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PAGE TWENTY-FOUR. THE DAILY COURIER, CONNELLSVILLE. PA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1956. THE COUBEER COMPANY JAMES M. DRISCOLL.

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1939 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Five cents per copy: 30 cents per week by carrier: by mail. $1.25 per month: $850 for six months; $12.00 per year, payable in advance. Entered ta second class matter at Post ConnellsvUle. Pa. THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER J3, 1956 Another Dark Age Every one who has studied ancient history is familiar with the period known as the Dark Ages.

Americans are fully aware that this nation came into being because oppressed people wanted to throw off the yolk of tyranny. All that was supposed to have been during centuries when human rights were not fully recognized. What will history say about the Twentieth Century? Will it some day be referred to as the Second Dark Age? Were the sufferings of the masses under harsh kings any worse than those being endured by millions in many parts of the world right now? Communism, of course, is the principal offender today. Nothing stops that juggernaut of destruction. It massacred millions of Chinese when the Reds conquered that nation; it is repeating the performance in Hungary.

The iron. heel of Communist rule is crushing the bodies of a gallant people in an orgy of bloodletting unequalled in modern times. Nothing in the Dark Ages can match the terrible history written in Budapest in. the past month and being repeated every day. There seems to be no limit" to the ruthless program of Janos Kadar, the Soviet-backed premier.

The world is shocked by what it has witnessed in Hungary. Perhaps that is why no action has been, taken to aid the Hungarian patriots so desperately striving for freedom. The picture has been so terrible that -world reaction has been slow to crystallize. For that matter national leaders everywhere continue to look, in bug-eyed amazement, at what is taking place and each passing day makes it less probable the horror can -be ended. Behind All this murder Is Russia -a nation with an avowed ambition to rule the world.

If any one thing has happened since the end of hostilities in World War II when the Reds began a program aimed at this goal of universal domination td make people everywhere congnizant of the fate they face should it come about it has been the story of Hungary. Anyone who now advocates appeasement of the Kremlin or dealing with the Reds as brothers deserves the Bcorn of his fellows." Perhaps history will one day say that communism went into decline after the bloody massacre in Hungary. That little nation, peopled by men and women of boundless courage, may be turning the Red tide. Only those who live to look back on the final months of 1956 will know. Musical Milestone Waves -of applause that' greeted the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as it completed its program Tuesday night in the auditorium of Connellsville Joint High School continued to reverberate throughout this community yesterday and today.

Not in a long time so long that no one seems able to recall any previous occasion has there been such spontaneous enthusiasm over a musical performance. A capacity audience found Itself lifted to a new high in musical appreciation. This was especially true of the younger people present. Familiar only with rock roll and other types of wild tempo, these young adults and teenagers found themselves unable to believe "long hair" music could stir the response they felt. A young oman "was overheard cayIng: "I never 'went for' long hair music but this is something really beautiful.

I never expected anything like this." Members of the orchestra responded mightily to the fervor of audience applause. They looked tired out when the program was finished. Twice they gave encores and still their captivated listeners called for more. It was not forthcoming. They were just too tired.

For ffiot mjjtfpr co Troro rnncf nf fTio dreds in the seats; they were worn from the act of clapping their hands. It was a cultural treat and Connells- Tille gave its full approval. Just a reminder to those who have not finished Christmas shopping--the stores in Connellsville will be open until 9 o'clock tonight. Time for gift buying lessens every day. One way to solve the last-minute problems Is to study advertising columns of this newspaper before leaving home.

That way it will be possible to know where to get the de- items, faring physical wear and and also time. Assignment America By PHYLLIS BATTELLB (Copyright 1955 by I. N. NEW YORK-Every year the cold, firm fist of progress socks a few more old-fashioned Christmas traditions in the head--leaving the sentimentalists among us feeling vaguely as if we'd been robbed of our peppermint sticks and jc-lly beans. Take this year, for instance.

They've abolished the reindeer and substituted the yak, llama, the elephant. Now, nobody a anything against yaks. As a matter of fact. young yaks are rather cute in a tiairy, horned But to see inem strolling through the Santa- land department of Gimbel's-where traditionally the reindeer has reigned at Yule shopping time--is distressing. Even' the round man in the white beard and red cap who jostles little urchins on his knee nearby is having a hard time getting used to the fact that he's equipped with a 24-beast menagerie this year.

No deer included. If you listen very closely, you observe a note of bewilderment in his ho-ho-ho. "What happened," asked "Mr. the display manager of the store, "ro the reindeer? Where is Bonder? Who blitzed Blitzen?" Luke adopted the tolerant air that store managers bestow upon kiddies who have jut ripped the tail off a $25 bear while mother was buying a $1.95 bingo set. "My dear madame," he said, pained, "we are spending more money than ever before to import these yaks and their friends from Catskili, to 33rd St.

After many years of featuring reindeer, we felt a change was in order. "Children today are sophisticated. Santa could come into town on an aardvark and they'd be fascinated. It's just the old- timers who really care about technicalities like what type of animals are bringing the toys." In other words, the toy is the thing, Santa Claus is the manufacturer, and the mode of transportation is incidental. There may even be some shrewd youngsters today who prefer to think of St.

JNick as zipping into the chimney area by supersonic jet now that, as every aware Md knows, they "are establishing airstrips at the North Pole. Feeling like a fuddy-duddy we Mr. Luke to wander through the Gimbel menagerie, eight cagesful of animals, from camel zebra, which had been rented a gams farm In upstate New York. This bpjng the first "zoo" ever presented to the children by a department store, Luke and his cohorts had to go to Lloyd's of London to insure themselves against personal injuries. There was no precedent for the exhibit, so American, firms wouldn't give them a policy on the baby beasts.

Children were six-deep around every animal, squatting, squirming and bucking parental shins In an effort to see more. The animals, soothed by music piped Into their cages, stared back at people with small, amiable eyes and, except for an occasional bray from the pair of donkeys, held their peace. There was considerable yakking about the yaks, but true to the traditions of Tibet they remained mystically aloof from these little, stunted foreigners who bore down on them Streaming "ooh, mommy, whas- sat?" In more than an hour of observing the passing mob, not once did I hear any child inquire solicitously after the reindeer set. Nor did one small fry question the fact that Santa Claus seems thinner and year (at least the afternoon shift Claus does), or that his assistants are over-sized for gnomes and wearing serge suits. That's life, I guess.

You never miss a reindeer until you're too old to want toys, and you don't notice the size of Santa's paunch until you have one yourself. Ah, to be young and sensible again. JUST FOLKS By EDGAR A. GUEST LAUGHTEB If laughter were not ours to share And solemn folks were everywhere, If all we knew were" porno and pride And no one saw life's comic side, We'd nothing see throughout the town But people with a constant frown. A dog, although considered dumb, Delighted, sees his master come.

And mothers think it most worth while When first the baby starts to smile. That sign's the first all infants give That they have found it good to live. Without the chuckle, soft and low, This world would be a vale of woe. If no one smiled as we drew near, The jov of life would disappear. Few lasting friendships would occur If faces always solemn were.

An easy wav to keep cracked egs.s from leaking or deteriorating is to seal them with cellophane tape. The Pennsylvania Story By Mason Denison, Editor Capitol News Service HARRISBURG Some rather embarrassing and awkward moments apparently are In the offing for the Leader Administration with the approach of what might be termed the "legislative day of reckoning." The day of reckoning dawns January 1957. On that date the 1957 Legislature formally convenes. With that convening Republican anti-administration forces will be triggering a double- barreled gun with the GOP firm-y in control of both House and Senate. Unavoidably the Leader Administration will be at the othei end.

It is becoming evident with each massing day that the questions leaders want answered by the Democratic administration ill be searching and painful. The answers may not come easy 3ut one thing is certain: Whatever the answers may be they will have to be backed with facts and proof rather than extended oratory, to be accepted. Worth reiterating perhaps is the fact that there are no demands superseding those of the legislative arm which may seek and probe almost at will. Pennsylvania's jumbled and cloudy fiscal picture of course is destined for close and extended scrutiny. For example, one primary line of legislative probing Is scheduled to follow step by step the spending practices of the Leader Administration.

It will be recalled that when Mr. Leader submitted his record $1.8 billion budget to the Legislature during the 1955-56 session he vowed that the budget was cut to the bone--that critical state services would suffer sharply with any reduction. When the budgetary scramble was over, the Governor wound up with virtually what had been requested. To do this however it had to clear the Republican-controlled Senate. In the end GOP anti-administration forces acceded to his budgetary request with reservations, misgivings and sharp question in their own minds as to whether the administration's fiscal demands were realistic.

With the House as well as the Senate in GOP control next year they are determined to find the answers via sharp legislative probing. The vein'this is taking Is perhaps illustrated by disclosures to this column by top GOP sources that notwithstanding what they like to refer to as "the known spending propensity" of Democrats, the Leader Administration apparently is destined to be faced with the fact that it has not even been able to spend the money handed to It by the Legislature. At the present time Indications are that there will be a fairly high rate of appropriation lapse--or unspent funds in several cate gories. And a speedup now in the rate of spending between the present time and the end of the biennium May 31 to lawmakers would be a clear indication oi merely a hurried last minute attempt to clear up unspent appropriations. For example, the 1955-56 ses sion approved an allocation $143 million for the adminlstra tipn's mental health program.

To date, according to the State Auditor General, some $55 million remains unspent. It Is estlmatet that if the past rate Is continued 'an estimated $10 million will be unspent at the end of the bien nium. At the Insistence of adminlstra tion leaders the Legislature approved $25 million for Genera State Authority rentals. At present $4,460,000 remains, with Indl cations pointing to an unspent $4 million by the end of the blen nium. The 1957 Legislature is ou to find the answer to a host such questions.

Strength for Your Daily Task wild fowl on the North rt I 1 i te t'ne tni'Yt- trhloh has wlng- of eisK feet. PLOWSHARES AND PRUNINGHOOKS Both the prophets Isaiah and Micah speak of beating ewords into plowshares and spears Into pruninghooks. People very often forget, however, that the phet Joel (3:10) put It the other way about. He speaks of beat- Ing plowshares into swords and pnminghooks Into spears, "fre- pare war," cried Joel. "Let the weak say I am strong Put ye in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe; come, tread ye; for the wine press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness Is great." We -live today In the spirit of Joel, but our hope is justified that swords will become plowshares and spears will become pruninghooks, because religion is dynamic and when it begins 10 opeiaie ou false systems men have built up, something ts bound to happen.

Slavery, totalitarianism, vice and national corruption have In the past so often appeared permanently established that any prospect of getting rid of them Deemed a hopeless dream. Slavery has almost vanished from the earth. Totalitarianism is being fought today with in teliigenc-e and vigor. The moral Ideas of humanity improve with tlw passing of time. Mot of us may never live fo see the elimination of war, but that elimination will finally come.

Isaiah and Micah will ow and pruninghooks over fcwords srd spears. Human Interest Sidelights and Comments on Happening! Out of the Ordinary. Bugs Not Dead, They'll Be Back in the Spring With the coming of cold weather the bugs have disappeared. Not that they're gone for good. Oh no! Next spring they'll be back--after a quiet winter hidden in a wide variety of sanctuaries.

That's one advantage of the change of seasons in the northern part of the nation--the population gets a period of relief from scratching due to bites of mosquitoes, ants, fleas, etc. Most folks know the bugs hibernate--and that they'll come back, multiplying in number. The National Geographic Society tells where they've been in a lot of Informative data put together by its experts. Those writers say some bugs rest now in the form of eggs or larvae under the ground. Some, protected by coats of shellac, cling to wind-whipped branches.

Some calmly freeze, awaiting without Injury the spring thaw. Other species are destroyed in the United States and must be replenished next year from sunnier climes. Some go south for the winter. A few have nursemaids to carry them to warm places, care for them, and return them to feeding grounds in the spring. Others just crawl into a crevice and call it a season.

In the fall, the female grasshopper deposits in the soil a mass of eggs wrapped in a protective gluelike coat. Warmth will not hatch the eggs of certain species unless they are first frozen--nature's way of insuring that a late warm spell won't bring out young grasshoppers to starve. Even so, life for a grasshopper egg is not guaranteed. The blister beetle lays its eggs nearby. Young blister beetles may feed on grasshopper eggs before crawling into holes of their own to sleep the whiter.

Some fruit-tree twigs appear to be. afflicted with Inch-long swellings. These swellings are egg masses of the tent caterpillar, protected from cold and wet by shellac exuded by the adult female. Commercial shellac is produced by Burmese and Indian insects of similar habits. Many mosquitoes pass the winter as larvae, or "wrigglers," seemingly content to be frozen in ponds and other watery homes.

When spring comes they thaw out and, after metamorphosis, buzz off. Less hardy Is the cotton leaf worm, a tropical species that perishes to the last bug in northern winters. Each summer a new invasion comes from the south, reaching as far north as the Great Lakes and Canada where It feeds on many kinds of plants. The monarch butterfly, on the other hand, gathers in northern states in autumn and flies south in swarms thousands strong. The cercopia moth spins itself a vacuum bottle cocoon with two walls and an air space between for insulation.

The honey bee lives in its hive, but all the bumblebees die except the queen. Already fertilized, she takes cover wherever she can, awaiting spring and a chance to found a new colony--perhaps in an abandoned mouse hole. Most coddled of the wintering bugs Is the corn root aphid. Its eggs are carefully collected by a species of ant and carried to nests below the frost line. In spring they are taken to the roots of the first weeds to begin growth.

There the young feed until sap begins to flow in corn plants. The ants- then transfer their charges to those roots, where they flourish--to the dismay of the farmer. This is a dairying operation, and the aphlds are "cows." The sap that aphids suck holds too much sugar for them in relation to protein content. The excess Is secreted. The clear sweet liquid called honey dew is a staple food for the ants, which "milk" the aphids by stroking their Bodies.

Today's Grab Bag By LILLIAN THE ANSWER, QUICK! 1. In mythology who was Persephone? 2. In what game or sport is the "fungo hitting," used? 3. What famous artist painted The Creation? 4. What is the origin and mean- Ing of the words, Dragons' teeth? 5.

Who saw a beautiful city descending from heaven? IT HAPPENED TODAY 1446 Donatello (Donatl di Betto Bardo), Florentine sculptor, died. 1797--Born, Heinrich Heine, German critic and poet. 1941--In World War II, Czechoslovakia declared war on all nations at war with the United States, Great Britain and Russia. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Marcus (Marc) Cook Connelly, noted playwright; Van Heflin, film star, and Hank Majeski, Oarl Erskine and Larry Doby of baseball fame should be celebrating their birthdays. WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE FILIBUSTER (FIL-e-BUSS- ter)--noun; an irregular military adventure, a freebooter; a member of a legislative body who obstructs action by use of dilatory tactics, such as speaking merely to consume time.

Origin: Spanish --Filibuster, Flibusteri. IT'S BEEN SAID Guilt once harbored in the con scious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the uel Johnson. HOW'D YOU MAKE OUT? 1. Proserpine was her Roman name, daughter of Ceres, goddess of the harvest. Persephone was carried to Hades by the god of that region, and made his queen.

2. In baseball, a practice routine. 3. Michelangelo; en the Sistine ceiling. 4.

A cause of friction, from the teeth sown by Jason, from which armed men sprang. 5. St. John, as described In Revelation. Prayer for Today- Thou, God, art the truth maker; we are the truth seekers.

As we seek may we find. Help us to know the truth that will make us free from Ignorance and selfishness. Because Christ has become our truth, may he also be our way and life. Forbid that we should ever lose the power to discern thy truth. Help us to think thy thoughts after thee; in Christ's name.

Amen. --George A. Little, Toronto, former editor, Sunday School Publications, United Church of Canada. Out of the Past Your Health Medical Society of Pennsylvania and Fayette County Medical Society The race is not to the swift, says the Bible. Many heart specialists agree that the swift pace of modern life is largely responsible for the prevalence of high blood pressure.

High blood pressure Is a primary or secondary factor in at least one-third of all cases of heart disease, and more than 100,000 persons die of it every year, according to estimate. Blood pressure becomes high, authorities claim, when there is- increased resistance In the walls of the arterioles which are the smaller branches of the arteries. To overcome resistance, the heart must work harder and the arteries along the course from the ieart to the arterioles have to carry a heavier pressure. Eventually the heart wearies of Its hard work and hypertensive tieart disease occurs. The excessive nervous tension under which many of us live, can lead to a chronic state of con- iriction of the arterioles throughout the body.

Many persons from high blood pressure tend to overeat. In some forms of high blood pressure, a reduction in salt intake is known to be of definite value. Because high blood pressure disease presents such a variety of patterns and runs such an unpredictable course, treatment must be individualised. There are many effective remedies now available for treating a patient with high blood pressure and discrimination is exercised by the physician in selecting the treatment best adapted to'a particular patient. No single remedy is uniformly successful in treating high blood pressure.

With many patients, fear accentuates the trouble, and toe first step in many cases is the physician's use of conscious or unconscious psychotherapy. Relief of emotional tension promotes a sense of tranqulltty, which In Itself can often'lower blood pressure. DO YOU KNOW? The three leading causes of death in Pennsylvania in 1955-heart" disease, cancer, and vascular lesions affecting the central nervous system accounted for more than 65 per cent of all deaths in the state. Wliat Noted People Are Saying By International News Servict MIAMI BEACH American farm bureau federation- president Charles B. Shuman: "One of the principal causes of the decline in farm net Income and of the 25 years of recurring sarpluseg has been an oversupply of legislation attempts to solve economic troubles by political actions." Factographs In 1919, Sweden minted her money from iron because she was short of gold and silver.

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Phone LA 9-7521 FIFTY YEARS AGO When R. Scardapane, proprietor of a combination jewelry and barber shop In Peach comes to work he finds the front door open and his place of business robbed of several hundred dollars worth of merchandise. Mrs. Mary Robinson Bowie, owner of the historic Madison Academy property at Unlontown, one of the oldest landmarks of that city, dispose! of it to the 1 congregation of the -Slovak Church. The price it $15,000.

Directors and social committee- of local Y.M.C.A. holds "open house" there. Highlights of the occasion are reception and promenade, gymnasium exhibition, 'music by selected orchestra of Sam F. Hood and FORTY YEARS AGO W. R.

Hammer of Pittsburgh it the first em- ploye to be hired for operation of the new industry, United States Electric Steel Company, at Herd Bottom here. He will be foreman of the mill. Contractor John Duggan is In charge of erection of the Alderman W. D. Colborn Is appointed a member of the Board of Health in the fourth district.

He fills the vacancy of G. E. Albrecht, who moved from the district. THIRTY YEARS AGO Mrs. Izora Keffer of Dawson suffers compound fracture of the left arm and Injured right elbow and shoulder when she is reportedly struck by a large lump of coal falling from a passing train' near her home.

She is found lying on the ground near the railroad track. George Whipkey, 13-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton R. Whipkey of East Crawford Is burned about the shoulders when a pot of coffee spills upon him.

TWENTY YEARS AGO Aiinou-nccnicnt is rr.ndc by F. of Fayette County Milk Marketing Committee that an increase in price of milk to consumer will be effective Jan. 1. For milk exceeding four per cent butter fat -'the price will be 13 cents per quart and 13 cents for less than four per cent butter fat." Lawrence Weaver Is appointed treasurer of local committee in charge of the President's 1937 Birthday Ball. Mrs.

Lena Bowers Donnelly, 79, wife of J. J. Donnelly, dies at her home in. East Green St. after a lingering Illness.

She is survived by her husband and seven children, W. H. Donnelly and I Wflcnn, Mr 1 D. Lambert of Patterson Charles F. Donnelly of East Fairview Miss Lucy Donnelly at home, Mrs.

R. F. West of Buffalo, N.Y., and Mrs, Mack M. Patterson of Cumberland, Md. TEN YEARS AGO A farewell testimonial dinner Is held at White Swan Hotel at Uniontown in honor of John O.

Soxman, who is retiring as manager of the Union Supply Company store at Leisenring No. 3 (Monarch) after 39 years of service. No additional tax burden will be saddled on Fayette County persons next year, according to the statements of the commissioners. It is indicated that the millage for 1947 will remain the same as this year--11. Leonard Lynch, 12 years old, son of Mr.

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