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Evening star., 1939-05-30

foodstuffs, building material
enough to build three apartment
houses-had come to her from all
over the land.
Undertakers Strike.
With this outside help, the inside
fracas increased. A detachment of
undertakers had been called in
from Pittsburgh and other cities.
They did not like each other. And
they went out on strike.
Then, the State of Pennsylvania
imported l,500 day laborers to clean
away the debrisAat $3.50 a day,
out of which must be purchased
rations."
When the day laborers, imported,
learned that the men at the mines
had received 50 a day there was
more trouble. A leader amongst
them organized strickland they
struck for more wages.
All this time, men and women
were looking for their lost ones. Up
and down the valley, from Johns
town to Blairville, to Cambria,
oCol SllA1A6 Pdl UACo WClC OuU, u ylllS
to find the remains OF little children,
of old men and women-and the
work Of clearing away the debris at
JohnstoWn proper was at a stand
still.
At the stone bridge, in the heart
of the town, the debris was piled 40
feet highland in it were mothers
and fathers and little ones, caught
in their homes, their homes smashed
against the rocks of the mountain
side and the stones of the sturdy
bridge.
Finally the undertakers got to-
gether. Then the workmen went
back to work. Another crew came
in and 5000 men worked day and
night to bring order out of chaos.
Thieving Continued.
In a months time something like
law and order came to JohnstoWn,
but it was not enough. Thieving
still went on, looting was in order.
Some one had remembered the
vaults of the First National Bank.
Filled with money, they remained
intact. So burglars went to work
and shots again filled the air.
This, with fresh outbreaks of fight
ing between relief Workers-mostly
over authority-and petty thievery
and proflteering on foodstuffs caused
much bitterness.
Supt. of Police O'Meara came in
from Pittsburgh and observed:
AL the thieving done here was
done by lot of tramps and buns.
There are too many relief commit
tees and not enough workers. There
are more reliefers than sufferers. AL
most every man you meet here has
on a lot of yellow ribbon. A lot of
dudes came down here and think
more of filling their stomachs than
they do of relieving the poor"
They relieved the poor of almost
everything the poor had Neverthe-
less sunshine came to Conemaugh
Valley. Johnstown began to build
again, on vacant site. 1t got going
in short order. The dead were buried
and new life set up. Today Johns
town is one of the beauty cities of
Pennsylvania, with population
Slightly more than 10000, fine free
library, a $250O0O Y. M. C. A. build
ing, ST churches and a city hall and
schools.
Still the survivors can never for
get that rainy afternoon in 1889, the
year Of the JohnstoWn flood.
Evening star., 1939-05-30
Justice Wheat Back
On Bench After Illness

Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat of
District Court was back on the
bench yesterday following an illness
which kept him indisposed since
Easter.
The jurist will be entitled to retire
from the Federal judiciary early
next month following 10 years serv-
ice on the bench, but Chief Justice
Wheat's friends say he is disposed
to continue in active service.
Evening star., 1939-05-30
Flood Just Part of Little Known
Tale Behind Johnstown Woes
Story Of Vandalism, Lootne and Strikes
Among Relief Workers Is Part of Epic of Era
BY JOHN ]. DAILY.

once there was supreme tragedy-the Johnstown flood
On afternoon May,
the from little
the Conmaugh
tain sides 2205 children
There had been
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21
MAN IS APT TO GRASP
ANY OLD BOBTAIL THEORY

Man is a natural born liar. He
will grasp any old bobtail theory bas-
ed upon fraud and deception and run
away from the truth. It has always
been so and always will be.
When it comes to sitting down at
q table three times day and eating
q combination of food which poison
rather than nourish, the Americans
are in the front rank.
There is nothing wrong with your
body, regardless of what your ailment
may be, that was not caused by what
you eat, and how you combine the
varied articles of food.
To be we'll your blood must be 80
per cent alkaline and 20 per cent acid.
The alkaline must predominant. When
your body falls below this proportion
you either have a cold or something
else. There is no other cause of ill
ness.
To maintain this alkaline balance
you must eat 80 per cent of alkaline
forming foods and only 20 per cent
of acid forming.
The alkaline forming foods are
fresh fruits; fruit juices; fresh vege-
tables; milk and almonds.
The acid forming foods are all
meats; fish, cheese, nuts Except al
monds), and all starches and sugars.
Every cold is nature rebelling about
too much acid. Every other ailment
is the very same thing. 1t matters
not what it is. The way to get rid
of sickness is to stop eating until you
feel better and then confine yourself
to fresh fruit juices until you are en-
tirely well.
If you wish to keep we'll there is but
one way to do it: eat 80 per cent OF
alkaline forming foods and only 20
per cent of acid forming foods. To
get quick start you should eat one
hundred per cent of alkaline forming
foods for several days and longer il
your ailment is serious.
The germ theory is just a lot OF
baloney. If contact with germs made
you sick you would be sick all the
time, because germs are everywhere.
Germs play a part in illness but the
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21
THE SOCIAL SEASONS
By SARAH.ELIZABETH RoDGER
/Fyo1a Aaos,f .,ooolisnaI

THIS is the story of the leisure
class, that heterogeneous group
of dowagers and debutantes, smart
young -marrieds, social climbers
and perennial playboys, who live
in such desperate fear of being
bored. They rush from snug Park
Avenue apartments to Florida villas
and back to Long Island or down to
the CarolinaS as the seasons change.
They can never settle down in one
house and live in it. That would be
so frightfully dull and obscure. They
live in the limelight and each 9th.
er's company. This is their story and
it's the story of a couple of other
people-people like Peggy Barnett
and Walter Nichols, called Nicky
for short.
It was Peggy Barnett who won
Mr.. Preston Peabody's tennis tour.
nament. She had been fighting her
way up since she was just tennis
novice. under the expert tutelage of
her mother, who had been a ranking
player in her day. Now she was on
top and in love with Neale Peabody,
and Neale was in love with her and
that made it hard, because Peggy
realized she didn't belong to the
leisure class and she realized that
nothing is harder than to stay on
the top. Mrs. Barnett was worried,
too. She said, "You meet rich peo-
pie, honey. and they tell you what a
wonderful game of tennis you play,
Sometimes they ask you to their
parties and YOU thinksthey've grown
fond of you."s M
It was Mr.isPreston peabody who
really gave Peggy the courage to
enter the social circles! He told her
about his wife who'Ehad been an
actress and certainly an outsider
and how she had won all Easthamp.
ton to her before she died.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21

in old age a painless death. And in
the meanwhile you will be always
we'll.
William Howard Hay was physi-
clan and surgeon of note for many
years. He finally, after cutting out
gizzards, tonsils, the appendix, gall
bladder, and everything else he could
get out to patch up his patients until
they got something stumbled a
cross the truth that everything that
ails man is caused by what he eats.
He had the courage to believe the
truth. He abandoned his large prac-
tice, and began to proclaim the truth,
and of course, was howled at in GER
tain quarters as being a little wrong
in the head. But this great and good
man has led untold thousands to per-
feet health. He has not taken out an
appendix for over twenty years and
has never lost a case, not even in rup-
tured cases.
If you wish to read the best book
in the world, except the Bible, send
two dollars to The Hay System, Inc,
and ask them to send you Doctor
Hays book: "a New Era in Health"
It will be the best investment you
ever made, provided you have courage
to deny the cravings of an intoxicated
body for a season until you get the
acid poison out of you. Then you will
know a strength not attained by the
consumption Of acid-forming foods
Edgar Pennington Young.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21
]. P. MORCAN'S
ANNUAL VISIT
TO SCOTLAND

Mr.. ]. P. Morgan, a we'll known
New York banker, sailed last week for
his regular annual visit to the grouse
lands of Scotland.
81 am going across for a little
grouse shooting," he told reporters.
at depends little on war; in fact,
a great deal on war. If they start
war, certainly my shooting will be in
terrupted, because everybody would
rush off to do what they have to do
and I wouldn't have anybody with
me-"
That's too bad," a reporter was
heard to remark. At best, in respect
to Europe and the peace of the world
all one can do these days is guess.
No one knows exactly what tomorrow
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21

in arms. The moment Soviet Russia
signs an agreement with Britain, if it
ever does sign one, will be the moment
when European power politics will
have completed the pattern of one side
clearly set against the other. At that
moment, single incident" will be
enough to set the whole continent a.
flame.
All this may have SOLDERING effect
on Adolf Hitler. If it does, If it
quiets him, if it convinces him that
his game has now reached a point se
tremendous risks, peace may be msiin-
taihed and the status quo may 6ean
be revised in orderly fashion. Bias
is the slight thread on which hangs
the safety of our civilization. If the
thread breaks, if Hitler decides to
move ahead and drag Benito Musso-
lini with him, a death sentence will be
passed on the youth of our time and
on all the good things of our time.
The situation today is no more reas-
surfing than that.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21
LIONS CHIEF IS
ATTENDING THE
BIG CONVENTION

Mr.. L. Griffin Callahan is the new
ly elected president of the Lions Club
of Pocomoke, and, at present, is at
tending the International Convention
at Pittsburgh as delegate from the
local order.
The Lions followed the Rotarians
as service body in this city, and
have proved themselves true to their
principles. They are intensely inter-
ested in civic upbuilding; are liberal
iifi etheir contributions; and jealous in
the welfare of their order.
Like the Rotarians, they meet every
week at dinner which now is being
held on the Steamer Emerson G. Har-
rington, and they are occasions of fine
fellowship and free discussions. They
have recently, so it is understood, a.
dopted a rule that ten absences with
out reasonable excuse, automatically
drops a man from the roll, and this
has decreased somewhat their men,
bership. But, it is true, that member
ships in any sort of organization
doesn't mean much, if it's meetings
are not attended. The Rotary Club
makes point of this and their rule
as to automatic dropping is not so
liberal as that of the Lions.
This community has felt the good
influence of the two service clubs
Lions and Rotary-and with the adj
vent of the Elks, there will be addi-
tional source from which to look for
aid when aid is needed.
There are other fraternal organiza-
tions; such as, the Masons, the Odd
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21

FRANK LA FORGE, writing in In
= dependent Woman. says: ''When
you speak, you broadcast to those
within earshot thumbnail history
of your life. You indicate your state
Of mind, your state of health and
your breeding. It is surprising the
amount of time the average young
thing will spend on her appearance,
dress, makeup and the like, and
totally disregard the voice. She does
not know what perfectly good bet
she is overlooking" Most of us can
develop pleasant voice by little
effort. Watch those who have soft
voices, and try to make your own
like them. Be natural and don't
initiate. Make your own voice beau
tiful, just as you do your face, Cor
as compensation for a none-too-
beautiful facet.
tReleased by Western Newspaper Union.l
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21

Fellows; there are the religious de-
nominations, the Kings Daughters, the
Women's Clubs-all doing a noble
work, and Pocomoke is fortunate in
having an it's midst so many combina-
tions working for the good of the
community.
At the Pittsburgh Lions Convention
the attendance is expected to reach
$4,000, the largest in history. An I'M
usual feature of the convention pro-
gram is to be "lion beauty parade,
of real, live four-legged lions. The
entries will be youthful, not more than
eight months of age, and there will be
eight of them, coming from as many
sections of the country.
The beauty parade" is being con-
Quoted in conjunction with Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer pictures, and will eli
max a two-month nationwide hunt
by Lions Clubs for lion to serve as
understudy and eventually replace
M-G-M's famous Leo. The winning
cub will be signed up Immediately by
M-G-M, given star rating, and taken
to New York for Lions Day at the
Worlds Fair, July %. From there
he will be flown direct to Hollywood
to begin his movie career.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21

will bring-no one, not even the prin-
cipals involved in the dreadful drama
taking place.
All one knows, all one can say, is
that not since the beginning of the
last war have things looked so dark as
they do now. It is folly to hide our
heads from this; it is folly to try to
minimize the import of it's implica.
tions. The cold fact, the frightening
fact, is that we are in and of world
where men seem to be intent on de-
stroying each other.
Danzig is a tiny place-hardly
worth the price of a war. Yet DAN
zig at this moment is as much the
center of critical developments as was
Czechoslovakia last September. In
deed, it is more so. Since last Sep
TENDER, the diplomatic battle lines
have been redrawn. Today Great
Britain and France stand formally
pledged before all mankind to give
aid to Poland against Nazi aggres-
sion, when and if that aggression be-
comes actual.
No such formal pledge existed when
Adolf Hitler moved on the Czechs.
The crisis at that time was acute, but
not so acute as crisis over Danzig
can be. If Hitler should decide to an
mex the Free City at all costs, and
if Poland should decide that such an
act was against Polish security, Brit
ain and France would Immediately be
obliged to throw their weight against
Germany, and the struggle would be
on in full and bloody fury.
Here is power politics at it's dead
Hest. Since last September, owing to
Germany's brazen treatment of the
Czechs, a pattern of fiercest conflict
has taekn shape, and the conflict in
wolves the status quo. AS world en-
pires, both Britain and France are
vitality interested in changing that
status as little as possible. On the
other hand, as 'have-not" powers, both
Germany and Italy are apparently de-
termined to revolutionize it, even at
the cost of war.
Accordingly, now that Prime Min
lister Chamberlain has abandoned
"appeasement" as hopeless, Britain
and France have acted to checkmate
the Rome-Berlin Axis. They have
done this by signing pacts of mutual
assistance with smaller countries east
of the Axis. Germany calls, this a
policy of "encirclement" and Britain
calls it a policy of defense against
aggression. The labels means little
They cannot hide the fact that diplo-
macy today is essentially war diplo-
macy, that it is being shaped solely
in preparation for titantic struggle
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21

trouble is within yourself. It's acid
osis.
Fasting is natures remedy for all
sickness. An old hog will refuse all
food when the least sick but man will
stuff himself until he is dead.
A child with a fever will quickly
respond if put to bed, after an enema,
and all food withheld until the fever
is entirely gone. To stuff cold or
any other illness is the height of ig-
norance.
An acid or toxic condition is the
real cause of all constipation. Medi-
cine has just discovered that two
bowel movements day are now re-
quired. When medicine gets its 9TH
err eye it will call for three,-one af-
ter each meal, and will prescribe an
enema before retiring until this is the
natural condition.
When your grandfather wanted
some bread he took a bag of wheat
to the mill; had it ground, and took
all of It home. But today we eat re-
fined flour and sugar, with practical
ly every bit of mineral taken from it
and made into by-products. Man gets
the remains. The best of it goes into
COW feed and other things. Nature
has given man but one natural and
wholesome sweet,-honey-but he will
swill down every man-made substi-
tute he can get his hands on.
To eat 80 per cent alkaline forming
foods will do you no good unless you
eat the right combinations of food at
the same meal. The two combina-
lions to be avoided at the same meal
are: Never combine starch and acid,
or starch and protein. In other words
never eat potato or bread with meat,
eggs, fish, milk, cheese or nuts. And
never combine anything acid with any
thing starchy. Lemon pie for in
stance.
A year ago today, after having my
appendix removed, which never
should have been done, I was taking
one cold after another and only by re-
sorting to strenuous means avoided
pneumonia. In February I discontin-
ued the use of all alcohol; coffee; tea
white flour and white sugar, pastries;
refined cereals-and began to eat as
every human being should. I have
not had a cold or any other ailment
since and am enjoying better health
than in my younger days. I lived for
days on nothing but orange and grape
fruit juices. I cleaned house and then
began to eat the right combination OF
food. have never enjoyed food so
much as do now. eat natural
foods, just as God made them. In
stead of eating apple sauce I eat ap-
pies. Instead of drinking canned
grapejuice I eat grapes.
Anybody who will give these things
a fair trial will Immediately notice
change in their power to resist all
illness. The joy of good health will
manifest itsef. Many years will be
added to your life and instead of be-
ing eaten up with cancer you will die
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21
EVERYBODY CAN RIDE

The United States has enough au-
tomobiles to take every man, woman
and child for a comfortable ride at the
same time, according to figures re-
leased by the Bureau of Public Roads
The Bureau listed 29,485,680 au.
tomobiles in operation last year, with
1,O85, 422 trailers and 108,541 motor
cycles. American automobiles usec
nearly twenty-one and a half billion
ballons of gasoline in 1888, the aver
age tax four cents gallon netting the
various state governments $771, 1884,
900, and registration and inspection
fees totalling $3ss,s25,OO0.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21

Pressure-suction crankcase ventila-
ton, developed by Pontiac engineers,
assures positive elimination of acid
fumes and moisture.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-12-28
Charges Brought
Against F. Hagen

Preliminary hearing on charges
of first degree manslaughter pre-
ferred against Franz Hagen of
Redwood Falls after the death of
Arthur Miller in an automobile
accident November 26 was set for
January 4 when Hagen was ar
raigned before Clifford James,
special municipal judge, Thursday
afternoon.
Although no plea is necessary in
an arraignment, Julian E. Morten,
Hagen's attorney, said, eve plead
not guilty and ask preliminary
hearing"
Hagen is out on bond of $4,000
set by District Judge A. B. Gis-
Jason. He has not yet fully recov-
cred from injuries received y
the accident.
Mrs. Hiding Johnson, 26, of
Franklin is still confined at Red
wood Falls hospital with a frac-
tured skull, broken cerebral pro-
cess and eye injury sustained in
the crash.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-12-28

Mrs. Emma KlauSe and Mr.. and
Mrs. August Raddatz.
Arnold Klause of Eden and Lor-
ma Klause of Shutdown spent
Christmas with their mother, Mrs.
Emma Klause. Elaine and Walter
returned with their brother Arm
old to spend their vacation.
Frank Gerstman Of the Mime
sofa Law school is spending his
vacation with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Otto Gerstman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Turner and
children are spending Christmas
with relatives at st. Cloud.
The Bethlehem Evangelical Luz
teran children gave their annual
Christmas program Sunday eve
ming with large attendance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ambert Meyer
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Vincent
Meyer, Mr.. and Mrs. John Kagel
and family and Julius and Emer-
son Meyer were Christmas dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Ebert Mey-
er.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Neudecker
attended an insurance meeting at
Mankato Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Werner
were Christmas dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Werner at
Willow Lake and supper guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur George at
Lucan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Green
slit and family of Morton and Mr..
and Mrs. Clifford Redding and
son Of Milroy were Christmas din
ner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Char
les Berberich.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-12-28

with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Brau.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. o. Schlick and
family spent Christmas day at the
]. H. Woolley home at Lamberton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Grams had
as Christmas day dinner guests,
Mrs. c. F. Subbert Of Lidderdale,
Iowa. Mr.. and Mrs. Milan Jen-
sen, Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Jensen
and Roger and Mr.. and Mrs. How
ard Grams, Joan and Nancy Lou.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Kormann
| and daughter of Tracy were Sun
day dinner guests at the L. b.
Fridley home.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. Fletcher
had as guests Christmas day, Mr..
and Mrs. Vernon Schultz and Paul
of Hanska, Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth
Gaffney and Iris of Delhi and Mrs.
Mary Haag.
MIR. and Mrs. Charles Brau en-
| tertained at dinner Christmas day
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony Altman Jr.
and daughter Of Redwood Falls,
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Brau and famI-
ly, Mr.. and Mrs. George Vogl, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Plaetz, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ray Brau and son and Anton
Gruber.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Haag and
| family, Mr.. and Mrs. William
! Haag, Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Kor-
mann and daughter and Mr.. and
Mrs. L. B. Fridley spent Christ
mas eve with Mr.. and Mrs. r.
Kormann at Wabasso.
| Tommy Nelson is spending two
weeks with his father, E. F. Mel
son at the Thorvald Nelson home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Brau had as
guests Christmas eve, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles CORES and family
and Mr.. and Mrs. Luverne CORES
and family of Wanda, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Brau and Marion,
MIR. and Mrs. George Gogl and
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Plaetz.
Verda Mae and Muriel Hansen
of Minneapolis spent Sunday and
! Christmas day at the Albert Han
sen home. Mrs. Harry Woerner
of New Ulm was guest also.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aurie Gehrke
went to Mound Saturday night to
| be guests at the Gust Anderson
home Sunday and Christmas day.
The school program was given
| to a full house at the Lucan hall
Thursday evening. Immediately
after the program Santa appeared
to take charge of the candy bags
and gifts. Saturday he returned,
bringing candy bags for all the
children on the streets.