Cumberland Sunday Times from Cumberland, Maryland • Page 24

SUNDAY TIMES, CUMBERLAND, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1948- Wants No Boss Job Seventy Five. Year Old Worker Scoffs At 65 Retirement Ae Peter Pleegle, who lives about a mile 'from Route 40 on the Mt. Savage Hoad, is a philosopher. "So what?" you might say. "A lot of people are philosophers." Bus the difference believes in his philosophy and lives by it.

"Hard -work is the greatest source or happiness," he says. He does the work. Now -75 years old, he often works 75 hours a in the bottling house of a local brewery. And his home shows that he puts additional hours when his day's work is done. It's as old-fashioned as its owner's home-spun philosophy, but it's as neat as a gnat's ear.

Nestled back under a hillside, it's old homestead." unpainted, up-and-downpineboards have stood. The old grindstone is under the grape arbor, the kerosene barrel, under a big butternut tree. Phlox spatter the hillside behind the house, and an old pump stands near the back porch beside a noat, well-worked 'garden plot. Peter Flecftle once thought ol having electricity Installed. But it cost too much.

He laughs about "Why there's enough lighinln' bugs around here in summer to brighten the place up. And in winter a little kerosene the trick." He looks like Mr. Five-by-Bve. Only five feet, six inches tall, he appears to be almost that broad. His round face breaks open.

in a For more than a hundred years its'lVide grin for the slightest reason, and his nay window bounces with good humor when he laughs. His hard work is keeping him happy. For about sixteen years he' has been a brewery worker. Before that, for some 40 years, he was a boilermaker. His trade took him all over Ihc country.

Strangely enough, he has always been industrious, without being ambitious. It's all right to get ahead, he thinks, as long as you don't use other people's necks, as stepping stones on the road of progress. "I'd rather be with my fellow man," he says. "I wouldn't want to be'a boss; It's nicer to work side by side'with good fellows. "I believe I can look every man in the owe no bills, and don't'believe I-ever hurt anybody.

"You've got busy, and shoot square." His fellow workers at the brewery say that's the way he is. One of them says: "Pete's always on The last part of his clothes to wear out Is the seat oC his pants." Another onu says: "He's an old war horse. They don't" make men like him anymore." 1 Coming, from his fellow men, they're the best tributes that'could be paid him. biggest secret about this business of hard work is that' it keeps you out of mischief and builds fond memories." So says Peter Fleegle. you're old, greatest consolation will come from past.

Be good to people. Especially your parents. Old as I am, I can honestly say that I never said. 'No' to my father or mother or disobeyed Does he ever figure on quitting'his job? "Nope." And when he says It, he. Is, as they say, "as independent as a hog on ice." "I could quit," he elaborates, "and have plenty to Jive on.

If I get fired, I'll be able to take care of myself. But I can't loaf and 'be happy." He says he hears lots of-men say they're just waiting 'til 65: "What're they waitin' for?" he asks. "There's no'livelihood in pension There's r.o for. old men anyway, unless they have work. "I'see them.

Lots of them. Stand- in' on one corner, then another. Then they walk around with their hands behind their backs, discontented, just lookin' for something to get into." The strangest thing about this Peter Fleegle, this robust, energetic little mnn of 75, Is tlmt.he was once a weakling. When he was ten yews old he wasn't expected to live. He was as.

thin as a shadow. "Then I took to likin' salt," he says. "Every time I passed the salt box, I ate some of it. That's what fixed me up, I believe. I filled out, and I've been strong and healthy ever -since." It must have been the- salt, all right.

at 75, Peter Fleegle is truly "the salt, of the 'earth." Youth Helps Poland 'WARSAW, -Poland (ff) mobilized under the nationwide "In Service of Poland" scheme done for the country valued at' That's, the highlight of the- report 'of iColonel Edward Broniewskl, commander-in-chier of "In Service of Poland" for the last -three months. Youths. 16 to 21 are in the- In addition to work on reconstruction projects, they receive 16 hours military training monthly "to help, prepare, for defense of the: nation.if..need- ed." The youths iget no' pay and no cigarettes. All they- receive is free' food and clothing, SCFcents per month. for knick-knacks.

sfi "Memories memories seldom that pleasures of the past can be made to live again but here they do! Schmidt's Old-Fashioned Corn Top Bread brings you the tempting flavor of the really "good-eating" our fathers enjoyed 'way back Schmidt's D-fbSWOntD CORN TOP BREAD REMINDS YOU OF OLD-TIME KITCHEN BAKIN.