democracy summer. When they finally got him out, Galligan said: "Gimme a cigaret Let me alone. I'm all right." In one home where the porch was all awry and where sightseers had been vastly amused by the By HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON Illustrated by the author FATIGUE CAUSE OF ACCIDENTS.

CLUB CONTENDS: i Keystone Motor Group! Marries Her Boss Majority of Shenandoah Residents Accept Misfortune Philosophically Harrisburg and the great Sunset Market where hundreds upon hundreds of people crowd to attend his popular services. He anticipates bringing with him a group of hii church singers and musicians. H. B. Morton, colored singing evangelist will direct the singing at the revival in the lojal church.

He presented a great singing program last evening and promises added activities as the meetings progress. His unusual solos add spiritual fervor to each meeting. 8 LOSE LIVES IN MINING ACCIDENTS sight of a huge alley cat emerging to the sun through a gaping crack in the cellar wall, a young woman put aside her newspaper to remark: "Move. on. The houes is all right if it doesn't fall in." There was "no reason for getting excited," she said over and over.

f.Reaches Conclusion -VJ Through Study CHAPTER FOUR First of all, there is the word Democracy" itself which is one of those expressions that threaten to become all things to all men, for the term "a democratic form of gov-, ernment" has been applied to coun- tries which were as far removed from any reasonable ideal of democracy as the Germany of Adolf Hitler or the Russia of Joseph Stalin. We write about the noble democracies of Greece, forgetting tha: these city-states were usually rulcc by a mere handful of free peop. SHENANDOAH, March 7 (U.R) Leo Ploppert and his parents before him were hard-working people, who deserved what they managed to get. Ploppert, born and raised on this hummock in the Mahanoy Valley, had put practically every cent he Mental and bodily fatigue looms as an important element to be considered in relation to reduction of highway accidents, according to -conclusions reached by the Keystone Automobile Club through extensive study of accident reports. who brutally lorded it over nun Club investigators have found, for aves of thousands of slaves wh She refused to tell her name lest people think she was "afraid of nothing." Many merchants in the "earthquake area" advertised "business as usual" today and utilities service was said to be almost normal after a couple of days during which water was shut off and gas was a serious menace because of the broken lines.

But Joseph De Luca's garage will be closed indefinitely and will never reopen in the present location. The building baked as thcugh a giant had sat down on it. Fissures a foot wide opened the concrete block structure to the march winds at half a dozen places and the cement floor rolled and dipped like rubbery ice. could scrape together into his fine, two-story brick building at Coal and Market Streets. In the small hours of last Monday Ploppert was called by the police to go see what was happening to his building.

He got there in time to see it shudder crazily, oscillate as though the upper and lower halves were on hinges and then assume a The mining industry in Schuylkill county claimed eight lives during February, three in bootleg accidents and five in accidents in legitimate operations, according to the monthly report of Coroner Otto Miller, of Ashland. During the month there were 36 sudden deaths reported to the coroner. Of this total, five persons were killed in automobile accidents and 14 died of heart attacks. Two died by suicide and two persons were asphyxiated in automobiles. example, that automobile accidents had as much share in the govern-in the morning 'rush" hours are ment of the country which thej "only about one-third of the number helped to support as do our dog- recorded in the evening "rush' and cats in the United States ol hours.

Over a period of five years, America today. this ratio of highway crashes held Came the Middle Ages and the i J' t' -good in the reports examined. establishment of a large number ol "There is a lesson for motorists small city-republics like Genoa, km, said Joseph A. Venice, Sienna and Florence in Italy The noble Democrocies of Greece lorded it over hundreds of thousands of slaves. Hughes, manager of the Anthracite be thing that might still vaguely 1 flivisinn of the club.

"The motorist. HEADS HEALTH BOARD Funerals Dr. james a. Hugnes nas oeen re precarious equilibrium with the top story leaning to the east at a sharp angle to the rest of the structure. Ploppert and Frank Poniscan, manager of the auto parts store on the ground floor, broke down one of the jammed doors and found the interior of the building a ruin.

"I put $60,000 into that place," Ploppert wailed. "It's gone." That is what happened to one man's fortune when the Anthracite galleries under Shenandoah's north elected president of the Mount Car the great prophet of our own system of democracy, summed up in the words of "a government of the people, by the people and for the people." Here and there in very small and preponderantly rustic communities, mel health board, a post he has held recognized as a democracy. Piit that "inner spirit of pride in a common destiny and a common achievement was apt to wither and to die when the poor man no longer felt that he was a living factor in the political scheme of tilings. In and Novgorod in Russia and Geneva in Switzerland. Indeed, they were all over the place, like "co- operatives" in our modern world.

Because these cities called themselves a res publica or commonwealth or a republic, we have usually drawn the easy conclusion that they must therefore also have been democracies. Nothing is further removed from the truth. For a democracy, according to for a number of years. The physi cian is well known as a former resi and alert in the morning, driv-ls with' ease and confidence. After a hard day's work his physical, men-4al and nerve efficiency is not up to Spar, and his driving lacks the assurance of the morning run to of--fice, store or factory.

Reactions are and he becomes involved in accidents that he would have avoid-Zed without conscious thought in the dent of Shamokin. He is a compen sation surgeon for the Susquehanna JOHN DZIADOSZ Funeral services for John Dzia-dosz, 858 West Willow Street, was held this morning in St. Stephen's Church. Burial was in the parish cemetery. A large number of friends and relatives were in attendance at the burial services.

Collieries Company. Daniel Webster, is "a form of gov rnmmend the action ernment in which the supreme pow west residential and business district caved in. In a greater or lesser degree it is the story of nearly 700 other property owners and families in the area which experienced what those who felt and saw and heard it called "a miniature earthquake." i er is retained by the people and is motor car manufacturers ho are making extensive researches to toe ft representatives of oriver fatigue as it relates delegated authority, period- to- automotive equipment, Lnques-, renewed tionably, they say good results vill follow correction of conditions found xq aM jn to contribute to "that ed feeing imujve sucn as (he inaividual must alajs take Ath democracv, where the R0V. STANLEY ILANOVICH Stanley Ulanovich, 1662 East Tioga Street, was buried this morning from St. Stanislaus Church at 9:00.

Burial was in the parish cemetery. REVIVAL WILL OPEN HERE THIS EVENING NEA Telephoto Blond Peggy Dowd, above, and Thomas C. Corcoran, New Deal braintruster, were marriel in St. John's Catholic Church, Leesburg, Va. She's Corcoran's secretary.

Corcoran gave his age as 39 and Miss Dowd as 27. every other way he knew that he, with his little half-acre of land and his dozen sheep, was no match for his neighbor who owned half a county and who counted his flocks by the tens of thousands. If driven to desperation, he might take to his trusted sword and defy the power of the wealthy. But if treated fairly decently, he was usually more than willing to let well enough alone and to choose the easier path of compromise and resignation. For money means power and it will continue to do so until we shall have found a "moral substitute" for this brutal material fact.

And the history of democracy is in reality the eternal quest for that "moral substitute." such as the old Iceland, a few of the cantons of Switzerland and in several of our own New England townships, where everybody knew everybody else, this sort of government "of and by and for all the people" was able to maintain itself for a considerable number of years and even for a very considerable number of centuries. 'But the moment the essentially rustic elements disappeared and trade and commerce made their entrance, allowing the development of a small group of rich people and a large class of citizens without any property, there was an end to this ideal state of affairs. For the moment economic inequality enters the house of Democracy by the front door, the expression "equal rights" becomes a meaningless phrase. Quite frequently the rich, fearing the wrath of the disenfranchised majority, insisted upon maintaining at least an outer semblance of some- 'into consiueiauuu ma un 'mind and body before starting to noises and the rdrive. fered when the cracks camel rnmmoii nrudence dictates that crning powers were directly exercised by the assembled people, all women, children and slaves were excluded." And he might have added that it has been that way ever since and in practically every part of the world where the people had the courage to experiment with that most difficult and perishable form of government which Abraham Lincoln, The first meeting in a series of evangelistic and revival meetings will be held tonight in the Men-nonite Brethren in Christ Church, corner Second and Penn Streets.

Rev. E. J. FvUtman, pastor of a growing Mennonite Church at Lebanon, will be the speaker. Rev.

NEXT: The Cave Men Lived in Tribes and Got the Idea for Democracy. l-the driver who is tired before he akes his place behind the steering wheel should give himself or herselfa greater margin of time to 'reach home or other destination. The motorist who can "make" the office in 20 minutes flat in the morn-ing, should allow half an hour or more for the return trip in the evening. Officials Visit I. Rural Schools Mrs.

Agnes Rando, Mrs. Rose Quarquio, Mrs. J. Bowman, Mrs. Vincent Cannon and Mrs.

Furey Rando. remuneration instead of sending him to jail. Judge Dalton then sentenced Denning to pay the costs of prosecution, serve from two and one-half to five years in jail and then placed him on parole with the understanding he pay back the more than $1,500 in monthly installments. This he agreed to do, and after making satisfactory arrangements with the parole officer was released. MT.

CARMEL GUARDS AGAINST CAVE-INS "Nobody remembers when it was so bad." Harry Gozinsky's $40,000 fruit warehouse, a long three-story brick structure, was so badly cracked that State Inspector John P. McCor-mick who will examine every building ordered him to raze it. Gozinsky said "sure" and then called the Herald and inserted an ad saying "business as usual" at another location. Nick De Crease's living quarters on Coal and Market Streets were so badly damaged that he moved his family. But he kept open his barber shop there.

"Cave-ins may come and cave-ini may go," Nick said, "but this shop goes on forever." All of which is not to say that Shenandoah doesn't feel its loss. Damage of $600,000 to schools, streets and sewers and possibly as much again to store buildings and homes, is no laughing matter. But Shenandoah is the town that produced Robert Galligan, the miner who spent 72 hours singing the "Beer Barrel Polka" while rescuers worked to free him from the mine 'County, State Leader Plan to Con-' lolidate Shamokin Twp. Schools from the shipyard February 26 at the exact hour fixed four years ago by the Cunard Company builders, and despite the war, construction had proceeded on exact schedule. 1 The great liner wore a coat of drab, wartime gray.

There were conflicting reports as to whether she carried guns. A British informant in New York said that warships had convoyed her from Scotland, that Canadian warships had taken over the convoy off Halifax, and that "some American warships were reported to have been in the vicinity" when she entered United States waters. His understanding was that the United States warships did not act as an escort. LOCAL YOUTH NAMED Mount Carmel Borough Council took cognizance of the recent surface subsidence at Shenandoah and moved to prevent such a disaster at Mount Carmel. Borough Engineer Harry Jones was directed by council to check all coal company maps and confer with Superintendent C.

E. Hilbish of "Northumberland County schools and Raymond Robinson, of the School Consolidation Bureau of the State Department of Public Instruction, yesterday made a tour of inspection "of the schools of Shamokin Town HANDBOOK MANAGER It was no earthquake, and Shenandoah has no scenes of disaster and horror. But it was, nevertheless, a catastrophe for hundreds who saw the work of years threatened by creeping destruction. The great majority of the 4,000 persons shopkeepers, miners, mechanics, doctors, lawyers, teachers, relief clients who live in the area are remaining in their cracked homes, but none of them knows for how long. There have been further sinkings and new fissures have opened and old ones have widened.

That process may stop today; it may go on for years; no one knows. All anyone can say for certain is that two mines Kehley Run and Indian Ridge underlie the town and that in one or both of them the earth had sagged to fill the empty spaces left by the coal diggers. Mine experts who risked their lives in the galleries 1,000 feet under the city yesterday found both the old diggings in a state of gargantuan unrest. Loose bits of coal and rock fell from ceilings loosened by subterranean stresses and strains too deep-seated for even the experts to analyze. As District Mine Inspector James Grace put it.

the survey disclosed "a seething of coal, rock and earth." Whether the sinking process likely to spread to other parts of town provided a fearsome element of suspense. The entire city is as thoroughly undermined as a house infested by termites and, as Anthony Alastick remarked, "What happened once can happen again." Alactick is a mine expert in the sense that every inhabitant of Shenandoah Is a mine expert. He runs a butcher shop and grocery store possibly the best-stocked one-room store in Pennsylvania, He is 68 and a "Lith" and he used to be a miner 35 years ago. His store, almost in the center of the cave-in area, miraculouslj escaped with a few cracks in the plaster and foundation. "My place, it didn't hurt much," he said.

"My foundation was already cracked. This thing, it closes up the cracks tight again. If they all like this, then it would be all right." But his neighbors how they suf- BEST FUSUEt Here, she berths alongside her sister ship, the Queen Mary and then the three largest ships in the world, the Queen Elizabeth, French liner Norma ndie and Queen Mary, in that order of size, will be docked side by side in N-aw York's Hudson river slips, waiting for the war to end. coal company officials and mining engineers to ascertain conditions of old mines directly beneath certain sections of Mount Carmel. If the survey shows evidence of vast openings under the borough, requests will be made to coal companies to slush these workings to give better support tn the terrain.

MAIL ON JAPANESE LINER IS SEIZED William J. Fidler, son of Walter E. Fidler, Lombard Street, Shamokin, has been named a business manager of the 1940 "Freshman Handbook" at Bucknell University. The "Freshman Handbook" is published each year by the undergraduate students of the university for the benefit of incoming freshmen. Fidler, a junior at Bucknell, is a candidate for a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology.

He is a member of Delta Sigma, social fraternity. ASHLAND COUPLE WEDDED 60 YEARS ship and conferred with the school officials concerning plans for the 'consolidation of the schools of that area. Because of the widespread area 'jof the township the problem of school consolidation is one of the 'taost perplexing the state has faced 'lor some time." There are eight different schools in Shamokin Town--ship. They are Paxinos, Martz, Am-merman, Temple, Goss, Swank, and Tharp. The Swank iand Owltown schools have two Iteachers and the others one each.

Paxinos, the largest settlement in the township, the extreme eastern end with Stonington at the western end. Over the mountain is the Irish Valley area, a settlement if its own. To attempt a consolidated school for the entire area would prove costly from the standpoint of transportation, and it is the plan of the state to devise some procedure overhead costs can be 'Jcept-at a minimum. The district the Bqqesf GENERAL EMC jyer Offered at This Price The Queen Elizabeth is 1,030 feet long, equal to the height of the Empire tSate Building, and 113 feet wide. She had 14 decks and cost $28,500,000.

In peace time this would have been a banner day in the history of the port. The great, new liner would have arrived with banners flying and bands 'playing to a shrieking welcome or sirens and fire ifoat displays in the harbor and parading and speech-making ashore. Dispatches from London said that the Queen Elizabeth took 15 hours to maneuver the 15 miles down the Clyde from John Brown's TOKYO, March 7. (U.R) The Japanese liner Bangkok Maru radioed today that French authorities at Hanoi, Indo-China, had confiscated Germany-bound letters and parcels aboard it. It was reported that the French said that examinations of ship cargoes would be conducted regularly.

The Bangkok Maru reported that the Japanese consul general at Hanoi had made a written protest. BONUSES PAID BY KINNEY SHOE FIRM shipyard at Clydebank to Greenock. 'has- been in financial ritves fnr Mr. and Mrs. Edward Price, of Ashland, uncle and aunt of Frank R.

Price, of West Arch Street, yesterday celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage with a family reunion, attendance including a son, four daughters, 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Mr. Price, who is 80, was a son of John'B. Price, founder of Ashland's light and gas companies and was for many years owner of a large department store there. His wife is 79.

Both enjov fine health. Both are well know to many Shamokin people who formerly resided in Ashland. BRIDE-TO-BE IS FETED AT SHOWER some time and has found it neces-! She left the mtinS out basin Febr uary 26 without ceremony, carrying Sary to address several appeals to the state for aid. Several appropria no lifeboats and no discernible guns, guns. tions nave already been maae to 'Aid the taxpayers.

Big Liner Races Safely Into Port It was said that several factors entered into the secret trip to New York. In addition to having a target for German bombers, the great ship was crowding the river, making it difficult to move warships in and out for servicing, and her insurance costs were tremendous while she stayed in Britain. MAN ADMITS GUILT IN EMBEZZLEMENT Doctor's Formula Helps Liver Bile Flow Freely Right Way To Relieve Constipation and Feel "Tip-Top" In Morning If liver bile doesn't flow freely every day into your intestines constipation with its headaches and that "half-alive" foeling often result. So step up that liver bile and see how much better you should feel! Just try Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets, used so successfully for years by Dr.

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Assemblyman Schrope, who retires this year, has (Continued from Pa ont) thence across the North Atlantic to safety, that she was the American coast before news of her departure had been made public. It livas understood that even then the news had been disclosed inadvertently in London, in the mistaken belief that she already had docked here, and that otherwise no one here A surprise shower was held at the home of Mrs. Vincent Cannon in honor of Mrs. Cannon's sister, Miss Mary Rando, whose engagement to Frank McCollum has been announced. Guests enjoyed cards and a luncheon.

Miss Rando was presented with a number of gifts. Thoe p.esent at the shower wvre Misses Toni Ambicki, Louise Ambi-ki. Ald.i Long. Martha Richardson, Edith Bres-1, Edith Margaret Batman, Helen Keh-ler, Roe Gearhart, Millie Sopella, Mary Rando, Mrs. Louis Rando, William Denning, 27, of St.

Clair, pleaded guilty yesterday before Judge Vincent J. Dalton in Schuylkill County court to embezzlement of $1,555 from St. Clair Colliery lo oeen an active member of the mining committee and was a party cal, No. 2578, United Mine Workers of America, while serving as financial secretary. Denning pleaded guilty to seven charges of forgery in taking money from the beneficial fund of the local union's treasury.

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