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SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOKIN, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1940 PAGE SIX After Awhile This May Get Complicated Bruce Catton "Behind the Scenes" Damon Runyon "The Brighter Side" Shamokin News-Dispatch Combining PfDtembfr 18. 1933 SHAMOKIN DAILY NEWS SHAMOKIN DISPATCH (Established 1893) Founded 1886) Published Every Evpnlns Except Sundav by NEWS PLBLISHING AND rR IN TING COMPANY. Inc. Cor. Rock and Commerce Streets.

Shamokin. Pa. Robert E. Malick. President and Managing Editor Phone 1205; 1206: 1207 According to the Washington correspondents, Mr.

Roosevelt appeals older than when he took the office of President of the United States seven years ago at the age of 51. They say his hair is thinner and whiter and WASHINGTON A broad expansion of Assistant Attorney General Arnold's anti-trust campaign is likely to follow the Senate's action in voting additional funds for his division. This expansion, Arnold says, will probably bring about Served bv Full Leased of the United Pies Member Penna. New-paper Publishers' Association Member American Newspaper Publishers' Association Served by Full Service Newspaper Enterprise Association I cer a consensus X- ssaS Vl- ON THE CeSURJNKI OF SEMATORS WHO WAMT )fSZlS' vs5t A to cesisoi? the )JZ two new nation-wide investigations: 1. A study of the costs of food distribution, including an investigation into milk costs all over the country, and a thorough survey of the problem of inter-stat trade barriers.

2. An equally comprehensive study of the costs of war materials such as are being purchased in the government's huge rearmament program. and that lines of fatigue show in his countenance and that he is not as good natured as formerly. The correspondents all speak of these physical changes as the toll exacted of Mr. Roosevelt by his job, though if you ask us the seven years beyond 50 are to blame.

It is our belief that had Mr. Roosevelt been working with a pick and shovel the past seven years or even at pounding out newspaper copy, he would show the same marks of wear and tear. It is very difficult for a man to The Shamokin News-Dispatch is on sale at newsstands and delivered by reRul.ir carriers in Shamokin and ad Jacent territorv for three cents a copy or 15 cents a week Delivered by mall to all points in 'he United States and Canada at $7.20 a year, strictly in advance. Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post Office at. Shamokin.

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Portland. RochrMejr.N.VL D. Runyon Senate Increases Funds by $100,000 The budget sent up to Capitol Hill by the President had the anti-trust B. Catton keep from displaying scars of this nature in that run down the back stretch of life between 50 and 60 unless he is a horse player or an old faro bank dealer. As we have said before in this column, old faro bank dealers never die.

They just evaporate. The late Wilson Mizner long had a standing offer of $500 for proof of the death of an old faro bank dealer and it was never claimed. Horse players die but not until they reach a great age. His normal physical stamina keeps a horse player alive up to 70 and then he lives at least 10 years more on hope. It is a well known fact that hope is a potent factor in sustaining life.

The horse player's hope is that he will not die broke. He finally relinquishes even that at around 80. By the way, we see where Major Willie Corum, the sports writer, challenges the tradition that we originated the expression, "All horse players die broke." He attributes authorship to Whitey Beck, an old-time bookmaker. We might be somewhat depressed by Major Cor-um's attempt to deprive us of a claim to immortality did we not remember that the ancient Corums tried to snag Shakespeare's best lines for a fellow named Bacon. The years between 50 and 60 are the tough years, physically and mentally, on a man.

It is in those years that he has to reconcile himself to the appearance of having inhaled an inflated basketball, and to getting onto the manipulation of his upper plate. It is then he has to endure the sad experience of meeting the grown-up daughters of the girls he once courted and to seeing blank expressions on the pans of gridiron-minded young men when he mentions Jim Thorpe as a great football player. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY One Generation pas-eth away, and another generation comcth; but the earth abideth forever. Eccle.siasts 1:4 No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it. Farrar.

GREEN MISSES A BET William Green, president of the A. F. of and his associate? are passing up one of the best chances they ever had to enlist sympathy for their cause. Instead of conceding that abuses do exist in the building trades unions and offering to help the government's anti-trust staff to clean up the rackets, Green has decided to fignt Thur-man Arnold, assistant U. S.

district attorney and instigator of the nation-wide investigation into building trade irregularities. It's not altogether satisfactory to have someone else point out the rubbish in your own backyard; but, if that's what has happened, the most graceful thing to do is to concede that it is there and to offer to remove it. The racketeering and dishonesty that has crept into the A. F. of L.

was inevitable and is not the fault of the millions of honest men and women and the dozens of honest labor leaders in the organization. The refusal of the leadership to assist in getting rid of the rubbish, however, necessarily reflects unfavorably upon the rank and file. The present attack is not directed solely against union men. Contractors and building supply men are also being made targets. The announced purpose of the entire probe is to "clean out" the industry, which means that the broom will be applied wherever there is dirt.

outfit slated for a $100,000 cut from this year's $1,309,000. This would have pulled the teeth of the famous building costs investigation. Arnold estimates that at the least It would have meant pulling grand jury investigations from five cities. After a good deal of debate, the Senate voted to restore the cut and add another $100,000. This isn't by any means as much money as Arnold thinks his division could use profitably, but it makes some expansion possible.

"We ought to have another million, but a hundred thousand is better than a kick in the pants," he says, philosophically. Many Requests for Food Probe Arnold looks on the food cost study as fully as important as the present investigation of building costs. The anti-trust division has received numerous requests for work in this field. It has been asked by consumer groups to study price spreads in the distribution of ice cream and cheese, by farm organizations to look into the costs of containers used in canned foods, and a group of senators and congressmen representing farm states have asked it to duplicate in the nation as a whole the milk-cost study made In Chicago where, before the case even got through the courts, retail milk prices fell from 13 cents to 8'2 cents a quart. Both Commerce and Agriculture Departments have recently turned attention to the innumerable state laws which impede inter-state traffic in foodstuffs.

Arnold suspects that a number of these laws would promptly collapse if they were taken into court; with others, he believes, it is the method of administration which needs to be attacked. Would Be Easy With More Men The matter of keeping down war material prices has had a prominent place on his calendar for months. "The government is going to spend enormous sums for these things," he says. "The question is, will that money be a stimulus to business, or will it simply raise prices as the housing subsidies did in New York?" Arnold has hit on a new slogan. He no longer talks about monopoly; instead, it's "free trade within the borders of the United States." He asserts this "free trade" could be made a reality if the anti-trust division had a permanent staff of 400 trained men.

"Most of this stuff is a push-over," he declares, "it you've got enough men." Broadway Medley Health Talks By MORRIS PISHBEIN By LEONARD LYONS Between 50 and 60 a man commences noticing stairs up which he onc bounded like an antelope with no thought of their presence. He observes that beautiful young ladies pass him by without a glance. This is sure tough enough, but he also becomes aware that older ladies accept his companionship with trepidation which is even There is hardly a nation of people in the world that does not attach a great deal of superstition to sneezing. The English-speaking races always say "God bless you' when someone sneezes. The ancient Greeks and Romans used to say, "Long may you live" and "Jupiter preserve you." When a Hindu sneezes those in the vicinity merely say "Live" and the sneezer replies, "Yc-j, too." When a Zulu sneezes he says, "I am now blessed.

The ancestral spirit is with me. Let me hasten and praise it for it is that which causes me to sneeze." Now there is nothing magical about a sneeze, as far as we know, in science. One sneezes because of irri I --What Mr. Arnold hopes to accomplish, Dr. Fishbein A Book a Day and what has already been done in some places, is to reduce building costs.

When the excess prices are trimmed off, more people will build homes and more union men will get jobs. It is not an invasion of democratic rights to indict and punish men guilty of fraudulent practices. If building prices are too high because some contractors and -some union men are entering into collusion, prospective home-builders and union craftsmen, who are directly affected, have a right to know about it. tougher. It is then a man really begins thinking of hanging up his gloves.

Mr. Roosevelt would be something of a phenomenon had he stood off seven years without change in his appearance, even if he had not been President. Some of those Washington correspondents who write about the alteration in his appearance ought to take a peek in the mirror and see what the same length of time has done for them. They might be surprised. The thinner and whiter hair that they mention does not mean a thing.

Many men much younger than Mr. Roosevelt who never got within telephoning distance of the office of President have thin whita hair. There is not much they can do about the thin part, except try mange cure, but they could easily remedy the white if they wished. We know any number of men past 60 who maintain ebony hair by the judicious use of a little shoe blackening. The fact that Mr.

Roosevelt is not as good natured as formerly is not necessarily a reflection of the toll exacted by his office. Maybe his former good nature departed when the Washington correspondents began talking about his appearance and his age. After 50 a man does not like to hear that he is commencing to look old. He prefers having everybody tell him that they never saw him look younger, even though he knows they are not telling the exact truth. After 90 he does not care as nothing matters then.

However, we do not think that the Washington correspondents have any right to hint that Mr. Roosevelt is showing his age until they consult with Mrs. Roosevelt. They ought to find out from her if Mr. Roosevelt is repeating his old stories, and if so how often.

This is the one sure test erf how a man is bearing up under the years. If he repeats a story three times a month, age is surely upon him. FIFTY MEN TACKLE UNEMPLOYMENT In a sincere and non-partisan effort to get at the root of unemployment in the United States, 50 congressmen from both parties are getting together in Washington, meeting periodically, appointing committees to do research. The committee, formed by Democrat Jerry Voorhis of California, does not function as an adjunct of Congress, and the members, tation of the nerve endings in the nose. That irritation may be brought about by the inhalation of irritating gases like chlorine or sulfur dioxide, by irritating substances like pepper or simply by the reaction to the pollens of various plants to which one may be sensitive.

The ancients believed that sneezing was the manifestation of an evil spirit, attempting to enter the body, and that the person concerned was throwing the evil spirit out. There is an old legend to the effect that it was once decreed that every man living should sneeze but once, and that in the instant of his second sneeze his soul should depart from his body. Thus it was said that Jacob, feeling himself about to sneeze and die, wrestled a second time and earnestly entreated the favor of being excepted from this decree. Since he was granted this wish, he sneezed without dying; whereupon it was ordered that sneezing thereafter should always be accompanied with thanksgiving and wishes for the preservation and prolongation of life. Early man soon realized that the head was one of the most important portions of the body and that, in tlie head, was the substance that governed and controlled the whole body.

It was necessary to recognize the extraordinary action of the head that takes place In sneezing by an appropriate wish for the prolongation of life. Here is a typical example of the development of a superstition. Primitive man actually believed that there were spirits that went in and out of the body. To him sneezing was, theretore, a matter of utmost Importance. Modern man, still influenced by the superstition, although he knows better, continues to follow the customs and to use the actual phrases developed by ignorance in the past.

The foreign correspondents have enjoyed the spotlight for the past few years. Now comes Thomas L. Stokes, Pulitzer Prize winner, with "Chip Off My Shoulder" (Princeton University Press: to tell about a reporter who stayed at home. Moving through the heart of the crowded events of the Harding, Ccolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt regimes, Stokes tells a moving story of what the saw and how it taught a southern boy to love the whole union without losing the South from his heart. Among the unforgettable closeups is this one of President Coolidge: He was lazy physically.

Often of an atternoon when there were no engagements and no pressing businessand during the days of prosperity no one was concerned much about Washington or national affairs he would rear his chair back, throw his spare legs on a corner of his desk, and take a nap. One Memorial Day I recall the grumbling among attaches who had to stay around merely because the President had come over to his office and spent the afternoon napping there. He kept Senator Smoot of Utah and the French debt funding commission waiting for a long time one afternoon because he was taking a snooze after lunch. No one dared to disturb him. He had a nasty temper cn occasion.

Calvin Coolidge sat by and did not worry and said "No" when he didn't like what was going on. I recall a story one of the secret service men who is no longer at the White House told. It was in the first few days of the Coolidge regime. He was shocked one afternoon to find the President sitting in a rocker on the front porch which faces on Pennsylvania Avenue. "Mr.

President," he Mid, "the other presidents el-ways used the back portico." "I want to be out here where I can see the street cars go by," came the reply. When Alexander Woollcott arrived in Hollywood to appear in "The Man Who Came to Dinner," he renewed his acquaintanceship with Norman Krasna, who had been an office boy for the New York World in the days when Woollcott wrote a column for that paper. Krasna salary now is $3,500 a week, and he invests his savings in antique furniture and English paintings which Woollcott treasures. Alec visited Krasna's home, and immediately wrote a letter to Booth Tarkington, confessing: "I know I have passed a certain phase of life because my ex-office boy now owns a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds." Archduke Otto von Hapsburg, pretender to the throne of Austria, who arrived on Monday and confessed that he was here to learn about a democratic form of government, was entertained at the home of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sr.

Otto, who told all interviewers that he came to America to study the inner workings of the American Way, spent the afternoon being guided around the Vanderbilt mansion by his hostess who insisted upon shewing him the paintings and vases and rare pieces which once had adorned the palaces of Europe. Pat O'Brien's attorneys have registered legal complain with the Globe Theatre on Broadway, where John Garfield gets star-billings over O'Brien and Ann Sheridan. O'Brien's contract provided that he get equal-billing in that picture, "Castle on the Hudson." H. T. Tsiang, who wrote the book "China Has Hands," and produced his own play, "China Marches On," is at Ellis Island now, in ill health and fighting deportation.

Serge Obolensky, ex-brother-in-law of Vincent Astor, is cruising the Caribbean, on Astor's yacht. The British consul complained to ihe telephone company yesterday, because movie press agents called every five minutes, saying only: "Three Cheers for the Irish." Idea Man Giovanni, the professional pickpocket who entertained at the President's dinner to the Cabinet, has been asked to return to Washington, for the White House correspondents' dinner. Giovanni stole the suspenders off the trousers of "Pa" Watson, the President's aide. Then he stole all the money carried by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. When Giovanni stole the wrist watch from President Roosevelt's wrist, returned it and then repeated the stunt three times more, the President told him: "Say, that gives me an idea." Sam Goldwyn had a private showing of a movie at his home, for his family and the film's director.

In the middle of the movie Goldwyn ordered the showing stopped, turned to the director and told him: "You'll have to change that scene. I don't understand It." The director assured him it wasn't difficult to understand and then Goldwyn's young son interrupted: "But I understand it." "See, even your son understands it," said the director. "Tell me," Goldwyn reprimanded the director, "since when are we making movies for 14-year-olds?" George Jessel was with Tony Martin in Miami Beach on the day Alice Faye announced that she was divorcing Tony. one of their friends consoled Martin by telling him: "Well, at least you and Alice had some nice times together. Keep thinking of those moments.

Tho.se tender memories will give you "As much satisfaction," said the experienced Jessel, "as a Croix de Guerre gives when It's pinned over an armless sleeve." The Pinorrhio Mystery Over the marquee of the Center Theatre, where "Pinocchio" now is being presented, a group of Pinocchios parade back and forth, slowly and mechanically so that the observers are unable to learn whether they're dolls or midgets wearing Pinocchio costumes. Two days ago the Walt Disney office received word that the Pinocchios over the marquee had vanished. Hal Home, of the Disney Enterprises, rushed to the theatre, went upstairs and looked out the window, at the marquee top below him. There were the crushed Pinocchios, tough kids hired from Hell's Kitchen territory to wear the costumes of Pinocchio the puppet who almost was converted into a sheep for slaughter, when he was introduced to evil ways there were the tough Pinocchios, their masks off so that thry mild smoke, crouching in a dice game. inrlnrlincr Ifi tvj moohm.

So They Say 4 Hi- dependency of their normal duties. It is a noble undertaking, one that is going to cause lots of headaches before the members have concluded their studies. But the group ought not consist merely of 50 congressmen, working in their spare time. There should be 535 legislators every member of Congress seriously concerned with the one problem that today threatens American security. Unemployment affects every person in the country.

It is only logical that all the senators and representatives should concentrate on doing something about it. Barbs Looking Backward I do not believe at this time that Progressives should be divided, and what the country wants to know is the real sentiment and the crystallization of ideas. Mayor Fiorella La Guardia of New York. Personal application and individual initiative are basic to economic and social welfare. Governor Julius P.

Hell of Wisconsin. The Republican party needs to have it known that It doesn't scorn women. Congresswoman-elect Prances P. Bolton, Ohio. The racial doctrine as Interpreted In the Naai creed is sheer primitive nonsense, and we are no more prepared to admit German superiority of race than we are concerned co assert our own.

Viscount Halifax, British foreign secretary. The love of money and the desire for freedom to maka It and equality to pursue it are the current Ideals of tha United States. Dr. Robert Al. Hutchins, president, University of Chicago.

We do not believe that the rank and file of labor desire to see their organizations used for purposes which have no relation to wages, hours, health, and speedup system, or the right of collective bargaining. Thurman Arnold, assistant United States attorney general. In this war at sea Hitler and his Nazis have quite definitely exceeded the worst villainies which imperial Germany committed in the last war. Winston Churchill. first lord of British admiralty.

Russia and Germany are getting our goods. If we are goinj to live a lie as far as they are concerned, then let'i i help Finland. Representative Charles L. Gilford, Mass. A Pittsburgh store has been robbed three times within one month.

Maybe the thieves forget to scratch it out ot their engagement book. A Scotch business man gave $60 to the Finnish cause because he said that was what he saved in wages on Leap Day. That would appear to be the final test of th Justice of the Finns' defense. Garner is going to try to take Illinois away from Roosevelt, who's not even sure he wants it. Airplane pilots, who don't live in New York, will be taxed on the basis of mileage flown ever the state.

A lot of flyers are going to be trying the Corrlgan stunt when they leave La Guardia field. They're still talking about building some of those super-giant battleships. Of course, if the world became too-unpleasant, we could use them to tow the whole continent down to meet Admiral Byrd. The Australian premier became so absorbed In watch- Twenty-five Years Ago 1915 Crushed beneath a fall of rock at North Franklin Colliery. Wiliam Relchbold, 40, of Trevorton, was instantly killed.

George Deitrick, 15, was seriously injured when run over by a coal car at Cameron Colliery. Fifteen Years Ago 1935 Jesse E. Raker, of Trevorton, was appointed manager of the Lippiatt furniture store. Shamokin Y. M.

H. A. conducted a debate in its rooms with teams from six region towns in attendance. Five Years Ago 19.15 CANDOR IN CONGRESS Senator Vic Donahey Ohio) is quitting Congress next year, after having served since 1934. His colleagues will remember, among other things, that Donahey was the Man Who Didn't Understand and said so.

It was in 1938, when the Senate was voting on a complex farm bill, that Senator Donahey got up and said he was voting against it because he didn't understand it. Shocking words for a statesman. Whether they really do or not, congressmen are supposed to know everything. It may have been heresy, but Donahey got away with it. Few others have ever dared try it, although there probably was never a legislator in Washington who fully understood every measure that was laid on his desk.

There might be fewer "mistakf.s" if more congressmen candidly admitted they didn't understand and acted accordingly. Workmen uncovered an old mine fire burning in a gangway at Locust Gap Colliery. I Moscow has a large theatre, the Palace of Silence, for its deaf and dumb inhabitants. ing cricket, matches that he forgot about the w-ar for lmo.it a whole day. Instead cf an expeditionary force, umldn't Britain a corp.

of cricket instructors to Bet- fcn? There are approxnr.a:e!y 30.000 houses and other i-iopeiues standing empty in the city of London. The blue tit bird weighs leu than half an ounce..